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On the drive, Max & Katie are already looking ahead and theorizing that first place this leg will also win two of these cars. She is also quick to point out that the honeymoon has been stressful and tense but if they don’t kill each other on the Race, then they can survive anything. Oh, the love.

Speaking of young love, each team in the lovebird alliance acknowledges that they are happy to Race with the other but they know that this is the competition. Jennifer seems less convicted about this cutthroat attitude. She is clearly more smitten with Bates than Caroline is with Anthony. Or maybe Caroline can just separate the friendship (or more) from the Race.

First at the Brandenburg Gate is Cape Fear and they are pointed to the Park Inn Hotel.

On the streets of Berlin in second-ish, the singers and brothers get directions from a local. Anthony offers to lead and promptly gets separated from the girls. To make it worse, it appears that the girls didn’t bother to write down the directions and just left it to the guys to guide them. Of course, each has a different version of the events: Jennifer blames the guys for leaving them and Anthony pinpoints that when he went right at a light, they didn’t follow. The fact that Anthony actually knows where they split gives more credibility to his side of the story.

Max & Katie are at the hotel and both of them must "base fly" 37 stories back to the ground level. Basically, they are doing a tethered freefall off the side of a building…face first. There is not much of a chance to "not look down" with this task.

At Brandenburg Gate, Team YouTube is in second place followed by the Sock ‘er Moms. As the moms are leaving, Bates & Anthony are running up and they ask where the clue is. They were probably not expecting an answer, but the ladies point them to it. Then they say to each other that “they better pay us back for that.” Don’t hold your breath on that one.

Caroline & Jennifer are the last to get the clue but there doesn’t seem to be much time or distance separating them from the others.

With only a tinge of hesitation, Katie goes first on the "base fly" and Max follows suit. If I am being honest here, this type of task would probably be my downfall on the race. Unfortunately, I can imagine the feeling of my stomach being in knots at the idea of stepping off the edge of a 37th floor building.

The newlyweds’ next clue is a Detour: Train Trials or Font Follies. For Train, they must go to a Berlin transportation museum and use all the pieces provided to assemble a toy train track on a designated space. The train must successfully complete one trip around the track to get the clue. It looks like the space is about 12’ x 12’, so it’s not as simple as the description conveys, I suspect. For Follies, they go to a local square and retrieve two large light-box letters (think about 5 feet tall and similar to what you would see attached to a shopping center). Then they have to carry them on foot to Berlin’s Museum of Letters without damaging them. Max & Katie choose Follies.

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