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Amazingly, Joey & Meghan are the second team to arrive at the base fly. A succession of squeals later, Team YouTube has their clue and is heading to Train Trials. One-by-one the teams are tackling the base fly in the same order they got their clue at the Gate. Mona & Beth will be joining Cape Fear at Font Follies this Detour.

Max & Katie point out that the clue tells them that once they choose a letter, they cannot switch. They go with a "b" and an "o" so they can carry it on their shoulders with their heads through the openings. Pretty sound strategy in theory, but we’ll see what the reality is.

While Joey & Meghan are trying to get their bearings about the location of Train Trials, Mona & Beth take off on foot to the letters and see Cape Fear run by.

The lovebird alliance is reunited and finishes the base fly. Reluctantly, the girls agree to go with the brothers to the Font Follies Detour. Caroline is very hesitant because if they are in the back of the pack and it comes down to a footrace then they will lose to Bates & Anthony. If this is how it plays out, then the Sock ‘er Moms might have a future as psychics because that is virtually what they predicted at the beginning of this leg.

On the way to the letter museum, Max & Katie have stopped at a hotel for some direction because they appear to be just wandering the streets of Berlin. Mona & Beth have their letters and have opted for "u" and "n".

Branching out from the rest of the teams are Joey & Meghan, who have finally arrived at their Detour choice. They are having more fun than the other teams but it’s too early to tell if "fun" equals "easy" on this task.

The allied teams have retrieved their letters and while the brothers go with the smaller "v" and "r", for some reason the girls choose the more cumbersome "s" and "k". The looming question now is if any of the teams will have to repeat the task due to damage to their cargo.

Cape Fear drops off their letters first and is now on their way to the Salon Zur Wilden Renate. Thanks to two years of German in high school, I can tell you that means…who am I kidding? That was over 20 years ago and I can barely remember how to count to ten in German. It doesn’t matter what it means, it just matters that the teams get there quickly.

Joey & Meghan have laid the track but have failed a couple of times to complete it.

Meanwhile, Max & Katie are at the clue box and it’s a Roadblock. After Phil labels Berlin “arguably the hippest city in the world,” he explains that the teams have to tell the door man who said, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” And then they will proceed through a labyrinth beneath the club to find a white room. It looks like a psychedelic haunted house with strobe lights and bizarre décor but not the expected monsters around every corner.

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