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The brothers arrive at the next clue and fulfill their alliance’s agreement. They U-Turn Joey & Meghan. They are now heading to the Niddry Street South and search for the Pit Stop. The brothers take off and Max & Katie are hot on their heels with U-Turning on their mind too, which they do on Mona & Beth.

At Puddin’, Caroline & Jennifer are flirting with the Robert Burns’ proxy while elbow deep in oxen intestine. There’s a sentence I never thought I would write.

The Speed Bump is now at hand for Mona & Beth. They have to head to a pub-looking place and try their hand at skittles, which is Scottish bowling with a ball without holes. Once they get a strike, they get to continue on the Race.

Confusion on where to park before heading to Phil on Niddry Street costs Bates & Anthony first place. They were not able to duplicate the outrunning from the last leg. That means that Max & Katie are team number one and $20,000 richer, while the brothers are securely in second place.

With the U-Turns pending, the blondes are easily going to be number three but they just finished the Puddin’ Detour, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Joey & Meghan are still looking for Craigmillar Castle and the Sock ‘er Moms are still unable to get a strike. The upside for the mothers is that they are playing skittles in the town where the Detour is, so they can easily make their way back there. Night is falling on Scotland at this point and Beth scores the strike for the roller derby mothers. They are neck-and-neck with Team YouTube. In fact, they arrive at the same time and are searching the castle semi-together.

With the Detour clue in hand, they both head to Puddin’. Caroline & Jennifer hit the mat in third place before the remaining teams have even started their first of two Detour tasks. Gonna be a long night for Mona & Beth and Joey & Meghan.

Sock ‘er Moms blaze through the Puddin’ task and try a taste. The taste test prompts Beth to apologize to Scotland as a whole because it tasted awful to her. They reach the next clue spot and see that they are indeed U-Turned but they also see that it is a Double U-Turn, so they are clinging to the marginal lead they have heading to Whiskey Rollin’.

On their first pass, Joey sees them out the window and gets excited that they are U-Turned. It doesn’t dawn on him at all that it could be a Double U-Turn. Meghan is now redoing some work on their haggis because of air bubbles. She fixes it and they are moving on…to the next Detour task.

Joey’s giddiness gives way to reality when they arrive at the clue box and see their picture. Right now, the Sock ‘er Moms are two barrels ahead of Team YouTube, if not more because Meghan is not nearly strong enough to do it alone. To make up for her weakness, they opt for rolling one barrel quickly instead of making her struggle.

It looks to be too little too late, because Mona & Beth are now delivering their final two barrels right after YouTube drops off number five.

But our directionally challenged roller derby mamas are once again twisted around, so their "lost" is Joey & Meghan’s gain. Team YouTube is now in the car and heading to Niddry Street as well.

Despite the producers’ best editing efforts to fool us, Mona & Beth live to race another day and are checked in by Phil as number four. That means Joey & Meghan are the last team and are eliminated from the Race. They exchange the normal remarks of appreciation for each other and walk off into the sunset or rather walk off in the moonlight down a somewhat creepy alley with a guy dressed like Jekyll/Hyde watching with Phil.

So there you have it. We are looking at a two-hour finale next week for a season that started out lackluster and unmemorable. But these last couple legs have actually been exciting and enjoyable. I credit the absence of Chuck & Wynona and Pam & Winnie for this turnabout in my mind.

Until next week’s exciting (?) conclusion, have a good week.

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