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Danny is rightfully skeptical of the cousins’ eagerness to share their flight plans but tentatively agrees to it. As they are booking, vulture Marie swoops in to scout out information and of course, reminds the boys they have an Express Pass to give away. Once again, a team doesn’t take her bait. They simply tell her that they are just making sure they didn’t overlook an earlier flight option.

While the onlooking Afghanimals think the OK boys are going to crack under pressure from Marie, the reality is that Danny has figured out Leo’s plan to have them along the way as an extra team to up their chances in a head-to-head race for last. The boys wisely bail on the London connection and get a flight through Madrid that lands at 10 a.m. Plus, the guys have picked Leo & Jamal as their U-Turn target if given the chance.

Baseball wives, on the other hand, have secured seats on the same Sao Paulo connecting flight landing at noon as the exes and Jason & Amy.

As Chester & Ephraim embark on their risky three-flight journey to Lisbon, Adam gets a call from the NFL-ers’ travel agent and she tells him of the same 10 a.m. flight through Madrid that OK is on. The boys are elated and dash to their gate.

The next flight to leave Chile is heading to Sao Paulo with the doctors, the baseball wives, the exes and Jason & Amy. Even though they are the only ones with definite tickets on the earliest flight, Travis is anxious that another team will find a way on it. Finally, the Race husbands and wives are in the air for an 11 a.m. arrival time.

While all this is happening for the other teams, the next bad break occurs for Chester & Ephraim. Their first connection in Buenos Aires is delayed by four hours. So they are now scrambling for alternatives and eventually end up trying to reconnect with the other teams in Sao Paulo. Or so they thought. Seated on the plane waiting, another delay is announced. These fellows cannot catch a break this leg…at all. They may have the worst travel luck in the history of this show.

Speaking of scrambling, the exes, MLB wives and Jason & Amy are doing just that to get to the ticket counter in Sao Paulo to get first on the standby list for Travis & Nicole’s first flight.

Unfortunately, the counter doesn’t open until an hour before. So they camp out with Jason & Amy and then Tim & Marie. Meanwhile, Nicky & Kim are MIA and just playing rather brilliantly. They visit the airline’s executive lounge and see about getting put on the standby list at the lounge. And it works. So while I wrote them off heading into this episode as not being emotionally prepared for the stress of the Race, they pull off a very smart move.

Of course, Amy is not too pleased that they horn their way to the front of the line to confirm their standby status when the gate opens. While Marie declares the wives are dead to her, she does acknowledge that they pulled a move that she would do herself and didn’t expect from them. They gained from respect from a person that they probably don’t want to be respected by in the real world.

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