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Team Gray’s Anatomy decides to make their move. They choose to utilize the Express Pass they were previously given by Tim & Marie. You may remember this Express Pass as the justification for Marie’s entire existence. She treated that thing like she had rediscovered the Ten Commandments on their original stone tablets. In fact, we spent a couple of episodes counting the number of times Marie said “Express Pass”. The fewest in a single episode was 11.

As Marie laments being permanently separated from her paper baby, Nicole & Travis prepare to take control of this leg. All they have to do is head to Al Jahili Tower then search for their next clue. At that point, they should U-Turn Marie and thereby bring karma squarely down on the head of its next deserving victim.

Hey, this leg has a double U-Turn! Hey, the doctors choose the wrong team! Well, they really had no wrong choice here. Marie is despicable, but the Afghanimals angered all of their opponents by lying to their faces about a previous implementation of the U-Turn. Anyone who is willing to lie so shamelessly deserves their fate. The fact that the Afghanimals will be punished via U-Turn for a previous U-Turn based lie is quite satisfying. So Leo & Jamal will have to perform both tasks this week. Hopefully, one of these assignments will be to go an entire hour without being annoying. They’ll never complete the challenge.

What are this week’s challenges? Beauty Contest is a camel event wherein players must find attractive beasts then dress them in the finest vestments. The Kate Uptons of the camel world will earn their players the next clue. Wedding Guests is a meal preparation challenge. The players must amass the ingredients for a traditional wedding meal then follow the recipe to craft the dinner. At that point, they will deliver it to the serving station then receive their next clue.

The first two teams to arrive split their choices. The Afghanimals will wind up doing both, but they don’t know that yet. Their preference is the wedding preparation because one of them owns a bar and thereby loves cooking. You know what most people love at bars? Drinking.

Team Psycho Bitch & The Other Guy chooses camel dressage, which goes poorly for the former baseball player. He gets kicked in the shin and spit on by a camel. I guess the camel spitting thing is not just an urban legend. Anyway, the judges inform Marie that her camel is like her personality. It is not beautiful. The Massachusetts couple arrives, and the former Miss Rhode Island USA (and former Miss Rhode Island Teen USA) notes that this is her skill set. I suspect she simply likes to re-live the glory days of pageant life.

We return to the team that will win this week. Nicole & Travis are informed that all they need to do to complete their Road Block is “navigate the world’s largest manmade rapids." There are three different flags they must grab during their white water trip. This week on The Amazing Race, we learn which contestants can survive repeated attempts at drowning. Nicole’s issue is a simple one. She is not tall enough to grab the flags the first time. Then again, the purpose of this segment is to trick people into thinking that maybe they won’t win this leg. Don’t believe their lies, people!

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