The Amazing Race 24: All-Stars - Episode 7

The Amazing Race 24: All-Stars - Episode 7

By Daron Aldridge

April 15, 2014

Jessica, do you plan to run the race with a different, much better partner next time?

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While the girls get second and raced pretty well this leg, I don’t think they have proven themselves adept at racing for the victory. They are too reliant upon other teams and that goodwill and inter-team work will not occur in the last leg, guaranteed. Team Murphy’s Law is number three.

Roaming the streets of Rome, it’s a game of who will figure out they went to the wrong place first. Well, John & Jessica do but are still staying with their same cabbie in hopes that he will figure out the right place. Meanwhile, Jet & Cord have preemptively checked with a gas station and the attendant suggests that it was the Spanish Steps…way back in the opposite direction. The brothers hop in and backtrack to the right location. A bit later, the cousins and Globetrotters get set on the right path, meaning that it’s a race for not last.

The cowboys hit the Spanish Steps first and Jet takes the reins on the Roadblock. He employs a similar method of relying upon the helpful nature of Romans for translating the numbers and he gets finished as the Globetrotters arrive. After hoofing it to Phil, Jet is thrilled to hear they are team number four. His excitement implies that they believed they just narrowly missed elimination. They feared the worst that their mistake was more egregious than it was.

At the steps, Flight Time has a similar attitude that they are probably in last of second to last because he desperately just asks people how many steps there are. The desperation prevents him from rereading the clue, which instructs them to add the steps and the year and convert it to Roman numerals. He turns in card after card after card starting with “135” and going up. Obviously, he is denied each time.




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Jamal has arrived now and gives Flight a bit of insight about the need for more than one number. Working independently, both are trying their best and get a bit more relief when John & Jessica show up. John is counting for them.

Jamal completes it first and as the cousins are reading the clue. Jessica asks for them to share the answer. She is convinced that there is another team behind them. You must assume that they think that said team is Jennifer & Caroline. The cousins agree but they make the teams promise that they will not beat them to the mat this leg or U-Turn them when it shows up. Both agree.

Flight and John get the right answer and the Afghanimals are heading to Phil. Luckily, Flight had another postcard which the number had to be written on but John has to go back down to the vendor to get one. The sprint is on.

As Jamal & Leo land on the mat in front of Phil, the host doesn’t even check them in because he is fixated on the sprint between the other teams. In a shock, the Globetrotters outrun John & Jessica to claim sixth. I say “shock” because Big Easy is nicknamed that for a reason. He’s a big man and doesn’t look like it could move that fast but when it needed to be done, that man was moving.
With fifth and sixth assigned, the realization that John & Jessica are last washes all over them. Phil tries to lessen the sting of their elimination by acknowledging how tight this season has been on legs and that these teams are that strong.

That puts us down to six teams and the cowboys must use their Express Pass before the end of the next leg, so next week should be interesting.

Have a good one, all.


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