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Previously on The Amazing Race, nobody got eliminated, but in a shocking twist, the leg didn’t suck like a typical non-elimination or continuation leg does. When our first two teams arrived at the finish line, they learned that they would continue racing, which is hilarious because…

Tanner & Josh blew their Express Pass in order to satisfy Tanner’s desperate and obsessive need to U-Turn Justin & Diana. The problem with their plan was that in order to U-Turn someone, you have to finish ahead of them. Since #TeamTexas had a case of premature Express Pass expenditure, they wound up competing side by side against #TheGreenTeam on the Detour – and losing to them. If you start a leg in first place with an Express Pass in your pocket and don’t finish in first place when you use it, you have failed completely. All of their wounds were self-inflicted in this leg, and it’s purely because Tanner has a weird fixation with Justin.

Of course, we now know that the leg didn’t end after the U-Turn stop, so teams are still racing. What this means is that even a U-Turned team is going to have a chance to claw their way back into this thing. Amusingly, Phil takes this moment to rub salt in Tanner & Josh’s wounds by telling them that they have to decide which team to award the Express Pass to right this minute. After a short discussion, they decide to go with #TeamAlabama because “they’re not a threat.” It feels like Denise & James Earl are going to find a way to make them regret those words.

So, with the Race moving forward, our teams are instructed to head to a spot called “Lookout Café” to search for their next clue.

“Never give us an Express Pass again,” says Josh.

“We don’t even deserve one,” Tanner agrees.

Their rationale in giving the pass to #TeamAlabama was that both teams of women are at the back of the pack, so they didn’t want to give either one of them the opportunity to move ahead of the other one. O…..kay? If you want to keep a weaker team around, you’d give it to the cheerleaders, right? Tanner & Josh are proving to be really bad at strategy.

Meanwhile, Justin & Diana are reflecting on what just happened, noting that they stayed true to their word by not U-Turning Tanner & Josh. Hopefully, #TeamTexas will realize that #TheGreenTeam is trustworthy. “[Tanner & Josh] are really nice guys,” says Diana, and Justin agrees. They must be so confused watching these episodes now.

We cut to a Josh confessional where he gives props and respect to Justin & Diana, but of course Tanner can’t let it go. He agrees that it was sportsmanlike of #TheGreenTeam to honor their word, but he’s still going to U-Turn Justin at the first opportunity. Dude. You must chill. He’s so focused on beating them down the line that they seem almost guaranteed to do something to knock themselves out of contention sometime very soon. But then again, the only teams we’ve seen this season are #TheGreenTeam and #TeamTexas, so we’re not sure why we’d think they don’t duke it out in the final three eventually.

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