THE AMAZING RACE SEASON 12 – Episode 9 Summary: · Jan 12, 09:48 AM
As you’ll remember, TK & Rachel were the first team to arrive in the last leg. They departed first with one of the few daytime departures for this race. Their clue sent them to Osaka, Japan where they would find another clue in the vicinity of Kishiwada Castle.
The couple went straight to a hotel to find out more information on departing flights. They found a flight for 6:55 pm and decided they had found the earliest ticket out of India. The other teams, who were close behind, piled into the airport and all booked flights for 8:30 pm assuming that they too had the earliest flights possible. When the other teams began to realize TK & Rachel were nowhere to be found, they began to worry about what they were up to. Ironically, TK & Rachel were starting to worry as well. When they arrived at their layover in New Delhi, they were concerned that no other teams were showing up and something felt all wrong.
Nate & Jen were the first to leave the airport and find Kishiwada Castle. Their next clue told them to travel by taxi to a subway station called JR Kanjosan. There they would find a janitor who would have the next clue. They arrived first and found a Road Block. One member of the team was required to act as a local taxi driver and take a Japanese couple to a certain not-so-easy to find destination. The roads were complicated, the driving completely backwards, and to make matters worse, the contestants had to wear the goofy looking hat and white gloves that real Japanese taxi drivers use. The rules were that they couldn’t ask a local for help and they had to find their way back to their partners before opening the clue.
Happily, Jen seemed very pleased with her appearance in the hat. Christina was excited to use her Japanese skills to assist her in the task until she read the rules and then regretted her decision. Apparently she doesn’t even have her own car at home. Don was feeling a little pooped out so Nick took the steering wheel for their team. Despite her lack of driving skills, Christina does has some smarts. Her destination was a post office and when she caught sight of a mail truck she decided to follow it. Nick and Jen both had trouble with all the one-way streets and congestion and had to back-track to find the building. In the end Jen managed to arriv first and then managed to return to her teammate first and was delighted with her achievement. Christina was close behind while Nick became lost in Osaka’s maze of streets. He seems to get lost a lot, doesn’t he?
It was around this point that we were reminded TK & Rachel were still out there and just barely touching down in Japan!
Nate & Jen learned they were to travel by taxi to Kita-mido Temple. A Detour was next: Sense of Touch or Sense of Smell. In Sense of Touch, they had to make their way by foot to a building housing a robot soccer game. The teams had to control the robots with a small hand-held device and score one goal each against another pair of robots. In Sense of Smell the teams had to travel to an artificial flower shop where they were required to detect with their noses a real flower hidden among the fakes.
Nate & Jen decided their noses were most suited for the Detour. Christina & Ron came to the same conclusion and arrived minutes later. They went to a different floor to start smelling and Christina made sure Ron blew his nose before they began.
Nick & Don, decided to attempt the robot game. Once again, Don admitted this was a task he wasn’t entirely thrilled about, but he was willing to give it a shot. Needless to say, the sensitive robots found themselves flailing on their backs more than once. Nick scored his goal without out too much difficulty and then began coaching his struggling grandpa.
Meanwhile, Jen was having a great time in the flower shop. “I was looking up and seeing all these kind of flowers. I thought I was hallucinating like in a Pink Floyd music video or something.” Once again, she and Nate departed the scene in first place. The Pit Stop awaited them at Tempozan Park and it seemed that the couple would finally win a leg of the Amazing Race.
Christina & Ron were just finishing up while Nate & Jen were in search of a taxi. Finally, Christina’s language skills came in real handy and they were able to snag a ride before the other team. Nate & Jen finally found a cab and the race was on. Unfortunately for Jen & Nate (the most unsuccessfully successful team in this race) Ron & Christina arrived first. Phil awarded them with two electric cars. Just what Christina wanted…
In the back of the pack, TK & Rachel were very aware of their undesirable situation. In characteristic fashion, they managed to stay positive and methodically made their way to the mat. Phil was there with a classic Phil-imination look, but the two were pleased to discover they were beneficiaries of the final non-elimination leg of the race. Unfortunately, next week they’ll get to experience a Speed Bump and we all know how well that worked out for Kynt & Vyxsin.
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— phil
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