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"This is the worst thing I've ever done" - Meghan
 Teams are going to Stockholm and have to go to an amusement park to get their next clue. Cheyne talks about how they're running a great race and that's a good sign of their compatibility. It's Flight Time's birthday, and he'd love to finish first as a little gift. They get to the airport at nighttime, and the next flight is in the morning. Everyone spends the night in the airport. Two teams -- Matt and Gary and Brian and Ericka -- end up on a later flight, two hours behind the rest of the teams.
Brian reveals that Ericka's mom has had problems with her being married to a white guy and they're on the race to prove they're a good team.
In Stockholm, teams have to take a train, and the Globetrotters miss it by moments. Sam and Dan and Meghan and Cheyne catch their ferry to the amusement park. One member of each team has to take ride that goes up 24 stories. From the top, they need to spot an arrow that points to the next clue. The arrow's only visible for 15 seconds before the ride descends swiftly. Cheyne and Sam work together to find the arrow. They now to have play "roaming gnome ring toss" to get a gnome. It's a Detour. Sweden's history is well known for Alfred Nobel and the Vikings. Teams have to choose between their contributions. In Nobel Dynamite, they have to built a bunker and blow up something that reveals their next clue or Viking Alphabet, in which they have to decode a message written in the ancient Viking language.
Matt and Gary miss a train and Brian and Ericka are now in second-to-last place. She finds the arrow effortlessly (nothing like her bell debacle). Everyone chooses to build a bunker. On the way to the Detour, Matt and Gary get lost.
Sam and Dan are the first done and get to blow something up. They go looking for a metal box containing their clue. Now they go to a farm where there are hundreds of huge bales of hay. This was the site of a notorious Roadblock in an earlier season, in which a team spent 10 hours unrolling hay bales and never got the clue.
The Globetrotters are done next. Cheyne and Meghan struggle through the task; she complains endlessly that he wouldn't work with her.
Sam and Dan arrive to the hay bales. There are 7 clues in 187 hay bales. Cheyne goes mute when Meghan asks if he wants to do the task, so she takes it. Sam takes the task for the brothers, and they snipe, snipe, snipe at each other. Dan won't stop criticizing Sam out there. Big Easy takes to the field, and those hay bales look tiny compared to him. He's having a great time while the others struggle, and Big Easy gets Flight Time's birthday flag. Since the farm is also the pit stop, they stroll over to Phil and win a trip to Turks and Caicos.
The hay bale task is a serious mental and physical challenge. After two hours, Meghan, bathed in sweat, says she can't go on. Meanwhile, the last two teams have arrived, and they're fresh and ready to go. The earlier teams have rolled out more than half the bales, probably, so their odds are good to find a clue. But Meghan finds the next one and pockets it to surprise Cheyne. "I love you so much," he yells. "I'm so happy that she's my partner in this," he says. "I'm so glad she's my partner in life." And we hear a million viewers swoon.
Brian finds the next flag. Sam sits down to take a break while Gary, who's worked with hay all his life, keeps on rolling. Sam finally finds a flag and the brothers stumble to the pit stop. Dan cries that there was no reason to yell at Sam. He just feels like crap. Gary's still out in the field, and stays there for 2 hours 45 minutes before he finds a flag. But it's a non-elimination leg! Matt says, "My dad is Superman. This guy never gives up." | |
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