This is Our Time to Shine

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**This is Our Time to Shine** is the season finale of *TSM The Amazing Race 9: New Connection*.

## Story

Leg 12 (Based off Leg 12 of The Amazing Race 22)

The race resumes at Château de Chenonceau.

Cloud & Abe will depart 1st.

**Route info:** Teams must fly to Washington, D.C., United States. Upon arrival, teams must figure out where Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which was on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, to receive their next clue.

**Cloud:** "It feels good to be in the final 3. I think I showed the haters."

**Abe:** "We have a shot to be the first racers to win two times."

Halcy & Ashley depart 2nd.

**Halcy:** "I've gotten so close to the win several times and not once did I get it, but this time, I've got it."

**Ashley:** "Both of us got 2nd at some point so we need to win!"

Soccer & Sonic depart Last.

**Sonic:** "We're still here so we've got nowhere to go but up now. We've never gotten this far before so this is our time to shine."

**Soccer:** "Alright Tik Tok, we're in the final 3... let's win!"

All teams are on the same flight.

Flight lands.

Soccer & Sonic reach the Lincoln Memorial

Cloud & Abe reach the Lincoln Memorial

Halcy & Ashley reach the Lincoln Memorial

**Man:** "This is the spot where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous speech, "I have a dream."

All 3 teams stand right behind the spot.

**Soccer:** "I am Canadian, but being in a place where history was made and seeing how far we've come today made me feel emotional. But I know we still have ways to go so the best thing we can do is try and keep getting educated."

**Sonic:** "It really was something being there. With all the problems I've had with Soccer and his Tik Tok stuff, it was cool to really bond over something so important in history."

**Cloud:** "It was a beautiful moment we 3 teams had where we just stopped racing and took time to reflect. It really shows that there are things bigger than us out there."

**Abe:** "We were told from the start that we would have a new connection, and when he gave that speech, he envisioned a world where many new connections could be made. Being there made me proud to be an American."

**Halcy:** 'I couldn't help but look at Ashley and cry. We take for granted the fact that things didn't happen to us because of our skin color. I hope that one thing I can take away from this is to be more grateful for what I have."

**Ashley:** "It really shows that we really can change the world if we can put our differences aside and I feel like we did that this season. I am super happy to be part of it."

**Man:** "Best of luck on the rest of your journey, here is your next clue."

**Route Info:** Teams must travel by taxi to 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue. Once there, they would be escorted by a "Secret Service agent" and were told they are going to have their photograph taken with President Barack Obama. In reality, they are taken to a souvenir photography studio where they posed for a photograph in which their face was superimposed over a photograph of someone else meeting President Obama, where their next clue is located on the back of the photograph.

**Soccer:** "OBAMA! I wonder if he'll do a Tik Tok with me."

**Cloud:** "We're doing all the cool stuff today."

**Halcy:** "Wow, seriously?! Let's go now! TAXI!"

**Ashley:** "I see the men."

**Secret Service agent:** "You are here to meet and take pictures with the President. We ask that you observe decorum."

**Halcy:** "UGH, It's not real! Stupid race playing tricks on us!"

**Ashley:** "Figures."

Halcy & Ashley get their picture taken currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must travel by taxi to the Tidal Basin where they have to search for a marked car near the paddle boat docks. After knocking on the rear passenger side window three times, the car's occupant will give them a briefcase, containing their next clue.

**Cloud:** "Wow, I really thought we would meet him."

**Abe:** "Welp, that might be for the better cause I don't know how Obama would've felt shaking hands with a tree."

Cloud & Abe get their picture taken currently in 2nd place.

**Soccer:** "Aw man!"

**Sonic:** "Whatever, just take the picture."

Soccer & Sonic get their picture taken currently in Last place.

**Roadblock:** One team member must take the briefcase they received from the marked car, and then find one of fifty "spies" around the Tidal Basin who will respond to their given code phrase with another supplied code phrase. The team member would then swap briefcases with the spy, and the spy would tell them that the combination code to open their new briefcase was their final placements in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Turkey, with the next clue inside the briefcase.

Halcy is doing the RB

Abe is doing the RB

Soccer is doing the RB

**Sonic:** "We all got here pretty much at the same time so this is still anyone's game."

**Halcy:** I did not dress warm enough for this weather."

**Spy:** "Sorry, I can't help you."

**Abe:** "Where can I get a good half-smoke with chili?"

**Spy:** "Sorry, I can't help you."

**Soccer:** "The cherry blossoms are beautiful here in April."

**Spy:** "Sorry, I can't help you."

**Abe:** "There are so many spies!"

**Halcy:** "This task sucks, where is my spy!"

**Soccer:** "The cherry blossoms are beautiful here in April."

**Spy:** "I'll have to bring my mother next spring."

**Soccer:** "YES! Sixth try!"

Soccer trades his briefcase.

**Spy:** "The key to opening the briefcase is in the order you finished in in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Turkey."

**Soccer:** "Great, I remember two of them cause we should have won Vietnam, and we got last in Indonesia so I just need to figure out what Turkey is."

**Halcy:** I did not dress warm enough for this weather."

**Spy:** "Perhaps you would like to borrow my gloves."

**Halcy:** "YES!"

Halcy trades her briefcase.

**Spy:** "The key to opening the briefcase is in the order you finished in in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Turkey."

**Halcy:** "A memory task! At least it's legs I can think back on."

**Abe:** "Where can I get a good half-smoke with chili?"

**Spy:** "Sorry, I can't help you."

**Abe:** "UGH! I have to go back, I see no more spies."

**Soccer:** "There, got it!"

Soccer finishes the RB currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must travel by taxi to "The Home of the Nats", Nationals Park, to find their next clue.

**Abe:** "Where can I get a good half-smoke with chili?"

**Spy:** "I've heard there's a great place on U Street."

**Abe:** "There we go!"

Abe trades his briefcase.

**Spy:** "The key to opening the briefcase is in the order you finished in in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Turkey."

**Abe:** "Good thing I remember these."

Abe finishes the RB currently in 2nd place.

Halcy finishes the RB currently in Last place.

**Ashley:** "We just passed Cloud & Abe cause their taxi is slow!"

**Cloud:** "Ughhh, this sucks!"

**Route info:** One team member has to ride a zip line across the stadium and toss a baseball, while their partner, dressed in a baseball mascot costume, has to try to catch it. Once they successfully catch the ball, they can read it to see it has their next destination on it.

Soccer & Sonic start catching.

**Soccer:** "I wonder if Tik Tok would like this costume."

**Sonic:** "FOCUS! HERE IT COMES!"

**Soccer:** "I MISSED!"

Halcy & Ashley start catching.

Cloud & Abe start catching.

Halcy & Ashley catch the ball currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must travel by taxi to Hains Point to find their next clue.

**Halcy:** "Nice catch Ashley, we've passed Team Tik Tok! Now we've got a lead so let's keep it!"

Soccer & Sonic catch the ball currently in 2nd place.

**Sonic:** "Shoot, we lost our lead!"

Cloud & Abe catch the ball currently in Last place.

**Abe:** "Welp, I sucked at catching that thing... sorry."

**Cloud:** "It's okay, we'll catch up somehow."

**Halcy:** "This might be it, I see the clue box."

**Route Info:** Teams must enter a giant ball pit to find globes marked with the various countries they have visited on the Race. Only one team member is allowed in the pit at one time, with their partner taking the globes passed to them and putting them in the order in which they visited them. Once their order was correct, another globe would open revealing their last clue.

Halcy & Ashley start final challenge

Soccer & Sonic start final challenge

Cloud & Abe start final challenge

**Ashley:** "Check!"

The globe stays closed.

**Ashley:** "Halcy faster."

**Cloud:** "Abe, this one has nothing on it."

**Abe:** "Are you sure?"

**Soccer:** "Tik Tok, I'm surrounded by globes."

**Sonic:** "Give me that globe, idiot and shut up. You're the laziest person ever."

**Ashley:** "Check."

The globe stays closed.

**Cloud:** "Check!"

The globe stays closed.

**Soccer:** "Hey Tik Tok, wanna check?"

**Sonic:** "The globe needs to open, not Tik Tok you idiot... Check!"

The globe stays closed.

**Halcy:** “We've got to leave those flops in the dust."

**Cloud:** "Please check. This is fun but I would like to leave."

The globe stays closed.

Halcy & Ashley (11 attempts)

Cloud & Abe (7 attempts)

Soccer & Sonic (18 attempts)

**Sonic:** "Check!"

The globe stays closed.

**Soccer:** "Do we have a wrong globe?"

**Sonic:** "I'm not sure."

**Halcy:** "Wait, I might have given you Armenia instead of Georgia... maybe it's that."

**Ashley:** "It is that! Find Georgia!"

**Abe:** "Wait a second. Is Liechtenstein highlighted on that one?"

**Cloud:** "Oh, that's gotta be it."

**Abe:** "Ugh, where is it!"

**Halcy:** "I think I found it!"

**Abe:** "I got it!"

**Ashley:** "That goes here."

**Cloud:** "So this goes here."

**Ashley:** We got it, we got it!"

**Cloud:** "Can we get it checked please!"

The globe opens!

Cloud & Abe finish currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must travel by taxi to "The Home of the First President", which teams have to figure out is Mount Vernon, Virginia to cross the **Finish Line**.

**Abe:** "This is the finish line, go go go!"

**Halcy:** "Check!"

The globe opens!

Halcy & Ashley finish currently in 2nd place.

**Ashley:** "They left just about three minutes ahead of us. We can still pass them."

**Soccer:** "Tik Tok, you excited for the million dollars, I’m bringing home!"

**Sonic:** "We're out of this so, whatever."

**Abe:** "Are we almost there?"

**Ashley:** "It feels so close."

**Cloud:** "Come on, come on!"

**Halcy:** "Is this it?!"

Intense music.

Cloud & Abe cross the finish line!

5 continents, 13 countries, and more than 30,000 miles! Cloud & Abe, I am pleased to tell you that you are the official winners of The Amazing Race! And you have won the one million dollars! Congratulations, you are both officially two time winners!

**Abe:** "YES!"

**Cloud:** "(cries) I CAN"T BELIEVE IT! I was told I was one of the worst winners in the race so to win this one means everything."

**Abe:** "I've wanted to win another one but I never thought I would after what happened the last time I've raced so this feels good!"

**Ashley:** "Welp, 2nd place again."

**Halcy:** "Oh well... we did good."

Halcy & Ashley, you are team number 2.

**Sonic:** "It's right there."

**Soccer:** "There's the finish line, alright Tik Tok, let's finish!"

Soccer & Sonic, I hope Tik Tok liked 3rd. You are team number 3.

## Route Markers

* Pit Start
* Route Info 1
* Route Info 2
* Route Info 3
* Roadblock
* Route Info 4
* Route Info 5
* Route Info 6
* Route Info 7
* Route Info 8 and Finish Line
 The order of departure from Château de Chenonceau are as follows:

1. Cloud & Abe
2. Halcy & Ashley
3. Soccer & Sonic

Nobody's departure times were shown. Teams must fly to Washington, D.C., United States. Upon arrival, teams must figure out where Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, which was on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, to receive their next clue.

 Teams must travel by taxi to 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue. Once there, they would be escorted by a "Secret Service agent" and were told they are going to have their photograph taken with President Barack Obama. In reality, they are taken to a souvenir photography studio where they posed for a photograph in which their face was superimposed over a photograph of someone else meeting President Obama, where their next clue is located on the back of the photograph.

 Teams must travel by taxi to the Tidal Basin where they have to search for a marked car near the paddle boat docks. After knocking on the rear passenger side window three times, the car's occupant will give them a briefcase, containing their next clue.

 The team member assigned to perform the Roadblock would have to take the briefcase they received from the marked car, and then find one of fifty "spies" around the Tidal Basin who will respond to their given code phrase with another supplied code phrase (Halcy & Ashley: "I did not dress warm enough for this weather." / "Perhaps you would like to borrow my gloves."; Cloud & Abe: "Where can I get a good half-smoke with chili?" / "I've heard there's a great place on U Street."; Soccer & Sonic: "The cherry blossoms are beautiful here in April." / "I'll have to bring my mother next spring."). The team member would then swap briefcases with the spy, and the spy would tell them that the combination code to open their new briefcase was their final placements in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Turkey, with the next clue inside the briefcase.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

* Cloud & Abe
* Halcy & Ashley
* Soccer & Sonic
 Teams must travel by taxi to "The Home of the Nats", Nationals Park, to find their next clue.

 One team member has to ride a zip line across the stadium and toss a baseball, while their partner, dressed in a baseball mascot costume, has to try to catch it. Once they successfully catch the ball, they can read it to see it has their next destination on it.

 Teams must travel by taxi to Hains Point to find their next clue.

 Teams must enter a giant ball pit to find globes marked with the various countries they have visited on the Race. Only one team member is allowed in the pit at one time, with their partner taking the globes passed to them and putting them in the order in which they visited them. Once their order was correct, another globe would open revealing their last clue.

 Teams must travel by taxi to "The Home of the First President", which teams had to figure out it is Mount Vernon, Virginia to cross the **Finish Line**.

## Leaderboard

**Legend:**
     First Place •      Eliminated •      Last placer on a Non-Elimination Leg•      Saved from elimination by the Salvage Pass or The Save •      Season winner •      Season 2nd place •      Season 3rd place • **►** Used the Fast Forward • **ϵ** Used the Express Pass• **⊂** User of the first Double U-Turn slot • **⊃** Recipient of the first Double U-Turn slot • **⋐** User of the second Double U-Turn slot • **⋑** Recipient of the second Double U-Turn slot

 **1st place**

 **2nd place**

 **3rd place**