Split U-Turn?

## Subpages

**Split U-Turn?** is the ninth episode of *TSM The Amazing Race 10: Best of the Best*.

## Story

Leg 9 (Based off Leg 6 of The Amazing Race 20)

The race resumes at the Naic rice fields.

Abi & Katie will depart 1st.

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Baku, Azerbaijan. Upon arrival, teams must travel by taxi to Temple Ateshgah to find their next clue.

**Caution... Double U-Turn Ahead... With a Twist!**

**Katie:** "A twist? What are they throwing at us this time?"

**Abi:** "I hope it does not hurt us."

All teams are on the same flight.

At the airport.

**Abi:** "We've got to be smart! We don't know what this new twist is."

**Jenn:** "I'm so over everyone here, I just want to run the race and not have to talk to any of them again."

**Etoille:** "You realize you're making us targets for this uturn, right?"

**Jenn:** "They're gonna uturn us no matter what cause the whole world hates me."

**Etoille:** "There's a twist as well so we have to be extra careful Jenn."

**Jenn:** "Who cares."

**Clara:** "Why are Jenn & Etoille isolating themselves."

**Micky:** "They're just doing their own thing!"

**Abe:** "I liked Jenn at first, but after that blowup she had yesterday, GAME ON!"

**Clara:** "I can’t stand them, I want to uturn them!"

**Amy:** "As long as it's not me, I’m in."

**Etoille:** "People are like why are you so isolated why not talk to us? Bad sign."

**Jenn:** "Maybe we just don’t like you... Maybe we just like our distance!"

**Clara:** "Everyone who is not Jenn & Etoille, gather over by the McDonalds!"

**Abi:** "Okay!"

**Abe:** "Oh boy, what's going on now?"

**Clara:** "There is a toxic team that needs to be taken out of this race once and for all!"

**Peanut:** "(whispers) Is she talking about herself? LOL."

**Clara:** "That Jenn & Etoille have caused annoyances since day 1 and I've had enough, I call on everyone here to join me in the fight to uturn them and eliminated them from the race! I don't know how they dominated their first time, but it will not happen again this time, BYE BYE! SAY IT WITH ME... BYE BYE LOSERS!"

**Abi/Katie:** "BYE BYE LOSERS"

**White:** "I’m on board, I hate Jenn! BYE BYE LOSERS!"

**Nemo:** "Um..."

**Clara:** "Come on Nemo, don't ruin everything."

**Nemo:** "I'm just eating a happy meal, give me a break."

**Nemo:** "(cf) This is a terrible idea Clara! If you annoy all the other teams, we will for sure be uturned and there is still that twist in play! It's just sooooooo stupid!"

**Peanut:** "I love how Clara thinks shes this cool uturn dictator."

**Amy:** "They are annoying, I'll give her that."

**Peanut:** "But so is she, but her and Nemo are weak so we don't need to worry about them. Honestly, our target has not changed, we're still after Micky & Abe since they're the strongest team left and we have some beef with them."

**Amy:** "It will be sweet revenge!"

**Etoille:** "You realize that Clara just had a meeting just to get us uturned right?"

**Jenn:** "Who cares, we already have a speed bump... It's not like we're gonna win again with all these trashy people!"

**Etoille:** "Get your crap together, we're still in this race!"

Flight leaves.

**Clara:** "White, is the plan still to uturn Jenn?"

**White:** "Yes, I can't stand her, she needs to go."

**Clara:** "Good."

Flight lands.

**Clara:** "Fast, fast!"

**War:** "Gooo!"

**Abe:** "There it is."

**Route info:** Teams must travel by taxi to Occupational Training International and search the grounds to find their next clue.

**Micky:** "There's a fast forward!"

**Fast Forward:** Teams must have to travel to a nearby market named Saman Ot Bazary where they would have to unload 150 bales of hay and stack them 10 bales long, 3 bales wide, and 5 bales high. Once complete, they would win the Fast Forward.

**Etoille:** "Speed bump!"

**Speed Bump:** Jenn & Etoille must dance with the locals at the fire in the temple. Once the leader feels they are up to speed with them, they may move on.

**Abe:** "We're the first ones here, we're gonna do the fast forward."

**White:** "Fast forward?"

**War:** "I don’t think so."

**Clara:** "Let's do it."

**Nemo:** "Clara, it's too risky."

**Clara:** "I’ve won the fast forward before, we can do it!"

**Nemo:** "If you say so."

**Clara:** "Let's go!"

**Nemo:** "Clara, they have a speed bump, I don’t know."

**Clara:** "We can do it fast!"

**Peanut:** "Not doing fast forward, nope, you thought."

**Katie:** "We're too late for the fast forward let's go."

**Katie:** "Hopefully more then one team goes for it or Jenn & Etoille fall behind because of the speed bump."

**Etoille:** "I've got the rhythm fast but the steps were hard."

**Jenn:** "This music is kinda catchy, I am actually having fun for a change now."

**Micky:** "We're here."

**Nemo:** "Great, Ghost Town is also going for it."

**Clara:** "Stack Nemo fast!"

**Nemo:** "Put that there."

**Abe:** "We got to beat them out of here."

**White:** "There it is."

**Roadblock:** One team member must participate in a helicopter crash training exercise by donning safety gear and boarding a helicopter simulator that then submerged and inverted in a pool of water. Racers then have to evacuate the simulator through a window and swim to a lifeboat in the pool to retrieve their next clue. If they grab a clue that says "try again", they must perform the task all over again.

White is doing the RB

Peanut is doing the RB

**Peanut:** “This looks like fun."

**Abe:** "We're getting closer."

**Clara:** "This stupid thing, we're staying close, we got this!"

**Jenn:** “Ugh, one wrong step. We can do it this time, let's go for it!"

Jenn & Etoille finish speed bump.

**Etoille:** "We are for sure uturn targets so we should take the risk and go for the fast forward."

**Micky:** "Almost there."

**Nemo:** "They are way ahead of us, we need to quit!"

**Etoille:** "Two teams are here."

**Jenn:** "Ghost Town is almost finished."

**Nemo:** "Let's go!"

Micky & Abe's stack falls over.

**Abe:** "UGHHHH!!!! WE WERE SO CLOSE! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!"

**Jenn:** "YES, HAHAHA, LET'S GET THIS FAST FORWARD!"

**Clara:** "Micky & Abe's stack fell over!"

**Nemo:** "Ok, we'll stay then since we're ahead of them, Jenn & Etoille just got here so they'll never catch us."

**Micky:** "Now what?"

**Abe:** "Jenn & Etoille are here now so if we leave here, then at least one of them will be behind us so let's ditch this fast forward."

**Micky:** "Okay, we're leaving. We lost some time but hopefully we can make it up somewhere."

**Abe:** "The only bad part is if someone wants to uturn us, now they have the chance to do it."

**Etoille:** "They are not even halfway done, we can still beat them!"

**White:** "Try again! RACIST!"

Peanut finishes the RB currently in 1st place

**Route Info:** Teams must travel by taxi to Old Baku and search for the Toghrul Karabakh Carpet Shop to find their next clue.

**Peanut:** "What's that say... Split U-Turn?"

**NOTE:** "You will encounter a Split U-Turn. One slot will be available before the detour with the other being available after it. You may only use one of these slots!"

**Peanut:** "Great, that changes the whole game right there since they are split apart."

**Amy:** "We don’t know who to uturn. Micky & Abe went for the fast forward but we don't know if they got it or not. We could also do Jenn & Etoille since they're strong and have a speed bump. UGH... too many options!"

**Jenn:** "Put that there!"

**Clara:** "Check!"

**Judge:** Nope, not stacked correctly.

**Nemo:** "You're kidding me!"

White finishes the RB currently in 2nd place.

Abi is doing the RB

**Abi:** "Try again!"

**Abi:** "Try again... again! Ugh, I hate this!"

**Peanut:** "Who is the uturn. We know that Micky & Abe and Clara & Nemo went for the fast forward."

**Amy:** "I want to do Micky & Abe, but the safe bet is Jenn & Etoille since they had a speed bump."

Peanut & Amy uturn Jenn & Etoille

**Peanut:** "We'll get back at them later."

**Detour:** Apple or Oil?

**Choice A:** *Apple*
Teams would have to travel to the Yaşil Bazaar fruit market where they have to unload and search through an Soviet-era car filled with a ton of apples for one apple marked with a Race Flag. Once they find the apple, they can trade it in for their next clue.

**Choice B:** *Oil*
Teams would have to travel to the Naftalan health spa where they have to clean crude oil off of a client, first by using a shoehorn and then by scrubbing them clean. Once done, the spa official will give them their next clue.

Peanut & Amy are doing Oil

Abe is doing the RB

Abi finishes the RB currently in 3rd place.

Abe finishes the RB currently in 4th place.

White & War are doing Apple

**Etoille:** "It's super important that we win the fast forward cause if we fail this and get uturned, we're dead."

**Clara:** "This is the biggest fast forward ever so we need to win this and get our first win!"

**Nemo:** "Almost got it!"

**Jenn:** "Check!"

**Judge:** Correct!

**Clara:** "You're kidding me, how did they pass us!"

**Nemo:** "I knew we shouldn’t have done this."

**Clara:** "Ugh! This sucks! Especially since I made a wrong call today that could get us eliminated."

Jenn & Etoille can now travel by taxi to Boulevard Esplanade Estakada to check in and have nullified Peanut & Amy's uturn against them. However, they cannot use the uturn themselves.

**Jenn:** "TAKE THAT LOSERS! WE'RE BACK IN THE GAME!"

**Nemo:** "Listen, we are a strong team and we're not going down by this."

Micky & Abe are doing Oil

Abi & Katie are doing Oil

Jenn & Etoille, what a comeback, you are team number 1! You have won 7,500 dollars each!

**Etoille:** "YES, that's why we don't quit."

**Jenn:** "I never say the word quit and that's why we are here."

**Etoille:** "We'll go with that just as long as your head is back in the game."

**Jenn:** "It always has been!"

**Peanut:** "Our cab took a slow route I think, I see White & War."

**White:** "We've got two cabs right behind us."

**Micky:** "Abi & Katie are right behind us and it looks like we've caught up to White & War."

**Peanut:** "UGH! We could've uturned Ghost Town, they're with us now!"

Nemo is doing the RB

**Nemo:** "Good thing I'm doing this since I'm a fish."

Nemo finishes the RB currently in Last place.

Micky & Abe finish detour currently in 2nd place.

**Route Info:** Teams must travel by taxi to Boulevard Esplanade Estakada, where, as a part of the **Split U-Turn** twist, they will find a second U-Turn board.

Clara & Nemo are doing Apple

Peanut & Amy finish detour currently in 3rd place.

White & War finish detour currently in 4th place.

**White:** "There's a second uturn coming up!"

**Abe:** "We need to get there so we can make a move."

**Amy:** "Micky & Abe just got in front of us so I have no idea what they'll do... We need to pass that cab!"

Three way cab race!

**Abe:** "Who are we turning!"

**Micky:** "Ugh, which one?"

**Abe:** "We know that Jenn & Etoille got uturned, let's uturn Peanut & Amy, we can’t let them win!"

Micky & Abe uturn Peanut and Amy

Micky & Abe, nice recovery, you are team number 2

**Peanut:** "Ugh, we're uturned. And, of course, it was Micky & Abe who did it to us!"

**Amy:** "We should have just uturned them."

**Peanut:** "What do we have to do?"

**Amy:** "It's a luck challenge, we're not out of it!"

White & War, you are team number 3

**Clara:** "Oh my gosh, another team! We've got to hurry up Nemo!"

**Peanut:** "Clara & Nemo are here!"

**Amy:** "Guys, if you're here, then who got the Fast Forward?"

**Nemo:** "Jenn & Etoille got it, can you believe that?!"

**Peanut:** "UGH, THAT EATS ME ALIVE! WHAT ARE THE FREAKING ODDS!"

**Amy:** "Of course we uturn the team that won the Fast Forward, why wouldn't we, that's our luck today! Maybe It will turn around with these apples."

Abi & Katie finish detour currently in 4th place.

Clara & Nemo finish detour currently in 5th place.

Peanut & Amy finish detour currently in Last place.

**Nemo:** "Oh my gosh, I see their cab in the distance!"

**Clara:** "Make sure to run when we get there!"

Abi & Katie, you are team number 4

**Clara:** "You've got to run super hard!"

**Peanut:** "Amy, go! Don't trip!"

**Amy:** "I won't, we've got a shot!"

INTENSE MUSIC.

Clara & Nemo, you are team number 5 and you are still in the race! What a comeback!

**Clara:** "YES! WE THOUGHT IT WAS OVER!"

**Nemo:** "And that's why you never quit on The Amazing Race!"

Peanut & Amy, you are the last team to arrive. I'm sorry to tell you that you have been eliminated from the race.

**Peanut:** "Welp, once again Ghost Town one ups us."

**Amy:** "I'm very proud of how we did, we got to do it three times as a team and I'd say we showed everyone what we're made of."

**Peanut:** "It's been amazing and I'm gonna miss running it with Amy."

**Amy:** "We are in the Race history books for sure!"

## Route Markers

* Pit Start
* Route Info 1
* Speed Bump
* Fast Forward
* Route Info 2
* Roadblock
* Route Info 3
* U-Turn 1
* Detour
* Route Info 4
* U-Turn 2
* Route Info 5 and Pit Stop
 The order of departure from the Naic rice fields are as follows:

1. Abi & Katie
2. Peanut & Amy
3. Clara & Nemo
4. White & War
5. Micky & Abe
6. Jenn & Etoille
 Teams must fly to Baku, Azerbaijan. Upon arrival, teams must travel by taxi to Temple Ateshgah to find their next clue.

 At Temple Ateshgah, Jenn & Etoille would receive their clue for their **Speed Bump**.
Jenn & Etoille must dance with the locals at the fire in the temple. Once the leader feels they are up to speed with them, they may move on.

 The **Fast Forward** instructions were given to them after receiving their clue at Temple Ateshgah.
Teams must have to travel to a nearby market named Saman Ot Bazary where they would have to unload 150 bales of hay and stack them 10 bales long, 3 bales wide, and 5 bales high. Once complete, they would win the Fast Forward. Jenn & Etoille won the Fast Forward.

 Teams must travel by taxi to Occupational Training International and search the grounds to find their next clue.

 The team member assigned to perform the Roadblock would have to participate in a helicopter crash training exercise by donning safety gear and boarding a helicopter simulator that then submerged and inverted in a pool of water. Racers then have to evacuate the simulator through a window and swim to a lifeboat in the pool to retrieve their next clue. If they grab a clue that says "try again", they must perform the task all over again.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

* Abi & Katie
* Clara & Nemo
* Micky & Abe
* Peanut & Amy
* White & War
 Teams must travel by taxi to Old Baku and search for the Toghrul Karabakh Carpet Shop to find their next clue.

 At Toghrul Karabakh Carpet Shop, teams would have the option to **U-Turn** a team. Peanut & Amy attempted to use the **U-Turn** on Jenn & Etoille, however, Jenn & Etoille won the Fast Forward, thus having no effect on them.

**Choice A:** *Apple*
Teams would have to travel to the Yaşil Bazaar fruit market where they have to unload and search through an Soviet-era car filled with a ton of apples for one apple marked with a Race Flag. Once they find the apple, they can trade it in for their next clue.

Clara & Nemo and White & War chose this task.

**Choice B:** *Oil*
Teams would have to travel to the Naftalan health spa where they have to clean crude oil off of a client, first by using a shoehorn and then by scrubbing them clean. Once done, the spa official will give them their next clue.

Abi & Katie, Micky & Abe, and Peanut & Amy chose this task. Teams must travel by taxi to Boulevard Esplanade Estakada, where, as a part of the **Split U-Turn** twist, they will find a second U-Turn board.

 At Boulevard Esplanade Estakada, teams would have the option to **U-Turn** a team. Micky & Abe used the **U-Turn** on Peanut & Amy.
Since Peanut & Amy completed the *Oil* Detour, they would be forced to backtrack and complete the *Apple* Detour before continuing.

 Teams must travel on foot to the nearby Pit Stop to check in.
For coming in first place, Jenn & Etoille each won $7.500.

## 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**

 **4th place**

 **5th place**

 **6th place**