Remember the Plan

## Subpages

**Remember the Plan** is the ninth episode of *TSM The Amazing Race 13: Game Changers*.

## Story

Leg 9 (Based off Leg 2 of The Amazing Race 26)

The race resumes at Taj Falaknuma Palace.

Bash & Phorix will depart 1st.

**Route Info:** Teams fly to Tokyo, Japan. Upon arrival, they must travel by bullet train to Nagano. Once there, teams must make their way to Matsushiro Castle, where they would find their next clue.

**Caution: U-Turn Ahead!**

**Getsome:** "Not Japan again! Last time we raced, that’s where we got eliminated."

**Sarah:** "We’ve got to get past it this time."

**Abe:** "You hate to see anyone go out that way but these are Alex & Wilted we're talking about so I'm not too sad. We know that with them gone, we now have an easier path to the final leg."

**Bash:** "Our plan failed. Alex & Wilted are gone."

**Halcy:** "And it’s all because you had to be a big mouth!"

**Bash:** "HEY! THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT!"

**Halcy:** "TRAITOR! YOU WANTED TO USE US TO GET OUT ALEX & WILTED AND YOU FOUND YOUR CHANCE!"

**Bash:** "YOU REALIZE THERE’S A U-TURN, RIGHT?!"

**Halcy:** "AND GUESS WHO’S GOING TO BE ON THERE?!"

**Bash:** "NOT IF WE GET THERE FIRST!"

(cf) **Halcy:** "Bash picked the wrong day to pick a fight with me. This will be our leg and it will be off with their heads."

(cf) **Bash:** "We all know I did it by mistake. Now I’m going to get blamed for everything in the world."

**Ashley:** "Wonder what the new day will bring."

**Cloud:** "So what are we doing about this U-Turn."

**Ashley:** "You know where I stand. We did you guys a favor last time so we think it’s only fair that we U-Turn Getsome & Sarah."

**Abe:** "Alright, that’s fair."

**Sarah:** "We didn’t expect a third U-Turn."

**Abe:** "And what’s the plan for it?"

(cf) **Ashley:** "If I get my way, Getsome & Sarah will be gone for good this time."

(cf) **Getsome:** "My view of Ashley hasn’t changed since our last race. I still think she’s immature."

**Sarah:** "Ashley's made it clear that she wants our heads so we have to do them."

(cf) **Abe:** "It is clear that Halcy & Pie and Bash & Phorix hate each other now. And Clara & Ashley and Getsome & Sarah never got along. So we’re just sitting back in the middle. I don’t care who gets there first as long as they remember the plan…to use it on the team you hate."

All teams are on the same flight.

Flight lands.

**Bash:** "Where's the bullet train?!"

**Pie:** "Train?"

**Ashley:** "There it is!"

**Clara:** "We’re on the first train which should leave any second."

**Cloud:** "Here it is."

**Ashley:** "Cloud & Abe are with us."

Train leaves.

**Getsome:** "Gone!"

**Sarah:** "Wait, here comes another one. We’ll be about 5 minutes behind them."

**Halcy:** "All three teams are on this train."

Train 1 arrives.

**Cloud:** "Taxi!"

**Clara:** "We need a taxi!"

**Abe:** "Down here!"

**Ashley:** "Got one."

Train 2 arrives.

**Getsome:** "Over here, I got one!"

**Bash:** "Get that cab!"

**Pie:** "Taxi!"

**Clara:** "There's the clue box."

**Roadblock:** One team member must solve an intricate Japanese puzzle box known as a *yosegi*. Once they have figured out how to open the box, they would find a password written on a small piece of paper, which reads *Nakani irete kudasai* ("Please let me in"). They must then properly recite the password to the castle guards in order to retrieve their next clue.

Ashley is doing the RB.

Cloud is doing the RB.

**Cloud:** "Is it in here?"

**Ashley:** "Where are the boxes?"

**Sarah:** "Look! They’re still here!"

Getsome is doing the RB.

Phorix is doing the RB.

Pie is doing the RB.

**Pie:** "Nobody knows where the boxes are."

**Clara:** "Let’s go, it’s not here."

**Abe:** "Let’s follow them."

**Ashley:** "Everyone is following us."

**Sarah:** "This is it."

All teams start on their trick boxes.

**Ashley:** "Ugh! This box won’t move!"

**Getsome:** "I can’t even find the first move."

**Cloud:** "I need to figure out how this works so I can open it."

**Ashley:** "There, something moved."

**Pie:** "I got a little movement out of it but I’m not sure what to do next."

**Phorix:** "Everyone is getting their boxes to move. This will be a fast-paced leg. I can feel it."

**Ashley:** "I’ve almost got it."

**Pie:** "UGH! I thought I was making progress but I’m stuck again."

**Getsome:** "I am getting nowhere now."

**Ashley:** "Nevermind. I am stuck."

**Cloud:** "I’m seeing little things I can do with this to make it move."

**Phorix:** "I am starting to get the hang of it. But that’s what I said about five minutes ago."

**Ashley:** "This moved…I GOT IT!"

**Clara:** "YASS!"

**Ashley:** "Nakani irete kudasai."

Ashley finishes the RB currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must make their way to Nishi-guchi Zenkō-ji, where they would find their next clue.

**Clara:** "Let’s go. We have the lead!"

**Cloud:** "There we go. Nakani irete kudasai."

Cloud finishes the RB currently in 2nd place.

**Clara:** "Over there!"

**Abe:** "I see it."

**Detour:** Share or Chair?

**Choice A:** *Share*
Teams must make their way to the Takesan Donabe restaurant, where they must feed each other a bowl of Japanese noodles, using only a pair of chopsticks and while sitting in front of a large fan. Once both members have eaten all the noodles in their partner's bowl, they would receive their next clue.

**Choice B:** *Chair*
Teams must make their way to the M-Wave Olympic Arena, where one member must sit on a chair mounted on a sled, while their partner pushes the chair around a speed skating track, switching places after one lap. Once teams have completed both laps around the course within three minutes and fifty-five seconds, they would receive their next clue.

**Clara:** "I am not feeding you!"

Clara & Ashley are doing Chair.

**Cloud:** "We can’t skate."

Cloud & Abe are doing Share.

**Pie:** "I think I’ve got it! Nakani irete kudasai."

Pie finishes the RB currently in 3rd place.

**Phorix:** "Nakani irete kudasai."

Phorix finishes the RB currently in 4th place.

**Getsome:** "Just me and this stupid box."

**Sarah:** "Don’t give up! We’re team comeback!"

Hacly & Pie are doing Chair.

Bash & Phorix are doing Chair.

**Clara:** "There’s the arena."

**Ashley:** "I’ll push first."

**Clara:** "Make it quick, I don’t want to sit here all day."

**Ashley:** "These turns are hard."

**Clara:** "Faster! FASTER!"

**Cloud:** "Our cab dropped us off at the wrong restaurant."

**Abe:** "Sir, we want to go here."

**Cloud:** "I hope that didn’t set us back too far."

**Halcy:** "There’s Clara & Ashley."

**Clara:** "You’re heavy!"

**Ashley:** "We can beat it if we hurry!"

3:56.

**Clara:** "Great. We missed by a single second."

**Pie:** "Our turn."

**Halcy:** "I’m pushing."

**Pie:** "Whoa, easy on the turns."

**Halcy:** "I’m trying."

**Bash:** "I hope thy fail."

**Ashley:** "Bash & Phorix are now here, we think Cloud & Abe did the other one."

**Getsome:** "There we go! Nakani irete kudasai."

Getsome finishes the RB currently in Last place.

4:03

**Halcy:** "That’s hard, but I don’t want ot do that noodle task. It sounds gross."

**Phorix:** "This turn is no joke!"

**Bash:** "Almost there!"

3:58.

**Bash:** "So close!"

(cf) **Bash:** "We knew we had to get to the U-Turn before Halcy & Pie or else we’re getting U-Turned."

Getsome & Sarah are doing Share.

**Getsome:** "Can’t give up yet."

**Abe:** "There it is. We can finally start."

**Cloud:** "These chop sticks are hard to handle."

(cf) **Cloud:** "It was super hard to pick it up with the chop stick cause it was slippery. And the fan is not helping."

**Abe:** "This is not as easy as I thought. But we have to do this once since neither one of us can skate."

**Clara:** "Just a little more!"

3:53.

**Ashley:** "YES!"

Clara & Ashley finish detour currently in 1st place.

**Route Info:** Teams must make their way to The Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum and search for their next clue.

**Ashley:** "Getsome & Sarah are done!"

**Halcy:** "We’ll get it this time."

**Cloud:** "We’re almost there."

**Getsome:** "Wow, Cloud & Abe are still here."

**Sarah:** "We’re still in it!"

**Abe:** "You’re done, I just need one more bite."

**Cloud:** "There we go."

Cloud & Abe finish detour currently in 2nd place.

**Halcy:** "Come on!"

3:51.

Halcy & Pie finish detour currently in 3rd place.

**Bash:** "We need to hurry. If Halcy & Pie get there, we’re screwed."

**Clara:** "Here it is. We just need to find that clue."

**Abe:** "I see the museum."

**Ashley:** "I see it."

**Clara:** "No one’s been U-Turned. We’re the first ones here!"

**Ashley:** "Alright, we’re going to do Getsome & Sa-"

**Clara:** "HALT!"

**Ashley:** "What?!"

**Clara:** "Why use it on them? That would be a waste."

**Ashley:** "What do you mean?"

**Clara:** "Think. Getsome & Sarah are the weakest team left. What team do we know that’s the strongest one left."

**Ashley:** "Wait, you don’t mean…"

**Clara:** "Yes, it is time for us to make a big move. They’re threats so it only makes sense."

**Ashley:** "Ok, I guess we’ll do that."

Clara & Ashley U-Turn Cloud & Abe.

**Ashley:** "Sorry guys, but you’re too good for us to compete against."

**Clara:** "We’re playing our own game anyway. Let’s see where we’re going."

**Route Info:** Teams must make their way to Patio Daimon to check in. The last team to check in may be eliminated.

**Ashley:** "There they are, let’s get out of here before they see it!"

**Cloud:** "Is that it over there? Someone’s up there."

**Abe:** "Oh no!"

**Cloud:** "How’d that happen!"

**Abe:** "Clara & Ashley betrayed us!"

(cf) **Abe:** "When we saw that it was us up there, we knew we were in trouble. Now we have to do the skating task and both of us are not that good."

**Cloud:** "What now?"

**Abe:** "We have to U-Turn someone."

**Cloud:** "The only team we saw was Getsome & Sarah."

**Abe:** "I hate to do it to them, but we need to survive."

Cloud & Abe U-Turn Getsome & Sarah.

**Abe:** "Let’s get this over with."

Halcy & Pie see the U-Turn board.

**Halcy:** "Welp, that plan’s out the window. Bash & Phorix got spared."

**Pie:** "Cloud & Abe are a strong team though."

**Halcy:** "What are the odds of them not making it though?"

**Pie:** "We’ll see."

Clara & Ashley, you are team number 1! As the winners of this leg of the race, you have won $10,00 each!"

**Ashley:** "YASS!"

**Clara:** "ON TOP AGAIN!"

(cf) **Clara:** "We took a major gamble with the U-Turn today. We don’t know if it’ll work, but if it does, it’ll be the biggest move we’ve ever pulled off."

**Bash:** "Almost there!"

**Abe:** "There’s Bash & Phorix."

3:53.

Bash & Phorix finish detour currently in 3rd place.

**Bash:** "Are you just getting here?"

**Abe:** "Clara & Ashley U-Turned us."

**Phorix:** "Whoa!"

**Cloud:** "And we had to use it on Getsome & Sarah."

**Bash:** "That’s not what I expected to happen! Let’s go!"

**Cloud:** "Alright, let’s do this."

**Phorix:** "I did not see that coming. We thought for sure that we’d be on the board but Clara & Ashley made a gutsy move. We’ll see if it works for them."

**Getsome:** "Done!"

Getsome & Sarah finish detour currently in Last place.

**Sarah:** "Maybe someone U-Turned someone that’s not us."

Halcy & Pie, you are team number 2.

**Cloud:** "UGH! I Can’t make this turn!"

**Bash:** "There’s the board."

**Phorix:** "Let’s get going."

**Cloud:** "Ow! I keep falling at that turn. I don’t know what I'm doing wrong!"

**Abe:** "I guess I’ll have to try."

**Cloud:** "Here comes the turn!"

**Abe:** "Whoa! I can’t keep my balance."

**Cloud:** "Try again, we can’t let them beat us!"

**Abe:** "Ugh, I’ve got to make this turn."

**Cloud:** "Almost there!"

**Abe:** "OW!"

**Cloud:** "Are you ok?"

**Abe:** "No, I fell on my arm!"

**Cloud:** "Oh no!"

**Abe:** "Can I see someone?"

**Getsome:** "WHAT! Cloud & Abe U-Turned us."

**Sarah:** "And there’s why. Clara & Ashley are so annoying."

**Getsome:** "I guess we go back. It’ll take a miracle to get out of last now."

**Abe:** "Yeah, it hurts right there."

(cf) **Abe:** "I have not skated since I fractured my arm at a party. The trauma was too much to try again so when i hurt my arm again, I thought I was gonna lose it. But if we don’t get this done, we’ll be done."

**Cloud:** "Are you good?"

**Abe:** "I’m fine. It’s nothing serious. We need to run it again."

Cloud & Abe make it around.

6:30.

**Abe:** "Not even close."

**Cloud:** At least we made it all the way around this time."

Bash & Phorix, you are team number 3.

**Bash:** "YES! We’ve officially made it farther than last time!"

**Getsome:** "I see Cloud & Abe."

**Abe:** "Getsome & Sarah are here."

**Getsome:** "Clara can stick it."

**Cloud:** "No kidding."

(cf) **Getsome:** "As close as we’ve been with Cloud & Abe, it was just us left so we knew we had to beat them."

Getsome & Sarah make it around.

4:32.

**Sarah:** "Shoot!"

Cloud & Abe make it around.

5:20.

**Cloud:** "We’re getting better."

Getsome & Sarah make it around.

4:06.

**Getsome:** "It’s that turn we’re having trouble with."

Cloud & Abe make it around.

4;50.

**Abe:** "Still not great."

(cf) **Sarah:** "Being at that arena was eye opening. I’ve never seen Abe struggle so much with a task before. We’re thinking we might still have a chance after all."

Getsome & Sarah make it around.

3:59.

**Getsome:** "We were three seconds off!"

**Cloud:** "We have to get it this time, they were close."

**Getsome:** "They’re doing good. This is their best run yet."

Cloud & Abe make it around.

**Abe:** "Did we do it?"

4:00.

**Cloud:** "UGH! SO CLOSE!"

**Getsome:** "We’re still in it!"

**Abe:** "We need another fail from them."

Getsome & Sarah make it around.

**Sarah:** "Please, please please!"

**Cloud:** "What’s their time?"

**Getsome:** "Come on!"

3:55

**Sarah:** "RIGHT ON THE NOSE!"

Getsome & Sarah finish second detour currently in 4th place.

**Abe:** "That did it."

**Getsome:** "Sorry guys, good luck."

**Abe:** "Go get ‘em."

**Cloud:** "Thanks guys!"

**Sarah:** "Alright, back to the museum."

**Abe:** "We’ve still got a chance if we can just get this."

Getsome & Sarah make it to the U-Turn board.

**Getsome:** "Let’s finish our comeback!"

Cloud & Abe make it around.

4:02.

**Abe:** "Again, we were close!"

Getsome & Sarah, you are team number 4 and you are still in the race!

**Getsome:** "This leg proved that anything can happen in this race. We survived the U-Turn and we’re going for the gold."

**Sarah:** "From this point on, it all comes down to us as a team with no alliance. We’ve done it before and we can do it again."

**Cloud:** "What now?"

**Abe:** "This might be our last leg, but we’re going out with a fight."

**Cloud:** "Alright, let’s do it!"

Cloud & Abe make it around.

3:54.

**Abe:** "YES!!!"

**Cloud:** "WE DID IT!"

(cf) **Cloud:** "Today did not go as we’d planned but we still got to do some cool things and I even got to show off my game!"

**Cloud:** "This is a cool gallery."

**Abe:** "You can say that again."

(cf) **Abe:** "We’ve pulled off some amazing moves and made our mark on this game. From the way we started to the way we finished, we’ve improved greatly."

Cloud & Abe, you are the last team to arrive. And I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been eliminated from the race.

**Abe:** "Tough. This is the first time I didn’t make it to at least leg 11. But I guess it makes me look back and appreciate all the times I did make it there."

**Cloud:** "I had a blast this time. We didn’t win, but I wouldn’t change a thing."

**Abe:** "It’s been a blast running with Cloud, and we’ll see how these teams handle the pressure moving forward."

**Cloud:** "We should go back to that museum lol"

## Route Markers

* Pit Start
* Route Info 1
* Roadblock
* Route Info 2
* Detour
* Route Info 3
* U-Turn
* Route Info 4 and Pit Stop
 The order of departure from Taj Falaknuma Palace are as follows:

1. Bash & Phorix
2. Clara & Ashley
3. Cloud & Abe
4. Halcy & Pie
5. Getsome & Sarah
 Teams fly to Tokyo, Japan. Upon arrival, they must travel by bullet train to Nagano. Once there, teams must make their way to Matsushiro Castle, where they would find their next clue.

 The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must solve an intricate Japanese puzzle box known as a *yosegi*. Once they have figured out how to open the box, they would find a password written on a small piece of paper, which reads *Nakani irete kudasai* ("Please let me in"). They must then properly recite the password to the castle guards in order to retrieve their next clue.

The performers per team are underlined:

* Bash & Phorix
* Clara & Ashley
* Cloud & Abe
* Getsome & Sarah
* Halcy & Pie
 Teams must make their way to Nishi-guchi Zenkō-ji, where they would find their next clue.

**Choice A:** *Share*
Teams must make their way to the Takesan Donabe restaurant, where they must feed each other a bowl of Japanese noodles, using only a pair of chopsticks and while sitting in front of a large fan. Once both members have eaten all the noodles in their partner's bowl, they would receive their next clue.

Cloud & Abe and Getsome & Sarah chose this task.

**Choice B:** *Chair*
Teams must make their way to the M-Wave Olympic Arena, where one member must sit on a chair mounted on a sled, while their partner pushes the chair around a speed skating track, switching places after one lap. Once teams have completed both laps around the course within three minutes and fifty-five seconds, they would receive their next clue.

Bash & Phorix, Clara & Ashley, and Halcy & Pie chose this task. Teams must make their way to The Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum and search for their next clue.

 At The Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, teams would have the option to **U-Turn** a team, with two slots available. Clara & Ashley used the first slot of the U-Turn on Cloud & Abe. Cloud & Abe used the second slot of the U-Turn on Getsome & Sarah.

Since Cloud & Abe completed the *Share* Detour, they would be forced to backtrack and complete the *Chair* Detour before continuing.

Since Getsome & Sarah completed the *Share* Detour, they would be forced to backtrack and complete the *Chair* Detour before continuing. Teams must make their way to Patio Daimon to check in.

For coming in first place, Clara & Ashley each won $10,000.

## 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**