"All's Fair in Love and War"

**"All's Fair in Love and War"** is the fifth episode of Sleepy's Amazing Race 8.

## Story

* This episode starts with teams finding flights to Palermo, Sicily, Italy. As they have a massive lead from the previous leg, Olwen and Brooke and Ingrid and Beau easily got on the earliest available flight.
* By the time Auster and Ayla start the leg, there are no more available seats on the earliest flight, leaving them stuck on the second flight with every other team.
* In Palermo, Olwen and Brooke get hella lost and completely blow their lead.
* Ingrid and Beau, on the other hand, work together well! Fuck suspense, I'm just gonna tell you all right now that they remain in first place for the entire rest of the leg and win. Good for them!
* When the second flight lands, Auster and Ayla, Clay and Eden, and Janelle and Sable all catch up to Olwen and Brooke.
* Leo and Tristan lose some time early on because they have to complete a Speed Bump as a penalty for being non-eliminated in the previous leg. Luckily, they're able to finish it pretty quickly and have a good chance to catch up.
* Alexa and Daniel... by God it finally happened... Alexa called Daniel out for his toxicity! He totally had it coming too, he straight up crashed their car and then somehow blamed Alexa! The audacity that this man possesses...
* After they complete the Detour, Ingrid and Beau come across a Double U-Turn, which they can use to force one team to complete both sides of the Detour. Obviously, they use it on Milania and Rex because both teams are petty bitches.
* Other than Ingrid and Beau, who have a sizable lead, Auster and Ayla, Olwen and Brooke, and Janelle and Sable remain the front of the pack. Clay and Eden, Milania and Rex, and Leo and Tristan are comfortably in the middle of the pack, with Deirdre and Morgan and Alexa and Daniel trailing.
* When Milania and Rex reach the U-Turn and find that they've been U-Turned, they obviously throw a huge fit. Leo and Tristan get there not pretty soon afterward and immediately get threatened by the divorcees to tell them what teams are still at the Detour. Out of fear of getting U-Turned themselves, they reveal that Deirdre and Morgan and Alexa and Daniel are still behind them. Milania and Rex use this information to U-Turn Alexa and Daniel.
* At the Roadblock, each team chooses their best member to complete a puzzle. This turns out to be Auster, Janelle, and Brooke. Brooke proves to be the best puzzler among them and finishes the task for his team, allowing them to finish in second place. Janelle finishes not long after that and her team finishes in third.
* Auster *really* struggles with the puzzle and loses a LOT of time.
* Leo and Tristan reach the Roadblock and Tristan gets the puzzle done really quickly!
* At this point, Auster, Clay, Deirdre, and Milania are all working on the puzzle for their teams.
* Alexa and Daniel are only just finishing the Detour, still not even aware they've been U-Turned.
* At the Roadblock, all of the teams finish at about the same time and race to the Pit Stop. Auster and Ayla once again do a big fucksie oopsie and get lost looking for it allowing all the teams around them to beat them.
* Of course, Alexa and Daniel ended up quitting once they saw they were U-Turned, so Auster and Ayla ended up being totally fine! It wasn't their best performance but they weren't even last so it's fine!

## Route Markers

**Pit Start:** The order of departure from the Siegestor are as follows:

1. Olwen and Brooke (2:15 pm)
2. Ingrid and Beau (2:31 pm)
3. Auster and Ayla (5:02 pm)
4. Janelle and Sable (5:09 pm)
5. Deirdre and Morgan (5:10 pm)
6. Milania and Rex (6:48 pm)
7. Alexa and Daniel (6:57 pm)
8. Clay and Eden (7:20 pm)
9. Leo and Tristan (7:28 pm)

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Once there, they must drive themselves to Castellammare del Golfo and find the Seaside Terrace overlooking Castello Normanno Lighthouse to find their next clue.

**Detour:** Foundry or Laundry

In Foundry, teams must walk to a nearby metal works called Premiata Fonderia Birrione Campane and pick up a 110-pound (50 kg) iron-cast bell. Then, using a vehicle known as a Piaggio Ape, they must drive the bell, drop-off at Via Don Leonardo Zangara, and carry it to a priest at Chiesa Maria SS. Del Soccorso to receive their next clue. This task was chosen by Alexa and Daniel, Auster and Ayla, Janelle and Sable, Leo and Tristan, and Olwen and Brooke.

   In Laundry, teams must walk to Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi and search through over 2,400 items of laundry for one of only 16 items of clothing bearing a red and yellow tag. Once the marked item of clothing is found, teams must hand it to the laundry lady to receive their next clue. This task was chosen by Clay and Eden, Deirdre and Morgan, Ingrid and Beau, and Milania and Rex.

**Double U-Turn:** Teams must drive themselves to Segesta and walk to the Teatro di Segesta, where they would have the option to U-Turn a team, with two slots available. Ingrid and Beau used the first slot on Milania and Rex. Milania and Rex used the second slot on Alexa and Daniel.

**Roadblock:** *Who's good at piecing things together?* The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must correctly piece together a classical Greek statue. However, racers were not told that there were two extra pieces that did not belong. Once the statue is correctly assembled, an archaeologist would hand them their next clue.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

* Alexa and Daniel
* Auster and Ayla
* Clay and Eden
* Deirdre and Morgan
* Ingrid and Beau
* Janelle and Sable
* Leo and Tristan
* Milania and Rex
* Olwen and Brooke

**Pit Stop:** Teams must make their way on foot to Tempio di Segesta to check in. For coming in first, Ingrid and Beau won a phone or something idk the prize for this leg in the actual show was a digital imaging package from Duracell but that's super outdated lol

## Leaderboard

1st**⊂** - Ingrid and Beau
Mother/Child
2nd- Olwen and Brooke
Brothers
3rd- Janelle and Sable
Friends
4th- Leo and Tristan
5th- Deirdre and Morgan
Married Musicians
6th- Clay and Eden
Married
7th**⊃⋐**- Milania and Rex
Separated Couple
8th- Auster and Ayla

QUIT**⋑**- Alexa and Daniel
Dating

**⊂** The team used the U-Turn **⊃** Recipient of the U-Turn
**⋐** The team that used the second slot of the Double U-Turn **⋑** Recipient of a second U-Turn from the Double U-Turn