Jeff and Jordan were non-eliminated in The Amazing Race 16 Episode 4.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Louie & Michael
Second: Steve & Allie
Third: Joe & Heidi
Fourth: Jet & Cord
Fifth: Carol & Brandy
Sixth: Dan & Jordan
Seventh: Brent & Caite
Eighth: Jordan & Jeff
Teams will now drive their way to France.
The first destination is a baker with a clue contained inside bread. From there, the detour is a choice between in the trenches or under fire, to relive the WWI battles. In in the trenches, they must translate a message in morse code. In under fire, teams must go through a muddy booby trapped field.
Under fire: Louie & Michael, Steve & Allie, Joe & Heidi, Dan & Jordan, Carol & Brandy, Jet & Cord, Brent & Caite, Jordan & Jeff
This seemingly physical detour has the potential to point out teams who will struggle as the race goes on. Louie can’t stop coughing as he tries to regain his breath, while Joe’s knee seems to be getting worse. Brandy, meanwhile, is pissed off. She has no interest in doing anything physical on the race, doesn’t believe she has to prove herself, and did not intend to do this when she signed up. She’s angry and taking it out on her partner. Oh, somebody slap her already.
Brent has a compass on his watch. Not this again. The sign tells them where south is. Instead, they go the direction the watch tells them.
After the detour is the blind U-Turn, which means they can remain anonymous if they wish. The very first team opts to use it. Louie & Michael want to choose between Joe or Steve. What’s the point of yielding the second or third place team? They choose to yield Joe & Heidi.
So much for a blind U-Turn. There’s only two teams in front of them. Joe & Heidi assume Louie & Michael have forced them to turn back, although they’re not sure why. Now Joe & Heidi are sent back to complete the second detour.
Jordan & Jeff have one hope: that Joe & Heidi can’t figure out the morse code. Having started out in last place following their non-elimination and gotten lost along the way, before they can do a detour, Jordan & Jeff must first do a speed bump. The speed bump is to reinforce a section of the trench using branches. Jeff’s growing increasingly frustrated with Jordan, since he thinks he’d probably be better off with some random person off the street.
Ultimately, Jordan & Jeff end up passing Joe & Heidi. For all of Brandy’s whining about how they were doing the wrong detour, it seems there’s a reason why every single team chose to crawl through the field. Joe & Heidi end up unable to complete it. I’m quite shocked that U-Turning the third place team actually worked, although I’d still argue there were stronger teams to get rid of. Joe’s bum knee didn’t look like it had much left.
Following the U-Turn, they will march themselves into town to find the Church of Massiges. With the war behind them, teams must pedal themselves to victory, riding antique bicycles through a 4 mile course to the pit stop in a challenge inspired by the original Tour de France.
In Caite’s ill-fated following of Brent’s compass watch, they failed to get the clue telling them to march back the other way, leading to them being told they have to get their clue after the detour. They’ll have to return before Phil can check them in. So they have to ride back 4 miles, walk back to the clue, and ride back another 4 miles. An irritation no doubt, but it doesn’t cost them any position
First: Louie & Michael (win 55 inch HDTVs)
Second: Steve & Allie
Third: Jet & Cord
Fourth: Dan & Jordan
Fifth: Carol & Brandy
Sixth: Brent & Caite
Seventh: Jordan & Jeff
Eliminated: Joe & Heidi
Unable to make their way to the pit stop, Joe & Heidi have been eliminated.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 16 Episode 6 Cathy Drone? (France), which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.