While the lead teams whined about how unfair it was that Brendon & Rachel had the nerve to use a U-turn in The Amazing Race 24 Episode 8, none of it was relevant because Flight Time & Big Easy were lost and ended up being eliminated.
Teams depart in the order in which they arrived.
First: Brendon & Rachel – 6:13AM
Second: Jet & Cord – 7:23AM
Third: Leo & Jamal – 7:34AM
Fourth: Dave & Connor – 7:44AM
Fifth: Caroline & Jennifer – 7:45AM
Teams must now travel nearly 400 miles by train to Chiasso, Switzerland.
Brendon & Rachel merely wanted to ensure they would win first place with their choice, and in that sense they made the right move, even if an argument could be made that they did not need to U-turn anybody at all (or could have U-turned somebody else).
Jet & Cord, who somehow escaped both parts of the double U-turn despite being the biggest threats, are happy as long as they can escape everybody else’s drama.
Leo & Jamal, meanwhile, are looking forward to working with Dave & Connor and Caroline & Jennifer toward the final three. They would prefer to go to the end with the two weakest teams, and this is the perfect excuse to do that.
Though the cowboys somehow end up on a later train than everybody else, it does not matter because William Tell does not show up until sunrise.
Their first task is to properly clean a room in Schweizerhof Hotel in Lucerne, and these rooms have been sufficiently trashed. By trying to outsmart the others, Brendon & Rachel end up going to the wrong place and are behind the pack. Even one simple mistake with their rooms means a rejection by Helga, but this task ultimately seems pretty simple.
When they arrive at the Swiss Museum of Transport, they must identify that the artifact was used to drill a tunnel. Jet saw this on TV. Dave was an engineer, so he knows it as well, and he tells the other two teams who are following each other everywhere. Brendon & Rachel just ask the locals.
Then their task is to use street signs at the Ford Mustang exhibit to figure out the model year of their cars. Most of the teams seem to think this is pretty simple, except for Caroline & Jennifer, but Leo & Jamal come back to help them.
The road block will have them transporting milk via gondola and dogs/carts.
Road block (in order of arrival): Cord, Connor, Leo, Brendon, Caroline
This is a physical challenge but otherwise does not seem particularly difficult. That said, it’s obvious what is going to happen here. The female team is going to struggle with these full milk jugs.
Mount Titlis is the pit stop for this leg of the race.
First: Dave & Connor (win a Ford Mustang each)
Second: Jet & Cord
Third: Leo & Jamal
Fourth: Brendon & Rachel
Non-eliminated: Caroline & Jennifer
Caroline & Jennifer do come in last place as expected, but for the second time, they are saved by non-elimination.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Amazing Race 24 Episode 10, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.