- The six remaining teams stay in the Czech Republic as they travel from Prague to Kutná Hora. Not all of the teams are as observant as they need to be when they become Czech spies. Some teams find a visit to the ice skating rink to line up against the national ice hockey team's goalkeeper to be the most physically gruelling challenge so far. One team find themselves in trouble with the law twice, while a local sausage sizzle doesn't appeal to everyone's taste buds at the Detour.—Allister Coots
- Surfers Tyler & Nathan, who were the first team to arrive at the last Pit Stop, are the first team to depart at 5:31am. In the pre-dawn darkness, they open up their clue and find that they have to make their way to the Dancing House and search the vicinity for a marked Skoda car from the early 1980's. Once the teams find the vehicles under a bridge near the house, they will see their next clue on the dashboard. They take a taxi to the Dancing House, as do the next two teams to depart, dating couple Anastasia & Chris and father and son Jeff & Luke. Farmers Matt & Tom, the next team to depart, ask a local woman how far away the Dancing House is, and learn that it is around a 15 minute walk, which rules that out as an option.
Tyler & Nathan find the vehicles and find out from the next clue that they have to drive themselves to the Zimni Ice Hockey Rink in Stvanice, where they have to go up against a goalie from the Czech Republic's national ice hockey team. Once they have scored a goal, they will receive their next clue. They find the rink, but it doesn't open until 7:30am, which allows Anastasia & Chris and Jeff & Luke to catch up to the surfers before all three teams take to the ice when the rink opens. As they struggle on the ice, models Sam & Renae, the last team to depart, behind married bikers Kelly & Dave, have trouble finding their car until Renae decides to stop being stubborn and take Sam's suggestion to search under the bridge. Matt & Tom get lost on the way to the ice hockey rink, so when they are pulled over by the local police, they ask them to lead them to the rink, which they do after they have checked out the farmers' car.
Tyler and Chris are the first people to get pucks past the goalie and into the net. They re-join Nathan and Anastasia and open their next clue, which instructs them to drive themselves to St. Nicholas Cathedral, climb up the tower, stick their heads out of the windows and take a photo of a "flagged person of interest" by zooming in on someone on the streets below. What the teams don't realise is that there are actually two people on the streets waving flags, but the one they need to photograph is the only one that is waving the red and yellow Race flag. Jeff & Luke are the next team to score a goal, and they leave the rink not far behind Tyler & Nathan and Anastasia & Chris. Meanwhile Kelly & Dave and Matt & Tom arrive at the rink and start taking shots. Dave becomes very frustrated when he struggles with the task - at one point, he threatens to quit, and at another, he threatens to smash the goalie in the face with his hockey stick - but he and Kelly ultimately decide to stick with it. Sam & Renae finally find the rink and join the other two teams in shooting for the goals.
Jeff & Luke pay one of the locals to lead them to St. Nicholas Cathedral, and they are the first team to arrive at the tower. Once they reach the top, they have only 30 seconds in which to take their photo. Luke photographs a man waving a flag, but it turns out to be the wrong person - the flag he is waving is actually that of a local museum, and he and Jeff receive a penalty clue that instructs them to descend the tower and then count the number of steps back to the top. When they have the correct answer - 304 steps - they will receive their next clue. Anastasia & Chris and Tyler & Nathan also photograph the wrong person. Jeff & Luke and Anastasia & Chris come up with the correct number of steps on their first tries, and on opening their next clue, they find that they have reached a Detour with the choices of Stack Up or Stack In. Regardless of which task they choose, they have to drive themselves to the Pilsner Urquell brewery. Teams that choose Stack Up have to go to the brewery's factory and correctly stack two pallets with cartons of pilsener beer. Teams that choose Stack In have to go to the brewery's Formanka restaurant and eat eighteen játernice, traditional Czech sausages made from the head, tongue, heart and liver of pigs.
Tyler & Nathan come up with an incorrect count of the number of steps, and as a result, they incur an additional penalty of having to go back down and count the number of steps again. Jeff & Luke and Anastasia & Chris arrive at the brewery and initially make different choices, with the father and son heading to stack beer and the dating couple choosing to give the sausages a go, but one taste of the first sausage is enough to convince them to switch and join Jeff & Luke in stacking beer. Tyler & Nathan get the count correct on their second attempt. When they reach the brewery, they also try the sausages, but are just as put off as Anastasia & Chris were and decide to switch tasks.
The bottom three teams of Kelly & Dave, Matt & Tom and Sam & Renae score goals within minutes of each other, and they are neck and neck and neck on the way to the tower. Matt & Tom are the first of the group to arrive, but they photograph the wrong flag-waver. As they descend the steps on the way to start counting them, they meet Sam & Renae, and with the most gentlemanly of intentions, they advise them not to take a photo of the man with the big flag. When Sam & Renae reach the top, the only man and flag that they can find are the one with the flag coloured red and yellow, so they go against Matt & Tom's advice, take his picture, and are told that they have passed, which leads to them immediately receiving the Detour clue, and taking Matt & Tom's advice the wrong way, becoming convinced that everyone is out to get them. Kelly & Dave are the last team to reach the tower, but although they are on their own, they peg back the deficit to the other teams by photographing the correct flag-waver, and head straight for the brewery to do the Detour.
At the brewery, Anastasia & Chris and Tyler & Nathan catch up, but not quite enough to pass Jeff & Luke, who are first to receive the next clue which directs them to drive themselves to the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and St. John the Baptist in Kutná Hora. Matt & Tom have some trouble with their car on the way to the brewery, and attract the attention of the police for the second time on this leg. While the trailing teams get testy with each other in the factory, with Matt & Tom becoming the third team to switch after giving the sausages a try, Jeff & Luke get lost while en route to the church in Kutná Hora, allowing Anastasia & Chris to open the next clue first and find a Road Block, where one person from each team has to enter the top spire through a window and then abseil down to the bottom near the altar before they receive their next clue.
Anastasia decides to perform this task and comes floating down like an angel from the spire, accompanied on her descent by some singing from the church's choir below. Back on the ground, she kisses Chris before they open up their next clue, which tells them to make their way on foot to the Pit Stop at the Church of Bones. The clue does not give the usual warning that the last team to check in either will or may be eliminated, but simply tells them that "Grant Bowler awaits". They make their way to the Church of Bones, step onto the mat and are told by Grant that they are team number one, but the excitement of the dating couple on hearing this news proves to be short-lived when Grant tells them that this leg of the race is not over, and hands them their next clue.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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