We didn't get to hear the message from Vyxsin's parents possibly because it involved much flowery poetry and copious usage of words like "effulgent". Also, TK's full name is Thomas Kyle. Now you know why he calls himself TK.

Nate and Jen were the only team not to encounter any problems on the road to the next Route Marker but had to sleep in the car because of the hours-of-operation. Much to their delight, TK and Rachel were second there despite the clue snafu. TK jumped around excitedly and showed more emotion than he's shown all race. Hey, who slipped the coke into TK's stash, man?

A Roadblock loomed, in which the chosen teammember had to fly in an ultralight and look for the name of their next destination down below. There was also a Fast Forward ? the only one on the race. Just as I was about to whine about there only being one of them, Phil revealed that, in order to complete the Fast Forward, the racers would have to get a permanent tattoo of the letters "FF".

Muhahahaha! That's even better than the headshaving FF of a few seasons back! I hope whoever came up with that evil FF got a fat raise. Nate and Jen considered taking the FF but sadly decided to do the Roadblock instead. Damn. Can you imagine Jen fretting over whether to get a tattoo or not? Chernobyl-level meltdown, I bet.

Nate had found the name of the next destination (which was Vinci) easily but TK appeared to have a wee bit of trouble. The ultralight could only stay up for thirty minutes before refueling and soon TK was back on the ground, Vinci-less.

Mellow McSmokesalot

As TK flew around in circles, the other teams started arriving, much to Rachel's horror. Donald and Nicolas decided to go for the FF (hee hee hee) while Ronald fought with Christina over whether they should go for it or not. Ronald snapped at Christina for asking stupid questions which led to an awesome reaction shot from Rachel.

Rachel was so shocked because apparently she'd never heard Ronald speak to Christine this way (How the hell not? He only does it every fifteen minutes), and said she had no respect for his treatment of her. How bad do you have to be to incur the ire of Mellow McSmokesalot?

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