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The Amazing Race Episode 2 Recap

Posted by Beth VanHoose

October 8, 2008 |

Siblings Nick and Starr were the first team to arrive at the Pit Stop, so they were the first team to depart the next morning.  Their clue instructed them to fly to Fortaleza, Brazil.  Once landed, they were to take a taxi to Plaza do Cumbuco for their next clue.

 

At the airport, Nick & Starr and Tina & Ken searched for an earlier flight than the 11:30am that they were told was available.  Finding a flight that left at 6:45am, the teams were rejoicing until they were told there was only one seat available.  As other teams started to arrive, the announcement was made that the airline was switching to a larger plane so that everyone would be able to make the flight.  Believing it was all due to her whining, er persistence; Tina made sure all the other teams knew they wouldn’t be on this flight if it weren’t for her.  The other teams all bowed at Tina’s feet — not.

 

Terence and Sarah had been arguing amongst themselves because Sarah had the gall to talk to the other teams at the Pit Stop.  Terence threw a temper tantrum because Sarah wasn’t paying attention to him.  To further his grumpy mood, he hit his head on the taxi’s trunk lid and got a little boo-boo.

 

Since there were no assigned seats on the flight of Queen Tina, Terence and Sarah staked their place at the head of the line, with the other teams right behind them.  Once Tina had quit crowing about her miraculous achievement, she and Ken cut right to the front of the line, causing the already pissed-off Terence to get even madder and raise his voice.  Not a good thing to do to the estranged wife of an ex-NFL player, especially with said ex-NFL player standing right behind you. Finally deciding to be the bigger man, he apologized to Ken for yelling at his wife

 

Since all teams were on the same flight to Fortaleza, it was a mad dash to the taxi stand.  Arriving at Plaza do Cumbuco, the teams encountered a Detour, Beach It or Dock It.  In Beach It, teams had to travel by dune buggy to a nearby beach, and with the help of a two-man crew, roll a boat on logs across the beach and into the water.  In Dock It, teams had to travel by dune buggy to a container yard at a nearby port and search for a container that contained their next clue, after searching through a computer listing for the container number contained in their clue.

 

One by one, as teams arrived at the Detour, most of them chose Beach It, except for geeks Mark & Bill, and blondes Marisa & Brooke. Marisa & Brooke went the wrong direction, and wound up at Beach It, so they elected to stay and do that Detour instead of what they had originally planned.

 

Terence and Sarah completed the Detour first, receiving the next clue, which told them to take a taxi to Parque de Vaquejada.  Not seeing the red & yellow route markers directing them to the taxi parking, they took off down the beach in search of a taxi.  The other teams, upon getting their boat to the water, had no problem locating a taxi.  Kelly & Christy, however, thought they were missing a part of their Detour, and were searching for a container, instructions that were part of the Dock It Detour.  After digging in the sand, and watching other teams run on by, they gave up and headed for their taxi.  There, reading the Detour clue again, they realized they were looking for something they didn’t need, and had wasted a lot of time.

 

Terence and Sarah were frustrated, running up and down the road looking for a taxi as other teams passed them, when Dallas & Toni stopped and told them where the taxis were.

 

At Parque de Vaquejada, teams encountered a Road Block.  One team member had to locate the name of their next destination written somewhere along a wall.  Since the writing on the wall was Portuguese, the racers had their work cut out for them.  Once they found their next destination, Cidade da Crianca, and repeated the name to a local man, he would hand them their next clue.

 

Members of each team puzzled over the Road Block, trying to make some sense of the muddle of words written on the wall.  Finally, one by one, they came upon a list of names on the wall, and wrote each one down, hoping that one of the phrases was the one they needed.  As each team member recited the list of names, the local man gave them a steady stream of no’ until they reached Cicade da Crianca, and he handed them their next clue.

 

Kelly & Christy realized too late that they hadn’t read their clue correctly again.  Upon arriving at Parque de Vaquejada, they were to instruct their taxi to wait, and they didn’t.  After searching and searching for another taxi, they realized that their taxi had indeed stayed, they just didn’t see it.

 

The clue sent teams to the Pit Stop for this leg.  Ken & Tina and Mark & Bill were the first teams to leave the Road Block, and raced to the Pit Stop.  In a foot race to the mat, Tina & Ken were first, winning ATV’s for each of them.  Anthony & Stephanie were the last to arrive, and they were the second team eliminated from The Amazing Race.

 

The order of the teams:

 

  1. Ken & Tina
  2. Mark & Bill
  3. Terence & Sarah
  4. Toni & Dallas
  5. Aja & Ty
  6. Nick & Starr
  7. Kelly & Christy
  8. Andrew & Dan
  9. Marissa & Brooke
  10.  Anthony & Stephanie - ELIMINATED


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