The whole caravan stops at a red light. There's a bit of a fire drill as Jaymes runs out to confer on directions with Trey & Lexi in the lead car, and one of the twins yells out to the leaders that they have to lose the Beekmans. Which, again, they overhear. This is getting more preschool than high school.
Soon the two lead teams show up at the Chateau de Villandry and run onto the grounds, with the twins and the goat farmers rushing in right behind them. Soon they're all wandering the grounds at a run, looking for a dog. The twins and Team Austin ask some groundskeeper for directions by going "woof-woof-woof," like animal noises are the same in other languages, and Josh suavely rolls up next to them asking, "la chien?" Everyone acts like this is some big sneaky move, knowing French like that. Soon they're all running in a pack through the paths, though Brent is actively taunting the twins and running with his arms spread to try to prevent them from passing him, which isn't exactly covering himself in glory. "I thought Josh was hurt," Jaymes interviews. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but apparently he got a bionic ankle now." He does seem to have recovered well -- almost as well as James did from his ankle pain in Moscow.
They soon find the dog and the satchel en masse (see, I know a little French, too). Trey & Lexi are the first to grab and open one of the clues inside, which tells them, "Find da Vinci's final resting place." Phil helpfully tells us that's Chateau D'Amboise, where there's a bowl of flowers wrapped in clue envelopes inside the entrance hall. Most of the teams take off, but Natalie and Nadiya have their Speed Bump here, so they're not going anywhere yet. "Bye-ee!" Brent sings at them mockingly, to Josh's disapproval. Phil explains about the Speed Bump, in which the twins will now have to enter the chateau, find the "Prince du Rome room," and lace a woman into an 18th-century corset to earn their next clue. "Say bye-bye to the twins," Brent says to the other teams. But awkwardly enough, rather than splitting up now, they all have to run back to the house together because it's on the way back to the parking lot. The whole way, the twins loudly tell their allies to lose the goat farmers, and that they're only using them and faking Josh's ankle injury. Wait, what? Brent asks Josh if he's faking. "No," pants Josh, who would clearly rather be anywhere else. "Have fun at the Speed Bump!" Brent mocks as the teams split up. Way to rise above it, Brent. You've proved yourself to be the bigger person.













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