Meghan and Cheyne are team number five.
It's down to Mika|Canaan and Team Inside Straight for this week's rather unusual version of the race for last. Maria says she wishes she could have "been a better monkey for my teammate."
Lance and Keri arrive at the pit stop in sixth place, and before jumping on the mat, Lance does a roundhouse kick in celebration. Phil just looks at him, shaking his head like, What an idiot. "Oh, man, you're scaring me now," he mocks openly, not that Lance picks up on it.
Zev bemoans their fate of coming in last, "Because I lost a little piece of paper. We would have won the whole thing, too." Justin agrees. Have they even made it back to the Road Block? Not that it matters now, I guess, since everyone else is already at the Pit Stop or on their way there. Even Terry's powers must have their limits.
Mika and Canaan are the next to reach the mat, and they're team number seven. When the poker chicks arrive at last, Phil can't resist fucking with them a bit, telling them they're the last team to arrive. He spares them the reminder that this is the second time they've shown up last in four legs. "And?" Tiffany asks after a long pause. But they get a "however" instead of an "and." "One team arrived at the mat without their travel documents," Phil informs them. "That means you are both still in the race." They can't believe it, and wish they had this much luck in their regular lives. "We'd be zillionaires!" Tiffany says. At least they know it's luck keeping them in the game.
A defeated Zev and Justin are returning to the shrine in Terry's cab. Justin admits in an interview, "I'm a little bit prone to carelessness, and I feel like I may have let him down a little bit. "No," Zev says. "No letdowns. Just a freak thing that happened."
Finally they make their way back up those steps to the shrine, a lot slower than before. "Whatever happens, I love you, man," Justin says, as though he's expecting Phil to shoot them. "I love you, too," Zev answers. They slouch to the mat, and Phil asks them, rather unsympathetically, if they have any more ideas. "We understand you gotta do what you gotta do," Justin says. Which is to Philiminate them. Zev says they're frustrated, sad, and disappointed. "We really ran a good race today and this is how it ends." Justin says he's proud of Zev, and they had a really good time together, like he knew they would. "Seems like a very good friend to me," Phil says to Zev, finally softening a bit. "Yeah, I love him to death," Zev duhs. In their post-leg interviews, Justin calls this "as special as any experience I've ever had in my life. I wish it had gone on longer." Oh, I think he'll be reliving this for the rest of his life. As for Zev, he says he's proven to himself that he can change and not be stuck in a daily routine. "I can go out and do different things and succeed at them."













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