Thomas is doing this. He runs to the top of the bleachers, grabs a headband, and wades into the ranks. He's barely started when Brook and Claire show up, and Brook's ready to "be all you can be." Thomas keeps searching while Brook gets a headband and also begins. "They all look the same," Brook says. Of course she's talking about the headbands on the ethnically mixed soldiers, but it still triggers the Gong Of Things Not To Say In Asia. She keeps holding her headband up to different solders, getting a little chatty with them as she does so. She hands her headband to one guy, and he stuffs it in his pocket, so not only is she wrong, she has to run back to the bleachers to get another one. Meanwhile, Thomas has found his right guy, who leads him out of the ranks at a dead run. Jill runs to meet Thomas, and they both watch their soldier take a flying kick at a board held by two soldiers standing on folding chairs, a feat which impresses Thomas even though I'm sure he's done it himself plenty of times. He picks up the clue that went flying. Brook heads back up the bleacher steps, Mallory-screaming the whole way. Thomas reads from the clue: "Find Seoul's World Cup Stadium." Phil specifies that they'll have to walk to the nearest subway station and take a train to the stadium to find their next clue. And of course the clue box will be standing in the middle of the field. It's never crammed between the upper-deck bathrooms, is it?
Nat and Kat arrive at the Road Block, and Kat's doing it. Brook is now on her way back down the bleachers, goofing and kicking while Claire tells her to focus. "She's not being focused," Claire confides. Now both Brook and Kat are searching for a match, and Brook finds her headband on with a tiny little woman, who does some kind of wheeling roundhouse kick to break a board that's held up higher than she is. Brook, still not focusing, goes over and kicks the fragment out of one of the holder's hands before they read their clue. "I think I can read Korean now," she says as they run for the subway station. That should come in handy.
Jill and Thomas are already there, and it's a pretty dreary-looking place, although that might just be because it's a dreary day. Jill climbs up onto a window ledge to watch for the approach of Brook and Claire ("You can't miss them, they're in just pink, pink, pink," she remarks) while Brook and Claire are getting directions to the subway from a cabdriver and then running for it. They are hard to miss, but Jill's going to miss them anyway.













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