Don't Try to Play the Moralist Now! is the penultimate episode of The Amazing Race 3.
Synopsis[]
The Race intensifies as the four remaining teams fight it out to avoid elimination.
During the Detour challenge in Ho Chi Minh City, teams find themselves struggling on a river during "the storm of the century," and when a team switches course, they are propelled to the back of the pack. In the Race to the next Pit Stop, two teams battle it out to get there first and avoid elimination, but in the end, crucial information about the final challenge, from an unlikely team, is all the help one of them will need to stay in the Race.[2]
Story[]
Route Markers[]
The order of departure from Mount Faber are as follows:
- Derek & Drew (10:22 pm)
- Ken & Gerard (10:33 pm)
- Flo & Zach (10:34 pm)
- Teri & Ian (10:45 pm)
Teams must fly to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Upon arrival, they must make their way to Rex Square and find "Bac Ho", leaving teams to figure out that this was a nickname for Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, who had a statue in the square where they would find their next clue.
The Fast Forward instructions were given to teams at Rex Square. Since no team remaining is eligible to claim the Fast Forward, its instructions are neither elaborated nor aired.
Teams must make their way to the Cái Bè floating market in the town of Cái Bè, where they would find their next clue.
Choice A: Easy Buy
Teams must choose a marked sampan, which they must ride into the floating market on the Mekong River to look for the only vendor who sells water coconuts (called dừa nước in Vietnamese) and buy a basket at any price they can. After buying a basket of water coconuts, they would find their next clue attached.
Derek & Drew and Teri & Ian chose this task.
Choice B: Hard Sell
Teams must choose a carrying basket containing fruit into the land area of the floating market, where they must sell enough fruit at any price they can to make ₫40,000 (roughly $2.50). After raising enough money, they may bring the money back to one of the vendors in the market who would verify their earnings and give them their next clue.
Teams must make their way to 2A Tôn Đức Thắng Boulevard in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City, where they would find their next clue.
"That person should have strong legs and a strong back."
The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must drive a cyclo and transport their teammate through a marked course down the streets of the city, then onto a ferry across the Saigon River. At the end of the course, they could drop off their cyclo and proceed to the nearby Café Thu Thiem to check in.
The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:
For coming in first place, Teri & Ian won a seven-day European cruise on the Splendour of the Seas cruise ship, provided by Royal Caribbean.
Leaderboard[]
First Place • Eliminated • Last placer on a Non-Elimination Leg or continue racing on a No-Rest Leg • Season winner • Season 2nd place • Season 3rd place • ► Used the Fast Forward
Teri & Ian
Married Parents |
Flo & Zach
Friends |
Ken & Gerard
Brothers |
Derek & Drew
Twins/Models |
Trivia[]
- This episode marks the first time that The Amazing Race visits the country of Vietnam.
- All Race flags were changed to solid yellow instead of the usual red and yellow to avoid confusion with the former flag of South Vietnam.[3]
- With Derek & Drew's elimination, Ken & Gerard are the last all-male team remaining.
- The episode title is said by Flo Pesenti as she was criticizing Zach for staying in a long line while getting out of the airport through customs after Flo went to a shorter line.
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