Today is Nick's Birthday, but it's Dallas who has the better day, beginning by snuggling with Starr in the airport and getting better from there. Andrew and Dan weren't able to retrieve their shoes after the Detour last week, and are padding around the Kazakhstan airport in paper hotel slippers, until they blow most of their cash on new shoes at a store in the terminal. In Moscow, they might just have to bring back the days of begging for cab fare. From a hard-to-find monastery, the teams head to an old Russian military base for a Detour that's a choice between marching with a troop of soldiers and serving borscht. Everyone goes with the marching, except that Dan and Andrew can't manage the foot-wrapping preparation, and they switch over. Except they changed out of their uniforms when they switched, and then have to change back. And then Dan turns out to be completely marching-impaired, stomping around like a palsied Muppet, until they switch back again.
Meanwhile, the three remaining teams hurry ahead to a Road Block where they have to schlep fifty giant bags of flour for a demanding bakery owner. Dallas and Toni hold onto their early lead all the way to the Pit Stop, and win their first leg of the race. Nick and Starr have recurring cab problems that might actually put them behind Dan and Andrew. But the destitute Frat Boys' negotiations with the cab driver they can't pay take long enough to put them in last place. Yet once again, they live to lose another day, as this is another non-elimination leg. What's it going to take to get rid of these two already? Maybe we'll find out next week.
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