Margie and Luke hold onto their lead and end up alone on the first flight out of Bangkok, but flight delays land Kisha and Jen in Guilin, China first. At a clue box, what should have been a mild contretemps between Jen and Luke gets blown all out of proportion with slo-mo replays and bitch-calling and everything. The situation repeats itself both directly at the next clue box, and by proxy at the Road Block as Racers have to get birds to retrieve fish for them, and the birds end up fighting each other for the fish, to the point where one bites Luke's hand. Mark and Michael's Speed Bump has them washing and drying locals' hair, which Mark thinks they did awesomely, of course. The Speed Bump is a choice between choreography and calligraphy, and they're just what they sound like. The cheerleaders go with the dancing option, obviously, while the other three non-Speed Bumped teams follow along with Chinese-speaking Tammy and Victor through a challenge of painting Chinese characters.
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