From Taiwan, the teams are immediately told to fly to their final city of Anchorage. Which sort of makes it feel like they left off the last half a leg, but okay. In Anchorage, they first have to go to a store where they"re supposed to pick up their clue and some outdoor gear. Ron and Chris get hold of the lead, while tragic clue-non-reading leads Nick and Don to ignore the "outdoor gear" part of the stuff they"re supposed to pick up at the outdoor-gear store, and they wind up lagging for the rest of the leg. The Detour requires the teams to pick between hunting through a tank full of live, pinching crabs and cutting open a bunch of disgusting fish, and when the Detour is done, Ron and Chris are still in the lead, followed by TK and Rachel and Nick and Don. The teams take a speedboat ride, followed by an ice-wall climb that is neither Detour nor Roadblock; it"s just kind of there, in the middle of the leg, thumbing its nose. When the ice-wall thing is done, Ron and Chris are still in the lead, then TK and Rachel and Nick and Don. And then...oh, and then. The teams encounter the most diabolically complicated puzzle-style Roadblock in the show"s history. While the race"s puzzles have usually not been puzzles so much as dumb popularity contests and memory games where they wind up guessing and guessing until they get it right, this one is really hard, and involves gathering a collection of objects that fit a very elaborate set of logical requirements (as one of my pals said, it"s like a GRE logic problem). Christina gets started first, and then Rachel, and then Nick. Ultimately, it is Rachel who remains calm and logical and thinks her way through what she"s doing enough to finally come up with the right answer. She and TK look like they might lose it in the cab race with Chris and Ron between there and the finish line, since Chris finishes (it appears) not that far behind her. But in the end, it is TK and Rachel indeed, running up to the mat just as excited as they"ve been about every good thing that"s happened to them. It"s a surprisingly satisfying finish, and all three of the teams seem to be in such a good place relationship-wise that it almost makes up for the heartbreak of not all of them being able to win.