by Gina Scarpa

The pressure is on for the final four teams on The Amazing Race and for their first challenge, they dress up as famous comic strip characters - detectives that kind of look like Charlie Chapin. In fact, the snowboarders thought they WERE dressed as the silent film star but eventually figured out they were detectives from The Adventures of Tintin.

Once everyone figures it out, it's time to travel by train to Amsterdam and then fly across the Atlantic to Panama City, Panama. Once they arrive, teams take a boat up the Chagras River to the village Parara Puru, where they sign up to get tattoos - fake ones, of course. Though it would be awesome if they had to be real. I mean, Joyce shaved her head for this show back in the day. Let's show some dedication people!

At the Road Block, one team member has to man up and walk a tightrope from the top of one skyscraper to another. The clue insists that Andy, Sandy, Cindy, and Amani perform the task. Sandy claims that she's terrified of heights but that fear is quickly overcome with the million dollars in sight. Marcus seems the most uncomfortable standing on top of the building. He's not even the one on the tightrope!

At the statue of Ferdinand De Lesseps, it's time for a Road Block, where the choices are Filet or Sole. In Filet, teams travel to the largest fish market and deliver exact amounts of seafood to different vendors. In Sole, teams have to create one pair of sandals out of one piece of leather, which sounds totally impossible. And yet, everyone picks it with the exception of Amani and Marcus.

Andy and Tommy finish the sandals first (while Amani and Marcus finish in second) and head to Cathedral Square, for what may be the most impossible task of the season - figure out the location of the next pit stop. In the square, women in traditional dresses dance and spin around and around. Only one of the women has the name Panama Viejo written on her dress.

The snowboarders decide that the clue must be "balboa", which is the dollar in Panama and take off quickly for who knows where. Jeremy and Sandy finally figure it out first, almost accidentally, but their cab drivers calls the other drivers to clue them in.  I love that Ernie and Cindy whine that Jeremy and Sandy's taxi passed them, as if they even had any idea where to go in the first place!

Jeremy and Sandy arrive and check in at the pit stop in first place, winning a trip to Turks and Caicos.  The other two teams in the cab driver alliance, Ernie and Cindy and Amani and Marcus, check in next.  Some bad decisions by Andy and Tommy cost the frontrunners the race... that's some tough luck.

Don't miss the season finale of The Amazing Race next Sunday at 8/7c on CBS!

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