In an nutshell- Wake up in the middle of the night, or maybe not if you're a tired granny.  Get to Cape Town, but why not stop by Lisbon on the way, or how about Madrid.  Spain's not your thing?  Well Frankfurt is only a slight detour.  Or how about Milan?  Feeling adventurous? Add New York to your itenerary.  Visit 4 continents in 2 days..It'll only cost you a million dollars!  Airport confusion, standby flights, missed connections, what fun!  Go directly to jail.  Do not pass go, do not spend your 200 dollars.  Dance in tight jumpsuits and funny boots or haul fish.  Come get your sheep's heads and epsom salts here at Langa Township.  Also your bitter potions.  Just make sure you don't get robbed and murdered on the way.  Mind your manners at Lanzerac Manor and get ready to go again.

      The vast majority of this episode consisted of teams criss-crossing the Atlantic trying to get to Cape Town via the most insane route possible.  Shola and Doyin, the first to arrive last week, open their route info and find out they're going to Cape Town, South Africa.  Once there they will have to find Nelson Mandela's former prison cell on Robben Island.  They take a taxi waiting for them at the top of a hill and rush off to find a flight to Sao Paulo, where all flights to Cape Town must originate.  All the other teams do the same, except for the grannies who are asleep.  Blake realizes the grannies have overslept and missed their check-out time, but decides not to wake them.  The grannies eventually wake up and leave 37 minutes after their scheduled departure time.  Blake and Paige leave soon after.

       All of the teams make it to an airport where they will fly to Sao Paulo in the morning.  The teams are all on one of two flights which leave 5 minutes apart.  So, when they get to Sao Paulo, its a mad dash to ticket counters to try to book tickets to Cape Town.  But the teams soon discover that all flights direct to Cape Town are booked solid for 2 days, so they'll have to either wait or find an alternate route.  And here is another one of those strange Amazing Race moments.  The quality of the route each team gets is related in no way to the order in which they booked their flights.  Tara and Wil, the last team to get a flight, ended up with one of the best.  So, here is the list of which routes which teams took in the order in which they left the airport:
Shola/Doyin and Cyndi/Russel - Sao Paulo to Madrid to London to Cape Town (Cyndi/Russel on standby in London)
Mary/Peach - Sao Paulo to Milan to London to Cape Town
Gary/Dave - Sao Paulo to Lisbon to London to Cape Town
Oswald/Danny - Sao Paulo to London to Cape Town
Peggy/Claire - Sao Paulo to New York to London to Johannesburg to Cape Town
Chris/Alex - Sao Paulo to Frankfurt to London to Cape Town
Blake/Paige and Tara/Wil - Sao Paulo to London to Cape Town (Blake/Paige on standby in London)

    Well, Blake/Paige and Cyndi/Russel cannot get onto their flights out of London so they immediately fall behind.  The grannies missed their connection in London and are pretty much guaranteed to be eliminated.  Other than that, I guess things went as planned and somehow, after all the flying, several groupings of teams occurred.  Gary/Dave, Oswald/Danny, and Tara/Wil get there first and co-operate throughout the rest of the episode.  Mary/Peach were pretty much by themselves in the next spot.  Shola/Doyin and Blake/Paige arrived at about the same time and co-operated throughout the rest of the episode.  Finally Chris/Alex and Cyndi/Russel arrive and co-operate.

     So the first set of teams gets to the ferry dock that will take them to Robben Island.  Gary/Dave miss the ferry literally by a few seconds, so they must wait an hour for the next one.  They all make it to the island where they find the route marker in the jail cell which directs them to take a ferry back to the mainalnd and find Kalk Bay Harbor.  So they do.  Mary/Peach arrive and make it to the cell also.  At about the same time, the first teams are arriving at Kalk Bay, where they are presented with a detour.  This week, they get to choose between Dance and Deliver.  The Dance option requires the teams to dance with a local troupe and earn 25 Rand (about $2.50) in tips.  The Deliver option requires the teams to carry loads of fish across the dock until they have reached 125 kg.

      All 3 of the first set choose to dance and earn the money quickly.  After finishing dancing they get the information that directs them to take a train to Cape Town Station and then go to Langa Township and find the Paradise Hair Salon.  So they do.  Mary/Peach arrive and dance and do the same.  Shola/Doyin and Blake/Paige get the information from the jail cell and make their way to the harbor too.  At the harbor, Blake/Paige immediately decide to dance while Shola/Doyin initially decide to carry fish.  But, after the fish people seemed confused ("What, you want to help us carry fish?  huh?"), they decide to dance too.
    So now the first set of teams is arrive at the Paradise Hair Salon.  There, they get a road block.  They must buy some epsom salts and a "smiley," the local word for a sheep's head, and take them to Ndaba Sangama, a local healer.  He will prepare a remedy for them which they must drink to get the next route information envelope.  The teams stroll through the township.  Oswald befriends a local man who shows him around.  Wil and Gary drink the remedy which Gary says tastes like a combination of "Clorox Bleach and mouthwash."  Yum!  They all get the information which directs them to the Lanzerac Manor Winery, the pit stop for this episode.  Oswald/Danny arrive first, followed closely by Tara/Wil and Gary/Dave.

     Meanwhile, Mary/Peach are in a bus on the way to the township, where a local informs them that if they go there, they will be robbed and murdered: "All I can say is if you like living, you won't go there."  So, naturally, their bus breaks down on the way to the township and they  must walk the rest of the way.  But, they make it, and Mary actually enjoys performing the road block.  She gives some local kids sunglasses, and they seem to get a lot of enjoyment out of them.  So Mary/Peach make their way to the pit stop and arrive fourth.   Shola/Doyin and Blake/Paige arrive and go through the road block and make their way to the pit stop.  They jump on the mat together and tie for fifth place.

    Its afternoon now and finally Chris/Alex and Cyndi/Russel arrive in Cape Town.  They see each other at the ferry and both seem relieved that there is someone as far behind as themselves.  At the detour, both teams decide to carry the fish.  Chris/Alex finish first, but stay to help Cyndi/Russel finish.  I can't decide if that is genuine, or maybe Chris/Alex assumed they were the last two teams and they wanted to keep Cyndi/Russel in sight so they knew they were ahead of them.  Anyway, they make their way to the roadblock and finally the pit stop that night, where Chris/Alex rush ahead and finish 7th, and the pastors finish in 8th.

    Well, while all of this is still going on, the grannies are still in London, not even on the right continent yet.  The next morning they arrive at the jail cell where the route info, mercifully, tells them to go to Lanzerac Manor, bypassing the detour and road block.  They arrive and are eliminated, but take it all in stride.  Claire says, "You know, its ok."  I get the feeling they are amazed they made it as far as they did and are happy just to have had the experience.