Well, we already knew from CBS promos that a team was going to lose its passports.
And then subsequent promos even revealed which team it was. So I guess the suspense was finding out what happened after that.
I was definitely bummed.
The teams start out in Ho Chi Minh City; the first clue sent them to Cambodia. The Globetrotters are the first to leave.
The teams were to head to the famed correspondents club, find the assignment editor and whisper "May I have my next assignment please."
It's off to the airport. Turns out there is only one flight to Cambodia on only one airline. And it isn't leaving for about 6 hours. So, it seems, all the teams would meet up.
But alas, when the last two teams arrive, Aspergers and the engaged couple with the roaring lion guy, the flight is full. They'll have to take a flight that's nearly two hours later.
They get on the standby list and hope.
We see the other teams getting on the shuttle to the plane, confident that they've left two teams behind.
As it turns out, the two teams get on the flight. Although the woman behind the airline counter is wearing a swine-flu mask, she still accepts a hug from the non-Aspergers team member Justin.
Filled with momentum, the Aspergers team is the first off the flight, and thus, the first to the correspondents club.
But the gay brothers get the clue first. The clue is a folder that includes a picture of late, great, iconic first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in a motorcade on her only official trip to Cambodia. The photo hangs in the Hotel La Royale and that's where the teams must go.
The not-having-sex couple have some trouble getting their clue at the club. The guy keeps asking for his next 'task' instead of his next 'assignment'. His girlfriend has to step in and fix things with the right word. She'll make a good wife.
The pink hair guy's father looks at the photo and recognizes Jackie Kennedy, adding that he's probably the only one left on the Race that does. I think, nah. But then, I'm proven wrong. The Globetrotters and the couple not having sex think she's a queen of Cambodia. The not-having-sex girl even thinks she is actually Cambodian. I feel sad.
The Aspergers guy recognizes her as Jackie, proving once again that ignorance is far more of a handicap than Aspergers.
In the hotel clue box is a detour: Cover involves going to a helmet stand, getting four helmets and selling them, using only persuasion, to two adults and two children. Wrap involves finding a stall at the Russian market, getting scarves from a merchant at a specific stall, and then finding a woman wandering around the huge market wearing a scarf that matches the one they've been given. They must bring the woman back to the stall to get the clue.
The wrap detour seems the best choice because there's more control. Every team except the engaged couple with the lion guy picks wrap.
In a cab, the Aspergers team has befriended their driver. They talk to him about karma, with the non-Aspergers one, Justin, asking whether giving another team bad information brings bad karma. The cabbie says it does but he likes the idea. They'll soon learn that mentioning karma on a reality show dooms you.
But for now, the Aspergers team finds their scarf wearer and is on to the next clue, which they must walk to. It involves taking lessons from a royal monkey master. Dressed in mask and tail, a team member must complete three monkey maneuvers to get the next clue.
Aspergers guy Zev decides to do the monkey task and gets through the first two maneuvers easily. But, we learn from his friend Justin that he "has the body of an 80-year-old man, and bending over is not in his skill set." Zev can't maintain his balance down the log and keeps falling off. Justin tries to encourage him, but the yelling annoys Zev. Soon Zev starts to feel like he's about to pass out; it seems nagging almost completely wears him out. (Me too!)
At the Russian market, one of the Globetrotters nearly strangles the woman with the matching scarf after he grabs her by the scarf when, he says, she tries to run away after he spots her. At the stall, the woman looks fairly terrified.
The engaged couple do their selling pretty quickly, but they are still in seventh place.
Zev finally pulls himself together and manages to bend his old man's body enough to finish the monkey maneuver and the two are first at the pit stop. The gay brothers are second and the Globetrotters are third.
That's when Zev and Justin discover they can't find their passports. They tell Phil who first tells them to look in their backpacks. They find Justin's passport. Phil tells them they need to retrace their steps and if they don't find Zev's passport before the last team arrives, they will be disqualified from the Race.
They have a number of the cab driver they befriended and set out on their way. But while they are looking, we see the poker players, who are last, finish the monkey game. The lion and his the woman who still wants to marry him arrive; the lion scares the usually unflappable Phil with an over-exuberant karate kick in the air. The lion is a freak.
The poker players are last to arrive, but because Zev and Justin have not returned with Zev's passport, they get a second, second chance.
Justin blames himself; he says he is prone to carelessness. Zev will have none of that; it's just a bad thing and they don't know why it happened. Zev is satisfied that he proved to himself that, even with Aspergers, he doesn't need a daily routine to succeed.
The rest of us will just have transfer our love to the Globetrotters.
Assistant Features Editor Adrienne Johnson Martin would like to have her life turned into an animated cartoon. 
