RON SHAHAR: Eleven Israeli couples went to the biggest TV game in the world. Six of them remain in the race. COMING UP.... RON SHAHAR: Tonight on "HaMerotz LaMillion”, our couples will cross the continent and arrive in Beijing, the capital of China. Skip RON SHAHAR: Here they will begin their long-awaited journey towards the seventh end point of the race. INTRO BAR AND INNA, DEPARTING IN FIRST PLACE BAR: Fly to Beijing, the capital of China. RON SHAHAR: The crews must now leave Europe and fly on two different flights from Prague, the Czech capital, a distance of 7,500 kilometres to Beijing, China. RON SHAHAR: On the way they will have to go through the Issta counter, the official airline of the race, to get their tickets. When they land, they will have to reach the Olympic Village of Beijing, where they will become full members of China's Olympic gymnastics team. ALON AND OREN, DEPARTING IN SECOND PLACE Skip OSNAT AND CARMIT, DEPARTING IN THIRD PLACE OSNAT: Floor gymnastics, in your mother? INNA: Beijing, huh? BAR: Yeah, Beijing. INNA: You can't believe how much I wanted China. Skip ALON H.: Come on, to Issta's stand. Skip SPONSOR BREAK PUNDAK AND MOTI, DEPARTING IN FOURTH PLACE MOTI: Fly to Beijing, China’s capital. ANAELLE AND AKIVA, DEPARTING IN FIFTH PLACE ANAELLE: Fly to Beijing! AKIVA: To Beijing! TOM AND ADELE, DEPARTING IN LAST PLACE ADELE: Beijing, China’s capital. RON SHAHAR: The first flight lands in Beijing with Bar and Inna, Oren and Alon, and Ossie and Carmit on board. Skip C-BAR: We are in first place. We were underground from the beginning, no one believed in us, everyone laughed at us. The Yemenis call us Paris and Hilton, they do not even know what they are talking about. C-BAR: Like that's how we got on from the beginning, like what, they do not have much to offer, episode 2 max, that’s it, they’ll do their thing and then go home. We came here and were left with the fire inside and the flame burning. C-INNA: I had a really good expectation from China, this place intrigued me, it is different from Asia, it is different from Europe, it is a different mentality and it terribly intrigued me and I really wanted, I was very excited about this place. ALON: Ya Allah. ALON: A billion Chinese, it's not just, you know what number it is? All malls, the biggest brands in the world. OREN: The thought of how to manage such an amount of people, take care of educating, take care of collecting taxes. ALON: Power. OREN: Really insane power. OSNAT: We're in China, we're revealing A little Chinese went to the garden. C-OSNAT: I had very strong pains in my hand, and they put on a cast. But I said to Carmit, I do not care about anything, whether it is with the plaster or without the plaster, I continue ahead in the race. BAR: Yoo, how slow, he's driving at 40. What's the way of telling him to drive fast? Skip BAR: Mother, how hard, wow. INNA: Look, she's also going before us in the car. BAR: No, there are no such things. Skip ALON: I'm willing to take him for a thousand dollars for the whole time we're in Beijing. I would connect him to a car, to a cab. ALON: What a nice campus. 15 times Hebrew. OREN: Tel Aviv University. ALON: One hundred basketball courts, one hundred football fields. Skip ALON AND OREN, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE ALON: Welcome to China! You must become temporary members of China's Olympic team in gymnastics. RON SHAHAR: The teams must now become temporary members of China's Olympic gymnastics team. This team won China a record number of gold medals at the World Championships and the Olympics. The couple will now have to perform a gymnastic exercise that they will choose from one of three different devices. Ground, beam and parallel bars. The couple will have to meet strict Olympic criteria, of accuracy in performing and the cleanness of the exercise. Only after the Chinese coaching staff approve the performance of the exercise will they get the next hint and a surprise. C-ALON: We put on the team uniform, our testicles sat here and we walked proudly towards the beam. ALON: Look at the beam. C-ALON: There were three instruments, there is the beam, the art with the ribbons and the parallels. OREN: Let's do the beam. OREN: Six, seven, eight. Kneeling, rotation. And one, two, three. C-ALON: Two graduates of Omar's ground gymnastics class so we said the best would be to just walk on the beam. Seems most applicable, most manageable, stable, focused. ALON: Well, start already. OREN: One. Two. ALON: Look how you look like, you look like you’re stuck. OREN: Five, six. C-OREN: I have a gymnastics movement... C-ALON: Correct. C-OREN: I also have such a body. C-ALON: Chinese stuck, that's what you got. OREN: Eight. ALON: Kneel and rotate. C-OREN: Although we have excellent technique, everything related to flexibility is difficult for us. Stand on the beam and make a turn, it's not something natural, you have to remember, ten centimeters is the beam width. OSNAT: Here is the stadium where there was the Olympics. OSNAT AND CARMIT, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE OSNAT: You must become temporary members of China's Olympic team in gymnastics. OSNAT: How are you studs, babe, in red. Oren and Alon. How beautiful you are in red, wow. OSNAT: Two... OSNAT; Sure, baby. Sure I’m doing that. OSNAT: No, I'm jumping to replace a lamp. OSNAT: In your mother, first of all I will go up. CARMIT: Really, me. OSNAT: What to do. CARMIT: An excellent athlete. OSNAT: Only I will stand. CARMIT: Okay. OSNAT: Okay, my legs are shaking, that's what I know. C-OSNAT: I was very hard on the beam because I have no balance, I have the cast in hand, the pains. OSNAT: Carmit, we'll open a seniors’ class on a beam. Skip ALON: Beautiful. Great. Three steps, jump. ALON: One, two, turn to me and raise your hands. OREN: Three. Skip C-ALON: I also saw that he took your name down, the Chinese coach. C-OREN: Yes. C-ALON: Asked you to stay. C-OREN: He wants me to stay on the team. I, because of the flexibility, seem to have heard that did this to him. It's the flexibility. C-ALON: No, because of the tights. Skip OSNAT: Not bad, break my back, neck. CARMIT: The muscle is stretched. OSNAT: Well, in your mother. CARMIT: In my mother, my muscle was stretched. OSNAT: Come on okay, come on. CARMIT: What, I'd lie to you? C-OSNAT: She could not go up with the leg, I could not go up with the hand. CARMIT: Wait, let me ... I'm dizzy. C-CARMIT: When I got up I saw that I was losing my balance, something was wrong with me there. And I look like Nadia Comaneci. CARMIT: Like this? OSNAT: To me, turn around to me. C-CARMIT: Dancers on the... C-OSNAT: Yeah, really something else. C-CARMIT: And what acrobats we were. C-OSNAT: Yes. CARMIT: Enough, Ossie! OSNAT: What do you want from me? CARMIT: I'm gonna fall, come on, well. OSNAT: What do you want from me, me? CARMIT: One, two. Skip BAR: Here, the National Training Centre Complex, exactly what was written for us. BAR AND INNA, CURRENTLY IN THIRD PLACE BAR: Welcome to China, you must become a temporary member of the Chinese Olympic team in gymnastics. C-BAR: Arriving at the Olympics mission in China, we decided that we would choose the ribbons. C-INNA: I practised as a child and if I had the option to go back and practice in this field, I would be very happy to do it. BAR: Okay. INNA: Okay, I got it. She started like this. BAR: She did it that way. Yes. Right. And then like this. And then she left. Skip BAR: Then she passes it through ... wait. Shit. No, I've already forgotten how she did it. INNA: Look, look at me for a moment. BAR: Well. INNA: One, okay? Small. C-BAR: Inna terribly got into it and I was just like such a poor kid, trying to keep track of the movements. Coordination and I do not go together in any way. I can move the body a thousand and one times but remembering the movements, what to do, I will not remember. INNA: One like that and then she did one like that, here. Skip RON SHAHAR: The second flight lands in Beijing with Moti and Idan, Akiva and Anaelle and Tom and Adele on board. Skip MOTI: Idan, come. Come on, go, Idan. Skip MOTI: How fun, we're in China! PUNDAK: How did we get around the line, eh? Well done to you, first time you did something normal. MOTI: Your sister the first time. PUNDAK: You must wean from this sister of yours, you must wean from this, you will come out such a bastard. AKIVA: Anaellosh, come. Skip ANAELLE: Where is he? AKIVA: Here, here, stopping, stopping for you. ANAELLE: Okay. Skip AKIVA: It's amazing, I did not think I would get here. ANAELLE: Wow, wow, look Shoshi, what is this? How many people live here? AKIVA: A billion. C-ANAELLE: We've never been to China, it's like being on the other side of the world. C-AKIVA: Right. We finished at the peak of Eastern Europe. C-ANAELLE: Truly. C-AKIVA: And we have reached the peak of the East. AKIVA: Our goal in China is to soften the Chinese. The Chinese will speak love and shed tears. Skip ADELE: How they brought us to China, God forbid. What are we going to do here with all these letters? To write one letter takes an hour. TOM: Every destination I go through I feel more and more intelligent ... with my English, I thought I had no idea, I'm telling you, I feel smart. Skip ADELE: You speak some language outside China? ADELE: You speak at all? Skip Stop driving me crazy already. TOM: Hear Israel. ALON: Yoo, it's hard. OREN: Keep arms outstretched to the sides. Beautiful, start turning, no shows now. Skip OREN: A small step forward and once again kneeling and turning. Beautiful, good. Very good. Two more steps. C-OREN: To advance the task then I gave him all sorts of such emphases, go down now, go back, go more, a little directing Alon to the movements. C-ALON: His tips from his ten years of performing arts when he was a teenager. OREN: Three more steps and turn to us, a nice strong stretch to the sides, like this. Beautiful. C-ALON: So I did like that. Skip ALON AND OREN, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE ALON: Oren Harel, Alon. Thank you very much sir. ALON: You must walk with the Chinese high heels you received on your feet. RON SHAHAR: The crews have to walk from now until further notice with Chinese high-heeled shoes on their feet. A small, well-groomed foot is considered in China the symbol of the seconds, a woman walking in small steps on Chinese high heels is considered beautiful and attractive. In these shoes the heel is in the centre of the shoe, which greatly slows down the steps. Couples will have to continue their journey in China with high heels on their feet. Their first step will be to choose which of the teams will have to make a U-Turn in this section of the race. OREN: Rather comfortable. ALON: Really comfortable, that's what I have said. C-OREN: If I were a normal woman to walk in high heels it would not seem to me that I would have been comfortable walking with these shoes because it is impossible to walk with them. ALON: Duel. You must reach the Temple of Fire. RON SHAHAR: In a Duel the pairs will fight each other, the winner continues and the loser waits for the next pair. The next Duel will take place in the Temple of Fire. Here the teams will compete in an ancient Chinese custom, cracking sunflower seeds. RON SHAHAR: The Chinese crack in the office, on the street and even on a bicycle. Couples will have access to a pile of black sunflower seeds and scales. From the moment the gong is played, the couples will crack open the seeds and place the peeled ones on the scales. The first pair whose scales lower the 25 gram weight will win the Duel and get the next hint. ALON: On the way you have to go through the voting board to choose the pair you want and delay them. OREN: Wait it's tearing my legs. C-OREN: The shoes were decorated with such a luxurious pompom at the end of the shoe and these shoes are built in a kind of shape that the part ... C-ALON: Describing in detail so that the viewer ... C-OREN: They are very decorated ... ALON: Yoo, what a hit. OREN: We need the voting board. OREN: We choose to give Tom and Adele a U-Turn, we think it's time for them to race. Skip C-ADELE: People in China do not know how to speak English, every person you tell him, go, ask him questions, you try to talk to him, try to communicate with him, you can not talk to them about anything, nothing, do not understand. Tell them, hey, they do not understand what is hey. Skip ADELE: Tom, go, Tom. TOM: Madness, madness, madness, madness. INNA: Tall, small. INNA: One, another big one. Two. C-BAR: After two attempts I was able to figure out the steps. INNA: Turn around the waist. C-BAR: Inna took command, moved forward, I looked at Inna, I copied her from the back. And at the end of the task it worked. Skip BAR AND INNA, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE BAR: Okay, Inna, it's you, it's your specialty, not mine. BAR: On the way you have to go through the voting board to choose the pair you want and delay them. INNA: These shoes are the biggest curse they could have imposed on me. Comfort, none, beauty ... no. And I feel it seems between bad and very bad. BAR: Come on, let's finish this. INNA: Yes. Fine, Tom and Adele. C-BAR: We just decided to pick them because we kept picking them, we did not want to open a front with anyone else. ADELE: Here he said it's it, no? TOM AND ADELE, CURRENTLY IN FOURTH PLACE ADELE: You must become temporary members of China's Olympic team in gymnastics. Artistic gymnastics, happening and parallels. Skip ADELE: Artistic gymnastics, it’s me, it’s me. C-ADELE: I was terribly happy because it's something I used to do when I was little so it made me terribly happy. ADELE: Is it difficult? TOM: I didn’t understand anything. ADELE: You start up, do that up. C-ADELE: I trained in artistic gymnastics for 12 years, I was the Israeli champion in the girls' league for four years in a row. I saw that it was very, very easy, as if it was not something that at all ... approached the things I would once do. ADELE: Here you make baskets, baskets, Tom, baskets, circles. TOM: I do, babe, I do, what do you tell me to do? ADELE: Now jump three times slowly. One, Tom, hold your hand on your waist. C-ADELE: It was the footsteps of a first-grade girl beginning to learn artistic exercise. ADELE: Catch, that’s it, once. TOM: She's of ... the ground gymnastics *continued* Skip C-TOM: All my friends are football fans and you know, boys, boys like that and see me like this all of a sudden and I catch on and I think about returning home, what will happen to me. TOM: Adele, I'm not built for it, enough, I do not know how to do it, do not know. Not built for it. ADELE: Fine. TOM: Let's go please. ADELE: Is it to do with the rope like that? We're overtaken here by a million now. Because Tom does not know how to do it. Skip C-ALON: We set out on the next mission, which is to locate a taxi driver and explain to him where to go. Skip ALON: Write to me, my brother, write to me. ALON: Yoo, it's like a hundred tons too. I'm so scared. BAR: Where exactly is a taxi? Skip BAR: What fun to always have guys helping us. Skip ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN FIFTH PLACE PUNDAK AND MOTI, CURRENTLY IN LAST PLACE AKIVA: You must become temporary members- MOTI: In China's Olympic team in gymnastics. ANAELLE: Shoshi, you have the tuxedo tank top here. AKIVA: I see it. ANAELLE: Fine? AKIVA: Do the red tights fit me? ANAELLE: What a er piece I am, eh? (slang, ultra-Orthodox religious Jew) AKIVA: With the help of the name we will do it and succeed. C-ANAELLE: We went straight to the beam, I have no idea why, it was clear to us. C-AKIVA: Why did we go for the beam? Because it happens to be your specialty, you have been doing ground gymnastics for years. C-ANAELLE: No, okay, but I did it until ninth grade, Akiva. I'm 26 years old. AKIVA: Start walking backwards. ANAELLE: Two, three. Lord have mercy. Five. AKIVA: Very great. ANAELLE: It's really dangerous. AKIVA: Well done, now walk back there. ANAELLE: The Lord will keep and save me from any guard Skip C-MOTI: We got to the mission, again Idan felt at home. This time he got on tights, he felt good about himself. C-PUNDAK: You know I used to exercise. C-MOTI: Yes, in what? PUNDAK: Let's do the parallels first, it seems to me it is not difficult, come on. MOTI: Legs. PUNDAK?: Very good. C-PUNDAK: We had a judge. C-MOTI: His demands were very, very inflexible, let's put it that way. After all, he coaches China's Olympic team. He does not see with his eyes. OSNAT: Hands up, thank God, who saved you. Turn around to thank me for carrying you. Skip C-OSNAT: We tried as hard as we could, we saw we were not going anywhere. We can barely walk on a straight road, so we preferred to stay on the ground, where it is safe and we decided to go to the ribbons. OSNAT: We’re at the Beijing Olympics. CARMIT: Wait. OSNAT: Catch it like this and then bring it back. ALON: You must reach the Temple of Fire where you will have to compete in a duel of cracking heads head to head with the next couple. ALON: What shoes, stuck, how they’re stuck. ALON: Here? One hundred percent it’s here? I'm cutting you if it’s not. C-OREN; You come to a main street, a kind of active industrial street. C-ALON: Holon Industrial Area, Tel Aviv. C-OREN: Something like that, at this level. C-ALON: The locksmith. C-OREN: There does not seem to be anything else. You enter some temple and behind it opens a very very delicate and beautiful resort area. C-ALON: Right. C-OREN: Kind of a lovely lake like that, really. C-ALON: Very pastoral, very ... C-OREN: Something completely cut off from the main street. OREN: Look , how beautiful, God, how beautiful. OREN: But look at this lake, Ya Allah, how beautiful. ALON: hOw bEaUtIfUl. Skip INNA: Bar, how are there no symbols of the race? C-BAR: We entered a temple, I have no idea what happened to me and Inna, it was just an ingenious step. Skip C-BAR: There was some girl there who offered us nuts. Skip INNA: She like just took out kernels for me? BAR: Yes. Skip INNA: Bar, crack three kernels. BAR: And.....? Like this? BAR: God, you're the one and only, you know we're just yours, we're just pretending right now. INNA: That’s it, Bar, get up, come on. BAR: Is it just me or is she not going with us? Like we did now ... I like don’t understand. INNA: Wow, well. BAR: But this is the temple, I’m freaking out. INNA: Come. BAR: You will have to compete in a nuclear cracking head-to-head Duel battle with the next pair. INNA: Yes, Bar, go. ALON: Come on, girls. Come on. ALON: Only big ones. C-ALON: The mission was to crack black seeds to a level of 25 grams in weight. Childhood hobby, we sat with our good mother in front of the TV, cracking and eating kilograms. Let's say black kernels. C-OREN: No stranger. C-ALON: No stranger to the Polish family home right next to the Gefilte Fish. INNA: You can keep some in your mouth and then spit. ALON: Hand out, hand in, this is the method. ALON: Look at me, great method. BAR: What? INNA: What, are you doing it with your hands? BAR: Yes. INNA: What, look at me, Bar. BAR: What? INNA: We will not succeed in this way in any duel and we will stay here last. You must do it with your mouth, with both hands. BAR: I understand, I understand. C-BAR: I really do not crack kernels, I do not like kernels. The seeds mission is a mission that you supposedly say you know how to deal with because what, you do not crack seeds in the house? So no, I'm not cracking kernels at home, neither I nor Inna. ADELE: Let's see you, come on. TOM: You do not want to encourage, stop interrupting. ADELE: Come on. Expert. ADELE: One, step back but with the foot back, you can not do that. TOM: Is that how you want me to do it? ADELE: Yes. TOM; So? Do you want me to fall into hell? ADELE: Well, stand on relve (ballet), on high, no, you have to stand, change legs. Well, you're not doing it right, no matter what. C-TOM: It's all about stability, the beam exercise, I think I'm excellent. Skip TOM: Mami, listen to me, I'm a cannon, do you not understand? You're harassing, you're looking for the little ones, I know what I'm doing. C-ADELE: I realise he like did it in a second. C-TOM: And why? And why? C-ADELE: And why. C-TOM: Huge talent. C-ADELE: Okay. C-TOM: Huge talent, prowess, a study, throw some ... C-ADELE: And why? Huge talent. C-TOM: Beautiful. TOM: What intelligence I have. I always surprise myself anew. TOM: Good, good. I'm a master, I'm not just saying I'm a master all my life. Take another step, another step, stand up and take a step. ADELE: No. C-TOM: Adele went into the depths of the content of the exercise. She really wanted exactly the hundredth of the gymnast's leg. Skip ADELE: What no?! C-TOM: When you try to be too precise in the end it does not work out. Skip TOM: Listen to the teacher, I will be with you now, do, do, I will be with you. I'm here, I'm here for you, I'll tell you when to get off. TOM: One more, one more, small one, beautiful. Bend down, bend down, turn around, relax, turn around, very nice. Stand up, stand up. One more, one more. ADELE: One she did, the one she did. TOM: Please listen to me, please, another one, another one, another one. TOM: Okay. Beautiful. One, two, three, bravo. ADELE: Did she say no? TOM: Okay. ADELE: Okay? TOM: All right, come on, come. Skip C-TOM: Adele, I'll tell you, she has a segment, next to others she does not like to pardon me but in dorm rooms, she knows who I am, she knows what I am and she knows what I give her. And I tell you, I'm three years of giving. No, sometimes a person gives too much, so do not know how to appreciate, you understand? That's the problem. C-ADELE: You're like ... C-TOM: I'm telling the truth, what? There is a proverb that says, the obvious is good to say and better to write. C-TOM: Thinking of saying that. TOM AND ADELE, CURRENTLY IN THIRD PLACE TOM: What is this thing? What? They have to be fucking kidding me, in my mother. Finished me in the show, finished me. TOM: What is this thing, in my mother, well what, I can not move. ADELE: Come on, go. Do not drive me crazy now. C-ADELE: These heels actually suit him, he really went with them ... C-TOM: I was killed in this program. TOM: Adele, I can not, I do not understand that the shoe is big on me? ADELE: What is it these shoes have now brought us? ADELE: We put it to Bar and Inna. TOM: You keep putting our names down. ADELE: All the time putting it to us. TOM: You actually declared war and... ADELE: There’s nothing to be done. TOM: We are a little bit more intelligent. ADELE: A beautiful picture of you two by the way. TOM: So stay tuned today, you will have a delay and it is not personal. BAR: Come on, come on. INNA: Okay, hold on a little longer, it's over if we do it fast. ADELE: Come on Tom, well, you're doing this slowly, all slowly with you. TOM: Talk to them in their language. Skip