RON SHAHAR: This is the eleventh end point of HaMerotz LaMillion. At this moment, our five couples are making their way here. The couple that gets here last may find themselves out of the race. INTRO RON SHAHAR: Alon and Oren and Ossie and Carmit finished the hot chili Detour and are on their way to the next destination. ALON: You have to take a Sri Lankan tuktuk to Sunil's cow farm. OSNAT: Enter the marked gate and look for the next clue there. RON SHAHAR: Akiva and Anaelle just completed the laundry task. AKIVA: I'm done, honey. Skip RON SHAHAR: Whereas Bar and Inna and Tom and Adele decided to deviate from the normal race course to take the Fast Forward. BAR: Fast Forward, you must take a taxi to Mr. Pierce Studio. ADELE: We take the Fast Forward. TOM: It could also be a photograph, something, I don't know what it could be. ADELE: I don't care what it may be, we do it. Wow mami, all of my legs are burning. Skip ALON: War, war, war...Come on, my friend, come on. C-ALON: We left first in the Sri Lankan tuktuk. C-ALON: What is beautiful in Sri Lanka is the organized travel. C-ALON: Everything is calm, quiet, you are not allowed to honk in Colombo. Really. C-OREN: Europe. C-ALON: Classical Europe. ALON: Take me to the cow. C-ALON: There is complete chaos on the streets, as if they are talking to each other with sirens. Tuk-tuks, trucks, cars, everything, noise. C-OREN: All the time honking. C-ALON: People, almost every moment someone gets run over. ALON: Well you have to be focused, like, everyone is close. OREN: Let's tick, let's get some distance now. ALON: Let's hope there won't be a duel, Duel Akiva appears. Skip ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN LAST PLACE AKIVA: There is a Fast Forward here, do you want to take it? ANAELLE: No. C-ANAELLE: At these stages of the game taking a Fast Forward is like a godsend. C-AKIVA: Is to arrive first. C-ANAELLE: And as if to get enough to... C-AKIVA: Guarantee your spot. C-ANAELLE: It also guarantees your place in the top four. AKIVA: You have to take a Sri Lankan tuktuk to Sunil's cow farm. C-ANAELLE: But I can't take the risk that God forbid I will have to travel, arrive and in the end it will really be something like taking a picture naked which is out of the question at all. So I have also wasted my time and in the end I will find myself out of the race. Skip OREN: Waste of water. ALON: What waste? Buy me 500 of these, everything burns for me. I'm all burned, waste of water, he still tells me. OREN: Waste of water, it won't help you. C-ALON: We are traveling in a tuktuk and our hands are burning, burning from the burning chili mission. I'm all over the place with the sirens, from behind I open the bag, pour water, "Why are you wasting water?" I had to pour out all the water. ALON: Stop! Come on, Oren. ALON AND OREN, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE ALON: Route Info. You have to take part in a natural and traditional recycling process of every Sri Lankan cow breeder, creating a flammable combustible material from cow excrement. RON SHAHAR: The dairy farmers in Sri Lanka mix the cow excrement together with water and sawdust and dry it in the sun. The resulting material aids combustion. Here they found recycling long before it reached us. The couple must now become local farmers and collect the cow excrement, the buckets they will have to carry on their heads and reach the drying area. There, according to tradition, they will have to create the organic fuel with their own hands and stick it on the drying wall. They will have to perform the task with their bare hands and flip flops on their feet in accordance with the local tradition. Only a couple who manage to make a hundred lumps of organic fuel will receive the next clue from the farm owner. ALON: How nice. Come on. OREN: Careful ALON: What does this need to tick it off? Here, come on, Oren, run, run, run. ALON: A lot of shit. C-ALON: The task is to make fifty combustion balls each. What is the fuel made of? Cow shit. ALON: Come on, luckily I know it from Eshel HaNashi. Oh, what a stinker. I worked there in a dairy farm for several years. OREN: Yeah, so it's not... ALON: But it's awful stinking shit. C-ALON; I have experience, I am not bothered by the story of the dairy farm, I studied in Eshel HaNashi with the educator Yosefah, who is a mythological figure, I hope she is still with us. ALON: It's a task for us, isn't it, Oren? OREN: Yes. ALON: Can't see from a meter. OREN: Come on, come on, come on, come on, let's see how it works, let's see how big it is first. C-OREN: You have to take this semi-liquid shit from a certain point. C-ALON: On the head, what a section, what a section it was. C-OREN: In a straw basket and take it on your head. C-ALON: What a section it was. ALON: Come on, go, go. OREN: Put here...put in my opinion... ALON: Yes, like that. OREN: Put into the mixture. ALON: Why not here? OREN: That way, you won't be able to control it. ALON: Of course I can. OREN: Look, put it up, see how beautiful it is. C-ALON: We have to make a combustible material from the shit of these cows in a combination of sawdust and water and that it will stick to the wall, fifty of them each. ALON: How is the technique? OREN: Need more sawdust, not too much. ALON: Oh, yours are falling, that's why you need a lot of water. A lot more water, cutie. Much more water. Like the meatballs you make for the kids. OREN: I don't make meatballs like that. ALON: Dipping and pasting. Wow, that's a huge amount. Skip AKIVA: I see the brothers here. OREN: Here comes another tuktuk. ALON: Yes, another tuktuk has arrived. AKIVA: Come. ANAELLE: Come on. AKIVA: Here is the box. ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE AKIVA: Route Info. ANAELLE: Lord have mercy. What a smell. C-ALON: Who enters the cowshed? C-OREN: God save and Akiva. C-ALON: And her husband, and Akiva. ANAELLE: What a terrible smell. ALON: The idiots have arrived. OREN: Who arrived? ALON: The morons, your friends. Don't talk to them, I ask you not to talk. Let them not see how we do. C-ALON: I told Oren, let's make sure they don't see our technique, I was very proud of the technique. ANAELLE: Shoshi, they are coming to me. Mother, mother! AKIVA: Don’t shout, don’t shout. ANAELLE: Lord have mercy. AKIVA: Ick, it will be on our heads. ANAELLE: God save. C-ANAELLE: The smell of cow poop. C-AKIVA: Bring fresh poop. C-ANAELLE: Hot. It was so hot. Warm and green. ANAELLE: Oh, it's crazy heavy for me, you'll help me put it on my head. Shoshi! AKIVA: Clean it a little from below with your hand. ANAELLE: Oh, it's hard for me mentally. Ick. ANAELLE: Ick! Oh, oh, oh, the cows agree with me, the cows agree with me. Shoshi, I'm shocked. AKIVA: Me too. C-ALON: The grinder arrived with all the crying and tears, I'm standing here, I'm standing here. ANAELLE: Mother, my slipper fell off. Shoshi, I’m drowning.. C-ALON: Grinder grinder but strong, strong. C-OREN: Yes, she doesn't give up. C-ALON: They come in, they are strong, they are a very, very strong couple. Shoshi. ANAELLE: Shoshi, I'm scared to death. Mother, mother, Lord have mercy! AKIVA: Shosha, this is very heavy for me. OREN: Shit to the face. ANAELLE: Ick, help me, help me. Ick. Yoo, yoo, yoo...Yoo, my husband's grief... Yoo, what is he doing to her? What is he doing? Why does he do that? It's not nice, it’s not nice. AKIVA: Shosha... ANAELLE: That's not nice! AKIVA: Shosha, he sleeps with her. ANAELLE: What does it interest me? AKIVA: They make children. C-ANAELLE: There was a bull. Now he was very big, suddenly I see him getting on cows. Now I say to Akiva, may God have mercy, it looked like he was going to hurt them, do something to them, I don't know what. ANAELLE: Mother, mother, how cruel he is, it's not nice, I'm not happy. C-ANAELLE: Then Akiva explained to me that they... C-AKIVA: Mating. C-ANAELLE: They are now mating. But the thing is, I don't have a problem with you mating but not with such a small cow. ANAELLE: That's not nice. AKIVA: What farm did they bring us to, what is this thing? Skip OSNAT: You have to take a Sri Lankan tuktuk to Sunil's cow farm. Skip OSNAT: Well, go ask. CARMIT: I don't know, Ossie. OSNAT: In English, there.. CARMIT: Ask. OSNAT: I know, as if I lived here from birth... CARMIT: You had the clue, you know. OSNAT: It's there. So ask here in the meantime. CARMIT: Where is it there? I'll ask. OSNAT: With this, with this. CARMIT: I don't have glasses, I can't see anything. C-CARMIT: We left for the next task, to the cow poop, the driver didn't know the way, he didn't really understand what we were asking him. Skip OSNAT: It's facing each other, but it should be facing each other, yes. Skip CARMIT: We thought they didn't know these morons. BAR: Fast Forward. You have to travel in a taxi to Mr. Pierce Studio and find the next clue there. BAR: Mother, what pressure, Inna. I don't want to sound petty, I am aware that the Fast Forward is the thing. INNA: On the other hand, let's see if it will be within my and your limits. ADELE: If you succeed you can advance directly to the end point. If not, you must return to the race and complete all the missions. C-TOM: We actually realized that our situation was not good at all, we had the option of getting a Fast Forward. ADELE: My whole body hurts a lot, my whole body hurts a lot. C-ADELE: And I'm in critical condition, I'm in a bad condition, I'm in a condition where I don't know if I'll finish this day, I don't know what will happen to me later this day with this allergic reaction, I didn't know what would happen, I suffered. I didn't understand at all what the Fast Forward was, what needed to be done, I just said, let's do it please and that's it. BAR: At this level right now in the game, in the final five, it's going to be something like it's going to cancel your 30 minute wait, it means something like it's going to be... very, very, very difficult, like there are no free gifts. INNA: It's not free. Skip BAR: What do you think it will be? INNA: I have no idea, Bar, I can't do it... I have no clue. C-BAR: The most horrifying thing that occurred to me is that if I and Inna choose to escape and not take the Fast Forward in the end, we have a long day ahead of us and we have lost precious time that we will not get back, which means... C-INNA: Little chance. C-BAR: How weak, on the level of like a miracle from heaven has to happen so that we don't go home. BAR: I'm trying to think of what it could be. INNA: There is a situation where we have like stamped ourselves out of the race, right now. BAR: What will they give now? Skip TOM: Look for 27. INNA: Bar, look, it seems to me that... BAR: Shit, oh no. INNA: What? BAR: It looks like a barbershop, Inna. INNA: Hear me Israel, keep me, keep me and Bar from this trouble we have put ourselves into. BAR: Russian roulette. Okay. Fine. INNA: Wow. C-BAR: My heart is like...pressure, crazy pressure because I told myself, if this is a task I will not be ready to do, not for the race, not for myself, not for anything in the world.... C-INNA: We held ourselves back. C-BAR: We are going home today. INNA: Come on, Bar, let's take the hint, we're procrastinating. TOM: Here, here, go, go, go. ADELE: Yoo, listen mami, I think there's a couple here. C-INNA: We knew that our chances were fifty-fifty, that is, a Fast Forward could save us but it could also crush us. BAR: Fast Forward. INNA: Wow. BAR: This Fast Forward- TOM: This Fast Forward will present you with a difficult decision- BAR: May it remain on your body forever. RON SHAHAR: The couple must now make a difficult decision that will accompany them for the rest of their lives. Each of them must tattoo half a heart on their arm, one that will match exactly the tattoo that the other partner will make. The tattoo will be permanent and cannot be erased. If they regret and do not complete the task in its entirety, the couple will return to the normal course of the race. Only after the tattoo artist finishes his work will the couple receive the next clue. TOM: Okay, we'd rather not do that. Let's go, come on. ADELE: Why not? TOM: Tell me, what did you screw up? ADELE: It's a small tattoo. TOM: I will never get a tattoo in my life. BAR: Inna, listen. INNA: Bar, you could walk around with that stupid thing for the rest of your life. And the million is still not in your hands. ADELE: It's not "we” don't prefer, I would do it without a problem. TOM: I grew up in a traditional home, an extreme home, my father is firmly against it, my family comes first, I know they won't be able to look at me afterwards. ADELE: He wants to fly home today, alright. I'm all suffering from the spicy and that's what he tells me. TOM: Even if there were no people here I wouldn't do it at all. ADELE: Fine, now Inna and Bar will arrive first and we will arrive last. INNA: Look at you being tattooed all over you now. TOM: Would you get a real tattoo now? ADELE: Yes, I would. I'm thinking about the final four. TOM: For the game a real tattoo? ADELE: Yes, for the game I would. TOM: You have no respect for your body. You have no respect. BAR: It's not an easy decision for me either, do you think I want to do it? INNA: I do not think... BAR: I need half a heart, what am I, some kind of pirate in...I know what? INNA: More on the arm, no less and no more, it's like... BAR: Like the most... INNA: The old man. C-BAR: The task is to tattoo half a heart on me, half a heart on Inna, none other than the arm area. A tattoo of lewdness, it's a tattoo that people do when they're drunk. TOM: Wait, so we have to take Sri Lankan tuktuks to the cow farm. Skip ADELE: Ow, ow, ow, it hurts, it burns. TOM: I'm hurting too, I'm having a hard time too, believe me. ADELE: Enough, leave me alone. My hand hurts. TOM: I'm all burnt too. ADELE: I don't feel like it anymore, leave me, because of you we are losing now. TOM: I know, it's because of me, mami, I know I'm guilty, I'm sorry. C-TOM: We wasted a lot of time on the Fast Forward until... C-ADELE: And my hands are burning, remember me every time what happened to me. C-TOM: I will remember, Mami, I will remember. C-ADELE: So that you understand how much we suffered. C-TOM: The expressiveness of Hebrew is phenomenal and I know how to talk about everything in the most logical and most beautiful way possible, so relax. ADELE: Ai, my eyes now, well. TOM: Okay, we need...You don't have the clue, my mami. ADELE: The address is written there! ADELE: It got into my eyes, I can't open my eyes. TOM; Where? ADELE: I can't open my eyes. C-TOM; The mental feelings are that you are last and Adele was hurt on levels and her hands were burned there and it was beyond a normal human being, she took it way beyond any human being who had spicy. Because actually I also had a very spicy one. C-ADELE: I just had a very, very severe allergic reaction. ADELE: I can't open my eye. No, your shirt is full of it. BAR: This is something extreme. C-BAR: We know very well that in life...there are no shortcuts. C-INNA: Shortcuts. (In HaMerotz the Fast Forward is called the Shortcut... which it should’ve been all along in the US version to keep with the road journey theme naming) BAR: I'm ready to do it for fun and I'm happy to do it. C-BAR: Our desire to do the task was not for HaMerotz LaMillion. C-INNA: And not for the million. C-BAR: And not for the final five and not for the final three and not for first place. C-INNA: But for taking revenge on this gang. BAR: After all the evictions, after all the horseshoe turns. C-INNA: We really suffered for a long time, one could say relatively, from these U-Turns. BEIJING BANGKOK PATTAYA C-BAR: This is a war of attrition, once hit, they don't fall. Second time hit, they didn't fall. Third time hit, they will fall, they will surely fall. Not me and not Inna either. C-INNA: Don't kick so easily. BAR: Look what the level of revenge is like, the fact that they won't send us home today. Skip C-BAR: In no way will I let any human being but no human being do to me, neither ganging up nor character assassination nor intimidation nor condescension over me, it doesn't happen. I couldn't let this war of attrition in amok rabok happen. INNA: We are in the finals. Something else, Bar, we have to eat them. BAR: In the teeth, you’ve gone too far. INNA: Like this. BAR: In your teeth, like you did the laundry today. INNA: Like matches they fly. C-BAR: A couple that really, really wronged us here is the Yemenis, if there is one couple that went, gossiped, dirtied, opened up, the officer, lied, said, called me and Inna names, it is the Yemenis. OSNAT: Your grandmother... OSNAT AND CARMIT, CURRENTLY IN THIRD PLACE C-INNA: They actually provoked all this antagonism. C-BAR: Obviously. C-INNA: From the beginning, the antagonism to our direction. Of course not on the personal side and of course don't take it personally and it is clear to us that from there it drifted and opened some kind of current in our direction that they constantly knew how to maintain. OSNAT: Wow, my hand hurts. My hand hurts. CARMIT: But why are you shouting? OSNAT: Pick up with only one hand, only with one hand. C-INNA: All the nicknames we get from them, mice, blondes, Paris and Hilton. C-BAR: Paris, no, let's also be, like let's be really idiotic until the end, Paris and Hilton like, it's the same girl, first and last name, let's call them by that name, genius, like really. CARMIT: I will not fall with this pot. Drilled my head. My kids won't want to eat out of my hands for a month now, ah, Ossie? C-INNA: Like they have been with us on this journey for so long, is it hard for you to call us Inna and Bar? There is some disdain from the beginning, here are the blondes, we keep hearing them, "Here are the blondes, how did they get here?" INNA: It doesn't hurt but let's just say it doesn't... BAR: Not pleasant. INNA: No less and no more, it is also painted reddish-coloured. BAR: A beaten girl in a central station in Tel Aviv who went out to look for friends with my new tattoos. Wow, this is one of the ugliest tattoos in the entire world. INNA: Come on, Bar. C-ALON: We ticked it off, we made balls, we realized very quickly that this is the technique. OREN: One two...one two three... ALON: Quiet. C-ALON: We hit ball no.50 each. OREN: I'm done. ALON: Come on. OREN: Look what we look like. ALON: Come on, the clue. Skip ALON: Come on, go, go, go. ALON AND OREN, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE ALON: Route Info. You have to take a bus to King’s Mother Viharamahadevi Park. RON SHAHAR: The couples should board the local bus now, and make their way to the King’s Mother’s Park in Colombo. The park is next to the local post office. When they reach it, the next clue will be waiting for them. Skip ANAELLE: Shoshi, in your mother, you can't kick me on this. AKIVA: In my mother? In my mother? My mother will not be happy that you are now involving her in this situation. ANAELLE: I really love her though. AKIVA: I know. Skip ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE AKIVA: Route Info. You have to take a bus to King’s Mother Viharamahadevi Park. Skip ANAELLE: Wow, Akiva, I can't touch myself. AKIVA: Poor you. Skip ALON: Yoo, my brother, look how crazy. ALON: Come on. What a bus, what is local. Crazy, crazy, but the bus. OREN: It's an experience to travel on the local bus, with the music and such, what sections. C-ALON: For the first time we are told to take a local bus. OREN: Enough, enough. ALON: We are not the Yemenis. OREN: A bit of culture. C-ALON: What music, noise of Indian music. C-OREN: And the bus is decorated like I don't know what on the inside. Pictures. C-ALON: Pictures and colourful, crazy, crazy, crazy. Skip C-ALON: How did they do? Skip ANAELLE: Akiva, the bus, pay him fast. AKIVA: How impudent, he tells me 4000 each. I gave him 500 at the end. ALON: How much did you pay for the tuktuk, 400? OREN: 1500 each. ALON: Really? OREN: That's what he asked for. ALON: What, really? OREN: Yes. ALON: Are you kidding me OREN: No. ALON: Yoo, are you screwed? I paid for a whole day in an attached car with air conditioning. OREN: The tuktuk is more expensive. ALON: What more expensive. 4000, 50 dollars for a tuktuk? OREN: You fill me with your saliva. ALON: Yoo, yoo, yoo, what a mistake. ADELE: How did we get from first to last, you see? TOM: Everything is good in this game, everything can change. ADELE: How, there's only one mission left. TOM: Faith, faith, faith. C-TOM: I knew that if I followed the way of the Holy One, blessed be He, which is against tattoos, actually glorifying His name in front of all the people of Israel, I believe in Him and He is with me and maybe He will really let me continue in the game. TOM: Yelling at each other and fighting will not work for us. ADELE: I'm not yelling at you, what do you want from me? TOM: You told me everything because of you because I don't do a real tattoo. ADELE: Fine, we're going home. TOM: But we only need to think about what we are doing now that is best so as not to go home. And if we do go, we will know that we did our best. ADELE: It burns me. I'd rather die than be like this. You don't understand how it burns. COMING UP NEXT... ALON: Okay, perfect it’s here. OREN: Thank you. ALON: Let's cross the road. OREN: Let's cross, let's cross. ALON: Watch out. Look where you are going. Here, here. Skip UNAIRED TASK ALERT Clearly editors expected the Israeli viewers to be completely and utterly blind to their surroundings because they didn’t do a very good job of hiding this one. Basically, upon arriving at the park, one team member had to verbally describe the Sri Lankan flag from a copy they were provided to their partner, who would have to draw it accurately enough to get a pass - a bit like the team-building exercise from TAR China Rush 1 Leg 5 Beijing. While I do regret this loss as it is the only true HaMerotz unique quirky unconventional task this leg, I trust the editors’ judgment that what with all the outside-task drama going on this leg this one was boring and uneventful enough so as to be surplus to requirements. ALON AND OREN, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE ALON: Roadblock. Who reads between the lines? OREN: I will do the Roadblock mission. ALON: Because I have none left, simple. RON SHAHAR: A Roadblock task is a task that only one of the partners can perform. The team members must divide the Roadblock tasks equally between them throughout the entire race. In this Roadblock task, the partner must search among 7000 envelopes at the local post office in Colombo for one envelope intended only for them and inside it a message from home. One of the members will receive a bag of postal items in which five letters intended for couples are hidden. The team member must find the letter that belongs only to his pair. In addition to the letter, they will receive an object sent to them from the country by their loved ones. The couples will be able to watch their favorite people read the letter to them, using their tablet devices. Only after they locate the letter intended for them among 7000 letters will the local official give them the package from home and the next clue. OREN: The spouse who performs the task must sort through 7000 envelopes and find among them one envelope intended only for you and containing a special message from home. ALON: They say home you fall apart, what a transvestite. C-ALON: He only sees the word home, he only sees the word home, suffocates. ALON: Come on! OREN: I can't read, I'm excited. ALON: So I will read. They say home, he’s like... C-ALON: The sensitive, the empathetic, like the most not, the coldest, just seeing you...bro, you really become sensitive. C-OREN: Personalityless rag, maybe I'll become a community member. C-ALON: Really, welcome to the community. ALON: Come on. OREN: Come on. C-ALON: I reset him, I told him, come on come on, there is still a lot of work until you see the letter from home. Skip ANAELLE: Come on. Skip ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE AKIVA: Roadblock. ANAELLE: Lord have mercy. AKIVA: Who reads between the lines? You do it. Sort through 7000 envelopes and find among them one envelope that is known only to you and contains a special message from home. Do you miss home? I know how much you cry to me at night. ANAELLE: I am very pleased. Let's go. AKIVA: Well, listen, the letter can be addressed either in English or in the local language as well. ALON: Here, I see...Go. Be careful, be careful. Here, here, here. OREN: Here is the flag of the race. ALON: Okay. OREN: Come on, Alon. ALON: Come on. C-ALON: Sri Lanka's main post office, one of the most advanced in the world for me. It doesn't work when scanning the... C-OREN: It's artificial intelligence, when you send the letter it knows where you want to send it. C-ALON: Stunning. C-OREN: No need to write an address. C-ALON: The whole building, a 15-story building, maybe three employees, almost no employees. C-OREN: Completely drained. C-ALON: Really. C-OREN: 1948 is progressive what was there. C-ALON: It was a building, its interior also had something terribly authentic about it. Those fans, the sacks, the trolleys... C-OREN: People are standing and...