RON SHAHAR: This is Singapore City, a city of advanced technology and a meteoric economy. From here, from the city of the future of the Far East, the teams will immediately be launched into the semi-finals of HaMerotz LaMillion. COMING UP NEXT.... Basically it’s the same stuff, seven teams were eliminated, three will remain after this leg and only one will triumph in the final. (the quotes are identical to last ep’s preview btw) Btw the teams did actually fly back home to Israel at the end of April 2011 when the first twelve legs were completed, and came back in January 2012 to film both finals legs, for those who don’t know. RON SHAHAR: The semi-finals of HaMerotz LaMillion are about to begin. INTRO RON SHAHAR: Singapore City is an innovative and boundary-breaking city that regularly hosts the world's richest. The finals event of HaMerotz LaMillion was launched from this futuristic city. The teams are now landing at Changi Airport, which is considered the best in the world. From here they will be launched in luxury sports cars in order of their arrival to the final finish point in Sri Lanka. Akiva and Anaelle, who came in first place, set off- ANAELLE: Onwards. RON SHAHAR: First. ANAELLE AND AKIVA, DEPARTING IN FIRST PLACE AKIVA: Here are the flags. Wow, there are convertibles out there. Which car do you choose? ANAELLE: So cool! C-ANAELLE: I see these vehicles and how my eyes lit up. ANAELLE: Shoshi! AKIVA: What do you choose? Choose a car. ANAELLE: Black. AKIVA: Black. C-AKIVA: Anaelle and I came here like a stretched spring, like dynamite about to explode. C-ANAELLE: Right. And we want to explode on this day. AKIVA: Route Info. Welcome to Singapore. You have to drive the luxury sports cars that you got to Orchard Road. RON SHAHAR: To enter the atmosphere of the good life in Singapore, the teams will now have to get into the luxurious sports cars that are waiting for them and use them to reach Orchard Road, one of the most prestigious shopping centers in the world. A locked suitcase with a million shekels in cash is waiting for them in the trunk of the car. Only when they reach Orchard Road will the teams receive a key to the suitcase and the next clue from the valet. AKIVA: Waiting for you in the trunk of the car is a locked suitcase containing a million shekels in cash, a million shekels that could be yours if you win the race. ANAELLE: Yoo, Shoshi, we've never driven a car like this. AKIVA: Wow. ANAELLE: It’s like James Bond. AKIVA: Wow, that's heavy. Shosha, there is a house inside here. ANAELLE: Oh my god, I want it. Shoshi, I want, please. Come on, go. Wow, this is just amazing. ANAELLE: How do I move it, Shoshi? ANAELLE: Shoshi, come on, the traveller’s prayer, we have to. AKIVA: May it be your will, O Lord our God and the God of our fathers, that you lead us to peace and guide us to peace and that we reach the place we desire for life and joy and peace. C-ANAELLE: It is such a day that we knew everyone would give everything they have and also everything they don't have together. ANAELLE: Please, God, I don't want this to happen, we deserve it so much, we tried so hard. Wow. AKIVA: Shosha, it's a semi-final, that means there's another elimination so... ANAELLE: It means there is an elimination, it means we have to make every effort, really. I want it so, so...really. C-ANAELLE: Everyone wants it, everyone has worked hard, everyone will give two hundred percent of themselves. We must be the best and must do everything we can and only think forward and not look back, not concentrate on the other couples. AKIVA: You can drive fast. You can drive... listen, listen, Shosha, stop the enthusiasm for a moment, we have to win here, okay? ALON: Come on, war. Go. ALON AND OREN, DEPARTING IN SECOND PLACE C-OREN: It is very important for me to succeed, I want to win the race and it is important for me to win for the victory. ALON: What vehicles. OREN: So cool. ALON: Come on. OREN: Take, take the... ALON: War... C-ALON: Very stressful. My blood pressure in such a situation is very, very low. C-OREN: He should be high C-ALON: High? But low is almost dead. ALON: Dead on you. Before opening this, bro, we're going to win this story and I had a blast with you. C-ALON: No, this uncertainty puts me under stress. ALON: Welcome to Singapore. You are catapulted to the semi-finals of HaMerotz LaMillion. Come on. A locked suitcase with a million shekels in cash is waiting for you in the trunk of the car. Skip ALON: Have you ever had so much cash? OREN: No, no. ALON: Sure Tom Kashty has. Come on. OREN: Get in. ALON: Come on. What a beautiful car. None, suitable, suitable for the community. C-OREN: Luxury classic cars such a cabriolet, with an open roof. C-ALON: Everything is so electric, pompous, befitting of Singapore. 200, 300 thousand dollar car. OREN: What a car, what fun, an open BMW. ALON: Really. OREN: Nice. ALON: What, not dangerous, a million shekels? OREN: I hope they don't screw it up behind us. How does the car respond, okay? ALON: No. Wagon. A stroller, it doesn't carry at all. You are handsome, you are handsome. OREN: Concentrate, concentrate. ALON: You will look at the signs. OREN: Orchard Road is the main shopping street and there are various luxury stores and the like. OREN: Onwards! ALON: War, war, war, wa...look at the signs, how is war? We will end up driving to Thailand. BAR AND INNA, DEPARTING IN THIRD PLACE BAR: Not true, what is this? INNA: Wow, what is this? INNA: You are catapulted to the semi-finals of HaMerotz LaMillion. C-BAR: The very fact that we even reached the semi-finals is already something that is a great honor for us. INNA: Wow, wow, wow, do you understand? This is our suitcase. C-BAR: Along the way, I, personally, did not feel that it was... a high chance that it would happen based on what we went through. So it is already a class that is sublime in my eyes. BAR: Inna, where do you take off the brakes? INNA: What? BAR: Where do you download? INNA: It seems to me... BAR: No, no, no, it’s like that. No, this is a parking lot, where do you take off the brakes here? C-INNA: Waiting for us...a B&W Cabriolet. BAR: I don't know this car. Where are the keys? Oh, it's like that. INNA: Be careful. Wow. BAR: Yes, automatic. INNA: Well, this car is worth more than our prize. C-BAR: As a semi-final it was a knockout starter. C-INNA: Yes, a cool car, a sports car, and the roof is open and we are two girlfriends. BAR: We are the most Thelma and Louise, Inna. INNA: Thelma and Louise? BAR: Yes, I'll show you that movie when we get home. INNA: I do not know. BAR: I'll show you. C-BAR: We tasted all the flavors that this race could give us, the disgusting, the delicious, the sweet, the sour, the spicy, we tasted them all. No matter how hard it's going to be, we'll make it in the end. I'd rather fail and know I didn't succeed but I tried than not try at all. ANAELLE: Wow, look what towers. Look at these buildings, feel in New York. It's just clean, it's crazy. C-ANAELLE: It seems to me that being pregnant...it's really worth being pregnant in Singapore. You don't have to be constantly careful that someone is smoking next to you, it even seems to me to give birth because everything is so clean and sterile that it is not caught. OREN: Look what a building, ya Allah. C-OREN: A lot of glass, a lot of concrete, you need a lot of money to live well here and enjoy life. C-ALON: Constantly feeling the land of unlimited possibilities. Abundance, capitalism at its peak. ALON: Look how beautiful, ya Allah. The Amazing Race, amazing! Amazing! COMING UP NEXT... (the last team to check in here will be eliminated) Skip (but you’re faster) C-BAR: We already understood from this race not to try to be something we are not. Navigation, Bar and Inna, no. C-INNA: We know our shortcomings. We really don't, we...I, personally, can really testify for myself that I am lacking in direction like in an idiotic way. Skip BAR: Inna, the trucks here are not doing well at all. INNA: No, it's not good that the truck overtook you. No, not good, Bar. BAR: Wait, I need the cutie to lead us. INNA: No, it's not nice that you rub the Mercedes. BAR: BMW. INNA: Bar. C-BAR: I cut all the leaves on the side, I did some work on them...let's say, cutting work on the side. INNA: Listen to me, get on the sidelines. BAR: No, but where do I route here, Inna? INNA: Don't worry, get on the curb, straight. Be careful, be careful. BAR: Oh god, if there's a policeman here... INNA: There is no policeman here, keep going. Skip Need help? Shoshi and Shosha! ANAELLE: Yes, yoo, excellent! AKIVA: Do you live here? Yes. Yes. ANAELLE: So listen, hurry up, we need Orchard Road. Of Grange One, there is such a building. One second, I'll tell you. ANAELLE: Wow, what a champion, thank you very much. Please, please. AKIVA: Wait, what, did you recognize us? Of course, we saw yesterday. ANAELLE: So please, please, come on. Wait wait wait. Wow, what clips, my husband will be jealous. C-ANAELLE: It was a fantastic piece, it was simply a miracle from heaven, what are the chances that someone in Singapore will recognize us? C-AKIVA: She gets confused, she says, wait, you guys...I saw you on TV, and you're here like, well, I won't ask questions. At the end of this road... AKIVA: Yes. There is Orchard Road. ANAELLE: Thank you very much. AKIVA: Thank you very very much. We got along something else. ANAELLE: Yoo, what a crazy help from heaven. Shoshi, what champions. AKIVA: Here are the flags, I see flags. ANAELLE: Cool. AKIVA: I see flags. ANAELLE: Hello! AKIVA: This is our valet. C-ANAELLE: We arrive at the valet. He must probably be a very respectable man because he brings us the key to the suitcase for the million shekels. AKIVA: No... ANAELLE: Yoo. AKIVA: What? ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE AKIVA: Want to know how it feels to have a million shekels in cash? You must now carry a million shekels in cash along Orchard Road, Singapore's famous shopping street. RON SHAHAR: The teams will now be able to feel what a million shekels in cash feels like while being carried along Orchard Street, Singapore's famous shopping street. They will take the money to the banker who will be waiting for them near the Fountain of Wealth. According to Singaporean belief, the path to financial success passes through this fountain located in Suntec City, the business center of Singapore. In the first step, the valet will give them a key to the million shekel suitcase and high heels, the most suitable way to pass this shopping street. After putting on the high heels, they will have to carry the money along a route that includes crowded sidewalks and a mall with escalators. Only after they reach the fountain of wealth with all the million shekels in their possession can they deposit them with the banker, not before they have circled the fountain three times and touched the water as is the Singapore custom for financial success. Only after they give the banker the full amount of money will they receive the next hint in return. AKIVA: Only after the bank manager confirms the exact deposit will you receive the next hint. ANAELLE: Come on, Shoshi. AKIVA: This is going to hurt. ANAELLE: God forbid. Wow, wow, Shoshi. Come on. Yoo, God bless. C-ANAELLE: A suitcase, like in James Bond movies, with a million shekels. Not ten shekels, not twenty...a million shekels. We had to split it half and half. AKIVA: The problem is, if you lose your balance, then everything falls. ANAELLE: I can't take it like you, it's too heavy for me. C-ANAELLE: It's very very very very heavy. C-AKIVA: A million shekels, it’s not something easy/light (same word with multiple meanings), literally. AKIVA: Shosha, the proper way to hold it is to create pressure, you understand? ANAELLE: My hands hurt. AKIVA: You are a hero. ANAELLE: Okay. AKIVA: Do you know you are a hero? ANAELLE: Look how hard we have to work to earn it. C-AKIVA: It's like walking on a ladder, kind of moving forward with a ladder. I think I could have eaten from the trees there like a giraffe, I passed the second meter there, two meters and ten I was there. C-ANAELLE: If you drop even one package, we must, ourselves, pick it up. C-AKIVA: You have to engineer yourself into such a situation that you pick up that bill without dropping everything else. ANAELLE: Okay. Shoshi, wait for me, please, I can't see if I'm going to get run over. BAR: If he takes us to the wrong place, that's the end of him, of his car and of the 70 kph. There, Orchard Boulevard. See? It should be right here. Here are the flags of the race. Oh, great. INNA: Stop us. INNA: War. BAR: Come on, go. Skip BAR AND INNA, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE BAR: You must now carry a million shekels in cash along Orchard Road. After you put on the high heels you will have to carry the money along a track. C-INNA: We got heels that are like this size. BAR: Wow, wow, wow... C-INNA: Like, you step on this thing, you're another person, you're two people. You suddenly seem as long as a shoelace. INNA: Start loading up on you. BAR: Mami, how do you do it? INNA: Look, look, build yourself a palace. Wow, this is getting heavy on me. BAR: Because it's heavy, Mami. ALON: Here are the flags of the race. OREN: Where? You see? ALON: On the right side. OREN: Look, the blondes are already here. ALON: Really? OREN: Yes. INNA: Bar, is there any chance we overtook Oren and Alon? BAR: I'm shocked. C-ALON: We get there, we are surprised to find the two blondes. ALON: What is this? God help me. What's going on girls? INNA: Going on, happening. ALON: Nice of you to come. C-INNA: Alon really doesn't like being overtaken and certainly not by us. We, as far as he is concerned, are not a threat to him, Alon feels that we are... C-BAR: Peanuts. C-INNA: Peanuts, like. ALON: Yoo, yoo, yoo, it will be impossible to go. INNA: I am stable. Are you stable? BAR: I am stable. Inna, what's more, you look fire. C-ALON: Bar and Inna, like two chicks, start running. They went out, entered the street but very quickly they disappeared. ALON: How did the one who ran over the other end up in front of us in this whole story? Oren, it's really unstable for me though. Oren, look at Bar and Inna. What amounts, you make me too high. INNA: Wow, it reminds me of Oxford Street in London. Crazy, you know what... BAR: Come on, it's a waste of our minutes. INNA: Come on, come on, you'll run into old men, be careful. Do a beep beep to clear them out. ANAELLE: Careful, Shoshi. AKIVA: Wow, if it falls, it's a nightmare. ANAELLE: Shoshi, Shoshi, no! Not terrible, not bad, well, fast, not terrible. AKIVA: Alright, alright. ANAELLE: All for the best. ANAELLE: Wow, wow, Shoshi. How did they arrive so quickly, explain to me? AKIVA: Someone must have led them. ANAELLE: They must be happy that you fell. INNA: Bar, we are second place that should become first today. BAR: Right. INNA: Don't run, don't worry. BAR: Not worried. C-INNA: We already have this expertise, knowing how to narrow the gap, knowing how to bypass as it were. C-BAR: Yes, we are good at it. C-INNA: Every time before last, before the last place. C-BAR: This is our second name in the game. C-INNA: Yes, we already know what to do. C-BAR: Deficit reductions. ALON: Come on. Let's move, come on. OREN: Slowly, slowly, let's get used to walking first. Wait, I'll pick yours up. Go slowly, slowly, what slowly? Yoo, yoo, yoo... C-OREN: Did not pass. Literally, not a single step passed. C-ALON: Literally, from wheel A to wheel B we were both smeared. After we arranged the money, with the thoughts and planning of how, here, there, one step. OREN: My shoe is torn. ALON: Did the shoe tear? But then how are you going with the tear? OREN: Never mind, never mind. Alon, Alon, take care, don't come here. ALON: Yoo, yoo, yoo, it's not human, this walk, at all. OREN: You just have to go very slowly, that's it. ALON: Right. TOM AND ADELE, DEPARTING IN LAST PLACE ADELE: What is this? What is this car? TOM: A locked suitcase with a million shekels in cash is waiting for you in the trunk of the car. ADELE: Wow, I can't believe it. TOM; It's heavy. ADELE: What is this? TOM: Do you understand what could be yours? How it sits on me here, my whole life is this, I'm built for these things. Brad, babe. ADELE: We have to take this million shekels, I can't believe it. TOM: We are a touch, a touch of these million, a touch, Mami. We have traveled such a long way, my life, we have traveled such a long way, shall we not drink from the well? We have reached the well, shall we not drink from it? Just drink, just drink. C-ADELE: You can't see it with the eyes, we have all the physical strength and all this young strength that can really win this semi-final. ADELE: Who should we beat, Bar and Inna? Anaelle and Akiva? Oren and Alon? TOM: It's possible, eh? ADELE: We've done it before, we did it in Thailand. TOM: It's in reach, it's in reach for everything. C-TOM; We have a Speed Bump to cross, which is one task more than any other, but, on the other hand, couples who we thought would go far flew away and we have an opportunity here with people who are at our level, which is Bar and Inna, which is Akiva and Anaelle, and the brothers who...are not so old in their age. At the peak, they seem to have already done their thing, kind of done their thing, he's 40 years old... C-ADELE: Everyone who reached the final is a different couple. C-TOM: One is 47 years old, one is 37 years old. ADELE: We need to find this Orchard Road, take from the attendant the next clue, the key to the suitcase. TOM: Blessed are you, O Lord our God, that you bring us to the place in peace and bring us back in peace and that we arrive in peace, with God's help. ADELE: Mami, you are driving. TOM: Okay, my life, prayer. ADELE: Look, you're in the middle of the...Do you see that you are in the middle of this? TOM: Prayer, babe. OREN: Body weight forward, body weight forward. ALON: Right, body weight forward. OREN: Why do you work through the earth! We said not to cross the land. C-ALON: A meter piece of soil. I just stepped on the ground, I sank, I fell. OREN: We only walk on the sidewalks... ALON: Organised. OREN: The cobblestones. Doesn't it feel safer? ALON: No. OREN: Be careful, step. And that's how you keep it wrapped, what, it's classic. ALON: Yoo, what a flood, God, in addition to all the trouble, Oren, what's going on? Is it still far? Why did the rain start? Where is Bar, Inna, Akiva? What, they run so fast? C-ALON: The manner of walking is not clear. Money, rain, water and on top of everything, fell to third place, stress. ALON: Death. I no longer know which is better, Treblinka, Poland, the Czech Republic. Skip ALON: Wait, I'll hold your heel. OREN: I can not. Leave it, I'll take care of it. I think we made a mistake not tightening the shoe tighter. ALON: We left too soon. Wow, at the end we are last today I think. OREN: Well, put it. ADELE: I, a girl, don't mess with my hair like you do. TOM: Don't mess with the hair, look how it looks. ADELE: How does it look like? Normal, you're in a race, what's it supposed to look like? Like you're in modeling? TOM: Listen, I have to be at my best all the time, be at my best. ADELE: Go. Go. Here are the flags, flags, flags, go. Everybody get up, here are the flags. TOM AND ADELE, CURRENTLY IN LAST PLACE ADELE: How huge, after you put on the high heels you'll have to carry the money along Orchard Street. TOM: Put it on me, come on. ADELE: Tell me, what, are you Cinderella? What "put it on me"? TOM: You need a lot of stability, babe. What is this? ADELE: My life, run, we are in the finals. TOM: Go, I'll follow you, don't worry. ADELE: No, no, no, you don't, my life, you must be by my side. TOM: Slowly, mami. Slowly. ADELE: Mami, in the final there is no slowly, my life. TOM: Wow, that's hard. ADELE: Did someone tell you the final was going to be easy? TOM: It was clear to me that it was not. But I didn't know it was that bad. Mami, carefully, my life, my love, carefully. Let's go, let's go. Well what's going on? Why is there no green, my friend? ADELE: Mami, mami, it takes time, green, red, what do you want? ANAELLE: Mother, no! AKIVA: Did you succeed? ANAELLE: No, no, God forbid. Is it dangerous? AKIVA: Yes. C-ANAELLE: The scariest is the escalator. ANAELLE: Mother. AKIVA: Well done. ANAELLE: What champions we are. AKIVA: Something else. ANAELLE: Going up the escalator with it. Akiva, Akiva, Akiva! Fuck! Shoshi, it's dangerous, it's because of your heels. C-ANAELLE: Wow, wow, walking with this money, going up or down an escalator, is a life hazard. ANAELLE: Shoshi, you should be careful. Take them out quickly quickly, surf them off quickly quickly. C-ANAELLE: It's really life threatening. In my opinion, we should say ‘the reward blessing’ after this task. C-AKIVA: Mine fell there. ANAELLE: Forwards Shosha, it’s heavy on me. Mother, mother, it falls, that's all I'm missing. ALON: Yoo, yoo, yoo, it's wet, it's smooth. Yoo, yoo. OREN: Slowly, slowly. ALON: The pinky ran away from me, didn’t get it in, my pinky, Oren. OREN: Well, then what to do? C-ALON: The pinky, that's the movement of the little toe, mine got left out of the shoe, filled one leg, second leg as well. Already for half the street I walked with two... with a pinky that is separated, death pains. ALON: Yoo! Wow, how lucky I didn't fall, look. OREN: So I say, go slower, body forward. BAR: Walk with your stomach out as much as possible. INNA: Yes. Yes, yes, lean it on your stomach. C-INNA: The shoes are the small part of the story. The half million shekels, it turns out, are heavy. Inna and Bar, are like leaves physically, and this money was heavy, very heavy, to the extent that it gives you cuts here, in the end. BAR: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. BAR: Wait a moment. Wait, here, more, wait, wait. Careful, here's the money, Inna, by your side. INNA: Alright, not terrible. C-BAR: People suddenly pulled out cameras, started filming it as if it were some historical event. C-INNA: With such heels, a trouser here, a blouse here and walking with the money, blonde, you would say, God forbid, she has earned well now. ALON: We’re crazy, I know. OREN: I think we are a Singapore joke. We'll probably be in the local paper this week. ALON: Oh, whoa, be careful not to break your head! A package fell there. What luck that I saw it, in the bushes. OREN: We are the biggest clots in this whole thing, but Adele and Tom will arrive soon. ALON: Look how lucky, look how lucky. C-OREN: The truth is, I analyzed it, so I asked what the percentage chances were of each of the pairs winning the race. I said, us - 65 percent, Akiva and Anaelle - 25 percent, Bar and Inna - 9 percent, and Tom and Adele - 1 percent. Tom, by the way, heard this, terribly offended, terribly hurt by this operation. ADELE: Put it, everything, on the floor. Fix it quickly, mami, we don't have time, my life. TOM: What is forbidden, but why do you have to... ya Allah that's the difference now that... there you remember at the end of the party... that he said it was forbidden to do that she put me... but why are you talking? (???) ADELE: Who is there for whom? TOM: Enough. Where is it...where is the mall? Skip TOM: It’s legwork. Skip TOM: What a day what a day passes me by ADELE: Mami, I'm used to it. You know, not that heavy. C-TOM: Beyond just the million, we are people of glory, people who love the feeling of victory. In 1998, I will never forget it. C-ADELE: A player points out, doesn't he? C-TOM: I was a little kid in 1998, before I was a player, talking to you about the age of seven, eight. I received a trophy, which is a trophy for an outstanding player, and then I was already a star, I was in Hapoel Tel Aviv, I was there as a discovery of the season, an outstanding player, I was in the Israeli national team, championships. ADELE: Yoo, I don’t believe it. TOM: *swears* ADELE: Get up. Come on mami, people want to help you, come on. TOM: Come on Beitar! Nice, mami, be careful not to get stuck with people. Nice, everything is... ay. Ay, not knowing impurity. BAR: Inna, it seems to me too dangerous with the money. INNA: How amazing here, look what a thing. BAR: Something. INNA: "Chanel" on your right. Wow, look at the nail polish. BAR: Wow, look how stunning. C-BAR: The shops shone, the gold and signs. "Chanel", "Jimmy Choo", haute couture. C-INNA: Like it's brands. It wasn't "H&M" like, it's a great romper or a great shirt, it's luxury brands like that, there's stupid merchandise there. BAR: Wow, look at her. INNA: I would only go after "Marc Jacobs". BAR: "Marc Jacobs" or "Cartier", is also possible. C-BAR: Me and you there all day. Leave a whole day. C-INNA: Leave a whole day. C-BAR: Six hours C-INNA: Give us an hour, an hour. C-BAR: No, an hour... C-INNA: For an hour we just tick and repeat like this. ANAELLE: Here, come, we have arrived, come on. BAR: Here are Akiva and Anaelle. ANAELLE: Here, they are here, oof. C-BAR: We and Anaelle and Akiva are in the same place actually, first place and second place between us. BAR: We're in the same place, Inna. ANAELLE: I'm alright, Shoshi. BAR: Inna, come on. AKIVA: Shosha, are you ok? C-BAR: Anaelle slipped, tripped and fell, all the money with her, and we watched from the sidelines, it hurt us terribly and we felt sorry, but we are playing the game. BAR: Run, we are first place, run. INNA: Come on, start overtaking. BAR: Come on, quick, quick, quick. C-BAR: We moved forward as fast as possible. What brought us from being released in third place to rise to second place because we overtook the brothers and to rise to first place because we overtook Akiva and Anaelle, means now our place in the competition is... C-INNA: We have the lead. C-BAR: First place. INNA: Come on, we have to beat them, we have to. Skip BAR: Here, here. INNA: Here, Bar. BAR: Here. INNA: Here, I saw.