Secrets of an Infamous War. The remaining four teams return to the US and gather up Susan B. Anthony dollars, with instructions to find the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College. When they did, there was no clue to be found. Until they noticed where her bust was looking, and there a mailbox contained some keys and a message to head to the library.
At the library, they found a painting about art imitating life. The Geniuses finally lived up to their name, noticing that the painting named Today was of a sculpture that was in the library, and when the light shined on it, it showed a boat, and the boat was in another painting, and that painting led them to Philadelphia. They quickly took off before anyone else noticed, excited because Francis was from Philadelphia, and they felt they had an advantage.
The other teams figured it out quickly enough and left close behind, and once arriving at the destination, one member from each team had to climb out on a ledge to read a plaque – only the plaque couldn’t be seen from the ledge, so the spotters had to find it from the ground and the ledge-walker had to crawl on their belly to read it. The Geniuses lost their momentum when Francis decided he knew where they were going and quickly got lost. Ex-CIA made up for it, though, by not bringing along their Visa card and had to wait to get into the room to get on the ledge, so they fell from second to fourth.
The final stop was Founder’s Hall at Girard College. The Geniuses, when reading the clue on the building, thought it was Girard Street, but still managed to get there before Ex-CIA. Air Force made it first and found a log book which allowed them to find the name of Stephen Girard’s ship Liberty, which was the code for the cryptex, and they were the next ones to find the artifact. Southie Boys made it, and The Geniuses, despite their blunder, beat Ex-CIA to the third and final spot.
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