The Amazing Race: Delhi, India

First-place finishers Nick and Starr foreshadow upcoming deception against Toni and Dallas with Nick's opening comment. "The big thing Starr and I do," he says, "is little white lies to all the other teams. We have no shame in giving 'em what they need to hear."

The brother and sister team may win the race, but they will ruin Starr's chances with Dallas, who proves to be a man of integrity and substance. But I am getting ahead of the plot.

Paintball Party

In this colorful and eventful episode, six teams head to a park to "participate" in a traditional Holi Festival.

Revelers dance and throw powdered dyes and spray water over each other, like a Indian paintball game. One team member must run through the crowd, climb a ladder, and find the legitimate clue among hundreds of colorful clue envelopes attached to hanging wheel.

Though Starr performs this task, a random reveler smashes Nick in the face with pink powder. The reveler approaches him like an assassin firing a gunshot then disappearing in the crowd. Mob mentality takes over when Divorcee Kelli begins her run. The pelting turns vicious beyond the spirit of the game.

Worse, Kelli misunderstands the mission and thinks she must blindly pluck down an envelope and race over to her partner to open it. Other teams complete the task in minutes and poor Kelli, splattered with so much color she is brown from head to toe, can't figure out what she's doing wrong. Finally she realizes she can check the outside of the envelopes while on the ladder, rather than running the gauntlet over and over. One of the frat boys calls the session a "wild rape party" and he isn't far off.

The teams are refused service by several taxis because of their wretched conditions. Terence tries to irrigate his nose with a bottle of water and disgustingly spits and honks out the taxi window.

Go, Ken and Tina!

Coming in last works wonders on Ken and Tina. They approach the Holi paintball festival with a playful attitude. Tina, on the sidelines, gets doused with green dye. She looks like she is wearing a green wig for the rest of the leg and it looks good.

At the next stop, a bird hospital, Ken and Tina encounter the Speed Bump that they alone must do. I notice that Speed Bumps tend to be straightforward tasks and this one's no different. At a nearby temple, they must volunteer to serve holy water to temple patrons. Tina relishes this role and Ken gets into it as well, shouting "Get yer water!" Tina uses more decorum and learns the polite Indian word for get-yer-water.

Ken and Tina continue to redeem themselves throughout the episode. They take control, but not arrogantly. When their taxi gets stuck in bicycle traffic, they get out and direct traffic, clear up the jam and jump back into their cab.

Tonight's Detour requires the teams to emulate one of two common Indian professions. The clever names of the options are Bleary Eyed and Teary Eyed.

Bleary Eyed requires teams to follow criss-crossed power lines down a crowded street, keeping track of the numbered tags they pass. Teams must give their list to a man at a sewing machine to approve. The man hams it up for the camera, shoving Tina away when she tried to look over his shoulder. The new Tina took it well.

Ken and Tina pass the Divorcees and the Frat Boys, but are gracious enough to show the Frat Boys what they are doing wrong in the Detour. This, as well as the Divorcees turning down their offer of collaboration, saves the Frat Boys from elimination.

In Teary Eyes, teams must go to a spice market, walk two 40-pound bags of chilies 1/4 mile, then grind the chilies into powder with a mortar and pestle. Terence and Sarah are the only team to choose Teary Eyes, a brutal task after the paint party. More whining ensues.

Nick and Starr come in first once again, but they arrived saddled with bad karma after pretending to collaborate with Toni and Dallas, the nicest team ever, on the power line task.