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Previously on the Amazing Race, a team lost by what seemed like three weeks. Suffice it to say that the drama was...muted. The developing stories we're tracking this week are witchy Tina's path to redemption, Nick's path to villainy, Terence & Sarah's 30-minute time penalty, and Reagen Sulewski's weekend wedding to a woman approximately half his size (i.e. of normal height). Seriously, Reagen got married yesterday, so drop him a line of congratulations.

Nick & Starr are first off, and their clue tells them to head to Delhi, India. Once they land, they must go to Moonlight Motors, where they will find their next clue and presumably a 1920s baseball player who looks a lot like Burt Lancaster. Toni & Dallas, the mother/son team, are only 12 minutes behind the brother/sister. Dallas, apparently not finding travel with his mother to be awkward enough, mentions his frustration at being able to get Starr alone. His mom and her brother are totally cock-blocking him.

Ken & Tina are third to depart, and are only about 20 minutes behind Toni & Dallas. Kelly & Christy are just six minutes behind them. Christy takes this opportunity to let her ex-husband know how miserable she was with him, blithely stating that she has more fun with Kelly than she had with him. Adding a whole bunch more salt to that wound, she says she wouldn't even be on the Amazing Race if not for her divorce. Somehow we get the feeling he's not exactly torn up about it, either. The real loser in all this is Kelly, because she had to sub in for the ex-husband. No, wait. The real loser is us, for having to watch this vapid, sadistic caricature. We bet she runs for Vice President someday.

Posted without comment: "India's big, man." --Dallas

Despite their 30 minute penalty, Terence & Sarah are only 43 minutes behind the first place team. The frat boys, Andrew & Dan, are an hour and seven minutes behind. This is going be a very different episode than last week, as all six teams are spaced within 70 minutes of one another and a small slip-up can spell for disaster. As a reminder, the gap between first and last in the previous episode was over nine hours.

Also posted without comment: "My mom's the worst wingman ever." --Dallas, again

The early part of the episode features several moments with Ken & Tina during the downtime in the race. While there is nothing explicitly stated, we get the vibe that they have had the type of knock-down, drag-out fight generally reserved for Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. Tina had made a mistake at the end of last leg that cost her team a bit of time, but she had taken accountability for it in a respectable fashion that should have been the end of it. We get the notion that Ken did not let it go. She has the type of look that you usually see on the faces of kids who didn't get the present they wanted early on Christmas morning - but with 30 years of plastic surgery added.

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