In this episode, Bald and Bankrupt returns to India after previously swearing he would never come back, beginning in the chaos of Kolkata before attempting to travel north toward the mountains. He opens in the city’s noise, crowds, street poverty, colonial-era buildings, tram tracks, and old communist reminders like a Lenin statue, using Kolkata as the starting point for a journey toward Siliguri and the northeast. Along the way, he passes Howrah Bridge, the flower market, the Hooghly/Ganges River, and Howrah Railway Station, reflecting on Kolkata’s British imperial history while also complaining about the filth, noise, bureaucracy, and street disorder that immediately overwhelm him.

The trip quickly turns into a classic Indian travel side quest as he tries to buy a train ticket to Siliguri, only to be sent across the river by ferry to the foreign tourist ticket office at Fairley House. After paperwork, photocopies, waiting, and frustration, he finally gets an overnight sleeper ticket and returns the next day with Backpacker Ben to board the train north. The train ride is crowded, noisy, and uncomfortable, but filled with characters, pilgrims, vendors, armed police, and glimpses of India’s regional diversity as they head toward the Siliguri corridor. After a rough night, they arrive in Siliguri, where Bald is immediately disgusted by the trash, smell of urine, poverty, and chaotic station area, so they hire a taxi straight to Darjeeling. The video ends in the cooler mountain air of the old British hill station, where Bald briefly admires Darjeeling before deciding he may have judged Siliguri too quickly and should return to give it a proper second chance.