"real"ity

A proud Michael delivers his snowmen for tasting. The delicate plating up begins.

Will the judges’ palettes be cleansed of past abuse?

-With the kids, in Ayacucho? They are kids, who nobody wanted,

-Are they orphans?

 -or maybe the government took them out of their house because they were being raped, they were all affected by the terrorism

- … I didn't know about terrorism in your country

… A look.

Time is Kate's enemy as she wrestles with her protein.

It's time to Cook For Your Life!

-It was for 20 years, I told you about the bomb near my house, the crater

-Nah you didn't tell me that

-and one of these kids, he was twelve-years old but his body looks like six-years old, I told you about him?

-No

-because his mom put him in a little room this big, with chickens, when he was a baby, and just threw chicken feed in there and he lived in there for eight years, and so his body never developed and his brain never developed

Kate and Michael arrive for the most important day of their lives.

-He didn't learn to talk?

-Of course not! He is like an animal, he doesn't know what other people are, he doesn't know what himself is, he didn't have a name, he can't talk, he

The Masterchef 2011 champion is crowned

-does coprophagia. Coprophagia. You know?

-No?

-Eats his own shit. 

... A glance.

-We tried to teach him to stop that, he's been in there four years now, and he can never learn to be normal. You talk to him, and he doesn't know to look at your eyes, even dogs know to look at your eyes when you talk to them.

[a conversation. Channel 10 blaring "Reality TV."]