Episode 2: Rough Start...

## Synopsis

The seventeen chefs gear up for an intense dinner service, a team implodes during service, arguments plague a team, and a chef goes home after sinking their brigade.

## Episode-Pre Service

After a recap of the previous episode, the show looks in at the dorms. Upstairs, Ben and Hillary are getting in a heated argument about the latter's nomination, with Hillary stating that Ben wouldn't last a day on the line. Bill and Candace broke the argument up. Toko also confronted Hina about her nomination, but Sakura stood as a bodyguard for Hina in case Toko attacked. Both teams prepared for the dinner service.

## Service

In the blue kitchen, Joe and Donald were on apps, Hillary was on garnish, Bill and Ronald were on meat, Ben and Candace on fish, and Barack on desserts. In the red kitchen, Hina and Sakura were on apps, Toko and Kirumi were on garnish, Byakuya and Teruteru were on meat, Chiaki and Kiibo on fish, and Mikan was on desserts.

In the red kitchen, appetizers started nicely. On their third ticket, however, the ticket was held back breifly due to undercooked fish from Kiibo. After a quick fix, the ticket was sent out one minute later. The rest of the appetizers went out smoothly. During the entree courses, there were a couple mistakes. Toko delivered flavorless garnish and attempted to blame Kirumi, which Chef Ramsay saw through. In addition, Byakuya overcooked a New York Strip, causing a refire. In spite of those mistakes, the red team finished service.

In the blue kitchen, appetizers slowed down immediately due to undercooked risotto from Donald and overcooked carbonara from Joe. After a series of arguments, they brought up re-fired apps. However, now the risotto was overcooked and the carbonara was undercooked, causing another argument between Donald and Joe. Chef Ramsay threatened to kick them both out of service if they caused another argument or mistake. After a couple more appetizer tickets, Joe undercooked another carbonara, causing Chef Ramsay to kick both Joe and Donald out. He then ordered Barack and Ronald to bail the apps out, which they did. During the entrees, Chef Ramsay had a total of four tickets come back with garnish that was either salty, overcooked, or undercooked. He then kicked Hillary out of the kitchen and ordered Barack to bail garnish out as well. He threatened the entire team that one more mistake would send them all upstairs. After the combination of undercooked garnish from Barack and an undercooked fish from Candace, he kicked the entire blue team out.

## Post-Mortem

Back in the dorms, the blue team debated on who they would be sending up. Joe and Donald got into a shouting match about the other deserving to go up instead of themselves. Hillary attempted to plead her case. After tallying up the votes, Hillary earned 7 votes, Joe earned 5, and Donald earned 4. Joe continued to try and sway the others to change their votes to Donald, as he felt his attitude was detrimental to the team as a whole.

## Elimination

At the elimination ceremony, the red team sat down, while the blue team lined up. Chef Ramsay stated his disappointment on how a team with so much potential fell apart so quickly. He asked Barack for the first nominee. Barack stated that Hillary was the first nominee due to her repeated failures on the garnish station. When prompted for the second nominee, Barack responded with Joe, but explained how close it was between Joe and Donald. Chef Ramsay called forward Hillary and Joe, adding Donald as well. He called Donald out for his unprofessional attitude, which he responded with an explanation of Joe's sluggish responses on apps causing him to screw up. Joe fired back by explaining that Donald was the main reason why the apps section went down due to his unorganized management. Finally, Gordon asked Hillary why she should stay, which she responded by talking about her leadership and capabilities to lead the blue team, as this service was a fluke. Chef Ramsay stated that it was tough, but he ordered Donald and Joe back in line, and eliminated Hillary. He felt she was out of her depth, and wasn't able to back up the talk. After her elimination, he ordered the blue team upstairs, then reminded the red team that one of their own would have to go join the blue team. He suggested they come back with a name for him the following morning. In the confessionals, Kiibo stated his reluctance to even consider going to the dysfunctional blue team. Donald's confession involved him calling Joe out for being slow on the apps and being a hindrance to the team. Barack's confessional expressed his disappointment with his team.

Hillary - "I think Chef Ramsay made the wrong decision. Joe is unfit to run his own section, let alone a whole brigade. Donald is too angry and abrasive to earn the support of his team. The whole team is going to continue to fall apart, and I'm the one that had to take the fall."

Elim Quote - "Garnish is one of the simplest sections in Hell's Kitchen. When Hillary struggled with getting consistent garnishes for the entrees, I could tell she couldn't make progress happen in one of my restaurants."