Episode 108

**Opening:** After Butch's elimination, Cherry and Shep meet again along with Bea and Cookie from the red team. They shit talk almost everyone on the blue team, without realizing Walker's is eavesdropping them. Walker doesn't intervene but labels them as toxic and vows to destroy them in dinner service.

**Team Challenge:** Ramsay treats the chefs to a performance by a famous guitarist, leading to their next head to head challenge where they must create five dishes that has seven, six, five, four and three ingredients. One member from the blue team must sit out. They argue between Maddie and Walker, but Walker volunteers due to Maddie's strengths in challenges. However, Ramsay still asks Walker to cook a dish and to choose one team member that they would have to pick between, and Walker picks Shep, which pisses the latter off. After observing both the dishes, they pick Shep's, mainly due to Cherry's endorsement. On the 7-ingredient dish, Lucky scored over Bea. On the 6-ingredient dish, Cherry scored over Bones, and on the 5-ingredient dish, Goldie scored over Biskit. The blue team tied it up after Maddie scored over Cookie on the 4-ingredient dish. With the score tied at 2-2, it is down to Shep and Goldie on the 3 ingredient dish. Ramsay says they both are good, but notices a mistake in Shep's giving Goldie's the win. He then tastes Walker's whom he also says is good and doesn't have the same mistake Shep had and could have given Goldie a run for her money. The red team wins 3-2.

**Reward/punishment:** The red team enjoyed a game of paintball with JP while the blue team faced a day of delivery and preparation. During the punishment, Shep took a bossy leadership role during the challenge, but Walker's wasn't having any of it, telling everyone not to listen and just follow the original instructions. In the dorms after the punishment, Walker and Shep argue over the challenge, with Walker calling Cherry a pawn and Shep labelling the rest of the team as timid and unable to communicate.

**Service:** The red team had a near-perfect service under Goldie's leadership, whom Ramsay complemented for finally having a voice. Their only problem was Bones falling behind on garnish at one point, but Goldie has able to carry him to the end. In the blue kitchen, Shep got the team off to a bad start by cooking scallops in a non-stick pan. Ramsay told him to go outside and come back when his head was ready to compete, and Lucky was able to fill in his place and they completed appetizers. During entrees, Shep and Walker failed to communicate, but Lucky stepped into the leadership role and lead them through the first few tickets. Maddie then struggled on the meat station, serving a raw new york strip and claimed Cherry was rushing her on garnish. As Maddie and Cherry continued to struggle to communicate on garnish, Lucky tried to step in again, but Cherry told them they had everything under control and told him to focus on his dish. Shep then burnt his refire of sea bass, and Ramsay threw him out, which caught him off guard. Maddie and Cherry continued to struggle with communicating on garnish and meat, causing Ramsay to throw them out. Despite numerous issues, Lucky's leadership and Biskit and Walker's strong recoveries on meat and fish respectively helped the blue team complete service. Although both teams completed service, Ramsay named the blue team the losers but singled out Lucky for finding his voice and leading his team to victory. He asked Lucky to come up with 2 nominees for elimination.

**Deliberation:** Lucky met with everyone individually. Maddie tried to convince him that Cherry's lack of communication messed up her meat times, but Cherry told him that Maddie has been the most inconsistent member since the swap. Walker and Biskit both wanted to nominate Shep, feeling he is in over his head. Shep makes a case that he could nominate Walker if he sees him as a threat.

**Elimination:** Lucky nominates Cherry and Shep for elimination, but Ramsay also calls up Maddie. Ramsay asks Cherry and Maddie to both take their jackets off and sends Cherry to the red team, but eliminates Maddie, praising her performances in challenges but tells her she is not ready to run a brigade. He then tells Bones to go back to the blue team, stating that they were going back to basics as the swaps were just not working.