Eddie Mann

* Personas

**Edward Mann**, known on the show as **Eddie**, is a contestant on Hell's Kitchen: Personas, and a participant in the Duality Saga. He is currently still in the running.

## Personas

### Episode 1

Upon arriving in Hell's Kitchen, there was a proof of commitment. Afterwards, Ramsay told the chefs to cook their signature dishes.

Eddie was the fourth member of the blue team to have their dish judged by Ramsay. His dish had a perfect mid-rare, and he scored 4 points. The Blue Team lost the challenge 28-30, and they were punished by setting up the dorms, including unloading the mattresses from the delivery truck. Eddie showed particular disdain for Lukas, who had overcooked his dish, as he blamed him for the team's loss, which Chas calls unacceptable. At one point, he got so angry that he dropped the mattresses and got up close and personal, forcing Sonny and Josiah to step in and separate the two, with Sonny calling him a whiny bitch. Josiah manages to calm them both down. Eddie was later seen drinking.

During dinner service, Eddie was on the garnish station. He had no issues in the appetiser phase, but during the entree phase, he had issues communicating with Chas and Robin, who were on the meat station. When Ramsay asked for how long, he sent his garnish up. Ramsay brought it back and berated him for overseasoning it, but Eddie retorted that he tasted it several times and that there's no way it could be overseasoned. Ramsay told him to shut the fuck up. Chas made a sarcastic comment about him being a "wonderful guy" before going over to Eddie's station and calming him down. Towards the end of service, Eddie sent up cold garnish, and that, combined with Cory's overcooked salmon, gets him, Cory and Louis kicked out.

The blue team lost the service, and were asked to nominate two people for elimination. During deliberation, Eddie noted Cory's sudden departure, and accused him of giving up. Norm points out how Eddie squared off with the chef, to which Chas seconds, saying it embarrassed him, Ramsay and the whole team. He accuses Robin of confusing him, but Chas retors, saying that you don't need total silence to tell when spinach tasted like shit. Eddie called it bullshit that he's going up over one incident.

Eddie was the Blue Team's second nominee for elimination, with Cory as the first. When Ramsay brings up the spinach incident, Eddie claims that his patience was running low because of the communication problems of the meat section, but both Robin and Chas both turn on Eddie before Josiah defuses the situation. During his plea, he said that he only had one fuck-up tonight and admitted he shouldn't have gotten so defensive about it. He survived elimination, and while being dismissed, he said it bullshit that he were nominated over Norm, and was glad that Ramsay saw through the façade.

### Episode 2

Following Cory's elimination, Eddie stormed ahead into the dorms, not saying a word to anybody, clearly pissed off. Sonny followed after him and told him that he needed to show some tenacity and prove to the team why he's here, and Eddie notes that being nominated was a wake-up call and that he needed to prove himself. He later joined a meeting hosted by Josiah with Louis, Chas, Robin, Lukas and Norm when they were going over the menu.

The next morning, at 4:32 am, the chefs were asleep in their beds, when a group of Japanese taiko drummers snuck into the dorms and woke everybody up. Sous Chef Jay appeared and told everyone to head downstairs to meet Ramsay, who stated that the opening service was memorable for all the wrong reasons. He then introduced the Egg Relay Challenge, in which the chefs would form pairs to cook four egg dishes, which were poached, soft-boiled, sunny side up, and scrambled.

In the challenge, Eddie was paired with Norm. During the 5 minute timer, he was trying to convince Norm to let him do all of it, stating that Norm was their weakest link, and that his team needed a win. He ended up cooking the poached, the sunny-side-up and the soft-boiled. They scored all but the sunny-side-up, scoring 3 points for the team.

The Blue team won the challenge 12-10, and were rewarded with a helicopter trip to Geoffrey’s in Malibu for a seafood lunch, with Ramsay deciding to join them. At lunch, Eddie was amazed over the white beach, and called it the best reward they could've gotten. When they returned, Josiah noticed that Eddie seemed lightened up by the victory. However, during prep, Eddie ended up getting into a fight with Robin, his station partner, which led to the latter storming out of the kitchen.

During dinner service, Eddie was on the appetiser station with Robin. Robin was trying to take charge of the appetiser station, but Eddie kept butting in and trying to take it over. After Robin's spaghetti was sent back for being gluey mush, Eddie laid into the former about this, and the two ended up arguing again. Josiah told them to stop fighting, and they sent up their spaghetti a second time. This time, it was missing sauce and lobster, so they quickly fixed it, and it was accepted. They had no further issues that evening, and eventually completed dinner service.

The Blue Team lost the service, and had to nominate two members for elimination. Eddie claimed it was not a hard decision, as Norm and Lukas were the ones who sunk the kitchen.

He was not nominated for elimination, and while being dismissed, expressed joy that Norm had left as he was definitely the weakest link.

### Episode 3

Following Norm’s elimination, Eddie aggressively warned Lukas that he had one more chance, and that he’d better prove himself quickly. Lukas compared Eddie to a bully, and said that he was being way too over the top with how he was treating him.

The next day, the chefs went downstairs to find the lights dimmed, like at elimination. Then, Ramsay said that the errors from the previous night were all because of poor communication from both teams. After a difficult decision, he ordered Ali and Lukas to step forward, and told them that he could not work with chefs that would not communicate. After, Ramsay told them to take off their jackets, much to Eddie's relief, thinking that the latter would be eliminated next. However, instead of being eliminated, they received new jackets for the next challenge, and Sous Chefs Christina and Jay gave the other chefs new jackets. Ramsay explained that for the Jacket Challenge, each chef had one recipe on the back of their jacket, but the only way they could properly cook them was that one of their teammates would read it to them.

In the challenge, Eddie was paired with Halle. He deciphered Halle’s dish as being a Shepherd’s Pie, and Halle deciphered his as being a frittata. Chas noticed that Eddie seemed a lot less angry, and was even helping Halle, and wondered if maybe he was sexually frustrated. When he was faced off against Karie, they both scored the point. The Blue Team lost the challenge after a tiebreaker, and were punished by taking in a delivery of 100 pounds of sea bass, and prepping it for the following service. Eddie was pissed at Lukas for sending a raw burger to Chef Ramsay, to which Chas commented that Eddie always seemed to target Lukas, and that despite Chas and Louis being more responsible for the challenge loss, they were getting no heat from him. During the lemon zesting, Louis noted that Eddie was behaving himself, and wondered if Halle was making him nervous, leading Chas to jokingly remark that Josiah had “already filled that spot”.

During dinner service, Eddie was working tableside. When Chas had a porphyria attack in the dining room, the stovetop erupted into flames, so Eddie rushed over to put it out. Later, when Ramsay called out Lukas for his “stop-start” performance, Eddie noted that Lukas always seems to be the one struggling.

The Blue Team lost dinner service, and had to nominate 2 people for elimination. After Sonny accepted his nomination, Eddie pointed out Lukas’ poor performance on garnish, to which the latter responded that he didn’t sink the kitchen. Later, when Robin pointed out Chas’ episode in the dining room, Eddie argued that Chas had ruined the mood in the dining room.

He was not nominated for elimination.

### Episode 4

Following Sonny's elimination, Eddie admitted being bummed out about it since he was one of the better chefs on the team, and complained about Lukas still being around, mocking Chef Ramsay's words.

The next day, Sous Chefs Christina and Jay came into the dorms, gave the chefs coloured jerseys, and told them to head downstairs. Arriving at a football field, Ramsay explained how football was considered an American Classic, and revealed the American Classics Challenge. Each team would grab footballs for ingredients to use for macaroni and cheese, pizza, burger, and spaghetti, and both teams would be working in pairs. Eddie was paired with Robin. Then, Ramsay gave both teams 30 seconds to decide which pair would be cooking which dish. After, Ramsay launched the footballs in the air for the chefs to collect in five minutes. Despite Eddie boasting that he was a great wide receiver, he accidentally hit Nella in the face. After five minutes, the chefs had their ingredients picked, and Ramsay brought them back to Hell’s Kitchen to cook their dishes.

After 40 minutes of cooking, Ramsay revealed that he would be judging only one dish from each pair, and asked the chefs to decide what dishes would be dropped. Robin dropped his dish in favour of Eddie's. For the burger round, he went up against Karie. His burger was criticised for being well-done instead of the medium-rare requested. Despite this, the blue team won after a tiebreaker.

The Blue Team were rewarded with a go-kart activity at K1 speed. After the first round, the fastest times were Eddie, Lukas and Louis. During the second round, Eddie targeted Lukas, and Chas noted that his bullying nature was even shining through here. Eddie ended up in third place.

During dinner service, Eddie was placed on the garnish station. He didn't seem to have any trouble in the appetiser phase. During entrees, Lukas asked Eddie for a time on the garnish, but he didn't respond. Halle asked the same question, and he responded two minutes. This annoyed Lukas, stating that if he couldn't put his conflict with him aside for dinner service, he shouldn't be here. Louis offered to communicate with Eddie on Lukas Porter's behalf, which he begrudgingly accepted. Other than that incident, Eddie didn't have much trouble, even if Chas came over to help him when the service neared its end.

The blue team ended up winning the service.

### Episode 5

The next morning, the chefs went downstairs, where Ramsay told them that they have to be creative while thinking on-the-spot, before revealing a craps table. For the Craps Challenge, each chef would roll a die once, and choose an ingredient starting with the letter it landed on. Eddie rolled and landed on G, and after some deliberation, finally came out with grapefruit, which concerned the team as they didn’t know what to do with it. Both teams had 30 minutes to cook the dish, and the blue team spent a long time trying to figure out how to work around the grapefruit. Thanks to some quick thinking by Louis, they manage to get it plated in time. The blue team won the challenge and were rewarded with a private jet ride to see locales such as the Paris Strip, Hoover Dam, and the Grand Canyon.

Upon returning from the reward and preparing for the following service, Eddie was noticeably quiet, and while Lukas and Robin were asking him about his progress, he aggressively told them to fuck off. Chas got increasingly concerned about Eddie’s behaviour, especially after the previous night’s communication breakdown with Lukas. Halle took Eddie into the back, and tried to talk to him about it, but Eddie was noticeably dismissive of what she said.

During dinner service, Eddie was on the meat station with Halle. After Lukas and Robin sent up too many portions of risotto, Eddie stated that the section was being run by two half-wits, and chuckled at them as Robin accidentally set the flat-top on fire. Ramsay didn’t notice this, but Louis noted Eddie’s laughter and it peeved him. When it was time for entrees, Eddie excitedly exclaimed it was his time to shine, as he began with his first portion of meat. Chas, who was on the garnish station, kept attempting to communicate with the meat station, and he noted Eddie’s almost complete silence and ignorance towards him. He barked at him and demanded that he talk to him as well, and Eddie retorted and said that he had to focus, which confused Chas as multitasking was the bread and butter of a line cook, so didn’t understand what the problem was. Louis backed up Chas and told Eddie to talk to his team, but the latter got defensive and stated that it wasn’t making a difference. Louis called Eddie unprofessional and frantic. Eddie did end up more cooperative than before, and they finished service.

Both teams won the service, and had to nominate two people that they thought they could do without. Eddie remarked that Robin’s behaviour that evening was like a senior moment, especially when he forgot what order they were on, to which Robin told Eddie to fuck off as he was only 42. Eddie confidently nominated Lukas and Robin as their meltdown on the appetisers was their biggest setback, and the rest of the team seems to agree. Chas then asks why they were ignoring Eddie, since he’s likely the most toxic member of the team. Eddie is stunned by the remark and challenges Chas, who recounts all the times Eddie got unnecessarily aggressive. Louis backed up Chas, stating that even today he was being unresponsive and sometimes outright rude to them. Eddie called his team full of shit, and claimed he didn’t deserve to be up on the block.

Ramsay asked Eddie for the nominees, and he named Robin for his communication breakdown and overall mediocrity, and Lukas for overall being a weaker chef than the rest of the team. Josiah interjected and claimed that Eddie was in fact the second nominee. Chas explained that they deemed Lukas overall a stronger asset to the team as they feel they can help him, while if Eddie screwed up, it could outright lead to unnecessary conflict. Eddie told Chas to go fuck himself, and Chas said “point proven.” Eddie was accepted as the second nominee to Robin, and they joined Ali and Christa from the red team.

During Robin’s plea, Eddie retorted claiming the former had just been hiding behind the good chefs on the team, calling him another brick in the wall. Robin then challenged Eddie, calling him the gear that tried to turn the other way, and toxic. Eddie asked Robin if he was after a fight, leading Ramsay to stop the altercation. He then asked Eddie why he should stay, and Eddie claimed that him being up on the chopping block was just because his teammates were full of shit, and that he’d only been doing good things since his first time up, to which Chas sarcastically listed “bullying Lukas” as one of them. Eddie gave Chas the finger and turned back.

Eddie survived elimination, and while being dismissed, said that the blue team could kiss his ass after that nonsense.

## Eddie Mann

### Episode Eliminated

TBD

* To be determined

## Quotes

* "Chef, I tasted that like a million times, there's no way it's overseasoned."
* "Cory, what the hell were you doing? You walked off while we were all struggling!"
* *(His plea)* "Chef, I believe it's unfair to be sent home over a single incident which only bumped the flow of the kitchen, for about this long *(mimes short distance between fingers)*. I was otherwise having a pretty good performance, and that's why I should stay."
* *(After surviving elimination)* "It was utter bullshit that I went up tonight. Norm was the obvious candidate, but I go up in his place. Chef Ramsay saw through you guys, your façade didn't fool him."
* "Being nominated was a wake-up call. I better prove myself, quickly."
* "I've never seen beaches like this before, and I'm in awe. This is probably the best reward we coulda gotten."
* "Tonight was a good night for the Blue Team. Norm was definitely the weak link on our team, and now we got someone who's gonna whip us into shape."
* “Lukas, I swear to god, you have one last chance. You better prove yourself quickly, else we’re going to slit your throat.”
* *(About Lukas taking his jacket off)* “Oh thank god, it’s about time.”
* “Lukas fucked us. Again. And I’m so pissed off.”
* “You sent a raw burger to Chef Gordon Ramsay and you wonder why I’m pissed off?”
* “It always seems to be Lukas who fucks it up for us. He’s always struggling, and we can’t have him on our team anymore.”
* “Lukas should go up on the block again for that garnish performance.”
* *(About Chas' Episode)* “I don’t buy that for a second. You ruined the entire mood out there. I know, I was there.”
* *(Mockingly)* "Lukas, I believe you can fight back. Yeah, you still kicked out one of our better teammates."
* “The apps station is being run by two half-wits, it’s pathetic.”
* “I gotta focus!”
* “It’s not making a difference, Louis, leave it!”
* “Yeah, you forgetting the orders, that was kind of a senior moment.”
* “Well, yeah, it’s gotta be Lukas and Robin. Their meltdown was our weakpoint.”
* “What do you mean toxic?”
* “These guys are full of shit. I don’t deserve to be up on the block. I don’t!”
* *(To Robin)* “You’ve been hiding behind all the other cooks on this team. You’re just another brick in the wall.”
* *(To Robin)* “Are you looking for a fight, you bastard?”
* *(His second plea)* “I’m only up on this chopping block because my teammates are full of shit. I’ve only been doing good things since my first time up here-”
* “Blue Team, that was nonsense. Kiss my ass, all of you.”

 Lilly Arnold • Karie Barrett • Josiah Briggs • Halle Castillo • Christa Daniel • Tia Dunn • Nella Faulkner • Sonny Fox • Cory Guzman • **Eddie Mann** • Chantelle McFarlane • Lukas Porter • Louis Riley • Robin Rogers • Ali Schwatz • Chas Turner • Norm Walsh • Scarlet Zimmerman