Masterchef

**"Masterchef"** is the seventh episode of the second season of *The New Legends of Monkey* and the seventeenth episode overall. This episode became available on Netflix on 7 August 2020.

## Plot synopsis

As the demons head to Lion Heart Rock to fight Monkey, Pigsy must sharpen his skills in the kitchen to impress General Khan as her personal chef.

## Summary

Gorm demands to know where to find the Monkey King. A farmhand claims that he heard that Monkey led a rebellion against Kimura. Hagfish asks the Scroll of Knowledge where to find the human rebels that killed Kimura, but he can’t make sense of the answers the scroll provides. The farmhand then reveals that the rebellion can be found at Lion Heart Rock. So Gorm orders Mothrax to deliver a message to General Khan regarding an attack.

Dreglon is now a member of the Red Guard. He takes Kaedo’s ale, which knocks him unconscious in a matter of seconds, allowing the boy and Tripitaka to escape. Kaedo intends to take her to Lion Heart Rock, where the rebels await her arrival. However, Quiver and another guard block the exit. Mothrax then arrives with a message for Khan.

Monkey and Kaedo act as General Khan’s servants. Monkey fans her while Kaedo pops the pimples on her back. Sandy and Pigsy then enter with breakfast. Mothrax arrives soon thereafter with an enevelope from Gorm and kicks everyone out.

Monkey, Tripitaka, Sandy, Kaedo, and Pigsy plot their next move. Kaedo reveals that the rebels have gathered at Lion Heart Rock. But Tripitaka and Monkey want to see what is inside the gold envelope Mothrax brought to Khan. They then watch as Dreglon is apprehended for drinking and sleeping on duty.

Tripitaka wishes to destroy the corrupt Scroll of Creation. Sandy puts it in the fire for several hours but it doesn’t even have so much as a mark. Valet enters, he tells Tripitaka to leave, and informs Pigsy that Khan wants only him to serve her meals moving forward.

Pigsy distracts Khan while Monkey and Kaedo try to steal the key to her vault. After successfully doing so, they try to follow her into her tent, but the valet turns them away. And so, Monkey and Kaedo plot with Tripitaka to take out Khan’s valet. As the valet takes care of Khan’s laundry, Kaedo shoots him with a dart, allowing Tripitaka to steal his clothes.

Pigsy feeds Khan while Monkey and Kaedo help Tripitaka break into her safe to steal the gold envelope, but when Khan kicks everyone out so that she may be alone with Pigsy, they are forced to leave empty handed. Pigsy exits her tent three hours later. Tripitaka tells him that they need the combination in order to get access to Khan’s safe and that they're relying on Pigsy and his desert to help.

Quiver enters the tent and tells Sandy that his men are hungry. She tells him that she’s cooking for Khan and he leaves. To top off the soldiers’ gruel, Sandy adds Bane of trousers, a poison known to sicken any man.

Pigsy brings Khan desert and feeds it to her, keeping her distracted while Kaedo is lowered into her tent by Monkey and breaks into her safe. Pigsy manages to trick her into revealing the combination to her safe, which Kaedo uses to gain access, but she discovers that he has infiltrated her tent and calls the guards. Quiver enters her tent with Monkey, who they found on the roof. She orders for the three of them to be taken to the arena for execution. Once the tent is empty, Tripitaka sneaks inside and reads the letter within the gold envelope.

Gorm arrives at camp. Dreglon accuses Khan of treason, claiming that she’s aligned herself with the Monkey King. Gorm frees Dreglon and orders him to fetch his armor.

Gorm enters the tent and tells Tripitaka to help remove his clothes. In doing so, she discovers that he has at least a half a dozen of Hagfish’s pins in his back.

Khan prepares to execute Monkey, Kaedo, and Pigsy. However, the stew prepared by Sandy causes the guards’ stomachs to bubble, rendering them useless. Sandy arrives and attacks Khan before freeing Monkey, Kaedo, and Pigsy.

Tripitaka and Dreglon assist Gorm with putting on his armor. Tripitaka finds Monkey’s staff in his hair. Just as she realizes that Hagfish is controlling Gorm, Hagfish recognizes Tripitaka and commands Gorm to kill her. Tripitaka runs out the tent and regroups with Sandy and Monkey. She reunites Monkey with his staff and he combats Gorm.

Mothrax finds Hagfish in some kind of trance and awakens him. He claims that he was having a seizure but that he’s fine now.

Gorm suddenly freezes during the fight. Monkey and Tripitaka take this time to bind him with rope before escaping with Sandy and Kaedo.

## Cast

### Main

* Chai Hansen as Monkey
* Luciane Buchanan as Tripitaka
* Josh Thomson as Pigsy
* Emilie Cocquerel as Sandy

### Co-Starring

* Fasitua Amosa as Dreglon
* Michelle Ang as General Khan
* Jim Cawthorn as Quiver
* Natasha Daniel as Mothrax
* Timothy Itayi as Bolt
* Atticus Iti as Kaedo Zef
* Tawanda Manyimo as Gorm
* Hamish Parkinson as Farmhand
* Simon Prast as Hagfish
* Dylan Thuraisingham as Valet

## Notes and Trivia

The episode title, *Masterchef*, refers to Pigsy.