- Aten-HUT! The challenge this week has the girls cooking for the servicemen and women of the U.S. Army and the boys serving up meals for the Navy. The first team to complete the breakfast wins. Losers get KP. A fainting spell has Aaron hauled away in an ambulance.
- Team challenge: The teams' challenge was to make breakfast for the Army (red team) and Navy (blue team). The winner would be the team that completed their breakfast service first. Julia's short order experience led her team from start to finish almost flawlessly, with the only issue being Joanna's hash browns being sent back for being undercooked. Conversely, the men struggled due to Aaron burning omelets. Brad took over the station, only to exacerbate the problem by bringing up the omelets cold. After the women completed their service, Ramsay requested Julia to help the struggling men's team, commenting on her skills in getting the men together (or in his words, "finally a leader").
Reward/punishment: The women enjoyed a helicopter ride and a meal with Ramsay aboard the USS Midway. The men's punishment was KP duty, preparing a thousand pounds of potatoes and onions for a military base. Aaron fainted as the men began their punishment, and was transported by ambulance to the hospital for treatment. Ramsay instructed the men to have come up with a leader, as their team was suffering without one.
Aaron's exit: Before dinner service, Ramsay called a hospitalized Aaron and said he could no longer participate on the show due to his ongoing illness and doctor's orders, making him the 3rd contestant to withdraw from Hell's Kitchen, and the 2nd chef to withdraw for medical reasons. After Ramsay finished the phone call with Aaron, he hung up Aaron's jacket and burned his photo.
Service: During prep, the team worried about Julia, as she had admitted she did not know what a crème brûlée was. Without Aaron and under Brad's leadership, the men got off to a good start with Rock on appetizers but got bogged down with the entrees. Vinnie delayed an order of scallops with a raw egg, prompting Ramsay to smash it in Vinnie's chest, though Vinnie managed to restrain himself from retaliating. Brad was trying to scrape the burnt part of the pastry of a beef wellington that he burnt, but Ramsay saw him and said he would shove the wellingtons up his rear-end if he tried to serve them. Josh was accused of trying to sabotage Brad with timing on fish. The women kept running into problems with appetizers and didn't complete service. Bonnie sent a raw scallop to the pass which Ramsay caught, though even then Bonnie questioned him on it. Joanna served salty risotto and failed to notice that she was using rancid crab, to which Ramsay shouted "You'll kill someone" and fired her from the station. Jen and Julia miscommunicated on spaghetti, leading Jen to bin an order of spaghetti they needed before retrieving it from the trash. Despite Ramsay not noticing, Julia stopped her. The appetizers were so backed up in the red kitchen that all of Jen's wellingtons got overcooked, leading patrons of both kitchens walking out due to the lengthy delays. Ramsay crumpled up the orders and ended service. Neither team won, with Ramsay criticizing Brad's leadership but praising Rock's efforts. The women were chosen as the worse of the two, with Ramsay accusing Joanna of being uncaring about the rancid crab, while saying he could no longer trust Bonnie to properly cook seafood. He instructed all the women to nominate two people for elimination.
Elimination: The team initially agreed on Joanna and Julia, but when the nominations were being given to Ramsay, Jen admitted that she should be nominated instead of Julia. Ramsay called the three women up. When asked, Julia said she should not be eliminated because of her lack of experience, something Ramsay agreed with. Ramsay then immediately sent Julia back in line and told the other two to justify why they should stay. Jen defended herself and admitted her mistake, but Joanna said nothing in her defense and instead said that Jen deserved to go home for considering serving spaghetti from the trash. However, Ramsay instead eliminated Joanna since she actually did serve the rotten crab and refused to accept responsibility for her mistake.
Joanna's exit comment: "Getting kicked out of Hell's Kitchen isn't gonna stop me at all. I think by me coming here made me a lot stronger. I'm ready to try to be a better person and achieve my ultimate goal of having my own restaurant."
Ramsay's comment: "Not only did Joanna serve rancid crab that could've seriously made a customer ill, she completely gave up, screwed her team and if you can't handle one individual section, you got no chance of running a business."
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