Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Ja'Nel Gives 'Em Hell
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 15 | Aired on 06.13.2013
Red's doing well and, according to Susan, no one deserves more credit for that than Susan. Both teams finish very strong. After the pitchfork is extinguished, Ramsay says they did well. Not perfect, but good, and what's important is that they all fought back. So both teams are winners.
The bad news is Ramsay has decided to give out just four Black jackets this time, and he wants each team to come up with a nominee to go. In the dorms, Susan apparently not only wants to not be the nominee but is demanding "extra credit" for growing as much as she has. So Mary has to try one-up the "No, I used to suck the most but am now awesome" game, pointing out she was up for elimination five times. Cyndi's rolling her eyes, and tells us Ramsay's not looking for the most-improved player but the MVP. This brings back horrible memories of the three years in a row I won most-improved player on my hockey team, but this isn't about me. Cyndi says she's been solid from Day 1, and Susan patronizingly says she hasn't seen Cyndi grow as much, and Mary similarly condescendingly says she would have expected better from Cyndi given her experience.
Over in Blue, Jon's all, "There's no way it's Ja'Nel, it's gotta be Zach." Zach can't believe it, because remember that time Zach cooked a chicken after Jon dropped one? Earlier today? Well, that settles that. Ja'Nel seems to be the tiebreaker, and she's torn between nominating the weaker chef (Zach) or the chef who'd be her strongest competition (Jon).
The teams file back into the kitchen, where Ja'Nel tells Ramsay they nominated Zach because of the multiple problems and breakdowns in communications. Cyndi announces herself as Red's nominee -- Ramsay appears surprised -- and dryly explains it's because her team feels that she should know better than to make the mistakes she's made. "The question was who is the weakest chef?" he reminds them. Cyndi says that would be Mary. Mary has the gall to look hurt at that, and Ramsay is all, "Yeah, what's the deal with Cyndi being nominated," and Mary squeaks out an excuse that she was looking at the question wrong and she's sorry she misunderstood, but in fact Susan is the weakest chef. And then Susan says she thinks Cyndi is. Tell him Cyndi hasn't grown! So Ramsay asks Ja'Nel who the weakest chef on Blue is, and Ja'Nel says it's Susan. Ramsay's all, "Hallelujah, two votes for Susan," and he makes Susan and Zach step forward.
Zach says he thinks he should stay and seemingly without any irony talks about how being an executive chef is all about being a team player. Susan says she should stay because she can operate under pressure.