Episode Report Card Daniel: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hard to Handle
By Daniel | Season 10 | Episode 20 | Aired on 09.10.2012
Similarly, in Blue, Barbie screws up the ribeye on the last order. "I'm literally watching my dreams sink right now," Justin tells us. That sounds kinda cool, actually! Then he brings back her next batch, but now there's a problem -- she doesn't have enough to finish the order. Barbie's contrite in an interview, saying she really wants to help Justin win. James confers with the table and gets the OK to send out filets instead, so Blue gets back to work, with Ramsay urging Justin and Christina to get their last orders out just like their first orders. They do, and service wraps up with hugs and backslaps and hugs in both kitchens.
In the debrief, Ramsay calls it an amazing service, and so he's decided to do away with the two-door thing, because he's ready to decide a winner there and then, and announces "Tavon!" much to everyone's amusement. I picture poor Tavon sitting at home, watching this. A single tear rolls down his cheek. His eliminated-in-Week-1 cheek. When the laughter subsides, Ramsay tells Justin and Christina to head to the dorms and await his call, and then he dismisses the other chefs.
A very nervous Justin and Christina head back to the dorms to wait, while Ramsay sorts through the customer comment cards and watches a fuzzy-bordered montage of Justin's and Christina's greatest hits, including, somewhat amusingly, scenes from about five minutes ago.
The phone rings in the dorms, and Justin answers it. It's Ramsay, summoning the two of them to his office, where he tells them they were both amazing leaders tonight. He tells Christina he doesn't think he's ever met a more passionate chef, while Justin possesses an extraordinary palate, and he doesn't doubt they'll both be very successful in their careers. That said, he has made a decision, and he tells them both to step up to the doors.
Lord, even I feel nervous when I watch them standing there, with everyone gathered in the dining room down below. Justin's parents are there, Christina's girlfriend (who looks like she's been crying) and mother are there too.
We know how this works: The chef whose door opens wins, and becomes the head chef at Gordon Ramsay's Steak at Paris Las Vegas, with a quarter-million-dollar salary, at least for a little while. As I understand it, Hell's Kitchen jobs seem to be a lot like Bachelor relationships: They don't last very long after the cameras stop rolling. Christina and Justin put their hands on the handles and Ramsay counts to three.