By Kim
Some time has passed since the last episode, and the final four cheftestants arrive in British Columbia, Canada for the finals. They take a gondola up to the top of Whistler and learn that they'll be competing in three events, and then one of them will be eliminated.
The first event is to cook a dish on a moving gondola, and also jump out at a certain point and grab a new ingredient to incorporate into their dishes. Between the motion sickness from being in the gondola and the janky equipment, it's not easy. Paul makes a lamb loin dish, Sarah makes chorizo sausage, Beverly makes salmon tartare (cheating! It's not even cooked!), and Lindsay makes salmon and quinoa. Lindsay wins the challenge and gets a pass to the round, so she doesn't have to compete in the two events.
The day, Beverly, Paul, and Sarah compete in the second event, where they have to chop their ingredients out of ice blocks and make a dish in an hour. Paul gets his ingredients out pretty quickly but Sarah and Lindsay struggle. Did I mention that they are cooking outside on the mountaintop? Sarah makes pea and spinach soup, Paul makes poached king crab, and Beverly makes a seared scallop. Paul wins the challenge, so he doesn't need to compete in the third event. It's great, because he gave up some of his ingredients to help out his competitors, and it would've really sucked if that had caused him to lose.
The third event comes down to Sarah versus Beverly. It's a culinary biathlon, where they have to ski and then shoot at targets with the names of ingredients. Then they have to cook the ingredients they've "won" for the judges. They only get ten bullets to shoot, though. Beverly finishes the skiing part first, and ends up getting four ingredients, while Sarah also gets four. Beverly makes arctic char, onion and beet compote, celery root truffle puree, and fennel salad. Sarah makes braised rabbit leg and heart with cherries, hazelnuts, and sauerkraut puree. While the judges liked both dishes, they felt like the other strong components overwhelmed the char in Beverly's dish, and she is eliminated AGAIN. So much for her positive vision board or whatever.