(S04E09) "I come in peace, but if you break my sanctuary, you're gonna feel it." - Bobby, about Jen

This episode was like the Lost of reality cooking show episodes. It not only had one twist ending, it actually had two or three. I'm not sure if what Chef Ramsay did at the end of the show was to really shake things up and see if the teams can get better than they are now or just to shake things up in that reality show sort of way. But I'm sure things are going to get interesting.

After last week's episode, the teammates aren't exactly happy with each other. Jen thinks Corey is a bitch, Bobby wants to stop Jen from controlling everything, and Corey thinks that Matt shouldn't be a chef he should be a used car salesman. But this week the two teams get to create their own menus from scratch, so this should be an easier service week, yes? (I'm going to start talking like that now, the way Ramsay says "yes" at the end of a lot of sentences, it's rather cool.)

This week's challenge is to cook three dishes that are already on the menu, relay style. One person from each team has to sit out. The blue team picks Louross, which Ramsay finds odd because he's short and fast (like me!). The teams make the three dishes, which isn't easy when you only have 15 seconds to tell the next person in the relay what you've done so far. It's close at first, but then Jen forgets to put sauce on two dishes and the blue team loses. That sorta stands out, so the red team wins. The blue team has to do maintenance work, including cleaning the Hell's Kitchen logo outside, which is probably dirty from being set on fire every single episode.

The red team gets to go to the beach, where they take surfing lessons with Zuma Jay.

For tonight's service, Ramsay throws out the menu and tells the teams they have one hour to create their own menus from scratch. The red team is happier than I've ever seen them. Corey, Christina, and Matt seem to agree on every single thing on the menu. Over at the blue team...not so much. Almost everything on the menu is Jen's idea, and Louross is upset (but says nothing, which seems to be a strategy too many people on this show have). And you know what happens next: Ramsay loves the red team's menu, finding it clever and well thought out. He hates the blue team's menu, however, especially the weird halibut dish that Jen thought of. Louross tells Ramsay that it's all Jen's fault, which Jen isn't happy about. Ramsay tells them to start over and create a new menu. The new menu is acceptable to him (though I think it's rather boring compared to the red team's).

It would be predictable for me to say that the food on both side comes out both undercooked (pasta appetizer, souffles), raw (steak!), and...salty! Everything that Matt is sending out is too salty, and Ramsay says it's because he's sweating into all of the food he's making. Now as we all pause to gag a little, I don't know if Ramsay is joking or serious, because I think it would take a ton of sweating to add so much salt you could taste in sauce and pasta dishes.

Louross is screwing up too, so Ramsay actually gets down on his knees and imitates the short man. He doesn't laugh. Louross takes so much time that one of his tables walks out on him (I'd love to see where these customers come from and if some of them like to cause a little drama to get on TV).

At the end of the night, Ramsay picks the blue team as the losing team, despite Matt's sweating. The badly cooked steak and sou flees of the blue team were just too much. He tells Petrozza to pick two people for elimination. This isn't hard at all. Petrozza isn't going to pick himself, and Bobby just isn't screwing up. So he picks Louross and Jen. But here's twist #1: he asks Petrozza to choose which shoul leave. Petrozza picks Louross, and Ramsay agrees 100%. He tells Louross to leave.

But here's another twist: Ramsay tells Matt to step down to the front too, and tells both Matt and Jen to take off their jackets too! Just when you think that Ramsay is going to clean house and send three people packing in one episode, another twist comes: he tells Matt to go back on the blue team and Jen to go back to the red team! This means that the two people who said some pretty bad things about their old teammates are now teammates with them again.

Next week: Matt goes a little crazy, cries, and gets to smell a bunch of money.