Wil's rabbit two ways and Robert's potato and white truffle-wrapped Chilean bass were delicious, but the former's dish was sloppily presented and the latter's was served with an "absolutely disgusting" sauce.
In the red kitchen, Lacey walked out of prep due to feeling overwhelmed and disrespected by the rest of her team, prepared the dessert station poorly, and got into an argument with Coi over it, requiring Ramsay to defuse the situation.
Ben served raw spaghetti and Robert screamed over Ramsay when a ticket was being announced, but they managed to get the refire accepted and keep appetizers going out at a steady rate.
Team challenge: The contestants were awakened early in the morning by a marching band, and were greeted outside by Ramsay and two piles of garbage bags containing the discarded food from last night's service.
When she burned yet two more orders of salmon, Ramsay demoted her to the raw bar and replaced her on the fish station with Lacey, while bringing in Paula to help Coi on meat, after which things picked up.
After she bid a tearful goodbye to her teammates, she was wheeled by Andrea out of Hell's Kitchen, with the men giving her a farewell standing ovation for her gritty performance.
In addition, Scott presented them their lunch consisting entirely of offal, leading Lacey to vomit and cause a chain reaction of LA and Andrea upchucking while the others plugged their ears.
Andrea, clearly traumatized by the repulsive meal and her having vomited multiple times as a result, desperately made the women promise to bond together and try harder to avoid future punishments.
During the first shift, Ben, misinterpreting a command from Ramsay, prepared six orders of dessert before any appetizers had been served, while Charlie struggled to keep up on the fish station and was oblivious to his cooking cloth catching fire, which Scott had to put out.
When asked to cut more, Seth over butchered a tenderloin, wasting a great deal of meat in the process, and tried unsuccessfully to hide the scraps from Ramsay.
During the second shift, Colleen lost track of the appetizers and Coi served raw shrimp, but entrees ran smoothly as Andrea had all her steaks approved by Ramsay.
Despite Seth's horrendous butchering of the filet, falsely accusing J of lying about the nominees, and annoying Ramsay and his teammates with an excessively long plea, Charlie was eliminated for his lack of progress over three services and being the weakest performer of the night.
Service: In addition to the regular customers, the night's patrons included a group of sumo wrestlers, both of whom ordered one of everything on the menu; Ramsay split it down the middle between the kitchens.
The teams enjoyed a strong start on appetizers fueled by Giovanni and LA's risottos, while Lacey surprisingly emerged as a leader on the blue team with a strong performance on garnish, but the meat station was a wreck on both sides: J undercooked Wellingtons and chicken and then forgot an order of lamb on a later ticket, while Ramsay discovered a stash of burnt wellingtons hidden underneath Andrea's station; Andrea then became overwhelmed and gave inconsistent timings to Carol on fish.
In a private meeting after the service, Robert explained that he did not respond to "Bobby" because that was the name of his abusive father and that it brought back painful memories from his childhood.
Giovanni and LA were selected as the best of the worst for their teams and were tasked with choosing a person for elimination, though Lacey was also singled out for praise for her leadership and strong performance.
For the team challenge, the chefs had to create gourmet versions of chicken soup, brisket, and burgers, the favorite foods of Max Reuben, the young guest of honor.
Max's entrees were to be served first on Ramsay's orders, but Coi struggled on burgers; she first brought them up cold due to LA's suggestion and then got overwhelmed when the rest of her team swarmed her station before bringing up an acceptable portion.
Giovanni's surf and turf won the challenge for the red team, after which he urged his new teammates to put their differences aside and work together in the name of having a successful service.
During prep, Lacey continually complained about the amount of work and argued with her team, walking out of the kitchen and threatening to quit before Ben talked her back inside.
When he eventually did manage an acceptable serving, he forgot to bring the sauce up to the pass, forcing Ramsay to issue him a warning behind closed doors, only to be eliminated on the spot after overcooking scallops.
Andrea and Carol were forced to eat an undercooked pasta appetizer that had been sent back while blaming each other, while LA became unresponsive, cooked too many John Dory at once, and didn't bring enough sauce, all while taking offense to Ramsay calling her a "silly cow."
Ben admitted that he had been the weakest performer of the night (besides the already-eliminated J); Ramsay ultimately spared him and Lacey, since J's blunders had buried the blue kitchen from the outset of service.
The red team, on the other hand, struggled throughout due to Carol's indecisiveness and lack of communication on the meat station, which caused Andrea to overcook her John Dory and LA to have to repeatedly recook her garnish.
Ramsay didn't comment on Lacey's departure except in the post mortem, but at the start of episode 14, hers and LA's pictures were both burned and their jackets hooked simultaneously.
Giovanni ended up being fed up with the punishment, after breaking boxes of bottled water, and having to chase a seafood truck for being short two lobster, later to find out that the order was correct after all.
He also struggled to communicate properly with Andrea and Robert on garnish and fish respectively, and talked back to Ramsay over being called "dickface" after improperly cooking Ben's dish again, leading to a heated confrontation between the two.
Service was smooth for the most part, but Ben cooked spaghetti in water that wasn't boiling and put croutons in a "plain" salad meant for a vegetarian diner.
Ramsay eliminated Andrea, but praised her tenacity and skill as a chef and told her that she would do well in her career, leaving Paula and Danny to advance to the final service.
Danny's restaurant was named "Velvet Hammer", after his own nickname from high school and featured a seafood menu and decor, which many of the returning chefs deemed tacky.