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The Magellan crew is next to face the judges. Gail wants to know how the wait staff was trained and why the dishes were so different in style from each other. Padma wants to know why Keriann wasn’t a stronger presence in the dining room. As for the food, Tom criticizes Katie’s beet offering for feeling like “two separate dishes.” Barbara doesn’t like the fact that the crêpes were soggy.

“I meant for it to be a different dish,” Keriann says. “It was supposed to be served cold.”

Barbara asks who warmed up the crêpes and Keriann places the blame on Katsuji.

“It wasn’t my call,” Katsuji says, looking at Katie.

“Whose call was it?” Gail asks.

Katsuji again silently begs for Katie take responsibility. She doesn't.

“Whose call was it?” Gail presses again.

Katie still refuses to speak up, so Katsuji says, “The executive chef.”

Having little choice, Katie offers the perfectly reasonable explanation that the dessert was advertised as having a “burnt banana mousse” and the mousse they were left with did not have the texture of a mousse. Thus, she decided to warm up the crêpes.

Tom wants to know if she checked in with Keriann before making the change, and of course she didn’t. Tom then asks Keriann if she tried to fix things when she saw her desserts going out. She says she didn’t because she didn’t notice the change in her dessert until the judges’ course came out.

“But we were the last diners,” Gail protests.

It’s now utterly clear that the only chefs up for elimination are Katie and Keriann. Though Keriann was an absolute and utter disaster, you gotta think that with the sheer scope of the team’s problems, the executive chef is the one who’ll be held responsible.

Back at Judges Table, Tom notes that Restaurant Wars is all about coming up with a concept, executing that concept, and working together as a team. As such, one team was clearly better. Padma announces that 4 Pigs was the winning restaurant and that Doug is the winning chef of the night.

That, of course, leaves Magellan as the judges’ least favorite restaurant. Tom says that Katie put together one “okay” dish but headed a kitchen that had problems with putting food out. He also has no idea why she didn’t let Keriann know that they were changing her dish. As for Keriann, Tom notes that she had no experience running front-of-house and it showed. Her dish, moreover, was “pretty weak.”

There is no doubt in my mind that Katie is going home.

“Keriann, please pack your knives and go,” Padma says.

I am stunned. Utterly and completely stunned. I thought for sure that Katie would be sent home for the confused disarray that was Magellan. She shouldn’t just thank her lucky stars, she should send them an Edible Arrangement.

Tom explains that Keriann is going home based on the combination of her disorganized service and her dish, which was the worst dish of her team. Keriann is disappointed for leaving the show on such a note, since front of house is not what she does. She laments the fact that she trusted people with her dish when they didn’t respect her food.

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