And... it's over. Pretty boring episode with not very appealing food, and a totally predictable outcome.
What are the chances that it would go 9/10, 9/10, 9/10, 9/10, 9/10, and the deciding score would be 8/10?
Every chance in the world if the contestant is judged last and the judges are pretending they didn't know whose dish it was.
"I get to walk out of here with my reputation intact" smugs the chef. Yeah, can you imagine the opposite? "I get to walk out of here with my reputation in tatters, beaten by a 'pretty' girl who talks too much." No, didn't think so.
Sooooo close! Maybe next time. Yeah, maybe not, unless they change scriptwriters.