[Jonathan] Five teams remain
in the Halloween Wars main competition.
-[in amplified voice] Let's get ready to battle! -[wolf howling]
[in normal voice] Tonight, contestants take a classic Halloween monster
and give it a fabulous modern new look.
Okay, jet ski's on there.
[Corinda] I gave him light-up speakers.
[Nils] Dang, he's in the future.
[Jonathan] And our teams face their hardest flavor challenge yet.
-[groans] Ah! -[Jonathan] Who will make the final four?
[Vanessa] So stinking cute.
[Jonathan] Getting that much closer to the title of Halloween Wars champion.
It's just genius. I can't even with you.
[Jonathan] And the grand prize of $25,000.
-Yes! -[Jonathan] Halloween Wars starts now!
Welcome back, everyone.
You are our final five teams
left alive in Halloween Wars.
And after tonight's monstrous mayhem,
we'll be down to four.
Once again, there's one super-sized challenge tonight,
the spine chiller.
So, let's see what the house has planned for our big event.
Ah!
-[grunting] Wow. -[laughs]
Judging by what the house just told me,
tonight is going to be wild! [grunts]
-Oh. -Wow.
-[sighs in relief] -[all laughing]
For this spine chiller challenge,
we want you to give our classic Halloween monsters
-a modern makeover. -[Aarti] Ooh.
[Jonathan] You see, after scaring humans for so long,
monsters are getting bored.
And their tactics are missing that oomph.
So we need you to imagine how the monsters might look
in the 21st century.
-Of course. -Yeah.
As you know, monsters are mysterious,
just like the flavor you'll have to use in your tasting element.
-[scarily] Umami! -Ooh!
Umami is considered the fifth taste
along with sweet, sour, bitter and salty,
and is know to have a savory meat or broth flavor.
[Kristina] It's gonna be a challenge fitting these
very bold savory flavors
into a more dessert-type setting.
The house assigned these ingredients randomly to each team.
Pumpkin up the Volume,
-you'll have to use miso. -[groans] Oh.
Deadly Intentions, seaweed.
-[Janette] Oh, no. -[Sylvain] Okay.
Trick or Sweet, you got some soy sauce.
-Oh, all right. -Okay, okay.
Spice Ghouls, Worshestershire.
-What? -[all laughing]
-You know what I'm talking about! -[woman 1] What?
-[woman 2] Worcestershire. -[Jonathan] Sweet Lunatics,
Parmesan.
You have got just seven hours. Your time starts
now!
-[Dennis] All right, guys. -Monsters, modern-day monsters.
-[both] Werewolves. -But see, that's the first thing
-everybody's gonna think about. -I know, exactly.
-If we all say werewolf, we don't wanna do that. -[Vanessa] We all did.
-How about a vampire? -Vampire's classic.
How're we gonna modernize this guy?
-[Vanessa] Um... -[Timmy] All I can think about is what my kid does all day.
-He sits around playing VR and video games all day. -[Drew] Video games.
Virtual reality, sounds good.
For our modern vampire,
we decide we're gonna do a vampire
who's playing a VR headset and is ordering food delivery.
The only things is, the delivery driver
doesn't know they're the snack.
-Witch's brew, could we do a witch? -See, I wouldn't--
That could be our character.
[Kristina] But it has to be modern though.
-What if we did like a kombucha bar? -Oh, yeah.
-That's all the... [indistinct] -Like bar and cafe?
Our modern witch is going to be the barista
for the Kraken Kombucha Cafe and Bar.
Our victim character drank the elixir of life
thinking it's gonna make them healthier.
Little do they know, it's going to take their life.
[Dean] You know what one of the obscure one's is?
The Creature from the Black Lagoon,
-and give him some modern twist. -What's modern about it?
[Dean] So he lives in a swamp, he used to drag people down,
how does he get to his victims now?
-He's got a boat, or a jet ski! -[gasps]
-Oh, okay, that's a great idea. -Oh! Great idea.
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
gets bored dragging his victims,
so he bought himself a jet ski and finds his victims that way.
What's like a classic one that everybody loves?
-What about mummy? What about a mummy? -[both] Mummy.
-All right. -Mummy, all right.
What does a mummy need in order to be modern?
So what does a mummy not have?
-You don't ever see his face. -[Dennis] Oh.
Facial recognition technology to steal identity.
He goes and steals their faces.
For our monster, we decided to do a mummy,
and we're gonna modernize him with soma facial recognition technology,
so that he can get better at stealing faces, identities,
and that way he can cause more mayhem.
What about a werewolf?
-[werewolf howling] -Like a cool werewolf, like a hipster werewolf,
-like in a coffee shop, and then... -Oh, yeah, modern-day--
...like, he's trying to be vegan but he's going werewolf.
-Okay. -Why is he going vegan?
-Like, because he's hipster. -Oh, because he's...
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, like, flip the script, you know? -Okay, okay.
We're making a cool werewolf in a coffee shop.
He just attacked one of his customers,
so he's thinking of going vegan.
We are going to have a laptop where he is searching,
"How to become a vegan?"
I'mma go grab a pumpkin.
[Drew] Workin' on the head for the vampire.
[Timmy] Drew is gonna start making that vampire's face.
[Drew] We got room right here for the VR to be put on.
I'm working on rolling this black out so I can
put it in our doorway to create some depth.
I'm gonna work on the backdrop,
I'm gonna use black fondant and carve that into a coffin door
because all vampires live in their coffin.
[Vanessa] I'm gonna make some isomalt for the window
and just go, go, go, go, go.
[Timmy] Vanessa's gonna start a little window in the coffin door.
She melts down some isomalt sugar,
pours it into the mold that she made
and sets it aside to cool.
[Vanessa] We're good to go.
I'm thinking about having some cloth with exposed ribs,
and then this is just gonna be oozing
like their stomach just completely disintegrated.
The first thing I get started on
is carving the full victim.
We're gonna have pieces that are completely missing
'cause they're gonna be melting on to the ground.
It's gonna add a little more work,
but if I can pull it off, it's gonna be such a cool effect in pumpkin, you know?
Do a little piece of black fondant for me for a minute?
[Kristina] Teresa will be making a cafe sign
where they write all of the daily specials
and the items that they offer.
She's going to hand paint the lettering on this chalkboard
in a font that really makes it look like it has this witchy vibe.
[Teresa] Good, yeah, it looks good.
[Kristina] Elan will be sculpting our witch.
We want her to be really, really modern.
She's gonna be the coolest witch in town.
-Teresa did you see that nose! -[Teresa] What?
-I know, it's great. It's amazing. -[Kristina] It's a witch nose.
That is insane! Ol' witchy nose.
We bulk off his werewolf muscles.
[Roger] Are you talking about his werewolf muscles
-or your werewolf muscles? -I know, right?
I will be focusing on the werewolf,
which will be made out of rice cereal treats,
modeling chocolate and fondant.
Just making it a little bony.
We'll add some nails in there later.
Roger will be focusing on the werewolf's victim,
which will be carved out of pumpkin.
[Roger] This is literally the guy's last expression
before he got eaten by a werewolf.
[Janette] And Sylvain will be doing a bunch of sugar work.
He's gonna be making the chain for our werewolf.
He's gonna make our laptop, a lamp.
He's got a lot of sugar work to do.
I love the color. Look at this.
[Roger] It is a cool color.
[Corinda] All right, we're gonna cut
the front out of his suit here a little bit,
'cause I wanna be able to see that he's a mummy underneath.
[Nils] Corinda's gonna be making the mummy from cake
and rice cereal treats.
[Corinda] Oh, he's so cute.
[Nils] He's supposed to be terrifying, Corinda.
I'm gonna make a sugar cobra,
which should be cool. Never done that before.
And the mummy's facial recognition glasses.
I'mma pour the lenses.
[Corinda] Whoo, I'm excited.
Oh, those are cool.
I like that they're, like, oversized too.
[Nils] The judges wanna see more pumpkin from Dennis,
so wanna get as many carved pumpkin faces on there
to show the mummy's been really active taking people's faces.
What do you think so far?
-I love it, I love it. -[laughs]
Careful when you come around here,
-there's a big pumpkin. -[Lisa] Okay.
[Dean] Hopefully this, uh, will give me the bigger pieces that I need for this.
[Lisa] Dean is creating this jet ski.
He is cutting all these shapes
and making it so it's jumping up in the air.
[Dean] One of the challenges to this is that
I need straight pieces out of round pumpkins.
It may have some dings in it because he is driving around in a swamp.
Right now, I'm just melting this chocolate that we colored.
I'm going to start on my backboard.
I wanna do a gradient color of shades of green,
so it gives a texture to the swamp.
[Dean] That is cool.
[Lori] Hey, I'm gonna start working on the lily pads
-while I'm waiting for isomalt to cook. -[Lisa] Okay.
Lori is cooking sugar like no tomorrow.
[Lori] I'm just shaping them,
and then I'll be putting some veining in them with a heat pen.
Lori's swamp is key to the story.
Yes, it's swamp water. [chuckles]
That will be made into, into waves.
Look at that nice, black sludge. [laughing]
-[Roger] How's the werewolf comin'? -[groans] Ugh.
[in sing-song voice] ♪ It's all falling apart on me♪
[in normal voice] As I'm doing the werewolf body,
the rice cereal treats is just kinda melting down.
He's got a dad bod.
-I look over... -Where is this guy? He want to stay here.
Uh, this guy is pissing me off.
[Janette] Today, so far, isn't going that great.
[Sylvain speaks indistinctly]
[Janette] Right now, Sylvain is having a hard time
getting the isomalt out of his molds
for our laptop.
[Sylvain speaking]
Ah! There we go.
[Janette] You got it? All right, good job.
-Oh, okay. -[Roger] Nice touch.
[Janette] At this level of the competition,
we're all feeling the pressure.
I'm not liking this right now,
but I think the best option is to move on so it could cool down
and then I come back in and sculpt it out.
I wanna focus on the head.
I am cutting some onions for my onion jam.
[Kristina] For our tasting element,
Teresa's going to be making
a caramelized onion and Worcestershire sauce compote
on top of fresh baked croissants.
Our witch is going to be serving these daily special pastries.
Almost there. All right, secret sauce is coming.
So, I've got my dough ready to go.
I wanna make the dough twice as big
as the butter block so I can fold it over.
[emphatically] Teresa is making croissant from scratch.
[Teresa] All right, so let's laminate this puppy.
-Seriously, the lamination process of croissant takes... -Yeah, yeah.
...like five to six hours,
-'cause you have to wait an hour in between every fold. -I mean...
Lamination is the process of folding the dough in with the butter
several, several layers, and that's what gives
the dough that crunchy, flaky texture.
[Shinmin] If it doesn't rise for some reason,
if her folds don't come out even,
-there's nothing to save her. -There's no backup.
-[Jonathan] No. -There's no backup.
[Drew] So, we're making shoes for our vampire character.
I love working with butternut squash.
It's the go to in the off season when there's no pumpkins.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
-Can you just hold the top, I'll get the bottom. -Okay.
I really need this vampire to have tons of movement
and really take over the piece.
-Just hold it on, don't press too much, just hold. -[Drew] All right.
[Timmy] I want the clothing to resemble something that my son would wear,
which is track pants and a hoodie.
So, I'm gonna roll in a towel over the fondant,
will give a really nice and knitted texture on the fondant.
-See that? -Yeah.
-Look like actual texture. -Nice.
[Timmy] I'm making a texture to go around the waist of the hoodie.
[Drew] Dude, yeah. I like-- Oh, dude!
[Timmy] And then I'll do the same thing around the arms.
[Drew] Ooh.
-[Timmy] Yeah. -Yeah, man!
I'm just going to make some, um, blood gummies.
Most people that play virtual reality,
they love to have their junk food next to them.
-So, why not gummies? -[Timmy] I know my son does.
For our testing element, Vanessa is gonna make
blood orange miso gummies that look like blood drops,
and then put those all over this kids room.
[Vanessa] Okay, time to put some miso.
I'm just gonna add a little bit of lemon.
Vanessa has miso.
She's combining it with blood orange...
-Okay, yeah. -...grapefruit, ginger.
My concern is that the citrus is gonna take over, it's gonna be so strong.
And I don't know that the miso's gonna come through.
[loudly] You have five hours left!
[Dennis] All right, starting on another pumpkin.
[Nils] Dennis is chugging along,
he's getting his stuff together.
Corinda's starting to make the backdrop
sort of as if it's the inside of a pyramid or a tomb,
and I need to start the tasting element.
All right, so what I'm doing is I'm making the eyeballs,
but you have to layer the cocoa butter on,
so I have to put the pupil on first.
I'm gonna do a couple of different color eyeballs.
I'mma do some green and some blue.
For the tasting element, we're gonna make a soy salted caramel truffle.
Since the mummy's stealing identities, he needs lots of different eyes.
So, we're gonna make them look like eyeballs,
so the judges can just pop 'em off and eat 'em.
[in sing-song voice] ♪ On to the caramel, yeah!♪
[in normal voice] So what we're doing here is we're just burning
a little bit of the sugar at a time
'cause I can control how dark it goes.
Lot of times when people make caramel,
they'll just pour it all in and boil it.
You can't control the burn flavor that much there.
So, we're gonna take this pretty dark,
and then we're gonna pour the heavy cream in.
And then we're gonna figure out how to incorporate soy, right?
All right, here's to nothing. [laughing]
[Corinda] I don't really wanna cheer soy sauce.
[Nils] I don't think this recipe's on the bottle.
So, we're gonna go one.
Two. Let's try it after five.
Not go too crazy.
But we gotta taste soy, right? [sighs]
-Oh, dang, you smell that? -I smell it.
-[Nils] Try this. -All right.
-Wow! -[Nils] Do you get the umami?
Wow, that's good.
[grunts] Ah! All right, here we go.
How is that, Dean?
-Yeah. Yup. -[Lisa] Yeah?
For this monster from the black lagoon,
I am rolling out thin fondant of different shades of green,
and using alligator, reptile-like imprints.
And just keep cutting them, layering them,
cutting them and layering them.
Lisa at Sweet Lunatics, this really beautiful swamp monster.
I love the tension in the body already, the body language is great.
[Aarti] And look at the amount of detail
-in the clothing. -[Shinmin] Yeah.
It's really exciting to see Lisa come into her element today.
[Lori] I'm making waves,
then I'm hitting the edge of the wave and pressing aluminum foil on it
to texturize it, kinda makes it glisten.
And then it looks like the froth of a wave once it's painted.
[Dean] What do you think of the color of the jet ski?
[Lisa] It's very pretty. I was about to say, "You're gonna add black?"
That's perfect.
I am rolling a great big pumpkin out here
to cut away a piece for the torso.
Roger has finished the head, hands and feet,
and he's carving the victim's torso.
-[Sylvain grunts] -[Janette] Sylvain's working on
some very fragile, big sugar pieces.
The coffee shop window is going to be huge,
and we really need it to be even
so we don't risk it breaking or becoming too fragile at any point.
-Half here? -For what?
-For the chair. -Chair?
-[Sylvain] Yes. -Oh, yeah.
He's gonna also create a big sugar stool.
-Try to don't move too much the table here. -[Roger] Um, sorry, sorry.
I'm struggling a bit. I'm gonna be finishing right on the nick of time.
I finally get my wolf head to scale.
It was supposed to be this buff guy. [laughing]
[Roger] No, it looks good, it looks good.
I gotta get him covered up.
[Teresa] This is raw sugar,
so you're trying to pull it when it's really hot, but not deflated.
You get a really, kinda fun texture to it.
While Teresa is waiting
to do a second fold on her croissant dough,
she is going to make some other design elements
for the front of our counter.
Gotta pour these. Right behind you, hot sugar, coming through.
[Kristina] She wants to try some new techniques,
so she's pouring sugar into a tube to make these bars
that will give it that really, really pretty ornamental detail.
[Teresa gasps] That's not good.
What the heck is going on?
[Teresa] You don't like it, going through the tape, unfortunately.
[Kristina] Teresa is pouring sugar into a tube
to make a design element on the front of our counter.
[Teresa gasps] No, that's not good.
[Kristina] There's just sugar going all over the place.
Can you give me a bowl so I can get this?
-Thank you. -Mmm-hmm.
[Teresa] The tape that I used is not the right tape
and it doesn't have that heat.
I'm just gonna do it out of something else.
[Aarti] Teresa, are you doing something really difficult that I can interrupt you?
[Teresa] I was trying to pour these tubes for our shelving,
and I had a silly tape, so it wasn't heat sensitive.
But I put some aluminum tape so we can do this together and see if it works.
Look pretty good.
[Aarti] Well, you have to think on your feet here at Halloween Wars.
-[Teresa] Yeah, for sure. -[Aarti] Yeah.
-[Teresa] Competition is fierce. -Are you feeling it today?
-[Teresa] Yeah, for sure. -'Cause now there's only five of you.
[Teresa] I know. It's, like, super heavy.
-Yeah. -I just don't wanna let my team down, you know?
Aw, Teresa.
The whiskers go in the snout? Whiskers go here?
[Roger] Here.
-Here? -[Roger] Yeah.
Uh, just need to spray it.
Our tasting element is seaweed. [sighs]
And I'm nervous because there's no seaweed in French cuisine. [laughs]
-Sylvain likes a good challenge. -Yes, I do.
[Janette] Sylvain is making white chocolate and black sesame petals
with layers of lime and seaweed cremeux and roasted pineapples.
We are going to put our tasting element on a plate
as if it's a snack for our werewolf.
Sylvain has a very light touch...
-[Shinmin] Mmm-hmm. -[Aarti] ...with his flavors, and so
something like seaweed might be a little tricky for him
because it has a light touch too.
[Timmy] I'm gonna start working on this dog shape.
I wanna make him look like he's licking blood off of his hand.
We wanted a little pet
that could add a little humor to the scene.
Everyone loves their pets, and our vampire loves his
so much that he wants to keep him forever
and turn him into a vampire.
So when I was a kid,
I really wanted to be a veterinarian.
-No way! -Yeah.
So, any time I get to do an animal,
I just kinda feel that, like,
-nostalgic, like, love for animals. -[Vanessa] Aw.
-[Timmy] Yeah, I love it so much. -[Vanessa] Could've been.
[Drew] That looks good.
[Vanessa gasps] Doggy's looking so cute!
So stinking cute!
I had to pool some sugar, and I made it in the shape of blood,
but now I need something to go over it
so that it looks like it's inside a clear bag.
[Timmy] This piece is gonna have a lot of great sugar elements.
Blood soda cans, blood bags.
[Vanessa] Now I wanna sandwich it.
Okay, and now we're just gonna torch it
and give it a little bit of shape.
And then it looks like the blood is inside a clear bag.
So girls, I'm working on the tree now.
Dean took a big pumpkin like this,
and he carved it into little strips,
and then made trees.
[Dean] I was pretty happy to find the inside of the pumpkin
like a spaghetti squash so I thought of
these things hanging down on a tree.
And as I got bigger pieces, I got bark.
What a great way to incorporate the inside of the pumpkin and
make it look like a nice, creepy swampy tree here.
So for this Parmesan, because it's so salty and it's very nutty,
I'm going to use it in the pate a choux.
For the tasting element, we're going to make
a Parmesan cheese cream puff
topped with black sesame crackle
filled with a lemon mascarpone cream.
They're going to look like organic rocks all over the display.
I will make a dough
and I will slowly put in this Parm.
If you dump it, the dough won't rise.
So I wanna make sure it puffs,
since we're making a cream puff.
They're going to add a black sesame crunch on top of it.
Yeah, at first I thought this doesn't make any sense,
but then I thought about the nuttiness of Parmesan,
and the nuttiness of black sesame,
and they actually go beautifully together,
at least in the palate of my mind.
-Ooh! -[Corinda] I gave him light-up sneakers.
-[Nils] Dang, he's in the future. -[Corinda laughs]
He's got little light-up shoes.
In the competition, you have to keep pushing it,
you have to keep doing some cool stuff.
And I don't think they've seen a sugar cobra before.
I'mma make the face. [whooshes]
I'm gonna paint the gold rib lines,
the hourglass figures, or whatever they're called on cobras, I'm not sure.
And we're just gonna make it look good.
For first time ever doing it,
I think it's looking all right.
[in sing-song voice] ♪ It's coming together♪
[in normal voice] Very excited.
-[Teresa] This is gonna be cool. -Our witch is going to be
the main feature of our piece.
Her hair is gonna be dyed green.
She's gonna have tattoos.
But of course, modern witches don't wear big pointy hats,
they wear slouchy beanie witch hats.
[Kristina] Look at her! She's, like, that's right.
-I am the baddest witch! -[Elan chuckling]
-[Jonathan] Three hours left! -[gasping]
[Roger] Take your time, take your time...
Easy, easy, easy...
-[Janette] Okay, I can cover him this far down, in clothes. -[Roger] Yeah.
Sylvain and I decide to go ahead and move the werewolf,
because we really need to start getting everything on our board.
[Roger] I'm almost done here, and then I'll spray it.
Silver Bullet Coffee.
Brought to you by a werewolf near you!
[Janette] I am putting on the shirt,
and it's okay that it tears, because,
kinda going for that tattered look anyways.
Actually, I kind of like this fold.
It makes him look a little bit more, like, hipster.
-[Roger chuckles] Yeah. I dig it. -[Janette] Okay...
[Drew] I gotta make sure to do the right hand. [laughs]
I'm doing the wrong hand!
Drew's hands come out so nice.
He has all this texture, and they look so realistic.
-Down farther or leave it? -That's perfect.
[Timmy] And they truly look like VR controllers in the hands.
[Vanessa] I'm gonna bring the tasting element.
Ah, look at that.
Definitely worked.
[Drew] Oh, looks so good!
[Vanessa] Huh?
[Drew] Ugh!
-[Drew] Ugh! -[Timmy] Was that sour?
Yes, it was...yeah. Crazy sour.
-Oh... -[Drew] Oh, no! Huh?
-Um... -Our blood gummies are really sour.
We can't give this to the judges.
We just have to do it again.
All right. Let's do this.
[Timmy] We want the miso to be the star of the gummy,
and we have to get this right,
because it's our tasting element.
[Vanessa] We should definitely leave the lemon out,
because I feel like we already have enough acidity,
-from the blood orange. -Yeah, definitely.
[Timmy] We wanna make sure that we don't add too much sourness to it.
We're hoping it'll actually work this time.
[Jonathan] Guys, you only have two hours left!
Oh, boy. I gotta go...
[Kristina] I'm working on the cauldron right now,
that she's gonna be serving her witch's brew kombucha out of.
To get the cauldron smoothed out,
I'm going to come in with my wet automotive sandpaper,
and that will really, really get it nice and smooth.
Then I'll have to come back in and put in very specific texture that will
give the cauldron that naturally aged look.
This is like, the centerpiece,
this is what all our things are gonna be put on.
Since we're creating a cafe,
we have to have some sort of counter.
[Kristina] Nice, oh...
She's very cool.
[Elan] I don't wanna mess up the foam.
[Teresa] No, you're not gonna.
-[Elan] Okay? -[Teresa] Yeah.
Nice.
As soon as I get done painting,
we're gonna take a knife and go right through it,
and mount it right on the board.
You know, they mount deer heads.
This is gonna be little faces cut in half.
[Nils] Dennis' carved pumpkin faces don't look like pumpkins.
-[Nils] Sweet. -[Nils] It looks like masks that have been
worn and are a little bit old.
They've all got different expressions.
And he's putting all the pumpkin faces up on the wall.
Everything's looking really good. We're just, we're rolling.
All right, looking good, home slice.
-[Jonathan] One hour left! You have one hour! -Ah!
[Lisa] So I'm gonna take it out now.
So let's cross our fingers, it's done!
Okay, so here they come.
[Lisa] I go into the oven, to see my pate a choux,
and they look great! [chuckles]
They seem hollow.
-Oh, God. -Yeah?
-[Lori] Oh, god! Those are good! -[Lisa] Mm!
[Dean] We gotta get this together!
I'll put that stuff on, just paint your guy!
-I'm gonna do the rocks first, so... -[Lisa] Okay.
[Janette] Sylvain is putting together his seaweed dessert.
[Janette] And he decides to layer the seaweed into the petals,
so you're kinda getting two parts of seaweed,
one that's being infused in the milk,
and one that's on the petal.
We did three folds.
I'm gonna cut 'em in their shape right now.
They gotta get this going so I can bake it.
But I'm gonna do it a la minute, right at last minute.
All right.
[Timmy] Got to do the door, the TV,
the lights, the floor, the table...
We have so much to get on this board.
Put him, like, right here?
[Vanessa] Yeah, and the table, where's the table--
[Timmy] Table's going right here on the edge.
-Just put him on the foreground. -Table's going right here.
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Okay...
Try this one, now.
Come on, Drew!
-I could eat it. -[all laugh]
-[Timmy] There we go! -Okay!
I'd dink it. [laughs]
-[Dean] I think I'm happy with them the way they are. -Here goes nothin'.
[Lisa] Lori is pouring the whole lagoon.
It's, like, black, purple,
red, green.
And it shimmers everywhere.
It's so breathtaking and beautiful.
I gotta start getting this stuff on,
so Dean'll have to work around me.
[exhales]
[Jonathan] 30 minutes! 30 minutes to go!
-[Sylvain] Okay, let's put the window, no? -[Janette] Okay.
[Roger] Yeah, we're all set for you.
We only have 30 minutes left,
we're pushing it to add these
really fragile sugar pieces.
We have a gap, guys.
[Janette] I am, like, how in the world did we mismeasure?
Because the size of the window
to the hole that we cut is completely wrong.
-Sylvain made that sugar window to go, you know... -Yeah.
-[Janette] It's not staying up. -[Shinmin] Oh, my gosh.
Okay, let me think. How can they do this?
It looks like Sylvain's got some more sugar.
-I don't know if he's gonna try-- -He cannot do another
panel at this time. There's no way.
I...I'm gonna roll out some fondant and make a frame!
-[Roger] Okay. -[Janette] Yep!
We decide the only way to fix this
is try to create a frame around the window.
[Janette] Ah, it's still not thick enough.
The difficulty is because Sylvain's now at the 11th hour,
trying to fix the window,
his other pieces are sitting there on the counter.
-Yeah. -And I would hate for them not to make it.
Hey, I was kidding about standing here all night.
-[laughs] -[Sylvain] Be careful, be careful.
-[Roger] Maybe there? Okay. -I know, I know, I know.
[Sylvain grunts]
Make sure it's not blocked.
-[Sylvain] I need this. -I would heat it, and put it up.
-[Roger] Let's put it up and be done. -Don't wait.
[Roger] There's no reason to wait.
-[thump] -[both] Oh, no!
What just fell? What just fell?
[both] Oh, no!
-What just fell? -[Janette] His lamp. The lamp cracked.
It feels like every challenge, it's all hands on deck,
to help Sylvain figure out
-a sugar emergency. -[Shinmin] A sugar problem.
[Sylvain] Okay, give me one second.
Is Roger just holding something up right now?
[Aarti] He might be holding up the piece of sugar,
-you know what I mean? -[Shinmin] Oh my god.
[Sylvain] Give me one second.
Okay...[groans]
[Sylvain] I knew it.
[Corinda] The tablet...
This is my favorite part.
So pretty!
Ah, this thing looks pretty sick! I'm not gonna lie.
[Lisa] Okay, put him on!
Coming in with Creature from the Black Lagoon!
-[Dean] Is he down on both sides? -[Lisa] Yeah.
-[Dean] Just get some feet on him-- -[Lisa] I am, I am, I am--
-[Dean] I'll get the rope on him-- -I'm trying, I'm trying...
Coming through, pumpkin! Coming through.
[Teresa] Boy, that looks great. Okay.
[Elan] Can I start painting that lower area?
-[Elan] Her whole...yeah. -[Kristina] Purple shirt is blue.
[Kristina] I actually think her sweater
-looks cute in blue.- -[Elan] Yep.
If I could get it out of here, it'd be gorgeous.
[Shinmin] Oh my gosh.
She's having a tough time un-tubing right now.
Okay, it's solid sugar,
but it's not that solid, Teresa.
She's, like, manhandling it.
[exhales]
[Aarti] Oh my gosh...
She's got it, she's got it, she's got it...
-[Aarti] Come on... -[Jonathan] Come on, Teresa, you got it!
[Aarti] Is that just one, though?
-She's got three to un-case. -[Shinmin] She's got three. Yeah.
[Aarti] Little bend at the end, that makes it even harder to un--
-[Aarti gasps] -[Jonathan] She got it!
-Yes! Yes! -Whoo!
[Teresa] Oh, thank you! We need the gallery.
-Okay... -[Elan] Don't stop.
[Teresa] We got 15 minutes.
[Drew] Let me put the skewers in, and then set it,
-okay? -[Timmy] Okay.
[Drew] Just like that?
[Timmy] Okay.
-We gotta hurry. I know you're trying to hurry. -[Janette] Yeah. Yeah, I know.
[Sylvain] Okay.
Ten minutes to go, 10 minutes left!
Oh, my gosh, 10 minutes.
-Snacks coming, right here. -[Kristina] It smells so good, Teresa!
They're going here.
-We're getting the snake over. -All right.
-Watch out, man. -[Dennis] I ain't going near you!
So I did an ID with Shinmin and Aarti,
and I'm gonna do one now with Jonathan.
He's stealing their identities.
[Teresa] We just gotta put the metal one on, guys.
Oh, you guys broke...[gasps]
-[Elan] Broke the thing. -[Teresa] You broke the thing.
-[Teresa] You pushed it all the way back. -[Elan] I'm sorry.
Now, keep staying here, okay, okay...
Do you want...I would say it needs to be up here.
[Sylvain] There's a little more space. Let me finish.
[Janette] It doesn't make sense down here.
-It needs to be up there. -[Sylvain] It's fine.
Let's get that lamp up here.
Three minutes left! Three minutes!
Watch out. Here comes the tasting element.
Eyeball tree is going on.
Oh, let's go!
[Lisa] I'm putting tattoos on this guy...okay...
-[Lisa] Dean? -Yeah?
[Lisa] The gray on the base has to be covered.
Here. Put these on and I'll get some made.
Just put 'em around back by the trees.
[Lisa] Hope this is what he meant.
[Vanessa] We need to do a little bit on the side.
[whispering] Yeah, perfect.
-[Timmy] Okay. -[Vanessa] The tasting...
[Timmy] You get the tasting, give me the blood.
-[Kristina] Can we just, like-- -No, no. Get out of there.
-[Teresa] You broke it. I gotta fix it. -[Kristina] Okay.
[Jonathan] Thirty seconds!
-[Roger] It was sitting still. -[Janette] Yeah, but it looked messy--
[thud]
-[Janette] Oh, no! The chain broke! -[Roger] Chain just fell.
[Janette] Grab any broken pieces and put it right here.
[Dean] I thought I'd do the frog...for the swamp.
-Ten! Nine! Eight! -[Vanessa] We need some more blood here...
-[Jonathan] Seven! -There you go. That's it.
-[Jonathan] Six! -[Janette] Perfect!
[Dean] I got a frog, we need a spot for him!
[Lisa] Quick, put him over here!
-Don't touch, don't touch! -[Jonathan] Two! One!
-Hands off your display! -Oh my gosh, what?
[Aarti] The whole side of it just fell off!
[Shinmin] Oh, shoot!
Oh...I don't even wanna look.
-No, don't do that... -Don't even wanna look.
[Kristina] It's okay, you did good. Are you okay?
-[Aarti] She was trying to fix one small thing... -Oh, gosh...
[Aarti] And then the whole thing fell apart.
-[thunder clap] -[Aarti] Trick or Sweet,
tell us about your modern day monster.
[Corinda] Our mummy had to find a new way
to get his scary kicks in, into this day and age.
And he does so by using facial recognition sunglasses,
to scan people's faces,
take their identities,
and then take on their personas.
-I gotta go check my credit. -[all chuckling]
-Shinmin, what do you think? -[laughing]
Dennis, you did not just one,
but five faces out of pumpkin.
I also love that you guys really know
how to fill up your display without overcrowding.
I know it's a mummy, but it's still a little bit rough
in terms of the anatomy of the mummy.
-Sure. -[Jonathan] Aarti?
With every design, you give us a different tone.
This one has a little bit of funny in it,
-and I kinda love that. -Yes.
-The light-up shoe, singular, is so great. -[all chuckle]
[Aarti] I love the cobra.
It's beautifully-sculpted,
and also cements this as being in Egypt.
What are we eating today?
For our umami ingredient, we got soy sauce.
So for the tasting element, we have some eyeballs.
I shot for a soy sauce, salted caramel truffle,
but it is infused with fresh lime zest
and candied ginger, to cut the sweetness.
This bite is so trippy, because I get a bit
of the soy sauce and the ginger together,
it gives me sushi vibes.
-Yes, yes! -Right?
And you're, like, this should not work,
because there's chocolate and there's caramel in there,
but somehow, it does.
[Shinmin] It's just genius. I can't even with you.
[chuckles] We have to go,
-because the judges are gonna eat all of 'em. -[laughs]
[Jonathan] Thank you guys very much!
[all] Thank you!
[chuckling]
[thunder clap]
[Timmy] This young, gaming vampire is using his VR headset
to learn how to chase down victims easier,
as well as his robot speaker,
to order an easy prey.
Of all of your displays,
you always have the one beautiful face from Drew.
This time, it's half-hidden.
So the rest of it really needs to sing, right?
But there are such great features on here,
like these blood bags?
I never though I would say
-my favorite thing is blood bags. -[all chuckling]
And I love that you actually went in
and pressed this knitted impression into that sweater.
Those little, fine details,
-they don't get lost on me. -Thank you.
I love the way that you always position your characters.
It looks like he's about to tumble over,
I love that sense of movement.
I think if you didn't explain to me why
he was using this VR technology,
I wouldn't completely understand.
-[Timmy] Okay. -[Aarti] It's not super clear what game he's playing.
-Okay. -And knowing what game he's playing is what
-really makes this whole design so magical. -Gotcha.
Ooh, mommy!
-[all laugh] -What are we gonna be trying?
We got miso, for our tasting element.
We made blood drop gummies,
with miso, blood oranges,
honey, and a little ginger.
Well, I liked it. Aarti?
[all laugh]
[Aarti] That was a dang good gummy.
-Oh, good! -[Aarti] Yeah! The citrus is bright,
and beautiful, but I was nervous,
because I thought, where the heck is the miso?
And then, boop!
Right there at the end, I got this nice hit of saltiness.
I disagree with Aarti,
-because I didn't taste the miso. -Hmm.
This was so bright and sweet, but I didn't get any of that
-kind of fermented umami flavor, unfortunately. -Mm, sorry about that!
Pumpkin Up the Volume! Nice work.
[all] Thank you!
-That went really good. -[Vanessa] Yeah!
-Aarti got it, so that's great. -[Vanessa] Yeah. Aarti got it.
[thunder clap]
[Janette] At every full moon,
our cool hipster owner of the Silver Bullet Coffee,
transforms into a werewolf.
He fights the urge to brew up his next victim,
because he is so badly wanting to become a vegan.
-It can feel that difficult to be vegan sometimes. -[all laugh]
I love your werewolf!
I can see the tension within him,
I love his little whiskers, with a passion!
[laughing] The way that his jeans are all ripped.
It is very clear that something bad has just happened.
Some of the sugar work is really great, Sylvain.
The shininess, of those chains,
is particularly great,
but I feel like you need to find your sweet spot,
in terms of how much sugar to do per challenge.
There's a lot of sugar on here,
and some of it looks a little rough.
I feel like you need to find your sweet spot,
in terms of how much sugar to do per challenge.
Roger, I am loving your pumpkin carving here.
So gruesome. So scary.
I just wish that this torso were shaped more like a torso.
Because you can still see,
like, this is really the shape of the pumpkin.
-Yeah. -The entire display has a very rough finish.
The floor shouldn't look like it's just raw dirt
and the background shouldn't look so raw.
There should be some sort of refined textures.
So what are we eating today?
-See Jonathan's face? -[all chuckle]
It's seaweed in a dessert!
These flavors are so puzzling.
I feel like I'm having broth.
But with thrown-in pineapple. Why?
-Why is that working? I don't understand! -[laughing]
Pineapple was probably one of the smartest
ingredients that you've used here.
Because it has this natural acidity to it.
That's why it's often paired with meats.
When you use that pineapple,
it kind of brought out the umami of the seaweed.
Deadly Intentions, thank you very much!
[all] Thank you!
[thunder clap]
[Dean] Our piece is the grandson
of the Creature of the Black Lagoon.
And he terrorizes the swamp on his jet ski,
dragging his victims by rope.
-Lisa? -Yes?
Of all the things that you would blossom,
I would never have guessed it would be a swamp monster.
[all laugh]
-Thank you so much! -[Aarti] It's incredible, Lisa!
The face, the body positioning, his expression,
the texture that you got on his abs,
and how different that texture is from the rest of his body.
-Is that Korean on his head? What's it say? -[Lisa] It is!
It says "Lisa."
-[both gasp] -Aw!
-'Cause you're his sweetheart! -Or his victim, I don't know!
[all laugh]
You know, I feel like Aarti's already said everything, but there's more!
The trees, Dean?
I love when you've mastered your skills
and you can just take shortcuts
and make it look like you worked extra hard on it.
You know what actually is the best hidden gem? That little frog!
-[frog ribbit] -Now I want a little Easter egg from you
-every time! -[laughs]
What are we gonna be eating, and I hope it doesn't come out of the swamp?
[all laugh]
We received parmesan,
so I decided to make a parmesan cream puff,
with a black sesame crackle,
filled with a lemon mascarpone cream.
We made them look like rocks, with different shades.
You know how I said today is your day?
Well, after tasting your parmesan cream puff...
...it is totally your day!
-Oh, thank you! -[Shinmin] Oh, my gosh!
That is such a perfect bite!
-Oh, thanks! -[Shinmin] And it really is this wonderful dance
between sweet and savory.,
You should be so proud.
-This is so good. -Thank you so much!
Sweet Lunatics! Great job.
[all] Thank you!
[thunder clap]
[Kristina] This is Willow Le Belle.
She is the barista for the Kraken Kombucha Cafe & Bar,
and she is so over it.
-[chuckling] -[Kristina] Customers come in
wanting to try the latest kombucha trends,
and the cafe's signature treats,
but be careful for the elixir of life,
because you might just lose yours.
-[judges] Ooh! -And she's got jokes, okay!
-[laughing] -[Jonathan] Great!
First of all, you can just tell she's a witch right away,
even though she's dressed like a total hipster, with the beanie,
-and the fitted tank top and the tatts. -[others chuckling]
I can feel her attitude from here,
-like, she's judging me! -[Aarti] Yeah, yeah!
And this pumpkin work, Kristina,
I couldn't even tell it was pumpkin.
It's so smooth, it's so believably melting.
If it just weren't for, like, those last few things
that fell apart at the very end,
-this would be, like, a perfect piece. -I know, I know!
One of the subtle things you did that I love so much
is the color palette.
-[Shinmin] Yeah. -[Aarti] I love that you chose the purple for the backdrop,
but then that really sets off that almost
-neon green of her hair. -[Shinmin] Mm-hmm.
Tell us about your tasting element.
My umami ingredient was Worcestershire.
So I thought it would be really nice
to make a flaky pastry,
with an onion jam to go with that.
Wow. Aarti, what do you think?
I was concerned that the onion jam
would not be sweet enough.
But this jam's the jam.
-Ooh! -[chuckling]
[Aarti] It is sweet, it is tangy,
the Worcestershire is 1,000% present,
it just gives it this brightness
that you cannot find anywhere else.
You nailed the texture on the outside.
-Yeah. -[Shinmin] It's got a really lovely crunch.
The inside, I'm really missing the flakiness.
But, listen. This is super, super challenging,
and you went for it, and it's delicious.
-Oh, thank you! -Spice Ghouls, great work.
-Thank you! -Thank you so much.
Teams! For this spine-chiller round,
we asked you to create a modern-day version
of a classic frightening monster.
Unfortunately, one beast is about to be unleashed
from the competition.
The team going home tonight is...
...Deadly Intentions.
-[sighs] -[Jonathan] I'm sorry.
Your display was rough,
especially the sugar pieces.
And at this stage of the competition,
there's little room for error.
It's sad that, you know, our time's up right now,
because we definitely had more to show,
but we are incredibly proud of ourselves.
This competition is getting harder and harder,
so you need to step up your game. We'll see you next week.
-[thunder clap] -[Jonathan] Next time, on Halloween Wars!
We're in the final four. Bringing out our tricks starts now.
[Jonathan] We dance until our feet fall off!
-Come on! -They are picture perfect!