Teyssier is convinced that it was Férigno who tried to poison him. Constance suggests that he file a complaint, but Teyssier prefers to continue the championship. He will go to the police when the competition is over.
Jasmine comes to refuse the job offered by Jude.
Férigno comes to hear from Teyssier following his illness. Emmanuel explains to him the problem with the poisonous flower. He promises to destroy him to the end.
Claire asks the students to make a preparation with the herbs from the vegetable garden centered on the plate. She is fed up with the students taking no creative risks.
Journalists came to the institute for the championship of chefs.
Emmanuel begins to bleed from the nose. Théo and Charlène find their father who explains to them that this is a new crisis for sclerosis.
Olivia advises Jasmine to work on overcoming her meat block. It may harm her in the future, when she leaves the institute. Jasmine makes the decision to finally agree to be Jude’s second. She will start right away by frying calf livers. She is in great pain, to the point of not being able to breathe. She thinks back to Olivia’s advice, and imagines that it is a strange mushroom. It works, she manages to cook it.
Samia and Ethan give off a bad atmosphere in the team. Samia tells him that she misses him, but Ethan replies that he doesn’t want to work with her anymore once the contest is over.
Clotilde worries about Teyssier. Constance reveals to him that he was poisoned.
Férigno defends himself by claiming that Emmanuel must have ingested this flower to make him accuse. Clotilde warns him of her surveillance, but Férigno is threatening.
Antoine and Claire bring Souleymane to whom they reproach his attitude and his lack of patience.
Férigno explains to the circle the story of the poisonous flower. He recognizes that it was he who placed this flower to weaken Teyssier. He asks that the members manage to put the guilt of this act on someone other than him. They must find a culprit and bring him to justice.