Host Alton Brown gives the chefs their next test: Resourcefulness. Starting at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, the chefs secretly select ingredients for one another out of a harvest of wild ingredients. They are taken outdoors to a location with meager supplies and cooking equipment, where they must create a delicious meal on the fly. 

The remaining three chefs continue the overseas portion of the competition as they fly to Paris for the next challenge: Lead and Inspire. The chef's must become the ultimate Americans in Paris as they create a meal for a party being thrown by the US Ambassador to France.