"Male announcer:" "This season on "Ink Master,"" "it's Peck versus Nuñez." "On the last episode, 30 artists arrived only to find they had to fight for a shop." " If you impress the judges, you'll get a shop." " We're gonna pick our teams, and we're gonna go to war." " Selection process is on." " If we're picking teams, I want a strong team." " If they ain't done it by now, they ain't gonna do it." "announcer:" "The judges quickly weeded out the weak in mass eliminations." " Here we go." " I think this is just not the environment for you." " So I got to quit?" " This is as far as you go." " All right, Chris, Hobo." " CK?" "It's the end of the line." " Good luck, assholes." " Oliver Peck is a [bleep] dick." " For the judges, this season, it's personal." " Oh, yeah." " My picks are deliberate, and I know who I want." " As for the rest of you, there are four spots remaining on Team Peck, and four spots on Team Nuñez." "announcer:" "With one last chance to make the cut, the artists fought for their lives." " This mother[bleep] douchebag is not going to destroy my chance." " All right." "That's it." "Teams are full, and there are no more shops." "Elisheba, Raphael, Danielle, Princess Hilla, you do not have what it takes to compete for the title of Ink Master." "announcer:" "In the end, two elite teams of nine handpicked artists were left standing." " You have to live, breathe, eat, and die this place, right here." "That's what it's gonna take to make it through the end." "announcer:" "But only one artist will earn a $100,000 prize and the title of Ink Master." " Let the games begin." "[rock music]" "♪" " I think we have the best team and the best coach." "It worked out perfectly." "Our goal right now is to get rid of all the people on that team." "We ought to know what each other can do." "One of us is gonna win." "We don't know who it's gonna be, but it's gonna be team [bleep] Nuñez." " Oh, yeah." "For sure." " Who is our main target over there?" " Nikki's really good." " She's really good." " But she's only been tattooing for, like, four years." " I think SketchyLawyer is definitely in the top." " I was a little underwhelmed." " But the thing... the thing is everything looked the same." " Yep." " Kelly Doty..." "she's gonna end up shooting herself in the foot, because..." " I don't think so." "I think she's a fast learner." " If she does not listen, she's gonna get..." " I have been a fan of Kelly Doty for so long, and I've respected her so much." " This is a competition." "You can't have sympathy or like somebody." "Friendship, all that crap goes out the window." "That's the freaking enemy right now." "They're gonna try and kill the best over here, and we should be trying to kill the best over there." "[rock music]" " Team Peck and Team Nuñez, welcome." "Tattooing has never been a team sport until now." "But in the end, it will still only be one artist who earns $100,000, a feature in "Ink Magazine,"" "and the title of Ink Master." " Here we go." " But before you can battle the opposing team, you must first battle your own." " What the [bleep] does that mean?" " Each week, only one team will be up for elimination." "You will tattoo against the artists on your team, and one by one, the judges will weed out the weakest until the top ten artists remain." " Damn." " What?" "This is true insanity." "I can't believe we chose the strongest members on our team, and now we have to compete against them." " It's like sleeping with the enemy." " To determine which team is up for elimination first, you will compete, Team Peck versus Team Nuñez, in the first flash challenge." " [bleep]." " This week, we're testing composition." " Composition is being able to show how an image works together as a whole, how it flows, how it works within each different element of the design, and making sure that it looks cohesive as one piece." " Today, your team must tattoo three back pieces on three canvases at the same time." " That's [bleep] crazy." " Three back pieces?" "Something like this usually takes months." " When placed side-by-side, all three back pieces must create one interlocking image." " How the [bleep] do we do it?" " Let's bring in your canvases." "Your canvases have been randomly assigned." "Now, these are guys who put their backs on the line every day, so do not mess them up." "Team Nuñez, your canvases are some of the city's bravest firefighters." "Team Peck, your canvases are some of the city's finest police officers." "The team that wins this flash challenge will be safe from elimination this week, and they will also have the power to assign the human canvases to the opposing team in the elimination tattoo." " Oh, yeah." " You will have seven hours to tattoo." "How you work together is completely up to you as a team." "Good luck." " Sketchy." "Nice to meet you." " John Collins." " Hi." "I'm Nikki." " For time management, you need two people helping shade it." "I'm definitely invested in my team." "This is the important time to come together as a team." "With my positive attitude, we've got the edge." "Team positive." " Team best." " We're gonna make it so that when they come together, it ties." "The only thing that's gonna achieve that is gonna be your background." "I'm looking out for my team more than anything." "I'm their coach, and I want to see my team do well." "You could knock it out of the park." "I want to win this goddamn thing." " All right." "Team Peck and Team Nuñez, you have seven hours to tattoo three interlocking back pieces." "The team that wins the flash challenge will be safe from elimination this week, and your time starts now." " All of you, line up." "Stand up straight." "Move forward." " In looking for composition in these back pieces, not only do we want to see each individual piece have a nice composition, but we want one big, overall composition between the three." " That looks great." " Perfect." "This is a tricky test." "If you work well as a team, no one will get exposed, because your teammates will pick up the pieces if you mess up." "However, if the team doesn't get along, then the exposure and the risk is gonna be very high." " Question with these." "How do you want these to be shaded?" " The light source would be coming from this side." " We have to make sure that we kill these back pieces right now, because we're not about to have somebody leave before the other team." " I think we're ready to go now." " Yeah." "That's dope as [bleep]." " We're definitely planning on winning this just to set the tone that Team Nuñez is gonna be first place every time." "[rock music]" "♪" " Doing three tattoos this size simultaneously is nuts." " Am I supposed to be doing black in here?" " The only things that aren't black are the background." " We are not communicating well at all." " When you do this, will you leave this, like, light gray?" " Okay." "Am I doing the helmets too?" " Did you want me to do them?" " Oh, I don't care." "It's up to you." " I know how to take charge if I need to." "Someone needs to step in and pull everybody together." "Everyone, Matt is doing the helmets, the shields, and then Nate and Ryan are doing the wings." "Hey, Boneface, you know what would be helpful is if you kept watch." " Somehow, I end up as just the guy who's helping out." "These guys don't believe in me enough to let me tattoo?" "I got you." "They think I'm the weakest link." "If we lose, I don't get the blame." " Try to leave, like, a kind of a slight, harder edge on the left side instead of, like, a complete soft there." " Well, then what do you want me to do?" " You know, like, how the drawing is." " Nikki's getting off the plan, and the middle of this thing... it's too dark." " Everything cool?" " Nikki's... she's not following directions." "She's just throwing in her own style, so smoothing the whole thing out." " Stay along the graphic lines." "Careful how over-smooth you get, 'cause they have to keep up." " What?" "What?" "So just don't be smooth?" " Because if one comes out different from the others, you might be on the chopping block for it as a team." " This is why I hate working in teams." "I cannot dumb myself down to keep up with the rest of the team." " This is a team move, so you guys all win together." "It's not a solo sport." " Sure." " We need our wing shaders in on that piece, two at a time, because it's the biggest." "And time is gonna be..." " Gia is really saving us right now." " Is that black?" " That's black." " Okay." " No one could agree, but now, it's smooth sailing." " Bloodline raise." "Dave, did you get that?" " Ryan and Gia... they're both, like, witchy huntresses." "Like, they see their target, and they're like..." " Your line waves look identical." "It looks like the same person did them." " Like, no joke." "Like..." " Five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Machines down." "Time's up." "No more ink." " Looking at Team Nuñez' design, it seems like they took the easy way out by doing the same image over and over again." "I mean, they're doing three horses." "Wow." " Dude, that looks awesome." " All right, guys." "Let's get into these critiques." "The team that wins this flash challenge will be safe from elimination this week." "Team Peck, you are up first." " Guys, your strengths in this are definitely how consistent they look throughout." "The black, the shading... it's really cohesive." "Obviously, these tattoos can't fit and touch and actually interlock, but you still have elements that flow from one into the next." "Pretty impressive." " It does connect." "The thin, blue line... that is an extremely thin blue line, and I think that it's nice, in terms of it being something that these guys know is there, but most of all," "I'm super impressed with just how cohesive it looks." " When it comes to composition, I want to know why" "Saint Michael's head is so far to the left." " Having one side a little offset was more of a joined composition as a scene in a whole." "That was what we were going for." " There's so much filler on the right." "If that was just pushed over and lined up center, it would've fit better on the body." " Team Nuñez, you're up next." " We came up with the three horses." "We put each other in our strong spots with lining, shading." " That's a [bleep]load of good quality tattooing, from line work to shading." "There are no beat-up areas of skin." "You guys turned out three of the best tattoos that I've seen here." " As far as the composition goes, it's a little stagnant." "There doesn't seem to be something that follows through the entire three pieces to make them part of a whole." "You have three profiles of horses, all facing left." "The one horse that's reared up the highest... you have a huge area on his back that you can't really tell what's going on." "The shapes and the muscle tone with the negative going through it..." "it's a lot of area to tattoo without a specific purpose." " This is gonna be a tough decision." "Are you gonna be able to be objective here?" " I think it's [bleep] up when you come in here talking all this [bleep]." " I think we nailed the [bleep] thing." " This game's about to get real." "[dramatic music]" " Today, we're testing composition, tag-team tattoos." "Team Peck, Team Nuñez..." "it's tricky to be judging your own work here." "Are you gonna be able to be objective here when it comes to your own team?" " When there's mistakes, it'll be easy to call them out." " Just so it's clear, if we get into a scenario where I am the deciding factor, I'm gonna simply go with what the challenge of the day is." "So if it's composition, like it is today, that's what I'm gonna go with." "Having said that, what are your thoughts?" " Team Nuñez went really big and really smooth." "My biggest problem with the horses is that one horse, it's hard to read." " I think it was a lot to keep certain members of the team from doing their own thing, and that's where Oliver called out the dark spot." "But the quality of the tattooing is really, really strong." " As impressive as it is, there's not a whole lot of elements." " It flows, though." "The composition on Team Peck's side didn't really do much for me, because it was a few stripes cutting over from a center piece, and I don't care what anybody says." "That center piece is so off." " And they went the asymmetrical so it wouldn't just be simple." " But it's only asymmetrical by that much." "It's just off." " Are you clear on your decision?" " Technical outlines?" "I think they're both solid." "All six tattoos are clean." "If I get down to just composition," "I feel like the horse composition is stale to me." "It's just boom, boom, boom." " Chris, are you decided on which way you want to go?" " You're a one-man judge today, buddy." " All right." "Let's let them know." "Today, you had to tattoo as a team to create three interlocking back pieces." "The team that loses this flash challenge will be the first team up for elimination." "The judges have decided that the winner of the flash challenge is Team Peck." " Yes!" " Hell, yes." "The ball's in our court, and that rules." " Two to one, baby." "Two to one." " Call the bull[bleep], man." "One person didn't even tattoo." " We, as a group, made all of these decisions together." " How each individual team operates is among the team and their leader." "Today's challenge was composition." "There were more elements that interworked with each other." "The thin blue line, as hard as it was to see, was a conscious effort to create another element that went across all three backs." " It's the first challenge." "If you get knocked off the top quick, you get back on." "Well, you just did three horses to ride." "Get back on them." " Team Peck, you are safe from elimination this week, and you will also have the power to assign the human canvases to Team Nuñez." "Head back to the loft, and prepare for the first elimination tattoo." "[dramatic music]" " Whoo!" " Hey, look." "Straight-up, everybody on the other team looked at our tattoo, and y'all know we did that [bleep]." "Y'all were scared as [bleep]." " We answered the assignment more efficiently than yours did." " When I hear, "Shoulder to shoulder,"" "bro, I think shoulder..." " But no one said shoulder to shoulder." "They said it had to span three backs." " Ours didn't?" "I don't know how the [bleep] we lost." " I think it's [bleep] up when you come in here talking all this [bleep], and you're upset about what the judges picked." "Don't take it out on us." " Do you think y'all's tattoo was better than ours?" "Was our tattoo better than y'all's?" " The correct question would be, "Was our tattoo more"..." " Oh, my God." "Stop." " I think we nailed the [bleep] thing." " It doesn't [bleep] matter." "So they win." "Move on." "That's it." "[rock music]" "♪" " Welcome to the first elimination tattoo." "Team Peck, you won the flash challenge and are safe from elimination this week." " Whoo-hoo!" " What you don't know is that you also have the power... each week, the team that is safe from elimination will form a jury of peers." "You will observe the other team's work, and as a group, deliberate and choose one artist to put up for elimination." " Holy [bleep]." "I love having power." "This game's about to get real." " We're hoping that you, as tattoo artists, take this as serious." "We don't want to see you just trying to throw somebody under the bus to be vindictive." "We don't want to see you kick out greater tattooers to give your own self a better chance." "We want to see honest, constructive critiques on these tattoos." " Team Nuñez, are you ready for your first elimination tattoo?" " Hell, yeah." " Today, you must tattoo Medusa." "From Greek mythology, Medusa is a monster with snakes for hair, who turns any man that dares look at her into stone." "Composition is crucial to legibility." " There's a lot of really tiny detail when it comes to a Medusa." "You have snakes in her hair, a pretty face... they are really easy to screw up." " Guys, we took a bad beat yesterday, and today, unfortunately, we're gonna take one more, because we're gonna lose somebody." "Keep yourself here with good features and a face, a strong snake." "Do not create an eel or something that leaves them debating if they're even snakes." "Do not [bleep] that part up." " Let's meet your canvases." "Team Peck, you won the flash challenge." "You now have the power to assign the canvases as a team." "Pick one person to talk to the canvases on behalf of the team." " We gotta send Dave." " I think we're gonna send Dave." " Dave." " Go ahead, Dave." " Now, what were you thinking about getting?" " A full-body Medusa, topless, and a diamondback snakeskin." " I don't want anything to do with a full-body Medusa." "That means the head's gonna be tiny." "The snakes are gonna be tiny." "That's a technical tattoo with zero room for error." " I want a sexy, realistic Medusa with a gothic style on my back." " I want a color-realism Medusa bust with dragon-like snake hair." " Realistic color Medusa is gonna take a lot of time." "I really hope I'm not getting this canvas." " What would you like to get tattooed?" " Trash Polka-style Medusa head with some script." "I am pissed my team lost this first flash challenge, because now, Team Peck is gonna use this skull pick to their advantage." "We're all going to be screwed." " Okay." "So let's assign per person." "Trash Polka-style..." "pretty easy to pull off." " The kicker to me is that full-body Medusa, because, dude, getting tiny, tiny, little snakes to look like snakes in that hair is gonna be [bleep] ridiculous." " Okay." "We got it." "Our first strategy is to hit Team Nuñez's top players." "We want to take out the biggest competitors on that team." "Our second strategy is to keep weak players in the game, because ultimately, these are the people we're tattooing against." " Canvases, one by one, please, read the artist's name on the bottom of your skull." " Kevin." " SketchyLawyer." " John." " Tuff Tito." " Team Peck is out to get me." "They know I'm a strong player, so they shoot for me first." " Kelly." " Carolyn." " Sirvone." " Eric." " Nikki." " Team Nuñez, you will have six hours to show flawless composition by tattooing Medusa." "Based on your work, one of you will be the first artist to close shop." "Good luck." " Medusas are the Achilles' heel for all tattooers." "It takes a pretty lady's face." "It takes perfect snakes." "It takes perfect composition." " You want to do, like, a bust, so you can get more detail in, like, the snakes and the head?" " Yes." " Okay." "Perfect." " Full-body Medusa." " Full-body." " With a skull face." " Skull face." " Looking down at a victim she's turned to stone." " Jesus, God." " This is a pressure cooker, in my opinion." " Are you set on color?" " I'm pretty set on color." " Team Peck is definitely trying to screw me over with this realistic-color Medusa." "I highly recommend black ink, dude, because, you know, 10, 20 years from now, it's still gonna look good." " Yeah." "I could do black and gray." " Cool." "If Team Peck thinks they're gonna take me out, they got another thing coming." "This is gonna look awesome." " You want a full-body." " Full-body Medusa." "She's gonna be topless." " I can definitely do a Medusa." "But my canvas... he wants a full-body." "Colorful, right?" " Yeah, yeah." " And also, he wants color." "Are you kidding me?" " Feeling pretty set on the full-body." " Something like that?" " Yeah, but we're not doing just the head." "It's the first elimination, and my canvas is freaking rigid." " No." "I'm not a fan of that face." " I could be screwed right now." "[dramatic music]" " This canvas is freaking me out." "He wants full-body, and also, he wants color." "Some real freaking predator, metallic look." "He could send me home." " You'll kill yourself doing all that, and it's not even that appealing." "Get rid of that weird rattle." " He wants a rattle?" " [bleep], Tito." "That thing's just little, man." " It's a pain in the ass." " Well, look at what you're up against." "You're up against a bunch of people that are doing big, open faces with big, beautiful details." "That [bleep] could either make you the man, or it could send you home." "It's a tough design." "Don't stress." "Hang in." " All right." "Team Nuñez, you have six hours to tattoo Medusa and show great composition." "This is your first chance to show Chris you have what it takes to hold your own, and your time starts now." " Let's go tattoo." " Whoo!" " Today, we're testing composition with Medusas." "This is a tattoo that needs to be hand drawn to find that flow, to find that rhythm." " I'm just gonna place it where I think it looks good." "Okay?" " I may have to sketch a little bit of this on." " If you just cut and paste a bunch of snakes to a pretty lady face, you're gonna have problems." " Here we go." " I'm really happy with her head size." "I've tattooed so many Medusas." "All right." "Here we go." "There's a catch." "They take for [bleep] ever, because there's so much detail when it comes to doing all of those writhing snakes." "I feel like I've got a leg up in this challenge." " We all wanted the stronger artists on our team." "We may have [bleep] ourselves, because now, my teammates are my main opponents." "We have nine people on our team, who are the strongest in the room, and so if you knock out four of those, when the last five are still here, we're gonna have the strongest team, period." " I'ma have you sit back and enjoy the ride." "Team Peck gave me the Trash Polka tattoo." "I've done this before, but never with a Medusa." " This is facing backwards, bro." "It's got to be facing forward." "I'm helping Sirvone, because I know he's one of the weakest artists in Team Nuñez." "Just flip that [bleep] around." "The longer I keep him here, the better it is for Team Peck." "You'll get it, bro." "I'm trying to play the game." "[rock music]" " One thing I'm confused about is why so many" "Medusas have hair." " I think it's either hair or snakes." " Maybe they were worried about doing too many snakes." "Too much going on." " Damn." " The snakes are about done, if that's any consolation." " Oh, that's it?" " No." "I got to do the face." "I know how to do faces better than most of the people in this room." " I've had enough." "I'm taking a break." "I need to go to the bathroom." "I want to get some soda." " You need to do that right now?" " Yeah." " We only have six hours." "I'm stressing whether or not I'm gonna get this tattoo finished or not." "She's freaking me out." " Four hours remaining." "Four more hours." "[dramatic music]" " Hi." " Hey." "What's up?" " Chilling while she pees forever." "My worst fear is coming true." "I think I'm gonna go get her." "Are you doing okay, dear?" " Yeah." "I'm going to the bathroom." " Okay." "No." "No [bleep] hurry." "Sorry." " What the hell is everybody doing?" " Three hours, guys." "Halfway done." " You're just getting me paranoid, girl." "You're scaring me." "If I don't finish, I'm out of here." " I definitely want to take another break." "That's for damn sure." " Okay." "I can't afford to take several 20-minute breaks." "Get it together, lady." " If the name of the game is composition, nobody is working with the snakes, like, pulling them off of the tattoo and having them elongate the tattoos." "A lot of them are like stickers." " I got to shade in all of the snakes." "I'm used to taking my time." " Carolyn was doing good until she put that background in." " I'm really hoping you'll see more of my strengths in this one." "I almost didn't even make it onto a team." "I was the last pick." "At this point, I need to not feel like the underdog." "I put a lot of things on hold... my whole life, my kids." "I need to nail this down." " Tito looks rough." " Rough." "I think what we went after happened." " Yeah." "Inadvertently, yeah." " True, but not maybe the way we were expecting it to." "But it's looking kind of..." " It looks like Tito's got the worst." " Think we're getting good luck." " I think so too." " Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." "That's it." "Time's up." "Machines down." "No more ink." " Okay." " Done." " We're done." " All right." "Do you want to take a look?" " I do." " We started out a little rough, but we got it done." " Tuff Tito's Medusa... his snakes look like yarn." "It looks like a zombified Raggedy Ann." "It's [bleep], and he needs to go home with it." "You are a target, man." " If they shoot for me, they better aim right." " Do you think Carolyn's face is worse than Tito's?" " No." " Come on." " I can't even believe we're not going over this." "[dramatic music]" " I think the jury of peers is gonna pick Tito." " I knew that from day one they'd shoot for me." " His tattoo did not stand up against a couple others, and they know he's strong, so it's a win-win if he's gone." " You are a target, man." " If they want to play the game correctly, they will pick the best players on the [bleep] team." " If they shoot for me, they better aim right." "'Cause if they miss it, I'm coming hard." " Today, you had to show perfect composition in tattooing Medusa." "Team Nuñez, let's see how you did." "Tito." " The snake heads are all completely so different." "Some of them look like koi." "Some of them have a frog look." " I just tried to create the best composition that I could." " Her arm just ending abruptly like that is really strange." "The bottom of the tattoo, where her torso ends off, also strange." "And then, there's a little piece of something on her hip, and I don't know if that's a piece of her clothing." "This is a really, really rough tattoo to turn in today." " Eric." " This tattoo is so tonal." "You don't have the rich." "You don't have the smooth." " I definitely bit off more than I could chew." " It doesn't look like a finished tattoo." "The stripy, heavy, black lines in the hair, and then not enough shading to back them up..." " It's just dealing with this time issue." " You looked not in the groove, and you've got to find it." " Chris, what's it like critiquing your own team?" "I mean, obviously, you want to see these guys succeed." " It's terrible, because now, I feel what they feel." "Before, they were just people that we were working through to get to the best." "But now, it's like, "Damn it."" ""If I spend time with you, and I become human," ""and we bro down, and then I have to put the hat back on and come over here?" It's rough." "This is only gonna get harder and harder." " Sirvone." " Your outline looks nervous." "The wobbly ridge of the nose sticks out, so when I look her in the eyes, boom." "The first thing you see looking in the eye is a big wobble." "That is a major problem." " Kelly." " The shading's beautiful." "The detail in the eyes, the ridge of the nose, the lips... everything fits beautifully." " The fact that you were able to put in this little figure turning into stone now created a story." "That's hitting composition out of the park." " Thank you." " John Collins." " Medusa's supposed to have such a beautiful face that no one can look away from her." "You kind of went more sea-monster." "Compositionally, the one big drawing mistake you put in there is that snake that comes over and cuts into her chin." "It kind of just deters away from her face line, and if that snake's gonna interact with her, it needs to be a little bit more believable." "It's a little stiff." "But overall, a strong tattoo." " SketchyLawyer." " Technically, this tattoo's smooth as ice, man." "Clean lines, smooth shading, and you're one of the only people today that made a design that fit the body well." " You definitely secure your position at this moment." "Strong tattoo." " Kevin." " You have some really nice elements in the face." "You did some really nice tricks with the light and the shadow coming off of her nose." "But it's two big snakes and a severed head floating in a diamond." " When I think of Medusa, I think of snakes growing out of her head." "I don't understand why you would choose to not show any of that." " I was trying my hardest to be able to do full color and give you a good tattoo." "So if it meant me having to box some things in, that's what I did." " I don't see how anybody is gonna be impressed by this ill-placed, sketchy, [bleep] round [bleep] square on this guy's chest." "The snake going into the armpit is jacked." "This is probably the worst placement of the day." " Nikki, I love this tattoo." "The face is beautiful." "The composition is really great." "You don't have tons of snakes, but what you do have are dynamic." " The part of the tattoo that I do not like is the two pieces of body directly over the top of her forehead." "Those look like green bananas, not snakes." "But you still gave her a beautiful tattoo." " Carolyn." " The back side of the tattoo looks very unfinished." "She literally just has just a little bit of a face." "It's floating in this mess that, from a distance, is really hard to tell what's going on." " I ran out of time, and I had to focus a little bit more on the face, rather than the smoke." " These outlines and this shading... it has a very single-needle, prison-machine look to it, and you have all the tools." "That's not a good thing." "You're on my team." "I want to sugar-coat it as much as possible, but it's not possible." "This quality does not stand up." "You're hanging yourself." " All right, guys." "Time to determine who had the best tattoo of the day." " The top two would be either Nikki or Kelly." "Both of them captured the really beautiful face." "Nikki got some really bright, beautiful colors." "Kelly's tattoo... nice and soft and beautiful." " I loved Sketchy's application." "The most consistent all the way through." "I side with the technical." " I'm gonna go with Kelly." " Kelly did play with composition, where she created a story." "That really matters to me." "My vote today is going to be for Kelly." "The judges have decided." "The best tattoo of the day goes to Kelly." " Thank you very much." " Team Peck, as the jury of peers, you must deliberate and put one artist up for elimination." "Team Nuñez, one of you is about to pack your machines." "Head back to the loft." " I'm pretty sure I'm going home today." " Your lack of confidence is having a lot to do with you not hitting the mark when you're tattooing." "If you're gonna stick around, you got to put everything outside of your head." " I know what I can do, and I know that people do." " You don't show it though." " If they call you down there, you need to reassure them that you're here to [bleep] kill it." "You already know Tito's gonna go down there and be like, "[bleep] that." "I'm..."" " Hey... hey, there's no way in hell I'm going home." " I just don't want you to get eaten alive." "You're not no little weak bitch." "Even if you are, make sure that people think that you're some bad bitch." " There's no [bleep] way that I'm going home today." "There's no [bleep] way." "[dramatic music]" " We are here as the jury of peers to decide who should be eliminated." " Tito's is just a bad tattoo all around." " Those snakes are horrible." " I don't think his canvas asked for eel-faced snakes." " It's missing an arm, and look how he ended the belly." "It just ends." " When I look at it, though, I see more symmetry and balance than I do in Carolyn's." "Kind of see a nose and two eyes, and then a bunch of mush." " I vote for Carolyn." " Look at Tito's." "Do you think Carolyn's snakes are worse than Tito's?" " No." " Do you think Carolyn's face is worse than Tito's?" " No." " Then what are we even talking about?" " I disagree." "I think it is worse." "I see more balance in the other one." " Come on." " I can't even believe we're [bleep] arguing over this." " All right, guys." "Today, we are testing composition with Medusa tattoos." "Team Nuñez up for elimination... who's sitting on the bottom for you today?" " For me, I think Sirvone." "It's a traditional tattoo with not a very well composed, trying-to-be-Trash Polka background." " I would wear Sirvone's tattoo any day over Kevin's tattoo." "It's coming out of the armpit." " The snake under the main snake looks like he's just growing out of her temple." "Nothing flows in the same direction in any way in this entire tattoo." " Chris, you're the team captain here." "Who are your bottoms today?" " Definitely Carolyn, because Carolyn's just a mess." " The only real hard, definitive edges she has anywhere in this tattoo are the outline of the eyes." " Those are two very different eyes." " In her defense, Tito's is just hideous." "That tone in the body..." "those colors... it is beat up." "It is not saturated." "It is a weird color choice." " This is the first time we have Team Peck jury of peers." "Now, we got nine other tattooers who are gonna weigh in on this decision." "They're gonna put somebody up for elimination, but I think we're agreed." "You good?" " I'm good." " Time to get them." " I felt like, as a team, we kicked ass, and now, all of a sudden, we're gonna lose a player." "It's gonna [bleep] suck." " All right." "Jury of peers, who are you putting up for elimination?" " Today, the jury of peers decided to put Tuff Tito up for elimination." " All right." "The judges are gonna see" "Tito, Carolyn, and Kevin." "We'll see you and the jury of peers downstairs." " We debated, and we really hammered it out, and at the end, it wasn't unanimous." "It was a majority rule." " You guys better pray that I don't walk back from that door." "That's the only thing I have to say." "Let's go downstairs." "I'm ready." "Let's go." " Today, you had to tattoo Medusa." "Based on your work, one of you will be the first artist to pack your machines." "Let's hear it from the jury of peers." "Team Peck, why did you vote Tito to the bottom?" " When it came down to it, it was who had the prettiest face, who had the best snakes, who had the best color packing or shading." "We just really debated on that." " The majority voted Tito." " They shoot for me." "I'm a strong competitor." "I don't think I deserve to go home." " Tito, I like your confidence, but..." " The only game I can play at the time was composition." " Did he suggest purples and reds and opaque grays and just scattered?" " That's what he wanted." " But aside from the struggles with the canvas, the nose is crooked, eyes aren't the same shape." "The forehead line is off." "This is one of the worst of the day." " Kevin." " As far as composition goes, I understand why I'm down here." "But do I think I should go home?" "No." " You did a nice face with some weird [bleep] around it." "The fact that all these elements are in the same tattoo is mind boggling to me." " I promise you, I see that." " As talented as you are, and you're in my top five, to lose you on a day like this, out of the gate?" "I wasted a pick." "Don't make me waste my picks." " Carolyn, I feel like you're overconfident." "I think that this tattoo shows..." " No, no, no, no, no." "I don't think I'm overconfident." "Actually, that's the thing, is that I was holding back a lot." " From any distance at all, it's an eyes, a nose, and a mouth, and who knows what else?" "It's a mess." " I don't think my tattoo is worse than his." "There's ways to make that image look better, instead of making little yarns coming out of the head." " All right, guys." "Time to determine who's going home." "Tito's..." "I mean, it looks like a painful injury." "My vote is to send Tito home." " Tito, your tattoo today, no doubt, everybody agrees, sucks." "But do I believe you can go forward?" "Yes." "We want the best artists to go forward in this competition." "Now, this is Nuñez' team." "I don't want to attack him personally and try to attack his team." "So I'm not gonna let my critiques beat down his strong competitors in any way." "That's not how me and him are playing this game." "But if I look at the tattoos that everybody has done so far and see who has these different tools that are gonna help them go the furthest, Carolyn, I'm sorry." "My vote is for you." " Here's where I'm at, and here's how it falls." "Carolyn's report card is the worst of the three, period." " I haven't done tattoos like that since" "I [bleep] started tattooing." "I didn't come here, leave my whole life to stand here, to go [bleep] home right now." " The report cards make sense, because we've only seen a few tattoos from you." " Traditional day, Tito beat you." "Geisha day, Tito beat you." "I'm sure at home, you are much better than you are in a pressure cooker, but..." " I am gonna say, I know you're about to say my name, but I think you're gonna make a huge goddamn mistake." " My vote is for Carolyn to go home." " The judges have decided." "Carolyn, you do not have what it takes to be an Ink Master." " This is a tough environment." "It is not for everybody." "It's a lot of pressure." " All right, Carolyn." "Please, pack your machines and close shop." " I didn't show, like, not even a fraction of what the [bleep] I can do." "They made a wrong choice." "Nuñez thinks that Tito's gonna make his team go farther." "No way." "announcer:" "On the next episode of "Ink Master"..." " This week, Team Peck, you're up for elimination." "We've brought the beach here." " [yells]" " I'm basically against my team." " They're gonna [bleep] you over so quick." " Today, you were on Team Nuñez, buddy." " You put me in a compromising situation." " Hey, Team Peck, calm down." "What you guys need to worry about is not what happened." "It's about who's gonna go home this week." " Unfinished, man." "You just gave yourself an eyesore." " You want to pay your rent?" "You tattoo that [bleep] canvas." " This thing is rough." " My critique's totally different."