"Male announcer:" "Tonight, on "Ink Master:" "Redemption"..." " We have so many canvases that come here into this shop hoping for an amazing tattoo and leave here totally heartbroken." "What happens to them?" "announcer:" "Two artists return for a second chance." " What you did came out bad." " 'Cause you were uncomfortable, and you wanted me to stop." " You get a bad critique, you gonna you gonna throw someone under the bus?" "That makes you a bitch." " I ain't no [bleep] bitch, man." " Guys, we're gonna bring in another artist." "announcer:" "Their master artists are also back." " I don't know why Angel is here to help me." "I'm a better artist than him." "announcer:" "Ready to show them how it's done." " Let me just stop you in your tracks right now." "announcer:" "Egos collide as apprentices must once again work under their masters." " Do you still have a bad taste in your mouth 'cause you got eliminated first?" " Go to hell." "announcer:" "And tag team their way to a shot at redemption." " [bleep] you, man." " I know what the hell" "I'm doing... what are you doing?" " This time, redemption is much harder to come by." "[electricity crackling] [rock music]" " My name is Dave Kruseman." "I competed on season six of "Ink Master,"" "which I just so happened to win." "♪" " Returning Ink Master." "Good to see you, man." " I'm a little freaked out why I'm here." " Let me tell you what's going on." " Okay." " Your apprentice, Duffy, did a tattoo at "Ink Master."" " Okay." " Her canvas is super-unhappy with the tattoo." "I'm gonna go talk to the canvas." "What I'd like you to do is go to the green room and watch the interview." " Okay." " I'll have a monitor there." "See what her complaints are." "Get Duffy back here, and if you can help her out making this canvas happy..." " Solve the problem, absolutely." " Perhaps tag team with her." " Yeah, no problem, cool, yeah." " Sound good?" " So let's go into the green room, make it happen." " My name's Duffy, and I'm from Maryland, and I was on season six of "Ink Master."" "I just feel like I haven't been myself these last couple of days, 'cause I missed my baby's first birthday, and it felt so wrong." " It's awful to see your apprentice in a bad situation like this." "The last thing I wanna do is see her [bleep] fail." " Duffy, you do not have what it takes to be Ink Master." " Olive, do you want some banana?" "Outside of my daughter and my family, tattooing is everything else I have." "I love you." "I just don't know what I'm getting myself into, so it's kinda nerve-wracking." " Don't worry." "Your work is great, and I have confidence in you, so I think it's gonna be good." " My family owns multiple shops in Maryland, and the one thing that we take the most pride in is customer service." "If there's somebody out there that's not happy with something I did for 'em, it kills me inside." "Somebody's not crazy about me, so... we'll see if I can make it right." " Celis." " Hi." " Welcome back." "Now, your artist was Duffy." " Yes." " You must find a unique way to use your canvas's anatomy to make your tattoo come to life." " I wanna get a mermaid on the left side of my head." "I just don't want the shell." " We start taking elements like that out, you're not gonna be able to tell what she is." "Probably not gonna look much like a mermaid." " I really don't like the shell." " This is definitely my least favorite tattoo" "I've seen you do." " What hurt me was when she said," ""Well, I didn't think it was that bad."" "If you thought the tattoo was bad at all, why didn't you bring it to my attention before placing it on my body?" "The tattoo was awful." "The eyes were too far apart, she had a duck face, her forehead is two different colors." "She looks like she has herpes on the side of her mouth." " Oh, God." "Gimme a break." " What does your husband think of the tattoo?" " He hates it." "He made me wear a hair cap at night." " At night?" " Yes, when I slept." " Wow!" " He couldn't stand seeing it." " Well, that's terrible." "I wanna make it up to you." "I have Duffy in the shop." "She knows that there's a canvas here who's unhappy, but she does not know it's you." " Okay." " Wanna go talk to her?" " Yes." " Why don't you head into the shop and meet Duffy." "Good luck." " I am very embarrassed by the tattoo." "I have this on my body for the rest of my life." "I would do anything to erase the memory of this tattoo." "[dramatic music]" " Hey." "Well, aren't you who I was not [laughs] expecting to see." " Well, the tattoo..." "came out bad." "It came out real bad." " I drew a bigger, nicer design for you while you were here." " What you did was hands and a shell, and I took the shell off." "But it looks like they punched her in the head." " Because you were hurting, so we stopped early." " Her forehead... half of it is my scalp color." "The other half is her face color." " Right, because you were uncomfortable, and you wanted me to stop." " I never asked you to stop." "The tattoo didn't come out great, and that's why I'm here." " Duffy!" "Get down here." "So how is this all going?" " I understand the pressure, but to say that I'm satisfied with it..." "I'm not." " We wanna give Duffy a shot at redemption." "We wanna give you a tattoo that you're happy with, a completely new one." "So we're gonna bring in another artist who's gonna work with Duffy tag-team style... on design and tattooing." "Are you open to meeting this artist?" " Yes." " Are you?" " Bring it on." " Why don't you come on in?" " Oh... my goodness." " Oh, my God!" "[laughs]" " Thank goodness." "If anybody's gonna help me take control of this situation, it's gonna be Kruseman." " Consult with these two, come up with a design." "These guys are gonna draw it up together." "And then if you like the design, they will tag team tattoo you." " Okay." " If you don't like it, you're outta here." " I love it." " You into it?" " Hell, yeah." " Everybody's fists in." "[rock music]" " Here we go again..." " Angel." " I'm like a little..." " You a little jittery about this?" " Yeah, a little jittery." " You know I have a canvas that's unhappy." "And guess what." " What?" " It's not one of your canvases." "I have one of Cris's canvases." " [laughs] Oh, that's great." " My name is Cris Element." "I'm from Brooklyn, New York." "I was season five of "Ink Master."" "[rock music]" " You weren't planning to highlight that spot, man?" " No." "Worry about your own [bleep]." " Don't get mad if I get in there and lighten it up for you." " Don't touch my side." "That's the whole point of the challenge!" " Cris Element was a little back-stabbing, stair-climbing weasel." "He used to work for me, and one day he just quit." "I give you a piece of advice, you can at least follow it." " What do I need to follow you for?" "I'll do my own [bleep]!" " Stop being a pussy, man!" "If you're my competitor, bro, give me a fight!" " I think I was put in such a crazy position with my rival being there..." "it affected my tattoos." "I want that redemption more than anything, because I have a lot to prove to myself and my canvases." "I always wanna give 100% to every tattoo that I do." " It's a little nerve-wracking being here, but, uh, I'm ready for whatever, you know, is thrown at me." " Tho, welcome back." " Thank you." " So your artist was Cris." " Yes." " Today you must tattoo Japanese geishas." " Gonna probably trail a little bit, blowing down there and stuff..." " I like that." " This guy wants a full-body geisha with koi fish and a cherry blossom tree in the background." "There's so many elements in this tattoo that getting composition right is almost near-impossible." " I thought the whole experience was great." "I get the family together, we're sitting down, we're watching the show." "And then Cris starts throwing me under the bus." " It just looks like a huge woman." "The robe, the skin, the fish, the background... it's all black." " I just couldn't click with the guy." "Just said a couple dumb comments that I just didn't like, and I just gave up before I started." " This is suicide, 'cause if you gave up before you started, man, we could give up right now and spare everybody the critique and send you packing out." " I just try not to take it emotionally." " You're doing a tattoo on another human being." "They gotta live with it emotionally forever." "Were you angry when you watched it back?" " Yeah, I was mad." "I was mad because I let a bitch tattoo me." " [laughing] Wow." " To me, it's about the tat and the person that tats you." "You can look at my other tats... they're not all that great." "But you know what, the person that gave 'em to me I respect." "That tattoo, now I'm just like..." " We want you guys to be happy." " Yeah." " They can't compete without you." "So I brought Cris back." " [laughs]" " He doesn't know you're here." " Oh, nice." " What I'm gonna offer you is an opportunity to talk to him about this." "My hope is that you can get to a place where you can look at that tattoo again." " All right." " Head in and meet him." "Good luck, dude." " Thank you, dude." " Yeah, man." "Anytime." " Cris is a bitch, a pussy, and a punk." "From that moment that I saw that episode," "I wanted to backhand him." "I been holding it in." "I've been wanting to do it." "I'm ready to stand toe-to-toe with him." " What's up, man?" " That was a bitch move you did, man." "You're a bitch." " Yeah?" "Why's that?" " Just 'cause you get a bad critique, you gonna throw someone under the bus?" "You can't man up and be like, "This is my work."" "Instead you said, hey, just go ahead and kick him underneath there." " I ain't no [bleep] bitch, man." " Yo, what you did was a bitch move, so that makes you a bitch." " You couldn't man up." " I did." "I said I gave up before I started, which was the stupidest [bleep] that I ever said." "But the thing that canvases don't understand is all the stress that we go through on the show." " So being stressed out, having all that [bleep] pent up makes you a bitch." " I ain't no [bleep] bitch, man." " Come on." "What you did was a bitch move, so that makes you a bitch." " How you think that I feel that I said some [bleep] on national TV in front of America saying that I gave up?" "How do you think that makesmefeel?" " That's on you." "You said it." "I gotta live with what you said too." " Well, that's not me." "Everybody was on me." "Being in front of the judges, you get nervous..." " That's how it is, man." "You gotta stand up." "You backed down." " Guys." "Come on down." "How you feeling, man?" " I feel bad, know what I mean?" "What I said that episode was something I really, you know, regretted saying, and I was just letting the competition get to me a lot." " Do you guys feel like you squashed that element?" " I still have it in the back of my head, though, 'cause I don't forget." "Do I really wanna put myself through maybe having to deal with the same thing?" " Here's what's gonna happen." "I wanna make you happy." "We wanna offer you a brand-new tattoo, no pressure, totally up to you whether or not you wanna get it." "But this time I have somebody I'm gonna bring in here and have him work with Cris tag-team style kinda as a comfort level for you." "I think you might know this gentleman." " Yeah." " You guys ready to meet this guy?" "[dramatic music]" "♪" "Master and apprentice, back together again." "You don't look happy." " I don't..." "I don't need someone to help me." " Right." "Nothing's changed." " I don't know why Angel is here to help me." "I'm a better artist than him." " Don't forget..." "there's no competition here." "All you have to do is come up with a design with these guys." "You pick the placement." "You pick the subject." "They'll present it to you." "If you like that design, they tattoo together." " Let's do this, bro." "I'll give 'em a chance." " All right, brother." "See ya, fellas." "Initially, Cris looked shocked." "Then we brought Angel in..." "he was trippin'!" " You gonna make sure he don't..." " Yeah, I'll be watchin'." " If they can rely on their strengths, they got this thing made." "But if they get adversarial, it's [bleep]!" " So what are you thinking?" " Uh, Guan-yu." "Chinese God of War." " Oh, okay, he has the big..." "the long beard?" " Yeah." "I want it on my back, black and gray." "Face needs to be red." " Okay." " Full suit." "And very detailed." " All right." "Just have a seat on the couch," "I'm, gonna try to come up with something cool, okay?" " Okay." " All right, man." " We will try to come up..." " We." " With something cool." " Well, what I want is like a female." "A warrior woman." " Since you left here with a face that you're unhappy with, the last thing I wanna do is put another face on you." " I really had my heart set on a female." " Let me just stop you in your tracks right now." "When you came in to get your tattoo," "I physically watched you guide Duffy through the whole process." "You had her take away the hand... you didn't like all these parts." "So when you take control, you take the risk of ending up in the same exact shoes that you're standing in today." " Definitely want a female." " You could maybe run down some other things" "I could potentially do for you... floral, bows, like..." " I don't think I would want, like, any other thing like a heart or any... skull or anything like that." " You only just want another female face." " Yeah." " I'm gonna go ahead and intervene one more time." "The best thing for you to do is to let us do something that we think is great." " I understand the female warrior's important to you, but we would love to just give you a nice, very feminine, vibrant, pretty tattoo." " The last thing we wanna do is put something on you that you're not stoked on." "[dramatic music]" " If you guys can draw up something that's feminine..." " Yeah." " I could probably consider it." " Okay, cool." " I'm super-happy that Kruseman's here to help me steer this canvas in the right direction, because every ounce of me always wants to give somebody exactly what they want, and I don't know that I would have stopped her." " Let's get a tracing of your arm and go from there." " Okay." " Cool." " If you could just, you know, work together... you know what that means, right?" " Yeah." "Don't bark orders at me and..." " If I see that you're not going on the right direction," "I'm gonna say something, you know." "I can't stay quiet." " Well, then, I'm not gonna stay quiet either." " Just don't go rogue on me." " I need redemption on my own." "I shouldn't have to have Angel overlooking or, let alone, collaborating on a tattoo." "Do you still have a bad taste in your mouth that you got eliminated first?" " Really?" " I mean, I'm just asking, man." " Honestly, yes, it did." "Because I know for a fact that I did better needle against needle." " Angel is still butthurt that I beat him, but since it's my redemption," "I'm trying to put that all beside me and do a really good tattoo." " All right, guys." "Get over here, man." "What's up, Cris?" "Do you guys find that you work well as a team when you're not in a competitive environment?" " We got a crazy relationship." " Yeah." " But we're here now and..." "I just wanna see the best come out of him." " Do you feel that this time you saw 100% out of him?" " I mean, to say 100% would be to actually see the tattoo finished." " All right, man..." "Tho, you ready to check out this design?" " Yeah." " Wow." " We did the full body like you wanted." "The spear is probably extended a little bit so it comes onto your neck." " That is a massive design." "What do you think, dude?" " I'm not too sure, man." "It's a whole lot bigger than this design, so..." " If you're afraid of the size of it," "I mean, we could shrink it just a little bit." " Well, I'm not afraid of the size of it." "I'm afraid of whether or not you'll be able to pull it off." " We have Angel here to help with the tattooing, tag-team style, two strong artists, no stress..." "it's all up to you, man." " [sighs] [suspenseful music]" "All right, man, I'll give you a chance at redemption." " Hell, yeah." " I just got one thing to say." "You came in here very aggressively, and you called me a bitch, and you called me out, so before me and him even agree to tattoo you for this," "I would like an apology also." " You want me to apologize for calling you a bitch?" " Yes." " Before me and him even agree to tattoo you," "I would like an apology also." " You want me to apologize for calling you a bitch?" " Yes." " All right, man." "I'm sorry." " All right, appreciate it." " Nice." " Look at that." " Thank you." " All right, good luck." "Get at it, guys." " I'll be so bummed if the canvas doesn't choose to get this tattoo because we really came up with a great idea for her." "This design will not only be her favorite tattoo, but it will get me my redemption." " Guys, come on down." "How ya holding up?" " Holding up pretty good." " Are you ready to take a look at it?" " Yes, I am." " We put our heart and souls into this thing, so if you like it, we'd love to tattoo it on you." " All right, Duffy, let's take a look at your design." " We wanted to give you a few different types of flowers, a jewel and a bow..." "everything just very pretty and ornamental and girly is what we were going for." " Wow..." " With her mentor, reigning Ink Master Kruseman," "I don't know that you could ask for a better team." "What are your thoughts?" "[suspenseful music]" " I think it's awesome." "It's exactly what I wanted." "It symbolizes my heart and how bubbly my personality is, and I just love it." " Now, this is something that you can't cover up with a shower cap... is your husband gonna like this?" " Yeah." " Awesome!" " Let's get started." " All right, let's do it." " I feel better about this one, man." " Yeah, man, it's gonna be good." "I'll start with some shading." " Yeah, man." "♪" " So how's it like being back on here?" " It's cool to be tattooing again." "I mean, it's not cool to be tattooing with Angel..." " Wow." "Really?" "Just hurry up." "Get the [bleep] outta my way." "[hard rock]" "♪" " What was the craziest challenge?" " Like the craziest tattoo challenge?" " Yeah." " Yours." " Oh!" " Here you have this challenge where you have to make an illusion." "It was really hard and step up to do something that was a little far-fetched, you know?" " Yeah." "♪" " Duffy really doesn't even need me to do this, but I think it's cool that we're doing this collaboration." " Awesome." " Oh, it's just as cool for us." "We've never tattooed the same tattoo on the same person." " This could be the start of something new for us." " I know. [laughing]" " Build up the shadow behind the hair." " Stop hovering over me!" "Just go sit down!" " Just don't [bleep] this up, man." "Don't go over what you already [bleep] up." " I know what the hell I'm doing." "What are you doing?" " You two like a married couple..." "I think you guys work together for [bleep]." " He finds it hard to listen, man." " Now, honey, that's it." "It looks awesome." " Go check it out." " Oh, my God!" "Amazing." "I love it." "Thank you guys so much!" " You happy with it?" " Hell, yeah!" " Awesome." "I'm so happy." "I feel like it's a tattoo that represents me." "I totally redeemed myself." "I came here and did nothing short of what I know I'm capable of." "My work here is done." " Are you glad that I talked you out of the warrior woman and let us do something that we specialize in?" " Yes." " Good." " You really taught me to trust the artist." " That's cool." "I feel like we both got redemption today." "This is hands-down one of the nicest tattoos that me and Duffy have ever done." "I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we collaborated." "I would wear this myself." " Thank you." " We love it too." "We're glad you're happy." " Thank you." " Gimme a little elbow." " I don't wanna be a dick, but would you be all right if I tattooed that real quick?" " Just shut up and tattoo." "[hard rock]" "♪" " Done." " Check it out." "[suspenseful music]" "♪" " That's nice." "I wish I could see it more." " [laughs]" " That's for this piece, man." " Yeah, brother." " Really appreciate it, man." " Thank you, man." " For all their bitching back and forth" "Cris and Angel pulled this off, man." "They hit it outta the park." " Guys, come on down." "I would have no way of knowing who did what in this, where one thing started, one thing stopped." "I mean, it looks flawless." "You happy?" " Thank you." " Have you delivered for you?" " Yes, you did." "Cris delivered." "Angel delivered." " How do you feel, man?" "Are you proud of your boy here?" " Oh, yeah, man, I mean, he's still a pain in my pass." " I know I got redemption on this tattoo because I had to put up with Angel's bull[bleep]." "But I think we did a really nice tattoo." " Guys, congratulations, man." " Thanks." " Thank you." " Way to go, dude." " Did good." "[rock music]" "♪"