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After Kandy's Elimination
The queens return to the werk room. 6, who just survived the lip sync, wipes Kandy's lipstick message from the mirror, saying that she has mixed emotions but is glad to have been given a second chance by Ru. The queens agree with Neon's comment that it's a shame Kandy didn't get to show off more of her many talents, but hey, at least she has her 50,000-or-so Instagram followers to fall back on. The queens then hold a minute's silence in tribute to meme queen Kandy... or rather, they sit awkwardly in silence while staring off into space for a minute.

After their minute's silence is complete, the queens congratulate Jasmine and Tina on their joint win in the improv challenge. Jasmine admits in a confessional that while she’s of course grateful to have the judges appreciate her, she’s slightly annoyed about the double win, as she wanted this to be her chance to step out into the spotlight and win a challenge on her own. From now on, she says, she won't let any queen stand in her way, even if it is her best friend.

Mini Challenge
For the next day's mini challenge, Milan Fashion Week, the queens turn the werk room into a catwalk and put on an impromptu quick drag fashion show, all while being chased by season 4 contestant Milan. Jazell and Tina successfully manage to avoid being caught by Milan's fishing net and win the mini challenge. Their prize? A year's supply of not being trapped in Milan's fishing net. It's the very definition of money-can't-buy.

Main Challenge
For this week's maxi challenge, Ru tells the queens that they'll be throwing it back to their college days with a graduation-themed fashion ball. In it, they'll need to serve three different looks in the following categories:

1) Bookworm Realness
2) Sorority Sister from Another Mister
3) Valedictorian Eleganza Extravaganza
For this third category, the queens receive various materials, ranging from the conventional (graduation caps and gowns) to the not-so conventional (degree scrolls, bouquets of flowers, confetti) from which to create a sickening graduation outfit.

The Pit Crew, dressed in nothing but mortarboards and Andrew Christian underwear, bring in trolleys full of the above materials for the queens to rifle through. An unholy scuffle ensues, in which Denali and Kornbread wrestle for the same piece of black fabric and Olivia and Toto agree to cut a bouquet of flowers in half, King Solomon-style.

With materials bagged, the queens draw up initial designs for their Valedictorian Eleganza Extravaganza looks; Neon's two-in-one look that transitions from valedictorian to club kid is an outside of the box take on the theme, while Jazell aims for something more traditional, sleek and elegant, hoping to impress the judges with its simplicity. Moltyn takes a similar route, but her mini dress concept focuses mostly on the simplicity bit. The eleven queens then take to their sewing machines and get to work constructing their outfits. Olivia and Tina, each with sewing experience beneath their belt, get going with ease, while Kornbread takes one unsure look at her machine and instead races for the hot glue gun.

Jasmine, determined to one-up Tina this week, gets very ambitious with the materials she's hoping to use, but has to take a step back when she realises her planned design won't work in the allotted time. She glances over at Tina, who is has already sewed half of her outfit, and begins to panic. Gia, who won her first challenge but has received negative critiques from the judges the past two challenges, says she feels a mountain of pressure to deliver. Therefore, she's decided to take a risk, and plans to construct a dark, funereal look out of paper and painted flowers. She worries that the judges will think it veers too far from the graduation theme, but knows either way that if she doesn't impress them, it could be a case of third strike and you're out.

Mirror Chat
The queens take five minutes out of constructing their outfits to discuss their college experiences, and their experiences with education more generally. Neon mentions that the first drag show she ever saw was in 2012 while she was at college; Moltyn then one-ups her by saying that the first time she ever did drag was at a college rag show as a closeted student in 2004. In a confessional, Moltyn goes into more detail about the link between her education and her drag origins, and says that she has aimed to ensure young people in her local area get the chance to experience drag like she did all those years ago; she regularly performs at the University of Kansas's annual Brown Bag Drag event, a free, university-funded drag show that she says gives all kinds of students access to drag, many of them for the first time.

Elsewhere, Miss Toto discusses how she moved from her home state of Maryland to Miami, where she would begin her drag career, for college (she reveals to the other queens for the first time that she has a master's degree in marine science, prompting them all to sing an impromptu verse of Baby Shark), while Gia surprises the queens further by revealing that she was a volleyball champion in high school (which would have been a useful thing for me to have found out in time for the sports-themed challenge in episode three, huh). In drag, she says, she has been able to replicate that sense of team camaraderie with her drag girl group Bratpack, which has helped her to rise to the top of the Vancouver drag scene.
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