Although initially disbelieving, Ego is brought into the kitchen to watch Remy recreate the dish he leaves without any further comment. Linguini and Colette wait until all the other customers leave to introduce Remy to Ego. Ego is amazed by the dish, which evokes childhood memories of his mother's cooking, and asks to see the chef. Linguini uses roller skates to wait on all the tables by himself, while the rats (under Remy's direction) work together to prepare a variation on ratatouille for Ego. They throw Skinner and a health inspector, bound and gagged, into the freezer when they try to interfere. Impressed by his son's determination, Django organizes the rest of the pack to help out in the kitchen. Linguini then reveals the truth about Remy to the staff, who walk out feeling deceived and betrayed Colette later returns after recalling Gusteau's motto: "Anyone can cook." Remy returns to the kitchen, where a frantic Linguini apologizes and asks Remy back to help. In his cage, Remy has one final conversation with his phantom Gusteau, who tells him that the rat never needed his guidance, and at that moment, he is freed by Django and Emile. Linguini catches the rats in the act and chases them all out, including Remy, feeling betrayed.
Under the pressure of Ego's pending arrival, Linguini has a falling out with Remy, causing Remy to retaliate by leading a raid on the kitchen's food stocks that night. Meanwhile, Remy begrudgingly feeds Emile and his friends by stealing from the kitchen's pantry as the nights pass.Īnton Ego, a food critic whose past review cost Gusteau's one of its star ratings, announces he will review the restaurant again the next day based on its rising success. Django warns Remy that humans and rats will never get along, but Remy does not believe him. Remy finds Emile in the restaurant's trash, and Remy is reunited with the pack. Linguini and Colette begin to develop a romantic bond, leaving Remy feeling left out and taken for granted. Remy discovers the documents and takes them to Linguini, who subsequently fires Skinner and takes control of the restaurant. Skinner, suspicious of Linguini's talents, discovers that Linguini is actually Gusteau's son and, by Gusteau's will, is the rightful owner of the restaurant this revelation would ruin Skinner's plans to use Gusteau's name to market a line of microwaveable meals and fire him in the process. The pair successfully meets the challenges devised by Skinner and is able to serve his first ever dish.
Linguini takes Remy home instead of killing him, as Remy was the "little chef" who made the soup.Īfter a lot of training, Remy and Linguini overcome their language barrier, with Remy pulling Linguini's hair under his toque Blanche to control his limbs like a marionette. Colette, the staff's only female chef, convinces Skinner to retain Linguini, believing him to be the success behind the soup.
She turns out to be a food critic and that she likes the soup. She then calls the waiter and fires him but the woman asks her to see him. Remy is caught by Linguini just as Linguini is caught by Skinner, but before anyone can stop the serving staff, the soup is served and Skinner notices a woman tasting the soup. When Linguini spills some of the soup and attempts to recreate it using random ingredients, Remy is horrified, and falls into the kitchen there, instead of escaping, he fixes the soup. There, he observes Alfredo Linguini being hired as an escuelerie by Skinner, the restaurant's current owner, and Gusteau's former sous-chef. Urged on by Gusteau, Remy makes his way up to the restaurant's kitchen skylight to watch the staff in action. When the pack is discovered by the home's occupant, they flee into the sewers Remy becomes separated from the others and ends up marooned underneath Gusteau's restaurant in Paris, conversing with a hallucination of the famous chef. Instead, however, his talent is put to work in sniffing for rat poison. Gifted with a strong sense of smell and taste, Remy aspires to be a gourmet chef, inspired by France's recently deceased top chef, Auguste Gusteau. Remy is a rat who lives in the attic of a French country home with his brother Emile and a rat pack led by his father Django.