Back to Work The Apprentice USA

TRUMP: Two years ago, it began.

An economic crisis that swept the world

And almost brought our country into another Great Depression.

You may think the worst is over,

But still, talented, smart people are unemployed.

They're looking for work. They have no prospects.

I hate what I'm seeing,

And I'm going to do something about it.

From across the country,

I've chosen 16 of the very best candidates,

All vying to become my Apprentice.

ALEX: I used to be an actual engineer.

Now I drive a tow truck, cashed out my 401(k).

My biggest fear is not being able to provide for my family.

BRANDY: I used to be a corporate attorney, you know,

on really big deals.

Millions and millions and millions of dollars,

And now I'm selling cupcakes for 2 apiece

out of a hot pink truck.

ANAND: I worked in private equity real estate.

I managed a portfolio of about 500 million,

and I used to make a six-figure salary,

and now I'm making no income and living with roommates.

NICOLE: My dream was to become an attorney, to fight for justice.

I didn't go to law school to scan documents.

WADE: Prior to the recession,

I owned and operated my own real estate company.

I was one of the top 30 realtors under the age of 30

and featured on the cover of Realtor magazine,

but struggling to make ends meet right now.

GENE: I used to be a financial advisor, thought I had made it.

That money was just going to fall out of people's pockets.

I don't think that I'm the kind of person

that knows how to quit.

If I don't win this competition, there is no plan B.

CLINT: When I was at my highest high,

I had two construction companies and a title company.

Our profits were millions.

And now we had to sell our house, sold all our belongings.

If I can't make a living for my family, what good am I?

TRUMP: The world has changed.

The way we do business has changed.

But one thing is still the same.

This is the toughest job interview of them all.

STEPHANIE: I'm tired of these recession sob stories.

If you want yours, you need to go out and get it.

I am going to be the next Apprentice.

STEUART: Being an entrepreneur

is a key advantage in this competition.

I AM the Apprentice.

DAVID: The Apprentice is the most important job interview in my life.

KELLY: You're looking at the next Apprentice.

MAHSA: I AM the next Apprentice.

There's only one way to find out.

Let's get down to business.

MUSIC: "For The Love Of Money" by The O'Jays

# Money, money, money, money

# Money

# Money, money, money, money

# Money

# Some people got to have it

# Hey, hey

# Some people really need it

# Hey, listen to me, y'all

# Do things, do things, do things

# Bad things with it

# Dollar bills, y'all, come on

# That mean

# Oh, mean

# Mean green

# Almighty dollar

# Don't you know that money

# Give me a nickel, brother

# Can you spare a dime?

# Money can drive some people out of their minds

# Ah-ah-ah-ah

# No good, no good, money

# Money, money, money, money

# Money. #

ELEVATOR BELL DINGS

TYANA: I pretty much went from six figures

to buying second hand clothing

and saving every penny I can

just to be able to pay the rent.

I am a fighter.

I'm going to do whatever it takes to win the apprenticeship.

STEUART: I'm 100% here to win.

The guy in the red tie,

a little apprehensive about this guy.

He's got big bags under his eyes, so he looks tired, stressed.

I don't know if he's prepared

for coming into this competition.

JAMES: The fact that this is a recession-themed Apprentice

is going to make the competition a lot tougher.

I know, from where I'm sitting,

having been unemployed for so long,

I'm hungry. I'm ready to get after it.

I'm sure everyone else feels the same way.

PHONE RINGS Yes, sir.

Mr Trump is ready for you. You can head into the boardroom.

DRAMATIC MUSIC

Welcome to the boardroom.

Not the most pleasant place on Earth,

but a place that you have to survive

in order to become the next Apprentice.

I think, before we begin,

I want to find out a little bit about you.

So, tell me, why are you here?

You're all sort of victims of the recession.

Some are doing better than others,

and some are pretty much down and out.

David, what about you?

I married my high school sweetheart.

We produced five wonderful children.

I worked in telecom for 10 years, successful sales.

And when my customers stopped paying their bills,

a reduction in force happened, and I was one of the victims.

Cost me a marriage, as well.

And the ultimate goal is to bring my family back together,

and it is why I'm here.

Good luck.

Thank you, sir.

Tougher than most because you have the children.

- Yes, sir. - So, it's a tough position to be in.

Poppy?

Last year, I graduated from Stanford

and, at 22, had a bachelor's and a master's degree.

and one would think that's a shoo-in for a job,

but it's been really difficult.

And now I'm back at home

and helping to care for my grandmother.

OK. Stephanie?

I was a commercial banker in Chicago,

and all of a sudden, I became the cause of this recession.

And now I'm called the fat cat banker,

and I sure don't feel like the fat cat now.

I feel as though I always did a great job.

I served the small business community for ten years,

and I helped a lot of people get their businesses off the ground.

And now I'm out of a job, basically,

and at the short end of the stick.

Nicole, what about you?

Mr Trump, I was a runner-up at Miss California USA,

and I was fortunate enough after law school

to have several offers for jobs,

And I took one, because beggars can't be choosers in this environment.

But it wasn't the dream job that I was really passionate about,

and I don't think I should have to settle.

Even if it is a recession, I think you have to push harder.

Gene, you're a little older than these folks, right? Like me?

I am, yeah.

- A little hair on this dog. - That's good.

Ex-military,

last ten years, been a financial adviser.

And what happened?

They cut us by 85%, laid us off,

almost every single one of us.

Just lived on my personal savings

for probably the last three years.

TRUMP: All right, look.

Life is tough. Life is mean.

The fact is, you thought you were doing well at one time.

You can do better than that.

You can really top it,

and that's what I want to see out of you folks.

For the next 13 weeks,

I will push you, I will motivate you,

I will hopefully inspire you,

and some of you will go on to really big things,

and the ultimate will be

somebody's going to be working for me.

It's going to be a great job, and it's going to pay a lot of money.

It's going to be wonderful.

Now, I'm going to break up the teams.

It's men versus women.

You go back, and you pick a team name.

You then pick the project manager.

Now, the project manager has an advantage,

but they have a big disadvantage,

cos if your team loses,

you're really in line to be fired,

and being fired is never fun.

Do we agree?

ALL: Right. TRUMP: Now, I have a building.

It's the Trump building at 40 Wall Street.

It's right opposite the New York Stock Exchange.

We're going to all meet there, and I'm going to give you your task.

And I will say this.

You're really not dealing with friends right now.

You're dealing to win,

so I'd go all-out, be strong, and win.

Be tough. You'll need to be.

Go ahead. Good luck.

JAMES: So, let's work on team name first

And then project manager and all that other stuff.

What kind of identity do we want to have?

CLINT: We know, obviously, this is about coming back.

It's about recovering.

Anybody have any names along those lines?

ANAND: Something that looks towards the future.

What about Next, cos we're ready for the next level in our lives?

CLINT: I like that.

ANAND: 'Anytime you have a roomful of alpha males,

'everyone wants to be heard,'

but I know I'm one of the most confident people here.

'I'm ready to win. I'm ready to compete.

'I'm ready to get my hands dirty.'

JAMES: I thought of Phoenix.

ALEX: How about Icarus? Rising from the ashes?

JAMES: Well, no, that's Phoenix.

CLINT: That's phoenix, yeah. Same thing.

JAMES: Icarus flew too close to the sun.

STEUART: 'Everyone, individually, I feel, brought their A-game,

'But I don't know how bright Alex is.'

To be Trump's Apprentice,

you not only have to be a hard worker,

'you have to be able to remember that fifth grade mythology stuff.'

ANAND: How about Blast Off?

DAVID: Octane!

CLINT: That's a great one. I like Octane.

Octane? I dig Octane.

JAMES: I'd prefer not to do something, too, like, "Awesome!"

DAVID: I like Octane. I think Octane is a winner.

I'm Octane, man. I like it.

- Let's go with that. - There it is.

Octane?

JAMES: 'I'm not thrilled with Team Octane.

'It seems a little hokey.

'I would have preferred a name

'that was something a little more symbolic for us'

rather than kind of a buzzword.

GENE: Next order of business is, who is going to be project manager?

CLINT: Well, who wants to do it first?

Is there anybody that wants to volunteer to be the project manager?

WADE: Nobody wants to volunteer?

I think you've got some good leadership skills.

You were in the military.

I vote for Gene. I think Gene's got some leadership qualities in him.

I think that...I think we can all respect Gene and look up to Gene.

'This is our first battle of a long war,

And I don't know that I want to be the guy that, you know,

sticks my head out of the bunker first,

'But I think Gene might lead us to a victory.'

CLINT: Let's not just throw Gene out there.

No, I mean, that's my personal opinion.

You know what I say? I say, let's do it, all right?

So, if you guys want to go for it, I'll take it.

CLINT: You want to do it, Gene? I like that.

Let's go for it. Let's make it happen.

DAVID: All right, let's win. Let's win.

GENE: 'I had mixed feelings about them choosing me so quickly.'

Either I was going to set the bar high,

Or I was going to be the first one

that everyone is going to say,

"OK, don't do what that guy did."

Nice job.

ANAND: We got your back. We're going to win this for you.

CLINT: Gene, tomorrow night, we're going to be celebrating.

GENE: We got to. Let's go, man. We got to. Let's dance.

JAMES: 'Once the townfolk grabbed their pitchforks'

And said, "Gene, you should be project manager,"

There wasn't really any way for him to back down.

But I am surprised not one of them

stepped up to be project manager.

As for me, I'm a lawyer.

I stand back and try to advise from a distance.

ALL: 1, 2, 3...Octane!

ANAND: You think the girls are having this much fun next door?

DAVID: Are they having a catfight?

Probably.

NICOLE: So why don't we just all throw out the different ideas we had?

And then we can sort out which ones we think are keepers.

BRANDY: What about Phoenix? POPPY: That's what I thought too.

STEPHANIE: Well, we've all risen from the ashes of the economy.

LIZA: 'All 16 of us are here for a reason.

'Everybody here is fighting

'to really make a difference in our lives,'

and the best man wins, you know?

Best WOMAN'S going to win.

TYANA: I like Inspire.

Does everyone like Inspire? POPPY: I love Inspire.

NICOLE: If it just means the actual word that it is,

to me, I would like to have it be dimensional.

BRANDY: Yeah.

KELLY: OK, there's Vigorous. NICOLE: Stamina.

TYANA: Stamina? That's the boys' team.

LAUGHTER

Fortitude. It's strength of mind and having guts.

MAHSA: Oh!

NICOLE: That's good. I like it. I like it.

KELLY: 'When the name Fortitude came up,

'It really resonated within the group.'

I mean, the name was strong, it's resilient,

and it makes a statement.

LIZA: Y'all, our name is Fortitude?

Let's get excited. Does that sound like a good name?

MAHSA: I think it's awesome. Fortitude.

NICOLE: Can I just throw it out there right now?

I totally volunteer to be the first project manager.

You know, I saw you as our first project manager.

MAHSA: 'Picking a project manager was a cinch.'

'Nicole said, "All right, guys,'

"I just wanted to let everyone know

"that I'm going to be the project manager.

"I'm volunteering to do it."

'Very ballsy move to make at the very beginning.'

I think going to we're win, so... NICOLE: I think we're going to win too.

I think we just need to ride on, like...we have a lot of, like,

synergistic energy going on right now. We just need to...

NICOLE: 'I definitely knew that I wanted to be the first project manager.

'I think it's great to make that strong first impression.'

And none of the women even had any problems with it!

It was the easiest thing I probably will ever do on The Apprentice.

NICOLE: Let's go, guys. A good leader has a team!

We're right next to the New York Stock Exchange,

right in the middle of downtown Manhattan.

Behind me is the Trump building at 40 Wall Street.

It was built in 1929, a really bad time.

You folks have a little bit of a problem.

You're going to rise like 40 Wall Street rose,

and I think you'll be bigger and better than ever before.

But right now, I want to know,

who is your project manager, and what is your team name?

Our team name is Octane, and Gene is your project manager.

Gene is our project manager.

Why did you pick Gene? Because he's younger than you?

CLINT: We like his style,

and we think he's going to lead us to victory at this first task.

He has a good style. You DO have a good style, Gene.

Thank you, sir.

Who is your project manager?

I am, Mr Trump.

- What is your team name? - Our team name is Fortitude,

because it means strength of mind and having guts.

All right, that sounds good.

All right, Don and Ivanka will be my eyes and ears.

Ivanka, what is the task?

IVANKA: The first task is to design and build an ultramodern workspace.

You'll be judged on execution,

on functionality, and on originality.

TRUMP: OK, I am going to make the final decision,

but here's the good news -

the winning project manager

is going to receive something very special.

The losing team, somebody will be fired,

and it won't be nice, because you'll be the first one fired.

That's never great.

So you've got to build really great space.

Use this. Use imagination. Good luck.

ALL: Thank you. TRUMP: Good luck.

MAHSA: Is this it? KELLY: Wow.

NICOLE: Ladies, this is our space. So, here's the thing.

POPPY: Let's pull up some chairs so we can sit down and write stuff.

NICOLE: 'Our task was to create a modern office.'

So we get to our space.

'No walls, completely open, and there's all these windows.'

Our designer's going to be here in half an hour,

so let's use this half an hour

so that we have a general consensus about what we want.

KELLY: I think we should do something really opulent and, you know...

NICOLE: Oh, like luxury...like Trump.

Luxury - exactly.

KELLY: 'When Mr Trump told us

'that he was going to actually judge the task,

'I thought, "Oh, my goodness!"'

He has set the standard

for what luxury and what office space

SHOULD BE in American business.

'We have got to pull this together, and it has to be mind-blowing.'

We have something lofty. Why don't we do something artistic,

like a photography studio, or...

STEPHANIE: But that's gallery, not office.

No, you can make it an office.

TYANA: 'My background is in new home sales.

'Three of my last projects have been urban loft spaces.

'This couldn't have been'

more well-suited for me. I know exactly...I had a vision.

NICOLE: We have to figure out what to do with these columns.

I've always wanted to do something on the pole,

if we can design a round table around the pole.

So we can use that as the space.

And I think it needs to be like an urban downtown loft.

Like, a black accent wall and grey paint.

NICOLE: 'Tyana said she has design or style experience.

'I didn't get any of that from what she wore.'

I just thought it was tacky.

TYANA: I have done grey with black

as an accent wall, and it was gorgeous.

NICOLE: No.

WADE: Whoo! STEUART: We're here.

ANAND: 'Immediately when we walked in the workspace, I was stunned.

'Here, we had a bare-bones office,

'and there was a lot of work to be done.'

This area is known for a lot of more e-commerce-style companies.

This is SoHo. This is very high-end.

This is going to be an exclusive space.

I do have an extensive commercial office real estate background,

'but it's been almost nine months since I was last in real estate,

'so it feels good to be back involved.'

What's our demo?

We're going to have, like, young, urban professionals, graphic designers...

The way we design it doesn't necessarily have to only cater to those types of people.

Mr Trump is going to come back to us and say,

"This is no good for a financial firm or a law office."

It needs to be applicable to any industry.

GENE: Any industry, exactly.

GENE: 'This is my first day of work in a long time.

To go from figuring out what I'm going to do every day'

to be thrown kind of right back into the fray,

it kind of takes you a minute

'to think about, "Wow, I'm working!"'

Here's what I'm thinking,

since we are in SoHo, it's a funky area, kind of on the edge,

we do a green, modern workspace, with some foliage,

but green is the theme right now for everything that we're doing.

JAMES: 'Gene's idea was, "We're going to make this a green office space,"'

which was a terrific idea.

It turns out Gene had no idea what that meant.

GENE: So, we want a reception area.

OK, so, I'm thinking...

Uh...

So, wow, all this could be used right here.

OK. That's great.

How you doing?

JAMES: 'The architectural renderer showed up,

'and we have a limited amount of time with this guy.

'I was expecting Gene to sit down and say,'

"OK, let's work on some designs."

GENE: OK, now, the details that Anand had mentioned,

OK, which...we don't want to forget the windows.

We still have yet to work the windows in.

And I'm thinking more like a linen.

That's what I was saying, like a linen fabric.

JAMES: 'Instead, Gene was off discussing, you know,'

what colour the drapes should be.

'We're getting nowhere.'

NICOLE: If all of us talk to the architect, it's going to be crazy,

so I want to talk about the design. TYANA: I can, too.

Who else feels, creatively, that they could really...OK, Poppy.

STEPHANIE: I think people should get paint while you guys are meeting.

ALL: Hi.

I'm Nicole.

NICOLE: 'Once our architectural designer had arrived,

'it was time for us to talk specifics of layout.

'The concept we decided to go with'

was modern executive,

meaning that we wanted to keep it

a little bit traditional,

'but having a modern edge to it.'

MAHSA: So, do you want us to skip this creative meeting and go buy paint?

NICOLE: People that feel they need to be here, stay.

MAHSA: I can do whatever you want. Tell me what to do.

Why don't you guys go get food? >

Food or paint? I don't mind getting food.

KELLY: Let's just do food AND paint. Do both.

MAHSA: 'I'm an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn.

'I'm used to communicating, like, being precise.

'I think Nicole has a little bit of a problem being the project manager,'

because she keeps asking what I want to do.

You tell me what to do.

You're the leader. You need to lead.

MAHSA: Right now, I'm getting dark grey,

this colour, for that wall,

and I'm getting silver to paint this area, is that correct?

You guys decide amongst yourselves. I trust you.

MAHSA: 'She has a lot of grace,'

and on the outside it looks good, but she's lacking some substance.

Do you guys want Tyana to go? BRANDY: If she would be more use

with her design experience with us, then that's fine.

If you guys need her here, that's also fine.

- We can handle... - OK, then go, go, go.

TYANA: 'Since all my ideas had been already ignored by Nicole,

I thought the next most crucial thing would be the paint colour,

'and I knew I could go in and get the job done quickly.'

Let's go.

GENE: I think we should paint this wall.

Anand, what do you think? That's what I think.

I think I kind of like it white.

That whole corner white?

Anytime you have white,

it definitely makes it look like a more big space.

Gene, I'm worried that we're losing sight of the fact

that we got the architect...

- I know. Give me a sec. - ..on a ticking clock.

GENE: OK, hang on.

This is going to be coloured.

It always helps to sort of start sketching small.

So I think we'll just sort of start

to lay out a little road map here, a little plan.

JAMES: 'After mentioning to Gene'

that we need to use our time with the architectural renderer

and him ignoring it...

What we're going to do is move that conference room more inwards...

JAMES: In the back corner. ANAND: Yeah.

JAMES: '...Anand and I stepped up and said,

'"OK, we need to get some ideas on paper."'

ANAND: We're going to flip this around.

We're going to get rid of these tables,

and, instead, we're going to move...

we're going to add more desks along these windows.

What's down here in either one? Just empty space?

CLINT: 'It was a little frustrating that James and Anand

'had sidled up close to the sketch artist'

and kind of protected their territory over there,

because I think I had a few good ideas to offer,

as a real estate developer.

All those elements that we're looking for,

I mean, desks, that only gets us...a tenth of the way there.

It's - it's the little, like...accoutrements.

In terms of design concepts, we've incorporated

'the windows and the natural light really well.

'We've incorporated a conference area.'

Once you put a couch and maybe a couple chairs,

we're taking up most of this wall.

JAMES: 'Our lack of focus has to be Gene's fault.

'We've got eight people that are motivated,

'that are ready to work,'

and he needs to take that energy and direct it.

STEPHANIE: Here they are!

BRANDY: I think we've got it all. NICOLE: All right!

OK, so, we got your paint supplies,

your cleaning supplies, and we got you sandwiches.

Thank you!

While most of the team stayed behind to take care of the creative aspect,

Brandy, Tyana, and I

'picked up all the supplies

'we would need to make the place sparkly for Mr Trump.'

BRANDY: I can spearhead the manual labour, if you want me to paint.

NICOLE: Awesome! BRANDY: Yes?

NICOLE: So, then, I think that that means two of us are going shopping.

NICOLE: 'I knew that we were going to have to get'

the electronics that we needed

'while the paint group would start painting and cleaning.'

OK, let's go.

NICOLE: Do we know what we're getting at the AV store?

It would be really great if we could be

in and out of there super-duper fast. OK. Yes.

'I decided to bring Stephanie with me'

because she was the one who was sitting down with me the whole time

and understood the renderings.

STEPHANIE: OK. AV, what do you want to get?

Well, we need to get computer screens. 10.

I say we get laptops. Don't you think laptops are more functional?

OK, but the executive needs to have a desktop.

STEPHANIE: 'We're very stressed out

'cos we know that there's still a lot to do,'

and I've come as far as I want to go with the whole design.

I'm not a decorator!

STEPHANIE: I wish Tyana would chime in now with the creativity.

NICOLE: Well, maybe we stop by

before we go to get all of our shopping done.

I think we have to get Tyana.

She has more of an eye than I do, don't you think?

I don't know. Tyana frustrated me. I'm going to be honest.

STEPHANIE: 'I don't know where Nicole's biases come from

'with regards to Tyana,'

but she's in the design, real estate space business.

Use her abilities.

Focus, girl!

BRANDY: 1, 2, 3...Unh!

KELLY: 'Today is my first day of work in a long time,

'and it was so much work that had to go in

'to bringing the place up to par,'

but it felt great to just get back to work.

My God, doing these windows is taking FOR EVER!

We can do windows tomorrow. We can't do paint tomorrow.

I think it's the centrepiece of the place...

BRANDY: I'm not saying we don't do the windows,

but we can't paint tomorrow. That's my only...

See, I just don't think they're getting

-how this is just as big of a

-BLEEP

-problem.

I don't think they're getting it.

MAHSA: 'I would like Brandy

'to take her little butt off from using a roller'

and come and scrape and break HER back to make that window shine.

'So I'm just very annoyed at her right now.'

BRANDY: I was not meaning to boss the group around.

I was just raising a point.

MAHSA: I just want you to understand.

It's not like I'm not doing anything.

We're trying to get it done.

POPPY: 'Mahsa was trying to say that the windows were a lot of work

'and they had to be done,'

but Mahsa's a prosecutor.

She's got that harsh edge.

'So the things she says, I'm sure, come out the wrong way frequently.'

So what I need you guys to do is plants.

Are you serious?!

GENE: Yeah, I'm serious.

Oh, man! We can do the plants!

DAVID: 'Gene tasked Clint and I'

with ordering trees

or flowers or plants.

GENE: So let's go with some colour.

CLINT: I mean, we ought to explode colour all across there, yeah.

Like, some orange and yellow flowers and some green. Make it pop.

I don't want flowers. I want plants. I want trees.

I want bonsai-ish or...

Do they have anything that looks tropical?

Yeah, but we're not...I don't want to put a palm tree.

DAVID: 'I want to win this task. I want to stay out of the boardroom.'

I have everything on the line.

I have my life on the line.

'And I was very frustrated

'with a lot of the chaos and mismanagement.'

CLINT: Hey, Gene? GENE: Yes, sir.

CLINT: Are we dead sold on the little feng shui pine-type stuff,

Or do you care if we go with the tropical plants?

Make the decision on the plants,

and if anybody's got a problem, come see me.

I'm fine. I'm fine doing it,

I just want you to know in advance. I'm handling it.

No, you're good. OK, you know what I'm saying.

I got what you're saying. You're covered, OK?

I got your back, seriously.

CLINT: 'I pulled Gene aside.

I said, "Gene, I'd start calling to get these colourful plants.

'"It's going to be tense. I just want you to know that."'

He said, "Oh, no, no. If anything happens, it'll be on me."

DAVID: What are you doing? Are you doing flowers?

I need to call this lady back, get my TVs ordered,

and I don't have time to mess around with these guys.

If you need to call them to get here in time, go ahead and call them.

I can call the local branch in a little bit.

OK. That sounds good. I'm going to call these guys too.

No, you're...David, give me that back right now.

Hey, Dave, give me that right now.

I'm not going to screw around with this.

DAVID: 'I said I was going to call back my AV department,'

knowing that I was going to call the flower shop

that I had already been talking to,

'and so I grabbed the list of floral shops.'

Gene told me to call these people and get this stuff ordered.

Now, did he tell you to call them?

He told me to call people...

If you put your hands on me again, you're going to have a problem. Now, now, listen...

CLINT: 'David could not be reasoned with.'

He just went from one extreme, this goofy, happy, you know, "Golly!"

'to this just flaming, ignited human.'

Dave, just settle down.

ANAND: Settle down. Go make the call.

Don't argue. Make the call.

We can talk about this later on.

Tell him to stop wasting time.

It's fine. You make the call. You have a job to do...

'I don't look for a fight, I don't pick a fight,'

but I'm older than a lot of the candidates.

I have more experience

than almost all of them,

'and so I do not like being brushed off.'

Dave, please...

Clint, it's all right. Everything's good...

Don't put your hands...I'm serious.

I don't care, buddy. Don't touch me. Seriously.

CLINT: 'If I had been the PM,

'David would have been out because of his distraction.'

He was the biggest distraction we had,

but I don't think David was the cause of all the distractions.

The cause of the distractions was the chaos

'that came from Gene's lack of leadership.'

Squash it. We're done. I love you.

I want to make sure you're OK.

Call some flowers so I can call this AV girl back.

Cool?

- Bonus? - OK.

So let's go do what we got to do.

Thank you guys very much for your help.

GENE: 'Since Anand and I were going to go run some errands,

'I thought it was better that people start working on the space

'to basically maximise the time that we had.

'And the biggest thing for me was getting the space painted,'

so that we could come in the next day

and just basically build around that scheme.

Hi, folks.

Nice to meet you all.

- Nice to meet you. I'm a little... - Oh, yeah, don't shake my hand!

So what's the general concept, then,

in terms of the theme for this ultramodern office space?

Gene, the project manager, came up with the idea of a green office.

Not overly original!

The green stuff is more in the details

of how we're executing it.

JAMES: 'Ivanka scared the crap out of me!

'And I immediately was concerned that Gene wasn't there,'

and that we had seemingly accomplished nothing.

Are you going to utilize this space at all, for the laptop stations?

Well, no, the laptops will go on the desks, and...

Which are where?

Well, they're going to run along this...this wall here.

I want to be supportive of you guys,

but I haven't heard anything that's blowing my socks off,

in terms of concept.

'This is a group being judged'

on how to build, develop, design New York real estate.

This is not a task anyone wants to be sitting across the boardroom

from my father, having screwed up on,

because my father's seen everything when it comes to real estate.

This looks so awesome!

Hi! I feel like I should take my shoes off!

STEPHANIE: 'So when we came back, I felt good.

'The paint was well underway.'

They were doing really well with that. They were coming along.

The floors looked great.

So a lot of work had been done.

NICOLE: Who wants to go with me to CORT right now?

I think you should go. Who else feels design-inclinated?

STEPHANIE: That's the office furniture.

I need people who know what they can do with furniture.

TYANA: Poppy, did you want to go? - Do you want to go?

POPPY: I'll go. I will go.

NICOLE: OK. Poppy and Tyana are going to come with me.

NICOLE: 'There's a lot of pressure right now

'because I'm the first project manager,

'but at the same time, I'm thinking about'

how I would defend the decisions I made.

STEPHANIE: Have fun, guys. NICOLE: Thanks!

We're going to be pushing it at the furniture place.

NICOLE: 'And I honestly was only bringing Tyana'

because, if we failed and Donald Trump asked,

"Why didn't you take the one person that has experience

"staging for loft space?" I would have no good excuse.

This door's really heavy!

Hello. Welcome to CORT. >

Hi, Nicole from Team Fortitude.

POPPY: 'We definitely left way too late for CORT Furniture.

'I was really nervous,

and we had a serious time crunch.

We need to pick everything in the next 45 minutes.

ASSISTANT: This could function very easily as a desk.

Say that we divide this, and we have someone sitting there and there?

Yeah, it's very modern.

We want four of these.

Four of these, and eight chairs.

TYANA: 'I know Nicole was kind of stressing a little bit,

'But I've done this.

I literally can walk in, and, boom! I know what I want.

I can point at it and say, "this is it."

TYANA: Or throw in two of those,

cos we might be able to put one in the executive office.

NICOLE: Yes, two of these.

TYANA: I'd rather have this as the reception desk

with the white leather chairs.

OK, yes. Yes. Let's do that.

ASSISTANT: Conference tables are going to be

rectangular shape in wood tones.

TYANA: All right, the darkest mahogany you have in this.

- Let's find nice chairs... - I mean, do we like those chairs?

Yes, with those chairs.

NICOLE: 'I was checking my watch every five minutes,

'and Tyana started going, "I like that. I like that.

'"I don't like that. I don't like that."'

- They're comfortable! - Oh, my goodness!

TYANA: Eight of these. NICOLE: Eight.

And my opinion of her shifted

'because she really did get the job done in 45 minutes.'

NICOLE: Love it! Love it! Done!

GENE: What you got? CLINT: We may have a "wow" factor.

DAVID: Each workstation would have its own Zen garden.

CLINT: 'Well, right now,'

we don't have that "pow" factor,

but I think we're going to come up with something great

that really knocks Mr Trump off his feet.

I really hope so.

GENE: Make it happen, all right?

DAVID: How about Clint and I do the window box?

We'll get it done. We'll get the materials.

We'll get it cut. We'll build it for you.

'Gene is a strong person,

'and I think that he's shown a lot of weakness'

because he doesn't know how to lead a talented group of people.

L-brackets, L-connectors,

rocks poured in, five pans, sand.

All right, we need an executive decision,

and I can't have this, "I'm going to do this. I'm going to build this."

Gene, what do you want us to build?

GENE: OK, you know what? Time out.

Just nobody talk at all.

-This is becoming a cluster

-BLEEP.

-The Zen garden's scrapped.

I'm trying to keep everybody happy, I'm also trying to win a task.

So unless you guys want to go in the flipping boardroom,

which I don't want to do,

you're going to trust each other, and you're going to trust me.

There is no more conversation.

You have taken this from a democracy

into where it's going to be me.

My ass is on the line.

- Are we crystal clear on that? - We're clear. Are YOU clear?

OK, you know I'm a military man, so this is not a conversation.

I'm clear. We got a bunch of stuff that we got to go through.

-I don't have time for this

-BLEEP,

-OK?

ANAND: 'Gene kind of got everyone in line,'

but David, he wants to be heard,

and when he gets kind of pushed aside, he acts out.

Gene's giving 19 orders and no direction.

David. David! I'm talking to you.

I want you to lower it down.

You can talk to me nicely and command respect.

OK, well, here's the thing.

You're actually talking over me, so what I need you to do...

No one's talking over you.

Actually, when I'm talking to you, when you're talking to somebody else,

- what I need you to do is zip it. - Your orders are confusing.

They're confusing? You just keep talking.

I'll tell you what, you want to go sit down? You go have a seat.

I'm not going to have a seat, because nothing's going to get done and you're going to go home.

Sit still.

Do you want to go home? I'm asking a question.

- Bye-bye. - Do you want to go home?

I'm tired of talking to you. Let's go paint.

Gene, the answer when you walk away is, "Yes."

OK, but I'll tell you what, we'll see who goes home.

That's fine with me.

Ladies, first of all, awesome job yesterday,

but, obviously, we have to be

super on-task this morning.

So those of us that went to CORT yesterday,

which is Poppy, Tyana, and me,

we're going to go to the prop store.

I really think that I kind of have Donald Trump's taste

cos it's, like, Persian, extravagant, gold,

like, big, so I thought maybe I could help with that.

'Last night, I realised that doing all the manual labour,

'Nicole had no idea what I was doing,'

But I wasn't about to be left out

of the entire vision

altogether and not contribute.

KELLY: If you think that's where your skill set is, you should go.

I think I have, like, a lot of...

THEY TALK OVER EACH OTHER

OK, ladies, we're going to come to a decision, cos we need to go.

What do you think you want to do?

KELLY: I think you should go with them.

No, you're the leader. What do you want me to do?

But I'm telling you to tell me what you're best at, cos I don't know.

I think I'd be really good at picking out extravagant stuff with you guys.

OK, then let's go.

MAHSA: 'Once I stepped up and asked Nicole to make a decision,

'she immediately got really turned off by me, but I didn't care.

I definitely wanted to insert myself into the vision today,

so that way, I'm covered for the boardroom.

I worked really hard manually,

and I helped with the vision. I'm covered.

OK, did you want to focus on the coffee, the microwave, the toaster..?

No, I want to focus on the conference room.

OK, so, conference room, we need...

We need to create partitions for three walls.

ASSISTANT: Got it.

NICOLE: 'I had said our main concerns are that we have separated areas

'because Mr Trump's going to want to see'

that whoever's working in that space would be able to do their business.

'He's going to want some separation.'

NICOLE: I like the white leather.

- I LOVE this too. - I love it.

This is regal. And probably the only unirom thing we're going to find.

ASSISTANT: How about 4-even?

Awesome. 4-even is awesome.

TYANA: Here, Nicole.

This is our painting for behind the executive desk.

It could be his father!

If you think it matches with what we're doing...

Yeah, I think so!

We could call him Uncle Forti, like, Fortitude

Oh, my gosh!

NICOLE: 'Tyana fell in love

'with a painting of some old white guy.

'I don't know who it is.'

Tyana's the one who has experience staging places.

She thought that it matched the rest of our decor,

so I went with it, but I hate Uncle Forti.

So I want to make sure that we don't repeat yesterday.

Here's what I want to make sure that we do today.

If you take a task, own that task.

And I'm going to ask our fellow teammates

to respect that person with the task.

'I think, initially, I had a lot coming at me,

'and so I wanted to let them know'

we're not going to have today what we had the day before.

'You have to manage people.'

The bottom line with me is that I'll hear you,

but when I say, "Go," the discussion's over.

-We're behind you 110%. Let's just

-BLEEP

-get this done.

CLINT: 'When Gene said, "I'm going to give you a job. Own it," I said,

'"That's what I wanted to hear you say'

"3/4 of this task ago."

JAMES: We have the time now to take a step back and say,

"OK, how do we really make this pop?"

STEUART: Why don't we frame the windows?

In the actual window,

We hang an empty picture frame.

GENE: Mm-hmm.

JAMES: We've also got the idea of painting this wall

with symmetrical shapes.

Steuart and James, the picture frames, the artwork,

you guys own that. And so you guys know,

David's going to be in charge of technology.

He's going to own that.

GENE: 'So today, my challenge was going to be

'to make sure that everyone had ownership of the task

'and that we worked as a cohesive team.'

For us to have that cohesiveness, I needed to get David under control.

GENE: Anyone that steps on your toes with AV...-

- Yeah, no one's stepping on my toes. - OK, good.

I got your point on it. It's done. I like it.

I've got an important call to make.

Give me five minutes.

DAVID: 'I used to make six figures consistently.'

Now I make unemployment compensation

from the state of Michigan,

and it's very...humbling.

PHONE LINE: 'To claim weeks of unemployment, press 1.'

DAVID: 'Don't like doing it, but I have a family,

'and I take what I can get.'

PHONE LINE: 'Are you back to work full time?

PHONE BEEPS No!

DAVID: 'I would never imagine having to support five children

'on an unemployment cheque. It DOESN'T support them.'

Always the same questions, too.

I just feel like a loser.

PHONE LINE: 'Did you quit any work or get fired from a job?'

Nope.

'Being unemployed has shattered me as a man.

'I am embarrassed.

'I have shame for the first time in my entire life.

'I have a lot more to lose than any of the other contestants.

'I feel, by winning The Apprentice,'

that this is the catalyst

that will bring my life back.

PHONE LINE: Thank you for calling the telephone certification system.'

'Goodbye.'

And that's it, every other week.

Is this my stuff over here, unloaded?

- Yes, sir. - All right.

I want to link my monitors.

I don't know if it's something simple like a VGA splitter

Or even, you know, Wi-Fi, or what they are...

You sound like a AV guy! "VGA splitter!"

DAVID: 'I have a technical background.

'I was a telecommunications account manager.'

I wasn't the AV guy in high school in any way...

not that there's anything wrong with AV guys. I love you.

ANAND: Gene. GENE: Yes?

ANAND: Are we on board with these trees?

Love it! Rock on, baby, yes!

Follow me. So, we have, like, a white canvas with a blue line.

OK.

And that line continues off on the wall.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And then we go up and over this, come down,

Continue on the wall and in the canvas.

DAVID: I've got all of it networked.

OK, let me see what you got.

Dude, amazing job, by the way.

I think the team's been responding great

to having ownership of their task,

'cos they know I trust their judgment,

'and now David is performing and producing.'

Everybody's got their departments and what they need?

We're good. You're in charge of everything else.

If you need something, call me, brother. OK. We're out.

GENE: 'I took Steuart and Wade to get some office supplies.

'I felt like I had given very clear instructions

'for the guys back at the space.'

I felt very comfortable with that decision.

The faster, the better,

cos we got four hours at this point.

Four hours.

- Is that ours? - Furniture's here.

Thank you.

Hello, ladies.

STEPHANIE: Oh, y'all are back! Oh, my gosh!

NICOLE: 'We get back from the prop house,

'and CORT has just got there'

with their first truck, and they're starting to unload things.

'It's just chaotic.'

NICOLE: This is a table that's not done,

and it's going to go in front of the chair. Hi, Don!

- Hi. How are you? - Good.

- So, what do you think? - We're in the final crunch.

- Yeah, it looks like it! - I think it'll get done.

What's the theme? What's the motif that you guys are going with?

The motif we were going for was a combination

of modern executive and modern green.

That doesn't necessarily surprise me,

but that doesn't mean it necessarily works with this space.

DON: 'Right now, it's a total mess. It's a big void.

'They have a long way to go before pulling this together'

to be any kind of office space that we would find acceptable.

Who's been your biggest help,

and who's been your biggest detriment so far?

My biggest help has probably been Tyana,

because she has really helped with the creative,

but ask me yesterday, and I would have said

she was my biggest detriment.

She was like my Cyndi Lauper.

She said I'm her Cyndi Lauper.

I couldn't make up my mind yesterday.

Look, you picked out the paint.

You picked out the furniture. Hello?!

TYANA: 'Nicole just has it in for me.

'She's your pageant princess lawyer'

and looks at me probably like the homeless dog

living in the alley.

It's a huge mistake on her part.

Tyana.

- How are you? - Pleasure.

- Very nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you, too.

- So what do you think so far? - Um...

You got to be candid.

If you're not candid about it now and it comes up later on

and you didn't do anything about it, then, you know...

I think the leadership was missing. I think there was no delegation.

I think every time I tried to give ideas, they were rejected.

So you think your PM is pretty weak?

She's not making strong decisions.

She's just kind of letting people do what they want.

DON: 'The team dynamic is really interesting.

'If there's been a lack of leadership coming from the PM,

'that could be something that affects the team.'

They have to get a lot done in a very short period of time,

so it's going to be difficult

if someone's not making the decisions right off the bat.

Well, I'm going to let you get back to work.

- Thank you. - Speak to you soon.

All right.

OK, do we have time

to make that complicated? James, come here one second.

GENE: 'So when I got back to the office space,

There were some things that were

taking a little bit more time than I would have liked.

I want this straight.

Boom, boom, up, over, boom, boom, done.

Yeah, but it's...

I don't have time for that.

Just do what I ask you to do, and we'll call it a day.

Well, if you had been here two hours ago...

I had to go do something else.

Yeah, well... Do what I ask you to do and be done, please.

Gene, we're two thirds done here.

JAMES: 'When Gene finally got back from wherever he was,

'He came in and said, "I hate this. Take it down."'

I don't know how I can own the project,

but then also be micromanaged.

What did we talk about in the beginning?

Didn't I say, "Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom?"

I was very specific.

Right, and I'm doing the art, and so I'm taking that vision

and turning it into something different.

If it's not done on time, you own it.

- Yeah, I do own it. - Go. Do your thing.

James' painting was

a little bit more complicated than what I was looking for.

I was very conscious to how much time we had.

I thought he made it harder than what it needed to be,

to where it could have sabotaged the entire project.

These rugs...I'm afraid somebody's going to slip on this,

so we're going to have to move these.

OK, and where is the furniture? ALEX: We don't know.

She's supposed to deliver our damn desks and all our chairs.

I don't know where the hell she is.

GENE: OK, what's our backup plan?

We got to get the furniture. There's no backup plan.

Hello? PHONE BEEPS AND CRACKLES

-But we've run out of

-BLEEP

-time!

KELLY: Do we have two more chairs coming?

TYANA: I don't think so.

So now we have the furniture in.

We have the electronics.

Now we're ready to dress the room

and make it this beautiful modern workspace

that we know Mr Trump is going to be looking for.

Are we doing the crisscross side or this side?

Which one do you want, Nicole?

Whatever. I don't know. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Yeah, the crisscross on the outside.

LIZA: 'Every time we would ask Nicole a question,

'she would say, "What do you think?"

'She's going to come out looking like she did a great job.

'Regardless of if she was'

the worst project manager and didn't do anything.

'It didn't matter.'

NICOLE: We have to figure out our presentation.

LIZA: I think we should all stand, like, in a horseshoe.

TYANA: No, no, no. We're going to say...

like, when you're working, this is sales, that's accounting.

TYANA: 'For the presentation, girls can act like employees'

so we can show it as a working office.

I'll be the receptionist, and I'll greet Mr Trump.

- You should pretend buzz me. - Yes!

- I'll be in the executive room. - Yes, yes!

I can be like, "Why am I waiting? She should have been ready to go."

No, because I'm just going to say, "Welcome to..."

Just be really cute, so he thinks it's adorable.

GENE: We got 30 minutes left, guys. Make it happen.

There we go. There's our furniture. Great!

STEUART: Chair!

GENE: No, I don't want that there.

That's going to take away from what we're trying to do.

Put it right there.

Scheisse!

JAMES: 'The last time I worked this hard was about a year ago,

'and it was a lot of fun to be,'

you know, hard at work at something

that I was really personally invested in.

GENE: Guys, we got 15 minutes.

Guys, no offence, I'm the oldest guy here,

and I need you guys to move a little bit faster.

Two minutes. Can we move that damn cord, please?

Let's go!

Move that one over to that table.

GENE: Hey, take that all the way to the back, please.

We did it! We did it!

ANAND: 'I think it's a beautiful workspace.'

Men aren't always known for having that nice, Midas touch

when it comes to arrangement and layout,

'but I feel very good about it.

'I think my teammates did a great job. We're going to win.'

All right! Let's see what you got, Fortitude!

REGAL MUSIC

- Hello. - Welcome to Fortitude, Mr Trump.

Nice to see you.

Nice to see you. Nicole is expecting you.

- OK, where's Nicole? - Just a second.

Nicole, Mr Trump is here.

Good evening, Mr Trump. Nice to see you again.

Nice to see you.

This is the floor plan that we decided on,

The modern executive, but let me walk you through it right now.

- OK. Good. - So, if you'll follow me,

I'll show you over to the executive's office.

As you can see, it is somewhat open,

and that's because we were going for a modern feel.

Who's that?

That is what we decided is the grandfather of Fortitude, inc.

OK.

So, this would be one of our workspaces,

perhaps for the sales team.

And you got your breakup where?

And we've got our breakup at Props For Today as well.

- Do you like it? - I do.

We tried to pick the ones that we thought represented class.

OK, let's go.

Next, we move into kind of our piece de resistance,

which is our conference room.

We have a large plasma on the wall,

so that everyone would be able to watch if needed.

we kept this room large so that,

if we needed to have a large meeting,

- everyone would be accommodated. - OK. Good.

'I was really proud of ourselves.

'I think it looked really good,

'But if we lose and it's because of our design,

'a lot of that responsibility'

fell to Tyana. A lot of placement responsibility fell to her.

That's why, on the second day, when we were staging,

I made sure to say, "Tyana, where do you think we should put this?"

OK. See you in the boardroom. NICOLE: Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you.

GENE: What a difference a day makes!

You guys brought your A-game.

'I was very pleased,'

seeing that vision come together. I believe it accomplished

exactly what we were looking for.

a modern, green space.

ALL: Octane!

- How are you, Gene? - How you doing, Mr Trump?

- Good. Nice to see you. - Nice to see you, too.

'We didn't really have a solid plan for the presentation.'

I really was just going to let the space speak for itself.

The decoration on the wall, whose idea was that?

JAMES: That's me. TRUMP: Oh, did you do that?

I did, yeah.

TRUMP: Do you have some kind of an artistic background?

None at all!

TRUMP: That your boardroom table? GENE: Yes, sir.

TRUMP: It's really not a boardroom look.

JAMES: Certainly, but it fits the space.

It fits with the burnt orange wall.

And who picked these tables?

CLATTER

Whoops. You OK? MAN: Yep, I'm good.

I think we got to do something with this rug.

Trump: You all right? MAN: Yeah.

STEUART: 'Mr Trump literally standing there

'while two people tanked on those rugs

'is going to be something brought up in the boardroom, no question,'

Because, you know, having a liability like that

is not something any businessman wants.

And the rugs?

ANAND: That would be me, Mr Trump.

I placed the order for all the rugs.

We were looking for, you know, a lot of colours.

So, we, unfortunately, didn't have a chance to tape those down.

Was this hard work? ALL: Very hard.

You worked hard? ALL: Very hard.

OK, good. See you later.

GENE: 'I'm not sure if I were able to gauge

'whether or not he liked our workspace or not.

'And I came here without a plan B.'

So it's a lot on the line for me right now.

I want to start by saying

I...have found this very difficult.

I didn't like either space very much.

With that being said,

I think I slightly liked one more than the other. Gene.

Yes, sir.

We almost lost one of our crew members

because you didn't have the carpets. That's dangerous stuff.

It is.

That's called litigation all over the place, right?

GENE: Absolutely.

I mean, in my office,

People don't fall down because the carpet isn't attached.

Right.

Who was responsible for the rugs?

I was, Mr Trump.

And you didn't have the brainpower to go and just, like,

you know, put some tape on there?

Put something on?

- Absolutely, Mr Trump. - Did you see the people fall?

I did, and I felt really bad about it.

- They were going down like flies. - They absolutely did.

- Right. Right. - I almost lost my crew.

Not what you want during a presentation.

ANAND: Absolutely not.

That is exactly not what we want to do in a presentation.

OK, so, David,

what did you think of Gene as project manager?

I was proud of Gene at the end of our task.

At the beginning?

At the beginning, I think we have

eight different personalities that are coming together

for the first time in a task.

I think Gene wanted to take charge of it right away,

and his orders were barked, but they were sporadic.

So, what did you really think of Gene?

By day two, I was very impressed.

I thought we ended it great.

I thought Gene was confident in our final product,

and I honestly can say that I liked it and I was proud of it.

STEUART: And, Mr Trump, I think, as a team, cohesively,

on the first day, we were a little mismatched.

The second day, we really pulled together as a team.

Gene, who was your weakest link?

Weakest link...

um, there was some conflict,

obviously, the first day. I was really...

Who was the weakest member of your team, in your opinion?

As far as adding chaos to the entire team?

Everything. Everything. No, not chaos. No imagination,

no brain, no nothing. Who was your weakest person?

Wow. No imagination?

Um...that's hard.

Um. Hmm.

Was he this indecisive during the task?

- I was not this indecisive. - This is something you should know.

I would think, by now, you would have thought about it.

It's really between David and James, actually,

and there's reasons for that.

David, obviously, is how David is.

As far as personality, added discord to the team.

I'm very decisive as far as that.

James, on the other hand, I had a feeling

about a sense of negativity and a subversive-type attitude

That - you know what? - I kind of like to see mine coming.

I don't like to be...

What do you think of that, James?

JAMES: I'm shocked to hear that, actually,

because I felt that I really made

some significant contributions to the team,

and any disagreement that I had with Gene,

or any disagreement with the direction, I was able to bring up.

You appeared as though you were the leader

when I came down to visit.

When you came down to visit, Gene wasn't there.

You took a very active role, a very assertive role.

and he very much stepped in for you, Gene,

so I'm very surprised to have heard you said that he contributed the least.

Gene, you said there was conflict on your team. Who?

Actually, between David and Clint.

There was a lot of conflict.

There was a lot of, I felt, distraction from the task at hand.

We had very little allotted time.

David, why was there conflict with you and Clint?

And Gene's actually going to end up

throwing himself under the bus for what he just said,

because the conflict, actually, is Gene's fault.

Gene gave me a task of picking out the plants and trees.

That's not exactly true, but, OK.

I was called away to another task, which was my audiovisual,

which I owned and completed successfully on all facets.

You did. You did.

Upon my return, I ask Clint what he's doing.

Clint said, "I'm calling the flower shop."

And I asked him to stop cos he was wasting time. It was my task.

So I grabbed the flower list from the table in front of Clint

and said, "I'm going to get these trees ordered. It's my job,"

and Clint did not like that at all.

Why not, Clint?

Well, I was left in charge, Mr Trump.

And if I'm in charge and a man charges me with a job to do,

- I'm going to get it done. - Do you not like David?

I don't think that's an accurate statement.

I have compassion on David.

TRUMP: Why compassion?

Well, gosh, the guy is going through hell right now in his life

and the situation with his wife.

You know, that's where the compassion comes from.

Compassion for what? That I'm here?

IVANKA: Do you feel that that was

an appropriate statement about almost pitying you?

You used the word compassion, but it sounded more like pity.

DAVID: He inserted that word.

I knew what he was, you know, meaning,

and it's one of these that...

it's a stigma that I have with me.

I don't want it because it's not true.