Frozen Assets The Apprentice USA

Two years ago, it began... An economic crisis that swept the world

and almost brought our country into another great depression.

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 engineer.

Now I drive a tow truck.

My biggest fear, I guess, would be

not being able to provide for my family.

-POPPY:

-I have two degrees.

I have tried to apply to tonnes of jobs,

and, no, nothing.

JAMES: I went to law school,

and I never imagined I'd be unemployed.

So it's, uh, it's time to start doing something different.

It's time to make a change.

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:

-Unfortunately, life throws you curve balls.

I'm tired of these recession sob stories.

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

-STEUART:

-Being an entrepreneur is a key advantage in this competition.

The other contestants will not see me coming.

I am The Apprentice.

-DAVID:

-I've been unemployed for almost a year.

I have five children.

"The apprentice" is the most important job interview

in my life.

Let's get down to business.

Last week on The Apprentice...

The contestants were put right to work...

-IVANKA:

-The first task is to design

and build an ultra-modern workspace.

..and Mr Trump raised the stakes.

I am going to make the final decision.

That means you have a higher standard.

For the women, Nicole seized the opportunity to stand out...

I totally volunteer to be the first project manager.

..while Gene yielded to his team's nomination.

I vote for Gene. I think we can all respect Gene.

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

From the start,

Nicole's indecisiveness frustrated her team.

Which one do you want, Nicole?

-NICOLE:

-Why don't you guys go get food?

Food or paint?

MAHSA: Several times, I've told her,

"You're the leader. You need to lead."

Meanwhile, on the men's team...

Are you serious?!

..David flipped a switch...

If you put your hands on me again,

you'll have a problem with me.

He just went from one extreme

to this just flaming, ignited human.

..and Alex and James caved under pressure.

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

In the boardroom,

Mr Trump had bad news for both teams.

I want to start by saying

I didn't like either space.

But one team had a better design.

I'm giving this victory to the men.

Yes!

Under pressure,

Mahsa went after her project manager, Nicole.

I said, "You are the leader. Make a decision."

And why are you now deciding

to bring me back into the boardroom? How dare you?!

In the end,

Nicole's lack of leadership sealed her fate.

Not one person said she delegated, Mr Trump.

She didn't make any decisions.

Nicole, every member of your team threw you under the bus.

Nicole, you're fired.

-LIZA:

-OK, I'm curious,

what does "octane", like, stand for?

It just sounds good, doesn't it?

It sounds like a drink.

Actually, it's a high-energy fuel.

LOUD CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Wow!

TYANA: Ding-dong, the witch is dead!

Yay, Team Fortitude!

To getting rid of our one weak link.

CHEERING

I know we're down a man, but I actually think

we're definitely a stronger team now, with Nicole gone.

-STEUART:

-I thought you said you'd step up for the next one.

DAVID: I'll take it. Give it to me.

-CLINT:

-David's stepping up to be our next PM.

DAVID: My team-mates underestimate me.

Right now, they think I'm funny, witty,

'but they haven't seen the true side of me.

'I want to be project manager'

so I can prove that I am a valuable asset.

I'd be just happy as we could be

if it ends up four guys against four guys.

David said, "I'm going to be the project manager on the next job."

'I guess we could've said, "No, you're not."

'But, gosh, this could be the kiss of death for us.'

# Money, money, money, money

# Money

# Money, money, money, money

# Money. #

Good morning.

ALL: Good morning, Mr Trump.

Today, you're going to be doing something very exciting.

This is all about money.

You are going to sell ice cream all over New York City.

It's very simple.

The team that makes the most profit wins.

George and Don will be my advisers on this task.

Who are your project managers?

David!

Hi, Mr Trump. Yes, sir.

'I'm used to sales.'

I've been selling for years.

I'm very good at what I do.

'The women don't stand a chance in hell

'of winning this task.'

And who is your project manager?

-I am, sir.

-Poppy.

All right, Poppy, are you prepared?

-Yes. I have a great team behind me.

-I think you do.

'As a 23-year-old leading all these women,'

I feel a little bit nervous.

'And, at the same time,

'I've never actually sold anything,'

so, you know, it'll be a little bit of an experiment.

Sell lots of ice cream,

but remember, make lots of profit.

Go ahead. Thank you.

ALL: Thank you, sir.

When we're doing street sales,

we have to have something to draw people in.

I'm going to assign uniforms, costumes...

James and Alex...

ALEX: 'I'm totally excited.

'At the same time, I'm totally nervous.

'There's huge stakes right now.

'You know, being unemployed, family at home...'

I need to be the next apprentice.

Who knows, out of you New Yorkers,

the area the best from these locations?

For today, I think Union Square is our best bet.

'I wanted to fly under the radar, but it became clear'

that our success was going to hinge on location.

And being from New York,

to some degree,

I was going to be responsible for our location.

DAVID: Let's roll. Let's go sell some ice cream.

-POPPY:

-Before we get started, I want to let everyone know,

I'm putting Mahsa in charge of location.

And I want Stephanie in charge of sales,

-because that's where she's really strong.

-Yes.

-POPPY:

-'The task today is to run and manage an ice-cream pushcart.'

I feel really confident about this task.

We've got seven beautiful women, and they can sell.

STEPHANIE: Me, you, and Tyana and Brandy -

the four of us have to be sales.

OK. So, we need someone else to do accounting.

Who's probably our weakest salesperson?

-LIZA:

-You know what? We'll work together.

-OK, so, I'm making you accountant.

-Yes.

'So, Poppy put me in charge of accounting.'

Anybody who knows me

knows I'm not an accounting kind of person,

but, I mean, I can handle it.

STEPHANIE: So, everything's five bucks, period. Keep it simple.

Let's see if people are buying it, and then alternate.

STEPHANIE: It's not a negotiation. It's the price.

-Exactly.

-OK.

-KELLY:

-'I will be very curious to see how strong Poppy is as a PM.

'I'm a little bit concerned'

Stephanie will overpower her. She's very dominant.

-STEPHANIE: We're going to sell the

-BLEEP

-out of this.

Let's blow their asses out of the water.

-DAVID:

-# You scream, I scream...

ALL: # ..we all scream for ice cream! #

-CLINT:

-Come on! Get some ice cream!

Ice cream, ice cream! Come and get your ice cream!

-CLINT:

-You're going to be special today with Perry's ice cream.

And y'all can split one.

Well, the task this week

was to sell the most ice cream, making the most profit.

ANAND: Sir, can I get you an ice cream today?

-GENE:

-Come and get you some chocolate!

I'm talking about the ice cream, not me!

STEUART: Hey, ladies, come on! I see you looking! Come on!

-Please! Help us!

-We need your help! Don't walk away!

You're going to be helping our children at home!

We were screaming our heads off.

And, you know, we would really come up to people

and haggle them.

I see you looking! You want some ice cream, don't you?

It's hot, brother! Come on!

-STEUART:

-Trying to convince somebody to buy ice cream at 9.30

proved to be pretty difficult.

ANAND: Ice cream, ice cream!

Can I get y'all some ice cream today?

This hard-sell, aggressive stuff has got to be reined in.

Our first customer! This man wants some ice cream!

JAMES: I don't think that this is very effective.

-Oh, I'm going to spread everyone out.

-OK...

The hard sell makes me really uncomfortable.

'And being so aggressive is just not my style.'

This is chaos.

'I think to call it a sales strategy is a little unfair.

' "Sales strategy" suggests that there's some sort of plan,'

some sort of a cohesive vision

for how we're going to operate as a team.

No such thing.

JAMES: There may be a better spot than this.

We might want to be a little more in the action.

-DAVID:

-Hey, we're going to move.

When we get there, not anyone is yelling

"I scream" or "you scream".

Five guys in one location

yelling, "Ice cream, ice cream," is not effective.

-TYANA:

-Awesome. Wait. It's a red light!

STEPHANIE: Push, push. Push, push, push, push.

-POPPY:

-Excuse us!

-KELLY:

-When sales first started, on day one,

it was a little bit slow, and I was really worried.

MAHSA: The guys are on the other corner. Oh, my gosh.

-KELLY:

-The boys had already been out there selling.

So we had to sell, and sell very quickly.

STEPHANIE: Ice cream on the move!

Want some ice cream?

MAN: Hold it a second.

I had two prices... I get 3 and I get 5.

-It's 5.

-Who said 3?

STEPHANIE: Liza...

Liza was saying, "It's 5, or we can give it to you for 3."

If my employee was telling our client that, she'd be fired.

ALL TALK AT ONCE

-LIZA:

-We'll give you a discount. We'll give you a discount.

WOMAN: Oh, my gosh!

I need you to put your foot down, OK?

The price is 5 bucks. The price is 5.

You can't say, "It's 5 or 3. Which one you want?"

It's 5 bucks. Tell them, "5 bucks."

Poppy was project manager in this task,

but I led these girls and told them what to do.

I don't care if they think I was pushy or loud.

I stayed on them, and I rode their asses.

Power in numbers. If we're all together, you're getting one client.

Spread out.

-MAHSA:

-Sir, you look like you would love an ice cream today!

You! Ice cream!

MAN: No, thank you.

Chocolate or vanilla, 5.

WOMAN: Ice cream, sandwiches, 5?

You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

-MAHSA:

-It's hard when ten people say no to you

and a couple people tell you to go "F" yourself.

I mean, you got to really not care,

to be like, "Thanks a lot. Have a good day," and keep going.

-POPPY:

-Ice cream. Would you like some ice cream?

It's a hot day.

Poppy, stick together. Strength in numbers.

Let's go to one person together.

Sir, you look hot. You must want some ice cream!

-POPPY:

-This task is really difficult.

It's a lot more difficult than I anticipated.

We're selling ourselves out there.

It's how we sell the product.

It's not what the product actually is.

We're not a brand.

I mean, literally, people are just seeing us,

like, you could be the person that was walking right here.

They're not seeing you as a person.

That's why I want the wigs or something.

What do you think?

OK, shirts.

-POPPY:

-I'm a little bit nervous about beating the guys,

seeing as how they were out here before us.

They were just selling ice cream before we were,

and it's a matter of quantity at this point.

So, Liza and I went to a store.

We picked out pink tank tops

and the goofy-looking headbands with the sparkles.

LIZA: We got mediums for everybody.

-POPPY:

-We thought it would be flashy

and attract attention and more sales.

Frost in the city!

All right, we're here!

CHEERING No-one's coming over.

-MAN:

-Chocolate.

-MAHSA:

-Ice cream? All right. Thank you so much, sir.

STEPHANIE: We tried different locations,

but this last location, which was the perfect location,

was right on the corner, so we ended up sticking there.

-POPPY:

-This is the bag.

Oh, there's 25? 24?

Yeah, yeah, you're all hooked up.

We needed to sell cases,

because all the effort the girls were putting in

to sell one Popsicle,

so I thought to myself, "How inefficient.

"I need to sell a case to one guy,

"not five girls selling one Popsicle to one guy.

"It's just not smart."

You're doing awesome.

JAMES: I guess the objective here

is to find some sort of uniformy thing

or maybe some sort of fun, you know, hats

that we can all wear.

-ALEX:

-Is this it?

-Yeah.

-What about a couple boas?

JAMES: Alex and I took the trip down to the costume shop.

We thought we'd need something to grab people's attention.

-ALEX:

-This is getting to be an issue.

We've only spent ten minutes doing this.

So let's remember that not everything

has to be done this second.

There's something to be said for... This is great.

I was very happy to go on trips for David.

Anything to get me away from selling and yelling at people.

This is what we want.

We want as many of these things as we can find.

JAMES: 'We picked up some great barber shop vests

'and some boater hats for the group and some wigs.'

-Let's count it all up.

-Right.

JAMES: We're happy with the stuff we picked up,

but we got to keep moving,

so we're going to get back to the park.

-DAVID:

-Can you take a time-out for business

and have some ice cream?

Go see the striped-vest gentlemen.

Tell them Dave sent you. They'll cut you a deal.

Full price.

Ice cream. Start-up company. We're eight guys, down on our luck.

-DAVID:

-What to say about Alex?

Alex is a follower.

He's the puppy dog of the team.

Have some ice cream! Come on, my friend!

Have an ice cream! Have some ice cream!

You can't put a puppy dog

in front of people in New York City

and have it sell ice cream.

It just doesn't work.

Ice cream, ma'am?

JAMES: 'We're selling ice cream

'and it's so hot out.

'It's... I had one earlier.

'It's very cooling, very refreshing.

'I've never actually sold anything.

'People like Anand and Stu,

'they spend their lives selling things.'

I'm doing the best I can,

but nobody's really biting right now.

Terrific ice cream, folks.

Who's with me? Who wants some, huh?

-Huh? MAN:

-I got some. I want more.

Oh, I suck at this!

-MAHSA:

-Ice cream! Ice cream!

Chocolate and vanilla!

Everybody's hot out today!

-James: Are the girls over there?

-They took our spot. The girls took our spot!

Thank you so much.

You are the best. Girl power. Thank you.

People are just pissed off down here.

JAMES: Well, yeah, I-I...

-STEUART:

-Well, then, why did we move?

Um...

STEPHANIE: Three vanillas?

Three vanillas! Thank you.

James: I had no idea

how you guys were selling it over there.

BLEEP

It was David's decision to move,

but I do bear some responsibility,

because I suggested that this would be a better area

because of the playground.

Now I'm really worried because, if we lose,

it's because we changed locations.

-DAVID:

-I think we need to leave Union Station.

We need to get ourselves moved,

and we need to go to a different location.

Huh? It's a beautiful day for some ice cream.

BLEEP!

-MAHSA:

-What's going on?

There's nobody here!

-BRANDY:

-Tough crowd!

-POPPY:

-I think that the afternoon crowd got a little bit slower.

People didn't really want to get ice cream,

and they especially didn't want to pay 5 for ice cream,

even though it was really hot outside.

-BRANDY:

-Come on, sir. You look like you want some ice cream.

-POPPY:

-It's so hot outside!

Oh, no...

See, look, you have a hundred, you want to buy the box?

DON: The biggest flaw that I see in the ladies' strategy is,

they're 20 yards from what's maybe the biggest subway stop

in New York City, and they don't have anyone

working the entrance or the exit of it.

So they seem to be missing a great opportunity for volume.

Hey, all you girls, we need to disperse, eh?

You have to go to them. They're not going to come to you.

Sales doesn't fall in your lap.

'These girls have zero sales ability.'

You don't need to hang out and become best friends.

You need to spread out. We don't have time for this crap.

Ice cream!

Somebody tell me about the location that we're going.

Father Demo is a small corner block.

I especially think it'll be nice as an evening spot.

'We needed a new location quickly,

'and so I was able to'

give Dave the information that he needed to make a decision.

And then we went to Father Demo park.

We got ice cream! We got ice cream! We got ice cream!

-Um, we're going to have to see how this goes.

-Yeah.

Put a little swing in your sway!

Make your swagger sweeter! Make everything look neater!

I got cones, I got fudge pops, I got ice cream sandwiches.

'Once we pulled up to Demo park, I still was a little concerned,

'because it didn't seem like it was as high-traffic as Union Square.

'But once we had set up shop,'

people were interested.

And they saw us in our funny uniforms,

and we were able to start selling.

Basically, we're eight ex-Wall Streeters,

we lost our jobs, we got children to feed.

You know, our wives divorced us, our girlfriends dumped us.

I swear to God.

I have two very outgoing, good-looking gentlemen.

Look, two beautiful men want you to buy ice cream from them.

How often do you get this experience?

And I unleashed the stallions from the barn, if you will.

And they always say that you don't stable your stallion

when he's leading the race, so I just let them loose.

Ladies, help me out, help me out.

Ladies, oh, my God! You are beautiful!

You need an ice cream. Come on, come on.

Come help us out.

Just come take a look. You can come back.

You'll come back with cash, I promise.

You would really help us out if you bought one ice cream bar.

And we have one left. Go figure.

-You could be our last sale of the day.

-I'm sold.

-Yes!

As the day went on, our sales pitch was very refined at that point.

I tried to use a little bit of charm.

Steuart used his good looks.

Whatever works, right?

Really?

You look fantastic!

-WOMAN:

-Eight...nine...ten. OK.

Picking Father Demo park was a great move for us.

We made a boatload of money.

We were the only ones out there. There were a ton of New Yorkers

and also happened to be a ton of tourists, as well.

We're selling ice cream today. It's a hot one out there.

You look like you deserve some ice cream.

I think James probably got back in good graces

for picking Father Demo park.

-Would you do 50?

-Here's 50.

-We got a 50 bill here!

Ladies, did they show you the ice cream stand there?

We're eight guys down on our luck,

just trying to get back on our feet.

STEPHANIE: I Don't want anyone kissing any babies.

We're not in politics. We don't want to be touching dogs.

We're not hanging out with kids. You say, "Hi," and that's it.

At the end of the first day,

we started discussing what we could do next day.

And Stephanie sort of started bossing us around.

When a guy comes up and says, "I want to tell you a joke,"

You say, "I'm so sorry, I'll talk later." Boom. Move it.

-What if he told a joke and then buys the ice cream?

-I don't care.

If the joke was five minutes, that's five minutes too long.

Stephanie is a very aggressive person.

I think Stephanie's so stressed out because she's very worried

that I'll bring her into the boardroom if we lose,

because it's all about sales. That's her job.

We have to stay disciplined.

-I know I sound like a Nazi right now.

-Yeah.

But you know what? Suck it up. OK?

-We're not losing this

-BLEEP

-task.

-LIZA:

-Poppy as project manager,

I would say she's not very aggressive,

as I would like in this task.

Stephanie was really the one who was making the decisions.

OK, so, tomorrow, we're going to put it on 300%.

If we lose this task and Poppy thinks

she's going to bring me into the boardroom,

I will take her down, cos I'm saving her ass right now.

That's it.

And if anyone complains, just send them to me.

I don't see the women.

'It's the second day of the task.'

We've decided to go back to Union Square.

Union Square has a farmers' market

and has a lot of activity, a lot of buzz on the weekends

and hopefully we'll find more people to sell to.

We got some frozen breakfast bars here this morning,

also known as ice cream sandwiches.

Whose cart is that?

-What cart?

-Mother!

-What?

'Our strategy was to go back to the exact same spot

'we were at yesterday. We turned the corner, and sure enough,

'I saw the white umbrella'

with the guys' cart right smack-dab on our spot.

-I'm pissed.

-Wow!

Already, they beat us. They got there faster.

Poppy, hey, the guys are in our spot.

We have to push them out.

Yeah, we'll set up right next to them.

Thank you very much, ma'am.

STEPHANIE: Set it up.

Hi, guys!

-Would y'all like to buy some ice cream?

-What took y'all so long?

You ladies took a while to get dressed this morning?

-DAVID:

-They'll help us more than they know it.

They're going to get people to come over,

and we'll steal them from every single one.

'When the women pulled up, everything gets buzzing.

'I knew they wanted to go back to the location,

and they weren't going to back down. Game on.

-James:

-You've got to be joking.

-Now it's just a

-BLEEP

-dogfight.

Famous soccer player by the name of Anand.

-Yeah, here! Come on. Let me help you out.

-Get off him.

STEPHANIE: I saw the guys and their technique,

which was basically sloppy, pathetic sales.

They looked like serial-killer circus monkeys.

I would never buy anything from someone

who was that aggressive and arrogant.

Hey, let's do this! Octane ice cream, right here, right now!

You folks want some octane, right?

Brandy, Brandy...

Here, come, let me show you. Let me show you what I have.

-He's just a conniving man.

-No, not at all.

Steuart, chase the crows away, please.

Be careful of the charlatans that are ahead of you!

They are nothing but tricksters!

You need to watch your choice of words.

'I was really surprised to see grown professional men

'acting so childlike.'

I thought, "How low can you go?"

It's the connotation that offends me.

So, as long as we understand each other, we're fine.

-Have a great day. Go sell your ice cream.

-Whoo! Feisty!

Kelly's being a cry-baby.

She's mad that we're selling way more than her.

I'm way more vocal than she is, and she's

walking around with her hand on her hip, doing nothing.

My sales will show at the end of the day.

Octane ice cream, right here, right now, today only!

I'm done acting like a vulture.

We have one hour left, OK?

It's your choice. Do you want to stay?

You know, let's go down there. Let's go down there.

'We decided that we didn't want to compete with the boys any longer.

-CLINT:

-Goodbye.

All the kids and their parents have been going to the park,

which is on the other side of Union Square,

and so we started selling there.

-I'll take a chocolate.

-There you go. Excellent choice.

-Thank you so much, sir.

-Guys, come here!

Let me show you what we have.

'Once we moved locations, we started selling like rapid-fire.'

It was awesome. It was really a great change for us.

I have my suspicions on who might be our weaker sellers.

'If we lose, sales is the number-one concern.'

Liza wasn't our strongest salesperson.

Literally, I'm bringing people to the table and...

Focus on winning. We'll deal with it later.

Octane ice cream!

You guys are crushing this.

The women are just... they have no voice now.

-That's all they got.

-Free ice-cold water, today only!

CLINT: I'll give you four ice creams for 10.

-Well, you picked a good spot.

-We had the girls here earlier.

-Huh.

-And they cut tail and run.

'I noticed a lot of activity at the men's cart,

'a lot of aggressiveness. You want to sell ice cream in New York City,'

you got to be aggressive.

Come on, follow the clown to ice cream town.

We got balloons, we got water.

For the next 15 minutes, we got ice cream!

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

There's hardly any inventory.

We're going to go stand out there and say, "Free ice cream."

-That's smart!

-Yeah!

Tyana got a brilliant idea.

To take sales away from the men, for the last couple minutes there,

we took our remaining stock and gave that ice cream away

right in front of the boys' truck.

Would you like a free one? Hey, sir, we'll give you one for free.

CLINT: That's so pathetic.

Take it and go. Walk away, sir.

Either way, no worries at all.

We have free ice cream for you. You don't have to pay.

Everybody take two and sell it somewhere else.

Spread out and take two and sell it.

-TYANA:

-The guys were furious. It was just hysterical

to watch how flustered they got.

CLINT: 1 apiece.

As long as they lost the sale, I was happy.

It was an amazing last-minute strategy

to ruin their last 10 minutes.

We got about ten bars! Let's get her done!

Free ice cream!

-You give me 1...

-Here you go, sir, free ice cream.

There you go. You're welcome.

CLINT: Run away with this and sell it for 1.

'Those guys are shaking in their boots.'

1! 1!

Poppy, how do you think you did?

I think we did a wonderful job, we really sold our hearts out.

-Do you think you won?

-Yes.

Do you think you had an advantage? You're all beautiful women.

Do you think you had an advantage over the men

in selling ice cream?

I mean, personally, if I had a choice of buying ice cream from you

or from Liza or from any of you, over David,

as an example...

-David wouldn't have a

-BLEEP

-chance.

LAUGHTER Do you understand that?

He wouldn't even have a little bit of a chance.

So, Brandy, let me ask you this,

do you think you had an advantage, being a woman?

-I do not think so, sir.

-Really?! I'm surprised you'd say that.

I think the men were using the same tactic. There were several instances

where the men were sitting next to young women.

They were obviously playing on the sex appeal.

You may not think they're handsome, but they are very handsome.

No, they're probably good-looking guys. It's just never been my deal.

LAUGHTER

OK.

So, Poppy, who was your weakest player?

I would not say that any one of my team-mates were weak.

Who was your weakest player?

You're going to make me say a name, aren't you?

Yes, I really want you to say a name.

I mean, you are the team leader.

-Yeah.

-Somebody's always the weakest player,

that's the way life is. Who's your weakest player?

I would say our least strong player...

SHE CHUCKLES Is?

Um...was Liza.

-Really? What do you think of that, Liza?

-Interesting.

I'm so glad to hear that,

that you think I'm the weakest player on the team.

In other words, you think Liza should be fired if you lose.

Yes.

This is a sales task,

and I'm basing it on the number of sales that I saw being made,

though I was very focused on making sales myself.

So you just don't think she's very good.

No, I did not say that, sir.

Let me clear this up here. I can tell you right now

all the ideas for everything we had.

Who was wearing the pink shirts? Where did the pink shirts come from?

-Who was wearing the headbands? Where did those come from?

-OK, Liza!

OK, Liza. Liza, you're in deep trouble.

Brandy, if you lose, do you think Liza should be fired?

If I were the project manager and I were up against Liza,

I would suggest that she be fired.

-I think she is very...

-Liza, you're fired.

I'm only kidding.

-ALL:

-Oh!

-GENE:

-Oh, wow!

-I'm only kidding.

First of all, you don't know if you lost yet.

WOMEN ALL TALK AT ONCE Mahsa, look at you.

-DAVID:

-Wow.

-Look at you.

No, I'm just in some whatever crazy mood. That's OK.

-BRANDY:

-I don't think it's fair

-Look at Mahsa.

-I don't think it's fair.

-I don't think it's fair,

-what y'all are doing right now.

-I don't think it's fair, either.

-I believe we still won.

-I'm trying to say she's a strong player.

I'm a strong player and they're trying to throw me under the bus.

They don't think so. Liza, they don't think so.

-I don't have all the ideas, but I have good ideas.

-OK.

-I have many good ideas.

-OK, OK, OK, OK.

Liza, do you think Poppy was a good project manager?

To be honest with you, Mr Trump,

this whole task was run by Stephanie.

It was not run by Poppy.

She may say whatever she wants about me...

If you lose, should I fire Stephanie?

No, you shouldn't fire Stephanie, You should fire Poppy.

Because I said she was the weakest link, sir.

-It's getting personal.

-It's not getting personal.

You're the one who brought it up.

-Is that the reason?

-It wasn't personal from the beginning.

I knew from the very beginning that she wasn't a good project manager.

OK.

Mahsa, so, what do you think?

I would not fire Poppy.

I was so impressed by how Poppy was able to tell me what to do,

and I felt we worked very well as a team.

-Do you think you won?

-I know we won.

-Do you think you won?

-Yes, I think we won.

You said, "I know we won." How can you know you won?

You don't know anything. Do you think you won?

I don't have very much faith in the men.

Then say, "I think I won." Don't say, "I know we won."

-Cos you can't know you won anything.

-I'm sorry. OK.

David, do you think you won?

-Uh, I'm very confident that we won.

-Your team did well?

My team did excellent, sir.

Tell me, who's your weakest player?

My weakest player...

has to be Alex...

and...James.

Why Alex?

Because it's a puppy-dog mentality.

-He has a puppy-dog mentality.

-Yes, sir.

-You mean he's a weak human being.

-I won't say he's weak.

Everyone is here for a reason.

I just believe that he takes too much management, too much watching.

Alex, when they call you the weakest player on the team,

-how do you respond?

-Yeah, that's tough to hear,

because, you know, I've been in retail sales before, but,

at that point, the customers are coming in, they know what they want.

Do you think you're the weakest player out of this group?

No, sir, I do not. I kicked some butt on this task.

OK.

And, David, why James?

Uh, James is a very strong person.

He's an attorney.

However, he over-thinks every item that is given to him.

In a task where it's just nitty-gritty,

roll my sleeves up and sell,

I just want to go and sell ice cream.

I don't want to know the formula

of the ingredients that are on the package.

-You agree with him?

-I've never sold anything, so this

-was completely new to me.

-You know, in life, you have to be a salesman.

I know so many talented people that can't sell themselves,

and they're all failures.

And I tell you this as a little bit of advice.

I've seen people that are better than Frank Sinatra.

They're incredible entertainers,

but they can't sell themselves, and they never get the shot.

So whether you like it or not,

you have to be a salesman about yourself.

It's really important.

Absolutely.

Gene, if your team loses and I'm forced to fire somebody,

who would it be?

-I think it would be James.

-OK.

-Wade?

-Yes?

-If your team loses and you were me, who would you fire?

On this particular task, James.

James, a lot of people have said that

and you kind of nod your head almost as if you're in agreement.

-Well, no, I'm not in agreement.

-Are you in agreement?

-No, I'm not, sir.

-Why don't you fight for yourself?

-Oh, I'm ready to fight for myself.

-Well, you haven't shown it.

-We would have never been to Father Demo Square

if it weren't for my knowledge of the area.

We wouldn't have had those red-and-white vests

that made us look like a unit

unless I had gone to the costume shop to pick them up.

But you did it in your single speed - slow motion.

-Single speed? How do I have a single speed?

-You are one gear.

-But he's not really a slow-motion guy.

-How have I been slow motion?

I don't see him as a slow-motion guy.

He puts me to sleep, and that's very hard to do.

This idea that I am slow or go at a single speed is utterly absurd.

For a guy who's so erratic and emotionally charged

and susceptible to breakdowns,

-I think it's absurd that you can criticise the way I handle myself.

-Susceptible to breakdowns?

OK, enough.

Gene, do you think you won?

-Absolutely, Mr Trump.

-Absolutely, Gene.

Absolutely, you won. Absolutely, right?

You know, I go into deals, and they're 100%.

100%, and then they don't work out.

-I agree.

-OK?

-You can never be... Nothing's 100%.

-Right.

-All right, do you want to know who won, Poppy?

-I would love to know.

-OK.

One team...

did 1,500...of profit.

And one team...

..did 1,800 of profit.

And for Gene, who said, "Absolutely, we won"...

you lost, the men lost.

CHEERING

-Yes!

-Yes!

-I knew it!

-I estimated it at 2,000.

-I'd like to congratulate you.

You did a good job. You can go and apologise now to Liza.

And you, Poppy, as project manager,

will be meeting one of the great American legends,

one of the great American business icons,

a friend of mine, Jack Welch,

who brilliantly, for many years, ran General Electric.

And he's going to be sitting down with you.

He's going to be talking to you. There's nobody better to learn from.

-OK?

-Thank you.

-So, congratulations. Go back to your suite.

You'll be able to watch this little grilling

with all these guys that thought they won...

And didn't. And really good job.

-Thank you.

-Good. You feel OK, Liza?

I feel awesome. I was kind of worried, there, when you fired me.

-LAUGHTER

-Thank you.

-OK?

-TYANA:

-I knew we had to win. We had to win.

Men, stay here. One of you will be fired.

So, Gene, are you still absolutely sure that you won?

-Apparently not.

-What do you think, David?

-I'm very disappointed, sir.

-Are you surprised?

I am surprised.

-And you know, you had one more salesperson than them.

-Mm-hmm.

And they beat you easily.

I mean, percentage-wise, they beat you easily.

-WOMEN LAUGH

-No

-BLEEP.

Guys, I just want to thank all of you.

Every single one of us really did a great job

and that's why I sort of said, you know...

-Don't even frickin' look at me, bitch, OK?

-Liza, come on.

This isn't a celebration, y'all. Don't try to, like, make me feel good now, OK?

-Don't call Poppy a bitch.

-She is.

You're isolating yourself right now, Liza.

Just keep going down that road, hon. Just keep going down it.

-MAHSA:

-Can we listen? You guys, can we fight right after?

-So, Wade, why did you lose?

-This was a pure sales task.

I mean, we obviously lost because of sales

and we lost because of our weakest salesperson.

David, what happened?

Mr Trump, my sales guys, my aggressive sales guys

-did a tremendous job.

-Who didn't?

James and Alex.

When it comes down to it, and to justify the reason,

I watched them too much.

-I just felt my baby-sitting job was not part of my job.

-You watched who too much?

I watched the two of them like I was baby-sitting,

and it took me away from my task.

I mean, it's obvious you're going to bring James and Alex back to the boardroom.

Sir, I don't see any other choice than to bring them.

My other team-mates rocked out loud.

OK, everyone else get out of here.

Thank you, sir.

-James?

-Mm-hmm?

-Why are you here?

Clearly, Dave and I have butted heads,

and we've had some disagreements. I've been vocal about my opinions

because I feel that I have ownership over our performance.

And were we to lose and I were to stay silent,

-I'd be just as responsible.

-Do you think you should be fired?

-Absolutely not.

-Who should be fired?

I believe it's a toss-up between Dave and Alex.

I think Alex is the weakest player on our team,

but Dave made some critical errors in terms of leading the team.

Is Alex the weakest player, or the weakest player on this task?

I think, on the first two tasks,

Alex's performance has been sub-par on both.

-Alex, you don't have a lot of energy.

-Really? Come on.

-You don't fight back.

-Wait, wait, come on. I blew out what I was asked for.

But what did you do?

I ran around, jumped up and down like he asked,

and, you know, screamed to bring in and create, you know, a vision.

David, who could the team do without?

Mr Trump, the team could do without either one of them.

And I'll tell you, I have five children.

It was almost like I was back with my children.

I was constantly looking over my shoulder at these two.

Who is the stronger person?

Personally, the stronger person is James, as a person.

But as someone who gave me his better effort in this task,

it would have to be Alex.

He was willing to try everything. I had him put on an orange wig

and dance in the middle of Union Square and he did it for me.

But didn't Alex sell the least?

He did sell the least. It frustrated me. I had to watch him.

Sir, like I said, I tried to wrangle them in, and I did pass them off to Steuart and Anand,

because they were right next to the cart.

And that was part of our strategy - get them close to the cart.

I mean, I don't blame you right now for being nervous.

-You're nervous. I can see that.

-Yes, sir.

But do you feel you're in their league?

You've got all these killers. They're tough.

They're really pretty brutal guys. Do you feel you're in their league?

I can easily be in their league, sir.

I feel I am in their league. I was brought here for a reason.

James, do you think he's in that...

I'm not even saying that as a negative or a positive.

Well, I think that answer kind of exposes that he isn't

-because he just said, "I CAN be in their league."

-That's true.

You said, "I CAN be there," not, "I am there."

In the first project, I was totally in their league.

-But you're being judged on this task.

-On this task.

-So you're saying you're not?

-No, I am in their league, too.

I sold my butt off, and I did the other tasks.

But you sold less than anybody else.

OK, if that's the case, you know, so be it,

but I put my total effort into selling.

I grabbed the people that I could without man-handling them.

I don't believe in man-handling people.

So, David, as project manager

of a losing team, shouldn't I fire you?

Sir, you should not. I have potential.

I believe I sold, as well as managed the task,

as well as the logistic side of it.

James, did David do a good job?

Um, I think that, you know, mistakes were made.

I think David took a lot on, and he didn't do much to delegate.

And throughout the course of the task,

we didn't really see much of a plan at all,

the idea just being "get out and sell", with no real direction.

And I think that's what we were really missing.

And then I got told different prices at different times, plenty of times.

I worked it out with each one of my stallions -

my reps that were out there killing it -

to sell like they wanted to.

You do not keep a prize horse in the stable.

I let my guys gallop.

And I sold more than you and I did everything else.

Well, look, the problem I have, though,

is that Alex sold the least, and Alex just doesn't seem to have

the same passion as you two guys.

Alex, you're fired.

Sir.

-Thank you, Sir.

-I'm sorry. Go.

Thank you, Mr Trump. Thank you.

-All right, man.

-Hey. Still brothers to the end.

Good times. Good luck to you.

-Thank you. You too. Both of you.

-Thank you.

I just felt I had no choice. He didn't have the passion.

-I agree with you 100%.

-I agree. Alex seems like a nice guy,

but he can't go up against those killers.

I think David brought me back into the boardroom

because we got off on the wrong foot.

He put me in a position, on this task, to fail.

I was hoping to escape. Didn't happen that way.

Working for Mr Trump was an awesome experience.

It is something I will never forget

and will remain with me for the rest of my life.

Rockport presents Next Steps.

I left The Apprentice - fired!

And then walked right into my dream job - construction management.

Going from fired to hired is an awesome feeling.

My wife is now sleeping at night

and I can enjoy myself in life and enjoy my family.