The Apprentice – Recap – Episode 11

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Back in the suite, everyone greets Alex and Chris.

Chris jokes about The Don calling him out of control, but he says if that’s how people are really perceiving him, then he needs to work on it.

The next morning they all head out and meet The Don at Macy’s. Michelle, one of The Don’s attorneys, fills in for George.

The Don has a high-end line of clothing, and that’s the new task. Design a new gadget-based line of clothing for American Eagle. The team judged the best will win. He also berates them for lack of market research for the last task, as people wanted a cheeseburger pizza, not meatball.

NET WORTH

Alex is Project Manager. He talks about designing a jacket with a harness in back for a laptop.

Chris says Alex is a self-proclaimed metrosexual.

MAGNA

Tana is Project Manager, and goes out to do market research with teens about what they want.

Kendra says that market research is important, and wonders if Net Worth was smart enough to do this.

NET WORTH

Chris cleans out Best Buy.

HE meets the rest of the team back at American Eagle, and discovers that he has lost the team credit card. Best Buy closes at 7, and it’s 6:55. Chris says he has to get the credit card back, or Net Worth will automatically lose.

“Let Nothing Get In The Way”

The Don says don’t let obstacles stop you from accomplishing what you need to do.

NET WORTH

Chris goes to Best Buy the next morning. They are searching but can’t find the card.

Chris says times like these normally call for tobacco, but he has quit.

MAGNA

Tana designs the new logo for Wearable Tech.

Craig and Bren knock out some designs, but Kendra can’t think of anything.

Tana says they’ll just roll with what they have, and stop the bickering.

NET WORTH

Angie says they are having to design everything on their own.

She notices that Chris has 5 tasks, she has 19, and Alex has 1.

Chris is still at Best Buy.

MAGNA

Bren and Craig are in Brooklyn picking up their clothes from a silk screener they hired to put the logo on.

Bren says his Spidey Senses should have told him something was wrong.

The logo is on the clothes backwards, and paint is on the rest of the pieces. But they are stuck with them because they have no backup pieces.

NET WORTH

After about an hour, the manager finally brings Chris the credit card.

MAGNA

Craig and Bren arrive with the clothes, and Tana is pissed.

Tana says she can cry or move on, and she decides to move on.

Craig takes some white out and fixes the paint splotches.

NET WORTH

It’s 2:30 and the presentation is at 3. The models haven’t shown up.

The models finally show up, and begin leisurely dressing.

Chris arrives and notices the frantic pace.

They leave and forget one of their jackets.

They finally get moving, but by the time they get into the cab it’s almost 3. It looks like they are going to miss the presentation.

Magna begins their presentation. It goes well.

Net Worth realizes one of the models forgot to bring his jacket.

Angie is so flustered she stumbles through their presentation.

Alex says it was high-school level bad.

Angie plods on through the presentation, flubbing her lines and constantly saying “um, um, um”.

The American Eagle reps discuss and think Magna had the best presentation.

The Don shows up and brings everyone in. They applaud Net Worth’s effort, but say they just weren’t good enough. Magna wins! Their reward is a shopping spree at Bergdorf-Goodman. Net Worth gets to visit the boardroom yet again.

Magna goes on their shopping spree.

Craig says it was like a museum of fashion.

Kendra says shopping sprees are a woman’s dream comes true.

Craig and Bren try on suits.

Craig thinks Tana is a very good leader.

Tana loves being the only undefeated project manager.

Back at the suite, Craig says he’s resigned that one of them is going home.

Alex says they built the better rocket but blew it on the launch pad. He thinks they lost because Angie blew the presentation.

Angie says she’s not getting fired. It as the PM’s job to get them to the presentation on time, and it wasn’t her fault Chris lost the credit bard.

BOARDROOM

The Don strolls in. He asks Alex what went wrong.

Angie admits she blew the presentation. Alex says it was Angie’s fault the jacket got left behind, while Angie says it was Alex’s responsibility.

Caroline asks Chris about the credit card, and he takes full responsibility.

Angie says that the model forgetting the jacket threw her off. But she also thinks Chris being gone 3 hours was a big reason they lost.

The Don says that Angie and Chris are losers, and they’ve made Alex, who was a superstar, a loser as well. He throws them all out of the boardroom while he discusses who goes home.

Caroline tells The Don that Chris has yet to step up. Michelle says Angie really blew the presentation. The Don calls them back in.

Alex says they didn’t lose because Chris forgot the credit card; they lost because Angie blew the presentation.

Chris says he shouldn’t be fired over the credit card. Angie says she had to do everything on her own. Michelle asks Chris if he thinks if he had been there instead of looking for the credit card would they have succeeded. Chris says it would have made a small difference, but not that much.

The Don asks Alex who he would keep, and Alex says he would keep Chris because he has more talent. He also says Chris kept his temper in check throughout the whole project.

The Don says someone controlling their anger isn’t a job endorsement. He tells Chris that he just doesn’t feel like having someone work for him that has anger issues. He tells Alex that being saddled with a couple of losers has brought him down.

The Don asks Angie if she choked. Angie says she did a bad job. The Don asks her if she choked. Angie admits she did. “You’re fired.” Angie thanks The Don and leaves.

In the lobby she hugs Alex and Chris. She can’t believe she got fired.

The Don says he just can’t have any chokers working for him.