I do not know how Allie continues to hang on–  well, last night was the first time in quite some time that she was even up for being eliminated. 

But I’m getting ahead of myself–  here is the recap.  The group was assigned the task of creating and marketing a limited edition program for Ellis Island.  The task was underwritten by Ameriquest, and the proceeds went to the Ellis Island Foundation. 

Gold Rush was lead by Lee who knew that he needed to do well or pack his bags.  You can only have so many return trips to the boardroom before this becomes a reality.  Synergy was lead by Allie. 

Both teams needed to go to Ellis Island to take photographs and gather information for the programs.  Lee sent Tarek and Michael (whose name I always forget because he seems like the “unmember”), while he stayed home with Charmaine to make sales calls to try to sell bulk amounts.  Allie took the whole team, which meant half of them just sat around twiddling their thumbs.  Andrea got very annoyed with this and tried to tell Allie how to do her job (as usual).  Tammy was taking copious notes.  When the group got to the boat, they realized that Tammy had left behind her notebook with all the notes.  So Tammy got off the boat, and Allie went with her (for reasons unknown to me).  Well, of course, as you probably know from the previews, the boat left without them.  So, the project manager was no longer with the group.

 It was unclear how far behind the group Allie was but far enough behind that Andrea had practically designed the whole program by the time Allie arrived.  Allie was displeased with the product, and Andrea (uncharacteristically) threw up her hands and said, fine, you do it.  Tarke, meanwhile, had completely usurped Lee’s authority as project manager and put together the program pretty much singlehandedly.

The next morning, Lee got his group up and out the door and staked out the ferry landing where people leave for Ellis Island.  They had an established spot before Synergy arrived at the same location.  After a brief attempt to sell competing programs, Allie made the not so brilliant decision to go to the island to try to sell programs.  Of course, practically every person they tried to sell to already had a program.

When it was time for the results to be revealed, it was no big surprise that Gold Rush had made almost twice as money as Synergy.  They were off to play golf with the Donald and Vijay Singh.  Synergy, meanwhile, was off to stab Andrea in the back.  Allie, Tammy, and Roxanne did their best recreation of “Mean Girls”, while Sean wondered why on earth he was on a team with all women.

I really thought Donald Trump would see through the girls’ shenanigans in the board room, but he somehow seemed to think that the loss was due to lack of chemistry, so Andrea was out.  Now, let me explain that I’m not a huge fan of Andrea, but I certainly didn’t think she was responsible for this loss.  (Of course, I also think she’d make a lousy apprentice, as I think she’s best suited to running her own business.) 

In any case, I guess Allie and her minions–  um, I mean teammates–  just bring back bad junior high flashbacks.  I think Tammy and Roxanne are okay.  As a matter of fact, I quite like Roxanne, but I think when they’re lumped together they definitely have that pack mentality, and that just irks me.

So, it’s another week of the Apprentice.  Next week it looks like we’ll see Sean in a romance with Tammy and Charmaine in charge of the boys.  Sounds like a good one!