The Apprentice (2004–2017): Season 1, Episode 13 - The Price Is Height - full transcript
[Trump]
Previously on The Apprentice.
- Kwame was very happy to see Troy safely return from the boardroom.
- Tee-roy.
You're something, man.
Congrats.
The next morning, Protégé was given
a chance to even up the sides.
Who are you gonna choose
to be on your side?
- We're gonna choose Bill to be on our side.
- Go ahead, Bill. Good luck.
For their next task, the teams went to Atlantic
City, where they had to come up with a plan...
to attract gamblers to play
at the Trump Taj Mahal.
[Bill] How many gaming
positions do you have?
[Mark ] 4,600 slot machines
and 180 table games.
[Trump] Nick and Amy's
romance continued to blossom.
I don't really know what I think about Nick.
Maybe it's time to find out.
[Trump] In the casino,
Bill had a brilliant idea to target the V.LP.'s.
The game was not gonna be
won or lost on volume.
It was gonna be won or lost on the quality
of player that you brought through.
[Trump] And Kwame and Troy
added some shock value.
We do have the tiger coming in. We have the
700-pound white tiger coming. Everybody step back.
[Trump]
While Versacorp's idea was lackluster.
Our plan is to raffle a car rental
valued at $300.
[Trump] In the end,
Protégé's creative ideas paid off.
And you guys finally won one.
Victory!
Whoo!
[Trump] In the boardroom,
Nick was shocked by Amy's comments.
-1 think Bill's my toughest competition.
- So maybe we should just call off the competition. I should choose Bill.
[ Trump ] When Amy picked Nick to go back to the
suite, Katrina revealed Nick and Amy's romance.
- Do you think that Nick and Amy have a personal relationship?
- Oh, most definitely.
I"m surprised at you, Amy.
I didn't see this.
Now [ have to say, my only problem is...
I have to go to a certain extent with the past,
and in the past, Amy was very exceptional.
And therefore, Katrina,
1/ have to say--
you're fired.
[Trump]
Five candidates are left.
Who will be fired this week?
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[ Nick ] 1 don't think Amy will be fired "cause
she's too good. This is her first time losing.
And if she just stays calm in that boardroom
situation when they're firing questions at her,
she'll walk out.
Nobody here to greet me?
Can't believe this!
[Kwame ] 1 mean, congratulations.
Everyone's asleep.
[Amy]
[ think Katrina was ready to go home.
So as I walked into the boardroom,
I felt pretty confident...
that I would be walking out
as the last remaining female.
So talk to me.
What happened?
[Amy] Well, there's not much to talk
about when there's just two people.
I said, you know, I think that-- Everyone
had been to the boardroom but me.
And he's like-- Yeah. You know Amy brings
up a good point, Amy-- uh, Katrina.
You gotta look at her track record.
[Bill] I think Amy's ego is escalating
as the tasks go on, without a doubt.
She has gotten the God complex.
I think she's sizing
everybody up right now.
[Amy]
Bill, was tooting your horn.
And they said, “Well, if you think Bill's so great,
then why don't we just quit this competition and give it to Bill?”
That sounds good to me.
V'm all right with that. Wow.
[Amy] Nick might have been a little offended
that I think Bill's a stronger player,
but if! had my choice of who I
would partner with tolead me...
closer and closer to victory,
it would absolutely be Bill.
And I think if Nick can't sense that,
he's not as sharp as I think he is.
They look for any thing to getcha.
[ Kwame ] There you go.
Popped your boardroom cherry. st that great?
[ Nick] She didn't have to
say that in the boardroom.
And I don't know what the angle was, whether it's
like a “Watch out, Nick, cause I'm coming to get you,”
or maybe she truly believes that.
1 mean, she wants to win this thing.
She could stab me in the back tomorrow.
Are we ready?
Yeah, we're ready.
Let's do this one.
Yeah. Have a good time.
Right?
Yeah.
Good night.
Good night.
[ Phone Ringing ]
[Ringing]
Hello?
[Kwame ] Amy answered
the phone-- Thank you.
Told everybody that we had
to depart at around 8:15, 8:30...
and we're gonna head over
to the penthouse at Trump World Tower.
Are you gonna go like that?
1 look good. I know. I"m just asking.
Is that your attire?
[Troy] Kwame and I have
developed a great friendship.
Kwame's got a polished veneer.
He's got a Harvard degree.
He knows how to interact with people.
So I'm proud to say that my biggest
competition ls also one of my closest friends.
[ Talking, Indistinct ]
Troy and I do have a relationship,
and it is a real friendship.
So, yeah, that puts us at an advantage
in terms of looking out for each other.
Are these clean?
- Does this match?
-1t's got some color in it.
Okay, good. If that's what you
got, that's what you got.
[ Bill ] Troy and Kwame have forged quite
a friendship over the last 12 weeks.
I"m clearly a guy who's
on the outside looking in.
And I'd be a fool not to
take that into consideration.
Down to five. [ Kwame] That's it.
The whole gang.
[ Woman's Voice ]
Ninetieth floor.
Follow me. You're not gonna believe
what you're gonna see. Come on.
I'm gonna show you
luxury living in Manhattan.
[Trump] Come on in. Wwow!
[Bill]
This will work.
[Trump]
This is called luxury.
This is Trump luxury.
Come on over here.
Come on over.
Geez Almighty.
Incredible.
- What a lifestyle.
- Bernie is back with us covering for George.
He and Carolyn will join you
on your task.
This is Trump World Tower. It's one of
the most luxurious buildings in the world.
This is the 90th-floor penthouse.
This is a very exclusive space...
I rent out only on rare occasions
for special events.
You see why Trump is Trump-- largest
windows in the city, highest ceilings.
Everything is luxury.
Best of everything.
What your're going to do
Is take this 90th-floor...
penthouse apartment..
And you're going to rent it out for
an evening for a minimum of $20,000.
ft's 00 a.77. now.
At 700 p.m., this task will be over-.
You only have 10 hours,
then you're done.
The team that rents it out
for the most money wins.
If you think this property is amazing,
wait until the reward,
The winners will take the Trump jet
to what a lot of people consider...
the most luxurious private club
anywhere in the world--
my 25-acre estate in Florida,
Mar-a-Iago.
You're gonna have lunch in Palm Beach
at the Mar-a-Iago Club.
That would be a nice lunch.
That would be a very romantic lunch, actually.
You better work very hard.
Maybe you'll get there.
I don't know-- Is there a relationship with you two?
That came up last time, Nick.
- Do you have a relationship?
- [ Nick ] We have a good business relationship.
And sometimes we engage
in meaningful conversation.
- Okay. That's very good.
Very good answer. - [ Nick ] Thank you.
I did want to bring that up before
we got too far along. Good. Have fun.
The losing group, back to the
boardroom where someone will be fired.
- Good luck. Have fun.
- Thank you, Mr. Trump.
[ Bernie] Good luck. Thank you.
[Troy]
I'm gonna be the project manager.
Because if you're just looking at me on a piece of
paper, the lack of my own education...
makes people not look at me at first.
So I've got to make an impression...
every time.
I think the service is key behind this.
It's not just the-- What other amenities can we offer?
I don't want to get so far
and not make it all the way.
That'd crush me.
I think that's a great idea.
- Let's go sit over there.
-1 get a better signal here.
Both teams went down to the lobby...
and that's where we just took
different sections of the lobby...
and started banging out calls.
This is Troy McClain
with Trump World Towers.
This is Nick Warnock calling
from the Trump World Tower.
I understand that
you do event planning.
We'd set up several meetings
with event planners.
They're the ones that pick
the locations for their clients.
It's a 5,500-square-foot penthouse.
[Woman] Uh-huh.
It's incredible-- the views of the East
River, the Hudson River and the ocean.
I'd love to take alook at it.
Great. What is your schedule like?
[Kwame ]
We need to get smart on the place.
Why do people rent it?
What's the pitch you give them?
[ Troy ] We made an appointment with Elaine,
the Director of Sales for the Trump World Towers.
What has it rented for in the past?
What"s the highest you ever got for it?
- Right now we're at the $40,000 level.
- Wow.
[ Bill ] This is quite a challenge
to get someone to commit...
to 30-plus-thousand dollars
to rent the space for one night.
That's a lot to ask someone.
Well, thank you very much. You're very welcome.
It was nice meeting you. Good luck.
- Thank you. Appreciate that. - [ Bill] It's going to
boil down to finding the right person at the right time.
Oh, my God! Wow!
Unbelievable.
[ Think the best way to sell the place is to open
the door and let the client create the vision.
[Man] Well, you can't beat that
view, can you?
A little music over there,
the big floor out here.
Then there's 3 few V.I.P. rooms in the back that
would work out good if you brought in couches.
[Amy]
But Nick's style is very up front.
Quite a few times
when we walk in he'll say,
“How about let's put the band
over here and the food over here?”
You could have the couches over there.
Maybe a little bar setup right there.
[Amy]
These party planners have such vision.
[ Think by even defining any ideas
hinders their imagination...
and, uh, our performance.
Do you think it's a good strategy
that we point out--
I mean, you're, like,
“Alittle band over here, a little--"
Sometimes [ think we should
Just shut up and listen.
- Trust me. That's the way you operate.
- Why?
Because you're just feeling,
you know, what people are thinking.
[Amy Chuckles ]
If you say so.
[Trump] You cannot be
successful without passion.
If you don't love what you're doing,
if you don't have passion for it, forget it.
Do something else.
You'll be much more successful,
and you'll lead a lot happier life.
Bill, kwame and myself go to this café,
and we start strategizing.
I don't want to give them
a romantic lunch in Mar-a-Iago.
[Bill] All right.
Let's figure out our sales presentation.
You can have your salesperson and your
closer is what traditionally happens.
Troy set up a sales technique that Twasn't familiar
with and I wasn't sure how successful it was gonna be.
It was much like buying a car.
It's got 17-foot ceilings,
full kitchen, five and a half bathrooms.
I was the initiator on the sale,
on the car.
You can have barges come in and do firework shows for you.
I mean, how cool would that be?
[Troy] [ took the clients through the apartment.
1/ gave them them the whole spiel.
Truly, the possibilities are endless.
Well, the view is great, the spacing is
great, saying you're at the Trump--
World Tower.
World Tower is great.
Then, when we had them warmed up, excited,
fired up, we kind of handed the baton to Troy...
to try to put the screws into them.
He was not gonna let them leave
until they signed that paper.
We are shooting for a number in the
$30,000 range is what we're shooting for.
- Oyvey!
- Oy vey is my favorite word now, that and shalom.
Shalom.
Cheers. L'chaim.
“Lahi'em”?
L'chaim.
“Lac hi um”™?
- The boy's from Idaho.
- L'chaim.
'M working it.
'monit.
I don't know how he's able to say some of
the things he says with a straight face.
I mean, it's a hundred miles an hour.
[Troy] Actually,
we have two firm offers already.
[Bill] He can sometimes talk
himself out of the game.
And I think we're gently walking on that
territory right now, because, well, he's lying.
[ Man] This is great.
[Amy] Isn't it unbelievable?
It's really awesome.
We thought that if people
were interested in minimums,
that they weren't the people
we should be targeting.
[Amy]
We wanted to define a high target.
We've entertained offers
upwards of $40,000.
I think--1 think if you can get
$40,000 for this space, job well done.
1 don't think it's worth 40.
But we wish you luck. Yeah. Thank you.
It's very nice to meet you all.
Nice to meet you. [Amy] Granted the views are
great and granted it's the Trump property,
but nobody pays anything
even close to that these days.
Like $10,000 is the maximum we even heard.
They were laughing at us.
Hey, how you doing?
[Amy]And then a gentleman by the name of fan
came in with Kate, one of our event planners.
Not bad, huh? This is my favorite part of
it, is opening the door...
and letting people walk in,
"cause they're all, like, “Oh!”
- Still getting over that space.
-[Amy ] He saw the place and had to have it.
- Amy So what did you have in mind?
- [lan] A New Year's Eve type event.
[ Kate ] This is the kind of thing that concerns me.
New Year's Eve parties don't end at midnight.
The lease agreement said you've got
to be out of the property by midnight.
So it didn't really work for a
New Year's party. So they left.
And that was a deal that was lost.
Okay, so what do we do now?
We're looking for a $32,000 range
is what we're looking for.
Focusing on that 32.
Thirty-two five.
So I'm thinking that I heard
an offer of a 32,500 range.
And tell me if I'm wrong or right, but that's what
I'm thinking that I heard. I think you're right.
They basically gave us an oral agreement
at 32,500.
You get views of the East River, the Hudson River
and the Atlantic, Central Park, all of Manhattan.
[Kwame ] But at the same time, Bill had someone
very interested in the apartment as well.
-1 mean, this is a spectacular spot.
-1 think so. I think it will work perfect.
- 50 lets talk business.
- Al right, why don't you and head down to the office. Okay.
[Troy] So what we're gonna do is
we're gonna put this lease in place.
- We're gonna collect the deposit and--
- [Knocking ]
- May I speak with you for one second?
- Yeah. Okay. Hold on one second.
- The pressure's too much.
- 1t's very funny, running around with each other.
Is this good cop/bad cop?
No, we're not good cop/bad cop at all.
It's long, long day cop.
[Kwame ] It was exciting.
We had two parties essentially 50 feet away...
in two parts of the office,
and it was a bidding war.
And so it was very frenzied because we wanted
to make sure we maximized the dollar amount.
Should I take them all the way back to Trump Tower?
No. No. They have to sign right now.
Okay. Make it happen.
All right, gentlemen and ladies.
Let's see what we can do here.
I'm gonna pull up a seat right next to you.
Troy came in and was the
guy that comes in the end...
and just puts the heat on these people
and sells them the undercoating.
No. Is somebody else, uh, right now
signing for the space also?
-[Troy] Right now what we have is a bid.,
- Are you gonna submit two offers?
No. We can only submit one.
You only can submit one?
- Yeah, we can only submit one.
- Soifl sign the lease right now, it's my space?
Absolutely. Yeah.
At 35,0007
- Actually, 38,500 makes it yours.
- Uh-huh. Thirty-eight five.
Thirty-eight five
makes it my space.
Absolutely.
Troy's technique was to steamroll them,
creating false urgency on the deal.
[ think I'm being hustled
to be honest with you..
With the old, you know,
“there's another person interested” trick.
I'm gonna have to pass.
Okay.
- I'm sorry. - [Bill ] The guy got up
from the deal and said I'm out of here.
You guys are bull-- [ Beeps ]-- me.
Thank you very much.
That could have been a fatal blow.
So we immediately shifted 100%
of our attention onto the $35,000 deal.
-[Kkwame] Here comes Bill. Where we at?
- Done deal, right?
You're our A-team.
You're our A-team.
- Okay.
- Would it be possible to do $35,0012
Absolutely.
Thank you. Thank you.
Just in the case the other team was at
35,000, we would be at 35,001.
Price Is Right style.
Let's go.
[ Nick] Guys, good luck to you.
[Troy]
See your guys.
[Bill] Nick and Amy were still
in the lobby when we left.
They had kind of a panicked look
on their face.
I don't underestimate Amy,
I'm not underestimating Nick, but I'm feeling good.
I think it's time
to gas up the jet.
[Amy] We talked to
hundreds of event planners.
There were many that were absolutely interested,
but none that could get there by today.
So I'm like, oh, my God,
getting a deal was gonna be impossible.
Every redhead I know just about
is with a redhead. What's up with that?
No?
I've never dated a redheaded girl.
[Amy] It was two minutes before
the deadline and all of a sudden,
Kate, who had left with lan,
walks back in.
I"m, like, “Nick, go get her.”
Awesome.
Awesome. Awesome.
Uh, just one-- just one second.
[ Whispering ]
20,000 more? 30,0007
Yeah.
Nick walks over and I don't know
what he said, but it worked.
He made us an extravagant offer.
I'm pretty sure you've got it.
But we don't know what the other team's bringing in.
[Kate]
So we can't be happy.
It was an act of God. But I'd like to think some
nice salesmanship came into it with Amy and 1.
Can I just say a job well done, buddy.
Thanks.
So how was it out there?
How did you guys do?
- I feel that we did really fantastic.
- The product sold itself.
- Nick, how'd you do?
-1 think we did real well.
You think you and Amy might someday
live in a place like that together...
as man and wife? I told him he'd
better start selling lots of copiers.
- What did you think, Amy?
- [ think the less you said the better it sold.
- Good product?
- Qutstanding.
'M glad you're saying that. Bernie?
For Protégé, there was
a lease amount for--
$35,001.
- $35,000 for one day is pretty good, right?
- Yes.
Okay, Carolyn?
For Versacorp,
we have a lease agreement--
-it's for $40,000.
- Nice job, guys.
-$40,800.
-$40,800, excuse me. $40,800.
- Are you a little disappointed?
- Absolutely.
- [ Trump ] Are you surprised?
- We never underestimated their ability.
- Whose ability-- Nick's or Amy's?
- The team as a whole.
We knew that they were tough
competitors and so, I mean--
You're all tough. You're all smart.
Unfortunately, that's not the way the game is played.
Now the winning team,
and this is perhaps appropriate,
I don't know--
if this match doesn't work
I'd be amazed--
but the winning team is going to get
onto my plane tomorrow morning.
Yourre flying down to Mar-a-Iago, the number one club
there is anywhere in the country as far as I'm concerned,
having lunch,
taking a tour of Mar-a-Iago.
The losing team, sadly,
I'll see you in the boardroom.
Somebody gets fired.
Tough day.
Tough day, man.
It was a tough loss. I'll be honest with you.
I really thought we had it there.
- Forty-five grand. -/ was extremely confident
going into the task resolution that we'd won.
I was saying to gas up the jet.
Id like to retract that statement.
Ouch. That hurt, though.
[Troy] It really took the wind out of our sails.
I could not believe it.
What else could we have done better?
- I don't know.
But we thought 35,000
was in the bank.
It devastated us.
- That's just the way life goes, man.
-1t ain't over with yet, boss.
WWe still got some fight left in us.
I Know. I'm not giving up.
I"m just like--
I think we had that thing locked up.
Do you know what time
you're leaving tomorrow?
It's a three-hour flight each way.
You're flying on a-- [
Beeps] luxury custom jet.
There's a bedroom in there, dude.
You better put that to use.
[ Laughing ]
You think so?
You got this beautiful girl all over you
and you're not doing anything?
They're gonna think you're a little
sweet, you know what I mean?
- Not that there's anything wrong with that.
- [ Nick Laughing ]
I love that.
You guys are gonna make a little magic happen on
that airplane tomorrow from what Nick tells me.
What'd you say?
1said Nick said you guys are gonna make
a little magic on that airplane tomorrow.
[ Chuckles ]
Oh, yeah.
Well, he was concerned that people
were gonna start thinking he was gay.
So he said tomorrow,
he's gonna change their perception.
Oh, good. Well, maybe there'll be an attractive
flight attendant on, uh, on our plane.
[Trump]
This plane is really terrific.
And Nick and Amy are gonna have a good
time, especially if they really are in love.
It could be they're in love.
But we'll find out on that plane.
But they better not use my bedroom.
This is amazing.
[Amy] It was much more
than I ever imagined.
I mean, we've got wood paneling,
we've got the nicest fabrics
on the seats, we've got beds.
- Hey, come on back here, folks. Good morning.
- I'm Nick.
Hi, Nick. Mike Donovan.
I'm Mr. Trump's pilot. Nice to meet you.
Hi, there. Mike Donovan, Mr. Trump's pilot.
Hi. 'm Amy. Nice to meet you.
We've two beautiful seats, uh, reserved for you here.
Please take your seat.
Mr. Trump invited some other guests. They'll be here
shortly, and we'll be on our way to Mar-a-Iago.
We're thinking maybe he's gonna show up,
maybe he'll bring his famous friends.
Nick and I just sat
and had some small talk and waited.
Um, this is amazing.
It, by far, is the nicest plane
you'll ever see in your life.
He has a bidet on this, uh--
Yes, he does.
He has a bidet.
Woman] Hi. { Screaming I
Amy started screaming
for some reason. I have no idea.
1 didm't know it was her sister.
Then my dad comes in second, I mean, it was crazy.
Is this great or what?
I was excited,
1 was happy to see the guy.
That's my Dad. Dad, this is Amy.
[Woman] Hi,
How you doing? How are you?
Nice to meet you. I'm Nick.
[Sister] Where are we going?
Palm Beach? Miami?
[ Laughing ]
We're going to Mar-a-Iago.
[ Nick] We're gonna have a
little lunch at Mar-a-Iago.
Nice. You came a long way from
Bayonne, New Jersey, didn't you?
[Dad] What are you, like-- like,
sweethearts, is that the deal?
She can't take her eyes off him.
[Amy]
Nick talks a lot about his family.
So I kind of figured that I had a feel
for what his dad was like.
He's very proud of his son, but he also likes
to poke fun at him just to get a reaction.
ls this gonna be like
a serious kind of deal here?
That's what I just told him.
I said I get to meet my father-in-law early.
- That's right.
-[Laughing]
[Dad ] The gal that is with Nick-- Amy-- is a
very, very charming girl, as is her sister.
The one thing that
you have to warn Amy about...
is Nick has a bad history with women.
- You do look cute together.
- [ Moose ] They do. I'm just thinking ahead.
- Are you single?
- He's been through a number of women.
No. No. I'm 100% single.
I'm 100% single.
- How-How about the one out on the West Coast?
- What are you talking about, Dad?
[Amy] The excitement keeps going.
We land and are greeted by yet another limousine--
-1 could get used to this, Ame.
- who takes us to Mar-a-Iago.
This is amazing.
Good afternoon. My name is Bernd Lembcke.
I'm the managing director.
And on behalf of Mr. Donald Trump,
I welcome you to the Mar-a-Iago Club. So please come in.
[Amy] We are greeted by the historian who gives us
a grand tour of this 90,000 square foot property.
That tapestry is an 18th-century
Venetian tapestry.
[Amy] It's $710,000 tables,
$7100,000 tapestries and chandeliers,
exquisite antiques that have been
imported from Russia and France.
This is the library bar.
It's not like home.
I mean, there's no La-Z-Boy.
It's so beautiful.
This is something else.
It's unbelievable is right.
Come on, have a seat.
We're gonna serve you mimosas.
-[Amy] Hey;, this looks fantastic.
- Thank you very much.
-[Nick] This is the caviar?
- Mm-hmm.
[ Nick]
This is the best prize. The best.
[Amy ] The treat is not only seeing our relatives,
but actually, like, witnessing their reaction...
as they experience this extravagance
that we've, uh, grown accustomed to.
- This is the highlight of my experience here.
- [ Nick ] Oh, 100%.
[Kwame ] I told myself I'm not
going to be disgruntled today.
Have to let it go.
[Bill] It's the boardroom day.
It's very, uh, funeral-like.
It's hard to verbalize the intensity level that you
experience when you're in this type of an environment.
I didn't sleep a wink last night. I was tossing,
I was turning. I was thinking about today.
How you doing? [Kwame ] Bill
and I went to get a haircut.
A haircut always helps your confidence and makes
you feel a little bit better about yourself.
[Bill]
The scissors never stopped moving.
And then he put a quart of styling gel on
my hair and just flattened my hair down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll just play with it a little bit.
No, that's plenty of gel. No, plenty.
But if you go up--
[Bill] [ finished first.
And I decided to read the horoscopes.
I don't know.
I hope not.
“The last few weeks have been
rather productive.
And as you look back, you'll be quite
happy with what you've accomplished.”
1 believe in astrology fo some degree,
'cause they're pretty accurate.
Bill's is basically, “Keep the faith
and in the end, all will be promising.”
All right, Kwame.
I'm Aries.
- Aries. “Someone you love and respect will let
you down over the next 24 hours-- - Oh, my God!
But don't let it affect your relationship.”
Oh, God!
Oh, that's not good.
- God! Five thousand bucks is what we lost by.
- Yeah.
[Troy] We put our best foot forward, man.
And even Trump said we did a good job.
[ Bill ] We were beaten. We knew we were beaten.
We knew one of us was gonna be fired,
For one of us, it was our last supper.
So we ordered like kings. [ Chuckles ]
[Troy] Just think, we are sitting
with a potential apprentice right now.
- One of us at this table ls gonna be the apprentice.
- You think one of these three?
- Yeah.
- One of us is getting fired.
[Kwame ] Troy's gonna have
to make a very tough call.
There's a gut in me that says he may send me
back up to the suite out of our friendship.
And then there's a gut in me that says
he doesn't want to go up against Bill...
because Bill has a better
win-loss record.
-1 don't know. It's 50-50.
-[Bill] Let's raise them up.
[ Dings ]
Hello.
Hello.
All right.
Hi.
It's been good, man.
All right, dude.
Get it on.
- [ Troy] Good evening.
- Hello.
Okay, so what happened?
Why did you fail?
I think that what we did
is we started out with great ideas.
We had great execution.
And at the end of the day,
they got $40.800.
- We got $35,000.
- For that much money, I should take them.
- They're gonna be disappointed. I mean, they were--
- Tell them not to be disappointed.
Even though you guys lose and one of
you goes-- boom-- down to the street,
1l still accept their money.
I love a good deal.
What was the minimum price
that you set for this initially?
[ Think on our first two appointments
that we quoted them 40 to 35.
So that was pretty stupid., Even if you got
your maximum number, you would have lost.
- Yes.
- So you really started off too low.
Kwame, who would you rather see
on your side of these two guys?
I would rather have Troy
on my back in the trenches.
Is Troy a better man than Bill?
- That's-That's-That's tough to call.
- Troy's also the man who's bringing someone into the boardroom tonight.
- Would you hire Troy to work for you?
- Depends on what he'd be doing.
- [Bernie ] As a chief financial officer?
- Probably not.
-[Bernie]Asa CE.O.? - [ Bill ] 1
would have to get to know him more--
- Kwame, you're shaking your head no.
Would you not hire Troy? -/ wouldn't hire Troy as a CF.O,
but I would hire Troy in a very,
you know, sales-driven, motivation role.
- ButnotasaC.F.O.?
- Not as a CF.O. That's-That's--
- What about chief executive officer?
- Of the appropriate company, yes, but not in all instances.
You've just gone down a little bit in his
book, don't forget. You did beautifully.
You should have just kept your mouth shut.
So go ahead, Bill.
- Who would you fire of these two?
-1 think that Kwame needs to get a little more experience...
to complement his education.
- And what is your educational background?
- Bachelor's Degree from Loyola University in Chicago.
Good school. What about you?
I understand you were very successful, Troy, right?
Absolutely. I do real estate loans as well as real
estate development. I loan my own money is what I loan.
So what do you want
to work for me for?
I want to work for you because
15 years ago I mailed this to you.
And in my high school quote I said,
“Trump, I'm coming.”
You may not have received it,
so I'll make sure you get it right now.
My only education is your book--
The Art of the Deal.
I have no degree from no college.
But I learned how to close loans,
and I learned how to close deals.
- High school?
- High school is all I have, sir.
So we have a Harvard M.BA,, we have a good
college graduate, and we have high school.
And, Kwame, you work for a very, very
prestigious company-- Goldman Sachs.
Why would you want to leave
Goldman Sachs and work for me?
There are only certain opportunities that come along in
your life to be extraordinary, and this is one of them.
Well, Troy, it's time to make a choice.
Somebody's going up to the suite,
somebody's going down to the street,
and it may be you.
So who's going up to the suite?
Id like to invite Kwame to the boardroom with me,
and I would enjoy the battle that we're gonna pursue.
No kidding? No kidding?
- Wow. I'm very surprised. - Business is business,
friends are friends. Don't use them in the same sentence.
- That's okay. That's fine. Bill, have a good time at the suite.
- Okay.
- Troy and Kwame, you guys go on outside.
- [ Kwame ] Thank you.
Come back in a few minutes.
[Bill] Give 'em hell. Okay.
I'm gonna cut you quick and fast, baby.
That's it. That's it.
We've been a long way together,
and now it's time to go head-to-head.
It's my only opportunity.
May the best man win.
Absolutely, sir.
May the best man win.
- That was a little bit surprising, huh?
- Not-- Not for me.
- Who should be fired?
- Well, actually, I think what Bill said was very smart.
- Kwame is very textbook but not practical.
- So, Bernie, what do you think?
Troy's instincts are critical to business,
and he has very keen instincts,
but he's proven himself too often
a loose cannon.
And for you, he would be a detriment.
He needs time to mellow and time to get more experience.
He's not right yet.
I figure we ought to
wrestle right now.
-[Trump] Robin, let them come in, please.
- Okay. You guys can go back in now.
Big man.
Boss.
Giving it all.
It's been real, man. Let's go.
- So, Kwame, your friend screwed you.
- Not at all.
Well, I don't know. I saw the way you shook his hand.
I was a little surprised.
- Nothing personal.
- Why'd you do it? Why'd you pick Kwame?
I picked Kwame because
over the last 12 weeks...
Kwame has done a fantastic job
in the supporting role.
And I looked at what Bill's done
in the last 12 tasks,
and he's had some fantastic ideas
and thinking out of the box.
Don't read notes.
You don't need notes, okay?
- Don't like notes. - Okay. Kwame's been a great steady
Eddie, but he hasn't really come out of his box yet.
- Therefore / picked Kwame.
- What do you have to say, Kwame?
I have been a steady performer.
I have been someone who's done well.
-1 think I've got a great background-- - But
you haven't really been leading too much, Kwame.
- I've led three times.
- You've been a little bit-- No.
But you've been laid-back pretty much
in a lot of these events.
You've been the project manager three times,
but I think what he's talking about is leading.
I've been nominated to lead two out of three times.
I don't know if that was someone's strategy.
They saw leadership
characteristics in me.
Or they wanted you fired: You lose,
you're back in the boardroom. It could be a strategy.
[ Think it comes down to instinct and
guts, and you can't teach instincts.
- Do you think you have more instinct than Kwame?
- Yes, I do.
- Why? -/ couldn't tell you why.
[ think you're just born with it
I don't have
the institutionalized education.
But education comes
from other places other than college.
You know, education's
not a bad thing.
So, it comes down to a candidate
with a high school diploma...
who has led well,
but is often a loose cannon,
and a Harvard Business School graduate,
who has been chosen as project manager three times,
but never really led.
This is a tough choice.
Actually, this is the toughest choice I've had to make.
The reality is, Troy, we're dealing with
multibiflion dollar-businesses here.
The consequences of hiring a live wire
like you could be costly and devastating.
And I have to say you're fired.
-[Trump] Go ahead. Thank you.
- Thank you.
That's all right.
Keep it real.
All right?
I got your back.
- We've been through the woods, baby.
- We have. We have.
Love you, man. It's been real.
I love you too, boss.
[Trump]
Troy's a tremendous competitor.
Someday he'll be a huge success.
1 have no doubt abourt it.
But right now, he's just not ready
for the next level,
- That was tough.
- That was a tough one.
Okay?
A lot involved in this.
Good for him
for lasting this long.
It's been a chance in a
lifetime to go through this.
um, Il just-- How could
you have any regrets?
I've got to meet Donald Trump.
I got to work with him almost on a daily basis.
I got to learn
from his advice.
I got to meet people
I'd have never met before.
I've got to make friends.
Um, I've got to build relationships.
And ultimately,
I've got to make myself a better person.
Previously on The Apprentice.
- Kwame was very happy to see Troy safely return from the boardroom.
- Tee-roy.
You're something, man.
Congrats.
The next morning, Protégé was given
a chance to even up the sides.
Who are you gonna choose
to be on your side?
- We're gonna choose Bill to be on our side.
- Go ahead, Bill. Good luck.
For their next task, the teams went to Atlantic
City, where they had to come up with a plan...
to attract gamblers to play
at the Trump Taj Mahal.
[Bill] How many gaming
positions do you have?
[Mark ] 4,600 slot machines
and 180 table games.
[Trump] Nick and Amy's
romance continued to blossom.
I don't really know what I think about Nick.
Maybe it's time to find out.
[Trump] In the casino,
Bill had a brilliant idea to target the V.LP.'s.
The game was not gonna be
won or lost on volume.
It was gonna be won or lost on the quality
of player that you brought through.
[Trump] And Kwame and Troy
added some shock value.
We do have the tiger coming in. We have the
700-pound white tiger coming. Everybody step back.
[Trump]
While Versacorp's idea was lackluster.
Our plan is to raffle a car rental
valued at $300.
[Trump] In the end,
Protégé's creative ideas paid off.
And you guys finally won one.
Victory!
Whoo!
[Trump] In the boardroom,
Nick was shocked by Amy's comments.
-1 think Bill's my toughest competition.
- So maybe we should just call off the competition. I should choose Bill.
[ Trump ] When Amy picked Nick to go back to the
suite, Katrina revealed Nick and Amy's romance.
- Do you think that Nick and Amy have a personal relationship?
- Oh, most definitely.
I"m surprised at you, Amy.
I didn't see this.
Now [ have to say, my only problem is...
I have to go to a certain extent with the past,
and in the past, Amy was very exceptional.
And therefore, Katrina,
1/ have to say--
you're fired.
[Trump]
Five candidates are left.
Who will be fired this week?
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[ Nick ] 1 don't think Amy will be fired "cause
she's too good. This is her first time losing.
And if she just stays calm in that boardroom
situation when they're firing questions at her,
she'll walk out.
Nobody here to greet me?
Can't believe this!
[Kwame ] 1 mean, congratulations.
Everyone's asleep.
[Amy]
[ think Katrina was ready to go home.
So as I walked into the boardroom,
I felt pretty confident...
that I would be walking out
as the last remaining female.
So talk to me.
What happened?
[Amy] Well, there's not much to talk
about when there's just two people.
I said, you know, I think that-- Everyone
had been to the boardroom but me.
And he's like-- Yeah. You know Amy brings
up a good point, Amy-- uh, Katrina.
You gotta look at her track record.
[Bill] I think Amy's ego is escalating
as the tasks go on, without a doubt.
She has gotten the God complex.
I think she's sizing
everybody up right now.
[Amy]
Bill, was tooting your horn.
And they said, “Well, if you think Bill's so great,
then why don't we just quit this competition and give it to Bill?”
That sounds good to me.
V'm all right with that. Wow.
[Amy] Nick might have been a little offended
that I think Bill's a stronger player,
but if! had my choice of who I
would partner with tolead me...
closer and closer to victory,
it would absolutely be Bill.
And I think if Nick can't sense that,
he's not as sharp as I think he is.
They look for any thing to getcha.
[ Kwame ] There you go.
Popped your boardroom cherry. st that great?
[ Nick] She didn't have to
say that in the boardroom.
And I don't know what the angle was, whether it's
like a “Watch out, Nick, cause I'm coming to get you,”
or maybe she truly believes that.
1 mean, she wants to win this thing.
She could stab me in the back tomorrow.
Are we ready?
Yeah, we're ready.
Let's do this one.
Yeah. Have a good time.
Right?
Yeah.
Good night.
Good night.
[ Phone Ringing ]
[Ringing]
Hello?
[Kwame ] Amy answered
the phone-- Thank you.
Told everybody that we had
to depart at around 8:15, 8:30...
and we're gonna head over
to the penthouse at Trump World Tower.
Are you gonna go like that?
1 look good. I know. I"m just asking.
Is that your attire?
[Troy] Kwame and I have
developed a great friendship.
Kwame's got a polished veneer.
He's got a Harvard degree.
He knows how to interact with people.
So I'm proud to say that my biggest
competition ls also one of my closest friends.
[ Talking, Indistinct ]
Troy and I do have a relationship,
and it is a real friendship.
So, yeah, that puts us at an advantage
in terms of looking out for each other.
Are these clean?
- Does this match?
-1t's got some color in it.
Okay, good. If that's what you
got, that's what you got.
[ Bill ] Troy and Kwame have forged quite
a friendship over the last 12 weeks.
I"m clearly a guy who's
on the outside looking in.
And I'd be a fool not to
take that into consideration.
Down to five. [ Kwame] That's it.
The whole gang.
[ Woman's Voice ]
Ninetieth floor.
Follow me. You're not gonna believe
what you're gonna see. Come on.
I'm gonna show you
luxury living in Manhattan.
[Trump] Come on in. Wwow!
[Bill]
This will work.
[Trump]
This is called luxury.
This is Trump luxury.
Come on over here.
Come on over.
Geez Almighty.
Incredible.
- What a lifestyle.
- Bernie is back with us covering for George.
He and Carolyn will join you
on your task.
This is Trump World Tower. It's one of
the most luxurious buildings in the world.
This is the 90th-floor penthouse.
This is a very exclusive space...
I rent out only on rare occasions
for special events.
You see why Trump is Trump-- largest
windows in the city, highest ceilings.
Everything is luxury.
Best of everything.
What your're going to do
Is take this 90th-floor...
penthouse apartment..
And you're going to rent it out for
an evening for a minimum of $20,000.
ft's 00 a.77. now.
At 700 p.m., this task will be over-.
You only have 10 hours,
then you're done.
The team that rents it out
for the most money wins.
If you think this property is amazing,
wait until the reward,
The winners will take the Trump jet
to what a lot of people consider...
the most luxurious private club
anywhere in the world--
my 25-acre estate in Florida,
Mar-a-Iago.
You're gonna have lunch in Palm Beach
at the Mar-a-Iago Club.
That would be a nice lunch.
That would be a very romantic lunch, actually.
You better work very hard.
Maybe you'll get there.
I don't know-- Is there a relationship with you two?
That came up last time, Nick.
- Do you have a relationship?
- [ Nick ] We have a good business relationship.
And sometimes we engage
in meaningful conversation.
- Okay. That's very good.
Very good answer. - [ Nick ] Thank you.
I did want to bring that up before
we got too far along. Good. Have fun.
The losing group, back to the
boardroom where someone will be fired.
- Good luck. Have fun.
- Thank you, Mr. Trump.
[ Bernie] Good luck. Thank you.
[Troy]
I'm gonna be the project manager.
Because if you're just looking at me on a piece of
paper, the lack of my own education...
makes people not look at me at first.
So I've got to make an impression...
every time.
I think the service is key behind this.
It's not just the-- What other amenities can we offer?
I don't want to get so far
and not make it all the way.
That'd crush me.
I think that's a great idea.
- Let's go sit over there.
-1 get a better signal here.
Both teams went down to the lobby...
and that's where we just took
different sections of the lobby...
and started banging out calls.
This is Troy McClain
with Trump World Towers.
This is Nick Warnock calling
from the Trump World Tower.
I understand that
you do event planning.
We'd set up several meetings
with event planners.
They're the ones that pick
the locations for their clients.
It's a 5,500-square-foot penthouse.
[Woman] Uh-huh.
It's incredible-- the views of the East
River, the Hudson River and the ocean.
I'd love to take alook at it.
Great. What is your schedule like?
[Kwame ]
We need to get smart on the place.
Why do people rent it?
What's the pitch you give them?
[ Troy ] We made an appointment with Elaine,
the Director of Sales for the Trump World Towers.
What has it rented for in the past?
What"s the highest you ever got for it?
- Right now we're at the $40,000 level.
- Wow.
[ Bill ] This is quite a challenge
to get someone to commit...
to 30-plus-thousand dollars
to rent the space for one night.
That's a lot to ask someone.
Well, thank you very much. You're very welcome.
It was nice meeting you. Good luck.
- Thank you. Appreciate that. - [ Bill] It's going to
boil down to finding the right person at the right time.
Oh, my God! Wow!
Unbelievable.
[ Think the best way to sell the place is to open
the door and let the client create the vision.
[Man] Well, you can't beat that
view, can you?
A little music over there,
the big floor out here.
Then there's 3 few V.I.P. rooms in the back that
would work out good if you brought in couches.
[Amy]
But Nick's style is very up front.
Quite a few times
when we walk in he'll say,
“How about let's put the band
over here and the food over here?”
You could have the couches over there.
Maybe a little bar setup right there.
[Amy]
These party planners have such vision.
[ Think by even defining any ideas
hinders their imagination...
and, uh, our performance.
Do you think it's a good strategy
that we point out--
I mean, you're, like,
“Alittle band over here, a little--"
Sometimes [ think we should
Just shut up and listen.
- Trust me. That's the way you operate.
- Why?
Because you're just feeling,
you know, what people are thinking.
[Amy Chuckles ]
If you say so.
[Trump] You cannot be
successful without passion.
If you don't love what you're doing,
if you don't have passion for it, forget it.
Do something else.
You'll be much more successful,
and you'll lead a lot happier life.
Bill, kwame and myself go to this café,
and we start strategizing.
I don't want to give them
a romantic lunch in Mar-a-Iago.
[Bill] All right.
Let's figure out our sales presentation.
You can have your salesperson and your
closer is what traditionally happens.
Troy set up a sales technique that Twasn't familiar
with and I wasn't sure how successful it was gonna be.
It was much like buying a car.
It's got 17-foot ceilings,
full kitchen, five and a half bathrooms.
I was the initiator on the sale,
on the car.
You can have barges come in and do firework shows for you.
I mean, how cool would that be?
[Troy] [ took the clients through the apartment.
1/ gave them them the whole spiel.
Truly, the possibilities are endless.
Well, the view is great, the spacing is
great, saying you're at the Trump--
World Tower.
World Tower is great.
Then, when we had them warmed up, excited,
fired up, we kind of handed the baton to Troy...
to try to put the screws into them.
He was not gonna let them leave
until they signed that paper.
We are shooting for a number in the
$30,000 range is what we're shooting for.
- Oyvey!
- Oy vey is my favorite word now, that and shalom.
Shalom.
Cheers. L'chaim.
“Lahi'em”?
L'chaim.
“Lac hi um”™?
- The boy's from Idaho.
- L'chaim.
'M working it.
'monit.
I don't know how he's able to say some of
the things he says with a straight face.
I mean, it's a hundred miles an hour.
[Troy] Actually,
we have two firm offers already.
[Bill] He can sometimes talk
himself out of the game.
And I think we're gently walking on that
territory right now, because, well, he's lying.
[ Man] This is great.
[Amy] Isn't it unbelievable?
It's really awesome.
We thought that if people
were interested in minimums,
that they weren't the people
we should be targeting.
[Amy]
We wanted to define a high target.
We've entertained offers
upwards of $40,000.
I think--1 think if you can get
$40,000 for this space, job well done.
1 don't think it's worth 40.
But we wish you luck. Yeah. Thank you.
It's very nice to meet you all.
Nice to meet you. [Amy] Granted the views are
great and granted it's the Trump property,
but nobody pays anything
even close to that these days.
Like $10,000 is the maximum we even heard.
They were laughing at us.
Hey, how you doing?
[Amy]And then a gentleman by the name of fan
came in with Kate, one of our event planners.
Not bad, huh? This is my favorite part of
it, is opening the door...
and letting people walk in,
"cause they're all, like, “Oh!”
- Still getting over that space.
-[Amy ] He saw the place and had to have it.
- Amy So what did you have in mind?
- [lan] A New Year's Eve type event.
[ Kate ] This is the kind of thing that concerns me.
New Year's Eve parties don't end at midnight.
The lease agreement said you've got
to be out of the property by midnight.
So it didn't really work for a
New Year's party. So they left.
And that was a deal that was lost.
Okay, so what do we do now?
We're looking for a $32,000 range
is what we're looking for.
Focusing on that 32.
Thirty-two five.
So I'm thinking that I heard
an offer of a 32,500 range.
And tell me if I'm wrong or right, but that's what
I'm thinking that I heard. I think you're right.
They basically gave us an oral agreement
at 32,500.
You get views of the East River, the Hudson River
and the Atlantic, Central Park, all of Manhattan.
[Kwame ] But at the same time, Bill had someone
very interested in the apartment as well.
-1 mean, this is a spectacular spot.
-1 think so. I think it will work perfect.
- 50 lets talk business.
- Al right, why don't you and head down to the office. Okay.
[Troy] So what we're gonna do is
we're gonna put this lease in place.
- We're gonna collect the deposit and--
- [Knocking ]
- May I speak with you for one second?
- Yeah. Okay. Hold on one second.
- The pressure's too much.
- 1t's very funny, running around with each other.
Is this good cop/bad cop?
No, we're not good cop/bad cop at all.
It's long, long day cop.
[Kwame ] It was exciting.
We had two parties essentially 50 feet away...
in two parts of the office,
and it was a bidding war.
And so it was very frenzied because we wanted
to make sure we maximized the dollar amount.
Should I take them all the way back to Trump Tower?
No. No. They have to sign right now.
Okay. Make it happen.
All right, gentlemen and ladies.
Let's see what we can do here.
I'm gonna pull up a seat right next to you.
Troy came in and was the
guy that comes in the end...
and just puts the heat on these people
and sells them the undercoating.
No. Is somebody else, uh, right now
signing for the space also?
-[Troy] Right now what we have is a bid.,
- Are you gonna submit two offers?
No. We can only submit one.
You only can submit one?
- Yeah, we can only submit one.
- Soifl sign the lease right now, it's my space?
Absolutely. Yeah.
At 35,0007
- Actually, 38,500 makes it yours.
- Uh-huh. Thirty-eight five.
Thirty-eight five
makes it my space.
Absolutely.
Troy's technique was to steamroll them,
creating false urgency on the deal.
[ think I'm being hustled
to be honest with you..
With the old, you know,
“there's another person interested” trick.
I'm gonna have to pass.
Okay.
- I'm sorry. - [Bill ] The guy got up
from the deal and said I'm out of here.
You guys are bull-- [ Beeps ]-- me.
Thank you very much.
That could have been a fatal blow.
So we immediately shifted 100%
of our attention onto the $35,000 deal.
-[Kkwame] Here comes Bill. Where we at?
- Done deal, right?
You're our A-team.
You're our A-team.
- Okay.
- Would it be possible to do $35,0012
Absolutely.
Thank you. Thank you.
Just in the case the other team was at
35,000, we would be at 35,001.
Price Is Right style.
Let's go.
[ Nick] Guys, good luck to you.
[Troy]
See your guys.
[Bill] Nick and Amy were still
in the lobby when we left.
They had kind of a panicked look
on their face.
I don't underestimate Amy,
I'm not underestimating Nick, but I'm feeling good.
I think it's time
to gas up the jet.
[Amy] We talked to
hundreds of event planners.
There were many that were absolutely interested,
but none that could get there by today.
So I'm like, oh, my God,
getting a deal was gonna be impossible.
Every redhead I know just about
is with a redhead. What's up with that?
No?
I've never dated a redheaded girl.
[Amy] It was two minutes before
the deadline and all of a sudden,
Kate, who had left with lan,
walks back in.
I"m, like, “Nick, go get her.”
Awesome.
Awesome. Awesome.
Uh, just one-- just one second.
[ Whispering ]
20,000 more? 30,0007
Yeah.
Nick walks over and I don't know
what he said, but it worked.
He made us an extravagant offer.
I'm pretty sure you've got it.
But we don't know what the other team's bringing in.
[Kate]
So we can't be happy.
It was an act of God. But I'd like to think some
nice salesmanship came into it with Amy and 1.
Can I just say a job well done, buddy.
Thanks.
So how was it out there?
How did you guys do?
- I feel that we did really fantastic.
- The product sold itself.
- Nick, how'd you do?
-1 think we did real well.
You think you and Amy might someday
live in a place like that together...
as man and wife? I told him he'd
better start selling lots of copiers.
- What did you think, Amy?
- [ think the less you said the better it sold.
- Good product?
- Qutstanding.
'M glad you're saying that. Bernie?
For Protégé, there was
a lease amount for--
$35,001.
- $35,000 for one day is pretty good, right?
- Yes.
Okay, Carolyn?
For Versacorp,
we have a lease agreement--
-it's for $40,000.
- Nice job, guys.
-$40,800.
-$40,800, excuse me. $40,800.
- Are you a little disappointed?
- Absolutely.
- [ Trump ] Are you surprised?
- We never underestimated their ability.
- Whose ability-- Nick's or Amy's?
- The team as a whole.
We knew that they were tough
competitors and so, I mean--
You're all tough. You're all smart.
Unfortunately, that's not the way the game is played.
Now the winning team,
and this is perhaps appropriate,
I don't know--
if this match doesn't work
I'd be amazed--
but the winning team is going to get
onto my plane tomorrow morning.
Yourre flying down to Mar-a-Iago, the number one club
there is anywhere in the country as far as I'm concerned,
having lunch,
taking a tour of Mar-a-Iago.
The losing team, sadly,
I'll see you in the boardroom.
Somebody gets fired.
Tough day.
Tough day, man.
It was a tough loss. I'll be honest with you.
I really thought we had it there.
- Forty-five grand. -/ was extremely confident
going into the task resolution that we'd won.
I was saying to gas up the jet.
Id like to retract that statement.
Ouch. That hurt, though.
[Troy] It really took the wind out of our sails.
I could not believe it.
What else could we have done better?
- I don't know.
But we thought 35,000
was in the bank.
It devastated us.
- That's just the way life goes, man.
-1t ain't over with yet, boss.
WWe still got some fight left in us.
I Know. I'm not giving up.
I"m just like--
I think we had that thing locked up.
Do you know what time
you're leaving tomorrow?
It's a three-hour flight each way.
You're flying on a-- [
Beeps] luxury custom jet.
There's a bedroom in there, dude.
You better put that to use.
[ Laughing ]
You think so?
You got this beautiful girl all over you
and you're not doing anything?
They're gonna think you're a little
sweet, you know what I mean?
- Not that there's anything wrong with that.
- [ Nick Laughing ]
I love that.
You guys are gonna make a little magic happen on
that airplane tomorrow from what Nick tells me.
What'd you say?
1said Nick said you guys are gonna make
a little magic on that airplane tomorrow.
[ Chuckles ]
Oh, yeah.
Well, he was concerned that people
were gonna start thinking he was gay.
So he said tomorrow,
he's gonna change their perception.
Oh, good. Well, maybe there'll be an attractive
flight attendant on, uh, on our plane.
[Trump]
This plane is really terrific.
And Nick and Amy are gonna have a good
time, especially if they really are in love.
It could be they're in love.
But we'll find out on that plane.
But they better not use my bedroom.
This is amazing.
[Amy] It was much more
than I ever imagined.
I mean, we've got wood paneling,
we've got the nicest fabrics
on the seats, we've got beds.
- Hey, come on back here, folks. Good morning.
- I'm Nick.
Hi, Nick. Mike Donovan.
I'm Mr. Trump's pilot. Nice to meet you.
Hi, there. Mike Donovan, Mr. Trump's pilot.
Hi. 'm Amy. Nice to meet you.
We've two beautiful seats, uh, reserved for you here.
Please take your seat.
Mr. Trump invited some other guests. They'll be here
shortly, and we'll be on our way to Mar-a-Iago.
We're thinking maybe he's gonna show up,
maybe he'll bring his famous friends.
Nick and I just sat
and had some small talk and waited.
Um, this is amazing.
It, by far, is the nicest plane
you'll ever see in your life.
He has a bidet on this, uh--
Yes, he does.
He has a bidet.
Woman] Hi. { Screaming I
Amy started screaming
for some reason. I have no idea.
1 didm't know it was her sister.
Then my dad comes in second, I mean, it was crazy.
Is this great or what?
I was excited,
1 was happy to see the guy.
That's my Dad. Dad, this is Amy.
[Woman] Hi,
How you doing? How are you?
Nice to meet you. I'm Nick.
[Sister] Where are we going?
Palm Beach? Miami?
[ Laughing ]
We're going to Mar-a-Iago.
[ Nick] We're gonna have a
little lunch at Mar-a-Iago.
Nice. You came a long way from
Bayonne, New Jersey, didn't you?
[Dad] What are you, like-- like,
sweethearts, is that the deal?
She can't take her eyes off him.
[Amy]
Nick talks a lot about his family.
So I kind of figured that I had a feel
for what his dad was like.
He's very proud of his son, but he also likes
to poke fun at him just to get a reaction.
ls this gonna be like
a serious kind of deal here?
That's what I just told him.
I said I get to meet my father-in-law early.
- That's right.
-[Laughing]
[Dad ] The gal that is with Nick-- Amy-- is a
very, very charming girl, as is her sister.
The one thing that
you have to warn Amy about...
is Nick has a bad history with women.
- You do look cute together.
- [ Moose ] They do. I'm just thinking ahead.
- Are you single?
- He's been through a number of women.
No. No. I'm 100% single.
I'm 100% single.
- How-How about the one out on the West Coast?
- What are you talking about, Dad?
[Amy] The excitement keeps going.
We land and are greeted by yet another limousine--
-1 could get used to this, Ame.
- who takes us to Mar-a-Iago.
This is amazing.
Good afternoon. My name is Bernd Lembcke.
I'm the managing director.
And on behalf of Mr. Donald Trump,
I welcome you to the Mar-a-Iago Club. So please come in.
[Amy] We are greeted by the historian who gives us
a grand tour of this 90,000 square foot property.
That tapestry is an 18th-century
Venetian tapestry.
[Amy] It's $710,000 tables,
$7100,000 tapestries and chandeliers,
exquisite antiques that have been
imported from Russia and France.
This is the library bar.
It's not like home.
I mean, there's no La-Z-Boy.
It's so beautiful.
This is something else.
It's unbelievable is right.
Come on, have a seat.
We're gonna serve you mimosas.
-[Amy] Hey;, this looks fantastic.
- Thank you very much.
-[Nick] This is the caviar?
- Mm-hmm.
[ Nick]
This is the best prize. The best.
[Amy ] The treat is not only seeing our relatives,
but actually, like, witnessing their reaction...
as they experience this extravagance
that we've, uh, grown accustomed to.
- This is the highlight of my experience here.
- [ Nick ] Oh, 100%.
[Kwame ] I told myself I'm not
going to be disgruntled today.
Have to let it go.
[Bill] It's the boardroom day.
It's very, uh, funeral-like.
It's hard to verbalize the intensity level that you
experience when you're in this type of an environment.
I didn't sleep a wink last night. I was tossing,
I was turning. I was thinking about today.
How you doing? [Kwame ] Bill
and I went to get a haircut.
A haircut always helps your confidence and makes
you feel a little bit better about yourself.
[Bill]
The scissors never stopped moving.
And then he put a quart of styling gel on
my hair and just flattened my hair down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll just play with it a little bit.
No, that's plenty of gel. No, plenty.
But if you go up--
[Bill] [ finished first.
And I decided to read the horoscopes.
I don't know.
I hope not.
“The last few weeks have been
rather productive.
And as you look back, you'll be quite
happy with what you've accomplished.”
1 believe in astrology fo some degree,
'cause they're pretty accurate.
Bill's is basically, “Keep the faith
and in the end, all will be promising.”
All right, Kwame.
I'm Aries.
- Aries. “Someone you love and respect will let
you down over the next 24 hours-- - Oh, my God!
But don't let it affect your relationship.”
Oh, God!
Oh, that's not good.
- God! Five thousand bucks is what we lost by.
- Yeah.
[Troy] We put our best foot forward, man.
And even Trump said we did a good job.
[ Bill ] We were beaten. We knew we were beaten.
We knew one of us was gonna be fired,
For one of us, it was our last supper.
So we ordered like kings. [ Chuckles ]
[Troy] Just think, we are sitting
with a potential apprentice right now.
- One of us at this table ls gonna be the apprentice.
- You think one of these three?
- Yeah.
- One of us is getting fired.
[Kwame ] Troy's gonna have
to make a very tough call.
There's a gut in me that says he may send me
back up to the suite out of our friendship.
And then there's a gut in me that says
he doesn't want to go up against Bill...
because Bill has a better
win-loss record.
-1 don't know. It's 50-50.
-[Bill] Let's raise them up.
[ Dings ]
Hello.
Hello.
All right.
Hi.
It's been good, man.
All right, dude.
Get it on.
- [ Troy] Good evening.
- Hello.
Okay, so what happened?
Why did you fail?
I think that what we did
is we started out with great ideas.
We had great execution.
And at the end of the day,
they got $40.800.
- We got $35,000.
- For that much money, I should take them.
- They're gonna be disappointed. I mean, they were--
- Tell them not to be disappointed.
Even though you guys lose and one of
you goes-- boom-- down to the street,
1l still accept their money.
I love a good deal.
What was the minimum price
that you set for this initially?
[ Think on our first two appointments
that we quoted them 40 to 35.
So that was pretty stupid., Even if you got
your maximum number, you would have lost.
- Yes.
- So you really started off too low.
Kwame, who would you rather see
on your side of these two guys?
I would rather have Troy
on my back in the trenches.
Is Troy a better man than Bill?
- That's-That's-That's tough to call.
- Troy's also the man who's bringing someone into the boardroom tonight.
- Would you hire Troy to work for you?
- Depends on what he'd be doing.
- [Bernie ] As a chief financial officer?
- Probably not.
-[Bernie]Asa CE.O.? - [ Bill ] 1
would have to get to know him more--
- Kwame, you're shaking your head no.
Would you not hire Troy? -/ wouldn't hire Troy as a CF.O,
but I would hire Troy in a very,
you know, sales-driven, motivation role.
- ButnotasaC.F.O.?
- Not as a CF.O. That's-That's--
- What about chief executive officer?
- Of the appropriate company, yes, but not in all instances.
You've just gone down a little bit in his
book, don't forget. You did beautifully.
You should have just kept your mouth shut.
So go ahead, Bill.
- Who would you fire of these two?
-1 think that Kwame needs to get a little more experience...
to complement his education.
- And what is your educational background?
- Bachelor's Degree from Loyola University in Chicago.
Good school. What about you?
I understand you were very successful, Troy, right?
Absolutely. I do real estate loans as well as real
estate development. I loan my own money is what I loan.
So what do you want
to work for me for?
I want to work for you because
15 years ago I mailed this to you.
And in my high school quote I said,
“Trump, I'm coming.”
You may not have received it,
so I'll make sure you get it right now.
My only education is your book--
The Art of the Deal.
I have no degree from no college.
But I learned how to close loans,
and I learned how to close deals.
- High school?
- High school is all I have, sir.
So we have a Harvard M.BA,, we have a good
college graduate, and we have high school.
And, Kwame, you work for a very, very
prestigious company-- Goldman Sachs.
Why would you want to leave
Goldman Sachs and work for me?
There are only certain opportunities that come along in
your life to be extraordinary, and this is one of them.
Well, Troy, it's time to make a choice.
Somebody's going up to the suite,
somebody's going down to the street,
and it may be you.
So who's going up to the suite?
Id like to invite Kwame to the boardroom with me,
and I would enjoy the battle that we're gonna pursue.
No kidding? No kidding?
- Wow. I'm very surprised. - Business is business,
friends are friends. Don't use them in the same sentence.
- That's okay. That's fine. Bill, have a good time at the suite.
- Okay.
- Troy and Kwame, you guys go on outside.
- [ Kwame ] Thank you.
Come back in a few minutes.
[Bill] Give 'em hell. Okay.
I'm gonna cut you quick and fast, baby.
That's it. That's it.
We've been a long way together,
and now it's time to go head-to-head.
It's my only opportunity.
May the best man win.
Absolutely, sir.
May the best man win.
- That was a little bit surprising, huh?
- Not-- Not for me.
- Who should be fired?
- Well, actually, I think what Bill said was very smart.
- Kwame is very textbook but not practical.
- So, Bernie, what do you think?
Troy's instincts are critical to business,
and he has very keen instincts,
but he's proven himself too often
a loose cannon.
And for you, he would be a detriment.
He needs time to mellow and time to get more experience.
He's not right yet.
I figure we ought to
wrestle right now.
-[Trump] Robin, let them come in, please.
- Okay. You guys can go back in now.
Big man.
Boss.
Giving it all.
It's been real, man. Let's go.
- So, Kwame, your friend screwed you.
- Not at all.
Well, I don't know. I saw the way you shook his hand.
I was a little surprised.
- Nothing personal.
- Why'd you do it? Why'd you pick Kwame?
I picked Kwame because
over the last 12 weeks...
Kwame has done a fantastic job
in the supporting role.
And I looked at what Bill's done
in the last 12 tasks,
and he's had some fantastic ideas
and thinking out of the box.
Don't read notes.
You don't need notes, okay?
- Don't like notes. - Okay. Kwame's been a great steady
Eddie, but he hasn't really come out of his box yet.
- Therefore / picked Kwame.
- What do you have to say, Kwame?
I have been a steady performer.
I have been someone who's done well.
-1 think I've got a great background-- - But
you haven't really been leading too much, Kwame.
- I've led three times.
- You've been a little bit-- No.
But you've been laid-back pretty much
in a lot of these events.
You've been the project manager three times,
but I think what he's talking about is leading.
I've been nominated to lead two out of three times.
I don't know if that was someone's strategy.
They saw leadership
characteristics in me.
Or they wanted you fired: You lose,
you're back in the boardroom. It could be a strategy.
[ Think it comes down to instinct and
guts, and you can't teach instincts.
- Do you think you have more instinct than Kwame?
- Yes, I do.
- Why? -/ couldn't tell you why.
[ think you're just born with it
I don't have
the institutionalized education.
But education comes
from other places other than college.
You know, education's
not a bad thing.
So, it comes down to a candidate
with a high school diploma...
who has led well,
but is often a loose cannon,
and a Harvard Business School graduate,
who has been chosen as project manager three times,
but never really led.
This is a tough choice.
Actually, this is the toughest choice I've had to make.
The reality is, Troy, we're dealing with
multibiflion dollar-businesses here.
The consequences of hiring a live wire
like you could be costly and devastating.
And I have to say you're fired.
-[Trump] Go ahead. Thank you.
- Thank you.
That's all right.
Keep it real.
All right?
I got your back.
- We've been through the woods, baby.
- We have. We have.
Love you, man. It's been real.
I love you too, boss.
[Trump]
Troy's a tremendous competitor.
Someday he'll be a huge success.
1 have no doubt abourt it.
But right now, he's just not ready
for the next level,
- That was tough.
- That was a tough one.
Okay?
A lot involved in this.
Good for him
for lasting this long.
It's been a chance in a
lifetime to go through this.
um, Il just-- How could
you have any regrets?
I've got to meet Donald Trump.
I got to work with him almost on a daily basis.
I got to learn
from his advice.
I got to meet people
I'd have never met before.
I've got to make friends.
Um, I've got to build relationships.
And ultimately,
I've got to make myself a better person.