After Mosaic's run through, John and Wes took to the QVC stage and went on live TV to sell their DeLonghi Panini grills. Andy watched a real-time graph of the buyers calling into the station and watched the line plummet as his team went on the air. Andy said the graph looked like the 1929 stock market crash. However, when a caller came on the air and gave a ringing endorsement of the grill, sales picked up. Andy was thrilled and said, "Thank you. God bless this woman." Finally, the twelve minutes of making hot paninis were up and Mosaic's chance to sell was over. In an interview, Raj said that the team had only sold a little over 200 units when they expected to sell 800. Raj said the price mattered "hugely" and that Kelly would be "reckoned with." Chris, the Project Manager, was disappointed too. He said, "The thing that sucks is that it's not even gonna be close." The women - now with Jennifer M. as the lead salesperson - pitched their It Works! Cleaning Blocks. Pamela said that in the first two minutes, they sold exactly zero units. Eventually, sales started to pick up. And Sandy said that by the end of their twelve minute segment, the team had sold about 650 units. But, would it be enough to break their losing streak? Via live videoconferencing, Trump joined the two teams through a bank of TV monitors. George reported that Apex had sold 659 sets of cleaning blocks at $27.23 each for a total of $17,944.57. Carolyn said that Mosaic had sold 252 grills at $71.25 for a grand total of $17,955. Mosaic had won by just over $10! As their reward, the men of Mosaic would get to play tennis with John McEnroe and Anna Kournikova at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, New York. As the losers, the women of Apex would take another trip to the boardroom where yet another team member would be fired. At Arthur Ashe Stadium, Mosaic arrived to see John McEnroe and Anna Kournikova playing tennis - and the guys jumped in. Andy said that as a kid, he had a poster of McEnroe on his wall, and playing with him now was "beyond a dream come true." On the other hand, Raj was pursuing a dream of his own as he got up the courage to ask out Anna Kournikova, whom he called "an epic beauty." Anna decided to make it interesting and said that if Raj could return one of her five serves, she would go out with him; otherwise, he would have to perform a dare. Raj accepted the challenge - but try as he might, he couldn't return a single serve. As payment for his loss, Raj had to jog around the entire stadium wearing only his boxers. To add insult to injury, McEnroe, Kournikova and the rest of Mosaic fired tennis balls at the nearly-naked Raj, who did his best to avoid a direct hit. Stacy R., Ivana, Sandy, Elizabeth and Maria got together and discussed their leader, Pamela. Sandy said the reason they lost was obvious - the price that Pamela set was too high. Stacy R. said that Pamela wasn't up to being Trump's next Apprentice. And Elizabeth claimed that "anybody with decent leadership experience could have successfully led us to a victory." In an interview, Pamela said that she expected her team members to come under "more heavy fire" than her in the boardroom. Apex met with Trump, Carolyn and George in the boardroom on the day of reckoning. When Trump asked how the team lost, Pamela insisted that Apex really tied. Trump said that the team may have lost by only ten dollars, but they still lost. George echoed the sentiment - there is no close when it comes to first place. Jennifer M. said that she thought the team lost because Pamela set the price of their product too high. When pressed, Pamela said she actually thought that the price was too low - something that Trump and Carolyn completely disagreed with. And it wasn't just Jennifer M. who thought that the price was too high - the entire Apex team felt that way as well. Finally, Pamela chose to bring Stacy R. and Maria back into the boardroom with her to face the firing. With just his advisors in the boardroom, Trump asked George for his thoughts. George said that Pamela did bring the team together under difficult circumstances. Carolyn said that while Pamela has some good leadership qualities, the team lost because of the price - a decision Pamela made on her own. Trump then called the three women back in. Trump asked why Pamela brought Stacy R. into the boardroom and Pamela said that Stacy R. talked so much it was a detriment to the team. Stacy R. shot back that she did her job as a lawyer for the team while Pamela complained that she was "too legal." Stacy R. said, "I am not going to act unethically. If you want another Enron on your hands, Mr. Trump, here's Pamela." Next, Pamela had to defend why she brought Maria back into the boardroom. Pamela said that Maria "crumbled" once the camera went on. Pamela continued, "I literally had to replace her fifteen minutes before we went live because she was so bad." Trump said that he felt Pamela didn't have a good ability to assess people's skills. In fact, Trump said he totally disagreed with Pamela's choices on assigning responsibility in the task. And as Pamela was still pleading her case, Trump said, "Pamela, you're fired." << Previous