Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The vurrrry fahshunable wahhding
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.10.2004
Trump now asks Kevin how Chris did as a leader after all of his complaining last week. Kevin says that Chris works hard, but he tends to think writing down your plans is boring, so he doesn't like to come up with plans in advance. It doesn't sound like Kevin found this sense of whimsy refreshing. Trump asks how Chris did delegating, and Kevin says there was no delegating -- everyone did everything. Jen is asked whether she was disappointed in Chris, and she says Chris "lacked energy and focus." Trump says he loves Chris's accent, sort of apropos of nothing. Trump asks Chris whether he'll bring two or three -- in other words, bring the whole team, or release someone. Chris says he wants to bring Kevin and Ivana, releasing Jen. Why? I have no idea. Before he lets her go, Trump asks Jen who should be fired. Unsurprisingly, she names Chris. And this is where you know Jen is full of shit, because if Ivana deserved to go last week for generally not being worth anything -- even though Raj had egregiously screwed up that task -- then Ivana would still deserve to go this week as well. Jen picked on Ivana last week because she saw Raj as an ally in a way she doesn't see Chris as an ally, or else she sees Chris as more of a threat. Because Ivana didn't do much on this task either, so it's not like Ivana could have redeemed herself. Jen goes up to the suite, and Chris, Ivana, and Kevin go out in the lobby to wait.
Out in the lobby, Chris tries to tell Kevin and Ivana that the whole thing is business, not personal. "You know that I like you guys better than her," he tells them. They don't understand, then, why Jen was allowed to skate. He argues that Jen did the best, and they ask him why he thinks so. Remarkably, he basically says it's because that's the impression he got from talking to Jen about the work she did. Kevin laughs bitterly, because...what else is there to do?
In the Boardroom, Trump asks Carolyn and George for impressions. Carolyn agrees with Trump that none of them really did anything, or even really claimed to have done anything.
Back out in the lobby, Ivana comments, "She always skates by." Chris smiles ruefully and says he was thinking the same thing. There is a little more back and forth, and ultimately Kevin says, "She duped you, man. She got you, that's fine." And as assy as that comment is, it's also kind of true, and Chris pretty much has it coming.
George tells Trump that he "didn't see any fire from any of them." They all agree that nobody has any oomph at all, basically. "Send 'em home," Carolyn says, in a remark that has been variously interpreted to be "Send him home," referring to Chris, "Send them home," referring to an adventurous mass firing, or what I think it is, which is a general "I kind of don't care, because none of these people deserve to work for you" comment. I think Carolyn is thoroughly bored with this round of contestants.