Tim Nicole and Frank feel like they have all the power. Can they make the final 3 together? Or might there be a split on the horizon?

Ring! Ring! Trump is calling and James picks up. Donald wants someone from Arrow to head over to Kinetic Immediately. There are no volunteers. Seems like everyone is getting just a little too comfortable in the mansion. Trump hangs up and James is forced to make the decision by himself. He claims that Frank and Stefani are his hands and he can’t afford to lose either of them and as a result he is going to have to split Tim and Nicole up.

James chooses to send Nicole out to camp and Nicole is livid. She can’t believe that James would choose her and thinks that James must think she is weak in some way. Umm... yeah, that’s sort of the point. She resolves to work harder than ever and gives James an earful. Tim feels that his journey on the Apprentice has been defined by being with Nicole.

Maybe this can be the first time that Tim shows us who he really is. After all this is a job interview, not The Dating Game.

Trump meets the candidates the next day and charges them with their next task: To sell passes to Universal Studios Hollywood using the new AdWalker technology. The team that makes the most money wins. Piece of cake.

Angela has stepped up as the project manager for Kinetic and they are trying to involve Nicole as much as possible. Nicole thinks that they should take advantage of their cuteness as four girls and pump it up by strapping on roller skates. Kinetic is on board

Arrow, led by James is thinking that they need authenticity. They are planning on having a kiosk and realize that they may have to sell head to head against Kinetic. Tim is ready to win at all costs fearing that he will hear it forever from Nicole should he lose.

As the sales begin there are clearly too different strategies. Kinetic is trying to kill them with kindness and Arrow proceeds to steal as many customers as possible. Kinetic is irked by the way in which Arrow is conducting business.

But will they be irked by the final result in the boardroom?

Kinetic: $24,000+
Arrow: $31,000+

That folks is what we call a spanking! Arrow wins and as a reward will be given a helicopter tour of Los Angeles. They’ll get to scope out the city from some of the most dramatic angles available.

Of course the real drama will happen in the boardroom where someone from Kinetic will be fired.

But first, there is some drama back at the mansion. Tim and Nicole are hitting the rocks. Nicole confronts Tim in disbelief that he did not speak up and defend her when James was tossing her into the backyard. While Tim never truly apologizes, he does make a conscious decision that he does not want to lose everything that he has built with Nicole thus far. So, instead of us getting to see fireworks in the form of an all out lovers’ spat, Tim asks Nicole if they can put this ugly mess behind them and Nicole begrudgingly seems to agree.

Wise decision Nicole. Now you own Tim and can make him eat out of your hand like a puppy. In fact, while the rest of Arrow is living it up in the mansion, talk turns to who James should be targeting in the boardroom. As frank and James develop a strategy, Tim listens in and conspicuously runs outside. Frank flips out realizing what Tim is doing and finally we have a moment of intelligence. What was Tim doing? He was running to the bushes telling Nicole everything that she needed to know to protect herself.

Wow, loyalty is definitely at a premium this season. So much so that when Frank and James confront Tim asking him what he was doing, Tim flat out lies and just says that he was wishing Nicole good luck. Sure… Maybe next season we’ll pick some better liars.

Let’s get to the real action shall we?

In the boardroom, Trump wants to know what went wrong as things clearly went wrong in a big way. He asks Angela what happened and she claims that they had a great plan of attack but we not ready to cope with the immoral ways that Arrow did business.

Trump shuts her up nearly instantly attacking her for her word choice (immoral?) and reminding her that businesses steal each other’s consumers all the time.

To understand the rest of the boardroom please take Trump’s last comment as a broken record and repeat.

Yes, Trump still goes through the motions. He asks Angela who is to blame if not her and she throws blame on Nicole, someone who she had praised before learning that her team had lost. Nicole has no difficulty defending herself as Heidi and Kristine are in a position of being unable to lie and validate that Nicole worked well.

Then when asked who should be fired everyone points at Angela, reluctantly. Heidi waffles for her usual minute before giving a half answer. Then in what is a slightly sad moment, Angela, Trump loves an Olympian, but Angela, You’re Fired!

There was no suspense, and no mystery, but there were tears. Angela cries in her Limo exit wishing that she could have gotten o stay just a little longer.

However, her departure brings us down to 7. Will anyone step up and become a frontrunner? Keep watching to find out.