The Apprentice UK S02E04 (2006)
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00:00Previously on The Apprentice, Jo survived her first showdown with Sir Alan, to everyone's surprise.
00:15Sir Alan set their next task.
00:18Buying is one of the most important things.
00:22The teams had to negotiate the best price for the same ten items.
00:26If you do it for a tenner, I'll take it then.
00:28Done.
00:29As leader, I'm going to be watching.
00:31Jo took charge of her team.
00:33There's going to be no game playing, there's going to be no messing about, because I've got eyes and ears in the back of my head.
00:38But her abrasive style put everyone's backs up.
00:41We can't, we can't do it.
00:43Why?
00:44Give me the phone, I'll tell her.
00:46On the boys team, Paul used every trick in the book to drive down prices.
00:51I'm getting married.
00:52I'm getting married.
00:53Yeah, I'm getting married.
00:54But Manny found the haggling hard to take.
00:57What the guys are telling me to do now is beg.
01:00We are completely out of cash.
01:03It's a bit annoying.
01:04It was a narrow victory.
01:06Boys win by eight pounds.
01:11In the boardroom, Karen and Alexa were quick to point the finger.
01:15Who should get fired then?
01:17I have to say Jo then.
01:18Who do you think should be fired?
01:19I have to say Jo.
01:20It's not looking good.
01:22Then it was Alexa's turn to come under attack.
01:25I'm very concerned about you being a bit weak.
01:29I do not believe that I'm weak, quite the contrary.
01:32And I really need to be given that opportunity, I believe,
01:35to show myself in project manager role.
01:37All right, you got it, OK?
01:41You're staying.
01:42You've spoken up for yourself, that's what it's all about.
01:45I've heard nothing from you, Karen.
01:47You're fired.
01:49Karen became the third casualty of the boardroom.
01:53Now 11 remain to fight for the chance to become the apprentice.
02:05At the house, the candidates wait to see who survived the boardroom.
02:09I think Karen will go, to be honest.
02:11I hope not.
02:12I think Karen will go.
02:14Jo, without a shadow of a doubt.
02:16Jo's very strong at defending herself.
02:18Jo, for three reasons.
02:20Number one, poor planning.
02:21Number two, the fact that she didn't impair the other team.
02:24Number three, she took no accountability for the task.
02:26She didn't fulfil the roles.
02:27We didn't do the basic things you should do when you're leading.
02:30She didn't manage.
02:31End of.
02:35I bet Jo and Alexa come back.
02:37Karen will be gone.
02:38Anyone who doesn't agree with me, bet you 50 quid.
02:41I think it's Karen and Jo.
02:44Yes!
02:45Yes!
02:46Oh!
02:51Can I say something?
02:56Before I get up.
02:57Tell us what happened.
02:58Say it, sit back.
02:59I did.
03:00So why Karen?
03:01At the end of the day, Sir Alan is a fair bloke.
03:03Like he says, he don't do bullshit, he don't do waffling.
03:05He knows what the deal is, you know what I mean?
03:07And he makes the decision, and he made that today.
03:10None of us knew what was going to happen.
03:12And, you know, in the end, I ended up saying,
03:17look, I think I really need the chance here to show myself and what I can really do.
03:22Does that mean you're PM for the next task?
03:24I would hate to now get fired without having had the chance to be PM.
03:29Nobody wants to leave without proving, you know, who you are, so.
03:37I just want to know what it is.
03:39Good evening, Dunn speaking.
03:41Hi, this is Jenny calling from Sir Alan's office.
03:43He wants you to meet him at the Oxo Towers restaurant.
03:45Oxo Towers restaurant.
03:47The cars will be there to pick you up at 6.45 tomorrow morning.
03:50Lovely. Thanks, Jenny. Cheers. Bye.
03:53Guys, phone call.
03:54Can we get everybody in?
03:55Yeah, OK.
03:56We've got to meet at the Oxo Towers restaurant.
03:58Oxo Towers.
03:59OK, done.
04:00That's about it.
04:01Done.
04:126.45, the candidates head off for the briefing.
04:21Having won the previous two tasks, the boys seem to have bonded.
04:25We've had a lot of fun together recently.
04:27The girls haven't, not for a while.
04:29We've bonded.
04:30I think that really makes it.
04:31Man time.
04:32Bonded, yeah.
04:34I think it's a crucial part of the team function to bond.
04:38What does bonding mean to you, though?
04:40Bonding means to me that you're actually...
04:42OK, let me answer that.
04:44Bonding means to me that we're all on the same wavelength,
04:47we're all working to the same goal.
04:52Sir Alan has called the teams to one of London's top restaurants
04:56overlooking the Thames.
04:58And he's got a story to tell.
05:00Good morning.
05:01What I'm going to do is I'm going to try something very, very different.
05:05Ladies, I want one of you to put themselves forward
05:09to run the boys' team.
05:12Gentlemen, I want one of you to put yourself forward
05:16to run the girls' team.
05:18Alexa, move over to the boys' team.
05:21Manny, move over to the girls' team.
05:23OK?
05:24OK.
05:26Alexa, move over to the boys' team.
05:29Manny, move over to the girls' team.
05:35Right, Alexa, you said you wanted to prove to me
05:38that you could be a team leader.
05:40You've got your chance now, OK?
05:42You've got a big task on your hands coming up.
05:44On top of that, you've got five men you've got to organise.
05:48Manny, we're going to see your skills not only in business
05:52but how you're going to manage a bunch of women also.
05:56This week, there is the Thames Festival.
05:59What it is, is a great festival that stretches from Tower Bridge
06:03right up to Westminster.
06:05Now, I've arranged for you two marquees in pole position.
06:09And you are going to turn those marquees into a themed restaurant.
06:14The team that makes the most amount of profit is going to win.
06:18The team that doesn't is going to lose.
06:20And in that losing team, one of you will get fired.
06:31The Thames Festival attracts half a million people
06:34to London's South Bank.
06:36The teams must transform these marquees
06:39into fully functioning restaurants.
06:43Manny's first meeting leading the girls.
06:46He's keen to assert his authority.
06:48Can I say something? Go ahead, yeah.
06:50Harrods, when we were there the other day,
06:52they've got a truly British theme going on.
06:54They've got a British theme. OK.
06:56No discussion. In a brainstorm, I want quick fire.
06:59OK, so British. British theme.
07:01What else? OK, just give me words.
07:03Anything. Families. What else? Energy.
07:06It's an experience for them. OK.
07:09Unique. Multicultural.
07:11You know, it's like the city. Portable.
07:13The whole world in one city.
07:15Whatever we produce has got to be easy to eat.
07:17Easy to eat.
07:19What means easy that you can take it and eat it?
07:21Other ideas?
07:22It was a big decision this morning
07:24when I decided to go across to the girls' team.
07:27My decision was based really on their previous performance.
07:31I think they've underperformed.
07:33I think they're capable of performing much higher.
07:36Other ideas? Come on.
07:38Maybe it's a leadership issue, I don't know.
07:40If I can get them working as a team,
07:42I think we're going to be a high-performing team.
07:44What we need to do also is now split up into two teams.
07:47One of us is going to go and meet with the cadre
07:50and see what they can provide us.
07:52One of us will go to the... The themes. The theme.
07:56Cambridge graduate Alexa has to control the boys and their ideas.
08:01What do we need to decide?
08:03Sorry, do you mind if I just kick this off?
08:05Yes, of course.
08:06We need to decide what sort of food genre we're going for
08:10and what sort of theme we want.
08:12The key is simplicity.
08:14You know, it's just volume. It's just getting the food out.
08:17If it takes five minutes, guys, honestly, it's too long.
08:20For me, it's about the family and children as well,
08:23so it's got to be a very simple food that we get the whole family in.
08:26Chips are good because you can have chips on their own,
08:28you can take them away in a cone,
08:29you can have fish for the mums and dads,
08:30any kids who don't want to be with bad sausage and chips.
08:32The problem...
08:33Not the problem, that's my idea.
08:35No, no, no, it's fine, it's cool.
08:36It's just that what I was suggesting, with fish and chips,
08:39you can't leave it out. Where do you store it?
08:41What I was going to suggest is pizza is brilliant
08:44because there are no other pizza stands.
08:47And again, Matt's going for a niche, he's going for a specialist area,
08:51and in my experience, running businesses, that is the way forward.
08:54It's flexible, vegetarian, carnivores, it covers the lot.
08:58We can go for an Indian pizza, you can have an Italian pizza,
09:01you can have... That's the point.
09:03So you can have lots of varieties of pizzas,
09:05that will mix well with the multicultural feel of the festival.
09:09I think Alexa, bless her socks, a big task with five guys.
09:13She was prepared to go with any suggestions.
09:15I could have turned around and said,
09:17shall I dye my hair blonde?
09:18And she would have said, yes, let's all dye our hair blonde.
09:21Ha, ha, ha.
09:27Both teams have been allocated caterers.
09:30Manny has dispatched Michelle and Ruth to develop a menu.
09:35What about, like, barbecue?
09:37It's quite high risk, quite dangerous, it's a very public space,
09:40and you are going for quite a big catchment,
09:42so I think if you've got barbecues and children, they're not a good mix.
09:45You've got to bear in mind, the time you've got to prep all this,
09:48you've got one day to do it.
09:49You want something that's going to be quick to produce,
09:52low skilled labour, I think.
09:54What about crepes?
09:55It's cheap, isn't it? It's flour, water and eggs.
09:58Yeah, it is cheap, yeah.
09:59You're going to be cooking, aren't you?
10:01I can't think of the whole service now.
10:02I believe you're actually going to be cooking.
10:11The girls call Manny to discuss menu options.
10:16Hello?
10:17We're considering, at the moment, noodles.
10:19Yeah.
10:20Crepes.
10:21For me, crepes is the one that stands out,
10:24because there's the whole Brittany sort of theme,
10:28and I think we can build in a theme with crepes.
10:31With noodles, there is only one theme, which is an oriental theme,
10:34and we're stuck with that, aren't we?
10:38Sir Alan wants the restaurants themed.
10:40We need to be as quick as we can...
10:42Manny takes Sharon and Joe to a prop house
10:45for inspiration for his crepe idea.
10:48Western-y kind of stuff.
10:50Yeah, Western themes, OK.
10:52Kind of seafood-y, that kind of thing.
10:54OK, seafood.
10:55You've got kind of food service bars or...
10:57That's just bar kind of thing.
10:59So you've got an Egyptian theme here.
11:02OK.
11:03Egypt's good because it's large-scale.
11:05Yeah.
11:06What do they eat in Egypt?
11:08Michelle and Ruth call Manny again
11:10to find out what theme he's come up with,
11:13so they can tailor the menu and order ingredients.
11:16I think I'm going to make a decision, because you need a decision.
11:19We're going to go for a seafaring theme.
11:21Seafaring theme?
11:23Nets, rivers...
11:26You can't name it. Crepes.
11:28Doesn't matter.
11:30How does that actually link into the product that you're selling?
11:33It doesn't at all.
11:35With crepes, there is no particular link.
11:38The only link that we can come up with is Paris,
11:41and this is the Thames Festival.
11:45Somehow we can make the link from the crepes to the Thames.
11:48Yeah.
11:49I cannot see crepes and the Thames.
11:52Well, it can't be Paris.
11:54It can't be Paris, but maybe bring...
11:56Make the decision on the majority,
11:58but I cannot see that going together.
12:00Hello?
12:01It's a united decision, yeah?
12:03It's as united as we're going to get it.
12:05OK, speak to you soon.
12:06Bye-bye.
12:07Manny's management currently,
12:09and I hope it changes quickly, is pretty poor.
12:12He's not listening to the advice that he's been given.
12:15I'm not saying that I know it all,
12:17but I have been here and done it before,
12:19and he should be really pulling out my strength.
12:23The girls have gone ahead with their order for crepe ingredients,
12:26but Manny has had a rethink.
12:28I think we missed a trick.
12:30I think we should have pitched noodles first.
12:34Hello?
12:35I didn't want to be dictatorial,
12:37but if you want me to, I will be.
12:39OK, do the oriental theme with noodles.
12:42You're talking about the classic oriental, yeah?
12:45Classic oriental.
12:46We'll have, you know, maybe a Buddha sitting in the corner.
12:49I don't know.
12:50OK, cheers.
12:51They've completely changed.
12:52They want us to go for the oriental and then push the crepes,
12:55and we're going for the classic oriental theme.
12:59Well, that's Manny. I'll lock it here.
13:03I think we can do a really great job there, can't we?
13:05I don't know how we're bringing in the learning.
13:07It's not the edge for me.
13:08Well, we'd have to make an edge on top of it.
13:10Do you understand what I'm saying?
13:12So we'd have to find something on top of that.
13:14Could you talk to me as well, please?
13:15I'm sorry, Sharon.
13:16Yeah, sorry.
13:22Alexa's pizza team have also split in two.
13:28She's taken her boys with restaurant experience to meet their caterers.
13:32Thanks very much.
13:33Go straight through on the right-hand side door,
13:35and then the second door on the right.
13:37To be honest, just to give you a bit of background around the group here today,
13:40I mean, myself personally, I've got eight years' previous experience
13:43managing and actually working and doing service, you know,
13:47waiting as a waiter.
13:49Again, Tom has 14 to 15 years' experience, family business,
13:52so that's hands-on experience.
13:54So, you know, you have got some professionals here.
13:56It's crucial, with my experience, that you and I, we get along like music.
14:00That's the most important thing.
14:02Communication has to flow.
14:05Dan, from your experience,
14:06how many people do you think you'd look to be selling to in an hour?
14:09I haven't got a bloody clue.
14:10It's only for you to commit yourself to say,
14:12OK, so many thousands of people.
14:13Then we know we have to order X amount of fish, X amount of this.
14:17The only other way we could look at it is how many pizzas we want to make.
14:20Yeah, so basically, if we turn around and say,
14:22well, based on the budget we've got, we want to make 500 pizzas.
14:25Now, 500 pizzas generates six slices per pizza.
14:29Well, at least I've got a figure now that can work.
14:31Can you do that between nine and five, if we get you all of the ingredients,
14:35if you've got a minimum of three other people?
14:38Well, the question is not whether I, it's whether you can do it.
14:42You're not professionals.
14:43I actually used to work on a pizza counter in a supermarket, believe it or not.
14:49Personally, it's pushing it.
14:51OK.
14:56The other half of Alexa's team are at the prop house.
14:59We've got everything that you'd want for British or for Italian.
15:02They're looking for costumes for their Italian pizza restaurant.
15:06Hey!
15:08You mess with me, I carve you up.
15:11Look at this, we are...
15:12Excuse me.
15:16The food in the apprentice house is...
15:18Fantastic.
15:19...taking its toll.
15:20Awesome.
15:21I'm in favour, absolutely excellent.
15:23Good stuff, right, that's it, that'll do us, thank you.
15:27No comment.
15:34Manny's girls want to know how many people, or covers, they're catering for.
15:39OK.
15:40Let's go out, you know, whole hog, and let's aim for 1,000 covers.
15:47Are you sure?
15:48I'm sure.
15:49So that's 25 every 15 minutes?
15:52Yeah.
15:5425 covers we're going to sell every 15 minutes.
15:57Yep.
15:58Are you sure about that?
15:59Yep.
16:00OK, Manny.
16:01Um, Ruth, Michelle?
16:03Yeah?
16:04Go for 1,000 covers.
16:07That's what we're going to aim to sell on Saturday, yeah?
16:10You must be very confident of your theme then, I can't wait to see it.
16:16I'm not confident of the theme, I'm more confident in my team.
16:24After spending most of the day discussing pizza ingredients,
16:27Alexa and her team arrive at the wholesalers to place orders.
16:36But they didn't check the opening hours.
16:40I think the way forward today is to make sure that we get the orders in.
16:43Yeah.
16:44These guys haven't disappeared, they're not dead,
16:47they'll definitely pick up the messages and then call us back.
16:52Unable to meet face-to-face,
16:54Saeed has to leave orders on the wholesalers' answer phone,
16:58so there's no-one to haggle with.
17:01We need 100 chickens,
17:03we need 30 kilos of minced beef,
17:06and we need 45 kilos of gammon,
17:09which is boned and rolled gammon off the bone.
17:12OK, so I'll repeat that again.
17:1445 kilos of gammon, minced beef, 30 kilos, chicken, 100 chickens.
17:25After a 15-hour day, the teams are back at the house.
17:30Manny gets his girls together for a meeting.
17:33I just felt that my opinion has not been recognised at all today,
17:37that quite a lot of the things and advice that I have given
17:40and experience that I have has been ignored.
17:43It's the way I work. All the options...
17:45I did ask you continually to communicate to me what was going on.
17:49You go from a divergent phase to a convergent phase,
17:52which is where we are now.
17:53We're through the divergent phase, OK?
17:55We're not going to go off on tangents.
17:57That's what we were doing. It was planned.
18:00We were going through a divergent, brainstorming phase.
18:03I was encouraging any ideas that people had, purposely.
18:07You just said now you weren't happy with what we've ordered.
18:10You tell me what you're not happy with.
18:12No, I'm not getting in this argument.
18:14I'm PM. I'm asking you questions. I want an answer.
18:16You're PM, so you do it.
18:17I want an answer.
18:18I think we have got a mismatch, in my opinion.
18:20Of what? Tell me what the mismatch is.
18:22You're just being vague.
18:24I don't understand a word you're saying.
18:26You're so vague.
18:27You're saying you're not happy with what we've chosen.
18:29Listen, I'm not having this conversation.
18:31Don't disappear, because we've not finished the conversation.
18:34Give me some...
18:35Sharon!
18:37Sharon!
18:39I'll tell all of you, I haven't got time for this.
18:41And I'm not interested in, you know, spoon-feeding people.
18:47I think that comment is actually out of order.
18:49We're professionals. We know what we're doing.
18:51You are.
18:52If somebody's got an individual issue with you, you need to sort it out.
18:55I mean, she just feels like she's raised and raised and raised and raised.
18:58You know, this isn't working, this isn't working, this isn't working.
19:00And you've just kind of gone, shut up.
19:02This is just fucking stupid.
19:05Somebody loses the task, you know.
19:06We're all disjointed. We're all in separate groups.
19:08We're very disjointed.
19:09So what you can do is make your views known in a constructive way.
19:11He has been derogative.
19:13He has made decisions without the consent of everybody.
19:16And I'm totally and utterly pissed off.
19:268.30am.
19:28A big day for both teams.
19:31They must get their food ready for tomorrow's Thames Festival.
19:36Unfazed by last night's row,
19:39Manny's turned the girls into a production line,
19:42working on a thousand portions of noodles.
19:46With his team slaving in the kitchen,
19:49Manny slips away to the kitchen.
19:52With his team slaving in the kitchen,
19:54Manny slips away to order drinks.
19:57Are you going to be helping me?
20:00I need to buy a drink. Is that OK?
20:03What's the difference between 7-Up and Sprite?
20:09The boys' project manager, Alexa, takes Sam to a printer's.
20:14She's set aside a whopping £500 for leaflets.
20:18We went through on the phone, didn't we,
20:19the leaflets that we need, the A5 size, two colours,
20:23so that sounds great.
20:26So Samuel has knocked up an idea for the design.
20:29This isn't going to knock your socks off, mate.
20:32Essentially, what we're talking about is a kind of Italian flag.
20:37So you guys could be green, white, red.
20:39Is it red? I think it's green, white and red.
20:41I think it is.
20:42It was when I was at school.
20:45The rest of the boys are at their kitchen.
20:48They plan to produce 500 pizzas from scratch.
20:52So now, like I said, we need to decide
20:55who's going to be in charge today from your group.
20:57Yeah.
20:58And who's that going to be?
20:59I'll be in charge. OK.
21:02The chicken order arrives, but there's a problem.
21:06When Saeed left the message with the butcher,
21:09he didn't specify the weight.
21:11The chickens are bigger than normal, basically,
21:13so there's a slight difference in price.
21:15Now, yesterday, what we did to cost him, OK, 100 chickens,
21:19we costed him for £1.88 per kilo.
21:22Today, it's £3 per kilo.
21:25How much does that affect that cost by?
21:27When you order, you have to be specific.
21:30So things like this not just cost them money,
21:32it costs them time as well.
21:34Your dairy, quality cheese, you've got 100 kilos of ginger.
21:39Saeed's expensive cheese order
21:41has also cost the team more than they planned.
21:43Well, that mozzarella's just completely blown our budget.
21:49What?!
21:50As a worst-case scenario, do not spend any more than £100
21:53until we call you otherwise.
21:55£100?!
21:58You're saying we've got £100 left for our marketing?
22:05OK.
22:06Hey, listen, mate,
22:07that's going to blow all of our marketing out of the water.
22:10We don't know what we're doing at the moment.
22:12We've got to think the dairy's coming in a lot more than was expected.
22:16OK.
22:17It's just, you know, shit happens on a project,
22:20so we just need to fix it.
22:23Guys, just a quick update.
22:25With the budget, we made the wrong assumption,
22:28which has put us slightly in the shit.
22:30The main responsibility now is to get things done.
22:35There's a discrepancy with the chicken.
22:37No-one's taking responsibility for it.
22:39There's a discrepancy with the mozzarella,
22:41and no-one's really taking responsibility for it.
22:43Yes, we are in the shit. We need to find a solution.
22:45It's like seeing when you're winning, and when the shit hit the fan.
22:48None of them want to know.
22:49We are running behind schedule.
22:51The good news is that we're working very, very hard.
22:54Yes.
22:55And, you know, all we can do now is really just go all out
22:58and see if we can hit the target of 500.
23:01You and me, we'll get close to that.
23:04Right.
23:06I think we will solve this.
23:08I mean, there's no way we're going to get defeated by it, that's for sure.
23:16Hi, can you put me through to Natalie, please?
23:18Project manager Manny is sorting out his restaurant design
23:22well away from the kitchen.
23:24How can I just let you walk away?
23:27Let you leave without a trace?
23:31His girls have spent four hours cutting vegetables.
23:35Next, 50 chickens to shred.
23:38I can do it, I can do it, it's only a chicken.
23:40What do you want to do?
23:41Oh, the smell is disgusting.
23:44Take it in half, that's fine.
23:47I'll do whatever the project manager wants,
23:49but his management style, in my opinion, is very closed.
23:53He doesn't build rapport with people,
23:55and I've noticed that since he's come in the house.
23:59Not one for getting his hands dirty,
24:01Manny has more pressing business matters.
24:04Serviettes.
24:06Now, I'm looking at least minimum 1,000, of course.
24:10A colour scheme within the marquee.
24:13Black, quite oriental would go.
24:15But they are more expensive than white.
24:17Are they? All right.
24:20Alexa and Sam return to help her team turn ingredients into pizzas.
24:25The final split that we agreed on these,
24:27it was 150 margarita.
24:29Yeah.
24:30100 bolognese.
24:32Yeah.
24:33100 tandoori chicken.
24:35150.
24:37150.
24:38And we will be making these on a pro rata basis.
24:41And the chickens only find themselves in the chicken tikka?
24:45In the chicken tikka, correct.
24:48So there's 100 chickens and 100 chicken tikka pizzas.
24:53Chicken per pizza.
24:57That is...
24:59Sounds like a lot of chicken.
25:01It's too many chickens.
25:07So what's the deal?
25:08So, best value...
25:10What we might find on the day is that more people want chicken pizzas than margaritas, say,
25:16and we'll have the chicken to put on.
25:18But, yeah, that's...
25:20Interesting.
25:21Too many chickens.
25:26Not only are they making toppings,
25:28they also aim to produce pizza bases by hand.
25:37Having over-ordered on ingredients,
25:39the pressure's on to make their target of 500 bases.
25:46MUSIC PLAYS
25:52Manny's back to oversee operations.
25:56His girls have been shredding chicken for most of the day.
26:00You going to start shredding the chicken with us?
26:03There's shitloads of chicken to be shredded.
26:06And it is a nightmare.
26:08We've been going for 13 and a half hours,
26:11and we're shredding chicken.
26:15I'd be more than willing to help,
26:17but there were other things that needed to be done,
26:19and someone had to do them.
26:21It just happened to be me, so...
26:23I think Manny hasn't got his hands dirty enough.
26:25That's my opinion.
26:26He said, come on, girls,
26:28the thinner you shred the chicken, the further it goes.
26:30Well, don't tell me, mate.
26:32I've been standing here ten hours doing it.
26:34Do you know what I mean?
26:35The team finally come together for one last push.
26:39Come on, everybody, get on down.
26:42Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
26:44Be careful, cos you've got this flyer, eh?
26:46You don't like it?
27:01With everyone mucking in, they finally finish.
27:13OK.
27:15Alexa's team are attempting to prepare
27:17four times as much food as Manny's.
27:22Obviously, I have got concerns at this stage,
27:25because today has not gone as planned.
27:28It's nine o'clock at night now.
27:30Some of the guys have been here since nine o'clock in the morning,
27:33so it's been a very long day,
27:35and we're still not there yet.
27:39They've made a vast amount of topping for their pizzas.
27:47The chef checks progress towards their target of 500 bases.
27:51They keep coming to me and say,
27:52how many have we got?
27:53I think I'm going to say a magic number,
27:55like, oh, 150 or 100 or something.
27:5763.
28:00I think somebody, i.e. the project manager,
28:02needs to now look at it and say, let's be realistic, guys.
28:06We're not going to get these done.
28:09I think the project manager is out of her depth, definitely.
28:16With no obvious leader in the kitchen,
28:18no-one seems sure who should be doing what.
28:21At the end of the day, what you're doing is a bit of a luxury
28:24for that, but the ham does need to be shredded at some point.
28:28Fucking make your mind up.
28:30For fuck's sake, I'm getting pissed off.
28:32Do you know what I mean?
28:34Just fucking tell me what needs to be done and I'll do it.
28:37All right?
28:38Don't fucking dick me around,
28:39because I'm getting pissed off with it.
28:41You know what I mean?
28:42I'm fucking ordering it out.
28:43All I'm trying to do is understand where the bottleneck is
28:45and do it, and then you're just saying,
28:47go and fucking do that, go and fucking do that.
28:49I want someone here to take control
28:51and understand where the bottlenecks are and deal with it.
28:53OK?
28:54Now, what needs to be done?
28:55Someone make a fucking decision.
28:57Samuel, I'm not kitchen manager.
28:59Just can someone tell me what to fucking do?
29:01And I'll do it.
29:02If there's any swearing or shouting to be done,
29:04I will do it, OK?
29:05So let's just calm down
29:06and finish chopping the fucking pineapple strips.
29:08No problem, no problem.
29:09All right?
29:10If you lot want me to help you, listen to me.
29:14I know I shouldn't be laughing now,
29:16but I just think this is hilarious.
29:17It was a luxury for me.
29:19Sorry, it's not the way it came across,
29:21so you've got to look the way you talk to me.
29:23OK.
29:24I just can't...
29:25Don't fucking talk to me like that again, all right?
29:27Don't ever fucking talk to me like that.
29:29I don't want anyone talking to me like that.
29:31I just don't want to do it again.
29:34They've realised they're in the shit
29:36and they're not going to achieve what they set out to do.
29:41Welcome to the catering world.
29:47Two in the morning.
29:49Alexa's team finally call it a day.
29:53They've got toppings for 500 pizzas.
29:58But only 90 bases.
30:02MUSIC PLAYS
30:116.30am, the day of the festival.
30:15After just four hours' sleep, Alexa's team are back on the road.
30:20Calm before the storm.
30:23MUSIC PLAYS
30:27Over half a million people are expected to descend
30:30on London's South Bank.
30:34The teams have prime sights near Tower Bridge.
30:40Manny's team have gone for an oriental theme.
30:45While Alexa's go Italian.
30:48Look at that. It's hanging like that.
30:53There you go.
30:54With the 12 noon opening time fast approaching,
30:57sales director Ruth gets a crash course in cooking noodles.
31:02How about the soy sauce?
31:04There you go.
31:12Absolutely amazing!
31:15Mmm. So good.
31:17Rock and roll.
31:23The festival gets underway.
31:27With 43 other food stalls on site, competition is tough.
31:32So Alexa pulls out her secret weapon.
31:36Fancy some Italian pizza?
31:38If you do, just keep on walking.
31:40Follow the balloons, follow the smell, follow your dreams.
31:44Basically, they do fresh pizzas.
31:46OK, handmade.
31:48Beef bolognese.
31:50The first slice sells for £3.
31:54Unfortunately, it's terribly soggy and quite stodgy.
31:59And I think they perhaps put a bit too much on the top.
32:04I'll leave it there for you.
32:07I can't because it's big.
32:09Too big.
32:11I'll just do yours now, so...
32:13Economics graduate Alexa takes charge of the till.
32:17That's £9 change.
32:19£11 change.
32:21£11 change? Oh, sorry.
32:24So I gave you six, didn't I?
32:27Six.
32:28You gave me £9.
32:29I gave you £9. Sorry, so you want three.
32:31Two.
32:32Two. Sorry. Thank you very much.
32:35That's all right. You're welcome. Thank you.
32:39At the noodle bar, Manny's come up with a crowd-pulling incentive.
32:43What we've done is we've realised that we've got a lot of stock,
32:47we want to get rid of it, so we've done just a special
32:51reduce our prices from £5 to £3,
32:54and all of a sudden it's just gone out of proportion.
32:57That's £1 change. If you want to take a seat, I'll bring it.
33:03Absolutely delicious.
33:06Sweet and sour, black bean...
33:08Manny's team are rushed off their feet, but Alexa's marquee is empty.
33:15Yeah, we've sold 29 pieces.
33:17Yeah, so we've got...
33:18We're basically not in danger of running out of dough at the moment?
33:21No.
33:22OK.
33:23Don't worry about running out of dough.
33:25It's the last thing you need to worry about at the moment.
33:27Alexa goes over to the other team's tent.
33:30She snoops on Manny's packed noodle bar and nicks his idea.
33:39Do you mind shouting it out, Saeed?
33:41What's the special early bird deal?
33:44£2 a slice?
33:45Yeah, I'll do what I'm doing and I'll start...
33:47I'll hover around and ask people.
33:48I'm not going to go and shout for £2, no.
33:50Go to the periphery of the marquee.
33:52It just seems that we're very desperate at shouting.
33:54Get some enthusiasm into it.
33:56Why don't you start off shouting and I'll pick up from it?
33:58What do you mean?
33:59Example, go and lead from the front.
34:00Do it, I'll do it.
34:01OK.
34:03Hello, everyone.
34:04We're doing £2 a slice pizza here.
34:07Early bird deal, sir.
34:09£2 a slice pizza.
34:11We've slashed our prices.
34:12Would you be interested?
34:14£2 a slice special early bird deal in here.
34:17£2 a slice.
34:18She hasn't got a clue about what the budget is,
34:20how much we're underspending, what we're overspending,
34:22the price of the pizzas.
34:24Anyone interested in pizza for this evening?
34:27No, thank you.
34:28OK.
34:30The sun casting a warm glow over the city skyline,
34:34then the slate grey towns running under Tower Bridge.
34:38Later on, sides hovering outside the noodle bar.
34:42As the evening draws on, the noodle bar stays busy.
34:48I'm surprised how they got all the colour coordination
34:50just spot on, really.
34:52They've actually got a good set-up,
34:55good menu, good price.
34:59Good costumes.
35:04Very impressed.
35:06He looks at his own tent.
35:10How many slices have we got left?
35:12We've got loads, mate.
35:13A pound a slice?
35:15A pound a slice.
35:17A pound a slice.
35:18Last push for two hours.
35:20A pound a slice, here we go.
35:21Come on, guys.
35:22Time to take pizza to the people.
35:24Ladies, can I buy you dinner tonight?
35:26You give me £2, I'll give you pizza for nothing.
35:28A pound a slice of pizza!
35:30A pound for a slice of pizza!
35:32Come on, ladies.
35:33We've also got drinks as well.
35:35Come have a look and tell us what you like.
35:37You can dine in tonight.
35:38He's funny, isn't he?
35:39A little girl laughs at Paul's chef's costume.
35:43Sweet and sour chicken noodles!
35:45Jewel's wearing an Oriental outfit.
35:48A pound a slice.
35:49You want a drink with that?
35:50It's for sexy women.
35:51You might just scrape it through.
35:53Would you like a drink?
35:55Don't buy their pizza!
35:56Come and buy some noodles!
35:58Do not have the noodles, ladies and gentlemen.
36:00They go straight through you.
36:01Awful!
36:02The noodle is actually made with noodles.
36:04You're going to help me out loads if you buy some noodles.
36:06They look horrible.
36:07£2, they're beautiful.
36:08How's it going?
36:09Not great.
36:10OK.
36:11Because people are not going to buy things in boxes.
36:13They can't see it.
36:14Yeah, sure.
36:15Noodles are not the sort of thing.
36:16I mean, pizza, it's all open.
36:17They can see it.
36:18Even if it's open?
36:19If you leave the box open, it's going to get cold.
36:21Yeah.
36:22Their pizza must be freezing.
36:24Look, people do cold pizza, don't they?
36:26Guys, excuse me.
36:27This is the last of the pizzas, guys.
36:31Alexa's pizzas are selling fast.
36:36But at rock-bottom prices.
36:38And your drink.
36:39Come and get your pizza slices and your drink.
36:41£0.50 a slice of pizza.
36:44Margarita.
36:45Who wants margarita?
36:46£0.50 and it's yours.
36:47Let's get some more drinks.
36:48More bolognese.
36:49Margarita.
36:50Who wants margarita?
36:51Okay, final piece.
36:52Final piece.
36:55Oh, well, enjoy it.
36:56Just enjoy it.
36:59Go for it.
37:0010pm.
37:01The festival has finished.
37:03The pizza has sold out.
37:05But there are masses of unused ingredients.
37:08Okay, well, well done, everybody.
37:11I think that was a really good effort at the end.
37:13And I know it's just really tiring.
37:17But I think we did our best with it, really, didn't we?
37:22Manny's girls call it a day.
37:25Time to read some leftover fortune cookies.
37:28You will always be successful in your professional career.
37:32Mine says you will soon discover your hidden talent.
37:36Mine says you are the apprentice of Sir Alan.
37:42It's morning and the candidates leave their luxury house with their packed bags.
37:48Next day, the 11 candidates have packed
37:51and are heading for their appointment in Sir Alan Sugar's boardroom.
37:56All have left well-paid jobs for a chance to work for him.
38:01But one is about to find out if the gamble was in vain.
38:07Sir Alan's classic car is on the road
38:09with the man himself wearing a frown on the back seat.
38:13The glass facades of high-rises in the city.
38:21The candidates are all waiting anxiously outside the boardroom.
38:28Jo sits with her arms folded, Sam scratches his head
38:32while Ruth flicks her hair and looks about her.
38:35The team leaders, Manny and Alexa, are standing side by side,
38:39each lost in their own thoughts.
38:47You can go through to the boardroom now.
38:49Alexa and Manny lead the way into the boardroom
38:52where Nick and Margaret are already seated at the large table.
39:00As they take their seats and wait for Sir Alan, the tension is palpable.
39:06Sir Alan comes through the door
39:08and takes a seat between his aides opposite the candidates.
39:12Alexa averts her gaze.
39:18Do you think you've done a good job?
39:20I did the best job I could.
39:22How did we get on here?
39:24How did you like having a lady operating you? Any good?
39:29I think I've done a good job.
39:31How did you like having a lady operating you? Any good?
39:36Don't all rush.
39:40What do you feel?
39:42I enjoyed it. I think we worked all right together as a team.
39:48Anything else you've got to say, chaps?
39:50I'd be very surprised if we won.
39:54Perceptive, eh?
39:57Margaret, how about letting us know what Velocity got up to?
40:01Well, Velocity is afloat of £2,000.
40:04They spent £1,097.
40:08They took £1,423,
40:12so they made a profit of £326.
40:15Right, OK. Nick?
40:18Well, Invicta also, given a budget of £2,000,
40:21they spent pretty much all of it, bar £6.
40:24They spent all of it? Yeah, bar £6.
40:26Took only £1,186,
40:29which resulted, I'm afraid, in a thumping loss of £807.
40:32Loss! That's a first, chaps.
40:35That's a first.
40:38We'll be dealing with that later.
40:40Ladies, well done. You've had a good day.
40:42You obviously worked very, very hard.
40:44Tell you what we're going to do.
40:46Remember the restaurant we were in the other day?
40:48There's going to be a big firework display there tonight.
40:50I've booked two tables. I'm going there with my family.
40:53I've booked a table for you. I'll see you later there for dinner, OK?
40:57You'd best reflect on what went wrong
41:00because you'll be coming back into this boardroom.
41:02As you know, one of you is going to get fired.
41:06Off you go.
41:09The candidates get up and leave the boardroom.
41:12Later, Alexa's team are sitting in silence in a cafe.
41:19For the losers, a post-mortem.
41:22Paul Tulip, headhunter.
41:26If I'm chosen to go in the boardroom, I'm going to laugh my head off
41:29and I'm going to absolutely annihilate Alexa.
41:32If she uses her head, she's going to take
41:35dumb and side into the boardroom with her
41:38because it was clearly the catering part where we underperformed.
41:43From a project manager point of view, it's just been a disaster.
41:46It's been a rollercoaster of disasters.
41:49Obviously, you can blame everything on a project manager at the end of the day,
41:53but I delegated the responsibility of the budget to Dunn
41:58and really let him run with it.
42:02It's an embarrassing result, but I am by far and away
42:05no way the weakest member of the team.
42:09Evening time over the city.
42:11In the upmarket Riverside restaurant,
42:13the winning team are tucking into some food and wine.
42:17Sir Alan comes over and takes a seat at their table.
42:24Good evening.
42:25Hello.
42:26Hello.
42:27Well, well done again.
42:30How is this fellow here? Is he any good?
42:32He's a really nice guy.
42:34I'd say brave.
42:35Very brave.
42:37Later, as fireworks send bursts of colour into the night-time sky,
42:41the winning team stand watching them with wonder.
42:45They raise their glasses for a toast.
42:52Daytime.
42:53Moving high above the skyscrapers in the city
42:56and the distinctive pyramid-top tower as Canary Wharf.
43:00The world reflected in the glass facades.
43:07Alexa and her team were waiting outside the boardroom,
43:10anxious but composed.
43:15Saeed looks about him,
43:17while Dun moves his neck from side to side to relieve tension.
43:23OK, Jenny, will you send them all back in, please?
43:26You can go through to the boardroom now.
43:30The men enter the boardroom first,
43:32leaving Alexa to follow on behind.
43:37As usual, Sir Alan sits between his aides
43:39with his expression deadly serious.
43:42The candidates take their seats.
43:46You put yourself forward for this task.
43:48When I asked these gentlemen here what they thought about you,
43:51I didn't get a kind of an immediate glowing report.
43:54Ansel, tell me about Gretel. Go on.
43:57Very much a consultative approach,
43:59but didn't make decisions at key times
44:02and also was quite easily led, in my opinion.
44:07If I've understood this correctly, what Nick has been telling me,
44:11there's a figure of 500 pizzas has been bandied around.
44:14This is what you, as the team,
44:16decided that you were going to make, is that right?
44:18Or target to make. Is that right?
44:20I had to take my lead from Dun and Saeed
44:24because I don't have restaurant experience.
44:26Well, you did work in a pizza parlour, you told me.
44:29Yes, I sold pizzas at Asda,
44:32but I don't really have experience of quantities
44:36that would go into producing that number of pizzas.
44:40Isn't that a good answer?
44:42Let's get to the calculations, then.
44:45Dun, what was the theory behind 500 pizzas?
44:48How did we get to 500?
44:50The 500 pizzas, I suggested as a starting point, and that's where...
44:54But you just plucked it out of mid-air?
44:56We needed to start somewhere. It was an error on our part.
44:59Our part? Your part?
45:01I don't know. Who condoned it at the end of the day?
45:04All of you? One of you? Him? Her? You?
45:07There were three people in the room
45:09and I put forward a suggestion and there was not one person that said,
45:12actually, I've got another suggestion over and above that.
45:15When did the penny drop? It seems it still hasn't bloody dropped.
45:18When did the penny drop that this was a flawed project?
45:22I raised the issue that 4,000 slices,
45:25now, what does that translate to?
45:27How many pizzas do we need to sell?
45:29And in actual fact, I was obviously worried about that
45:32and it calculated to one pizza every nine seconds,
45:35which I felt was unreasonable.
45:37I tell you what, Sunshine, you do that, you don't need a job with me,
45:40you'll get a job at McDonald's. Yeah.
45:42What about you? You're being very quiet at the moment.
45:45What I would have expected at this point is the project manager
45:48to step in and say,
45:50well, listen, I really do think this is unrealistic,
45:52let's look at different options. Now...
45:54Hold on one second.
45:56Very, very simple, yes or no answer.
45:59Was you the one that was masterminding the production,
46:02for want of a better word, in the kitchen? Yes or no?
46:05Yes, Sir Alan.
46:07How many pizzas did you end up making?
46:09Nine pizzas, Sir Alan. Ninety?
46:11I heard you bought 100 chickens. Yes.
46:13One chicken per pizza, is that right?
46:15That was... It was dictated to me by the chef.
46:17Dictated by who? By the chef.
46:19What, the chef said buy 100 chickens? You sure?
46:21Sir Alan, no. I took down 100 as a quantity and that was it.
46:24You know, like people, there's little chickens and big chickens.
46:27And I heard that they blundered you. They were very big.
46:29You messed it up, didn't you? You messed it up.
46:31I've learned the lesson, Sir Alan, definitely.
46:33I'm sure you've learned the lesson, there's no question of that.
46:36It's a wonder why the lesson came so late,
46:38because from what I can understand,
46:40you've been in the restaurant business before, haven't you?
46:42I have, I've managed restaurants.
46:44You've managed under Marco Pirro White or something, the Titanic.
46:47There's another bloody disaster you're in now.
46:50Any of you here should have recognised you ain't going to make this 500.
46:54The whole of your business plan is flawed.
46:57Now, I'm so disappointed with a lot of you.
47:00It all boils down to pricing and honestly, yes,
47:02pricing boils down to what you dropped them in, sunshine.
47:06Alexa, do you realise this is the third time you're on a losing team?
47:11You put yourself forward, you said you wanted to do it,
47:14you said you wanted to show me.
47:16So now you're going to tell me which two of these people
47:19you're going to bring back in this ballroom,
47:21because one of you will get fired.
47:25I'm going to have to bring back in with me Dun and Saeed, Sir Alan.
47:29Dun and Saeed.
47:31But you three other gentlemen, you go back off to the house
47:35and you three, I'll see you back in here shortly.
47:40The candidates get up and leave the boardroom.
47:44Sir Alan watches them and shakes his head.
47:47What a shower.
47:49What a mess.
47:50What a bloody shower.
47:52Outside, Paul, Ansel and Sam say their goodbyes.
47:56Take it easy.
47:59Alexa's sitting with her hands tightly clasped in front of her.
48:05The first thing this morning, you could see
48:07that none of them thought she was a good team leader,
48:10but then again, I'm just trying to extract out of them
48:13who is responsible for what.
48:15Dun is budget man.
48:17His job was to make bloody sure
48:19that whatever was spent, it didn't exceed the budget.
48:23It was not his responsibility to decide what it was spent on.
48:29This thing is very disappointing because any one of them
48:32could have spotted during the course of the day
48:34that they're not going to make 500.
48:36We've heard enough, let's call them back.
48:38We'll call them back in and get this over with.
48:40Sir Alan's ready for you in the boardroom now.
48:43Saeed, Dun and Alexa go back in and take their seats.
48:55Right, this is it.
48:56Alexa, I want to know why you, as the project manager,
49:01why shouldn't I fire you?
49:04You shouldn't fire me due to this task, Sir Alan,
49:08because I gave my all to it.
49:10I believe that I can go on from this
49:12and learn very much from the experience.
49:14I can just go from strength to strength
49:16if you allow me to do that.
49:17This is not a holiday camp here
49:19or some college of further education
49:21where, you know, dumb cops come to learn where to make mistakes.
49:26You're supposed to be the brightest lot of entrepreneurs in the country.
49:33One of the other things I'm struggling with is
49:35that I've listened to his tale of woe,
49:37I've listened to him also, I've listened to the others.
49:39I don't know what you were doing.
49:41Can you tell me what you were physically actually doing
49:44other than being a strategist?
49:46I was working throughout the whole thing.
49:49I tried to split myself between the kitchen and marketing
49:53because I wanted to have an overview of the whole picture.
49:55But when things went wrong, when he bought too many chickens,
49:58what did you do then?
50:00What did you say to him?
50:01Didn't you say to him,
50:02you've bought too many chickens or you've bought too fatter chickens?
50:05Did you say to him, my God, we've only got 90 pizzas?
50:09Mathematics said that the 720 potential bits of pizza that you had
50:15were costing £4.37 each
50:18and you must have agreed to sell them for £3.
50:22Brain surgeons I've got here.
50:24We sold them for £3, Sir Alan,
50:26because that was the price we thought the market could bear.
50:29So you knew you were losing money?
50:31Basically, we knew at that point
50:33that we would only just about break even at about...
50:37Doomed, doomed, you were doomed.
50:39I mean, I did acknowledge with the team...
50:41So who do you think's responsible then as team leader?
50:45Who do you think's responsible?
50:47I think all three of us were in that meeting at the start.
50:50I want to know which individual is responsible.
50:52Who should I fire here today for this?
50:54Who's responsible for this disaster?
50:58Well, I have to accept partial responsibility because I was...
51:01Are you saying I should fire you then?
51:03No, I'm not saying that you should fire me, no.
51:05Dunn was there to manage the budget
51:07and made numerous assumptions
51:10that didn't do us a lot of good in the long run.
51:14So you want him to go instead of you?
51:16I think, basically, it's a hard call, it's a hard call, but...
51:22You're indecisive.
51:24I wonder if that's one of the reasons
51:26why this total project went pear-shaped.
51:32Dunn, why should I keep you here?
51:36So, Alan, the failure of the project
51:38is purely on the fact that we bought...
51:41You were in charge of the budget?
51:43Correct, which we didn't exceed.
51:45The failure of the project...
51:47I gave you the money with the intention of,
51:50yes, go and spend the whole £2,000, make me £10,000.
51:54I have not worked it out yet.
51:56I'm not seeing where you've contributed.
51:59I said we need to shift, dead stop.
52:01I then made a suggestion we need to keep making pizza.
52:04Keep making suggestions. So what do you do?
52:06You make suggestions and then you look po-faced at people
52:09and you see no reaction, so what do you do?
52:11Do you give up?
52:13I keep going, but ultimately I am not the team leader.
52:16So what did you bring me back in this room for?
52:19Because Dunn was involved in the initial discussion with the chef
52:22and it was all about those assumptions that we made
52:25that the 500 pizzas was not realistic.
52:28You think that's the main flaw in the project, do you?
52:31Yeah, I think once the 500 figure was there,
52:34then it was a downward spiral after that.
52:37Well, only if you fail to make anywhere near 500.
52:42You're sitting here and you are that much away
52:46from walking out that door, OK?
52:48So I'm asking you, who is responsible?
52:51With regards to success or failure of this task,
52:53Alex is responsible.
52:55With regards to making only 90 pizzas, Saeed is.
52:59You think Saeed should be fired, right?
53:01And, Saeed, what's your opinion about this?
53:03So, Alan, I strongly disagree. I'm a born...
53:05But I didn't expect you to agree. Exactly.
53:07I'm a born fighter. I put in 150%.
53:10You're not a born manufacturer, that's for sure.
53:12You put me into any situation, I'll give you 150%.
53:15I put you in the kitchen, mate. I put you in the kitchen.
53:17I gave 150%. I put you in the kitchen and what did you do?
53:20You made 20% of what you were supposed to make.
53:22He's that much from going out the door,
53:24you're that much from going out the door.
53:26You tell me why you should stay here.
53:28Because I'm a fighter and I will fight until the end.
53:30I'm not interested in bloody fighting.
53:32You tell me about this task.
53:34I think, with all respect, I'm not having a go at you.
53:36There was no milestones, there was no contingency plan.
53:38It was a free fall. We could do what we want.
53:40When you were buying on this telephone,
53:42I'll have 100 chickens, I'll have two kilos of mozzarella...
53:45That's the problem, sir. I wasn't buying.
53:47Didn't you... We were placing the order, then buying,
53:49call it what you want, OK? We ran out of time.
53:51That's why I couldn't negotiate.
53:53When you were considering, at the time you were bunnying away there,
53:55how much money was clocking up, you didn't give it any thought
53:57to how much it was costing? Absolutely.
53:59Just a second, sir. Absolutely you agree with me.
54:01I couldn't negotiate with anybody.
54:03I like taking on challenges and I...
54:05Because, you know, I think it's part of my make-up.
54:08I set you lot a task the other day, right?
54:11And I have got to fire somebody here.
54:13Quite frankly, I'd like to get rid of the bleeding three of you.
54:16Now, tell me why I shouldn't get rid of you now.
54:19Because I'm a winner, sir, and that's why.
54:22You're not a bloody winner, you're lost.
54:24Sir, I've learnt from my mistakes and I have learnt from this, definitely.
54:27This will never happen again.
54:29Business is not about coming, piss my money up the wall,
54:31oh, never mind, sorry, you lost it,
54:33now you learnt you won't do it again.
54:35I've learnt life the hard way from a young age.
54:37I hold you 100% responsible.
54:39And I gave 150%. I stepped up to the mark.
54:41I hold you 100% responsible.
54:43I stepped up to the mark, OK, and I delivered...
54:46I'm sorry, Saeed, I hold you 100% responsible.
54:49But I warned you, I warned you severely about this.
54:53You have not come to the table today.
54:55You have not told me what you did.
54:57I still don't understand what you did.
54:59He should be going with you also.
55:01You're a very, very bad manager.
55:03You didn't manage this thing properly.
55:05You're a lightweight. You're fired.
55:09I'm really angry with the situation.
55:12Clear off.
55:15The three of them head towards the boardroom door,
55:17leaving Sir Alan looking seriously displeased.
55:21Saeed hangs back for a moment.
55:24Thanks, Sir Alan, thanks for the opportunity.
55:28Cheeky bastard, thank you for the opportunity.
55:30Thank you for the opportunity.
55:33Saeed punches the air, then goes and gives Alexa a hug.
55:41What a bloody mess, eh?
55:42Complete mess.
55:43What a bloody mess.
55:46Just like all the other fired candidates,
55:48Alexa carries her suitcase out of the office block
55:51and walks towards the waiting taxi.
55:55It's not very good to be called a lousy manager.
55:58The point is, that's one person's opinion.
56:00I actually think that I am a good manager
56:03and I'll go forward and I will make a success of my career,
56:07whether he thinks that or not.
56:11The taxi carries on along a main road.
56:17One job, now ten candidates.
56:21Sir Alan's search for his apprentice continues.