Apprentice L.A. -- Episode 5

Aaron found out the hard way that Donald Trump's sting is far more painful than that of any honeybee.

Trump introduced this week's task by ominously pointing out that Arrow project manager Aaron had been awfully quiet in the boardroom the night before, when he was supposed to be offering Trump his advice on which member of Kinetic to fire. Trump's words were a sign that, should his team lose, Aaron would be in a heap of trouble.

For the task, teams needed to harvest their own honey, package it, and then sell it at a grocery store. The team who earned the most money won the task.

Surprisingly, gathering honey from the hives of thousands of bees turned out to be easier than developing a marketing plan. The folks on Arrow and Kinetic in charge of marketing -- Surya, James, & Aaron (Arrow) and Aimee & Jenn (Kinetic) -- wasted hours of time just coming up with names for their honey. (I don't know why contestants on The Apprentice always insist on group brainstorming, when it almost never does any good -- just like in the real world.)

At least Kinetic made a vinyl sign to put up outside the store where they were selling their honey. Arrow never even got that far.

At the grocery stores the following day, Project Managers Aimee and Aaron spent the majority of their time making coffee or standing around looking bored -- instead of selling honey.

By day's end, Kinetic outsold Arrow, earning the winners a trip to the Los Angeles Lakers' practice facility to play a pick up game with legendary members of the Lakers organization, like coach Phil Jackson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, and... Brian Cook? Are you telling me that the lycanthropic Vladimir Radmanovic wasn't available?

In the boardroom, the original members of Arrow ganged up on new guy Surya (who'd switched teams an episode ago) for his role in the lackluster marketing campaign. Nicole was the only one perceptive enough to pick up on Trump's not-so-subtle hints that he wasn't impressed with Aaron.

Aimee wasn't about to let her former teammate be bullied, and she stuck up for Surya. She also questioned why Aaron, a sales professional, spent so little time actually selling the honey.

Nothing Aaron said made any difference to Trump, and Aaron was fired. That did little to comfort Surya, who considered the disparaging remarks made about him in the boardroom to be outright lies. After Aaron's ouster, Surya couldn't stop fuming. He tried to talk to Trump, but Trump ushered him out. Then, outside the boardroom, he whined and whined to Nicole. After the show's credits had rolled, the thin-skinned Surya was still complaining to her.

Next week, Surya gives his teammates the third degree for their boardroom conduct. And the weeks-long flirtation between Tim and Nicole escalates, leading to a hot tub makeout session. (And since they were making out in a fancy hot tub, we can assume that Arrow wins the task and moves back in to the mansion.).