(S05E14) This is it! We are down to the final two candidates for this season's The Apprentice. It should have been three candidates, but the last two female candidates (Allie and Roxanne) were fired by Trump last week for, well, being bitchy to each other in the boardroom. We are now left with Lee and Sean, who had won two consecutive tasks together as Gold Rush. So, let's take a look at the candidates, shall we? (Information courtesy of NBC, except for the stuff I made up.)

Twenty-two-year-old Lee is a recent graduate of Cornell University, where he graduated with a B.S. in policy analysis and management. He currently works as an analyst for one of the largest business/consulting firms in the world. Donald Trump has deemed Lee a politician for his extremely neutral stance about other Gold Rush team members during their frequent trips to the boardroom.

Recent United States citizen Sean (he obtained his Green Card in 1995) works as a director of business development for a recruitment consultancy firm, where he currently ranks as the top global salesperson. Born and raised in London, Sean loves to use the term wanker. In addition, as revealed in last week's episode, Sean has quite the crush on former Synergy team member Tammy.

Well, it looks like the stage is set, the lights are coming up, and the players are ready for the penultimate episode of The Apprentice.

We'll skip right past the scenes with Sean and Lee in the suite and the boardroom, and the reunion with fired teammates, and move right to the selection of teams for the final tasks. First, everyone reading this who has not scene the episode can breathe a sigh of relief; Brent was not chosen as a team member. However, Lenny, who I always thought ran a close second to Brent for non-business savvy, was picked by Lee as his right-hand man. Right off the bat I thought this was a bad idea as Lenny is the total opposite of Lee when it comes to dealing with other team members; Lee is was very neutral in his opinions of other team members while Lenny hated them all. After all of the interviews were completed Lee and Lenny picked twi former players who didn't offend them; Roxanne and Pepi.

Pepi? The attorney who was fired waaaayyy back in episode two of this cycle? Good Lord, neither Carolyn nor the Trumpster himself remembered this guy. There was actually a pretty good scene in the boardroom where Carolyn is cracking herself up because she couldn't remember the former Synergy player. The best line of the night was when Trump said 'Pepi, your fired! Did I say that?'

Enough about that. Back to our bloke Sean. There was definitely no surprise that Sean grabbed Tammy for his team. He rounded it out by choosing another former teammate from Synergy, Andrea, as well as former Gold Rusher, and current member of MENSA, Tarek. I thought this was a pretty good mix. Aside from Tammy's high-pitched whine festival when she was fired a few weeks ago I thought she was a fairly strong player. Andrea was also good but extremely arrogant. Traek is the wild card in this team as he is extremely talented and hard-working, but didn't do very well with his team. Yet, Gold Rush pretty much sucked as a team until the very end so it may not have been his fault.

Onto the tasks. Lee took on the responsibility of planning a charity, celebrity hockey tournament for The Leary Firefighters Foundation that would take place in Manhattan. Sean took on the task of planning a benefit concert at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City for the World Wildlife Foundation that would feature the band Barenaked Ladies. Sean lept right out of the starting gate by talking to every single person involved with the concert, all the way down to the Taj Mahal janitors. However, when it came down to speaking with the corporate sponsor for the event, he left it up to Adrea and Tarek while he chose pre-concert party menu's with Tammy (possibly as a dress rehearsal for their nuptials to her). It was at this point that the crush became less cute and more of a hindrance to the project.

Back on the isle of Manhattan, Lee and his team met with the corporate sponsors and the charity director, and underwhelmed them both. Lee and his team wanted to hold a silent auction to win dates with the firefighters until the director smacked that down by informing Gold Rush that this would be a family event. On the corporate end the team lost a great opportunity to have the sponsor match the final amount of donations made by patrons of the event. Instead they got them to agree to auction two of their products instead of one.

As the episode ended both teams ran into snags. At the hockey rink the Leary Firefighter Foundation director was still unimpressed with what Lee and his team had planned for the event. She pretty much demanded to have a walk-through of the whole thing a day before the event occurred. With no concrete ideas on the plate Gold Rush was struggling. In Atlantic City the situation was a bit more dire as Andrea needed to leave unexpectedly due to the fact that she was coughing up blood. According to WebMD this could simply be due to laryngitis or could even be a symptom of lung cancer. Either way, Synergy was down a team player during a critical moment of the tasks.

There you have it! Tune in to this very website next week as we find out how each team on their tasks and who will be crowned this year's winner of The Apprentice.