On last week’s The Celebrity Apprentice, Khloe Kardashian and Tionne Watkins were tossed out of the boardroom.

Fast forward to this week, and Joan Rivers isn’t any happy that Clint Black is still around.  Brian McKnight gets moved to Athena after his no-show last week, and we get to this week’s task: the teams must design a package and store display for Lifelock, a company that fights against identity theft.  Brian is Athena’s project manager, while Natalie Gublis is heading up KOTU.

With George and Ivanka watching their every move, the teams meet with Lifelock execs, and want them to focus on “protection, confidence and security.”   Annie Duke does the asking for KOTU, while Joan and Clint get too uncomfortable.

Clint quickly suggests a safe as the logo for KOTU’s display, and Joan suggests a bodyguard.  Fight?  Ivanka, who’s observing the team, notices that Natalie’s keeping the pace for the team.  Everybody eventually chooses the safe, a move that Joan obviously hates.  Athena decides to take an image of Lifelock’s CEO and give it some graphic treatment, and Jesse James snaps up the task, something the team likes.

Herschel Walker and Clint are tasked to do KOTU’s Lifelock logo, and decide to have a safe built.  Athena, on the other hand, leaves their build team floating by being oh so indecisive with what display they want built!  Annie realizes there’s a deadline, and asks Jesse and Brande Roderick to get to it.  Melissa Rivers is frustrated that Annie divested herself of responsibility.  Pass-on time: Annie is frustrated that PM Brian isn’t taking charge.

On the way to Brooklyn to meet the build team, Jesse gets sick—but he pushes on, pushes on.  Natalie and Joan get to work on the KOTU pamphlet, and the comedian applauds the golfer’s initiative to listen to those who know more despite her being naïve about all this.  Joan then tells Clint about a last-minute change, but he panics when he sees Brande meet with her build team.  A harried Clint pushes with Herschel and finally meets with their build team.

Issues at Athena: their Jesse-made graphic isn’t going through their email.  To top it all off, George comes in and remarks that there’s a lack of creativity in the room, and everybody’s too relaxed.  Really now, George?  No issue at KOTU: the team’s going together, their display is getting formed, and Joan comments that Natalie’s an “average” leader—and that she’s got to work with Clint today.  Like, duh, Joan.

Athena’s plan slowly crumbles: the emails are not going through, and the deadline’s inching closer and closer.  The file, turns out, is too large, so Annie gets Brian to send it directly to the printer rather than to the team.  They later go to Brooklyn to see what’s up, and what they see isn’t pretty—no, not the display, but Jesse, whose got a high fever and has thrown up, apparently, eight times!  Melissa chides Brande and her inability to think fast, while the sick guy tells Annie they should print the words at Kinko’s and glue it on the display when they have to.

KOTU finally sees their display, and it’s pretty good—but the graphic’s too small.  They have to blow it up, and fast, and really fast, since they only have 15 minutes before the presentations begin.  Natalie succeeds, and the team cools down and gets Joan to become their spokesperson for the task.  She does the job, but she later remarks that the pitch wasn’t great—she got the information across, all right, the she didn’t get to do jokes.  Because you don’t have to sometimes, Joan.

Athena gets to work, and Brian gets to talk.  He’s beaming about their three core messages, and their graphic of Todd, the company’s CEO.  (Which is a little egotistic, but okay.)  Brande thinks the team did good, and the executives were impressed.

Boardroom time: Natalie tells Donald Trump that she thinks her team won, as they did a pretty good job—even Joan and Clint worked together!  Indeed, nothing is impossible.  Anyway, Brian also extols their work at Athena, and Brande concurs, but had to throw in the zinger: she and Jesse worked independently.  Annie adds another zinger: Jesse being sick, and the team being virtually split into two, isn’t a good thing.

Ivanka remarks that Lifelock bosses liked KOTU’s ideas, but their display didn’t carry anything.  George remarks, on the other hand, that Athena did impress the bosses, but it was just a spin in something that Lifelock already did—and it wasn’t that creative.  At least the display had the product in it. Donald gives victory to KOTU, which gives $20,000 to Boys and Girls of America.

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