This week the two teams were given the task of letting apartments in the Clapham area of London.
Michelle's team (Michelle, Ansell, Paul) made six lease agreements and Tuan's team (Tuan, Ruth, Sayed) made the same.
During the task, the self-styled "The Badger" (Ruth Badger) steam-rolled over Tuan, her project manager, to take most of the viewings herself. She then went off on her own and made five of her team's six sales under her own steam. As she later admitted to Sir Alan, she was doing it to make sure she got good sales for herself.
Sayed grabbed someone who was looking in the shop window and made one sale. Before that, he'd managed to take the wrong keys to a viewing. He lost a sale, arranged to meet at Wandsworth Bridge, but went to the wrong bridge — and still managed to blame Tuan for it.
Tuan meanwhile was happy doing his backroom thing and didn't really get into selling until the second day. By that time, everyone else had had a go, so he didn't sell a bean.
Tuan's team lost by just over £200 so his team was called to the Boardroom for a firing.
Margaret (one of Sir Alan's advisers) told Sayed, "You need the man with the brush and shovel to follow behind." I can only assume that she means he causes chaos and destruction in his wake or he needs a sweeper who used to follow the horses around to clean up the dung.
When Tuan was talking about Sayed, Slippery said, "Stop pointing your finger at me," and then continued to point his own finger at Tuan!
Sir Alan noted that Sayed was a loose cannon, with the occasional flash of brilliance. He also said he appeared to panic in both the task and the boardroom.
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