The Apprentice, episode five, review The task turned out to be a bit like the PE class at school. It coaxed otherwise unbeknown personality traits out of team peers. As we all know, for every fierce competitor on the games field there's a shy or swotty kid who can go one of two ways, morphing either into the (deadly) socks-up high-fiveing go-getter or (you've got to love them) the closet prankster, who just revels in the 45 minute opportunity to Let Off Some Steam. It's only sport! Wooo! We all know the "118 man" in his little retro shorts came from a true place, and last night's Apprentice demonstrated that nicely. What cinched it for catering expert Azhar, though, wasn't the tiny red gym shorts, the sweat band, or his promo video phrase "Welcome to the groove train," but that desperate little twinkle in his eye when he sort of tried to dance a sit-up. Watching him lying on the floor while a troupe of female dancers high-kicked around him, you saw him actually start to wonder why he signed up for this; a rare moment indeed for an Apprentice. Both Laura and Duane did get really involved in this task (high-five!) but then played the stroppy card too much, or - as team-leader Rick put it to Duane - got "too emotionally involved." That's why they both found themselves, perhaps unfairly, in the boardroom showdown. They were both gently mocked by lovely technology entrepreneur Nick, a typical PE class prankster, who tried to laugh away any sporty seriousness for the duration. I've got my eye on Nick. He's playing the long game. He's very likeable, which will keep him out of the boardroom, and I think he's saving his energy for the penalty shoot-out. Overall, this was a frustrating Apprentice episode, though. You couldn't help but feel that there was some perverse scoring at work. The best team were punished, and the worst team won, so when Duane eventually pulled himself together and left like a gentleman, I turned the TV off with a nagging sense that this game is just not fair. Highlights? Sales manager and PM Stephen sounded suspiciously like a politician when he gave his "personal thanks" to the pretty dancers in retro gear for doing their routine for him. My own personal thanks go to narrator Mark Halliley for the best line of the episode, when he gratefully credited the grand Victorian East End building York Hall with "keeping cockneys fit for more than 100 years."