This week’s Celebrity Apprentice saw the men of Hydra resort to childish game-playing and ‘corporate espionage’.  Project manager, Piers Morgan, perhaps because he and Pastore had a difficult working relationship, concocted this idea to send the “very fat Italian”, as he referred to the former “Sopranos” mainstay, over to the girls’ team. Pastore was supposed to be a spy and report back to the men.

What happens next is difficult to follow because Pastore, who originally seemed on board with the plan, decides to turn double agent and proceeds to tell Marilu Henner of his decision. He hopes to gain her trust by telling her that she really can’t trust him.

Okay. The ladies, of course, feel betrayed when they learn of the plan. They let Vinny in from the goodness of their hearts. Vinny, for his part, wanted to see the ladies win if only so Piers would be on the chopping block.

The task was a homerun for the women. They concocted a cute Crocs receptacle as well as a killer campaign for the company’s decision to recycle their shoes and give them to poor children in Africa. The guys didn’t do so well. They lost their first task to date.

However, Vinny resigned because both teams basically washed their hands of him. Stephen Baldwin and Trace Adkins didn’t support Piers’ practical joke and didn’t like the way he used Vinny for evil. However, Trump was on the fence about the whole debacle. Piers or Vinny would have to go.

Vinny made it easy for Trump by standing by his decision to resign. Trump accepted his resignation, wishing Vinny well and leaving the rest of us unnerved and confused…especially since this took two LONG hours to unfold.

Eeek!