There's a theory among the Eagle-Eyed Forum Posters that Jason took Nick to increase the odds of Sam being fired, because he knew Trump wouldn't pick Nick. But the problem with doing that on this show is that you increase the odds of his firing you by just as much, potentially. If that is what Jason did, he might have been better off choosing somebody else who would provide an appealing option if Trump just wasn't going to fire Sam, however much the guys wanted him to. At any rate, Nick it is. Trump expresses some surprise that Jason chose the guy who just supported him in the face of quite a lot of criticism. Trump then asks Nick if he thinks he did a dumb thing in defending Jason. "No, I think that he did do a good job," Nick says. Bill, Kwame, Troy, and Bowie are dismissed to head back upstairs. Nick, Jason, and Sam have to hang out in the Loser Lobby and wait to be called back into the meeting.