"NARRATOR:" "Kevin O'Leary is no stranger to success." "O'LEARY:" "I took a $10,000 cheque, and turned it into a 4.2 billion dollar business." "NARRATOR:" "But can he turn ten ex-cons into legitimate business people?" "O'LEARY:" "Why can't we take one of these people and make them a great business leader?" "They were a great leader in their own enterprise." "I was convicted of armed robbery and I was incarcerated for over three years." "Break and enter, and trafficking." "Extortion, assault, and possession for the purpose of trafficking." "Assault causing bodily harm, uttering death threats and theft." "Trafficking two hundred and twenty pounds of marijuana." "Four and a half years for possession of restricted weapons." "These people did some really bad things, but they paid their debt." "If we don't help them get back on their feet... we keep paying... we've got to give them a second chance." "My daughter was born while I was in jail." "That changed everything." "I want something more out of my life." "And I'm not gonna get it with my criminal record." "I would like to be living in my own house and I would like to make my daughter proud of me." "I don't want to go to jail anymore." "NARRATOR:" "Now they have the chance to prove themselves." "O'LEARY:" "I'm going to give one of these people a hundred thousand dollars of my own money... to start their own business." "To find out which one deserves it most," "I'm going to put them through a series of tests in a real business every week." "NARRATOR:" "But can a reformed drug dealer deal in art?" "What would you do to sell me drugs?" "I'd show you how good they were." "You wanna bring this home for a week and let me know if you like it?" "Hey, we do that!" "Really?" "NARRATOR:" "Can an ex-car thief run a garage?" "Whoa..." "Jesus!" "That was uncool." "NARRATOR:" "Judging their performance, are the owners of each business." "It took nine people to get that done." "NARRATOR:" "Also helping Kevin is former drug smuggler, Brian O'Dea." "I'm here because ex-cons trust ex-cons." "But I understand money..." "My last deal was worth a quarter of a billion dollars." "Brian is my advisor." "And he's the perfect person to be there when I can't be." "He's my eyes and ears." "Who better than someone who's been there himself?" "NARRATOR:" "Over the next eight weeks these ex-cons will test their skills on the right side of the law." "But only one will walk away with $100,000 to start a new business." "Redemption!" "[*]" "NARRATOR:" "Kevin O'Leary is a best selling author, a self made multi-millionaire, and TV's Mr. Tough Guy." "O'DEA:" "I admire Kevin O'Leary." "But when I heard he was going to work with ten ex-cons," "I wondered, what does he know about ex-cons and that life?" "A lot more than I thought it seems." "O'LEARY:" "Look, I've been lucky." "I had a step-father who put me straight but it could have gone the other way." "When I was young I had dyslexia, I was listless," "I had no direction, I was failing in school." "I was walking around with gangs in high school." "One of my family members spent time in prison." "I know the devastation it created in his life." "And I want to help somebody just like him." "Scratch the surface of any family and you'll find a story like Kevin's." "But in order to know what it's like you have to experience it, you have to go there." "Ask anybody, from a kid in juvie to Conrad Black, unless you've been there you don't get it." "NARRATOR:" "With this in mind," "Kevin has agreed to part with his Blackberry and go to jail." "But what Kevin didn't expect was to be pulled over and arrested en-route to the jail." "Okay, Mr. O'Leary?" "We have a warrant for your arrest." "Turn around please, put your hands behind your back." "O'LEARY:" "I was thinking to myself, is there any chance this is real?" "Like even one percent chance, and what would it be for?" "And then he had his hands down my pockets, pulling all my money out and stuff, this was just surreal." "Just watch yourself." "I thought to myself, if I say to him "I don't want to do this", would he stop?" "I wasn't sure." "Mr. O'Leary, Yes." "It is my duty to inform you you're under arrest." "Being thrown in the back of a cruiser wasn't in my schedule, it just all of a sudden happened." "And I was thinking more, I would leisurely walk in, have a look, get a tour of the facility, shake a few hands, a few photo ops or something..." "That's not what happened." "Can you widen your stance please, sir?" "And lean forward slightly." "Keep this hand right there behind your back." "The whole getting processed, like a piece of meat, coming in the front, and going into the bin at the back." "So they really make it pretty tough." "Are you currently employed?" "Yes." "What's the nature of your employment?" "Uh, I'm the chairman of O'Leary Funds." "So you're self-employed?" "Yes." "OFFICER:" "So at 17:42, there was a warrant for his arrest." "O'DEA:" "It wasn't what he agreed to do, he agreed to go, but he had no idea what he was agreeing to I'm sure..." "I would say that most things that happen in his life are according to his plan." "It wasn't in his plan." "Sitting there by yourself with nothing to do, your mind starts to wander, and you feel like a caged animal." "He actually wanted to know what time they, the lights went off, and I informed him that we would not be turning the lights off." "He also was interested in getting a magazine, we told him that prisoners don't get magazines." "He does have a plastic mattress in his cell and I advised him that if he was going to misbehave during the night that that would be taken away from him, and he would sleep on the concrete." "O'DEA:" "I believe that shook him up last night." "He got the vibe, and he got the feeling in a way that we never ever could have conveyed it to him otherwise." "Mr. O'Leary, time to get up..." "Want to step out?" "Yeah, I do actually." "Follow me..." "There's someone out there at the front, waiting for you to pick you up." "I'm glad to be getting out of here, it's the worst hotel I've ever been at." "I want you to know that." "Did you have a good night?" "No, I didn't have a good night." "Aw..." "That's, I'm not doing that again." "That's what they all say, buddy." "That's absolutely brutal... woo, wow, it's nice to get outside." "Do you think that having done that gives you a perspective for the people that you're going to be dealing with?" "Look, I'm glad I did it, 'cause I do have a new appreciation for it." "Imagine doing that for more than a day, imagine doing it for like, a year?" "I have." " Well..." " I've actually done it..." "I'm not joining you on that adventure." "No Clocks." "You have no idea what the time is, and it just crawls to a halt." "I mean, it just stops happening." "I'm starving." "There's nothing like a night in prison to get the appetite up." "[laughs]" "Once that door shuts, boy, it's, and they walk away." "You're just looking at the permanent video camera looking at you." "It's just the worst, it's the worst." "It's alone." "Yeah, it's totally alone." "I don't feel very good this morning, I gotta tell you." "It screwed my mind up," "I, I need a couple of days to just readjust with what happened in there." "I'd rather be dead than go back there." "NARRATOR:" "Coming up." "The first day on the job..." "Whoa!" "NARRATOR: turns into a demolition derby." "Now can we learn how to fix it?" "NARRATOR:" "Hundreds of budding business people answered Kevin O'Leary's nationwide call." "Kevin was looking for ex-cons who had a business idea and a hunger for redemption." "These ten were chosen to join Redemption Inc." "They include drug dealers, fraudsters, a bank robber, gang members, and a mother who ran a chain of crack houses when she was just a teenager." "What set them apart was their entrepreneurial flair and business acumen." "Now Kevin wants them to apply those same skills, on the right side of the law." "Our ten participants all want the same thing, a chance to redeem themselves for their families and in society generally." "We went through a rigorous screening process... these people have real abilities, they just proved them on the wrong side of the law... and now that's cost them immensely." "They can't borrow money, they can't start a business, they're pariahs to society." "I want to change all that." "I wanna be a business man, I am a business man, it's in my heart." "My dream is to have a shop that you can come in and ask for any type of art:" "With airbrushing', glass etching', portraits to tattooing." "My business dream would be to have something that I can actually work with my wife and make a pay." "I'm not looking to make millions of dollars." "Oh I want it bad, I'm motivated, because I have responsibilities to my son, and I'm a good dad." "I have a pawn shop;" "I could expand on my idea on having more locations, more capital." "I was gonna present to him a landscaping and a snow removal business, but I actually want to hire ex-offenders or single moms." "NARRATOR:" "Now the candidates are gathering at Redemption Inc. headquarters." "It will be their first chance to meet Kevin and size up the competition." "My nerves were insane this morning..." "I was a bag of nerves." "NICOLE:" "I was a little thrown off cause I thought people were gonna look like criminals." "I thought maybe they would be a little bit rougher, maybe a little fatter, like a little scarier than what they were." "I deal with bikers, I deal with Colombians," "I deal with the Mexican cartel." "You think this is gonna scare me?" "No... [*]" "Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen." "ALL:" "Good morning." "Are you nervous?" "A little..." "A little apprehensive maybe?" "Well, you should be." "Because you're about to start on a remarkable journey." "Now, for those of you who don't know me," "I'm Kevin O'Leary." "I run a billion dollar investment company, my own, O'Leary Funds." "I just want to say, you're a lot better looking in real life..." "Sucking up works." "[laughter]" "That's very good." "I'm a believer in second chances." "I wanna help you guys." "Or one of you." "I'm not sure whom yet..." "By the time this is over I will know you intimately." "After I win this thing, am I gonna get cash, or a certified cheque?" "If it has my name on it they're both the same thing." "Good enough." "You get the hundred thousand dollars from me, to start your own business, but even better you get me as your business mentor which could be your worst nightmare from hell." "So, every week, I throw you into a business." "In order to do this I can't be there all day." "That's why I've hired Brian." "Brian spent four years in an L.A. hell-hole prison called Terminal Island." "He's seen it all and he's heard it all." "He'll smell your bullshit a mile away." "He'll tell me about it." "Ears and eyes, that's what he's got, that's what he's gonna give me." "Now your first challenge is going to be working with Todd." "Todd owns The Auto Spa." "This is a remarkably successful detailing garage business:" "Ferraris, Lamborghinis, you name it, people that are rich pay him a fortune to keep these cars running smoothly, and detailed." "You're going to get a chance to prove yourself in that business." "And the first task is to prove teamwork." "You're gonna have to figure out how to work together." "Being an entrepreneur is not just about working on your own, it's working with others." "So we're gonna find out very quickly which of you can do that, and which of you can't." "I'm taking lots of risk..." "And I want this to work." "That's my money, and somebody's gonna get it." "Don't screw this up." "JOSEPH:" "More important to me than the money would be to have a mentor like that." "It's like the old saying "Would you rather have a fish or someone teaching you to fish?"" "ALIA:" "He's a straight up, no bullshit type guy and that's my kind of guy... if I was like forty years older." "I've got a bit of a mouth on me, that might hurt me, it might help me." "NARRATOR:" "It's the first day of the two day challenge." "Today is training day." "Todd Hirtz has spent two decades building a million dollar business." "Now he's entrusting the auto spa to ten ex-cons." "Wow!" "Good day, candidates." "Good day!" "How's everybody doing?" "Good." "Today we're going to do a little bit of team work." "Does my hair look okay?" "NARRATOR:" "Todd sets up a challenge to get things started." "He appoints Alia and Nicole as captains and asks them to pick their teams." "Last to be picked..." "is Aaron." "That was rough." "I was picked last." "On your marks, get set..." "[airhorn blast]" "NARRATOR:" "Their first task was to change a front tire." "Righty tighty, lefty loosey, Righty tighty, lefty loosey." "Team work is what we do." "We're spending ten, twelve, thirteen, fourteen hours together sometimes." "That synergy has to be present every day." "So if we don't have synergy, it's just a problem down the line." "Hold this!" "Hold this!" "NARRATOR:" "From the start, crack dealer Alia and car thief Nicole showed different leadership styles." "I think Nicole's a little bit bossy." "Here, give 'em to me." "She tends to pipe up when maybe she should just listen." "Go do the other thing now, the other heel, come on!" "But Alia?" "She takes charge, she's a little firecracker." "Yep, only the front-right, we need it back on." "Then start pushing'!" "NARRATOR:" "The last part of the challenge involves putting the car in neutral, and with the team captains behind the wheel, pushing it over the finish line." "Hold on, where's the cap, where's the cap, where's the cap?" "Come on!" "Let's go!" "[Air horn]" "What happened?" "Team turnip, what's going on?" "Go, go, go, push, push, I'll do it, I'll do it." "Go, go, go..." "Go, go." "[air horn]" "Whoa, slow down, slow down!" "Whoa!" "Oh my god, No!" "They smashed the fricking car." "For f...-'s sakes." "ALIA:" "When I saw the crash I laughed, then I kind of felt bad, but it was pretty funny." "Sorry." "That customer ain't going to like that one." "Okay, Team Turnip did good, they smashed up two cars." "Now can we learn how to fix it?" "Not a good start so far." " You don't have a license, do you?" " I don't have my license." "I was pressing the wrong one." "I feel like an asshole." "Don't worry." "Dude, I'm going to be the first one off." "NICOLE:" "They could tell that I felt bad." "And they could tell that I obviously wished I didn't do it, and they supported me." "I got more support from them, than I did from my own family when I called them." "I have struggled with low self esteem and my mum was manic depressive, and my dad..." "I was in and out of jail a lot when I was younger." "Around twelve, I got picked on a lot and I just kept letting people push me and push me and push me and I think that's what ended up leading to the assaults and a lot of anger issues." "You got more cars you want us to smash up?" "TODD:" "I'm just so happy that you didn't hit that $500,000 car beside it." "I think Nicole felt very very sorry." "She must have apologized to me four times." "Nobody asked her any questions." "'Can you drive?" "' We all assumed." "So it's our fault too, right, so we cant blame her... totally..." "Brake, Gas..." "you know... [laughs]" "There's only two pedals down there, when the one doesn't work," "I would suggest maybe the second pedal." "NARRATOR:" "They've proven they can crash a car, but can they clean one?" "Mastering Todd's particular brand of auto TLC is the key to taking over the business." "This is an inexpensive car, but it's still somebody's pride and joy, so you always want to treat it as if it was your car." "I always wanted a father there in my life to teach me about cars, cause like I mean, every man wants to learn how to work on a car..." "So uh I'm grateful." "I have kids, I have a family." "And I can't even afford to support my family the way I'd like to, and give them a comfortable life." "When I grew up my Dad wasn't there, he ditched out on me, and I said 'I'm never gonna be like him'." "And when I was in jail, when my girlfriend was out there having that child, I missed his birth," "I missed his baptism, I missed everything." "That's what changed me." "Does anybody know how to clean a car?" "Has anybody cleaned their own car?" "Detailing a car, you can really ruin a lot of things:" "Too much water, too much soap." "Rinse it down real good." "Scratching a glass, scratching a dash, breaking something." "This is a micro-fibre wash mitt which won't hurt the car at all..." "Scratching a car, denting a car." "Now we're gonna go to the oil change." "There's so many things..." "And lots of it's got to do with teamwork." "NARRATOR:" "In this business you need teamwork, speed and quality, good customer relations skills, and organization." "I didn't think that there were so many steps in detailing a car." "Everything is service." "Some people here are bi-weekly, you know." "They get lint in the trunk, they freak." "Blow a little smoke up their ass and they come back, right?" "NARRATOR:" "You also need a strong foreman." "So now, I need one foreman for tomorrow." "I want you guys to nominate one person." "Who knows the most about cars?" "It's either Adam or Jeff, I would think." "You two are the lead, you're the lead, you're the assistant, you know what I mean?" "So we'll go with Jeff..." "Yeah, Okay." "You're good with that?" "I'm fine." "To be elected foreman is pretty cool, so I'll try and prevent any more accidents." "It was a crash course, we'll see how it works tomorrow." "As far as them taking over my shop tomorrow," "I am, honest to god, scared to death." "NARRATOR:" "Coming up..." "Oh!" "Oh, my lord!" "Jesus!" "That was uncool." "NARRATOR:" "Another car gets the ex-con treatment." "Anybody got any Prozac?" "NARRATOR:" "It's challenge day." "And with two cars damaged during training," "Todd waits to hand over the business he built up from scratch." "Okay, Jeff, congratulations..." " I understand you're the foreman." " Thank you." "I'm jealous about your hair." "Don't worry about it." "[laughter]" "Today I'm going to hand over the keys to you, Jeff." "We have approximately twelve cars to do." "We need to do three grand worth of sales today, okay?" "If we don't achieve our target, we're out of pocket, so we want to attain our goals." "So its twelve cars, three grand, okay?" "Not a problem." "Okay." "I am about as scared shitless, as anybody can get scared shitless." "Okay..." "NARRATOR:" "Freshly minted foreman Jeff takes charge." "I'm going to assign Samuel and Ryan to work up front." "You cool with that?" "Today was Jeff's day." "It's our job to make sure we do what he wants and accomplish as much as we can under him today." "I don't want any accidents here, it's a huge high end, cars coming in here and that, and I'm gonna need you on mechanics, and oil changes..." "I'd be best suited to something that's not mechanical," "I can barely pump gas." "So we'll work with the detailing of the cars... and also you double checking and stuff." "Okay, Sure." "One, Two, Three - Redemption!" "NARRATOR:" "The cars start arriving." "Oh my god..." "Wow." "NARRATOR:" "A two hundred thousand dollar Mercedes Benz." "Shortly followed by a BMW special class, worth $140,000." "NARRATOR:" "Finally a rare special edition Ferrari..." "Awhhh... noooo!" "NARRATOR: worth a staggering $500,000." "This is only one of two cars in Canada." "Lets not have any problems with this car at all, okay?" "Can you imagine the house you could buy..." "F... -, I know." "For the price of this car?" "NARRATOR:" "Todd may have handed over the keys to his shop, but he intends to keep a close eye on things." "This car, he takes immaculate care of it, alright?" "Ahhh, where do we got our latch here?" "Where's the unlock on this thing?" "You can tell how much I've worked on Mercedes." "I can't, uh, that's why I just left it for you." "Oh, the back of the..." "Is there an unlock?" "Oh yeah..." "One of these probably..." "Sorry, I've never worked with Mercedes;" "Is there a...?" "Right there." "Oh, you just pull that up... gotcha." "These damn fancy cars." "So is there another brush?" "So we got this and we have..." "Just use this." "Is this for the, what's this for?" "Don't Squee..." "I got, I gotta rinse it, man." "I thought you said this side was done?" "No, when I'm done this side, then you can, it's just gonna spray over you..." "How many cons does it take to change a light bulb?" "Ten." "So is this ready, or...?" "It's all dirty here, in the front." " We gotta start..." " Yeah, I know." "We'll get organized, we've got to get our jive going, we've never operated this before." "It was a crazy start." "There was a lot of confusion, a lot of disorganization." "NARRATOR:" "To add to the pressure, George, one of Todd's regular customers is demanding a rush job on his Porsche." "I need this car done right away..." "Can you do it?" "Um, Can I get back to you?" "I'm going golfing." "At 11 o'clock." "I need two people to do a quick wash." "NARRATOR:" "George's Porsche is worth $200,000, so it demands not only fast but special attention." "We've got 15 minutes on this one." "[*]" "Okay, 15 minutes, guys." "Get your shit together, 15 minutes!" "LESLIE:" "When we start a day on the first challenge and Nicole's talking about." "'When do we get our first break?" "We don't really have to clean the cars good every time.'" "Uh, things like that, those are not good work ethic things." "If you go for a smoke, check with me first, okay?" "Okay, you're gonna have it ready by eleven, right?" "We will." "I gotta go golfing!" "We've got ten minutes, guys." "Be very careful, eh?" "I know we're rushing', so let's be careful at the same time." "Can you use the water squeegee first?" "On that guy's waiting to go?" "We got two squeegees, right?" "I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven people on one car." "I gotta go!" "C'mon, it's 11 o'clock." "George has lost his mind." "I gotta take it out of there!" "He was not supposed to get any glass work done." "Fingerprints, guys, be conscious of finger prints." "As a team we were like a bad engine, you know what I mean?" "That looks pretty good," "I gotta take it, I gotta go, okay?" "Thank you, sir." "They're still working on it and he's trying to drive the car away." "It took nine people to get that done." "We've got seven hours to do twelve cars." "Its almost lunchtime, we have one done." "That's not good." "They're all trying, okay." "God bless them all, they're all trying." "I think they're trying way too hard." "Okay, this one's done too, let's get this outta here." "So just hold on one moment, they're going to be pulling out your car." "Hey Brian, be careful driving, eh?" "Oh, don't worry..." "Hey, one second..." "Okay..." "Am I good?" "Yeah, come... [loud crack]" "Oh, oh!" "my lord, Jesus, Stop!" "Oh, no." "Oh Bro, let me let me drive the freaking cars..." "That was uncool." "The Mercedes just smashed into the wall." "Are we OK, how bad?" "Holy f...-." "I can't f...-ing believe this." "Sorry, Brian." "It was a nightmare." "I nearly threw up." "I thought Brian was just going to collapse and I thought we'd lose him at that point." "F...-." "This is unreal." "The guy's gonna..." "That's his baby." "Can you go and see how much damage is done to the Mercedes?" "Damage?" "Holy shit." "I don't like damage." "I know you don't like damage." "NARRATOR:" "Jeff's shaky leadership has resulted in one very unhappy customer." "Two cars yesterday, one today." "I'm unsure... of what's going on." "Anybody got any Prozac?" "NARRATOR:" "As the foreman, it's Jeff's job to break the bad news to Mike, the owner of the Mercedes." "How are you?" "Not so good." "Did ya see that?" "No." "What happened?" "Ah, they just swiped the rubber on the thing and if left a couple of scratches." "Would you like to come and have a look at it?" "Yeah." "Come with me, please." "Oh shit." "Do you need your car today, or did you want to leave it or...?" "Aw, come on, guys." "My apologies." "Ah, there's no serious damage... its just like facial, um..." "Well, it's about five or six thousand bucks." "It will definitely be covered in full." "I don't know what to say, buddy, I'm so sorry, we'll fix it up, we'll fix it up." "Big kiss." "He needs the car today." "So he'll have to bring it back." "I'm sorry, Todd." "It was my fault." "Give it back to him, and that's it." "F...-ing bumper cars." "Twenty-two years, never a problem with a car..." "Twenty-two years." "And now I've got to report to Kevin about this crash, and honestly I feel like a snitch." "Jeff, you gotta have lunch." "Right now they're gonna do lunch, and hopefully they're gonna put their grey matter back in their cranium." "See, washing a car isn't that easy." "During lunch we had a meeting." "Its not a matter of the jobs that everyone has, it's the order we're doing 'em." "That's our problem." "We had to reorganize things, we had to rethink our game plan." "You got a guy who's trying to wipe the water off, and another guy who's putting soap on f...-ing top... and we're washing the same car three f...-ing times." "It started a little bit tensely." "It's a very simple process here, people." "We don't need to get into all this big song and dance..." "First time I went to jail," "I got 14 months when I was 14 years old." "My mind races so quick that sometimes my mouth can't keep up to it." "I mean there's certain rules that you live by, its just called pride, you know what I mean." "We don't need to go faster, we need to slow down and do what we're doing properly." "AARON:" "And everybody was ah, you know, blah blah, and I said "Look, man, okay,"" "I'm gonna go get a coffee, real quick." ""You guys are in the middle of your discussion."" "Too many cooks in the kitchen and nobody knows what the recipe is, right?" "I didn't feel like I needed to be there for that." "Aaron's attitude was 'I want to go grab a coffee," "I don't want to have anything to do with this.'" "If you cant be bothered to sit down when we're having a team meeting," "I'm offended, and Sam got offended by it as well, and the two of them ended up getting into a beef about it." "I was up at the other end of the building and I heard this racket and someone shouted:" "'Brian, Brian, it's going' off.'" "NARRATOR:" "Brian ran to the tent just in time to stop Samuel and Aaron from coming to blows." "It was literally going off." "Guys, we're gonna make it through this." "I stood in between Samuel and Aaron because that was where the sparks were flying, it was between the two of them." "But don't ever bring that attitude to me, okay?" "In jail terms I was just ready to throw down." "Nobody talks to me like that, not even my mother." "He brought the gangsta out in me and I just had to address him, in a real way." "Look a man in his eyes and let him know what time it is." "Somebody can get Aaron a coffee, right?" "No, no, no, no..." "They're all highly strung." "They're all individual entrepreneurs." "Most people who end up in prison are people who can work well for themselves." "Aaron, he spends most of his time out in the woods by himself;" "Far away from people." "And I think it shows when he spends too much time with people." "It affects everyone around him." "He's an odd one out, and people were just kind of offended that Aaron walked off and wasn't part of the group." "But there's always somebody that has to be the lightning rod, and that's the role he's fit into." "Let's get this shit together, and let's not have this conversation ever again." "I think we're all trying our hardest and giving our best." "And f...-ing pick up our happy attitudes again, none of this negative shit." "NARRATOR:" "So far the team is behind schedule and losing money." "Jeff the foreman gets called on the carpet." "We have three cars smashed in one and a half days." "I don't want another problem so here's what you're gonna do." "You've got eighty people around a fricking car... it's like a bad radio station." "Remove yourself from the situation, stand back and say:" "'Guys, you, you, you, appoint yourself.'" "You're the foreman, be a foreman." "Okay." "Act like a foreman, okay?" "Make it happen." "Alright then." "Okay, thanks, Jeff." "I appreciate it." "Okay, Listen." "I'd like you on one bay and you on another bay." "You like vacuuming, you're gonna vacuum." "I notice you like doing tires and that, you want to just do tires, okay?" "NARRATOR:" "With three hours left in their work day, and ten cars waiting, the team has to pull together to have any hope of completing the task." "[*]" "Well?" "Looks good." "Doesn't it?" "With that wax job, it looks excellent." "It looks great!" "I'm so happy we're kicking ass and doing fifteen minutes a car." "Smells like brand new." "That's amazing." "There was chocolate all in this seat up in here, and you got it all out." "Wow!" "Thanks guys." "It went really well today." "Other than the fact that I, uh, banged up a, uh, brand new Mercedes 55SL..." "The things we did today helped people become a team." "NARRATOR:" "And the team met their goal." "Twelve cars were detailed bringing in three thousand dollars." "Except for the bumper car collision," "I think it went very very well." "NARRATOR:" "But the bottom line is, the crashes wiped out his profits." "What it is is what it is." "NARRATOR:" "Coming up..." "Back in Kevin's office, the blame game begins." "This ain't the range anymore, man, you don't yell at me, man, okay?" "I'm right beside you." "NARRATOR:" "The participants first challenge began and ended with a bang." "Back at Redemption Inc, it's time to face the music, and Kevin." "I feel particularly vulnerable just because I, you know," "I had an accident during the challenge and," "I'm not sure how that's gonna be taken, if it's, ah, gonna be taken as that accidents happen or if I'm gonna be looked at as an incompetent fool." "I have no f-in' clue who's gonna go home because I think that like we all done pretty damn good yesterday." "Yeah, the anticipation is killing me." "[*]" "Hi everybody." "Hi." "Good morning Kevin." "So... who said play bumper cars?" "TODD:" "It wasn't me." "Over three thousand dollars was lost yesterday, that's a lot of money." "When I first heard about it I thought I'd take it right out of the hundred grand." "That was my thought, that's how pissed I was." "Yeah, I don't mind taking ninety-six thousand, you know..." "That's okay, that's close enough." "Who wants to answer me what happened?" "Well, I made a mistake," "I was under a lot of pressure," "I was really nervous, and uh, like right away I was accountable for that..." "Why did you do it in the first place?" "Well, I was, I was, it was an error in judgment... and uh yeah, I just totally overshot, and it was a complete accident..." "And uh, the three thousand that I lost you yesterday is a drop in the bucket - Thirty-two-fifty." "Compared to what I can make you." "Why didn't you see the wall you drove into?" "Well, I was looking behind me, and Alia was backing me out..." "You were guiding him Alia, why didn't you see the wall?" "No no, it's not her fault, because she..." "Well I'm just asking, you don't have to..." "I honestly, I saw the wall, and I didn't say "Turn", and I guess he just misjudged his front end..." "A little bit, it sounds like it's on your shoulders, Alia." "I went up to him and I apologized and asked..." "I told you it wasn't your fault." "It's very nice of you to forgive her but I have to understand it from my own point of view." "You know, if I get an option again to having somebody guiding somebody driving a car, it's not going to be you, I think." "Imagine how pissed the guy was that brought his car in for detailing, that gets it destroyed." "Nicole?" "You did the same thing?" "Well um..." "not so much though because..." "'Not so much'?" "No, not so much as in I couldn't, like I was trying to press the brake and the car wouldn't stop, so." "I was told because the car wasn't turned on, that the brakes wouldn't have reacted right away anyways..." "So it's not your fault?" "I, I don't think, sir, that it's my fault." "It wouldn't stop so... like I said, I was, I felt terrible and I am sorry, but I wasn't expecting that to happen." "LESLIE:" "Nicole made a poor decision to get in a vehicle without a driver's license, that she didn't know how to drive." "That was a decision you made." "You need to own up to that." "You made a mistake." "He worked his butt off before then, and he worked his butt off after that." "And yet the majority of the damage was done with Brian, in dollar amounts." "For Les to keep saying that I should leave because a brake wouldn't work is pretty like..." "No, no, I'm not saying you should..." "Well, dude, like where does that come from?" "My thing is when somebody said we needed someone to drive, you volunteered to drive." "No..." "I was appointed." "Like I said, I have driven before." "I didn't just jump in that car." "So for me to be thrown under the bus because I made a mistake on the day where we were supposed to be training," "I think is absolutely absurd." "You like making excuses a lot, don't you?" "Is that an excuse?" "I really don't think that it was our responsibility to be driving the cars." "I haven't heard you accept any responsibility." "Well, I'm accepting my responsibility for my accident." "Well, here is what I've heard." "'I don't know how to drive." "I don't have a license." "'I shouldn't have been put in the car." "The owner shouldn't have let me move them.'" "I was basically just jumping in the car and being pushed, so the car wasn't turned on." "So I know that might be another excuse but..." "So what?" "You're gonna be put into situations." "Every week, you wont know what's gonna happen, you're gonna have to deal with it." "Just like you have to do in life." "I did apologize to Todd..." "I am sorry." "You know, you're a chain." "You're all linked together, So I'm asking you," "Who was the weak link?" "Out with it!" "SAMUEL:" "As far as the weakest link goes it is Aaron." "I feel mentally, he's not in the right place..." "What are you trying to say?" "I'm telling you I came in this situation because I respect my future, I respect what it is." "What are you saying?" "You may be intelligent, but you're not ready." "Team leader Jeff, what do you think?" "Aaron is a wicked worker when you focus on something." "I would never, ever invest a lot of money in him." "What is about you Aaron, that have people thinking it's time for you to go when you just started?" "I'm eccentric, I say what's on my mind, and I say it right." "SAMUEL:" "If you don't want it, it doesn't matter how smart you are." "This ain't the range anymore, man." "You don't yell at me." "I'm right beside you." "You're telling me I got no drive, man, and I'm telling you I'm talking to Kevin right now." "So just let me say my piece." "You gotta want it." "He asked me a question, and I'm talking to Kevin." "I want to know why your name keeps coming up, at the top of the list for the weak link." "I walked away from this meeting because I said my piece three times, and everybody said, "Oooh, we'll just, let's have lunch."" "And I said: "You know what, this lunch is bullshit,"" ""we're behind the eight ball here," ""we shouldn't be here." "We should be at the shop."" "See, we're learning a lot here," "I knew this would happen." "At the end of the day, I keep telling you guys this:" "It's not about making friends." "I don't care if you love him or you hate him." "Can you make money with him?" "Todd, what happened?" "I think overall they, they, you know, they pulled together very well." "Is there some dissension in the ranks, I think so..." "Is everybody going to work together?" "I don't think so." "I think they're trying to." "Initially it looked like an anthill stuck on a bowl of jelly, it was just like everybody was going everywhere." "I had a great talk with Jeff." "Calmed the herd down, separated the groups, and then from there on in, you ran, ran great." "Todd, Would you hire any of these people?" "A hundred per cent." "My boy over here, Leslie, worked his tail off, polite, couldn't do enough." "Crash Vegas over here beside me, you know what, his shirt was soaked." "He put a hundred and twenty per cent in all day long, couldn't do enough, busted his ass." "And you know what?" "I take my hat off." "He'd be another one that I'd hire." "Which one wouldn't you hire?" "Aaron." "Why is he the odd man out?" "He's like, He's put like the wrong spice in the soup." "I worked my tail off in there...yesterday." "I know that Aaron, I know that... but like..." "I gotta say something about Aaron." "If I was at sea, if I was in the woods and I was having a problem, there's the guy I want, right there, because I know I'll get out alive." "Whoa, you're throwing an ace of cards on his body right now, trying to save him?" "Absolutely." "Aaron doesn't suffer fools gladly and so he arrives at his position very quickly and he's very firm about it." "Aaron, you're a great guy." "I agree with it, if the three of us were to go moose hunting you're gonna recce the area for us." "In terms of working at the auto spa," "I don't think that's ever going to happen." "Okay..." "Even though we lost money, it was a fantastic first task, because it started to weed out the good, the bad, and the ugly." "Four of you are gonna remain behind." "One of those four is going to be asked to leave." "Alright, here it is." "Alia, you're staying behind here with me." "Nicole, you're staying behind with me." "Aaron, you're definitely staying behind with me." "Brian, you too." "The rest, get out of here." "I've got some business to do." "[*]" "All right, kids, this is it." "[*]" "NARRATOR:" "Coming up - Who will be in the hot seat?" "Unfortunately, it's you." "NARRATOR:" "Four ex-cons have been singled out as this week's worst performers, and Kevin must choose which one he will ask to leave." "All right, kids, this is it." "You tell me why each of you should stay." "NARRATOR:" "But ultimately the choice to leave is theirs." "They can accept an exit package custom designed to jump start their life, or turn it down and continue to fight for $100,000 to start their own business." "Let's start with you, Alia." "I want this a lot." "I know that I can prove to you and to Brian that I can run a business, and that I can run it well." "All right..." "Aaron?" "I promised my mother I was gonna bring home the bacon, she'd never have to work again in her life." "I need this." "The end result is you want to make money." "You can send me home without your envelope, we can make a handshake and a separate deal on the side." "I'll make you a very rich man... richer man." "That's why I'm here, and that's why I gotta stay." "Nicole, why should you stay?" "I should stay because I've been through a lot in my life, and I've succeeded in not so good things, and now I have a chance to succeed in something that's more positive." "Brian?" "Well, I'm willing to work as hard as it takes." "I want to grow and change, and even if I lose I want to take that experience back home, and I can change my life with that." "I got out of jail." "I dealt with my addiction issues." "I started a family." "And that's what this is about." "I'm trying to redeem myself." "Here's what I'm gonna do." "I'm gonna send three of you out, which means those three are moving on to next week, into the next business, and the person that stays behind" "I'm making an offer to." "Alia, get out of here." "Stay there for a moment, the three of you will leave together." "Aaron, you're walking out of here too." "So are you, Brian." "Nicole, you're staying." "All right, the three of you leave." "I like him, he's kind of like me." "He's a dick, but really he's a softie." "He can't trick us." "I would have picked me out too." "I knew I was gonna be in that room." "But I knew I wasn't going home." "It's gonna be a long month." "Whew." "Look, it was gonna happen to somebody." "Unfortunately, it's you." "And let's talk about why." "Why do you think you're here?" "Because I'm, smacked up the cars." "Really?" "That's not it." "Look, you have to ask yourself:" "'What can I do to make myself better and help the people I work for, every day?" "'" " That's how you prove yourself." " Okay..." "And I think unfortunately, in this first task, when I look at what everybody did, you did the least." "Doesn't mean you're a bad person." "That girl wears her heart on her sleeve." "Yeah, which can hurt you sometimes, but..." "Yeah, and I think it does hurt her, too much emotion." "There was issues at home I think too, so..." "We all have issues, my friend." "This is the survival of the fittest." "And in this case, on this day, you're the weakest." "Let me explain what I'm going to give you, and I strongly recommend you take it." "Right here in this offer, I'm putting it in writing for you." "Nicole, you said you wanted transportation, so I've got it for you." "You've got an E bike worth over a thousand dollars." "It's yours." "Secondly, $2500 worth of courses at Centennial College Centre for Entrepreneurship." "It's yours." "Three." "$1500 worth of new wardrobe so you'll look your best when you're looking for that new job." "It's yours." "And finally, and I think you need this, a year worth of mentor-ship with strategist, speaker and coach Carla Wood." "All of it yours." "But you don't have to leave." "You can stay and try again next week." "But if you fail again then, I can't offer you this anymore." "This is a one time offer, right now." "Think about it." "Thank you." "And good luck to you." "Thank you, Kevin." "The package she got is fantastic." "We may find out in two years that she got just enough to succeed." "Wouldn't that make you feel wonderful?" "I know it would help me." "I hope that happens." "That's what Redemption Inc.'s all about." "JEFF:" "I don't think she has enough fight in her to make it to the end, and she's got a lot going on outside that she can't seem to separate herself from." "She didn't start here the first day with the intention of being here the last day." "I think it's the best that she's gonna do out of this." "I really think she's the weakest link." "NARRATOR:" "Nicole has had time to consider Kevin's offer." "And now the group heads back to the office to see what she's decided." "Will she still be there, determined to prove herself next week?" "Or has she taken the exit package and gone?" "Guess she took it." "Looks like she took the money and ran." "And then there was nine." "She's a survivor, right?" "We're all survivors." "I feel emotional, a little sad, a little happy," "I'm exhausted." "I have the education that they gave me, and a new outlook really." "I just keep moving, you know what I mean?" "I mean, I can do this, I could do anything." " I'm sorry..." " No, Brian, don't worry." "You've got a lot of good people there, they deserve it." "I'm trying to make my daughter as proud as possible of me." "For her to be proud of me is really important." "NARRATOR:" "Next time on Redemption Inc." "All aboard!" "NARRATOR:" "The team take over a Toronto harbor tour boat." "Let's get the shit off the table" " that we're not going to be using, man." " Hey, don't swear." "Do you see what I mean right now?" "You're being the f...-ing leader, and we're trying to figure this out!" "Can anybody tell me where Center Island is?" "Anybody?" "NARRATOR:" "But who will walk the plank?" "You run your f...-ing mouth too much."