It"s time for posing with the queens! The girls head to an abandoned warehouse, where they meet up with posing expert Benny Ninja -- also known, according to Dominique, as "the inventor of the vogue" -- and supermodel Vendela (also the host of Scandanavia"s Next Top Model!) to learn about commercial, couture, and catalogue posing. While Lauren and Marvita struggle, Benny and Vendela are fans of Dominique, which causes her to refer to herself in the third person even more. Great.
We get the season"s first incident involving the phone, as Dominique misses her phone time as determined by a list that Whitney organized. Dominique"s negligence is at fault according to Whitney, but that"s not how Dominique sees it, and they argue. Whitney twitches her head at Dominique, which is further cause for Dominique"s ire. She thinks Whitney"s being disrespectful, but Whitney points out that she has no reason to respect Dominique. I guess they both get a point for that one. After Whitney questions her education, Dominique calls her racist, and Whitney busts out the old white-person favorite, "My best friend is black." Dominique has the last word when she says Whitney looks like she"s thirty and acts like she"s twelve. No, wait, the last word goes to Whitney, who asks for Saran Wrap. Good one?
The week"s challenge involves a team posing battle in Brooklyn, where Dominique is able to reconnect with her people, the drag queens. Lauren redeems herself and kicks some ass, and the drag queens wave their fingers at her, which I think is the highest compliment. Fatima pulls out all the stops as she battles Whitney, which means that Whitney gets a crotch in her face. The best poser of all, however, is Claire, and she wins the challenge and a trip to Bora Bora. Her team gets some free swag, and you know Marvita is juiced.
Speaking of Marvita, the competition is starting to get to her, and she retreats a bit and loses some confidence. She wonders if she"s too ghetto for the world of modeling. Well, if you listen to Fatima, she is. Guess that uneasy truce is over. The photo shoot for the week has girls getting close-ups of their faces, which have some extreme, colorful makeup, paint splatters, and hats made of random plastic wedges. It"s a theme that makes about as much sense as any of the other shoots they do. Marvita has serious problems, and Jay correctly guesses that she"s checked out of the competition for reasons of boredom or intimidation.
At panel, Tyra gets to demonstrate "dead eyes," which we all know is her favorite thing to do! Dominique pulls out a great photo, Whitney disappoints, and after the judges notice the beard on her armpit, Fatima is forced to confess that she doesn"t shave. Fatima"s photo is gorgeous, though, so she gets a pass. This leaves Whitney and Dominique in the bottom two. The judges think that Whitney wants it more, so she gets a photo. Marvita, meanwhile, is sent back to the hood. It"s a sad day for everyone who was hoping we"d get to see a genuine punch in the throat before the season"s end.