It’s the last week on The Biggest Loser campus and the Top 5 are laughing at the repetitions they did when they first arrived at the ranch. Now, they’re skipping through the exercises. That means it’s time to add more resistance!

But first, Suze Orman is at the ranch to discuss the connection between health and wealth. Obesity, she says, is an expensive disease, and she gives the contestants some practical advice. For example, when you lose weight, you should be able to reduce your insurance costs. And regardless of your weight, you can always check your FICO score without it affecting your credit score. FYI.

Their first challenge tonight is to answer questions about finance while running on a treadmill. For every question they get right each contestant gets $1000, but for every question they get wrong the treadmill gets faster and gains more incline. What do we learn? 220,000 Americans a year get gastric bypass surgery. Fat people make $7000 less a year than their skinnier colleagues. And you save $1,000,000 over 40 years by going from obese to your ideal weight. Coincidentally, that’s what you also earn by winning most reality competitions. $2083/month, paid out over 40 years. So really, all the contestants can consider themselves winners of an NBC million, just by participating.

Back at the gym Bob is scaring the bejeezus out of them by saying it’s going to be hard, and he means hard, to lose weight once they return back home. Some pretend to be excited by the challenge but Danny is in tears. He’s been there before. Now Amanda is crying, telling Bob that she’s never been so happy in her entire life. Then Bob starts crying. Okay, I’m crying, too. Blergh.

Now, speaking of resistance, the next challenge is for the contestants to be strapped to a barrel carrying all their lost weight while running 100 yards at a time. Each time they reach the goal, they will get rid of one weight, until the first person to empty their barrel pockets two tickets to the NFL Pro Bowl.

There to give them words of encouragement is NFL player Rod Woodson. “When you go home, you can push yourself.” Thanks for that. But he also says the NFL Play 60 will give the winner $5000 in athletic equipment to a school of his or her choice. Now that’s worth something. Allen’s the first to tackle the effigy of his fat self, Rudy and Amanda follow on his heels. Liz even kicks her dummy after knocking it down. Touchdown!

Danny’s written a song about losing your way and finding it again. Cue the montage of everyone in the state they came in and their journey. Ok, they’re still overweight, but there’s hope of a second chance. Wouldn’t it be funny if they all shared a bag of Doritos now?
At the weigh-in Rudy kicks butt with 12 lbs. lost. Danny gives him a run for his money, losing 16 lbs. He also breaks a record for losing double digits seven weeks in a row. Amanda is the third to secure a spot above the yellow line. This week everybody goes home, but who gets to compete for the Biggest Loser title—Allen or Liz? Let the campaigning begin.

Allen tells Amanda, who has the deciding vote, that she shouldn’t vote for him because Liz is tougher competition. Liz doesn’t beg or plead. She probably knows that Amanda is about to end her run. But she doesn’t, and Allen goes home.

Did you think Amanda would vote for Liz? We’re getting closer to the finale? Who do you think makes it all the way?