'America's Next Top Model' recap: The Brains of the Operation

By Zap2it Partner

May 5, 2011 6:59 AM ET

We're down to the final four! The girls continue their stay in Morocco and have a meeting with Franca Sozzani, in which they get to show her their portfolios along with a little personality. Franca seems to be drawn to Brittani, and Molly mostly stays silent, probably so she won't say something nasty and inappropriate. In her case, it seems like the best strategy. Next comes a lesson in dancing seductively while balancing a full tea tray on your head. It's as hard as it sounds. For the related challenge, candles are added to the tray and the whole thing turns into a much more flammable version of the old library-book-on-the-head trick. Molly walks down a staircase with her makeshift tea service hat, and is doing well until she trips on her dress and the tray falls. She looks mad, and is mad. Despite having a whole lot of trouble while practicing, Brittani glides down the stairs, tea tray solidly placed, and shows that she knows how to move her hips. Hannah is just fine, while Alexandria gets cocky and tries to drop it like it's hot. She instead drops the whole tea service, despite having an unusually large and flat head. Her overconfidence costs her the challenge win, and it's Brittani who emerges victorious. She gets a private walking lesson with Miss J., and is nice enough to allow a desperately-in-need-of-help Hannah to come with her.

The girls spend some time in the marketplace, and Hannah decides that it would be fun to have a snack at a tent featuring goat heads. I know: Yum. The girls eschew eyeballs in favor of some goat brains, and Brittani gets a vicious stomachache afterwards. It seems like it might be psychological, since she appears to spit out the brains rather than ingesting them, but who knows. Her tummy continues to bother her through the shoot, which has the girls posing in the market with lovely dresses by Daniella Issa Helayel. Photographer Friedemann Hauss is frustrated with Hannah, who gets lost and is too posey. Alexandria continues to do weird things with her tense mouth, even after Jay tells her to loosen up and stop being so controlling. Brittani does fine, but it's Molly whose photo proves to be far better than the rest. She moves on to the final three, as does Brittani. Alexandria and Hannah duke it out in the bottom two, and in a surprise turn Alexandria goes home.

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