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The four remaining players compete for the final paymaster position in the scariest, high-flying challenge yet.

Welcome everybody to the season finale of the weekly Mensa meeting that is "I Love Money." We're down to just four fighting for the quarter-million prize, so the action is sure to be hot-and-heavy. And stupid.

The show begins with discussion of the Hoopz-related rift between Whiteboy and Real. Real claims Whiteboy not saying hello to him this morning is significant and if Whitebody becomes paymaster Real knows "for a fact" he will be going home.

The gang gets a message from Craig telling them to bring athletic gear and prepare for a "crazy" challenge. Whiteboy could not be more confident about a sports-related challenge, while Megan feels she's "doomed."

Before getting the details of the competition Craig tells everybody that there will be no vault this week and that the challenge winner will automatically become paymaster and select who goes home.

This week's challenge, entitled "Crazy Toss," is an homage to the Season 2 "Flavor of Love" fight in which Buckeey nearly shoved Krazy off a balcony. The show has cleverly suspended a house-looking structure from a crane 100+ feet over a cliff. Each harnessed contestant must pick up a life-sized Krazy doll walk across a narrow beam and throw it/her over the balcony. They then have to walk back across the beam, with the fastest time winning.

Not surprisingly, Megan completely chokes. After waiting an obscene amount of time to give Craig the thumbs up sign, she gets about two feet along the beam, stumbles and drops her Krazy doll to the rocks below. That would be a DQ.

Next up is Hoopz, who has no trouble picking up the Krazy doll and motoring across the beam to the balcony. Trouble is, once she tosses her doll over the edge she simply stands there looking like an idiot. Through the miracle of VH-1's video replay, we see that Hoopz was daydreaming during Craig's instructions and didn't realize she had to walk back across the beam to complete the challenge. By the time she figures it out she has lost precious time and finishes with a score of 23 seconds.

Hoopz tells us Real is scared of heights and it certainly shows. After struggling a bit to collect his Krazy doll, Real wobbly-legs his way across for a time of 28 seconds. This leaves just the Uber-confident Whiteboy. True to his word, Whiteboy has little trouble with the challenge and finishes in 16 seconds to get the win.

Megan and Real share a quiet moment, with both certain they are going home. We get a flashback to the controversy last episode between Real and Whiteboy. Real thinks he made a "big mistake" by asking Whiteboy if he had feelings for Hoopz, then adds that he doesn't think Whiteboys "loyalty is the same."

We next move to the drunk-fest that is the Power Dinner. A thoroughly lubricated Whiteboy holds court, asking Real whether he would have kept him around the last episode if he, rather than Hoopz, had been paymaster. This provides an opportunity for Megan to swoop in and tell Whiteboy that Real had just a few moments ago questioned his loyalty.

With Whiteboy reeling over the possibility that reality show cast members would discuss one another in private, Hoopz springs into action on behalf of her man. She tells Whiteboy of a time where Megan told her she would have eliminated Whiteboy had she been paymaster that week. This is followed by Whiteboy and Megan trading use of a word that rhymes with stuck. Oh my! Now its not just the white wine clouding Whiteboys judgment.

After a break, our less-than-sober foursome joins Craig for elimination. After a few incoherent comments from Megan, Whiteboy calls up Real to the strongbox. Saying basically that he felt aliented by Real and Hoopz, Whiteboy immediately voids Real's check. "He was my homey," Whiteboy said. "It felt like we had each other's back, but you took your eyes off the money." Real is devastated, saying that "karma is a bitch" and that "what comes around goes around."

Then Craig pulls a stunner, asking Real to take his voided check and sit on a nearby bench. We learn that, similar to a CBS reality show about surviving (what's that darn thing called again?), Real has now become the first member of the jury. Next a trail of post-merger losers Pumkin, Toastee, 12 Pack, Heather and The Entertainer walk out from behind Craigh and join Real. "This does not look good," mumbles Whiteboy, with Megan calling the development "a disaster."

With the odds now stacked against her and virtually ever bridge she has burned in the show staring back at her from the bench, Megan does the only thing she can do: She gathers herself and gives one of the greatest auditory pleas in the history of reality television. Quoting from Braveheart and two Yeats poems, she convinces the jury that she was only "playing the game," the product of a system set-up to reward back-stabbing and dishonesty.

And yes, I'm of course kidding.

After about three seconds Megan raises her hand and quits the show, essentially to avoid having to face the music. An obviously perturbed Craig voids Megan's check as a few jury members get in a few verbal barbs. Whiteboy and Hoopz are our final two.

The next morning a message from Craig tells the finalist to gear up for a challenge for "all the money." They arrive at a plaza where Craig tells them they will compete in an "epic race" called "The Dash for the Cash." They will move to different locations, having to complete a challenge before moving to the next spot. The race will end back at the house.

The first challenge is that both must collect 100 pesos (about eight bucks) from people in the nearby square by any means short of stealing, and then give it to a taxi driver who will take them to the next challenge. The Spanish speaking Whiteboy quickly gets the money from a creepy old lady and is off and running in his cab. Hoopz takes a big longer, but eventually gets her fare together.

Unfortunately Hoopz gets stuck behind an accident and is well behind Whiteboy who arrives at the next checkpoint and makes his way down a steep path. Down on the beach Whiteboy begins the next challenge, which involves rolling giant novelty coins with Craigs face on them through flags. As Hoopz slowly begins the challenge, Whiteboy finishes and is on a boat headed to the next challenge. With Megan-like doubt creeping in, Hoopz finishes and gets aboard her boat.

Carrying a healthy lead, Whiteboy arrives at the house for the last challenge. The goal is to place pictures of every other cast member in the order in which they were eliminated. But as Hoopz makes her way up the path and reaches the house, Whiteboy is struggling mightily to remember the order in which his cast mates fell.

With Whiteboy looking confuses (and beginning to copy directly off of Hoopz), the challenge gets closer. Whiteboy's first attempt is judged incorrect, leaving the door open for Hoopz, who raises her hand for Craig to check her order. Survey says? Winner!

Craig voids Whiteboy's check as a shocked Hoopz wanders aimlessly and breaks into tears of joy.

Saying his final opponent had a "memory like an eagle," Whiteboy gives Hoopz all the credit, saying he did his best and "is a winner no matter what." Hoopz says she never dreamed or thought she could win, and three raise their glasses and give one final shout: "I Love Money!"