Tim Gunn visits the four finalists at home. Although they live on separate coasts, he shows up in the "same" red convertible and the same pinstripe suit.Laura stirs the pot and accuses Jeffrey of getting outside sewing help. Dun-dun-DUN. Next week: Runway show.Thoughts:For someone who talks about growing up "in the hood," Michael’s parents live in the burbs now. Plus, do Army brats end up "in the hood"? Tim sees a "conflict" in Michael’s finished garments (all three of them): They don’t look like a cohesive unit.When Tim shows up at Laura’s HUGE apartment, she says to the screen, "Oh, this is so exciting!" like it’s a surprise, although a "Project Runway" cameraman is inside her house, filming her reaction. She has an awesome apartment filled with paintings, four boys (and a fifth on the way), a husband who looks like Albert Einstein. One of her sons offers Tim Gunn some turtle poop. You really needed to see it. As far as her clothing, he loves most of it but is stymied by what appears to be a chartreuse charmeuse housecoat. "Is it even pretty?" he asks her rhetorically. "I’m not certain it is for me."Uli gets Tim out on the beach, where we see him without a jacket! And barefoot, where his pasty tootsies look even worse next to Uli’s perpetual tan. Some of her dresses use a bone-buckle fastener. They’re cool.Jeffrey’s girlfriend Melanie has a mohawk and the same tattoo he does, only on her chest. He refers to his "small sewing facility," which is like a mini-factory, and how he’s working on his other collection at the same time.Two weeks later … we’re all back in New York. It’s five days until the runway show and now Laura’s really being antagonistic toward Jeffrey during her interviews. She wants to win … just so he doesn’t. Jeffrey’s garments are suspiciously well-crafted and, more importantly, completely finished, which raises red flags among the designers. Granted, Laura starts it, but Michael and Uli second that emotion. Laura tells Tim she thinks he had outside help finishing everything up. (He also commends Laura for getting rid of "the chartreuse popsicle," and warns Michael about his collection looking too "cartoony," and making sure "it looks as though it all belongs in the closet of the same woman.")Tim collects the receipts and the next day grills Jeffrey about his collection: Did you do this zipper? These pants? Jeffrey mentions something about sending pieces out to be pleated but says he did everything himself. Now he hates Laura. She doesn’t care.Hair consultations, makeup consultations, model fittings. Next week: Runway show, results and the merciful end of my late-night Wednesday blogging adventures.

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