The model, Marisa Petroro (who switched cases with Alike Boggan over the summer), did not want to open the case, because she saw it contained its third seven-figure amount of the week, the $6 million top prize, again displayed black-on-white. After doing very well in round 3, she picked case #18 to begin the fourth round. She knew continuing this would bite her later, but it would have been the lesser of two evils, as her new strategy ended up opening the $3 million case (#17) to start round 2, and also removing $500,000 within the round. Contestant 6, Michelle Falco, playing for $6 million (with $3 million also on the board), started out by picking her lucky number (#8) as her own and counted up from 1-6 to start off the game very nicely.Fortunately, his next pick ( Marisa Petroro's case #18) contained the seven-figure sum, and his case contained only $50.

He eventually settled upon a deal of $177,000, despite the 20% chance his case ( Hayley Marie Norman's #25) contained $2.5 million. The black-on-white design was still displayed (from the finale of season 1).

Jeff Huerta, returning contestant, opened up the $1 million, $750,000, and $500,000 among his five picks in round 2, and in round 4 eliminate the $5 million case (#11).

Huerta was set to open five more cases on the next show.

Jeff Huerta (playing for $5 million) was the next contestant, and began the show well, opening the $1, $400, $200, $750, and $25 cases, along with the smallest bigВ amount, $100,000, leaving him with a $30,000 deal, which he rejected but almost hit because of reflex.

Kimberly's case ( Stacey Gardner's case #2) contained $1 million, making her deal a 'fine' one according to Howie Mandel. Next would have been the $4 million top prize (in Ursula Mayes's case #5 for the first time). After eliminating $10,000 and $25,000 in the playout, the banker would have offered $1,240,000. As a result, she ended up accepting a $701,000 deal, the largest in the history of the show at that time (besting Solina's deal from the night before by $26,000).

After opening up four large amounts: $500,000, $100,000, $250,000, $750,000, and a huge amount: $2 million in the first three rounds, along with a $75,000 case, Chastang recovered and did not open a case larger than $5,000 the rest of the way. Kimberly Chastang, playing for $4 million, began the episode.As predicted, his briefcase contained $3,000,000 (with the last case ( Mylinda Tov's case #19) having just one dollar), making his the worst deal by dollar amount ($2,325,000 less than the briefcase amount) in the history of the show! The final contestant of the evening, Matthew 'Matty' Solina, took a $675,000 deal after turning down a record $650,000 deal and resisting a $400,000 deal of cash on the spot (brought out by two of the Banker's models, as 'Matty' refused to be paid with a check in all likelihood, he would have been paid with a check anyway), although he predicted that he had indeed picked the $3 million case (case 23, chosen because he was born on the 23rd, gotten married at 23, had been married for 23 years and had been a Teamster for the same amount of time). The final game of the night had the models wear green dresses.William ended up taking a $56,000 deal after turning down $132,000 and then removing $400,000, $500,000, and $1 million in the next two rounds. William Ming, playing for $2 million, removed 11 small amounts in a row (nothing over $50,000), but then opened the $2,000,000 case ( Katie Cleary's case #11) to start round 3. The second game had the models wear satin blue dresses.Her briefcase contained $.01, making her the second-best in the show's history by ratio. Robin Mullins, playing for the show's regular prize of $1 million, was the first contestant and took a deal for $102,000 with $300,000 and $750,000 still in play. The first game had the models wear red dresses and Pearl necklaces.New models were introduced, such as Hayley Marie Norman who holds case #25, British model Laura Shields who holds case #22, and Lauren Shiohama who holds case #8.The number of episodes that have aired as of June 18, 2007, is 70. The second season (2006-2007) of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal commenced airing on September 18, 2006.

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