Jul 23 2008
Last week, Alex was executed right out of the gate, leaving everyone but the real Mole stunned. Mark thought Alex was The Mole, or so he says. There is $251K in the pot now, and the five remaining players are trusting each other less and less, but need to depend on each other more and more to determine who The Mole is and win the game.
THE MISSION
Jon tells them to divide into two teams: three Smart, and two Dumb. Nicole and Craig jump at the chance to be dumb, leaving Clay, Mark and Paul as the Smart team. They have to decipher clues all over Mendoza and plug the numerical answers into a computer. Tough part is they have to remember all of the answers without writing anything down. The Smart Team goes off, allowing Paul to lead with the map. He leads them eight blocks in the wrong direction. Was that on purpose? Who knows? Is he The Mole? The Dumb Team has their own discrepancies in the numbers for their answers, but they all eventually end up back at the same spot ready to plug in the numbers for the money. One number is wrong, and Nicole has to go back and do another count. While she is gone, Clay decides to decipher the number sequence, and when she gets back, he insists that she has the wrong number. The guys align with Clay and they plug in his number, and win the money. Was Nicole The Mole, trying to sabotage the game? Regardless, they bring the pot up to $233K and that’s enough for no one to care. Now Mark thinks Nicole is The Mole. Clay doesn’t trust anyone. Nicole decides that as the only two Black people left, she has to trust “her brotha.” Thankfully, they didn’t go all out sappy with a high five and a “thank God it’s just you and me, my sistah.” Clay questions whether or not Mark has been responsible for subtle sabotages of his own…
ANOTHER MISSION
This mission was actually interesting. It involves the trust none of them has for each other. Jon asks each player to pick the player they trust the most. Paul and Nicole pick Mark. Clay picks Nicole, and Mark and Craig pick Clay. The mission is to learn as much as they can about the person that trusts them, via a page with 35 questions, and then answer three out of 5 correctly when Jon asks later. The prize is a visit with loved ones. If three questions are not answered correctly, then there will be no visits. They are taken to a train station where the loved ones are loaded up. Craig and Clay are up first. Clay doesn’t disappoint, and Craig gets to wrap his arms around his girlfriend, Brendi. Each player has to trust their “trustworthy” opponent so they can see their family member. Only Paul is unable to answer some of the simplest questions about his own wife, but in the end, all of the players are nice enough not to sabotage the mission, and everyone’s family members join them for dinner with Jon. Nicole tells her mom that she is emotionally drained from the game and going to self-execute. Her mother agrees that she should not be there if she doesn’t want to. They agree she will step up at the beginning of the next execution quiz and they will walk away together hand-in-hand. Even the family members don’t know who The Mole is, so it’s up in the air whether or not Nicole would lie to her own mother.
THE EXECUTION
During the quiz, we see a previous interview where Nicole reiterates her decision to leave the competition. She says a lady knows when to leave. But is Nicole a lady, or a Mole? Then she says she plans to throw the quiz on purpose and leave on her own accord rather than fail. What does that mean? As for the results? Well, Jon tells us there is a tie again tonight. The lowest score was not Nicole’s. It was Clay’s, and he’s executed. He grabs his wife’s hand and they leave. Nicole’s mom leans over and whispers, “You couldn’t do it, could you?” Nicole answers, “Soon as I sat down at that computer I knew I couldn’t.” Mommy calls her Omarosa. Since I knew she was lying, I call her The Mole….Besides, it’s cruel to call someone Omarosa.
