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THE RECAPS Episode 1 (airdate 1/7/04) We start by seeing two familiar faces each individually talking to the camera in front of a black background... Corbin: "Well,
hello, old friends. Here we are again." Stephen then goes over
the other players...or "enemies", as he calls them: It ends with Stephen chuckling maniacally...dare I say "psychotically"... Eight celebrities (who, for some odd reason, need the money) are being flown to Playa Del Carmen on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to compete in numerous games in order to build a group pot of up to $250,000. In the end, only ONE of the celebs will win all the money. But one of them REALLY doesn't need the money. That's because he or she is THE MOLE, a double agent being paid off by ABC to PREVENT the others from adding to the group pot. At the end of each episode, the celebs will take THE QUIZ, 10 questions about The Mole. Whoever answers the most questions wrong on The Quiz will be "EXECUTED" and must leave the game immediately. So the celebs must watch each other very carefully, take down many details and figure out The Mole's identity if they don't wish to be "executed". The job of the other seven celebs is two-fold: build up the pot and, more importantly, answer the big-time question: WHO IS THE MOLE? Is it: To the strains of War's "Lowrider", a large yellow taxi drives along the streets of Playa Del Carmen, heading towards a middle-aged celebrity, who is in a captain's hat that he picked up in Hawaii. He is Corbin Bernsen, actor and Celebrity Mole executed. As the taxi stops by Corbin's feet, he immediately recognizes the driver. It's Ahmad Rashad, the host and Celebrity Mole executer. After a handshake between the friends, Ahmad tells him that, though he royally sucked last time, he had such character and conviction that they invited him back for a second chance. But there's no more time for intros because Corbin is crucial to the first game: El Taxi Loco. The object is for Corbin - who gets his captain's hat switched for a taxi driver's checked cap - to drive around the city and pick up the other seven contestants. He starts with a clue to a celeb's location - in Spanish - and a clue to the celeb's identity in English. He would pick up the celeb, who would have the NEXT clue to the NEXT celeb. Corbin needs to get as many players back to the beach in 75 minutes. For each one he returns in time, $5,000 is added to the group pot. Oh, and one other thing: Ahmad tells Corbin to make sure Carlos and Pepe are returned. Carlos and Pepe are...chickens in a cage between the front seats. CLUE 1: "ESTACION DE POLICIA (Police Station) - This not so usual suspect." It's obviously his fellow Celebrity Mole executed, Stephen Baldwin. Corbin drives around, looking for the police station. He passes a traffic cop with regret and asks a tourist - in Spanish - which nets a whole heap of nothing. He finally arrives at the police station in a mere eight minutes after taking off. Stephen's scared that Corbin is driving, but he's happy to meet Carlos and Pepe. CLUE 2: "CALLE CORAZON (Heart Street) - Don't let this fiery heartbreaker walk all over you at 5th between 12th and 14th." Angie Everhart is waiting under a parasol at a corner. Stephen plays front-seat driver with Corbin, keeping him from running over kids in the street (obviously, Yucatan does have any "Slow For Children" signs) and claiming Corbin has a chemical imbalance. They reach a street and Stephen runs out to find Angie. Finding her (with 55 minutes remaining), they run to the taxi. Stephen DEMANDS that Corbin introduce Carlos and Pepe to her before the clue is given. CLUE 3: "ESTACION DE TELEVISION (TV Station) - Hanging out with this celebrity could be a spicy experience". Mark Curry (Get it? "Spicy"?!) was in Hanging With Mr. Cooper and is now hanging out at the local cable TV station...and asking, "What have I gotten myself into? ABC, we need to talk." Corbin claims Carlos and Angie both aren't "spring chickens"...and only Angie isn't laughing. When Corbin refuses to make a U-turn, Angie get suspicious about sabotage. But the station's straight ahead...as is Curry. He takes his time getting into the taxi, asking, "Do I know you people?" Whether he's weary or crafty is unknown. CLUE 4: "RESTAURANTE EL HOT - Not only is the food hot, but so is the celebrity, who is definitely a "10" two times over." Ananda Lewis IS hot...but the "10"s refer to the fact that Restaurante El Hot is located at 10th Street and 10th Avenue. Curry is clueless as to what's going on and starts to worry how the natives view them. They find Ananda with little trouble (40 minutes left)...but Stephen doesn't let her board until she answers how old she is. She replies 30 (which is correct, mind you; she didn't lie about that) and gets aboard. CLUE 5: "CONCHA DE BASKET (Basket Shell) - This celebrity has been rebounding his way west throughout his career and has played on more than one court." It's Dennis Rodman, of course, since he played for Detroit, San Antonio, Chicago and Los Angeles in his career. And where ELSE would he be but corrupting...er, teaching kids on a basketball court...on the west side of town? Corbin freaks everybody out when he motors over a speed hump. With 25 minutes left, Ananda wonders why Corbin won't pass a truck. Corbin claims there are speed limit laws to obey...which causes Ananda to note that they're in Mexico and that there ARE no speed limits. Ananda ALSO thinks they're headed EAST, but Corbin's CERTAIN they're heading west...a little TOO certain. Mark tries to calm everyone down...and Stephen points at Corbin, saying, "HERE's The Mole; he's doing his job!" They find Dennis, though...who wonders, "Who the hell is that?!" CLUE 6: "JOYERIA SILVERADO (Silverado Jewelry) - Get your gold rush on to find this celebrity waiting out west on Avenue 5." The celeb is Tracey Gold who is, appropriately enough, waiting outside a jewelry store. But there's a problem: the extra time it took to find Dennis has dwindled the time left to complete the game to 10 minutes. Either they try to find Tracey and Keisha Knight-Pulliam and possibly come up with nothing...or they race back to Ahmad with $25,000 worth of celebrity. The players argue about going back or moving on. Most in the back say to go back, but Ananda say they're close to Tracey. Corbin says they can be back with Ahmad in five minutes (like he suddenly knows the roads around here...hmmmm). Mark is the one who came up with the idea to leave Tracey and Keisha behind. Against Corbin's will, he turns the taxi back to the beach...assuring money for the pot. TASK FINISHED - $25,000. As they get out, Stephen explains that Corbin told about the time restraints. Corbin was CONFIDENT they could have found Tracey and Keisha. Fortunately, they WERE picked up and they greet the others. Ananda swears to them that she tried to convince the others to find them. Corbin explains the game and what happened, ending with, "And Stephen Baldwin, The Mole, told us to come back." Ananda AGAIN pleads that she wanted to pick the other two up...but Ahmad wonders if Tracey and Keisha think there was sabotage involved. Tracey is happy to get the money...but she doesn't have enough information to know if she was stranded because of time restraints...or deliberately. Ahmad says, "The Mole could strike at any time." Ananda replies, "Oh, The Mole done struck! Trust me!" Later, the players are brought to a beach cafe, where they find their journals. This is the only way they can write down information about The Mole. Upon hearing about "executions", Stephen bawls from horrible flashbacks. Corbin can relate. They each take a journal and IMMEDIATELY take down a LOT of notes...even going as far as asking each other what their journal numbers are. Corbin then immediately reverts back to paranoia mode, claiming that the one gold fish on the wall mural could signify Tracey Gold as The Mole. He even goes up TO the fish and SMELLED the paint. Stephen tells the others, "I'm not saying he ain't The Mole. I'm just saying...he's insane!" Ahmad returns and says it's time for the next game: Artifact or Fiction. He asks for two of the players, the two who are the best salespeople. The group picks Mark and Corbin. Those two are brought back and shown two artifacts. One is a genuine ancient Mayan artifact...and one is not. Each one will take an artifact and try to convince the other six that theirs is the genuine article. If the six can figure out who is lying, the pot grows by $10,000. If they fail, not only will no money be added but the liar gets an exemption from the first Quiz. Ahmad brings them to another bungalow and they are shown a small ornate box and a larger artifact under a sheet. Corbin chooses the sheet while Mark takes the box. They get 10 minutes to get their sales pitches together and get description of each artifact, one which is fake. (Think of it like Hollywood Squares; the celebs get the right answer and a bluff or two, but can come up with their own if so desired.) Corbin and Mark return and give their pitches. Corbin has a long funnel-like gourd, which he claims was used to make tequila by ancient Mayans. In fact, after they let it ferment for a week, the agave drink that gets poured out would be even STRONGER than tequila. Mark's artifact is smaller, made of rock...and looks like a phallus. Mark claims it is a Mayan fertility symbol, which a father would give to the son-in-law to guarantee many, many children. It was wrapped in corn and each one was unique, to represent the family name. The other six then rally around Dennis to confer for five minutes on who was lying. Angie says that she went shopping with her little sister and actually SAW a souvenir that looked a LOT like Mark's "fertility symbol". She almost bought it because of what it looked like and the shop owner SAID it was a fertility piece. Stephen goes around the horn, asking, "Who do you think is lying?" Tracey says Mark. Ananda's not sure. Stephen, Angie and Keisha say Corbin, and Dennis thinks it�s Mark. After a little more discussion, they decide to go with Corbin...but not before Stephen makes Angie re-confirm about seeing Mark's artifact somewhere else. Tracey claims to have switched votes thanks to Angie's insistence. The discussion over, Stephen (with some hesitation) announces that the group thinks Corbin is lying. He wasn't. The gourd actually WAS used to make tequila. Mark's artifact, according to him, "�was a rock that was found in South Central." TASK FAILED - $0 Mark is happy for the exemption, relieving him of some pressure. Angie says she caused the vote to sway more towards Corbin. Ananda thinks it was curious how quickly Angie came up with that...but Angie, in her interview, says that she's playing the game like many others before her: trying to convince others that SHE'S The Mole so that she can find the REAL Mole uncontested (so she LIED about seeing Mark's "artifact" elsewhere). Ahmad claims Stephen let the rest go down that path. After getting $25G out of a possible $45G in the day's tasks, the celebrities pile into two SUVs and are driven to their hotel. Dennis, Mark, Stephen, Angie and Keisha are in one, while Corbin, Tracey and Dennis get in the other. Talk about who The Mole is runs rampant. Most of the first vehicle's occupants think Stephen is The Mole...because why ELSE would he go through this torture again? Dennis, however, doesn't CARE who The Mole is. His sole purpose is to get into the Final Three and win the money. Yo, Dennis, the whole point of the game is to find out who The Mole IS...so you BETTER care. In vehicle two, Corbin tells Tracey and Ananda that they're lucky they're not with Stephen...what with the way he uses "dog" as a pronoun fairly often. And, going back to the first vehicle, we see he's right. At the hotel, Stephen wastes no time. Remember what he said about a coalition with Tracey at the start of the show? Well, he stops Tracey in front of her room. After seeing what a coalition did to help Kathy Griffin win the first Celebrity Mole, he decided to try one out himself. He and Tracey tell each other that neither is The Mole. They agree to the coalition and give their suspicions. Stephen thinks it is Corbin, Dennis or Keisha. Tracey thinks it's Ananda or Mark (neither chose Angie, despite her actions today). No clear-cut hints are given by either player...and Mark starts to come around to break up the meeting. Stephen tries to play it cool as if he was just having fun with the cameramen. Mark has fun, too, telling the fictional maid in the hallway to put her clothes back on. As Mark walks away from Stephen entering his room, Stephen breathes a DEEP sigh of relief that he wasn't caught. Ahmad then meets Keisha in the make-up room and lets her know that, since she chose Journal #2, the "Lucky Journal", she gets to take part in a special game: Moon Over Yucatan. Her job is to talk the other players into a little moonlight "swim" (meaning they at least need to soak their feet) in the lagoon after dinner. For each player she gets to "swim" (including herself), $2,000 will be added to the pot. But if she can get ANY player to SKINNY-DIP with her,...she'll earn an exemption from the Quiz tomorrow night. Now Keisha can't let anyone know it's a game and she has until midnight to get the job done. 9:30pm - Dinner is served...but the festive atmosphere makes it drag on and on and on. By 10:30, Ahmad is prodding Keisha gently to get things moving. She feigns not feeling so good and asks to be excused. She started asking other players to walk with her "to make sure she wasn't doing anything Mole-ish". Corbin refuses...and Angie is genuinely concerned. The two walk away from the table, and Keisha says that she's feeling a little better and that a walk on the beach would do them both some good. So they get to the lagoon, take off their shoes and soak their feet...thus making $4,000. Keisha then decides to go back to the dinner table and convince a few more people to go to the water. Mark is convinced to join Angie and Keisha, but doesn't want to get his feet wet. Fortunately, a small wave comes up and soaks Mark's feet and ankles (and the bottom of his pants legs) to add $2,000 more. Now comes the hard part for Keisha: convincing Angie and/or Mark to skinny-dip. Mark actually brags that he could get in the water "buck naked" if he wanted to. Keisha pounced on this, saying, "I dare you!" Mark pulls back on his stance, though. Then, much to Keisha's surprise, Angie says, "I'll do it if you do it." Keisha wanted to get Mark in as insurance, but he decides to be a very happy observer. Keisha first wraps her towel around her body before stripping underneath it. Angie, however, starts to strip in plain sight. Mark watches eagerly, saying, "And I thought Ahmad Rashad had the good job." Keisha wades in with a towel...but Angie dives in and removes her bra and panties. By the time midnight rolls around, Angie is skinny-dipping, Keisha gets her exemption...and Mark is a VERY happy man, being fortunate enough to "see three moons in one night". TASK FINISHED -
$6,000 The players had most of the next day off and we pick it up at dinner. Ahmad informs the players about "Moon Over Yucatan"...and Angie isn't happy when Keisha explains that they skinny-dipped to give her the exemption. She didn't NEED convincing, she said. Ahmad tells the group where the pot stands and that Mark and Keisha are exempt from the night's execution. They raise their glasses in toast to s/he who will fall tonight...and, one-by-one, head off to take... THE QUIZ Dennis: "It's
gotta be one of two people: Corbin and Stephen. Why the hell would
they come back?!" Later that night, the eight players file in. It's time for the Execution. Everyone knows the deal. Ahmad randomly types in everyone's names (except Mark and Keisha, of course) into the computer. Green screen means they stay in the game. Red screen...means they couldn't figure out The Mole's identity and they were gone. STEPHEN - GREEN Corbin and Stephen high-five each other that they made it...forgetting that they both made it past the first execution LAST year, too. DENNIS - GREEN Ananda
is upset. "I knew I jacked up on the first one!"
Ahmad escorts Ananda away from the other players, who applaud her on the
way out. She admits to having fun, though. Tracey thought she
played hard and took a lot of detailed notes. Corbin says she knew
she screwed up. Angie is colder: "Better her than me."
Mark sends his love to her. As Ananda boards the taxi to be sent
home, she tells the others, "Good luck,...filthy hobbitses!"
(Ah, so she's a Tolkien fan, too!) Episode 2 (airdate 1/14/04) Corbin: "Lay back, sit quiet, listen,
observe. That's all I want to do...what I'm GOING to do in the
continuation of this game." An Ananda-less group of players follow a sombrero-clad Ahmad. He asks for four players who like to stuff themselves and three who would most likely swing. After a brief consultation, Angie, Keisha, Dennis and Mark become the Stuffed Group and Corbin, Tracey and Stephen are the Swingers Group (Tracey thinking the Stuffed Group would have to eat something gross). The Stuffed Group follow Ahmad to a quartet of pi�atas and ask the group to choose one apiece. Mark takes the pig, Dennis takes the bull with the Mexican flag colors upon it, Keisha grabs the goat, leaving Angie with the cat. All seven players then enter this large area with mariachi bands, kids and four big honkin' pi�atas...which look suspiciously like the Stuffed Group picked. Yup, Ahmad is throwing a Pi�ata Party! The four in the Stuffed Group will climb into the seats of the huge pi�atas (each one taking the pi�ata that is similar to the one they chose) and, one-by-one, the Swingers will have five minutes to destroy said pi�atas (while staying in a roped area). Inside each pi�ata is a small box gift. Three of the four boxes contain $10,000, which will be added to the group pot. The fourth contains an exemption. If the exemption isn't knocked out of the pi�ata it is in, whoever is riding that pi�ata gets the exemption. Otherwise, whoever knocks the box out gets it. So SOMEBODY is getting an exemption when this game is over. Suddenly, Angie doesn't feel too good about being a Stuffed Group member, feeling she'll barf if she goes up. So, with Ahmad's blessing, she and Tracey trade off; Tracey gets to ride the cat pi�ata and Angie becomes a Swinger. Stephen thinks it's a rouse...but Angie said, "I think you can @#$ me!" There are numbers on the bottom of the bat the Swingers have, denoting the order in which they'll swing. Stephen will be first, Corbin second and Angie third. The Stuffed Group mount their pi�atas and await for the start of the task. Corbin wonders why Dennis chose the bull and Mark chose the pig. Stephen thinks quietly that he's crazy...and tries to force Ahmad into telling him which one the exemption is in. Now, to work. As the Stuffed Group gets used to yanking the pi�atas as they're attached to bungee cords, Stephen enters the ring (and does his best gladiator impersonation). The kids surrounding the ring shout, "Loco! Loco! Loco!" (Loco means "crazy", in case you didn't know). Ahmad starts the mariachi band playing the "Mexican Hat Dance" and Stephen starts swinging at Keisha's legs...or, rather, Keisha's pi�ata's legs. But nothing but candy comes out...and he ALMOST falls out of the ring. Feeling Keisha was NOT going to let him swing at her, he moves on to Dennis, but just can't hit the belly. So he moves to the pig. With Mark yelling, "You hit like a girl," Stephen finally strikes belly...and the gift box pops out. Whether he got $10,000 for the group pot or an exemption for himself will have to wait. But Corbin already feels Stephen got the exemption...and proposes a trade. Stephen ain't buying it, though. Corbin is next, and takes off his shirt to prepare himself. After some initial dawdling after Ahmad signals the game to start, he runs for Dennis' pi�ata and whacks at its belly. Unfortunately, he swings a little TOO hard and breaks the bat. Stephen passes Corbin his own and Corbin proceeds to break THAT one. As Angie tosses hers in, Dennis is smiling, thinking that he'll break all the bat and that the game will then be over...so he brings the pi�ata lower so that he WOULD break the final bat. But Corbin takes advantage and busts the belly wide open, dumping the box to the ground with less than a minute to spare. Corbin tells Stephen that it would be sweet if they, the two who got "executed" in Hawaii, made it to the final three here. Finally, it's Angie's turn. She asks the kids which one to hit...and the kids point towards Tracey's gato. So she wails at it, knocking off a leg entirely. She's swinging her arms out...but it was TOO hard as she missteps...and steps outside the rope ring on the ground. That earned her a disqualification and, if Tracey's pi�ata had the exemption in it, Tracey would get it. Of course, Corbin and Stephen argue with Ahmad about the foul like baseball coaches at an umpire. But it is to no avail. So while Stephen and Corbin shake their boxes to determine which one has the exemption, Ahmad pokes the bellies of Tracey's and Keisha's pi�atas and retrieve the boxes inside. Ahmad then gathers the group together and asks Tracey and Keisha to open their boxes. Each of them has Mexican money inside it. Since they weren't released, the $10,000 each one represents is NOT added to the pot. It is now known that $10,000 will be added...and either Corbin or Stephen have the exemption. Corbin offers Stephen a trade, but Stephen rejects. And it was good that he did...because Corbin's has money in it...and Stephen has a placard that says, "EXEMPTION". But hold the phone, Stephen! Ahmad has a deal to make. He's willing to offer another $10,000 for the exemption. Stephen asks Dennis what he would do and Dennis say he'd put the money in the pot. Corbin agrees...but then changes his mind and says he'd take the exemption. So would Angie, Keisha and Mark. So Ahmad ups the ante to $30,000. Mark says now that the money should go into the pot. Stephen keeps it...and Ahmad says, "$50,000!" Angie says they'll beat Stephen's ass if he doesn't give up the exemption...but Stephen hangs on to it. Angie thinks Corbin is suspicious for knowing which box the exemption is in...and Dennis thinks everyone is POed at Stephen for keeping the exemption TASK
FINISHED -
$10,000 On the way back to the hotel, Stephen rides with Tracey and Angie, wondering out loud to them when Dennis allowed his pi�ata down for Corbin but not for him...as well as Corbin trying to trade boxes with him. Meanwhile, Mark, Dennis, Keisha and Corbin ride and discuss who The Mole is....and Corbin wonders why Keisha never shares any information with them. The players relax after their grueling task and Corbin calls Stephen on his cell phone. He wants a coalition and can think of no better person to do it with than Stephen. Stephen says he'd consider it. He's really feeling out Corbin, seeing if he gets frustrated and, thus, proves he's NOT The Mole. As the players lounge by the pool with the sun near setting, Ahmad shows up and asks the group, "Who here wants an exemption?" Everyone (but Stephen, of course) raises their hand. Well, Ahmad has one to give in a task called Exemption or Bust. And, when Stephen hears what the game entails, he tells the group that it sucks! That's because it's the same as a game played in the Hawaiian version of Celebrity Mole. The group must UNANIMOUSLY vote on who gets the exemption. If they can do that in 20 minutes, $25,000 will be added to the pot as well. However, if they DON'T come to a unanimous decision, not only will there be no exemption, but $25,000 will be taken FROM the pot. Immediately after Ahmad starts the 20 minutes, Corbin says that, just like in Hawaii, he will not vote for anyone but himself for this exemption. Angie and Keisha immediately reply that they WON'T vote for Corbin. Tracey doesn't want to give it to anyone, so Mark sees about giving it to her instead. He tries to get quick "yes or no" answers, but tells Stephen that he doesn't count, claiming, "I hated The Flintstones." (Shows what HE knows; Stephen was in the sequel Viva Rock Vegas, not the original film.) Tracey thinks things are getting nuts. Six minutes in, they finally get around to asking Dennis about HIS opinion. He says, "Give it to Angie." Corbin can't agree with that, since he "wants Angie in the game." Keisha berates Corbin...and Corbin cusses at her. She still smiles despite her anger, though. With seven-and-a-half minutes left, Corbin finally shifts gears and says he'll agree to vote for Dennis. But Dennis says he doesn't WANT the exemption. He wants to play the game straight on without any "free rides". Tracey thinks, "Either he's The Mole, or he's Dennis Rodman." Stephen, however, pushes to give it to Dennis, whether he wants it or not. Angie doesn't want to vote for Dennis, though, saying SHE should've got an exemption for skinny dipping the other day. Corbin says, "Getting naked may get you certain places in life, but not ahead in this game." This made Angie REALLY mad. Ahmad counts down the last 20 seconds. But despite a tidal wave of arguing, no one can come to a decision. TASK
FAILED - $25,000 removed Corbin tells Angie that her deliberately not voting for Dennis is a VERY Mole-ish thing to do. Angie hopes that Corbin DOES think she's The Mole. As Angie flips off Corbin as she leaves, Ahmad says, "The game is always a game...and it's always on." Tracey thinks her anger is the perfect cover for her Mole-like activities. Mark tells the group that Angie DID lose the them $35,000 by herself this day. At dinner, Corbin...is simply being Corbin. He obsesses about the seven candles in the middle of the table, once again looking for the clues that are normally reserved for the TV audience. Everyone else, of course, thinks Corbin is whacked. Dennis informs Corbin that there are two SIMILAR candles at the end of the tables. This makes Stephen think Corbin and Dennis have a coalition. He tells Dennis his theory about the Pi�ata Party task, but Dennis skirts around the issue. Corbin seems to act as Dennis' mouthpiece in this case. Ahmad toasts everyone at the table...especially the one to be executed tonight. It's time to determine who stays and who goes, which will be the one who gets the least of ten questions right on... THE
QUIZ Angie: "Dennis said he didn't want the exemption. I don't
get that. Why wouldn't he want an exemption?!" The players take their seats for the Execution. You know the deal. Green means go on to the next round, red means stop playing and get going. (Ahmad kept promising the audience that it was a HUGE surprise). Everyone's name (except for Stephen's) will be entered into the computer and when it stops on red, another celeb is dead...figuratively. DENNIS - GREEN< Dennis jumps up and shouts to his Lord that he's still in the game. KEISHA
- GREEN Only two people remain. TRACEY...
(Wait for it...)
GREEN! And that means... CORBIN
- RED Mark
liked Corbin's style and strategy. Angie also applauded how fast he
got her angry this day. Dennis knew he was breaking down, and Stephen
is shocked...and is "all alone in the battle area" now. As
Ahmad opens the door for Corbin, he still says he's his favorite
player. Corbin gets into the taxi - what was once HIS taxi in the
first task - and gets driven away. It's living proof that - at least
as far as this game goes - you CAN "die" twice.
Episode 3 (airdate 1/21/04)
Tracey: "(whispering) Last night, I
think I really got closer to The Mole. I'm looking at Curry." The
night after Corbin's boat sunk, the players meet Ahmad on the beach at
Playa Maroma for a game called Clucks for Bucks. First thing
the celebs need to do is split up into three teams of two...which I'm
guessing they thought was TWO groups of THREE since that's how they lined
up first. They eventually pair-off: Dennis & Keisha, Angie &
Stephen, Tracey & Mark. There are 24 chickens in a large stall,
along with 48 sombreros. One at a time, a sombrero will be lifted by
a team. If it's one of the 24 with a number within, they then must
find the chicken with the same number on their leg, collect it and dump it
in a small corral. 19 of the 24 chickens are worth $2,000
each when corralled. But the other five are "super
chickens" (who must have known the job was dangerous when they took
it), each with $5,000 apiece. That means as much as $63,000
is available in this task...which would almost quintuple the sorry 16Gs
they had at the start of the day. Each team has five minutes to
capture as many chickens as they can. The
first team is Dennis and Keisha, and Keisha claims to have had chickens at
her home. Dennis starts by grabbing a sombrero with the number 7
inside. Keisha immediately finds the #7 chicken, grabs it without
any problems and dumps it in the corral for $2,000. The next hat
Dennis has a 6 (complete with underline). Dennis nabs the chicken,
despite them being scared of his size. The tandem would get a number
of others with just over two minutes left. Then Keisha picks up a
sombrero...that she claims has a 6. "That must have been a 9
before," she says. Dennis then picks up one that has a
"15", but the other players scream at them to find the
"9" chicken first, as if believing Keisha's statement. A
little confusion is created as they try to determine whether it was a 6 or
a 9 before. Dennis then grabs the #9 and dumps it into the
corral...while, right behind him, Keisha has the #15 chicken and puts it
in. They're unable to get another number...and, furthermore, the
last two didn't count since they had to corral a chicken BEFORE finding
another number. The GOOD news is that one of the seven chickens they
nabbed was a "super", making the team's total $17,000, more than
doubling the group pot. Next up is
Stephen and Angie. The 48 sombreros are rearranged, with the numbers
of the 7 chickens already nabbed removed. So only 17 of the 48 hats
have numbers, making it a little more difficult for the supermodel and the
super-mouth. Stephen picks up the first hat that presents itself and
calls "2"! They corner the #2 chicken in a corner and
Angie nabs it and corrals it. They get into a rhythm; Stephen
calling numbers, then helping Angie corner the right one, then Angie dumps
it into the corral while Stephen looks for another number. Stephen
chases down one last chicken...and STILL goes after it long after Ahmad
yells, "Time!" Dennis & Keisha were good...but Stephen
and Angie nabbed 11 chickens...including THREE "supers".
Their group total: $31,000. The grand total so far: $48,000. The
final team is Mark and Tracey. They are down to 6 chickens, so only
6 of the 48 hats have numbers. 15 "large" is still
available. Mark sings as he heads to a hat that has 19. It
takes some time for Tracey to nab the #19 chicken and dump it in the
corral. The next nab is Mark, who holds the chicken he gets near his
crotch as he gets it into the corral (someone should've told him they were
hens and not c@#$s). Then the twosome screw-up and BOTH flip over
hats at the same time, Tracey getting 10 and Mark getting 22.
Tracey's hat was flipped first, though, so they grab #10 right by the pen
and dump him in. Mark, however, grabs another chicken and holds on
to it as they look for another hat. It takes a while to convince
Mark to drop her. They do find the last "super", though,
and manages to corral him for $5,000. As time winds down, they can't
seem to find any more numbers, even though there WAS one chicken
left. The team ends with $9,000. It WAS $11,000, but the
little screw-up cost the team $2,000. Their grand total: $57,000 out
of a possible $63,000. But the task
ain't over yet. The team elect Keisha as the chicken wrangler for
one last man-vs.-chicken challenge worth an extra $10,000.
She has five minutes to corral a "super rooster" who has never
be caught by one person before. Keisha's up to the challenge against
this quick rooster...even though Mark says the rooster has the advantage
in height over the diminutive female. Keisha slowly approaches the
rooster to start off, but it quickly turns into a foot-race.
Finally, with only a few seconds left, the chicken stumbles...Keisha nabs it...she
corrals it...and the pot is up another 10 grand! TASK
FINISHED - $67,000 The sick
part: Ahmad directs them over to a tent of lunch...one which consisted of
"chicken sandwiches". After
lunch, the players are driven to a locale for a little R & R. In
one van, Stephen, Tracey and Angie are writing stuff in their journals
about the previous task and lunch, particularly what they all HAD for
lunch (not everyone had the chicken sandwiches mentioned). Angie
starts to wonder out loud if Stephen and Tracey have a coalition...and
Tracey admits they have. Stephen thinks it's helped them
both...while Tracey wonders why Stephen won't share more information. As
the players enjoy a day of small boat racing and horseback riding, they
all have suspicions about The Mole: Stephen:
"This is insanity. There's no way to dissect this thing called
The Mole. Tracey...tries her hardest. Angie, single-handedly,
has been the cause of $45,000 not going into the pot. Keisha is too
laid back. Whoever gets 'whacked' next...it's gonna be a huge
shocker for me...personally." It's
a rude awakening when the players get up at 3 in the morning for their
next task at the Ruins of Tulum: Wrestler
Mariachi Maze. This is similar to a task in the original Mole
back in 2000. Once again, the players divide themselves into three
teams of two: Dennis and Angie, Stephen and Tracey, Mark and Keisha.
Each team has a Runner (Dennis, Tracey and Mark) and a Navigator (Angie,
Stephen and Keisha). The object of the game is to get from one end
of the maze to one of the three exits on the opposite end. The
Navigators help by looking at an aerial view of the entire maze and giving
directions through a walkie-talkie and headset. Getting out of the
maze would net the group $20,000 each. Now here's where the
"wrestler mariachi" part comes in. Inside the maze are two
Mexican masked wrestlers: Jaymar the Brute and Carlos the Jackal. They're after the Runners
because each will need to take a Championship Belt into the maze...belts
OWNED by the wrestlers. Furthermore, there's a mariachi band in the
dead center of the maze. They are instructed to start playing the
"Mexican Hat Dance" ONLY when a wrestler is in view. If a
Runner gets tagged by a wrestler, they lose. If they escape the maze
with the belt, they add money to the pot. The
first group is Dennis and Angie. Angie wants to position herself in
front of the screen so she can turn her own head and give the right
directions. She tells Dennis, "You enter in the same spot and
you exit in the same spot." Stephen and Keisha thinks Angie's
telling him that the entrance and exit are the same place. But
Dennis seems confident nonetheless. Ahmad tells him to go and Dennis
starts into the maze...WITHOUT a Championship Belt. Angie eggs
Dennis on, contorting her body so she can be in the same direction as
Dennis so she can give the right directions. He gets to the center
of the maze...when the band starts to play. Dennis bolts in the
other direction...and only THEN does Angie realize that Dennis doesn't
have a belt. Dennis claims nobody told him to grab a belt (even
though it was EXPLICITLY said by Ahmad...hmmm...). So he goes back,
takes a belt and starts all over again. He gets towards the center
again, the music blaring, and he thinks that's the way to get
through...but he almost runs right into a wrestler! He bolts the
other way...but he runs into a dead-end where he's all but tackled by the
wrestler. Stephen and Dennis think Angie's at fault, while Angie
blames Dennis for not listening. Next
is Stephen and Tracey. Stephen gives Tracey last-minute instructions
to do exactly as he says. Tracey starts off by grabbing a belt and
running through the maze...and Stephen starts talking super-fast and
getting Tracey all turned around. She eventually makes the center of
the maze and sneaks right behind the wrestlers. She gets VERY close
to the exit...but she takes a wrong turn and ends up in a dead
end...tagged by a wrestler. Stephen thinks she just
"brain-farted" at the finish line...but Tracey blames Stephen's
poor directions, believing she MIGHT be in a coalition with The Mole. It's
up to Mark and Keisha now. Mark starts off grabbing the final belt
and sprints, with Keisha all but screaming into the walkie-talkie.
He runs into BOTH wrestlers and bolts (pausing briefly to dance to the
mariachis in the middle). He backtracks and runs into them again,
making both of them chase him for a clip before making it back to the
beginning. Both wrestlers dance in the middle with the mariachis and
Mark just BLOWS by them, zigzags through the rest of the maze...and exits
the maze, giving the team $20,000! As everyone gathers by the
entrance, Stephen stays by the Navigator's station...uncharacteristically
quiet. He thinks that Dennis didn't seem to care how bad Angie's
directions were. But THIS task isn't
over yet. The three Runners return to the entrance with their
respective Championship Belts. Ahmad tells the players that one of
the three belts holds an exemption. For right now, Mark is
the only one who can get the exemption for finishing the maze...but he
offers Dennis and Tracey the opportunity to open THEIR belts and be
qualified for the exemption...IF they're willing to give up $5,000
each. At first Dennis is
reluctant...but then he and Tracey agree to give up 10 grand. All
three open the back of their belts...and Tracey's produces a small placard
that says, "EXEMPTION". TASK COMPLETED -
$10,000 So the
players sleep off the maze. The next day, however, Mark gets visited
in the make-up room by Ahmad. The reason: the fact that he picked
the Championship Belt with the green thumbprint on it qualifies him for a task called Leftovers.
For the time being, the task is between the two of them. In order
for Mark to add $10,000 more to the group pot, all he has to do is
eat everyone's leftovers at dinner tonight. Mark says he's up to the
task. There's some added incentive as well: if he pulls this off, he
gets an exemption. The meal is
a fair amount of burritos, white rice and corn on the cob...which Mark tries to indirectly push
everyone into chowing down since, the more THEY eat, the less HE has to
eat to get the money. But Tracey seems busy making her burritos into
some weird salad, Keisha is eating one corn kernel at a time and Dennis
and Stephen barely TOUCH their own plates. Hardly even asking, Mark
starts to act real hungry and to ask his neighbors to send anything they
don't want his way. This strikes the group as kind of odd...and
Keisha starts to think there's some money involved. When
Ahmad determines that everyone else is done eating, he tells the players
about the task. This gets everyone excited...until Ahmad informs
Mark he has only 15 more minutes to clean all the plates (except Ahamd's).
Mark, still confident he can do it, starts to gulp down the food rather
quickly, much to everyone's encouragement (particularly Stephen's).
Keisha can't believe what's going on. Angie dislikes him grabbing
rice with his hands as he eats. Only four minutes in, he looks like
he's going to be sick...and he has 8 burritos to go. Dennis, sitting
quietly, feels it's too much for Mark. Angie then thinks Stephen is
trying to sabotage the task with his insisting, but Stephen says he's just
joking. Angie says, "He can barf afterwards."
Stephen then retorts, "Spoken like a true supermodel." With
a few minutes left, Ahmad starts to root for him, wanting that money in
the pot and to give the exemption to him. But try as he might, Mark
just cannot finish the few burritos left. He starts to gag...and
Stephen brings a decorative urn around to Mark just in case. Time
elapses...and Mark spat out the rest of the last burrito. TASK FAILED
- $0 Ah, well...at
least Mark gets some antacids for dessert. But there's no time to
bust out the Pepto for Mark. It's time to see who gets kicked out
next. It's time for ten questions about The Mole. It's time
for... THE QUIZ Mark: "Could be D-Rod...would
be a perfect Mole. Keisha would make a good Mole because...nobody expects
her to be a Mole." And, so, after The Quiz
comes the Execution! (once again, we're promised the "most
shocking execution ever"...and we know what happened LAST time they said
that) We know the drill by now: everyone's name but Tracey's will be
entered. Green screen means safety, red screen means death in the
game. But hold the phone...this time we had a TIE for the worst
score...meaning the one who was the slowest in finishing the Quiz is outta here. ANGIE
- GREEN
Angie: "I'm gonna
GET that damn exemption!" MARK - GREEN Dennis
to Mark: "See? You're not going anywhere. You nervous,
Stephen?!" DENNIS - GREEN Dennis:
"Steve, your ass is OUTTA here!" This
leaves Stephen and Keisha... STEPHEN
- RED! "I
suck at this game," is all Stephen can say as he picks up his
bag and departs with Ahmad. Angie will miss his bad jokes, and says
at least he beat Corbin this time. Dennis says he wasn't fazed by
Stephen trying to get into everyone's heads...and he KNEW Stephen was
going to lose. Tracey regrets having a coalition with him.
Stephen's not sure he can handle a "next time" as Ahmad suggests
but, again, he had a lot of fun...and he PRAYS for Tracey to win. As
he loads himself into the taxi, he says, "Goodbye, cruel Mole
world!"
Episode 4 (airdate 1/28/04)
Keisha: "Tracey is #1 on my suspect list...because everyone she's
coalitions with gets executed." Now that the team has been cleared of the
two has-beens and one never-would-be, the players march over to Ahmad by a
lagoon near Eco Park at Xcaret. He has a task for them called Tequila
Shooters. If there's one thing Ahmad LOVES to do in Mexico, it's
to drink margaritas. And he has all the ingredients needed to make
margaritas...except the tequila. At the other end of a long,
semi-narrow bridge is a bar with 40 bottles of tequila ("Mole
1800", no less) and a mess of trays. The players' job is to put
one bottle on a tray and walk back to Ahmad WITHOUT touching the bottle
with any part of their bodies while on the bridge. For each bottle
they bring back within 10 minutes, $500 will be added to the group
pot (making this the CHEAPEST game in Mole history).
Furthermore, as if walking across that bridge isn't enough, a trio of
"the meanest, nastiest banditos" will be trying to knock them
off balance with dodge balls and trying to steal their money. This
part makes Angie nervous. And EVERYONE gets nervous when they see
who "Los Banditos" are: Ananda Lewis, Corbin Bernsen and Stephen
Baldwin - the executed players! As they get into position, Ahmad
explains to the other players that, for every bottle they DON'T get
across, "Los Banditos" will get $500
to take home with them. The
players discuss strategy as Corbin practices using the slingshot.
They decide that everyone will go across at the same time. That way,
even if one or two are hit, "Los Banditos" can't hit
EVERYBODY. Angie lets Ahmad know that she's playing this game under
protest. The game starts...and the five players are IMMEDIATELY
pelted (why, I don't know, since they'd have a better chance while they
have the bottles). Angie is scared and almost falls in, but everyone
makes it, with Mark in the rear saying, "Mommy, I'm
scared." They each grab a bottle and work their way back
across. But the dodge balls are their undoing as, each time a person
stops, the upright bottle falls over and against their body, DQing that
run. Once everyone is back on the main side, they try again.
They're met with the same result on the way back...except for Tracey, who
JUST manages to get one bottle back for $500, and Angie, who balances just
right. Mark claims his "size 14s" aren't helping matters
on the bridge. The team starts getting the hang of walking on the
bridge with the trays (and Dennis even plays smart and lays the bottle on
its side on the tray) and the money starts to rack up...except for Mark,
who seems to be deliberately costing the team money and slowing them down
on the bridge (as per his strategy stated above). With
about a minute to go and about 10 bottles delivered, Keisha and Mark
decide they've done their duty for Ahmad and country and let the other
four try for two grand more. The first one on the bridge is
Tracey...who get DINGED in the head with a ball by Stephen, which causes
her to lose her balance so much that she falls into the lagoon.
Tracey can't believe her former coalition partner nailed her like
that. The last one on the bridge is Dennis, so "Los
Banditos" wail at him with everything they have. Somehow, he hops across the bridge to get the team their last $500. At the
final tally, Ahmad counts 12 bottles legitimately carried over by the
team, which means $6,000 is added to the group pot. However, since
28 bottles DIDN'T make it across, "Los Banditos" take home the
lion's share of the task's money: $14,000! Angie shows off her
"war wound", a bruise in the back of the hip, but Tracey,
despite being dunked, said it was the most fun game yet. Everyone
accuses of Mark of a lackluster performance since he is the only player
who didn't get a bottle across. But hold the
phone. Ahmad is giving the team the opportunity to double the 6
grand...by eating the worm found in tequila bottles. The deal is
this: each player who made money (which means Mark is out) is given a shot
of tequila with a live worm on a stick. For each worm devoured
(that's chewed and then swallowed), that player's money will be
doubled. The girls are grossed out by the prospect and ask Ahmad if
Dennis can do it for all of them. Ahmad says that's all right...if
it's all right with Dennis. Dennis, who has eaten snake before in
Japan, doesn't have a problem. Four worms are chomped, shown to
Ahmad, then downed. The man once known as "The Worm" eats four of his namesakes and, in effect,
raises the pot by $6,000
more...though they STILL didn't beat "Los Banditos".
TASK COMPLETED - $12,000 As the players relax with proper drinks, suspicions gets tossed around
about who The Mole is. Angie is, of course, suspicious about
Mark. Tracey, however, points to the fact that "D-Rod"
doesn't seem to take ANY journal notes. Either Dennis has
photographic memory or...hmmmm. Dennis thinks it's Tracey...for no apparent
reason. Then Angie mentions, "SOMEBODY's got to get naked on
this episode." The group harkens back to the "Moonlight
Over Yucatan" task and how Mark enjoyed watching Keisha and Angie
skinny-dip. Later that same day, Ahmad
gathers the players and says that Mexico is known for its wonderful
art. He then tells the players that, in this next task - Still Life
- they'll get the chance to make their OWN mmasterpieces. Three
groups are needed for this game: three who are children at heart, one who
is a "chatterbox" and one who has a good eye. The girls
immediately volunteer to be the Children At Heart, then unanimously elect
Mark as the Chatterbox and leave Dennis as the Good Eye. The task
goes as follows: in an art gallery nearby is a caricature drawing of Ahmad
holding a mole. The object is to take the painting from its glass
casing and add $20,000 to the pot. To lift the casing up, the
Chatterbox (at another location) needs to describe three paintings that
are in the gallery via walkie-talkie to the Children at Heart, who must
them finger-paint the masterpieces for the Good Eye to match up with the
actual paintings amid the 21 in the gallery. If Dennis matches each
finger painting with the real painting in 30 minutes, the casing will lift
and $20,000 will be theirs. Ahmad tells Mark to be as detailed as
possible since some of the paintings in the gallery will look almost the
same. The girls get their Mole aprons
on and set up their paints. They and Mark test their walkie-talkies
and Dennis paces nervously outside the gallery. At Ahmad's signal,
he removes the cover of the first painting for Mark to describe...and the
game begins. Mark tells Tracey that the first painting has "red
leaves" and "buildings in the back... maybe a barn...way in the
back." As Tracey starts to paint, Angie is given the next
painting: "a beautify lady...imagine Keisha with her hair down...like
a nice portrait." Keisha's picture is "two vases...one
with embroidered pictures on in...like from Portugal..." He
spends a lot of time on Keisha's painting...and Keisha doesn't do much
with it. Tracey asks about the roof of her building, and Mark says
it's white...and that the building is small. But Tracey is making a
BIG barn on the painting. Mark then tells Angie to "paint
Ananda with her hair down". 13
minutes left in the task and Dennis is pacing nervously outside the
gallery, awaiting the finger paintings. The girls continue their
paintings, with Ahmad telling them all three must go to Dennis at the same
time. (Mark must be in an adjacent room since it didn't take long for
Ahmad to get to the girls.) Tracey decides her painting is sufficient, so
all the girls decide to take what they have and go. So they
depart...leaving Mark talking to dead air. With
six-and-a-half-minutes to go, the girls find Dennis and hand him the
paintings, giving him little ideas as to what the heck the paintings are
supposed to be. Dennis takes all three into the gallery, where Ahmad
is waiting. Dennis needs to hang the finger paintings below the ones
they are supposed to represent. Once the three are in position, he
is to hit a red button. If there's a buzzer, he has to rearrange the
paintings. If the case with Ahmad's picture opens, he is
successful. Dennis looks around and hangs the three up before
hitting the button...and getting a buzzer. Dennis asks if all three
are wrong, and Ahmad says he can't say. So Dennis switches two of
them...getting both wrong. This happens a time or two more.
Then, finally, Dennis hangs Keisha's in the right spot (though he doesn't
know that) and switches Angie's. No good, though. He then gets
Angie's in the right place...but STILL gets buzzed with one minute to
go. All he needs to do is put Tracey's in the right place...but,
instead, he's confident Tracey's is right and switches Angie's. He
gets buzzed one more time before time expires.
TASK FAILED - $0 Everyone gathers in the gallery to see
where everyone went wrong. Ahmad puts the pictures in the right places
as the girls try to explain what they were trying for. Of course,
the girls blame Mark for giving bad descriptions...something Mark KNEW
would happen. Mark claims Angie didn't paint a woman's face but more
like "Mick Jagger, on drugs looking at himself through a broken
mirror"...though everyone else thinks it looks more like Steve Tyler
(which it does, really). Ahmad said Tracey's was described as
"LITTLE houses", but Tracey misunderstood. Looks like a
LOT of players have done Mole-ish stuff this time around. At
dinner that evening,
Ahmad toasts the group since, for the first time in the game, no one has
an exemption. Everyone is vulnerable. That means it's very
important that everyone get as many of the ten questions about The Mole
right on...
THE QUIZ Dennis: "Mark was not really TRYING to play. I don't think
he had any intentions to hold any tequila bottles or try to walk
across." Dennis, Angie, Tracey, Keisha and
Mark file onto the deck for the Execution! (And, for the third
straight week, they say it's "the most surprising execution
yet." Who could it be now that Stephen and Corbin are gone?!) This
time, EVERYONE will get their names typed into the computer by
Ahmad. As long as there are green screens appearing, he'll keep on
typing. But he'll stop at a red screen, because that player has be
executed. What's more, there's been another tie for the least number
of questions answered right. By the rules, whichever of those who
tied finished the Quiz in the longest would be the victim. TRACEY
- GREEN Keisha was saying, "Ut oh" as soon as her
name was called. She smiles as she stands and says, "I told
y'all it wasn't me." She takes her bag and hands it to Ahmad to
get hugs from the team before she's escorted out. Dennis asks
Tracey, "Who is The Mole? Is it getting easier to
know?" Tracey thinks she knows. Keisha tells Ahmad that
she should've left the previous day so that she could've made some money
as a "Bandito" and wouldn't have had to get her head used for
target practice. Dennis liked how Keisha smiled at everything; no
matter what was done to her, she kept on smiling as if it didn't
matter. Mark says his best memory of Keisha was the "Moon Over
Yucatan" task...and that seeing "Little Rudy" naked changed
him a little. Keisha is certain everyone thought it was her.
Keisha has no foul words to anybody. She wishes them luck, claims
she did her best, and gets driven off in the infamous taxi. Episode 5 (airdate 2/4/04)
Angie: "After tonight, if I don't get executed, I'm in! AND I
didn't get an exemption. So...I just have to make people think I'm The
Mole." The morning after sending Keisha to the curb, the players arrive to find
Ahmad with a sweatshirt and sweatpants on...and his asses sticking out.
The ANIMALS, people, not Mr. Rashad's backside. The task is called Donkey
Rally. The players are first split into two groups: Dennis/Tracey and
Mark/Angie. The women are the Brains and the men are the Brawns. The
teams are to ride throughout "Little Mexico" and stop at four
booths. Each booth has something for the players to pick up, but the signs
which tell what they are supposed to pick up are completely in Spanish.
The Brains must ride the donkeys and translate the signs using
Spanish-to-English dictionaries. The Brawns are supposed to collect the
goods and place them in the baskets on the donkey. They have 45 minutes to
collect from all four booths and return to Ahmad. For each item they
collect correctly, $10,000 will be added to the pot. Furthermore,
for each team that returns in under 30 minutes, whether they have ANY of
the right items or not, an extra $5,000 is to be added. A few
rules: the Brains must remain on the donkeys while translating, the Brawns may
not lead or pull the donkeys or help in the translations.
Dennis and Tracey will be Team Pepe and Mark and Angie will be Team Paco.
Angie jokes to Dennis about him always wanting to see her ass...and the teams
take off on a staggered start. Team Pepe arrives at the first booth: a pen
of chihuahuas. The sign: Spanish: "El trece de la suerte es igual a
dos de los mejores amigos del hombre" Tracey
has been in Mexico for two weeks and doesn't know what "dos" means.
(I've NEVER been to Mexico but I learned it meant "two" while watching
Sesame Street. Obviously, Tracey doesn't contribute to PBS
regularly.) With a LITTLE help from Dennis, she thinks it means they need two
dogs that look exactly alike. So Dennis picks up two dogs that could be of
the same litter (without bothering to notice the numbered vests on the dog) and
puts them in a purse for Tracey to wear. Mark and Angie have even WORSE
luck. Angie finds that "suerte" means "luck"...so,
ignoring everything else, she tells Mark to find the dog with the number
"7" on its vest and take THAT along with them...since seven is Angie's
lucky number. Next stop is a coffee bean stand: Tracey figures out that "diez libras"
is "10 pounds" and "rojo" is "red". She
immediately determines that Dennis is to bag ten pounds of red coffee
beans. Dennis does so, though some argument about the color of bean he was
loading came up. After Team Pepe split, Team Paco arrives...with the
"7" chihuahua climbing all over Mark. Mark says that "libra"
means "open air market" and convinces Angie that ANY amount of beans
is a good idea. Next stop: a fruit stand Team Pepe has trouble with "tragico", but Tracey
figures out "aguacates" and orders Dennis to fill a bag with
avocados...though the full clue says that they shouldn't take ANYTHING from this
cart. Tracey thinks the second part reads, "It would be seriously
tragic NOT to." So Dennis grabs the avocados and splits. When
Mark arrives and sees the fresh fruit, his mouth starts to water. He's so
hot and thirsty, ANY juicy fruit will do. Without even READING the clue,
Mark feeds the donkeys some bananas and even puts some in the basket. But
then Mark thinks that EVERY sign has been saying not to take anything...so Angie
agrees not to take anything from this cart...unaware that they already have,
even though Mark replaces the bananas he put in the basket. Final cart: a fish
market. This one has separate instructions for each team. Tracey manages to translate a
few words and determines that Dennis is to grab eight octopi. Of course,
Dennis freaks Tracey by all but showing each octopus to Tracey...and she'll
probably never eat calamari again. Paco's instructions in Spanish: "De
tantos pesces en el mar, escoga cinco vendido rubia." Angie sort of guesses that "rubia" means
"blond" but can't find any fish with blond wigs. But since the
"rubia" were the only fish there, Mark grabs five of them and heads
for home. Team Pepe arrives with just over 3 minutes to go before the bonus
time is up, and Team Paco with less than a minute to go. The donkeys are
just as happy as the players are that they've dismounted. Amhad then goes
through the list. Neither team got two chihuahuas that equal 13 so no cash
there. Mark's load of beans is short of the 10 pounds needed, but Dennis'
load is right on, adding 10 grand to the pot. Dennis made the mistake of
loading fruit from the stand where they shouldn't have picked up anything.
Mark says HE didn't pick up anything...until Ahmad finds a banana in his
basket. Mark denies it adamantly, certain he put the fruit back. But
the fact that he took them to begin with blew it, so no cash. The final
one, however, was a sweep. Dennis got his octopi and Mark his
"blond" fish. Team Pepe added $20,000 total to the pot and Team
Paco added $10,000. Add in the $10,000 for both teams making it in under
30 minutes and that makes a grand total of $40,000 for the task.
Or DOES it? Ahmad informs the players that the rules have been
broken. Mark led Angie's donkey (by the fish cart) and Dennis helped Tracey
translate (by the chihuahuas) AND lead Tracey's donkey (by the fruit stand).
For these no-nos, Ahmad enforces the first "fine" in Celebrity Mole
history, taking $5,000 from the pot...much to the chagrin of the players.
TASK FINISHED - $40,000 To this day, Mark denies putting the fruit in there,
thinking someone screwed him over. Angie thinks Mark blatantly sabotaged
the game at almost every step for their team. After bemoaning the fine and a
late lunch, the players visit an elementary school at night. They head
into "Mr. Rashad's Homeroom" and sit on small chairs in the back of
the class. Already, Tracey is nervous, thinking it'll be a knowledge
quiz. Sure enough, Ahmad announces the next task: The Graduate.
Just for having perfect attendance, Ahmad gives the "class" $40,000
to add to the pot. However, whether the class LEAVES with all that money
depends on how well they do in answering questions from elementary school
textbooks (2nd through 5th grades). The players are to write their answers
to the oral questions on small chalkboards provided to them. If they get
it right, they move one row towards the front of the class (there are six rows
of desks). For each one ANY celeb gets WRONG, $1,000
will be removed from the $40,000 given. The first one to
"graduate", or get a question right while in the front row, secures
the money for the pot. Each player has a "Mole disk" which can
be used to "hold someone back", or keep a player from moving forward
if they get a question right. It'll cost $1,000
to use a disk and a player can use a disk only once. Oh, yeah...and
there's an exemption involved; the Graduate will be given an exemption
offer once all is said and done. #1: The Earth has how many continents? #2 On which continent would you find the South Pole. It goes on and on just like
this. Mark and Tracey know about the equator, Dennis FINALLY gets an
answer right when he figures out one-fourth of 60 is 15 (Tracey misses it, Mark
and Angie didn't), Tracey and Dennis know Trenton is the capital of New Jersey
(Dennis SHOULD know, having been born in the state) and that the Nile is the
world's longest river. But Angie holds Tracey back after the Nile
question, taking another grand off the total. EVERYONE knows the phrase
"Make a mountain of of a MOLEhill" (duh!), but Angie thinks George
Washington, not Benedict Arnold, betrayed the American army in the revolutionary
War, making her look WAY stupid...even for a MODEL! Of course, Dennis says
"General Lee"...which was the wrong war. Tracey holds Mark back
to give her a fighting chance. Everyone figures out that an hour and 31
minutes equals 91 minutes...and Mark returns the favor by holding Tracey
back. Dennis and Mark are in the front row, meaning if either gets the
next question right, they secure the money and get the exemption...offer. #10:
Which two well-known explorers began their expedition across the American west
in 1804? #11 Which hemisphere is the United States in? Tracey is the Graduate. And now Ahmad has one word for her...and it
ain't "plastics". It's "exemption". But...it's
not what she thinks. Ahmad shows Tracey $5,000. He offers it
to her to do one of two things with it: either put it in the group pot...or put
it in her own pocket. If she takes the money for herself, she must give an
exemption to one of the other three players. Tracey wants the exemption
for herself, so she immediately thinks that she'll get it if she puts the money
in the pot. But Ahmad informs her that she is the ONLY one who CAN'T get
the exemption. This bums Tracey out considerably.
After a few minutes, Ahmad doubles the offer to $10,000. Either
she adds it to the pot or to her bank account. She finally decides, after
much prodding by the players, to
pocket the money. That's when Ahmad informs her that she COULD have gone
all the way to $20,000 if she had continued to hesitate. But they decide
to move on to who gets the exemption. After some thought, Tracey decides
to give the final exemption of the game to Dennis. Her sole reason for
doing this is because he never WANTED an exemption. TASK
FINISHED - $17,000 Angie and Mark start to think that Dennis just
might be The Mole because he's been TOO quiet...though they're sure he's smarter
than he looks. Angie begs to hold the "exemption diploma" just
once just to say she "got an exemption"...and half-heartedly calls
Tracey a b*tch for giving it to Dennis. Tracey tells her that she believes
either Dennis or Mark is The Mole and didn't give the exemption to Angie because
she though the two girls were fighting it out. Angie smiles and says,
"Don't be so sure." After a hard
day of dragging their asses around and flunking elementary school, the players
finally get to relax at dinner. Ahmad surprises them with one more fun
task called Who Nose A Celebirty? They would get a collection of names
and six close-up pictures of noses. They have to match the nose to the
celebrity name. For each one they get right, $5,000 is added to the pot. The
first one is Jennifer Lopez. The girls think it's the upper right picture,
but the guys overrule and say it's the middle left. It turns out to BE the
upper right and we move on. Next is Hugh Grant. This time Dennis and
Mark go with the ladies' choice...which happens to be the right one.
Tracey and Angie take control, getting Britney Spears, John Malkovich and
Catherine Zeta-Jones. But, for Stephen Baldwin, the girls tell the GUYS to
pick a nose...though they suggest on the middle right one. You'd think the
guys would REMEMBER a nose they last saw in person only a few days ago.
Mark says it would've been easier for HIM if there were butts to choose from
instead of noses...particularly Tyra Banks' or Janet Jackson's (this was taped
WELL before Janet flashed something ELSE on television). TASK
FINISHED - $25,000 OK, enough
nose-picking. It's time to do some MOLE-picking! It's time, once
again, to answer ten questions about the identity of The Mole in the hopes of
staving off execution. It's time to take...
THE QUIZ Mark: "I think that The Mole is one of those females. They had the
Spanish books...they could've told me ANYTHING." The four remaining players get
together for the final Execution of the game. The same deal
remains: Ahmad punches in names (except Dennis'). Green screen means that
player goes on to face Three Questions and the final task(s). Red
screen...means you've been sent packing one day too soon. TRACEY: RED! "You
were wrong," Tracey says to Dennis (who said she wasn't going to lose
tonight). She picks up her bag, gets hugs all around and hums a funeral
dirge as Ahmad leads her out the door. Angie says Tracey gave her giggles
every day and was a fun girl. Dennis says she was the coolest of the bunch
and Mark added that she took the best notes. They then reminisce about the
incident during Tequila Shooters when she got plunked in the head and fell into
the lagoon. Tracey sighs as she boards the taxi...saying, "I hate you
all! No, I'm kidding. Have fun...and I hope you miss me." So it's down to the Final Three: Angie Everhart, Dennis Rodman and
Mark Curry! In a day or two, they take the Final Quiz. One will walk
away with the group pot, one will walk away with the satisfaction of a Mole job
well done...and one will just walk away. Episode 6 (airdate 2/11/04)
Angie: "I put a tattoo with my lucky number "7" on it." With Tracey out of the picture, Dennis, Angie and "Mr. Danger" (red
cape and all) approach a lounging Ahmad, who has a trio of small briefcases for
the remaining players. Each one is given a briefcase with explicit
instructions NOT to open them until told and NOT to let them out of their
sight. Why? Because they MIGHT be valuable later on in this final
day. Of course, the natural reaction
is TO open the briefcase just to see what's inside it. Each player returns
to their individual hotel rooms, briefcases in tow, to prepare for the next
task. And the next task occurs at Ixcaret Park. It's called Treasure Code.
Ahmad asks for two "pop-culture buffs" and one who "likes to get
to the bottom of things". The boys decide to be the pop culture buffs
while
Angie decides to get to the bottom of things. Dennis and "Mr.
Danger" will be commanding a boat...with holes in the bottom. They
are to paddle the boat around a small cove to four life preservers. Each
one has a two-word clue on it (like "Child Boulder") which will lead -
with the help of our friend, the synonym - to a two word title or name (like
"Kid Rock"). Angie, in deep-sea headgear, will be walking along
the bottom of the cove (and pulling the boat along as well) to pairs of treasure
chests, each with a clue on the lid. She must match the right chest clue
to the answer of the ring clue (which the boys will relay down to her, though
they won't be able to hear her). Each chest has a bag in it, the right one
having a bag with a gold bar inside it. The bags must be pulled up to the
boat by the boys. The object is to get through the four clues and get the
bags to shore BEFORE the boat sinks and Dennis and "Mr. Danger" gets
wet.
For each gold bar they bring to the dock, $10,000 will be added to the
group pot. If the boat sinks, however, NO money will be added. To
make it fair, the boat DOES have small bailing buckets. Angie gets the helmet
on and goes below the surface, a little skittish because of a phobia about
"open ocean". No sooner do "Mr. Danger" and Mr. Rodman
get into the boat when the four holes start to let water into it. But
since they have four large feet among them, they decide to plug the holes with
their feet and bail when needed. With everyone in place, Ahmad counts
down...and the task begins! Angie pulls the boat...but it's quite heavy.
Somehow, they manage to get to the first ring: "Celebrity
Battles". Angie knows this right off the bat, but she has to wait for
the boys to figure it out. It takes a while, but they eventually get
"Star Wars" (without much help from Dennis, I might add). Ahmad
confirms this and they relay the message down to Angie. The two chests
says "Debuted in 1977" and "Debuted in 1979". She
doesn't know which one it is, so she guesses: 1979. She gets the bag
out...but she doesn't see how she's going to get it to the surface. She
even tries pulling the ring down to hook the bag to it . Ahmad finally
tells the boys to drop the wire basket down to her. They do, she places
the bag in it and "Mr. Danger" hauls it up. Angie is grunting and
straining and cursing as she pulls the boat towards the next chests and ring,
following the underwater rail. As the boys bail, "Mr. Danger"
pulls on Angie's ropes to try and get them closer to the ring faster (and Dennis
freaks me out by actually CALLING Mark "Mr. Danger"). They
finally get there and the ring reads, "Feline Forest". Dennis,
the sports nut that he is, figures out "Feline" means
"Tiger"...which leads to the right answer: "Tiger
Woods". "Mr. Danger" yells down to Angie, "Look for a
black man who don't think he's black!" The two chests for Angie to
choose say, "Won Masters in 1996" and "Won Masters in
1997". Again, Angie guesses: '97. The basket is hauled up -
much to "Mr. Danger"'s yelling, and they're off to the next clue. As
Angie pulls the boat, "Mr. Danger" pulls back. It takes a few
tries for Ahmad to get it through to the super-zero to leave the ropes
alone. He essentially leans back on the bow for balance and paddles a bit
while Dennis does all the bailing. They finally reach the third ring:
"A Volkswagen's Existence". This stumps the boys for a
while...until Dennis figures out a certain popular VW car is a
"Beetle"...or a "Bug". From there, it's easy: "A
Bug's Life". The two chests below say, "Movie With Kevin
Spacey" and "Movie With Kelsey Grammer". Once again, it's a
total guess for Angie: Kelsey Grammer. The bag is lifted up and it's on to
the final ring. Or IS it? The men are busy bailing the boat, which now
has two grown men in it and three heavy water-logged cloth bags in it.
Angie seems to be too fascinated with the aquatic wildlife to do anything.
And Dennis notes something: while bailing, "Mr. Danger" was actually
pouring water INTO the boat. He tells "Mr. Danger" (with
numerous four-letter words) to shape up and get moving! Angie manages to
get to the final set of chests, but the boys are STILL too busy to get the
ring. That is, DENNIS seems to be too busy, what with bailing and
all. "Mr. Danger" seems to be busy tipping the boat in trying to
keep his balance (or maybe not...who knows?). Eventually, however, the
water swamps the boat and Dennis and "Mr. Danger" go overboard, ending
the task.
TASK FAILED - $0 Back on shore, after "Mr. Danger" wrings out his cape (over Ahmad),
Ahmad says that, even though the players failed in the task, they would've only
added $10,000 to the pot anyway, since Angie missed the "Star Wars"
and "A Bug's Life" clues. She DID guess right that Tiger Woods
won the Masters in '97, but that was it. Afterwards, "Mr. Da..."
er, Mark mentions that Dennis did NOT have his foot on one of the holes, letting
more water in than necessary AND that Angie SHOULD have known the movie stuff,
being an actress. But the threesome pick up their briefcases and head for
lunch. At lunch, the three discuss among themselves about the last game.
They don't out-and-out accuse anyone of sabotage, but the feelings are most
certainly there. They then ask each other who they believe The Mole
is. Angie thinks it's Mark, Mark thinks it's Angie...and Dennis doesn't
seem to know. Dennis thinks that the game has become a lot easier with
three people, since there's a 50-50 chance of just GUESSING who The Mole
is. Mark thinks it's Angie because she had lost the team money on almost
every game. Angie thinks Dennis would be a good Mole because "the
producers probably thought, 'We don't know what he's gonna do next!'" and
didn't commit to anything the entire game. For the final task of the season,
titled Flashback, the three players are blindfolded and brought back to
the "art gallery", only with photographs on a board instead of
paintings on the wall. Ahmad asks them to choose who among them is the
Fastest, the best at Cleaning Up and has the Best Memory. They decide the
order: Dennis, Mark and Angie. They place their briefcases down, take off
their blindfolds and are given one minute to look at 27 photographs (without
talking to each other, else they face another fine). The game is a test of
memory which can add up to $54,000. After the minute is up they
leave the building. The Fastest will go in first and have one minute to
put up as many pictures as possible in the right spots. The Clean-Up then
has a minute to correct mistakes and put up more. The Best Memory would
then take the final minute to put as many in correct order as possible.
For each one that ends up in the right place at the end of the Best Memory's
minute, $2,000 is added to the pot. The 27 photos are based on American
Mole editions (this is based on an Australian and European show, in case
you didn't know), past and present, categorized and placed in chronological
order. The first of the five panels has five photographs: the top one
being ex-host and current-CNN show host Anderson Cooper, the middle two being
the first Mole, Kathyrn Price and the first winner, Stephen Cowles, the bottom two
being the Mole of The Next Betrayal, Bill McDaniel, and the winner of
THAT game, Dorothy Hui. The second panel has five as well: the top one
being Ahmad, the middle two being the Mole of Celebrity Mole: Hawaii - Frederique Van Der Wal
- and the winner of said contest - Kathy Griiffin, and the bottom two...being
black silhouettes with green backgrounds. The third set are the five who
were executed from Celebrity Mole: Yucatan in order: the top pair being
Ananda Lewis and Corbin Bernsen, the middle being Stephen Baldwin and Keisha
Knight-Pulliam, the bottom pair being Tracey Gold and...another
silhouette. The fourth panel has five of the first tasks done during
this game: El Taxi Loco and Artifact Or Fiction on the top, Pi�ata Party alone
in the middle and Clucks For Bucks and Wrestler Mariachi Maze. The final
panel had six of the other tasks: Tequila Shooters, Still Life, Donkey Rally,
The Graduate, Who Nose Celebrities? and Treasure Code. Dennis starts off by
grabbing pictures from the two boxes and places them on the board to the best of
his memory. His job is really to get as many up as possible and let the
other two fix it up nice. But he DOES manage to get ONE in place: one of
the three green silhouetted pictures. But seems to be more interested in
accuracy, since he only gets 9 or the 27 pictures up. Then it's Mark's
turn...and he is a house of fire, placing pictures up and putting them
right. He uses association practices he learned in school, saying,
"Baldwin and Keisha are married" and pairing them up. He didn't
realize until it was almost too late that the last two panels were the
tasks. In the end, he makes the total of right pictures 10 and the total
number of pictures at 17. Then it's Angie's turn. She only has 10
pictures to just put up, so she concentrates first on setting things
right. She remembers all on the left side, but the tasks throw her, since
she doesn't remember the order. Still she manages to get all the pictures
up...and gets 20 of them right! The only ones that were off were the
tasks: only 4 of the 11 pictures of the previous tasks were in the right order.
(BTW, the three green silhouettes represent Dennis, Mark and Angie, the last
three left in this Mole edition.) The group earns $40,000 for the pot. But
now comes the matter of the briefcases. It was a test in following
instructions. You see, INSIDE the briefcases are undeveloped photographic
paper...with the ANSWERS to this task taped on one side. Ahmad had given
EXPLICIT instructions to NOT open them and, if the players had followed those
instructions, the $40,000 would be DOUBLED, meaning the pot would go OVER the
quarter-million offered at the very start of the game. They'll determine
if the players peeked by developing the paper. If any briefcase has been
opened and exposed to outside light, the paper will turn black...and the money
for the task will NOT be doubled. Ahmad take the briefcases away to a dark
room to be developed...and, from the looks of things, ONE of them turns black! Upon
returning with the briefcases, Ahmad asks them, one by one, to open them and see
of the paper has turned black. Mark's hasn't, Angie's hasn't and
Dennis'...HAS! Dennis peeked?! And only got ONE RIGHT?!?
Hmm... Dennis says later that it's all part of the strategy of the game: to
throw things for a loop and make people think YOU'RE The Mole so that they screw
up on The Final Quiz and give YOU the money. He apologizes
(half-heartedly) to his teammates and, with the tasks completed, they get ready
for their final dinner together.
TASK
FINISHED - $40,000 Wh...what? No Three Questions?!? So
endeth a tradition. :( Mark shifts his thinking and claims that Dennis is The
Mole, simply because of what happened in the final game. At the final dinner,
Ahmad says that the table was full when they started this trek a few weeks
ago. Now it's down to three. One of them will win 222Gs, one will be
The Mole's final victim and one...well, what do YOU think?! Ahmad wishes
them all good luck as they toast the game. On a moonlit night in the ruins of
the Yucatan, the three players sit in front of Ahmad Rashad, laptops in front of
them. As per tradition, the Final Quiz will be taken by all three
celebrities at once. Furthermore, also per tradition, the Final Quiz will
take the celebs all the way back to the beginning of the game, testing their
retentive skills. When all is said and done, the one who answers more of
the 20 questions correctly than the other non-Mole player will win the game and
the money. In the case of a tie, the one who answers in the fastest amount
of time will win. With that and another "Good Luck", Ahmad sets
them off to take...
THE FINAL QUIZ! Angie: "Mark Curry...he's funny...I can't quite get a read on him. (Treasure Code highlights)" 2. How was The Mole introduced to the "Taxi Loco" game? Dennis:
"It's easy to lie, but it's very difficult to really lie good. (Angie
saying she saw Mark's artifact while shopping)"
5. What did The Mole do during the "Moon over Yucatan" game? Angie:
"The pig was the first pi�ata chosen by Mark. Men are NOT going to
pick something pink. And it had the exemption."
8. How much money did The Mole's team win for the pot during the "Clucks for Bucks" game? Dennis:
"Somebody forgot to tell me about one little piece of advice...take the
belt with you!"
10. Did The Mole earn money for the pot during the "Tequila Shooters" game?
Angie: "We're all on the bridge, Mark's in front and he stops, causing
all of us to lose our bottles."
11. What was The Mole's role during the "Still Life" painting game?
Mark: "Angie painted...Mick Jagger on drugs looking at himself in a
broken mirror."
12. At the 3rd Execution Dinner, what did The Mole say their adult film name would be? Angie: "Mark sabotaged quite a bit...he put the banana in the
basket."
14. During "The Graduate" game, how many game questions did The Mole answer correctly? Mark: "Dennis Rodman is definitely The Mole. You don't pass up an
exemption! (Dennis passes on one in Exemption Or Bust)"
16. Who was sitting next to The Mole at the last Execution Ceremony? Mark: "(Dennis) knew opening the briefcase would sabotage money from the
group. Only a Mole could do that."
20. WHO IS THE MOLE?! Angie Everhart: "I'm not The Mole." Of course, exposing The Mole NOW wouldn't be any fun, would it? The
final episode will decide who is the winner of $222,000, who is the runner-up to
receive nothing...and WHO IS THE MOLE! Episode 7 (airdate 2/18/04)
So after a number of hectic days in the Yucatan, we are back on the mainland
with Ahmad Rashad, several weeks after the Final Quiz was taken. In a
confessional booth nearby are the three remaining players. One is the
winner of $222,000. One is the last executed player. One is The
Mole. First, let us recap the six episodes leading to this momentous occasion: Episode
1 - The players are introed in a Loco Taxi ride, a coalition is made, girls go
skinny dipping for an exemption and Ananda Lewis is the first ditched. Episode 2 -
Stephen whacked an exemption out of pi�ata, no one could agree on who to give
ANOTHER exemption to and Corbin Bersen is
executed...again! Episode 3 - The players have an a-maze-ing run at mariachis
and wrestlers (something the WWE would put together a few weeks later) and Stephen Baldwin is
tossed...again (as predicted by Dennis)! Episode
4 - The executed players execute Tracey with dodge balls, and Keisha Knight-Pulliam is
executed from the game. Episode 5 - The players ride their asses around in
suspicious circles, Tracey Gold moves to the head of the class to nab
$10,000...then became
the last one to leave. Episode 6 - Mr. Danger's boat sunk, Angie was roving
around Davey Jones' locker, "D-Rod" took a $40,000 crash course in
memory and flunked miserably...and the Final Quiz is taken. Of course,
it wouldn't be a Mole final ep without the executed players brought
back. So we welcome back Ananda, Corbin, Stephen, Keisha and Tracey back
to the show. Let's go down the line and see who everyone thinks is the
Mole and the winner: Ananda: "If I knew I would've won myself. I
think the winner is...Angie. And I think The Mole is Mark Curry" And, now,
let's take a look at what made each of the three finalists a good candidate for
The Mole: ANGIE EVERHART: She's fiery and may be using that temperament to
hide her identity. She made everyone believe the wrong artifact in
"Artifact or Fiction" was the right one, she stepped out of bounds in
"Pi�ata Party" and lost them MORE money in "Execution Or
Bust". MARK CURRY: He's a funny dude and might be using that humor to put
up a smokescreen for his evil intentions. Why would he pick a pink pi�ata
if he's such a manly man? He also stalled in "Tequila Shooters"
and didn't bring back a single bottle, and he deliberately dumped water INTO the
boat to capsize it in "Treasure Code". DENNIS RODMAN: He didn't take
a single note in his journal, he's laid back and uncaring about what others
think...which means he's either The Mole...or he's simply being Dennis
Rodman. He didn't want an exemption and was willing to lose $25,000 from
the pot to keep it from him and, despite peeking at the ANSWERS to
"Flashback", he only got one picture right. OK, enough of the
beating around the bushes. Time to discover the winner. In a
throwback to Mole 2: The Next Betrayal, Ahmad has three keys, but only
the winner's key will open their door from the inside. He places one key
in the slot of each confessional door, the players take the keys and, at Ahmad's
instruction, try the keys on the doors. The right-side door clicks... The
door opens wide... And out comes... DENNIS
RODMAN - WINNER: $222,000! (Wolviegram
to Gordon: Yes, Gordo, you were wrong all the way, the first time you missed
guessing The Mole in four tries. Of course, if it makes you feel better,
I'm 0-for-4 myself.) Dennis tells Amhad that his nonchalant
attitude was all part of his strategy. And, apparently, it worked to
perfection! Well, now we know who won...but is Mark or
Angie The Mole? Dennis knows, so he puts the lone key in the slot of the
center door. And the door opens to reveal it is... ANGIE
EVERHART- THE MOLE! (See, not even the CELEBS knew! They
all thought Mark or Dennis!) Corbin: "I knew it all along!" Unfortunately,
that leaves Mark Curry as the Mole's final victim. He's a little bummed,
but not much. He thought it was Dennis, and then Angie, and he
flip-flopped back and forth between them...and he ended up backing the wrong
horse. But he had fun anyway. Dennis had predicted all the way at the
beginning that'd he'd make it to the Final Three, but that was just his cocky
nature. Once he got past the first few executions, he became more sure
that he'd make it to the finals. He wasn't really paying much attention
early on but, as potential Moles began leaving, he started picking up more and
more clues. Dennis and Mark BOTH predicted victory from Day 1. Mark
created suspicion through humor, so it was hard to get a real read on him.
Dennis used his bad-boy persona to confuse the players and, though he didn't
take notes, he seemed to know a lot more than he let on, like he had a
photographic memory. In the first Quiz, Dennis was the slowest but
outscored five others. Mark had the top score in the first two Quizzes,
especially after he totaled up Angie's sabotages over the second episode
ALONE. Everyone else thought he was playing as The Mole, but Mark was the
ONLY one to pick Angie in the final question of the second Quiz (Who is The
Mole?). However, when Angie rocked at "Clucks for Bucks" the next
day, she slipped down the suspicion ladder for Mark. Dennis and Mark then
focused on Tracey, who goofed in "Wrestler Mariachi Maze" taking the
wrong turn at the last second. Dennis bet on Tracey across the board
(which at least gave him ONE right answer with that "male or female"
question) but Mark divided his questions between Tracey and other suspects. Angie
went back to the top spot of Mark's list after "Donkey Rally", and
Mark said, "I can't believe they used two models in a row (as the
Mole)." Dennis was thoroughly convinced that Tracey was The
Mole. But had better thank his stars that Tracey gave him the (unwanted)
exemption at "The Graduate" because, otherwise, he would have been
executed, having done the WORST at that night's Quiz; he most likely only got 1
out of 10 right ("male or female"). Mark got 8 out of 10 on that
Quiz and, had he stayed focused on Angie, he might have had a shot.
Tracey, however, only got 5 out of 10 and, since Dennis was exempt, she was
gone. Dennis was stunned, not having a prime suspect anymore. But there
was one day left to rethink strategy. Mark KNEW Angie was The Mole and
tried to draw suspicion on himself in the "Treasure Code" task.
Dennis wasn't buying it for a second, though; she saw Angie stalling underwater
and knew HIMSELF that Angie was The Mole. All HE had to do was make Mark
believe HE was The Mole. And, in "Flashback", he did it
perfectly. Not only did he only get one picture right ON PURPOSE, but he
cost the team $40G by looking in the briefcase that he should not have
opened. Mark did a 180 at this point and was convinced that Dennis was the
Mole. Mark tanked the Final Quiz...but it may not have been necessary
since Dennis - who supposedly took no notes and didn't care about observing -
got 17 out of the 20 questions right on the Final Quiz! Ahmad
tells Mark that the comedian sabotaged in just about every episode...and Mark
admits that he wasn't even TRYING sometimes. Angie smiles, saying Mark
made her job SO much easier. Dennis admits to opening the briefcase on
purpose, not for strategy. He refused the exemption because he was
"too qualified" to take it at the time and he knew that he'd get in
the finals through a "big moment"...which was Tracey giving him the
exemption. Tracey is stunned that she actually saved Dennis from execution
that night. She thought it was either of the boys, barely considering it
might be Angie. Then we have a montage of the returning Celebrity Mole
players: Corbin and Stephen. They decided to take different approaches to
this season. Stephen said he wouldn't be in the other players' faces so
much while Corbin would observe behavior mole. They both learned their
lesson about Frederique back in Hawaii and would NOT be charmed by Angie in the
same way. But old habits are hard to break...and, for these two, it was
near-impossible! They hit on her from the very beginning in the "Loco
Taxi" and immediately disqualified her as a suspect. And Corbin's propensity
for finding clues that are normally reserved for the TV audience? It was
back in spades this year. (Little did he know...well, you'll see later
on.) What he REALLY needed was a coalition (seeing how well it worked for
Kathy Griffin in the previous Celebrity Mole). He tried one with
Stephen, but Stephen had been one step ahead of Corbin and teamed with
Tracey. In fact, Stephen thought that Corbin WAS The Mole. He even
told Tracey to get off of Angie because that's what Corbin suspected at the time
and that was a Mole-ish thing to do. In their brief time in the game, they
suspected EVERYONE...except Angie. And, because of that, they were both
executed early...AGAIN! Yeah, they really suck at this game...but we love
'em anyway! OK,...so how did Angie do it and stay off of some many players'
radars? With obvious sabotage mixed with devious charm, of course.
Let's go show-by-show, shall we? Episode 1 - "Artifact or Fiction":
She convinced everyone that he saw Mark's artifact while shopping with her
sister the other day before the game began. She played Stephen in this
game, counting on his gullibility towards her to convince him that she was
right. It worked. Everyone thought Corbin was lying...and $10,000
was prevented from being added to the pot. Episode 2 - "Pi�ata
Party": She was SUPPOSED to be a "Swinger" in that game, but
everyone clamored for positions so quickly, she couldn't become one. So
she thought on her feet...and she feigned nausea at the idea of being in those
big pi�atas in the air and got switched (even the PRODUCERS thought she might
have been sick). It was then easy to step out of bounds...and Corbin and
Stephen went to her defense in that. She had roped in two suckers...and
cost the team another $10,000 with almost
none being the wiser. Episode 2 - "Execution or Bust": Here's where
the fiery temper kicked in. When Corbin demanded the exemption for
himself, Angie answered back venomously, which made him talk back mean to
her. This started a huge heated argument, mostly pointed at Corbin.
That made it easy for them not to be able to choose someone for the
exemption. Since $25,000 wasn't added and $25,000 was LOST, Angie helped
keep $50,000 out of the pot. Angie was
obvious, but everyone thought she was just a "fiery redhead".
Little did anyone know she was laughing REALLY hard after flipping Corbin off. Episode
3 - "Wrestler Mariachi Maze": She played the "inept
navigator" to a T. She played on the "model equal stupid"
angle and fooled everyone...but Mark, of course. Her constantly twisting
and turning of herself so that she could lead Dennis down the wayward path in
the maze cost the team another $20,000. Episode
4 - "Still Life": Remember that God-awful painting she made from
Mark's description? It was deliberately bad. It was just sheer luck
that Dennis had that one right for a minute or so. Even if Keisha and
Tracey had better paintings, Angie's was so unrecognizable, chances are he would
not have got it right anyway. Another $20,000
lost by bad artistry. Episode 5 - "Donkey Rally": All Angie had to
do to screw this game up was be a bad translator. All the Spanish words
WERE in the dictionary provided to her...but she again put on the "dumb
model" robe and said they weren't. Who knows HOW Mark got the fish
one right, but Angie kept $30,000 out...and
let the boys' fines do the rest. Episode 5 - "The Graduate":
Angie played the "dumb model" to the hilt here. She said it
PAINED her to miss so many grade-school level questions. And, for each one
she missed, she lost a grand for the pot. In total, she lost only $5,000...but
the other players' ineptitude more than made up for it. She also kept out
another $10,000 through her prodding that
Tracey should keep the money for herself and not for the pot. Episode 6 -
"Treasure Code": Her last bit of Mole behavior came when she did what
the producers asked and became the one in the water while the two heavy men sat
in the boat and watched it sink. She dawdled going from clue to clue and,
eventually, the boat capsized, costing the team $40,000
more. All she had to do after that was rock in "Flashback" to
take more suspicion off of her (a classic Mole move) and hope that someone
bit. Mark did...but Dennis didn't. In total, a whopping $195,000
was kept out of the pot thanks to Angie Everhart. "For all of you who
doubted me," she says, "$195,000 later isn't a bad day's work!" Angie
admits to Ahmad that it was EASY to get mad at Corbin during the "Exemption
or Bust" task because EVERYONE was mad at him at one time or another.
Corbin admits that Angie did a GREAT job and says, "You shouldn't CALL
yourself a supermodel because that's a demeaning term. You did a TERRIFIC
job as an actress!" And now to the "hidden clues" for the TV
audience. And they almost all have one thing in common: Angie's lucky
number 7! Episode 1: Angie picks up Journal #7; "El Loco Taxi" was
taxi #151...and 1+5+1=7; Question #7 of the first Quiz ("What color top was
The Mole wearing at dinner last night?") had the #7 answer ("The Mole
wore no top") as the right one. Corbin is MAD that he never
followed up on his hunch about the candles. He even points out that, in
the Celebrity Mole: Yucatan logo on the screen, there's a light seven in
line with an A in "YUCATAN" and the "E" in
"MOLE"...7-A-E...7 = Angie Everhart. But Ahmad thinks it COULD
have been Mark Curry because of the "M C" in "Celebrity
Mole"...and Corbin quickly breaks down and sobs, being comforted by
Stephen. Oh,...and what episode is this? Number 7! And there were
only SIX last season! Hmmm... And so all is said
and done. Dennis Rodman walks away with 222 "large" and Angie
Everhart leaves with
the satisfaction of a Mole job well done. And the others? Well, they
leave with the bitter taste that they had been duped and dumbfounded by...THE
MOLE! Here's hoping NEXT year's edition is a non-celeb version...though I
wouldn't mind Ahmad still being host. He's no Anderson Cooper...but who
is?
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