Australian Mole 4
The Mole: In Paradise
Episode 3

Greg had most questions wrong on the questionnaire (which by the way only has 6 questions this season). He got eliminated and was sent home.

Day 4 - New Caledonia
It's 6:30 in the morning and the contestants are still asleep, but the host wakes them up. They are told to go to the foyer of the hotel with their bags packed, because they have a helicopter to catch. Only six of the eight contestants are woken up though. Two girls can sleep in a bit longer:

Nikki and Petrina will have an assignment on their own. They get room service and with it comes an iPack.On it is a video of the host who tells them they get the chance to get their luggage back. To get it back, they will have to remove the same amount of luggage from the boys as they removed from the girls two episodes ago. They unpacked 27 kilos, so now Nikki and Petrina have to unpack 27 kilos from the guys' luggage.

The others don't know anything of this and are in the helicopter on their way to the next challenge where they might win $60,000! They have to team up in pairs. One will be in the helicopter, guiding the pilot where to fly to, the other will be hanging under the helicopter trying to hit a target that's being pulled by a speedboat!
Every time they hit the bullseye, they get $20,000. They're allowed to drop the bomb on the target three times. The first one's for free, but the second try costs $1,000 and the third one costs $2,000.
Josh, Alison and Cam will be the ones hanging from the helicopter trying to hit the target with the bomb. They are geared up and get safety instructions.
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Josh:"I don't know who dreams up with these crazy challenges, but there's some nutter out there. The first thing I thought was 'This just can't be done.'"
Alison:"My eyes were watering and I don't know why, but I was trying to concentrate. And they started saying that if I would start spinning around, I had to move my arms out so I don't hit the propellers! That freaked me out!"

The first pair starts off:


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Josh:"To be slung from a helicopter, chasing a target that's being towed from a boat and having someone in the helicopter getting you in position and then trying to pull a flour bomb out of your pouch and bomb the moving target.. it just sounds insane!"

Every time Shaun tells the pilot to go left or right, it starts moving Josh around, swinging from side to side, 40 meters above the water. The helicopter flies over the target, but Josh still doesn't throw the bomb. Eventually he drops it, but misses the target. That bomb was for free... the next one costs $1,000.
They try again and he hits the middle of the target, right in the bullseye!! They win $20,000 for it, but the second bomb cost $1,000, so they have $19,000 now.
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Cam:"Whether or not that was an accident, who knows, but I was very surprise he hit it. Especially because he hit it so well."

Next:


Alison is quite scared for this. Nathan is making the helicopter move left and right, which makes Alison swing around like a tea bag!
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Alison:"Nathan was above. At first we must have been turning really fast. I saw the propellers, which was freaking me out, so I was trying look at where we were flying."

She swinging so much left and right that, when they reach the target, she misses it with the bomb.
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Shaun:"The way Alison was getting thrown around was scary! There's a possibility Nathan could be The Mole in that."

Alison's second bomb will cost the team $1,000 from the kitty. She misses again and now tries her last bomb, that costs $2,000, but she misses by several meters. They lost $3,000.
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Kris:"When she was throwing the bags of flour they were so far off target. Each one seem to have been thrown way too late!"

The last pair still have the chance to put another $20,000 into the kitty:

Kris (in the heli) and Cam (hanging under the helicopter).
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Josh:"I sensed that, just before she left, Kris wasn't feeling part of the team, because Cam hadn't been giving her instructions at all."
Kris:"We had our training and were assigned our partners and never once during the whole assignment did Cam approach me or speak to me."

They start off badly. Kris is making the helicopter go left and right and left again, swinging Cam around.
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Cam:"I was all over the place right from the start. I couldn't face the right direction, because I was being pulled back half the time. When I approached the target I wasn't hanging right. Just when I was above the target I was hanging with my back turned towards it. I dropped my bomb and was just a bit too late."

So the first bomb is a miss. Next one's $1,000, but Cam and Kris aren't working as a team.
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Shaun:"Cam had a very rough ride, he couldn't straighten up for some reason, so whether or not he was intentionally not trying to steer himself, I don't know."
Kris:"I couldn't see Cam. I ws trying to see under the nose of the helicopter and I could see the target. I was saying left, left, right and I felt in my heart that it was straight in front of him."

But Cam still spinning and swinging aroud and misses by meters. The last one costs them $2,000. Again he's turning into all directions and he misses again. The group loses another $3,000 and they win $13,000 instead of the $60,000 that was up for grabs.
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Kris:"I don't feel there was a team between him and me. It was pretty straight forward what we had to do, but a bit of communication from Cam would have been nice. There was mole activity definitely. I'm still concerned with Cam and how he monopolizes challenges when we're going to do them."

The group returns and Nikki and Petrina have to tell what they did today. The girls like it of course. The guys are a bit puzzled when they find out they have lost luggage. Nikki and Petrina found a blue silky scarf in Nathan's bag and tease him with it. Nikki can't find any underwear in Cam's bag. It turns out he never wears any! The girls have their stuff back, but don't win any money with it.

The guys will be getting their stuff back soon, but they don't know it yet. Their clothes are now at the bottom of the ocean in a net. The group splits up. The boys go in an old taxi boat, while the girls go on a luxury catamaran. Each boat goes into a different direction. The guys have to go diving, using old diving helmets. The host reveals (via walki talki) what they have to dive up: their clothes, which are in a net attached to a buoy. They have to get fully dressed under water. The girls will also be doing a challenge and the combined total of time they get is 40 minutes.
Time starts. The guys have to wear old heavy steel diving helmets to go under water and get changed.
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Cam:"They probably weigh about 100 kilo! It has a screen in front of your face, so you can't scratch your face or anything like that."

The girls are somewhere else at sea. They have to make a jigsaw puzzle. There are 24 pieces of the puzzle attached to ropes under the water. Twelve pieces are correct, the other twelve are wrong. For every wrong piece they dive up, they lose one minute. The boys' time will be added to their time and if the added times are under 40 minutes, they win $5,000.
Nikki is the diver. They need communication. The picture of the jigsaw is a picture of themselves. For every correct piece, there's a piece that won't fit and that will cost them one minute. So they have to tell Nikki which pieces to dive up. After 3 minutes, they already have a wrong piece. Rather than thinking about what pieces they need, no one tells Nikki which pieces she has to bring up, so she is pulling every piece she can find.
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Petrina:"Nikki could see under water. I was telling her what we needed and she did pull up a few pieces we didn't need. She even pulled up two of me at the same time. She took two pictures of me out of the water at the same time and of course we wouldn't need both of them. Maybe she was trying to bring up all pieces so we would lose time."

They already have three minutes of penalty time. The girls don't know what the guys are doing and vice versa.
The guys are getting dressed under water. We see someone's bare behind, which must be from Cam seeing that he doesn't wear underwear. They already doing the challenge for more than 23 minutes.

The girls are quicker, but they already have 5 wrong pieces, costing 5 minutes. Kris tries to assemble the jigsaw and is doing well.
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Alison:"Kris, who I've been suspicious about. She was putting everything together very quickly. I was surprised to come back with a puzzle and see it was already put together. That's probably the first task she did properly."

They have finished the puzzle! But how much time did it take? And the boys are still doing their part of the assignment. They get back on board, completely wet. It's taken them 25 minutes. They go to the girls. They did 8 minutes for the puzzle, but took 6 wrong pieces out of the water, costing 6 minutes. Together with the boys' time they took 39 minutes! Just one minute under the 40 limit. They win $5,000, but just barely. The six wrong pieces of puzzle brought them dangerously close to failing the assignment.
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Alison:"Nikki was pulling a lot of the same things out, but as soon as I told her, she did her best to try to pass the challenge."
Nikki:"I was like 'Look do you need this.' and they were going 'Yeah yeah yeah just give it to me.' so I was just diving and I didn't know what pieces I brought up."
Petrina:"Nikki is the Mole, she deserves an oscar! I think she totally has us all fooled!"

Day 5
At breakfast they find digital cameras on the table. They have to split in three groups. Each group must record three things. When they have completed one thing, they have call the host, who will then give another one. If they record 8 out of the 9 correctly, they will win $10,000. For each thing they fail to capture, from 8 down, it will cost $1,000 from the kitty. Their first task is to take a picture of themselves with a group of 10 strangers. All of them have to look directly into the camera. The groups are taken to three different locations to do their assignment.

Petrina and Cam are one pair. They go into a restaurant where Petrina asks:"Est-ce que je peux prendre une photo de vous pour la télévision?" they agree. They also find someone who wants to make the picture. They count it. They indeed have 10 people and the two of them.

Nikki, Shaun and Josh also find a group which is wlling to pose with them. Underaged kids don't count, so they ask if the kid can step aside. Their photo is quickly taken too.

Nathan, Alison and Kris go to a pub and quickly find enough people too. 
All groups have 30 minutes to complete all 9 photos. It should be plenty of time, as long as they don't make mistakes.
Someone take a photo of the group of ten plus the thre contestants. But when they count it over again, Alison sees they only have 9 strangers. Nathan suggests to first do the other two pictures and then do this one last, but the girls don't want that, because they already have a group of people aroudn them there. They quickly ask to pose again.

When a group has taken a photo, they have to call the host for their next assignment. Petrina calls him. They have to make a photo of the two of them standing next to each other wearing each other's clothes! All clothes, except for underwear. Nikki calls in and she has to do the same with Josh. They all laugh.
Cam and Petrina get into a restaurant to the toilets to exchange clothes. Luckily, Cam is wearing underwear today! They exchange clothes and ask someone to take a picture.
So are Nikki and Josh in the park. Josh is sweaty and Nikki tells him he won't let him put on her shirt with all that sweat. So he cleans off a little first. Josh then takes a picture of them.

Alison, Nathan and Kris redo their first photo. They are four minutes behind the others and Nathan calls for the next assignment. He and Alison have to exchange clothes. They run to a place to get changed (somewhere behind a wall) but then Nathan realizes he has forgotten his backpack and runs back to get it.

Petrina meanwhile calls the host for their next task. They have to record a 15 second video of a local singing the chorus of the Australian song Waltzing Matilda. Shaun also hears this when he calls the host.
Petrina and Cam are teaching a guy the song, but they don't know the lyrics anymore. Eventually they do and they record the man singing it.
The other group also finds someone to sing it.

Nathan and Alison are exchanging clothes and racing the clock. Kris takes a picture of them and then next they have to record someone singing the song. Kris finds someone and teaches her.
The other groups have made it back on time, but Alison, Kris and Nathan are still not there. They one minute left, but make it just in time. Nathan forgetting his backpack and Alison blocking someone's face in the first picture almost lost them the assignment!
Time to check the chips with the pictures. First up: Kris, Nathan and Alison.
They have a photo of ten strangers and them two.
They have a picture of Nathan and Alison in each others' clothes.
Lastly they watch the short video of Waltzing Matilda.

Next is group 2: Josh, Nikki and Shaun
They also have the photo with ten and themselves.
A photo of Josh and Nikki with each other's clothes.
And also a video of someone singing Waltzing Matilda.

It appears they have so far succeeded in six tasks. They only need two more to win $10,000. Time to check the last chip from Petrina and Cam:
The host checks it, but can't find anything. It is empty... The disk was correctly formatted and ready for use. But there's nothing on it... Everyone is shocked.
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Petrina:"When Grant was saying the disk was empty and there was nothing there, I was  looking at the screen in absolute disbelieve. I looked at Cam and was just thinkin... what's going on?!"
Cam:"I don't know what happened... funny things happen in this game. Petrina was with me the entire time until we arrived here. We checked them again and everything was still on it and was fine."
Josh:"Cam would be an excellent Mole. He is a lot brighter than he comes across. He has this 'I'm a fireman. Trust me.' kind of nature."

Host:"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about that. Three images have failed to come in. You had to get 8 out of 9. Currently, not counting those three, it's 6 out of 9, which costs $2,000 out of the kitty."
But he has somethign more to say... they watch back at Kris, Nathan and Alison's recording of a girl singing Waltzing Matilda. She is under 18, which didn't count. So they lose another $1,000.
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Nathan:"Kris picked the person and she was under 18. I don't know if she did it on purpose..."

So they lost $3,000 in this challenge. Mostly due to the blank disk, because if Petrina and Cam's three pictures would have been correct, they would still have 8 out of 9. They have $36,000 left in the kitty.
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Kris:"From what I gathered, Cam was left holding the camera. Petrina twice went to the bathroom. There's only one thing you can think and that's that Cam erased their assignment."

Suspicions
Alison:"I'm trying to do my best to choose who I think is the most suspicious. But every day someone turns around and they trick me twice."
Shaun:"I'm not happy with Cam and Petrina's efforts. But that's the aim of the game, to sabotage."
Kris:"I have a strong gut feeling that Josh is The Mole, but today after what Cam has done. Everyone is thinking is it Cam, isn't it Cam?"
Nathan:"Kris is my target, but I think everyone is working on different angles. I can't pick Cam as The Mole. I spent too much blokey time with him."
Cam:"When I adjust my strategy at questionaire time, I'll get in trouble. We'll see what happens. It's just want ot keep on going."
Alison:"Petrina didn't touch the camera for their tasks. Cam said that Petrina didn't touch the camera and all of a sudden their work is gone..."
Petrina:"I went to the toilet. The only time that Cam was left alone with the camera. And then we had to hand our chip in."
Cam:"I hope I won't be eliminated... but we'll see how we go."
Josh:"I know who The Mole is and everyone else is starting to finding that Mole too. I don't know what my strategy will be to win this thing. Frankly I'm too tired. I just want to go to bed."

Suspicious in this episode
Alison and Cam couldn't hit the target and wasted $3,000 each.
Kris was making Cam shake around a lot on the helicopter.
Nikki took 6 wrong puzzle pieces out of the water, costing 6 valuable minutes.
Cam goes commando, but conveniently has his underwear on when he and Petrina have to change clothes.
Alison is blocking someone in the first picture, so they have to redo that photo.
Nathan forgets his bag and loses precious time to go get it back.
Kris chose an underaged person to sing Waltzing Matilda. Neither Alison nor Nathan commented about it.
Petrina and Cam's photo disk was empty.

Elimination

Everyone is shocked. Shaun even cries. But the host has a surprise for the remaining contestants:
They can get this eliminated person back into the game! If they choose to do so, they earn $50,000! If even just one of them votes to have the eliminated person back, that person will come back and they will win the money. Find out if they go for it next episode...

Episode 4

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