The second Australian Mole
Episode 10

Michael was the Mole. But what did he do? Who did he deceive? Who suspected him and how soon in the game did they suspect him? And of course: How could you have known?

WHO EVERYONE THOUGHT THE MOLE WAS BEFORE THEY WERE ELIMINATED
Helen: Mal
John: Fiona
Angela: Did think Michael was the Mole and then changed her mind in the episode she was eliminated
Fiona: Hal
Shane: Brooke
Emily: Brooke
Mal: Michael, but he didn't know enough about the Mole

WHO EVERYONE THOUGHT THE MOLE WAS BEFORE THE FINAL EPISODE WAS AIRED
Helen: Brooke
John: Michael
Angela: Michael
Fiona: Hal
Shane: Michael
Emily: Michael
Mal: Brooke

THE SECRET DEAL AND OTHER INFO
Hal, Shane and Emily formed an alliance.  If any of the three win, they would give the other two in the alliance $20,000 each, unless one of them is the mole.
Fiona found out she was pregnant during the filming of the show.
Fiona used her trust with John to convince him that she was the mole.
Fiona hated Angela because she knew she was only on the show to start her acting career.
Shane starred in a television commercial after being on the mole.

ACTS OF SABOTAGE

• In the assault course, he purposely went last on the flying fox so he could waste time taking his harness off at the end.  He directs the group around an obstacle in the assault course wasting valuable time.
• He convinced John that the clue in the bunker with the timebomb was not relevant.
• He runs slowly through the pitch-black maze so that he could be caught.  He also picked up one of the beacons before he was caught so it was out of play for the following contestants.  He blamed a faulty torch in the maze when he returned to the group, but the torch worked for the entire game.
• Michael knowing Victoria so well appears to be the most valuable person for the hostage challenge.  However he does not correct Mal when he communicated an incorrect suburb name to the contestants in the car.  It lost the car which lost the challenge.
• In the rescue assignment, he walks in the opposite direction from Hal and Shane's screams (you could hear it on a stereo tv!).  Whenever he and Brooke stopped to yell for Shane and Hal, he did it near a waterfall so they couldn't hear anything.
• Being a builder, he made a useless attempt to block a window in the terrorist attack.  The same window was used by a terrorist to get into the homestead.  He takes the nightvision and would be the only person to see if anyone was coming - but he doesn't use it at all.  The terrorists enter the back of the house, which is where Michael was guarding.
• In the driving test, Michael influenced the others to ignore the road rules.
• In Hitchcock Hotel he was given an exercise bike as a clue and he didn't touch it for 35 minutes.  He also stopped using the exercise bike in vital moments.  He further slows the team down by going in a different direction while looking for Grant.
• In the kayak, Michael stops kayaking whenever the boat (with the other contestants) has moved away from him.

• In Episode One, Michael's dossier is being photocopied (as each contestant was introduced).  The photocopier gives off a laser effect which copies (scans) his profile - this is the same effect used for the title screen of the show.
• Whenever they won an assignment, Michael was the only person who didn't clap.
• After Brooke shoots Michael in the laser assignment, when he said "Thank you very much, Brooke", he didn't mean it sarcastically, he was saying it as the mole.
• In one of Michael's voice overs he says "Eliminations are a low point, knowing someone you've gotten close to is going to be eliminated" - listening to it carefully you can tell he knows he's never going to be eliminated.  Throughout the entire series he was the only contestant who never worried about the eliminations in his confession cams.

<~Episode 9

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