Belgian Mole 3
Episode 2

Christophe, the group's entertainer, was the first one to leave the game. There was a lot of confusion. Everyone had reasons to suspect everyone. They knew very well that after two days someone would have to go home again. Only person doesn't need to worry about the: The Mole.

Day 4 - Terni, Umbria (Italy)
It's 6:30 AM. Marc is already up and swimming in the pool. The host knocks on the bedroom doors of the others and tells them to get outside within 3 minutes. Everyone is still sleepy, but they go outside.
The host asks them to show the tubes. Corry taped it to her leg and takes it.
Sandra tells the host she lost the tube. The host has a surprise for her. He's got her tube and received it from The Mole. Because Sandra was so uncareful and couldn't show her tube when asked, it costs the group 500 euro. Corry, Nicole, Walter, Marc, Stijn, Bruno and Shadia do have the tubes on them. However, Inge doesn't have it and says she's lost it too. The host tells her he hasn't received the tube either... Someone is making himself suspicious. This also costs 500 euro. So 1,000 is deducted from the 5,600 they had. The pot now stands at 4,600 euro.

10:45 AM
The host tells them there are two challenges for today. For the first one he needs 2 all-rounders. They have to be clever, physically alright, but above all they have to be able to judge people well. Marc says that judging people is something for women. Two people are chosen:

Sandra                                      Walter

They are taken to the local library for a challenge, worth 2,000 euro. They have to find the super contestant. All contestants had to do several tests in Belgium before the game started. They had to do a physical test (running mostly), a test which tests their emotional stability and an IQ test. Walter and Sandra have to find out which contestant scored best on all three of those tests. They can not only watch videos of those tests, but also get personal pictures and school reports of the contestants.
They have to make a top three for every category (physique, EQ (Emotional Quotient) and IQ (Intelligence Quotient) ) by putting the pictures of the contestants they think score best, on a board. Then the host will grade it using the Master Mind principle (white means they have the correct person, but on the wrong place; black means they have the right person on the right spot). They watch some tapes of the test. They see Shadia running on a treadmill. We also see some shots of the IQ test:
Woman:"What's a thermometer?"
Corry:"A thermometer? Ehm... it's a device... to..."

Woman:"What kind of shape does a ball have?"
Nicole:"A sphere..."

Woman:"Which day comes after Saturday?"
Walter thinks for a while and then says:"Sunday..."
Sandra and Walter laugh when they see it.

Woman:"What's the Koran?"
Corry:"The bible of Marocco??"
The two keep on laughing. Sandra says she's not playing her tape, because she doesn't want Walter to see it.

Woman:"How many degrees does a circle have?"
Stijn:"... none?"
Sandra:"I thought he knew everything!"

Meanwhile, the others are on their way to their assignment. In the car, they think the challenges are linked together.
It's a challenge for 4,000 euro. They have to enter an old abandoned factory, find a bomb and disarm it. They get two hours to do so. To find the bomb, they have to find ways to get around the obstacles to get to the next room. They have to use their brains in order to get ahead. There's a red line on the floor, leading to a mirror with bowling pins on it. Nicole notices that there's a hole behind it. They search through the room and Inge find a bowling ball and a baseball bat. She throws the ball to the mirror, which breaks. Stijn destroys the mirror with the baseball bat and they can continue to the next room. They follow the red line, but then find out the line goes up through a hole in the ceiling and two ropes hanging from it. They have to climb up somehow. Inge doesn't think she'll manage to get up there...

The other two are also still working on their assignment. They look into Stijn's school report. It's all 9 and 9,5 on 10. They find a picture of Stijn when he was younger. The picture seems to have been made in a sports school... they watch his tape again and see him running and getting a heart rate of 205 b/m. Sandra thinks that's not good. Walter says if you can get such a high heart rate, you can go deep.
They also think Marc was good, physically.Walter says that they also have to look at the age. Someone can run well for his age and thus can be physically better than a younger person, even though that younger person runs faster. It's based on a different coefficient. They found a photo of Nicole, playing in a volleyball team. But Walter says they have to look at how it is at this moment and not how they were back then.
Sandra:"And Corry also had 8 out of 10 on sports at school." Walter:"She also does aerobics."
They decide on their top 3 for physique: 1. Walter 2. Marc 3. Stijn. They have all three people correct and one is on the right spot.

Meanwhile, Marc, Stijn and Corry have reached the ceiling through the big hole, using the ropes and helping each other. Inge is trying now. She's scared, but everyone helps her and she gets up. They step through an open window into the next room. Next to the window, there's a ladder... but no one notices it and they don't use it to get the remaining two people up (Bruno and Nicole). Inge goes through the window first and looks around. Stijn follows and quickly points at th red line and follow, leaving the ladder behind... They go up a stairs and the red line stops at a home trainer. Shadia is trying to get up the ceiling and Corry goes to find Stijn and Inge and tells Marc to yell when they need any help. The three investigate the next room and decide to run on the home trainer.
Shadia has almost reached the top, using the ropes. Marc tries to pull her up, but can't do it alone. He yells back at the others for help, but they don't hear him.
Stijn is running on the home trainer and a red laser appears. They find some mirrors and a magnifying glass and since the line stopped at the home trainer, they think they have to connect the laser back to the red line. But nothing happens. Stijn:"Guys, I'm not going to run for three hours, ok?"
90 minutes left and Bruno and Nicole give up and the others continue.

Sandra and Walter put their second top three on the 'physique' board: 1. Marc 2. Walter 3. Stijn. They get three white dots, meaning none of the pictures is on the correct spot! They decide to put Stijn on the number one spot, then Marc and Walter third. It's completely correct!

The other group finds a reflector with a piece of paper on it '15 sec.'. They guess they have to aim the laser on it for 15 seconds. But there are a lot of obstacles and they have to break the laser 4 times to aim it to the reflector. Corry however, still believes they have to connect the laser where the red line ends at the home trainer. Marc is running and the others try to aim the laser to the reflector, using the mirrors and magnifying glass. Stijn is at the end and the laser is shaking a lot, so he can't aim it.
They start another discussion and Corry still persists in her idea, but the others want to try the reflector first. Then Bruno arrives. He was able to climb the ropes on his own and get up. They all admire him for it, because he has such fear of heights. They let him run and try to aim the laser again. Nicole is still behind. Alone.

Sandra and Walter search for the best EQ person. Walter suggests Corry, but Sandra says Corry is too emotional. She says Shadia is one of the top three too. They also think Marc because he's an insurer. They go over every person and discuss them.

They finaly succeed in aiming the laser to the reflector for 15 seconds and a door opens.They go to the next room and find a pair of scales with a piece of paper saying 'minimum 200 kg'. That's three persons who have to stand on the scales to open the door. They draw lots to see who goes to the bomb. Inge, Marc and Corry stay behind. Stijn, Shadia and Bruno go to the bomb. They find a suitcase and open it. In it is a (fake) book called 'Dismantling bombs for dummies'. It says that in 20 minutes, the bomb will explode. They have to cut one of the 10 wires. In order to find which wire, they have to solve two riddles. They see a number pad in the suitcase, without numbers on it. They have to find out which number is standing where, by putting it in a grid in such a way that the sum of each row (horizontally and vertically) equals 15:
2          ?             ?
?          ?             ?
?     no 3 here      ?
They need this grid to enter a number. The number they have to enter is the sum of the age of all contestants on the first spring day in 2003 (the series was taped in 2002). If they solve the riddles wrongly, the wrong wire will light up. If it's correct, the right wire will light up. Stijn searches the numbers in the grid and the rest starts yeling at the other three to ask the people's ages.

Sandra and Walter have found the EQ and are now trying to find the top three in IQ. They watch the IQ tests tapes:
Woman:"... if she takes one of them, without looking, what..."
Shadia (laughs):"I'm not following you already!!"
Walter says she won't be in the top three, because she's not concentrated enough. They look at Nicole's school report. She has 90 %. Walter thinks she knows a lot and they watch the tape:
Nicole is trying to make some kind of puzzle. But she pushes it aside. "There's no point in doing this. It's a waste of time, I'm sorry."
They know Stijn is very smart and put him first.

Inge and Marc have heard about the number grid the others have to solve and try to solve it too. Meanwhile Shadia is yelling at him to asks his date of birth. Everyone is talking and yelling through each other. They also need Christophe's date of birth. They think he's 34.
Stijn has found the riddle:
2    9    4
7    5    3
6    1    8
Now they know where the numbers stand.
Shadia needs Walter's date of birth. Marc doubts whether he's 50 or from the year 1950. They're all hectic and yelling. Shadia comes up with the number 353. Inge, Marc and Corry can follow what's happening on a small monitor in their room and are standing around it.
Stijn enters 353. A wire lights up and they want to cut it. Shadia:"Hang on, it doesn't say what happens if you cut the wrong wire!" Stijn:"Then it will explode." Shadia cuts the wire...
For a few seconds, nothing's happening. Marc, in the other room (looking at the monitor with the other two) asks what's happening. Then BANG! A bomb explodes in their room spraying red paint all over them. They scream and are covered with paint. Challenge failed...

Suddenly we see footage where the contestants are asked in an interview whether they could play The Mole.
Woman:"Could you play The Mole yourself?"
Inge:"Yes." (nodding her head)
Marc:"I guess I would be a subtle Mole if I were The Mole."
Shadia:"I think I would feel very guilty and betray myself."
Nicole:"Playing a little show? Winding people around your finger, misdirecting them..."
Corry:"I have thought about it too. I would be myself and play a game, but it would be emotionally challenging."
Bruno:"I think I'm good at hiding my feelings and ideas."
Stijn:"I guess it would be at my advantage that I'm so enthusiastic and young. I don't think they would expect me being able to play The Mole. With your support, it would definitely work."
Sandra and Walter silently watch the video and are very intrigued by it...

The other contestants arrive, some still covered with paint. They can tell the other two what happened to them and they tell Sandra and Walter about the bomb. Bruno asks Walter how old he will be on 21st March 2003. Walter says 51. They thought it was 52. Nicole says she knew that, but she couldn't help, because she was downstaris, trying to get up on the rope. Nobody bothered to ask her if she knew...
The host explains that Sandra and Walter had to find the super contestant. The picture of the super contestant is behind a curtain. Sandra and Walter think Marc is the super contestant. He has to take off the curtain and reveal who is the real super contestant. Marc steps forward, takes away the curtain and behind it is his own picture! They win 2,000 euro, bringin the total up to 6,600 euro.

That evening, the others get a chance to look through the information and videotapes Sandra and Walter could look through too. That way they can add information to their suspicions. They're all looking through it. 
Shadia thinks she looks really weird on the videotape.
Corry and Nicole are in the room, going through the things. Corry looks at a file of Nicole and says:"Nicole, you're The Mole, so I don't have to take a look at that." Nicole laughs:"That's easy."
Inge wants to watch her own tape. Shadia and Stijn also watch. They all think she looks horrible on it and compliment that she looks a lot better in real life. They go watch Stijn's video. They hear him say "I find that humor is very important in life." All three of them laugh. 
Corry finds out they put her worst school report in the documentation. A while later, Bruno and Corry are looking through Marc's file. Bruno thinks he has changed a lot through the years. Then they discover pictures of him, which are taken in Venice. Corry finds it strange that they were in Venice and there are pictures of Marc in Venice in the file... Bruno says it's just a coincidence.
Later, Marc and Corry are in the room. She asks him who he thinks is The Mole. He says some people are more suspicious than others, but doesn't give any names. He then asks if they're going to watch his video. Corry:"Nah, you're not my Mole. I wrote everything down from you already."
Corry:"There's another elimination tomorrow." Marc:"Every two days." Corry:"I don't want to go tomorrow..."

Day 5 - Narni, Umbria (Italy)
They arrive next to a cornfield. In the field next to it, there's a helicopter waiting for them and a coutner, which has 5,000 euro on it. When the game starts, the counter starts running and they lose 1 euro per second. The counter stops when they leave with the helicopter, which takes off when there's at least 3 of them in it, or at most 4. They have to get to the helicopter, but there are 4 hunters in the game who will try to shoot them out with paintball guns. It could be important for them to get in the helicopter, because the people who can get in the helicopter are taken somewhere else, where they will play for an exemption. They get 15 minutes to get up with a strategy. Bruno says they have to sacrifice some people to lure the hunters that are on motorcycle. There are two hunters on motorbike and the other two are on a quad.
The players get 2 paintball guns to protect themselves. They try to split up in 2 teams, but guess they won't stand a chance against the motorbikes. Time's nearly up and Shadia says they don't have a strategy at all.
They start off at 2 kilometers from the helicopter. They can hide in the cornfield and in the bushes, which is off limits for the hunters. The challenge starts... They split up in a group of 4 and one of 5.
Inge gets hit and has to stay put till the helicopter leaves.
Marc shoots a guy on a motorbike and clears the way for Sandra and Shadia. Another motorcycle arrives and MArc tries to shoot it, but misses. The guy doesn't shoot back.
On the other end of the bushes, Nicole is hit and taken out.
Stijn has the heli in sight and makes a run for it. Once in the white circle aroudn the heli, the contestants are safe. Stijn makes it! But Shadia, who's standing somewhere else, gets hit in the face.
Corry runs and hides behind a haystack. Bruno is near Shadia and she instructs him to wait, until it's safe for him to go. Then she yells:"Yeah now, go go go!!" Bruno runs to the circle. Although... he's not really running. He's moving very slow.
Corry suddenly falls and starts screaming out loud and waving with her napkin. Walter asks if she has broken her foot. She has.
Bruno is still on his way to the helicopter. He lies down, because there's a motorbike near. Then he gets up and runs to the circle. Stijn cheers:"I thought you were hit, you were walking so slowly!"
Marc gets hit.
Walter has left Corry behind and makes it to the heli, tumbling into the circle. The three men decide to leave. Walter tells the other two that Corry has broken her foot, but that he left her behind. "Maybe it's hard of me..." They get into the helicopter and are ready for takeoff. But then suddenly, out of nowhere, Sandra arrives and knocks on the window of the heli. They let her in and the helicopter leaves. The counter stops at 2,527 euro. They win that amount for the pot, which is now at 9,127 euro. They fly to another location, where one of them can win an exemption.
The host tells them that they each have to vote for someone they want to give the exemption to. If a majority comes out, that person gets the vote. If there is no majority, the exemption will go to one of the five that didn't make it to the helicopter.
Four of those five (Corry isn't with them) are in the car, driving to the next destination and discussing the challenge. Inge says that she'd rather wanted that the challenge had failed, so no one had an exemption. "I'm not here for the money. You have more chance to stay in the game if the challenge fails." Marc agrees.
The four who made it to the helicopter don't want one of the others to get the exemption. They draw lots to see who can get it.
Walter:"I feel that one of us earns the exemption, because we made it to the helicopter."
Host:"While one of the others sprained her ankle, trying to make this challenge a success."
They don't know what to say for a few seconds. Walter:"But then you're being sentimental. And in the end it's a tough game." They write the names down and Stijn draws a name. Walter wins the exemption! Although the others can also make a decision. They can buy the exemption off of him with the money they won with this challenge..

Marc, Inge, Nicole and Shadia are told that the others played for an exemption, but that they can undo it, by letting the 2,527 euro go. Shadia says the others deserved it. Nicole is thinking. They decide to vote for it. Inge says she wants to buy the exemption off. The four from the helicopter can watch them from afar. Walter is getting nervous.
A decision has been made and they go to the four to tell them about it. The four tell the others that they drew names and that Walter won.
Marc says that they weren't there for the money, but for the game and that they unanimously decided to buy the exemption off. Walter has lost his exemption again. He expected it. Apologies are given to him instead of the exemption...

Later that day, a car arrives. Corry is back from hospital. As she gets out of the car, we see her right leg is in a plaster. She has to wear it for 20 days... Will she be sent home?
The host says it's possible and that it's a first time ever in The Mole to have a contestant on crutches. She can stay in the game. As she enters the house they are staying at, the others applaud her.

Suspicions
Corry:"I's become clear to me that I'm thinking too much and have watched too many movies, but I'm sticking to my first thought: Nicole."
Inge:"Euhm... Marc... is not a suspect at all too me. Neither are Corry and Shadia."
Sandra:"I'm 200 % sure now that it's not Walter. It might as well be a young person."
Stijn:"Nicole has been added to my list of suspects. Again, I don't know why, I have no real fact of course, but she could be able to play it, I'm sure of that."
Bruno:"Since five minutes ago I'm suspecting Shadia. I think she has a hand in decisions that are made in the group."
Shadia:"Marc is a strong personality. I guess with his profession and his capacities you can do some things easier."
Marc:"I think the last two days The Mole has entered the group. With the tube game and things like that."
Corry:"We're laughing a lot and trying to make ourselves suspicious. And watching each other."
Inge:"Walter is disappointed, that was very obvious."
Walter:"If I had been in the other group, I would be one of the losers and then I would grant the winners the exemption."
Inge:"He thinks that I'm the main reason to let it come so far. I'm sure of that. And it's true."
Nicole:"Everyone says they are social and will do anything for the group, but in fact everyone tried to make sure they were the one being in the helicopter. So everyone is working for themselves."
Bruno:"They all say that they were glad they weren't the first one to leave the game. And now they hope they won't be the second one to leave the game and then afterwards they'll probably say they don't want to be the third one to leave. And that's the way it is."

Suspicious in this episode
Sandra at first says Stijn is not good at sports. Later it turns out he was the number one in that category.
Nicole doesn't get through the hole in the ceiling. She knew Walter's correct age, but couldn't tell them, because she stayed behind and couldn't continue.
Corry keeps on persisting in her idea to aim the laser at the home trainer, which was wrong.
Shadia and Bruno came up with the wrong number for the bomb.
Inge, Marc, Nicole and Shadia get shot and buy the exemption off, losing the money they won in that challenge.
Corry has to wear a cast around her leg for the rest of the game. How convenient to slow everyone down...

Elimination
A lot happened in this episode. Will the super contestant stay? Did Walter need the exemption? Will Corry be put out of play, because of her cast? Find out:

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