Dutch Mole 4
Episode 9

Ferdi got eliminated on his birthday. Four people remained: two women and two guys.

Montreal - St Laurent
In a small room, The Mole watches the instructions tape again.
"Hi Mole. Was it fun to see someone familiar or are you a bit upset now? That doesn't matter, because so are the others. It's a pity though that your red herring got eliminated. But don't let that stop you from sabotaging hard. Here are the challenges. There are two brain games: the bus challenge and the car parking." The Mole watches a piece of paper with the answers to a challenge. "See how far you can go. Lying, meanwhile is easy for you, but... you can even lie about that of course! Good luck!"

Day 18 - Montreal
They have breakfast with the loved ones before they leave.
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Elise
:"We're playing this game for 2 and a half weeks now, but it almost seems like half a year! It's very nice to have someone from home over."
Rene:"She [his wife] found the elimination very terrible. It had quite an impact. I didn't tell her that much about it, because every time I talked about the game she said 'Not now, let's talk about ourselves and about home first.' "
Ron:"From one side I'd love to go home with her, because she has to go back alone now, but on the other hand I also want to win this game now."

They say goodbye to their loved ones and go to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for their next challenge, which will take place on a bus. Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a race circuit. The bus they're in will start driving at 25 km/h. They get 10 riddles. For every riddle they solve, the bus will drive 5 km/h slower. So at one point, if they've solved enough riddles, the bus will stop. They start off with 3,000 €, but every meter the bus advances, they lose 0.50 €. So the quicker they solve the riddles, the quicker the bus will stop and the more money they will win. But they could also lose up to 5,000 € if they're too slow.
They have to solve 5 of the 10 riddles to let the bus stop. If they answer more than 5 riddles wrongly, the challenge is failed. They only get one chance for every riddle (they have to enter the answer into a computer).

They get on the bus and the challenge starts!
Riddle 1:
A man is looking at a portrait of a man and says:'I have no brothers or sisters, but the father of this man is my father's son.'
Who's on the portrait?
They think about it but can't figure it out quickly enough. Ron thinks it's the grandfather on the portrait and enters it into the computer, because he doesn't want to lose much time. Elise thinks it's his son however, but Ron enters grandfather anyway. They get a red screen, meaning it's wrong. The bus keeps on driving at 25 km/h and they've already lost 100 €.

Riddle 2:
Which word from the second line fits best among the words in the first line?
speed - jump - reflection - wide - wait
healthy - secured - empty - good - tired
They're at 2,250 € and the bus keeps on driving, so the amount of money is diminuishing. Elise finds the correct answer: empty (it's a Dutch language riddle, difficult to explain) Ron enters 'empty' and it's correct. The bus now drives at 20 km/h.

Riddle 3:
A hunter leaves his hut early in the morning and walks 1 km south. There, he sees a bear, which he follows 1 km east until he is able to shoot the bear. After having shot the bear, he drags it 1 km north and arrives back at his hut. What colour is the bear?
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Rene
:"We didn't really have a strategy. The four of us all tried solving the riddles."
Ron:"You just have to answer 5 questions correctly. My strategy was to solve as much questions as possible in the beginning, to lose some speed."

They've already dropped to 1,790.50 € as Ron says the bear is white. Elise agrees, because the hunter is at the North Pole. It's correct and the bus loses speed and is now driving at 15 km/h.

Riddle 4:
There are 100 houses in a street. The houses are numbered from 1 to 100. How many nines are there in total in all these numbers?
The bus keeps on driving through the circuit. Luckily the road has been cleared, because there is still snow everywhere.
Chandrika suggests that there are 10 nines. Ron:"No, because 91, 92, 93 all have a nine in it too." Elise:"Yeah, so it's twenty!" Ron:"No, 19!" He enters 19, but it is wrong. It was indeed 20. They have answered two riddles wrong and two correct. They still need three correct answers to stop the bus and have already lost half of the 3,000 € they started the challenge with.

Riddle 5:
In the morning, at home, a boy looks through a mirror at the clock. Then he goes to school where he arrives 20 minutes later. At that time, the school clock points out a time that's two and a half hours later than what the boy thought he saw the time was at home. At what time did the boy arrive at school?
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Chandrika
:"Elise is good at word riddles and a bit less with numbers, but we had Ron for that. Rene and me found it all a bit more difficult than them."
Elise:"I'm quite well at riddles and association riddles. But I'm not well at numbers, but Ron is."

They don't know the answer and just enter something. Ron enters 12:50, but it's wrong.

Riddle 6:
In the middle of a round pond, a lovely waterplant is growing. The plant grows twice as big every day. After 20 days, the pond is completely covered by the plant. After how many days was half of the pond covered by the plant?
They have gone lower than 1,200 €. Ron finds the answer: 19. The bus now drives at 10 km/h.

Riddle 7:
One day, Jan meets Piet. Jan lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on all other days. Piet lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth the other days of the week. (we can't see the rest of the riddle and it's not read out loud by anyone)
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Rene
:"I didn't say much, because it's all weird to us, those number games and stuuf. Elise and Ron were better at it, so I  left it up to them."

Ron and Elise agree that the answer is Thursday. Ron enters it into the computer and it's correct! The bus now only drives 5 km/h and they only need one more correct answer. They have about 800 € left to win.

Riddle 8:
Which word is the odd one out?
Steer - Burst - Abscess - Easy - Defect
To steer is the only verb (in Dutch it is, because in English, you also have to burst of course). So they enter Steer. But it's wrong! They're at 620.06 €

Riddle 9:
In a Canadian town the followinf facts apply:
No two inhabitants have the same amount of roosters.
Not one inhabitant has exactly 40360 roosters.
There are more inhabitants than there are roosters per head of inhabitants.
Which is the biggest possible number of inhabitants this town can have?
The money they can win, keeps on diminuishing. If they fail, they will lose 5,000 €.
Ron guesses 40361 inhabitants, but it's wrong. They have to answer their final riddle correctly and have 605.50 € left on the coutner.

Riddle 10:
Which number should be at the place of the question mark?
10    1        15    3        12    2
     8               49               ?
8      3         8     4         6     4
They have 600 € left when they start this riddle and make sure they find the right answer, before entering it. The bus keeps on driving at 5 km/h and advances very slowly. You can even pass it whilst running!
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Chandrika
:"It went quite well, until that last question, which took us a lot of time. It was very exciting and very difficult! I thought it was 28, but..."

Ron thinks the answer is 36 and enters it. It's correct!! The money counter is at 403 € when they enter it, but the bus is stopping and conveniently stops at 400 € at the money counter. They now have 35,550 €.
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Chandrika
:"Ron eventually was our hero again and he could stop the bus at riddle 10, which we HAD to answer correctly!"

That evening, they have diner in a pub and some go through their notes again.
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Rene
:"I'd like it a lot if I could get Ron along with me in the final round. I feel he's a good contestant to compete against. He's trustworthy, although I'd better not say that because he could be The Mole. He could be playing an excellent game."
Ron:"If I can stay tomorrow and get into the final round, I hope Rene is there with me. He's got a short fuse now and then, but is very direct. And the ladies.. I don't really trust them."

Rue Notre Dame
They go to a parking lot. Their car is parked there and stuck between other cars. They have to get the car out. So it's like the game gridlock. The cars can only drive back and forth. In a cabin nearby are all the keys to the cars and there's a monitor with an aerial view from the parking lot. They can either win 4,000 € or, if they fail, they have to pay 4,000 €. They get 30 minutes to do the challenge.
Rene tries to explain his strategy, but Elise says it's wrong (he's trying to move a car that takes three squares on the grid, to a two-squared place, which is impossible, because the bigger cars need a space of three squares)
Ron comes up with a new strategy to get the car out. They get starts, but first have to figure out which key belongs to which car. Elise and Rene go move the cars. Rene drives the white van all the way down. Elise gets back in the cabin with the other two. All three of them are talking through each other, saying which car needs to be moved. Next they move the small car in the middle at the top back one square.
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Ron
:"If you're doing this alone, it's easier, because you can think about it calmly and then decide what to do, but now there were 3 people behind that monitor, so three people were saying what to do."

Rene comes back from moving a car. They have 20 minutes left. The other three are yelling at him that he needs to move the car back one square.
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Chandrika
:"I was sitting behind the monitor to give directions how we should move the cars. And we had a different strategy all the time."

Rene is the only one who's moving cars. The others just tell him which car to move.
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Chandrika
:"We moved that white van a lot! Back, forth, back, forth,... and every time we had the same result."

They have 13 minutes left and are stuck! Rene is getting agitated.
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Rene
:"I took all carkeys and moved the cars according to the directions the others gave me. They had a better view of it. But it didn't really work out well."

They have 8 and a half minutes left and have moved a lot of cars. Elise tells Rene he has to move this and that car, because it's wrong now. They're dicussing about it and Rene walks off to the cabin to see for himself, because apparently he doesn't believe her.
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Rene
:"At one point, Elise came out and started saying 'This is wrong and that is wrong!' so I told her 'If it's wrong, give me a correct direction, because I'm dependent on you.' "
Elise:"Rene doesn't trust me, which is very obvious. He doesn't want to believe a thing I say. If he suspects me, just let him. In the beginning we all looked at that monitor and Rene came up with a strategy, which wasn't right."
Rene:"I did my best. Each car got moved here and there, but nothing happened. We didn't find a solution."
Ron:"The fact that we don't always trust each other, causes us to fail. The best way to do this is without pressure of The Mole and to just put one person behind that monitor, let him think of a strategy and let him move the cars alone."

Elise and Rene are argueing, because they're getting nowhere. Chandrika and Ron yell from the cabin that they have to move the blue car. They have three minutes left.
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Ron
:"Rene was a bit pissed off at the girls, because they were standing in the cabin all the time and were usually wrong and that they were slow according to him."

They have finally found the solution! But there's only 2 minutes left. They hurry as fast as they can and clear the path for the contestants' car to drive out. The car moves, but then a horn goes... time's up! The car was free and already being moved, but Rene didn't drive it out of the grid on time.
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Rene
:"I hit the gas and almost ran over Angela [the host] but we were 4 seconds late. I already told them we had to hurry, because time was against us. But they didn't listen to me and so we failed."

They have to pay 4,000 € and now have 31,550 € left in the pot. Rene is angry and blames the others, but they say it's his fault too, because they were working on the challenge as a team. Elise:"Don't blame us for everything. If you're going to blame us, you should have stand in that cabin yourselves!" Rene:"You could've ran a bit faster, but ok it's probably all my fault!" Elise:"Yeah, who had all those carkeys in his pocket?"
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Ron
:"It sucked. Ok if we would have been 10 minutes late, but 4 seconds... that doesn't do the group well."
Chandrika:"I could imagine someone getting angry and thinking it sucks, because it was 4 seconds."
Rene:"Ron tried to move some cars too and also watched the monitor, but later told me he didn't even get the opportunity to watch the monitor, because the girls were always standing in front of it."
Elise:"I can appreciate it if you're fanatic and want to win, but if you can't admit the mistake was also partially your own fault... it stops. He just has to accept the fact that he has to work together with us."
Rene:"Four seconds... if we would have walked one pace faster or would have discussed our strategy a tiny bit faster and not lose time... because that's what eventually cost us 4,000 €."

Day 19 - Montreal
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Chandrika
:"I think no one has an ally anymore. It's all for themselves now and during the challenges you try to work together and for the rest you try to find out who The Mole is."
Ron:"At the car challenge, we had to work together and noticed that that's a problem in our group right now. It's hard concurrence at this moment and everyone wants to get to the final round."

Hotel du Ville - 10.30 AM
The host tells them that tonight, the final person will be eliminated, but in this game there is a chance to win an exemption. They have to decide amongst themselves who deserve the chance to win that exemption. Of course, no one speaks out first, so the host asks them one by one (with the other contestants present). Host:"Who do you think, Ron?"
Ron:"If I solely look at who's already had the exemption I think those two should fight it out by themselves." (meaning Rene and Elise)
Rene:"Myself."
Chandrika:"Myself too."
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Chandrika
:"I thought it was most fair to draw lots. Especially because it's for the final elimination and after that it's the finale."

The host asks them a number under 10. Ron says 3, Rene 2, Chandrika 8 and Elise 6. The host shows the piece of paper she wrote the number on and it's 6. Elise can go insdie the Hotel du Ville (a courtyard). The others each have an individual assignment to do.
The host explains Elise how she can win the exemption. The other three will tell her what job they've done. Only one of them speaks the truth and if she finds out who that is, she wins the exemption and can get into the finale. But they will also lose 5,000 € if she succeeds. If she fails, they win 5,000 €, but she'll have no exemption.
She gets a suitcase with information about the other's jobs. She watches a video and sees a Disney like park called 'Parc Safari', an elephant and two lion cubs.
Another video has a French speaking man on it (with weird big hair). She also sees a logo from 'MUSIQUEPLUS', cameras, make-up, lights and microphones. She also has a document with information and another picture of the guy.
Elise also got an ice-hockey shirt, with the number 1 on it. The shirt is white, with yellow and black on the sleeves.
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Elise
:"I received three dossiers. One about ice-hockey, one about a v-jay and one about an animal safari. I have to find out who did what and who's lying. First I'll be asking them some difficult questions and then I let them tell their stories, which might upset them, because I guess they studied some things they were going to say."

Hotel du Ville - 6.00 PM
Elise
is still sitting in the courtyard and is prepared for the hearing of her fellow contestants.
Her three fellow contestants are sitting in another room. The host explains them they can win 5,000 € and that two of them have to lie about what they have done today and that Elise will win an exemption if she can find out which one of them is lying and that it will cost them 5,000 €.
The host leaves them to let them decide who will go tell the truth.
Ron:"If I have to learn one of your stories by heart right now, I don't think I'll be able to do that. I will tell it so bad, it will be too obvious. I can try, but I don't think it's a good idea to let me lie."
They decide to tell each other first what they have done.
Ron:"Well, I have been with a v-jay from 'musimax' or something, which is the Canadian MTV."
flashback We see Ron meeting the v-jay Nabi. He says he wants to know all about Nabi and MusiMax (confusing that it's called MusiMax, yet the logo's say MusiquePlus). Ron gets to watch the studios and everything. He also has to play being a v-jay. Very nervously he says "Hi, I'm from Holland. I'm in a tv show called The Mole." Nabi says he's moving too much, the camera can't follow him. "And I want to play one more song for the people at home: Blink-182."
They decide that if Ron really thinks he won't be able to lie well, he'd better keep to his real story.
Rene tells about what he has done:"I was at an ice-hockey game who had to shoot pucks and I had to try to stop them from getting into the goal, with this big protection gear on."
flashback We see Rene in a big ice-hockey suit, standing in front of the goal and almost missing every shot and falling over a lot.
Chandrika:"She will never believe I did such a thing! It doesn't fit me."
Rene:"She knows I can skate. What did you do?"
Chandrika:"I was at an animal safari where I took a baby lion for a walk."
flashback At Parc Safari she goes for a walk with a lion cub. There are two chains and two people to keep the cub, because one person has to keep the cub away from the other and vice versa. She also gets to feed the elephants.
Ron:"But why do you want me to lie when I say I'm not good at it and it's too much stuff to remember."
Chandrika:"But what makes you think we're good at it? We have to remember a lot of things too!"
Ron:"You're right, I'm just saying I have trouble lying and I think I'm too obvious."
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Chandrika
:"I found it suspicious that he immediately said he found it difficult to lie. Then I think, you're in here, playing the game. Everyone is good at lying and you too, Ron."

Rene:"Don't think about whether the job fits you. It's about whether you can tell a good story."
Elise gets one hour to find out who's lying and who isn't. She herself can decide how many times she will interview the others, for how long and in what order. She asks Ron first. (who had met the v-jay at MusiMax/MusiquePlus)

They're in court and Ron sits down. Elise:"Hi Ron, the first question I want to ask you is to look me straight in the eyes and to tell me whether you are going to tell me the truth or not."
Ron:"I always tell the truth."
Elise:"That's true. Well, tell me what you did today."
Ron doesn't look her in the eyes anymore:"Euhmm.. today I was in the city... at MusicMax..."
Elise:"Musicmax???"
Ron:"Yeah MusicMax, Musimax, something like that. I got a tour from a v-jay there."
Elise:"What's his name?"
Ron:"I believe it was Nabi. N-A-B-I."
Elise:"Nabi Alexander Cartier?"
Ron:"I don't know."
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Ron
:"I tried to tell the truth, but in a way so she'd think it wasn't the truth. I tried to do that by keeping things vague."

Elise:"Can you tell me something about the shape of his eyebrows?"
Ron:"The shape of his eyebros? No, I think I can't say anything about that."
Elise:How about his teeth then?"
Ron:"No... don't know that either."
Elise:"You didn't notice he had a golden tooth?"
Ron:"No."
Elise:"OK, I know enough for now. Could you bring in Chandrika?"
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Elise
:"I think Ron is speaking the truth, because he was being very vague in the beginning. I think he was instructed by the others to tell the truth in a vague way, to make it seem like he's lying. Because he's not good at lying. And that Chandrika and Rene are lying."

Chandrika's turn (she went to the Safari)

Elise:"I'm going to ask you first to look me straight in the eyes and tell me if you're going to tell me the truth or not."
Chandrika:"I speak the truth."
Elise:"OK. Could you explain me briefly what you have done today?"
Chandrika:"Well euh... first I... was... in a car, I got driven somewhere. That was to an ice-hockey stadium. There I got a big ice-hockey suit and next I was standing against some ice-hockey players."
Elise:"Against? You alone?"
flashback of Rene in the ice-hockey stadium. He's wearing that white shirt with yellow and black strips on the sleeves. In front it says 'Selwyn House'.
Elise:"What colours did you play in?"
Chandrika:"White and yellow, but because I was in the goal..." Elise:"And what was the name of the team again?"
Chandrika doesn't know. Elise:"You should know, because it was written on the shirt. I can't imagine you'd miss such a thing."
Chandrika:"No, I really didn't pay attention to it, because of the tension."
Elise:"And what number were you wearing?"
Chandrika:"Number one."
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Chandrika
:"I couldn't play with the story and text I had gotten from Rene. I didn't get much information from him. He did tell me he didn't know much about it. So that's all I got and it's very difficult to play a game with that little information."

Elise:"And you don't know what the name of the team was?" Chandrika:"No." Elise:"And what colours? Yellow and?" Chandrika:"Yellow and white."
Elise:"No." Chandrika:"Yes, yellow and white!" Elise:"No there was a third colour." Chandrika:"I really don't know, yellow and white!"
Elise:"I know enough for now, get me Rene."


Rene is asked the same question to look her in the eyes and say whether he's telling the truth or not.
Rene:"I am definitely the truth.. I mean... I am definitely going to tell you the truth."
Elise:"Definitely going to? OK let's hear it."
Rene:"I went to a safari today and took a lion cub for a walk."
Elise:"What did it look like?"
Rene:"Well, the way lion cubs usually look like... a bit brownish, like a lion."
Elise:"But how tall was it?"
Rene shows with his hand how tall he thinks the lion cub was.
flashback of Chandrika walking the lion cub with another girl.
Elise:"What does the entrance look like?"
Rene:"I didn't really pay attention to that."
Elise:"It was a very striking entrance!"
Rene:"I saw a gate with... a head in it. To the right I saw..."
Elise gives him a pen and paper:"Here, draw it out for me."
Rene:"I don't know, I could be drawing things that weren't there. I think there was a lot of red in it and it was kind of castle-like."
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Elise
:"Rene couldn't really draw the entrance of the safari. But I did keep on asking and he did tell me it was Disney-like with towers and stuff. So maybe he is telling the truth after all. I find it complicated. Very difficult. But at this point I think Ron is speaking the truth and the other two are lying."

Rene is done for now. Back in the room, Ron thinks they're doing well. Rene tells Chandrika to stay calm and if she asks her something to just say "I don't know, I didn't pay attention to it." Rene:"And if she asks why you didn't pay attention to it, you just say there was a line of people shooting pucks at you."
Ron:"Don't tell her extra things. Let her asks you questions, but don't give any extra information."
Chandrika:"I was also being very enthusiastic about what I had done."

Elise lets Rene come back. Elise:"I let you come here, because I think the other two are lying. I expect you're telling me the truth. Are you?"
Rene:"We agreed in the beginning I'd be telling you the truth."
Elise:"OK... one quick question about that lion. What was his name?"
Rene:"Euhmmm... let me think... it was Swahili for 'earth'. I think it was Kiwashi or Kiwasha... I don't know exactly anymore."
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Elise
:"Rene tried his best to make himself look believable, which could also be suspicious."

Ron is called back in. Elise:"I want to talk to you about the v-jay you were with. Did he speak English well?"
Ron:"Yeah he did."
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Elise
:"Yeah I still think Ron is telling me the truth and trying to do that in the worst way possible."

Chandrika is back again. Elise has asked her something. Chandrika:"I didn't really notice that."
Elise shows a picture of the ice-hockey stadium. The back wall is completely covered with mirrors. Elise:"I can't imagine you didn't see the mirrors. You could see yourself playing in it and I think you would definitely look in those mirrors to see what you look like in that suit."
Chandrika:"No.. ok so show it to me." Elise:"I just did." Chandrika:"Yeah, but from a distance." (Elise is sitting on the other end of a table)
Elise:"Well, I have to tell you I've never seen anyone lie so badly before. It's really obvious."
Chandrika:"Oh ok."
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Elise
:"What was striking was that when I confronted Rene and Chandrika with facts, they reacted in a very defensive way. Things like 'I didn't notice it.' or 'I did have time for that.' while Ron just says he didn't see it. So maybe my first scenario was right: Ron acts as if he's lying, but is telling the truth."

The hour is up and all three contestants are brought in. If Elise knows which one of them has told the truth, she wins the exemption and they lose 5,000 €. The host asks her to reveal who she thinks is telling the truth.
Elise:"It was very difficult and I think there are two good liars and one bad truth-teller. And that's Ron."
She's correct... they only have 26,550 € left and the other three have to prepare for the elimination immediately. Elise is relieved.
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Elise
:"This is the most important exemption you can get. Whether I win or lose, I'm in it! Of course I do hope I win!"

The other three are disappointed, because the group pot has fallen below 30,000 € again.

Suspiscions
Rene
:"Everyone who's still in it, could be The Mole. I found it very suspicious that Elise was so good at interrogation." flashback Rene is asked the same question to look her in the eyes and say whether he's telling the truth or not. Rene:"I am definitely the truth.. I mean... I am definitely going to tell you the truth." Elise:"Definitely going to? OK let's hear it." "It could be her second nature is that she has an interrogation talent, but I don't think so. And with Chandrika it seemed that she was losing time in the car challenge. I told them a lot that we were almost out of time and had to be quick and she only looked at me vaguely and it seemed like she didn't even hear me. Ron told the truth, but it could be that he was too calm. One of us three has to go home and won't be in the finale. I'm trying to do my questionnaire well, so I won't get a red screen."
Ron:"At this moment I still don't trust Chandrika, but I don't trust Elise even more. This is not the time to switch Moles. I'm sticking to Elise and have to try to give as many correct answers as possible. I hope it's her. If she isn't, she did great today and won herself an exemption for the finale, which is good for her. It's bad for us, because The Mole always goes to the next round, so then there would only be a one in two chance of me getting through to the finale and it'll be difficult then."
Chandrika:"I thought Ron chose very quickly to be telling the truth and not to lie, even though he might be very good at that." flashback of the bus challenge and the riddle with the number of nines between 1 and 100. Chandrika thinks 10, Elise thinks 20 (which is correct) but Ron thinks 19 and enters it. He gets a red screen. "I think it was a Mole act of him. I'm sticking to The Mole I was already suspecting."

Suspicious in this episode
Rene
and Chandrika hardly cooperated during the bus challenge. Chandrika only gave some wrong answers.
Ron was entering the answers to the riddles. They had 5 wrong.
Rene took all the carkeys and put them all in his pocket during the car game.
The girls were blocking the monitor for Ron to see it.
Elise went for the exemption and lost her team 5,000 €.
Ron was too obviously trying to look like he was lying.

Elimination
Elise is sure of her place in the finale. Which two people will join her and who won't make it till the end?

 

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