The 3rd Dutch Mole
Episode 6

Kerstin was the fourth person to leave. Maybe she did get that exemption in episode 4. Maybe she already was the lowest scorer back then and she was saved by the exemption. But now she's gone and the others continue to find The Mole.

Day 10 Buçaco Palace
Everyone is still sitting in their seats after the elimination and the host walks towards them. She tells them they will sleep at the Buçaco Palace and that they will make a long journey the next day. They also have to appoint two groups. A duo and a group of 5. The duo is Harry and George.

Day 11 Buçaco Palace
Ellen hands out the pocket money to everyone and they talk about the elimination. She says she didn't expect Kerstin to go at all. Prince asks her who she did expect, but she won't answer.

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Ellen:"At the elimination I was really surprised to see Kerstin leave. I didn't expect it, because she was a serious player and really focused on the game. And I was surprised that she was wrong about The Mole."
Harry:"The atmosphere in the group is kind of ok, but you notice some people are very tired."
John:"You are being lived and I'm not used to that. At home I can do what I want but here everything is thrown in front of your feet and that's quite difficult sometimes."
George:"It's really strange days. Sometimes you have to wait and then you have to play games where you have to be sharp and concentrate. And it's getting tough to concentrate."

They travel to Evora where the first challenge will start. The five contestants wait for further instructions. Then someone arrives:"Good afternoon, my name is Libanio and I will be your guide this afternoon. I invite you for a walk around the city, discovering the monuments and buildings."
They start at 1:00 pm. They don't know they will have to tell George adn Harry about the tour in detail. Find out about Evora by clicking here.
Harry and George are taken to the Evora Hotel without any instructions and are told to wait.

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Karen:"We distributed our tasks. Jantien and me wrote as much down as possible, Ellen tried to remember the details and John and Prince were the observers."

They visit the laconicum, or sweat bath, which is built in the exact same shape as the previous Roman bath. They go to a church where they see a virgin Mary statue in marble from the 15th century and visit a museum where they see a lot of paintings from Flemmish painters from the 16th century.
The guide takes them to the local market and tells them that a traditional product from that area is cork. Portugal is the world's biggest producer of cork. Also on the market they see pottery made by handicraft men. They see another building which they started building in the 12th century and above there heads is an octagonal tower which has a height of 27 meters.
It's 2:30 pm and George and Harry still have no clue what will happen.

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Jantien:"The tour was quite fun, but at a certain point I thought 'Please stop'. More and more information kept coming."

They go to the chamber of bones. It has a piece of text saying 'Us bones standing here, for your bones we are waiting for'. It's a chapel made entirely out of bones by the monks in the 16th century. They came there to meditate. It has 5,000 skulls and of those skulls, only 4 still have the jaw.
It's 4:00 pm and it's still not over. They see a Roman temple which was later on used as a slaughter house, but in the 19th century they decided to keep the building because it's from the Romans.
5:00 pm and the tour is over. The guide gives them a tape of their visit and he tells them they can teach Harry and George all about the visit until 9:00 pm. Especially Jantien and Karen teach them everything they know as the others watch the tape of their trip and come up with details. There is a lot of information, because the tour took 4 hours.At 9:00 pm, George and Harry have to leave the room.
The host explains them that she will ask George and Harry 5 questions. They have to guess who will have most questions correct. They go for Harry. If Harry has more questions right than George, they win 5,000 €. If they both answer an equal amount of questions correctly, nothing happens and if George has more questions correct, they will have to pay 5,000 €.
Harry has to go first:
Question 1) Portugal is the world's biggest producer of which product?
Harry:"Cork." That's correct.
Question 2) In the town hall of Evora they are currently digging up an old Roman bath house. What is the diameter of the bath?
The others sigh already and Harry says it's 12 meter. Karen shakes her head. It was 9 meters.
Question 3) How many skulls in the Bone Chapel have a jaw?
Harry correctly says it's four.
Question 4) What did the Roman temple in Evora get used for in the 14th century?
Harry:"A slaughter house." Which is correct.
Question 5) What's the name of the guide who took the contestants on the tour?
Everyone laughs, because no one told Harry and they don't remember it either. Harry guesses it's Pedro, which is wrong. The correct answer is Libanio.
Harry has 3 questions correct and George now is questioned:
Question 1) Portugal is the world's biggest producer of which product?
George:"Cork." The host overenthusiastically says:"Well done." and pats him on the shoulder. Jokingly of course, because everyone except George himself knows that if he has more questions right, they will lose money.
Question 2) In the town hall of Evora they are currently digging up an old Roman bath house. What is the diameter of the bath?
George looks at his fellow contestants, who start laughing. He guesses it's 6 meters, which is wrong.
Question 3) How many skulls in the Bone Chapel have a jaw?
He correctly says it's four.
Question 4) What did the Roman temple in Evora get used for in the 14th century?
He also has this one correctly. A slaughter house.
Question 5) What's the name of the guide who took the contestants on the tour?
George:"You'll have to ask them, they didn't tell me."
Both had 3 questions right, so they win nor lose nothing.

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Karen:"As far as I've been told, I'm the only one who knew that the guide was called Libanio and that diameter of the laconicum had a diameter of 9 meters."
Harry:"Karen had told George that she knew the diameter of the bath and she said Jantien told her not to mention that because it was too detailed and Jantien says the opposite, so it's quite confusing."
Jantien:"It's very well possible. I don't know anymore. But I thought we had to limit the highlights of the tour."

They have to choose two people who have an eye for detail. They go for Karen and George:

Day 12 Evora
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Jantien:"You concentrate on The Mole but you have to note and remember a lot of details and it's impossible to write down all details of everyone, because you'll go mad."
Prince:"If I have some kind of problem I can tell John about it. We have the same age, think the same way about a lot of things."
John:"I talk a lot with Prince, but I know that if we get further into the game we will be standing against each other. You have to keep that in mind."

Evora Airfield
Everyone but Karen and George arrive at the airfield, where they meet Mike, pilot of the Utterly Butterly. Spread around the area are letters and they have to remember those letters to make a word out of it. They can win 10,000 €. If it doesn't work they have to pay 5,000 €. However there's one thing: the Utterly Butterly is the only plane where you can travel along if you're standing on top of it!
Each one individually has to stand on top of the plane and try to spot the letters on the ground they fly over. Ellen goes first.

Viana de Alentejo
Meanwhile, George and Karen have gone to Sra de Aires, a church where the Portuguese pray for the ill people in a special way: They place a picture of the ill person in the church gallery, which has thousands of pictures, and put the part of the body where the person is sick on the altar in the form of a wax statue of the body part. Doing this they hope the person will cure again.
George and Karen have to find the youth pictures of the other contestants. They get an hour to do that. It doesn't take George long to find Prince's picture.
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Back at the airfield, the plane, with Ellen on top of it, takes off. They don't know how many letters there are. In order to succeed, everyone has to take the flight to see all letters. The others cheer at her. Jantien is looking scared.

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Jantien:"It would be devastating if the plane would lose you or something... that's impossible. I kept thinking about that to comfort myself.

Ellen flies over a G and an H. She lands and tells the others about it and Jantien writes down the letters.
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Karen finds the picture of Jantien and she's 100 % sure about it. She also thinks she has foudn Harry, but is doubting. George doesn't think it is Harry. Karen:"But it's weird that it's so steamed up." George:"That's just some water that's between it, don't be fooled by that."
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John goes on the plane and takes off.

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John:"You're standing on top of the plane and you have nothing to hold on to or anything and it's difficult to let go."

He flies over an A. And lands back a few minutes later. He tells the others it's heavy and cold and that he's only seen one letter: the A. So now they have GHA. Harry says it's his name (his last name starts with a G).
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30 minutes left to find the pictures. They have Prince, Jantien and think they have found John but are still doubting.
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Jantien goes. She's obviously scared.

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Jantien:"You're standing there and you think 'I'll see what happens.' and then it starts making a lot of noise, the motor goes at full speed, so it's one big bang of noise and then you go wham into the air. I didn't like it, it was going too fast."
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George and Karen or on the roof of the church. They don't know what the others are doing. One of the routes of the Utterly Butterly is over the church. They see a small plane arriving. Karen:"Could that be them?" George:"Maybe they will write something in the air."
As it's getting closer they have a clearer view. George:"Look it has a little flag on top of it."
Karen:"No, someone's sitting on it! Holy shit! Someone's sitting on it!!" They start waving to the plane. George is glad he didn't have to do that, but Karen thinks it's fantastic. They think it's Harry on top of the plane, but it's actually Jantien.
George:"Do you think they all have to do this?"
Karen:"Jantien will never do that! Prince and John will."
George:"And this was Harry? It was weak that he didn't wave back though!"
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Jantien flies over an S.

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Jantien:"I kept on thinking it wasn't real, but it was real. But I was trying not to panick. I needed a lot of self control to keep calm and to look to the left and to the right."

Jantien says she has only seen an S, but that the plane made a lot of weird turns. Mike, the pilot, asks her if this has cured her fear of heights, but Jantien doesn't think so.
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Karen and George think they've found Ellen's picture and then see Harry's picture, of which they are 100 % sure. Karen starts doubting, because she notices some of the pictures they have are real and some are photocopies. George says they could have done that on purpose. He isn't doubting, but Karen is. The camera zooms in on a picture which is clearly John. But they haven't found it yet. However after a while she does find it and they exchange it with the other pic they had of John. They only need Ellen know. Karen says she's the most difficult to find. George thinks they already have Ellen's picture.
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Harry is up.

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Jantien:"Harry didn't know if he could really do such a thing, because he was thinking about his family.... so if he's standing there and the plane falls down a bit or something... that's scary. I think he will find it very scary."
Harry:"I thought about it first, whether I could do this, keeping in mind my responsibilities at home, because I promised I wouldn't do anything dangerous. And I did do it again. Maybe I have some explanation to do at home."

He flies over an L and an A.
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George and Karen have found the pictures and now have to put wax statues of body parts they think the contestants had an illness on in the past.
George jokingly says they have to put the brains with John. Karen thinks it's the stomach. She also says the belly is for Ellen, the eye for Jantien and the heart and the leg for Prince. They wonder what to pick for Harry. Again George jokes that they should take the head, because Harry's crazy. Karen says that Harry does have a scar on his face, but she doesn't know which illness he had.
If they put the correct statues with the correct pictures, they win 7,500 €. Time's almost up, but they're still doubting about Ellen's picture and start looking for one. Karen:"It has to be a solo picture." George:"With a black and white or color photocopy."

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Karen:"I typify George as a kind of bouncing ball, but he's a guy with a sharp insight. He sometimes comes up with stuff that are a riddle to me, but when I think about it it's typified correct in all ways."

George:"What did we take for John?"
Karen:"We took the stomach, because he had a weak stomach."
Harry:"Did Harry have something with his stomach some time?"
Karen:"I know Harry has had some respiration problems, but that's quite recent."

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Karen:"I think he's a very fun guy, I like honest and complex emotions. He's a great a guy. Not a Mole type at all, but he could be able to play one."

Then they suddenly find a picture of Ellen. They take it and quickly run back to the altar and replace the previous picture they thought was Ellen. They have 5 minutes left and check the wax statues again. Karen is sure about the belly for Ellen, the heart and knee of Prince which got damaged by rheumatism, the eye of Jantien and she doesn't know about Harry and John. There aren't any stomachs on the other altars, so she thinks it's especially made for this challenge and she thinks it's the head for Harry because of the scar. "I just don't know anything more about them."
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Prince is the last one to go. They have the letters GHASAL. Ellen thinks it's WAAGHALS (daredevil), but then they need a W and an A. She doesn't tell Prince about it to see if they can trust him.
Prince takes off. We see the camera flying over an A and a W.

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Prince:"I have seen one letter, the letter A."

He tells the others about it and the word WAAGHALS is correct. They win 10,000 €.
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Back to the aftermath of the other challenge.... Time is up and they can't change a thing anymore.

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George:"We have failed, I already know. We took the wrong statue for Harry. We didn't know what illness he had, so we took his head. But I took another look at the pictures and I noticed Harry has his foot in a plaster, so I think we're wrong. We should have put a leg there instead of a head. It's very stupid."

The other contestants arrive at the church to see if the challenge has succeeded. They start with Ellen who has to come to the altar. They have the correct picture and the belly is correct too, because she had an operation there.
Jantien's picture is correct and the eyes are correct too.
Prince's picture is right too. The leg and the heart are correct according to Prince because it symbolizes rheumatism.
John's picture is correct too. There's a stomach in front of it. John says he does have a weak stomach. Host:"But you never had an illness or an operation there?" John:"No, but I didn't have many operations or anything. I've been quite healthy." George:"So we shouldn't have put anything there?" John:"But I do have a weak stomach." The host is kind and approves. They only need Harry's picture and wax statue correct now to win 7,500 €.
Harry's picture is correct. He obviously is wearing a plaster on the picture. "But I also had a nose operation." Host:"But there is no nose." George and Karen said there was no nose, so they took the head.
Host:"We thought it would be the foot, but ok... unless you're all lying." Harry:"I am not." 
Host:"OK then you win 7,500 €!" She also explains the other two about the challenge of the others and hands them over the coupons of the money. First 10,000 € for the plane challenge and then 7,500 € for this one. The host tells them they have a total of 46,300 € by now. Harry says he counted it yesterday and they had 23,800 € then. Host:"So you've lost 5,000 €?"
They have to make sure they guard the money, because what they have is what they get. If they lose coupons, they won't get that money. Harry:"Well it had been scattered aroudn in the student bar."
Harry suggests someone else should guard it if they don't trust him, but they tell him he can keep it.

Suspicions
John:"I think there was a little Mole act yesterday." flashback Karen:"I thought that wouldn't be in it, so we didn't go into detail about that and then about the guide, we thought that wouldn't be relevant for the questions." Maybe she deliberately didn't give that information. Karen is The Mole."
Harry:"I think I have to follow my intuition and it tells me it's Karen. I get a lot of clues pointing me to other people and they all come from the game, but I won't let it distract me from my choice. Because she didn't pack my toilet bag the first day on the dam. It was the only real Mole action she did. The only way I will suspect someone else is if Karen has to go home."
Ellen:"I started with Karen and John as Mole candidates. At first I spread my  answers among them, because I thought it was one of those two. And now I think I have to make a choice and have to concentrate on one person. It's still a guess."
Prince:"I'm convinced it's Karen, it's purely a feeling. And yesterday she said she did know the diameter of the bath and she note a lot down, but didn't tell it. She also was angry when we we're camping outside once. Out of rage she yelled 'I'm going home! And then the show won't have a Mole at all!'." flashback  Karen:"They will have to make do without a Mole!" "If Karen isn't The Mole, then Ellen would be my second choice. But for now it's still Karen."
Jantien:"I think Ellen is The Mole. I hope so, it would be really good. If she is The Mole she plays it very well. Because there are still a lot of people who don't know The Mole. So it's great if she's The Mole. I would really like that, if she plays it well and strong and smart."
George:"I think it's a slumbering Mole, who will wake up when all of us are tired and will start sabotaging then. Prince is very tired, it could be a sign. Harry is careless and light-hearted. Ellen is a bit nervous. Jantien still is my Mole. Prince used to be my number two, but now I'm putting Ellen on the second spot. Jantien slash Ellen is The Mole."
Karen:"I'm not sure who's The Mole, but I know that I have only answered the questions with The Mole that I have in mind, so my thoughts are strenghtened with that. And I like being suspicious and I sense that with small things."

Suspicious in this episode
Jantien and Karen didn't tell Harry and George about the diameter and the guide's name.
Prince didn't see the W.
George and Karen took some wrong pictures, but changed them with the correct ones in the end. They could be losing time with that.

Elimination
It is time for the fifth person to leave the game. The elimination takes place in the hangar, with the Utterly Butterly in the background. Who will have to leave?

Episode 7

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