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Pushing the LimitsMonday, July 14 2008 |
Six remaining players play trivia games, navigate a vineyard and bungee jump 90-feet down over the Mendoza River. Tensions still run high between Paul and Nicole and trust continues to breakdown while one of the more low-key players gets executed.
week's episode of The Mole.
The show opens with Nicole saying, “Dr. Diva is the last woman standing and although I’m proud to be the last woman standing I’d much rather be the last player standing.”
They cut to Paul, who says, “mainly right now all I wanna do is outsmart Nicole; I think she is everything that this game is not supposed to be.”
Host Jon Kelley congratulates the players for making it to the final six and notes that Nicole is the last woman standing. She tells the camera winning the game is a matter of pride and doesn’t want to let a bunch of men beat her at this game.
The first mission, The Grapes of Cache, is held in a vineyard in wine country. Jon reminds the players that they currently have $177,000 in the pot. They have to split into two groups, runners and thinkers. Mark, Alex and Clay are in the runner group while Nicole, Paul and Craig are the thinkers. Who is the best athlete in the runner group? Jon asks. The team all agrees on Mark. Who is the best communicator in the thinker group? Paul pipes up that he is, if in fact Jon means best communicator equals loudness. Nicole gets agitated.
and rude comments this week.
The group has a chance to win $70,000 to add to the pot. The runners have to find seven bottles of wine hidden in the vineyard using a GPS navigational tool. The coordinates are given to Alex and Clay by Paul, who gets the correct coordinates only after the thinkers answer a trivia question correctly. Mark has to stay on a treadmill for the entire mission, he cannot stop or they fail the mission, and for each bottle the team finds, Jon increases the speed -- up to 6 mph.
Mark seems to be the only one getting the trivia questions right. He wonders if Craig or Nicole is the Mole because they don’t seem to be very intelligent in their answers.
Paul comments on how he has to relay information to Clay whom he had some problems with recently but now they have to work together. He also wonders why Craig and Nicole don’t seem very bright. He thinks Nicole is trying to sabotage the mission and tells the camera that she claims to be a smart individual.
Paul and Nicole get into it again. “For a doctor you’re not too smart,” Paul says.
Nicole snaps back, “You know what, you’re about to kiss my ass.”
Paul responds, “That hairy thing! I ain’t touchin’ that, trust me.”
calls out, "Love ya, chocolate bear!"
Meanwhile, a couple of the answers are wrong and Clay and Alex get sent in the wrong direction.
Thirty minutes into it, Mark is at a steady run and six of the seven bottles are found. After finding the seventh bottle Alex and Clay begin to jog back to the group. Mark spent 53 minutes on the treadmill. The pot gets boosted to $247,000. The players celebrate.
Alex comments on opening a bottle of wine. Clay had commented earlier that Alex has a propensity to drink alcohol.
Back at the hotel, Paul and Alex discuss that they think Nicole is the Mole. Paul says he hates her and can’t believe she is really a doctor, that he feels bad for her patients.
Mark says he can’t believe that Nicole is the Mole. Clay is suspicious of everyone he says, but he has a feeling Mark could be the Mole. Craig also says he is suspicious of Nicole, that she never takes notes.
Mark tells Clay they should give Alex a lot of wine right before the next quiz.
The next mission, Swing Out, is to bungee jump off a bridge and toss a bag of tea onto a target. Up to $10,000 will be added to the pot for hitting the target with the tea bag, $10,000 is for the bull’s-eye. Mark goes first, Nicole says she wants to go last.
Before each player jumps, they have a chance to get an exemption by guessing how much money the group will win, the person closest to the actual amount without going over gets an exemption.
Each player jumps and Craig’s earsplitting scream makes everyone wince, but no one hits the target except for Alex, who hits the $4,000 ring. So, for all that effort the group only added $4,000 to the pot. No one gained an exemption either, everyone guessed way too high.
At the dinner before the quiz, the players agree that it’s a no-holds barred game now. Paul says he checked his scruples at JFK (airport). Alex says, “The knives are out … you have to push someone off that bridge, no more Mr. Nice Guy.”
entertainment Alex provided in
between missions.
They show Alex drinking more wine – a lot, and Clay offers him another saying he “took cold medicine” so he couldn’t drink it.
Jon reminds the players they have $251,000 in the pot and that someone is going home that night. The players convene after taking the quiz to find out their results. The first to get their result is Alex, who unfortunately failed the worst. He takes the news well and walks off with Jon.
The players all seemed stunned. They say they will miss him and his music.
