Nicole: "So why is it that everybody I pick to be the Mole gets executed and I don't?"

Clay: "Thank you, God, for allowing me to make it this far. Thank you for protecting me, keeping me healthy, strong, motivated, and committed."

Paul: "This is just a brutal game, and it's only going to get better and better. I promise you that, because slowly but surely, I'm working on ticking these people off."

The setting is still Uspallata, Argentina, up in the Andes Mountains.

Craig: "When we drive up in the vans, I was very aware of how cold it was outside, and I was very aware of how sick I was, so I was dreading every minute of it."

Jon greets the players at Uspallata Train Station. A century ago, when trains still ran through the area, this was a holding area for prisoners being transported. They were chained together in a now-roofless building behind Jon. This mission is about a key element in the game: Trust. They head inside the building.

Clay: "We go in, and we are all chained up by our ankles to these steel bars behind us, and I'm thinking to myself, I have no idea what we're gonna be doing."

This mission is called All for One. The goal of the mission is to free themselves from the chains that currently bind them. They're chained in such a way that only one of them at a time can reach the cell behind Jon, which contains the key to set them free. Each of the other six players must stand with their backs flush against the bars behind them to afford enough slack for someone else to reach forward and grab the key, through a little window that opens once every ten minutes. It stays open for only one minute, and a player who grabs the key may free only himself. If everyone is freed before sunrise, $25,000 will be added to the pot.

Here's the "trust" catch: beside the key will be an exemption card, affording a free pass to the next round. The players have to trust that whoever they send to the window will not take the exemption, because if they do, no money is won in this game, and any players left chained up when they do will have to spend the night in the freezing cold.

The mission begins now.

Alex: "At this point, I think everyone will do whatever it takes to get an exemption. It's basically, if there's one there, you better take it, if you're gonna want to win this game."

Craig understandably asks to go first. He promises he won't literally and figuratively "leave them out in the cold," saying he wants $25,000 in the pot.

Craig: "I had on four layers on top. I had pajama bottoms and pants on the bottom. I had three socks on, and gloves and a hat, and I was still freezing."

Clay says he doesn't trust anybody but himself. Then they'll be standing there for a long time. Mark says the same, for the loss of roasted, toasted journal.

Paul: "The minute Mark's journal was burnt, there was a change in Mark. A little piece of him was burnt with that journal."

Craig and Nicole both say they just want out. Craig tells Mark he can trust him.

Kristen: "The twist to this is, the person who takes the exemption card leaves all of us out to sleep there all night. The Mole wants the exemption and to prevent money from going in the pot."

Without a word, Mark puts his back to the bars and allows Craig to head forward. Everyone does, except for Clay. Craig asks him to move back.

Clay: "Craig was allowed to go up there because he's been having health issues. I don't even know if he's telling the truth about his health."

The window opens. Craig takes only the key.

The other players thank Craig for leaving them a chance to get out, and tell him to go get some rest.

Kristen and Alex both say they don't want the exemption. It's Clay that seems to want to stir the pot now. Kristen reminds him that he promised to make up the Midas Rush exemption in the future.

Kristen: "At the end of the Midas Rush mission, when I had given Clay the exemption that I deserved, Clay shook my hand and said, 'In a subsequent mission, I will return this favor.'"

Clay continues to doubt Kristen's trustworthiness. Alex says he's ready to go home, and Paul agrees. It seems that for a protracted time, nobody moves.

Clay: "Nobody trusts anybody. At a very base level, no one trusts anyone but themselves."

Nicole: "If it were totally up to me, I wouldn't have released a single human soul."

Paul says he'd let everyone go and then have the last person, and not him, take the exemption. He doesn't care. He just wants to go inside. Kristen says she's begging now, to go inside.

Clay pulls out a sleeping bag and climbs inside. Alex continues berating the group for their lack of trust and effort. Clay suggests they vote Kristen, and Alex gives an "I don't care." Kristen it is, it seems.

The window opens. Kristen takes only the key.

Paul: "I figured I had to pull the ultimate trump card with these people."

He swears on his daughter that he just wants to go inside and won't take the exemption. Mark tries to respectfully remind Paul that he's in the past talked about how it's "all about the hustle," but Paul tries to convince him that this isn't a hustle, and he really just wants to go inside.

Paul says this is the first and last time they can trust him in this game.

Paul: "I've been saying all along, don't trust me. Don't trust anybody. You can't trust yourselves in this game."

Mark seems to believe this. He doesn't think Paul would swear on his daughter's life and lie. Alex is agreeable to anyone going up, so Paul is the choice.

The window opens.

Paul: "You know, sitting there, looking at that exemption, you're saying to yourself, man, I really want this exemption. At this point in the game, an exemption is huge."

At this point in the game...

Nicole: "I was most afraid that Paul would take the exemption. I don't believe anything that ever comes out of Paul's mouth, ever ever ever."

Paul takes only the key, after hovering his hand over the exemption for a moment.

Alex and Nicole both promise they won't take the exemption. Mark won't do the same, leaving Clay to think he doesn't want to get out at this point, despite the fact that the others are willing to let him go.

Clay: "I don't know if I want to go, because I feel like if I go, then the voice of reason leaves. And then I leave a whole bunch of crazy, non-trustworthy, stubborn, obstinate people there to bicker amongst themselves."

They're having trouble nominating the next person to go. There's only about 7 minutes until the window opens again.

Craig, Kristen, and Paul are inside enjoying a nice dinner with Jon beside a warm fire. They're speculating on who might stay out there all night, either to sabotage the game or keep anyone from getting the exemption. Paul says he thought about taking the exemption for a second, but knew he couldn't go against his family.

The others on the chain now seem to want Mark to go next, despite the fact that he's told them he might take the exemption. Clay doesn't seem to want to leave Mark there with Nicole and Alex.

Clay: "I was hesitant to even leave, because I think Mark wants an exemption very badly. I think Mark, in my opinion, will do anything to get an exemption."

Clay reasons that Mark doesn't trust any of them to not take the exemption if he leaves without taking it, and Mark claims that he doesn't even trust himself.

Clay: "When Mark said he cannot trust himself, that was a specific moment for me, when our coalition began to unravel.

I felt that was a transition point for him. He could become the evil, malicious, doomsday Mark, or he could still have some compassion and be the old Mark."

Clay agrees to go. The others will agree to send him off.

Clay walks forward.

The window opens. Clay takes only the key.

Mark says he doesn't know that either Nicole or Alex can convince him they won't grab the exemption. They both try to convince him, but it seems fruitless.

Nicole: "Mark had a look on his face that I'd never seen before."

Mark: "I think I had the upper hand psychologically. Because everybody knew I was irritated about my journal, and I don't think anybody wanted to play with me that night.

"Nicole, she gave me a look that I haven't seen from her at all in this game that finally let me know she was being honest. So I let her go."

The guys give Nicole the slack. She walks forward.

The window opens. Nicole takes only the key.

Back inside, Clay thinks Mark will hands-down take the exemption, thinking he's changed for losing his journal. They seem a little surprised that Nicole is in now. Paul says he's waiting for someone to walk in behind her. Jon asks if she took the exemption. Paul is shocked at the response.

Alex asks Mark what the plan is. He's standing flush against the bars, and he tells Alex to go to the window.

Alex: "I'm afraid that he was gonna take the exemption. That's an evil exemption. I want that extra 25 grand into the pot."

The window opens. Alex takes only the key.

Mark is alone. He walks to the window before it opens and looks at the key and the exemption card.

Mark: "I knew full well that this one move could be the complete turning point of the game for me. I'm running through every possible scenario of what could happen, if I take the exemption, or if I take the key."

The window opens. Mark doesn't do anything immediately, and continues staring at the two objects.

He takes something, but we don't see what.

The players at the dinner table continue speculating on Mark's behavior. Clay doesn't think the money's enough to stop him.

Mark walks in. He seems to be concealing a grin. He asks them what they thought.

Paul says he doesn't think Mark took the exemption. Clay says he thinks he did, based on when he wouldn't promise that he wouldn't take it.

Mark says he has something green in his pocket.

It's a candy wrapper.

Paul: "He reaches into his pockets, and he pulls out a thing of mints, and throws the green mints on the table."

ALL FOR ONE - +$25,000

TOTAL - $177,000

Clay: "I'm still surprised that he didn't take the exemption. I'm thinking, maybe he's the Mole, maybe he doesn't need the exemption."

Mark: "It was hard. Walking away from that exemption was hard. But I decided that just getting ahead wasn't enough. Because then my social game would be destroyed. Especially now that we don't have our journals. You know, we're all willing to help each other now, but if I'd taken that exemption, people'd go 'Screw you, exemption boy.'"

Jon comes in, with an early Christmas present - fresh, new journals.

Craig: "I'm happy, because everyone gets their journal back, and I actually have not brought out my journal since the journal burning, just 'cause of the survivor's guilt."

Jon says the players can opt for their same number, if they're superstitious.

Mark: "The journal to me, it's like if you lose your wedding ring and you get it replaced. You can't replace it. So I really didn't care about the new journal."

Jon says they're heading out of the Andes in the morning, and the players seem very happy to hear that. They're heading to Mendoza, known as the "Napa Valley" of Argentina.

Alex: "The drive from Uspallata to Mendoza, you know, those are the precious moments where we can just relax and watch the scenic views."

But all is not calm and serene in the van.

Clay: "Initially on our way to Mendoza, there was an exchange of information for our new journals. Because, again, our old journals were burned."

Clay asks Craig his date of birth, and gets it. He asks it of Paul, who says he shouldn't have to divulge the information twice, but then does. This leads to a little war of words between the two. Paul calls Clay a hypocrite for being a "godly man" and a criminal defense attorney.

Paul: "He's a criminal defense lawyer. A man who says he's such a godly person shouldn't be defending criminals."

He says the Bible says do not debate, but that's all he does is debate. Paul says Clay's whole life is hypocrisy. This makes Clay laugh, because Paul's exact words were "your whole life is a hypocrite."

Clay: "I made a determination that I was gonna use his own game and use it on him."

Things are a little calmer in Alex's van.

Alex: "We were enjoying the view. I mean, driving is definitely my one way to maintain sanity in this game."

Clay says Paul has a Napoleon complex. Paul calls Clay something that's not fit for network TV. Mark wants to know why there always has to be name-calling, and gets similar bleeped, digitized-lip treatment. Clay suggests he and Paul step outside the van and settle it like men. Clay says a "godly man" doesn't have to sit around and take it when others insult him.

Craig: "I think this game is definitely bringing out the worst in people, but I'm trying to not let it bring out the worst in me. Which is why I left the van."

Craig joins Alex's van and tells Alex, Nicole, and Kristen what was going on in the first van.

Clay gives Paul money for some reason. Paul turns around and asks for more. He wads it up and throws it back at him. Clay calls Paul his chauffeur.

Clay: "I knew I would be able to shake him up, but to shake him up that much, I was very surprised, so maybe he just didn't anticipate an adversary as fierce as I am."

Paul tells Clay to get out of the van, not to fight, but because he refuses to drive him any further. Clay does get out, but as he does, he throws Paul's "Lemonhead" at him, and hits him in the back of the neck.

Clay: "I threw a lemon at Paul, and you know, I wanted him to feel the impact of it, and also I wanted the shock value of it."

Paul: "At that point, all I want to do is tear his throat out."

Clay leaves the van.

Clay: "The argument ended because I just moved to a different van."

The second van's getting a little crowded.

Kristen: "Clay came over and asked me to actually get in Paul's van."

Craig: "And by the time Clay had gotten back into my van, he was same old Clay again."

Craig and Alex sing a little song. Craig's voice isn't too bad. Eventually Nicole and Clay join in, so happy that they're not traveling with Paul that they're singing.

Paul continues to call Clay a hypocrite in his van.

The players join Jon at a breakfast table in Mendoza. Clay and Paul aren't sitting anywhere near each other.

Paul: "The next morning, you know, we're at breakfast, and I'm just pissed. I'm gonna try to avoid Clay, because I don't want to snap at any point."

Clay: "One of the things, as a Christian, is you have to have a forgiving heart. I certainly hold no animosity or anything against him."

Jon bids the players welcome to Mendoza, and hopes the climate change and altitude change is doing them well. Craig starts coughing, and suggests that his health problems should be exemption-worthy. Paul says Craig getting to keep his journal was exemption enough.

Jon mentions the drama during the trip over from Uspallata. He tells them to finish up, and they'll meet up at the next mission.

They meet up outside. This game has been nothing short of a journey, Jon says, and keeping with that theme, this mission is called Travelers. They'll pair off and take various modes of transportation to travel 5.5 miles from their current position beside some railroad tracks to a 5-peso bill....oh, it's the statue depicted on the bill, the Cerro de la Gloria statue, which celebrates Argentina's independence from the Spanish empire.

Each duo that makes it to the statue in 45 minutes adds $10,000 to the pot.

Now, with three pairs, one player is left out. Unbeknownst to the players, Jon selected the player at the breakfast table. The criteria was quite simple - it was the first player to say the word "exemption."

Craig grins and shoots his hand into the air.

Alex: "You could say Mole behavior may have started at breakfast with Craig just automatically saying the word 'exemption.'"

Craig is the "transportation captain." He'll split the players up into teams of two and designate the players' modes of transportation. If none of the teams make it to the statue in time, Craig will receive that exemption he talked about, but no money will be added to the pot.

Clay tells Craig to remember he's his roommate, and it might be a long night.

Kristen and Paul say that they think Craig will shoot for the exemption, since he hasn't been talking about much but the exemption for days.

Paul: "This is Craig's time, to basically screw the group and get his exemption."

Jon and Craig arrive at "Jon's Rentals," everything the players will need to get to the statue. There are an awful lot of choices, including stilts, scooters, tiny bikes, an ice cream cart, a donkey, and a two-person llama costume.

Craig: "I was going for the exemption. So I wanted to make it very difficult on everybody, and I actually wanted to make it very humorous."

The other six come to Jon's Rentals to hear their fates. Craig tells them this mission is more like Race to the Summit than All for One, since no one felt that bad when Mark and Kristen went for exemptions in Race to the Summit. He's going for the exemption.

Alex is first. He's going to have to dress up like a conquistador and take the donkey along with him. He can't ride the donkey.

Alex: "I was the conquistador, with my donkey. I had a sword and everything."

He's paired with Mark, who will wear a scuba outfit with flippers.

Mark: "It was insulting."

Clay and Kristen are next. Clay will be using a unicycle. Kristen will be on stilts.

Kristen: "I was like, you're gonna make me look like some circus freak."

The last one is the llama costume. Nicole will be at the head, and Paul will bring up the rear.

Clay: "I actually thought it was a moment of sheer genius when he chose Nicole to be the head of the llama, and Paul to be the rear end, it was almost Shakespearean."

Nicole: "I mean, how dare you. We saved your ass from the cold. Then he picks me to be in a llama costume?! Please! We are not cool. Not anymore."

Craig says he doesn't think any of them would have made any different choices. Paul seems a little amused at it all, and thinks Craig should have used easier methods. Mark says the task is impossible. He says even going full pace he can't make it in 45 minutes.

Paul: "I started to think that this could be possibly a strategic way of Mark getting people not to do it. He was so convincing, he started making me believe that I couldn't do an eight-minute mile!"

Mark's modesty seems to be popping up again, as he seems to not even want to try.

Craig: "I was surprised Mark said I'm not even gonna try. So that's suspicious." Jon and Craig head to the statue, and Jon tells the players to get suited up and head onto the course.

Alex puts on the conquistador armor, but everybody else seems to want to simply opt out of the mission.

Clay: "There's a mutiny. We're not doing this. Mark and Kristen kind of initiate it together.

"You looked at the stilts, specifically regarding Kristen, they really weren't 6 or 7 foot stilts. They were really low to the ground. Could she have done it? I don't think it's impossible."

Alex: "It's not in my nature to give up without trying. I mean, I put on the suit. But once Mark is, 'I'm not doing this, I'm not doing this, I'm not doing this,' I knew I couldn't change his mind. As a group, we didn't really think ahead. Maybe there's another aspect to this mission. Maybe there's something a mile down the road, maybe another form of transportation. We didn't even think, 'well, maybe there's a loophole.'"

Jon and Craig are waiting on a roadside at the halfway point. It's been long enough that someone should have made it by now.

Craig: "I figured there was gonna be some sort of twist. Jon would make a deal, take like $5,000 out of the pot, and then you get to the top of the mountain, Craig doesn't get the exemption.

"I just wanted to get out of there and move on."

There's nothing.

The mission is over before it even began.

TRAVELERS FAILED

TOTAL - $177,000

Kristen: "Once we decided that we weren't gonna do the mission, we all jumped in the vans, and just decided that we were gonna find the monument."

Paul and Kristen say Craig could have done it a different way, and this shows his malicious side.

The vans come up to the statue, and the players tell Jon of their decision to forfeit the mission.

Nicole: "We were being disobedient children!"

Jon asks who led this little "Mole Revolution," and they say it was collective, despite it pretty clearly starting with Mark and Kristen. They're happy with the decision.

Craig: "There was a time in this game when I said that there's no way Mark is the Mole, but now I have to go back on that. In the Dress Code mission, he opted out and kept $5,000 from going in the pot. In this last mission, he was the ringleader in getting people not even to try. And what coach keeps his team from trying?"

Clay: "You know, I can't think of a time when I actually have quit something without even trying.

"But when you really break it down, yeah, there was Mole activity. I could be in a coalition with the Mole right now."

Craig earns the exemption. Paul and Kristen dispute his "earning" it, but he gets it all the same.

At the execution dinner, Craig says he's a little guilt-ridden, not for taking the exemption, but for forgetting everyone's kindness when they afforded him the first spot out of the chains in the first mission this round. He apologizes to the group, but he's still happy he has the exemption.

Craig: "I went from being the guy everybody likes to the guy everybody hates.

"So the good news is, everyone thinks I'm the Mole, bad news is, I've lost all moral support."

Jon asks if anybody would have not gone for the exemption in that game. Nobody will say this, but they still seem indignant at Craig for making the choices he did.

Alex: "I'm a musician, so $30,000 is a lot for me. But for other people, they're like, 'Oh, I could make that in a week.' So, any money is good for me at this point in time."

Craig: "Never in my life have I considered myself to be the normal, average person, until put into this situation. Paul flies off the handle at the drop of a hat. Mark is paranoid. And Nicole is a psychopath. Now I'm surrounded by insane people. These people are crazy."

Jon asks the players how it's been not being able to call home. Mark says it's been awful, saying he and his wife haven't gone more than a day without speaking to each other for almost 19 years, and now it's been 23 days.

Mark: "Being away from home has changed me drastically. It's difficult just having nobody to go to when you're at your lowest point."

Paul says it's killing him, too, and he's resorted to having a lemon as his confidante. Clay says he doesn't think about it that much, and the photos from him tide him over.

Clay: "It is absolutely part of my strategy to be more quiet, mysterious. I think it's just been magnified here, and I'm sitting back and using it more, perhaps to manipulate or, just to hide my true intentions."

Jon raises a toast to the Mole's next victim.

Kristen: "Tonight's execution is a little tenuous. We've got one person with an exemption, so now I've got a one-out-of-six chance of staying."

And now the quiz.

1. Is the Mole male or female?

A. Male
B. Female

2. In the All for One mission, from Jon's perspective, where was the Mole chained, left to right?

A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
E. Fifth
F. Sixth
G. Seventh

Alex: "The Mole could be Mark. I think he's playing this game too hard. The Mole needs to have some sort of façade, and that could be his."

3. In All for One, when did the Mole grab the key?

A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
E. Fifth
F. Sixth
G. Seventh

Kristen: "I've been gunning for one person the whole time as the Mole, knowing that many of the guys are just playing the odds. I even know Nicole's been playing the odds. It just puts me at an advantage."

4. Did the Mole get inside of a sleeping bag during the All for One mission?

A. Yes
B. No

5. During the Travelers mission, what was the Mole wearing?

A. Shorts
B. Pants

6. In Travelers, what form of transportation was originally assigned to the Mole?

A. Conquistador and Donkey
B. Scuba Gear
C. Unicycle
D. Stilts
E. Llama
F. The Mole was not assigned a form of transportation

Paul: "Craig has been on the top of my list since day one, and as people drop off, it just confirms some of my suspicions."

7. Who was the Mole paired with for the Travelers mission?

A. Alex
B. Clay
C. Kristen
D. Mark
E. Nicole
F. Paul
G. The Mole was not paired with another player

Mark: "I feel nervous going into tonight's execution, because to me this is the turning point in the game. I am either going to play odds, or I am going to target one person completely. And it could end my game."

8. At breakfast before the Travelers mission, where was the Mole sitting, clockwise from Jon?

A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
E. Fifth
F. Sixth
G. Seventh

9. Has the Mole had an exemption to date?

A. Yes
B. No

Clay: "Nicole, she's a wildcard. At times she's annoying, at times she's helpful, at times you see a glimmer of truth, at times you say this woman is lying about everything. I would like to have a computer record verify her name is Nicole, 'cause I don't even know if that's right."

10. Who is the Mole?

A. Alex
B. Clay
C. Craig
D. Kristen
E. Mark
F. Nicole
G. Paul

And now the execution. The players meet up outside the old Mendoza train station.

Once again, there is a tie on the quiz. The time difference dictating who will have to go home tonight was one second.

Click the pictures below. If a green screen appears, that player remains in the game. If a red screen appears, that player is executed and must leave the game immediately.

Craig is not at risk.

Who is definitely NOT the Mole: Nicole, Paul

Who may very well be the Mole: Alex, Craig

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