Returning players Corbin Bernsen and Stephen Baldwin offer thoughts on the game and their new cohorts.
Corbin: "Here we are again."
Stephen: "Me again!"
Corbin: "Last time I was nuts, as you probably remember. Nuts."
Stephen: "Honestly, why did I do this?"
Corbin: "Why would Bernsen and Baldwin be back for this?"
Movie offers didn't come pouring in??
Stephen: "I think I'm a really sick person."
Corbin: "It's too obvious, you can't make them the Mole. But wait a second, of course you can make them the Mole. That's great!"
Stephen: "For Corbin and I to come back, and try to participate in such a psychotic event, must mean that the two of us are...psychotic people."
Keshia Knight Pulliam shouts "Mole!" at the screen and a car sign, like those that say "Baby on Board" appears on the screen, only this sign says "Mole on Board."
Stephen: "The enemy: Dennis Rodman. A little kooky. "Angie Everhart. Fiery redhead. Fellas, do I need to say anything else?"
But alas! The Yankee cap she wears is a turn-off.
Stephen: "Mark Curry. Hilarious. Keshia. Too cute. Too Cosby. Ananda Lewis. Kinda like that Angie thing, only worse. The girl's like, just off the chain. "Tracey Gold, love her. I'm going to try to form a coalition with her. "I don't trust nobody."
Our host Ahmad Rashad recounts the rules of the game and the players. He says Corbin and Stephen were stars of Celebrity Mole: Hawaii. Oh, please.
The opening shot of Celebrity Mole: Yucatan shows a yellow car driving on the beach. Close-ups show a stuffed Chihuahua, what appear to be a figurines of Mexican wrestlers, and a sign that says "DRIVER CARRIES ONLY $30,000 IN CHANGE." It is the "Celebrity Mole Taxi, Digging up fares all across the Yucatan." Host Ahmad Rashad drives the car. He approaches Corbin on the beach. The yellow car bears the sign that says "Mole on Board."
Ahmad says that for the first challenge of this season, he is to pick up his fellow contestants in "El Taxi Loco," as the car is called. Corbin holds a clue, with a location written in extremely simple Spanish and an allusion in English to who is to be picked up. Each player then holds the clue for the next player to be picked up. For each player Corbin brings back to the beach within the time limit, $5,000 will be put into the pot, but if he fails to return within the time limit no money will be won. The time limit is 75 minutes.
Ahmad gives Corbin a new hat since his current hat was too associated with his execution in CMH. Ahmad asks that Corbin be sure to bring his friends Carlos and Pepe, chickens, back with him.
Stickers on the taxi say "Honk if you love Ahmad," "Will brake for celebrities," and more.
The taxi is off and the time starts.
Corbin opens his clue.
Estacion de policia. This not so usual suspect.
Obviously this means Stephen is waiting at the police station.
Stephen also holds a clue, but he must wait to open it until Corbin has picked him up and he is inside the taxi.
Corbin asks a local, in Spanish, where the police station is and gets a plain ol' "I don't know" as his answer.
After 8 minutes on the clock, Corbin finds the police station and Stephen, in no real hurry, enters the taxi.
They open his clue:
Calle Corazon. Don't let this fiery heartbreaker walk all over you
Obvious again that Angie is the next celebrity on the list to be picked up.
On the way there, Stephen is rather critical of Corbin's driving and how he seems to almost run over numerous pedestrians. This isn't LA, kid.
Corbin stops the taxi and tells Stephen to go look for Angie. He finds her after what seems like next to no time. They return to the taxi and read Angie's clue.
Estacion de television. Hanging out with this celebrity could be a spicy experience
Obviously the clues are not the hard part of this game. Mark Curry awaits at the TV station.
Mark wonders what he's gotten himself into with this show and says he and ABC need to talk.
After a little misunderstanding about whether or not Corbin should turn and Angie accusing him of sabotage, they pull right up to the cable station where Mark waits. He climbs into the taxi and reads his clue.
Restaurante El Hot. Not only is the food hot, but so is this celebrity who is definitely a "10" two times over.
They don't seem to know who the celebrity is, but they know where they are going. It is Ananda Lewis who awaits.
Corbin asks a passing motorist where "Restaurante El Hot" is. Angie grabs her breasts and repeats the title.
Mark: "I didn't know what was going on. We were driving around Mexico. I don't know how they do the streets down here, because there's no street names. Plus, all the people think Americans are really crazy. 'Look at the muy loco Americans!'"
Corbin says they've found the place. Indeed they have. Before Corbin lets her in the taxi, he demands Ananda's age. She's 30.
Ananda enters the taxi and reads her clue.
Concha de Basket. This celebrity has been rebounding his way west through his career.
We see Dennis Rodman playing a little basketball with a kid at a ball court. The players in the car have 36 minutes left and don't imagine it'll take long to find the basketball court. Ananda wonders why Corbin won't pass the truck in front of them.
Ananda: "Corbin didn't know how to drive, we hit a bump, thought I would get whiplash. But then he wouldn't drive fast."
The passengers think Corbin is being molish for not speeding. Corbin and Ananda get into a smallish argument about which way is west.
Gee, would looking at the sun be too hard?
Ananda: "And then we get into this whole Corbin has a compass in his head thing. Because I had a compass and it was telling us west was this way, and he's going, like, this way, and I looked at him three ways, funny again, like, 'All right. You go your west. And I'll just keep watching the compass."
Mark suggests that they all join hands and sing Kum Ba Yah. Corbin is now convinced they will fail.
Dennis: "I heard someone screaming, 'Dennis! Come on, Dennis!' And I'm like, 'Who the hell is that?'"After 20 or so minutes, they've finally found the court. Still holding his basketball, Dennis climbs into the taxi and reads his clue.
Joyeria Silverado. Get your gold rush on to find this celebrity, waiting out west on Ave 5.
Again it's clear who they're looking for and even more or less where, but time has now become an issue. Only 10 minutes remain for them to return to the beach or lose everything.
It is Mark who first suggests they go back and collect what money they can. Stephen wants to go on and get Tracey Gold at the next location. Dennis wants to "go for the gusto." Corbin says he can get them back to the beach within 5 minutes, but Stephen is not sure about that. He now equates this to the dinner table exemption in CMH and agrees with those who want to go back to the beach.
Mark: "I came up with the decision that we blow off Keshia and Tracey. We had $25,000, so I said, 'Let's go. Let's leave them. Let's leave them.'"They are succesfully back to the beach within the time limit.
TEST PASSED - +$25,000 TOTAL - $25,000
Tracey and Keshia are brought to the beach location. They apologize for not having picked them up. Corbin explains the rules of this challenge that everyone probably already knew.
Ananda says they knew where Tracey was and were a block away from her when they decided to come back to the beach.
Tracey: "I was glad that we won $25,000. $35,000 would have been better. But in my mind, I don't think I have enough information to judge whether or not they really had enough time to get me. That's the part that I'm in the dark about." Can't be too picky when you did NOTHING to help win the money.
Ananda is convinced the Mole has already acted.
Some luxuriant clips of the Yucatan resort and lifestyle are shown, including a couple, er, topless women.
Ahmad presents the players with their journals, giving them the usual spiel about their use and importance, especially in avoding execution, which two players already have experience with.
Corbin: "It's not like your farewell, or you're "voted off," or any of that. You're executed. You're done. You're out."
Damn straight and wouldn't have it any other way. Voted off?!?!?!?!?!?
Stephen has journal number one, Keshia number two, Ananda number three. Mark has number four. Tracey has number eight, Angie has number seven.
Corbin says he's going to help everyone right now. He asks what the number on the taxi was, and Ananda says 151, which is correct.
Tracey: "Corbin is exactly how I thought he would be after watching the first Mole. He's trying to pretend like it doesn't all matter to him. But it does. "I think it'd be really fun to see him unravel."
Corbin comes up with some insane goldfish "clues" on the wall.
Angie: "He really is into this game. He's looking at the fish on the wall, thinking that there's something tied in to the fish on the wall. And he went up to the wall and smelled the paint."
For the next challenge, Ahmad asks the team to select two players who are the group's best salesmen. They pick Mark, who once worked in sales, and Corbin.
The game is called "Artifact or Fiction." Ahmad will take the two salesmen into the next room where they will each be given what appears to be an ancient artifact. But only one actually is. They are each to develop a story about what they hold. If the other six players can guess who is lying, $10,000 will be won. If not, no money is won and the lying player gets an exemption.
Ahmad shows the two salesmen the artifacts, covered by a sheet and a box. Corbin chooses the sheet, and Mark the box. They look at their artifacts and get 10 minutes to prepare their speeches. Corbin seems to know what his is.
Mark: "The object I had was a rock, you know, kinda long. A phallic symbol. Rock in a box basically."
Back at the lunch table, Corbin begins his speech. He withdraws the sheet on the artifact. This is, obviously, a gourd. The Mayans used it to make alcohol, and after a mixing process would have an alcoholic drink stronger than tequila.
Mark says his "phallic symbol" is a fertility piece, that was given to the son-in-law by his new father-in-law as a symbol of acceptance, and it represented their family.
The players now discuss who they think is telling the truth with their story. They get five minutes to discuss.
Stephen initiates a huddle and they talk. Keshia thinks Mark is telling the truth due to a detail about Corbin's tequila story. Angie says she went shopping yesterday and almost bought something that looked like Mark's artifact because it looked like a penis. Stephen asks "Did it look like Mark's?" with the worst possible timing.
A quick poll says two think Mark is lying, Ananda doesn't know, and the other three think Corbin is lying. Angie again says she almost bought the "phallic symbol." Stephen says he thinks Corbin is lying. Dennis concedes to select Corbin as the liar, which they as a group do.
Tracey: "Angie was the person who made me kinda switch my vote, because she really, really believed this."
Stephen tells Ahmad they are picking Corbin. Ahmad asks the liar to reveal himself. Mark raises his hand.
TEST FAILED TOTAL - $25,000
Mark: "I got an exemption. I feel good about it. It takes a lot of pressure off of me."
Angie continues to insist that she saw the rock yesterday while shopping, even when it's revealed that that's almost all the reason the group was wrong.
Ananda: "Angie jumped in way too quick with 'I went shopping yesterday and saw that penis at the mall.' That was slick, that was slick."
Guess we know why we're on at 10!
Angie: "My strategy was to go in and make people think that I'm the Mole. So I went to Stephen, and I said to him, I was like, 'Oh yeah, I saw that when I was shopping.' Which was a complete lie."
Ananda: "We lost money in the pot because of her emphasis on the fact that she'd seen that artifact."
Stephen says he knows who the Mole is. Mark says it's too soon. Angie says it's gotta be Stephen. Dennis doesn't give a bleep who the Mole is.
Stephen approaches a door at the hotel.
Stephen: "I'm not here this time for the fun and the cool. I'm here to figure this thing out. And I think Tracey can help me do that."
They start a conceivable coalition, each swearing to not be the Mole.
Tracey: "If anyone says, 'Why did you go into a coalition with Stephen?' I'm like, 'He's the only one who asked!'"Stephen thinks the Mole is Keshia, Dennis, or Corbin. Tracey thinks it's Ananda or Mark.
Looks like they got their bases covered.
Stephen: "Tracey's like, scholastic. You know, very observant. Very cerebral. She's everything I'm not."
Mark interrupts the plotting with his mischief.
Ahmad comes to Keshia's room with a special offer. She gets to play a secret game. She can earn money for the pot and something even more valuable. If she can convince the other players to go swimming with her after dinner, $2,000 will be added to the pot for every player. Just two feet in the water count. But if any one person goes skinny-dipping, Keshia gets an exemption. She has until midnight.
Keshia: "It was a very festive atmosphere at dinner. However, dinner ended up taking so long that it just totally threw a monkey wrench in my plans. Mr. Rashad, he kept the whole time, 'It's time!' "I have to get away from this table and make someone come with me."
Keshia pretends to be sick and leaves the table, but the other players actually believe that she's not feeling well.
Keshia: "Everyone really thought I was sick. I really wasn't!"
Keshia convinces Angie to go walk with her.
Keshia: "Then I had to say 'Okay, well, you know what? I think the Tums is working, so let's go for a walk on the beach.' "I was like, 'Well, let me just get people to get in the water, so we can get some money in the pot."
Angie and Keshia herself both submerge their feet, $2,000 each. Keshia drags Mark from the table and to the beach. He first submerges one foot and then the other. Another $2,000 won.
Mark: "I'm on the beach, and these two ladies want to get in the water, I kinda edge them on. I'm a man. What can I say? "These ladies wanted to go swimming. They wanted to skinny-dip. They wanted to pull me in."
Now Keshia works for the exemption. She dares Mark to go skinny-dipping. He says he is not afraid to do so, but doesn't.
Keshia: "Honestly, I thought it was going to be Mark who was going to do it, but then Angie was like, 'I'll do it if you do it.' I was like, 'Okay, let's go!' "But I was like, 'Okay, I am not about to take my clothes off on this beach right here in front of everyone. I found a towel and I wrapped the towel around me. I took my clothes off and went in the water with a towel. And then she took everything off. "We were in the water, and we did not have our clothes on. I should get double the money for that one, honestly."
Angie starts stripping almost without being asked.
Mark sits back and enjoys the show. He says he'll never watch The Cosby Show the same way again.
Mark points out the beautiful moon.
TEST PASSED - +$6,000 TOTAL - $31,000
Mark: "All the moons that I saw, as a matter of fact, were beautiful. Only in Mexico you can see three moons on one night!"
At the execution dinner, Ahmad reveals the skinny-dipping game and Keshia's exemption. Angie is a little annoyed to say the least.
Angie says Keshia didn't even have to work to get her clothes off and someone should have to work for an exemption.
Now the quiz. Only questions 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 were actually broadcast.
1. Is the Mole male or female?
Dennis: "It's got to be one of two people. Corbin and Stephen. Why the hell would they come back?"
2. In what order did the Mole get picked up in "El Taxi Loco?"
3. How was the Mole introduced in the "Taxi Loco" game?
Tracey: "'Taxi Loco' wasn't that bad for me, because I just stood outside. I didn't have money. That was the worst part of it. If I had only had money, I could have bought so many cute things."
Stephen: "D-Rod I'm worried about. I mean, if Dennis is the Mole, it's going to be tough to figure that out."
Corbin: "Unless he's the Mole, I think Dennis might be executed tonight. I just don't think he's grasped the idea of the quiz."
4. What number journal is the Mole's?
5. Before the liar was revealed in the "Artifact or Fiction" game, did the Mole touch one of the two replicas?
Ananda: "What does it mean that Angie, before the story was even done said, that 'Oh I think I know what that is,' and then we all agred and then lost all that money."
6. What role did the Mole play in the "Artifact or Fiction" game?
7. What color top was the Mole wearing at dinner last night?
Angie: "Keshia I have my eye on. She's been very quiet. And I asked her straight out if she was the Mole and she kinda smirked and looked down."
8. Was the Mole's name on the birthday cake served at dinner last night?
9. What did the Mole do during the "Moon over Yucatan" game?
10. Who is the Mole?
Stephen: "Corbin is on my suspect list only because we've done this before. Is he the Mole and he's not changing his game so that I won't find that out?"
Tracey: "I'm going with Keshia and Angie, but I'm not sure. I'm really not sure."
Now the execution. Click the pictures below. If a green screen appears, that player remains in the game. If a red screen appears, that player has been executed and must leave the game immediately (at least in their capacity as a player).
Keshia and Mark are not at risk.
Click here for my recap of episode 2.
