More clips and cheesy narrative...sheesh. This was much better when it was just clips of the players exposing their suspicious behavior alone.
Tracey: (whispering)"Last night, I think I got closer to the Mole. I think I'm figuring out who the Mole is. I'm looking at [Mark] Curry."
Oh FOR GOD'S SAKE speak up!
Mark: "I haven't narrowed down who is the Mole. I am the Mole."
Dennis: "Sorry Corbin, confession is that we do care that you're gone but we don't care that you're gone."
Keshia: "I'm glad, I guess, I didn't really do a coalition with Corbin, being as he's no longer here. Had I taken his advice, I may not be here also."
Angie: "Forgive me father for I have sinned...confession."
Stephen: (slaps his face)"I don't know what to do."
Ahmad welcomes his amigos to Playa Maroma. There is a record low of $16,000 in the pot. This should be an easy game to add money to the pot. He tells the players to seperate into three teams of two. The duos are Dennis and Keshia, Angie and Stephen, and Tracey and Mark, in that order, 1-3.
Meet your opponents: live chickens. There are 24 chickens, but 48 sombreros. The players have to turn over a sombrero, find a number that corresponds to a chicken, and corral that chicken. Some sombreros have nothing inside, but some have numbers, as Ahmad demonstrates with his own sombrero, which bears the number 7. For each chicken that the players catch, $2,000 is added to the pot. There are also four "super chickens," worth $5,000 each. The players may only turn over one sombrero at a time, and after finding a number must immediately pursue the corresponding chicken(the numbers are written on tape strips on the birds' legs).
Dennis and Keshia begin the fowl play. They and each succeeding team will have 5 minutes with the birds.
Dennis asks Keshia if she has ever touched a chicken. She tells him that she has, that they had chickens at her house growing up.
Dennis picks up a sombrero with number seven on it. Keshia quickly retrieves that chicken. The next sombrero says six. Another quick two grand.
Angie: "Dennis was more or less scaring the chickens. It's like, the Jolly Green Giant. The sound of the earth must have sounded like an earthquake. And then there's Keshia. It's like, Yin and Yang. She was just, whoop! "
Stephen: "It was beautiful. It was like he was back out on the court. He'd do a little move left, and then kinda turn right. Then he'd take that long stride and just finger roll the chicken."
Keshia finds the number six again, causing a little confusion. She figures it must have been nine earlier. Stephen and Angie scream for her to put in the number six or the rest won't count, but six is already in the pen. Then they can't find number nine, and Dennis has already turned over number fifteen.
Dennis: "It was very typical because you got the six and the nine, and the nine, the six looks just the same."
Dennis finally finds the bleeping nine, and coralls it.
The time is up. Ahmad says Keshia is the finest chicken picker he has ever seen. There was a point where the team broke the rules, however. They deposited simultaneous chickens, so neither will count. Still, they earned a healthy $17,000 for the pot, which included one super chicken.
Angie and Stephen are next. All the sombreros are turned over again, lessening the chances of finding a new number. They get chicken number 21.
Stephen: "You know, there was an interesting synergy, I think, that was happening. The way she was moving was quite chicken-like. I think that she was kinda relating to the chickens."
Time is up. They have put eleven chickens in the pen. Three were super chickens. They have added $31,000 to the pot.
The third group steps up. They have only six chickens left to pick. Mark picks hat number 19.
They turn over hats simultaneously, another rule violation. Mark picks up one chicken to hold with him until he finds the number. Stephen screams for him to put the chicken down.
Mark: "I was trying to just go crazy. Like when I picked up the chicken, and was running around with it, and everyone was like, 'Why did you pick up the chicken?' My thing was I was gonna grab as many chickens as possible, and when the number came up just drop him in."
Time is up. Four chickens are in the pen. $9,000 is added to the pot. $2,000 were penalized for simultaneous hat pick-ups.
$57,000 is won. Ahmad asks them to pick the best chicken wrangler. They pick Keshia immediately.
Keshia is now to go toe-to-toe with a super rooster. If she can grab him within 5 minutes, another $10,000 will be won.
Mark: "The rooster's actually taller than Keshia by about an inch."
Stephen: "It was funny to actually see the rooster looking over its shoulder, like getting nervous."
The time begins.
Keshia: "I thought that roosters are usually pretty mean, so I was like, 'Oh my goodness, please don't let this rooster pluck my eyes out or something."
Stephen: "When she tried to be a chicken-whisperer, and it wasn't working, then she just like got all ghetto about it."
With under a minute left in the 5 minute limit, she has the super-rooster coralled.
TEST PASSED - +$67,000 TOTAL - $83,000
Stephen reveals a little of his observations from his journal. Angie suspects that Stephen and Tracey have a coalition when he won't keep reading because she's in the van.
Stephen: "Tracey, for her and I to communicate and share our ideas and information, I think we can really dissect a lot more and figure a lot more out. "This is...insanity. There's no way to dissect this thing called the Mole. "Tracey seemed to me to really be giving it her all. "Angie, singlehandedly, has been the cause of $45,000 not going into the pot. "Keshia's just way too laid-back. "Whoever gets whacked next, it's big. "I know this is going to be like a huge shocker, for me personally."
Tracey: "I wish he was more confident in who he thought was the Mole. And he's saying he doesn't know at this moment. Which he may not, or he could be the Mole. "Mark has lost money. Mark, to me, looks the moliest."
GEE, in a full voice. Need to rest up for your next interview?
Mark gives Tracey pointers on how to be street-hip. The players go horseback riding and ride jetskis. I guess playing a game to add to your already-fabulous riches must be tiring.
Angie: "Dennis just doesn't try to do anything in any of these games, so he sabotages everything."
Now that that's done, the game can continue.
Ah yes...the reprise of a classic Mole game: the night maze. It has a Yucatan twist, though. It is called "Wrestler Mariachi Maze." He asks the players to split into three groups of two, and in each group select a runner and a navigator. The navigator will guide the runner through the maze, looking at an overhead shot and using a walkie-talkie. Each runner that makes it out earns $20,000 for the pot.
The groups, in order are Angie and Dennis, navigator, runner, Stephen and Tracey, navigator, runner, and Keshia and Mark, navigator, runner.
The wrestlers' names are Jaymar the Brute and Carlos the Jackal. The wrestlers pursue the runners because the runners are stealing their championship belts, at the beginning of the maze. If the wrestlers tag the runner at any time, the turn is over.
Also, a mariachi band is inside the maze. They will play music only when they see a wrestler.
Angie gives some directions to Dennis before he enters the maze, but they do more to confuse than illuminate.
Stephen: "She had no sense of bearing or direction. Weird, weird to me."
Angie tells Dennis to run after entering the maze, but he never actually grabs a belt.
Angie yells directions to Dennis to evade the wrestler. Keshia finally points out that Dennis has to go back and get a belt.
Angie: "Having to go back for the belt was probably a bit disturbing for him."
Dennis: "I come all the way back, get the belt, and start over. "When you hear the music, that's like, that means that's gotta be the way to really get through."
Dennis has stumbled on the wrestler very suddenly. After a brief chase, he is tagged.
Stephen: "Either she sucks at this game and all the games or she's the Mole."
Dennis: "That was a set-up on somebody's part."
Angie: "I think Dennis only runs like crazy on a basketball court."
Stephen tells Tracey to do exactly what he says and as fast as she can. Ahmad tells Tracey he has a lot of faith in her.
Stephen gives Tracey rapid-fire directions that even just watching along are very hard to make heads or tails of.
Tracey is very close to finishing, but makes a wrong turn, runs into a dead end and is tagged.
Stephen: "She just brain farted and went right when I said left."
Tracey: "I could be in a coalition with the friggin' Mole. He's got Moley behavior! I found his doubletalk confusing."
Mark asks to do this challenge naked, like the skinny dipping in episode one.
Ahmad reminds Mark that no money has been won for the pot. He tells him to go. Keshia offers directions quickly as well.
More rapid-fire directions. Mark follows them fairly well, but seems to be acting on his own too.
Despite running straight into the wrestlers twice, Mark evades them. He actually makes it safely out of the maze.
Mark: "I knew I would come home victorious. I knew I would be number one. I knew I'd be the winner."
Stephen sits alone away from the group.
Angie: "Stephen was the only one who acted weird. He, uh, got real quiet at the end and didn't say anything, which has been very unlike Stephen."Stephen is off of my suspect list, and he's playing too hard."
Stephen: "It seemed to me like Angie giving him the direction she was giving him...the way she was giving it, a normal reaction from Dennis Rodman would have been frustration or anger. And he just didn't care. "That was weird to me. "The maze game, it'll haunt me forever."
The three runners still hold with them the belts they chose to run with. Ahmad has a little surprise - inside one of the belts is an exemption. Since Dennis and Tracey did not successfully exit the maze, it'll cost them $5,000 each to look. Mark can look free of charge.
All three decide to look. Tracey has won the exemption.
Dammit.
TEST PASSED - +$10,000 TOTAL - $93,000
Ahmad knocks on Mark's door as he's getting interview makeup. He has a special offer to make him, based on the belt he chose in the maze game.
Mark will have the opportunity to earn $10,000 for the pot and an exemption in a secret game tonight. To win, he has to eat everybody's leftovers at dinner tonight. The more they eat, the less he has to eat.
Mark: "My strategy is to make sure that everybody eats as much as possible off their plate. "I looked around at their plates and said, 'I could do this.' Mind over matter, you know, I can do this. "I know Stephen's probably gonna finish half his food. Keshia was picking at her food. Tracey was recreating the burrito and tried to make a salad out of it. And I don't think D-Rod even touched his. Stephen Baldwin was playing in his. I was like, 'Come on people! Eat this food!' I was looking around, I was just saying to myself, 'When's a good time to dig into one of these plates?' I just went for it, you know? What the heck."
He first grabs Tracey's corn and then other people's food. Keshia asks how much money he's getting for this. Once everyone at the table confirms that they're done eating, Ahmad explains the rules of Mark's game, along with the group and personal incentives he has. He gets 15 minutes to eat all the leftovers.
Angie: "He's like, grabbing rice with his fingers. And I was like, 'Whoa, yo dude. Neanderthal."
Keshia: "I was dying laughing, 'cuz I was like, 'Mark, you are a fool for eating all that food, and the toilet will be your friend later."
Dennis: "The more he kept trying to stuff in his mouth and try to jam down his hole, rice, beans, corn, Coke, and I'm like, 'That's just too much.'"
Stephen makes retching noises and he and Angie disagree on whether Mark should be doing this.
Ahmad tells him he has two minutes left. He suggests Mark stand to help the food go down.
Mark: "When I stood up, I felt like I was suddenly pregnant. Felt like I need the Roto-Rooter man or something. I had more burrito in my body than blood at the time. I was three-fourths burrito. Man, I had never felt that feeling ever in my life. My body was confused. It didn't know whether to come or to go. It was like my body was ready to have a liquidation sale. My body was saying everything must go! This must go right now! I was eating so many burritos, I started thinking in Spanish."
As Ahmad counts down the time, Mark desperately tries to force down the end of the last burrito, but he spits it out.
Time is up.
And by the last three inches of the burrito, Mark has failed.
TEST FAILED TOTAL - $93,000
Ahmad shows Mark what kind of guy he is by bringing him his desert - antacids.
Mark: "If there had been one less burrito on everybody's plate, I think I could have did it. "I feel like I'm pregnant. And I'm carrying that baby low, so it must be a boy."
Now it is time for the quiz. Only questions 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10 were aired
1. Is the Mole male or female?
Mark: "Could be D-Rod. Dennis Rodman would be the perfect Mole. Keshia would be a good Mole, because everybody's - - - 'I'm little Keshia...' nobody expects her to be a Mole."
2. Who was the Mole sitting next to at the last execution ceremony?
3. In the "Clucks for Bucks" game, did the Mole's team lose money for breaking a rule?
Stephen: "Dennis and Keshia, when they got the six and the nine mixed up, that was suspicious."
4. How many "super chickens" did the Mole's team drop in the pen during the "Clucks for Bucks" game?
Keshia: "I think both Dennis and Mark were suspicious. Dennis really wasn't hustling. Mark was just being silly."
5. How much money did the Mole's team win for the pot during the "Clucks for Bucks" game?
6. In the maze game, was the Mole a navigator or a runner?
Dennis: "Somebody forgot to tell me one little piece of advice...take the belt with you. No-one told me that before I went in. It was a set-up."
7. In the maze game, what color top did the Mole wear?
8. In the maze game, did the Mole's team win any money for the pot?
Stephen: "Dennis not getting pissed off was weird."
9. Did the Mole sit to Ahmad's left or right at tonight's execution dinner?
10. Who is the Mole?
Stephen: "The weirdest part of yesterday was how many people, after chasing chickens, decided not to have chicken for lunch. Actually, that's, maybe that's the thing I wasn't looking for. Who was heartless enough to have the chicken anyway? Dennis and Angie...chicken eaters."
Now the execution. Click the pictures below. If a green screen appears, that player remains in the game. But if a red screen appears, that player has been executed and must leave the game immediately. Or so we're told.
Again, this execution has been referred to as "shocking" all night. There is a tie on the execution tonight, so the executed player is the player who took the longer time of the lowest scorers.
Click here for my recap of episode four.
