Here we go one more time with this group.
Angie: "After tonight, if I don't get executed, I'm in. I'm in, and I didn't get an exemption. So, I just have to make people think I am the Mole. I'm the Mole. I'm the Mole."
Mark: "The game is nothing. The game is nothing. I will play the game until I win. You will win this game. You hear me? You will win. You will not stop. OK!"
Dennis: "I'm not here trying to sabotage anybody. I'm not here trying to, you know, collate with anybody. I'm just here to be competitive and want to be a participant and a good sport. That's my main objective."
Tracey: "I'm going to go in for D Day, judgment day. My ultimate judgment day. Am I the Mole? Am I the next executed? Or do I make it to the next round? That is the question, ladies and gentlemen."
Ahmad asks the players on the beach to take a deep breath and smell a race.
This game is called Donkey Rally. The senoritas will be the brains of the team, the senores will be the brawn. Dennis says he loves Tracey, beautiful, crafty, energetic, alive, vibrant.
Just down the road is Little Mexico, where merchant carts await. The goal is to collect their goods from the merchants, pack them onto the donkeys and race to the finish line before the 45 minute clock runs out.
Each cart has instructions on what to take. Each set of instructions is in not-too-simple Spanish. If the players correctly take what they are supposed to from each merchant, they will win $10,000 per stop.
A spirited donkey makes some noise, but is mysteriously quieted as Mark steps over and softly shushes at him. Donkey whisperer.
Dennis and Tracey are Team Pepe, Mark and Angie are Team Paco. Only the women can translate and read from the dictionary, and only the men can take goods from the carts. The women will ride and steer the donkeys and the men are not allowed to lead the donkeys.
Tracey: "I've never seen a donkey in real life let alone sit on a donkey. It really was, like, a little mayhem there for a second. I'm like, 'Whoa!' It was a great lesson in donkey behavior."
Each correct item picked up will win $10,000. If the teams finish within 30 minutes, they will win an additional $5,000 each. Team Pepe gets a brief head start as they go to the first cart.
The first clue reads:
El trece de la suerte es igual a dos de los mejores amigos del hombre Two of man's best friends equal lucky thirteen.
Or, more literally, "The thirteen of luck is the same as two of the best friends of the man." But hey, that's wordy.
Tracey: "Boy, these are a lot more complicated than I thought. I thought they were straight forward. They're almost like riddles in Spanish. "I thought to cover our bases we'll just pick the number two dogs. Just in case they meant number two. "When Dennis picked up that Chihuahua, it was the scariest thing I've ever seen. It's like raaahhhhh!!! A big hand and this little Chihuahua, like, he just looked so scared."
Tracey asks Dennis for help in making the words a sentence. It looks like Dennis glances at the dictionary. Tracey has enough translated to get "two of the same..." They decide this means they need two of the same dog (the dogs wear little capes with numbers on them, not unlike the sheep in CMH).
Team Paco has arrived at the first cart, but they are unsure of the sign's meaning as well.
Mark: "We had to decipher what the sign said, but she had the Spanish book. So she could have been telling me anything."
Angie says to pick the seven after translating just the word "luck."
Angie: "My lucky number is seven. My journal is a seven. I'm a seven kind of girl."
Mark scoops up the number seven dog and they head off.
At the next stand, Tracey tries to translate a little of it on the fly (very humorous Anglo accent).
La fruta musical es roja. Diez libras. No tomar nada seria una mala idea. The musical fruit is red. Ten pounds. Taking nothing would be a bad idea.
Dennis fills ten pounds but also leads the donkey back on the path past the waiting Angie and Mark.
Mark says that "libra," which means "pound," means "open air market." He suggests taking some beans, any old beans it seems.
Angie: "He was so certain that it was an open air market, that you know, he was like, 'Let's throw this in.' And I'm like, 'Okay!'"
Team Pepe arrives at the next cart.
Canasta de aguacates. Tomar algo de este carrito seria tragico. Basket of avocados. Taking something from this cart would be tragic.
Tracey suggests Dennis fill the basket with avocados, saying it would "be seriously tragic not to."
Team Paco arrives right behind them.
Mark: "It was 143 degrees. It was so hot I saw a bird walking, that's how hot it was, people. And so this donkey was doing his thing. You could tell. There was these fresh bananas, we went to the stand, he said 'Ooh!' His ears came up, 'Mmm,' he almost went, 'mmm, can I get a banana or something, brother? You know, help me out.' So I gave him a couple of bananas. I imagine if you're an animal in the wild, in deep Mexico, how many times do you get fresh bananas?"
Mark correctly interprets that the sign instructs them to take nothing. So they don't.
At the final stand, there are different instructions for the two teams. Team Pepe's instructions:
Contemple la grandeza del oceano. Escoja cinco de los unicos marinos con ocho. Behold the bounty of the sea. Choose five of the unique marine life with eight.
Tracey seems to have this one, instructing Dennis to get five octopi.
Tracey: "So Dennis is like, picking them up, and they're kinda like, dribbling on me. Oh my goodness. I'm going to have a seriously hard time, like, eating calimari again."
Calmari, well aren't we shi-shi????
The final instructions for Mark and Angie say this:
De tantos pesces en el mar, escoja cinco vendido rubia. Of all the fish in the sea, choose five blond fish.
Angie gets "blond" out and says Mark should know that one.
Dennis and Tracey have crossed the finish line with 3 minutes to spare. Tracey dismounts and drops her dog.
Mark: "I don't know how people ride a donkey. Get a horse. They're faster, quicker, a little more energy. A donkey's like a horse with no coffee."
Mark and Angie have finished with just 11 seconds left on the clock. Both teams earn the $5,000 bonus.
Ahmad now reviews what the players have done and the instructions from each stand. At the first stand, they should have taken two Chihuahuas that add up to 13. Neither group succeeded.
Mark: "I didn't have the book, so I didn't know what the sign said. "Sabotager definitely had the book. Ten pounds, libra, all you do is look up libra, it would have said pounds."
At the beans, Angie and Mark only took 8.5 pounds. Tracey and Dennis had 10 pounds, for $10,000.
At the fruit stand where they were supposed to take nothing, Dennis took fruit. Mark took a banana, absentmindedly perhaps, and added it to the cart. He vehemently objects to failing the stand on the grounds of feeding the donkey.
Mark: "I did not put that banana in there. "I think I was framed with the whole banana situation. It could have been Angie or it could have been Dennis Rodman. 'Cause I know I didn't put that banana in. I know I didn't. I know...unless the donkey did it. The donkey was suspicious."
At the fish stand, Tracey and Dennis were supposed to take 5 8-legged octopi at the fish stand. Angie and Mark were supposed to take back 5 blond fish, which both groups successfully did. Dennis and Tracey won $20,000, Mark and Angie won $10,000. And they both won the $5,000 bonus for the time limit. However, Dennis and Mark both led the donkeys, and Dennis at one point read from the dictionary. A $5,000 fine will be levied for these rule violations.
Angie: "Mark was told that he couldn't lead my donkey. And he led my donkey. He attempted at the very beginning to read out of the book. He put the bananas in the bag when he said he wasn't taking any bananas. I just think that Mark sabotaged quite a bit."
TEST PASSED - +$35,000 TOTAL - $140,000
Tracey: "When I saw the classroom, my heart started racing, because I didn't do well in school. I had a hard time in school. So I sat there, and I'm thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be the person, like, left behind."
Mark: "Plus them little chairs was like, hurting my butt so bad. I'm six-foot-six. My knees went...(raises hands above head)"
Welcome to the Celebrity Mole night school.
Dennis: "I'm like, 'Whoa, you're gonna see how really stupid we are."
Tonight we have a game called "The Graduate." Ahmad gives the players $40,000 to start with. He will ask the players questions from elementary textbooks, second through sixth grade. For each correct answer, the player will move up a row. For each incorrect answer, Ahmad will deduct $1,000. The first player to reach the front of the room is "The Graduate." That player will immediately secure what's left in the pot and be given an exemption offer.
The players have chalkboards with which to write their answers. They also have thumbprint cards on their desks which they can use to hold another player back, prevent them from moving up after a correct answer. The cards can be used only once on one other player. And it will cost $1,000 against the $40,000 to use them as well.
The final exemption will be available in this game, but just how is not immediately revealed.
Question #1: The earth has how many continents?
Mark says 7. Of course that is correct. Angie says 7 on a total guess, Tracey thought 7 but wrote 5, and Dennis says 13, one of the dumbest answers Ahmad says he's ever seen.
Neither Mark nor Angie is held back, so they move up a desk.
Question #2: On which continent would you find the South Pole?
Mark has no answer, Angie wrote South America, Tracey said Greenland, and Dennis simply wrote "Don't Know!"
But hey, props to the one who actually named a continent...my God that must be embarrassing.
Mark: "Educational system in America has failed us."
Question #3: What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the earth across the middle?
Mark correctly answers equator, Angie drew but did not name the equator, Tracey correctly answers equator but Dennis has a blank chalkboard.
Question #4: What is 1/4 of 60?
Mark and Angie both correctly have 15, Tracey incorrectly answers 20, and Dennis correctly answers 15! A hand for Mr. Rodman and his first correct answer.
Question #5: What is the capital of New Jersey?
Dennis says he should know this, since he's from New Jersey.
Mark answers New Brunswick, wrong, Angie wrote nothing, Tracey correctly answers Trenton and so does Dennis.
Mark: "I'm pretty sure people in New Jersey don't even know that one. I can go ask Jason Kidd, he'd say "Uh, I don't know."
Question #6: What is the longest river in the world?
Mark says the Mississippi, Angie the Colorado, both wrong, while Tracey and Dennis both correctly answer the Nile.
Angie uses her hold back card to keep Tracey in place.
Tracey: "When Angie used the hold-back card against me, fine. I mean, it's supposed to - that's what you're supposed to do. I wonder why she chose me, and not Mark who was moving faster than I was."
Question #7: Make a mountain out of a _________ hill.
Folks, it's the title of the show.
And, mercifully, everyone gets this question correct.
Question #8: Which American General, born in 1741, committed treason during the Revolutionary War before serving in the British Army?
Lots of blank stares on this one. Mark correctly answers Benedict Arnold. Angie, clueless and a little dumb, said Washington. Tracey has the correct answer. Dennis said Lee. About 100 years too late on that one.
Angie: "It's no fun to look stupid on TV. It's no fun to look stupid any time."
Tracey uses her hold back card to keep Mark from the front row.
Question #9: How many minutes are in an hour and 31 minutes?All four players correctly answer 91. Mark holds Tracey back. Only Dennis's hold back card remains unplayed. He andMark have both reached the front row and are one question from "graduating."
Question #10: Which two well-known explorers began their expedition across the American west in 1804?
Mark answers with those great explorers Ashford and Simpson. Angie wrote "Mr. Rashad and his brother." Tracey correctly answers Lewis and Clark. Dennis stands up and triumphantly reveals his answer: John Wayne.
Now only Angie is NOT in the front row.
Question #11: Which hemisphere is the United States in?
All say Western except Dennis, who says the 10th.
Dennis uses his hold back card to keep Mark from graduating, meaning that Tracey has graduated and will get the exemption offer.
The offer, however, is not quite what Tracey might have expected. Ahmad has $5,000 to put in the pot, or Tracey can put it in her pocket. But to do that, Tracey has to designate one of her teammates for the exemption. This also means that she can't win the exemption herself.
Tracey: "I can smell exemption. I can feel it. It was the toughest moment in the game for me. It was the hardest moment. I sit here and second guess myself, what should I have done? But you know, the moment of absolute high of thinking I had the exemption to the low of realizing that there was no way I was getting the exemption came into play."
Ahmad now pulls out another five grand. Tracey can add $10,000 to the pot or keep it herself by giving one of her teammates an exemption. Tracey is going to keep the money personally and assign the exemption to Dennis.
Tracey: "I'm like, 'Oh my God, what did I just do?' What did I just - I ruined the game for myself.' "Possibly, you know, if I had thought it a little bit longer, I would've made the $20,000. But, um, you know, it's all hindsight. It's all knowing what you know now. "Dennis doesn't ever want an exemption. He's turned down exemptions."
Ahmad has another $10,000 in his desk that Tracey could have but did not win.
TEST PASSED - +$17,000 TOTAL - $157,000
Angie: "I probably would have done the same thing she did and given it to Dennis. I think Dennis has played us all really smooth."
Mark: "D-Rod, he's just that quiet dude in class. You never would think that he would be the Mole. You'd think, 'He don't care, he won't do it.' But he's smarter than you think. I say to this day, Dennis Rodman is the Mole."
Dennis: "Tracey will be the one to cry if she gets executed tonight. She, uh, she's too softhearted."
In the van, the ladies discuss the exemption and Tracey's extremely convoluded logic behind her decision.
The players are presented with their next game at dinner. They have to identify celebrity noses. Each correct answer wins $5,000. They are presented with a name and choices for the nose. Jennifer Lopez is first. Angie picks the top right nose, the men disagree. Angie acquiesces to Dennis and Mark, but her pick is actually the correct one.
Angie: "Dennis just doesn't try to do anything in this - in any of these games. So he sabotages everything."
Dennis: "I wasn't really particularly up to date on the noses around the world. I could have picked either one, it would've been wrong."
Next is Hugh Grant. Angie makes her choice, the men agree, and it's right.
Next is Britney Spears. Again Angie comes up with the correct nose.
Next is John Malkovich. Angie is again on the nose, so to speak.
Mark: "How am I going to know John Malkovich's nose? See women look at that kind of stuff. It was good that the women added some money to the pot. It's about time!"
Next is Catherine Zeta-Jones. The women again pick the correct nose.
Next is executed ex-teammate Stephen Baldwin. As a group they pick a pimply nose, and it's correct.
Mark: "Put some butts up there, it'd been easy, you know. Oh, that's Janet Jackson, Tyra Banks. Who's that, Halle...Halle Berry right there. Uh-huh, I would have did that, you know, Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie, I could tell that butt anywhere."
They have correctly identified 5 of the 6 celebrity noses.
TEST PASSED - +$25,000 TOTAL - $182,000
Dennis: "Watch Dennis Rodman on the final episode of The Mole!"
Ahmad offers a toast for the quiz and the execution.
Now the quiz. Aired questions this time are numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10.
1. Is the Mole male or female?
Mark: "I think that the Mole is one of those two females on that donkey. They got the Spanish book, reading, you know, they could be telling me anything, and we couldn't look at the book. So one of those females is the Mole."
2. Was the Mole wearing a hat at the beginning of the "Donkey Rally" game?
3. During the "Donkey Rally" game, was the Mole a member of Team Paco or Team Pepe?
Tracey: "Somebody put the banana in there, but he denied completely ever putting it in there. So did Angie. I definitely thought it was very interesting."
4. How much money did the Mole's team earn for the pot during the "Donkey Rally" game, before the fine?
Angie: "Mark was told that he couldn't lead my donkey. He led my donkey. He attempted at the very beginning to read out of the book. He put the bananas in the bag when he said he wasn't taking any bananas. I just think Mark sabotaged quite a bit yesterday."
5. In "The Graduate" game, was the Mole one of the first two players to reach the front row?
Tracey: "Dennis could very well be the Mole. Dennis wasn't really concentrating that much during the game."
6. On the 8th question asked in "The Graduate" game, was the Mole's answer "Benedict Arnold?"
7. During "The Graduate" game, how many questions did the Mole answer correctly?
8. During "The Graduate" game, how many continents did the Mole say the earth has?
9. Has the Mole received an exemption in this season of "Celebrity Mole?"
Mark: "Angie never got an exemption while she was here, never."
10. Who is the Mole?
Mark: "Angie's the Mole. You can tell."
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 before the final round. As aired, the executed player was the first and only name entered into the computer.
Click here for the final round.
