Craig: "Ali wasn't supposed to leave. Bobby was not supposed to leave tonight. I lost two people I liked. One of them, my best friend in this game."

Nicole: "I'm very surprised that Bobby is gone, because he was my prime suspect to be the Mole! Now I really gotta start all over."

Victoria: "Bobby, um, God...I'm - I don't - I'm shocked. Now I really feel alone in this game, and I really can't trust anyone. He was the only one that I trusted. The only one."

We're crossing the border. The players head to the breathtaking Andes of Argentina.

Victoria: "Driving through the Andes is amazing. It just reminds you how insignificant you can be in this world."

The snow-capped mountains really are quite beautiful. From the van, the players ooh and ahh at their surroundings and speculate over what the next mission might bring.

Clay: "What's gonna be the next mission? We're gonna be doing something with the mountains. You got the high altitude, the cold weather, so it's probably going to be a lot of physical activity."

Paul pulls out "the Mole mascot" to show to the camera. It's a lemon with a nasty facial expression drawn on it. Paul calls it "Lemonhead."

Paul: "You know, there's only one face a lemon could have, and that's a sour face. It's pretty much how everybody feels every now and then in this game."

Stop being so sour!

And then there were eight. Jon greets the players at the base of the Penitentes Resort, at 7,200 feet elevation.

Craig: "I live in San Diego. It rarely drops below 70 degrees. It was so freezing cold out there. Just standing out there would have been a mission."

Jon asks for two teams of four, the selfish and the selfless. The selfish players are Clay and the women, Kristen, Nicole, and Victoria, and the selfless players are the remaining men, Mark, Alex, Paul, and Craig.

Victoria: "The team I ended up on, which was the selfish team, I don't think would describe me in my everyday life. But, I'm an only child, and most people, 'Oh you're an only child, you're so selfish!' So I think it fit."

This mission is called Midas Rush. Jon unveils a huge array of five pound gold (colored) bricks. There are 200 of them in total. They weigh 5 pounds apiece. For centuries, the Inca people ruled the land, and had vast fortunes of gold. When the Spanish conquistadores came in and took over, they would force the Incas to trek up a mountain pass and out to sea carrying gold bricks. Today's mission puts the players in the Incas' shoes.

They have a total of 50 minutes to carry as many of the bricks as possible to 10,000 feet elevation. Each brick taken to the finish line is worth $250 for the pot.

Clay: "When he told me we would be carrying gold bars up the Andes mountain, I thought he was crazy. I really did, I thought he was crazy."

All the members of a team must arrive together. Jon reveals that there is an exemption available to the first team that crosses the line.

Nicole: "There's an exemption in play for the winning team, the entire team."

Kristen: "I really want an exemption. I think at every execution, no one is safe. So the exemption was huge."

At this point in the game...

Jon encourages the players to take plenty of water with them for their journey, reminding them, as if they need to be reminded, that they're at very high altitude. The mission begins.

Nicole: "Kristen piles in like eight bricks into that backpack, and I'm thinking Wonderwoman."

Nicole thinks she can only do four. Victoria tells Nicole she should go with whatever she thinks she can take. Victoria wants to take five, but Clay encourages her to take fewer.

Clay: "Realistically, I probably could have taken twelve bricks. But, I got five bricks. The team that finished first would get an exemption. We don't want to do it with empty backpacks, but we don't need ten apiece. Just finish."

Mark says he thinks he can take eight.

Mark: "I knew immediately that our team was weak, because Craig has just been struggling all along. At that point, it made more sense to just simply try to get as many bricks to the top as possible, try to put as much money in the pot as we could."

The selfish team takes 23 bricks, seemingly with the exemption in mind. The selfless team packs 38.

Paul: "You stand at the bottom of that mountain, and you look up, and the fear comes over you. You look at it as, you know, like, you're fighting Mike Tyson. You know you're gonna get your butt kicked."

Nicole: "In my everyday life, the only place I hike is to Bloomingdale's. And of course I didn't do it with 35 pounds on my back."

Nicole seems to be having a little trouble. Victoria comes back to her to offer some encouragement, and tries to get Clay and Kristen, who are out ahead, to slow up a little.

Victoria: "Pretty quickly on, we started and Nicole was like, 'I can't do this, I gotta stop.' I just think it was a little suspicious."

Nicole: "I want to throw as much suspicion on myself as possible. The more suspicion on me, the less on the actual Mole."

Victoria tells her to concentrate on breathing and not to talk.

Good luck with that, Vic.

The selfless team sets off. Mark suggests Craig set the pace, and the others keep his rate. Craig agrees.

Craig: "If Bobby was here, he would have struggled even more than I was, so I'm missing him even more now. 'Cuz I feel like the weakest player."

Mark tells Craig not to look up and just keep his eyes on the ground.

Paul: "Being in the Andes Mountains, the air is just ridiculously thin. After the first 100 yards, I felt my breath just coming out of me. It was definitely the most strenuous task that I've ever done."

Jon is casually stretched out on a bench at the halfway point. Clay says they shouldn't even look at him, but it turns out they can't just pass him up.

Nicole: "We just trudge on up, and we see Jon. And I'm thinking - exemption! But no, that was not to be."

Jon says there's a little bit of a problem. The Spaniards also had the Incas carry scales to weigh their gold. One scale weighs 10 pounds and one weighs 20. They have to take one of them to the top with them. Since the selfish players are the first ones up, they get to choose which scale they take, but they can't pick them up in order to decide.

Clay: "I think Kristen just says, 'Well look, let's just take the small one and go.' And we just move out."

They have chosen the lighter scale.

Jon gives the selfless players the bad news.

Paul: "The other team had chose the slimmed-down, smaller version and we were left with this big, clunky scale. You know, at this point, I'm saying, this can't get any worse."

Mark has left 4 bricks behind. He says he'll thank Kristen personally for leaving the heavier scale behind for them. Look her in the eye and thank her personally.

Craig: "Mark was the only one who had to leave bricks behind. I think there's been some suspicious acts by him."

There are some cows on the side of the trail. Paul wants to know if cow chips provide energy, because he's willing to eat up if they do. He and Alex tell Craig he's doing good, and bemoan the fact that "this wasn't in the brochure."

Alex: "We really were being selfless. We're just - we're gonna get there together. Let's do it."

Clay thinks the selfish players will have to give up their bricks for an exemption. They all indicate that they are willing to do that. Mark encourages his teammates, saying they'll make it as a team, together, and that if anyone is truly selfish on this mission, they're an asshat. They're all breathing heavily, and Paul says his left hand is going numb.

Craig: "A couple times, I thought I was gonna fall over face first, and not be able to get up."

Craig is seriously huffing and puffing. Paul and Alex suggest they stop for a moment.

Paul: "You saw Craig's face, just beet red. I don't think Craig's gonna make it."

Craig bends over and the waist and hacks up some phlegm. He's really not doing well.

Mark tells them to get going, saying that if they take more than 50 minutes this was all for nothing. Paul says it's not for nothing either way, and Alex agrees. Mark does as well after a moment, and makes a point of denouncing what he said.

The selfish players have made it to the finish line, arm-in-arm. That's teamwork. They had about 13 and a half minutes to spare.

Kristen: "It was the most incredible feeling, reaching the top of the summit, knowing we were there first. I was so excited."

They have 23 bricks, for $5,750 in the pot.

Victoria: "I'm very pleased with the 23 bricks. Part of the strategy was not overloading ourselves. There was an exemption in the mix. Had we brought more, maybe we wouldn't have crossed the finish line first."

Jon tells them to hang tight and wait for the other team before they talk about the exemption.

Craig continues to move at a snail's pace. The others try to encourage him on.

Craig: "It was scary, but I was extremely motivated. And I really wanted to do it. For me, it's a battle against myself."

Paul: "We all had hope at that point that we could possibly do it. Craig has an amazing heart, a drive."

Time is running out.

Nicole: "So as we're waiting on the second team to make it up, given the fact that we're the selfish group, what we're really thinking is what we'd have to give up in order to get our exemptions. And if we had to give up all our money, we'd give it up. In a heartbeat."

Wait, did they honestly think there would be four exemptions?

The finish line is in sight. Alex thinks the selfish players probably only took very few bricks, and guarantees that they have more. They make it with about 30 seconds left. They have 34 bricks, for $8,500.

Clay: "The only strategy I had in mind was to get up that hill very quickly, and other players might think it is suspicious."

They have 57 bricks in total, equaling $14,250.

Paul: "Kristen alone carried more than double of their whole team. So, I mean, they weren't thinking in terms of money. They were thinking in terms of the exemption."

The selfish team earns an exemption, but....it's only one exemption. They must unanimously decide who gets it, and if they can't, they forfeit the money that both teams have earned.

Victoria and Nicole both want Kristen, but Clay votes Clay. Nicole mentions that Clay hasn't had an exemption yet, and he says that's really the only reason he's going for it, and that he's not that selfish.

Clay: "I feel like it's time for me to secure my spot in this game."

Kristen: "I had really wanted the exemption. I thought I deserved it. I could feel like he wasn't gonna back down. So I was like, this guy could be the Mole."

Victoria: "I've never had an exemption. But I think Clay deserved it more than I did, because I think he performed better. See, and this is where I'm not so selfish."

Clay promises he'll make it up to Kristen, and shakes her hand.

Kristen: "Clay knew I deserved it. He knew I led the whole way. I got steamrolled by a criminal defense attorney. He knows what he's doing. I was thinking, son of a bitch."

Nicole: "Kristen should get it. But Clay was bitchin' about it, and so he who bitched loudest, gets the exemption. It's a selfish act."

Clay gets the exemption, and the money is added to the pot.

MIDAS RUSH - +$14,250

TOTAL - $143,250

Craig: "My goal was to get as much up there as I could, and I accomplished my goal. But I was hoping that the tables would be turned and I would be able to get an exemption rather than them."

Jon bids the players farewell and says he'll meet up with them at dinner. Craig is still physically feeling the effects of the mission.

Paul: "Once we get down to the bottom of the mountain, it seemed like Craig was pretty messed up. He had made a statement that he felt like he was blacking out."

An ambulance is called. Craig is shown breathing from an oxygen mask in the back of it. He is suffering from hypothermia and slipping in and out of consciousness. In the van, the players are quite obviously concerned for his well-being. Paul tells Kristen that Craig did pretty well in the mission, stopping only a couple of times.

Craig: "I just kept getting colder and colder, and I couldn't breathe. I was shivering uncontrollably. My lungs just spasmed and seized, and I was panicky."

The players look over their shoulders at the ambulance.

Alex: "We were worried about Craig; he's such a good guy, you don't want to see anything happen to him."

Nicole: "The mood in the van on the way back was somber. We were concerned about Craig's well-being, because the ambulance rushed off way before we did."

Paul: "Everyone was worried about Craig and how Craig was doing."

After being treated for altitude sickness and hypothermia, Craig is released to rejoin the other players, with orders that he rest and stay warm.

Paul and Mark welcome Craig into their cabin and talk about how worried they were. Paul said he didn't want to leave without Craig. Craig tells the other guys that he had trouble breathing and asked for oxygen, and then started shivering uncontrollably, and it just got worse and worse, as he slipped in and out of consciousness. Craig says he thought he was going to die.

Craig: "I really hope they don't think that I'm trying to make it look like I'm the Mole by almost dying. That would be sad."

In another cabin, the girls wonder about Craig's condition. Kristen says she's proud of his effort in the Midas Rush. Victoria will be pissed if he ends up being the Mole.

Alex and Victoria talk about coalitions outside, the next morning. She thinks coalitions are only good for about the first half of the game, then beyond that it's meaningless. Alex agrees, and thinks that's what pretty much everyone is doing, and he's just going through the motions. They accuse each other of being the Mole, and kinda laugh it off.

Alex: "Victoria still could be the Mole in my mind. She just gets her game face on, and again, she's more intelligent than I initially thought."

She says she'll be very surprised if Alex is the Mole.

Mark studies his journal.

Mark: "I've been using my journal to succeed in the game. Not to be obsessive. But if something catches my eye, I'm writing it down. At this point, I'm using my past quiz answers, matched up with the people who are remaining as to whether or not I think, at this point, they could be the Mole."

Victoria: "Craig is not at dinner, because the doctors caring for him say they were concerned about a relapse."

The other seven meet up with Jon inside a small cabin or something. He asks how they're doing, and how vital their journals are to them. Mark says his is his memory when his memory goes away. Paul disagrees, and says he's been trying to not rely on the book. He says if they take the journal away, he'll only have what's in his mind, so he tries to rely on that. Clay says they're really important for the quizzes. Kristen says they need the journals and hopes Jon's not planning to take them away.

Jon indeed asks for the journals from each player. He leaves the room with the books and tells the players to enjoy their food. Paul says it was rude for Jon to just leave them like that, and even he can appreciate the irony of him finding someone else's behavior rude.

Paul: "What are they gonna do with my journal? Are they gonna hide it? Are they gonna bury it?"

Mark suggests they loosen the legs on Jon's chair so that when he comes back, he'll fall to the ground.

Jon returns, with a smile on his face, and passes the journals back to each player.

Paul: "Big sigh of relief - ah man, yes! We got our journals back. You know, 'cuz everyone thought we were gonna have to run the streets of Argentina looking for our journals."

Victoria proclaims that there's an exemption in hers!!! Just kidding.

Jon has a card that contains some of his favorite comments. This mission is called Who Said That? Jon spots the players $750 to round the awkward total from the last mission up to $144,000 even.

On the card are statements about each player. Each player will be presented a statement about them, and must guess who wrote it. Each correct answer will add $2,000 to the pot. Mark immediately bemoans the fact that Craig is not present. The player who wrote the statement that Jon will read must not make any signal that they were the one who did it.

Victoria makes a point of apologizing before the game even starts.

First question is to Victoria. Someone wrote about her: At dinner, Victoria drank a lot.

She laughs and seems surprised that anyone would have said this.

Victoria: "So I'm like, great, my parents are gonna think I'm an alcoholic."

She says there was one particular dinner where she was slamming pisco sours. She doesn't know, but guesses Mark. She's correct. Mark says he was simply being observant, at one of the first meals.

Victoria: "I thought back to that night. And so it was process of elimination. So I was like, it was Mark. And I was correct."

Clay is next. Someone said of Clay: Very quiet. Cool guy. I like his vibe.

Clay looks at the other players at the table. He guesses Kristen. He's right.

Clay: "You know, I had studied her enough in this game, to know her language, how she speaks, and the word 'vibe' was a giveaway."

Up next is Paul. Someone said: This time, I am hoping it will work out right.

Jon read this with a "they," but I'm inferring the exact quote would have an "I."

He guesses Nicole. She shakes her head. She says she doesn't write that much. That's wrong. They don't get to find out who it was. Mark says Jon is mean in Argentina.

Kristen is next. Who said: Mission one was the stupidest thing anyone ever did for money.

Nicole is rather conspicuously blinking and coughing as Kristen contemplates her response. Kristen responds with Nicole, and that's right.

Up to Alex. Someone said he is taking control. He seems to find this amusing. He guesses Mark. Wrong.

Next question is to Mark. Someone said: This is to easy, and Jon makes a point of mentioning the incorrect use of "to" in place of "too." Mark instantly says Paul. Correct. Paul grabs his book, finds this comment, and makes the "to" a "too," joking that there's no spell-check on the journals.

Next is Nicole. Someone said: Nicole is here for fame.

She has no clue, and doesn't even seem to want to guess. Jon instructs her to do so.

Mark: "Nicole acted like she just didn't want to play at all. I find everything that Nicole does suspicious. She is so over-the-top."

She guesses Paul. That's wrong. Jon says that since this is the last question, if the person who owns up to having written that will make themselves known, they'll get the $2,000 just the same. Victoria raises her hand and says she wrote this comment. Nicole says that would have been her second guess, and she doesn't seem offended. They high-five for adding the two grand.

They got 5 out of 7 correct, but the question given to Kristen where Nicole was coughing and blinking has to be disqualified, since they were told not to make any signals.

Kristen: "I don't know why Nicole was blinking and coughing and hand-waving In one respect, she does that kind of, you know, showboating, all the time. I think Nicole could definitely be the Mole."

Paul: "Another mark on her record, basically, for me. She just loves to take away money from this team. She loves to sabotage this game."

WHO SAID THAT? - +$8,000

TOTAL - $152,000

In comes dessert, crème brûlée. Afterwards, they'll be going for a little drive.

Victoria: "I am pissed off. I don't want to go for a drive! I don't know what's going to happen, it's dark, it's cold, and I am mad."

Clay: "Jon leads out in the middle of nowhere in Argentina."

Nicole: "And I thought, oh, river rafting at night in my long coat, and three-inch heels? Fabulous!"

There is a flaming barrel next to Jon. He says the game is all about risks, and wants a gut-check to see how daring the players truly are. He asks who is willing to sacrifice their journal. Only one, and they can decide themselves.

Paul and Alex both say they don't need their journals. Nicole also says this, and points out that she and Paul have both had exemptions, but Paul doesn't have anything to do with anything. She and Clay seem to think it's probably an exemption to the person who hands over their journal.

Clay: "I was not willing to sacrifice my journal. I think it is very, very important."

Mark: "You figure, well, maybe the person who sacrifices their journal is gonna get an exemption for sacrificing their journal. I think that's what was kinda going through some people's heads. My journal wasn't worth an exemption."

Alex is chosen. He hands his number 12 journal over to Jon. It is NOT set alight. Alex takes the other journals and puts them on a table. Jon lights a torch from the barrel and sets off a ring of fire around the table where the journals are being held. The fire leaps onto the table. The books are ash.

Kristen: "Once the fire was lit, you start watching you know those flames, you're like, wow, those journals, yeah, they're gone. We're not gonna see those again. At that point, we've just evened the playing field."

Paul: "With the flames, so does Mark go up in flames. I think he was pretty upset that his journal was being destroyed at that point."

Mark is very upset that the one thing they've been given to keep information and take notes in was taken away from them.

Clay: "Mark was visibly upset after his journal was burned up right in front of his face. He was visibly shaken."

Victoria: "You know, it had kind of been a running joke with everyone, Mark is so obsessive, he has everyone's underwear color down. It's what was keeping him going.

"He's prety much walked off to himself. A couple of us tried to console him, like, hey you know, it's gonna be okay, it's just a game."

Alex is the only one who gets to keep his journal safe and sound. Mark is VERY upset.

He's not in the van as the other players are to drive away.

Paul: "I wanted to just, you know, give him a little pat on the shoulder, let him know everything's all right. And he's not there. I mean, he just totally disappeared."

Paul and Alex are looking for him, facing a dilemma. They don't want to leave him there, but they don't want to stay around all night for essentially nothing, either.

Kristen: "With Mark, he was really upset. He had spent so much time taking notes on the game. This was his strategy, winning the game. I really felt bad."

Mark finally returns to the van. He is angry now. He says they might as well just send him home. Paul tries to cheer him up, saying that doesn't do anyone any good, and reminds him what they're here for.

Clay: "Although Mark and I are in a coalition, if Mark were unraveling, to my detriment, I would, without question, unequivocally stop the coalition."

Paul: "The ride back to the hotel was a somber experience. I mean, you know, Mark was devastated that his journal was taken away from him and burned."

Paul says he wasn't relying on his book. Nor was Alex. Paul muses that if you rely on the book, you're done.

Alex: "Now you can play the game the way I've played the game. It definitely changes the whole aspect of the game with every player."

Nicole and Victoria talk about Mark's reactions. Nicole hopes Mark doesn't purposely flunk the quiz. Victoria says Mark is a strong individual, here for his family, and he'll be fine. They both want any future exemptions badly.

Victoria: "I don't want to go home yet, but if I do, I'll be mad. But, you know, I can only be mad at myself."

The mood is still a bit heavy as the players head to the execution dinner. Craig is at the table with the other players. He says he was worried about the other team members, because he heard they were just going to dinner, but they were gone way too long for it to just be a meal, so he thought he was missing out on a mission. But then he says it was probably good that he stayed in and didn't go with them.

Mark: "Craig, he got to keep his journal. That was an unfair advantage."

Jon confirms that Craig does get to keep his journal, perhaps to balance out a disadvantage of not having been present at the most recent challenge.

Victoria: "I think there's an advantage in not having a journal. I think there's a couple or a few players that need that for security issues. They freak out, hopefully they won't do as good on the quiz, and I get to stay another execution."

Jon asks if Craig found out what happened the previous night. He seems to have found out what went on. Victoria tries to lighten the mood by jokingly bringing up Mark's observation that she drank a lot. Mark and the others chuckle a little, but when Craig coldly mentions that he'll write this in his journal, Mark honestly looks like he might cry.

Craig: "The journals are crucial. I haven't even brought mine out. Out of respect for the dead."

Jon raises a toast to the player who will have to go home tonight. And now the quiz.

1. Is the Mole male or female?

A. Male
B. Female

Nicole: "I think it's possible that Victoria is the Mole. Although, my strategy is just to get through it as quickly as possible, and hope that if I am totally dead wrong on everything, that somebody else is dead wrong and slower than I am."

2. In the Midas Rush mission, what color pants was the Mole wearing?

A. Blue
B. Black

3. In Midas Rush, did the Mole's team decide who received an exemption?

A. Yes
B. No

Victoria: "I thought it was suspect that Clay wanted the exemption. If he were the Mole, that would just leave another player to get executed."

4. How many gold bars did the Mole's team carry to the finish in Midas Rush?

A. 23
B. 34

This is the third time now that the EXACT SAME QUESTION has been asked twice on the quiz, and just phrased differently. Boo-urns.

5. At the end of Midas Rush, from Jon's perspective, where was the Mole standing, from left to right?

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

Paul: "I'm starting to look at Victoria in a different light. Just watching her actions the last couple days lead me to believe that she could be a perfect candidate to be the Mole."

6. To date, has the Mole received an exemption?

A. Yes
B. No

Kristen: "If I'm executed tonight, I will be very disappointed, because I had an exemption basically in my hand, and I let it go."

7. During the Who Said That? mission, was the Mole's answer disqualified?

A. Yes
B. No

(a flashback clip indicates that a "yes" answer on this question is for Nicole)

Alex: "Nicole might have been at play with a little, 'Oh it's just a tick!' Kind of sabotaging. So, that was interesting."

8. Was the Mole's journal burnt?

A. Yes
B. No

Mark: "Craig, he got to keep his journal. So all the rest of us are having to scramble and put all of our information back together. He has a clear advantage over everybody."

9. During Who Said That?, did the Mole confess to writing a comment about another player?

A. Yes
B. No

10. Who is the Mole?

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

And now, the fourth 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.

Tonight, there is a tie on the quiz. So the player who is executed is the one who was slower in taking the quiz. Jon reveals that the time difference was only 5 seconds.

Clay is not at risk.

Who is definitely NOT the Mole: Hell, I don't know anymore.

Who may very well be the Mole: Ask me next week.

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