Mark: "Clay was my friend. He was my coalition partner. He was the one person that, except for a fleeting moment of my weakness, I always felt that I could trust. Tonight, something went wrong. I'm really disappointed that that had to happen at Clay's expense."

Craig: "I've got two suspects. Now I gotta go play this game with Paul and Nicole."

Nicole: "Quizzes, exams, whatever you want to call it, when I see one I want to kick ass. And so, hell, I kicked ass, I guess, 'cause I'm still here. Guess that makes me a bad-ass, huh?"

Paul: "I only have two more people to knock out to take home a lot of money. Paul out, kid. Final four! Final four! Whoo!"

We zoom in from space on Buenos Aires. There are some shots of the city's inhabitants before we meet up with the players, specifically a busy pedestrian market, a man with a dog, and a man playing an acoustic guitar.

Jon meets the players outside in an old abandoned mill. It may look unremarkable, but you cannot always trust what your eyes are telling you. This mission is called How's the View? It's worth $64,000.

Jon needs two players who are "young at heart."

One after another, they all end up with their hands in the air. Jon chuckles.

Paul: "Usually when Jon asks for something, I want to be the first one up there. That, and the fact that I saw Craig raise his hand. Craig is my top suspect. I want to be matched up with the person I suspect the most."

Paul and Craig it is. Now the four of them must split into pairs, each with one "young at heart" player.

Paul: "Every time I think I have a grip on something, Jon screws it up!"

They go with how they're standing, Paul and Mark as one team, and Nicole and Craig as the other.

Mark: "Nicole and Craig being on the same team again is another opportunity to see how they're going to perform, to see if there's anything that looks suspicious."

All the players have to do to complete the mission today is complete a series of games designed for children.

Craig: "I knew it was going to be a twist that in some way my nephew would probably make fun of me. He's 7."

The "young at heart" players will be wearing Myvu goggles, which are hooked up to cameras that will be run by their teammates. What it boils down to is that Paul and Craig will only be able to see what Mark and Nicole show them, and since it's a mirrored image, it will be backwards. Mark and Nicole, as the camera operators, are not permitted to speak during the mission.

Mark: "Not being able to speak to Paul during the mission is going to be very difficult. It's frustrating for me not to be able to speak ever."

Paul and Mark go first.

Paul: "If I had to choose one player that was going to be my reverse eyes, I'd want it to be Mark. He plays to win this game. He plays to get the money."

The mission begins. The first mini-game is a test of manual dexterity, or an IQ test for tots. Using the images Mark gives him, Paul has to fit the little pieces into the matching slots on the plastic box.

Paul: "No matter what happens, I could aways blame it on the person having the camera. I could always blame something going wrong with the goggles. I think I had an advantage at that point."

Since Mark is opposite where Paul is standing, the image that Paul sees will be the exact inverse of what he would be seeing if he could use his own eyes. He has one minute to put three shapes into the plastic box. Each one is worth $1,000.

Paul: "In your mind, you're saying, your right is your left, and your brain is telling you, no, it's not - your right is your right, your left is your left! So your mind starts playing tricks with you.

"It was a lot harder than it seemed!"

Paul fumbles with the box and tries to find the places for the pegs. He's found the first, for $1,000. Paul complains of feedback in his goggles.

Mark: "It's more frustrating, I wish I had his job, because I'm a very visual person. Just not to talk is driving me insane. I want to scream at him."

Bingo. They've made the $3,000.

Now Craig and Nicole have to do the same game.

Nicole: "I'm a laparoscopic surgeon. Everything is done by camera. And everything is backwards. The spatial relation for me would have been cake."

Craig has the first, for $1,000.

Craig: "I am concerned over Nicole's placement of the camera. I don't know if that was because of lack of familiarity with the camera, or simply because she was trying to get me to mess up.

"It is much harder than it looks."

The second one's in, for another $1,000. Thirty seconds left. Craig asks Nicole if it's on the right side. She says it is, and instantly slaps her forehead.

Nicole: "He asked me a question, and I instinctively answer, knowing good and well I'm not supposed to. I don't know whether he's trying to Mole something up. So that's a little suspicious for me."

He's got all three in. Because of Nicole's speaking, the $1,000 for the final piece has to be taken away.

Craig: "Nicole broke the rules, and she tries to mess up things on purpose."

There are two soccer balls in front of Paul. He has sixty seconds to kick each into the goal. One kick per ball. Each one that makes it into the goal is worth $4,500.

Paul gives Mark some directions with the camera, asking for a closeup of his right foot behind the first ball.

Mark: "What I did is I gave him a view that gave him a perfect straight line from the ball to the net, so that all he really needed to do was just walk up and poke it. And he didn't even come close to the goal. His behavior was suspicious."

Craig now has the same task. He directs Nicole, but she does not respond this time.

Craig: "The soccer game is much harder than I expected. I couldn't tell where the ball was for me to kick it."

The first one narrowly misses. Twenty seconds left on the clock. Craig whiffs on the kick. When he connects with the ball, it goes many feet wide of the goal.

Nicole: "When he goes for the second one, it goes all the way to the left and has nothing to do with the net, it does make me a little bit suspicious."

This next game should be right up Paul's alley, having a young daughter. It's time for a tea party. There's a kettle in the middle of the table, and the young at heart player must use it to fill four teacups on the edges of the table to the line on the insides, without spilling a drop.

Paul: "When me and my daughter have our little tea parties, there's no actual tea involved."

Jon leans in front of the camera to look Paul in the eye to tell him that he has one minute to fill the four and each one is worth $2,500.

Jon: "Hey man, do not touch the host!"

Mark: "I thought that the teacup game would be the hardest. Trying to manipulate a little teapot, and we men tend to be a little clumsy to begin with."

But Paul's actually doing all right. He's filled the first two and is working on the third as time ticks down.

Paul: "Mark would do funny things with the camera. Zoom in when he probably shouldn't have been zooming in. Zoom out when he probably shouldn't have been zooming out. I look at that as suspicious activity."

Jon points out that on the third cup, a drop was spilled. Paul is most unhappy about that. So only two count, for $5,000.

Craig asks for a shot of the teacups, and Nicole gives him a shot of his hands.

Craig: "Nicole would have been much better wearing these goggles rather than holding the camera. I really don't think she has a future in movie-making."

He's filled the first, for $2,500. On the second, he fills it way too full and spills all over the place.

Nicole: "Craig overfilled the glasses, even though I started shaking the camera, like, there's a line, stop. And he overfilled it on purpose, 'cause then he bumps the table and oh gee, drops fall."

Craig: "I'm not really a tea party type of guy."

Bumping into the table cost Craig the first cup. The last one still counts, though, so he made that $2,500 right back. Craig seems happy to have even gotten that one.

Enough kid games. Here's the best part.

Paul is blindfolded, two stories high, and doesn't know where he is. Before Mark turns the camera on, a view from one of the show's cameras is patched to Paul's goggles, and he knows he has to walk a plank between two of the mill's buildings. Needless to say, he's a little bit psyched out by seeing himself blindfolded in that position.

Paul: "I'm standing on a plank, high above somewhere, and then Jon turns on that camera and shows you where you really are, and I'm like Oh my God!! I'm in a world of trouble now."

Paul has to walk the plank and pick up the piece of chalk that's in the middle. At that point, he has one minute to get to the other side and copy exactly what's on the chalkboard.

It's worth $10,000.

Paul: "Mark is my eyes, and this is his opportunity to screw something up. So I was a little nervous that something life-threatening, or dangerous activity, that my eyes were in the hands of somebody else."

Paul takes tiny baby steps forward. He gets about a third of the way and wavers to one side of the board and curses. He laughs manically and moves on forward. Paul gingerly bends over and grabs the chalk. He has one minute.

He continues to complain of interference in his goggles.

Mark: "And, of course, Paul saying that he was getting interference could have been Mole activity."

Paul: "You know you have to beat the clock. So pressure starts to build up."

He reaches the end of the plank. Mark shoots the chalkboard, but all that's immediately visible to Paul is "MOLE WAS HERE," without the THE. Paul writes this. When he leans back a little, the THE becomes visible, and he adds it with 2 seconds to spare. $10,000 is won.

Paul: "From my view, the only thing that I saw on that board was MOLE WAS HERE. And that's where I thought that Mark did a suspicious act."

Mark: "I feel great about accomplishing that task and putting $10,000 in the pot, but again, all it does is make me a little more suspicious, because he sure did well on that one, but couldn't manage to kick a soccer ball straight."

Paul and Mark take up a position on the second roof to watch Craig and Nicole attempt the task.

Paul: "This is gonna be a tough, tough thing for Craig to do. He might make his way across that plank, it just might take him a couple hours to do it."

Craig gets the perspective Paul got before walking the plank. He's upset, but stoic.

Craig: "Combining vertigo and an intense fear of heights is like combining intense drunkenness with something that you're intensely allergic to, at the same time. It's not gonna be a good scene."

Jon reminds Craig he has the power to back out of the mission. Craig says he has to try. He tells Nicole to keep the camera steady.

Nicole: "I know he has a problem with heights. Now whether or not it's a big fat fib for the game's sake, who knows. But I knew he was going to have a bit of difficulty walking across."

He's teetering toward going off the edge and asking Nicole for close-ups of the chalk, even though he's feet from it. Paul and Mark remark about Craig seemingly not realizing he's right on the edge of falling off.

Paul: "He's looking at this piece of chalk, that he can't see and is not there."

Craig: "I had no idea it was actually 4 feet away from me.

"My idea is to go beyond the chalk, and then bend over backwards to pick it up. Now, the only problem with this plan is that when my feet get on the other side of the chalk, I can no longer see the chalk."

He does pick up the chalk. Sixty seconds.

Nicole: "So Craig picks up the chalk, and he starts veering to one side, and is very, very tentative with his steps, and takes a long time."

Time runs out. Craig nearly falls off again, at the far end of the plank.

Nicole: "I felt really bad. Like, come on, we could have done a little bit better. Like, even if he is the Mole, like, dog, you didn't have to Mole it up that bad. You could have given us something."

Jon reviews the money for the mission. Paul and Mark added $18,000 to the pot. Nicole and Craig, $4,500. So less than half the money on offer was won.

HOW'S THE VIEW? - +$22,500

TOTAL - $353,500

Mark: "I found it a little odd that Craig and Nicole only put $4,500 in the pot."

At the hotel, the players decompress a little. Paul tells Craig at dinner that it was really funny to watch him grab the chalk that was not there. Everyone laughs.

Nicole: "I think there was suspicious activity from Craig during this mission."

After Mark and Craig excuse themselves from the table, Nicole and Paul talk about how the mission worked, with everything being reversed for the blindfolded players. Nicole says it was suspicious that Craig kept messing up with the directions, but Paul tells her he understands how Craig could have done it, and even after he repeatedly kept telling himself that left was right and right was left, he made more mistakes.

Paul: "Craig is my top suspect, but if I can cast any doubt in Nicole's mind, I'm gonna try to do it."

Night passes into day, and the bustling city of Buenos Aires comes to life once more.

Mark: "Clay and I had a coalition since day one. Now, for the first time, I'm 100% on my own. I have to re-work everything now, which is the worst part about Clay not being here."

Craig shows up at Mark's room, and the two talk about the final exemption. Mark says there absolutely has to be one tonight.

Mark: "I know it's coming. I've been telling everybody it's coming. Everybody keeps telling me I'm paranoid. Everybody keeps telling me, 'stop getting me all wound up.' But I'm focused on exemption."

Craig: "We all know that this is the most important exemption in the game, and we're all gonna be fighting for it."

Craig says the only thing not worse than not making the finals would be making the finals with "those two."

The players meet Jon for the mission that will offer the final exemption. Jon says the last mission was relatively light and easy. But tonight, the fun is over.

Craig: "I was like, what was the fun part?"

Tonight's mission is called Cell Out.

Paul: "At this point, there's only four of us left, and an exemption earns you a ticket into the final three."

To the players' left, there are four cells, individually numbered 1 through 4. Each of them is to choose a cell. Once inside, they'll be presented with a doublet puzzle (I always thought these were called "word ladders"). There are two words written on the wall. Changing one letter at a time, forming a new word each step of the way, they must change the first word into the second. We see that the words are CELL and MOLE. Once a player has solved the doublet puzzle, they are freed from the cell. There are several possible solutions.

In the next room behind Jon is a paintball obstacle course. There is a sniper platform with a paintball gun. The first person to solve the puzzle becomes the sniper. Only the sniper can earn the final exemption. Each of the other three will be runners, and if the sniper successfully hits the runner randomly chosen to be carrying the final exemption, they'll earn it. If the runner carrying the exemption escapes being shot, they do NOT earn the exemption.

Nicole: "I have been wanting to shoot somebody ever since I got here!"

The other three players must get through the obstacle course to get to the door at the end without getting shot. Each player that makes it to the door at the end of the course will add $15,000 to the pot.

Paul: "At this point, an exemption is worth more than any money we could put in the pot.

"I do a lot of paintballing myself, so I thought that I would have maybe a little advantage over some of the other competitors here."

At this point in the game...

Paul says everybody knows he can't spell, so it's horrible.

Time to get suited up for the mission.

Craig: "There's no way to know which player's gonna carry the exemption target. It's all random. I need that exemption."

Time to pick each cell. Nicole first says 3. Mark then says 2. Craig goes for 4, leaving Paul in number 1.

The cell doors open, and the players go inside.

Mark: "I have heard of doublets, I do them all the time. But when I sit at my desk and do them in the morning, there's not $400,000 riding on it!"

The players enter the cells. The mission begins. CELL has to go to MOLE.

Come on, this is easy.

Nicole: "I am absolutely expecting to get out first. But I stand there frozen. I couldn't even come up with normal words."

They're all writing on the walls between the words CELL and MOLE with chalk.

Mark: "I knew if I was one of the people running, I would probably be shot in the first three seconds. If I didn't get out of the cell first, I was done. Somebody else was going to get exemption."

Well no shit, if you didn't get out first somebody else was going to get it.

The players stare at their walls and try to figure it out.

Craig: "I'm pretty sure I can figure it out. I'm more worried about the other players figuring it out before me."

Mark has the very easy solution of CELL - CALL - MALL - MALE - MOLE. He is released from his cell after only 53 seconds.

Mark: "Call, mall, male. It was that simple. Wrote it down."

Nicole: "It always takes me a while to get the word puzzle. But when it comes, it comes immediately."

She submits a guess right as Mark does.

Paul can hear the doors open and is incredulous that someone's solved it that quickly.

Mark: "The cell door opened. And I saw none of the doors open, and so, enormous sense of relief.

"My biggest concern is that I've never played a game of competitive paintball in my life. It couldn't have been more foreign to me."

Nicole's answer contains an error.

Craig: "I'm thinking, like, well this might be a word! This might be a word! And I put the chain together, and wrote it down and put it out the door. I was very surprised to find that I was not the first one out. I really wanted to shoot people!"

Craig has now solved the puzzle with CELL - TELL - TOLL - MOLL - MOLE.

Nicole eventually arrives at the answer Mark did. Paul is still struggling with the puzzle.

Paul: "It was a little confusing, and I'm thinking we have to change every letter in the word. So I sat there for a couple of minutes just dumbfounded."

Nicole and Craig talk about what's to come. She says Mark's never shot anything in his life, so they have a chance. If it were Paul, they'd all be dead.

Odds of figurative language - 50/50.

Nicole: "Craig and I decide to wait for Paul, because Paul's played paintball before. So we wait, and we wait. It felt like forever!"

After almost 15 minutes, Paul finally has the answer Mark and Nicole did. He sees that they decided to wait for him.

Paul: "I was pleasantly surprised to see them both, you know, outside my cell when I got out."

They strategize a little. Paul suggests Nicole run in and draw all the fire leaving him and Craig free, and it takes her a second to realize that was in jest. Craig suggests the two of them use him as a shield, since he's the most likely to get hit anyway.

In all seriousness, he suggests as they don protective gear that somebody does need to try to draw fire.

Mark: "To secure a spot in the final three, I must win exemption."

Paul: "At this point, it's more important just for us to get through that door. Not for the money, but to eliminate the exemption for Mark."

Nicole: "We were all about trying to keep Mark from getting that exemption."

They start their run. It's Paul in first. Mark fires his first couple of shots. Paul successfully dives behind a barricade. Nicole follows closely behind, and Craig also makes it safely to the first cover.

Paul: "At this point, my biggest fear is that Mark will receive an exemption."

Nicole: "The money didn't matter at that point. There's a guy with a gun, and you're pretending it's not Mark. Kind, gentle Mark, with three children."

Paul: "Me and Nicole worked pretty good together. I mean, you have to put your pride to the side to try to stop Mark from getting the exemption."

They make it to further covers down the line in the course. Paul calls out to Mark in an odd, high-pitched, singsong tone, to disorient him.

Craig: "Our strategy has worked great. We're leapfrogging from cover to cover, and when Mark's focus is on Paul, then Nicole and I move, and when his focus is on me, then Nicole and Paul move, and so forth. Mark doesn't have the killer instinct."

Mark: "The one night I need exemption, and you pull out the one thing that I have no predisposition for!"

Paul shrieks and makes an open run from cover to cover. Mark has a clear shot, and seems to have hit Paul in the chest, but the pellet didn't break. Paul asks Nicole if there's any paint on him, and there's not, so he doesn't have to leave the course. Marl is upset and demanding that this count, but Craig tells him the pellet has to break for it to count.

Mark: "I saw it hit. It was frustrating. I was like, the paintball has to break. And I almost lost it at that point."

Nicole: "Mark was so getting agitated. I was 30 feet away from him, and I could see the sweat running down his face."

Paul: "I knew that maybe Nicole, you know, being as small and as fast as she is, that she'd be a harder target to hit."

No such luck. Nicole is hit. She stands up and says she's out.

Nicole: "Lucky shot."

Paul: "I'm sitting at that last barricade, I saw a perfect opportunity, and I was lucky enough to make it through."

Mark: "Paul did get away. That pellet, I just missed him. I'll see that shot forever."

Paul laughs with Jon behind the door.

Craig: "I could see Mark, and he's looking around, being distracted. When I tried to move to the next barricade, he got me right in the shoulder. Right back here."

CELL OUT - +$15,000

TOTAL - $368,500

It's now time to find out about the exemption. What the players didn't know is the one with the exemption was pre-determined by the cell number they chose. There are cards in the coveralls each player wears.

Nicole opens her card. There's nothing on it.

Paul: "Yes! One person down, you know, and I'm saying, now there's a 50/50 shot that he's not getting this exemption."

Now Craig is to open his card.

Mark: "Oh my gosh, I thought my chest was gonna explode. It would mean a lot to me to get the game's final exemption. You're talking about a 50/50 chance at the money. So, I mean, it's huge."

Don't make me say it...

Nicole: "We're all praying that Paul is the one who is holding the exemption."

EXEMPTION.

By hitting Craig, Mark has indeed earned the game's final exemption.

Mark: "It was just like, an enormous weight being taken off my shoulders. I'm in. I'm in. I've got a 50/50 shot at all the money now. I could not be happier."

Paul takes out his card and rips it up. He says it's unfair to even have an exemption at this point in the game. He says they've made it this far on their wits, and it's unfair to give someone a 50/50 shot at such riches.

Except for the fact that they've all had an exemption...

Paul: "It eats me from inside out. It's horrible.

"Tonight's a little different. It's like I'm playing for the money. I have a 50/50 shot. So, for the first time in this competition, I'm a little nervous."

At the execution dinner, Paul says this is the first time he's been nervous, throughout the whole time he's been there. He says this is the culmination of everything to this point. On this and perhaps this alone, Paul and Nicole agree. They touch wine glasses.

Paul: "As much as I don't like some of the things Nicole has done, in the back of my mind, I have to respect her. She's used a lot of the same tactics that I've used, which kind of freaks me out."

Nicole makes a very similar point at the table.

Called it. Weeks ago.

Craig: "I feel like there are two forces of good, and two forces of evil. Me and Mark being on the good side, Nicole and Paul being on the bad side. One of the four of us is the Mole."

Paul tells Jon straight up that he doesn't think it's Nicole, and that he's nailed one of the other two gentlemen since day one.

Mark says there's no guilt for having the exemption, but there definitely is an uncomfortable feeling for having diverged from the journey they've all been on, and if someone else had it, he'd probably feel the same.

Mark: "Nicole could either be the Mole, or she is a great manipulator of the game. That if she's still here tomorrow, you just have to watch out for her."

Nicole: "May the best man or woman win."

And now, never more crucial, the quiz.

1. Is the Mole male or female?

A. Male
B. Female

Nicole: "Tonight I'm just going to focus on one person. And at this point, you've really got to make a choice."

2. During the intro of the How's the View? mission, where was the Mole standing from Jon's perspective, left to right?

A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth

Paul: "I think it's Craig. He's been my top suspect since day one. Could it be one of the other two players? Of course. But all of my suspicions and all of my gut instincts lead me to Craig, and that's what I'm sticking with."

3. What was the Mole wearing during How's the View?

A. T-shirt
B. Sweatshirt

Craig: "Heading into tonight's execution, I'm very worried. I'm going all for one person. This is where you put all your chips in."

4. Was the Mole a Young at Heart player during How's the View?

A. Yes
B. No

Nicole: "Craig tends to break rules, like asking questions when questions should not be asked. I think it's Mole activity, 'cause Craig is a lot smarter than he lets on."

5. In what order did the Mole's team participate in the How's the View? mission?

A. First
B. Second

6. In the intro of the Cell Out mission, where was the Mole standing from Jon's perspective, right to left?

A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth

7. In what cell number was the Mole locked up during Cell Out?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

Craig: "I've been keeping an eye on Nicole. I really can't trust anything she says. She deals mostly in confusion and misdirection and subtle forms of sabotage."

8. What role did the Mole play during Cell Out?

A. The sniper
B. A player who was hit
C. A player who safely made it out

9. Where was the Mole successfully hit with a paintball gun during Cell Out?

A. On the arm/elbow
B. On the shoulder/back
C. The Mole was not hit

Paul: "If Nicole is the Mole, I really would be impressed. I'd say that she played the Mole part to perfection. She did things so obvious that no one would ever think she was the Mole."

10. Who is the Mole?

A. Craig
B. Mark
C. Nicole
D. Paul

And now the final execution. Click the pictures below. If a green screen appears, that player has made it to the game's final round. If a red screen appears, that players has just missed out. Again tonight, the executed player was the first and only name called.

Mark is not at risk.

In a tradition I had really hoped was dead and buried, Jon returned after seeing the executee off to ask each remaining player "Are you the Mole?" All three say no, one fingering Mark after personally denying being the Mole.

Who is definitely NOT the Mole: Mark

Who may very well be the Mole: Either of the other two

Click here for the report on episode nine, the final round of the game.