Anderson Cooper welcomes us to the final episode. The final three players, Heather, Bill, and Dorothy sit behind three locked doors behind him. It has now been many months since the final quiz, and the results have long since been tabulated.

But before the winner and the Mole are revealed, Anderson introduces a video montage detailing the suspicious acts of each of the final three.

BILL

Bill refuses to wear a diaper in the clothesline game, citing his image as the reason.

Bill breaks the greased gnome on the bicycle in the gnome hame game, gaining an exemption.

Bill is unable to tread water for more than 8 minutes with only one weight on him in the think or sink game.

DOROTHY

Dorothy's refusal to bungee jump costs the team $10,000.

Dorothy eats the hook piece of cake in the blueberry game, gaining an exemption and a fine.

Dorothy gets sick at the side of the road in the think or sink game, never making it to her location.

HEATHER

Heather misses two people's relatives in the relative incognito game.

Heather puts up absolutely no fight against Little Jane.

Heather doesn't stay in the python room in Anderson's Fun House, losing $100,000.

Anderson now turns to the eleven eliminated players. He asks each of them who they think the Mole is, and who they think the winner is.

Hover on their pictures for their picks.

BOB

ALI

LISA

PATRICK

ROB

MYRA

ELAVIA

KATIE

DARWIN

BRIBS

AL

The moment of truth is upon us. Anderson recaps that 4 of the eliminated players selected Dorothy as the Mole, 4 selected Heather, and 3 selected Bill.

Anderson holds three keys. Only the winner's key will open their door. He puts them into slots that the players can grab them from. He then instructs them to stand up, and try to open their door.

After great (seemingly too great) struggle, one door opens.

It is...

DOROTHY's door! Dorothy has won $636,000!

The others cheer as she comes out. Dorothy seems totally "floored". She says she never thought she'd even make it to the final round.

Well, now it's time to answer an even bigger question. Anderson pulls the Mole key out of his jacket and hands it to Dorothy. Since she knows who the Mole is, she'll put the key in the Mole's slot.

She puts the key in the slot of the middle door.

The door opens...

and it's BILL!!!

The players are happy to see him, sort of. Al yells "You bastard!"

Hugs abound nonetheless.

Bill now lets Heather out of her door. She is sad, to say the least.

Anderson asks who's surprised. Patrick says he ended the game the same way he began it - clueless. So he's not surprised.

Katie is very surprised. Even though she and Heather had a coalition, Katie thought Heather deceived her.

Anderson turns to Bribs, who was the first to answer the quiz for Bill but only on the third quiz. Anderson asks what changed his mind. In a word, Darwin. Bribs trusted a lawyer. Bribs had Bill pegged, but Darwin talked him out of it, saying he answered no questions for Bill, so he should have been executed.

Darwin ruled out Bill day one and convinced others not to go for him either.

Al split his quiz between Bill and Dorothy the night he was executed. He found a lot of suspicious acts with both of them, but was friendlier with Bill, which may have led to his downfall.

But Dorothy never actually suspected Bill until her coalition mate Heather told her. A video montage details how Heather found Bill, the Mole.

As we know, Heather and Katie formed a coalition right out of the blocks. They started with three suspects: Elavia, Dorothy, and Bill, in that order. Since neither of them had to go in the first five rounds, they thought they were right.

But Elavia taking the bribe threw a monkey wrench into their plans.

The coalition then turned to Dorothy, their second suspect.

Both of them took the quiz answering every question for Dorothy, and they tied for the lowest score. Katie was 11 seconds slower than her partner, so she got the red screen and Heather stayed.

But Heather then figured out that Dorothy wasn't the Mole. Since that was the only person she knew wasn't the Mole, she approached her to form a coalition.

She began to suspect Bill.

But until the coalition offer, Dorothy's top suspect was - you guessed it - Heather. She formed the coalition with Dorothy to gain information and to deflect suspicion from Bill.

Heather decided to confuse Bribs that round on his quiz, and it worked. Bribs split his vote between her and Dorothy. Red screen.

In an unaired confessional, Dorothy says she owes Heather a big one for steering her away from Bribs. Quite prophetic.

In the next round, Heather and Dorothy successfully conned Al into splitting his vote.

And in the final round, while Heather broke down, Dorothy remained confident and focused, leading to her victory.

Heather's better moments include passing the Get the Key exemption, bungee jumping to reunite with her fiance, and others less specific.

Anderson reveals that Dorothy beat Heather on the final quiz by just one question to claim the money.

A video montage dedicated to the winner, Dorothy, now begins.

It starts with several clips of players saying how smart Dorothy is, and how she was integral in winning $50,000 in dumb vs. smart, along with three exemptions.

But this got the other players suspicious of her.

She also showed off her smarts in the assembly line game. She figured out the combination to the lock.

But what she had in brains, she sorely lacked in brawn. All her screw-ups in the physical games also got the others suspicious of her. As did her "Mole-like persona": shadiness, quietude, non-emotional. But Dorothy might never have done that if Darwin didn't tell her to. After their conversation where he said that she'd make a great Mole, Dorothy very smartly kept her emotions under wraps.

All this suspicion began to work. Like flies, Ali, Patrick, Katie, and Bribs all dropped because of her.

But it took some good ol' fashioned luck to ensure that Dorothy would win.

We'll never know if Elavia would have won the game had she not taken the bribe, but we do know that Dorothy wouldn't have. The night of the bribe, Dorothy had the lowest score on the quiz.

Dorothy was singlehandedly responsible for winning $70,000, and five exemptions.

Anderson asks if Dorothy really is the klutziest person in the world, and Dorothy says she can barely walk across the street without falling.

So buy a motor scooter. What's five, six thousand to her?

Dorothy's strategy coming in was to sabotage as much as possible, but she didn't have to consciously try much to sabotage. She says luck was hugely important, and she still doesn't think she was all that suspicious.

While the coalition shared by Heather and Dorothy got some things done, many many others did not. One player could be called the "King of Coalitions". Another montage has been prepared detailing all of Darwin's failed coalitions.

Sitting on a hill above the other twelve in the very first challenge of the show, Darwin casually asked Bill if he was up for a coalition, and Bill accepted.

In their room at the cabin, Darwin asks Bob if he would be up for forming a three or four-way coalition so that they all have the same answers and are guaranteed to not have the lowest score.

Red screen over Bob's face.

A round later, Darwin approaches Lisa with a similar idea he did with Bob. Bill's journal convinced Lisa that he's not the Mole.

Red screen over Lisa's face.

Darwin didn't seem to notice that Bill was his only coaltion partner who didn't get executed.

Later, Darwin forms a coalition with Bribs.

While sharing a bed, Darwin and Al form a coalition.

In an unaired confessional, Darwin says he thinks Bill's just trying to make people think he's the Mole, and that he's already eliminated Bill.

Red screen over Darwin's face.

Bribs says he and Darwin have both ruled Bill out.

Red screen over Bribs' face.

Al says he reads people well, and thinks he's reading Elavia, but expects someone at home to be screaming that it's Bill.

Red screen over Al's face.

Darwin says he formed coalitions for information, thinking if he got it from more than one source it was probably true information.

Bill begins to take issue with Darwin calling him slow, boring, and dishonorable. Darwin denies them all.

The Confession of the Mole

The producers expected the players to pick Bill as a leader in the very first challenge of the season.

Bill: "We were told to pick the teams, and Darwin said, 'Let's pick our best athletes for this first game.'"

FLASHBACK to the Castle Tarasp in episode 1, in which Rob says to Bill's face: "I never really leave my house, except for work."

"I found out that Rob described himself as a total non-athlete. Never rides a bicycle. Never does anything. Darwin says, 'What do you think about Rob?' I say, 'Great. Let's pick Rob. Let's bet $40,000 on this and go for it.'

"I knew Al had had an upset stomach, and his pulse rate was going to be higher than normal. So I put him on the rope. It's real simple."

FLASHBACK to the Pulse Rope Walk, where Al's heart rate gains him deflected suspicion. However, in this first game of the season, the players wound up foiling the Mole and won the money anyway.

FLASHBACK to the clothesline game in episode two, in which Bill refuses to wear the double-dollar diaper.

"They come out with the diaper, I look at it and say, 'Mmm, I don't, boy...I gotta tell ya, I don't...ladies, I'm not sure that I can wear that.

"And then Elavia took over. She went back and tried it on and came out and she said, 'I really don't want to wear it either. I will if you all really want to.' Dorothy said the same thing.

"That cost the group $20,000.

"We found them very quickly, only to find out they had been sitting in a bar, they said, 'If we had more money, we'd be drinking beer.' I said, 'Well I've got more money, let's go back and drink beer.'

FLASHBACK to that same game in which the players unwittingly sent the Mole to search for the tardy Ali and Bribs, and allowed him to add even more fuel to the fire.

"I suggested, 'Geez, you know, they were all afraid that you all had gotten an exemption. Why don't you tell them you got one? And Ali decided to do that.

"And then, we get on the train, and here is the greatest spectacle I've ever seen: here is a guy in a girdle and a corset and a guy in a bunny costume and a guy in a pink slip nose to nose yelling at each other, arguing about whether they should have stopped and drank beer or not. It was so funny I just had to sit back and laugh.

FLASHBACK to the Think or Sink game in episode five, in which Bill drops out of treading water after 8 minutes and one weight.

"I was using my arms so vigorously under there, on purpose, that I knew I was going to fatigue.

"We had been told clearly that we were to not to eat anything after the pizza. That was to be our food for the day. And Darwin was looking at the ice cream case.

FLASHBACK to the aftermath of the pizza game in episode six, in which Darwin and Bill buy contraband ice cream.

"Well, I always carried money. You never know when someone's gonna need beer or ice cream. So even though I was unsuccessful in any attempts to cost any major money, hey, we lost ten thousand bucks.

FLASHBACK to the gnome home game in episode seven.

"I had been told to manage to drop the gnome and break it.

FLASHBACK to the assembly line game in episode nine, in which Bill tries to get the players to disassemble the car and not see the lock or the odometer.

"In spite of all of that, due to Dorothy's intuition, they found the combination and in fact we did win that money.

Why does he use "we" in describing the team? He wasn't really part of it.

FLASHBACK to the all night ball game, later that same night.

"I was told to be the third person to volunteer to go to bed. Al went out first, Heather went out second, and as soon as Heather went out, I started laying down, I did a lot of back exercises, I almost missed the ball several times, 'cause I was sleepy. And so by the time Anderson came in again, the other three were ready for me to leave, 'cause they were afraid I was going to cost them money. Anderson immediately at that point offered me an exemption if I would stop the game.

"That game sucked!

{referring to the buy and sell}

FLASHBACK to the buy and sell game in episode ten.

"We did not win any money in that game, and I don't think it's because I was the Mole, it's just 'cause we were all such inept sellers. We couldn't have sold ice in the desert that day.

FLASHBACK to the three questions game, Bill's final and most blatant sabotage.

"It was tough. It was a heckua challenge to try to do that and carry it off successful. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Being the Mole was one of the hardest things I'v ever done, but one of the funnest things I've ever done."

He says the hardest part of it was, after a lifetime in the Navy, not working with a group, and in fact working against the group.

Bill almost revealed himself once, when Heather groused to him about the detail of "Mole sat where" questions, and he started to say that he always sits in the same place because...at least he'll know where he was. Though nonsensical, Heather bought it. That was his closest call.

And Lisa, who got the Mole's journal, is now kicking herself for it. But Bill says that the day before the journal switch it had been completely blank. The producers informed him of the journal switch, and he filled it out with a bunch of things that were true, but pointless.

The Clues

And now it is time to reveal the clues to the Mole's identity:

In the first episode, when the players trekked up to the hut for the night, all the shots of the night sky were devoid of stars, except one which was digitally enhanced to show the constellation Pisces, Bill's sign.

In the second episode, Bill's sign was shown before the execution.

The third clue was in the "Mole's journal". "...if only he had spent less time shmoozing the ladies..." suggesting the players should spend less time on the women and focus on the men.

The fourth clue was in the La Talpa telegram, a clue that has been much documented. At the bottom of the telegram is a string of numbers that when converted by telephone code spell out THE MOLE IS BILL.

Patrick popped up on the ABC.com message board shortly before season five began airing. Among other things, such as trying to sell off the speedo he wore in the clothesline game, which apparently all the players and the host signed, he addressed why he had been unable to find this clue despite taking the telegram with him back to his hotel room. Almost immediately after the scene in the hotel lobby when Darwin first got the telegram, Patrick says a producer came to him and asked him to give back the telegram. It seems unfair to me to have such a powerful and obvious clue given right to the players, but to then restrict the one who probably would have correctly interpreted it from doing so. I'm sure Patrick feels it's unfair, too.

Episode five's clue was when Anderson said "William Shakespeare is a scoundrel..." referring to Bill the Mole as well.

The sixth clue was Anderson eating an apple as he handed the Lamole wine bottles to Al and Elavia, the apple being the state symbol of Washington, Bill's home(Mine too!).

I'm offcially humiliated that I missed that one.

The use of dollar BILLs in the seventh episode was that clue.

I'm officially disgusted that that was an actual clue.

Heather describes a dream she had that she saw Bill's picture while taking the quiz.

Well, there were no pictures shown while taking the quiz, except in the eighth round, when a ship was shown behind the players, again reflecting back to the Mole's Navy career.

Episode nine's clue is in the opening title, where the word AdMiRaL appears on the screen amongst all the other flying letters.

The Romeo and Juliet book left at the table during the buy and sell game was a clue.

The wooden ships shown in Anderson's Fun House were the first clue of that episode. Later, Anderson says "For one of you, this is your last supper, compliments of Mickey Ds", which is a play on the name McDaniel, the Mole's last name.

In the twelfth episode main title, the sentence bilL is tHe mOLe was hidden among the letters.

And that's it. Anderson reviews that Dorothy, our winner, goes home with $636,000, Bill goes home with the satisfaction of a job well done, and for the rest, there aren't too many more stressful situations they'll have to face in the future to compare to this one.

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