Video clips of episode three are shown.
Dorothy: "I can't believe Lisa was executed. I felt I had such a great ally in her. We had a great time rooming together and working together in our very short-lived coalition. I am very, very sad to see her go. Very sad."
Rob: "I hate the fact that the Mole is going to play dirty, I hate the fact that the Mole is gonna lie to my face."
Katie: "I lied to Patrick and I said I wasn't going to read his book. And Patrick, I'm sorry."
Patrick: "Hey, I'm still here. Bottom line, that's what counts. Sooner or later, we want everybody else to be executed."
Elavia: "This is such a crazy, surreal experience."As day 10 begins, Anderson tells the group to select five people: One who is trusted, and four who basically just want to hang out today.
Al is the trusted one, and Elavia, Bribs, Darwin and Heather will "hang out".
Heather: "I mean, I think everybody feels that way that [Al] can be trusted, and he will do the fair thing, and he's not out for himself, he's really out for the team."
This game is worth $35,000, Anderson explains while they walk around Maloja Dam. It is based on questions about the game to this point. The answers will give a four digit combination to a treasure chest containing $35,000.
The four questions will not come from Anderson- they are under flags on the dam. The four people who wanted to "hang out", will rappel to the questions. They will radio the answers to Al. The last person can go to as many flags as they like. If there is any discrepancy, Al decides who to trust.
Once the four digits are found, Al must rappell face down to the treasure chest. He's not too thrilled about that.
Each player has ten minutes to rappell to a flag containing a question.
Bribs is first. "What is the number of players knocked into the water by Little Jane minus the number of players knocked into the water by Little John?"
The color of the flag is blue, so Bribs radios in "Blue - four"
Heather is next. She goes for the yellow. On the way down, she changes to red. "What is the day of the month Bribs was born minus the day of the month Al was born?"
She radios in "Red - nine"
Elavia decides to try for the green, but will go yellow if she can't. She has some difficulty rappelling.
Elavia: "Supposedly, you're supposed to walk on the wall, except that you can't. Because it's kinda concave, so basically you're jumping." "Trying to get over, and I can't get to it. I get a glimpse of what the question is, and I just have to go with that."
The others shout encouragement.
"What is the number of players who swung from the bridge minus the number of players who hit the bulls-eye with arrows?"
She radios in "Yellow - two."
Heather asks if she read it. Elavia says she just guessed.
Bribs: "We totally underestimated the rappelling game. Because we didn't take into consideration the distance that the flags were from the rope. Which you couldn't tell from the perspective that we had sitting up on top of the dam. It looked like they were all equidistant, and it wasn't going to be a problem."
Darwin is last. He can go to as many flags as he likes and check their answers.
He first goes to the flag that no player has.
"What is the age of the second player executed minus the age of the first player executed?"
Anderson tells him he has seven minutes.
Darwin: "My finger kind of got caught in the binding with the rope, and I couldn't get it out. I really had to pull all the way and I got it out, the rope went and I just went down past any point where I could read any of the questions, so it was over at that point."
He falls to the floor of the dam. He thinks about the green question. He radios in "Green - two.", and changes yellow to "One".
Heather: "The most important element of the rappelling game was trust. And that was the perfect opportunity to sabotage the game. You had to take everybody's word for why they messed up, or why they couldn't see a certain question, why they're having problems rappelling."
Al says he has no choice as to who he can trust, but goes with Darwin ahead of Elavia. Anderson gives him the chance to hear the questions.
The four hangers are worried that Anderson is talking to Al for a long amount of time.
Heather: "We're watching Al prepare for his rappell, which took quite a bit of time, and we're all concerned that he's getting an exemption."
Al changes the answer of blue to zero. He goes with Darwin and 1 on yellow. He trusts Darwin's answer for green.
Al begins his downward rappell to the treasure chest. He must now rappell face first to the chest with the combo.
Heather: "We watched him go down, and we know he's definitely afraid of it. so we're just cringing because we know Al is going to be so upset if he can't open up the treasure chest. We were just helpless."
Al tells his wife he loves her.
He makes it successfully to the chest.
He enters the combination. Red 9, yellow 1, blue 0, green 2.
The chest does not open.
TEST FAILED TOTAL - $91,000
Damn!
Red and green were both incorrect. 8 for red was right, and 1 for green.
Al: "I was devastated. Shees, all this work, and it didn't open. I wanted that safe open. I wanted 35 big ones to be added to the pot in a bad way."
Darwin: "Whenever Bribs is around, Heather is around, so it's kind of a package deal with them. If there was anybody I was gonna believe knew Bribs' birthday, Heather would be the one. But I didn't remeber how old Bob was, and I was his roommate."
Al is really ticked.
Bill: "Al had the opportunity to correct the answers. He corrected one, the logic one of Bribs', then didn't correct the other couple that I felt like he should have."
Rob: "Of course there could have been suspicion with him. All he needed was one answer wrong."
Anderson informs the players that they are now saying good-bye to Switzerland. He hopes their luck improves in Italy. Venice.
The players are enamored of Venice. They soak up the atmosphere.
Heather: "We actually had the opportunity to go to Venice which is sort of storybook and explore." "Touring Venice and just relaxing was just incredible, to sort of get out of the game mindset and to enjoy the company of the people around you."
Bill: "Venice surpasses any dream I have ever had. I would give my eyeteeth to have my wife back over and go for a gondola ride."
Rob is shown having pigeons eating off his chest.
Patrick keeps quizzing player strategies of everyone.
Al: "One of the things that is driving me nuts, along with a lot of other players, is Patrick's incessant questioning. It's like never a moment off, never, with the guy. You think you're going into a regular conversation with him, and before you know it, he's extracting information from you. It's like, gimme a break already."
Darwin gets a telegram that says "Welcome to Italy. Stop. Hot weather, hotter game. Stop. Ready for another helping? Stop. From, La Talpa.
They figure that La Talpa is Italian for the Mole.
Patrick takes the telegram to analyze it.
Patrick: "Nobody else seems to want to keep this telegram. So I grab it I figure, this is a great bit of intelligence. There's something in this telegram that may be helpful."In their room, Al and Bribs declare their disgust for the detective Patrick.
Anderson tells the players to meet him at the Villa Trento for the next test. But they face a test on the way there.
Elavia: "Two Italian women come up to our bus and asked for our help to change their tire."
Myra: "There was so much turmoil in the van to see who could get out of the van the fastest to help these poor damsels in distress."
Bill is able to life the car on his own.
Al: "Bill puts it down and steps away and there's a big ass print right above the wheel well. I was like, 'Oh, I think Bill just dented the car!'"
Heather: "I don't know why they needed six guys, but for some reason, they did."
Patrick: "We got to change their flat tires, and get a hug and a kiss in the process."
Heather: "Patrick is very sexual in nature, and he's always making sexual innuendoes and gross jokes and he just makes people uncomfortable. For some reason it's okay from some people's mouths and from his it's not. I don't know why. It's just the way it is."
They try to remember the attractive women's names. They agree that they are Manuela and Katia, but can't remember which was which. Heather for a show of hands for those who cannot fix a flat tire. Hers is the only hand in the air.
Heather: "I suppose if I had to change a flat tire, I could probably get by, but I've never tried. That's what Triple A's for."
Myra: "Just as we think we are heading somewhere to start a game, we stop to get gas and lo and behold there comes another lady, an elderly lady, who also needs some assistance."
They are the flat tire gang. Along with the two attractive women earlier, they now help this old lady.
Al: "Excusa mia, I gotta flata tire.... It's like, 'Flat tire again! Here we go, oh boy." "Something's going on here. I mean another flat tire? Two in a day? It's like, yeah, this is what we do. We drive around Europe. We help out ladies who have flat tires. That's our gig."
The players finally arrive at the Villa Trento. Anderson tells them the flat tire fixes earned them $30,000 for the pot. He says if they had only helped the attractive women, they would have lost money. Since they helped the old woman too, they got money.
Heather: "The morality game obviously was a test of whether or not we'd help the attractive ladies as well as the old lady. We would have never let the guys get away with just helping the attractive ladies."
TEST PASSED - +$30,000 TOTAL - $121,000
Anderson tells the six people who did not rappell to split into two groups of three, one smart and one dumb.
Katie: "I'm not dumb, and I was just saying to Heather in the room that I haven't had an opportunity to pull out my smart card yet. I might come across as silly and crazy and maybe dumb, but I'm not."
The dumb players, Patrick, Myra, and Katie, may actually wind up being the smartest. If they can out-smart the smart team, they can all three get exemptions. Eleven brainteasers are up on the wall. They pick five. If all five go unsolved, the three get exemptions. If even one is solved, they don't. $10,000 is added to the pot for each that is solved. If they get all five, $50,000 is added to the pot and the smart team gets the exemptions.
Collectively they decide to go for the exemptions.
The smart team is Rob, Bill, and Dorothy. The five puzzles have been selected. He informs them of the rules, as well as having two guesses on each. If they guess wrong on one, the second guess must come within a minute.
If two gallons of paint are needed to cover all sides of a cube, how many gallons are needed to cover all the exposed surfaces(of a figure shown)? HINT - There are no hidden cubes. Bob went out to buy some fishing equipment. He spent half of what he had plus $5 at the first store. At the second store, he spent half of what was left plus $4, and at the third store, he spent half of the remainder plus $3. He then had $5 left put aside for bait. How much money did he start with?
Bill: "The puzzles are quite difficult and drove us nuts."
Each box below contains a combination of two different figures. What choices from the lower row best completes the sequence of the upper row? Unscrable the letters in each "pie" segment. Then find the missing letter that completes each word. URPE - PRAE GPA-TPEA
Rob: "Bill is the numbers and math guy. Dorothy is the word person. And I don't know what I am. I think I'm all over the place, I have a little bit of this, and a little bit of that."
There is only one word, as far as we can tell, that can be made from all of these letters. Can you find it? FILMNRESSSSTTUU
Time! They answer 18 gallons for the first one, which is correct.
Katie: "I know I wanted the exemption."
They answer $52 for the Bob fishing trip, which is incorrect. They have one minute. They can't think of a second guess, so Dorothy just picks one. They guess $90 the second time just on a whim and get it correct. Rob gets the shapes puzzle right. They answer S for the pie puzzle, which is also right.
The dumb players grimace outside as they watch the goings-on on a flatscreen.
They answer stressful minute (which is NOT one word) for the letters of the word puzzle. That is incorrect, and they have one minute.
Bill: "We're hung up on stressful, stressfulness, unstressfulness. We can't make it work."
They say mistrustfulness, at the last second, which is correct. $50,000 is added to the pot, and Dorothy, Bill, and Rob get exemptions.
Bill: "She got two others...I mean, Dorothy was a star."
TEST PASSED - +$50,000 TOTAL - $171,000
Myra: "Dorothy seemed to get two just out of nowhere, both on the second answer, and that was very suspicious."
Katie: "With three seconds left, she comes out with mistrustfulness. I didn't even know that was a word. That's a little suspect to me."
They inform the other players about the money and the three exemptions at dinner. Darwin is pissed that there were three exemptions.
Anderson informs them there is an execution tomorrow, and Dorothy, Bill, and Rob have exemptions.
Al: "That's gonna make it really tough. My odds just went from one-in-ten to one-in-seven."
Heather: "Once again, I was not a part of the exemption process, and now today, there are three exemptions. It's scary, but it's also just totally frustrating, 'cause you're going into it with this sort of unfair feeling."
Katie notices pages missing from her journal, originally Patrick's. He had asked to borrow it to copy something, and took the pages out.
Patrick sits down to eat with other players. He tells them he will lie, use guile, deceit, whatever he can to stay in the game.
Katie: "This whole thing, ripping the pages out, just threw me for a loop. I did happen to read that page, so I do know what he was thinking."
Darwin: "You can't play the game like Patrick. Because you have to depend on other people. And if other people don't like you or trust you, you're not gonna get the information you need."
Heather tells Patrick his chances just went down since no-one will give him any more information.
Patrick: "Katie happened to have my old journal. So there was some information in my old journal, and I wanted to minimize the damage done to my intelligence, which is what I tore out of the old journal."
It is time once again for the quiz.
1. How many exemptions has the Mole received?
2. During the rappelling game, the Mole answered the question at which flag?
Heather: "Elavia, she was the one that made me suspicious. She should have gone for the green. Watching her, she went right past the green and went directly for the yellow, the hardest flag."
3. Did the Mole wear a necklace at the last execution dinner?
4. What is the Mole's favorite color?
5. What color eyes does the Mole have?
Bribs: "I suspected Heather quite a bit. Only because I knew that she knew my birthday. So that was questionable."
6. What role did the Mole play during the dumb vs. smart game?
Katie: "I found it very interesting and very suspect that right at the last second Dorothy pulled out the right answers."
7. How long does it take the Mole to get ready in the morning?
8. Did the Mole feed the pigeons in Venice?
9. Where was the Mole born?
10. Who is the Mole?
Anderson informs the team that because of Patrick's violation of the rules, a $5,000 fine is levied.
FINE - -$5,000 TOTAL - $166,000
It is now time for the execution. Click on the pictures below. If a green thumbprint appears, that player is still in the game. If a red thumbprint appears, that player has been executed and must leave the game immediately.
Bill, Dorothy, and Rob are not at risk.
Only one of the remaining players seems even remotely sad at who is executed. Most of them are visibly smiling and laughing.
Who is definitely NOT the Mole: Myra, Heather.
Who may very well be the Mole: Dorothy, Elavia.
Click here to read my recap of episode five.
