So, I’m more confused than ever on who the Mole is. After the first task, which was to ride as partners in a luge, the front person steering while blindfolded, as the rear person calls out pictures of fruit as they pass them. Then the blindfolded one must put them in order at the end. A bunch of people get it right, and also screw up by not following the details of the rules (ie - no talking after passing the finish line.) So, on the surface, it clearly looked like Nicole was the Mole, given she called out the fruit wrong, after naming the first fruit twice, thus throwing off the rest of the line up. But then the teams that screwed up the rules were also called into question. For me, Nicole’s sabotage seemed too obvious. Maybe she wants them to think she’s the mole so they’ll take the test at the end accordingly, and screw up, putting her at an advantage. Or…who knows. Mark and Clay, who are in cahoots with Bobby, question keeping him in their alliance now after his rule-break on the luge. Eh, I don’t know. Could be.

Still no love for Bobby. Eat something. And Paul can leave yesterday. Wow. Nicole gets on my nerves, but she’s fairly low key about it. Paul, on the other hand…

Second task…players are told to dress up, then…undress for a spa day. Riiiight. Please, wasn’t anyone suspicious? And they have fun, only to come back and find all their clothes gone except their shoes and underwear. Most of the women didn’t have even that much. they’re given little mole sports bra/booty short combo, the guys who were commando get mole-kini’s, then they have to hit the streets of Santiago, Chile, beg for clothes - decent clothes - so they can get into a dress code strict restaurant within two hours in order to collect money. Clay and Mark opt out. Craig and Bobby are together, prompting Craig to joke they looked like a walking picture of the number 10. I love Craig. (And Bobby? Seriously. Food. 24/7. He’s unnaturally think y’all. If he were a woman, viewers would be shouting eating disorder.) The girls looked like something from Tomb Raider. Guys are hollering at them (awkard! I’d have been seriously uncomfortable.) Nicole gets an outfit (not very Mole-y of her), Paul and Alex score outfits, Victoria/Kristen/Ali get clothes. Then Craig and Bobby stumble into a laundramat, looking for discards, only to find it’s where their clothes are being cleaned, so they round up everyone’s clothes and head to the restaurant. Only Clay and Mark don’t make it, as they opted out in the beginning (and somehow got to keep the spa bathrobes to head to the restaurant in….huh?) Why Craig and Bobby didn’t wait outside to give any team without clothes the ones from the cleaners, I don’t know. I didn’t hear it even mentioned - by anyone. There was a code on the card that ended up being the laundramat address, but it went unnoticed, and, as it turned out, unneeded.

We jump to the final dinner before quiz/execution. At least they made money this time. The pot is up to 129K. I liked these pre-execution dinners better in previous seasons. These seem a lot more tepid to me, even the “drama’ doesn’t really get exciting. Our host asks the players who’s the most zoned in and everyone immediately says Mark. Well, duh. Who, we hear yet again is playing for his family, but, still, I wouldn’t want him coaching me in sports. Much less in life. Mark jumps all in Paul’s shit, and Paul is, well, Paul about it. I’m no fan of either of these guys, so my finger twitches on the ff button on my remote. Everyone jumps on Paul’s crap…..so, naturally, this fills Paul with glees as he feels this is his leverage. Distraction by being an ass. Oh. Yippee. I can’t wait for more of that. Sigh. Some people just never get it. And if he wants us to believe this is game play and not his real personality? Riiiiiiight. I don’t think it distracts so much as disgusts. It does me.

On to the quiz and execution….still have no idea who the mole is. Bobby, Ali, and Nicole’s names come up amongst the player. I think if it were me, this early in, I’d just answer as many questions as I could with where the majority lies, to swing the odds in my favor. (ie - is the mole male or female - pick whichever group is largest at that point, and so on.)

Our Host shakes things up - he offers a bribe of 20K for a player to leave the game voluntarily. No one takes him up on it. Kristen is first and she’s safe. Maybe she could part her hair somewhere above her ear next time? Victoria is safe. Host raises the bribe to 30K. Ali takes the money and leaves the game! So…does this mean we don’t find out who would have been the loser. Everyone is surprised. She’s fine with her stash and leaving. We find out afterward that she was safe. AND? We’re continuing with the execution. Harsh! Alex is safe. Bobby….is out. Ah well, they won’t have him to pick on anymore. He’s really disappointed and so is his pal, Victoria. Craig hates it, too. Paul is an ass, but there’s a shock!

Next week? More assery. More suspicious behavior. And Craig is stricken! Mark…walks out? (Do you get the feeling that he’s all competitive as hell until he feels he might lose, and then he quits before that can happen, blaming anything else he can find an excuse for? Yeah, me too.) At least it’s not boring! Well, the host maybe….

Don’t forget to enter this week’s SHaQ Attack contest. Two winners this Friday, but you do have a bit of scavenging to do this week!

Good luck! Aaaaaaaand DISH! Who do you think is the Mole? Who do you want outta there? Paul? Show of hands?

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