The Mole: Episode 9

(S05E09) “I’ve been wanting to shoot somebody ever since I got here.” - Nicole

So here we are down to four players: Nicole, Paul, Craig, and Mark. These are the four players that a lot of us have been thinking could be The Mole. That means we’re great at guessing this game but it also makes it harder to figure out at this point since any of them could be the guilty party.

It could also mean there’s just no way to figure out who the hell the mole is so we might as well just sit back and enjoy the show. But I can’t leave it alone…So let me get this straight: Nicole is not only a doctor, not only a gynecologist, but she’s also an arthroscopic surgeon? That’s one detail I must have overlooked in previous weeks. If she turns out to be the mole, we’ll probably all look back at the season and say “it was so obvious” and “they didn’t really hide it that well, looking back.” I actually hope she isn’t the mole.

We did learn one other thing tonight, though I’m not sure if it all works out logically: Mark probably isn’t the mole. I stress the word “probably.” He gets out of the cell first and gets to be the shooter in the paintball game. He actually ends up shooting two of the other three players, and one of them has the hidden exemption, which means Mark gets the exemption. If he was the mole would he have solved the word puzzle so quickly and then been such a good shot that he hits two players and gets an exemption? I don’t know, seems like he’s actually playing the game tonight as a real player and not the mole. Though it was funny that Craig couldn’t hear Mark leave his cell. But then again, did anyone notice an “NI” or an “N1″ on the video camera the players used in the challenge? Could that be a reference to Nicole?

So Paul is executed tonight, and he had a feeling he was going to go. Which means my earlier observation is true: he wasn’t acting like a jerk, he might actually be one.

As I said, it’s interesting that we’re down to Mark, Craig, and Nicole, three people a lot of us have been thinking could be the mole throughout the season. Since I’m ruling out Mark, it’s either Craig or Nicole. I’m going to go with Nicole just because I think there have been too many odd things that have happened to her in too many situations. Of course, one thing that makes me hesitate saying that: at one point tonight, Paul says he doesn’t think _____ is the mole. I can’t remember which person he was talking about. But if someone out there can remember who he said (I think it was either Nicole or Mark), then we can find out what player he thought was the mole as he answered the questions in the quiz. Since he was eliminated, we might be able to narrow down our choice.

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