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By the end, Nicole and Paul both knew it was Craig, and they tied on their last quiz together. And get this - she beat him by four seconds. Ugh. If, upon hearing this, Paul had suddenly whipped out a couple of machine guns and taken out the entire room, I wouldn't have been the least bit surprised. Instead, he just sits there and gapes, and you just know that this is KILLING him. Don't worry, Paul. Lemonhead will always be there for you.

"GROW A PAIR, PANSY!"

Next comes Mark's montage. And this is where it gets really painful. A few weeks in, Victoria was onto Craig, while Mark and Paul were targeting Victoria. But since Victoria mistakenly hit a wrong answer on the quiz, she tied with Mark and Alex, got the slowest time, and was executed. And here's the kicker: if she had gotten that question right, Mark would have been the one to go home. GAH.

The week Kristen was executed, the same thing happened - she was in a tie with Mark, who, along with Paul, had been targeting her. After she was gone, they both switched to Nicole. That week, Mark tied yet AGAIN, this time with Paul, who had the slower time. After securing the final exemption, he decided to trust Paul when he said that he had gone 100% Nicole, which, since Paul was executed, would signify that Nicole was not the Mole. So he went balls out on Craig, and the rest is history.

Back at the reunion, Mark thanks Clay for being his rock, helping him to win, and for talking him down from the ledge. Alex then leans over and says "You should have pushed him!" Haha. Oh, Alex. I've missed your dulcet singing voice. Please, entertain us with one of your little Mole hunting ditties!

"I'll be here all week! Try the veal!"

Jon smarms that the dossier only held the answer to one of the questions on the quiz, and both Mark and Nicole got it right, making the cost of $75,000 pretty useless. I thought now would be a good time for a maniacal cackle from Jon, but sadly, no dice.

And now it's time to get the skinny on how Craig sabotaged the game. He says, rather obviously, that his strategy was to be the big teddy bear funny guy, so that now one would suspect him of being devious. In the first mission, the waterfall, he was told to drop the bag, which he did. And the players congratulated him for trying, like it was the Special Olympics or something. Hmm. I guess this says a lot about how society treats nice fatties. Hey sociology grad students: dissertation fodder!

He also covered up some items in the sand mission, and scored a goal for the other team in the soccer mission, which, again, the other players thought was just adorable. He also suggested that Bobby get into that infamous wheelbarrow, which I remember a lot of people saying was a huge clue pointing to Craig. He talked to Victoria after the finish line in the luge mission, and also assigned all those wacky modes of transportation that caused all of the players to opt out of that one mission (that was a pretty big clue, too, how he got picked for that - at breakfast, when he was the first one to mention the word "exemption", that reeked of being instructed by producers to do so).

In the goggles mission, he asked Nicole a question and got her to speak, which I definitely thought was a Moley thing to do. He also had the answer to the doublet for the last exemption mission, but in order to not seem too suspicious, he didn't do it right away, so Mark beat him to it. So he got shot instead.

By the way, the rest of the players are great to watch during all this. So much wincing and frustrated sighing. Jon, meanwhile, remains a rock.

"Wow. No, really. Fascinating."

And for the clock mission, Craig had all of the answers, which I definitely noticed during the episode but thought that it made him less suspicious. UNTIL I thought about it later, and remembered from Season One that the Mole was given all the answers for the last mission in order to put a final chunk of money into the pot. That Mole failed, but Craig succeeded, and that was a big tip-off.

We close the segment with an awesome montage of all the players saying that Craig couldn't possibly be the Mole and laughing hysterically, followed by a "You Can't Do That On Television"-style stamping of EXECUTED across their faces. Nice.

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