The Mole

With 3 genuine contestants remaining, The Mole still looms large.

With 5 genuine contestants remaining, The Mole still looms large.

With nine genuine contestants remaining, The Mole still looms large.

With 12 new contestants, 11 are genuine and one is The Mole. The game has changed with The Mole winning money if they are succesful in sabotaging a task. The live elimination quickly eliminates Josh.

The first challenge - dropping water bombs onto a target from a paraglider, doesn't go well as only Alaina gets a hit. Bob, who was betting on the success, does better. Alaina, Bob & Ann-Maree have to take pictures to represent different letters of the alphabet (e.g. B=bridge, a Y shaped track in the road). The letters spell out BETRAY but Crystal-Rose and Marc, who have to guess what it is, don't get it right. The three others also have to tell what Crystal and Marc have painted on a sports oval. While Ann-Maree thinks it is a platypus, Alaina convinces her and Bob it is a mole and they lose money. It was, in fact, a platypus. As the contestants voice their suspicions, they fill out the questionnaire. Both Alaina and Marc are certain it is Crystal-Rose and Bob agrees with them but also thinks Alaina is a good suspect. Ann-Maree suspects Bob (whom Marc has ruled out) and Crystal is torn between Alaina and Marc although she suspects Marc more.

In this round, Crystal-Rose scores herself a free pass while Alaina and Marc ruin one of the group's challenges. But it is Pete, everyone's favourite, who is eliminated. So who is the Mole? At the halfway mark it seems anyone could be the traitor. But there are clues. Keep looking, Australia! And then Crystal-Rose was offered $20,000 to the group's kitty if she passed up the elimination.

Who will win? Who will be the Mole? Everyone thinks they know who it is and relationships are being tested but ultimately Thao leaves. Ann-Marie didn't like her on the outside but she may have liked her more inside.

In an energetic round, no-one proves any kind of skill or helpfulness. In the end Hal is revealed as the Loser. Brooke wins $100,000 -which is less than last season's mole. The Mole is revealed - Michael.

Emily suspects Brooke of being the Mole but Brooke seems torn between Michael and Mal. Mal thinks it is Michael but Hal thinks Brooke and Michael thinks Emily or Hal. In a challenge, Michael and Brooke survive but Brooke loses the team money and gets Michael out of the running by getting a free pass for herself. An act of sabotage? Or worries about whether or not she can pass elimination? The entire group fails at the next test and Emily, Hal and Mal ruin another challenge for the group. Emily ends up being eliminated leaving one woman and four men to go to the penultimate episode of Season 2.

Mal wins a free pass, the group only win one challenge and another lost challenge sees Hal and Shane spend a cold night together in the bush. Emily & Mal give up looking in a challenge which some see as suspicious while Brooke and Michael, paired together, are almost on top of the lost pair and yet don't find them. What's going wrong? Shane suspects Fiona and she suspects him, Emily and Brooke are torn between every one and Michael, Mal and Hal suspect each other. But it is Fiona who is eliminated. As Grant leads her to the door, the other 6 are sad to see her go - they have got to know her well. But they are also relieved at a one in six shot at the money.

Angela and Shane make several obvious mistakes that says either "stupid" or "mole" this episode where Emily is also a chief suspect. Very quiet Brooke misses out on a free pass. Others such as Shane and Michael are very quiet as of yet. John suspects the Mole may be Fiona but he isn't sure and he is eliminated. The eight remaining contestants are getting closer to the cash.

Alan and Abby save one challenge when Jan fails it but all three contribute to another challenge. When it looks set that they have won the other, they discover Alan broke a road rule and the challenge is lost. Abby is fixed on Jan as the Mole, while the others blame each other. And finally at Port Arthur Jail the questions are answered. Jan wins $115,000. Abby steps out to look at the Mole - Alan.

The women fail at a task involving abseiling and Linda has to interrogate the group to find out what they did. If she is successful she gets a free pass. She breaks Abby down and gets the info and the exemption. Abby is acting extremely suspiciously, but who believes she is the Mole? Beverly is eliminated, leaving the four remaining contestants alone with Grant...

With only two men and five women left, the challenges get harder. Linda and Jan build a raft that the other five have to travel on without it going faulty but it doesn't work. And the boat the other five are on mysteriously runs out of fuel. Challenges are failing everywhere, but whose work is it? Beverly and Josephine have done well by not wasting money on a challenge where they could have gained an exemption but unfortunately Josephine leaves. She told Alan she was voting for him but he changed her mind and promised he wasn't the Mole.