Shackles and Shenanagains.
So, how many of you are positive Kristin is the Mole? How about Craig – was his little hospital trip to dramatic for you and thus suspicious? Is Mark too obsessed with his journal? Will Victoria threaten bodily harm to another contestant only to wuss out again? Let’s find out!
Jon Kelly has more torture for the remaining contestants as they meet them at a local landmark where he shackles them to iron bars. Across the way there’s a cage with a key and an exemption – they have to decide who goes first, adjust the chains to let them next to the cage, and then trust them to grab the key and not the exemption and free themselves. If anyone takes the exemption, they don’t get any money, and the players still shackled will have to stay outside all night in the cold. Yikes. How can they trust the untrustworthy?
They debate who goes first and decided Craig should as he’s sickly, and gives his word that he won’t take the exemption. Kristen is next, and then Paul swears on his daughters life – they aren’t sure they believe him, but he unlocks himself and goes, leaving the pass in the cage. Mark is still bemoaning the loss of his journal, and for some reason doesn’t trust himself to leave the pass behind – and there’s a lot of bickering. The dude is weird. As a result, he’s the last one to get the choice, but in the end does the right thing and leaves the pass an joins the rest for dinner – adding $25k to the pot.
Yay! New Journals! Mark, however, equates it to having to buy a replacement wedding ring, it’s never the same and is irreplaceable. Um, the guy is just a LITTLE obsessed, eh? Everyone else is happy to have their journals back though, and as they travel to Mendoza, they share info in attempts to rebuild their information. At least it starts that way until Paul decides he doesn’t have to repeat himself and tell his birthday again. He and Clay start arguing, and the get close to a brawl outside of the van and all hell breaks lose for Paul when Clay hits him in the head with a tossed lemon. He calls Clay a hypocrite because he’s a lawyer but as a Christian is not supposed to judge. Um, Paul, honey? The judges judge, not the Lawyers. Sheesh. Clay switches fans, and that’s the end of the scuffle though.
They arrive at their destination, and then the next morning are explained the mechanics of the next challenge. Since Craig had mentioned the word exemption at breakfast, he gets to divide everyone into teams of two for a trip of five miles to an Argentinian statue. He also gets to assign the methods of transportation and dress from among wacky costumes – then he joins Kelly at the statue to see who shows up. He could have been sweet and nice with his choices, but decided to have fun instead. Whoops. Mark and Alex have to dress up in costumes and walk a donkey to the finish line, Clay and Kristen have to use a unicycle and stilts, and the best idea ever? Nicole is the head of the llama suit, with Paul bringing up the ass. Haha!
Craig and Jon take off, and the rest of the group decides to bitch and moan and unite in their hatred of Craig, and refuse to do the mission. Craig gets his exemption, and Mark spearheads the rest of the groups refusal. At dinner, Craig figures they’re all crazy, and he can’t apologize his way out of the mess. Whatever, it’s time for the quiz.
There’s another tie tonight, and this time the time difference is one single solitary second. Wow. Who wasn’t fast enough on the button? Kristen. That’s gotta hurt! There’s no Mole next week, but there will be a special season recap episode on July 14th and a new episode too. So Kristen isn’t the Mole – who is?!
