IS THE MOLE A MOVIE FAN? - HINTS & THEORIES - EPISODE 5 - DE MOL SEASON 11 - IN ENGLISH 

Everyone seems way more definite than I am. Thomas had some really suspicious moments this week, I'll grant you. This season has a bit of an echo of WIDM Serie 23 in that the candidates are not looking great. I love that they're deliberately eschewing advantages. But I feel like the obvious thing to say would be: "Well, the flyers know that we can only get two pasvragen each if they all fly. Therefore the one guaranteed way to make sure we don't is if one of them doesn't fly." At least two of the film buffs are not the Mole. Can you not figure that one out? Top suspects are Thomas and Toos. At this point it's difficult to see who else it could be. Comfort doesn't look like a possibility at this point. Of the two, I agree Thomas is way more suspicious on the face of it. HOWEVER: Toos' attitude is really interesting. In one episode he gives up the chance of a free pass (removing £3000 from the pot by the way) but in the next he fights tooth-and-nail for the spot in the bunker where the candidates believe the pasvragens are located? Something is definitely not adding up there. Toos has low-key kept a bunch of money out of the pot, and I'm worried I'm looking past him in the same way that I looked past Season 9's mole. My prime suspect, as with many people, is Thomas. But I'm not by any means sold on him. Toos would be #2. Ruben is #3 and I'm really worried I'm overlooking him. Comfort is #4, and Lancelot brings up the rear.

So not as much to discuss this week, but there's still a few nuggets that caught my eye that I'm stewing over. For the first challenge, I find it highly suspicious that the hot dog team was shown so little. Sorta makes me wonder if they're hiding something. I had a thought that I can't shake, and it involves the fact that the contestants were blindfolded this challenge. I wonder how easy it would be to find a way to tell your partner that you're the mole somehow, without the others knowing? Like sign language or something. The classic letters M-O-L spelled out with your hands. I just thought, a challenge where you're blindfolded? So easy to sabotage, and even easier to share info with your loved one without anyone else being able to see what's going on. Probably not required in this sort of a challenge (it seemed pretty easy to sabotage), but still something I couldn't not think about. Now here's a really niche fact, which is probably unimportant, but I can't help but notice as well. The bag of chicken wings Comfort picks up? A Good & Gather product, which is a brand sold exclusively by Target stores. It seems weird they have this random bag of chicken wings from Target at Johnny Gibson's Downtown Market. Another weird thing: the website on the billboard outside the store JGDM.com doesn't exist. It's a bunch of random useless facts I present to you that are probably worthless, but you never know with this show. I have a hard time really taking anything away from either of these challenges suspicions-wise, mostly cause the mole could have done absolutely anything they wanted and almost assuredly gotten away with it with everyone blindfolded. And most failed pretty spectacularly to the point that I'm almost reminded of the catastrophe that was the train challenge. On to the second challenge! I'll get the stunt flyers out of the way first: only Ruben was really suspicious, giving poor hints to Lancelot. Even still, I don't really blame him because he was only able to ruin 1 out of 4 hints and I'd probably have a hard time keeping my composure as well. None of the stunt flyers had much of a way to sabotage this challenge, so I definitely knock them down several pegs on the suspicion board. The airstrip was where the real sabotaging seemed to be at, and I absolutely agree with you that Thomas only getting the Sigourney Weaver hint made him VERY suspicious. I feel like getting either the 'Who you gonna call?' or the music hint would be a dead giveaway for that one, so sabotaging the low and high rings was vital here. And going first in general, so his failures don't look all that bad since they're all just learning how to get the hang of it? Brilliant. And not mentioning the name of Robin Williams' character in his clip??? Oh Thomas, you sly subtle minx. The candidates don't know his name was said, so it's a lovely bit of moling because they'll never know about it until they watch this episode and realize that he neglected to say it. The funny thing was that I didn't even know the name of the movie until the kid literally said the line, and it suddenly came to me. Oh so clever. My other favorite thing about the airstrip group is that the contestant who was picking out the stunts can actually get a perfect view of the other two contestants flying the drone through the obstacle course. So if the mole is at that position, they can actually determine whether or not to get the hint right depending on how well the other two are doing. Other two doing amazingly well? Just get the final hint to look good. Other two don't land on the helipad in time? Get the hint to look good but don't describe it well enough to the other two so no money is earned. They get like one hint only? No clip for you! To me there was just so much money on the line in this challenge, and so much went wrong at the airstrip, that there's just no way the mole wasn't in this group. And with Lieselot out of the picture, and with Lancelot not taking pasvragen last week, and him being made a bit too suspicious by production...let's just say my Thomas tunnel just keeps getting more and more comfy. The eliminations of the people I least suspect continues with Lieselot's departure. Wonder if Comfort will go home next week, if for no other reason than she's the next one I least suspect. I also kinda assume Toos is all-in from now on, and I thought he might suspect Thomas, but I found it really weird that he didn't choose to pair up with Thomas on either task this week. What kind of strategy is it to have a prime suspect but not try to pair up with them in challenges? Looks like next week he's buddying up with Ruben again too. I'm starting to wonder if Toos is really on to Thomas or not. I had him and Comfort and Thomas as my final three, but I'm really starting to think that we might get a surprise Toos elimination next week. Hmm.

Great video Julie!! I am going to keep my initial comment shorter this week. First assignment: You bring up an interesting point about the hot dog task-we really didn’t get to see very much of it! I hadn’t noticed that, but you are absolutely right. It would have been helpful to see at which stage in the hotdog-making process each of the duos failed. I was a little surprised, and almost disappointed that my mole (Thomas) chose the hot dog task, because in my opinion the grocery store group had the potential to earn much more money for the pot, and so I would have liked to see the mole sabotage that task instead. If the mole was indeed in the hot dog group, I think they took the easy way out of this challenge. I agree that Comfort’s behavior in the grocery store was very Mole-like. I really wish she hadn’t miraculously finished the 5k run in episode 2, and that she hadn’t seen the red screen last week, because then she would still be a top suspect for me. Second assignment: Thomas had several very good sabotages in this assignment. There were 2 that really stood out to me. The first was the way that he described the Robin Williams film clip to the group. In the film clip, the little boy called Robin Williams’s character “Peter.” This is a VERY IMPORTANT piece of information! Peter->Peter Pan->Captain Hook-> Hook. As soon as the clip ended, I said to myself “If Thomas doesn’t tell the group that the main character in the film is named Peter, then he is the mole 1000%.” And of course, he doesn’t tell them! The second, more impressive moment was when he convinced Lancelot and Lieselot that Comfort was on that plane. You could tell from how calm Comfort’s voice was that she wasn’t actually flying. Lieselot sensed this. Lancelot also remarked that Comfort’s instructions were incredibly clear and easy to follow. But somehow Thomas convinced both of them to listen to him rather than to their own brains. That’s the type of mole action I like to see! Take the egg out of their pocket and drop it in front of them, then give them a hug. Read “these beats” out loud twice, and make them think you don’t see any spelling mistakes. Convince them that their own intuition is wrong. Lol!

I'm thinking Ruben... Call me crazy! I keep thinking how he did not want his number reading on the suit in the bunker

I was also paying close attention to things that Thomas said before the assignments, to see if I could spot anything that would go along with Orange’s theory from last week. The only thing that I noticed was when the group was choosing who would be in the film group and who would be in the flying group. Thomas said that he was afraid he wouldn’t actually want to go up in the plane, and so he gets placed in the film group (exactly like he wanted, I’m sure). I know, it‘s not technically an “on the nose” comment like the examples from previous episodes were. But to me this comment is still very interesting, because he is planting the idea in everyone’s mind that all 3 candidates in the flying group MUST fly. Maybe to make it easier for him to manipulate the joker decision later on? [edit: I know, the group technically didn’t know yet that the task involved a plane, but rather some sort of daredevil, “ride of a lifetime” type stunt. Same thing. You understand what I’m saying 🙂].

My brain has been between Toos and Ruben after catching up... mostly cause it feels weird to actively turn down an exemption when it benefits the group... and Ruben constantly messes up the games with his actions.

I think Comfort is the mole.