“’The Mole’ follows a group of 12 players as they try to figure out who among them is The Mole, a saboteur trying to keep them from winning money. Players must decide who they think The Mole is and then learn as much about him or her as they can, because, at the end of each one-hour episode, the player who knows the least about The Mole is immediately "Executed" from the game. In the final dramatic episode, The Mole is revealed and one of two final players wins a substantial cash prize. Mole follows a group of 12 players as they try to figure out who among them is The Mole, a saboteur trying to keep them from winning money. Players must decide who they think The Mole is and then learn as much about him or her as they can, because, at the end of each one-hour episode, the player who knows the least about The Mole is immediately "Executed" from the game. In the final dramatic episode, The Mole is revealed and one of two final players wins a substantial cash prize.”
The first of ten episodes had the players, strangers to each other, and their host, Jon Kelley, gathering in Los Angeles, Chile. Their first mission had them outfitted in safety gear to ride a flimsy raft on the edge of Salto de Laja, an impressive waterfall, and at the last minute, jump for a bag containing either real or fake money.
The waterfall is located within the Parque de Laja where the players spent the night after enjoying a typical Chilean meal, including a Pisco Sour. The nest day, they were taken to an isolated beach where they were instructed to find as many articles, hidden on the beach, as Alexander Selkirk, better known as Robinson Crusoe, would have with him when abandoned in the Juan Fernandez Archipelago. Following the tally, one player was left behind on the beach overnight, but exempted from the execution, while the others took the quiz which determines who was to be executed. The first player left the game.
The second episode had the players in Santiago, where they faced an exemption earning challenge to protect them from execution,. They gathered in Parque Metropolitano, or Metropolitan Park, to make their way either on foot or on a tandem bike, to the top of San Cristóbal hill, to the statue of the Virgen Mary. Included in this challenge is a ride on the funicular for some of the players. The couple on the tandem bike won their exemptions. Following a soccer game, competing against children, which the players lost by many goals, the next day found them in the small village of Pomaire, about an hour’s drive from Santiago. Pomaire is a small village in which many of the residents craft items from the local red clay. The players gathered at a small arena just outside the village.
The challenge here is for the players to separate into teams, push a wheelbarrow back into the village and find a number of speccailly marked small clay pigs, and return to the arena where they use a sling shot to cast them into the arena for two players to catch. Another player wins exemption.
On their return to Santiago, following a dinner, the players take the quiz and meet at the huge Cementerio General, where many of Chile’s notables are interred, to face execution. Another player leaves the game.
Where will they be next time?
