Lisa | Tuesday, February 20, 2001 - 07:44 pm  The show began on Day 23 in San Lucar, Spain. With only 4 players left, Charlie, Kathryn, Jim and Steven, the challenges would be intense. The 4 were divided into 2 groups; one group of artsy people and 1 group that can count to 751. Kathryn and Jim are the artsy team and Steven and Charlie are the counting team. Charlie and Steven's challenge is to heard a lot of sheep into a coral using a dog in 1 hour. If they successfully complete their challenge, they will earn $20,000. For an additional $10,000 they have to count the sheep. They have a choice of 3 dogs to help them. One is trained, the other 2 are not. They picked the wrong dog. After much frustration, Steve and Charlie manage to get the sheep into the coral successfully, with Charlie repeatingly saying the same word over and over agin. If they counted the sheep, they would win another $10,000.00. Charlie suggested they don't count the sheep as they won't have time. They won $20,000.00. In nearby Seville, Spain, Jim and Kathryn are taken to an art museum. They must make a piece of art for the gallery with only 3 hours, which will be added to the art already there. An art critic will come in and have to choose which one is theirs. If the critic chooses the wrong one they will win $20,000.00. They created a few different choices to expand upon. They seemed to get impatient with Anderson, the host, when he made suggestions and reminded them they only needed one piece. After Jim and Kathryn had decided on a piece and finalized it, they were told to wait unpstairs while the art critic looked at the varoius art pieces. The art critic chose their piece as she said it was more active than the other pieces, as it used sport in the art. They lost their $20,000.00 prize. Steve and Charlie were brought in to look at the art. If they chose the one Kathryn and Jim made, the group would win $20,000.00 for the pot. Charlie commented that one of the pieces of art (the lemon piece) was very "fruity"... Jim who could hear upstairs, was upset. After the 2 had chosen the piece of art they believed to be made by Jim and Kathryn, they were told they were wrong and the 2 were brought into the room. Charlie felt bad when he knew that they had heard his earlier comment. Charlie & Steve were given the choice to guess the sheep and guessed 417. The real answer was 751 which was what they were told in the morning. Later that evening, the four seemed to bond as they gathered together to cut Jim's hair. Kathryn screwed it up. Day 24 - Ronda, Spain - the four were given the morning off to window shop. Kathryn talked about letting her guard down and strategies. She wanted to trust someone so badly. Later that day they met with Anderson and were advised there was $430,000.00 in the group pot. Each were told to make a list of players and at the top of the list they must say who they would most like to see executed from the game, down to the player they would most like to stay in the game. They then had to place their list in the vase. Anderson checked the lists and announced that the player with the most votes to see stay in the game was Steven. He was taken away for a test about trust. He has to convince the 3 to undertake assignments that appear very risky or are risky. For $60,000.00 he must do this successfully and he will win an exemption. He chose Kathryn to stand against a board blindfolded and have knives thrown at her. He chose Jim to walk over hot coals blindfolded. He chose Charlie to walk a plank over a 100 foot ravine blindfolded. If 2 complete the challenge, they will still win the money, but Steve will not get an exxemption. If one completes the challenge, that person will win the exemption but no money will be won. If no one completes the challenge, Steve will still get the exemption but no money will be won. The challenge began with Kathryn who freaked out when she realized that knives were going to be thrown at her. Steve tried to convince her to go through with it. Blindfolded the whole time, she asked for some time to think about it. As she was thinking, she very suddenly fainted causing Anderson and Steven some deep concern. When she came to she was really embarassed but determined to do her challenge. She got ready and almost changed her mind, but the knife came and it was over. It turned out that the knife was not actually thrown, just shoved into the wall by hand. One down! Next it was Jim's turn, and he was led by Steve to the hot coals. He was blindfolded and didn't hesitate. Guided by Steven the whole time, he ran very quickly across the coals. At the end his blindfold was removed and he realized he crossed the mildly burning coals rather than the full burning ones. He was successful and the group had won $60,000.00. Finally it was Charlie's turn and Steve had to convince Charlie to go through with the plank walk. He told Charlie he was chosen for this as he is mentally stronger than the other two. Charlie worked it out in his brain whether he should go or not. He decided to do it. He was hooked up to safety wires in case anything happened to him. Steven gave him directions as he climbed a ladder, walked to the end of an 18 inch plank, turned around, and returned. He was shaking like a leaf but successfully completed the test. That meant $490,000.00 was now in the pot and Steven won the exemption. That evening, it became quiz time. They each questioned the latest challenge and who had what motives. Steve got emotional talking about the 3 players - 1 of which will be executed. The four were gathered and Steven who was exempted from the execution shook each of their hands. Charlie looked very upset after he realized he was the executed one. Steven cried as he felt guilty that Charlie did the plank walk to give him exemption. Kathryn said she was happy with the results. Jim was glad to be with the other 2. Kathryn, Jim and Steven have made it to the final round. The Mole continues next Tuesday. |