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The Mole 5 Episode 10

Paul’s execution in The Mole 5 Episode 9, brought us down to the final three: Nicole Williams, Craig Slike, and Mark Lambrecht.

Nicole thinks Craig is the mole. Craig thinks Mark is the mole. Mark doesn’t know who the mole is.

The players are shown a case with $50,000 in it. They can win the money if it doesn’t blow up first. They’ve got one hour. They have to figure out how to diffuse the bomb using just what’s in the room, which is a puzzle involving a map and times that will require their teamwork to succeed.

They get two of the four steps through with about half an hour left. They waste 15 minutes with incorrect letters in their final clue before figuring out that Nicole screwed up a bunch of letters. When they get under a minute left, they don’t have the clue solved, but they think they’re close, so they just decide to go with it because it’s going to blow up anyway. And they’re right, winning the task.

Pot total: $418,500 out of $778,000

The players meet in central Buenos Aires for their final mission, worth $75,000 (or the mole’s dossier if the first player to complete the mission chooses). They must figure out a street from a riddle then call Jon to confirm their first destination, where they will head and get photographed. Craig relies on his knowledge. Mark relies on the people and couldn’t care less that he has a map. Nicole screws up this task, too, except it really doesn’t help her to be moleish in this particular task.

Mark’s insistence on not using the map has him behind the others, while Nicole’s wasted a bunch of time unable to take a photo correctly. After Jon spells out the clue for her, she finally figures it out. Following that, though, she solves her second clue, but she’s not overly thrilled about the mission any more. Craig is the second person to figure out where his second destination. Meanwhile, Mark’s just completing his first task.

Having done this, he’s the first person to complete his second task, though. Nicole has completed her second task as well, or at least she pretends she has. She tries to pass a hot fudge sundae off as dulce de leche. Jon tells her not to cheat, so she says he sucks. Afterward, she does manage to get the right sweet. Craig also solves his second task, putting everyone even.

Craig and Mark both call Jon at almost the same time. Craig is a few seconds before and finds out his final destination. Craig has been looking to go to this particular bridge ever since they got to Argentina, and he knows exactly where it is. All Mark knows is that it’s the stupid bridge Craig won’t shut up about. Mark thinks he’s screwed, but because he’s a better runner than Craig, he manages to arrive first. Craig arrives second. Nicole, well, they have to send a car to go get her.

Mark has a choice to make. Should he take the $75,000 for the pot, or should he take the (probably useless) dossier? He decides to take the dossier.

Pot total: $418,500 out of $853,000

They round it up to $420,000, which is what the winner will be taking home.

The final quiz contains twice as many questions as the prior quizzes (20). And that’s where we leave off, waiting for the final results in the next episode.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Mole 5 episode 11, where we’ll find out who The Mole 5 winner is, which airs Monday at 10/9c on ABC.

Big Brother 10 Episode 10

Despite the fact that everybody in the house considered Jessie a bigger threat, Angie was voted out of the house unanimously in Big Brother 10 Episode 9. We left off at the start of an endurance HOH competition.

Jerry is the first one off the ledge at 26 minutes. Libra follows at 33 minutes. Dan’s out at 45 minutes, not doing a very good job of hiding the fact that he threw the competition. Then Ollie drops at 55 minutes, also looking suspicious. Jessie’s in obvious pain, and he falls at just over an hour, insisting that it’s a “bogus” competition. Memphis is the first to start discussing a deal. Nobody budges, and he drops at 1 hour 16 minutes.

Dan gives a motivational speech to Renny to keep her going. To be fair, it’s apparent this competition was no more designed for the men (buff or not) than any prior endurance competitions have been, but she deserves a lot of credit for her efforts nonetheless. She ends up falling at 1 hour 58 minutes.

That leaves Michelle and April as the last two standing. Both alliances are counting on their last remaining members. About two and a half hours in, Michelle’s in obvious danger. April promises her she won’t put her up. Then, for some reason, April, the one in control here, willingly offers to keep Jessie in the game, too. At 2 hours 40 minutes, accepting April’s not entirely clear promise, Michelle drops, and April is the new HOH.

Michelle believes Jessie will be safe. April also believes Jessie will be safe, but not because she doesn’t plan to put him up.

Keesha has decided she wants to be friends with Memphis now, after having decimated his alliance last week during her reign as HOH. I don’t get this chick. Pick a side already, or at least don’t pick both sides. Her alliance doesn’t trust her (still). Renny lets her know to stop being stupid, telling her that April’s definitely coming after her.

Dan gets his first assignment from America. America wants Dan to try to get Jessie nominated. Should be a fairly easy assignment to pull off. At least America didn’t totally screw him over (remember Eric?) and tell him to do something stupid like get Libra nominated. Granted, many of the votes probably came from people who had no clue who won HOH, making this a particularly lame week in which to have this vote. The bad thing about this is that it’s unlike Dan, so April thinks he may very well be America’s Player (this is the reason why you don’t use the same twist twice, particularly one as stupid as the America’s Player twist… hire someone with an imagination for a change).

Nominations
Michelle is safe.
Ollie is safe.
Renny is safe.
Libra is safe.
Keesha is safe.
Jerry is safe.
Dan is safe.

Jessie and Memphis have been nominated for eviction. Jessie’s realized that his alliance sucks. Nobody seems upset about Jessie’s nomination, and Jessie and Michelle hope once again that Jessie is safe because that’s how the HOH wants it. Let’s see if he lets it go to his head again.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 11, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

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Big Brother 10 Episode 9

Following her nominations of Jessie and Angie, Keesha won veto in Big Brother 10 Episode 8 and decided to keep her original nominations intact. Jessie went psycho for most of the episode in an effort to seal his own fate.

Jessie says he knows the way everybody is going to vote, so he can do whatever he wants.

Michelle’s following into the same trap as everybody else who’s been evicted. She’s too emotionally attached to those exiting and doesn’t have the relationships with anybody else.

Memphis suspects that Jessie is the actual target. He runs up to Keesha to tell her that Jerry told Angie she’s not out of the game. Jerry denies it.

Angie’s looking to piss people off (at herself). She lies (or at least holds back part of the truth) and tells Michelle that Jerry said that Memphis, Jessie, and Michelle acted like they were in control of the house. This turns into another screaming match between two obnoxious people. He flat out denies that he will flip to their side in the event they win HOH. They interpret this denial as confirmation that his plan is to flip to them.

The house feels the earthquake that happened near LA the other day. Most of them are afraid because they’ve never dealt with an earthquake. The players take this as an opportunity to hate on each other.

Jessie (block guy) waves bye bye to Libra to let her know he’s coming after her. Yeah, way to convince her to vote for you to stay. Then he calls Jerry Father Time. And Renny hated him from the beginning. The house decides Jessie’s a dumbass, and they begin talking about trying to convince Keesha to let them do it (they will do as she says, for some stupid reason).

According to Julie, the airplane banner had nothing to do with Big Brother. Michelle still pretends she saw something, as if anybody’s buying it.

Jerry says he’s apologized to Memphis for calling him a womanizer.

Keesha says she plans to keep her promise to Libra all the way to the end, although she is more loyal to Renny.

Votes
Memphis-Angie
Michelle-Angie
Jerry-Angie
Renny-Angie
Libra-Angie
April-Angie
Ollie-Angie
Dan-Angie

Despite much stupidity, Jessie easily gets through to next week. By a unanimous vote, Angie has been evicted from the Big Brother house. These people get dumber by the minute.

Since it sucked so bad the first time, America’s players is back, yet again proving that the producers of this show struggle when it comes to imagination and new (good) concepts. America has voted for Dan to be America’s Player for a week. Dan’s aware that this is the worst possible thing he can do for his game, but with the offer of $20,000 on the line, he decides to go ahead and take the deal. Damn you, CBS. His first assignment will be to try to get someone nominated.

And then the HOH competition begins. It’s an endurance competition. Everybody stands on a building ledge and grabs on by a bar. They decide to toss in some aftershocks to make things a bit more interesting.

Want to know who wins HOH? Check out the BB10 Spoilers page.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 10, which airs Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.

America’s Got Talent 3 Episode 7

This is the final audition week before we head to Vegas to determine the finalists. The judges will judge the talent of Myspace members. Complete with 2000 Myspace audience members. For real.

Rock & roll magician Michael Trixx does… tricks or something. Piers buzzes him. Hoff buzzes him. Sharon refuses to buzz despite all the hatred from the audience. Piers calls it cheap.

Diva Boy and the Sexplosion dancers continue the bad. They get buzzed and booed.

Eloy Rendon is a motivational speaker. Apparently. I don’t get the pseudo-rap act, and neither does anybody else.

Randy Hanson’s yet another Ozzy Osbourne impersonator, but he’s actually good. Sharon wants to see him with his trousers down. (Video of Randy Hanson’s performance)

Holly Stone, having given up her daughter for adoption because she was only 18, managed to find her daughter on Myspace. Now, at age 44, Holly is singing, and she’s there because she loves Myspace. She sings Martina McBride’s Broken Wing. Piers is pleasantly surprised. Sharon thinks she has a good voice. Hasselhoff isn’t so sure about the beginning but was impressed with her high notes at the end.

The Cadence play a percussion rock show. They sound good, and the girls make it clear they like them. Not sure how far they can actually get with this, though. Piers is surprised he likes it, but he wants something more behind it. Sharon also wants it broader. Hasselhoff agrees to vote yes but expects more next time. Sharon says no. Piers wants to see them back in Vegas. (Video of The Cadence’s performance)

Claudia Hutcheon and her mom Elaine Clark (The Sweetones) warn us they’re unique and different. That means bad. They whistle and begin to pierce people’s ears. Piers calls it irritating, pointless, childish, and a waste of time.

Daniel Jens just got back from 15 months in Iraq. He used to sing and play guitar while he was there. He sings an old standby, Edwin McCain’s I’ll Be. The crowd’s on their feet early for this performance. Sharon gets goose bumps. Piers thinks that, despite the charisma and appeal, there’s a bit of work to be done on the singing. (Video of Daniel Jens’ performance)

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of America’s Got Talent 3 episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

Big Brother 10 Episode 8

Angie got herself nominated in Big Brother 10 Episode 7 by deciding two weeks ago that she hated everybody. Not to be outdone, Jessie opened up his big mouth and put a bigger target on his own back rather than just letting Angie take the fall.

Jessie tells us that nominating him was disrespectful. Uh. What?

Michelle, who’s in a not so secret alliance of four, is wondering when the other not so secret alliance of four changed their plan.

Jerry doesn’t like or respect Memphis, but he’s afraid he’ll win the game.

Jessie immediately runs upstairs and once again tries to spin the target back to Libra. Yep, still not at all concerned that he’s on the block with Angie.

Keesha picks Libra at random for veto.
Angie picks Ollie.
Jessie picks Memphis.

They must put on ridiculous looking flower outfits and then head out to the backyard. They’ll plant themselves in their flower pots and put their heads under a slowly dripping water faucet. Whoever stays in closest to the one hour mark without going over will win the power of veto. Of course, the water dripping on their heads isn’t enough. The rest of the house (Jerry mostly) decides to dump live worms on the contestants when given the choice between worms and compost. Ollie is terrified by the deadly worms. Keesha quits because she’s creeped out by the worms, and she’s out at 21:18. Jessie decides to turn it into gameplay midway through and asks Libra who told him to nominate Steven. At the 45 minute mark, they dump some compost on the contestants to make them even more comfortable. Nobody is particularly phased, and they all just stay still. Libra decides to quit, and Ollie agrees to go 5 minutes after her. She believes it’s been close to an hour. Jessie is the next one to quit because he doesn’t want Libra to beat him. After that, Libra tells Jessie in front of Keesha that she already spilled the beans to her herself. So then Jessie says the problem was he was peer pressured into making a decision by a bunch of people, not just Libra any more. Everybody else jumps out. Having wussed out early, the winner is Keesha. Everybody else went over an hour by at least 15 minutes.

Jessie’s got a new plan. Get Libra nominated. Oh wait. I’ve heard that one before already. Repeatedly. He wants Angie to pitch the idea to remove Jessie and put Libra on the block in his place. When she makes the pitch, she says she couldn’t go another week living with Libra. Yeah, this is the type of person you really want to keep around.

Keesha, Ollie, and April all say they don’t trust Libra because she’s putting a target on her back. For some reason, they don’t see that her being the target instead of them is a good thing (if she goes, they’re next). Despite their worries, though, Keesha has given Libra her word, and she plans to stick to that.

Jessie goes to Keesha to tell her she can’t trust Libra. Yes. Again. Then he gives her a sob story about how he’s losing weight (he’s down to what, 200 now?) and can’t sleep.

America’s Player is back. Oh god no. No. No. No. No. Did I mention no? We already went through this stupidity once. Can we please get a twist that doesn’t suck, CBS? This game is supposed to be about strangers and how they interact, not how America can interfere with and manipulate the game. If there’s any manipulation to be done, the producers should just stick to the usual like rigging competitions. The good news is that it’s just for one week. The bad news is that it’s for one whole week. America will be able to vote for the person they want to be America’s player, and that person must do as they say if they agree to take the deal ($20,000). This is game suicide and would be stupid for anyone to accept.

Jessie’s back to yell at Keesha. Again. With the same story. Again. Dude, we get the point already. She’s starting to realize he’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal. She tells the whole house she’s not going back on her word, so she wants them to stop.

A banner plane flies over the house. Because this ruined season 8, they are no longer allowed to read the cheating banners. Jessie comes up with the idea to pretend it says that Libra’s a liar. After they reveal this, Memphis decides on his own to spin it further. It’s no longer just Libra. It’s Libra and something. Somehow, this leads to a discussion about how Jerry called Memphis is a womanizer, and Memphis threatens to get really real.

Keesha has decided not to use the power of veto. I wonder if Jessie will continue to try to get Libra nominated in the hopes that there will be a twist that will allow her to go home. Or perhaps he will finally start going after Angie, who just hopes she can get him to go crazy. Shouldn’t take much.

As a reminder, eviction nights have been moved to Thursdays, effective immediately.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 10 episode 9, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

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