The pot was up to $129,000 and there were two more opportunities to add to that tonight on The Mole. The game was moved from Chile to the Andes Mountains in Argentina. The contestants went from warm weather to the snow. After a recap of last week, the first mission was announced. Jon had them break into two teams of four, “Selfish” and “Selfless." The "Selfish" team was Victoria, Nicole, Kristen and Clay, while the "Selfless" were Alex, Paul, Mark and Craig.

This mission was called “Midas Rush” and it involved carrying five-pound gold bricks up a mountain. They had 50 minutes to carry as many bricks, at $250 each, as they could. They had to finish as a team and the team that finished first was eligible for an exemption. Ha ha, as befitting their name, the Selfish team elected to carry less bricks up so that they could finish first. They carried 23 bricks, while the Selfless carried 38. About halfway up, Jon told them that he forgot to give them their scales to carry. One scale was 10 pounds and the other 20. Since the Selfish were the first to that point, they got to pick the scale they wanted, and of course it was the lighter one.

Craig was having an awful time, but he hung in there. The Selfish team made it to the top with 13 minutes left, and the Selfless team struggled in with less than 30 seconds left. Mark put down four of his bricks at the halfway point in order to carry the scale, so the two teams successfully carried up 57 bricks to add $14,250 to the pot. Then the Selfish team had to unanimously decide which of them would receive the exemption. If they could not agree, no one would get it and they would forfeit all the money earned in this mission. All except for Clay thought that Kristen should get it because she was in the lead and carried the most bricks, but Clay wanted it and was not budging. They gave it to him to keep from losing the money, but they weren't happy about it.

After getting back to the bottom, Craig had to be seen by the paramedics. He ended up being taken away in an ambulance suffering from hypothermia and altitude sickness. He was fading in and out of consciousness and he said that he felt like he couldn't breathe. He later returned to the cabin, but was ordered to keep warm and rest. Victoria was trying to make a coalition with Alex, while Mark isolated himself to write in his journal. They all kept joking about how anal he was about it.

At dinner that night, Jon surprised them all by collecting their journals after asking how important the players thought they were. Craig was not there since he had been ordered to rest. After a while, he did bring them back and told him that he'd read them and made some notes. Those notes were the next mission, “Who Said That?” Jon read a statement to a particular player and they had to guess who had written it. For each correct answer, he'd add $2,000 to the pot. They were not allowed to give any clues or hints to the player answering. They got five out of seven correct, but they caught Nicole coughing and blinking during Kristen's question, so they disqualified that correct answer. That threw more suspicion towards her, but she admitted that she was doing that on purpose to help her game. So instead of adding $10,000 to the pot, they only added $8,000.

After the mission, Jon took them all, minus Craig, outside to a bonfire. He asked them to sacrifice one of their journals. Mark was definitely not going to sacrifice his, nor was Clay. A couple of the guys thought that the person that sacrificed would get an exemption, so they volunteered. They ended up playing rock, paper, scissors to choose one -- Alex's. Instead of earning an exemption, all of the journals, except for Alex's, were burned. Mark was devastated.

The next night, Craig was asked if he was caught up on what happened and was told he would also be allowed to keep his journal. Then it was time for the quiz and execution. It was a tie for the worst score. By rule, the person that took the longest time to complete the quiz was executed and that was Victoria by less than five seconds. That blows a lot of people's guesses out of the water, including mine. Back to the drawing board.

The pot is up to $152,000. Next week on The Mole there are two more missions and another person is executed.

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