How To Be On The Mole

WHO AMONG YOU? Credit: Netflix

It goes without saying, that if yous haven't watched the finale of Netflix'due south The Mole, there'due south major spoilers and Mole-ish behaviour ahead.

Did you gauge information technology? J'accuuuuuuuse!!!!! The identity of The Mole has finally been revealed later on three weeks of yarn-walling information technology and pointing the finger at every role player in the Netflix series.

Briefed by superb host Alex Wagner, the players on The Mole need to work together to consummate missions in order to earn cash for a pot only i person can win. That person is the one who correctly guesses the identity of the Mole, a member of the grouping secretly working to sabotage the missions. After each challenge, the group must answer xx questions almost who they retrieve the imposter is, and the furthest from the truth is sent dwelling house.

They've been trapped in jail in Brisbane, searched for crates in the Dandy Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest, played a behemothic game of hide and seek across Sydney, and scaled i Australia's of highest peaks. And so, who was the Mole this entire fourth dimension?

Going into the final two episodes we only had v options: software developer Kesi Neblett, commercial pilot Joi Schweitzer, professional gamer Avori Henderson, firefighter Jacob Hacker, and brand manager William Richardson. Essentially, they could all have been the Mole.

After a dramatic finale mission that took over Sydney's Bare Island fort, the Mole was finally revealed. It's Kesi!

Kesi is The Mole! Credit: Netflix

William guessed right and took habitation $101,500, and sadly Joi was left with just memories.

So, where were the clues? How did Kesi manage to sabotage each mission to reduce the money in the pot?

Episode ane

Kesi plays it absurd in the first Daintree mission, letting others have the lead on team option and genuinely helping Avori call up the crate from the copse with William and Dom on the ground, all creating the ruse that she'due south genuinely there to win that cash.

"First mission, my strategy was to become people to trust me," Kesi says in the finale. "First impressions mean a lot."

Gaining trust. Credit: Netflix

Episode 2

Kesi has an advantage in the jailbreak mission: She'd been there before! Thanks to an earlier conference in the jail cell with the producers, Kesi sees her get-go opportunity for demolition in the abandoned Boggo Jail. Every bit we pointed out in our lengthy analysis of The Mole , Kesi tells Joi she doesn't see a key outside her own door, but she has the same size door hole as William, who was able to see his primal. Joi has a tiny peephole, so she tin't meet Kesi's key either — it's the perfect cover to stall while throwing the audience off and making Joi await like the Mole. They escape in time, but Kesi costs the team $six,000 in time extensions.

"Of class I saw the key," says Kesi in the finale. "I saw it in the get-go v minutes of beingness in the jail cell, but they didn't need to know that."

So, whether deliberately or not, Kesi (who is, let'south remember, a computer software analyst!) lets other teammates take the lead on the code-corking in the warehouse mission, then spells 1 of the passwords incorrect typing it into the computer — "neone" instead of "neon" — which takes up an endeavor and sets the team locked out for a crucial minute. Kesi's team misses out on the exemptions, and the whole team forfeits $10,000 just for trying to crack the lawmaking.

Kesi could have easily smashed this mission. Credit: Netflix

Episode 3

In the Great Bulwark Reef treasure hunt, Avori deliberately misses the dinghy on the shore from the helicopter, merely Kesi is on the same side of the chopper, so she could have seen it herself and said nothing, using Avori as the perfect cover. And when they're taking the diving equipment out of the dinghy, Kesi makes information technology await like i of the oxygen tanks is really heavy, stalls slightly, so easily lifts it out of the gunkhole when joined by teammates.

Kesi doesn't look at the dossiers in this episode, considering as the Mole, she doesn't demand to! And luckily, Joi makes a huge play to drain the pot and secure an exemption carte du jour, which draws suspicion from the entire team.

Episode 4

Poor Dom, out there waiting in the machine... Credit: Netflix

Kesi is only one of two people (with William) to vote to bring Dom back into the game, an easy way for Kesi to divert suspicion past adding money to the pot. As the Mole, she doesn't really have to worry nigh going home, so ane more role player doesn't matter. The group outvotes her, which works in Kesi's favour anyway because they lose $ten,000 for ditching Dom.

Kesi should be quite the code-reader given her day job, so when she "failed" to recognise the money-based code in her essential logbook in episode 4's depository financial institution heist, eyebrows were raised. Basically, Kesi has the team open up almost every single lockbox in the vault except the right ones, and pretends to not have noticed later on on in the confrontation.

"My goal was to requite them as little assist as possible," says Kesi. "Of course I saw the clues: King Midas and Goldilocks. They were so obvious. I read out every other name autonomously from those. In that location was no hope."

Greg, Joi, and Will had no hope in this mission. Credit: Netflix

Episode 5

In a seemingly honest mistake, Kesi misses a $2,000 mailbag in the railroad train mission in episode 5, although Greg easily grabs it — twice. But this was no mistake, people!

"Just a niggling picture of the wrist, and the money was gone," says Kesi.

"If she's the Mole, that was a good play," Casey says in the episode.

Episode 6

In episode 6, when deciding who should stay behind on the mountaineering claiming in the Blueish Mountains, Kesi has full noesis of who has the money, since she put it there. Kesi says she should stay behind because she faux-predicts the money isn't in her handbag. When Avori asks Kesi if she wants to stay behind, she immediately agrees knowing full well she has the money — and successfully costs the team $10,000 earlier they've even started. Left backside with Greg, Kesi tin stay nether anybody's radar.

Only the biggest move Kesi made in the game? The one that acquired players to gasp out loud after deeming her the "about trustworthy" of them all? That exemption card steal in episode 6, when Kesi leaves the team to sleep in a freezing cold, abandoned warehouse, chained to each other at the ankle, and costing the team $twenty,000 for the pot. Absolutely brutal — and what a savvy play from the Mole to divert suspicion while losing a agglomeration of cash.

"Surely, but a player would desire an exemption bad plenty to steal information technology," says Kesi. Watching the confrontation in the hotel subsequently knowing Kesi is the Mole is even more than barbarous.

Episode 7

As an interrogator in the Sydney claiming, Kesi tries to get Greg and William to say Avori is lying which would accept price them $20,000; unfortunately for Kesi, she'southward overruled.

But the biggest clue comes in the elimination round. Greg's number one suspect was Kesi over several episodes. But after his elimination in this episode, afterward Joi had turned all suspicion on Jacob at the tabular array, Greg told Alex walking out, "I call back she got me... I don't know if Joi's the reason that I'thousand standing out here with you tonight." It appears Greg inverse his suspect to Jacob, a devastating fatal switch as he had the Mole right so early in the game.

Episode viii

In episode eight, Joi suspects Kesi later on her moves in the hide and seek claiming. Kesi seems to stall while looking for the circling pigeons from the rooftop even when Joi points them out, then later decides a rock-paper-scissors game is the best style to identify the correct pigeon. Joi plays this mission too hard for these strategies to piece of work, but they're pretty good tries. When Joi outright accuses Kesi of existence the Mole at the table, she doesn't miss a trounce deflecting information technology.

Episode 9

In the Snowy Mountains mission, which required contestants to haul literal blocks of ice common cold cash up 1 of Australia's highest mountains, Kesi hits peak Mole behaviour right out in the open by diabolically tossing cubes of cash right off the sled and dumping them in the snow.

"In the ultimate double barefaced, I threw ice blocks off the pulk. No i would believe the Mole would be that obvious."

"In the Snowy Mountains, it was time to switch from defence to law-breaking," says Kesi. "In the ultimate double barefaced, I threw ice blocks off the pulk. No one would believe the Mole would be that obvious."

Episode 10

Last chance to demolition! In the finale fort mission, Kesi chooses to use only i suction cup to traverse the wall to get to the coin, and then "accidentally" slips and falls. Just afterwards she diverts suspicion past catching the last canister of cash.

"Sometimes the best spy, the best double agent, is the one that'due south right in front of your face," she says.

And so, there you go, every move Kesi made to take money out of the pot and sabotage the missions — extremely well played. Nosotros take our chapeau off to "the well-nigh charmingly duplicitous person any of us has ever met," equally host Alex Wagner says.

The Mole is now streaming on Netflix.(opens in a new tab)

Shannon Connellan is Mashable'due south Uk Editor based in London, formerly Mashable'southward Commonwealth of australia Editor, merely emotionally, she lives in the Creel Firm.

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