U.K. here and new to De Mol. What a fantastic series and I loved the challenges in this episode as well as the red screen twist. Thanks for translating!
@@shanayavandenbergh2295 It's the same show. None of them "steal" from each other. It's only natural that the different versions would borrow from each other if they see that a task worked well. The U.S. Netflix version that came out last year also had a very similar challenge.
@@shanayavandenbergh2295 Not only have they remixed this twist to have new mechanics, but the current Belgium run owes a great debt in both aesthetics and mechanics to WIDM right now. That's not even going into the fact that international versions of the show have borrowed and adapted challenges from each other since the start of the show's existence.
major spoilers below like who got cut spoilers the most obvious person who did absolutely nothing was annick who we now know isnt de mol. she would have been an s21 mol tho.
@@samuelwilson9082kinda think he got the initial red screen there at the end seeing his behaviour. But it could've been so coincidental that out of the three high money suitcases, that one was the person wir the worst test AND one was the mole. But that's a very slim chance
@@chandlerlutteken470 I agree entirely. I don't think Soy is the mole - more that he may have deliberately sabotaged the maze mission to make himself suspicious. Either that, or he was just incredibly incompetent with his directing! You're right about the slim chance but I think that did happen, purely because the two gents with the highest suitcases have been chosen for a leading role in next episode's mission - a great position for the mole to be in. For that reason (among a few others), Nabil and Daniel are my biggest suspects right now, but I’m suspicious of Jurre as well. But who knows?
Thanks again Marieke! A very enjoyable episode. - - - - - - - This is where I admit I've been in a Nabil tunnel since early on... couldn't get out of the box, tried to split the groups during the sand buggy challenge, happily shared that there were three jokers on the line so another group could sabotage the ship money and he looked trustworthy. Think the Mole would also want to curry enough favour with the group that they get handed one of the top two suitcases - or at least have a hand in making sure they end up with people who will piss away the money. My call is that Soy had the lowest test score - no idea why the group trusts him so much and keeps letting him be in a position of power, he's been at the centre of a lot of lost money because he's chaotic. Soy's failures have been incredibly obvious though, so not a good Mole candidate for me.
Wow! What an episode! This season's been pretty outstanding (as far as WIDM is concerned), and this episode is the best I've seen in quite some time. I'm usually the conductor of the hype train for this show, though, so take what you will from my praise. But that ending! Chef's kiss! Spoilers below: Challenge 1: Classic WIDM challenge, but in a good way. And a marvelous collapse in teamwork. I really loved it (I don't know why I find it hilarious when they lose so bad, but it never fails to amuse me). And a super classic sabotage comes into play: the portophone failure. With this alone, I feel like you have to narrow down the suspects to just Nabil or Daniel (the failure happens with Nabil obviously, but Daniel had it before him and could have messed with it too). In general I feel like they're the most obvious choices as well for going first; it would be tremendously easy for the mole to hide the more high euro packing slips by going earlier in the challenge before pressing any of the red buttons. It's also easy to have a blunder when going first or second, when the group isn't yet familiar with the game mechanics (and there's more hullabaloo in the shed with more people). It sounds crazy to say this just from one challenge, but this one really is putting me in the Nabil or Daniel tunnel. And for the life of me I don't know how no one talks about it at the end of the challenge, because the portophone sabotage is CLASSIC WIDM. But if you take the portophone out of the mix, I'm still trying to calculate how they found 13 out of 15 packing slips. Daniel is the hardest to figure out; I know he has 3 slips at one point (freeze framed during his run), but I don't know if he has any more than that when caught. And we don't know how much his were worth. Nabil gets 4 ($450, my assumption is 100 + 100 + 100 +150), Jurre 0, Anke 1 ($100), Annick 1 ($100), Ranomi 2 ($300, 100 + 200), Soy 0. There's either 2 slips missing (that the mole found and hid, and they counted as 2 of the 13 found), or Daniel had 5(?!) slips and then got caught. That's hella suspicious. And it's, what, a minimum of $500 out of the game if true and max of $750? (If I math it right, the slips seem to be either $100, $150, or $200 from what we see, and we can account for $950 already.) That's a huge chunk of change in this challenge. I just find it highly suspicious that a ton of $100 slips were found by the remaining contestants. I feel like a lot of the high euro ones were taken out early. Challenge 2: I really think the mole would want to be in the group with the ? envelope, because they have all the power, and this is an expensive challenge. The mole could have done anything to help the team get up the mountain as long as the envelop was opened, so it was an easy opportunity to look good in front of the group and earn trust while still taking money out of the pot. Between Nabil and Daniel, Nabil looks far more suspicious this challenge, but Daniel isn't out of the woods just yet. He could have easily told Francois not to fly too low to prevent the phone number from being shared with the group. And leaving Annick (Panic) with the phone would be a stroke of genius. But yeah, there's way more control on the ground. Nabil does seem to get the phone number right, but you can see him initially try to take the envelop away from Jurre. Between the pair, I give Nabil way more mole points this challenge. Jurre I suppose could be the mole, but he just seems to have an earnestness that I have a hard time reconciling if he is. Not out of contention, but if it's him kudos for his acting. In general, I loved the 'curiosity killed the cat' aspect to this challenge. I love when they get punished for being curious/greedy. Like what did they expect the ? envelope to have? 5 green exemptions? 15 jokers? Like, eff you Annick and Daniel XD Challenge 3: Jeezers, Annick had a really rough go this episode. Getting blamed for the envelope being opened, finding out the 3 boys took jokers instead of money last episode and lying about it, then getting eliminated with the second-worse test. Brutal. I wasn't sure how I would feel this elimination, because I thought they'd play money out of the pot in order to buy jokers or something to influence their test results, so I liked this outcome a lot better. No money lost and (no offense to Annick) but someone I didn't suspect going home. I like when my mole suspects stay in the game because it makes it harder and more fun. But I kinda wish they knew before taking their test that it might not be the worst to have the worst score in this elimination, the way Gilles warns them in the De Mol South Africa season. That way they had some kind of warning before so they could influence their play style a bit and make it seem a bit fairer. And holy CRAP does Anke have a lot of trust in this group. I can't believe they all just went along with her divvying out the cases. And I CANNOT BELIEVE they got away with not losing any money in this challenge. The real question is what was the mole's role in this assignment? Did they know beforehand who had the lowest and second-lowest score? Usually the mole doesn't know who goes home (keeps their reactions honest). If the mole knew, the goal would have been to get both Annick and Daniel/Soy/Nabil a high euro suitcase (which would really knock Anke out of the running). If they didn't know, the goal is just to get a low euro case..by looking suspicious? This one is really complicated. Maybe the mole didn't do anything here. And Anke (if she's a contestant and not the mole) really showed her cards this challenge. Like anyone playing knows to give the people you trust the most and/or think are the mole the most expensive cases. If people know about her bond with Daniel, then they have to assume she either suspects Nabil and Soy. That's a lot of information to give away. I kinda like watching Rik's reactions more than the candidates when they type their names into the computer for the first time. He nods his head after Jurre, Soy, and Annick. A hint to anything? Who can say. Maybe Soy and Annick had the two lowest scores, and Jurre is the mole? With all these stretches I make you'd think I'd be better at yoga. But here's the real question: did Annick go full-on Daniel, the way editing would have you believe? And if so, how on God's green Earth did anyone do worse than her? Daniel practically flew solo this episode, so if she really did go all-out on him, she shouldn't have any accidental right answers (mostly because he was on a team with her in the second challenge, and she's obviously not the mole). There's no real room for accidental overlap if she went all-in on him. Who could have possibly done worse??? Daniel seemed to spread, Nabil was focused primarily on Ranomi (but no guarantees that he didn't spread), and Soy talks about spreading too (although Anke implies he knows who the mole is, so who knows what's even true here). There's a line Annick says, about how she's on the same page as Nabil, that makes me pause. Did he go all-out too? I kinda thought Soy was the one with the initial red screen based on his behavior (he seemed a bit moody, and Anke's confessional is pretty damning), but maybe it's Nabil? He did seem pretty angry at the end, which I first thought was righteous. Maybe a guilty conscious after all? Daniel was really quiet in all these exchanges too for the most part. I have a feeling if he were going home he would have pushed harder in this challenge, especially since he's been such a leader in previous challenges. But maybe that's what he WANTS YOU TO THINK??? (Although he looks genuinely concerned when they found out the person with the second-lowest score is going home.) My brain cannot process this challenge. Annick was on Ranomi last episode though. Was there anything in this episode that would have changed that line of thought? She rakes in a measly $300 in challenge one, and is on the team responsible for losing the $3000 in challenge two. I dunno if I see her breaking away from this tunnel vision just based on these two performances. And again I can't understand how someone did worse than her if she tunnels on Ranomi, because Ranomi was the only one to earn money in the first challenge so again there's no overlap of another contestant to save her. This challenge is going to make me go insane with the what-ifs. At the end of the day, I think I'm starting to get Nabil tunnel vision. I'll keep Daniel and Jurre on the back burner, but we're almost halfway through the season and Nabil hasn't really done anything to earn money, has done a lot of things to keep it out of the pot, and had his hands on the faulty portophone. And with the amount of money they've earned, I kinda think the mole has to be someone who isn't a leader in the group. I still would rather see a more fanatical, serious mole this year (like Daniel), mostly because we've had a lot of happy-go-lucky moles the last few years. But if you made me choose someone today I'd go with Nabil. I'm STOKED for next week. Love the little cliffhanger we had at the end of this challenge, and we're getting spooky haunted hotel challenge next week! Sign me UP!!!
Well I'm thinking I was wrong about Anke. Nabil could definitely be it. I don't think he had the red screen after his reaction at the end of the episode. My big thing that makes me doubt it's him is that Froukje seemed to be voting him primarily when she was eliminated. But of course that's happened before, even this early (Evelien from Season 15, again, who said she was voting Chris and Margriet and got herself eliminated in the second episode).
What an episode indeed! Confession: going into the final challenge, I was convinced that Annick was the mole (yes, I have finally figured out that her name is “Annick” and not “Anniek.” Not sure why I kept spelling it wrong). My biggest fear was that she had gotten the second-worst score on purpose, and that after getting her red screen and saying goodbye to Rik, we would see her checking into a hotel and getting an envelope that said “congratulations! You can buy your way back into the game in exchange for 5,000 euros out of the pot!” I am SO relieved that I was wrong!
@@H0lyMoley I always take the confessionals at the end with a grain of salt. There's usually truth to them, but there's so much editing and manipulating that can be done that I usually ignore them. Like maybe the confessional was said 10 minutes before the quiz, and then at the last second they have a change of heart and go all-out on a suspect. (I remember De Mol Belgie making you think Annelotte went for Sven in the final episode before the reveal). The main things I look out for are the ones who say they went all-in on a contestant and see who they may have suspected based on assignments. Like who are they trying to get close to? Keep an eye on? That sort of thing. That's why I'm perpetually confused by who did worse than Annick this week, who went all-in on either Daniel (based on her answer to the 'where were you born' question this week) or Ranomi (based on her suspicions from last week). Did Nabil and/or Soy go all-in on someone? I don't think Daniel did (based on his previous confessionals, he doesn't seem to be one to answer questions on gut instinct). I don't know how you could get a lower score than Annick by spreading. Possible, I suppose. Hmm..
@@windfallsofdreams They always pronounce it as 'Anniek' so I can see how you'd get it mixed up. I'm infinitely glad when people can't spend the pot's money on things like jokers or exemptions. I think we all breathed a sigh of relief at the end (I guess before Rik came back and stole Nabil and Soy away).
I love this comment, you put all my thoughts in order for me thank you. I agree with literally everything. I've mainly been suspecting Nabil for the past few episodes, but it's definitely not tunnel vision yet. Everyone is so sus this season! I can't rule anyone out.
MARIEKE! Thank you so much for getting this in on time and as early as you always do. You're an absolute legend! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Belgie influence continues! Was pleasantly surprised to find that they actually remixed the mechanics of the suitcase game at the end. Made for new dynamics despite using the same dressing as a bunch of different mechanics from Belgie. The duck game? Perfect. Not some crazy complex thing, but a challenge that played out HILARIOUSLY. The thing had me absolutely dying. All in all, have been really enjoying this season and hoping the momentum continues!
Speculation and minor spoilers below! . . . . . In my opinion it can only be Nabil or Jurre at this point. During the duck-plane task, Nabil looked the most hyped to get up the mountain. Even when they got a flat tyre he insisted they should continue. Now ofcourse the Mole can try to delay as much as possible and avoid reaching the top entirely, but the Mole can also act like a motivated candidate and reach the top as fast as possible. If the Mole succeeds in reaching the top before the plane arrives, then they can open the envelope without it looking suspicious because anyone would open it without the warning. Jurre, as always, was all too eager to grab and open the envelope while also trying to get people on his side so he can avoid getting all the blame. Why it isn't Soy: He looked nervous after seeing his screen toward the end, and maybe even a little bit guilty when Annick ended up going home, i think he got the original red screen. He also backed up Anke during the re-shuffle of the briefcases, because at the time he didnt have one of the high value cases so he'd be going home and the re-shuffle would benefit him. He also insisted on waiting to see what is written on the plane, something the Mole definitely wouldn't do. Why it isn't Daniel: Daniel cant be the Mole anymore cause he solved the coordinates way too fast. Annick didn't even know the numbers were coordinates, so if Daniel was the Mole he could've just pretended to not recognize coordinates either and avoid going to the plane altogether. Why it isn't Ranomi: She ofcourse was the only one to earn money in the maze, albeit not a whole lot. In the greater picture she just kinda fades in to the background, but is always a strong contender. She reminds me of Rocky back in 2021, so I think she could be a potential winner. Anke i just cant really figure out. She could be an amazing Mole, but she also does a lot of things that are anti-Mole behaviour. The way she re-shuffled the briefcases seems anti-Mole to me as well.
I agree, it definitely is between Jurre and Nabil. The only thing with Jurre is actually that he took a suitcase with less money. The Mole probably took a suitcase with a lot of money, because the Mole knew there would be a key position available in the next episode. That’s why I think it is Nabil, but for now it is a toss up between those two
Anke is my mole. The episode was named "weglopen" (Walking away) and the group with the big duck walked away from her while she walked behind them. She didn't really say anything during the moment where they discussed whether they open the envelop or not. Knowing the suitcases part she easily created distrust by pointing out that Soy, Nabil and Jurre grabbed jokers. Knowing that they didn't get the 3k with the previous task, she can mask herself and give Anniek the 0 euro case. She didn't lose money in the groups eyes
@@EmVee. the episode titles aren’t clues most of the time or are very vague. Soy, Daniel and Jurre grabbed the jokers, but Anke still gave Soy a suitcase with a lot of money in it. The mole doesn’t know who leaves the game, so Anke giving her the 0 dollar suitcase isn’t suspicious at all. Nabil and Jurre are more suspicious there, by just grabbing what they wanted to have.
@@maddavid2159 Ofc they make the titles vague, they ain't directly gonna tell the viewers where to look. I indeed mixed up Daniel and Nabil. I think my theory is good and pretty accurate. Knowing Soy already betrayed the group once he would easily do it again if it means he is safe that episode. I'm sticking with Anke for now 🤷🏼♀️😂
I also think Daniel is the least moleish so far. There's no reason the Mole would solve those coordinates that fast. Plus that button-pushing challenge in a previous episode
SPOILERS I know this series is amazing and one of my favourites so far as for the mole themselves, All I kept thinking about is Daniel might be the mole because in mission 2, there's a rubber duck, a rubber duck can be used in many different ways but there's another variation of a rubber duck, it's called Rubber Ducky Hacker, a usb to use to catch hackers. There's a lot of different clues about hacking in the series so far, right now I'm going with Daniel and I hope that it's him.
SPOILERS * * * * * * * What a fantastic episode! This show still manages to think outside of the box each season. Still 100% on Soy. Have been from the start!
I’m pretty sure it is Soy. If you watch, he encourages the team to get to the top of the mountain before dialing the phone and he tells Jurre to open the envelope. 100% Soy
Thanks Marieke for always bringing the translated episodes so fast!!! Spoilers below: 1:40 Rik: "but there will come a time when the group find out exactly how much money there is in the pot. That's when the next person, with a good POKER FACE can deflect his or her fate..." First assignment: I was looking forward to this task since the first episode! These stacked boxes made such a beautiful looking maze. The group also had no structure plan for the task, just running around aimedless. Soy gave no good instructions, the participants caught by the man are on his account. Nabil made a good move to leave the money in the beginning of the maze. Funny how the were celebrating Ranomi to bring $300, when they could have made $2000. Yeah, Ranomi, finally you brought some money! Second assignment: the rubber duck!!! The other symbol of this season! If I was the mole I would definitely be in the group with the duck. It depends on them seeing the airplane, open the envelope, etc... The flat tire probably slowed them, and could have helped the group. Jurre was so eager to open the damn envelope! Annick, why did you stalling? Soy was already on the phone with her before Jurre opened the envelope! It didn't seem that Daniel and Annick took long to find Francois: they had to scoop the ducks, then drive to where the airplane was, fly over the hill... Time was clocked for them. Third assignment: Second time they have to use their poker face in front of others. The mole would have a role in this game? If the mole knows who got the red screen the mole can help this person, so the group will lose money. Anke's move of counting the money, sounds such a mole move... The mole knows the trio picked the jokers, so putting the blaming in them in this assignment is something the mole would do. Why the group trusts Anke so much to the point of her assigning the suitcases?! They should do it as a group! So, Annick was the second worst, and she answered the test in one person... so the worst person did the same. Two people tunneled the vision on the wrong mole. I think Soy got the red screen. My list of suspects, from most to least: Jurre, Nabil, Anke, Ranomi, Soy and Daniel.
So, I have a question about that last challenge... The contestants naturally thought that it'd be a good idea to give a high amount of money to the mole because they can never go home. That makes sense. However, does the mole actually take the test and, more importantly, if they do, are their results factored into the final results? Meaning, if say Nabil was the mole, could he purposely bomb the test knowing what the challenge would be, so he would be less suspicious when he was named as one of the three with potentially the lowest score? In that situation, Annick's second-lowest score was really the lowest score because Nabil was never going home anyway. Plus, based on the preview, Nabil would know that if he got one of the two highest cases, he'd have yet another chance to blow some of that money in the first challenge of episode 5. So when you combine the contestants' natural thought process in giving the case to the mole and the mole's chance to both throw off suspicion and blow more case, it makes me think that it'd be REALLY smart for one of those three guys to be the mole. Again, this is all assuming the mole's test score factored into how the game played out.
The mole does not take the test. They film some shots of them taking the test but it doesn't matter, they never really take it and it is not factored in.
@@WIDMEnglishSubs Darn it, this was my reasoning that I thought Soy was the mole and had the worst test results! I need to re-think things now that you clarified that the mole doesn't actually take the test. Thank you for the translations, such an amazing show!!
Spoiler: I think Soy was the one who was supposed to go home and I think Nabil might be the mole. "It ABSOLUTELY wasn't me" at the end there really sounded like one of those ballsy things a mole says during the game and laughs about during the reveal episode
That would be pretty funny if he filmed a confessional video after that assignment and said “it absolutely wasn’t me...because I’m the mole!” and then gave a big cheesy grin for the camera
U.K. here and new to De Mol. What a fantastic series and I loved the challenges in this episode as well as the red screen twist. Thanks for translating!
@@shanayavandenbergh2295 It's the same show. None of them "steal" from each other. It's only natural that the different versions would borrow from each other if they see that a task worked well. The U.S. Netflix version that came out last year also had a very similar challenge.
Oh boy, you will be able to devour a lot more where this came from. Somewhere around 30 seasons have probably been produced so far.
@@shanayavandenbergh2295 Not only have they remixed this twist to have new mechanics, but the current Belgium run owes a great debt in both aesthetics and mechanics to WIDM right now. That's not even going into the fact that international versions of the show have borrowed and adapted challenges from each other since the start of the show's existence.
Hello, fellow Brit! Can't believe how many series of this we've stumbled upon XD
There’s definite mole action in the maze challenge, but almost everyone pretty much did so spectacularly poorly that that it’s hard to tell.
major spoilers below like who got cut spoilers
the most obvious person who did absolutely nothing was annick who we now know isnt de mol. she would have been an s21 mol tho.
Soy’s directing was absolutely atrocious. He kept sending people to dead ends and everyone caught was his fault! No way that was by accident.
@@samuelwilson9082kinda think he got the initial red screen there at the end seeing his behaviour. But it could've been so coincidental that out of the three high money suitcases, that one was the person wir the worst test AND one was the mole. But that's a very slim chance
@@chandlerlutteken470 I agree entirely. I don't think Soy is the mole - more that he may have deliberately sabotaged the maze mission to make himself suspicious. Either that, or he was just incredibly incompetent with his directing!
You're right about the slim chance but I think that did happen, purely because the two gents with the highest suitcases have been chosen for a leading role in next episode's mission - a great position for the mole to be in. For that reason (among a few others), Nabil and Daniel are my biggest suspects right now, but I’m suspicious of Jurre as well. But who knows?
@@samuelwilson9082 And everybody around him could see that so that is nothing to be worried about.
Thank you for uploading this Marieke, particularly during your holiday :) I hope that you're having the best time in London!
Fijn dat ik weer heb kunnen kijken vanuit Mexico, dank je wel.
Thank you Marieke! The coolest episode so far.
Great job! Thanks a lot! Greetings from Poland 😊
Kogo podejrzewasz?
Daniela. Takie mam przeczucie 😉 a Ty?
@TravelBoy94 mam przeczucie ze to może być Jurre lub Anke. Chyba tylko Soy wypadł z mojej listy podejrzanych
Też jestem z Polski. Kogo podejrzewasz? Dla mnie agent to Jurre albo Soy.
@@mateuszkuchnecki czasami to mam wrażenie, że każdy gra kreta żeby ściągnąć na siebie podejrzenia ;)
Thanks again Marieke! A very enjoyable episode.
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This is where I admit I've been in a Nabil tunnel since early on... couldn't get out of the box, tried to split the groups during the sand buggy challenge, happily shared that there were three jokers on the line so another group could sabotage the ship money and he looked trustworthy. Think the Mole would also want to curry enough favour with the group that they get handed one of the top two suitcases - or at least have a hand in making sure they end up with people who will piss away the money. My call is that Soy had the lowest test score - no idea why the group trusts him so much and keeps letting him be in a position of power, he's been at the centre of a lot of lost money because he's chaotic. Soy's failures have been incredibly obvious though, so not a good Mole candidate for me.
Wow! What an episode! This season's been pretty outstanding (as far as WIDM is concerned), and this episode is the best I've seen in quite some time. I'm usually the conductor of the hype train for this show, though, so take what you will from my praise. But that ending! Chef's kiss! Spoilers below:
Challenge 1: Classic WIDM challenge, but in a good way. And a marvelous collapse in teamwork. I really loved it (I don't know why I find it hilarious when they lose so bad, but it never fails to amuse me). And a super classic sabotage comes into play: the portophone failure. With this alone, I feel like you have to narrow down the suspects to just Nabil or Daniel (the failure happens with Nabil obviously, but Daniel had it before him and could have messed with it too). In general I feel like they're the most obvious choices as well for going first; it would be tremendously easy for the mole to hide the more high euro packing slips by going earlier in the challenge before pressing any of the red buttons. It's also easy to have a blunder when going first or second, when the group isn't yet familiar with the game mechanics (and there's more hullabaloo in the shed with more people). It sounds crazy to say this just from one challenge, but this one really is putting me in the Nabil or Daniel tunnel. And for the life of me I don't know how no one talks about it at the end of the challenge, because the portophone sabotage is CLASSIC WIDM.
But if you take the portophone out of the mix, I'm still trying to calculate how they found 13 out of 15 packing slips. Daniel is the hardest to figure out; I know he has 3 slips at one point (freeze framed during his run), but I don't know if he has any more than that when caught. And we don't know how much his were worth. Nabil gets 4 ($450, my assumption is 100 + 100 + 100 +150), Jurre 0, Anke 1 ($100), Annick 1 ($100), Ranomi 2 ($300, 100 + 200), Soy 0. There's either 2 slips missing (that the mole found and hid, and they counted as 2 of the 13 found), or Daniel had 5(?!) slips and then got caught. That's hella suspicious. And it's, what, a minimum of $500 out of the game if true and max of $750? (If I math it right, the slips seem to be either $100, $150, or $200 from what we see, and we can account for $950 already.) That's a huge chunk of change in this challenge. I just find it highly suspicious that a ton of $100 slips were found by the remaining contestants. I feel like a lot of the high euro ones were taken out early.
Challenge 2: I really think the mole would want to be in the group with the ? envelope, because they have all the power, and this is an expensive challenge. The mole could have done anything to help the team get up the mountain as long as the envelop was opened, so it was an easy opportunity to look good in front of the group and earn trust while still taking money out of the pot. Between Nabil and Daniel, Nabil looks far more suspicious this challenge, but Daniel isn't out of the woods just yet. He could have easily told Francois not to fly too low to prevent the phone number from being shared with the group. And leaving Annick (Panic) with the phone would be a stroke of genius. But yeah, there's way more control on the ground. Nabil does seem to get the phone number right, but you can see him initially try to take the envelop away from Jurre. Between the pair, I give Nabil way more mole points this challenge. Jurre I suppose could be the mole, but he just seems to have an earnestness that I have a hard time reconciling if he is. Not out of contention, but if it's him kudos for his acting.
In general, I loved the 'curiosity killed the cat' aspect to this challenge. I love when they get punished for being curious/greedy. Like what did they expect the ? envelope to have? 5 green exemptions? 15 jokers? Like, eff you Annick and Daniel XD
Challenge 3: Jeezers, Annick had a really rough go this episode. Getting blamed for the envelope being opened, finding out the 3 boys took jokers instead of money last episode and lying about it, then getting eliminated with the second-worse test. Brutal. I wasn't sure how I would feel this elimination, because I thought they'd play money out of the pot in order to buy jokers or something to influence their test results, so I liked this outcome a lot better. No money lost and (no offense to Annick) but someone I didn't suspect going home. I like when my mole suspects stay in the game because it makes it harder and more fun. But I kinda wish they knew before taking their test that it might not be the worst to have the worst score in this elimination, the way Gilles warns them in the De Mol South Africa season. That way they had some kind of warning before so they could influence their play style a bit and make it seem a bit fairer.
And holy CRAP does Anke have a lot of trust in this group. I can't believe they all just went along with her divvying out the cases. And I CANNOT BELIEVE they got away with not losing any money in this challenge. The real question is what was the mole's role in this assignment? Did they know beforehand who had the lowest and second-lowest score? Usually the mole doesn't know who goes home (keeps their reactions honest). If the mole knew, the goal would have been to get both Annick and Daniel/Soy/Nabil a high euro suitcase (which would really knock Anke out of the running). If they didn't know, the goal is just to get a low euro case..by looking suspicious? This one is really complicated. Maybe the mole didn't do anything here.
And Anke (if she's a contestant and not the mole) really showed her cards this challenge. Like anyone playing knows to give the people you trust the most and/or think are the mole the most expensive cases. If people know about her bond with Daniel, then they have to assume she either suspects Nabil and Soy. That's a lot of information to give away.
I kinda like watching Rik's reactions more than the candidates when they type their names into the computer for the first time. He nods his head after Jurre, Soy, and Annick. A hint to anything? Who can say. Maybe Soy and Annick had the two lowest scores, and Jurre is the mole? With all these stretches I make you'd think I'd be better at yoga.
But here's the real question: did Annick go full-on Daniel, the way editing would have you believe? And if so, how on God's green Earth did anyone do worse than her? Daniel practically flew solo this episode, so if she really did go all-out on him, she shouldn't have any accidental right answers (mostly because he was on a team with her in the second challenge, and she's obviously not the mole). There's no real room for accidental overlap if she went all-in on him. Who could have possibly done worse??? Daniel seemed to spread, Nabil was focused primarily on Ranomi (but no guarantees that he didn't spread), and Soy talks about spreading too (although Anke implies he knows who the mole is, so who knows what's even true here). There's a line Annick says, about how she's on the same page as Nabil, that makes me pause. Did he go all-out too? I kinda thought Soy was the one with the initial red screen based on his behavior (he seemed a bit moody, and Anke's confessional is pretty damning), but maybe it's Nabil? He did seem pretty angry at the end, which I first thought was righteous. Maybe a guilty conscious after all? Daniel was really quiet in all these exchanges too for the most part. I have a feeling if he were going home he would have pushed harder in this challenge, especially since he's been such a leader in previous challenges. But maybe that's what he WANTS YOU TO THINK??? (Although he looks genuinely concerned when they found out the person with the second-lowest score is going home.) My brain cannot process this challenge.
Annick was on Ranomi last episode though. Was there anything in this episode that would have changed that line of thought? She rakes in a measly $300 in challenge one, and is on the team responsible for losing the $3000 in challenge two. I dunno if I see her breaking away from this tunnel vision just based on these two performances. And again I can't understand how someone did worse than her if she tunnels on Ranomi, because Ranomi was the only one to earn money in the first challenge so again there's no overlap of another contestant to save her. This challenge is going to make me go insane with the what-ifs.
At the end of the day, I think I'm starting to get Nabil tunnel vision. I'll keep Daniel and Jurre on the back burner, but we're almost halfway through the season and Nabil hasn't really done anything to earn money, has done a lot of things to keep it out of the pot, and had his hands on the faulty portophone. And with the amount of money they've earned, I kinda think the mole has to be someone who isn't a leader in the group. I still would rather see a more fanatical, serious mole this year (like Daniel), mostly because we've had a lot of happy-go-lucky moles the last few years. But if you made me choose someone today I'd go with Nabil.
I'm STOKED for next week. Love the little cliffhanger we had at the end of this challenge, and we're getting spooky haunted hotel challenge next week! Sign me UP!!!
Well I'm thinking I was wrong about Anke. Nabil could definitely be it. I don't think he had the red screen after his reaction at the end of the episode. My big thing that makes me doubt it's him is that Froukje seemed to be voting him primarily when she was eliminated. But of course that's happened before, even this early (Evelien from Season 15, again, who said she was voting Chris and Margriet and got herself eliminated in the second episode).
What an episode indeed! Confession: going into the final challenge, I was convinced that Annick was the mole (yes, I have finally figured out that her name is “Annick” and not “Anniek.” Not sure why I kept spelling it wrong). My biggest fear was that she had gotten the second-worst score on purpose, and that after getting her red screen and saying goodbye to Rik, we would see her checking into a hotel and getting an envelope that said “congratulations! You can buy your way back into the game in exchange for 5,000 euros out of the pot!” I am SO relieved that I was wrong!
@@H0lyMoley I always take the confessionals at the end with a grain of salt. There's usually truth to them, but there's so much editing and manipulating that can be done that I usually ignore them. Like maybe the confessional was said 10 minutes before the quiz, and then at the last second they have a change of heart and go all-out on a suspect. (I remember De Mol Belgie making you think Annelotte went for Sven in the final episode before the reveal). The main things I look out for are the ones who say they went all-in on a contestant and see who they may have suspected based on assignments. Like who are they trying to get close to? Keep an eye on? That sort of thing. That's why I'm perpetually confused by who did worse than Annick this week, who went all-in on either Daniel (based on her answer to the 'where were you born' question this week) or Ranomi (based on her suspicions from last week). Did Nabil and/or Soy go all-in on someone? I don't think Daniel did (based on his previous confessionals, he doesn't seem to be one to answer questions on gut instinct). I don't know how you could get a lower score than Annick by spreading. Possible, I suppose. Hmm..
@@windfallsofdreams They always pronounce it as 'Anniek' so I can see how you'd get it mixed up. I'm infinitely glad when people can't spend the pot's money on things like jokers or exemptions. I think we all breathed a sigh of relief at the end (I guess before Rik came back and stole Nabil and Soy away).
I love this comment, you put all my thoughts in order for me thank you. I agree with literally everything. I've mainly been suspecting Nabil for the past few episodes, but it's definitely not tunnel vision yet. Everyone is so sus this season! I can't rule anyone out.
MARIEKE! Thank you so much for getting this in on time and as early as you always do. You're an absolute legend!
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The Belgie influence continues! Was pleasantly surprised to find that they actually remixed the mechanics of the suitcase game at the end. Made for new dynamics despite using the same dressing as a bunch of different mechanics from Belgie. The duck game? Perfect. Not some crazy complex thing, but a challenge that played out HILARIOUSLY. The thing had me absolutely dying. All in all, have been really enjoying this season and hoping the momentum continues!
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In my opinion it can only be Nabil or Jurre at this point. During the duck-plane task, Nabil looked the most hyped to get up the mountain. Even when they got a flat tyre he insisted they should continue. Now ofcourse the Mole can try to delay as much as possible and avoid reaching the top entirely, but the Mole can also act like a motivated candidate and reach the top as fast as possible. If the Mole succeeds in reaching the top before the plane arrives, then they can open the envelope without it looking suspicious because anyone would open it without the warning. Jurre, as always, was all too eager to grab and open the envelope while also trying to get people on his side so he can avoid getting all the blame.
Why it isn't Soy: He looked nervous after seeing his screen toward the end, and maybe even a little bit guilty when Annick ended up going home, i think he got the original red screen. He also backed up Anke during the re-shuffle of the briefcases, because at the time he didnt have one of the high value cases so he'd be going home and the re-shuffle would benefit him. He also insisted on waiting to see what is written on the plane, something the Mole definitely wouldn't do.
Why it isn't Daniel: Daniel cant be the Mole anymore cause he solved the coordinates way too fast. Annick didn't even know the numbers were coordinates, so if Daniel was the Mole he could've just pretended to not recognize coordinates either and avoid going to the plane altogether.
Why it isn't Ranomi: She ofcourse was the only one to earn money in the maze, albeit not a whole lot. In the greater picture she just kinda fades in to the background, but is always a strong contender. She reminds me of Rocky back in 2021, so I think she could be a potential winner.
Anke i just cant really figure out. She could be an amazing Mole, but she also does a lot of things that are anti-Mole behaviour. The way she re-shuffled the briefcases seems anti-Mole to me as well.
I agree, it definitely is between Jurre and Nabil. The only thing with Jurre is actually that he took a suitcase with less money. The Mole probably took a suitcase with a lot of money, because the Mole knew there would be a key position available in the next episode. That’s why I think it is Nabil, but for now it is a toss up between those two
Anke is my mole. The episode was named "weglopen" (Walking away) and the group with the big duck walked away from her while she walked behind them.
She didn't really say anything during the moment where they discussed whether they open the envelop or not. Knowing the suitcases part she easily created distrust by pointing out that Soy, Nabil and Jurre grabbed jokers. Knowing that they didn't get the 3k with the previous task, she can mask herself and give Anniek the 0 euro case. She didn't lose money in the groups eyes
@@EmVee. the episode titles aren’t clues most of the time or are very vague. Soy, Daniel and Jurre grabbed the jokers, but Anke still gave Soy a suitcase with a lot of money in it. The mole doesn’t know who leaves the game, so Anke giving her the 0 dollar suitcase isn’t suspicious at all. Nabil and Jurre are more suspicious there, by just grabbing what they wanted to have.
@@maddavid2159 Ofc they make the titles vague, they ain't directly gonna tell the viewers where to look. I indeed mixed up Daniel and Nabil. I think my theory is good and pretty accurate.
Knowing Soy already betrayed the group once he would easily do it again if it means he is safe that episode. I'm sticking with Anke for now 🤷🏼♀️😂
I also think Daniel is the least moleish so far. There's no reason the Mole would solve those coordinates that fast. Plus that button-pushing challenge in a previous episode
Thanks for videos. I was convinced it was anna from episode 2 but persuaded myself away from it
Thanks!
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I know this series is amazing and one of my favourites so far as for the mole themselves, All I kept thinking about is Daniel might be the mole because in mission 2, there's a rubber duck, a rubber duck can be used in many different ways but there's another variation of a rubber duck, it's called Rubber Ducky Hacker, a usb to use to catch hackers. There's a lot of different clues about hacking in the series so far, right now I'm going with Daniel and I hope that it's him.
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What a fantastic episode! This show still manages to think outside of the box each season.
Still 100% on Soy. Have been from the start!
I’m pretty sure it is Soy. If you watch, he encourages the team to get to the top of the mountain before dialing the phone and he tells Jurre to open the envelope. 100% Soy
What an episode! 🤯
As always: an English hints and theories video is up on my channel 😄
Can't believe they used the maze runner theme
Thanks Marieke for always bringing the translated episodes so fast!!!
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1:40 Rik: "but there will come a time when the group find out exactly how much money there is in the pot. That's when the next person, with a good POKER FACE can deflect his or her fate..."
First assignment: I was looking forward to this task since the first episode! These stacked boxes made such a beautiful looking maze. The group also had no structure plan for the task, just running around aimedless. Soy gave no good instructions, the participants caught by the man are on his account. Nabil made a good move to leave the money in the beginning of the maze. Funny how the were celebrating Ranomi to bring $300, when they could have made $2000. Yeah, Ranomi, finally you brought some money!
Second assignment: the rubber duck!!! The other symbol of this season! If I was the mole I would definitely be in the group with the duck. It depends on them seeing the airplane, open the envelope, etc... The flat tire probably slowed them, and could have helped the group. Jurre was so eager to open the damn envelope! Annick, why did you stalling? Soy was already on the phone with her before Jurre opened the envelope! It didn't seem that Daniel and Annick took long to find Francois: they had to scoop the ducks, then drive to where the airplane was, fly over the hill... Time was clocked for them.
Third assignment: Second time they have to use their poker face in front of others.
The mole would have a role in this game? If the mole knows who got the red screen the mole can help this person, so the group will lose money. Anke's move of counting the money, sounds such a mole move... The mole knows the trio picked the jokers, so putting the blaming in them in this assignment is something the mole would do. Why the group trusts Anke so much to the point of her assigning the suitcases?! They should do it as a group!
So, Annick was the second worst, and she answered the test in one person... so the worst person did the same. Two people tunneled the vision on the wrong mole. I think Soy got the red screen.
My list of suspects, from most to least: Jurre, Nabil, Anke, Ranomi, Soy and Daniel.
So, I have a question about that last challenge...
The contestants naturally thought that it'd be a good idea to give a high amount of money to the mole because they can never go home. That makes sense. However, does the mole actually take the test and, more importantly, if they do, are their results factored into the final results? Meaning, if say Nabil was the mole, could he purposely bomb the test knowing what the challenge would be, so he would be less suspicious when he was named as one of the three with potentially the lowest score? In that situation, Annick's second-lowest score was really the lowest score because Nabil was never going home anyway.
Plus, based on the preview, Nabil would know that if he got one of the two highest cases, he'd have yet another chance to blow some of that money in the first challenge of episode 5. So when you combine the contestants' natural thought process in giving the case to the mole and the mole's chance to both throw off suspicion and blow more case, it makes me think that it'd be REALLY smart for one of those three guys to be the mole.
Again, this is all assuming the mole's test score factored into how the game played out.
The mole does not take the test. They film some shots of them taking the test but it doesn't matter, they never really take it and it is not factored in.
@@WIDMEnglishSubs Darn it, this was my reasoning that I thought Soy was the mole and had the worst test results! I need to re-think things now that you clarified that the mole doesn't actually take the test.
Thank you for the translations, such an amazing show!!
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I think Soy was the one who was supposed to go home and I think Nabil might be the mole. "It ABSOLUTELY wasn't me" at the end there really sounded like one of those ballsy things a mole says during the game and laughs about during the reveal episode
That would be pretty funny if he filmed a confessional video after that assignment and said “it absolutely wasn’t me...because I’m the mole!” and then gave a big cheesy grin for the camera
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Daniël is the mole.
Annick is soooo annoying
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