- The ten contestants have to spin yarns and tell jokes when they pose as tour guides, try to defuse a time bomb and dive underwater to retrieve keys before they face a computer quiz about the actions and identity of the Mole, in which the person who receives the lowest score is eliminated.—Allister Coots
- Not long after the group had completed the assault course, host Grant Bowler asked them to choose the two people they thought were the most handy when it came to spinning a yarn. The group selected Fiona and Shane, who were both taken to Melbourne, where they were set the assignment of posing as tour guides on a bus with 26 complete strangers. They had to tell two boldfaced lies that the group would believe were true, and two jokes that had to make the group laugh. If they met these requirements, each person in the group would be presented with a survey form to grade Fiona and Shane's job as tour guides. If the entire group graded them either Excellent or Very Good, Fiona and Shane would win A$5,000 for the kitty.
Shane went first at trying to tell a lie, but his story was absurd, overly detailed and unbelievable. Fiona then told a couple of outrageous lies that were believed by the group and counted toward the assignment's requirements. Shane then tried telling a joke, but when he asked the group to laugh, it was disallowed. However, he and Fiona then told another joke each that got someone in the group to spontaneously laugh. When the survey forms were collected, Fiona and Shane were rated Very Good by nine of the tourists and Excellent by the other seventeen, so the money was won.
The rest of the group were taken to Fort Nepean in the Point Nepean National Park, an old and mostly idle fort that had plenty of gun emplacements, tunnels, lookout points, ammunition stores and bunkers. There, Grant asked them to choose two people who were comfortable in confined spaces. The group chose John and Michael, and they were placed in a bunker that contained a time bomb and told that in order to defuse the bomb, they had to cut four of the many differently coloured wires in the correct sequence. The other six contestants were split up and given the task of finding four brainteaser puzzles placed at different locations around the fort. The puzzles had multiple choice answers, with each answer corresponding to a coloured disc, which they had to give to John and Michael. If the group could correctly solve the puzzles, the four discs would give John and Michael the correct coloured wires to cut to defuse the bomb and win A$10,000 for the kitty.
Between the six contestants, three correctly solved the brainteaser puzzles and retrieved the coloured discs, but Hal and Helen never actually found the puzzle that they were sent to. They did find a piece of purple wire on the ground and picked it up, thinking that it was what they had been sent to find. John and Michael received their purple wire together with discs that were coloured orange, pink and yellow, and ultimately decided to cut the orange, pink, purple and yellow wires in that order, but the timer continued its countdown, and when it reached zero, an explosion of smoke signalled to them all that they had failed the assignment. Afterwards, Grant revealed that there was a clue right in front of John and Michael that would have given them the right order for cutting the wires, in the form of a metal plate on the bomb canister that said that the bomb was manufactured by PYRO Explosives, Inc. - to defuse it, they had to cut the pink, yellow, red and orange wires in that order.
All ten contestants were then taken to Geelong, where they met Grant at the swimming enclosure at Eastern Beach. He asked them to choose a contestant to be given the opportunity to play for a free pass to the next episode. They decided to have a random draw, and Shane was the name drawn out. On a pier in the middle of the enclosure stood ten lockers, four that were coloured blue, and the other six coloured red. Ten keys were thrown into the water near the pier. At some point in the assignment, Shane had to dive underwater to retrieve a key. If Shane's key opened a red locker, he would win the free pass and be excused from the computer quiz, but if his key opened a blue locker, he would win A$5,000 for the group's kitty. Before his dive, the other contestants had opportunities to dive underwater themselves, retrieve a key and use it to open a locker, aiming to find keys that opened red lockers in order to reduce the chances of Shane retrieving a key to a red locker and winning the free pass. Shane would only be able to dive for his key when the rest of the group decided it was time for him to do so.
Helen, Brooke, Michael and Mal were the first four contestants to dive, and the keys they retrieved opened three red lockers and one blue locker. With three lockers of each colour remaining, some of the group considered sending Shane then, knowing that the odds were down to fifty-fifty, but they decided to send another of their own next, and the gamble paid off when John retrieved a key that opened a red locker. They then decided it was time to send Shane for his dive. He had two chances to win his way to the next episode and three to win A$5,000, but the key that he retrieved opened a red locker, meaning that he obtained his free pass, and no money was won, leaving the kitty at A$15,000 out of a possible A$30,000.
That night, the other nine contestants sat a computer quiz that asked them ten multiple choice questions about the actions and identity of the Mole. When the nine contestants had completed the quiz, the entire group met Grant again for the elimination. He entered a few names into the computer that were each followed by green screens, but after he entered Helen's name, the screen turned red, and Grant then said to her, "Helen, we have to go". Helen had suspected the wrong person of being the Mole and scored the lowest in the quiz.
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