By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
The following contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 10 of The Mole.
With The Mole’s Final 3 locked in, there are plenty of reasons why Muna, Michael and Sean could possibly be the mole. No one is innocent and everyone is suspicious! But who walked away as the winner of Season 2? Let’s recap.
FINAL MISSION | For their last hurrah, the players must make their way through three boobytrapped “mine fields.” The team can bank cash for each area they pass, but if they take just a single wrong step, the money goes kablooey! They can earn $10,000 for passing the first zone, $15,000 for No. 2, and $25,000 if they safely cross the last and hardest path. Oh, and they only get 20 seconds to look at the answer key, which tells them the correct path they need to take.
Sean goes first, but tells us that he might botch it on purpose in order to throw Muna off Michael’s scent. But let’s be real. This one looks easy as hell! Is sabotaging it really a good idea here? Sean’s been trying to purposely convince people that he’s the mole all game long… but does that necessarily mean he’s not the mole? Plus, he’s a former police officer. He has to have a decent memory! He wrongly steps diagonally (on purpose) and watches the money explode.
Michael is next up on the second course and he flies to the end. But then he thinks the final step is to his right, despite the fact that Sean and Muna are screaming “LEFT!” behind him. And just like that, $15k goes boom. When Muna steps up for the last bit, she’s confident in her memory skills, but tries to suss out which of her partners wants her to success, and which wants to see her fail. Sean gives her a wrong answer, which makes her think that he’s the mole. She completes her task, though, which banks them $25,000.
TOTAL PRIZE POT | The winner of the season is about to collect $154,000! There’s just one more hurdle the players have to clear…
FINAL QUIZ | The last questionnaire tests the players on the entire game thus far. Muna can’t get past how Sean made himself appear as non-threatening as possible all game long. Plus, with his police background, she thinks he’s definitely the mole. Michael also thinks its Sean, but questions whether he knows enough about Sean’s background to win the game. (What college did the mole go to? That’s actually a question?!) Sean has his eye set on Michael, and let’s be real — the dude has done a laundry list of shady, shady things this season! (The suitcase in the water? The wire cutting? Flopping on that final mission? Come on!)
With the finalists’ answers locked in, the eliminated contestants return for the big reveal. The tension builds as Ari asks the mole to reveal him- or herself. He asks the mole to step forward… and Sean does exactly that. (Give the dude an Emmy! Wow. What an actor.)
But who won the game? Both Muna and Michael thought Sean was the mole, but it all comes down to the quiz. Ari says just two questions separated the winner from the loser… and that winner is Michael!
Were you surprised by the season’s big finish? Vote in our polls below, then hit the comments!
The Mole is still good, but the Netflix seasons are by far the weakest of the seven seasons we’ve had. I think part of it is the injection of exemptions that allow people to take from the pot. Remove that, and maybe you end up with winnings greater than what Dennis Rodman won in season 4.
And I can’t help but feel that the producers deliberately picked people that were more concerned with becoming reality show regulars and creating drama than actually winning the money. And thankfully, those folks were gone by the time we got to the final 6.
Ari was… fine as a host. I’d still put him at the bottom of my American Mole host rankings (Anderson, Jon Kelley, Ahmad Rashad, Alex and Ari, if you were wondering). Maybe it’s a production decision, but it looks like Ari is very detached, and his personality emerges very infrequently. Contrast that with the ABC seasons, where it looks like the hosts are having FUN, interacting with the contestants and actively messing with their minds. I want to see more of that.
Anyway, Seasons 1, 2 and 5 are out there on the interwebs. I would recommend watching those over the Netflix seasons.
I’m tired of so-called “reality” shows hiring actors. Sean has an extensive IMBD history. He’s been in multiple movies and on many television shows. This was not mentioned once in any of his interviews, or even at the reveal. This is frustrating. I got into the show, and thought the mole was Michael, until I stumbled across Sean’s extensive acting history and that totally changed my opinion. I knew from then on Sean was the mole and there was absolutely no surprise or question in my mind anymore. I watched the last four episodes bored, just waiting for Sean to be revealed. It completely ruined the show for me bc there was no more guessing.