The episode opens with a series of interviews. Keshia says that Tracey is "suspect #1" because "everyone who she coalitions with is executed." I kind of admire the use of the word "coalition" as a verb there, even if the statement isn't really true, as far as we know. Tracey only had a coalition with Stephen, right? Tracey says that she got a new dress for dinner tonight, and that it's very cute. Angie says she might go skinny-dipping tonight, and that it might get her an exemption. Dennis says, "Focus, will, desire, denigration, determination, fumblenation, consecration." Mark says that his strategy is to act like The Mole from here on out.
The players arrive at Eco Park, a lagoon-type place. Ahmad tells them that he has everything he needs for a margarita except for the tequila, so he needs their help. They're going to play a game called "Tequila Shooters." There is a narrow bridge across the lagoon, and the players have to cross it while holding a tray, retrieve a bottle of tequila, put it on the tray, and walk back. While they are on the bridge, they can't touch the bottle of tequila, and they can only bring one bottle at a time. They have ten minutes, and each bottle will earn them $500. That doesn't sound so bad. Except that there will be three people in the water, throwing dodgeballs at the players while they cross the bridge. And those three people will be the executed players: Ananda, Corbin, and Stephen. Stephen yells about payback and revenge, and Corbin turns and moons the camera. Thank God for pixelation. I imagine that Corbin's ass looks like Michael Douglas's ass. Or that old guy that Samantha fucked on Sex and the City. Ew. I just grossed myself out.
The players decide that they need to cross the bridge in a line, get their bottles, and then turn and go back in reverse, since the bridge is too narrow for passing. Meanwhile, Corbin tests out a slingshot, and Ananda and Stephen decide to throw by hand. Ahmad starts the game, and the player start running across the bridge. There is a lot of missing, it seems. The players all get across, and grab their trays and bottles. Tracey goes first and gets hit, losing her bottle. Keshia also gets hit. Angie gets hit. Dennis gets hit. Mark gets hit. There are eight minutes left, and they don't have any bottles yet. The players continue to be unsuccessful, due to getting hit by balls. Tracey and Angie finally each bring a bottle back. I think they should all try to be on the bridge at the same time, because then the people throwing balls will have more targets to choose from, instead of all pelting the same person. Mark keeps stopping in the middle of the bridge, which sucks, because he's first, and that prevents everyone else from being a moving target. Dennis manages to get a bottle across. Keshia gets pelted in the head and complains about it. Stephen starts screaming that he's Zoltar. There's only one minute left, and Keshia, Mark, and Angie decide that they're done. Dennis and Tracey head back for one more try. Tracey gets pelted right in the head (complete with dinging bell sound effect, which was awesome) and falls into the water. Tracey interviews that coalitions fall apart after executions. Dennis makes it back by running at top speed and dodging the balls. Time runs out. Angie interviews that the shooters were out for blood, and shows off a bruise. Tracey interviews that it was the most fun game they have done.
Angie asks Mark if he got any bottles over. Mark admits that he didn't get any. Everyone accuses him of throwing the competition and being a baby. Mark realizes that he's the only one who didn't bring any bottles back, and promises to make it up in the bonus round. Ahmad walks up and congratulates the players on bringing back twelve bottles, for a total of $6000. The shooters made $14,000, because they prevented twenty-eight bottles from getting across. Damn. That's more than I've made in some years.
Ahmad tells the players that if they each eat a tequila worm, by chewing it up and swallowing, they will double their money. The girls are all grossed out. Ahmad clarifies that each person who eats the worm will double his or her own earnings from the game. Since Mark earned nothing, he's not eligible. Tracey interviews that, coming into this show, she was the most worried about having to eat something gross. Tracey asks if people eat the worms just for the fun of it, and Dennis assures her that they do. Each player (besides Mark) gets a glass with a giant worm in it. Keshia asks if Dennis can eat her worm. Ahmad says that Dennis can eat all of the worms and double all of the money. Dennis is, as usual, confused about the rules, and thinks he has to eat twelve worms. When he finds out that he only has to eat four, he agrees to do it. He throws out his gum and pops a worm in his mouth. He chews, shows Ahmad, and swallows. The girls are all grossed out. Dennis goes on to eat Angie's worm, Keshia's worm, and Tracey's worm, with no problem whatsoever. He finishes with a shot of tequila. Dennis interviews, "I used to eat snake frambo jambo." The winnings are doubled to $12,000, and the pot is now at $105,000.
Everyone goes to eat lunch. Angie interviews that Mark seems like he's trying to be The Mole, and that it's obvious. Tracey interviews that Dennis never takes any notes in his journal, and says she wonders if The Mole would do that. Angie interviews that Dennis never acts normal, anyway. Dennis interviews that Tracey is The Mole. Angie interviews that you think that Tracey is such a good girl that she can't be The Mole. Oh, Carol Seaver would totally be The Mole. Come on! Angie says that someone needs to get naked in this episode, and that she's already been naked once. Mark says that Angie has a nice butt, and that he tried to see Keshia's butt too. Keshia gets embarrassed and tells him to shut up. Mark starts talking in an announcer voice about "Keshia Gone Wild." Keshia asks why she's always the butt of the jokes.
“ Mark says that one of the vases has embroidery on it, which is an interesting description. Mark's descriptions are just horrible, by the way. I don't know how Dennis, of all people, is supposed to get any of these right. ”
The players gather in a room somewhere. Ahmad explains that Mexico is known for its art and culture, and that the players are going to have a chance to participate. He asks the players to divide into three groups: three people who are children at heart, one person who is a chatterbox, and one person who has a good eye. They end up with Mark as a chatterbox, Dennis as the good eye, and Angie, Tracey, and Keshia as the children at heart. Tracey totally should have been good eye. Unless she's The Mole. Ahmad explains the game: Mark will see three paintings from a gallery. He will describe them via walkie-talkie to the three women, who will try to replicate the paintings from Mark's descriptions. When they finish, they will take the paintings to Dennis. He will have to match the three replicas to the actual paintings, choosing from a room full of twenty-one paintings. This whole thing has to happen in thirty minutes, and if they succeed, they will unlock a case holding a caricature of Ahmad that he pretends it worth $20,000. Ahmad advises them to be as detailed as possible -- because there will be similar paintings in the gallery -- and to use their time wisely.
The players take their places. Ahmad asks Mark if he's ready. Mark starts describing a painting to Tracey, and he's terrible. He describes the details of the painting instead of the big picture. So instead of telling Tracey that he's looking at a sunset landscape with a meadow in the foreground, and a lake or pond with buildings in the background, he starts telling her about red trees and a small farm in the back. Angie's painting is supposed to look like Keshia with her hair down, which is actually not a bad description. Keshia's painting is supposed to be two vases, except they're totally urns, but whatever. Mark says that one of the vases has embroidery on it, which is an interesting description. Mark's descriptions are just horrible, by the way. I don't know how Dennis, of all people, is supposed to get any of these right.
Ahmad tells Mark that he has twenty-four minutes left. Tracey asks what color her buildings are. Mark says that they are white with a black room. Tracey has painted a giant red barn right in the middle of her canvas. Oops. Mark keeps repeating that the buildings are small, but I think Tracey just figures she can't change it now. Mark tells Angie to paint Ananda with her hair down, which is a good description as well. Ahmad tells the women to be as detailed as possible. Mark tells Rudy that one of the vases looks like the stack at a nuclear power plant, which it totally does. That was the best description he gave. Tracey asks if there are any other details she should put in. Ahmad reminds the women that they have eleven minutes left, and that they all have to go together. Keshia is still arguing with Mark about her painting, and Angie and Tracey decide to leave. Keshia runs to catch up with them.
Tracey and Angie arrive where Dennis is waiting with their paintings first. Keshia takes her own sweet time. Tracey's painting is a big red barn with some red trees. Angie's looks like Steven Tyler with a bunch of swirls. Keshia's sort of looks like vases, with some apples and a bird. Upon her arrival, Keshia tries to explain her painting. Angie does too, and then asks if they are allowed to do that. Tracey doesn't say anything. Dennis goes into the gallery. Ahmad voice-overs that Dennis only has six and a half minutes to match the paintings.
Dennis doesn't seem to understand that he's on the clock, and wastes time talking to Ahmad. He has to hang the reproductions below the actual paintings and then hit a button to see if he's right. The production staff did a good job of finding very similar paintings, and Dennis has a hard time figuring it out. Dennis hangs the paintings and hits the button, but they're wrong. He asks if they were all wrong, and Ahmad says it just means that all three were not right. Dennis keeps trying to match things up. He manages to get Keshia's and Angie's paintings right, but not Tracey's. He removes Angie's painting, which was right, and tries again. Time runs out before he can get it right.
Ahmad tells Dennis he was close. Dennis is sure he got Keshia's painting right, and he did. The other players walk into the gallery. Mark interviews that the women are going to give him crap and blame him. Ahmad tells everyone that Dennis was really close. Ahmad shows everyone where the paintings should have gone. Mark interviews that Angie painted "Mick Jagger on drugs looking at himself in a broken mirror." So true. Ahmad asks Dennis how he got Keshia's painting right. Dennis says it was the bird on top of the vase. Ahmad moves on to Tracey's painting and reminds everyone that Mark described it as having little houses. Ahmad asks where it all went wrong, and Keshia points to Mark. Tracey explains that Mark said at first that it was a farm, so she started painting a barn, and she couldn't change it later. Dennis interviews that he could be The Mole. I still seriously don't think that he understands how the game works. Which is kind of entertaining. I think he really believes that he might be The Mole. Keshia interviews that Angie just kept piling paint on the canvas. Angie says that she just drew Steven Tyler, and that they should submit it for the Aerosmith album cover. Ahmad shows them the caricature of himself. Angie asks who it's supposed to be. It looks like Ahmad twenty years ago, maybe. Ahmad says that they don't win the money, and wishes them better luck time. Tracey interviews that after all that effort, they sucked. Mark interviews that it worked out well for him, because he wants everyone to think that he's The Mole.
“ Dennis interviews that this round is crucial, and that if he makes it, he'll win. I totally thought he was going to get executed at that point. Also, the promo department needs to stop claiming that tonight's execution is the most shocking yet. It's annoying on The Bachelor and it's annoying here. ”
At dinner, Ahmad says that they have an execution that night, and no one has an exemption. People take notes in their journals, and then everyone toasts. Tracey interviews that you don't feel safe about someone until you see him or her get executed. Dennis interviews that this round is crucial, and that if he makes it, he'll win. I totally thought he was going to get executed at that point. Also, the promo department needs to stop claiming that tonight's execution is the most shocking yet. It's annoying on The Bachelor and it's annoying here. Stop.
It's time for the quiz. Dennis interviews, "Tequila Mark cappuccino Maserati." Tracey interviews that Keshia has been on her list of suspects. Keshia interviews that Mark didn't get any bottles of tequila across, which which makes her suspicious of him. Angie interviews that there was sabotage in the art game. Mark interviews that Angie and Dennis are his suspects, because Angie totally screwed up her painting.
The players gather to find out who is executed. Mark laughs when no one wants to sit in the last chair, since that's where Corbin and Stephen were both sitting when they were executed. Ahmad welcomes them and says that the pot is at $105,000. He reminds them that no one has an exemption, and Angie says she's glad. Ahmad says that there was a tie again tonight, so the player with the slowest time will be executed. Keshia doesn't seem happy to hear that. Ahmad sits down and starts entering names. First up is Tracey, who gets a green screen. Angie congratulates her. is Dennis, who also gets a green screen. The name entered is Keshia's. She immediately says, "Uh oh, y'all." The screen goes red. Damn! She was totally my Mole pick! I even had evidence in this episode that she was The Mole.
Dennis gets up and walks around. Keshia smiles and says that she told them it wasn't her. Everyone gives Keshia a hug goodbye. Tracey laughs at how Keshia handed her bag to Ahmad to make him carry it. Tracey asks what it all means, and Dennis asks if it's getting easier to figure out who The Mole is. Tracey thinks she knows. Ahmad says it was a tough day, and Keshia says she wishes she'd been eliminated yesterday so that she could have made money and avoided being pelted with balls. Mark says they'll miss Keshia, and Dennis says that Keshia was cool and "steady as a rock." Tracey says that any time anyone tried to ruffle Keshia's feathers, she told them that she didn't care. Angie says that Keshia would tell them that they didn't exist in her universe, and Tracey agrees. Keshia tells the camera that she wasn't The Mole, and we all thought she was. I yell at the TV, "I totally did!" My husband starts dialing the loony bin to have me booked for an extended stay. Angie says it was fun skinny-dipping with Keshia. Mark jokes that he went through a lot of emotions when Keshia was skinny-dipping, and that he had to call his mother about it. Ahmad puts Keshia into the cab and says he's sorry to see her go. Keshia keeps smiling right to the end.
So I guess I need a new Mole pick now. I'm going with Tracey. Mark and Angie have both talked about how they want everyone to think they are The Mole, which seems like a non-Mole thing to do. And I just can't believe that Dennis is The Mole. Plus, he thinks Tracey is The Mole, which would explain why he's stayed around for so long. So that's my new theory. And usually with this show, I pick the wrong person at first, but that person makes it pretty far, and then my second pick ends up being right.