Episode 8 (Finale)
It's finally time to discover:
Who...
Is...
The Mole?
Is it Luigi, the twenty-three year old plumber?
Toadette, the nineteen year old emergency nurse?
Or Blooper, the twenty-five year old ocean explorer and videographer?
"Welcome everybody to the last and final episode of The Mole: Traitor Aboard. It's been three month since Luigi, Blooper, and Toadette had taken that final quiz aboard that old train in Bob-omb village, and now, the results of that quiz will be revealed. Over here we have our six executed players. Welcome back guys."
"Hi," they all said out in unison. Each player was seated comfortably in the lobby of the Noki Hotel, the very hotel the players stumbled across in their second episode. With the hotel closed for the holiday, the reunion was guaranteed to go as planned; calm, exciting, and mind-blowing.
"This is actually the first time you've all met as a group since the first day," McHallyboo noticed.
"It's a pleasure," said Birdo.
"Yeah, it's actually feels like I'm back inside the game with everyone else here," Doopliss told him.
"Not for me," said Peach. "I'm so glad it's over. It was so hectic." Some of the others players nodded in agreement.
"But it's actually fun to look back at how you failed," said Daisy.
"Yeah, and how much you screwed up in the first quiz," Rawk Hawk added. Everyone laughed, feeling sympathy for the first executed player.
"Well, since you guys have all seen the episodes, I'd like to ask you all two questions," said McHallyboo. "Who do you think the winner is, and who do you think the Mole is? We'll start with Rawk Hawk."
"I think the Mole is Toadette," Rawk Hawk said. "She's so little. And the winner is Luigi."
"Doopliss?"
"I think the Mole is Luigi," Doopliss said after consideration. "He's the last person you can suspect as the Mole. As for the winner, I think Toadette will win."
"Daisy?"
"Well, I hope the winner is Luigi," she said. "Sorry, I just can't imagine him as the Mole. He's too sweet and genuine. The Mole is Blooper."
"Birdo, who do you think the winner is and who do you think the Mole is?"
"I have to also go with Blooper," Birdo decided. "Blooper is my choice for the Mole. He's done a lot of subtle and obvious sabotage, and I never really suspected him. The winner will be Toadette, I believe."
"Peach?"
"I believe that my girlfriend Toadette is in fact the Mole," Peach chuckled. "And Blooper being the smart individual he is, may be the winner."
"And Lakitu?"
"Well, I'm not a hundred percent sure," he admitted. "But right now, I'll have to go with Luigi as the Mole. I initially thought Toadette was the Mole, but I guess she'll win the game. Blooper is a close second for my Mole too. But I just have to go with Luigi as my pick."
"So what's your final answer?" asked McHallyboo with amusement.
"Toadette is the winner and Blooper, I mean, Luigi is the Mole."
Here are the results to the poll that asked the question Traitor Aboard: Who is the Mole?
Luigi: 12 votes
Toadette: 3 votes
Blooper: 7 votes
"Soon, we will all see the truth. But first, let's refresh our memory a little bit, shall we?" suggested McHallyboo The television flicked on, and the players watched.
Three players left in the game, all who have had their share of suspicious moments. Any one of them could be the Mole. Let's take a closer look.
Toadette
Baggage Challenge
Toadette was assigned to match names with the correct bags by memorizing the belongings of the other players. But, instead of correctly identifying the bags of Blooper and Rawk Hawk, she switched their names at the last second. This cost the team ten thousand coins.
Clue House Challenge
Players had the opportunity to find a clue located in a town, yet for each player who entered the building, ten thousand coins would be taken from the pot. Instructed by Lakitu, Toadette went into the
store to ask for directions. Even though the bar was closed, Toadette still decided to walk into the store. The store ended up being the Clue House, losing ten thousand coins for the team.
Lakitu: I feel bad for telling Toadette to go inside, but she knew that the store was closed, so it was technically her fault for entering the building.
McHallyboo's Funhouse
McHallyboo: You must stay in this room until the ceiling stops leaking. You will have Priscilla the crocodile as your roommate, and you may leave whenever you want. However, you will lose the money if you decide to do so.
And in McHallyboo's Funhouse, Toadette was the only one who chickened out of her assigned room, sacrificing the money earned in the challenge. She only had five minutes left to remain until the water in her room drained out.
Toadette: I'm not staying in there.
Luigi: I don't see how she couldn't have stayed in her room for just five more minutes. .
Luigi
Cliff Springs Challenge
The players were told that before jumping into the water, they were not to add or remove any items from their body. Instead, they had fifteen seconds to do so before the game started. Oddly enough, Luigi decided to keep his cap on. In addition, right before Rawk Hawk had to jump, Luigi thought of the idea of giving his cap to him, breaking the rules and losing their first challenge.
Rawk Hawk: Luigi offering his cap to me was something incredibly nice of him to do, but to realize afterwards that it violated the rules made me think differently of it.
Board the Train Challenge
Players were paired up and were assigned to find tickets in books, by deciphering clues. With Birdo and Luigi having the most difficult clues of all the teams, they had one more ticket to find with the train near approaching. But instead of helping Birdo, Luigi decided to run off to the train station, in hopes of preventing the train from leaving, something that later on proved useless.
Toadette: For him to come to the train station made no sense at all. It was pointless, when he could have been back at the bookstore helping Birdo with the final clue.
Laundry Race Challenge
Luigi, Blooper, and Peach were told that if they finished their laundry in the Laundry Race challenge, they would win the challenge. In truth, if they were to finish their laundry before Toadette could warn them to stop, the challenge would be lost. The more questions they got right, the quicker they would finish.
McHallyboo: Adding up all the nine digits that are contained in all three of your room numbers, what will you receive as the sum?
Luigi: Uh, I think it's fifty-two.
McHallyboo: Correct.
Peach: For Luigi to come up with an answer to a question that would take at least half a minute to answer, it did make me a little questionable of how he came up with it. For all we know, he might have been told the answers to these questions before the game had started.
Blooper
Bell of Endurance Challenge
McHallyboo: These three keys must be present at the end of the obstacle course in order to win the game. If however, you lose one of them in the process, you will also lose your game.
The five remaining players had to cross a dangerous obstacle course, carrying three keys that were required to be used at the end of the course. When Blooper was hit by a tranquilizer, Peach went over to retrieve the key from him. But when she searched him, the key wasn't present. With one of the keys missing, the team was forced to quit.
Peach: I searched and I searched, and then I realized that there was no key in any of Blooper's pockets. The only way to guarantee a loss for this game was if someone were to lose a key.
Three Questions Game
Luigi and Toadette had to find Blooper by answering three questions correctly. The answers depended on how Blooper answered three moral questions. However, when they arrived at the door, Blooper was not there. When asked the question if he would rather save Luigi or Toadette from a snake bite, Blooper chose Luigi.
Luigi: We only needed one question wrong to lose the money, and that's exactly what happened. I can never imagine someone saving a man over a woman. Maybe he didn't answer those questions honestly, but instead, intentionally tried to make us mess up.
Journey of Completion
The players faced the Lumberjack game in their final challenge. Once there, the three players had to choose one of the three tools provided to cut through a piece of log before a Yoshi could carve a Monty Mole out of his stump. When given the choice, Blooper was the first one to convince the others to use the one-handed saw. Because of this decision, they lost the game.
Yoshi: You chose to stay with one incision, which meant that the blade would constantly stick. Your game was impractical, and you were already destined to lose as soon as you picked the one-handed saw.
Toadette: The way Blooper insisted to use the one-handed saw made me believe that he knew beforehand the game would be impossible.
Who has been sabotaging deliberately? Only one of these people is the Mole.
"Interesting," said Daisy.
"Umm, can we change our minds now?" Rawk Hawk asked.
"I'm confident with my answer," Doopliss decided. "It's Luigi."
"I think it's Toadette," said Peach.
"I'm even more convinced that the Mole is Blooper," said Birdo
"Well, right now, it's time for us to discover who the winner is," said McHallyboo. "We'll now go back to three months ago, to where the game finally ended. Let's take a look." The television turned back on.
It was eleven o'clock at night. The moon glimmered brighter than it had at their departure when the train arrived at the station, the sound of its chugging slowing down and its wheels screeching its way slowly to a complete stop. The train let out its last sound.
CHOO CHOO!
As the smoke disappeared, McHallyboo jumped off the front of the train, grabbing the conductor's remote as he dropped onto the platform. His fingers went carefully over the three buttons that jutted out from the mechanical object he was holding.
"You've all finished your quizzes," he said out loud. "Your scores have all been tabulated, and we have a winner. The winner is the player who answered the most questions correctly on this quiz. When I tell you to, stand in front of your car doors." He held out the remote.
"Once you are all in front of your doors, I will turn on only the sensor of the winner's doors. If your doors open up, you are the winner, and you have just won two hundred and forty thousand coins." He faced the very first train car.
"Luigi Mario. Are you ready?"
"I'm...I'm ready, McHallyboo." McHallyboo faced the middle train car.
"Toadette Rytoad. Are you ready?"
"Yes, I'm ready." McHallyboo turned to the very last train car.
"Blooper Inke. Are you ready?"
"I am ready for the results."
McHallyboo nodded, looked at all three train cars one more time, then held out the remote in front of him.
"May the winner's door," McHallyboo shouted, "Please open!"
At that second, he pressed down on the middle of the three buttons on the remote, turning on the sensors for that specific car. Sensing the player's existence, it triggered the doors to immediately open up. The player stood still for a moment, too surprised to take in the opening of his train doors. Then, the player stepped out.
Exposed to the night air and aware of their victory, the winner was overjoyed.
"Congratulations," McHallyboo said, an involuntary smile appearing on his face.
Luigi was flabbergasted.
"I...I won?" Luigi asked with incredulity. "I'm the winner? But how?"
"You are indeed the winner of The Mole: Traitor Aboard," McHallyboo announced to him. "And you have just won 240,000 coins. How does it feel?"
"Mama mia!" Luigi exclaimed. He jumped into the air, howling momentarily with excitement and energy, finally taking in what had happened. He was obviously floored, but he was the winner.
Back in the lobby, the executed players cheered for Luigi's victory. They were almost as shocked as Luigi appeared to be in the recording they were watching, and most of them were simply shocked that Luigi was the winner of the game. But as they saw McHallyboo declare Luigi as the sole winner, they were all delighted.
"I'm baffled," said Lakitu, scratching his head. "Too baffled."
"Out of all of us, Luigi won?" Doopliss said with disbelief. "Who would have known?"
"I'm so pleased," said Birdo happily. "I knew he had the potential."
"I knew it!" Daisy said in a tone that showed her jubilation. "I just knew Luigi would win!" She was full of joy.
"And I'm so happy for him too," said Peach, as the two princesses hugged each other. "Luigi really is smart."
"So that it means he isn't the Mole," Doopliss said with realization. "Shucks."
"Wait, who's the Mole?" Rawk Hawk asked out loud. "We still don't know who the Mole is!"
"Oh, this is the moment I've been waiting for!" Peach said excitedly.
"Yeah, for too long," Lakitu mumbled.
"Only two remain," McHallyboo told the executed players. "Toadette and Blooper. One of them is the Mole." Everyone continued to watch the television, knowing that they were soon about to witness the unmasking of the saboteur.
"I still can't a believe it," said Luigi, as dumbfounded as ever. "I thought...the quiz was impossible...I guess old-fashioned luck really helps sometimes."
"Trust me, it wasn't just luck that brought you all the way here," McHallyboo told him. Luigi shrugged modestly.
"Still," he said. "I can't believe I won this game." Then, Luigi's smile faded.
"But I feel awful for the loser," he admitted. "That's why I'm just not at my happiest moment right now. I feel as if the runner-up deserves the money more than I a do." McHallyboo looked at his remote.
"Why don't we end this right now?" McHallyboo suggested. "There's a very important question to answer. With you being the victor, that means you, Luigi, knows who the Mole is." Luigi froze for a second in realization.
"Yup," he said. "I do know who the Mole is. And an awesome Mole this person was, I must admit."
"I did realize that this Mole tried to achieve your trust," added McHallyboo, as they both walked down platform of the train station. "Were you fooled?"
"Yes, and no," said Luigi. "I agree that the Mole did try to make me believe the lies. Little did I know that I was being targeted by the Mole, or at least I think the Mole was targeting me. Still, no hard feelings at all. It was so fun figuring out who the Mole really was." They finally stopped in front of one of the train cars.
"This compartment has the Mole," Luigi confirmed.
"And which button on the remote do you want me to press?"
"The very last one." McHallyboo held out the remote for Luigi.
"Why don't you do it," McHallyboo suggested. Then with a grin, he added, "Winner?" Luigi opened his mouth, excited and feeling more like a winner than he had ever felt before in this game. He focused his eyes on the name above the button he was about to press.
Then, taking in a deep breath, he pressed down on the third button.
The sensors of the car were switched on. Instead of the immediate opening of the train doors, a green light was emitted from the inside of the car. Luigi and McHallyboo stepped back to make room for the Mole's exit, being bathed in the green light as the doors finally opened.
"Mole," McHallyboo ordered in a soft voice. "Come out."
The person, the betrayer, the traitor who had deceived them all became visible to everybody. Standing in the green light, the Mole smiled.
"Hi guys," Toadette said, stepping her way carefully onto the dusty terrain of the train platform.
She was the Mole.
Peach burst into laughter. Birdo looked stunned. Lakitu's face was frozen with a look of stupidity. The Mole had been revealed to all of them: Toadette Rytoad.
"You've got to be kidding me," said Doopliss, shaking his head. "It was Toadette? Not Blooper?"
"Hey, I was actually right," Rawk Hawk realized. "Toadette's the Mole!"
"Toadette, you little saboteur," said Peach teasingly. "I knew it was you all along."
"Well, I didn't," said Lakitu. "Darn! And I made it all the way to the penultimate round, still guessing the wrong person."
"To be honest, I would have never guessed that Toadette was the Mole," said Birdo. "Guess she tricked a majority of us."
"Cheers for the Mole!" Daisy shouted.
The executed players clapped. With the mystery over and the game finally finished, each one of them felt their own level of surprise and contentment. Either feeling shocked or satisfied, they all continued to watch the television for the end of the game's conclusion.
"Job well done, Mole," McHallyboo said, sticking out his hand for her to shake. "You tricked even me." Toadette grinned and shook the host's hand.
"It was such a pleasure," said Toadette. She looked at Luigi and gave him a hug, then stepped back with a smile.
"Well done!" she said with a laugh. Luigi blushed.
"How did you feel waiting for your door to open?" Toadette asked him. Luigi shook his head and chuckled.
"I don't know," he said. "Maybe the reason I don't remember how I felt was because I didn't expect to be the winner." They both laughed.
"Aww, but you are," Toadette told him. "You're the winner. Congratulations!"
"And you were the greatest Mole ever," Luigi told her. "I never suspected you until near the end."
"Well, thank you," said Toadette, straightening out her coat. "I guess you were the only one who pinned me down as the traitor."
"Actually, I wasn't," said Luigi. "But it must have been really stressful, right?"
"Yeah, it was," Toadette said. She shrugged.
"But I'm so glad it's over." Toadette went to give Luigi a second hug, and Luigi happily accepted it.
"There is still one person missing out on this victory," McHallyboo reminded them. Toadette turned to look at the host. Luigi looked down at the ground.
"Yes, there is," Luigi said, feeling a wave of sadness wash over him. The three of them walked over to the very last car of the train. There was nothing but silence.
"Can I let him out?"
"Certainly," replied McHallyboo. Still grabbing the remote of the train, Luigi pressed the first button of the remote. Above the button was a familiar name: Blooper. The door opened up, and the third player stepped out of the train.
"Hey," Blooper said to Luigi. "Congratulations. You're the winner." Despite taking the spot of runner-up, Blooper smiled weakly.
"Thanks so much!" said Luigi, shifting his feet. "I, umm..." Even thought he was overjoyed from his victory, Luigi couldn't help but be sorry for Blooper's unfortunate end.
"Blooper, you are our runner-up," McHallyboo told him. "You are the Mole's last and final victim. I'm very sorry."
"I knew it had to end up either way," Blooper said, nodding his head. "Either I would have won, or Luigi would have won." He shook his head, mad, downhearted, but easily accepting his defeat. Toadette smiled.
"So I guess you both suspected me," Toadette said, rolling her eyes.
"True," said Blooper, "but, you have no idea how much doubt you put into my mind." He turned to Luigi.
"Now you can finally show Mario who's better," Blooper told him with a grin. Luigi smiled, too overwhelmed to say anything. Toadette laughed and patted Blooper on the back.
"Incredible job," Blooper said to Toadette, "Mole."
"Not as incredible as the jobs you guys had done," she said truthfully. The three players walked down the stairs of the train station, with the host following a distance behind them.
"I'm hungry," said Blooper, and then looked at Luigi. "You're buying dinner." The three of them laughed.
"I think the Mole should buy dinner instead," Luigi protested, "but I guess that, uh, won't be happening."
They were players, companions who had finally finished their game. Everything was over, and besides the unbreakable friendships they had created and unforgettable memories of their experience, nothing else remained.
"You're not the Mole anymore, right?" Blooper asked Toadette as they got into the waiting limousine. "I don't want you to drive this vehicle off a cliff or anything."
"Don't worry, I'm done," she said reassuringly. "If I had to do one more act of sabotage I think I would have told someone straight out that I was the Mole."
"Come on!" Luigi said with disbelief. "You would have never done that."
"The Mole can do whatever they want to do," she said with a smile, as the limousine drove them off to their free dinner. "Once a Mole, always a Mole."
Toadette: Being the Mole was one of the hardest things I had ever done.
Next: The three finalists reunite with the executed players. Blooper reveals his ruthless yet unintentional strategy, resulting in the victory of his coalition partner.
Luigi: What did you tell Lakitu?
Blooper: I told him all about Birdo and Peach suspecting Toadette. It's a lie, but it'll eliminate him.
We'll also show how each of the executed players fell victim to the Mole. And what exactly happened with Doopliss? After that, all the sabotage committed by the Mole will be uncovered, as well as the hidden clues that pointed to her identity.
And after a full year, we have it! Luigi as our grand and well-deserved winner of 240,000 coins. Blooper, our hard-working loser who got so close, became the final victim. And of course, Toadette was finally unmasked as the Mole.
Congratulations to all who correctly identified the Mole, picking out her suspicious actions and possibly even the hidden clues scattered amuck. Don't miss the remainder of this episode , where EVERYTHING is revealed, not only just the identity of the Mole.
These are the results of the poll, asking who you believed the Mole was. According to the results, the majority believed that Luigi was the saboteur. Next came Blooper, and most successfully, Toadette was the least suspected of being the traitor. My greatest thanks to everyone who voted! Review anything you feel for now.
Luigi (THE WINNER): 12 Votes/54 percent
Blooper (THE RUNNER-UP): 7 votes/31 percent
Toadette (THE MOLE): 3 votes/13 percent