The Mole Finale Recap: Who Won The Prize Pot And More Importantly — Who Is The Mole? (Plus, Grade It!)

The identity of The Mole has officially been revealed!

The final two episodes of Netflix's reality reboot dropped Friday, giving us our very first Mole 2.0 winner and, of course, outing the season's sneaky saboteur.

When we last left the team, Jacob or Joi was about to become the Mole's next victim, after Will, Avori and Kesi had already survived execution. But with three missions and two eliminations remaining, the Mole's lies and deception were far from over.

So who made it to the end, who was the Mole and who took home all of that cold, hard cash? Read on for a full recap of the season's last two episodes.

EPISODE 9: JACOB OR JOI?

We pick up right where last week's brutal cliffhanger left off. Only one player — Jacob or Joi — is going to join the others in the game's Final Four. Alex wastes no time and gets right to it. The eliminated player is... Jacob. (Surprised?)

MISSION: The team heads to Australia's Snowy Mountains to take on its most physically demanding challenge yet. The group breaks into two teams of two: Joi and Kesi, and Will and Avori. The goal: Climb to the summit of the range, finding ice blocks with frozen money inside along the way. Each team is provided with a sled and a tracker, and there's a total of $10K for each duo to find. But if they don't get to the top in the allotted time, they'll earn zilch.

SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR: Once again, COMMERCIAL AIRLINE PILOT Joi can't navigate to save her life, as she struggles with the tracker and wastes a lot of time. If she really was the Mole, though, why wouldn't she have lied about her job? Wouldn't that have been a safer bet? Meanwhile, Kesi is literally throwing their collected money blocks off the sled, and Joi is none the wiser! But if Kesi is being this obvious, does that mean she's not the Mole? Joi's gut says no.

PRIZE POT TOTAL: The two teams bank a total of $16,000, bringing their total up to $85,500.

MISSION: When the players wake up the next morning inside a cozy ski lodge, they find four briefcases marked $0, $1,000, $3,000 and $8,000. The group must assign one player to each of the briefcases, but the next eliminated player will take that case out of the game with them, so that money will not be added to the pot. They give Joi the $8K, Will the $3K, and after a last-minute switcheroo before the quiz, Kesi takes the $0 and Avori, the $1K. The game is a genius one because it forces the players to show their cards. Clearly, they should give the largest sum of money to the person they think is the Mole, right? Will, sly as ever, says he'll agree to anything the women choose. He doesn't want any of them inside his head.

QUIZ: Unfortunately for Avori, she becomes the Mole's final victim, while Will, Kesi and Joi skate through to the season's Final 3 seats. The good news? The team banked an additional $11,000, bringing the pot up to $96,500.

EPISODE 10: EENY, MEENY, MINY, MOLE

FINAL MISSION: The Final 3 returns to Sydney to take part in their final mission, which has them dodging drones in an abandoned government fortress on Bare Island. In the Red Zone, the team must use two poles to collect a canister of cash suspended above a pit without dropping it. For some unknown reason, Joi thinks that shaking the canister off of its bungee cords is the best method of attack, so clearly they botch that one. (Joi has been, if anything, consistent. Consistently frustrating!) Then in the White Zone, Kesi volunteers to use two large suction pads to navigate a series of pipes to collect canister No. 2. It's a game of Floor is Lava (ish), and she eats it merely steps in. (Seriously, how does everyone but Will suck at everything?) Lastly, in the Blue Zone, Will navigates a minefield to grab the last canister and hail mary it over to Kesi, who catches it successfully.

PRIZE POT TOTAL: With only one canister collected, the team banks another $5K bringing the total game-ending pot to $101,500.

QUIZ: Alex says that if two players vote for the same person, then and only then will the rest of the quiz questions matter. As the players sit down at their laptops, Kesi tells us that Joi is the Mole; Joi, who says she figured it all out on Day 1, selects Will as the Mole; Will is confident that the "unbelievably intelligent" Kesi is the Mole.

The finalists are reunited with all of the eliminated players for the big reveal. Alex tells them that since they all selected a different suspect, the game has a clear winner.

And the Mole is...

KESI!

...which makes Will the winner of Netflix's very first (but hopefully not last) season of The Mole!

Kesi explains how she met with a producer to get a special briefing before each and every mission. In Jungle Mission, she knew she wanted to kill it — and that she did — in order to get everyone to trust her. In the Prison Mission, she says, "Of course I saw the key! I saw it within the first five minutes of being in the cell, but they didn't need to know that!" Savage.

In Bank Heist, she says the clues were "so obvious," but since they put her in the controller's seat for that one, it was easy for her to leave out names like "G. Locks" and "K. Midas." Sabotaging that mission was a breeze. From there, she knew Will was suspicious of her, but she couldn't resist botching the train mission or grabbing the exemption in the Chained Up challenge. And lastly, throwing the ice blocks off the sled in the mountains was "the ultimate double bluff." But as she says in the finale, "Sometimes the best spy, the best double agent, is the one that's right in front of your face."

So there you have it, Mole fans! What did you think of Netflix's reboot? Grade the last two episodes (and the series overall), then light up the comments!

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