In the previous episode of the Smole, everyone celebrated Brianna's birthday but some brought backhanded gift. Despite having a bronze exemption, James chose to forsake it and use his black exemption, negating Brianna's silver exemption from the first mission. While she survived, Jo was executed instead. Only six contestants remain but there are only 226/550 points in the pot. Will the winner be able to win the pot or will the Mole claim it all? Who is the Mole that executed four ex-finalists?
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James: "There must be bad fengshui upstairs. All the executed finalists have slept upstairs. Meanwhile it's a crowd downstairs. I'm still stuck sharing a bed with Guillermo. He snores."
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Kelly: "I feel bad for Jo. She was the one who really wanted to do something nice and ease tensions. That's how we all got around to celebrating Brianna's birthday. And then she's executed. I could see the disappointment in her face. It gets harder to let go of someone as the season progresses. Don't start about how we've sat through the whole thing once before. It doesn't make things any easier. PTSD exists for the survivors, not the victims."
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Brianna: "I'm pissed James played the black exemption. I bet he only pkayed it when I told him I wanted to play it. It was the best time to play it. My coalition dissolved and each execution that passes by without a black exemption means a higher chance of the black exemption being played next. The only good thing I got out of this is that I'm not executed, and I know I'm not the lowest scorer, or second lowest if James was lowest. I think I finally found the Mole."
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Kelly: "Which inconsiderate bugger broke a sink and left?"
Kelly: "If Brianna wasn't in the other toilet I wouldn't come all the way here. Men can't use a toilet properly."
Kelly: "Aah!"
Kelly: "How is anyone supposed to use the toilet in this state?"
Kelly: "How do you stop this thing?"
Kelly: "Everyone here is so entitled. They think someone will just come and fix it."
Kelly: "Well it won't be me. I'm washing my hands out of this."
Kelly: "They don't know how to be grateful or understand the importance of working for things."
Kelly: "I should at least clean up the wet floor. Someone may slip and fall."
Kelly: "Why do I get the feeling I'm wasting my time?"
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James: "We should try and keep the exemptions within ourselves."
Max: "Why?"
James: "We shouldn't let the power shift if we can help it."
Max: "That's hard. We can't do well in everything."
James: "So you aren't even going to try?"
James: "You disappoint me every day."
Max: "You're not my parents."
Max: "I don't even care about what my parents think any more. So what gives you the right to tell me what to do?"
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Max: "Coming to the Smole was the best decision I ever made. Ever since so many seasons ago I began travelling overseas more and more. The culture in the west is so different from the east. Here, children move out the moment they reach adult age and care about freedom more than filial piety. In the past I would have demanded to do well in every single thing I do and would get very upset if I failed but I have learned so much and now realise that is stupid."
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Brianna: "Working as a group is not my style."
Guillermo: "Do you really not want to reconsider? I know you and Apollo broke up the coalition. Having a partner will do you some good."
Brianna: "That coalition was as good as nothing considering how quickly everyone was executed. Besides, aren't you working with Max?"
Guillermo: "Yes but it doesn't hurt to have another coalition on the side."
Brianna: "So you want a secret coalition?"
Guillermo: "Yes, you can put it that way. To be honest with you, I don't really trust Max. Trusting anyone in this game is a nice thought but stupid."
Brianna: "I agree about that but I don't know. I don't play dirty."
Guillermo: "We're not playing dirty."
Brianna: "This is just too shady for me Guillermo. I don't know you well enough to really work with you."
Guillermo: "Huh. I guess I'm not as popular as I thought."
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Brianna: "I'll go last."
Max: "I'm not good with Simlish songs at all."
Guillermo: "Then maybe you should go earlier, like first or second."
Apollo: "I am going first. I don't care."
James: "We don't care either."
Kelly: "I'm fine with any order. Doesn't make a difference to me."
Contestants will sing in the next mission. They have decided on an order. One by one, they will enter a room and sing a karaoke song. The music will stop abruptly and the contestants must finish the lyrics correctly to earn 20 points.
The other contestants will watch in another room. Within 30 seconds of the singer answering, any other contestant can enter the other room and correct the lyrics if they deem they are wrong. However, this will override the previous answer and the contestant will lose their turn to sing.
Apollo goes first and he gets to choose from 6 songs.
Apollo: "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you, that is how I know you go on~"
Apollo: "Far across the distance, and spaces between us~"
Apollo: "You have come to show you go on~"
Apollo: "Near, far, WHEREEEVER you are~"
Apollo: "I believe that the heart does go on~"
Apollo: "Once more you OOOOOOOOOPEN the door~"
Apollo: "And you're here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on~"
Apollo: "Why did the lyrics cut? Is the machine broken? Subpar quality."
"Apollo, you have 30 seconds to sing the next line."
Apollo: "Easy..."
Apollo: "Every night in my dreams, I see you, I feel you, this is how I know you go on~"
Max: "I have heard of this song before."
Guillermo: "Anyone going to correct Apollo?"
Max: "I don't think it's correct."
James: "So you will correct him?"
Max: "I don't know what the exact lyrics are."
Brianna: "If we know the actual lyrics we should correct Apollo while there's time. Otherwise we are knowingly giving the Mole 20 points."
Guillermo: "But correcting him means losing a chance at singing. What if we know the lyrics to the song we choose?"
Kelly: "I think we should stay put. We have our chances later."
Brianna: "It's such an easy song. How can he get it wrong?"
"Apollo, those were not the lyrics. The correct lyrics were: Love can touch us one time and last us a lifetime, and never let go till we're gone."
Apollo: "What? Who the fuck changed the lyrics?"
Apollo sits in the same room. He is unable to correct anyone since has sung.
Meanwhile, the next contestant Max enters and chooses a song.
Max: "I heard of this song. They like to play this at games."
Max: "At first I was afraid, I was petrified~"
Max: "Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side~"
Max: "But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong~"
Max: "Do you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die~"
Max: "Oh no, not I, I will survive~"
"You have 30 seconds to complete the lyrics."
Max: "Oh, as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive~"
Brianna: "He seems to know this song."
Guillermo: "Why do I get the feeling we were fooled by him?"
James: "Are we absolutely sure he's correct?"
Kelly: "We don't know if he's wrong and we don't want to take a gamble."
"Max, you are correct."
Max: "Yeah!"
Guillermo: "Who's next? James, right?"
Kelly: "Can I go next?"
Kelly: "I think I won't be of much help to correct incorrect lyrics and I don't know that many songs."
Kelly: "I want to sing a song I know before they're all taken away. It's a gamble that we will know the last song left to us."
Guillermo: "This is so sudden though."
Brianna: "It's only one more turn. We agreed to an order. We shouldn't be switching around any-old-how."
James: "I'm okay with it."
Kelly: "If James is fine then I don't see why the rest of you are complaining."
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Guillermo: "Kelly suddenly wanted to change the order halfway through the mission when we had already decided on an order. I don't appreciate last minute change or surprises so I was against it. However, James willing to switch with her so we begrudgingly let Kelly go third."
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Kelly: "Time to pick a song. Pardon my singing."
Apollo: "My ears are still bleeding from Max's horrendous singing. I need medical care."
Kelly: "Uh huh, uh huh, yeah, Rihanna~"
Kelly: "No clouds in my stones, let it rain, I hydroplane into fame~"
Kelly: "When the clouds come, we gone~"
Kelly: "We Rocafella, we fly higher than the weather in G5s or better~"
Kelly: "Bla bla bla Little Miss Sunshine~"
Brianna: "She looks unsure."
Guillermo: "We shouldn't have let her cut the queue."
James: "Maybe she doesn't know any of the remaining songs."
Brianna: "Too bad Jo was executed. She would have been perfect for the mission."
Kelly: "When the sun shines, we shine together~"
Kelly: "Told you I'll be here forever~"
Kelly: "Said I'll always be your friend, took an oath that Im'ma stick it out till the end~"
"You have 30 seconds to complete the lyrics."
Kelly: "Now that it's raining more than ever, know that we still have each other?"
Brianna: "That sounds about right."
James: "I wouldn't know. I don't listen to drivel."
Guillermo: "Judging from her performance though I don't think she's 100% sure."
Brianna: "I'm a bit sceptical about trying to change her answer. Then again, I'm not a huge fan of Rihanna."
Guillermo: "She doesn't know the song. It's so clear from her face."
James: "Do you know the song?"
James: "There are a lot of things to factor. Like how much you know, how much she knows, what songs are left..."
Brianna: "We don't have time to consider this much."
Guillermo: "Ah, I'll just go for it. These songs seem pretty simple right now. There must be a really difficult song still remaining."
Max: "Guillermo, why are you here?"
Guillermo: "Kelly, I'm here to correct you."
Kelly: "Why? I think I have it."
Guillermo: "Move aside, quick. I have the correct lyrics."
Guillermo: "It's been raining forever and ever, but we still have each other."
"Those lyrics are incorrect."
Guillermo: "What? That's how I always heard it sung."
"The correct lyrics are: Now that it's raining more than ever, know that we still have each other."
Kelly: "I told you, Guillermo. Don't try to Mole."
Brianna: "Ai, he screwed up."
James: "It's down to the two of us. Unless you want to switch, I'll be going over."
Brianna: "Good luck."
James: "We'll see if I need it."
James: "At least there's one more song for me to pick from. I'll go with this one."
James: "You know the bed feels warmer sleeping here alone~"
James: "You know I dream in colour and do the things I want~"
James: "You think you got the best of me, think you had the last laugh~"
James: "Bet you think everything good is gone~"
James: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller, doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone~"
James: "What doesn't kill you makes you a fighter, footsteps even lighter, doesn't mean I'm over 'caues you're gone~"
Brianna: "He's off-beat. I think he sang an extra word or something or he's just really bad with music."
"You have 30 seconds to complete the lyrics."
James: "Ehm, you heard that I was starting over with someone new, but told you I was moving on over you~"
Brianna: "Should I correct him? He took a while to reach that answer and James has made it clear he doesn't listen to pop."
Brianna: "James, I'm here to save you."
Max: "Brianna's here too."
Apollo: "Everyone here sucks."
Brianna: "You heard that I started over with someone new, told you I was moving on without you~"
"The lyrics are incorrect."
James: "Good job Brianna. Good job."
Brianna: "I was trying to help you because you kept saying you wouldn't know the lyrics."
"The correct lyrics are: You heard that I was starting over with someone new, but told you I was moving on over you."
James: "That was what I sang."
Brianna: "Eh, I was close."
James: "Close is not enough."
"Contestants, our time here at the karaoke lounge is up. Only 20 points were earned, so the pot is now at 246/670 points."
Max: "Are there no exemptions?"
With nobody safe, who will be executed next?
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Songs:
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Bodak Yellow - Cardi B
