One sassy lady, Doctor Diva/Whiner herself.
NICOLE
Over the Falls: grabbed bag with fake money
Could she have somehow found out she was jumping for fake money and grabbed the bag to create trust at the beginning while knowing it wouldn't give the group any money?
This is very doubtful, because apparently the Mole only meets with the production crews for like twenty minutes every morning.
Robinson Crusoe: Biggest Whiner, seemed to pick well when she was chose to assign people to certain roles
But she still assigned a few people, like Craig and Bobby, to roles that didn't fit them. She also whined a lot the night before they had to pick the group's biggest whiner... did she know about that in advance?
Isn't that just kind of the way Nicole is?
Race to the Summit: suggested the most athletic people to do the uphill bike ride, who were the ones who cost the group money. She also didn't seem to be very helpful at the soccer game, and even started out playing goalie - a position which they didn't even need!
She says she was "told" to play goalie, but not by who (I'm thinking the production crew, because otherwise one of the players would have surely realized they didn't need a goalie and pulled her out of the net ASAP). She also got to the gondola very quickly.
When Pigs Fly: was in the second group to get to the town (which arrived at virtually the same time as the first group). She didn't interfere with Alex using his Spanish to get the pigs. Her team brought back 26 pigs, over half of the total.
Was she just trying to throw suspicion off herself? She could have sabotaged the slingshot part of the mission in some way that would be difficult to tell.
Fruit of the Luge: she was not blindfolded and told her partner, Alex, "green apple" twice in a row, and didn't correct herself even when he asked if it was right or not. Due to the double green apple at the beginning, Alex only placed 1/7 fruits correctly for a relatively minimal $2000. In the recap, she told Clay her and Alex planned to sabotage the mission.
Or is she trying to sabotage so others think she's the Mole, when she's not?
Dress Code: made an effort to get clothes and made it to the restaurant on time
Did she put herself in the group with Craig and Bobby knowing they were the least likely to complete the mission, and thus, if she sabotaged it, the blame wouldn't necessarily fall on her?
Midas Rush: her team made it to the top very quickly with 23 bricks and she didn't fight for the exemption, not causing any drama in her group that could have led to them losing all the money they'd earned during the mission
She was on the Selfish team, giving her an excuse to carry less bricks, and indeed she didn't seem to be carrying many. She repeatedly stopped.
Despite her stopping, her team still made it to the top with plenty of time to spare. She also said that stopping was a strategy to distract attention from "the real Mole."
Who Said That: didn't get her question right, and initially didn't even try to answer it until Jon insisted she did. When Kristen's quote was authored by her, Nicole openly signaled, leading to Kristen's correct answer being disqualified.
Or was she just trying to act super suspicious?
All for One: no suspicious behavior where it would have been very easy for her to... be the way she usually is
Or was she trying to throw suspicion off herself?
Travelers: refused to participate in the mission
If she isn't the Mole, she was probably looking for any excuse not to run around with Paul in a llama costume.
Grapes of Cache: Thinker, basically useless in solving the problems and even got at least one wrong. From what we saw, she did little more than bicker with Paul.
All she EVER does is bicker with Paul. Was she just trying to act suspicious? Was Paul genuinely distracting her?
Swing Out: jumped but missed the target
So did everyone except Alex.
Go Figure: incorrectly calculated several numbers and counted wrong. She also returned to the group after being given an opportunity to correct her original answer with an answer she knew to be wrong.
She could have genuinely counted wrong. Was she just trying to act suspicious?
Ticket to Ride: no suspicious behavior, with the opportunity to do so. In fact, she was praised by Clay at how efficient she was.
Would she have really been so heartless as to sabotage another person's chance at seeing his loved one? Well, besides Paul.
I gotta agree with the guys when they say Nicole's some sort of crazy enigma who is incredibly hard to read, and she's certainly committed many acts of sabotage. She's gotten very far in the game with almost no help from anyone (there was some interview with Clay after he was eliminated, and it turns out Clay, last episode, was lying to Nicole and wasn't lying to Mark) nor any notes.
Still, they made an awfully big deal of Alex thinking she was the Mole the episode he was executed, and I can only find two potential clues to her being the Mole - during Dress Code, she was standing right by a sign that said MODL and looked an awful lot like MOLE with an arrow pointing to her, and the baby noise that we heard over Mark right before the journal burn. Oh, and regarding her and Alex, I so want to see those two crazy kids get together. :D And it'd be nice if she made up with Paul/he made up with her at the end.
