The Trust: A Game of Greed
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It has been frustrating to see this group make a run at weigh each others deservingness throughout this game.
It was never the key determinant for making it to the end of the road.
We need something more tangible to know who to root for.
Being able to lie well never let us down, did it?
If theresanyonewho has been reformed (oh, well get to this) in this game, its Gaspare!
Julie has now fully ingratiated herself into the group of white men.
Brooke meets the group by the swimming pool.
They are told that the total prize amount currently sits at $268,000, or $53,000 per person.
Only one person will receive the money, and no one else will know unless they tell the team.
They will be consumed with needless questions: Why now?
Why that specific amount?
And lord knows we dont need another scene of these guys talking in circles.
Jake specifically worries about Tolu, who he notes has no experience in the Vault.
A lot of the deliberation of their deservingness happens privately and only in front of Brooke.
We have been witnesses to very few actual open conversations about it with each other.
The only people who ever get to be disappointed in her is her family.
But beyond that, Tolu has never pretended not to be interested in the money.
Second to Winnie, her game has been the most transparent one of this group.
Tolu decides to keep her secret to the very end.
We did the right thing, Jake coos at Julie as she beams.
She is a fool to love and cares deeply about being liked.
But sure, Tolu is a reformed trickster, too!
looks like Tolu genuinely respects Brian.
They share a private conversation where Brian confides in how this experience has been tough on him.
Tolu tells him that she wishes she had approached the game more with his mentality.
I do believe her.
For the record, these two truths can exist without affecting her integrity.
With one final conversation around their dining table, Brian says it has been an honor and a privilege.
Tolu feigns surprise that money was taken out of the pot up until the very end.
Shocked, enraged, or not, they ultimately all vote to share the pot.
I would have loved for Brooke to catch them in some contradictions or covering up their lies.
This is how Julie got to come out relatively unscathed and control her own redemption arc.
Let a journalist act on her instigating, nosy instincts!
