[piano flourishes]
- I've gathered you here tonight
to watch a different kind of game.
A game of secrets, accusations, denials, and trivia questions
with a bundle of cash waiting at the end.
The only thing I can promise you is this:
no money will be harmed in the making of this episode.
I'm Craig Ferguson
and it's time for "The Hustler."
[mysterious classical music]
♪ ♪
Good evening! [cheers and applause]
Good evening and welcome to "The Hustler,"
a game of secrets, half-truths, and cutthroat competition.
Yes.
Tonight, you five players will team up
to answer ten trivia questions
worth $10,000 each.
You will be working together to solve those questions.
However, there is a player sitting among you
that has a secret.
They're the Hustler.
And the Hustler knows the answers
to all of my questions
because they are all inspired
by the Hustler's life and interests.
If the Hustler can remain undetected,
they will pocket every single dollar in the bank.
But if the final two of you can catch the Hustler,
then you'll steal the entire bank between you.
That's right.
During the game, the Hustler will eliminate two of you.
Let's meet you properly.
Rachel, if that is your real name.
[laughter] - It is.
- What do you do for a living?
- I'm in the construction industry.
- Oh, really, are you? - Really.
- Mm-hmm. Are you the Hustler? - No.
- Oh, God, I thought I was gonna catch you out there.
- Nope, nope, nope. - David.
- Yes, sir. - What do you do for a living?
- I am a seventh grade language arts teacher.
English, reading, writing.
- All right. Are you a hustler, David?
- I am a hustler, but I am not...
- But you're not the Hustler. - The Hustler.
- Okay, a fair enough reply. It might not be true.
Remember, he doesn't have to tell me the truth.
Erica, are you the Hustler?
- I am not, but I want to expand my boutique
so I'm looking forward to partnering with someone
and winning some money.
- Ah, okay. - I'm willing to share.
- You see what she did there, Tiffany?
She said, "I'm looking for someone"--
like, throwing it out that she's not the Hustler.
There's no way she's the Hustler.
But of course it could be you, Tiffany, couldn't it?
- Probably not. - Probably not?
Where are you from, Tiffany?
- I am from Milford, Connecticut.
- Are you the Hustler? - No.
- Okay.
Eric? - Yes, sir.
- What do you do?
- I am both a events coordinator--
- Uh-huh. - And also a career paramedic.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- So if anything goes horribly wrong--
- I can solve the case, yes. - Right, okay.
Or you could be lying and you're the Hustler.
- Maybe not. - Maybe not. Okay.
I'm thoroughly confused about who to believe
because I legitimately don't know
which one of you it is.
I don't know!
Let's start off with our first clue about the Hustler.
Please look at these books up there
that aren't really books.
Ah!
...on their body.
[suspicious music]
- I'm looking at Rachel and you've got great arms.
- Mm-hmm. - Appreciate it.
- Terry Crews over here. Do the pecs.
- Yeah!
- No, but you see this scar.
I had open-heart surgery, so--
- Oh, was it after the Olympics you got the surgery?
Whoa, see what I did? [laughter]
See what I did?
Yeah, that's what you have to do.
- Then again, Tiffany has the poise of an athlete.
- She does, she does. - I'm just gonna say that.
- That is true.
- You guys are quite confrontational
with each other right away.
You have to work as a team early on
but clearly that's not gonna happen.
Good luck to you all.
Here's your first of three questions
before the Hustler takes one of you out of the game.
The first question is...
What do the Olympic rings symbolize?
Do they symbolize the original five days of competition,
the five continents,
the five virtues,
events televised at 5:00 a. m.?
This is for $10,000 to put into the pot.
You have one minute to figure it out.
You all have to agree on the answer.
Go!
- We all agree we're taking away the--
- Yeah, taking out the 5:00 a. m.
- There's more than five continents.
- Is there though? - Wait.
both: North America, South America,
Africa, Asia, Antarctica.
- Ooh. [laughter]
- I'm torn between virtues and competition.
- It's supposed to be, like, bringing people together.
- I feel like virtues is nice. - Which is the continents.
Bringing the continents together probably.
- So what do we think the second worst answer is?
We know what the first worst answer is.
- The original five days of competition
'cause, like, right now, I feel like it goes on forever.
Like, it's, like, a month long, so was it actually five?
- Continents would maybe work then.
- Five seconds.
- Okay, well, I mean, we just counted out
there's five continents, right?
- Okay. - We're locking in continents?
- I can live with continents. - All right.
- Okay. - Okay.
Okay, we're locking in continents.
Remember, the Hustler knows the answer.
I'm just saying that's something
you might wanna look out for.
What do the Olympic rings symbolize?
You guys agreed it was the five continents.
The correct answer is...
the five continents! [all cheering]
$10,000 to begin the game with.
And battle commences!
[applause]
Our next clue about the Hustler is...
- Black ink. - Really?
Oh.
All right.
Something to remember. - Okay.
- Let's have a look at the next question.
The question is...
- Only the Hustler's gonna know this one.
- Yeah, come on. - Yes.
- Only the Hustler's gonna know this one.
So, Rachel, call it out. What is it?
- It is not me.
So that was a really good one, but it's not me.
- My, like, pseudo-adopted mom is Sicilian.
She loves squid ink pasta.
That's--I don't know if that's true,
but I will also say it was recently invented.
- That's awful convenient.
- So what are we talking? Sicily or Venice?
- Anybody else have a guess?
Nobody? - This one is, like--
- Been to Italy, but I really couldn't pinpoint it.
- 10,000 bucks at stake. Somebody say something.
- I know, but, I mean-- - Five seconds, everybody.
You gotta get something to agree on.
- Wait, Santorini is Greece, right?
- And that's it. What do you agree?
- We'll just throw an answer. Someone throw an answer.
- Erica, what did you say?
- Well, no one-- - Come on, Erica.
- Just put it out there.
Put it out there. - Come on, Erica.
- If no one has any answers, for my adopted mom,
I'm gonna say Sicily.
- You're gonna say Sicily. Everybody's okay with Sicily?
Squid ink pasta thought to have originated where?
You guys all said Sicily.
The correct answer is...
Sicily! - Yes!
- Oh, snap! [applause]
- [laughs] - All right.
- Two questions in
and you already have $20,000 in the bank.
I don't know who the Hustler is,
but that was kind of an interesting call.
I'm just saying!
- That was interesting how that happened.
- I think the Hustler knows
they couldn't answer that question.
- There's a little bit of finger pointing going on.
Maybe people are getting a little tense.
Which is exactly what the Hustler would want.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- After two questions,
the players have banked $20,000.
[cheers and applause] Is it--
yeah, it's very exciting!
Is that because of the Hustler or is that despite the Hustler?
We have one more question
before the Hustler makes their first elimination.
But first, let's look at the next clue
about the Hustler.
"This is the Hustler's fridge."
Aha! [laughter]
Wow, that's somebody that knows how to live.
[laughter]
Hmm. That help anyone?
Tiffany, whose fridge is that, do you think?
- Someone who's very busy. - Hmm.
- Busy. Someone who doesn't cook.
- Somebody who's maybe watching what they eat
because of a heart operation?
- I just like the fact
that they have the mustard upside down
so it will all flow--
- Ah.
What do you think? What do you think, Rachel?
Is that someone who's on a construction site maybe?
- I wouldn't say so, no. - No.
- You have to pack your lunch.
- I think it's Erica's fridge.
- Really? - I'm a cook.
- 'Cause she looks so put together
and she's so busy with business.
I think that's kind of a--
- She doesn't have time to cook, right?
- Doesn't have the time to cook.
- No time to cook--
- I cook almost every single night.
- It's the opposite of what you'd think about her.
- I cook almost every single night.
I'm not a big fan of eating out.
I also have, like, 5 million food allergies.
- What's your favorite meal to cook?
- Lasagna's definitely my go-to but I also grill a lot.
- You eat lasagna? - I do eat lasagna.
It has 2 1/2 pounds of meat and a pound of cheese.
It's delicious.
- All right, I'm getting hungry.
- I'm won over. - All those carbs? I don't--
- All right, sorry to interrupt this social chitchat--
- I also make it gluten free, so.
- Let's have a look at the question.
Hmm.
Is it the bottom freezer, conventional door,
is it the top freezer, conventional door,
is it the side by side,
or is it the French door, bottom freezer?
- Kay, logically. What is the logical answer?
- Well, I just think about the way that Freon works.
- What is Freon? - What do you know about Freon?
- Yeah, I was gonna say, how do you know about Freon?
- What do--wait, what do you do for work again?
- I never mentioned. Um... - Hmm.
- I just feel like--I feel like the top freezer conventional,
that's the most popular one.
That's the one you see everywhere,
so wouldn't that be the most energy efficient?
- Probably not.
- I was gonna say probably not.
- I would think it's the opposite of that.
Probably the bottom freezer one is the most efficient
because that's what came into favor most recently.
- Very good point.
- What do you think, David? - French door?
You're the teacher. Over there being quiet.
- I don't teach anything about refrigerators though.
- All right, time's up. Have you reached a conclusion?
- So we're gonna go bottom freezer for something.
- We're locking in the French door,
bottom freezer.
- French door, bottom freezer. Anyone object?
- Eric knows. - All right.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- French door, bottom freezer is your answer
for which style of refrigerator is the most energy efficient.
The correct answer is...
not French door, bottom freezer!
Ah! - David, David.
- The Hustler knew the right answer.
What is the right answer?
The right--top freezer, conventional door.
Didn't we all know that? I think we all knew that!
- Is that what Tiffany was saying?
- That is actually what I did say.
I'm not the Hustler. I'm just apparently very smart.
- She tried to push us in that direction.
- Yeah, she did, didn't she? - Right off the bat.
- Because of $10,000, not because I'm the Hustler.
It's just because I like money.
- Hmm. Hustler likes money too.
- Oh.
- The Hustler might be feeling the pressure
thinking that one or two of you
is getting close to identifying them.
So for protection,
they are going to eliminate one of you right now.
In the table drawer in front of you,
you will find a ballot with all of your names on it.
Please go ahead and get it out.
The process is simple.
I want you to check the player you want kicked out of here.
But, of course, for four of you,
it doesn't matter whose name you choose.
The Hustler's pick is the only one we care about.
Make your selections please.
And then when you're finished, pop it in this.
Thank you, David.
Thank you, Rachel.
And thank you, Tiffany, and thank you, Erica.
Watch this, you guys.
This is awesome.
Wah!
[whooshes]
The Hustler has made their choice.
[dramatic music]
One of you will be eliminated.
♪ ♪
The Hustler has decided to eliminate...
♪ ♪
David.
- Ah.
- Wow!
David, I'm so sorry.
Particularly because I thought it was you.
[laughter]
Why do you think the Hustler got rid of you?
- Maybe I'm hard to read.
- Yeah, you are hard to read.
I thought you were an Olympic athlete.
- Well, I'll take that as a compliment.
- That is a compliment! [laughter]
Do you have any idea who you think it is?
- Yes. - Oh?
Who do you think it is?
- I think it's Tiffany.
- Wow! Okay.
Well-- - Interesting choice.
- Time will tell.
Come with me, David. Nothing bad's gonna happen.
Just come with me.
Come on. - Good luck, guys.
Good luck. - Come on, David.
Nothing bad. [cheers and applause]
Just stand there, David.
Don't be frightened. Nothing bad's gonna happen.
It's not like anything's like a--oh, no!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
[gasps] Ah!
[cheers and applause]
After three questions,
you have banked $20,000.
That's very, very good. - Yes.
[cheers and applause]
- And the Hustler is still hiding
in plain sight.
Whoever you are, Hustler, you're a heartless monster.
And I'm very impressed. Well done.
[harp flourish]
[cheers and applause]
- Okay.
So far, we've learned some interesting things
about the Hustler,
$20,000 has been banked,
and one player, the lovely David,
has been unceremoniously eliminated.
What I'm trying to say is, I'm having a great time.
Let's continue my enjoyment with our next clue
about the Hustler's identity, shall we?
The Hustler raced street cars for years.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
Oh. What do you think, Erica?
- I'm wondering what kind of car everyone drives.
- What kind of car do you drive, Erica?
- Right now, I have my mom's hand-me-down.
It's a Subaru Outback.
- Subaru Outback. Excellent car.
Tiffany, what do you drive?
- I drive a car. - Uh-huh.
- Four wheels.
- Sure. Eric?
What car do you drive?
- I have an Audi. - Uh-huh.
- A7, yeah. - Okay.
That's fine. - It's kind of a fast car but--
- Rachel, do you drive? - I do.
Mm-hmm. - What do you drive, Rachel?
- A Mazda.
- Excellent car.
Remember what you're doing.
You're trying to form a picture of this person in your head
or, if you're the Hustler, you're trying to deflect
that picture from other people's heads.
Anyway, here is the next question.
Is it "2 Fast 2 Furious,"
"The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift,"
"Fast Five," or "Furious 7"?
- "2 Fast 2 Furious," he was in that one.
- I haven't seen any of 'em, so I don't even know.
- You haven't seen a single one.
- Not one--well, I saw one.
- Every human being has seen a "Fast and the Furious" movie.
There's 12 of them!
- I saw the first one then. I saw the first one.
- I know I saw the first one. - Yes.
- But he was not in the second one that I saw.
So--'cause it made me mad
'cause I had a huge crush on him.
- I don't know why--I'm feeling like "Tokyo Drift."
I don't know why.
I just--I didn't actually see anything past the second one.
- I'll trust you. - Rachel, very quiet over here.
You don't have an answer? - I'll trust you.
- No answer? - I'll trust the "Tokyo Drift."
- I mean, I could be wrong.
I didn't see 5, I didn't see 7,
but I know he was gone and then they brought him back,
so those are at the end of it, so then logically--
- He was in the last one.
- If he was in the last one-- how do you know?
You didn't see it. - No, no, I'm asking.
- Eight seconds. - Is that the last one?
"Furious 7"? - Eight seconds.
- I say "Tokyo Drift." That's my vote.
- I agree, let's do "Tokyo Drift."
- I'm going to be tough with you guys.
It's going to be--what is it? both: "Tokyo Drift."
- "Tokyo Drift"?
Everyone's good for "Tokyo Drift"?
All right.
The "Fast and Furious" franchise,
the film that Vin Diesel did not appear in,
you think it was "The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift."
That's the one you've agreed on.
The correct answer is...
- Damn. - Oh, it's not that one.
- [groans] - What one is it then?
The correct answer is "2 Fast 2 Furious."
- [groans] - What?
But wait, the Hustler knew that!
- Somebody-- - And allowed that to happen.
- Is trying to throw us off. - I feel like--yeah.
Well, I feel like, Tiffany,
you were confident on the last two
and the only one that had an idea.
And if David thought you were the Hustler--
- And I was right on one and I was wrong on the other.
So... - Mm-hmm.
- All right. - I don't know.
- Let's see what this new clue will teach us
about the Hustler.
Take a look at this.
Ah! [laughter]
That's a picture of the great Sean Connery.
[as Sean Connery] Well, Hustler,
this is your lucky day.
[laughter]
Look amongst you as I am talking
and see who seems to be the most excited.
[laughter]
[normal voice] All right.
Here's the next question.
"Which of these Bond films did not star Sean Connery?"
Which of these films?
- Did we see "Thunderball," anybody?
- Any ideas?
- I know I've seen "Diamonds Are Forever."
- And who was in it?
- Well, I know Sean Connery was in it, but--
- So it's not that one. - Yeah, he was in that.
- It's not that one. - Yeah.
- So we can eliminate that. For sure.
- I thought he was in all of them for some reason.
- It looks like-- - Needs some money.
- Are we going between "Thunderball"
and "You Only Live Twice"?
Are those kind of what we're looking at?
- That's what I think.
- I mean, I guess if you think those are the two.
I only eliminated "Diamonds Are Forever."
- Yeah, I know not "Diamonds Are Forever."
"Live and Let Die"--
- I'd only say "Thunderball"
because I haven't seen that one.
I don't know.
- I thought I'd seen "You Only Live Twice"
and I thought he was in it.
I thought he was in everything that I've seen.
Oh, he's not--you know he's not in that one.
- Is he in that? I'm asking. - Five seconds, guys.
Make a decision. - You said "Thunderball."
Are we going with that one, Eric?
- Three, two, one. - I don't know, are we?
- Time's up. What's it gonna be?
- Erica?
- Why are you looking at me?
- Be forceful, Eric! - I haven't seen--
- "You Only Live Twice"? Is that the one?
- Sure. - What's it gonna be?
- "You Only Live Twice." - "You Only Live Twice"?
Yes? All right, then.
You guys think that "You Only Live Twice"
is one of the Bond films that did not star Sean Connery.
Is that the correct answer?
No, of course it isn't. - Come on! Okay, wait.
- No, the correct answer is "Live and Let Die."
- Oh, it was neither one of 'em.
- Roger Moore! "Live and Let Die"!
♪ One life for your dreams ♪ - Mm.
- ♪ Live and let die ♪
♪ I'm not singing the right tune ♪
♪ So that we don't have to pay for it ♪
[laughter]
Now, here's the thing.
The Hustler knew the answer to that question.
And yet let it slip through their fingers.
Worth remembering.
You have $20,000 in the bank.
Let's see what the next clue will reveal.
[suspicious music]
Hmm.
This is an impressive individual.
All right.
Let's have a look at the next question.
Is it Reese Witherspoon, Emma Watson,
Natalie Portman, or Mindy Kaling?
- What do we think, guys?
Let's start winning some money here, come on.
- I know. I'm thinking in my head Reese.
- I think she went to Harvard.
I don't know where Natalie Portman went.
- Is Reese out of the question?
- I don't know. - No.
I know she lives-- she's a California girl.
- Gosh, this is another one that's hard.
- These are all really hard questions.
- I feel like that's somewhere
Natalie Portman would have gone.
She's very smart and very pretty.
- Emily Watson went-- or Emma Watson went to Harvard.
I'm pretty certain. - Oh, okay.
- I'm pretty certain. Thank you, "Harry Potter."
- I know she went to one of the Ivy Leagues, but--
- I think Reese Witherspoon went to Vassar.
- Ten seconds. - Really?
I don't know how you know that.
- We have ten seconds. - Vassar--
- Who's it down to? - Three, two, one.
- Natalie Portman. - Make a decision!
- Natalie Portman! - There it is.
- Let's lock in Natalie Portman, yes.
- You've got it, guys!
"Which of the following actresses
can claim Stanford as her alma mater?"
You say Natalie Portman.
The correct answer, is it Natalie Portman?
I really hope it is. - Oh, my--
- Oh, my God. - It's not Natalie Portman.
- Are you kidding me? - Who is it then?
Who is it? It's Reese Witherspoon!
Oh! I did not see that coming.
- She lives in California. - I said that!
- Oh, did you! - What?
You said every single name! - Did you?
- Not 'cause I'm the Hustler but I said it.
- Mm. All right, listen.
You have $20,000 in the bank.
All the way back at the beginning of the game,
I promised you two eliminations
and, gosh darn it, I'm a man of my word.
In a few moments, the Hustler will remove
one more of you from the study.
Again, in the table,
please take out the envelope,
mark the person you want to see leave the game,
and then again realize
it's a completely futile gesture
unless you're the Hustler.
The only choice that matters is the Hustler's.
- Ready. - Thank you, Eric.
Thank you, Tiffany.
Thank you, Rachel. And thank you, Erica.
I'm gonna send this away.
The Hustler has made their choice.
And wah!
[whooshes]
It is so sad
that one of you helped to bank the $20,000
and that one will never see any of that money.
And it's all because of a person here
who's hiding in plain sight.
Who is it?
[dramatic music]
[cheers and applause]
- When we last left the four of you,
the Hustler had marked another one of you
for elimination.
I'm afraid it's now time to find out who that is.
Who is the next person that will be leaving us please?
Magical bookcase?
- No! - Eric!
Oh, no!
- [sighs]
- Oh, I'm so sorry, Eric.
You must be sitting in the unlucky chair.
It's weird. - Yeah, across from Tiffany.
- Oh, you think it's Tiffany?
- I'm sitting across from Tiffany.
- Wow.
- I think she knows I'm onto her
so she had to cut me out.
- You think that's what it is? - I'm pretty sure, yeah.
- What do you think, Tiffany?
Are you upset by his accusation?
- No, not at all. - Okay.
- 'Cause it means my strategy worked.
- Your strategy is-- - The Hustler's strategy.
- Well, your strategy is what? What is your strategy?
To make people think you're the Hustler
because you are the Hustler?
- No, because that way
it keeps me in the game as long as possible
so then I can call the Hustler out at the end.
I'm no use to them if they don't think it's me.
- I don't know, I don't know. - She's got a point.
- You're probably safer getting out now.
Come on, get out of here. - I'm out of here.
- Look, don't worry.
It's not gonna be painful or anything.
Just close your eyes. It's just like going to sleep.
Okay? Just like going to sleep.
[half-hearted scream]
[cheers and applause]
Well, well, well.
We know one thing about the Hustler.
The Hustler is a woman. That's all we know.
[laughter]
No more eliminations.
With just a few questions left,
can the Hustler fool everyone and take home all the money?
Now let's see what the next clue reveals to us.
The Hustler owns 100 pairs of sneakers.
That's interesting.
All right. Well, now you know.
Let's look at the next question.
"Kanye West became the first non-athlete
"to get a shoe deal with which company
in 2009?"
Adidas, Nike, New Balance, or Reebok?
- I'm gonna eliminate Adidas because--or Adidas
because I've never seen him wear stripes.
- Mm-mm. - Yeah.
- New Balance actually went to--
and I can't remember his name
but there was a different rapper.
- Reebok and Nike do athletes.
- But he was the first non-athlete, so somebody--
- Well, that's what I'm saying.
So Nike and Reebok have always done athletes.
- So then it's gonna be Reebok or Nike.
- It's gonna be Reebok or Nike. - So it's a coin flip.
- I would think who can afford Kanye West?
- Nike is very-- it's the biggest--
one of the biggest athletic brands.
That I do know.
- Then let's say Nike. - Nine seconds.
- I think it's Nike.
- Okay, I'm gonna agree with you.
- I believe it's Nike. - I agree with you then.
- You all believe it's Nike?
- Yes. - You have two seconds.
One second. - We're going with Nike.
- Yep. - Nike it is.
Okay.
"Kanye West became the first non-athlete
to get a shoe deal with which company in 2009?"
You all think it was Nike.
The correct answer is... is it Nike?
Yes, it is Nike!
- All right.
- Correct answer.
[cheers and applause] - [sighs]
- Well done, Hustler, for getting that one through,
whoever got it through.
I don't know. I can't remember.
Let's go on to the eighth clue about the Hustler, shall we?
- "The Hustler has a convincing French accent--
[in French accent] "And sometimes claims
to be French."
[laughter]
I'm sorry I'm now speaking totally French.
[normal voice] I thought that was pretty good.
All right, let's have a look at the next question.
Which of the following French items
actually originated in France?
French toast, French manicure, French doors, French vanilla.
- I will immediately rule out French vanilla.
- I was gonna guess French vanilla, so why--
- I make homemade French vanilla
and you buy the beans from, like, Madagascar
or Tahiti or--they're not--
- Yeah, that's vanilla, but what about French vanilla?
Like, maybe they French-ophiled it.
- No, no, no, that's what they call it.
So that one-- well, okay, that's true.
- 'Cause I was gonna say French vanilla
and then you just automatically ruled it out, so...
- I don't think it's French manicure.
I think that that's just-- - Like, a term.
- I think it's a term.
French toast?
I feel like it's too American
to ever really come from France.
I'm torn between doors and vanilla.
- That was-- see, I thought vanilla
but I mean--
- I wanna--I mean, well, okay.
- But you also said no vanilla. - I make homemade vanilla.
I've never seen any recipes mention France.
I actually just made some two nights ago.
Um...
- So are we saying doors? - Ten seconds.
- Doors to me, just because of the architecture
and the other clue
was something about French refrig--
- Five seconds. - Well, French refrigerators.
I'm gonna say the doors.
- We'll go with-- - Have we agreed?
- Wait, wait, wait, are you-- - No--well, French doors--
- No, no, no, no, wait. We have to go now.
What do we agree on? both: French doors.
- French doors? - Erica thinks French doors.
- All right.
"Which of the following French items
actually originated in France?"
You all think it is French doors.
The correct answer, is it French doors?
Is it French doors? It is French doors!
- Okay. - Well done.
You have added another $10,000 to the bank.
You now have $40,000, says the magical painting.
$40,000.
But if you three, you think you've got this figured out,
then think again.
A twist is coming
that will change everything.
[cheers and applause]
- The final three players.
Congratulations.
There's $40,000 in the bank.
But I still have two more questions!
[in French accent] Deux more questions!
And one giant curveball to throw at you.
[normal voice] But we'll save that
for the last part
after this clue about the Hustler.
Well, well, well.
Little bit Howard Hughes, isn't it?
Okay, let's look at the next question.
What was used to make the stabbing sound
for the shower scene in "Psycho"?
Was it raw turkey, melon,
leather cushion, or cabbage?
You have one minute to agree on something
beginning now.
- I don't think that cabbage would make a sound.
- I was just gonna say.
- I just genuinely don't.
- Also cabbage is crunchy. - A leather cushion, like--
- A leather cushion-- - A melon is very "munchy."
Like, it's a "munchy" sound. - Yeah.
I'm torn between turkey and melon
because a leather cushion, again, it's not gonna make a--
That's, like, rippy. - Yeah.
- It's actually harder than skin.
- What does it--have either of you seen this movie?
I don't watch scary movies.
- I'm torn between melon and raw turkey.
- Well, what I--
- And one of you is definitely gonna know the answer.
- Pfft. I ask because if they stabbed them in the head,
that would sound like a melon to me, right, like--
- Well, raw turkey would also sound much more flesh-like
'cause it is flesh.
- Yeah, so if they stab them in the flesh--
like, if the stab was in the head,
I wanna go with melon.
- It wasn't in the head. - It was not?
- I don't believe so. - Time's up, ladies.
What's it gonna be? all: Raw turkey.
"What was used to make the stabbing sound
in the shower scene in 'Psycho'?"
You said raw turkey.
Is that the correct answer, raw turkey?
No, it's not!
Well, what is the correct answer?
The correct answer is melon.
Hmm.
Now, let's think about this for a minute.
How did we get to the answer of raw turkey?
Can you think back?
Who was pushing for melon? Do you remember?
'Cause the Hustler-- - Erica was pushing for melon.
- Oh, really?
- I said if it's the head and where did they stab
and I think that makes sense.
Like, I wanted to understand the sound.
I didn't know--when you said the melon sounds "munchy,"
I don't know, but a melon's like a head.
- Have you ever stabbed a melon?
[laughter]
- I've cut open a melon before.
Like, a watermelon, it's hollow.
Like, it seems like the head. - That's true, that's true.
Tiffany, have you ever stabbed anything?
I think you're gonna say yes.
[laughter]
- Only food.
- Slightly scared of her. - I will say--
- Well, what are you-- you have been very quiet
in this whole game, Rachel.
- I have. - I feel like you--I--
- I said raw turkey 'cause it's flesh.
Like, it would be a fleshy noise.
Like, there's bones in it. Like--
- She tried to--Erica tried to steer us towards melon.
She tried to steer us towards French doors.
- Okay, I'm gonna say-- - That's fair.
- And you think that's a giveaway
because the Hustler knows the answer?
- And now they're trying to make some money.
- I'm gonna say but the clue
was that they're afraid of shower curtains.
I make shower curtains.
That's one of the random things that I like to design.
I love, like, decorative shower curtains.
- You make shower curtains? - You design shower curtains?
- Randomly, yeah!
- You--randomly, you design shower curtains.
- I do. I also do a lot of, like--
- Nobody randomly designs a shower curtain!
- My friend--and randomly designs light cover--
I like doing, like, home décor.
- Is that what your pseudo-Sicilian mother
got you into doing?
[laughter] - No.
She says she's not crafty, but I'm crafty.
- Oh, you very crafty.
You very crafty. Okay.
[laughter]
- Everybody okay? Everybody cool?
We cool? We're cool.
Right, everybody cool? How much is on the table?
How much money do we have set up here?
$40,000 for the Hustler to take away
or for the other two, whoever they may be, to split,
which is an incredibly large sum of money,
but I feel like you could use a little extra push.
That's why
if you get this last trivia question correct,
I'm gonna double the final take
up to $80,000.
$80,000 if you get the question right.
If you get it wrong-- which you have no excuse to do
because the Hustler knows the answer, remember?
I am gonna cut it in half to $20,000.
- Shoot. Okay.
- Mm-hmm.
This is a very big change in money
we're talking about here.
Is this the kind of money
that leads the Hustler to make a mistake?
$80,000?
Or $20,000?
- Oh, no.
- Here's the last clue about the Hustler.
The Hustler flew to Croatia on a second date
and went to this waterfall.
Oh, look at that waterfall.
Rachel, you in a committed relationship?
- It's complicated.
- Have you been on a second date with ever--
anyone ever in your life?
- I have. - Did you go to Croatia?
- No, I have not-- - Have you been to Croatia?
- I have not been outside of the country.
- Oh, really? - That's--okay.
Do you have a passport?
- I got one two weeks ago.
- Really? Where you going?
Croatia again? - No.
So I was a part of a pageant
and the prize was you get to go to London
but I don't get to, so I didn't win.
- You know, I always think that people,
when they're not telling the truth,
they give too much information.
- Mm-hmm. - You think that?
Is that true? I don't know.
That's a--I've heard of that before,
but I don't know if that's true.
Okay.
Your final question is...
Is it the Adriatic Sea, the Baltic Sea,
the Mediterranean Sea, or the Sea of Love?
- I feel like Sea of Love's too obvious.
- Yeah, that's like-- - Would we all agree on that?
- Yeah, that's--no. - Okay.
- I think it can't be the Sea of Love.
I would say no, it's not the Baltic.
- So Mediterranean or Adriatic.
- Geography and I, not friends. - I'm torn.
- So...
- When they say, like, the Med,
that's more, like, Greece and everything lower.
That we do know.
- And then is Croatia above that?
- Croatia is, like, across the sea
from Italy.
I know that.
- So is it, like, Mediterra-- are you thinking Mediterranean?
- No, I'm thinking it's--
I think the Mediterranean is too southern.
- So Baltic or Adriatic.
- Ten seconds, ladies.
- Adriatic or Baltic. I'm really torn.
I just feel like you know more about Europe than I do.
- I'm gonna be very tough with you.
You all better agree on this.
- I've only been to Europe once.
But I was in Venice and-- - Three, two, one.
- Wait, no, no, no, the Adriatic Sea's by Venice.
- What sea is it? - The Adriatic Sea.
- I'll take it away if you don't tell me right now.
- Adriatic Sea.
- The Adriatic Sea? You all agree?
Okay, "A romantic getaway in Dubrovnik, Croatia,
might include a stroll on the banks of what sea?"
You said it would be the Adriatic Sea.
The correct answer is the...
[dramatic music]
Adriatic Sea. - Yes!
[cheers and applause] - [laughs]
Aha-ha!
Oh-ho!
Now, here's the thing:
I knew the answer to that one, but I'm not the Hustler.
One of you knew the answer to that too.
- Okay, so I know Rachel's been really quiet.
You claim you're bad at geography,
but I feel like some of the directions
you've been pushing, you seem to know.
Tiffany, I feel like I don't know a lot about you,
but it seems kind of too obvious.
I feel like I've definitely been, like,
throwing myself under the bus with some things
but I have some weird hobbies!
I actually do design shower curtains--
- Are you accusing yourself of being the Hustler?
[laughter] - No!
- I did not see that coming! - She's the hustler.
- See, I'm torn between--
I feel like Erica has been-- like, she was there.
I don't know that--
I don't know that Rachel would've let us bunk
on that last question
and you came through with the last end.
- Would've let us bunk?
- Like, would've let it go. - No, no, no, wait.
I think Rachel came through
at the very end of that question, didn't you?
I mean, I said--remember, I was doing that tough guy act.
I was saying, like, you better tell me
and then Rachel said Adriatic.
- I know-- - I did agree with Erica.
I did agree with Erica.
- I'm torn between you both to be honest with you.
- I'm torn between the both of you.
I mean, we're all torn between the both of each other.
- My strategy for whoever is not the Hustler
was to stay in as long as possible
because--to potentially look like I'm the Hustler
'cause I'm of no use to you.
You would've voted me off.
She's not the Hustler. Why keep her in the game?
- But then wouldn't that also be the strategy
to seem like you are the Hustler
to deter us from thinking--
- You're going in circles.
Look, a final vote is coming up
to decide who wins the money.
You could cut the tension in this study with a knife.
Truth be told, I'm very ner-- I've never been this nervous.
I think I might be the Hustler
just so everyone else can calm down.
[cheers and applause]
- We're at the part of the game
where we'll finally figure out
which of you three is the Hustler.
I am going to ask the three of you
who you think the Hustler is.
If the two players who are not the Hustler
can agree on the Hustler's identity,
you will split the cash,
each taking home $40,000.
But if one of you is wrong,
then the Hustler will walk away with the whole thing.
$80,000.
Now, let's recap
what we've learned about the Hustler.
The Hustler is a former Olympian.
They have a sparse refrigerator.
The Hustler loves Sean Connery's accent.
They went to Stanford on a full scholarship
despite being dyslexic.
[suspicious music]
The Hustler flew to Croatia
on a second date.
Well, we are talking about a complicated individual.
That is for sure. - Mm.
- On the table in front of you,
you'll see a tile
with your opponents' names on it.
On my cue, I want you to place the tile in the stand
and show me who you believe the Hustler is.
♪ ♪
- [exhales]
- Now, it's a two to one shot, Erica.
- I know! - There you go. All right.
Erica. - Mm-hmm.
- Both Tiffany and Rachel think that you are the Hustler.
They may be right, they may be wrong.
You have your opportunity now to make your final argument
about who you think it is.
Put it back, put it back!
What are you doing? - I'm not sure!
- Put it back. Just put it the way you had it.
- Can I switch it? - What the hell, Erica?
Put it back! Gee!
This is the way you had it.
You're still gonna have time to change it.
I can't keep up! - I'm stressed.
- You guys are-- you're stressed?
I've gotta do this and look great!
[laughter]
You have a final debate
to figure it out for yourselves.
If you two are right, you split the money.
If one of you is wrong,
then the Hustler will take home $80,000.
Two minutes.
$80,000 on the line. Go.
- Erica, convince me that you're not it.
- Mm-hmm.
- Because I'm geared towards you.
Convince me that you're not it.
I'm gonna tell you right now, it is not me.
Convince me it's not you
so that we don't make a $40,000 mistake.
- I want $40,000.
I'm gonna show you something
that I usually never show people.
I'm gonna steal his move.
This is why I'm not an Olympian.
I wish I could still do sports.
17 years old, fell down my attic stairs,
crashed on our concrete floor, and shattered my ankle.
So I usually-- and I don't usually show it,
which is why I wore a long skirt.
I typically wear boots
because I'm actually kind of ashamed of all those scars.
- Then it's Rachel. Then it's Rachel.
- It's definitely not. - Definitely Rachel then.
It's Rachel. - Well, okay, I'm--
- I didn't do any sports in high school or anything.
- Rachel, if I look at your arms and your body,
I can see you do a lot of sports.
Figure skate and then-- - I've been in pageantry.
So I'm always working out.
- There's always a talent act in--
- No. - My mom also did pageants.
There is always a talent-- - No, there's not.
Not in the USA. - Okay.
- I feel like maybe it's Rachel.
- So here, wait, my construction site thing--
you definitely are wearing sneakers
or, you know, you're wearing close-toed shoes.
- Mm-hmm.
- So that's where I also get the sneaker thing.
- Well, now I'm almost thinking it's you
because now you're coming at me and I know it's not me.
- It's not me 'cause I was very honest
about my strategy from the beginning.
My strategy was appear like it
and then come in at the last minute
and switch it up.
So then it's Rachel then, Erica.
Then, Erica, then it's Rachel. - I want to--can we just--
- Can I change it now?
- Wait, Tiffany, I wanna partner with you.
- If you change it to me, then I'm changing it to you.
- Ooh. - That's fine.
'Cause if--'cause then-- if you change it, it's fine.
'Cause then it's still you. - But then we still--yeah.
- It's not. - So then it's Rachel.
- But it's not. - So then it's Rachel.
- I promise it's not me.
- Wait, we cannot lose this money.
- It's Rachel. - No, it's definitely Tiffany.
- No, do not do this. - It's Tiffany.
- You are gonna make a $40,000 mistake!
It is not me.
- Seriously, it's Tiffany. - It is 1,000% not me.
- I promise.
- And if you're gonna change it, you're gonna be wrong.
- Okay, okay! You're very convincing.
- No, no, I am promising you. No.
I have two different size legs. - It is Rachel.
- What do you mean you have two different--
everyone has two different size legs!
- No, look at it! - Everyone has--no!
- All right, all right, all right, everybody.
Shut up, shut up. That's it, shut up!
- It's definitely Tiffany! - It's not me!
- Ah! - It is Tiffany.
- Ah! One last chance.
Is your tablet facing the way you want it to be?
- We are gonna walk out of here with 40 grand.
- No, you're not. - I promise you we are.
- It would be you and I.
- I promise you we're gonna walk out with 40 grand.
- It's her, seriously. - If you change it, we're--
- No, just no. - Okay, okay, okay, okay!
- Okay, I'm sorry, that's it!
- I mean it. - That's it!
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
I knew it. - All right.
Now listen, just so we all understand,
Erica and Tiffany,
you surmise that Rachel is the Hustler.
Now we have to remember, this whole thing started
with Tiffany and Rachel accusing Erica,
but Erica, you have turned it around
so now Tiffany and Erica
are now saying it's Rachel.
If you are right, you'll each get $40,000.
But if Rachel is not the Hustler,
the Hustler may have fooled everyone
and win the entire $80,000.
I genuinely don't know the answer.
And I'm genuinely scared to find out
no matter what the answer is!
- 'Cause you have three amazing women
sitting right here.
- Yes, I do, and you've all played an amazing game.
But we've come to that point.
Hustler, will you please stand and reveal yourself?
♪ ♪
Oh, no!
[cheers and applause] - Damn it.
- Oh, no!
[laughing]
You just won $80,000.
Oh!
- Thanks, ladies.
- How does it feel?
You feel good? I mean, it's 80 grand.
- My daddy always told me to never lie
so I haven't lied probably since I was, like, seven
except for little white lies,
but hopefully this is an $80,000 lie, Daddy.
- Well, you know, I have to say,
for someone that hasn't lied since they were seven--
- 'Cause my dad beat my butt. - You took to it really well!
You had me. You played a great game.
I mean, really. I did not think it was you.
Erica has won $80,000.
Thank you for joining us, everyone.
I am Craig Ferguson. This is "The Hustler."
Good night, everybody. Good night.
[cheers and applause]
That, young lady, was outstanding.
- Really? - That was outstanding.
- Thank you! - Unbelievable.
- You know, should've just stuck with my first instinct,
which was Erica.
- I won $80,000
and I could not be more excited.
I'm just gonna, like, jump up and down in my little skirt
and be very happy.
- It's pretty intense
to watch $40,000 just slip through your hands.
- I don't really own a clothing boutique in Dallas.
I'm actually a tech product manager
in Silicon Valley.
- She got me.
She got me good.
- I was really an Olympian.
I represented the U. S.
in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
I competed in the triple jump and was recently inducted
into the Stanford Hall of Fame.
- I--I can't even be mad
'cause she played a fantastic game.
She hustled me.