- Deceit, duplicity,
dishonesty, and trivia questions.
Stay with me on this one.
Tonight someone will get rich or lie trying.
I'm craig ferguson and this is "the hustler."
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
good evening and welcome to "the hustler,"
a game where an ounce of truth and a few pounds of fibs
go a long way to winning a ton of money.
It's all weight related there. You see what I--
I'm a bit worried about my weight.
All right, you five need to work
together to answer ten trivia questions
worth $10,000 each,
except one of you has a secret.
They're the hustler--
a player who already knows all of the answers,
because all of the questions are inspired by their life
and their experience.
The hustler's goal is to keep their identity unknown
for the entire game.
If they're successful,
they'll walk away with all of the money,
but if the remaining players expose who the hustler is,
then they'll snatch away the cash for themselves.
Yes, I did say remaining.
As the game progresses,
the hustler will have the chance
to eliminate two of you.
Right now, though I want to learn a little bit
about you guys.
Amanda, if that is your real name.
- Maybe. - Are you the hustler?
- Possibly.
- Mm, what do you do for a living?
- I'm a small business owner.
- Oh, what's the small business?
Hustling? [all laughing]
- maybe. - Okay.
I think she's being very cagey, delrae.
Don't you think? - Uh, really, really cagey.
- Mm-hmm.
What do you do for a living, delrae?
- I am a bail bonds agent.
- Bail bonds agent?
- I thought--I thought I recognized you.
I'll get that to you. I'm sorry.
I'm just a little short this week.
- Yeah, don't worry about it. - Are you a hustler, delrae?
- Not at all. - No.
You haven't picked up any criminal activity techniques?
- Not this week. - Mm-hmm.
Do you believe him, kate? - No.
[laughs] - okay.
Already? - Already.
- I mean, come on.
- All right, what do you do for a living, kate?
- I'm a family law paralegal.
- Family law. That's like divorce.
- Yes.
- Oh, I've probably met you, too, then.
- [laughs] maybe a couple times.
- Yeah--actually, yes. A couple of times.
Yeah, are you the hustler, kate?
- No, but I'm here to find out who is.
- Okay. Cody.
- Howdy. - Are you the hustler?
- I know how to hustle, rustle, and bustle,
but I'm not the hustler. - Wow.
Where are you from, partner?
- I'm from mount vernon, kentucky.
- You believe him? - Not at all.
- He's got a little bit of the "aww shucks" going on,
doesn't he? Yeah, I don't know.
It's good, though. I don't know.
See, the thing is, you gotta remember,
I don't know who it is.
Richard, do you know who it is? - I don't yet.
- Is it you? - It's not me.
- Where you from? - I'm from newnan, georgia.
- What do you do for a living? - I'm a travel writer.
- A travel writer? - Travel writer.
- Have you been to scotland? - I have been to scotland.
- Really? Did you get drunk?
- Uh, a lot. - Yeah, yeah.
Very good. Are you the hustler?
- I'm not the hustler. Not at all.
- Okay, but I notice you are already sizing each other up
and that is a smart thing to do.
You're searching for tells.
We're gonna have our first clue tonight
about the hustler. Here's the first clue.
Magical bookcase,
if you would please give us the first clue?
Wow. Does that help you?
Anybody here, uh, strike you as being religious?
- Well, I do know richard likes to travel,
so maybe--yeah. - Flagstaff.
Big destination for people going along the I-40.
- Yeah.
- I'm leaning more towards cody.
- Oh, you are? - He seems real, you know--
- I love god. - Yeah, yeah?
Really? Nothing wrong with that.
Nothing--no one's hating on you for that.
You're a very quiet man. You gotta wa--
watch out for the quiet ones. That's the tip.
- Right, I'm just wondering on the bail bonds,
when you bail people out of jail,
do you--are you only licensed in california
or do you go other states? - Good question.
- Just california.
You gotta just hang out in this area
where you're licensed at. - Are you sure?
- Oh, I'm pretty sure.
I've been doing it for a lot of years now.
- Wow, this is like frostiness came into the room
all of a sudden, eh?
Everyone was friendly and then I think
we all remembered there's money on the line.
- [laughs] - all right.
Here's the first of three questions
before the hustler takes one of you out of the game.
Is it "genesis," "exodus," "joshua," or "kings?"
one minute. You've gotta agree.
Off you go.
- I know that "genesis" is, like, origin, creation--
- and that's the first book. - Yes.
- That's the first book. I do know that.
- Gotta be "exodus," right?
- I'm thinking "exodus" for a stupid reason,
but I'm thinking exodus.
- I'm in on it 'cause I--
yeah, I don't go to church.
- So I will trust you on the "exodus"
only for the--for a stupid reason,
but I'm not for sure,
and I'm gonna go with whatever you guys go with
because I am not 100% sure. - "exodus."
- I'm good with "exodus."
- so what have you gone for?
All: "exodus."
"exodus," you said. Okay.
Is that the correct answer, "exodus?"
"exodus" is the correct answer.
$10,000!
[applause] - [laughs]
- now... - Good job, gang.
- Let's remember this, though, everybody.
Let's remember this.
The hustler knew the answer
to that question.
So, anybody you feel pushed
the agenda there a little bit,
delrae, you think? - Amanda.
She's so smooth, you know, and just calm,
and she says she didn't know it but she's going with it.
I'm--I'm with you. - So--
- by the way,
what kind of business do you have?
- I own an escape room. - A who?
- An escape room. - An escape room.
- I've always wanted to do that.
[laughs] those sound so fun.
- I do, like, a lot of, um, lease negotiations
and a lot of--I like to build. I like to grow.
So I like to go out of state.
I like to build all of my things.
That's why I know about licensing.
- So you go out of state, too?
- I have gone out of state.
- You're very quiet there, richard.
You enjoying this?
You enjoying watching them tear each other apart
while you sit and relax? - I'm here to win the money.
- You and cody sitting there.
Let's look at the next clue.
Magical bookcase, please.
Oh, here's a clue.
Why, it's--it's paul rudd.
He's my favorite.
He is!
Well, let me just say, whoever you are, hustler,
good choice!
Good choice. Paul rudd is awesome.
Anybody here admit to liking paul rudd?
I will, for a start. I love paul rudd.
- Everybody loves paul rudd. - I'm sorry.
He was my man crush Monday. [laughs]
just saying. - Yeah?
You two don't like paul rudd?
- What does he-- what does he star in?
- Oh, yeah, okay.
- How do you not know paul rudd?
Oh, come on. - Guys, come on.
Everybody knows paul rudd.
[all speaking at once]
- like, "oh, I don't know." - okay.
- Yeah. Okay.
All right, next question is...
Is it "sense and sensibility," "pride and prejudice,"
"mansfield park," or "emma?"
- all right, katie. Come on.
- I may not know the bible, but I know "clueless."
it is "emma." [laughing]
I am telling you. I am confident it's "emma."
both: I have no idea.
- I could not tell you even if I could tell you.
- So, I know what "clueless" is.
I know the movie but I couldn't tell you on the books so--
- yeah. - All right, "emma."
- counting on you for ten grand.
- We're trusting you, katie.
- I am 95% sure it's "emma." [laughing]
- let's go. - You guys agreed?
- "emma." - okay.
Paul rudd's breakout film "clueless"
is based on what jane austen novel?
You all agreed it was "emma."
the correct answer is of course "emma."
- whoo, yeah!
- Yes!
I got it! Like--
[laughing]
yeah!
- $20,000 in the bank, said the magical painting.
[laughing]
don't forget what I did for you.
[laughing] just saying.
- Or did you do it for you?
- Oh. - Hey.
- So far the undercover one is playing pretty cool,
but there's more questions and a whole lot more money
up for grabs.
[cheers and applause]
- so, so far you have earned $20,000.
Well done, everybody,
but there's a lot more money can be won.
We have one more question before the hustler makes
their first elimination.
Let's move on to the next clue, shall we?
The hustler is armed.
- Anyone own guns besides me?
- I have one but I don't have a shotgun.
- There's a good use for a shotgun
for a bail bondsman. - You can't use a shotgun.
You have to use handguns.
- So everybody here has a gun
or doesn't have a gun? - I don't.
- You have some handguns, you don't have a gun,
you're from-- you have a gun.
- I have a gun. - I have a .22 rifle.
- Right, okay. - I have a few.
- You have a few-- [chuckling]
well, I guess we're doing a show in america,
now aren't we?
All right, next question is...
Was it television set, power drill,
an electric razor, or a sewing machine?
- I'm thinking a television set.
- It was a tv. - Ac/dc is current.
- I'm thinking power drill or electric razor.
- If I remember the story, it was an electric razor.
- You know the story?
- I thought it was electric razor,
but you guys, I'm not sure.
I'm either going electric razor,
power drill, ac/dc.
- Razors have the weird plugs in hotel rooms, right?
Is that for a reason? So--
- I don't know. I don't use an electric razor.
- 15 seconds. You gotta agree.
- Yeah, I'm good.
- That's the best guess we got. Electric razor.
I have no idea. - What do you say, delrae?
- I'm--I'm coming off the cuff. I mean--
- five seconds or I take the money away.
- I'm good with electric razor. - I believe you, bail bondsman.
- Electric? - Electric razor.
- All right.
You all agreed it is the electric razor, yes?
The correct answer is...
- Ah! - Not electric razor!
- God dang it. - Oh!
What is the correct answer?
- Power-- - sewing machine?
Wow!
Whoever would have thought ac/dc were named
after a sewing machine?
Part of me loves it and part of me
is confused and sad about it. - [laughs]
- you had us question sewing machines.
- So what? He hates money.
- I wouldn't have said sewing machine.
Come on, you guys.
We gotta process of elimination.
- I heard television and I was
kind of with you on television.
- So after three questions,
you have earned $20,000,
which is a big deal
and you should be proud of yourself.
That's a lot of money.
I would say celebrate this moment
if the hustler wasn't about to ruin it
by booting one of you out of the game right now.
In the table in front of you are ballots.
I want you to place a check next to the person
you want removed from the study.
This could be considered voting,
but it's not.
That's because the hustler is choosing.
It's only their vote that matter.
There you go. Thank you.
There you are.
All right. Now, watch this.
This is cool.
Ready? Whoa!
- Ooh!
[applause]
- the choice is about to be revealed.
[suspenseful music]
the hustler has decided to eliminate...
Cody! - [clicks tongue]
- oh, man!
Well, I'm--I'm so sorry!
- She knew I was on to her.
- Oh, you definitely think it's a she?
- Yeah. - Who do you think it is?
- It's amanda. - Really?
- I think so.
- Why are you so sure?
- I just--she knows too much about everything.
Like, for--for delrae, she's--
she's questioning him about his job.
- Right. - And, um,
I don't know but, um,
the joke's actually on everybody else
because I'm actually a jury profiler,
um, so I've been--that's why I've been so quiet.
I've been sitting here and studying all of y'all and--
- and you're definitely convinced it's amanda?
- I think so. - Mm.
- If it's not amanda, it's katie.
- I see.
So what you're saying is you don't trust women.
[all laughing] - not in this game, no.
- Well, come with me, cody. It's gonna be all right.
We'll just walk over here a little.
Kinda just stand there. It's not gonna hurt at all
okay, just stand right there. Stand right there.
[piano trilling]
[applause]
wow.
Well, well, well.
The hustler has made their first brutal cut.
Yes, I--I kinda thought--
I actually thought it was cody. - I did, too.
- Did you really? - Yes, I did.
- Yeah. He really thinks it's you.
- I really thought it was cody.
- Mm, I don't know if you did.
What about you, delrae?
- You know, I was hanging with amanda for a while.
You're real quiet over there, richard.
- Hey, smart people learn and observe, then attack.
- Is that what it is? Okay.
- I'm here to win the money.
- See, like, the hustler always--
like, you guys, like, "deflect."
- hmm. Tensions are rising.
This is way more interesting than I thought it was gonna be.
[cheers and applause]
- all right.
As we left it before,
the hustler removed cody from the game
without even blinking an eye.
Right now the four of you have $20,000 in the bank.
You'd better keep an eye on each other
because there's only three more questions
until the hustler eliminates another player.
Let's keep the game moving
and learn something else about the hustler.
Yep, that's a cocker-poo.
Who here has a d-- do you have a dog?
- No. - Do you have a dog?
- I have a cat. - Uh-huh.
Do you have a dog? - I don't have a dog.
- Do you have a dog? - I have two dogs.
- You have two dogs. What kind of dogs?
- I have a--a banned dog. - It's a band--
you have a banned dog. - A banned dog, yes.
- Oh, right, okay.
It's--so it's some kind of, like, illegal dog,
and then do you have a legal dog to back that up?
- I do. - What do you have?
- I have a shih tsu-maltese. - A shih tsu.
Well, we don't have to talk about that, either.
So, let's see. The question is...
- Really?
Was it dwayne johnson, george clooney,
will smith, or joe jonas?
- So I know for a fact that the rock
has two little bull dogs
but they're not, uh, cocker spaniels.
- Yeah, so I'm-- let's eliminate dwayne.
- Yep. - Um, clooney is a--
yeah, okay. - I don't know.
Is he a dog guy?
- I could see him being a dog guy.
- He's a romantic guy. He's a romantic guy.
- This is so outside my wheelhouse.
I have no idea. - Yeah.
- And as for the wife, will smith?
Eh.
- That was like-- so that's jada pinkett,
so that was a long time ago.
- Yeah, very long. Very, very long.
- Is joe jonas even married? I don't know.
[laughing]
- I don't know.
- 20 seconds, you guys.
- I'm feeling like george clooney or will smith.
That's-- - I would say george cl--
oh, my god, george clooney or joe jonas,
only because I think will smith, like,
wooed, um, jada pinkett on the show.
- And that's old and gone. - So--
- I would go clooney--
- five seconds or I take the money away.
- Delrae, pick. - I picked wrong the last time.
- Two seconds. Make a decision.
- We got you. - George?
- George. - George it is.
Now you say that george clooney is the celebrity
who adopted a cocker spaniel named einstein
and helped him woo his wife.
Is the answer george clooney?
The answer is george clooney!
[all speaking at once]
$30,000 into the bank. $30,000.
Well, well, everybody. Any information?
Did you get any information from that, richard?
- Lots of information. - What did you get?
- Unless delrae's got a little dog named tiffany--
which, hey, maybe you do, man.
That's all you.
I think, uh--I think we have, you know,
a pretty good idea of what's going on here today.
- Do you think it's amanda? - I do.
- I see.
Richard's getting pointed at you, amanda.
How do you feel? - And I guessed.
- Yeah. - I guessed.
- Did you--you guessed george clooney?
- Yeah, because I was gonna say something.
I was gonna actually think that that's what he was saying
so I'm gonna say it with him 'cause that's what I thought
he thought he was gonna say. He said joe.
- You've heard a lot of nonsense in your life
as a bail bondsman, haven't you?
You hearing it now? - Yes.
- Okay.
Okay. - But not with--
not with amanda, though, believe it or not.
- Oh! No, who do you think--
who do you think? - She's too obvious.
- Oh! - Hey!
- Really? Oh, katie!
How would anyone think that you were a liar, liar,
pants on fire? - Never!
- Are you? - Never!
[laughing]
- that's a big laugh after that one.
All right. - I'm just saying.
- All right, let's take a look--
- I'm on that train. - At the next clue.
See what that tells us about the hustler.
I don't know. Do they--
do they have life on mars? What do you think?
Katie.
- I don't believe in aliens or anything,
so I have to disagree with that.
[laughing] - richard?
- Uh, no. - No?
- Not a ufo guy
- do you think the government
knows more then they're saying?
- No. - No?
- I don't think they do. - What about you, amanda?
- I think that's exactly what a hustler could possibly say.
- Me, too. Me, too.
- Why's that?
- Because everyone has to believe
that we're not here alone.
- Everybody should be comfortable
with knowing that there's something on mars.
- Really?
All right,
let's look at the next question.
Is it in nevada, colorado, new mexico, or utah?
- Yeah, I'm thinking new mexico.
Colorado, that's the cannabis state now.
- I don't know why I thought nevada but--
- I thought nevada, too, 'cause of all the social media stuff.
The "rush area 51." - yeah, that's what I thought.
- I thought--I thought the--
- roswell, new mexico is the answer.
- New mexico?
- When you're going through driving to nevada,
there is some spooky stuff off to the left.
- Is that where you found god? - Me found god?
- Is that where you found god driving to arizona?
- The answer is new mexico.
- Okay, I'm leaving it up to you guys.
- I've gotta go with richard if he's that confident.
- Okay, I'll say new mexico. - Roswell, new mexico.
- I gotta go with it. - You agree?
- We got--we have to.
- What do you agree?
- New mexico. - You think new mexico?
So, rumored to house the remains
of alien visitors,
area 51 is in which us state?
You are agreeing it's new mexico.
Is that the correct answer?
- Ah! - Not the correct answer!
No, it is not. I know exactly where it is.
It is in fact in nevada, isn't it?
It is! Now--
- nevada.
- Let me ask you this.
The hustler knew that,
and yet the hustler let it go through.
Was anybody pushing for nevada? I can't remember.
I was cleaning my painting, to be honest.
- I remember seeing on social media something about nevada...
- Mm-hmm.
- But he was so sure on new mexico,
but were you throwing us off?
- Well, if he's so sure on new mexico
could he be, like, steering you away from--
- yeah, and he was so dead set. - From nevada?
Maybe he was willing-- - he was very confident.
- To pay ten grand to keep the attention away from him.
Maybe.
All right, well, let's move on.
How much is on the table, magical painting?
I wanna--I wanna know how much they have.
$30,000. All right.
That help at all?
- Amanda's just a little too quiet and nonchalant.
Entrepreneur, runs multiple businesses.
I feel like the cigar club's a social club.
The california vibe--
- you have been absolutely rigid that it's amanda
the whole time.
- Richard is doing a lot of deflecting.
- Yes, there's a lot--
there's a lot of finger pointing.
- Do you know what would happen if I ever smoked a cigar
in front of my wife? - Through your travel writing,
you don't see anybody talk about cigar smoking?
- Can't smoke in airports. Can't smoke on airplanes.
Can't smoke-- - I mean through your writing.
Your writing. You know, you're a writer.
You travel a lot, right?
- Like, a factual writer, though.
"you should go here. You shouldn't go here."
I'm not a romantical, romanticizing destination.
- Would you write about a cigar club?
- No, I don't know anything about a cigar club.
- Let's move onto the next question, shall we?
Was it fidel castro, was it arnold schwarzenegger,
was it winston churchill, or was it donald trump?
- Yeah, I feel like it's either castro or churchill.
- Winston churchill.
- I've never seen him without a cigar.
- I haven't, either. I haven't seen him--
and they say in the first. - Right.
I know arnold's been on there, but I'm--
- so churchill's first of all those, right?
- Right. - Trump is too recent.
- Yeah. - So and, well--
and castro I see--I was almost thinking about arnold
only because--like, I don't know.
I can picture him smoking a cigar.
I do know that he's health. I do understand that but--
- he always has a cigar. He always has a cigar.
- He does? - He does.
- All right, you guys, we've gotta call it.
It's five seconds to go. - You guys said churchill.
- Okay. - Churchill.
- Okay. - Churchill?
Churchill. All right.
You guys said it was winston churchill.
Is that the correct answer?
It is the correct answer, winston churchill.
Well done!
Well done.
Now, that's interesting.
Anybody pick up any information there?
- It's just like you said.
Silence is the best thing around here.
- I--I wanna put something forward to you guys.
Have you noticed how not at any point
in any of the discussions
have we even talked about the possibility
of delrae being the hustler?
- It doesn't mean my mind hasn't said that.
- All right. Right.
- I'm just saying, I mean,
I wish you no disrespect,
but we've never at any point even looked at that as an idea.
- Verbally. - Oh, verbally.
You've been thinking it? Well, you know,
here's the whole thing about tv.
I can't tell if you're just thinking it.
You gotta tell me. [all laughing]
all right, well, I don't know.
I--I just--it just occurred to me right there
and I was like, "wait a minute."
I'm going to him and saying,
"who do you think it is now, delrae?"
and I'm all, "wait, wait, wait, wait, wait."
see what I'm saying?
- There's a lot that can make sense for delrae.
- Well, we're about to find out a little more information
because it's time for the second elimination.
Once again,
in the table in the drawer is a ballot
with all of your names on it.
Please mark down who you
want removed from the game.
The only vote at--that counts,
of course, is the hustler's.
You done there? - I am.
- Thank you, amanda. Thank you, richard, sir.
Uh, thank you, katie. Thank you, delrae.
All right.
Now, I'll put it in here
and away!
If it were up to me,
I'd tell you right now who's being eliminated,
but I'm pretty sure the hustler wants to stretch
this moment out to really mess with everyone's heads.
[cheers and applause]
- the four of you just selected the person that you want
to see gone from the game,
but the only choice that matters belongs to the hustler.
Let's find out who's going home.
The hustler has decided to eliminate...
Delrae! - Wow.
- Oh, no!
Oh, no!
Who do you think it is, man?
- If you think about it,
being a bail bonds agent and you're reading signs
and signals... - Yeah.
- I would have gotten rid of me, too...
- You would have? - If I was richard.
- Oh, so you may be leaning a little away from her?
- Because the clues lean towards the ladies.
- All right, well, look. - All right.
- This won't hurt for long. - Yeah.
- Come on. - Not bad.
- It'll be all right. - All right.
- Stand there. I liked you, man.
I thought it was gonna be good.
You stand there.
There you go, and ho!
[cheers and applause]
no more eliminations.
So now you can really focus on the end game here.
If the hustler remains undiscovered,
that person will go home with the entire bank,
but if the other two of you who are not the hustler
can correctly identify that individual,
then you'll split the money.
Let's take a look at the next clue.
The hustler is a thespian.
- What is flute? Who is flute?
- Who is flute in the play?
What--do you know the play at all?
- I know a little bit about the play.
- Oh, do you? - I bet you do.
- I do, and flute is a male role.
- Mm-hmm. - I do know that.
- But men play women and women play men
in shakespeare. Did you know that?
- I did. - Oh, you did?
Let's have a look at the next question, shall we?
"10 things I hate about you,"
"west side story," "easy a,"
"she's the man."
- so I know "10 things I hate about you" is,
and "west side story,"
but I have not seen "easy a" or "she's the man."
- uh, "she's the man" was--
what movie is it? Was it freddie prinze jr.?
Who's that? - Uh, oh, my god.
Maybe. I don't know.
- But I've heard of "easy a."
that's the one with emma stone, I think.
- So I can agree with you with "10 things I hate about you"
and "west side story." - mm-hmm.
- Um--
- I've never seen either of the bottom two.
- Oh, geez, man. I don't remember,
and "easy a" came out, like, a couple years ago.
- Yeah. - But I don't know--
whoo--if it was a shakespeare play.
What is "easy a" about? Does anyone know?
- No. - I--
- never even heard of it.
- I've seen previews and something about her
flirting with some teachers or some--I don't know,
but I don't know what "she's the man" is.
- 10 seconds.
- Don't let the money off the table.
One of you knows the answer.
- I know it's not the top two. - Okay.
- Five seconds or I take the money away.
- Can we agree on "easy a?" - sure.
- Are we good with that? - Yeah.
- Okay. - Okay?
You're gonna agree on an answer.
Which of these contemporary movies was not based
on a shakespeare play?
You all agreed it was "easy a." that was your answer.
Is "easy a" the correct answer?
"easy a" is the correct answer.
$10,000 goes into the bank.
Takes you up to $50,000.
Ooh!
Ooh, let me sit in delrae's seat for a minute.
Well, now, who pushed that through?
- Amanda didn't let that fly off the table.
- Yeah?
Who do you think the hustler is?
- I'm kind of leaning towards richard.
- Oh. - I don't mean to pick on you.
Just the traveling and the picture of the dog
was in a car so--
- I have an suv, not a car.
- Okay.
- I'm way too big to drive a car.
I'm not the hustler.
None of this matches me whatsoever.
It's gonna be up to one of these ladies
to agree with me.
- That's, uh--that's a very
adamant stance there, amanda, isn't it?
- Yeah, but I didn't know that answer,
and I was guessing.
I know katie had a lot of the answers,
but I think because katie and I could be
thinking this out,
it could very well be richard.
- She's bringing you on board, maybe.
- I don't know. - Yeah.
- Whoa, let's see what the next
clue says about the hustler,
ladies and gentlemen.
Wow.
Any of you done time?
[all laughing]
- no. - No.
- Anybody here been in a prison
for any reason at all? Charity work, perhaps?
- I've never been in a prison.
- All right.
Let's see what the next question is.
Sharks, frigid water,
strong currents, distance to shore.
- It's definitely cold
and the time in san francisco,
strong currents were always a problem.
It's too far to swim in strong currents.
So I'm leaning sharks. - I would agree with you.
- I'm leaning sharks. - Yeah.
I did the tour at alcatraz and I know it's not sharks so--
- I'm gonna believe you guys. - You agree?
- We do. - Okay.
Which of the following factors is not considered alcatraz
was considered inescapable?
You guys also all agreed it was...
- Sharks. - Sharks.
That was your answer. Sharks was your answer.
Is sharks the correct answer?
Sharks is the correct answer!
Again!
[applause]
$60,000 in the ba-- that's a lot of money.
$60,000. We have two questions left,
a lot of money on the line,
the suspense is heating up,
and I have absolutely no idea who it is.
I don't.
[cheers and applause]
- we're down to our final three players
and only two questions remain.
You guys have banked $60,000.
Let's get back into it with our next clue
about the hustler, shall we?
Who here do we think-- - [laughing]
- might be related to bill clinton?
- [laughing]
- uh, is that good? Is that like your cousin bill?
Yeah, see what I did? Yeah.
- Yeah, I see what you did.
Definitely not a cousin of bill clinton.
- Who do you think might be, amanda?
- I don't know.
- I don't know much about bill clinton
but now that you mentioned he's from a southern area--
again, not picking on you.
- It means absolutely nothing.
- Hmm. All right.
Next question is...
Was it "the tonight show," "the arsenio hall show,"
"chris rock show," or "meet the press?"
- I have no idea.
- I saw him on "Saturday night live."
um-- - so I don't stay up
that late to watch all these talk shows.
- Me, neither. - So I have absolutely no idea.
- One of y'all knows it. I'm not the hustler.
One of you knows it.
Don't leave the money on the table.
- That's what the hustler would say.
- Yeah.
- So, okay, arsenio hall. That was, what, '90s, right?
- I think so. - Okay.
"tonight show."
- 'cause that was the
"hoo, hoo" guy, right? - Yes.
- Okay. - Uh, chris rock was,
what, like, 2000s?
"meet the press," I don't know.
"tonight show's" still very recent.
- "meet the press" is absolutely not it.
- Yeah, I feel like chris rock is too new.
- Yeah. - 20 seconds.
- One of the--one of the first two.
- So we're on "tonight show" or--
- hustler, one of you knows it. It's the first two.
- Okay, hold on.
So are we "tonight show" and arsenio hall?
- Yeah, one of those. - Maybe "the tonight show?"
- 10 seconds. - I have no idea.
- I don't know. - I have no idea.
- All right. Time's up.
Give me an answer or I'll take the money away.
- "tonight show." - we'll say--
we'll say "the tonight show." - all right.
Bill clinton famously played the saxophone
on what talk show?
You guys said it was "the tonight show."
is "the tonight show" the correct answer?
It is not the correct answer. Uh-oh.
The correct answer was of course
"the arsenio hall show."
- you're the only one who didn't say anything.
- The only one.
- I did say the bottom two I had no idea.
I'm definitely not the hustler.
If you want money,
you're not gonna pick me as the hustler.
So I wanna know what amanda's thinking
'cause I'm swinging to katie.
- You're--you're--really? What do you think?
- I thought katie had it. I really did,
and the only reason I know arsenio hall
is because that was in the '90s and he had paula abdul,
so that was like, you know, my tie-in,
but other than that,
it doesn't tie in bill clinton to nothing.
- I did not know. - I know, katie.
You're so innocent.
- I recognized "the tonight show"
but that was a guess
and nobody was throwing anything else out.
- Nine questions have been asked.
$60,000 has been earned,
but for this final question,
I'm gonna switch it up a little on you.
If you get this next question right,
I will double the money.
It'll go to $120,000.
But if for some strange reason you get the answer wrong--
and remember, you shouldn't do that,
because the hustler knows the answer to this question--
but if you get the answer wrong in the next question,
I'm gonna cut the total to 30 grand.
Now, will this force the hustler out of hiding?
Let's find out.
[laughing maniacally]
the final clue about the hustler is...
All right, well, let's go to the question.
Is it peyton manning, eli manning,
drew brees, or tom brady?
Remember, the hustler knows the answer to this.
This is for $120,000... - So--
- or $30,000.
Again, you must all be in agreement on the answer.
You have one minute. Go for it.
- So I'm kicking drew brees out just because I already know
the other names. - I only watch super bowls.
[laughs] drink and watch super bowls.
That's about as much as I know about football.
- Come on, boy scout. Help us out.
- Yeah, um, tom brady actually does not get paid that much.
I know because of the way he has his contract structured.
Um, eli, no, definitely not. - Who's--
- I don't know if this is total earnings
or the contract 'cause neither--
none of these guys have the current highest contract so--
- okay, which quarterback is the highest paid player
in the nfl history? Earning more.
So not a contract per year but earning.
- 30 seconds.
- Peyton manning was my guess
when he came up,
but I do--I have absolutely zero confidence
and I'm not saying that 'cause I'm not leaving 60 grand
on the table. I would steer this to do that.
- I actually--oh, man.
I don't know if it's eli or peyton.
- Like, I know peyton does all the commercials
but my dad is a giants fan and he has mentioned
that eli's won more super bowls than--so--
- but he's not the highest-- - five seconds.
- I--I do--I'm 100% a sports guy
and I do not know this exact answer.
- Are you gonna go with your dad?
- And say--I'm gonna go with my dad and say eli manning but--
- okay, you guys happy to do that?
- Whew, I--I wish I knew more. - Eli.
- Eli manning? - Eli?
- All right, which quarterback is the highest-paid player
in nfl history earning more than $250 million?
You guys say eli manning.
Is eli manning the correct answer?
It is the correct answer! - Oh, my god!
- $120,000. - Oh, my god.
Thank you, dad.
- Well, well, well.
[laughing]
- oh, my god. - Wow, doesn't--
doesn't your dad know a lot about football?
- Yeah, I'm not buying. - $120,000 in the bank.
All three of you so close to money
you can probably taste it.
$120,000,
and a final showdown that will change absolutely everything.
[cheers and applause]
- well, well, well.
It all comes down to this.
I am going to ask the three of you
who you think the hustler is.
If the hustler remains undetected,
they will win $120,000,
but if the other two of you who are not the hustler
can catch the hustler,
then those two will split that money
$60,000 each.
First, let's recap what we've learned about the hustler.
They named their shotgun after an ac/dc song.
The hustler crashed a party to meet paul rudd.
They used to work in a prison.
They are a distant cousin of bill clinton.
The hustler plays
in four different fantasy football leagues.
In front of you is a tile.
I want you to show me who you believe
the hustler is.
This is not your final decision
but this is what we're gonna do
and I'll give you a chance to discuss it after.
Well, it's interesting
'cause you're gonna have to discuss it.
Katie, you think it's richard. Richard, you think it's amanda.
Amanda, you think it's katie.
[laughter]
one of you has to change someone's mind.
It has to be a two-to-one vote.
You have two minutes. Go for it.
- You think katie? - 100%.
- Yeah. 100%,
and because she didn't let it off the table at the very last.
- So now with richard-- - no.
There's no way. Not a chance I'm the hustler.
None of that fits me whatsoever.
- He--he plays sports.
- That's why they put the clue up there
to want you to think that. - Yeah, but--
- katie, right? - Four fantasy football games--
or leagues or whatever.
- I can't picture you playing flute
even though I don't know what it is,
but at the beginning of the game,
you knew all the answers.
At the end of the game,
you didn't know all the answers.
- You saved the last question.
- Now--
- normally I'd go girl power all the way right now,
because I originally thought it was him
in the very beginning,
but then he kept not knowing any answer.
- Trust your instinct because he's a freaking sports writer.
He travels. He writes about it.
- Keep telling yourself, she saves the questions.
- As soon as the shotgun came up--
- you've got the answer figured out.
Hey, look. 60 grand, right?
Let's do this.
- I really felt strongly on him.
- See, and dang it,
that's what I would do if I was the hustler
and I'd be like-- [groans]
and I can't do that. - And he kept mentioning that,
and there were a couple times he's just like,
"well--" - oh, she's so nervous.
Look, in one minute, we're gonna win 60 grand.
- No. - We have this figured out.
- Stick with me.
- In one minute we're gonna win 60 grand.
- No, stick with me. We can win this.
- She's already admitted everything
and she saved the last question.
- He's already got this all rehearsed.
- If I knew that last question
I would have never been, like,
so--oh, god. That was like--
- how long have you been a travel blogger?
- I'm not a blogger. I'm a writer.
- Or okay, so how much have
you been a travel writer?
How long, sorry. - Uh, four years.
- How long have you been a paralegal?
- Six years. - This just fits, like--
- what'd you do before that? - The whole time I was--
- I was a bartender. - What did you do before that?
- I was in the navy. So--
- so you were in the navy. You have experience with guns.
- The navy doesn't use guns. We have ships.
- I mean, 'cause I don't-- I don't own a--
I don't own a gun. - We have this figured out.
Oh, yes, all right. - Yeah.
- Final answer. We got it.
Katie is the hustler.
- We live in california. I'm against guns.
- Yeah, but you also knew every single answer.
- I did not know every answer.
No, I did not. I did know "clueless,"
and I will own to that. [laughs]
- here I come, guys. Five seconds.
- And I think you're so honest
that it would be such a good fit.
- Or you have completely fooled me.
Either way it's a good show. - Okay.
Okay.
Richard and amanda,
katie,
everybody made their final choice?
- We're good. Don't change it now.
- See, I know, but you're messing me up right now.
That's what a hustler would do.
I don't know. - Ooh.
Okay, you staying with it?
- Let me see your answer real quick,
'cause I can't see what you did.
- Oh, no, no, he's--he's staying with katie.
- Oh, you're with katie. You're with katie.
[suspenseful music]
- okay, you've made your choice.
- Okay.
- Richard and amanda,
you believe katie is the hustler.
If you're right, you'll each get $60,000,
but if katie is not the hustler,
that means one of you two has fooled everyone
and will win the entire $120,000
♪ ♪
will the hustler please stand up?
♪ ♪
[both cheering]
- oh!
Oh, katie, katie, katie!
Oh, you bad girl!
It was very close. - Whoa!
- A lot of these clues were pointing to you.
Congratulations. That's great.
You're a bad, naughty girl!
Come here!
You had--you have the gun and the--and the dog
and the--you're in a cigar club.
- Yeah, I'm a sheriff's communications dispatcher
for san bernardino county sheriff.
- You're a completely different person!
Whoa, I wanna give you some money just for being awesome,
but I can't because all the money is going to you guys.
$120,000 split between the two of you.
60 grand. Great job, great play.
- Yeah. - Whoo, that was close!
Delightfully deceitful, everybody.
That's "the hustler." I'm craig ferguson.
We'll see you next time. Good night, everybody.
Good night. Wow.
- Best last-minute decision ever in my life.
I knew I would hate myself if I did not go with my gut.
I'm so thankful that richard was just like,
"no, this is what we're doing," and I was like, "okay!"
- as soon as I said eli, I knew it was done.
- I was skeptical of katie the hustler the entire time
but when she, uh, nailed the last question
and didn't let us waste the extra 60k,
I knew it was a done deal.
I just had to get amanda on the same page.
- I did play flute as a man.
- Katie, I'm sorry. Best of luck to you.
Thank you for making me $60,000 richer.
- I should have taken the $60,000.
I let greed take over me,
but now I've learned my lesson
and now I'm going home with nothing.