This season coincided with the Nine's 2002 edition of Australian Survivor (which aired an hour later on Nine) and produced poor ratings, leading to rumours the show would be cancelled.
Luggage Repack: Immediately after the Rescue Jump, the players were told to prepare to take a plan to trip to Gold Coast.
Before the assignment properly started, the host offered to allow anyone, even the entire group, to back out and not risk losing $2,000 for falling out of the raft.
The first two rafts made it to the halfway point, but the one transporting Crystal-Rose, Janet, Joe, and John tipped over after moments, putting all of them in the water and instantly losing $8,000.
The players at first thought this sounded suspiciously simple to be a money-winning assignment, but found that at each location there was a choice - take $1,000 for the kitty, or some camping gear.
Yasmin picked the same boat and house, but opted for the Bentley Arnage instead of the Lamborghini Diablo (stating she told Alaina how much she liked old cars), so no money was won.
Joe's task, with a free pass through to the next episode as his prize, was to put on a performance convincing enough that the other nine players would stop answering questions so he would not have to endure any further voltage.
After choosing Bob and Crystal-Rose as the two players with whom the group would entrust their safety, the two of them were given three minutes with a metal detector and a markerboard to find the mines and create a map for their teammates.
Bob and Pete were given a camera and a vehicle, and David and Marc got a map with various points in Gold Coast marked on it, to give directions to the other two.
To make this rather transparent task more challenging, numerous rules were put in place: the players could not own anything at the end of their time, they were not to spend more than $1,000 on anything, and they must not waste or give away any of the money.
Alaina, Marc, and Pete rented a recording studio, drank expensive bottles of wine, and spent $1,000 on a three-course fancy lunch in a private room, complete with butlers and masseuses.
Photo Hunt: During the shopping spree, Crystal-Rose prepared with a professional makeup artist and costumer to hide herself in Warner Bros. Movie World.
During this leg, Alaina complained loudly of Marc telling her to cycle faster, and switched midway through to a scooter, which she needed help to properly ride and nearly wound up crashing and hurting herself.
He decided that the two pictures of pademelons were actually two different species, and some desperate shooting by David of a pond, looking for tadpoles, in fact found a few.
In their last few minutes, Alaina, Crystal-Rose, and Marc found a yellow robin, bringing the group's total, somewhat serendipitously, to five species and success in the assignment.
Mere seconds remained for Ann-Maree's run, and though she made it to the $3,000 diamond safely, she did not grab it, because there was not sufficient time for her to make it back out with it.
Aerial I-Spy: While Crystal-Rose and Marc were drawing their platypus, Alaina, Ann-Maree, and Bob went up in light aircraft to take photographs representing specific letters of the alphabet.
Bob photographed a bridge and the shape of a Y in a dirt track, Ann-Maree a reservoir and an airport, and Alaina trees and power lines (for "electricity").
Heartstopper: The players were each presented a frightening challenge: Alaina had to capture and release a wild snake, Crystal-Rose had to pet a leopard shark, and Marc had to swipe eggs from a very protective female saltwater crocodile's nest.
Snipers: Alaina made no attempt to shoot anyone in the laser shootout, and purposely tripped an alarm wire and lead Yasmin into a dead end so they'd be shot by Bob and David.
Gold Coast Shopping Spree: Alaina knew Yasmin would prefer the Bentley, but she insisted on picking the Lamborghini, costing $10,000.
Toughness: Both a sabotage and a clue, Alaina did not supply the others with the correct answer to the question "Which car manufacturer has a black bull as its logo?"
Luggage Drop: Alaina asked locals for the wrong directions, deliberately misinterpreting Marc's SMS and costing the team $5,000.
Surveillance: Alaina displayed a little quick thinking here, taking the phone from Ann-Maree in the passenger seat when she threw it at her and, just for a moment, talking on it while driving.
During the computer quiz aired in that episode, Bob says that Ann-Maree is suspicious because, according to him, "the woman turns and can divide this group in a snap of her fingers".
Photo Hunt: Alaina actually recognized Crystal-Rose within Movie World, but stopped Marc from walking straight towards her, keeping $5,000 from being won.
Paragliding: After scoring a hit with her second water balloon, Alaina figured out that the proper technique was to drop it while hovering over top of the target.
Stadium Art: Ann-Maree and Bob both initially thought the drawing on the field was of a platypus, but Alaina convinced them to guess that it was a mole, costing $5,000.
$5,000 Shopping Spree: Alaina did nothing to prevent Marc from purchasing a $500 stamp which she knew was wastage and against the rules of the assignment, costing the kitty another $5,000.
The Eliminations: At the beginning of episode eight, each of the final five players (Alaina, Ann-Maree, Bob, Crystal-Rose, and Marc) had a confession talking about how nervous they were when seeing their names typed into the computer and how relieved they were when the green screen came up for them.