- Hello. Welcome to my study.
It's where I often come to ponder the meaning of life
and where we fit in the great expanse of the universe.
It's also where I invite complete strangers
to compete in the ultimate game of deception.
Rich people do weird things in their studies, right?
I'm craig ferguson,
and this is "the hustler."
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
good evening, and welcome to "the hustler,"
where deception would be the name of the game
if we weren't already committed to calling it "the hustler."
it's on the t-shirts and everything.
Tonight the five of you will work together
to answer ten trivia questions,
each worth $10,000.
However, there is a player sitting among you
that has a secret.
They're the hustler.
And they already know every single answer
because every single question stems from their life.
Now, the hustler doesn't want to be found out,
because if they can remain undetected until the end,
they'll take home all of the money.
But if the final two of you can uncover the hustler's identity,
then you'll split that final paycheck,
and the hustler won't get a penny.
Yes, I said final two,
because as we progress,
the hustler will eliminate half of you from the game.
Now it's time for some formal introductions.
Sue. - Yes.
- If that is your real name.
- It is. - Are you the hustler, sue?
- No, I'm not.
- What do you do for a living?
- I'm a billing administrator. - What does that mean?
Do you go around to people's houses and say,
"hey, you owe me money?"
- no, but I'm the one who handles it
from the paperwork standpoint.
- Okay. Ulysses.
- Yes. - That's an interesting name.
Is that your real name?
- That is my real name. - Family name, perhaps?
- Family name. - Mm-hmm. Are you the hustler?
- I am not the hustler.
- Okay. What do you do for a living, ulysses?
- Uh, I was in sales,
and now I'm getting ready to go back to school,
and I'm in the reserves.
- Oh, you are? You're in the military?
- Yeah. - Well, thank you
for your service... - Appreciate it.
- If you really are in the military.
It's tricky. You know what I mean?
See what I'm saying?
Yes, young lady. Your name, please?
- Stephanie. - What do you do for a living?
- I'm manager of an ad operations team.
- All right. Are you the hustler?
- No.
- Okay. You closed your eyes when you said it.
- [laughs] - I don't know.
Is that it or not?
Ben, what do you do for a living?
- I am a high-school principal.
- Oh, terribly sorry.
Do the kids mock you, ben?
Do they make rude things up with your name?
- It's been written on the bathroom wall a few times.
- Mine too, but I'm not even educated.
I dropped out of high school.
So we've met most of you. Andrew.
- I'm not the hustler. - You're not the hustler?
- Not the hustler. - Did I ask you if you
were the hustler?
- Well, you were asking everyone else.
- But you were a little kind of, "I'm not the hustler.
I'm not--" giveaway, giveaway.
All this--well, I don't know.
What do you do for a living? - I work in finance.
- Okay. Do you know sue at all, 'cause she works in finance?
- Well, I can hit her up if I need
some billing stuff done maybe,
but, no, I do not know her.
- Are you the hustler?
- I am not the hustler.
- So each of you have just said to me
that you are not the hustler,
and I don't know who to believe,
'cause this is the weird thing about this game.
I don't know who the hustler is.
I don't know!
What I can do is I can give you a clue.
This is the first clue
about the hustler and their life.
Look at this.
[suspenseful music]
well, well, well.
Sounds a bit military to me, don't you think?
All right, here's the first of three questions
before the hustler takes one of you out of the game.
The mortar used to build china's great wall
was made with what ingredient?
Was it...
You guys have a minute to discuss and decide
which answer you want to go with.
Your time starts now.
- Can anyone eliminate anything?
- I don't think it was blood.
- I don't think it's--well, I think it might be blood,
because I heard that they used, like, the dead people's bodies
to build the great wall.
- It would dry out. But blood dries out--
- that's true. - And honey is sugar.
Sugar dissolves in water. - I'm thinking the sticky rice.
- Sticky rice sounds funny, though.
- No way.
- That just seems, like, too weird.
- Phlegm is spit. Honey, the sugar breaks down.
- I would go with sticky rice, too,
because everything you guys are saying makes sense.
- Uh-huh. - Yeah, 'cause--yeah.
- Food. - Sticky rice?
- Yeah. - So we're going with food?
- Sticky rice. - But you think they would
do that with, like, people who--
they probably didn't have that much food?
- I feel like--yeah, exactly.
- That makes sense, yeah. - I feel like there wasn't
enough food to be like, we're gonna
build this whole wall with all this food--
- exactly. That's what I'm thinking.
- But honey's food-- honey's food as well.
- Yeah, but honey's sugar, dissolves in water.
If it rains, it's gonna fall apart, right?
- Eh, I'm thinking honey.
I think you can get honey in, like, large quantities--
- all right, time's up.
Time's up. You guys have to call it.
What is the answer?
Remember, the hustler knows the answer.
- Let's do-- we're gonna lock in honey.
- You're gonna lock in honey? Everybody okay with that?
Everybody want to lock in honey?
All right, the mortar used
to build china's great wall was made with what ingredient?
You said it was honey.
The answer is, of course...
Not honey.
- Oh. - Oh.
[suspenseful music]
what is the correct answer?
Sticky rice.
- Oh, gosh. Sorry.
- Remember, the hustler knows the answer,
and yet the hustler let that go by.
Just remember that. Let's see the next clue.
What do you think?
This is someone who works--
has done covert ops in china and hangs around
in magic mountain for something reason.
- Everyone loves-- - that's a lot of time off.
- Everyone loves amusement parks.
- But a month? - But how do you spend a month
in an amusement park?
- That's a lot of visits, you know?
- How do you get that much time?
- That is a lot of time.
- But if you go by yourself,
you don't have to wait in line or anything like that.
- Kind of... - All right.
Well, remember that when we look at the next question.
Remember the hustler knows the answer to the questions.
Is it...
- Remember, we want to make money here.
So whoever it is, how creative you need to be--
just--let's get that money. Yeah.
- I think it's disney. - Yeah, has to be disney.
- Whenever you hear someone talk about
bringing their kid to an amusement park,
you think walt disney.
- Right. Yeah, that's got to be.
- Yeah. So we all agree. Disney?
- Yeah. - Yeah, disney.
- I think we're good.
- Okay. You guys have said
it is walt disney world magic kingdom florida.
The correct answer is...
Walt disney world magic kingdom florida!
$10,000! Good lord!
Yes! [cheers and applause]
this study is not equipped to handle this much intrigue.
Now--now we have something.
Now we have some money beginning
to build on the table.
Do you feel it, stephanie?
- Yeah, I feel it. - Do you feel the money
in the room?
- Feeling it grow.
- You've also been observing each other.
Are any of you any closer
to figuring out who you think the hustler might be?
What do you think, andrew?
- I don't know. I mean, I felt the second
question was pretty standard for everyone to know,
so it didn't really help me out, but--
- well, who didn't know it?
- I felt everyone did. - Think everyone knew that one.
- Everyone knew that one. - Yeah.
- Everybody knew that one.
- Here's my problem, you guys.
I understand you're all nice people,
except one of you, who is a lying bastard,
but here's the thing.
You're working as a team.
You are not a team.
Remember that.
There is a traitor among you
whose only goal is to steal all the money.
Which one of you is the hustler?
♪ ♪
- my special guests, with two questions down,
you have banked $10,000.
We have one more question
before the hustler eliminates someone.
Let's keep the game moving.
Here's the third clue about the hustler.
Take a look at this.
Wow. Leopard-print rug. That's classy.
Only the best casinos have leopard-print rugs.
So the hustler plays billiards.
Look at each other.
Who here has a custom-made billiards room?
I mean, maybe you would be going against type,
or maybe you wouldn't.
I don't know.
But then you never really know people, do you, stephanie?
- No, you never do. - No, you never do.
All right, here is your next question.
- Does anyone have an idea? I don't play pool--
- I don't really,
but I think a forced follow shot is something,
but I'm not too sure, but I think it is.
- Slip shot is one, I know. - Okay. I don't know if it--
- I think. I hope.
- Okay. That sounds like it would be one.
- So then it's between butterfly and blue ball.
And I don't think blue ball-- - it's like--it's a joke.
Yeah, it's, like, blue balls is kind of--
- butterfly, then?
- Blue ball sounds like a medical condition.
[laughs]
- that is not a shot.
- I don't know if I can say that, but...
- I say blue ball is not a shot.
I'd say blue ball-- - I think we like blue ball.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Blue ball.
- What have you agreed on, then?
What is the answer? - We agreed on blue ball.
- You agreed on blue ball.
Blue ball is not the name of a shot in the game of pool?
Well, you said blue ball.
The correct answer is...
[suspenseful music]
blue ball. - Oh, yay!
- Good job, guys.
- Blue ball. [cheers and applause]
$20,000 in the pot.
The hustler is about to flex some muscle.
Right now they have the opportunity
to eliminate someone from the game.
But like everything the hustler does,
it's gonna be a very sneaky move.
In the table in front of you
are ballots with all of your names on them.
I want you to mark the player
you want to see gone from the game.
Now, despite who you choose,
the only decision that actually matters is the hustler's.
Make your selections, please.
And then when you're finished, pop it in this.
There you go.
Bum, bum, bum.
So the hustler has written in here
who he or she would like removed from the game.
And now this goes in here.
Watch--this is really cool. Watch this.
Watch. Go, go.
Look! How cool is that?
All right, well, we're gonna find out
who the hustler has chosen to dismiss.
Anybody think they're gonna be dismissed?
- Hope not.
[laughter] hope not.
- Okay, well, the eliminated player is...
♪ ♪
- oh.
- Oh, no. - Ouch.
- Stephanie, I'm so sorry.
Why do you think the hustler got rid of you?
Do you think you look like someone
who can, like, detect?
- Probably. You know, I've just been watching everyone,
just looking around the room, so...
- Who do you think it is? I mean, you're not
in the game anymore, doesn't matter.
- I have a feeling it's ben.
- You think it's ben? - Yeah.
- Oh. - I have a feeling it's ben.
- Okay. - He's quiet down there.
Heard him call out sticky rice the first time,
and he just seems to stay in the back.
Um, so...
Not as outspoken as everyone else.
- All right, I'm afraid you have to go.
- Ugh. - Please. It's all right.
Walk this way. Nothing bad's gonna happen.
Stand right there. Watch this.
You ready? [applause]
oh, scary, right?
Better be careful. So stephanie's gone.
So one player has been eliminated.
And the hustler
is still hiding in plain sight.
♪ ♪
I wonder who it could be.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- right.
The players have banked $20,000.
We're getting closer and closer
to learning the hustler's true identity.
Any ideas yet, sue?
- Uh, I'm seeing a little bit nervous fidgeting,
but I'm not gonna call out anyone just yet.
- So you think I'm the hustler. Is that what you're saying?
- No, I don't think so. I think you have
the billiard room table, though.
- Stephanie said that it was ben.
What do you think? You think she's right?
- It could be, but... - Yeah, what do you think, ben?
- I also have my eyes on other people.
- Is that fair?
- No. That's not fair.
- Yeah, you don't think it's fair?
- You know, sue has just been really quiet.
I mean, when you really think about it,
when we've had the discussions going,
she's just kind of sat there, stayed back,
she's got her kind of little closed-up body language there.
- Yeah, no, is he right? Or is he--
- I'm leaning toward sue a little bit.
She's just too undercover.
- There's definitely something to think about the quiet,
being quiet, but...
- Well, somebody who works for the cia--
remember, works for the cia.
- But there's been a couple of us who've been quiet.
- In china, cia in china. I don't know.
I'm not trying to single anybody out,
but you know what I'm saying.
[laughter] - oh, man.
- Just saying. All right, you have $20,000
in the bank.
And we have three more questions
before the hustler claims their next victim.
Here is another clue to the hustler's identity.
The hustler worked as a day trader on wall street.
You worked in finance, didn't you?
- No, I'm a billing administrator.
- Oh, that--that's nothing to do with finance.
What about you? Weren't you finance?
- I do asset management, so it's nothing--
nothing to do with the money.
- Asset management-- - that's finance, though.
- But not with money.
I don't handle the money aspect.
- Do you believe this, ulysses? Do you believe this?
- He's pretty compelling. I don't know.
- Oh, really?
You're having an easy ride right now, aren't you?
- Yeah. - I'm trying to take
as much in as I can.
We're here to get the questions right.
- Okay. What do you think, ben?
Does that sound right to you?
- Yeah, it's--you know.
It's--everybody's got their own little things.
I'm sure I've got mine.
- Everybody has their own little thing.
That's the wonder of life. All right.
Let's take a look at the question.
- I'm not trying to single myself out,
but it is one of my favorite movies
with--I can't remember-- - murphy.
Eddie murphy. - Eddie murphy.
- Eddie murphy, but I can't remember what it was.
- I'm pretty certain it's orange juice.
- It's orange juice. - Okay.
- It is orange juice, right? - Let's do it.
- It's orange juice, yeah. - We like orange juice.
- Wow, that was--you guys convinced it's orange juice?
- It's a great movie.
- Okay. - Hope it is.
- The correct answer is...
Orange juice!
$10,000 on to the table. - Good job, team.
- That takes you up to $30,000 sitting right there.
Let's keep the mystery train moving, shall we?
Mm. Choo-choo. Come on.
We're going to the next clue.
Take a look at this.
Wow.
[suspenseful music]
andrew, what do you think?
Who do you think owns a porsche right here?
- Um, I mean, maybe sue, maybe ben, maybe--ugh.
I can see all of them owning a porsche.
- Oh, so you--so I ask you,
and you just say everybody who's here.
Yeah, okay.
- I'm narrowing it down to three of them.
- You think he's deflecting, ulysses?
- If he's the hustler, then, yeah,
he's definitely deflecting.
- Uh-huh. - But I don't know.
- You guys are being very cagey with each other.
- I think ulysses looks really well-dressed.
Your shoes and your nice jacket.
You kind of look like a trust-fund kid there.
- I almost think-- - oh.
- I got to say, you guys, I don't know.
I--look, speaking as an older gent,
I think the porsche is an older gent's car.
I'm just saying.
[laughter]
- what are you trying to say?
- I'm not trying to say anything.
I'm just saying my opinion of the porsche,
it tends to be a bit of a mid-life-crisis thing.
That's all I'm saying.
[laughter]
am I right? Would that offend you?
- No, not at all.
- [laughs] - nothing offends me.
- All right, here's the question.
- I don't think it's a bull.
- I don't think it's a horse, 'cause isn't horse--
- ferrari. - Ferrari. Ferrari's a horse.
- Horse is ferrari. Fire-breathing dragon.
I've never even paid that much attention to--
- I know. - But a fire-breathing dragon?
- It's not a bull. - I feel like porsche
is more, like, elegance. Would it be--
- uh-huh. - Like a stallion.
[overlapping chatter]
- well, would they do a horse-- - I think horse is ferrari.
- Yeah, ferrari's horse, so I don't think
they would do another horse. - It's not a bull.
- I don't know. You guys got 15 seconds.
Better lock it up. - So we don't think it's lion,
horse, or bull.
- Fire-breathing dragon. No, I don't think--
it's not a dragon. - I want to say bull, but--
- five seconds. - Bull?
- Lock it up, or you lose the money.
- It's ten grand on the line. - Decide, decide.
- I don't know. - Say something.
- All right, bull. Final answer.
- Bull? Do you guys agree on bull?
- Sure. - Might as well.
- Well, I have to go with it. - But it's not a bull.
- Oh, really? - What do you think it is?
- I'm gonna say lion.
- Well, you can't. You have to agree on--
that's the name of the game.
- I'll go with lion. - We'll go lion.
- Okay, lion. Let's go lion.
- Lion? Everyone's--
- I don't like lion or bull. - You forced through lion.
- I was between the two-- - okay, all right.
Well, you guys have said it is the lion.
The correct answer is...
Oh, it's not a lion.
It is a...
Horse.
- Thought ferrari was horse. - Whoa.
Wow, that is very interesting.
That's intrigue. - I thought horse was ferrari.
- Come on. - Now wait, we got to remember
the hustler knew the answer to that question.
You guys, think of this.
The hustler knew, and yet, did the hustler play you guys?
Forcing through an answer which was incorrect?
Who was saying that it was gonna be a horse?
It was horse, right? It was horse.
We agreed it was horse.
- Ferrari's a horse. - One of you knows.
- I apologize for forcing the wrong answer.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Ahh. - I guess, yeah.
- Seriously. - [laughs]
okay. - 'cause I want the money.
- Same here. - Let's get these right.
- Let's have a look at the next fact about the hustler.
The hustler plays online backgammon every day.
Well, things just got a little sexy.
[laughter]
online backgammon every day.
So this person is a gambler,
has worked for the cia in china,
likes to go to amusement parks, goes out to buy shoes,
comes home with a car with a horse on it.
Who do you think that is, andrew, in this group?
- I'm torn between sue or ben, possibly, but I don't know.
- Sue or ben, yeah. - I have no idea.
- Yeah. Nice work, ulysses.
- I'm sorry. I don't know what I did.
- All right, the hustler plays backgammon online every day.
Here is the question.
Is it...
- Maybe we can eliminate kaiser roll.
- Yeah, I think we can eliminate that for sure.
I don't really know backgammon, but I want to say 6 and 4
because if it's-- I think it's played with a dice
and six is a higher number on a dice,
so I would think that-- I think you go--
- the higher number would be better?
- But it would be like a card game
where 2 is, like, the best card.
- Right. True.
- But then why would it be 5 and 2, then?
'cause wouldn't it be, like, higher--
- so then you're saying 5 and 2?
- It doesn't have to make sense.
It's backgammon. - I have no idea.
I don't know how to play backgammon.
- Oh, man, I played backgammon in college,
but that was a long time ago.
- If you know a little bit. - Give us an educated guess.
- I don't know.
- Is it kaiser roll?
- No, it's definitely not. - [laughs]
it's not kaiser roll.
- Could you eliminate one at least?
- [exhales deeply] - kaiser roll.
- Uh, I would just think it's the highest,
'cause you're moving pieces around the board.
- Yeah, the more there--you go further around the board.
- I'm gonna say the highest is 6 and 4.
- That's what I'm thinking.
- We're gonna go with...
- Okay, we'll all agree? - Wait, do you agree,
or you don't agree?
- I'll agree, I'll agree, I'll agree.
- So you're agreed on 6 and 4? That's what I heard?
- Yeah. - You're all agreed?
- Sure. 6 and 4. - Okay.
You guys said that 6 and 4
is the best opening roll in backgammon.
Is it 6 and 4? It's not 6 and 4.
- What? - What is it?
The correct answer is, in fact, 3 and 1.
- The hustler does not need money, I guess.
- Wow. - [laughs]
- well, they have that pool table.
- So this is interesting.
The hustler
knew the answer to the question about the porsche.
The hustler knew the answer to the backgammon roll
and yet gave away both of these
in order to fool the rest of you
into thinking that he or she
does not know the answer and is not the hustler.
You guys have $30,000 in the bank.
It's time for our second elimination.
As before,
pull out the envelope from the table in front of you.
You need to mark the name of the person
you'd like to see leave the game.
Remember, it isn't really a majority.
It's that the hustler is picking,
but we're just fooling you.
All right, sue. Thank you.
Andrew and ulysses. Okay.
Pop it in here.
Let's get this, and voilà!
[tube hisses]
I love that thing. Isn't that thing awesome?
So the hustler has made their decision,
and I'm sure you'll want to know who it is.
Now the level of intrigue has just upped.
♪ ♪
- so...
So... [laughs]
so, my friends,
before I tell you who's going home,
let me remind you what's on the line.
There's $30,000 in the bank.
If the hustler can make it to the end undetected,
they will take home all of the money.
If they get caught by the two of you who are left,
then you will split the bank.
However, definitely will not be...
This player.
Oh, andrew. Oh, no.
I am so, so sad
and sorry to hear that, my friend.
Do you got any idea who you think it is?
- I have pretty good feeling who I think it is.
I think it's ben.
Just all the clues just kind of fit towards him.
- Point towards ben. You think so?
Why do you think he got rid of you, then?
I think he just kind of knew that I knew it was him,
so he just wanted to kind of get rid of me.
- You feel it was like a...
Feel like it was a connection between you guys?
- Yes, yes, yes. - Mm.
It's bad, though, 'cause you're going.
- I know. - I know.
Come on, let's do it. - All right.
- All right, let's get out of here.
[sighs] come on, andrew.
Just go over there, stand right there.
Just stand there. Just stand there at the door.
[high piano notes playing rapidly]
is it working? Yeah, all right, get out.
[cheers and applause]
wow, congratulations.
You've made it to the final three.
[laughs]
one of you, of course, is the hustler.
Seems odd to me.
[exhales deeply]
you're all very inscrutable. You're a big smiler.
You think that's right?
You think that's a tell?
That's what they call it, isn't it?
- Mm, I don't know.
- No? - I don't know.
- Who do you think it is, sue?
- I lean towards ben,
particularly when they say
a month off for amusement parks.
He's a high-school principal,
so he gets a big chunk of change off from school.
- Ooh, you've been looking at the clues.
You've been looking at the clues.
Is she right, ulysses? What do you think?
- I don't even think
he's a high-school principal, honestly.
- Oh!
- What year was that porsche? - Boom!
- What year was that porsche?
What kind of billing software do you use, by the way?
- What kind of billing software?
- Yeah, kind of-- - sap.
- Sap. Super familiar with it.
What year was that porsche, again?
I'm just saying I think that that--it's 100% ben.
- Ooh, ooh, ooh! - 100%
- ulysses just opened a can of whup on you.
- I just want to--you saw some of that fidgeting earlier?
- I did, I did.
- It was a little purposeful,
but I appreciate you keeping me around.
- Well, I'm sitting under an air conditioner here
that makes you a little cold.
- Right, okay. Yeah, yeah.
There's no air conditioner in this building.
It's 400 years old. - [laughs]
- okay, well, you guys are the final three.
You have four questions left.
You have $30,000 in the bank.
Let's see the next clue.
Wow. Okay. Look at that.
That tell you anything?
- They're well traveled?
- Perhaps. - 37 countries.
- Yeah, 37 countries.
- Yeah. - Okay.
The next question is...
- This, I know. I took high-school french.
Yeah, so souvenir is the verb to remember.
Yeah, that, I know.
- You were hesitant to answer this question.
- Well, I don't know any french.
[laughter] - I know my high-school french.
- I know parlez-vous français?
- [laughs] I took three years of french.
- Well, I will go with that. That sounds awesome.
- Mm-hmm. What year did you graduate?
- None of your business. Girl doesn't tell her age.
[laughs] wow.
- Where'd you get your credential
to be a high-school principal?
- Where'd I get it? - Yeah.
- Got it through my master's degree.
- Where? - My master's degree.
- Where? - Long beach state.
- Where was that? - Long beach state.
- What year? - Right now I need the answer.
- '82. - Yeah, I'd say
definitely memory, yeah. - We went with memory.
- You're going with memory? - Go with memory.
- You guys agree the word souvenir
means memory in french.
That is your answer. What is the correct answer?
The correct answer is memory. You got it right.
40,000, right there.
Way to go, high-school french.
All right, let's move on to the next clue.
The next clue about the hustler is...
The hustler can balance a beer can on their head.
Wait right there.
[laughter]
beer.
Balance a beer can on their head.
- Ulysses does have a flat head.
- How dare you? - What?
- [laughs] - hold on, can I do it?
Is it me?
All right, I can do it.
It's not particularly dangerous.
- I'll try it.
- Yeah. Oh, you--oh, you can't do it.
Oh, yeah, okay. Right.
Let me guess. You all can't do it, right?
Oh, oh, oh, you can't do it. Oh, can you do it?
Oh, no, you can't. Oh, what a surprise.
Can you balance a beer ban? - I've never tried.
I don't know. - Let's try balancing
this beer can on your head.
Let's go. Let's see.
Oh, sue, you can't do it either.
Isn't that amazing?
- I can kind of. - Oh, yeah.
- I can kind of.
- Kind of do it a little bit. - Kind of.
- Mm-hmm.
I think one of you people is full of it.
But I can't decide who it is.
I was pretty sure it was him,
but now I think it might be you,
and then I think because I'm thinking that,
I'm thinking it's you.
- My--my 40,000-plus dollars of student loans
wouldn't be so happy with a porsche and an awesome--
by the way, your billiards room is amazing.
- Oh, thank you, thank you. - That's awesome.
That's awesome. - Designed it myself, yeah.
- It looks good. - Remember...
He said he's got 40,000 in student loans.
That doesn't mean he has got 40,000 in student loans.
- It's a lot.
- All right, here's your next question, everyone.
Is the ingredient...
- I think it's stupidity. I think that that's a good one.
- [laughs] - for drinking too much.
- So it's not stupidity.
I know that there are hops in beer.
- Ethanol is alcohol. I mean--
- ethanol is like a gas, isn't it?
- What do you think? - I think it's the hops
because there's chemical-- I believe, there's--
- what'd you say ethanol was?
- Ethanol? It's an alcohol. It's alcohol, isn't it?
- So then that's what it is. Alcohol causes headaches.
So, then, yeah.
- But there's alcohol in beer,
but doesn't mean, like, that's the specific reason
why you get the headache, you know what I mean?
So I was just-- - right.
- 'cause if you, you know, too much salt,
maybe not enough salt, dehydrated--
- I never thought of beer as salty.
- Guys, got ten seconds. You better decide.
- I kind of like the idea of...
I kind of like the idea of ethanol.
I thought ethanol was, like, gassy, bubbly--
- okay, I need to know. What is it?
- I'll go with ethanol. - Bubbly in your head.
I don't know. - Ethanol.
Ethanol. - All right.
Which of these ingredients causes headaches
in some people after drinking beer?
You said ethanol.
The correct answer is...
Ethanol. - Whoo!
- Are you gonna make me answer these?
- Two in a row. - That is interesting.
- All right. - Two in a row.
- Any more information from there, you think?
- Again, I don't want to, like,
you know, be too presumptuous on it,
but I'm really dialed in on ben.
- I think it's time to be presumptuous, you guys.
It's getting towards that time in the game.
- Well, I'm dialed in on you.
- Oh. - I'm dialed in
on ulysses there.
- And you two dialed in on each other,
you might be missing something, that's all I'm saying.
- That's what I'm saying.
- You now have $50,000 in the bank
and only two questions left.
But there's still a lot more to earn
before we finally learn the hustler's identity.
[suspenseful music]
- two questions remain,
and the hustler is still hiding amongst you.
And we have $50,000 in the bank.
Let me show you the next clue.
- [laughs] that's cold.
- Well, well, well... - [laughs]
that's cold. - Well, well, well...
- [laughs]
- what do you think?
Does that change anything for anybody?
- Yeah. - Oh, it does?
- Yeah--I mean--no, no, it doesn't change anything.
Excuse me. - It doesn't change anything?
- Does not, I'm sorry. I wasn't--
- you're staying with your initial idea.
'cause I don't know. You are a handsome dude.
- Oh. [laughter]
- you look to me-- and I hate to profile anybody,
but that's kind of the point of the game
in places, isn't it?
I think you look to me like a guy
that's maybe had to make a decision every now and again.
- [laughs]
- well, I can tell you, I--
- you don't have to tell me. I'm not asking, all right.
The hustler took two love interests
on back-to-back vacations to decide between them.
The next question is...
- Who is molly ringwald? Uh...
- I'm pretty sure of this one.
This is my generation.
This is...
I'm 90% sure it's "pretty in pink."
could be "sixteen candles."
they're both molly ringwald movies.
"sophie's choice" was meryl streep.
- "the breakfast club," I don't remember someone named blane.
Or duckie.
- I'm pretty sure it's "pretty in pink."
- I'll go with "pretty in pink."
- yeah. - And I appreciate your...
"forthcomingness" on this, so we can get this.
- Okay, "pretty in pink."
are you guys decided? Have you made your decision?
- We have. - "pretty in pink."
- "pretty in pink."
- "pretty in pink"? - Sure.
- Okay.
You guys said that the answer was "pretty in pink."
the correct answer is...
"pretty in pink." - [whistles]
- whoo! [cheers and applause]
- well, well, well...
Magical painting on the wall tells me
you have $60,000 in front of you.
It is time now for the final question of the night.
You have $60,000 in the bank.
If you get this next question right,
I'll double it.
I'll double it up to $120,000
if you guys get it right and agree on it.
If you get it wrong, if you guys get it wrong,
I'm gonna cut the bank down to $30,000.
[dramatic music]
of course, the hustler knows the answer to the question,
but with this much money on the table,
will they switch their game plan?
It's a lot of money, isn't it, ulysses?
It's a lot of money. Isn't it a lot of money, sue?
- Sure. - $120,000?
Whoo-hoo! Man could buy a porsche with $120,000.
Couldn't he, ben?
- And a nice billiard room, too.
- Yeah, and a billiard room maybe.
Okay, keep a close eye
on how everyone plays this last one.
It's very important. Here is your final clue.
Holy crackers.
[suspenseful music]
well, well, well...
That's interesting.
That's quite a smart person.
Um, okay, here's the question.
This is for $120,000, or 30,000.
60 seconds.
Start now.
- I think just by land mass,
china is so huge.
There are a lot of spanish-speaking people
in the world, though, but I think when you think
of how big china is...
- English is spoken all over the world.
- But they're talking about native speakers.
- 30 seconds.
- I think it's china. What do you think?
- No, I knew it was china.
- Oh. Okay.
- I just wanted to see if, you know,
who's gonna throw their name in the hat.
I agree with you. It's china.
- I'll go with china.
- You guys agree? - Yeah, I think it's china.
- Yeah, go with china. - Everybody's very happy.
Okay, so you guys are agreed on it's chinese.
Is that right?
[suspenseful music]
all right, which language
has the most native speakers in the world?
You guys said it was chinese.
The correct answer is, of course...
Chinese!
$120,000 on the table!
- Whoo! - [laughs]
[suspenseful music]
now I want to know who the hustler really is...
And who's taking home all of this money.
I can't wait. [laughs]
[cheers and applause] - okay.
$120,000 has been banked.
Either the hustler takes it all,
or two of you will split the money.
But first, let's review what we've learned
about the hustler, all right?
The hustler was recruited by the cia.
They spend one month a year in an amusement park.
They impulsively bought a porsche.
The hustler went on vacation
with two lovers to decide between them.
- [chuckles]
- the hustler speaks six foreign languages.
If the two players who are not the hustler
can name him or her, then they will share the money.
There is a tile in front of you
with the other players' names on it.
I want you to show me
who you believe the hustler is right now.
Go ahead, you guys.
Place it.
Who do you think it is?
Well, well, well...
Ulysses and sue, you think ben is the hustler.
Ben, you think it's sue.
Ben, now is your last chance to plead your case.
You have 90 seconds. Go at it.
- I'm gonna tell you right now.
First, I thought it was you because you are every guy
I've ever seen when I've walked into a charles schwab
or some place like that.
You fit the profile.
I'm gonna tell you right now,
but only a woman, only a woman,
would go out with two different men to see which one she liked.
That's what my wife did. - Oh, that's so sexist.
- That is what my wife did! - Shame on you.
- She went two different-- - you're a teacher.
You're a high-school principal. - Okay, now she's pushing it.
- He can get a month off vacation,
go to amusement parks.
And that would also allow you to go to all those
different countries, plus porsche, midlife crisis.
I'm sorry. - No, no, no--
- and you've been fidgeting. You've been touching your face,
doing this, doing with the wedding ring.
You've been tapping.
You've been doing all kinds of stuff. You can't--
- how long you been a principal?
- 20 years.
- Okay, how teachers do you have on your staff?
- 106.
- I believe he's a principal,
but I think that's why he gets all that vacation time.
- But I don't-- when you're a principal,
you don't get vacation time.
- Of course you do. - No, that's teachers.
- You get a month--summer off. - No, you don't.
No, you do not.
- Even if you don't get three months,
you get two months.
- I think that's what-- - I do not work--
she's really pushing--
look, do you want to split this money or not?
Tell me, how many dudes do you know
that would go out with two chicks
to figure out which one you love?
Come on. - Oh, come on.
- Can you tell me a little bit more about your job?
So you said-- what do you mean sap?
What do you do for billing?
- No, I send out bills to customers.
I follow up on bills. - 20 seconds, you guys.
- Like, what kind of customers?
- Sorry. - What kind of customers?
- A major credit card company.
- I was thinking it was you. Come on, dude.
- Time's up, everybody. - She has been playing aloof,
and I'm worried about being narrow, but--
- no, I think it's absolutely you.
- You tell me one dude you know that goes out to two chicks
to find out who he loves.
- Can I just stop you and say--
can you stop saying-- - wow, sexism.
- Can you stop saying "chicks"?
It's really freaking me out.
[dramatic music]
- seriously, not me.
- It's seriously you. [laughs]
♪ ♪
- sue and ulysses,
you believe ben is the hustler.
Ben, you believe sue is the hustler.
What is your final decision?
Who do you think it is, ulysses?
I think I might hate myself for doing this--
- right. - But I'm gonna...
- Whoa. Ulysses thinks it's sue.
- You're so wrong. We could split this money.
Don't do this. - Sue, who do you think it is?
- Of course I think it's him! Of course it's him!
- Who do you think it is, ben? - Because he says that two--
guy can't date-- - that's not it, that's not it.
There's a few things. - Who do you think it is?
You're staying with it? - It is sue.
I'm staying. - All right.
- Oh, my god.
- Sue, these two gentlemen
believe that you are the hustler.
If they are correct, they're walking out of here
with $60,000 each.
But if sue is not the hustler,
that means one of these two guys
has fooled the other one and will win
the entire $120,000.
Oh.
Oh, it's nasty, isn't it?
♪ ♪
please stand up, hustler, would you?
♪ ♪
- it's you.
♪ ♪
- darn it. - Oh!
- Boo-yah, baby!
- Whoo! - I told you!
I told you! - Oh!
- Only a girl does it!
- [laughs]
oh, you.
Oh, you.
- Am I right? Only a woman does that!
- Wow!
- Congratulations. - Good job.
[overlapping chatter]
- well done, well done.
All right, you two guys are each leaving
with $60,000.
Sue, you are getting nothing, nothing at all.
But you played a great game. Bring it in.
- Thank you.
- My goodness.
That's "the hustler," everybody.
My name is craig ferguson.
Good night, or is it?
- Oh, man.
- Wow. That's really good. That's very impressive.
- Guys just don't go out with two different girls
to see which one they like-- it doesn't happen.
- I thought it was kind of sexist, to be honest,
but, you know, ulysses went for it.
- And I watch hallmark, and that's what they do.
So I knew that was a woman thing,
and that immediately took it off of ulysses.
- In real life, I'm a sales director
for a large consulting firm.
- That was probably the most financially pivotal
90 seconds of my entire life.
- It is my billiards table
with ebony and mahogany
and mother of pearl inlay and silk pockets.
- Sue, don't hate the player, hate the game.