After a 1-week hiatus, DoND is back. Tonight, Howie is wearing a tie for the first time since DoND began 3 years ago. Oh yeah, and there are 10 million-dollar cases available tonight. Good Lord. Anyway, here comes the recap...

Contestant: Becky Matheny
Chocen Case: 18

Round 1 - 6 to open
Briefcases 4 ($1,000,000), 15 ($1,000,000), 12 ($1,000,000), 23 ($1,000,000), 7 ($5), and 13 ($750) eliminated. Banker offers $139,000; NO DEAL.

Round 2 - 5 to open
Briefcases 6 ($1,000,000), 5 ($500), 19 ($25), 24 ($1), and 26 ($1,000,000) eliminated. Banker offers $176,000; NO DEAL.

Round 3 - 4 to open
Briefcases 11 ($10), 1 ($10,000), 22 ($5,000), and 3 ($200) eliminated. Banker offers $266,000; NO DEAL.

Round 4 - 3 to open
Briefcases 2 ($1,000,000), 10 ($100), and 16 ($75) eliminated. Banker offers $293,000; NO DEAL.

Round 5 - 2 to open
Briefcases 17 ($300) and 20 ($.01) eliminated. Banker offers $333,000; NO DEAL.

Round 6 - 1 to open
Briefcase 21 ($1,000,000) eliminated. Banker offers $282,000; NO DEAL.

Round 7 - 1 to open
Briefcase 9 ($50) eliminated. Banker offers $381,000; NO DEAL.

Round 8 - 1 to open
Briefcase 25 ($1,000,000) eliminated. Banker offers $297,000; DEAL.

Final Winnings: $297,000.

Proveouts
Round 9 - 1 to open
Briefcase 8 ($1,000,000) eliminated.

Contestant’s briefcase opened; briefcase contains $1,000.

Unopened Briefcase: 14 ($400).

Result: TPW (2nd in a row !)

Next Time: 11 MDCs. No, I am not making this up. That means that 42% of the cases will have $1 million inside. Gee, they're really getting desperate, aren't they?

Mark's Commentary: Well, everyone thought that the Million-Dollar Mission would be over at 10 cases, but it looks like it wasn't meant to be. Becky lost 4 MDCs in Round 1, but bounced back to win a decent amount of money, alhtough she could have won a bit more. I would have dealt at $381,000, even with the odds as they were.

Another thing I've noticed in these recent MDM games is that as the number of MDCs goes up, so do the bank offers. In the past few games, the contestants never got an offer lower than $125,000, and managed to have 6-figure offers all through their respective games.

Next Monday's game will feature 11 MDCs. An announcement about it was made at the end of this show. Based on that, my mom, who I was watching the show with, believes that the other amounts on the board should be increased, as the highest amount after the 11 MDCs is only $5,000. What do you think?

I just want to see how far they'll take it

A bad first round but a good deal in the end!

Recockulous. Karma biting Howie in the butt and being taken out on the players...

Sad....