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9th September 2016
12:01pm BST

If both contestants choose a Split ball, the jackpot is split equally between them and they both go home with half the money they've won.
If one contestant chooses a Split ball and the other chooses a Steal ball, the Stealer goes home with all the money and the Splitter goes home empty-handed.
If both contestants choose Steal balls, they both go home empty-handed.
Sarah's face. Look at that face. That's the face Lucifer after he managed to convince Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.
That's the face of every older sibling who's broken something managed to pin the blame of their younger relative.
That's the face of a person who knows they've just screwed someone, knows they shouldn't be too pleased with themselves, but is honestly too happy to care.
That is face of person who in an act of deceit, is at their most raw and honest and truthful.
It's also fucking hilarious because it leads directly to this:
This is the face of a man who's seen his entire life shatter.
Stephen thought he was home clear. Fifty grand is a life changing sum of money. It's two years of take-home salary.
Stephen was feeling good. He was spending the money in his head. He was taking the family on holiday. He was going fix a few things in the house. Maybe sort out a mate or two in a sticky bind. Put some against the mortgage.
Stephen is a sensible grounded fella. He wasn't gonna blow this. He likes his motors but knew this fifty grand, this time, this time he was going to be sensible with his windfall.
Stephen was even planning to give a bit to charity.
And then he ran shit outta luck.
It gets better/worse the more you watch. Sarah goes from lip swallowing "gotcha" to a guilty remorse. She can't look at Stephen anymore. There's a moment where she daintily tries to put the ball back on its stand. She does it in the manner a child does when they try to fix something they've broken, but it looks like a paid hitman dispensing a weapon after a contract as been fulfilled.
There's a small flinch where you suspect she worries Stephen might lash out, and then she realises she has nothing to fear.
Stephen can't lash out. He's physically inable of doing so. He's too busy reassessing all of his life's decisions. Stephen's wondering how he got to this point. Whether or not he's too kind, or wasted his life. Stephen's wondering if maybe he is the wrong one.
Credit to Jasper Carrott for playing it straight on presenting duties. For a man who's just witnessed a treatise on the essence of man, he's remarkably calm.
All that's left now is a rather rattled Stephen and Sarah to deliver their closing VTs.
Look at how the colour has drained out of Stephen's face.
"Goldenballs has taught me that some people... look for revenge, quite easily. And greed, obviously knows no bounds."
As for Sarah... well as one user put it.
https://twitter.com/JamzLdn/status/773851889540661248
"When Stephen revealed the split ball... I wasn't proud... I didn't feel happy about what I'd done but having been stabbed in the back last time I just couldn't put myself through it again."
Hurt people, hurt people.
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