User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-99.137.226.7-20120429193919/@comment-3094698-20120429195110

your comment pretty much summed up why they did the time jump, to create lots of questions right of the bat to hook viewers who will be curious about what happened. basicly its a different way of doing the mole thing from season 1 to keep people watching week in week out