- Previously on "The Traitors"...
I'm afraid, my dear players,
the Traitors have cursed one of you to death.
There are just two life-saving antidotes.
Which two players will drink them?
Kristen, Kristen.
- Oh, God. Go. - Drink it.
- I'm telling you, I think I'm gonna get murdered.
Please? OK. - I'm so scared.
- You really want it, so drink it.
- Cursed to death is...
you, Yam Yam!
- Lisa kissed me.
Lisa kissed me with the cheek.
It was so strange,
because Housewives don't kiss.
[voice echoing] Lisa.
- The players rounded on Faithful Natalie
and Traitor Lisa.
- Everyone is kind of on, for their own reasons, Natalie.
- What do we want to do?
- Lisa. - Lisa. 100%.
- I voted for an icon.
I voted for a legend.
I voted for a very, very glamorous Traitor.
- I voted for Rob.
- I am the most iconic...
- Oh, my God.
- Traitor!
- We have a snake on our hands.
- Rob's real close to Colton.
- They're really close,
and they're moving in lockstep.
- I do think it's Candiace.
- You're gonna write my name down
as a hint to everybody here
that I'm a fucking Traitor?
Oh, my gosh, girl.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[ominous music]
[insects chirping]
- Good evening.
♪ ♪
You seem pretty mad at me.
Do you want me to explain myself, or--
- I--yes, I'd love for you to.
- OK.
As a person, I feel bad.
But as a player...
Lisa had to go.
♪ ♪
- Rob is very clearly the dangerous type
that will literally look you in your face
and stab you in your back as you're walking away.
I have to play it cool.
Crying and yelling and carrying on,
that--that doesn't work for Rob.
- I thought you started pushing for Lisa.
- I don't think there was enough evidence
for me to have to vote Lisa out.
♪ ♪
So I gave a throwaway.
- Me.
♪ ♪
You don't think that that was, like,
uncalled for?
Candiace is lying to my face.
However, I'm withholding that Colton is suspicious of her.
I have information she needs,
and if she's gonna lie to me, she's not gonna get it.
♪ ♪
[knocking]
[door creaking]
- What's up?
[tense music]
- Good evening. - Good evening.
- I sense some awkwardness in my turret.
♪ ♪
- Is that what you sense?
- Yes.
It's palpable.
♪ ♪
As per the rules of the game, now you are down to two.
You need to make a choice.
You can either murder a Faithful as usual,
or you can ask one of them to join you.
If they accept, they will become a Traitor
this very eve.
- Ooh.
♪ ♪
- As ever, your actions as Traitors
must be swift and decisive.
♪ ♪
Be nice.
- Thanks, Alan.
♪ ♪
What do you think?
- [sighs]
Well, is seducing someone
a better way to take a Faithful away?
- I think we're better off just the two of us.
I don't want to vote out any more Traitors.
- Well, don't piss 'em off.
♪ ♪
- OK.
- [sighs]
If I'm being honest, I think it's advantageous
to not seduce,
because at some point,
Rob's going to try and take me out,
and I don't want to bring in someone
that I think will help him.
If we don't seduce, we murder.
- I'll give you more leeway on this,
since I was pushing more on not seducing tonight.
♪ ♪
- I think Stephen would confuse people.
- I would not mind that.
He's, like, super random, but he's super low key.
- Mm-hmm.
- Doesn't draw any lines to you or me.
But he's pretty good in the missions.
- Yeah.
Colton?
♪ ♪
- I don't want to murder Colton.
He's, like, one of my best friends in the game.
He's, like, the loudest one at the table.
He's--like, we need one of those.
- But that can turn on a dime.
Natalie? Is Natalie an option?
- [clicks tongue]
She could be good because
she doesn't really implicate either of us.
- Mm-hmm.
- But she could be bad because
she's a strong voice at the table.
- And people are still... - On that--
- On her. - Yeah.
Yeah, it's up to you.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- ♪ Play the game ♪
♪ And the blame ♪
- This is the best choice
for continued success in this game.
- You can have the honors.
- Well, thank you.
♪ ♪
I need to make Rob feel like
he is still a part of the team
and we're still kind of in this thing together.
♪ ♪
A careful assassin
serves her revenge cold.
So right now,
I'm putting my platter in a good old deep freezer.
And when the time is right,
I will pull it out and serve it.
- The deed is done.
♪ ♪
Candiace isn't in check,
but I've certainly taken her queen.
She's running low on valuable pieces.
- ♪ See you on the dark side ♪
♪ ♪
[owl hooting]
[hawk screeches]
- As trust in the turret teeters on a knife edge,
the Traitors chose to murder.
So which Faithful won't make it to breakfast?
[knocking]
- [gasps] We have the room to ourselves.
- I've never been first.
- Oh, God. - Eat all the food.
- Let's go all the way down. - Oi.
Walking into breakfast, it's a very momentary
sigh of relief from getting a Traitor banished.
Perhaps there are still two Traitors alive right now,
which is mind-boggling,
because I like everybody in this castle.
It feels like we're back at square one again.
This game is exhausting. [sighs]
The Traitors have done such a good job
at making us feel like they're a Faithful.
- Mm-hmm.
- Who is, like, one of the last people
you would expect?
- People started bringing up
Stephen's name.
- I'd be shocked.
- I would be shattered. - I love him.
- Yeah. - He's awesome.
- Wait, guys, do you think
it could be a recruitment?
- [gasps]
- I feel like if they recruited somebody,
it wouldn't be someone that everyone loves,
because the Traitors aren't gonna want
another solid Traitor that's gonna make it to the end.
They're gonna want to use somebody.
- A million percent. And then get rid of them.
- Yeah. both: Mm-hmm.
[knocking]
- Hello?
[suspenseful music]
- Oh, God, it's hard to believe.
[cheers and applause]
It's hard to believe. I have to be honest with you.
I started packing up my things last night.
- [laughs] No way. - I swear to God.
Last night, I felt, like, defeated--I really did.
I would have never have guessed it was Lisa.
I just didn't see it.
And maybe it's because during this time together,
we've just bonded.
I know that sounds ridiculous,
but I was, like, having
a fabulous girls' weekend with her.
[scoffs]
That's not "Traitors" play, is it?
- Dorinda, we're just saying,
who would be the least person you'd suspect?
- Or who is the person
that feels like they could flip?
Like--[snaps] - Easily.
- And like, still-- and still keep the façade
or whatever it is?
- I don't know, you guys.
♪ ♪
- Last night, I was having a conversation with Colton
about Candiace, and we were both like, hmm.
It was interesting that
she did a throwaway vote on Rob.
If you think about it, right, Candiace stuck on Ron,
and she was very consistent.
Why do a throwaway vote
when she wanted to stay consistent in this game
and not just-- - Well, I did a throwaway vote.
- No, but different, because Candiace was like--
- That's her entire brand.
- That's--yeah, that's unlike her.
♪ ♪
- I don't feel like she's performative.
I think last night,
she just did not want to vote for a Housewife.
♪ ♪
Obviously, I'm here as part of a duo
with my broadcast partner, Tara Lipinski.
But Candiace has been one of my closest people in this game.
So my mind's doing all sorts of backflips
because I'm trying to think of Candiace as a Traitor,
and I just don't see that.
[banging]
- Who is that?
[suspenseful music]
- Hi! [cheers and applause]
- Yay!
Good morning. - Good morning.
- You look gorgeous. - Ooh, la, la.
Mwah! - Morning, baby. Hi.
- Coming into breakfast, I'm excited because
I know that the murder we committed last night
is going to shake everything up.
I'm engineering chaos here.
That's the name of the game.
- I have a Housewife question.
- Go ahead.
- So because of the throwaway vote,
it was as if, like, maybe there's a fear
of, like, upsetting Housewives.
- I went in wanting to vote for Natalie, but I--
I believed her.
And Lisa, the kiss thing,
that wasn't enough for me.
- Mm-hmm. - No, I would never want
to just throw out a vote that I'm not sure about...
- But you did. - And be wrong.
- With Rob, right?
[tense music]
- Well, it was throwaway because I knew that
nobody was gonna vote for him.
- It's like I did it with you.
I knew no one's ever gonna vote for you
at that roundtable.
♪ ♪
- Wait, we're waiting on Stephen, Rob,
Colton, Natalie.
- Oh!
Oh, I hope it's not Rob.
- There are four big names.
♪ ♪
- This is nuts.
[banging]
- Uh-oh. - Come in!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [gasps] - Oh!
- Oh, my God! - What?
- Oh, my God.
[knocking] - Come in!
- Hello?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[all cheering]
[all gasping] - What?
- Oh, my God. Colton's not here!
- Wait, what? - Colton.
- Oh, come on. - Are you serious?
- Wow.
He was a great player.
- He was.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
I think we need to murder Colton.
- [sighs] - Colton is loud.
He's messy.
He's dangerous.
We need to take out their king.
- I don't want to murder Colton,
but it's up to you.
You can have the honors.
- [sighing] OK.
- RIP Colton.
♪ ♪
- Well, that's a bummer.
"Colton, by the order of the Traitors,
you have been murdered."
Damn.
I think it's become pretty obvious that
Candiace is up there trying to be consistent
and then do a throwaway vote is sloppy gameplay.
I have faith that the Faithfuls know who it is,
and I hope that my boy Rob wins.
Good game, Candiace.
[somber music]
- That's a big blow.
- We're screwed now, you know?
That's gonna mess us up big time.
♪ ♪
- The goal of this murder was to cut the alliance
between Rob and Colton.
Rob was using Colton to get Lisa out.
And who's to say he wouldn't do the same thing
and have Colton float my name?
So, Colton, I love you, but...
safe travels.
- He was a huge asset to the team in every way.
- Yeah. - And I trusted him.
- Like, doing what he did with, I think, b--
[utensil clangs]
- Rob. - Jesus, Rob.
- Ro-- - [laughs]
I'm genuinely upset Colton's gone.
But I just let her do it because it's like
a Mark Twain quote that I love.
"It ain't the things you don't know that hurt you.
It's the things you think you know for sure."
He has spoken to people that he is suspicious about her,
and killing him will draw a direct line to her.
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Ooh. - Oh, boy.
- Buongiorno, my quirky little crew.
After your stunning victory last night,
the Traitors' egos are bruised.
♪ ♪
This bachelor's engagement
has expired.
Colton's red rose
has been permanently deadheaded.
- [groans]
- Oh, well. On with the show.
It's time to prepare for today's mission.
It will be very, very--
[sighs]
Well, I don't think I need to paint you a picture.
♪ ♪
Later, taters.
- Who's good at painting?
- Rob said he can paint a little bit.
- There's nothing Rob can't do. - Rob's good at everything.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Cheers to Colton, everyone.
- To Colton. He played big and bold.
He went out big and bold.
- A truly great Faithful.
[glasses clinking]
- To Colton.
- My plan today is to turn the table upside down
and really focus on and look at people
who we've never looked at,
because it's a perfect way to implicate Rob.
- Now where do we go?
- Well, I think that's the thing.
We have to start looking at,
like, people that are under the radar.
- Yeah, I came in today fully back on.
- Colton. - Yeah, same. Same.
- Colton being the one who was murdered
is sending me into the stratosphere
of a black hole.
I was sure of myself.
So maybe I need to go with the people who I feel so sure
and just go the opposite direction.
Like, Mark, I am so sure that I trust him.
Perhaps he is the Traitor.
Mark's a Traitor.
- Hey, Candiace.
- Yeah, b--
♪ Roll your body ♪
♪ Roll your body, roll your body ♪
Yes! - [laughs]
- I love it. [snorts]
- But wait, wait.
I still don't--
- I'm so bad at this.
How am I still here?
I keep going after Natalie,
and, like, nobody's on Natalie.
I'm clearly wrong.
And Johnny, obviously, is my best friend.
He thinks it's Stephen.
So Stephen is now on my suspicion list.
You guys should make, like, a--a fun game out of it
of how wrong I can be.
- Really not that much of a target.
It's not in the Traitors' best interest
to murder the person that has it.
It's to know who has it.
I'm somebody who likes numbers.
I like working with them.
I like probabilities.
I like percentages.
Rob's got the dagger
that allows you to have two votes
at one of the roundtables.
That is a great advantage.
I feel like I can use him as an ally.
Here comes Eric.
- OK, good. He's fine.
He's trustworthy because he voted
against Lisa night one.
- Eric, what do you think?
- This might sound crazy,
but I think it might be Candiace.
- OK, interesting.
I racked my head around Candiace last night,
and I feel like,
even though we don't have hard evidence,
meaning fingerprints in this game,
Candiace is smart, and she's been consistent
up until the throwaway vote.
That was the one thing that, like, made me--
you know what I'm saying? - Yeah.
- It was really weird that
she didn't vote for me too.
I thought I was getting a vote coming my way,
at least from her. - Yeah.
- The last thing Colton said to me last night was Candiace.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
My plan right now
is basically to push for Candiace.
I mean, she's gonna start making
conspiracy theories about me.
I wasn't going for Candiace.
I never said Candiace's name once.
But now I will.
- I just think that we've obviously been
not looking in the right places for Traitors.
When we were talking about Colton
and, like, why he would have been murdered,
did you notice Rob being flustered?
♪ ♪
Yeah.
Rob was, like, dropping his fork,
and Rob is not a flustered person.
♪ ♪
Rob is a danger to me.
He's gonna put my name up.
So if I can keep Rob
thinking that he's undetectable
when people are actually starting to say his name,
we can start moving the needle forward, toward Rob.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
[peacock squawks]
- Mission time.
- Let's make some money!
- Let's make some money.
♪ ♪
- Oh, boy.
- Welcome, players.
♪ ♪
"Ars gratia artis,"
art for the sake of art.
♪ ♪
For today's mission, though,
you're making art for the sake of gold.
First of all, you will split into two teams.
One team of eight will remain here at the castle.
The other three will come with me to the old gallery
where I store all my spare castle artwork.
Before you decide, a point to consider:
hidden amongst the paintings is a shield.
So only those of you going to the old gallery
will have the opportunity to swipe it.
- Mm. - Oh, Lord.
- Oh, fucking hell. - Oh, boy.
- Players, please decide how you're going to split.
- What if we try, we throw out a name that is not ourselves?
- Oh, sure. - I nominate Mark.
- I nominate Kristen.
- I nominate Rob. - Kristen, Mark, Rob.
- Johnny. Johnny's never had a shield.
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- I feel like I'm pretty scared to die.
Not gonna lie. - Yeah.
Rob getting a shield is like me running up a hill.
I don't want it.
- Rob, if you want to go,
I'm happy to step aside for you.
- But everybody is just, like, want to drink
Rob's bathwater 'cause he's just such a Faithful.
- So Mark, Kristen, and Rob are coming with me to the gallery.
The rest of you motley crew are staying here.
- Correct. - Inside my castle
are six empty gold frames.
On each frame is a plaque
describing the painting that belongs in it.
The job of the castle team is to reenact the paintings
using these descriptions.
- Oh, wow.
- Once the castle team is happy,
they will take a photo of their recreation
and send it to the old gallery.
- OK. - Wow.
- It's then the gallery team's job
to identify the painting
that most resembles your recreation.
For every painting you manage to correctly identify,
$3,000 will be added to the prize pot.
- Ooh, yay. - OK.
- Players, it took Leonardo da Vinci
16 years to finish his masterpiece.
- Oh, God.
- You will have just 60 minutes.
- Ooh. - 60 minutes?
- Castle team, there are two cameras.
So soon, you will need to split yourselves up into two teams.
The rest of you, follow me to the old gallery.
- Good luck, guys. - Let's go, babies.
- Good luck. - Good luck, guys!
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Welcome to my old gallery, players.
- Look at that. Look at the faces.
[dog panting]
- Where's the shield, girl?
- [laughs] - Where's the shield?
- We ended up being in a group
that I really trust, which is Rob and Kristen.
In a game where trust is so small and limited,
it's now at the point where you have to start
putting 100% trust in your people
and just hope that your inner compass is
pointing you in the right direction.
- Castle team, are you ready?
all: Yes!
- In three, two, one, go!
- Go! To the bar, to the bar.
[laughter]
[dramatic music]
- What do we got? What do we got?
- Let's see.
- "Tending the Cattle." - Ooh, pretty.
- "A beguiling young milkmaid milks a somber Highland cow..."
- [gasps] I'm a cow!
- "While the other two cattle
rest patiently in the meadow."
- Oh, boy. - I think you should be
the milkmaid. - Not the cow?
- No, give us-- - Oh, give my coat. OK.
- We'll have the coat.
- I'll wear your coat. I'll be the cow.
- In this picture,
I'm portraying a Highland cow,
which I've never tried to portray before.
But the fact that I have such a wonderful milkmaid...
[laughing] In Candiace
makes it a lot more fun.
- Should I be back here?
- No, no, just, like, under his crotch area.
- This is something that piques my interest.
Like, I think the devil's in the details.
Eric, don't give too much of a face
'cause we don't want it to be a d--
a little bit of a distraction.
I like storytelling. I've done some directing.
I do like photography.
I feel like this is something that I can excel in.
Here, let's tie this so you can see your udders.
- Oh, udders.
- Sorry, this is a compromising position.
[laughter]
[cow moos]
- Ooh. - Right here, right here.
- Here we go.
"Welcome To The World.
"Two downtrodden farmhands carry a newborn calf
"on a path while its watchful mother
strides gently at its side."
- I can be the calf.
- OK. - I'll be the mother.
- So you have to get on all fours.
- It's not often I'm on all fours these days.
[laughter]
- Getting into character as a calf,
I mean, how does one human do that?
I think someone carries me.
No, not like that. I need--
you need to hold me like a cow.
And moo.
- Maura, ready? - Yep.
- Sad face.
[all mooing]
[camera shutter clicks]
[laughter]
- I think I went to a party like this once.
- Someone's being held.
Maura could be a fish. She's making fish lips.
- Are they saying moo? They're totally saying moo.
- Dorinda's a cow.
- I'll let you tell her that.
- OK. Dorinda's a cow.
- Yeah. - Oh, my...
- I'll just look for anyone holding anything.
- Is this interesting to anyone?
- Trying to look like a cow.
- She's trying to look like a baby cow, yeah.
- Oh, and then like a mother cow.
- Yeah, put it on, put it on.
- Are you locking it in?
- Lock it in. - Yes.
- Red team, I can reveal
the gallery team...
matched your photo! all: Yes!
- Whoo!
- Let's listen to what he says.
- Congratulations.
$3,000 to the prize pot.
- All right, we got it! Let's go.
Here, Dorinda.
[dramatic music]
- [laughs] both: OK.
- Everyone's on the ground.
- Oh, look at his face.
- Johnny is giving horse.
- Have you seen anything with a horse?
- No.
- Candiace, the perfect fusion of milkmaid
and Santa's little helper.
- You were a great cow.
- I tried to be as somber as I can.
My face doesn't move as much as it used to.
[laughter]
- Ugh!
This is hard.
We're turning things over.
We're missing pictures.
But then something stands out to me--
the only canvas backing in that entire gallery.
I got the shield.
Guys, I got the shield!
- Nice. - Yes.
- This is my happy sleeping pill.
For the first time in days,
I'm actually going to get a good night's sleep.
♪ ♪
- Oh, oh. - What? What? What?
- Candiace, Eric, and the other two.
- Look at his face.
- He's looking very horse-ish.
- Let's do it. - Look at his expression.
- All right. - It's your final answer?
- Yeah. - Yeah. I like that.
- Hello, green team. all: Yes?
- You have failed to match your photo...
- Oh, fuck. - To the correct painting.
- Fuck.
- What?
- They thought you looked like horses rather than cows.
- Who milks a horse?
- No money for the bank.
- Wow.
- I ate grass.
I took allergens into my mouth.
- That is clearly a cow.
- Anyways, next photo. We go.
Four Traitors outside fighting about who to murder next.
- I wish we had our jackets to make a cake.
- Well, that-- they might get confused.
They didn't know what a damn cow was.
- All right, we're in the field anyway, right?
- Yeah. - Yeah. Right here.
- Get--get the view in the background.
- Somebody find a stick.
- This is so far my favorite mission.
Maura is gonna be the fierce warrior.
Natalie is gonna be the horse.
- What am I doing? Like this? Neigh!
- No, well, it's-- it's not a video.
- Oh. - [laughs]
- OK, ready?
- Oh, my God. Hapless villagers.
- [shouts]
[operatic singing]
- [gasps] Ooh.
- Battle, sword, horseback.
- But Natalie is making a hand.
Is she an ostrich?
- Do you think it's a horse?
- Definitely horseback with a sword.
- Uh, guys? - That's it.
Yep, that's it. - OK, cool.
Let's do it.
- Red Team, I can reveal that the gallery team
matched your photograph.
[cheering]
- We're quarreling--like, really impassioned, like.
- Oh, this is some Ansel Adams shit.
- Because the gallery team wasn't able to get
our first very literal depiction,
we want to make sure that we're even more on the nose
for the second picture.
So I choke Eric.
- Are we ready? One, two, three.
[camera shutter clicks]
♪ ♪
- Everybody looks angry in this.
- Looks like a Saturday night
at the pub down in the village.
- What about--I know
it's probably not this, but--
- I'm not seeing a lot of violence.
- I don't know. - I don't think so.
- Dude, dude, look, look.
Johnny's left hand, the right hand is over the top.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Go for it.
♪ ♪
- Green team, I can tell you that the players
down here got it wrong.
- [groans] - Shit.
♪ ♪
- Another fail for the green team.
- Oh! Oh, my God!
- No.
- All right, guys, right here. - OK. Here we are.
- Set it up right here.
- We are absolutely amazing at this.
We are very expressive.
- [groans]
- The characters are well placed.
- Should I come more this way?
♪ ♪
- And we're all very good-looking.
All those things matter when taking a photograph.
- [sobbing]
- Natalie looks like she is proposing.
- Is it this? - That looks good.
- Red Team, the gallery team
matched your photograph correctly.
[cheering]
both: Yes!
- Nice. Nice, nice, nice.
- You've banked $3,000.
Well done.
- Yes!
- Three out of three.
Let's go!
♪ ♪
We have smashed this.
- All right, let's get the last one.
Let's salvage this.
"A weary mother cradles
her wailing infant in a folly."
Eric's got such a baby face, that beautiful skin.
You know what? He could be the wailing baby.
- Three, two, one. Pose.
[wailing]
- He could be a pig's head--
Or a baby that's crying.
- Good sign or a bad sign that they're taking a long time?
I'm gonna go with the latter.
- I think it's a good sign because they know
that they failed the first time.
- It looks like either a decapitated head
or a screaming baby.
- 10 seconds left, players.
You've got to make a decision. Come on!
- I think this one. What do you guys think?
- Sure, yeah. - I trust you. Yeah, yeah.
- Locking it in.
♪ ♪
Hello, players.
There was quite a lot of debate
down here about whether Eric was
a decapitated pig's head or a screaming baby.
♪ ♪
- Come on.
- And I can now reveal...
they got it correct.
- Yes! - Yes!
- I am offended. - [laughs]
- Did you just call me a dismembered pig?
- Players. - Oh, yes.
- By successfully matching four photographs
with four paintings, you have added $12,000
to your prize pot, which now stands
at an impressive $150,800.
[cheers and applause]
And I can reveal the shield was indeed taken
by someone in the gallery team.
Now regroup back at my castle.
And remember, the only art form
the roundtable is interested is realism.
♪ ♪
[pensive music]
[bird cawing]
- This looks so good.
- [sighing] Oh, God.
- All right, now roundtable.
What are you thinking or hearing or--
- Do you have any-- anything in your gut?
Anything? - I have nothing.
- There's gotta be a male up there.
- 100% there's a male. - There's gotta be.
There's gotta be. - There's a male.
- What are you thinking? - I literally am so thrown.
Candiace is suspicious.
♪ ♪
- I mean, Colton mentioned Candiace and Stephen yesterday.
♪ ♪
- I obviously brought evidence to the table of Lisa.
But right now, I'm on Stephen.
Something is off and not making sense to me.
- But I--I just feel--
I feel some boy energy.
I can't imagine Lisa strategizing.
So who is in there strategizing?
Could it be someone like Stephen?
- I mean, he would be the perfect, most sly.
- Like, he's right in--
across middle 50%. - Yeah.
- He is 50%. - Yeah.
With every death, with every murder or banishment,
we try to figure out, what are the hints?
What are the clues?
And I'm trying to figure out the motivations
of the Traitors to murder Colton.
Maybe it's that he's really good at whipping votes.
And Colton said Candiace and Stephen.
So I don't know.
It's--it's--I don't want his death to be in vain.
♪ ♪
- I love Johnny.
By telling me, I know what's coming.
And I appreciate that,
because game time requires game-time decisions.
I have to figure out who's putting my name out there.
- The only two people I would focus on
are Stephen or Candiace.
But I do think it's interesting
that Lisa and I talked a lot about
where we're gonna put the gold yesterday.
I was very surprised when she chose Stephen.
- Are you taking all your gold?
Do you want to share?
- I'm gonna give it to you.
- Very generous of you. - You're welcome.
I never saw any relationship between Lisa and Stephen.
Have you? - Never.
No. - Not once.
- No. - So I found that weird.
- That's quite interesting.
- I think you're right.
♪ ♪
[ominous music]
- Is there anybody in here?
- No. OK, good.
- [humming]
- The kitchen's filled.
♪ ♪
- [groans]
- OK, so...
are you hearing names?
- Yeah.
- Can we have two seconds?
- Oh, sure.
♪ ♪
Well, that's a tell.
- Colton, last night, by the way,
was tossing out your name.
♪ ♪
FYI.
- Mm-hmm.
Wow. Wow.
Colton was Rob's minion.
Has Rob been floating my name to Colton?
Oh, Robert, my darling, I got you.
I got you.
This is gonna be fun.
I feel like we were all thinking that Colton was...
doing all of the thinking.
- Yeah.
- But who was Colton closest to?
♪ ♪
- I feel like Colton trusted the most...
Rob.
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
I feel like Rob was puppeteering Colton.
- Really?
- I just feel like Lisa's name
was coming from Colton after Rob had...
- You spoke with Rob? - Mentioned it to me.
♪ ♪
Hi.
- We were just talking about how Lisa's name first came up.
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
- Um, Colton, like,
looked at you over at the roundtable, right?
♪ ♪
- Yeah. I mean, I don't know.
But can I actually talk to you for a second?
- Yeah, I--we-- I think we should talk.
- Yeah, I want to talk to you. - Yeah.
- Stephen, would you mind? - Yeah.
No problem. - Sorry.
- You bet.
♪ ♪
- Um, so I'm hearing my name.
♪ ♪
Where is that coming from?
- I've heard it from, like, almost everyone.
♪ ♪
- I feel like you already are.
♪ ♪
- Really? - Mm-hmm.
- Wh--[sighs]
- Why is my name suddenly coming up?
[dramatic music]
- Colton.
- So when did you know this?
- This morning.
- Not yesterday?
- No. Why?
- Because if you knew Colton was saying my name...
- Yeah.
- It would be convenient for you to just be like,
"Oh, it's fine. Let's murder Colton."
- Right. - Mm-hmm.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- So you don't trust me, basically,
is what you're saying?
- I didn't say that.
We have different values.
- I'm sorry.
- Are you?
You also told Lisa you were sorry.
♪ ♪
- I feel like you're taking this very personally.
♪ ♪
This is a game. - It is a game.
- It's 100% a game.
- And you are a snake.
♪ ♪
I see what you're doing,
but I also want you to know
that if I get banished tonight,
your name is going to come up.
- I feel like that's bad sportsmanship, but...
- You think that's bad sportsmanship?
- The game is called "Traitors."
- Yes, it is.
And you are a snake, not a Traitor.
Do what you're gonna do, and I'll do what I'm gonna do.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Follow me down ♪
♪ Into the valley night ♪
♪ Where all the flowers bloom ♪
- I'm not raging,
because a queen never comes off her throne.
I am simply serving the dish that was served to me.
If you want to play dirty and foul
and roll around in the gutter,
I'm gonna play the game with you
and do it with a relatively cool head.
♪ ♪
- I've dealt with a lot of conflict over my life.
I think that helps in a game like this.
You learn how to work people.
And I have to just remain completely calm
while simultaneously trying to get Candiace
as riled up as possible,
because I think the more you yell
and the more passionate you are,
the more guilty you look.
♪ ♪
- Word on the street today is Candiace.
But Candiace has been an ally to me.
So Stephen is the name on the back of my tongue.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- The gates are locked, the portcullis lowered.
But it is not the danger outside that you should fear,
for peril is seated right here at this very table.
They say one of the true gifts of the art connoisseur
is telling the genuine from the fake.
Look around you.
Think about how much faith you truly have in each other.
Then think again.
Players, the floor is yours.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- I'll start.
At this point in the game,
it's very hard to know who to trust.
And yesterday, Colton mentioned to watch out for Stephen.
There wasn't really a detailed analysis of you,
but he said your name.
And given the situation of, like, hearing a name,
Colton's influence gave me pause.
- I'm curious if anybody else heard from Colton--
if we're gonna let him speak from the grave--
that my name came up.
- I have a--a question.
Um, I did think of something,
now that I know she's a Traitor.
I was with Lisa a lot.
And especially yesterday,
we conquered that hellish mountain,
the Death Mountain.
When we got up there, I made it clear
I was gonna put the gold in Colton's,
and she just went over very quietly
and dumped it in your box, and I thought, huh.
♪ ♪
I didn't know that you two had a relationship like that.
- I just went right up to her and asked her if she knew that
she probably didn't have enough gold to be in the top six.
So I just thought maybe she'll think that she might be
gaining a little bit of trust from me or something.
She didn't come over and dump it, not--not at all.
If I didn't go over to her and ask her for her gold,
she would have never given it to me.
- I have a few things.
First, I think whoever the Traitors are
are playing a magnificent game.
- An excellent game.
- I think we're at this point in the game
where we have to reevaluate everything.
From the beginning, it was Candiace about consistency.
You were consistent in voting for Donna...
- Yes. - And Ron.
- Yes. - Until yesterday.
♪ ♪
- With Ron gone and him being a Faithful,
I was now having to reevaluate.
And the options that were presented to me
were Natalie and Lisa.
I did not believe there was enough
concrete evidence to vote for them.
So my solution was to issue a throwaway vote.
- Most everybody else felt like we had enough evidence
to go for Lisa, and so if that--
- Well--well, no.
There was a consensus vote for Natalie
before we walked in here.
- Led by who?
- Yeah, which--I'm curious about how that happened.
- Tara. Tara said it to me first.
♪ ♪
- Yesterday, you said we're good,
but then you go behind my back and rally votes.
That is a red flag.
- I voted for you last night.
Obviously, that's a very open vote.
And I did not rally votes.
It was a group.
- [sighs]
- I wanted to bring up something else.
♪ ♪
Um, when we walked in and sat for breakfast,
we were all kind of, like, postulating
as to, like, why Colton?
What would be the reason, et cetera, et cetera?
I thought it was interesting that Rob...
was sort of fumbling
and seemed a bit nervous.
Dropped his fork, and he, like, hit something on the table.
And it was interesting just because
you've always been sort of this measured, calm,
quiet person who doesn't seem to be
easily upset or floundered.
♪ ♪
- I wasn't nervous. I was upset.
I was, as most of you know, really close to Colton.
- Yeah.
- And yeah, I think I dropped my fork.
But yeah, I mean, I think I've dropped
a lot of forks in my life, to be fair.
- Mm-hmm.
- I just have a question.
Obviously, last night,
you stated that you had a throwaway vote...
- Yes. - Which was Rob.
- Yes. - But now tonight's roundtable,
it does seem that you're suspicious of Rob.
- So it was a throwaway vote... - OK.
- Until--the example that I gave was this morning.
You just seemed nervous.
- I seem nervous?
- Yeah.
I have another question I can ask.
You had mentioned Lisa's name to me,
and I had not heard her name at all
at any point at that time.
And then all of a sudden, Colton is saying Lisa's name.
I did wonder if you could have been using Colton
to deliver information.
- Colton brought up Lisa's name the first time.
I agreed with him. I wrote it down.
And Lisa did not go.
I told Colton the next day, I'm gonna try to help you
tonight at the roundtable.
And so whenever I had something to say
that I thought was adding to the conversation,
I did.
- It caught me off guard because you don't say
a whole lot at these roundtables.
- I do not fill silence. That's not when I speak.
- I'm just speaking on what I saw.
For me, Colton was being used
as Rob's "beard."
- Players, the time for talk is over.
- Oh, God.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Players, the time for talk is over.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
The time will soon come to vote.
But before that, a reminder--
there is someone around this table
who is holding the power of the dagger.
♪ ♪
If you want to unleash this power
and give yourselves two votes at this roundtable
for one person, now is the time to declare it.
All you need to do is raise your hand now.
♪ ♪
Once more, the power of the dagger is untouched.
Players, it is now time to vote.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- It's hard to tell with this group who you can rely on.
I would like to believe I could count on Johnny to back me up--
Stephen, Dorinda.
Tara, I'd like to believe would back me up,
but it's hard to tell.
I don't want to be banished.
I--I want to win.
- I'm nervous, but I'm not gonna
use the dagger, because at this point,
five people know I have it.
Subconsciously or consciously,
they don't want to go against me
because I have this over their heads.
- I adore Candiace, so it's really, really hard
for me to get on the Faithful train
and think of her as a Traitor.
But people talk about, oh, like, I'm still in this game
because I'm close to somebody that's up in the turret.
Could that be Candiace for me?
♪ ♪
- We will start the vote with Maura.
- [sighs] Jesus Christ.
I voted for Candiace.
A throwaway vote to me is just very random,
and I just found it so strange
that then you targeted that person tonight.
- Eric.
- I voted for you, Candiace.
There were just little small pieces that
just kind of inched towards you.
And that's all I have to go off of right now.
- Candiace, who do you think is the Traitor?
- I think it's no surprise.
Based on what I said tonight, I voted for you, Rob.
We need to start looking at people who are unassuming,
quiet, who we think we trust, but perhaps we shouldn't.
- Johnny, who do you think is a Traitor, and why?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Candiace, I voted for you.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
Just given the vote for Lisa was
really overwhelming in this room last night.
And the fact that you couldn't come to the same decision
as the rest of us, and it turned out to be a Traitor,
I think, certainly, that gives me pause.
This was so hard to write down.
I'm so sorry.
♪ ♪
- Kristen.
- Candiace, I voted for you.
- Dorinda.
Who do you think is a Traitor and why?
- I am going to vote for Candiace.
[dramatic music]
I really got suspicious when you went hard on Rob.
I find it weird that you called it a throwaway vote last night
and then went hard for him tonight.
You know I adore you.
♪ ♪
- Candiace, if you receive one more vote,
you will be banished.
Natalie, who do you think is a Traitor, and why?
- I voted for Tara.
To hear that you were one of the people that were saying,
"Let's vote for Natalie," means that you lied to me.
So that's why I voted for you.
- And with the next vote, Rob--
Rob, if you vote for Candiace,
she will be banished from the game.
♪ ♪
- Candiace.
♪ ♪
The beautiful, charming,
very intelligent lady,
I voted for you.
[solemn music]
- Candiace, you have received the most votes
and are banished from the game.
But before we discover your true identity,
will the other players please reveal their votes?
Mark.
- Candiace, I voted for you.
- Tara.
- So I voted for you, Candiace.
Today, I've hung back a bit
and tried to really listen to everyone.
And then I got really confused when you threw my name out
just because it was a group thing.
- Yeah.
- And I'm really sorry if I'm wrong.
- And with the final vote, Stephen.
- I voted for you, Candiace.
- Candiace, please come forward to the circle of truth.
♪ ♪
Candiace,
before you leave my castle forever,
please reveal to us,
are you a Faithful or a Traitor?
- Well...[sighs]
I don't want to cry.
I love you all so much.
♪ ♪
This experience has been life-changing.
I've never been in a situation where I've connected
with so many people so quickly.
I feel like I've played this game with valor,
with love, with respect...
♪ ♪
And...
with treachery,
because I am a Traitor.
- Yeah! [cheering]
- Oh, my God! - Yes!
- I love you. Thank you.
- Right on, baby! - Oh, my God!
Thank God! - Whoo!
- Two in a row, baby.
[laughter]
both: We are so good!
- What? What?
[excited chatter]
- Knew it! - Whoo!
[cheering] - Yes!
- I am proud of how I played this game.
It was really challenging to have to lie.
I really started to love everybody.
And that's what just...
I think stings the most.
But I'm confident that they're gonna look at Rob.
And in the event that they don't, joke is on them.
So good luck to you all.
Good luck.
♪ ♪
- Hallelujah! - Yes!
- Whoo! - Yes!
- For the second consecutive night,
a Traitor's armor has been fatally pierced.
- Two nights in a row. - That's crazy.
- Bravo, Faithful.
Enjoy your moment.
- [sighs]
- But go to bed thinking happy thoughts,
for you never know which one will be your last.
♪ ♪
- Candiace did well, though, didn't she?
- Yes. - She did.
- That is crazy. - She did so well.
- So well. - Wow.
- I'm the last Traitor in the game.
I wanted to play as cool as possible against Candiace
'cause I didn't want to make her too mad
'cause I was worried about what she might say.
My only thing is like, why--
- You?
- Like, do you think she thought,
because I'm quiet, that I haven't built,
like, a lot of relationships here?
- It was such a reach.
- With those two votes for me coming from Candiace,
I think it's only a matter of time
before someone connects those dots.
This is the most vulnerable I have been in the game yet.
- That was tough.
- Oh, my God, now I know how you must have felt
when Lisa said she was a Traitor--
- Yes. Yes. - Just because I felt
so connected with Candiace. - Yes.
Yes. - [sighs]
I feel so overwhelmed and defeated,
even though I voted for Candiace.
I cannot believe I aligned myself so closely
with a person who, turns out, is a Traitor.
- Did you guys notice, like, how flat Johnny was?
- Yes. - Ooh.
- And by the way, it was such a bust today.
At the mission, Candiace was like,
"Johnny should get a shield."
Remember when she said that? - Yeah.
- That was kind of weird. - It was.
[crickets chirping]
[wolf howls]
- ♪ There was a time ♪
♪ I felt the weight ♪
- The murders tell us a lot of things.
I think Colton pointed us to Candiace,
and she didn't leave us with anything,
except for Rob, which I don't-- - No.
- There's no--there's no way that sweet, sweet man...
- ♪ In my mind ♪
- I'm telling you, Candiace was running that shit up there.
Candiace is smart. - 100%.
- I'm telling you. The walls are closing in, bro.
- I'll say now, after I wrote your name,
I kind of regretted it.
- [laughs] - It was dumb.
- I will admit that I'm bad at the game.
When Colton did not walk through that door today,
I realized I have it all wrong.
- It's so not Johnny.
♪ ♪
[bell tolling]
- We got a Traitor.
- I love you. - Good night.
- We are gonna celebrate in our sleep tonight.
- I know.
♪ ♪
- ♪ And the power's in my hand ♪
♪ Now ♪
- This is a very pivotal moment as a Traitor.
I finally have complete control,
and I need to think through my options very carefully.
- ♪ All the power's in my hands ♪
♪ Now ♪
- Finally, some peace and quiet.
[knocking]
[door creaking]
♪ ♪
[solemn music]
- A Traitor from the very start, Rob.
Now you're the last man standing.
♪ ♪
How does it feel to be the slayer of Housewives?
- It feels pretty good. [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- Tonight, as per the rules of my game,
you must recruit one more player to join you.
Shortly, you will invite one Faithful
to a secret meeting.
There, you will offer them a very simple ultimatum:
join you or die.
If they choose to join you as a Traitor,
you will both come back to this turret
and murder as usual tonight.
So, Rob,
who are you thinking?
- So I have a crazy plan,
to pick the most suspicious Faithful,
Johnny.
Picking him and then just voting him out,
we get another Traitor out of the game.
However, it is very high risk.
And then more likely,
a chance to win is picking someone smart,
someone I can use on the other end
to help take suspicion away from myself.
My thoughts for that are Eric.
I think he's pretty smart.
My only risk there is him doing
exactly what I did to Lisa and Candiace.
♪ ♪
I've also thought about Mark.
I don't see anyone ever looking at him,
and that would be valuable to have.
The only reason I don't think that
is because he's kind of in my pocket.
I've kind of already got him.
- So who would you like
to issue this ultimatum to, Rob?
♪ ♪
- ♪ No turning back ♪
♪ No turning back ♪
♪ This is the final hour ♪
♪ The moment has come ♪
♪ Moment has come ♪
♪ Your faith has no power ♪
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God!
Are you for real?
♪ ♪
[sighing]
♪ ♪
I can't deal with this.
"Dear Eric, your presence is required
"at a secret meeting.
Please make your way to the stone steps immediately."
♪ ♪
That handwriting is the Traitors.
And I know who it is.
Johnny.
This is crazy.
I think I'm going to get an ultimatum.
♪ ♪
I'm almost there.
I just want to be left alone.
This is what happens when you're nice.
- ♪ Turns whispers into silence ♪
- I need to get through these next three roundtables
with someone I trust and someone that
I want to keep in the game till the end.
There's so many variables, so many players--
I thought about it a lot.
It's the best move for me strategically.
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
Every step feels like
another nail into my coffin.
- ♪ You can leave a light on ♪
♪ By the door ♪
- I started the game as a Faithful,
and I will die a Faithful,
because I could never be a Traitor.
Or could I do this?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Next time on "The Traitors"...
You'll each climb into one of these boxes.
[all exclaiming] - Oh, my God.
- All in this room are capable of treachery.
And one false move
could be your last.
♪ ♪
[wolf howling]
Tonight, they will meet their fate
in the most surprisingly wicked way.
And this time, the lid will close
on one player forever.
Pop goes the Faithful.
[sinister laugh]