- Previously on The Traitors —
Keanu and Jill formed an initial pact,...
- Anyone else in is out. - Yeah. - Good.
- ...before a secret traitor...
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
...emerged from the shadows.
- We've gotta lock in as a crew.
- And the faithful too were on high alert.
- Anyone raising any eyebrows?
- So a slip-up from Ryan.
- I didn't wanna to be a faithful.
Oh, sorry — I didn't wanna be a traitor, from the get-go.
- And Elliott's hidden talent...
Elliott can cry on demand.
- (LAUGHS) - Oh, there it is! There it is! - Oh my God.
- We should all note that down, though, guys.
- ...served as fuel for the faithful's fire,...
- That could be interpreted as— - Absolutely,
yeah. - Still talking.
- until a shocking result...
We have a tie. - This is sick.
- ...forced Elliott and Ryan to make desperate pleas.
- The things that have pointed to me, I've been able to explain.
- I've been just as nervous as I was on day one,
before I got picked.
- Recast your banishment vote, for Elliott...
- WHISPERS: I'm so sorry. - WHISPERS: No!
- ...or Ryan.
- I'm so sorry.
- Ultimately, it all came down to one player's vote.
Harrison, you have the last vote.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Captions by Faith Hamblyn.
Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air.
www.able.co.nz Copyright Able 2026.
That's eight votes for Elliott...
and eight votes for Ryan. BOTH: Whoa!
- Oh my God.
This is sick.
- Harrison,
you have the last vote.
Who did you vote for and why?
- Elliott, this is why pitches are important.
I voted for Ryan.
- Wow.
(BOTH GASP)
- Ryan, you have received the most votes
and are banished from the game.
Please join me here.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- Did not see that coming.
- Ryan, before you leave this game forever,
please reveal if you were a faithful or a traitor.
- First of all what I've got to say is nothing personal —
I love you all. It's just been so cool.
Yeah, just loved the experience, but...
I am...
a faithful. ALL: Oh!
- Of course he was a faithful.
- Damn.
(SIGHING)
- Oh, my God, I feel horrible.
- An innocent faithful banished from the game.
Bravo, traitors.
Faithful, their smugness will only increase,
come the morning.
For tonight, they will meet under the cover of darkness
and choose one of you to murder.
Sweet dreams.
- Verbatim, he said, 'After I was picked.'
- When did he say that? - In his pitch.
I wouldn't have switched my vote for no reason. Like, I swear to God.
- Well, we stuffed that one up.
We've survived our first round table.
- Man, I hated that so much.
- No heat my way, and I'm ecstatic.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- Mm. - (GIGGLES, SOBS) - No, no, no.
I didn't realise that some of the things I'd done look suspicious.
Violette, do you wanna join us for a second? - Oh, yes.
- I want to make sure that everybody
knows that I'm not feeling any animosity towards them.
I feel like I just wanna clear some air. - No.
- I don't blame you a single bit for anything.
If my name comes up, that's on me and not on them.
This is the game — this is how it's played. It's absolutely fine.
I don't blame you a single bit.
- Even though I wrote both your names down at separate points,
I didn't think either of you were traitors.
and the problem with the Ryan thing — I'm, like, verbatim,
he was, like, 'After I was picked,' and I was, like, 'OK, well, you're done.'
Like... - The only thing I actually changed
my vote on was the mission. - Yeah.
- Vibe, just because, like, I don't know. - Yeah.
- I'm very suspicious of Kate.
I think Kate's flip from Ryan to Elliott
made absolutely no sense.
I think her initial vote for Ryan also made no sense. I dunno —
there's just so much weird evidence against her that I
can't ignore as a faithful.
- I feel way more lost.
- Oh, bro, this sucks. Like, I actually feel so bad for Ryan, bro. Like,
I know what it's like to just be so anxious and scared, and you just end up—
- Cos you were like me — you had to change your vote, right? And it's so hard.
- At some point, we have to start talking
about who are we thinking about? Or you get what happened tonight.
- Yeah, one person says something, and the whole group goes off.
- I do feel like things are going my way, to an extent.
And I'm not a crier, but I just wanted to cry, like... - I know.
Like, watching him, he looked so sad. - Yeah. Oh!
I wanted to kill Rachel — she's gone.
I wanted to banish Ryan — he's gone.
Night, guys. Night-night. Peace and love.
When I got that role as a traitor, I knew I wanted to put on a show.
Goodnight, guys.
So I hope everyone is entertained, and there's more to come —
there is more to come.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- ♪ Formed in the shadows.
- The best part about being a traitor?
Conclave.
- ♪ Forged in the night.
- Because who runs those conversations?
Me.
- Intense day. (CHUCKLES)
- Great swing on to Ryan.
That was fantastic. I think we needed that.
I don't think anybody's got anything on any of us.
- Well, there was Harrison.
He did say both of your names. He said the headache thing.
- What did he have on me?
- Well, he said the bromance thing, and he said, 'I haven't talked to Brad much today.'
- You know, maybe he is on to us. I don't know.
- We have to prepare that it's gonna happen to us at some point.
- BOTH: Yeah, yeah. - We have to be ready for that.
- I think we've got people in our pockets. I mean,
Jannaia's really clicking with you and me, I think.
- Which brings me to the murder.
He is on the table for me. - WHISPERS: Oh really?
- I think that will just throw everyone off.
I just think it'll just cause absolute havoc.
- Very quickly, I'm learning the person who scares me
in this game the most is Keanu,
because he wants to take control of this conclave.
But I didn't pick being a traitor to
be following what he wants to do.
I do have another name to throw into the mix.
Can you imagine going head to head at that table
with Maruia?
She is fierce. Fierce wahine. - I'm not scared of a lot of people,
but... (CHUCKLES)
She could really throw us one.
- The only person for me is Sam.
- Unbanishable. - You know, yeah, and she's just so sweet.
- Yeah. - I sat with her, and she just makes me think,
'Oh, my God, I feel so dumb.'
- Jannaia,
Maruia or Sam?
- Jannaia will just throw everyone off.
And I don't want Jannaia to go home. - I love that guy.
He's a beast in those missions.
- Yeah. I'm willing to pull the weight. (BOTH LAUGH)
- I don't know about this conclave dynamic, to be honest.
I need to work out how I get my way
forward in this game to the end.
And I think that might require a bit of a shakeup in the old,
uh, conclave membership.
What are we doing? - We're playing the game.
It's gonna cause havoc.
- ♪ Are you a shape, but different from me.
♪ Don't hang around a bee,
♪ if you don't want a sting.
♪ You think you, you think you know me.
♪ You think you, you think you know me, but you don't. ♪
- Ooh.
We're first. - Oh my goodness.
- Oh, well, we get to go to the head of the table.
- This is weird, eh. - It feels kind of nice.
- Yeah, exactly. - It's good to be here.
- Oh, Ryan. Boo-hoo!
- That was awful, eh? - That was brutal. - That was so brutal.
- That was brutal. - I'm real miffed by this whole—
- Oh, I know what you're gonna say. - Oh, do you? The bromance?
- Harrison and you bromance. - Yeah.
Why is he cosying up to me?
- So, we have a really interesting relationship.
We have, like, a bromance from a distance.
I don't know — it's not a guy thing, but it's just, like, an us thing.
- He's very observant, you know? Very observant. - Mm. Yeah, yeah.
It didn't surprise me that Harrison's name came up last night.
I think he got three votes.
It's really hard when your son's here
and you can't give him a hug;
you can't, you know, speak to him. I am worried for him,
but I'm trying to not get too close.
(KNOCK AT DOOR) Uh-oh. Who's this? Ooh! Who's it gonna be?
Who's it gonna be? (CHEERING)
- Oh!
BOTH: Hey! - You don't all have to get up. (LAUGHS)
I'm feeling a mix of emotions.
Morning. Morning.
I'm happy that I'm still here. But also, it's really stressful,
thinking you're gonna be murdered.
- Can I have the coffee? BOTH: Yeah. - Get in there.
Yeah, I don't recommend. (LAUGHS)
Oh. How are you guys? - Last night, I was not feeling great,
to be honest, like, literally, as soon as I walked into my room,
I had a big, ugly cry. Yeah.
- With all respect to Ryan,
if he'd voted with his head instead of his heart,
then Elliott would be gone.
Last night, threw a couple of shots and missed with Elliott.
- He had strong explanations, Elliot. - Yeah.
I think I've changed my mind on him. I think he's just a flamboyant sort of a chap.
Maybe I was wrong. I'm happy to my hand up and say I was wrong.
- Can't say it yet, though. We don't know for sure. - That's it.
- Yeah. (KNOCK AT DOOR) Ooh!
- Oh! (CHEERING) - WHISPERS: Yes!
(CHEERING) - Yes! - Oh, the big room.
(CHEERING)
(APPLAUSE)
- Oh, hello. Hello.
- Morena! - (GIGGLES)
- Dude, the round table last night.
- First off, I have so much.
- We have to unpack the whole thing. BOTH: Yeah.
Aaron voted for me at last night's round table.
He really loaded, you know, what he wanted to say.
And I have so many thoughts about why he did that
and if he's a traitor and all that kind of stuff.
- I voted for Aaron. - Cos Aaron got three, didn't he?
- He got three. - ALL: Yeah. - Who was the other two?
- Jannaia. - Yeah. - Debbie.
Cos I've barely spent any time with Deb and Jannaia. - Yeah, yeah.
- So I had no idea. - You've got three people on different pages,
all pointing the same directions. (KNOCK AT DOOR)
- Hello! Come in! Come in! - Ooh.
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
- Wait. Who's left? Who's left? Good morning.
- Oh. Where's Maruia? - Oh, Maruia.
I didn't even realise.
Oh no.
- I wanna keep throwing random,
but strategic moves at the faithfuls to throw them off.
- That would be worrying, because she voted for me.
- And so you've taken her out already? That's a bit suss for you.
- That's what I mean. Right? - Yeah.
- As much as I can muddy the tracks coming back to me, the better.
- Is it Maruia, Jannaia, Elliott?
- Yes. - Jannaia too, I've always felt is faithful.
He's just, like, never pinged on my radar at all.
- No. - So I'm, like, why kill him?
- The faithful are smart —
don't get me wrong — but I'm smarter.
- It'd be nice if Elliott got murdered, just to, like...
- (LAUGHS) - Just to, like, clear the air on that one.
You know? (LAUGHS) Like, hey, actually, don't worry. (BOTH LAUGH)
He was faithful. (BOTH LAUGH, KNOCK AT DOOR)
- Hello! Oh my gosh.
Come in! - Oh my gosh.
(DOOR CREAKS)
- Stop it! BOTH: No!
- Oh God! - Oh!
(LAUGHTER) - Yes!
- Yeah! Maruia! Yes, yes, yes! - Yes!
- Hello! (GIGGLES) - Jannaia!
- BOTH: No! - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- No fairs. - (GASPS) - Who?
- Jannaia. - It legitimately is.
- It's the worst possible outcome today.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
- Aaron is under a lot of suspicion. - Yeah.
- Jannaia voting for Aaron...
will put more suspicion on Aaron. - Mm.
- Is it time to take out one of the boys?
- I kind of did think that.
- I love Jannaia, I really wanted to go with Jannaia to the end of the game,
but Keanu is just ruthless.
- Oh, my God, we're evil. (GIGGLES)
- We're not playing our game — we're playing Keanu's game.
- (GASPS) - Poor guy, but...
- Let's put on a show.
- Me and Jill watch our backs.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- (SIGHS)
Wow.
Confirms to my brain that it probably was Aaron. Everything just lines up.
Like, I called him out yesterday,
And next thing you know, I'm slaughtered and murdered.
So, yeah, you can't tell me that was a coincidence.
- Wait. Wasn't he...? Didn't he vote for Aaron yesterday?
- Oh, he was the third vote for Aaron.
- A lot of people get weird vibes from Aaron, though.
That's what I heard.
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
ALL: Oh!
Morning, players. - Morena. - Or should I say...
mourning? - Oh, we are.
- The breakfast buffet is a little less buff, eh?
(LAUGHTER) - She knows. Yes.
(LAUGHTER)
- So pour out some OJ for Jannaia, faithfuls.
BOTH: Aw.
I'll be hanging this up in my recently renamed Jannaia
Memorial Fitness Centre.
(LAUGHTER)
Right. For today's mission, a little poem.
Find what's hidden. Hold it tight.
But if the dark finds you first,
kiss your treasure goodnight.
See you in the shadows.
- I'm not smart enough to get that. - I don't like the dark.
Just saying — I'm kind of scared of it.
- Jannaia — why would you take him out?
- I'm actually kind of pissed off. Like, that actually pisses me off, because—
- It's dumb. - Like, it's a dumb move. - Argh.
- I actually really did like the guy, and he's eye candy —
of course I wanna look at a hot guy in the manor,
but I could see him clocking on to me at some point, and I just thought,
'Let me get 10 steps ahead of this.'
- ♪ Ashes to ashes. Fire to smoke.
♪ Shadow to shadow.
♪ Which one is choked?
- How are ya, mate? - Hey, mate. Good. You?
- Oh, I wanted to chat to you a little bit about something.
- Yeah. - Cool.
- I am absolutely fuming,
that potentially, the traitors are putting more heat on me.
- ♪ Ashes to ashes. ♪
- So today is about finding the trust
and giving people some information.
Cos if I disappear, if I'm murdered, I need people to know
what I have seen, so they can continue the job.
Hey, Sam. Sam? - Yeah.
- Can I just grab you for a second? - Yes.
- At the moment, I'm building good trust with Samantha,
ao that's where I'm gonna start today.
Hey.
If Harrison is a traitor and I get murdered,...
- Uh-huh. - I want someone to know who I think the next one might be.
- We might be thinking of the same person.
- WHISPERS: Brad. - Oh, my God, it's the same person.
I thought I was the only one who thought it was Brad.
But to hear that really made me feel like,
OK, I can trust Aaron.
I have a whole list of 'data points'
against him. On the first night, exactly here,
Rachel asked him a question about being a traitor.
- Is it you? - Is it me? - Are you a traitor?
- And he dodged it beautifully.
- No, it's not me. I'm a faithful.
- I remember thinking, 'Remember that.
'Remember that he just circled around
'being called a traitor.'
- Seeing her reaction created a really strong bond with us.
So, can we keep this tight? - Yes. Very tight.
WHISPERS: I can't believe we both have the same name.
I thought I was alone. I really thought I was alone in that.
- We've got each other's back.
- WHISPERS: OK. Should we hug? - OK.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
- I am not on the radar right now.
Neither are my fellow traitors.
I feel like it'd be pretty historic,
to be the OG three there at the end,
but from my initial reads of Keanu, I feel like he wouldn't
enjoy sharing the glory like that.
Hey, we gotta be real careful with this chat.
Yeah? - What other names have you been hearing?
Cos I've heard Kate is quite top of the list. - Really?
- Yeah. - Have you heard me? - No.
- No, I haven't heard you either. - Good. - Yeah.
I do trust Jill.
I think that Jill trusts me.
Let's lock in and make sure that
Keanu doesn't lead us down the path of destruction.
I'm Team Jill all the way.
I feel like we've bonded from our chats and the car rides.
I think it's time for me to divulge to Jill
my fears of Keanu.
I'm not happy. - About what? - About last night.
I went with him cos I don't wanna go against him in that moment.
If he's willing to do that, he would turn on us.
- Yeah. - He's ruthless,
and I don't have that ruthless streak in me.
I have said to myself that if I'm not gonna win this game, I want Jill to win.
- Hello! - Hey. - Yeah?
- How are you feeling? - Yeah, good. - Good.
- Did you have a good sleep? - Yeah.
- That's weird. That's weird.
WHISPERS: Here comes Violette. (LAUGHS) - Haere mai.
- Brad's already trying to throw Keanu under the bus.
- Good to see ya.
- Why would you wanna do that?
It's so early in the game.
- I feel like I'm just trying to pull people and, like, have that one-on-one chat.
- Yeah.
- But I need to remember, 'You are a traitor.
'This is what you came on to the game for —
'Get on with it.'
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- Looks like we're here. - Oh, my goodness,
what the hang!
- I don't know what this is.
Oh my God.
BOTH: Oh no. - Oh!
- Walking into this big abandoned warehouse,
It's dark, it's dusty, and it looks pretty horrible.
- It's giving spooky.
- Nothing fun is gonna be happening here.
- Oh my God.
- Welcome, players, to my mission graveyard.
Inside this facility,
forgotten silver from faithfuls gone by
is hidden everywhere.
Today your task will be to find it and keep it.
There is a total of $9000
hidden among the wreckage.
Five shields are also hidden here,
powerful enough to protect you from murder tonight.
But remember,
nothing in this game comes without risk.
This space belongs to a masked figure —
a ghoul, if you will.
Their purpose is simple — to hunt.
If they catch you, you are out of the mission.
And any silver you carry will be lost.
- Oh! - Oh shit! - Hell no.
- The lights are your only warning.
You will have 45 seconds to find silver.
The lights will then turn red,
and you will have 15 seconds to hide. - (GASPS)
- When the room goes dark,
the hunt begins.
- It feels so silly,
but I'm scared of the dark.
My hands were physically shaking.
How am I going to... handle this?
- ECHOES: Hide well.
The game starts...
now.
- I am immediately going for any type of box-looking thing
and just digging in the boxes.
BOTH: I've got a bar.
- What do they look like? - They're small. They're small.
- The first round, I found a bar.
I could exit the game now, and I've at least contributed.
- (GASPS)
- I've climbed into this box,
and I find the silver bar straight away. and I'm thinking, 'Yay!'
How the (BLEEP) am I gonna get out of here! Shit.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- Immediately, I'm looking for a shield.
I think they're gonna be in hard-to-reach places,
so I'm trying to crawl in and under things.
- WHISPERS: Oh shit.
Maria and I both look in the same place at the same time.
And she grabs the shield, like,
seconds before me.
(GIGGLES)
- I had quicker reflexes, and I grabbed it.
- What do they look like? - This. This. This.
- OK.
- PA: Hide now.
- Oh, come on.
- (GRUNTS) - Let's go. (GRUNTS) - (GIGGLES)
Me and Jill both boosted into this little, like,
cranny underneath, like a sheet. I looked down,
and there's a silver bar right there at my feet.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- Ghoul,
you may enter the warehouse.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
- You're found!
- I was found within, like, the first 15 seconds. I was the first person who was found.
Poor effort.
- You're found!
- I'm really gutted to get out so early, because I just really wanna to prove myself.
- Have you brought me anything?
That's $500 you have taken from the faithful.
PA: Round two starts...
now.
- There is just no way that they wouldn't hide something
in stacks and stacks of hay.
And on top of one of the little cubbies is a shield. I'm, like, 'yes!'
I found both the silver bar and the shield in the haystacks.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
- Ugh.
The second round, I managed to find three silver bars.
- PA: Time to hide.
- As soon as I get the three silver bars, I hop back into the coffin —
that's actually probably a really safe spot to get to.
- WHISPERS: Oh my God.
- You're found! - Argh!
- You're found!
- I'm just holding it on, holding it on for as much as I can, and there's nothing I can do.
- You're found!
- I just look at him, dead in the face.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- Un, deux,
trois.
C'est magnifique!
PA: Three, two,
one. Go!
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- (GRUNTS)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
- Hide now.
- WHISPERS: Yeah. Yeah. (GIGGLES)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
- I found a golf bag, rummaged through it,
went through the pocket and found a silver bar.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- You're found!
You're found! - Oh shit.
- You're found!
You're found!
- The fruits of your labour. Well done.
One final bar brings your total to $2500.
Players, the game is over.
I'll meet all of you outside for a performance review.
- (GASPS) - Good luck.
- I did not get a shield today in the mission. I'm really annoyed by that,
because I did get two bars of silver.
I deserve a shield.
- The hunt is over, the lights have returned,
and the thief's work is done.
Every silver bar in your possession
is now safe and will be added to the prize pot.
$4000 in all.
- Oh good. - Whoo! - Nice.
- A fine haul, guys.
However, I haven't been...
completely honest with you.
My ghoulish thief, please approach.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Ghoul,
you may reveal your identity.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CHEERING) - Mike!
Mike!
- Whoo! - That is awesome.
- I'm sorry I called you ugly. - Yeah, I heard that.
(LAUGHTER) - Michael, you found 12 players,
who were carrying a total of
$2500.
Bank that with the 5 K you've already
reluctantly taken. - BOTH: My God.
All right. Please give a round of applause for Michael.
- Oh, shot, Michael.
Cool Mike.
- Michael, you may leave now.
- Oh.
- Actually. - BOTH: Oh!
Michael,
before you go,...
I have an offer that might be of interest.
- Oh! - Mm-hm.
- To buy your way
back into the game.
This isn't a charity — it will cost you today's winnings,
plus the $5000 that you took on day one.
$7500 in total.
That money will go straight back into the prize pot.
Or you can choose to keep your money
and be gone from the game.
What will it be, Michael?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
I have an offer that might be of interest.
- Mm-hm. - To buy your way
back into the game.
$7500 in total.
That money will go straight back into the prize pot.
Or you can choose to keep your money
and be gone from the game.
- Be here. - What will it be, Michael?
- I turned up to play the game — I want in the game.
The money's in the kitty. (CHEERING)
- Michael, you may rejoin the group.
(CHEERING)
- My head is spinning.
I am so elated.
I cannot believe I've been given the
opportunity to re-enter the game.
- All right. Return to the manor, and I'll be there shortly,
to round you up for the round table. Off you go.
- (LAUGHS) - Honestly, it's so good that you're here.
It's so good to see you. - Man,
I've got some catching up to do. - (LAUGHS)
- Mad dog Mike.
(LAUGHTER) - Oh my God.
Welcome, welcome. - Oh!
I've now been reintroduced into the
game as a faithful.
- Ooh, but you could be a traitor. - That's right. - Yeah.
- So far, I've been a player that didn't make it through the gate. - Yeah.
- Then a ghoul. I don't know if I've got the mental capacity to handle that.
I feel like my
faithful points are through the roof.
Faithful through and through.
I don't think anyone thinks I'm a traitor,
and that could put me on the chopping block tonight.
- Like, my instant thought goes to, 'Oh, he can't be a traitor.'
Because in my mind, that's just too many traitors. - I don't think he's a traitor.
- I'm not happy with Mike coming back in the game.
He's gonna be hard to banish, cos people are already saying
there's no way — he won't be a traitor.
So, yes. Watch this space.
- So, gun to your head, then. - Yeah.
- I'm 50/50 between Kate and... - Kate and Dan for me.
- Oh, either Aaron or Debs. - Of those three,
I would vote Kate. - Yeah, me too, I think.
- After last night's round table, everybody,
sort of, noticed the same sort of thing about Kate.
- She is an actor, obviously.
When I look at her at the round tables, she's very clearly acting.
- I haven't bought any single one of Kate's reactions, to anything.
BOTH: Yeah. - Sweet little Kate. - Really bizarre.
- Kate's time is numbered.
- She changed her vote from Ryan to Elliott.
The traitor would change their vote to be on the same side as everyone.
- I changed my vote. Violette changed her vote too.
- Brad should be careful as well, because there are a couple of people that are gunning for him.
- So, I have this gut feeling about Brad.
- Oh, I agree. - He has that vibe of,
he knows something I don't know. - Yeah, I'm getting that too. - You're getting that as well?
- Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I'm going to sit back tonight and just watch the fireworks happen.
Chip in if and when I need to.
- Yeah. Mike. - Hey, I'm Harrison. - Nice to meet you.
- But I think this could very well be pretty technicolour.
I just can't get away. - (CHUCKLES) I know.
- There are two schools of thought at the moment. - Mm.
- WHISPERS: Um, one is Kate,
and the other is Brad.
So, yeah.
- This morning, Brad pulled me aside and basically
threw Keanu under the bus.
Now there's people talking about Brad.
OK.
From the beginning, I made a tight pact with Keanu.
So I need to make sure that Keanu knows the game plan.
Brad's too talky, whereas Keanu, at the moment,
I genuinely trust him.
I need to sit in the sun.
So, we need to talk quick. - Mm-hm.
Sorry?
Tonight? - Yes. - I think tonight, it's gonna be
either Aaron.
- I swear, I swear, I swear. - Mm.
The thing is, though, I'm not scared of him — I know I can take him on.
I know, and I think I've got enough people on my side.
- Yeah, but what you don't want is them thinking that it's head on head.
- True. This is true.
- (BLEEP) that.
- I definitely trust Jill more than I trust Brad.
He knows I'm a threat. He can see it.
But I'm gonna go for Brad when I wanna to go for Brad.
And no one else is gonna tell me what I can and can't do.
- I'm telling you now, you can wait or we just (BLEEP) do it.
That's what I think.
- OK. Noted. That's noted, for sure.
- OK.
I thought I was the only one who thought it was Brad.
But at the start of today, I had a conversation with Aaron.
It gave me the confidence to go for Brad,
and I guess I'm gonna do it.
I talked about our person in the car,
and I got backed up.
And I can do it. I can do it.
Chloe, I need you. I need you.
I'm just gonna collect as much data points as I can.
I have a strong gut feeling about someone,
and one of my main data points
you were a part of. Do you remember night one?
There was a question or a statement
that Rachel put out about traitors,
and she was kind of directing it at Brad,
and he dodged it beautifully.
- Interesting. - You don't remember?
- I'm so sorry, I don't, but I'll say that I was there at that conversation.
- OK.
So that immediately makes me think, 'Oh, gosh, no.'
Violette. Cracks are starting to form,
and I'm already starting to feel like, 'Is this the right time to do it?
'Or do I wait for more data points?' - I've heard that you're ready to go for Kate.
I've got a lot of stuff on Kate too. - Yeah. - WHISPERS: Shit.
- I think you'll be able to just assess the vibes at the table.
- Yeah.
I have spent all of today gearing up
to go for Brad at the round table,
but everyone is gunning for Kate.
- ♪ Should I run
♪ or face the fire?
- I kind of wanna strike while the iron is hot,
but I just don't wanna
shoot and miss with Brad.
I feel like I have gone all the way up,
all the way down, zigzag, turn around.
- ♪ Should I run?
- I don't know. I'm so lost right now.
- ♪ Face the fire. ♪
- Welcome to the Round Table.
Today you survived Michael's manhunt.
(LAUGHTER)
Against the odds, he recovered
$2500
in silver,
plus the $5000
he used to buy his way back into the game.
That money has been safely added to your prize pot,
bringing you to a total of
$24,000.
- Mmm. (GASPS)
- But dynamics are shifting,
alliances forming.
Faithfuls, your only weapon is your vote.
Traitors, your best defence is your lie.
Who will begin? - I'd like to begin.
My name was on three
chalkboards last night,
but I didn't have the opportunity to defend myself.
And so I wanted to take this opportunity now.
I am Team Faithful,
helping you to find traitors.
And I hope my vote last night,
in terms of not voting for you
or not voting for Ryan, who I believe both are faithful,
proves that, uh,
I wasn't taking the easy route.
- My thing was, 'Whoa, three votes,
'but not actually discussed at the table.'
I wanna know — I want that information. If there's information on Aaron,
I wanna know it. - If I could speak,
as one of the people who voted for you.
A traitor to me is lying by omission
unless they have to actively say something.
What's really interesting is you coming out of the gate and
being really confidently saying that you're a faithful.
I feel better just in that little moment.
And I'm not gonna be voting for you tonight.
- I was thinking maybe one thing to consider
is the swapped votes from last night.
Not to freak you out,
but it might just be something to clear up.
- Me and Violette both flipped our votes. - And... Oh, no, you didn't.
- I did. - There was a couple, yeah.
- Ryan had the very much misfortune
of making that horrific Freudian slip,
where he said verbatim, 'After I was picked,'
and I'm just, like, I cannot not vote for Ryan,
when I've got literally nothing on Elliot right now either.
- Yeah.
- I helped present a case against Elliott.
And then I voted for you.
But then when I heard the evidence given,
I changed my vote.
And I think that makes more sense of a change to vote
than the other way round.
- Kate, your reasoning from changing
from Ryan to Elliott. - Mm.
- What — was there any? Like, I was just really confused.
- I voted for Ryan first, because I saw his face,
as well, during the traitors' picking,
and I looked up at him, and he looked really, really nervous.
Then when we were doing the changing round,
and both of you spoke,
the evidence that was brought up about you was the only thing that I could trust,
from what the rest of the faithfuls were doing,
so that's why I changed.
Honestly, my reasoning was so loose,
in the fact that I just felt so lost.
- I was saying that too day one,
and a little bit day two.
And then I came in today, and I thought,
'Actually, no, I wanna catch a traitor.'
- Nice girl's gone, huh? - Well, yeah, I think so.
- Interesting. (LAUGHTER)
- I'm gonna start saying names. I'm gonna start having chats.
- We need to throw out names.
- Who hasn't talked? Like, who hasn't had a moment?
- Jill, I haven't seen you say anyone's names.
- My thing has been that I needed to go one on one,
cos I realised in a group setting, almost like tonight,
I just can't follow it.
I'm sorry. I'll just be really honest with you.
- Did you do one-on-ones today?
Anything interesting you found?
- I think people have caught on that
Jill isn't throwing out names —
she's hiding in the background.
- I just found that the people that...
I thought I trusted, I still did.
And I haven't really got anything else.
- Even though I love Jill to bits,
do I have to...
abandon ship?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- I just found that the people that
I thought I trusted, I still did.
And I haven't really got anything else.
- I feel like I have a point.
Kate, yesterday, in the car on the way to the mission,
we were talking about the whole Ryan suspicion stuff.
And then you said something along the lines of,
'I don't know if I could write Ryan's name, though, because out of anyone here,
'it would make me the most, quote, devastated.'
But you wrote his name first, and I can't, like...
I can't understand that.
- OK. Um,...
we got to know each other quite well. I really like him as a person.
It didn't change my suspicion on his... how I saw him.
We have very similar vibes — like, you know, we're...
he's living in Wellington; I'm not living there any more,
but, like, I just got to know him very well.
- Yeah, but you still chose to vote for him in the initial circle.
- Yes. And that's what I'm saying is cos I... so...
- And he also doesn't live in Wellington. He lives in Auckland.
- Oh.
- Can I just say, though, the traitors are doing a really good job,
because there's not enough out there for us to go,
I think it's that person. There's nothing solid,
and it's pissing me off. - All right.
Your little chatty chat time is over now.
You must now write down the name of the player you want
banished from this game forever.
- I'm feeling really scared, to be honest.
There's no time to defend myself,
no time to give proof, no time to give evidence.
I hope that they can see that I am being honest and I am a faithful.
- You will now, one by one, reveal your votes.
Maria, whose name did you write down and why? - (SIGHS)
Oh God. I'm really sorry — I voted for you, Kate.
I was seeking some clarity, and I ended up more confused.
So... - Totally.
- James. - I panicked and picked
someone who I think will listen to
my explanation why later.
Jill.
- Dave. - I'm sorry, Kate. Tonight, it's for you.
- Aaron. - Sorry, Kate.
I have voted for you.
- Elliott. - I'm so sorry. - It's OK, girl. I'd do the same.
- Yeah, it's just that switch to me.
- Aroha. - I have written your name,
Kate.
- Debbie. - One person's behaviour who's changed a lot tonight
was yours, Sam.
- Jill. - I totally get what people are saying,
that we have to come up with our own decisions,
but with listening to everyone else,
I'm hoping that you're right,
cos I chose you, Kate.
- Bradley. - I...
am sticking with the conversations I've had today.
I think you're a superstar. I really do.
I'm so sorry, but I'm also voting for you, Kate.
- Kate. - I'm voting for this person...
following the round table last night.
That's why I have voted for you, Harrison.
WHISPERS: Sorry. - That's OK.
- That's seven votes for Kate, one for Jill,
one vote for Sam and one vote for Harrison.
Michael. - It's been interesting,
sitting here listening.
I have very little to go on,
but tonight, I voted for Jill.
I think what Sam was saying resonated with me.
- Sam. - Tonight I'm going with where the
evidence was pointing me,
and that was towards you, Kate.
I hope we're right, because I'll be gutted if we're wrong.
I'm going to keep Brad in my back pocket for now.
When I go for Brad, I don't wanna shoot and miss,
because everyone else's eyes are on someone else.
- Kate, if you receive one more vote,
you'll be banished from this game.
Hannah, who did you vote for
and why?
- WHISPERS: It's OK.
- (SNIFFLES)
I actually felt...
like the emotions you showed were true,
and that made me feel that maybe we're being
royally played.
And I'm really sorry, Kate. - WHISPERS: It's OK.
- Kate, you have received the most votes,
meaning your banishment is a foregone conclusion.
We will continue to reveal the rest of the votes.
- (CLEARS THROAT)
- Maruia. - I voted for you, Kate.
- Violette. - I voted for you, Kate.
- (SIGHS) - Chloe.
- The reason I did think of you, Kate, is because you are such
a sweetheart and a delight to be around.
- Harrison. - Kate.
- Keanu. - You are a queen,
and not once did your crown slip tonight.
And I'm so sorry.
And please note I did put a crown — I mean that.
- Kate, you have received the most votes
and are banished from the game.
Please join me here.
(POIGNANT PIANO MUSIC)
Kate, before you leave the game forever,
please reveal if you are a faithful
or a traitor.
- I came on as an actor,
and I wanted to play as an actor —
that's what I'm used to doing. I'm used to lying.
I am...
a faithful. - Oh!
- Oh my God.
- I'm not doing anything any more.
- You got it wrong.
Another faithful sent home too soon.
A serious error in judgement.
Remember this —
with the night comes the threat of murder.
Be wiser come morning,
if you happen to survive until then.
Sweet dreams.
- That's really frustrating.
- You cannot make it difficult to decipher that you're a faithful.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(BOTH SIGH)
- A little deflated after that round table tonight.
- From a numbers perspective, the odds are getting more...
- We're (BLEEP)ed. - Well, yeah,
because everyone that's left so far has been a faithful.
- Yeah.
- Everyone's gutted. We're sick of voting out faithfuls.
- So, who didn't vote for Kate tonight? - Debbie.
- There's a few inconsistencies that I'm seeing in Debbie.
- I was a bit like James, I think,
in that I wasn't gonna vote for Kate.
- Do you mind if I...? - No.
- Samantha's behaviour — I've actually really...
there was something about her behaviour tonight. - Can I ask you a question, though?
You didn't mention Samantha until you went to vote for her.
- Yeah, because I wasn't sure. I just didn't know what I was gonna do.
- Whether or not she's a traitor or a bad faithful,
I reckon she's gotta go.
- I need to have a conversation with James...
Perfect.
...because he voted for me.
- It was an outside possibility, not something that I thought was likely;
just something possible.
Your reaction when I mentioned it has dispelled that for me.
- I don't... If you... - Because it wasn't defensive —
it was hurt.
- I think I've still got him in my corner,
so I don't have to worry too much.
- I'm convinced.
- So that's good.
- How are you feeling after that? - Hectic, bro. - Yeah.
So, I go into a room,
and it was just me and Brad.
Me and Brad are the first ones in there. And Brad said something really interesting to me.
- Um, yeah, so she copped a couple of votes,
eh, Jill. - Mm-hm.
- It's fair — she didn't really add much to the conversation.
I kind of hedged my bets with Jill.
I divulged to her my fears of Keanu,
but it looks like Jill's ship is sinking.
And if I'm looking out for my game,
I can't sink with it.
Jill sinks,
we sink her,
right? Yeah?
- I agree with Brad, I shake his hand, but earlier in the day,
Jill told me that Brad's gonna come for me,
so I want him to think that I trust him.
I think Samantha had a good point.
It just needs to be everyone that's bringing something to the table.
- Totally. - Hello.
- If Brad wants to go for Jill, go ahead, do it.
If that's what you wanna do, go for it, but that's not a part of my plan.
I have a plan, and I'm sticking to my plan.
- Stay well. Stay well, man. I'm glad you're still here.
BOTH: Pomarie. - Goodnight, Sam. - Goodnight. Goodnight.
- And my plan is Brad.
- Ka kite apopo.
- Next time —
- I've thrown up Jill once or twice...
- Yeah. - just to think about it.
- ...the traitor war rages...
- Brad, to me, is just so much more, like, robotic.
- ...and comes to a head at the round table.
- I feel like Jill is on my radar,
cos she's looking more and more stressed,
as if you're hiding something.
- I really think that Brad's let a bomb off.
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