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[suspenseful music]

- You can either join me, or I'm gonna kill you right now.

[evil laughter]

- Previously on "The Traitors"...

- So one more thing. - Yes?

- We need to murder someone.

- Tonight? - Tonight.

I think we go Dorinda.

- Alliances were revealed.

- I'm a Faithful.

I promise you Johnny's a Faithful.

- How can you make that promise?

- We are best friends.

- And the Faithful rounded on each other.

- Stephen. - I voted for you, Stephen.

- I voted for you, Stephen.

- But I am a Faithful and you blew it.

- Fuck.

- Why didn't you have, like, a ton of stuff to say tonight?

I don't trust Eric. He, like, has no opinion.

If I'm murdered tomorrow, just look at Eric.

Kristen, you have been shortlisted for murder tonight.

- You must head to the castle dungeon immediately.

- There you will find a jack-in-the-box.

You must turn the handle.

- If a Traitor pops out, you have been murdered.

[jack-in-the-box clicks] - Oh, my God.

- No way.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Another day dawns in my castle,

and the Faithful will discover which player met a grisly end

in the dungeon last night.

[knock at door]

- Oh, we're first.

Rob, how are we still here?

- I don't know. - Like, how?

- I don't know.

- Today is the semi-final,

and I cannot believe I'm still here.

- You want an egg? - Yeah.

I'll take two. I'll take two.

- OK, OK, sorry. - [laughs]

I find it hard having new people come into my life.

I can count my closest friends on one hand.

Well, the thing is, I really do trust Rob.

And in this game, you have to trust some people,

because otherwise, you're on your own.

So I'm pretty proud of myself.

We've got this far. Like, tomorrow's the final.

It would be nice to get there. - Yeah.

- I trust you fully.

Like, I'd be in shock if you turned around

and said, I'm a Traitor. I would probably die.

- Yeah.

I'm feeling low this morning.

I can feel the weight of all the lying and the scheming.

It's taking a toll on me.

I feel really close to Maura,

and I can't help but, like, genuinely feel bad.

It's hard for me to distinguish,

you know, I'm playing a game versus like,

oh, this is just a person that I like.

And I'm, like, using their feelings

and emotions to win this game.

Who do you think died? I think Natalie.

- Natalie or Kristen.

Well, I don't know.

I really don't know.

[pounding on door]

- Holy fuck.

♪ ♪

- Oh. - What up?

- Oh, wow, that was so quiet.

- It's the safe gang.

- Yeah. - Oh, yeah.

- [sighs]

- The last person I wanted to sit next to today

was Mark, but here we are.

Last night, Kristen pulled me into the kitchen,

Mark was there, and she puts me on the spot.

Why aren't you saying anything?

I think I did a good enough of a job explaining my rationale,

so I'm hoping that's enough to get suspicion off of me.

[sighs] Please.

- People I really don't trust right now--

- Who?

- Johnny, and for some weird reason,

Natalie.

- I go back and forth, honestly.

It's like, because-- - Could I have some jam?

- Yeah, I'll say Tara is a sweetheart.

She is. You know. - Absolutely.

- If that's a double-bluff, like, wow.

- I don't know.

- Who do you think's coming back?

- I think Natalie's dead.

- You think Natalie's dead?

- Yeah, I think so.

- I hope it's not Kristen.

Kristen is my number one,

but I'm deeply concerned right now just because

she has good instincts.

And at this point in the game when numbers dwindle,

players that think like her are a problem.

[knock at door]

Come in.

Here we go, y'all.

- [gasps] - Hello. You lived.

- You're on your own.

- I feel so bad coming in.

- No, why?

- Why do you say that?

- I mean, I just feel like my radar--

- Is off? - Is so off.

Yesterday, we banished Stephen,

who is a Faithful.

I feel so embarrassed that

I'm making these wrong assumptions,

but Johnny and I are thinking the same people.

We have to fix this.

Please, let Johnny be here.

- In your gut then, who do you think's not coming back?

- You know, I'll be honest. I'm afraid they killed Johnny.

[knock at door]

- It's gotta be Johnny, right?

[dramatic music]

- [gasps]

- Hello, hello, good morning. - Good morning.

- Good morning, good morning. - Wonderful.

- I'm so pleased to be alive.

I didn't think that this would happen for me.

At the roundtable last night, Tara and I

kind of came out, and finally, we can be ourselves.

We can be together.

You look so pretty and so cute.

Do you want me to carry your books?

- We match. - Yeah. [laughs]

It would mean everything to be able to stand at the end

with her, my best friend.

Wait, did you tell them what happened,

like how we found out?

- Tell us your story.

- So last night, I went into that special room

where there was an envelope on my chair.

- [gasps] - So I felt like I was,

for sure, murdered. - Same.

- And it was a letter that said,

"Johnny, you've been shortlisted

for murder by the Traitors.

Please, go to the dungeon."

- [gasps] Last night?

- Yes. - Last night.

- And then there was a jack-in-the-box

playing a creepy song.

And if a Traitor popped out, then--

- You were murdered. - You were murdered.

- Oh, God.

- But, anyway, that's how we found out.

- Wow.

- So who do you guys think is gone?

- I don't know, because I'm sometimes

suspicious of Natalie.

So I'm like--

I'm never suspicious of Kristen.

♪ ♪

- This is nuts.

[knock at door] - Come in!

- Hello?

- Here we go, y'all.

- Oh, God.

[gasps] - Oh, my God.

[knock on door]

- Hello?

- Here we go, y'all.

[dramatic music]

- Oh, God.

- Oh, my God. - [gasps]

- It was Kristen. - It's Kristen.

- Kristen.

♪ ♪

["Pop Goes the Weasel" playing]

♪ ♪

[evil laughter]

- Oh, shit.

Oh, my God, this is crazy.

My time here has come to an end, but I'm at peace.

I was the most faithful of the Faithful,

and I don't think many people doubted that,

and I think the Traitors knew that.

Eric was a little quiet tonight.

I pressed him.

If he's a Traitor, well done.

♪ ♪

- [sighs] Murdering Kristen... - Yeah.

- Does have potential to put heat on you.

- [sighs] - But only coming from Mark.

I think we can convince him. - OK.

- So tomorrow,

we need to get Natalie banished.

She's smart. - Very smart.

- She catches a whiff, we could very well be in trouble.

- Yeah, she has to be gone.

♪ ♪

- Good morning. You look beautiful.

- It's good to see you. - Good morning.

- Good morning. - Oh, shit.

- Quietest, most sullen breakfast we've come into.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- How are you guys all doing?

- I feel like these are the championship rounds,

and I'm going to be more open, more observant,

because I have been wrong.

I'm coming in today with a fresh kind of set of eyes.

I'm going to make sure that I don't have blind spots

that I've been missing.

[soft dramatic music]

- I just feel defeated, honestly.

And I feel played.

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

- Good morning, my diminishing darlings.

Once again, something went bump in the night,

and death was sprung upon one of you.

♪ ♪

Ah, Kristen.

Like a pan-fried steak, you, too, are now resting.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

As for the rest of you,

tomorrow will be your final day in my castle,

so drink it all in.

- Wow.

- You'll need your wits about you,

as tonight will be the last roundtable

where a player's identity is revealed.

Now, get ready for today's mission,

because this one will really make your head spin.

Laters.

- Oh, for God's sake. - [chuckles]

- Wait, what?

- But he said head spin.

- I think we've established we have no idea.

- Yeah. - Oh, my goodness.

♪ ♪

- What's so crazy about this game is it changes in a second.

- Yeah.

I'm thinking, Tara, how did you ever think it was Natalie?

I just slept on it and realized it's not Natalie.

I hope not.

It's not you.

I know this is crazy-- - Yeah.

- But like-- - Yeah.

- Me and Rob connected so early in the game, right?

And part of me doesn't want to pivot,

but I've, like, blindly trusted somebody the whole game.

- Right, right, right, right.

I started thinking, Candiace threw out Rob's name.

- Yeah, I can't figure out why.

Yesterday, I was like, why am I here?

Why the hell am I not murdered?

I've had this slight suspicion about Rob

that is all of a sudden creeping in out of nowhere.

He's created this presence in this castle

that he is the least likely Traitor.

- Yeah.

- Maybe that is where we need to look,

because it's...

so obvious?

- Tara is floating around the possibility

of Rob being a Traitor, but what she's saying makes sense.

And even though it's scary,

I know it's an option. I have to explore it.

Why? - I believe you. I believe you.

- Yeah.

- I'm just saying all my people are gone now.

- Here's what-- - Except for you.

We are at a point where now, we have to look at everyone.

I'm gonna be looking at the people that haven't

been on my lists at all.

What about Eric?

The last thing that Kristen said to me last night,

she was questioning Eric. - Yeah, she told me that, too.

- She's like, why aren't you speaking up?

If I was a Traitor and I saw Kristen going around

talking about me, I would take Kristen out.

- But does that make Eric suspicious?

He's quiet most of the time.

- No, I'm not saying it's him. - No, yeah.

- I'm just saying we have to look.

- I'm worried that Mark

is gonna think that Eric is the Traitor, like, 100%.

I gotta have my boy's back,

so we need Mark to go for Natalie.

The task at hand is to banish Natalie tonight.

- What are we fucking missing, bro?

Has there ever been one thing, one,

anything, anything that's made you go,

oh, that was interesting?

- Natalie didn't vote for Candiace

when it was the obvious thing.

- When we all voted Candiace, she voted Tara.

- Yeah, the only one. - Right?

- Yep. - Tara.

- It was unanimous minus Natalie.

She voted for Tara.

- The only real game player, I'm talking,

like, strategic mover left is Natalie.

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

- OK, so I feel like I've been missing something.

- I think we all have.

- But what is it? Why am I here, Maura?

- Why am I here? - Exactly.

- You were great at the missions.

- Yeah, but I'm also a perfect person

to be killed if I'm up for murder.

- I'm shit at missions.

I'm not even good at the whole game.

I don't even know what I'm doing, and I'm still here.

How?

- Why do you think Candiace mentioned Rob?

[suspenseful music]

Like, that, to me, is so weird, and that she didn't vote me.

- Well, I think

in her brain, she was probably thinking,

well, I said I was going to be consistent,

and I threw out Rob's him, so maybe I need to stick to that.

I think she just messed up.

- But why Rob? Like, it's so random.

- It could not be Rob.

[dramatic music]

I mean, you can't be 100%.

But then if me and him were at the end, and he was a Traitor,

I would probably storm out of the castle,

because I am so convinced.

- Yeah. - I would drop dead.

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

- All right, we'll keep eyes and ears open,

and I think all of us, like,

we just have to think of other options.

The more I think about it,

the more it seems likely that Rob is a Traitor.

At this point, like, I have nothing to lose.

But to banish Rob tonight,

we have to bring in other people.

We go bold, we go big, and we explore this avenue

that we haven't even looked at once.

♪ ♪

- What do you think, Eric?

Like, what's your hunch today?

Like, lay it out.

- [sighs] My hunch is I'm not off of Natalie.

Is she intense enough to go in there

and, like, knock out all the other gamers?

- Yeah, is she intense enough?

Sure. Did she do it? We don't know.

- It's tough. - It's tough, guys.

- It's horrible. - It's tough.

- But if we don't get a Traitor at the roundtable tonight,

we're fucked. - It's over.

- Yeah, it's over.

- If we don't land tonight, we're fucked.

[dramatic music]

[doorbell rings] - Mission time.

[dramatic music]

- Let's go to the mission. Come on, Maura.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Where are you at right now?

- I am gonna trust my gut and not be afraid to say this.

- Yes. - Rob is a Traitor.

- Mm-hmm.

- And I feel like I've been holding on to Rob so tight.

- Would Candiace have left us a breadcrumb?

- That's what I'm wondering. She voted for Rob twice.

- That's what I'm saying.

- Tara and Natalie come to me together,

and then they start bringing up Rob.

And I was like, I trust Rob.

- Yeah, what are the facts? - They didn't have anything.

They were just like, we need to be looking at people

that we would never suspect.

- That's been Natalie's thing.

- Now, I don't trust Natalie.

- Oh, my God! - Oh, my God!

- Oh, carnival games. Rob's gonna be good at it.

[dramatic music]

- I'm not really a theme park guy,

but I've enjoyed a roller-coaster or two.

It's really important that we get a lot of money today.

However, the shield is more important,

because I need to make sure I can murder anyone,

depending on what variables may change.

[evil laughter]

- This is horrible.

♪ ♪

- Roll up, roll up.

♪ ♪

Welcome, players.

♪ ♪

- Behold my carousel.

[spooky music]

This mission is gonna be all the fun of the fair.

For me, at least.

For you, I imagine, it's going to be terrible.

Your mission today is as simple as it is unnerving.

Strap yourselves in and hold on.

- Fine, easy. - OK.

- You're saying that now.

- Oh, no. [laughter]

- When the ride stops, you must disembark and find bags of gold

worth between $750 and $5,000

stuck inside some of the cuddly fairground prizes.

Once you've found a bag of gold,

you must run back to the ride, bank the money,

and steel yourselves for another spin.

You will not be allowed back on the ride without a bag of gold.

Understood?

- Yeah. - Yes.

- My carousel will spin five times.

Whoever is sitting on the carousel at the end

will secure the shield.

- Oh. - [gasps]

- There is a maximum of $30,000 on offer today.

[murmuring]

Now Eric and Tara, due to medical reasons,

you will not be riding my carousel,

but your two understudies will.

[laughter]

- It looks just like me. [laughter]

- Players, please climb aboard.

♪ ♪

- [chuckles]

- Why am I nervous for this?

- Let's go, Eric.

As a figure skater, I spin almost every day.

So well-trained. Ready for this.

But I feel like there's going to be a twist.

- Johnny, what do you do when you're spinning?

- Like, when we spin very, very fast,

your eyes naturally cross.

So if you get really dizzy, cross your eyes.

- OK.

- Listen up, players, are you ready to get fast and furious?

- Oh, dear, OK.

- Well, good luck, players.

- Oh, God. - And hold on tight.

- Ah!

- Three, two... - Oh, God.

- One, begin the carousel!

- Holy fuck!

- Ah!

♪ ♪

Ah! - [chuckles]

Uh-oh.

- Oh, my God, are we gonna get dizzy?

- Hands up if you want to go faster.

- Ugh.

- Right now, I'm thinking, close my eyes.

And I'm thinking, I won't get dizzy.

However, that's not working. I just feel so, so sick.

Oh, see, I'm dizzy now.

I'm dizzy now.

- Here we go.

And get the gold. Get that gold!

Quickly, quickly!

- As soon as we get off the spinny thing,

we have to run like drunk toddlers

through a fairground to find stuffed animals.

[laughing] I'm just gonna run and grab a teddy bear

and rip its guts out.

Carnage.

- [grunts] What did they make this one out of?

- Yes!

- Natalie first back with $750.

- Come on, guys, let's go!

- Yes!

I found money,

and I am sprinting back to that carousel.

- 1,000.

- Got one!

- Yeah, baby. - Guys, let's go.

- Ooh, here comes Tara with a shark.

[cash register ringing]

♪ ♪

So it's just Rob and Mark still out there searching.

- I got one.

- Well done. How much have you got, Mark?

- 750.

- I find a 2,500, so I start running back.

♪ ♪

There's no seat for me. - Wait, I'm confused.

- Something I forgot to mention.

We'll remove a seat or two after each spin.

- Oh, every round, they remove a chair.

- [gasps] - [chuckles]

- Oh, my gosh.

- Everything just got real.

Every time we go out for stuffies,

one seat is gonna be removed.

So it is essential that I get back ASAP

to get the first seat on this carousel.

- Sorry, Rob, you are no longer in the running

to win a shield tonight.

- Rob, what the hell are you doing?

You're meant to be the best at the missions.

He's proper pissed off.

- We got a 750. - I know.

It's the only one I found.

- I mean, why are we getting on with 750?

It's like-- - It's not my fault.

- But you could've got a different one.

- That's the only one I fucking found.

I know he was frustrated, but he came at me a little hard.

It proves that I have no more alliances.

Johnny and Tara are a duo.

Maura and Rob are a duo.

Me and Rob are close, but he's picking her over me

all day long.

Like, I can't control what--

- I'm not mad. I'm not mad at you.

I'm not mad at you.

- You're mad at the game.

- Yeah, I just--you know, I don't want to die.

- Bro, I get it, man.

- This is what is weird for me.

Rob has never been upset about not having a shield,

and there's this moment of feeling like Rob is acting.

[tense music]

- After your first spin on the carousel,

you've added $7,500 to the prize fund.

- Whoo!

- That's pretty good, pretty good.

- OK, players, go!

♪ ♪

Faster, faster! Crank it up!

- Oh, my God, they're going faster.

Oh, my God! - Ugh.

- Because I'm a dancer,

I, you know, essentially spin for a living.

I didn't want to feel I was flailing,

so I'm just staying tight.

I'm taking deep breaths

and trying to stay as still as possible

so that when I get off this thing,

I can move as coordinated as I can.

- Anyone feeling their lunch ever closer?

- I do!

- [chuckles]

And unclick and go, quickly!

[dramatic music]

- Fuck!

- Ah!

No, I can't get into it!

I can't seem to get the money out,

because I don't have the strength.

You fuck!

♪ ♪

- Yes!

- I can't actually get into it. I need more strength.

- Maura, you just rip it, girl.

At this point, I'm helping Maura because

I just want to get in her good graces.

Here you go.

- Ah!

- And if we're going for Rob,

if there's a small chance that

it's her voting against me tonight,

I'm just trying to buy some kind of credit with her.

- God, I'm good at this game! [laughs]

- Come on, Johnny!

- Just one seat remains.

Johnny and Mark are the only two still searching for gold.

- I am frantic at this point.

I'm looking for money. I cannot find it.

- Johnny, go!

- There's nothing.

- Mark, come on!

- Yay! - Hurry up!

- Just--I have nothing.

I look back at the carousel

and there will not be a seat for me.

- Mark with the final seat.

Oh, Johnny.

- Players, there's still plenty of gold out there.

[dramatic opera music]

- So let's put the pedal to the metal and go!

♪ ♪

There's Mark just closing his eyes

and pretending it's not happening.

Unclip and go!

Go, babies! Go, go, go, go, go!

Push, push, push, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop!

♪ ♪

Tara looks dizzy and she wasn't even on the ride.

- OK. Guys, I got one!

- Help me. Is there something in there?

Joking! You're joking!

- Come on, there's one seat left!

- [laughing] - It's empty!

- Just Maura and Mark battling out to the very death.

- Fuck this shit!

- [laughing]

- I found one. - I got it.

Bam.

- Mark, sorry about that. - [sighs]

- Snooze, you lose, Mark.

- Oh, man.

- So our current total is $20,500.

- Bravo.

- Go!

♪ ♪

Unclip and go!

What they don't know is that two chairs

have been taken away this time.

- Oh, wow.

- 2,500.

- God, I'm good at this game!

- Fuck, are you kidding me? [growls]

- Oops.

- Fuck.

Being so close to the final round, I'm short of a shield.

Ugh!

- There is no seat for me, and, again, no shield.

I am feeling pretty bummed about this one.

- In that round, you banked $3,250,

so your current total is $23,750.

- Wow.

- Maura and Eric,

you're now head-to-head in the final round.

- [clears throat]

- Whoever is left will win a shield

and be protected from tonight's murder.

- Fuck.

- For one last time, go!

- Whoo!

Last one!

- Final round.

Strategically, we have to get the shield.

If we don't, our entire plan could be completely screwed.

- Eric, you're a goner.

I'm gonna win this.

I'm getting that shield if it's the last thing I do.

♪ ♪

- Unclip and go!

- [shouts] - Come on. Go, come on.

- I've never seen her move that fast.

- Me neither.

- Because I'm this close to getting a shield,

I am frantic right now.

You want to help me?

- Maura trying to rally the troops

and get some help from Fergus.

[chuckles] Good luck with that.

- Come on, Eric. You got it, dude.

♪ ♪

- None here. What a waste of time!

♪ ♪

- I am yanking plushies from their heads.

It's kind of cruel. I feel bad.

And they smell wack.

Where is it?

I look at Maura.

She's still looking for a plushy.

- Come on, Maura. You got it.

- Oh, Eric's got it.

- No! - Good job, Eric.

- Whoo!

- Sprinting back like a gazelle.

- No.

- You did it.

- Bravo, Eric!

- I get the final shield.

[soft dramatic music]

- Damn you, Eric.

Damn you.

- Sucks.

- You certainly got your money's worth

out of your entrance fee today.

$24,500.

- That's it. That is good.

- Well done, everyone.

You survived my carousel,

but the roller-coaster of the roundtable

is another matter.

[dramatic music]

On that note, off you go.

Back to the castle.

♪ ♪

- Good job, buddy.

Good hustle.

- Me having the shield means that

if we can't get Natalie banished tonight,

we can take her out with the murder.

Rob and I, our plan is still on and I'm feeling good.

♪ ♪

- Is everyone thinking, then,

that it's possibly Natalie and Tara?

- I think it's a possibility that Natalie got recruited

because Natalie used to always, like,

kind of confide in me and, like, talk to me.

But the last, like-- - Same.

- Couple of days-- - She hasn't.

- Yeah, then she-- - She's been distant.

♪ ♪

- OK, so we need evidence.

- Today, Rob's acting was so bad.

He has never acted like that before.

It's about numbers.

Rob has the dagger.

It's the last night he has it, which means he will use it.

So he has two votes.

Him and Maura are voting together, so that's three.

Johnny and Tara vote together,

and then that's me, that's three.

And then we have Eric and Mark.

These are the two that we have to convince

to get on our side.

Then we have five. For them, it would be three.

If Mark, and I think,

if he's not a Traitor, I think--

- Eric? - Eric would be open.

- I shared Rob's name in confidence with Natalie

trying to gauge her feelings, and now she's running with it.

My gut, I think he's a Traitor,

but Rob has a dagger, he has two votes,

so I don't know if it's smart to go for Rob tonight.

I wonder if it's better if we do think it's Rob,

we do that tomorrow.

- But then who do we go for tonight?

The sad thing is one of us could be dead tomorrow.

- I can't mess this up.

So what do I do?

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- I feel like I haven't talked to you guys at all today.

- Yep.

What is this? Oh.

- Chicken. - It's a chicken with bone.

- Chicken supper.

Aw. That sucks, dude, about the shield.

For murder?

- Honestly, in my opinion, I think it's between me and Mark.

[quirky tense music]

Because I think we are

pretty clearly Faithfuls to most people,

and I think that is a threat.

♪ ♪

- Where are you at, like, in for today?

- Can we talk through this?

And so listen to this, Mark.

The one thing that hit me in that dungeon

was like, why am I still alive?

I should have been murdered last night.

If I didn't have somebody up there protecting me,

I would be dead.

- Who would be protecting you up there? Rob?

- Who else? Maura's not fucking saving me.

Like, maybe Candiace was giving us a clue with the--

- I've written this down as well.

- Today, he's like, I'm defeated.

And he overacted at the challenge,

like, man, I'm gonna die.

He's never said that, ever.

[suspenseful music]

- He has the dagger. - He has to use it today.

- But he would have to use it today.

All I'm saying is, like, if we're all on him--

- You got to get Eric.

♪ ♪

Ugh.

I've had a lot of trust in Rob,

but now some of the talk and chat around the castle

is giving me doubts.

I did notice a shift in him today,

a little bit more performative,

a little bit more nervous,

which is just like, if it's him,

whoa, bro, wow.

♪ ♪

- It feels desperate.

Oh, my God.

Natalie, you're thwarting my plans.

We have to get Natalie out tonight.

♪ ♪

- What's your take on Natalie?

- I've just constantly gone back and forth with her.

- That's me.

- When she came in to breakfast,

like Natalie was last in.

We were like, "Oh, my God, it's Kristen, it's Kristen."

She didn't really flinch.

- It was kind of cold a little bit.

- Did you not-- yeah, I noticed that.

- It was a little weird.

I did clock that.

- I am so confused.

I think that Rob is who I'm on for today's roundtable.

But they have, like, a solid case as to why it's Natalie.

As long as Tara and I are aligned,

then that's the most important thing.

I'll grab some water. I'll be back in, though.

Do you want me to get you something?

- I'd like a water.

- A water, sparkling, normal?

- Just still. Thank you.

♪ ♪

- Listen.

- Yeah.

Chicken was pretty good.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- They were all on Natalie,

and not that we should trust the masses,

but a lot of them are smarter than I am at this game.

- I don't know if I can do that.

- You didn't buy her thing today?

- No, because this is what she does.

She's a professional game player.

- I know.

But also, I just don't know if we go along with that.

- Right, but I also think it's Rob.

- Right? - Don't forget.

Traitor could be on Traitor.

We need Mark and Eric to Rob vote.

♪ ♪

- And we've got a vote together,

because that will keep us maybe safe tonight.

I really do believe it's Rob.

But if it's wrong, everyone will say,

Tara swung it that way.

I think at this roundtable,

maybe I just sit back...

and see what happens.

I don't know. Maybe I don't trust my--

- I don't trust anyone.

♪ ♪

And this game has taught me to not trust myself either.

- Oh, yeah. Like, I'm--

but I don't know anymore.

♪ ♪

- ♪ Follow me down into the valley night ♪

[owl hoots]

♪ Where all the flowers bloom ♪

- So to take out Rob tonight, we have to have numbers,

and we have me, Tara, and Johnny.

Our plan depends on getting everybody voting for Rob.

I'm all-in. I'm like, let's get this done.

This is our last shot.

- I think I'm gonna have to go hard in there,

because we need to get Natalie out.

I'm gonna try my best, but it's gonna be tough.

♪ ♪

- If you know the enemy and know yourself,

you need not fear the result of 100 battles.

But players, do you know the enemy?

And indeed, do you know yourselves?

Let me remind you,

this is the last roundtable

where a banished player will reveal their identity.

Tomorrow, our game will end, and we will have our victors.

Your spoils are currently $180,800.

But if any Traitors remain at the end,

they will take it all.

♪ ♪

Players, the floor is yours.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- The only thing...

I may want to start off with is that

I have tried so hard to follow my heart

and find the Traitors.

♪ ♪

And obviously, Johnny and I really came forth last night

and brought everything to the table.

So I hope someone can lead it,

because I don't want to throw out anything

that could be wrong for the Faithfuls again.

♪ ♪

- Does anyone have anything that they've wanted to say

that they haven't had the balls to?

[tense music]

- Natalie,

I haven't been suspicious of you this whole game.

Although, like, the last couple of days,

I just feel like maybe you've pulled back.

I feel more of a distance to you

that I haven't felt throughout, like,

the first half of this game.

- Yeah, I felt a change in your demeanor

in the last couple of days, too.

♪ ♪

- I'd like to talk about how you say,

like, why would you kill gamers?

Like, to me, it seems like that could be a strength for you,

and I just wanted to hear what you had to say

about it face-to-face. - Yeah.

- Face-to-face, yeah.

- That has been something that I've thought about.

To say, oh, well, why would I kill off my "people"

or my fellow gamers, that doesn't seem like smart play.

I actually think it's brilliant play.

- And also, you kept saying about like,

oh, well, my closest people that I trust in here are gone.

Like, obviously, I'm not a Traitor.

But, like, we've all lost people.

I don't know.

- I just feel like if somebody's spoken up for me,

and I feel like I have that person who believes in me

and is willing to back me up, it wouldn't be smart of me

to get rid of that, if I was a Traitor, right?

Because in this castle, when you're a Traitor,

if somebody's going to back you up

and support you and trust you,

that is how you make the end.

♪ ♪

And I think yesterday when I wasn't murdered,

I asked myself, like, why am I still here?

♪ ♪

And I told myself coming into the castle today,

I have to look at my blind spots.

Maybe I have, like, a Traitor angel watching out for me.

Who's that person, like, that is not murdering me?

And I'm not going to lie, I thought about you, Rob.

There has been a shift in you, and I don't know what it is.

Today at the breakfast table,

I've never seen you defeated before in this game.

♪ ♪

And I feel like Candiace was really smart,

and I feel like her voting for you is also weird, you know?

♪ ♪

That day, she came for you out of the blue.

I think in this game, we have to pay attention

to things that don't make sense.

They're not just coincidences.

- But she did say it was a throwaway vote.

- I would be lying if I said, I didn't also think like,

oh, Candiace voting for Rob is super out of left.

- Yeah.

- Out of everyone we've caught thus far,

I think she would be the one that would have the smarts

to create strategy plays.

♪ ♪

- Does anybody want me to defend myself?

♪ ♪

To the point of the vote thing with Candiace,

honestly, I just thought it was fucking weird.

Because it wasn't, like, forceful.

It was almost like a half-ass-- like you dropped a fork,

And I was like, OK?

It doesn't seem like that would be--

to me, looking on the outside, I'm biased.

- It's also just weird, throwaway vote, and then Rob.

- Yes.

- It's weird and it's inconsistent.

- It was weird. - Everything is a grasp.

- But we have to grasp at what we have.

Even Tara said that--she said this could be a breadcrumb.

♪ ♪

- This is where I get confused.

Yes, it could have been a breadcrumb

and some strategic move,

or it could have just been, like, a wildcard thing.

So like, that's where I'm starting to second-guess.

♪ ♪

- Can I just be a little bit honest?

I do feel a little bit blitzed,

and I feel like I've been trying to trust people.

And I listened to people in this game today,

and I was told something else by some people,

and now, it's very different.

I think, Natalie, you're talking about, like,

our car ride, our conversations.

- You had a theory and we bounced off each other.

But now, you're very quiet about--

- No, I won't talk about-- - Let me finish.

Can I finish? - Sure. Of course.

- Let me finish.

I put my guard down coming in this morning,

but obviously, I was taken advantage of, I feel like.

- Oh.

- Yeah, by you. That's what I feel.

You don't think so? - OK, no.

♪ ♪

- This is what, for me, is really messy.

- Right.

- I'm willing to go against a guy

that I've fucking backed up day one on this journey.

- I'm not saying--we're not-- - Listen. Let me finish.

Putting his name down on the table is hard for me.

Nobody else has been fucking difficult

for me to put on the table. - Yeah.

- I was open and willing to go there today.

But you come in here, and you're like, well,

I don't know, and I'm like, what?

- Wait a minute.

Johnny, we need to speak up here.

- I listened to you guys having this conversation,

and I said, like, the numbers would have to look like this.

But I have never committed today either way.

- I just am sketched out by how easily

you go from one to the other. - Ugh.

- But this is why I'm like, you're very smart.

♪ ♪

And I'm--and you're smart, too.

But it's just interesting that you're, like,

coming in here with her plan.

- Well, think about it.

This whole day, I've been with them.

I feel isolated from the rest of the group.

- Well, it's a day. What are you gonna do?

Just keep listening to Tara?

You have come up with names,

but you have no reason to back it up, Tara.

- I don't.

- What doesn't make sense is that

you're convincing Natalie to go for--

- I wasn't convincing Natalie. - Let me finish.

But obviously, that's what she's saying you have done,

and you have no evidence or nothing to go by.

- I know I made a mistake from not making sure

I didn't talk to the rest of the group.

You guys are really smart,

and I'm sorry that I let my guard down.

- The time for talk is over.

♪ ♪

The time will soon come to vote.

♪ ♪

However, someone around this table

is holding the power of the dagger.

♪ ♪

The power to cast two votes for one person.

♪ ♪

So if you want to use this power,

raise your hand now.

♪ ♪

Rob...

whoever you vote for will receive two votes

at the roundtable tonight.

♪ ♪

Players, the time has come to vote.

♪ ♪

- Ugh, I don't know what to do.

I had a really strong theory that it could be Rob,

but I feel Natalie just glaring at me.

She's doing things that seem suspicious, again, to me.

♪ ♪

- This is a huge moment.

Anytime anyone brings up Candiace's votes,

obviously, it makes me nervous.

You know, it's a game of paranoia,

and this is the most paranoid I've ever been.

I don't like it one bit.

♪ ♪

- I'm so angry.

Everything in me wants to jump across this table

and grab Tara, but I can't do that.

I have to just figure out what the best move is at this point.

♪ ♪

- We will start the vote with Natalie.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- I think you're a Traitor, Tara,

because you did an amazing job

of making me feel

that I was a part of something

that was for the Faithfuls.

♪ ♪

- Rob, you have the dagger.

Whoever you vote for will receive two votes.

♪ ♪

- Nat, I voted for you.

♪ ♪

Knowing that you had this, like, kind of plan

to come in here and come at me, like,

and didn't even, like, talk to me,

it just feels, like, odd.

♪ ♪

- Mark?

- I also voted for you, Nat.

Just knowing how strong you are and smart and strategic.

But I'm not 100%.

♪ ♪

And if we're wrong,

then wow.

That's all I have to say, if we're wrong, fucking wow.

♪ ♪

- Tara.

Who do you think is a Traitor, and why?

♪ ♪

- Natalie, I voted for you.

♪ ♪

I do not think you are a Traitor

after our conversation today.

♪ ♪

But I have had a gut instinct on you from the beginning.

And I feel a little attacked here

and I voted for you, Natalie.

♪ ♪

- So that's four votes for Natalie and one vote for Tara.

♪ ♪

Maura, if you vote for Natalie,

she will be banished from the game.

♪ ♪

- [sighs] I went with Natalie.

♪ ♪

I'm so sorry, Natalie.

- It's OK.

♪ ♪

- Natalie, you have received the most votes

and are banished from the game.

- Oh, this is fucked.

- Before we reveal your identity,

will the remaining players, please, reveal their votes?

Eric?

- Natalie, I'm sorry. I voted for you.

[somber music]

- Johnny? - Don't say sorry, Johnny.

When you put up your card, don't fucking say sorry.

I don't want to hear it.

- Natalie, I voted for you.

- Natalie, you have received the most votes

and are banished from the game.

Please, come forward to the circle of truth.

- [sighs]

♪ ♪

Natalie, before you leave my castle forever,

please reveal to us,

are you a Faithful or a Traitor?

♪ ♪

- You know, my whole life, I've wanted to be so strong,

and I try really hard to present as tough.

And sometimes, it comes with a negative of being judged,

of being ruthless, cutthroat.

♪ ♪

But today, a gamer got played.

[dramatic music]

I'm a Faithful.

- Fuck's sake.

- So good job, guys.

- Ooh, I'm sorry, Nat.

♪ ♪

- Faithful, you have faced many roundtable catastrophes,

but this, coming in the penultimate night of the game,

was a particularly spectacular one.

- Damn it.

- For it was your last chance to oust a Traitor

and know their identity,

and they, once again, slipped through your grasp.

- Terrible. - Rest will come soon.

But as for tonight,

it will be the Traitor's last ever murder.

The fitful sleep of feverish dreams

lies ahead,

a sleep from which one of you will never wake.

♪ ♪

Have a good one.

♪ ♪

- We're fucked.

- I truthfully don't want to play this game anymore.

I feel like a fool.

I have made mistakes.

But seriously, I am OK with being murdered tonight.

♪ ♪

- [sobbing]

[somber music]

- [sniffles] God.

[sniffles]

- Why would Eric and Johnny try and convince Natalie?

- No, it makes no sense.

That part literally doesn't make any sense.

I just don't know. Like--

- Guys, I am totally just gonna be so honest.

I'm-- [sniffles]

I--

- I don't want you to get upset.

- [voice shaking] I feel bad for Natalie

because I truthfully didn't believe

she talked to me about her--

- I don't want you to get upset.

You need to-- look, Tara, you--

yeah, but you need to start playing like--

- I know. I can't. - This is--it's such a game.

- I know. I can't.

She looked at me.

I opened up. I hugged her.

- Then why vote for her?

- Because I then-- all of a sudden--

- I had a-- no, but not that, no.

- People say my name all the time,

but it doesn't make me go for them.

♪ ♪

- That was, like, my toughest roundtable to date.

But the way Natalie went about it, she messed up.

- We're getting played, Rob.

- And it just made her look guilty.

I mean, I genuinely liked Natalie a lot.

But I was put in a position where I had to do

what I had to do.

- You really don't think Tara did that?

- I don't.

- I don't really think so either,

but I also can't take the chance.

I cannot take the chance. - I'm telling you now, bro.

That reaction-- that reaction was real.

Those tears, that's not performance, bro.

And if it is, Oscar.

- That's what I'm thinking. - But I just don't--

I just don't believe it.

And Eric said nothing tonight.

Nothing.

I really like Eric a lot, but he has played a quiet game.

He has played an under-the-radar game.

Maybe Kristen was right.

[sighs] Oh.

♪ ♪

- Seriously, who is it?

- If I'm murdered, avenge me.

- Who?

- I don't know, Eric?

[tense music]

Eric doesn't really offer names,

and I think the fact that he's gone so unnoticed in this game

would be a red flag.

I think there are two Traitors remaining,

and I think Rob and Eric are the remaining Traitors.

♪ ♪

- Really? - I don't know.

Like, he's had little-to-no attention on him.

- Ever.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- Two Traitors in the finale.

♪ ♪

This is a great Traitor partnership.

Having the shield means that we have the pick of the litter

when it comes to murder.

Hopefully if we play our cards right, we can win this.

- [vocalizing]

♪ Meet me on the dark side ♪

♪ ♪

♪ We'll come alive ♪

- Bro, that was a tough day.

- You saw my name was getting flaunted

in front of my face today.

- You handled it with poise.

- You crushed it today.

Getting the shield was huge.

- I was so nervous that we weren't gonna get it.

- You didn't say anything at roundtable.

That's not good.

[chuckling] You have to say something.

- I didn't know if me opening my mouth

against Natalie would just be so weird.

♪ ♪

[knock on door]

God.

- Oh.

- Hello.

- Good evening, Traitors.

- Howdy.

- I'm here to tell you that your last kill

is going to be a scorcher.

♪ ♪

Once you've made your decision of whom to murder,

I will be giving all the players

a rude awakening tonight.

- That's right.

All the players will be summoned from their chambers

and taken to meet me outside.

There, they'll be forced to stare death in the face.

I will reveal which player you have murdered,

and this will happen in front of everyone.

- No.

Ugh.

- This is not good. - No.

- So make sure you act surprised.

It'd be awful to give the game away at this late stage,

wouldn't it?

- [sighs]

- I will leave you to select your last victim.

- That makes it harder.

♪ ♪

[exhales]

- Oh, shit.

I'm more nervous that everybody else

is gonna be there.

- It's really gonna suck. - Yeah.

- This is going to be hard. We've been together so long.

All of us players have gotten so close.

I am definitely, like,

far more sensitive than people think I am.

And I do have a big heart. I really do.

But I just have to keep reminding myself

that it is just a game.

♪ ♪

OK, so we could kill Johnny.

[dramatic music]

Splitting up the skating twins--

- Yeah.

- Because they're voting together no matter what.

We got to split them up. - Yeah, OK.

If we kill Johnny, Tara becomes a complete unknown.

- True.

Tara.

- She's a great distraction.

- True. She's a smokescreen right now.

- Yeah.

- Mark.

He trusts me, like, a lot.

But people trust him way too much.

He's not gonna get banished. - No way.

- Also, he said a lot about you today.

- That's where it gets tricky.

He's our best ally, but also our biggest weakness.

- OK, so we could kill Maura.

♪ ♪

She is very gullible, and like, she could be swayed by someone.

But like-- - She's our ally.

- Yeah, she's kind of the biggest part of our plan.

Maura could be a great Traitor move for me,

because I don't feel like I'll be looked at.

I don't know.

I mean, this is definitely the hardest time to be a Traitor.

- Yeah.

- I think the bottom line is who is culpable?

I think they all are. - Yeah.

- ♪ Oh ♪

- So are we agreed? - Yes.

- ♪ Oh ♪ - [sighs]

- ♪ Meet me on the dark side ♪

- I am feeling a lot of guilt in this moment.

The murders are catching up to me, and it's tough.

However, it's the best strategic move for me

for them to be murdered tonight.

All right, people.

- Let's do this. - Let's do this, bro.

[crickets chirping]

[bell ringing]

- ♪ The angels dance around me ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Like ghosts, they freely roam ♪

- Why is there a fire? - Why is the fire out there?

- Torches? - Oh, shit. OK.

- Oh, there's a coffin.

- [gasps] - No.

- No.

- OK, it looks like I'm--

I'm--I'm dead.

♪ ♪

- Oh, no.

- Dear God. Look at all that.

- As you may have guessed,

I have some rather upsetting news.

♪ ♪

- While you rested in your rooms,

the Traitors met as usual and selected their final victim.

♪ ♪

That Faithful will be brutally murdered

in front of everyone right here, right now.

♪ ♪

- The time has come.

- Oh, God.

I can now reveal... - [gasps]

- The Faithful that was mercilessly murdered

by the Traitors tonight

is...

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

- Next time on "The Traitors,"

the final showdown is approaching.

[all exclaiming]

It is before these flames that our game will come to an end,

but who will triumph this night,

the Faithful or the Traitors?

- I'm going to give it everything I have

to fight for the Faithful.

- To walk away without winning

would be that much more devastating.

- Everything is dependent on this very moment.

- Let the flames reveal your decision.