Episode 8 of The Traitors ended with an ultimatum for one contestant. Were they murdered or did they join Rob Rausch (Love Island USA) as a Traitor and murder together? Find out who remained and who left on Season 4.
Hosted by Alan Cumming, the Peacock show features a group of people, with some of them being Faithfuls and some of them being Traitors. If the Faithfuls find the Traitors before the end of the game, they split the prize pot of $250,000. However, if there are any Traitors left by the finale, they take home all of the money.
The 23 competitors this season are Rausch, Donna Kelce, Porsha Williams (The Real Housewives of Atlanta), Caroline Stanbury (The Real Housewives of Dubai), Candiace Dillard Bassett (The Real Housewives of Potomac), Lisa Rinna (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills), Dorinda Medley (The Real Housewives of New York), Ian Terry (Big Brother), Tiffany Mitchell (Big Brother), Rob Cesternino (Survivor), Natalie Anderson (Survivor), and Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho (Survivor), Maura Higgins (Love Island USA), Colton Underwood (The Bachelor), Kristen Kish (Top Chef), Eric Nam, Mark Ballas (Dancing With the Stars), Monét X Change (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Stephen Colletti (Laguna Beach), Michael Rapaport, Johnny Weir, Ron Funches, and Tara Lipinski.
Read on to find out what went down on Episode 9, and tune in next week for the finale and reunion episode.
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Who are the Traitors?
A twist this season was that the first Traitor would be picked in front of everyone. The competitors had to stand in front of Cumming as he opened up a trunk. If it was empty, they were safe. If it had the traitor card in it, they became the first Traitor. However, they weren’t revealed right away.
The other Traitors picked at the round table were Candiace Dillard Bassett, Lisa Rinna, and Rob Rausch.
The fourth Traitor remained a secret and did not meet the others. They had the full say in who gets murdered and produced a shortlist of people eligible for murder for the other Traitors to decide. Donna Kelce was revealed to be the Secret Traitor and was banished in Episode 2, so the twist ended.
Nam was recruited in Episode 9 after Rausch remained the only Traitor.
Who was eliminated from The Traitors?
Episode 9
Episode 9 opened up with Eric Nam finding out Rausch was a Traitor. He had a decision to make, and he chose to become a Traitor instead of ending his game and being murdered. The men then had a decision to make on who to murder. Rausch and Nam decided between Dorinda Medley, Stephen Colletti, and Natalie Anderson.
Murdered: Dorinda Medley
Rausch and Nam decided that Medley was the best choice since it wouldn’t point back to either of them and it would be a shocking murder.
For the challenge, they had the chance to put $18,000 in the prize pot. All they had to do was sit in a box and figure out what the Traitors would answer for a series of questions. If they matched the Traitors’ answers, they would win money. Rausch and Nam decided to go for Tara Lipinski for every answer to throw everyone off. They banked only $2,000 because of it.
At the end of the challenge, the Traitors had to decide who to shortlist for murder. They had to pick four people, and whoever they chose, their boxes wouldn’t open. They went with Lipinski, Anderson, Johnny Weir, and Kristen Kish.
At the round table, Weir and Lipinski tried to get the heat off of Weir by calling out Colletti. Weir said it was weird that he and Dillard Bassett talked privately before the previous roundtable; they had never interacted before, and then she was revealed to be a Traitor. Other people said it was weird that Lisa Rinna, who was also a Traitor, put all of her gold in his trunk a few weeks prior.
Banished: Stephen Colletti (Faithful) with five votes (Johnny Weir received two and Tara Lipinski received two)
Anderson also forced Rausch to reveal that he has the dagger, which gives him two votes at the Roundtable, but he didn’t use it.
Who has been previously eliminated?
Episode 1
Murdered: No one
Banished: No one
Episode 2
Murdered: Ian Terry
Banished: Porsha Williams (Faithful) with 10 votes (Donna Kelce received 8, Michael Rappaport received 5)
Episode 3
Murdered: Rob Cesternino
Banished: Donna Kelce (Secret Traitor) with 19 votes (Michael and Yam Yam received one vote each)
Episode 4
Murdered: Caroline Stanbury
Banished: Tiffany Mitchell (Faithful) with 15 votes (Ron received two, and Yam Yam received one)
Episode 5
Murdered: Monét X Change
Banished: Michael Rappaport (Faithful) with 11 votes (Ron received five)
Episode 6
Murdered: No one (No one took a shield in the previous challenge, so a murder did not happen)
Banished: Ron Funches (Faithful) with six votes (Rinna received five and Underwood received four)
Episode 7
Murdered: Yam Yam Arocho
Banished: Lisa Rinna (Traitor) with nine votes (Anderson received two, Rausch and Higgins both received one)
Episode 8
Murdered: Colton Underwood
Banished: Candiace Dillard Bassett (Traitor) with nine votes (Rausch and Lipinski both received one)
The Traitors, Thursdays, 9/8c, Peacock
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