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Kitt
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09-05-2000
| Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 1:24 pm 
Thursday's episode 7...
I wondered why they put Matt's questions to the traitors as the cliffhanger at the end of the last episode, because if his questions were most dramatic, wouldn't they have shown the boring questions first?
Well bear that in mind when you watch the first few minutes of Ep7 when Harriet, the other one who could ask the traitors questions, pretty much melts down...
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Maris
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03-27-2002
| Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 2:18 pm
WOW!!! Harriett really scared the crap out of them
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 2:30 pm
She seemed so angry!! Out of nowhere!
She really had nothing at the round table, then just gave up and sacrificed herself!
I've no idea how the heat then switched away from Rachel and towards Matt and... Ellie, I think it was. And then when there was even more reason to recruit Matt, the traitors turned down the chance! He would have been a relatively easy persuade for the next round table, and then they would have found a (new) traitor and been satiated!
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Maris
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03-27-2002
| Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 2:55 pm
Matt is a perfect recruit. I think they will kill Jesse and you will see Matt protect Rachel up until the recruitment.
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Juju2bigdog
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10-26-2000
| Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 8:01 pm
Rats, I didn't come here early enough today to see there was a new episode tonight.
But yay, an episode to watch tomorrow.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 5:15 am
As we've been speaking about accents, I think I detect a Northern Irish accent in Matt too, did you think so, Maris? (Other than that, Juju, I didn't spot any accents that stood out.)
Stephen said he's worried that once Matt knows who they are, he will somehow reveal it at the round table, and therefore they shouldn't recruit him. Not sure that's actually how it would turn out, but that seems to be the fear. But if that's the reasoning they will never recruit him, which then makes it more likely, I'd have thought, he would try to go after them.
I had to replay the turret scene again to see what they said about murdering. They say they need to murder from the group from the challenge with James, Sam, Harriet, Jessie, Adam (as they don't want to throw suspicion on themselves and murder from their own groups). We know Jessie and James have shields but they don't. And obviously Harriet was banished, so that leaves four.
So they want to murder one of Sam, James, Adam, and Jessie and just hope the one they choose doesn't have a shield.
They can't choose Sam, as Stephen thinks he might have set a trap by telling a small group of them (incl Stephen) he didn't have a shield.
They think either James or Adam was the one who sneakily took a shield.
So ironically they're left with Jessie. Stephen thinks if they murder someone who isn't Jessie, then Matt will go after Rachel anyway (as he thinks Matt is suspicious of Rachel already).
And then they didn't really show us much deliberation, but I do agree from what they showed they will have murdered Jessie.
The only thing is, Jessie has a shield! So at breakfast everyone will still be there and no one will know if they recruited or if they tried to murder someone with a shield. If those who have a shield reveal it, Matt will know Jessie had one and might assume the traitors kept to their deal and tried, but he doesn't know that.
Kind of weird with all that drama that really nothing comes of it.
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Maris
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03-27-2002
| Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 2:04 pm
Yes I thought the same about Matt a slight northern accent. I know. Here is my question, if the traitors try and murder someone with a shield, does anyone find out?
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Kitt
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09-05-2000
| Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 2:46 pm
No, they don't know. I suppose if somehow they thought recruitment wasn't likely, like if they hadn't found any traitors, they might assume it was an attempted failed murder. But I don't think they would ever know for sure.
From tonight's show, ep 8...
Surprise, surprise! I really thought they had gone for Jessie, but nope! They should have got rid of her before she got the "it could be Stephen" idea in her head again, it puts him the spotlight.
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Maris
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03-27-2002
| Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 5:13 pm
I think Jessie will be gone, buys them safety from Matt for another day. He will think that they will invite him to be a traitor when he will be the next one on the chopping block
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Juju2bigdog
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10-26-2000
| Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 8:21 pm
And I think if everybody appears at breakfast, they might all jump to the conclusion that somebody got recruited, when, in fact no one was recruited.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Friday, January 16, 2026 - 5:29 am
New episode tonight as well.
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Maris
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03-27-2002
| Friday, January 16, 2026 - 2:52 pm
Good episode Kitt. These traitors are really playing the game well.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, January 17, 2026 - 4:18 am
It's hard not to back the traitors. S is clever and so likeable. R has a preternatural ability to throw off any heat. They're loyal to each other, what's not to love?!
The rest of them though aren't so good. Such twisted non-logic, even when it starts from a good observation.
The dagger with the two votes is a tricky one. R&S talked about keeping it and then them having three votes between them and enough to banish whoever they want, that's only useful if one of them was about to go. Without that, as long as it's not them they have no need to target anyone, as they can do that at the murder. I'm not sure they can predict what having two votes would do to any of the others, and if they give it to the few who haven't mentioned R or S that might look suspicious. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
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Maris
Member
03-27-2002
| Saturday, January 17, 2026 - 7:13 am
I think they should keep the dagger. Three votes is pretty good and it would be like getting two murders in one day.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, January 17, 2026 - 9:59 am
If they did that, they'd have to make sure they voted with a majority, that their votes didn't stand out.
I think only Rachel, Stephen, Jade and Matt have any heat on them. Faraaz, Jack, James, Roxy don't seem suspected by anyone, and they'd have to work pretty hard to target one of those without the others thinking the dagger holder and the other voting that way were traitors.
Maybe they should give it to Matt, and then if he survives banishment they murder him. It's about time they were allowed to murder, out of nine days there have been three days they couldn't murder.
Oh, and they did show Matt in a confessional saying that if he became a traitor he WOULD immediately betray the others, so they made a good guess/observation on that. I wish they spent more time in the episodes letting us hear conversations, as there's obviously a lot going on we don't know about (such as why/how Rachel has everyone on side).
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Maris
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03-27-2002
| Saturday, January 17, 2026 - 10:51 am
Matt would be good. I guess if I was down to the final eight, I would like to control three votes.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Saturday, January 17, 2026 - 7:51 pm
I am all caught up (I think) on both US and UK Traitors currently running. It is a trifle weird to see both shows running the same missions on the same set and thinking I must have mixed up my days or something and then realizing the contestants are different.
Both S and R are doing an outstanding job.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, January 18, 2026 - 2:10 am
Last season our BBCiplayer showed the US one as it aired and I watched them intermingled like that, but they’re not doing that this year, so I’m waiting to watch the US one after this one ends.
It does get confusing following them together, especially at the beginning with more contestants.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 1:26 pm
New tonight and it's the result of the extra dagger challenge.
O
M
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Followed by a bit of panic later in the show...
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Maris
Member
03-27-2002
| Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 3:57 pm
Great episode Kitt. There is another episode tomorrow and the finale is on Friday.
Who will survive to the finale?????
great article from the Guardian
is Rachel the best traitor
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 1:46 am
I was amazed at the cleverness of the dagger choice, it played out EXACTLY as they intended, even more so if anything! Now instead of just having Jade left as the “must be a traitor then,” they have James too!
But Faraaz at the end!! He clearly persuaded a few that Rachel was a traitor, at the very least temporarily and those sort of questions stick to the end. If I were them I would murder him, and Rachel should go heavy on the “well that proves it isn’t me, after what he said last night.” Otherwise he’s going to keep on saying those things and they won’t be able to distract.
What Rachel said in the turret to Stephen at the end… that has to be foreshadowing for us, for what happens tonight. I don’t think she meant she wasn’t with him, just that with so few people she can’t always stand up for him, and would have to acknowledge others’ observations. Which isn’t far off what Stephen did with Faraaz. But it’s put Stephen on edge, I think, which is a shame.
I think there’s one round table left where they reveal whether the banished is a traitor or not. If they can turn it back on Jade, they are left with only Roxy, James and Jack, I think. Jack is the wildcard, Roxy and James appear to be easy to manipulate.
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Maris
Member
03-27-2002
| Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 2:35 am
Tonight's show should be interesting. I would have had the same reaction as Stephen to Rachel's comment in the turret. The thing is, Rachel is smart - she doesnt just say things on the fly so why did she say it?
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 4:46 am
I think because she has a specific plan about what she's going to do. The question is whether it really is to help them both (which I hope  ) or just to help her, and Stephen can either fall or not, it doesn't matter too much.
There's also, of course, a chance she explained it really well to Stephen in the turret, but didn't show that to us.
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Maris
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03-27-2002
| Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 1:58 pm
ugh, cliffhanger. What an episode.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 2:46 pm
I think if Rachel hadn't brought Stephen up at the round table, he wouldn't have mentioned her again, and just maybe James would have gone on that first vote.
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