'The Traitors' episode 7: Limerick father-and-son team's reign is over before it begins
Andrew and Paudie face off in Episode 7 of 'The Traitors Ireland'. And, honestly, we were as flummoxed as Paudie was that he'd pulled it off in Episode 6.
Irish fathers tend to think they know what’s best for their young — even when it’s exactly the opposite of what you’ve told them you want.
And so it goes with ’ daddy/son duo, Paudie and Andrew.
At the end of episode six, Andrew was faced with an ultimatum — turn traitor or leave the game.
This, despite the fact he had explicitly told his father in an earlier episode: “I don’t want to get blackmailed or recruited, I think my best chance of winning this game is as a faithful.”
It wasn’t hard to guess the choice Andrew would make, especially when he saw who was beneath the cloak.
“Did you know?” Paudie asks, as the two embrace.
“I’d a suspicion,” Andrew admits.
“I don’t know how this has come about,” the 68-year-old retired prison officer tells us in his piece to camera. “It’s exactly what I would have wanted to happen.”
Honestly, we are as flummoxed as Paudie to how he’s managed to pull this one off.
The giddy reunion is quickly interrupted by Siobhán McSweeney, who delivers her next task for the traitors — pick four faithfuls to place on death row.
At the breakfast table the following morning, Oyin, continuing to give merit to the suspicion she might actually be psychic, tells Faye she suspects the remaining traitor(s) will have blackmailed someone last night.
“I think it’s Paudie,” she says. “It would make sense to recruit Andrew since he was already under fire.”
As more faithfuls land in, talk turns to last night’s roundtable, where Andrew was thrown under the bus and a certain group — ringleaders being Nick and Ben — turned on their fellow faithfuls for, eh, getting rid of a traitor?
“I just want to apologise for yesterday,” Ben says, addressing the table as a whole. “I didn’t mean for it to go the way it did.”
Nick, for his part, doesn’t offer any apologies.
Siobhán floats into the breakfast room, briefly interrupting the conversation to let us all know Patrick, Mark, Christine, and Joanna have been placed on death row.
The other faithfuls barely seem fazed; they are too busy bickering about the previous night’s roundtable.
Last Tuesday’s episode of was probably the strongest example of a watercooler moment the country has seen in years.
Across the nation, families, friends, and colleagues debated whether Ben and Nick’s behaviour at the roundtable amounted to full-on misogyny.
A conversation between Ben and Amy in tonight’s episode reveals that that conversation is happening in the castle, too.
After Ben, once again, claims Katelyn “was easy” and could have been controlled, tattooist Amy loses her cool.
“She’s a grown fucking woman ... if you think that way, I think that is madness.”
In a piece to camera, Amy echoes what a lot of viewers at home felt after last week’s episode.
“There’s a divide [in the group],” she says.
Back to the task at hand, the remaining contestants split into two groups to rescue a contestant of their choosing from tonight’s murder. Cork’s Christine easily wins.
At the roundtable, Andrew is once again in the firing line. As is Patrick. And Paudie (déjà-vu anyone?).
Oyin, once again, proves she is the smartest person in the room by identifying that Andrew likely wasn’t a traitor last night, but is now. Oyin says:
“A scapegoat kind of thing,” Amy adds.
In a first, it’s a tie at the roundtable with seven people voting for Andrew and seven for Patrick.
Siobhán asks the two players to plead their case.
Andrew makes a fairly bad boo-boo during his speech, accidentally saying he’s been trying to get faithfuls out of the game.
And just like that, Andrew is voted out and the potential reign of the Limerick father-son duo comes to an end after just 24 hours.
We were hoping Andrew might give the remaining faithful a hint, but alas, he simply says: “You’re on a roll.”
“I was very deflated,” Paudie says. Now, he’s left with a choice. Offer an invitation to Mark, Joanna, or Patrick to become a traitor. Let’s hope he foresaw this when he was picking his death row inmates.
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