'The Traitors' episode nine: Shock exit will change the future of the game
'The Traitors Ireland' host Siobhán McSweeney.
"Paranoia is definitely in full swing,” Faye observes in the opening five minutes of Tuesday's episode.
Everyone is at the breakfast table this morning, including Christine, who we saw get the deadly hug from Nick at the conclusion of the previous episode.
To bring some clarity to the situation, Siobhán McSweeney lets the faithful know that the traitors have placed an ancient curse on one of them, and they’ll be dead by the day’s end. Swallow that with your toast...
Talk immediately turns to what the piseog could possibly be — a champagne bottle opened? A drink poured? So far, Nick is in the clear — no one has copped it was a deathly hug.
Christine, despite not knowing what we know, seems to have a sixth sense that her time is coming to an end and she immediately races to tell all the faithfuls her theory about Ben being a traitor before it’s too late.
One of Ben’s suspicious moves? Playing with his beard.
“If you had a beard, you’d know,” Ben says exasperated. “Yeah..” Will says, stroking his own beard.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Joanna confesses to Paudie she feels she doesn’t have an alliance in the castle.
“They’re all so young,” she sighs.
“You’re telling me,” Paudie scoffs.
There’s no fun and games at today’s mission. No, it’s a much more sombre affair.
The faithfuls (and the traitors among them) are here for a funeral — they just aren’t sure for who.
“I swear to God girls, if one of you backstabbed me, I will haunt you for the rest of your life,” Christine mutters.
On their walk to our Cork faithful's final resting place, the contestants answer questions while keeners wail behind them.
“Whoever is going to die has plenty of support,” Christine quips.
The procession makes their way back to the castle, where Christine, Faye, and Ben are placed in open coffins. Siobhán asks each of the contestants to place black roses in the coffin of the person they believe has been murdered. If they guess right, they’ll bank €2,000.
The contestants guess Ben — losing the game, and losing their Cork cailín.
“That was so horrible, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,” Faye gasps between tears. “I need a cup of tea.”
Back at the castle, tensions are high heading into the ninth roundtable.
“Faye was shitting it,” he tells Nick and Amy, “I know she’s a faithful.” He’s not so sure now about his good pal Nick.
Amy, sensing there’s a hard talk coming between the two bros, makes herself scarce. “Do yous want a cup of tea?” she offers, legging it out of the room.
Nick manages to convince Ben he’s not a traitor by arguing if he was, he would have given Ben the boot already (We aren’t sure how this bodes, given he’s let us know earlier in the episode his plan is to get rid of Ben next).
At the actual roundtable, Vanessa’s name is brought to the table by a number of contestants, mostly, it seems, because she hasn’t been looked at before.
Ben reckons one of his mates is keeping him in the game, and unwilling to throw Faye or Nick under the bus, he offers that it might, in fact, be Vanessa. Or Paudie, he supposes.
Paudie, as he is now known to do, lashes out like a scorpion.
“Are the two of ye [Ben and Nick] working together?” he seethes.
“The two of ye have, for some reason, come after me tonight,” he continues, “I am telling everyone else... watch it.”
Oyin, brings up her traitor-on-traitor theory once more, this time adding another nugget to her theory that Eamon, Katelyn, and Paudie were the OG traitors.
“The last thing Eamon did was vote for you and say: ‘You are really bad at this game’,” she tells Paudie.
And finally, it’s enough to convince just enough people at the table to vote for Paudie.
Siobhán seems to be struggling to hide her grin as she invites the prison officer to address the players before he reveals whether he’s a traitor or a faithful.
“I’ve a lot to say,” Paudie offers, before dropping the biggest bomb of the series to the unsuspecting faithfuls.
“You might not know my family.. You've met one of them. My son Andrew. And I am a traitor.”
With Paudie finally sent packing, new traitor Nick is left with the most important decision of the game — who to recruit as his ally to take to the final and beat the faithfuls?
Will he do as none of our traitors have done before and actually pick a woman?
Unlikely.
