[Warning: The following post contains spoilers about The Traitors Season 3 Episode 3, “A Dysfunctional Family.”]
Boston Rob Mariano got here into The Traitors like a wrecking ball and took out one of many unique traitors, Bob the Drag Queen, for throwing bulk shade on the entire new guys. If Rob isn’t cautious, the pendulum would possibly swing proper again at him — and shortly, judging by sure gamers’ actions on Thursday’s (January 23) new episode. If that energy transfer doesn’t come again to hang-out him, although, he could have simply modified the sport ceaselessly … in a great way, too.
The episode began out with a fast spherical of clean-up on aisle turret, as each Carolyn Wiger and Danielle Reyes had been gobsmacked by Rob’s transfer in opposition to Bob on the roundtable. They swam with the tide and helped him eradicate their cloaked brethren through the vote, after all, however neither of them had been completely satisfied about it or satisfied by Rob’s assurances that they weren’t subsequent on his hit checklist.
The trio narrowly agreed on one other compulsory homicide — taking out Robyn Dixon, who was the last word traitor-hunting devoted — but it surely’s clear neither of the women is just too proud of Rob proper now. The issue for them? As an alternative of conspiring with each other to ambush Rob with a banishment blast, Danielle determined Carolyn wasn’t savvy sufficient to assist her take Rob out. As an alternative, she vowed to banish Carolyn and get one other traitor on board to assist her oust Rob.
After being a bit of too apparent on the riddle problem by throwing the shields she earned at everybody however herself, Danielle made her first transfer in opposition to Carolyn by telling Dylan Efron, Wes Bergmann, Ivar Mountbatten, and Chrishell Stause that she had cause to suspect her as a traitor. Dylan, in flip, determined that was data Carolyn wanted to know. Ruh roh.
In essence, then, Rob did handle to focus on a traitor and switch the opposite two in opposition to each other immediately, all whereas inspiring Danielle to make herself all too apparent by giving different folks all of the shields she earned within the each day. Nonetheless, he additionally put a neon flashing gentle proper above his personal head for all the opposite faithfuls to see.
None of Danielle’s shiftiness on the riddle problem got here to bear on the roundtable. As an alternative, some lingering suspicions from earlier than about Nikki Garcia drove but one other elimination of a devoted. However Rob was hardly hailed because the conquering hero he was the evening earlier than. As an alternative, he was namechecked by Bob Harper for being overly assured within the accusation of Bob the Drag Queen — constructing on a principle he was gently guided to by Wes Bergmann, no much less — who insisted it’d be the last word traitor transfer to come back in and eradicate one other on day one to “set up dominance.”
Now it’s formally on the market as a principle, and Derrick Lavasseur is able to shout it from the rooftops. In the meantime, the traitors are all in disarray and disunion. This doesn’t appear promising, even with tat tableside speech about all of the behavior-based causes Rob focused Bob TDQ the final time.
The excellent news? Boston Rob’s transfer has doubtlessly modified the dynamic for traitor circles, presumably ceaselessly. Whereas earlier than, traitors protected each other by default on a vow of secrecy, now all bets are off … and the finger-pointing can occur to anybody.
So will Rob’s huge transfer flip the home in opposition to him? Or will Danielle’s suspicious conduct on the each day problem have folks questioning her as a substitute? Or will the gamers proceed to focus on faithfuls, like Ciara Miller? Tell us your predictions within the feedback under!
Traitors, Thursdays, 9/8c, Peacock