We knew we were in for a doozy of an episode of The Traitors this week when Danielle posted a warning on her Twitter. She wrote, “Tomorrow’s episode is going to be crazy. To my fans…I’m so sorry.”
After watching The Traitors Season 3, Episode 9, “A Silent Assasin,” we completely understand why she said that. This week’s episode was a roller coaster ride of emotions, and it’s going to take some time to fully recover.
Last week, the players banished Ciara from the castle, finally putting a nail in their coffin theory after five episodes of obsessing over it. Then, Danielle and Carolyn were given the opportunity to kill or invite another Traitor into the turret. It’s all tempting, but with only nine players left in the game, any decision they make will have a massive impact.
What happened in The Traitors Season 3, Episode 9?
In the turret, Carolyn and Danielle weighed their options on whether they wanted to recruit or murder. Then, a chess-themed mission brings cameo appearances from Parvarti Shallow and Kate Chastain. At the roundtable, a Traitor on Traitor fight leaves the players stunned, and after this week’s banishment, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room. Keep on reading for the full play-by-play on Episode 9!
To murder or seduce?
Episode 9 kicked off with Danielle and Carolyn once again locking horns over how to move forward in the game. Danielle really wanted to bring in another Traitor, specifically Britney. Meanwhile, Carolyn recognized how tragic that would be for her endgame. She just wanted to murder and keep it moving.
Eventually, Carolyn got her way. There was no possibility of letting Danielle bring in someone else. They already had to deal with Bob and Rob. Why add more drama to the turret?
Danielle might have agreed to go with Carolyn’s idea to murder, but it’s clear that these two still haven’t found their footing. The only thing they can agree on is the fact that they aren’t on the same page. It starts and stops there.
“Danielle doesn’t trust me, and I don’t trust Danille,” Carolyn admitted in a confessional. “It’s just a matter of who can get who first. That’s really all it is.”
Who got murdered in The Traitors Season 3, Episode 9?
At breakfast, we learned that the Traitors murdered Sam. Britney Spears’ ex-husband is officially out of the castle. Danielle and Carolyn felt like he was getting dangerous now that he finally started speaking. According to Sam, he saw it coming.
“I was sort of expecting this,” Sam admitted in his exit interview. “I had some good ideas around the roundtable.”
He continued, “I was getting good at it. The only way to get me out of the castle was to murder me.”
Although Sam didn’t win any money, he said he didn’t have any regrets about how he played the game. He had fun. He looked good doing it, and we finally got to learn a little bit more about the man who briefly stole Britney’s heart. He’s a winner in our eyes.
The dangerous game of chess
For this week’s mission, Alan brought the players out to a giant chessboard, where they were challenged to think like a Traitor. The night before, the Traitors took a quiz about the remaining players, and for the mission, the players had to try to guess their answers.
As Dylan pointed out, this presented a major opportunity to get intel about the Traitors and how they think. Plus, Kate and Parvarti showed up to give shady commentary and drink wine throughout the entire mission. It’s a win-win.
The first chess piece was a snake. They were asked, “Who is slithering under the radar?” The Traitors picked Britney, and so did the players. That was an easy $5,000 in the bank. However, things got trickier on the next question.
The piece was a skull, and the question was, “Who is the biggest threat to the Traitors?” Immediately, Sandoval nominated himself because, of course. Meanwhile, Dylan kept his mouth shut because he was watching everyone else like a hawk. The correct answer ended up being Britney, so that round was a fail.
The third piece was a wolf. The Traitors were asked, “Who is the leader of the pack?” The Traitors picked Tom, but the players wound up picking Dylan. This is when Carolyn started getting into some trouble.
The Survivor alum had her eyes on the money, so she wanted to get everyone to vote correctly. She tried to push everyone to vote for Tom, and when that answer turned out to be right, Dylan picked up on it.
Then, the final question really put a spotlight on Carolyn. The piece was a mouse, and they were asked, ”Who’s voice is the most irrelevant?”
Of course, Carolyn volunteered herself. She’s always talking about how no one listens to her. When that turned out to be the correct answer, you could see the lightbulb go off in Dylan’s head. It only took nine episodes, but he’s finally clued into Carolyn.
Danielle and Carolyn face off at the roundtable
Back at the castle, it becomes extremely clear that the roundtable is going to come down between Danielle and Carolyn. They’re the only names floating around, and they were both working overtime to plant seeds of suspicion with the other players. At the roundtable, it all came to the surface.
Ivar started things off by reminding the players that there were probably two women Traitors left in the game. Then, Carolyn took the floor and tried to call out Danielle’s traitorous behavior.
“Okay, Danielle,” Carolyn began. “I’ve made this point before, and I’ll make it again. As a Faithful, what is the point to lie?”
Carolyn was still harping on the moment a few episodes ago when Danielle told Britney that she had been saying her name. In her mind, that was the smoking gun that Danielle was a Traitor. Unfortunately, Danielle had a lot more ammo in her arsenal.
“You do this thing where you act dumb,” Danielle told Carolyn before comparing her to Columbo.
The Columbo reference didn’t land for anyone in the room under 50, but the rest of her argument resonated. Still, Carolyn pushed back. With tears in her eyes, she tried to convince the other players that her personality wasn’t an act. It was intense, and the rest of the layers just kind of sat back and watched them rip each other to shreds.
Who got banished in The Traitors Season 3, Episode 9?
When the votes started rolling in, did anybody else have to get up out of their seat? This one was a real nail-biter, and it started with Carolyn. She voted for Danielle, and Ivar voted for Carolyn. Then, out of nowhere, Dolores voted for Tom.
You might have thought that the Real Housewives of New Jersey star had just delivered the most ridiculously misguided vote of the night, only until Tom turned around and voted for “Delores.”
The remaining players kept things tied. Danielle and Britney voted for Carolyn, and Gabby voted for Danielle. So, it all came down to Dylan, who wound up voting for Carolyn.
The Survivor alum became the third Traitor banished from Season 3, and the room was flooded with tears. We thought Bob the Drag Queen gave a good speech after getting banished, but Carolyn might have just secured the show another Emmy.
“Every day, I am judged because of who I am, my differences, my quirks. I didn’t want to connect with a lot of you because I am an emotional person,” Carolyn said through tears.
“Playing this game, it’s not easy for me,” she continued. “I just wanted to have fun, but I have to get real with myself. Being a Traitor isn’t fun.”
With that reveal, the room broke out into applause. Danielle fell out on the floor and started shaking like she caught the Holy Ghost. It was triumphant, but Alan eventually had to wrangle the players back into their seats.
The last Traitor standing
So, it’s official. Danielle is the last Traitor standing in Season 3, but her face-off with Carolyn might have made that painfully obvious to the rest of the players. Gabby said that it was giving her flashbacks to when Bob and Rob went after each other. Way to put together the pieces, Gabby!
In the turret, Alan joined Danielle to tell her that, per the rules, she had to recruit another player to the dark side. That person can either join the Traitors or die.
Unsurprisingly, Danielle chose Britney. The two were literally crying to each other earlier in the episode about how badly they wanted to be at the finish line together. But will Britney accept the invitation? We’ll find out next week!
The Traitors Season 3 is streaming on Peacock. New episodes drop on Thursdays at 9/8c.
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