(Red) Cloak & Dagger: We’re All Being Played | Traitors 2026 - Thread 2

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Link to previous thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/5467284-traitors-2026-new-years-day?page=1

Stats as per this morning after Episode 1 - I’ll update it again after tonight’s episode.

Confirmed Traitors
Hugo
Rachel
Stephen

Confirmed Faithful
Netty
James
Maz

Secret Traitor Suspects (# of votes)
Fiona (13)
Ross (12)
Amanda (11)
Judy (11)
Roxy (8)
Jade (6)
Harriet (6)
Jessie (3)
Sam (3)
Jack (2)
Netty (2) - Not the ST
Ben (1)
Faraaz (1)

Interestingly, only 4 players have not been named as ST suspects at this point

Adam
Ellie
Matthew
Reece

Traitors can only murder faithful. So if someone is murdered then everyone knows they were faithful.

For those more visual learners (like me!)

Checking in late and trying to catch up reading this thread.
Probably won't be watching live tonight as we are travelling today - bugger!

I don't think the ultimatum comes in until very near the end or when there's only one traitor left.

Ooh thanks for that @beasmithwentworth
I'm going for Ellie or Jade!

Yes I've been thinking this. I also really think the ST is a woman as the handwriting looks very feminine to me (unless someone is doing a very good job of disguising their handwriting).

My top guess at the moment is Roxy, followed by Faraaz (assuming he's disguising his writing or just has feminine writing).

I think Fiona and Harriet are also possibilities but I'd be surprised then at all four traitors being white.

I have no idea who it is but if I had to choose my bet would be Jack I think.

ETA or Harriet.

Apparently from Sussex police according to DS.

He isn’t keeping a secret anymore, is my understanding. He had intended to keep his acquaintance with Netty a secret but she obviously blew that idea at the first opportunity and he then made a hash with his tenses and explanation.

And still lives in Brighton.

Ohh is she the one from Brighton. Probably not then as it’s quite a ldr Brighton to Yorkshire..

Sorry x post

I think the handwriting is a red herring as it’s likely to be by the production team.

Very invested in them all being connected to someone else, given the family tree and the latin inscription on it.

I have been thinking - if I was an original traitor, I don’t think I’d be quite as angry with the secret one as they are. I suppose having time to think about it you do realise they know you and you don’t know them and they could try to manoeuvre you out at the round table. But they all had such an immediate reaction. How did they have time to think that through?

I agree about the handwriting. Too simplistic a detail. When Ed G brought it up in uncloaked, from his notes, it was clearly not credible.

Amanda and the Ellie - GFs

Thanks for the explanation.

Seeing Netty seems to have completely thrown him. I hope he quickly recovers as I like him

As the traitors are hunting fur the ST and it seems likely the ST will be outed sooner than later, should the ST’s strategy not be eliminating the weakest ones. I know that’s harder at the beginning of the game.
The faithfuls who win are ultimately the weakest, most clueless, which never seems fair.
If I was ST, I’d repeat the same name on the list handed to the traitors to prolong them
realising that one name has never appeared on it.

Absolutely this. He was just doing that 'reality TV speaking in the present tense' thing .

I'm enjoying the new season but wonder if I'm now so preoccupied with secret traitor hunting I've forgotten that the game is about the faithful finding the main traitors too. I hope it's not a huge distraction as that's fun!

I've been googling. None of the articles relating to Amanda mention a partner. The traitors wiki links to her Insta which she's used to announce her traitors participation (so it's not stalking her back history) and that shows her with a female partner who isn't one of the other contestants.

Harriet reverts to herself as being a wife and mother in a couple of articles.

I also think the producers would want the ST to be someone who's more likely to stay in the game for a while, ie someone who's going to be good at staying under the radar, staying calm and not attracting suspicion.

I really don't think they'd pick someone who said they wanted to be faithful, which would rule out Jade. I don't think she'd be a good pick either, she acted quite defensively when Amanda brought her name up in the car, and acting defensively often doesn't get you very far.

I don't think they'd pick someone who's quite likely to make themselves stand out. Which for me would be Sam and Amanda as they just don't have flying under the radar personalities.

I'm convincing myself more and more of Roxy at the moment. Or Ellie. For some reason I really like the idea of it being Faraaz too, he seems like a nice guy.

Mad they voted about a black woman right off the bat.

There are 9 white guys- statistically the most dominant group. At this early stage they’re just randomly guessing pretty much so logically they’d have had the best chance guessing from that group- it’s more likely to be a white guy than a minority as that’s the most prevalent demographic.

I can see that putting this theory forward would possibly create a round table chat they couldn’t broadcast…

I think Nelly got murdered purely because of the Ross situation, and Judy because of the change in character theory which Sam proposed, and the others followed in a herd mentality. Possibly that makes Sam as racist (and double-so if he’s the ST), but doesn’t necessarily mean the others are. They were also two of the louder characters in there.

My boyfriend wonders if every single one of them in there is linked to another…like they’ve all come in as couples. I feel like I don’t believe this would happen but it’s interesting to consider!