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

[CaveMum]

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

I’m going to ignore the people trying to derail the thread.
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Back to sleuthing.

Roxy didn't. Rachel voted for Ross. Amanda voted for Jade. I think there might have been a couple of other votes for other people. ETA I think someone voted for Adam.

I totally agree that Ross and Ellie could be a couple, even though I initially thought he was gay. They seemed to have a little private joke on the train about “Oh you live in London too” smirk.

People claim that Ellie grimaced when Netty “mounted” Ross outside. Then he acted all weird about her.

I think Roxy is ST. Netty was very vocal about Judy so she was on the list, the others voted Judy too. it makes sense that the ST is a woman, Roxy has had a lot of air time. It would not make sense for one of the twenty something white males to be ST as they just don’t stand out. Plus her own Mum thought she was a traitor on Uncloaked!

I like this cohort - even though I have no idea who is who - Matthew? Jack? Couldn’t pick them out of a line up! I feel last year’s cast we’re getting a bit Love Island influencer type, these feel more down to earth. Although we will get the usual order of banishment/murder - ethnic minorities and older women.

We will be left with the Sam/Jack/Jim Bob people at the end.

Roxy voted for James, I think

I'm really finding it confusing having Ross and Rachel (and Ben) in this series, I keep thinking of Friends!

Wonder if the ST themself is getting guidance from production on whom to pick for the murder list? It's quite clear, as PPs have pointed out, that putting down the same name more than once is a smart move.

I disagree with what most seem to think of Fiona - that she's smarter than she looks/acts. I could believe that Fiona herself thinks she's super-smart and is covering it up, but I suspect she's deluding herself on that front. 😄

In any case, how many times have we seen genuinely smart people confounded by this game? Numerous.

I started keeping a list, pic attached, and then found an even better website which also lists the murder list people, people shielded etc. it’s got a lot of ads but the table is worth scrolling down to.

https://thetraitorsuk.fandom.com/wiki/Series_4#Voting_History

So much hinges on the edit we see.

I agree I think Ross and Ellie are a couple.

Society - we are a racist and misogynistic bunch.

They say oh I have a feeling. Yes it’s one you should ignore!

Hopefully the BBC have cottoned onto it and have a person of colour as the secret traitor.

It’s so clearly obvious. You could pick the running order by their attributes nothing to do with behaviours.

No, because only three people voted for people whose name didn't start with a J. Those voters were Judy (who was banished), Rachel (who is a known traitor), and Reece (who has just been put on the murder shortlist). There are only 13 candidates for ST at this point because of the original 22 players, 2 are dead/banished, 3 are known traitors, and 4 other have been on the shortlist (Maz twice).

I haven't read the whole thread so this may have been said - I think Hugo and Harriet are siblings. Their face shape is very similar on the cast line up photos. Harriet's wiki page leads to her father's and that says that she has a brother but no details.

I think there could be lots of connections given the Who's Who and family tree shots.

Also someone said Amanda could be Judy's partner which I agree - Roxy took them both aside early on to chat about Judy's name coming up and Amanda defended her almost as strongly as Roxy at the round table.

Has anyone wondered about why Reece voted for Adam? Utterly out of the blue and never previously discussed.

Don’t know what it means but worthy of comment!

I am a wallflower if I don't know anyone, but once people start getting introduced I become very chatty, sometimes to the point of annoying people. Then I become aware of this and think "oops, you're taking over all the conversations" and try to step back a bit.

I can easily imagine that Judy gave herself a talking to after the introductions. Everyone in the castle will have been overthinking their "strategy" for weeks after finding out that they're going to be on the show. They want to stay under the radar, but not so far under the radar that people notice that they never say anything.

Actually, probably the one quality that people ought to cultivate is trying to look a bit stupid, so as not to appear to be a threat to anyone. Alan Carr got a huge pass in the celeb version by being goofy. Meanwhile Stephen Fry, who was the most (outwardly) insightful player, got voted off quite early. In this series I think Amanda might go quite early, when the groupthink gets going, even if she is a faithful.

... and six hours later, Reece is on the murder shortlist... 🤔 paging @CaveMum ...

Did seem a bit random.

DD is just rewatching Ep1. Apparently the camera lingered briefly on a book in the library titled "Who's Who".

In my mind, this might support the theory that there's lots of secret relationships amongst the contestants (I assume it won't explicitly list out the traitors).

It did and I think the spine read 'Who's Who 1934' possibly/maybe!

But doesn't Amanda live in Brighton? And Judy lives in Yorkshire somewhere? Maybe I've got that wrong and Judy could be from Yorkshire originally but living down south now.

I think you can't place too much store by things like guilty looks or big characters as that's pretty much just the editing. For all we know one of the others we've hardly seen might be a big joker or really insightful and figuring out a lot more than we get shown.

Someone said in the thread earlier that when it’s being edited, they mix conversations and furtive looks from different weeks up. That makes it very difficult to work out until half of them have been murdered or banished.

Hugo is from Cardiff and Harriet born and brought up in Scotland.

I really think we need to stop hunting for spurious connections!

Judy also has a husband so I think extremely unlikely to be involved with Amanda

Doesn't stop them being cousins or something though.

There's a lot of people who have lost the plot with suspicion on this thread making up potential ridiculous relationships.

I can well imagine that the actual contestants are even more bonkers in their paranoia!

See my above post!!!