(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

So many men in their 20s who look similar.

Surely they've all seen the first two episodes and know all about the secret traitor?

Aunt and Uncle are just a married couple tho, and a niece and nephew are just a brother and sister surely? Or am I missing the point?

Ab-so-lute-ly

I think the previous poster meant aunt / niece, aunt / nephew, uncle / niece or uncle / nephew relationships.

Yes this confused me so much as well! If everyone gets to actually see the portrait now with the bloody fingerprints on, surely Reece will be so suspicious, I don’t know what she was thinking.

Excited to see who ST is on the next episode but I’m also a little disappointed. It feels too quick for them to be revealed, and all a little pointless. I was really hoping for more banishments where we’d be on the edge of our seats, wondering if the person banished was the ST or not. And I think in the moment they’d say “I’m a traitor!” would be so exciting for us as viewers. Much more exciting than them just walking into the turret in their cloak in the next episode.

There's a mention upthread where someone says he's been on murder trials.

Yes I did!

I wonder if the producers sensed that the ST was about to become really obvious and so they had to do the reveal in the turret quickly. I was thinking that Harriet would be the obvious one for the traitors to murder next because she’s likely to win in round table discussions based on what they saw her say about Hugo. So if she wasn’t murdered would we all guess that she’s the ST. I don’t think she acts like the ST at all though!

I doubt it’s Ellie now as the producers surely wouldn’t leave that slip up of mentioning being a ST if it really was her.

I don’t know - I think Fiona would be too obvious as one as all the editing has hinted at her imo so might be a bit disappointed if it’s her. Currently back to thinking it’s Roxy.

Although someone replied to my earlier post saying Roxy hadn’t wanted to be a traitor so that possibly rules her out as well 🤣 I don’t remember her saying that though.

Can anyone remind me what Harriet has told the others about her career? I know she hasn't revealed the past barrister life but do they know she's a successful crime author?

In past series, it has been the production team who have altered pictures in the castle to reflect a murder/whatever, so if anyone does notice it, they won't necessarily assume it was the work of the traitors. We'll have to wait and see.

Didn't Linda alter a picture in the last series?

I know. Its really confusing. I cant get their names right.

I agree - about being disappointed about the ST reveal already. I looked that we (the viewers) were in the dark about someone. Makes you realise how hard they are to spot. Wonder if more twists to come then...

Did she? I don't remember that.

They finished filming in the summer they already know who the traitor is. They have to keep hush about it.

She had to write names onto headstones on a painting hung on the wall - the named individuals then had to take part in the death match card game.

What if amanda and rachel are a couple? I think amanda said she's gay ( or am i wrong ?)but i dont know what rachel's situation is. Has she mentioned a partner at all ? It's just now you mention the training for micro expressions that seems to chime with police work / communications / detection / spying etc. She is a cool cookie for sure.

Could the ST be someone who's slready been murdered and lied about bein g a faithful and is being brought back as their true traitor self....but that would be hard as they have all been interviewed by Ed.

Fiona is apparently a 'local government officer' in Swansea. So basically a civil servant then. The job title 'local government officer' could mean anything really, and she seems pretty sharp to me. Maybe she's a tax inspector with HMRC. Nobody would want to own up to that.😂

I'm seeing confident more than clever in Hugo tbh. I thought Harriet was exceptional.

Yes she's v bright

And measured. Loved the way she didn't lead with her suspicion about the over reaction at breakfast, but got him off-balance before deploying that.

Hugo's problem is he assumes he is so much cleverer than others that he can trick them with his awkward overkill acting. Non-barristers aren't all as dumb as he assumes!

She was pure brutal barrister when he tried to deflect (I can’t remember exactly with what now) and she calmly said that she didn’t even mention that. I imagine she was a difficult person to go up against. Her questioning was smooth and quiet, but deadly.