(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

Rachel is married with children. She also wears a wedding ring.

Totally agree with this - his superiority complex was what made me dislike him in the first place!

My vote is Ellie, Sam or the older civil servant lady for secret traitor but honestly have no clue! Have enjoyed it as a twist though!

Oh.ok.

Curveball...what if Amanda's partner is Judy!

Wow. That would be quite a twist.

• I think Ellie and Ross are in a relationship
• I think the ST will operate as a traitor (not an undercover faithful) therefore, knowing that they will be brought into the traitor fold at some point….they wouldn’t vote for Hugo, as the traitors would then never trust them and they would be in danger from the off. That narrows it down a bit to : Amanda, James, Jade, Reece, Roxy and Ross

I think that’s already been discounted, as they live in different parts of the country.

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And it can’t be Reece or James as they have been shortlisted for murder.

This is Hugo at work.

As well as saying that he works on financial matters and complex criminal investigations, it also says Hugo is committed to working pro bono for just causes and is a long-standing supporter of human rights charity, Amnesty International.

I would have liked it if he’d stayed in longer.

They say they do.

I went on a careers open day about becoming a tax inspector. Someone asked the person running it how they replied if they were asked what their job was. He said, “Civil servant”.

The main consensus elsewhere online seems to be that Harriet is the secret traitor, and she saw an opportunity to lead the charge against a known (to her) traitor to cement her place as a very good and committed faithful in the eyes of the actual faithful.
Makes sense, but I've no idea really.

Yes and I thought it was interesting when she said "barristers don't look for clues though, the police do that. Barristers just get a brief" - or something along those lines. Is that a detail people would think of/know? I suspected she's worked at CPS or something...

I don't think the fact that Ellie mentioned the phrase 'secret traitor' means much. People do sometimes say things that seem meaningful because we know what is going on but are actually random.

Also, Zach in series 2 got kudos because of his mother and son theory but he wrote on Reddit that he had the theory in part because when he was being short listed the production team asked if his mum wanted to take part.

We don't know what clues intelligent people pick up from the interview process.

dont know if anyone has said this, but I think Amanda and Hugo are brother and sister or something like that. Just the way they went for each other was suspicious imo
I am also now leaning towards Fiona as the secret traitor.

I’m going for Roxy as the secret traitor. I felt it straight away when her mother was dumped out.

They are from completely different parts of the UK.

This programme always has 'secrets'. Hers is her job.

That theory would only hold out if the ST had known they would join the other Traitors eventually which I don’t think they did.

I actually wish they'd scrap the "secret relationship" thing. It undermines the idea of a group of total strangers meeting each other and apart from S1, which is the only one where there's never been any metagaming because it was the first one, it never leads into anything interesting or worthwhile.

... What if the secret traitor is someone we haven't met yet?

Like a completely new contestant?

Surely not. They didn't leave anyone behind at the last moment this time to bring in midway through the game.

Surely that was a major mistake that will come back to bite them. Even if a connection between the person murdered and the red dots isn't made, simply the fact that Rachel needed "private time" with Stephen and didn't include Reece was very clumsy.

I don't see how they could do it without direct knowledge of the individual participants.

Did anyone else see that? If not, just murder Reece and the track is covered. The ST won't be providing a shortlist so there are no restrictions.

Isn't she a local government officer? If so, she may well have become familiar with the way barristers work if she has had any involvement in litigation, e.g. planning disputes, child care proceedings, housing claims or defending judicial review claims in social care and education.

My husband is a barrister and as soon as Harriet started going at Hugo, I think it was so obvious she’s got that sort of background (although maybe that’s just because we knew/I’ve got a good insight into what barristers are like!).

I will also say, my husband is a force to be reckoned with in court (watching him do Zoom court during lockdown was eye opening!) but he’s dreadful at defending himself when we argue. I think they have to see things at work as being totally impersonal and stay disconnected, whereas when it’s about them, it’s a lot harder to do that.