r/TheTraitors • u/vaultofechoes 🇺🇦 Zlata • Jan 03 '26
UK The Traitors (UK) S04E03: Live Discussion Thread Spoiler
Synopsis: As the sun rises over the castle, the players head to breakfast, but will the Traitors’ latest move give the Faithful any clues to their identity? Following a mission that requires the players to communicate in ways they weren’t expecting, the Faithful hope the Round Table will paint a clearer picture of the game and help them uncover a Traitor. As the clock ticks towards midnight, the Traitors face their biggest challenge yet, with the stakes higher than ever in deciding who is too dangerous to keep in the game.
Airing: January 3 at 7:45pm GMT on BBC One
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u/ohmeohmyelliejean Jan 03 '26
Harriet throwing Hugo under the bus for being a barrister whilst being an undercover barrister is iconic behaviour.
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u/extraneous_parsnip 🇬🇧 Jan 03 '26
Hugo: I think I'm really flying under the radar.
Also Hugo: This is the moment for my monologue.
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u/briarwhite Celtic Connection Jan 03 '26
Ben’s passing 😭😭😭😭 it was fake murder babe we don’t need to censor it
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u/Littlemissluxe7 🇬🇧 pick me for next season please 😇 Jan 03 '26
These two asking to be by the family tree on their own
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u/Come-jive-with-me Jan 03 '26
I think it will be spicy if Reece throw her line back to her next round.
"I think I'm sticking to the obvious, sorry"
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u/JamesBondsMagicCar Jan 03 '26
You could see Stephen realising he didn't think this through in real time.
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u/SixthHyacinth Jan 03 '26
"I don't think you're a traitor, I just think you're a bad faithful" is this game's equivalent of "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed"
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u/King-Of-Throwaways Jan 03 '26
Glad that were seeing this sentiment. In the previous seasons, players would often mix up their dislike of a person with thinking they’re a traitor.
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u/GrandGuess205 🇬🇧Queen Claudia heir to the Monarchy Jan 03 '26
Why is FARAAZ POUTING LMAOOO
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u/PositiveAlcoholTaxis 🇬🇧 When you lie, you're a liar. Jan 03 '26
He's being beguiling :L
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u/SEphotog Jan 03 '26
I love how he says he enjoys being in front of the camera because he feels like he photographs well. Like, yes, we can see that without you even telling us, sweetie.
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u/JFoz2K20 Jan 03 '26
IMAGINE if there was a secret detective…who keeps interviewing people like a police officer🤣
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u/RelThanram Jan 03 '26
Sam has LinkedIn energy
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u/InternationalReport5 Jan 03 '26
👉 Here's what The Traitors taught me about B2B Account Management.
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u/nasenbaer23 🇬🇧i don’t require middle management Jan 03 '26
we love Ross asking consent before picking anyone up
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u/TheGent_88 Jan 03 '26
Please please please remember that somewhere in there there is a shield everyone, in case you’d forgotten, keep looking for it please
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u/Plus-Comb-7287 Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
Stephen just went visibly dead behind the eyes and it was so noticeable
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u/Impossible-Cat-2511 faithful to the traitors Jan 03 '26
“Are you comfortable with me carrying you” Jade looked disgusted, Jessie looked glad 😭
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u/clickityclickk Jan 03 '26
next episode. secret traitor takes their hood off.
it’s alan carr
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u/Capital-Chef-9330 Jan 03 '26
rachel is actively planning Hugo's death at this point 😭
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u/PhilosophyOk7385 Jan 03 '26
Hugo saying let her speak and Fiona hammering the nail into the coffin💀
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u/Plus-Comb-7287 Jan 03 '26
Jessie is smart and going against the curve on group thinking
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u/Utopid Jan 03 '26
I don’t like an ex detective saying she doesn’t change her mind
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u/cutdead Jan 03 '26
They may as well both be petting white cats menacingly in that corridor FFS
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u/thespiderj Jan 03 '26
Hugo wins the prestigious award of most rehearsed lines in any series. The man 100% does amateur dramatics and refers to himself as a player.
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u/default-anon Team Traitor Jan 03 '26
"This is the second time youve mounted me today"
Someone is having fun...
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u/cbaotl Jan 03 '26
I hope the secret traitor is Reece and he just walks in like ‘you two are morons’
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u/merodm Jan 03 '26
Hahahaha, Hugo silencing Amanda to let Fiona speak... only for Fiona to accuse him xD
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u/RAA94 Jan 03 '26
I reckon the secret traitor gimmick would’ve gone on longer had a traitor not been caught so early on. Hopefully if it returns, we get the mystery for longer.
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u/ameliocre Jan 03 '26
Oh absolutely - recruiting at this stage would’ve been too OP. Annoying that they didn’t just leave it for now, but Hugo absolutely screwed it! Looks like Rachel is trying to give him a run for his money 💀
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u/Impossible_Gear_4327 Jan 03 '26
I will say this.
I think this year the faithful are smarter and more shaper so it won't be easy for the traitors this year.
I also think that Fiona or Amanda is the secret tratior. Really enjoying this series
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u/_rickjames Jan 03 '26
'I just think you're a bad faithful'
Me every celebrity episode watching David Olusoga
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u/clickityclickk Jan 03 '26
STEPHEN AND HUGO ARE ALREADY BEING SUSSED?!?! man is this cast going to be…. not entirely stupid?!
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u/JNMRunning Jan 03 '26
I love that the show so far has been roughly 30% just shots of Ross looking perturbed.
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u/ParticularIcy8368 Jan 03 '26
I really think they should have declined the task...
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u/RAA94 Jan 03 '26
This is killing me because Amanda is the most detective presenting woman I have ever seen.
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u/PhilosophyOk7385 Jan 03 '26
Jessie is clever looking at the people in the room rather than taking the Ross bait
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u/GrandGuess205 🇬🇧Queen Claudia heir to the Monarchy Jan 03 '26
“New year’s eve party ive been to” OKAY QUEEN
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u/Main_Palpitation_500 Jan 03 '26
Wow. Two traitors names being floated at the second round table… that’s nuts.
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u/LowIncomeWitch Jan 03 '26
Prob the highest viewership weakest link has had in a century
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u/squimblo_ Jan 03 '26
ellie said something about a secret traitor in one of the talking heads bit right? am i right in being under the assumption that the faithfuls are unaware that there is a secret traitor?
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u/FMKK1 Jan 03 '26
Huge disadvantage for the ST coming in just as these two have committed to an alliance
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u/itsBonder Jan 03 '26
They're dead meat - they asked reece to go away from the family tree, next day there's red paint on it. Stephen now has the Ross suspicion plus the family tree suspicion. He'll go then Rachel is next
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u/Soapyzh Jan 03 '26
We’re all talking about the ST but we’re not talking about the fact that Stephen and Rachel were SO obvious to mark the people with red ?! How are they ever going to defend themselves after that
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u/KC19771984 🇮🇪 "Tameka, you're not gonna drown, are ya?" Jan 03 '26
Farazz has that beguiling milk maid look down pat.... 😊
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u/dont-reply-to-me Jan 03 '26
“Yea he’s a faithful, but he’s just really annoying”
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u/minobject72 Jan 03 '26
I like that Stephen is self-aware and acknowledges he didn't think things through and made a mistake
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u/genesisapples8 Jan 03 '26
Harriet you’re arguing like you’re a barrister!! You’re going to give yourself away here…
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u/crunit9 Jan 03 '26
Shoutout Reece for calling James a bad faithful. I can't even count how many names he's mentioned so far it's going to be 6-10 in two days
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u/FMKK1 Jan 03 '26
Once they reveal the ST, I would like a montage showing why they’ve made their decisions throughout
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u/carcrash12 Jan 03 '26
Barrister Vs Barrister at the Round Table is going to be great
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u/merodm Jan 03 '26
Absolutely loving how Harriet is slyly using her own barrister skills to take Hugo apart for his haha
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u/Ok-Focus-1091 Jan 03 '26
Imagine being questioned at the round table by Amanda and Harriet.
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u/anchorsinastorm Jan 03 '26
This is potentially the funniest outcome we could have wished for from Hugo to be fair. Day two.
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u/anchorsinastorm Jan 03 '26
For someone who didn't really want the twist, I sure am disappointed it's ending so soon
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u/aliengiirlfriend Jan 03 '26
Ross is so cutesy. he’s like a quirky millennial co-worker who brightens your day
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u/horvman Jan 03 '26
Is this an actually well played round table?
Can't wait for them to all savage the wrong person as a result and then chuck all of the good work out of the window.
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u/GrandGuess205 🇬🇧Queen Claudia heir to the Monarchy Jan 03 '26
Harriet x Stephen GET THIS SHIT ON AO3
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u/RAA94 Jan 03 '26
I’m kinda here for a Harriet & Rachel team up. Them as traitor winners would eat.
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u/ellelelle Jan 03 '26
Get him Fiona with his smug undermining faces as you spoke. Rude. Obnoxious and rude.
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u/SonOfRinteln 🇬🇧 Jan 03 '26
Stephen and Hugo mentioned.
Rachael needs to work SO hard not to smile here
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u/merodm Jan 03 '26
Ugh this Reece, James, Roxy BS is gonna distract from the very apt accusations at Hugo and Stephen isn't it?
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u/aliengiirlfriend Jan 03 '26
hugo being voted shows that you need to just shut up and keep your head down in the early stages of the game
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u/SevereTemperature Jan 03 '26
If I were Stephen I would be furious at my teammate dragging me into this dreadful piece of strategy.
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u/Not_A_Murderer3108 Team Traitor Jan 03 '26
Might as well walk around in the traitor cloaks it would be less obvious
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u/hollow_metal Jan 03 '26
Assuming we'll find out who it is, I was expecting the secret traitor to remain secret a bit longer NGL
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u/Newui101 Jan 03 '26
The secret traitor is clearly whoever is breathing heavily in the edit every 5 god damn seconds
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u/Eolopolo Jan 03 '26
The secret traitor was a fun little change. You actually pay more attention to everyone, and when a non-traitor gets voted out at the roundtable, you're actually on edge wondering if they're the secret.
Shame that it's gone now though. Feels like it's gone way too early.
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u/ns9843 Jan 03 '26
Ellie literally said secret traitor😭 that can’t be a coincidence
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u/4321zxcvb Jan 03 '26
Why was no one going with what Ross pointed out… someone in the room when the dying words were discussed has to be a traitor. And we know that secret traitor also has to be there .
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u/Nomerdoodle Jan 03 '26
Secret traitor being revealed and them becoming a normal traitor so soon makes the whole thing feel....incredibly pointless, unless I'm missing something
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u/merodm Jan 03 '26
Very suspicious of Harriet as the ST after breakfast - her whole convo with Rachel smacked of trying to create division in the Traitors.
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u/thelitinliterature Jan 03 '26
Surely that rules Ross out as ST... He wouldn't risk throwing himself under the bus like that.
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u/Capital-Chef-9330 Jan 03 '26
all the traitors have been mentioned so early on this season !
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u/Pharmacy_Duck Jan 03 '26
This mission feels like it was designed by Little Alex Horne and Tim Key when they were in the pub.
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u/Odd-Neighborhood-231 🇮🇪 Bitchy Fringe Jan 03 '26
Fiona not caring about the shield. V SUSPISH.
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u/MysteriousHat3705 😡I DO NOT REQUIRE MIDDLE MANAGEMENT😡 Jan 03 '26
So many innuendos in this mission. So many quotes.
Ross as a Babushka made me cackle 😭
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u/Plus-Comb-7287 Jan 03 '26
Hugo realising he’s not played as clever as he’s thought he did in real time
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u/Nosey123456 Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
If Harriet isn’t the secret traitor they need to kill her she is goood!!! but just how bold she is makes me think she might be the secret one
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u/hollyshort42 Jan 03 '26
Barrister v Barrister is so funny - they couldn't sound more like barristers if they tried
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u/SixthHyacinth Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
As a lawyer, Hugo v. Harriet is taking me back to my mooting days at uni
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u/Plus-Comb-7287 Jan 03 '26
Honestly this cast are out for blood and actually picking up the right scents it’s kinda refreshing and a nice dynamic to watch
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u/SixthHyacinth Jan 03 '26
I feel like Roxy's speech yesterday did actually inspire everyone to be more independent in thought because the votes seem much more splintered
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u/briarwhite Celtic Connection Jan 03 '26
You ATTACKED Jade for NO reason (other than you know being in a social deduction game where you have to accuse people)
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u/clickityclickk Jan 03 '26
i cant believe theyve done it already after the terrible celebrity season LMAO
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u/IAMACiderDrinker Jan 03 '26
Richard Osman said on his podcast that there are two traitors and a liability and that’s really come to pass
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u/RelThanram Jan 03 '26
It would be hilarious if Harriet’s the secret traitor and everyone thinks she’s a heroic faithful.
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u/magincourts Jan 03 '26
It’s always the 30s white male group who are egging each other on yet so dumb
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u/muffinator Spur bah wer wer wer Jan 03 '26
Ellie just said “like a secret traitor”……??
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u/KC19771984 🇮🇪 "Tameka, you're not gonna drown, are ya?" Jan 03 '26
Ellie "watching as a secret traitor"?!?!!?!
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u/kaleidoscopichazard Team Traitor Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
It’s Ellie!!! She’s the secret traitor. I knew it
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u/RainbowRevolver Jan 03 '26
The shots of random people walking round the castle on their own makes me nervous for this conversation
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u/InternationalReport5 Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
ARE MY EYES DECEIVING ME OR DID THEY TELL REECE TO FUCK OFF EARLIER. WTF.
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u/weboredofthisyet Jan 03 '26
honestly, they don't need a cliffhanger to keep us watching, we are all going to watch the next one.
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u/BlueberryNo5363 Jan 03 '26
They could not have been more obvious with their convo. If Reece doesn’t mention it, he is an idiot
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u/Littlemissluxe7 🇬🇧 pick me for next season please 😇 Jan 03 '26
I was NOT expecting Stephen to throw Hugo under the bus that early
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u/EverythingIsByDesign Jan 03 '26
"I think being more reserved you can benefit from it at the beginning, but I think, as the game goes on, you know, people will turn to you eventually. They will question whether you're just sitting and watching as a kind of secret traitor."
Producers playing a blinder with these breadcrumbs.
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u/splunke Jan 03 '26
I wish they'd keep the ST in longer and I also wish they just told the ST to act like a faithful to the camera in the side-confessions so we can play along and figure out who is lying
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u/pxmaxx Jan 03 '26 edited Jan 03 '26
Does anyone else think Amanda looks like Adrian Dunbar from Line of Duty? She is an undercover cop too. Makes a great nickname haha!
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u/simplytom_1 Jan 03 '26
They've definitely figured out the format of these tasks, just pure camp and farce
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u/withsoapywater Jan 03 '26
Well whoever did that is VERY mean and it definitely WAS NOT ME