‘The Traitors: New Blood’: Bribes Stir Up Doubt Among the Faithful

The Traitors: New Blood features 22 reality TV novices all vying for $250,000, and they’ll do anything to get it, especially murder. New bribes in challenges brings up doubt among Faithfuls.

New Blood, hosted by Alan Cumming, is the same Traitors that fans know and love, but this time it isn’t celebrities entering the house. There are still challenges, banishments, and murders, but no one knows each other, and they all have a fresh start.

The contestants compete in challenges to raise the prize pot of up to $250,000. There will be Traitors picked, and they will murder a contestant. Then, the Faithfuls will try to banish the Traitors. If Faithfuls are left at the end, they split the money. However, if a Traitor is amongst them, they will take the whole pot.

The cast includes Abbey Benjamin, Abby Lee, Arisa Thomas, Ben McDonnell, Clyde Moser, Jay Vinnedge, Joe Vanella, Katie Fites, Kim Daily, Kriste Lewis, Logan Smith, Madeline Kostopulos, Mark Zgoda, Michael Foote, Morgan Cook, Niyyah Hayes, Shane Beatty, Sherry Kuehl, Tomica Adams, Victor Vollbrechthausen, Wyatt Gillespie, and Xavier Scruggs.

Read on to find out who the Traitors are, who was murdered and banished and more. Warning: Spoilers for Episodes 3 and 4 of The Traitors: New Blood ahead!

Episode 1

James and Oliver Phelps (Harry Potter) raised the flag at the Scottish Highlands castle, signaling the new season. When Cumming introduced himself to the new cast, he told them that for every Traitor they sniff out and banish, an extra $15,000 will be added to the prize pot.

The Traitors: Joe, the funeral director, and Tomica, a pilot, were chosen as the Traitors. They were both excited to be in that position.

“One more player will soon join them. When? You’ll just have to wait and see,” Cumming said.

For the challenge, the contestants had to search crates in the water. The three with treasure chests in them were worth $10,000 each. They needed to find those chests, figure out how to open them, and bank them. The chests also contained part of a code that opened the Captain’s Safe. If they found that, an additional $20,000 could be banked. There were also three shields up for grabs. They banked the $50,000.

Shields: Victor, a business executive, Madeline, a construction manager, and Abby L, an astrophysicist, obtained safety with the shields.

Before the Traitors could murder their first victim, they had to choose two more Faithfuls to join them. “For the next 24 hours, they will be put through a series of tests to see if they have what it takes to impress you as a Traitor,” Cumming let them know. “At the end of that period, you will select one of them to join you. As for the other, they will face the cruelest of cuts, as you will murder them.”

Episode 2

The Accomplice Traitors: Xavier and Katie

The Traitor accomplices met with a masked “murder victim.” The victim was put in a coffin and sent down the river.

Murdered: Kim, a lawyer, from Houston, Texas

Banished: Madeline (Faithful) with 13 votes (Victor received seven and Kristie received one)

Blame was placed on Victor for going for a shield right away and Madeline for saying, “I feel bad for picking Kim.” Plus, they hung out together all the time and seemed to have developed crushes.

Accomplice Traitors Task: Katie and Xavier had to find the identical Crime and Punishment books in the castle that contained death warrants. Then, they had to deliver them to the Traitors in the turret face-to-face that night. If they failed to retrieve a warrant, they would be murdered.

They both tried to grab the warrant and nearly got caught. Find out who becomes the next Traitor and who gets murdered in Episode 3 next Thursday.

Episode 3

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The accomplices came face to face with the Traitors. Xavier and Katie both obtained the Death Warrant, meaning The Traitors had to choose who to take on and who to Murder.

Murdered: Xavier

New Traitor: Katie

Challenge: The cast had to find the crypts and claim the gold by maneuvering a ram around the grounds and ramming into it in order to add $30,000 to their prize pot. Morgan and Arisa entered the first crypt and got $5,000.

Tomica and Clyde entered the second one. They had the option to take $10,000 or take $5,000 and give one of them a shield. Tomica let Clyde take the shield.

Michael and Dan entered the third one. They had the choice to take $15,000 or $5,000 along with secret Traitor information. They agreed to take the clue. The clue was “Last night, two players battled in plain sight to become a Traitor.” They banked $15,000 out of $30,000.

Players were suspicious of Arisa and Victor, as well as Katie. Niyyah pointed out that Arisa and Victor did a truth test and asked him if he was a Traitor. He said no, and she thought that was the recruitment in plain sight.

Kriste asked if Xavier could have been one, and he lost the battle, and maybe that’s why he’s not there anymore. The episode ended on a cliffhanger after Joe asked Jay whether he saw anyone’s body language change after admitting he was a body language expert.

Episode 4

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When the episode began, Jay said he’d been having a tough day, so he couldn’t get a read on anybody. But others were pointing to Victor.

Banished: Arisa (Faithful) with 13 votes (Michael received one, Victor received six)

Murdered: Logan

Challenge: The players had to carry barrels of gold worth $24,000 through gates and figure out how to open them to get to the end of the trail. The Death Parade would be following behind them. Any of the players that the Death Parade caught would be short-listed for murder. Each gate was met with a sign that led to challenges, like leaving people behind.

Victor, Morgan, Mark, and Niyyah were left behind. Tomica and Kriste joined the cart on the second one. Sherry, Joe, Abby L, and Clyde all stayed back.

The show ended with the round table, but no one was banished yet. The episode ended with Jay accusing Katie of being a Traitor.

The Traitors: New Blood, Thursdays, 8/7c, NBC, stream next day on Peacock