Who Went Home on The Traitors Tonight? (February 20, 2025)
Two players went home tonight — and one was a Traitor!
This story contains spoilers for The Traitors Season 3, Episode 9
As expected in this week’s episode of The Traitors, the clash of the Traitor titans came to fruition at the dreaded Round Table.
The distrustful ladies of the turret — Carolyn Wiger (Survivor) and Danielle Reyes (Big Brother) — bickered over recruitment (no consensus) and who to murder, as neither of them expected to go to the end with one another (despite Danielle’s “promise” to the contrary).
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Instead, the episode shaped up to be a battle royale as the two women tapped into their tear ducts to convince the Faithfuls who was the “real” Traitor.
Here's everything that happened during the February 20 episode of The Traitors:
Parvati Shallow and Kate Chastain return to The Traitors
As promised in the early promos for this season, we finally got to see the return of two Traitors queens: Kate Chastain (Seasons 1 and 2) and Parvati Shallow (Season 2).
This week’s mission involved a human chess game. The Traitors were previously asked questions about the remaining players, and everyone on the gameboard had to guess the answers put forth by those still-unknown Traitors.
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Kate and Parvati watched the gameplay unfold before them as they got to sit on their thrones and assess the last eight players in action. Per usual, Kate was hilariously self-depricating about her gameplay as a Traitor, and Parvati had some keen observations, specifically about Tom Sandoval's ego, Dylan Efron's similarities to Season 2 surprise star Peter Weber, and Alan’s incredible headpiece.
In the end, the ladies made some witty comments and summoned Fergus for a wine refill, but ultimately got to sit back and watch the mission as the players added $10,000 to the final prize pot.
Who was eliminated on The Traitors tonight, Thursday, February 20, 2025?
This week’s turret conversation was fraught with bad feelings between an entirely distrustful Carolyn and a seemingly contrite Danielle.
Because of their rancor, they did not try to recruit Danielle’s choice of Britney Haynes (Big Brother); Carolyn was well aware they were allies and that adding Britney would certainly secure her own fast lane out of the show.
So, the pair discussed their options out of the remaining Faithful as the wisest choice to murder. Danielle ultimately deferred to Carolyn’s insistance that Sam Asghari was catching on to them as Traitors, so he needed to go. Not a bad call, and Sam acknowledged in the murder chair that he was expecting the move as he got more vocal at the Round Tables about his (pretty spot-on!) Traitor observations.
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When it came to the Round Table banishment, the game was on!
After the mission, Dylan walked away astutely noting how Carolyn’s answers on the chessboard were in alignment with what a Traitor would have likely answered. Literally the man in the middle of a friendship with Danielle and Carolyn, he keenly observed that both women could be a Traitor and it was going to “break his heart” to vote against them, or discover either are a Traitor.
Carolyn admitted going into the Round Table she felt like she wasn’t prepared with enough vote deflections, so she came out hot with proverbial double barrels pointed directly Danielle. She made the case that Faithfuls don’t have to lie and that she’s hasn’t in the game. Then, Danielle forcefully countered that she had lied about Britney and then proceeded to dominate the table, laying out her case for why Carolyn was the Traitor.
If you were awarding drama points alone, Danielle was collecting those like Pokémon this episode, even saying she was “scared” of Carolyn, calling her the "silent assassin," and explaining that’s why she never mentioned her as a possible Traitor because she knew doing so would get her Banished or Murdered.
And boy were there tears!
Carolyn stayed true to her quirky authenticity and made a last-ditch emotional plea to the Faithful that she hadn’t needed to lie during the game. Through her tears, she added that she was used to being ignored and not heard her whole life. And it seemed she almost swayed her peers, including Dylan, but established alliances were in Danielle’s favor because Britney and Dylan, the tie-break voter, ultimately sent Carolyn home.
And they were right! Carolyn was a Traitor. In her parting shot goodbye, Carolyn shared one last truth when she said, "I wanted to have fun but I have to get real…being a Traitor isn’t fun." The room erupted in victory and a fantastic player’s game came to an end.
Why did Danielle call Carolyn "Columbo"?
So… just one more thing before we end this. One of our favorite callouts in the episde came when Danielle was out amongst the players, laying breadcrumbs to persuade everyone that Carolyn was a Traitor.
She did a deep dive (and proved her Peacock subscription is up to date) when she floated her '70s procedural theory that Carolyn sure came across a lot like TV detective Columbo (played by the late, great Peter Falk). She said maybe Carolyn only acted clueless like Columbo, whose eponymous series ran for 10 seasons and followed the detective's case-of-the-week adventures. Detective Columbo would roll up on a crime scene, endear himself to the suspects with his faux cluelessness, and then reveal the big solve after some secretly cunning detective work.
Granted, only Ivar seemed to get Danielle's comparison, but that seemed to be enough to sway him: he voted for Carolyn, too.
New episodes of The Traitors Season 3 premiere on Peacock on Thursdays at 9/8c, with the season finale and reunion premiering on March 6.
All episodes of Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream right now on Peacock.
