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It doesn't always turn out quite as you had planned.

A bitter lesson that the Traitors had to learn the hard way.

At the castle, you have to be on your guard.

You never know who will stab you in the back.

Here in the tomb, the betrayed get to make their voices heard one last time.

How does Farao feel after Sara's emotional reasoning?

Why do I feel so damn strongly? I hate the Christian Democrats!

Thomas Bodström from the second season reveals secrets and insights.

I had to have it operated on urgently. It was just: Poof!

And as usual, we reveal who the Traitors are.

Welcome to "The Crypt."

The colorful Farao played a high-stakes game, and in the end, it fell apart.

After a tearful goodbye, it's time to make your voice heard one last time.

It felt like a dignified ending after Sara's wonderfully beautiful speech.

The experience would have been completely different without you, Farao.

Many of us probably feel that way.

She took the lead and started first.

Sara gave me the way out of this nightmare-

-that I really wanted to have.

She is incredibly warm, empathetic, and takes responsibility.

She is incredible.

-Welcome in, Farao. Have a seat. -Thank you.

-How are you? -I'm doing very well.

I'm doing very well. It feels really nice.

I got to do it exactly the way I wanted to do it.

I walked in with my head held high. I've played really well.

-I feel absolutely exhausted! -I understand that.

I'm completely brain-dead and psychotic.

I'm following the game.

I think the round table today was among the worst I've seen.

No way! Did you think that?

God, the funny thing was that I had mentally prepared myself.

I came in with so much peace. My worst round table was yesterday.

It was much tougher in a way. The fall was so high.

Tomorrow, Farao, you're in deep trouble. I can tell you that.

Farao! Farao! Man. Tomorrow: Boom!

I mean, just kill me then... But Samir, listen to me.

-Boom! -But hey, can I just say something?

That's just disrespectful, if anything.

And then Samir lashed out: 'Then it's you! Let's take him.'

But go ahead and take me then. Cut off the dead branches now.

Don't make me endure another day in the hell chamber.

But yeah, it was tough. But it was also really nice today.

It felt really nice, and I got what I wanted.

So what became very emotional for me-

-and what meant a lot was that Sara Skyttedal took the lead first.

"I will vote for you."

But, but... I mean, you know, she was sitting there crying.

-She was really moved. I saw it. -If someone had said a week ago:

"You are going to a castle and putting your life in the hands of Sara Skyttedal."

Are you out of your mind?!

Where did you two find each other? You're like night and day.

God, I'm sorry. I don't know why I feel so strongly for her!

I hate the Christian Democrats! But she's not a Christian Democrat now.

You know what? It was also something like this...

Sara is good.

She's a kind-hearted person at her core.

And she kind of... she had a concern for me.

I have a really strong personality and I'm very flamboyant.

I get that, you know.

So it's easy for people to read me as just a clown.

She saw something else very quickly, and she said it very quickly like this:

"Dude, you're much smarter than people think."

I don't play dumb, but I do go along with the clowning.

It was much harder than I thought.

I have very little patience and a very short fuse.

And there were a few times when she really saved me.

I feel so done with this fucking game.

I can't take it anymore.

I don't want to lie in bed and watch TV.

It will be fine. You just have a lot of feelings.

-You know that. -No.

Yes, you do. You know it. You know yourself.

Even I know you so well, you've been around longer in your life.

She could take me aside and say: "Dude, you know how you are."

"And I know how you are. This will pass in five minutes."

"I understand that you're angry." Because I was like:

"Fucking shit! I'm going to kill myself. It's pointless. Let's go home."

From zero to a hundred. I also have an enormous trust in her.

She might be a Traitor, and if so, she's a worthy Traitor.

But she always had her cards on the table. And she stuck to what she said.

She voted for whoever until they were kicked out. She wasn't influenced by the group.

Even today when the group...

-Had pointed you out? -Yeah, but they pointed out Anders first.

Because Sara was completely shattered before we were supposed to go in.

I was like: "But Sara..." She hasn't shown emotions.

She's not a woman of strong emotional outbursts.

And she said it herself: "I've never liked anyone this quickly."

And this is a woman who has been backstabbed by Ebba Busch.

For her to say: "This is really, really tough."

She was so weighed down when we went in. I thought: "She's going to fall apart."

I kind of feel like you were defeated at the end, when you were supposed to defend yourself.

You just said: "I can't say more."

"I've said that I'm Faithful. There's nothing more in me to give you."

And that's such a metaphor.

You have an idea that when you're sitting around the round table: "And you, then!"

You should just say: "I'm Faithful."

"Prove it!" How? It's insane. You can't do that.

When the group has made up its mind, there's little you can do.

In my case, I had a protégé in Martin.

Which was also an unexpected friendship. He had never met a gay guy!

He was one of the nicest people I've ever met.

In that he was just so pure in his... You know, he didn't understand irony.

And when he started defending me...

The only thing you can do is have someone who defends you.

He did it factually: "Listen to what Farao says."

And I understand Martin.

He's fighting for his own survival. We all are.

He knew that if the group didn't follow me, I would be killed tonight.

Because he thought the group would go after Anders.

But in Gago's castle, you can't trust anyone.

To go in and think like this: "I can always trust..."

Not a chance.

Then I had Maria Montazami.

You have to love her, but she's a bit unpredictable.

"It's not Farao. Don't mess around now. Vote for the one we should vote for."

What has been the best and worst moment in the game for you?

The best moments are few.

There are moments when we can have fun. Because we've also had a lot of fun.

I also went in with the mindset that it's a game to be played.

A colleague once said: "You just want to have fun."

Yes, I just want to have fun.

I pinched myself on the way down the stairs to you.

I've spent a whole week with Maria Montazami.

"Do you think TV4 has any pictures of you without marzipan rolls?"

"You like to snack." I just said: "Okay!"

And she also said: "You're kind of chubby."

Fat in the wrong places. It just never ends.

Today, she slammed her head into the wall when she was running after Martin.

Bangs her head straight into the wall, and everyone gets really scared.

After ten minutes, she's back. I just said: "Maria, are you okay?"

"I'm just so clumsy."

"I've learned to take it in my head or my arm. I took my head today."

It was so funny when she fell. Bang! It was her head.

But what was your worst moment then?

My worst moment was probably when Jonas actually left.

The game stepped up in some way then.

Because Samir betrayed him quite shamelessly.

Jonas was so naive and also nice.

But too much of a target, without any predatory behavior.

Samir was like a wolf circling around him, and he just ran in circles.

-So I thought that was tough. -Yeah?

-But who do you think the Traitors are? -It's Maria Montazami and Samir.

-But should we find out who they are? -I think we should do that.

After the break: Farao finds out the truth.

And Thomas Bodström talks about how it feels to betray your friends.

-Who do you think the Traitors are? -Maria Montazami and Samir.

I had a revelation last night when I was lying in my room.

Everything just fell into place like a puzzle.

How could we have been such "lunatics"?

Of course it's Maria and Samir.

The drama in that we should-

-dig up our living buried friends Isa, Samir, and Maria.

-The three Traitors. -Maria!

-Have you been in there? -Finally!

And we will rescue them.

I think it's Samir Badran and Maria Montazami who are left.

-But should we find out who they are? -I think we should do that.

They were so close!

They were so close.

If someone else had had the dagger today, then maybe you wouldn't be sitting here.

-No, I wouldn't. -Would you have thought that?

Now I feel like this, kind of a 'lame' Traitor in a way.

He hasn't taken up much space. A Traitor should be influential.

Now the Traitor game is starting for Anders in earnest.

Now I'm sad that I'm not there.

I would like to hear how the talk went after...

How he will manage now. He still got some votes against him.

And Martin is in a bad spot. I hope he survives the night.

What do you think Anders is doing now?

The dangerous thing as a Traitor is to kill "the most obvious one."

Martin was quite clear about...

But then it's so close to the final that he could also...

What does he do? It depends on the other Traitor.

-Should we find out who the next one is? -Yes.

Oh, my God! Oh, how nice.

Oh, how nice. Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Sara Skyttedal.

God, she has done so well! I was completely "deluded." Oh, God!

Completely "deluded!"

-Are you shocked? -Yes!

And a little disappointed too. I was so sure about Maria and Samir!

God, I don't understand what Samir is doing then.

Then I think he's screwing it up.

Why is he playing so dramatically and yelling and screaming-

-and making the biggest scene about who it is and who we should get rid of?

Yeah...

Sara Skyttedal is brilliant.

-She has stabbed you in the back the most. -No.

She really hasn't done that. She stabbed me right in the face.

I never see it as her stabbing me in the back.

From one master Traitor to another. Thomas Bodström.

The politician and lawyer who excelled throughout the game.

You have to rely on some form of evidence and what is still evidence...

I want to send that with you. I believe you are Faithful.

But not everything is as it seems.

Even a shrewd politician has a hard time navigating among emotions.

It didn't feel good at all to vote for her.

-Welcome down, Thomas Bodström. -Thank you, thank you. Nice to see you again.

-How are you? -I'm good.

I have a little thing to show you.

-Yes... Yes. -How do you feel when you see the portrait?

It brings up a lot of old feelings from the 'Traitors' time.

It was a very special time. Girls first.

It was eight days, but it felt like a huge part of your life.

Yeah, it doesn't feel like such a short time. You're also in a kind of bubble.

Yeah, really a bubble.

It was actually when I came out that I realized—

-that I had been in the bubble, and had no distance at all.

Without being completely absorbed.

-You risked your eyesight for the game! -Yeah, besides that.

Yeah, it got a bit dramatic.

It was that boat we took that shook my retina loose.

They had explained: 'It's no problem as long as a dark shadow doesn't come.'

Then when there were only a few hours left:

'Shit, now that damn shadow is there.'

Then I had to contact a doctor.

And I was supposed to stop. I said: 'Never. I'm not leaving here.'

-You risked your eyesight to win? -You have two eyes after all.

If they had said I had to, but they said it would be fine tomorrow.

But I had to have emergency surgery. It was just: Poof! Straight in.

So I had to be put under right away.

But you stayed and toasted with me first.

Yeah, I would have regretted like hell if I had left.

But I would have regretted it too if I had gone blind in that eye!

But it's fine. It's no problem. The retina is in place.

I remember that when I came out after being in the whole game—

-it still took a while to get back into reality again.

Yeah, and I also dreamed very vivid dreams about it.

And now, what we are most curious about...

In a way that I don't usually dream otherwise.

-Was it Gago you dreamed about? -No.

It was the feeling, the castle, the environment, and the people.

The dreams helped me back to normal life.

What was the hardest part?

The hardest part was that you had such a need to talk about it.

I talked to my wife, but then you couldn't talk to anyone.

It's such a unique experience.

Have you been able to talk to the other participants?

A little bit actually. Niklas and I hung out a bit at the book fair.

Filip and I have had some contact. I've been in touch with Marie.

But this thing about being a politician. You had a double strength.

You were both a politician and a lawyer.

As a politician, you can keep your head cool in pressured situations.

-Are you Faithful? -And that's an advantage in the game.

Yeah, you've been in situations where you can't really answer—

-but you still keep calm.

-It was a very loud season. -Yeah, you could say that.

We don't make a big deal out of it. No, I don't want to, Filip. Respect!

It doesn't affect anything. No, I came to that conclusion.

No, I've laid out every chess piece logically.

-There's nothing relevant there! -Calm down, calm down.

Did you ever feel like you exploited that chaotic situation?

Maybe. You can be upset. I know that from political debates.

But you can't get angry. It never ends well.

You can never convince anyone then. You know that from fights with your wife.

You don't convince when you're angry, but when you start talking.

So I was aware of that, actually. It was important to stay calm.

But it was a very loud season. There was a lot of crying and screaming.

Then I thought many overreacted when they were accused.

Some tested it like this: "Is it you, maybe?"

Instead of long defenses, just: "Yeah, maybe it is."

Just a little. I agree with you there.

You've been in pressured situations in interviews, and said a lot of crap.

But I remember that in my round—

-I found it really hard to lie to those I got close to.

That's how it is. Absolutely.

I knew Bosse Andersson from before.

I got to know Niklas.

Good to see you, Bodström. Really glad to see you.

I had like little alliances with them.

I didn't really know how it would go.

I think I told Bosse: "We're not voting for each other."

But then we had to anyway. I chose Bosse.

When I talked to Bosse afterward, he laughed.

But Niklas turned out differently. I had to stab him in the back.

Niklas has a good reason to vote for one of the three—

-who voted for him yesterday. That's why it's you, Niklas.

But it was because he absolutely wanted to go after Nadim and Kelda.

But especially Maria. That doesn't feel good.

She was the one I knew best. And that she was a politician.

One last thing. What advice would you give to those playing now?

Avoid alliances. Avoid conflicts. Vote for those you see are on their way out.

Who do you hope wins?

It's more fun if the Traitors survive.

That they try to get to the Traitors, and guess wrong. That's more fun.

-Or do I identify with them? -I think so. You and I. That's how it is.

-Thank you so much, Thomas. -Thanks for having me.

There has been laughter and tears down in the crypt.

The only thing we know for sure is that you can't be sure of anyone.

See you after the next episode of "The Traitors."

Text: Johanna Svensson Iyuno