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- A group of complete strangers from across New Zealand

have arrived at this isolated lodge to play the game of a lifetime.

Here they'll work as a team conquering epic missions...

- Oh!

- DISTORTED VOICE: I know the truth.

- ...to build up the prize fund

with the ultimate aim of winning up to $70,000.

Hidden amongst them, though, are traitors

who will, each night, conspire to secretly murder their fellow players,

eliminating them from the game.

It's up to the surviving players to work out who the traitors are...

- I really trust that guy.

- I'm not making this up.

- You know, I think you're faithful, and I'm allowed to say that.

- You have hung out to dry for two days.

- ...and banish them...

- See you in hell! (SCREAMING)

- SCREAMS: Yes! Yes! Yes!

- Can I get a hoo-ha?! - ALL: Hoo-ha!

- ...before they become the next victim.

- Oh no!

- He's a genius.

- You guys suck, man.

- The game is outplaying us all.

- This is the ultimate game of deception, skill and trust.

- It's hard to know if anything is real.

- Are you that stupid?

- I'll just stop you right there. This game has been on since day one.

- Holy hell in a handbasket. That was not nice.

- This is The Traitors.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

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(INDISTINCT WHISPERING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(EERIE SINGING IN LATIN)

- Wow. Where are we?

- This is getting rural. - Yeah, this is very rural.

- We're definitely not gonna be stumbling upon other people randomly.

- I'm just thinking, if you were to escape one night and wanting to run home or something...

- Yeah, there's not getting out! - ...it's gonna be real tough.

- The most important things you can do coming into this kind of equation

is to remember it is a game.

- I'm getting a little nervous butterflies now coming down here.

- The adventure is ahead of us, and I intend having a good time.

- I think the unknown is really scary,

and it's just getting to the other side of the unknown for me.

Everybody has the opportunity to deceive and lie,

and they will play this game for them.

- Everything I do online is team games, and the goal is my team wins. - Yeah, yeah.

- My method would definitely be slow and calculated —

lay low, fly under the radar as much as I can.

- So you're not good at screwing people over? (LAUGHS) - No.

- Definitely think I have what it takes to win.

- It's interesting. Even this car is, like, quite a diverse group of people.

I am fascinated by gameplay.

We've got a comedian, a model, a musician.

I love learning about people.

So this game is fascinating.

- Be brave. - Yeah, be brave. Be trusting.

- Yeah. (LAUGHTER)

For nearly a decade, I was a police officer.

I'm quite good at reading people.

- Is it the Warriors?

- Is the Warriors gonna do good this year? (LAUGHTER)

- I do think it is a strength having psychic ability.

- Anyone else looking for love on this? - Yeah, yeah.

- I have potential to be really loud and annoying, and I think that'll put a target on my back.

- Oh, my heart is starting to thump a bit faster now.

When I saw some of the contestants, I was like, I've got this. (LAUGHS)

- I'll play the game, but I don't wanna be mean.

I don't have any qualms about lying. This game is called The Traitors.

- Yeah, famous last words.

- But I'm gonna come in here, and I'm gonna play this game as hard as I can.

- Here we go. Right. OK, game face on, team.

- Here we go.

- Oh boy. - Oh my God.

(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)

- The lodge is so beautiful.

It's the perfect place to scheme...

- Look at that.

- ...and just focus on who you're playing against in this game.

- Wow. - Wow.

- Oh wow.

- Some of us are well known, and some of us are not well known.

And it's really interesting to know what that's gonna do going into the game.

- It probably will make it trickier for the people that know each other.

I'm an open book, so I'm like, 'Gidday, how are ya? Good to see you. Good to catch up.'

- Yeah, hard out.

- Hello. - Hey, I'm Dylan. - Hello, Dylan. I'm Dan.

- Hi, Dan. Brooke. Good to see you. I mean, I know you, but yeah.

People may not know how well Dan Sing and I know each other.

Brilliant poker player — like, at a world class level.

Someone like Dan is watching your neck to see the pulses that have increased.

He is the biggest threat in the room.

- No— Oh my God.

Oi. - Hi.

- Look, look, look, look, look. - Oh!

Oh yes! - Oi.

Oh my God. - SAM: I can't see who that is.

- Paul Henry. - Hello! - What?!

- Oh my God. - This is brilliant.

- What?! - Brilliant.

- I'm like, 'Who is that?' because I'm blind.

So I asked Brody, and she said, 'It's Paul Henry.'

And that blew my mind.

- Great hat. (APPLAUSE)

- Because I thought Paul Henry was living in a super yacht sailing round the world.

It's a great choice. And I'm a bit scared of him.

- Some familiar faces among you.

Interesting. (LAUGHTER)

- He's a perfect host.

That just heightens the game even more for me.

- Let me just say from the outset, celebrity doesn't count for much around here.

What does count is keeping your wits about you, all of them, all of the time.

If you win this game, you'll pocket up to $70,000.

Quite the kitty, yes?

- Winning $70,000 would be epic. My daughter just started college.

Any type of money at the moment, especially in my industry — it all helps.

- Before we get started, I want to make it quite clear that while this is a game,

it is not for the faint of heart.

Now you've seen who you're up against.

You've partially sussed people out.

Do you think you have what it takes to deceive?

Do you trust your own instincts?

Do you? - Why not?

- I'm good at bending the truth and hiding the truth.

I have four children. Of course I can be ruthless.

- As I look around me now, some of you don't seem entirely convinced.

Maybe you're thinking, 'Hmm, could be in over my head here.'

Well, I think I can help with that.

What I'd like you to do is line up — single line.

I want to know where you're likely to end up in this game — from most likely to succeed at this end,

Least likely to succeed at this end.

Off you go. Show me where you will land in this game.

(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

- Which was the likely again?

- Oh, now you see, this is fascinating.

Absolutely fascinating. (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

- I went right to the top.

I mean, I come from the fashion industry.

Every job that we get, we apply for.

So why not put yourself first?

- What do you not understand about single file?

- I'm not gonna be hard left.

I don't wanna seem cocky. I don't wanna be right at the top.

I also definitely don't wanna be right at the bottom.

I'm just going— I'll come in here.

'Sort of take what I can get down the bottom end.'

- Everybody was like, 'Grr!' trying to fit into the line.

I was like, screw it. I'll just stay on the end. (LAUGHS)

Just see what happens.

- All right. So you finally made it. You're in your line —

a line that I am dividing here.

Kimberly one side, Anna on the other.

Those of you on the left-hand side, rock solid. Good for you. Congratulations.

You haven't come here to waste your time or mine. You've come here to earn money.

I applaud that.

You can stand aside for the moment.

To the right,

I mean, why did you come here? (SCATTERED LAUGHTER)

Have a look over there on the hill.

There is a plinth on ye knoll,

which was supposed to house a statue of myself, but instead,

I've placed $10,000 in silver on the top of that plinth.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

- Ooh! - Ooh!

- If you don't think you can stand the heat in my kitchen,

on my command and not before,

race over there.

The first one there takes the kitty.

Your time in the game will end immediately —

no harm, no recriminations. (ALL EXCLAIM)

Bye-bye, see you later.

Well, actually, I'll never see you again.

- That's a lot of money!

I'm so keen to play this game, but $10,000 is great.

Like, that would be really awesome.

- Ready...

set...

go.

- Yeah! (ALL CHEER)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

- Have a look over there on the hill.

I've placed $10,000 in silver on the top of that plinth.

If you don't think you can stand the heat in my kitchen, race over there.

The first one there takes the kitty.

Your time and the game will end immediately —

no harm, no recriminations. (ALL EXCLAIM)

Bye-bye, see you later. - Yes.

- Well, actually, I'll never see you again.

- That's a lot of money!

- Ready...

set...

go.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(ALL EXCLAIM)

- Wusses. - That's strong.

- Really? Are you sure? It's yours.

- I'm blind. I can't see where that is. That could be ages away.

- You could walk over there and get it now. You don't even need to run.

- We'll save the plinth for you, Paul.

- There is a huge part of me that wanted

to grab that 10 grand and just run for it.

- No takers from the bottom half.

- But I'm happy I didn't because I really want to just experience this game.

- What if I threw the same opportunity over to this half of the group?

- Remember, this is the half that are here to win money.

Let's see how you guys are feeling right at the moment.

On my command... - Damn, see, now he said it.

- ...it's your opportunity.

Ready...

set...

go.

- It's 10 grand, man. (ALL CHEER)

There's no way.

(CHEERING, APPLAUSE)

- Smart. - Yeah, when I saw him, I was like, dammit!

- That's a delicious amount of money.

- That's the smartest move that you can do in this game.

That's a seventh of the prize for just showing up on day one.

- That is the biggest paycheque I will ever see in my life.

Probably 150 different scenarios went through my head

in the space of about 30 seconds,

and I decide, screw it.

I would love to play the whole game, but I work for the minimum wage.

I guess I made the decision just like— stats says take the money.

- Good for him. That's awesome. - I bet at least one person is gonna regret that in...

- I regret it now. - ...seven hours. - I regret it right now. Oh yeah.

- I want to play this game. I want to win it. I want to go deep in it.

I want to see if I can outsmart some of these other very smart people here.

- MIKE: Oh, he's gone. - He's gone.

- Oh, he doesn't even— - Nah. - Nah.

In the car, and he's gone.

- Wow, That was quick. See ya, Sam.

- I hate myself for not running after the 10 K

cos that seems like the cool, hardcore thing to do.

At least I'm still part of this exciting, mysterious, terrifying adventure.

- Welcome, then, to The Traitors.

(ALL CHEER)

Are you ready for a cup of tea, maybe a lie-down? I know I am.

Follow me.

- MIKE: Wow.

So much regret.

So much regret. - What a great call. What a smart guy.

- BRODIE: Look at the horse. Yee-hee!

Oh my goodness.

Very flash.

I'm feeling overwhelmed, bewildered and excited.

Books, books.

Bingo!

Yes! - From the 1920s. - From the turn of the century.

And I'm like, 'Can we just have a nice time?' Just make it a retreat.

- Good to see you. Yeah. Great to see you. Brooke. - Brooke. OK.

- Awesome to see you. - Yeah.

- Oh! - That's how I caught that. - (LAUGHS)

- No, I haven't met you yet. Julia.

- Billy. Nice to meet you. - Billy, nice to meet you. Yeah, yeah.

The lodge is so beautiful and incredibly quirky and fun.

I'm hoping that we can all get along really, really well.

I understand that a game has to be played.

CHUCKLES: But we'll see how we go.

- Um, I'm a crime writer. - (GASPS) Are you kidding? - That's amazing!

- It's perfect for you, isn't it? - A place where we're gonna kill someone every night.

And it's not me — killing people. - Yeah. Yeah.

- We'll see. Amazing.

I've worked with Loryn from Dancing with the Stars before.

I did the audience warm up for that. She used to give me a lift home.

So I feel like we've got a connection there already.

At the moment, I just wanna make friends with everyone and get to know everyone.

This is the only time now that we see them at the normal level,

until one of them or myself or whoever becomes a traitor.

That's gonna be the change.

- A crime writer? - Yeah. - Awesome.

- So seeing the difference is kind of the only thing we've got to go on.

- How are you guys at lying? - Yeah, my ex would say I'm a pretty good liar.

(ALL LAUGH)

- And I also wrote a book recently about conspiracy theories.

Probably a large part of the reason— - This is all gonna be conspiracy.

- I'm generally a very emotional person, and I connect with people.

However, with my training as a dancer, I know how to put on

my smile on my face and put on a facade.

- You look around, who would be the most obvious traitor? Like, would seem like the most—

Like, if you were gonna be selecting a traitor, right? - Colin.

(LAUGHTER)

- Brody, myself, Colin — the extroverty people, to me, are the obvious cannon fodder.

Successful people sit back; they're quiet. - Middle of the pack.

- They fold into the background.

- Is it possible to use your skills to help you win this game? - Yes.

- OK. Wow. OK. Interesting.

- I think I will keep what I know psychically to myself

rather than sharing that information.

- I'm just feeling your auras. (LAUGHTER)

Yeah, I know a few of the people here, and it's wonderful to see them

and to work with them...

or against them.

- PAUL: They're all very chummy, chummy now, but there are about to be two sides —

the traitors and the faithful.

Who are the traitors? We're about to find out.

And after that, nothing will ever be the same again.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

- Hello. - Hi, Anna. Come and sit down.

- Wow.

Wine!

- Only for me. - (LAUGHS)

- Oh my gosh, look at that.

I would quite like to have that. That would be nice.

- What would you do with the money if you won?

- God, that would be life changing. I could start a family, buy a house. It would absolutely change my life.

- One person turned and ran for that money.

So everyone's here for the game.

I feel like everyone's on a level playing field.

(TENSE MUSIC)

- I've brought up four kids for the last 10 years on my own,

and to have an opportunity to help them is life changing.

- Would you be quite happy to murder?

- Oh, easy. Within a blink of an eyelid.

- Phwoar, look at that.

- I can make some really good friends here and not want to betray them, so...

yeah, it could go wrong for me.

- I wanna lie. I wanna really indulge that evil Scorpio side of me.

And there's no one out there I've met that I wouldn't lie to, Paul — old friends and new.

- Are you here to win? - Well, who isn't here to win?

- You'd be surprised. - Isn't that sad?

- Welcome to the round table —

the beating heart of this game.

I suggest you take a moment to look around you.

Look at those across the table from you, the people next to you.

Because right now, you are all equals.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

You're all on a level playing field.

Maybe you think you've already made a friend or two, sussed out an ally.

Take a good, hard look.

(MUSIC BUILDS)

This is the last time

you can take anyone here at face value.

What do you think suits your personality the most —

a traitor or a faithful?

- I think a faithful.

Oh, I just think my mouth will get away with me and just throw it all on my face.

- I think I could be a traitor.

But I'm scared about the deception that's involved and that I might trip up.

- I don't wanna sit around waiting to be murdered.

I'd rather be sneaking around at night choosing other people's destiny

rather than waiting for the knock on the door. - And that's the issue, isn't it?

- Yeah. - It's choosing other people's destiny.

- My mum taught me not to lie to people. - Your mum's not here.

- Shit.

(BABBLES)

Fai... Trai...

Traitor. Trai—

Faithful, faithful. faithful, faithful.

- Do you lie easily? - I do.

I'm here to win.

You know, we've all got a goal, and I wanna get there, and I know I can do it.

- I would choose to be a traitor.

I think they have an advantage in this game. Not having to have the entire group, you know,

go with your way of thinking — that's a much harder task.

- How capable would you be of deciding their game will end?

- I don't think I'd have a problem with that.

I mean, we're here to play a game. I'm here to win.

- The moment has come for the traitors to be selected.

Everyone, put on your masks.

(TENSE MUSIC)

- As soon as you put your blindfolds on, your heart starts thumping really fast,

and it's kind of, like, game on.

- You put a blindfold on — you can usually kind of see light coming through

and you kind of see a little bit out the side. Nothing. It's black.

It's pitch black.

- If I touch you on the shoulder,

then you are a traitor.

- You can't see a thing.

You're listening out for any clues.

But, um, I couldn't hear a thing.

- It's gonna create chaos.

But there's also an invigorating excitement in the storm.

- I was tapped on the shoulder.

Very happy with being selected as a traitor.

Quite pleased with how the game's played out so far.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

- I feel like you're really, really playing the game if you're a traitor.

It appeals to me to be slightly evil.

- My heart has never pounded that much in all my life.

My palms were clammy and sweaty.

I've never felt that kind of energy before.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDS)

- Wow, OK.

This is, um— (CHUCKLES) This is something.

The main feeling I've got here is kind of like devious excitement.

I'm gonna have to hurt some people's feelings.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC SWELLS)

(TENSE MUSIC)

- I have selected my traitors.

The rest of you will be known as the faithfuls.

The course of the game has now been set.

You may remove your masks.

The mood you see has changed.

You can no longer trust anyone you can see in this room.

- You could sense a sea change immediately.

The first thing I did was just look around the room and look at reactions.

And I saw...

a couple of people that were clearly affected and acting differently.

I just don't know what that means.

- Traitors, you will discover each other's identities later tonight.

Your job...

is to murder the faithful.

Faithfuls, your job is to work out who the traitors are among you and banish them from the game.

One small thing —

tonight,

one of you will be murdered by the traitors.

(SINISTER MUSIC)

Bonne chance, tout le monde. (LAUGHTER)

- Well, well, well.

- I was disappointed. I was gutted not to be a traitor.

I feel relieved. (LAUGHS)

I do feel relieved.

I'm still here. I'm playing the game. Now I can focus on

just really reading people who are acting differently.

- The game was set at that point. So you kind of go, OK,

let's see what we can find out from now on.

My heart was thumping so much. - I was about to say that.

I thought it was gonna come out of my chest!

Being a traitor, you kind of feel powerful in a way

because you have control.

- (SIGHS)

I think the key is to not do anything differently.

They have their first impressions of you from the day to day —

you know, how loud, how quiet you are, how chatty you are.

- My heart was pounding. (LAUGHS)

- If I maintain that equilibrium, it is less likely that they will—

you know, I'd come on their radar.

- I don't spend that much time in my own head for a long time.

- Tense. - It was tense, eh. - It was really intense.

- I'm feeling excited about being a traitor.

I feel a little sniff guilty that I feel excited about being it.

And I'm worried that I'm gonna mess it up.

That was terrifying. - Yeah.

- Oh well. Cheers. - ALL: Cheers.

- Wish it was stronger. (LAUGHTER)

(TENSE MUSIC)

- I'm disappointed, but I'm ready to just give being a nice person a real good crack.

No, seriously, I might— - I reckon you can do it.

- Righty-oh. - I think it's in you. - I'm gonna go full faithful.

- I dunno, you seem to be talking a lot, which seems to be a bit out of character (!)

- Well, yeah! Isn't it? (LAUGHTER)

It's been really, really fun joking around with people

and having a good time, so I have to keep that going up.

How much information did Paul have, though, for his decision?

Cos how does he know who's who?

- No, he knows who's who.

- He didn't have a blindfold on. (LAUGHS) He didn't have a blindfold on.

(LAUGHTER)

- But I also need to be aware

that's also an area where I can make mistakes.

What about a thing where, like, the clairvoyant or the candlestick maker is an actor or plant or something?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Maybe try and calibrate my personality back down by about 15%, 20%, 25% or something like that.

Maybe 20% less.

- BROOKE: I can't tell if you're really trying to be heartless. - No, I'm not—

- The betters are like, 'Don't even bother it with him, mate.'

- I know I struggle to shut up, but am I trying to shut up

just a little bit here and there and let other people

sort of do their talking and do their theories.

- Well, do you think, Brody, there is anyone in this group right now that could be a traitor?

- Well, yes, of course there could be.

- Everyone looks so kind of chilled out, you'd think you'd be able to pick out—

It's, like, I could not pick a (BLEEP) thing.

(BIRDSONG)

- Who do you think will go tonight? - Get murdered? - Get murdered.

- It's so hard to say. - I'd have to say— I'd have to say the psychic over here would be,

like, you know... - Maybe.

- If the traitors believed in your powers, though.

- Robbie is my number one suspect.

I'm just getting alarm bells from her.

It feels yucky. Like, I get a— it's almost like a bad physical feeling.

- Or at least it would be just up for discussion, I would have thought.

- Yeah, I have a feeling...

- That's the psychic ability that's coming through.

- We're at this early stage of the game, which is so hard to really pick, right?

- Yeah. - Unless you're going to share some—

some pearls of wisdom with us tomorrow.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

- Kimberly, you know, we'll have her feelings based

on her special skill set as a psychic.

- Will you throw out any of your ideas there?

Like, when we get to the round table? - Yes. I will.

So wait till we get to the... - So we can all just chill. (LAUGHTER)

If you don't have any other thoughts of who it could be,

it is just so much easier to follow what she said.

- I don't know. I feel like there's a couple that maybe have slipped under the radar down there.

I can't think. - What about ol' Matt Heath?

- MIKE: Matt's an interesting one cos he's so aloof about how it works.

You're not sure whether it's a ploy or whether— eh?

- It'd be so hard to get everyone to rally against him, right?

I'd put money on him to go all the way if he's a traitor; I give up now.

The fact that he's forgotten the name of the game... (LAUGHTER)

That would just be genius, because I just think that that sense of just the lovable, kind of fun dude

who's not taking it too seriously, and he just takes that hood off,

and he's like, 'Mwah-ha-ha-ha!'

- PAUL: As the first murder draws ever closer,

the faithfuls have no time to waste.

While the traitors have yet to meet each other,

they'll now be presented with their first mission.

- Good morning.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

- LAUGHS: Oh.

Oh my goodness.

- READS: 'Dear traitor.

'You have a secret mission that will commence at tonight's mixer.

- 'Upon arriving, you'll have 45 minutes to sink ball number seven in a standard game of pool.'

- Jesus. Might need longer than that. (CHUCKLES)

(READS) 'If you succeed...

- '...you will earn the group $1000.'

- I've only ever played one game of pool in my life, so, hopefully.

- 45 minutes to sink a number seven. All right.

- Just have to find someone to play a game of pool with.

(CLOCK TICKS)

- The lodge is beautiful.

It's gorgeous, surrounded by beautiful nature and all the trees.

It's spacious, and I think there's lots of little nooks and crannies

to be able to have those deeper, meaningful chats, which builds that connection.

(GLASSES CLINK) - Cheers to a wild night. - JUSTINE: Mm, hey, cheers.

- The hardest thing in this competition...

- Cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers.

- ...is looking around at the group and thinking

(CHUCKLES) I really like everyone, and I don't distrust anyone.

- Cheers. - Cheers, guys.

Good times. - First day. Good day.

- 'You're gonna have to listen...'

- So at the moment there's traitors wandering around, individual, alone.

- Let's go. - Let's do it.

- '...look...'

- So let's just say it's too early to tell, or...? - Yeah, too early to tell.

- ...and think to work out who is being deceitful

and who's just dumb.

- The moment I took the blindfold off, I couldn't see.

- I had sweat in my eyes.

I'm blind anyway. - Yeah, it's a very far distance to see for your poor eyes.

- Because I have MS — I have multiple sclerosis —

the fact that I'm legally blind, I'm planning to use it for my advantage.

- MS is so different between people. - For everyone, yes.

Yes, totally. - It's so different.

- I'm hoping that people will feel a bit sorry for me,

and I will take that and run with it.

- Then I have an autoimmune disease.

- Oh, what do you have? - I've got alopecia. So this is a wig.

- Is it?! - Do you wanna see my party trick? - Yeah.

- You close your eyes. I shouldn't have told you. I should've led with that.

- I had no idea! I've closed my eyes.

- Open them. - (LAUGHS)

- (GASPS) - (LAUGHS)

I know! - I had no idea!

- It's a really nice little bonding moment.

We shared something together,

and I could see that he appreciated that I shared that with him.

That's cool, eh? - That's so cool.

- This game is about relationships, and I don't want it to be a secret

because I'd hate for anyone to hold that against me later and be like,

'Well, she didn't talk about that,' or, 'She lied or withheld that, so maybe she's a traitor.'

- After we took off the thing,

you're just staring into the abyss.

- After coming away from that situation,

having time to decompress now, I feel grounded.

I had Brooke questioning me, and he is super smart and so intelligent,

and so he does read people very well.

But I'm happy with the outcome, being very loyal to everybody.

I mean, that's— It's just fearing what's going to happen overnight now, really.

So I had to kind of get myself out of that situation

as discreetly as I could.

- Cheers. - Thank you. - Cheers.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

- Cheers to the faithfuls. - Absolutely.

Here we go. (OVERLAPPING CHATTER)

- Cheers.

- Lovely to meet you all. Cheers. - What do you reckon? You want to..? - Yeah, let's go.

- Yeah, I'm keen. - MIKE: Yeah, rack 'em up.

- I'm not very good, but I'd love to have a go. - Oh, there you go.

- I'm not the kind of girl who normally goes for bar games.

Let me know if I'm doing this right or wrong.

'I'm not the strongest pool player in the world.'

- Whoa, nice. - Is that good?

- But I knew I had a mission and I had to complete it.

- Have you got three sort of ideas, or have you only got, like, one sort of strong picture coming through?

- I've got four ideas. - Four?!

- Yeah. - Oh.

Maybe there could be four traitors. - Wow.

- That'll be more disappointing. - Yeah.

- You just gotta watch for slip-ups, I think.

- Oh, that was a dud. I'm so sorry!

- If you see it, you'll know it. And you will know it.

- My aim is absolutely terrible.

Oh God. - MATT: This is an extensive game of pool.

- Yeah.

- Not that I'm gonna be any better.

- There was already a game of doubles going on with...

- What is this called officially? - Chalk.

- Oh, just chalk.

- ...possibly four of the worst players ever to play pool.

So that game was gonna take ages.

- Oh God. Can I go again? - Yeah. I don't— What did you do? - I didn't do anything.

- Yeah, yeah (!) - I didn't do anything.

- That's traitor talk. - No, it's not! I'm just...

- Sorted out who you're murdering tonight?

- No, I plan on being too drunk to murder anyone. (ALL LAUGH)

- 'I'm gonna be too drunk to murder anyone.'

I'm not gonna point it out cos I don't wanna be pointing fingers

or planting seeds. But Robbie for me is someone who's just flicked up on my radar a few times.

- Do you guys wanna go? - (LAUGHS)

- And prove— You've gotta be better than that.

- It was quite an intimate game because there's only a few of you

that play, and if you're not playing, you kind of can't enter

that space without feeling a bit awkward.

- Go on, then. - OK. I'll have a go. I have a go.

I don't mind playing pool at all. So, you know,

the mission also kind of fell well aligned to me.

- KINGS: Straight, right there. - MATT: Yeah, Look at that.

The squat. - That's the 'I play at the bar'.

- Squat ball. Ohh. - Wahey!

- Just seems to slot into place that I am playing pool.

I've been invited to be part of a three.

Is that me?

You know, three-on-three sort of situation — not invited to be part of a three.

Do you reckon I can do this? - I think you can do that.

But we're going—

We're stripes though. - Oh (BLEEP)!

- It's all right.

- All I had to do there was just act like an idiot, sink the wrong ball and apologise.

What a cock!

- It's a good strategy I think.

- I think pool might be an easier game to win with this one.

- I feel like this is a very easy thing though, for people to distract themselves with.

- Yeah, true. - You know, you're concentrating on the game

versus maybe the other chat and sort of— you know?

- Nice. - (GASPS)

Oh, was it a double? - Double.

- Oh, yay! I'm more skilled than I think I am.

- You keep going. You keep going. - MIKE: You keep going. - We should take notice of this —

the way that she said, 'Oh, yay! Was that the double?'

- (LAUGHS) - All innocent sounding.

- As soon as someone else sunk the seven ball,

then I guess the race was to get as quickly to the next game as possible.

(BLEEP)

I continued to not be able to quite sink the ball.

I don't know what the other traitors — their tasks were

and whether or not they made it.

Catch! - (LAUGHS)

- PAUL: Gather round, lieblings.

- Oh. That's the game.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

It's time for your first mission.

- What? - Ooh.

(LAUGHTER)

- I have to tell you, something has happened today, and I blame myself for this.

As a result of the excitement of meeting all you gorgeous people,

I've misplaced four valuable silver coins somewhere here in this lodge.

I need you to find my treasure for me.

When the bell rings, it's a signal for you to start looking.

You will have seven minutes.

For every piece of silver you bring me,

$1000 will be added to the prize pool. - Whoo!

- You need to work together to build the prize fund up.

- Traitors are gonna be wanting to get rid of the faithfuls,

but they also wanna get the money in the pot.

So they want people who stepping up to the plate and who really invested

and wanting to win versus being a wallflower.

(BELL RINGS) - You guys, go to those two rooms. Go to those two rooms!

- Go for it, lieblings.

- VANDA: Come this room, guys. Right. So we'll do this space?

- I'll just sneak past here, Colin, and go down to that thing.

- There was no time, really, to discuss what was happening.

It's this silver? (LAUGHS) - Yeah, it's close enough.

- It was kind of go for it, every man for himself.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- Nothing in there? - I don't think so. Oh, yeah, drawers.

- Found one! - Where was it? - What, what, what?

- Oh yes!

- Oh! My back.

I couldn't believe that I found the first coin.

It really, I think, built that relationship and that trust with

the other players in the game.

Found one. - Oh, excellent. Good for you. - Thank you.

- (GRUNTS) - MIKE: Check the inside of the cushions. Slit them open.

- # If I were a coin, where would I be? #

My wife will tell you I am terrible at finding things.

I can't find the tomato sauce in a fridge.

- Yoo-hoo!

Found! - Oh, how clever you are.

- What about behind here? - It's not going well, guys.

- Do you seriously think if I lost a coin, it would fall behind a picture on the wall?

- It's weird that it fell directly under a pool table as well. So...

- That is an unusual thing, I grant you.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- Do we look inside the fire?

(METAL SCRAPES)

- All right, my chickadees, you have two minutes remaining.

- MIKE: Oh, what?! Two minutes?

- Got it. - Oh, you clever.

- Aren't you clever? - Is that the third one?

- Number three, yeah. - OK, We need a strategy.

We need to make sure that we're not all double-checking the same spaces.

- Two in here already. - Two in here, one in there. Maybe this room or that room.

- Have we gone through these?

- Someone's going to need to clean this up.

- Has anyone looked in Paul Henry's book? (CHUCKLES)

- 30 seconds. - Oh, Jesus Christ.

- I looked under the tables. Didn't see anything.

- Probably walking past it.

- That's been checked. That's been checked.

- Everyone's checked there.

- Cheesy-wheezy, this is tough.

- SAM: This is madness.

- Have we looked up above these?

(BELL RINGS) - Oh!

- Time's up.

Time is up, darlings.

- Oh, well, 3 grand. That's all right.

A little disappointing cos it would have been nice to have a leader,

I think, put their hand up and go, 'OK, this group, go here. This group, go there.''

But hey, it's better than nothing. And at least we found some.

- By finding three silver coins, you successfully added $3000 to the funds.

(ALL CHEER)

- Well done. - Congratulations. Congratulations.

But in case you hadn't noticed, nothing about this game is ever quite what it seems.

What you didn't know was that the traitors among you have been on a mission of their own

right under your noses.

- My mind is kind of reeling.

- They have managed to add a further $2000 in their mission

to the prize fund.

- Even in the most frantic times,

you've gotta be watching what people are doing all the time,

especially the people that you might kind of suspect for being traitors.

- You can thank them later if you ever work out who they are.

- Eh? - By doing what?

- Everyone's being too safe and too sweet.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

A traitor will hide in plain sight.

I want to survive just long enough to take them out.

(TENSE MUSIC)

(CLOCK TICKS)

- Before we drink my lovely cocktails,

I'd like to propose a toast.

To trust.

But first, because that's the way we roll... (QUIET LAUGHTER)

...do you see these vials here filled with green liquid?

I'd like you each to take a vial and return to your seat.

- Ooh. - SAM: It seems quite culty, eh?

- Right, I require a volunteer.

Vanda. (LAUGHTER)

- I believe I have been volun-told.

- Now, what I want you to do is tip your vial of green liquid, which I am reasonably well informed

is not poisonous,

into the cocktail of the person you trust the least in the room. (ALL 'OOH')

- I got called out first, which kind of flustered me.

- If you could do it today. (LAUGHTER)

- Pressure!

(ALL GASP)

I really, really sort of felt that he was a faithful.

I did that strategically so that the traitors don't kill me off overnight.

- Oh dear, Brooke.

- Heartbroken.

I think I'm pretty trustworthy.

And I'm like,

that's terrible!

- Sam.

- 'I'm scared of Colin Mathura-Jeffree.'

Colin, I'm coming for you. I'm sorry. - It's over between us.

(LAUGHTER) I'm so sorry. I still love you, I promise.

- Loryn.

- My stomach just dropped when the vials came out.

- That's fair.

- Dylan has been extremely vocal throughout the whole day.

I wouldn't trust him with any information

cos he's a smart thinker.

- Fili.

- I've already got— No, you can't! Oh!

- Dylan.

- Oh, you gotta be kidding me. - I'm sorry. (ALL GROAN)

- Jesus, mate.

- Kimberly.

- What?

- What have you done? (LAUGHTER)

- Some middle-aged mother of four from the suburbs.

Kind of hard to know how to take that.

I don't feel I've put a target on myself.

- Anna. - I'm really sorry.

- Kings.

(LAUGHTER) - Oh my God.

- Matt. - I didn't know anything, but there's stuff I don't know.

- Here you go. (LAUGHTER)

- Everyone's doing it. This is great for me.

I don't have to wander across the room and make an enemy of someone.

I can just go (BLOWS RASPBERRY)

- Robbie.

- Oh, what the (BLEEP). (LAUGHTER)

- Why did I know you were going to do that?

- I just sort of wanted to make light of it.

There is that saying it's better to be talked about than not being talked about.

- Justine.

- He's a really nice guy, but I just got a weird vibe off Dan.

(ALL 'OOH') - And that was with feeling.

- Either I've given away something to her — she's super perceptive —

or she just took a punt.

- Fair enough.

Fair enough. Cheers, bro.

- She's by far the most dangerous person to me right now.

(GASPING)

- You're lucky.

Oh, actually, no. I'm gonna... (LAUGHTER)

- I'm gonna go for Mike.

- (SIGHS)

- Don't make this obvious, Mike.

- Love you, Brody. (ALL 'OOH')

- Christen.

- This is for no other reason than the fact that you look like you're dressed like a traitor tonight.

(ALL EXCLAIM)

- Brooke.

- Here you go, boss. - Cheers, Brooke.

- Well, how interesting was that?

The dye doesn't lie.

Yes, it was spread around a little bit,

but, Robbie,

oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Can't possibly be good news for you.

I'm going to leave you now to think about what you've done.

A note — when the clock chimes at the end of the night,

no story. Straight to bed.

The traitors will commit their first murder.

Toodles. (ALL MURMUR)

- Wow. - That was wild!

- It's all a bit tense, eh

- (LAUGHS)

- I trust you so much.

The two people I trust least had already been taken. I had no idea you could double up.

I'm so sorry.

(SINISTER MUSIC)

- # Nothing lasts forever. #

- Hey, between us three, herd mentality.

With what happened to Robbie, that's a classic example of it.

- She's the person that everyone knows the least.

And she said she's a hairdresser with four children from the suburbs.

- All I'm saying is be careful of that.

- For no discernible reason, someone is gonna be murdered tonight. And it's just like, that's it.

- And it's someone we've gotten to know. - It's like, shoo! Out.

(CLOCK CHIMES)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- Bye, guys. Bye.

(OVERLAPPING CHATTER) - Goodnight! See you tomorrow.

- Or not.

- Who's guaranteed to come back tomorrow? Anyone? - Ooh, ooh.

- Oh!

See ya, guys.

- Goodnight, everybody.

Goodnight!

- Night, doll.

- Very excited about committing the first murder tonight.

- So ya, everyone! - Bye! - Bye, doll.

- I'm super excited to see who the other traitors are.

- # This is the beginning of the end.

- Who they think is high risk, who they think we could murder tonight.

- See ya.

- And still fly under the radar without shedding any light on us

potentially being traitors.

- Have a good sleep.

- I think the end game is definitely closer.

And I'm hoping strategy and logic prevail.

- # This is the beginning of the end. #

- The clock has chimed, and the first evening has come to a close for the faithfuls, but for the traitors...

the night has just begun.

(FLAME CRACKLES)

(EERIE MUSIC)

- I'm walking into the room. I'm in a hood. It's very mysterious. It's very Gregorian monk.

It's scary,

but so super exciting.

Right now, I really have absolutely no idea who the other traitors are.

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

(DOOR CREAKS)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(LOCK CLICKS)

Well, well. - (LAUGHS)

- (LAUGHS)

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

Well, well, well. It's Dan. This is a good fellow traitor right here.

- Quietly pleased to see your face. - Yeah, same. Good, good.

- Super excited that Matt's on the traitor team. He's a natural leader.

People are drawn to him.

You know, you think he's much younger than he is, so he can kind of play lots of different parts.

No one nominated you as someone they didn't trust, right?

- There's a lot— There's a lot a lot to go through on this.

He's a strategic kind of character.

He's thinking about a lot — potentially overthinking it.

We've got to get the first one right.

- It really depends on who the next person who walks in that door is.

- (EXHALES) Bring it on.

- I had no idea what to expect. My heart was just beating.

We've all got our own strategies to it, but this is a performance of a lifetime for me.

(INTENSE MUSIC BUILDS)

Oh my goodness. - Hey.

- (GASPS)

Oh wow.

- Loryn comes in with a whole 'nother pot of intel.

- She's so sweet, so nice. No one would ever vote her off.

Like, you just feel too bad to banish her.

- SOFTLY: This is unbelievable.

We're all quite different, but together, I think we make an incredible unit.

- The three of us.

Got a big decision to make. - A massive decision.

- We know who we are now, and now we've just gotta kill someone.

So, how are we gonna kill?

- All the kind of people that are gonna get ejected anyway, we just leave them alone.

- Yeah. - Yep, I agree.

- Anyone who's kind of pointed the finger at one of us, we have to leave them out.

Otherwise, it will shed too much light on us.

I think the person with the most influence at the moment is Kimberly

cos everyone knows she's a psychic.

So, they'll be happy to kind of go with the herd and trust what she said because she's the only one

with a possible advantage.

Kimberly has to be murdered because she has too much influence in the room.

If she picks one of us, we were all at risk.

- My only problem with the clairvoyant is that I've been talking constantly about her.

- As in, she's...

- Well, just running a bunch of stupid theories that she's said. (LAUGHS)

'I'm not sure if it's true. I mean, I don't believe in clairvoyance.'

'I don't think that many people do. I don't know if she's gonna have any insight,'

but I think it's kind of a random decision.

So, no one was— seemed to be, like, sniffing around you guys?

- No, there was not. Brooke was the only one for me.

He was the only one.

- Brooke questioned me quite a bit today as well. - Yeah.

And it was very uneasy at the time.

- Yeah, but you could play it as if maybe you thought he was one, in theory.

My hidden strategy is to try to keep Brooke around as long as possible, because I know inherently that,

you know, he's an easy alliance for me because he's a friend.

- If he decides something, he might be able to convince a few people.

- I mean, Dylan is quite dangerous. - Dylan is really intelligent.

He's focused on you, but he's very aware of the room.

He's really behavioural-focused.

He's smart, so he will be one to watch out for, 100%.

- The advantage in murdering Dylan is that everyone will be thinking about him a little bit.

Doesn't really point anyone's particular way, does it?

All right. I think we've got a decision.

Brooke...

Dylan...

or Kimberly?

(INTENSE MUSIC)

- (SIGHS)

- So are you happy with that? - Yeah, yeah.

- Who would like to do the honours?

- Want me to? - BOTH: Yeah.

- (CHUCKLES)

- Why are we doing such evil laughs? (ALL LAUGH)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

- The stakes get higher...

- Oh, damn it! (GROUP GROANS)

- I think someone made a slip-up.

- ...as accusations are thrown.

- Who you gonna murder tonight? - (LAUGHS)

- Can the faithful strike back...

- This is a chance to defend yourself on why you think you're the least trusted.

- She'd be a really good traitor.

- I freaked out when you said that.

- I think what's happened is herd mentality.

- ...at the first banishment?

- I don't know how to defend myself against that.

- The time for talk is over.