Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Traitors
Fans of The Traitors have been treated to some absolute classics this week, with many regarding the showdown between Rachel and Fiona as one of the best moments in the show's history.
Ever since it launched back in 2022, the BBC social deception series has been a huge hit, seeing contestants head to a Scottish castle and battle it out as Faithfuls and Traitors.
There have been several iconic moments over the past few years, including Harry's triumphant solo win, Charlotte's fake Welsh accent and Diane getting buried alive in front of her own son. Still, Fiona and Rachel's showdown might just take the biscuit.
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Just months after we had some laughs with the celebrity version of the show, which was all very polite, the public version is now seeing contestants at each other's throats, with the drama only increased thanks to the introduction of a secret Traitor, which was even kept private from the audience.
However, it was soon revealed to be Fiona and despite the Welsh woman promising to work as a team with fellow Traitors Rachel and Stephen, she had a bit of a kamikaze moment in Thursday's (8 January) episode.
We saw Amanda reveal her true career as a police detective to Rachel, which was very ironic given that she put her faith in the complete wrong person.
After she was banished, Rachel revealed to the group about Amanda's true job, in the hope of pinning things on Jade and Sam, whom she had suspected.
But Fiona wasn't having it, and decided to out Rachel as a Traitor simply because she believed Amanda would have also told her about her career, in what was an incredibly bold move that completely backfired, as she was banished in last night's (January 9) episode.
Speaking to The Sun, she said: “It was incredibly tense. I was really the master of my own downfall. But I suspected that when there was the end game I would be thrown under the bus.
“Finding out I had the red cloak was something else. It was magical. I can remember when I took the oath and I had this cloak, just wanting to put it on straight away and let the killing begin.”
Fiona later claimed in the turret that she believed Rachel to be playing her own game and not protecting Stephen enough, but in the end, both Traitors voted her out at a particularly intense round table, where only Harriet among the Faithfuls seemed to clock that it was a Traitor on Traitor debate.
Fiona added: “I needed to confront Rachel to be sure in my own mind that she was a team player and not playing singularly. The action I took was to get it all out in the open, and I felt at the time it was my only chance as Rachel was such a formidable player.
“I didn’t think I’d have another opportunity to put her name to the group as a potential Traitor.
“When somebody mentioned Stephen, she didn’t challenge their decision, whereas on one occasion when Rachel’s name had come up, I said, ‘No, I don’t think it’s Rachel’, and I’d said it as well with Stephen.
“So straight away I thought, she’s a lone wolf here, and if she’s going to get rid of somebody from the turret, it will be me.”
Fans couldn't take their eyes off the last few episodes and now we look set for a storming second half of the season, with Rachel and Stephen perhaps in prime position after Fiona's downfall.
One fan said: "The Traitors UK season 4 episode 5 you will go down as one of the greatest pieces of British television. What an insanely wild ride that was… pure cinema."
Another wrote: "Rachel vs Fiona will go down in the history books."
Topics: The Traitors, BBC
James Moorhouse