The Traitors' Banquet Murder and a Major Betrayal Led to the Latest Banishment (RECAP)
The Black Banquet stirred up a lot of chaos and the reveal of another Traitor.
SPOILER WARNING: This story reveals major plot points from Episodes 1-7 of The Traitors Season 4.
Host Alan Cumming wasn't kidding when he hyped up The Traitors Episode 7, "The Black Banquet," as one of the most consequential of Season 4 (now streaming on Peacock). It featured a "murder in plain sight," and their automatic removal, a new game incentive twist, and the expulsion of another Traitor.
The rapport in the turret turned sour as the three Traitors left in the game turned their ire on one another with Candiace Dillard Bassett, Lisa Rinna, and Rob Rausch finding their "great team" melting down.
Backs were stabbed, an innocent Faithful fell and the game is forever changed heading into the final four episodes.
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Who was murdered on The Traitors during the "Black Banquet"?
Last week, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Lisa Rinna volunteered to be the Traitor to murder in plain site at the "Black Banquet." The goal was for Lisa to get a Faithful to touch the huge ruby broach on her person. She most certainly came through by trapping Yamil “Yam Yam” Arocho with the ruse that her broach clasp had popped, and he offered to fix it for her. Brilliant, no notes. A distraction so good, in fact, that no one called it out as the "Murder" moment, not even Yam-Yam!
Alan then upped the ante by offering two players at the dinner table an antidote. The players could decide amongst themselves who would drink the antidote, but if those who did were not the actual "Murder" victim, then the Traitors still win the day. Of course, that incited a panic in those at the table who second-guessed all of their actions in the room.
In particular, Natalie Anderson, Tara Lipinski and Kristen Kish worried the most, with a remarkably terrified Natalie begging to drink one while the other players asked Kristen to drink the other because her face came up in the tarot cards on the table. Of course, they were wrong.
Yam-Yam was dragged by Alan's guards from the table, yelling that, "Lisa kissed my cheek!" as he implicated her as his murderer.
Who was banished on The Traitors Season 4, Episode 7?
Coming out of the banquet, Lisa was still on the top of the Banishment list for the Faithful. This is why she and Candiace put the heat on Rob to defend their fellow Traitor after betraying Lisa with a vote at the last Roundtable. The Housewives put him on major blast to his face, which didn't sit right with the Love Island star.
Rob assessed in his confessional that Yam-Yam had all but assured Lisa's death warrant in the next vote, and he wasn't going to ruin his off-the-radar status to call attention to himself for Lisa. Instead, he spent his time floating to the Faithful some very logical arguments: 1) Yam-Yam was a Faithful so why would he accuse Lisa if she wasn't guilty, and 1) anytime two people (Lisa and Yam-Yam) have a different version of a story in the castle, one is lying.
The only wrinkle was that Natalie's selfish behavior with the antidote drew attention her way and made many believe she was in such a state because she was going to be revealed as a Traitor.
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Going into the Elimination Roundtable, it was clearly Lisa versus Natalie. The pre-vote debate opened with Lisa trying to feed more fire to Natalie by accusing her of saying, "when we murdered," which was a red flag comment. Natalie apologized for going "fight or flight" at the banquet, but she then accused Lisa of trying to deflect her own Traitor heat onto her.
In the end, Rob argued that emotions needed to be taken out of the decision-making, and he defended Natalie by pointing everyone to Yam-Yam's last words. He said, "He's the only person I know was a Faithful. Why would he lie?"
It was the nail in Lisa's coffin as she earned the majority vote at the table. As she got glassy-eyed, Lisa stood next to Alan and said, "I am the most iconic, legendary...TRAITOR!"
The table erupted in excitement, except for the Traitors feud brewing between Candiace and Rob. Look for fire coming at next week's turret talk!
News episodes of The Traitors Season 4 air Thursdays on Peacock.
