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Rob Rausch, you’re on the brink of snagging a $100,000 victory on The Traitors Season 4. Just follow my advice, and you might just make it.
**Warning: Spoilers for the first 10 episodes of The Traitors Season 4, available on Peacock**
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest from The Traitors, you’ll know that the suave star from Love Island, who also has a knack for handling snakes, is inching closer to triumph. However, he’s not entirely in the clear, thanks to some unexpected hurdles thrown by Natalie Anderson and Tara Lipinski. As the finale approaches, Tara, Johnny Weir, and Mark Ballas still have Rob on their radar. Yet, there’s a simple strategy that could flip the game in Rob’s favor, involving a strategic move against a fellow Traitor.
Here’s the strategy: Kristen Kish (may she rest in peace) was hinting at Eric’s possible guilt shortly before her untimely exit. Rob, at that time, dismissed the idea of Eric being a Traitor and instead shifted the focus towards Natalie. Now, Rob, it’s time to subtly realign with the suspicion around Eric.
Almost everyone concurs that Eric’s unusually quiet demeanor has become more pronounced, especially after he remained silent during the last roundtable where Natalie was voted out. His lack of defense the previous week was what initially raised Kristen’s suspicions, and he couldn’t even manage to explain himself during their conversation. It seems like the signs are pointing towards Eric being in trouble.
If Rob can covertly move through the cast and get people to see that Eric is a Traitor, he might still have a chance of pulling out a win. Remember, next week’s circle of truth ceremony will not force the players who are voted out to reveal their role in the game, so if Rob could theoretically convince Maura and Mark — although I fully believe one of these two is being murdered at the start of the next episode, more likely Mark than Maura — that Eric is a Traitor, he could sell them on Eric being the final Traitor or a pawn for someone else in the game.
A short aside, really, I think Eric and Rob would be smart to take out Johnny or Tara seeing as they will go to the ends of the earth together and you’re gambling with two votes there, but I do see the merit in losing Mark or Maura. Mark is able to be objective enough to have doubt as the final circle of truth and try to vote out Rob, but Maura is so blindly faithful to Rob that losing her in this game would genuinely throw the others off the scent. Truth be told, there are mostly upsides to any of the four remaining Faithfuls going home so not a terrible spot for Rob and Eric to be in.
I’m not saying that Rob can only win if he sacrifices Eric, but these Faithfuls are not blind. They may be easily confused, but they know there is at least one Traitor left in the mix. As of the end of Episode 10, Rob’s name is on people’s tongues and he needs to activate the same way that he has this entire game. At this point, no one is believing that Tara is a Traitor — those tears for tossing out Natalie were legit and shockingly heartfelt — and Johnny is staying right by her side no matter what.
Johnny could possibly be a Traitor, especially considering how often he’s been wrong and how bad he has been at this game, but again, Tara would go to the end of the game swearing he’s not so either they’re both losing or they’re both winning. Now, if they kill Tara and then frame Johnny as one of the last Traitors, that could also work, but I truly don’t see any way in which this group of players believes Johnny would kill Tara, let alone so close to the end.
Unfortunately for Rob, I think the only way out is through and that is by losing his one and only final ally in the turret. He’s got to get serious about making Eric out to be the big bad Traitor and work his butt off to make sure that Eric doesn’t get wind and try to retaliate. If Mark really is the one they murdered, there’s even more leverage for him to put suspicion on Eric.
Rob, hear my words clearly, plant the seed of doubt with Eric, make it seem like it was Kristen and Mark getting wise, and then seal the deal for yourself. You can win it all.
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