In ‘The Traitors’, 48 hours before the final, everything on Sunday evening revolved around the dreaded death list. The morning started festively: no one had been murdered. But the party didn’t last…
Host Staf Coppens ordered the traitors to write down four names, of which one victim would be eliminated the next day. To sow confusion, the traitors strategically chose not only radio and TV face Hans Otten, Julie Colpaert, spokesperson at VTM, Qmusic, JOE and Willy, and content creator Ender Scholtens, but they also placed traitor comedian William Boeva on the list .
‘Ender (Scholtens, ed.) has to go, he’s already suspicious. And if we did put a traitor on it, I would choose myself. There is a very strong focus on that death list and tomorrow will be crucial. It will be D-day,” said Boeva.
On a dime
At breakfast, however, the traitors were faced with an unpleasant surprise: Colpaert turned out to be protected by the shield and therefore disappeared from the death list. That fact put Boeva, Scholtens and Otten in a difficult position.
I am doomed by our own death list.
If Scholtens were exiled and Otten were allowed to go to the armory, only Boeva would be left as the logical victim of the murder. Since he can’t be killed as a traitor, that would make them extremely suspicious. “Then it is a giveaway for all allies to note that William had put himself on the death list,” says musician and TV face Sean Dhondt.
With Colpaert’s unexpected protection, the traitors had to act quickly. While Dhondt and Boeva now tried to make presenter Ingeborg Sergeant suspicious, fellow traitor and ‘Thirties’ actor Roman Van Houtven stuck to the original plan to make Ender Scholtens suspicious, without realizing that he was thereby undermining Boeva’s position. ‘I am doomed by our own death list. It will be a double whammy,” the comedian feared for the Round Table.
Baked pears
As the allies struggled with their lack of concrete clues, the traitors desperately tried to prevent Hans Otten and Ender Scholtens from gaining access to the armory, where the protective shield was located.
However, their attempts to sabotage the mission failed, and Julie Colpaert, Ingeborg Sergeant and Hans Otten eventually gained access to the armory.
When Hans has the shield and Ender is exiled, William is left with the problem.
“If Hans has the shield and Ender is exiled, William will be left behind,” one of the traitors analyzed. Without certainty whether Otten was indeed protected, it became essential for the traitors to prevent Scholtens from being exiled.
Equal score
With the final in sight, the tension at the round table became unbearable. Both Scholtens and Boeva quickly came under fire. The content creator made a speech and claimed that there was no traitor on the death list. He tried to put himself out of harm’s way.
The comedian seized the opportunity to go along with Scholten’s reasoning, but in doing so unintentionally put fellow traitor Roman Van Houtven in a difficult position. ‘I thought that was intense. Because he wants to put himself out of harm’s way and because that is a stab in the back.’
Boeva eventually escaped. After the first vote it ended in a draw between Scholtens and Van Houtven, with three votes each. Staf Coppens gave the participants a second chance: they could now only vote for Scholtens or Van Houtven. Who will survive the round table and who will be banished just before the final?
You will see it on Sunday, November 17 at 7:55 PM on VTM in a new episode of ‘De Verraders’.
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