The Traitors star dealt blow before final as edit | UK News

The Traitors followers are fearful a BBC modifying selection might have inadvertently revealed a essential plot twist.

With the finale of Claudia Winkleman‘s hit gameshow mere hours away, two Traitors stay standing after weeks of crafty manipulation and double-crossing.

While suspicion is mounting around Rachel and Stephen, the duo have efficiently dodged elimination at the roundtable thus far, even as their fellow Traitors Fiona and Hugo have been sacrificed.

Following Wednesday night time’s nail-biting cliffhanger, viewers now concern Rachel might be making ready to betray Stephen after Faithful Faraaz voiced his doubts about her.

The two have maintained a pact not to flip against one another, aiming to attain the finale as allies, but in the episode’s closing moments, Rachel urged to Stephen she may need to “protect their alliance” by mentioning his identify, experiences Wales Online.

Cyber security advisor Stephen, 32, confessed: “This is getting pretty stressful now. Faraaz dropped a bit of a bombshell that the Traitor might be Rachel.

“I feel Rachel has an uphill battle to make it to that endgame. I just have this horrible feeling in my abdomen. I’m just hoping she will be able to do it.”

In the turret, he pressed Rachel, 42: “I just need to know now that we’re going to make it to the end.”

The head of communications assured him, “I’ve made one promise since I’ve received right here, and I told you I’m not breaking it.

“Please remember, nobody can stick up for one another at this point, and if you hear anybody repeat that I’m talking about you, it’s because I have to, to protect our alliance.”

Following her remarks, Stephen confided to the cameras: “Right now, I’m a bit worried. Maybe I’ve been blind, because I have been actively not discussing Rachel if anyone ever brought her up.”

He added: “She might not necessarily write my name on her slate, but that doesn’t stop her from sowing seeds of doubt against me. If I did find out that she was going against me behind my back, then game on.”

Fans are now involved their exchange could also be foreshadowing future occasions, with one viewer questioning on Reddit: “Have the editors shown the plan a bit?”

They elaborated: “I think that showing the conversation where Rachel admits she’ll turn on Stephen if needed was revealing a bit to us as the audience.”

The viewer speculated additional: “I think Faraaz will be killed tonight, the Faithful will finally clock onto Rachel, who’ll try to spin it all as a setup, then we cut to Stephen also saying he thinks it’s her.”

They concluded: “She’s made a mistake by saying that to Stephen, as it’s now clear her promise of sticking together doesn’t mean a thing. I slightly wonder if Stephen has convinced Rachel to murder Faraaz to play his own game and lead to this.”

Another viewer mused: “Genuinely, I think that ending was so heavily edited to add some extra tension into the Traitors’ strong alliance. What Rachel said made a lot of sense and seemed pretty honest and sincere, and I think the stuff Stephen was saying in his diary room bits were all responses to questions of “what if Rachel does go behind your back?” But it all just seemed to come out of nowhere.

“I might be incorrect, as I actually like their alliance and Stephen may genuinely have interpreted it in the incorrect means, but it just immediately felt like an edited cliffhanger for me.”

Someone else said: “Felt a lot to me just the modifying to go away a query mark for the viewers whether or not they may betray each other. In actuality I do not assume they may. There’s only 2 episodes after all. Other conversations and interactions between the 2 suggests that they’re genuinely wanting to get to the end together.”

This comes after two Traitors legends suggested Rachel could be Stephen’s “downfall”, during an appearance on spin-off programme Uncloaked.

Strictly star La Voix joined Traitors icons Linda Rands and Alexander Dragonetti, when she said: “I do not consider [Rachel and Stephen] are going to stick together, I do not know whether or not Rachel goes to cross Stephen or whether or not Stephen goes to cross Rachel. I just assume they’re unsettled.”

Talking about their pact, Linda went on: “Stephen is clearly actually supporting Rachel, and Rachel did say that she would strive and stand by Stephen as a lot as she might and strive to divert the suspicion from Stephen.”

La Voix replied: “But at some level, if everybody goes for Stephen, she’s going to have to.”

Linda recalled her own time on the series, where she was branded “the worst Traitor ever”, saying she urged her fellow Traitor Minah to vote her out if other people began casting their suspicions towards her.

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Alexander added: “I really feel like as long as Stephen is useful to Rachel, she’ll keep the pact. I really feel like when he turns into too unuseful or will get too deep into the sport, that’s where he is at risk.

“I don’t think the alliance has been tested yet.”