It all comes down to this! After weeks of betrayals, murders, and iconic fashion statements, Season 3 of The Traitors has come to a close. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened, and Season 3 gave us an ending unlike anything we’ve ever seen on this show.
The penultimate episode ended on a major cliffhanger, with Danielle and Ivar at risk of getting banished. Plus, Alan was still sitting on the secret about who won the power of the Seer. They had a lot of business to attend to in this finale.
In The Traitors Season 3, Episode 11, “The Day of Reckoning Is Upon Us,” Alan ushered the remaining players into the final phase of the competition. With an unknown number of Traitors left in the game, who will wind up with the money? Keep on reading for the breakdown of everything that went down in The Traitors Season 3 finale.
What happened in The Traitors Season 3, Episode 11?
In The Traitors Season 3 finale, the remaining players made their last attempts to strategize their way to the finish line. One player won the power of the Seer, giving them a major advantage over the game, but was it enough to keep them in the castle? In the end, it all came down to the Fire of Truth!
Who got banished in The Traitors Season 3, Episode 11?
Last week’s cliffhanger left us at the roundtable with a tie between Danielle and Ivar. Britney had the deciding vote, and we’ve been waiting an entire week to see what happened. It turns out that Britney did what Britney needed to do.
In a stunning move, she revealed that she voted for Danielle, sending the Big Brother alum packing. Finally! Danielle couldn’t believe it, and Britney immediately broke down into tears.
“You did it to me again,” Danielle told Britney, referencing their infamous Big Brother feud.
Danielle went up to the front of the room while Britney sat at the roundtable hyperventilating. Seriously, this might be the most crying we’ve ever seen at the roundtable. The fairytale ending they fantasized about just came crashing down in a matter of minutes.
During Danielle’s exit speech, she went around saying nice things to everyone in the room — except for Britney. Then, she revealed what everyone at home already knew. She’s a Traitor!
In a confessional, Danielle said she felt “stupid” for trusting Britney. In retrospect, she thinks she should have killed her a long time ago. It’s a dramatic departure from the fairytale ending they were fantasizing about last week, but life comes at you fast in the castle.
Who won the power of the Seer?
After Danielle got the boot, and once Britney stopped hyperventilating, Alan reminded the players that there was still some unsettled business. Last week, someone won the power of the Seer and would get to take someone else into a private meeting to get the truth about their identity.
Alan revealed that Britney won the power of the Seer, adding another whirl to her emotional rollercoaster. He immediately pulled her into a secret corridor to prep her for her secret meeting. That’s good news for Britney, but it’s horrible news for the Faithful, who were still gagged over Danielle’s elimination.
How Britney used the power of the seer
Britney wound up picking Gabby for the private sitdown, which she hilariously said felt like a date from The Bachelorette. During the private meeting, Britney learned that Gabby was truly a Faithful. Obviously, she already knew that, and we already knew that. Still, Britney had to figure out how to use this information to her advantage.
The next day at breakfast, the final five assembled, all of them eagerly awaiting to hear about the Seer. In this moment, Britney had two choices. She could lie on Gabby and try to frame her or tell the truth to earn points with the Faithful. She wound up going with the latter.
Obviously. Gabby felt relieved because the poor girl was fully prepared to be framed by Britney. However, this whole twist just added another layer of confusion for the Faithfuls. Luckily, Alan planned an adrenaline-pumping mission to get their minds off it.
The final mission sent the players flying
For the final mission, Alan gave the players a map to find the last bit of gold for the prize pot. With 30 minutes on the clock, the players managed to find the gold and get back to the castle without breaking a sweat. Easy, right? Wrong. Alan revealed that the mission had only just begun.
All of a sudden a helicopter came flying over the castle. He said that to double their money, the players had to get strapped to the helicopter, flown into the sky, and then drop their bags of gold into a giant ring of fire. This felt like something ripped straight out of The Challenge. You know Wes would have loved this. RIP.
Watching the players get flung around on the bottom of a helicopter was a nice break from all the strategy talk and almost as hilarious as the bug challenge from Episode 7. Seriously, never in a million years did we think we’d see Dolores from Real Housewives of New Jersey dangling from a helicopter. Bless this show and all that it has done for us.
A final fight at the roundtable
After the mission, the players went right back into game mode to try to devise their plans for the final roundtable. Britney knew there was heat on her, so she began planting seeds against Dylan. You could see her brain scrambling to try to stay alive in this game, and it’s clear that getting recruited by Danielle at the last minute hurt her endgame.
Ahead of the roundtable, Brit pulled everything out of her arsenal. She told people that Dylan didn’t want to split the money. She tried to make him sound bossy. Anything that Britney could say about Dylan, she said it. Unfortunately for him, she brought that same energy to the roundtable.
Now, it’s no secret that Dylan has struggled at the roundtable a few times this season, and although Britney dragged him, he managed to make a few good points at this last sitdown. Our little Dylan is all grown up.
At the roundtable, he said that he thought Britney was recruited midway through the game, which was correct. He said that he felt like Britney and Danielle were working together, which was also correct. If we didn’t know any better, we’d think he had been tipped off.
When it was time to vote, Dolores said in a confessional that she was going to “finally” vote with her brain. It only took her 11 episodes, but we’re so glad she did. With a 4-1 vote, the Faithful banished Britney at the last minute. The final gamer has left the building.
With tears in her eyes and fire in her heart, Britney exited the castle as the final person banished at the roundtable. But, did they just get out the last Traitor? The remaining players had no clue.
The Fire of Truth
It’s the moment of truth — literally. Alan brought Gabby, Ivar, Dylan, and Dolores out to the Fire of Truth for The Traitors endgame. There, they had the option to keep banishing players or end the game once and for all. In seasons past, this is where dreams got crushed. This season? Not so much.
One by one, the final four players voted to end the game, setting up for the most peaceful and anticlimactic ending to The Traitors you could have ever imagined. Gabby, Ivar, Dylan, and Dolores all walked away splitting the prize pot of $204,300.
Season 3 went to the Faithfuls, and as Dylan pointed out, this was a true underdog story. A Housewife, a Bachelorette, some random dude from the royal family, and Zac Efron’s little brother outsmarted all of Season 3’s gamers. Raise a glass to that!
The Traitors Season 3 is streaming on Peacock.
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