Well, he did it. The Traitors season four wrapped Thursday night, crowning the treacherous Traitor Rob Rausch the sole victor.
The former Love Island contestant, a day one Traitor, played a long and strategic game, finishing his victory by reminding the viewers that people saw him as a “dumb hot person” but that he won the game. Throughout his time in the turret, Rausch turned on fellow Traitors Lisa Rinna and Candiace Dillard Bassett, voting to banish them earlier in the season. The trio were the original set of Traitors, with Donna Kelce serving as the newly introduced “secret Traitor.” And, for one final time, Rausch decided to backstab his late-in-the game Traitor recruit, K-pop veteran Eric Nam.
Going into the finale, Nam, Johnny Weir, Mark Ballas, Maura Higgins, Rausch and Tara Lipinski remained in contention. The final murder of the season, which is expected to be revealed at the top of the finale, will be revealed in front of the entire contestants. Weir, Ballas, Higgins and Lipinski are all potential victims of the Traitors final wrath, with Ballas being the Traitors’ last victim.
Following one last mission that saw an honest-to-god helicopter jump into the water, Nam, Weir, Higgins, Rausch and Lipinski headed into the last true roundtable. Weir was ultimately voted off, splitting up the Olympic duo. Finding their way to the final flaming roundtable, each player threw red or green bags into the flame to indicate whether there were any Traitors left in the group or if they were ready to move forward as the final group of players. All four chose red. Higgins, who maintained throughout the entire season that Rausch couldn’t be a Traitor, cast the final vote to banish Lipinski. The Olympic gold medalist said she was “so devastated” after Higgins voted her our.
With Nam, Higgins and Rausch left, Nam was the only player to vote to move forward but Rausch and Higgins voted for another elimination. Higgins, in her confessional, tried to convince herself that Nam had to be the Traitor. Of course, he was, but unfortunately for Higgins, she’d soon learn her ride-or-die was also a Traitor. Nam voted for Rausch, while Higgins and Rausch voted for Nam.
Host Alan Cumming told the two remaining players, if they’re both Faithfuls, they’re share the prize. But if a Traitor remained, they’d take the entire plot. Higgins smiled through the reveal she was a Traitor only to get teary eyed in shock when Rausch revealed he’d been a Traitor the entire game. “Oh my god, I’m so stupid,” Higgins said, as Rausch denied the claim.
“I was so fooled by you, you absolute asshole. You pinky promised,” she said. Higgins eventually told Rausch to stop talking when he tried to explain. “You’re never going to have a girlfriend after this. You’re such a good liar,” she said. “You know what, fair play though. If I was a Traitor, I would’ve done the same. No hard feelings.”
She finished, “Rob, you’re a fucking snake. But well done.”
Rausch, who now finds himself $220,800 richer, expressed his remorse for having to backstab the person he was closed to in the games, meaning Higgins, and for having to cross Nam. Cumming reminded Rausch the game’s called Traitors. “Would you give $100,000 to someone you met three weeks ago?” Rausch questioned in his confessional, overlaid with his one-man celebration outside the castle. “I wouldn’t.”
