The Traitors star Matthew Hyndman showed his true colours on Friday night, laying forth his bid to become a member of the hooded brigade.
After winning the opportunity to put a series of questions to the Traitors, creative director Matthew was poised to reveal his power play.
He, along with Rachel (herself a Traitor!) and fellow Faithful Harriet, had won the advantage after coming first in that day’s mission.
Later, entering the Church where Traitors Rachel and Stephen were ensconced inside a confessional booth, Matthew shared his cunning plan.
After asking the Traitors who they planned to kill next, Matthew suggested that they murder their target, Jessie, first, and seduce him later.
Speaking exclusively to Metro, murdered Faithful Reece Ward and banished Traitor Fiona Hughes have revealed how Matthew might have backed the Traitors into a corner.
Sweet shop assistant Reece described the dilemma that the Traitors face.
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‘It’s hard because that day, [Matthew] got voted fairest of them all. I think he played it absolutely brilliant,’ he said.
‘Rachel and Stephen can’t go to breakfast the next day and start spreading heinous things about Matthew, about how he’s untrustworthy, because we just voted that he’s not – and that he’s the most trustworthy of them all.’
He continued: ‘He’s put them in an awful position now, because they can’t change their behaviour and start saying Matthew’s untrustworthy – because he will probably know, because he’s a very astute man.’
Meanwhile, banished Traitor Fiona described Matthew as a ‘strong character’ who had played a ‘wonderful game.’
However, she’d have serious concerns about working with him as a Traitor, sharing: ‘I don’t think I’d want Matthew, if I was still there, in the turret with me because he’s an intelligent, perceptive man.
‘If he’s on your side, then you’ll go all the way. But I don’t know.
‘This is a real enigma now isn’t it?’ she added. ‘Rachel and Stephen are going to have to have lots of conversations around this.’
Reece also weighed in on whether he’d have been tempted by recruitment, telling us: ‘Of course it crosses your mind. Obviously I did want to be a Traitor from the off.
‘But when I took up the role of being a Faithful, I was very pleased. That relieved the pressure.
‘I think upon reflection, the heat I would’ve got, I don’t think I’ve been too far from being recruited if the opportunity arose.’
He added: ‘If they were to have recruited me, then I would probably have only had one or two roundtables left in me anyway.
‘I would then have stood up in front of everybody, said I was a Traitor, and then everything I’ve just stood for, being authentic and genuine in all these great things, [would just go] out the window.’
Reece became the fourth Faithful to be murdered on Friday night’s episode, following in the footsteps of teacher Netty, retiree Ben, unlucky Ross and civil servant Maz.
He had inadvertently found himself at the heart of the drama when Rachel and Stephen were tasked with marking up the family tree in the foyer with potential candidates for murder.
The pair were then forced to navigate their murder in plain sight with Reece lurking uncomfortably nearby. Although fans were shocked when Reece never brought the strange interaction up again.
‘I walked away from that conversation not thinking at all [that] it was suspicious,’ said Reece, of their interaction that night.
‘It could be transparency because the environment you are in, you’re welcomed more in certain conversations than you are in others.
‘So it wasn’t the first time I was asked to leave a conversation,’ he said.
On whether he should have brought up the family tree incident with Stephen and Rachel at the following roundtable, Reece said: ‘It did cross my mind.
‘Obviously, you saw me have a conversation with Amanda about my suspicions of Steven and obviously that conversation at the family tree would’ve furthered those suspicions of Steven.’
However, he opted not to, remarking how he didn’t want to ‘put my head upon the parapet,’ further drawing attention to himself.
‘I think I was probably enjoying the fact, if anything, at this point that people weren’t saying I was there,’ Reece added.
‘I very much just sat back and was like, “yep, I wasn’t there.”
In retrospect? ‘You’d do everything differently, but it’s the beauty of the game, of course.’
The Traitors returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 8pm on Wednesday.
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