The conclusion was to banish Hesmondhalgh, who, in her parting words, said it had been an “immense experience”.
“Alas,” she continued, confirming her fidelity as tears appeared in eyes around the table: “It may mean I am not a phenomenal actor.”
Singer Blunt, who had led the charge against her, appears to have now put himself in the frame. He told the group: “I’m so sorry, that’s my fault.”
“He’s been wrong about every theory he’s came up with,” said Rooney.
“So have I,” added a frustrated Croft.
Hart declared that “everything is up in the air” now, following Hesmondhalgh’s eviction, which King Kenny called the team’s “biggest loss” so far.
But what of the traitors?
First recruit, Acaster’s strategy is to simply continue playing the game as if he is a faithful, he said. Jama is clearly loving life on the dark side and leaning into it, while Fry, it’s fair to say, is finding it tougher.
“You two saved me,” Fry told the other two of her stressful day, while back in the turret in their cloaks.
Jama, who is now firmly the ringleader of the tormentors, demanded that her conscripted co-conspirators now “snap into murder mode”.
The episode ended not with a murder but a fresh twist – the promise of a deathly game of hide-and-seek for four chosen contestants.
