Rachel ‘outed herself’ as a Traitor and absolutely no one noticed

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of The Traitors.

There's only one final episode of The Traitors to go and there's plenty of drama to unpack from last night's events in the castle, including that absolute cliffhanger ending to the roundtable discussion.

We went into the penultimate episode with our two Traitors, Rachel and Stephen, having decided to murder Roxy, a move your humble writer thinks was a major mistake since she wasn't suspicious of either of them and even said she hoped they won the show before discovering it was them who sent her packing.

Now it's two Traitors versus four Faithfuls, Jack, James, Jade and Faraaz, and last night's episode ended on a cliffhanger over who would be going.

But some viewers reckon that Rachel had already accidentally 'outed herself' as a Traitor in front of the other players without them actually noticing it.

A couple of episodes back Rachel announced to the other players she knew who a Traitor was but wouldn't spill the beans until the roundtable, during which she went for Ellie who was revealed to be a Faithful.

Rachel managed to get Ellie banished at the roundtable (BBC)

It's left some viewers thinking the other players have been 'ignoring the signs' that Rachel, who has claimed to have got FBI training before going on The Traitors, was so wrong with her assessment.

They wondered 'how is no one suspicious of Rachel from the fact she went so hard on Ellie' and thought getting it wrong should 'throw suspicion on Rachel'.

The following episode there was not a single vote cast for Rachel and the other players didn't appear to bring up suspicions that she'd led the charge against someone and been so wrong about it, or perhaps there wasn't time for it in the episode edit.

It's not the first time viewers think she's made a mistake in plain sight which has gone undetected, with her having previously mentioned a moment only the Traitors and another Faithful were in the room for.

Still, for the most part, she's played an absolute blinder throughout the show by avoiding major suspicion and bouncing the biggest accusations against her back on the players coming at her.

Rachel has been one of the most devious Traitors on the show (BBC)

However, it does appear the other players might finally be catching on, as the heat was on Rachel in the penultimate episode.

Rachel had gone through the game for so long with barely a hint of suspicion towards her. Fiona and Harriet had both gone very strongly for her but until the latest episode she'd had only one solitary vote cast for her at the roundtable.

However, Faithful Faraaz might have made the play of the game, as he's been convincingly voicing suspicion of Rachel, leading the rest of the players to wonder how such a strong presence in the game hasn't yet been murdered if she really is a Faithful.

In the end, the roundtable came down to a tied vote between her and James, with the attempted tiebreaker vote once again being deadlocked.

The episode ended on the dramatic cliffhanger of their fate being left up to chance which will decide whether Stephen is the sole Traitor in the final or whether Rachel will make it through to the last episode after all.

The final episode of The Traitors starts at the slightly later time of 8.30pm on BBC One and iPlayer.