Warning: This story contains spoilers from the three-episode season 3 premiere of The Traitors.
Boston Rob Mariano got his chance to serve revenge on The Traitors.
At the beginning of the Jan. 9 premiere, host Alan Cumming gave the cast the chance to welcome Boston Rob, 49, into the game and eliminate someone else before the competition truly began. But no one took the opportunity, and it seemed like the Survivor winner wouldn’t get his chance to play.
But at the end of episode 1, Alan, 59, informed Boston Rob that he would, in fact, be entering the game — as a Traitor, joining RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Bob the Drag Queen, Big Brother’s Danielle Reyes and fellow Survivor vet Carolyn Wiger.
“I’m gonna murder ‘em all,” Rob said to Alan. “I can’t wait.”
At the start of episode 2, Alan revealed that two other players would be entering the competition: The Challenge’s Wes Bergmann and Big Brother’s Derrick Levasseur. The three new additions were immune from being the second person murdered (Real Housewives of New York City alum Dorinda Medley was the first) and they each entered with a shield to give out.
Alan introduced the three new players to the rest of the contestants at the start of their second mission, during which Derrick, 40, Rob and Wes, 40, hung from individual cages in the woods.
“I can’t stand that a–hole,” Carolyn, 38, said when she saw Wes. “I don’t want him in the game and now he’s here!”
The existing players needed to lower the new contestants by scavenging sacks of coins from around the woodlands and depositing the coins in one of the newbies’ collectors. Each coin was worth $100, and only the players lowered within the 20 minutes could give out their shields.
The contestants lowered Rob first, followed by Derrick and lastly, Wes, for a total of $15,000 and a chance at earning three shields. Rob ended up giving his to Survivor’s Tony Vlachos, but the 51-year-old still got banished in episode 3.
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Rob, Derrick and Wes, who he nicknamed The Cage Boys, also couldn’t vote in the first banishment, which saw Bachelor in Paradise’s Wells Adams become the first one eliminated. Wes planned to give his shield to Wells, 40, before his banishment, but ended up giving it Survivor’s Jeremy Collins in order to get the Survivor contingency on his side.
“I’m just kissing a–,” Wes said to the cameras.
Derek gave his to Dylan Efron and he let Danielle know that he did so in order to get someone from outside of the Big Brother alliance on their side.
With the shields distributed, the Traitors — now with the addition of Boston Rob — ultimately decided to kill The Real Housewives of Dubai’s Chanel Ayan.
“When I say revenge is a dish best served cold, that goes for all of them,” he told the cameras. “Of course they’re going to be coming for me, so now anyone’s fair game.”
During the third mission, which required pairs of contestants to try to make it through a funhouse in a game that was part luck, part statistics, Rob found himself getting frustrated with his castmates.
“I can’t believe how unstrategic this entire group is,” he complained in a confessional interview.
While Wes and his partner Ciara Miller made it the furthest, ultimately no one got all the way through the funhouse and earned the shield at the end.
At the second roundtable meeting, Rob helped put the nail in Tony’s coffin for banishment when Dylan, 32, wanted to make a case for Bob the Drag Queen, 38.
“I’m thinking about my game plan first and foremost,” Rob said in a confessional interview. “Let me build some trust with people that I already know. So that when I slit their throat, they don’t see it coming. Vicious, I know.”
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