Who Was Murdered and Banished on The Traitors: New Blood? Season 1 Eliminations So Far

Quick answer: Five of the 22 players are out of The Traitors: New Blood after four episodes, and all five were Faithful. Kim Daily, Xavier Scruggs and Logan Smith were murdered; Madeline Kostopulos and Arisa Thomas were banished at the Round Table. The Traitors are Tomica Adams, Joe Vanella and, since Episode 3, Katie Fites. Seventeen players remain, and Episode 5 airs Thursday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

Who has been murdered and banished so far?

That is two Round Tables and two wrong answers. The Faithful have not caught a Traitor yet, and every banishment so far has cost them a teammate rather than the other side a player.

Who are the Traitors on The Traitors: New Blood?

This season adds a turret twist. Tomica and Joe named two accomplices, Katie and Xavier, and set them a test: pull a blank death warrant out of a castle book without anyone noticing. Both managed it, the Traitors took Katie into the turret, and Xavier was murdered that same night. TVLine and TODAY both report the same outcome.

What happened on Sept. 24?

Two hours, three players gone. Episode 3 settled the third Traitor and cost Xavier his place. Episode 4, titled "The Death Parade," opened with Logan's murder at breakfast and ended with Arisa's banishment. She had been under suspicion since a conversation with Victor Vollbrechthausen in the billiards room that other players read as a recruitment talk. It was not one, and she left as a Faithful.

We have not found two recaps that agree on the running prize total, so we are not printing one. The cap for the season is $250,000.

How did the first banishment go wrong?

Madeline Kostopulos, a construction manager from San Diego, went out on a misheard sentence. Talking with Victor and Kriste Lewis after Kim's murder, she said she would have felt bad about picking Kim. Kriste heard it as an admission, and the Round Table followed her lead. Gold Derby, Parade and NBC's own recap all tell it the same way.

How does a murder or a banishment work on this show?

Each night the Traitors meet in secret and pick one Faithful to murder. The castle finds out at breakfast, when that player does not walk in. The Round Table is the other exit: everyone votes, the player with the most votes is banished, and only then do they reveal which side they were on. That reveal is why the table above has a Role column, and why two Faithful exits in a row matter so much for the Faithful.

The recruitment test is the new wrinkle for this spin-off. Instead of simply offering a Faithful a seat, Tomica and Joe made two accomplices compete for one, and the loser did not get to go back to being a Faithful. That turned a recruitment night into a murder night as well, which is how Sept. 24 produced three exits in two hours.

Money works the same way it does in the main show. Missions add gold to a shared pot, capped at $250,000 this season. If only Faithful are left at the end, they split it; if a Traitor survives to the final, the Traitors take everything.

Who is still in the castle?

Seventeen of the 22. Here they are alphabetically, with the Traitors marked.

When is the next episode?

Thursday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, with Peacock streaming it the next day. Our premiere time guide has the time-zone breakdown and the streaming options. The skipped week is a scheduling gap, not a finale: 17 players is a long way from the end game.

Over on CBS, Big Brother 28 is down to its final three before an Oct. 1 finale; our Big Brother start-time page has its last Sunday. Other elimination shows are tracked the same way: Survivor 51 on Wednesdays, Dancing with the Stars on Tuesdays and The Voice on Mondays. The full autumn calendar is in our fall reality TV guide.

FAQ

Has a Traitor been banished yet?
No. Both banished players, Madeline Kostopulos and Arisa Thomas, were Faithful.

How many players are left on The Traitors: New Blood?
Seventeen after Episode 4, down from 22.

Is The Traitors: New Blood on Oct. 1?
No new episode is listed that night. Episode 5 is Thursday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. ET.

Sources

• NBC Insider — "Who Was Murdered and Banished on The Traitors: New Blood?" and the official cast list
• TVLine — Episodes 3 and 4 recap
• TODAY — Episodes 3 and 4 murders and banishments
• Gold Derby — Episode 2 recap; Parade — premiere eliminations
• TVmaze — episode titles and air dates (data provided by TVmaze)

By the Reality On Air desk · Updated Sept. 24, 10:42 p.m. ET