The Traitors Season 4, Episode 9: Eric Nam Joins the Turret as Dorinda Is Murdered and Johnny Weir Faces Heat

The board was reshuffled in Episode 9 with a high-stakes recruitment, a headline-grabbing murder, and a round table swing that breathed new life into the Traitors’ endgame. Here’s how the latest hour recalibrated who’s in control and who’s in the crosshairs.

A new Traitor joins the turret

Confronted with a recruit-or-die twist, Rob Rausch revealed his identity and extended the cloak to Eric Nam. After an initial shock, Nam said yes, giving Rob a much-needed partner with only three round tables left to survive. Nam acknowledged the pressure of a sudden turn to deception, weighing the upside of pairing with the game’s most insulated player against the risk of becoming the next expendable accomplice.

The Rob–Eric tandem set immediate priorities: blend Nam into the shadows, keep Rob’s sheen of trust intact, and choose a murder that wouldn’t point back to either of them. Their early short list captured both strategic threats and social linchpins.

Breakfast shock: Dorinda murdered, Housewives wiped out

When the castle reconvened for breakfast, the reveal hit hard: Dorinda Medley was the overnight kill. Her exit doesn’t just thin a social hub; it also marks the full sweep of the Real Housewives contingent this season. With her allies already gone and tenuous bridges left on the board, Medley presented low blowback for the Traitors and high disruption for players counting on her read of the room.

The kill also subtly shields Rob and Eric. Few saw Medley’s elimination tracing cleanly to them, making it an efficient removal that redirected speculation elsewhere.

Suspicion swirls around Johnny Weir—and spills onto Tara Lipinski

Conversation at the table quickly shaded toward Johnny Weir as a leading suspect, with some players wondering if he’d also brought Tara Lipinski into the turret. Weir sensed the temperature rising, while Lipinski closed ranks around him, signaling she would actively push back on that narrative.

Elsewhere, Natalie Anderson pegged Stephen Colletti’s breakfast reactions as off, and Kristen pressed Lipinski directly with accusations. The result was a muddled landscape: a cluster forming against Weir, a vocal defender in Lipinski, and satellite suspicion gathering around Stephen.

Boxed-in mission ramps up paranoia

The episode’s mission forced everyone into individual boxes to predict who the Traitors would name as answers to on-the-spot questions from Alan Cumming. With no advance look at the prompts, the Traitors had to slip out stealthily and synchronize without tipping their hand to a cast primed for tells. The challenge sharpened social antennae: who seemed too coordinated, who conveniently aligned, and who looked rattled by the constraints.

Amid the tension, Rob once again maneuvered cleanly, keeping his standing largely undisturbed. For a newly minted Traitor like Nam, the exercise was a stress test in live deception; he held serve without attracting the kind of scrutiny that can snowball by nightfall.

Round table swing: Stephen Colletti banished as a Faithful

The round table delivered the episode’s biggest momentum shift. Despite a growing appetite to identify a fresh theory, the group converged on Stephen Colletti. He struggled to reverse the tide—especially after failing to land a key counterpoint that might have rerouted attention toward Rob—culminating in a vote that sent him home as a revealed Faithful. That result halted the Faithfuls’ recent streak of correct banishments and handed the Traitors a crucial breather with endgame in sight.

Colletti’s downfall traced back to stacking suspicions from breakfast and a perception that his defenses lacked new, verifiable information. In a house newly energized to hunt novel combinations, he became the path of least resistance.

Power outlook heading into Episode 10

Rob remains the most insulated player in the castle—trusted by many, targeted by few, and now flanked by a recruit who hasn’t yet tripped alarms. Nam’s challenge is to steady his nerves and calibrate his social game so he blends into the existing fault lines rather than create new ones.

Weir and Lipinski head toward the next vote with bright lights on them, while Anderson’s name continues to surface as a savvy competitor the Traitors must account for. With the Housewives chapter officially closed and the Faithfuls reeling from a misfire, the field narrows to a knife’s edge where one persuasive pitch can flip the house in a single evening.

For fans tracking the traitors episodes week to week, Episode 9 marks a tonal shift: the turret is repopulated, the most reliable social shields are gone, and the round table just reminded the castle how costly a wrong read can be with the finale coming into view.