Reality TV's most murderous game is back on tonight after taking a break last week. Season 5 of "The Traitors" premiered three weeks ago, with 22 new gamers embarking on a game of blind trust, backstabbing and betrayal.
Ahead of the new episode tonight, Thursday, Oct. 8, there are 17 players left in the game and only one Floridian left in the castle. And the last Floridian standing officially became the third traitor in the turret during the second week.
Here's when the next episode of "The Traitors: New Blood" airs, who has been murdered and banished so far, who the traitors are, how the game works and how to watch the show.
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Is there a new episode of 'The Traitors' tonight?
Yes. After taking a break last week, "The Traitors: New Blood" will return tonight,
Thursday, Oct. 8, with Episode 5.
New episodes of "The Traitors: New Blood" air Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and stream on Peacock the next day.
How many episodes of 'The Traitors' Season 5 are out? See airing schedule for 'The Traitors: New Blood'
As of Thursday, Oct. 8, there are four episodes of "The Traitors: New Blood" available to stream on Peacock.
After airing four episodes in the first two weeks of the new season, the show took a break last week. The fifth episode will air tonight at 8 p.m. ET and will be available to stream tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 9.
September 17: Episodes 1 and 2 aired back-to-back starting at 8:00 p.m. ET.September 24: Episodes 3 and 4 aired back-to-back starting at 8:00 p.m. ET.October 1: No New Episode.- October 8: Episode 5 airs at 8:00 p.m. ET.
- October 15: Episode 6 airs at 8:00 p.m. ET.
- October 22: Episode 7 airs at 8:00 p.m. ET.
- October 29: Episode 8 airs at 8:00 p.m. ET.
- November 5: Episode 9 airs at 8:00 p.m. ET.
- November 12: Episode 10 airs at 8:00 p.m. ET.
- November 19: Episodes 11 and 12 air the finale at 8:00 p.m. ET.
'The Traitors: New Blood' 2026 cast has 1 Floridian left. See who's been murdered and banished
Originally, "The Traitors: New Blood" cast included two Floridians: Katie Fites, a marketing manager from Jacksonville, and Xavier Scruggs, an MLB analyst from Wesley Chapel. After facing off in a competition to become the third traitor on the third episode, Katie is the only Floridian left ahead of the fifth episode tonight. Xavier was murdered and sent home after losing the competition to become the third traitor.
According to Fites' bio on NBC, she's also an actress and plans to use those skills to her advantage in the game.
"I'm going to trust my gut going into this, and I think that I have the potential to make a really fun environment while also reading people, connecting with people, and then if necessary, backstabbing people if it saves me," she told NBC.
Here's the full cast list:
- Abbey Benjamin, a nurse from Mangham, Louisiana
- Abby Lee, an astrophysicist from St. Paul, Minnesota
- Ben McDonnell, a barrel racer from Granbury, Texas
- Clyde Moser, a teacher from Charleston, South Carolina
- Dr. Jay Vinnedge, a physician from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Joe Vanella, a funeral director from Wantagh, New York
- Katie Fites, a marketing manager from Jacksonville, Florida
- Kriste Lewis, a realtor from Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Mark Zgoda, a personal trainer from Phillipsburg, New Jersey
- Michael Foote, a lawyer from New York City, New York
- Morgan Cook, a content creator from Midland, Michigan
- Niyyah Hayes, a therapist from Indianapolis, Indiana
- Shane Beatty, an iron worker from Staten Island, New York
- Sherry Kuehl, a writer from Leawood, Kansas
- Tomica Adams, a pilot from Boston, Massachusetts
- Victor Vollbrechthausen, a business executive from New York City, New York
- Wyatt Gillespie, a designer from Ligonier, Pennsylvania
Logan Smith, a realtor from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, murdered week twoArisa Thomas, a dog groomer from Los Angeles, California, banished week twoXavier Scruggs, an MLB analyst from Wesley Chapel, Florida, murdered week twoKim Daily, a lawyer from Houston, murdered week oneMadeline Kostopulos, a construction manager from San Diego, California, banished week one
Who are the traitors on 'New Blood'? Florida's Katie Fites is a traitor
There were two traitors selected in the premiere: Tomica Adams, a pilot from Boston, and Joe Vanella, a funeral director from Wantagh, New York.
In yet another deviation from the show's method thus far, two people were chosen by the traitors to complete a series of secret tasks to become the third traitor.
They chose MLB analyst from Wesley Chapel, Xavier Scruggs, and marketing manager from Jacksonville, Katie Fites, who also happens to be the youngest player this season.
In the third episode, Katie Fites was chosen as the third traitor and Xavier was murdered and sent home.
What are the rules of 'The Traitors'? How the show works
Based on the original Dutch show, the U.S. version follows the same premise — a group of contestants must work together on "missions" to add money to their overall prize pot, which can climb as high as $250,000.
However, hidden amongst the "faithful" contestants are the "traitors," whose goal is to eliminate the faithful and claim the prize for themselves.
Think of the party game "Mafia," but with a quarter of a million dollars at stake. In Peacock's version, contestants stay in an ancient Scottish castle. Award-winning Scottish actor Alan Cumming has hosted "The Traitors" since its American debut in 2023 and is also an executive producer on the show.
Every night, the selected "traitors" of the group meet in the castle's turret after all of the "faithful" have gone to sleep and choose one person to "murder." Each day at breakfast, the contestants who "survived" the night enter the room in small groups. As the contestants enter, each traitor tries their hand at keeping it cool and minimizing suspicion, acting as surprised as a faithful would when it is revealed who was "murdered" the night before.
Every night after dinner but before the traitors meet in the turret, the entire group has a roundtable discussion in which they attempt to reveal and banish a traitor by casting votes. After they are banished, the player reveals whether they were a traitor or a faithful.
What makes this season different from past seasons, though, is that the contestants are all regular people. Previously, contestants were celebrities, public figures or reality stars, with a significant number of contestants coming from other gaming shows, like "Survivor" or "Big Brother." The first season of the U.S. version of "The Traitors" mixed regular people with reality stars.
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