First Blood At The Round Table

September 17, 2026
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First Murder, First Banishment

SPOILERThis recap reveals who was banished this week. Keep reading only if you're caught up.

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Key Moments

Breakfast Without Kim

Breakfast Without Kim

The season's first empty chair belongs to Kim, murdered overnight before her basketball-coach cover ever paid off.

"I'm A Sweaty Boy!"

Cornered over his shield grab, Victor sweats through a defense so honest the room can't help but forgive him.

Kriste's Read Lands Wrong

Kriste turns Madeline's stray comment into a confession, and the table follows her straight off a cliff.

Madeline Banished, And She Was Faithful

A shield holder sent home on bad optics, revealed Faithful the second the votes are read. First blood, wrong target.

The Warrants In The Books

The Warrants In The Books

Katie and Xavier race to pull death warrants from matching copies of Crime and Punishment, robe or coffin on the line.

Banishment Night

Breakfast opened on an empty chair: Kim Daily, the Houston lawyer who entered the castle posing as a college basketball coach, was the season's first murder. At the Round Table the group never found its footing. Victor drew fire for grabbing a shield and for sweating through every accusation, answering with an instantly iconic "I'm a sweaty boy!" that turned heat into sympathy. The real damage came from Kriste, who seized on Madeline's offhand remark about feeling bad for Kim and framed it as good as a confession. The votes split 13 for Madeline, 7 for Victor, 1 for Kriste. Madeline was banished, and revealed as a Faithful. The cast burned its first vote on an innocent. The episode ended mid-cliffhanger, with Katie and Xavier still hunting the death warrants that decide who becomes the third Traitor and who becomes a casket.

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