Fans have been blown away by Episode 6 of The Traitors Australia 2026, which saw Australian Survivor mastermind (and Faithful) AJ Antonios correctly identify all three Traitors and attempt to strike a deal with one of them.
Spoiler alert: If you don’t want to know what happened in The Traitors Episode 6, which aired on August 19, stop reading now.
In case you haven’t been keeping up, Alex Nation, Kirby Bentley and Alvin Quah were tapped to be the three Traitors, and the rest of the Traitors cast, dubbed the Faithfuls, were tasked with figuring out the identities of the trio. For the first five episodes, the Faithfuls were a bit of a hot mess, and kept accidentally eliminating their own.
However, Episode 6 saw AJ — who had remained relatively quiet until this point — suddenly prove exactly why Australian Survivor fans know him as a strategic force. AJ not only correctly clocked Alex, Kirby and Alvin as the three Traitors, but took things one step further by approaching Alex with a bold plan to secretly work together.
Fans are loving the dramatic exchange, with viewers on Reddit hailing it as one of the best episodes across the entire international Traitors franchise.
“Best episode of The Traitors I have ever seen ever,” one wrote. “The season’s been just ok and then it just exploded this episode. Great episode. AJ is incredible wow,” another said.
“That was one of the best episodes of this show I’ve ever seen… AND WE’RE ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH THE SEASON,” a third chimed in.
What plan has AJ proposed to Alex on The Traitors?
Rather than exposing Alex to the other Faithfuls for being the Traitor he believes she is, he’s kept his theory quiet and approached her to work together proposing a joint win.
The way AJ sees his plan working is for him and Alex to work together to eliminate one of the current Traitors, and then continue to recruit new Traitors and eliminate them, too. Once the game is at the tail end, he wants Alex to recruit him as a Traitor and for the two of them to win the game together.
AJ explained this plan when he approached Alex and told her he knew about her secret identity.
“I’ve known you’re a Traitor for a while,” he told her. “Also, I know Kirby’s a Traitor. I don’t trust Kirby. I trust you. She’s scared because she knows the only way I can get through this game is with you.
“There’s a strategy, okay…. I think you need me to take down Kirby. How it works is we vote out a Traitor. I tell you who I think we should recruit. Vote that person out. We keep getting these Traitors. It gets to the end. Then you recruit me. Right at the end, when Kirby thinks she has me against you, I turn on Kirby. Then I take out Kirby.”
Do fans believe Alex and AJ will work together on The Traitors?
At the Round Table, Alex sided with AJ and voted to eliminate fellow Traitor Alvin, sending him home and suggesting she may be willing to work with AJ and play into his plan. However, in the Turret she and Kirby tossed around the idea of either recruiting AJ or ‘murdering’ him that night which would see him eliminated from the game.
Fans believe that Alex would be making the wrong decision by letting AJ stay in the game and secretly working with him, and pointed out that the next episode’s promo suggests that The Bachelor star may be in some trouble.
“Speculation but definitely looks like they murder AJ and then [the Faithfuls] gun for Alex at the next roundtable and Alex is crying because the Housewife to her left is probably the swing vote,” one wrote.
Another person mused that AJ was missing from the trailer. “I didn’t see AJ at all in the preview. Am I wrong? I think he gets murdered.”
A third user speculated that Alex may ultimately choose to stay loyal to Kirby, which could come back to haunt her later in the game.
“They are so hinting at Kirby eventually cutting Alex,” another wrote. “To me Alex is 100% loyal to Kirby and looks like Alex is getting a LOT of heat on her next roundtable.”
We are sat for the next episode!
The Traitors airs Tuesday and Wednesday on Channel 10 and 10Play.
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