The Traitors NZ/Season 2

The Traitors NZ/Season 2
Season Information
Version	New Zealand
Season	2
Host(s)	Paul Henry
Network	Three
Filming Location	Castle Claremont, Claremont, Canterbury, New Zealand
Filming Date	March 2024
Production Company	South Pacific Pictures
Episodes	12
Premiere	July 1, 2024
Finale	August 5, 2024
Maximum Prize	NZ$100,000
Final Prize	NZ$73,000
Cast
Contestants	22 3 original Traitors 19 initial Faithfuls
Traitors	Jane Massey Mike Adams Whitney Greene Jackie Pope (from Episode 1) Bailey Kench (from Episode 8) Siale Tunoka (from Episode 9) Ben Porter (from Episode 10)
Winning Faction	Traitors
Winner(s)	Bailey Kench
Runner(s)-Up	Donna Officer
Season Chronology
Previous Season	Season 1

The Traitors NZ Season 2 is the second season of The Traitors NZ that premiered on July 1, 2024, and aired every Monday and Tuesday at 7:00pm.

Unique Characteristics & Twists

• The Bribe: At the start of the game, the contestants were offered alcoholic drinks served by last season's winner Sam Smith. Two contestants who selected red drinks won NZ$5,000 each, and had the option to either keep the money for themselves or donate it to the overall prize fund.
• Early Recruitment: Before committing a Murder on their first night, and any Traitors were Banished, the Traitors Recruited a Faithful from the start of the game.
• Banishment or Murder: After the Mission in Episode 6, Paul announced to the remaining contestants that there would be either a Banishment or Murder that night (but not both). For a Banishment to take place, the players that remained tied (see below) had to unanimously agree on it; additionally, the winnings from the Mission would be doubled if a Traitor was Banished that night, but voided if a Faithful left instead. If any contestant decided to choose Murder, there would be no Roundtable, and the Traitors would go to the Conclave and commit a Murder afterwards, but the tied contestants instead all received a Shield.
• Traitors' Ultimatum: At the end of Episode 7, there was only one Traitor left. They had to decide two Faithfuls who will be offering an Ultimatum and a Murder to each of them. The Faithfuls have 30 seconds each to make their case before the remaining Traitor makes the decision. Should the Faithful receive the Ultimatum, they have the option to either be obliged to accept Recruitment or be Murdered otherwise. This was then revealed in episode 8. And later in Episode 9
• Non reveal: In the finale the banished players did not reveal their role.

Contestants

Winner: Traitor    Bailey

Finalist: Faithful    Donna

Banished: Faithful    Jason

Banished: Faithful    Joe

Banished: Traitor    Siale

Banished: Faithful    Noel

Murdered: Faithful    Cat

Banished: Traitor    Ben

Banished: Faithful    Molly

Murdered: Faithful    Utah

Banished: Traitor    Jane

Murdered: Faithful    Mark

Banished: Traitor    Mike

Banished: Faithful    Stephen

Murdered: Faithful    Brittany

Banished: Traitor    Whitney

Murdered: Faithful    Brie

Banished: Faithful    Andrew

Banished: Traitor    Jackie

Murdered: Faithful    Wiremu

Banished: Faithful    Terry

Murdered: Faithful    Janay

Contestant	Age	Hometown	Occupation	Faction	Result	Exit Episode	Finish
Bailey Kench	28	Auckland, Auckland	Videographer	Traitor (from Episode 8) Faithful (Episode 1-7)	Winner	Episode 12	1st
Donna Officer	40	Te Puke, Bay of Plenty	Information manager	Faithful	Finalist	Episode 12	2nd
Jason Kahika	52	Tauranga, Bay of Plenty	Landscaper	Faithful	Banished	Episode 12	3rd
Joe Fa'agase	30	Brisbane, Australia	Influencer	Faithful	Banished	Episode 12	4th
Siale Tunoka	43	Dunedin, Otago	Teacher	Traitor (from Episode 9) Faithful (Episode 1-8)	Banished	Episode 12	5th
Noel Calamas	22	Invercargill, Southland/New York, USA	Writer	Faithful	Banished	Episode 11	6th
Cat Hooker	40	Melbourne, Australia	Occupational therapist	Faithful	Murdered	Episode 11	7th
Ben Porter	22	Sydney, Australia	Actor	Traitor (from Episode 10) Faithful (Episode 1-9)	Banished	Episode 10	8th
Molly Fehr	24	Dunedin, Otago	Emergency responder	Faithful	Banished	Episode 9	9th
Utah Mann	28	Auckland, Auckland	Wrestler	Faithful	Murdered	Episode 9	10th
Jane Massey	53	Tauranga, Bay of Plenty	Diversity officer	Traitor	Banished	Episode 8	11th
Mark Mockridge	32	Auckland, Auckland	Game master	Faithful	Murdered	Episode 8	12th
Mike Adams	35	New Plymouth, Taranaki	Builder	Traitor	Banished	Episode 7	13th
Stephen Lane	67	Hamilton, Waikato	Retired salesman	Faithful	Banished	Episode 6	14th
Brittany Cunningham	32	Auckland, Auckland	Influencer	Faithful	Murdered	Episode 6	15th
Whitney Greene	38	Cromwell, Otago	Funeral director	Traitor	Banished	Episode 5	16th
Brie Anglesey	24	Wellington, Wellington	Administrator	Faithful	Murdered	Episode 5	17th
Andrew Allemora	37	Auckland, Auckland	Marketing executive	Faithful	Banished	Episode 4	18th
Jackie Pope	70	Auckland, Auckland	Clairvoyant	Traitor (from Episode 1) Faithful (Episode 1)	Banished	Episode 4	19th
Wiremu Tapara	32	Tauranga, Bay of Plenty	Council manager	Faithful	Murdered	Episode 3	20th
Terry Frisby	51	Invercargill, Southland	Account manager	Faithful	Banished	Episode 2	21st
Janay Harding	29	Auckland, Auckland	MMA fighter	Faithful	Murdered	Episode 2	22nd

Voting History

Episode			1-2		3-4		4	5	6		7	8		9		10	11	12
Traitors' Decision			Jackie	Janay	Wiremu		Andrew, Brie & Noel	Brie	Brittany		N.A.	Mark	Bailey	Siale	Utah	Ben	Cat	N.A.					Finale
Banishment			Terry		Tie	Jackie	Andrew	Whitney	Banish	Stephen	Mike	Jane		Molly		Ben	Noel	Siale	Banish Again	Joe	Banish Again	Jason
Finish	Vote		10-7-3-1		5-5-3-3-2-1	9-8	8-7-3	10-5-1	4-0	10-2-1-1	11-1-1	8-2-1		4-3-2		5-2-1	5-2	3-2	4-0	2-1-1	3-0	2-1
1		Bailey	Terry		Jane	Molly	Andrew	Noel	N.A.	Mike	Mike	Jane		Molly		Ben	Donna	Siale	Banish Again	Joe	Banish Again	Jason	Winner
2		Donna	Mark		Jane	Jackie	Noel	Noel	Banish	Stephen	Mike	Noel		Joe		Noel	Noel	Siale	Banish Again	Joe	Banish Again	Jason	Finalist
3		Jason	Mark		Mark	Molly	Brie	Noel	N.A.	Mark	Mike	Jane		Molly		Ben	Noel	Siale	Banish Again	Bailey	Banish Again	Bailey
4		Joe	Terry		Molly	Molly	Brie	Whitney		Stephen	Mike	Jane		Joe		Ben	Noel	Bailey	Banish Again	Jason
5		Siale	Terry		Noel	Jackie	Noel	Whitney		Stephen	Mike	Jane		Molly		Ben	Noel	Bailey
6		Noel	Mark		Molly	Molly	Andrew	Whitney		Stephen	Mike	Molly		Molly		Ben	Donna
7		Cat	Terry		Molly	Molly	Noel	Whitney	Banish	Stephen	Mike	Jane		Siale		Siale	Murdered
8		Ben	Terry		Noel	Molly	Andrew	Whitney	N.A.	Stephen	Mike	Jane		Siale		Siale
9		Molly	Terry		Jackie	No Vote	Noel	Whitney		Stephen	Mike	Jane		Siale
10		Utah	Mark		Jackie	Jackie	Andrew	Whitney		Stephen	Mike	Jane		Murdered
11		Jane	Terry		Molly	Jackie	Noel	Whitney	Banish	Stephen	Mike	Noel
12		Mark	Jane		Molly	Jackie	Andrew	Noel	N.A.	Bailey	Jason	Murdered
13		Mike	Brie		Brittany	Jackie	Andrew	Whitney		Stephen	Mark
14		Stephen	Terry		Jackie	Jackie	Andrew	Mark	Banish	Mark
15		Brittany	Mark		Jackie	Jackie	Noel	Whitney	Murdered
16		Whitney	Mark		Brittany	Jackie	Noel	Noel
17		Brie	Terry		Jackie	Molly	Andrew	Murdered
18		Andrew	Jane		Noel	Molly	Brie
19		Jackie	Terry		Brittany	No Vote
20		Wiremu	Mark		Murdered
21		Terry	Jane
22		Janay	Murdered

Key:

Banished Traitor

Banished Faithful

Murdered

Black List

Shielded

Used Dagger

Recruited

Rejected

Traitor

Faithful

Season Overview

Episode 1

Airdate: July 1, 2024

• Prize Earned: NZ$10,000 out of NZ$10,000
• Traitors Selected: Jane, Mike & Whitney
• Mission Synopsis:
  The 22 players split up into 5 teams as they have 30 minutes to search the manor and its surrounding ground as they must locate 5 doll body parts for Paul's daughter's doll, using the clues provided to them at the start. Once they find the body parts along with a piece of map, they must return to the staircase before receiving 2 silver bars worth of NZ$500 each. Once all five teams found the body parts, the group must decoded the last room using the pieces of maps they had collected and nominated 3 players to go to the room and search for the missing pairs of doll eyes within the allotted time remaining. If the players manage to found it before the time runs out, the prize pot will add up to the additional NZ$5,000.
• Prize Earned: NZ$10,000 out of NZ$10,000
• Recruitment: Jackie (Accepted)

Episode 2

Airdate: July 1, 2024

• Murdered: Janay
• Mission Synopsis: Minesweeper
  The 21 contestants were divided into 1 team of 6 and 1 team of 7. Each round, each team would have 45 seconds to crawl through a 'minefield' and form a pair or a trio to find a 'mine' containing a true statement about the game. If they were correct, the 'mine' would contain 2 silver bars (NZ$1,000); if they were wrong, the 'mine' would instead blow up. There was also a 'mine' in each round with a shield symbol containing 2 shields for the pair, making up to 4 players to have a Shield.
• Prize Earned: NZ$7,000 out of NZ$10,000
• Shields: Siale, Terry, Utah & Whitney
• Banished: Terry (10-7-3-1)

Episode 3

Airdate: July 8, 2024

• Murdered: Wiremu
• Mission Synopsis:
  The group dressed up for Wiremu's "funeral" at a church, and the host announced that only 12 players that Wiremu selected beforehand would enter the hall. The remaining players must determine which selected players they must eliminate, down to only 3 players that can be chosen to receive 4 silver bars each. Using Wiremu's last recording will on VHS, the players then runs inside the church hall and choose which players inside to eliminate based on Wiremu's impressions of them. If they successfully identify the 3 remaining selected players, they will contribute up to NZ$6,000.
• Prize Earned: NZ$2,000 out of NZ$6,000

Episode 4

Airdate: July 8, 2024

• Banished: Jackie (5-5-3-3-2-1; 9-8 in the revote)
• Deathrow: Andrew, Brie & Noel
• Mission Synopsis:
  While the three Deathrow players were isolated from the group and digging a grave far away, the remaining players formed into three groups of five, with three team leaders came up and choosing one of the tableware cloche displayed in Breakfast room. After selecting one of the three and revealing the contents of an animal (a foot, an eyeball, and a tongue), the players then taken outside, into a building and into a makeshift butcher room. One by one, each team was seated at a long table and had to guess and wrote down which body part and from which animal was under their cloche within 60 seconds based only on the senses that they picked: touch, sight, or taste, respectively. If any members manage to correctly identify both the body part and the animal it came from, they will add NZ$500 to the prize pot for the team.
• Prize Earned: NZ$1,500 out of NZ$7,500
• Banished: Andrew (8-7-3)

Episode 5

Airdate: July 15, 2024

• Murdered: Brie
• Mission Synopsis:
  The contestants at the Breakfast table were split into four teams of four, with one brave volunteer from each team to being locked inside a crate. The teams have 20 minutes to use their hands and one person at a time to reach in three mystery boxes containing hair, meat, soup, beds of nails, and mouse traps in search for 4 numbers imprinted inside. Once the team figures out the four number as the code for the padlock on the crates, they must race down from the lighthouse to a shoreline where the crates and fellow players located and try to free them out. If all teams managed to free their players and race back to the lighthouse before the times run out, the group will earn NZ$4,000 into the prize pot, with the fastest team to return receiving the shield box, where it is later revealed that only 2 shields are available for 2 players among the four-person group, and decided which players receiving it before returning back to the manor.
• Prize Earned: NZ$4,000 out of NZ$4,000
• Shields: Cat & Donna
• Banished: Whitney (10-7-3-1)

Episode 6

Airdate: July 15, 2024

• Murdered: Brittany
• Mission Synopsis:
  The group arrived at an open field where they had to nominate 2 people for collecting the piece of a puzzle of the Traitor logo while the remaining players were tied and gagged on a pole. During any time, the players can cut the rope and free the players on the pole by using a dull knife and gloves Paul provided to them, and can free up to every players until all of the pieces are collected and brought to the target area. The players had 20 minutes to collect and assemble the pieces back correctly in order to received NZ$2,000 from a bag dropped by the helicopter.
• Prize Earned: NZ$2,000 out of NZ$2,000
• Banished: Stephen (10-7-3-1)
• Prize Losted: NZ$2,000 out of NZ$36,500

Episode 7

Airdate: July 22, 2024

• Mission Synopsis: Silver Relay
  The 13 contestants had 60 minutes to retreat their heavy backpacks and transport as many silver bars (each worth NZ$250) as they could up to the top of Mount Horrible before returning to the start to retrieve more bars. Paul was also stationed at the checkpoint, offering refreshments and temptations (such as beers, donkeys, and a Shield) for NZ$250 from the prize fund each.
• Prize Earned: NZ$3,500 out of NZ$8,000
• Shields: Ben, Cat & Utah
• Banished: Mike (11-1-1)

Episode 8

Airdate: July 22, 2024

• Recruitment: Mark (Rejected), Bailey (Accepted)
• Murdered: Mark
• Mission Synopsis:
  The 11 contestants were split into two teams of 4 and one team of 3 for the Seance Mission on a loft outside of the Manor. They must place a stone on one of the five Murdered players' cards (Janay, Wiremu, Brie, Brittany, and Mark) and try to match their answer on another player from a random question that Paul has chosen. If a team managed to answer correctly to the Murdered players answer, they will win a silver bar worth NZ$500, and the team with the most correct answers will earn Shields for its members each. A total of three rounds were conducted, and in the event that two or more teams are tied, the host will begin a tiebreaker question with the Murdered player that has been selected the least, and whoever touches the crystal balls first will get the chance to answer and win the Shields of the team if the answer is correct.
• Prize Earned: NZ$1,000 out of NZ$4,500
• Shields: Bailey, Ben & Donna
• Banished: Jane (8-2-1)

Episode 9

Airdate: July 29, 2024

• Recruitment: Siale (Accepted)
• Murdered: Utah
• Mission Synopsis:
  The 9 contestants were "kidnapped" and taken into a shed. With their hands being shackled and its rope ties on a pole in the centre of the shed, they had 30 minutes to dig through the hay to find small ropes with a magnet attached to it, which they must use to reach for the keys dangling on the rafter and unlock their shackles. Once they were free from the shackles, they can use the knife nearby to cut one of the nine creepy voodoo dolls with their name on to receive a silver bar worth NZ$500. They can also go for Paul's doll and receive up to four silver bars worth NZ$2,000 in total. The player's dolls that remain intact will be given a Shield to the corresponded players, along with an additional Shield that can be given to any remaining players.
• Prize Earned: NZ$6,000 out of NZ$6,000
• Shields: Ben & Cat
• Banished: Molly (4-3-2)

Episode 10

Airdate: July 29, 2024

• Recruitment: Ben (Accepted)
• Mission Synopsis:
  The 8 contestants arrived at an empty warehouse with four electric chairs; four of them will be seated at the chairs, while the remaining 4 players will be asked a series of questions that happen throughout the season so far. If they managed to answer correctly, their teammates are safe and NZ$500 will be added to the prize pot; however, if they answer incorrectly, no prize will be added and the teammates get electrocuted. A total of eleven questions were conducted.
• Prize Earned: NZ$4,000 out of NZ$5,500
• Banished: Ben (5-2-1)

Episode 11

Airdate: August 5, 2024

• Murdered: Cat
• Mission Synopsis: 2 Truth and a Lie
  The 6 contestants are invited to a dinner table where 3 contestants sit on one side and the other 3 sit on the opposite side, unknowingly dividing themselves into 2 teams of three where Paul decided to let them play a game of 2 Truth and a Lie: one member on a team will read a card with three statements about their lives and the members of the opposite team will have to guess which one was a lie, and they can question the player about any information regarding the statements before making the guess. If the opposite team guessed correctly, the group will earn NZ$1,000 for the prize pot; if they guess it wrong, no money will be added, but the opposite team will get the chance to earn a Dagger for an extra vote. In the event of a tie, both teams will determine whether a statement about Paul's life is true or false, and whoever answered first will give their team the chance for a Dagger if the answer is correct. When a team is winning the Mission, all 3 teammates will draw a dagger from the roasted poultry, and whoever draws the largest dagger will win a Dagger for themselves at the next Roundtable.
• Prize Earned: NZ$4,000 out of NZ$6,000
• Dagger: Jason
• Banished: Noel (5-2)

Episode 12

Airdate: August 5, 2024

• Mission Synopsis:
  The final five contestants were taken to 5 different locations across Canterbury, where, upon arriving at their destination, they will receive an instruction from Paul heard from their walkman about 5 Fear Factor-inspire missions they would complete as follows:
  - Bailey: Locked and bound in a coffin and try to free herself from the coffin using the clue inside the coffin; follow by crawling into the manor sewage tunnel and try to locate and ring a handbell hidden at the end.
  - Donna: Dissecting a mouse to remove the heart, lungs and intestines, then putting the same organs back inside the dead mouse and stitching back up.
  - Jason: Abseiling a rock cliff to the ground floor, then climbing back up to the top of the cliff.
  - Joe: Drink 5 shots of hot sauces followed by eating 5 different chillies from a chilli plant.
  - Siale: Lie down on a bed full of insects for 5 minutes, when an alarm clock goes off indicating the time is up, pop himself in a box full of crickets and recite the names of the eliminated players from the first Murdered contestant to the lastest Banished contestant, and must recite from the start again if the answer is incorrect.

For any contestants completing it within the allotted time (30 minute), they will win NZ$4,000 for the team, meaning they can earn up to NZ$20,000 in the final prize pot if all of the contestants complete the Mission successfully.

• Prize Earned: NZ$20,000 out of NZ$20,000
• Banished:
  • Siale (3-2)
  • Joe (2-1-1)
  • Jason (2-1)
• Runners-Up(s): Donna
• Winner(s): Bailey

Viewership

Ratings are sourced from isolated reports from Screen Scribe.

Episode	Airdate	Viewership		Audience Rating	Audience Share	Rank
		5+	25-54			Timeslot	Day
1	July 1, 2024	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	July 2, 2024	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	July 8, 2024	-	56,393	-	-	-	-
4	July 9, 2024	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	July 15, 2024	-	32,496	-	-	-	-
6	July 16, 2024	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	July 22, 2024	-	36,646	-	-	-	-
8	July 23, 2024	-	39,989	-	-	-	-
9	July 29, 2024	-	36,657	-	-	3	-
10	July 30, 2024	-	53,649	-	-	-	-
11	August 6, 2024	-	-	-	-	-	-
12	August 7, 2024	-	53,644	2.53	14.08	3	-

Trivia

• This season is the officially-licensed season with the most number of Traitors: seven Original and Recruited Traitors total.
  • This is the first season that the Recruited Traitors outnumber the Original Traitors and became the first season to contain the most Recruited in any franchise: 4 Recruited.
• This season is the first English-speaking season to include a Dagger in the game mechanism.

References

The Traitors NZ
Seasons	Season 1 • Season 2
Hosts	Paul Henry
Filming locations	Woodhouse Mountain Lodge • Castle Claremont