The competition is getting tough on The Traitors Canada Season 2 (on CTV, CTV.ca, the CTV app and streaming on Crave), with a second Traitor, Kyra, banished from the manor. But in a particularly interesting turn of events, it was her fellow Traitor, Neda, that rallied the house against Kyra.
"I was trying my best to give the Faithfuls ammunition, all my information without spoiling anything," Kyra told Yahoo Canada. "I hate those seasons where the other Traitor's super petty, and they underline and exclamation point. ... I think that's just not a good way to end the game."
"I don't want to ever sabotage someone like that, but in the same breath I'm like, 'No. If I'm going down, I'm going to make sure that I've given what I've seen.' ... So we'll see what they do."
Kyra not only spent the game trying to conceal her identity as a Traitor, but she also had the secret sibling, her brother Nick, in the manor. In this week's episode, with Kyra gaining suspicion in the manor, it was really the first time we saw Nick struggle with playing the game and protecting his sister at the same time.
"He's so sweet. He really wanted to dive on the sword for me," Kyra said. "He was here for the fun of it. He wants to win for the title, but the money is not the issue. He was like, 'I want her to win.' This is because I'm a huge fan of reality TV, this is the dream for me."
"We had spoken about what our background was going to be, ... because our parents have had two different jobs, ... I used the fact that my parents were pastors, which they are, and my brother's was the fact that they were a police officer and work for the government. We separated our lives completely, ... but we did not strategize about the actual game, because I knew that I was trying to be a Traitor. He wasn't aware of that. He had asked me, 'So did you want to be a Traitor?' And I'm like, 'Well, you know, I'm an OK liar.' ... Knowing that I wanted to be a Traitor, I didn't want to muddy those lines."
A question Kyra still has is why no one communicated to her that her name was being brought up for banishment.
"There were a few people that I was actually quite close to that didn't even tell me that my name was brought up, and even Nick after was like, 'I did not hear your name once that day,'" Kyra said. "I don't understand. We both got blindsided. And even Laurie had never heard my name. And Cedric was like, 'I didn't hear much today.' I was like, OK well, I don't know how that happened. I'm just very confused."
As the number of Faithfuls in the game dwindled quickly, it became harder and harder of Kyra to hide as a Traitor.
"I just didn't want to get to the final where it's Neda and I, and then we have to do the whole share or steal," Kyra said. "Let's be completely honest, if you've seen Big Brother Canada, she was not going to share, and neither was I, and I was very well aware of that."
"I knew we could not get to the absolute end together and then at the halfway point, we still have three [Traitors], which is totally cool, but at a certain point it's like, OK they're not even onto any of us. Even after I had spoken about Michael John, no one was listening. That was the problem that the Faithfuls had for the entire season, they did not listen. They did not listen to logic."
'We had a lot of large personalities that were very distracting'
Earlier in the episode, Amazing Race Canada alum Gail was murdered by the Traitors.
"My two closest ... people in the house were the two Traitors," Gail said. "So I feel like that's why I made it so far, but then at a certain point in the game, once I was in that cage, and I came back to life, no one bought the theory that I was a Traitor."
"I almost kind of wish now, in hindsight, looking back, that maybe I did have a little bit of suspicion on me, because I probably could have made it a little bit further. And if we didn't have that sibling twist, I honestly believe Nick probably would have been murdered before me, because I think I would have made it to the end with Neda."
Gail also stressed that Kyra and Neda, in particular, played an "incredible" game as Traitors.
"I was just genuinely shocked," Gail said.
While Michael John, the first Traitor banished, was being talked about for several weeks, it took until Episode 8 of the season for the Faithfuls to succeed in booting him, the first Traitor, from the game.
"I know it took a really long time. [Michael John] was on our minds and in our mouths every day," Gail said. "We had a lot of large personalities that were very distracting."
"For me personally, I can't speak for everyone, but ... once we're wrong and we're going for the 'head' Traitor, going for the smartest person, I just said, 'Oh my god, I can't do this anymore.' I said, I have been saying Michael John since the beginning, if I don't say it tonight I'm going kick myself and I'm going to regret it. So it took long enough, but finally we got it. ... Anyone who knows me in my real life, I don't cry. I didn't cry at my own wedding. ... I'm not an emotional person. I cried, and it was not on camera, but ... five times in 10 days. I didn't expect it to be such an emotional experience."
But Gail was also quick to share that being on Traitors Canada was a particularly great experience.
"I can't believe I'm saying a reality show is a life-changing experience for me, but it truly was," she said.