Traitors season 3 episode 4: Boston Rob leads a drag witch hunt

Warning: Spoilers for Traitors season 3 episode 4 are ahead.

There's no honor among Traitors — particularly when it comes to Boston Rob.

On the latest episode of The Traitors — the Peacock reality competition in which a group of "Faithful" contestants must root out the undercover "Traitors" in their midst who convene to murder one of them almost nightly — the Survivor alumnus led a witch hunt against his fellow Traitor, Bob the Drag Queen.

Rob did so in a last-minute pivot after Bob suggested in the episode's main challenge, which involved constructing Easter Island head statues for cash prizes and elimination shields, that "one of the new guys...might be a Traitor."

"Bob, what the hell are you doing? You're throwing me under the bus!" Rob, one of the "new guys" added to the competition after the premiere (the others were Faithfuls Wes and Derrick), said in the confessional. "You just put a big target on me."

Rob returned the favor. "We're going for the head of the dragon... Bob the Drag Queen," Rob is heard saying. He spent the remainder of the episode painting this target on Bob and diverting attention away from the Faithfuls in the hot seat, Nikki and Ciara, whose coffin-escapes from potential elimination this week had put them under the castle's suspicion. (Jeremy was not so lucky, being the Traitors' pick for murder.)

"I can't trust Bob anymore. And we gotta give the Faithfuls some blood," said Rob, who in lieu of a direct confrontation proceeded to "plant the seed" of suspicion under Bob through a targeted whisper campaign in the castle.

"Listen, we're gonna take out the drag queen tonight," Rob told Dylan, who had harbored his own suspicions about Bob but had previously believed he had lacked the support to make an accusation at the nightly roundtable where the Faithfuls vote to banish a contestant they believe to be a Traitor. Rob even encouraged the other Traitors, Danielle and Carolyn, to "vote for the drag queen," much to their alarm.

When the roundtable discussion still centered on Nikki and Ciara, Boston Rob jettisoned subterfuge and made the aggressive move to accuse Bob the Drag Queen directly. "You guys are missing it. This is a distraction. They got you fighting against each other. Since I got here, there's been one person whose been quarterbacking this entire show, that has the love and admiration of many, many, people. And I believe that person is a Traitor. Ask yourselves who every time there's a decision, there's a deflection," Rob asked the table, before turning his eyes toward Bob and naming him.

Bob appeared genuinely shocked by the treason from his fellow Traitor, which was echoed by Dylan once Rob made the accusation. "I'm just gonna say nine words: I swear to God that I am a Faithful," Bob said in his defense.

"Let me say two words: You're not," Rob countered.

And then Bob dropped some actual T for the roundtable directed at Rob, unbeknownst to them: "You are scared of me. Everything he said about me is actually true of him."

Of course, Bob did not earn goodwill with his fellow contestants when he threw shade on Zac Efron, Dylan's famous brother. "Bob is an amazing actor. I grew up with an actor," said Dylan. To which Bob replied, "Not a good one."

Rob then upped his gamble to convince the roundtable to vote for Bob. "If it's not [Bob], get rid of me next," he said.

"I will bury you under the sand," replied Bob, a line that is also this episode's title

Host Alan Cumming's announcement of the discussion's end sparked a loud "Fuck!" from Faithful Bob Harper. "Silence please," Cumming sternly replied. Harper — and the majority of the roundtable — ended up voting out Bob the Drag Queen.

"Guys, I said I swear to God...and that was a lie, I don't believe in God, I'm a Traitor," Bob revealed before exiting.

For his part, Bob appeared to take the elimination in stride. "Boston Rob is scared of me, period point blank. He took me out. I'm his biggest competition. He saw that the big dog was wounded and he went in for the kill," he said in the confessional. "And you know what? That's fair. That's just gameplay, baby."

However, it's notable that Rob referred to Bob as "the drag queen" in his campaign to eliminate his fellow Traitor, a tactic that visibly unsettled the other Traitors, Danielle and Carolyn. (Last season, the early elimination of a transgender contestant and fellow Drag Race alum, Peppermint, also reeked of bias.) But karma may indeed be a bitch yet for Rob, whose surety in accusing Bob has also aroused some suspicions in the castle.

Traitors streams Thursdays at 9 p.m. Eastern on Peacock.