Comic James Acaster, possibly the most reluctant traitor in recent memory, accurately called killing off Beckett a “chaos murder”.
“This is a bunch of faithful who read into everything,” he said. “They go, why did this happen? And with this murder, there’s no answer, and they won’t suspect it’s us.”
More accurately, he should perhaps have said: “They won’t suspect me or Maya,” given only two-thirds of this tactic worked.
Meanwhile, the task for this episode made some of the celebrities quite jumpy.
This was despite it not involving being buried alive, drinking stinky water or diving down an old toilet, all of which wouldn’t have been out of place on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.
This episode’s death parade saw them having to solve puzzles to avoid being seized and held captive by guards looking like Skeletor, from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
“That is genuinely terrifying,” said Pinnock as the marchers approached them on the edge of a forest. “We are literally in a horror film.”
Michael Sheen took each puzzle as an opportunity to flex his acting muscles, using his finest Shakespearean actor’s voice to bellow out the instructions to everyone else.
He should have grabbed one of the death marchers to do a quick burst of Hamlet.
The celebrities were victorious though, winning all the prize money for charity, and the task ended with Kemp and James Blunt using flints to spark a flame, igniting some gunpowder to hold the death marchers at bay.
At the end of the task, players captured by the death marchers were held in a cage until the round table. This included all three traitors – Hannah Fry, Maya Jama and James Acaster – as well as Ranganathan, Jerry Hall and McNally
Oops, bad move. This left a traitor-free zone at the castle, where theories could fly without the traitors trying to derail them.
