Danielle Reyes compares feisty ‘Traitors’ Roundtable with Carolyn to ‘The Matrix’

Warning: This article contains spoilers about season 3, episode 6 of The Traitors.

The civil war between Traitors burst forth from the turret and into the Roundtable on this week’s episode of The Traitors, and Danielle Reyes found herself smack dab in the middle of the mayhem. Upset after hearing from multiple people that Danielle had been floating her name in the castle, Carolyn Wiger came out swinging in front of the group.

Insisting that soon-to-be-banished Wes Bergmann was merely being used as a scapegoat, Carolyn shifted into attack mode. “There are multiple lies going on,” she told the group. “I don’t fit in in the real world and I don’t fit in in this castle. I’ve always been the quirky one. So coming into this game, I didn’t have a ton of allies. So luckily, I found an ally in Danielle. Until recently. I’ve had several people approach me and say, ‘Danielle has been saying your name.’ But not only that, creating lies and chaos.”

After Danielle lied and said she never told Britney Haynes that Carolyn was throwing her name out, Carolyn came back even harder through tears. “Wes gets looked at as the chaos maker. ‘It’s Wes, he’s causing chaos.’ No, it’s you, Danielle. You’re causing chaos. And Jeremy warned me, and I still believed you. And Jeremy is murdered.”

Danielle was clearly caught off caught by the onslaught. So how does she feel now looking back on it? “Holy s—!” she tells Entertainment Weekly. “Oh my God!”

Understandable. Any other reactions? “I look like Neo in The Matrix and the bullets are coming. I’m trying to dodge it. I’m like, ‘Please!’”

Our response to that is, of course, a very Keanu-esque… whoa. But Danielle says the entire experience of being called out after stirring up trouble behind the scenes also brought her back to getting caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar as a child. “I just equate it to, you know when you’re in trouble with your mama? And you know you did wrong and you realize, ‘Oh, this is a big mistake.’ And you are like, ‘Please, mama, please!’ It was one of those. That’s how it felt, like when you get in trouble with your parent and you’re trying to beg for mercy, even though you did wrong.”

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The experience also made Danielle want to suddenly be on her best behavior. “And then after your parents kind of punish you, you’re like, “Mama, do you want me to do the dishes for you? Do you want me to vacuum for you? Mama, are you hungry?’”

Things ended about as poorly as they could for the Traitors, with Danielle unsuccessfully trying to vote Boston Rob Mariano out of the game and telling Carolyn that “Whatever you say, I’m going to fight back. Don’t think I’m going to sit there and lie down. If you bring it, I’m going to bring it back.” But game respects game, and when asked by EW who is the best Traitor, Danielle has some flowers to share.

“When you think of a Traitor, a Traitor has to be good at murdering, and then a Traitor has to be good at being undetected,” Danielle notes. “And undetected-wise, Carolyn is the best Traitor. But for murdering and killing, that is definitely Boston Rob. I mean, he’ll take out a Faithful, he’ll take out a Traitor. So [as a] serial killer, I think Boston Rob is the best Traitor — period.”

In either this world or The Matrix.