Traitors: New Blood’s Morgan says the show cut her suspicions about Joe and Katie

Morgan Cook was the latest Faithful to be murdered on The Traitors: New Blood, and she’s now hit out at the edit, saying viewers only saw a fraction of her game.

After her exit in the most recent episode, Morgan commented on an Instagram post about the show, saying she had suspected Joe and Katie but none of it made it to air.

“Wish an iota of these instincts had been included in the show bc I did speak up about Joe and Katie—at the roundtable, to their faces, to other ppl, but apparently there was no airtime available for that, yet infinite airtime available for me being (yes, diabolically wrong) about fruit,” she wrote.

Morgan claims Joe told her why she was murdered

Morgan also claimed she knows exactly why she was taken out, and that it wasn’t shown on screen. “And I know some of y’all will never believe it, but I was eliminated bc Joe knew I was coming for him. He told me before the show aired,” she said.

“But bc they chose not to show any of my suspicions or strategy, they also couldn’t indicate that was part of my demise. So what you’re left with is about one per cent of my actual story line (and that goes for pretty much the entire cast).”

What happened with Fruitgate

Morgan’s comments refer to one of the biggest moments of the season so far. In episode six, which viewers have nicknamed “Fruitgate”, the Traitors murdered Niyyah in plain sight by having a Traitor toss her a “poisoned” apple.

Faithful Victor Vollbrechthausen spotted it and correctly worked out that Tomica and Joe were Traitors. But the other Faithfuls didn’t believe him, and Morgan was one of the people who told him he was wrong, even defending Tomica’s right to eat fruit at midnight.

Morgan says she ‘forgot’ Joe threw fruit at her

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly after her murder, Morgan admitted she’d got it wrong. Asked how she felt when she found out Victor had been right, she said: “I was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s gonna hold this over my head for the rest of my life!’ He should!”

She explained that she’d completely forgotten that Joe had thrown fruit at her too. “I know the fruit looks super obvious in the moment when Joe throws it at me, but it was so insignificant in that moment,” she said. “Like, Joe just be throwing things. He walks around, he tosses you something. It was so not weird.” She added that the three other Faithfuls sitting with her didn’t remember it either.

Morgan said she also didn’t buy Victor’s theory because it seemed too simple compared with previous murders in plain sight. She pointed to last season, when the Traitors used a conga line as a distraction, and said she couldn’t believe the producers would just “have him hand someone an apple.”

On top of that, the Faithfuls weren’t sure whether Victor himself was a Traitor trying to draw attention away from something else. “He was just being normal, and we discounted that,” she said.

She didn’t expect to be murdered

Morgan told EW she was “shocked” when she found the note telling her she’d been murdered with “a pinch of poison”. She’d thought her defence of Tomica might make her look like a Traitor, which would make her more useful to keep around as someone to blame.

“I thought there was a really good argument that could have been made for me being a Traitor with Tomica because I was literally defending her right to eat fruit at midnight till my last breath,” she said. Instead, she’d expected the Traitors to go after someone who was clearly a Faithful, like Abbey B, Clyde or Victor.

Now, if what she’s saying is true, it looks like Joe saw her coming after all.

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