User blog comment:Zathronas/Analysis by an author: Is there a traitor at Beacon?/@comment-10390252-20140717131950

FWIW, I can see Cardin being the unintentional traitor.

My idea is that the government, as represented by Mr White, has its own position and plans for the future. Our heroes attempting to sort matters out themselves are in the way of these (far from benevolent) plans and they need to be eliminated. I can see Cardin being the sort of Hunter who would betray our heroes because those in authority had told him to do so and... why would they lie to him?

That's the most interesting form of the uninetentional betrayer in my opinion - the one betrayed himself by his ego and naivette. Such a character goes to the grave fighting for the side he or she honestly thinks is in the right, perhaps not realising until their dying breath that they had been a tool of evil or, worst of all, those who profit from an apathetic status quo.