This article aims to analyze The Theme of the Traitor and Hero, by Jorge Luis Borges, based on the thesis on the Borgean story proposed by Ricardo Piglia. The methodology utilized divides the analysis into different narratives converging in the text: the Scenic and the Criminal. We delve into the subtleties and appropriate the intertextuality within the stories The Broken Sword Show and The Tower of Betrayal, by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, to reinterpret that the narrative is a paradox in itself. Are you a traitor or a hero? This study is guided by an effort to decipher the enigma, under the microscope of the critic-reader as a detective and the writer as a criminal.