Who Dies in Explosive Shootout?

Warning: This put up accommodates spoilers for season 3, episode 8 of The White Lotus.

After a lot anticipation and fan concept hypothesis, The White Lotus season 3 finale revealed which characters had been killed throughout their keep on the White Lotus.

The primary episode of the season started with gunshots ringing out whereas Belinda (Natasha Rothwell)’s son Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) was having a meditation session. He leaped into the water and prayed for his mom’s security earlier than the episode jumped backyards, per week earlier, as everybody arrived for his or her keep on the resort.

The finale episode begins with Rick (Walton Goggins) leaving Frank (Sam Rockwell) after an evening of partying and returning to Chelsea again on the White Lotus. “Nicely, I did not kill anybody,” he tells her as they embrace on the seaside. “I mentioned what I needed to say and obtained the monkey off my again.”

Throughout dinner, Chelsea tells Rick he is “free” now and explains the time period “amor fati,” which she says means embracing one’s destiny, good or unhealthy. She goes on to clarify that they are linked, so no matter occurs to him, occurs to her. He then surprises her by saying “the plan” is to be collectively perpetually, making her glad and emotional.

In the meantime, Jim (Scott Glenn) whom Rick assaulted in Bangkok and accused of killing his father, returns to the resort along with his spouse, Sritala (Lek Patravadi). Jim confronts Rick at breakfast and tells him to get out of the resort. He says he remembers Rick’s mom as a “drunk” and a “slut” and a “liar,” as he says Rick’s father “was no saint.”

“You did not miss out on a lot and that is the f—— reality. What? You are going to attempt to kill me now? I do not suppose so,” Jim says as he flashes a gun inside his coat.

Chelsea tries to speak Rick down, who’s visibly upset. “Cease excited about the love you did not get, concentrate on the love you will have. I really like you, I am proper right here,” Chelsea pleads. “Please do not do one thing silly.”

Rick says he will see his meditation specialist, Amrita (Shalini Peiris), however when he tracks her down, she insists he wait on a bench as she begins her hour-long session with Zion, and tells him he’ll “be alright.”

Rick watches Sritala and Jim take photographs with Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and notices Jim’s bodyguards go away the world. He begins strolling in the direction of Jim as Chelsea seems. He yells at her to “get out of right here” as he confronts Jim.

Rick grabs his gun out of his jacket and shoots Jim. Sritala clutches Jim’s physique and screams “Why?” She then reveals, “He is your father, he instructed me.”

Jim’s bodyguards return and begin capturing at Rick. The resort’s safety guard Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong) grabs the gun in his workplace and races in the direction of the capturing. Rick kills one of many safety males, as Chelsea is shot within the chest.

As Rick begins carrying Chelsea’s physique away, Sritala orders Gaitok to kills Rick. He shoots and kills him from behind.

Earlier than viewers see the shootout, many had been led to imagine one other main demise occurred.

Lochlan (Sam Nivola) drinks a protein shake that contained toxic seeds left by Timothy (Jason Isaacs) within the blender. It appeared he died after he experiences a sequence of visions and Timothy cries over his physique.

After the shootout, the episode returns again to the Ratliffs had been Lochlan wakes up.

Forward of the April 6 finale, govt producer David Bernad revealed he and present creator Mike White had a backup plan to make sure the present maintains its signature shock issue.

“We have now faux endings to the scripts,” he instructed PEOPLE. “So we wrote up — we’ve got six completely different endings — and we type of distributed faux endings to individuals simply in case somebody leaked something, after which let’s imagine there’s completely different faux endings.”

“After which after we shot the ending scene, it is a locked down set,” he continues. “So nobody actually has entry to what we had been capturing and there could be no non-White Lotus members ever seeing what we’re doing.”

Their technique labored. Actually, Parker Posey, who performs Victoria Ratliff, revealed she could not even keep in mind who dies.

“I forgot who died,” she admitted to The Hollywood Reporter  “It was so anxious after I learn it. The darkish stuff, I blazed by.”

The White Lotus season 3 is streaming on Max.