SPOILER ALERT: The article contains major spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “White Lotus,” now streaming on Max.
It’s time to check out of the White Lotus — but some guests are leaving in bodybags.
The Season 3 finale of HBO’s “White Lotus” finally reveals what happened in the shootout heard in the premiere and the unlucky guests who don’t make it home alive. In the end, Rick (Walton Goggins), Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Jim (Scott Glenn) all die during the wild shooting, and it’s revealed that Jim is actually Rick’s father. After Jim insults Rick’s mother, Rick becomes furious and shoots him — which causes a shootout with Jim’s bodyguards. After being practically bullied into a rare moment of bravery, sensitive security guard Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong) shoots Rick. Chelsea had already tragically gotten caught in the crossfire, and her demise may have been foreshadowed after she evaded death twice before with the jewelry store robbery and venomous snake bite. It turns out, her and Rick’s fates are interlinked and they will be together forever — in the afterlife.
The Ratliff family almost had bodies pile up, but everyone turns out unscathed — for now. After Timothy’s (Jason Isaacs) mental breakdown continues, he contemplates making a poisonous smoothie to kill off his family so they don’t have to suffer after the FBI busts him for his shady business deals. He uses Saxon’s (Patrick Schwarzenegger) blender to make a deadly pong-pong fruit smoothie, but before his family members drink it, he has a change of heart and knocks their glasses from their hands. However, Lochlan (Sam Nivola) wakes up the next morning and decides to make himself a smoothie with the remnants of his dad’s concoction. He unknowingly drinks the deadly beverage and collapses near the pool, apparently dying — but it’s revealed in the end that he survives and sees a vision of God and his family. They head back home on the boat, but their lives are about to change with the FBI hot on Timothy’s heels.
Below, see what happens to everyone else on “The White Lotus,” including Jaclyn, Kate, Laurie, Belinda, Zion and more.
