The Ratliff family is the picture of dysfunction in Season 3 of The White Lotus.Crave/Supplied
There’s a lot of drama and unresolved mysteries ahead of Sunday’s Season 3 finale of everyone’s favourite TV series, The White Lotus. Globe staffers shared their best predictions on the ending this week, but we wanted to hear from readers. Here are your best theories on the winners and losers of The White Lotus Season 3.
And, of course, a huge spoiler warning for The White Lotus Season 3, up to episode 7. Scroll down at your own risk.
Praying for Chelsea: I am hoping Greg/Gary dies because I have not forgiven the show for how Season 2 ended. Nobody is allowed to touch Chelsea – I am Team Chelsea all the way! I think Rick will actually come to a zen moment and Rick and Chelsea will ride off together into the sunset. And the Sex and the City trio will just leave unhappy and unresolved a still claiming to be friends because – well, that’s how Sex and the City played out. – Philip Toop
Monkeying around: Monkeys – it’s always been the monkeys. Gaitok leaves his gun out and the monkeys find it and shoot Mook and Chelsea. Never trust a monkey! – Dave D.
Chekhov’s gun: The whole buildup with Gaitok’s gun will be the centerpiece of the finale. I feel it in my bones. Will he confront the Russians? Will Tim’s crisis come to a fever pitch at the same time, franticly trying to find the hidden handgun? Will Jim Hollinger’s bodyguards seek retribution for Frank and Rick’s visit in Bangkok? – Jesse Dubé-Smith
Rick and Chelsea, played by Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood, bickered their way through Season 3.Crave/Supplied
Fabian’s second show: I think the killer is Frank or Gaitok, one of whom will snap in some way. Tim will die in a freak accident, either Frank or one of the Russians will accidentally kill Chelsea and maybe Gaitok will kill to avenge Mook. The shootout will happen during Fabian’s next big performance, eclipsing it entirely. – Nilani Sabanayakam
April Fools: The FBI investigation on the Ratliff family is all one big prank being pulled by Tim’s coworkers. But, he won’t know until he already does something drastic. – Rudy Mar
Dads and smoothies: Gaitok is distracted by Mook during the shootout with the Russians and she gets shot. Rick has another confrontation with Jim Hollinger and finds out he is his father. Tim attempts to make shakes with the poison fruit, but Saxon and Victoria don’t drink it, so he drinks it alone. Belinda does take the money but also alerts the feds to the whereabouts of Greg/Gary. Jaclyn leaves a day early, leaving her “friends” to find their own way home. – Erin Dempsey
What will happen in The White Lotus season 3 finale? Our predictions for the ending
The play by play: Victoria, deprived of her drug supply, becomes fully sentient and, worried about Tim’s behaviour, phones home and learns the truth about her husband’s financial catastrophe. She informs Saxon, who becomes incandescent with repressed rage and confronts Tim at the bar. Security is called, and Gaitok rushes to the scene, brandishing the pistol. Lochlan misguidedly tackles him to the ground and the gun misfires, mortally wounding Chelsea. Rick has just arrived back to the compound, only to have Chelsea die in his arms. Belinda witnesses the whole thing, comes to her senses, and tells Greg that the hush money is $1 million. She leaves the resort with her son and her paramour, Pornchai. Jaclyn, Laurie and Kate are with Chelsea when she is hit and, shocked by the near-death experience, re-bond and slink back home in shame. The end! – Tracy Thiessen
Responses have been edited for length and clarity.
