The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for The White Lotus Season 3.The White LotusSeason 3 has now ended, coming to a conclusion after eight episodes of pure tension, as wealthy people in Thailand faced the unimaginable hardships of being on the strangest vacation ever. Just like in the previous seasons, the various storylines differed in nature and importance, but Rick and Chelsea’s love story was the driving force behind the chaotic finale that featured a shocking, unexpected death. Now, starWalton Goggins(Rick) has broken down this final twist that nobody saw coming. Goggins appeared on the CBS Morning show, where he offered some details about the Season 3 finale that left everyone in shock when it premiered last Sunday night on HBO and Max.
“All of us had the good fortune of listening to people tell us their version of the story out on the street. Some of them got very close, but no one guessed it.”
In the finale, all the stories weirdly and wonderfully converged at The White Lotus Resort and Spa in Thailand. In Episode 1, we found out that several shots had been fired, and bodies were found floating in the water. Rampant speculation drove everyone to think it was perhaps an attack of some kind. Robbers? Terrorists? Anything was possible, butthe final twistrevealed something entirely unexpected.
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In the last moments of Episode 8, Rick finds that Jim Hollinger (played by Scott Glenn), the man he wants to kill, is in the hotel. Jim and Rick face each other, with Rick getting triggered and deciding to kill the man who killed his father. Using Hollinger’s gun, he shoots him multiple times. When the wailing Sritala asks him why he shot Hollinger, Rick explains that it was because he killed his father…before the screaming woman tells Rick that Jim Hollingerwashis father. Chaos ensues, and Rick and Chelsea run, but unfortunately, Chelsea is shot in the chest. When Rick grabs her and tries to take her to a safe place, he too is shot by Gaitok, the hotel’s security guard.
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Goggins addressed the final twist and Rick finding out that he was wrong all along about his father’s whereabouts. He doesn’t have much time to react to the news, instead trying to save Chelsea, with the actor saying that he sympathizes with the character’s pain.
“I sympathize so greatly with Rick’s pain, because his entire life story was defined by this event. Rick only has a couple of seconds to register it before he is being fired at.”
Of course, every season of Mike White’sThe White Lotuswill feature a few deaths. Since Season 1, the showrunner has delivered justice in surprising ways, and death is always part of this formula. Season 3 played around with the deaths of the Ratliff family, and to the very end, everyone thought that the wealthy family would face tragedy. However,they came through the latest season largely unscathed. This left Rick and Chelsea as the only possible victims of White’s wicked screenwriting.
Source:CBS Mornings
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