The White LotusSeason 3 opened with a terrifying scene suggesting that there was a huge shootout at the luxury resort, which is way darker than anything the series has ever explored. Here’s a full rundown of every character who died inThe White LotusSeason 3.
All Deaths in The White Lotus Season 3
Jim Hollinger
Even from the start, it seemed like Jim Hollinger would be the mother of all red herrings inThe White LotusSeason 3. It was obvious that Rick was setting out to kill him, so how could that possibly be the plot, right?
Turns out that’s exactly whatThe White Lotuswanted you to think. No one’s ever gonna guess that Hollinger would be one of the dead bodies, so there you go. While waiting to speak with Amrita, Rick was unfortunate to see Hollinger and Sritala doing their photo ops with Jaclyn. Considering that Hollinger had literally just insulted his dead mother less than an hour ago, Rick was unable to control his anger at seeing him go on without a care in the world.
Even when Chelsea showed up, she couldn’t talk him off the ledge, and Rick walks straight up to Hollinger, grabs his gun, and shoots him. In a terrible twist of fate, Sritala reveals that Hollinger was actually his father.
Hollinger and Sritala’s Bodyguards
Immediately after Hollinger dies, Rick gets into a shootout with the two bodyguards. Y’know, the same ones that have been terrorizing sweet Gaitok this entire time. They try to take Rick out, but they’re no match for him, and they end up getting killed.
Chelsea
While Rick was able to fight off the two bodyguards, he unfortunately ended up getting Chelsea caught in the crossfire as well. Our girl got shot straight in the chest, and there was no way to save her.
Chelsea was another major red herring at the start of the show. She could’ve died during the robbery, and she nearly died from the poisonous snake bite. She kept telling us that bad things come in threes, and all the signs were there, pointing to an inevitable Chelsea death, but it seemed too obvious. Joke’s on us, though. Chelsea’s death might very well be the most tragic of the entire series.
Rick
Realizing that he got Chelsea shot, Rick picks her up and starts walking to the water, telling her they’re going to be together forever. It’s unclear where he was actually walking to, but it seemed like his plan was to maybe put her body in the water, then shoot himself.
Before he even got there, though, Gaitok shows up and shoots Rick at Sritala’s behest. Rick and Chelsea fall into the water together, and he dies.
Lochy as the Fakeout Death
For the first time in the show’s history,The White Lotusactually tried to pull one over on us with a fakeout before the shooting even happened.Lochymixed himself a protein shake with the poisonous fruit seeds still ground up inside the blender, and he drank it, poisoning himself as a result.
We watch him throw up by the pool, before convulsing on the ground and seeing visions of his family and four Buddhist monks. We’re meant to think he dies, but thankfully, the seeds turned out to be a lot less lethal than we thought (or there just wasn’t enough for it to be fatal), and Tim was able to resuscitate him.
And those are all of the deaths inThe White LotusSeason 3. Pretty brutal season, especially with two major cast deaths, and it might very well be the darkest season of the show yet.
