Spoiler alert! We’re going to reveal the big death in Sunday’s Season 3 finale of “The White Lotus.”
Rick Hatchett (Walton Goggins) was tragically behind many of the deaths in the April 6 Season 3 finale of HBO’s “The White Lotus.” First, he killed the mysterious hotel owner Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn), the man Rick believed was behind the death of his father. (Turns out he was his father). The owner of the White Lotus resort didn’t survive the duo’s second meeting: Rick pulled the gun out of the holster hidden in Jim’s jacket and shot him twice.
Rick then killed two of Jim’s bodyguards in a shootout. To his horror, Rick saw that his girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) had been shot in the melee, lying near death on the ground. Rick started to carry Chelsea off, but urged by Sritala, Jim’s wife, was shot in the back by the resort guard Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong). Rick fell dead into the water with Chelsea. His face floated eerily about the surface of the water.
The body bags showing the star-crossed lovers, Rick and Chelsea, are shown later in the episode.
Here are others who faced a similar fate in Season 1 and 2 of “The White Lotus”:
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Who died in Season 2 of ‘White Lotus’?
“Please, these gays are trying to murder me!” Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya in “White Lotus” proclaimed in the Season 2 finale.
The finale, which aired in December 2022, landed with a startling thunk on the side of a boat. Toward the end of the weeklong Sicilian resort stay, viewers learned the body floating in the sea was Tanya’s, who fell to her death off the side of Quentin’s (Tom Hollander’s) yacht while trying to escape what she believed was a murder-for-hire plot.
At the beginning of the finale, her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) remained far from Tanya, with Quentin’s fake nephew Jack (Leo Woodall), but the pair managed to speak on a brief call that convinced both that their companions have been conspiring with Tanya’s husband Greg (Jon Gries) to murder her.
Who died in Season 1 of ‘White Lotus’?
Hotel manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) is killed in a dizzying confrontation with Shane (Jake Lacy). Following a robbery at the Mossbachers’ suite, Shane contacts his mother’s travel agent to raise hell with the hotel’s owner for not informing him of the presence of a “dangerous criminal.” Armond subsequently receives a call from his boss, with the ominous promise of a meeting the next day.
After a debaucherous night of partying, an intoxicated Armond breaks into Shane and Rachel’s (Alexandra Daddario) Pineapple Suite for revenge and graphically defecates in Shane’s open suitcase. Armond tries to quietly escape the suite, but Shane hears him and grabs a knife from room service, fearful of an intruder.
A wrong turn from both men leaves them face to face, with Shane’s knife plunged into Armond’s chest. The hotel manager falls back into the suite’s luxurious tub and Shane flees, spluttering, “I’m sorry.'”
‘The White Lotus’ Season 1 finale: Who died? Who was the killer? And does any of it matter?
Contributing: Kelly Lawler, Edward Segarra and Pamela Avila, USA TODAY
