The trailer for The White Lotus Season 3 finale has dropped, and it’s imperative that we comb through it frame-by-frame for answers.
There are many burning questions going into the finale — Will Belinda be safe from Greg? What’s really going on with Rick and Jim Hollinger? Who is going to end up dead, and who’s the killer? — and although the trailer doesn’t give too much away, there are some small hints.
From an ominous shot of a smoothie to a deal gone awry, we’ve broken down the biggest clues from the trailer below.
The fruit and the smoothie
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It’s hard to imagine things getting much worse for the Ratliffs, but the finale trailer appears to be saying “hold my smoothie.” Tim (Jason Isaacs) has been fantasising about killing his family for the past few episodes, and in the finale trailer he asks hotel worker and “health butler” Pam (Morgana O’Reilly) about the deadly fruit of the pong pong tree she mentioned back in episode 1 — remember, Saxon picked one up from the ground in the villa when they first arrived.
“Locals actually call it the suicide tree,” Pam tells Tim in the trailer. “So don’t eat it.”
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This makes the subsequent shot of one of Saxon’s smoothie/protein shakes being blended all the more worrying.
Jim Holllinger back at the hotel
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It’s a brief shot from the back, but it appears that Sritala (Lek Patravadi) and her husband Jim Hollinger will be returning to the hotel for the finale. So what does this mean for Rick (Walton Goggins), who spent the past episode waving a gun in Jim’s face in Bangkok? Well, it sounds like an odd thing to say, but I reckon this actually makes Rick safer. Just think: If someone as powerful as Jim wanted Rick dead, why would he murder someone in his own hotel or even be there in-person for the job? No, it seems more likely that Jim wants to see Rick again — maybe to tell him more about what really happened with Gloria Hatchett.
Belinda (maybe) refusing Greg’s deal
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After being made a hush money offer of $100,000 in episode 7, Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) pays another visit to Greg (Jon Gries) in the trailer, this time with her son Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) — and it doesn’t look like things go well. “I’m not doing this,” she says, standing up. “It’s a waste of time.” Oh dear. We also see another shot of Greg in the trailer, this time back at the White Lotus hotel sipping a drink and looking sinister. Could he have planned a hit on Belinda? Has he come back to the hotel so that he has an alibi?
Frank losing his cool
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Now this is an interesting one. I originally thought Frank (Sam Rockwell) would be a cameo character that stays in Bangkok, but it appears the show isn’t done with him yet. We get a shot of Frank meditating in the trailer, followed by a far less calm shot of him cutting open an inanimate object in what looks like a hotel room. Is Frank taking the anger at his lost sobriety out on the upholstery? Or is he looking for something that may have been hidden? It’s hard to say. But what if Frank holds Rick responsible for him falling off the wagon, and decides to follow him back to The White Lotus on a vengeful whim?
