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Well, that was a bloodbath. We now know who died during HBO\u2019s feature-length finale of The White Lotus<\/em> season 3<\/a>\u2014all five of them.<\/p>\n Series creator Mike White<\/strong><\/a> ultimately axed several parties from the luxury hotel\u2019s Thailand outpost. Both Walton Goggins<\/strong>\u2019 Rick<\/a> and Aimee Lee Wood<\/strong>\u2019s Chelsea<\/a> died in a shootout that also wiped out White Lotus Thailand owner Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn<\/strong>) and his henchmen. First, Rick kills Jim in what he believes to be retribution for his own father\u2019s murder. But it\u2019s revealed moments later that Jim was<\/em> his father all along. Rick kills both of Jim\u2019s bodyguards, only to discover that a bullet from one of them has claimed Chelsea\u2019s life. Finally, hotel security guard Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong<\/strong>) finally puts Rick out of his perpetual misery.<\/p>\n The episode\u2019s first suggested death is a fakeout involving another father-son duo. Sam Nivola<\/strong>\u2019s Lochlan<\/a> appears to be inadvertently poisoned at the hands of Jason Isaacs<\/strong>\u2019s Timothy<\/a>, after Timothy attempts a murder-suicide of everyone in his family except<\/em> for Lochlan. But it is only a near<\/em> death experience. When he regains consciousness after it, Lochlan tells his father: \u201cI think I just saw God.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier in the finale episode, titled \u201cAmor Fati\u201d\u2014a Latin phrase meaning \u201clove of fate\u201d\u2014Ratliff patriarch Timothy, who can\u2019t bear the idea of his wife and children learning about his financial crimes, plans to poison his family with the lethal fruit he plucked off a \u201csuicide tree\u201d outside their villa. He gives his eldest son (Patrick Schwarzenegger<\/strong>\u2019s Saxon<\/a>), daughter (Sarah Catherine Hook<\/strong>\u2019s Piper), and wife (Parker Posey<\/strong>\u2019s Victoria<\/a>) a trio of deadly pi\u00f1a coladas, and also plans to down one himself. But Timothy decides to spare his youngest son Lochlan, who told his father previously in the episode that he could hypothetically survive without money or a house.<\/p>\n White revealed his inspiration for this storyline in a brief interview that aired after the finale. \u201cI had read stories about some aristocratic guy who basically killed his family because he had been blowing through all their money and didn\u2019t have the guts to tell them,\u201d he says in the \u201cUnpacking Episode 8\u201d segment that followed the episode. \u201cThe way Timothy\u2019s family sees him is so crucial to his sense of self that when that\u2019s at risk, he\u2019d rather burn down the whole house than face the music.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Timothy changes his mind about the mass murder\u2014knocking the pi\u00f1a colada out of Saxon\u2019s hand and announcing to everyone that the \u201ccoconut milk is off\u201d\u2014he fails to clean out the blender he used to make the deadly drinks. The next morning, Lochlan uses the mixture that remains in the blender to make himself a protein shake. His mother and siblings head off to breakfast, unaware that he\u2019s in critical condition. Lochlan vomits, appears to choke, and hallucinates a vision of himself coming up to the surface of a body of water as four monks look down on him. But just as he is about to reach them, Lochlan sinks and appears to (metaphorically) drown. It\u2019s only later that he awakens in his father\u2019s arms.<\/p>\n