The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 Confirms What We Suspected About The Theft

This submit incorporates spoilers for “The White Lotus.”

Probably the most essential items of the puzzle have began to fall into place in “The White Lotus” season 3. A lot is happening in Thailand’s White Lotus wellness resort, the place key gamers are at present on the cusp of their arcs earlier than the season’s bloody, climactic finale. As we’re already conscious that issues are going to finish with a number of gunshots and no less than one useless physique, that is all of the extra purpose to play shut consideration to Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong), who managed to retrieve his formally mandated gun within the earlier episode.

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I do know what you are pondering: Gaitok is not the type to shoot somebody, not to mention kill them, as he inherently lacks the intuition to be violent (even in self-defense). Nonetheless, episode 7 casts some doubt on this assured perception, as we see Mook (Lalisa Manobal, famously generally known as BLACKPINK’s Lisa) repeatedly egg him on to toughen up and finally expressing disappointment in his non-violent stance. Will Gaitok lastly crack underneath strain when his again is pressed in opposition to the wall?

Gaitok’s inside battle will be traced again to a single inciting incident. In episode 2, he tries and fails to stop a theft inside one of many resort’s luxurious shops, with the perpetrators managing to wound him earlier than escaping. At first look, the theft appears random: Two masked dudes enter the premises in a automotive whereas well being mentor Valentin (Arnas Fedaravičius) is chatting with Gaitok after which peel away of their automobile after a skirmish. Whereas inside the shop, they maintain Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wooden) and the gross sales affiliate at gunpoint and proceed to steal a couple of trinkets, together with an costly serpent choker. Gaitok’s incapacity to stop this theft nearly will get him kicked out of the White Lotus, however resort proprietor Sritala (Lek Patravadi) decides to provide him one other probability.

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Together with his safety gun being stolen at one level (although he fortunately manages to retrieve it), Gaitok has been having a fairly robust time of late. Nonetheless, he discovers the reason for his distress throughout a preventing match, permitting him to silently piece collectively the reality concerning the theft and pinpoint the precise folks concerned. Episode 7 additionally confirms our long-time suspicions concerning the incident, which additional complicates what would possibly occur within the finale. Let’s break all of it down.

In episode 7, Gaitok and Mook go on their first date whereas additionally attending a preventing match that is teased all through the episode. Though Mook has been offered as a well-meaning character thus far, her motivations really feel oddly one-dimensional, casting doubts on her true nature. Is she genuinely a candy one that cares about Gaitok? Or is she feigning curiosity to masks an ulterior motive? Mook’s pointed insistence about embracing violence as part of life feels a tad odd, particularly when Gaitok is so torn about his innate nature. 

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However issues get attention-grabbing when Gaitok sees Valentin together with his buddies Aleksei (Julian Kostov) and Vlad (Yuri Kolokolnikov) among the many viewers in the identical preventing match. Every thing abruptly is smart: Aleksei and Vlad completely match the construct and look of the masked robbers, whereas Valentin’s affiliation with them suggests it was no accident that he was distracting Gaitok through the theft.

However this might merely be a misplaced assumption on Gaitok’s half, proper? Properly, this hunch is confirmed as soon as we witness the fiasco that occurs with Laurie (Carrie Coon) after she hooks up with Aleksei the identical night time. At first, Aleksei spins a doubtful sob story about an sick mom and overtly asks Laurie to assist him with an inordinate sum of money. Though Laurie gently refuses, he retains pestering her, proving that his intentions have been at all times to rob Laurie and her buddies ultimately. The extent of this scheme is revealed as soon as an offended lady (who’s presumably his girlfriend) confronts Aleksei proper after, prompting Laurie to sneak away and escape earlier than she’s caught. That is when her eyes land on the gold serpent choker stashed away together with the opposite stolen trinkets in Aleksei’s room.

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Now that Gaitok is onto the robbers and Laurie is partially conscious of the trio’s schemes, will these developments impression the finale in vital methods? The solutions stay unclear. Though Gaitok appears agency about his disinterest in settling issues with violence, any mixture of things might flip that sentiment on its head, particularly with a lot at stake. Conversely, the gunshots from the season 3 premiere may very well be associated to a very totally different character: Jon Gries’ Greg/Gary, who deserves to be smacked with some karmic retribution for his crimes (which might additionally honor the present season’s overarching theme).

Episodes of “The White Lotus” season 3 drop each Sunday on HBO.