Rick hatchett (walton goggins) has been bruooding all over The white lotus This season, throwing full buckets over his girlfriend chelsea’s (AIMEE LOU Wood) Attempts at Holiday Fun and Dropping A Surprise Mystery Bangkkok Into Their Schedule – A’LL Take ALONE.
But now, after Season 3Episode 4, We’ve Got a Strong Idea About Why Acutly in Thailand at all – And it’s not just to have an expensive holiday. Let’s Get INTO S Rick Chose This Particular White Lotus and What his real ageda is.
What Haappens in The white lotus Season 3, Episode 4?
It all comes out on the boat.
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During the guests’ Cruise Around the Islands on GREG’s (Jon Gries) Superyacht, Chelsea Hits Her Limit of Rick’s Unrelenting Gloom. Pulling Him Aside on Deck, She Draws a Proverbial line in the sand and demands her seconds partner let her in or She’s out. When Rick Responds Asking What Chelsea Bold Like to Know, She Starts With the Question We All Have: “Why are we here? What’s in Bangkok?”
After resisting, rick finally tells the bus: “We’re here because the fuckin ‘dude Who Murdered My Father Owns This Hotel.”
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What do we know about rick’s father’s murder?
Rick’s Deepest Trauma Happy Before He Was Born.
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The details of rick’s father’s dead come up during his stress management session with spiritual counselor and meditation teachr Dr. Amrita (shalini peiris) in episode 2. Here, rick reveals that his father was murdered before he was born, a loss that forms the core of his seasonly unlawful life choices.
In Episode 4, Rick Tells Chelsea That While He Never Knew His Father, He Knew Him to Be a “Do-Gooder” Who was in Thailand What He Suddenly Disappeared in SCUCUSTANCES. “He came to Thailand to Help People,” Rick Says on the Boat. “He was trying to help these locals keep a shitty American from stealing their land – i really don’t’t all the details. But my father was here trying to do the right thing, and one day he disappation thing. Found Him. “
We also learn in Episode 4 that rick’s mother, who died when he was 10 from a drug overdose, Gave Him the name of his father’s murderer on her death. And that name? Jim Hollinger.
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Who is Jim Hollinger?
We’ve Seen Rick Staring at Glamorous Hotel Owner, Wellness Author, And Famous Singer Sritala (Lek Patravadi) Since Arriving at the White Lotus, Hee’s Not His His HISPONMPOINT Ove Absence at the Hotel.
When rick and chelsea first Arrive in Episode 1, Mook (Lisa / Lalisa Manobal) Confirms to rick that the owners of the hotel are sritala and her american hullinger. It’s the name rick’s had etched in his brain since his traumatic childhood, and one that brought hee here. Having read it in the news, rick knew hollinger was in hospital on the island, but unfortunately he’s one day late the man – Hollinger flew to bangkok the day before rick Arrive.
All we really known Hollinger is that he’s a powerful american in Thailand, who owns the white lotus “and half of Thailand” According to rick. Did He Murder Rick’s Father for Meddling in a Land Grab? Or is there more to the story?
What’s rick going to do in Bangkok?
“The guy ruined my life from day one. He doesn’t have to answer to me?”
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Essentially, as chelsea say to rick on the yacht, “is this a bit ‘You Killed My Father, Prepare to Die?’,
Considering rick’s the type of erratic guy Who’ll free a bunch of venomous snakes while high, Anything’s Possible Once Rick Catches Up To Hollinger in Bangkok. Despite chelsea’s pleas for rick not to “do something stupid,” Rick say But will he move beyond confonded and exact revenue?
“The guy ruined my life from day one. He doesn’t have to answer to me?” Asks rick.
“You’re not going to just talk to him are you? In Episode 1, rick reminds chelsea he “can’t go to Australia,” indicating he’d be arrested there, but it’s unclear exactly how much she knows about his lucrative line of work.
What will come of this interaction?
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One notable moment we don’t have answers for lies in Episode 3, when rick introduces Himself to sritala at breakfast. Pretending to be a producer and procuring her business card, he promises a fake meeting with a director in bangkok, where she is traveling to join her husband. We’re Thinking this might be a card rick has to play in future episodes?
The big question is, what exactly will he finds he finds jim hollinger in Bangkok? Chelsea Tells Rick He’s A “Victim of His own decisions” during their first dinner at the white lotus-will he remain on-Brand?
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