White Lotus Finale Theories and Predictions: Who Will Die in Season 2?

SPOILER ALERT: This text accommodates spoilers up by means of Episode 6 of “The White Lotus,” airing Sundays on HBO and streaming on HBO Max.

“The White Lotus” is ready up for an explosive Season 2 finale on Sunday, however earlier than followers wave goodbye to Sicily, there are a whole lot of unfastened ends to be tied up in Mike White’s hit HBO collection.

What is going to occur to Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge)? Did Cameron (Theo James) sleep with Harper (Aubrey Plaza)? Who’s the daddy of Daphne’s (Meghann Fahy) children? Is Lucia really at risk? What ever occurred to the piano participant? Who dies?!?

From the viral cowboy conspiracy to the intercourse work scheme, Selection investigated among the hottest and outlandish “White Lotus” finale theories.

Greg is in cahoots with Quentin to kill Tanya for her cash

Given the occasions of Episode 6, this is perhaps an apparent one, however we’ve been suspicious of Quentin’s (Tom Hollander) relationship with Tanya since he first invited her and Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) all the way down to the seashore membership. The “high-end gays,” as Tanya calls them, have since been wining and eating her, taking her to the opera and lifting her spirits. However it’s “The White Lotus,” in any case. In fact there received’t be a contented ending. Any sliver of normalcy on this quick friendship was thrown out the window when Tanya sees Quentin having intercourse together with his nephew, Jack (Leo Woodall), on the finish of Episode 5. Now, it’s all-but-confirmed that Quentin just isn’t actually Jack’s uncle, and a drunk Jack tells Portia that he isn’t actually wealthy, both. “These posh fuckers… they’ve received their palazzos. They ain’t received no cash,” Jack says, echoing an earlier line from Cameron. Jack says Quentin virtually needed to promote the household home, however now he’s “coming into cash,” and “he’s gonna assist his mates.” “I’m simply completely satisfied that I get to assist him now. As a result of he’s helped me,” Jack says. “I used to be in a fucking gap.”

The cash he shall be coming into is Tanya’s. Maybe to get out of this gap, Jack has agreed to play alongside in Quentin’s scheme for a reduce of the cash. Earlier within the collection, Quentin tells Tanya that he first fell in love throughout a visit to America, the place he fell for a heterosexual “cowboy” in Wyoming. “I’d have achieved something for him,” Quentin says. “And the wonderful factor is, after 30-odd years I nonetheless would.” A concept that the cowboy is in actual fact Tanya’s husband Greg (Jon Gries), who as you would possibly keep in mind works in land administration within the American West, is confirmed when Tanya discovers an previous {photograph} of Quentin and Jack in cowboy hats. Sure, Greg, who whined about his prenup, is probably going in cahoots with Quentin and Co. to steal Tanya’s cash. Bear in mind how Greg was in Sicily earlier than Tanya arrived? And the way he was livid that she introduced Portia? That’s as a result of he was establishing the plan, and since Portia throws a wrench in it. Enter: Jack, who has seemingly been introduced in final minute to distract Portia and isolate Tanya through the huge social gathering, the place the scheme shall be carried out.

This season has definitely been hinting at Tanya’s demise (the tarot studying, the comparisons to “Madama Butterfly”), however we predict that she’ll really get out alive with the assistance of Portia, who will save her, thus giving her a objective in life. Whereas it might be deliberately deceptive, there’s a temporary shot within the Season 2 trailer of “The White Lotus” by which Tanya seems to find a gun and duct tape — main us to consider she’s going to get forward of the plot and make it out of Sicily alive. She already is aware of Quentin is a shady dude, however proper now she’s too coked as much as do something about it. 

Quentin will extort Tanya by secretly filming her having intercourse

As we reported Monday, the “pink gentle” thriller ignited Reddit with theories that the technique of Quentin’s con on Tanya is blackmail through intercourse tape. As “arm sweet” Niccoló (Stefano Gianino) seduces Tanya, a pink gentle blinks within the background of a body, indicating a digicam is taping them. We all know Tanya and Greg have a prenup which protects her huge wealth. However is there an infidelity clause which nullifies a part of it or has a penalty? May or not it’s used to blackmail Tanya for a part of her half-a-billion greenback fortune?

Lucia is pulling an extended con on the Di Grassos

One of many many classes of “The White Lotus” is to not decide a guide by its cowl – a first-rate instance being Lucia (Simona Tabasco), an enterprising intercourse employee who supplies her companies to lodge company Dominic (Michael Imperioli), Cameron and Dominic’s son, Albie (Adam DiMarco). From the beginning, we all know that Lucia has huge goals, together with at some point transferring to California, and solely sees her present occupation as a way to an finish. So after she and self-professed good man Albie have intercourse with out him realizing her line of labor, Lucia realizes he is perhaps extra naïve than she thought, telling Albie that she likes him and suggesting they meet up once more. Is that this actually a budding romance, or a means for Lucia to make sure her goals come true?  

As Lucia and Albie get to know one another higher, she opens as much as him about Alessio — whom the viewers is led to consider is her pimp — and the way he has been threatening her to present him extra money. This sparks sympathy from savior Albie, who can’t resist serving to this wounded chicken (simply his kind, as he says in Episode 2). When the 2 cross Alessio on the road whereas getting ice cream, he pulls Lucia away aggressively, yelling at her in Italian (which isn’t translated for the viewers), making the matter appear much more pressing. And in Episode 6, when Lucia seemingly will get adopted and kidnapped by Alessio, it’s obvious that Albie desires nothing greater than to get her out of this case.  

However, should you look again on the first episode of the season, you’ll discover we see Alessio once we first meet Lucia and Mia, as the 2 are strolling towards the lodge to see the company’ boat arrive. Again then, Alessio and Lucia share a pleasant change, with no indicators of unhealthy blood. Additionally in that scene, Lucia tells Mia how she found she might make some huge cash promoting toes pics on-line and met Dom by means of a web-based profile, so it doesn’t appear to be any third social gathering is concerned. All of this raises the query: Is Alessio a unique sort of enterprise associate, who is just placing up a entrance to assist Lucia rip-off the Di Grassos? He might be a boyfriend, or possibly even her brother, as one TikTok user predicted. Solely time will inform…

Daphne is an evil mastermind

Whereas everybody else is experiencing an enormous Sicilian breakdown, Daphne resides her greatest life. Don’t mistake these actions for ignorance — our unbothered queen accommodates multitudes. Take the night time in Noto, when Daphne tricked Harper into becoming a member of her for an evening away from the lodge in hopes of “protecting issues attention-grabbing” together with her husband. Later, Daphne spills her reasoning behind this resolution within the pool: “I need Cam to assume that we had a lot enjoyable that we wished to remain. He has intense FOMO and abandonment points.” When folks let you know who they’re, hear! Issues get much more attention-grabbing when Harper asks Daphne level clean if she is aware of that Cameron cheats on her. “Perhaps simply as soon as, that I learn about,” Daphne says. “Don’t really feel unhealthy for me, I discovered deal with it. Like at the moment, I do what I need, so I’m not resentful.” This isn’t some wine-soaked housewife; this can be a mastermind who makes use of the insecurities of her family members towards them.

Cameron and Ethan’s night time with the escorts just isn’t stunning to Daphne, who calls Cam’s mates “monsters,” however Harper is clearly distraught. Daphne’s recommendation on dealing with infidelities is… troubling. “If something ever did occur you simply do what you must do to make your self really feel higher about it,” she says whereas revealing her coping mechanism: Lawrence, her cute coach within the metropolis with “blonde hair and massive blue eyes.” Daphne goes to indicate Harper a photograph of him however as a substitute shows a picture of her two youngsters, one with blonde hair and blue eyes, a stark distinction from her husband’s options. That is the place issues get difficult, as Daphne is both doing one in every of two issues. One, the image reveal was merely a Freudian slip. Drunk from the day and cozy together with her first woman buddy, Daphne overshares with one damning picture. However this calculated girl who’s by no means misplaced her baggage, at all times appears gorgeous and deliberate a complete secret Noto night time to make her husband jealous doesn’t actually appear to be the kind of individual to make an errant remark. Which leaves us with the opposite possibility: She did it on objective.

“Perhaps it is best to get a coach,” Daphne says with out sentiment. Was she giving Harper her keys to navigating life as a rich man’s spouse, or was she planting the seed? Cheat Harper, all of us do it. However why does she need Harper to cheat — and with whom? When you’re a long-suffering spouse sick of your partner’s wandering eye, maybe an Italian trip is the proper place to make a change? Will Cameron’s “mimetic need” make for the proper event for Daphne to lastly rid herself of this problematic associate, luring Harper to Cameron to stoke a hearth in Ethan? Perhaps everybody’s a pawn in Daphne’s recreation of chess.

Convey this all full circle to the beginning of the collection. There’s Daphne, alone on the seashore aggressively inserting herself right into a stranger’s dialog by yelling, “DID YOU GUYS JUST GET HERE?” Is she a very chatty vacationer or somebody on the lookout for an alibi? It’s all too handy that she simply then occurs to search out the stays of a lifeless lodge visitor. One other arrange? We’ve seen Daphne eat bottles of wine and calmly reveal that her life is a lie, Cameron is a cheater and her youngsters are maybe not her husband’s. Is cheerily speaking about how nice Italy is whereas your husband lies lifeless within the water that a lot of a stretch?

And by the best way… that therapeutic massage was positively a lie. How coincidental that there’s just one therapeutic massage accessible! When Daphne returns, she beams about her masseuse — a Timothée Chalamet-type with muscle tissues — however the mark of a liar is particulars. She kills her husband, and Harper and Ethan are simply fall guys for her grasp plan. If true, give Meghann Fahy all of the Emmys.

Cameron planted the condom wrapper in Ethan’s sofa

Cameron and Ethan (Will Sharpe) have a bizarre friendship, and Harper finally ends up being proper by predicting the rationale they had been invited on trip was so Cameron might make Ethan a enterprise proposition. Issues go awry when Cameron invitations hookers to social gathering with the boys whereas the wives are in Noto. Whereas Ethan stays trustworthy to Harper, Cameron has no challenge having intercourse with Lucia on his sofa. However when Harper discovers a condom wrapper lodged beneath the cushion the subsequent day, she turns into untrusting of her husband, regardless of his repeated pleas for her to consider him. Cameron apologizes to Ethan for the blunder, however what if it wasn’t a slip-up in any case? Cameron and Daphne are extra sophisticated than initially meets the attention, and their interactions with Ethan and Harper appear calculated. Getting bare in entrance of Harper… the “spontaneous” night time in Noto… displaying Harper an image of her children as a substitute of her coach? It have to be a part of an even bigger plan.

Giuseppe kills Mia in an act of revenge

The resort’s piano participant Giuseppe (Federico Scribiani) has been infatuated with aspiring singer Mia (Beatrice Grannò) since he first locked eyes together with her. However it has solely led to humiliation and ache, starting from a drink thrown in his face to a near-death expertise involving a tablet Mia mistook for Viagra. Now that Giuseppe’s within the hospital, Mia takes benefit of the chance and convinces Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) to let her serenade company in his absence. Now, not each plot has to reflect the 1995 cult favourite “Showgirls,” however there’s a whole lot of sexual mentor-protégée power between Giuseppe and Mia, and there’s no means the previous takes her ascension calmly. Prediction: Giuseppe is rendered unable to carry out as a result of drugs mix-up, drowns his sorrows on the bar, will get jealous whereas Mia is taking part in, confronts her down on the seashore and chokes her to demise, silencing them each. It could be grim, however it’s an irony that is sensible within the “Cautious What You Want For” world of “The White Lotus.”

Bert kills Lucia to guard the household

Out of all three Di Grasso males, F. Murray Abraham’s Bert Di Grasso seems to be essentially the most fragile, at the least bodily. Bert wished to go to Sicily to search out his Italian family, pushed by a sentimentality borne from the notion that he’s close to the top of his life. Early within the collection, he falls down the steps; he additionally hits his head. However whilst he positions himself as an previous man who must be taken care of, he wields his energy because the patriarch of the three males — and is least refined about his misogyny. He believes that grandson Albie has been brainwashed at Stanford and disapproves of son Dom’s damaged marriage and dealings with intercourse employees Lucia and Mia. Moreover, he claims that his personal marriage was idyllic, regardless of his personal admission that he cheated on his spouse. However essentially the most telling second happens in Episode 3, when he, Albie, Dominic and Portia eat lunch on the place the place Francis Ford Coppola shot the automotive bombing scene in “The Godfather,” by which Michael Corleone’s spouse Apollonia dies in an explosion. Bert calls the movie the “biggest American film ever made” and tells his son and grandson that the movie fulfills a “regular male fantasy.” As bodily unwell as Bert is perhaps, he’s nonetheless undoubtedly the chief of the group and has a need to maintain his household “intact” — plausibly at any price. After being spurned by the ladies he believes are his distant cousins and witnessing Lucia maneuver nearer to his son and grandson, Bert might fulfill his “regular male fantasy” and quietly homicide Lucia in an effort to salvage Dom’s marriage and defend Albie.

Albie isn’t a pleasant man in any case

Albie presents himself as a “good man.” He appears to indicate respect for girls and acknowledge boundaries — however it’s not that easy. Throughout his dinner with Portia within the second episode, he remarks, “Ladies at all times complain that guys aren’t good, however then in the event that they discover a good man, they’re not at all times .” That phrase instantly sounds the alarm that he could also be nothing greater than a fedora-tipping jerk. A few of Twitter has labeled Albie as an “incel,” however it’s value noting that he does have a sexual relationship with Lucia within the present, voiding that label. All three of the Di Grasso males appear to characterize completely different shades of poisonous masculinity. Bert’s incessant propositioning of ladies and insistence that his marital indiscretions had been acceptable harkens again to a traditional patriarchal construction. In the meantime, his son Dom isn’t as overt and hides his transgressions, displaying a way of superiority that he wasn’t flagrant like his father earlier than him. In the meantime, Albie has over-corrected, as demonstrated by his assumption that Lucia is definitely being coerced into being a intercourse employee, and his savior advanced in attempting to be a hero to girls going by means of one thing. If Albie’s coronary heart is damaged once more, would possibly he present a darker aspect within the season finale? 

Albie kills Ethan, mistaking him for Lucia’s pimp

Maybe Albie’s darkish aspect ends in a horrible accident. Since Alessio tails the Di Grassos in Testa dell’Acqua, Albie has change into more and more protecting over Lucia. No matter whether or not she is definitely at risk (it’s unlikely), Lucia implies to Albie that Alessio is her pimp, and she or he owes him cash. In the meantime, Cameron nonetheless hasn’t totally paid Lucia and Mia, who confront an unknowing Ethan in Episode 6 in regards to the debt. There’s a world by which Ethan, who has needed to repeatedly clarify himself to Harper about what actually occurred with the intercourse employees, confronts Lucia by the cliffs in a match of rage over the downfall of his marriage. Maybe he will get aggressive together with her and Albie, seeing him solely from behind and mistaking him for Alessio, involves Lucia’s rescue and pushes Ethan from behind, inflicting him to fall to his demise.

Bert will die — however it received’t be a homicide 

After we first meet Bert, his age is instantly a subject of dialogue. Mia and Lucia chat about it as they scan the dock, and Valentina instantly remarks, “I’m impressed that you simply’re even right here… it’s an extended journey from Los Angeles, and also you’re fairly previous, no?” Additionally within the first episode, Bert falls by the pool, and Albie expresses concern that he might have a concussion. That’s not the one time Bert injures himself, although. Within the fifth episode, he sports activities a big bandage on prime of his head. He dismisses the harm as a “little scratch,” explaining that he banged his head on the nook of the nightstand whereas on the lookout for the distant. Nevertheless, in the identical dialog, he jokes, “I can’t be liable for all the pieces I say, I’m concussed!” May there be reality to this and trigger for precise concern about his well being? Maybe Bert is aware of he’s nearing the top, and he got here to Italy with the intention of connecting together with his roots earlier than he dies.

A murderous supervisor

Maybe the individual behind the homicide(s) might be the one lording over all of them: Valentina. As we’ve seen up to now, Valentina is an advanced character with a tough exterior. However in Episode 6, she loosens up when Mia gives her the gift of birthday sex. Whereas the second itself was really fairly harmless and candy, for Mia, it’s considerably transactional — she desires to maintain singing and taking part in piano down on the lodge bar. It’s attainable that taking part in with Valentina’s coronary heart might trigger the lodge supervisor to actually lose her cool, as soon as and for all. Perhaps she and Mia are caught by one other visitor and she or he kills them out of worry of shedding her job, or maybe she murders Mia out of anger for breaking her coronary heart. Both means, from her look at first of the primary episode, we all know that if she is the killer, she hasn’t been caught but — and who higher to cowl up a couple of lodge murders than the supervisor herself?