The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 recap: The masks come off

The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 recap (Image via YouTube/Max)
The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 recap (Image via YouTube/Max)

The White Lotus Season 3 has released its penultimate episode, which has some much-awaited confrontations. The ever-changing power and relationship dynamics continue in the episode, setting up an epic season climax.

As the story is nearing its conclusion, the masks have started to go off. The trio of Kate, Jaclyn, and Laurie start to show their true colors to each other, and tensions are at an all-time high. Greg and Belinda finally have a conversation, and as expected, the murderous man has some evil intentions.

At the same time, Rick gets to meet the supposed killer of his father, but the encounter does not go as planned. Meanwhile, the Ratliff siblings continue to deal with their own issues. Here is the complete The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 recap.


The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 recap: Greg attempts to bribe Belinda

Ever since Belinda and Greg had their first interaction in The White Lotus Season 3, fans knew the spa manager was in danger. After Greg invites her to his home for a party, Belinda is anxious, but her son prompts her to go and accompanies her.

Her worries only grow when Greg tells her he wants to have a conversation in private. He then comes clean about his identity but maintains that he had nothing to do with Tanya’s death. He claims he moved to Thailand to live his life in peace and offers Belinda $100,000, citing how Tanya wanted her to establish her own business.

Belinda, however, knows she is being bribed to keep her mouth shut and asks Greg to give her time to sleep over it. Now that the bribe has not worked, Greg might plan something sinister, as he knows the repercussions of his secret getting out. Meanwhile, poor Belinda is scared for her life and wonders if she will ever get a break from this mess.


The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 recap: The best friends’ masks come off

Jaclyn, Laurie, and Kate’s pretense ends, and the truth of their shallow friendship is out in the open. As Laurie is upset about Jaclyn sleeping with Valentin, he keeps taunting her friend. The trio then has an altercation as Jaclyn tells Laurie to get her own life together instead of complaining about others.

Laurie reverts with more insults, calling her vain and selfish and labeling Kate as fake and pretentious. To deal with her insecurities, she joins Valentin and his friends again and ends up sleeping with Aleksei, who happens to be a fraud and only wants her money.

Things do not end well for her as Aleksei’s girlfriend arrives at the scene and gets violent with her. At the same time, Gaitok goes out on a date with Mook. However, he notices Valentin’s friends at the Muay Thai fight and realizes they are the assailants who carried out the heist at the hotel museum.


The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 recap: Rick’s confrontation

Rick and Frank reach Sritala's home to discuss their fake film script, where Rick gets to Jim Hollinger, the supposed killer of his father. As Frank struggles to drive a conversation about films with Sritala, Rick proposes to leave them alone and have a talk about Jim’s work in Thailand separately.

However, the old man is taken aback when Rick pulls out his gun and confronts him about how he ruined his childhood by murdering his father. Jim is too shocked to speak, and looking at how frail and old he is, Rick decides not to shoot or hit him.

Instead, he throws his chair down and runs away from the scene with Frank, who just had a string of drinks, leaving his sobriety behind. The two then engage in partying and drugs, while Chelsea remains worried about Rick’s whereabouts.


The White Lotus Season 3 Episode 7 recap: The Ratliffs and their troubles

After the controversial moment with his brother in the previous episode, Saxon finally tries to be a better man. He notices his father is going through a tough time and asks him if something is wrong at work.

Meanwhile, Timothy assures him that everything is alright and continues to rely on alcohol and lorazepam to calm himself down and ignore his problems. Saxon is also worried about his future, as he believes he is nothing without his father’s business.

He tries to learn meditation from Chelsea but soon returns to his old ways as he starts to touch her hands, making her uncomfortable. Elsewhere in the monastery, Piper and Lochlan have a hard time gulping down their dinner.

Lochlan eventually tells his sister that he wants to join her in living in the monastery for a year, leaving Piper worried as she wants to start a new life away from her family members who are constantly intruding on her privacy.


The White Lotus Season 3 finale will be aired on HBO on April 6, 2025.

Edited by Sangeeta Mathew
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