This post contains spoilers for this week's episode of The White Lotus“Hide or Seek,” Which is now streaming on max.
After the Different Groups of Guests and Staffers Have Been Largely Siloed From One Another, The Barriers Start to like Down Throughout “Hide or Seek.” The Ratliffs Spend the Day on Greg's Yacht, Along with Rick and Chelsea. And Tim's Ongoing Legal Calamity possibly collides with gaitok's high to test Himself in the aftermath of the robberry. But for the Most Part, The Stories Continue To Stand Alone Just Entean Wall We Will Once Again Touch On Them Group By Group – At Least Until We Get to the Matter of the Missing Gun.
Jaclyn, Kate, and Laurie
For Once, The Friends Aren't Breaking Down Into Lonterr Groups to Secretly Gossip About One Another. Instead, Their Ire is aimed outward, First At Valentin, and then at the local Kids.
Realizing that ancen't taking as much Advantage of the local as they couuld – and desperately seeking a Distraction from the fact that Hat Hot Young Husband Isn'T Responding to Her Messages – Jaclyn Insists that the trio get away from the resort and explore what the island has to offer. But when she asks Valentin to Find them a fun spot, he instead seds them to a hotel down the beach that caters to reirees on a travel budget. Why would he point them to such a place? Perhaps It's Because, Despite His Constant Flattery About What Youthful Shape Laurie and Jaclyn Are In, He Can't Help Thinking of Them As Old, and is at an Age where He Considers Everyone Above 40 to Be Interchangeable. Perhaps He's Annoyed That Expect Him To Be, As Jaclyn Later Puts It, Their “Butler,” and is amough by Taking Them Down in Peg. Perhaps he has secrets we hace't gotten to year.
Regardless, The Ladies Quickly Bail On the Old (Er) Folks and Order Valentin to take them Someplace More Exciting. The problem is, it's too early for the club he chose to open, so they wind up in Town in the middle of the full moon celebration-where a bunch of squirt gun-wielding kids decides these Three Rich AmericanS Perfect Targets for Soaking. Mike White Shoots The Assault Like It's a Parody of Sam PeckinPah or Another Blood-Loving Action Filmmker of Generations Past. Still, it's a bit disappeinting to have the tension among the three set Largely to the side this week.
Rick and Chelsea
If Rick's Agenda For Coming to the Resort Wasn'T Clear Before, He Spells It Out to Chelsea While They're Out on Greg's Boat: He Blames Sritala's Husband Jim for the Murder of His Father, and intent to exact Revenge on the Guy. Though Chelsea Quotes The Princess Bride In this scenes, it's Starting to Feel Like The More appropriate pop-culture Reference Might Be Empire strikes back. At this point, would Anyon Be Surprised If Jim Turned Out to Not Be The Man Who Killed Rick's Father, But the Father Himself?
While We Wait to Find Out Wheer That Theory is Correct, The Most Compelling Part of this Story This Week is a small one. Amrita Runs Into Rick at the Hotel, and when he inferms Her That he's skipping another session with her to go to bangkok, she makes one last deeds at Getting Through the emotional armor he's built up Around Himself. “You have Touched My Heart,” She Tells Him. “And the Hope You will Hear Me When I Say, You are not Stuck. You Undersand? You can let go of your story. You can escape the karmic cycle. Find Peace in this life. I have Hope for you. ” Pot-Fueled Snake-Prison Breaks Aside, Walton Goggins Has Been Doing Some Very Small, Carefully Calibrated Work So Far As Rick. This Moment Where here Thanks and We Realize That She has Gotten Through to Him, Even Just in Little, is Lovely.
Belinda and Greg
Greg Mostly Tries to Stay Out of the way as his obescenyy Large Yacht Plays Host To A Mix of His Fellow LBHS AND CHLOE'S VARIUS GUESTS. That's in part because he doesn't see to like other people, and in part because my is occupied with what to do about the troublesome belinda, Who puts two and two together regarding greg and tanya, after which her friend google tells her all about the still of the events of the events of the event White Lotus Season Two. When “Gary” Tells Chloe That he has to go back to Shore for Something “Important,” it does not sound like a promising development for our favorite massage therapist.
Gaitok
The Good News For Gaitok is That he's Not Being Fired Over The Robberry, Even Though Fabian Still Very Clearly Wants to Can Him. The Bad News Is That Fabian and Security Chief Lek Have Decided That What Gaitok Needs To Be The Best Security Guard He Can Be is a Loaded Weapon – Specifically, A Walther Ppk, Best Known As the Gun That 007 Use In The James Bond Movies. The Worst News Is That Gaitok Once Again Provs Highly Distractible, Leaving the UNSECURED GUN OUT OUT DESK While He's Distraced with More Seemingly Futile Flirting With Mook. When he Returns to the Hut, The Thing is of course gone, for rensions we'll get to in a moment. Gaitok Seems Like a Nice Enaughter Guy, butty security would not sin be the ideal career for HIM.
The Ratliffs
Fabio Lovino/Hbo
Near the end of the episode, after the rest of the durham clan has left saxon and lochlan Behind on Greg's Yacht, Victoria Once Again Compla About Having to Be Around People Other Than The ONES SHNO KNOWS FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB. At One Point, She suggests that the family is vacationing in such a Lawless Place, She Woundn'T Be Surprised If There Were Fugitive Killers Among Them. AS IT TURNS OUT, Victoria is correct about this – She Even Just Took a Ride On The Yacht of Such a Person! But This Insight Comes at the Same Moment She's Completely Oblivious to the fact that Her Husband is a criminal who's all but Guaranteed to serve jail time and lose the family fortune in the process. TIM's Family Information Blackout is Working So Far, as is his high to medicate His Way Through the rest of the trip by Stealing His Wife's Lorazepam. But possibly, he can't resist throwing his phone back from pam for a few minutes so he can check in with his actney chuck, who has nothing butting bad news. And wouldn'T you know, Said Bad News Arriva Right As He's Strolling Past the Unmanned Security Station, where a Pistol Is Lying in Wait for Any Particularly Despondent Guest to Grab.
We Know There Will Be An Active Shooter On The Property in Few Days. Now We Know There's At Least One Gun Almedy in Place, and that the person who has it feels like His World is coming to an end. That is a recipe for bad Things Only.
