There’s a lot left to unpack in next week’s The White Lotus finale, with a bunch of questions lingering as the credits roll in the penultimate episode.We still haven’t figured out the big question, who dies? It was hinted in the first episode that it was Shane Patton’s wife, Rachel, but that just seems too obvious to be true now.After a brutal few days at the office, resort manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) gives a cryptic spiel about death as he recites a poem by British writer Alfred Lord Tennyson.“Sometimes just watching them eat every night makes me want to gauge my eyes out. Lotus eaters,” he tells spa manager Belinda (Natasha Rothwell).“Hateful is the dark blue sky, vaulted o’er the dark blue sea, death is the end of life. Ah, why should life all labour be?”Yah, someone’s about to die.Elsewhere, the hotel’s busboy Kai (Kekoa Kekumano) is on the run after a botched robbery at the Mossbacher suite, in a plan devised by his lover Paula (Brittany O’Grady), who is also a guest of the Mossbacher family.Paula has been growing increasingly disillusioned by the Mossbachers after falling for Kai, a native Hawaiian whose family used to occupy the land The White Lotus resort is now built on. Watch The White Lotus only on Foxtel. New customers get a 10-day free trial. Sign up at foxtel.com.auAfter Paula’s airs her distaste at having to watch the locals dance for their wealthy guests every night, Mark Mossbacher (Steve Zahn) just about sums up the undertone of the series with this spiel at the breakfast table.“Obviously imperialism is bad. We shouldn’t kill people, steal their land and make ‘em dance. But it’s humanity. Welcome to history. Welcome to America,” Mark laughs. “How are we gonna make it right? Should we give away all our money? Or maybe we should just feel sh*tty about ourselves all the time for the crimes of the past.”After Paula reject’s Kai’s offer to stay with him in Hawaii, she promises a parting gift, to help him take jewels from the Mossbacher’s lucrative safe so he can afford a lawyer to fight the settlers who stole his people’s land.A reluctant Kai agrees, as Paula tells him the room will be unoccupied at 3pm as the family is going on a boat trip.This is foiled when Nicole Mossbacher (Connie Britton) has an almighty breakdown before the boat departs upon learning her husband, Mark told their son Quinn (Fred Hechinger) about his previous affair.Nicole bolts to the room right after Kai yanks two $75,000 bracelets from the safe.RELATED: How to watch The White Lotus in AustraliaKai puts on a balaclava and pushes Nicole to the ground. At this moment, Mark enters the room and rugby tackles Kai.Kai manages to escape and is last seen fleeing on the beach as the Mossbacher family call the police, leaving Paula terrified of revelations to come.The only person who seems truly happy after a few days at The White Lotus resort is Quinn, who after countless nights of sleeping on the beach has joined the local rowing crew.In an intense juxtaposition, we divert to Armond who has woken up dishevelled on his office couch after a night of debauchery with a male hotel employee, which his arch enemy Shane witnessed in all its glory.Shane, who in the meantime has no idea his wife Rachel (Alexandra Daddario) is practically writing their divorce papers, toys with Armond and it’s clear he has a devious plan up his sleeve.“I went by your office to tell you the number you gave me for your manager wasn’t in service, but you were really, really busy,” Shane tells a mortified Armond.“And so late at night.”This battle clearly isn’t over.RELATED: Why Jennifer Coolidge thought she would die before White LotusAs we predicted four episodes ago, Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) is becoming increasingly flaky with Belinda after earlier promising her she would fund her dream wellness centre.Now, all Tanya can think about is Greg (Jon Gries), the guy she met yesterday whom she had a one-night stand with.In the middle of a business dinner with Belinda, who’s eager to know what Tanya thinks of her business proposal, all Tanya can talk about is how she hasn’t received a text from Greg yet and how her insecurities will prevent her from finding love anyway.Three seconds later, she receives a text from Greg and bails on dinner with a disheartened Belinda.Later on in her room in a backwards attempt to push Greg away, Tanya has a wild meltdown about how she’s a “dead end” and a “lost cause”.She shoves the box carrying her dead mother’s ashes at Greg’s chest before demanding he leave. You know, as you do. Remarkably (and let’s be honest, unrealistically), he comforts her and tells her he’s not going anywhere and they make sweet love. This is the stuff of fairytales.New episodes of The White Lotus air Mondays at 11am on Foxtel
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