‘The White Lotus’ Season 3: I’ve a principle about Jim Hollinger

In The White Lotus Season 3, episode 7, Rick Hatchett (Walton Goggins) lastly comes head to head with Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn), the person he believes murdered his father.

Nevertheless, buddies, the confrontation would not go the violent means we — and Rick’s buddy Frank (Sam Rockwell) — suppose it should go. And personally, this confirms a wild principle I have been mulling over the entire season: Who actually is Jim Hollinger? Are we carried out with this man or is there extra to the story?

Let’s get all Poirot on the info and see if I am proper by the finale.

What occurs in The White Lotus Season 3, episode 7?

Having efficiently talked their means into the sprawling Bangkok residence of White Lotus homeowners Sritala (Lek Patravadi) and Jim Hollinger, Rick and Frank give one hell of a shaky efficiency as a Hollywood producer/director group pitching a faux film.

Rick’s sown the seeds for this assembly all season, monitoring Jim to the White Lotus, introducing himself to Sritala at breakfast in episode 3, and monitoring Jim to Bangkok. We have recognized since episode 4, after Rick’s yacht dialog together with his girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wooden), that Rick believes Jim is the person who murdered his father — it is why they’re on the Thailand White Lotus in any respect.

In episode 7, making an excuse to go away Sritala and Frank to “bond as artists,” Rick suggests he and Jim discuss enterprise in Thailand in his host’s den, and after a tense dialog wherein Jim mentions he has two daughters, Rick confronts his Boogeyman.

“I’ve always wanted to meet you. The very first time I heard your name I was 10 years old when my mother was dying,” Rick says. “I have fantasised about this moment a thousand times.”

When Jim asks what is going on on, Rick replies together with his mom’s title, Gloria Hatchett, hoping to set off a reminiscence. “It seems like you should remember, she had a husband, you had him killed over some land deal or some shit,” Rick says, as Jim seems puzzled. “He was a good man, but I didn’t get to meet him because you’re a piece of shit.”

Rick then pulls a gun on Jim, telling him he ruined his life. “You may not remember him but you’re sure as fuck gonna remember me.”

In a second of readability, Rick walks out of there with out taking pictures Jim, solely pushing him over in his chair, after which he grabs Frank and so they drive into the sundown for an evening of partying whereby no drug on Earth may give Rick an even bigger excessive than pure closure.

However are we really carried out right here? I THINK NOT.

What will we learn about Rick’s father’s demise?

“My father was here trying to do the right thing, and one day he disappeared. They never found him.”
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The principle issues we learn about Rick’s father’s demise are from episode 4, wherein Rick says he got here to Thailand “to help these locals keep a shitty American from stealing their land — I really don’t know all the details. But my father was here trying to do the right thing, and one day he disappeared. They never found him.”

Rick additionally talks about his father being murdered throughout his stress administration session with meditation trainer Dr. Amrita (Shalini Peiris) in episode 2. Right here, Rick reveals that his father was killed earlier than he was born. Did Jim homicide Rick’s father for meddling in a land seize? Or is there extra to the story?

As he tells Jim, Rick says that his mom, Gloria, who died when he was 10 from a drug overdose, gave him the title of his father’s assassin on her deathbed: Jim Hollinger.

Nevertheless, this is my principle…

Is Jim Hollinger Rick’s precise father?

Papa!
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Buddies, I counsel to you this: Rick’s father by no means died, actually, he is IN THIS VERY ROOM. J’accuse!

I argue that Jim Hollinger is definitely Rick’s dad, and that Rick’s mom, heartbroken from Jim maybe leaving her earlier than Rick was born, lied to her son on her deathbed as a closing act of revenge. Rick would not have any different details about his father aside from he was “a good man” and that he was murdered by some man referred to as Jim Hollinger who owns a flowery lodge in Thailand. However he by no means mentions his father’s title, nor will we see {a photograph} of him.

When Rick arrives on the Hollingers’ property, you might argue Jim recognises part of him immediately, or sees some resemblance to Gloria. Glenn’s efficiency right here is intentionally laborious to learn however he gazes at Rick like a well-known face; in the meantime Rick is shellshocked on the actuality of the person he constructed up in his head.

Throughout their confrontation within the den, Jim is once more ambiguous in his reactions, although he errs on the facet of not remembering. Is it an act? The way in which Jim says Rick’s mom’s title – “Gloria Hatchett” – again to Rick, to me is not a second of forgetfulness, it is a revelation to JIm. I counsel Jim remembers Gloria on this second, however earlier than he can course of it, Rick’s received a gun in his face.

Is Jim Rick’s dad? Why did Gloria give Rick Jim’s title on her deathbed? Does Sritala know something? Does Rick have sisters?! We’re more likely to discover out extra within the finale, after we can lastly bury the Hatchett.

The White Lotus is streaming now on Max, with new episodes dropping weekly at 9 p.m. ET Sundays on HBO.