White Lotus Season 3 Section 4: Should Greg Kill Belinda?

In a show that is filled with non-unwilling people, it takes a special character to be the absolute, non-competitive worst of the flock. On White Lotus‘s season three, it is arguably Greg (Jon Gries) alias Gary alias the non-so-cooling widower of season one and two’s Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge).

In a bit of twist, Greg is the only character that appears on all three seasons of White LotusWhen he was reintroduced to viewers in the first episode of season three. Technically, he is not a guest on town. After inheriting Tanya’s gigantic fortune, Greg now owns a luxurious house step away from White Lotus in Thailand. He also dates a model named Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon), who slightly opposed him and dates him to his wealth – not contrary to his own relationship with Tanya. He also goes past the alias Gary, presumably because law enforcement looks at Greg as a suspicious person in Tanya’s death.

White Lotus Is an anthology series after another group of appalling rich people around another lavish resort every season for a holiday that inevitably ends up in someone’s death. Although the show has seen some characters return – namely Tanya and Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), the Holy White Lotus Hawaii employee who Tanya used to promise her own spa in season one – did not seem to have (or have been billed like having) a bribing tale so far.

The problem for “Gary” is that Belinda is just as happened to be in the Thai resort as part of an exchange program. She finally recognized Greg in section three, but while she knew he distracted their mutual patron from financeing Belinda’s dream of owning her own business, she did not yet know about Tanya’s untimely death – or Greg’s role in it. (Quick Update: Greg employed a CERTERIE of scam gay To get his wife killed, but eventually she hit her own head on the side of a boat while trying to jump to safety.) He denied that they had ever met (after all, he is Gary), but in the fourth episode of the season Belinda is up to speed thanks to a quick google and frightened. Then Greg is. If Belinda exchanges enough information with the authorities, she could blast everything he worked to hide!

Section four picks up for Greg and Belinda’s face to face. He has a boat party to prevent host and she is preparing for her son’s arrival. But they can’t stop thinking about each other (negatively) and appear to be on a collision course. Now it seems to be more and more likely that the man who seemed to be anything other than a side character/love interest in season 1 has been taking all the time White Lotus fans on the well -known arc of a True crime romance scams: Seduction, violence and the desperate struggle not to be caught.

The usual White Lotus Boat trip

As sure the sun will rise tomorrow, the figures are on White Lotus Comes on a boat and has a terrible time. In season one, Tanya spread her mother’s ashes in the Pacific (or tried to) with newlywed Rachel (Alexandra d’Oddario) and Shane (Jake Lacy) on the trip. In season two, Tanya was again on a ship in the Mediterranean, where she accidentally died after killing the rich gay guys trying to murder her. And in season three, section four, White Lotus Thailand’s guests are at sea again.

With (presumably) Tanya’s money, Greg has acquired a yacht, and at Chloe’s behavior invited the Ratliff family – parents, children and Lorazepam Stash – as well as Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Rick (Walton Goggins) spend all a day on board.

Technically, they are all Greg’s guests. But most all, including Greg, seem a little miserable.

The ship is full of older men and their much younger female company. As Chloe says, these old bald guys are all the same. Even on open water with champagne flowing, tension-deficiency pills, inappropriate flirting, wrong revenge charts and some previous antipathy between Ratliffs and the incredibly nervous rick-are inevitable. It all goes back to the idea that no matter how rich you are and how many things you buy to throw at your problems, you can still absolutely hate the life you have.

In the bar, Tim Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) loaded the rapidly unspoking South Carolina businessman, on his wife’s Lorazepam, and many, many dinner drinks, to know about Greg’s life in Thailand. When Tim asks if he likes it, Greg tells him, “I will never leave.” That could be true, but with the police looking, he can never.

“Just heard someone say that anyone moving to Thailand is either looking for something or hiding for something,” Tim Slurs.

“None of them,” Greg tells him, “I just got tired of the rat run.”

However, Greg is in his own race now. When he finds him sitting alone on the upper deck, Chloe asks if she can take the boat to another island to celebrate an upcoming Full Moon party. The man she calls Gary tells her she can take the boat without him, and she doesn’t seem to be interested when he tells her, “There’s something I have to deal with at home.”

“Something” is Belinda.

Back on land watches Belinda Greg talking to the hotel’s grinning manager. From the appearance of his eye, she cannot help but assume that it is her. She and Greg make short eye contact. Later, in the slim home Tanya’s wealth purchased, Greg looks at Belinda’s Instagram and examines pictures of her and her son.

Given what we know about Greg’s story about Grifting and Tanya’s possible death, it certainly may not be good for Belinda to be in his cross chairs.

Should Greg Kill Belinda?

When Belinda knows who Greg is and Greg knows that Belinda knows about him and Tanya, it raises a very obvious question: Will Greg Kill Belinda? And is Belinda the mysterious person who dies in paragraph one?

Many characters point to yes. Belinda seems to be the only person in Thailand who knows Greg is not Gary. Even if Belinda intends to stay quiet, Greg doesn’t know. It seems that this man, who has no concern about wrying and murder-to-rent, would not think twice to find a way to dampen Belinda for good. It is as clearly a motive as we see on the show.

But there is an absolute huge reason why he is not the killer who is pursuing the resort of the season opener – shooting and killing Belinda would not be his mo or beneficial to his endgame.

The murder, which we get a glimpse of at the beginning of the season, is just too obvious that Greg is the killer. The man is in demand in Italy and the last thing he wants to do is draw even more attention. Do you know what draws attention? Repeatedly and wildly firing a gun on a luxury resort full of the richest people on earth. There is a greater chance that Belinda will use the gun in a kind of self -defense than Greg shooting her.

Greg has also turned out to be the type of guy who would not make the murder itself. Back in season two, when he traveled to Italy with Tanya, Greg actually left Tanya and let the “evil gays” (of which Greg had a previous relationship with) toys around with her. If Greg comes to Belinda, he will find out a way to do it without being directly involved.

Without a doubt, the tension between Belinda and Greg will run the rest of the season. She gets careful with him. He will keep her close, close enough to sniff out how much she knows and whether she wants to snuggle or not.

What is fascinating here is what a trip this is for the show that usually tells contained stories.

White Lotus Has always been a job that consists of closely observed character study (please see this season three quiet warring white women who have been friends since childhood). Since his first performance in season one, however, Greg has been more than a bit of a chiffer. He is tacitly, he is reserved. Yes, he is angry, as he proved in season two when Tanya brought her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) on vacation, but he is quite ignorant. We think he likes fly fishing and we are pretty sure he was working at the Bureau of Land Management. What was his relationship with Quentin (Tom Hollander)? Has he ever really cancer that he claimed when he met Tanya in Maui?

Greg also doesn’t fit nicely into the show’s class criticism. So many characters on the show are cartoonish, exaggerated versions of one percent. They get rid of spoiled right and impose places where ordinary people are shut out. Greg’s Grift feels a little different, but perhaps more creepy – here is a thief worse than the rich he steals from. To arrange Tanya’s death and get rid of her fortune feels unfair.

White Lotus Is a show about personal revelations, how these wealthy people really look when their money can’t buy what they really need. But Greg is wrapped tight. He may be more desperate than ever, but there is no real sense of who this man is.

It is only slow and methodical over years that this show can let us into a character like Greg: A man who does not travel on vacation to let go, who is not there to relax or make friends moving like a shark towards a little longer term, darker goals. Unlike the rest of our travelers, he does not spoil with self -exploration. Greg knows who he is. It’s his job to make sure no one else does.