Let's Break Down the Shocking Ending of "The White Lotus" Season 2

Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) was always the strongest guess for who died, and it turns out this theory was right. At the end of the fourth episode, she agrees to go on a trip to Palermo with a bunch of gay guys she just met. Conspiracy-minded fans on Twitter speculated that maybe her husband, Greg (Jon Gries), hired them to kill her, and they ended up being right.

In episode five, Quentin (Tom Hollander) takes Tanya to see the opera "Madama Butterfly," which is about a woman who's abandoned by her husband and dies by suicide. Songs from "Madama Butterfly" are used to soundtrack some of the devastating moments from episode six. Tanya attends a party thrown by Quentin. It's very important to Jack (Leo Woodall) that her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) isn't there. Quentin gives Tanya a ton of cocaine and then has one of his friends seduce her. While Tanya is waiting for her lover, she sees a photo of Quentin and someone else in cowboy hats.

In the final episode, the men take Tanya on the yacht back to the hotel in Taormina. She's unsettled, but she's not fully suspicious until Portia calls her and tells her Jack has basically kidnapped her. Together, they put together the pieces — including the photo of Quentin and a cowboy who looks a lot like Greg — in place and Tanya decides they're trying to kill her so Greg can get her money despite the prenup. Technically, the men never confirm this goal; they could have just been blackmailing her with her infidelity. But once Tanya finds a gun on the boat, she's convinced.

With the gun, she shoots blindly at all the men. At first it seems like her shots are missing their target, but the camera pans out to reveal she hit and killed them all. She tries to climb down to the boat to shore, but hits her head and drowns.

At the end of episode six, we left Portia in a hotel with Jack, realising he and his "uncle" are scammers. In the finale, she steals his phone to talk to Tanya and warns her to get away from the gay men, but it doesn't save her life. Jack drops Portia off at the airport and tells her to keep her mouth shut forever about what happened in Sicily. It seems like she plans on following his advice.

Cameron (Theo James) and his wife, Daphne, have a very strange relationship. On the surface, they're the world's happiest couple, but, as Harper (Aubrey Plaza) eventually uncovers, there are a lot of lies and mistruths underneath. And in episode six, Harper — intentionally or unintentionally — makes her husband Ethan (Will Sharpe) think she and Cameron hooked up behind his back.

Ethan did snap and attack Cameron in the season finale, but he didn't kill his friend.

We always knew Daphne was going to make it out alive since she's the one who found the body. The finale did seem to imply she had sex with Ethan before her return trip home, however.

Ethan is the king of making bad choices. He's torn between his wife and his college roommate/business partner, and he won't make a bold-enough choice to keep either happy. In episode six, he becomes obsessed with the idea that Cameron and Harper have slept together. The episode features a lot of long, slow shots of him swimming underwater, which seemed to hearken back to the drowned body from the first episode. But despite a fistfight with Cameron in the ocean, Ethan makes it out of the week alive. At the airport, his relationship with Harper seems strong — helped by what seems to be his own tryst with Daphne.

Harper plays with fire all season, inserting herself into Daphne and Cameron's weird relationship dynamic. In episode six, Ethan is obsessed that she might have slept with Cameron. Viewers never really get confirmation if it did happen or not (Harper insists they only kissed), and we also don't know for sure if Ethan sleeps with Daphne in revenge. But Harper and Ethan do finally have sex again before leaving Sicily.

We thought we had something here. Giuseppe (Federico Scribani) has been trying to sleep with Mia (Beatrice Grannò) since episode one. In episode four, she finally agrees, under the promise that he'll connect her to people in the music industry. Mia does not take time to consider how well-connected a hotel-bar piano player could possibly be. Nonetheless, they decide to have their tryst in a church, but Giuseppe has issues getting hard. Mia runs to grab Viagra from Lucia's stash of pills, except she almost definitely messed them up. Later, Giuseppe has a heart attack and is taken out by ambulance. But in episode five, we learn he's alive and well — and probably furious with Mia. He reappears in episode seven, and while he's furious that Valentina has given his job to Mia, he does not murder anyone.

Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia are engaging in sex work with people who have a lot more money than them, and they often seem to be in over their heads. In episode four, Lucia becomes obsessed with the idea that they're going to die as punishment for their actions, but that actually makes us think they're going to live.

However, in episode six, Lucia tells Albie (Adam DiMarco) she's being followed by a man she owes money to. In the finale, he gives her the money with his dad's help, and she leaves him the next morning, alone. At the airport, Albie tells Portia he was scammed.

We see Lucia and Mia walking the streets of Taormina happily in the season's last shot — the only two winners in this game.

Bert (F. Murray Abraham) seemed like the most obvious choice for who dies, since he's the oldest cast member and had that scary fall in episode one. And in episode six, when he and his family try to find their Sicilian family members, an old woman places a "curse" on the whole family. However, he makes it on the plane home alive and well.

The only person who really wants to kill Dominic (Michael Imperioli) is his wife (voiced by Laura Dern), who's still in America. Dominic makes it safely on the plan home, where maybe his marriage can be saved thanks to some help from Albie.

Albie is a very sad, very nice — perhaps too nice — guy. We were worried he would kill Lucia when he found out she was scamming him, but he bottled his anger and went to the airport with his dad and grandpa. He reconnects with Portia at the airport — Could they reappear as a couple in season three?