The Real Reason Rick Visited Thailand

This post contains Spoilers For “White Lotus”.

When we see Rick Hachtit (Walton Gugs) for the first time in the third season of “The White Lotus”, his inherent concern is immediately clear. While the boat carrying guests is scheduled to remain in the Ko Samui White Lotus branch heading towards the beach, we notice that the visual inconvenience of Rick contradicts his beloved girlfriend. Rick’s creativity is not directed towards the natural beauty of the resort and what provides his guests all over, and he rarely baffles even when Chelsea persuades him gently to relax and enjoy. “What kind of chip for this man on his shoulder?” We left, we were wondering, especially when the facades that every other guest wears are in the process of collapse.

The first evidence we get to analyze Rick guard behavior is his disappointment when he knows that the husband of the hotel owner, Jim Holinger, is not present at the resort. The owner, Sritala (Lek Patravadi), became the center of attention during her short stay because she is one of the local celebrities who was also a pioneer in the hotel’s health program. Rick’s behavior is on a special alert when it is surrealist, which allows for a kind of truth that he wants to find an opportunity to talk to her. Well, this opportunity reaches episode 3, where Rick approaches Sriala while pretending to be a producer in the entertainment field that he wants to define it with a director. A meeting with Stritala is arranged in Bangkok, but the real Rick intentions are still preserved under the winding.

That is, until Chelsea Rick faces his improvised journey in Bangkok in “hiding or searching”. With all we have learned about Rick’s past so far, it becomes clear that Bangkok’s meeting is part of the revenge plan rooted in sadness. Let’s go deeper into Rick’s motives behind the Lotus White visit, Thailand.

During Rick’s wellness sessions with Amrta (Shalini Peres), he reveals that he has always felt that he was not millions after his father was killed by his later mother. “Nothing comes from nothing,” after Amrta urged him to reach his psyche and find a reason to give up his painful past. Later, Amrta gently told Rick that he should not be stuck because he could “escape from the Karmi cycle” and that she hopes to do so. Although Rick appears conflicting, he is lagging behind his grief and anger and opens only when Chelsea faces him about this during the strange yacht party in Gary/Greg (John Grace).

Rick strongly believes that Jim Holinger (Sriqala’s husband) killed his father, who sees Rick to be a good man who is punished for standing on what is true. Rick’s trip to Thailand was driven that Jim would be in the white Lotus, but when the man is now in Bangkok, he decided to face his father’s killer there. After learning the truth, Chelsea is sweet and emotional as always, as it embraced it to include that it is understood, although it is very worried about it. After all, Rick did not witness the death of his father, and his life goal was to search for Jim Yanbu from his mother’s recent words before her demise.

This is a burden that Rick carries from his formative years, which has informed his dark existential view of life. He feels emptiness and breaking from this sadness that has not been solved and not closed, unable to give himself completely, even for those who love him without circumstances. This explains his complex relationship with Chelsea, who seems to really love and take care of him, although he is angry and imprisoned. He is absent even when he is physically with her, and his mind forever is preoccupied with a great sense of incomplete deeds.

Will Rick get his revenge without repercussions, or is it a kind of incomprehensible developments will change everything? Well, only the future episodes of “The White Lotus” can provide us with these interesting answers.

The “White Lotus” episodes, the third season, every Sunday on HBO.