The White Lotus
WARNING : SPOILERS ahead for The White Lotus season 3 , episode 7 .
Timothy Ratliff ’s obsession with the monk inThe White Lotusseason 3 , episode 7 , " Killer Instincts , " reveal how focused he is on end as an escape from his financial fraud predicament . While Timothy has yet to face the reality or consequences of his involvement with aninternational money - launder schemewith an old business associate named Kenny , he has drowned himself in liquor and his married woman Victoria ’s Lorazepam prescription to avoid deal with the at hand plight of his wealthy lifestyle and public reputation .
Ever since Timothy find out that the FBI had get involved in former episodes ofThe White Lotusseason 3 , he begin to ponder how to best get off the situation , which made him consider death . He has several dark visions of using the gun that he stole from Gaitokon his married woman , his oldest Logos Saxon , and himself , based on their unfitness to cope without their privileged lifestyles . On the other hand , Timothy ’s other two kids , Lochlan and Piper , sweep up a Buddhistic practice , which breathe in both of them to want to stay in Thailand .
Timothy Hasn’t Stopped Thinking About How Death Would Be A Good Thing After Meeting With The Monk
He Misinterprets The Monk’s Comments About Death As A Warped Justification For Killing
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base on his alcohol and drug abuse , Timothy has blend in to a coloured berth mentally , which do him recall that vote down himself and his family would be a happier thing than let their lives light aside from his crimes . The monk ’s discussion about death being a glad return really only formalize what he had been thinking , so Tim keeps thinking about how heady the monk is . In reality , however , Tim misses the point of nonviolent resistance as the core of Buddhistic practice , which shows just how warped his frame of idea becomes inThe White Lotusseason 3 .
Timothy ’s downfall is exacerbated by his invariant denial of the situation he ’s confront and how it will strike his family . At this point inThe White Lotusseason 3,Timothy still looks like the character most likely to die in the season finalebased on the fact that he go on to lead away from his ineluctable trouble .
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Tim ’s superbia may force him to do something fantastically drastic by the last of the season .
If Tim were to own up to the money - launder schema , he would face up few consequences than bottle it up and pretending like it did n’t happen . Tim ’s pride may drive him to do something incredibly drastic by the end of the season .
Timothy Really Needed To Be At Piper & Lochlan’s Meditation Session Later That Day
Timothy Would Have Understood That Buddhism Is Centered On Nonviolence
Had Timothy actually contain an interestingness in Buddhist practice session , he would have realized thatviolence is never the answer and is sourced from fear . There ’s no interrogation that Tim is incredibly terrible of what will chance to him and his family , which is why things have start this dark for him so speedily .
The White Lotus season 3 , episode 7 ’s story is intercut with several Muay Thai engagement scenes , begging the doubt of what they truly think of .
What Tim is most afraid of , however , seems to be his own repute . He will no longer be an upstanding family unit man and his public image will be evermore tainted . If Timothy had gone with Piper and Lochlan to the meditation academic session inThe White Lotusseason 3 , instalment 7 , he might have been offer some much - needed unearthly clarity .
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