Fan Theories About Jaclyn and Valentin in The White Lotus Season 3 Got Even Fishier After Episode 7

The White Lotus season 3 is different from the previous two parts of the series. The way the suspense is built up this time is slower, which makes every little revelation a big deal, and the way so many predictions fail to come true also keeps the viewers invested, analyzing every little detail of each episode to find more clues about the fate of characters.

One of the main groups of the series this time was the trio of old friends, Laurie, Kate, and Jaclyn. They went to school together, went their separate ways, but still managed to remain close friends. They came together to The White Lotus resort to have some fun, but apparently the definition of fun is different for each of them.

From the moment the girls saw who their attached spa worker was (a handsome foreigner with killer abs), the three women couldn't stop giggling about how one of them should hook up with him. The loudest was Jaclyn, she tried to push Laurie to do it, but instead she was the one who slept with Valentin and wanted to keep it a secret.

However, Kate saw the man leaving their villa the next morning and told Laurie about it to have a few laughs about it and the fact that Jaclyn is married to a younger man and still cheated on him. But it wasn't funny at all for Laurie, and she tried to confront Jaclyn, who never confirmed that she slept with Valentin and acted aggressively instead.

When viewers witnessed Jaclyn and Valentin having sex, they immediately flooded Reddit with theories about how this would backfire on Jaclyn. The most popular fan theory was that Valentin's friends would film the sex and later blackmail Jaclyn with the video, saying they would destroy her career and marriage if she did not pay them.

After episode 7, however, a new, even more intriguing theory was born: thanks to Laurie.

The three friends couldn't patch things up after the hookup and were still on edge with each other. They even had a fight over dinner, which led to Laurie leaving them and joining the Russian guys to watch the Muay Thai fights. The night ended with her and Aleksei having sex, only for him to ask her to send him money "for his sick mother in Vladivostok" minutes after they finished.

The scene was intense, and for a moment, viewers were actually worried about Laurie, because the guy was convincing in his demands for money. Ironically, what saved her was the Russian girlfriend who came to the house to confront Aleksei, and Laurie managed to escape by jumping off the balcony.

After that scene, though, viewers came up with a theory: what if the reason Jaclyn was so defensive was something completely different than just regret for cheating on her husband? Maybe Valentin did the same thing that Aleksei tried to do with Laurie and… succeeded?

“She has the money, he knows it, she’s the married celebrity who wouldn’t want a scandal. Yes. That makes sense why she’s so hostile about it. It kills her that a young dude wasn’t lusting after her, it was her money. She did a much more downplayed version of this when Valentin told both Laurie and Jaclyn in their biometric sessions that they had the same body fat percentage,” Redditor thisdanginterweb said.

The theory has found many supporters in social media, and frankly, it is something that can easily be true. The three friends are good-looking con men with a special system of seducing older wealthy women and asking for money at the end. After all, they were providing a service!

The White Lotus is available to stream on Max.