Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season 3 of "The White Lotus." Fans of the "The White Lotus" have been waiting to see Gaitok show off his killer instinct in Season 3 of the hit HBO show , and the hotel security guard seems to be getting closer than ever before in Episode 7. While at a Muay Thai fight with his crush, Mook (Lalisa Manobal, better known by her stage name Lisa ), Gaitok confronts the world of violence — and comes to terms with the fact some of the people at the hotel may not be who they think they are.
As one of the fighters is getting knocked out, Gaitok looks down at Valentin (Arnas Fedaravičius), one of the wellness gurus at the resort, and sees him cheering with Laurie (Carrie Coon) and two of his Russian friends. Gaitok slowly starts to realize, through flashbacks, that Vlad and Alexei were the two men behind the robbery at the hotel earlier in the season. Tayme Thapthimthong, who plays Gaitok, tells TODAY.
com that the moment of realization for his character is "very shocking." "When he goes to the fight, it's obviously very shocking for him to put it together, because the tall Russian guy obviously has very distinct features, and he obviously remembers him from just before he was pistol-whipped," Thapthimthong says. "So just to see that he's like, 'Wait a minute, is it that guy?' And then to see him next to Valentin .
.. it's just kind of like, 'No, I think this guy's so cool.
'" "And then (Valentin) was actually the friend that let them in — i.