Euphoria Season 3 finale, In God We Trust, arrived with a 93-minute runtime and the heavy job of closing out the lives of characters fans have followed for years. If this really is the final chapter, then Sam Levinson chose pain over comfort and consequences over neat farewells. Rue Bennett, Nate Jacobs, Laurie, and Alamo all met brutal ends, while Cassie, Maddy, Lexi, Jules, Ali, and the rest were left carrying different kinds of damage.
This was not the show giving every character a clean goodbye. It was Euphoria asking one last hard question: when the party ends, who is left standing, and what exactly are they standing on?
Rue Bennett – Dead
Rue Bennett dies in the Euphoria finale, and the show does not soften the blow. After surviving Laurie’s drug operation and working with the DEA, Rue becomes a target once Alamo realizes she helped bring heat to his business. The betrayal is not announced with loud threats. Alamo does something far crueler. He gives Rue painkillers that appear to be Percocet, knowing she is vulnerable and knowing her addiction history makes those pills dangerous even before the truth is revealed.
Ali later discovers that the pills were laced with fentanyl. Rue overdoses and dies on his couch. What makes Rue’s ending so painful is that the finale first lets us believe she might have one last rescue in her. She sees a news report about Fezco escaping, and in her fading mind, she goes looking for him. She ends up back at her childhood home, where she sees her mother, Leslie.
Ali finds her body. It is a devastating end for the show’s central character, and whether viewers accept the choice or not, there is no ambiguity. Rue is gone!
Nate Jacobs – Dead
Nate Jacobs is also dead, though his death comes before the finale’s main events fully settle. Euphoria Season 3 gave Nate a deeply ugly downfall. He was hunted and tortured by loan sharks after a failed business deal left him owing money. His wedding night with Cassie became a nightmare when his toe was cut off. Even after it was reattached, the violence continued. Later, he lost a finger too, which told us how far his life had slipped from control.
In Episode 7, Nate is buried alive in a shallow grave with only a small vent for air. Cassie is given three days to raise the money to save him, and she turns to Maddy for help. By the time they reach him, it is too late. A rattlesnake gets into the vent and bites him, and the venom kills him.
Cassie Howard – Survives
Cassie Howard survives the finale, but survival does not look like healing. After finding Nate dead with Maddy, Cassie decides to keep the truth hidden. Instead of telling people what happened, she says Nate disappeared and that she does not know whether he will ever come home. It is a very Cassie decision because it protects her from reality for a little longer, even as the truth sits right in front of her.
Cassie then commits harder to her OnlyFans business. Her plan is to turn the house she shared with Nate into a content house where women can live, pay rent, and film their material. On paper, it is entrepreneurship. Emotionally, it feels like Cassie trying to turn the site of her broken marriage into something she can control.
Maddy Perez – Survives
Maddy Perez survives, and by the end, she seems to regain at least part of the freedom Alamo had taken from her. Maddy spends much of the finale tied to the criminal business that has swallowed Rue’s story. She is present when Ali storms Alamo’s strip club, and Alamo tries to use her as a shield during the confrontation.
After Ali kills Alamo, Maddy’s situation changes instantly. Bishop gives her a ride home, and she takes back the money she had been forced to hand over to Alamo from the OnlyFans earnings.
Ali Muhammad – Surives
Ali Muhammad (Colman Domingo) survives the finale, but Rue’s death changes him. After finding Rue dead, Ali tests the pills and learns they were laced with fentanyl. That is when he understands what Alamo did. Rue did not simply relapse in isolation. She was poisoned by a man who knew exactly what would hurt her.
Ali spirals after the loss. He admits at a group meeting that he drank again, and that confession matters because it keeps him human. The finale does not pretend grief makes him noble. It shows grief making him furious, tired, and desperate for some form of justice.
Ali then goes to Alamo’s strip club, locks the doors, and forces a confrontation. Alamo agrees to a duel, but his own people turn on him. Bishop gives him an unloaded gun, and Ali shoots him dead. The final stretch gives Ali a quieter ending. He visits the religious family near the border who once gave Rue refuge. He tells them that Rue saw their home as peaceful, and then he sits at their table for grace.
Laurie – Dead
Laurie dies by suicide in the finale. When the authorities arrive at her compound, Laurie refuses to be taken alive. She jumps from the roof with a rope around her neck, choosing death over prison. It is a blunt end for one of Euphoria’s most frightening figures.
Martha Kelly played the character with a calmness that made every sentence feel unsafe. Her death removes one of Rue’s biggest threats, but it also leaves behind the damage she caused.
Alamo Brown – Dead
Alamo Brown dies in the finale after Ali kills him. His downfall begins after he gets away from the DEA fallout and learns Rue helped expose his operation. Instead of killing her openly, he gives her fentanyl-laced pills. That decision seals Rue’s fate and, later, his own.
At the strip club, Alamo tries to stay in control. He uses Maddy as a shield and agrees to a duel with Ali. But his own crew has already turned on him. Bishop gives Alamo an unloaded gun, removing his advantage before the first real chance to survive.
Ali shoots him dead!
Lexi Howard – Survives
Lexi Howard survives, but she is left with guilt. Cassie offers Lexi a role in her new OnlyFans content house, asking her to write storylines for the creators. It is one of the finale’s stranger character beats, but it also makes sense in a bleak way. Cassie sees performance everywhere. Lexi, however, knows this is not the life for her and declines.
Her more meaningful thread is Rue. Lexi expresses guilt over Rue’s death, especially after reading the Bible Rue left behind. She seems stuck on the idea that she could have been kinder or said something better. That guilt is quiet, but it lands because Lexi and Rue’s friendship had history.
Jules Vaughn – Survives
Jules Vaughn gets very little screen time in the finale, which is one of the episode’s more frustrating choices. She is still living with her sugar daddy, played by Sam Trammell, and her main appearance shows her processing grief through art. Jules paints a portrait of Rue, and while she does not get dialogue in that moment, the image says enough. Rue is gone, and Jules is trying to turn the grief into something she can hold.
Her relationship with Rue helped define the show’s early emotional life, and to see her reduced to a nearly silent presence feels thin. The portrait is beautiful in intention, but Jules deserved more than a passing glimpse.
Faye Valentine and Wayne – Survive
Faye Valentine and Wayne survive the finale, at least for now. They flee Laurie’s house before the authorities can arrest them, and the next day, they are seen hitchhiking on the road. Their plan seems pretty obvious. They appear ready to steal from whoever stops to help them.
Faye’s decision to turn on Wayne earlier helped Rue escape, but the finale does not fully clean her slate. She is still running, still tied to danger, and still living by instinct. Wayne, meanwhile, remains part of the criminal mess left behind by Laurie’s fall.
Bishop – Survives
Bishop survives and becomes one of the finale’s quiet wild cards. He turns on Alamo by giving him an unloaded gun before the duel with Ali. That single choice decides the outcome of the shootout. Without Bishop’s betrayal, Ali may not have survived the confrontation.
After Alamo’s death, Bishop shows unexpected kindness to Maddy and gives her a ride home. It is not enough to turn him into a saint, but it does separate him from Alamo’s cruelty. Bishop sees the end coming and chooses not to go down with his boss.
G – Unclear
G’s fate is unclear. During Ali’s raid at the strip club, G is shot. The episode does not fully confirm whether he dies or survives, which makes him one of the finale’s few unresolved casualties. That ambiguity may frustrate viewers who wanted a clean final list. But for G, the lack of certainty also fits the episode’s rough edges.
Not every body gets a formal goodbye in Euphoria. Some characters simply fall inside the violence surrounding more central players. Until the show or creator clarifies it, G’s status should be treated as unknown.
Kitty – Survives
Kitty survives the strip club shootout. After Alamo is killed, she leaves with Maddy and Bishop. Given Cassie’s plan to turn her house into an OnlyFans content house, it seems likely Kitty may become part of that new setup, although the finale does not lock that in with certainty.
Kitty’s fate is less dramatic than others, but she becomes part of the group of women who escape Alamo’s club after his death. That matters because the club was part of his control. Once he is gone, the women inside it finally get to leave.
Her future is uncertain, but at least she walks out. With no current plans for Season 4, this finale works as the show’s last word for now. Did Rue’s ending feel honest to you, or did the series go too far by killing its heart? Drop your take in the comments, and follow FandomWire for more updates!
Euphoria Season 3 finale is available to stream on HBO Max.
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