After over four years of waiting since the end of the second season, Euphoria season 3 has now finished its divisive and much-debated run of episodes.
As the episode opened, Rue Bennett (Zendaya) had just been betrayed by Faye Valentine (Chloe Cherry) after Rue sought to double-cross both of her rival crime bosses, Laurie (Martha Kelly) and Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), as part of a deal with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
So what happened to the cast of characters in the Euphoria season finale?
*Spoiler warning for Euphoria season 3 episode 8, In God We Trust.*
What happened to Rue Bennett?
Rue managed to severely injure Wayne's leg and knock out a screaming Faye before escaping, while a furious Wayne (Toby Wallace) pursued her with a shotgun.
Alamo, now secretly aware of Rue's working with the DEA, was delighted when the pair returned, and even kissed the injured Rue on the forehead for her success. Alamo declared the pair were fated to meet and offered Rue painkillers before explaining that he intended to offer Laurie a truce and continue their operation. Despite her previous addiction to painkillers, Rue took them for the pain.
In a hospital, Rue had her injuries stitched up before going to visit her sponsor, Ali Muhammed (the ever-brilliant Colman Domingo), and asking to stay with him for a while, and he agreed. Rue listened to recordings of the bible as she was tempted to break her sobriety once again.
At Laurie's, it dawned on Wayne as he reacted to their supply that Laurie's gang were being set up, and so he and Faye fled on horseback as Laurie and Alamo's van with trafficked drugs returned.
Laurie, unable to cope with the thought of prison, climbed onto her roof and leapt from the roof with a cable tied to her neck, ending her own life.
Alamo's man at the scene, Big Eddy (Kadeem Hardison), meanwhile, told the DEA that he had now quit working for Alamo.
The next morning, we saw Ali awoke to find Rue eating breakfast when she saw on the news that her old friend Fezco O'Neill (the late Angus Cloud) had escaped from prison through the use of parkour.
Rue then left to find Fez, whom she was sure she knew where he would be hiding.
Rue arrived back at her old neighbourhood and broke through a police perimeter, shouting for Fez and pursued by police.
In reality, we then saw that Rue was instead sobbing while high and fantasising about the reunion, along with remembering being held by her late father. Her hand reached out before cutting to black.
Clear now that everything we had seen since Ali previously woke up had been a fantasy, we then saw Ali awaken once again at home before heading to the living room and finding her corpse, and breaking down in tears.
Ali then tested the medication for fentanyl and found they were indeed laced with the powerful opioid.
Following this, Ali made the difficult phone call to Leslie to inform her that Rue had died.
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At a meeting, Ali revealed that Rue's death and the futility surrounding the fentanyl crisis had left him weary and prompted him to relapse into drink. He announced to the meeting that he wanted to take firmer action to get rid of evil in the world.
At home, we saw him saw off a shotgun...
What happened to Cassie Howard, Maddy Perez, and Lexi Howard?
We next saw Cassie fixing up her former home into a boarding house for female influencers, where they can also act as sex workers and rake in large amounts of cash.
Lexi was seen asking Cassie about Nate's 'disappearance', and Cassie pretends she does not know what happened to her husband.
Asking about reading the Bible, Lexi revealed that she kept seeing the copy Rue had been reading while she was staying with her. After ignoring it for a while, Lexi reveals she began reading the Bible herself.
Cassie compared Rue to their absent alcoholic father, with Lexi revealing that she always feared losing someone again like their father.
Despite their touching moment, Lexi turned down Cassie's job offer before leaving the house.
Once Lexi had left, Cassie sat on her bed and looked at her wedding portrait with Nate and began crying alone on her bed in the home they had lived in together.
We then saw Ali had arrived at the club in full military wear and barred the door as he walked through the club with a heavy bag (presumably with that big old shotgun) and then sat down at a table.
"I'm just another slave with a little more money in my hand," said Alamo. He then spoke to Maddy with thoughts of marriage between them, calling it "biblical" and saying he wanted the "American Dream" with her.
Kitty (Anna Van Patten) approached Ali and tried to dance for him, but he restrained her from touching him and sent her to find the manager.
A full shootout then began as Ali called for Alamo and forced all of the enforcers to back down, before Alamo threw his stuffed bull head through the two-way mirror.
Ali told Alamo that Rue had sent him, to Maddy's shock, and it became clear he "had a score to settle". Alamo made Kitty bring him a champagne bottle before he began swigging from it. Kitty rolled it down the bar to be the final countdown to shoot.
Bishop then dropped the bullets he removed to the floor and said, "May God Have Mercy." Ali then left.
Following this, Bishop offered Maddy a ride home and the pair departed with Kitty and Bishop's pet poodle.
What happened to Jules Vaughn?
Jules begins painting on a canvas once again while crying, as Ellis makes coffee.
This was all we saw of Jules in the finale, grieving for Rue and clearly upset that her final interaction with Rue was so acrimonious.
Revealing his "daughter" Rue had died to the family there, Ali gave an alias, and they all invited him in.
Ali said grace among the family before they enjoyed a meal. He said thanks to Rue and saw her sitting at the end of the table as they all said "Amen" together.
The credits rolled over a shot of the American flag over the Millers' homestead.
Who died in Euphoria season 3?
Having been buried alive by loan shark Naz (Jack Topalian), Nate was ultimately killed by the bite of a snake which had slithered into his coffin before Cassie and Maddy found the funds to free him.
The first major death to occur in the finale was drug kingpin Laurie, who ended her own life when faced with the prospect of prison for her crimes.
That's right, Rue Bennett is dead.
In the end, Rue overdosed and imagined heading for a reunion with her friend Fezco, who had escaped prison, but was instead met with the embrace of her estranged mother and later father. We're not crying, you're crying.
In the end, thanks to a helpful play by Bishop, Ali violently dispatched Alamo Brown in revenge for Rue and to stop him from doing further damage.
Is that the end of Euphoria?
We'll have to wait and see whether HBO and showrunner Sam Levinson have any other surprises up their sleeves.
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