The HBO series came to a dramatic conclusion with an extended episode that saw the deaths of several key characters.

Everyone who died in the Euphoria season 3 finale

The HBO series came to a dramatic conclusion with an extended episode that saw the deaths of several key characters.

June 1, 2026 12:53 p.m. ET

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Zendaya in the 'Euphoria' season 3 finale. Credit:

- *Euphoria *season 3 ended with an extended episode, "In God We Trust," which is likely the series finale.

- After Jacob Elordi's character was killed in the previous episode, four more characters died in the finale.

- Zendaya's Rue met a tragic demise that sent Colman Domingo's Ali on a violent revenge mission.

*Euphoria* season 3 has officially come to an end.

The third and likely final season of the hit HBO series concluded with an extended finale filled with violence, bloodshed, and a few shocking deaths. We already said goodbye to Jacob Elordi's Nate Jacobs, who spent the season clumsily trying to survive nefarious mobsters before his Tarantino-esque death — by snakebite in a buried coffin — was revealed in episode 7.

Episode 8, titled "In God We Trust," kills off a few more characters, including Zendaya's Rue Bennett, who is given the most heartbreaking final scene in the series. Here's a full breakdown of everyone who died in the *Euphoria *season 3 finale, and how they went out.

Martha Kelly as Laurie in the 'Euphoria' season 3 finale.

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Picking up where episode 7 left off, Wayne (Toby Wallace) wakes up to Rue pillaging his safe. She incapacitates him by clobbering his ankle with a wrench and makes a run for it. Harley (James Landry Hébert) gives chase on a horse, lassos Rue, and begins dragging her back before G (Marshawn Lynch) intervenes and shoots Harley. Rue escapes, but the DEA converges on Laurie's compound.

While her guys are ready to go down in a hail of bullets, Laurie mutters, "I can't go to prison." She exits to the roof of the house, where she ties a rope around her neck and jumps off the ledge, killing herself in front of dozens of officers.

Zendaya as Rue in 'Euphoria' season 3.

Rue returns to Alamo, who gives her a stack of cash and a bottle of painkillers for her trouble. She heads back to Ali's (Colman Domingo) house, where he agrees to let her crash for a while. Rue lies down on the couch and gives the bottle of painkillers a lingering look before listening to the audiobook version of the Bible and drifting off. In the morning, Ali gets up and finds Rue watching TV — an inmate by the name of Fezco (the late Angus Cloud) has escaped prison, and Rue needs to make good on her promise that she'd pick him up if he ever managed to get out.

We watch Rue frantically rush to Fez's storefront, which remains vacant, before heading to her old neighborhood, where she creeps into her parents' house and finds her mom reading the Bible. Rue embraces her mom, who turns into her dead father, and then the scene cuts back to the same morning at Ali's house. This time, though, when he wakes up and walks into the living room, he finds Rue dead on the couch. "Give her peace, God," Ali says.

Ali tests the bottle of painkillers and confirms they were laced with fentanyl.

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Marshawn Lynch as G in the 'Euphoria' season 3 finale.

*Euphoria* jumps forward in time a bit to show how everyone is doing after Rue's death. En route to the strip club to continue paying off her debt to Alamo, Maddy asks Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson) about his dog, a fluffy white pooch named Snowflake. Bishop says he likes to surprise people, to which Maddy says, "What would really surprise me is a little grace in this world."

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At the club, Maddy heads to the back with Alamo, where she's expected to have sex with her debtor as part of the arrangement. Bishop takes Alamo's guns and watches guard over the room, while Ali, in his old military uniform, enters with a sawed-off shotgun and locks the entrance from the inside. He asks to see the club's manager and instead is greeted by G, who confirms that Alamo owns the club and he's onsite.

Ali asks G who gave Rue the fentanyl, and when G lies to protect Alamo, Ali shoots and kills him.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Alamo in 'Euphoria' season 3.

A tense standoff ensues, with Alamo eventually emerging from the backroom to confront Ali. Asked who sent him, Ali says, "Rue," and Maddy realizes far too late who was responsible for her friend's death.

Alamo offers to settle things "the old-fashioned way," and asks Kitty (Anna Van Patten) to roll an empty bottle of champagne down the length of the bar. Once the bottle hits the floor and breaks, Alamo and Ali are free to shoot. Of course Alamo doesn't play by the rules, but when he goes to fire his gun before the bottle drops, the chamber is empty, and it dawns on Alamo that Bishop took his bullets.

Ali proceeds to empty the last few rounds of his shotgun into Alamo, killing the drug lord who sent Rue to an early grave.

In the series' final scene, Ali visits the rural religious family who helped Rue earlier in the season. He tells them she didn't make it, and they invite him in for a meal. At the table, Ali gives grace as Rue appears at the other end and smiles at her old friend. The camera cuts to an American flag waving outside the farmhouse as Rue, in voiceover, says, "May God bless us all."

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