Jason Isaacs in ‘The White Lotus.’ Fabio Lovino/HBO
The White Lotus included a shocking cameo for the second straight week on Sunday, February 23 — but this time, the Oscar-winning guest star didn’t actually appear on camera.
The latest episode, “Special Treatments,” featured Academy Award winner Ke Huy Quan making an uncredited vocal cameo as Timothy Ratliff’s (Jason Isaacs) embattled business partner Kenneth Nguyen.
Timothy tried to track down Kenneth throughout the first two episodes of The White Lotus‘ third season after receiving a call from a Wall Street Journal reporter investigating their business practices.
Timothy’s temper went sky high in Sunday’s installment, as the time difference where he was vacationing in Thailand meant it was impossible to get anyone on the phone back in the U.S.
Dave Benett/Getty Images Jason Isaacs got a good whiff of some of his The White Lotus costars while they filmed season three in Thailand. “We’re doing intimate scenes, and you stink,” Isaacs, 61, said of the conditions on set for the anthology series in an interview with TIME published on January 24. “By the end […]
After finding out from his secretary that a second reporter had called with an urgent interview request — this time from The Washington Post — Timothy began frantically trying to get a hold of Kenneth. When Kenneth finally called using a burner phone, viewers heard Quan’s unmistakable voice as Timothy’s terrified business partner.
“I don’t care about the f—ing [Wall Street Journal] story,” Kenneth emphatically insisted. “Because 20 agents just raided my f—ing office! F— me. I’m done.”
Ke Huy Quan attends the Premiere of Universal Pictures’ “Love Hurts” at TCL Chinese Theatre on February 03, 2025. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
Through their conversation, it was revealed that Timothy funded Kenneth’s money-laundering operation out of Brunei to help get his partner out of financial trouble.
“I didn’t think some whistleblower bitch in my office was going to rat me out to the media and the f—ing FBI,” Kenneth swore. “They have everything, Tim!”
Discovering that the FBI had seized all of Kenneth’s financial accounts, Timothy demanded to know whether he’d be implicated too.
“Yes for sure, Tim, yes,” Kenneth answered. “That’s why I bought this burner [phone], to call you! You need to get a good lawyer, like, yesterday.”
With the reality of a possible federal indictment dawning on him, Timothy lashed out at Kenneth for putting his career at risk.
“This was a favor to you, remember that?” Timothy shouted. “I didn’t wanna do it! This was all you, and now I’m wrapped up in some money laundering bribery situation, and I only made $10 million off of your stupid f—ing scheme!”
He then warned his business partner: “I swear to god, Kenny, if you f— me on this, I will kill you. I will f—ing kill you, you hear me?”
“If it makes you feel any better, I’m gonna f—ing kill myself,” Kenneth declared before promptly hanging up.
Timothy has yet to come clean to his family about his legal jeopardy, though his loved ones appear to have their own problems between wife Victoria’s (Parker Posey) escalating prescription drug dependency and the strange sexual dynamic between his children, Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), Lochlan (Sam Nivola) and Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook).
The White Lotus has dabbled in uncredited vocal cameos before when creator Mike White enlisted his former Enlightened star Laura Dern in season 2 to play the estranged wife of Michael Imperioli’s character, Dominic, during a phone call.
HBO’s preview for next week’s episode, “The Meaning of Dreams,” hinted that Timothy’s lies could finally be exposed as federal agents raid his office back in the U.S.
Elsewhere in Sunday’s episode, viewers learned a bit more about Greg’s life (Jon Gries) in Thailand, after the character made a surprise appearance in the season 3 premiere.
Greg previously orchestrated his wife Tanya’s (Jennifer Coolidge) murder last season in order to steal her fortune. He has since been hiding out in Thailand, living under the name “Gary” with his French Canadian girlfriend Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon).
Patrick Schwarzenegger knows spilling closely guarded secrets about The White Lotus would result in him packing his bags. Schwarzenegger, 30, stars in the upcoming third season of the HBO anthology series, and while fans of the show are itching for details, the actor has no plans on being the one to provide them. “I don’t […]
Sunday’s “Next Time” teaser suggested that his cover could be blown in next week’s episode when Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) approaches Greg to ask whether they’ve met before.
Belinda appears not to have fully recognized that Greg is the man who ruined her dreams of opening her own spa in season 1 because he’d whisked away her financial backer, Tanya, to get hitched. Will a face-to-face meeting jog Belinda’s memory?
The White Lotus airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max.
