SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “In God We Trust,” the Season 3 finale of “Euphoria,” now streaming on HBO Max.
“It’s always chess for Bishop.”
That’s an apt metaphor from Darrell Britt-Gibson describing his character’s fatal betrayal of his boss Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) in the bloody series finale of “Euphoria.”
In the culmination of Sam Levinson’s HBO drama, Alamo kills Rue (Zendaya), an employee who has secretly been working as a DEA informant, by giving her painkillers laced with fentanyl. Ali (Colman Domingo), her mentor and sobriety sponsor, heads to Alamo’s strip club to avenge Rue’s death, and the two engage in an old-fashioned duel.
Breaking cowboy rules, Alamo points his gun at Ali before the designated time and attempts to shoot, but the weapon does not fire. It’s revealed that Bishop, Alamo’s mysterious and monotone right-hand man, has removed the bullets, essentially sentencing Alamo to death. Ali kills the sex- and drug-trafficking tycoon with three shotgun blasts to the chest.
