Euphoria Season 3 Episode 8 “In God We Trust” wasn’t just the Euphoria Season 3 finale, but the series finale of the HBO hit. For three seasons, we’ve watched Rue (Zendaya) battle her own internal demons and tussle with some seriously terrifying criminals.

Does Rue die in Euphoria? Do Maddy (Alexa Demie) and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) stay friends? Does anyone in Euphoria have a happy ending?

**Spoilers for Euphoria Season 3 Episode 8 “In God We Trust,” now streaming on HBO Max**

Last week’s episode of Euphoria ended with Nate’s (Jacob Elordi) grisly end (courtesy of a rattlesnake) and Rue’s fate not looking much better. Over the course of the over 90-minute-long Euphoria finale, Rue is repeatedly shot at, pulled across a California dirt road by a lasso, tempted by her addictions, and granted a vision of a new day where Fezco (Angus Clous) escaped jail using parkour and she’s reunited with her mother (Nika King) and father.

However, it’s soon apparent that Rue’s wild journey back to the place where it all began — her childhood home — isn’t reality. In fact, something awful has happened.

So how does Euphoria end? Who dies in the epic Euphoria Season 3 finale. Here’s everything you need to know about the end of HBO’s Euphoria…

Does Rue Die in Euphoria?

Yes, Rue dies about halfway through the final episode of Euphoria. She is killed when she takes a small dose of what she thinks is Percocet for her pain, but is actually fentanyl given to her by Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje).

In the cold open of the Euphoria finale, Rue manages to escape Laurie’s (Martha Kelly) compound with a trash bag full of Alamo’s secret hoard, but she’s injured in the process. Alamo insists that she takes a week off and even gives her a Percocet pill with a bottle of coke for the pain. He tells her get stitched up and promises to pay for her bills. He also left his bottle of Percocet out for her as a gift.

After going to the hospital, Rue goes to Ali’s (Colman Domingo) house to crash on the couch. She’s been resisting the painkillers for now, but when her newly-stitched up hand aches too badly, she considers the bottle of Percocet that Alamo gave her.

Euphoria seemingly jumps to the next morning and Fezco has made a miraculous escape. She remembers her promise and rushes home to help him, sneaking into her house and reuniting with her mother and father. It’s all a dream, though. The real morning comes and Ali discovers Rue dead on the couch. He tests the Percocet and confirms it’s laced with fentanyl.

Euphoria Ending Explained: Ali vs. Alamo Brown

Months after Rue’s death, we visit a rehab meeting where Ali admits he’s fallen off the wagon. He gives an impassioned speech about how the fentanyl crisis is truly about good and evil, and he promises to find a new way to fight. We cut to him building a rifle in his house.

Later, Ali goes to the Silver Slipper all dressed in his military uniform. He locks the doors to the club as he enters and eerie Western music plays. Meanwhile, Maddy (Alexa Demie) is also at the club in a private room with Alamo, while Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson) guards the door. He admits to her, maybe for the first time, that he is consumed by fear and under the full control of the women he’s dedicated his life to controlling. He also tells her he wants the American dream, pitching Maddy on a life where they’d be married with four kids in a Norman Rockwell-like set up.

When Kitty (Anna Van Patten) and her new BBL try to entice Ali, he only asks for her manager. She comes back, not with Alamo, but an armed G (Marshawn Lynch). Ali introduces himself only as a “a friend of Rue’s.” As G leans in, Ali cocks his gun under the table, putting everyone — including a dancer who hilariously shields and protects Bishop’s poodle Snowflake — on edge. Under this duress, G admits that Alamo is there, but he lies about who gave Rue the fentanyl-laced Percocets. He then shoots G in the groin and begins shooting other goons, demanding to see Alamo Brown.

A glass partition shatters, revealing Alamo on the other side, ready to fight (and use Maddy as a human shield). After tossing Maddy out the window, Alamo sums up the situation. He and his men have more ammo than Ali, who answers he’s prepared to die if he must. Alamo comes out, Western-style, and asks Ali who he is. Again, Ali merely says he’s there for Rue — which Maddy catches — and Alamo realizes our guy is there with a score to settle. He tells Kitty to roll a newly empty champagne bottle off the bar, using the moment it crashes as the moment they can shoot.

Alamo draws early, but when he fires, it turns out his golden gun doesn’t have any bullets. We might have thought we saw Bishop load the gun earlier, but in fact, Bishop emptied the magazine. Alamo puts this together and turns to his lieutenant, saying, “I’ll see you in hell, motherfucker.” Ali unloads one, two, and then his third and final shot into Alamo Brown. Bishop drops the bullets on the ground and says, “May God have mercy.” He then asks Maddy if he can give her a ride home.

Euphoria Season 3 ends where it began, with the idyllic Christian family’s commune in Texas. Ali follows the address left on the Ten Commandments card Rue treasured. He introduces himself as Ruby’s father, Martin McQueen, and breaks the news that she’s now in a “better place.” Ali, or Martin, leads the family in prayer before dinner, finishing grace with, “Thank you, Rue. May her memory be a blessing.” The camera cuts to the other end of the table, where Rue’s spirit nods in “Amen.”

Who Dies in the Euphoria Series Finale?

The first character to die in the Euphoria Season 3 finale is none other than Laurie. When the DEA agents swarm her homestead, everyone else either flees or complies, but she chooses death. “I can’t go to prison,” she says before disappearing. She’s next seen on the roof with a rope. While the DEA thinks she’s trying to escape, she dies by suicide instead. She hangs herself.

Rue is the next character to die on screen, from the fentanyl in the pills. Finally, Ali kills Alamo with Bishop’s help.