Did ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Really Just Kill Rue?

Euphoria you really want the audience to think that Rue Bennett (Zendaya) is dead.

Season 3, episode 5 ends with a cliffhanger that suggests he’s an alien. When Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) suspects that Rue is a mastermind, he sends her to dig her own grave. He seems oblivious to his impending death, as Alamo followers Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson), G (Marshawn Lynch), and Kidd (Asante Blackk) begin burying him up to his neck.

The stingers aren’t fully ready for Rue until the final seconds of the episode, when Alamo comes up to him on horseback, ready to take his head off with a polo swing. (He has taken a course on how to kill a lead for HBO The Last of Us‘Abby who carries the golf club?)

The episode goes dark before we see what might be Rue’s fate, but don’t worry: There’s no way. Euphoria he just slayed the Emmy-winning lead.

Why do some think Rue will die Euphoria?

There are several signs that suggest that Rue is indeed dead.

First of all, there is no picture of him in the episode 6 trailer. Moreover, it begins sadly with the sound of a funeral bell. Notably, the actor is Rue’s counterpart in the real Israeli Euphoria miniseries dies, and that show reveals that he’s been telling stories from beyond the grave.

While that he can so it was with Rue in Euphoriaas fans say, Rue’s Israeli character dies of an overdose, not of mixing with a vicious, sex-trafficking cow. So, that analogy doesn’t quite work here.

Also, that series – also called Euphoria – lasted one season. And the two have diverged a lot, so take any comparison with several grains of salt.

Here’s why Rue didn’t die Euphoria.

There is irrefutable evidence that Rue survives her encounter with the Alamo, and she appears a The trailer for Season 3, released on March 30. There, we see a dusty Rue returning to Laurie’s (Martha Kelly) ranch, where she tells him, “The Alamo tried to kill me, and he’s going to do the same to you.”

The assassination attempt that Rue is referring to should be the one at the end of episode 5. Also, his nose in the trailer scene is bloody, which shows that something hit him. Something like a polo mallet, maybe?

The trailer for Season 3 also reveals some scenes of Rue that have yet to appear, including a candid conversation with Ali (Colman Domingo) and a sequence where Rue stares at a burning bush, likely a reference to Moses and the burning bush, in keeping with the season’s Biblical depiction.

Simply put, this previously released trailer image proves that Rue is not dead.

Just How whether he comes out of this scratch remains to be seen. Maybe it was all a scare tactic from Alamo, like him threatening to stab Kidd over his shorts at the beginning of episode 5. Or maybe you have a superhumanly thick skull. Either way, Rue — and Zendaya — are in for a long time.

New episodes of Euphoria Season 3 premieres Sundays at 9 pm ET on HBO and HBO Max.