“Euphoria” Season 3 Episode 3 Explained: What Happened at Nate and Cassie's Wedding?

Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) has much more than flowers to worry about on her and Nate's (Jacob Elordi) wedding day.

The third episode ofEuphoriaseason 3, titled "The Ballad of Paladin," brings the majority of the cast into the same room once again for Cassie and Nate's nuptials.

In the weeks leading up to the event, Cassie had been determined to get her dream wedding, from convincing her fiancé to spend $50,000 on flowers to reconnecting with her ex-best friend, Maddy (Alexa Demie).

But it wouldn't be a reunion of East Highland High School alums — including Rue (Zendaya) and Jules (Hunter Schafer) — without some drama. The celebration quickly spirals into chaos as shocking revelations surface and unexpected guests arrive, threatening to ruin Cassie's vision of the perfect day.

Here's everything to know about what happens during Nate and Cassie's wedding in the third episode ofEuphoriaseason 3.

Warning: Spoilers ahead forEuphoriaseason 3 episode 3.

Why does Jules drop out of school?

At the start of the episode, a flashback gives viewers more insight into how Jules became a sugar baby.

With some encouragement from her art school roommate Vivian, Jules goes on a date with a lawyer who has "severe intimacy issues" and a kink for nylons.

When he pays her for her time, she soon realizes that going on two dates a month with him will cover her rent, leading her to trade in her life as an art student for one as a sugar baby.

Jules goes on several more dates with older men, including a married plastic surgeon named Ellis who "[slices] women open for a living."

Ultimately, Jules leaves art school, takes on Ellis as her sole client and earns far more than she ever imagined.

What happens at Nate and Cassie's wedding?

A lot goes down at Cassie and Nate's dream wedding-turned-nightmare. Soon after saying "I do," their big day is interrupted by the arrival of an uninvited guest, Naz (Jack Topalian), who threatens to become Nate's "worst f---ing nightmare."

Naz’s revelation that Nate owes him money sends Cassie spiraling out of fear of being poor. As she proceeds to have a meltdown, she accidentally launches a cork right into her groom's face.

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After a very public fight in front of their friends and family, the not-so-happy couple leave their wedding hand-in-hand and head into a limousine, where Nate apologizes for turning the "most beautiful day" of Cassie's life into a mess and vows to "make love" to her when they arrive home.

Why does Naz attack Nate?

At the wedding, Naz tells Nate he is in debt to him for over half a million dollars following a failed development project.

To that end, Nate's extravagant wedding infuriates Naz, who thinks Nate has the ability to pay him back but is holding out on him.

Just when Nate and Cassie seem to be turning their wedding night around, the newlyweds arrive home to Naz and his sidekick waiting for them in their home.

Nate asks Naz to talk, but it's not long before Naz's guy begins beating him up.

Cassie begins to sob, not so much because her husband is being thrown around their home, but because she is bleeding on her wedding night. "It was supposed to be the best day of my life," she cries.

Nate promises to pay Naz back, but things escalate further when Naz tells Nate that his "honeymoon's over" and proceeds to cut his pinky toe off.

What is going on with Alamo and Laurie?

Rue's old and new employers have been in an ongoing feud ever since she delivered drugs from Laurie (Martha Kelly) to Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) that were laced with fentanyl.

During the wedding, Rue receives a call from Alamo telling her that she needs to leave to visit Laurie and her crew, a ploy to get some continued revenge.

Laurie and her group think that she is being sent for the meeting to pick up drugs, and view it as an opportunity to get her back — or kidnap her.

In reality, Alamo has set the meeting up as a way to get his fixer Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson) inside to poison Laurie's favorite among her birds, a white cockatoo named Paladin.

While Rue and Bishop are successful in their bird-murder plot, things turn south when Rue is pulled over on her drive home.

But, it's not a police officer doing an ordinary traffic stop — it's a Drug Enforcement Administration agent looking specifically for Rue.

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Maury Povich tells Ricki Lake why she 'scared the s---' out of other talk show hosts

Maury Povich had former daytime talk show rival Ricki Lake on his podcast, On Par With Maury Povich.

Key Points

• The Cry-Baby actress had 'scared the s--- out of the rest' of the hosts at the time, he told her, because she was a fresh-faced twentysomething competing against older people.

• Lake explained, as she has in the past, that she eventually decided to leave her show in the wake of 9/11.

Maury Povichand his contemporaries were terrified of Ricki Lake when her talk show debuted in 1993.

"You scared the s--- out of the rest of us," Povich told her on Monday's edition ofOn Par With Maury Povich. "When Ricki came on, you have to understand, the '90s were the golden age of daytime talk shows. I mean, there were 20 of us on the air, and most of us were in our 40s and 50s and maybe even older. And here comes this 23-year-old who gets the youngest audience of us all, and we were scared s---less."

Lake, the show's guest star, noted that many of her competitors made changes after her series premiered, two years after the debut ofMaury.

"Well, you changed your formats, a lot of you," Lake said. "You changed the tone of the show. I don't know if I want credit for all of it."

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Povich, whose ownMaurybecame known for its paternity tests ("You arenotthe father!"), explained that talk shows of the era started "kind of tame" before they became the site of infamously bad behavior onThe Jerry Springer Show,The Jenny Jones Show, and more.

Lake noted that, when she entered the marketplace, the genre was "skewing over 50."

After she left in 2004, Povich was "the youngest skewing," he said. Povich stayed on the air until 2022.

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The end of their shows was also a topic of their conversation, with Povich noting that both left on top.

"I could've done it for maybe a decade longer," Lake said. "I made that choice... 9/11 was a huge trajectory shift in my life. Every aspect of my life changed from witnessing that experience that day from my West Village apartment. I was so freaked out watching that plane fly down the Hudson and hit that building."

She recalled being a young mother to sons Milo, now 29, and 24-year-old Owen, whose father is Lake's ex-husband Rob Sussman.

"I had a 2-month-old and a 4-year-old. I was a lactating new mother protecting my cubs. I just felt like the world was coming to an end that day, and I had an epiphany on the roof of my building, as I watched it all unfold, that I would leave New York, that I would leave my job, and I would leave, ultimately, my marriage," Lake explained. "And it took a lot of planning, it took a couple of years to finish my contract — I couldn't walk away from my show — but I knew I wasn't going to renew beyond that, the term that I had agreed to."

She eventually relocated to California and began "making documentary films and being more behind the scenes."

Lake added, "I felt like, though the show was a phenomenon, and I think we did so much good for young people, to get conversations going for people who were marginalized and not represented to be seen on television. I think there's a lot of good that came out of our show, but, for me personally, I was like an actor for hire in a lot of ways. My producers did the whole thing. I didn't have a voice, really."

Since she left daytime TV, Lake has executive-produced projects including the 2008 docThe Business of Being Bornand 2021'sThe Business of Birth Control. She's also acted in TV series such asDrop Dead DivaandCrazy Ex-Girlfriend.

See her full discussion with Povich above.

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Murakami homers again as the White Sox top the Angels for a rain-delayed 8-7 win

CHICAGO (AP) — Munetaka Murakami hit a three-run homer in a big seventh-inning rally, and the Chicago White Sox held off the slumping Los Angeles Angels for an 8-7 win Monday night.

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Andrew Benintendi had three RBIs as Chicago improved to 6-4 in its last 10 games. Miguel Vargas hit a solo drive, and Tristan Peters had two hits and scored two runs.

Jorge Soler hit a solo homer for Los Angeles in the rain-delayed opener of a three-game series. Mike Trout had two hits and scored twice.

The Angels blew a 5-1 lead in their fourth consecutive loss and eighth in nine games overall. They had a 6-0 lead Sunday at Kansas City and lost11-9when Lane Thomas hit a three-run homer for the Royals in the 10th inning.

The White Sox sent 10 batters to the plate while scoring seven times in the seventh. It was their biggest inning of the season.

Benintendi's two-run double off Nick Sandlin (0-1) trimmed the Angels' lead to one. Murakami then greeted Drew Pomeranz with a drive to right-center for his major league-best 12th homer. Vargas followed Murakami with another homer for an 8-5 lead.

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The 26-year-old Murakami, a rookie slugger from Japan, is batting .349 (15 for 43) with seven homers and 14 RBIs in his last 10 games.

Osvaldo Bido (2-0) pitched three innings of one-run ball for the win.

Soler and Nolan Schanuel each drove in a run in the ninth against Grant Taylor before Bryan Hudson retired Adam Frazier on a bouncer to second, stranding runners at second and third. It was Hudson's first career save.

The start was delayed three hours as rain and thunderstorms rolled over Rate Field.

Up next

José Soriano (5-0, 0.24 ERA) starts for the Angels on Tuesday night, and fellow right-hander Davis Martin (3-1, 2.01 ERA) pitches for the White Sox.

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A look at some notable milestones achieved in world athletics over the years

Sabastian Sawe of Kenya became the first person tobreak the 2-hour barrier in an official marathonon Sunday.

Track Records

Sawe smashed the men’s world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds.

Here's a list of other notable milestones in world athletics and where the records stand now:

100 meters

U.S. sprinter Jim Hines became the first man to officially break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters in 1968.

The current world record in the 100 belongs to Usain Bolt, whose time of 9.58 seconds came in 2009.

200 meters

American runner Tommie Smithwas the first man to break 20 seconds in 1968, with a time of 19.83 seconds.

Bolt has the current record with 19.19 seconds, also from 2009.

In between, Michael Johnson ran 19.32 at the Atlanta Games in 1996. Noah Lyles ran 19.31 in 2022 to take the iconic U.S. record from Johnson.

400 meters

Czech runner Jarmila Kratochvilova became the first woman to break 48 seconds in the 400 meters (47.99) in 1983. Two years later, East Germany's Marita Koch bettered that with a run of 47.60 that is still the world record.

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Last year, America's Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone became the first woman since the Eastern Bloc era tocrack 48 when she ran 47.78 at world championships.

McLaughlin-Levrone, who has lowered the record in the 400 hurdles by more than 2 seconds to 50.37 since 2021, has put the 50-second mark in that event in her sights.

Mile

Britain's Roger Bannister became the first person torun the mile in under four minutesin 1954.

The then-Oxford University medical student overtook the second of his pacemakers on the final lap of the race on Oxford’s Iffley Road track to finish in 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds.

Since then, more than 1,000 athletes have run the mile in under four minutes, according to World Athletics. The current record dates to 1999: 3:43.13 by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj.

Long jump

One of the most amazing world records in track and field history came in 1968, when Bob Beamon jumped 8.90 meters (29 feet, 2 1/4 inches) at the Mexico City Olympics.

That mark has been broken once — in 1991 by Mike Powell, whose jump of 8.95 meters (29 feet, 4 1/4 inches) is among the oldest in the athletics record book.

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