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Ozark season 4: What to remember before watching - CNET

Ozark season 4: What to remember before watching - CNET

Ozark season 4: What to remember before watching - CNET
Jan 25, 2022 2 mins, 36 secs

Ozark is a show filled with cartels, violent gangs, sadistic farmers and dodgy law enforcement agents, yet the relationship between Marty and Wendy Byrde is among the show's most tempestuous.

By the time the first season begins, Marty has obtained video evidence of Wendy cheating on him.

They appeared to be headed toward divorce and separation before Marty, with his life threatened, strikes a deal with the Navarro cartel to launder drug money in the Ozarks.

It's in this season that the dynamic of their relationship with the cartel shifts.

Historically it's been Marty who argues the need to get in deeper with the Navarro cartel in the hopes that they can get their freedom: this is how the couple ends up running a riverboat casino, the Missouri Belle, where they can launder millions each day.

With Marty backing out, Wendy begins to take the more proactive role, arguing that the Byrdes can only stay alive and get their freedom if they become indispensable to the cartel.

Helen, the fierce attorney for the Navarro cartel introduced in season 2, finds out about the Byrde's disagreements and tells Omar Navarro, the cartel boss, who promptly kidnaps and tortures Marty.

Marty survives the ordeal, but his relationship with Wendy is still fractious.

They blow up at each other in therapy, with Marty yelling that Wendy has too ambitious a relationship with a drug lord and Wendy countering that Marty's the one trying to flip an FBI agent.

If there's one thing that brings Marty and Wendy together in season 3, it's concern about Wendy's brother Ben.

It's around this time that Ben finds out what his sister Wendy has been up to in the Ozarks: That she and Marty launder money and, with Helen and the cartel, are responsible for many deaths in the area.

Halfway through the season, Navarro instructs the Byrdes to inspect and buy a horse farm in Kentucky.

This rift opens wide when Ruth finds out that Wendy had Ben killed.

Upon that discovery Ruth, furious at Wendy for having both her father Cade (season 2) and her lover Ben killed (season 3), cusses out Wendy and quits working for the Byrdes.

To recap: In season 1, Russ and Boyd Langmore tried to kill Marty and steal the millions he was laundering, but Ruth, realizing she was likely to be blamed for the crime, set up an electrocution trap on the docks by the bar Byrde owned, which Russ and Boyd were killed by.

Wyatt found out that Ruth was behind his father's death at the conclusion of season 2 and, as season 3 begins, we see that Wyatt has escaped the Langmore dwellings and is now staying in empty houses he breaks into.

(Zeke was Pastor Mason's, but Mason snapped and kidnapped Wendy in season 2, which led to Marty killing him and the Byrde's taking Zeke. Darlene, determined to foster a child, got the Byrde's to hand Zeke over to her after she threatened Jonah by kidnapping him and giving her a haircut at the Snell ranch.).

As season 3 ends, Darlene tries to win the services of Ruth shortly after she resigned from the Byrdes.

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