![]() Marty spots her driving away from the building and keeps calling until she eventually picks up. The next day Ruth drives to Shaw Medical in Chicago where Javi will be meeting with Marty, Wendy, and Clare Shaw (Katrina Lenk) but chickens out on her first opportunity to shoot. ![]() Ruth doesn't know what Javi, her cousin's killer, looks like, but she begs that information from Charlotte and Jonah, as well as where she can find him. Ruth is on the right side of justice here, no matter how many people she kills. Although they are also interested in money, and would definitely do just about anything to have more of it, that doesn't steer them into disloyalty and other similar dirty dealings in the way it does the Byrdes, which makes for a superior, although far more difficult way of living. "You don't know the first thing about being f**king rich," Ruth says to Wyatt in a flashback. While the Byrde family is quiet, reserved, and from the sort of privilege that breeds normalcy in your actions and your emotions working separately for so long that they often separate all together. ![]() Ruth is loud and rough around the edges and bases her decisions on instinct and loyalty. Ruth is, and always has been, the heart of "Ozark," and watching her drive to Chicago daydreaming about joyful times spent with Wyatt since they were little is a sharp and needed contrast to the much darker goings-on of the Byrdes. Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer? Subscribe to our morning newsletter, Crash Course. When Wyatt Langmore (Charlie Tahan) gets killed for having become wrapped up in the love life of heroin distributor Darlene Snell (Lisa Emery), his cousin, and heralded scene-stealer of "Ozark," Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner) sets out to avenge his death, which catches us up to part two of season four, titled in my mind as the "You're gonna have to f**kin kill me" season. Problems within the Byrde family have a way of seeping elsewhere, becoming the problems of other families to an often bloody end. This event led to a major rift between her and her son, Jonah, which they've yet to recover from, but Wendy doesn't seem all that upset about it provided Jonah doesn't also get in her way, lest he wind up dead as well. And although Wendy didn't pull the trigger herself, she saw it coming and did nothing to stop it. When Wendy's brother Ben (Tom Pelphrey) talks a bit too much about the Byrde family's drug ties he winds up dead. Greed has turned into murder, time and time again as a result of Marty's financial dealings, and the family he strives to protect has the tendency to turn on each other when their own individual interests are threatened. RELATED: "Inventing Anna" takes a good story, imprisons it in unnecessary excess and robs of us our time Jason Bateman as Marty Byrde and Laura Linney as Wendy Byrde in Ozark (COURTESY OF NETFLIX) But if only one character has to be sacrificed to the gods of event television, my vote's for Wendy. ![]() These last few episodes come pre-loaded with a warning air of "shocking death," and there's no way everyone from the Byrde family is walking away from this alive. ![]() The rest of the Byrde family is in equal near-constant danger, especially Wendy, who has devolved into the selfish sort of two-faced villain many viewers of the show, myself included, no longer find value in rooting for. There's no option for a return to "normal" here when normal was never in the cards for this family from the jump. On shifty footing from the very beginning when he relocated his family from Chicago to Missouri to operate a number of businesses all in an effort to launder money for his often crabby cartel associates, Marty now finds himself facing possible death at every turn as more and more of his safety net goes up in flames. ![]()
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