Ozark is coming to an end. The final seven new episodes hit Netflix last week. As is seemingly in vogue now (see Stranger Things), Ozark's final season was broken up into two parts. Season four part one was also seven episodes strong, and came to the streaming giant in January.
Ozark has packed many characters and a lot of drama into the 37 episodes that have thus far been released. Even if you've seen it all, there are likely details you've forgotten. Or maybe you've never seen any of the crime drama but want to catch the finale episodes on day one. Either way, here's a quick recap of how seasn four's first part ended, and what you'll need to remember heading into part two.
Beware: spoilers aplenty are below.
Javi and Ruth
Ozark season four focused heavily on the wheeling and dealing of Marty and Wendy Byrde, trying as they always are to schmooze their way out of being brutally murdered by the cartel. You know how it goes. But the season's final moments were all about Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner), 바카라사이트추천 one of the show's best characters.
The lead up to those moments are due to a new character introduced in season four's first episode: Javier, or Javi, Omar Navarro's nephew. Navarro in that opening episode explains to Marty and Wendy that Javi wants the top spot in the cartel and is willing to kill Navarro and his family to get it. As a result, Navarro wants out. To achieve that, Navarro wants the Byrdes to use their contact in the FBI, Maya Miller, to broker a deal that will see him come to the US as a free citizen.
Throughout season four part one, the Byrdes manage to figure out such a deal with the FBI's brass. Unfortunately, agent Miller ruins that plan by going over her superiors' heads and having Navarro arrested. By the season's end, Navarro is in jail and Javi is the new cartel boss. (More on this in a minute.)
Julia Garner is Ruth in Ozark.
The story of Ozark has been Marty and Wendy trying to figure out a way to free themselves from the grip of the cartel. At first it was simply washing a certain amount of money, but by season four the goal has changed. To rid themselves of obligation to the cartel, Wendy and Marty have to turn Mexican drug boss Omar Navarro into a free US citizen.
Conveniently, the couple's casino operations were under investigation of FBI agent Maya Miller, who Marty spent season three trying to flip. Recall that in season three Marty supplied Miller with evidence that led to the jailing of key Lagunas cartel personnel, which the Navarro cartel was at war with.
In season four, Navarro agrees to secretly give the FBI heads up about a series of gun and money drops from Mexico to the US. (Again, a major reason why Navarro wants to escape to the US is his fear that Javier will usurp him as cartel head. As such, his dealings with the FBI are kept to Navarro and the Byrdes.) Agent Miller is able to intercept these drops, and the FBI is sufficiently impressed to meet with Navarro.
Javier, newly introduced in season four, and Omar Navarro.
enforcement to arrest Navarro, a wanted criminal, as he's at the airport en route back to Mexico.