If you’re still finding your way through Ozark’s final episodes, we urge you to choose the next exit and return when you’ve made it to the end.
No one can fault Ozark for not going out with a bang.
After the Season 4 Episode 14 screen went black, a gunshot rang out. And there was no secret as to the identity of the attacker or the victim.
In the final minutes of the episode, Marty and Wendy come home to find Mel Sattem in their backyard next to Ben’s cookie jar (aka “evidence”) filled with ash. It turns out the private investigator had some regrets about selling his soul to the devil and slithered off to Chicago for this cheap detective gig.
“I couldn’t do my job,” he explained to the shaking couple. “All I’ve dreamed of for four years — back in the police force, Chicago PD — all I could think about was you guys.”
Yes, Mel was back to give Marty and Wendy’s happy ending an 11-hour style kibosh. And this time they couldn’t buy his silence. “You don’t get it, do you?” he sneered, before adding, “You can’t win… The world doesn’t work that way.”
That’s right motherfucker, you’re going under. This is a bondage from which you cannot free your soulless self. you lose! Hooray…wait where is Jonah from and why is he holding a gun and why is he pointing it at Mel and not his fucking parents and there’s only 10 seconds left of the episode and OH HELL NO it can’t end with that…
Yes, that’s actually how it ended. In the closing seconds, Jonah – one of the few characters in this series with any semblance of a moral compass – murdered an innocent man while his despicable parents looked on proudly.
Oh, and speaking of the good guys losing, Ruth’s dead too. Blabbermouth Clare Shaw told newly minted drug cartel Bigwig Camila that Ruth was the one who hit her son and she wasted, unsurprisingly, no time to return the favor.
At least Ruth walked out in a blaze of badass glory and said those last few words while waiting for Camilla to pull the trigger: “I’m not sorry. Her son was a murdering slut. And now I know where he got it from.”
RIP, Ruth Langmore. you were an icon RIP, Ozark. You’ve often been annoying and sporadically brilliant, and I’m a little disappointed you’re gone.