Meanwhile, Charlotte Byrde is nervous about how close Erin Pierce is getting to the truth about her mother and the Byrde empire. It has the opposite effect, as Marty offers up a scumbag on a silver platter, basically telling Miller that he can help her defeat crimes if she looks the other way while he commits crimes. Where are we going with Maya Miller? Wendy digs up some dirt on the agent that she thinks will convince Marty to let his plan to turn her go. The tougher Marty Byrde pressures Sue the therapist to get Wendy to commit in session to hire Maya before playing a few mind games with the federal agent himself. She asks the tough question as to why Navarro let Marty go, and is surprised to hear that the drug kingpin thinks Wendy’s meek husband is a lot like him. At first, he sounds downright encouraging, telling her to expand the empire and buy a horse farm in Kentucky. Now that he’s not beating up her husband, Omar Navarro can communicate with Wendy again. For now, it’s just an annoying kidnapping of Ruth and bird shit on Frank’s car, but these two are stretching the limits of the term “untouchable.” loan shark through the casino, which leads to a simmering turf war between the two. He confidently tells Ruth not to let Frank Jr. Marty thinks he knows: The Beast Slayer came back. She’s the first to speak the main theme of the episode: “We don’t know who came back from Mexico.” The fifth episode of the third season opens with Agent Maya Miller convincing her superiors to pull Marty out of the cartel operation and turn him. It feels like he’ll be by her side at things like the horse farm deal and court hearing, but he’s quickly onto the next thing, not lingering in the moment long enough for Wendy to catch up. And the fact is that Wendy used to be in charge and in control - a headstrong Marty doesn’t necessarily help her need to be the one at the top of the ladder.
What does this mean for the arc of the overall show and the dynamic between the Byrdes? While Wendy certainly wanted a less risk-averse husband who didn’t destroy her plans, this alternative may not be better. Now that he’s home, he’s become almost like Jeff Bridges’s character in Fearless, unable to see real danger because he survived that which he thought would kill him. He survived what he thought would be the end of his life - the day that the leader of the drug cartel that employs him took him prisoner. Even Marty himself admits that he’s been scared for years, and now he’s … not. With very few exceptions, Ozark has been a show about a man playing it safe in a dangerous world. “It wasn’t what I thought it would be and I wasn’t who I thought I would be.” -Marty Byrde
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