Blue Cat is the second episode of the first season of Ozark. It aired on July 21, 2017.
Synopsis[]
In the Ozarks, Marty struggles to find a local business he can use for money laundering, while his kids make new friends but neglect a crucial duty.
Plot[]
As the Byrdes take up residence in a motel, Marty asks Jonah and Charlotte to watch the room, having hid the eight million dollars in several luggage cases. Charlotte again demands answers as to why they are moving, but he ducks the question and leaves with Wendy. As they drive away, they argue about how they are going to launder the money and she blames him for Gary Silverberg's death. He retorts that they are now more business partners than spouses and mocks Silverberg's death, prompting her to hit him and leave.
Wendy approaches realtor Sam Dermody and asks for help finding a house.
Charlotte steers a hotel worker away from the room.
Marty spends the next couple days trying to find businesses to launder money through, renting a storage unit but unable to find anyone to take his offers. Wendy turns down several houses.
Charlotte is approached by hotel worker Wyatt, who convinces her to go out on his boat with him and his brother Three, claiming their father is a rich lawyer. She leaves Jonah to watch the room.
Marty talks to Bobby Dean, the owner of the Lickety Splitz strip club, and offers to invest. Bobby recognizes he is trying to launder money and turns him down.
Sam shows Wendy a nice house by the lake, which she is shocked to hear is under her price range.
While eating lunch at the edge of a cliff, Marty curiously tosses part of his sandwich into the water and watches it fall. After a moment of contemplation, he sits back down and continues eating.
Three and Wyatt take their father's boat out on the lake with Charlotte.
A bored Jonah packs up what he assumes are the family's valuables and leaves the room.
Sam introduces Wendy to the house's owner, Buddy Dieker, who is dying of heart failure and wants to live in the house until he passes. She is put off by his blunt personality but considers the deal.
As Jonah wanders the town, a police boat starts pursuing Wyatt and Three. Charlotte realizes they stole the boat and his cover story was a lie as he fits her in a life jacket and pushes her off. Jonah meets a young man with down syndrome named Tuck, who gives him a pocket knife.
Marty and Wendy pick up Charlotte from the police station and argue with sheriff John Nix about prosecuting the brothers, who belong to the criminal Langmore family. He mentions their cousin Ruth and shows them a picture, who Marty recognizes as the worker Charlotte shooed away from the room. Marty returns to the room to find it cleaned, though Jonah, having returned, said he did it. Marty notices the knife and asks where he got it, checking the luggage when he explains he left and finding one empty.
Marty buys a pair of coolers, rents a boat, and buys some fish, hiding the remaining money in them as he takes them to be hidden. He passes a restroom and hears the Langmores—the boys, their father Russ, uncle Boyd, and Ruth—hiding the money. He confronts them and points out that he works for Omar Navarro, and that if he is alive to tell Camino Del Rio that the money was stolen, he will kill the entire family. Despite Ruth's attempt to convince the family to kill Marty, he convinces them that the money is not worth it, though Russ and Boyd take a bit of it regardless. Ruth leaves with them, not before asking Marty "why do I have this feeling we both know you'd be better off dead?" Marty hides the money inside a derelict boat inside his storage unit.
Roy Petty and Trevor Evans arrive on the scene of a truck crash, which was holding the liquified bodies of Marty's business partners. Petty finds Hanson, Sr.'s jawbone in the wreckage.
Petty transfers to Missouri, having tracked down Marty through his credit card usage. He vows to bring down the Navarro Cartel, knowing it will make his career. Evans asks to get involved but is rejected by Petty.
Marty dreams about standing at the edge of the cliff. He wakes and says goodbye to the kids. Jonah wakes up and tells him about Tuck, and how he works at the floundering Blue Cat Lodge, wondering if Marty can invest in it. He wakes Wendy and explains his plan to commit suicide for an insurance payout, convinced that it is impossible to clean the money and figuring Del will leave the family alone if he is repaid and Marty is dead. He tells her to call Nix after a few hours, then email Del with the money's location.
He calls Bob Lily as he drives away, asking about the possibility that the insurance would pay if the suicide went under the radar. Despite a strong possibility of it not working out, he hangs up, but then notices a sign for the Blue Cat. As Wendy calls Nix and types out the email to Del, Marty returns unharmed and tells her he "wasn't thinking straight." He asks Jonah to tell him more about the Blue Cat.
Marty meets with owner Rachel Garrison, who sees through his plan and rebuffs him. He stays for a drink and overhears a patron insulting Tuck for his disability. Marty confronts him, demanding that he apologize and respect the place, and is hit in the face.
Wendy buys Buddy's house and takes the kids to see. Charlotte again asks what they are doing in the Ozarks, and Wendy bluntly tells her "your father's laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel" before going to greet Buddy.
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Deaths[]
- None
Trivia[]
- The "Z" in this episode's title card is the barrel a liquified body was stashed in, the "A" is the large storage unit Marty rents, the "R" is Hanson Sr.'s jawbone, and the "K" is Marty holding his empty suitcase.
- The title refers to the Blue Cat Lodge, where Marty sets up business to launder money through.
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