And she learns that what Uncle Ben said was true. It’s hard to believe Helen would just let her talk to Jonah and Charlotte. Helen is sometimes fearless, but if Ben is the vulnerability on the Byrde side of the empire, Erin is the one on her side.
Would Helen allow that? She probably can’t just lock Erin in her room, but doesn’t it seem like she might try? Or get her on a train immediately? The Byrdes are dangerous. The problem is that Ben needs to be shuttled to safety before that can happen, but his illness and emotion keep sabotaging his sister’s attempts to keep him alive.īefore then, Erin goes to hear the truth from the Byrde children. And it’s an argument that Wendy might be able to win. They consider going to Navarro and convincing him that they’re more valuable than Helen. He’s a loose end, and criminal operations can’t have loose ends.Īt first, it feels like the Byrdes may start an all-out war with Helen. As Helen says, “There’s no room for mental illness in a criminal empire.” She may be emotional about what Erin knows, but there’s a key moment in the kitchen with Marty when she tells him that the major concern is who else Ben might someday tell. She gets Ben out instantly, and, after a brief memory scene with Marty, the episode is basically about Wendy trying to figure out what to do with her brother, as he constantly sabotages everything she does.Įveryone but Ben seems to comprehend the danger inherent in what he did with Erin and Helen.
The way she goes and grabs a shotgun and a go bag is amazing. Ben is lucky to have someone like Ruth in his life, because she instantly knows the danger of the situation when she hears that her boyfriend told Erin Pierce about her mother’s role in an illegal empire. “Fire Pink” feels like a set-up for a war between Helen Pierce and Ben Davis, but it’s not exactly that. He’s actually the kid jumping into the road. In the opening scene, a monologue that should earn him an Emmy nomination, he speaks of general anxiety and fear, that feeling that a kid is going to jump in the road as you’re driving and change your life forever. Linney deftly captures how Wendy’s emotional connection to her brother influences the tough decisions she has to make this episode, while Pelphrey conveys the horror of being somewhat aware that you are constantly making bad decisions but still are unable to stop. What’s finally broken her, and even brought her back to her husband Marty, is the sad saga of her brother Ben. Linney’s Wendy Byrde has often been a cold political animal, a shark unafraid of any other predators in the water, even a drug kingpin like Omar Navarro. The saddest episode in the history of Ozark is also one of its best, anchored by truly moving performances from Laura Linney and Tom Pelphrey.
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