My Dripping Sleep

**My Dripping Sleep** is the third episode of the first season of *Ozark*. It aired on July 21, 2017.

## Synopsis

Marty finds a way to control Ruth. Wendy worms her way into a job. Looking for another business to invest in, Marty digs for info on the strip bar.

## Plot

Jonah watches a trio of vultures fly overhead while Marty argues with the movers he hired, who has left all their furniture on the lawn, due to the fact that the house was still filled with Buddy's furniture. The kids watch in confusion as Buddy walks down to the lake with his oxygen tank, naked. Marty, also befuddled, tells the family to start moving their things inside. While Marty tries to justify his business to Jonah and Charlotte argues with Wendy about wanting to live with her friend. Petty watches them from a distance and takes pictures.

Ruth locks away the $20,000 dollars the Langmores took from Marty, knowing her uncles will spend it irresponsibly. Boyd reminds her that she is not her father, and Ruth counters with the fact that her father would have just beaten him. When she threatens to tell her father of his disrespect, Boyd backs off, and she orders the family to keep quiet about Marty's money.

Now an investor in the Blue Cat Lodge, Marty talks to Rachel about cornering the gas market just as Petty enters, undercover as a civilian. Ruth comes to see Marty, demanding a job after getting fired from her job at the motel. She convinces him to hire her, stating that she is of more use because she understands his illegal activity. Marty takes her to the bank and has her deposit money on camera, associating her with him and ensuring that she will also go to prison if he ever gets caught. Wendy goes out to get ice cream for Charlotte, but becomes anxious and paranoid when seeing a car follow her and hearing about a deadly boating accident on the radio.

Marty drives Charlotte to her job interview at a clothing store, telling her to stop calling him and Wendy by their first names. The interview goes well until she notices Wyatt and Three going past the store. She excuses herself to go outside and punch Wyatt in the face.

At home, Jonah watches gore videos of the Navarro cartel, while Wendy and Marty discuss the lasting impact the move will have on their children.

While Boyd and Russ fight in their trailer, Ruth and Wyatt sit on the roof, and Wyatt expresses his desire to leave the Ozarks.

While Marty sits on the couch, a commercial for the SPCA comes on and Marty imagines the narrator talking directly to him, telling him that he cannot be trusted to take care of anything. He hears Buddy coughing severely in the basement, but ignores it.

The next morning, Wendy chases a vulture feeding on a disemboweled deer off their lawn. Marty dumps the deer in the woods, and is met by Agent Evans, who informs him that the FBI is looking into Bruce's disappearance. He cites a phone call Marty made to him the night that Bruce disappeared. The call was Bruce telling him that Del wanted to see him, but Marty spins a narrative that he was planning to dissolve the company, and that he had overheard Bruce making several phone calls in Spanish. As Evans leaves, he tells Marty that Bruce was working with them as an informant. He offers the Byrdes witness protection, but Marty declines. Charlotte and Jonah debate the morality of Marty's work.

At work, Rachel informs Ruth she will be keeping a close eye on her, distrustful of her family, but Marty vouches for her.

Wendy continues to have trouble getting the pistachio ice cream.

At a motel, Evans and Petty discuss the Byrdes, and Evans asks if Petty wants to get breakfast, revealing they used to date. Petty rudely declines, not wanting to blow his cover, offending Evans.

While Wendy hoses the deer blood off the pavement, the Langmore boys cruise by the house in a boat, making offensive gestures. Wendy concludes that they are the ones leaving the animals on the lawn.

That night, Marty leaves the house when the same SPCA commercial comes on and takes the boat out on the lake, panickily muttering to himself about his situation before falling asleep on the swim deck. He is awakened by the sound of a church sermon, and drives over to see Pastor Mason Young preaching to people gathered. The entire operation takes place on boats in the water.

Wendy, meanwhile, starts staging homes for open houses for Sam Dermody, against his wishes.

Wendy begins to unpack a grocery bag on the kitchen counter when she notices another dead animal, a woodchuck, on the lawn. Fed up, she drives to the Langmore's and throws it at Wyatt, ordering them to stay away from the house and family. When she comes back home, Charlotte excitedly opens the grocery bag to see that it is the ice cream, but melted. Wendy simply tells her to put it in the freezer.

Marty, restless, takes a night trip to Bobby Dean's club and gets information about him from one of his strippers.

At his motel room, Petty receives oral sex from a male prostitute and mutters about Evans and his case,

Marty asserts to Charlotte that he is doing everything for the family and passes out on the back porch.

Ruth returns home to find her uncles have used their money to buy a pair of bobcats, in hopes of breeding them and selling the kittens. She furiously points out that they are both female, and orders them both into the bobcat cage, locking them in. She states that she is learning how to launder money from Marty and will steal his money and kill him when done.

## Production

### Credits

* Starring
* Guest Starring
* Co-Starring
### Starring

* Laura Linney as Wendy Byrde
* Sofia Hublitz as Charlotte Byrde
* Skylar Gaertner as Jonah Byrde
* Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore
* Jason Butler Harner as Roy Petty
* Esai Morales as Camino Del Rio (credit only)
* Peter Mullan as Jacob Snell (credit only)
* Lisa Emery as Darlene Snell (credit only)

### Guest Starring

* Charlie Tahan as Wyatt Langmore
* Marc Menchaca as Russ Langmore
* Michael Mosley as Mason Young
* Sarah McLachlan as Herself
* Christopher James Baker as Boyd Langmore
* Carson Holmes as Three Langmore
* Kevin L. Johnson as Sam Dermody
* Adam Boyer as Bobby Dean
* Quinn Cooke as Raven

### Co-Starring

* Robert Walker Branchaud as Boss
* Brandon Hirsch as Manager
* Gunner Willis as Assistant Manager
* Barrett Doyle as Male Prostitute
* Bethany Anne Lind as Grace Young

## Deaths

* 4 Unknown Men
* 1 Possum
* 1 Deer

## Triva

* The "Z" in this episode's title card is Petty's FBI badge, the "A" is a pair of legs from a stripper in Bobby Dean's club, the "R" is a vulture, and the "K" is a pair of security cameras that record Ruth committing to Marty's business.