18 Facts About Marty Byrde

Marty Byrde is the top money launderer for a Mexican drug cartel.

Marty Byrde is a mild-mannered financial advisor and graduate of Indiana State University.

Wendy suffered a miscarriage around the time of the Great Recession after she and Marty Byrde got into a car crash.

In 2007, Marty Byrde was recruited by Camino Del Rio, a top enforcer for Mexico's Navarro drug cartel, to launder money for the organization through his and Bruce's firm.

Marty Byrde says if he is allowed to live, he will launder $500 million in five years.

Marty Byrde then sells his home and moves his family to Osage Beach, Missouri.

Marty Byrde is shown to always defer to Wendy's demands and wishes and his conflict with being able to stand up for himself against his wife is a key theme throughout the show.

Unbeknownst to Marty Byrde, the strip club is a money-laundering racket for the local heroin-dealing Snell family, led by Darlene and Jacob Snell.

Marty Byrde's activities draw the attention of FBI agent Roy Petty, who has tailed him from Chicago and is working undercover in the Ozarks.

When Del's lieutenant Garcia realizes little progress is being made, he begins spying on Wendy and the children and catches them in their home as they prepare to flee the Ozarks with identities Marty Byrde had arranged for them.

However, Buddy, a terminally ill tenant living in the Byrdes' lakefront home, kills Garcia, and he and Marty dispose of the body at a funeral home Wendy had procured for the Byrdes' laundering.

Del and Marty Byrde meet with the Snells and finalize the deal, but Darlene shoots Del in the head with a shotgun after he calls them "rednecks".

Disillusioned by the Snells' impulsive violence and the perceived danger to his own family, Marty Byrde begins planning the family's escape to the Gold Coast of Australia.

Marty Byrde retrieves Zeke from the state and returns him to Mason, but he is forced to shoot and kill Mason when he threatens to stab Wendy in the neck with a screwdriver.

Now that it is safe to stay in the Ozarks, Marty Byrde prepares to open his casino.

However, Navarro has Marty Byrde kidnapped and taken to his estate in Mexico to see if Wendy and Helen can launder the money without Marty Byrde, which ultimately fails.

Unbeknownst to Wendy, Marty Byrde is bribing Sue to side with her so that Wendy does not get upset.

Marty Byrde convinces Navarro to give up Javi's weapons shipments across the border to the FBI, leading Javi to cut off heroin shipments to Shaw Medical until the "mole" in the cartel is uncovered.