Ray Donovan “Goodbye Beautiful” racks up a huge body count. Before the end of the episode there are four corpses littering the landscape, turing this installment into a bloodbath. There are Six if one counts Little Bill, who we do not see die and Avi who is a good as dead since Ray cannot deliver what is needed to save him.
In Russia, they receive the crate with Belikov’s body. Understandably upset, the Russian mobster sends a picture to Sonia and tells her he is on his way. Sonia speaks with Waller (Gabriel Mann), her lawyer, and Vlad (Richard Brake).
The two men have footage showing Ray, carrying the dead girl, and Belikov entering the port facility and Ray leaving, carrying the dead girl. Vlad explains that he had to kill a customs official to get the footage.
Body Number One.
Sonia tells the men to leave things with her. She begins gathering her things to run. She gets money from her safe and collects her daughter from school. Kovitzky then heads to Ray’s house.
Abby answer the doorbell and discovers the art dealer outside with Katya (Mila Brener). Ray tells Abby when she calls that he is on his way. On the way home he spies Vlad watching the house. Once Ray arrives, he tells Sonia he will help her to get out.
Avi and Lena turn up to help. Avi insists that Kovitzky should be killed. He then agrees to take care of Waller. Lena realizes that she looks a lot like Sonia. She dresses in the other woman’s clothes and will lead Vlad away. Lena tells Ray she will find a secluded spot and kill Sonia’s driver.
Body Number Two.
In Nevada Mickey shops for a ring for Silvie in a pawnshop. He buys a nine millimeter with a silence and an electric guitar. He, Bunchy and Teresa head to Little Bill’s house where Silvie is in bed with Primm.
They arrive with a plasma cutter and the gun. Teresa stays in the car and Silvie shows the two men were the safe is. Mickey starts to cut open the safe with the plasma cutter.
It stops before the job is finished. Mick sends Bunchy to watch Algoma (Emma Vicera) while he grabs Little Bill. Primm refuses to give up the combination to the safe. As Mick starts slapping Bill around, Larry (Chris Coppola) arrives and Bill tells him to shoot Silvie.
He does. Mickey is shocked and Teresa comes with the Bridget’s guitar and hits Larry in the head knocking him out. Mick shoots Larry several times and Bill gives up the combination to the safe.
Later, Primm begs Mickey not to kill Algoma. It is safe to assume that Mick does kill Little Bill.
Bodies three, four and five.
Ray agrees to help get Sonia and Katya out of the country as Avi goes to kill Waller. Kovitzky asks Donovan, as she boards the private jet, why he did not kill her, it would have been easier, she says.
Avi goes to kill the lawyer and is surrounded by Dimitri and his Russian mobsters. As Waller watches, Avi is beaten bloody. Ray gets a call from the gangster and he can hear Avi saying he screwed up. Dimitri (Raymond J. Barry) tells Ray to bring him Sonia or Avi will die. Ray cannot deliver Kovitzky as she has left the country.
Body number six?
Leaving aside a body count that almost equals the Minassian massacre, Marisol (Lisa Bonet) flips out when Daryll shows up with a check from Hector (Ismael Cruz Cordova). Daryll passes on the message that her brother wants her to leave.
Grabbing some keepsakes and pictures, Marisol puts them in a carryon bag. She take this and sets fire to the thing at the gym. Terry, who just posed with Hector for photographs puts out the fire. Marisol is arrested and Terry gets a date with the female cop he met earlier.
In this episode Abby refuses to scurry off and hide now that danger is at the front door. Ray agrees to let her stay. Teresa comes out of her depression enough to help Mickey, although not quickly enough to save Silvie. Later Mick thanks Teresa for her help.
After all the trouble Mick went through to get the $4 million, he no longer wants it. He has been destroyed by Silvie’s death. Mickey tells Bunchy that he and Teresa can have it all.
This episode of Ray Donovan plunges Ray right up to his neck with Russian gangsters after him and his family. Things have gotten very violent very fast. “Goodbye Beautiful” is the bloodiest (in terms of body count) and darkest of season four so far.
With Mickey broken and Avi as good as dead, Ray will have to rely on Lena, Terry, Bunchy and Abby to help fight off the Russian mob.
Speaking of Lena; how cold and deadly is this woman. One shot; pow, right between the eyes and Vlad was already taking aim. Impressive to the nth degree. Avi is right, she is tougher than either he or Ray.
Sonia has escaped Dimitri’s wrath and Waller obviously sold his boss out, which may not help him now that she is out of reach. Ray will have to dig deep to fight off this latest threat.
Ray Donovan airs Sundays on Showtime. Do not miss this cracking drama as the body count rises and Ray gets tougher.
CAST:
- Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan
- Eddie Marsan – Terry Donovan
- Dash Mihok – Bunchy Donovan
- Paula Malcomson – Abby Donovan
- Kerris Dorsey – Bridget Donovan
- Devon Bagby – Conor Donovan
- Jon Voight – Mickey Donovan
- Pooch Hall – Daryll
- Steven Bauer – Avi
- Katherine Moennig – Lena
- Alyssa Diaz – Teresa
Guest starring Embeth Davidtz – Sonia Kovitzky, Paula Jai Parker as Silvie and Ted Levine as Little Bill Primm
