‘Tulsa King’ Season 4 Episode 4 Recap and Ending Explained: How ‘Square One’ Resets Dwight’s Fight
The latest chapter of ‘Tulsa King’ finds Dwight Manfredi starting over after closures of Higher Plane, Bred 2 Buck and Montague Distillery dropped the family income to zero. The installment, titled ‘Square One’, arrived on Paramount+ on November 6.
This breakdown of the ‘Tulsa King’ recap and ending covers how the crew improvises, what Governor Clark does next, and why the closing ambush matters. The hour is lighter in tone than the previous one, yet it still leaves a much larger threat hanging over Dwight.
Episode Recap and the Crew’s Scramble for Cash
The episode begins with Dwight ordering his crew to be creative. With his legitimate businesses shut down, he is trying to keep everyone afloat on a nest egg he squirrelled away just in case.
Bodhi ramps up production of counterfeit wine and convinces an auctioneer to accept nearly a million dollars of it. Mitch swaps a look alike horse into a race with help from Spencer so that Joanne can bet big, and the scheme nets the crew $600,000. Joanne lays a $50,000 bet on the horse, including $30,000 of her own money, and it wins.
Tyson also produces a demo that proves to be a club hit. Dwight teams with Bill Bevilaqua to build a gaming hall at the distillery, where the two men want to run very high end poker games. Bill also arrives to smooth things over with Dwight and apologizes for mentioning Margaret to Ray.
One recap observed that Dwight’s gang is made up of geeks, local conmen and ranch hands, which is why their ideas feel genuinely inventive. The tone leans on improvisation rather than muscle, and that suits a crew with no conventional mob structure left to rely on.
Fennario Ranch and the Eminent Domain Fight
Governor Clark remains angry after Dwight’s public interruption at a charity event, and she learns he now owns Margaret’s Fennario Ranch. She orders the attorney general to seize the property through eminent domain so billionaire Bradley Van Heusen can build his data farm.
That plan creates a problem Dwight cannot solve with paperwork. Dead bodies are buried on the land, so Dwight sends Goodie to dig them up and move them in the night, and Vince goes along. One of them is Ming, a villain from an earlier season, who was buried in Margaret’s stable.
The digging produces a surprise. The pair hit what appears to be a fossil, a tooth of some sort, which could be good or bad news for Dwight. Another recap notes that the episode does not reveal what they actually found.
Meanwhile Quiet Ray keeps pressing Dwight for money, which puts Vince in a tight spot because he is in Tulsa representing Ray. Ray stays adamant that payments continue as agreed even after Vince tells him Dwight is broke.
Ending Explained and the Highway Ambush
The final moments turn the episode from a caper into a thriller. While Dwight and Bigfoot are on the road, someone in a fake cop car pulls them over and opens fire, clipping Bigfoot in the shoulder. The shooting happens as they drive away from Bred 2 Buck.
Dwight returns fire and repels the attackers. Bigfoot is fine thanks to Elaine, a veterinarian friend of Margaret’s.
The episode does not name the gunman. It does not reveal the shooter’s identity or who ordered the attack. One review floated the idea that the shooter could be Pat McAfee’s detective character. Another outlet pointed to Quiet Ray as an obvious suspect because of his unpaid debts, while noting that Clark’s corporate allies have equal motive.
The title fits Dwight’s predicament, since after years of expanding his influence he is back to finding ways to generate cash while powerful enemies threaten what he built. The ending suggests the pressure on him is no longer only administrative.
Plane Crash Investigation and What Comes Next
The question of what happened to Margaret remains open. FBI agent Musso shares that the Navy found the wreckage and the black box of the private plane that carried Gov. Cal Thresher and Margaret, but that is all viewers learn for now.
The review argues that the smart money is on Van Heusen as the culprit because he has means and motive, and Thresher had opposed the data farm. In its review, Taste of Country said the biggest issue is that no truly sinister villain has emerged, though there is still half a season left for redemption.
The current season premiered on Oct. 16 and is expected to run through Dec. 18, and a fifth season has already been picked up by Paramount+. Deadline reportedly confirmed that production of that next season will shift from Atlanta to New York City, which hints that Dwight’s tensions with Eastern crime families could take center stage.
With a mystery gunman on the highway and something unexplained buried at Fennario Ranch, who do you believe ordered the ambush on Dwight and Bigfoot, and what do you think that tooth means for the ranch?
