At the end of the penultimate episode of Ray Donovan Season 4, Ray gathers his family together to enact his masterplan to rid them of Sokolov. He says that he can’t do this on his own, and we’ve seen that all season. Ray has taken one step forward in protecting his family or dealing with a fix (for Hector, for Sonia, etc) and then gets knocked two steps back. He admits he needs the family for this, and over the course of the hour we see how. But though Hector fought back to win his match (I guess Mickey lost all of that money, huh?) and Ray took care of Sokolov, it felt like too neat of an ending for what has been a messy and meandering season.
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