Black Tar – Season 4
The guys reach a turning point between Ira and Butchie when they're forced to choose which one to run deals for.
Episodes
Advertising Campaign
After the incident with Butchie, the guys try their best to make it up to him so nothing drastic happens again. However, Ira tasks them with a job when Butchie needs them most, conflicting the guys between their employers.
Breadseed
The guys try to start a legitimate business with Butchie on top of the drug business with Ira. However, balancing both proves hard on top of the already increasing personal issues. Dale refuses chemotherapy.
Moonlighting
have Valerie and Sadie start to question David and Vic's income and how so much came from such a new company. They both manage to play it off, and David finally takes the next step with Valerie, moving in together.
Probable Cause
The guys finalize their problems with Butchie and finally repay their debt. Meanwhile, Luke and Sophia get themselves in even more trouble and Dale's condition worsens.
Blunt Force Trauma
As Butchie's orders start to conflict with Ira's, the guys have to decide which one is more important without disappointing the other. Meanwhile, David and Valerie enjoy a peaceful date together.
Price of Admission
Butchie tasks the guys with a dangerous job. What starts as a simple pickup ends in a struggle for life when Butchie realizes he made a drastic mistake. They find themselves caught in a robbery plan with a common criminal, but manage to stop it before it happens.
Drown
Trying to play both sides, the guys each split up to take orders from both Butchie and Ira at the same time without the other knowing. However, it proves difficult when both request a job at the same time.
Stick to Your Guns
Tired of sneaking around, the guys take an anonymous vote on who they should cut ties with and who they should keep working for. David and Bruce both vote to stay with Butchie, while Vic, Sammy, and Conrad vote to stay with Ira. Bruce confides in David to say that he doesn't trust Ira's sanity anymore.
Give Me a Reason
When the guys break the news to Butchie, they have one last night out together to go drinking. When Butchie asks too many questions, things get heated, leading to a murder-suicide where Butchie kills Bruce, then himself.
This Purpose
Still reeling what they just witnessed, the four guys, on orders from Ira, dispose of Bruce and Butchie's bodies. They take a long and somber examination of the events that got them to where they are now.
Persona Non Grata
David recounts Bruce's words and starts to bring Ira's morals and ethics into question, realizing that he was the only one that agreed with him. David secretly plots a way to pull the others from Ira's grasp.
The Big Dipper
David tries to convince the rest of the guys that they shouldn't be following Ira, but none of them listen. Meanwhile, Dale's condition worsens even further.
Rapture
David and Vic take a step aside from the drug business to help Dale. The other guys go on another deal for Ira. As the brothers comfort Dale in his last moments, he dies from the cancer.