The Lowdown Episode 4 recap: Lee Raybon learns a shocking truth about the Washberg brothers

The Lowdown Episode 4, titled 'Short on Cowboys,' brewed an unlikely relationship between Lee and Betty Jo. While Lee was stalking Dale's widow in his white van, she caught and confronted him about his trash-talking article about her.

Unaware that Lee is aware of her scandalous affair with her husband's brother, Betty Jo calls him out on his hit article, which humiliated her married name. After Donald asked Betty Jo to give up her house on the Washberg land, she was having a hard time and Lee's sneaking just made things worse for her. Additionally, she asserts that she is also angry with the journalist for creating a scene at Dale's funeral. While there were problems in her marriage, she respected Dale and his daughter loved him deeply.

Lee and Betty's back-and-forth in The Lowdown led to a shocking reveal about the Washberg brothers, which could be useful for Lee in the long run.

Here is The Lowdown Episode 4 recap.

The Lowdown Episode 4 recap: An unconventional father-daughter bonding activity

Trust self-styled journalist Lee Raybon to tip you about the unconventional methods to parent a child. The Lowdown Episode 4 started with Lee's unique detective session with Francis. Lee has passed his obsession to Dale's letters to his daughter and the father-daughter duo were at it in the morning. While a dying man's final letters should not be a passion project for any child, Lee needed his daughter's help to decipher a particular passage about the Washbergs' ancestry.

Dale's letters reveal that the Washbergs continued to live on their ancestral patriarch's land and eventually became the rulers of Osage County. Francis notices a particular prose, describing Dale's relationship with Donald.

As Dale's letters revealed in The Lowdown Episode 4, Donald was always a kind brother to Dale but the brothers had a falling out. A week before Dale's death, the brothers even had a gruesome argument and Donald said such a 'vile' thing to his younger brother that he could not even bring himself to write it down. Lee and Francis' sleuthing session is finally interrupted by Samantha, who came to pick up her daughter for school. She also revealed to her ex-husband that she is getting married to a dentist.

The Lowdown Episode 4 recap: A risky confessional game

Betty Jo's vulnerable state in The Lowdown presents an opportunity and Lee shifts their conversation to a club, where they take tequila shots together. The influence of alcohol turns into a confessional game, and Betty Jo and Lee confide in one another. While Lee revealed his sadness over Samantha's second marriage, Betty Jo confessed that her daughter hates her. Her life has gone downhill after Dale's death and she is no longer a Washberg and just a nobody.

Their dynamic becomes flirtatious and Betty Jo invites Lee to her mansion. The duo spends their time looking at old videos of Betty Jo in her prime, rearing cattle in her high boots. Just when Lee started to get comfortable on Betty's sofa, she came out with a loaded pistol and pointed it at him. Her errand shots around the house pulls the couple out of their hangover and Betty Jo finally reveals an important secret about the Washberg brothers.

Contrary to popular belief, Dale and Donald were not fighting over the Indian Head Hills but over Pearl, who is actually Donald's daughter. Betty and Donald did not start their affair after her marriage to Dale but they were lovers even before this arrangement. Since the Washbergs did not want a trash wife for their eldest son, Betty Jo was instead married off to their gay son. This arrangement allowed Betty and Donald to continue their relationship and she made Dale believe that Pearl was his daughter, even when it was not true.

This revelation worked like a charm on Lee in The Lowdown Episode 4 and he ended up spending the night with Betty Jo. The episode ends with Lee sneaking out of Betty's house in the morning, when Donald sees him and probably gets jealous.

Episode 4 complicated Lee's writing project even further after his one-night stand with the most important source.

You can stream The Lowdown on Hulu.

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