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| Lucky Fans Left Heartbroken as Cary's Story Takes a Dramatic Turn. (Apple TV) |
Apple TV+'s Lucky has wasted little time proving that trusting the wrong person can be just as dangerous as facing armed criminals. Episode 4 finally answers the biggest question hanging over the series: why Cary betrayed Lucky Luciana Armstrong and disappeared with £10 million. The truth, however, arrives with another devastating twist that leaves viewers watching one of the show's most emotional and brutal moments yet. Just when it seems the couple might finally stop arguing long enough to work together, fate has other plans. Apparently, this series believes relationship counselling is overrated.
The episode reveals that Cary never simply abandoned Lucky out of greed. According to his account, his mother, Priscilla, forced him into taking the money after discovering that Lucky's father had stolen it years earlier. Faced with the threat that Priscilla would kill Lucky if he refused, Cary believed taking the cash was the only way to protect his wife.
His original plan was to return the money, but standing once again under his mother's control pushed him to change course. Instead, he converted almost the entire fortune into cryptocurrency, making himself the only person capable of unlocking it through a secret twelve-word phrase.
Lucky is understandably sceptical. After waking up drugged and abandoned, forgiveness is hardly the first thing on her mind. Yet their heated confrontation uncovers another painful truth.
Cary learns that Lucky had secretly informed the FBI, leading to Priscilla's arrest years earlier. Suddenly, both realise their marriage has been built on half-truths, family manipulation and impossible choices.
Neither believes they intentionally betrayed the other, but both agree their parents have spent years turning their lives into one endless disaster. Family reunions clearly were never going to be an option.
Before either can fully process those revelations, FBI Agent Billie Rand arrives at the beach house. With federal agents closing in and Priscilla also tracking them down, Lucky and Cary decide survival matters more than continuing their argument.
They escape together, stealing another vehicle and racing towards what they hope will be freedom. It marks the first genuine moment of unity between them since the series began, making everything that follows even harder to watch.
Their escape quickly unravels as police vehicles and helicopters tighten the net. Realising capture is becoming inevitable, Cary pulls out a gun and fires at pursuing police cars, aiming for the tyres rather than the officers themselves.
His attempt buys them precious seconds, but officers return fire, striking him in the stomach. Despite his serious injury, Cary refuses to give up, urging Lucky to keep driving until another twist of bad luck sends the vehicle crashing.
The crash seals Cary's fate. While Lucky regains consciousness, Cary has already lost a dangerous amount of blood. She desperately wants to help him, but the sound of approaching police leaves her with an impossible decision. Carrying the money and hoping to survive another day, she leaves him behind before officers reach the wreckage.
Paramedics quickly confirm what viewers feared. Cary has succumbed to his injuries before medical help can save him. His body is covered at the scene as Agent Rand watches on, while Priscilla observes from a distance, devastated by the death of her son.
The moment carries extra emotional weight because Cary had been given an opportunity to escape alongside his mother earlier. Instead, he chose Lucky. Ironically, after spending much of the season running away from his wife, his final decision was to stay with her. Television really does enjoy making audiences cry the second characters start making sensible emotional choices.
So, is Cary dead in Lucky? Yes. Episode 4 leaves little room for doubt. Cary dies from the gunshot wound after the crash, and the series presents his death as a definitive turning point rather than an ambiguous cliffhanger. There is no indication that he survives or is secretly rescued, making his farewell one of the biggest shocks of the season.
Naturally, viewers are already debating what Cary's death means for the rest of Lucky. Some fans believe his redemption arc was cut painfully short just as he began proving his loyalty to Lucky, while others argue his fate was inevitable after spending years trapped between his mother and his wife.
Plenty have also praised Drew Starkey for delivering one of his strongest performances, particularly during Cary's emotional confrontation with Lucky and the heartbreaking final chase.
Others, meanwhile, are still trying to recover from the fact that the couple finally started communicating properly just minutes before everything collapsed. Typical television timing.
As for Drew Starkey, Cary's apparent death strongly suggests his story has reached its natural conclusion within Lucky, although flashbacks remain a possibility if future episodes continue exploring the couple's complicated history.
For now, Cary's sacrifice reshapes the entire narrative, leaving Lucky alone, hunted from every direction and carrying far more emotional baggage than the bag full of money she escaped with.
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What did you think of Cary's ending? Did Lucky make the right decision by killing him off, or should Drew Starkey's character have survived to face the consequences of his choices?