Tulsa King S1E7 Recap: Chickie Kills Pete While Dwight Plans a Casino and Waltrip Catches Roxy
Tulsa King, Season 1, Episode 7 — “Warr Acres” Paramount+ · Created by Taylor Sheridan · 2022
Dwight keeps building Tulsa like a kingdom while New York and Black Macadam start removing people from the board.
Tulsa King S1E7 is the hour where Dwight Manfredi’s exile stops looking temporary. Dwight buries Carson Pike, sends Caolan Waltrip the bloody jacket, and starts talking casino money with Bodhi Geigerman. Stacy Beale pushes Roxy into one last informant job, Chickie Invernizzi finally turns on Pete, and Tina Manfredi briefly considers moving her family closer to the father she spent years trying to survive without. By the end of “Warr Acres,” Dwight has a bigger business plan, a dead boss back in New York, and a biker enemy who has found the leak.
Dwight Manfredi Sends Waltrip Pike’s Jacket and Stacy Sends Roxy Back In
Dwight Manfredi (Sylvester Stallone) opens the episode doing the least romantic version of mob cleanup. Carson Pike is dead, and Dwight’s Tulsa side has to deal with the body. The burial is blunt and dryly comic, right down to the jacket being saved before the corpse goes in and the tiny debate over whether the package should include a dead fish because Pike’s name invites the joke.
The jacket does what Dwight wants it to do. Caolan Waltrip (Ritchie Coster) receives it at the Black Macadam clubhouse, sees the blood and bullet holes, and understands that the sit-down has become war. Roxy breaks down because she can read the message too: Pike did not vanish, get detained, or run. He went to shoot up the wrong cowboy bar and never came home.
That message also ricochets into Stacy Beale (Andrea Savage). Roxy calls her sobbing and tells her Carson was sent to “shoot out a few windows” at the bar where the mob guy hangs out. Stacy hears the informant case becoming a murder case in real time, then asks the grieving woman to go back in and get something incriminating from Waltrip’s laptop.
The follow-through is grim. Roxy gets into Waltrip’s office, reaches the computer, and then he appears behind her. He talks softly, lets her confess the arrest, and uses Pike’s death as leverage by saying she needs a man to protect her. By morning, Waltrip is answering Roxy’s phone and telling Stacy she has dialed “the number for hell.” Later, Stacy waits at the diner and cries when Roxy does not come.
Goodie Carangi Measures Dwight’s Tulsa Crew for New York
Goodie Carangi (Chris Caldovino) arrives by train and immediately gets the funniest possible Tulsa reception. Tyson Mitchell (Jay Will) and Manny Truisi (Max Casella) pick him up, and Goodie has no patience for either the pat-down or the idea that Armand now works for Dwight. Manny tries to make the Art Deco station into small talk. Goodie treats him like a man who fled New York and then had the nerve to survive.
At the bar, Goodie gives Dwight the first clean answer about Tina’s family. Dwight is furious after Tina calls to say Emory was beaten in New York. She tells him Emory has a concussion, fractured ulna, bruised ribs, and abrasions, but no wallet was taken. Dwight hears warning, asks her to come to Oklahoma, and gets the answer he deserves: unless he can give her specific information, she is not uprooting her life.
Goodie says Pete Invernizzi (A C Peterson) and Chickie Invernizzi (Domenick Lombardozzi) had nothing to do with Emory. More important, he swears nobody knew what Nico did to Tina. Dwight needs that answer because his loyalty map is still built around old names. Goodie gives him the oath, and for a moment the two men can drink like the old machine has not already broken.
Then Goodie reports back. He tells Pete and Chickie that Armand is in Tulsa, that Dwight has a bar, a dispensary partner, a cowboy, Native weed suppliers, and Tyson driving him around. The most personal detail is also the ugliest: Tyson is wearing Dwight’s old pinky ring. To Tyson, the ring is status and affection. To New York, it looks like Dwight building a new family. Goodie reads the bigger problem correctly. Dwight is his own man out there, and he is not going to be controllable for much longer.
Bodhi Geigerman Shows Dwight the Criminal Future
Bodhi Geigerman (Martin Starr) notices the missing cash from his safe, which is fair, since Dwight has been treating the dispensary like a private bank. Dwight says he has an investment idea. Bodhi hears the word and starts bracing for another expensive fossil from Dwight’s criminal imagination.
The idea is not small. Dwight wants to renovate the bar with Mitch Keller (Garrett Hedlund), add girls and live music, then put a casino in the back. He plans to run the license through Jimmy the Creek and the National Indian Gaming Commission, with a half-million dollars to grease the wheels. The comedy comes from the size of the leap. Dwight has been in Tulsa for weeks and is already trying to build a frontier Flamingo.
Bodhi, for once, is not the innocent in the room. He asks Dwight if he knows NFTs and crypto, then explains that he does not buy Bitcoin. He steals from people who buy Bitcoin. Dwight’s face when he sees the money is one of the hour’s better Stallone beats: the old gangster briefly meeting a criminal future he cannot put ketchup on.
The scene matters because it flips the usual Dwight-Bodhi dynamic. Dwight still has the muscle and the appetite, but Bodhi has the digital racket. Tulsa is not empty territory waiting for a New York capo to educate it. The city already has thieves, angles, and quiet operators. Dwight is late to some games he does not even understand.
Chickie Invernizzi Kills Pete While Dwight and Tina Test Tulsa as Home
Chickie’s episode slows down before it snaps. At church, he tells a priest he never wanted the life Pete gave him. He wanted to join the army and become a colonel. Instead, Pete used an apple from a street cart as the first little lesson in theft, then never forgave the child who told his mother.
The bath scene converts that resentment into murder. Pete is weak, just told by doctors he may have 15 more years if he rests, and Chickie is washing him like a son trying to be tender. Then Chickie asks why Pete never wanted a regular life for him. Pete dismisses him, calls the complaint bullshit, and snaps when Chickie brings up Dwight. That is the last humiliation. Chickie pushes Pete under the bathwater and holds him there.
Tulsa gives Dwight a softer but still strange counterpoint. He visits Pilot at Fennario Ranch, learns grooming from Margaret, and asks her to dinner. The date works because neither of them pretends to be normal. Margaret talks about her ex and the ranch name coming from “Peggy O.” Dwight admits he was in prison for a long time, says even a lemon would taste good after that, and tells her he killed a man trapped in a burning building.
Tina Manfredi (Tatiana Zappardino) gets the sharper domestic version of the same question. After Emory’s attack, she asks about moving to Oklahoma. Emory immediately names the problem: she spent seven years in counseling talking about Dwight abandoning her, and now she wants to move near her gangster father. Tina knows he is right. The longing for safety and the memory of harm are sitting in the same room.
By the final stretch, Pete is dead and Goodie tells Dwight the funeral will be Friday. Dwight says he will not go. It is a cold choice, and maybe the only honest one left between him and that family. New York may still think in rituals. Dwight has already started measuring loyalty by who is standing in Tulsa.
What works
- Chickie’s murder of Pete gives the New York thread a real turn. The priest scene and bath scene make his resentment specific before the violence lands.
- Roxy’s failed laptop grab is tense without overplaying the mechanics. Waltrip answering her phone is colder than a longer explanation would have been.
- Bodhi’s Bitcoin reveal is a strong comic-crime pivot. Martin Starr plays the smugness lightly, and Stallone’s confusion sells the old-criminal/new-criminal gap.
- The Margaret date gives Dwight a rare scene where honesty does not sound like strategy. The prison confession is blunt, weird, and funny in the show’s exact register.
- Tyson wearing Dwight’s ring keeps paying off. The prop carries affection, ambition, and New York’s sense of insult all at once.
What stumbles
- Stacy’s drunk confrontation with Dwight circles a point the episode has already made well through Roxy. The scene has heat, but the accusation lands after the damage is already clear.
- The casino plan moves fast even by Dwight standards. It is fun, and it fits him, but half a million dollars and gaming-license talk arrive before the bar itself feels rebuilt.
- Pete’s death being passed off as a heart attack is efficient, though the episode does not linger on the practical mess Chickie now has to manage.
What this sets up for Episode 08
Chickie is now the boss in New York, and Dwight has already decided not to show respect at Pete’s funeral. Waltrip appears to have eliminated Roxy and knows Stacy had a line inside his operation. Meanwhile, Dwight’s Tulsa plan is expanding from bar partnership to casino play, which gives every enemy a bigger target to hit.
Rating: 8.0/10