Will Hanzee catch up with Ed, Peggy, and their captive?
No… Well, sorta.
We begin to see the turn as she sits at home after the assault from the Gerhardts.
Credit: Michelle Fay/FX
Two men are dead, and Dodd has been prodded to sleep.
Or at least, thats what the visage of John Hanley Sr. suggests is the problem.
But the words in that moment unlock something in her.
Shes going to just be, instead of thinking.
This is who Ed finds when he finally makes it home after escaping from Lou and Hank.
This lady has lost her mind, brother, Dodd tells him, shortly before getting knocked out.
I just have to keep us alive, Ed says.
Youre doing it, hon.
We both are, Peggy says.
Considering the significance of the site, the treatment the half-breed veteran receives inside the establishment is especially resonant.
The world thatFargoportrays, for the most part, is white.
Foots on the other shoe now, huh?
The turn in Peggy also provides an opportunity for Jesse Plemons to shine.
A wife encourages her husband to not take no for an answer.
Its a scenario that has been played out innumerable ways, but not these with absurd specifics.
And did you notice the hangman overlaying Eds face in the phonebooth?
The answer to the puzzle: Sioux Falls.
There was an air of dread hanging over every moment of Loplop.
Would Hanzee catch up with Ed and Peggy?
How would he go to the bathroom?
(The answer to that last question ended up being one of the best scenes of the season.)
Sounds romantic, says Constance, who was preparing for her own candle-lit night with Peggy.
(I love this very telling character detail.)
No, Peggy says, before reconsidering.
Well, sort of.
In the movie, the romantic leads reach a dead end while being pursued by a Nazi.
The inverse of this scenario plays out not long afterward.
Ed returns from the gas station, where he has finally made contact with someone interested in Dodd.
He and Mike Milligan agree to meet in Sioux Falls.
Walking into his Uncle Gradys cabin, Ed finds Peggy on the floor.
Dodd is waiting with a noose, ready to string Ed up by the neck.
I think Satan is a woman, he says.
Then theres that knife in his foot.
The knife in the foot is bad.
Dodd cutting his hand on the blade is worse.
Pulling his whole foot through the blade tops them all.
But the manner in which he enters is entirely unexpected.
Ronald Reagan, he is not.
Either way, Dodd wont be around to find out, as Hanzee shoots him in the head.
After a quick stab from his hairdresser, Hanzee escapes, leaving the Blumquists to deal with the cops.
Weve got two episodes left, and Mike Milligan is heading to Sioux Falls.
Are we on the cusp of the massacre that weve heard so much about?
But when hasFargoever done was it expected?
