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Episode Guide Episodes 001–041 Last episode aired Sunday November 29, 2020 www.fxnetworks.com © © 2020 www.fxnetworks.com © 2020 www.imdb.com © 2020 www. © 2020 www.imdb.com celebdirtylaundry.com © 2020 hiddenremote.com © 2020 www.goldderby.com © 2020 www.vulture.com © 2020 www.showbizjunkies.com The summaries and recaps of all the Fargo episodes were downloaded from http://www.imdb.com and http://www. fxnetworks.com and http://www.imdb.com and http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com and http://hiddenremote. com and http://www.goldderby.com and http://www.vulture.com and http://www.showbizjunkies.com and pro- cessed through a perl program to transform them in a LATEX file, for pretty printing. So, do not blame me for errors in the text ! This booklet was LATEXed on December 1, 2020 by footstep11 with create_eps_guide v0.65 Contents Season 1 1 1 The Crocodile’s Dilemma . .3 2 The Rooster Prince . .7 3 A Muddy Road . 11 4 Eating the Blame . 15 5 The Six Ungraspables . 19 6 Buridan’s Ass . 23 7 Who Shaves The Barber? . 27 8 The Heap . 31 9 A Fox, a Rabbit and a Cabbage . 33 10 Morton’s Fork . 35 Season 2 39 1 Waiting for Dutch . 41 2 Before the Law . 43 3 The Myth of Sisyphus . 45 4 Fear and Trembling . 47 5 The Gift of the Magi . 49 6 Rhinoceros . 51 7 Did you do this? No, you did it! . 53 8 Loplop . 55 9 The Castle . 57 10 Palindrome . 59 Season 3 61 1 The Law of Vacant Places . 63 2 The Principle of Restricted Choice . 65 3 The Law of Non-Contradiction . 67 4 The Narrow Escape Problem . 69 5 The House of Special Purpose . 71 6 The Lord of No Mercy . 73 7 The Law of Inevitability . 75 8 Who Rules the Land of Denial? . 77 9 Aporia . 79 10 Somebody to Love . 81 Season 4 83 1 Welcome to the Alternate Economy . 85 2 The Land of Taking and Killing . 89 3 Raddoppiarlo . 93 4 The Pretend War . 97 5 The Birthplace of Civilization . 101 6 Camp Elegance . 105 Fargo Episode Guide 7 LayAway ............................................ 109 8 The Nadir . 113 9 East/West . 117 10 Happy . 121 11 Storia Americana . 125 Actor Appearances 129 II Season One Fargo Episode Guide The Crocodile’s Dilemma Season 1 Episode Number: 1 Season Episode: 1 Originally aired: Tuesday April 15, 2014 Writer: Noah Hawley Director: Adam Bernstein Show Stars: Billy Bob Thornton (Lorne Malvo), Allison Tolman (Deputy Molly Solverson), Colin Hanks (Deputy Gus Grimly), Martin Freeman (Lester Nygaard) Guest Stars: Bob Odenkirk (Deputy Bill Olson), Keith Carradine (Lou Solverson), Kate Walsh (Gina Hess), Joshua Close (Ron Nygaard), Shawn Doyle (Chief Vern Thurman), Brian Markinson (Bruce Gold), Kelly Holden (Pearl Nygaard), Tom Musgrave (Bo Munk), Julie Ann Emery (Ida Thur- man), Rachel Blanchard (Kitty Nygaard), Kevin O’Grady (Sam Hess), Atticus Dean Mitchell (Mickey Hess), Liam Green (Moe Hess), Brian Jensen (Mr. Rundle), Dave Trimble (Naked Man), Andrew McKenzie (Young Man), Amanda Guenther (Young Woman), Karen Johnson- Diamond (Hotel Owner), Lori Ravensborg (Paprika), Michelle Thrush (Sue Roundtree), Spencer Drever (Gordo Nygaard), Sam Duke (Teen), Darrell Orydzuk (Broker #1), Ben Wong (Broker #2), Lydia Lau (Maid), Susan Park (Linda Park), Carolyn Bridget Kennedy (Police Officer), Chantal Perron (Cindy) Summary: A meek, mild insurance salesman meets an intriguing stranger in the hospital, which initiates terrible and gruesome events that will change the salesman’s life forever. We watch a car drive through a snowy ex- panse. A man with a bad haircut, with severe bangs, drives. An onscreen title card tells that what we’re about to see is true story and happened in Minnesota in 2006 but the names have been changed to protect the survivors. But, everything else, it says is told exactly as it happened. The car hits a deer and veers off the road. The trunk pops open and a chubby man, clad only in boxer shorts jumps out and begins running away from the car and the road into the surrounding snow covered field and woods. The driver, who has a head injury gets out slightly dazed and appraises the deer. We cut to a washer in a basement that is clearly broken making a loud noise as it spins. Upstairs the owners Lester Nygaard and his wife are having lunch– tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. Lester’s wife is an awful harpie who is complaining to Lester that, basically, he is not a man because he can’t fix the washer, doesn’t make enough money, and is not his younger, more successful brother Chaz. She figures she married the wrong Nygaard brother since Chaz’s wife Kitty is always talking about how successful he is, including that he recently got a promotion after just one year. Lester says it’s just slow right now and that he needs to head back to work. She tells him that he can make his own success. And that he has to try harder and maybe wear a better tie. He points out she bought him this tie. She says she would’ve bought him a better tie if he was a better salesman. He takes a look at the washer, in frustration. 3 Fargo Episode Guide He heads back to work and tries, unsuccessfully, to upsell insurance to a couple who are expecting. They just want to get her on his health insurance. Lester tries to scare them into buying life insurance. They don’t bite. Lester goes to the appliance store and looks longingly at new washer-dryer sets. He runs into his old high school nemesis Sam Hess. He’s a big bully and has raised two dumb sons who also appear to be bullies. Sam’s big joke is to make Lester’s last name Nygaard sound like "nigger.’ He reminisces with Lester about stuffing Lester in an oil drum and rolling him into the road and that his wife once gave him a handjob. He threatens Lester in front of his kids. Lester flinches and abruptly turns his head and whacks his face on the glass window hard. Hard enough to send him to the ER. In the ER, he waits impatiently. While there he runs into the driver from the opening scene. We don’t know it yet but his name is Lorne Malvo. Lester explains what happened to his nose and Lorne thinks it’s incredibly humiliating that Lester let this bully embarrass him and if it were him he’d kill the guy. He overheard his name Sam Hess, and asks Lester if he wants him to take care of it. Lester is aghast at first, Lorne tells him just to say yes or no. Just then the nurse calls Lester’s name and he says "Yah" to her but says nothing else to Lorne, just regards him suspiciously. Local police chief Vern Thurman and deputy Molly Solverson survey the accident scene. They find the deer in the trunk. They deduce the driver likely hit their head since there is blood on the steering wheel. They then follow the footprints leading away from the car. Vern notes that his wife is about to give birth and they haven’t settled on a name. They find the man from the trunk, frozen dead in the wood. Vern heads home and chats with his very pregnant wife. They are very sweet together. He talks about the accident and says he thinks the dead guy was the driver. She says she wants to paint the nursery blue, or green. Vern says he’s ready to paint whenever she decides. She says he’s a good man and her sister as crazy to tell her not to marry him. Lorne goes to see Sam Hess at the headquarters of his trucking company. He runs into his two idiot sons. Sam, and a group of large men with him, menacingly wonder what Lorne wants. He says he just wanted to get a look at him. Lester and his awful wife go visit his younger, more successful brother Chaz and his wife Kitty and their oddball son Gordon who answers the door in a pirate hat and then slams it in their face. Chaz brags about his promotion to VP of sales and how he’s getting the corner office. He bought a surround sound system with the raise. Lester’s awful wife keeps pointing out how much better Chaz is. Kitty and Chaz talk about broadening Gordon’s horizons and Chaz says there’s more to life than Minnesota. Lester tells his brother he slipped on some ice. They head to the garage and Chaz says he thinks Gordon has "the autism" because he draws on the walls and pees in a mason jar at night. Then Chaz shows letter an automatic machine gun he bought. It’s technically illegal but he says he’s an American who pays his taxes. The machine is very scary. He hands it to Lester and he drops it and breaks part of it. He calls Lester a screw up and says his wife Pearl is sick of it and he’s embarrassed that he’s his older brother. We don’t see it but we hear Lester’s wife Pearl complain on the way home that Lester didn’t have to hit him. We see a realty office in a strip mall in Reno. A man is on the phone asking "Do you need it to look like an accident?" A phone, in a long bank of phones, rings. The man answers.