Speak for yourself!
Yes, that’s what I meant. Sell their piece of it.
Back when we first met the widow, she said that if they didn’t sell, she’d use her fortune to run them out of business. I’d love to see her try that with Varga.
I always hear him in my head saying “It’s not a skiffle group, it’s a rock and roll band!”
Not a bad episode, although I agree with some of the criticism here about farfetched stuff (esp. the assassin in the stationhouse jail).
Definitely some recurring bits - Nikki tried to sneak out the motel window just as Jerry Lundegaard tried to at the end of the original Fargo. The Russian guy intimidated and scared off the cop in the library just as Malvo did during the traffic stop two seasons back.
What was the cop in the library looking at before he went outside, anyway? Some kind of “hot or not” app or a dating site?
Classic Emmit - blurting out an alibi and revealing he knew Ray had been murdered before the St. Cloud cop actually told him. Dumbass.
And then Emmit and Sy just walked off and left the widow alone in the restaurant. That’s not going to win her over.
Ah, I thought he looked familiar! Didn’t seem to me that he and Nikki knew each other, though. Not much of “protective custody” when she’s seated right next to a male prisoner, either. Prisoners are usually segregated by gender (maybe the prison bus was just making one Christmas Eve run, or they were short-handed).
Best lines were, of course, Sy’s epic rant: “You really think I’m…Ha!.. In the face of all logic, that somehow I decided to turn on ya… join forces with your leptard brother and his syphilitic floozie, so I could turn millions into thousands. What’s the math there?”
And FTR, I like coconut cream pie, too. With chocolate sprinkles.
Am I the only one who thinks that Varga works for the widow?
I never thought of that. It’s an interesting idea.
It is. I kind of hope they’re not allies, though; that it comes down to the widow and Varga and that she squashes him like a bug.
Maybe he works for Hanzi, who will make a surprise appearance at the end of the season. As I recall at the end of S2, he told the guy giving him a fake identity that he just might create his own empire.
So you’re saying Malvo didn’t actually kill Hanzee/Tripoli when he took out the Fargo mob in 2006, or Hanzee was never really Tripoli?
I had no idea they were the same person.
That’s the theory: How the 'Fargo' finale revealed a hidden secret from season 1
I have no trouble with Hanzee=Tripoli being an unresolved possibility hinted at vaguely by the show, but I really object to the show runner making it canon by word of god, simply because it was so badly pulled off. They’re too physically different. There is no way one character could morph into the other no matter how much time and plastic surgery occurred, and it doesn’t add enough to the story for me to suspend my disbelief in this regard.
In my head canon, the author of the The History of True Crime in the Mid West (or possibly the reader) noticed some connections between the two and speculated that they might be the same, but there was no real evidence and no reason to believe it was “really” the case.
Wow, I missed this whole theory. Wild.
Given the whole toilet thing, and the hint that this was his hotel room - and given the whole Minsky thing and the fact that it’s connected to the story he wrote - I think the box has something hidden in it. Something that will bring us back to Germany. I think Ennis had lost his temper before, and thus had changed his name before.
I just remembered another Coen Bros. link. David Thewlis (Varga) had a small, strange part in The Big Lebowski: The Big Lebowski (clip 14 -part 4) "What the fu*k is with this guy?" - YouTube
Anybody got any theories on the Ehrmantraut that advised Sussy to borrow the $1MM from Varga in the first place?
Any connection to the Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul?
It’s Ehrmentrabu on Fargo. Different person.
Ermentraub, you mean. (Apparently it doesn’t have an h.)
So, more likely a tip-of-the-hat from Hawley to Gilligan–one show-creator to another.
The opening segment of tonight’s episode has a definite callback to the movie.
Innocents drive by at the wrong time and end up being chased down and murdered.