I thought the casting people did a good job finding someone who actually looked like a young Stavros/Oliver Platt. The actor’s name is Carlos Diaz.
Even before he saw the red ice scraper, I thought he was Stavros – when he was lying on the pavement, praying.
It was a bit late for me; what did we get (that we didn’t have before) from the whole Lester/trunk > new ice hole > police drunk tank episode?
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Only Numbers (Adam Goldberg) could communicate with Lester, so he would have to be the one to go to jail. Meanwhile, what can the deaf Wrench do on the outside?
By the way, was the plumber paid off by Malvo? He claimed not to see signs of tampering and then introduced the idea of the Biblical plagues.
That is a very good point. I think I may have to rethink my position on this. Maybe it was necessary after all for both of them to go into the jail together.
Good catch, Dewey.
Strictly to answer your question (not to agree or disagree with the premise), he could arrange bail. Either with money he already had or by emailing a bail bondsman. Similarly he could email a lawyer to take care of this (or whoever their ‘agent’ is that arranged this).
Presumably, though, they contacted the “agent” before staging the bar fight. Plus I kind of gathered that Wrench is the more threatening of the two, perhaps partly due to his silence.
I honestly wasn’t sure if that was him or not, did you figure out who played the wife?
Also WRT to the blackmail note, what difference does it matter that she ‘knows about the money’? I was thinking about that earlier. The King found the money burried…
It belongs to Marge’s dad, he’s dead.
Marge is dead.
I think the only people still alive at the end of the movie that know about it are Marge’s dad’s lawyer and Jerry. If The King’s wife put out a press release stating how the money was found, neither of them would know it was their money. The only way they would recognize it is if she could, in detail (or still had), describe the brief case. …
Wait…
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No…
That’s not it…
Peter, the "that was your accomplice in the wood chipper then’ guy. He’s the guy that would be most likely to come after The King. So my guess is either they’re going to bring him back or Malvo is our version of him.
I could be wrong, but I thought the plumber was an accomplice pretending to be a plumber. I thought he may have been the same guy who then picked him up from jail with all the insects. I wasn’t looking that closely at him though, and I was a little sleepy!
Glenn Howerton (from Always Sunny in Philadelphia) is who picked him up from jail and bought the crickets. He is also the personal trainer who initiated the blackmail plot (and who left bronzer on the ransom note). I don’t think he was the plumber but I could be wrong.
Really? Wow, I thought I just missed him as the cricket guy, I didn’t recognize him as the trainer either.
I mean, I just didn’t realize it was Glenn to begin with.
I wasn’t sure about that. In the first episode (or maybe the second), didn’t it show Malvo calling into his employers? I thought that maybe if the cops called the church, that someone at the office would answer and say about what a great minister Frank is, and oh yeah he was at Bingo like he is every week.
The plumber was the wife’s trainer in a plumber’s outfit. I don’t know if the trainer is being paid off by Malvo, or just going along with the plan because he’s in over his head and afraid of Malvo.
Also, when the plague of insects was hopping around in the grocery store, I thought that if anyone did any investigation, it would be pretty easy to trace back that one guy bought hundreds (or thousands?) of bugs from various pet stores in the area. But that only proves further how clever Malvo is- it’s the trainer who bought the bugs, not Malvo. The trainer could be picked up and questioned by the cops or Stavros’s security guy, and he’ll babble about Malvo instantly, but will likely sound crazy and it would give Malvo time to move down the road.
I assume that’s exactly what’s going on. Right from when Malvo said “I’m taking over”.
Maybe, maybe not. I used to have a bunch of lizards. Running to pet stores and buying crickets is no big deal 100, 200, 300 at a time was nothing. I used to buy a thousand at a time online, and you can’t be arrested for that. They’d have to have him on camera at all those stores buying the crickets AND walking in the The King’s store WITH the crickets AND walking out without the crickets before IMHO they’d have any kind of case against him.
I’m quite sure I’ve bought crickets and then later in that same day been in a store that had some crickets in it. I assure you I didn’t release them.
I think NewChief is not as dumb as he appears. I think he feels guilty for not helping Lester back in high School when he was getting beat up. I think he is determined now to stand up and protect him. It may even be the reason he became an officer in the first place. And having seen Lester running away and submitting day after day, he thinks he knows for a fact that Lester is incapable of any violence.
I think Numbers does believe that Lester didn’t kill Hess. He’s pissed that Lester got away, and hit him, but he’s still going to be looking for Hess’s killer.
I don’t think Jerry can be “Our Lester”. If he were, and just out of jail now, he’d be quite old. Remember, Stavros found the money 20 years ago. And everyone would know that Lester was untrustworthy.
The gangrenous hand is seriously grossing me out.
Wasn’t one of the plagues the deaths of the firstborn sons? That doesn’t seem to be a good omen for the fate of Stavros’s mild and well-meaning son.
How did Les injure his hand in the first place? I’m sure that it was shown but I just can’t remember.
I hadn’t thought about that. I think defending Lester, letting Malvo out due to crappy police work etc, are sort of plot devices to make sure they don’t wrap the case up in 4 episodes.
By ‘our Lester’/‘our Jerry’. I just mean that Lester is Jerry in this twister around version of the movie. Just like Molly sort of Marge.
Buying crickets wouldn’t stand out, but I figured buying all of them in the store might. Either way, it doesn’t matter. The trainer might be questioned about the insects, or maybe someone figures out that the plumber is actually the trainer, but if anything happens, it’s the trainer who is going to get wrapped up in trouble, not Malvo.
I do hope Malvo is caught, but if so I expect it from Molly or Gus doing good police work.
In the first episode, when Malvo shot the chief with the shotgun, one of the shotgun pellets got into Lester’s hand. Since he claimed to be knocked out in the basement when things were happening, he can’t let anyone know about the pellet in his hand.
You are prob correct about Molly or Gus. But the way this show has been going, it could easily be NewSherrif Doofus. That would fit right in with the crazy turn of events that seems to happen to everyone.
And … thank you for the info about Les’ hand.
You are both bad at recognizing people.
Molly isn’t the girl from the State Farm commercial. Molly is considerably younger and prettier. Their voices are also not even similar
That girl in the Yoplait commercial is also not the State Farm girl.