- When Gus tries to right a wrong, Malvo embraces his alter ego. Lester finds himself in a surprising situation, and Molly uncovers a promising lead.
- "Fargo" - "Eating the Blame" - May 6, 2014
We open, once again, on a car driving down a snowy road. This time we have flashed back to 1987 and a young Stavros and his wife and infant son. She is mad they are relocating to this godforsaken tundra. And then they run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. Stavros spent the last five dollars he had. He gets out of the car to think. He tries to flag down a passing truck but it blows by him sending him to the ground. He prays to god to help him and says if he does he will be his faithful servant. He walks to the side of the road and sees an ice scraper. He scrapes at the snow and uncovers a briefcase full of money, a lot of money. He is stunned. He gets back into the car saying "God is real! God is real!"
We cut back to the present where Stavros is getting his house's water system checked out in light of last week's bloody shower. The "plumber" checking it out is his wife's personal trainer. Oddly, Stavros does not recognize him. The guy says there is nothing wrong with the system and on his way out offhandedly notes that maybe it was a plague from God. Stavros seizes him by the shirt and shakes him. The plumber/trainer walks away saying Stavros is crazy.
Gus gets a call to check out a dead dog that may have been killed. It turns out it's Stavros' dog. He heads out there and runs smack into Lorne Malvo and recognizes him right away. Lorne quickly makes a call saying Frank Peterson needs the package. Gus arrests him and says they'll figure out the charges at the station. On the ride to the police station Lorne tells Gus he's making a mistake. He adds that Gus himself will be saying this later today.
He brings Lorne to the police station and Lorne immediately adopts a folksy Minnesota accent and claims this is all a mistake and he's just a sweet, local minister.
Gus calls Molly and says he's got Lorne aka Frank. She wants to head over because she thinks he's also the guy who put the dead body in the car, but once she tells the chief, Bill, what's happened, he bigfoots the case and says that he will go.
Lester heads home to pick up a few things with Chaz who is freaked out that the blood is still on the floor. Lester goes upstairs and unwraps his hand which is getting more and more swollen and infected and clearly really hurts. His phone rings and it's Beard, of Beard and Sideburns. He accuses Lester again of sleeping with Sam's wife and conspiring with her to kill him for the insurance money. Beard asks Lester if it was worth his life and then hangs up.
Beard goes back into Lou's coffee shop and sits down for breakfast with Sideburns, who asks what Lester said. Beard says he didn't say anything and they never do. Sideburns is mad and signs that he wants to hear Lester actually confess before they kill him. So Beard says they will grab him and make him talk. They are frustrated with each other and leave after having drawn the attention in the coffee shop.
Lorne calls the plumber/trainer Don, who is waiting for his call in a pet store. Lorne has sent him to pet stores to get something for him and says for him to pick him up in 2 hours.
In the interrogation, Bill and Gus's terrible boss Lt. Schmidt do a terrible job interrogating him -- "Frank" says he was at church bingo and many will swear to this-- and even though they have Molly's screengrab of him dragging the guy from the trunk, they claim it's too grainy to really make it out. When Lorne's alibi checks out they let him go.
Molly meets with the woman and the young man who work at the motel where Lorne stayed the night of the murders and they tell her they do remember an odd dude and his name was Lorne Malvo. They recognize him from the grainy screengrab and the young man said he had some tokens from the Lucky Penny-- where Sam Hess was killed. She calls Gus and tells him.
As Lorne is leaving, his boss tells him that he's letting him go and is on desk duty for three weeks. Gus says "you're making a mistake." Lorne hears this and turns around and smiles at him. Gus confronts him -- calling out his real name-- and he stops. Gus asks how he can just lie like that. Lorne says to "Did you know that the human eye can see more shades of green than any other color? Why?" Gus is confused. Lorne says when Gus figure out the answer to that question he'll have an answer to his question about how Lorne can do what he does.
Don picks up Lorne and says he got what he wanted at the pet store in the back.
Lester leaves a shop and is abducted by Beard and Sideburns and thrown in a trunk. He calls his brother -- who is home watching porn-- from the trunk to get his help. But when he realizes he has a taser in his pocket he tells his brother he's just pranking him. Beard and Sideburns drag Lester to the middle of a frozen pond and Sideburns begins drilling a hole while Beard tells Lester that he will confess to killing Sam. Lester says he didn't do it and that a man did. But before he says what man, he tases Beard and runs away. Sideburns did not hear this, obviously, and his back was to them so he didn't see it.
Lester runs back to the road and sees a cop looking at the car. He asks for a ride back to town. The cop complains he's not a taxi service so Lester punches him in the nose. The cop arrests him. As they're driving away, Lester sees Beard and Sideburns glaring at him from the edge of the woods.
Stavros, still whacked out from the speed he's unknowingly taking is confronted by his son in his office about being nicer to his mother. Stavros isn't having it. Suddenly, what looks like a cricket appears on his desk. He whacks it with a book. And then, just as suddenly Stavros and his son notice more crickets, all over the office and the walls. They walk out into the grocery store and it is totally overrun by bugs, customers are knocking things over to get out of the store. Stavros gets a phone call with a disguised voice saying to amass 1 million dollars in unmarked bills and that he will get a call with the drop location and remember "God is watching." We pull back and see Lorne standing on the roof. Stavros again says "God is real."
Beard and Sideburns go to a local watering hole to have a drink. Beard appears to be drunk. He and Sideburns get into a knock down drag out fight destroying the bar.
Gus meets Molly at her dad's coffee shop and tells her about Lorne's color green riddle. She explains it's for identifying predators. She says that since we evolved from being apes and apes were in the forest surrounded by shades of green they needed to tell the difference between many greens to detect predators. He asks what do they do now? She says, "Lester."
Lester sits in a jail cell, contemplating lying down to sleep, just as... Beard and Sideburns are brought into the holding cell with him. At first he stands. Then he sits. They glare down at him.
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