A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage

The title "A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage" is an old riddle which FBI Agent Pepper (Keegan-Michael Key) asks FBI Agent Budge (Jordan Peele) in the FBI file room. The riddle involves a man in possession of a fox, a rabbit, and a cabbage, trying to get them all across the river in a boat. The man can only take one object at a time, and the fox will eat the rabbit if left alone, the rabbit doing the same with the cabbage. The answer is to take the rabbit so the fox will not eat the cabbage, go back and take the cabbage, taking the rabbit back so it will not eat the cabbage, then swapping it for the fox, then finally going back for the rabbit.

It seems implausible that Lou Solverson had never seen the photos of Lorne Malvo in the year before he showed up in his coffee shop. Molly was obsessed with the case, and her diagram of the crimes at home and at her office both included the photos of him, including the clear headshot of him posing as preacher Frank Peterson. It seems very likely that Molly would have consulted with him on the case, especially considering that one of the reasons Gus apparently lost his job was over his supposed wrongful arrest of Frank Peterson aka Malvo.

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