The Gerhardt family meets with some of their top lieutenants. They want to make sure that everyone in their organization is aware and on board with them not accepting the offer on the table. War is a possibility but Floyd, who is still running the show while Otto recovers from the stroke he suffered in 2.01 (Waiting for Dutch), doesn't want to start it.
Mike and Joe, the Kansas City men ponder their next move. They have yet to get a response from the Gerhardts. Mike and the Kitchen brothers start digging around. They are still looking for Rye.
Lou goes to Fargo and talks to Ben Schmidt, in the district attorney's office. Lou delivers the news that Rye Gerhardt's prints were found on the gun. Schmidt doesn't seem too happy about that. It sounds like trouble to him. They spot Skip Sprang, Rye's business partner in the courthouse. They question him. He says he is there to see the judge about a past due tax bill. They don't know about his connection to Rye.
Hank crosses paths with Peggy when he stops by the beauty parlor to drop off a wanted poster for Rye Gerhardt. Betsy is there getting her hair done, wondering what will happen to it after she starts getting chemotherapy. Peggy gets very nervous after Betsy theorizes that maybe Rye was hit by a car and that they should be looking for the car instead of Rye. Betsy runs out to tell Ed and convinces him that they have to get rid of the car right away.
Ed drives the car a ways from town and crashes it into a tree. It was Peggy's idea. Her uncle used to do something similar. Ed gets whiplash but for the moment at least it looks like their problem is solved. I doubt that it is going to stay that way.
Lou and Ben visit the Gerhardt compound, in Fargo. They are there to ask about Rye. Ben is known to the Gerhardts. He acts very deferential towards Floyd and Dodd. Lou refuses to hand over his pistol when he enters the compound and stands up to Dodd. I thought for sure that something might happen. They can't kill Lou but there were other possibilities. Lou and Ben leave the compound empty handed but alive and intact.
When they get back to town Lou decides to check out the typewriter shop. He finds someone else already in the shop, someone other than Skip. He finds Mike and the Kitchen brothers. It is their first up close and personal encounter. Both sides draw guns but no shots are fired. They talk for a few minutes before Mike and the Kitchens leave. It is a very tense few minutes.
Skip continues to look for Rye. He goes by Rye's place. There he finds Simone (Dodd's adult daughter) and Hanzee (Dodd's right hand man) but not Rye. They take him to a meeting with Dodd who asks for Rye's whereabouts. When Skip doesn't have the answer Dodd has him killed in a pretty gruesome manner.
I love how this show is progressing. It is tense and intense. I love how it all revolves around the disappearance of Rye. The audience knows what happened to Rye but with the exception of Peggy and Ed no one else does. No one is going to find him. It is just a question of how long it will be until Lou figures out Ed and Peggy's connection to Rye's disappearance. How long will it be until the Kansas City mafia gets tired of waiting?
Dodd comes across in this episode as a force of nature in the same way that Lorne Malvo did in the first season of Fargo. He doesn't seem to have a conscience or care much what others think. His mother has been able to keep him in his place up until now but I don't know how long that will last.
This season of Fargo has yet to disappoint me. There is no fat on this bone. It is all meat: meat that I want to chew on and that I enjoy chewing on.
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