Fargo 4.03

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The episode opens by taking back a step as it introduces U.S. Marshall Deafy Wickware who is looking for two fugitives, Zelmare and Swanee. He turns to the Kansas City Police for a bit of help. Detective Weff is assigned to help him out. Marshall Wickware, Detective Weff, and a bunch of police officers break into the Smutney home. They look for but are unable to find the fugitives. Smith doesn't seem satisfied but he leaves anyway, empty handed.

Doctor Senator meets with the Fadda's consigliere. He pushes home the point that Cannon's gang is taking over the slaughterhouses because a deal was made with the now deceased Donatello. He hammers it home with a story about interrogating Herman Goering after World War II.

A private moment between Rabbi Milligan and Satchel Cannon gets interrupted first by Gaetano and then by Josto.

Nurse Mayflower gets a job at the hospital that refused to help the Fadda family after Donatello was shot. She runs into Josto as she is leaving. He is outside in a parked car. She assumes he was keeping tabs on her. He was actually staking out the hospital's chief, Dr. David Harvard. She shares some drugs with him and then gives him a handjob, the latter while singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. 

Zelmare and Swanee decide to try and knock over the Cannon operation, just the two of them.

Gaetano gives an order to Calamita, aka Skeleton, one of Josto's men, to take Rabbi Milligan and kill someone high up in the Cannon organization. They go after Cannon's son. It is Calamita's idea. Milligan doesn't think it is such a great idea. It isn't until they are about to do it that Milligan challenges Calamita and questions whether the order actually came from Josto. Cannon's son survives. Milligan gets out of the car and says he's walking home.

Swanee digs in to the pie that Nurse Mayflower brought over the night before. It sat untouched until then. Thurman gives the two women a drive in to town in the hearse. They go to rob the Cannon numbers operation. Swanee starts to get sick in the middle of it all, from both ends. More than one of Cannon's men gets killed.

Cannon is confused by the two actions taken against his gang. He gets into an argument with his oldest son, Lemuel. Doctor Senator cautions Loy that all may not be as it seems. They seem to be on the verge of going to war with the Fadda family.

Thoughts

I'm not sure what the title of this episode refers to. It might be something Gaetano said. He talks in stage whispers half the time. It makes it hard to understand him.

This ain't Fargo. I don't dislike this season but it still doesn't feel any closer than Fargo adjacent.