Josto goes to see Nurse Mayflower again. at her place. They have a wild time together, after which he tells her that he's getting married. She is hurt by the news. She calls the hospital while he is in the bathroom and finds out that Dr. Harvard is doing much better. She goes into panic mode. She gets dressed and tells Josto to get out.
Josto goes back to Fadda HQ and finds that Gaetano has returned, alive. Gaetano beats up Josto. Josto recovers. Gaetano says he understands that Josto had Cannon's son killed in the hopes that Cannon would kill him. Gaetano is impressed by Josto's deviousness. He pledges himself to Josto and agrees to follow his orders from now on.
Word reaches Loy Cannon that the Fadda brothers are now working together. He has to decide how to handle things. His one word reaction is Fargo.
Mrs. Cannon pays a visit to the Smutney home. She is there to see her son, Lemuel. She delivers the bad news about her other son, Satchell. She asks Dibrell if she and her husband will handle the funeral service for Satchell. Dibrell says she will but she also makes a plea that Ethelrida not suffer for her and her husband's transgressions.
Dibrell finds Lemuel in Ethelrida's room. The door is open. He is standing near the door and her daughter is sitting at her desk. They are talking about music. He has just explained that he is a trumpet player.
Nurse Mayflower finds out that Dr. Harvard has been moved out of state to a hospital that specializes in poisonings. The police suspect that someone tried to kill him. She rushes home and starts to pack. She finds Ethelrida's diary while she is packing. She compares the handwriting to that on the letter and realizes that Ethelrida is the one who wrote the letter. She watches Ethelrida from her window as she waits for the bus.
Marshall Wickware catches up to Loy Cannon at his house. There is no one there except Loy and Opal. Wickware wants to know where Zelmaire and Swanee are. He points out that Cannon gave his son over to the Faddas so giving up the fugitives shouldn't be such a big deal. Cannon tells him that they are on the 10 o'clock train to Philadelphia. Wickware thanks him and leaves.
Wickware organizes a couple squads of the Kansas City police. Weff is on the phone with someone while Wickware is giving the squads instructions. Weff wants to be part of the operation. Wickware lets him but only after he gets Weff to tell him who he was talking to on the phone. Weff says it was Loy Cannon.
They head to Union Station. Zelmaire and Swanee got there ahead of the police but have 20 minutes to wait before the train shows up. The police show up and everything turns crazy. Zelmaire and Swanee spot the police and start shooting. A lot of people get killed, including most of the police officers. Weff was too nervous and stayed in Wickware's car.
Weff gets out of the car. He heads into the station and finds bodies everywhere. Wickware has cornered Zelmaire and Swanee. They are out of bullets. He asks Weff to handcuff them but Weff shoots them instead. He shoots Wickware and then Swanee. He's about to shoot Zelmaire but she charges him and keeps going. She saw the dead man just before Weff turned toward her.
Josto and Gaetano are hanging out at the Fadda home when they are attacked by white gangsters, from Fargo. They both survive the attempt on their lives but all their guards are killed. Their mother also is killed.
Thoughts
I was a little surprised by Gaetano's reaction to Josto's betrayal, but only just a little bit. He isn't a practical person. He thinks in big operatic terms. In that way it wasn't too surprising when he decided to trust Josto, now that he knows how to cast him in the drama that is unfolding.
When Mrs. Cannon showed up at the Smutney house and asked to see her son I assumed that she was talking about Satchell. It seems that Loy did tell her that Satchell was gone but she was there to see Lemuel. Why?
The look on Ethelrida's face when her mother tells her to be careful about getting close to Lemuel speaks volumes. It felt like her mother's words might have just pushed her over the edge and into his arms.
Nurse Mayflower must feel like she has been played. Would she have poisoned Dr. Harvard if it wasn't for the letter? If he recovers she is in for it. She may be blinded to that danger now and just focused on getting back at Ethelrida.
The scene at the train station made me think of the train station scene from the Untouchables movie. It was nothing like it in the way it all played out. I wasn't terribly surprised when Weff shot Wickware. I didn't know exactly what was coming but I knew something was coming. Weff had a role to play there or at the very least there was a reason for him to be there.
It has to be all out war at this point, after the hit on the Fadda homestead. The hit men may have been White but I presume that the Faddas will correctly assume that they were sent by the Loy Cannon.
Some of the music that they used for train station scene sounded electronic, which definitely places it as coming from a later period than the one in which the story takes place.
This was an intense and emotional episode to watch. Some of the pieces have been removed from the board but there are still three episodes left to go.
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