Fargo 5.09

The Useless Hand

Munch deals with Gator. He heats up a knife and takes out his eyes. Munch explains that it is retribution for what Gator did, killing the old woman.

Dot gets free. She gets the cuffs off her wrists and makes her way to the house. Roy is getting ready for a standoff with the Feds. He sends out a call to all his allies to come to come to his ranch to help him defend his property.

Lorraine finds out that Danish's last known location was the Tillman Ranch. He doesn't pick up when she tries calling him. Lorraine calls in favors and pretty soon the FBI and North Dakota State Police are on their way to the Tillman Ranch. Indira calls Farr, lets him know what's going on, and asks him to save Dot.

Dot gets her hands on a phone and calls Wayne. She talks to him briefly but then Karen shows up, with a hunting rifle. She makes Dot hang up. Dot tries to talk Karen down from what she's doing, suggests that they could team up and take down Roy. Karen isn't buying it but Dot gets close enough and takes Karen out of the fight.

Dot sneaks out of the bedroom and gets out of the house. She takes Karen's phone. She calls Indira who is now working for Lorraine. Dot explains what's going on. 

Roy rides out on a horse to the front of his property and talks to the FBI's commander in charge. Roy suggests that they leave. He doesn't recognize their authority. He suggests that they will die if they don't leave.

Dot tries to find a place to hide. She chooses the hole by the windmill, where Danish's body was dumped. Roy sends Bowman to check the hole, while he checks the bunker. Roy walks through the bunker without finding any sign of Nadine. He walks out of the bunker and finds Munch and Gator.

Munch gets close enough to push Gator into Roy, knocking both men down. Munch disappears. Roy is disgusted with Gator and leaves him laying in the dirt.

Farr goes in with a SWAT team from the state police to try and rescue Dot.

Bowman opens the hole, sees Dot, and is getting ready to shoot her when something takes him, and the two men with him out, Munch. He helps Dot out of the whole. Gives her the rifle that Bowman was about to shoot her with and leaves.

Thoughts

Most of this episode, probably upwards of 95 percent, takes place at the Tillman Ranch.

I wasn't terribly certain about the meaning of the title of the previous episode (Blanket) but I'm pretty sure that the title of this episode refers to Gator.

There isn't a lot to chew on from this episode. It is mostly pretty straight forward but it is also really tense. It wasn't quite as intense for me on the second watch but it was still very good.

I was almost certain that Dot will make it out of this alive but I still couldn't help but worry for what might happen to her.