I promise I’ll keep track of Fargo episode numbers better than I am doing with The Boys! This third episode was apparently all it took for me to get hooked, because when the episode ended I immediately wanted more. More content, more answers, and more twists!
You’d think the episode would pick up right where it left off, but some backtracking needed to be done in order to find out why a group of policemen were swarming the Smutney funeral home. We are introduced to Timothy Olyphant’s cop character who is on the hunt for Elthelrida’s aunt and friend who recently escaped prison. He teams up with the local police station who pawns OCD-inflicted Odis Weff to his cause. They watch as nurse Mayflower drops off her poison pie and then make their move. Even after searching all but one of the drawers in the basement morgue, they come up empty-handed in finding the women. After the cavalry leaves, the women make their move, but not after consuming some of the pie.
They get dropped off at Cannon’s money operation’s warehouse which they had been scouting earlier in the episode. As they attempt to rob the place, things get ugly real quick with varying degrees of bodily fluids making an appearance. They are ultimately successful though and make out with about twenty grand. Obviously, Loy Cannon is pissed about this, but he also can’t tell if it has anything to do with the Italians. They already tried to take out his eldest son earlier, which was luckily thwarted by Rabbi Milligan (yay Ben Wishaw screen time!). I feel like this was a smart move on his part because he’s right, they would immediately retaliate. I do think the Cannon’s should make a move now while loyalties are divided amongst the Fadda’s. It’s clear that more of them are on Josto’s side rather than Gaetano’s, but I think they’re more easily persuaded since they probably don’t want whacked in the middle of the night.
I’ll stand by what I said last week in that Gaetano’s got some excellent crazy eyes. I sort of wonder how hard the actor is trying to get them to look like that. Anyways, our outstanding player would be nurse Mayflower, who I’m sure will be disappointed about the turnout of her pie. In the meantime, she’s secured another nursing job (yikes!), which just so happens to be at the hospital that turned down the admittance of Josto’s dying father. The two have an extremely awkward and intimate moment in Josto’s car, but I suppose I admire her pluck. She is still totally the wildcard this season, an while she does have some connections to our main players, I can only imagine how her storyline will play out. Again, everything is just now winding up and I want MORE! Until next week, though.