He then clicks on a link and a download, infecting his whole office with a virus that shuts down their computers. Varga” into the Google search bar and then has to be instructed to hit enter. In possibly my favorite scene so far, we see the depths of Irv Blumkin’s research abilities as he types “V.M. As he says, “He doesn’t want the stamp, pal.

Sy thinks that Ray is just a user, someone who will always ask for something more.

Emmit is feeling guilty about the stamp controversy, but Sy advises him that Ray needs to be cut out of his life. Perhaps it’s because they’re too distracted by Emmit’s brother, Ray (Ewan McGregor). Emmit’s suggestion that Irv just “friend this cocksucker on Facebook and reel him in” is indicative of how little these people grasp about the severity of their situation. Their attorney, Irv Blumkin, is startled to discover that they borrowed $1 million from a man whose first name they don’t even know. While Gloria is investigating her stepfather’s past, Emmit and Sy need to find out more about V.M. In a later scene, we’ll meet her new boss, Sheriff Moe Dammik (Shea Wigham), who’s startled that they don’t even have computers in the office, and makes it clear he’s the new boss in town. Why? Who was Thaddeus Mobley? On her way back to the Eden Valley Police Station to meet the new chief, Gloria has issues with her cell phone, and flawed technology feels like it’ll be a recurring motif this season. So not only was Ennis killed in a case of mistaken identity, but it was a name he chose for himself. She finds newspaper clippings about him, and quickly discerns that Mobley and Ennis were one and the same. She goes back to the case books she found below his floor, revealing a stack of sci-fi pulp novels like Toronto Cain: Psychic Ranger and The Plague Monkeys, written by an author named Thaddeus Mobley. We open with Gloria (Carrie Coon) investigating the death of her stepfather Ennis. The title of this week’s episode - “The Principle of Restricted Choice” - refers to a theory in Nikki Swango’s (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) beloved game of Bridge, but it could also refer to life on Fargo. Oh, you can keep digging, but the hole only gets bigger. Varga (David Thewlis) calls “the inescapable reality.” As he tells Emmit Stussy (Ewan McGregor) and Sy Feltz (Michael Stuhlbarg), American films have led people to believe that plans can be changed and that one can dig oneself out of a hole. Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Nikki Swango, Ewan McGregor as Ray Stussy.Įvery version of Fargo - the film and now three seasons of TV - has shared a common theme of what V.M.

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