The chickens come home to roost inFargos finale, bringing to a close a season of treachery and murder.
Loy gives Donatellos ring to Ebal.
Oraetta makes bail courtesy of an unknown benefactor.
Ebal replies, Ill get back to you.
Loy and the boy share a thankful and knowing smile before the car drives off.
Before Leon can fire his pistol, hes strangled to death by Opal.
At the same time, gunmen execute Happy in the Spud’s All Time diner.
Josto is awakened by Joe and informed, We got Cannon its over.
Josto is surprised by this reception.
They bicker about their rough-and-tumble sexual liaisons.
We live in the new world now.
We need a new way.
Josto hears that New York has approved this maneuver, and hes taken away as is Oraetta.
In the backseat of a Plymouth, Josto and Oraetta continue arguing.
Theyre led by Joe through a field to a freshly dug grave.
Josto begs for mercy from Joe but to no avail.
Oraetta asks if Josto can be killed first so she can watch him die.
Shes then executed, her corpse tumbling into the grave next to Josto.
Loy drives his family home.
He finds his front door ajar and goes inside with his gun drawn.
He finds clothes on the floor, and a bowl of cereal on the table.
Upstairs, he discovers Satchel sleeping on his bed (with Rabbit).
Loy joyfully laughs as he hugs his son.
Satchel runs downstairs and reunites with his euphoric mother.
Loy is furious, but Ebal says this is just part of the mobs new national plan.
He puts Loy in his place by stating, You too are a national outfit, yes?
Wait, no, you are one man in one city.
What do they say?
Big fish, small pond.
But we are the sea.
He suggests Loy take a different view of this situation: We are not taking half.
We are leaving half.
If Loy doesnt accept this reality, theyll kill him and get someone else who will.
End of story, proclaims Ebal.
Loy accepts his defeat, and returns home, telling Opal, Its over.
She gazes crazily into Loys fading eyes and says, For Swanee.
He goes to the front door and opens it.
She drops the murder weapon and departs.
Satchel goes to his father, who puts his hand to his sons face.
They stare into each others wide eyes as Loy dies.
She states:
History is a form of memory.
But what does it mean to remember?
We think naturally of our own past.
Our lives, day by day.
And through them, we see the events of our time.
We are black and white.
And yet if our pasts are separate, then arent our histories separate too?
Ask yourself who writes the books?
Who chooses what we remember and what gets forgotten?
My name is Ethelrida Pearl Smutny.
This is my history report.
Fargo, however, isnt quite finished.
In a mid-credits coda, we see a car head down a road toward the horizon.
Inside is Mike Milligan (Bokeem Woodbine), the Kansas City mob hitman from the shows second season.
Milligan snaps out of his daydream and begins practicing reloading his gun.
