‘Fargo’s’ ninth episode is a contest in which the participants have very little control.
And asFargo’s ninth episode suggests, it’s a contest in which the participants have very little control.
The action is now completely monochrome.
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Omie opens his trunk and offers a cigarette to his captive, Fadda soldier Aldo (Joel Reitsma).
Omie closes the trunk and drives on.
They stop at a remote gas station.
Omie replies that he once met a woman from Thailand.
The guy agrees, and Omie has Aldo help him with the task.
Aldo buys a Coke and Omie takes it.
At the sound of Constant’s car arriving, Aldo tries to flee and is fatally shot by Omie.
She asks Rabbi whether he prefers the Old or New Testament.
This weird sight freaks out Satchel.
After hearing about dinner, Rabbi tells Satchel that he has to retrieve some money.
Beachwood states that he and his brother Haskell (Sam Hubbard) bought the place at auction.
Stewing, Rabbi departs.
The dinner bell lures them both downstairs.
Sitting at opposite ends of the table are the hard-of-hearing Iola and Picola.
Millie asks her uncle for a story.
Driving to T. Woodman in the morning, Rabbi stops the car at the billboard.
He asks the guy who’s working on it what it’s eventually going to read.
Rabbi proclaims that it’s not right to let people live with uncertainty.
In town, Rabbi leaves Satchel and Rabbit in the car and confronts Beachwood and Haskell at gunpoint.
Rabbi’s phony cover story to the officer works.
They don’t, but she suspects a filling station down the road might.
He peers into the general store, and sees Constant standing over an injured Omie, his gun raised.
Rabbi accidentally bumps into a drum, alerting Constant.
The assassin shoots at Rabbi, hitting him as he tries to reach his car.
Constant prepares to finish Rabbi off but is shot by Omie, who receives fatal gunshots in return.
He heads down the hallway and stops at the doorway to the bandaged man’s room.
The creepy guy beckons Satchel inside, but fearful of this stranger who says cryptic (devilish?)
