Fargo episode 4, Eating the Blame, is all about capture and release – or in the case of most of these characters, escape.
First there is Milos, whom we learn packed up his wife and kid from someplace warm and ran away to Minnesota in 1987 to evade "screaming phone calls and bill collectors at the door." His situation turns even bleaker when he runs out of gas, stranded on the side of a snowy road. When a big rig refuses to pull over and help him out, Milos falls to the ground and prays: "Lord, let me get through this. Let us find gas and a warm bed. Let us prosper even in the smallest of ways. I'll be your humble servant for the rest of my days." Liar.
But he spies something in the distance, at a fence. It's an ice scraper, and now we know why he has an image of one hanging in his home. He starts digging in the snow and uncovers a large briefcase… containing a ton of money. Who says prayers go unanswered? He looks left, right. "Oh God, my God," he says. "Thank you, God."
Milos returns to the car, where his wife thinks they're going to freeze to death. But the future Supermarket King knows better. "God is real," he says, awed by what just happened. "God is real."
Flash-forward to 2006, where the only god Milos seems to worship is money and/or himself. He's paranoid. He has a plumber investigating why/how buckets of blood could pour out of his faucet while showering. The plumber sees no signs of tampering. But the plumber turns out to be Don Chumph in disguise, working for Malvo, who was behind the Carrie-like scene. Malvo sent Don there on a mission: Really screw with Milos' head.
Don brings up the Bible and how the blood got him thinking about Moses (alluding to Malvo's voiceover at the end of episode 3). "And God sent a plague of blood upon the land," Don says. "Better get right with the Lord." Can he keep up this charade?
"What did you say?" asks Milos, infuriated. He grabs Don by the collar; his bulldog security guard actually steps up and tells Milos to let him go: "He's just a plumber." (Any chance Malvo has gotten to him, too?)
"You're crazy!" Don says, complaining the whole way out. Milos wonders if he's right.
Don goes out to his truck and sees a man in black watching him from a distance…
Elsewhere in Duluth, Gus Grimly is in full-on screw-up mode, knocking his soda off the top of his cop car while trying to answer a call from dispatch. He's being asked to fill in for Animal Control again and respond to the "murder of a canine." It's Milos' dog.
"Jeez, that guy is always sick," Grimly moans. "What's he got, the cancer?"
"Yeah, leukemia," says dispatch. Grimly rightfully feels awful and says he'll take the call.
As he's looking for the right house, Don pulls away in the plumbing truck to reveal… Malvo standing at the side of the road.
"Aw jeez," Grimly says, turning white. "It's him." It's the guy he let get away, the guy suspected in three murders and one kidnapping.
Malvo looks like he's been waiting for this moment.
"Freeze! Put your hands where I can see them!" Grimly is trying to right a wrong. You know it's not going to go right.
"I'm just on a call," says Malvo. Grimly is pointing his gun at him, stepping closer. "Drop it," Grimly says. He's referencing Malvo's phone, not a weapon.
"Yeah, just as soon as I finish," says Malvo, calm as ever. "This is Duluth. Package requested. Frank Peterson." He's obviously making a call to his home hit-man office. For support?
"OK, all good, see?" Malvo says, closing his flip phone. "Put it down," Grimly insists. "It's a new phone."
"Now!" Malvo turns his hand over and drops it in the snow.
"OK, um, turn around and put your hands on your head," Grimly says, stuttering. Malvo complies. "What's this all about, officer?"
"You know what this is about," Grimly says in a brief moment of certainty. "OK, um, put your, uh, left hand around the back of your… OK now the other one, slowly…"
Malvo acts dumbfounded – why would he be under arrest? Grimly says they'll figure out the charge at the station. He escorts his cuffed suspect to his car, which is locked. Grimly finally feels like he's done something right.
"You're making a mistake," Malvo says, twice, on their way to the station. "That's what you're gonna say a couple hours from now. You're making a mistake," he tells Grimly. This guy really knows how to unsettle someone.
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