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A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage

Episode aired Jun 10, 2014
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51m

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9.3/10

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Lester has an unexpected encounter, Malvo changes course, and a new investigation leads Molly down a familiar path.Lester has an unexpected encounter, Malvo changes course, and a new investigation leads Molly down a familiar path.Lester has an unexpected encounter, Malvo changes course, and a new investigation leads Molly down a familiar path.

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dierregi

What are the chances

Self-preservation is supposed to be a basic instinct. Therefore, Lester going to greet is old "pal" Malvo in the Vegas hotel is one of the stupidest plot development I have ever seen.

Besides being totally coincidental - seriously, what are the chances - nobody, not even a mororic, smug, self-satisfied ass like Lester would put his life in danger by basically hanging a target on his chest and asking Malvo to shoot.

So far I quite liked this series but this episode is just way too idiotic. The one year gap makes little sense and I am really looking forward to see Lester and Malvo wiping each other out.

PS sort of scary to see how many fans the psycho Malvo character got. Yet another master of creepines, whose fake smile is apparently fooling everybody....

10aaronkalisse

One of the most intensive tv episodes of all time

Wow !!!

Can't believe how amazing this episode was . It had everything you want one minute your laughing away the next your on the edge of your seat with the tense drawn out scenes .

The series is probably the best acting I've seen from Billy Bob Thornton. The way he could change the personas and mood of his character was dinky unbelievable.

10/10.

9nairtejas

Penultimatum Has To Tease!

And well, it did wonderfully.

We are given an intro to what might have brought our characters to Vegas and then it starts, in an elevator, what Fargo, as a film or TV show, is famous for. This specific scene will cause your jaw to drop and it will hit the ground at the climax. That is the kind of narration this ninth episode has.

The investigation has had a breakthrough and Malvo is again mad at something. Lester's character development is amazing and now he is more than the person he was in episode 1. I simply loved the 50 minutes of suspense. Still, there is one discrepancy about the Vegas elevator scene (having no surveillance cameras) which seems fabricated. Given that the incident occurs in 2007, it was hard to digest.

BOTTOM LINE: FARGO is turning out to be more gorier and even more fabulous as 2014's best crime-drama series.

10phd-inmetal

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Trivia
The title "A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage" is an old riddle which FBI Agent Pepper (Keegan-Michael Key) asks FBI Agent Budge (Jordan Peele) in the FBI file room. The riddle involves a man in possession of a fox, a rabbit, and a cabbage, trying to get them all across the river in a boat. The man can only take one object at a time, and the fox will eat the rabbit if left alone, the rabbit doing the same with the cabbage. The answer is to take the rabbit as the fox will not eat the cabbage, go back and take the cabbage, then on the other side with the cabbage and rabbit, take the rabbit back so it will not eat the cabbage, then swapping it for the fox, then finally going back for the rabbit.

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It seems implausible that Lou Solverson had never seen the photos of Lorne Malvo in the year before he showed up in his coffee shop. Molly was obsessed with the case, and her diagram of the crimes at home and at her office both included the photos of him, including the clear headshot of him posing as preacher Frank Peterson. It seems very likely that Molly would have consulted with him on the case, especially considering that one of the reasons Gus apparently lost his job was over his supposed wrongful arrest of Frank Peterson aka Malvo.

Plausibility aside, he may or may not have seen the photos of Frank Peterson - which would be of a timid looking man wearing glasses with different color and style of hair and whiskers. Recognition is not a given.