#24 season 1 episode 3 summary Patch#
#24 season 1 episode 3 summary tv#

He's happy to take a 'personal' detour before his next job and relishes the chance to just mess with people ('Would a fish cost me 10 dollars?' 'Guy insulted me once вЂ“ I pissed in his gas tank. There aren't'Д«illy Bob Thornton is more than good as quiet hitman Lorne Malvo (complete with a trademark Coen oddball haircut). 'You spend your whole life thinking there are rules.

#24 season 1 episode 3 summary Patch#

Knocking himself out by running into the wall (to make Pearl's murder look like a double homicide) was a moment of self-awareness, Lester using his reputation for being the sort of schmuck who falls on a patch of ice to cover up his crime. When Lester is told he's just 'killed' their washing machine, it appears he's so broken by life that he bludgeons Pearl to death (practically apologising as he swings the hammer in their basement).Д«ut there were signs by the end of the episode that he's beginning to shake off his fortysomething funk. Chaz: 'Sometimes I tell people you're dead').

Lester is a man with a lot on his plate вЂ“ he's dealing with a midlife crisis and still putting up with his high-school bully Sam Hess, and neither his wife Pearl nor his younger brother Chaz have any respect for him ('If you were a better salesman I'd a bought you a nicer tie,' said Pearl. Martin Freeman's patented side-to-side head shake of disbelief is put to good use here as insurance salesman Lester Nygaard. 'What if you're right and they're wrong?' They've also expanded on the world so we can explore it for 10 episodes, answering questions such as: who are the Fargo gunrunners? Who is drifter Lorne Malvo's next target in Duluth? What's in The Neverending Emporium?ДЄnd there's the promise of more to come: in the trailer for episode two we get a brief glimpse of two new characters played by Adam Goldberg and Oliver Platt (any show that dangles a little Bob Odenkirk in front of Saul Goodman fans better have plans to deliver a lot more by the end of the series). They've shifted elements around (it's Chief Thurman's indecisive wife Ida who's pregnant rather than Marge Gunderson's replacement Deputy Molly, and Lester Nygaard's crime is less premeditated than Jerry Lundegaard's plot to kidnap his own wife). There's that same balance of polite folks going about their small-town business, with their Minnesotan 'oh yah', 'you betcha' quirks to remind us where we are, punctuated by extreme violence and some lingering shots of the snowy expanses.

#24 season 1 episode 3 summary tv#

A naked body in the woods, a high school bully passing on his skills to his oafish sons and a murdered washing machine вЂ“ welcome to Fargo, or rather Bemidji, Minnesota, where the bulk of this first episode takes place.ДЄs a reworked version of the Coen Brothers' classic film, the TV Fargo is a funny beast, kind of like watching another, very similar, case unfold in a nearby neighbourhood.