Insolubilia | |
Season 5, Episode 4 | |
Episode Information | |
Air Date: |
December 5, 2023 |
Written by: | |
Directed by: |
Donald Murphy |
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Insolubilia is the fourth episode of Season 5, and the forty-fifth episode overall. It is set to air on December 5, 2023.
Synopsis[]
Munch makes a bold move. Indira and Witt have questions. Wayne takes a fall. Gator disappoints.
Plot[]
Wearing Halloween masks, Gator Tillman and his men approach Dot Lyon's houseāhe takes Brandy to the back and sends Pace and Lemley to the front. He observes Dot putting something in the oven before she, out of sight from him, hides in a closet. The men in front find the door unlocked and enter, while Gator notes a trap Dot set up next to the back door with a lightbulb falling to alert her of intruders. As Gator picks observes a picture of Dot with her family and his men search the house to no avail, the lights go out and the fire alarm starts to blare, triggered by Dot letting the oven burn. Pace sees a flashing light come from under the basement door and opens it to find a rigged jack-o-lantern, and Dot takes his distraction to mace him and push him down the stairs.
Lured by the noise, Gator and his men see that the closed front door is now open. As Lemley approaches the doorway, Dot springs out from behind a wall and pulls a cord that sends a sledgehammer down, hitting Green in the head. Dot flees out the door and around the house, coming in through the back and grabbing Scotty Lyon's nail bat as Gator shuts the door. She swings at him but misses, getting the bat stuck. As she struggles with the bat, Gator removes his masks, saying "Jesus, Nadine.". Dot, seeing his face and recognising him, says "Shame on you, Gator. There's a baby in this house." He tells her that she will be taken back to Roy Tillman regardless, and she twists his injured wrist and flees to the basement. Gator orders Pace to find Wayne Lyon, with bonus points if he gets the kid too. Gator grabs the bat, disarms the oven, and destroys the smoke detectors to stop the alarm.
As Pace fruitlessly searches the upstairs, Dot climbs up a rope ladder hung in the basement's laundry chute and sneaks past him. Gator searches the house, saying "Where are you Mama? It's time to go home." He eventually enters the basement and finds her rope ladder. Brandy joins Pace and points out the dangling string to the attic door. He pulls the cord and the spring-loaded ladder traps him under it, while Dot bursts out of the bathroom, wraps Brandy in a shower curtain, and throws her down the stairs, tripping up an approaching Gator. Dot clubs Pace with the toilet tank lid and orders Wayne and Scotty, hiding in the attic, to go down the chute as she shoots at Gator with Brandy's gun. Wayne instead hurries Scotty to the bedroom, planning to go out the window, but is electrocuted by one of Dot's traps. Dot hurriedly unplugs the wire, but the trap makes the curtains catch fire, and Dot places them under the bedroom door to deter Gator who's trying to bash in the door with the bat. They pull Wayne onto the roof and Scotty climbs down the trellis. Unable to wake him, Dot rolls Wayne off the roof and into some bushes. As she descends and carries Wayne away, Gator frees Pace, who carries Lemley out with Brandy while the police arrive. Dot, emotional, stares at her house burning.
As Roy sits in his chapel, he addresses the statue of Jesus on the cross and muses about how he's at "the crossroads" and the devil is in the middle. He recalls a case of a man murdering his family, believing he could see Satan talking to the man when he came to arrest him, but that Jesus protected him in that moment. He returns to his house to find his guard dead and footprints leading upstairs. Roy hurries up with a rifle to find a handprint next to his daughters' bedroom door, and when he enters, Ole Munch is gone but a symbol is drawn in blood on the wall.
As Dot and Scotty sit in the hospital waiting room talking, Dot tells her they can't talk about Gator and his men or they will they return. She tells Scotty that they have to say Wayne's electrocution and fall was an accident, and that "bad things don't happen to good people" but "sometimes accidents happen."
Witt Farr and Indira Olmstead watch footage from the gas station shooting, with Indira positively identifying Dot. She wonders why Dot would flee the scene and pretend it never happened despite her good work. Muscavage informs them of the fire at the Lyon house. As Indira leaves to investigate, she gets a call from a debt collector asking about Lars Olmstead's medical bills from an accident the previous year.
Lorraine Lyon takes an interview where she explains her thoughts on the nature of debt. Jerome interrupts her to inform her of the fire. She arrives at the hospital with Danish Graves and demands a higher standard for Wayne's care. Witt and Indira arrive despite Graves's attempts to kick them out, and when Witt tries to greet Dot with familiarity, she denies ever knowing him and Graves backs her. Scotty wakes and Dot sends her off as Witt asks who her kidnappers were, but he is interrupted by news of Wayne waking. Confused and possibly on pain drugs, he addresses Dot as "Nadine"āwhich he heard Gator call herā though she corrects him. She reminds him that his shocking was an accident and that Scotty will back her up, but promises that she will fix what has happened.
Agents Tony Joaquin and Meyer inform their superior that Roy bought weapons for his department, only to give them to Odin Little and his men. They point out that two of Roy's previous wives have gone missing and that they want to investigate him further, he tells them a story about how Mao Zedong ordered the successful wipeout of sparrows in China but how this disrupted the food chain, similar to what could happen if they went after Roy, who's comes generations of sheriffs and is connected to the most powerful militia in the upper midwest. Joaquin accuses him of working with Roy as Meyer tells Joaquin that they just got a match to Roy's second wife's fingerprints - Dot's.
Munch sits in Irma's bathtub, murmuring about how, when he was young, freedom was the right to eat before others could take food from him and that, in the modern day, "kings" expect everything to come free to them. He says the last part while Roy is shown sitting and contemplating his fireplace. A confused Irma asks why he is there, and he explains that he is there for pancakes.
Gator returns to the Roy ranch to find the men wrapping up a dead guard and asks where Roy is.
Roy is sitting with the Hunks, rambling about Moses and his great grandfather, who he was named after, and how he was responsible for killing dozens of Indigenous men. He strives to be like his ancestor, but finds that Josh Hunk is the opposite. Josh pulls a gun on him, but a bored Roy mocks him and shoots him in the neck when he tries to fire. Gator bursts in to find Josh dying on the couch and Roy quickly deduces that Dot bested him. He decides to frame Josh as Alvie Nugent's murderer to satsify the outside police. Roy promises to pay Lenore for her silence and leaves with Gator, riding off alone on his horse as Gator drives away.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Juno Temple as Dorothy "Dot" Lyon
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lorraine Lyon
- David Rysdahl as Wayne Lyon
- Joe Keery as Gator Tillman
- Lamorne Morris as Witt Farr
- Richa Moorjani as Indira Olmstead
- Sam Spruell as Ole Munch
- Sienna King as Scotty Lyon
- Dave Foley as Danish Graves
- Jon Hamm as Roy Tillman
Recurring Cast[]
- Jessica Pohly as Meyer
- Nick Gomez as Tony Joaquin
- Kudjo Fiakpui as Jerome
- Clare Coulter as Irma
- Steven McCarthy as Jordan Seymore
- Conrad Coates as Bowman
- Sally Bishop as Brandy
- Erik Ermantrout as Pace
- Stephen Joffe as Lemley
Co-Starring[]
- Paul McGillion as Muscavage
- Glen Gould as Crenshaw
- Kyle Gatehouse as Chip Boygan
- Sean Depner as Josh Hunk
- Kelsey Falconer as Lenore Hunk
- Emily Palmer as Scotty Performance Double
- Brooke SauvƩ as Jessica Tillman
- Quinn SauvƩ as Maude Tillman
- Susan Serrao as Nurse #1
- Colette Nwatchi as Nurse #2
- Cara Azevedo as Townsperson (uncredited)
Deaths[]
- Josh Hunk
Trivia[]
To be added.
Season 5 episodes | ||
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01. "The Tragedy of the Commons" |