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Waiting for Dutch
Season 2, Episode 1
Fargo Season 2 Episode 1
Episode Information
Air Date:

October 12, 2015

Viewers:

1.59 million

Written by:

Noah Hawley

Directed by:

Michael Uppendahl
Randall Einhorn

Episode Chronology
Previous Episode:

Morton's Fork

Next Episode:

Before the Law

Crew • Gallery • Transcript


Waiting for Dutch is the first episode of Season 2 of Fargo, as well as the eleventh episode overall. It premiered on October 12, 2015.

Description[]

An unexpected turn of events at a diner disrupts the lives of the citizens in a small Minnesota town.

Plot[]

In 1979, while filming the aftermath of a vicious battle scene for the film Massacre at Sioux Falls, an Indigenous actor stops the take to ask where presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, starring in a cameo, is. The assistant director tells him that Reagan is getting fake arrows stuck in his body for the scene, and the two discuss their views of Reagan and the fact that they are filming on the field where the real massacre happened. As they share a smoke, a soldier in the background asks for a blanket, as he is cold.

While President Jimmy Carter gives his "crisis of confidence" speech, mobster Dodd Gerhardt and his henchman, Hanzee Dent, meet with his younger brother Rye Gerhardt in Fargo to confront him over his failure to deliver collection money. Rye, having spent it all on himself, complains about being no better than a henchman despite being part of the family. Dodd ignores him and orders him to recover the money. Dodd returns to the Gerhardt ranch to meet with his parents, Otto and Floyd, and his brother Bear over the family crime syndicate's lost profits. Bear identifies the problem as rivals from the South trying to muscle in on the Gerhardt's territory, which Dodd insists he is taking care of. Furious, Otto works himself up into a stroke.

Meeting with a debtor, typewriter salesman Skip Sprang, Rye is curious about his idea for the electric typewriter, wanting to invest and get a share of the profits. Sprang asks Rye to convince a local judge, Irma Mundt, to unfreeze his accounts. Rye follows Mundt to a Waffle Hut in Luverne, Minnesota and tries to intimidate her, but she laughs him off, comparing herself to the biblical figure Job, a reference Rye does not understand. When Rye refuses to leave, she sprays him with bug killer, enraging him to the point of shooting her. The cook comes charging out of the kitchen with a frying pan, only for Rye to shoot him dead, and also shoot the waitress. As Rye collects himself, Mundt, barely alive, stabs him in the back, and he shoots her several more times, killing her. As he steals money from the register to make it look like a robbery, the waitress, still alive, stumbles out into the snow, and Rye shoots her in the back of the head. From the woods across from the diner, Rye sees a mass of green and yellow lights from a UFO. Mystified, he stands in the middle of the road and stares at them as they fly away, before being hit by a car. The car drives away with him smashed through the windshield.

In town, Minnesota State trooper Lou Solverson reads a bedtime story to his daughter Molly when he gets a call from his boss about the shootings. He meets up at the diner with his father-in-law, Rock County sheriff Hank Larsson. The two theorize about the murder based off of Rye's abandoned car and the victims. They discuss the condition of Lou's wife Betsy as they walk outside, noting the skid marks from the car and Rye's shoe in a tree.

After finishing up at the crime scene, Lou meets up for drinks with the town's lawyer Karl Weathers and mechanic Sonny Greer to talk about the case. Karl equates the shootings to a conspiracy theory regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and theorizes that the shootings are the prelude to more criminal violence. As Lou leaves to pick up Betsy from chemotherapy, Karl wishes her well and affirms she can beat her cancer.

Butcher's assistant Ed Blumquist takes some chops from work home to his wife, salon worker Peggy. She excitedly tells him over dinner about a "Lifespring" seminar, which is supposed to help her actualize herself. Ed, not understanding what she means, reminds her of his dream of owning the butcher shop and having kids with her, something she is clearly uninterested in. A loud noise comes from the garage, and Ed finds their car splattered with blood, and a hole in the passenger's side of the windshield. Peggy claims she hit a deer, but Ed finds a disoriented Rye stumbling around in the back. Rye attacks him with a knife, but Ed easily stabs him with a pair of gardening shears. Peggy convinces Ed to cover up the murder, and they dump his body in a freezer to be disposed of later.

In bed together, Lou and Betsy wish each other good night with the phrases "Good night, Mr. Solverson," and "Good night, Mrs. Solverson. And all the ships at sea."

Down in Kansas City, mobster Joe Bulo conducts a presentation for his boss, Hamish Broker, regarding the Kansas City Mafia's "northern expansion strategy". Bulo proposes assimilating the Gerhardts and their control over the Dakotas and Minnesota. He thinks that now is the perfect time to move in, given the succession crisis caused by Otto's stroke and him having not named an heir to run his criminal empire if something should happen to him. When Broker asks Bulo what he plans to do if the Gerhardts resist, Bulo simply replies "we liquidate." Broker approves Bulo's plan.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Co-starring[]

Deaths[]

Trivia[]

Season 2 episodes

01. "Waiting for Dutch"
02. "Before the Law"
03. "The Myth of Sisyphus"
04. "Fear and Trembling"
05. "The Gift of the Magi"

06. "Rhinoceros"
07. "Did You Do This? No, You Did It!"
08. "Loplop"
09. "The Castle"
10. "Palindrome"

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