Palindrome


Palindrome
Season 2, Episode 10
Episode Information
Air Date:	December 14, 2015
Written by:	Noah Hawley
Directed by:	Adam Arkin
Episode Chronology
Previous Episode:	The Castle
Next Episode:	The Law of Vacant Places
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Palindrome is the tenth and final episode of Season 2 of Fargo, as well as the twentieth episode overall. It premiered on December 14, 2015.

Description

Peggy and Ed make a run for it.

Plot

Mike and Gale drive to the Gerhardt compound. Knowing the entire clan has been killed he begins to act like the new leader.

Peggy and a wounded Ed make it to a grocery store and hide in the meat locker.

Ricky G who had fled the Motor Motel during the shootout drives back to the Gerhardt compound. He begins stealing valuables when Mike finds him and promptly kills him.

Hanzee locates the meat locker where Peggy and Ed are but can't open the door because Peggy had locked it. She then sees smoke coming thru the ventilation thinking Hanzee is trying to smoke them out, but really she is hallucinating and Hanzee has already left. When she opens the door expecting to find Hanzee it is Lou and Ben. Meanwhile Ed has bled to death from the gunshot wounds. Afterwards Lou says goodbye to Ben and takes Peggy back to Luverne.

Hanzee meets a guy at a park who gives him fake id. Hanzee mentions he needs a face man because of the scar from the hot water Peggy threw on him. He talks about maybe starting his own empire and revenge on the KC mafia, "kill or be killed". He witnesses two older boys beating up on two younger boys. He goes to help the younger ones who are Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench.

Mike goes back to KC expecting rewards and a promotion. Instead he realizes how corporate and bureaucratic the mafia is and is told his new position is an office desk job focusing on accounting. He sits down in the chair in his very small office room feeling dejected.

Lou arrives home. In the living room with Betsy he talks to Hank about the Sioux Falls incident. Hank suggests he should not mention the UFO in his police report. Lou then says Hanzee is on the FBI Most Wanted list. Betsy asks Hank about the drawings she found in his study. He explains he was trying to develop a universal language with pictures instead of words which are easy to understand and to help avoid miscommunication among people.

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast

Cristin Milioti as Betsy Solverson
Bokeem Woodbine as Mike Milligan
Keir O'Donnell as Ben Schmidt
Ryan O'Nan as Ricky G
Michael Hogan as Otto Gerhardt (corpse)
Rachel Keller as Simone Gerhardt (corpse)
Zahn McClarnon as Hanzee Dent
Angus Sampson as Bear Gerhardt (corpse)

Special guest stars

Allison Tolman as Molly Solverson (dream)
Joey King as Greta Grimly (dream)
Colin Hanks as Gus Grimly (dream)
Keith Carradine as Lou Solverson (dream)

Co-starring

Adam Arkin as Hamish Broker
Brad Mann as Gale Kitchen
Raven Stewart as Molly Solverson
Emily Haine as Noreen Vanderslice
Terry Brown as Grover Littlejohn
Thomas Rayment as Bully #1
Will Sampson as Bully #2
Phillip Williams as The Book
Arielle Rombough as Teacher
Wilma Pelly as Native American House Keeper
Libby Seltzer as Molly Solverson (12 Yrs)
Laura Geluch as Molly Solverson (18 Yrs)
Dennis Corrine as Old Man
Artem Fomitchev as Grady Numbers
Corwin Gruter-Andrew as Wes Wrench
Cameron Hamilton as Grimly Son

Deaths

Unnamed driver
Ricky G
Ed Blumquist

Trivia

Dodd Gerhardt (Jeffery Donovan) makes an appearance as a corpse alongside the rest of his family, however unlike the others, he is not credited.
The story about the helicopter pilot throwing his family off his helicopter before he crashed it into the sea that Lou tells Peggy is true. The pilot was Ba Van Nguyen, a South Vietnamese helicopter pilot. More of his story here

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"