The Principle of Restricted Choice. Watch Lou HDQ on this page. Ray and Nikki didn’t play a hand of bridge (on screen at least) in the second episode of Fargo season 3, “The Principle of Restricted Choice.” However, the episode 2 title itself is derived from the game. Said principle refers to attempting to play probability rather than just rely on dumb luck or hunches based on cards that have been played. Essentially, the options of how to play the hand are thusly determined by what happens previously. But it’s also important to note that, no matter how the hand is played, the outcome is irreversible at that point. Fargo has long played with the notions of fate and circumstance, something that we saw in the premiere regarding the murder of Ennis Stussy that set many of the events into motion. Through just shy of three hours in season 3, that’s not something that’s going to change.

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The episode began with Gloria in bed, picturing her now- deceased stepfather following his murder. Considering that she discovered him with his mouth glued shut, it’s no wonder she’s not able to sleep.

So then, she grabbed a handful of books by Thaddeus Mobley, in addition to different news articles about him. Quickly she realizes that Mobley and Ennis Stussy were one in the same. Is it possible that his real name could’ve been Thaddeus Mobley and that, had he not changed it, he’d still be alive? Obviously that’s a question potentially meant for a later time, and one that Gloria didn’t have much time to ponder. Her partner at the police department came in and they then took off to the department to meet with the sheriff (so Gloria is not the sheriff, whoops).

Elsewhere, a worried Emmit Stussy and Sy are visiting with Irv Blumkin regarding their uncomfortable run- in with V. M. As their attorney, Varga can’t believe that they would take a $1 million loan from a man they know so little about — and suffice it to say that Irv was both right and would wish that he hadn’t been later. Meanwhile, Emmit and Sy continue an ongoing debate over Ray, the stamp, and how involved the brothers ought to be in one another’s lives. Once Emmit and Sy leave, Irv attempts to Google Varga’s name. However, his computer system in his office entirely malfunctions due to a virus downloaded from clicking on the only link that popped up from the search, and after seemingly taking a picture of him. Watch Before The Devil Knows You`Re Dead Online there.

Later in the episode, we see that Varga’s reach may be greater than previously imagined. As Irv walks to his car, he’s met in the parking garage by a man named Yuri Gurka (the name mentioned in season 3’s first scene), who sparks a conversation with him. Unsuspectingly, Irv is the grabbed by Yuri and his partner, Meemo, and tossed to his death of the parking garage. Before that parking garage run- in, though, we cut to Varga, coming down the street in a care leading the way for a tractor trailer into one of the Parking Lot King of Minnesota’s, well, parking lots. Though the attendant says that he can’t park it there, Varga pretentiously talks down to him while telling him that Stussy said it was okay. So now we know what Varga wants for now, sort of. What we don’t know is what exactly he’s hauling in that trailer, something that Emmit and Sy debate once they catch wind of the 1.

Ever the one to be a bit darker and more sinister- minded, Sy suggest that it’s slave girls in the trailer, while Emmit simply thought of drugs. Again, though, no conclusion is reached before Emmit reads of the Ennis Stussy murder in the paper. Smooth transition then to Gloria looking into the homicide, going to the gas station that Maurice had stopped at to look for clues. When talking to the clerk, he describes Maurice’s erratic behavior before mentioning that he’d used the phone book and ripped out a page. Gloria examines the book and deems it evidence, but then makes a false assumption. She still assumes that Ennis was the intended target, and that the killer unknown to her was just getting the address. Finally we get back to Ray and Nikki and the latter is far more criminally minded then before.

The scene first shows Ray in his office talking to his boss, and he’s clearly shaken up by killing Maurice, even bringing up his name and the notion that he might’ve flown the coop to his boss. This remorse is something he brings up to Nikki, who says that’s normal and means he’s no monster, but that truthfully feels like a criminal manipulating an accomplice.

True to that form, Nikki then contends that they need to steal the vintage stamp on their own. All things considered, the plan they come up with initially isn’t the worst. However, fate (as it does) had other plans. Ray comes to the door and asks for a serious talk with his brother. They have a moment where they seem to reach peace with one another, though all the while Nikki has broken in after the stamp. Where the stamp normally hangs, however, is a picture of a donkey — something that angers Nikki a bit to the point of making an illogical decision.

Assuming that Emmit saw them coming and wittedly moved the stamp, she leaves a used tampon and smears the menstrual blood as graffiti reading “Who’s the ass now” on the donkey picture. Emmit realizes what’s happened and Sy says it’s time to once and for all cut Ray out. He meets with the other Stussy brother and tells him as much as the two get verbally heated before Sy walks out. Sending one last message, he speeds backwards twice into Ray’s car, then peels off while clipping another car as well. Little does Sy know, though, that he’s really in no power right now.

Back in his office, Emmit is met with Varga, Yuri and Meemo as they visit Emmit calls Sy into the latter two’s “new office.” And when Varga mentions their partnership and they try to contend that they don’t want in, Varga speaks essentially on unavoidable outcomes and that their partnership was happening, it was just a matter of the circumstances around it. It doesn’t matter how you play the hand based on probabilities if set to be unfavorable by matters outside of your control. In bridge and in Fargo.

Review. Fargo has always been phenomenal in their ability to carry themes throughout seasons and episodes. However, this idea that fate and collateral damage are inescapable is one of the constructs of the show itself. Season 3, episode 2 most definitely played with those notions — and not necessarily in any subtle way either. Yet, that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Whether it’s Emmit and his unwilling partnership with Varga, Ray and Nikki forever unable to get the stamp and change their lives, or Gloria heading down the wrong path of investigation, these characters are all leading towards similarly bleak outcomes. The question then becomes what happens if these journeys cross before the destination, and how they all play their hands up to and at that point.