FARGO: WAITING FOR DUTCH {SEASON TWO PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
The second season premiere in this dramatic suspense series, inspired by the 1996 film of the same name, about the hidden criminals of rural Minnesota.
In Minnesota in 1979, Dodd Gerhardt of the Gerhardt crime family accosts his little brother Rye for not bringing in his collection money. Rye complains about having to do menial work, but Dodd says that is his place and threatens him unless he brings him the money the following day. The Gerhardt family meets, expressing concern that their profits are down over the last month, even accounting for Rye’s deficiencies. Otto learns about a “new outfit” threatening his business and becomes enraged. Suddenly he starts hyperventilating and collapses to the ground. Rye holds a gun to his and Dodd’s brother Bear while he’s out extorting money from a local shop owner. Rye negotiates with the shop owner; he plans to start selling a new shipment of electric typewriters and offers to cut the Gerhardts in on the profits as long as they forgive his gambling debts.
To that end, Rye, under the influence of cocaine, tails a judge to a diner in Luverne, Minnesota, and waits until the place is empty to speak to her. He demands that she reverse her decision on the shop owner’s gambling debts, although she does not take him seriously and does not listen to him. When he persists she sprays him in the face with bug spray, and in response he shoots her, shooting the diner’s chef and waitress as well. The judge manages to stab Rye before she dies. As Rye robs the diner’s cash register, he notices the waitress is still alive and is attempting to flee the scene on foot. Rye shoots her before she can get too far away. He wanders out on the road and sees a series of mysterious lights hovering above him. They disappear and a car accidentally collides with him before driving off with him slumped over the hood.
State Trooper Lou Solverson receives a call about the incident at the diner and drives out there to investigate. He speaks with a passer-by who found the bodies after pulling up to the diner. He is soon joined by the sheriff and his father-in-law, Hank Larsson, and they investigate the place, but their findings are inconclusive. Later, Lou goes out for a drink with his friends Karl and Skip, and they briefly discuss Lou’s wife Betsy, who is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. Meanwhile Ed Blumquist, an assistant at the local butcher’s shop, speaks with his wife Peggy about their attempts to have a child. Ed hears a strange sound and Peggy tries to distract him from investigating. However, Ed soon discovers that Peggy is the one who ran over Rye in her car, although she claims that she hit a deer. He continues hear strange noises and encounters a bloody and crazed Rye. Rye attacks him and Ed fends him off by stabbing him in the torso with a garden spade, apparently killing him. Peggy admits that she hit him and thought that he was dead, panicking and driving straight home with Rye still partially embedded in the windshield. She convinces Ed not to call the police and to help her clean up the evidence and formulate a cover story in case someone comes looking for Rye. Meanwhile, a shadowy criminal group plans to absorb the Gerhardt’s criminal operations into their own by any means necessary. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: FX
- DATE: November 30, 1999 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:49:53
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 124302
- GENRE: Drama, mystery/suspense
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, mystery/suspense; Crime and criminals; Minnesota
- SERIES RUN: FX - TV series, 2014-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Warren Littlefield … Executive Producer
- Joel Coen … Executive Producer
- Ethan Coen … Executive Producer
- John Cameron … Executive Producer
- Noah Hawley … Executive Producer, Created by, Writer
- Kim Todd … Producer
- Chad Oakes … Producer
- Michael Frislev … Producer
- Leslie Cowan … Co-Producer
- Gerrit Furutani … Co-Producer
- Matt Wolpert … Consulting Producer
- Ben Nedivi … Consulting Producer
- Steve Blackman … Consulting Producer
- Bob Delaurentis … Consulting Producer
- Michael Uppendahl … Director
- Randall Einhorn … Director
- Jeff Russo … Music by
- Kirsten Dunst … Cast, Peggy Blumquist
- Patrick Wilson … Cast, State Trooper Lou Solverson
- Jesse Plemons … Cast, Ed Blumquist
- Jean Smart … Cast, Floyd Gerhardt
- Ted Danson … Cast, Sheriff Hank Larsson
- Cristin Milioti … Cast, Betsy Solverson
- Jeffrey Donovan … Cast, Dodd Gerhardt
- Bokeem Woodbine … Cast, Mike Milligan
- Brad Garrett … Cast, Joe Bulo
- Mike Bradecich … Cast, Skip
- Nick Offerman … Cast, Karl Weathers
- Kieran Culkin … Cast, Rye Gerhardt
- Ann Cusack … Cast, Judge Mundt
- Michael Hogan … Cast, Otto Gerhardt
- Zahn McClarnon … Cast, Hanzee Dent
- Angus Sampson … Cast, Bear Gerhardt
- Adam Arkin … Cast, Hamish Broker
- Raven Stewart … Cast, Molly Solverson
- Eric Keenleyside … Cast, Bud Jorgenlen
- Emily Haine … Cast, Noreen Vanderslice
- Lara Zaluski … Cast, Waitress
- Dwight Layne … Cast, Fry Cook
- Daniel Beirne … Cast, Sonny Greer
- Anthony Ulc … Cast, Clyde Butterworth
- Gregory Odjig … Cast, Running Bear
- Jonas Chernick … Cast, Syd Schwartz
- Marty Hanenberg … Cast, Dad
- Area Murdoch … Cast, Mom
- Wilma Pelly … Cast, Native American House Keeper
- Karl Sine … Cast, Trucker
- Kara Francisco … Cast, Brenda
- Chandler Kerr … Cast, Corpse
- Christopher Heatherington … Cast, Bjorn Gruffenson
- Louie Loutis … Cast, Spanish American War Vet
- Brad Mann … Cast, Gale Kitchen
- Todd Mann … Cast, Wayne Kitchen