History Recap / FargoS03E06TheLordOfNoMercy

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Dies unexpectedly with little foreshadowing.
* TrespassingToTalk: When Ray returns to his flat, Emmit sitting on the couch in the dark, waiting for him.

* WasJustLeaving: How Varga makes the two female police officers to leave the premises.

'''Season 3, Episode 06:'''
!!The Lord of No mercy:
!!!Written by Noah Hawley

* IronyDeath: Ray dies thanks to the stamp that started his stupid feud with Emmit.
* MoonLandingHoax: Varga mentions the moon landing was faked at a soundstage in New Mexico. And we get to see some [[SeparateSceneStorytelling visuals from the actual set]].

->'''Ray:''' I'm not less than you. Some child that needs--
->'''Emmit:''' Ray, c'mon. We've done this already. We've been doing it for twenty years. Enough.

Ray lies with Nikki in bed as she recounts how Yuri and Meemo beat her. Searching the house for his handgun, he vows to set things right. Varga, meanwhile, recounts a series of true stories: the overnight Lehman bankruptcy, how Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand by stopping for a sandwich, and the faking of the moon landing via a soundstage in New Mexico.

-->'''Sy:''' Wait, what? That’s not… that never happened!
-->'''Varga:''' Let each man say what he deems truth and let truth itself be commended unto God.

Varga shares with Sy his and Emmit’s plan to double the size of Stussy Lots within three months. Sy can’t wrap his head around it, citing the increasing debt and problem of the IRS, but as they speak, Meemo is meeting with Agent Dollars and using an official protest guaranteed by the U.S. tax code to demand Dollars vacate the premises. Following this, he and Yuri leave the office drive to the tractor trailer that Varga has set up shop, unknowingly pursued by Ray and Nikki. Nikki convinces Ray not to do anything rash, and instead they agree to keep watching the lot to build a strategy. Once they’re home and Nikki is soaking in an ice bath, she tells Ray that she thinks Emmit is involuntarily involved in some shady business.

Varga watches as Gloria and Winnie make their way into Emmit’s office. He insists on lingering and hearing what they have to ask, and as they inform Emmit on the situation with Maurice, he realizes that Ray had tried to outright rob him. Varga hurriedly ends their interrogation, shows them out, and turns to Emmit.

-->'''Varga:''' I guess your brother’s got a backbone after all.

Later, Varga tries researching Gloria Burgle and the Eden Valley police station and finds nothing online about either. Irritated, he sends Yuri to get information about the Stussy case files and gives Meemo permission to execute Nikki and Ray. At the couple’s apartment, there’s a knock on the door. Assuming it’s Varga’s men, Ray grabs his gun and hides while Gloria and Winnie are seen walking the perimeter of the building and peering in the windows. Ray declares that the heats on, and that night the couple leaves for a hotel with Meemo not far behind.

Once they’ve rented a room, Ray realizes he forgot the $10,000 he took from Emmit’s bank account and goes back to retrieve it, taking the hand gun with him. Meemo, leaning against the ice machine down the hall, watches his car drive off. Sometime later, when Nikki goes to collect some ice, there’s no one there. While she’s out, her door creeps to a shut.

Ray walks into the apartment to find Emmit waiting for him. Emmit confides that he just wants their feud to end and doesn’t understand why his brother hates him after he’d helped him out every time he asked. He presents the framed stamp to Ray.

-->'''Emmit:''' It’s finished, okay? Words said in anger, crimes committed—we’ve both done things. It’s a certain madness I think—brotherhood. Buttons you’d push in me that I’d push in you, grudges… I don’t want that anymore. So, I’m giving you the stamp.

Ray, angry that Emmit believes the stamp is his to give, tries giving it back to his brother. This results in aggressive pushing, which stops when Emmit slams the frame into Ray’s face. Ray feels a glass shard sticking out of his neck and, despite his brother begging him not to, pulls it out. The blood begins gushing uncontrollably, and Ray, realizing what’s happening, begs his brother for help one last time before collapsing onto the floor. Emmit can only watch as the life leaves his eyes and his gasps drift into a silence. With nothing else to do, he calls Varga.

Immediately, Varga goes on a tangent about what [[Creator/JohnLennon Lenon]] said about [[Music/{{Beethoven}} Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #23]]. Emmit asks him for his assistance at Ray’s apartment, to which he obliges. Meanwhile, Nikki walks back to her hotel room where Meemo awaits her in the bathroom with a piano wire. While he’s waiting, he receives a call, and he’s gone without a trace of his presence by the time she enters. Varga arrives at the scene while Meemo investigates with a black light. They make sure to erase any trace of Emmit’s presence in the house, and remind Emmit to make it to his dinner with Sy so as to strengthen his alibi. Varga devises the story that Ray had been killed by his ex-convict girlfriend after he’d beaten her in their private life. Before Emmit goes, he tries making sense out of the situation.

-->'''Emmit:''' I didn’t mean to…
-->'''Varga:''' No one ever does.

Having dropped Winnie off on the drive home, Gloria contemplates all the variables of the case they’ve been going through over the past few days. Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she gets word out to St. Cloud for Winnie to meet her back at Ray’s apartment.
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