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I like your idea for the two of them being on the roofs of the elevators, then thinking about it further, I realized both elevators would have needed to arrive at and leave the ground floor at the same time for it to work.
Then once all the goons entered them and they started rising, unless the escape door (sometimes only 2' X 3') was already open, Nikki and Wrench would've had to open them before they could shoot. Too risky. Also, it's too easy for the goons to just point their ARs straight up and fire wildly once the shooting started.
Also, Nikki had to remain separate from the upstairs kill so she could take out the two goons that stayed behind with the vehicles.
And yes, the roof of that elevator looked to be completely gone, not a 2' X 3' (or larger) door, and I think that's a bit of a flaw. I don't know how Varga could've opened the entire roof unless he had a very speedy electric screwdriver with lots of bits to choose from.
Oh, no doubt Gloria and her son ate deep fried Snickers at the fair. Unless Varga's gangster lawyer gets instructions to have her taken out.
The only thing in question is whether Varga serves time.
I just rewatched that final scene and the minute hand did not traverse 5 minutes, even adding in the minute between when Varga makes his boast and the episode ends.
Hahahaha. I'll go with Occam's Razor.
I don't think both are true and false before or after the end. Either a high powered lawyer is going to show up and spring Varga or he's going to get tossed in Rikers. The time before either outcome occurs is just that; time.
Seasons 1 and 2 are linked. If next (or a later season of) Fargo has a story line involving Gloria or Varga, we will find out then. Let's hope Fargo has a long life.
The 5 year leap may have been used to show it took awhile for the deaf guy to find out Nikki had been killed and then to make his plan to kill Emmit in whatever perfect, poetic way he dreamed up; right there in the house with his family and Sy present.
Also, it works to show us that it took 5 years for Varga to be apprehended, which is completely reasonable given how resourceful he has shown himself to be. I love how they had DHS Gloria in a longer hair style with some grey showing. And makeup. She looked completely different for that scene and it worked well.
What I don't quite get is I just don't see Varga as being athletic enough to pull off that escape through the roof of the elevator, but I'm fine with it. I don't think we ever saw him working out or doing anything physical at all, but since he's an international man of mystery, maybe we're supposed to think he has a very strenuous workout that no one knows about.
Yeah, true. In that case, I'd say the answer to Mike's question is that since they know she and Sy know each other, they're just trying to tie up all the loose ends. Nikki being dead = they know she could have no further part in implicating them in some roundabout way.
They're after Nikki because she called Varga and let him know she stole that 18-wheeler and has the hard drive with all his crooked business dealings on it.
I think that was some sort of metaphorical, mystical hocus pocus that was not to be taken too literally or seriously. Like the UFO in season 2, it was just meant to show sometimes help comes in unexpected ways at unexpected times.
There was no way he could've known they'd be there; you're right about that.
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