Ray is getting fizzled out with Forever living in his more successful brother's shadow, and now the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, who sees himself as an American success story will have to deal with the rivalry heat.
The genius of this episode, and of Fargo's divisive but richly acted, thoughtfully shot, and cryptically written third season, lies in asking us what we think that view might be.
Fargo, see, is ultimately a series about the death of capitalism, where the only people who can profit are con men and hucksters, who see the world for what it really is.
The season finale brings us to the "little bit of money" part of Fargo, the moral reckoning part, in which our hero - in this case, Gloria - surveys the carnage and is left aghast at the pointlessness of it all.
Showrunner Noah Hawley does an excellent job of continuing to run, full speed, until the finish line - such a good job, in fact, that the last episode doesn't feel like something I'm watching to see loose ends tied up.
I'm fine being left to make up my own mind about Tony and the rest of the characters in that show, but less pleased when the show is unwilling to give us a satisfying ending and a real conclusion.
With all this uncertainty in a world demanding certainty, why was the open-ended finale ultimately unsatisfying The easy answer is that we want answers.
