In the movie, no one finds the money in the briefcase. Carl (Steve Buscemi) is alone when he buries most of the $1 million ransom on the side of a road, and he is killed before he can reclaim it. The movie ends with the money presumably still in the snow. However, in the first season of the Fargo TV series, a character named Stavros Milos (Oliver Platt) is shown to have discovered the money days after it was buried in 1987. Milos uses the money to become the "Supermarket King of Minnesota."