user: Q: ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 2 recap

OK, then, here we go again.

Written and directed by creator Noah Hawley, episode 2, titled “Before the Law,” opens with Kansas City, Missouri, crime syndicate paying the Gerhardt crime family a visit.

We see Dodd Gerhardt and his right-hand-man Hanzee Dent torturing a man tied to a chair in a nearby barn.

“Are you listening to me?” the eldest Gerhardt brother questions the clearly unresponsive man.

“You cut off his ears,” Dent retorted.

The Gerhardts assemble for a meeting inside the family home where we see patriarch Otto Gerhardt in a vegetative state following a heart attack.

Floyd Gerhardt asks whether they’ve seen their younger Rye to which eldest son Dodd quipped, “He’s probably neck deep in some p——.”

The Kansas City crime syndicate wants to buy the whole Gerhardt business, and with Otto’s health dwindling, Floyd seriously considers taking the rival group’s offer.

Dodd — the rightful heir to the Gerhardt throne — is obviously dissatisfied with his mother’s decision.

Sheriff Hank Larsson has breakfast at his daughter Betsey’s house and tells his granddaughter, Molly, a story after a long night going through evidence from the homicide.

“Was the judge at the wrong place at the wrong time? Or was this whole mess about her,” Larsson says after Lou’s conversation on the phone, in which they find out the identity of the slain judge.

Meanwhile, the two unlikely killers of the show Ed Blomquist (played by Jesse Plemons) and wife Peggy (Kirsten Dunst) have flashbacks of the gruesome encounter with Rye Gerhardt from the previous night.

They both try to figure out the best way to clean up the mess they’ve made after Rye’s killing spree at the Waffle Hut diner in the season 2 premiere episode, titled “Waiting for Dutch.”

We’re then introduced to Elizabeth Marvel’s character Constance Heck, who owns the beauty parlor where Peggy works and has a not-so-secret admiration for her employee.

The Kansas City crime syndicate continues its round about Fargo by visiting the typewriter salesman in order to find out what happened to Rye Gerhardt.

This episode also gives us a first glimpse of Betsy Solverson’s trip to the hospital as she gets her chemotherapy treatment.

The Solverson family go for a drive in Lou’s police car and they end up at the Waffle Hut where Betsy discovers Rye Gerhardt’s revolver in the bushes.

Kind of an odd place to bring your wife and only daughter to.

Sheriff Larsson stumbles upon three members of the crime syndicate, Joe Bulo’s number two, Mike Miligan, and the Kitchen Brothers, who were just passing by on their way to the Waffle Hut — which was closed.

Ed Blomquist finally finds a place to get rid of Rye’s dead body — the meat shop where he works.

Reminiscent of the classic wood chipper scene from the Coen brothers’ 1996 flick of the same name, we see Ed chop the limbs up and put Rye feet first through a meat grinder.

Just another day at the office.
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A: “Before the Law,” written and directed by creator Noah Hawley.


Q: Explosion in Turkish Capital Kills at Least 27, Officials Say

ISTANBUL — A large blast ripped through the heart of Ankara, Turkey’s capital, on Sunday, killing at least 27 people and injuring 75, the governor’s office said in a statement.

The explosion took place in Kizilay Square, near a central bus station, a park and several government ministries. Television footage showed several vehicles on fire.

The Ankara governor’s office said the explosion was believed to have been caused by a car bomb. On Friday, the United States Embassy there warned Americans of a potential terrorist plot to attack Turkish government buildings and residences in Ankara.

The blast came three weeks after a deadly bombing on a military convoy in Ankara that killed 28 people. A Turkish-based militant group called the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons claimed responsibility for that attack, identifying the bomber as a 26-year old Turkish national. The Turkish government blamed a Syrian Kurdish militia, which is supported by the United States in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria.

Turkey has been shelling positions held by Kurdish militias in northern Syria that it deems to be extensions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the P.K.K., which has been fighting for autonomy for over three decades.

Photographs of the blast area on Sunday showed several buses and vehicles on fire, as well as shattered glass from nearby shop windows. “It looks and sounds larger than the attack last month,” said Mehmet Arabaci, an Ankara resident who took photographs of the scene after hearing the explosion.

Mr. Arabaci said Ankara residents had been avoiding crowded areas after three major attacks in six months there killed over 150 people. “We don’t know when and where there will be another attack, but it’s apparent now that they can’t be prevented, and everyone is on edge,” he said.

In October, the capital was rocked by the deadliest terrorist attack in the country’s modern history, when two suicide bombers believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State struck a peace rally, killing more than 100 people, mainly Kurds.

The bombing last month targeted the Turkish military in a response to counterinsurgency security operations in the predominately Kurdish southeast. But Sunday’s attack appeared to have targeted ordinary citizens, stoking fears of a spillover of violence to metropolitan areas.

Officials said at least 27 people were killed by an explosion in Ankara on Sunday near a central bus station and several government ministries.
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assistant: The blast in Ankara was believed to have been caused by a car bomb. It came three weeks after a deadly bombing on a military convoy in the same city.