Why did Dot (Juno Temple, the woman who gets kidnapped) tell Witt Farr (Lamorne Morris, police officer who helps her) that this isn’t her first getaway, considering that she’s trying to hide her criminal past/previous identity?
I understand it obviously served as a reveal to the audience confirming she did have some kind of prior criminal involvement, but why would she say it to that police officer, especially when she then subsequently ran away and pretended the whole thing never happened?
I had similar thoughts!
I guessed that Witt was trying to be noble and stand guard defending Dot and the shopkeeper, but it was still pretty stupid. It also doesn’t make sense to me that he just wanted to thank her and wasn’t concerned that she was a criminal and somewhat responsible for the situation he was in. He strikes me as a character that will die trying to be a hero, but actually mess things up for other people with his naivety. Especially since Dot was the one telling him what to do instead of the other way round, he was clueless.
The shopkeeper was even more of an unbelievable bonehead, but I guess that kind of has precedence in Fargo.
But by far my biggest gripe from the first 2 episodes released, was the traps that Dot set up in her house, how they didn’t even seem to work that well (if Wayne could avoid the sledgehammer without even knowing about it, couldn’t a skilled killer like Munch also?), the fact that she would risk her family getting killed by them accidentally, and how casual Scotty and eventually Wayne were about it too. It just doesn’t make any sense and I felt like previous seasons haven’t been that hard to believe before.
If the next episode opens with Dot & Wayne getting arrested for injuring a firefighter responding to the fire caused by the exposed live wire in the kitchen I’ll be very happy :D