5 Most Shocking Moments From The Fargo Finale

1. Molly Gets Her Man...Kind Of

The final episode of Fargo opened with what we would later find out was really the ending. We saw tracks in the snow, a turned over snowmobile and a hole in the ice that formed on top of a lake. The final moments of the show featured a two week jump to the future where we saw Lester snowmobiling around Montana before running into a group of officers who had been tracking him ever since Molly found the tape of Lester and Malvo's conversation about the death of Pearl from the first episode. Lester made an attempt to escape, but the officers had their own snowmobiles to pursue him through the forest. After crashing his transportation, Lester proceeded to escape on foot, not realizing that he was walking on thin ice, both literally and figuratively. The officers tried to warn him, but he was so intent on escaping that he kept going, barely noticing the ground cracking beneath him as he ran. Moments after he stopped the camera panned back and we saw Lester fall through the ice, most likely dying within seconds of hitting the freezing water. The man Molly Solverson had been pursuing for his wife's murder since the pilot was now dead. Molly received a phone call informing her of what had happened and she calmly asked them to keep her up to date before sitting back down with her family to watch Deal Or No Deal. It's hard to gauge whether or not this gave her a sense of closure as she was not the one who would end up taking Lester down in the end, but she seemed happy to sit with her husband and step-daughter knowing she would soon be Chief of the Bemidji Police Department. The writers of Fargo don't much care about doing what is expected, which has allowed them to craft a story that both complements the original film while also carving out a legacy as one of the most gripping and interesting shows on television. What did you think of the finale of Fargo?