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Another mystery! Why were candles burning in the empty crypt at the military school, where the torture took place, when Max and Oskar investigated?

I am trying to thank Dowell and AnimeMania. I don'y know why my question repeated! Anyway, so much happened in the episode, I had forgotten about the dead cat. The arty lighting effects sometimes make it hard to see what's going on.

Just before Dill is attacked in her room, there is a montage of various characters. Who is it that is burying something and what is he burying? Thanks!

Yes, Eric turned out to be a psychopath, but in the process of deciding what he was, he was asked to hold a rosary. The implication was that if he refused to hold it, he was possessed by a demon, and, of course, Catholics believe that demons cower at the sight of a rosary! Or show the show believes!

I am surprised that no one has mentioned the show's confusion of superstition and Catholic doctrine. For example in this episode, Eric is asked to hold a rosary, which he apparently couldn't do if he were possessed by a demon. Any time now, we will see someone hold up a rosary to ward off a demon! I guess this tendency is part of the way the show is all over the place in its point of view, but it is insulting to many Catholics.

About 35 years ago, Catholic cemeteries officially began accepting suicides for burial for 2 reasons. Mental illness often leads to suicide which can't be blamed on the victim, and it is impossible to know whether the suicide repented at the last seconds of life. Why would this episode present a long outdated policy as current doctrine? Have no Catholics involved with the show remained current?

I was surprised, to say the least, when the older doctor told Carol to quickly find a typewriter and write up her zebra case. A typewriter? In 2019?

I thought that the season finale exemplified all the worst tendencies of the show. Once again the super bad secret society story is dragged out. Once again Pride is severely injured in the finale. Once again Pride hallucinates. Now it's his daughter. Now it's his girlfriend. Now it's his mother. Once again only the bad guys are killed; the good guys are unscathed by a hail of bullets from all directions. Once again Pride recovers, from days of being pumped full of drugs, in a short time with no aftereffects. Once again, agents from a rival federal agency arrive in the nick of time to save our team's lives. To be fair, I don't remember seeing before a character being held near death in a deep coma. But wait! It's nothing new. One quick shot of adrenaline and he's good to go. What a waste of great actors like C C Pounder, and the wondrous setting of New Orleans.

Bell's one-liner should be noted: When hearing Strider's name, Bell comments that it is the second stupidest first name that he has ever heard! Great!

Some people wonder how Henry is doing academically at his prep school. When he is talking to Philip, Henry says that he has to go study for his AP CALC exam. If he is taking Advanced Placement Calculus as a junior, for which he can earn college credit, Henry is doing quite well academically.

A complete time waster, but at least we got to see Jane with her hair combed in the last few scenes!

For the first couple of episodes, I thought Jane was running around with uncombed hair, because she was so distraught. Eventually I realized that, dear God, that's actually her hair style. Awful is right!

She referred to Ann Coulter as a "yard sale Barbie." Love it!

While I agree that there are many unsatisfactory loose ends, plotholes and more in Season 3 of Fargo, I don't think Mr. Wrench pursuing Emmit for five years to kill him is one of them. We remember that Nikki believes that Emmit poisoned Sy and killed his own brother Ray, the man she has come to love. She thinks Emmit is the big Villain and later tries to recite the Bible verse before killing him, as she was instructed in the "bowling Alley." So at the end of the scene at the abandoned storage company, when Mr. Wrench asks her if she is happy now that so many are dead, she says that she is not because "the brother", that is Emmit, is still alive. We have seen the growing bond between Mr. Wrench and Nikki, largely because Nikki treats him with respect, has learned ASL to communicate with him and even gives him most of the money! So I find it completely believable that Mr. Wrench would dedicate himself to finishing her mission, that is killing Emmit. Nikki is probably one of the few people who has treated Mr. Wrench well. What a wonderful conglomeration of shades of truth, misunderstandings, false assumptions and alternative facts Season 3 has been!

I have been expecting someone to comment by now about the type of tai chi that Elizabeth "learned" from Ben. They are doing tai chi chih, the non-martial version. The movements are actually done at about one-third the speed shown in the program. Presumably it would take too long to show them correctly. The aim is to get your systems in balance, with the universe and all that sort of stuff. You do take a series of very slow-moving lessons and learn one new movement each session. You don't just wave your arms around. I think there is an intended irony in that in both tai chi chih and EST, you are aiming to get in touch with your feelings, the universe and so on. Elizabeth is deriving the same benefits from tai chi chih as Philip is from EST.

Once again, I am anticipating coming here after tonight's episode. The comments of Pink Ribbons, Umbelina and the others about their and their parents' lives in the former Soviet Union add so much depth to this forum. Thank you all for sharing these experiences with us. You add so much to our understanding.

I can't give enough credit to the writers for the quality of their work. Sending a Central American (probably fake) Jesuit priest to dangle the glamour of liberation theology in front of Tim and Alice. Catnip for them! I'm sure the good Father is only the first step in the plan to reel in the Groovyhairs. And then the brief moment at the end of the burial scene when Oleg's father fires the gun to represent a forbidden military salute to his dead son. A totally unexpected and deeply moving moment from a pretty unsympathetic character.

I don't think the FBI answers to the Barbados Parliament!

Parliament?

Milz's message above is a wonderful, hilarious listing of some of the obvious borrowings used by the creators of Mercy Street. (I'll just add Gone With the Wind to the list.) When you visit the PBS website, you can see how self-satisfied the creators are with their work, not realizing at all the lost opportunity to bring a fresh look at some aspects of the Civil War. They have embraced just about every tired stereotype you can think of. Too bad!

kay1864 and algebra, Behave yourselves! ;-)

The terrorist called Ralph by his full name and said he was a devil. That would make the motive for the shooting sound personal, as borne out by the scenes in the jail between Ralph and the shooter, and would make it harder for Ralph to sell the shooting as a terrorist incident. I think when the truth comes out, that it will be darker and more twisted than a simple case of a colonial having a child by a native mistress.

Don't worry! When Matt carefully blew out two candles and left the 1776 attic where he was writing his journal, he left at least 30 lit candles behind. Many were close to wood, paper and cloth objects. Very soon a massive fire will wipe out DC, leaving no one alive except Hal and two women. A new triangle will begin ...

Thanks to Scamp for the clarification that Dr. Isles is an adoptive father. I guess the writers ran out of ways to involve Maura's birth parents and so turned to the adoptive ones. With all her negative experiences with her four parents, you would think that Maura would want no part of Unbearable Angela!

Wasn't there a long arc about Maura's father being a notorious Boston gangster, Paddy something? Didn't he kidnap Jane, etc. etc? How does Dr, Isles fit into this picture?