The Ballad of Ray Stussy.
Emmit and Varga
The episode begins with Varga telling a story.
Also: The moon landing was faked at a soundstage in New Mexico.
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If youre baffled, youre not alone.
Wait, what?!
Sy exclaims in his office, where Varga is telling him all of this.
The point: There tends to be a lot of daylight between perception and reality.
Sy, in disbelief, is about to have an aneurism.
He looks to Emmit for backup, but Mr. Stussy sides with Varga.
Whether you step off the board with one foot or two, you still end up in the water.
Besides, its all already done anyway.
The next order of business: the police.
Seems like your brother has a backbone after all.
He sends his henchmen out to take care of this once and for all by executing Ray and Nikki.
Two guys a Russian and some kind of Oriental.
This way, they could plant the seed that Ray himself has been the one abusing her.
What use could this be?
So they do what you should never do in these situations: They split up.
When Ray gets back to the house, he realizes hes not alone.
Luckily for him, its not Vargas boys, but instead his brother.
The two of them hash out all their brotherly tension.Im not less than you, Ray blurts.
Ray, come on, Emmit replies, cutting his brother off.
Weve done this already.
Been doing it for 20 years.
Emmit gets up and gives Ray what hes been pining for all this time: that damned stamp.
Its meant to clean the slate, reset the air, reset their relationship.
He dies in front of his brother, on the floor of the house his brother co-signed.
Seems like a perfect time to call Varga!
Theres been an accident, Emmit tells him.
No police, naturally Emmit is jumping off the springboard with two feet, not one.
She re-enters the motel room cautiously.
She slams initiate the bathroom door, ready to attack any potential intruders.
Yet there arent any.
They were in fact there, of course, but theyve already left to clean up Emmits bloody mess.
Fed up, she finally retaliated and cut his throat watched him bleed.
However, his death his plight as a whole will not go unacknowledged.
Screw it, she tells herself.
She wants to nail these guys.
