Dot discovers a strange camp for abused women while on the run. Wayne and Scotty grapple with Dot's disappearance. Munch squats in an old woman's house in Bismarck, North Dakota. Gator follows him and attempts to get back the money Roy paid.
Tropes present:
- Accidental Murder: Wouldn't be Fargo without one. Gator is attacked by the old woman Munch is rooming with while trying to retrieve the money bag from her car, which Munch borrowed. He shoves her down, fracturing her skull on the sidewalk curb and killing her; the shocked look on Gator's face shows he honestly didn't mean to kill her.
- All Just a Dream: Dot's adventure at Camp Utopia is revealed to be this, with her waking up in the diner she went into in the beginning of the episode.
- Asshole Victim: Irma's son, Kevin, verbally abuses her and is implied to be a layabout only good for doing such, so no tears are shed when Munch murders him with an axe.
- Black Comedy: Most of the episode's humor comes from Dot being fed up with the placid attitude of the Camp Utopia members in her urgency to get Linda to testify against Roy, as well as her discomfort with the cult vibes the place gives off. The remainder comes from Munch's utter incongruity in a domestic setting.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Gator thinks he's finally finished off Munch, sniping him with a bullet to the head from across the street while Munch sits in his rocking chair. Unfortunately for him, it's actually a decoy; the corpse is a man Munch killed earlier, being rocked by a rope held by Munch himself.
- Creepy Doll: The dolls that the camp members make are ...unsettling.
- Cult of Personality: The members of Camp Utopia literally revere Linda, calling her "Saint Linda". They even take her name in a "transition period" before they take a name different from the one they had with their abusive husbands.
- Cruel Twist Ending: Dot wakes up at the diner, revealing her adventure at Camp Utopia to be All Just a Dream (and meaning the real Linda Tillman is most likely dead). She exits the restaurant, only for a truck to crash into a parked car which hits her. Dot wakes up again in a hospital with only minor injuries, and a nurse tells her that her husband came to see her. She’s elated to see Wayne again…only for Roy to enter the room.
- Death Glare: Munch gives an especially nasty one to Irma's son Kevin, who has just berated his elderly mother, demanded she make him a sandwich, and attempted to threaten him into paying rent.
- Diabolus ex Machina: Throughout the episode, Dot spends her time desperately trying to get the titular Linda, Roy Tillman's first wife, to come with her to testify against him. After a long and grueling process, Linda finally agrees and heads out with Dot. And then a semi plows into a line of cars at a rest stop, slamming Dot into the ground and putting her into a coma. When she wakes up, there's no sign of Linda (who was never even there in the first place), and the hospital has brought in Roy Tillman, thinking he was Dot's husband.
- Decoy Getaway: Knowing Gator is coming for him via a tracking device, he places the recently-murdered Kevin in a rocking chair, visible from the upstairs window, and rocks it back and forth from afar with a rope while he hides.
- Domestic Abuse: Camp Utopia is meant to be a haven from women suffering from it.
- Elder Abuse: Kevin belittles and verbally abuses Irma, his elderly mother.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Munch is not happy with the Elder Abuse in this episode. When Irma's deadbeat son verbally abuses her, he promptly murders the guy with an axe. When Gator accidentally murders Irma, Munch goes on the warpath against the Tillmans.
- Faint in Shock: When Dot walks into Camp Utopia, she sees a puppet reenactment of Domestic Abuse with a violent husband beating a wife. She initially stares (and then tries to back away, though this is hampered by a food table), and when the performance continues, she collapses.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Munch's murder of Kevin cuts away once Munch swings the axe. Averted when Gator snipes Kevin's body, as the latter's brains are shown splattered across the wall and blood is shown pooling on the floor.
- Foreshadowing: The start of the episode sees Dot getting drowsy while driving from sleep deprivation and almost running her car off the road. Her entire experience with Linda and Camp Utopia turns out to be a dream when she nods off at a diner shortly after.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It's unclear if Irma is simply unwilling to turn Munch in out of loneliness and fear, or if he's controlling her via dark magic.
- Mugging the Monster: Munch is ...displeased when his landlady's deadbeat son starts insulting her and threatening Munch if he doesn't start paying rent, and promptly buries an ax in his face.
- Or Was It a Dream?: Most of Dorothy's plotline in this episode is a dream about visiting a community of women who have escaped domestic abuse founded by Linda, Roy’s first wife. After waking up she slowly comes to accept that it all was a dream but some details turn out to be true in reality. For instance, in her dream she found directions hidden in a small hole under an abandoned windmill. In reality, Linda is buried under a similar windmill on the Tillman property. This and her other possibly prophetic dreams throughout the season make it an open question if it was just a dream or a vision.
- Pet the Dog: Munch has a strangely affectionate relationship with Irma, the woman whose house he invades. He calls her "mama", doesn't harm or imprison her in any way, and protects her house like a guard dog in lieu of rent. When Gator accidentally kills her, Munch is genuinely distraught and goes back to take his revenge.
- Pretty Little Headshots: Not in this show. Kevin's brains are shown splattered across the wall after Gator snipes his already-dead body (mistakenly believing that he was Munch).
- Stay in the Kitchen: Kevin has this attitude towards women, even demanding that his elderly mother make him a sandwich in his introductory scene.
- When Elders Attack: Irma attacks Gator when she catches him breaking into "Munch's" (actually her own) car, clobbering him with a grocery bag of oranges and putting up a pretty good fight before he shoves her and she slips on the ice.
