So Bear was not the crime boss we saw in Season 1. You wonder, though…did that guy take over the operation from Mike Milligan? Was there another turf war?

As it turns out, the Tom Reagan of this series - the heartless bastard who turns both sides against one another and protects only himself - was Ohanzee all along.

Floyd could still make it. If the ambulances get there in time she might return for the finale, crippled but still with some fight in her.

"Christ, it's Rapid City all over again!"

I might add that "The Leper-caun" sounds like a really wonderful (and severely offensive) movie monster.

Just after he's finished sucking on his gelatinous cubes.

God, don't they? I think Abrams & Lindelof bear a lot of the blame for having introduced the origin-focused, densely-expository storytelling style into the popular sphere. Imagine if the Star Trek movie had started where the series started - the bridge crew already on their mission and heading out to explore the…

As Hannibal himself said: "Nothing happened to me. I happened."

I'm OK with that.

Mm. Not unlike a lot of great villains - Chigurh, Ledger's Joker, Delgado's Master, Mikkelsen's Hannibal - we find that an origin isn't necessary for our understanding of what the character is like *now*. This is also why no-one takes Voldemort or Freddy Kreuger seriously any more. When you know them, you're not…

On that we can agree.

I look forward to the day (will it ever come?) when he admits that writing every single f*cking character with daddy issues - including, in Prometheus, the entire human race - does, eventually, get old.

Well, yes and no. I mean, Malvo's basic M.O. was this caveman who'd somehow become able to live in civilisation - a hunter-gatherer using the tools provided for him (Hey, look, someone left a shotgun lying around) or tools which reflected nature (Raptor claw), and doing bizarre posturing - e.g. trying to intimidate…

So here's a thing - if in the next two episodes Lou ends up squaring off against Bear in a gunfight, who's going to be the first to make an "Insidious 2" reference?

Huh…if the analogy holds, then like Sampson he may end up bringing down the house on everyone.

It's looking like the Blomquists are stuck squarely in the eye of this three-way storm…

AND a harmless local recalling it to someone who wanted to hear the story.

It actually reminded me of Lester hitting Pearl with the hammer, in execution rather than tone - instead of a violent act announced with a musical sting, it just…happened. Very quickly. With an unpleasant, squishy sound effect.

To quote the Venture Bros.: "He's not just off the reservation, he's opening his own danged casino!"

True; I was just thinking of the time he was offered a pink taser (or was it a walky-talky?) by that shady zombie-survival-kit salesman and quibbled over the manliness of the colour. Not to mention his whole "we used to be monkeys" rhetoric is very much in line with that of MRAs and similar cretins - "we hunted the…