As she prepares to talk to her, she is informed that her husband's activities got their family indebted with Lorraine's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) debt collection company.
FBI agents Meyer (Jessica Pohly) and Joaquin (Nick Gomez) report to their superior about Roy's strange tactics, as many informants have disappeared while investigating him.
Noticing that Dot was not caught, Roy plans to frame the dead husband for Munch's crimes at the gas station to close the case, bribing the wife to corroborate the story.
In November 2023, it was reported that the fourth episode of the season would be titled "Insolubilia", and was to be written by series creator Noah Hawley, and directed by Donald Murphy.
However, Hawley said that this was not an intended nod, explaining "the joke, of course, was that the 12-year-old girl is making a Zombie Killer, and their home defense system is a sledgehammer over the front door.
Hawley felt the series and the film shared similar concepts, saying "it pretends to be this dark and disturbing thing, but at the center of it is just this guy with a heart of gold, who wants to understand this holiday.
"[6] In its original American broadcast, "Insolubilia" was seen by an estimated 0.424 million household viewers and gained a 0.07 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Club gave the episode a "B+" grade and wrote, "After claiming the smallest and easiest of victories, [Roy Tillman] literally rides off into the sunset on horseback.
"[8] Alan Sepinwall wrote, "This was largely a fun one, with Dot once again repelling home invaders sent by Roy, this time with adding a touch of John McClane to her now-familiar MacGyver inventiveness.
"[11] Alec Bojalad of Den of Geek wrote, "Fargo season 5 understands the interplay between the two major American holidays so well that it might even have snuck two other Christmas movies into its Halloween-set fourth episode.
Thrilling, sad, cringe-inducing, bizarre, rousing, grim, and centered on tremendous performances by Juno Temple and Jon Hamm, it's exactly as good as I'd hoped I'd get out of Fargo Season 5, with these ingredients.
"[13] Felicia Nickens of TV Obsessive wrote, "Jon Hamm is playing a conservative, evil, douche to the fullest and is doing an amazing job making it believable.
The site wrote, "It's been fascinating to watch Jon Hamm explore the dark side of his on-screen charisma as Fargo's Roy Tillman, a swaggering small-town sheriff who makes his own rules and punishes everyone else according to them.
This week, Hamm absolutely commanded the screen as Roy confronted an abusive husband, quoting Scripture with a folksy cowboy twang.
Roy is no hero — he's a chauvinistic bully, for one thing — but Hamm has made him mesmerizing nonetheless, a lone ranger literally riding off into the sunset.