Season 5

Complete listed story — includes the ending

S5E1 · The Tragedy of the Commons

In 2019, Scandia housewife Dorothy "Dot" Lyon is arrested by deputy Indira Olmstead when she mistakenly tasers an officer during a riot at her daughter Scotty's school board meeting. Bailed out by her husband Wayne, she is kidnapped by criminals Ole Munch and Donald Ireland after a long struggle that ends with all three being injured. Wayne's wealthy mother Lorraine, who runs a debt collection agency, agrees to pay a potential ransom. While driving Dot into North Dakota, Munch and Ireland are pulled over by state troopers. Dot flees and Munch kills a trooper and shoots his partner, Officer Witt Farr, who hides in the same gas station as Dot. She rigs the store with traps, killing Ireland and injuring Munch, who escapes while she treats Witt's wound. She flees before Witt can learn her name and walks home, where she claims to a confounded Wayne that she was not kidnapped, despite evidence to the contrary.

S5E2 · Trials and Tribulations

Roy Tillman, the constitutional sheriff of Stark County explains his biblically-based view of the world to a young man before he has one of his deputies beat him up for abusing his wife "unnecessarily". Roy meets with Munch, who he hired to kidnap Dot, and explains that Dot is his wife Nadine, who disappeared eleven years ago. When Munch demands triple his payment for not being made aware of her skills, Roy's son (and deputy) Gator Tillman attempts to execute him, but Munch instead kills two of Roy's men and escapes. FBI agents Joaquin and Meyer press Roy to enforce federal laws locally despite his distaste of them. Gator visits a recovering Witt to probe for information on Dot, running into Indira seeking the same information. Gator deletes a picture of Dot from Indira's phone to prevent Witt from identifying her. Believing Dot faked the kidnapping to extort her, Lorraine tries to pay her to leave Wayne and threatens legal action when she refuses. With Scotty's help, Dot booby-traps the entire house to deter intruders, explaining it to Wayne as an affordable "security system". When Gator and a deputy stop at the same gas station that was previously shot up, Munch kills the deputy and pins a note written in blood to the man's chest with a hunting knife demanding payment.

S5E3 · The Paradox of Intermediate Transactions

Roy instructs Gator to cover up the deputy's death as an accident and to look for clues into Munch's whereabouts. Dot makes plans for Halloween, switching around the street signs in the neighborhood and designing "zombie killer" costumes for her and Scotty with homemade weapons and bulletproof vests. An elderly woman named Irma discovers Munch living in her house but appears indifferent and allows him to stay. A flashback to Wales 500 years ago depicts a funeral where a peasant named Bryn Glas — the immortal Munch — is paid to consume a meal representing the dead man's sins. Dot and Wayne attempt to buy guns, but their plans are foiled by a mandatory one week waiting period. Witt confronts Gator at the police station after seeing Gator steal evidence related to Ireland. Roy instructs Gator to kidnap Dot on Halloween night when lots of people are milling around wearing masks. Munch performs a ritual in a shed at Roy's farm, covering himself in goat's blood and chanting in Latin. After trick or treating Dot notices a suspicious van outside her house, the occupants wearing masks. Munch, dripping blood, enters Roy's house where Roy's current wife and two young daughters are sleeping.

S5E4 · Insolubilia

Gator and his crew invade the Lyon house wearing Halloween masks but Dot recognizes Gator. She manages to fend off the assailants, but in the process, Wayne is nearly fatally electrocuted from one of her traps, which sets the room on fire. Her family and Gator's crew manage to escape before the fire department arrives. Roy approaches his house and discovers the deputy guarding it has been killed. He follows Munch's footprints to his daughters' bedroom, finding the children untouched, but an arcane symbol drawn on the wall in blood. With Wayne recovering in the hospital, Witt and Indira show up to question Dot, but are rebuffed by Lorraine's attorney Danish Graves. FBI agents Joaquin and Meyer suspect Roy of providing weapons to a local right-wing militia led by his father-in-law, Odin Little, but their boss, fearing retaliation from the militiamen, refuses to support an investigation. Roy visits the house of the couple he had earlier counseled about domestic violence. Seeing more bruises on the wife, Roy goads the husband into pulling a gun, only to fire his own gun first and kill him. Roy tells Gator to frame the dead husband for Munch's crimes at the gas station to stop the police investigation.

S5E5 · The Tiger

Dot and Scotty temporarily stay at Lorraine's fortified house. Lorraine and Danish try to have Dot institutionalized, but at the hospital, she attacks the guards and escapes. Lorraine meets with banker Vivian Dugger and pressures him to sell his failing bank to her. Roy visits Lorraine looking for Dot, but Lorraine rebuffs him and offers to help fund his re-election campaign to get rid of him. Indira arrives at Lorraine's compound to inform her that Dot has escaped, but Roy overhears and orders his henchmen to kidnap Wayne. Dot narrowly evades Roy's men at the hospital and overhears that they are there for Wayne. She hides a recovering Wayne in the bathroom of his ward while duping the men into kidnapping a different patient. Joaquin and Meyer arrive at the hospital to question Dot. She stonewalls them before slipping away and sneaking back to Lorraine's compound to retrieve Scotty and take her to Indira's house. Dot admits to Indira that her ex-husband is after her, and asks Indira to take care of Scotty for a few days while she attends to other business.

S5E6 · The Tender Trap

Roy confronts Dugger outside a strip club, coercing him into not selling his bank to Lorraine. Back at the Tillman ranch, Gator's men torture the cancer patient they had mistakenly kidnapped, but Roy realizes they got the wrong man and kills him. The FBI agents interview Wayne at the hospital but get nowhere. They later meet with Indira and tell her their plan to use Dot to uncover Roy's illegal activities. While Roy pays off Munch, Gator plants a tracking device on Munch's car without his father's knowledge. When Indira finds her feckless husband Lars has left Scotty by herself, she takes her back to Lorraine's house and gives the latter a file detailing Dorothy's abuse by Roy. Lorraine offers Indira a job running her security team along with a remedy to her mounting debt. Lorraine reports Dugger's embezzlement of his bank's funds to the government, effectively ruining him. She then examines the file Indira had given her and discovers how severely Dot had been abused by Roy.

S5E7 · Linda

Irma's son, Kevin, discovers Munch at her house and demands he pay rent; Munch pays him in cash, only to murder him moments later after witnessing him mistreating his mother. Gator follows the tracker on Munch's car to Irma's house and snipes at his silhouette through a window, unaware it is the corpse of Kevin. He discovers Munch's payment money in his car and steals it; Irma confronts him, but he pushes her, causing her to fall and fatally hit her head. Gator escapes before Munch discovers the body. Dot, meanwhile, drives a long distance and stops at a roadside diner. She then retrieves a buried postcard for a "Camp Utopia", which turns out to be a women's shelter run by Roy's first wife and Gator's mother, Linda. Dot blames Linda for luring her into Roy's clutches so she could escape him, but asks her to testify on behalf of Roy's crimes. Linda agrees, but first has Dot tell her personal story to the camp using puppets, explaining how she was taken in by the Tillman family at age 15 and was abused by Roy. Dot eventually wakes up at the diner, realizing that the whole Camp Utopia experience was a dream. She walks out of the door, but is knocked unconscious when a careening semi-trailer smashes into the parking lot; she awakens in the hospital only to find Roy at her bedside.

S5E8 · Blanket

Danish selects three North Dakota men from the Lyon book of debtors, and has them all change their names to "Roy Tillman". Indira discovers her husband in bed with another woman and kicks him out. At the hospital, Witt sees Roy forcing Dot to come with him, but is outnumbered by Roy's men and is unable to help her. Roy takes Dot back to his ranch and restrains her with chains in a barn. He then goes to his debate for reelection as sheriff, only to find the three other Roy Tillmans onstage to sabotage his speech. Roy storms out of the debate, striking the female moderator in the face on the way out. Gator checks in on Dot, who claims Linda is alive, but an angered Gator drives away, unaware Munch is hiding in his car. Witt sees Danish at a gas station and tells him about Dot's captivity. Roy returns from the debate embarrassed and enraged; his wife Karen convinces him to take his anger out on Dot rather than on her. Dot, however, fights back and attempts to kill Roy, but their fight is interrupted upon Danish's arrival at the compound. Danish offers to fix Roy's election in exchange for Dot's return, but Roy kills him. Dot witnesses Roy's men burying Danish's body in a pit underneath a windmill that echos a location in her dream, and realizes that Roy had killed Linda and buried her in the same pit.

S5E9 · The Useless Hand

Munch takes a kidnapped Gator to a remote ice fishing cabin and cuts out his eyes as punishment for killing his innocent landlady. Indira, now Lorraine's head of security, traces Danish's cellphone to the Tillman ranch. Lorraine calls in a favor from the President to deploy an armored FBI and state police force to the compound; Roy, meanwhile, summons his father-in-law's militia to defend the ranch. Dot manages to escape through the floor of the barn amidst the chaos and sneaks into the farmhouse, managing to call Wayne before being confronted by Karen Tillman. Dot overpowers Karen and takes her phone and gun. While outside searching for Dot, Roy is approached by Munch, who accuses him of betraying him and leaves the disfigured Gator with him. Deeming Gator to be "useless" now, Roy abandons him. Dot hides in the pit where Danish's body was dumped, but is discovered by three of Roy's men, only for Munch to kill them. He sets Dot free and gives her a gun before disappearing.

S5E10 · Bisquik

Witt joins an FBI assault team covertly breaching the ranch's perimeter to rescue Dot. Roy gets into a fight with his father-in-law over Dot's escape and murders him; Karen witnesses this and flees. Roy chases her, only to be confronted by Dot, who shoots him in the abdomen. Before she can shoot again, the FBI team arrives to retrieve her and arrest Karen while a wounded Roy flees. Witt pursues him into the ranch's dugout, but Roy overpowers and fatally stabs him. Roy attempts to escape via a tunnel in the dugout, but is arrested by the FBI, who were alerted to his location by Gator. Dot and Gator reconcile before she returns home and reunites with her family. A year later, Lorraine visits Roy in prison and tells him she is helping the other prisoners repay their debts in return for tormenting Roy in prison. Munch makes a surprise visit to the Lyon home seeking retribution against Dot for maiming him during their first encounter, but Dot challenges his conception of debt, and offers him a meal if he will help cook. She teaches him to make biscuits, and he joins the family for dinner. He tells the family of the cursed existence he has lived ever since consuming another man's sins centuries ago. Dot assures him he can be free by eating a meal made with love and given freely, offering him a biscuit. After a moment of hesitation, Munch eats it and smiles cathartically.