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This article contains references to domestic abuse .
Fargoseason 5 revolved around unraveling the shady past of Dot Lyon , who was introduced as a seemingly mild - mannered Midwestern housewife , but turned out to have a dark history as Nadine Bump . The first one-half of the season saw Dot ’s mysterious past catch up with her as the villainous Sheriff Roy Tillman institutionalise killers and kidnappers after her . Then , in the 2nd half , after break Dot ’s connecter to Roy and the rest of her backstory , the show concenter on her efforts to contain the fallout and protect her new life .
Thepremiere episode ofFargoseason 5picks up in 2019 in Scandia , Minnesota , where Nadine has settled into her new identity as Dot with a loving husband , Wayne , and a gifted daughter , Scotty . But over the course of the season ’s 10 episodes , series creator Noah Hawley jab into Nadine ’s past . He went back more than a tenner to show how a 15 - year - old Nadine ’s run - in with Roy eventually led to Dot ’s peaceable Minnesota being in the 2010s . The show also went back to Wales 500 years ago , but that had nothing to do with Dot .
The Tillman Family Took In Nadine Bump – 2005
Dot ultimately started to fill in her backstory in an lengthened aspiration chronological sequence inFargoseason 5 , sequence 7 , “ Linda . ”Dot imagined herself visiting Roy ’s other ex - wife , Linda , at a refuge for survivor of domestic abuse phone Camp Utopia . Before Linda would consort to aid Dot take down Roy , she had to tell her narrative in the form of a puppet show . So , Dot work on all Nox on a puppet representation of herself and separate the whole torturous story to the other residents of Camp Utopia .
According to the puppet show , Nadine was a juvenile juvenile delinquent who was take on in by the Tillman family at the age of 15 . Linda reckon Nadine getting in trouble for shrinkage , saved her from pursuance , and take on her home to her married man , Roy , and their young Word , Gator . She ended up becoming a part of the family unit and was educate by Roy himself . Linda face ruthless misuse at the hands of her hubby , and when Linda was n’t around , Dot became the target of that abuse .
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Roy Tillman Married Nadine When She Was 17 – 2007
After Linda managed to break loose from Roy ’s ranch and ran away , Roy turned his sight to a then-17 - yr - old Nadine and married her alternatively . In the puppet show , Dot criminate Linda of fetch Dot to the Tillman family and push her into Roy ’s arms as a way of passing on the abuse to someone elseso she could get by . This show convinced Linda to go back to Roy ’s ranch with Dot and have him get . However , the whole thing turned out to be a dreaming sequence . Linda did n’t escape Roy after all ; she ’s dead and eat up on his cattle farm .
Nadine Ran From Roy Tillman & Became Dorothy Lyon – 2008
About two years after she married Roy , Nadine followed in Linda ’s footsteps and ran by from Roy ’s ranch . Roy immediately sent his best henchmen to find her , but she grapple to relocate to Minnesota and establish a new life under the alias Dorothy . She take on an amiable railcar salesman named Wayne Lyon and married him . Wayne could n’t be less like Roy . He ’s sweet-smelling , he ’s worry , he adores Dot , he does n’t have a violent bone in his dead body , and he would never even levy his voice to her – Dot escape from an abusive marriage ceremony and amaze into a loving one .
Dot ’s marriage to Wayne was n’t conflict - free , but the conflicts had nothing to do with Wayne himself . Her new female parent - in - law , Lorraine , the unscrupulous proprietor of the big debt ingathering means in America – known colloquially as the “ Queen of Debt ” – did n’t desire Dot from the outset . She assume Dot was just marrying her son to get to the folk ’s wealth . Bythe end ofFargoseason 5 , after seeing the horrors that Dot escaped from and the lengths she ’d go to keep her family safe , Lorraine finally came around to trusting Dot and even accept her as her own daughter .
Dot & Wayne Become Parents After Scotty Is Born – 2009
Shortly after they got married , Dot and Wayne became parent when their girl Scotty was carry . Since Scotty is 10 years old at the beginning ofFargoseason 5 , which accept billet in 2019,she must ’ve been have in 2009 , about a year after Dot and Wayne got conjoin . The ten that follow Scotty ’s birth was the most peaceful clip in Dot ’s life . She locate into her fresh existence as a female parent and lady of the house and the highest - stakes problem she had to deal with was planning the surrender fete at Scotty ’s school .
Sheriff Roy Tillman Finally Finds Dot – 2019
During a middle - shoal committee encounter operate awry in 2019 , while trying to escape the riotous gang , Dot unwittingly used her taser on a police officer . She was promptly arrested and booked at the police post , where her mugshots and fingerprint were taken . This put Dot ’s personal identity on a national database , which Roy , as the inbuilt sheriff of Stark County , had access code to . This told him precisely where his wife Nadine go when she run awayfrom his cattle farm to start a new life , and he immediately sent a duad of bumbling kidnappers to nobble her from her quaint suburban home .
The kidnapping did n’t quite work out , as Dot quickly escaped their clutches , kill one of them , and returned home in fourth dimension for her family ’s arrival . But Roy does n’t give up that easy , so he sent Gator and his crew for a second endeavour at abduct Dot , lead to a deadly confrontation on Halloween night . Realizing Roy would n’t stop look for her , Dot decided to go after him . She forget Scotty with local copper Indira Olmstead and steer to North Dakota . On the way , she go into a railcar accident and ended up in hospital , where Roy last capture her .
All of this led to an action - take opposition at Roy ’s cattle farm inFargoseason 5 , episode 10 , “ Bisquik , ” in which Dot , Roy , the feds , the fuzz , Roy ’s reserves , and the vengeful Ole Munch all converge on Roy ’s cattle ranch for a climactic engagement . After the dust settled on the battlefield , theFargoseason 5 close skipped forward a year to 2020 . Roy is in prison house , Dot and Wayne have gone into business together , and Munch finally agrees to give up his pursuance for revenge . All told , Dot went on quite a journey throughoutFargoseason 5 .
