Juno Temple says Dot is ready to 'eradicate her demons' after that “Fargo” episode 7 cliffhanger

The character's earlier escape has driven Roy "f---ing crazy," the actress tells EW. "And so, for that, he needs to own her again."

WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Fargo season 5, episode 7, "Linda."

After years of dodging him, Dot Lyon has finally come face-to-face with the man she never wanted to see again: Roy Tillman.

In the latest episode of Fargo season 5, Dot (Juno Temple) is hospitalized after a semitruck suddenly veers off the road and plows into her vehicle. When she wakes up, a nurse reveals that the hospital was able to notify her husband of the accident, but it’s not he who strides into her room next. Instead, her estranged spouse, Roy (Jon Hamm), saunters in, gets up in her face, and utters three chilling words: “I got you.”

Temple tells EW that the dynamic between Roy and Dot is more about “ownership” than it is an actual relationship. “It's not a two-way street, remotely,” she says. “It's like the minute those vows were said, a man like that thinks that young woman became his property.”

Earlier in the episode, Dot is forced to confront how she came to stay with the Tillmans — and was slowly coerced into becoming Roy’s second wife — while visiting a spousal abuse survivors program called Camp Utopia. The moment acts as a catalyst for Dot, steeling her resolve as we head into the series' final episodes.

“That transformation, that seed, has obviously been planted in episode 5, and she really follows through with that,” Temple says. “She wants to get home. She wants to get home to her daughter, to her husband, to her family, to her safe place. And I think she also really wants to eradicate her demons, finally, forever.”

That means going up against Roy, who Temple says views Dot as “the catch of a lifetime.”

“I think she's a breeder for him," she explains. "The fact that they never had a child is infuriating to him. I think in a situation like that — where he is abusing her and she keeps fighting — he was to win. I think there would be a version of [events] where he doesn't kill her, but he probably has his way with her because he wants to breed.”

While Roy is aware that he has to “get rid” of Dot at some point, Temple says he’s unable to murder her because of how much he enjoys having complete control over her. “I can't use the word love with him, because I don't know if that's even possible, but it's like, 'If I can't have her, then nobody can.’ But at the same time, he can't end it with her because she is also a match for him, whether it comes to being a fighter, a wife, a cook, a mother. All these things he would expect her to be, she's kind of the best that he could imagine.”

Dot, importantly, is also one of the few people who has escaped Roy’s clutches. “No one's ever gotten away. No one's ever said no," the actress says. "And I think that drives him f---ing crazy. And so, for that, he needs to own her again. I think [that control is] something she was always trying to get away from once she realized the monster that Roy is."

Temple adds, "I think that's an important part of Camp Utopia too, when Dot realized that it wasn't Linda's [Kari Matchett] fault at all, actually. I think she's been blaming this woman [for Roy's actions], and that's another kind of big realization for her — that she did have a part to play in it even if she wasn't fully aware of what she was doing, and that Roy is the one all along that has been f---ing evil.”

Fargo airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX and streams the next day on Hulu.

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