Lamorne Morris reacts to [SPOILER]'s death in Fargo season finale - Entertainment Weekly News

WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Fargo season 5 finale, "Bisquik."

Lamorne Morris may have known a month into filming Fargo season 5 that his kindhearted character, Deputy Witt Farr, was going to die, but that didn’t make the devastating moment in the finale any easier. 

“I was given a heads up by [series creator] Noah [Hawley], but for a while we were figuring out how the end would play out and what the device was gonna be,” he tells EW. “But it's different reading it than it is shooting it, and even shooting it from when you see it, so once I saw the episode, I was heartbroken.”

“When you're watching it, you're feeling for the characters, and I definitely felt for my character," he adds. "I hope people cry a lot. I really want them to cry a lot.”

After tirelessly fighting to protect Dot Lyon (Juno Temple) from her evil ex-husband Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm) all season, Witt accompanies the FBI on its mission to storm the Tillman Ranch to get her to safety once and for all. He manages to locate Dot just before a big firefight kicks off on the property and, when Roy attempts to make his great escape, volunteers to bring the sheriff to justice. 

Lamorne Morris as Deputy Witt Farr in 'Fargo'.

Michelle Faye/FX

Morris cites Witt’s police background as well as the character's relationships with his mom and six sisters as the reason why he decides to chase down Roy on his own. 

“He looked directly into [Dot’s] eyes and she stared into his soul and said, ‘You got to get him. He's getting away.’ And I know what that means,” he explains. “That means, ‘Okay, let me go and let me put an end to this completely.’ Otherwise, he's gonna keep coming back for her…. When you're raised by women, you feel like it’s your sworn duty to protect them at all costs, you know what I mean? Because that's your backbone. That's your entire existence.”

He adds that Witt and Dot have been “connected” ever since she saved his life during their gas station shootout with Ole Munch (Sam Spruell) in the season 5 premiere. “Witt has zero debt. The only thing he does have to give back, in order to get back to square one, is to repay the debt that he owes to Dot,” Morris says. “There’s a bit of uneasiness when you owe somebody something... you do everything you can to repay that, and that’s what he’s doing in this.” 

Witt succeeds in cornering the knife-wielding Roy in an underground bunker and attempts to arrest him peacefully before the berserk sheriff lunges and fatally stabs him in the heart. Morris notes that the heartbreaking scene felt even more "bittersweet" because he and Hamm filmed it on the series' "last day" of production.

Still, he has nothing but positive things to say about his scene partner. “First of all, he's super professional,” Morris recalls of Hamm. “But he was also intimidating, because he's a large guy and bloody and he's got a knife in his hand and a very powerful voice. So working with him, I'm watching him use his entire instrument as an actor with his stature, his tone, and things like that… He was easy to work with because he's also very giving and we were working through a bunch of stuff during that day. There's has a reason why he's Jon Hamm.”

He notes that Witt’s shocking death in the finale highlights how there are “no fairytale endings” — in Fargo or in real life. “The craziest things could happen to the best people in the smallest of towns,” he says. “That's how these stories are made: they spawn from somewhere. And a lot of times it's what happens to good people.”

Juno Temple and Jon Hamm in 'Fargo'.

Michelle Faye/FX

But, if he could change anything, Morris has a few ideas for how he'd like to have seen Roy and Witt's confrontation end. “I wanted to just shoot him,” he teases. “Like, I thought, 'We're already down here, no one's gonna know.'"

In fact, Morris was personally “rooting for” Roy’s demise by the end of the season. “I wanted to see him get the old axe, however I think his punishment is going to be a lot worse,” he says, referring to the inventive measures that Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character Lorraine has taken to make sure the later-imprisoned Roy suffers throughout his sentence. “The way she described it, oh boy, that's gonna be hell for him. He was definitely one of them and I wanted to be the one that did it.”

(Morris isn’t the only one. Temple also told EW that, had Dot gotten the time to enact her revenge against Roy, her character would have wanted to kill him “a little bit slowly” too.) 

With Roy finally apprehended, Dot is able to reunite with her family once again and even share a biscuit or two with Ole Munch. Still, Witt's death has had a profound effect on those who knew him, including Indira Olmstead (Richa Moorjani), Dot, and her daughter Scotty (Sienna King), who all visit his grave on the one-year anniversary of his passing.

Morris calls it a "sweet" moment, but has some constructive criticism for Witt's tombstone, which described him as a beloved brother. "I thought he was also a son," he jokes. "I was like, 'They didn't put son on there? They didn't put cool ass dude? They didn't put mustache of the year? Nothing?'"

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

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