In season 1 Malvo is such a mysterious character, seemingly a bit supernatural and certainly psychotically devious and hateful. When he forces Don, the fitness instructor, to read a written statement over the phone to the Supermarket King he is blackmailing the statement contains language about a child in a situation almost as if it would have left such a child feral, even sociopathic like himself; he wrote about a child looking in the windows of the fortunate saying ‘why are they in and he out? why is a he hungry and they fed?’ and ‘every stinging bug was known to him’ and ‘when it was hot he boiled and when it was cold he froze’ then ending it with ‘and then the wolves came’ — Malvo was constantly shown through the show associated with a wolf or wolves — when Don is reading it Malvo gives a rare facial reaction as if this was a personal story, wincing. Malvo never feels anything for anyone. What do you think? Did Malvo tell his own backstory in that moment, or at least part of it? The show is loaded with such hidden truths. It would certainly explain Malvo’s malicious nature and lack of conscience.