Fargo

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We need to find Rye, bring him home. Yes, ma'am.

You know him, do you?

Ed? Oh, yeah. He's a butcher.

I ran over him. Hit and run.

His name was Rye Gerhardt,

and his family hurts people for money.

If you did something, you made a mistake, you panicked,

you maybe covered it up, now is the time to say.

But that window's closin', and you may already be dead.

We're asking you to leave.

Management says acquire the territory, we acquire it.

Whether that's cash down or sending bodies to the morgue,

that's up to the krauts.

Joe bulo says hi.

Your counter has been rejected,

and now we're lowering our price by $2 million.

Anything other than unconditional surrender,

and we'll wipe every last Gerhardt

off the face of the earth.

My father was a salesman.

Ladies shoes.

It's fair to say during the depression

that he struggled,

like a lot of people on the rock river

in Dixon, Illinois.

But I've never been one to focus on life's downs.

I was a lifeguard in high school,

and where some saw a drowning man,

I saw a life to save...

...which I did, 77 times in 5 years.

They put up a plaque after I became governor,

and, uh... Well, I'd have to say

I'm prouder of that than just about anything.

I'm gonna call you chief wigwam, you bring that thing.

Any man can fire a gun.

The longbow is an art.

Well, you're all set.

Everything okay?

Just a little housekeeping.

Let's kill ourselves some deer.

My friends, we have in our lifetime fought harder,

paid a higher price for freedom

and done more to advance the dignity of man

than any people who ever lived on this earth.

But if you look around,

you may not see many signs of that dignity.

Crime is up. Jobs are scarce.

You have to stand in a line just to fill up your car.

How?

Run down in the street

and finished off at a second location.

You're sure?

Who?

Butcher.

A butcher? Down in luverne.

Like the law said, Rye followed the judge, shot up the place.

Got killed after.

By a butcher?

That's his name.

Butcher of luverne. That's what they call him.

Contract man outta...

Outta Kansas City.

I wanna hear it from him.

Kid was marked

probably the day he left.

Butcher ambushed him

after the judge tried to grab him, probably.

He got in some licks.

Things went downhill.

Why? Ma, it's war.

You said yourself.

They're jackals, came here talking about a settlement.

Meanwhile, the kid is already dead.

I'm asking him.

He's a bargaining chip, yeah? Rye.

Kansas City thinks if they grab him up,

then come to you with that leverage, you'll sell for sure.

Instead, they kill him, they panic, cover it up,

knowing once you find out, sale's dead, no question.

See?

The citizens of this great nation

want leadership, yes, but not a man on a white horse,

demanding obedience to his command.

They want someone who believes

they can begin the world over again...

I'm saying, the age of the local mom and pop is over,

and what comes next, commissioner,

the era of big business,

is gonna make a lot of people very rich.

Oh, I like the sound of that.

And you're saying you can deliver leaders

on the state and local level?

Joe, there's not a politician in this state

wouldn't take my call in the middle of dinner.

Well, then, you and me are really gonna be pals.

...a leader who will unleash their great strength

and remove the roadblocks government has put in their way.

Watch and learn, Joe.

I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival...

Watch and learn.

Uhh! What the...

Move! Gerhardt!

...that we, all of us,

hunger to, once again,

see honor placed above political expediency...

...to see government

once again the protector of liberties,

not the distributor of gifts and privilege.

Government should uphold and not undermine

those institutions

which are custodians of the very values

upon which civilization is founded...

Religion, education,

and above all, family.

Aah!

Wait.

Uhh!

Uhh!

We, who are privileged to be Americans,

have had a rendezvous with destiny

since the moment in 1630 when John winthrop,

standing on the deck of the tiny arbella

off the coast of Massachusetts,

told that little band of pilgrims,

"we shall be as a city upon a hill."

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us,

pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny,

that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance,

self-discipline,

morality, and above all,

responsible liberty for every individual...

That we will become that shining city on a hill.

My friends, I believe that you and I together

can keep this rendezvous with destiny.

Thank you.

God bless you. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. Thank you. God bless you.

Okay. Okay.

Son of a bitch is charismatic, I'll give him that.

But I'm not shaking his hand.

Why not, Karl?

Because, Sonny, the man made a movie with a monkey.

It wouldn't be dignified.

Well, hello. Oh, hey.

I loved you in "cattle queen of Montana." Well, thank you.

Not many people liked that film.

Hello, little girl.

Governor, I'll be escorting your bus to the next stop,

so whenever you're ready. Well, all right.

Ya got drafted? Yeah, captain called.

I offered we had murders to solve, but --

he knows best, probably.

Said he did, anyway.

Anyway, just gotta take him as far as the state line,

so be home by dark. Okay.

Bye. Mwah!

Bye. Bye.

If you get the chance,

ask him if it's true that Joan Crawford had crabs.

Yeah, I'm not gonna do that.

We got 'em.

Bulo, too?

Oh, yeah.

Milligan?

No, he wasn't there.

You can bet they're gonna come back at us hard.

I thought they'd negotiate.

That's the feminine side, ma.

It was always gonna be war, them knowing Rye was dead.

Killing him, I mean.

I want this butcher dead.

In luverne.

No mercy.

I'm sending Virgil.

Hon?

Hon?

Sorry. Are we are out of coffee?

What? What?

Uh...

Did you...

You weren't in bed, so I --

I know. I was just thinkin'.

What?

What we should take.

Take where?

When we go.

Where are we going?

To California.

What are you -- what are you talking --

when we run, I mean.

You heard what Lou said.

I-I mean, if we've just messed things --

if I've just messed things up from the start,

if -- if this is still not over,

just the tail of the snake...

What -- what are you sayin'?

I mean, what was he even doin' in the road, for shit sake?

That fella.

All those dead people, and...