Fargo

Ed, no. Hank: Peggy, come here.

This is... you're so out of line! Peggy. Peggy.

You can't just ruin people's lives!

Peggy, Peggy, can you come back inside?

Huh? Come on. Come on. Parade them around main street

for something they didn't do, falsely accused.

No. Mnh-mnh. Peggy.

No. You're not gonna prove my Ed did anything wrong!

It's unprovable!

Heard about the fire. You okay?

You didn't have to come down.

Mrs. Solverson. Ed.

Worried about ya.

Feels like the top

might just spin right off the globe these days

and take you along with it.

What's that for?

I'm just imagining you

parachutin' into the mekong delta,

telling the black pajamas to leave your husband alone.

Shoulda. Could've saved a lot of lives

if wives and mothers from both sides

came and dragged their fool men home by the ear.

Anything I can do to help this mess?

Uh, yeah. You can, uh, take Noreen home with ya.

Her place burned down with the shop,

and we both know she's just a kid, emancipated or not. Mm.

Noreen.

Hey, Ed. I told 'em what you said.

Quiet now, both of ya.

Come home soon.

We both know that's not likely.

Come on, dear. Let's get you home and in a bath.

Betsy: I'll make us some cocoa, all right?

She's a nice lady. Shut up.

Time for your phone call.

Five minutes.

I was thinking about elron the other day.

Before.

His face, you know?

Trying to remember.

I was 10 when they came.

Soldiers in uniform with that...

Folded up flag.

You were in Chicago, i think.

Mom says.

There's that picture in the hall of you and all the kids.

That winter in bear lake.

Everyone else in coats,

but elron's in a t-shirt, makin' muscles.

What would he do now?

You know?

Now with this.

He was the oldest, right?

Not dodd.

What?

Unka? Charlie's on the phone.

What?

Hey.

I get it.

You don't have respect for anything.

But...

Do you know what a whore's life is?

Come on, now.

I'm serious. This is me looking out for you.

Some career advice.

A whore's life is five good years,

five bad years,

and then some half-dick sweat stain

grinds you out like a cigarette.

Like a goddamn spent cigarette.

My son?

You sent my goddamn son! Uhh!

You sent my...

Oh, Jesus! Oh, cut it out!

Uhh! Come on, bear.

Would somebody get him off me?

You better stop, huh?

Okay. You've been asking for it for days.

Tell your man walk away, and we'll see.

And now it's time you're... You're getting the belt, kid.

Strap or buckle?

You think you're...

Belt was dad's thing. The kid said he was ready.

Said it should be family that pulls the trigger,

which is true.

He's 17.

He's got a crippled arm.

Now, see, I don't see that.

I see heart and will. I see spirit.

I see grandpa after the war. Right, pop?

Grandpa, who stows away on a boat,

comes to America, and builds an empire.

Compared to that, what have you ever done?

Or me? Arm or no arm?

Now, you can have the strap or the buckle,

'cause I can't have you knocking me around,

not in front of the men.

Give me that buckle, you piece of shit.

That's my boy.

Floyd: No!

No!

None of your bullshit!

Not today.

You'll kill us all. You'll split this family apart!

Now tell me what happened.

Bring back my grandson.

No excuses.

I'll call up to winnipeg, tell 'em he's coming.

He can stay there till things cool down.

And you...

While he's seeing to the boy, you take care of this butcher.

He doesn't live through the night.

Already dead, believe me. He just doesn't know it.

This better be state secret-level information.

They all left. Who all?

Dodd and bear and maybe half a dozen... going?

He called me a whore.

Well, darling... Technically...

It's my body. I got every right.

Of course you do.

We're in full agreement, you and me.

A beautiful body, and you can do what you want with it.

But right now i need you to tell me.

Your dad and the others, where are they headed?

They're going to that town in Minnesota where the judge...

Luverne. Yeah.

Luverne.

And I want...

You're gonna...

Get the hell outta here.

Did I lose you there, sweetheart?

You're gonna kill him for me.

Your dad? He's not...

Ozzie was a dad, on the TV.

Shit, Mr. French is more of a...

How long ago did they leave?

Just...

Uh, maybe half an hour ago?

Took a whole army almost.

Okay, baby.

Any last message for your dad when I see him?

Yeah.

Tell him...

Kiss my grits.

"'Twas brillig,

"and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe,

all mimsy were the borogroves..."

"And the mome raths outgrabe."

Mike: "Beware the jabberwock, my son.

The jaws that bite..."

"The claws that catch.

"Beware the jubjub bird

"and shun the frumious bandersnatch.

"And, as if in uffish thought he stood,

"the jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

"came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

"and burbled as it came.

"One, two. One, two. And through and through.

"The vorpal blade did snicker-snack.

"He left it dead,

and with its head he went galumphing back."

I got coffee from this mornin'. I could heat it up.

Please.

Uh...

I'm gonna move these, okay?

No. Actually, no. Those are my... no!

No, put them down.

Oh. No problem.

I just got that organized.

So, you... you collect these, then?

The beauty and travel mags.

No, not collect. I...

I gotta stay up with the latest trends, you know,

in my line of work.

Well, that explains the... the beauty mags.

Well, there's more to life than Minnesota, you know.

Do you think, uh...

I-i know there's a lot of questions, but I just...

I got a, um, i got this seminar tomorrow,

lifespring, and, uh,

I gotta drive up to sioux falls first thing, so...

Um...

Well, now, i-i got five dead since Saturday,

including the one tonight in the burned down butcher shop,

and your husband is currently in jail,

so I wouldn't count on getting there early.

No, I mean, that's terrible.

But what can Ed... I mean...

Attempted robbery and those two men...

No, no, no, it wasn't a robbery, Peggy.

Those men came for your husband. They came to kill him.

You don't know that for sure, sheriff.

You're just trying to be dramatic, trying to scare me.

I assure you, I am not. And when I say five dead,

I'm only talking about inside the city limits.

Reports are 15 more bodies... 15 more bodies up in Fargo.

This is a turf war between the Kansas City mob

and this Gerhardt family you've gotten yourself mixed up with.

Stop saying that.