Fargo Page #4

- Oh, yah?

Yah. Yah. Is that useful to ya?

Oh, you betcha, yah.

Yah.

Come on! Goddammit!

Jesus Christ.

Come on, you f***ing sh*t box.

Been here for days.

Goddammit, nothin' to do.

F***ing TV doesn't even...

Dammit, come on! Plug me in, man.

Give me a f***ing signal.

Goddammit!

Unbelievable. Come on.

God...

F***!

Come on, plug me into the ozone, baby.

Come on.

Come on!

F***. F***.

F***! F***!

The bark beetle

carries the worm to its nest,

where it will feed its young

for up to six months.

In the spring, the larvae hatch

and the cycle begins again.

Well.

I'm turning in, Norm.

Oh, yeah?

Here it is throwing off the larval envelope.

- Hello.

- Yah, is this Marge?

- Yah.

- Margie Olmstead?

Yah. Who's this?

This is Mike Yanagita!

You know, Mike Yanagita.

Remember me?

Mike Yanagita?

Yah!

Well, yah.

Course I remember you.

How are ya doin'?

- What time is it?

- Oh, jeez, its a quarter to eleven.

- I hope I didn't wake you.

- No. Thats OK.

Yah, I'm down in the Twin Cities.

I was watching on TV

about these shootings in Brainerd,

- and I saw you on the news.

- Yah.

I thought "Jeez, is that Margie Olmstead?

I can't believe it."

Yah. Thats me.

Well, how the heck are ya?

OK, you know. OK.

- Yah?

- Yah.

- How are you doin'?

- Oh, pretty good.

Aw, heck.

Its been such a long time, Mike.

Its great to hear from ya.

Yah, you got your... This is loaded

here. This has your independent...

Your front-wheel drive,

rack-and-pinion steering,

antilock brakes, alarm, radar.

And I can give it to you

with a heck of a sealant.

- This TruCoat stuff, itll keep the salt off.

- I don't need no sealant.

Yah, you don't need that.

Were you thinking of financing here?

You aware of this GMAC plan? Its super.

- Got a call for you, Jerry.

- Yah, OK.

- Jerry Lundegaard.

- Jerry, got the phone to yourself?

- Well, yah.

- You know who this is?

Well, yah. I got an idea.

How's that Ciera workin' out for ya?

Circumstances have changed, Jerry.

Well, what do you mean?

Things have changed. Circumstances

beyond the... Acts of God, force majeure.

What the... How's Jean?

- Who's Jean?

- My wife. What the...

She's all right, but there's three people

in Brainerd who aren't OK.

What are you talking about?

Lets finish this deal here.

Blood has been shed, Jerry.

- What the heck do you mean?

- Three people in Brainerd.

- Oh, jeez.

- Thats right. And we need more money.

What are you talkin' about?

What have you got mixed up in?

- We need more money...

- This was a no-rough-stuff deal.

- Don't interrupt me. Shut the f*** up!

- Well, I'm sorry, but I just...

I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry.

We now want the entire $80,000.

- Oh, for Chrissake here.

- Blood's been shed. We've incurred risks.

I'm coming to town tomorrow

for the money.

Now, we had a deal here. A deal's a deal.

Is it, Jerry? Ask those three poor souls

up in Brainerd if a deal's a deal. Ask 'em!

- The heck do you mean?

- "Heck d'you mean?" See you tomorrow.

- Yah.

- Jerome Lundegaard?

- Yah.

- This is Reilly Diefenbach at GMAC.

Sir, I've not received those vehicle IDs.

Yah. I... Those are in the mail.

That may be. However, absent the receipt

of those numbers by tomorrow afternoon,

I'll have to refer this matter

to our legal department.

- Yah.

- My patience is at an end.

- Yah.

- Good day, sir.

Yah.

Hi, Norm. How ya doin', Margie?

- How's the fricassee?

- Pretty darn good. You want some?

Oh, no. I got... Hey, Norm. I thought

you was goin' ice fishing up at Mille Lacs.

- Yah. After lunch.

- Ah.

- What you got there?

- Oh. The numbers you asked for.

Calls made from the lobby phone at the

Blue Ox. Two to Minneapolis that night.

First one's a trucking company, second's

a private residence. A Shep Proudfoot.

A what?

Shep Proudfoot. Thats a name.

OK. Yah.

- Think I'll take a drive down there, then.

- Oh, yah? Twin Cities?

Oh, yah?

Dammit, I wanna be a part of this thing.

No. Wade, they were clear. They said

they'd call tomorrow with instructions,

- and its gotta be delivered by me alone.

- Its my money. I'll deliver it.

- What do they care?

- Wade's got a point there.

- I'll handle the call if you want, Jerry.

- No, no. See, they only deal with me.

You feel this nervousness

on the phone there.

They're very... These guys are dangerous.

All the more reason. I don't want you...

With all due respect,

I don't want you mucking this up.

- What?

- They want my money, they deal with me,

or I go to a professional.

There's a million dollars here!

- No, see...

- Jerry, you're not selling me a damn car!

Its my show here. Thats that.

Its the way we prefer to handle it, Jerry.

Hi. How ya doin'?

- Real good. How you doin' today, ma'am?

- I'm doing really super there, thanks.

I'm Mrs Gunderson. I have a reservation.

Yup, you sure do, Mrs Gunderson.

Is there a phone down here, ya think?

Detective Sibert?

Yeah, this is Marge Gunderson

from up Brainerd. We spoke.

Yeah, well, actually I'm in town here.

I had to do a few things in the Twin Cities,

so I thought I'd check in with ya about

that USFI search on Shep Proudfoot.

Oh, yah?

Well, maybe I'll go visit

with him if I have a...

No, I can find that.

Yah, well, thanks a bunch. Oh, say, say.

Would you happen to know a good place

for lunch in the downtown area?

The Radisson.

Oh, yah. Is it reasonable?

- Hi. How ya doin'?

- Yeah. I decided not to park here.

What? You decided not to park here?

Yeah, I just came in.

I decided not to park here, so...

But... Well, I'm sorry, sir...

Yeah, I decided not to... I...

I'm not... I decided not

to take the trip, as it turns out.

Well, I'm sorry, sir.

We've still gotta charge you the $4.

I just pulled in here.

I just f***ing pulled in here.

Well, but, see,

there's a minimum charge of $4.

Long-term parking charges by the day.

I guess you think you're like an authority

figure, with that stupid f***ing uniform?

F***ing clip-on tie there.

Big f***ing man, huh?

These are the limits of your life.

Ruler of your little f***ing gate.

Here. There's your $4,

you pathetic piece of sh*t.

- Where's Shep?

- Talking to a cop.

- Cop?

- Said she was a cop.

Do you remember getting a call

Wednesday night?

Nope.

- You reside at 1425 Freemont Terrace?

- Yup.

- Anyone else residing there?

- No.

Well, Mr Proudfoot, this call

came in past three in the morning.

Its just hard for me to believe

you don't remember anyone calling.

Now, I know you've had some problems.

Struggling with the narcotics, some

other entanglements, currently on parole.

- So?

- Well, associating with criminals,

if you're the one they talked to, that right

there would be a violation of your parole.

Would end you up back in Stillwater.

I saw some rough stuff on your priors,

but nothing like a homicide.

I know you don't wanna be

an accessory to something like that.

So, you think you might remember

who those folks were who called ya?

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