Fargo

[the carter family's wildwood flower]

[muzak version of wildwood flower]

Um, why "irregular"?

Well, they put a ladies' sock in with the gents'.

Which one's which?

It's unclear. Ah.

Eh, I'll roll the dice.

Uh, how much?

You tell me.

Say again?

The sign says "best offer." what are you offering?

Well, I mean, uh...

Eh, what's fair?

Well, that's not for me to say.

It's three pairs of socks, half of them ladies'.

Probably not a million dollars.

Uh...

Right.

Well, I don't want to take advantage.

2 bucks.

Or if that's, uh...

3 bucks?

5.

Tell you what, you give me $55, I'll give you the socks...

And throw in this 12-gauge.

Thought you were getting socks.

In the bag.

What the heck are you gonna do with that?

It's for protection.

Just be careful you don't blow your own face off.

Not loaded, is it?

Well, if anyone could shoot theirselves in the face

With an unloaded firearm, it's you.

[washing machine starts thumping]

lester!

Yeah!

I--

Ahh...

[washing machine continues thumping]

yeah?

my wife... She's in the basement, dead.

And, uh, I'm freaking out here. I don't know what to do.

lester, have you been a bad boy?

ah! Jeez. Yeah.

Can you come over?

What did you do?

You killed her.

evening, lester.

wha--what do you want?

well, I suppose first, I'd like to come in.

Is pearl home?

ah, no, no, she's at my brother's.

lester, listen to me very carefully.

I need you to get down on the ground.

okay, now, wait-- wait just a second.

lester, on the ground.

this is not what it looks like.

Look, I'm sorry...

About...

Electrocuting you. I was just--

This is obviously...

A misunderstanding.

'cause like--like I said,

I'm just an insurance salesman.

Now, that is not-- I got noth--

The stuff that you're mixed up in--not--not that you're--

I'm just say--well--

So you--you see?

You said "him." what?

On the ice...You said "him." you said it was him.

Not you.

Him.

Mm, yeah.

Well--well, I'm--I'm just guessing here,

But, uh, well, that hess was not head-stabbed by a girl.

No, no.

No, no.

No, you said it like you had a face in mind.

Uh-uh.

No, wait.

Uh...

Stay with me. Lester.

Oh, god, please. Please. Stay with me.

I need a name. Uh...Huh.

I need a name.

Again. No, wait! Please!

Wait.

god.

Lester. No!

Malvo! Malvo.

Malvo?

Is that a first name?

gaahh...

Lester. Hmm?

Eventually you just swallow your tongue and you die like a fish.

Lorne, I think.

It's lorne, like the fella from bonanza.

Lorne malvo?

Where is he?

I'm gonna throw up.

No. No, you're not.

If you puke in here, I'll kill you.

I mean, I'll actually kill you, okay? Okay.

Lester. Mm-hmm.

I need a location.

Okay...

he took-- he took my car.

They called me, told me it was impounded in duluth.

So he's probably--

I got a picture-- there's a picture of him.

Picture of him up here.

Law enforcement, he had it. It's from the--

What do you call it? An apb. So...

What?

Lorne malvo?

Yeah? Mm.

He killed him. He killed hess.

I-I mean...

okay.

You two are free to go. Bail's been paid.

oh, god.

What if we wanna stay?

pardon?

I don't know, I mean, what if we like it here?

yeah. That's a good one. On your feet.

You have any doubt we can find you?

No.

Hey, buddy, you might wanna have a doctor

Look at that hand, though.

Looks like it smarts.

are some of the largest snakes found in the world.

any members of that python family

Are ambush predators.

They remain motionless before they strike.

it's not common for them to attack humans

Unless, of course, they're starving.

now, advancements in the technological arena

Allow us to examine their existence in the everglades.

oh, look ahead, there, there--

No way around it.

I said, "more sand." back then?

Yeah. Wild goose chase.

Salt's okay. Hang on. Frank calling.

Well, chief, there've been some interesting developments

While you were--

Chief, frank on the line. New storm data.

Yeah, frank, what you got then?

This case is, uh, really-- it's heating up.

That much, huh? Jeez.

Saying 2 feet new accumulation.

So, uh, we got the phone dump back from lester's

From the night of the murders.

Okay, thanks much.

You too.

Call hoenecker with state, see if we can get some more plows,

And, uh, make sure they're plowing

The chief's drive every few hours.

Can't have ida going into labor under a snowbound scenario.

okay. Yah.

Now, what's all this?

I was saying we got the phone dump back.

And right around the time pearl died,

An outgoing call was placed from lester's

To leroy's motor inn, so I made a call.

No one asked you to--

I know, but you were in duluth, so I figured--

Left knutson in charge. Right.

So I made a call, and get this.

Lorraine, the manager--

Lorraine abbey. Yeah. Yah.

Uh, no, sir, lorraine babbit.

Curly hair?

Looks like she draws her eyebrows on with a sharpie?

No, sir, this is a severe woman with hard hair.

Anyway, she I.D.S a photo of the suspect

From the naked fella kidnapping.

Says he stayed one night,

That being the night hess was killed.

She got a name for him too. Lorne malvo.

And you found this how?

Like I said,

Call was placed from lester's house

To the motel where the suspect was staying.

So I talk to housekeeping, and they say this malvo fella

Left behind some tokens from the lucky penny.

they wanna know how many plows.

At least three, don't ya think?

At least three.

Yeah, he says he can give you two good ones

And a pickup with baby plow.

Sir.

Yeah, I'm listening.