The Gift of the Magi

Fargo 2×5

& Joe Bulo: I’m gonna call you Chief Wigwam, you bring that thing.
    Commissioner: Any man can fire a gun. The longbow is an art.

& Floyd: I thought they’d negotiate...
    Dodd: That’s the feminine side, Ma. It was always gonna be war, them knowing Rye was dead... Killing him, I mean.

& Floyd: I want this butcher dead. In Luverne. No mercy.

& Ed: We’ll figure it out. That’s what people do. They figure things out, stay together, make it work.

& Noreen: Personally not sure why you’re makin’ all this effort.
    Ed: Gonna buy the shop, be my own boss.
    Noreen: And?..
    Ed: And what? That’s the American dream.
    Noreen: What’s the point? Just gonna die, anyway.

& Noreen: Camus says knowing we’re all gonna die makes life a joke.
    Ed: So what, you just— you just give up?
    Noreen: You could kill yourself, get it over with.

& Ed: You go to school, you get a job, you start a family...
    Noreen: Die.
    Ed: That’s— Would you please stop saying that? I’m gonna live a long, long life. My— my grandpa was 96.
    Noreen: At which point he did what?.. Died.

& Ed: Sorry. Was just in the middle of a hog. So what can I do you for?

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& Bear: There’s gonna be a reckoning one day, brother. All souls are called to account for their actions. In the end, we all get what we deserve.
    Dodd: You keep telling yourself that.

& Ronald Reagan: The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his presence him from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world. A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us. My friends, I believe that you and I together can keep this rendezvous with destiny. Thank you. God bless you, and God bless America.

& Ronald Reagan: Where’d you serve, son?
    Lou: Um, Mekong Delta. Swift boat patrol, two tours.
    Ronald Reagan: Well, I sure appreciate your service. Every generation has their time. I remember back in ’42, America just joined the war. I was working on, uh... «Operation Eagle’s Nest» for Paramount. I got dropped behind enemy lines trying to rescue Jimmy Whitmore and Laraine Day from this SS commando. Bob Stack was on loan from Selznick. That Nazi bastard had us cornered. We were done for, but in the end, with a little American ingenuity, we managed to, uh... Oh, no. No, no, wait a minute. Um... Come to think of it, I don’t think we made it out of that one. Or did we? Oh, shit, I can’t remember. Well, either way, it was a fine picture.

& Lou: I don’t— I don’t know what I’m saying, except... Do you really think we’ll get out of this mess we’re in?
    Ronald Reagan: Son, there’s not a challenge on God’s Earth that can’t be overcome by an American. I truly believe that.
    Lou: Yeah. But how?
    Ronald Reagan: ..........

& Hank: You get some rest. We’ll just be here, uh, eatin’ sugar cereal and playing with my service weapon.

& Dodd: You think you’re grown, is that it? With your clothes and your hair and no bra? Like you know somethin’ about the world? Being grown’s got a price. Kid gets slapped when he’s bad. When you’re grown, you get the fist. Or the knife.

& Peggy: What I’m trying to say is, you were right. I mean, we were both right, but— but you also is what I’m— Not just me, in other words.

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