Palindrome

Fargo 2×10

& Betsy: And Molly?
    Noreen: Tried to put her in her own bed, but she wouldn’t go— stubborn.
    Betsy: Yeah. She gets that from her dad.

& Betsy: I dreamt of a magical future filled with wondrous devices where everything you could ever want would be available in one amazing place.....

& Betsy: .... But then... I saw... chaos... the fracture of peace and enlightenment. And I worried... that the future I’d seen... magical and filled with light... might never come to pass.

& Milligan: People of Earth... I’m home.

& Schmidt: Fubar, yeah?
    Lou: Fubar.

& Ed: You’re always trying to fix everything, but sometimes nothing’s broken. Everything’s working just fine. If you can’t see that, if you don’t know that...

& Ed: All I’m ever gonna want is to get back to what we had.

& Milligan: From this moment forward, I decree no more schnitzel or strudel. Let’s get some American food up in this.

& Milligan: Do you know what the definition of the word «sovereignty» is?
    Ricky: What am I? The professor from «Gilligan’s Island»?
    Milligan: Sovereignty is absolute power and authority.
    Ricky: Like a king?
    Milligan: Exactly. Which is who I am— your king.
    Ricky: Uh... It’s America, brother. We don’t do kings.
    Milligan: Oh, we do. We do. We just call them something else.

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& Schmidt: You know, I don’t— I don’t even know... how to write this thing up... Where to begin.
    Lou: Well, like anything, I guess, you know? Just start at the start and work your way to the end... Okay, then.

& Noreen: Camus says knowin’ we’re gonna die makes life absurd.
    Betsy: Well, I don’t know who that is. But I’m guessing he doesn’t have a 6-year-old girl.
    Noreen: He’s French.
    Betsy: Ugh, I don’t care if he’s from Mars. Nobody with any sense would say something that foolish. We’re put on this earth to do a job. And each of us gets the time we get to do it.

& Betsy: And when this life is over and you stand in front of the Lord... Well, you try tellin’ him it was all some Frenchman’s joke.

& Lou: Your husband, he said he was gonna protect his family no matter what. And I acted like I didn’t understand, but... I do. It’s the rock we all push— men. We call it our burden, but it’s really our privilege.

& Peggy: You wouldn’t understand. You’re a man. It’s a lie, okay— that you can do it all— be a wife and a mother and this self-made career woman, like there’s 37 hours in a day. And then, when you can’t, they say it’s you. «You’re faulty,» like— like— like you’re inferior somehow. And... like— like, if you could just get your act together until you’re half mad with—
    Lou: People are dead, Peggy.

& Hanzee: Kill and be killed. Head in a bag.

& Hamish: It’s, uh, 9:00 to 5:00, mostly, but Management rewards initiative, so, uh, nights, weekends, whatever gets the job done. You’ll be working closely with the Accounting department, looking for ways to optimize revenue— shorter shipping routes, less palms to grease, that kind of thing.
    Milligan: The Accounting department?
    Hamish: Yeah. And this whole, uh, Western thing— that’s got to go. Get something gray or pinstripe with a white shirt— a-a-a-a real tie. A-a-and cut your hair, okay? The ’70s are over, for Christ’s sake.

& Milligan: See, I thought— well, in the old days, when a guy conquered a place—
    Hamish: You want the old days? o work in a coal mine. This is the future.

& Hamish: The sooner you realize there’s only one business left in the world— the money business, just ones and zeros— the better off you’re gonna be.

& Hank: So... You gonna put that in your report, then?
    Lou: What? «Gunfight interrupted by spacecraft?»
    Hank: Yeah. Maybe leave that subtext.

& Hank: Well, we’re sitting here together. That’s what matters. A man once said, «You’ll know the angels when they come... ’cause they’ll have the faces of your children.» Anyway...

& Hank: ...And I-I started thinkin’. Which I know is dangerous...

& Betsy: Good night, Mr. Solverson.
    Lou: Good night, Mrs. Solverson. And all the ships at sea.

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