The Principle of Restricted Choice

Fargo 3×2

& Gloria: Does yours do that?.. Every time I make a call, it’s like I’m in a silent movie.

& V.M. Varga: Zdraveyte, as the Bulgarians say. ... Ni hao is the Chinese. The Corsicans use the simple salut. And guten Tag, if German’s your thing.

& Parking Lot Attendant: Is that... Are they with you?
    V.M. Varga: Surmise.
    Attendant: What?
    V.M. Varga: Because we arrived together, we are together. Surmise.
    Attendant: Well, are ya?
    V.M. Varga: Yes.

& Gloria: It’s not that I don’t like them. I don’t like them, but that’s not... The old way works just fine. Type out a report, send it via telex.
    Moe Dammick: You do know what year it is, right? The future. We don’t use... Who uses telexes anymore?
    Gloria: So that’s why no one ever writes me back...

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& Nikki: Besides, you said yourself, he messed up, your man, killed some random geriatric in the sticks who happened to have the surname. So, even if they wanted to solve it, the police, what possible solve is there, besides unfathomable pinheadery?
    Ray: You’ve thought of everything.
    Nikki: That’s us. Thought and action.

& Emmit: Who died?
    Ray: When?

& V.M. Varga: Did I tell you what I like about this place, Minnesota?.. It’s so perfectly, sublimely bland. Have you been to the Danube? Or Gansu? And the African continent... Forget it. North and south. Anarchy. And, yes, you can still find some relative stability in the brutal nation states, North Korea... Putin’s done some great things with Russia. You just have to know which palms to grease. But one wearies of the constant remunerations and the petty shakedowns... Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Am I right?

& V.M. Varga: You see, that’s the problem with you Americans. You watch too many movies, and you think the deal can always be changed, and it can’t. We’re partners now, and that’s all there is to it. So, you might as well just lie back, as they say, and enjoy yourselves.

& V.M. Varga: Let me tell you what it is that attracts me to the parking lot business, yours in particular. It’s three things. It runs on cash. You don’t use technology. And that makes your income impossible to verify. ’Cause who’s to say how many cars parked in which spots and for how long?

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