The House of Special Purpose

Fargo 3×5

& Nikki: On the sofa, I thought. Unless you’re attached to a more classic bed narrative.

& Nikki: Maybe in a cowgirl, or a doggy scenario, favoring our rears, in other words, keeping our faces slightly absurd.
    Ray: «Obscured.»
    Nikki: What did I say?

& Nikki: This whole time, we’ve been playing to draw. It’s time we start playing to win.

& V.M. Varga: You have a fat wife.
    Sy: Excuse me?!
    V.M. Varga: ... Which part of what I just said is giving you trouble?

& V.M. Varga: Do you know what a chicken is?.. A chicken is an egg’s way of making another egg. You see, it’s all a matter of perspective. The chicken sees it one way, the egg another, so let’s start again.

& Sy: I had an upsetting experience this morning. To be honest, I feel as if I’ve left the known world. You ever had that feeling? Like you, uh, stepped off the map into the, well, unknown, I guess?

& Mrs. Goldfarb: ...and, as my late husband always used to say, «You don’t want a Goldfarb for an enemy.»

& Emmit: You’ve gotta fix this. Whatever it takes.
    Sy: Shackles off?
    Emmit: And throw away the key.

& Gloria: Well, you don’t have to like the truth for it to be true.
    Donny: You sure?

& Sy: Congratulations, you’re officially the stupidest person alive.
    Nikki: Who is this?
    Sy: It’s Menachem Begin. Who do you think it is?

& Nikki: It’s a fact.
    Sy: It never happened!
    Nikki: That doesn’t make it any less of a fact.

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& Dammick: That’s... A true story. These things happen all the time. Coincidence, random life.

& V.M. Varga: .... I’m not sure we can trust the Jew.
    Emmit: Who?
    V.M. Varga: Feltz.

& Emmit: So, you said that this was just a routine drop in, or...
    Agent Dollard: Yes. And, no. Routine, in that we make these kind of calls all the time, so routine for me.

& Emmit: Since when was it a crime for a citizen, a tax paying citizen to use their own money?
    Agent Dollard: No, sir, it’s not a crime. Not exactly. But, uh, any transaction, deposit or withdrawal greater than $9,999.99, it triggers an alarm with us.
    Emmit: An alarm?

& Agent Dollard: because of your withdrawal, which I am required by law to question, you’ve been selected for additional review. Screening, minimally invasive, day surgery, versus, say, having your colon removed... Little IRS humor.

& Emmit: Wait. We have fake books?

& Yuri: Sy, Sy... What’s the matter, buddy? You drank from the holy cup, but here you are. Not being a good boy.

& Yuri: Have you been to Siberia?... It’s very much like this. Except the dirt. The earth soaking in blood, frozen red. All of Russia.
    Hundreds of years, millions the tsar killed, then it was Lenin, then Stalin. Ten thousand, 20,000. But here you have, like, what? Malls. Few dead Indians.
    Twenty million Russian died fighting Hitler, 20 million. I see from your face that you can’t even imagine that. The pogroms, the starvation, 20 million more. Mothers cooking and eating their babies...
    That’s why the snow falls white. To hide the blood.

& Yuri: This is what comes after the cup.

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