The Lord of No Mercy

Fargo 3×6

& Nikki: You ready?
    Ray: Oh, you betcha.

& V.M. Varga: This... is a true story.

& V.M. Varga: Perception of reality becomes reality.

& V.M. Varga: Another true story. The First World War was started by a sandwich. On June 28th, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, one of seven conspirators, failed to blow up the Archduke of Austria with a hand grenade...

& V.M. Varga: One last story, also true. ’Here men from the Planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. ....’

& Sy: Wait. What?!
    V.M. Varga: It was a sound stage in New Mexico.
    Sy: That’s not... That never happened.
    V.M. Varga: «Let each man say what he deems truth and let truth itself be commended unto God.»

& V.M. Varga: Some books, not «the» books.
    Sy: What the heck does that mean?
    V.M. Varga: Let’s just say for testimonial purposes, it’s better that you don’t know.

& Sy: Oh, you think the IRS won’t... This is what they do. Catch cheats.
    V.M. Varga: Middle managers and movie stars, people who park their money in a Denver Wells Fargo under their mother-in-law’s maiden name. But I assure you, the IRS could not unravel an intricate web of shell companies and loan-outs with secret accounts in Monaco, Luxembourg, and the Cook Islands, if you gave them the account numbers.
    Sy: What?!

& V.M. Varga: Your problem, Mr. Feltz, is you think you started a parking lot company. You started a bank. This is a true story.

& Nikki: Third fella. Could be the head honcho.

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& V.M. Varga: May I? What exactly is the connection, in your mind, between Emmit’s alleged brother and the victim?
    Gloria: His alleged? Are you suggesting somehow Ray Stussy isn’t...
    V.M. Varga: It’s your story, Detective. I’m merely looking for clarification.
    Gloria: Chief, not detective.
    V.M. Varga: My apologies. My point is, all this sounds like mere surmise. Two brothers, a traffic skirmish, a dead man in another county.
    Winnie: Mere what?
    Gloria: All named Stussy.
    V.M. Varga: You see, in 1932 there were, what, 24 Hitlers in a German phone book. Now, are you suggesting that they were all responsible for the Final Solution?
    Gloria: Twenty-four, exactly?

& V.M. Varga: There is a police station in Eden Valley with no computers...

& Yuri: One or two? .... Quiet or loud?

& Ray: Heat’s on. We better blow.

& Emmit: It’s finished, okay? Words said in anger, crimes committed... We’ve both done things. It’s a certain madness, I think. Brotherhood. Buttons you push in me, that I push in you... Grudges... But I don’t want that anymore.

& V.M. Varga: Mr. Stussy. Do you know what Lenin said about Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Number 23?.. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. Not the bloody walrus. He said, «I know nothing that is greater than the Appassionata, but I cannot listen too often. It affects one’s nerves, and makes one want to say kind, stupid things, and stroke the heads of those who, living in such a foul hell, can create such beauty. Better to beat the person unmercifully over the head.»

& Emmit: There’s been an accident.
    V.M. Varga: Things of consequence rarely happen by accident.

& V.M. Varga: I’m so rarely seen, maybe I don’t even exist.

& Emmit: I didn’t mean to...
    V.M. Varga: No one ever does.

& Gloria: Screw it.

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