Molly Solverson quotes from Fargo

You'll make a good chief one day.

Molly Solverson

Me? What about Bill? He's got seniority.

Bill cleans his gun with bubble bath. No, it'll be you.

Lou Solverson

Not sure if you remember, but when you were five, they had to put you under anesthesia to fix your teeth. Gave you that mask.

Molly Solverson

Hmm. Gas that smelled like tutti frutti.

Lou Solverson

Yeah. My soft little girl in a hard world of drills and needles.

Molly Solverson

I'm 31, Dad. I carry a gun.

Lou Solverson

I know. But it's relative, you know? There's the kind of things a schoolteacher gets exposed to--truancy and the like-- and then there's the stuff a cop sees-- murder and violence and general scofflawery. And then there's the kind of deal you're looking at now.

Molly Solverson

Which is?

Lou Solverson

Which is, if I'm right...savagery, pure and simple. Slaughter, hatred. Devils with dead eyes and shark smiles. And one day, you're gonna get married and have kids, and when you look at them, their faces, you need to see what's good in the world, 'cause if you don't, how you gonna live?

Molly Solverson

You talk a lot, you know that?

Lou Solverson

It's always been a problem.

Molly Solverson

Hey, you ever heard of a spider layin' eggs in a person's neck?

Greta Grimly

What's that now?

Molly Solverson

Friend of mine said it happened to a friend of hers.

Greta Grimly

Gross.

Molly Solverson

Yeah. Said they were He was sleepin', and all these baby spiders just ran right out. Not sure I want to live in a world where something like that can happen to a person.

Molly Solverson

What happened?

Gus Grimly

Well, they, uh-- they let him go, Malvo. Yeah, he had an alibi, it checked out, but it's him.

Molly Solverson

How do you know?

Gus Grimly

'Cause I said the name Lorne Malvo, and he stopped, and he looked at me real funny. And then he said, like, a riddle.

Molly Solverson

What's that about a riddle?

Gus Grimly

Like, um, how come the human eye can see more shades of green than any other color?

Molly Solverson

'Cause of predators. Used to be, we were monkeys, right? And in the woods, in the jungle, everything's green. So, in order to not get eaten by panthers and bears and the like, we had to be able to see them, you know, in the grass and trees and such. Predators.

Gus Grimly

When a dog goes rabid, right, there's no mistaking it for a normal dog. And here we are, we're supposed to be, us people, we're supposed to know better. To be better, you know?

Molly Solverson

Must be hard to live in this world if you believe that.

Gus Grimly

You have no idea.

Molly Solverson

What did I lose?

Gus Grimly

A spleen. Look, I'll get you a new one, I swear.

Molly Solverson

Yeah, you'd better.

Gus Grimly

You want some pop or something?

Molly Solverson

No, I want a new spleen, that's what I want, so you know, better get cracking, mister.

Heard you got some flowers.

Molly Solverson

Some people do love to flap their lips.

More than once what I heard.

Molly Solverson

Well, there's a suitor is all I'm prepared to say.

Vern was so bad at courtship. One time, he gave me a bouquet of poison ivy. Picked it himself.

Molly Solverson

He's up in Duluth, my gentleman. Has a daughter.

What's his name?

Molly Solverson

I call him Sergio. He's a pirate I think.

Very funny, you.

Lester Nygaard

MY WIFE IS DEAD! And there are arrangements to see to. So you can either lock me up or let me go.

Molly Solverson

[on Lorne Malvo] He's not gonna stop. You know that. A man like that... maybe not even a man.

Lester Nygaard

You know, I'm not sure what you've had against me since day one. But I'm not the person you think I am, this, this kind of monster.

Molly Solverson

There was a fella once. Running for a train. And he's carrying a pair of gloves, this man. And he loses a glove on the platform. But he doesn't notice. And then later on, he's on the train sitting by the window, and he realises that he's just got this one glove left. But the train's already started pulling out of the station. So what does he do? He opens the window and he drops the other glove on to the platform. Now whoever finds the first glove can just have the pair.

Lester Nygaard

So, what are you telling me?

Molly Solverson

Goodbye, Mr. Nygaard.

Lester Nygaard

Goodbye, Deputy.

Gus Grimly

They're gonna give me a citation for bravery.

Greta Grimly

You? Come on, you're afraid of spiders.

Gus Grimly

Buzz Aldrin was afraid of spiders, and he went into space.

Molly Solverson

Proud of you, hon.

Gus Grimly

They really should be giving it to you.

Molly Solverson

No. No, this is your deal. I get to be chief.