Hank Larsson quotes from Fargo

Hank Larsson

After WWII, we went six years without a - without a murder here. Six years. And these days, well... Sometimes wonder if you boys didn't bring that war home with ya.

Hank Larsson

Rye Gerhardt - raised without the proper moral fiber, I'm thinking. I mean, to kill all those people, and for what? You know, a little money?

[to Dodd] Son, I could fill out a steamer trunk with the amount of stupid I think you are.

Hank Larsson

I'm gonna radio ahead and make sure you make it out of State. If not, I'm gonna put out an APB and have you boys rounded up. And then we'll talk again. You understand?

Mike Milligan

I do. And isn't that a minor miracle? The state of the world today and the level of conflict and misunderstanding, that two men could stand on a lonely road in winter and talk calmly and rationally while all around them, people are losing their mind. You have a nice day.

My question for you is, how come after you hit that fella, you didn't just drive to the hospital or waved down a passin' motorist and ask 'em to call the cops?

Peggy Blumquist

You say it like these things happen in a vacuum. Like it's a test. Check "A" or "B". But it's like decisions you make in a dream, ya know? I'll tell you what, if it was me, and we had to run I wouldn't look back. For what? The dazzle? This house? This is Ed's house. He grew up here. His mom washing his undies, his father taking his paper to the commode. You ask me how come I buy all these magazines? I'm livin' in a museum of the past.

My wife passed last summer. We were up in Brainerd, visitin' my sister. Last thing she said to me - "Do you smell toast?"

Floyd Gerhardt

Different roads, same destination.

I suppose. But the question is - for you, I mean - how far does it go? Husband dead, plus your youngest, grandson in jail, and now Dodd's missin', we hear.

Floyd Gerhardt

Old-timers had it worse. Used to be 10 born, 2 survived - consumption, scalpings, smallpox, wolves.

Well, it's a question of what you can live with, I suppose - how many ghosts. I-I shot a man through the teeth in Vichy, France. I still see his face every night before bed.

Hank Larsson

Well, that went wrong in a hurry.

Lou Solverson

You comin'?

Hank Larsson

No. Good to have at least one grown-up here, don't you think?

Lou Solverson

I'm gonna call my boss, see if he can stop this madness on a bureaucratic level.

Hank Larsson

Worth a shot.

Lou Solverson

This thing's officially out of control.

You Minnesota boys don't got much in the way of backbone, now, do ya?

Hank Larsson

Well, now, I wouldn't say that. Just like to think things through.

Mm. Army?

Hank Larsson

Yes, sir. Liberated France in the great war. Not single-handedly, but I like to think they couldn't have done it without me.

Well, then, you know it's the generals that do the thinkin' and everybody else just says, "How high?"

Hank Larsson

I'm not gonna debate the merits of top-down decision makin' with ya, Captain. 'Cept to say I had a lieutenant in the war, and h-he told Eisenhower to go to hell once, on account of his orders woulda got us all killed. And I send that man a card every Christmas - 'cause I can.