Hanzee Dent quotes from Fargo

Dodd Gerhardt

Fought in the trenches in France - World War I. He was an artillerieschuetzen, my granddad, a gunner. Blasted mustard gas at the Allies. Had them dancing like poisoned rats. Brits caught him in a raid, hung him by his thumbs for six days straight. So this, what we're doing, this is nothing. [beat] Are you listening to me? Is he listening to me?

Hanzee Dent

Cut off his ears.

Dodd Gerhardt

Wake him up.

Hanzee Dent

He's dead, I think.

Dodd Gerhardt

Weak.

Hanzee Dent

No drugs, your dad says. Says anyone sells to you gets the axe.

Simone Gerhardt

Geez, you're all a bunch of squares. Sometimes a girl just wants to bust a nut, ya know?

Look, I-I was in 'Nam, yeah? Out there, they called me "Mad Dog," so you just-- you watch your, uh...

Hanzee Dent

Do you miss it?

What?

Hanzee Dent

Well, the-- the country-- you know, the wet, the heat, the bugs? Do you miss that?

God, no.

Hanzee Dent

It's this quiet I can't get used to, this frozen winter.

Yeah, well... Can't argue with ya.

Hanzee Dent

Did you work the tunnels?

The--

Hanzee Dent

"Send the Indian," they'd say. "Who cares about booby traps? Give Hanzee a flashlight and a knife and send him down into the black echo." Moving through the earth like a rat, killing off Charlie, taking his ears.

Ears?

Hanzee Dent

You got to push their faces down into the dirt so they don't scream and wake the others.

What'll you do then, I wonder? Join a-a new empire?

Hanzee Dent

Maybe start one of my own.

So that it, too, may one day collapse and fall into the sea. Do I take it you'll try to get revenge on Kansas City, apprehend those responsible? 'Cause you can bet Kansas City will be heavily guarded.

Hanzee Dent

Not apprehend. Dead. Don't care "heavily guarded". Don't care "into the sea". Kill and be killed. Head in a bag.