Satchel Cannon quotes from Fargo

Satchel Cannon

Are you Jewish?

Rabbi Milligan

No.

Satchel Cannon

Then how come they call you Rabbi? Isn't a Rabbi a Jewish priest?

Rabbi Milligan

You ever play poker? [Satchel shakes his head] But you know there's a game called poker, played with cards. Well, there's this saying in poker: "You play the hand you're dealt." You and me, we're proof of that. You see, when yours truly was a boy, he had the same thing happen to him, what happened to you.

Satchel Cannon

You got traded?

Rabbi Milligan

What?

Satchel Cannon

From baseball. That's what my daddy said. I got traded to another team.

Rabbi Milligan

Exactly. I got traded twice. Except, well, for you, you get to go back to your original team one day.

Satchel Cannon

Is this your original team?

Rabbi Milligan

No. My team was shite.

The Americans, when they capture me, I was cooking my belt.

Satchel Cannon

Your belt?

I already eat my shoes. Monte Cassino. They send me here, to Kansas. Did you know they bring war prisoners here? I think I was dead. A corpse, they shipped. A skeleton. It was the food, the smell, that bring me back. Fields of corn, bread for every meal. Land of plenty. That's in the Constitution. Every day the sun come out. That big, yellow American sun. It make me grow again, like a winter weed. And then, I am alive again. I took the blood oath, carve my name on the stone there. "Antoon Dumini, American." This I would become.

Rabbi Milligan

You hurt?

Satchel Cannon

No. I-Is he dead?

Rabbi Milligan

Yes, but don't look away. This is what men do. Snap out of it. We have to go. It's war now, for real. You're not safe here.

Satchel Cannon

Home?

Rabbi Milligan

You're not safe there, either. You trust me? [Satchel nods] I never got to choose. A child soldier, that's what they made me. But that's not gonna happen to you. Understand?

Satchel Cannon

I think so.

Rabbi Milligan

So we're gonna find someplace quiet, wait 'til the dust settles, and if you want to go home - if that's your choice - I'll take you home. Understand?

Satchel Cannon

I'm scared.

Rabbi Milligan

Me too.

Hey, boy, what you doing out here all by your lonesome? You hear me, boy? What, you got shit in your ears?

Satchel Cannon

No.

No what? [Satchel pulls out a gun] Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey...

Satchel Cannon

No "you". No "boy". No "do what you're told". No everything. This is my world. I'm the boss. I tell you what to do.

Hey, hey, hey...

Satchel Cannon

Now fuck off.