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Mr. Nygaard! Oh, you betcha.

She's a beaut. Yeah. Got that little water feature, but don't skimp on

Am I taking the old one?

Yeah, if they said on the phone, it'd be no problem.

Oh, sure.

It's no problem.

The T -160, huh?

Yeah.

Geez. See why you're trading her in?

She's a real lemon.

Water mount.

Chinese use plastic screws.

Bet you buck like a bronco.

You do not know the half of it.

Stopped making them pretty quick.

Recalled, I think.

Surprised to see your truth be told.

You'd be better off washing your clothes and keeping them locked, you know what

I mean?

They got Chaz up at Faribault till the trial.

Gordo's at Red Wing, which is... Well, you know, at least they're close.

His lawyer thinks we can play it down to probation.

Time served.

For murder?

No. Gordo.

Oh. And the gun charge.

Yeah. Chaz, well, good riddance.

Don't care what that man gets. No, sir.

Not after what he did.

Killing my wife, you mean?

Oh, well, yeah.

Yeah, of course that.

But also... Well, I mean, look at me.

I was Miss Hubbard County for Pete's sake.

You don't cheat on Miss Hubbard County.

I just don't believe it, you know?

I mean, just three weeks ago, we were sitting around the table.

Eating ham.

And now Gordo's having his night terrors again. Plus, we have to sell everything

to pay the legal bills.

Did you know?

Chaz bought a timeshare in a boat.

Well, I didn't even know that was a thing.

It's a thing.

So if there's anything from the house you want, you know, like I was thinking

maybe Chaz's hunting gear, I boxed it up for you.

Not sure it's anything you want.

Oh, sure.

That'd be fine. Thank you.

Well, listen, if there's anything I can do... Oh, no.

Master, you are so sweet. I am the one who should be paying that after what he

did to you and my husband.

What'd you get?

A new washer.

The old one.

I had to get rid of everything from the basement, you know.

Not to count all the... You deserve it, Lester.

All good things you deserve.

Back to it now.

Looks like.

Doc cleared me for duty, so.

More flowers came for you from Duluth.

A smarter man to think you were being wooed.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Put him up where we can see him, at least.

So, you got a strategy on this Lester thing?

Well, I'm just going to walk in and say, Bill... What do you think is best?

Direct approach.

Your point being?

No, no point.

Bye, Dad.

Chief, are you busy?

What's that?

I said, are you busy?

Got a request for your attendance.

Can it wait?

I just ate an omelet waiting for it to digest.

Oh, yeah?

What kind?

Well, it was mushrooms and cheese.

Sally make it?

Yeah. She wrapped it in tinfoil to keep it warm.

Molly need you is the thing.

Ask me to see if you'd come down to the staff room.

She's back already?

Yeah. Hmm.

Thought I had another day.

All right.

Let's go see what we're going to do today.

There she is, the gunfighter. Hey, Chief.

Nice collage. You take a basket -weaving two in your downtime?

Yeah, it's just some loose ends I wanted to... Molly, before you...

I want you to know, I'm not too proud to say I was wrong on the Lester case. I

had the wrong idea. I thought it was a drifter thing, which was the wrong way

go, clearly.

But, you know, some good police work, and we caught the guy, so... That's the

problem, actually, that you're still... Still what?

Wrong.

I'm sorry, I mean, no disrespect, it's just, it doesn't make any sense.

I mean, the brother, with all the things we know are true, I've been lying in

bed just thinking about this. For example, okay, if it was the brother,

do we explain the phone call from Lester's to the motel? Molly, darn it,

just, you can't keep going over.

It's time.

You gotta let it go.

We did our job.

The brother Nygaard killed the wife.

And he cornered and shot the chief.

And Lester was covering for him on account of the brother thing, which

explained... We had drinks to celebrate.

I had a Greyhound.

Knutson had, what was it with the cherry?

Rob Roy. Rob Roy. Yeah, he had a few of them, if I'm not... What about the Heth

case? What about it?

Still open, yeah?

Yeah. No.

See, we're checking to see if the hooker had a boyfriend.

Jealous type.

You know, didn't like her getting tooled by every Tom, Dick, and Jane. But

otherwise... Who's working that now?

Terry.

Well, that's good.

Yeah.

Except Terry doesn't always have enough mop to use to wash the floor.

He's not the brightest bulb, I'll give you that.

But he's soldiering through.

Well, good for him.

Except I'm back now. No. Chief, please. No, Molly, Deputy.

Now, I would give it to you. I would.

Except we both know in two days I'd be back in this room with you pointing at

names on that whiteboard and me chewing my tie.

Chief, for Pete's sake, I've got evidence that puts Lester Nygaard in a

with a known killer on the day of the Hess murder, and then the next night

Lester called the guy. He called him at the motel. Look, you can't.

That's just how it is sometimes.

Life.

You know, you go to bed unsatisfied.

They're calling the lottery numbers on the TV, and you get the first few, and

already in your mind you're buying a jet or a fjord or whatever, but it's just

not meant to be.

It's just not meant to be.

Hey, look, we're all real glad to have you back, okay? You're a heck of a

officer.

Tell her about the cake.

The guys are going to have a cake for you later.

Try to look surprised.

It's really something.

It's got an assault rifle on top made of frosting, which I don't know how they

do that.

Hey, Lester.

I like your tie.

Thank you.

I got it online.

Oh, yeah?

Jacket, too.

I was a bit nervous about it at first.

I had to send the jacket back once, actually.

Too big in the arms.

Well, I think you look terrific.

Oh. And I was thinking of making some chili on Saturday night.

If you maybe want to.

Where is he?

You son of a bitch.

I'm going to bust your balls.

You want me to do it, Ma? Yeah, Ma, want to, sis? Shut up!

I'm going to bust your balls. Now, Mrs. Hess, what can I do for you? Do you Mrs.

Hess me? I was picking your pubes out of my teeth 12 hours ago, and then I get

this?

That is a... This is highly irregular.

I'll make some calls.

Liar. This is... Liar, you knew the whole thing.

No, no. Mrs.

Gina, this is... Listen, I'm going to make some calls. Like I said, I was

speaking to the guy from mid -claims just yesterday. He didn't mention a

thing. I let you come inside of me.

Yeah, Ma, don't talk like that.

We don't need to bring that into the conversation.

Get me my money, you little shit.

Two million dollars you've got until the end of the day.

And show them what we'll do.

All right, all right.

Sorry, loser.

Me too.

Yeah!

So are we calm?

Are we calm?

Now, here's what's going to happen.

I'm going to make some calls, like I said.

Because this is the first that I've... But if it's true, if Sam did miss some

payments, then they're within their rights to... I think we might have a

problem here.

That was... Sorry, you had to see that. No, I... That was... You're amazing.

He'll be right out.

Follow.

Sir, we... What Agent

Pepper is trying to say, the Syndicate 3 killing, yes, technically, we were

there, outside, in our car, while it was... But you have to... You have to

it as a positive, because it leaves us, myself and Agent Budge, it

leaves us poised.

That's the word we like, poised to catch this guy.

Because, sir, first of all, we got this photo from an ATM across the street. It

captures a single individual who's clearly armed and about to... Now, the

photo's not great, but we were thinking definitely white male.

Sir?

Listen, sir. This is where you work now. We are highly effective, highly

trained. I have a commendation.

A commendation.

That's your...

Okay.

Okay.

It's... We're still good.

We're still alive.

He could have... It could be worse, right? Much, much worse.

This right here, two weeks, tops.

I just want to sweat a little, feel the... No, I mean, it's

only fair.

I can see that.

I mean, we did... I mean, 22 people...

They'd get killed and we were sitting in the car with a couple of them.

We're okay.

We're all right.

Never heard of a deaf hitman.

Carolina Murphy had his tongue cut out by an Indian back in the 80s.

He worked a little after that, but never quite the same.

And Buzz Mead. You know Buzz?

He was born with just a socket.

He used to take his glass eye out at parties and drop it in his drink.

He was a shit shot, though.

Now, the other fellow, your partner, he can hear just fine.

We had a kind of a chat before I cut his throat.

You're unemployed now, by the way.

Okay, don't read the papers.

I watched a bear once.

His leg was in a steel trap.

It chewed through bloody bone to get free.

It was in Alaska.

It died about an hour later, face down in a stream.

He was on his own toes, you know?

You got close.

Closer than anybody else.

I don't know if it was you or your partner, but look, if you still feel raw

about things, when you heal up, come see me.

Just me and Bill, right?

It's a long night, and the call comes in.

He don't like when I tell this story.

Heard you got some flowers.

Some people do love to flap their lip. More than once when I heard.

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.

He's up in Duluth.

My gentleman.

Has a daughter.

What's his name?

I call him Sergio.

He's a pirate, I think.

Very funny, you.

Yours is the one with the icing clip.

And Ida, your frosting comes from the barrel, I think.

Good to have everyone together again, don't you think? It's like one big

happy... Which is

good, is all.

I wanted to thank you

for catching the guy.

Not me. And I was in bed. Stop. You were in the hospital with a bullet.

No.

Bill may have made the arrest, but we both know who did the real work.

He's not convicted yet.

I mean, not all the evidence.

For me, there are still...

But yeah, no, I'm glad it's behind us.

Deputy Salverson?

Yeah, hi, it's Gus Grimley.

Yeah, hi.

So what's happening then?

You know, on patrol.

I helped a fellow who got his private stuck to a mailbox.

Didn't like his mail?

Something like that.

There's the hearing tomorrow on the shooting.

Oh, yeah.

That's tomorrow.

Well, just tell the truth.

But leave out the part.

Leave out the part where that person you shot was me.

I am really sorry about that.

Yeah, I gathered from the volume of flowers.

Too much?

No.

No, it's nice.

So, um...

I saw in the paper this morning the, uh, login festival's coming up over in your

neck of the, uh, you know, and Greta, you know, she really likes going to

Yeah, me too.

Yeah? Good.

Good. Well, maybe, um, I mean, maybe we'll see you there.

Yeah, a certainty if, uh, we go together.

Yeah.

Yeah. That's, uh...

You're right about that.

And when you're right, you're right.

On Friday, there's chainsaw carving.

And, uh, all you can eat.

And on Saturday, they roast a pig underground.

You've never had it, but it's supposed to be good.

Well, I didn't know that you could do that.

On Sundays, they do a pie -eating contest.

Yeah, yeah, no, I, you know, I like to just go for the food.

Greta likes all the different contests they have. Have you ever seen the guys,

they go all the way up to the top of the...

Dad here. Come back.

What's the deal with dinner?

Yeah,

just finishing up.

Thought we'd do tacos tonight. Over.

I forgot the food, didn't you?

Mom home?

Yeah. Is that your dad?

Do you remember the Red Sox?

Oh, shoot.

I can go back. That's okay. I think we got some left from last time.

Go get changed up, you, and let's eat. I'm starving.

Yeah.

Why don't you put them on the table?

Dad wants to know about the game someday.

Watch the plays or... I thought we could watch it here. You know, I had to make

that pasta thing.

The one with the peas?

Capers. Wait, you liked it last time.

Oh, don't forget we got that thing that I did on Saturday. The anniversary.

I remember.

It was a week before I met you.

Anniversary of what?

Uh, just your, uh...

Molly had a friend of hers that got killed last year, but we'll go over

and pay our respects.

It was, um, Vern, right?

Yeah.

He's the chief before Bill hired me.

Ida, the lady with the baby. Yeah.

That's his wife.

Which, uh, speaking of, she asked if we could bring drinks.

Yeah, I've still got some of that Halloween beer I made.

Not seeing her memory of spitting that on the floor.

Oh, yeah.

I'll go to the store.

You okay?

Oh, sure.

It's hard to sit that long.

Legs go to sleep.

Hi.

Deputy Salverson again. Bemidji Police?

Yes.

Well, I called a couple times now about the Fargo Syndicate massacre, how I

might know the fellow responsible, meaning he's a suspect in a case

Yeah, I see your name on the computer. Looks like those suspicions were

investigated and dismissed. Yeah, well, they sent a fellow down, but I'm not

sure he really... Do you have any new information?

No.

No, I just... You know, a lot of people are dead, so...

I wouldn't expect a call back, though.

We're pretty busy these days with the Patriot Act and all.

The file room.

A room with files.

Say you took one of them out. Took it where?

Doesn't matter.

Say you took one of the files out.

Is it still the file room?

Pizza today, right?

In the cafeteria?

Or is it meatloaf?

Now I'm saying that you and I both agree that the file room, minus one file, is

still the file room.

Now, say you took another one out, and then another.

If the file room minus one file is still a file room, and you keep subtracting

one at a time, you could end up with zero files.

I'm saying logically.

Or even negative files.

How do you have negative files?

Logically, I'm saying.

So no one's taking files.

They just bring more.

What about a cemetery?

Remove one body from a cemetery still a cemetery, but a cemetery with no bodies

What's that?

condos

Okay, and this is, uh, well, these are my officers, so... Where is everybody?

Coffee run?

Who's this then?

Uh, this is, uh, Tahir. He's, uh... Hi.

Hello, I am Tahir.

I'm Molly, Deputy Salverson.

Yeah, so remember I told you me and Sally were taking in a foster?

Uh, yeah, from Africa.

Yeah. I am from Sudan. You know Last Boy?

I sure do.

Welcome to America.

I thought there was a problem, though. Oh, I'll say. The kid disappeared.

Disappeared how?

Oh, tell her the story. Oh, this is the craziest thing. All right, you go on.

You tell her.

In my village, I tend goats. You know goats?

Uh -huh.

One day a man came and killed everyone.

Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters.

Jeez. I alone am free.

Three days I walked and...

I meet nice people.

American.

These nice people put me airplane to America.

Land of free.

Home of brave.

Yeah, Todd.

He's coming to live with us?

Yeah. Go on.

At the airport, man say, take a bag.

He say he's getting a cop, but he doesn't come back.

Guy stole his bag. Can you believe it? A refugee.

One day and one night I wait at the airport, but this man, he does not come

back. I had no money, no paper.

Nice woman says, tell policeman, but I'm afraid.

I told her I have a family waiting.

Nice family.

American family.

But the name is in the back and the number.

Nice woman gives me coat and money to take the bus.

So, not all bad.

I take the bus to the city.

But I am very hungry.

Four days, I no eat.

Then I see a store. You know, July and January.

Phoenix Farms? Yes, Phoenix Farms.

Did I tell you this?

Oh, so, he shoplifts.

Take some food and eat.

In fact, he does it every day for how long?

Three months. Three months.

Meanwhile, we're frantic. You remember all those phone calls, me raising my

voice. How can you lose a kid from Africa and freaking Minnesota?

Every day I steal food, but I'm the same.

I don't want to steal.

I want to work.

What work can I do?

Then, a week ago, Sally and I are heading into the city to the ballet.

You went to the ballet?

Well, Sally likes the ballet.

Yeah.

Go ahead, finish.

I'm looking around the store.

Skateboards and peanut butter cups. Then this man grabs me.

I... Think I'm arrested. It's me. It's the point of the story.

All those weeks looking for the kid, writing letters, making phone calls. We

even put up flyers. And then I stop by a supermarket in a city I don't live.

Also, Sally can have checks mixed at the ballet, and there's the kid. Like, what

are the odds?

I can't even imagine.

I'm so worried and thinking I'm arrested.

But Mr. Bill is hugging me and crying.

Yeah, well, you know.

And look why I'm with my American

family. Sally says it's a miracle. I don't know. It might be, but don't

the universe. That's my motto. Sometimes things just work out.

Yeah, I like to think that's true.

We found you, buddy.

We found you.

You need something?

No, I'm good.

Go back to sleep.

Stand back, everybody. I got you covered. Stand back.

Chief! Chief!

What happened?

It causes you to have a loose... What's the meaning of this? Police raiding all

over the hotel. Who sent for you? Why are you here?

Well, this is Mr. Williams' suite. Mr. Williams has been murdered.

Quiet,

everybody. You'll be quiet.

And that goes for all of you. Yeah, the chief is right. No, he's Bentley Ham.

Who can say?

We're doing good I

was

just saying we're doing good, you know

Everything

we need

Mm -hmm.

I'll go that way.

Yeah, me too.

I was scared stiff, and all of a sudden the lights went out.

Then something hit me on the head, then the lights went out again.

John Meadows, everybody.

Give it up.

I took your laws, ladies and gentlemen. Make sure you didn't make those vanish,

too.

Well, it's been a big year for insurance. A banner year.

Reserve trends are up.

And loss ratios are down a whopping 17%.

We all know that behind every insurance policy, and the reinsurance policy

covering that policy, there's a salesman.

A man, a woman, knocking on doors, making calls, matching

people and businesses with the right plan for their needs.

And so, without further delay, I give you Insurance Salesman of the Year

2007.

Lester Nygaard.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. Oh, geez, that's a real honor.

Now, I knew I should have memorized this.

Speak from the heart.

Speak from the heart. Okay.

Those of you that know me know it's been a tough year for me personally.

And that I wouldn't have gotten through it without the love and support of my

beautiful wife, Linda. Let's get around.

All right.

You know, you can go through your whole life without a care.

And one day, it all changes.

People die.

They lose their homes.

They go to prison.

It's calamity, huh?

I know it because I lived it.

And if this year had taught me

Believe me, I've seen it all.

It's that the worst does happen.

And you need to be insured.

Thank you so much. It's a great honor.

So proud of you, Lester.

Oh, thanks, son.

You tired?

Oh, aren't you?

Well... Um... No, actually,

I'm feeling pretty keyed up. You know, I might grab a nightcap at the bar.

Yeah, want me to go? No, no, no, you go up to bed. I'll be up shortly.

Just, uh, it's my night, you know.

I'm sorry. I'm such a downer. Oh, you're a sunny day.

Go on. I'll be out presently.

Hi. Hey.

Big night, huh?

Salesman of the year. Oh.

Drugs?

Insurance. Ah.

You're only giving an award to the guy who sells the most drugs?

Pharmaceutical. Ah, that makes more sense.

So, what are you drinking?

Something dangerous.

Let's have a look.

Oh, blood and sand.

What's that?

Gotch and blood orange.

That's the one.

Can we get some more sparkling water?

Thanks.

Anyway, so I say hi, I'm your doctor.

It's nice to meet you and everything.

And I get ready to give him the napkin shot.

I'm sticking to my own thing.

And it hurts, but I don't know.

Now I get it.