Fargo (2014) s05e09 Episode Script

The Useless Hand

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[WIND WHISTLING]

[GATOR QUIETLY GROANING]
Whatever it is, just name it.
I'll go get it, I swear.
[MUNCH SNIFFS]
Or we can go get it together.
Yeah?
What do you want? You want drugs?
I got a fucking evidence room
like a CVS, bro. [CHUCKLES]
Everything in there.
Blow, meth, Oxy.
Get you a shopping cart,
you'll be tripping balls
for the next ten years, huh?
You want guns?
Armor? Huh?
I got a friggin' flamethrower.
No joke. All yours.
You like titties?
Huh?
Nice 'tang, clean girls, huh?
Young.
Sounds pretty good, huh? [WEAK CHUCKLE]
I'm sure it gets lonely out here.
Fucker, I'm talking to ya!
[MUNCH] A rabbit screams
because a rabbit is caught.
Knows only that it wants to live.
[LAUGHS]
Try again in fucking English, bro.
[SIZZLES]

Oh, fuck. Help. Help.
Shit. Help. Hel Oh, sh
Help! Help! Help!
[WHIMPERS]
An old woman
watches young men play a game.
- She drinks.
- What?
She drinks because her own son
has spit the nipple from his mouth.
- [GROANS]
- She bothers no one.
[SOBS]
What are you talking
And yet,
you killed her.
[WEAK CHUCKLE]
- I
- Yes.
Eye.
Your eyes.
No.
- [WHIMPERING]
- As the Bible says,
what is taken
must be given.
- This for that.
- My God
[SOBBING]
No
- No, wait. [WHIMPERING]
- Shh.
Quiet, rabbit.
Wait.
- Quiet.
- Wait. Wait! Oh, please, no.
[SCREAMS]
I was a wanderer ♪
Far away from God ♪
I had sorrow ♪
In my bosom ♪
And my way was ♪
Mighty hard ♪
Then I heard ♪
That gospel story ♪
How He came down ♪
From His throne in glory ♪
And He paid the debt ♪
I know He paid the debt for ♪
You and me ♪
He paid the debt ♪
Jesus paid the debt ♪
[CLATTERING]
He paid the debt ♪
He paid the debt ♪
I know ♪
He paid the debt ♪
He paid the debt for ♪
You and me ♪
You know He's stretched out ♪
On a tree ♪
And died ♪
On rugged Calvary ♪
That's why I know ♪
Jesus paid the debt ♪
For you and me ♪
[CHAINS RATTLING]
For you and me. ♪
[PANTING]
Come on.
[GRUNTS]
Come on.
Oh, co [STRAINING]
[GRUNTING LOUDLY]
[PANTING RAPIDLY]
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING] Come on.
Come on.
Damn it.
[BOWMAN] Roy.
- Gator?
- Nothing.
Balls-deep, maybe.
You talk to the governor?
Unavailable, they tell
me, until further notice.
It turned.
The tide. Can you feel it?
Rally the patriots.
Tell Odin we're gonna need
'em all and to come heavy.
Then close the gate.
Dig in.
This is our Masada.
What about
[PANTING] Okay.
Most I ever felt I felt for that woman.
Well, this morning I'm thinking
I don't ever want to
feel that way again.
So
Bury her.
[BOWMAN] Shit.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- [LOCK CLICKS]
[GRUNTS]
Oh. [SIGHS]
[LINE RINGING]
[DANISH] You've reached
Danish Graves, esquire.
I'm not here to take
[LINE RINGING]
- [SIGHS]
- You've reached Danish Graves.
His cell was turned
off at 11:45 last night.
- Where?
- Stark County. Tillman Ranch.
Do you think
- You want me to call the governor?
- No.
I'm done fucking around.
Tell Jerome to call the orange idiot.
It's time I got something for my money.

[PHONE RINGS]
- Farr.
- It's happening.
- Sorry?
- They're raiding the Tillman Ranch.
FBI's on their way.
- How do you know that?
- I can't be there.
I'm on a different side now.
But you got to go save her.
Mrs. Lyon.
- If she's still
- Message received.
In transit.
[ROY] Mayday, Mayday.
This is a code
ten-double-zero. Officer down.
All patriots respond.
I have a military ambush inbound,
and this is America's sheriff
issuing a call to arms.
They're coming for me the way
they came for Ammon and LaVoy.
And don't be fooled.
After they murder me,
they're coming for you next.
So grab your beans and your bullets
and bring your big fuckin' hammer,
'cause it's balls to the wall time.
And rally right here on me.
If you're close by, get here now.
I'll keep 'em faced forward
while you box 'em in.
We'll show these godless Huns
how a patriot dies a'singing.
Hooah.
["Y.M.C.A." BY VILLAGE PEOPLE PLAYING]
Young man ♪
There's no need to feel down ♪
I said ♪
Young man ♪
Pick yourself off the ground ♪
I said young man ♪
'Cause you're in a new town ♪
There's no need to be unhappy ♪
Young man ♪
There's a place you can go ♪
I said young man ♪
When you're short on your dough ♪
You can stay there ♪
And I'm sure you will find ♪
Many ways to have a good time ♪
It's fun to stay at the ♪
Y.M.C.A. ♪
And just go to the ♪
Y.M.C.A. ♪
Young man, young man, I
was once in your shoes ♪
Young man, young man ♪
I was down and blue ♪
Y.M.C.A ♪
[POWER TOOL WHIRRING IN DISTANCE]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
[DOG BARKS, WHIMPERS]
- [LAUGHING]
- [GASPS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
[DIAL TONE]
- [PHONE RINGS]
- Can you get that, hon?
Yep.
Daddy's phone.
Hi, squirt.
Mommy?
- Oh, God.
- Where are you?
Let-let let me talk to her, honey.
- Daddy wants to talk to you.
- Right there, yeah.
Oh. I-I-I Are you-are you okay?
Yeah.
W Well where are you?
[QUIETLY] I
Hang up the phone.
Uh, who
Who, uh, who-who's there with you?
Hon?
Hang up the phone or I shoot.
Dot?
Do
[STAMMERS]
[PHONE RINGING]
Ya happy now?
- What?
- Coming back here.
Ruining everything.
I didn't
This must be a time machine for you.
He didn't even change the sheets.
We sleep in your filth.
Can't escape it.
Your curtains,
- fucking pictures on the walls.
- Please.
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
I just want to go home.
So you can have us all arrested
and make orphans out of my girls?
[BEEP]
When did he give you that, hm?
- Shut up.
- Let me guess.
You said something a little bitchy.
Like, "Would you turn off
the lights in the kitchen?"
Maybe you weren't fast
enough with his dinner?
Yeah, I said shut up.
We can end it.
Today.
You and me.
He's weak.
You know it.
And then he'll never hit you again.
Or your girls.
Fuck it. I'll kill you myself.
[GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
[CHAINS RATTLING]
[HAMMERING IN DISTANCE]
[MAN] Be careful when
you put them down there
because they're twitchy.
[MAN 2] Right. Got you.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
[GAS HISSING]
[DOOR OPENS]


[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[LIGHTER CLICKING]
Can't smell that?
Doors and windows get 'em open.
You got played. She was in here.
Search the house.

Marco.
Marco.
Jesus, kid. What the fuck did you do?
[GATOR GROANING, SOBBING]
[GRUNTS]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
[PANTING]
[LORRAINE] Now, honestly,
what's the point of being a billionaire
- if I can't have somebody killed?
- [PHONE VIBRATES]
[CHUCKLES] Olmstead.
Indira, it's me. It's Dorothy.
- It's Dorothy.
- Bill, I'm gonna have to call you back.
- Yeah, we're
- Let me talk to her.
Dorothy?
- What?
- Where's Danish?
Have you seen him?
Killed.
Roy killed him.
What was he even doing there?
For me.
He came to save me.
Are you safe?
For now.
But like a fish on the floor.
Listen to me.
An army's coming. I
called in some favors.
State and federal.
You need to get somewhere safe.
- Hide.
- Why?
What do you mean, "why"?
Why help now?
Don't get maudlin.
I need to know.
Because this busybody made me.
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, please.
Nobody can make you do anything.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER, HOOTING]
- If I don't make it back
- Quiet, now.
No daughter of mine
is going down on the one-yard line.
So put your big-girl pants on
and get in the fight. You hear me?
[SNIFFLES]
Thank you.
Dorothy, don't get in the fight.
Just keep your phone with you, okay?
The police can triangulate
your location with it.
Is there someplace you can
hide? Someplace they won't look.
Tell them to hurry.
There's an army here, too.
And they're looking for me.


[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
Let's be on our toes. Looks
like they're expecting us.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
Here we go.
[PHONE RINGS]
- I'm here.
- She's on a cell phone.
I texted you the number.
You can track her location with it.
Got it.
I tried you at the
precinct. They said you quit.
Not in the way you mean.
Look
promise you'll get her out.
- Okay?
- Affirmative.
Good luck.
Eye in the sky says
40-plus weekend warriors
dug in along the fence
line, hugging the structures.
So we cut the fence, come
at them from the rear.
Assume women and children.
It's hurtful you think
the state doesn't care
- about women and children.
- Did I say that?
- [HOLT] It's in the eyes.
- Uh, sir, if I may?
- And this guy's a sheriff?
- A famous one.
He's Gary Cooper, basically.
[DOCHERTY] Well, you
should get his autograph.
We got a phone number for his majesty?
- Don't tell me you want to negotiate.
- Uh, sir?
Quantico teach you not to
interrupt a superior officer
- when he's bantering?
- Yes, sir.
Sorry, sir. It's just, this is our case.
- Any chance they surrender?
- [MEYER] No, sir.
These guys talk about
1776 like it's Six Flags.
They're here to fight.
Sir? Witt Farr, state police.
I've got news on the hostage.
- There's a hostage?
- Don't look at me.
- He's your man.
- Uh, yes, sir. Dorothy Lyon.
The ex-wife.
She's on site, free for
now with a live cell phone,
- but we got to move fast.
- Like I said, women and children.
I'd like permission to lead
a team to rescue her, sir.
Who are you, again?
State Trooper Witt Farr, sir.
You took the bullet at the Gas 'N Go.
Yes, sir. And this woman saved my life.
She goes on the list, then.
- The list?
- [HOLT] Things to do.
Sir, the FBI considers Dorothy Lyon
a strong asset in any
possible prosecution.
Okay, she goes to the top of the list.
Coordinate a rescue plan
with tactical. Nothing happens
- without a green light.
- Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
[DOG BARKING]
[ODIN] Need to ask you something, boy.
Are you Hitler at the Reichstag
or Hitler in the bunker?
Tell your boys there's sandwiches
- and coffee in the works.
- [ODIN] First days
or last days, I'm asking.
See, the man I let my daughter
hitch her wagon to was a conqueror,
but all I see now
is a hobo digging a ditch.
And for what?
Piece of ass he couldn't
control when he had the chance?
Ham or turkey, ask 'em.
Nobody shoots till I say go.

You're on my land.
Sheriff, I'm FBI SAC Cal Docherty.
I have tactical command.
And we have got a warrant
to search this property
signed by a federal judge.
I don't recognize your authority.
Well, we're coming in anyway.
You ever been in a
firefight, Mrs. "Ja-queen"?
- I was in one yesterday.
- [ROY] Was it against
a piglet and about
40 guys just come back
from Iraq shooting towelheads?
'Cause I guarantee you
this one's gonna end
a little differently.
It was a piglet that went
missing from the sheriff's
- storage depot, wasn't it?
- Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna say it again.
You're on my land.
Sheriff, I'm gonna name two names.
You're gonna show me
two faces. Danish Graves.
Is that a man or a serious breakfast?
Dorothy Lyon.
- Who?
- [FARR] Nadine Bump.
Your ex-wife.
Okay.
I get it now.
You joined the witch hunt.
[MEYER] You know what
a witch hunt is, right?
Not witches hunting men,
but men killing women
to keep them in line.
Well, I tell you what.
There's about a battalion
of gunslingers out there
with no sense of humor
that are burning rubber
to come penetrate you from behind.
So, if I were you, I'd get out of here.
Now.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
Can't do it, slick.
Now, move that rig, let us in and, uh,
maybe this doesn't end with you
in handcuffs on the evening news.
[ROY] Well, you don't get it, do you?
This is the path I'm on.
Starts at birth and it ends here.
This isn't a trip to Starbucks
on the way to the office.
This isn't an idea.
God cuts our names into bone.
And that's who we become.
He blows His holy trumpet
and the walls fall down.
You all came here to find Lot's wife,
but she's already a pillar of salt
and she ain't turning back.
So
go and live.
Or stay and die.
It's up to you. [CLICKS TONGUE]
[BOWMAN] [SIGHS] House is clear.
What do you want to do?
Cancer can't survive
outside of the body. [SIGHS]
She came into the house, used the phone,
called in the cavalry.
But they got here too fast.
So they were coming already.
What'd you do with the lawyer's car?
One of the boys drove
it back to Minnesota.
- Cell phone in it?
- Mm-hmm.
But it pinged the
tower while it was here.
So they know he was here
and then disappeared.
That means the queen
of debt makes a call
and weaponizes the deep state.
Justice for the suits and ties.
And now it's war.
We're spread pretty thin here, Roy.
Searching door-to-door.
She can jump the line at any point.
Maybe.
More likely she's
somewhere she doesn't think we'll look,
waiting for the dust to settle.
I'll check the dugout.
You check the grave.
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
[MAN WHISTLES IN DISTANCE]
[DOT PANTING]
[CLATTERING]
[GRUNTING]
Okay. [GRUNTS]
[GAGS, COUGHS]
[EXHALES]
Wait here.
Come on.
[COUGHS]
[GAGS, SHUDDERS]
[MAN WHISTLES IN DISTANCE]
[GRUNTS] Okay.
[DOOR OPENING]
[LOCK CLICKS]
- [LOCK CLICKS]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[CLICK]
Just in case.
Announce yourselves.
Dad?
Kid?
[GASPING]
Come away, now.
[GATOR] Da [WHIMPERING]
A son is unable to comply.
He has sold his right to be a man.
What disappointment
the father must feel.
- [GATOR COUGHS]
- What's going on with his eyes?
Forfeit.
It tells a lot about a man,
the words he uses
to describe a double cross.
We have heard it all.
- To Welsh. To Gyp. To Jew.
- [GROANS]
As if to steal
is a man's lineage,
what a man is.
What did you do?
I'm sorry. [CRYING]
You said to let it go, but I couldn't.
[MUNCH] When a man gives with one hand
and takes with the other,
he breaks his promise.
He must be taught.
The hand he steals with
must be cleaved from him
and returned.
- [GROANING]
- Still a hand,
but now without function.
Here is your hand.
[GRUNTS]
Daddy. [CRYING]
Quiet.
Daddy, I'm scared.
I said shut up.
If there ever was a point to you,
it's gone now.
Dad?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
We got her.
Fast and quiet. Silencers on.
We're not here to start a war.
Uh, wait.
Now, listen to me.
Mrs. Lyon the-the hostage
well, she ain't the "lay
down and take it" sort.
What I'm saying is when we find her,
she may be armed with a
shotgun or some kitchen spray,
fending off an army. Don't shoot her.
This story will not end
with us crushing the victim
with a helping hand.
Got it.
Don't shoot the hostage, clear?
[WINDMILL CREAKING]
[RIFLE CLICKS]
[GROWLS]
Oh!
[MEN GRUNTING]
[GUNSHOT]
[MAN SCREAMS]
[MUNCH] The tiger can come out now.
Oh
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
To fight a tiger in a cage
is not a fair fight.
[BONE CLATTERS]
[DOT PANTING]
[GASPS] Okay.
["WHIPPING POST" BY THE
ALLMAN BROTHERS PLAYING]
Now the tiger
is free.
I've been run down ♪
I've been lied to ♪
And I don't know why ♪
I let that mean woman make me a fool ♪
She took all my money ♪
Wrecked my new car ♪
Now she's with one of
my good-time buddies ♪
They're drinking in
some crosstown bar ♪
Sometimes I feel ♪
Sometimes I feel ♪
Like I've been tied ♪
To the whipping post ♪
Tied to the whipping post ♪
Tied to the whipping post ♪
Good Lord, I feel like I'm dying ♪
Sometimes I feel ♪
Sometimes I feel ♪
Like I've been tied ♪
To the whipping post ♪
Good Lord ♪
I feel like I'm dying. ♪
[MAN] Now I get it.
[ROOSTER CROWS]
[ROARS]
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