Fargo1996

[Jerry answers the phone at his office]

Jerry Lundegaard:
Jerry Lundegaard.

Carl Showalter:
All right, Jerry, you got this phone to yourself?

Jerry Lundegaard:
Well... yah.

Carl Showalter:
Know who this is?

Jerry Lundegaard:
Well, yah, I got an idea. How's that Ciera workin' out for ya?

Carl Showalter:
Circumstances have changed, Jerry.

Jerry Lundegaard:
Well... what do ya mean?

Carl Showalter:
Things have changed. Circumstances, Jerry. Beyond the, uh, acts of God, force majeure-

Jerry Lundegaard:
What the... how's Jean?

Carl Showalter:
Who's Jean?

Jerry Lundegaard:
My wife! What the- how's...

Carl Showalter:
Oh, Jean's okay, but there's three people up in Brainerd who aren't so okay, I'll tell ya that.

Jerry Lundegaard:
What the heck're you talkin' about? Let's just finish up this deal here -

Carl Showalter:
Blood has been shed, Jerry.

Jerry Lundegaard:
What the heck ya mean?

Carl Showalter:
Three people. In Brainerd.

Jerry Lundegaard:
Oh, geez.

Carl Showalter:
That's right and we need more money.

Jerry Lundegaard:
The heck d'ya mean? What a you fellas get yourself mixed up in?

Carl Showalter:
We need more -

Jerry Lundegaard:
This was s'posed to be a no-rough-stuff-type deal...

Carl Showalter:
DON'T EVER INTERRUPT ME, JERRY! JUST SHUT THE F*** UP!

Jerry Lundegaard:
Well, I'm sorry, but I just - I -

Carl Showalter:
Look, I'm not gonna debate you, Jerry. The price is now the whole amount. We want the entire $80,000.

Jerry Lundegaard:
Oh, for Christ sakes here...

Carl Showalter:
Blood has been shed. We've incurred risks, Jerry. I'm coming into town tomorrow. Have the money ready.

Jerry Lundegaard:
Now we had a deal. A deal's a deal.

Carl Showalter:
Is it, Jerry? Why don't you ask those three poor souls in Brainerd if a deal's a deal. Go ahead, ask them!

Jerry Lundegaard:
The heck do ya mean?

Carl Showalter:
[mimicking] "The heck ya mean?" I'll see you tomorrow.

[Jerry hangs up, but the phone rings again]

Jerry Lundegaard:
YAH!

Reilly Deifenbach:
Jerome Lundegaard?

Jerry Lundegaard:
Yah.

Reilly Deifenbach:
This is Reilly Deifenbach at GMAC. Sir, I have not yet received those vehicle ID's you promised me.

Jerry Lundegaard:
Yah! I... Those are in the mail.

Reilly Deifenbach:
That very well may be. I must inform you, however, that absent the receipt of those numbers by tomorrow afternoon, I will have to refer this matter to our legal department.

Jerry Lundegaard:
Yah.

Reilly Deifenbach:
My patience is at an end.

Jerry Lundegaard:
Yah.

Reilly Deifenbach:
Good day, sir.

Jerry Lundegaard:
Yah.

[Jerry hangs up and slams his binder on his desk]