"United States Marines would be successful in pushing back North Korean troops surging south across the 38th parallel." "Truman offered unlimited military aid to South Korea without seeking an official declaration of war from Congress." "The world, Mr. Lawrence, is now experiencing strange astronomical phenomena." "Reports have come in from all over the globe of inexplicable objects..." "Gotta check ya, Otto." "Surely, you're not telling me a scientist like yourself believes such nonsense." "No, I'm not telling you that." "Dodd." "Like the heads of Easter Island." "What?" "Not a sound." "Cheech says we're going to the moon." "You and Cheech?" "No, ya moron." "America." "I told him, don't be stupid." "We got too many gooks to kill." "That Mao Tse Dung thinks he's gonna run the whole show." "Be king o' the world." "Is that what you want?" "Be king, like your dad?" "Sit on my throne?" "The way I see it, you're on his throne." "Hey, kill the king, be the king." "That's the world." "If you're feeling sour about it, write a letter to Napoleon." "Or maybe you've come to get your revenge." "Me?" "Nah." "I just want a seat at the table." "There ain't no table." "There's me." "Everybody else sits on the floor." "So what're you waiting for?" "Sit." "Avert your eyes." "I love this part." "Stupid to bring your kid." "Boy's gotta learn how men are." "Yeah." "But it's the last lesson he'll ever..." "We should have waited until daylight..." "Dodd." "Dodd." "Dodd!" "Thought Hanzee goes with you on jobs." "Half-breed is in Luverne looking for your uncle." "You're what, 15 now?" "Seventeen." "Small for your age." "What?" "Your dad wants you to be some kinda professional?" "You know, a lawyer, probably." "Yeah?" "I suppose we could use a lawyer." "Is that what you want, though?" "Punch a clock?" "Always thought I could do what you do." "Bust heads?" "How does that work with one arm?" "I can shoot a gun." "Yeah, but what happens when you need to reload?" "I'll show you." "Pull over." "Pull over." "Okay, Wild Bill." "How does this work?" "Ready?" "Mmm-hmm." "Look at you." "So, what do you need me to do?" "Get in the car." "Tough guy." "Think I got your dial tone" "Think I got Billy Baxter's bone" "Son of a bitch." "I think I got a Big Mac attack" "Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce" "Special orders don't upset us" "All we ask is that you let us serve it your way" "There he is." "Joe Bulo says to say hi." "Whatcha gonna do, big boy?" "Give us a kiss?" "You want a kiss?" "I'll give you a kiss." "My wrist!" "Kiss the man, son." "Hurry, before he gets that sticker." "He's still standing." "Hit him again." "Hit him again!" "Give me a chocolate glaze and..." "And..." "An old-fashioned." "An old-fashioned?" "Come on, get some zip in ya." "It's on them." "Well, it's a war." "Nixon declared it." ""The war on cancer."" "As long as it's not a war on me." "No, no." "It's not against you." "It's a war against your body." "Well, that doesn't sound..." "Our doctor said..." "Dr. Gerber?" "Mmm-hmm." "Right, Dr. Gerber said a few weeks of chemo." "He said they caught it early." "He thought a few weeks of chemo and, well, he thought she'd be out of the woods." "Your blood work and your X-rays." "These are not, as they say, good." "I'm getting worse." "Well, if by "worse" you mean the cancer's spreading, then, yes." "But there is a trial." "A clinical trial that might be beneficial." "Yeah." "Yeah, of course." "Mmm-hmm." "We'll try anything." "It's a new drug." "Let's call it Xanadu." "Is that its name?" "No, that's just what they're calling it for the trial." "This drug, Xanadu, it has shown promise." "And I'll be getting that drug?" "As part of the trial." "Yes." "That or a placebo." "A placebo?" "Um..." "Uh..." "Yeah, I don't understand." "You see, in order to ascertain the effectiveness of a drug, it has to be judged in a controlled setting against an equal number of patients that are not getting the drug." "And those patients, the ones not getting the drug, they get..." "Well, it's like a Smartie." "You know Smarties?" "Well, hold on." "I'm confused." "You said" "Betsy would be part of the trial, so..." "Am I getting the real drug or the fake drug?" "That I can't say." "Shall I sign you up?" "That one stuck for sure." "Ed?" "Yeah." "I gotta pee." "Sure." "Oh." "Might just have ourselves a fall baby if we're..." "I mean, can you imagine?" "You, me, and a baby?" "And I'll buy the shop, and we'll live like three pigs in a blanket." "Probably need more space, though." "What's that, hon?" "A bigger house." "Not right away, of course." "I mean, if we have two, let's say a boy and a girl, then they'll need their own..." "You know, and a yard if we get a dog..." "Anyway, might have to wait on that seminar." "What?" "Yeah, I thought about it and we just can't afford it right now." "Not with buying the butcher shop." "That's $500 for..." "Unless we find a cheaper one." "A cheaper course?" "Yeah." "Well, what?" "So I can be a less good me?" "No, I..." "I'm saying, on the list of priorities," "you know, this is our future." "The shop and, you know, all that other stuff, the knitting class or..." "It's not a knitting class." "It's gonna help me reach my full potential." "Of course, and I know that." "But, hon, you are so great now." "I'm not sure if I could handle it if you got any better." "Better get dressed, yeah." "Now we got all that mess cleaned up, today's the first day of the rest of our lives." "Help ya?" "Got some cars for sale 'round back." "This one's a repair." "'65 Corvair." ""Light-handed, light-footed, light-hearted."" "I'm not sure what that means." "Oh, ah!" "No, can't have ya looking inside." "See, I'm entrusted with the safety of the customers' effects." "Part of the code, so..." "Excuse me?" "All right?" "That's..." "Like I said, what's for sale is outside." "He known to you?" "Oh, Ed?" "Yeah." "Yeah, he's a butcher." "I mean..." "No, uh, no, never seen him before." "Butcher where?" "All right, see, that's..." "Now you got me thinking you're up to some shady doings, mister..." "All right..." "Look, I was in Nam, yeah?" "Out there they called me Mad Dog, so..." "You watch your..." "Do you miss it?" "What?" "The country." "You know, the wet, the heat, the bugs." "Do you miss it?" "God, no." "It's this quiet I can't get used to." "This frozen winter." "Yeah, well..." "Can't argue with ya." "Did you work the tunnels?" "The..." ""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?" "You gotta push their faces down into the dirt so they don't scream and wake the others." "Whoo!" "Where on God's green earth do you keep the plunger?" "Is there a problem here, Sonny?" "I dunno." "Of course you don't." "Friend, is there a problem?" "He's got a knife, Karl." "Ya, Sonny." "I got eyes." "I said, do we got a problem?" "He seemed real angry." "Yeah, I got that part." "Any other Einstein insights you can share with me?" "An Indian." "I think." "Get the phone, kid." "We better alert the local constable." "The..." "The sheriff, you idiot." "Yeah." "Surprised me there at the end." "Your finger." "Ya like that?" "Didn't say I liked it." "Said you surprised me." "You got that bump, then?" "I'm worried your family's gonna go the wrong way on this thing." "Floyd's smart." "She'll take the money." "What about your dad?" "Him?" "You probably gotta kill him." "And you're okay with that?" "Ya know what depresses me?" "I missed the '60s." "Free love, drop acid, Woodstock." "Wake up one day, decide you wanna call yourself Flower Rain Blossom?" "You just call yourself Flower Rain Blossom." "Yeah, but the '70s were always coming like a..." "What do you..." "A hangover." "And you know what happened to Flower Rain Blossom?" "She's on methadone in Bismarck, turning tricks for breakfast meat." "I know, but at least I would have had fun." "Be free." "Like how you get to dream before you wake up." "I saw the Indian left town yesterday." "Hanzee?" "Dad sent him to find Rye." "He shot a judge, I heard." "So he's either hiding out now or dead." "Either way, could be gone for good." "You're boring me." "I thought we were gonna have some fun." "We had fun, darling." "All I know is, I can still feel your finger in my ass." "That was my thumb." "So, the sit-down today." "You think Floyd says yes?" "Takes the deal?" "What I hear?" "She's got a compromise." "Give some, keep some." "Is that Otto's idea?" "Grandpa?" "No." "He's a legume." "They're taking him to the doctor later, see if they can stop the drooling." "Is that right?" "Which doctor?" "Thought I'd take Molly ice fishing this weekend." "Bring something more than just jerky this time." "That's what my dad brought." "Yeah." "But she's six and she's a girl." "Gonna have to learn this stuff." "So..." "Should I be..." "I don't know, uh..." "Treating you any different?" "Please don't." "Well, you let me know." "Mmm-hmm." "Better get inside and take my sugar pills." "State Car 18, come back." "Over." "Uh, that's me..." "Yeah, I know." "Go, I'll be fine." "State Car 18, come back." "Over." "Indian buck." "Had, like, a rat face." "Didn't much like the look of him." "Scared me a little." "Sorry." "Took Betsy to a specialist." "And?" "Uh, well, there's a trial." "Clinical." "New drug, so..." "Uh, we signed up for that." "What did I miss here?" "Uh, well, uh..." "Well, this Indian fella put a scare to Sonny." "Luckily, Karl was nearby stressing the plumbing, scared the Indian off." "What was he was doing exactly, this, uh, Indian?" "I found him out here in the bay, looking over Ed's car." "Seemed real interested." "Ed Renner?" "No." "Ed Blumquist." "You know, works Bud's butcher shop." "Wife's car, technically." "Got some front-end damage, you can see." "As in, front-end damage like the kind you get running down a gunman who just shot up three people at the Waffle Hut?" "The what now?" "No, no, this was from a accident yesterday." "Bluth took the report." "Said the Blumquists hit a tree off Ice Patch Junction." "Tree branch went through the window." "Lucky the wife wasn't killed." "Hit it coming and going?" "Yeah, I saw that." "Peggy said garage door bit her in the back, but I found bits o' wood in the bumper so..." "I'm not saying she's lying but, you know, well..." "Hey." "Burning it at both ends, huh?" "Yeah." "You gonna get that?" "Yeah." "Thank you for sitting with me here today, and for giving us time to consider your offer." "I've asked the bank to arbitrate, as neutral party." "Whatever makes you comfortable." "This is your town." "Where's Mr. Milligan?" "Another matter." "Back in Kansas City." "So, we've given you 48 hours to consider." "Do we have a deal?" "No." "But I have a counter offer." "A respectful one." "Instead of a straight sale, us to you, we pay you one million, cash money, plus 20%% of our territory in Minnesota." "We also discount transportation fees on all Kansas City merchandise," "25%% for the first five years." "In exchange, we retain full control of our remaining operations." "The Gerhardt family still runs North Dakota, but with Kansas City." "A partnership, not a sale." "That's our offer to you." "And we believe it's more than fair." "I see." "Now..." "I don't know." "Maybe when you look at me you see an old woman." "And I am 61." "I've borne six children." "Had three miscarriages." "Two of my sons are here today." "Two were stillborn." "My firstborn, Elron, killed in Korea." "Gook sniper took off half his head." "The point is..." "Don't assume just because I'm an old woman that my back is weak and my stomach is not strong." "I make this counter because a deal is always better than war." "But no mistake." "We'll fight to keep what's ours to the last man." "You're a good woman." "I wish I had known your husband." "No." "My husband would have killed you where you stood the first time you met." "So be glad you're talking to his wife." "Then that's what I'm glad for." "And if it were up to me, I would take your counter." "Partner up." "Except..." "I got to admit, I just wonder, if we make this deal, split the territory, we move in, can you guarantee your boys will abide?" "My sons listen to their mother." "Good." "Okay." "Except here are two of my men, assaulted just this morning in the appropriation of donuts by your oldest." "Attacked in peacetime, during a period of deliberation, without provocation." "Oh, I was provoked." "Hush." "My sons will abide." "Ah, see, see, that's the problem with a family business." "Now, if one of my men defies me, puts a deal in jeopardy, I take his arm." "If he talks out of turn, I take his tongue." "But you, your children, your grandchildren, what are you willing to do to show us you're committed?" "I'll deal with my son." "This partnership will hold." "Come on." "You're gonna let this guy come here and disrespect us?" "Disrespect Pop?" "Quiet!" "A bunch o' fruits in ties!" "And your pocket protectors?" "I'll pick my teeth..." " Take him out!" " Fricking teeth." "Jeez, get off me!" "I apologize." "He's a proud man." "His father built an empire, and he just wants what's his." "He'll fall into line." "No." "I don't think he will." "Hold up." "Who's the dumb-ass?" "Go around to the passenger seat." "Slide across." "Hurry up." "Hurry up!" "Well, what's the hold up?" "Think maybe I flooded it." "Take him inside!" "Go!" "Joe Bulo says hi." "Your counter has been rejected." "And now we're lowering our price by two million." "But because I respect you and your family," "I'm gonna give you the night to think it over." "Anything other than unconditional surrender and we'll wipe every last Gerhardt off the face of the Earth." "Hey, Bud." "Where the heck did you go yesterday?" "Yeah, I'm real sorry about that." "Peg had a kinda emergency, and you know." ". ." "Well..." "You know that check you gave me?" "For the down payment?" "Yeah?" "Yeah, it bounced." "No." "That's not..." "I checked the account myself." "But anyway, I got the funds." "Well, I don't know about that." "It's just, the check you gave me didn't clear, so you know..." "There's this other buyer, up in Sleepy Eye, wants to be closer to his sick mother, yeah." "He offered more than you, and..." "I'm moving to Florida, so..." "Bud, no." "I got the funds." "Yeah, just let me call over there, straighten this thing out." "Yeah, so it's Tuesday." "Figure we'd agree Friday." "If you don't got the money, I'll go ahead and sell to him." "The other buyer." "Like I said, he's up in Sleepy Eye." "Take a look at that grinder, will ya?" "It's making a funny noise." "Jeez, hon." "Where's your coat?" "Hon, did..." "Did you..." "We talked about this." "Yeah, didn't we talk about this?" "What happened?" "Something with the car?" "Did they find blood?" "No, no." "This is about the shop." "Yeah?" "And we shook on it." "Bud and me." "I wrote a check for the down payment." "And now I am hearing..." "Hon..." "He said the check bounced." "Insufficient funds." "So I call over there, and..." "We agreed, right?" "Well, we never..." "I thought..." "You told me." "But I never..." "Well, now there's another buyer up in" "Sleepy Eye and he's gonna get the shop." "Well, he can't do that." "You shook on it." "Yeah, but the check bounced!" "Insufficient funds." "We talked about this." "Well, if you mean you talked and then I also talked, then, yeah, I guess," "but not really sure you heard anything I said." "Yeah, I..." "Hon..." "I'm sorry." "I am." "But you know, this course, the one I've been telling ya about," "Lifespring, it's real important." "Yeah." "More important than the shop?" "Maybe." "I mean, to me." "Well, I mean, you got to get the money back." "Right away." "I mean, just call them and tell them you're sorry, but you need the money." "Ed, it's... 'Cause on Friday he sells to the fella up in Sleepy Eye, and then we're" "screwed." "Everything okay?" "I need the money back." "For the course?" "Sent that on already." "I need it back!" "Ed says we could lose the shop!" "Oh, Ed says." "Well, then, stop the presses." "Come here." "Sit down." "I..." "Look in that mirror, hon." "Tell me what you see." "I dunno." "A girl?" "You get your period?" "Then what girl?" "That's a woman." "A strong, beautiful, vibrant woman." "And no man should be able to tell you what to do." "Not with your body or your money." "How much I been paying you here?" "Six hundred a month." "And you been saving?" "Ed and I put away one third every week minus the occasional..." "So, 200?" "And you gave me five for the course." "So that's two-and-a-half months' savings." "Your money." "For you to spend as you please." "But I get it." "It's what we do." "We surrender our needs to the needs of men to our great detriment." "But no more." "Say it with me." "No more." "No more." "That's right." "You're gonna go to Sioux Falls and you're gonna take this course, and you're gonna be the best Peggy Blumquist you can be, and no one's ever gonna tell you how to live your life again." "What the heck?" "Ooh." "You need to invite me in." "I could make some coffee." "None for me." "Thanks." "Saw your car." "At the shop." "Yeah." "I slipped on some ice on the way to work." "My fault really." "I was going on about something." "Ran right off the road into a tree." "Lucky Peggy wasn't killed." "Hmm." "Something wrong?" "No, I just..." "I'm sorry." "Come in." "Sit down." "Please." "I wanna be clear about something." "I can help, but you gotta be straight with me." "Well, what..." "If I check the car, the interior," "I'm not gonna find blood?" "Oh, well, Ed hurt his neck, but..." "That's why I got the..." "No blood." "You didn't fight, did you, Ed?" "In the war." "No, sir." "4-F on account I got the one kidney, so..." "There's a look a boy gets when he's been shot." "Or a landmine takes off his legs." "And he's laying there in the mud, trying to get up, 'cause he doesn't feel it yet." "I don't..." "His brain hasn't caught up with the reality, which is he's already dead." "Ed, he's scaring me." "But we see it." "The rest of us." "And we lie." "We say, "Lay still." "You're gonna be fine."" "If you'd been to war, you'd know the look." "See, you and Peggy, you got the look." "You still think it's Tuesday." "You have no idea what's coming." "Lou, I'm really trying to be straight with you here." "We hit some ice." "And..." "That's all, I mean, it could've happened to anyone." "Ed wasn't even speeding." "That man you hit?" "His name was Rye Gerhardt." "Hit a tree." "We told ya." "I mean, we were arguing, and Ed turned his head." "It happened in a flash." "Rye Gerhardt." "And his family hurts people for money." "And they're coming." "May be here already." "And my point is, 'cause I'm tired o' talking, if you did something, you made a mistake, you panicked, maybe covered it up, now's the time to say." "Right now." "'Cause we can still fix this." "But if I'm right, that window's closing and you may already be dead." " Look..." " This is..." "You're out of line." "I mean, we..." "We want you to leave." "No offense but we're asking you to leave." "Is that true, Ed?" "Ed?" "Is that true?" "You're asking me to leave?" "You know, Lou, that's probably for the best, yeah." "It was an accident." "That's all it was." "Okay." "Do yourself a favor." "Lock the door." "Ma?" "Everyone's together." "We need to know..." "What do you wanna do?" "It's war." "Hon?" "Yeah, it's me." "You should go back to bed, huh?" "You expecting someone?" "Not really, couldn't sleep." "I think you got the real pill." "Yeah?" "You hope or you think?" "We're just out of balance." "You and me?" "Whole world." "We used to know right from wrong." "A moral center." "Now..." "You should go into bed." "I'm gonna sit out here for a while." "Make sure we're, I dunno, safe."