Fargo Flashcards
Enter room nervously.
JERRY
I’m, uh, Jerry Lundegaard -
YOUNGER MAN
You’re Jerry Lundegaard?
JERRY
Yah, Shep Proudfoot said -
YOUNGER MAN
Shep said you’d be here at 7:30.
What gives, man?
JERRY
Shep said 8:30.
YOUNGER MAN
We been sitting here an hour.
I’ve peed three times already.
JERRY
I’m sure sorry. I - Shep told me 8:30. It was a mix-up, I guess.
YOUNGER MAN
Ya got the car?
JERRY
Yah, you bet. It’s in the lot there. Brand new burnt umber Ciera.
YOUNGER MAN
Yeah, okay. Well, siddown then. I’m Carl Showalter and this is my associate Gaar Grimsrud.
JERRY
Yah, how ya doin’. So, uh, we all set on this thing, then?
YOUNGER MAN
Sure, Jerry, we’re all set. Why wouldn’t we be?
JERRY
Yah, no, I’m sure you are. Shep vouched for you and all. I got every confidence in you fellas.
(They stare at him. An awkward beat.)
JERRY
…. So I guess that’s it, then. Here’s the keys -
CARL
No, that’s not it, Jerry.
JERRY
Huh?
CARL
The new vehicle, plus forty thousand dollars.
JERRY
Yah, but the deal was, the car first, see, then the forty thousand, like as if it was the ransom. I thought Shep told you -
CARL
Shep didn’t tell us much, Jerry.
JERRY
Well, okay, it’s -
CARL
Except that you were gonna be here at 7:30.
JERRY
Yah, well, that was a mix-up, then.
CARL
Yeah, you already said that.
JERRY
Yah. but it’s not a whole pay-in-advance deal. I give you a brand new vehicle in advance and -
CARL
I’m not gonna debate you, Jerry.
JERRY
Okay.
CARL
I’m not gonna sit here and debate. I will say this though: what Shep told us didn’t make a whole lot of sense.
JERRY
Oh, no, it’s real sound. It’s all worked out.
