Episode

The Crocodile's Dilemma

by Adam Bernstein, Noah Hawley, Spencer Drever, Rachel Blanchard, Susan Park and 10 others

A meek, mild insurance salesman meets a rootless, manipulative stranger in the hospital, which initiates terrible and gruesome events that will change the salesman's life forever.

(5 total)

Characters

Noah Hawley (5)Billy Bob Thornton (4)Lorne Malvo (4)Allison Tolman (1)Molly Solverson (1)

“Vern Thurman: You'll make a good chief one day. Molly Solverson: Me? What about Bill? He's got seniority. Vern Thurman: Bill cleans his gun with bubble bath. No, it'll be you.”

— Noah Hawley, Molly Solverson, Allison Tolman, imdb.com

Tagged: chief, Seniority, Gun, Bubble Bath

“Let me tell you what's gonna happen, Officer Grimly. I'm going to roll my window up, then I'm going to drive away, and you're gonna go home to your daughter, and every few years, you're gonna look at her face and know that you're alive because you chose not to go down a certain road on a certain nig…”

— Noah Hawley, Lorne Malvo, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com

Tagged: Threats, Death Threat

“Lorne Malvo: You said he bullied you in high school, right? Lester Nygaard: Four years. Gave me an ulcer. You know what, one time, he put me in an oil barrel and rolled me in the road. Lorne Malvo: Seriously? And now he tells you that he had relations with your wife. He bullies you again in front of…”

— Noah Hawley, Lorne Malvo, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com

Tagged: bullying, high school, Cheating, Cuckolding

“Your problem is you spent your whole life thinking there are rules. There aren't.”

— Noah Hawley, Lorne Malvo, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com

Tagged: Rules, Anarchy

“Mister, we're not friends. I mean, maybe we will be someday. But I gotta say, if that were me in your position? I would have killed that man.”

— Noah Hawley, Lorne Malvo, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com

Tagged: Friends, Empathy