Season

Season 2

by Bokeem Woodbine, Cristin Milioti, Jeffrey Donovan, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and 11 others

Season two's chapter takes you back to 1979 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota. Lou Solverson, a young State Police Officer recently back from Vietnam, investigates a case involving a local crime gang, a major mob syndicate and small town

(19 total)

Characters

Noah Hawley (13)Dodd Gerhardt (4)Bob DeLaurentis (4)Ben Nedivi (4)Jeffrey Donovan (4)Steve Blackman (3)Jesse Plemons (3)Mike Milligan (3)Bokeem Woodbine (3)Ed Blomquist (3)

“Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowin' we're gonna die makes life absurd. Betsy Solverson: Well, I don't know who that is. But I'm guessing he doesn't have a 6-year-old girl. Noreen Vanderslice: He's French. Betsy Solverson: Ugh, I don't care if he's from Mars. Nobody with any sense would say someth…”

— Noah Hawley, Betsy Solverson, Cristin Milioti, imdb.com

Tagged: Albert Camus, Existentialism, french, Mars, Foolishness

“Mike Milligan: Sovereignty is absolute power and authority. Ricky G: Like a king? Mike Milligan: Exactly. Which is who I am —your king. Ricky G: Uh, it's America, brother. We don't do kings.”

— Noah Hawley, Mike Milligan, Bokeem Woodbine, imdb.com

Tagged: Sovereignty, kings, Monarchy, America

“Ed Blomquist: Today's your lucky day, Mike. I've got Dodd Gerhardt in the trunk of my car. You want him? Mike Milligan: Sir, if I kiss you when we meet, would that be inappropriate?”

— Bob DeLaurentis, Ed Blomquist, Jesse Plemons, imdb.com

Tagged: Murder, Sadism

“Jeb Cheney: You Minnesota boys don't got much in the way of backbone, now, do ya? Hank Larsson: Well, now, I wouldn't say that. Just like to think things through.”

— Steve Blackman, Noah Hawley, Sheriff Hank Larsson, Ted Danson, imdb.com

Tagged: Minnesota, Backbone

“Ed Blomquist: Maybe you heard of me—the Butcher of Luverne. Mike Milligan: I have heard of you. And may I say, brother, I like your style.”

— Bob DeLaurentis, Ed Blomquist, Jesse Plemons, imdb.com

Tagged: murderers, style, Hybristophilia

“Mike Milligan: There's a man. Ben Schmidt: What—what man? Mike Milligan: Just a man. He works in a factory. One day, the boss gets it in his mind that this man is stealing from him. So, every night at the gate, the guards search his wheelbarrow. But they never find anything. Ben Schmidt: Pat him dow…”

— Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi, Noah Hawley, Mike Milligan, Bokeem Woodbine, imdb.com

Tagged: parables, Stories, Fables, Wheelbarrows, Occam's Razor

“Son, I could fill out a steamer trunk with the amount of stupid I think you are.”

— Noah Hawley, Hank Larrson, Ted Danson, imdb.com

Tagged: Stupid, insults, Sick Burns

“A whore's life is five good years, five bad years, and then some half-dick sweat stain grinds you out like a cigarette. Like a goddamn spent cigarette.”

— Noah Hawley, Dodd Gerhardt, Jeffrey Donovan, imdb.com

Tagged: Whore, Prostitute, used up, dick, small dick

“Bear Gerhardt: There's gonna be a reckoning one day, brother. All souls are called to account for their actions. In the end, we all get what we deserve. Dodd Gerhardt: You keep telling yourself that.”

— Noah Hawley, Ben Nedivi, Bear Gerhardt, Angus Sampson, imdb.com

Tagged: Reckoning, Karma, Souls, last judgment

“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?”

— Steve Blackman, Joe Bulo, Brad Garrett, imdb.com

Tagged: family business, Murder, dismemberment, Loyalty

“She was a true gloom, my mother. We used to eat in the dark. For a laugh, I wrote on her tombstone, 'Here lies Barbara Milligan, happy till the end.' Me, on the other hand, I'm an optimist.”

— Noah Hawley, Ben Nedivi, Mike Milligan, Bokeem Woodbine, imdb.com

Tagged: gloom, bummer, depressing, Tombstone, Epitaph

“Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowing we're all gonna die makes life a joke. Ed Blomquist: So what, you just—you just give up? Noreen Vanderslice: You could kill yourself, get it over with.”

— Noah Hawley, Ben Nedivi, Ed Blomquist, Jesse Plemons, imdb.com

Tagged: Albert Camus, Suicide, Life, Existentialism, Give Up

“Nobody killed a judge. We own all the judges. What'd be the point of killing one?”

— Bob DeLaurentis, Dodd Gerhardt, Jeffrey Donovan, imdb.com

Tagged: Judges, judicial corruption, payoffs, Bribery

“Peggy Blomquist: We got a plan, you know? Constance Heck: The word 'we' is a castle, hon, with a moat and a drawbridge. And you know what gets locked up in castles? Peggy Blomquist: Dragons? Constance Heck: Princesses. Don't be a prisoner of ‘we.’”

— Noah Hawley, Peggy Blomquist, Kirsten Dunst, imdb.com

Tagged: plans, castles, dragons, Prisoner

“Simone Gerhardt: You know what depresses me? I missed the '60s—free love, drop acid, Woodstock. Wake up one day, decide you want to call yourself Flower Rainblossom, you just call yourself Flower Rainblossom. Mike Milligan: Yeah, but the '70s were always coming, like a—what do you...A hangover. And…”

— Steve Blackman, Simone Gerhardt, Rachel Keller, imdb.com

Tagged: 1960s, 1970s, woodstock, LSD, Hangover

“Hanzee Dent: No drugs, your dad says. Says anyone sells to you gets the axe. Simone Gerhardt: Geez, you're all a bunch of squares. Sometimes a girl just wants to bust a nut, ya know?”

— Bob DeLaurentis, Hanzee Dent, Zahn Tokiya-ku McClarnon , imdb.com

Tagged: Drugs, bust a nut, squares

“Lou Solverson: It's a diner robbery in Minnesota, Karl. Not a presidential assassination. Karl Weathers: Oh, sure. That's how it starts—with something small, like a break-in at the Watergate Hotel. But just watch. This thing's only getting bigger.”

— Noah Hawley, Karl Weathers, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

Tagged: Presidential Assassination, Minnesota, Robbery, Watergate

“Dodd Gerhardt: You got till tomorrow to bring the collection money you owe. Rye Gerhardt: Or what? Dodd Gerhardt: You make me wait for you again, I'll cleave your skull.”

— Noah Hawley, Dodd Gerhardt, Jeffrey Donovan, imdb.com

Tagged: collection money, Extortion, Death Threats

“Rye Gerhardt: I'm a man. Dodd Gerhardt: You're the comic in a piece of bubble gum!”

— Noah Hawley, Dodd Gerhardt, Jeffrey Donovan, imdb.com

Tagged: Man, Bubble Gum, comic, Insult, unmanly