Fargo (TV Series)

The Tender Trap (2023)

Jennifer Jason Leigh: Lorraine Lyon

Quotes 

• Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead : ...I'm Sorry

  Lorraine Lyon : Don't do that. Women who apologize for things that aren't their fault might as well have a welcome mat written on their faces.

• Danish Graves : Danish Graves, Redemption Services, in case you forgot. And I have Mrs. Lyon on the phone. For you.

  Vivian Dugger : What?

  [takes the phone and cautiously brings it to his ear] 

  Vivian Dugger : Hello?

  Lorraine Lyon : Are your balls in your belly, looking for a safe place to hide? Good. Listen to me: I'm pulling the offer. That hundred million dollars is going to Mesa Prudential out in Flagstaff. What you get instead is the full might of the federal government reading the shit stains in your underwear like tea leaves.

  Vivian Dugger : Mrs. Lyon...

  Lorraine Lyon : Quiet. A grown-up is talking. I called the SEC chairman personally. And as we speak, two dozen federal agents are in your office, seizing your books. They've also frozen every personal and business bank account you've got. So... I hope you didn't give all your walking-around money to that stripper. Oh. Plus, I hear your son is starting his freshman year at, um, Notre Dame? Except, whoops.

  [Dugger's cell phone rings] 

  Lorraine Lyon : You're late on tuition. So, hmm. Oh, that ring you hear? That's your son on the other line, calling to tell you he's been expelled.

  Vivian Dugger : [sweating, breathing heavily]  Mrs. Lyon, please.

  Lorraine Lyon : Oh, "please". That's your secret weapon? Do you want to know what your mistake was? It was thinking death is the worst thing that could happen to you. So, congratulations. The sheriff's not going to kill you. Instead you're going to live the rest of your days in squalor, surrounded by the dead-eyed stares of your futureless children.

  [chuckles] 

  Lorraine Lyon : Have a nice night.

• Lorraine Lyon : [Indira passes her a file]  What's that?

  Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead : That's the history of your daughter-in-law, written in punches and chokeholds.

  Lorraine Lyon : [hesitates]  Well, I'm sure I don't need to see that. People who claim to be victims are the downfall of this country.

  Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead : Mrs. Lyon, have you ever in your life heard your daughter-in-law say that she was a victim? Of anything? You may not like it, but sometimes crimes are committed against people. They're victimized. And it's not their fault.

  Lorraine Lyon : I told him not to marry her. This whole sordid mess...

  Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead : You're saying if a woman is abused and she manages to escape, she should move to the woods, live in a tree, free from the burdens of basic human contact? God forbid she gets a fresh start, a good man to wash out the taste of the bad.

  Lorraine Lyon : I don't like your tone.

  Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead : Tough shit!

  [pause] 

  Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead : Some of us work for a living and go home to empty houses, or houses that should be empty but are instead filled with the dirty underpants of our man-child spouses. Your problem is you think that you're rich 'cause you're better than me.

  Lorraine Lyon : [scoffs]  Oh, please.

  Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead : We're the same. Up before dawn, making our mark on the world. But you know who you're really in sync with? Dorothy. Yeah. I know you don't want to see it, but let me tell you what I see. I see a woman who outsmarted two kidnappers, killed one of them and nearly killed the other, and who probably saved your son and granddaughter's lives when they came at her again at the house. I see a woman who doesn't quit, no matter what. Who won't be silenced. And, unlike you, who never complains. Even when her mother-in-law has her committed to a mental hospital. So I brought you her file, so at least you can be an educated asshole.