Fargo (TV Series)

Somebody to Love (2017)

David Thewlis: V.M. Varga

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Quotes 

• V.M. Varga : Are you familiar with the Russian saying, "The past is unpredictable"?

  Gloria Burgle : I'm pretty sure you made that up.

  V.M. Varga : Possibly. But which of us can say with certainty what has occurred, actually occurred, and what is simply rumor, misinformation, opinion?

  Gloria Burgle : A photograph is considered proof in a court of law.

  V.M. Varga : Well, photographs can be doctored. One's eyes can be deceived. We see what we believe, not the other way around.

• [last lines] 

  Gloria Burgle : Let me tell you what's gonna happen next. Three agents from Homeland Security are gonna put handcuffs on you and take you to Rikers. And then we're gonna charge you with felony money laundering and six counts of conspiracy to commit murder. And then I'm gonna go home to my son; it's his birthday tomorrow. I promised I'd take him to the state fair. You ever guess a pig's weight? Or eat a deep-fried Snickers bar? There's no better way to spend a Saturday in this, our great American experiment. So, while you're eating mashed potatoes from a box in a dark room, think of me among the amber waves of grain.

  V.M. Varga : [long pause]  No. That's not what's gonna happen next. What's gonna happen next is this. In five minutes that door is going to open, and a man you can't argue with will tell me I'm free to go. And I will stand from this chair and disappear into the world, so help me God.

  Gloria Burgle : [smiles]  Rikers and Snickers bars. You'll see.

  V.M. Varga : [chiding tone]  Agent Burgle. Gloria. Trust me. The future is certain. And when it comes, you will know without question, your place in the world. Until then, we've said all there is to say. Any further debate would be simply wasting our breath. And if there's one thing I can't abide, it's waste.

  [pause] 

  V.M. Varga : Goodbye.

• V.M. Varga : At some level, food knows it's food.

• Gloria Burgle : Six people dead, including a state trooper. $200 million unaccounted for. Those are facts. And you at the heart of the morass. What else am I supposed to see?

  V.M. Varga : A man wakes up one morning and decides to kill four men over a certain age, all with the same last name.

  Gloria Burgle : [laughs]  That didn't happen.

  V.M. Varga : And yet, if evidence is collected, if confessions are made, if a verdict of guilty is entered in a court of law, then it's happening becomes as the rocks and rivers, and to argue that it didn't happen is to argue with reality itself.

• V.M. Varga : I'm a citizen of the air, Madam... Moving, always moving.