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MIKE
I thought, geez, is that Margie
Olmstead? I can’’t believe it!
MARGE
Yah, that’’s me.
MIKE
Well, how the heck are ya?
MARGE
Okay, ya know. Okay.
MIKE
Yah?
MARGE
Yah - how are you doon?
MIKE
Oh, pretty good.
MARGE
Heck, it’’s been such a long time,
Mike. It’’s great to hear from ya.
MIKE
Yah…… Yah, yah. Geeze, Margie!
GUSTAFSON OLDS GARAGE
Jerry is on the sales floor, showing a customer a vehicle.
JERRY
Yah, ya got yer, this loaded here,
this has yer independent, uh, yer
slipped differential, uh, yer rack-
and-pinion steering, yer alarm and
radar, and I can give it to ya with
a heck of a sealant, this TruCoat
stuff, it’’ll keep the salt off -
CUSTOMER
Yah, I don’’t need no sealant though.
JERRY
Yah, you don’’t need that. Now
were you thinking of financing here?
You oughta be aware a this GMAC
plan they have now, it’’s really
super -
ANOTHER SALESMAN
Jerry, ya got a call here.
JERRY
Yah, okay.
JERRY’’S CUBICLE
He sits in and picks up his phone.
JERRY
Jerry Lundegaard.
VOICE
All right, Jerry, you got this
phone to yourself?
JERRY
Well …… yah.
VOICE
Know who this is?
JERRY
Well, yah, I got an idea. How’’s
that Ciera workin’’ out for ya?
VOICE
Circumstances have changed, Jerry.
JERRY
Well, what do ya mean?
VOICE
Things have changed. Circumstances,
Jerry. Beyond the, uh …… acts of
God, force majeure……
JERRY
What the - how’’s Jean?
A beat.
CARL
…… Who’’s Jean?
JERRY
My wife! What the - how’’s -
CARL
Oh, Jean’’s okay. But there’’s
three people up in Brainerd who
aren’’t so okay, I’’ll tell ya that.
JERRY
What the heck’’re you talkin’’ about?
Let’’s just finish up this deal
here -
CARL
Blood has been shed, Jerry.
Jerry sits dumbly. The voice solemnly repeats:
CARL
…… Blood has been shed.
JERRY
What the heck d’’ya mean?
CARL
Three people. In Brainerd.
JERRY
Oh, geez.
CARL
That’’s right. And we need more
money.
JERRY
The heck d’’ya mean? What a you
guys got yourself mixed up in?
CARL
We need more -
JERRY
This was s’’posed to be a no-rough
-stuff-type deal -
CARL
DON’’T EVER INTERRUPT ME, JERRY!
JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!
JERRY
Well, I’’m sorry, but I just - I -
I thought, geez, is that Margie
Olmstead? I can’’t believe it!
MARGE
Yah, that’’s me.
MIKE
Well, how the heck are ya?
MARGE
Okay, ya know. Okay.
MIKE
Yah?
MARGE
Yah - how are you doon?
MIKE
Oh, pretty good.
MARGE
Heck, it’’s been such a long time,
Mike. It’’s great to hear from ya.
MIKE
Yah…… Yah, yah. Geeze, Margie!
GUSTAFSON OLDS GARAGE
Jerry is on the sales floor, showing a customer a vehicle.
JERRY
Yah, ya got yer, this loaded here,
this has yer independent, uh, yer
slipped differential, uh, yer rack-
and-pinion steering, yer alarm and
radar, and I can give it to ya with
a heck of a sealant, this TruCoat
stuff, it’’ll keep the salt off -
CUSTOMER
Yah, I don’’t need no sealant though.
JERRY
Yah, you don’’t need that. Now
were you thinking of financing here?
You oughta be aware a this GMAC
plan they have now, it’’s really
super -
ANOTHER SALESMAN
Jerry, ya got a call here.
JERRY
Yah, okay.
JERRY’’S CUBICLE
He sits in and picks up his phone.
JERRY
Jerry Lundegaard.
VOICE
All right, Jerry, you got this
phone to yourself?
JERRY
Well …… yah.
VOICE
Know who this is?
JERRY
Well, yah, I got an idea. How’’s
that Ciera workin’’ out for ya?
VOICE
Circumstances have changed, Jerry.
JERRY
Well, what do ya mean?
VOICE
Things have changed. Circumstances,
Jerry. Beyond the, uh …… acts of
God, force majeure……
JERRY
What the - how’’s Jean?
A beat.
CARL
…… Who’’s Jean?
JERRY
My wife! What the - how’’s -
CARL
Oh, Jean’’s okay. But there’’s
three people up in Brainerd who
aren’’t so okay, I’’ll tell ya that.
JERRY
What the heck’’re you talkin’’ about?
Let’’s just finish up this deal
here -
CARL
Blood has been shed, Jerry.
Jerry sits dumbly. The voice solemnly repeats:
CARL
…… Blood has been shed.
JERRY
What the heck d’’ya mean?
CARL
Three people. In Brainerd.
JERRY
Oh, geez.
CARL
That’’s right. And we need more
money.
JERRY
The heck d’’ya mean? What a you
guys got yourself mixed up in?
CARL
We need more -
JERRY
This was s’’posed to be a no-rough
-stuff-type deal -
CARL
DON’’T EVER INTERRUPT ME, JERRY!
JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!
JERRY
Well, I’’m sorry, but I just - I -
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