Harve Presnell credited as playing...
Wade Gustafson
- Carl Showalter: Who the fuck are you?
- [Wade doesn't answer]
- Carl Showalter: WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?
- Wade Gustafson: I got your damn money. Now, where's my daughter?
- Carl Showalter: I am through fuckin' around here! Drop that fuckin' briefcase!
- Wade Gustafson: Where's my daughter?
- Carl Showalter: Fuck you, man! Where's Jerry? I gave simple fuckin' instructions!
- Wade Gustafson: Where's my damn daughter? No Jean, no money!
- Carl Showalter: Drop that fuckin' money!
- Wade Gustafson: No Jean, no money!
- Carl Showalter: Is this a fuckin' joke here?
- [shoots Wade]
- Wade Gustafson: [as he sinks to his knees and falls back] Aww, Jeez.
- Carl Showalter: Happy now, asshole? What's with you people? Ya fuckin' imbeciles!
- [as Carl reaches for the briefcase, Wade shoots him in the face]
- Carl Showalter: Ah! You fuckin' shot me!
- [Carl shoots Wade six more times, screams, then kicks the dead Wade twice]
- Carl Showalter: You fuck!
- [takes briefcase]
- Jerry Lundegaard: [Jerry and Wade discuss business opportunity] This could work out real good for me and Jean and Scotty.
- Wade Gustafson: [coldly] Jean and Scotty never have to worry.
- Wade Gustafson: What kind of finders fee are you looking for?
- Jerry Lundegaard: Huh?
- Stan Grossman: The financials are pretty through. The only thing we don't know is your fee.
- Jerry Lundegaard: My fee? Wade, what the heck you talking about?
- Wade Gustafson: Stan and I are okay. We gotta load in. But we never talked about your fee for bringing it to us.
- Jerry Lundegaard: Wade, no. I was bringing you this deal for you to loan me the money to put in. It's my deal here, see?
- Stan Grossman: Jerry, we thought you were bringing us an investment.
- Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, right.
- Stan Grossman: But you're saying that... what are you saying?
- Wade Gustafson: You're saying that we put in all the money and you collect when it pays off?
- [both Wade and Stan laugh]
- Jerry Lundegaard: [getting nervous; stammering again] No... it's just... I'd pay you back the principle and interest. Heck, I'd go... one over prime.
- Stan Grossman: We're not a bank, Jerry.
- Wade Gustafson: If I wanted a bank interest loan on $750,000 I'd go to Midwest Federal and and talk to old Bill Deal.
- Stan Grossman: Does he work at North Star now?
- Jerry Lundegaard: No, no, it just... I... I don't need a finders fee. Finder's fee that's... what? Ten percent? Heck, that's not gonna do it for me. I need the principle!
- Stan Grossman: Jerry, we're not going to just give you $750,000 of our money.
- Wade Gustafson: What the heck were your thinking? If I am getting bank interest, I want complete security. Heck, FDIC. I don't see nothing like that here.
- Jerry Lundegaard: [getting desperate] Yah, but... it's... I... just... I guarantee all your money back with interest when the deal starts paying. You have my word.
- Wade Gustafson: I'm not talking about your damn word here, Jerry! What the hell were you thinking? Jesus! Look... I don't want to cut you out of the loop here. This here is a good deal. I assume that if you are not interested in getting a finders fee, you won't mind if we move on with the deal independently.
- Scotty Lundegaard: [finishing supper] May I be excused?
- Jerry Lundegaard: Ya done, there?
- Scotty Lundegaard: Yah. Can I go out?
- Jean Lundegaard: Where ya goin'?
- Scotty Lundegaard: Just to McDonalds.
- Jerry Lundegaard: Be back at 9:30.
- [Scotty exits]
- Wade Gustafson: He just ate - he didn't finish! He's goin' to McDonalds instead of finishin' here.
- Jean Lundegaard: He sees his friends there. It's okay.
- Wade Gustafson: It's okay, MAC-Donalds. Heh. Whaddya think they do there? They don't drink milkshakes, I assure you.
- Jean Lundegaard: It's okay, Dad!
- Jerry Lundegaard: Wade, have ya had a chance to think about, uhm, that deal I was talkin' about, those forty acres there on Wayzata?
- Wade Gustafson: You told me about it.
- Jerry Lundegaard: Yeah, you said you'd have a think about it. I understand it's a lot of money.
- Wade Gustafson: A heck of a lot. What'd you say you were gonna put there?
- Jerry Lundegaard: A lot. It's a limited...
- Wade Gustafson: I know it's a lot.
- Jerry Lundegaard: I mean a parking lot.
- Wade Gustafson: Yeah, well, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a lot.
- Wade Gustafson: I give these sons a bitches a million dollars, where's my guarantee they're gonna let her go.
- Jerry Lundegaard: Well, they...
- Wade Gustafson: A million dollars is a lot a damn money!
- Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, but they...
- Wade Gustafson: And there they are, they got my daughter!
- Jean Lundegaard: [chopping vegetables] Hiya, hon! Welcome back! How was Fargo?
- Jerry Lundegaard: Yah, real good now.
- Jean Lundegaard: Dad's here.
- [Jerry's mood changes as he hears this news]
- Jerry Lundegaard: Is he stayin' for supper then?
- Jean Lundegaard: I dunno... I think so. Dad?
- Wade Gustafson: What?
- Jean Lundegaard: [thick Minnesota accent] You stayin' for supperrrrr?
- Wade Gustafson: Yah!