lester nygaard is a pathetic little man but i genuinely applaud his ability to be an absolute ingenious bastard under serious pressure
give yourself a concussion to throw off the police?
taser your kidnapper?
steal the clothes of and swap places with the cancer patient in the bed next to you so you can escape the hospital briefly?
use your wifes romantic obsession with your brother to implicate him in her murder?
plant a gun on your nephew so the police will be forced to search the home?
lie to the chief of police and use his sympathy against him?
bash a hitman in the face with your good boy award?
put your new wife in your signature coat so the killer chasing you thinks she’s you?
pretend you’re waiting for your wife so you order food for the two of you at a diner then sneak out the back to call the police so they think you had no involvement in the crime??
THE BEARTRAP UNDER THE CLOTHES??
somehow on this list i forgot “hiding the murder weapon in the back of the washing machine” which genuinely made me shout because like he’s so fucking smart and for what
“It’s like a nature program. When you see a shark swimming in the ocean, you’re not judging the shark. We don’t judge Malvo because he’s not pretending to be anything else. The violence he does to the social contract is almost worse than what he does to people. Getting the kid to piss in the gas tank or getting the Supermarket King to give him a million dollars, those things are of equal value to him. He’s just trying to see how far he can push the human animal.”
