'Fargo' scoop: Season 2 detail and premiere script page

Fargo is going back in time to 1979 for season two, and EW has a first look at a page from the season premiere script.

Expect another snow-swept rural crime drama loosely inspired by the Coen brothers' film, only this time the action is set in Luverne, Minnesota, where humble married couple Peggy and Ed Blomquist (Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons) find themselves caught in an escalating war between a local crime gang and a major Mob syndicate. (A character in season one cryptically described the 1979 case as "savagery, pure and simple," with a massive pileup of bodies.)

"The scope of the storytelling this season is a lot bigger, it has more of an epic feel to it," says showrunner Noah Hawley, who adds that the earlier time period and even more rural setting gives the show an almost Western-like quality. "It's not the '70s in a Boogie Nights kind of way," he assures.

The script page below is an excerpt from a scene that occurs halfway into the season-two premiere, featuring Peggy and Ed—and a mysterious bloodstain.

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