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* {{Expy}}: Of Chad Feldheimer from Film/BurnAfterReading- a dimwitted personal trainer who, ahem, overestimates his skill at extortion.
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[[folder:Greta Grimly]]
->'''Played By:''' Joey King
The young daughter of Gus Grimly.
[[folder:Greta Grimly]]
->'''Played By:''' Joey King
The young daughter of Gus Grimly.
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The Police Chief of Bemidji.
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* CluelessDeputy: In an interview with a highly suspicious murderer, he frequently takes him on his word, helps him add detail to his alibi and goes on unrelated tangents all while showing pretty much no interest in solving the actual murder.
* CluelessDeputy: In an interview with a highly suspicious murderer, he frequently takes him on his word, helps him add detail to his alibi and goes on unrelated tangents all while showing pretty much no interest in solving the actual murder.
Lester's younger and more successful brother.
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The wife of Chaz and mother of Gordo.
The quiet son of Chaz & Kitty Nygaard.
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Lester's nagging, passive-aggressive wife.
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A trucking company owner with connections to organized crime who used to bully Lester Nygaard in High School
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* BadassBookworm: ProfessionalKiller Mr. Wrench firmly believes that every town should have a library.
* BadassBookworm: ProfessionalKiller Mr. Wrench firmly believes that every town should have a library.
* ProfessionalKiller: They're both ruthless killers employed by the mob.
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Vern Thurman's pregnant wife.
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* TurnInYourBadge: An amusingly low-key, MinnesotaNice variant; when she won't let up on the idea of Lester knowing more than he's telling the police, her boss makes her head of inquiry on the frozen-John-Doe case instead.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Gus explains to his daughter that, even though it's his job to catch the bad guys, he would (and, unbeknownst to her, has) let one walk free rather than leave her without a father.
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* TheDitz: Case in point: Used self-bronzer [[spoiler:before sending out a blackmail note. It's how Malvo tracks him down.]]
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* ShoutOut: They dress like Ratso Rizzo and Joe, respectively, from Film/MidnightCowboy.
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* GenreSavvy: Works out Lester's connection to Malvo and Malvo's connection to the frozen corpse, only to be ignored by her boss because he has a pet theory about a drifter.
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* {{Expy}}:Se's She's one for Marge from the original, minus pregnancy.
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* TemptingFate: [[spoiler: When Lester grabs the hammer, she replies with "What're you gonna do? Hit me with that?"]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"...maps used to say there be dragons here, now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Heck, what am '''I''' supposed to do?"'']]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Heck, what am '''I''' supposed to do?"'']]
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Lester is pleasant and trampled on, to the point where [[spoiler:his wife just laughs at him when he picks up a hammer to hit her with. She stops laughing when he actually does hit her.]]
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* DaChief: Of the Police Department. He takes a more active role than this trope usually dictates, though.
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* HappilyMarried: To his loving, very pregnant wife.
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* VomitingCop: When he sees Sam Hess' body, he has to vomit. He even laments wasting his wife's spaghetti.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After learning of Sam's death and after he killed his wife.]]
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: Beating Pearl to death.]]
* WouldHurtAGirl: [[spoiler: Specifically, his wife.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After learning of Sam's death and after he killed his wife.]]
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: Beating Pearl to death.]]
* WouldHurtAGirl: [[spoiler: Specifically, his wife.]]
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: From meek insurance salesman, [[spoiler: to [[spoiler:to wife murderer, to be exact.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:[[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After learning of Sam's death and after he killed his wife.]]
* StartOfDarkness:[[spoiler: Beating [[spoiler:Beating Pearl to death.]]
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* DistaffCounterpart: Is presented as one to Marge from the original, complete with a pregnant wife. [[spoiler: However unlike Marge, he doesn't make it to the end.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Shot rather anticlimatically by Lorne.]]
* DistaffCounterpart: Is presented as one to Marge from the original, complete with a pregnant wife. [[spoiler: However unlike Marge, he doesn't make it to the end.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: His [[spoiler:His death at the hands of Lorne are meant to set up the real male hero, Gus.]]
* DistaffCounterpart: Is presented as one to Marge from the original, complete with a pregnant wife.[[spoiler: However [[spoiler:However unlike Marge, he doesn't make it to the end.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim:[[spoiler: Shot [[spoiler:Shot rather anticlimatically by Lorne.]]
* DistaffCounterpart: Is presented as one to Marge from the original, complete with a pregnant wife.
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[[folder:Pearl Nygaard]]
-> '''Played By:''' Kelly Holden Bashar
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She did very little in the pilot beyond nag and berate Lester, so it's no surprise that he eventually kills her.]]
* AwfulWeddedLife: She seems to hate being married to Lester just as much as he hates being married to her.
* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler:How she meets her end.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Pestering Lester over breakfast with thinly-veiled insults usually rounded off by a laugh that's intended to be jovial but comes off as bitter. She compares him to his brother and says she 'married the wrong Nygaard'.
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-> '''Played By:''' Kelly Holden Bashar
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She did very little in the pilot beyond nag and berate Lester, so it's no surprise that he eventually kills her.]]
* AwfulWeddedLife: She seems to hate being married to Lester just as much as he hates being married to her.
* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler:How she meets her end.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Pestering Lester over breakfast with thinly-veiled insults usually rounded off by a laugh that's intended to be jovial but comes off as bitter. She compares him to his brother and says she 'married the wrong Nygaard'.
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-> '''Played By:''' Kelly Holden Bashar
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: She did very little in the pilot beyond nag and berate Lester, so it's no surprise that he eventually kills her.]]
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* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler: How she meets her end.]]
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[[folder:Mr. Numbers]]
->'''Played By:''' Adam Goldberg
-> '''Played By:''' Kelly Holden Bashar
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: She did very little in the pilot beyond nag and berate Lester, so it's no surprise that he eventually kills her.]]
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* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler: How she meets her end.]]
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[[folder:Mr. Wrench]]
->'''Played By:''' Russell Harvard
Mr. Numbers is the partner of and sign language translator for Mr. Wrench. When an associate in Minnesota is murdered, Wrench and Numbers are sent to Bemidji, MN to track down the killer and dispose of him as quickly as possible.
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%%* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Mr. Numbers.
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->'''Played By:''' Russell Harvard
Mr. Numbers is the partner of and sign language translator for Mr. Wrench. When an associate in Minnesota is murdered, Wrench and Numbers are sent to Bemidji, MN to track down the killer and dispose of him as quickly as possible.
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%%* ThoseTwoBadGuys: With Mr. Numbers.
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!!Lorne Malvo
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!!Lester Nygaard
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!!Deputy Gus Grimly
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!!Vern Thurman
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!!Chaz Nygaard
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!!Kitty Nygaard
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!!Gordo Nygaard
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!!Gina Hess
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!!Sam Hess
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!!Pearl Nygaard
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A deaf contract killer, employed by a Fargo Crime Syndicate, Mr. Wrench is sent in to find out who killed Sam Hess, a local trucking boss, and “dispose” of the problem. Working with his partner Mr. Numbers, Mr. Wrench will use whatever means necessary to track down his target, even if it means piling up a few more bodies along the way.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: With Mr. Wrench
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A deaf contract killer, employed by a Fargo Crime Syndicate, Mr. Wrench is sent in to find out who killed Sam Hess, a local trucking boss, and “dispose” "dispose" of the problem. Working with his partner Mr. Numbers, Mr. Wrench will use whatever means necessary to track down his target, even if it means piling up a few more bodies along the way.
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!!Lou Solverson
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* WouldHurtAGirl: [[spoiler: Specifically, his wife]]
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!!Pearl Nygaard
-> '''Played By:''' Kelly Holden Bashar
* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]: [[spoiler: She did very little in the pilot beyond nag and berate Lester, so it's no surprise that he eventually kills her.]]
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHer]]
* [[spoiler: DropTheHammer]]: [[spoiler: How she meets her end.]]
!!Pearl Nygaard
-> '''Played By:''' Kelly Holden Bashar
* [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]: [[spoiler: She did very little in the pilot beyond nag and berate Lester, so it's no surprise that he eventually kills her.]]
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHer]]
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Despite being the Deputy Police Chief in Bemidji, Bill Oswalt Olson never had the chops to be a police officer. After being put on the case of a series of gruesome murders in town, Bill will have to work with Molly to try and solve the case...if he doesn't somehow screw it up first.first.
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* RunningGag: Going outside to vomit whenever he sees a corpse.
* TheLoad: Is even described as this above.
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* EvilMentor: To Lester.
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* ButtMonkey: He's berated by everyone around him, [[spoiler: though it all changes when Lorne kills Sam and he finally kills his wife. His brother's probably next.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: His arc is shaping up to be this.
* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler: How he kills his wife.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: It comes with being the Jerry Lundegaardterritory. {{Expy}}. Lester is completely trampled over by Sam Hess, his highly successful younger brother and a nagging passive-aggressive wife.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From meek insurance salesman, [[spoiler: to wife murderer, to be exact.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After learning of Sam's death and after he killed his wife.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: After hearing Molly storm his house, he pulls one by ramming head-first into a brick wall to knock himself out and look like a victim. [[spoiler: It works.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: His arc is shaping up to be this.
* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler: How he kills his wife.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: It comes with being the Jerry Lundegaard
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From meek insurance salesman, [[spoiler: to wife murderer, to be exact.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After learning of Sam's death and after he killed his wife.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: After hearing Molly storm his house, he pulls one by ramming head-first into a brick wall to knock himself out and look like a victim. [[spoiler: It works.]]
* Determinator
* {{Expy}}: Se's one for Marge from the original, minus pregnancy.
* PerkyGirl
* DotingParent:
* MyGreatestFailure: Letting Lorne go.
* PunchClockHero: He's more or less dragged into this.
* [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist]]: [[spoiler: His death at the hands of Lorne are meant to set up the real male hero, Gus.]]
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim]]: [[spoiler: Shot rather anticlimatically by Lorne.]]
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* ItAmusedMe: When he's not killing professionally, Lorne is entertaining himself by causing chaos in general.
* ManipulativeBastard: With a few well-placed words and a charismatic air, Lorne Malvo plays people against each other quite easily.
* ManipulativeBastard: With a few well-placed words and a charismatic air, Lorne Malvo plays people against each other quite easily.
* ExtremeDoormat: It comes with the Jerry Lundegaard territory. Lester is completely trampled over by Sam Hess, his highly successful younger brother and a nagging passive-aggressive wife.
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* NWordPrivileges: He calls Lester Nygaard 'Niggard' which speaks to his maturity as a human being.
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* TheCorrupter: In the course of a single episode, he turns the sons of Sam Hess against each other, convinces a young man to urinate in his employer's gas tank then informs the employer and gives Lester the courage to [[spoiler:kill his wife.]] Malvo takes great pleasure in corrupting others.
* ProfessionalKiller: For a vaguely defined crime syndicate.
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* AssholeVictim: Only his sons seem to mourn his death, but they're more interested in where his money is going. His wife even says she's glad he's dead, and will say so at his funeral.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Sam spits up blood as he dies.
* TheBully: To just about everyone, but especially Lester.
* CharacterDeath: A knife to the back of the head ends Sam's unpleasant existence.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Sam is an utterly repulsive bully who uses racial slurs, cheats on his wife, yells at his dimwit sons and hasn't matured one iota since High School.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Despite being an overweight, sneering jerk, he somehow ended up married to attractive redhead Gina, likely because of his money.
* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: He bullied Lester in High School, and he bullies Lester when the two are into their forties.
* YourCheatingHeart: He cheats on his wife with a stripper moonlighting as a prostitute.
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* HappilyMarried: To Vern, her beloved husband and father of her unborn child.
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* CoolOldGuy: It's pretty much a hallmark of anyone played by Keith Carradine, and Lou is no exception. He's a loving father who makes 'Dad Jokes'.
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A deaf contract killer, employed by a Fargo Crime Syndicate, Mr. Wrench is sent in to find out who killed Sam Hess, a local trucking boss, and “dispose” of the problem. Working with his partner Mr. Numbers, Mr. Wrench will use whatever means necessary to track down his target, even if it means piling up a few more bodies along the way.
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Mr. Numbers is the partner of and sign language translator for Mr. Wrench. When an associate in Minnesota is murdered, Wrench and Numbers are sent to Bemidji, MN to track down the killer and dispose of him as quickly as possible.
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A bit dim-witted by nature, Don Chumph is the personal trainer and eye candy to many of the middle-aged women in Duluth's local gym. Despite his low IQ however, Don has bigger goals in mind...goals that may not be entirely legal.
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As the wise and loving father of Molly Solverson, Lou Solverson was also once a state police officer for nearly two decades. He has since retired and is now the owner of a coffee shop in Bemidji. When a series of murders suddenly occur in their small town, Lou becomes concerned that Molly's pursuit of the case might put her in the cross-hairs of a deranged killer.
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Despite being the Deputy Police Chief in Bemidji, Bill Oswalt never had the chops to be a police officer. After being put on the case of a series of gruesome murders in town, Bill will have to work with Molly to try and solve the case...if he doesn't somehow screw it up first.
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As the owner of a chain of supermarkets and the author of a self-help book, Stavros is the kind of American success story that dreams are made of. But Stavros' success story began with a dark secret, one that has suddenly come back up and threatens to destroy his the way of life he has built up over the past 25 years. Wanting to get rid of the problem as quickly and quietly as possible, Stavros is put in contact with Malvo as someone that can make that happen. Soon however, Stavros learns his problems may just be beginning.
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As the owner of a chain of supermarkets and the author of a self-help book, Stavros is the kind of American success story that dreams are made of. But Stavros' success story began with a dark secret, one that has suddenly come back up and threatens to destroy his the way of life he has built up over the past 25 years. Wanting to get rid of the problem as quickly and quietly as possible, Stavros is put in contact with Malvo as someone that can make that happen. Soon however, Stavros learns his problems may just be beginning.
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Some might call him a drifter, others a gun for hire, others still a spirit or trickster, or devil. Lorne Malvo moves from place to place turning people’s lives upside down. Sometimes he does it for money, sometimes for fun. He has killed many people, but he is not a serial killer. He has stolen sums large and small, but he is not a thief. The fact that there is no crime he won’t commit, doesn’t mean he’s a criminal by any definition you’d understand. The truth is, he is fascinated by the search to find the weakness in everybody that he can exploit, to see what it takes to turn a civilized person into an animal.
As an insurance salesman, Lester is good-natured and earnest, but has spent his life slowly being brow-beaten by the world around him. An emasculating wife, a successful brother, and a humiliating experience with an old high school classmate finally push Lester over the edge. With a little inspiration from a stranger by the name of Lorne Malvo, Lester embraces a darker side of himself.
A young, smart police deputy in the small town of Bemidji, Molly Solverson was never the kind of cop who desired to land the big case or one day join the FBI. But after a series of murders rattles her town, Molly is determined to find the person behind them, even if it means going it alone.
A Duluth police officer, Gus isn’t the kind of cop who dreams of solving the big case. A single father to a twelve year old girl, all Gus wants to do is to punch the clock in the morning and go home at night. But his life is complicated one night when he pulls over Lorne Malvo. Feeling threatened, Gus lets Malvo go. It is a decision that haunts him and when fate brings Malvo back into his life, Gus will be forced to confront his worst fears.
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->'''Played By:''' Martin Freeman
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->'''Played By:''' Bob Odenkirk
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->'''Played By:''' Kate Walsh
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->'''Played By:''' Adam Goldberg
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->'''Played By:''' Russell Harvard
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!!Lorne Malvo
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->'''Played By:''' Martin Freeman
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!!Molly Solverson
->'''Played By:''' Allison Tolman
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->'''Played By:''' Colin Hanks
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->'''Played By:''' Kate Walsh
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->'''Played By:''' Adam Goldberg
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