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** While Marge and Lou might not be working for the NYPD or anything, they are still police officers; even if the murder rate is relatively low in Brainerd, they have almost certainly been called out to situations involving violence and gruesome death before (car accidents, suicides, etc.). And Marge has risen to be the local police chief. She is almost certainly far from being green.
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** Also, the film ''is'' a BlackComedy. RuleOfFunny. The contrast of a triple homicide with the lead investigator happily chirruping about coffee and her morning sickness creates {{Bathos}}.
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** Not necessarily a 'bad guy' as in a villain, but he's certainly portrayed as arrogant, greedy, mean, stubborn, and not nearly as clever or tough as he thinks he is. What kind of greedy moron has his daughter kidnapped and tries to lowball the kidnappers? Then the whole thing with him demanding to be the one to make the money handoff (contrary to, as far as he knew, the kidnappers SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS), bringing a gun instead of police, and somehow thinking that some tough talk to a clearly unhinged and angry violent criminal is going to do anything but make the situation worse. At the end of the day Wade is portrayed as a greedy, arrogant, and frankly stupid man that cares more about his money and his ego than his daughter, and it gets him killed. He's not a villain, but he's certainly not a good guy.
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** I suspect they're just pretty decent at masking any of the stronger emotions they're feeling at the moment. When Marge is alone with Grimsrud, her dialogue shows that it affects her quite a bit more than she lets on otherwise. Small town or no, being police officers, they'd probably be trained and mentally prepared with the reality that they're going to have to see some dead bodies while on the job. And it's not as if the bodies had anything particularly gruesome done to them.
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** Look at it in one of two ways: 1.) For all his misgivings about Jerry, Wade doesn't think he would actually stoop to the low of having his own wife kidnapped for money. 2.) Wade thinks so little of Jerry that he just doesn't think him capable of being that devious and crafty.
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* Why doesn't Wade suspect Jerry of being involved in the kidnapping? He rejects his ludicrous request for a $750k loan, and then right afterward Jerry's wife is kidnapped and Jerry now desperately needs $1m, and Wade is clueless?
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* Marge and Lou's reaction to the crime scene. They are called out to investigate the scene of a brutal triple homicide, and they react as if they're checking up on a break-in of the local video rental: sipping coffee, cheerfully talking about family life and using words like "pretty bad" and "it's a real shame" to describe the carnage they see. Keep in mind that they're not working for the law enforcement of a major city that would deal with brutal violence on a constant basis; they're officers in the local police department of what the film emphasizes is a boring small town in Minnesota where hardly anything ever happens, so there's no way they should be hardened to such sights. Hell, one of the victims is a ''state trooper'', and dealing with a murdered police officer should be a big deal even in a major police department. What accounts for Marge and Lou's rather blasé attitude to the whole thing?
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*** And Grimsrud would also need to know how deep the lake is to weigh the benefits of hiding the bodies in it -- a lot of lakes in the Midwest don't have an immediate dropoff right up against the shoreline. There are some where you can walk out into the middle of the lake and still be standing in a few feet of water, and going so far out would make him an easy target against so much white snow.
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*** Just pointing out that this isn't necessarily a smarter option. He'd need to carve out a decent-sized hole in order to fit both victims' bodies through it. And if the ice is thick enough to support the weight of a full-grown man and woman with no obvious risk of them falling through, it's not something that be hacked through with a few swings of an axe. While putting the bodies through the woodchipper may not be more the conventional choice, it would have been a lot easier in the long run, with the added benefit of destroying any hope of identifying the bodies.
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*** Just pointing out that this isn't necessarily a smarter option. He'd need to carve out a decent-sized hole in order to fit both victims' bodies through it. And if the ice is thick enough to support the weight of a full-grown man and woman with no obvious risk of them falling through, it's not something that could be hacked through with a few swings of an axe. While putting Putting the bodies through the woodchipper may not be more the conventional most ''conventional'' choice, but it would have been a lot easier in the long run, with the added benefit of destroying any hope of identifying the bodies.
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*** Just pointing out that this isn't necessarily a smarter option. He'd need to carve out a decent-sized hole in order to fit both victims' bodies through it. And if the ice is thick enough to support the weight of a full-grown man and woman with no obvious risk of them falling through, it's not something that be hacked through with a few swings of an axe. While putting the bodies through the woodchipper may not be more the conventional choice, it would have been a lot easier in the long run, with the added benefit of destroying any hope of identifying the bodies.
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** Part of the stupidity is that he’s right next to a lake! Yes it’s frozen, but he has an axe! All he had to do was cut a hole in the ice, put a little weight on the bodies, and Carl and Jean are gone forever.
