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1* Gus stops Malvo after running a stop sign. Malvo calmly and creepily intimidates Gus into leaving him alone, and due to Billy Bob Thornton's utterly skin-crawling performance, it's nigh-impossible not to sympathize with Gus. Malvo gives the impression of being a black hole of evil who won't be stopped by a lone cop.
2* Malvo ties Don Chumph up with an unloaded gun taped to his hands, gags him and then attracts the attention of the police. He then shoots from a safe spot, causing the cops to open fire on a helpless Don who can only desperately and vainly scream through his gag as he's cut down. It's a horrific, prolonged death.
3* After the TimeSkip in "The Heap", we see that Lester has gotten his life back together, has a loving new wife, and just got named "Insurance Salesman of the Year". Yessiree, everything seems to be goin' gangbusters for ol' Lester... and then he runs into Lorne Malvo. [[OhCrap Aww]] ''[[OhCrap jeez]]''...
4* "Is this what you want, Lester?"
5* How Linda is sent to her death by her own husband.
6* In the closing act of the finale where Malvo is trying to fix his fractured leg (courtesy of a bear trap laid by Lester), we get to see the flesh and bone sticking out as he applies the brace. Jeez.
7* Also when Gus shows Malvo's collection of tape recordings to Molly, indicating that Lester was just one of many people that Malvo corrupted into becoming as much of a monster as he was.
8* WordOfGod (i.e. Billy Bob Thornton) says that the thoughts going through Lorne Malvo's head in his final moments were:
9-->"Nice job, Gus. I taught you well."
10-->"I guess this is it. My job is done."

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