Fargo’s 10 Most Savage Deaths Ranked

10. An Involuntary Swim ("The Rooster Prince")

Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench are hitmen with the Fargo crime syndicate. When Sam Hess, a syndicate associate, is murdered, they travel to the small town of Bemidji to sort things out.

They know they’re looking for a smallish man with a beard and brown hair. A stripper suggests it could be Lenny, a bigmouth who’s having a drink at the bar. Numbers and Wrench approach him, and Lenny immediately hurls insults and threats, oblivious to the grim death staring him right in the face.

The pair toss Lenny into the trunk of their car, and later one of Hess’s associates confirms that he’s not the guy. Well, nuts. They take Lenny to a frozen lake, and when he tries to fight back, they crack him in the skull with the butt of his handgun. Mr. Wrench then drills a Lenny-sized hole in the ice.

The pair lift up the two-bit tough guy and dangle his head above the water. Senseless, he mutters, “No…wait…” but it’s too late. With a slight gurgle of water, that’s that for Lenny.