Peggy Blumquist

"I never meant for any of this to happen. You know? Not to Ed. Not to anybody. I just wanted to be someone."

"Well, you're somebody now."

"No, see? I wanted to choose, be my own me. Not be defined by someone else's expec... And then, that guy, that stupid guy, walked out into the... Why'd he have to do that?"

"You mean the victim?"

"No. That's not fair. 'Cause I'm a victim, too. Was a victim first, before him."

"Victim of what?"

"You wouldn't understand. You're a man. It's a lie, okay, that you can do it all, be a wife and a mother and this self-made career woman, like there's 37 hours in a day. And then when you can't, they say it's you, you're faulty, like... like... like you're inferior somehow. And, like... like, if you could just get your act together, until you're half mad with..."

"People are dead, Peggy."

-Peggy Blumquist and Lou Solverson, 1979 Peggy Blumquist was a Luverne hairdresser, who became enraptured in a life of crime after she accidentally killed Rye Gerhardt in a hit-and-run and covering up the crime, with her husband, Ed Blumquist. Becoming wanted by the Gerhardt crime syndicate and law enforcement alike, she fled her pursuers with Ed, until Ed was killed by Hanzee Dent and she was arrested.

Season 2

 * Waiting for Dutch
 * Before the Law
 * The Myth of Sisyphus
 * Fear and Trembling
 * The Gift of the Magi
 * Rhinoceros
 * Loplop
 * The Castle
 * Palindrome