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Lorne Malvo is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the first season of the FX television series Fargo.He is portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton, who received critical acclaim for his performance [1] and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, [2] [3] and won a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award.
Lorne Malvo has Don Chumph place the call to Stavros, who has the money ready for the drop. Malvo knocks Chumph unconscious and duct tapes him to an exercise bench in the entry way of his house. He also duct tapes an unloaded shotgun to his hands and proceeds to fire randomly into the neighborhood with another gun.
In Duluth, Malvo kills a police guard then tells Wrench that he killed Numbers, giving him the keys to his handcuffs and encouraging him to try avenging Numbers' death in the future. In Fargo, FBI agents Budge and Pepper, who were on surveillance during Malvo's rampage, are demoted to filing clerks.
On January 18, 2006, a drifter named Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) crashes a car at night on a wintry rural highway outside Bemidji, Minnesota, after hitting a deer, and cuts his forehead after banging it into the steering wheel. A nearly naked man jumps from the popped trunk and bolts through the snow into the woods.
Lester peers out the window and sees a trail of blood, which leads to the pile of logs where Malvo has disposed of the bodies, and runs upstairs to hide. Malvo enters Lester's house, and follows Lester’s voice to his bedroom. Malvo's foot is caught in a bear trap left by Lester hidden underneath a pile of clothing on the floor.
After Chief Vern Thurman (Shawn Doyle) and Lester Nygaard's (Martin Freeman) wife is murdered, Gus Grimly pulls Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) over for speeding. Malvo presents Grimly with two choices: press the issue (and face death), or allow Malvo to leave (and live). Malvo drives away as Grimly, confused, does not report the incident.
In Duluth, Malvo is hired to find out who is blackmailing Stavros Milos, the "Supermarket King" of Minnesota. Milos believes his soon-to-be ex-wife might be the culprit. Malvo notices traces of tanning spray on the blackmail note, leading him to believe that the ex-wife's current boyfriend Don Chumph is the culprit.
A widower, he appears as a wise mentor to his daughter, Molly Solverson who is investigating the crimes of Lorne Malvo and Lester Nygaard. He makes several references to his career, in particular the events of 1979, most notably when he describes the Sioux Falls Massacre to Lorne Malvo. Keith Carradine as Lou Solverson in season 1