Numbers, are fictional characters of the FX television series Fargo, most prominently appearing as antagonists in the first season.

The pair initially kill an innocent man whom they mistake for Malvo, but eventually manage to locate their real target.

Wrench reappears in the season 3 episode "The Law of Inevitability", sitting next to Nikki Swango on a prison bus.

Writer-creator Noah Hawley, a part-time Austin resident who lives near the Texas School for the Deaf, cited his own neighborhood encounters with sign language as the inspiration for the Mr. Wrench character: a deaf assassin who uses his command of American Sign Language as a means of menace toward his targets and of private communication with his partner Mr.

[4] Hawley has described Harvard as "magnetic and charismatic" in the role of Mr. Wrench,[5] and ended up extending the character's appearance in the series.

[4] Hawley deliberately modeled the pair's appearance after Ratso Rizzo and Joe Buck from the film Midnight Cowboy.

"[8] Tim Goodman, TV critic for The Hollywood Reporter, wrote, "Encapsulating everything that is joyously weird about Fargo, the killers are the dangerous — and deaf — Mr. Wrench (Russell Harvard) and his partner and translator, Mr.