Landman (2024) s01e05 Episode Script

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MTV ♪
[NATHAN] How long is
your family staying, Tommy?
[TOMMY]
Only one of 'em is my family,
and I'm working on it.
Work faster.
[GRUNTS]
[JIMENEZ] We don't want your oil here.
[TOMMY] You sell a product that
your customers are dependent on.
Yes.
[TOMMY] It's the same.
Ours is just bigger.
[REBECCA]
Here's what you're going to do.
You are going to take
your eight-figure settlement like men.
[TOMMY LAUGHING]
I'm sorry.
We're not negotiating.
This is a surrender.
Successful relationships
require sacrifice.
It's a huge mistake.
Say yes.
- Oh, stop, stop! [SHOUTS]
- Get on the blocks, worm.
- What?
- Kill the rig!
How'd it go?
She's running.
Well, I don't like gambling,
but it paid off this time.
[ARIANA]
Cooper, I need to see you.
Can you do that for me?
Yeah. Yeah, I can do that.
Are we moving here for good?
[SQUEALS]
[ANGELA LAUGHS]
I must be out of my fucking mind.
[SLOW, GENTLE MUSIC]
♪♪♪
[DALE] Yeah, it's about the same
as the one we just worked over.
[GRUNTS]
We should work this whole field over.
I mean, these are all 35 years
or more in production.
How many total, Boss?
Uh, 17, I think.
All right.
[SINISTER RINGTONE PLAYING]
Oh, shit.
Morning, honey.
Let's make a new rule.
Any time you spend the night
banging me on all fours,
you take my call the next
morning, you fucking asshole.
Honey, I'm working, okay?
- See?
- Aww, hi, boys.
- Hey, Ange.
- It's so early.
Well, you know what they say
the early bird gets.
Well, I know what he could've gotten.
- [BOSS] Oh!
- [DALE] Oh!
- [CHUCKLES]
- Honey, they just saw that.
[LAUGHS] Who cares?
I'm just having fun.
When will you be home?
I don't know, probably late.
We're checking wells.
- In time for supper?
- Maybe?
Well, you better be. Cooper's coming.
- It's family dinner night.
- Since when?
Since I thought of it
when I woke up this morning.
Let's say 7.
I got to drive
a 300-mile loop, honey.
Do you think
you can apply a little fucking effort
into repairing the damage
that's been done to our family?
What damage are you talking about?
All I said is I'm working,
and I'll get there when I can.
Picking up right where
we fucking left off, huh?
Exactly. Picking up where we left off,
which is what I fucking told you.
Geez.
Grumpy.
Okay. I'll see you at 7.
I love you.
All right, yeah, I love you, too.
Oh, and I'm gonna do
a little more shopping.
This place looks
like a fucking frat house.
But don't worry, I still have
Victor's credit card, okay?
Love you. Bye.
Love you, honey. Bye.
[PHONE CHIMES]
So, you and Angela.
Giving it another go.
Yeah, we're trying to.
It's pretty hard to say no
to her when she's not
- Dressed? Yeah.
- Yeah.
- [LAUGHS]
- [DALE] Well, is she aware
that Nate and I are gonna be
at this dinner, you know,
'cause we fucking live there?
She's not thinking
that deep inside it, Dale.
- [LAUGHS]
- [BOSS] Can I come to dinner?
I mean, I don't want to eat.
I just want to sit
in the corner and watch her.
[CHUCKLES] Why not?
We can use all the witnesses we can get.
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
[LINE RINGING]
[PHONE RINGING]
- Yeah?
- [TOMMY OVER PHONE] Hey, Monty.
Listen, these Andrews wells
are underperforming.
They're about the same age
as that other one the other day
and about the same production.
Do you want us to keep this
work-over crew going or what?
[SIGHS]
How many wells?
Seventeen.
Well, I don't like pressing my luck.
Look, they all pull from the same field,
so there's no risk,
there's just expense.
And Monty, the things are old,
and they need to be serviced.
I mean, that last one
was proof of that, wasn't it?
Work them over one at a time.
I want to see new production
reports before you start the next one.
Yes, sir.
All right.
[SLOW, SOMBER MUSIC]
My God. I'll tell you what,
trying to get money from a billionaire
is like pulling teeth.
I mean, you would've
thought I just asked
- the fucking guy for a kidney.
- [LAUGHTER]
Well, that's how he became
a billionaire.
No, he became a billionaire
from betting everything
on black, and he hit.
That's how you stay a billionaire.
Once you get the house's money,
you start pinching every penny.
You know, that's what I need to find.
Some of that fucking house money.
No, what you need to do
is quit getting fucking divorced, dude.
- [DALE LAUGHS]
- No, what you both need to do
is stop getting fucking married.
If ever two people should be
single, you two motherfuckers.
- You forget, I know your wife.
- Uh-huh.
You run from her like a scalded dog.
- Oh. [LAUGHS]
- So don't give me that shit.
Okay, maybe so.
But she don't call me
at 8 in the morning, buck-ass naked
- for all my friends to see.
- [DALE LAUGHS]
And then chew my ass out
before telling me she's going shopping
with another man's credit card.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
- [ENGINE STARTS]
- [LAUGHS]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
[SHIFTER CLICKS]
[ENGINE TURNS OFF]
[SLOW, SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪♪
[DOORBELL RINGS]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Thanks for coming.
- Come in.
- I'm, uh
It's fine. I'm used to it.
You can take them off in here.
[EXHALES]
[ARIANA SIGHS]
When someone dies,
it is tears and meals
and then a funeral.
And then the business of death.
Elvio did all the papers.
None of it makes sense to me.
Okay. Uh
[SIGHS]
Okay, so this is, uh,
this is your mortgage statement.
Looks like he's got it set up
on auto debit.
$1,347 a month?
And this one is
car insurance.
$325 a month.
You have any credit cards?
- Uh, a debit card.
- Okay.
Is this your only bank account?
I don't know.
Well, you've got $17,000
in this account.
That's pretty good.
That's gonna cover these bills
for about six months.
I got to sell the house.
Well, look, you're just
trading mortgage for rent.
I would sell the truck.
- It's paid for.
- [BABY FUSSING]
Plus, brings your insurance down,
lowers your expenses.
[BABY CRYING]
[ARIANA SHUSHING]
Um, Elvio was contributing to a 401(K).
I'm not sure exactly
how much is in there,
but that's your money.
I can ask how you collect it
Uh [CLEARS THROAT]
[CHUCKLES] I'll-I'll give you a minute.
[BABY FUSSING]
Hey, you have a lawnmower?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪♪
- Thank you.
- Right this way, please.
All right.
[BOB] Our concern isn't
combustion engine regulations
so much as it is the
- [MAN] It's not a concern, Bob?
- [BOB] It's not the concern.
I mean, 60% of American electricity
still comes from fossil fuels,
39.8 from natural gas alone,
and that number is climbing.
Now, nuclear, that's maxed out,
unless they build more reactors,
and that's not gonna happen.
Nuclear's not an option
for climate change advocates,
even though it's our cleanest,
and most reliable form of energy.
Wind is twice
as expensive as natural gas,
and solar, four times as expensive.
Plus, on its best day of the year,
a solar power plant
generates electricity
for about eight hours.
All our electric vehicles are doing
is exporting their emissions
to the power plant.
Our greatest potential for growth
is in exports.
China only consumes
14% of the world's petroleum reserves.
India is at 4.9%.
Russia, a little over 3%.
We feel that our lobbyists' focus
should be on easing
the regulations on exports.
Our LNG exports to Europe last year
climbed to 64%
- of total exports
- [CLEARS THROAT] Bob.
Excuse me, if I may.
What you're not seeing in the States
is this rabid opposition
to fossil fuels of any kind.
To their use, to their extraction
38% of the UK's electricity came from
natural gas piped in
- from Norway, Steve.
- Gentlemen
But-but one quarter's from wind,
which I agree is
unreliable and expensive, but
and this is an important "but"
- Steve
- [BOB] Energy consumption
is not a social issue, Steve.
The hell it's not. It's deeply social.
And we must endeavor ourselves
to educate the world
about our commitment to cleaner ener
Steve, will you
shut the fuck up? My God.
This is why
I don't come to these things.
Y'all have been in so many
shareholder meetings, you forgot
what it is we actually do for a living.
We are well diggers.
We don't, nor can we ever,
control how our product is used
or what it is used for.
There's nothing I can do
to make an engine run cleaner
'cause I don't build fucking engines.
I don't care what
the governor of California says
about electric vehicles.
I don't care how many
career college students
block London traffic or
spray-paint a fucking sculpture.
I care that the price of oil
stays between $76 and $88 a barrel.
That is what we should be discussing.
The world has already convinced itself
that you are evil and I am evil
for providing them the one fucking thing
they interact with every day,
and they will not
be convinced otherwise.
Stop wasting your time,
and stop fucking wasting mine.
Gee, Monty, tell us how you really feel.
[LAUGHTER]
You better start caring, Monty.
I mean, your children are
going to inherit an oil fortune,
but your grandchildren won't.
What they inherit,
you're gonna have to start building now.
I know the party's
not ending tomorrow, but
it is ending.
[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪♪
[WHIRRING]
[GROWLS SOFTLY]
♪♪♪
[BARKS SOFTLY]
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
[SQUEAKS]
[SIGHS]
♪♪♪
Are you smiling,
or are you fixin' to bite me?
[BARKING]
♪♪♪
We really need
to work this out, you and me.
[PANTING]
[BARKS]
Baby steps. Fair enough.
Jefe.
♪♪♪
Thank you.
I didn't know you could
Never mind.
What?
Nothing. It's-it's not my business.
Well, it's my business now.
What'd you want to say?
I-I just, I didn't know
you could drink alcohol and, uh
[CHUCKLES] Oh. More than one is no good,
but one helps my body produce more milk.
♪♪♪
It makes you so nervous
to talk about the body
and watch the body do the things
the body's supposed to do.
Why?
I don't know, I think
I'm just younger than you.
You don't look younger.
[CHUCKLES]
In life. I
I mean, this is my first job.
None of my friends are married.
Your baby's the first baby
I've ever been around.
You're the first person
I've ever seen feed one.
[CHUCKLES]
♪♪♪
Your husband's the first person
I knew who died.
And here I am, thinking I'm a man.
I asked my grandmother once
how old she felt in her soul.
She was 80, but I always
wondered if she actually felt 80.
She said, in her heart,
she'll always be 17.
She told me the trick to life
is enduring all the loss
and pain of this place,
but stay 17 in your heart.
♪♪♪
I wonder if I can do it.
The yard looks nice.
Thank you.
I'll, uh, I'll get started
on the front yard.
I don't care about the front yard.
Front yard's for
the neighbors to look at.
Backyard's for me.
I'm gonna mow it anyway.
Why mow it when I tell you
I don't want it?
'Cause I
I don't know how else to help.
♪♪♪
[WHIRRING]
This motherfucker.
[TIRES SCREECH]
What the fuck did I tell you? Huh?
I told you to stay the fuck away.
Now you're playing husband?
Huh, motherfucker?
Stop it, Manuel! Stop it!
Tengo a mi niño
en la casa, pendejo.
What the fuck is this, huh?
Elvio barely in the ground,
and this peckerwood's
mowing the fucking lawn?
Yes, he's mowing the lawn.
After he mowed the lawn in the back,
and weeded the garden,
and helped me organize Elvio's bills
and build a budget.
How many times have you
come by to help, huh?
Where are all his fucking friends?
Because you don't care
if I lose the house
or my baby starves.
You just care if I fuck
another man, huh?
That's where
you draw the line with my life.
Who do you think you are?
[BABY CRYING]
Baby needs changing.
You gonna do it? I bet he would.
'Cause he wants to fuck you.
- He never mentioned that.
- It's what he wants.
Watch close, Manuel.
If he keeps playing his cards right,
he might just get the chance.
Some fucking friend you are.
Get off my lawn
before I call the police.
Now.
[BABY CONTINUES CRYING]
That's the second time
you've pointed a gun at me.
Third time's gonna be the last.
You're goddamn right it is.
And I'll see you tomorrow, motherfucker.
[ENGINE STARTS]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[REBECCA SIGHS]
[DOORBELL CHIMING]
[NATHAN] Ah.
I'd like to start out by saying
this feels inappropriate.
Meeting in your residence.
It is also my office.
M-Tex doesn't have an office in town?
We have remote offices
that move with the rigs
and satellite offices
at the man camps, but I promise,
you would find those more inappropriate.
Do you want some coffee?
I'm fine.
So it breaks down like this:
three widows, eight dependents.
Youngest is three months.
I was thinking something
like 250 per household,
plus a college fund.
Uh M-Tex could invest that money now
and essentially pay the tuition
with the ROI,
minus the three teenagers.
It makes for a very attractive
and compassionate offer
that addresses the short-term needs
and longer-term concerns
of the families.
Are you including the cash value
of their 401(K)s in that 250?
- I am not.
- So in the case of Luis,
it's more like a $600,000 offer.
Not really.
They're entitled to the 401(K)
- regardless of a settlement.
- They don't know that.
Their attorney will.
- Do they have attorneys?
- Not to my knowledge.
We're gonna make this deal
before they get them.
Let me just check with
the insurance company's
Don't you dare.
The insurance company isn't
gonna offer them anything.
They're going to investigate for a year,
claim it was negligence
on the part of the employees
and then wash their hands of it.
There is no cap
for economic or punitive damages
for wrongful death in Texas.
And this is a $40
or $50 million dollar lawsuit.
Per incident.
We won't let it get that far.
If they don't bite at 250,
we will offer 300.
If they don't bite there, 400.
And if they still don't bite,
I scare the shit out of them
for an hour,
and then we offer 500.
We are leaving each house
with a check on their table
and a fucking signature
on our settlement.
[AINSLEY] Hi, Rebecca.
- Still spring-breaking?
- [AINSLEY] Yeah.
Are y'all working?
We're almost done.
Do you have a swimsuit?
Not on me.
Oh, well, you can borrow one of mine.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Yeah, I've got a lot of work
waiting for me back at the hotel, so
- Right.
- Yeah. I'm sorry.
Dang it.
I know, right?
Do y'all want some popcorn?
Popcorn?
Uh, no, I do not. Thank you.
Nate?
Oh, no, thanks.
It's only 30 calories a cup.
[CHUCKLES] Still. Thanks.
Okay.
- If you change your mind
- Uh
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Are you kidding me?
I know.
The sexual harassment lawsuit's
literally writing itself.
I have made that point.
I will make it clearer.
Nothing would please me more.
[TRUCK BEEPING]
Excuse me a moment.
Can I help you?
Got a delivery for Norris?
All right.
Mind if I take a look around
so we can make a game plan?
A look around?
The house.
- You guys can come on in.
- Ah, hi.
- Thank you.
- Mm.
Hi.
Uh, let's see
Don't worry. Mama put it all
on her credit card.
Victor's credit card.
- I don't know a Victor.
- My stepfather.
Well, I guess he's my ex-stepfather now.
Writing itself, and expanding
its scope into fraud or larceny,
depending how a prosecutor
chooses to approach this.
Someone should have plausible
deniability over this disaster.
Let's present this to
the families tomorrow morning.
I'll set it up. [SIGHS]
[ANGELA] Great!
Can you guys please help me get
all this old shit out of here
and bring all the new shit in?
Okay?
And I'll be upstairs
if you need anything,
- all right?
- [MOVER] Yes, ma'am.
Oh, hey, Ned.
Nate.
Hey, I say we just take
everything out into the front
yard and unload the truck.
Sounds good to me.
Don't touch the files.
- Got it?
- Got it.
[GRUNTING]
Um
["SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE"
BY ZACH BRYAN PLAYING]
I poisoned myself again ♪
Something in the orange
tells me ♪
[WOMAN] That is
my absolute favorite song.
I'm Shelby.
Ainsley Norris.
From Aledo. I heard about you.
Heard about me how?
Well, the boys were all
drooling over you
at the country club.
Yeah, my mom sort of wore out
our welcome over there.
I heard that, too. [CHUCKLES]
Is your dad one of those oil guys?
Yeah, it's my spring break.
And you're spending it in Midland?
Well, we were supposed to go to Tulum,
but a bunch of tourists got killed,
and our parents, like, freaked out
and canceled the whole thing.
So lame.
Well, there's a patch party
tomorrow night,
- if you want to go.
- What's a patch party?
We go out to the oil wells,
and bring kegs,
and circle up the cars
on the pad and, I don't know,
just dance and blow off some steam.
How fun. Um, yeah.
Yeah, I'd love to go. What time?
9 or so.
Okay. Yeah, I'd love to go.
Great. [CHUCKLES]
Well, I'll come over and grab you.
Okay.
Thank you.
Course.
- Nice to meet you.
- Bye. You, too.
Those headlights around ♪
[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]
♪♪♪
Goddamn it.
This one just started
dropping off this past month.
Goddamn it.
Which crew maintains this field?
Luis.
Oh.
These haven't been reassigned yet.
Hey, Boss, can we add
a little to your plate?
Oh. [SIGHS]
This is a ways from my turf, Tommy.
I mean, ain't this part of that
co-op with Conoco over there?
Can't they take this on?
No, this ain't part of the co-op.
Well, here comes a crew now.
Shit.
Bud, that ain't a crew.
Boss, you got anything with you?
Oh, she stays on me.
Listen, get pictures
of the license plates,
and don't get caught
doing it, all right?
Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
[VEHICLE DOORS CLOSING]
I been looking all over for you.
Yeah? Well, all you have to do is
call the number on the lease, Jimmy.
You don't know me
to call me my first name.
You call me fucking sir,
if you call me anything.
You and me got a real fucking problem.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
You owe me a lot of money.
How's that?
When all my product burned up
on the side of my road.
Oh. [LAUGHS]
Let me explain something
to you, all right?
Number one, it's our fucking road.
It's part of the lease,
and we have deeded access to it.
It's not your road
till the lease expires.
All right? Number two,
nowhere in this fucking lease
does it say
that you can land a fucking plane on it,
and nowhere in this lease does it say
that you can use a plane of ours
to truck your shit into the country.
Because of you,
I've got lawyers up my ass
so far they can see out of my mouth,
not to mention the sheriff,
and the FAA and the NTSB.
You just put a giant fucking
bull's-eye on this place.
You owe me a lot of money.
You know how much that shit was worth?
Do you know how much this shit's worth?
You're the one with the problem, bud.
I'm not the one with the problem.
See, the DEA has a satellite
above this fucking field now
just waiting to see what kind
of stupid shit you pull next.
And then you coming out here,
trying to shake me down
has zero effect
on the multibillion-dollar,
multinational corporations that
own and run this shit.
They don't care.
See, this is why
we didn't want you here.
You know, I got a boss too,
and he lost millions on my road.
He wants it back.
Maybe some of these wells stop working.
Maybe some of 'em start
blowing the fuck up.
Bet they'll care then, huh?
Oh, yeah, they will.
They'll care so much
that the 1st Cavalry Division
of the United States fucking
Army will come out here
and start playing war games
inside a month.
You don't know
who you're fucking with, Jimmy.
So, why don't you just take
your licks, like a fucking man,
and quit stealing planes and landing 'em
on fucking active
fucking roadways, all right?
Matter of fact, I got a good idea.
How's this?
How about you buy
your own fucking plane,
build your own fucking runway?
How 'bout that?
Yeah, well, because then you
can trace the plane back to me,
and you know where it lands.
You stick to drilling wells.
You don't know anything
about my business.
But you're about to learn.
- [VEHICLE DOORS CLOSING]
- [ENGINES START]
DEA has a satellite on our field?
Hell no, Dale. I made that shit up.
[BOSS] That's a problem.
That's a real fucking problem, Tommy.
I don't need my guys coming out here,
getting shot up by no fucking cartel
in the goddamn desert.
- I'll figure something out.
- Oh, you better.
Because none of us stepping foot
on this field until you do.
Goddamn it.
Dale, did you get it?
Filmed the whole fucking thing.
- Excellent.
- [ENGINE STARTS]
[LINE RINGING]
[PHONE RINGING]
Yeah.
Hey, Monty, we got a problem
we got to talk about in person.
I'm headed back to Fort Worth now.
All right, I'll come see you tomorrow.
Yeah, afternoon's better.
Just come by the house.
Okay, I'll call you when I get close.
Let's get the fuck out of here.
[SIGHS]
[EXHALES]
[EXHALES]
[WATER RUNNING]
[ARIANA] I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[WATER TURNS OFF]
For what?
For kissing you.
[SIGHS]
It's just the insult of it, you know?
He does nothing to help,
which is fine
I don't ask him to then
he questions who does and why?
I won't have it.
No, I guess not.
You want to know something funny?
Elvio didn't even like that prick.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
You know, I'm just here
because you're brave enough
to ask for help when you need it.
And I'm happy to give it,
if it's any help at all.
It helps.
And I need it.
Gonna be harder than I thought
to keep this heart young.
Um, I can make dinner.
Uh, dinner? No, no, thank you, um
I'm having dinner with
with my family.
Oh. They live here?
Father does.
Uh, mother's in town for
reasons I can't explain. [CHUCKLES]
This dinner's a "have to,"
not a "want to,"
if you know what I mean.
I used to know what you mean.
Then they all died.
Don't ever miss a family dinner, Cooper.
'Cause one of them will be the last.
Could even be this one.
Thank you for coming.
Yeah, um, I'll find out
about the 401(K).
You know what's different about you?
My my friends give me
all this advice.
Get a job. Sell the house.
Move home.
Find a man.
Like I don't know the options.
No advice from you.
If I could think of something
to say that would help,
I would say it.
Nobody has something to say that helps,
but they keep talking.
You listen.
[SIGHS]
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[VEHICLE DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
♪♪♪
Hey.
Hi, Daddy.
Hey, honey.
Nate.
I'm gonna go, um yeah.
[TOMMY] Yeah, all right.
[KEYS JINGLE]
Has this wall always been red?
[CHUCKLING] No.
I didn't think so.
[CLASSICAL MUSIC
PLAYING ON STEREO]
What in the fuck is going on here?
Honey?
Here we go.
Angela.
You said 7, remember?
No, you said 7, I said I had to work.
- You said you'd try.
- What's all this shit?
- I did try.
- And you failed.
What in the fuck is all this stuff here?
[LAUGHS] Oh, I just steered into
the West Texas of it, right?
I mean, we're here.
There's no point in decorating
this place like a condo in Dallas.
Well, where's the furniture
that was in here?
I gave it to the movers.
It don't belong to us. We rent it.
Well, this is your furniture now.
From a legal standpoint, no.
This would be?
- Victor's.
- Victor's furniture, yes.
Charged it to your husband, did you?
He hasn't checked a credit card
bill in decades, honey.
Well, he don't have to.
That's what his accountant is for.
Well, he doesn't either.
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[LAUGHS, SQUEALS]
[ANGELA WHIMPERS] Aw.
Hey, baby, come here.
Oh, my God, you're so skinny.
God, you're filthy.
Have you been playing football?
I-I was helping a friend mow the lawn.
Mm. Well
God, wash your hands.
Oh, babe, take your boots off.
And do we have time
for Cooper to take a shower?
Hell, it's your show, honey.
I'm not gonna take a shower.
Okay.
Here, come sit next to your sister.
You smell like the beach.
You smell like a goat.
- I'll see y'all after a while.
- Sit.
Okay.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[EXHALES] Okay.
[SIGHS]
Mm.
My whole family together
for the first time in
it's been ten years.
Sorry. I'm just so fucking happy.
[GASPS] Should we bless it?
Why not? I can use anything
I can get today.
Grab hands.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[EXASPERATED SIGH]
I couldn't care less.
God cares.
- Ainsley, hold hands.
- [SCOFFS]
So gross.
[EXHALES]
Lord, thank you for this day
and thank you for bringing
my family back together.
And thank you for Dale and Neal
- Nathan. Nate.
- [LAUGHS]
[ANGELA] Oh, shit.
Sorry, Nathan. Nathan, God.
Course you know his name 'cause
you're God, but I didn't know it.
I know it now.
[SIGHS]
Thank you for this food
which looks damn good,
if I do say so myself
I found a butcher that imports wild boar
from Italy, if you can believe it.
If you're gonna make a
Bolognese, it is by far the best
to use wild boar
and not just ground pork.
We still praying?
I'm not sure. Maybe she forgot.
[ANGELA] Help us to be mindful
of those less fortunate.
Help us to celebrate you
by living our very best life.
- Amen.
- [AINSLEY] Amen.
- [DALE AND NATHAN] Amen.
- Amen.
Let's eat.
[LAUGHS]
First time I've heard
blasphemy in a prayer.
[ANGELA] Pass me the wine.
Okay.
So, the food is Italian
- and the wine is French.
- Mm.
This is a Pomerol
from the Bordeaux region.
It's a little wine-making
commune, isn't that cute?
I'm gonna grab a beer.
Dale, you want one?
- Thanks.
- All right.
Beer?
I can't drink wine.
How come you can't drink wine?
Because I'm an alcoholic.
When did they stop fermenting
beer, Mr. Alcoholic?
It's low-alcohol beer.
If they start making low-alcohol wine,
I'll drink the shit out of it.
You're no fun.
Thank you.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[BLOWS NOSE]
[COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
Mmm.
Here you go, bud.
[ANGELA CLEARS THROAT]
[SIGHS] Are you all better
from your explosion, honey?
I'm fine.
You know, your sister's following
in your footsteps, baby.
She's going to Tech.
I'm sure all the sororities
are beside themselves with joy.
Cooper, be nice.
Or maybe just don't speak.
For the rest of your life.
[TOMMY] So, uh
What'd you say this stuff is?
Bolognese.
It's three types of meat
veal, beef, and wild boar
- like I was telling God.
- [DALE] Mm.
So, spaghetti.
Not spaghetti. No.
Spaghetti doesn't use veal or pork
and it doesn't use cream
and it doesn't use sugar.
Is there sugar in this?
Not enough to make a difference.
[SIGHS] How was your day, Nathan?
My day?
Mm-hmm.
[LAUGHS]
Uh, I'm an attorney.
Oh?
Well, I can't
My day is governed
by attorney-client privilege.
So you can't talk about your day?
No, ma'am.
Mm-hmm.
Dale.
How was yours?
'Bout a five, don't you think?
Well, till the end of the day,
it was just about a two.
What happened?
You a fucking lawyer now, too?
You want to hear about my day?
All right, here it is.
I stood out in
a hundred-degree heat all day
staring at gauges on fucking oil pumps,
until some cartel members showed up
and demanded we pay 'em back
for the drugs they lost on our lease
to the tune of about
$30 million dollars.
Guess how they took it when I said no.
- That really happened?
- Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, it really happened.
Does Monty know?
I'm going over there tomorrow.
[OPERA MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪♪
Well, let's see. What else?
My hemorrhoid finally burst.
[GROANS]
It's amazing how 80 miles
of dirt road will
work through one of those pesky ones.
Excuse me.
[DISHES CLATTER]
Dad.
What?
Go talk to her. Say sorry.
All right.
[AINSLEY] Be nice.
You don't think we're
doing this every night, do you?
I don't know, but this fucking
spaghetti's pretty good, though.
Didn't take you long
to ruin that dinner.
[POT BANGS AGAINST TRASH CAN]
I spent all day
shopping and decorating
and cooking for you.
That's your three
favorite things to do, so
I'm glad you did 'em, honey,
but if we have
a mouse fart's chance in hell
of making this work,
you got to remember why we're here.
[GROANS]
We're here to work.
Midland's not home to any of us.
How long have you been here, Tommy?
Hmm?
You know, let me answer for you.
Thirty-three years.
You may not like your home,
but this is it.
And I need this to feel like
a home, if we're gonna be in it.
All right, well, if you want
to put a hundred grand
on your husband's credit card
to spruce the place up
Two hundred and twenty.
Okay. Well, do it for you.
Do it 'cause you like it.
You know, don't do it for us,
and don't expect us
to appreciate it, or even care.
I mean, if you want to cook,
be my guest,
but don't expect us
to be here when it's ready.
And don't expect us to appreciate it.
I mean, we do,
but don't expect it.
See, that's the problem.
You got this image in your brain
of how everything's supposed to go,
but we don't know what that is,
you know? We don't see it.
So, when it don't go the way
you dreamed it up,
you get pissed off, you throw a tantrum,
and then I get pissed off,
throw a bigger tantrum,
and then we're back to square one.
[SIGHS]
Our children hate each other.
Honey, they're teenagers.
They're supposed to hate each other.
Cooper is not a teenager.
He's a man.
I mean, a man.
When the fuck did that happen?
I mean, do I look like a woman
with a 22-year-old?
I'm turning into a GMILF.
The hell's a GMILF?
A grandmother I'd like to fuck.
I'm aging out of cougar,
for fuck's sake.
All right, well, listen, honey.
Uh, let me ask you a question,
and when I do,
please don't hit me, all right?
What?
At what point are we
in your menstrual cycle?
Oh, you motherfucker, don't you dare.
Well, let me guess.
I'm gonna say right towards the end.
You need to be real careful.
Am I wrong?
I am stone-ass serious right now.
Tell me the fucking truth, am I wrong?
[LAUGHS] It's coming any minute.
That's what I figured.
[CHUCKLES] I need a Midol
and a fucking margarita.
Well, here's the good news,
we got all of that.
- [CRYING]
- Come here, honey.
Come here.
[SNIFFLES]
[SIGHS]
You just cry it all out,
and then we'll go finish the
spaghetti before it gets cold,
all right?
Call it spaghetti again
and see what happens.
Spaghetti.
God, you just couldn't
help yourself, could you?
Oh!
- You like that?
- No.
- I don't like that.
- Mm.
Why in the hell do you think
I would like that?
[LAUGHS]
[ANGELA] You're fine.
This is an unsustainable way
for us all to cohabitate.
It's got a shelf life, that's for sure.
[ANGELA LAUGHING]
What're you smiling for?
Why aren't you?
That's the question.
'Cause I'm old enough to
remember when they were together.
[ANGELA LAUGHING]
[OPERA MUSIC CONTINUES]
[SLOW, SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪♪
[PHONE BUZZING]
You okay?
[SHUDDERING] I'm really scared.
Scared of what?
Every car that drives by.
Every creak this house makes.
I [SNIFFLES]
I don't know how to do this by myself.
I just don't know how to do it.
[SNIFFLES] I'm too scared
to even miss him.
You got that big dog by you, yeah?
Yeah, he's on the bed.
Well, there's not
a boogeyman in the world
that wants to mess with that dog.
That's why Elvio got him.
To watch over us while he was working.
He chose well.
You've got plenty of things
to worry about,
but someone coming in that house
is not one of them.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Sorry for calling so late.
You call anytime.
Good night.
[SNIFFLES]
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
Out late, huh?
Get this motherfucker.
Get this motherfucker.
[GRUNTING]
[OBJECTS CRASHING]
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
[SIGHS]
[EXHALES] Mm.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
I didn't mean to wake you up.
It's an early one, huh?
Yeah, I got to go to Fort Worth.
When are you back?
When your period's over.
Watch it.
No, late tonight or in the morning.
You want me to bring you
something back from up there?
[SIGHS]
I should go, too.
I need to sit down with Victor.
Honey, I think he's probably
got it all figured out by now.
I mean, he was good to me.
- Yeah.
- And he was good to our kids.
He deserves a face-to-face.
Yeah, well, I know
you think about it that way,
but from a man's perspective,
I'd rather you just call me.
That way you're not sitting
around the living room,
- all awkward and stuff.
- Mm-hmm.
Doing some weird handshake
or half a hug.
Now, if you need to do it for you,
then I get it, that's another thing.
Well, I do.
'Cause this feels like cheating.
Well, hell, it is cheating, honey.
- It's been cheating.
- [GROANS]
Going to Fort Worth is
not gonna change anything.
Especially for him.
He has my car.
[LAUGHS] Okay,
now we're getting somewhere.
Can I ride with you?
You can do anything you want to.
- [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
- [KEYS JINGLE]
[SIGHS]
Last chance to back out
if you don't want this.
If you don't think
we can make this work.
I don't think we have
an ice cube's chance in hell
to make this work.
But I don't possess the power
to say no to you.
Especially when you look
at me like that.
[SIGHS] You are so close
to being trained.
[LAUGHS]
Is that right?
[LAUGHS, SIGHS]
Get dressed. I'll meet you downstairs.
♪♪♪
[RAP MUSIC PLAYING OVER STEREO]
Hey, you all know where this fool is?
There's a lot at stake ♪
So you know I'm A-1 ♪
This is my time ♪
Gotta climb up ♪
Just leave him.
Before my time's up ♪
I know that feeling,
that could never stop me ♪
I gotta grind now ♪
They could never copy ♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪♪♪
[ANGELA] Whoo! I mean, let's go!
[LAUGHS]
[GROANS] This is gonna be fun.
- This is like a road trip.
- It is a road trip.
That's what they mean
when they say road trip,
what we're doing right now.
Grumpy without coffee. Here.
Not right now. I'll get to it later.
We should play one of those games
where every time you see
an out-of-state license plate
you get a point,
and when you see a car
with only one headlight working
you get five points.
How do we know they only
got one headlight?
It's daytime.
Nobody's got
their fucking headlights on.
What happened to your inability
to say no to me,
you stick in the motherfucking mud?
I can't do this for four hours.
- [SCOFFS]
- [PHONE BUZZING]
Yeah.
[RICK OVER PHONE] Hey, you need to
come see the mess
they made over here.
They got all my pipes stacked together.
Six-inch, eight-inch, ten-inch
bundled like fucking T-posts.
They should've come on separate trucks.
Yeah, they should've done
a lot of shit they didn't do.
I'm gonna need a Cat with a
magnet over here to sort this shit out.
Well, I'm about ten minutes from you.
I'll be right there, all right?
We got to take a little detour, honey.
I'm gonna get to see you work?
That's so hot.
You gonna yell at anybody?
Yeah, probably.
You want me to give you a hand job?
[LAUGHS]
Sweetheart, you got to stay
in the truck.
Stay here?
Yeah. There's cranes and excavators
and front-end loaders
moving shit everywhere.
You got to have a hard hat
and steel-toe boots.
Well, are your boots steel-toed?
[CHUCKLING]
Don't you look at me that way.
[LAUGHS]
You're bringing that hard hat home.
[LAUGHS] My God.
You see this shit?
It's gonna take me two
fucking days to sort this out.
Yeah, well, that's faster than they can.
I shouldn't have to do it at all.
It's a waste of my fucking time.
- Someone move those pipes!
- No, no, no, no, no.
Do not move the pipes.
He'll bleed out. Don't touch him.
[MAN] We need a Med Sled out here!
[TOMMY] Hey, buddy
[PANTING]
- Hey, Rick.
- [GRUNTS]
Hang in there, buddy.
You just breathe slow.
Don't get all excited.
- All right?
- I want to call my wife.
I-I don't have my phone.
I don't have my phone.
Okay, here. Here.
Okay. There you go.
Listen, we're gonna get you
some help, all right?
[RICK] Wait, wait, wait. Hey. Hey.
[PANTING]
What do I, what do I tell her?
Tell her you love her.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Pick up. Pick up. Pick up. Pick up.
- Give me your phone.
- What's wrong?
Honey, just give me your phone.
- What happened?
- And stay in the truck, please.
[LINE RINGING]
[DISPATCHER]
911, what's your emergency?
Yes, I'm at a drilling rig
off of Country Road 137.
I'm gonna send you GPS coordinates.
I've got a white male, in his 30s,
and his body's been crushed.
[DISPATCHER]
How was it crushed, sir?
- Oil field pipe.
- [DISPATCHER] Is he breathing?
[TOMMY] No, ma'am.
[DISPATCHER] Okay, do you or
anyone on the scene know CPR?
It's not possible to give him CPR.
[SINGER VOCALIZING]
♪♪♪
[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
♪♪♪