Landman

Oil and gas industry

makes $3 billion dollars a day in pure profit,

but before any of that money is made,

you got to secure the rights and lock up the service.

You don't fuck with our product, we don't fuck

with yours.

Goody, my day begins.

I need this problem to go away, Tommy.

I wouldn't want to have your job this week.

Shit, you wouldn't want to have my job any week.

I learned all I need about geology.

I don't want to teach the shit, I want to be a land man.

Where's the rest of your crew?

Cooper got hurt.

Why aren't you with him?

Always got to make it about you.

Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

Who's the best litigation firm in midland?

First one to hire Shepherd-Hastings wins.

You're the attorney.

I'm that easy to spot?

Wasn't difficult.

Should I be there?

You're their mother,

so if you feel like you ought to be here,

you probably should come.

Surprise.

Your sister's following in your footsteps. She's going to tech.

I'm sure all the sororities are beside themselves with joy.

Elvio did a very good job

- of describing you. - You're Ariana.

I didn't plan on meeting my crew member's widow

and fucking falling in love.

Take me to a hospital.

If you need something, then you call my cell, not his.

I'm making you vice president of operations.

You owe me a lot of money.

We're the last bear you want to poke, bud.

The world is a better place if we are friends.

This fucking job.

Nymex is up two and a half percent to 76.23,

while Brent crude is teasing 79 this morning.

Natural gas is up to 4.28

and heating oil at 2.22.

Corn is down at 448.25, while wheat is up a quarter...

No breakfast?

I'm not much of a breakfast eater.

Most important meal of the day.

You think so?

Well, that's what they say.

- Who's "they"? - I don't know.

Whoever says these things.

I'll tell you who "they" is.

It's kellogg's and general mills

and whoever makes them shitty little frozen round waffles.

That's who it is.

Eggo, I think.

Eggo. Exactly.

Which is owned by kellogg's.

The people that tell us that breakfast

is the most important meal of the day

are the sons of bitches that make the stuff.

You think our ancestors had breakfast?

You think cavemen sat around a fucking fire, eating waffles?

No.

I guarantee you.

I mean, if they ate breakfast at all,

it was probably bone marrow

and an impala they dried out over a fire.

But I guarantee you they didn't have cornflakes.

You sure you want more coffee?

Y'all sell cigarettes?

Not since the '90s.

You don't have any secret stash back there

for emergencies or...?

If they do, they don't tell me.

Well, I tell you what.

See if there's a busboy back there

that might want to go on a scavenger hunt.

'Cause I guarantee you, that shit right there

ain't gonna get me through a Monday.

There you go. Anything but menthol

or those little skinny ones.

It's early.

Long drive.

- Big day. - Yeah?

- What makes it big? - I'll tell you if I'm right.

Tell me anyway.

I'll tell you if I'm right.

Cooper.

That's not the way this is supposed to work.

There's a change in control clause in our contract.

There's been no change in control.

Well, he's fucking dead, Tommy.

And now his wife runs the company.

That's the very definition of "change in control."

I run the company.

She owns it, and she owned it before.

She's listed in the partnership.

That's her fucking signature next to his on your contract.

I was promoted from senior vice president to president

by the same ownership that you signed with.

That's the chain of progression, not a change in control.

But if you want to fight about it,

lawyer up, big boy. Let's go.

Tommy, goddamn it, it's a half-billion-dollar field,

and I had these garbage terms crammed down my throat by monty.

And I could eat those terms with monty

'cause I knew he would deliver.

But now what?

I'm supposed to sit on this shit paper

and let his trophy wife try to pull permits

from the fucking railroad commission?

You think monty ever pulled a fucking permit in his life?

Every dime you ever made with monty,

I pumped it out of the ground.

And that don't change.

I'm 17 Wells in on the workovers.

I'm cleared to drill six on the new field next fucking week.

You want me to send everybody home while you try to weasel

a renegotiation out of my best friend's wife?

Knock yourself out.

I'll shut the whole fucking thing down tomorrow.

Where you want me to send the $110 million dollar bill?

Goddamn.

You have no play except to trust me or buy 'em back.

You're gonna sell me my own leases now?

They ain't your fucking leases, Danny.

They're mine till I recoup, plus a hundred.

Just read the fucking contract.

You might be worse than monty.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Monty made you plenty rich,

and I'm gonna make you richer.

Y'all want a drink?

I'm good, babe. Thank you.

Whiskey double.

Preference on whiskey?

I couldn't care less, honey.

Just relax and trust me.

Are we trusting each other now?

Well, if making money's the goal, we'd better.

Tommy.

This a little bit below your pay grade, Bob?

Well, m-Tex holds three billion in leases.

I don't think that's below anyone's pay grade.

What are you gonna do with the, gas fields in kilgore?

That's pretty far down my list.

East Texas ain't my game.

It's not a question of "if there's gas."

I know. The fields are good.

I just don't want to go out there.

The mosquitoes are so big, they can fuck a Turkey flat-footed.

Well, we can spare you the trouble.

I'll give you 300 for 'em.

Well, they're worth six at least.

Five, maybe, if they were producing.

You just said they'll produce.

Well, "will" is the key word.

You got to drill 'em first,

and you just said you don't want to.

I spent most of my life doing shit I don't want to do.

Three-fifty.

What is this, a fucking test?

I know what they're worth.

Four hundred and they're yours.

I'll have a contract drafted and to you in three days.

- Buy bug spray. - All right.

A-Anything else you're, looking to unload?

I got some leases over in Louisiana I can do without.

You got geothermals, permits, surface locked up?

Bundled, ready to go.

- Email it over. - I'll do it

- first thing. - All right. Everyone's

real curious what she has to say.

I'm pretty curious myself.

I'm assuming you know the sharks are circling.

Yeah, and they leave a pretty big wake.

Monty was a gambler who thrived on his intuition.

That can't be replicated.

Can't be taught.

We're in a boom.

She should sell, pay capital gains.

She'd still be a billionaire.

I don't disagree with you.

Rooms don't come tougher.

If she doesn't win it, banks start calling notes.

Thing's worth ten cents on the dollar.

Yeah, well, she's tougher than you think she is.

- She'd better be. - Well... Talk later.

All right.

Goddamn it.

Where's tulum?

Who cares?

He had me at "four seasons."

He wants to leave tonight?

He wants to leave now.

As soon as this luncheon's over.

Okay.

This'll work.