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Last season on Landmass.

Oil and gas industry make $3 billion a day in pure profit. But before any of

that money is made, you've got to secure the rights and lock up the surface.

We don't fuck with our product. We don't fuck with yours.

Oh, 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 this shit. I want to be a landman.

Where's the rest of your crew?

Cooper got hurt. Why are you with him?

Always got to make it about you.

Oh, yeah, that's what I'm doing. Who's the best litigation firm in Midland?

First one to hire Shepard Hastings wins.

You're the attorney.

I'm that easy to spot, huh?

Wasn't difficult.

Should I be there?

You're their mother, so if you feel like you ought to be here, you probably

should count.

Your sister's following in the footsteps.

She's going to tech.

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

And you did a very good job describing you're on I didn't plan on meeting my

crew members widow and fucking falling in love Take me to the hospital if you

need something then you call myself not here to make a new vice president of

operations You owe me a lot of money

We're the last bear you want to poke but the world's a better

place if we are friends

This fucking is up.

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

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

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?

You don't sell cigarettes?

Not since the 90s.

You don't have any secret stash back there for emergencies?

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.

Because I guarantee you, that shit right there ain't going to get me through on

Monday. There you go.

Anything but menthol or those little skinny ones.

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.

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

She fires love, knocks you out of your shoes, and there's nothing that you can

do.

In a hotel room on St. Vincent Street, the walls repeat

hopes and dreams.

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

There's been no change of control.

Well, he's fucking dead, Tommy, and now his wife runs the company. That's the

very definition of change of 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

that you signed with. That's a chain of progression, not a change in control.

But if you want to fight about it, lawyer up, big boy. Let's go.

Tommy, goddammit, 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 because I knew he would deliver. But now what?

I'm supposed to sit on the 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

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 do you want me to send the $110 million bill?

God damn it. You have no play except to trust me or buy them back. Oh, you're

going to sell me my own leases now? They ain't your fucking leases, Danny.

They're mine until I recoup. Plus 100. 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 going to make you richer.

Y 'all want a drink?

Oh, 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 is the go, we better.

Tommy.

Is this a little bit below your pay grade, Bob?

Well, M -Tex holds $3 billion in leases. I don't think that's below anyone's pay

grade. What are you going to do with the gas fields in Kilgore? Oh, that's

pretty far down my list. East Texas ain't my game.

It's not a question of if there's gas. Oh, I know. The fields are good.

I just don't want to go out there.

Mosquitoes are some big -dang -fuck -a -turkey flat -footed.

Well, we can spare you the trouble.

I'll give you $300 for them.

Well, they're worth $600 at least.

Five, maybe, if they were producing. You just said they'll produce.

Well, will is the key word. You've got to drill them first, and you just said

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

$350. What is this, a fucking test? I know what they're worth.

$400 and they're yours.

All of our contract drafted in two to three days.

Buy bug spray.

Anything else you're looking to unload?

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

You got geothermal, permit, surface locked up? Bundled and ready to go.

You mail 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 of a circle.

Yeah, and they leave a pretty big weight.

Monty was a gambler who thrived on his intuition.

That can't be replicated.

It can't be taught.

We're in a boom.

She should sell.

Pay capital gains, you'd still be a billionaire.

I don't disagree with you.

Rooms don't come tougher.

If she doesn't win it, banks are calling notes, things worth ten cents on the

dollar.

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

She better be.

Talk later.

All right.

He had me at Four Seasons. He wants to leave tonight.

Oh, he wants to leave now.

As soon as his lunch is over.

Um, okay.

This will work.

You trust him. To do what?

I don't know.

I mean, he's 62 years old.

If he tries something I won't do, I'll kick the shit out of him.

But I doubt he'll come up with something I won't try.

My man is going to get the blowjob of his.

Life. On the flight.

And I'm coming home with a condo in Dallas and a Bentley Continental.

What?

Oh, the divorce doctor convention is one hotel over.

It's a young woman's game here.

No offense.

I'm still offended.

That's life in the Serengeti.

Thank you.

I needed this.

You

know

what you're saying?

I wrote a speech, but I'm not sure that's what I'm going to say.

Well, you better figure it out fast.

That's your luncheon.

We have a half billion dollars in debt service.

And the president of every bank that's holding that paper, they're in that

And they're looking for any excuse to pull it.

We have $700 million worth of leases and loan outs that money's debt effectively

nullified. So you better convince them that you're strong, that you're tough,

that you don't take any shit.

Not going bankrupt is your motivation.

Well that's where men and women differ, Tommy.

Fear alone doesn't motivate us.

We need something else.

Well you better find it.

I've recently heard this room referred to as the Serengeti.

Many of you are hunters.

You satiate your primal need for conquest by playing the only game in

where the other team doesn't know it's playing.

My husband never hunted.

He saw no need.

The Permian was his savanna, and you were his sport.

I called this luncheon so I could introduce myself to each of you, squash

rumors, and offer you a warning.

I'm a hunter, too.

And like my husband, I don't use a rifle.

We are entering the largest energy boom of this century.

For those of you coasting on your royalties, I must point out,

that while you sunburn on the beach in Tulum, I will be underbidding your lease

offers, cornering pipeline supplies, and buying your bad debt.

Underestimating me is how I buy you out.

Now, I have no speech on the futures of energy or my commitment to

innovative approaches on drilling.

Or philanthropy or any of that other bullshit you guys like to spew at these

things.

I'm the largest independent oil producer in the region.

The only difference between me and money is I'm meaner.

Test me and you'll find out how much.

Enjoy your lunch.

I paid for it with your fucking money.

What motivated that?

Canceling that little bitch's vacation.

No great reward, no heaven high or hell Your

past is a memory soon to be Left to fade in time

Your future just a fever dream A construct

of your mind Trade your water

What's our depth?

5 ,800.

You should be in it.

You'll know we're in it when that pressure valve starts singing.

Hey, you're in it.

Back it up, back it up.

Numbers, numbers.

I'll get them.

Come on, give me the fucking numbers.

Cooper, god damn it, boy. Let me shut this down and start circulating that you

want it filling out all over the fucking ground.

I'd say buy a lottery ticket, but you don't need one.

What's our gas kicking at?

How's 6 ,200 units sound?

Oh shit.

Ariana!

Ariana!

Ariana!

You forget I got a baby?

I gotta show you something.

Hey, Marty!

Where we at?

We're running these chokes wide open.

This bitch is flowing.

Oh.

Excuse me, ma 'am.

A lot of standing water right now. But the oil ratio's high.

Real high.

Over 20 % and it's rising fast.

Ain't a lot of shit in this one.

Sorry, ma 'am.

I did it again.

I'm used to it and guilty of it. No apology necessary.

Well, that's a pretty big smile.

I got a pretty big reason.

Elvio never used to get this excited about drilling.

We never own the well.

This is ours.

It's ours. It's going to pay for itself in two months, and it pays us.

Congratulations, kid. Thank you.

Well, I'm proud of you, mi amor.

I don't think she understands.

No, she don't.

Hey, when we level off, where do you think we'll be at? I mean, it's hard to

say, but be conservative.

500?

500 barrels a day, every day for the next two years, before we even put a

on it.

Is that a lot?

Well, bull opened at 78 .23 times 5, that's 39 ,000 and

change a day, every day.

75 % of that's ours.

29 ,000 a day, 880 ,000 a month.

Ten million dollars a year.

It's ours.

Hey, look at that.

See that?

Yeah.

That's the next one.

So, this is the dream.

This is the dream.

We did it.

We did it for you.

It's like a present wrapped in elephant.

You know exactly what the hell you're getting.

Look at this big old horned frog.

I think it's actually a toad. It's a horny toad.

Well, it's actually a lizard, baby.

If you diminish counts or ask, that's one of the trickier things she'll throw

you.

Well, why do they call them frogs if they're actually lizards?

I don't know, baby.

I mean, why do they call a buffalo a bison?

What's a bison?

It's a buffalo.

If it's not a buffalo, it's a bison.

You don't think she's going to ask me about buffalo, do you? I don't know,

I mean, it's Colorado's mascot, and every mascot from the Big 12 could be on

table. Okay, well, I'll tell her I'm not majoring in zoology, so I haven't

really studied the math.

Good thinking, baby.

29 in your ACT.

That test was hard.

I was relieved to do so good on it. I wouldn't say good. I would say

I thought it was good.

It's fine.

Top ten percent of your class at Aledo? And that's a big school.

Graduating from Aledo in May?

No, I'm studying abroad now.

Europe? Midland.

Ah.

And what precipitated such a life -altering move?

Precipitated.

Yes. It hasn't rained since I moved there.

Why did you move there?

My parents got back together, and my father lives there.

Oil business?

Yes, ma 'am.

No interest in tech?

Well, I was accepted to tech, but I just feel I need a fresh start.

Seems like you've been given priority walk -on status with the cheerleading

corps.

Were you going to cheer for Tech?

Well, I was just going there for my boyfriend, who scored a 17 on his ACT,

off to junior college for him and Kilgore.

And my daddy won't let me go east of I -35 unless it's a shop in Dallas.

Not that I would go to junior college for a boy. If he was playing at a junior

college in the Maldives, I wouldn't go. None of that is what I asked you. I

asked why you weren't cheering for Tech, but you are cheering for TCU.

TCU doesn't have a policy against cheerleaders dating athletes.

And that was an issue for you? Very much.

Would you like me to explain my position on the subject? I would

be fascinated to hear your position on the subject.

Well, it seems detrimental to really humanity in general that a university

try to keep the prettiest girls from dating the tallest, most athletic boys

could then get married and make babies that are like... really, really pretty

and athletic, like even more athletic than their parents.

It's like if you breed a lab to a sheepdog, you have, well, I don't know

you have, but you don't have a lab and you don't have a sheepdog. But if you

take two really, really good looking labs, like from the wild rose kennel at

Dallas gun club, then the puppies will be like super retrievers. And I just

think that we're wasting a real opportunity with these restrictive

I'm sorry.

I'm really, really nervous. And I feel like this interview is getting away from

me here.

I really want to go here.

And I already ordered my uniform.

And the training sweats.

And the cover -up.

But not the white ones. It's the purple ones.

With, like, the cute little horned frog in white above the pocket.

Which isn't a frog at all. It's a lizard.

Could I have a tissue?

Thank you.

Hybrid vigor.

What did you call me? When two different breeds of a species procreate, the

offspring possesses the strongest traits from both breeds.

Shattering your argument for the baby factory of quarterbacks and

which is easily the most offensive and elitist statement ever uttered in this

office. So offensive, Ainsley, I am finding it difficult to fully articulate

shock and utter disgust.

That doesn't sound good. It's not good.

If it were in my power to deny you acceptance to this university, I would

with an enthusiasm professors in our psychology department might wish to

However... As a priority walk -on, you must only meet the minimum requirements,

which sadly you do, to gain acceptance.

Your application does not go before the admissions board, where I would have

taken great joy expounding on all the ways you are an abysmal candidate for

university. You're using a lot of words I don't fully understand. I'm doing it

on purpose.

Thank you. Now that you have satisfied your in -person interview, your

acceptance letter will be mailed in the next seven to ten days. You must

register for freshman orientation. Wait, I got in?

I got in?

And it has a stereo function.

Oh, my God. What are you doing? I'm a hugger. Let's not.

Oh, my God.

Now I smell like the beach in Gardenias. It's Hermes. They sell it at Neiman's.

But don't buy it.

I'm going to bring you some on Teacher Appreciation Day. I know you're not a

teacher, but I'm going to bring you some anyways.

Thank you, Gretel. Greta.

Like it says on the door and on the plaque right in front of you.

It does say that.

That's a good gift, too. Not for you. You already have one.

Thank you, Greta.

Back off of there!

Of course you did, baby!

That interview was tough.

Oh, my little dove.

Honey, never doubt yourself about anything.

Even the things you have no chance of accomplishing?

Whether I bake a pie or I get someone to bake a pie for me, I've got pie either

way. You understand?

I think so.

Make what you can make in life and have others make the rest.

That's what you like, baby.

Can't wait to live with you.

The day is coming, baby doll.

The day is coming.

Went well, I think.

And now comes the real test.

And when they call, and they will call, don't even listen to the pitch. Tell

them to call me.

And then when they start selling, just interrupt them. Say, let me stop you

right there. Call Tommy.

Well, I'm not going to learn anything if I keep deferring to you.

Monty burned a lot of people, Kimmy.

He wasn't dishonest, but he was ruthless. Now the whole world's going to

gunning for you.

All the bad d***. are coming your way and the good ones will come to me.

This is my son. Do you care?

Hey, bud. Is everything all right?

Hey, I need to see you.

What happened?

Something good.

For God's sake, please don't tell me she's pregnant.

Not that I know of.

Well, son, that's one of those kind of things I'd rather you be certain about.

She's not pregnant.

Well, good.

I need to talk about business.

Well, I'm flying back from Fort Worth right now. Just come over to the house.

Dad, that involves having dinner with my mother and... Cooper, just come to the

damn house. I'll be there in an hour, all right?

I swear, if I told that boy the sun was shining, he'd argue that it was the

moon.

Gee, I wonder where he got that from.

You did real good today, Cammie.

Monty would be proud.

We got Ag Trust on Friday. Thank you, Tommy.

I'm a horned frog.

Well, I'll be a dog.

Look at our little horny toes.

Well, congratulations, baby. Good job. I'm glad you passed up that public

in -state tuition.

Be proud.

I am proud, but I was already proud when it was half the price.

We got everyone?

Yeah, we're good to go, bud.

When are you headed back?

Friday. I'm coming with you. Do y 'all want any snacks?

No, baby, we're good.

I need to hire a realtor.

There's pistachios.

No, thank you.

We're good.

What do we need a realtor for?

Do you really think I'm going to stay in Midland while our daughter is at

college all alone in some strange city?

Strange city? Hell, honey, she was raised here.

I'm sorry. You're under the impression that we're having a discussion about

this. I will live by my baby.

All right. Hire a goddamn realtor.

Is it too much to ask that you don't bankrupt me again with some fucking

that we can't afford and don't need?

I didn't bankrupt you the first time, number one.

Number two, you are president of an oil company.

It's time you started living like it.

We're on a fucking Gulf Stream. I am living like it. Yeah, I mean, we're

back to our fucking frat house in Midland.

Do I have to wear a seatbelt?

Yes, baby, you have to wear a seatbelt.

Mm -mm.

All that shit stopped the minute she got accepted to TCU.

In four years, she'll graduate.

She'll get married and move away.

Next thing you know, I'm a grandmother with tits hanging down to her stomach.

And I'm all alone. All you do is work.

I'm definitely going to have to start drinking again.

Time for supper.

It ain't set yet.

Dinner's at 6 .30, T .L.

I know what time supper is.

And it already set this time yesterday.

Two things you'll find interesting, Denise.

Until the 21st of June, the sun's going to set a little later every day.

I could explain to you why, but I doubt you'd understand.

The other thing that's interesting is I'm in control of none of it.

The sun sets when it sets.

And I'm going to sit here and fucking watch it.

Theo, I need you to remain in your seat if you are going to be outside.

Well, I guess you better call the sheriff, Denise.

T .L.

T .L.

Thomas, I need you to sit down. I don't want to tell you again.

You're ruining it!

See you tomorrow.

Whenever you're ready, TL.

You're chariot away.

No rush.

I'm ready.

So, we got a call from memory care in Amarillo.

Dorothy passed, Tia.

She, uh, she took her afternoon nap.

Just didn't wake up.

I recommend you find a way to die quick, Hank.

Just dying a little bit every day.

I'm real sorry.

This isn't a better place.

I'm sure you'll see her again.

If I do, that means I'm in hell too.

You have got to take a shower.

Took a shower this morning.

That was nine hours ago.

Deodorant, baby.

I mean, how's your little senorita put up with that?

I don't think that's appropriate at all to say.

What?

Senorita?

That is Spanish for young woman night. Is she not a young woman?

That is an accurate description, yes, but there is a hint of cultural

appropriation when one is not of that culture.

Looks like I have an in -house camp in the fucking house. You're on the wrong

side of the calendar for that conversation.

Follow me?

I am getting that, yes.

I swear to God, her cycle is reversed every 28 days. She's normal.

I heard that.

Yay!

Thank you.

You look great.

He likes my outfit. You look real cute, honey.

What happened to Tech? Well, she's our little horny toad now.

True words.

You somehow got uglier.

Did you swallow soup, kid?

Oh, that's your Adam's apple.

Isn't it cute how they tease?

Oh, yes, ma 'am. It's adorable.

Pretty sure they aren't teasing.

Oh, no, they fucking hate each other.

Dinner is a little rushed, but I did go by Central Market and they had, are you

ready for this?

White truffle.

Can you believe that?

Is that like the chocolate?

No, not a chocolate. It's like a root or a fungus or something.

It's a mushroom that grows underground and you have to hunt it with dogs.

That's what we're having for dinner?

Well, we're having cacio e pepe.

which is a pasta with black pepper, Parmesan Reggiano, and shaved white

truffle.

No sauce?

Well, not a sauce in the way that you're thinking, but the melted butter. Well,

I can't have butter, Mama. You can have a little butter. I'm literally in

training. You've been a cheerleader for six hours. You can have some butter. I'm

not even supposed to have carbs. You can work it off in the morning.

If you ever notice the closer she gets to her period, the more complicated the

dinner dishes become.

So you just pointed it out. I swear to God, if aliens came down here and

us up and put us in zoos, those little fucking spacemen could watch this shit

for hours.

Like we watch gorillas eat fruit and pick their asses and swing around on

They could watch women argue all fucking day. Excuse me.

I mean, I'm right here listening to you.

Here, it's what we're not doing. Any of this shit.

Okay?

Our baby is going to college.

All right, and we are going to toast her and eat exactly what I put in front of

you. Those little aliens won't need a zoo to see the tantrum mom about the

throat because they'll see it from fucking sight.

Everyone got me?

Cacio e Pepe.

Not Spaghetti Dale. With shaved wax truffle on top.

At $2 ,800 fucking dollars, the truffle is not optional. You're shitting me.

For a mushroom?

Thank you.

Mm -hmm.

There we go.

Thank you.

Give me about $600 worth. Mm -hmm.

What about mine?

None for the baby, because your palates are too sensitive.

When you're older, baby.

Care to bless it?

Sure, I'd be happy to, honey.

Oh, God, I'm wet.

Dear Lord.

Please, I beg you to grant us patience.

And that's about it.

Amen. Amen.

Mix it together, Dale, so the truffle emulsifies with the sauce.

I said there was no sauce.

I said it's not a traditional sauce.

Understood.

Mix them.

I was thinking of using Stephen Rich.

What do you think?

A real estate broker?

We're buying a house in Fort Worth.

Thank you, Jesus.

Honey, Stephen does ranches.

If he can find a ranch, he can find a five -bedroom house in Miravista.

What the hell do we need with five bedrooms?

What about when Cooper and Ainsley come home for the holidays?

And Cooper has his little baby now.

Not my baby.

Well, I doubt you're leaving the fucking thing at home, so it needs a room. And

what about when Ainsley has children?

I mean, doing the math.

I don't think five bedrooms is enough.

Honey, I don't think home purchases should be committed to during the

arc of your cycle.

What are

you saying, honey?

That I'm incapable of making decisions when I'm on my period?

While millions of years of evolution have played out in the perfect cleansing

my womb in preparation for your Neanderthal sperm.

There we go. That I somehow lose the ability to think clearly during the week

this miracle unfolding?

Huh? That I'm somehow so mentally compromised?

I never said that. What do you think I'll do?

Huh?

Something crazy?

Like take your plate away and throw it against the fucking wall? You can have

plate. Oh, can I?

Yeah. Oh, thank you, Tommy.

That is so... Something like this?

Huh? Like that?

Remember the tantrum I fucking promised you?

Well, here it is.

I'll call you tomorrow, Dad. Okay, sounds good.

Bye, Mom.

This is going to sound really inappropriate, but with you sweating

before you kill me, I just want to say your tits look great in that little tiny

bra.

I just thought I'd let you know.

How do you manage to say the only thing?

It's a gift.

Mm -hmm.

Well, it's quite the mess to clean up.

You say that like I'm the one fucking cleaning it.

A $2 ,800 mushroom.

It's not a mushroom.

It's a delicacy.

And I was so close to tasting it.

I got another one you can taste after you clean all this shit up.

Honey, why don't we just skip the crazy and go right to the sex we both know

we're going to have after the crazy? Where's the fun in that?

Well, then it's just all fun, see?

We just do the fun part.

Here's some of the stuff in your pipe and smoke when you have some free time.

You think the pattern is my hormones going wonky before my period.

which causes me to act irrationally.

Yes, I have noticed that better.

I can't control my hormones, but you can control pointing them out to me.

You ever ponder that, Mr. Oil President?

Well, that's a fresh perspective I had not considered.

So...

It's my fault when you start throwing shit against the wall.

Every...

Okay. Yeah.

By all means, take your fucking time.

No, I'll call him in a minute.

All right. All right, thank you.

You don't ever answer the phone when I'm kissing you.

Somebody better have died.

Yeah, somebody did.

Righty. I'm done.

My mother.

be sad so is everything that's true