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Millions.

I meanyou mean, for,

you know, are you guys, or?

You

could be a millionaire.

See what it stands and

what this agreement looks like.

That's it right there.

Nice talk today.

Kind of anti-climactic, I thought

it would be harder. It's too easy.

What?

I got it.

Really?

From V.P. of Land Management.

Wow.

It's great. I'm proud of ya.

Oh sh*t.

Danny, I don't know what to say.

I know Heather.

It's only two way tickets.

Did anybody get on base?

No.

Well then that makes it

almost a perfect game.

That is amazing!

It's not a whole game, mom.

Okay, well, you shouldyou juststill

you should be celebrating,

you shouldn't be seating

here talking to me.

Hey, Ms. T.!

Hi Colin.

So where you guys headed?

I don't know. Sarah Dayton's

having a party, I think.

You look nice.

Okay.

I love you so much.

Okay mom.

Okay.

Go.

Hey!

Mr. Richards? Hi, I'm Steve Butler.

Steve, it's a pleasure.

Nice to meet you.

And call me Gerry for God's sake.

Oh, great.

Anything to drink?

Steve?

Uh, yeah, a cup of coffee.

For you, Jerry?

Oh I'm fine, thanks Lynn.

Well, listen, I appreciate you sitting

down with me, I know you're busy but I

Oh yeah, yeah.

I just thought it'd be a good idea

for you and I to get together

before the town hall tomorrow so

that we can get to know each other.

Of course, no no, look, as the senior

member of the supervisors board,

thank you for sitting down

with me. I appreciate it.

Pretty exciting all

this natural gas stuff.

It is very exciting.

Whole lot of money down there!

That is also true.

How much do you think? How much

money you think we got down there?

Well, uh, your Global's research team

hasn't finished their analysis yet,

but I think it could be as much

as 15 to 20 million dollars.

Is that right?

I mean it could be, yeah.

Thank you.

Well Listen, I've, uh

I've been doing a little research about

all this, gone online a little bit, and

well, I've read all these

rumblings on Natural Gas

possibly contaminates water sources?

You know, killing crops and what not.

Yeah. You know, I've read

all that stuff too.

There're stories of people

lighting their water on fire.

People getting sick. Steve.

That sounds nasty.

WellWell, there are lost

of scare tactics at play here.

Oh. ButLook, I, uh

I have a responsibility

to protect these people.

To ensure their safety.

Yes.

And to be honest

Well

I'm just not so sure I'm too

comfortable telling my constituents

to allow you folks to come into our town.

No matter how much money you have.

Okay. Well, Mr. Richards, because

Now

I know that you folks have quite

the operation in the works, here.

With plans to set up

throughout the state, huh?

Yeah.

Well, I'd hate to be the guy that

jeopardize all that for you.

To lead this one little podunk

town to reject your company.

To reject natural Gas. Wow!

I can't even imagine what

that would do to you guys.

Especially fore that this got out,

you know, in the papers, on the news, hmm?

It's 30,000.

What's that?

I can offer you 30,000 dollars.

Can I get you anything else?

You know what, Lynn, I think

we're done here. Just the check please.

The Marcellus shale,

estimated at 2 trillion dollars,

with billions in potential tax

revenue to individual states.

Google.

First one that came up, first sentence.

Now you wanna re-think that joke

number you mentioned earlier, hm?

Mr. Richards, I'm-I'm just being

straight with you, it's simple math.

Best case scenario there's 30

million dollars under your town.

.1% of that is 30,000 dollars,

that's what I'm authorized to offer you.

I'm also telling you

it's a one time offer.

Don't get up.

Don't do that.

I've been at this table before

and it doesn't end well.

Look, I don't fault you for trying.

But, I'm telling you

Don't do this.

Because we will walk away.

We always do.

And after every single

town within 3 states

has signed up for this, and the blows

of this economy are almost unbearable,

we're gonna come back.

And we're gonna offer you nothing.

We will offer this town nothing.

Every contract we've signed,

every piece of the pie

we've offered, it all goes away.

And we buy this place for nothing.

Now please

Let some other guy be last.

I got it.

Thank you.

So I'll see you tomorrow?

I'll see you tomorrow.

Jeez, you want me to

leave the whole bottle?

They allow you to do that?

Hey Jesse, three more please.

Jesus Christ, the two of you.

Well, I don't know what your

problem is. It's my birthday.

II have no excuse.

Lemme guess.

Forty

married, marketing, with two kids.

Thirty eight

Stripper/Waitress but was

born to be a singer.

F*** you, I'm a teacher!

No no, I was talking about me.

You wanna see a dance?

It's a 100 bucks.

They wouldn't give you 30.

No, you haven't seen my moves.

Ok, alright, now you're creeping me out.

I'm Steve.

Alice.

Wow, you're goin' pretty big

for a school night, Alice.

It's my birthday.

Oh right, right.

Well actually, tomorrow.

So they just give you a day off,

you know, for your birthday,

or do you have to lie, tell the kids

you've got a stomach bug?

Okay, first off, I resent the implication

that I can't hold my liquor

And secondly, we watch videos

sometimes for the first two periods.

Just sometimes, right?

Smart.

So?

What's your story?

What brings you to our booming metropolis?

Oh, I'm actually from a small town myself

so it just kind of feels like home.

Oh yeah, where's that?

Eldridge, Iowa.

Aah, you're a buckeye!

That's Ohio.

The same thing.

Okay, no offense taken.

Alice.

Let's go!

Hey, what are we doing?

We're drinking or not?

Nice to meet you, Alice.

Oh, so you're not gonna even

buy a birthday girl a birthday drink?

No, I think that would

communicate the wrong thing.

You're an a**hole!

No no, I'mof course I'll buy your drinks.

No, forget it, you blew it,

you missed your chance.

Wait! No, that's it?

Alice, come on.

So how long you be in town?

Uh, yeah a bit.

A bit?

Oh my God, you're a horrible liar.

I'm not lying!

You wanna give a girl

a real birthday present?

Sure. Yeah.

Jesse, we're playing Absolut Madness.

Absolut Madness?

What's Absolut Madness?

It's pretty much what it sounds like.

You and Jesse drink 4 shots in 4 minutes,

and if you can get closer to the

bulls eye on that dartboard, then

we drink for free and you get

your Polaroid on the wall.

Uh, that's not at all what

it sounds like. alright, I'm in!

Uh, no, I tell you what, okay,

hang on, what if we double?

Alright, I do 8 shots in

everybody at this bar

gets the drink for free.

Alright.

Alright, alright, alright, alright.

Hey, my name's Steve, uh

Steve!

I hope that we gonna get everybody

here drunk tonight for free.

Alright, Absolute Madness, here we go.

Oh my God!

I got it, I got it!

Oh! Oh thank God, you're still

kind of handsome.

You're late.

What?

Your phone hasn't stop buzzing

for the last half hour.

Sh*t.

Oh, sh*t, okay.

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