Promised Land Page #4

Well

Let's have a vote!

Say, three weeks time.

We're adjourned!

A**hole.

Holy sh*t!

Okay, calm down.

Don't tell me to calm down!

Natural gas isn't perfect

What were you thinking?

And that politician,

why is he so pissed off?

Becaubecause I told him that the

real number was 30 million dollars.

I mean

Well,

once again, you came in

below the price point.

Was it worth it?

I'm sorry.

You know what Steven?

Listen to me.

I don't give a sh*t about your

numbers or your promotion.

My kid is in f***ing Houston

with his stupid f***ing dad.

This is a job, and then I go home.

I'm sorry, Sue.

Do not say I'm sorry, Sue' one more time.

Alright, the plan's the same.

Nothing's changed.

But starting now

wewewe close everyone!

I don't care if they can fit

We go door to door and we lease it all.

They still need the money.

The politician was buckling, Steven

stepped in to try to put the fire out.

This Yates guy, he's just a wild card.

Yeah, thehe's the high school

science teacher here. You know

Uh-Huh. Well, research pulled him up.

He's a hell of a lot

more than that, Steve!

Frank Yates. MA, engineering, MIT.

PhD from Cornell in Physics.

Jesus Christ, the guy did R n' D

for Boeing for 32 years,

He's retired, Steve!

He's teaching for fun!

Okay, we're pulling it.

We're pulling you now!

No!

Absolutely not!

They take us for somebody else in,

it looks like we're running scared!

Where is everybody?

Where did you go?

I'm here. Uh, look, II can have this

whole place committed,

andand before this guy

gets one more supporter.

Period. Okay, just give me the chance.

I don't have to tell you

how important all this is.

This is all or nothing.

We understand each other?

Yeah, I understand.

Coffee, handsome?

Ah. Uh yeah, two.

To go. Please.

Cream and sugar?

Uh yeah, please.

No, put that away, it's on me.

Thank you.

Don't you worry about

Frank Yates, darlin'.

We all know it's not true.

Hey, did research say anything

about an environmental presence?

No, none of the usual suspects.

Nothing locally.

Uh, Mr. Yates?

Yes?

Hi. My name is Dustin Noble.

I'm from a small environmental

group called Superior Athena.

What can I do for you?

I heard about the vote, and

I'd like to do anything I can to help.

Oh well. Look, I

I don't think anybody here

considers himself to be part of some

great environmental revolution, you know.

II have a pretty good feeling

we can win this.

Well, with all due respect, sir, you've picked

a much bigger fight than you think, so

you have to win.

And I have the one thing you don't

Evidence.

Yeah. That's it.

Ah, your little store, is there

a storm coming I didn't know about?

We have to stay a little

longer than we thought.

Not necessarily a bad thing.

What happened to your window?

Ah, I got into a bit of a heated

discussion last night at the bar.

I'm assuming it's not a coincidence.

A heated discussion about what?

You're kidding.

Don't look worried.

I'm not gonna gunshot em.

Oh come on!

You sing?

What?

You look like you'd be a singer.

What are you talking about?

Hot girls I was in high school with,

who sang in the choir,

they always had hair like yours.

Well, I was in a church choir, but

Told you. It's in the hair.

Just think about it.

Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, Cher,

they all had good hair.

It's a very interesting theory, Rod,

but I don't want to sing in public.

What?

I mean, what's the point of having

good hair if you don't sing in public?

Women like Karaoke.

We don't call it that.

You know, it's just open mic.

You tell the band what you want

to sing, they play it, you sing.

Not gonna happen.

Excuse me!

Hey. Hey!

Excuse me, hey man!

Hey! Hey! Hey buddy!

Come on.

Okay. Look.

This whole door to door

thing just isn't gonna cut it.

I mean, if you wanna sell to these people,

you gotta get em all together

or not get em at all.

I mean, you're a pro.

I shouldn't have to tell you this. Look

Show your face tonight,

make yourself seem friendly.

Embarrass yourself a bit.

Hey, did you see a guy in there?

I'm gonna let you figure out

how stupid that sounded.

I think there's an environmental presence.

Really?

Well, I don't know.

I meanthat guy, right there!

II don't know. Maybe.

That's okay, don't panic,

we'll figure it out.

I gotta get an outfit.

You think this guy is handsome?

What?

No, you just look nice.

Oh, shut up.

Ooh, buddy's place.

Scene of the crime.

Is this where you tried

to pick up that lady?

Alice. She's very nice.

Hey, am I sitting with you?

No, I'm sitting with Rob.

Who's Rob?

The handsome guy.

Wait!

What song are you gonna sing?

Sue!

Hey.

Hey.

I signed you up.

You're ready?

Nice!

I'm not entirely sure

you should be drinking.

Hey!

Alice.

Let's try this again.

Steve.

Steve, it's very nice to meet you.

Very nice to meet you, Alice.

So. Looks like you're gonna

stay around for a bit, after all.

That, uhm town hall meeting didn't look

like it went the way you wanted it to.

Yeah, we were only supposed

to be here for 2 or 3 days.

Sorry I lied.

That's ok.

We don't actually play a game

called Absolut Madness.

Jesse's shots were water.

What's Absolut Madness?

I wandered so aimless,

My life full of sins,

I wouldn't let my dear savior in,

In case of emergency only.

See you around, Steve.

Oh my God.

No sorrow in sight.

Praise the Lord, I saw the light.

I saw the light, I saw the light,

No more darkness, No more night,

Now I'm so happy,

No sorrow in sight,

Praise the Lord, I saw the light.

Praise the Lord, I saw the light.

No.

Jesus, I thought that

would've gone better.

Really? I thought it was great.

Hey everybody. Uhm.

Check check.

No. It's not a good joke. Uh-uhm.

It's a much better idea when

I'm staying well on the back, uh

Sing something, man!

Oh God, definitely.

Definitely you don't want that.

Uh, I just wanted to introduce myself,

I'm new in town, I just came in,

my name's Dustin Noble,

I work for a small environmental

company called Athena.

And IYeahNo, I

I know. I know.

The reason why I wanted to talk to you

is that I'm actually from a small

farming community myself in Nebraska,

uh, my family's 5th generation

in dairy, and uh,

Well, the farm is gone,

everything we had isis gone.

What happened was, in 2008,

my dad found 12 dead cows

down by a creek about a half

a mile from our house, and then,

in April about 70% of those cows

were either sick or dead.

And by Christmas he had defaulted on his

payments and the bank took his house.

Hum

The land just died, it just

it just turned brown and died,

and it made it very easy to see

the only things left standing,

which were these giant green

wells that said Global' on them.

Now these guys at Global,

they're real clever.

They have these fine prints

in the leases they make you sign,

that says you can't talk

about it in a court of law, but

hell, I'm pretty sure they

don't say anything about

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