There Will Be Blood Page #2

That's fine.

Ruth, help these men and

bring them some water.

No, H.W.

Mr. Plainview

- would you like that milk now?

-That'd be fine.

-Mary, bring them some milk.

My family will help you set up your tent.

No, please. We set

ourselves on this camping trip.

We have to do the camping.

Hurry up.

-Do you have bread?

-We have potatoes.

Potatoes would be nice, thank you.

I'll have them boil you up some potatoes.

That's alright, I thought maybe we'd make a fire.

I wanted to work with my son on making a fire.

All right, my son Eli will bring you some wood.

Thank you so much for the hospitality, Mr. Sunday.

-Yes. -We'll be out of your way.

Just hunting for quail.

-I'm sorry we don't have any bread.

-No, no.

Corn just doesn't fill out in the hills here.

It's mostly rock...

...and we don't have room to raise the grain.

Thank you, young lady.

My name is Eli.

Yes, you're Eli Sunday.

Welcome.

-H.W. -Eli.

-You're hunting quail? -That's right.

We will bring dinner.

Thank you, thank you so much.

Dad! Dad, look at my shoe.

That's earthquake oil set loose.

-So... -So?

If there's anything here, we take it to the sea.

What we do is - we build a pipeline to Port Hueneme or Santa Paula...

...it's about a 100 miles...

and we do a deal with union Oil.

This is what we do...

...and we don't need the railroads and

the shipping costs anymore, you see?

-Yeah.

-You see that?

Yeah.

And then we're making money.

we're making the real money...

...that we should be making and

not just throwing it away on shipping costs.

Otherwise it's just mud.

How much we gonna pay them?

Who's that?

The Sunday family.

We're not gonna give them the oil prices.

We keep them quail prices.

A few minutes, there's something I

very much like to talk with you about.

Mother would you take the girls outside, please.

I believe in plain speaking.

This is a beautiful ranch.

I love hunting for quail.

My boy has been sick, you know.

He needs fresh air.

Doctors all say he needs plentiful fresh air.

What would you say would be

a fair price for this lot, Abel?

-To buy this place?

-That's right.

Take a moment.

-I'm sorry, I don't know.

-Six dollars an acre.

Six dollars. Thank you, Eli.

And with the improvements to the ranch over the use at 500 dollars...

I'd like to offer you 3700 dollars for this ranch. That's $3700.

-No.

-The Lord has sent this man here, Eli.

Yes, I believe he has.

My offer to you is 3700 dollars.

What is it that brought you here, sir?

The good Lord's guidance.

And of course within that we're

gonna develop a lease.

-What's that?

-What about our oil?

-What about it?

-We have oil here, that's worth something.

Do you have someone who can drill for it?

Do you think there's oil here?

-I know there is.

-It's very expensive to drill.

To get it up and out of the ground.

Have you ever tried that before?

-How much is it?

-Costly.

Well, our oil sits right up on top of the ground.

I believe that's gold seepage,

doesn't necessarily mean there's anything underneath it.

-What would you give us for it?

-I don't know.

-Something you don't know?

-That's right.

What would you like, Eli?

Ten thousand dollars.

-For what?

-For my church.

That's good.

That's a good one.

If we decide to drill for oil...

...if the well begins to produce...

...I'll give your Church a 5,000 dollar signing bonus.

Do you wanna find someone else that's

gonna come up here and drill? Eli?

Make the investment and do all the hard work...

...that goes into it?

I can just as easily hunt for quail on

another ranch as I can here.

Though I happily be a supporter

of your Church for as long as I can.

For the bonus only.

As it happens,

I do have some connections in the drilling business...

...who might help get us started.

How do you feel about this, Abel?

Yes. What Eli says.

Well. Good. Let's draw up some

contracts and let's give it a try.

Appreciate your help with this, Eli.

-Good afternoon.

-Good afternoon.

-Real estate?

-Yes.

I'd like to talk to you.

I'm looking for some land,

I just bought the Sunday ranch.

And... Well, where's the map?

Where are the hills behind the Sunday ranch?

That's here, it's the Bandy tract.

He has over 600 acres.

What about this?

AC Maude, Blodget, Redlick, Carr...

-What's it held at? -Six dollars an acre.

What about this?

That's the Belvins and that could be got, I'm sure.

-Can everything around here be got?

-Sure.

Paul Sunday turned out to be a good friend of ours.

That's right.

You get here as soon as you can.

Bring Fred English.

Good enough.

Thank you, porter.

-H.W., how are you?

-Fine, and you?

-Pretty good, where's your dad?

-You fellows are a long way from Signal Hill.

-Hello Plainview.

-Hello G.

-Good to see you.

-On your way somewhere else?

Passing through, looking around.

Funny to see you.

-Funny isn't it.

-You boys are a regular family business.

You boys are a little late.

-What'd you find?

-I found some interesting prospects.

-Did you hear Standard bought up?

-It's in the north so far.

That's what I hear.

I'm gonna tell you Gene,

if you're gonna make a play: look east...

I'd rather it would be you than someone else.

There's a lot around here that's been taken.

Life must be easy when you've got such

a cute face to carry around with you.

Are you telling me how handsome my son is?

-Well then I am.

-That's very nice, thank you.

Good luck, Gene.

I said:
go east.

I'll be your lawyer if you

need to draw up a contract...

...make sure you don't get swindled, boy,

get half of what your dad is making.

What are those men doing?

They're just guys that are working for us.

They're just looking around.

How much money can we make?

I don't know, depends...

One thousand dollars?

Mary said that her father beats her,

if she doesn't pray.

Mary, she is the smaller one?

Yes, she is.

-Everyone here?

-Very successful.

-But?

There's one who is holding out.

-Who?

-William Bandy.

-Who is he?

He's an old man, who homesteaded here.

He lives with his grandson...

He said he'd like to speak with you.

-Was he here?

-No, he'd like you to come visit with him.

He's boosting his price?

He said he'd like to speak with

whoever was doing the buying.

Well, let him wait He'll come around.

Let's go.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you so much for

visiting with us this evening.

I've traveled across half our state to

be here and to see about this land.

Some of you might have heard...

...some of the more extravagant

rumours about what my plans are.

I just thought you'd like to hear it from me.

Face to face, no great mystery.

I'm an oil man, ladies and gentlemen.

I have numerous concerns

right across the state.

I have may wells flowing at

many thousands barrels per day.

I'd like to think of myself as an oil man.

As an oil man I hope that you forgive just

good old fashioned plain speaking.

This work that we do,

is very much a family endeavor.

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