There Will Be Blood Page #4

You wait here for me. I'll be back.

I'll be back in a minute. You wait here.

-Please. -I'm gonna take care. Stay here.

-I'm gonna fix this. -Please.

Michael.

Get the spigots and hook up some hoses.

Billy, get the roof wet before it's too hot.

What are you looking so miserable about?

We've got a whole ocean

of oil underneath our feet.

No one can get at it except for me.

Is H.W. okay?

No he isn't.

-Where is he? -Mess hall.

That's enough now, that's enough H.W.

That's enough.

Do you hear me?

Can you hear me in there?

That's enough.

-It's Daddy. That's it.

-Easy boy. Easy.

-Soon be over.

-Yeah, that's good.

-Now the other side.

-Turn him over.

It's over, it's over, it's over...

Who do we know in San Francisco?

...Los Angeles?

Someone to teach H.W.

Could you figure out that?

A Cole...

...god damn it, what's his name?

Bobrody in San Francisco?

Cole Bobrody,

get someone down here.

I'll do it right away.

When do we get our money, Daniel?

Aren't you a healer?

And a vessel for the holy spirit?

When are you coming over

and make my son hear again?

Can't you do that?

You should have let me bless the well...

You owe the Church of the Third Revelation.

Five thousand dollars as part of

the arrangement that we made.

Don't even try, runt...

You splash around in here...

That's it, that's it...

I'm gonna bury you under ground, Eli.

I'm gonna bury you under ground.

You are a stupid man, Abel.

You've let someone come in

here and walk all over us.

You let him in...

...and do his work here...

...and you're a stupid man for

what we could have had.

I followed His word, Eli. I tried.

You didn't do anything but sit down.

You're lazy and you're stupid.

Do you think God is going to

save you for being stupid?

He doesn't save stupid people, Abel.

Stupid!

How did he come here?

Do you know?

-I know. Be quiet!

-Son, don't you... Please...

Shut your mouth, Abel.

It was your stupid son.

It was Paul who told him to come here. I know it.

He went to him and he said:

My stupid, weak father will give away his lots,

go and take him...

And you let it happen.

My stupid father to a stupid son.

Can I help you?

Daniel?

Who's that?

My name is Henry.

Yeah?

I'm Henry.

What can I do for you?

I'm Henry Plainview.

I'm from Fond du lac.

I'm your brother.

From another mother.

Ernest is my father.

Who are you?

Henry.

Mary Brands...? Is that your mother?

Yes, sir. That's right.

I read about your gusher in the paper.

About your success.

You heard about my strike and you just show up?

Our father's dead.

Ernest died. I heard.

I wanted to find you.

-When? -Three months ago.

I got a letter from Anabelle.

My sister Anabelle?

Where is she?

Still at home. Fond du Lac.

You came all the way from Wisconsin to tell me this?

I'm coming from New Mexico. I've been there.

I came to find you.

Did you know about me?

Do you have identification?

Do you have this letter?

Where are you coming from?

-From New Mexico.

-Yes, I know, but from where?

Silver City. I've been there for two years.

I was trying drilling of my own for years...

...getting leases in Texas and Louisiana.

Anything that produced?

No. Not like your success. No.

Are you married?

No. I spent time in jail.

I had a stretch of very bad time.

...had nothing and was picked up in Louisiana.

I worked on a chain gang for six months, building roads.

That was a very hard time.

Are you married?

What were you in jail for?

Believe it or not...

...for all the terrible things that I'd gotten myself into...

...when they picked me up I hadn't done anything.

...but I've done my share of things...

...that shouldn't be talked about.

Drink it.

Drink it!

Come on...

So...

What do you want, Henry?

Nothing.

If you can spare something,

I can work for you in any way.

I know I'll keep moving before

long to get back to Fond du Lac.

-Do you have any money? -Some.

-Not much. -Just answer me directly.

You say, "nothing", and then you say

you'd like to stay and work.

It's better I'd just like to hear you say

you'd like to be here.

I'd like to be here.

I'm a good worker...

I've worked cable-tool rigs and built railroads,

I won' t need any favors...

Good.

What did my Mother know?

I don't know.

I don't know if she knew and looked the other way.

If she never knew.

Why did you leave?

I know you didn't get on with our father.

I worked for Geological Survey

and went to Kansas...

I couldn't stay there. I just couldn't...

I don' t like to explain myself.

Are you an angry man, Henry?

About what?

Are you envious?

Do you get envious?

I don't think so. No.

I have a competition in me.

I want no one else to succeed.

I hate most people.

That part of me is gone...

...working and not succeeding, all my...

...failures has left me...

...I just don't care.

Well if it's in me, it's in you...

There are times when I...

...look at people and I see nothing worth liking.

I wanna earn enough money...

...I can get away from everyone.

What will you do about your boy?

I don't know.

Maybe it'll change.

Does your sound come back to you?

I don't know.

Maybe no one knows that.

A doctor might not know that.

Where is his mother?

I don't talk about those things...

I see the worst in people, Henry.

I don't need to look past seeing

them to get all I need.

I've built my hatreds over the years, little by little.

Having you here gives me a second breath...

I can' t keep doing this on my own...

With these...

...people.

Daniel, Daniel, wake up! Daniel!

I just have to go and have

a word with the conductor.

I'll be right back.

You stay... You stay here... Understand?

Henry Plainview from Fond du Lac.

H.M. Tilford, pleasure.

So...

-So? -Yes.

How's your boy?

Thank you for asking.

Is there anything we can do?

Thanks for asking us.

So... What are your plans?

-Is this about buying up my tracts here? -Yes.

The cable was about my Coyote Hills lease.

We'd like that too.

What's your offer for Coyote Hills?

We'll offer 150,000 for full title.

That's a deal. What's next?

You have 11,000 acres in Little Boston.

You have one proven well, that was damaged...

That's three wells proven,

you haven't been paying attention.

That's three proven wells.

We'll make you a millionaire while you're

sitting here from one minute to the next.

What else would I do with myself?

Are you asking me?

What else would I do with myself?

Take care of your son.

I don't know what you would do.

If you were me and Standard offered to buy...

...what you had here you'd want to know why. So why?

You know why.

You fellows just scratch around in the dirt

and find it like the rest of us...

...instead of buying up someone else's hard work.

I've scratched around the dirt, son.

Are you gonna change your shipping costs?

We don't dictate shipping costs.

That's railroad business...

You don't own the railroads?

Of course you do. Of course you do.

Where do you gonna put it on?

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