There Will Be Blood Page #3

-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...

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