Promised Land

Can I get either of you

gentlemen anything else?

You want another drink?

Uh, no, I'm fine thanks.

We'll take another bottle

of the Chateau Margaux.

You'll be fine.

Listen, I'm sorry Michael isn't here yet.

His plane got delayed

getting into Teterboro.

That's fine.

He likes to meet all the executive

candidates, it's kind of a tradition or a

neuroses.

It's nice of him though.

It is actually, until

he does his one joke.

I thought you said he wasn't

handsome.

That's an oldie but a goodie, I guess.

So what time you heading out tomorrow?

Well actually, Sue's up there now,

I was gonna get he last bus tonight and

get an early start tomorrow morning.

You know hen we called the office out West

you were the only name they gave us.

It's nice of them.

Listen, Steve, we're a

Yeah. If someone is recommending you,

it's not nice it's numbers.

I appreciate that.

Now let me ask you something.

You guys have closed more towns than the

team behind you by almost triple digits.

But the price point that we pay out on

your leases is half of everyone else's.

How do you do that?

Well I'm from Eldridge, Iowa.

Meaning?

It might as well have

been Rifle, Colorado,

Dish, Texas or Lafayette, Louisiana.

Any of these towns we've sold.

I know them, they know me.

Well, unfortunately the rest of our road

teams don't find it as quite so easy.

I grew up in a large farming community.

Football Fridays, tractor

pulls, cow tipping, all of it.

I mean, I'm one of two guys in my

graduating class who went to college

and studied something

other than agriculture.

It's the biggest fight

my grandfather and I ever had.

Just a pride, I guess.

No.

It's delusional self mythology.

It's bullshit.

We had a Caterpillar plant down

in Davenport a few miles away.

They closed that down in my junior year.

I didn't think anything of it.

By the time my senior prom moved around,

I got to see, first hand, just how little

legs we had to stand on.

I mean, the whole farming town

fantasy just shattered.

The truth was, without the plant,

without the industry, we had nothing.

And my whole town was

I'm not selling them Natural Gas.

I'm selling the only way

they have to get back.

Best of luck, Steve.

Is this the guy?

Well you said he wasn't handsome!

Sorry I'm late.

Had to stop at home on my way down.

My daughter, it's her birthday today.

She's turning 13 already.

I can't believe

Good morning, Boss.

Oh, stop it.

I'm not supposed to call you Boss', now?

They'll let me know.

That's the best you could do?

No. But I wasn't looking

for the best, was I?

Ah, you know what I mean.

Stick!

You do it on purpose.

You're right, I do.

Was it worth it?

Suck it!

Rob's Guns, Groceries, Guitars and Gas.

God, I wish I thought of that.

So where'd they put you up?

The Sheraton?

Uh, Four Seasons.

What?

Mm-hmm.

Jesus!

Yeah.

And I was right, this is the

entry point for the whole state.

Yeah, I like that.

It's like dominoes.

Yeah, it is.

Hey, what season is this?

They're still wearing flannel up here?

Place like this, they always do flannel.

Yeah. Or camo.

I am not wearing camo.

Do you wear gloves?

I never use them.

It's a yes.

Ok, you bout ready?

Yup.

Hey. Boots!

Huh? No. I'm not going

over this with you again.

These are my grandfather's boots,

and they're made in America.

Yeah, like in 1947.

Yeah, a pair of air balloon.

Oh my God, now you weren't

kidding about the guitars.

I guess you're not here to buy a guitar.

You're the natural gas people.

I'm sorry?

Apologizing right off the bat, I like it!

It's endearing and vulnerable,

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