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?
Where?
Build a pipeline, make a deal with Union Oil, be my guest...
...but if you can't pull it off...
...you've got an ocean of oil under your feet with nowhere to go.
Why not turn it over to us.
We'll make you rich.
You'll spend time with your boy.
It's a great discovery,
now let us help you.
You just tell me how to run my family?
It might be more important now that you've proven the field...
...and we're offering to buy you out.
One night. I'm gonna come to you inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping...
...and I'm gonna cut your throat.
What?
What are you talking about? Have you gone crazy, Daniel?
- Did you hear what I said? - I heard what you said. Why did you say...?
You don't tell me about my son.
Why are you acting insane and threatening to cut my throat?
You don't tell me about my son.
I'm not telling you anything.
I'm asking you to be reasonable, if I have offended you I apologize.
You'll see what I can do.
This parcel here is a 3000 acre ranch owned by B.L. Harper.
This is St. Elizabeth and County land, from here to the coast...
...it's all Union Oil.
What's this?
Why don't I own this?
That's the Bandy tract.
He was the hold... out, when we're doing the buying.
He had hope to speak with you.
Can't you just build a pipeline around this tract?
Can I build around 50 miles of Tehachapi Mountains?
Don't be thick in front of me, Al.
I can go there again.
No, I'll go and talk to the man.
I'll talk to him show you how it's done.
All right, pack it up, Henry.
How big is his room?
Well, he's sharing with another boy.
- Who? - An older boy, about 12.
He's been there for a year, named Ballard.
How big is his room?
It's a fair size.
Got enough space.
Are you taking Henry with you to meet Union Oil?
- Are you the son of William Bandy? - Grandson.
- Is he here? - No, he's out.
That would be the last case.
Here's to Union Oil.
Hundred miles of pipeline...
...all independent producers of this great station.
That house in Fond du Lac, that John Hollister built, do you remember it?
I thought as a boy that was the most beautiful house I'd ever seen and I wanted it.
I wanted to live in it.
And eat in it, and clean it...
And even as a boy I wanted to have children to run around in it.
You can have anything you like now, Daniel. And you should.
Where you gonna build it?
Here, maybe near the ocean.
Would you make it look like that house?
I think if I saw that house now, it'd make me sick.
We can eat, we get some women.
Take them to the Peachtree dance.
I say get liquored up and take them to the Peachtree dance?
Yeah.
Can I have some money, please.
I want you to tell me something.
What?
What's the name of the farm next to the Hill house?
What was the name of the farm next to the Hill house?
- I can't remember. - Who are you?
I'll leave, Daniel.
Who are you?
I'm no... one.
Just let me get up and go.
Do I have a brother?
I met a man in King City, who said he was your brother.
We were friends for months...
...working in King City...
...and he wanted to make his way to you Daniel...
...we didn't have any money.
He died of tuberculosis.
He wasn't harmed, he wasn't killed, nothing bad...
...but he told me about you...
...and I just took his story...
...used his diary...
Daniel, Daniel...
...I'm your friend. I'm not trying to hurt you. Never...
Just survive...
Who is it?
I'm Bandy.
Yes, yes...
William Bandy.
I'd like to lease your land.
I had asked for you to come and talk to me before...
...when you were leasing land.
That's right.
My boy has been very sick, you know.
This was before your boy got sick.
Now I know that you would like to build a pipeline...
...through my property.
Is that right? What I've heard?
That's absolutely right.
It's eight inch pipe, it can be buried with your consent...
...I guarantee you absolutely no disruption.
God...
God has told me what you must do.
What is that?
You should be washed in the blood of Jesus Christ.
But I am. I have been washed, Mr. Bandy. I have been...
It's your only way to salvation...
...and your only way for what you want.
You can take it at the Church of the Third Revelation.
I'll pay you three thousand dollars.
I'd like you to be part of our Church.
I'll pay you five thousand dollars.
Be baptized...
Be forgiven...
For this sin that you've done.
What sin are you... referring to, Mr. Bandy?
My sin of drilling?
I truly wish that everyone could be saved, don't you?
Yes.
I'm afraid that's just not the case.
The doctrine of universal salvation is a lie. Is it not?
It's a lie.
I wish everyone could be saved, but they won't! No they won't!
You will never be saved if you...
Reject the blood!
Good.
Is there a sinner here looking for salvation?
A new member.
I'll ask it again.
- Is there a sinner here looking for God? - Yes.
Allow me.
Thank you for coming, Brother Daniel.
Thank you, Eli.
We have a sinner with us here who wishes for salvation.
Daniel, are you a sinner?
- Yes. - The Lord can't hear you, Daniel.
Say it to Him. Go ahead and speak to Him. It's all right.
- Yes. - Down on your knees and to him.
Look up to the sky and say it...
What do you want me to say?
Daniel...
You've come here and you've brought good and wealth...
...but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider.
You've lusted after women and you have abandoned your child.
Your child that you raised, you have abandoned all...
...because he was sick and you have sinned.
So say it now: "I am a sinner".
I am a sinner.
- Say it louder: I am a sinner. - I am a sinner!
- Louder, Daniel: I am a sinner! - I am a sinner.
- I am sorry, Lord! - I am sorry, Lord!
- I want the blood! - I want the blood!
- You have abandoned your child. - I have abandoned my child.
- I will never backslide. - I will never backslide.
- I was lost but now I am found. - I was lost but now I'm found.
I have abandoned my child.
Say it, say it...
- I have abandoned my child. - Say it louder. Say it louder.
I have abandoned my child! I have abandoned my child!
I have abandoned my boy!
Beg for the blood.
Give me the blood, Eli. Let me get out of here.
Give me the blood, Lord. And let me get away.
Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?
Yes I do.
Get out of here, devil! Out devil! Out sin!
Do you accept the Church of the Third Revelation as your spiritual guide?
Get out of here! Get out of here!
Get out of here and and back where you belong!
- Do you accept Jesus Christ as your savior? - Yes I do.
There's the pipeline.
That's enough... That's enough now.
He must take the Spirit in on his own.
We have a new member.
Mr. Plainview has been generous enough to make a $5000 donation...
...to the Church which we are still waiting for.
That does me good.
Welcome home son.
This is George Reynolds, teacher from deaf school.
You're too heavy for me.
That's the pipeline, see. All the way to the sea.
Come here.
I love you son.
Let's take a look at you.
That's it, that's it...
Let's get some decent food inside of you.
That's all we need here, is a good strong, expensive meal.
You hungry?
Waiter, two steaks, whiskey and water for him.
- And goat's milk. - Very good, sir.
We're gonna have this teacher help you. Come here.
He's gonna help take care of all of us.
Understand?
Because I need you. I need your help.
We got everything we need now to build this company.
- Good afternoon, Daniel. - Tilford.
- Hello, H.M. Tilford. - You don't have to shout.
Pleasure.
Believe we ordered these drinks before those people.
I am sorry about that, sir. We'll have your steaks right out.
What Standard offered is a million dollars for...
...the Little Boston leases.
I told H.M. Tilford where he could shove that.
We made a deal with Union.
On the pipeline.
And that whole ocean of oil underneath our feet.
All right.
I want you to look over there.
- Daniel, let me introduce... - Look over there! You see.
- That's my son. You see him? - Yes.
You see?
I see him.
Do not tell me how to raise my family.
I told you not to tell me how to raise my family.
Daniel...
So what do you see?
- I'm very happy for you that... - Yes, I've made a deal with Union...
- ...my son is happy and safe - Congratulations.
- I'm taking care of him now, so... - Excellent.
You look like a fool, don't you Tilford?
Yes.
Yes will do.
Excuse me, gentlemen.
Excuse him, gentlemen.
I told you what I was gonna do.
I know you and I have disagreed over many things.
I'd rather keep you as my father than my partner.
Then say it!
You've got something to say to me, then say it I'd like to hear...
...you speak, instead of your little dog.
I'm going to Mexico with my wife.
I'm going away from you.
That wasn't so hard, was it?
You're killing us with what you're doing.
You're killing my image of you as my son.
You are stubborn, you won't listen.
You're not my son.
Please don't say that.
I know you don't mean it.
It's the truth. You're not my son.
And you never have been, you're an orphan.
Did you ever hear that word?
Tell him what I said.
You've operated here today like one.
I should have seen this coming.
I should have known that under this all, these past years...
...you've been building your hate for me, piece by piece...
...I don't even know who you are because you have none of me in you...
You're someone else's.
This anger, your maliciousness and backwards dealing with me...
...you're an orphan from a basket in the middle of the desert...
...and I took you for no other reason than I needed a sweet face to buy land.
Did you get that?
And now you know.
Look at me.
You're lower than a bastard.
You have none of me in you.
You're just bastard from a basket.
I think God, I have known you in me.
Not my son.
Just little piece of competition.
Bastard from a basket.
You're a bastard from a basket!
Mr. Daniel.
Mr. Daniel, you've got a visitor.
Wake up Mr. Daniel.
Sir.
You can leave us now.
Daniel.
Daniel Plainview, the house is on fire!
Brother Daniel, it's Eli.
- Yes it is, yes it is. - I'll make us a drink.
Your home is a miracle.
It's beautiful.
God bless it.
I've been spreading His word far and wide.
Far and wide.
So much travel for Him.
I've been working in radio.
Yes, so much, so much has been happening...
...to be here and find you and see you well is wonderful...
...and we have a chance to catch up.
No, thank you so much.
My Brother.
Daniel, my Brother, by marriage.
We're such old friends.
So much time.
Things go up, things go down but at least the Lord...
...is always around.
We've seen ups and downs, haven't we?
Are things down for you right now, Eli?
No, no.
But I do come with some sad news:
Perhaps you remember Mr. Bandy?
Mr. Bandy has passed on to the Lord.
He lived to be 99 years old. God bless him.
Mr. Bandy has a grandson.
Have you met his grandson William?
William Bandy is one of the finest members...
...we have at the Church of the Third Revelation.
He is eager to come to Hollywood to be in movies.
He is very good looking.
And I do think he will have success.
That's wonderful.
Would you like me to speak with him?
Daniel...
...I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church...
...of the Third Revelation in developing this lease...
...on young Bandy's thousand acre tract.
I'm offering you to drill on one of...
...the great un... developed fields of Little Boston!
I'd be happy to work with you.
Yes, yes of course. That's wonderful.
But there is one condition for this work.
All right.
I'd like you to tell me that you are a False Prophet.
I'd like you to tell me that you are...
...and have been, a False Prophet...
...and that God is a superstition.
But that's a lie.
It's a lie. I cannot say it.
When can we begin to drill?
Very soon.
How long will it take to bring in the well?
That shouldn't take long.
I would like a one hundred thousand dollar signing bonus...
...plus the five that is owed to me with interest.
That's only fair.
I am a false prophet and God is a superstition.
If that's what you believe, then I will say it.
Say it like you mean it.
Daniel...
Say it like it's your sermon.
Don't smile.
I am a false prophet and God is a superstition.
Why don't you stand up.
Put your glass down.
I am a false prophet and God is a superstition.
Eli, Eli, stop.
Just imagine this is your church here and you have a full congregation.
I am a false prophet and God is a superstition!
Say it again.
I am a false prophet and God is a superstition!
I can't hear you. Back!
I am a false prophet and God is a superstition!
Say it again.
I am a false prophet and God is a superstition!
Say it again.
I am a false prophet and God is a superstition!
Those area's have been drilled.
What?
Those area's have been drilled.
No they haven't.
Yes, it's...
It's called drainage, Eli. I own everything around it...
...so of course I get what's underneath it.
But there are no derricks there. This is the Bandy tract. Do you understand?
Do you understand, Eli?
That's more to the point. Do you understand?
I drink your water.
I drink it up.
Everyday. I drink the blood of lamb from Bandy's tract.
You can sit down again.
Oh Daniel.
Please.
- I'm in desperate times. - I know.
- I need a friend. - Yes, of course you do.
I've sinned, I need help, I'm a sinner...
I've let the Devil grab hold of me in ways I never imagined.
I'm so full of sin.
The Lord sometimes challenges us, doesn't he?
Oh yes he does...
- Daniel. Yes he does aaaaaaaaa! - Yes he does aaaa!
He's completely failed to alert me to the recent panic in our economy...
...and this.
I must have this, Daniel. I must have this. My investments have...
Daniel, I won't bore you, but if...
...I could grab the Lords hand for help, I would...
...but he does these things all the time...
...these mysteries that he presents and while we wait...
...while we wait for his word.
You're not the chosen brother, Eli.
It was Paul who was chosen.
He found me and he told me about your land. You're just a fraud.
- Why are you talking about Paul? - I did what your brother couldn't.
I broke you and I beat you.
It was Paul...
...who told me about you. He's the prophet. He's the smart one.
He knew what was there and he found me to take it out of the ground.
You know what the funny thing is? Listen, listen...
I paid him $10,000 cash in hand. Just like that.
He has his own company now.
A prosperous little business, three wells producing $5,000 a week.
Stop crying you sniveling ass. Stop your nonsense.
You're just the afterbirth, Eli.
The slithered out on your mother's filth.
They should have put you in a glass jar on a mantelpiece.
Where were you when Paul was suckling at his mother's tit?
Where were you?
Who was nursing you, poor Eli? With a bandaged side.
That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it.
- It's gone, it's had. You loose. - If you would just take this lease, Daniel.
Drainage! Drainage, Eli! You boy...
Drained dry, I'm so sorry.
If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake...
...and I have a straw, there it is that's a straw, you see. Watch it.
And my straw reaches across the room...
...and starts to drink your milkshake.
I drink your milkshake!
I drink it up!
Don't bully me Daniel.
Did you think that your song and dance...
...and your superstition would help you, Eli?
I am the Third Revelation! I am who the Lord has chosen!
Because I'm smarter than you.
I'm older...
I'm your old friend, Daniel!
I'm not a false prophet, you sniveling boy!
I am the Third Revelation! I am the Third Revelation!
I told you I would eat you! I told you I would eat you up!
We're brothers! We're brothers!
Daniel, please forgive me. I beg you for this.