Season Two Of Landman Airs Episode 3
Episode Three of the second season of Landman aired on Paramount+ on Sunday, November 30th. The episode introduces a new, important character played by Andy Garcia. Although he is new this season, we have actually met him before.
If you have not watched Episode 3, please know there are spoilers in this article! If you’d like to read our previous recaps you can do so here: Season 2 – Episode 1, Season 2 – Episode 2.
The episode, titled “Almost A Home” premiered on Sunday, November 30, started off with a bang, literally. With a group of men hunting feral hogs, which is legal in Texas. One man gets out of the vehicle to take a photo, but immediately collapses. His friends run out to him, but they also faint! As the camera pans out, we see that hogs in this area have also dropped dead, implying there is a gas in the air that is deadly.
So much happened this episode, so we broke it down for you by situation.
Monty Miller Left His Company – And Wife – In Dire Financial Need
Tommy Norris (Billy Bob Thornton) and his wife Angela (Ali Larter) are driving to Fort Worth on business when Cami Miller (Demi Moore) calls and asks him to meet her at her late husband Monty’s office “to show you how much money we don’t have.”
Abridged version “I now know why Monty was so stressed. The company has no money.”
The company’s lawyer, Rebecca, explains that M-TEX is broken up into multiple LLCs: M-TEX Exploration, M-TEX Oil Services, M-TEX Land Trust. The money from all the LLCs was supposed to be from a holdco Monty set up, but instead the payables are all from lines of credit that Monty took out and has no way of repaying.
Basically, there is no money to pay off the loans, no money to start drilling offshore to fix the lawsuit they were just hit with, and no Monty to explain why.
Tommy gave Cami some advice to get out of this business once they clean up the financial mess Monty left her in.
They tracked down Monty’s financial advisor, Alan, at a membership club where Cami first confronted him about not answering or returning her phone calls, and the lack of funds. He revealed there is an offshore drilling company that only Monty and him knew about. They agreed to meet a few days later to discuss the issue and Alan promises to answer when Cami calls.
Cami expresses how lucky the Tommy and Angela, and their new friends, are for having a love that has lasted so long. Back at her house, Cami drops to the ground while holding aphoto of her and Monty and screams from sadness, and likely some anger.
Tommy’s Personal Problems
Tommy drops Angela at the first house she wants to look at in Fort Worth, and Tommy thinks it is too lavish. She looks at another that is even more lavish, worrying Tommy seeing as he just found out about the company’s financial situation.
Tommy meets with a man named Dan Morrell, played by Andy Garcia, about the deal his son made with Morrell’s company. Morrell believes they have a good deal, but Tommy accuses him of being a drug dealer. This sets the businessman off, claiming his money is clean, but according to the closed captioning of his first line in the show, his real name is Gallino, which means Tommy is right. Additionally, Tommy and Morrell previously met in Season 1, Episode 10 when he was Gallino, a drug cartel boss.
He calls his son, Cooper, and tells him to stop drilling in his oil field until they talk because he believes the man Cooper is in business with is a drug dealer and they are in over their heads. He also tells both his children that his mother’s funeral is the next day.
At the membership club, Angela joins Tommy and Cami for drinks, where they run into Morrell and his wife, Bella. While driving home, Tommy and Angela decide to get remarried.
The Oil Fields
Back in the field, Dale Bradley (James Jordan) and a few laborers check out an old oil digging location when they find the men and hogs from the opening scene. Luckily they had alarms on them that went off so they ran the opposite direction, but they still were throwing up and their eyes were burning when they got to a place where they weren’t affected as much.
Dale called 9-1-1 and said there was an H2S (hydrogen sulfide) leak and asked for hazmat and Emergency Medical Services.” They had one man on top of the oil well, who they told to stay up there in fear he would also be affected by the H2S leak. The men expressed hope that emergency services would arrive soon because they know just how deadly H2S leaks can be.
The laborers get their hazmat suits out of their trucks, but the wind shifts and they are in dire need of evacuation. A helicopter finally arrives to get the men out of harms way. Two men get in the chopper while the other three get back in the trucks to meet them at the hospital.
Once he returned home, Dale told Nate, the other in-house attorney, “I have cheated death, but nothing like today.” Dale confirms that the two laborers who were admitted are stable and on the road to recovery.
He says that the area will be safe to drill in two years after $20 million of environmental cleanup, and after the company ups their wrongful death insurance.
Ariana Gets Her First Job
The first time we see Ariana in this episode, she is filling out an application for employment at a local bar and grill, and she has to check the box for her marital status, marking the first time she has had to admit she is a widow on paper.
She ends up getting a job as a bartender and they have her start the very next day with no training. The head bartender says they are too busy to give training, so they have to just throw her to the wolves.
She learns quickly about the men who frequent the bar and stands up for herself when one patron takes it too far. Despite thinking she needs to quit before she gets fired, the head bartender told her she should keep her job because she proved she knows how to handle herself.
Episode four is centered around Tommy’s mother’s funeral, and a blossoming business relationship between Cami and Dan Morrell. See the trailer for the next episode, which will premiere on Sunday, Dec. 7, below.
