{"id":2182028,"date":"2025-11-30T20:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2182028"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:16:17","slug":"landman-season-2-episode-3-recap-running-on-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/landman-season-2-episode-3-recap-running-on-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Landman\u2019 Season 2, Episode 3 Recap: Running on Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week\u2019s episode is titled \u201cAlmost a Home.\u201d Perhaps it\u2019s fitting for Thanksgiving weekend: Surely more than a few of us can find some commonality between our own family dinners<\/a> and those of the Norris household. Either way, we\u2019d be remiss not to give thanks this holiday season for Demi Moore and Billy Bob Thornton, for the dramatics they manage to cook up each week. (Our regular reminder: Landman<\/em> is based on the Texas Monthly and Imperative Entertainment podcast Boomtown<\/em><\/a>, and TM is an executive producer).<\/p>\n

We open this episode on the hunt not for a turkey, but for pigs<\/a>. A group of hunters are perched in what looks like a small military-grade tank, which races across the Texas countryside while the men shoot giant rifles at squealing hogs. It\u2019s all very macho stuff, but it comes to a screeching halt when our hunters begin to cough and, in short order, pass out. The camera zooms out to show a field of dead animals. What\u2019s towering over their lifeless bodies? An oil rig, of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll get back to that rig, but first, let\u2019s check in on Cami in Fort Worth. She calls Tommy and says she wants to meet to show him \u201chow much money we don\u2019t have.\u201d Luckily, Tommy is already on the way to her vicinity; he\u2019s got some other business to attend to, and Angela is ready to start her hunt for a Cowtown megamansion.<\/p>\n

Remember when Tommy, in last week\u2019s episode<\/a>, had a brief meeting with Boss (Mustafa Speaks) and a new crew of workers and asked them to go check out an abandoned site? Well, Dale (James Jordan), Boss, and a crew are now making good on that order\u2014but some ominous shots of wind blowing and the discovery of the bodies of those aforementioned hunters reveal that it\u2019s the same deadly rig from the opening. Upon arriving, the men quickly start coughing and throwing up, and Dale, as he calls for help, clarifies that there\u2019s a lethal gas leak. (The men are later rescued by chopper, and all survive; it\u2019s a reminder of just how dangerous this work can be.)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Midland, the newly single Ariana has gotten herself a job at the Patch Cafe. She has no applicable work experience, but she knows how to pour a margarita. Her first shift is rough: When a greasy man attempts to pay her to have sex with him, she throws a glass in his face and tries to quit on the spot. Her boss then explains that keeping creeps like that offender in check is exactly what makes her the perfect fit; she decides to stick it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back to Tommy. He drops Angela off to meet a realtor and then makes his second stop in Fort Worth: Gallino\u2019s office. But wait a minute\u2014when Andy Garcia\u2019s character reaches out to shake Tommy\u2019s hand, why does he introduce himself as Dan \u201cDanny\u201d Morrell? Maybe Gallino is just his cartel name? It\u2019s confusing, but to make it easier for you, reader, I\u2019ll now refer to this character as Danny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Danny tries to get Tommy to warm up to him, but Tommy isn\u2019t buying; he\u2019s worried about the IRS sniffing around Danny\u2019s curiously booming business. Recall that Danny has a less than savory background\u2014and if the money he\u2019s using to prop up Cooper\u2019s oil escapades is dirty, there\u2019s bound to be trouble. \u201cI\u2019m not going to sit here,\u201d Tommy says, \u201cand discuss the nuance of oil explorations with a f\u2014ing drug dealer.\u201d Danny doesn\u2019t take this well, and Tommy leaves their spat without any closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tommy then heads to the M-Tex headquarters to meet with Cami, Nate, and Rebecca. The news ain\u2019t good: \u201cThe company has no money,\u201d Cami says. Long story short (according to Nate and Rebecca): Monty maxed out lines of credit, and no one knows how he was covering the loans. This means that not only is the offshore drill site M-Tex needs<\/em> to build an impossibility, but the company also doesn\u2019t have money for any<\/em> drilling whatsoever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clearly, it\u2019s time to track down M-Tex\u2019s accountant, Alan (Jim Meskimen). The gang heads to a private club to seek him out; on the way, Cami gets existential. \u201cI\u2019ve always felt like my life was fantasy, and it may just turn out to be one.\u201d She tells Tommy she wants Monty to be remembered for something positive, not just as \u201canother wildcatter who got caught without a chair when the music stopped playing.\u201d. Tommy tells her the goal for everyone in this industry is to get out of it and says Monty should\u2019ve sold out a long time ago. Once they clean up this mess, he says, he hopes she does too.<\/p>\n

At the Cattlemen\u2019s Club, Cami and Tommy find Alan, and things quickly get out of control. Cami throws water in Alan\u2019s face and asks where the company\u2019s money is. Tommy steps in and smashes a bottle across his head. While blood gushes from his scalp, Alan says the cash is in an offshore account; he\u2019s happy to set up a meeting to talk everything out. Who\u2019s watching the encounter from outside? Danny, of course.<\/p>\n

Soon after, Angela shows up at the club, as does Danny\u2019s wife, Bela. Everyone drinks and gabs about love and their spouses; Cami gets sentimental. Then they all say their goodbyes\u2014but not before Danny and Cami express interest in (potentially) working together. Just what Tommy wanted: even more Danny in his life.<\/p>\n

On the drive home, Angela and Tommy fight, of course\u2014but it\u2019s clarified that the two actually haven\u2019t<\/em> remarried, and that she\u2019s emotional because he called her his wife. \u201cAre you asking?\u201d she says. Tommy doesn\u2019t exactly confirm, but Angela is excited and jumps into his lap for an X-rated celebration. It\u2019s a Thanksgiving miracle!<\/p>\n

But this episode refuses to end with festivity. We see Cami back at home, and she\u2019s having a breakdown. Outside, on her back patio, she stares at a picture of her and Monty and then collapses and screams in grief. Wild coyotes howl with her. Fade to black.\u00a0<\/p>\n