Ciarán Hinds credited as playing...
Fletcher
- [They stand at a map]
- Paul Sunday: This is us, here. Spur Station, here at Little Boston. The Sunday ranch is what you're looking for. There's a sheep trail that takes you there. It's a mile out of town, headed west, not far. Just through a small pass here, near the base of the hills. You'll pass a church, and just follow the sheep trail.
- Daniel Plainview: Where's Standard buying up?
- Paul Sunday: [pointing at map] Here, and here.
- Daniel Plainview: And your family name is Sunday, yes?
- Paul Sunday: That's right.
- Daniel Plainview: How many's in your family?
- Paul Sunday: My father and mother and sisters, and my brother, Eli.
- H.W. Plainview: How many sisters do you have?
- Paul Sunday: Two.
- Daniel Plainview: What's your name?
- Paul Sunday: Paul.
- Fletcher Hamilton: Does any of your family know about the oil that you say is there?
- Paul Sunday: I don't know. Uh, my uncle always said there was oil there, but I don't know what they heard or what they think.
- Fletcher Hamilton: What do you grow?
- Paul Sunday: It's goats. Uh, it's a goat farm. I told you, nothing grows but weeds.
- Fletcher Hamilton: Is there water?
- Paul Sunday: It's salty. You drill a well, it's hard not to get salt water. The oil is there. I'm telling you. I want to go now, so...
- Daniel Plainview: Uh, you can stay tonight.
- Paul Sunday: No, I want to go now. I wanna leave.
- Daniel Plainview: Listen, Paul... If I travel all the way up there and I find that you've been lying to me, I'm gonna find you, and I'm gonna take more than my money back. Is that all right with you?
- Paul Sunday: Yes, sir.
- Daniel Plainview: All right then.
- Paul Sunday: Nice luck to you and God bless.
- Daniel Plainview: And to you, young man.
- Daniel Plainview: [Paul Sunday has offered to sell Plainview information] Why'd you come to me?
- Paul Sunday: You just brought this well in?
- Daniel Plainview: That's right.
- Paul Sunday: Yes, so just give me five hundred dollars in cash, right now, and I'll tell you where it is.
- Daniel Plainview: I'll tell you what I'll do, son. I'll give you a hundred dollars now and, if it proves to be a promising lease, then give a thousand dollar bonus...
- Paul Sunday: Six hundred dollars.
- Daniel Plainview: Just tell me one thing to help me decide. What else have you got up there. What do you grow?
- Paul Sunday: We have a big ranch, but it's mostly rocks. We can plant things; nothing will grow but weeds. What makes you think it's up?
- Fletcher Hamilton: Is there sulfur around, or alkali deposits?
- Paul Sunday: Alkali, nearby. I don't know sulfur.
- [notices H.W]
- Paul Sunday: Is that your son?
- Daniel Plainview: Yes.
- Paul Sunday: [to H.W] Hi.
- H.W. Plainview: Hi.
- Paul Sunday: [to Fletcher] Who are you?
- Fletcher Hamilton: I'm Fletcher Hamilton. Nice to meet you, son. What's your name?
- Paul Sunday: What do you do?
- Fletcher Hamilton: I work with Mr. Plainview.
- Daniel Plainview: Here's five hundred dollars. You tell me something worth hearing, this money's yours.
- Paul Sunday: I come from a town called Little Boston, in Isabella County.