Warning: This story contains spoilers for Landman Season 2, Episode 9.
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Demi Moore is a tough boss.
On the January 11 episode of Landman, Cami (Moore) officially assumes her position as president of M-Tex Oil as drilling begins on an offshore oil rig in Louisiana that has been a point of contention throughout the season.
Tommy (Billy Bob Thornton) continues to oppose the dangerous training, but Cami says she is finally beginning to understand what her late husband, Monty (Jon Hamm), who started the company, loved so much about his job.
“Now I understand what drove him,” Cami said of Monty. There is a sense of impatience and elation towards danger. ”
But that’s not how Tommy felt anymore. “That rush cost me everything, and now I’m doing everything I can to avoid it,” he told her about going bankrupt in the 2008 financial crisis.
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Tommy told his boss that the “rush” that Cami finally experienced was the cause of Monty’s death, but she disagreed. “I think that’s what kept him alive,” Kami said.
After hearing Tommy’s pessimistic opinion, Cami makes a major business decision. “The president of my company can’t hate the very thing that built it,” she said while firing Tommy.
Tommy was aware that his position in the company was unstable. After Monty’s death, he and Cami have been at constant conflict, and in a conversation with Danny (Andy Garcia), Tommy openly expresses Cami’s mistrust of him.
“Me and her husband started together, so at one point, I had a version of what she had,” Tommy told Danny at the beginning of season two. “But I didn’t get away with it. The crash of 2008 almost got me clean. So I went to work for her husband.”
“She doesn’t trust me because she thinks I’m a loser,” Tommy said. “And she thinks I’m going to lose my fortune.”
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Despite their strained relationship on camera, Moore, 63, and Thornton, 70, are very close in real life.
“Demi and I have known each other for a long time, actually 35 years,” Thornton told PEOPLE ahead of the Season 2 premiere.
“I got to know her really well through the three films I made with her ex-husband, Bruce[Willis]because she used to take my kids to the sets and stuff, and they knew everything about my kids since they were little.”
Thornton and Willis collaborated on Armageddon in 1998, Bandits in 2001, and The Astronaut Farmer in 2006.
“I love that girl,” Thornton continued, referring to Moore, who was married to Willis from 1987 to 1998. “She’s beautiful and amazing and so talented. Frankly, I’m happy to be with these people on this show.”
The Landman Season 2 finale premieres Sunday, January 18 on Paramount+.
