Landman Season 2: The Secret That Changes Everything — What Billy Bob Thornton’s Tommy Uncovered and How

Landman Season 2 is not here to ease you in. Episode 2 piles corporate mess, family blowups, and a mystery company onto Tommy Norris all at once, and somehow the oil still finds a way to make everything worse.

• The Sonrisa deal tied to Cooper’s big strike looks shady, fast
• M-TEX’s $420 million insurance payout went to Monty personally, not the replacement drill it was meant to fund
• Cami steps up as the face of M-TEX while everyone tests her
• Cooper and Ariana split over what the oil boom actually means for their life
• Angela goes full rage at the dinner table; Ainsley fans the flames
• Tommy gets hit with the news of his mother’s death and has to face his father, T.L. Norris

The Sonrisa problem

Tommy starts digging into the mess Monty left behind and immediately finds something that smells off: Cooper’s sudden oil strike is tied to a company called Sonrisa. Cooper, in a classic rookie move, signed their contract with no lawyer, no due diligence, and zero idea who bankrolled the operation.

The terms are mushy, the company barely exists on paper, and the timing is a little too neat. Tommy pulls in Nate to run the numbers. By the next morning, the trail is clear: the money behind Sonrisa runs through a Dallas fund, and the fund’s manager, Dan Morrell, is the one who set up the LLC. Tommy’s never heard the name, which is exactly what bothers him. He warns Cooper this isn’t just a bad partner, it’s a threat — and with M-TEX already wobbling under lawsuits and Monty’s buried secrets, this could be the start of a bigger crisis.

Follow the money: Sonrisa traces back to a Dallas fund managed by Dan Morrell, who created the LLC. That anonymity is the red flag.

M-TEX’s legal fire drill

Meanwhile, the company is staring down a lawsuit. Turns out M-TEX received a $420 million insurance settlement specifically to pay for a replacement drill — and instead of landing where it should, that money was routed straight to Monty. Not great.

Rebecca manages to buy M-TEX some breathing room with the insurance reps. To keep the case out of court, the company announces the new drill and rushes construction. It’s a bandage, not a cure.

With Monty gone, Cami steps up in front of a room full of people itching to test her. Her luncheon speech goes over well, but Tommy’s blunt about the reality: Monty scorched a lot of earth, and now those folks will come for her.

Cooper strikes oil, Ariana draws a line

Cooper’s new well hits hard — thousands of barrels — and he comes home late, still covered in oil. Ariana is rattled. She says the quiet part out loud: she doesn’t want the big house, the flash, or the chaos that comes with sudden money. She tells Cooper to decide what he actually wants and asks him to leave until he figures it out.

He sees the well as the payoff for everything he’s chased. She sees it as a grenade tossed into their life. Stuck in that standoff, Cooper leans on Tommy for advice, which is how Tommy stumbles into the Sonrisa mess in the first place.

Home front: broken plates, bad timing

Back at Tommy’s place, Angela is eager to upscale their life immediately. Tommy tries to pump the brakes; she detonates — as in, destroys the dinner table — while Ainsley needles from the sidelines. It feels like the office, but with more splinters.

And then the gut punch: Tommy gets the sudden call that his mother has died. The hits don’t stop coming.

Enter T.L. Norris

Tommy’s father, T.L. Norris, steps back into the picture after the news. Episode 2 closes with Tommy, Cooper, and T.L. watching the sunset. T.L. muses about how good moments disappear and how people have a way of ruining them. It’s the closest he gets to warmth.

Tommy admits he was never really raised to be a father; T.L.’s alcoholism and abuse left him without a blueprint. Cooper pushes back — says his dad did break the cycle, or at least fought to — and that it counts. It catches Tommy off guard. He actually lets it land.

Where this is headed

The Sonrisa money trail isn’t random, the insurance issue isn’t small, and Cami’s learning that Monty’s legacy is a maze, not a ladder. Tommy’s barely holding the family together, and now T.L. is in the room too. This is going to get messier before it gets cleaner.

Landman Season 2 is streaming on Paramount+.