What happened to Jerrell in Landman?
If you watched season 2 of Landman through your fingers, one storyline probably stuck with you more than any boardroom battle: the M-Tex field worker who climbed a tank and never saw anything again. Here's exactly what happened to Jerrell — and where the show left him.
The accident at the well
Jerrell Teague (Elijah Collins) is part of the M-Tex crew sent to an abandoned well site in season 2, episode 3, "Almost a Home." A group of hog hunters had already wandered into an invisible cloud of hydrogen sulfide — H₂S, the "sour gas" that leaks from aging oil equipment — and dropped one by one. When the crew arrives:
- Jerrell climbs a tank for a better view and spots the bodies scattered below.
- The wind shifts, pushing the gas cloud over the crew before anyone has masks on.
- Jerrell takes a full blast, wavers, and collapses on top of the structure until Dale reaches him and seals a mask over his face.
- He and Ben are airlifted to the hospital in critical condition; the others recover quickly.
The hospital scenes
Episode 4, "Dancing Rainbows," which hit Paramount+ on December 7, 2025, shows the aftermath. Ben is discharged and walking the halls. Jerrell is not. When a nurse removes the bandages from his eyes, he realizes he can't see — and panics so violently that Boss and the crew have to physically restrain him. Doctors diagnose severe ocular and pulmonary inflammation and deliver worse news still: he may never see, smell, or walk normally again.
Is the blindness permanent?
The show deliberately doesn't say. Doctors on screen explain that nobody can know until the inflammation subsides — which tracks with real H₂S poisoning, where high concentrations can permanently scorch the cornea, and there's no specific therapy to reverse the damage. Season 2 then moves on without returning to Jerrell's bedside, leaving his fate hanging.
Why the story matters
Jerrell's accident is M-Tex's second major workplace disaster in two seasons — following the season 1 rig explosion that killed three men, including Ariana's husband Elvio, and ended in $1 million settlements for each family. Taylor Sheridan's show keeps circling the same question: who actually pays the price when aging equipment meets cut corners in the Permian Basin?
For the record: the H₂S leak is fiction, but the gas is very real — it 's one of the deadliest hazards in the American oil patch.
Jerrell is just the one with a name.