When Daniel and a fellow worker, the father of the child, are down in the oil well bucketing the oil up, the pulley system breaks and sends a large plank of wood down on top of the father's head, killing him instantly. Daniel now looks upon the child, feeling responsible in a sense for his father's death, and decides to take the child in. This is also the first scene that shows Daniel with whiskey, having him take a slug from his bottle before trying to pacify HW with it, and then having HW reject the bottle completely. This is very sad foreshadowing.
