1 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:03,000 Ralph Angel: Previously on "Queen Sugar"... 2 00:00:03,046 --> 00:00:05,476 The Landrys have the power and the influence. 3 00:00:05,527 --> 00:00:08,227 That time is coming to an end. 4 00:00:08,269 --> 00:00:11,009 They're trying to intimidate us, 5 00:00:11,054 --> 00:00:14,194 but these black bodies... are real. 6 00:00:14,231 --> 00:00:16,021 It's important that I'm in his life. 7 00:00:16,059 --> 00:00:17,799 - His father. - You ain't shit, Davis. You know that? 8 00:00:17,843 --> 00:00:19,803 - I want joint custody. - No. 9 00:00:19,845 --> 00:00:22,065 I'm tired of going to Charley every time I need something. 10 00:00:22,109 --> 00:00:24,199 Pops wanted me to keep farming, 11 00:00:24,241 --> 00:00:25,591 and that's what I wanna do. 12 00:00:25,634 --> 00:00:27,074 What did they say, Roberta? 13 00:00:27,114 --> 00:00:29,514 That rig Hollywood's on just had an explosion. 14 00:00:31,248 --> 00:00:34,248 [ Violet laughs ] 15 00:00:34,295 --> 00:00:37,335 All these juicy berries need is some chocolate. 16 00:00:37,385 --> 00:00:39,255 Aw, wait till you see what I got. 17 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:41,040 [ music playing on radio ] 18 00:00:41,084 --> 00:00:43,174 Bam! What about this? 19 00:00:43,217 --> 00:00:45,607 Oh! Well, that'll do just fine, baby. 20 00:00:45,654 --> 00:00:48,614 Besides, you can't handle the chocolate you got. 21 00:00:48,657 --> 00:00:50,217 What you talking about? 22 00:00:50,267 --> 00:00:53,437 I'm talking about you. Baby, you still got it. 23 00:00:53,488 --> 00:00:55,448 I'm just saying you might be a little bit out of practice. 24 00:00:55,490 --> 00:00:56,930 Me? 25 00:00:56,969 --> 00:00:58,409 [ laughs ] 26 00:00:58,449 --> 00:01:00,149 You the one breathing hard. 27 00:01:00,190 --> 00:01:01,500 Mm-hmm. 28 00:01:01,539 --> 00:01:03,929 Acting like you on your way to glory. 29 00:01:03,976 --> 00:01:05,016 [ laughs ] 30 00:01:05,065 --> 00:01:08,105 You know it takes two to tango. 31 00:01:08,155 --> 00:01:09,845 All I'm saying is... 32 00:01:11,462 --> 00:01:13,122 [ giggling ] 33 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,420 One day away from you is one day too long. 34 00:01:20,167 --> 00:01:21,947 Baby... 35 00:01:21,994 --> 00:01:24,954 don't give up on us again. 36 00:01:24,997 --> 00:01:27,167 I need you, chère. 37 00:01:30,438 --> 00:01:33,398 - Where you going? - I am a lady. 38 00:01:33,441 --> 00:01:36,271 And it is time for me to do my lady things. 39 00:01:36,313 --> 00:01:38,403 Then I'm coming back. 40 00:01:38,446 --> 00:01:40,136 And when I do, 41 00:01:40,187 --> 00:01:43,447 I do not intend to be a lady. 42 00:01:43,494 --> 00:01:45,154 Understood? 43 00:01:45,192 --> 00:01:46,452 I understand. 44 00:01:54,679 --> 00:01:57,249 [ theme music playing ] 45 00:01:57,291 --> 00:01:58,861 ♪ Dreams never die 46 00:01:58,901 --> 00:02:01,161 ♪ Take flight as the world turns ♪ 47 00:02:01,208 --> 00:02:02,818 ♪ Dreams never die 48 00:02:02,861 --> 00:02:04,951 ♪ Take flight as the world turns ♪ 49 00:02:04,994 --> 00:02:07,484 ♪ Keep the colors in the lines, take flight ♪ 50 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,090 ♪ Dreams never die 51 00:02:16,788 --> 00:02:20,878 ♪ Keep the colors in the lines ♪ 52 00:02:20,923 --> 00:02:24,673 ♪ Keep the colors in the lines, take flight. ♪ 53 00:02:24,709 --> 00:02:27,889 - [ sizzling ] - This stuff'll be ready in a minute. 54 00:02:27,930 --> 00:02:29,450 Sure you don't want something hot? 55 00:02:30,585 --> 00:02:32,195 Stick to them ribs. 56 00:02:32,239 --> 00:02:35,809 Thanks. Just gonna inhale this. 57 00:02:35,851 --> 00:02:38,201 Get some rest before I have to leave. 58 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:43,209 I feel you. 59 00:02:43,250 --> 00:02:44,690 You know that, right? 60 00:02:45,904 --> 00:02:48,434 I do, but... 61 00:02:48,472 --> 00:02:51,172 - I'm okay, so... - And I know you don't want to hear this right now... 62 00:02:52,346 --> 00:02:54,216 but remaining silent 63 00:02:54,261 --> 00:02:55,961 when one must speak... 64 00:02:58,613 --> 00:03:01,663 is the slow death of freedom. 65 00:03:01,703 --> 00:03:03,623 I want you to be free. 66 00:03:10,712 --> 00:03:12,062 Um... 67 00:03:15,847 --> 00:03:17,627 I'm just tired. 68 00:03:25,509 --> 00:03:26,949 [ doorbell rings ] 69 00:03:28,512 --> 00:03:30,992 - Hey. - Hey. 70 00:03:31,036 --> 00:03:33,076 How is he? 71 00:03:33,125 --> 00:03:35,905 He's okay. He's good. 72 00:03:35,954 --> 00:03:38,174 Been sleeping a lot. 73 00:03:38,218 --> 00:03:39,778 I guess that's to be expected. 74 00:03:39,828 --> 00:03:41,958 Well, I think there's more to it than that. 75 00:03:44,746 --> 00:03:46,836 Charley: Where you going? 76 00:03:46,878 --> 00:03:48,318 I got invited to a symposium 77 00:03:48,358 --> 00:03:50,528 on mass incarceration in Atlanta, 78 00:03:50,578 --> 00:03:52,058 sponsored by the NABJ. 79 00:03:52,101 --> 00:03:54,321 Well, that's great! Congratulations. 80 00:03:54,364 --> 00:03:56,324 Thanks. I'm looking forward to it. 81 00:03:56,366 --> 00:03:58,146 Hmm. 82 00:03:58,194 --> 00:03:59,414 About Micah... 83 00:04:01,328 --> 00:04:03,238 I'm worried about him. 84 00:04:03,286 --> 00:04:05,326 I know. 85 00:04:05,375 --> 00:04:06,985 I am, too. 86 00:04:07,029 --> 00:04:08,939 I just think he needs some time. 87 00:04:08,987 --> 00:04:10,817 He's not eating. 88 00:04:10,859 --> 00:04:12,509 He's not talking. 89 00:04:12,556 --> 00:04:15,726 He slept the whole time he's been here. 90 00:04:15,777 --> 00:04:18,257 And you know Micah wet himself the night the police took him? 91 00:04:20,825 --> 00:04:22,305 [ cell phone ringing ] 92 00:04:27,310 --> 00:04:29,530 - [ cell phone beeps ] - Hey, Rah. 93 00:04:29,573 --> 00:04:31,753 Nah, I-I didn't mention it yet. 94 00:04:31,793 --> 00:04:34,233 But she over here right now if you wanna get at her. 95 00:04:35,797 --> 00:04:37,447 Rah needs to talk to you. 96 00:04:37,494 --> 00:04:40,064 Hey, Ralph Angel. Need something? 97 00:04:40,105 --> 00:04:42,235 I already talked to Nova, and she cool with it. 98 00:04:42,282 --> 00:04:44,812 Look, FSA got a program. 99 00:04:44,849 --> 00:04:47,289 Now I can get that loan, plant them cover crops. 100 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:49,550 The cover crops we didn't agree to. 101 00:04:49,593 --> 00:04:51,813 Am I running this farm or not? 102 00:04:51,856 --> 00:04:54,556 Day to day, but the big decisions, we're still needing to-- 103 00:04:54,598 --> 00:04:56,948 They gonna let me put up my part of the farm for collateral. 104 00:04:56,992 --> 00:04:59,432 We just convinced a bunch of sugarcane farmers 105 00:04:59,473 --> 00:05:01,693 to take a chance and grind with us. 106 00:05:01,736 --> 00:05:03,906 How's it gonna look that we're using part of our land 107 00:05:03,955 --> 00:05:04,905 as a side hustle? 108 00:05:04,956 --> 00:05:06,736 [ car door opens ] 109 00:05:06,784 --> 00:05:09,404 Ralph Angel: My parole officer here. I gotta go. 110 00:05:09,439 --> 00:05:11,489 - Kevin: What's up, little man? - Blue: Hey. 111 00:05:11,528 --> 00:05:13,698 Give me a low five. There you go. 112 00:05:13,748 --> 00:05:15,268 - [ door opens ] - Your daddy home? 113 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:17,055 - What's going on? - Man. 114 00:05:17,099 --> 00:05:18,709 - Good morning. - What's up? 115 00:05:18,753 --> 00:05:20,763 - You good, Blue? - I'm awesome. 116 00:05:20,798 --> 00:05:24,758 All right, awesome. Awesome. Cool. 117 00:05:24,802 --> 00:05:26,372 Zoom! 118 00:05:26,413 --> 00:05:28,763 [ music playing on car stereo ] 119 00:05:28,806 --> 00:05:30,366 You sleep okay? 120 00:05:30,417 --> 00:05:31,587 Mm-hmm. 121 00:05:37,424 --> 00:05:38,994 You wanna talk? 122 00:05:39,034 --> 00:05:40,954 - About what? - How you're doing. 123 00:05:44,213 --> 00:05:47,223 You went through something, and-- and it's okay-- 124 00:05:47,259 --> 00:05:48,609 Mom, I'm good. 125 00:05:53,483 --> 00:05:55,273 So, you're divorced now. 126 00:05:58,575 --> 00:06:01,395 No, not yet. 127 00:06:01,448 --> 00:06:03,538 I'm sorry, babe. I know this is hard on you. 128 00:06:03,580 --> 00:06:05,280 So you're, like, fighting over money. 129 00:06:05,321 --> 00:06:06,841 No, we're arguing over you. 130 00:06:13,982 --> 00:06:16,512 Did you tell your father that you wanted him 131 00:06:16,550 --> 00:06:18,070 to have shared custody? 132 00:06:18,116 --> 00:06:21,506 Yeah, I mean, I did tell him I wanna see him 133 00:06:21,555 --> 00:06:23,025 more than I have the last few months. 134 00:06:23,078 --> 00:06:25,298 But did you say you wanted him 135 00:06:25,341 --> 00:06:28,301 to have legal shared custody? 136 00:06:37,571 --> 00:06:39,701 That's what I thought. 137 00:06:39,747 --> 00:06:42,307 You're the only person I know to ask 138 00:06:42,358 --> 00:06:44,358 that don't know my whole family. 139 00:06:44,404 --> 00:06:46,844 It's okay that it's handwritten? 140 00:06:46,884 --> 00:06:48,414 Um... 141 00:06:51,672 --> 00:06:53,592 [ chuckles ] Wow. 142 00:06:56,851 --> 00:06:58,641 Good for you, Ralph Angel. 143 00:07:00,942 --> 00:07:03,552 - This is incredible, man. - I know, right? 144 00:07:03,597 --> 00:07:04,767 - Thanks. - Yeah. 145 00:07:06,382 --> 00:07:08,252 - [ sighs ] - Well, it's signed, 146 00:07:08,297 --> 00:07:11,427 it's partially dated, but the intent is clear. 147 00:07:11,474 --> 00:07:13,044 - Mm-hmm. - I mean, I'm no lawyer, 148 00:07:13,084 --> 00:07:15,304 but it should stand up in court as a will. 149 00:07:15,347 --> 00:07:17,697 Court? Nah. 150 00:07:17,741 --> 00:07:19,351 I mean, they might be a little hurt, 151 00:07:19,395 --> 00:07:21,915 - but my sisters won't sue me. - You sure? 152 00:07:23,791 --> 00:07:26,881 Land may look like dirt, but, really, 153 00:07:26,924 --> 00:07:29,234 it's just brown money. 154 00:07:29,274 --> 00:07:32,804 I've seen some ugly things. 155 00:07:32,843 --> 00:07:34,413 Just keep an eye out. 156 00:07:34,454 --> 00:07:35,764 Be careful. 157 00:07:37,282 --> 00:07:39,152 [ paper rustles ] 158 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:46,903 This is about your future... and his. 159 00:07:46,944 --> 00:07:47,864 [ Blue humming ] 160 00:07:49,904 --> 00:07:52,254 Oprah on TV: I feel the presence of God when I breathe... 161 00:07:52,297 --> 00:07:54,517 This like service. It's good. 162 00:07:54,561 --> 00:07:56,521 My life force is most fulfilled... 163 00:07:56,563 --> 00:07:59,353 I ain't never seen nobody drinking beer at church. 164 00:07:59,391 --> 00:08:01,181 ...when I'm praying. 165 00:08:01,219 --> 00:08:03,269 - Yeah. - Oprah: I experience love when...? 166 00:08:03,308 --> 00:08:06,568 [ both laugh ] 167 00:08:06,616 --> 00:08:09,706 [ phone ringing ] 168 00:08:09,750 --> 00:08:11,270 Hush. 169 00:08:11,316 --> 00:08:13,006 - [ phone beeps ] - Yeah, this Hollywood. 170 00:08:13,057 --> 00:08:14,487 Hey, man, what's happening? 171 00:08:14,537 --> 00:08:17,107 [ chuckles ] Yeah. 172 00:08:17,148 --> 00:08:19,628 Pretty good having these last couple days off, you heard me? 173 00:08:22,589 --> 00:08:23,629 Damn, already? 174 00:08:25,853 --> 00:08:27,723 No, no, that's good. 175 00:08:27,768 --> 00:08:30,118 Oh, yeah, man, everything fine. 176 00:08:30,161 --> 00:08:33,121 Um... see you in a couple days. 177 00:08:34,731 --> 00:08:36,601 All right. 178 00:08:36,646 --> 00:08:37,516 [ beeps ] 179 00:08:40,476 --> 00:08:42,566 Sounds like we on the clock. 180 00:08:42,609 --> 00:08:45,219 Shipping out in 48 hours. 181 00:08:50,486 --> 00:08:51,706 Well... 182 00:08:59,887 --> 00:09:02,447 Then I think we'd better get to work. 183 00:09:02,498 --> 00:09:03,538 [ music playing ] 184 00:09:03,586 --> 00:09:05,326 - Hmm? - [ laughs ] 185 00:09:05,370 --> 00:09:06,890 - Hollywood: Mm. - [ laughing ] 186 00:09:15,511 --> 00:09:17,381 [ buzzing ] 187 00:09:34,748 --> 00:09:37,658 [ drone buzzing ] 188 00:09:42,277 --> 00:09:43,667 - [ crashes ] - Blue: Pop! 189 00:09:43,713 --> 00:09:45,193 Blue! 190 00:09:47,935 --> 00:09:50,195 Hey! Blue! 191 00:09:53,114 --> 00:09:55,384 Stand back from there. 192 00:09:55,420 --> 00:09:56,900 - It fell down. - You okay? 193 00:09:56,944 --> 00:09:58,734 I didn't do nothing to it. 194 00:10:28,105 --> 00:10:32,235 - [ phone ringing ] - Woman: Excuse me, sir? Sir! 195 00:10:32,283 --> 00:10:34,073 Sir, Mr. Boudreaux is not available! 196 00:10:34,111 --> 00:10:37,251 [ chatter, laughter ] 197 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,340 Why don't y'all take a breather? 198 00:10:42,380 --> 00:10:44,380 This ain't gonna take that long. 199 00:10:49,692 --> 00:10:50,742 [ clears throat ] 200 00:10:50,780 --> 00:10:52,390 No, like you said, 201 00:10:52,434 --> 00:10:53,914 this ain't gonna take that long. 202 00:10:56,003 --> 00:10:57,133 How can I help you, Ralph? 203 00:10:57,178 --> 00:10:58,138 Ralph Angel. 204 00:10:59,615 --> 00:11:00,875 How's Charley? 205 00:11:00,921 --> 00:11:02,401 Y'all's farm up and running yet? 206 00:11:02,444 --> 00:11:04,934 [ chuckles ] You know God damn well 207 00:11:04,968 --> 00:11:07,488 exactly how things going on my farm. 208 00:11:07,536 --> 00:11:09,406 You and your uncle Sam Landry. 209 00:11:09,451 --> 00:11:11,711 Stay out of my business 210 00:11:11,758 --> 00:11:15,068 and away from our land, you hear me? 211 00:11:15,109 --> 00:11:17,149 - Stay away? - Mm-hmm. 212 00:11:17,198 --> 00:11:19,458 I ain't stepped foot on your farm in months. 213 00:11:19,504 --> 00:11:23,774 Look, I think it's high time we all let bygones be bygones. 214 00:11:23,813 --> 00:11:26,293 So you ain't gonna be a man and say what you, 215 00:11:26,337 --> 00:11:28,987 your uncle, and your brother, and your whole clan is up to? 216 00:11:31,125 --> 00:11:32,425 [ drone clatters ] 217 00:11:32,474 --> 00:11:35,174 But you keep trying to play me for a fool, 218 00:11:35,216 --> 00:11:37,776 and me and you, 219 00:11:37,827 --> 00:11:40,217 we gonna find out who the real one is. 220 00:11:42,527 --> 00:11:45,747 You oughta be careful about your boy playing outside by himself. 221 00:11:45,792 --> 00:11:48,402 Don't want him to get hurt. 222 00:11:48,446 --> 00:11:51,796 Go ahead. Do it. 223 00:11:51,841 --> 00:11:55,671 Be the quickest way to put you away for a long while... 224 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:57,145 convict. 225 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:05,994 Okay. 226 00:12:07,901 --> 00:12:09,771 Here it is. 227 00:12:09,816 --> 00:12:12,376 You even look my boy's way... 228 00:12:14,037 --> 00:12:16,607 there ain't no jail big enough 229 00:12:16,648 --> 00:12:19,908 or bad enough to keep me from hurting you. 230 00:12:21,566 --> 00:12:23,306 Watch yourself. 231 00:12:30,445 --> 00:12:31,925 [ doorbell rings ] 232 00:12:33,361 --> 00:12:34,491 Hey, Charley. 233 00:12:37,321 --> 00:12:40,281 Micah didn't ask you to share custody, Davis. 234 00:12:41,804 --> 00:12:43,244 You lied. 235 00:12:43,284 --> 00:12:44,764 No, I didn't. He said he wanted-- 236 00:12:44,807 --> 00:12:46,637 Charley: To get a burger with you on the weekends! 237 00:12:46,678 --> 00:12:49,548 That's not the same as asking you for joint custody. 238 00:12:49,594 --> 00:12:52,514 - You twisted his words. - Come on, we're talking about our son, okay? 239 00:12:52,554 --> 00:12:55,434 You weren't thinking about our son when you were messing around with those hookers 240 00:12:55,470 --> 00:12:58,170 or when you publicly humiliated us. 241 00:13:05,349 --> 00:13:07,829 Come on, Charley, you know my background, okay? 242 00:13:07,874 --> 00:13:09,574 I didn't have what you had. 243 00:13:09,614 --> 00:13:11,404 There was no father figure in my life, 244 00:13:11,442 --> 00:13:14,452 not until I met you and then Ernest became my father, too, okay? 245 00:13:14,489 --> 00:13:17,839 And look, even though Ernest had Nova and Ralph Angel, 246 00:13:17,884 --> 00:13:19,934 even though he was with True and not Lorna, 247 00:13:19,973 --> 00:13:22,713 and even though he lived in Louisiana and you were all the way in California, 248 00:13:22,758 --> 00:13:24,368 he was there for you while you grew up. 249 00:13:24,412 --> 00:13:25,372 You know why? 250 00:13:25,413 --> 00:13:27,593 He had access to you. 251 00:13:27,632 --> 00:13:30,592 He was allowed, and without drama. 252 00:13:30,635 --> 00:13:33,065 That's one thing Lorna got right, and you know it. 253 00:13:33,116 --> 00:13:35,676 I need that. 254 00:13:35,727 --> 00:13:37,287 I need that if I'm gonna be 255 00:13:37,338 --> 00:13:39,298 what you say you want me to be for Micah. 256 00:13:48,740 --> 00:13:51,530 You almost convinced me that you're sincere. 257 00:13:51,569 --> 00:13:54,879 I actually have to remind myself 258 00:13:54,921 --> 00:13:57,141 who you are every time you speak. 259 00:13:59,229 --> 00:14:02,799 I'm not sharing custody. 260 00:14:02,842 --> 00:14:05,112 And if Micah doesn't say he wants it, 261 00:14:05,148 --> 00:14:06,978 there's no way you're getting it. 262 00:14:07,020 --> 00:14:09,630 And don't ever compare yourself to my father again. 263 00:14:09,674 --> 00:14:12,684 You don't even deserve to be in the same sentence as him. 264 00:14:12,721 --> 00:14:15,861 I know you signed my name to get your loan, Charley. 265 00:14:22,252 --> 00:14:23,912 Yeah. 266 00:14:23,950 --> 00:14:27,000 My lawyer put alerts on my financials when you filed. 267 00:14:30,478 --> 00:14:32,648 Just let me be in my son's life, Charley. 268 00:14:32,697 --> 00:14:35,827 Or I swear I'll tell the bank. 269 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:37,915 See if you get your mill up and running in time 270 00:14:37,964 --> 00:14:40,664 without that money. 271 00:14:40,705 --> 00:14:44,225 I may have forged your name, but you were the team pimp. 272 00:14:44,274 --> 00:14:47,934 You wanna go to court? I'll wear a new suit every day. 273 00:14:47,974 --> 00:14:51,154 Let's see who wins once it's all out in the open. 274 00:15:00,508 --> 00:15:03,768 [ both laughing ] 275 00:15:03,815 --> 00:15:06,335 I can't believe you got me out here drinking wine coolers. 276 00:15:06,383 --> 00:15:09,523 - [ gasps ] - This might as well be a cream soda. 277 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,820 I'm just making best from what the store had. 278 00:15:13,564 --> 00:15:16,484 How old are we right about now? 19? 279 00:15:16,524 --> 00:15:19,314 Well, I feel like I'm 19. 280 00:15:19,353 --> 00:15:21,963 Me and you against the world. 281 00:15:22,008 --> 00:15:23,358 - Mmm. - Yeah? 282 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,320 [ music playing ] 283 00:15:25,359 --> 00:15:28,099 Shoot, I don't need nothing to make me high except for you anyway. 284 00:15:32,235 --> 00:15:36,885 Well, no matter how young we feel right about now... 285 00:15:38,111 --> 00:15:40,501 we're both old enough to know 286 00:15:40,548 --> 00:15:44,158 when a good thing has to come to an end. 287 00:15:44,204 --> 00:15:46,084 Ah, don't say that. 288 00:15:46,119 --> 00:15:48,339 But you know? 289 00:15:48,382 --> 00:15:51,082 I bet you five months will go by real fast. 290 00:15:58,131 --> 00:15:59,441 I'm sure it will. 291 00:16:04,311 --> 00:16:05,831 [ music playing ] 292 00:16:05,877 --> 00:16:07,617 Charley: Hey. What's so urgent? 293 00:16:07,662 --> 00:16:10,582 I don't wanna talk about this loan thing again, Ralph Angel. 294 00:16:10,621 --> 00:16:12,881 I would have called Nova if she was here. 295 00:16:12,928 --> 00:16:16,188 Trust me, I don't wanna sit here talking to you neither. 296 00:16:16,236 --> 00:16:18,186 But you need to know something. 297 00:16:18,238 --> 00:16:19,718 Landry been messing with the farm. 298 00:16:19,761 --> 00:16:21,941 What do you mean "messing with the farm"? 299 00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:23,291 What does that mean? 300 00:16:23,330 --> 00:16:26,030 He been having drones fly over. 301 00:16:26,072 --> 00:16:28,382 Wait, what? 302 00:16:28,422 --> 00:16:29,862 Since when? 303 00:16:29,901 --> 00:16:31,471 I don't know how long he been at it. 304 00:16:31,512 --> 00:16:33,042 Blue saw it first, 305 00:16:33,079 --> 00:16:36,389 just flying over like it wasn't no thing. 306 00:16:36,430 --> 00:16:38,520 The audacity of these people. 307 00:16:38,562 --> 00:16:40,912 Yeah, pretty damn audacious. 308 00:16:40,956 --> 00:16:43,956 [ chuckles ] So, I went over to his office. 309 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,313 You-- why didn't you call me first? 310 00:16:46,353 --> 00:16:48,443 It's done, Charley. 311 00:16:50,879 --> 00:16:53,319 He was trespassing. I did what I should've done. 312 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,670 I stepped to him man to man, 313 00:16:55,710 --> 00:16:58,100 warned him not to do it again. 314 00:16:58,147 --> 00:16:59,627 Man to man, huh? 315 00:17:01,585 --> 00:17:04,145 [ chuckles ] I'm afraid to ask what that reallymeans. 316 00:17:04,197 --> 00:17:07,157 See, this is why I can't sign those loan papers. 317 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:08,980 What happens if you make a decision on your own 318 00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:10,288 that puts all of us at risk? 319 00:17:10,333 --> 00:17:12,293 See, you just don't understand, ever. 320 00:17:12,335 --> 00:17:14,505 No, youdon't understand. 321 00:17:14,555 --> 00:17:16,595 Next time there's a problem with the Landrys, 322 00:17:16,644 --> 00:17:19,044 I need to know before, not after, 323 00:17:19,081 --> 00:17:20,951 you do something you don't know enough about. 324 00:17:28,351 --> 00:17:30,921 [ music playing ] 325 00:17:42,496 --> 00:17:44,366 [ chatter ] 326 00:17:47,631 --> 00:17:49,811 Ms. Nova Bordelon. 327 00:17:49,851 --> 00:17:52,111 - Good to see you. - Dr. Cobb. Good to see you, too. 328 00:17:52,158 --> 00:17:54,068 Congratulations on all your good work. 329 00:17:54,116 --> 00:17:55,636 Oh, well, thank you for that. 330 00:17:55,683 --> 00:17:57,163 We're so happy you accepted our invitation 331 00:17:57,206 --> 00:17:59,376 to participate in the symposium. 332 00:17:59,426 --> 00:18:01,466 I'm really looking forward to hearing what you have to say tomorrow. 333 00:18:01,515 --> 00:18:04,865 - No pressure. - [ laughs ] 334 00:18:04,909 --> 00:18:06,519 Speaking of the panel, 335 00:18:06,563 --> 00:18:08,263 there's someone I want you to meet. 336 00:18:08,304 --> 00:18:10,704 Oh. 337 00:18:10,741 --> 00:18:14,701 - Robert Dubois. Hi. - Nova Bordelon. 338 00:18:14,745 --> 00:18:18,175 Robert is an epidemiologist with the Center for American Progress. 339 00:18:18,227 --> 00:18:19,707 - Good brother. - Thank you. 340 00:18:19,750 --> 00:18:21,930 And Nova is an award-winning journalist 341 00:18:21,970 --> 00:18:24,230 with the "New Orleans Daily News." 342 00:18:24,277 --> 00:18:25,497 Good sister. 343 00:18:26,627 --> 00:18:28,017 Excuse me, folks. 344 00:18:30,631 --> 00:18:33,071 [ chuckles ] So now I say I love your work 345 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:36,252 and you pretend that you've actually read my papers. 346 00:18:36,289 --> 00:18:38,379 Is that how this all goes? 347 00:18:38,421 --> 00:18:40,601 Okay. 348 00:18:40,641 --> 00:18:42,991 I've been to a few of these "we're the only ones 349 00:18:43,034 --> 00:18:45,734 smart enough to save the world" soirées lately. 350 00:18:45,776 --> 00:18:47,556 Not as bad as you might think. 351 00:18:47,604 --> 00:18:49,744 A lot of business cards swapping, though. 352 00:18:49,780 --> 00:18:53,520 My business tends to be about my people back in Louisiana. 353 00:18:53,567 --> 00:18:55,527 Kind of hard to fit in my purse. 354 00:18:55,569 --> 00:18:59,659 Okay, so you're the one who's gonna keep us honest 355 00:18:59,703 --> 00:19:01,493 and on our toes. 356 00:19:01,531 --> 00:19:03,531 Well, my mother always said when someone invites you 357 00:19:03,577 --> 00:19:06,747 to a new room, make sure you show up. 358 00:19:06,797 --> 00:19:08,317 Don't go with somebody else. 359 00:19:10,627 --> 00:19:12,017 She would have loved all this. 360 00:19:16,111 --> 00:19:18,851 - Sounds like a wise woman. - And complicated. 361 00:19:18,896 --> 00:19:20,856 She never saw much outside Louisiana. 362 00:19:20,898 --> 00:19:24,768 Well, on behalf of the folks outside of Louisiana, 363 00:19:24,815 --> 00:19:27,725 I am happy that we're seeing her daughter. 364 00:19:29,124 --> 00:19:30,654 - Nice to meet you. - You, too. 365 00:19:41,876 --> 00:19:43,356 Jelani: Dr. Dubois, in your recent work, 366 00:19:43,399 --> 00:19:45,009 you've been making the case that, 367 00:19:45,053 --> 00:19:47,273 while not often thought of as such, 368 00:19:47,316 --> 00:19:51,016 mass incarceration is actually a public health crisis in black communities. 369 00:19:51,059 --> 00:19:54,849 Yes, all the data shows that when we tear up a family through incarceration, 370 00:19:54,889 --> 00:19:57,239 we eventually get devastating health outcomes, 371 00:19:57,283 --> 00:20:00,633 and the high recidivism rates mean that the problems that come 372 00:20:00,677 --> 00:20:04,807 from the poor healthcare received by inmates in prison is just recycled 373 00:20:04,855 --> 00:20:08,025 right back into those vulnerable communities. 374 00:20:08,076 --> 00:20:09,856 Shouldn't we be asking how those communities 375 00:20:09,904 --> 00:20:11,384 become vulnerable in the first place? 376 00:20:11,427 --> 00:20:14,387 Yes, the "necropolitics" of it all. 377 00:20:14,430 --> 00:20:16,610 You sound "skeptical," Dr. Dubois. 378 00:20:16,650 --> 00:20:19,610 Jelani: Well, Mbembe's term can be defined in different ways. 379 00:20:19,653 --> 00:20:21,393 How do you see it, Ms. Bordelon? 380 00:20:21,437 --> 00:20:23,737 Necropolitics is the question. 381 00:20:23,787 --> 00:20:27,747 Who does society say is disposable or trash? 382 00:20:27,791 --> 00:20:29,881 Who are the real-life walking dead? 383 00:20:29,924 --> 00:20:32,494 - [ sighs ] - If not through physical death, then social death, 384 00:20:32,535 --> 00:20:35,495 economic death, or political irrelevance. 385 00:20:35,538 --> 00:20:38,278 Okay, so long story short, we should just say 386 00:20:38,324 --> 00:20:40,984 that the manis locking the brothers up 387 00:20:41,022 --> 00:20:43,812 and has his foot on the neck of the sisters left behind? 388 00:20:43,851 --> 00:20:45,721 It's not semantics. 389 00:20:45,766 --> 00:20:48,326 Saying it plain keeps us from normalizing 390 00:20:48,377 --> 00:20:51,157 what is essentially genocide. 391 00:20:51,206 --> 00:20:53,076 [ applause ] 392 00:20:54,688 --> 00:20:57,868 Respectfully, I think "genocide" is a bit much. 393 00:20:57,908 --> 00:21:02,258 Our Jewish, Rwandan, our Syrian brothers and sisters, 394 00:21:02,304 --> 00:21:03,874 they might beg to differ. 395 00:21:03,914 --> 00:21:06,094 - [ applause ] - Man: Right. 396 00:21:08,919 --> 00:21:13,179 I disagree with the narrow definition that you're using, 397 00:21:13,228 --> 00:21:15,838 but moving back to your original point about the man. 398 00:21:15,883 --> 00:21:17,153 Okay. 399 00:21:17,188 --> 00:21:18,968 You mock the term 400 00:21:19,016 --> 00:21:20,976 like you don't believe in the systems of oppression 401 00:21:21,018 --> 00:21:22,588 that "the man" is a euphemism for. 402 00:21:22,629 --> 00:21:25,369 I wasn't-- that-- 403 00:21:25,414 --> 00:21:26,764 [ chuckles ] 404 00:21:26,807 --> 00:21:30,287 Okay, all right, of course I believe in, 405 00:21:30,332 --> 00:21:33,642 I understand, and I grapple with 406 00:21:33,683 --> 00:21:38,043 the systems of oppression that have us where we are. 407 00:21:38,079 --> 00:21:40,259 But I also believe in us. 408 00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:42,479 I know our greatness 409 00:21:42,518 --> 00:21:45,828 and I also believe that we can be better than we are, 410 00:21:45,869 --> 00:21:50,309 farther along than we are despite whatever the man believes about us. 411 00:21:50,352 --> 00:21:52,702 He's never believed in us. 412 00:21:52,746 --> 00:21:55,706 We are a dynamic and a mighty people, 413 00:21:55,749 --> 00:21:59,409 and we need to act like it at every turn 414 00:21:59,448 --> 00:22:03,058 with some strategy, with synergy, 415 00:22:03,104 --> 00:22:04,984 with some strength. 416 00:22:05,019 --> 00:22:06,719 [ applause ] 417 00:22:10,416 --> 00:22:13,196 I disagree, Dr. Dubois. 418 00:22:13,244 --> 00:22:15,034 He always believed in us. 419 00:22:15,072 --> 00:22:16,942 He always knew our greatness. 420 00:22:16,987 --> 00:22:19,157 That's the very thing he feared 421 00:22:19,207 --> 00:22:21,247 and the very thing he worked so hard 422 00:22:21,296 --> 00:22:23,336 all these generations to destroy. 423 00:22:25,996 --> 00:22:28,426 Look, I'm here today simply because 424 00:22:28,477 --> 00:22:30,567 I had a bail fundraiser in New Orleans. 425 00:22:30,610 --> 00:22:33,130 It was peaceful. It was respectful. 426 00:22:33,177 --> 00:22:35,007 It was beautiful. 427 00:22:37,747 --> 00:22:40,317 It was self-determined, self-empowered. 428 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:44,149 At the end of the day, we're not disagreeing. 429 00:22:44,188 --> 00:22:47,888 Your beautiful and your vibrant work... 430 00:22:50,717 --> 00:22:53,237 that actually proves my point. 431 00:22:53,284 --> 00:22:54,814 Jelani: We'll have to leave it there. 432 00:22:54,851 --> 00:22:57,551 Thank you to this incredible panel 433 00:22:57,593 --> 00:22:58,553 and to Spelman College. 434 00:22:58,594 --> 00:23:00,774 [ applause ] 435 00:23:07,298 --> 00:23:08,518 Voilà! [ laughs ] 436 00:23:08,561 --> 00:23:10,001 This is good eating right here. 437 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:15,050 Mmm, mmm, I think this is the first full meal 438 00:23:15,089 --> 00:23:16,959 we've had in two or three days. 439 00:23:17,004 --> 00:23:19,094 - [ chuckles ] - Now, this is living. 440 00:23:19,136 --> 00:23:21,656 - [ both chuckle ] - Mm-hmm. 441 00:23:24,490 --> 00:23:26,670 You know, I've been doing some thinking 442 00:23:26,709 --> 00:23:29,449 about changing some things. 443 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,450 Changing a whole lot of things. 444 00:23:34,587 --> 00:23:38,897 Seeing where we are, how we need to rebuild things. 445 00:23:38,939 --> 00:23:42,199 This three weeks on the rig and two weeks off, 446 00:23:42,246 --> 00:23:44,026 it's just not what I need to be doing right now. 447 00:23:44,074 --> 00:23:47,034 Okay. 448 00:23:47,077 --> 00:23:49,467 I need to be in St. Jo's 449 00:23:49,515 --> 00:23:51,425 with you full-time. 450 00:23:54,041 --> 00:23:55,481 Quit the rig? 451 00:23:55,521 --> 00:23:56,701 For a minute, yeah. 452 00:24:00,569 --> 00:24:01,879 Wow. 453 00:24:05,356 --> 00:24:06,916 I don't know, baby. 454 00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:09,710 Are you sure about that? 455 00:24:09,752 --> 00:24:12,672 I mean... you thought it through? 456 00:24:14,975 --> 00:24:17,585 Baby... 457 00:24:17,630 --> 00:24:19,410 I ain't never been so sure about something 458 00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:20,888 in my whole life. 459 00:24:23,113 --> 00:24:26,253 You matter most. 460 00:24:26,290 --> 00:24:29,470 This thing, me and you, 461 00:24:29,511 --> 00:24:30,951 we gotta make it right. 462 00:24:33,515 --> 00:24:37,125 I don't need to be going nowhere. 463 00:24:37,171 --> 00:24:38,741 We are too important. 464 00:24:55,494 --> 00:24:57,934 [ car approaches ] 465 00:24:57,974 --> 00:25:01,544 [ car doors close ] 466 00:25:31,051 --> 00:25:32,971 Oh, hell, no! 467 00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:45,200 [ shotgun cocks ] 468 00:25:45,239 --> 00:25:47,239 Man: That's it. Move. 469 00:25:47,284 --> 00:25:48,764 Let's get it and get out of here. 470 00:25:53,421 --> 00:25:55,381 [ indistinct chatter ] 471 00:25:58,469 --> 00:26:00,469 Whoa! Let's go! 472 00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:01,995 Go, go, go! 473 00:26:02,038 --> 00:26:03,998 - Go, go! - I'm coming. 474 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,780 No, no, wait, wait! 475 00:26:05,825 --> 00:26:07,165 Wait, wait! Hey! 476 00:26:07,217 --> 00:26:10,437 Wait for me! Hey! Hey! 477 00:26:10,481 --> 00:26:12,181 Wait! Oh! 478 00:26:18,664 --> 00:26:21,064 Henry Lee? 479 00:26:21,101 --> 00:26:23,321 Henry Lee's voice: There ain't a whole lot more I can say except, 480 00:26:23,364 --> 00:26:25,194 again, I'm sorry. 481 00:26:25,235 --> 00:26:28,625 We've been hurting since Sheila got laid off in '08. 482 00:26:28,674 --> 00:26:30,724 Every day, I ain't got farming to do. 483 00:26:30,763 --> 00:26:33,553 I get up, and I go out 484 00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:36,642 and I tell Sheila and my kids 485 00:26:36,682 --> 00:26:39,472 that I've been picking up extra work, 486 00:26:39,510 --> 00:26:41,730 but there ain't none to be had. 487 00:26:41,774 --> 00:26:43,734 Not at my age. 488 00:26:45,429 --> 00:26:46,429 S-So I... 489 00:26:48,868 --> 00:26:52,648 I-I got what we needed 490 00:26:52,698 --> 00:26:54,088 from Sam Landry. 491 00:26:57,877 --> 00:27:01,137 P-Please don't tell Sheila, Prosper. 492 00:27:01,184 --> 00:27:02,934 She don't know. Please, she don't know. 493 00:27:05,711 --> 00:27:07,891 Were you gonna grind from Charley's mill, 494 00:27:07,930 --> 00:27:10,240 or was this whole thing just a setup? 495 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,280 He sent me to join the collective 496 00:27:12,326 --> 00:27:15,326 so he could see what y'all was doing. 497 00:27:15,372 --> 00:27:17,812 I thought that's all I had to do. 498 00:27:17,853 --> 00:27:20,943 Then he said he wanted some of Remy's new cane, 499 00:27:20,987 --> 00:27:23,597 and he sent us over here to get it. 500 00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:26,692 I am so sorry. 501 00:27:26,732 --> 00:27:30,262 I will never do anything like this again. 502 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:31,910 Yeah, tell that to the police. 503 00:27:31,954 --> 00:27:33,704 - I'm calling the police. - Wait a minute. 504 00:27:33,739 --> 00:27:35,779 - And then I'm calling Remy. - For what? 505 00:27:35,828 --> 00:27:38,568 He ain't even get what he came for. 506 00:27:41,790 --> 00:27:44,310 I'm just saying maybe we could go about this a different way. 507 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:49,410 Would you excuse us for a moment? 508 00:27:56,152 --> 00:28:00,642 [ door opens, closes ] 509 00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:04,989 This is how we shame the Landrys in public, 510 00:28:05,031 --> 00:28:06,821 let everybody know what they're doing 511 00:28:06,859 --> 00:28:09,729 and let Landry and Jacob know they're gonna be watched 512 00:28:09,775 --> 00:28:11,165 just like they're watching us. 513 00:28:11,211 --> 00:28:13,341 You're right, but-- 514 00:28:13,387 --> 00:28:15,077 Don't tell me you're falling for this. 515 00:28:15,128 --> 00:28:16,998 I know a sob story when I hear one. 516 00:28:17,043 --> 00:28:20,003 And I know what it feels like 517 00:28:20,046 --> 00:28:21,396 to have to look in your kid's face 518 00:28:21,438 --> 00:28:24,918 and say you can't do right by them, 519 00:28:24,964 --> 00:28:26,924 to need help, 520 00:28:26,966 --> 00:28:29,356 and can't even think of where to get it from. 521 00:28:32,493 --> 00:28:35,023 It'll make a man do bad things, Charley. 522 00:28:37,193 --> 00:28:38,463 Believe me. 523 00:28:42,851 --> 00:28:45,851 Somebody just came onto your land, 524 00:28:45,898 --> 00:28:48,768 to your home in the middle of the night 525 00:28:48,814 --> 00:28:53,174 while your son was sleeping to steal from you, 526 00:28:53,209 --> 00:28:55,039 and you're just-- 527 00:28:55,081 --> 00:28:58,171 you're gonna let him just walk away? 528 00:29:00,434 --> 00:29:03,874 I just think sometimes people deserve a second chance. 529 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:20,539 Blue: Peekaboo, Daddy! Wake up. 530 00:29:20,584 --> 00:29:22,064 Ralph Angel: I'm up, I'm up, I'm up. 531 00:29:22,108 --> 00:29:24,148 I'm gonna make breakfast for you. 532 00:29:24,197 --> 00:29:25,677 - You gonna make breakfast? - Know what I'm gonna make? 533 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,680 It's a pancake and a bunch of tickles. 534 00:29:28,723 --> 00:29:30,383 - Ralph Angel: Tickles? Tickles like that? - [ Blue giggling ] 535 00:29:30,420 --> 00:29:32,030 - Blue: More tickling! - All right, tickles. 536 00:29:32,074 --> 00:29:33,384 [ Blue laughing and squealing ] 537 00:29:33,423 --> 00:29:36,303 Can't get in! No, you can't! 538 00:29:36,339 --> 00:29:39,779 See, that's what you wanted. See, that's what you wanted. 539 00:29:39,821 --> 00:29:43,221 [ Blue giggling ] 540 00:29:43,259 --> 00:29:46,519 More. More, more, more, more. 541 00:29:48,830 --> 00:29:51,220 Stuff in it and then-- 542 00:29:51,267 --> 00:29:54,397 and we need some ticklish pancakes. 543 00:29:54,444 --> 00:29:58,674 [ Blue shouting, giggling ] 544 00:29:58,709 --> 00:30:00,579 [ giggling continues ] 545 00:30:03,845 --> 00:30:05,795 [ music playing ] 546 00:30:12,636 --> 00:30:16,416 Took me all night, but I finally have a comeback. 547 00:30:16,466 --> 00:30:18,686 A comeback for what? 548 00:30:18,729 --> 00:30:20,909 Dr. Dubois, don't you believe in the man? 549 00:30:20,949 --> 00:30:23,209 [ laughs ] Okay. Okay. 550 00:30:23,256 --> 00:30:25,516 Yeah, sorry. 551 00:30:25,562 --> 00:30:27,522 Maybe I should buy you breakfast. 552 00:30:27,564 --> 00:30:29,574 I know we're on the same side. I see that. 553 00:30:29,610 --> 00:30:31,390 Yes, yes, we are. 554 00:30:31,438 --> 00:30:33,568 And I guess I could've had a smoother answer, 555 00:30:33,614 --> 00:30:35,884 you know, been more suave with it, 556 00:30:35,921 --> 00:30:37,841 put some swagger on it, right? 557 00:30:37,879 --> 00:30:40,059 [ both chuckle ] 558 00:30:40,099 --> 00:30:41,799 I was-- I wasn't thinking that. 559 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,020 Not at all. 560 00:30:48,803 --> 00:30:52,983 Real talk, how much money did you raise at your bail fundraiser? 561 00:30:53,025 --> 00:30:56,895 As hard as you worked, as beautiful as it was, 562 00:30:56,942 --> 00:30:59,902 as powerful as your words were in the face of those cops, 563 00:30:59,945 --> 00:31:01,855 how many people can you help 564 00:31:01,903 --> 00:31:03,563 before you have to pass the plate again? 565 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:04,990 I do what's necessary at the time. 566 00:31:05,037 --> 00:31:08,607 That's hand-to-hand combat. It's tactics. 567 00:31:08,649 --> 00:31:10,959 You're rescuing babies out of burning buildings. 568 00:31:10,999 --> 00:31:13,479 I wanna stop those buildings from being set on fire 569 00:31:13,523 --> 00:31:15,443 in the first place. 570 00:31:15,482 --> 00:31:17,012 You're macro. 571 00:31:17,049 --> 00:31:18,489 Yes, and-- 572 00:31:18,528 --> 00:31:20,968 And I know you're not about to call me micro. 573 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:26,840 No, ma'am. 574 00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:29,315 I'd, um-- I'd never put it that way. 575 00:31:36,982 --> 00:31:40,512 Can, um-- can I take you somewhere right now? 576 00:31:42,161 --> 00:31:43,341 Where? 577 00:31:43,379 --> 00:31:46,209 I don't know. 578 00:31:46,252 --> 00:31:49,212 Just outside, you know, under the sky. 579 00:31:49,255 --> 00:31:51,555 The light in here is-- it's just not right, 580 00:31:51,605 --> 00:31:53,735 you know, for this. 581 00:32:01,354 --> 00:32:03,144 You would argue that this erasure happened 582 00:32:03,182 --> 00:32:06,662 because people have been deemed disposable. 583 00:32:06,707 --> 00:32:09,407 You're the epidemiologist. You know patterns. 584 00:32:09,449 --> 00:32:13,149 Calling folk disposable is always the first step to getting rid of them. 585 00:32:13,192 --> 00:32:15,852 I wonder if one day people will have this same conversation 586 00:32:15,890 --> 00:32:18,070 about the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. 587 00:32:18,110 --> 00:32:19,980 Did you know black people once lived here? 588 00:32:20,025 --> 00:32:21,935 [ chuckles ] 589 00:32:21,983 --> 00:32:23,683 You know, you're right. 590 00:32:23,724 --> 00:32:27,124 We were still pulling dead bodies out of abandoned houses 591 00:32:27,162 --> 00:32:31,042 when the country got tired of talking about Katrina. 592 00:32:31,079 --> 00:32:33,339 You said "we." 593 00:32:33,386 --> 00:32:35,906 I was involved in some of the early work. 594 00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:38,224 Spent a couple of years in NoLa, so. 595 00:32:38,260 --> 00:32:40,350 Way to bury the lede, Dr. Dubois. 596 00:32:43,483 --> 00:32:45,923 Honestly, I try to forget it. 597 00:32:49,402 --> 00:32:50,622 It was gruesome. 598 00:32:53,188 --> 00:32:56,148 That was a gruesome time. 599 00:32:56,191 --> 00:32:59,411 I'm sure you remember. [ scoffs ] 600 00:32:59,455 --> 00:33:02,715 The pictures, the news footage they show every anniversary, 601 00:33:02,763 --> 00:33:05,773 it doesn't even come anywhere close 602 00:33:05,809 --> 00:33:07,549 to doing it any justice. 603 00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:10,990 I know. 604 00:33:24,698 --> 00:33:27,438 [ phones ringing ] 605 00:33:27,483 --> 00:33:30,403 Sam, Jacob. 606 00:33:30,443 --> 00:33:32,233 Hey, boys. 607 00:33:32,271 --> 00:33:33,791 Charley. 608 00:33:33,837 --> 00:33:36,357 Welcome. 609 00:33:36,405 --> 00:33:38,055 Been a while. 610 00:33:38,103 --> 00:33:40,713 To what do we owe this visit? 611 00:33:40,757 --> 00:33:42,457 Well, it's daytime. 612 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,240 Daytime? 613 00:33:46,285 --> 00:33:47,935 What do you mean? 614 00:33:47,982 --> 00:33:49,642 What she means is she wants you all to know how it feels 615 00:33:49,679 --> 00:33:51,379 to have folks roll up unannounced. 616 00:33:51,420 --> 00:33:53,940 But we do it in the light of day, 617 00:33:53,988 --> 00:33:56,378 not at night like cowards do. 618 00:33:56,425 --> 00:34:00,555 - [ laughs ] - Something funny? 619 00:34:00,603 --> 00:34:03,133 The point is, if you come after 620 00:34:03,171 --> 00:34:06,311 one of us again, you come after all of us. 621 00:34:06,348 --> 00:34:07,778 You don't want that. 622 00:34:07,828 --> 00:34:10,138 - Is that a threat? - Charley: Yeah. 623 00:34:10,178 --> 00:34:12,178 It is. 624 00:34:12,224 --> 00:34:13,964 [ sighs ] 625 00:34:14,008 --> 00:34:15,838 Gal... 626 00:34:15,879 --> 00:34:20,149 we've been in the sugarcane business over 100 years. 627 00:34:20,188 --> 00:34:24,018 You've been in it, what, three months? 628 00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:29,202 Do you really think you can beat us at this game? 629 00:34:29,241 --> 00:34:31,771 [ laughing ] 630 00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:37,159 Boys... 631 00:34:37,205 --> 00:34:40,685 that's the question you should be asking yourself. 632 00:34:47,389 --> 00:34:50,219 [ door opens, closes ] 633 00:34:54,309 --> 00:34:56,829 [ Violet laughs ] What would I do without you? 634 00:34:56,877 --> 00:34:58,837 I don't know what I'd do without you either. 635 00:34:58,879 --> 00:35:00,489 Back home, baby! 636 00:35:00,533 --> 00:35:02,193 Violet: Oh, what was-- 637 00:35:02,230 --> 00:35:04,800 - [ all shout ] - [ laughter ] 638 00:35:06,278 --> 00:35:08,448 Ralph Angel: We did that, boy. 639 00:35:10,238 --> 00:35:12,978 How did you guys know we were coming back tonight? 640 00:35:13,023 --> 00:35:15,373 - Doesn't matter how we knew. - You know these streets talk, Aunt Vi. 641 00:35:15,417 --> 00:35:17,197 I knew it was trouble 642 00:35:17,245 --> 00:35:19,545 - when we ran into Boogie at the gas station. - Boogie. 643 00:35:19,595 --> 00:35:22,985 He cannot hold a secret to save his life. 644 00:35:23,033 --> 00:35:25,473 Now, you know things around here don't feel right 645 00:35:25,514 --> 00:35:27,434 unless you all are okay. 646 00:35:27,473 --> 00:35:30,043 So, are you...? 647 00:35:30,084 --> 00:35:32,174 Everything is "copastetic." 648 00:35:32,217 --> 00:35:35,177 - Okay. - We're wonderful. Everything's wonderful. 649 00:35:35,220 --> 00:35:38,310 - How are you, Hollywood? - I missed you. How's my baby Blue? 650 00:35:38,353 --> 00:35:40,013 - He good. - Yeah? 651 00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:43,400 Everybody's getting some hugs up in here today. 652 00:35:43,445 --> 00:35:46,095 [ all chattering ] 653 00:35:46,144 --> 00:35:48,024 We got something to celebrate! Come on! 654 00:35:48,058 --> 00:35:50,148 [ music playing ] 655 00:35:50,191 --> 00:35:52,671 [ laughter ] 656 00:35:52,715 --> 00:35:54,795 He wasn't doing none of that before I got there. 657 00:35:54,848 --> 00:35:56,198 I sure wasn't. 658 00:35:56,241 --> 00:35:58,071 I got it now, though! Unh! 659 00:35:58,112 --> 00:36:00,852 [ laughter ] 660 00:36:00,897 --> 00:36:03,117 Violet: You dope. 661 00:36:04,249 --> 00:36:06,989 [ laughter continues ] 662 00:36:16,217 --> 00:36:18,177 - [ water running ] - [ dishes clanking ] 663 00:36:21,483 --> 00:36:23,573 Oh, baby, I got it. You don't have to do that. 664 00:36:23,616 --> 00:36:25,876 No, no, it's your special night. 665 00:36:25,922 --> 00:36:28,972 I got it. 666 00:36:29,012 --> 00:36:32,282 Well, now everybody knows that you hate to clean. 667 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,020 Been that way since you were a girl. 668 00:36:35,062 --> 00:36:39,202 Yes, but even I know that taking care 669 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:41,200 of the things and the people that you love 670 00:36:41,242 --> 00:36:43,112 is what makes a house a home. 671 00:36:45,899 --> 00:36:48,159 I miss that feeling. 672 00:36:49,337 --> 00:36:51,767 Well, ain't nothing to miss. 673 00:36:51,818 --> 00:36:54,258 You're home, long as you want it. 674 00:36:59,608 --> 00:37:01,828 [ chattering ] 675 00:37:04,657 --> 00:37:07,177 - [ distant dog barking ] - [ distant train horn blaring ] 676 00:37:26,853 --> 00:37:28,993 - What's up? - What's going on? 677 00:37:32,511 --> 00:37:33,691 Hey... 678 00:37:38,299 --> 00:37:39,689 you gonna be okay? 679 00:37:42,085 --> 00:37:43,515 I think so. 680 00:37:45,132 --> 00:37:47,312 Keep your head up. 681 00:37:47,352 --> 00:37:48,532 You hear me? 682 00:37:51,921 --> 00:37:53,621 Gonna be fine. 683 00:37:54,750 --> 00:37:56,140 We'll see y'all. 684 00:38:04,107 --> 00:38:05,457 Thank you for that. 685 00:38:08,329 --> 00:38:10,239 Ain't nothing. 686 00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:11,898 I want you know I get it. 687 00:38:14,466 --> 00:38:17,556 You need to stand on your own. 688 00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:20,169 Daddy left you part of the land, and... 689 00:38:20,210 --> 00:38:24,260 you should be able to do with it what others do. 690 00:38:24,302 --> 00:38:27,962 Leverage it. Build credibility. 691 00:38:28,001 --> 00:38:31,001 Use it to get ahead. 692 00:38:32,962 --> 00:38:35,142 I'll sign the papers for the microloan. 693 00:38:44,147 --> 00:38:45,497 Thank you. 694 00:38:47,499 --> 00:38:50,759 [ indistinct chatter ] 695 00:38:50,806 --> 00:38:53,326 Oh, wh-- where are you all going? 696 00:38:53,374 --> 00:38:54,774 You and Micah don't have to go nowhere. 697 00:38:54,810 --> 00:38:56,380 Yes, we do. 698 00:38:56,421 --> 00:38:58,601 You and Hollywood have been apart for a while. 699 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,380 We're gonna get out of here 700 00:39:00,425 --> 00:39:02,075 because no one wants to hear all that. 701 00:39:02,122 --> 00:39:04,392 No, no, no. I-- I won't have it. 702 00:39:04,429 --> 00:39:06,609 - You don't have to-- - No, she got a point. 703 00:39:06,648 --> 00:39:08,478 Grown folks gotta be grown. 704 00:39:10,609 --> 00:39:12,479 And now that you're back, I think it's time 705 00:39:12,524 --> 00:39:14,794 I start looking for a place, too. 706 00:39:14,830 --> 00:39:16,350 Baby, you don't have to do that. 707 00:39:19,487 --> 00:39:21,747 See you lovebirds in a couple days. 708 00:39:21,794 --> 00:39:23,194 Bye. 709 00:39:23,230 --> 00:39:25,750 - Love you, Micah. - Love you, too. 710 00:39:25,798 --> 00:39:28,928 - Love you, Vi. - Love you, Hollywood. 711 00:39:28,975 --> 00:39:31,365 Mmm... 712 00:39:35,329 --> 00:39:37,809 Hey. How are you? 713 00:39:37,853 --> 00:39:38,903 Fine. 714 00:39:42,858 --> 00:39:44,688 I'm gonna be in my room. 715 00:39:58,308 --> 00:40:00,438 I'm surprised you brought him back. 716 00:40:00,485 --> 00:40:04,445 You said you want a chance to be a father to our son. 717 00:40:04,489 --> 00:40:05,969 And I don't like it. 718 00:40:07,970 --> 00:40:10,760 But we'll share him because I think he needs it. 719 00:40:12,714 --> 00:40:13,984 Maybe you do, too. 720 00:40:18,590 --> 00:40:20,460 You know, I would have never called the bank 721 00:40:20,505 --> 00:40:22,325 about your mill loan, Charley. 722 00:40:22,376 --> 00:40:24,636 I know that you did what you've always done, 723 00:40:24,683 --> 00:40:27,863 and that's whatever you had to do, so. 724 00:40:27,903 --> 00:40:29,863 I got word the loan funds tomorrow, 725 00:40:29,905 --> 00:40:33,075 so... thank you. 726 00:40:34,475 --> 00:40:36,295 But you should know... 727 00:40:36,346 --> 00:40:39,826 if you mess this up, I will find a way to end it. 728 00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:43,829 I will do right by our son. 729 00:40:43,876 --> 00:40:46,096 I hope so, Davis. 730 00:40:48,924 --> 00:40:50,234 I hope so. 731 00:40:57,324 --> 00:40:58,804 - Checking out. - Okay. 732 00:40:58,847 --> 00:41:00,237 Room 716. 733 00:41:02,285 --> 00:41:03,845 - Here. - Thank you. 734 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:15,600 Well, hello there. 735 00:41:15,647 --> 00:41:17,947 Good morning. Coffee? 736 00:41:17,997 --> 00:41:20,167 You just happen to have two? 737 00:41:20,216 --> 00:41:22,216 Well, you know, 738 00:41:22,262 --> 00:41:23,832 I took up a lot of your time yesterday. 739 00:41:23,872 --> 00:41:27,352 I-- felt only right that I give you a proper sendoff. 740 00:41:27,397 --> 00:41:30,527 Thank you, Dr. Dubois, for our walk 741 00:41:30,575 --> 00:41:32,525 and especially for our conversation. 742 00:41:32,577 --> 00:41:34,397 I enjoyed it. 743 00:41:34,448 --> 00:41:36,058 Likewise. 744 00:41:36,102 --> 00:41:39,502 If you ever get away from Atlanta and make your way 745 00:41:39,540 --> 00:41:42,330 to New Orleans, I'll have to return the favor. 746 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,200 Okay. All right. May I? 747 00:41:46,242 --> 00:41:47,642 - Yes. - All right. 748 00:41:54,816 --> 00:41:56,946 Listen... 749 00:41:56,992 --> 00:41:59,732 I could take you to the airport if you'd like. 750 00:41:59,778 --> 00:42:02,518 I'm okay, thank you. 751 00:42:02,563 --> 00:42:04,093 All right. 752 00:42:04,130 --> 00:42:08,310 Um, if you ever need some epidemiological... 753 00:42:08,351 --> 00:42:09,791 [ laughs ] 754 00:42:09,831 --> 00:42:12,441 No, no, seriously, expertise, I just... 755 00:42:12,486 --> 00:42:14,226 You'll be my first call. 756 00:42:14,270 --> 00:42:16,800 Yes, ma'am. I look forward to that call, Queen. 757 00:42:19,014 --> 00:42:20,584 - Travel safe. - Yeah. 758 00:42:20,625 --> 00:42:23,185 - Okay, all right. - Thank you. 759 00:42:23,236 --> 00:42:24,446 ♪ ...overhead, swift courage ♪ 760 00:42:24,498 --> 00:42:29,458 ♪ Shoot it down, down 761 00:42:29,503 --> 00:42:33,463 ♪ Fill the lung that loves the phosphorescent ♪ 762 00:42:33,507 --> 00:42:38,727 ♪ Absorbent time spent on few ♪ 763 00:42:38,773 --> 00:42:40,603 ♪ And all of you 764 00:42:40,645 --> 00:42:43,465 ♪ I'll offer myrrh and murder ♪ 765 00:42:43,517 --> 00:42:49,347 ♪ The preferred method of doubt that sways about. ♪