[narrator] Previously on Queen Sugar...
Nova, we can’t just sit on this.
Families are being kicked out of their homes as we speak.
Maybe I could keep Blue more often.
-We got to take it slow. -How slow?
Last year, I was diagnosed with lupus,
but I’m going to do everything for it to not interfere with our business.
[Nova] So you’re going to run yourself into the ground, like Daddy.
Daddy was so busy trying to hide his pain. It damn near broke him.
[Malik] You need to grab people’s attention,
because if they can’t respect our history,
-they can’t have our history. -Micah, you in?
I’m in.
[Ralph Angel] Man.
[Trinh] My mom and a bunch of her friends in the neighborhood
started this one.
[Ralph Angel] Bet I could learn a thing or two.
[Trinh] More than a thing or two.
[Ralph Angel] Oh, yeah?
[Trinh] Those ladies have some serious skills.
[Ralph Angel] I didn’t know Mrs. Phan was into farming.
[Trinh] Oh, yeah.
And on top of everything,
raising my brother and me,
repairing the community.
They saved every penny to send me to private college.
Ma even took second jobs to make it happen.
So they’re doing the same thing for Khanh.
He wants to study engineering in Houston next year.
I didn’t know he was leaving.
In the fall, yeah.
Sound a lot like my pop.
Struggled on the farm a lot last year.
Worked a bunch of odd jobs just to help me and Blue.
Yeah.
I can only imagine a parent would do anything
to protect and provide for their child.
-Yeah. -No matter what it takes.
Yeah.
Everything’s okay with Darla?
Yeah.
Working it all out.
So...
[laughs]
Um...
I was thinking maybe...
we could be like a thing or something?
More than work friends?
[laughs]
Yeah.
I’d like that.
♪ Dreams never die ♪
♪ Take flight As the world turns ♪
♪ Dreams never die ♪
♪ Take flight As the world turns ♪
♪ Keep the colors In the lines ♪
♪ Take flight ♪
♪ Dreams never die ♪
♪ Keep the colors In the lines ♪
♪ Keep the colors In the lines, take flight ♪
[Strickland] Eminent domain comes from
the same trick bag as manifest destiny.
First step, the parish’ll assess your property value.
We’re not selling our land.
Then the law says they can just take it.
Happened to a private port few years back.
And I can only imagine how many judges
are taking kickbacks from the Landrys.
This family,
they cheat and steal and bleed black people dry.
They take everything.
And I’ll be damned if I sit by while they do it again.
I’m happy to provide legal counsel
if and when the time comes.
It won’t.
But I appreciate it.
I’ll walk you out.
[cell phone rings]
I can let myself out.
What do you want?
I wanted to invite you to dinner.
Cut the playboy act, Jacob.
I don’t have time for a sit-down
while you bulldoze an entire community of black families.
-Charley-- -Bye, Jacob.
Don’t hang up. Please.
That’s why I’m calling.
[sighs]
We know you found out about Sam’s big project.
My mother wants to sit down
and discuss alternatives to the jail.
You, Sam, your mother,
your entire goddamn family can go straight to--
Charley!
Please.
Hear my mother out.
We’re not who you think.
-Thank you. -I thought you were taking
the first plane out after the festival.
Well, that was the plan.
But then I found out Dave Eggers was in town.
I love Heartbreaking Work.
Mm-hmm.
So...
I talked you up,
and he really loves what you’re writing about your family.
Your dad in particular.
-Are you serious? -Mm-hmm.
Don’t bury the lead, Deborah.
[both laugh]
It’s a tight deadline,
but they want to publish the chapter
on your dad’s depression.
It’s a great way to set up your book.
I don’t know what to say.
But it’s not finished.
I need more time,
you know, to get it right.
[Deborah] I know what you’re thinking.
But, Nova, I have never seen anyone tell the truth...
and not have that truth set them free.
[music plays on transistor radio]
[Jarrett] Vi, you in here?
Back here.
[chuckles]
Working on one of your favorites.
Wow, that looks so good. Oh, man.
-How you doing, Jarrett? -Doing just fine.
More concerned with how you’re doing.
Never better.
Really?
You’re not calling me a liar, are you now?
No, no.
It’s just that if we’re going to start a business together,
we need to be able to tell each other the truth.
I thought...
that this whole thing might be over for me.
I don’t hear a fat lady singing, so...
I’ll just take this home.
And we’ll go from there.
You won’t regret this.
I do have a request, though,
and it’s non-negotiable.
I did my research on lupus,
and if you find yourself hurting,
or you’re having a bad day,
please don’t make me guess about it.
Thank you.
All right,
I got to get out of here.
I’m going to get myself in trouble.
[Darla] My lawyer drew up paperwork.
I’m asking for a 70/30 split for custody.
[Ralph Angel] Does that mean you’re going to have Blue 70% of the time?
We would alternate holidays.
And we would decide if you want weekends
or two on, one off.
Whoa, whoa, what happened to 50/50?
He needs a stable environment.
Someone that’s not holding down two jobs.
I can provide a routine.
I have a good job now,
and a safe home.
You ain’t making no sense, Darla.
Right now, you and I, we’re just...
we’re just making up rules as we go along.
And you always get the final say.
I want to make an appointment for mediation.
I don’t want to fight with you over this.
We can sit down...
You don’t think I’m fighting this,
you’re out your mind.
Okay?
I’ll do whatever I have to do, Ralph Angel.
I don’t even know you no more.
[keys rattle]
[paper scrapes]
-[indistinct chatter] -[hip-hop music plays]
[sizzling]
Wait a minute.
[Mary Ann] Nova?
Mary Ann!
How you doing?
I’m fine, I’m fine. How you been?
I’m wonderful.
How’s Too Sweet?
My baby’s good, bless the Lord.
Just got a promotion on his job.
[laughs] That’s great.
Bless you for helping with tuition.
You’d be so proud.
He’s getting good grades,
filling out all kind of applications
for scholarships next year.
He’s trying to do it on his own.
I’m always proud.
Oh, Remy, Remy, this is Mary Ann Bonclair.
-Too Sweet’s mama. -Hi.
Any friend of Nova is a friend of mine.
This woman here,
I tell you what.
Yes, ma’am, I know.
All right.
You kids get something to eat and have fun.
-I love you, girl. -I love you back.
-Nice to meet you. Take care. -Good to meet you.
You’re a star.
These are my people, you know?
Yeah.
[Violet] Oh, wow.
[both laugh]
This a place fit for a king and his queen.
Ah.
We’re doing it.
[laughs]
Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.
See, you got your own pie shop.
I told you you was tripping.
Congratulations, baby.
Thank you, baby.
Okay, so this is nice.
What do you see?
I see a gondola.
[both laugh]
A gondola? Still?
-Yeah. -Okay.
Yeah, see, we going to arrive in the gondola.
Big, big, big baller style, right?
I love it.
And then the band going to be right there.
Our guests going to greet us second line-style.
They’re going to walk us into the party.
Oh, God, it’s going to be big fun.
That sounds like a lot of work, baby.
Yeah, but all I need you to do
is just show up looking, feeling and smelling
as fine as you do every day.
That means you got to take care of yourself, though, right?
Mm-hmm.
All right, good.
You like all this?
I do.
"I do."
You ain’t having second thoughts, are you?
I just don’t know that I can live up to gondolas and bands.
I’m just one woman,
walking down the aisle in a pretty dress.
But I love it.
Hollywood, it’s beautiful.
Thank God.
Because I done already put down a deposit.
[both laugh]
Of course you did.
You are impossible, you know that?
[Hollywood] Get a little Italian man
playing a little flute or something.
[both laugh]
[Asha] This is what I got.
I went to four different stores so no one would get suspicious.
Put this on your front page.
No, listen, this ain’t about the fanfare.
This is about the act. Twelve minutes.
No messing around, no foolishness.
You know, KJ and I got the paint,
Asha on tagging.
You know, we’ll stick to the game plan.
We doing this.
Let’s do this, bro.
[Malik] Here you go.
All right, thanks.
You like the one with hazelnuts?
Mm-hmm.
But the white chocolate with the strawberry filling
and the cream cheese, now that’s the one.
So now how many of those you going to sample?
I’m going to sample all of them.
-[laughs] -We taste our wedding cake
and celebrating your pie store opening.
I owe you an apology.
For what?
You ain’t did nothing to me.
Back when you were talking about investing
in Rondel’s barbershop,
I teased you.
Said you just wanted to spend all your money.
That was wrong of me to say.
So I should invest with Rondel?
-Hell no. -[both laugh]
Because Rondel is horrible with money.
But I should’ve asked you what your dream is.
Baby, this right here is my dream.
Taking care of you. That’s my dream.
Yeah, well, I want you to think about yourself, too.
I think about myself.
No, you don’t.
Folks like us,
we get so used to working all our lives
just getting by,
we don’t know what to do when getting by
ain’t our everyday no more.
So...
what’s your dream, black man?
I always thought about having my own construction company.
When I was in college...
I thought about having a sports lounge.
Thought that’d be real cool.
You never told me that.
[laughs]
Okay, so I don’t know what a sports lounge is...
[both laugh]
But if those are things you want to do,
you should do it.
I got one question.
Let’s say I do what you say and started getting busy,
will you do what you supposed to do
and take care of yourself?
I promise.
The chocolate is really good.
[Frances] I was surprised you agreed to meet.
I was surprised, too.
But I’m learning that’s what life is full of.
Surprises.
[Frances] You are what I hear you are.
[Charley] And what is that?
Smart. Tough.
My kind of girl.
I’m not your girl. Why am I here?
To help me wipe that smug grin off my brother’s face
and take control of Landry Enterprises.
Sam has run our family’s legacy into the ground for long enough.
I’m sure you’re well aware of our company’s financial issues.
I need him out.
You can help me do that.
And why would I trust you?
I love my brother.
It’s just that I love our family land more.
The day I let Sam contaminate our land
by housing criminals, thugs, murderers and thieves
is the day our father turns in his grave.
Criminals and thugs?
You sound like your brother.
What difference does it make what I sound like
as long as we both want the same thing?
[cell phone rings]
Think on that.
Excuse me, I’ll be right back.
Can’t speak in front of mama?
I know what you think of me.
You overestimate yourself.
I don’t think of you at all.
I’m sorry.
Truly, I’m sorry.
But withholding the truth about Sam’s plans
doesn’t mean I lied about everything.
I didn’t lie about me and you.
[Frances] Sorry about that.
I want to talk to you about brothers and sisters, Charley.
About men and women.
While Sam was spreading his oats,
my father leaned on me to help him do everything.
But he still left more of the company to Sam than me.
It’s a familiar story, isn’t it?
But if we’re in that boardroom together
we can combine our votes and stop that jail
from ever breaking ground.
We can stop it before it ever gets to the Parish Council vote.
Even with me,
you still don’t have enough shares to override Sam.
We’re working on that.
But I need to know we have an understanding.
I understand that anyone who’s willing to betray
their own flesh and blood
is someone I need to be wary of.
Maybe that’s how you treat family,
but we don’t do that.
I had no choice.
If we don’t partner,
the best you can do is hold things up in the courts.
But in the end, Sam still wins.
You might find this of interest.
Everything you need to know about my nephew, Colton.
Company bylaws don’t let family poach other family shares.
But.. you can.
I’ll leave it at that.
[laughs] Hey.
I’m talking to you. You okay?
Stop it, you throwing my game off.
I’m just checking on you.
What’s going on here? Give me this.
-Give me this. Give me this. -Uh-uh!
-What you doing? -You struggling here.
You over here struggling.
[scoffs]
Back in high school,
I might’ve had some skills.
Ma’am.
Done.
[lighter clatters]
Who are you?
[laughs]
I almost flunked out of geometry
because my skills were so good.
-You was a regular rebel. -Mm.
Served a week in detention
after me and Jermaine Russell got into it
over Angelique Morris.
Angelique Morris, huh?
[laughs]
That girl was fine.
Suspension junior year
after I knocked Elijah Shaw out during lunch.
In front of everyone, mind you.
-No. -Mm-hmm.
Then senior year rolls around,
and I realize I’m never getting out of Detroit...
because I keep parking my behind
in the principal’s office.
Realized I was just...
mad.
You know?
Just angry at the world back then.
So I picked myself up...
barely got into college down here.
Got my mind right.
Found my people.
Purpose.
A lot like you.
Well, aren’t you a mystery.
Believe it.
Just figured you for some scrawny-ass math geek.
Mm!
Scrawny geek, huh?
You figured wrong, girl.
Hmm.
♪ One of my favorite Fantasies ♪
♪ But the city ♪
♪ Always takes you ♪
♪ Away from me ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ You hold the key To my heart ♪
♪ But why you keep Losing it? ♪
[Charley] I hate to say this,
but what if they force the results
of that paternity test?
I know you said that you’re on the birth certificate,
but I don’t know--
She’s already playing dirty, Rah.
You don’t got to be blood.
What’s the word on early parole?
Supposed to get off in a month.
[Nova] That’s good. That’ll help.
They can still use Rah’s prison history.
I already missed four years of his life in prison.
First day of school.
Birthdays.
His first haircut.
I ain’t get to see that.
Now she want to take more away?
I can’t miss no more.
I want to be there.
Try and be there for him.
That bike, ’Wood just took the wheels off of them,
trying to show him how to ride it.
I didn’t even get a chance to.
She’s trying to take him from me already.
She’s not going to take any of those things.
Yeah, but...
what if...
what if he want to live there?
She got all them new fancy things and whatnot.
Well, what if Blue don’t want to be with me?
You will always be that little boy’s everything.
And no one can replace that.
No one.
I’ve been trying to take the straight line,
but it seems like something’s always trying
to just knock me off.
[Nova] That something’s going to have to knock all of us down.
We got you.
No matter what.
We will fight like hell for you and Blue.
[Nova] We’re family.
I got to get going.
[door opens and closes]
So a good friend has agreed to come down and represent Rah.
She’s... well, she’s the best money can buy.
[laughs]
That’s great.
Summer pool parties at your house.
I know. I’m overdue for a housewarming.
Hey, are you okay?
Yes. I’m fine.
Everything’s good. It’s just...
Please don’t hate me.
I could never hate you, Nova.
What’s going on?
I didn’t tell you the truth
when you asked if I was seeing someone.
I am seeing someone.
Well, that’s great, isn’t it?
Who’s the lucky guy?
Or is it a girl?
[laughs]
I need you to know this wasn’t planned.
It’s not something I...
We’ve been spending time together...
and never in a million years did I think this would happen.
You got to trust me.
It wasn’t supposed to happen.
It just...
Just say it.
Remy and I...
we kissed.
It was innocent.
Unexpected.
I know.
I should’ve said something.
You lied to me for weeks...
or however long this has been going on.
I’m trying my best to do this right.
I’m sorry.
When I told you about the mill...
you let me know how wrong I was.
I know.
You were unrelenting.
-I know. -It wasn’t the first time.
But it will be the last.
I didn’t ask for this.
You didn’t walk away, either.
I will.
I will if you want me to.
♪ Somehow ♪
♪ I need to be found ♪
♪ Back to you ♪
[rattling can]
[spraying]
♪ Back to you ♪
♪ Where I stray In the wilderness ♪
♪ I felt thee ♪
♪ To abide in your love ♪
♪ Let it be, let it be ♪
♪ When the desert sits dry On the mountain ♪
For the ancestors,
whose bodies and lives were stolen.
whose hands bled in the fields.
For those brothers and sisters they locked up in cages,
who were shot in their backs.
For those who marched for us in the streets.
[Ant] For the ones still locked up.
Respect.
♪ Somehow, I need to be found ♪
[camera shutters click]
[Asha] All right, come on, guys.
We got to go.
[Ant] No!
[KJ] What happened?
[Malik] Oh, no, no.
We need to put that out right now! Shit!
-Wait, Ant. Stop. -You kidding me?
Don’t go near that.
[man] Hey! Who’s out there?
-[gunshot] -[Micah] Go, go, go, go!
[sirens in distance]
[Malik] It’s okay.
It’s all good. It’s going to be okay.
[fire engine sirens blaring distantly]
I am so sorry.
If you came to the front door,
that conversation with my dad is a whole other thing.
Hey.
Everything okay?
Everything with Darla...
she trying to take Blue for more time than we agreed.
She can’t do that, right?
-I mean, he’s your son. -It’s complicated.
You’ve been taking care of him this whole time.
It’s complicated.
[sighs]
I just... I don’t want to bring you into all this.
I ain’t trying to drag you down with me.
Blue about the only good thing I got.
See, I just...
I just think we keep it simple for now.
So...
No, I get it.
-It’s just complicated-- -No.
You don’t have to explain.
All right, I’ll just see you at work, then.
Trinh. Trinh...
It’s fine, really.
-Trinh. -I understand.
[sighs]
♪ Want your loving ♪
[computer chiming]
How are you, superstar?
I’m good, thanks. Everything all right?
Everything’s great. Is this a good time?
Yeah, no, of course. What’s up?
So, I didn’t want to send this
over text or in an email.
Forget publishing with Eggers.
What, they lost interest?
No. Someone else is interested.
Another article fell through last minute.
Okay. Who is it?
The New Yorker.
I’m speechless.
Really, thank you.
But it’s a quick turnaround.
Do you think you can get it done in two days?
Yes.
Yes, you’ll have it.
Good. All right.
♪ Challenge has come ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ Challenge is coming My Lord ♪
♪ They want to hold me down ♪
[police siren blares]
♪ I can always come home ♪
♪ Why shouldn’t I be... ♪
[doorbell rings]
♪ It’s not all about me ♪
I’ll get it.
[indistinct chatter over TV]
[door opens]
[exhales]
I never expected to be in this situation.
I wanted us to work.
You know that.
Let’s be honest.
The relationship wasn’t working.
It’s been over for a long time.
We tried.
I don’t expect you to accept this,
what’s going on between me and...
Say her name.
[sighs]
-Nova. -Nova.
My sister.
I don’t know you.
Maybe I never did.
And now I don’t trust you.
And I wonder, truly...
I wonder how much you value honesty...
walking around here with your head so high,
always judging.
But I know now.
You can’t trust anyone.
Not even your own blood.
Whatever you’re doing...
with Nova...
you better be damn sure
you know exactly what she wants.
Because if you hurt her...
if you make her feel even an ounce
of what I’m feeling right now...
Nova and I...
we’re forever.
We’re family.
But you...
you will always be fleeting.
[sighs]
♪ Live your life, yeah The wise man said ♪
♪ Don’t listen to the voices In your head ♪
-[car door closes] -[engine starts]
♪ The ones inside That tell us no ♪
♪ Got to shake them all out Got to let them go ♪
♪ Day after day ♪
♪ Day after day Day after day ♪
♪ Day after day ♪
♪ Day after day, day after day ♪ Day after day ♪
-♪ Day after day ♪ -♪ Day after day ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Day after day, day after day ♪ Day after day ♪
♪ Got to keep on rolling ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
-♪ Day after day ♪ -♪ Keep on rolling on ♪
-♪ Day after day ♪ -♪ Got to keep on rolling ♪
-♪ Got to keep on, keep on ♪ -♪ Day after day ♪
♪ Got to keep on rolling on ♪