But I did not mean Camp Monreaux.
Townes, Don, and Governor Virgil Love himself
want to buy Margaret out of SunnyClub.
You best prepare for a hostile takeover.
After all, this is a man's business,
and all the hummingbird cake in the world can't make up
for the fact that she's a woman.
It's too bad they're only interested in grooming
my Eric for office.
My lieutenant governor just got indicted.
I'll be looking for another one.
Veronica Dockerty seems to have taken
a real interest in Jason.
Goodness, she's old enough to be his mother.
There's something off about that guy.
Dude, that's Mark.
Call me crazy, but the whole thing
seemed to really annoy Rose.
Rose and Ginger have been acting funny anyway,
and so has Ginger's boozy mother Tina.
Ginger, we have to go.
She's got secrets. I know it.
Same goes for Antonio's mother.
Yopi Candalaria?
Long time no see, Don.
Do it!
It turns out Tina and Ginger have been hiding
in Rose's closet the whole time.
Margaret wants to make some sort of, like, united front.
If these men won't give us a seat at their table,
then we'll create our own.
A ladies' table.
But she doesn't have a humble bone in her body.
It hasn't been long since his death,
but Eugene's spirit fills this house.
It's palpable.
I keep expecting your daddy to walk out of that cane
with a stringer full of ducks.
It feels like he could show up at any moment,
and things would be back to the way they were.
In Jesus's name. Amen.
It was Eugene.
I knew before I saw him.
I believe you saw what you saw, Tina.
But had you been drinking?
When I told Ginger, all she said was,
"This is why we're getting you help, Mom."
That house is full of ghosts.
And the souls of the people that worked that land
and walked those halls are still there.
I'm not surprised that Eugene has joined them.
But the Eugene you knew is gone.
Margaret and I are here for you.
Okay, they're going to help you, Mom.
And if they don't, I'll burn the place down
and kill their firstborn.
Just do what they ask, okay?
I'll call you every day, and I'll keep you posted.
They took my phone.
Right.
I never gone a day without talking to you.
Be strong for me, and I'll be strong for you.
I love you.
Okay, okay.
Now go kick some ass.
Ready?
I guess Margaret will expect a thank you
for footing the bill.
She had a mother, too, you know.
Your mama's lucky to have you,
though it must be a burden from time to time
to have to be her caretaker.
"Caretaker"?
I'm her damn avenger, and hell hath no fury.
Sa Fe Lontah!
Mardi Gras is here.
Now when we come back,
I'm gonna show you how to make a roux
with my mama's skillet and her old wooden spoon,
so don't go anywhere.
And we're out. 60 seconds.
If I never eat another beignet,
it will be too soon.
Traditions are important, sweetie.
What if this year for Mardi Gras,
I went down to Bourbon Street for a pub crawl,
stripped off all my clothes,
and ran drunk, naked, like everyone else?
No daughter of mine would be caught dead doing that.
- Margaret? - What are you doing here?
Just checking in before I head out.
We're fine.
Will you give her my love?
Will do.
Franklin's day?
Every Mardi Gras.
The one day of the year he's not to be disturbed.
I'm ready for you, Margaret.
I need levels.
I believe in our flag...
- Mama. - I believe
in our state,
and I believe in our Lord.
A vote for Love will keep Louisiana in God's good grace.
A vote for Love will keep Louisiana great.
Eric.
Like my mama always said...
He's getting pulled into their web.
Love always wins.
Governor Love is a pig.
I want that faithless hack away from my son
and off of my network.
Good luck. The sponsors are already
all in on getting him reelected.
Well, we'll make sure he's not.
- Hi, Margaret! - Hey!
Mama, hadn't Ginger told you about the tape?
What tape?
Never mind.
I just thought with the whole ladies' table...
- And we're back in ten. - Rose.
Ginger has a cam tape
of the governor doing sacrilegious things
with Mardi Gras beads.
Sacrilegious, how?
Puts them in his...
Two, and we're live.
Welcome back!
You know, I was just sharing with our ladies here
that the best thing about Mardi Gras...
It's all those surprises.
Dear Lord, Mardi Gras is for pagans and whores,
and I'm walking this lonely road alone.
Keep walking.
Your path will find you.
You just keep walking, Eugene.
Please, forgive me, Lord, but I'm kind of bored.
I hate to sound ungrateful,
but if someone were to invite me to a rave in Gomorrah,
these days, I'm not so sure I'd say no.
Hey, yo, Rocky Raccoon,
you wouldn't know the way to Nawlins, would you?
Yes.
I'm fighting my dark side,
so please, make a miracle, Lord.
Make a miracle.
In Jesus's name, we pray.
Amen.
Boys, I've got an itch that the Lord
put me in this car for a reason.
Okay, this has gone weirdo.
You spell out your business, I can help you.
You know this family...
- Don't, TK, don't. - The Monreauxs?
I do.
Well, they got a snake in the garden,
and his name is Mark.
Maybe I ask Don Bouchard to give Jesus
the damn fight, right?
I ride you because I want the world for you.
You know that, right?
Antonio, what are you doing here?
He lives here, with me.
Margaret, I'm so sorry, but you shouldn't have come.
I'm sorry. I don't remember
being formally introduced.
Yolanda Rivera Candalaria.
A lot of people call me Yopi,
but you can call me Mrs. Candalaria.
Pleasure.
Antonio, if you and Jesus are here,
what are you doing with your allowance?
That's none of your damn business.
Ma, Ma, Ma.
Please, don't fight.
I have no interest in fighting.
My business is with Ginger.
Ginge, armor up.
Ginger.
I'm not giving you that tape.
- Tape? - Rose told me she told you.
And I thought we were all working together
- to take these men down. - We are.
We'll take every last one of them down,
but not by hurting more women.
Your mama... she is safe.
Not Mom. My girls.
If that tape goes public,
there won't be a swinging John from here to Guam
that'll trust us.
It'll be the end of SaintWagon, which is exactly what you want.
What I really want is to make sure
that my son is out of harm's way.
What's Eric got to do with it?
Eric has joined Virgil's political campaign.
Unlike us, he doesn't know
what kind of a man Virgil really is.
Well, a tape's not gonna change his mind.
No, that tape's "break glass in case of emergency" only.
Virgil Love is one of the most faithless men
to ever have a seat in power,
and my Eric... he is a good man.
He is.
Your friend here seems to get it.
Did you ever stop to think that there is a woman
on that tape as well as a man,
who might not want her identity splashed all over TV?
Now, you and I are gonna burn the house down.
However, I just put my mother in rehab
because men took advantage of her.
I'm not doing the same thing to someone else.
So we're watching this Wings of a Dove thing, right,
'cause this hot cam chick
that TK calls his "nighttime wife" was on,
and this Margaret lady
starts talking about how her dead billionaire husband
left all this money to these illegitimate kids
he had all over the country...
Dude was dropping seed like rain.
Who do you think we see standing
next to the Margaret lady?
It's our buddy Mark, man.
Mark's pretending to be our other buddy,
his brother Jason.
- Why? - It's a sad story.
Real Jason's in a coma back in Colorado.
It sucks on so many levels.
I mean, Mark's got this Margaret lady
thinking he's Jason.
Now Mark, he's, like, set to inherit billions
that the dead guy left for the real Jason,
who's a vegetable now.
That's sad. It's real sad.
And on top of that, Mark took our jobs with him.
I mean, what about us, bro? We don't have nothing.
So me and TK... We're gonna blackmail Mark
for, like, lots of money, and if he doesn't pay us,
we'll spill the beans to screw him.
"For many deceivers have gone out into the world,
"those who do not confess
"the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh.
Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist."
Antichrist? Nah, he's just Mark, man.
Your plan is righteous.
I want to see his face.
Who knew sex wrapped up in a lie could be so hot?
Literally everyone.
Just answer it. Just answer it.
What?
Yo, we know what you're doing, man.
- Augie? - It's wrong, man,
pretending to be your brother, getting high on the hog
with those rich people while Jason is, like, wasting away.
500 Gs, man, or everybody knows you're a faker.
500 grand? Do you think
I have that kind of money?
Dude, that's extortion.
Hi. Who is this?
Listen, lady, here's the deal.
This guy you think is Jason owes us big.
And either he pays up,
or the whole world knows who he really is.
Okay, this is what's gonna happen.
You're gonna text us a drop-off location,
we pay, and you go away.
I'm cool with that.
- Yeah, we'll text... - You text it now.
Talk about rude.
So God's really cool with all this?
Yes.
In an Old Testament kind of way.
Why did you agree to that?
Because I don't want to lose you.
Now come on. Put your shirt back on.
Really?
For me?
You've proven yourself, Eric.
You belong now.
This is a lot of bling for charity work.
The Lord rewards with abundance.
You know, I-I can't accept this.
No, you don't reject the Lord's bounty, Eric,
especially when it sparkles.
And there's a lot more coming, son.
Believe me.
I'm overwhelmed and honored, but this is...
No buts. It's gorgeous.
Hey, Mama,
the, governor gave me this for my work at the missions.
Well, isn't that
an expensive bauble for missionary work?
Yeah.
Yeah. Ho, ho, ho!
Ho! Hey!
- Look at this. - Wow.
Holy... Look at that.
Thank you, Margaret.
Your scene shop helped us out with this.
There's enough room for the Love family,
the entire campaign team, and, Eric,
I think you should take the front bow.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Look, we better get to the French Quarter.
Maggie, it's a pleasure as usual.
Funny you should use the word "pleasure," Governor.
Excuse me?
I've heard said that Mardi Gras...
It can bring out the true nature in us,
one's latent desires, which could be used against us.
I believe the good people of Louisiana...
They deserve to be protected from any, taped evidence
of a leader's sacrilegious depravity.
You can't talk that way to me.
Wait, what tape? Who
who would tape Uncle Virgil?
It's your sister, sweetie. Ginger.
I think she's getting ready to use it.
SaintWagon taped its customers?
Virgil
now, I don't want you or your family
to experience the media circus that Eugene put us through.
So for the good of everyone, I highly recommend
that you drop out of the governor's race,
and resign any involvement with the Sunshine Network.
Do I make myself clear?
You have fun, y'all.
- Mama. - And happy Mardi Gras.
You can control her?
Who's running this holy war?
If I go down, everybody goes down.
- Everybody goes down! - Hey, hey, let me talk to her,
all right? I'll talk some sense into her.
Yeah, talk some sense to her.
Mama, why would you do that to Uncle Virgil?
I know these men.
They do bad things. They hurt people.
You're a good Christian boy.
Stay that way.
Eric.
That tape is a boomerang.
If I take out the governor,
I'll take myself out at the same time.
It's not news. Not to me, at least.
What people do in the bedroom is their business.
What do I do? I don't want.
Love to get away with what he did to my mother.
What did he do to Tina?
No, that's not my story to tell.
Your mother has a lot of information.
You should let me talk to her.
I don't think that's a good thing for her.
She's trying to get better,
and I don't want to make her relive all of that trauma,
not right now.
But maybe Margaret has a point.
Sex scandal does nothing to these guys.
Love will just go on an apology tour,
come back stronger than ever, but
fraud, money laundering, and
maybe even murder.
Murder?
What I show you stays here.
What the hell is this?
Why is my father up there?
Eugene was in the middle of all of this.
The reverend's friends, the 18:20...
They're into a whole host of nasty.
Land, tax fraud.
And I think it got Eugene killed.
Killed? It was
an accidental plane crash.
Maybe. Maybe not.
They collectively own 48% of Monreaux Unlimited.
That's three points away from total control.
They want it all.
You think Margaret's in danger?
Hold onto the tape as your insurance policy.
You want to take these men down,
work with me to find the real story.
It ain't getting any easier not having you here,
not having your guidance.
Dragonflies flying low.
The scent of the magnolias floating towards me.
You calling Margaret and me inside
when the light was gone.
I just wish Margaret loved me back.
I just wish I felt like any of them
knew how to love me back.
Miss you, Mama.
I can't believe you're gonna pay those idiots.
They're spineless and stupid.
Look, if we don't pay spineless and stupid,
they're gonna leak your identity,
and you got to jail, so, I mean, yeah,
we pay them and just... The world keeps spinning.
Please. They're only getting 50.
You're so comfortable with this.
It's weird.
Do you have any idea how many times
Eric and I were almost kidnapped as kids?
Hi, Franklin. So sorry to disturb you.
This will only take a second.
We're not even here. I'll be right back.
You're not here. Remember?
Okay.
Who even are you to these people, Franklin?
I could ask you the same thing.
No, I didn't mean it like that.
I justl've never been around this much money before,
and...
I've never met people like any of you.
Not you. You seem cool and normal.
But the Monreauxs, it's
if they don't want to deal with people,
they just throw money at them to make them go away.
They try.
I'm so sorry, Franklin. We were never here.
Have patience, Eric. Your mother will come around.
A day with the Lord is like 1,000 years,
and 1,000...
How did you get in here?
I headlined this venue, remember?
- Where's Margaret? - Okay, you have some nerve
showing your face in here.
Listen, I don't like you, but like your mother,
I am worried about you,
the creepy company that you keep.
You're lecturing me, you hypocrite?
Hypocrite?
What are you talking about?
Well, I thought you had a code of honor.
Or are you planning to blackmail
all your customers?
- How dare you? - Who let you in?
Norah, it's okay. Let her say her piece.
I told you I didn't want anyone to know.
- And you... - Ginger, Ginger,
just calm down.
Why don't we discuss this in a civil manner?
Please?
You told Virgil Love I had a tape of him.
Well, you do have a tape of him.
That's not the point.
I know that you're concerned about that girl on the tape.
She will not be exposed.
We are handling that privately.
You blew it.
If you'd have listened,
we could've taken down the whole 18:20.
How?
You honestly think I would tell you now?
One way or another, that tape...
It's coming out.
God has a way of bringing the truth to light.
My...
You have no idea what danger you've put us in.
We can protect you
if I have that tape.
Well, it's hidden some place you'd have to be crazy to look.
I had a feeling you were bluffing.
This room here is by invitation, Paul.
There is a tape.
Isn't there, Ginger?
I have a parade to get to.
No tape. No witnesses.
You think you're the queen of New Orleans,
but, Margaret, it's Mardi Gras.
You don't even have a float.
Lord
your words
did I follow them incorrectly?
My sonhe wants so badly to be important in this world.
Like his daddy.
But he never knew him.
I blame myself. I failed him.
I promoted our family myth.
I led him to those faithless men.
Help me, Lord.
Help me save my boy.
I'ml'm sorry. I can come back later.
No.
Just give me a minute.
Whatwhat is it, sweetie?
I wanted to explain about the money.
My momshe's not like you.
She's
she's reckless.
And she owes, like, 80 grand in gambling debt.
And it's not just that. She makes the worst choices
without thinking.
I'm listening.
She'd kill me for telling you,
but that tape...
No, no, you listen. I know Don.
He knows me from way back. You get him on the phone.
You're gonna give him the message?
That's what you said the last time,
and the last time before that
and the last time before that, you...
Hi. If you've come to move in on my son some more,
he's not here.
Mrs. Candalaria, actually, I've come here to see you.
Well, make an appointment. I'm very busy.
It is you on that tape with Virgil, isn't it?
Antonio told me.
That makes you an eyewitness, and that, well
that can give you choices.
Why don't you just get the tape from Ginger?
Well, to be honest, she won't give it to me.
'Cause she's cool like that.
You may not like the guy,
but he didn't do anything wrong.
I'm just here to protect my son.
One mother to another... You did this.
You made him soft, your boy.
You gotta let him clean up his own mess.
Well, this affects Antonio, too.
His birthright, his stake in the company,
and, both your financial futures.
You don't know zilch about my finances.
How about $80,000, right here, right now?
I gotta go check up on the kid.
100.
$100,000?
If Antonio takes Jesus away from here today.
You got a deal, fancy.
Get these people out of my sight.
How's it dangling, Gotlove44? Whoo!
God, why have you forsaken me?
Hey, Don.
Looks like we won't be needing Ginger's tape.
Mrs. Candalaria is ready and most willing
to tell her story to the nightly news.
Okay, Margaret, First thing tomorrow,
Virgil will take an unexpected vacation from politics
due to an illness in the family
that requires his utmost attention...
That is, if you and Mrs. Candalaria
can keep this dreadful business to yourselves.
Anything else?
Just one tiny thing.
Hey, Margaret, over here!
I love you!
You scream, I'll shoot, and nobody will hear either.
Wow. Whoa, whoa.
Weird.
Okay, my dad used to take me here
when I was a kid.
Like, literally, every Saturday,
he would give me an envelope full of cash,
and he would wait outside right there
until I had spent every penny.
There was no fuss.
There was no Mama judging my every decision.
It was just all that fabric
and him and me.
Why would they want to meet here?
Same reason we're giving them money they don't deserve.
It's insanity.
"Jason"! 'Sup, man?
Don't "'sup" me, okay?
You're lucky I'm anti-gun.
Come on. Nothing personal.
This is strictly financial.
Okay, you're gonna take this money,
and you are never gonna bother anyone in my family again.
Do you understand? 'Cause I know people.
I do. I, like, actually know people.
No, I feel you. Yeah.
Do you know who he really is?
Yes, I know exactly who he is.
And you know what? I know who you are, too,
because people like you have been bothering
my family for my entire life.
The story always ends the same way,
so, I don't know, when you blow all of that money
or when you lose it or when someone steals it,
I want you to remember
it is because of what you did to Mark,
because it was not nice,
and it was not fair, and I curse you.
It is Mardi Gras, and I am placing a voodoo curse.
A voodoo curse?
Who are you right now?
I want to get lost.
I want to just hide in plain sight.
Come on, Rocky Raccoon. Let's go celebrate.
Here's the situation, Ms. Sweet.
You're not gonna give me trouble or back-talk.
And while you're not doing that,
you're gonna tell me where you're hiding
the Governor's little-tape-that-could.
Where's the tape?
It's at the motel.
"The wages of the righteous is life,
but the earnings of the wicked is sin and death."
Words to live,
or die by.
Here we go.
Whoo!
Hey, you want some bling bling, you gotta work for it.
Show us your boobs.
Dude, we should throw them some money.
We got enough.
Income equality. I love it.
Yeah!
Whoa. Where did it go?
Dude.
That rich witch cursed us.
Which was rude.
Antonio.
She sold you out, Margaret.
Who did?
My mom. She
she was playing you the whole time.
She made a deal with Don Bouchard to get me a big fight.
Thank you.
I know this wasn't easy for you.
I'm so sorry. She can't seem to help herself.
You nenes gonna give my boy the fight, or what?
I want that money in my account by tomorrow afternoon.
Whoo!
Mama, look at me?
Guess I learned to fight above my weight class.
Didn't I, Don?
Chin up, tiny.
Don't worry. It's under control.
I tried to live honest,
but sadly, it never took.
So I thought,
"What if I could be bad for the good?"
And that's why I am here right now.
Helping the good,
which is bad for you.
You should never have children, by the way.
I'm not saying the bad can't have them,
but you should steer clear
on account of your profession.
That sort of thing gets handed down.
I should know.
My mother was a real whore, too.
Now...
If you're lying to me and there's another copy
of that tape out there somewhere,
I promise I will find you,
and that will be a bad day for us both.
Yeah?
You have a lovely evening.
Jesus.
When Jesus walked.
My God.
Can't believe I had that many hurricanes.
I wasn't even counting.
Shoot. I forgot my phone again.
I will meet you at the bar.
All right, we'll see you there.
And don't take too long.
Dang.
Lord, you scared me.
Did you film me? Like the governor?
Did you film us?
I deleted them.
Soon as your mom got involved,
I deleted every single minute.
You have to believe me.
- Every minute? - Everything...
- Every word we said? - Everything.
- Delete... - Everything, everything.
I'm so sorry.
How am I supposed to believe you?
Because you're the guy.
You'll be totally fine.
Ginger?
Go away.
Let me in, sweetie.
Just go away.
I can't do that.
I need that tape. I have...
I have tried every way I know how,
but I can't protect you or this family without it.
You only protect yourself.
We kids are just collateral damage.
No. That is not true, Ginger.
Just leave me alone.
Are you okay?
Something wrong?
I can hear it in your voice. Please.
Talk to me.
I wish you would.
I will pray for you.
Heels stay on.
Franklin, I need you to come home.
Come on.
Go away, Margaret!
Wrong Monreaux, wench.
I know he's in here. Where is he?
Who?
Eric.
Here's here with one of your concubines,
and I want him returned to me with his earthly soul intact
and ripe for the Lord's bounty.
You sure you don't want to talk about it?
'Cause you know I've been down the warpath with Margaret.
Heck, she's the reason
girls like us even know what power looks like.
I knew what power looked like way before I met Margaret,
thank you very much.
Yeah, but no one wields it like her.
Plus, she does it with this infuriating steadfast faith.
Why is it that everyone in this town seems to think
that Margaret holds the monopoly on God's love?
Please. That woman doesn't hold
a monopoly on a thing.
She's just blessed in Christ.
How do you know that?
Because she's rich.
And I'm some sinner who missed my blessing?
I should really be going.
Great idea, fundie.
Feel better, trollop.
Today was awesome, wasn't it?
I mean, we went to three parades,
two bars, and a caper.
As long as we had our masks on.
I don't belong here.
What do you mean you don't belong?
Impersonating my brother,
going on Christian talk TV,
and then being blackmailed by my two idiot friends.
This whole thing is a farce.
Are we living a farce?
My life is not a farce, Jason.
It is what it is, and it's mine.
And for the life of me, I'm trying to keep you in it.
Game on, creep.
You knit.
They won't give me any whiskey here,
so yes, Franklin, I'm knitting.
What are you doing here?
Just came to check on you. Can't a person do that?
Not a person who works for the Monreauxs.
Well, I've worked for the Monreauxs
my whole entire life.
My mother before me. I'm good at it.
But sometimes I can't help but feel
like I'm living for the dead.
Funny how that happens in the South.
I mean, the same tired story.
Our lives are not stories, Franklin.
They're happening. Right now.
One day sober, and you're this smart.
I read it in a pamphlet.
You know, today is the anniversary
of my mother's death.
Five years gone.
I'm sorry.
Don't be.
I couldn't do much for my mother.
But I can certainly help Ginger avenge you.
How?
By releasing that tape she gave you.
Ginger's playing with fire.
She's in way over her head.
Ginger said she hid it some place
you'd have to be crazy to look.
I'm the craziest.
Honestly, I sat with my mother all day today.
There was nobody I trusted more.
I figured Ginger felt the same way about you.
You and I both want to keep her safe.
The past is too big a burden.
If I'm ever gonna be well,
I can't drag it along with me.
Don't I know it.
Is Louisiana falling out of love
with Governor Virgil Love?
Poor Virgil.
The family values politician finds himself
in an adulterous sex scandal.
Ruined by a drunk with a thumb drive.
Now, you know the governor's not gonna take this lying down.
As long as Eric is safe.
Margaret.
Ginger.
You've ruined me.
Without trusting subscribers, SaintWagon is finished.
Your mothershe chose to give us that tape, and...
You people are so low.
Why not look at this as an opportunity for change?
You crossed a line.
You came for my business.
Now I'm coming for yours.
Ginger, wait.
To think that I actually trusted you.
My mom was right.
My dad is watching all of us.
And he knows exactly what you just did to his daughter.
Franklin?
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