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<i>Okay, let's begin.</i>

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Who wants to start?

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Yes, Brittany, kick it off.

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I don't have a thought
on the reading,

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I just think that that word
on the board is wrong.

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Well, I think it still has
two G's in it last I checked.

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It's not funny.

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We shouldn't have to stare
at the N-word all day.

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Uh, listen,

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this is a class
on the literature

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of the American south.

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You're going to encounter

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some archaic thoughts,
coarse language,

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but we're all adults here

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and I think
we can understand it

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within the context
in which it's written.

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Well, I just find
that word really offensive.

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With all due respect, Brittany,

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I got over it,
I'm pretty sure you can too.

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Well, I don't see why.

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Right.

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Now, does anyone else have any

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thoughts
on the reading?

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Well, it made some of
your students uncomfortable.

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When did they all become
so goddamn delicate?

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This wasn't
an isolated incident.

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What?

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Last month
you asked a student

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if his family had been Nazis.

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Yeah, I did, he's German,

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we were reading
<i>The Plot Against America</i>

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and trust me, by the way
he was squirming, they were.

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Oh, my God.

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Um, Monk, you are
a very talented writer,

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we're fortunate
to have you here.

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What? He hasn't
published in years.

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I have written three novels

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since the last time
you published.

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Yeah, this is true,
and the speed
with which you write

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only proves
that good things take time.

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- Oh, go to hell, Monk.
-  Relax, Mandy.

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Yeah, relax, Mandy.

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And anyway, my new book
is with Echo

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and my agent says
they're very excited about it.

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Oh, that's great to hear.

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- What's it about?
- Can we stop stalling, Leo?

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Um...

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Listen, Monk,

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we'd like to
give you a break.

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What do you mean, break?

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Just some time off.

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Mandatory time off.

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It's just, you're already
going to Boston
for the festival, right?

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Why don't you
just stay there for--

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Because I hate Boston,
my family's there.

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Well, you need
some time to relax.

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You're on edge, man.

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You're under the impression
that time spent

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with my family
will take the edge off.

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- I'm fine.
-  You're not fine.

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I saw you crying
in your car last week.

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He punched
the steering wheel.

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Oh, wow.

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You know, if you spent
less time spying on me,

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you could

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probably write
a dozen more novels

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that people buy
at airports

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with their neck pillows
and Cheez-Its.

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Oh, here we go. Okay.
You want to go, dirty doggy?

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Okay, well, enjoy Boston.

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You can... you can get my book
at the airport.

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- Oh, and, good luck with Echo.

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<i>♪ Mm ♪</i>

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<i>♪ You turned my house ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Into a home ♪</i>

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<i>♪ You made me feel love ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I'm not alone ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ And unafraid ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Yeah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Of time to come ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Proved... ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Then you taught me how ♪</i>

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<i>♪ What it means ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Can we wake
Each and every morning
Inside a dream? ♪</i>

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Hello?

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Welcome back.
How's it feel to be home?

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<i>Great.
Already had a guy</i>

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<i>in a Bruins jersey
ask me if I think
I'm better than him.</i>

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That's good luck here.

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<i>That's Boston's version
of a ladybug landing on you.</i>

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Any news?

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Patrick at Echo is passing.
But who fucking cares?

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<i>He's an old alcoholic.</i>

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- What is that? Nine now?
-  <i>He says,</i>

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"This book is finely crafted

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with fully developed
characters and rich language,

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<i>but one is lost to understand
what this reworking of</i>

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Aeschylus' <i>The Persians</i>
has to do

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with the African-American
experience?"

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<i>There it is.</i>

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There it is.

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<i>They want
a Black book.</i>

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They have a Black book.

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I'm Black, and it's my book.

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You know what I mean.

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<i>You mean they want me
to write about</i>
a cop killing some teenager

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or a single mom in Dorchester
raising five kids.

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Dorchester is pretty white now.
But yes.

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Jesus Christ. You know,

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I don't even really believe
in race.

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<i>Yeah. The problem
is that everyone else does.</i>

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<i>Anyway, have fun
at the book festival.</i>

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<i>And just don't insult
anyone important. Please.</i>

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Writing from
a historical perspective

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doesn't mean that you can't

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{\an8}make work
that doesn't resonate

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{\an8}with today's audiences.

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{\an8}Yeah, I think of things like
<i>Game of Thrones</i> as proof that

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nerds like us
can still find great success.

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{\an8}Unfortunately, we're going
to have to end it there.

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{\an8}Thank you to our authors

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and thanks to all of you
for attending.

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Um...

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Is it just me,
or was this small

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even for a book festival?

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Yeah, it's because
we're up against Sintara.

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Who?

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Sintara Golden.
You haven't read her?

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No, what's her book called?

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Raves everywhere.

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{\an8}<i>The Post, Bookforum.</i>

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{\an8}The <i>London Review
of Books</i> said,

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<i>"We's Lives in Da Ghetto</i>

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is a heartbreaking
and visceral debut."

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Plus a little birdie told me
that perhaps

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there's a TV adaptation
in the works?

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- No comment.

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Okay, it was worth a shot.

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Tell us, what was
your life like

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before you were an author?

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Well, I did undergrad
at Oberlin

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and moved to New York
the day after graduation

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and a couple months later,

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I was an assistant
at a publisher.

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And did
that assistant experience
shape your writing?

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Absolutely. Yeah,
I was a first reader meaning

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I would read
all the manuscripts
in the slush pile

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and send them up the ladder
if they were any good.

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Some of them were great,
most were not.

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But the feeling
I couldn't shake was that

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no matter how good
the books were,

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most every submission
was from some white dude
from New York

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going through a divorce,

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and too few of them
were about my people.

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And so I think,

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"Where are our stories?"

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You know,
"Where's our representation?"

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And it was from that lack

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that my book was born.

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Would you give us the pleasure
of reading an excerpt?

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Thank you.

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"'Yo, Cheranda,

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where you be goin'
in a hurry likes that?'

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Donna aks me when she see me
comin' out the house.

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'Ain't none ya business,

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but if'n you gots to know,
I's goin' to the pharmacy.'

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I looks back at the door
to see if Mama comin' out.

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'The pharmacy?
What for?' she aks.

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'You know', I says.

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'Nah', she say.

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'Hell, nah!
Girl, you be pregnant again?'

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'Might's be', I tells her.

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'And if I is,

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Ray-Ray's gonna be a real
father this time around.'"

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Thank you.

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Yes!

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-  Hi...
-  Hi.

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I'm here
to see Lisa Ellison.

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Uh, do you have
an appointment?

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We're about to close.

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No, I'm her brother.

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-  Oh.

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There she is.

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Hello, Monk.

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Hi, Lisa.

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Okay, you're in a boat,
the motor cuts out,

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but you're in shallow water,

188
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but you're wearing
$600 shoes, but...

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your ride to the airport

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is just pulling away
from the beach,

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why, oh, why
is this a legal issue?

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I don't know.

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It's a matter
of row versus wade.

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Oh, my God.

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I think that's one of my best.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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- When did you start
smoking again?
-  Mm...

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Right after the divorce.

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I always hated Larry.

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Oh, I know.

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You told me
right when we started dating.

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Do you remember
how mad I got?

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"It's not
your business who I fuck!

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Who I fellate."

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I definitely
did not say "fellate."

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I thought you did.
That's how I heard it anyway.

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It's good to see you.

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Yeah, it's good
to see you too.

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How's work?

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00:11:23,939 --> 00:11:25,273
It's not very glamorous.

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I go through
a metal detector every day.

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Well, what you do
is important.

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Well...

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Meanwhile, all I do is

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invent little people
in my head,

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then make them have imaginary
conversations with each other.

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Books change people's lives.

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Did something I've written
ever change your life?

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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My dining room table
was wobbly as hell

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before your last book
came out.

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- Oh, my God. All right.
- It was, like, perfect.

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- Yeah. Oh, God.
- I'm telling you and--

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Take me back to Logan, please.

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- Logan cannot help you, Monk.

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- Oh, my God!

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Welcome home, baby!

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Hello!

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Hello!

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- Mr. Monk!
-  Lorraine!

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Oh.

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You know how
that makes me feel.
It's just Monk.

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Oh, don't do that to me,

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you know I'm too old
to learn new names.

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- How you doing, Miss Lisa?
- I'm good.

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- You look good, Mr. Monk.
- Oh, I look fat.

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Oh, that's
the California talking.

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I took you
to Arkansas right now,

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- you'd be a beauty queen.
- Ooh!

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-  Is that my Monkie?
- That's frightening.

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-  Hi, Mother.
-  Oh.

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- You look fat.
- Ah, I know.

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You ready
to go to dinner, Mrs. Ellison?

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Uh, I just need my purse
and my black cardigan.

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All right,
I'll get it.

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00:13:01,536 --> 00:13:03,121
- Are you all right?
- Oh.

249
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You overeat
when you're depressed.

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00:13:04,998 --> 00:13:06,666
I'm not depressed,

251
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I've just been
not sleeping well lately

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and so,
fell off my exercise routine.

253
00:13:11,296 --> 00:13:12,380
-  Mm.
- Here.

254
00:13:12,464 --> 00:13:14,007
So you're
not depressed.

255
00:13:14,090 --> 00:13:17,135
You just wear
all the hallmarks
of depression.

256
00:13:19,179 --> 00:13:20,263
I missed you.

257
00:13:22,933 --> 00:13:23,934
Is Larry coming?

258
00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:27,020
No, Mother.

259
00:13:28,188 --> 00:13:30,774
Larry and I are separated, remember?

260
00:13:30,857 --> 00:13:33,401
- Of course, I remember.
- Okay.

261
00:13:33,485 --> 00:13:35,946
I just thought
he might join us.

262
00:13:37,197 --> 00:13:38,323
To see your brother.

263
00:13:39,032 --> 00:13:40,033
Okay.

264
00:13:43,161 --> 00:13:44,788
I mean, is it really
such a big deal?

265
00:13:44,871 --> 00:13:46,081
Everyone forgets things.

266
00:13:46,164 --> 00:13:47,666
Doesn't mean
she's sick necessarily.

267
00:13:47,749 --> 00:13:49,251
People forget
dentists' appointments.

268
00:13:51,294 --> 00:13:52,963
She forgets
I'm not married anymore.

269
00:13:53,838 --> 00:13:54,923
That's weird.

270
00:13:57,217 --> 00:13:58,718
What do you suggest we do?

271
00:13:58,802 --> 00:14:00,011
Why do I have to decide?

272
00:14:00,220 --> 00:14:02,472
- Because you're a doctor.
-  So are you.

273
00:14:02,556 --> 00:14:03,765
I'm not that kind.

274
00:14:03,848 --> 00:14:07,143
Okay, my point is,
you are an intelligent adult.

275
00:14:08,395 --> 00:14:09,938
And I'm tired
of being the only person

276
00:14:10,021 --> 00:14:11,064
that takes care of her.

277
00:14:11,147 --> 00:14:12,274
Well, I don't recall anyone

278
00:14:12,357 --> 00:14:13,900
assigning you
that responsibility.

279
00:14:13,984 --> 00:14:16,152
No, you and Cliff just fled
west as soon as you could

280
00:14:16,236 --> 00:14:18,071
and left me
as caretaker by default.

281
00:14:18,154 --> 00:14:19,573
My work's there.

282
00:14:19,781 --> 00:14:21,032
-"My work's there." Yeah.
- Apologies that it prevents me

283
00:14:21,116 --> 00:14:24,077
from keeping up
with the family melodrama.

284
00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,454
If you lived up the block,
you wouldn't know
what was going on.

285
00:14:26,538 --> 00:14:29,082
I'm stuck here taking care
of that old house and finding

286
00:14:29,165 --> 00:14:31,126
love letters
from Dad's affairs.

287
00:14:31,209 --> 00:14:33,253
- His what?
-  His affairs.

288
00:14:33,336 --> 00:14:35,005
You didn't know
he was having affairs?

289
00:14:35,088 --> 00:14:37,507
No. How did you?

290
00:14:37,591 --> 00:14:39,718
Well, he was an OBGYN

291
00:14:39,801 --> 00:14:41,261
that was
traveling constantly,

292
00:14:41,344 --> 00:14:43,305
but his patients were
in Boston.

293
00:14:43,388 --> 00:14:44,806
He said he was going
to conferences.

294
00:14:44,889 --> 00:14:47,851
He was making
house calls.

295
00:14:47,934 --> 00:14:50,061
Do you know that I saw him
kiss a white woman

296
00:14:50,145 --> 00:14:51,771
in the park in high school?

297
00:14:52,522 --> 00:14:53,440
How white?

298
00:14:53,523 --> 00:14:54,733
What do you mean, "How white?"

299
00:14:54,816 --> 00:14:56,860
Like Brahmin white
or Southie white.

300
00:14:56,943 --> 00:14:59,738
I don't know.
She had thin lips.

301
00:14:59,821 --> 00:15:01,156
She looked like a bad kisser.

302
00:15:02,699 --> 00:15:03,742
Did you tell Mother?

303
00:15:03,825 --> 00:15:06,536
No. I wasn't going
to blow up our lives.

304
00:15:06,620 --> 00:15:08,288
She's coming back. Mom. Mom.

305
00:15:08,371 --> 00:15:09,331
Mom. Mom.

306
00:15:09,414 --> 00:15:10,415
Hi.

307
00:15:13,209 --> 00:15:14,210
How you doing?

308
00:15:15,253 --> 00:15:17,172
Our waitress
isn't wearing a bra.

309
00:15:17,839 --> 00:15:18,840
Okay.

310
00:15:19,424 --> 00:15:20,383
I didn't notice.

311
00:15:23,762 --> 00:15:25,013
<i>See this shit?</i>

312
00:15:25,096 --> 00:15:26,765
<i>This gonna take us out
of the ghetto.</i>

313
00:15:26,848 --> 00:15:28,350
<i>But there are rules
in the house.</i>

314
00:15:28,433 --> 00:15:31,102
<i>Number one, never leave
this product in the house.</i>

315
00:15:31,186 --> 00:15:33,229
<i>And number two,
get your own crew.</i>

316
00:15:33,313 --> 00:15:35,482
<i>Number three, got to have
discipline in your crew.</i>

317
00:15:35,565 --> 00:15:38,068
<i>Number four,
don't praise a nigga too much.</i>

318
00:15:38,151 --> 00:15:39,736
<i>Otherwise he's gonna
think you're soft.</i>

319
00:15:39,819 --> 00:15:42,864
<i>Rule number five,
don't show no love.</i>

320
00:15:42,947 --> 00:15:44,658
<i>- Love will get you killed.</i>

321
00:15:44,741 --> 00:15:47,160
<i>See this, it's like a bitch.</i>

322
00:15:47,243 --> 00:15:50,121
<i>You fuck a bitch,
don't let a bitch fuck you.</i>

323
00:15:50,205 --> 00:15:52,082
<i>You're a man
who don't need nothing.</i>

324
00:15:52,165 --> 00:15:53,500
<i>No one will get you through.</i>

325
00:15:53,583 --> 00:15:56,002
<i>This bitch? This bitch
will take your soul.</i>

326
00:15:57,170 --> 00:15:58,505
<i>You niggas ain't got no fam...</i>

327
00:16:05,887 --> 00:16:08,473
Excuse me, uh, Ned.

328
00:16:08,556 --> 00:16:10,892
Do you have any books
by the writer
Thelonious Ellison?

329
00:16:15,271 --> 00:16:16,398
Yeah, this way.

330
00:16:20,735 --> 00:16:22,696
- Here you go.
- Right.

331
00:16:22,779 --> 00:16:24,239
Yeah.

332
00:16:24,322 --> 00:16:26,324
Wait a minute,
why are these books here?

333
00:16:26,866 --> 00:16:28,076
I'm not sure.

334
00:16:28,159 --> 00:16:32,497
I would imagine
that this author
Ellison is... Black.

335
00:16:32,580 --> 00:16:35,208
That's me. Ellison. Yeah.

336
00:16:35,291 --> 00:16:39,587
He is me,
and he and I are Black.

337
00:16:39,671 --> 00:16:40,964
Oh, bingo.

338
00:16:41,047 --> 00:16:43,174
No bingo, Ned, these books

339
00:16:43,258 --> 00:16:45,677
have nothing to do
with African-American studies,

340
00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:47,053
they're just literature.

341
00:16:47,137 --> 00:16:49,013
The blackest thing
about this one is the ink.

342
00:16:51,266 --> 00:16:53,727
I don't decide what sections
the books go in.

343
00:16:53,810 --> 00:16:56,604
No one here does.
That's how chain stores work.

344
00:16:57,397 --> 00:16:58,898
Right, Ned.

345
00:16:59,983 --> 00:17:01,651
You don't make the rules.

346
00:17:02,402 --> 00:17:04,112
Hm.

347
00:17:04,195 --> 00:17:06,573
I'm just going to put them
back after you leave.

348
00:17:06,656 --> 00:17:08,324
Don't you dare, Ned.

349
00:17:08,408 --> 00:17:10,744
Do not you dare.

350
00:17:12,829 --> 00:17:13,997
Ned.

351
00:17:22,005 --> 00:17:23,465
Monk, what are you doing?

352
00:17:27,469 --> 00:17:28,762
Mom's only going
to get worse.

353
00:17:31,014 --> 00:17:32,265
They say mental exercise
is good,

354
00:17:32,348 --> 00:17:33,725
that's why I got her
that gardening book.

355
00:17:35,101 --> 00:17:37,270
Does growing cucumbers
count as mental exercise?

356
00:17:38,021 --> 00:17:39,272
I hate when you do that.

357
00:17:39,355 --> 00:17:41,399
What?

358
00:17:41,483 --> 00:17:43,651
You share your condescending
opinion as a question

359
00:17:43,735 --> 00:17:45,487
trying to disguise
the condescension.

360
00:17:45,570 --> 00:17:46,821
Why don't you just say

361
00:17:46,905 --> 00:17:48,031
that you think
that gardening is idiotic?

362
00:17:48,239 --> 00:17:50,283
- Uh, because that's not
what I was doing.
- Bullshit.

363
00:17:50,658 --> 00:17:51,951
Bullshit. Bullshit.

364
00:17:54,537 --> 00:17:57,123
Maybe we can hire a nurse
a few times a week.

365
00:17:57,207 --> 00:17:58,166
Who's going to pay for that?

366
00:17:58,249 --> 00:17:59,834
You... you can't afford it?

367
00:18:00,668 --> 00:18:02,420
Not after the divorce,
I cannot.

368
00:18:04,380 --> 00:18:05,715
- Well, it will hurt,

369
00:18:05,799 --> 00:18:07,884
but we'll probably have
to sell the beach house.

370
00:18:07,967 --> 00:18:10,553
Yeah, we definitely need
to sell the beach house,

371
00:18:10,637 --> 00:18:11,930
but that money is going to go

372
00:18:12,013 --> 00:18:13,848
to pay back
the reverse mortgage

373
00:18:13,932 --> 00:18:16,017
that our mother took out
on the other house.

374
00:18:17,894 --> 00:18:18,895
Yeah.

375
00:18:22,065 --> 00:18:23,191
Look, I can send
some money home,

376
00:18:23,274 --> 00:18:24,359
but it's not going to be much.

377
00:18:24,442 --> 00:18:25,693
Can't Cliff chip in?

378
00:18:25,777 --> 00:18:27,237
Cliff's not in
a good place, okay?

379
00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:28,905
Who is? Okay?

380
00:18:28,988 --> 00:18:31,449
Monk, Becca took everything.

381
00:18:31,533 --> 00:18:34,244
And the kids are getting
teased at school.

382
00:18:34,327 --> 00:18:35,495
- I didn't know.
-  Well...

383
00:18:36,287 --> 00:18:37,497
Maybe you should call him.

384
00:18:43,253 --> 00:18:45,255
I'm sorry I've always been
so distant.

385
00:18:50,468 --> 00:18:52,720
You couldn't help that.

386
00:18:52,804 --> 00:18:54,389
You were always
Dad's favorite.

387
00:18:56,808 --> 00:18:58,268
And that made Cliff
and I bond,

388
00:18:58,351 --> 00:18:59,477
and you resented us

389
00:18:59,561 --> 00:19:01,813
for having that bond,
and then...

390
00:19:01,896 --> 00:19:03,731
{\an8}I don't know, you just
became self-sufficient.

391
00:19:06,818 --> 00:19:07,819
You never talked about this.

392
00:19:07,902 --> 00:19:09,487
We never talked
about anything.

393
00:19:11,698 --> 00:19:13,157
Is that surprising?

394
00:19:13,241 --> 00:19:14,701
Look at our parents.

395
00:19:15,410 --> 00:19:16,744
Mm-hm.

396
00:19:16,828 --> 00:19:19,873
The only emotions
I remember from Dad...

397
00:19:22,542 --> 00:19:24,669
were boredom and rage.

398
00:19:25,336 --> 00:19:26,671
Is boredom an emotion?

399
00:19:27,922 --> 00:19:29,966
Great.
It's Detective Dictionary.

400
00:19:30,049 --> 00:19:32,343
-  Oh!

401
00:19:32,427 --> 00:19:33,845
You haven't called me that
in forever.

402
00:19:33,928 --> 00:19:35,305
Oh, God!

403
00:19:36,306 --> 00:19:38,391
- What? Oh, come on!
-  Oh, God!

404
00:19:41,102 --> 00:19:43,563
- Lisa? You okay? Hey.

405
00:19:46,482 --> 00:19:48,151
- Hey, help! Help!

406
00:20:46,292 --> 00:20:48,419
"If you are reading this

407
00:20:48,503 --> 00:20:51,756
it's because I,
Lisa Magical Ellison...

408
00:20:53,299 --> 00:20:54,342
have died.

409
00:20:57,428 --> 00:20:59,305
Obviously, this is not ideal...

410
00:21:00,598 --> 00:21:02,850
but I guess it had
to happen at some point.

411
00:21:04,936 --> 00:21:06,312
Hopefully, I...

412
00:21:09,107 --> 00:21:11,776
Hopefully, I expired

413
00:21:11,859 --> 00:21:16,322
under the heaving thrusts
of a sweaty Idris Elba

414
00:21:16,406 --> 00:21:19,117
or perhaps in a less
dignified manner,

415
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,912
under the heaving thrusts
of a sweaty Russell Crowe."

416
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,207
"Irrespective of how I went,

417
00:21:26,290 --> 00:21:29,002
I ask that
those closest to me...

418
00:21:30,795 --> 00:21:32,547
not mourn all that much.

419
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,717
I lived a life
that made me proud.

420
00:21:36,926 --> 00:21:37,927
I...

421
00:21:38,928 --> 00:21:40,221
I was loved...

422
00:21:41,889 --> 00:21:43,391
and I loved in return.

423
00:21:45,059 --> 00:21:48,187
I found work
that aroused my passions.

424
00:21:48,271 --> 00:21:50,982
I believe I gave more
than I took.

425
00:21:51,065 --> 00:21:53,609
And I did my damnedest
to help people in need.

426
00:21:55,028 --> 00:21:56,529
And on top of all that,

427
00:21:56,612 --> 00:21:59,741
many a friend wrongly
accused me of having Botox

428
00:21:59,824 --> 00:22:02,910
because of how tight my skin
stayed well into my 50's.

429
00:22:04,078 --> 00:22:06,205
What more could someone
ask of a life?

430
00:22:08,249 --> 00:22:09,250
I love you all.

431
00:22:10,501 --> 00:22:12,211
Thank you
for being here today.

432
00:22:15,339 --> 00:22:16,340
Goodbye.

433
00:22:18,426 --> 00:22:19,594
Lisa."

434
00:22:25,725 --> 00:22:26,851
Cliff?

435
00:22:52,627 --> 00:22:54,170
Are those human remains?

436
00:22:55,338 --> 00:22:56,589
You guys have
a permit for that?

437
00:22:56,672 --> 00:22:58,341
Just shut the fuck up,
Phillip.

438
00:22:58,424 --> 00:23:00,134
Cliff, you don't talk
to me like that.

439
00:23:00,218 --> 00:23:01,469
Fuck you. I just did.

440
00:23:01,552 --> 00:23:02,762
-  What?
- You want me to beat your ass?

441
00:23:02,845 --> 00:23:04,097
- I'm just--
- Get the fuck out of here.

442
00:23:04,180 --> 00:23:06,099
I will eat your sweater vest
for dinner.

443
00:23:06,182 --> 00:23:07,683
- No-- Yep.
-  Bitch. Go. One.

444
00:23:07,767 --> 00:23:09,018
Get the fuck
out of here, Phillip.

445
00:23:09,102 --> 00:23:10,520
-  I'm just--
- Two.

446
00:23:10,603 --> 00:23:12,480
- Three.
-  Always been
a fucking douche.

447
00:23:31,749 --> 00:23:32,875
Where is everybody?

448
00:23:33,793 --> 00:23:35,419
They're exhausted.

449
00:23:35,503 --> 00:23:37,588
I gave Lorraine something
to help her sleep.

450
00:23:37,672 --> 00:23:38,798
Mother's taking a bath.

451
00:23:38,881 --> 00:23:40,007
Then I'm going
to dose her too.

452
00:23:41,759 --> 00:23:44,554
You think maybe I can get
some of that later tonight?

453
00:23:44,637 --> 00:23:46,430
Yeah. What,
you're not sleeping well?

454
00:23:47,473 --> 00:23:48,724
Uh...

455
00:23:48,808 --> 00:23:51,144
Normally, I sleep fine,
but just lately.

456
00:23:53,020 --> 00:23:54,772
Yeah.

457
00:23:54,856 --> 00:23:57,817
Does seeing a dead body
ever become normal?

458
00:23:57,900 --> 00:23:59,443
I don't know.
I haven't seen many.

459
00:23:59,527 --> 00:24:00,653
Really?

460
00:24:00,736 --> 00:24:02,363
I'm a plastic surgeon.

461
00:24:02,446 --> 00:24:04,657
If I'm looking at a corpse,
then something went very awry.

462
00:24:06,159 --> 00:24:07,160
Right.

463
00:24:09,495 --> 00:24:11,247
Yeah. Made me feel for Mother.

464
00:24:12,957 --> 00:24:15,668
Can't imagine what
she must've gone through
finding Dad...

465
00:24:17,461 --> 00:24:19,213
you know, like that.

466
00:24:19,297 --> 00:24:20,298
I know.

467
00:24:21,674 --> 00:24:23,092
So much death.

468
00:24:31,184 --> 00:24:33,644
When was the last time
we were here together?

469
00:24:35,146 --> 00:24:36,606
Uh...

470
00:24:36,689 --> 00:24:38,149
Maybe ten years.

471
00:24:38,232 --> 00:24:39,442
Yeah.

472
00:24:39,525 --> 00:24:40,693
The kids were still little.

473
00:24:41,527 --> 00:24:42,528
Yeah.

474
00:24:45,406 --> 00:24:47,158
How is your family,
by the way?

475
00:24:48,451 --> 00:24:50,161
You actually care?

476
00:24:50,244 --> 00:24:52,872
Of course. Why would I ask?
Why would you ask me that?

477
00:24:52,955 --> 00:24:54,624
I don't know, Monk.
You never really called.

478
00:24:54,707 --> 00:24:56,667
- I get busy.
- Yeah, everybody gets busy.

479
00:24:57,627 --> 00:24:58,836
You drift away.

480
00:25:00,963 --> 00:25:02,465
You want to know
how my family is?

481
00:25:02,548 --> 00:25:05,259
My wife left me
'cause she caught me
in bed with a man.

482
00:25:06,302 --> 00:25:08,471
She took my house,
half my practice.

483
00:25:09,263 --> 00:25:11,015
My kids fucking hate me.

484
00:25:12,391 --> 00:25:14,060
And I still live
in fucking Tucson.

485
00:25:16,395 --> 00:25:17,772
What was wrong with Tucson?

486
00:25:17,855 --> 00:25:19,523
Oh, my God.
There's one gay bar

487
00:25:19,607 --> 00:25:20,900
and it's full of college kids.

488
00:25:20,983 --> 00:25:23,027
One of them asked me
if I was Tyler Perry.

489
00:25:24,153 --> 00:25:25,238
That's terrible.

490
00:25:25,321 --> 00:25:27,698
I mean, Tyler Perry
lives in Atlanta, right?

491
00:25:27,782 --> 00:25:29,200
Fuck you, man.

492
00:25:31,035 --> 00:25:32,036
Shut up.

493
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:33,120
Nowhere near Tucson.

494
00:25:33,871 --> 00:25:35,331
Oh, boy.

495
00:25:38,251 --> 00:25:39,669
Did you know
Dad had affairs?

496
00:25:39,752 --> 00:25:41,212
Oh, for sure.

497
00:25:41,295 --> 00:25:42,505
How?

498
00:25:43,464 --> 00:25:45,424
You could just tell.

499
00:25:45,508 --> 00:25:48,344
Lisa told me she saw him
kissing a white woman once.

500
00:25:48,427 --> 00:25:51,973
Why did I have no idea?
Why am I the last to know?

501
00:25:52,056 --> 00:25:54,141
Because you loved him
too much.

502
00:25:54,225 --> 00:25:56,519
Enemies see each other
better than friends.

503
00:26:00,189 --> 00:26:01,607
What the hell
did you give her?

504
00:26:01,691 --> 00:26:04,235
It's oxycodone.
But knocks them right out.

505
00:26:04,318 --> 00:26:05,820
You gave her opioids to sleep?

506
00:26:05,903 --> 00:26:07,738
Yeah. You ever seen
a heroin addict?

507
00:26:07,822 --> 00:26:09,156
Those guys take naps
standing up.

508
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:10,366
It's dangerous.

509
00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:12,034
Look, I'm keeping
an eye on her.
I'm a doctor.

510
00:26:12,118 --> 00:26:13,286
-  So am I.
- Right.

511
00:26:13,369 --> 00:26:15,579
Maybe if we need
to revive a sentence.

512
00:26:15,663 --> 00:26:20,960
Well, why do you have
synthetic smack anyway?

513
00:26:25,256 --> 00:26:26,340
What is that?

514
00:26:32,513 --> 00:26:33,639
Oh.

515
00:26:35,850 --> 00:26:36,934
Oh, shit.

516
00:26:38,811 --> 00:26:39,812
Mother?

517
00:26:42,231 --> 00:26:43,232
Mother?

518
00:26:48,612 --> 00:26:50,239
Hey.

519
00:26:50,323 --> 00:26:53,075
Hey. What are you doing? Hey.

520
00:26:54,910 --> 00:26:55,911
Mother.

521
00:26:57,621 --> 00:26:58,622
Hey.

522
00:27:05,504 --> 00:27:06,756
{\an8}Come on.

523
00:27:09,216 --> 00:27:10,217
Come on.

524
00:27:12,011 --> 00:27:14,096
Well, I'm not sure,
to be honest with you.

525
00:27:14,180 --> 00:27:15,723
It's going to depend
on what the doctors say.

526
00:27:16,891 --> 00:27:18,726
Yeah, I'll touch base
when I know more.

527
00:27:19,977 --> 00:27:21,604
Thanks so much
for being understanding.

528
00:27:23,773 --> 00:27:27,276
Hey, um, Leo, one more thing.

529
00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:29,153
I was wondering
if maybe we could treat this

530
00:27:29,236 --> 00:27:31,906
as a sabbatical as opposed
to a leave of absence?

531
00:27:31,989 --> 00:27:33,074
Whatever happens
with my mother,

532
00:27:33,157 --> 00:27:34,158
it's going to cost some money.

533
00:27:37,286 --> 00:27:38,412
No, I understand.

534
00:27:39,205 --> 00:27:40,331
No, it's not your fault.

535
00:27:41,207 --> 00:27:42,500
I'll figure something out.

536
00:27:43,292 --> 00:27:44,293
Yeah.

537
00:27:44,919 --> 00:27:45,836
Thanks for your help.

538
00:27:46,295 --> 00:27:47,505
Okay. Bye-bye.

539
00:27:49,340 --> 00:27:50,257
Oh.

540
00:27:54,303 --> 00:27:55,304
Oh.

541
00:27:56,013 --> 00:27:56,889
Uh...

542
00:27:56,972 --> 00:27:58,099
You don't have to do that.

543
00:27:58,182 --> 00:27:59,558
Oh, no. I do.

544
00:27:59,642 --> 00:28:01,394
It's tomato season.
You can't let them go to waste.

545
00:28:01,477 --> 00:28:03,187
- Ooh.
- A crime around here.

546
00:28:05,356 --> 00:28:06,649
Thank you.

547
00:28:06,732 --> 00:28:08,192
That's what neighbors
are for, right?

548
00:28:08,275 --> 00:28:09,568
Welcome to the neighborhood.

549
00:28:11,112 --> 00:28:12,696
I thought the place
was vacant.

550
00:28:13,656 --> 00:28:16,325
Uh, it has been for a while.

551
00:28:16,409 --> 00:28:17,910
We just got here last night.

552
00:28:17,993 --> 00:28:20,621
Oh. Figured the place
was haunted.

553
00:28:20,704 --> 00:28:23,666
They said some old man
blew his brains out there
a while back.

554
00:28:26,585 --> 00:28:27,711
Yeah.

555
00:28:30,589 --> 00:28:33,050
Oh, my God. I...

556
00:28:35,094 --> 00:28:36,387
I'm a fucking idiot.

557
00:28:37,221 --> 00:28:38,472
Please forgive me.

558
00:28:38,556 --> 00:28:39,557
Well...

559
00:28:41,267 --> 00:28:42,643
Oh, I'm very sorry
to hear that.

560
00:28:43,519 --> 00:28:44,520
What'd she do for a living?

561
00:28:45,312 --> 00:28:48,065
She was a doctor. Um...

562
00:28:48,149 --> 00:28:52,361
Most of my family, doctors.
Basically, I'm the outcast.

563
00:28:54,655 --> 00:28:56,323
Um, what do you do for work?

564
00:28:56,407 --> 00:28:57,324
I'm a lawyer.

565
00:28:58,033 --> 00:28:59,785
Public defense. Quincy.

566
00:29:00,870 --> 00:29:01,912
Very honorable.

567
00:29:01,996 --> 00:29:05,833
Yeah. It's very hard,
but can be rewarding.

568
00:29:07,126 --> 00:29:08,669
May I ask you something

569
00:29:08,752 --> 00:29:11,130
that I'm sure a lot
of people ask you?

570
00:29:11,213 --> 00:29:13,591
How do I feel about defending
guilty people?

571
00:29:14,133 --> 00:29:15,092
Yeah.

572
00:29:15,176 --> 00:29:17,386
- I love it.
- Why?

573
00:29:17,470 --> 00:29:20,431
I have to.
And they're all guilty.

574
00:29:21,515 --> 00:29:23,517
- Really?
- Yes. But that's okay.

575
00:29:23,601 --> 00:29:25,519
People are more
than their worst deed.

576
00:29:27,605 --> 00:29:28,856
I guess I agree with that.

577
00:29:28,939 --> 00:29:31,066
Mm. Sure you do.

578
00:29:31,150 --> 00:29:32,359
You're a writer.

579
00:29:32,443 --> 00:29:33,986
I don't follow.

580
00:29:34,069 --> 00:29:36,780
Well, writers have
to be non-judgmental.

581
00:29:36,864 --> 00:29:39,033
You can't write
interesting characters

582
00:29:39,116 --> 00:29:41,410
and be critical of every
bad decision they make.

583
00:29:41,494 --> 00:29:42,453
Right?

584
00:29:42,536 --> 00:29:43,662
Maybe you should
be the writer.

585
00:29:43,746 --> 00:29:45,039
I don't feel
like much of one lately.

586
00:29:45,748 --> 00:29:46,874
You blocked?

587
00:29:48,792 --> 00:29:50,628
It's just...

588
00:29:50,711 --> 00:29:53,130
I don't think anybody
wants to buy what I write.

589
00:29:53,214 --> 00:29:54,298
That's not true.

590
00:29:54,381 --> 00:29:56,091
I didn't want to say anything,

591
00:29:56,175 --> 00:29:58,260
but, um, I actually read
one of your books.

592
00:29:59,345 --> 00:30:01,055
Hm. Which?

593
00:30:01,138 --> 00:30:02,431
<i>The Frogs.</i>

594
00:30:02,515 --> 00:30:03,474
Oh, so you were the one.

595
00:30:03,557 --> 00:30:05,184
I liked it.

596
00:30:06,936 --> 00:30:07,937
You're talented.

597
00:30:14,985 --> 00:30:16,737
You're expecting company?

598
00:30:18,364 --> 00:30:19,365
Yeah.

599
00:30:19,448 --> 00:30:21,283
- Oh.

600
00:30:29,458 --> 00:30:30,709
Hello.

601
00:30:31,502 --> 00:30:33,921
- Hey.
- Jelani, uh, this is Monk.

602
00:30:34,004 --> 00:30:36,465
He and his family own
the house across the street.

603
00:30:36,549 --> 00:30:37,716
Nice to meet you.

604
00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:39,593
Yeah, it's a pleasure.

605
00:30:39,677 --> 00:30:40,594
Are you staying for dinner?

606
00:30:41,387 --> 00:30:42,388
Uh...

607
00:30:42,471 --> 00:30:44,139
No, I need to go check in
on my mother.

608
00:30:44,223 --> 00:30:45,349
Cool.

609
00:30:45,933 --> 00:30:47,101
Thank you, uh...

610
00:30:50,271 --> 00:30:52,273
For the wine, and...

611
00:30:53,274 --> 00:30:54,567
good night.

612
00:30:57,278 --> 00:30:58,279
Good night, Monk.

613
00:31:49,913 --> 00:31:51,415
What time's your flight?

614
00:31:51,498 --> 00:31:52,583
11:00.

615
00:31:54,710 --> 00:31:57,504
You think, uh, maybe
you could change it?

616
00:31:57,588 --> 00:31:58,922
Think it would be useful
to have you

617
00:31:59,006 --> 00:32:00,299
at Mother's doctor's
appointment today.

618
00:32:00,382 --> 00:32:01,550
I can't. I got to get home.

619
00:32:03,677 --> 00:32:05,596
Fine, but you think
you can chip in

620
00:32:05,679 --> 00:32:07,139
for her care
once we find out what's what?

621
00:32:07,222 --> 00:32:08,515
It's probably going
to be pretty expensive.

622
00:32:08,599 --> 00:32:10,684
Things are tight
right now, so...

623
00:32:10,768 --> 00:32:12,102
You thought
about firing Lorraine?

624
00:32:15,689 --> 00:32:16,690
Lorraine is family.

625
00:32:17,483 --> 00:32:18,776
Well, shit, Monk.

626
00:32:18,859 --> 00:32:20,194
I don't know
what to tell you, all right?

627
00:32:20,277 --> 00:32:21,487
So you can't do anything?

628
00:32:21,570 --> 00:32:23,364
I will check
with my accountant

629
00:32:23,447 --> 00:32:24,740
when I get back, all right?

630
00:32:25,532 --> 00:32:26,742
It's 8:00 in the morning.

631
00:32:26,825 --> 00:32:28,786
I'm not flying
the fucking plane, Monk.

632
00:32:33,374 --> 00:32:36,877
Well, do you think
you could be so kind

633
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,462
as to go inside and see

634
00:32:38,545 --> 00:32:39,963
if Mother is ready
to head out?

635
00:32:40,047 --> 00:32:41,215
All right. Hey.

636
00:32:41,298 --> 00:32:42,591
- Mother!
- Don't yell, man.

637
00:32:42,675 --> 00:32:43,676
Be civilized.

638
00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:45,761
You're just like our dad, man.

639
00:32:45,844 --> 00:32:48,097
So you do right by me, Monk.
I swear to fucking God.

640
00:32:49,431 --> 00:32:51,058
Clown.

641
00:32:51,141 --> 00:32:52,226
You want
to see civilized?

642
00:32:52,309 --> 00:32:53,894
-  Mother!

643
00:32:58,065 --> 00:32:59,066
Morning.

644
00:33:01,110 --> 00:33:02,444
Hey. Morning.

645
00:33:03,529 --> 00:33:05,114
Listen...

646
00:33:05,197 --> 00:33:06,990
- about last night, uh--
- Oh.

647
00:33:07,074 --> 00:33:08,283
It's okay.

648
00:33:08,492 --> 00:33:10,577
You don't have to explain.
I had a good time.

649
00:33:10,661 --> 00:33:11,704
No, I...

650
00:33:13,414 --> 00:33:15,958
Jelani, he's my ex.

651
00:33:16,041 --> 00:33:17,167
Well, he's going to be.

652
00:33:18,585 --> 00:33:20,587
We're in the middle
of breaking up and...

653
00:33:21,630 --> 00:33:22,631
it's hard.

654
00:33:24,174 --> 00:33:25,175
I get it.

655
00:33:26,468 --> 00:33:27,469
I'd like to see you again.

656
00:33:28,971 --> 00:33:30,764
Do you think that you'll be

657
00:33:30,848 --> 00:33:31,849
around town
next couple of days?

658
00:33:31,932 --> 00:33:34,518
You know, grab a drink?

659
00:33:35,978 --> 00:33:36,979
Yeah, I'd like that.

660
00:33:39,273 --> 00:33:40,274
Yeah, me too.

661
00:33:42,609 --> 00:33:43,610
Drive safe.

662
00:33:44,737 --> 00:33:45,738
Thanks.

663
00:34:10,971 --> 00:34:11,972
Mr. Ellison?

664
00:34:13,140 --> 00:34:14,141
We're ready.

665
00:34:18,395 --> 00:34:19,730
<i>Her MRI shows</i>

666
00:34:19,813 --> 00:34:22,232
early signs
of neurodegeneration.

667
00:34:23,025 --> 00:34:24,276
There's a slight decrease

668
00:34:24,359 --> 00:34:26,111
in the size
of the temporal lobe

669
00:34:26,195 --> 00:34:27,696
which suggest Alzheimer's.

670
00:34:29,740 --> 00:34:31,700
I'm very sorry, Mr. Ellison.

671
00:34:31,784 --> 00:34:33,118
But at some point,

672
00:34:33,202 --> 00:34:35,537
she'll probably require
around-the-clock care

673
00:34:36,413 --> 00:34:38,081
for her own safety.

674
00:35:44,022 --> 00:35:45,732
- Hey, young nigga.
- Hey!

675
00:35:45,816 --> 00:35:48,110
Hey, whoa, whoa.

676
00:35:48,193 --> 00:35:49,862
Don't shoot me, partner.
Come on now.

677
00:35:54,533 --> 00:35:55,534
Van Go.

678
00:35:56,368 --> 00:35:57,494
That you?

679
00:35:57,578 --> 00:35:58,579
Yeah, me, nigga.

680
00:35:59,913 --> 00:36:01,915
Shit. What, you drunk, motherfucker?

681
00:36:03,292 --> 00:36:04,626
Where you running to?

682
00:36:06,587 --> 00:36:07,713
Just leave me alone, man.

683
00:36:10,966 --> 00:36:11,967
How your mama?

684
00:36:13,510 --> 00:36:14,469
What you say?

685
00:36:14,553 --> 00:36:16,471
I said, how your mama?

686
00:36:19,641 --> 00:36:21,059
Oh, shit.

687
00:36:22,019 --> 00:36:23,270
They ain't tell you, huh?

688
00:36:24,146 --> 00:36:25,272
What you talking about, punk?

689
00:36:25,355 --> 00:36:27,190
Hey, what you talking about?

690
00:36:29,401 --> 00:36:30,694
Think about it, Van Go.

691
00:36:31,987 --> 00:36:33,113
Look at my face.

692
00:36:34,948 --> 00:36:37,242
Look at my midnight
black complex...

693
00:36:37,326 --> 00:36:38,702
No, that's not right.

694
00:36:40,245 --> 00:36:41,246
What did you want to say?

695
00:36:42,581 --> 00:36:44,791
You can say it
better than that, right?

696
00:36:44,875 --> 00:36:45,876
Come on. What do you want?

697
00:36:50,464 --> 00:36:51,632
Think about it, Van Go.

698
00:36:52,925 --> 00:36:54,176
Look at my face.

699
00:36:55,135 --> 00:36:57,596
Look at my coal black skin.

700
00:36:57,679 --> 00:36:58,847
And then look at your own.

701
00:37:01,141 --> 00:37:03,268
Look at my black eyes.

702
00:37:03,352 --> 00:37:04,353
Now look at your own.

703
00:37:06,104 --> 00:37:07,898
Look at my big black lips.

704
00:37:07,981 --> 00:37:09,775
Now look at your own.

705
00:37:11,193 --> 00:37:12,819
I's your daddy
whether you like it or not.

706
00:37:12,903 --> 00:37:15,364
Shut up, okay?
Shut up, man! You lying!

707
00:37:15,447 --> 00:37:17,240
No, no,
that's the truth, nigga.

708
00:37:18,992 --> 00:37:20,535
So, where you been, huh?

709
00:37:21,244 --> 00:37:22,371
Where you been?

710
00:37:22,454 --> 00:37:24,039
I've been where I always be.

711
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,166
Surviving.

712
00:37:27,125 --> 00:37:29,086
You ain't worth a piss.

713
00:37:29,169 --> 00:37:30,671
Your mama ain't worth a piss.

714
00:37:30,754 --> 00:37:32,422
So here I am.

715
00:37:41,264 --> 00:37:43,266
What do I say now?

716
00:37:43,350 --> 00:37:46,687
I think now will come
some sort of, you know,

717
00:37:46,770 --> 00:37:48,563
dumb, melodramatic
sob story

718
00:37:48,647 --> 00:37:50,899
where you, uh, highlight
your broken interiority.

719
00:37:50,983 --> 00:37:53,276
Something... something
like, um, I don't know...

720
00:37:58,573 --> 00:37:59,950
I hates this man.

721
00:38:01,576 --> 00:38:02,786
I hates my mama.

722
00:38:02,869 --> 00:38:04,079
And I hates myself.

723
00:38:07,624 --> 00:38:09,292
I've seen my face in his.

724
00:38:10,919 --> 00:38:12,421
I see the ape
that all them stupid girls

725
00:38:12,504 --> 00:38:14,589
were afraid of, yeah.

726
00:38:14,673 --> 00:38:16,508
I can see my long arms
hanging down.

727
00:38:17,426 --> 00:38:19,052
And I see eyes that don't care

728
00:38:19,136 --> 00:38:20,721
what happens tomorrow.

729
00:38:24,933 --> 00:38:26,059
I see myself

730
00:38:26,893 --> 00:38:28,020
rocking back on my heels,

731
00:38:28,103 --> 00:38:29,104
just like this, baby.

732
00:38:29,813 --> 00:38:31,273
Just waiting.

733
00:38:31,356 --> 00:38:33,400
And waiting, and waiting,
and waiting,

734
00:38:33,483 --> 00:38:34,943
and waiting for something

735
00:38:35,027 --> 00:38:37,195
that I'm not even going
to recognize when it comes!

736
00:38:37,946 --> 00:38:39,823
Death is my only cure.

737
00:38:40,741 --> 00:38:41,992
I heard that before.

738
00:38:43,994 --> 00:38:46,038
I've been hearing it,
and I'm hearing it now.

739
00:38:48,999 --> 00:38:50,000
I see...

740
00:38:53,045 --> 00:38:54,504
I see my mama crying.

741
00:38:55,881 --> 00:38:58,508
I see her screaming
in my dreams.

742
00:38:58,592 --> 00:38:59,843
I see my babies.

743
00:39:00,677 --> 00:39:01,678
I see my...

744
00:39:02,345 --> 00:39:03,388
I see my daddy.

745
00:39:05,974 --> 00:39:07,184
I see myself.

746
00:39:09,644 --> 00:39:10,729
What the fuck?

747
00:39:14,024 --> 00:39:15,358
What the fuck you do that for?

748
00:39:15,442 --> 00:39:16,735
Because you ain't shit, nigga.

749
00:39:19,696 --> 00:39:20,822
And you made me.

750
00:39:23,116 --> 00:39:25,786
So because you ain't shit,
I ain't shit.

751
00:39:27,496 --> 00:39:30,082
Because you ain't shit,
I ain't shit.

752
00:39:37,214 --> 00:39:38,465
I gots to bounce.

753
00:39:43,512 --> 00:39:44,679
Peace, motherfucker.

754
00:39:46,014 --> 00:39:47,015
Peace.

755
00:39:50,102 --> 00:39:51,478
What the fuck was that for?

756
00:39:56,608 --> 00:39:57,651
<i>You're watching</i>

757
00:39:57,734 --> 00:40:01,154
<i>Black Stories Month on WHN.</i>

758
00:40:03,490 --> 00:40:04,991
<i>Celebrating the diversity</i>

759
00:40:05,075 --> 00:40:06,409
<i>of the African-American
experience.</i>

760
00:40:07,744 --> 00:40:09,704
<i>Join us for more
riveting cinema,</i>

761
00:40:09,788 --> 00:40:12,082
<i>- heartbreak, and drama.</i>

762
00:40:12,165 --> 00:40:13,291
-  <i>Mama!</i>

763
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,711
Hello?

764
00:40:16,795 --> 00:40:19,172
"I be standing outside
in the night,

765
00:40:19,256 --> 00:40:20,799
a police chopper go by

766
00:40:20,882 --> 00:40:22,717
and shine some lights
in some backyards

767
00:40:22,801 --> 00:40:26,513
and I think, 'Shine that
light on me, motherfucker,

768
00:40:26,596 --> 00:40:28,265
<i>shine me some fucking light</i>

769
00:40:28,348 --> 00:40:30,767
so I can see
where the fuck I be at.'"

770
00:40:31,685 --> 00:40:32,853
<i>Are you serious?</i>

771
00:40:32,936 --> 00:40:34,187
You notice I didn't put
my name on it.

772
00:40:34,271 --> 00:40:35,689
<i>Yes, Stagg R. Leigh,</i>

773
00:40:35,772 --> 00:40:37,607
I did notice that. Well done.

774
00:40:37,691 --> 00:40:39,067
But I still can't
send this out.

775
00:40:39,151 --> 00:40:40,360
You said you wanted
Black stuff.

776
00:40:40,443 --> 00:40:41,778
What's Blacker than that?

777
00:40:41,862 --> 00:40:43,655
It's got deadbeat dads,

778
00:40:43,738 --> 00:40:44,823
rappers, crack,

779
00:40:45,031 --> 00:40:46,867
and he gets killed
by a cop in the end.

780
00:40:46,950 --> 00:40:50,120
I mean, that's... that's...
that's Black, right?

781
00:40:51,413 --> 00:40:52,539
I see what you're doing.

782
00:40:52,747 --> 00:40:54,374
<i>Good,
because it's not subtle.</i>

783
00:40:54,457 --> 00:40:55,792
I mean, how's that book
so different

784
00:40:55,876 --> 00:40:57,085
than some of the other garbage
they put out?

785
00:40:57,169 --> 00:40:58,003
That's not the point.

786
00:40:58,086 --> 00:40:59,337
Well, it's my point.

787
00:40:59,421 --> 00:41:01,339
Look at what they publish.

788
00:41:01,423 --> 00:41:02,507
Look at what
they expect us to write.

789
00:41:03,258 --> 00:41:04,593
I'm sick of it.

790
00:41:04,676 --> 00:41:07,888
And that's an expression
of how sick I am.

791
00:41:07,971 --> 00:41:09,556
<i>Monk,
I'm trying to sell books,</i>

792
00:41:09,639 --> 00:41:11,057
<i>not be a part of some crusade.</i>

793
00:41:12,350 --> 00:41:13,643
Who do you expect
to publish this?

794
00:41:13,727 --> 00:41:15,395
No one.

795
00:41:15,478 --> 00:41:17,856
I just want to rub their noses
in the horseshit they solicit.

796
00:41:19,191 --> 00:41:20,233
Okay.

797
00:41:20,317 --> 00:41:21,484
What do you want me to do?

798
00:41:21,568 --> 00:41:22,819
<i>I want you
to send it out.</i>

799
00:41:22,903 --> 00:41:24,321
Can I say
it's performance art?

800
00:41:24,404 --> 00:41:26,698
No. Send it straight.

801
00:41:26,781 --> 00:41:28,992
If they can't take the joke,
then fuck them.

802
00:41:30,744 --> 00:41:32,078
All right,
but I'm only sending it

803
00:41:32,162 --> 00:41:33,872
to a couple of places.
This thing scares me.

804
00:41:33,955 --> 00:41:35,415
<i>Scares you? Why?</i>

805
00:41:35,498 --> 00:41:36,791
Because white people think

806
00:41:36,875 --> 00:41:38,710
they want the truth,
but they don't.

807
00:41:38,793 --> 00:41:40,962
They just want
to feel absolved.

808
00:41:41,046 --> 00:41:43,632
Well, fortunately,
that's not my problem.

809
00:41:44,633 --> 00:41:46,092
- <i>Okay.</i>
- Bye.

810
00:42:07,614 --> 00:42:08,782
I'm surprised you reached out.

811
00:42:08,865 --> 00:42:10,909
I thought you were
just being nice.

812
00:42:10,992 --> 00:42:14,037
Oh, I'm never just being nice.
I'm too old for that.

813
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:15,872
You know, I like you
so much, in fact,

814
00:42:15,956 --> 00:42:17,707
that I went out and got
another one of your books.

815
00:42:18,792 --> 00:42:20,252
Really? Which one?

816
00:42:20,335 --> 00:42:21,336
<i>The Haas Conundrum.</i>

817
00:42:22,587 --> 00:42:23,588
What'd you think?

818
00:42:24,506 --> 00:42:25,632
I liked it.

819
00:42:26,633 --> 00:42:29,386
Susan has
really great dialogue.

820
00:42:29,469 --> 00:42:31,930
And I love the aunt.

821
00:42:32,013 --> 00:42:33,932
Wow. I mean,
you write women well.

822
00:42:34,766 --> 00:42:36,101
Oh, you think so?

823
00:42:36,184 --> 00:42:37,519
Yeah. They're not
hothouse flowers.

824
00:42:37,602 --> 00:42:38,603
Thank you.

825
00:42:40,313 --> 00:42:42,691
- I appreciate that.
-  Mm.

826
00:42:42,774 --> 00:42:44,734
I could've done
with less footnotes though.

827
00:42:52,409 --> 00:42:53,660
I, uh...

828
00:42:53,743 --> 00:42:54,828
I got to run.

829
00:42:57,038 --> 00:42:58,373
Well, how's your mom?

830
00:42:59,457 --> 00:43:01,459
In and out.

831
00:43:01,543 --> 00:43:03,295
I'm afraid to be away
for too long.

832
00:43:04,671 --> 00:43:05,755
- Yeah.
- But, uh...

833
00:43:08,174 --> 00:43:09,217
I'll, uh...

834
00:43:11,136 --> 00:43:12,220
I'll call you.

835
00:43:14,306 --> 00:43:15,307
Hold on a minute.

836
00:43:21,646 --> 00:43:22,564
Sign my book.

837
00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:34,701
What's your name again?

838
00:43:35,702 --> 00:43:36,703
Hm.

839
00:44:21,206 --> 00:44:22,207
Mr. Monk?

840
00:44:27,128 --> 00:44:28,505
What's going on
with the lights?

841
00:44:29,422 --> 00:44:31,383
Miss Lisa used
to pay the bill.

842
00:44:32,509 --> 00:44:33,510
Did you?

843
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:39,808
How much?

844
00:44:39,891 --> 00:44:41,101
<i>Well, I can handle</i>

845
00:44:41,184 --> 00:44:42,560
the electrical bills,

846
00:44:42,644 --> 00:44:44,270
but these care facilities
are expensive.

847
00:44:45,230 --> 00:44:46,689
<i>The best one nearby</i>

848
00:44:46,773 --> 00:44:51,361
is $5,600 a month,
and that's for a shared room.

849
00:44:51,444 --> 00:44:54,406
It goes up to $6,900 a month
for a private room.

850
00:44:54,489 --> 00:44:55,698
Well, why you looking
at the best one?

851
00:44:55,782 --> 00:44:57,200
She wasn't the best mother.

852
00:44:57,283 --> 00:44:58,952
Look, I'm not here
to re-litigate our childhoods.

853
00:44:59,035 --> 00:45:00,912
Of course not,
because yours was great.

854
00:45:00,995 --> 00:45:03,832
<i>Goddamn it!
Are you going
to help me or not?</i>

855
00:45:03,915 --> 00:45:05,834
Won't Medicaid cover it
or something?

856
00:45:05,917 --> 00:45:07,961
That's not how it works.
You don't know this?

857
00:45:08,044 --> 00:45:09,504
Oh. Hello.

858
00:45:12,215 --> 00:45:14,050
<i>Who's that?
What are you doing?</i>

859
00:45:14,134 --> 00:45:15,760
- I've taken a lover.

860
00:45:15,844 --> 00:45:16,970
You've taken a lover?

861
00:45:17,178 --> 00:45:18,638
You got a problem
with that, homophobe?

862
00:45:18,888 --> 00:45:21,141
Listen, I'm not offended that
you've taken a lover, Cliff.

863
00:45:21,724 --> 00:45:22,725
I'm offended, Cliff,

864
00:45:22,809 --> 00:45:25,019
that you call it
taking a lover.

865
00:45:25,103 --> 00:45:26,980
Mm, you can eat shit, nigga.

866
00:45:27,063 --> 00:45:29,399
- I'll take my lover right now.

867
00:45:29,482 --> 00:45:30,859
Hey, where you going?

868
00:45:49,335 --> 00:45:50,336
There you are.

869
00:45:50,420 --> 00:45:52,172
Traffic was insane. What's up?

870
00:45:52,797 --> 00:45:53,798
Sit down.

871
00:45:58,511 --> 00:45:59,512
Have a seat.

872
00:46:04,517 --> 00:46:05,518
We sold your book.

873
00:46:08,396 --> 00:46:10,482
Holy shit!

874
00:46:10,565 --> 00:46:12,942
- I thought it was DOA.
- Not <i>The Persians.</i>

875
00:46:16,237 --> 00:46:17,113
No.

876
00:46:17,197 --> 00:46:19,741
- Get out!

877
00:46:19,824 --> 00:46:21,743
Paula Betaman
from Thompson-Watt.

878
00:46:21,826 --> 00:46:23,161
She always passes.

879
00:46:23,244 --> 00:46:27,874
Not this time. They want
to preempt for $750,000.

880
00:46:27,957 --> 00:46:30,335
No one's ever offered
that much to me.

881
00:46:30,418 --> 00:46:32,504
- This is you.
- No, it's not, Arthur.

882
00:46:32,587 --> 00:46:34,255
-  You wrote it.
- As a joke.

883
00:46:34,339 --> 00:46:36,132
Well, now it's the most
lucrative joke

884
00:46:36,216 --> 00:46:37,300
you've ever told.

885
00:46:37,509 --> 00:46:39,052
-  And I'm not selling.
- Why not?

886
00:46:39,135 --> 00:46:41,346
Because it's trash, Arthur.

887
00:46:41,429 --> 00:46:44,015
You didn't even want
to send it out the other day.

888
00:46:44,098 --> 00:46:47,727
Oh, but look who's suddenly
overcome his fears.

889
00:46:47,810 --> 00:46:49,938
I know, I broke
the first rule of sales.

890
00:46:50,021 --> 00:46:52,232
Never underestimate
how stupid everyone is.

891
00:46:52,315 --> 00:46:55,944
Well, I'm not participating
in making them any stupider.

892
00:46:56,027 --> 00:46:57,695
Well, you haven't thus far,

893
00:46:57,779 --> 00:47:00,532
which is admirable, but...

894
00:47:01,533 --> 00:47:03,034
you also haven't
made any money.

895
00:47:06,454 --> 00:47:08,331
Doesn't your mom
need help these days?

896
00:47:11,501 --> 00:47:12,418
Check this out.

897
00:47:16,506 --> 00:47:18,758
I don't care how drunk we get,
I'm not selling it.

898
00:47:18,841 --> 00:47:20,134
That's not
what I'm doing.

899
00:47:22,679 --> 00:47:25,348
Johnnie Walker Red, 24 bucks.

900
00:47:25,431 --> 00:47:27,684
Johnnie Walker Black,
50 bucks.

901
00:47:28,518 --> 00:47:30,019
Johnnie Walker Blue...

902
00:47:31,145 --> 00:47:33,147
$160.

903
00:47:33,231 --> 00:47:34,232
You see the metaphor?

904
00:47:35,650 --> 00:47:36,859
No.

905
00:47:36,943 --> 00:47:39,362
These are all made
by the same company.

906
00:47:39,445 --> 00:47:41,906
The Red is shit,
the Black is less shit,

907
00:47:41,990 --> 00:47:43,658
the Blue is good.

908
00:47:43,741 --> 00:47:46,494
But fewer people buy the blue
because it's expensive.

909
00:47:46,578 --> 00:47:47,704
And at the end of the day,

910
00:47:47,787 --> 00:47:48,955
most people
just want to get drunk.

911
00:47:50,915 --> 00:47:53,084
For most of your career,
your books have been Blue.

912
00:47:53,793 --> 00:47:55,962
They're good, complex.

913
00:47:56,713 --> 00:47:57,964
But they're not popular

914
00:47:58,047 --> 00:48:01,301
because most people
want something easy.

915
00:48:01,384 --> 00:48:05,597
Now, for the first time ever,
you've written a Red book.

916
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:06,973
It's simple, prurient.

917
00:48:07,056 --> 00:48:08,558
It's not great
literature, but...

918
00:48:10,101 --> 00:48:11,394
satisfies an urge.

919
00:48:13,229 --> 00:48:15,148
And that's valuable.

920
00:48:15,231 --> 00:48:17,191
What I'm trying
to illustrate is that,

921
00:48:17,275 --> 00:48:19,319
just because you do Red

922
00:48:19,402 --> 00:48:22,196
doesn't mean
you can't also do Blue.

923
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:23,281
You can do it all.

924
00:48:24,282 --> 00:48:25,742
Like Johnnie Walker.

925
00:48:25,825 --> 00:48:28,411
In fact, you got Johnnie
Walker beat, because...

926
00:48:28,494 --> 00:48:30,288
you don't even have
to put your real name on it.

927
00:48:37,462 --> 00:48:38,713
Jesus.

928
00:48:40,340 --> 00:48:41,674
Do we drink now?

929
00:48:46,929 --> 00:48:47,805
<i>Hello?</i>

930
00:48:47,889 --> 00:48:49,098
Hello, Paula.

931
00:48:49,182 --> 00:48:51,934
Arthur! So wonderful
to hear from you.

932
00:48:52,018 --> 00:48:55,605
Um, I hope that you are
with the man of the hour.

933
00:48:55,688 --> 00:48:57,857
I am, indeed.
He's right here next to me.

934
00:48:57,940 --> 00:48:59,567
Mr. Leigh?

935
00:48:59,651 --> 00:49:00,902
<i>Uh, yeah, this is he.</i>

936
00:49:02,028 --> 00:49:03,029
Oh, really?

937
00:49:10,995 --> 00:49:11,996
Uh...

938
00:49:12,455 --> 00:49:14,791
Yeah, goddamn it.

939
00:49:14,874 --> 00:49:17,126
- Right. Right. Okay.
-  <i>Motherfucker.</i>

940
00:49:17,210 --> 00:49:20,088
Yeah, I was a little confused
at first, but...

941
00:49:20,171 --> 00:49:23,049
We're both very excited to
discuss Thompson-Watt's offer.

942
00:49:23,132 --> 00:49:24,509
Yes, well, first of all,
let me just say

943
00:49:24,592 --> 00:49:25,927
that all of us here
at Thompson-Watt

944
00:49:26,010 --> 00:49:28,513
are thrilled with <i>My Pafology.</i>

945
00:49:28,596 --> 00:49:30,682
It is about as perfect a book

946
00:49:30,765 --> 00:49:32,767
as I have seen
in a long, long while.

947
00:49:32,850 --> 00:49:36,854
<i>Just... just raw and real.</i>

948
00:49:36,938 --> 00:49:40,233
And, Mr. Leigh,
is this based
on your actual life?

949
00:49:42,318 --> 00:49:44,654
Yeah, you think some
bitch-ass college boy

950
00:49:44,737 --> 00:49:45,947
can come up with that shit?

951
00:49:46,030 --> 00:49:47,031
No, no. No, I don't.

952
00:49:47,907 --> 00:49:50,118
No. You know, that kind of

953
00:49:50,201 --> 00:49:54,038
visceral energy
cannot be taught, right?

954
00:49:54,122 --> 00:49:56,958
Stagg... May I call you--
Now, is Stagg a pseudonym?

955
00:49:58,418 --> 00:50:00,712
Yes, uh, it is.

956
00:50:00,795 --> 00:50:02,922
Mr. Leigh can't use
his real name

957
00:50:03,005 --> 00:50:04,966
because he's a...

958
00:50:05,967 --> 00:50:08,010
Well, he's a wanted fugitive.

959
00:50:08,094 --> 00:50:10,263
<i>Oh, my God. Wow.</i>

960
00:50:10,346 --> 00:50:12,849
That's why this couldn't
be a video conference.

961
00:50:12,932 --> 00:50:15,059
Are you crazy?
What if they fact check this?

962
00:50:15,143 --> 00:50:17,186
I checked. There's barely
money to pay editors anymore.

963
00:50:18,020 --> 00:50:19,147
Just go with it.

964
00:50:22,150 --> 00:50:26,779
Yeah, I did a 12-year bid,
but no going back.

965
00:50:27,989 --> 00:50:29,198
Know what I mean?

966
00:50:29,282 --> 00:50:31,451
Yeah. Yeah, you know, um...

967
00:50:32,285 --> 00:50:33,995
I've been reading a lot

968
00:50:34,078 --> 00:50:35,997
about the prison abolition
movement...

969
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:37,540
- Oh, God!
-  <i>I've...</i>

970
00:50:37,623 --> 00:50:39,625
Sorry to rush, Paula,
but can we talk business?

971
00:50:39,709 --> 00:50:42,128
Mr. Leigh values
his time outside of a cell.

972
00:50:42,211 --> 00:50:43,337
<i>Of course.</i>

973
00:50:43,421 --> 00:50:44,797
I'm sure you're both
very, very busy

974
00:50:44,881 --> 00:50:46,424
so I will get right to it.

975
00:50:46,507 --> 00:50:48,926
Um, you'll notice
that our offer is...

976
00:50:50,261 --> 00:50:51,679
unusually large

977
00:50:51,763 --> 00:50:54,724
<i>and that is because we believe</i>

978
00:50:54,807 --> 00:50:57,101
Mr. Leigh has
written a bestseller.

979
00:50:57,185 --> 00:50:59,312
We think it is going to be
the read of the summer.

980
00:50:59,979 --> 00:51:01,689
Yeah, I'm sure

981
00:51:01,773 --> 00:51:05,610
white people on the Hamptons
will delight in it.

982
00:51:05,693 --> 00:51:06,944
<i>Yes, we will.</i>

983
00:51:07,028 --> 00:51:10,448
They-- We-- It's going
to be huge. Huge.

984
00:51:11,324 --> 00:51:12,325
<i>I love it.</i>

985
00:51:21,709 --> 00:51:23,795
Is that little
Thelonious Ellison?

986
00:51:26,422 --> 00:51:27,799
My God! Maynard!

987
00:51:30,718 --> 00:51:32,929
Everyone still call you Monk?

988
00:51:33,012 --> 00:51:34,055
Well,

989
00:51:34,138 --> 00:51:35,473
everyone but you.

990
00:51:35,556 --> 00:51:37,975
Well,
it's a beautiful name.

991
00:51:38,059 --> 00:51:40,978
It seems simple
not to use it whole.

992
00:51:41,062 --> 00:51:43,022
Well, I'm glad someone
appreciates it.

993
00:51:44,565 --> 00:51:47,652
I heard about your sister.
My condolences.

994
00:51:47,735 --> 00:51:48,736
Thank you.

995
00:51:49,904 --> 00:51:51,405
I don't think
I've seen you since

996
00:51:52,365 --> 00:51:53,866
before your father passed?

997
00:51:53,950 --> 00:51:56,118
Yeah, it's been a while.
I live in LA now.

998
00:51:56,869 --> 00:51:58,412
Oh! Hollywood.

999
00:51:58,496 --> 00:52:00,665
Hey, do you write
for that <i>NCIS?</i>

1000
00:52:01,541 --> 00:52:03,125
Just books.

1001
00:52:03,209 --> 00:52:06,337
Well, you should try to write
for <i>NCIS.</i> It's popular.

1002
00:52:06,420 --> 00:52:08,381
- Well, maybe I will.

1003
00:52:08,464 --> 00:52:10,383
Hey, so, how you been?

1004
00:52:10,466 --> 00:52:12,176
Oh, I'm good. And you?

1005
00:52:12,260 --> 00:52:13,344
- Yeah...
- Mr. Monk.

1006
00:52:13,427 --> 00:52:15,012
What would you like
for dinner?

1007
00:52:17,890 --> 00:52:18,975
Maynard!

1008
00:52:19,058 --> 00:52:20,101
Hi, Lorraine.

1009
00:52:20,893 --> 00:52:22,478
It's been a dog's age.

1010
00:52:23,312 --> 00:52:24,689
Well, I guess it has.

1011
00:52:26,983 --> 00:52:28,150
You look well.

1012
00:52:29,485 --> 00:52:30,862
You too.

1013
00:52:33,948 --> 00:52:35,575
Well, I best be getting back.

1014
00:52:35,658 --> 00:52:37,326
It's good to see you,
Thelonious.

1015
00:52:37,410 --> 00:52:38,411
You too.

1016
00:52:41,038 --> 00:52:42,039
Lorraine.

1017
00:52:45,751 --> 00:52:46,919
Mm, mm, mm.

1018
00:52:56,637 --> 00:52:57,763
Ain't nothing to smile at.

1019
00:53:00,391 --> 00:53:02,894
-  Oh! There she is.

1020
00:53:02,977 --> 00:53:04,186
Behave yourself.

1021
00:53:11,611 --> 00:53:13,487
Hey. Hi.

1022
00:53:15,281 --> 00:53:17,450
- Got this for you.
-  Oh, thank you.

1023
00:53:17,533 --> 00:53:19,952
- Lorraine, this is Coraline.
- Oh.

1024
00:53:20,036 --> 00:53:21,329
- Hey.
- Welcome.

1025
00:53:21,412 --> 00:53:22,455
- Yeah, hello.
- Hello.

1026
00:53:22,538 --> 00:53:23,581
Mother, perfect timing.

1027
00:53:23,664 --> 00:53:25,124
This is Coraline.

1028
00:53:25,207 --> 00:53:27,418
Hello, dear, I'm Agnes.

1029
00:53:27,501 --> 00:53:29,587
Such a pleasure to meet you.
I brought you these.

1030
00:53:29,670 --> 00:53:32,506
Dahlias
are my favorite.

1031
00:53:32,590 --> 00:53:34,175
There's a whole world
inside them.

1032
00:53:40,181 --> 00:53:41,807
- Lorraine?
-  Yes.

1033
00:53:42,642 --> 00:53:46,062
Mother, you sit here.

1034
00:53:47,980 --> 00:53:49,440
All right.

1035
00:53:49,523 --> 00:53:52,276
And, Coraline, why don't you
sit across from Mother?

1036
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:53,486
Oh, sure, sure.

1037
00:53:59,951 --> 00:54:01,410
Okay.

1038
00:54:03,663 --> 00:54:05,247
I'm happy you're not white.

1039
00:54:06,290 --> 00:54:07,291
Me too.

1040
00:54:20,179 --> 00:54:21,681
Yeah,
it was pretty funny.

1041
00:54:22,890 --> 00:54:24,266
Well, I think you...

1042
00:54:25,434 --> 00:54:27,520
I think you remind her
of my sister.

1043
00:54:28,396 --> 00:54:29,397
Mm.

1044
00:54:30,773 --> 00:54:34,235
Well, do you think
we look alike?

1045
00:54:35,152 --> 00:54:36,237
No, but...

1046
00:54:37,446 --> 00:54:39,156
you're both self-assured...

1047
00:54:40,366 --> 00:54:41,617
and funny...

1048
00:54:42,952 --> 00:54:45,329
and you're both...

1049
00:54:46,455 --> 00:54:48,666
fantastic kissers.

1050
00:54:48,749 --> 00:54:51,210
- Oh. Ooh.

1051
00:55:00,428 --> 00:55:01,804
Mrs. Ellison?

1052
00:55:04,306 --> 00:55:05,766
Mrs. Ellison?

1053
00:55:08,144 --> 00:55:09,437
Mr. Monk!

1054
00:55:12,898 --> 00:55:15,693
Mr. Monk!

1055
00:55:15,776 --> 00:55:17,111
- I just... I just...
- What's wrong?

1056
00:55:17,194 --> 00:55:18,821
I just stepped outside
for a moment.

1057
00:55:18,904 --> 00:55:20,072
What's wrong?

1058
00:55:20,156 --> 00:55:21,282
Having a cup of coffee
with Maynard,

1059
00:55:21,365 --> 00:55:22,783
I was right in front.

1060
00:55:22,867 --> 00:55:23,743
Where's Mother?

1061
00:55:23,826 --> 00:55:24,994
- I don't know!
- What?

1062
00:55:25,077 --> 00:55:26,454
The backdoor was open.

1063
00:55:26,537 --> 00:55:28,122
- She gone.
- What?

1064
00:55:28,205 --> 00:55:29,749
We should split up. Here.

1065
00:55:30,750 --> 00:55:32,251
I got more in the car.

1066
00:55:35,337 --> 00:55:36,338
Mother!

1067
00:55:37,548 --> 00:55:38,549
Mother!

1068
00:55:39,842 --> 00:55:40,843
Mother!

1069
00:55:42,053 --> 00:55:43,054
Mother!

1070
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:48,601
Mother!

1071
00:55:50,811 --> 00:55:51,812
Mother.

1072
00:55:53,564 --> 00:55:55,274
Mother!

1073
00:55:57,318 --> 00:55:58,778
Mother! Hey!

1074
00:56:00,237 --> 00:56:01,697
Mother! Mother!

1075
00:56:02,364 --> 00:56:04,033
Hey! Hey, stop!

1076
00:56:04,116 --> 00:56:05,785
Hey! Where are you going?

1077
00:56:05,868 --> 00:56:07,536
Lisa's out there

1078
00:56:07,620 --> 00:56:09,455
roughhousing with the cousins.
Somebody's going to get hurt.

1079
00:56:10,247 --> 00:56:11,916
Stop. Um...

1080
00:56:11,999 --> 00:56:15,294
I will go tell her. Okay?

1081
00:56:15,377 --> 00:56:17,546
- Yeah, but then--
- I'll take you back
to the house

1082
00:56:17,630 --> 00:56:18,672
and then I will go tell her.

1083
00:56:18,756 --> 00:56:19,799
But they're out there.

1084
00:56:19,882 --> 00:56:21,342
I know, I know.

1085
00:56:21,425 --> 00:56:23,344
- Okay, you sure?
- I will tell her.

1086
00:56:23,427 --> 00:56:24,804
- Okay.
- Now, come on.

1087
00:56:24,887 --> 00:56:26,055
It's too cold out here.

1088
00:56:26,138 --> 00:56:27,723
-  You should...
-  Okay.

1089
00:56:27,807 --> 00:56:29,433
Lisa doesn't swim
very well.

1090
00:56:29,517 --> 00:56:31,018
I know. I know.

1091
00:56:31,769 --> 00:56:33,521
Okay. Almost there.

1092
00:56:34,522 --> 00:56:35,523
All right.

1093
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:37,441
Oh, good.

1094
00:56:38,192 --> 00:56:39,735
- Good.
- Here we go.

1095
00:56:41,612 --> 00:56:42,613
All right.

1096
00:56:43,364 --> 00:56:44,698
Okay, Monkie.

1097
00:56:44,782 --> 00:56:45,825
All right.

1098
00:56:52,456 --> 00:56:55,000
And this is our library.

1099
00:56:55,084 --> 00:56:57,878
It's full of all the classics.
And we try to get some

1100
00:56:57,962 --> 00:56:58,963
new releases too.

1101
00:57:02,216 --> 00:57:04,051
Do you like to read,
Mrs. Ellison?

1102
00:57:04,135 --> 00:57:05,136
No.

1103
00:57:05,553 --> 00:57:07,096
That's not true.

1104
00:57:07,179 --> 00:57:09,140
She loves to read.
She taught me to love reading.

1105
00:57:09,974 --> 00:57:10,975
Perhaps we can get

1106
00:57:11,058 --> 00:57:12,226
some of your son's books
in here.

1107
00:57:12,309 --> 00:57:13,561
And you can lead a book club.

1108
00:57:13,644 --> 00:57:14,645
Hm.

1109
00:57:18,357 --> 00:57:19,942
Sorry.

1110
00:57:20,025 --> 00:57:22,111
It's fine. It's hard for a lot
of the residents at first.

1111
00:57:22,194 --> 00:57:23,612
But she'll settle in.

1112
00:57:23,696 --> 00:57:24,822
Right.

1113
00:57:26,448 --> 00:57:28,200
I appreciate all your help,

1114
00:57:28,284 --> 00:57:30,911
but how soon do you think
we can get her in?

1115
00:57:30,995 --> 00:57:32,580
Uh, in about a month.

1116
00:57:32,663 --> 00:57:34,748
You can start the paperwork
today if you'd like.

1117
00:57:34,832 --> 00:57:36,542
- Great. I'd like that.

1118
00:57:38,002 --> 00:57:39,461
I'll go check
on your mom, okay?

1119
00:57:39,545 --> 00:57:40,546
Thank you.

1120
00:57:45,134 --> 00:57:47,052
- Hello?
<i>- </i>  [Carl] <i>Hey, Thelonious.</i>

1121
00:57:47,136 --> 00:57:48,762
How you doing?
My name is Carl Brunt.

1122
00:57:49,471 --> 00:57:50,639
I am the director

1123
00:57:50,723 --> 00:57:52,308
of the New England
Book Association.

1124
00:57:52,391 --> 00:57:54,894
Hi, Carl. I know who you are.

1125
00:57:54,977 --> 00:57:57,229
<i>Oh, good.
Then perhaps you'll also know</i>

1126
00:57:57,313 --> 00:57:59,315
that each year
my organization bestows

1127
00:57:59,398 --> 00:58:03,110
the somewhat pretentiously
named Literary Award.

1128
00:58:03,194 --> 00:58:06,030
Every writer knows
the Literary Award, Carl.

1129
00:58:06,113 --> 00:58:07,990
Especially those of us
who haven't won it.

1130
00:58:08,073 --> 00:58:11,118
Yeah. Yeah.

1131
00:58:11,202 --> 00:58:13,787
Well, that's sort of related
to why I'm calling.

1132
00:58:13,871 --> 00:58:15,414
Like many
American institutions,

1133
00:58:15,497 --> 00:58:17,249
mine was recently rattled
by the notion

1134
00:58:17,333 --> 00:58:19,084
that our lack of diversity

1135
00:58:19,168 --> 00:58:21,462
had led to a blind spot
in our work.

1136
00:58:21,545 --> 00:58:24,173
So, you know, we're kind
of trying to remedy that.

1137
00:58:24,256 --> 00:58:25,299
<i>And to that end,
I was wondering</i>

1138
00:58:25,382 --> 00:58:26,759
<i>how you might feel</i>

1139
00:58:27,009 --> 00:58:28,636
<i>about being a judge
in this year's award ceremony?</i>

1140
00:58:29,887 --> 00:58:32,723
Um, let me say first,

1141
00:58:32,806 --> 00:58:35,017
<i>Carl, that I'm honored
you choose me</i>

1142
00:58:35,100 --> 00:58:37,770
out of all the Black writers
you could go to out of fear

1143
00:58:37,853 --> 00:58:38,979
of being called racist.

1144
00:58:39,063 --> 00:58:41,190
Yeah, you're very welcome.

1145
00:58:41,273 --> 00:58:44,902
But I think this sounds
like a lot of work.

1146
00:58:44,985 --> 00:58:46,445
Yeah, I can't deny that.

1147
00:58:46,528 --> 00:58:48,447
I mean, you're going to have
to read dozens of books.

1148
00:58:48,530 --> 00:58:50,532
We could offer you
a modest stipend.

1149
00:58:51,450 --> 00:58:52,451
Even so, I'm not sure.

1150
00:58:53,077 --> 00:58:54,245
<i>Okay.</i>

1151
00:58:54,328 --> 00:58:55,746
One of the crass perk
I reference

1152
00:58:55,829 --> 00:58:57,456
when people are kind of
on the fence like this

1153
00:58:57,539 --> 00:58:59,333
is that this will allow you
the opportunity

1154
00:58:59,416 --> 00:59:01,585
to literally judge
these other writers for once,

1155
00:59:01,669 --> 00:59:02,836
rather than just figuratively.

1156
00:59:04,463 --> 00:59:05,756
All right, I'm in.

1157
00:59:05,839 --> 00:59:07,174
<i>Well, fantastic. Okay.</i>

1158
00:59:07,383 --> 00:59:09,927
Great. So you're going
to be one of five judges.

1159
00:59:10,010 --> 00:59:12,596
Uh, the only one
we have confirmed so far

1160
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:13,973
is Sintara Golden.

1161
00:59:14,056 --> 00:59:15,391
Are you familiar
with Sintara Golden's work?

1162
00:59:18,269 --> 00:59:19,728
Vaguely.

1163
00:59:19,812 --> 00:59:21,188
<i>Oh, she's great.
You're going to love her, man.</i>

1164
00:59:27,569 --> 00:59:30,489
I brought you lunch,
Mr. Monk.

1165
00:59:31,699 --> 00:59:32,783
Oh, wow.

1166
00:59:36,036 --> 00:59:37,413
To what do I owe the pleasure?

1167
00:59:37,496 --> 00:59:40,082
Well,
I have a favor to ask.

1168
00:59:42,793 --> 00:59:44,211
I was wondering
if I might be able

1169
00:59:44,295 --> 00:59:45,796
to take the afternoon off.

1170
00:59:47,339 --> 00:59:49,258
Maynard just came in
from the beach.

1171
00:59:49,341 --> 00:59:50,926
And we thought
it might be nice

1172
00:59:51,010 --> 00:59:52,511
to visit a museum.

1173
00:59:52,594 --> 00:59:54,305
Yes, of course.

1174
00:59:54,388 --> 00:59:56,390
I'm free today,
so I can look after Mother.

1175
01:00:01,812 --> 01:00:02,813
Lorraine.

1176
01:00:03,814 --> 01:00:04,857
Hm?

1177
01:00:04,940 --> 01:00:05,941
You really like him, huh?

1178
01:00:08,652 --> 01:00:09,820
He's a fine man.

1179
01:00:19,663 --> 01:00:20,664
Yeah.

1180
01:00:22,249 --> 01:00:24,084
Page seven.
It's got like 12.

1181
01:00:25,419 --> 01:00:29,173
The guests of honor.

1182
01:00:29,256 --> 01:00:32,426
Hello, Mrs. Ellison.
Looking beautiful as ever.

1183
01:00:32,509 --> 01:00:33,802
Hello, Arthur.

1184
01:00:36,388 --> 01:00:38,140
Layne, would you
take Mrs. Ellison
to the kitchen,

1185
01:00:38,223 --> 01:00:39,767
and set her up with some tea?

1186
01:00:39,850 --> 01:00:40,976
Right this way, ma'am.

1187
01:00:41,060 --> 01:00:42,061
Mother, I won't be long.

1188
01:00:42,895 --> 01:00:44,021
Take your time.

1189
01:00:45,356 --> 01:00:46,523
- Thank you.
-  Mm-hm.

1190
01:00:47,441 --> 01:00:48,817
- Not the pods.

1191
01:00:48,901 --> 01:00:51,028
The good tea, for guests.

1192
01:00:53,364 --> 01:00:55,449
What is this?
I told you to dress street.

1193
01:00:55,532 --> 01:00:58,035
- I did.
- Fucking Sesame Street.

1194
01:00:59,495 --> 01:01:01,288
What's this guy's name?

1195
01:01:01,372 --> 01:01:03,624
- Willy?
- Wiley. Wiley Valdespino.

1196
01:01:03,707 --> 01:01:06,460
He specializes
in Oscar-baity "issue" movies.

1197
01:01:06,543 --> 01:01:09,004
He did the <i>Middle Passage</i>
one last year.

1198
01:01:09,088 --> 01:01:10,297
Somehow
I didn't see that.

1199
01:01:10,381 --> 01:01:11,715
Of course, not.
You're not lobotomized.

1200
01:01:11,799 --> 01:01:13,175
But if he adapts your book,

1201
01:01:13,258 --> 01:01:14,927
you stand to make
a lot of money.

1202
01:01:15,010 --> 01:01:16,553
Why can't we just do
a phone call?

1203
01:01:16,637 --> 01:01:18,430
Well, he said if he's going
to cut a check this large,

1204
01:01:18,514 --> 01:01:20,140
then he needs
to meet in person.

1205
01:01:20,224 --> 01:01:21,225
All right.

1206
01:01:22,059 --> 01:01:23,977
What do I need to do?

1207
01:01:24,061 --> 01:01:25,104
Just make him like you.

1208
01:01:25,187 --> 01:01:26,438
When I talked to him,

1209
01:01:26,522 --> 01:01:28,190
he seemed thrilled
that you're a fugitive.

1210
01:01:28,273 --> 01:01:29,608
Just, you know, play that up.

1211
01:01:29,691 --> 01:01:30,984
But what if he recognizes me?

1212
01:01:31,068 --> 01:01:32,194
-  You?
- Yeah, the real me.

1213
01:01:32,277 --> 01:01:34,446
Monk, you're not that famous.

1214
01:01:34,530 --> 01:01:35,948
And nobody in Hollywood reads.

1215
01:01:36,031 --> 01:01:37,741
They got their assistants
to read things,

1216
01:01:37,825 --> 01:01:38,951
and then summarize them.

1217
01:01:39,034 --> 01:01:40,702
The whole town runs
on book reports.

1218
01:01:42,287 --> 01:01:43,789
You sure you can look
after my mother?

1219
01:01:43,872 --> 01:01:45,124
She won't leave my sight.

1220
01:01:45,207 --> 01:01:46,750
You'll just be
across the street, anyway.

1221
01:01:48,001 --> 01:01:49,128
Across the street.

1222
01:01:49,211 --> 01:01:50,212
You should go. You'll be late.

1223
01:01:51,171 --> 01:01:52,423
He's waiting for you.

1224
01:01:54,299 --> 01:01:56,051
Well...

1225
01:01:56,135 --> 01:01:59,680
if he, uh,
wants the stereotype,

1226
01:02:00,973 --> 01:02:02,057
maybe it's better I'm late.

1227
01:02:27,791 --> 01:02:29,168
Stagg, I presume?

1228
01:02:30,043 --> 01:02:31,044
That's me.

1229
01:02:31,128 --> 01:02:33,213
Hey, I'm Wiley.

1230
01:02:33,297 --> 01:02:34,298
Nice to meet you, brother.

1231
01:02:41,638 --> 01:02:43,307
Sorry about
the bougie restaurant.

1232
01:02:43,390 --> 01:02:45,267
My assistant picked it.

1233
01:02:45,350 --> 01:02:47,561
We can go somewhere else
if you're uncomfortable.

1234
01:02:47,644 --> 01:02:49,062
- This is fine.
- Okay.

1235
01:02:50,772 --> 01:02:51,773
What are you drinking?

1236
01:02:54,401 --> 01:02:55,903
I'll have a Chenin Blanc.

1237
01:02:55,986 --> 01:02:57,154
All right.

1238
01:02:57,237 --> 01:02:58,238
Of your driest.

1239
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:02,284
Well, what's funny?

1240
01:03:02,367 --> 01:03:04,161
Ah, it's just a strange order
for a guy like you.

1241
01:03:04,953 --> 01:03:06,455
Why is that?

1242
01:03:06,538 --> 01:03:08,832
Well, you don't see many
convicts drinking white wine.

1243
01:03:09,708 --> 01:03:11,877
You know many convicts?

1244
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:13,086
You'd be surprised.

1245
01:03:13,170 --> 01:03:15,589
I spent a month
in the joint myself.

1246
01:03:15,672 --> 01:03:16,965
It was some interstate
commerce shit.

1247
01:03:17,049 --> 01:03:18,383
It was a short stay,
but I'll tell you what,

1248
01:03:19,301 --> 01:03:21,094
that experience grounded me.

1249
01:03:21,178 --> 01:03:22,930
The people I met in there
allowed me to see

1250
01:03:23,013 --> 01:03:25,474
a whole world
of underrepresented stories

1251
01:03:25,557 --> 01:03:27,476
from underrepresented
storytellers.

1252
01:03:29,102 --> 01:03:30,562
Can I ask
what you were in for?

1253
01:03:30,646 --> 01:03:33,774
I don't like to talk
about that.

1254
01:03:35,108 --> 01:03:36,109
You feel me?

1255
01:03:36,652 --> 01:03:37,653
Was it murder?

1256
01:03:38,529 --> 01:03:39,905
You said that, not me.

1257
01:03:43,116 --> 01:03:44,368
You know,

1258
01:03:44,451 --> 01:03:46,119
I got to tell you,
before you showed up,

1259
01:03:46,203 --> 01:03:49,039
I was a little worried
you might be a phony.

1260
01:03:49,122 --> 01:03:50,582
A lot of fakes in Hollywood.

1261
01:03:50,666 --> 01:03:52,084
Well, I'm not from Hollywood.

1262
01:03:52,167 --> 01:03:53,502
Yeah, yeah, no.
That's obvious.

1263
01:03:53,585 --> 01:03:54,878
That's obvious.

1264
01:03:54,962 --> 01:03:57,130
Clearly, you're cut
from a different cloth

1265
01:03:57,214 --> 01:03:58,215
than your average...

1266
01:03:59,216 --> 01:04:00,467
screenwriter.

1267
01:04:00,551 --> 01:04:01,760
- Let me ask you...

1268
01:04:01,843 --> 01:04:03,178
I know they sent you
some of my stuff.

1269
01:04:03,262 --> 01:04:04,972
Did you have a chance
to see any of my movies?

1270
01:04:07,474 --> 01:04:09,351
Sorry,
what did you say?

1271
01:04:09,434 --> 01:04:10,435
Have you seen
any of my movies?

1272
01:04:11,144 --> 01:04:12,938
Uh, no.

1273
01:04:13,021 --> 01:04:14,147
Okay.

1274
01:04:14,231 --> 01:04:15,566
Well, look, what I like to do

1275
01:04:15,649 --> 01:04:19,403
is I like to pair genre
with real-world pathos.

1276
01:04:19,486 --> 01:04:21,029
It kind of elevates things.

1277
01:04:21,113 --> 01:04:22,281
You might be interested
in this one

1278
01:04:22,364 --> 01:04:23,448
we're about to shoot actually.

1279
01:04:24,366 --> 01:04:26,159
It's about this white couple.

1280
01:04:26,243 --> 01:04:28,954
They get married on an old
plantation in Louisiana.

1281
01:04:29,037 --> 01:04:30,706
Then all the slave ghosts
come back,

1282
01:04:30,789 --> 01:04:31,873
and they murder everyone.

1283
01:04:31,957 --> 01:04:33,917
- Dear God.
-  I know. I know.

1284
01:04:34,001 --> 01:04:35,419
- It's great, right?

1285
01:04:35,502 --> 01:04:37,087
It's called
<i>Plantation Annihilation.</i>

1286
01:04:37,170 --> 01:04:39,381
Ryan Reynolds is going
to get decapitated

1287
01:04:39,464 --> 01:04:41,508
with an afro pick
in the opening scene.

1288
01:04:41,592 --> 01:04:42,926
He's a friend.

1289
01:04:43,594 --> 01:04:44,595
Got to go.

1290
01:04:55,647 --> 01:04:59,109
Mother. Mother.
Mother. Mother!

1291
01:05:10,996 --> 01:05:12,831
Some ad exec
on the third floor

1292
01:05:12,914 --> 01:05:14,124
- had an aneurysm.

1293
01:05:14,207 --> 01:05:15,876
- Awful.
- I know.

1294
01:05:15,959 --> 01:05:17,419
Imagine exploding your brain

1295
01:05:17,502 --> 01:05:19,338
trying to think
of a toilet paper commercial.

1296
01:05:21,506 --> 01:05:23,008
I assume Wiley
isn't interested.

1297
01:05:23,091 --> 01:05:26,053
I sprinted out of there
like a complete maniac.

1298
01:05:26,136 --> 01:05:29,890
Actually, he's offering
$4 million for the rights.

1299
01:05:29,973 --> 01:05:32,184
- What?
-  Yeah, man.

1300
01:05:32,267 --> 01:05:33,602
He called you the real deal.

1301
01:05:33,685 --> 01:05:34,936
Said you took off the moment

1302
01:05:35,020 --> 01:05:36,229
- you heard police sirens.

1303
01:05:37,314 --> 01:05:39,775
The dumber I behave,
the richer I get.

1304
01:05:39,858 --> 01:05:42,235
Now you know why my parents
moved here from Puerto Rico.

1305
01:05:46,031 --> 01:05:48,116
<i>I mean,
we can't be expected to read</i>

1306
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,161
<i>every novel
all the way through, right?</i>

1307
01:05:51,244 --> 01:05:53,163
No, people have worked hard
on these books.

1308
01:05:53,246 --> 01:05:54,414
And we have to respect that.

1309
01:05:54,498 --> 01:05:56,124
Well, hard work
doesn't demand respect.

1310
01:05:56,208 --> 01:05:57,334
I mean, you know,

1311
01:05:57,542 --> 01:05:58,877
people worked hard
on the Third Reich <i>.</i>

1312
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:02,798
Yeah, well, I feel
that we owe it to them

1313
01:06:02,881 --> 01:06:04,216
to read every page.

1314
01:06:04,299 --> 01:06:05,759
That is such horseshit.

1315
01:06:05,842 --> 01:06:07,511
I mean,
most of it's going to be

1316
01:06:07,594 --> 01:06:09,888
that Knausgard
auto-fiction crap, anyhow.

1317
01:06:09,971 --> 01:06:11,098
I tell you something
right now,

1318
01:06:11,181 --> 01:06:12,641
I'm not reading 600 pages

1319
01:06:12,724 --> 01:06:14,393
about some pretentious
jackwagon

1320
01:06:14,476 --> 01:06:15,769
discovering masturbation.

1321
01:06:15,852 --> 01:06:17,270
<i>Sorry.</i>

1322
01:06:17,354 --> 01:06:19,690
Okay, look, I think
we're all experienced enough

1323
01:06:19,773 --> 01:06:21,149
to assess the general quality

1324
01:06:21,233 --> 01:06:23,026
of something within 100 pages.

1325
01:06:24,152 --> 01:06:25,529
If you want
to read beyond that,

1326
01:06:25,612 --> 01:06:26,780
that's your prerogative.

1327
01:06:26,863 --> 01:06:29,366
Well,
how do you feel, Monk?

1328
01:06:29,449 --> 01:06:32,202
Um, I agree
with Sintara, actually.

1329
01:06:32,285 --> 01:06:34,454
I think 100 pages
is sufficient.

1330
01:06:34,538 --> 01:06:36,331
You know, this is
all a crock, anyway.

1331
01:06:36,415 --> 01:06:38,959
I mean, pitting art
against other art for awards,

1332
01:06:39,042 --> 01:06:40,711
like, it's not subjective.

1333
01:06:40,794 --> 01:06:42,421
<i>It's absurd.</i>

1334
01:06:42,504 --> 01:06:44,256
Then why did you agree to be
a judge if you feel that way?

1335
01:06:44,339 --> 01:06:47,134
Well, because it's either me
or some other Brooklyn hack

1336
01:06:47,217 --> 01:06:48,343
who doesn't think
there's a world

1337
01:06:48,427 --> 01:06:50,011
beyond the Hudson River,
Ailene.

1338
01:06:50,095 --> 01:06:53,765
It's the East River
if you're in Brooklyn, Daniel.

1339
01:06:53,849 --> 01:06:54,683
<i>You know what,</i>

1340
01:06:54,766 --> 01:06:56,393
art is subjective.

1341
01:06:56,476 --> 01:06:59,104
But I think
this is an opportunity

1342
01:06:59,187 --> 01:07:03,400
to highlight books that may
otherwise be undervalued.

1343
01:07:03,483 --> 01:07:05,652
<i>Book sales are plummeting
right now.</i>

1344
01:07:05,736 --> 01:07:08,113
So, perhaps this award
can give someone

1345
01:07:08,196 --> 01:07:10,323
a real chance at a career
in this industry.

1346
01:07:12,242 --> 01:07:13,243
Hear, hear.

1347
01:07:14,536 --> 01:07:15,871
Um...

1348
01:07:15,954 --> 01:07:17,414
Where do you want this,
Mother?

1349
01:07:18,665 --> 01:07:20,041
Thought it might
look nice here

1350
01:07:20,125 --> 01:07:21,168
with this natural light.

1351
01:07:22,127 --> 01:07:23,295
I don't care.

1352
01:07:23,378 --> 01:07:25,130
I never liked
that painting, anyway.

1353
01:07:27,090 --> 01:07:28,425
Okay.

1354
01:07:28,508 --> 01:07:31,386
Uh, well, I'll bring
some more art

1355
01:07:31,470 --> 01:07:32,721
from home next week.

1356
01:07:32,804 --> 01:07:35,223
And you just tell me
the pieces you like,

1357
01:07:35,307 --> 01:07:37,225
- and I'll bring them.

1358
01:07:37,309 --> 01:07:39,519
We've got your lunch
ready for you, Mrs. Ellison.

1359
01:07:40,645 --> 01:07:43,523
Oh, it looks great.
What is it?

1360
01:07:43,607 --> 01:07:46,818
It's roasted turkey
and Havarti on 12-grain.

1361
01:07:48,153 --> 01:07:49,696
Sounds delicious.

1362
01:07:49,780 --> 01:07:52,365
Mrs. Ellison prefers
white bread.

1363
01:07:52,449 --> 01:07:53,784
And she doesn't like
the crust.

1364
01:07:54,618 --> 01:07:55,994
As much as this place costs,

1365
01:07:56,077 --> 01:07:57,788
y'all should get
the sandwiches right.

1366
01:07:57,871 --> 01:07:59,873
I'll make sure
that we take care of that

1367
01:07:59,956 --> 01:08:01,124
from now on, okay?

1368
01:08:01,208 --> 01:08:03,502
And enjoy your lunch,
Mrs. Ellison.

1369
01:08:13,887 --> 01:08:14,888
I'm getting married.

1370
01:08:15,764 --> 01:08:16,765
- Shut up.
- What?

1371
01:08:19,226 --> 01:08:22,020
I didn't say nothing earlier.
I was just so sad.

1372
01:08:22,103 --> 01:08:26,566
But Maynard
asked me yesterday.

1373
01:08:26,650 --> 01:08:30,654
- Lorraine, that's amazing.

1374
01:08:30,737 --> 01:08:32,656
- I mean, let's celebrate.
-  Mm-mm!

1375
01:08:32,739 --> 01:08:34,741
Just too much excitement.

1376
01:08:34,825 --> 01:08:36,868
I don't like being
the center of attention.

1377
01:08:36,952 --> 01:08:38,787
Well, you deserve it,
Lorraine.

1378
01:08:38,870 --> 01:08:41,122
And Maynard is a lucky man.

1379
01:08:45,460 --> 01:08:46,920
Do you think you'd be willing

1380
01:08:47,003 --> 01:08:48,922
to walk me
down the aisle, Mr. Monk?

1381
01:08:52,801 --> 01:08:53,802
I'd be honored.

1382
01:08:59,057 --> 01:09:01,810
Wow. Wow.

1383
01:09:04,896 --> 01:09:06,106
<i>We are wildly excited</i>

1384
01:09:06,189 --> 01:09:07,607
<i>to help you get</i>
My Pafology <i>out.</i>

1385
01:09:07,691 --> 01:09:09,401
<i>The marketing team
has all kinds</i>

1386
01:09:09,484 --> 01:09:11,486
<i>of great ideas
to help you sell it.</i>

1387
01:09:11,570 --> 01:09:13,738
Great. We're excited to hear.

1388
01:09:13,822 --> 01:09:15,365
John Bosco is the head
of the department.

1389
01:09:15,448 --> 01:09:16,491
I will let him tell you more.

1390
01:09:17,075 --> 01:09:18,076
Hi, Stagg.

1391
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:20,245
Hello.

1392
01:09:20,328 --> 01:09:22,163
Nice to finally meet you,
my man.

1393
01:09:22,873 --> 01:09:25,000
Listen, I love the book.

1394
01:09:25,083 --> 01:09:28,253
And we are going
to sell many, many copies.

1395
01:09:28,336 --> 01:09:30,589
There's already so much buzz
because of the movie deal.

1396
01:09:30,672 --> 01:09:32,924
And we just want to keep
that momentum going.

1397
01:09:33,008 --> 01:09:34,759
I spoke to Wiley yesterday.

1398
01:09:34,843 --> 01:09:36,720
He says Michael B. Jordan
is circling.

1399
01:09:36,803 --> 01:09:38,054
<i>We heard.</i>

1400
01:09:38,138 --> 01:09:39,222
<i>We think he would
be absolutely perfect.</i>

1401
01:09:39,306 --> 01:09:40,432
<i>You know, this book,</i>

1402
01:09:40,515 --> 01:09:42,475
it's awards-bait
with a capital B.

1403
01:09:42,559 --> 01:09:44,352
And we're thinking
that if Michael does sign on,

1404
01:09:44,436 --> 01:09:45,604
we want to put him
on the cover

1405
01:09:45,687 --> 01:09:47,814
in one of those, um, scarves,

1406
01:09:47,898 --> 01:09:49,441
I guess you would call them,
tied round his head.

1407
01:09:50,358 --> 01:09:51,610
A durag?

1408
01:09:51,818 --> 01:09:54,446
<i>Durag. That's it.
Durag and a tank top</i>

1409
01:09:54,529 --> 01:09:55,780
with the muscles showing.

1410
01:09:55,864 --> 01:09:57,240
Ooh, somebody call
the fire department.

1411
01:09:57,324 --> 01:09:58,366
-  <i>Yummy.</i>

1412
01:09:59,659 --> 01:10:01,745
Shit. Sorry. Your dad. Sorry.

1413
01:10:01,828 --> 01:10:04,122
<i>So listen,
for a release date,</i>

1414
01:10:04,205 --> 01:10:05,790
we're thinking of rushing it,

1415
01:10:05,874 --> 01:10:07,125
so that we can get it out
in time

1416
01:10:07,208 --> 01:10:08,126
- for Juneteenth.
- Yeah.

1417
01:10:08,209 --> 01:10:09,711
Juneteenth?

1418
01:10:09,794 --> 01:10:12,589
<i>We're thinking of making
a big holiday push.</i>

1419
01:10:12,672 --> 01:10:14,257
Black people
will be celebrating,

1420
01:10:14,341 --> 01:10:15,926
white people will be feeling,

1421
01:10:16,009 --> 01:10:18,887
let's be honest,
a little conscious-stricken.

1422
01:10:18,970 --> 01:10:21,014
<i>We think it's going to be
a huge moment for your book.</i>

1423
01:10:22,223 --> 01:10:23,350
- So, Stagg,

1424
01:10:23,433 --> 01:10:24,809
are you so, so happy?

1425
01:10:26,353 --> 01:10:29,814
We think it's great,
John, really. Amazing.

1426
01:10:31,191 --> 01:10:32,484
Yeah, it's, uh...

1427
01:10:33,610 --> 01:10:34,611
It's great.

1428
01:10:35,654 --> 01:10:38,907
And, you know,
I've got an idea

1429
01:10:38,990 --> 01:10:40,992
I want to share with you two.

1430
01:10:41,076 --> 01:10:42,410
<i>Oh, well,</i>

1431
01:10:42,494 --> 01:10:43,787
<i>I mean, we always love
to hear great ideas.</i>

1432
01:10:43,870 --> 01:10:45,205
-  <i>Oh, yeah, cool.</i>
-  <i>Yeah.</i>

1433
01:10:45,288 --> 01:10:46,623
I want to change the title.

1434
01:10:47,540 --> 01:10:48,667
Uh...

1435
01:10:48,750 --> 01:10:49,834
- I don't...
- Okay.

1436
01:10:49,918 --> 01:10:51,378
Um, well, just to be clear,

1437
01:10:51,461 --> 01:10:53,046
we really do love

1438
01:10:53,129 --> 01:10:54,464
<i>- My Pafology.</i>
- Love it.

1439
01:10:54,547 --> 01:10:56,675
It's got that whole
Irvine Welsh

1440
01:10:56,758 --> 01:10:58,885
- proletarian vernacular thing.
- Yeah.

1441
01:10:58,969 --> 01:11:00,637
No,
and that's why I think

1442
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:02,931
you're going to love
this new title even more.

1443
01:11:03,890 --> 01:11:05,225
Well, okay, you know what,

1444
01:11:05,308 --> 01:11:08,812
we're always happy
to hear new ideas.

1445
01:11:08,895 --> 01:11:10,271
<i>What did you have in mind?</i>

1446
01:11:10,355 --> 01:11:11,356
<i>Fuck.</i>

1447
01:11:18,530 --> 01:11:19,823
I'm sorry. Pardon me.

1448
01:11:19,906 --> 01:11:20,907
<i>Fuck.</i>

1449
01:11:22,242 --> 01:11:23,785
I want to call it <i>Fuck.</i>

1450
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:28,999
- What are you doing?
- Screw these idiots.

1451
01:11:29,082 --> 01:11:30,250
- Stop it.
- No.

1452
01:11:32,836 --> 01:11:35,839
<i>So, Stagg, what about,
uh, like,</i> Damn?

1453
01:11:35,922 --> 01:11:38,383
-  <i>Mm-hm.</i>
-  Damn? <i>Or</i> Hell?

1454
01:11:39,384 --> 01:11:40,719
Nah. <i>Fuck.</i>

1455
01:11:40,802 --> 01:11:42,929
Okay, that's cool. Uh...

1456
01:11:43,013 --> 01:11:46,641
But maybe we could do that
with a PH instead

1457
01:11:46,725 --> 01:11:47,809
<i>because that would
be more palatable...</i>

1458
01:11:47,892 --> 01:11:49,102
- Yes. Yes.
<i>- ...to our sellers.</i>

1459
01:11:49,185 --> 01:11:51,021
I don't care about all that.

1460
01:11:51,104 --> 01:11:54,274
And if you don't change
the title, the deal is off.

1461
01:11:54,357 --> 01:11:55,817
- Oh, yeah. No.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

1462
01:11:55,900 --> 01:11:58,778
- There's no need to be hasty.
- No, no, no.

1463
01:11:59,529 --> 01:12:00,530
You know what?

1464
01:12:01,531 --> 01:12:02,407
Why don't we--

1465
01:12:02,490 --> 01:12:03,533
Juts give us a second

1466
01:12:03,616 --> 01:12:06,286
and, um, a moment

1467
01:12:06,369 --> 01:12:08,204
and we will get right back
to you, okay?

1468
01:12:08,955 --> 01:12:10,206
What are you doing?

1469
01:12:10,290 --> 01:12:11,666
What are you doing?
This is ridiculous.

1470
01:12:11,750 --> 01:12:12,917
Do you know how much money
we're talking about?

1471
01:12:13,001 --> 01:12:14,294
I don't care,
I'm shutting it down.

1472
01:12:14,377 --> 01:12:15,712
- Shutting it-- Come on.
- Shutting it down.

1473
01:12:15,795 --> 01:12:17,005
-  <i>Are you there?</i>
- Please, just...

1474
01:12:18,882 --> 01:12:20,300
- We're here.

1475
01:12:21,342 --> 01:12:22,343
Let's do it.

1476
01:12:23,136 --> 01:12:24,137
- What?
- What?

1477
01:12:24,637 --> 01:12:25,764
Yeah. We discussed it,

1478
01:12:25,847 --> 01:12:26,973
and we think it is very
in your face

1479
01:12:27,057 --> 01:12:28,558
in the best way possible.

1480
01:12:28,641 --> 01:12:30,226
<i>It is very, uh...</i>

1481
01:12:31,436 --> 01:12:32,687
<i>- Uh...</i>

1482
01:12:33,938 --> 01:12:35,398
- Black?
-  <i>That's it.</i>

1483
01:12:35,482 --> 01:12:36,649
<i>Yes, that's it.</i>

1484
01:12:36,733 --> 01:12:38,068
<i>I'm happy you said it,
and not me.</i>

1485
01:12:39,986 --> 01:12:41,237
<i>Oh, fuck.</i>

1486
01:12:41,321 --> 01:12:42,530
- It's fucking great, Stagg.
- I love it.

1487
01:12:42,614 --> 01:12:44,157
- Yes.
- Oh, my...

1488
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:46,242
You know,
it's so brave actually.

1489
01:12:52,165 --> 01:12:53,083
I'm exhausted.

1490
01:12:53,166 --> 01:12:54,417
Yeah, me too.

1491
01:12:55,502 --> 01:12:57,128
I got to stay up
a few more hours

1492
01:12:57,212 --> 01:12:58,463
reading these books for...

1493
01:13:10,266 --> 01:13:11,309
Hey.

1494
01:13:12,393 --> 01:13:13,394
Hey.

1495
01:13:14,813 --> 01:13:16,314
Hey. Hey!

1496
01:13:17,565 --> 01:13:19,609
Bro. Oh, shit.

1497
01:13:19,692 --> 01:13:20,693
What are you doing here?

1498
01:13:21,820 --> 01:13:23,363
What am I doing here?
- What are you doing here?

1499
01:13:23,446 --> 01:13:24,447
What do you mean,
what am I doing?

1500
01:13:24,531 --> 01:13:25,406
Why are you in town?

1501
01:13:25,490 --> 01:13:27,075
I came to see our mother.

1502
01:13:27,158 --> 01:13:29,327
Ain't that what you been
calling me about
for weeks now?

1503
01:13:31,830 --> 01:13:32,789
What happened to your eye?

1504
01:13:32,872 --> 01:13:35,250
- I got into a fight.
- Yeah.

1505
01:13:35,333 --> 01:13:36,793
Well, get out of the pool.

1506
01:13:36,876 --> 01:13:38,169
- You're making a mess.
- I don't want

1507
01:13:38,253 --> 01:13:39,921
to get out of the pool.
I'm a grown-ass man.

1508
01:13:40,004 --> 01:13:41,131
This your girlfriend?

1509
01:13:41,214 --> 01:13:43,091
Yeah, you scared
the shit out of her.

1510
01:13:43,174 --> 01:13:44,801
I'm Coraline.

1511
01:13:45,718 --> 01:13:46,970
Hi, Coraline.

1512
01:13:47,053 --> 01:13:48,346
At least she's not
white again.

1513
01:13:48,429 --> 01:13:50,473
- Your wife was white.

1514
01:13:50,557 --> 01:13:52,308
My wife was a beard.
Beards don't count.

1515
01:13:52,392 --> 01:13:53,268
Well, get out.

1516
01:13:53,351 --> 01:13:54,769
You fucking menace.

1517
01:13:54,853 --> 01:13:55,937
You'll wake the neighbors.

1518
01:13:56,146 --> 01:13:57,021
You know,
fuck your neighbors!

1519
01:13:57,105 --> 01:13:58,690
And fuck your clean pool!

1520
01:13:58,773 --> 01:14:01,276
It's all just a part of your
superiority complex, anyway.

1521
01:14:01,359 --> 01:14:03,069
-  Fucking asshole.

1522
01:14:05,780 --> 01:14:09,492
- You are a goddamn child!

1523
01:14:10,869 --> 01:14:12,287
It's probably a bad time
to tell you,

1524
01:14:12,370 --> 01:14:13,454
but I did piss down there.

1525
01:14:13,538 --> 01:14:14,539
Fuck.

1526
01:14:16,875 --> 01:14:18,168
Oh, funny, huh?

1527
01:14:18,251 --> 01:14:19,377
I'm sorry, Monk.

1528
01:14:19,460 --> 01:14:20,461
Don't get mad.

1529
01:14:21,754 --> 01:14:22,964
Get out of here.

1530
01:14:24,174 --> 01:14:25,300
You want a piece of me?

1531
01:14:30,847 --> 01:14:31,848
It's funny, huh?

1532
01:14:33,433 --> 01:14:35,768
So I'm lying
in bed with him,

1533
01:14:35,852 --> 01:14:38,354
butt-ass naked

1534
01:14:38,438 --> 01:14:40,982
and in walks Claude
carrying the frozen yogurt.

1535
01:14:41,065 --> 01:14:42,775
- No.
- Yeah, I forgot I'd shown him

1536
01:14:42,859 --> 01:14:44,152
where I keep the spare key.

1537
01:14:45,111 --> 01:14:48,156
So he just throws
the yogurt at us

1538
01:14:48,239 --> 01:14:50,617
and then he wallops me
right in the eye.

1539
01:14:52,785 --> 01:14:54,245
What was the other guy doing?

1540
01:14:54,329 --> 01:14:55,788
He couldn't stop laughing.

1541
01:14:55,872 --> 01:14:57,624
He said that's what he does
when he gets nervous.

1542
01:14:57,707 --> 01:14:58,875
Okay.

1543
01:14:58,958 --> 01:15:00,710
You really going for it
these days.

1544
01:15:00,793 --> 01:15:02,545
I only been gay for,
like, five minutes,

1545
01:15:02,629 --> 01:15:03,880
I got to make up
for lost time.

1546
01:15:03,963 --> 01:15:05,882
Yeah. Well, good for you.

1547
01:15:05,965 --> 01:15:07,550
I mean, the whole world's
falling apart.

1548
01:15:07,634 --> 01:15:09,052
Might as well have some fun.

1549
01:15:09,135 --> 01:15:10,553
- I appreciate that.
- Yeah.

1550
01:15:11,596 --> 01:15:12,889
You know,
you're quite beautiful.

1551
01:15:14,515 --> 01:15:15,516
Thank you.

1552
01:15:18,186 --> 01:15:19,812
What do you see in my brother?

1553
01:15:21,314 --> 01:15:23,191
- He's funny.
-  Mm.

1554
01:15:23,274 --> 01:15:26,110
- He's not funny. No.
- No, not ha-ha funny.

1555
01:15:26,194 --> 01:15:28,821
- Like, sad funny.
-  Okay.

1556
01:15:28,905 --> 01:15:30,698
Like
a three-legged dog.

1557
01:15:30,782 --> 01:15:32,909
I see it now. Like somebody
dying on a toilet.

1558
01:15:33,660 --> 01:15:34,911
Exactly.

1559
01:15:34,994 --> 01:15:36,579
- Exactly.
- Invariably,

1560
01:15:36,663 --> 01:15:39,165
- you go too far.
-  You think?

1561
01:15:39,249 --> 01:15:40,500
I don't think I go far enough.

1562
01:15:40,583 --> 01:15:41,668
It's becoming hurtful.

1563
01:15:41,751 --> 01:15:43,211
-  Aw.
- See?

1564
01:15:43,294 --> 01:15:44,295
- See?
-  "You know,

1565
01:15:44,379 --> 01:15:45,171
- invariably..."
-  Oh.

1566
01:15:45,255 --> 01:15:47,382
"...you go too far."

1567
01:15:47,465 --> 01:15:49,425
-  Yeah.

1568
01:15:49,509 --> 01:15:50,718
- You got a kiss, man.

1569
01:15:50,802 --> 01:15:53,513
Look at you.
Just by being pathetic.

1570
01:15:53,596 --> 01:15:54,722
- God bless you.
- Hey.

1571
01:15:54,806 --> 01:15:56,432
-  That is like

1572
01:15:56,516 --> 01:15:57,725
- a three-legged dog.
-  Hey.

1573
01:16:03,690 --> 01:16:06,276
Oh, this is nice.

1574
01:16:06,359 --> 01:16:07,443
Yeah, it's not bad.

1575
01:16:08,486 --> 01:16:09,988
What do you got there, pergola?

1576
01:16:10,071 --> 01:16:11,072
No, that's a gazebo.

1577
01:16:11,948 --> 01:16:13,032
Same difference.

1578
01:16:13,116 --> 01:16:13,992
- All right?
-  To the left.

1579
01:16:14,075 --> 01:16:15,118
Oh. Excuse me.

1580
01:16:17,161 --> 01:16:18,162
Huh.

1581
01:16:19,664 --> 01:16:21,499
Hey, Monk?

1582
01:16:21,582 --> 01:16:23,334
How the hell
can you afford this place?

1583
01:16:24,544 --> 01:16:25,545
I, um...

1584
01:16:27,297 --> 01:16:31,175
Well, there was some money
Lisa left for Mother.

1585
01:16:31,259 --> 01:16:32,635
Thought the divorce
cleaned her out.

1586
01:16:34,262 --> 01:16:37,015
Well, I'm not familiar with
what her finances were like,

1587
01:16:37,098 --> 01:16:39,100
but if you're so interested
in the bills,

1588
01:16:39,183 --> 01:16:41,060
perhaps I can start
sending them to you?

1589
01:16:41,144 --> 01:16:42,854
Ah, it's fine. Where we going?

1590
01:16:42,937 --> 01:16:43,938
Right here. 44.

1591
01:16:45,982 --> 01:16:47,275
Surprise!

1592
01:16:51,612 --> 01:16:53,573
We've had a difficult morning.

1593
01:16:57,577 --> 01:16:59,454
We had to sedate her
after she tried
to strike a nurse.

1594
01:17:00,455 --> 01:17:02,582
- Has she done that before?
- No.

1595
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:05,376
She has a different
demeanor every day.

1596
01:17:06,127 --> 01:17:07,920
Sometimes every hour.

1597
01:17:08,004 --> 01:17:09,797
But maybe
she'll feel better tomorrow.

1598
01:17:10,673 --> 01:17:12,300
I'm sorry, I need to go.

1599
01:17:12,383 --> 01:17:14,552
Yes, of course. Thank you.

1600
01:17:16,179 --> 01:17:17,263
The gardener cut these

1601
01:17:17,347 --> 01:17:19,515
right off the bush
for your mom.

1602
01:17:19,599 --> 01:17:21,601
- Sweet, right?
- Yeah, that's great.

1603
01:17:22,727 --> 01:17:24,312
How can you afford this place?

1604
01:17:24,937 --> 01:17:26,147
I mean, you're not

1605
01:17:26,230 --> 01:17:27,940
a drug dealer
or something, are you?

1606
01:17:28,983 --> 01:17:30,610
No, I'm a writer.

1607
01:17:30,693 --> 01:17:33,154
And you're my girlfriend,
not my bookkeeper.

1608
01:17:43,247 --> 01:17:46,042
<i>♪ Down a mountain ♪</i>

1609
01:17:47,460 --> 01:17:49,962
<i>♪ Do it with my bare hands ♪</i>

1610
01:17:50,046 --> 01:17:52,382
<i>♪ I crush the rocks to stone ♪</i>

1611
01:17:53,466 --> 01:17:55,343
<i>♪ And toss them up to heaven ♪</i>

1612
01:17:56,469 --> 01:17:59,597
<i>♪ The moment I was blue ♪</i>

1613
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:02,892
<i>♪ I'd rush right home to you ♪</i>

1614
01:18:02,975 --> 01:18:07,605
<i>♪ If all these things
I do for you ♪</i>

1615
01:18:09,899 --> 01:18:12,193
<i>♪ I would write a symphony... ♪</i>

1616
01:18:12,276 --> 01:18:14,904
I always knew
you weren't a queer.

1617
01:18:17,031 --> 01:18:21,994
<i>♪ One that would make... ♪</i>

1618
01:18:23,413 --> 01:18:26,707
<i>♪ It would be a melody... ♪</i>

1619
01:18:26,791 --> 01:18:28,084
She doesn't know
what she's saying.

1620
01:18:28,167 --> 01:18:29,335
I'm going to wait outside.

1621
01:18:36,592 --> 01:18:39,053
<i>♪ Make a notion ♪</i>

1622
01:18:40,888 --> 01:18:43,808
<i>♪ To search out my devotion ♪</i>

1623
01:18:43,891 --> 01:18:45,935
<i>♪ We didn't go
Hand in hand... ♪</i>

1624
01:19:00,992 --> 01:19:03,494
You sure you don't
want to stay
for Lorraine's wedding?

1625
01:19:03,578 --> 01:19:04,871
It's better if I go.

1626
01:19:10,209 --> 01:19:12,044
It was nice
to meet you, Cliff.

1627
01:19:16,632 --> 01:19:18,176
This family will break
your heart.

1628
01:19:47,371 --> 01:19:49,499
Welcome back.
I'm Kenya Dunston

1629
01:19:49,582 --> 01:19:51,083
and today,
we're going to discuss

1630
01:19:51,167 --> 01:19:53,503
a new novel that just debuted
at number one

1631
01:19:53,586 --> 01:19:55,796
on <i>The New York Times</i>
bestseller list.

1632
01:19:55,880 --> 01:19:59,634
It is just a remarkable,
special book,

1633
01:19:59,717 --> 01:20:01,552
and it's called...

1634
01:20:01,636 --> 01:20:03,679
Cover your kids' eyes
and ears...

1635
01:20:06,891 --> 01:20:08,142
We are lucky enough

1636
01:20:08,226 --> 01:20:10,061
to have the author
with us today.

1637
01:20:10,144 --> 01:20:12,396
And for those of you
who are just joining us,

1638
01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:14,106
please know
that Mr. Stagg R. Leigh

1639
01:20:14,190 --> 01:20:16,567
is coming to us
from an undisclosed location

1640
01:20:16,651 --> 01:20:18,778
as he is still on the run
from authorities.

1641
01:20:20,571 --> 01:20:24,534
{\an8}Oh, Stagg, tell us,
is this novel a true story?

1642
01:20:24,617 --> 01:20:26,327
{\an8}<i>Not factually,</i>

1643
01:20:26,410 --> 01:20:28,204
{\an8}<i>but it's the true story
of what it's like</i>

1644
01:20:28,287 --> 01:20:31,207
{\an8}<i>to be a Black man
in America like me.</i>

1645
01:20:31,290 --> 01:20:32,250
{\an8}<i>And it ain't pretty.</i>

1646
01:20:32,333 --> 01:20:33,584
Amen to that.

1647
01:20:33,668 --> 01:20:35,503
<i>During my time
in prison,</i>

1648
01:20:35,586 --> 01:20:38,506
{\an8}<i>I learned that words belong
to everybody.</i>

1649
01:20:38,589 --> 01:20:40,424
{\an8}<i>So this book
is my contribution</i>

1650
01:20:40,508 --> 01:20:42,301
{\an8}<i>to this wonderful country
of ours</i>

1651
01:20:42,385 --> 01:20:44,470
{\an8}<i>where a Black ex-con
can become rich</i>

1652
01:20:44,554 --> 01:20:47,640
{\an8}<i>simply by telling the story
of his unfortunate people.</i>

1653
01:20:47,723 --> 01:20:49,225
Hm.

1654
01:20:49,308 --> 01:20:51,018
- Yes. Yes.

1655
01:20:54,522 --> 01:20:55,648
- Yeah.
-  <i>Get this.</i>

1656
01:20:55,731 --> 01:20:57,400
The FBI called
Thompson Watt today

1657
01:20:57,483 --> 01:20:59,235
to try to get
Stagg R. Leigh's identity.

1658
01:20:59,318 --> 01:21:00,820
- What?
-  <i>Don't worry.</i>

1659
01:21:00,903 --> 01:21:02,613
<i>They're not going
to give him up.</i>

1660
01:21:02,697 --> 01:21:04,782
Give who up? It's me,
I haven't done anything.

1661
01:21:04,865 --> 01:21:06,367
They don't know that.

1662
01:21:06,450 --> 01:21:08,953
- Look, this has gone too far.
-  <i>Relax.</i>

1663
01:21:09,036 --> 01:21:10,204
The fugitive stuff's
getting us

1664
01:21:10,288 --> 01:21:11,497
mountains of free press.

1665
01:21:11,581 --> 01:21:12,665
- Plus, as you said,

1666
01:21:12,748 --> 01:21:13,874
you haven't done anything.

1667
01:21:13,958 --> 01:21:15,543
It's not like
they can arrest you.

1668
01:21:15,626 --> 01:21:18,087
I wish I could go back
to not selling books.

1669
01:21:18,170 --> 01:21:19,171
- I don't.

1670
01:21:20,131 --> 01:21:21,340
<i>Bye.</i>

1671
01:21:35,563 --> 01:21:36,564
Is everything all right?

1672
01:21:37,690 --> 01:21:39,442
Yeah.

1673
01:21:39,525 --> 01:21:42,486
I'm just a little
stressed out. This, uh.

1674
01:21:42,570 --> 01:21:44,530
book award stuff is a bit
more work than I expected.

1675
01:21:45,448 --> 01:21:46,449
Hm.

1676
01:21:47,950 --> 01:21:48,951
- Mm.

1677
01:21:49,869 --> 01:21:50,911
Shit.

1678
01:21:52,246 --> 01:21:54,624
It's no biggie.
Got more forks in the kitchen.

1679
01:22:12,058 --> 01:22:13,059
What's this?

1680
01:22:13,142 --> 01:22:15,144
Mm. My friend got it for me.

1681
01:22:16,437 --> 01:22:17,396
Have you read it?

1682
01:22:17,480 --> 01:22:18,898
Of course not, have you?

1683
01:22:18,981 --> 01:22:19,982
Yeah.

1684
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:24,278
And what did you think of it?

1685
01:22:24,362 --> 01:22:26,864
- I liked it.
- What did you like about it?

1686
01:22:26,947 --> 01:22:29,408
-  Um...
- It didn't offend you?

1687
01:22:29,492 --> 01:22:30,493
You just said
you didn't read it.

1688
01:22:30,576 --> 01:22:31,535
What's your problem?

1689
01:22:31,619 --> 01:22:33,079
No, you answer my question.

1690
01:22:33,162 --> 01:22:34,455
You answer mine.

1691
01:22:36,123 --> 01:22:39,752
{\an8}My problem is that
books like this aren't real.

1692
01:22:40,628 --> 01:22:41,837
They flatten our lives.

1693
01:22:41,921 --> 01:22:43,047
What do you mean?

1694
01:22:43,130 --> 01:22:44,215
I mean, that...

1695
01:22:44,298 --> 01:22:46,300
{\an8}you know,
my life is a disaster,

1696
01:22:46,384 --> 01:22:47,968
{\an8}but not in the way you'd think
reading this shit.

1697
01:22:48,761 --> 01:22:50,471
{\an8}These things reduce us

1698
01:22:50,554 --> 01:22:52,890
{\an8}and they do it
over and over again because

1699
01:22:52,973 --> 01:22:55,935
{\an8}too many white people,
and people apparently like you

1700
01:22:56,018 --> 01:22:58,562
devour this slop
like pigs at a dumpster

1701
01:22:58,646 --> 01:23:01,148
to stay current
at fucking cocktail parties

1702
01:23:01,232 --> 01:23:02,566
- or whatever.
- Okay, um...

1703
01:23:02,650 --> 01:23:04,235
You got a lot of opinions
for someone

1704
01:23:04,318 --> 01:23:06,278
who hasn't published anything
for years.

1705
01:23:06,362 --> 01:23:07,405
And you've published
what exactly?

1706
01:23:07,488 --> 01:23:09,240
Okay, what is wrong with you?

1707
01:23:10,157 --> 01:23:11,242
Why are you acting like this?

1708
01:23:11,325 --> 01:23:12,660
I'm not acting like anything.

1709
01:23:12,743 --> 01:23:14,745
You've been acting
like a weirdo for weeks.

1710
01:23:14,829 --> 01:23:16,747
You've been obfuscating,
sneaking around.

1711
01:23:16,831 --> 01:23:18,290
You're fucking unknowable.

1712
01:23:18,374 --> 01:23:20,668
Maybe you think being
an enigma is chic and artsy.

1713
01:23:20,751 --> 01:23:22,503
I just think it makes you
an asshole.

1714
01:23:22,586 --> 01:23:23,921
Well, um,

1715
01:23:24,004 --> 01:23:25,923
you don't understand my life,
and you can't,

1716
01:23:26,006 --> 01:23:27,049
so just leave it at that.

1717
01:23:31,011 --> 01:23:32,388
One day, maybe you'll learn

1718
01:23:32,471 --> 01:23:34,515
that not being able
to relate to other people

1719
01:23:34,598 --> 01:23:36,726
isn't a badge of honor.

1720
01:23:41,856 --> 01:23:43,107
I think you should leave.

1721
01:23:43,190 --> 01:23:44,150
Well, you know what I think?

1722
01:23:44,233 --> 01:23:46,068
You should leave, Monk.

1723
01:24:02,251 --> 01:24:03,544
Nonsense.

1724
01:24:28,027 --> 01:24:29,320
You guys need
any help with that?

1725
01:24:29,403 --> 01:24:30,446
Nah, we're good.

1726
01:24:32,448 --> 01:24:34,825
I thought you could use
a little brawn.

1727
01:24:34,909 --> 01:24:37,912
-  We got it.
-  Mr. Monk.

1728
01:24:37,995 --> 01:24:39,455
You mind I keep
the soda maker?

1729
01:24:39,538 --> 01:24:41,749
You don't like the bubbly
water anyhow, right?

1730
01:24:41,832 --> 01:24:43,876
- It's all yours.
-  Thank you.

1731
01:24:46,253 --> 01:24:49,089
Um... Hey, what about this?

1732
01:24:50,508 --> 01:24:53,177
No. I always hated that color.

1733
01:24:53,260 --> 01:24:55,137
It's just the one
your father bought.

1734
01:24:56,388 --> 01:24:58,766
Thelonious,
this just came for you.

1735
01:24:59,725 --> 01:25:00,810
Okay, thanks.

1736
01:25:00,893 --> 01:25:01,894
This is
the last of it.

1737
01:25:02,895 --> 01:25:04,188
Goodbye, Mr. Monk.

1738
01:25:07,858 --> 01:25:08,943
Bye, Lorraine.

1739
01:25:15,616 --> 01:25:16,700
Drive safe.

1740
01:25:16,784 --> 01:25:18,160
Guess I'll see you
at the wedding.

1741
01:25:18,244 --> 01:25:19,245
All right.

1742
01:25:23,374 --> 01:25:24,375
I'll take that there.

1743
01:25:45,563 --> 01:25:48,816
Thompson Watt apparently raced
to publish it.

1744
01:25:48,899 --> 01:25:51,235
Yeah, I heard that they ran
300,000 copies already

1745
01:25:51,318 --> 01:25:52,778
and they're reprinting
more soon.

1746
01:25:52,862 --> 01:25:54,363
I mean, it's going
like gangbusters <i>.</i>

1747
01:25:54,446 --> 01:25:55,865
Christ on a crutch!

1748
01:25:55,948 --> 01:25:57,575
It better be good.

1749
01:25:57,658 --> 01:25:59,869
<i>Hey, I heard
the writer's a fugitive.</i>

1750
01:25:59,952 --> 01:26:01,412
Well, that would
explain the title.

1751
01:26:01,495 --> 01:26:02,788
He didn't go to charm school.

1752
01:26:02,872 --> 01:26:05,875
No, I think that
that background is a plus.

1753
01:26:05,958 --> 01:26:08,085
I am thrilled

1754
01:26:08,168 --> 01:26:11,422
to read a BIPOC man
harmed by our carceral state.

1755
01:26:11,505 --> 01:26:14,049
<i>Are you one of those
defund the police nuts?</i>

1756
01:26:14,133 --> 01:26:17,136
Yes, and I wouldn't expect you
to understand.

1757
01:26:17,219 --> 01:26:20,014
Well, I hope someone you love
doesn't get raped or murdered.

1758
01:26:20,097 --> 01:26:22,433
Can we not talk
about this now, please?

1759
01:26:22,516 --> 01:26:24,393
Look, look, look.
Criminal or not,

1760
01:26:24,476 --> 01:26:26,061
I don't think
we should add it.

1761
01:26:26,145 --> 01:26:27,688
We're already weeks
into the process,

1762
01:26:27,771 --> 01:26:29,106
and I don't know
about any of you,

1763
01:26:29,189 --> 01:26:30,482
but I've got more
than a dozen books

1764
01:26:30,566 --> 01:26:33,068
I haven't even opened yet.

1765
01:26:33,152 --> 01:26:34,862
It was published
before the submission date,

1766
01:26:34,945 --> 01:26:36,405
I think we have to accept it.

1767
01:26:37,781 --> 01:26:40,659
<i>Yeah, it's just one more.</i>
And from the looks of it, it should be a
quick read.

1768
01:26:40,743 --> 01:26:41,827
A quick fuck.

1769
01:26:43,329 --> 01:26:44,747
<i>I've had a couple of those.</i>

1770
01:26:46,290 --> 01:26:47,541
- Bye, guys. Bye.

1771
01:27:23,369 --> 01:27:24,620
Hi, Monkie.

1772
01:27:26,830 --> 01:27:27,915
You look beautiful.

1773
01:27:43,013 --> 01:27:44,974
Oh, hello.

1774
01:27:45,057 --> 01:27:47,893
Monkie, do we know these men?

1775
01:27:47,977 --> 01:27:50,145
No, Mother,
this isn't the Alzheimer's,

1776
01:27:50,229 --> 01:27:52,356
these are actual strangers.
Who are you people?

1777
01:27:52,439 --> 01:27:53,983
We're Cliff's friends.

1778
01:27:54,066 --> 01:27:55,567
Of course, you are.

1779
01:27:55,651 --> 01:27:57,569
We met him a few days ago.
I'm Kenny, this is Alvin.

1780
01:27:57,653 --> 01:27:58,654
Are you Monk?

1781
01:27:58,737 --> 01:28:00,823
I am. How did you know?

1782
01:28:00,906 --> 01:28:03,701
Oh. Well, Cliff said
Monk's a real tight-ass.

1783
01:28:05,619 --> 01:28:06,787
Did he?

1784
01:28:06,870 --> 01:28:07,871
Delightful.

1785
01:28:08,539 --> 01:28:09,957
Mother, you sit here.

1786
01:28:11,542 --> 01:28:12,543
Lorraine?

1787
01:28:18,215 --> 01:28:19,383
Do you like
scrambled eggs?

1788
01:28:19,466 --> 01:28:20,968
I love scrambled eggs.

1789
01:28:21,051 --> 01:28:22,386
What the hell
are you doing here?

1790
01:28:22,469 --> 01:28:23,470
You first.

1791
01:28:26,140 --> 01:28:28,475
Oh, shit, the wedding.

1792
01:28:28,559 --> 01:28:30,060
- Ah.
-  Oh, fuck!

1793
01:28:31,937 --> 01:28:33,272
I didn't go to the airport.

1794
01:28:33,355 --> 01:28:36,525
That day I left,
I needed some time to myself.

1795
01:28:36,608 --> 01:28:39,319
Time to oneself implies
by definition, time alone.

1796
01:28:39,403 --> 01:28:40,863
Oh, Christ, here we go.

1797
01:28:40,946 --> 01:28:43,198
- Detective Dictionary.
-  Ah!

1798
01:28:43,282 --> 01:28:44,283
Mr. Cliff.

1799
01:28:44,366 --> 01:28:45,576
I'm sorry, guys,
I'll handle it.

1800
01:28:45,659 --> 01:28:47,661
You need to leave.

1801
01:28:47,745 --> 01:28:49,329
Don't bother to clean up,
just go.

1802
01:28:49,413 --> 01:28:51,081
Oh, no,
it's all right, just...

1803
01:28:51,165 --> 01:28:52,207
Please stay.

1804
01:28:52,291 --> 01:28:53,751
It's a celebration.

1805
01:28:55,419 --> 01:28:56,628
It's good to see you, Cliff.

1806
01:28:57,880 --> 01:28:59,882
It's good to see you too,
Maynard.

1807
01:28:59,965 --> 01:29:01,425
I, um...

1808
01:29:01,508 --> 01:29:02,801
I... I don't want to impose.

1809
01:29:02,885 --> 01:29:04,136
You can't impose.

1810
01:29:05,220 --> 01:29:06,221
You're family.

1811
01:29:21,487 --> 01:29:22,488
Okay.

1812
01:29:23,322 --> 01:29:24,865
I'll, uh...

1813
01:29:24,948 --> 01:29:26,158
I'll go clean up a bit, yeah?

1814
01:29:27,910 --> 01:29:29,703
Congratulations, you guys.

1815
01:29:35,209 --> 01:29:36,668
Can we make
y'all some breakfast?

1816
01:29:36,752 --> 01:29:38,462
I can whip up
a killer smoothie

1817
01:29:38,545 --> 01:29:40,214
and Alvin used to work
the omelet station
on a cruise ship.

1818
01:29:40,297 --> 01:29:43,008
That sounds lovely.
Thank you.

1819
01:29:47,846 --> 01:29:49,181
It's very kind of you
to let them stay.

1820
01:29:49,264 --> 01:29:50,224
Oh.

1821
01:29:50,307 --> 01:29:51,683
It's always easier dealing

1822
01:29:51,767 --> 01:29:53,685
with other people's families
than your own.

1823
01:29:55,187 --> 01:29:57,981
I regret to inform you
that in a couple hours,

1824
01:29:58,065 --> 01:29:59,525
this will be your family.

1825
01:30:37,062 --> 01:30:39,106
<i>♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪</i>

1826
01:30:39,189 --> 01:30:41,400
<i>♪ Let love be free ♪</i>

1827
01:30:41,483 --> 01:30:43,777
<i>♪ I reach for you
Honey, yeah ♪</i>

1828
01:30:43,861 --> 01:30:45,904
<i>♪ You reach for me ♪</i>

1829
01:30:45,988 --> 01:30:50,409
<i>♪ We'll do the things together
Only lovers do ♪</i>

1830
01:30:50,492 --> 01:30:52,995
<i>♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪</i>

1831
01:30:54,830 --> 01:30:59,209
<i>♪ We'll do the things together
Only lovers do ♪</i>

1832
01:30:59,293 --> 01:31:01,962
<i>♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪</i>

1833
01:31:03,589 --> 01:31:05,507
<i>♪ Getting into each other ♪</i>

1834
01:31:05,591 --> 01:31:07,926
<i>♪ Let's reunite ♪</i>

1835
01:31:08,010 --> 01:31:10,012
<i>♪ And we let
Love's vibrations ♪</i>

1836
01:31:10,095 --> 01:31:12,181
<i>♪ Lead us all right ♪</i>

1837
01:31:12,264 --> 01:31:16,560
<i>♪ We'll do the things together
Only lovers do ♪</i>

1838
01:31:16,643 --> 01:31:19,146
<i>♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪</i>

1839
01:31:20,981 --> 01:31:25,360
<i>♪ We'll do the things together
Only lovers do ♪</i>

1840
01:31:25,444 --> 01:31:28,071
<i>♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪</i>

1841
01:31:56,683 --> 01:31:57,684
Piss her off?

1842
01:32:02,522 --> 01:32:03,482
Yeah.

1843
01:32:03,565 --> 01:32:06,443
- Shut her out?
- Yeah.

1844
01:32:08,111 --> 01:32:09,446
Dad shut everyone out too.

1845
01:32:10,364 --> 01:32:11,740
He lied all the time.

1846
01:32:12,824 --> 01:32:13,909
Look how that turned out.

1847
01:32:17,496 --> 01:32:18,747
I find myself

1848
01:32:19,957 --> 01:32:22,209
getting very angry
these days like Dad.

1849
01:32:23,168 --> 01:32:24,169
These days?

1850
01:32:30,175 --> 01:32:32,719
I've been thinking a lot
lately about

1851
01:32:32,803 --> 01:32:34,763
how Dad died
not knowing I'm gay.

1852
01:32:38,058 --> 01:32:40,060
- I think he suspected it.
- Mm.

1853
01:32:41,270 --> 01:32:42,271
He may have.

1854
01:32:43,146 --> 01:32:44,523
But he didn't know for sure.

1855
01:32:45,941 --> 01:32:48,568
He never knew
the entirety of me.

1856
01:32:49,987 --> 01:32:50,988
And now he never will.

1857
01:32:52,823 --> 01:32:54,574
And that makes me...

1858
01:32:55,701 --> 01:32:56,994
It makes me real sad.

1859
01:33:00,330 --> 01:33:03,125
Well, what if he had known
and rejected you?

1860
01:33:03,208 --> 01:33:05,877
At least he'd be rejecting
the real me.

1861
01:33:08,714 --> 01:33:10,299
I know that sounds crazy,

1862
01:33:11,550 --> 01:33:13,093
but there'd be some relief
in that.

1863
01:33:16,430 --> 01:33:18,348
It doesn't sound so crazy.

1864
01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:25,188
People want
to love you, Monk.

1865
01:33:27,983 --> 01:33:30,652
I personally don't know
what they see in you, but...

1866
01:33:32,612 --> 01:33:33,613
they want to love you.

1867
01:33:36,491 --> 01:33:38,118
You should let them love
all of you.

1868
01:34:12,361 --> 01:34:13,945
It was dogshit.

1869
01:34:14,029 --> 01:34:16,198
I mean,
some mollycoddled chump

1870
01:34:16,281 --> 01:34:18,700
faffing on
about his dead mom...

1871
01:34:18,784 --> 01:34:20,702
Who cares?

1872
01:34:20,786 --> 01:34:23,872
Okay, so that means that
<i>Bury Me Standing</i> is fourth.

1873
01:34:26,208 --> 01:34:27,626
Let's talk about <i>Fuck.</i>

1874
01:34:27,709 --> 01:34:29,044
Could we not?

1875
01:34:29,127 --> 01:34:31,296
Personally,
I adored it.

1876
01:34:32,547 --> 01:34:35,467
It was like gazing
into an open wound.

1877
01:34:35,550 --> 01:34:36,968
I agree.

1878
01:34:37,052 --> 01:34:39,221
I think it's the strongest
African-American novel

1879
01:34:39,304 --> 01:34:41,014
I've read in a long time.

1880
01:34:42,641 --> 01:34:44,476
I mean, since yours.

1881
01:34:44,559 --> 01:34:47,229
- Of course, Sintara.
- Thank you.

1882
01:34:47,312 --> 01:34:49,481
You know, I actually liked it

1883
01:34:49,564 --> 01:34:51,024
much more
than I was expecting.

1884
01:34:51,108 --> 01:34:53,777
I mean,
this is a gutsy piece of work.

1885
01:34:53,860 --> 01:34:55,821
And necessary for the times.

1886
01:34:56,822 --> 01:34:58,240
What did you think, Sintara?

1887
01:34:59,783 --> 01:35:02,994
I found it to be
pretty pandering, actually.

1888
01:35:03,078 --> 01:35:04,079
You did?

1889
01:35:04,913 --> 01:35:06,331
Yes. Did you not?

1890
01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:08,458
I very much did.

1891
01:35:08,542 --> 01:35:11,962
I thought it was simplistic
and meaningless.

1892
01:35:12,045 --> 01:35:14,089
Well, of course,
it was simplistic.

1893
01:35:14,172 --> 01:35:17,175
I mean, it's the language
of the gutter.

1894
01:35:17,259 --> 01:35:19,761
You know, not some
prissy graduate thesis.

1895
01:35:19,845 --> 01:35:21,972
"Language of the gutter."
Jesus Christ.

1896
01:35:22,055 --> 01:35:23,598
I think our blood sugar's low.

1897
01:35:23,682 --> 01:35:25,475
How about we take a break
for lunch, huh?

1898
01:35:25,559 --> 01:35:27,144
- Fine by me.
-  Okay.

1899
01:35:27,227 --> 01:35:28,228
-  Okay.
- Really?

1900
01:35:29,062 --> 01:35:30,480
Okay.

1901
01:35:41,700 --> 01:35:42,868
Oh, I'm sorry.

1902
01:35:42,951 --> 01:35:44,077
Oh, no, you're fine.

1903
01:35:44,161 --> 01:35:45,036
What,
I'm not interrupting?

1904
01:35:45,120 --> 01:35:46,788
- No.

1905
01:36:08,310 --> 01:36:09,311
Sorry.

1906
01:36:25,452 --> 01:36:26,953
Do you mind
if I ask you something?

1907
01:36:27,704 --> 01:36:28,705
Sure.

1908
01:36:29,706 --> 01:36:31,333
Um...

1909
01:36:31,416 --> 01:36:33,668
What about <i>Fuck</i>
did you find pandering?

1910
01:36:34,377 --> 01:36:35,378
Oh, uh...

1911
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:39,090
I can't really put my finger
on it, but...

1912
01:36:40,717 --> 01:36:42,636
it's not different from
some of what's out there,

1913
01:36:42,719 --> 01:36:43,762
but it just felt...

1914
01:36:45,597 --> 01:36:47,265
soulless...

1915
01:36:47,349 --> 01:36:49,684
is the word
that I'm going to use.

1916
01:36:49,768 --> 01:36:50,977
You said you agreed, right?

1917
01:36:51,061 --> 01:36:52,854
Yeah, I do.
I think it seems written

1918
01:36:52,938 --> 01:36:56,066
to satisfy the tastes
of guilt-ridden white people.

1919
01:36:56,149 --> 01:36:58,527
Yeah, the kind of book
critics call important

1920
01:36:58,610 --> 01:37:00,320
and necessary,
but not well-written.

1921
01:37:00,403 --> 01:37:01,905
-  Exactly.

1922
01:37:06,201 --> 01:37:10,413
Okay, so... And please
don't take offense at this,

1923
01:37:10,497 --> 01:37:13,124
but how is <i>Fuck</i>

1924
01:37:13,208 --> 01:37:15,627
so very different
from your book?

1925
01:37:19,506 --> 01:37:21,591
Is that what this is about?

1926
01:37:21,675 --> 01:37:23,176
- You think my book's trash?
-  No.

1927
01:37:23,260 --> 01:37:27,138
To be honest,
I haven't read your book.

1928
01:37:27,222 --> 01:37:29,015
I've read excerpts

1929
01:37:29,099 --> 01:37:32,686
and it didn't seem
so dissimilar.

1930
01:37:34,646 --> 01:37:37,566
I did a lot of research
for my book.

1931
01:37:37,649 --> 01:37:39,901
Some of it was actually taken
from real interviews.

1932
01:37:40,735 --> 01:37:42,028
Maybe you've been up

1933
01:37:42,112 --> 01:37:44,155
in your ivory tower
of academia for so long

1934
01:37:44,239 --> 01:37:46,408
you've forgotten that some
people's lives are hard.

1935
01:37:46,491 --> 01:37:47,534
Your life?

1936
01:37:50,036 --> 01:37:52,622
You went to an exclusive
bohemian college.

1937
01:37:52,706 --> 01:37:54,791
You had a job at a fancy

1938
01:37:54,874 --> 01:37:56,543
publishing house in New York.

1939
01:37:56,626 --> 01:37:59,421
So what? I don't need
to write about my life.

1940
01:37:59,504 --> 01:38:00,964
I write about
what interests people.

1941
01:38:02,299 --> 01:38:04,426
You write what interests
white publishers

1942
01:38:04,509 --> 01:38:07,178
fiending Black trauma porn.

1943
01:38:07,262 --> 01:38:08,930
They're the one buying
the manuscripts.

1944
01:38:10,348 --> 01:38:12,475
Is it bad to cater
to their tastes?

1945
01:38:12,559 --> 01:38:14,519
If you're okay feeding

1946
01:38:14,603 --> 01:38:16,062
people's base desires
for profit--

1947
01:38:16,146 --> 01:38:18,106
I'm okay with giving
the market what it wants.

1948
01:38:18,189 --> 01:38:19,774
That's how drug dealers
excuse themselves.

1949
01:38:19,858 --> 01:38:21,401
And I think drugs
should be legal.

1950
01:38:26,114 --> 01:38:29,117
But you're not fed up with it?

1951
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:31,494
You know, Black people
in poverty?

1952
01:38:32,579 --> 01:38:33,997
Black people rapping?

1953
01:38:34,080 --> 01:38:35,457
Black people as slaves?

1954
01:38:35,540 --> 01:38:37,834
Black people murdered
by the police?

1955
01:38:37,917 --> 01:38:38,918
Old soaring narratives
about...

1956
01:38:39,002 --> 01:38:40,128
Okay.

1957
01:38:40,211 --> 01:38:42,088
Black folks
in dire circumstances

1958
01:38:42,172 --> 01:38:45,008
who still managed to maintain
their dignity before they die?

1959
01:38:45,091 --> 01:38:47,677
I mean, I'm not saying
these things aren't real,

1960
01:38:47,761 --> 01:38:50,889
but we're also more than this.

1961
01:38:50,972 --> 01:38:53,975
And it's like so many writers
like you can't envision us

1962
01:38:54,059 --> 01:38:56,269
without some white boot
on our necks.

1963
01:38:56,353 --> 01:38:59,064
Do you get angry
at Bret Easton Ellis

1964
01:38:59,147 --> 01:39:00,523
or Charles Bukowski

1965
01:39:00,607 --> 01:39:02,275
for writing
about the downtrodden?

1966
01:39:02,359 --> 01:39:04,527
Or is your ire strictly
reserved for Black women?

1967
01:39:04,611 --> 01:39:06,446
Nobody reads Bukowski thinking

1968
01:39:06,529 --> 01:39:08,365
his is the definitive
white experience.

1969
01:39:08,448 --> 01:39:10,283
But people, white people,

1970
01:39:10,367 --> 01:39:12,535
read your book
and confine us to it.

1971
01:39:12,619 --> 01:39:14,871
They think
that we're all like that.

1972
01:39:14,954 --> 01:39:16,623
Then it sounds like your issue

1973
01:39:16,706 --> 01:39:18,708
is with white people, Monk,
not me.

1974
01:39:18,792 --> 01:39:20,460
Well, maybe, but I also think

1975
01:39:20,543 --> 01:39:22,128
that I see
the unrealized potential

1976
01:39:22,212 --> 01:39:23,380
of Black people
in this country.

1977
01:39:26,675 --> 01:39:29,302
Potential is what people see
when they think

1978
01:39:29,386 --> 01:39:31,137
what's in front of them
isn't good enough.

1979
01:39:40,980 --> 01:39:43,149
So, what are we talking about?

1980
01:40:32,115 --> 01:40:33,158
We're starting again.

1981
01:40:33,241 --> 01:40:34,367
I'll be right there.

1982
01:40:46,045 --> 01:40:48,339
Hey, can I speak to Arthur?
Yeah, it's Monk.

1983
01:40:51,384 --> 01:40:52,343
Hey.

1984
01:40:52,427 --> 01:40:53,845
I'm fine.

1985
01:40:53,928 --> 01:40:55,680
Listen, you think
you can set up

1986
01:40:55,764 --> 01:40:57,056
another meeting with Wiley?

1987
01:40:58,141 --> 01:41:00,018
I've got a new idea for him.

1988
01:41:00,101 --> 01:41:01,895
Different kind of movie.

1989
01:41:01,978 --> 01:41:02,979
Thanks.

1990
01:41:17,327 --> 01:41:19,037
I think it's <i>Fuck</i> for me.

1991
01:41:19,120 --> 01:41:20,872
- Yeah, me too.
- Yeah, I agree.

1992
01:41:20,955 --> 01:41:22,791
I disagree. I'm sorry.

1993
01:41:22,874 --> 01:41:25,168
I think it would be a mistake

1994
01:41:25,251 --> 01:41:27,670
to award this book anything.

1995
01:41:27,754 --> 01:41:29,297
Well, it's two
versus three, so...

1996
01:41:30,423 --> 01:41:31,424
<i>Fuck's</i> the winner.

1997
01:41:31,508 --> 01:41:32,926
<i>Fuck</i> is the winner.

1998
01:41:36,346 --> 01:41:38,890
You know, it's not just
that it's so affecting,

1999
01:41:40,016 --> 01:41:41,643
I just think it's essential

2000
01:41:41,726 --> 01:41:43,269
to listen to Black voices
right now.

2001
01:41:51,611 --> 01:41:52,612
Mother.

2002
01:41:54,030 --> 01:41:55,031
Did you...

2003
01:41:58,451 --> 01:42:00,537
Did you know that Dad
was cheating on you?

2004
01:42:01,746 --> 01:42:04,082
He was bad at keeping secrets.

2005
01:42:04,165 --> 01:42:06,543
Why didn't you leave him?

2006
01:42:06,626 --> 01:42:09,170
He would've been
even more lonely without me.

2007
01:42:11,965 --> 01:42:13,216
You thought he was lonely?

2008
01:42:13,299 --> 01:42:15,176
You father was a genius.

2009
01:42:17,971 --> 01:42:20,932
Geniuses are lonely...

2010
01:42:22,308 --> 01:42:25,770
because they can't connect
with the rest of us.

2011
01:42:27,856 --> 01:42:29,357
You're a genius, son.

2012
01:42:31,860 --> 01:42:34,362
Well, I certainly don't
feel like one half the time.

2013
01:42:35,697 --> 01:42:36,906
That's because
you've always been

2014
01:42:36,990 --> 01:42:38,867
so hard on yourself, Cliffy.

2015
01:42:46,082 --> 01:42:49,836
And now for the final
award for the evening.

2016
01:42:49,919 --> 01:42:53,423
I promise to leave you alone,
let you eat after this.

2017
01:42:53,506 --> 01:42:55,008
But before
I announce the winner,

2018
01:42:55,091 --> 01:42:56,718
I would like to acknowledge
our judges,

2019
01:42:56,801 --> 01:42:58,761
our incredibly
diverse group of judges

2020
01:42:58,845 --> 01:43:00,930
who've sacrificed
valuable time,

2021
01:43:01,014 --> 01:43:02,640
so we could all
celebrate here tonight.

2022
01:43:02,724 --> 01:43:03,725
So if you put
your hands together,

2023
01:43:03,808 --> 01:43:05,310
they did a fantastic job.

2024
01:43:10,356 --> 01:43:11,357
Okay.

2025
01:43:12,066 --> 01:43:13,234
Without further ado,

2026
01:43:14,569 --> 01:43:17,113
this year's Literary Award
goes to...

2027
01:43:18,323 --> 01:43:19,616
Oh, I knew it.

2028
01:43:19,699 --> 01:43:22,118
By Stagg R. Leigh, <i>Fuck.</i>

2029
01:43:33,421 --> 01:43:35,757
Well, I'm not sure
if Mr. Leigh
is going to grace us

2030
01:43:35,840 --> 01:43:37,300
with his presence here
tonight.

2031
01:43:37,383 --> 01:43:40,094
He's notoriously cagey
about attention.

2032
01:43:51,356 --> 01:43:53,024
Oh, hold on.

2033
01:43:53,107 --> 01:43:55,735
Oh, okay. I see some business.

2034
01:43:55,818 --> 01:43:59,614
Someone's coming.
Oh, Thelonious Ellison.

2035
01:43:59,697 --> 01:44:01,532
One of our esteemed judges.

2036
01:44:04,577 --> 01:44:06,412
Weirdly walking
toward the stage.

2037
01:44:08,081 --> 01:44:09,666
No idea why.

2038
01:44:10,458 --> 01:44:11,334
Hey.

2039
01:44:11,417 --> 01:44:12,502
What's going on?

2040
01:44:14,170 --> 01:44:15,171
Excuse me.

2041
01:44:16,506 --> 01:44:17,966
Excuse me.

2042
01:44:34,273 --> 01:44:35,984
I have a confession to make.

2043
01:44:41,364 --> 01:44:43,241
<i>Wait, wait, wait.
Smash to black?</i>

2044
01:44:45,743 --> 01:44:47,370
No fucking way, dude.

2045
01:44:47,453 --> 01:44:48,913
What's wrong with that?

2046
01:44:48,997 --> 01:44:51,541
There's no resolution here.
What's he going to say?

2047
01:44:51,624 --> 01:44:53,501
I don't know.
I think that's what's
interesting about it.

2048
01:44:53,584 --> 01:44:54,669
No, he should say something.

2049
01:44:54,752 --> 01:44:56,170
What did you say?

2050
01:44:56,254 --> 01:44:58,423
Nothing. I walked out
of the ceremony.

2051
01:44:58,506 --> 01:44:59,674
The next day
I called you to say

2052
01:44:59,757 --> 01:45:01,134
I wanted to write this movie.

2053
01:45:01,217 --> 01:45:02,510
Well, Monk,
the character

2054
01:45:02,593 --> 01:45:03,886
should say something.

2055
01:45:03,970 --> 01:45:05,972
Well, I don't want him
to make some

2056
01:45:06,055 --> 01:45:08,141
grandiose speech
spoon-feeding everyone

2057
01:45:08,224 --> 01:45:09,517
the moral of the story.

2058
01:45:09,600 --> 01:45:11,602
There is no moral.
That's the idea.

2059
01:45:11,686 --> 01:45:12,937
I like the ambiguity.

2060
01:45:13,021 --> 01:45:15,106
Okay, look.
You're a good writer,

2061
01:45:15,189 --> 01:45:17,316
and this is almost there.

2062
01:45:17,400 --> 01:45:19,527
But novels
aren't movies, okay?

2063
01:45:19,610 --> 01:45:21,571
Nuance doesn't put asses
in theater seats.

2064
01:45:21,654 --> 01:45:23,114
We need a big finish.
What is this?

2065
01:45:24,240 --> 01:45:26,534
It's the seltzer
you asked for.

2066
01:45:26,617 --> 01:45:27,702
Why is it all wet?

2067
01:45:29,203 --> 01:45:30,538
Condensation?

2068
01:45:30,621 --> 01:45:32,290
Condensation. Okay.

2069
01:45:32,373 --> 01:45:34,083
You're a fucking
weatherman now.

2070
01:45:34,167 --> 01:45:35,251
You want anything?

2071
01:45:35,334 --> 01:45:36,794
Uh, no, I'm fine. Thank you.

2072
01:45:36,878 --> 01:45:38,004
All right. This is Monk.

2073
01:45:38,087 --> 01:45:40,923
- We're going to make a movie with him if
he can get the third act right.
- Nice meeting you.

2074
01:45:41,007 --> 01:45:42,133
- You as well.
- Get me a flat white.

2075
01:45:42,967 --> 01:45:44,802
And, hey, never again.

2076
01:45:47,013 --> 01:45:48,556
All right.

2077
01:45:48,639 --> 01:45:50,224
What other endings you got
in that big brain of yours?

2078
01:45:54,062 --> 01:45:55,229
How about if...

2079
01:45:55,313 --> 01:45:57,774
This year's Literary Award
goes to...

2080
01:45:58,691 --> 01:46:01,152
by Stagg R. Leigh, <i>Fuck.</i>

2081
01:46:52,161 --> 01:46:53,913
I'd like to apologize.

2082
01:46:56,499 --> 01:46:58,376
I haven't been myself lately.

2083
01:47:19,981 --> 01:47:20,982
What about that?

2084
01:47:21,732 --> 01:47:22,775
Will she forgive him?

2085
01:47:24,277 --> 01:47:26,070
I don't know.

2086
01:47:26,154 --> 01:47:29,240
The real Coraline
won't return my phone calls.

2087
01:47:29,323 --> 01:47:31,409
Maybe the movie Coraline
is more forgiving.

2088
01:47:34,745 --> 01:47:36,539
No. It's too pat.

2089
01:47:36,622 --> 01:47:38,332
Makes the whole thing
feel like a romantic comedy.

2090
01:47:38,416 --> 01:47:40,084
We don't want
to make a romantic comedy.

2091
01:47:40,168 --> 01:47:41,669
We want
to make something real.

2092
01:47:42,795 --> 01:47:43,796
Give me something real.

2093
01:47:48,634 --> 01:47:49,760
I mean, we could just...

2094
01:47:51,053 --> 01:47:52,555
Hey, what's going on?

2095
01:47:53,431 --> 01:47:54,432
Excuse me.

2096
01:47:56,809 --> 01:47:57,810
Beat it.

2097
01:48:10,198 --> 01:48:13,242
I have a confession to make.

2098
01:48:13,326 --> 01:48:15,369
- Stagg Leigh,
on the ground now!

2099
01:48:15,453 --> 01:48:17,121
There he is!

2100
01:48:17,205 --> 01:48:19,040
No, no.
I'm not Stagg Leigh.

2101
01:48:20,208 --> 01:48:21,209
He doesn't exist.

2102
01:48:21,292 --> 01:48:23,377
I'm Monk. Thelonious Ellison.

2103
01:48:23,461 --> 01:48:25,504
You're a fugitive!
On the ground now!

2104
01:48:25,588 --> 01:48:26,756
No, no, no.

2105
01:48:26,839 --> 01:48:28,216
That was all
a marketing gimmick.

2106
01:48:28,299 --> 01:48:30,134
- It was all a lie.
-  He's got a gun!

2107
01:48:30,218 --> 01:48:31,594
No, no! No, no!

2108
01:49:04,043 --> 01:49:05,044
He's dead?

2109
01:49:06,462 --> 01:49:07,463
They smoke him?

2110
01:49:11,676 --> 01:49:12,677
It's perfect.

2111
01:49:14,428 --> 01:49:16,138
Yes! That is...

2112
01:49:17,390 --> 01:49:18,975
That is perfect.

2113
01:49:20,101 --> 01:49:22,186
Time to pick out your tux,
my brother.

2114
01:49:22,270 --> 01:49:23,854
We're going to the big show.

2115
01:49:23,938 --> 01:49:26,148
Hey, come transcribe this.
We got it.

2116
01:49:29,610 --> 01:49:30,611
Fuck.

2117
01:49:53,718 --> 01:49:54,719
Hey.

2118
01:49:59,390 --> 01:50:00,391
So?

2119
01:50:02,310 --> 01:50:03,394
They going to make
your movie or what?

2120
01:50:04,145 --> 01:50:05,730
Unfortunately, yes.

2121
01:50:05,813 --> 01:50:07,815
Hey! You know what?

2122
01:50:07,898 --> 01:50:10,693
Good luck finding someone
handsome enough to play me.

2123
01:50:10,776 --> 01:50:12,111
I think they have.

2124
01:50:12,194 --> 01:50:13,195
Who they got?

2125
01:50:14,196 --> 01:50:15,197
Tyler Perry.

2126
01:50:18,034 --> 01:50:19,035
You got me. That's good.

2127
01:50:24,373 --> 01:50:25,499
All right.