[crickets chirping]
- Jesus H. Christ!
- Again with this?
- That doesn't bother you?
- You're the one who wanted to downgrade to a duplex
so we'd save money to travel.
We haven't even gone anywhere yet.
- Oh, please!
We just went to see mom last Christmas.
- [sighing] Talk to him in the morning.
- He always says the same thing.
Neighborhood's turning over.
- Then call the police.
- What for?
He turns them right back on when they leave [sighing].
This is what I get.
- What are you talking about?
- Always the nice guy.
They don't respect you.
I'll give him nice.
- What are you doing?
- Fixing the problem.
- Well, you can't shoot him.
- I'm not gonna.
- You could hurt somebody.
- I'm not shooting at them.
I'm shooting the lights down below.
[gunshot firing]
One down, three to go.
- What the hell are you doing?
- Turning out the lights.
- The hell you are.
[gunshot firing]
You think you're the first one with Second Amendment rights?
[gunshot firing]
- Oh my God.
- What the fuck are you doing?
- I'm shooting back.
- I'm just trying to fix my problem.
Ain't nobody trying to kill anybody.
- Speak for yourself, buddy.
[gunshot firing]
- Get away from the window.
Billy, you're gonna get yourself killed,
or worse yet, wake up the kids.
- Stop it, stop it, Jerry.
You're gonna kill him.
- You tell him to stop.
He stops, I stop.
[gunshots firing]
- Robert, Robert!
Oh God, he looks like he's been shot.
[laptop pinging]
- [Man] You sure?
You sure?
[cell ringing]
- Adam?
- [Caller] I see right through you.
- What?
Who is this?
- [Caller] You'll know soon.
[ominous music]
- Oh my God, Darryl.
Darryl, Darryl, wake up.
- What?
- You must have popped your stitches again.
Let me take the bandages off.
- I'm fine.
- I'll change your bandages.
The doctor told you not to lift weights, but you do.
- Oh, so you're a doctor now, too?
- No, but I was in the room when she told you that.
- So you want me to obey my doctor,
but you never obey your doctor.
- This is about you and your fuck up.
- My fuck up?
- You ran us off the road.
- That was your fault.
You were fucking with my phone.
- Because you're fucking with somebody else.
- I'm not.
Maybe I should, though.
I mean, you already convicted me.
Might as well make it a good conviction.
- Hmm.
I had your phone while we were in the hospital
and I called the High Bar back.
Guess who answered?
One blessed and apparently highly favored Jennifer.
Oh.
- How did you get these?
- That was her response to my contention
that she was just a hit it and quit it.
She sent me those to show
that you guys are in a relationship.
- Jay, I know how this looks,
but this chick just brought me her car.
And yeah, okay, I said some things, but I never touched her.
- Cap.
- That's not cap.
There's nothing there.
So now what?
- I don't know.
- What does that mean?
- Exactly what I said.
- You didn't say anything.
- Jacked up, isn't it?
- What?
- Being on that side of I don't know where we stand.
- Look, you tripping.
I'm gonna go wash these sheets.
[Jay sighing]
[eerie music]
- I said stop.
I'm too tired to do it.
Not today.
Please just give up.
Good, that's what I'm asking.
♪ I feel like falling in love
♪ I'm in the mood
- Ha!
- What are y'all doing?
♪ Wanna go where nobody's been
- No.
No, you should have told her you were out here.
- That's the thing.
I don't think she cares.
Does she always do that? - Right?
- No, this is fairly new.
- I don't know what's becoming of this place.
- Leave.
Just go on about your business.
Go, please.
- This is a courthouse, not, you know I'm right.
- Spangler, just go.
- Judge, Judge. - Huh?
- I didn't know how to get your attention.
Judge, you had an audience out here watching you.
- Least of my problems.
- Yeah, well it's the least of your problems
until it becomes a big problem.
- So what are we looking like for today?
- Judge, are you hearing me?
- I already have one mother.
I don't need two.
- Well, I'll tell you like I told your predecessor,
I handle all of this so that you can go out there
and do that to the best of your abilities, okay?
So please let me do my job, please?
Please.
- What do we have today?
- Thank you.
All of your small claim cases are settled.
I got Spangler to take your motions
that were waiting on you.
- You about ready to go out there?
- I am if you are [chuckling].
- Ooh. - Judge,
you love it out there, don't you?
- My little piece of peace,
the only place I have the power to get it right.
[zipper squeaking]
- Then let's go out there and get it right.
You ready? - Yeah.
Hey!
What? - I got something too, now.
- The state contends that on the night in question,
one William Price, during the commission of a felony,
killed one Robert Mason.
The state concedes that Mr. Price
did not intend to kill Mr. Mason,
but he did in fact do so while trying to kill Jerry Guild.
He doesn't get to avoid the full consequences of his intent
just because he killed the wrong person.
Accordingly, I would ask that this court find Mr. Price
over to common pleas court on the charge of capital murder.
[tense music]
- Is he in?
- Yeah, yeah, he's in,
but he's. - Asleep?
- It's been a pretty busy morning.
- I heard.
He did housing court on site. - Yeah, he did.
- How'd that go?
- It was exactly what you needed.
- Can't imagine.
Well, let me just. - Hey,
can you give him a rest?
- He inspires such great loyalty.
- You gotta give credit when credit is due.
- I am not asleep.
I have all y'all fooled.
I just rest my eyes from time to time.
- He was just snoring.
- Uh huh.
Docket over?
We can do lunch.
- Not yet.
I got another 30 minutes or so.
- Make that an hour.
- I defer to my warden.
- I'll go see if Ruth wants to eat.
- Have at it.
We ready out there? - Yep.
Come on, Superman.
Let's put your cape on.
- Yep, let's get this show on the road.
- I told you when I grew up, I want to be just like you.
- That's hustling backwards, bro.
- Approach.
- Mr. Kenzie has completed fixing most of his violations.
I think we can end this.
- Good enough.
Mr. Kenzie, you're done with us.
- It's about time, bunch of fascists.
- Nothing like housing court to make you feel the love.
- You about ready?
- We need about five more minutes.
- You want to take a recess?
- It'll take more time to get up, leave and come back.
I'm good right here.
- Waiting on you.
- Can we discuss some dates with you?
- Sure, what do you need?
[Howard laughing]
[papers ruffling]
[objects clattering]
- Shit, shit.
Oh, shit, shit, shit.
How long have you been standing there?
- Can I help?
- No, not with anything that matters.
- Your headache is back?
- Yeah, it's just one of those things
that never actually goes away.
- I have some aspirin.
- Yeah, well I got an entire pharmacy.
- Judge.
- [sighing] You know that never gets fixed, right?
- No, it doesn't.
- I believed him when he said
he was shooting out the lights,
but I couldn't do anything but kick it to big boy court.
He killed somebody.
- I know.
- But you know what's going to happen, right?
He's going for the full ride.
The man has a wife, three kids, a citizen.
All this over a light.
It just goes to show
that we're all just one dumb decision away
to never ride again.
This isn't the answer that I thought it was at all.
We're just a mop up operation.
- Judge, we do what we can.
- And more often than not, it's never enough.
Jean.
- [Jean] Yeah, Judge?
- That's it for today, yes?
Everything's settled, right? - Yep.
All we have is motion work.
- I'm going home.
- Judge, you know it's going to be all right.
- No I don't Jean, and neither do you.
- There she is.
- Hey, Howard. - Judge.
- A little worried about you there, sis.
- You and me both.
- It's all gonna be fine, you know that, right?
- Tell that's Billy Price and Leslie Mason.
- What I want to say to you little sis,
one of the most important things I've learned
in my 82 year journey is this too shall pass.
- Howard, you don't understand.
- I don't need to know.
Everybody's got something they gotta fight.
All I'm saying is you gotta ride it out
without letting it take you out.
You got this far.
That was no accident.
- You know, out of the men in my life,
you bring me the most comfort.
- I'll always be there for you, even after I retire
in two. - Two years.
Count 'em, one, two.
- With nary an election in between here and there,
and you got my mail.
[both laughing]
So call me any time, okay?
- Yeah. - All right.
Love ya.
Take care, dear.
[door creaking]
♪ Every time I look in your eyes, something fades away ♪
♪ I need to know if you wanna go, I won't make you stay ♪
♪ You got all of my little heart, if you go and beg♪
- Hello.
♪ She got what you need, I won't stand in your way♪
♪ I need you, I need you, need you by my side ♪
♪ I love you, I love you forever and a day♪ -Cheers.
♪ Now I know that time's gettin hard for us baby ♪
♪ But you know that time's gonna pass us by ♪
♪ I need you, I need you, need you by my side ♪
[cell ringing]
-Shit.
-Jesus
- Oh God
I should have never told you that I told him.
- Well you did, texted me first thing this morning.
Then I tried to call you.
- Mommy, I was busy.
- You at home?
- I mean, if that's what it looks like,
then that's where I am.
- Who are you talking to?
- I'm sorry.
I just got a lot on my mind.
- Please don't tell me you can't work
because you are upset about him.
Don't tell me that.
- Okay, then I won't tell you that.
- You know what you need to do, right?
- You know, the easiest thing in the world
is for a woman to tell another woman
that she should leave the man that she is with.
- And what do you have, really?
Y'all aren't married and he's still running around.
- Didn't daddy put you through a whole window?
- My husband has his issues, but he is my husband.
- Guess that makes it okay, huh?
- Look, I cut my deal.
Does he have bad days?
Yes, he does.
But he didn't volunteer to be emotionally unable.
He just is.
Now somebody's gotta love him, and ain't for nothing.
He does his part, supported me for 35 years,
putting you and your brother through college.
- I think that's the thing
that you don't understand about Darryl.
He does the same thing for me that you do for daddy.
It's not easy being us.
- It ain't easy being around y'all, either.
Oh, uh uh.
Are you day drinking again?
Oh, hell no.
I'm coming over there.
- Mm, Mommy, I just, God Jesus, shoot me now.
L-A-R-R-Y.
- So have you two been taken care of?
All right, then we'll handle you last two
and then we'll be good.
- Thank you.
If I may, we're fairly complete on all of the repairs,
so we would like to stay this matter for six months
so Mr. Morris can apply to a housing repair program.
- Okay, I got that order for you.
Judge, we're down to the last few.
- I don't even. - Judge.
Judge. - Just go, yeah.
- Judge [laughing].
Judge.
Judge, Judge?
- Is he okay?
- Judge! - Oh, shit.
- Judge!
I need everybody out the courtroom now.
Get Barbara in here.
Judge. - Okay, I'm gonna call 9-1-1.
- I'm not getting a pulse.
I don't think he's breathing.
Judge. - [Lawyer] All right, Andrew.
- Come on, don't do this to me.
Don't do this, come on, come on.
- [Lawyer] We have an emergency.
- Judge.
Judge, come on.
- [Lawyer] Can somebody get Barbara, please?
- Get a medic in here now.
Judge, come here.
Don't do this to me.
Come on, come on, come on, wake up.
Come on, man.
- So you telling me she had pictures of you
and Red in her phone?
- Yep.
- Bro, why y'all here posing in pictures with a side chick?
- That's the thing, I didn't.
Someone must have been shooting from the low.
- It must have been a home girl.
- Haven? - Hell yeah.
You said she pulled up with her a few times, didn't she?
- Son of a bitch.
Jay was right, man.
Women are getting out of control.
- What you mean, getting out of control?
They always been. - What's she up to now?
- Don't know.
- Yo, that's a weird chick.
Am I lying? - [Mechanic] Yo, D.
I mean, so what you going to do, bro?
- Go home? - Early, I bet.
- You always talking shit about how I treat my woman
when you don't even got one.
- He got a point there.
- Remember that time he asked shorty up the way
to chase him around the neighborhood in that car?
Running behind folks houses and shit?
- Dog, she hopped out the whip, hitting this man up
and chased him with a baseball bat.
- He'd get away.
- But she got back in the car.
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
But my woman never got me arrested.
- He got a point there. - Yeah.
- But seriously, man.
What you gonna do?
- I got a plan.
I already started.
Send a few texts, get home early,
be there before she gets there.
It ain't hard work when you know what you're doing.
- That's a fact.
Tell them what they want to hear
and you start over from scratch.
- Fact.
- But what about Red, though?
- That's the thing.
All that flat ass ain't even my thing.
She just. - Bro, she look at you
like you Idris or somebody. - Simple.
She don't say shit, and when she do,
all of her words are short.
- Man, fuck all that.
Did you smash or not? - Nah, I ain't hit it,
but I did one thing. - I knew it.
You hit the little batty from the High Bar, didn't you?
- Tapped that. - I already know it.
- So just add her to the rotation.
I mean, what you look like turning down free pussy?
- Jennifer don't know her role.
She want to be my woman and shit.
- But don't play yourself,
'cause old girl from the High Bar on the same shit.
She's just a little more patient with it.
- That's the thing.
You don't even let it get that far.
One and done.
- I remember when he used to be until I get caught.
- That's a fact.
- Until I get caught
don't work on a woman you trying to keep.
- Not if you train 'em right, dog.
- What you got at home again?
- He got that strong ass left hand.
- Yep, once a day, every day, twice on Sunday.
- Make yourself go blind with that shit.
- Yeah, your shit gonna fall off, keep fucking around.
- Hey.
- Let the circus begin.
- Really?
Is that necessary?
- No, may not be necessary, but it's true.
- We're gonna have a talk, you and I.
- Case number GL187625, Antoine North.
- Mr. North, do you have an attorney?
- No.
- Do we have any lawyers we need to clear out here
before we see the unrepresented defendants?
- No Judge, not one.
Doesn't matter, they live here.
- Yo, you hear your dude over here?
- Unfortunately, yes.
I'm very sorry.
- I didn't mean for him to hear.
- Yes, but he did, and what's more concerning for you
is so did I.
- Ain't this about a bitch.
The dude over here talking about how we don't need lawyers
'cause we be in here all the time.
You see what I'm saying?
That's bullshit, man. - Sir, I will handle it.
- Judge, don't let these people tell you what to do.
- Who you calling these people?
- Sir?
- You see what I'm saying? - Go James, go.
- Every time, we don't never get a chance, man.
- I'm very sorry.
He will not be back today.
- Bullshit.
- You still folding clothes back there?
- God Lord, please shut this woman up.
- [Mother] And get your hands out of your hair.
You ain't Snow White.
- Oh my God.
- God ain't got nothing to do with this.
- [Lawyer] Andrew, they're on their way.
Yes, please hurry. - Come on man, come on.
- [Lawyer] They said two minutes.
- Where the hell is Barbara?
Move, move, move.
- [Lawyer] They're pulling up, they're pulling up.
They're parking. - Where are they?
Where is the medic?
I need a medic, come on.
Come on, man.
- [Medic] How long has he been down?
- I don't know.
We thought he was sleeping.
- Okay, we got this.
No pulse.
- Starting compressions.
- Come on man, come on.
- Uh, what the heck just happened?
- From what I can tell, he made some off-color remark
and Judge Allen put him out.
- Oh, Grimes is his own worst enemy.
- There's no jokes.
You don't make jokes. - Look at her go off.
- It is not your courtroom.
- She is really letting him have it.
- What's the matter?
- [sobbing] He's not moving.
- Who? - Please.
- What was that?
- I'm sorry.
- No, you're not sorry.
[solemn music]
- Why is the cover on his face?
Why is the cover on his face?
What happened, what happened?
No.
- Jean, come on, give me your hand, give me your hand.
[Jean sobbing]
[solemn music]
- I have to call Helen.
- You want me to do it?
- No, it's better if it comes from me.
I've known her for years.
- Don't call.
I'll take you over there and we'll tell her in person.
- How long were they married?
- Over 40 years.
I'm gonna go with you.
- No, you're not.
You have half the Atlanta docket in there.
You're not going anywhere.
And Grimes, you're going with him,
and I don't want to hear one single word from your mouth.
Not one quip from you about anybody.
- I'm not an asshole. - Well.
Anisha, I need you to be me while I'm gone.
Those people down there, they still need to deal
with what they came here to do,
and it has to be done, and it has to be done right.
Look, I know we're all upset,
but we all still have our jobs to do.
So if you need to take a moment, go outside,
go for a walk around the block and come back.
- We got this, everybody.
Do you hear me?
- Wait, who's gonna call Judge Jay Johnson?
- All right.
Look, I could solve your problems if you just listen to me.
I'm not saying you gotta get rid of him,
even though that would be best.
What I'm saying is men behave better
when they know you can walk off.
You need to let him know you can walk off.
- I can't.
I'm barely holding it together as it is.
- Don't you see?
He can see that you're weak, and you won't put him out.
- You don't know what you're talking about.
- [Mother] If you just take your meds as prescribed,
you wouldn't need him.
- And you know this how?
- I don't know what it is with you people.
- You people?
- Yes, you people.
You, your father, your Aunt Maxine.
Why can't you take your meds
as prescribed? - Mommy, 'cause they're not
a solve, ma.
They're not a solve.
I mean, yeah, they make us easier to take
but they do things to you.
Some of them make you nauseous, some of them make you fuzzy.
Some of them, it takes weeks for them to even start.
Some you can't even come off of right away.
I've gotta swear some of them even make you dumb.
I swear I lost 10 IQ points off of that Aripiprazole.
Not even to mention that a few of them make you fat.
- Don't take any of those.
- Ma, I am talking psychiatric numbers
and all you heard was fat?
Priorities, mom.
- Look, little girl.
I know what I'm talking about.
How do you think your father was able to work
and deal all of those years?
I may not be in your head, but I know how this works.
If you gonna drink, eat.
- I don't want to eat. - Do I look
like I'm playing with you, little girl?
Eat.
It's gonna be all right.
[Jay sobbing]
It's gonna be all right, it's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right.
- Looks like we got the wrong sauce.
- Looks like we got the wrong nigga ordering shit.
We need a new rear axle.
- Shit.
All right, I gotta order another.
Hey Z, call me on my way home.
Hold on one second, I gotta take this.
- [Mechanic] This nigga thought
it was one size fits all and shit.
- [Mechanic 2] That's the problem,
he be on the damn phone all the time.
- What are you talking about?
I did no such.
Your mother's there, isn't she?
But she was.
That's not true.
Look, I'm coming home, we'll talk.
Girl, you been drinking?
You gotta have been drinking.
This is about your sins, no, this is about your sins, not mine
I am packing your shit up, you can come get them when I'm at work.
And leave your keys
Calm down, calm down, calm down.
No
I'm gonna come home and we'll talk.
Don't you step a foot in this house while I'm here.
I am not playin with your ass
Jay, Jay.
Fuck.
- So if we just tighten it.
- The High Bar, y'all.
- Bro, what happened?
- The High Bar. - Bro, are you sure?
Because you know whenever you drink
you just take it all the way there, nigga.
All right, whether you all the way happy
or all the way angry.
You remember what happened in Baltimore, nigga?
- The High Bar.
- Shit, you buying? - Really, nigga?
- Darryl's a grown ass man.
He don't need us to tell him what to do.
- D, look bro, at least let us know
what type of bullshit we about to ride into.
- Go home, get your clothes, meet me at the High Bar.
That's it.
Now nigga, come on.
- All right, nigga.
Damn. - nigga always yelling.
- Is the rear axle at the High Bar, though?
- Gotta be. - [Worker] That's what
I want to know.
[cell ringing]
- Hello?
Martin?
What?
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
What do you mean?
Howard?
How?
[solemn music]
[door jiggling]
[ominous music]
[door jiggling]
- Jay.
What are you doing?
- Why are you breaking into my house?
- I ain't breaking into y'all house, woman.
I got a key.
- What are you doing here?
- Mom sent me here.
You ain't picking up everybody phone calls or anything.
She got worried, what's up?
- Tell her that I'm fine.
- You're fine, really?
Are you?
- Well of course I'm not,
but that's what you're gonna tell her.
- You want to put the butcher knife down real quick
so we can just talk?
Geez. - Oh.
- So you really put big boy out, huh?
- You would think that that's the worst thing
that happened today, but it wasn't.
- Soon, and very soon, you will get to meet the king.
- You know Jay, Jay.
- What?
- Can I go tell mom you're okay?
- I don't care what you do.
- Look, everything's gonna be okay, all right?
Will you just relax a little bit?
Woosah.
- Everybody says that, you know?
But it's not true.
- You know what you ought to do?
You remember when you were studying for the bar?
You built like a whole three story dollhouse,
electric running through the whole thing,
you know what I mean?
You remember? - Okay.
- Yeah, when you're working on things,
you don't really worry.
You should probably work on something.
- You know, every once in a while you kind of remind me
that you're not completely useless.
- You know I love you
because I let you put your stinking feet on me, all right?
Now can I go now and tell mom you're okay, mission complete?
All right, later, kid.
- Ow!
You act childish.
- [laughing] Put that knife away.
You ain't hurting nobody.
[dog barking]
- Okay Graves, I hear you.
Hey basic bitch, play some music.
Oh, okay.
We're in that kind of mood.
All right.
[upbeat music]
Okay, okay.
[upbeat music]
October, October, October 15th.
One, two.
October, December.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
October 15th.
Fucking February 9th.
Holy shit.
Shit, shit.
Basic bitch, I did not call for shock and awe.
Basic bitch, turn off shock and awe.
[eerie music]
[cell ringing]
Pick up, pick up, pick up.
[cell ringing]
- Bitch.
It's over when I say it is.
[soft music]
♪ I heard him say chivalry was dead ♪
♪ I could see it in your eyes you scared ♪
♪ Because there ain't nothing for you here ♪
♪ Lot of skeletons in my closet, dear ♪
♪ Baby, destruction is part the play ♪
♪ I'm your leader to in front of me ♪
♪ I'm a need my respect in living ♪
♪ And if you get offended too bad ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm the high eater
♪ I'm the high eater baby
♪ It's a dinner date, I'm a eat your soul ♪
♪ Think about it, dream about it ♪
♪ If you want to stay then you can ♪