[distant shriek]
- What was that?
- I don't know.
[distant shrieks] - Did you hear that?
- Yeah, now I hear it.
[shrieking continues] - Oh, that was Kristen's room!
- Shit!
Kristen!
- Dad! - Kristen!
- Dad! - Hey!
Hey- [Kristen shrieks]
[pair grunting] [labored breathing]
[Kristen shrieks] [pair grunting]
- [Mom] 911, this is an emergency.
[mother's conversation drowned by grunting fighters]
[pair grunting] [screaming]
[labored breathing] [Kristen shrieks]
[fighters grunting]
[labored breathing]
- Mom! [labored breathing]
- [Mom] Jaime, Jaime!
- Yeah. - Are you okay?
- Is Kristen okay?
- [Mom] I think so, thank God.
[labored breathing]
- Is everybody okay?
- Yeah, we're okay.
The guy jumped right off the balcony.
- Right out here? - Yeah.
- Can I get an EMS, 2463 Parker Lane.
- [Officer] All right, so what happened?
- [sighs] Some guy broke in to my daughter's room.
- [Officer] Mmhmm, did you get a good look at him?
- Yeah, fought him.
He's a big burly Black guy, um, bug puffy jacket.
He had black gloves on and, like, bushy hair.
- Do you think it's that guy they've been talking about?
- I'm sorry ma'am, what guy?
- The guy that's been peeping at young girl's room
through their windows.
He leaves grease stains.
- The mechanic.
- Yeah, but he's just a peeping tom, he never comes inside.
- [Kristen] What, what? [crying]
- [Mom] [hyperventilating] Oh no.
It's okay.
- [Jaime] Looks like he's moving up in the world.
- Jason, get your head out of your ass, man, it's your turn.
- He's over there sulking about Maria again.
- Well, you know what they say,
once you go Black, you'll never go back.
- Oh, is that what they say, Eddie?
- Yeah.
- Okay, 'cause I have also heard that once you go White,
again, you get-
- Yeah, they go right back to Black.
- [sighs] Yeah.
- Oh, I see, now that his ex is out there
humping one of them monkeys, he is ready.
- Does that even matter?
- Not a goddamn bit, okay?
'Cause we all still got the same problem.
- Been saying this all along,
we're gonna have niggas and spics if we don't.
- But what can we do?
- For every one kid we have, they having 10.
- Draw four, buddy.
- Fuck you, Paul.
- So, what you wanna do?
- Not more of the same, that's for sure.
- Well then what?
- Remember the camel jockeys?
- Who are you talkin' about?
- That riot over at the Arab store?
- [screaming] Get out of the store, you don't belong here!
[people yelling] [bodies clattering]
- [Speaker] Y'all everyone stop before y'all gonna-
- [Speaker] Don't touch my things!
- Oh yeah, they started coming for each other, right?
- That was us.
- What do you mean?
- The nooses, the graffiti, all of it.
Look, we don't want none of 'em here, right?
So, let's have them do our work for us.
[card player chuckles]
They're stupid and they like to fight.
Send 'em all to Chillchate State Prison.
- So y'all actually did this?
- Yep. - Yeah, well it didn't work.
That judge shot that shit down.
- Now they're all in line saying that
she saved the world or some shit. [chuckles]
- Exactly, so we gotta take it a step further.
- Well, what should we do?
- Already underway.
[phone rings]
[Judge screams] [labored breathing]
[phone ringing] [Judge muttering fearfully]
[staggered breathing] [phone ringing]
[Judge muttering fearfully] [staggered breathing]
[unidentified thumping]
[hammer clapping rail]
- Court is now in session.
The honorable Judge Larry Steel presiding.
[chuckles] Always wanted to say that.
Zelma J. Johnson, you have been found in violation
of serock 92, which states in relevant part,
never surrender your dignity to any woman.
No woman shall ever take leadership over a man.
Miss Johnson, the details of your indictment are as follows-
[phone ringing]
Are you paying attention?
I don't think you appreciate the gravity of your situation.
You have no idea what's happening here, do you?
[Larry Steel sighs]
- [Speaker] He wanted control.
She needed her to be afraid.
- [Larry Steel] You know you're gonna die today, right?
- [Speaker] What saved Alison
was her refusal to show that fear.
[Larry Steel chuckles]
- What the hell is wrong with you?
If I take the gag off, will you scream?
You know if you do, you go back to sleep, right?
And we can do this easy or we can do this hard.
So don't annoy me.
- How's Lily?
[rattling files]
- Come with me.
[pattering footsteps]
We're gonna have to work some magic today.
- [Neesha] Where is Judge Johnson?
- Don't know.
- [Neesha] That's weird, she's usually here by 7:30.
Did you call her?
- Three times.
- Is she- - I don't know, Neesha,
I don't know.
- [Neesha] [sighs] Are you worried?
- Not yet.
- Well, what are we gonna do?
- What we are going to do is work on this immediate problem
which is this.
- What are those?
- These are two piles, bullshit and not bullshit.
Stick with me, bullshit pile has non-injury accidents,
disorderly conduct, possession of Marijuana charges,
and our frequent fliers.
- Because?
- Because we're gonna give the bullshit pile to Allen,
when he gets in.
I already got two prosecutors in there working deals
and I left Meekes with Spangler because-
- Mm, he just can't bring himself to make a deal.
- At all.
All right, so let's get these distributed
and I'm gonna call Darryl.
- Hey. - Hm?
- What do you think happened?
- I don't know, but um,
just wanna get some eyes on her, you know?
- Woo, okay.
[phone rings]
- Damn. [phone ringing]
[whispers] Shit.
[phone ringing]
Yo.
- Darryl, it's Barbara, sorry to bother you,
do you know where Judge Johnson is?
- She not there?
- [Barbara] No.
- Maybe she's sick or something.
J. don't do late.
You call her?
- [sighs] Three times, no answer.
- Call her mother.
- Did that.
- [Darryl] And?
- She thinks she's over,
she thinks she's over at the house.
Could you go over there and check to see?
- Nah, Barbara, I think it's best if you call Yvonne again.
[Barbara mutters under her breath]
[phone clatters] [Darryl sighs]
[pattering footsteps]
- [Speaker] Come on.
Shit. [phone clatters]
[pattering footsteps]
- What's with the crowd?
- Judge Johnson's late.
- That's a first. - Yep.
- Judge, please.
- Yeah, okay.
- We need to speak in private.
[pattering footsteps]
So,
Judge- [pattering footsteps]
- What's going on?
- I'll tell you what's going on.
I'm the only judge here.
You're late and she's not here at all.
- She usually beats us all here.
Did you call her? - No answer.
- She's probably in a closet somewhere, talking to herself.
You know I'm right.
- Don't you have a docket to get back to?
- I do, but that doesn't change the fact that at some point
we're gonna have to do something about her.
[pattering footsteps] [judge sighs]
- She's not wrong.
- Call her again.
- I've been calling.
- Try Darryl or her mother.
- I called both of them.
- And?
- They don't seem very concerned.
- Send an officer over there for a well check.
- Martin no, no Martin, odds are she's over there,
she could be drunk,
she may not be in the right head space to leave.
The chief already thinks she's in half the bag of crazy.
I don't wanna feed into that, so.
- Okay.
[Barbara sighs]
[Barbara exhales]
[phone ringing]
[Larry Steel sighs]
- Open your eyes.
Open your fucking eyes.
[Larry Steel grumbles quietly]
[phone clatters]
Hm, that should shut 'em up for a while.
[pattering footsteps]
- Why'd you pull me out of court?
- They need a search warrant for Aparmeton residents.
- And why so urgent?
- It's that peeping tom again,
apparently he escalated, broke into a girl's house,
they think they know where he is.
- Ah, Judge Johnson here?
- [Barbara] No.
- Darryl call back?
- No, but Yvonne texted and said
she wasn't feeling well, so.
- You're not concerned?
- Mm.
Okay, let's get you back to court-
- [Judge] I need a minute, Barbara.
- Okay. - I need a minute.
[thumping footsteps]
[Judge muttering quietly]
- Darryl.
Mom.
Darryl. [crying]
[labored breathing]
[Darryl startles]
[bedding rustles]
[phone ringing]
- Hey Yvonne, how you doin'?
Good, good, um, when's the last time you heard from J.?
Yeah, she texted me around that time too.
Okay.
And did you call Barbara and let her know?
[chuckles] I know, right?
Think I saw the alcohol.
All right.
Okay, cool.
Talk to you soon.
[phone thumps table]
[Judge muttering quietly]
[controller clicking]
[controller clatters]
[keys clink]
- What now, Louie?
Yeah, I told you I was comfortable with that.
Yeah, I know what year it is.
[thumping footsteps]
I gotta go, judge is here.
[thumping footsteps]
- Single?
- Sure.
- You guys need anything?
- No, limes, ice.
- Done, on the way.
- Thanks. - Thanks Grimes.
[bottle clatters]
[glasses clink]
- You worried about J.?
- I know it's not like her not to show for work.
And she's been so mercurial lately.
- Mercurial?
How about paranoid, unmoored.
- I know how you feel about her, Ruth.
- No you don't.
You think I'm jealous of her and I'm not.
Look, I get that she's good out there,
but we don't know just how deep her problem goes
and if it will affect her out there one day.
- We all have personal lives.
Just because she says the stuff that we keep to ourselves
out loud doesn't make her any different.
Okay, I take that back.
- Speaking of personal lives,
the rumor mill is still grinding on yours.
- As is on yours.
- Well, that'll end soon enough.
- Well, sorry to hear that.
No more flowers?
- [chuckles] No more him.
Got too weird.
I'm not even sure what happened.
I had to let the whole thing go.
- Here we go, guys. [items clatter]
[sighs] Shit.
- No worries.
- [Grimes] Sorry.
- It's fine, Grimes.
- [Grimes] Let me get this.
- Hey, you know, just leave it.
- [Grimes] I got it.
Well there's your limes and lemons.
- All right, well call it a day man, go home.
- [Grimes] Thank you.
- Grimes is a, he's been a bit grim lately.
- Yeah, got his commentary in court and I think-
- Yeah, I heard that too.
- Well, love ain't easy, gay or straight.
- [laughs] How would you know?
Your love life's a circus.
- Oh better a circus than an empty tent.
Although, I hear-
- [sighs] This place is like the Housewives of Atlanta.
- The clerks do love to gossip.
- [Judge] And so do the bailiffs.
- And us. - Hm.
[classes clink] [Judge laughs]
Your turn.
- My love life?
Nothing's changed.
- Even though you wish it had?
Everyone knows how you look at J., even Denise.
You may have a problem there.
I mean, they're both a little, mm,
well, then again, suppose that's how you like 'em.
I'm gonna head out.
Thanks for the drink.
Enjoy your night.
[clomping footsteps]
[glass clatters]
[thumping footsteps]
[Darryl sighs]
♪ Hop in the car watch it go vroom ♪
♪ I told 'em all that I'd blow soon ♪
[siren wails] ♪ Knew as a child back in the womb, womb ♪
♪Told em step back I need more room ♪ - Shit!
♪ Hop in the car watch it go vroom ♪
♪ I'm in the whip so I gotta zoom ♪
♪ They tryna talk they not in the room♪ Fuck. [rustling papers]
♪ I been so real I'm that to the tomb ♪
♪ They in the way they gotta move ♪ [glove compartment thumps]
♪ I got the gas they runnin on fumes ♪
♪ Told 'em way back it's nothing new ♪ [Officer, I've got an emergency-
- [Officer] Get your ass in the car right now!
Right now! - Yo,
my license and my registration, man,
is right here, I'm just trying to get to my wife.
- Shut the fuck up,
you know better than to jump out of a car at an officer.
Now, put your hands up and face your vehicle.
- Fuck me!
You're right, I do, my bad, I'm just trying-
- You got any weapons on you?
Anything that can stick me?
- [Darryl] No, I ain't got nothin', man,
I'm just trying to get- - I don't wanna hear it
until I know that you're unarmed, okay?
[hammer claps]
- This is not your courtroom, it's mine!
- Okay, I was just wondering, where is she?
- Lily is none of your concern.
And anyway, as a practical matter, she's been,
[chuckles] resolved.
You know, I thought you were smarter than this.
You don't seem to appreciate your situation.
Women are always, always off track,
and I just don't know how.
- How what?
[fist thumps] [Judge grunts]
My mama hits harder than that.
[Judge sighs]
[Larry Steel exhales] [book thumps closed]
- I can see I'm gonna have to take a different approach.
You don't seem to understand.
This is Gina.
Let's get you dressed.
Let's see how these look on you.
See that camera back there?
For serious photography, not the nonsense with phones.
Anyway, Gina went to Antioch Baptist.
I go there too from time to time.
It's not the true word,
but close as you're gonna get around here.
I took pictures for 'em on special occasions.
She was very pretty, very friendly,
and one day, she wanted me to take pictures of her.
She was also a flirt.
I mean, I thought, but that's the problem with you women,
you use your bodies to...
so we get back to her place,
and I'm taking all these shots of her,
each one sexier than another.
I mean, anybody would've thought.
So I express interest in her and she's horrified,
like she wasn't coming on to me.
She says she's got a boyfriend and the shots are for him.
All of them!
In the bubble bath, like I'm not a man!
She thought because she was in a bathing suit,
that made it okay.
Still a whore!
So I took her head and held it under the water.
Her eyes got big and there is was,
that's when I knew that she hadn't tricked me,
that I was sent here for a purpose.
I wasn't meant to be with her,
I was meant to cleanse her.
- Yo really?
- Yo, you know better
than to jump out of a car at an officer.
- Yo, I'm just trying to get to my-
- I don't care what you're trying to do.
- Yo, I'm trying to get to my wife, man!
- You got a wife?
- The fuck that supposed to mean?
- Man, y'all got your boos and your bays and your fiances,
I don't see many married up in this community.
Come on. - Yo,
is this really necessary, man?
- I gotta run your name and your plate,
make sure you don't have any priors
and make sure that car isn't stolen.
- Yo, my wife is in trouble, man.
- Well if she called you, then she can call the police.
- She did!
Fuck it!
[door thuds]
I spend more time in cuffs behind this motherfucker,
I swear to God.
- Now this is Alexa Smith.
[Alexa whimpering] [screams]
[gun blasts]
Now with Alexis, I knew my purpose going in.
She was bar hopping.
She also had three kids, 13, 11, and seven,
but did she ever stay home with them?
No.
She brought men home, one right after the other.
Do you have any idea what it does to a kid
to have to see and hear that?
- I can only imagine.
My mom was always home.
- You know, Alexa showed me two things,
that they had to die in the manner of their sin,
and that they had to understand why before they did it.
You see, killing 'em just stops 'em.
It's the fear that cleanses them.
- How was shooting her in the field
cleansing her in the manner of her sin?
- She wanted to be out and about so that's what we did.
I took her, put her in the trunk of the car,
and I drove her around for hours until I was quite certain
that home is where she wanted to be more than anyplace else.
- Uh oh, looks like you've got a problem.
- I ain't got no warrants.
- Car comes back to a judge.
- Yeah, Judge J. Johnson, my wife.
- [laughs] Yeah, right.
- Yo, call Barbara Lester, Clerk of Courts,
Jim Grimes, or any one of them,
they'll all tell you- - Nothing,
'cause I'm not calling.
- Think about it, how else would I know them
if that's not my wife? - I don't know
a brother out there that doesn't know everyone at court.
- Tell me about Marjorie Palmer.
- Y'all think she was next, don't you?
- No?
- No.
Courtney, she had kids too,
little Tinsley, cute little girl.
- Where is she, how come they haven't found her?
- As you can see, she went to Peace Zone. [chuckles]
Now this is Marjorie Palmer.
She was an associate pastor at Mount Olive Methodist.
- And?
- Well her sin was much like your own.
She presumed to have authority over men.
She was an associate pastor.
So right there, she was in sin.
- There are a lot of women who are pastors.
Why her?
- Hm, convenience.
Could have been anybody.
But I watched her preach a couple of times.
Now here we are in my workroom.
I took these, choked her, you know, stopped the words,
then returned her to the scene of the crime,
behind the church.
- Why me?
- [sighs] You know, you weren't my first choice.
- Who was?
- Ruth Spangler.
She, like you, seeks to exercise authority over men.
[chuckles] And she's a nasty woman,
always taking half naked pictures of herself for men online.
- Ruth?
- I watch her through her window.
[laughs] That was fun
'cause she never knew whether it was me or him.
You know, when stuff happened.
[Jess sighs]
- Why switch to me?
- Practical matter.
Once I realized you knew,
I realized I could resolve the situation
and send my message at the same time.
[Larry Steel laughs]
- So that's it?
- What do you mean?
- I thought you had more, I don't know,
interesting explanation?
You know, like Kemper.
- [scoffs] Let's just get down to business.
[camera clicks] - Oh, oh.
Hold on now. [camera clicking]
[chuckles] Hey.
[Judge clears throat]
[fist claps head] [Judge grunts]
[labored breathing]
- This is a three-drug cocktail.
That's what you'll get,
just like any other death row inmate.
The interesting thing about my cocktail
is that it starts with succinylcholine, a paralytic.
Now once you get this, you won't be able to move,
and after the subs kick in, [chuckles]
well, that'll be quite the experience for you.
- But I kept my word, I didn't scream.
- But you talk too much.
- That wasn't the deal.
He whose deeds follows not his actions
spits in the face of God, the Gnostic proticus, 7:12.
It was on a piece of paper on Gina's nightstand.
But they don't think that had anything to do with you.
But, you know, the police,
they photograph and voucher everything.
- But that was never released.
- I'm a judge.
I know a detective or two.
- Be that as it may- - Why,
but you're not a man of your word then, huh?
How can you be a man of God
if you're not a man of your word?
- You got someone who can come pick up this car
or am I gonna have to call a tow?
- You're kidding me?
You're taking me in over traffic violations?
- Resisting arrest.
- Resisting?
- You jumped out of the car, not following orders,
resisting.
- Oh mother fucker.
- Yeah, tell it to the judge.
- Oh you have no idea.
- [sighs] Matthews.
- [Radio Operator] What's your status?
- Suspect attained, gonna call a tow.
- [Radio Operator] Traffic only?
- Also resisting.
- [Radio Operator] We have a code eight.
- I got him in the back.
- [Radio Operator] Sighting on that peeping tom.
He breached a house and attacked a girl.
We think he's held up in a house in Paramount.
Sergeant Nonock,
but we wanna show of force surrounding the house.
He's been very allusive.
- 10 four.
I guess it's your lucky day.
[door clattering] - So lucky.
[item clatters]
- So this is high level.
You've already tried this.
- They almost got him today.
- [Speaker] The mechanic?
- Yep.
He finally had the nerve to go in the house
and they caught him on his way out.
He called me while he was running.
- So what does Ted do?
Calls a sighting in 10 blocks away.
They think the cop's still there
and Mike's already home. [laughing]
- We can do this, we can win this war.
We just gotta do that one thing to set things off.
- Ted, you think it's time?
- Acceptable losses, all wars have them.
Just one, we just have to kill the one.
[card player laughs] [thumps table] Out.
- Oh son of a- - Oh fuckin pig.
- He's gotta be cheating, I'm checking the rule book.
- Either you're on a mission from God or you aren't.
Or, maybe you aren't sure that this is what God wants.
- Oh I'm sure.
You just need to come to an understanding
about the nature of your sin.
Okay, you know what, that's it.
Your evil and wicked ways
shall bring about your own suffering.
- Your basic bitch, shock and awe.
[upbeat rock music] [Jess grunts]
Oh shit.
[thumping feet] [upbeat rock music]
[labored breathing] [upbeat rock music]
[Judge shrieks] [labored breathing]
[pounding on door] [Judge shrieks]
[labored breathing] [pounding on door]
Oh shit!
[dramatic ominous music]
Fuck, oh shit. [labored breathing]
[dramatic ominous music] [labored breathing]
[Judge gasps] [dramatic ominous music]
Oh my God, no! [shrieking]
Darryl, please Darryl! [shrieking]
[dramatic ominous music]
[clattering footsteps] [dramatic ominous music]
[men grunting] [dramatic ominous music]
[Judge grunts] [Larry Steel grunts]
- Who the fuck is he?
- He's the guy that I've been
trying to tell everybody about,
Larry Steel, the serial killer.
- You sure you're okay?
- Eh, surprisingly so.
When I'm free of my pharmaceutical constraints, [mutters]
- Yeah, you lit it up in here.
How'd you know he was after you?
- At first I didn't know it was him,
[sighs] but I thought you were-
- What?
- Eh, nevermind.
- But why did he come after you?
- He knew that I was on to him.
- How'd you figure that out?
- The scarves.
- What scarves?
- The dates.
His sister sued him for borrowing her scarfs
and then returning them with off energy.
She had the dates written down
when each one of those scarves went missing
and when they were returned.
Those dates match the dates that those women were killed.
He used the scarves to tie those women up physically,
and then linked them to Lily, metaphorically.
Huh.
He killed her.
- Who?
- Lily.
- How do you know that?
- No scarf for me.
And he did say that she was resolved.
[Jess crying]
You're home, right?
- No doubt.
[upbeat orchestral music]
♪ I heard 'em say chivalry was dead, uh huh ♪
♪ I could see it in your eyes, you scared, uh huh ♪
♪ Cause it ain't nothing for you here, nope ♪
♪ Lotta skeletons in my closet there, uh huh ♪
♪ Baby, destruction is part of the plan ♪
♪ I'm your leader, the emperor, the maze ♪
♪ I'ma need my respect in the face ♪
♪ 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'ma eat solo, solo, solo, solo, solo ♪