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[narrator] Previously
on Queen Sugar.
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I was in a tent in the Sudan,
desperate to know
how you were,
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and you were here
with your ex-cop boyfriend
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that's the love of your life
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Talked to Blue this morning.
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Maybe we should tell him.
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I mean, everything comes ou
eventually, Darla.
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Not now.
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If we can find
a pattern of corruption,
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we can build a case.
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You're hiding so many secrets.
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Look, everybody
agrees this is skids.
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Whether or not Betty Flynn
has anything to do with this.
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She would stop it
if she could.
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It's best I do this on my own.
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-Hi, Betty.
-Vi!
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Oh, my God. Is that you?
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What are you doing here?
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I needed to see you.
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I needed to look
into your eyes
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and know that you were still
the woman I knew.
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Betty, I need your help.
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I need you to come home.
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Vi, I can't go back there.
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You know I would not ask
if it wasn't important.
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♪ Dreams never die
take flight as
the world turns ♪
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♪ Dreams never die
take flight as
the world turns ♪
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♪ Keep the colors
in the lines
take flight♪
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♪ Dreams never die ♪
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♪ Keep the colors
in the lines♪
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♪ Keep the colors
in the lines
take flight♪
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Yeah, that whole town
turned on me.
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Even my own family.
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My father, he couldn't
even look at me.
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Poor Mama, she just cried.
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They all turned
their back on me.
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Not me and Ernest.
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And you're right.
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I would have never made it
out to California
if it wasn't for you two.
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Now, Betty, I know
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that what I'm asking
for you to do is hard.
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But I need you.
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Vi's been trying to
reach you for months.
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We wouldn't have even came
all the way this way
if it wasn't serious.
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Y'all don't understand.
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I have not stepped foot
back at that place
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since I was
eighteen years old.
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Sam's father threatened
to kill us both
if I had the baby.
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Y'all were determined.
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Wasn't nobody gonna
tell you who you could love.
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Vi and Ernest drove us
to another parish
about three hours away
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where we got married.
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[sighs] We thought that...
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...that we were gonna
be together forever.
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My grandmother left me
a little piece of land,
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so we were gonna
build a house,
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and, you know,
start our life together.
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[Violet] We were packing up
Betty's suitcase
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the day she and Sam were
supposed to leave to go west.
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Sam shows up last minute
with a black eye
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and a wad of cash.
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His daddy beat
the mess out of him.
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Threatened to cut him off
if he went with Betty.
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Oh, and I begged him.
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I begged him to come with me.
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But he was more afraid
of being broke
than being with me.
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-[Hollywood] Mmm.
-[Violet] Well, one thing
you can say about
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that Sam Landry
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is that money
didn't change him.
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Like that from the day
he was born.
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Lord, yes he was.
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But, you know,
that was a million years ago.
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I mean, it's all in the past.
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It ain't in the past
if you and Sam
are still legally married.
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-Oh, Vi, that old country
courthouse wedding--
-Still legal.
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[Hollywood] Now right now,
your claim to that land,
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is the only thing standing
between us and the Landrys.
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He wants to bulldoze
over Ernest's farm.
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We need your help.
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So, where you staying
in the Big Apple?
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Uh, my grandma has
an apartment
on the Upper West Side,
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so I'm gonna kick it there.
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I hear she's setting you up
with some big fund person
or something.
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Yeah, there's
this fund manager
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that's interested in financing
the NFT Collective.
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So...
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[Ralph Angel] That's exciting.
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You don't sound
excited though.
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Last time I went down
this investor route,
it blew up in my face.
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It's hard to know
who to trust.
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I get it.
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All right.
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Ready.
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I actually wanna
chop with you before
you jet off to New York.
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So, what's up?
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Can't get him out my head.
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Chase?
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Can't get him out
of my head either.
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I mean, one minute,
I'm back at my house,
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dealing with the store,
and the next, here he come,
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just messing up my peace.
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You feel like you were in
a peaceful place
before that night?
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I mean, yeah, mostly.
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I don't know.
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Got a job that provides,
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apartment I could afford,
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co-op been booming.
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I got Darla, True, and Blue.
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You still have
all of those things.
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Yeah, but I'm in my head
now, Micah.
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About it all.
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I mean, how I'm just
supposed to let this man
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walk in my house
and do nothing?
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I'm supposed to
just let it go?
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I mean, you pulled me off him.
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Hollywood pulled me
off him, but...
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...I still wanna
make him hurt.
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I'm supposed to just let him
talk shit about Blue,
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like he's nothing,
talking crazy, like...
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[shudders]
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I could have killed him,
I swear to God.
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No, where would that
have left you?
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Or the people who love you?
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Yeah, but it don't change
how I feel, Micah.
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Everybody expect me
to let it go...
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...and I'm trying.
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But I can't.
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That's just how I feel.
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Have you talked to
Darla about it, or...
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I mean, she put it
all behind her.
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I bring it up,
I'm bringing up her pain.
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Your pain matters too.
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She's your partner.
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She loves you.
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You should just
chop it up with her.
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Is Dominic joining us?
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No, he has to help his student
with her thesis presentations.
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And did he apologize
for reading your piece?
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He did.
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We talked it out.
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But it still hurts.
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He apologized profusely
and I promised
to open up more.
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I mean, we've been
together for almost a year
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and all that time,
I thought I was really
letting him in.
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And I was in my own way,
but I'm still holding back.
I don't know.
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Okay, so six months ago,
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I thought that it was over
between me and Vince
and then...
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...you couldn't have told me
that I was going to
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-propose to the man
after Daddy's wedding.
-What?
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Girl, and got on one knee!
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Billie, are you serious?
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Wow!
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And he's... It's incredible.
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I mean, after all these years
of never wanting to me married
and now...
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Nova, now I do.
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Life is full of surprises,
isn't it?
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Bless you both.
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Thank you, girl.
We gonna need all
the blessings we can get.
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Well, actually there's
a reunification blessing
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that I can do for you
if you like.
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Aunt Martha did it
for my folks when they
got back together.
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Yeah, I'd really
like that, please.
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Well, I'm past due to see her,
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so I'll drive
out there tomorrow,
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have her remind me
of everything I need
for you and Vince.
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Wow.
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I'm really happy for you.
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Me too.
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"I'm here to speak
before the USDA,
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about the inequities
in the treatment
of black farmers."
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[sighs]
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"I'm a fifth generation farmer
from St. Josephine."
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"Look, I'm here
to speak before the USDA
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about the inequities
of..." [sighs]
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[Darla] You're gonna
do great today.
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Somebody more
experienced should talk.
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You are the very best
person to talk.
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I know you're nervous.
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But you can do this.
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Thank you for being
a good partner.
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That is a very lovely thing
to hear out of nowhere.
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Thank you for being the same.
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I'll be sensitive sometimes.
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Sometimes.
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This Chase thing...
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...still got me messed up.
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I feel bad bringing it up.
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But I feel like I need
to let you know.
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I'm still not past it.
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We have the paperwork.
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We are free and clear of him.
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Please forget him.
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So, you don't wanna
make him pay?
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For what he did to you?
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I don't need that.
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And you ain't worried
about him being
in the same city as Blue?
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He wants nothing to do
with Blue, you heard him.
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And that ain't make you feel
some type of way?
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Him talking about
my little man
like he's nothing?
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It infuriated me, of course.
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But not as much as
him saying he wants Blue
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and the nightmare
that that would be.
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We cannot have it both ways.
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Got an answer
for everything, huh?
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Excuse me?
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Forget about it.
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Don't do that.
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-It's all good.
-Ralph Angel, don't do that.
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-If you're gonna
start something, finish it.
-I'm finished.
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All right, you good?
You got your stats?
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Got it.
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Tell our story.
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Yes, sir.
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You know, all I did
to try and help you people
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and you gonna
pull a stunt like this.
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No stunt, it's just facts.
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Well, good luck in here,
you're gonna need it.
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Hey!
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[indistinct chatter]
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See, they got
a whole little club.
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They take care of each other
and make it worse for us.
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[scoffs]
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Can I have a word?
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I just wanna share
one thing with you.
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Forget them white people.
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You're standing for us,
for yourself.
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For your father.
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Ernest would be so proud
of you right now.
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He is proud.
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He always knew that you would
grow into being the man
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that you were meant to be
and here you are.
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And just speak
from your heart.
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Speak for your father.
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Come on.
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So, what is the last time
you saw my daughter?
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Parker was at
the council meeting
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convincing them to overturn
the landmark on Ernest's farm.
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Dig up our ancestors' remains,
her ancestors' remains.
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Oh, Lord. I don't know
who she is anymore.
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This, this "Parker" character
that she created.
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The name on that child's
birth certificate
is Imani Arsenault
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But you know what?
Sam got into her mind.
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And he told her that
she couldn't get into Wharton
with a name like "Imani."
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And she believed him.
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Rejected me and believed him.
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Your spirit is still in there.
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Everything that you
instilled in her, I see it.
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I gotta be honest with you,
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as much as I love you,
and as much as I owe you,
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if this were just
about the land,
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baby, I wouldn't come.
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then that's exactly
what I'm gonna do.
253
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-And I am gonna be
right there with 'ya.
-Mmm.
254
00:13:37,025 --> 00:13:39,559
You don't have to do it alone.
255
00:13:43,782 --> 00:13:48,660
[Sam] Look everybody grease
the skids, that's just the w
it's been done here for year
256
00:13:48,662 --> 00:13:50,203
-It's just business.
-[recorder clicked off]
257
00:13:52,249 --> 00:13:54,374
Uh... [clearing throat]
258
00:13:54,376 --> 00:13:59,295
We'll now have a statement
from a local farmer
on the matter on the tape.
259
00:13:59,297 --> 00:14:03,216
Your statement will go
into the official records
of our regional branch,
260
00:14:03,927 --> 00:14:05,993
all who are present,
261
00:14:05,995 --> 00:14:11,391
as well as the state senator
representing Louisiana's
agriculture committee.
262
00:14:13,728 --> 00:14:17,146
G'afternoon. [clearing throat]
263
00:14:17,148 --> 00:14:21,109
My name's
Ralph Angel Bordelon,
outta St. Josephine Parish.
264
00:14:21,903 --> 00:14:27,198
That tape you heard
is not an isolated incident.
265
00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,284
-Happens all the time.
-[man in room] Right!
266
00:14:29,286 --> 00:14:36,332
The Boudreaux and Landry
family are now 18 months
past doin' their loans.
267
00:14:36,376 --> 00:14:40,169
18, and they still
occupy that property.
268
00:14:40,171 --> 00:14:44,132
Now, my neighbor,
Miss Parthena Gilmore,
a black woman,
269
00:14:45,218 --> 00:14:48,052
she fell behind 90 days.
270
00:14:48,054 --> 00:14:53,892
90 days and got evicted
off some land her family
had for generations.
271
00:14:53,894 --> 00:15:00,023
Now the local U.S.D.A.,
it's no secret that
there's individuals
272
00:15:00,984 --> 00:15:03,142
that discriminate
against black farmers
273
00:15:03,219 --> 00:15:06,112
and has been discriminatin'
against black farmers, ever
since we had land to farm.
274
00:15:06,114 --> 00:15:09,324
Uh, Mr. Bordelon,
uh, are you aware
275
00:15:09,326 --> 00:15:17,040
that the government paid out
an additional 1.2 billion
settlement funds in 2013?
276
00:15:17,042 --> 00:15:22,128
Uh, that woulda been
around the time that you were,
uh, incarcerated.
277
00:15:22,839 --> 00:15:23,796
Correct?
278
00:15:26,217 --> 00:15:27,333
That's correct.
279
00:15:28,345 --> 00:15:31,137
I was incarcerated
when I was younger.
280
00:15:31,214 --> 00:15:35,141
Made some mistakes,
I did some time,
and I paid for 'em.
281
00:15:35,685 --> 00:15:39,812
I came home ready
to work like my daddy,
282
00:15:39,814 --> 00:15:44,943
who worked to support
our family, tryin' to climb up
some ladder that don't exist.
283
00:15:46,112 --> 00:15:49,864
When men,
like Sam Landry, get
to play by their own rules,
284
00:15:49,866 --> 00:15:51,783
what ladder?
285
00:15:51,859 --> 00:15:57,538
My daughter girl, Tru,
she ten months old,
my boy, he's 11.
286
00:15:58,959 --> 00:16:01,626
I'm not here today
on my behalf,
I'm here for them.
287
00:16:02,379 --> 00:16:05,380
In hopes,
that things'll be different,
288
00:16:05,382 --> 00:16:08,800
not only for them,
but hopefully
for their kids, too.
289
00:16:09,552 --> 00:16:11,094
I mean, it has to stop.
290
00:16:11,846 --> 00:16:13,554
I won't give up.
291
00:16:13,631 --> 00:16:15,139
-We need--
-Ahem, all right,
thank you,
292
00:16:15,216 --> 00:16:17,809
uh, your remarks
will be duly noted.
293
00:16:17,885 --> 00:16:19,852
-Uh, next order of business--
-Now, just a minute,
294
00:16:20,438 --> 00:16:22,605
I want to review these files.
295
00:16:22,607 --> 00:16:25,525
We'll put some time
on the schedule to discuss
at next week's meeting.
296
00:16:27,237 --> 00:16:31,197
I'll need all
of Mr. Miller's case records
for the last decade.
297
00:16:31,199 --> 00:16:34,701
My office and I will be going
through these personally,
298
00:16:34,703 --> 00:16:38,329
and we'll be sharing
our findings with the state
agricultural committee.
299
00:16:38,406 --> 00:16:41,874
I'll also need
Sam Landry's U.S.D.A.
loan history, as well.
300
00:16:41,876 --> 00:16:46,045
-And what was the other name
you mentioned, sir?
-Boudreaux.
301
00:16:46,047 --> 00:16:52,093
Thank you, Mr. Bordelon
for coming here and sharing
your experience with us today.
302
00:16:52,095 --> 00:16:54,220
Thank you
for your time today.
I thank you.
303
00:16:55,056 --> 00:16:57,223
[indistinct chatter]
304
00:17:00,562 --> 00:17:03,229
[reporter] With just
four weeks to go
until election day,
305
00:17:03,231 --> 00:17:06,482
progressive candidate,
Charley Bordelon,
trails by five points
306
00:17:06,526 --> 00:17:09,193
behind incumbent,
John Green, in the polls,
307
00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:11,821
and this race will be
one to watch closely.
308
00:17:14,492 --> 00:17:15,950
Your mom's a badass.
309
00:17:18,288 --> 00:17:20,747
I sat on a panel
with her once at Harvard,
310
00:17:20,823 --> 00:17:23,291
Women Changing
the Cultural Landscape.
311
00:17:23,293 --> 00:17:24,959
She had the audience
on their feet at the end.
312
00:17:27,172 --> 00:17:31,299
-I'm Rae.
-Micah, it's nice
to meet you.
313
00:17:33,178 --> 00:17:37,138
Um, you know, when my grandma
said she was setting me up
with a fund manager named Rae,
314
00:17:37,215 --> 00:17:39,766
-I was kind of expecting--
-A white tech bro?
315
00:17:39,768 --> 00:17:43,102
-[chuckling] A white
tech bro, yeah.
-Listen, I get it.
316
00:17:43,179 --> 00:17:46,105
It's what we're used to,
but it doesn't have to be
what it is.
317
00:17:46,316 --> 00:17:47,640
Amen.
318
00:17:47,642 --> 00:17:49,817
That's exactly why I put
together my own fund.
319
00:17:49,819 --> 00:17:52,111
You know, my pitch
to investors was simple.
320
00:17:52,188 --> 00:17:54,405
Finding propulsive ideas that
are gonna shake up the world,
321
00:17:54,482 --> 00:17:57,742
should be spearheaded by those
who inherit the world.
322
00:17:57,777 --> 00:18:00,745
young people, who know
what will appeal to us, right?
323
00:18:00,822 --> 00:18:03,623
-Absolutely.
-[waiter] Can I take
your order?
324
00:18:03,625 --> 00:18:05,666
[Rae] Can you bring
us each one
a the small bites?
325
00:18:05,668 --> 00:18:06,751
-Thank you.
-[Micah] Thanks.
326
00:18:08,046 --> 00:18:10,254
-So...
-So...
327
00:18:10,256 --> 00:18:12,965
I wanna know what makes
an up and coming photographer
328
00:18:12,967 --> 00:18:15,093
leave an established place
and go out on your own?
329
00:18:16,012 --> 00:18:18,971
You're either crazy or brave.
330
00:18:19,048 --> 00:18:22,433
I don't know, I guess
I didn't know who I was
until I picked up a camera,
331
00:18:22,435 --> 00:18:25,728
and ever since then,
I felt this pull.
332
00:18:25,730 --> 00:18:30,900
I wanna create something
for us in Web3, decidedly
and definitively black.
333
00:18:30,944 --> 00:18:32,852
World changing.
334
00:18:34,614 --> 00:18:37,949
-You sound like an idealist.
The best kind of people.
-[Micah chuckling]
335
00:18:37,951 --> 00:18:41,994
But I didn't just build
this fund on dreams,
I built it on data.
336
00:18:42,071 --> 00:18:45,039
On the hard fact
that authenticity can be
profitable, I believe that.
337
00:18:45,041 --> 00:18:47,274
I agree.
338
00:18:48,378 --> 00:18:51,045
I'm gonna really need to delve
into your creative portfolio
and your business plan.
339
00:18:51,122 --> 00:18:53,280
I'm ready for that.
340
00:18:54,884 --> 00:18:59,220
-But are you ready for this?
'Cause this looks incredible.
-[Micah] Oh, wow. Ooh.
341
00:18:59,222 --> 00:19:01,722
-We gotta eat while
we change the world, right?
-Yeah, right.
342
00:19:21,035 --> 00:19:22,201
Aunt Martha?
343
00:19:25,415 --> 00:19:28,416
-Who's there?
-[exhaling] Hi!
344
00:19:29,169 --> 00:19:30,710
I'm looking
for my Aunt Martha.
345
00:19:32,005 --> 00:19:33,421
Nova, right?
346
00:19:35,258 --> 00:19:38,593
I'm Pearl, next house over.
347
00:19:38,595 --> 00:19:41,262
Hi, Miss Pearl.
Is... Is she around?
348
00:19:44,851 --> 00:19:46,642
Uh, I'm sorry, dear.
349
00:19:49,189 --> 00:19:52,440
Aunt Martha crossed
over last month.
350
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:08,039
Huh.
351
00:20:09,209 --> 00:20:11,292
The past few weeks been hard.
352
00:20:15,298 --> 00:20:17,256
[Pearl whimpering]
She led all our prayers.
353
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,514
You look just like them.
354
00:20:25,516 --> 00:20:29,977
Oh, those Lavoisier women
had a air about them.
355
00:20:29,979 --> 00:20:33,731
Regal, you could see
it in their eyes.
356
00:20:36,819 --> 00:20:39,737
-You knew my mother?
[exhaling]
-Oh, yes.
357
00:20:39,739 --> 00:20:41,697
She had a gift.
358
00:20:44,577 --> 00:20:49,914
I haven't kept up this part
of me. I feel like
it's all lost now.
359
00:20:56,464 --> 00:20:58,464
She left that out for you.
360
00:21:00,134 --> 00:21:02,218
I'm gonna give you some time.
361
00:21:02,262 --> 00:21:04,720
I'll be right across the way
if you need anything.
362
00:21:06,140 --> 00:21:07,056
Thank you.
363
00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:19,026
[sighing]
364
00:21:25,743 --> 00:21:27,034
[sniffling]
365
00:21:42,885 --> 00:21:44,860
[exhaling]
366
00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:12,455
-[Micah] I appreciate
you letting me tag along.
-Oh, it was my pleasure.
367
00:22:12,498 --> 00:22:15,666
We can't have you roamin'
these mean streets unattended.
368
00:22:15,668 --> 00:22:19,962
This isn't the hottest club
or whatever you did
with Ivory, but it's a vibe.
369
00:22:20,006 --> 00:22:21,047
For sure.
370
00:22:23,926 --> 00:22:25,343
[softly] Wow.
371
00:22:32,435 --> 00:22:34,518
♪ Anybody here don't need
to count heads ♪
372
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:36,645
♪ Anywhere you look to use ♪
373
00:22:36,647 --> 00:22:41,317
Hey! The queen
is in the building.
374
00:22:41,361 --> 00:22:42,985
Hey.
375
00:22:42,987 --> 00:22:44,945
-Micah, this is Blaze,
they're...
-Hey.
376
00:22:44,947 --> 00:22:46,530
...an incredible
performance artist,
377
00:22:46,532 --> 00:22:49,742
print makers, supported
by the Ford Foundation.
378
00:22:49,744 --> 00:22:53,120
Favorite
of Darren Walker, himself.
379
00:22:53,122 --> 00:22:57,333
-I mean, the Ford Foundation,
that's... Congratulations.
-Appreciate it.
380
00:22:57,377 --> 00:22:59,126
Micah West, right?
381
00:22:59,128 --> 00:23:02,129
-Amazing new artist
outta New Orleans.
-I'm familiar.
382
00:23:02,131 --> 00:23:04,298
-Interesting work.
-Thank you.
383
00:23:05,510 --> 00:23:08,594
For the record, that NFT
that I posted of my parents
384
00:23:08,671 --> 00:23:10,721
is a completely
different direction.
385
00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:13,849
Yeah, that one
was not the move.
386
00:23:13,851 --> 00:23:17,895
But then I saw your new stuff,
those photos
from the hurricane clean up.
387
00:23:17,897 --> 00:23:22,858
Out of all that
destruction and pain,
you capture connection.
388
00:23:22,860 --> 00:23:26,821
That's what it's
all about, connection.
We need more a that.
389
00:23:26,823 --> 00:23:29,323
-I agree.
-Ooh, let's
see what's cookin'.
390
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,787
Liza works
for Shenarri Freeman
at Cadence. You know it?
391
00:23:34,789 --> 00:23:38,749
-Um, no. No, should I?
-Damn, I shoulda
taken you there.
392
00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:40,960
The best vegan soul food
you've ever had.
393
00:23:40,962 --> 00:23:42,086
-[Micah] Okay.
-They made
the New York Times
394
00:23:42,163 --> 00:23:43,671
for the most
exciting restaurants.
395
00:23:43,673 --> 00:23:46,424
-Those sisters can burn.
-Mmm...
396
00:23:46,426 --> 00:23:47,758
-[Rae] Ready
to meet more people?
-Yeah.
397
00:23:47,969 --> 00:23:49,743
Come on.
398
00:23:49,745 --> 00:23:53,764
-Good people, this is Micah
West, straight outta the NO.
-NO!
399
00:23:53,766 --> 00:23:55,248
What's up?
400
00:23:55,250 --> 00:23:58,060
I never imagined this much
drama to get this deal done.
401
00:23:58,062 --> 00:23:59,812
[Sam] It's always somethin'
with those people.
402
00:23:59,889 --> 00:24:02,064
They always had to push.
403
00:24:02,066 --> 00:24:04,650
Well, maybe we played
the wrong hand with them.
404
00:24:04,652 --> 00:24:07,695
-Maybe we shoulda tried
finesse tactics.
-No.
405
00:24:08,573 --> 00:24:13,200
For people like them,
only dominance works.
406
00:24:15,580 --> 00:24:17,204
Well, it hasn't been working.
407
00:24:18,583 --> 00:24:20,124
Are you doubting me?
408
00:24:21,002 --> 00:24:22,918
Quite frankly, yes.
409
00:24:25,465 --> 00:24:30,050
I had no intention
of being here this long.
410
00:24:30,052 --> 00:24:34,597
-What we're
doing isn't working.
-It all ends today.
411
00:24:34,599 --> 00:24:37,850
The council will vote
in our favor,
and the bank issues,
412
00:24:37,852 --> 00:24:43,397
the permit issues,
the historical society issues,
all disappear.
413
00:24:43,474 --> 00:24:49,236
And you, a black descendent,
have domain over that property
as much as them.
414
00:24:50,448 --> 00:24:52,740
It's a full circle
moment for me.
415
00:24:54,452 --> 00:24:57,578
It's... It's fate.
416
00:24:57,580 --> 00:25:02,124
It's... Perfect.
417
00:25:05,963 --> 00:25:10,424
Thank you all for coming.
Usually our board
meetings are closed.
418
00:25:10,426 --> 00:25:17,097
But with a project like this
with the starts and stops,
we wanted full visibility.
419
00:25:17,099 --> 00:25:19,975
-So you know
it's real this time.
-[board chuckling]
420
00:25:19,977 --> 00:25:22,937
If there isn't
any further discussion
from the board,
421
00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:25,689
let's make this vote official!
422
00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:28,192
All in favor of finalizing
423
00:25:28,227 --> 00:25:30,444
the sale of land
for the commercial
development--
424
00:25:30,446 --> 00:25:36,033
Uh, before a vote, uh,
at this time, outside remarks
must be heard.
425
00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:39,411
Now, that's, uh, according
to the Hamilton bylaws.
426
00:25:40,456 --> 00:25:42,289
I'm a long time farmer
in this community,
427
00:25:42,366 --> 00:25:45,543
and a proud member
of the farmin' coop.
428
00:25:46,254 --> 00:25:50,047
Okay then,
community comments time.
429
00:25:50,049 --> 00:25:51,799
-[board chuckling]
-Give it your best shot, sir.
430
00:26:00,977 --> 00:26:03,727
How are you gonna sell
land this isn't yours, Sam?
431
00:26:07,817 --> 00:26:08,816
Mama?
432
00:26:10,111 --> 00:26:11,527
Surprised to see me, baby?
433
00:26:12,572 --> 00:26:15,948
Uh, yes. Yes, ma'am.
434
00:26:16,284 --> 00:26:17,741
What are you doing here?
435
00:26:17,818 --> 00:26:19,910
Something that I should have
done long time ago.
436
00:26:20,621 --> 00:26:21,829
I've come to get you.
437
00:26:22,957 --> 00:26:25,958
Uh... Get me?
438
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,461
I've let your father turn
you into someone that
I don't even recognize,
439
00:26:29,538 --> 00:26:31,647
and for what?
440
00:26:31,649 --> 00:26:36,635
Baby, none of his... His money
and power is worth a damn
when you're miserable.
441
00:26:36,637 --> 00:26:39,054
I'm miserable,
and I think you are, too.
442
00:26:47,189 --> 00:26:50,107
Mother, please,
it's a done deal.
443
00:26:50,142 --> 00:26:52,985
I can't let you do this.
444
00:26:52,987 --> 00:26:54,945
It's the one that keeps
your checks coming
every month.
445
00:26:54,947 --> 00:26:56,363
Don't bite the hand, Mom.
446
00:26:59,368 --> 00:27:01,535
W... Watch
your mouth, partner.
447
00:27:08,961 --> 00:27:15,758
Part of the land that
Sam Landry is leveraging
for this deal is mine.
448
00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:23,223
It's ours.
449
00:27:23,517 --> 00:27:26,977
Mine and my daughter's.
450
00:27:46,999 --> 00:27:50,793
-This marriage certificate
doesn't mean anything unless--
-He never filed for divorce,
451
00:27:50,795 --> 00:27:52,127
and I didn't either.
452
00:27:52,963 --> 00:27:56,048
This, this paper right here,
453
00:27:57,426 --> 00:28:01,512
it's signed by Sam
and his father,
your grandfather.
454
00:28:01,588 --> 00:28:05,349
Violet and Ernest helped
me figure out what to ask for.
455
00:28:05,351 --> 00:28:10,396
A lump sum,
plus quarterly payments
according to interest rates.
456
00:28:10,398 --> 00:28:11,814
That was Ernest's idea.
457
00:28:12,358 --> 00:28:14,566
Plus, full custody of you.
458
00:28:14,568 --> 00:28:15,901
-[Betty] And--
-Land.
459
00:28:15,978 --> 00:28:17,903
I think that's why
he never divorced me.
460
00:28:17,905 --> 00:28:20,406
He figured as long as we were
legally wed, it was his.
461
00:28:20,408 --> 00:28:23,617
But, I guess he counted
on me never coming back.
462
00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:26,286
Why are you back?
463
00:28:26,288 --> 00:28:27,746
You don't care
about this place.
464
00:28:27,823 --> 00:28:29,081
I came back for you.
465
00:28:29,083 --> 00:28:30,874
Mother, I live in Atlanta,
466
00:28:30,876 --> 00:28:32,751
and could give a damn
about this place myself.
467
00:28:32,828 --> 00:28:34,169
I just want my money.
468
00:28:34,171 --> 00:28:35,295
That's what I care about.
469
00:28:35,297 --> 00:28:36,964
Well, I care about you.
470
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,465
Selling out the Bordelons,
471
00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:40,008
and bulldozing over
land that our family
472
00:28:40,052 --> 00:28:41,385
has worked on for decades?
473
00:28:41,387 --> 00:28:43,929
Letting your father take
what he promised to me?
474
00:28:44,006 --> 00:28:45,556
All that cannot abide.
475
00:28:45,558 --> 00:28:47,224
You cannot let this happen.
476
00:28:47,935 --> 00:28:49,184
You are better than this.
477
00:28:49,186 --> 00:28:50,936
You come from
better than this.
478
00:28:51,439 --> 00:28:52,938
My side, good people.
479
00:28:53,816 --> 00:28:55,357
You are good.
480
00:28:56,444 --> 00:28:57,818
Walk away from this, Imari.
481
00:28:59,029 --> 00:29:00,553
It's Parker.
482
00:29:12,293 --> 00:29:15,085
[Nova] I feel like
I let Martha and my
mother down.
483
00:29:15,087 --> 00:29:16,569
I should have went
to see her more often,
484
00:29:16,647 --> 00:29:19,757
I should have been more
in tune with her all along,
485
00:29:19,759 --> 00:29:22,718
with everything on my
mother's side of the family.
486
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,095
I lost my way.
I got distracted.
487
00:29:25,172 --> 00:29:26,430
My book, Dominic.
488
00:29:27,016 --> 00:29:28,348
It's not me.
489
00:29:28,726 --> 00:29:30,100
I failed her.
490
00:29:30,102 --> 00:29:31,935
I failed all of them.
491
00:29:31,937 --> 00:29:35,731
Do you still feel
things for people?
492
00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:39,359
When you were little,
you'd get a feeling from
somebody, and just,
493
00:29:39,361 --> 00:29:41,945
I don't know, you'd kinda
go off in a trance somehow.
494
00:29:43,032 --> 00:29:44,281
Sometimes.
495
00:29:44,283 --> 00:29:46,325
My mom had it too,
but I haven't cultivated it.
496
00:29:46,401 --> 00:29:48,660
Practiced it.
I just let it go.
497
00:29:48,662 --> 00:29:52,331
I mean, I can barely remember
blessings and incantations.
498
00:29:52,333 --> 00:29:54,124
Chants, herbs...
499
00:29:55,044 --> 00:29:56,627
...I don't know
how I got here.
500
00:29:56,703 --> 00:29:58,370
[Billie] You still
believe they're here?
501
00:29:58,372 --> 00:30:00,672
That those that have
gone before us are still
among us now?
502
00:30:00,674 --> 00:30:02,841
Yes, you know I do.
503
00:30:02,918 --> 00:30:04,426
Then it's not too late.
504
00:30:05,346 --> 00:30:07,179
Shut 'em down, Nova.
505
00:30:07,181 --> 00:30:09,097
Do the work and get it back.
506
00:30:13,771 --> 00:30:14,812
What is she doing here?
507
00:30:15,648 --> 00:30:16,772
Who?
508
00:30:21,779 --> 00:30:23,987
That was me last year.
509
00:30:24,064 --> 00:30:26,698
Trying to find a place
to drown my memories.
510
00:30:29,954 --> 00:30:31,119
Think we should ask her over?
511
00:30:31,163 --> 00:30:32,329
Hell no!
512
00:30:32,998 --> 00:30:34,147
What are you even saying?
513
00:30:34,224 --> 00:30:37,459
Right now, she seems
like the enemy.
514
00:30:37,461 --> 00:30:39,711
But I'm gonna talk to her
like a human being.
515
00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:41,129
It might make a difference.
516
00:30:48,639 --> 00:30:50,764
Make it a whiskey,
and one for her, too.
517
00:30:50,766 --> 00:30:51,765
[bartender] Yes, ma'am.
Coming right up.
518
00:30:51,842 --> 00:30:53,684
[chuckles]
519
00:30:55,479 --> 00:30:57,337
I'd ask for a martini,
520
00:30:57,339 --> 00:30:59,606
but I don't think they
know how to make that
in this Podunk town.
521
00:30:59,608 --> 00:31:01,525
-[bartender] Here
you go, ladies.
-You'd be surprised.
522
00:31:02,945 --> 00:31:05,362
So you look like you could
use some company.
523
00:31:07,074 --> 00:31:08,365
You wanna join us?
524
00:31:10,995 --> 00:31:12,035
No, thanks.
525
00:31:17,543 --> 00:31:18,667
Hey.
526
00:31:19,795 --> 00:31:21,169
You ever call that man?
527
00:31:21,171 --> 00:31:22,504
I did.
528
00:31:22,548 --> 00:31:24,172
And we're getting married.
529
00:31:24,174 --> 00:31:25,716
[gasps]
530
00:31:25,718 --> 00:31:27,467
Because of my advice?
531
00:31:27,544 --> 00:31:28,802
[both chuckle]
532
00:31:28,804 --> 00:31:30,679
Maybe a little.
533
00:31:30,681 --> 00:31:32,097
But you know, none of that
would have happened
534
00:31:32,174 --> 00:31:33,432
if I hadn't come home.
535
00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:35,392
Faced my past.
536
00:31:37,479 --> 00:31:39,730
And we both know a little bit
537
00:31:39,806 --> 00:31:42,399
about coming home
and blowing things up.
538
00:31:44,028 --> 00:31:45,694
Where you been living again?
539
00:31:46,822 --> 00:31:47,779
Chicago.
540
00:31:48,699 --> 00:31:49,948
You're lucky you got out.
541
00:31:50,659 --> 00:31:51,950
I was run out.
542
00:31:53,454 --> 00:31:54,828
Just like you and your mother.
543
00:31:57,124 --> 00:31:58,832
You ever ask her why she left?
544
00:32:03,923 --> 00:32:05,422
I tried, but...
545
00:32:06,467 --> 00:32:07,999
...but she shuts down.
546
00:32:09,219 --> 00:32:13,305
And yet, she still came back
to face your father anyhow.
547
00:32:19,897 --> 00:32:21,063
[door opening]
548
00:32:24,818 --> 00:32:26,401
Vi's cooking dinner later.
549
00:32:27,696 --> 00:32:29,196
Wants us to come by
and meet Betty.
550
00:32:30,699 --> 00:32:31,782
[Ralph Angel exhales]
551
00:32:36,038 --> 00:32:37,204
I'm scared.
552
00:32:37,206 --> 00:32:38,455
Of what?
553
00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:41,792
I thought that all this
was behind us.
554
00:32:42,836 --> 00:32:43,961
But I guess it was...
555
00:32:44,964 --> 00:32:46,279
...only behind me.
556
00:32:47,299 --> 00:32:49,174
I'm scared to bring
all this back up again.
557
00:32:49,176 --> 00:32:50,717
I don't get the point.
558
00:32:53,347 --> 00:32:54,721
But if it's hurting you,
559
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,849
I'll do it.
560
00:32:57,851 --> 00:32:59,309
[Ralph Angel] I'm not
trying to hurt you.
561
00:33:00,354 --> 00:33:02,396
But if I don't talk about it,
nothing changes.
562
00:33:02,982 --> 00:33:04,523
What do you wanna change?
563
00:33:06,527 --> 00:33:07,943
I think we should tell him.
564
00:33:10,030 --> 00:33:12,280
Tell him what?
565
00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:14,449
He already knows you're not
his biological father.
566
00:33:14,451 --> 00:33:16,218
What else do you
wanna tell him?
567
00:33:16,220 --> 00:33:18,870
I don't want him being
surprised if he finds out
about Chase.
568
00:33:18,872 --> 00:33:20,998
I mean, they living
in the same city.
569
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,541
What if he end up at school
with the man kids--
570
00:33:22,543 --> 00:33:25,127
I do not want our son
571
00:33:25,671 --> 00:33:27,504
to associate that night
572
00:33:29,008 --> 00:33:30,716
with what happened to me.
573
00:33:31,969 --> 00:33:33,427
With who he is.
574
00:33:34,471 --> 00:33:37,389
That's not his identity,
Ralph Angel, he's,
575
00:33:37,391 --> 00:33:40,142
he's so much more
than where he came from.
576
00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:41,727
Ain't it better
coming from us?
577
00:33:41,729 --> 00:33:43,353
Ralph Angel, he's only 11.
578
00:33:43,897 --> 00:33:46,064
He is too young.
579
00:33:46,066 --> 00:33:48,775
Blue is smart as hell.
Now he's too young?
580
00:33:49,695 --> 00:33:51,086
I don't want him catching up.
581
00:33:51,088 --> 00:33:52,821
I always want him to know
where he stands with us.
582
00:33:52,823 --> 00:33:54,531
You are doing
too much, Ralph Angel,
you are doing too much.
583
00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:57,659
It's his, this is
so unnecessary!
584
00:33:57,661 --> 00:33:59,494
-Where is this coming from?
-It's coming from my gut!
585
00:34:02,249 --> 00:34:04,708
Look, I remember when Charlie
would come for summers.
586
00:34:05,919 --> 00:34:07,961
And I knew we have
the same mom.
587
00:34:07,963 --> 00:34:09,504
But Pops never
talked about it.
588
00:34:11,050 --> 00:34:12,299
But it hurt.
589
00:34:12,676 --> 00:34:13,842
All of us.
590
00:34:14,470 --> 00:34:16,178
Look, I know how that feels.
591
00:34:16,180 --> 00:34:17,596
And I don't want
Blue going through that.
592
00:34:17,598 --> 00:34:20,057
Blue isn't you, Ralph Angel.
593
00:34:21,310 --> 00:34:23,351
He is too young.
594
00:34:23,353 --> 00:34:24,936
And it is too soon.
595
00:34:29,359 --> 00:34:30,650
No.
596
00:34:31,945 --> 00:34:33,403
[exhales]
597
00:34:38,077 --> 00:34:40,243
[Betty] You know,
she's never gonna forgive me.
598
00:34:40,245 --> 00:34:43,205
[exhales] I just feel
like I lost my daughter.
599
00:34:44,416 --> 00:34:45,499
Yeah, well.
600
00:34:45,876 --> 00:34:47,501
I'm not a mother.
601
00:34:49,088 --> 00:34:52,089
But I know a little bit
about raising a baby,
602
00:34:52,091 --> 00:34:54,091
and letting them go.
603
00:34:55,177 --> 00:34:58,011
And I'm sure that
you made the choice
604
00:34:58,013 --> 00:35:00,722
that you thought
was best at the time.
605
00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:05,435
And I'm also sure
606
00:35:05,437 --> 00:35:10,816
that that girl has more of you
in her than she even knows.
607
00:35:13,821 --> 00:35:14,945
[Violet] Sam.
608
00:35:18,325 --> 00:35:19,324
Mm-mm.
609
00:35:20,410 --> 00:35:21,701
You're not welcome here.
610
00:35:22,496 --> 00:35:23,453
I'm okay about it.
611
00:35:25,749 --> 00:35:26,873
I'm okay.
612
00:35:41,306 --> 00:35:42,889
I brought you the paperwork.
613
00:35:43,684 --> 00:35:45,392
Giving you the land outright.
614
00:35:49,815 --> 00:35:51,940
I can't afford
for this to go public,
615
00:35:51,984 --> 00:35:53,608
after all these years.
616
00:36:00,409 --> 00:36:03,118
-You still take
my breath away--
-Don't.
617
00:36:10,460 --> 00:36:13,336
You ever wonder
what our lives would
have been like,
618
00:36:13,338 --> 00:36:14,296
together?
619
00:36:14,298 --> 00:36:16,339
Yeah. I do.
620
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,428
Everything would
have been different.
621
00:36:22,097 --> 00:36:24,723
Not just our lives.
Our daughter.
622
00:36:25,601 --> 00:36:28,518
This whole town
could have been different,
623
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,104
and you could have
made that happen.
624
00:36:32,024 --> 00:36:33,231
Fight hatred.
625
00:36:33,859 --> 00:36:35,525
Set an example.
626
00:36:37,029 --> 00:36:38,320
But you were weak.
627
00:36:39,072 --> 00:36:40,822
You were a coward.
628
00:36:42,326 --> 00:36:43,825
So you took the easy way out.
629
00:36:44,745 --> 00:36:46,786
I wish I had
been stronger then.
630
00:36:51,627 --> 00:36:52,876
And now.
631
00:37:14,650 --> 00:37:17,150
-Hey, Vi?
-[Violet] Hey, baby!
632
00:37:17,152 --> 00:37:19,694
-[Ralph Angel]
What's going on?
-Where's Darla? And Tru?
633
00:37:19,696 --> 00:37:22,781
Tru was fussing, so Darla
stayed home with her.
634
00:37:22,857 --> 00:37:25,408
-Good to see you too.
-Mm. [chuckles]
635
00:37:25,410 --> 00:37:28,745
Betty, this is my nephew,
Ralph Angel.
636
00:37:28,747 --> 00:37:32,332
He's the reason that I flew
to Seattle to see you.
637
00:37:32,409 --> 00:37:34,793
-[Ralph Angel] How you doing?
-Oh, look at you!
638
00:37:36,004 --> 00:37:37,837
Oh, I knew your daddy from,
639
00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:39,664
from almost the day
I was born.
640
00:37:39,666 --> 00:37:43,426
And I heard about
everything you're doing
in St. Jo with the co-op.
641
00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:46,304
Your daddy would be so proud.
642
00:37:46,306 --> 00:37:49,140
I don't know if we could
have held on without
you stepping in.
643
00:37:49,142 --> 00:37:51,643
Yeah, the Arsenaults
and Bordelons
644
00:37:51,645 --> 00:37:54,729
been shoulder to shoulder
a long time.
645
00:37:54,731 --> 00:37:56,731
And it's not gonna stop now.
646
00:37:57,359 --> 00:37:58,424
[chuckling]
647
00:37:58,502 --> 00:38:00,694
[Betty] My daddy
was hard on me,
648
00:38:00,696 --> 00:38:03,321
but I knew deep down,
he loved me.
649
00:38:03,907 --> 00:38:07,409
And, he would
want me to do this.
650
00:38:07,411 --> 00:38:10,453
This is the property deed
to the land Sam stole.
651
00:38:10,530 --> 00:38:13,039
My land, in my name,
like it should have been
all along.
652
00:38:15,544 --> 00:38:18,211
That land's just been sitting
there, all these years.
653
00:38:19,589 --> 00:38:21,298
So I know you're gonna
put it to good use.
654
00:38:31,143 --> 00:38:32,517
This is for the co-op?
655
00:38:32,769 --> 00:38:34,311
For the Bordelons.
656
00:38:34,387 --> 00:38:36,730
I mean, build a new
house on it, farm it,
657
00:38:36,732 --> 00:38:38,773
sell it and get
your land back, whatever.
658
00:38:38,817 --> 00:38:40,692
Just make good use of it.
659
00:38:42,029 --> 00:38:44,112
Make it mean something.
660
00:38:48,910 --> 00:38:52,537
Feels like one thing
after another since
we lost our land.
661
00:38:52,614 --> 00:38:54,497
Not knowing if
I'm doing the right thing.
662
00:38:55,375 --> 00:38:56,541
Going the right way.
663
00:38:58,253 --> 00:38:59,711
And you bless me with this.
664
00:39:03,216 --> 00:39:05,008
-Lets me know
he's still watching.
-[Betty] Mm.
665
00:39:05,010 --> 00:39:06,593
Telling me to keep going.
666
00:39:07,971 --> 00:39:09,596
Thank you ain't
enough, Miss Betty.
667
00:39:11,767 --> 00:39:13,683
You just keep going, baby.
668
00:39:13,685 --> 00:39:15,393
Keep going.
669
00:39:16,688 --> 00:39:18,021
[Ralph Angel] Thank you.
670
00:39:18,023 --> 00:39:19,230
[Betty] You're welcome.
671
00:39:19,307 --> 00:39:20,440
[all laughing]
672
00:39:20,517 --> 00:39:22,192
I'm telling you,
now these two,
673
00:39:22,268 --> 00:39:24,569
they used to follow
me and Ernest around
like puppies.
674
00:39:24,571 --> 00:39:26,604
[all laughing]
675
00:39:26,606 --> 00:39:29,866
Asking him all these questions
about the kind of music
he was listening to,
676
00:39:29,868 --> 00:39:31,826
what's his favorite
movie that he watched--
677
00:39:31,828 --> 00:39:33,328
Well, of course we did!
What did you expect?
678
00:39:33,372 --> 00:39:34,704
We were 10, and you were,
679
00:39:34,706 --> 00:39:38,166
-you guys were, what,
uh, 17 and 18?
-Wow.
680
00:39:38,210 --> 00:39:40,585
-Shoot, you was
the coolest people we knew!
-We didn't know no better!
681
00:39:40,662 --> 00:39:42,212
-[laughing]
-Well, I'd have
gave anything to see
682
00:39:42,214 --> 00:39:44,339
a 17-year-old Mr. Prosper!
683
00:39:44,341 --> 00:39:46,800
But I bet you was cooler
than a polar bear's toenails.
684
00:39:46,802 --> 00:39:47,926
Still hella cool!
685
00:39:47,928 --> 00:39:49,594
-Yeah! I'm nice!
-Hey!
686
00:39:49,671 --> 00:39:52,180
I had the biggest
crush on Ernest.
687
00:39:52,182 --> 00:39:54,224
Ah, but Vi, you knew that.
688
00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:56,059
Every girl in town did.
689
00:39:56,061 --> 00:39:57,852
By the time I was old enough,
690
00:39:57,854 --> 00:40:00,021
you know, he was
already with Trudy,
691
00:40:00,023 --> 00:40:02,232
and then Sam
started coming around.
692
00:40:04,069 --> 00:40:06,694
You ever wonder
what could have been?
693
00:40:07,114 --> 00:40:08,905
Don't do no good, baby.
694
00:40:08,982 --> 00:40:10,865
'Cause boy,
I coulda been your mama.
695
00:40:10,909 --> 00:40:13,952
[all laugh]
696
00:40:14,538 --> 00:40:15,995
[knocking on door]
697
00:40:32,013 --> 00:40:33,138
Uh...
698
00:40:36,393 --> 00:40:37,934
...I came to apologize.
699
00:40:39,521 --> 00:40:41,521
I didn't know the whole story.
700
00:40:42,858 --> 00:40:44,816
I didn't know
he abandoned you.
701
00:40:46,778 --> 00:40:47,819
Us.
702
00:40:50,323 --> 00:40:51,698
Why didn't you tell me?
703
00:40:52,576 --> 00:40:54,784
Because I didn't want you
704
00:40:54,786 --> 00:40:56,953
to walk through this world
with the bitterness
705
00:40:57,497 --> 00:40:59,330
that I held on for so long.
706
00:41:09,426 --> 00:41:10,633
[Violet] Parker.
707
00:41:11,678 --> 00:41:12,802
Baby, come on. Sit down.
708
00:41:12,879 --> 00:41:14,721
We got all this food here,
709
00:41:14,723 --> 00:41:16,931
it's just us,
come be yourself.
710
00:41:16,975 --> 00:41:18,057
Please, baby.
711
00:41:19,102 --> 00:41:20,435
Stay.
712
00:41:41,208 --> 00:41:43,416
This man was just
in the middle of a lie.
713
00:41:43,418 --> 00:41:45,919
[stammering] Here,
here we go! Here we go!
714
00:41:45,921 --> 00:41:47,712
-[Prosper] Here we go!
-[Violet] Finish! Finish!
715
00:41:47,714 --> 00:41:49,839
-[Prosper] Finish?
-[laughing]
716
00:41:49,841 --> 00:41:51,382
[Prosper] You're
telling me to?
717
00:41:51,384 --> 00:41:53,801
[all laughing]