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The idea is to take the homeless

and the unemployed, find a way to marry them.

My Back On Your Feet program would take your empty building,

convert it to a temporary shelter, a job training center for those in need.

What about Chesapeake Bay?

It's supposed to be a waterway. It's a cesspool.

Mrs. Mitchell, the EPA has already agreed

to train the homeless and the unemployed people to help in the cleanup.

And don't get me started on mammals.

I have long crusaded for the rights of the southeastern shrews.

You are an eloquent spokesman for them.

That's right, 'cause all my little friends are in danger.

I'm sorry I'm late.

Tell me that's not a real fur.

I would, but I'd be lying.

? I know my parents loved me ?

? Stand behind me come what may ?

? I know now that I'm ready, yeah ?

? For I finally heard them say ?

? It's a different world ?

? Than where you come from ?

? Yes, it is now, yeah ?

? Here's our chance to make it, hey ?

? And if we focus on our goal ?

? You can dish it We can take it, hey ?

? Just remember that you've been told ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

? It's a different world ?

- ? It's a different world ? - ? Than where you come from ?

? Ooh ?

? Than where you come from ?

I only wear real furs.

Mama said imitations are limitations.

I used to be like you. I had a mink, a lynx, a sable.

- I'm still working on the sable.

Then one day, I was on a fox hunt.

The creature was cornered. Our eyes locked.

Suddenly, my own hounds turned on me growling,

"Leave our brother alone!"

He bit me.

But that's what made me the woman you see before you today.

What a wonderful story.

Maude Mitchell does not give money to friends of mass mink murderers.

- Good night. - Maude�

Keep up the good work, okay, Whit?

People like her give the wealthy a bad name.

Batty old coot.

That batty old coot owns the building

I've been trying to get for my job training program.

I'm sorry, Byron.

Sweetheart, how could you come here wearing a fur?

It was cold outside.

So is the funding environment in this country.

I said I was sorry, Byron.

What do you want me to do, go crawling back to her?

No. I'm gonna have to do that tomorrow at the Chamber of Commerce.

Whit, it's not just you and I going out to dinner.

There's two sides to my life.

If you're to be part of the political, you're gonna have to step up.

Well, I'll just squelch this desire I have

to jump on the table and do my little fan dance.

Well, at least that would be helpful.

Lena, Lena, Lena, even if you got A's in all of your finals,

it still wouldn't be enough to pull your average up

to maintain that engineering scholarship.

Who can keep a B-plus average and hold down a job?

- I'm a freshman. - All right, okay.

Let me ask you this, Lena.

What is the most appealing thing about engineering to you?

The scholarship.

And?

The scholarship.

Miss James, this is the toughest part of my job�

but you're going to have to find a department

that is a little more suited to your talents.

Whatever those are. Thank you, Colonel Taylor.

Ah, the procrastinatory Miss James.

I'm looking forward to your biographical essay

on the person who has most influenced your life.

This one, I trust, will be on time.

Yes, I'm working on it.

Good. You know my motto,

better never than late.

Right.

- Hey. - Hi, Byron.

- Hi. - I was gonna call you.

Listen, before you say anything,

I want to say I'm sorry for being rough with you last night.

Campaigning just� just makes me crazy.

So, I thought I'd bring by some popcorn, some champagne

and a little jazz.

But you're right, Byron.

If I'm going to attend political affairs with you,

I have to be on top of everything.

Now that is an excellent idea, and I think we should discuss it

somewhere between the champagne

and breakfast.

I was reading in the paper about taxes.

I'm not really clear on your position.

Well, quite frankly,

I'm not clear on my position all the time, either.

I don't understand the correlation

between economic growth and income tax.

Well, theoretically, a reduction in income tax

encourages spending and stimulates the economy.

The problem with the present tax structure in this country

is that over the last ten years,

the average middle-class family

has only seen an income increase of about 4%.

Therefore, the benefits

accrue to only the wealthiest 1%

of our population.

I get it.

Whit, I got that information you wanted.

In a couple of hours, my sister,

you are going to be an expert in ozone depletion.

- You don't mind, do you, Byron? - He doesn't.

What could be more important

than the air we breathe, right, my brother?

Right, my sister.

Ooh! Champagne.

No, no, no, no.

"And when I was ten, he took me to Washington.

As we stood in front of the Vietnam Memorial,

I saw my father cry for the first time.

I asked him what was wrong.

He picked me up in his arms

and pressed my hand against the cold marble.

Under my fingers were the names of the buddies he had lost in the war,

in the name of freedom,

freedom that was not waiting for him when he returned home.

My father's life is my lesson.

I have the power to create my own destiny

and the responsibility to make my name count."

Ooh! I'm so emotional, girl.

I'm going to call my daddy.

Excellent work, Miss James.

You have captured the essence

of your relationship with your father so eloquently.

- Well, like you said� - As I said�

As you said,

"Let your heart speak, and the truth shall be heard."

- Ha! - Yes, yes.

Miss James, I was so moved by your work,

that I took it upon myself to submit your essay

to the Walter White journalism scholarship committee.

Today, I was informed by the committee that you have been nominated.

- All right! - Hey!

All right!

Nominated?

I will see you at the ceremonies tomorrow.

And now you may all exeunt.

Um, excuse me, Professor Foster�

�you forgot to read my paper.

No, I didn't.

Professor Foster�

Fish no more from my lake of compliments.

Look, um�

This essay about my father is kind of personal.

The first tenet of journalism is the right to know.

Yeah, I know that, but, um�

I'm not sure I feel too comfortable about this.

About what? The responsibility of greatness?

Public acclaim?

Or the $5,000 prize?

$5,000?

I've been your roommate for almost a whole year.

You never told me your father was a Black Panther.

Well, Vietnam, political torture, prison�

It's not the kind of thing that comes up in everyday conversation.

It does in mine.

Lena, you know, there could be a market for your dad's image on a T-shirt

and I do dabble in silkscreens. Think it over.

Ladies and gentlemen,

please take your seats.

Without further ado,

it is my pleasure to introduce to you

the nominees for Hillman's Walter White scholarship award.

Marvin Bowser.

Gina Devereaux.

That's me!

Without you, I'm nothing.

So true, so true, so true.

Lena James.

And Courtney Johnson.

And this year's recipient is�

I love this moment.

Lena James!

I'd like to thank everybody for coming out tonight.

Um, I'd like to thank the awards committee for selecting me.

- Coming through. - And I'd like to�

Coming through.

Dad?

Grover, what are you doing here?

Surprise! Your dad called the room. So, I told him about the ceremony.

I was on my way to the dog races so I thought I'd drop by.

I'm so proud, baby girl.

Winifred Brooks.

It is such a pleasure to meet you, my brother.

Share with me what it was like to be a member of the Black Panther.

All those FBI surveillance or was it the CIA?

Excuse us, Freddie.

- We have a lot of catching up to do. - Yeah, we do.

What's going on, baby girl?

Hold it right there, young lady.

Mr. James. Barnabus Foster, head of the English department.

Grover James, proud father.

- Hey, man, that's a nice piece. - Thank you.

- How much did it set you back? - Set me back?

Oh!

Very witty, your father.

At some point, I'd love to read your journals from Attica.

Yeah? Me too. I mean�

Uh� I want you to.

My, uh, riot journals.

Yeah. I'm a bit of a rabble-rouser myself.

I can tell.

You know, Prof, um�

prison is the definition of man's inhumanity to man.

But our newest supreme court justice

finds nothing inhuman or unusual about these conditions.

- Word. - Oh�

I see where Lena gets her colloquial eloquence.

Yeah, and she got my eyes too.

Professor Foster, he just flew in. He's a little tired.

Of course.

Lena. Lena James.

- Congratulations. - Thank you, Colonel.

Oh, Lena, I read your essay. It was beautiful.

I cried.

Well, lately, honey, you cry at hockey games, you know?

Well, they're very moving.

I got to� Excuse me.

Well, soldier,

Colonel Bradford Taylor, E Company, An Khe.

As in Nam.

Oh, Nam. Vietnam!

Yeah, well, you know, uh, Sergeant, uh�

I have a hard time talking about that.

Flashbacks?

No, memory loss.

Um, if you don't mind, I'm feeling a little thirsty.

Can you excuse me, Major?

So, Lena, what year was your father in Vietnam?

Oh, man. I don't even remember. I guess I was about two or three.

My bad.

I wasn't even born yet.

- Memory loss. - Yeah.

Memory loss.

Ted, I'd like you to meet Whitley Gilbert.

No introduction necessary.

Ted Spelman, CEO Tetrascope Communications.

BA, Morris Brown '70.

JD/MBA Stanford University '75.

And your corporation

is pushing the envelope on fiber optic development.

I'm so sorry about the divorce.

That's all right. She talked too much.

Would you excuse me?

I am on it.

Mm� Speed.

Take it easy. You don't have to recite everybody's resume.

- Too many personal details? - Yes.

Got it.

Byron.

Well, if it isn't Miss "Shoot 'em and wear 'em."

It's very nice to see you again, ma'am.

We didn't meet under the best circumstances.

There were no circumstances,

just that atrocity you called a coat.

Maude, why don't we funnel this understandable outrage

into a social program I know you'll find constructive.

I didn't come to funnel. I came to vent.

Byron, there's someone I'd like to introduce�

to you.

Excuse me.

Miss Mitchell, Byron has a wonderful plan

to help the unemployed and the homeless.

With your help, it can happen.

He's also an advocate of animal rights.

When he's not dating you?

I'm asking you to support Byron, not me.

You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep.

Miss Mitchell, I already have a fur,

so you can get off my back.

I beg your pardon?

Yes, I have a fur, I own a fur,

and that is my business.

I'm sure Mr. Mitchell didn't let you get out the house wearing that hat.

He hates this hat.

Good for him.

Byron hates the fact that there are hundreds of people out there

destitute and homeless with nowhere to go,

or don't you care about people?

So how are you two doing?

Byron, you'll be hearing from me in the morning.

Oh, Maude�

Know which building you're interested in using?

I already do.

He hates the hat.

I am working this room, working it.

Miss Brunmeir, let's talk day care.

Good night, guys. Thank you. You were wonderful.

Okay.

Well, Byron, no one will ever accuse me

of being just a showpiece again.

You can say that for sure.

I mean, just take a look around you. What do you see?

An empty room.

Well, I see an opportunity�

to show you how important you are to me.

- I am? - Yes, you are.

And I think we should take advantage of this rare moment.

- Good move, Senator. - Mm.

Hey, baby girl.

Hey, Grover.

Look, I just want to explain the essay tonight. I didn't�

It's all right. You did what you had to do to stay in school.

Besides, you never would have won any awards writing about me.

I didn't say that.

You didn't have to.

I may not have been Ward Cleaver, but I wasn't Eldridge either.

What was that Black Panther stuff?

Well, like you just said,

I had to do what I had to do to stay in school.

I guess it's just getting by.

Baby girl, I'm so proud.

And I have to be moving on, so I just came by to give you this.

Where did you get that? The track?

Hey, don't ask questions you know the answer to.

Well, I don't see the point in taking it.

You'll just call me in two weeks

in trouble again and ask for it back.

It seems like both of us get into sticky situations from time to time.

Yeah? Well, when does it end, the hustling, the gambling?

I am so sick and tired of wondering where you are,

what you're doing, and who's going to catch up to you.

Grover, you can't keep living like this.

I can't keep living like this.

Baby, we always got by.

Yeah, well, I'm sick of getting by!

I scammed my way into this school

with that engineering scholarship and I got caught!

I'm busted!

And I'm tired of lying.

Yeah?

Then why did you accept the journalism scholarship?

Because I'm just like you.

Baby, you don't have to be like me.

Lena, what did you say in that essay?

Something like,

"Create your own destiny and make your name count."

Baby, if you can make that up, you can make it true.

It's easier said than done.

Well�

I hope I taught you more than three-card monte.

It's on you, baby girl.

Hey, take care, huh?

And, look. Look, look, look�

I'll call you in a couple of weeks, all right?

You know, you my one and only.

I love you.

I love you, too, Grover.

Professor Foster, can I speak to you for a second?

I don't really know how to say this, but�

- Make it your own. - Yeah.

Guess that's what I'm trying to do.

Look�

My father wasn't in Vietnam, and he was never a Panther.

And he never wrote any riot journals.

No, just bad checks.

But I don't want you to have the wrong idea about my father.

He didn't do things the way other people did,

but he was there for me, and he did the best he could.

Have a seat, Miss James.

Children begin by loving their parents.

As they grow older, they judge them.

Sometimes they forgive them.

So, we find ourselves

on the horns of an ethical dilemma.

Yeah, what you said.

Look, Professor, about the scholarship,

I know that I put you on the line and I'm really sorry about that.

Miss James, you did write the essay, didn't you?

Of course, I did. Honest.

That's not a point I would push.

Miss James, you lack veracity

but you have a great deal of creativity.

The challenge is to cure you of the one and not do damage to the other.

Which is why I am about to exert my considerable influence

to find a scholarship award within your new major�

English.

English? Really?

Yes.

All right, Professor Foster. You are the man.

"And miles to go before I sleep."

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