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-Oh, Pastor Carr? -Sister Valentine.

-Yes. -How are you?

-Do you have a second? -Of course, of course.

It is about my son, Benji-Wayne.

He hasn't been doing too well,

and he really could use some prayer.

Benji-Wayne? I'm striking out. Has he been here?

No. My sweet Benji Pooh.

He's been sick for as long as I can remember.

That's heartbreaking. Of course. Let's pray for him.

Father God in the master's name of Jesus, God,

we touch Benji-Wayne right now, Father God.

Your word says by his strife-

No, no, no. I need you to visit him.

Oh. You said you wanted to pray for him.

-Mm-hmm. And visit. -OK, you know what?

I don't mind visiting sick kids. Of course.

Thank you so much, Pastor.

You have no idea how much this means to me.

Aw, don't worry about it.

And my Benji Pooh is gonna love this surprise.

-So where is he? -Westridge.

Westridge? Westridge?

Is that a new hospital? I don't remember Westridge.

No, no, Pastor, it's Westridge Penitentiary.

-Penitentiary? -Yes.

I thought you said "My sweet boy"?

-Benji Pooh is in prison? -You know what?

I know that you are gonna see the good in him.

-Amen. -OK.

-All right. -I'll call the warden

and let him know that you're coming, OK?

OK. OK.

Hey, real quick, before you go, what kind of crime was it?

Is it white collar or violent? Or like Martha Stewart?

Did you see Martha Stewart's documentary?

She had a garden. Is he a gardener-type prisoner?

Do he like stabbing and knives? Oh, my God.

? Churchy?

? I'm going to church today 'cause I need him?

[rowdy inmates]

Hey, what up, gang?

[Guard] Quiet down! Quiet!

OK, I see you, boy! What y'all doing?

Ain't they supposed to keep the prisoners in the back?

Aw man, Westridge is different, bro.

Hey! Shut up.

See, he gonna get stabbed later for that.

Here we are, documenting the heroic Pastor Corey Carr.

Gang, we up in here.

As he spreads the good news to the lost,

the forgotten about, the incarcerated.

Rodney, I said low key. You all up in the cell!

No, this is low key.

Places, everybody, for the top of the documentary!

-Let me see your tattoo. -[Guard] Name?

-[Rodney] Bring me that tattoo. -[Corey] Uh, Corey Carr.

Or, uh, Pastor Corey Carr, Bethlehem Temple.

-And who y'all here to see? -Uh, Benji-Wayne Valentine?

Benji Pooh? He ain't had visitors in years. Ooh, boy.

[Corey] Years? Like, not even his mom?

-Especially not his mama. -Oh, my God.

Sir? Sir? No cameras allowed.

Oh, I'm just getting a little behind-the-scenes footage.

You know, day in the life of a pastor.

I actually called ahead. I should be cleared.

Spike Lee know me.

Yeah, I got a Pastor, uh, Corey Carr here,

along with his, uh, filmographer.

Crew. Film crew.

Looks like some kind of school project or something.

-[Radio] Clear. -10-4. Camera's fine.

[beeps]

I know, I know what y'all are doing here.

-Hey, Bobby? -[Bobby] Yep?

Got a pastor here reading Benji Pooh his last rites.

Really?

I didn't know he was on death row.

No, me neither.

Hey, no, actually, you know, I'm not here for all that.

I'm just here to, to speak life into him.

Why?

Uh, because I'm a pastor. I'm a pastor.

-We speak life. -Mm-hmm.

I'm gonna wait over here. It felt safer over here.

Hey, there. Hey. Stop fraternizing. Come on.

Keep it moving. Don't you talk to him.

Hey, I can talk to him.

No, you can't talk to anybody. Come on.

[beeps rapidly]

-What's this? -This is a jacket.

OK. You talking about that?

I forgot I had that pocket right there.

That's a souvenir. I got that from the gift shop.

That's y'all's stuff. OK. I'll take it back. You right.

[beeps rapidly] Damn.

[continues beeping rapidly]

We're gonna have to do a full-body cavity search.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's slow down, fellas.

I don't even let my dentist talk to me like that.

You know what I'm saying? Cavity!

[Guard] Yeah, go ahead and turn around, brother.

Somebody ain't got a sense of humor. My bad, Corey.

[Guard] Go ahead and bend over, sir.

All right. Let me tell you what we're not gonna do.

Somebody go get the warden. Warden know me around here.

[guitar twangs]

Ah, pleasure to meet you, gentlemen.

-[spits] -Corey Carr.

I'm Warden Buchanan, and welcome to-

-Crooks! -Damn.

Didn't I tell you the next time I saw you,

I'd put you in the chair myself?

[both laugh]

-[Warden] Look at you! -[Calvin] What's up, Bucky!?

Here to see your boy?

Hey man, look, I'm here on official business, OK?

I'm doing the work of the Lord today.

-I hope that's true. -I had just had some lunch.

Ah.

Well, you know what? You found it, OK?

Take that. Take that for me. As I was saying,

Westridge is one of the best run penitentiaries in the state!

-That's excellent. -We got a saying:

You sneak out the gate, meet your fate.

-Why wait? -Why wait?

-It's too late! -It's too late!

-Give me a plate! -Give me a plate!

-I just ate! -I just ate!

[Calvin] He used to be a rapper.

Oh, OK. You here to see, uh, Benji-Wayne, right?

Uh, yes, sir. Just a quick visit.

-We gonna be in and out. -Oh, don't be silly.

Let me give you a lay of the land, all right?

While my staff preps for, uh, Mr. Valentine's visitation.

We do not want happenin' what happened last time.

What happened last time?

I like your tie. Y'all ready to roll? Let's go.

Crooks! He back in the building.

-[Calvin laughs] -Bucky, it's good to be back.

We haven't had an escape in over 43 years.

-Except for that one guy. -What happened to him?

Well, we think he got caught in one of the air vents,

and when it gets hot, you might catch a whiff of him.

Ha! Hey, this whole time,

I thought that was just Chili Tuesday.

Behind me lies the raw, unfiltered, unadulterated truth

of Lubbock's notorious prison system.

Stay tuned.

Man, it feels good to be home.

Hey, Bucky, you mind if I go catch up with a few old friends?

-No nonsense? -Scout's honor.

-I'll allow it. -Ha-ha! My man. Boop.

Corey, I'm gonna catch up with you, boy.

Prison ministry has never been this deep.

Hey, Corey?

What you filming there, Coogler?

-Locked Up Forever? -[both laugh]

You're not supposed to be on this block. Credentials?

-[laughs] -I get it.

OK, joke's over. Hold it. I'm just...

I'm gonna go find Corey, and I'm gonna get on-

No credentials, no clearance.

No clearance? Now, that's trespassing.

-Rules are rules, Coogler. -[guards laugh]

Wait. No, no, no!

This is a mistake! This is a mistake!

I'm with the church group. You know, faith? Family?

The documentary! Corey!

Hey, uh, Pastor? Go ahead. Have a seat right here.

And, uh, we'll get Benji-Wayne right over to you.

[smacks back loudly]

Wait, wait, wait. Where's Rodney?

Oh, don't worry about him. We got cameras everywhere.

He's in good hands. [harmonica chord]

No, no, no, no, no, no! You got the wrong guy!

I'm not a criminal!

I just wanna pray for the prisoners!

Corey! Corey! Please! Corey! No! No! No, I can't go in there!

I can't do it! I'm not gonna do it!

No, Corey, please! Corey, no!

Get in there! Enjoy the view.

No! No, no, no, come on! You can't leave me in here.

I'm a Capricorn, and we need freedom.

[metal door clangs open] Come on out, Matthews.

See? That's how they know you sleep on your stomach.

Get in there and do what you need to do.

Ain't gotta be mad at me, I ain't the one who did it.

If these walls could talk.

Calvin! Calvin Crooks, is that you?

Odis, you're still alive?

[both exclaim in excitement]

-My boy, C-Murder! -How you doing?

Man, I'm cool, just starting my OdisFans.

OK, I like that.

Hey, you know they changed all the snacks

-in the vending machine, Calvin? -No!

Yes! All the honey buns and all the nacho cheese is gone!

Really?

Yeah, just a plethora of veggie chips.

Don't sleep on those veggie chips,

'cause you can do a lot with those.

Yeah, I could also do a lot with that recipe, Calvin.

-What recipe? -Don't play dumb, Calvin!

You know what recipe. We used to call it Triple C's.

The coffee can cheesecake. Yes! You remember now.

-You had a cookie- -[both excitedly talk at once]

-That magic in a can, boy! -Since you said that,

then you know a magician never tells his secret.

-[Guard] Crooks! -What?

[Guard] Make it quick.

I need a shank, man. They took mine at check-in.

Oh, you need to come to the Bank of Shanks?

Well, why didn't you say so?

Bank of Shanks is open for you, my boy! Ha ha!

What you need? What size, huh? Tell me.

-Damn. -[Odis] What you need?

Let me get that. That six inch, yeah.

Right here?

That'll do the job. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now she don't usually be too pleased with six inches.

All right. That's enough. OK?

Ah ah ah!

'Cause see, what I need is a week's worth of honey buns,

and the recipe to that Triple C, Calvin.

-Deal. -[Odis] Deal?

-Deal. -[Odis] Deal.

Deal.

OK, OK, OK, there you go. Triple C's recipe.

-Triple C's, Triple C's. -Magic in a can!

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. -[Odis] Magic in a can!

[sinister music] Oh my God.

[door opens]

He's clear.

He's all yours, Pastor. Shout if you need anything.

You leaving, too?

You don't want to just maybe stick around?

[laughs nervously]

It's quiet in here. [exhales nervously]

Hey. Hey, man. Hey. Hey. Hey, man.

I don't think you should be doing that.

[screams] Hey! Hey, man!

You're supposed to be inthere!

Wow. Bravo.

You can do magic?

I don't think you should do that.

They probably would want you to be in the prison stuff.

-Sir. Mr. Valentine, sir. -Oh, so much better.

-Guard! Guard! -Shh. Rooms are soundproof.

My God. Oh, my God.

Lucky for you, Pastor, I already had lunch today.

Corey!

[Guard] Quiet down, 249! Lights out in three hours.

[panting] I guess this is it.

Document the end.

It's day one in the clink. [breathes heavily]

I gotta stay strong.

No food. No water.

Man, I don't know how much longer I can take this.

[plays melody on harmonica]

You'll last if you listen to me.

[door clangs open]

How do you, how you got keys?

What is you doing?

First thing you gotta do. You gotta find somebody to stab.

The bigger, the better.

I am not an inmate here, bro. I'm not supposed to be here.

Shh.

Ain't nobody supposed to be in here, bro. Heard it all before.

They planted the drugs.

The decapitated head just so happened to be in yourtrunk.

I just want to talk.

Have a seat.

What if we talk from just here? [bones crack]

I'm gonna sit down. Because of that.

I don't know if you did that on purpose or by mistake.

Yeah, get comfortable.

I'm a cameraman.

I'm just here filming a documentary for my church.

Look. Look at the footage.

This is what I do.

-[sniffs] -I don't stab nobody.

Please don't do that. Please don't.

Wait, so you be making movies?

Hi! My name is Freight Train. I'm based in Lubbock, Texas.

I'm 5'11", and that's barefoot.

And I'm auditioning for the role of Macbeth.

Proud member of SAG, and I'm fully avail.

To be or not to be? That is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take-

Yeah, wait. Mr. Freight, sir. You mind taking a note?

Yeah.

You auditioning for Macbeth, right?

-Yeah. -Good to know.

With all due respect, that's Hamlet.

So what you trying to say? I don't know my Shakespeare?

No. No, no, no, no, no.

Good, because if you interrupt me again,

you're gonna be auditioning for the role

of Missing Cellmate Number One, nigga.

Oh my God.

Maybe we need to do a little Hamlet.

Oh, Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father?

Odis, you're a good man.

Man, this man killed eight people!

Hey, brother. Hey. Don't ruin the memory, OK?

Odis, you got some paper or something?

Yeah, I got some paper for you.

You got a pen, pencil, anything like that?

Listen Calvin, don't use it all.

It's gotta last me the week. It's all I got.

All right, all right, all right. Fine. All right, now, Odis.

If you give this recipe to anybody,

and boy I mean anybody, I'm gonna tell the warden

to add 50 years to your life sentence.

-You understand me? -I won't tell a soul.

-Scout's honor. -Good man.

Texas Tech, 50-yard line, opening day. Cool?

-My man. -There it is.

-Guns up! -Guns up!

I'll talk to you later, boy.

-Hey, you be good, man. -You be good, too.

I'm gonna miss you, Crooks. Hey, Crooks, ain't nobody

been leading the worship services since you left.

I remember when you taught us

all the books of the Bible in order, Crooks.

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,

Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 2 Samuels, 2 Kings,

2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job.

You ever feel like the people who are supposed to

love you the most just don't know how to love you?

They see you for what you've done, not who you are.

Yeah, no, I actually... I actually do feel like that.

That's a really lonely feeling.

It feels like you may be, like, in a prison.

That's exactly what it feels like.

Yeah, I been locked up before I ever got in here.

Makes me so angry!

That's not what God wants for you.

That's not his plan for your life.

[chuckles]

Plan? There's no plan for this life.

Before I could remember, my life was already going left

before I ever had a chance to get right with God.

You know, just because your plan went left

doesn't mean God left you.

He loves you, and he forgives. And that's why I'm here.

To be fair, you're here because my momma asked you to be here.

Touch�. But my point still stands.

And God loves you, whether you walk out of this door right now,

which you could do, seeing with all the magic,

or whether they wheel you out of here

like a large appliance on Labor Day sale.

[laughs]

You funny.

He cannot do Shakespeare.

[Guard] Hey, Coogler! Y'all got a visitor.

[door clangs open] All right, get on up.

-Where I'm going? -Come on, get up!

Come on, there.

You hurting my arm. You hurting my arm.

So Rodney, if that's even your name.

It is.

I've been doing this for over 20 years,

and I know an enemy when I see one.

-Who sent you? The state? -No.

-The Bureau of Prisons? -No!

Mike, the guy with the eye down at bar on Main?

-Who? -Enough, tough guy!

I might never know who sent you, but I'm going to tell you this.

You ain't going nowhere until I get the tapes.

Here you go. Please, just take it. Take it.

It's the footage. The footage.

I need the tapes!

[Rodney] That is the tape. It's digital now! It's 2025.

No, no, no! [camera smashes on ground]

Those werethe tapes.

-That's my good camera. -That checks out. Yeah.

Oh, well. OK, well, I didn't know.

Man, get out of here. Get out of my face!

Get off of me!

Before I got to find another reason to throw you in the hole.

Don't you tell another soul. Because we will find you.

Grammy Award-winning Rodney Joseph.

We know who you are.

So if you knew who I was this whole time,

why would you ask me-

-Get! -Oh, my God.

I listened to some of his stuff. He can hold a note.

You know, all I ever wanted was to be seen.

Not for the mistakes or the temper.

Just me. Benji. [soft piano music]

I don't, I don't see a mistake. I see a work in progress.

-You all right, Pastor. -Come on, man. I try.

You know what? I think I'ma tell them about three more bodies.

Work in progress. Yeah, I like that.

-[exhales] -Yes. Amen. Amen to that.

[knock on door] [Guard] All right. Time's up.

See, this one's not much of a talker here.

Wasting your time and God's on this one, Pastor.

[chime]

[twangy guitar]

[Corey sighs]

Yeah!

[Corey] Hey, Cal. You know, the church going through

a really dire circumstance.

And any donations or tithes really could help out.

I'm sure it would, but do nottouch that money.

You do not want your fingerprints on that!

What's wrong with you?

[Calvin moans]

What you doing with this old book?

This is my recipe book.

Every masterpiece I ever cooked was in here.

Tuna tamales, hm? Ramen pie.

Put that money back before I sock you out.

Coffee can cheesecake. All of them in here.

I mean, you can't put no price on this.

-How much is Pepto Bismol? -I don't know. Like $12?

There you go. That's your price.

Now, see, if I smack you, then I play too much.

All right. Hey, Rod, Rod. How'd the documentary turn out?

The establishment is terrified of the truth.

They smashed my dreams.

But they underestimated the lengths that a true artiste

would go to preserve the vision.

Where was that card?

Don't worry about it. I'll sanitize it.

It was in his booty hole.

First of all, it's called a prison pocket.

[Corey] All right, goodnight. Goodnight.

And great art requires great sacrifice!

What? Don't be afraid of the truth.

[Corey] Ain't enough sanitation in the world.

I got the truth, and it's right here!

? Churchy?

? I'm going to church today 'cause I need him?

? Yeah, I need him?

? Churchy?

? Let's head to the church today?

? 'Cause we need him Yeah, we need him?

? Churchy?

[music]

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