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Previously on In Contempt. Miss Sullivan, you are in contempt.

She's disrespectful.

Undisciplined. Holy shit.

Let's see. There, there, right there. Remember, it's all about your client.

He may look like a creep. He is a creep. So you need to drop the revulsion. Touch

on the shoulder. Something to telegraph that you're not afraid.

Never in my wildest dreams would I imagine that I'd feel good about getting

a rubber off. Drinks on me. Except you never carry your wallet. I'm going to

get my wallet. Thank you.

Step away from the vehicle. Hands in the air. Now. I didn't do nothing, man. I

didn't do anything.

Get off of me.

west for black women you have no idea like this guy he said he was looking for

his own personal par baby oh that is so wrong yeah he said he likes women nice

and black press

down get it nice and black well he's kind of cute

he's a good body too and he says he's working on getting his black belt you

don't know what that means do you

A black belt is when a white guy finally bangs a black tip. No.

Bend your knees and open up for Jesus. You can't do a strip search.

I'm a lawyer.

Yeah, but you melt up.

So you're my bitch now.

Okay, listen to this. The Dark of the Berry, right?

Talented with their lips.

Kinky hair.

Kinky sexy.

And this one is my personal favorite.

I want to make you my newbie and bitch.

I apologize on behalf of my people.

I know. You guys, I'm really worried about Charlie, though. I mean, I know he

never likes to pay, but just ghosting us? Oh, please. He probably ran into

Sheila from the county. He's a butternut biscuit as we speak.

My cell, my rules.

No pissing on the floor. No fighting. No complaining.

I don't know when you're going to see the judge, and I don't care.

Hit the road.

Keep your sorrows behind.

Two months in jail for whooping my own child?

The DA's office considers it child abuse.

But he stole my car and crashed it. He's nine years old. He could have killed

somebody or got killed.

The problem is the video. It doesn't look good and it went viral.

All right, what about Jason?

Child services already took him and gave him to my sister-in-law because my

husband is stationed overseas.

She and I, we don't get along, so she's been arguing against me seeing him. So

if I took the plane, would I get my son back when I got out? The prosecutor

doesn't have any control over that. It's possible you could lose custody of Jason

for at least two years. If your husband can't come home, maybe three.

Okay, look.

We do have a defense. It's called justification.

Gwen. The law allows parents to use force to discipline their children or

safeguard their will. Yes, that's what I was doing.

Except the force you used has to be reasonable, and you broke Jason's arm. I

didn't break his arm. He fell while he was trying to get away from me. Ms.

Lenz, you used a double-up belt. I was trying to help my son.

Do you know, last year, Jason's best friend, Frankie, he was playing T-ball.

Come to find out, some of the so-called volunteers, they were still gangbanging.

And we didn't know this, but Frankie, he was being groomed. And he was killed a

week before his ninth birthday.

I'm just worried about taking this to a jury. You know, family services already

took my son like I'm some kind of criminal.

I am not pleading guilty.

I didn't do nothing wrong.

What was that? I asked you to help me convince her to plead. You pretty much

talked her out of it. It didn't seem like pleading was the best motive. I

pulled Blackburn as a judge, and I'm up against Middletown. She's playing that

I'm cool and liberal act, meanwhile she goes hard on child cases. Girl, you got

this.

You know, you need a black jury. Black people don't talk about corporal

punishment like white folks. We get an Upper East Side, Take a Time Out, Mommy

and Me panel, and we are dead before we even start.

Still want me in a second chair?

Let's just sing from the same hymnal.

Where's Bennett?

Shadowing prosecutors this week.

Traitor. Screw him. Never mind.

Hey, listen up.

Everyone, listen up. I need everyone in AR2. Now.

Dockernanning 875. The people versus Charles Riggs.

Step up.

The hell happened? Judge Mr. Riggs was just...

admiring a classic car last night when he was mistaken for a carjacking suspect

and arrested.

Is that right?

And what dumbass did that?

Your Honor, the DA's office moves to dismiss.

I should hope so.

Case dismissed, Mr. Riggs, with apologies from the court.

I want you to take me to Zarkov, all right?

Great group.

Juror number three, how do you feel about corporal punishment?

I don't think it's necessary.

I used to have that. Juror number 21, were you spanked as a child?

Yeah. Get me in line.

Juror number three, did you spank your children?

I was spanked.

But no, I don't spank men.

Juror number 52, you said you were not spanked as a child. Would you spank your

own children?

Yes, I would.

The people challenge number 52 and number 21.

Defense challenge is number three.

Juror number 36.

Have you seen the video of the defendant flogging her child?

Your Honor, flogging? Really?

Overruled.

Yes, I've seen the video.

It's horrifying.

Use your words.

Juror number four, did you spank your kids?

No, I did not.

I can't see putting someone in jail for disciplining their kid.

Thank you, juror number ten.

The defense moves to excuse juror number 36.

Juror number 36, if I instructed you to be fair and to consider all of the

evidence, could you do that?

Of course.

I will not excuse her for cause. The people move to excuse juror number 10

for cause.

Granted, juror number 10 is thanked and excused.

Blackburn's very nice. Yeah.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are the impaneled jury on this case. Is this a

bad jury?

To be honest, I don't know.

Okay, I got it. What, diabetes?

Blackburn. I found some forum posts that she's written.

You think we could recuse her?

How do we know this is her? Who else would use the username Judge Imani?

Those posts are really anti-corporal punishment.

Oh, damn. Look who funds the site.

Plentiful Hope Children's Foundation, her donation jar. Mm-hmm.

No, no.

She'll never recuse herself, and then all we've done is piss her off. Judge,

your mommy's already pissed off. That's the problem. Yeah, but Elisa Slackburn,

her bias is obvious on the record. We recuse her, we could get some stealth

judge who protects herself, and then we got nothing on appeal. Well,

Tom, it is nice to know that you are not circumcised.

Uh, Blackburn. She's got a lot of anti-corporal punishment posts.

It's been negative. She holds grudges.

It'll have a domino effect. She'll have it in for everyone from her office. But

Tom... Absolutely no refusal.

Damn. It's fine. I didn't think it was a good idea anyway.

yourself with someone other.

Other. No right, no wrong.

I've been rolling like a stone trying to recover.

Recover.

The road is long. Carry on.

Your bags ain't really something that I need.

I've been in here for two days, and when you're here any longer, my job's gonna

fire me. It's just a sentence. You'll be out of here shortly.

Dr. Danny 934, the people versus Fabian Reyes. Step up.

Okay.

What do we got?

Return on a warrant, Judge.

Desk appearance ticket, unlicensed dog, no vaccination certificate.

The defendant never showed up for court.

The people offer three days community service. Your Honor, he's already been

in here almost two days. Well, when you don't come back the first time, you get

the slow justice.

His friend said that you would take care of the ticket. Hey, don't waste my time

with sob stories, Counselor. Just tell me he doesn't want to take the plea.

Bail set at $500.

I don't have that kind of money.

Your Honor. The dog wasn't even his. He was walking it for a friend.

Post bail or plead guilty.

I got cases to move here.

Or should I plead guilty to something I didn't even do?

Sounds like you're going to post bail.

Next case.

No, wait. I'll lose my job.

All children should be removed from the courtroom.

If you have an upcoming case, please come back after... No, no, no. Jim, it's

okay. Truth be told, sometimes it's nice to have some kids in the courtroom.

Forget what Tom said. We got to recuse her. Wait, wait, wait.

Your Honor, before you bring in the jury, the defense respectfully moves

that you recuse yourself.

On what grounds?

You've made some remarks regarding corporal punishment that give the

defense cause to believe you're biased.

Spanking as a disciplinary tactic is barbaric and completely ineffective.

Any individual who engages in corporal punishment should be prosecuted to the

full extent of the law where appropriate.

I'm not recusing myself because you stumbled onto some posts you suspect I

wrote. We're prepared to subpoena the ISP.

All right, approach.

This is off the record.

That you had the temerity to investigate my out-of-court opinions is one thing,

but that you would seek to undermine and embarrass me is another. Your Honor,

what? Ms. Campbell, I would think long and hard before asking me to recuse

myself. Yeah, thought about it. We still want you to step down.

You want another judge?

Be my guest.

But as I tell my grandkids, factions have their consequences.

Back on the record.

Defense motion is granted.

Wow, that is a lot of political capital to spend on a role that I feel probably

loose. What part of I don't think that's a good idea made you think I was down

with what you just did? Shit, Tracy.

I'm sorry, but it worked, right? That is not the point, Gwen.

You know you can get the case recalled.

I can?

Hey, B.

What?

Hey, get over here.

What is it?

Your Honor, I was wondering if you'd be willing to recall Mr. Reyes' case?

You've scanned it with a pit bull?

No. We were on a tight ship here, kiddo. You're going to have to learn to toughen

up.

You're going to give me those puppy dog eyes all day, aren't you?

Yeah, well, I can't see you.

You're invisible.

The sincerity is killing me.

Okay, fine.

Bring out the dog, man.

You understand the charge against you?

How do you plead?

Actually, Your Honor, I was hoping we could revisit the issue of bail. I was

doing a trial of dog-walking tickets, Counselor.

He pleads guilty to a violation. That's not a crime.

Then he pays a fine, and then he can go home. But he didn't do it. I don't care.

You don't want to waste the court's time with this stuff. He can just post the

bail. The point is he can't pay the bail. Look, I'm done with this nonsense.

Forget about it.

Next case.

Hey, it's the last time I do something nice for you, kiddo.

The Honorable Judge Martha Radcliffe presiding.

You were saying something about rolling the dice? You got lucky.

Let's bring in the jury.

Dr. Montgomery, as Jason Lyons' caseworker, you examined him after he

was hit with a belt.

I'm handing you what's been marked as People's Exhibits 2 through 4. An x-ray

of Jason's broken arm and photos of his injuries.

What was Jason's condition after the incident?

You can see the red marks and welts here.

And, of course, the broken arm.

This incident was painful, extremely humiliating.

and traumatizing. Aren't you going to object now? It wasn't at all reasonable.

Objection, speculation, and move to strike the last statement, improper

opinion, and ultimate question.

Overruled. Your Honor.

Overruled. Counselor.

Nothing further.

We'll resume after lunch.

What's wrong?

Honestly, I'm not sure.

Why didn't you object to Montgomery's testimony on reasonableness?

Because I thought we looked like idiots. She's an expert renderer of opinion.

Getting overruled just gave her testimony more credibility.

But she was rendering a legal conclusion. I don't have to agree with

you, Gwen. Why do you have such a problem with that?

I don't. You seem to.

Look, forget it. Just, it's done, okay? What we gotta do now is we need to show

that Danielle is a good mother and not a monster. We need to emphasize a part of

the statute that says corporal punishment is okay if you reasonably

believe it's necessary to maintain discipline. So the more misbehaving your

child is, the more reasonable the spike is.

That is some misbehaving.

Look at the carnage he caused.

So we have the photos to show that the punishment fit the crime and that he

needed to be disciplined.

But pictures are so boring.

So, so devious.

Okay, now fill the shots. Make it rain.

Swear to everything.

Leave them all with nothing.

Watch that screen, baby.

So what's happening, law dog?

Life's happening, man.

We're locked down, baby.

What was that?

Nothing. Let's go.

I ain't nobody's bitch.

I don't work for the man and I don't work for the money.

Do my job because don't nobody give a damn about black people. Yo, we hear you

fam. Joe, you're taking it to another level, man. It's just jokes, baby. It

ain't funny.

Ain't nothing funny about being a black man in America.

Don't call me a bitch again.

Judge Lasker is a wonderful man, but perhaps he was a bit intemperate.

Fear not.

He'll make it right.

Thank you so much, Your Honor.

I'm sorry, Judge. We looked. The guy's not in the back.

What?

He was just arraigned at the end of the last session.

I'm sorry, counselor. I can't release him if he's not physically before me.

Isn't there some other way? Can't you order corrections to let him go? I can

issue a cut and release, but that could take a day or two. It wasn't even his

dog. Please.

If you can find him, bring him to me, and I'll let him out.

Let's go. I will not live in a Kafka story another minute.

Dr. Montgomery, teachers are mandatory reporters of abuse, aren't they?

Correct. Yet, in the five years Jason has attended school, none of his

teachers ever reported signs of abuse, did they? That's correct.

In fact, Jason's teachers wrote very positive things about Jason's mother,

Ms. Lyons, didn't they? They did.

So, Ms. Lyons would appear to be a good parent, right?

And if a good parent reasonably believed her child's welfare was at risk or she

needed to correct a seriously misbehaving child...

She would act accordingly, wouldn't she?

Hitting can't be for a child's welfare.

Really?

Objection. What's all this?

Best evidence rule, Your Honor. Why look at photos of the damage Jason caused

when you can have the real thing?

I'll allow it.

dr montgomery this was once a part of a sidewalk mailbox and this

was a side mirror on a car jason hit both of these in turn

here and here and here he ran over a child's tracheal

what if a child had been riding this

punishment in this context could be used for the purpose of maintaining

discipline couldn't it or for promoting the welfare of a child for driving home

the point that what he did was incredibly serious and dangerous she

didn't spank her son she beat him not my question my question is whether given

the seriousness of what her son did she could have reasonably believed that the

force that she used was for the purpose of maintaining discipline or promoting

his welfare i suppose that's what she could have thought she was doing nothing

further

If your child ran into a mailbox with your car, would you hit him?

No. If he sideswiped a car, ran over a tricycle, smashing it flat, would you

hit him then? I wouldn't.

There would be consequences.

I would talk to him. You would talk to him.

And why would you talk instead of hit?

Well, for one, studies show corporal punishment results in a decrease in gray

matter in the brain, which inhibits mental development.

It also leads to an increase in aggression, delinquency, mental illness,

and drug abuse. Objection. Your Honor, corporal punishment is not on trial

here. The law actually allows it.

Sustained.

Is there anything that could reasonably justify the type of corporal punishment

Ms. Lyons used?

No.

Thank you, Doctor.

I can't read this jury right now.

I can.

They're not with us. People cannot just disappear into the system. We don't have

them. The courts have them. I just tried the courts. They said you have them. I

don't know what to tell you. Counselor, he'll probably turn up. They always do.

Unacceptable.

You can't go back there.

Mr. Reyes?

Fabian Reyes.

I lost my job.

I kept asking to call them, but the cops wouldn't let me use the phone until they

already fired me. I'll call your boss to explain the situation, okay?

Here's my card if you need me to follow up with you.

You know those guys in the cell?

They said you'd never come to me.

The more questions I asked, the longer I'd be in there for. They said the cops

would just disappear me, so...

Danielle should have fled. The jury hates her. The white jury, maybe. I

don't know. Montgomery made a pretty strong case that it's never okay to beat

your kids, black or white. She didn't beat her kids. She disciplined him.

Let's just be real, Gwen.

She didn't just give him a swat. She beat him hard enough with a belt that he

tried to get away and broke his arm.

I don't care what the loss is. You don't beat your kids, period.

Okay, wake up, Trace. Danielle's husband is overseas. She's basically a single

mom raising a black boy in the hood.

She spanked him to keep him alive, because if she didn't whip some sense in

him, he'd end up in jail or in a body bag. And that is being real. I get that.

I do.

But hitting your kids, it teaches fear, not obedience. It is worse in the long

run. Well, white people have the luxury of thinking about the long run.

Don't throw white privilege at me. I get it. I just disagree.

Well, you disagree because you never lived in the hood and you don't know

what it means. No, you have no idea what I know or don't know, Gwen.

Tracy, what is going on with you? Hey!

Are you okay?

I'm fine. I'm just frustrated.

With me?

With the K.

Okay, well, look, all I'm saying is that the black jurors are an asset.

We just have to remind them of the psychology of raising black boys, of

Donyell's state of mind, and they can teach the white jurors.

It's really our only move.

Well, you're right about that.

So you should do Donyell's direct. Black defendant, black lawyer, talking to

black jurors.

Okay.

My bad about earlier, man. I was bugging.

Cops got into your head. You're going to be jacked up for a minute, though.

You still got that same temper you had back when we were shorties. Hell yeah.

I ain't put no respect on a black president's name.

I don't know how I got a shot.

Man, same shit, different brother. We all been there.

Kissing paid men, handcuffed, paid car the whole night.

And just because, what, we brown and they got popped?

I don't know, man.

Sometimes... Shit just gets exhausting.

Well, you know what I need?

A slice.

Dang. We got about eight minutes.

Miss

Lyons,

why didn't you use other disciplinary methods with Jason?

Warn him.

Do timeouts.

Because that don't work. Not in my situation.

Can you tell the court what you mean by my situation?

I mean, the high school that my son is going to in a few years, there's about

100 security cameras.

Police officers in the hallways. You don't get detention.

You get arrested.

But Jason's only nine years old. My son, he is a good kid.

He gets good grades.

But he wants to be cool.

His dad is stationed overseas, so he can't be here to role model. So Jason

sees the other kids on the corner. He wants to be just like them, a thug.

Where is your neighborhood?

187th and Overlook.

Would it surprise you to hear that just since 2003, there have been 97 murders

and 14,654 major felony offenses in that area?

No. You know, some kids go to birthday parties and sleepovers.

Our neighborhood, we go to kids' funerals.

And my son is a black boy in America born with two strikes against him.

He can't make the same mistakes as white boys make.

Your Honor, may we approach?

That defense is trying to argue some kind of cultural defense. They're saying

that the danger to boys in certain black communities is higher than in white

communities. Because it is. And therefore, black parents are somehow

entitled to use greater force against their children than white parents?

I don't think so.

There can't be separate rules for black people and white people. Your Honor,

we're not arguing for a racial exemption here. But you're implying one.

Counselor, you can't argue a cultural defense here. You are to stick to

justification. But Judge, there's a cultural angle to justification.

We can't argue one without the other in this case.

It's dangerous to argue that black boys require more severe discipline to be

kept in line. That's not what we're saying. We're saying that black boys

have particular perils facing them that justify their parents using particular

force with them. Well, that's not what white folks hear.

They hear that black boys need to be beaten. I don't think that... I think

that the jury is capable of making the distinction, Your Honor. Well, I don't.

So if I catch even a whiff of a cultural defense, I'm declaring a mistrial.

And you can be damn sure that the retrial will be in front of Judge

Blackburn.

Now step back.

I guess the black judge isn't turning out to be quite the soul sister you

thought she'd be.

Have several seats, Miltown.

It's like I wasn't even standing there. What are you talking about? You

interrupted me. You talked over me. What is wrong with you? This is my case. It's

our case. No, I asked you for help. Oh, so now I'm the help. Don't twist my

words. See, this is what you do. You take over.

You did it with the plea. You did it with the refusal. You did it with the

expert. And now you're doing it with the judge.

God, you think you know better than anyone else.

Girl, I take over. That's what I do. Since when does it make you so mad?

You think you got it all together, Gwen, but you're just a hot mess.

I've been bailing your ass out for a long time. This is the third month in a

row I've had to pay your share of the electric bill. Trace, I will pay the

electric bill. It's not about the electric bill, Gwen.

I have never seen your fuse this short. Do you want to tell me what the hell is

going on with you?

No, not really, no.

Let's just say this case is bringing a lot of stuff up for me, okay?

My dad, he used to beat our collective asses, and I do mean beat.

I still got the scars to prove it, and when I look at Danielle, I just see my

whole childhood.

Sorry. Oh, my God. Why didn't you tell me? No wonder you're such a mess.

It's so crazy because I look at Danielle and I think maybe if my father had

whooped David more, he wouldn't be in prison.

Your daddy never whooped you guys? Never once.

Remember that mom out in Baltimore who found her son in the riots and whooped

his ass?

Yeah. When I saw that, I thought, man, that kid is lucky to have a mom who

gives a shit.

God, it made me cringe. And not just because it gave me flashbacks. It was

the way some white people, they just...

Seemed to love her just smacking her kid upside the head. Really?

Yeah. I mean, you should have seen my Facebook page. There was, like, this

glee.

Wait.

What if we use white people's racism against them?

I went back on the case because I thought we were having a girlfriend

moment. No, seriously.

Seriously. Radcliffe thinks we're leaning into white people's perception

of black boys as being like... A threat?

Yeah, the frightening shadow in the dark.

So we play the race car, but we play the white race car.

Oh, that's good.

That's good.

So we good?

Yeah.

You get on my freaking nerves sometimes, girl, but oh my lord.

I love you. I love you too, Joyce.

Donya Alliance knows her son Jason better than anyone.

She knows when he's advanced his reading level even before his teacher.

She knows that he needs twice as much physical activity as most kids and what

she needs to do to make sure he learns good behavior.

Back when I was a little girl in North Carolina, the mamas used to hang over

the fences and gossip about each other.

Who made peanut butter sandwiches and who just slathered bread with pork fat?

Who kept their kids in line and who let their kids run wild?

They would even predict the future success of your child based on your

skills as a mother.

Today we do the same thing.

Only now it's over Twitter.

If Jason grew up to steal cars, you would say, Danielle should have been a

better mother. She didn't discipline enough.

Well, I say you can't have it both ways.

Would you rather have Danielle whoop her son like I know half of you have done to

your kids?

Or would you rather have him become a thug?

Because you can't prosecute her and then complain when he steals your car.

Let's be clear.

A swat on the butt with a hand, that's a spanking.

But what Danielle Lyons did was beat his backside repeatedly with a leather belt.

He cried for her to stop.

She left raised welts on his skin. He's nine.

Danielle inflicted bodily injury on a child.

She hit him so hard that when he tried to run away, he fell and broke his arm.

Now, the defense would have you think that this is routine discipline to

thwart future infractions.

I want you to see it for what it is.

Child abuse.

And you need to hold Danielle accountable for that.

Miss Bambi, I heard you went all the way into the jail to find your lost client.

He was in jail for two days for a dog walking ticket.

I mean, how does that even happen?

Oh, come on, your cherry must be popped by now. Why don't you quit acting like a

virgin in a whorehouse?

Why are you so mean?

Go grab us a couple more martinis.

You know I don't work for you, right?

Judge Sullivan, congratulations.

Well, thank you.

Have you, um...

Have you seen my Gwen?

She's not coming, is she?

You know, she avoids me when she's angry at me.

Or when she's behind in her bills.

So, how are you girls doing with your bills?

Good. Good.

You don't know who I am.

Should I?

I'm Audrey Dodson.

Oh, Judge Dodson's wife.

Pleasure.

You're not the first to know.

Beg your pardon?

I know you're sleeping with my husband.

I'm sorry, I... Don't bother.

You're not the first, and you won't be the last, so you go have your fun. But

know this.

He always comes home.

And frankly, he's done better.

of the people versus Danielle Lyons on the charge of assault in the second

degree, we the jury find the defendant guilty.

Danielle, we are so sorry.

I have my quarrels with hitting your kid, but 18 months upstate and he's in

custody. As if he's better off without his mother.

Jesus.

Let me see if I understand.

You recused Blackburn, even though I explicitly told you not to, and you

lost?

Take your vacation days, all of them. But Tom, she was not going to give us...

Every part of me wants a suspension right now, so don't push it. I don't

want to see your face until those days have zeroed out.

Am I making myself clear?

I hate losing.

Yeah, me too.

oh you keep telling me my people and my family you're gonna get to me rescue me

but it seems i'm under the impression that we're on the same team but we

really ain't we don't exist

we're an unnecessary risk we've been asked off the list and all you suits on

the hill are just worried about the bill trying to make your bills

Finally.

I was worried about you.

Ah.

You and Tracy lose?

Yeah, they hauled our client off in cuffs.

I'm glad you came over.

You all right?

Charles Dado Riggs.

I'm all right.

You are far from all right.

I hate them all.

Every last one of them cops is a piece of shit.

You should have seen the way he looked at me.

Like I was a cop.

Our clients get pulled up on all the time by the cops.

Stopped, frisked, searched on the way to work.

Kid sitting on the curb, handcuffed because he was wearing a hoodie on the

way to the bodega to get some milk for his mom.

We see it every day.

So I don't know how I could possibly think that it wouldn't happen to me now.

You know, if I paid my taxes, if I...

Got a law degree.

What's up?

Somehow, stupidly, I got comfortable.

Thought I was inoculated.

And boom.

They got me.

No escaping it either.

You're a black man.

It's only a matter of time before the police emasculate you.

I thought I was kind of broken free.

I thought when he looked at me

that he could see me.

He could see me.

I went down in the hole to see what I could

see.

When I got down in the hole, was nobody but me.

Next time on In Contempt. You're still coming to the wedding shower, right? Of

course. I'm bringing Charlie. Charlie's from the office?

Yeah, we're friends.

What's up with you not opening your mail?

Monthly bills.

To maintain my self-esteem, I open the ones I can't pay less. I live like a

superstar on a reality star's budget. I'm cheating on her with you. Well, if

you're so worried about it, stop cheating.

Just because I'm new does not mean that you can take advantage of me.

Don't mistake my generosity for weakness.

What's the one thing Bennett would save in a fire?

His manuscript.

Gwen got it.

You are the queen of bad choices.