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Previously on In Contempt. What is the deal with you and Bennett? And Charlie,

who actually likes you, by the way. Charlie doesn't like anyone but himself.

He can never be serious. It is exhausting. Charlie, you have to get him

a program.

Talk to his mother. Get her to plead his case. You know it's insane to roll the

dice on a stash in cash.

Really? Sorry, I stopped listening. I called his mommy.

I know you're sleeping with my husband. And frankly, he's done better.

I would think long and hard before asking me to recuse myself.

Yeah, I've thought about it. We still want you to step down. You recused

Blackburn, even though I explicitly told you not to, and you lost?

I just want a chance to defend the innocent.

When you see one of those float by here, you let me know. Does anyone care about

the law around here? If you don't step back, you'll be spending the night in

jail. Bennett is a real man. He's not a scrub. He's not a boy. He's not a game.

Tell him how you feel.

Gwen, this is Allison, my fiance.

Step away from the vehicle.

It's the end now. I didn't do nothing, man. I didn't do anything.

Get off of me.

You should have seen the way he looked at me.

Like I was garbage.

The hell is Greta Constantine?

Why does her jacket cost as much as an iPhone?

Well, she is a black guy and an Asian dude.

I'm so confused.

That's from last year's collection. I got it on sale.

Damn, you don't ever have to shop no more.

You got fresh tags, new purses, new shoes.

Jill calls it a store.

Get out of my closet.

What's up with you not opening your mail and all? Hey, monthly bills.

To maintain my self-esteem, I open the ones I can't pay last.

Ah, live like a superstar on a reality star's budget.

Need an intervention in here?

Hey, do you want to be my date to a wedding shower?

It's Bennett and his fiancee, Allison.

Hmm. Thanks, but I'll pass.

Come on. Why not?

Because you always say we're friends with benefits, and this feels more like

an obligation than a benefit. Fine. Forget I asked.

You know what? Okay.

Maybe she might have some fine friends.

I suppose I can do you a solid.

Thanks.

Oh.

Well, the benefits. No, uh-uh. Stop. It's a good morning. Let's just... Wait.

Stay by the bell.

Oh, shit. It's time.

Blackburn wants a team in your courtroom now?

When did you do this, Sullivan?

Judge,

whatever it is, it wasn't calendared, so I didn't even know I was supposed to

appear. This isn't about you, Ms. Sullivan.

Meet juror number five.

I called for you because he needs a public defender, and he needs a public

defender because I'm about to hold him in contempt of court, and I don't want

anyone to think that he didn't have the loudest defense.

Appreciate your vote of confidence, Judge.

Let's just say the past is the past, and I, for one, can let it go.

That's beautiful.

Now, can I have a moment with my client to speak to him and find out what

happened? I'll explain.

What happened?

Juror number five has a felony conviction.

Do you know what you cannot do if you have a felony conviction?

Sit on a jury.

Precisely. And yet, somehow, juror number five managed to get himself

seated on my jury. I had to declare a mistrial because of him. What's his

name? Excuse me?

Oh, you keep referring to him as juror number five. I'm just wondering what his

actual name is.

Anthony Henry.

He has disrupted the proceedings of this court, and I intend to hold him in

contempt, something that you are quite familiar with.

I'm also directing the DA's office to conduct a perjury investigation.

Contempt and perjury, that's like going after him twice for the same conduct.

alleged conduct.

When he lied, he committed an offense against me and the good people of the

state of New York. And lying during pro forma questioning and on his juror

questionnaire would technically be perjury.

Kiss ass.

Ms. Sullivan, let me make something clear. When I said I wanted Mr. Henry to

have the loudest defense, that wasn't a compliment.

We were deadlocked.

And the judge kept saying, keep trying, right? Got a little crazy in the jury

room. Then I said that I didn't think that anyone should go to jail for a

crime that wasn't violent.

Woo! All hell broke loose.

Okay, because the fellow juror complained, the judge got upset, did

some investigating, and found your felony.

Felony? I ain't got no felony. I picked up a marijuana charge a while back, but

I ain't going to jail or nothing. Even though you didn't go to jail, your

possession case was a felony.

It was?

That was a lot of weed.

Yeah, I know.

My wife keeps saying I need to cut back.

It says here you bounced a check for $356 to a debt collection agency.

They bought my $5,000 credit card debt, and they have been coming after me for

like a year now. They're calling me 24-7 to garnish my wages.

Look, I'm trying to pay, but I'm struggling.

This wasn't your first bad check.

15 years ago, I got caught up with this bad guy, and he was doing a check-hiding

scheme, and I was helping him.

But I haven't done anything like that for 15 years.

I have three kids. I have a job.

I know it looks bad, but I swear I did not know.

I mean, I thought that my paycheck would clear. It usually clears every Friday.

So why are they pressing charges?

My friend told me that I didn't have to talk to them on the phone, but when I

told them that, they got really mad.

So I don't know. Maybe that's why.

Okay, I'll talk to the prosecutor.

Look, Anthony, I know this whole thing seems crazy, but perjury is a serious

crime. It's a Class D felony up to seven years in prison.

I didn't want to be on no jury or nothing.

I got the summons. I figured I better show up or they're going to drop a

warrant on me or something.

Any other judge would have just excused you from the jury and put in an

alternate, but Blackburn's pretty hardcore.

So what are we going to do?

Well, first I'm going to kiss Blackburn's ring.

We'll tell her that no one was trying to disrespect her court.

Then maybe she dropped it.

Let's hope.

I thought y'all called my wife. No, I think it'll be fine. I'll see you in

there.

What are you still doing here?

Go home.

I'll tell Blackburn I gave the case to Tracy.

Forget it. She's trying to hammer a guy who was just doing his civic duty. I

wouldn't even want to stop her. And don't you think your history with

Blackburn is precisely why Tracy should take the case? Nuh-uh. No, it's mine.

Our history together is precisely why I got this.

Mr. Hammond. Mm-hmm.

Lottie Cox, the bad check.

30 days.

In jail.

Mm-hmm. That seems like a lot.

$10,000 bail. For a bad check.

She has a record. That was 15 years ago. Oh, let me guess. You want community

service and we all sing Kumbaya?

People versus Brenda McGinnis.

Step up.

I've had the opportunity to consult with Mr. Henry and do some investigating,

Judge. And I think this is all just a misunderstanding.

Mr. Henry had no agenda or motive or intent to mislead the court. He merely

responded to a jury summons. And lied.

We ask 50 questions explicitly to weed out people who have been incarcerated.

Oh, Your Honor, Mr. Henry's never been incarcerated.

He didn't even know he pled guilty to a felony. He understood what was going on,

and he tried to undermine the workings of the judicial system.

He said as much when he told his fellow jurors that no one should be

incarcerated for a nonviolent crime.

I think that was just his opinion, Your Honor. I don't think that that's

evidence that he was trying to subvert the process.

It doesn't make any sense that he would go to such lengths to screw up a trial.

Are you implying, Ms. Sullivan, that this court doesn't make any sense?

No, not at all. I order the both of you to be ready to proceed on the contempt

charge this afternoon. Mr. Patel, I expect you'll have completed your

perjury investigation by then. I'll do my best, Your Honor.

If you bring perjury charges against him in addition to the contempt, it's going

to look like you're punishing a juror for wanting to acquit. Gwen, I don't

have a choice, all right? She already called my supervisor.

You don't have evidence of intent, and a jury's never going to convict him.

Just tell her you investigated and you don't think you can make out the

perjury.

And have her come after me? Oh my God, how do I actually have bigger balls than

you?

I'm sorry.

Look, just tell Blackburn you need more time.

That you'll convene a grand jury.

It's not fair to do a hearing on the contempt this quickly, never mind a

trial on perjury.

Come on.

It's the right thing to do.

Hammond wants 30 days on a misdemeanor. Bad check.

Oh, please. All Hammond knows I'll never go for that.

So what should we do?

What'd she say?

She only has one prior.

Sorry, family. I'll be right back.

Gotta make myself scarce for a moment.

The prosecutor's offering 30 days.

In jail?

I have three kids and a mother at home. 30 days that I don't work or 30 days

they don't eat.

You don't have any vacation days?

No.

And what about bail?

The prosecution is asking for $1,000.

How am I supposed to afford that when I can't even afford to pay the collection

agency?

I know.

But the judge is not going to let you out.

I think the offer is high. I think we can put the case off until tomorrow and

get a better deal from the next prosecutor.

And what happens if we can?

I think we can.

I've got this rhythm in my bones, this beat in my head. These lyrics in my

veins, that man obsessed in my pen.

Dance in my feet, punctuation in my hips. Passion in my mouth, escaping when

I spit.

Acoustics in my lungs, it's reverb in my throat. I've got this harmony in my eyes

that you see in all I wrote.

Soul of a warrior, strength of a queen.

Taking all my sentences, show you what I mean.

Dedication of a martyr, initiation of a star. Get ready to part of all that I am

part of. I am my own.

Jesus, Bennett, don't scare me like that.

Sorry, I've been calling your name.

I don't even know if I want you in my war room. I heard you were cavorting

with the enemy.

Well, actually, to be fair, they don't seem all that bad.

I'm not listening to you because you drank the juice.

Tracy told me about your case.

I do not know why I try to be civil with Judge Blackburn. She has all the

compassion of a pit viper. You think she screwed your client just to get back at

you? I think she is determined to hammer Mr. Henry. Her personally asking me to

represent him just gives her cover since everyone knows I moved her accuser for

my case.

Punishing me is just icing on her crazy cake.

Hi. Hi. Um, okay.

What's a good dispo on a bad check under $500? Any priors? Just one. I was

thinking 10 days community service.

For bouncing a check?

Bad check statutes make it a crime to be poor. Bounce too many and you're guilty.

DA doesn't even need to prove intent to defraud. You know, I never actually

bounced a check.

That is because you're rich and you probably have overdraft protection.

That's true. My parents were crazy strict about being financially

responsible.

Ten days community service sounds about right, Vanessa. Is that all?

What? You need anything else? Oh, no, thanks.

Bye.

So...

What are you going to do about your case?

I don't know. There's no jury on a contempt charge, and it's pretty clear

Blackburn's already made up her mind.

There's got to be something she's afraid of. Judges are only afraid of two

things, a reversal on an appeal and bad press. And as the saying goes, no judge

ever made the front page by being too hard on crime.

I think I know that look.

A story about a juror spending time in jail because he doesn't know a

misdemeanor from a felony.

When you calling a reporter?

Yeah. Oh.

I freelance for the examiner. Let me make a few phone calls, and I'll meet

you at the hearing.

Okay.

Hey, by the way, you're still coming to the wedding shower, right? Of course.

I'm bringing Charlie.

Charlie from the office?

Yeah, we're friends.

You're more to marry her, right?

Right.

So this is the case from yesterday?

Yes. I put it over so we could get a better deal. Gwen said community

service. Sounds right.

Campbell!

Judge Dawson wants to see you ASAP.

Sorry, Bambi. Business elsewhere.

You got this. Be strong. Have a backbone.

Fight like those Pradas depend on it.

I know you have been texting me, but I have been so busy that... You have

been ignoring me all week. I have been busy, and I'm in court now, so I'm going

to have to push our nooner.

I heard what happened at the gala.

Oh, please, I could not give a sweet damn about your wife.

You're not upset?

Why would I be? I'm not married to her.

I'm cheating on her with you. Well, if you're so worried about it, stop

cheating.

So, Miss Milltown, it's a bad check case. 90 days.

90 days. Hammond offered me 30 days yesterday. Well, that was his stupidity.

And that was yesterday.

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

because you're new, you don't know that a third offense equals a felony.

Statutory minimum is one and a half to three, so 90 days is a gift. I know the

law. My client only has one prior from 15 years ago.

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

He's got two.

Last one was six months ago.

Oh, my God, I didn't see it. It was under a staple.

Look, the best I can do is 80 days.

Can't you just re-oper the 30 days? It was my fault. Don't mistake my

generosity for weakness.

She's a thief.

80 days. Take it or leave it.

Docket number 456, the people versus Lottie Cox.

Step up.

Counselor.

No cell phones in the courtroom.

What's going on?

Your Honor, may we approach?

Problem?

I made a horrible mistake.

I didn't see my client's second prior, so I rejected the people's previous

offer of 30 days, and now they're offering 80 days.

And what would you like me to do?

You can give her the 30 days.

Mrs. Cox should not pay for my mistake.

Counselor, 80 days is more than fair for someone with three offenses. Your Honor.

It was a debt collection agency. She was paying them back.

She thought her paycheck had cleared. Oh, please. She's got a history, and

plenty of poor people don't bounce checks over and over.

Sorry, counselor.

The offer is 80 days.

What?

Yesterday was only 30. You didn't tell me that you were arrested a few months

ago. But...

Same company. I told you they keep coming after me. Can we do a trial?

I mean, that way I can explain how it happened. Unless we can prove that the

check didn't actually bounce, there is no defense.

The fact that you didn't mean for it to bounce doesn't actually help.

Counselor, 80 days, yes or no?

Your Honor, please, a moment.

Turn this down. It only gets worse.

Your Honor, please, I don't understand.

I work really hard. I feed my kids. I didn't... Ms. Cox, talk to your lawyer,

not to me.

Take the 80 days. I can't.

Oh, my God. Why won't you listen to me?

Tomorrow, it could be two years. Two years?

Please, take the plea. Oh, my God.

Mr. Patel, have you concluded your perjury investigation?

Not at this time. I know Your Honor would want me to be thorough, so our

office is considering bringing the matter before a grand jury.

Fine. Are you ready on the contempt, Ms. Sullivan?

Yes, Your Honor.

All right, you may proceed.

Your Honor, our evidence will show that Mr. Henry's only crime was to obey a

jury summons.

To hold him in contempt would be to penalize an innocent man for fulfilling

a civic responsibility.

Unlike most people who shirk jury service with every excuse in the book,

Mr. Henry stepped up.

To penalize him for that would be to make him a second-class citizen. Excuse

me.

Who are you?

Yeah, you, with the busy hands.

I'm Bennett Thompson, Your Honor. What's your purpose here today?

I'm covering this case for the New York Examiner, Your Honor.

Yes, my client had a marijuana conviction in his past.

But how many times must he pay for that same crime?

Every time he applies for a job or a housing and has to check the

conviction... That's enough, Counselor, Your Honor. That's enough for today.

I am continuing these proceedings until Mr. Patel can bring the perjury charge

to a grand jury.

You happened.

Now maybe she'll calm down off of the contempt, have more time to prepare, and

I can lobby the DA's office. So, thank you. No, thank you.

You know, watching you work is like having a front row seat to an all-star

game.

You said what?

Mm-hmm. You need to tell that man how you feel before it's too late.

And you need to tell me that you're not doing the things that I know you're

still doing with the man who showed me nameless. He's not Voldemort. Then why

didn't you tell me about him? Here I am spilling my guts about the one who got

away, and my bestie is hitting an affair and not telling me a damn thing about

it? Because it doesn't mean anything.

Bullshit. I know you're bullshitting. Where were you?

Calm down, ma'am. You are so dramatic.

That bed check case?

She got 80 days.

Crust on a cracker. How?

I screwed up. I didn't know she had two priors. What do you mean you didn't

know? There was a second one under a staple.

I told her to turn down 30 days.

I thought you were supervising her. I had to step out.

Jesus, Bambi's tough enough.

Stop calling me Bambi. Okay.

Listen, we all make mistakes.

I just don't want to end up talking to myself in a closet like some weirdo.

No offense.

You're untaken.

Is there any way that I can fix this? Some things can't be fixed. You just

learn to deal and move on.

You guys keep saying this, but it's not getting any better. It's getting worse.

Okay, you want me to show you what really helps? Yes.

You want to join?

Honey, you know I don't hit people.

I'm guessing there's no Zumba classes?

No. No jacuzzi, no spa.

Are we going to hit each other?

Just a bag.

Baby steps.

Okay, how do you do that?

Here's a big room yoga.

You should try it sometime.

Hot yoga, veggie steak, hot songs. You know, you need to stop paying for hot

shit. You need to move your body.

Throw a few jabs, take a few hits.

What? I'm not used to this.

You know, boxing didn't come naturally to me either.

Actually, I got the bug from my dad. We used to watch Bounce when I was a little

girl. No, I mean the way I grew up.

I'm not used to being around a lot of people like us.

People like us?

No, African Americans.

Drew, you know you can save black people, right?

I grew up in Darien, Connecticut.

I'm used to being the only black person in the room.

I know how to be that person, but our job?

Even being here, usually I feel like I'm too black, but lately I've been feeling

like I'm not black enough.

You know, it wasn't until I was out of law school that I actually stopped

trying to fit in and said to hell with who my parents and everyone else thought

I should be.

And you know what?

I actually started to love my unpredictable, stubborn, workaholic,

junk food-eating ass.

How about you try just being Vanessa?

Personally, I think you'll find she's pretty dope.

Dope is not usually the first word people use to describe me. Well, that is

because most of your friends are probably corny.

Come on.

Time to show these boys how the big girls fight.

One day your little guy's behind the wheel.

It's okay, your mom's side will find a way to deal.

You built this business up.

Something new, so much to look forward to.

Nationwide is on your side.

The new Jim Crow alive and well in New York. When Anthony Henry pled guilty to

felony marijuana possession in exchange for probation, he began his descent into

second class citizenship.

I've been saying that for years. Anthony's felony conviction prevents him

from sitting on a jury and from many states voting.

63,000 views now.

Here's where you bring it home, though. With one in three black men crossing

paths with the criminal justice system at some point in their lives, this

second class is growing and undoing many of the gains of the civil rights

movement. If you act in violation of this new Jim Crow, you suffer.

This, Anthony discovered when he responded to a jury summons. Oh, Tommy's

going to love this. The practice of jailing jurors who lobby to acquit might

have a chilling effect on the jury room.

Is Ms. Sullivan accusing Judge Blackburn of intentionally intimidating a juror?

Your Honor, this piece wasn't written by Ms. Sullivan. This may not be her

byline, but it sounds exactly like her. Did you guys check out some of these

comments? Listen, Judge Blackburn's a witch with a heart of stone with teats

as shriveled as walnuts. You can't possibly be holding us responsible for

anonymous comments on an article we didn't write.

Look, Tom, you protect yours.

I protect mine.

which means your office is about to seriously regret using the press to try

and strong-arm one of my judges.

So we good on the continuance? Two weeks.

That's fine.

Judge, the people consent to our request for a two-week continuance. Sorry, I'm

sending you out for trial.

People have their offices here. Your Honor, Mr. Kasdan isn't available. He's

engaged in trial.

Too bad. Get someone else over here to try it.

Jury 5.

Next case.

Docket ending 845.

People versus Linda Curran. Step up.

This case is up for a Huntley hearing, Your Honor. Ms. Feynman is out sick and

requests a two-day continuance. You can do the hearing, Counselor. I'm not

familiar with the case.

So many excuses today.

Here you go. Your coffee piped in hot. Thanks.

Listen, uh, your case is last on the docket. If I try to move it up, I'll get

my head chewed off. Come on, are you serious?

That examiner article? The judges are on the wall path.

I wish I could help.

Also, the clerk in the arrangements has a client asking for you.

He

was

arrested for marijuana possession last night.

Anthony, I'm already out on a limb for you. It was one joint. It was stupid.

And guess who was a copy of your article with him on the bench?

Docket M8772, the people versus Anthony Henry. Step up.

Well, well.

That's the Anthony Henry.

Judge, may we approach?

Looks like it's duck hunting season on you guys right now. Give it a rest,

Patel.

Judge, I'm going to ask that you ROR my client.

Ms. Sullivan, there's no way in God's holy creation I'm doing that.

As I'm sure you are aware, he has a matter in front of Judge Blackburn.

Oh, I'm aware.

The whole building's aware.

The people are offering 90 days on the new drug case.

90 days? I'll set $2,500 bail. On a weed case?

It's a very serious charge.

Okay. 90 days to cover the marijuana and the perjury. We haven't voted on the

perjury yet. You walk into Blackburn's courtroom with a guilty plea on the

perjury, she is completely validated.

All right.

But there's nothing I can do on the contempt charge. That is between you and

the judge.

Good morning.

In light of Mr. Henry's guilty plea to the perjury charge in this case, I will

dismiss the contempt of court charge.

He has taken responsibility for his actions, and the court is satisfied.

Thank you, Your Honor. That being said, Ms. Sullivan, your behavior in this case

has been unpardonable.

Your Honor, how is that?

You have a duty to defend your client, but first you are an officer of this

court and you must operate effectively within the judicial system.

Instead, you conspired to expose this court to ridicule and mistrust.

For that reason, you are hereby banned from ever appearing before or

practicing law in front of me again.

Your Honor.

I appreciate the fact that you acknowledge that in light of all that

has transpired between us, you cannot be fair to either me or my client. Oh, no.

No, truly, that is not what I... The fact that you can be the bigger woman

and admit your bias is truly exceptional.

So let me commend and thank you.

We are adjourned.

Anthony, I am so sorry.

Thank you.

Is there an official document banning you or something?

I don't think so. Why?

Because I think I'm a light copy.

I'm an inspiration as I write the first Veronica Sullivan novel.

Veronica? Is that her name?

It means see who brings victory.

Except I didn't win. I lost.

You fought for your client like a mother bear.

And that's what counts.

I should have never answered that jury sentence.

You did the right thing.

Going to jail for doing what's right. It's crazy.

Look, uh, I know this office runs on gossip, so I wanted you to hear it from

me first. Blackburn had a gossip. And for money, Charlie, supervisor.

Wait, what? Because of Blackburn? Seriously?

You know her banning me was just punishment for me recusing her from my

case, right? Which I told you not to do. Tom, she was gonna seriously hurt my

client. You didn't think it through.

There was a full PD shutdown because of it. And you're blaming me for that? Of

course I'm blaming you. Tell me what's a bat for my client. You are punishing me

for giving a shit.

Charlie is damn good at his job, but no...

and this office works harder or cares more than me.

When you have tunnel vision, you don't think things through.

You get obsessed with something and you pursue it with such a single-minded

purpose that you don't look at the records around you or what you're doing

to yourself and see the crap that you eat. You overextend yourself.

And I know for a fact that that doesn't work.

You're slowly killing yourself.

Let's talk about this.

You need to get a handle on your butt, kiddo.

This won't take that long.

Don't undercut yourself, mister.

I just wanted you to know that I'm not cheating on Audrey anymore.

Really?

Wow.

What do you call this?

I'm not cheating on her because I left her.

You what?

Now we can really be together. Of course, I have to recuse myself. What do

you think this is exactly?

A relationship.

My daddy was a no-account son of a bitch, but he taught me one thing that

turned out to be true.

You don't look for love where you look for sex.

Why did you have to mess this up?

Well, listen, thanks so much for coming by, Earl. I really appreciate it.

What?

What are you doing here?

I... I came to try to make things right with Judge Blackburn.

Oh, your father already beat you to it, Miss Sullivan.

And it's only because I respect him so much I told him that I would consider

lifting my ban.

All right, Earl.

Always great to see you. Great to see you. You take care. Okay. Okay. Thank

you.

Dad, exactly what do you think you're doing here?

Sweetheart, you were banned from ever appearing before a judge again. I was

just trying to help. You weren't trying to help me. You were trying to help your

reputation. That is not fair. You know you haven't set foot in this building to

come and see me in court, but you'll come here to save face?

Why is it that you can't accept my help?

You haven't even cashed the check that I sent you. You didn't send it to me. You

sent it to my roommate, and I would appreciate if you did not get between

us. And I don't need your help.

Obviously you do.

You know, you can't just throw your money and your criticism around and call

it parenting.

Didn't work for David and it won't work for me.

When?

Hamilton Heights money must be nice.

You sure you up for this?

After the date?

Yeah, you won. Congratulations.

I'm talking about what happened with Blackbuck.

Oh, sorry.

Seriously, no gloating?

I'm gonna go.

It's late.

It's no fun kicking you when you die.

You really clean up nice.

You are killing that dress.

Thank you.

Oh, you know what? I saw that tag in the back. No, just tuck it.

My people, my people.

Gwen, I heard you had a day. It means so much to us that you can still make it.

Oh, of course. Congratulations.

Oh, no, no. The invitation said no gifts.

Yeah, but nobody ever means that. We do.

Donations only to the Plentiful Hope Children's Foundation.

Excuse me.

Hey, glad you could make it. Bennett, Charlie.

Thank you for having us. Oh, of course. Of course.

Okay, who's most romantic spot?

Oh, no mantra. Next to the Basilica de Sacre Coeur in Paris where he proposed.

Oh. Correct.

His favorite drink?

Oh, Captain and Coke back in college. Brother, where have you been?

Now he likes big Italian reds. I'd say a burro like masolino. Yes.

Favorite comfort food?

Oh, my dairy-free mac and cheese.

Chicken and waffles? Yes, chicken and waffles.

Baby, you don't even eat meat anymore.

A man can run on his skin.

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

Photographs. His manuscripts.

Gwen got it.

Favorite athlete of all time?

Oh, uh, Michael Jordan. No, Bill Russell.

Dang, girl, you're killing it.

Hey, cheese sister or something, because that's cheap.

What was the first car Bennett drove?

I don't even know. It was a 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia convertible,

orange with gray interior, four-speed.

Shit! Shit!

Sorry.

No gifts, huh?

That's some passive aggressive bullshit.

I'm sorry. No, it's okay. I spilled something on my dress.

We have a guest bathroom.

I know, but...

Bill Russell changed the face of basketball.

And you have always loved chicken and waffles and your orange Carmen Ghia. How

does she not know those things?

And why not me, Bennett?

And I dream that you say.

When I

wake. No, I still didn't see.

Don't you tell me

Showing up the bride-to-be must have been exhausting.

It's no problem.

No, no problem.

Just don't like being dragged to some whack-ass, bougie party just so you

could... What?

Where'd you disappear to, anyway?

I was talking to other people.

I was talking to Bennett.

For that long?

You had sex with him?

At the man's wedding shop?

That's cold. Even I wouldn't do that.

That's a bad choice.

You are the queen of bad choices.

Buying clothes you can't afford, not paying your bills, getting banned by a

judge. Maybe that's why Tom didn't make you supervisor.

You, Charlie.

Pull the car over, please. I don't need this shit.

Hey Sharon, it's me.

Yeah, I remember.

What are you doing tonight?

This is what we did on.

And we've been losing time and don't know how to admit it.

When love don't feel right.

We get along, get along on the outside.

Head out the door, but ours on the inside.

Love, ours ain't gonna, ours ain't gonna lie.

We're half of the same.

Next time on In Contempt. There's obviously unfinished business between

the two of you. I want you to finish it. I'm giving you 30 days.

Pack it back.

That 30 days, it starts right now.

I've been stopped like 40 times. Excuse me? Three times by this same cop. That

cop stopped my client for no other reason.

know it and she knows it.

Holy shit.

Tessa? Oh, I just saw on Twitter you got engaged.

This must be your fiance.

Allison? No, actually, this is my sister.