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Previously on "Greenleaf"...

I hope one day we can just talk like we used to.

Yeah.

I don't see that happening, not like we used to.

What did you think about this ring?

I know you're trying to make me quit, Judee,

and it's not going to work.

I got fired last night.

My editor called me late last night

and killed the whole H&H story.

So Bob Whitmore killed the story?

Your dad...

can you tell me about this relationship

between him and this Loretta Davis?

Wait. What's this all about?

Are you aware that Mrs. Davis

originally left this house to Darryl James?

She left it to me and your mother.

But there's another will, and in that will,

pop, it says that the house is left to Darryl James.

Your lawyer, I assume?

Let her know the deal's off

'cause I definitely want shared custody.

And your father in jail?

He either belongs there, or he doesn't.

Either way, I'm about to find out.

He wants to talk to you.

I was raped in prison,

and one of the bitches who did it gave me HIV.

Uh, Noah and I have discussed it,

and we both decided that he should come home.

Which I completely understand,

but I need you to know

that my entire team has a strong feeling

that A.J. Might do better in a residential facility.

A.J. Has a lot of issues around home and family

that he might be able to work through more quickly on his own.

I made a few calls, and I found a bed for him

at a facility in Cordova.

A few days ago, doctor, you said that the support of family

would be the key to getting him through this.

And sometimes that support comes in the form

of releasing control.

I am not trying to hold on to control.

I'm trying to protect his right

to feel like he has some control here.

It's not an argument.

We just have to give you all the options as we see them.

Again, it's completely up to him,

but if you two agreed, it might tip the scale.

Hey.

Hey.

They stuck me full of so many needles,

I feel like a voodoo doll,

and now y'all look like someone just died,

so I'm freaking out.

We were just discussing your postrelease care options

with Dr. Sanh.

And what's my sentence gonna be?

A.J., that is completely up to you.

You have at least two options.

You can go to inpatient therapy for 6 weeks,

and I shared with your parents my recommendation for a program,

should you choose to do that, or you can go home today.

You're completely free.

It's...

Whatever you want to do.

Then I want to go home with him.

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What did I ever do?

What did I ever actually do?

Not something you heard I did,

but what did I actually do to make you think

that I was capable of murder?

I don't think you are, pop.

Then why... why didn't you come to me in the first place?

Because I know this is how you get.

Oh. I saw the toll

it took on you when all this got rehashed

the first time around with uncle Mac.

I was trying to get to the truth

so I could use it against Kerissa,

pop. That's it. I was trying to protect you.

And instead, what you've done is,

you've put a target on my back.

Tara's not that kind of person.

She's not Basie or Rochelle.

Oh, no. We know she's a certified Saint.

Ma, I didn't say she was a Saint.

Well, you painted her as one to us.

Down there on crump boulevard

handing out sandwiches and needles like God's

own Florence nightingale.

I do think she's doing good work.

Your father and I have done good work for 40 years,

and a testament to it...

this house, which now this little angel thinks is hers.

She doesn't think it's hers.

How do you what she thinks, Jacob?

Ma, I never even mentioned the first will.

Did you mention the second one?

Because the second one implies the first.

I never said anything about wills.

No, but you went,

and you planted this vague little idea

in her head that something is amiss, which is even worse,

so I am sure she is over there

thinking all kinds of heinous things right now.

Look, I'm sorry I didn't bring this to you guys right away,

but I didn't think it was gonna be this...

This what?

- This complicated? - Shh, James.

This is... this is Basie and Rochelle's sister, son.

I thought... I was hoping, at least,

that she would say something to the likes of,

"Basie's always been this crazy," and that's that.

And what does Aaron think about this?

Does the first will have a claim on the second or undo it or...

I don't know.

He's coming over this morning to discuss it with me.

I want your father in that meeting

because I don't trust you to handle this

after how you've done things so far.

And that wife of yours,

whose bony little wriggly hands set this whole

rube goldberg device in motion.

Where is she?

Where is she?

Up in that lair of hers that we pay for?

Yeah. Dante's coming over

so they can discuss their partnership at excellence.

Oh, excellence!

And she makes such a big show of being all about black people,

but the ones she lives with,

the ones who support her...

She connives against like David Duke

in some kind of head wrap.

Son, love you, but I don't even want to look at you right now.

Just get out.

I do not pet the head of a dog

who eats the food right off my plate.

Now go.

So, what do you want to do about tomorrow?

Do you want to go?

Where?

Calvary.

It's the last Sunday in the building.

Don't you remember we were just talking about this?

Yeah, yeah, of course I remember, yeah.

I just put it out of my mind.

And no.

I have no desire to set foot in that building ever again.

Well, we'll have to do something here at home...

Bible study, something.

This is no time to stop praising God.

Amen.

Where... lover, where you off to?

To kill Kerissa.

Thank you, everyone. That'll be all.

Thank you.

So, what's the plan for the offertory?

Oh, I was thinking we could show the Sunday bests video

about the merger instead of, you know, a song.

You know music is a really big part of this church, right?

Mm-hmm.

Like, some people only come for the music.

It's just a thought.

Wowza. Bite my head off.

I was thinking we would do

"I love to tell the story" but gospel-style.

Oh, I love that hymn.

But use it to accompany this little

powerpoint presentation I did on the history of Calvary.

Considering y'all are rolling in with bulldozers

Tuesday morning.

They're your bulldozers, too...

Thank you.

...unless you don't work here anymore.

I just think a nod to the past

would go a long way with some people.

Which past?

I'm just curious.

The one before you were here.

Oh, you mean the past where your father shot a man

in this building?

The past where the FBI raided the church?

And the past where your charming uncle

touched little girls in their privates?

For all we know, it happened right here where we're standing.

Who wants to remember?

You know you need me here, right?

For now.

So you think you're gonna hold this church

together for a year in a stank-foot gym

without a Greenleaf leading the way?

Mm. I'm the key.

I see you as more of a necessary evil.

- Really? - Mm-hmm.

Well, I see you as a rusty, old antique

with a slot in the back where the money goes plink,

and what he's doing with you, only God knows.

There was a sense of wanting to start fresh

in the Deacon's request to join the denomination.

Yeah, fresh didn't mean rude.

And that hymn will sound so pretty under the video

of the new campus.

The end.

The end.

I'm just trying to protect you from yourself, Pastor.

Tomorrow is our last Sunday in this building.

Your parents refused Connie's invitation.

If they were coming...

It doesn't matter if they're coming or not.

4,000 other people who have made this church

what it is are.

You've got to give them their moment to reflect,

or else you risk losing them altogether

when all these white people start showing up for church

in a gym next week.

We're going with Judee's idea.

You saw that?

I did.

Come on. Follow me.

So, what is this about?

Is Gladys Demars Phil Demars' mother?

Yeah, but she's dead. Why?

Darius and I may have found a way to get

H&H out before the wrecking ball swings.

Are you in or not?

Charity, I just saw the way that they both treated you.

Are you in or not?

What did his mother do for Bob?

We don't know.

We just know that every document about Edenvale Lending

that Darius was able to dig up...

her name is on it as comptroller or V.P.

Well, what does Edenvale Lending do?

That's what we're trying to find out.

Whatever it is, Bob doesn't want us to find out.

He got Darius fired just for working on the story.

Bob knows people at the papers?

They're endorsing his upcoming run in the Senate race.

Cal Weaver is terrified to talk.

It's like we have this invisible door,

and we just can't open it.

So what do you want me to do?

Help us find his father.

We know that his name is Marcus Demars.

We just can't find the contact info...

What?

Charity, what do you know?

I don't know.

Look, I am finally A.P.

Of an H&H church.

Well, it's more than Daddy ever gave me.

Do you respect Phil?

- Respect? - I know you love him.

Do you respect him

and the way that he lives in Bob's shadow

and likes it? In Judee's?

I don't know how he does it.

That's you in 10 years, honey.

10 months.

Maybe even today.

I would love to work here without Judee in the mix.

That's for sure.

Then let's find a way to get her out.

Okay.

The reason you can't find Marcus Demars is,

he doesn't exist.

What does that mean?

He used to be a black panther back in the day,

and he had to change his name.

What, to keep himself out of jail?

I really don't know.

He and Phil are not close.

So, what, is there an alias or another...

Yusef Shabazz.

He lives in New Orleans in the French quarter,

and the only reason I know that is

because he disapproves of jazz.

Phil.

Phil disapproves of...

I get it.

And, honey, I get it.

Thank you.

Come in.

My grandson isn't here, is he?

No, he's at chess club.

Good, because what I have to say isn't fit for young ears.

Wasn't fit for mine either, but, oh, well.

Mae, I don't have time to get into it with you today.

Dante Saunders is on his way over here,

and we have a very important meeting.

I want you out of the house.

What did Jacob tell you?

Oh, everything, starting and ending with the fact

that you are blackmailing this whole family to get,

what, a few extra hundred dollars in a divorce settlement?

Mae, I don't even want a divorce.

Then why in the hell are you getting one?

How did this mess even start, Kerissa?

That's between me and Jacob.

Okay, fine.

Well, then you can tell him in private how I threw you out.

That can be between you, too.

I had an affair.

And he won't forgive me.

That's why we're divorcing.

It's his idea.

After all the times I forgave him, Mae...

for Alexa, Tasha, Melisse.

Melisse?

My Melisse?

The Melisse who was our cook before Maricel came on?

- Yes. - Oh, my, Lord.

And in the laundry room.

- No. - Yes.

Yet he's the one that wants a divorce.

I only wanted to use that will to convince him to relent.

I never thought it would go this far.

Oh, and far is where it has gone.

Come in.

Mrs. Kerissa, Melora just called.

Mr. Saunders is here to see you.

Thank you, Maricel.

Thank you.

If you can get him to forgive me and move on, I'll let it go.

If he wants to play rough, game on.

From a purely legal standpoint, Bishop, the house is yours.

The second will erases the first.

But a jury wouldn't see it that way.

Is that what you're saying?

I'm less concerned about the jury

than I am the court of public opinion.

It could look to seem people as if Darryl James

was killed in that church fire

in order to pave the way for the second will.

But that's not what happened!

I've been trying to tell that to my son.

Pop, it doesn't matter what happened.

All right. Darryl James is dead.

Uncle Mac is dead. Basie's dead.

The case would never be about the facts.

It would be about perception

and the public's idea of justice.

Right, and right now, you and ma

are trying to launch this new church.

- I mean... - What do you suggest we do?

I guess...

I would make peace.

May I have a word with you privately?

- Yes, ma'am. - Privately.

Aaron has recommended that we try...

Yes.

I heard, so what are you gonna say?

Whatever the spirit tells me.

Well, just don't assume that Tara is any better

than Rochelle or Basie Skanks.

I'm losing my church tomorrow,

and I couldn't take losing my house, too.

I talked Basie out of killing me

with bullet in the chamber, Mae.

This can't be much harder than that.

Famous last words.

Shall we?

Aren't you glad you're not related?

I'm, uh, pleased to be of service.

Hello. I am calling for a Mr. Yusef Shabazz.

Is this Mr. Shabazz?

Well, I was gonna hang up,

but you get points for pronouncing it right.

Who is this?

Um, Mr. Shabazz, my name is Grace Greenleaf,

and I was hoping you could answer a few questions for me.

Are you a cop?

No.

A reporter?

Until recently, I was a Pastor.

Okay, well, that's strike one.

Sir, your wife previously worked for a company

called Edenvale Lending.

Ex-wife. Yeah, that's gonna be strike two.

And she's been dead for 20 years.

But your son Phil...

That's strike three.

You're out.

Ma, you don't want to hear what Aaron had to say

- about the wills? - Perhaps in a moment.

Shut the door.

All right. What happened? What's going on?

"When you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone,

you forgive them so that your father in heaven

may forgive you your sins."

Mark 11:25. What about it?

"For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."

Romans 3:23. What is this, ma... a pop quiz?

"He who is without sin, let him first cast the stone at her."

Oh, why am I not surprised?

John 8:7.

Okay, you talked to Kerissa.

I did.

Melisse? Jacob, honestly?

Ma, that was a one-time thing.

Well, you're gonna be a one-time thing

in about half a minute, young man.

She tell you what she did?

I don't care if she did it with the man

who broke the bank in monte Carlo.

That woman has endured years of your antics,

and she messes up one time, Jacob,

and you can't forgive her.

So you're taking her side on this.

As much as it pains me to do so, yes.

And, believe me, I don't take any pleasure

in finding that my own son is to blame for a problem

that I far more happily would place at the foot of his wife,

but when you declined to do the right thing,

you bought us all tickets to the poorhouse.

Well, who do you think you are?

Where is your fear of the Lord?

You go, and you forgive that woman.

Ma, that won't solve Tara James.

I am trying to solve you.

You do know what she did, right?

Jacob, this is about you and what you think of women,

which is what you think of me.

You never did anything like this.

Well, what if I had? What if I did?

You know, I am so mad at you right now.

You just go in there right now, and you forgive her and move on.

Yes, ma'am.

- Miss Connie. - Pastor.

Oh, miss Connie, do you have a minute?

I'm already running late for an appointment

I had with Phil and Judee.

Oh, perfect.

I put together this powerpoint presentation

of Calvary's history that I would like to show tomorrow.

And you're telling me. How come?

Pastor Demars and Judee said no.

And now I'm saying it, too.

I can't think of anything worse.

I got it.

Find anything we can use yet?

No. I'm about to find something over here.

Hold on.

Oh, Lord, we need you now.

He's been missing for quite a while.

Hmm?

Bishop Greenleaf.

Sister James.

This is the second day in a row that a Greenleaf

has paid me a visit.

It's enough to make a girl feel special.

I just want to set things straight once and for all.

Amen.

Hi.

Hey.

Good to be out of there, huh?

Yeah.

I'm gonna go get my stuff.

Here. What's this?

It's a doctor at baptist memorial.

He specializes in treating HIV.

This is why I'm not staying here.

I told you I didn't want to talk about it again,

and that's all you want to do.

Just shut up about it.

You have to get him in to see someone.

- He needs medicine. - I know.

Have you even thought about this?

I haven't, but I'll call him.

He's not asymptomatic, Noah.

If we don't get him under protocol...

Look, I said I'll call him.

I swear, if you do not...

Noah. It's so good to see you.

What...

Would you like to join me for some tea?

That sounds perfect. Thank you.

Good. I'll take care of it.

Relax.

That wasn't me who called your house

that night your father died.

When I found out your father's body was found

in that church after the fire,

I was the first to ask, "what the hell was he doing there?"

So who made the call?

Mac, possibly.

He was the one who arranged to have that fire

set in the church.

What a thing to do.

Yes.

The ultimate sacrilege.

But why would he have called?

I mean, why would he have wanted Daddy dead?

Mrs. Davis originally meant to leave that house to your father.

There's a will that attests to it.

After your father died,

she amended the will to leave it to us.

A will drafted by Mac.

So why are you telling me this?

Because I want you to know everything.

Because I want you to know that we're in this together,

both of us looking back sadly to a place

where there's no going back to.

Because I want peace.

I hope you know that I don't look upon riches

as something to be coveted,

but to be feared, actually.

I see your walk here.

It is clearly the walk of a Christian.

But I can't lie and say that it doesn't sit strangely with me

to think once more of my father waking up in that hell,

that hell he didn't deserve...

- Not one bit. - ...And with no way out.

That hurts.

Is there any way that we can get past this,

both of us,

once and for all?

Did you talk to Connie Sykes about tomorrow?

Just admit it. You did.

I did, and she said no.

Yeah, but if she'd said yes...

Well, we can't have you second-guessing

every move we make, can we?

You're fired.

You can't fire me.

Why? Because I'm not a Pastor?

I'm Bob Whitmore's daughter...

...and soon-to-be first lady.

The only person with more power than me here is God.

Fired.

Judee just fired me.

She told me.

And you're just gonna let it happen?

Is there any crime against common decency

that you won't let her perpetrate?

Anything that she can do that you won't just accept?

What you did was unproductive.

Talking to Connie?

Phil, I have known her since I was born.

I can talk to her whenever about whatever I want.

Both Judee and I have made our feelings

about the service tomorrow clear.

We can't run this church having to double back

every time we talk to make sure you're truly,

madly, deeply on board.

"Truly, madly, deeply"?

It's Judee's favorite movie.

Oh.

You want to know what mine is?

It's a little film that I am writing,

directing, and starring in today

called "you can't fire my black ass. I quit."

Charity, I spoke to Judee,

and she's not gonna press it, so...

So why don't you press your face

into those tiny little titties of hers

and see if you can get anything

like what you couldn't enough of a couple weeks ago

because you will never see these again...

Or this.

And, you know, if this crazy Oreo church

you think you two are gonna sit on like a bicycle

built for two makes it past Tuesday,

which it won't, you can bet you'll be hearing from my lawyer

and me too. Timesup.Com.

God, how I wish you were the man I thought you were.

Him, him I loved.

But this person, I can't even hate.

It'd be like hating a sponge.

Just some passive, porous thing.

What a waste.

You look like you're leaving.

Do I? I have to hide that better.

Look, I picked up some barbecue.

I got some ribs and chicken, hot links.

Come on. Hop in.

You are in a strangely good mood.

Ooh, I am.

How is A.J. settling in?

He's not.

He's collecting his things.

He's gonna stay with Noah.

Ah.

Now I understand.

I just feel like...

Listen, don't indulge that feeling.

You don't even know what it is.

You feel like everything you broke when you let that child go

will never be put back together, not ever.

He doesn't want to stay here.

And when I think about the role

that I had to play in his life,

I cannot blame him, and

I hate that.

Gigi, it's gonna take more than you.

His father's here.

And you saved his life.

That may be the extent of the work that you can do now.

Leave some room for God to move.

And, come on. Get in the car.

I'm hungry.

I'll be over in a minute.

You came back.

Don't forget that.

20 years, and you came home.

No one saw that coming.

Selah.

So, how'd it go with Dante?

Fine.

Your mother came and saw me.

Yeah, I know. She came for me next.

Is there anything you want to say?

You really can't do it.

Here's all you have to say.

Jacob, just say this,

and we can keep this family together.

"Kerissa, I'm so, so sorry that I left you

so alone in this marriage

that you felt the need to defile yourself

with another man just to feel something.

Not just to even feel love... to feel something.

I'm sorry, and I forgive you, just like you've forgiven me

100 times for worse.

I'm sorry."

Okay.

I'll lay off the will because I know now

that Mae knows that I'm right,

and she will make sure that you do the right thing

because you don't know how, but we're done.

I know.

Move.

Not happening.

Uh-uh-uh! What you reaching for there, buddy?

Yo, quit playing.

Oh, don't make me drop you on this good Saturday, cuzzo.

Resistance is futile.

Mm-hmm.

Why don't you just stay?

Yeah.

Thank you.

For what?

Hey, I didn't know all y'all were in here.

Mm-hmm.

A.J., can I talk to you for a second?

Just for a second before you go?

Yeah, I guess.

He's staying.

I'm not. They're just playing.

I know. I know.

What?

Have you got everything you need?

I think so, yeah.

Then you're gonna go see that doctor that I...

Yeah.

You know, you always can come back.

I know.

Thanks.

You're welcome.

It's for the best.

You are going to need all of your focus and energy

to keep that church going during construction.

Daddy's counting on you.

Mm. On me, too.

And she was never gonna be a part of the team. Not really.

After what she said today, I'm tempted to agree with you.

What did she say?

Was it about me?

No, no, it was something

about... H&H won't make it at Calvary past Tuesday.

Wishful thinking.

Well, the way she said it was...

Was like something was in the works.

Don't let her get in your head.

Yeah.

I'm trying not to.

Here.

Try...

...and relax, hmm?

Hmm?

No, don't.

Uh-oh.

Judee, I said "don't."

When are you going to let me...

Let us get back to how we were?

Is it because I'm not legally divorced yet?

I'm never going back to Ken.

You know that.

Come on.

Come on.

No.

Call her yourself if you don't believe me.

It's over, finished.

Why aren't you pleased with this?

Well, I just find it hard to believe that a member

of that awful family is finally doing the right thing.

James, are you sure that she was being sincere?

Mae, we prayed about it together.

We cried.

The spirit descended on the two of us,

and I thought I was gonna speak in tongues.

- So maybe you're right. - Mm.

Maybe this is all settled,

but I just can't shake the feeling

that somehow this is not quite over.

It's over.

Agnes.

Do you have any of that sauce

that Mae concocted in the freezer?

Because this here spicy doesn't even come close.

You know, I'm gonna get myself an ice-cold ginger ale.

You know, I always think to have that with ribs,

but I never just get up and get it.

This is the day I take back my joy.

Hey, ma.

Hey.

Will Kerissa be joining us?

I don't think so.

Ma, I, uh...

I just couldn't do it.

I know what you said, and I tried to say it, but...

But what?

You just couldn't get down off your mile-high horse?

It didn't have anything to do with forgiveness.

I knew if I said it, I would just go right

back into that thing...

Us.

Well, apparently your father has settled things with Tara James,

so maybe this is just how it all ends, son.

What happened?

He'll tell you.

He's very proud of himself, but, Jacob,

I just have to say,

you need to take a look at A.J. and Grace.

A good, long look.

Meaning what?

If the two of you do divorce, don't you let

Winkie grow one inch away from you.

You are his one and only father.

I hear that, mama. I do.

Does everybody know that we're having church tomorrow

- morning here? - What time?

Because I'm available.

- What? - Hey.

- What about Calvary? - What about it?

She quit.

- You quit? - I quit, mama.

I couldn't take it anymore. Free at last.

Free at last!

Ooh, that gets my unqualified amen.

What did Pastor Demars say?

He tried to keep me around, but I wasn't having it.

He wants that sour cream puff, he can have her.

I guess we should call Karine.

No, let her come.

I want to see what she's got.

I hate singing alone.

I assume A.J. and Noah left.

Yeah, he didn't want to make a big thing.

- I would've felt the same way. - To freedom.

He knows how to look after himself.

That's a sign of life right there.

- I hope you're right. - Is this from Lola's, grandpa?

It certainly is.

Oh, I knew it. I told Sophia I smelled it.

Too bad A.J. Isn't here.

Or maybe it's just fine.

He seemed happy to be with his dad.

Now, look, I just want to say a few words,

if I may, before we dig in here.

Now, as I said, tomorrow morning,

we're going to have church

here at the house with just the family.

Now, I'm only speaking tonight because I expect your mother

to lead us in the morning and every Sunday from now on.

Now, all I want to say is...

That I'm...

I'm sorry about this.

Who is it?

Tara.

Who's Tara?

Tara James, thanks to you.

Tara James? As in Darryl James?

Answer it. Just answer the call, James.

Hello?

Will someone please explain to me what's going on?

You, of all people, are owed no explanation.

Just be quiet.

Oh, yes, yeah. Yes, I understand.

I'm sorry to hear that, but I-I do understand.

Thank you.

What's the matter, grandpa?

Huh? What?

Just say it, James.

It's the truth we'll have to live with.

Whatever it is, just say it.

That was Tara James,

the daughter of Darryl James and Rochelle's sister.

She's thought it over and prayed about it, apparently,

and she wants to talk again...

As soon as possible...

About the house.

Oh.