All language subtitles for Civil.Brand.2002.WEBRip.x264-RARBG-sync

[Footsteps]

[Screams echoing quietly]

Man: you know, winning
this case is a...

It's a real victory,
Sabrina.

You ain't gotta tell me
that, Mr. Reynolds.

[Clicking]

I know.

Man. mmm, mmm, mmm.

There's a lot of
young people going
to prison these days.

Some of them
need to be there.

Some of them don't.

You know, it's
the background story
that's the real winner.

And--and that's
what everybody's
gonna want to hear.

[Buzzer sounding in distance]

Prison ain't no joke,
though.

Wanna know how I know?

'Cause I been
in and out of jail
since I was 15 years old.

Heh. but ain't nothin'
like the experience
i had at whitehead.

I know what you want.

But I'm gonna tell you
the story my way.

I lived this.

Being in this motherfucker
changed my life.

Woman: damn. Look at my nails.

You know I gets
my shit done every week.

Don't play.

Damn. shit, bitch,
you need to be looking
at that hair.

Hey, bitch, fuck you.
Fuck y'all.

First of all,
y'all motherfuckers
is crazy,

'cause you ain't
gonna be gettin'
that shit done

no time soon.
Nails, hair, toes,

none of that shit.

You gonna
be scraping them
motherfuckers

up against the wall
and shit.

What did y'all--
y'all niggers kill
somebody?

Hell, yeah.
Yeah.

Aw, hell no.

I ain't kill me nobody.

They got the wrong
motherfucker.

They got the wrong
Sabrina downs.

It could be, like,
13 of me in the whole
fuckin' world.

It's a bunch
of motherfuckers
in America.

And I know motherfuckers
light-skinned and wear
braids and shit

like me, you know
what I'm saying?

Everybody wanna
put me in jail.

Bitch, I will jump over
this motherfucker

and choke your ass.
Well, what's up?

Bitch! oh, my--wait
till we get to the
motherfucking prison.

You ain't gonna do shit.
You just wait.

She said she ain't
kill nobody.

Oh, your wannabe
innocent ass!

You ain't done shit
either, bitch.

You pickin'
some cotton some
motherfuckin' where

and got in trouble.

You just here 'cause
they want your ass here.

You ain't special.

[Buzzer sounding]

Hey. if you, like,
hold your arms back--

god, girl.

Thanks.

It's cool.

And that's how I met
Frances Shepard.

Officer:
from this moment on,

you're the property
of the whitehead
correctional institution.

My name is
captain Alan dease.

Remember my name.

And I promise you, you will
never forget my face.

All right, ladies,
listen up.

You will not be able to eat,
sleep, or go to the bathroom

without permission.

And I'm gonna
say this once...

And only once.

Carry your prison I.D.
With you at all times.

Failure to do so...

Will result in
disciplinary action.

You shall not engage
in gambling,

substance abuse,
or illegal sexual acts.

Sabrina: Tom Nelson
was the warden, right.

But that asshole dease,
he ran the prison.

You shall not engage
in business or commerce
of any type.

He seen, like,
4 or 5 wardens come and go.

He been there
for a long time.

That nigger felt like
everything was his,

from the fuckin' roof
to the rats.

You will not destroy or
misuse state property.

Dease...asshole.

For sho'.

Any acts...

Of insurrection...

Or insubordination...

Will result in
disciplinary action.

Do you understand?

Yes, sir.

Do you understand?

All: yes, sir.

Good.

Good, ladies.

We was like...
His girls...Heh heh...

Living in his
mother fuckin' house.

It was real fucked up.

[Rap music blaring]
[Women chattering]

[Tap tap tap]

Officer:
all right, turn off
the damn music.

[Music stops]

Sabrina: now, Frances was
different than the rest of us.

New inmate on the block.

She had never
been in jail before.

Neither has lil' mama--
17, pregnant,

and our resident preacher.

Nikki, this here is
Frances Shepard.

Lock her into
the day-to-day.

I don't want her
in here.

You don't have a choice.

All she gonna learn
from me is how to be
an insubordinate.

[Laughter]
right.

Lil' mama:
I--i hope you'll
be comfortable.

You can put your
stuff up there.

Maybe I'll help you
make your bed later,

clear out some
space.

[Officer raps bars
with night stick]

[Laughter]

Lil' mama:
Look, i--i know
how you feel.

It just takes time.

Here, let me
tell you who
everybody is.

That right there,
that's Nikki.

Don't nobody
mess with her.

She's been in and
out of here 2 times.

[Rap music begins]
Everybody in here
is scared of her

except me.

We get along.

Now, it's a little
cold in here.

They don't give us
no heat,

so you might
wanna dress up
a little bit

so you don't
get sick, ok?

Hey, Frances,
how you doing? I'm wet.

Come on out of
that cell, girl.

You're gonna spend
enough time up in there.

Enough time to make
you go crazy.

Now, this here is kinda
like the block.

You gotta be careful
who you run with.

See them girls
right there?

That's the licky-licky
crew.

Now, if that's your
thing, it's cool
with us.

Uh-uh.

Them girls right there,

that's the o-tep girls.

O-tep!
yeah!

That's my clique.

It's our job to
wake everybody up.

Woman yelling in distance:
Shut the fuck up!

Shut the fuck up, bitch!

See what I'm saying?

Sleepitude.

What you up in here for?

Murder.

Murder?

Don't look like a murderer.

Look like a high yellow
sadiddy butch to me.

Now, look, Frances.
We get up every morning
at 5:30.

Then we got a little--
oh, no, no, no,

lil' mama,
fuck that.

What she need
to know is how they
terrorizing us

up in this
motherfucker.

You better protect
yourself.

I didn't do anything.

It don't matter.

I got this here
petition

I need you to sign.

I'm trying to get
everybody to sign
it, actually.

[Buzzer]

Man, on P.A.:
Lock down, 2 minutes.

2 minutes to lock down.

Good night, y'all.

Come on.

See you later, wet.

All right, Frances.

[Whistle blows]

They can't pay me enough
money to work in this
raggedy motherfucker.

♪ Goin' to town on a horse
named chili ♪

Shit is crazy.

You know yvette
got bit by a rat
the other night?

For real?

Well, keep down about it.

You don't want to give them
no reason to throw us
in lock down, please.

Lock down?
That shit ain't never
gonna happen.

Slow down they productivity.

[Laughs]
that's right.

Gotta keep the cash
flowin' huh?

Frances, let me, uh, let you
in on what's going on.

Saturday. ok.

We're in the sweatshop
all day until 12 noon.

Then it's a hour in the yard,

then it's chow. Then it's
back to cleaning up,

unloading the truck,
helping with dinner.

Then we only got
an hour on the phone.

We only get paid $1.50 a day.

I know it don't sound right,
but that's the way it is.

No, that can't be right.
That's illegal.

Hell, no, that shit
ain't illegal.

Slave-driving
motherfuckers.

[Bell rings]
All right, ladies.
Time to earn your keep.

Welcome to
the plantation,
sister Frances.

♪ Riding, riding red Clay ♪

♪ strange things
happen every day ♪

♪ don't ask me who shot
John, man ♪

♪ I never saw a gun, man ♪

♪ don't ask me who shot
John, man ♪

So, Frances.

What happened with you?
How'd you get in here?

I killed my husband.

It was an accident.

Oh, really?

Hmph. I killed my stepfather,

but it wasn't no accident.

You got any kids?

Yeah, I have one.

Look.

[Gasps]
oh, you got a locket!

Her name is Maxine.
Aww!

She has asthma. I worry
about her so much.

She's cute.

Heh heh. Thank you.

You're welcome.
Everybody got kids in here.

Nikki got kids.

Twin boys.
They with her mama.

Wet got 2 kids, too.

But they got
taken away from her.

Girl, just get ready,
'cause mother's day...

It's tough in here.

Mm-mmm. see,
I'm getting my appeal.

I'm gonna be
out of here.

Oh, really?

I'm getting out of here, too.

Oh, yeah? When?

In about... 5 years.

5 years?

Yeah. 5 years.

[Sighs]

[Women cheering
and shouting]

Don't bullshit me, Harvey.

Excuse me,
captain dease?

Yeah?

Uh, hi,
I'm Michael meadows.

Let me call you back.

That supposed to mean
something to me, son?

I'm the new, uh,
correction officer.

I'm supposed to
be starting, uh,
on Wednesday.

And what are you
doing here now?

Well, uh, the warden
said I should just,
you know, come by,

say hello,
introduce myself.

Yeah, you the new
college boy, huh?

Hi.
yeah. hi.

Good to meet you.
Good to meet you, too.

Can't you think of
something better to do
than corrections, son?

Heh.

I mean, well, to be
honest with you,

you know, I need
the money for tuition--

you need the money.

Everybody needs money.
I can understand that.

I'm not mad at you.
Ok.

Don't worry about it.
We got this. We got this.

[All shouting]

Nikki: don't worry about it.
We got this. We got this.

[Shouting and chatter continue]

Pull up a chair.
Let's talk.

Ok.

Tell me a little bit
about yourself.

You know,
I'm a post-grad.

I'm a--I'm a law major.

Uh, criminal law.

I guess help people.

$5.00 say you
don't got this.

Sabrina: now, that's Aisha.

That's dease's latest
piece of pussy.

Whatever she see,
she run and tell his ass.

Nikki: Aisha...

You ain't ass-bettin',
are you? Huh?

Let lil' mama
hold the money.

Lil' mama.
Wait, wait, wait!

Hold, hold,
hold up, hold up.

Why lil' mama gotta be
holding the money?

Why not?

'Cause she a god-fearing
woman, that's why.

♪ Hallelujah ♪
god bless and keep you, wet.

What the fuck? Am i
in church? Here.

Whatever.

My--my father and, uh--

your father and, uh,
Nelson go way back.

Yeah, they--
from college?

Yeah, they went
to school together.

I'm--I'm an only child.

My parents are only
children, too,

so it's just pretty much
us, you know.

You know, i--i--
I'll trim it down.

Nikki: stop your jackin'
and serve!

Come on, now.

Aw...all right.
I'm gonna serve it.

What the fuck
is wrong with you?

[All shouting]

[Whistle blows]

[Beeping]

Go for dease.

Officer, on walkie-talkie:
There's a fight
in the yard, sir.

Lock 'em down.
I'm on my way.

Let's go, son.

Orientation starts now.

[Alarm buzzes]

[All shouting]

Aisha: you ain't bad, bitch!
We can go some more!

[All shouting]

Stop it, god damn it,
stop it!

Now, who started this?

Aisha: she did!
Nikki: You a lying bitch!

She started it.
Dease: Shut it up!

Wet: captain, Aisha hit her
in the chest with the ball.

Shut the fuck up, wet.
I'm not talking to you.

Shepard, who started this?

You better answer me,
god damn it.

That one. She did.

All right. Take these women
back to their units.

Come on! Move it!

[Women chattering quietly]

Escort miss Nance
back to her unit.

Aisha: all right, man,
all right!

Damn!

You heard her!
I ain't do nothin'!

Shut your ass.

That's for me to decide.

Officer: all right,
you heard him! Let's go!

Dease: these inmates
are worse than animals.

They need discipline,
and they need structure.

Especially that
little bitch Barnes.

I'm the only one in here
that can discipline her.

Gets on my fuckin'
nerves.

Heh. heh heh.

You know,
it's kinda funny.

She's got this, uh...

Stupid little
crush on me.

You saw the way
she was lookin' at me,
didn't you?

Yeah.
did you see?

Yeah, yeah.
Heh heh heh heh.

She gets upset
if I don't give her
enough attention.

You know how
young girls are.

Yeah.

You're gonna do
a great job.

I want you to
remember this.

The warden may have
hired you.

You got a problem,

I'm the first and the
last person you talk to.

I run this
motherfuckin'
prison, not Nelson.

Don't you ever
forget that.

[Door opens]
You got me?

Yeah.

Speaking of the devil,

here comes
the warden now.

Warden! hey!

Michael: hi.
Good to see you.
Ha ha.

Good to see you.

All right, same here.

How you doing?

All right.
You growing up, man.

Yeah. I just want to say
thank you once again.
I appreciate it.

Nothing to it.
Listen, if it gets
a little rough out here,

you make sure
you let me know.

Ok.
you can always work
in the office with me.

Ok.
you pick up your uniform?

Uh, no, actually, I'm about
to go do that right now.

All right, good.
Good. Go ahead.

Dease, you take care of him,

'cause his people
and my people go way back.

I'm sure he's gonna
work out just fine.

Yeah.

All right.
All right, Mr. Nelson,

take care.
Good to see you. Mr. dease.

Got great news.
What's going on?

Walcorp's people are coming.

Get your people
up to speed.

They were just here.

I thought everything
checked out ok.

Well, we did,

but the edgehill
facility didn't.

Walcorp is thinking
about pulling their
business from them.

And if that happens,

it will keep the state
from closing us down.

I see.

I like that.
That's cool.

And also, walcorp
is thinking about remodeling--

Sabrina: now, most people
don't know that prison
is big business.

Everybody was trying
to make a buck,

legal or otherwise.

Nothing will change
but the size of our
paychecks, baby.

I like the sound
of that.

Hey.

Hey, baby.
How's it going?

All right.

I thought I told you
not to call me that.

Hmm?

Well, I just wanted
to thank you

for checking Nikki
at the volleyball game.

You know, letting her know
who's important around here.

Come here,
let me talk to you.

Ok.

You miss me?

Of course I do.

I miss you, too.

You stupid fucking bitch.

You ain't important.

Don't you ever
think that you are.

You understand me?

[Whimpers]

Yes, captain.

I can't hear you.

Yes, captain.

Good, baby.

Now...

You got some
information for me?

No, I haven't
heard nothin'.

No?

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

Not until you
bring me something.

I'll come back when
i have something.

[Door opens]
Aren't you forgetting
something, baby girl?

I don't know. Am I?

[Door closes]

You forgot to thank me.

Hold on a second.

Now you see me.
Heh heh heh.
Now you don't.

[Telephone rings]

This is dease.

Man, on phone: Yo,
big dog, what's up, man?

Heh heh.
What's going on, Fred?

Nothing, man,
we got it covered.

Fuck him.

♪ Check it ♪

♪ they call me death
'cause I'm delivering fear ♪

♪ I got the hardest heart ♪

♪ of the hard rock shiverin' ♪

No!

Keep your motherfuckin'
mouth shut!

Ho!

Keep fuckin' with me.

Keep fuckin' with me,
bitch. Watch you--

unh!

Unh! oh! Unh!

Fuckin' bitch.

♪ I'm gonna see them all ♪

♪ when them give
death a call ♪

Give me that.

Game over.

♪ 'Cause you're gonna
take a fall ♪

♪ I cut you like a knife ♪

You lose, bitch.

Help! help!

Fuck.

I'm-a get you, Nikki!

I swear!

[Humming]

Oh.

Heh.

I'm sorry.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.

It's a co-ed locker room,
you know.

Uh, yeah, i--

not much you can
do about it.

I forgot about that.

How you doing?

Uh, I'm doing pretty good.

I guess you're doing fine.

Sabrina: now, cervantes,
she was a cold-blooded,

rules and regulations
type bitch.

And I came out ok.

Tell you the truth, i
don't think the whole
law enforcement thing

is, you know, for me.

I hope that's not an insult.

Only because my family
is rooted in law enforcement.

Oh, I'm sorry.

We would try to,
like, talk to her

about our problems
sometimes, but, pssht.

She was too busy trying to
earn stripes with the warden,

hollerin' at
all the new male guards.

What's up with that?

I actually didn't take it
as a dis, but...

Ok. cool.

Maybe we can go to lunch or
something. You can explain.

Yeah.

Oh, wow, yeah, you know.

That would be--
that would be dope.

I really wish I could,
though.

I got, you know,
study hall--

it's cool.

Maybe, uh...

Maybe some time in the future
we'll have a chance to talk

and I can change your mind

about law enforcement.

Oh. ok.

All right, then.

Good.

All right.
Ok. Ok.

You take care.

Oh, you, too, cervantes.

[Laughter and chatter]

Why is she taking
so long on the phone?

Leave her alone.
She talkin' to
her hairdresser.

Bitch ain't got
but one friend.

[Laughter]

Hurry the fuck on!
I got things to do!

And you got 10 years
to do 'em.

Can you say "appeal"?

Can I say "10 years
your ass gonna be
up in here."

Hmm. naw, you gonna be
up in here.

Well, I'm a convict.
What you--

Frances Shepard?

Uh, the warden
needs to see you.

Oh, come on! I gotta
use the phone!

He said that we need
to leave right away.

[Muffled laughter]

Dease:
you know, Shepard,

you'd get along much
better if you'd learn
to speak up in here.

Who knows? You might
become a trustee one day.

[Door opens]

Captain.
hi, sir.

Shepard.

What happened to your face?

Nothing.

Just a few questions.

Did you see who stabbed
Aisha Nance?

No, sir, I didn't.

But you were in the area
where the stabbing occurred.

Yes, sir. I admit
i saw Aisha.

But it was after I came
out of the bathroom.

Did you hear anything?

No, sir.

Do you have some place to be?

I don't want to miss
my phone time.

All right, you can go.

That's all. Thank you.
Thank you.

[Door opens]

[Door closes]

Nobody's talking.

We're wasting time.

But she knows
what happened, sir.

Like me to lock
the unit down, sir?

Damn it, dease, no,
we can't lock the unit down.

We gotta keep
everybody working!

Yes, sir.

Miss Shepard, I don't
want to rush you,

but try to make this as
quick as you can, ok?

Nelson: how's Michael?
How's he doing?

He's doing ok, sir.

I mean, I prefer a
military-trained person.

More dependable.

College boys are a
little too soft for me.

I went to college, dease.

Are you trying to say
I'm too soft?

No, sir.

No, sir.

Keep sharp, baby.

[Door opens]

[Door closes]

[Glass breaks]

Frances:
hi, mommy's big girl.

Maxine, on phone:
Mommy, I wanna see you, mommy.

I want to see you, too.

Are you doing what
auntie Kim tells you to?

Yes.

Why can't I see you?

Mommy, I want to see you.

[Dial tone]

Man, on phone: This is
the telephone observer.

Your call time has expired.

Mommy.

Baby, it was--
bye.

[Dial tone]

[Crying]

[Sobbing]

You all right, miss Shepard?

No.

But your daughter's all right?

Everything's ok
with your daughter?

No.

I hope I didn't get you
in trouble.

Oh, no, no.

Thanks.

It's ok.

Uh, we should
probably just go.

[Buzzer]

Woman: wow, ok?

Any fade that you have
can cut through a suit.

The higher the fade,
the better the cut.

[Women chattering]

You think, uh, Frances
said something to Nelson?

Mmm.

They ain't hauling me
off to solitary,

and we ain't on
lock down, are we?

Naw, she ain't
say nothing.

She better not.

Frances ain't even
that kind of person.

Lil' mama...

Ain't you got some
scripture reading or
something to do?

[Thunder]

Dease: see, I like
Rodney dangerfield, myself.

He's got all those
fat jokes. Heh.

How can you tell when your--

when your wife is
getting too fat?

I don't know.

When she sits on your face
and you can't hear the stereo.

[Laughter]

Hey, Nikki!
Wake up, baby.

Look here. I know you
stabbed Aisha, Nikki.

But if you be sweet to me--

Nikki: no! No!
Leave me alone!

All right,
all right, all right.

All right,
you little bitch!

Come here,
you little bitch!

Now, Nikki's beating
wasn't about no Aisha.

It was about
dease and Nikki.

They say dease
was crazy about her.

But she hated
that nigger's guts.

So he would do stuff like
single her and her group out

and act like he was making
examples out of them.

Yeah, right.

Everybody knew what was up.

Ain't no secrets in jail.

♪ There were no mirrors
in my Nana's house ♪

[Buzzer]
♪ no mirrors
in my Nana's house ♪

♪ there were no mirrors
in my Nana's house ♪

♪ no mirrors
in my Nana's house ♪

♪ and the beauty that I saw
in everything ♪

♪ the beauty in everything ♪

♪ yeah, was in her eyes ♪

♪ oh ♪

♪ the sun was in her eyes ♪

♪ I'm telling you ♪

♪ there were no mirrors
in my Nana's house ♪

[Men laughing]

You see me
with a fat lady,

I'm holding her
for the police.

[Laughter and chatter]

Hey, I'll see y'all later.

My friend's wife
was so fat

you tell her
to haul ass,

she gotta make 2 trips.

[Laughter]

What you got, banks?

Got something
good for me?

Oh, my goodness,
homemade macaroni
and cheese.

Let me get a little
shot of that, buddy.

Mm-hmm! whoo dog!

Don't you ever get tired
of grubbin' off me?

No, sir.

What you bitchin'
about, banks?

You got 7 mouths
to feed.

One more ain't gonna
hurt you none.

No, my wife's
pregnant again.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Get the fuck
out of here!

Don't you white boys
believe in birth
control?

[Laughter]

Obviously, your man's
out of here.

College boy,
what's going on?

How you doing? I
brought some drinks
and stuff, so--

good. put them
right over there.

Uh...just to give
you a head's up...

Uh, the toilets
and stuff on block 4,

you know, they still
stopped up, and it's--

it's starting to smell
pretty bad up there,
you know.

Well, that's good.

Might offset the smell
of some of them stank-ass
bitches.

[Laughter]

Banks: everything's broke.

Won't be long before
the state closes us down.

I'm already looking for a job.

Don't be no fool.

You know what I know, you'll
keep your ass right here.

If it's about wall corps,
I'm still looking for a job.

I'm gonna tell you
what the problem is.

It's these soft young boys
coming in here,

have personal contacts,

taking everybody's jobs.

Ain't that right, Michael?

You ain't in the union?

I just told you
he was a college boy.

Him and Nelson go way back.

Ain't that right,
Michael?

Everybody in this shit hole
will be untrained.

Don't worry about it.

You know I'm gonna
look out for our crew.

You just try to make
that meeting next
Friday.

I'll be there, 'cause
i got mouths to feed.

I need my job.

I feel you.
I need the job, too.

That's why I'm here.
You know, i--

ain't got no kids or
nothin' like that.

You know,
I'm in school.

I got tuition
to pay. I got loans.

You know?

I ain't trying
to take nobody's
job, man.

I'm just tryin' to
get a dollar like
everybody else.

And to tell you
the truth,

if I had know it was
gonna be like this--

well, what did
you expect? Oz?

Heh.
naw. naw.

I didn't expect oz,
no. But, you know,
i mean, it...

You know, it's rough
sometimes, man.

You know, it get
rough, you know.

The way these
women get treated
sometimes--

the way these women
get treated?

What the fuck are you
talking about?

No, I'm just--

what the fuck are you
talking about?

These women are thieves,
murderers, drug addicts.

They don't have respect
for a goddamn thing!

The only remedy is
locking them up and
throwing away the key!

And if by chance
they do get out of here,

they gonna pray
on their fuckin' knees

never to get
back in here again!

Jesus Christ.

What fuckin' boat
did you jump off of?

I gotta get back to work.

I'll see you later,
banks.

Let me tell you
something else.

You're working a double
shift next week.

You got me?

Might help you earn some of
the extra money you need.

College boy.

I didn't know I was
in the goddamn army.

17 years in this place.

Yeah?

Well, if it's doing
that to him,

he needs to think about
a career change.

[Humming]

Sabrina: now, Michael
may have been in college,

but his real education came
when he started working
in the prison.

He thought it was all about
rehabilitation.

When Michael got going
with his research,

he uncovered a lot of shit.

Found out that we were
high-priced stock down
on wall street.

Everybody was makin' money
off our asses.

We was sewing ski coats
for $1.50 a day

that some woman in France
would be paying, like,
$1,000 for next month.

[Dease talking]

[Talking continues]

[Lil' mama coughing]

Frances:
lil' mama,
what's wrong?

Oh! the baby.

I'm right here.
The baby!

Oh, shit.

[Coughing]

No, no. Don't try
to get up.

It's ok.

[Crying] no!

Lil' mama's sick.

Somebody
get a doctor.

What's going on?

Guard!

We have a right
to see a doctor!

Guard, emergency!

We need help!

Where's a guard?
My god.

Don't let nothing
happen to her.

Lil' mama, just breathe.
Relax, it's gonna be ok.

Thank god.
Lil' mama,
you have to rest.

Frances,
is she bleedin'?

No blood.
Thank god.

Hey, sadiddy...

Lil' mama says
you killed your old man.

I didn't mean to.

I just wanted
to get him off me.

Stop all
the hitting
and the beating.

So, you're innocent?

I think so.

That shit is crazy.

He's beating your ass,

and you're supposed
to just lay there
and take it,

and not defend yourself?

Sounds like you
should've been
my lawyer.

No. I should've been
your lawyer.

Matter of fact,
I'd have been
a great lawyer.

What you
in here for, wet?

Something stupid.

Shot a track star
in the calf.

With a .38, no less,
and a dozen people watching.

Bet she won't be fucking
with nobody else's man,
right, wet?

Nah. she won't.
But she won't be running
any more races, either.

Feel bad about that.

Stupid shit, you know?

Yeah. I know.

♪ Sunshine ♪

♪ sunshine ♪

[Mumbling]

I'm tired.

[P.A. announcement]

How come you ain't
telling nobody
you were a nurse?

Cause didn't nobody
ask me.

Thanks for helping
with lil' mama last
night.

That was nice
of you.

You didn't have
to do nothing,
and you did.

You're all right
with me, sadiddy.

Nikki...

What?

My name is Frances.

Call me that.

All right, Frances.

Might make you
my little sister
or something

up in here.

Sabrina: all we had
was each other,

and sometimes
a little support
from the outside.

Like one visiting day,
when Nikki's mama

was coming to bring
the babies
that she had in jail.

You know, that motherfucker
dease wouldn't even
let Nikki hold them

before he gave her
to her mother.

And Frances was excited
because she was expecting
good news from her lawyer

about the appeal.

Everybody was feeling good
that day.

You look so pretty.

Thanks.
where you going?

Her mama is coming
to bring her babies.

No. you can't
hold piss.

I'm sorry.

I didn't want
nobody to know
until now.

You better
take pictures.
You look beautiful.

I'm happy for you.

P.A.: Gordon wants
to see you in his office.

Hey, I did
a good job.

Yeah. you did.

Oh, miss Barnes.

Well, well, well.

Miss Barnes,
miss Barnes.

Don't she
look pretty?

Like going
to the prom
or something.

Very nice.

Uh, miss Shepard,
you have a visitor.

See you later,
Frances.

See ya!

I will be back
for you, miss Barnes.

Ok.

Ok. so, in the meantime,
i got some more...

Sabrina: but like they say,
shit happens.

Nikki's mama never came,
and Frances' appeal

was denied.

Miss Shepard...

Your transfer
was denied.

Guess you're going
to be with us
a little longer.

Come on, ladies,
eat up!

Eat up!
Come on! Eat up!

Sabrina: man,
they started working us
longer and longer.

Sometimes, we went to bed
without dinner.

After all that,
and Nikki's beating, too,

man, wet said
she had enough.

She said we had to do
something else,

instead of going out
to work like some docile
field niggers.

It was time for her
to give our petitions
to the warden.

Frances...

I got this petition
that I'm trying to get
people to sign.

Then things got even worse.

The warden laughed
in wet's face,

and he threw the petitions
in the garbage.

Plus, he wrote her up
and added time
to her sentence.

And then, that fucking
trouble-making bitch Aisha,

she came back
from the hospital,

and everybody was
in a funk again.

How was it in
the big federal hospital?

Did they sew up
your hole, too?

Yeah, but your mama
stretched it back out
with her tongue.

On the yard, bitch!
On the yard!

Inmates, inmates,
you just lost chow time.

I ain't no inmate, bitch.
I'm a convict.

Wet took
the warden's rejection
pretty bad.

So, you know us girls
decided to hook her up
with a little contraband.

We had a nice
little party.

Ha ha ha.

You know what
i want to do
when I get out?

I want to get
some sleep.

Ooh! word up.

I am so tired of
lights out.

Chow down...

I-I'm tired
of being programmed.

I want me some keys.

Open up the doors
and come and go
as I please.

I know
what you mean, girl.

Here's to it.

Ok.

Here's to
our babies.

And survival.

Survival.
survival.

I heard that.

[Door opens]

[Whispering]
shit. oh, shit.

It's dease.

In the bathroom,
quick.

Quiet, quiet.

Go, go.

I'm going
as fast as I can.

...busted by him.
Hurry, hurry.

Ok. shh, shh.

What's dease doing
back here?

Something he ain't
got no business
doing.

[Dease humming]

What is he doing
behind the stove?

Like I said...

Something he ain't
got no business
doing.

[Bump]

Cervantes: long night,
huh, meadows?

Um, yeah. I was,
uh, mmm.

I was studying
last night.

College boy's got
a hard life.

I didn't know
you cared, banks.

I don't.

What was that?

[Alarm buzzing]

Center, this is
cervantes.

What the hell
was that?

Man: I don't know.
Something blew up
in the kitchen.

Ok. Roger that.
Come on.

Dease's friend got
the contract to rebuild
the kitchen.

But he blamed the inmates,
as usual.

He tried to say
somebody was negligent,

and he wanted to find out
who it was to make them pay,

like, he wasn't the one
fucking up all the time.

And Nelson--Nelson shut
the whole prison down.

No visits, no phone calls,
no nothing after that.

Shut down.

Hey!
hey, my man.

Good to see you.
All right.

Hey, listen,
I'm playing golf

with the walcorp
people on Saturday,

and we would include
you, but, uh,

we've already got
a foursome.

Maybe next time, ok?

Well, thanks
for thinking about me.

No problem.

You know, I'm not
that big on golf,
anyway.

Yeah, but you do play
some games, now,
don't you, dease?

Sir?

I'm talking about
that little explosion

in the kitchen.
Uh, any truth to that?

No, sir.

I mean,
who said that?

It doesn't matter
who said it.

The problem is
it got back to me.

Guess what?

I'm hip to that scam
about your boys

rebuilding the damage
in the kitchen.

Now, listen...

Your job is to take care
of everything
on the plan,

but when people
come to my office

and tell me about
a whole bunch of stuff

that I don't give
a damn about,

then that means
you're not doing
your job.

I'm doing my job.

You're not doing
your job!

Shante Wright
came to me
circulating a petition

that you didn't
even know about.

Those petitions
are bullshit.

What's that, dease?

Are the inmates
in control now?

No, sir.

Let me get something
straight, my man.

I run this fucking
prison, not you!

Yes, sir.

I want all your sideline
operations to stop!

If I get wind that
you're still doing
your dirty business,

I'm going to put you
right back
where I found you.

In the Florida swamps,
walking a guard tower.

With the mosquitoes
buzzing all around
your ass.

Comprende?

Yes, sir.

"The beauty of life
is knowing you are loved.

"As time passes,
knowledge and understanding
of who you are

causes seeds of doubt
to disappear."

Pss, pss, pss.

Shut up.
Move out of the way.

[Whispering]
shake down.

Shake down.
Shake down.

What you rootin'
for? What you doing?

Aha! this is what
i was looking for.

Take your hands
off my shit!

Where you going?

Aah!

You're going
to pay for that, bitch.

[Women yelling]

What did you do
to her?

See how much
writing you do

up in the hole for
a couple of days.

Fuck you!

[All yelling]

Take her
to the hole now!

Fuck you!
Go! Now!

[All yelling]

Hold it down, wet.

God's going
to keep you.

Be strong.
Please don't
let it hurt.

Please...
back in your cells.

Please don't
let her get hurt.

Please don't
let her get hurt.

[Sobs]
god, please help her.

Dease: hartman,
i don't give a goddamn
about that.

Just get it done.

Jesus Christ!

Son of a bitch.

Well, well, well.

You must be
my new girl.

Yes, sir.
I'm replacing Sabrina.

Oh. and what's
your name, young lady?

Rose.

Rose?

Well, that's
a very pretty name.

Thanks.

You know, my grandmama's
name was Rose.

I sure do like
the way you clean, Rose.

Now, you missed a spot
right up there, Rose.

A piece of cobweb
is hanging down right there.

You see that?

I like everything in here
to be real spotless.

Why don't you
take that chair,

and get that piece of
cobweb up there, Rose?

Yeah. I sure do like
the way you clean, Rose.

Yeah. you and I going
to work out just fine.

Can I go now, sir?

I'm not stopping you.

Sabrina: when lil' mama
told us what dease
tried to do,

and wet came back
from the hole

with that nasty scar
on her face,

aw, man, we didn't care
what was going
to happen to us.

We just knew
we had to fight back.

All we needed
was an opportunity.

Mike told us
walcorp was coming.

So we started getting
our shit tight.

This ought
to motivate you.

Mm-mmm.

Mm-mmm.

♪ Put your money ♪

♪ money where the funk is ♪

Here, come on, y'all.

♪ Put your money ♪

♪ money where the funk is ♪

Sabrina: in a few days,
they got the petition signed,

and people organized it
right under dease's nose, man.

♪ Talkin' 'bout
the things you do ♪

♪ see the tiny
crystal cloud ♪

♪ girl, all you're doing
is talking loud ♪

So, what'd they say?

Walcorp changed
the date on us.

To when?

Next Thursday.

Sabrina: everything
was going fine

until lil' mama
came to work one day,

and found out that Walker
had changed the date.

They flipped the script
on us, so we had
to flip it back on them.

♪ Money where the funk is ♪

♪ yeah ♪

♪ put your money ♪

♪ money where the funk is ♪

Well, we used kites
to pass the word.

But we couldn't make
no fuck ups,

because we would've blew it
before we even got started.

♪ Money ♪

♪ put your money ♪

♪ money where the funk is ♪

[Buzzer]

Lil' mama: I've been praying
on this all night.

It's going
to be all right.

Did you talk
to dease?

Yeah. I ain't got
nothing to do
with it.

Don't depend on me.
Don't ask me shit.

Hey, look.

You read the demands,
I'll hand it to him.

Why? you the leader.

As soon as I stand,
they're going to suspect
some shit's about to go down.

Then I'll do it.

Ok. I'll stand
right behind you, ok?

♪ Money ♪

[Ringing]

Captain dease.
Miller.

Glad to meet you.
Been waiting for you.

Glad to meet you guys.
Nelson: Miller!

Nelson!
you made it.

My man,
what's going on?

All right.
Everything's
going fine.

That hole-in-one
on the 17th,

doggone impressive
on Saturday.

Dease, you should've
been there!

Sorry.
i couldn't make it.

In all seriousness,
our inmates love
the work they do.

They leave here
with valuable
skills,

and you have
a product

you can market
around the world.

Labor pool here's
more cost effective.

I'll let you in
on a little secret.

The workers
can't quit here.

[Laughter]

It's just that
Mr. dease and i
are looking forward

to working with you
more closely.

Really are.
Really are.

Mr. dease is quite
the bulldog, isn't he?

Well, every shop
needs one.

Now, you're going
to be very impressed

with what
we set up here.

We've got
management work.
Double...

Miller: well,
I'm very impressed.

Last 3 quarters
have been outstanding.

I wish we had
this kind of spirit
at all our facilities.

Nelson: aw, yes,
and the next 2 quarters
are going to be even better.

But let me
show you around.

These women are making
the linings on ski jackets.

Very well trained,
and we see to that.

We work with
the team system.

And that group over there
attaches the linings

to the shell of the jacket,
and then the zippers
are sewed in.

Definitely, and we also
have a--what the...

This is a peaceful
work stoppage.

We stand in solidarity...
Shut up. Sit down!

With all reform movements.

Demanding fair treatment
for inmates...

Dease, what the hell
is going on?

Better work conditions.

Better heat.
Shepard, sit down!

An end
to the vicious beatings.

And the sexual abuse
we face every day.

Get back to work!
Get back to work!

Take our petitions,
and let everybody know
what goes on

behind these walls.

Uh...

Dease,
what's going on?

All these women
stand behind
these demands.

We have
a little problem
with these 2 women.

Uh, as you can see,
nobody else
is standing.

I stand behind her, too.

Nelson: Sabrina!

I hope you bitches
know what you're doing.

I stand behind her.
Get back to work!

I stand behind her.

Women: I stand behind her.

I stand.
I stand.

I stand.
I stand.

I stand behind her.

Yeah.
right.

Nelson: your black asses
are going to pay for this.

Get back to work, I say!
God damn it!

Please...take this.

Look, go back
to work, all right?

[Yelling]

Fuck you!

You crazy bitch!

[Yelling]

What you doing?

It's our right!

Take her to the hole,
you fucking bitch.

Get back to work!
Get back to work!

Get back to work!

[Moaning]

3...4 days.

Oh.

Well, you better
get used to it,

because we're going
to be in here
for a while.

One...

2...

31...

3...

4...

8...

9...

35. come on!

Come on, Nikki,
you can do this!

Come on!

[Screams]

We've been in here
5 fuckin' days!

Ain't nobody been
in here for 6 days!

[Yells]

Fucking shit, man.

Fucking shit!

Come on, Nikki,
you can do this!

Stay focused!
Come on, let's do it!

What makes you
so sure we going
to make it?

Because I got
a little girl!

And she's waiting
on me to come home.

What's her name?

Maxine.

Girl's voice:
Hi, mom.

Oh, Maxine.

Mom!

Oh! Maxine. Baby,
where are you at?

Oh, my god. No!

Ooh.

Frances?

Oh.

Frances!

Oh. her name
is Maxine.

[Child's laughter]

Her name
is Maxine.

Her name
is Maxine.

My baby's name
is Maxine.

So, uh,
what you in for?

Armed robbery.

For the reason
women are always doing
some old dumb shit.

For a nigger.

Mmm.

But what a nigger
he was.

Ha ha ha ha!

His name was smalls.

He swore he was
a barber.

He wasn't nothing
but a 7-gram nigger.

Then he gets
this idea

to Rob this old
bullshit dealer.

Now, I know he was
too stupid

to pull it off
without me.

We were going to be
Bonnie and Clyde.

Get some of that ice,
some of that flash

that we see
up in the videos.

Only smalls wasn't
no Clyde.

Fool went and got
his self killed,

and I ended up
back in here...

Again.

I had to make it
on my own.

I never wanted
to hurt nobody.

I've always tried
to follow the rules.

I never followed
no rules.

We end up
in the same place.

Ain't that
some shit?

Then I met Craig.

I loved him so much.

Wonder what they
doing back home.

I ain't never
been high.

How does it feel?

Hope that motherfucker
dease gets what he has
coming to him.

I'm gonna be there
to see it.

[Keys jingling]

Oh, don't run
from me, Nikki.

It's time
to get high.

Got something
for you.

You think about it,
Nikki.

You going to be
in here a long,
long time.

And this is going to help
the time pass faster.

Come on.
Take a little trip.

Frances: what's
going on in there?

I'm going to leave this
right here for you.

Come on, Nikki.

Take a little hit.

Nikki...

You'll get bent.

You know you not
that strong.

No, Nikki,
listen to me!

Listen to me.
Stay focused.

Repeat after me.

5 times 2.
5 times 2.

Say it, it's 10.

5 times 3
is 15.

Come on.
Repeat after me.
Stay focused.

5 times 4...

♪ Angel dust
angel dust ♪

Is 20.

[Mumbling]

I can't hear you!

5 times 7...

Is 35.
Yeah.

[Breathing heavy]

5 times 8...

Yeah...

Is 40.

Yes.

[Groans]

You're stronger
than that.

Yes! yes!

[Keys jingling]

All right, Barnes,
it's time.

Don't just sit there.

Come on.

Come on, Shepard.

[Grunts]

Come on, get up.

Stand your ass
over there.

Nikki and Frances
didn't think
the strike meant anything,

but they were wrong.

It meant something to me.

Before that day,
i had never stood up
for nothing in my life.

But I stood up that day,
and I been standing up
ever since.

Captain's got
a little surprise
for you.

You're going to be
peeling this wall.

By myself?

That's what I said.

Ha ha ha.

What's a blind man say
when he passes a disco?

Good morning, ladies.

Ha ha ha ha.

This one.

Banks just told me
he told you
to peel this wall.

No, no.
He said to peel--

I did not.

Are you telling me
you don't know

what areas are
authorized?

No. I'm not
saying that.

Then, what're
you saying?

What exactly
are you saying,
Nikki?

He said to peel
this wall.

And I said
to peel this wall.

Did you say peel
this wall, banks?

No. you're lying.
He said to peel
this wall.

No. banks said
to peel this wall.

Banks said peel
this wall!

I fucking heard
what banks said!

Take her back
to the hole.

Take her back
to the hole!

Please, please, no.

Take her black ass
to the hole!

No, no, no.
Please.

Take her
to the hole.

I'll do anything
you say. Don't, please!

Please. whatever
you say, captain.

Just--no, no, no.

Tell me you going
to be a good bitch.

I'll be good.

I PR--i promise.

Tell me...

You going to be
a good bitch.

Tell me you going
to be a good bitch.

Say it!

Say it! I'm going
to be a good bitch,
captain dease.

Say it!

I'll be a good bitch,
captain dease.

Leave her ass.

I ain't through
with you.

Dease: bitch.

Thank you, rico.

Shepard, you got 15.

Hey.

You don't look
so good, sis.

It's called a prison tan.
There ain't no beaches.

Where's the baby?

I tried to come
see you, but--

but they said everybody
was on lockdown.

And I was in solitaire.

Oh, come on.
Hey, hey.

Stop crying.

Don't cry. Come on,
it's been rough,

but I'm out now.

I'm here.

Is the baby
in the car?

Don't tell me they
wouldn't let you
bring her in.

No.

I swear I told Walter.

I told Walter to stay
away from those gangs.

Kim, where's the baby?
There was a fight.

You're talking
in circles.

Walter didn't
tell me nothing.

The bullet--
what bullet?

It got Maxine!

She died 2 weeks ago!

No! no! No!
I tried to --

[screaming]

No! don't tell me!
You liar!

No! no!

No!

No!

You liar!
Don't touch me!

♪ Strange things
happen everyday ♪

♪ ahh, strange things
happen everyday, y'all ♪

♪ rode into town
on a horse named Jimmy ♪

What'd you hear?

They got her
on suicide watch.

Motherfuckers.

You speak
to your old man?

Yeah. the lawyer said

all we need to do
is get hard proof.

And we're gonna find
a way to get it, too.

♪ Skinny b locked
in a gibber jail home ♪

♪ d-train left the other
gasoline train ♪

♪ ahh ha ♪

♪ 3 girls begging
for a date with iron Mike ♪

♪ iron Mike, yeah ♪

♪ 3 girls begging
for a date with iron Mike ♪

♪ lord, hmm ♪

♪ Alabama cornbread dipped
in Georgia buttermilk ♪

♪ bought my woman a hat
made from tapeworm silk ♪

♪ tapeworm ♪
♪ ahh ha ♪

♪ tapeworm silk ♪

♪ frame my soul with fire
and fired red Clay ♪

♪ frame my soul ♪

♪ strange things
happen everyday ♪

You know, Frances,

despite what you might
think, I am really sorry

about what happened
to your daughter.

[Whispering] come on.

Girls:
♪ cinderella dressed
in yella ♪

♪ went upstairs
to kiss a fella ♪

♪ made a mistake
and kissed a snake ♪

♪ how many doctors
did it take? ♪

[Clears throat]

What this bitch want?

[Murmuring]
i don't know.

It's cool, Nik.

So, how you all
gonna get him?

What are you talking
about, Aisha?

Nikki, you know what
I'm talking about.

Dease.

I know you all over here
planning something.

Aisha: huh?

We thought dease
was your lover-man.

Oh, my god.
Damn! What happened?

Something that
ain't never gonna
happen again.

I want that
motherfucker so bad

I can taste
that shit.

Even if we was thinking
about doing something,

which we wasn't,

what makes you think
we will trust your
rat hole ass?

That's a fair
question.

I swear on the life
of my little shorty,

if I don't get
revenge on that
black motherfucker,

you all could--

you all could do me.

And we will do you,
Aisha.

I know you all are not
through with dease.

All you all got a plan
or something.

But I want revenge
on that black motherfucker.

I don't know.
Maybe we could do
a little business.

Yeah, we'll
call you on that.
We'll call you.

He fucked her up.

They finally came up
with a plan.

But they needed somebody's
help from the inside.

So they asked Michael.

Excuse me.
Could I talk to you
for a minute?

Dease's days were numbered

Sabrina: because they
went to work on his ass.

[Clears throat]

Captain?

Come here.

What are you
doing here?

I thought you were
mad at me.

[Whispering] no.

I missed you, lover.

Rose.

That's enough cleaning
for today.

You can go.

I'll be right back.

Don't you go anywhere.

You look good.

So, you're not
mad at me, huh?

[Knocking] um, captain,
sir, I forgot my Bible.

Well, just get it
and go, Rose.

You look good today.

Hurry up, Rose!

Jesus.
thank you, sir.

Come here.

Show me you missed me.
Stop, sir.

What are you
talking about?

Stop, sir.
Don't tell me stop.

Don't play with me.
What did I do?

I didn't do anything!

Changing up on me, girl?
I didn't do anything.

What'd I do?

I didn't do anything.
Shut up. Shut up.

Why you doing this?

Uhh. shit.

Ohh.

Oh, god.

Oh, god.

Ohh, shit.

May I have a towel?

Sir?

Course, baby.

Ohh, shit.

[Whispering] bastard.

Get the fuck
up out of here.

Plan was...

Lil' mama was gonna
get the tape to Michael,

Michael was gonna get the tape
to wet's boyfriend,

wet's boyfriend was gonna
get the tape to somebody

who had a hook-up
with the governor,

so we was trying to be straight.

Lil' mama came back to work

to get the tape with her
Bible case empty.

But the damn door was locked,
and dease took off early.

Now, she gotta
come back tomorrow
and try this shit again.

Damn broom. Dirty-ass prison.

Dease: ain't you
done enough cleaning
for today, Rose?

You a hard-working lady.

You been cleaning
all morning.

You ought to be
tired by now.

Well, I know how
you like it, sir.

That's a real sweet
thing to say, Rose.

Real sweet.

You know, I been
noticing how pretty
you are, Rose.

Where the fuck is dease?

I love your hair.

Thank you.
[Rings]

Yeah? this is dease.
Cervantes: Captain dease,

we're waiting for you
to start the meeting.

Cervantes, can't you
handle the meeting?

Yeah, but we can't
vote until you--

I can't be there
right now. Rose!

This nigger wants to be
the last one up in here.

Where the fuck is he at?
[Clears throat]

You're not trying
to leave me,
are you, Rose?

Stop it, sir. Please.

Come on, Rose.
I know you like
the way it feels.

No, I don't!
It's a sin!

I know what you did
to your father, Rose.

He wasn't my father.

Stepfather.

Lover.

Father of your
unborn child.

It don't make no
fucking difference.

You're no
fucking virgin, Rose.

Are you? Are you?
Are you, Rose?
Stop it!

You ain't no fucking
virgin, are you?
Stop it!

You don't give your
shit to me, I'm gonna
take it, Rose.

No!
I'm gonna take it, Rose!

Shut the fuck up.

Bring your ass in here.

Please don't do this.

[Shouting]

[Whistles blowing]

The lord is my light
and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?

The lord is the strength
of my life; Of whom
shall I be afraid...

Damn. where are you,
lil' mama?

[Coughing]

What happened?

He never showed up.

Damn, I gotta go
look for her.

Dease was supposed
to be at that meeting.

Something's up.

What happened to you?

[Crying] I'm afraid I'm
gonna lose the baby.

Oh, shit. Help me get her
up. Help me get her up.

Oh, my god,
she's bleeding.

Oh, my god!

Get her to the
infirmary now!

All right, back it up.
Swing it around.

What's wrong with her?

She's having
a miscarriage.

No!
the baby?

I can't do anything
for the child.

I gotta try to save her
if I can.

Lil' mama,
hold on.

It's ok.
No!

Yes, it's ok.
What happened?

We're here for
you. Hold on.

I was raped.

By the captain.

I was raped!
You were raped?

Oh, my god.

Hold her down!

I need to do something.

Take her pulse.

What can I do?
I'm a nurse.

She's having
cardiac arrest.

We've got to
defibrillate her.

Hold on,
lil' mama.

Hold on.
Lil' mama,
hold on!

Let her go.
Let her go.

Let her go, Nikki!

Let her go!

Clear!

Again.
hold on.

Breathe.
breathe, baby.

Breathe, baby.

Turn the machine off.
What?!

She's gone.
No!

No, mama!

I think you girls
should go now!

Get them out of here!

She's dead!

This is not
helping us!

Oh, fuck!

Guard, get them out of here!

I'm gonna call
captain dease.

Back up off the phone!
Let go of me!

God damn it!
Stop it!

[Telephone rings]

[Shouting]

[Alarm sounding]

I gotta cuff you,
come on.

We ain't going
no-fucking-where!

We ain't going
no-fucking-where!

Dease, on radio:
Cervantes,
listen carefully.

Isolate the infirmary
from the cellblock.

Copy that.
Come on, guys.

Frances, what are
you all doing?

What we gotta do.

[Footsteps]

Your black ass is going
back to the hole.

If you knew what I knew,

you'd lay down and die
right now.

You first, motherfucker!

[Gunshots]

Guard: down here.

[Yelling]

Guard: hey, doc!
Are you ok?

Whoever you are,
stop right there.

We got hostages.

You come around
that corner,

we shoot the hostages.

P.A.: emergency lockdown!

Are they contained
in the infirmary?

Cervantes: yes, sir.

They're armed.

I couldn't
even get my men
up the main stairway.

Isn't there
another way in?

Up the fire escape
and through
the main courtyard.

But they'll
see us coming.

Look, sir--

we can go in
hard and fast,

but I really think
we need to let
the governor know.

Nobody's gonna call
the governor!

We'll handle this
ourselves.

We can handle this
in-house.

Deal with the fallout
afterwards.

I don't think that's
such a good idea--

shut up!

All right.

All right, they only
have in-house phones,
right?

Yes, sir.

All right, we'll wait
for their call.

I want your men
ready, locked,
and cocked, ok?

[Dease screaming]

They got dease tied up
real good.

Damn motherfucker!

But they let Michael go,

'cause, you know, they ain't
had no beef with him.

Guess he was just a good guy
caught up in a bad situation.

Sabrina:
who ever heard of women
taking over a prison?

What we gonna do?

We gotta make
our demands.

We gotta do what real
revolutionaries do
to get attention.

Dease:
you fucking bitches.

Do what I'd do.

Give yourselves up--

and let me go--

before you get your
fucking heads blown off.

If you call us
bitches again--
Nikki!

You're the one
gonna get his
fucking head

blown off!
Nikki!

No! fuck me!
Nikki!

I got a bitch
for you,
motherfucker!

Stop!
we gotta think!

You bitches can't think.
You're already 3 brains
too short,

you motherfuckers.

Look! they gotta
know that dease

killed lil' mama
and doc!

They ain't gonna
believe that shit!

You know what?
Don't tell Nelson nothing.

Go over his head
and talk to the governor.

Nikki,

you are on to some shit.

Know what? I know
exactly what you should
say, sister Frances.

[Telephone rings]

Warden Nelson.

This is Frances Shepard.

From the women's
reform committee.

Cut the bullshit,
Shepard.

Why don't you give
yourself up?

What do you think
this is, some kind
of political action?

Everything is political.

You got one hour
to get the governor
on the line.

I have no power
to do that.

Let me speak
to captain dease.

One hour.

Damn it!

You look stressed,
my nigger.

Yeah. you got a light?

Damn. you gonna help?
I'm gonna help.

All right, then, I got
a motherfucking light.

[Rings]

Is this the governor?

I gotta know
if the hostages
are all right.

Put somebody
on the phone. Anybody!

Well, you just gotta
take my word for it.

You gotta be out
of your damn mind.

Why should i
believe you?

'Cause we got guns,
and we got hostages!

And she who got
the gun, makes the
motherfucking rules!

Fucking around
with dease.

Waking up--
fuck dease.

Don't be so quick
to say that.
The motherfucker--

man, fuck dease.

Let me speak
to captain dease.

No deal unless I speak
to captain dease,

and that's final, so put
him on the phone!

Go get his ass.

Bring that
motherfucker here!

Showtime, bitch.
[Dease groaning]

Bring that
motherfucker here!

Nikki:
who's the bitch now,
motherfucker?

Tell him.
You heard her.

Tell him.
Tell him now!

I killed lil' mama.

And I killed the doctor.

Call your men off.
Call 'em off.

That's enough.
You got one hour.

Dease: fuck you,
you fucking bitch!

Fuck you!
Shoot the motherfucker!

[Gunshot]
[dease screams]

Shoot him!

Shoot him!

[Screams]

That's for lil' mama!

That's for Frances!

That's for my baby!

And your babies,
motherfucker!

[Dease screaming]
[Gunshot]

[Groaning]

Cervantes, on bullhorn:
Come around the corner
with your hands up!

Come around the corner
with your hands up!

W-w-wait.
where you going?

[Gunshots]

You motherfucker.

[Gunshot]

Guard: I got movement
over here at the door!

[Screams]

No!

Move away!
Pull back now!

Oh, god.
Oh, god.

You're ok, baby.
You gonna be ok.

You ok, baby.

We're right here
with you.

Am I gonna die,
sister Frances?

I don't want
to die.

Oh, god.
Oh, god.

God, don't let me
die for nothing.

[Coughing]

Hold on.
We right here, girl.

No. no. Please, no!

Both: no! No!

We got that
motherfucker good.

We got him good.

Now he know what it
feels like to have
something taken from him.

His motherfucking life.

I don't know.

The way I see it,

we got 2 choices.

We could either
wait here,

have them come in here
and get us,

or take our chances.

Go out there

and see what they
got coming for us.

Guard, on radio:
In position on the roof.
Clear shot at the door.

No. we got
one more option.

We could end it all
ourselves.
Shit.

What's going on
up there?

Cervantes? cervantes?

I ain't putting
no fucking gun
to my head.

Fuck that.

Cervantes, on radio:
Warden, this is cervantes.

I'd like to try to talk
them out one last time.

Nikki?

Nikki?

Isn't that
cervantes?

Mm-hmm.

Just like a man
to get a woman
to do his dirty work.

Don't you get tired
of ass-kissing, cervantes?

You have your kids
to think about.

I can help you make
a deal with the warden.

Nikki,
maybe she's right.

My kids don't even know me.

I've been gone so long.

Shut the fuck up, cervantes!

Stop trying to play us! It's
too fucking late for that!

It's gonna be bad.

Cervantes? cervantes,
take it now!

Sadiddy.

You do the talking,
right?

Yeah, 'cause if they
hear your mouth,

they gonna know
something's up.

Goddamn right they gonna
know something's up.

Let's do it.

Cervantes! end it now!

Do I have to spell it
out for you?

End it now!

End it now!

Come on, come on, come on.

Got it.

[Reggae music playing]

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ yeah, mon ♪

♪ serious business here ♪

Now, surprisingly,
the one that got the tape out

was Aisha's ass,
and because of that shit,

we won the lawsuit.

♪ Listen, yeah ♪

♪ it's revolution ♪

Ho ho. Nelson got what
was coming to his ass.

But our inmates love
the work they do.

They leave here
with valuable skills,

and you have a product
you can market
around the world.

Sabrina:
by the time the governor
went through walcorp,

they were totally bankrupt.

And I mean they found
so much shit on Nelson

that they shut
the whole prison down.

And his ass is under indictment.

Dease, you should
have been there.

Sorry I missed it.

My girl Aisha--

she got killed in a fight
not long after the takeover.

I guess she never shook that
prison mentality, you know.

Damn.

That's why we dedicating
our victory

to the memory of my girls.

Wet.

Lil' mama.

Frances.

And Nikki.

We did the crime,

and we had to do the time,

but ain't nobody say nothing
about abuse and exploitation

being part of the sentence.

I'm going back to Chicago
to finish writing my book

and do everything I can
to stay out of jail.

Ain't nothing good
happening up in there.

And now that you know
what I know,

pass the word along. Please.

We got work to do,

and we can't do it
up in no jail.

Oh, yeah. Don't forget me.

I'm Sabrina, and that's
my motherfucking life.

♪ Diggity bop bop bop
diggity bop bop bop ♪

♪ bobba dop blip blip ♪

♪ you can't do ♪

♪ no, you just can't do... ♪

[New song begins]

♪ In jail you subjected
to be neglected ♪

♪ subjected to right in order
to speak to your family ♪

♪ on the other side ♪

♪ locked up here,
and your baby die ♪

♪ no soul,
so we hear your cries ♪

♪ forever dwell in this cell,
they jabs and the truth ♪

♪ and they still able to keep
slavery alive and well ♪

♪ everything that used to happen
still happen, can't you tell? ♪

♪ Heaven from hell,
whom did I fail? ♪

♪ God didn't make no jails,
he created life ♪

♪ what part of the game
is this? ♪

♪ The system's set up to have
our dead ancestors ♪

♪ flip out their graves,
turn invisible ♪

♪ our babies having their soul
and their way ♪

♪ the pain never goes away ♪

♪ but it's happening now,
we're back in the day ♪

♪ the shackles still remain ♪

♪ and money's the root
of all evil ♪

♪ with dope,
you can bleed, too ♪

♪ got moolah, people need you,
depress and feed you ♪

♪ seem like with cash,
everybody want to be you ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out,
you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ first time I was
losing my mind ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out,
you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ second time every
inch wasn't mine ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out,
you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ third time confined
to doing hard time ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out,
you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ you're back to busting rocks
with a mallet ♪

♪ with 'em up at the joint ♪

♪ 'cause they failed to realize
I'm not on point ♪

♪ I just might flip,
fade away to... ♪

[New song begins]

♪ The judge said 7 years time
to pay for the crime ♪

♪ did dirt on the street,
had to take the heat ♪

♪ but this incarceration ♪

♪ is exploitation ♪

♪ brutality is the sentence ♪

♪ working under the whip ♪

♪ raped on a whim ♪

♪ no reason for open season
on women behind bars ♪

♪ critical resistance ♪

♪ petitions for respect denied ♪

♪ forced a violent decision ♪

♪ who ever heard of women
taking over a prison? ♪

♪ Critical resistance,
no justice, no peace ♪

♪ no human rights,
3 strikes on your damn life ♪

♪ no surrender for the so-called
weaker gender ♪

♪ who ever heard of women
taking over a prison? ♪

♪ Forced to be free
by any means necessary ♪

♪ uhuru ♪

♪ sassa ♪

♪ uhuru ♪

♪ we do or die,
many nights we cry ♪

♪ and this night
we try to prevail
the truth and the lie ♪

♪ revolution
that involves fire ♪

♪ better call someone higher,
turn the tables on you liars ♪

♪ will you live or be expired? ♪

♪ Fell the bullets taking
your entire state of being ♪

♪ no more choices
with me seeing demons ♪

♪ back up against the wall
like we dreaming,
see your scheming ♪

♪ there's gonna
be some screaming
and the choir singing ♪

♪ body bags and toe tags
means we're leaving ♪

♪ at least we got that bastard
that was deceiving ♪

♪ and receiving loot
from our labor and abuse ♪

♪ 25 when the winds
check the news ♪

♪ check the news ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out,
you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ first time I was
losing my mind ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out,
you're in ♪

♪ and the game begins ♪

♪ second time every
inch wasn't mine ♪

♪ 3 strikes you're out,
you're in... ♪

♪ Your love, your love,
your love, your love ♪

♪ your love, your love,
your love, your love ♪

♪ your love, your love,
your love, your love ♪

♪ your love, your love,
your love, your love ♪

♪ black woman ♪
♪ black woman ♪

♪ natural ♪
♪ natural ♪

♪ love your mind ♪
♪ your mind ♪