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Everyone out of the street!

Please!

Move out of the street!

We don't wanna have to shut this down.

All we can do is pray

for the Lord to protect us from this evil.

They are butchering our children without consequence!

My brothers and sisters,

I say no more!

No more!

No more!

We are all angry over Emmett Till's murder,

but we must organize and fight using the law.

What's that smell?

It's gotta be one of the hottest days of the year, and...

It's him, isn't it?

- You wanna rest for a minute? - Mmm-mmm.

We gonna be waiting for a while.

- I'm fine. - Excuse me.

You sure? You wanna sit?

I'm fine, Tic.

- Hey. - Oh, thank you.

Hey, boy.

Here, take mine.

Ruby.

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to bring Dee.

Ain't no getting around this.

Every Negro's rite of passage in this country,

child or not.

Uncle George would've wanted her to see Bobo.

No more! No more!

No more! No more!

- No more! - No more!

No more! No more!

This is a war, and we gonna win!

No more! No more!

She's seen too much death already.

We should be protecting her.

Leti, this is not the place to have this conversation again.

It's been a week. We need to tell her.

Her best friend just died.

Murdered. He didn't just die.

- Someone did this to him. - Okay, murdered, yes.

I'm sorry. Murdered. I know that.

And as long as we wait to tell her, her mother's not coming back.

We don't know that for sure. Leti...

You said there was a flash of light from Hiram's machine

and then Hippolyta disappeared.

Now, what makes you think she's coming back?

Where's Diana?

Shit.

She must've snuck off someplace.

My brothers gonna stand right here,

and I'ma stand right here!

We don't want her roaming the streets alone today.

- Go see if she's at the house. - Okay.

I'll check mine.

I'll stay in line in case she comes back.

Okay.

Tic.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'll check the five-and-dime.

Sorry, excuse me. Excuse me.

- 'Scuse me. 'Scuse me. - Sorry. 'Scuse me.

Make a hole, please.

It's a cruel

- Cruel - Cruel summer

Leaving me

Leaving me here on my own

- It's a cruel - It's a cruel

Cruel summer

Now you're gone

Huh?

There ain't nothing to laugh about!

Diana Freeman?

I said, are you Diana Freeman?

- Yes. - This yours?

Captain won't ask you again, girl!

Uh-huh. Yes, it's mine.

Where's your mother?

She's on a trip for her job.

What's your mother's name?

What's her name?

It's Hippolyta.

Hippo-what?

Niggers and these African names.

Where'd she go on this trip?

She, um...

didn't tell me.

Your mother been acting strange lately?

Kind of.

What do you know about magic?

Like in fantasy books?

Help! Help!

Let me go!

I can't... I can't bre... I can't breathe!

Dee?

Diana!

Are you looking for a room?

I'm looking for Atticus.

Can't remember the last time someone made me wait.

At least I had family to keep me company.

Teach me how to cast a spell.

You had my card for a very long time.

Why now?

It's my birthright.

You don't have enough whiteness in you to sell that entitlement.

No. No.

No. Something's changed.

You're desperate now. To do what?

To... protect yourself?

You managed to get Titus's pages.

Congratulations.

I wasn't sure you could pull it off.

People have died trying.

I hear Hiram lost an arm.

Horatio's stolen pages are still out there.

I'd give you the orrery, but...

I think what you really want is this.

An incantation isn't a spell.

The words aren't enough.

To cast, you need energy,

intention,

and a body.

That's how you upset the balance of nature

without a disaster.

Perfect alignment.

What is that?

Protection symbol.

Trace it around the location

you're going to cast the spell in.

Geometric pattern.

What, in chalk?

Or in your blood.

Either is preferable to dust.

Good luck, cousin.

The autumnal equinox.

What's going to happen?

I'm going to achieve what no one in the Order,

not even the all-powerful Titus Braithwhite, could.

Immortality.

Dee, where the hell you been?

Everybody's out looking for you.

I ain't gotta tell you nothing!

You ain't my pops! He's dead!

So is my mama dead too?

Dee, your mama's on a "Guide" trip.

Where is she?

On a "Guide" trip!

You're lying.

She has to know about Bobo. She'd come back.

She will, Dee, soon.

Stop fucking lying to me!

You're all lying to me!

Hey.

Dee.

Open this damn door, Dee!

Get your ass out here now!

Dee!

Dee! Dee!

Diana, I know how you feel.

When I was your age, they took my best friend too.

Thought that was the worst of it, you know?

But white folks, they just keep coming.

More vicious and evil than the last time.

You know, your pops and I, we learned early on.

No matter what you do or how well you do it,

they always take it from us.

Stop that knocking at the door

- Let me in - Stop that knocking

- Let me in - Stop that knocking

It doesn't mean you have to give it to 'em easy.

- Let me in - Stop that knocking

- You hear me, Dee? - Stop that knocking

They come for you,

you damn sure make 'em work for it!

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

Dee?

I'm coming in, okay, baby?

Let me in

Yeah, come on and love me baby

It will always be that way, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Hey!

You the maid?

No, I'm not the damn maid.

What'd you say?

Answer me.

Is everything okay here?

You know her?

Yes, I do. Is there a problem?

Not if you know her.

That mess on the other side of town's got everyone up in arms.

Just making sure none of it's finding its way

to our neighborhood.

Thank you. That's very much appreciated.

He looked like a monster.

I put a spell on you

Because you're mine

You better stop the things you do

I ain't lying

I ain't lying

You know I can't stand it

You're running around

You know better, daddy

I can't stand it

'Cause you put me down

And I don't care

If you don't want me

I'm yours

Right now

I'm yours right now

I put a spell on you

Because

Because

You're mine

I love you

I love you

I love you

I love you

I love you

What the hell?

Do you see that?

See what?

Rolling blackouts due to the heat

have delayed all southbound trains.

Knocking at the door

Am dat you, Sam?

Am dat you, Sam?

- You had better stop - Excuse me. Excuse me!

That knocking at the door

- Let me in - Move. Move!

- Let me in - Stop that knocking

Let me in

You had better stop this knocking at the door

- Please! - Let me in

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

Move! Move! Come on!

You had better stop this knocking at the door

Let me in

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

You had better stop this knocking at the door

Let me in

You're a succubus.

In Korea, we call it a kumiho.

A nine-tailed fox spirit.

And you killed 100 men.

It is my nature.

What is your excuse?

When I have sex

and my lover climaxes,

my nine tails attach to him, taking his life force.

That is how I am able to see their entire lives

up till their deaths.

The last time with you, when my tails came out...

When?

When am I supposed to die?

- I don't know. - But it's gonna happen soon?

Right? That's why you're here.

- I'm not sure. - But you saw how it happened.

- Right? - No.

I'm sorry.

This has never happened before.

No one has ever survived my tail...

Shit!

Ji-ah, why are you here, then?

If you don't have any fucking answers, why are you here?

Because she loves you.

Our shit wasn't real.

And I'm not dying.

Now get the fuck out.

What are you doing?

She needs to get the fuck out of here.

Leti, Leti, Leti. Leti, she's gone. She's gone.

- She's gone. - Good. I'm glad.

- Go with her. - Leti, stop.

- I'm sorry. - No!

I understand why you wouldn't say anything when you got back,

but all the shit we done been through,

I had to hear it from her?

Leti, I didn't know what to tell you, okay?

Or anybody!

You tell me the fucking truth!

I didn't know!

Leti, Leti, I didn't know what she was

or what happened to me that night.

I didn't... I didn't believe what she said, Leti.

Well, a part of you believed it.

That's why you kept it from us.

I thought I was protecting everyone.

Well, you done fucked up!

'Cause everybody but you done died

since you been back.

Where are you going?

I'm going to make it right.

What does that mean?

Atticus!

What does that mean?

I'm gonna cast a spell.

Wait, what?

When did you finish?

The night we found out about Emmett.

But you don't know how.

I met with Christina today.

I gave her the orrery key. She told me how to cast it.

- Have you lost your damn mind? - Leti, move!

You can't trust Christina!

And what if Ji-ah's right?

What if this is the way that you die?

Leti, I've already made up my mind, okay?

You don't get to make those damn decisions

by yourself anymore.

There's too much at stake.

You don't think I know that?

I'm doing this for us. To protect us.

Our future.

We're surrounded by monsters, Leti.

I don't have a choice.

Tic, please.

Tic.

We can figure this out together.

Of course.

I'll be there soon.

A 14-year-old boy

was beat and shot to death,

then tied with barbed wire by the neck

to a cotton gin fan

and cast into the Tallahatchie River.

I know.

But do you care?

At all?

You want me to say yes.

I don't want you to say anything.

I want you to feel

what I feel right now.

Heartbroken.

Scared.

Furious.

Tired.

So fucking tired

of feeling this way over and over.

And I want you to feel alone

and shameful,

'cause I'm here, feeling this,

and you will never understand it.

I want you to feel guilty 'cause...

for feeling safe

next to you and your privilege.

I should be on the South Side

with my people,

mourning a sweet little boy

who was taken from us.

You wanna know why I took that potion?

Because today of all days,

I didn't wanna be a Black woman

fucking a white man.

No.

What?

I don't care about Emmett Till.

I don't care about Roy Bryant

or J.W. Milam,

who'll never see justice for what they did.

I don't care that half this city's on the brink because of it,

and I don't think that you really do either.

Pain.

"It's like being unmade."

That's what you said about the transformation,

but that's not what I saw when I was fucking you.

I saw someone being reborn.

You took that potion

because you wanted to hide from the fact

that even on today of all days, you were a woman

who wanted what she wanted.

Topsy with her yellow eyes

Tries to claw the one she spies

Follows them from tree to brook

Over, under every nook

Topsy has the wildest do

She just wants to dance with you

Jig, jig, jig, jig, jig

Leti! Where's Tic?

I don't know.

When's he coming back?

I don't know, Diana.

Go inside. Call your uncle. Tell him you're here.

Wait.

Let me in

Leti?

- What? - Behind you.

There's... there's...

You okay?

Get some water from the kitchen.

I'll be back soon.

Let me in

Let me in

Let me in

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

You had better stop this knocking at the door

Let me in

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

You had better stop this knocking at the door

Let me in

Dee was here, but she snuck out again.

Did you cheat on my mama?

I had desires, but I never acted on 'em.

Not until after she was gone.

When I was a boy, eight years old,

pastor of my church, he...

Got caught with another man in the park.

He said it was just a rumor.

Palm Sunday morning,

police came in there

and snatched him off the pulpit in handcuffs,

like he was some perverted demon or something.

Next thing we hear, they done put him in some asylum

and cut out half his brain.

I chose a life over a damn asylum.

Or a jail cell, or being found dead

in a bathroom of some public park.

Your mama lost everyone in the riots.

Massacre, really.

We both just wanted a family.

That's what our love was built on.

A'ight, yeah, it wasn't romantic,

but familial love is the strongest kind.

Well, you'll see one day.

God bless you to have kids.

Leti's pregnant.

She hasn't told me yet.

Aunt Hippolyta's not the only one who went through the portal.

I went to the future.

That's my son.

Heavenly Father...

I know You said

we were all meant to go through trials

and tribulations.

But this magic...

That's haunting us...

and testing us...

it's like the devil.

That part, You left out.

And now, God,

the man that I love...

I'm begging You, God.

I'm begging You.

Please, God,

please...

protect him.

Put Your shield of armor around him

as he says that spell, God.

And please, God,

extend Your grace to Emmett's family.

To Mamie.

In Your mighty name, I pray.

Amen.

I didn't figure you as a woman of faith.

I wasn't.

But I died

and was resurrected.

That wasn't a miracle.

It was magic.

Are they really so different?

Walking on water, curing the blind,

raising the dead.

Perhaps my father considered himself godlike

when he resurrected you, but he was just a mortal,

confused that being powerful

and being able to manipulate those around him

made him more.

Most men with god complexes wanna live in heaven,

but not hell,

failing to understand that God is both.

Is that what you want?

To be God?

I'm sure you didn't summon me here to find out what I want.

These are negatives of Titus's pages.

- They're yours. - If?

If you make Atticus invulnerable.

No.

Not for Atticus.

For you.

Wait.

Mark of Cain.

My father's invulnerability spell.

I was the first to realize

you could use it to heal someone.

Let me in

Let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in, let me in

Let me in

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

Stop that knocking, stop that knocking

You had better stop this knocking at the door

Let me in

Should've never gave Christina the keys to Hiram's machine.

It doesn't matter.

She can't use it.

It's broken.

So what? Hippolyta.

What, she trapped in the future?

Maybe.

It was chaotic.

White folks were rioting.

I was only there for a second

before the woman in the hood came in,

shoved a book in my hand,

pushed me back through the portal.

With the robotic arm.

"George Freeman's writings were inspired

by his heroic father,

a Korean War vet."

You read it?

It's our family story.

Some of the details are different.

Christina's a man.

Uncle George survives Ardham.

And Dee's a boy named Horace.

But there's enough similarities to it,

makes me think there's some truth to it.

Please tell me there's a happy ending.

Christina sacrifices me

to become immortal

on the autumnal equinox.

That's in five days.

I know casting a spell can kill me,

but I also know I gotta take every chance I can

to live for my son.

What should I do?

You know, son...

I always thought my death would come

at the end of a white man's bullet or a rope.

Magic's so much more jazz.

Didn't you tell me that part of casting was intention?

Yes, sir.

Well, it's my intention to do whatever I can

to save my son and my grandson.

Even if it kills me.

We don't know how much magic they know.

We can't just come at them.

And her pioneering has made this bitch a local celebrity.

Is my mama dead?

Probably.

What did you do to me with your spit?

Couldn't have you telling anybody about our little chats.

What happens if it gets me?

I can remove it.

The curse.

But you have to do something for me first.

You know what an orrery is?

Yeah, I know what an orrery is,

and my mama's name is Hippolyta!

It's Greek, asshole.

You bring me the one from the Winthrop house,

and I'll save you from whatever's following you.

Fuck you, pig.

And it fucking stinks in here!

To hell with the girl.

She's already dead.

It's time to get what belongs to me.

I am here today to acknowledge and represent

the African-American girls

whose stories don't make the front page

of every national newspaper.

Whose stories don't lead on the evening news.

I represent the African-American women

who are simply statistics

instead of vibrant, beautiful girls

full of potential.

For far too long, these names, these Black girls and women,

have been just numbers.

I'm here to say "Never again" for those girls too.

I am here to say

that everyone should value those girls too.

To honor the girls, the women of color,

who are murdered at disproportionate rates

in this nation.

I urge each of you

to help me write the narrative for this world

and understand so that these girls and women

are never forgotten.

"In flood, he water

shall be reprieved from death."

That don't make any sense.

Let me see.

Where?

"In flood water,

he shall be reprieved from death."

You switched up the words.

Yeah, I tend to do that sometimes.

What you mean, "sometimes"?

I'm dyslexic, boy.

Since when?

Since I've been a boy.

Shit, any other secrets you keeping from me?

Jeez.

Come on, man, let's just do this before I lose my damn nerve.

Amen.

Well, shit, it can't hurt!

You feel anything?

No.

You?

Fuck.

Didn't work.

You ever done anything like this before?

No. It's my first time.

You sure?

You have your money.

Get her up! Get her up.

Why would anyone wanna die like that?

Don't know why

There's no sun up in the sky

Stormy weather

Since my man and I

Ain't together

Keeps raining

All the time

Are these from Emmett's wake?

Life is bare

Did you see him?

Mamie was brave enough

to show the world what they did to her son,

and I wasn't even brave enough to take a few damn pictures.

Choosing what was best for yourself in that moment

was a different kind of bravery.

You can't feel guilty for protecting yourself first.

I'm pregnant.

Damn it, Leti.

Oh, you've really gone and gotten yourself into it now.

Don't even know the half of it, Ruby.

You should've stayed your ass at Marvin's

instead of following that man to Ardham.

Yeah, I know all about magic

and how George really died.

That white man you staying with?

Only a man some of the time.

Christina Braithwhite.

She got you spying on us or something?

How can you even ask me that?

Because she came to me

and tried to get me to do the same damn thing.

She's playing you, Ruby.

No, I'm getting exactly what I want.

And what is that?

Magic.

She gave me a potion that can turn me into a white lady.

Yeah.

And I finally got that job at Marshall Field's,

and you know what I learned?

I don't wanna be white.

I'm just sick of forgiving every space that I enter

'cause it's not for me.

I wanna create my own space.

I can do that with magic.

Christina's gonna teach me.

Ruby...

Leti, you need to get up here now!

Letitia Lewis.

We have a warrant to search the premises.

What the fuck?

Go back to your rooms.

Leti, let me handle this.

I don't want your baby born in jail.

Shit.

What is this about, Officer?

- We got a tip... - Move.

...that known Nation of Islam radicals were organizing here

in retaliation for Emmett Till.

- That's bullshit. - Leti.

Let's go.

What the hell just happened?

Our house is protected. That motherfucker knows magic.

Well, now he knows that you do too.

Get down!

Leti! Get down!

Dee! Dee!

I'm coming!

Dee!

Let me go!

Let me go!

What's wrong, baby?

Get your fucking hands up!

Hey!

I said get your fucking hands up!

Get your hands up, boy!

No!

No! No!

- Leti! - What the hell is that?

Leti!

Oh, God!

Tic!

Go back!

Go back!

No! No!

Go! Go!

The spell worked.

Oh, Sinnerman

Where you gonna run to?

Sinnerman

Where you gonna run to?

Sinnerman

Where you gonna run to?

All on that day

Well, I run to the rock

Please hide me

I run to the rock

Please hide me

I run to the rock

Please hide me

All on that day

But the rock cried out

"I can't hide you"

The rock cried out

"I can't hide you"

The rock cried out

"I ain't gonna hide you"

All on that day

I said, "Rock

What's the matter with you, Rock?

Can't you see I need you, Rock"

Devil was waiting

All on that day

Power

Power

I cried, "Power"

I cried, "Power"

I cried, "Power"

I cried, "Power"