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[James] Previously onGreenleaf...

This has to be kept in the family.

Who else would I tell?

Send Bob the recording, write the email,

whatever, just do it.

You lied to keep your son out of jail.

If you step down, I won't sharethis proof with the police.

It is so rare to find a man who can satisfy one woman,

-let alone two. -[Charity] He does have a gift

-in pleasing others. -Don't I know it? [chuckles]

[Jacob] What were you doing

at Fernando Amable's office the other day?

[Kerissa] Where were you? The dozens of nights

that I spent alone in our bed.

You're Dante Saunders.

You wanna go for a ride?

I can do whatever I want with whoever I want.

I'm so happy you're going back to school.

-I'm not. -The most senior Greenleaf

employed at Calvary can always cast

the tie-breaking vote in board disputes.

Keep her happy. We're going to be needing her vote.

I have some news about the house

you might find very interesting.

The one that you could very wellbe the owner of one day.

If it's going to be left to you,Grace and Charity,

maybe they could buy us out.

You get up there on Sunday.

You speak your own truth and you will.

Don't do it, child, please, don't do it.

I'm stepping down as the head pastor

of Calvary Fellowship.

[indistinct chatter]

No, please, don't.

-I'm so sorry, Mama. -Don't do this.

I'm worried sick about you.

What finally brought you back, huh?

Where have you been?

What do you mean?You've been calling me nonstop.

Sophia called, laid all that on me,

-"My mama's gonna go to jail." -[Grace] No, I mean,

what are you doing here?

I'm gonna turn myself in.

[indistinct chatter]

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♪ All right ♪

♪ Amen ♪

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♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Well ♪

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[Bob] What the hell happened here?

Grace was a key part of my plan.

Did I not make that clear to the two of you?

It was out of our hands. In Grace's defense,

I don't think in any way she expected this son of hers

to show up she expected this son of hers

And the secret son, he's here?

-I believe he is, yes.-What, it's a matter of belief?

He's fallen in love with the singer.

She called,

told him the kid's staying at the mansion.

[Bob] And Grace has stepped down.

Why?

Apparently, she lied to the police

to provide him with an alibi after he robbed a pharmacy

-and she-- -[scoffs] This family.

I thought she was different.

And what about my board?

You were supposed to get me my majority.

The Greenleafs knew about the bribe.

I want the board to meet tomorrow

and I want the vote to go our way.

I'm sick of waiting for people to do us favors,

I need control.

I'll make sure you get it, Daddy.

No, you won't be doing anything.

You're going back to Phoenix,

-today. -But it wasn't my fault!

If the best you can do is "It wasn't my fault,"

then it is.

[door closes]

Did you have something to do with Grace stepping down?

Because something tells me you did.

I did impress upon her the damage she could do

to the denomination's brand if it came out that she lied.

[Bob] Uh-huh.

And you...

you're in love with this singer?

Charity. But it's a good thing.

Oh, I'm looking forward to hearing about how.

She'd be very useful.

In ways that would take a moment to explain.

I'm still not over how you hurt Judee,

you know that, don't you?

Yes, sir, I do.

She still holds a torch for you.

I think that's half of why this didn't work out with Ken.

I did what I felt was right at the time.

For myself and Judee.

What a mess!

[birds chirping]

[knocks on door]

Come in.

This house, this land, it's all we have left now.

I'm so scared.

[inhales, exhales]

[Charity] Mama.

I just wanted to let you know, I had nothing to do with Phil

and with the way he pressured Gigi.

So, where did this proof come from...

he told her he had?

Hmm? Where?

Does Phil have this whole place bugged?

Does he have confederates in unmarked vans

out on the road with earpieces and 7-Eleven coffee?

I don't know. Maybe.

So, you came in here to lie to me?

But you know what, Charity... [scoffs]

baby...

I'm not mad at you about any of this.

None of it, because you see, I know that you are no more

than Phil's helpless little pawn.

But if you came in here to lie on my face

when you know that I've just lost everything,

I will be.

Mama, I never meant to hurt you.

But you meant...

You meant to hurt your sister.

I just want my life.

Charity... your life is my life.

My life is Grace's. Grace's is A.J.'s,

and A.J.'s is Nathan's, it's one life.

Do damage to even one small part of that life,

and the whole life suffers.

And that is a lesson

that your little guru Phil DeMars never taught you

because he doesn't know it himself. Because...

he is smart enough to make a big fool out of you.

And that's the extent of his genius.

I don't understand. You called me,

Sophia called me,whining at me to call you back,

-to come back home. -Not to turn yourself in.

Look, if you go ahead with this plan...

[A.J.] It's not if, I'm doing it.

You'll probably get ten years.

Then that's what I'll get.

A.J., you stole these drugs.

Aaron thinks that if we can demonstrate

-that you're an addict... -I'm not an addict.

I just wanna go down there tomorrow and do this.

So, why not just go now?

I mean, if that's your plan.

You want me to go right now?

I don't want you to leave at all.

[sighs]

I think he's scared and confused.

No. There's something he's not saying.

There's something else.

What makes you think that?

No one wants to go to prison.

They'd tried me for killing Mac,

I would have fought it the whole way.

[Aaron] But that was self-defense.

Somehow, I think this is, too.

Well, it is his decision.

I mean, at some point, you might just have

to be thankful he's alive and move on.

I'm not going to give up just yet.

Well, who said anything about giving up?

[Grace] Hey, Kerissa, you got a second?

-A quick one, why? -I am not gonna be able

to buy you and Jacob out right now.

I'm so sorry, but A.J.'s suddenly back--

I get it. Thanks, anyway.

-I'm so sorry. -It's okay, all right?

And it's not you, I just have to get to urgent care.

What? Is everything okay?

Obviously not.

You wanna come inside?

[chuckles] I can't.

Why not? What you got going on a Sunday, huh?

You're supposed to be the bad girl.

[laughs] Yeah, I guess I am.

I wasn't gonna say anything,

but my brother showed up at the church today.

The one who ran off?

Yeah, and he's back at the house

and I kinda need to go and see him.

All right. So, what about tomorrow night?

Maybe.

I'll hit you up.

Let me get that.

-Drive safe, okay? -Okay.

[murmurs]

Oh, please, let it be negative.

Please, God, let it be negative, please.

Please.

Kerissa.

It's positive. You have chlamydia.

I have some preventative measures

you can discuss with your husband.

I didn't catch it from him.

Oh.

Then you might wanna have a conversation

with whomever else you've been seeing sexually.

Take all of them and you'll be fine.

And no sex for ten days.

Okay, thank you.

[Clara] First, it was all these seats on the board,

and now they want us to vote tomorrow on this proposal.

[James] What proposal?

They wanna dissolve Calvary as a corporation entirely

and just make it one big division of H&H.

We would lose the church forever.

[James] Well, hold on a second.

No, how would we get it back?It won't even technically exist.

Mae, we've been talking to our allies on the board,

and we think, now that Clara has come on,

maybe we can make it a tie vote.

Which is why we thought we should come to you two

and talk to you about--

-Charity. -[Misty] That's right.

What has that little idiot done now?

Shut the door.

What's the matter with you?

Are you just using me?

Oh, this again?

I could lose my family forever.

Then we'll start a new one.

Yeah, you say that, you say a lot of things like that

-but-- -Charity.

-Be still and know that I am-- -God?

[sighs]

The man who loves you.

What do you want me to do?

There's an article in the by-laws that states:

in the event of a tie among the deacons,

it can be broken by a vote by the highest-ranking member

of the Greenleaf family still employed by the church.

All I have to do is convince Charity

to vote with our friends here,

and the church is saved. Hmm?

I'll go talk to Charity.

Not tonight.

I said, "Not tonight," Jacob.

What did I do now?

Nothing. I just...

I'm on my period and I don't feel well.

Sorry. I didn't know.

Feel better, okay?

[Charity] So now, you two want my help?

We don't want it. We need it.

What about what I needed all those years, Daddy,

when it was-- it was Gigi, Gigi, Gigi!

Charity.

I'm a person.

Fine.

You're a person.

But if you knowingly do this,

take everything your mother and I built

and just hand it over to Bob Whitmore...

child, you will regret it...

for the rest of your life.

Don't do it.

[birds chirping]

Can you get emails in there?

Yeah, if someone gets you a phone,

but it's against the rules,

you can get put in solitary for that.

Letters?

Yeah, I guess.

I'm gonna write you all the time.

Cool.

And how do I put money into your commissary account?

I heard mom talking to Aaron about it.

Look, don't worry about me.

You're my brother.

And I'm going to worry about you, you can't stop me.

Fine, just don't write letters,don't put money, whatever.

Just forget I exist.

It's better for everyone if I didn't, anyway.

Don't say things like that.

-Wait, where are you going? -For a walk.

-Can I come? -No.

[cell phone vibrates]

Hey, can I come over?

[Phil] All those who agree?

[all] Aye.

All those oppose?

[all] Nay.

You ready to do this?

Do I have to?

No. You don't.

[cell phone rings]

Yes?

I will.

I'll let her know.

Thank you, Misty, for...

Okay, goodbye.

Don't tell me.

As long as you don't say the words,

I'm still living in a world that looks something

like one I understand and want to live in.

[cell phone rings]

Hello?

Oh, yes.

Of course.

Who's that?

Uh-huh.

Ye...

Well, I will be right there.

No, thank you.

Who's that?

Bob Whitmore.

He wants me to come downto the church right now to talk.

[James] About what?

The future.

Hey. We have any more of those cranberry pills

we used to give Zora for her bladder infections?

Where are they?

[sighs]

You don't have a bladder infection.

How do you know?

Can you just sit down for a second, please?

What's going on with you?

[sighs] Jacob, there is really no easy way to say this.

But first of all, I...

I love you.

Okay. Now, you're scaring me.

[sighs]

I have chlamydia.

-And you probably do, too. -You have what?

I have chlamydia. Can you just sit down...

[Jacob] How the hell did you get chlamydia?

-Jacob, please. -How?

Jacob, please. Just sit down.

-Jacob, Jacob, sit down. -Uh-uh.

It's Fernando, isn't it?

Yeah. I knew it.

When I asked you...

why you were at his office the other day,

you lied.

-So, is it still going on? -No.

-Is it still going on? -No! No!

-How many times, Kerissa? -Jacob, come on!

You were running off to some little

nasty hotel or something?

What hotels were you running to?

That's not the-- I asked you!

If you would just let me explain.

-Jacob, please. -I don't even wanna know.

Just get out.

Get out where?

I don't know, just get out of this house!

You have got to be kidding me, Jacob, come on.

-Do I look like I'm... -You're gonna kick me out

for cheating?

-[Jacob] You know what...-One mistake after all the years

-I put up with you. You, you. -You know what?

You've been wanting to get of this house so bad.

Get out. Get out!

I never gave you a disease!

You are the disease, bro!

Go kick me out of your mommy's house.

I am going nowhere.

Nowhere!

Well, get yourself a lawyer.

Because this, us, this is over.

Over!

Goodbye.

[door closes]

Hi, Fernando, it's me.

I was wondering if you had some free time.

I have some interesting news of my own.

[Bob] Thanks so much for coming over

on such short notice.

You must've heardabout our plans for the church,

I assume?

Yes, I've heard there's to be some kind of expansion?

I plan to make this site the home...

for Harmony and Hope Worldwide.

I wanna run the whole operation from right here.

Make this church, with a few improvements,

the home church of the whole denomination.

So, you want my people, the black people,

to go to your white church?

I want all people, black, white, whoever...

to worship in respect and freedom together.

I'm sorry, but it wouldn't work.

Not without you, you're right.

I want you to join with me in bringing H&H

into the future together.

You and me. For this vision to succeed,

it needs a strong black leader in the pulpit,

someone who sees the value of breaking down the walls

of racism and growing God's kingdom.

This could be you, Mae.

You and me.

Before I talk to you about that, though.

[chuckles] It's a biggie, right?

Yes, it is.

But I need to talk to you about Grace,

and her situation,as it pertains to someone else.

Mm. And who's that?

Your little friend, Philip DeMars.

I wanna take this to my room.

What's wrong?

I've never done it before.

We don't have to.

No, I want to.

Hey, whenever you wanna stop, we stop.

Whatever you wanna do.

Okay.

Okay.

Where did you get this will?

It's in the public record.

And when you told me you were having troubles

with your landlady, I looked it up.

Oh, thank you for thinking of me.

Of course. But look at this.

See where Mrs. Davis left the estate to the Greenleafs?

Yeah, what about it?

This will was drafted less than a month

-before Mrs. Davis was killed. -In a botched burglary, right?

That's the story, but look at the executor.

Robert McCready.

And it says in the fine print,

this supersedes all previous wills.

Who got the estate before?

No idea.

The first will has rather conveniently disappeared.

And what is your interesting news?

You gave me chlamydia.

[birds chirping]

[Grace sighs]

[Grace] You okay?

[A.J.] I'm all right.

[Grace] You don't seem all right.

[A.J.] Yeah, well, this time tomorrow,

that won't be your problem anymore.

[Grace] Why are you doing this?

Why are you insisting on turning yourself in?

-Just stay. -I wish I could.

I can't.

Can you just tell me why?

You don't get to know why.

It's like everything else in this world...

you don't get to know why.

It just is.

"The best of all possible worlds"?

Well, given the possible worldswe've got, yes.

James, what would you propose we do?

Tell everybodythat Connie Sykes took a bribe?

Have you watched the news lately?

It doesn't matter what people do, James.

So, please, let me do what I can still do

-to save our church! -But it won't be our church.

It will be something entirely different.

God is giving us a way, James.

Yeah, Grace fell, but he's lifted me up,

and all I need is this chance to get close enough

to Bob Whitmore, and I'm telling you, please.

-James, please... -Your cockeyed ambition

is making you just plain stupid!

James!

You'd make yourself an ornament on the arm

-of this white criminal? -I have already said yes.

I don't wanna go home.

Then don't.

Stay over.

Sorry, I am old-fashioned.

Oh...

Don't be.

I like old-fashioned.

-Oh, yeah? -Mm-hm.

[laughs]

You know, you got me thinking when I was a kid...

I was into magic.

Liked it so muchI flunked there on third grade.

[Charity laughs]

Oh, my dad saw my report card, he took all my magic books

and burned them on the barbecue.

Okay, that's the saddest story ever.

[chuckles]

I still kind of have a happy ending.

What are you talking about?

Boom.

[laughs]

What are you doing?

You ready to say the magic word?

And what is the magic word?

Well...

in this case,

"Yes."

Charity Bernice Greenleaf...

-Will you marry me? -[exhales]

[knocking on door]

[Phil] Hey.

Got a sec to talk logistics?

[Bob] Yeah, sure, come on in.

I just found the perfect spot to worship during the build,

it's less than a mile from here, a gymnastics club,

120,000 square feet, and the owner,

who likes me, said, "If you're the man in charge,

-you can have it for--" -But you won't be in charge.

There's been a little change in plans.

-It's gonna be me and Mae. -Are you serious?

Mae told me what you did to Grace, Phil.

I had a feeling that you had

more of a hand in it than you said,

but Phil, that was unconscionable!

[Phil] Oh, Bob, you've done worse yourself.

I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that.

What did you say, Phil?

What do I have to do to change your mind?

I've given you all I've got for over 20 years!

For 20 years.

All I wanna do is get out from behind my desk

and finally get backto ministering at my own church.

So, tell me, Bob...

what do I have to do to change your mind? Hmm?

Name it.

Right.

Rah! [chuckles]

Go get the board, okay, I'll be right in.

Nadine, let me call you right back.

Found a place to live yet?

I hear there's a by-the-hour hotel available

on Elvis Presley Boulevard.

I'm staying put.

Oh, really?

And don't you ever talk to me like that again,

unless you want Bishop to die in jail.

What drug are you on?

It's called truth. You want some?

Philip. What a pleasant surprise.

Don't waste your irony on me, Mae.

You're gonna need it in so many other less...

hopeless situations.

Pardon?

Bob is gonna be calling you soon to tell you

he's deeply sorry,

but the arrangement you two made...

is officially null and void.

I'll be running H&H with him going forward.

I'll wait to hear that from Bob.

[cell phone rings]

Whoa. That's probably him there.

And another thing, Mae, I know you and James

have a lot of personal belongings at the church.

You might wanna get those out.

Why would she do that?

Because barring a general outcryat the congregation,

we're gonna demolish the church in a week.

[Charity] Hey.

I thought that was your car.

Did you come over to ask permission?

Because it's a little late for that, Phil.

[Charity chuckles]

Permission for what?

What do you think, Mama?

Try to be happy,because it is never coming off.

So, did you just stop by to say hi?

Well, actually...

there's something we need to talk about.

Privately.

Mmm. Well, I like the sound of that.

Come on.

If you'll excuse us.

Is he serious about tearing down the church?

I'm afraid that he is.

-I'm sorry, Grandma. -[sighs]

There's not gonna be any wedding.

Not for us, anyway.

What are you talking about?

I'm gonna marry Judee.

-But last night... -I know.

I'm sorry.

Get out.

Go get out.

Get out!

Father God...

I don't know what to do.

The church is gone.

Or it will be in seven days' time.

My family is in complete disarray.

And my son, A.J., I don't know how to reach him.

But, God, I know you could.

I know that you see in my heart.

I know that you have ordered my steps.

I know that you have carried meover every mountain,

that you lit my path in every valley,

Lord, I thank you, I praise you,

Father, I thank you.

I thank you...

for the bishop...

who teaches me hope, more and more all the time.

Thank you for my mother, she never gives up.

And I love her for that.

And thank you for my daughter, Sophia.

Go away.

[Grace] She teaches me courage.

And she's an example to me every day.

[door closes]

And Jacob and Kerissa, Lord, thank you...

and for that beautiful niece and nephew they gave me.

So, what do you think this means?

Well, I wouldn't dare to presume,

but it looks like your parents had Mrs. Davis killed,

and basically, stole this house from her,

doesn't it look like that to you?

[Grace] Thank you for my sister Charity

for all she is and all she isn't.

And for my sister Faith...

who called me home...

so that I could learn a lesson...

I know isn't over yet.

I miss you, Sister.

I miss you.

And, Lord, about my son...

A.J.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Are you lost?

I don't think so.

How'd you get on the property?

I just started walking and I ended up here.

Faith. She's your sister.

How did you know that?

The dates.

Just took a shot.

Yeah, she was my sister.

Everything has an expiration date.

You know what I mean?

Everything.

Yeah.

The road is back that way. It'll take you to the gate.

Thanks for the directions.

I'll see you around, Grace.

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