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I it was in Carthage.

Girl. Yes, boy.

I got to say hi to my girlfriend first.

What's wrong?

Sean? I miss Ruben.

Miss Mary.

Hello? We got shit out of.

We go fishing.

I promised I would help her pay her rent.

Come on, boy.

The game you.

Come on

baby, do you want.

Come on.

Baby, don't you want any more?

Back to that same old place.

To my sweet home.

Chicago.

Now one and one is two.

You know what to say about singing.

Yeah,

well, this is it.

Hey, man. Hey.

Hey. It's been a while,

Yeah, I've been doing some Logan.

I've been Van Cleave while my still leaks

is boom. Oh.

Isn't he a little young to be in here tonight, Mr.

McCabe? No.

I'm seven years old, big boy.

Oh, is that so?

I took it for a couple of days because his mama had to go to New Orleans

to look at the,

And who are you see

miss man of the play, Oh.

Miss Mary.

Yes, Miss Delia.

Mr. McKinney, here to help you pay your rent.

Oh, come.

You want to go take a bath, big boy?

Yes, ma'am.

Cover you, Miss Delia, my boy.

All right, baby.

And, good time. Hey.

Back to that same old place,

my sweet.

Patrice. Yes.

Could you please bring a couple of buckets of hot water for the tub?

And nobody taking a bath until late this morning?

Well, hi.

This.

Come on, let's get you ready.

Is the water hot enough for you, big boy?

How come you got your back to the big boy?

Well, it used to be upstairs, but then Miss Loretta moved in.

And the one room that they had no move

anyways, down here was closer to the hot water.

Okay.

You are just the sweetest child.

I want to take you home with me.

Okay.

And for you to see the difference.

Every.

Step that.

Break those men up.

There ain't no fighting in here.

Little bit.

Don't you hurt him.

That's my man.

Oh! Oh!

Thank you.

Baby. Hey!

You want it?

Come on.

You fixing to shoot me?

No, no, no.

I took this here for myself.

Look at you.

So you been out

with your new friend. Yes.

And why not shoot myself

I mean you all I ever had and

now that's over.

So you said don't die.

I can't if I nothing else to do.

Why you got to do anything?

You the only woman I ever loved.

And I came home the night.

You can't lose me.

You can always be my only man.

But if you want to die,

then let me shoot you myself.

Cause right after that, I put the bullet in my own heart.

Uncle,

what do.

What you doing up so early

on? When?

Lomax. Who?

When Lomax beat down, the Meany

and Miss Molly stabbed him and killed him.

Nightmare

didn't start out that way.

I was in to

mess with trees heating up the bathwater.

Hot water was taking out the chair.

Everybody was laughing.

Smiling.

I don't think I ever felt safer.

But as usual,

they last.

I'm sorry I'm so late.

I called you earlier.

You said everything was okay. It is.

There's whiskey here just to help me get back to sleep.

You could have stayed on the rides as you wanted.

No, I should have been here.

I shouldn't have left you alone. And I'm sorry.

No need for sorrow.

Nothing wrong with being young and in love.

In love?

I see how that boy look at you.

Oh, we barely know each other.

430 in the morning.

Say different?

No, it was just what I was hangin.

You good to? Yes.

Yeah.

You willing? Yeah.

I am pleading the fifth on em.

One of these days you look back on this and you, you'll see different.

Well, I'm old enough to know what love is. So.

Really?

Who taught you that? You.

I love you.

Tell me. I do.

And I bet that if I was 20 years older and you were 50 years younger.

Could. I could see us being together?

You and me.

So I never knew I felt like that about somebody.

First little girlfriend, old.

I guess you know how I feel about since.

Yeah.

But you.

You're the

first woman that ever loved me.

Love me.

Unh unh.

Oh. Unconditional.

Yeah.

That unconditional.

Yeah.

And that's the can love.

I hope I remember when I slipped back.

Okay.

But you you need to be running toward your future, grabbing

hold of whatever's out there in the world for you.

It's good to be here,

Sam. Be safe.

Being old to.

Oh, yeah. What's so good about it?

Well, old folk know where you come from and why I stand.

Hey, what else?

Oh, folks ain't scared of life.

God, they got one foot in the grave.

Look here.

You need to get some sleep. We got a big day tomorrow.

I got some new folks I want you to meet and learn some old tricks.

Well, I'm not drunk.

Where are you going?

No. Hey, you know, you should not be drinking that.

You know, you can't save me here.

But I don't mean I can't try.

Good night.

Good night.

Sleep tight.

Don't let the big bugs bite.

They do.

They don't get drunk.

Who the fuck is this?

This, Ptolemy gray. Poor Nina.

You know what fucking time. Annie.

Oh. I'm, I'm sorry about that, but I got something important

I want to say to.

Hello, Papa.

Gray?

Yeah. It's me.

It's Nina.

Nina. Lloyd.

How do you get my number so fast?

How? My phone.

Yo, yo. Phone.

Who? Call you call folks.

What they do?

Listen, I'm sorry about offering to help.

It's protective of people calling me.

Oh, that's your boyfriend? No, not at all.

Just for the family, you know, helping out.

The Niecy

call, you tell you about the eulogy I'm having for Reggie.

She did for him.

I said I don't think I can come.

Well it's still hard, you know.

Yeah I know.

Like a like a woman. He'll.

Yeah.

Well, listen, the repast start at 3:00.

If you can meet me at two.

I promise I won't take up much of your time.

I just want to get you some money.

I don't understand.

What money?

The money I was saving for your husband is enough to take care of you

and the kids for a couple months.

2:00, you say?

Yeah.

2:00.

Okay.

I know I catch your eye here reading the book.

Good morning. Good morning.

Can you get us a biscuit?

I asked, could you get us a biscuit?

Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

You've been to call the bus company?

No, I meant download it.

So what?

Download?

Like the internet?

I've heard of it.

Yeah, I haven't heard of it, but I ain't never used it.

Can you show it? Where are you going?

We want to go to Buckhead.

Is that right?

You know, we're fighting for.

The. Just like it used to look.

Now we got to hope he's still in here.

All right, well. Come on. Well, I don't come.

I'm coming.

Excuse me.

You need to exercise all the way up there.

You could do shit.

Come on.

Look at.

He did it. Hey!

Yes, I did.

You're here to see Mr.

Brown. It's.

Do you have an appointment? No.

What's your business with Mr. Obama, bitch?

He's still a lawyer.

Yes, he is, but you can't just walk in here off the street.

Sir, please.

You're back there. I will call the police.

But is there a problem?

Mr. gray?

Well, your daddy.

He died 15 years ago.

Oh, he was a young man.

He was 69 at the time.

Come in.

I can't believe it's you.

This truly is a welcome surprise.

You looking good.

And this woman

I was the gardener for accused me of stealing from.

They put me in jail and everything.

I got one of them,

court appointed lawyers, and that son of a bitch want me to plead guilty?

Told the judge and everything.

Yeah, well, luckily for Mr.

Gray, my father was there to represent my Uncle Shmuel for embezzlement.

He heard Mr. Gray arguing with his lawyer.

Gerald Watts. Yes. Wow.

Mr. Watts, my father asked Mr.

Gray if he'd like a different attorney.

Yeah, but what about your Uncle Shmuel?

No, he was guilty.

The only thing they had to settle on was the amount of the fine.

So? So what is it?

He stole a statuette by, the guy who they said made it.

But most senior stayed on the case for ten months.

He finally got one of the woman's nieces to admit the woman Sadie

Homan had stole at home themselves and was selling it on the sly.

So. So she went to jail? No.

Oh, my father just got her to drop the charges.

But she was guilty.

Well, some people, even criminals, are unlikely

to ever see a conviction, much less the inside of a jail.

So what can I do for you?

Can you make me will?

Of course. Are there many years? Phew.

But I want Robin here to be in charge of who gets what we.

Wait. Me?

No. Is this a considerable sum?

It is.

But your daddy knew all about it.

When going over a will.

It is my practice to discuss the particulars with the test data alone.

I'm sure you understand.

Yeah.

I'll be right outside.

What is this young woman to?

Robin.

Come into my life.

When I needed someone to care for me very, very badly.

I was in bad shape. Mom.

She pulled me out of a deep, deep hole.

I sort of adopted her.

I trust Robin with my life.

We must not trust my own compound.

I understand your feelings for this girl, but do others share your conviction?

Namely, your family.

What are the chances? Looking test.

100%.

I got a niece who got, no kind of son.

I got another great grand nephew that got killed.

Left two children and a wife, which I ain't show bout.

But I do know the anything

I lead to them, they're going to piss away.

You sure about this?

Yeah. They don't know how to handle money like that.

So I'm gonna leave some specific instructions with Robin.

But they still don't say I was out of my mind.

You seem of sound mind to me.

And a trust could be set up that would satisfy the court's,

if not any expectations on your family's part.

Good. That's what I want.

All right, now, there's one more thing

that you can help me with.

Let's move to some.

What's in this yellow box?

It's all about you, gentlemen.

Your keys.

Going down.

Found the treasure.

The Brasher Doubloon.

My father's records indicate that Mr.

Gray declared this coin 40 years ago as his property.

He paid the taxes even though we advised against it.

The current worth $17.29 million. Yes.

There are seven

other less valuable coins in another box from the same piece of work on that.

Yeah, well, let's not worry about them right now.

We're going to get the ball rolling by, cash in his hand, going in

and turning that into a trust account.

Robbing him man.

No no no no no no we need to talk about that. Don't worry.

Don't don't worry about it. Don't worry about that.

Don't I get to say, Of course you do. Then.

Thank you. But no thank you.

Why are you asking him?

Look, you ain't got to do nothing just yet.

What if I still feel the same way?

Well, as disappointing as that may be to Mr.

Gray, I assure you the trust will remain in good hands.

How so?

Well, if you refuse custodianship, the responsibility will simply fall to me.

If she refuse.

How is this going?

A different than what you already doing with my alligator bag?

Money? Well, that money in the bank. And you hold the car.

Look, I know it's a lot of money.

It's a fucking fortune.

I can't be messing with that. It's all in my will.

Everything you need to do is read to me.

Just like I'm there with you.

But you won't be.

Look, everybody go and get that piece.

You going to get a chunk?

Get a salary to write checks every month.

Just for the ring, Billy. Prayers.

They're going to get something.

It's like you're going to be taking care back.

How are you expecting me to do all that?

I can't even barely understand a word.

The Lord was talking about you.

Smarter than anybody in that room, class. You know.

You know everything. And I'm just supposed to trust him.

If you don't, then get a second opinion.

Third, and you're not hearing me.

I don't want the money. I don't want any of it.

You want to come to your house, smell like shit with bugs, run

all over everything and talk to a crazy old man.

Then those ads from a hole in the ground? Neither. But you did.

And you did it cause you were the only one who could do it.

I did it because I had to.

I had nowhere else to go.

And I cleaned up this mess because I didn't want to stay in it.

And I didn't do it because I'm some kind of saint.

And so you keep on.

You keep on. Keep on what?

See me for something that I'm not.

I see you for who you is. No you don't.

Everything I've done has been about you. Not.

Not about me or how I feel. Because if you.

If you really saw me, you would see that I'm 17 years old and I'm not ready.

You doing to me what I did to you.

That's why I know how you feel. Then why you making me do it?

You're free to do whatever you want, okay?

I'm just asking for your consideration.

Just consider.

Just maybe. Just maybe.

I know what I'm talking about.

So what?

Bobby.

Bobby! Hey. Hey. Hey! Pretty.

Billy robbing,

Nina here.

She a little bit late, so we don't have it in here in the living room.

Well, not as many people don't come as last time, so I thought you

got some food out that.

What happened to you?

I mean, you

not as feeble minded as you was, but

you're not the same man you were before, neither, right? No.

Hey, girl, you got looks so nice.

What's wrong?

Are you talking about Sally?

Don't pull her pigtails.

Or did you do that to your sister's doll?

Yeah, but she took my leg on on the ground.

Okay. Oh. All right.

I think the only way to settle this is to see which one of you guys

can eat the most ice cream, Yeah, I can still get you some ice cream.

Thanks, Robin.

You coming?

No, baby.

I'm going to stay here and talk to Papa Gray.

We're going to all eat together, okay?

Okay.

Beautiful children.

Yeah. You're my heart.

You mind if we going back up?

Okay.

Okay.

I understand this.

Last time we was in this room here was hell,

yeah.

Come on.

Come.

That was the first time you and me actually met each other too.

Yeah. It's not like I never wanted to.

It's just that I'm.

Well, Reggie, he didn't want me coming over

and said he didn't want me to see you in a condition you was in.

Happy? Not.

Yeah.

I still feel like I got to know you.

That's how much it was in Reggie's heart.

You know, he told me all about you.

She told

me about all the things you taught him over the years.

You know, he still has.

What?

Had those, children books you gave him when he was little.

So whenever you would come over

to babysit, he'll pull them out of you, read them.

So till he got big enough.

And I made him read them to me.

Yeah.

He was sweet like that.

This year,

Thad Allen was for you.

And cheer.

Bridget loved him.

Babies.

Best thing he said to me was his birthday.

He'd rush home, get some party favors.

Yeah.

And I know it was hard for you to be here.

But I would really appreciate it if you stay in here.

What I have to say

is as much for you and children as it is for Reggie.

Now, I understand if you can't.

No, I.

I'll stay.

Thank you.

Oh. Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Yeah.

I guess you better get him back.

Thanks.

You got a whole thing.

I like to watch chocolate. Me?

Well, see, you don't want me to hold the whole thing by yourself.

Yeah. That's crazy.

Hey, I'm going to get a stomachache.

Am I too late?

Oh, no.

It ain't even start yet.

Do you want to go for a walk?

Sure.

Okay.

You know, propagate cigaret.

I thought it was better with no messing up.

Well, that was just a temporary fix.

And nothing that doctors can do.

No, but we already knew it was coming, so.

I was sitting here.

Oh, shit.

Ain't never fair.

It's just real.

People suffer, and then they die, and.

And nobody give a fuck.

My mother had cancer.

She hurt so bad.

And if you just breathe on it sometimes she cried out in pain.

My father was a Roman. She.

Look at him.

Security might touch you.

Say something too loud.

One day she weighed in to come close.

And when he did,

she begged him to kill her.

Make it.

She does terrible.

Here you are.

The person you love most in the world.

And the best thing that you could do for him is killing.

How's that? Right.

I don't know.

I saw something in my father's index.

My mother. Was that.

She could ask him anything

because they were everything

to one another.

We should all be so lucky to find a love like that.

That deep.

I know a man or something like that.

Oh, messing us?

No, you.

You can't be serious.

This is so crazy.

I thought I knew you being together.

Wait.

Together? How?

Like you love me so much.

You want to kill me together?

I just want to know what this is.

Listen, I like you

and you sweet and it's been fun.

But I had a lot of stuff I gotta do.

Well, what's your grinning about?

My father

asked my mother to marry him six times.

Well, she said yes.

I mean, I'm not saying this.

I'm just.

He's stupid.

Yeah.

I'm just not.

What are you doing here, Mr. Gray?

He, He invited me.

He said that I might be interested in what he had to say.

I'm just as surprised as anybody.

Oh. This is Doctor Reuben.

He's uncle's memory. Doctor.

Lovely to meet you.

How you doing? Good.

He has a name. It's Roger. Roger.

Yeah.

Nice to meet you.

Uncle.

Hey. Hello, Mr.

gray, how are you?

Oh, every day I got a clear thought.

Testament to you,

Thanks for coming.

Yes, but I'm.

Hello.

Okay.

Thank you, everyone, for finding it in your hearts to be here again.

Now, last time we were together, my Uncle Petey.

Papa.

Mr. Ptolemy Gray wasn't feeling very well.

But now he's better.

And he wanted to say what he didn't get a chance to.

Now, I think we owe it not just to pity Papa, but to Reggie

to lend an ear to his favorite uncle.

Something Reggie himself loved.

Hey, y'all.

Great.

The only reason I'm standing here

is because my great grand nephew, Reggie Loy.

Amen.

Reggie

took care of me when nobody else could

stand stink in my house.

Or the stench from my body.

He was one of those great black men

that lived in our neighborhoods that looked out for old folks.

And sure.

He was a good man.

Stayed in place too long.

Have never been

that kind of man.

I was married to a woman

named Sentia Howard.

Folks said she was no good.

She run the streets.

She spent my money.

She ain't give a damn about nobody but herself.

She ain't care about me and nobody else.

Niecy, your mama told me I should leave her

because I deserved a woman better than that.

But your

mother wasn't at my house the night Dar's hands

came to my dough.

Hey. I'm sorry.

Doris was,

heartbroken young woman whose mama

had just died.

Her mother,

Cora Patterson, told her on her deathbed

that she was my child.

Cora had been my girl for a while,

but I left her. When?

Since you came into my life.

But I could see Doris was my.

But I ain't hug.

I ain't over my doll.

Say, come on in.

I said.

I'm sorry, but

your mother must have been mistaken.

And I closed the door

in her face.

As she went down the stairs,

she ran into Sentia.

And my bride could see me in her face.

She put her arms around

that blubbering girl and brought her back upstairs.

Since you loved her, well, I couldn't.

I just resented her.

An interruption in our lives.

And I showed it.

Doris hated me to her dying day.

She started two years old.

But I ain't go to a funeral because

I didn't even know she was dead for a few years.

But I don't call you out here to talk about my troubles.

But I tell you about Doris for reason.

It is a great injustice

that I stand here

while Reggie lay in the cold ground.

He was a good man who deserved a good life.

He deserved a loving wife and children.

He deserved the fate he got.

I owe Reggie my life.

And that is a deep debt that I intend to pay in full.

So I called you out here to bear witness

that, Ptolemy Roberts Gray

will do everything I can to make sure Origi's

bloodline has every chance

in the world.

Well, folk don't give a damn whether we live

or die.

If these children grow up to be

half the man they daddy was.

And everybody here being work.

Everybody here live.

Everybody here will

will live in a world that.

Everybody's life in.

In the world.

We will live in a world that will be,

better.

A better place to live in.

Thank you.

Let's see.

You're right.

No, but that's as it should be.

That girl

Dan's my daughter.

Dan's your daughter?

Doris.

In all that time,

you ain't never try to make things right with.

Now I want

no. What happened to her?

She died. She,

Committed suicide.

You hate me now.

You know better than to ask me that.

Well, I decided to get serious with me.

You start talking about Newton

for years, aren't you?

I do not want to hear that.

Tell him about your money.

What money?

Oh, so you made up your mind about that?

Can we please not talk about this right now?

Still got faith.

You gonna come around?

Again?

Honey.

Hey, mama. Hey.

I'll see if I can find you.

You got a dress on?

Nina.

Have a great.

What you doing out here by yourself?

Everybody in the back where the food's at.

Hey, I was just thinking.

I want to thank you for staying.

I hope I said a few things right.

More than a few.

Here you go.

How much you really love him?

I wouldn't on this one.

Far from.

He really loved you, too.

I hope you know that.

Too. Matter of fact.

He loved you so much.

Yeah.

When he found out another man had his eye on you,

he decided he was going to move you down to Texas.

I'm sorry,

but one of the last things he told.

What did you say?

What, you think I should have said?

I don't know.

No, I.

I went down and were ready to get married,

and I found the woman who sent.

What happened?

She said a man.

What did it was brown skinned with so spiky hair

and had a scar over his eye.

Did she hear a name?

I don't

see Reggie's truck parked out front here.

Drive yourself over here.

No. Oh, so you dropped off dead?

Yeah.

Family friend Alfred.

Went inside

to tell Alfred that Reggie was planning on moving you and kids.

Texas.

I didn't tell anybody about Reggie's plans for us.

With Alfred with you tonight.

Reggie was killed.

Good woman.

Mr. gray.

A mother.

Was Alfred with you when that bullet told.

Read this. I'm a good woman.

What was Alfred in prison for?

What?

Who told you that?

That ain't no ass.

What do you want me to say?

Did you tell him Reggie was trying to take you away? No.

What do you say? You got to stay.

What he tell you did you was his woman that you wasn't going?

No. Goddamn.

Where did you belong to him?

Did you? No.

What did you suspect?

I asked you, and what do you say?

You slapped me.

Knocked me down.

And that's the man you want to cling to.

Is 13 years old.

I just turned 30.

Be it Alfred Martin.

What am I supposed to say

to a man like that?

I loved Reggie, I did.

I do, but

but but Alfred is just. As.

I can't explain it.

Whatever

the truth is, I swear I didn't know.

So what am I supposed to do?

My Uncle Cordell used to say,

you got to let the river take its course.

What does that mean?

I don't know.

I used to ask him the same thing.

He said

we all in that river, boy.

And the river.

No way is going.

A Thanks for coming.

Now. You okay?

I liked what you had to say.

Speech.

Sounds like you've come to terms with some chosen life.

I don't know about that.

Well, at least it seems like you're ready to admit

that I was right.

You're a good man.

A good man.

Yeah, yeah, I am sitting here

holding your hand like we got a future.

And the doctor then told me my days is numbered.

You think an old woman like me

doesn't know that any day might be her last one?

Yeah.

It's really great.

I'll let you go talk to you.

Just.

I'll be back.

I don't think I've ever been to an event

where I was the only white guy there.

What you said in there

was, It's very moving.

It's painfully honest.

It did seem to drift there, though.

For a minute or two. You.

Yeah. I'm.

I'm coming to the end.

Tell me something.

Tell me.

Why did you invite me here?

Well, the old folks used to say you got to get a devil.

Is do.

And you are sacrificing my life.

Your sacrifice

will save millions of lives up the line telling me.

Will it?

I used to think I had to save

all the black folks in America

because of something a great man stole.

You change your mind? No.

I figured out, though, that

what he wanted me to do was to.

To empower the peoples

to pass on the blessing more and more

until everybody was left.

Lifted up.

Excuse me.

Excuse me.

Alfred. Gullah.

Fuck is wrong with you, old man?

I went to that place when my nephew was cut down.

I met a woman who say, a brown man,

spiky hair with a scar over his back.

You're rich.

I don't wear I ain't told nobody in the police.

You don't give a damn.

All right, so what you want do

I give you girlfriend some money?

You take a look at that.

Come on. By my place.

Maybe we can make a deal. What kind of deal?

I need to know Reggie's chew.

I don't have a good life.

Part of that means that you can't be in the kitchen.

Can't hear them babies being raised by a man who killed daddy.

Always. Mom.

That what she told you?

The best parts of that boy come from good in my neck.

You crazy old fool.

That may be,

but I'm willing to pay you good money.

Stay away from Nina in the jury.

How much money?

Bad times. What? I give her.

I'll make you think I'm gonna give up my woman for money.

Please.

You want the money?

I'll be at my part.

2:00 tomorrow.