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[electric buzzing]
[eerie whooshing]
[explosion banging] [glass crackling]
[gentle music]
- Don't let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God and trust also in me.
There's more than enough room in my Father's house.
If this was not so,
would I have told you that I am going
to prepare a place for you?
When everything is ready, I will come and get you
so that you will always be with me where I am.
And you know the way to where I am going.
And Jesus said, "I am the way the truth and the life.
"No one could come to the Father, except through Me.
"If you had really known Me,
"you would know who my Father is.
"From on you do know Him and have seen Him."
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life."
Understand this.
God is a God of order,
so when He puts something in His word in a particular order,
it means something.
It's in the order of importance.
See, a lot of us are trying to get to the truth
and to the life without going through the way.
Jesus said, "I am the way."
He didn't say he was a way, or a truth, or a life.
Like it's an option, or there's another choice.
Jesus said He is the way.
And He is the only way.
There's only one way to the truth.
There's only one way to life, and that's through Christ.
[gentle music]
My God, His word in my heart
like a fire that is shot up in my bones.
I cannot hold it in. I will not hold in it.
I will continue to speak the truth
of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The grace of God through Jesus Christ,
which saved my soul.
It is in Christ that I live, and I move, and have my being.
[gentle music]
- [Amelia] Here you go, baby.
- Oh, thank you, sweetheart.
- You know, you gave a wonderful Word up there this morning.
- Was it clear? - Crystal?
- Good.
- I just wish you would be a little more careful up there.
Your heart is-
- It's full.
It's full of the love of Jesus,
and it's full of the love of my life.
I love you.
- To the moon and back.
- Forever and ever.
- To infinity and beyond.
- Yes.
- I'm gonna let you get back to reading.
[gentle music]
[phone vibrating]
- Hey.
It's your good old dad.
[Dylan panting]
[phone vibrating]
We missed you at church today.
I was hoping to see you in the pews.
[phone vibrating]
Well, I guess there's next week.
Look, I know you are all busy, and have your own lives.
But I just want you to know that I love you
and I'm so proud of you.
And I miss you. [phone vibrating]
I just want you to always remember and keep in your heart
that I love you, but God loves you more.
[gunshot firing]
[gentle music]
Take care, my child.
[sighs]
- Abba Father,
I don't know what's going on right now, but You do.
[gentle music]
You're in those places that I don't know about.
And can't see.
You in control.
[gentle music]
I give all of my strength and my faith over to You, Lord.
Especially when it comes to my children.
Protect them.
Protect them from all hurt, harm, or danger
that might come their way.
[gentle music]
And speak to their hearts.
Let them know that You're with them wherever they go
and wherever they are.
Thank You, Lord, for Your grace and for Your mercy.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
Joseph!
I thought about us doing chicken for dinner tonight.
What you think about that?
Joseph!
Baby, didn't you...
Joseph.
Joseph!
Joseph.
Joseph, no!
Joe please!
Joseph no, please!
Honey, wake up.
Wake up, please.
Please!
Oh God, no!
No, Joseph, no!
God!
Oh my God, please, Joseph!
Wake up!
[sobbing]
Oh my God, no, Joseph!
[sobbing]
Oh!
My God.
- That was. - Everything we needed.
- I can't believe you made me miss church again.
- Don't worry, we'll make it next week.
- That's what you said last week.
- Well, you know what they say.
at first you don't succeed,
you try and try and try again and again and again.
- You're so silly.
I love you.
- I love you too.
[phone vibrating]
- Hey ma.
Wait, wait, wait, what?
Slow down.
What?
He what?
♪ What a friend we have in Jesus
♪ All our sins and griefs to bear
♪ What a privilege to carry
♪ Everything to God in prayer
♪ Oh, what peace we often forfeit
♪ And oh, what needless
♪ Pain we bear
♪ All
- Sorry I'm late, baby.
♪ We do not carry
♪ Everything to God
♪ Everything
♪ To God in
♪ Prayer
[gentle music]
- [Andrew] What the hell are you doing?
Why'd you change your shirt?
[door squeaking]
- Yeah.
I'll handle it later.
Bye.
What's up, baby?
- Don't, "Hey baby," me.
You couldn't be on time for once?
- Baby, I'm sorry.
- Sorry?
All you do is give me excuses.
- I swear, I'm trying, baby.
- Don't try! Do.
- Dyanna, could you please left the man for once?
He's a doctor, damn.
- This is ain't none of your damn business.
- This my mom house.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait! - I am the oldest,
so I know what- - Whoa!
- It don't matter who the oldest.
- Wait! - Bro, that's your wife.
Man, you let her talk to you like that?
- It's okay. - Mind your damn business!
- Stop! - Fix the handle
on your wife. - Stay over there!
- Hey! - Stay over there!
- Stop it.
- [Andrew] Man, what's going on with you?
I mean, your face.
[siblings arguing]
- You could have at least taken a shower, man.
- Shut up, Dylan, okay! I bathe.
- In what? Alcohol?
You just can't get right, can you?
- I bet you can get these hands if you don't stop talking.
- Stop! - Why are you trying-
- That's if you can get to me.
Drunkie! - First of all,
who are you calling names?
And who do you think you are sitting up here
talking to me like that?
- All you do is drink all day every day!
[siblings yelling]
You're the one drinking!
- And what does that mean?
I don't know who you think you are.
I don't care!
What does that mean?
What does that have to do with you?
- You're my sister!
- And so what?
So, I'm older than you!
So what? - What are you doing!
- [Shelita] Don't lie about me!
[yelling and arguing]
- Quiet!
Be quiet!
- Mama. - Mama, do you need anything?
- The only thing I need for y'all to do
is to get out of my house.
Now! - But mama!
- We just wanna be here for you.
- Oh!
Now you wanna be here?
Now you got time?
And you can just dry those tears up over there,
because none of that even matters anymore.
- But we just lost dad.
- Oh.
Now you care.
Now you wanna shed tears.
The way y'all have been acting,
you would've thought you lost your father a long time ago.
- Hey ma, it's just-
- I don't wanna hear it.
Your father.
He called each one of you every single Sunday,
but either you were ignoring his calls,
or you were just too busy to answer the phone.
You should have cherished him!
He loved you with all his heart.
- Mama, we loved daddy too.
- Really?
You got a funny way of showing it.
Actions speak louder than words.
And the way you've been acting?
You told me you didn't give a about him or me.
- Come on, mom, we just wanna be here-
- I don't want you here.
Get out!
Just get out of my house.
- But mama, we- - Get out!
Get out! Get out!
Get out!
[sobbing] [gentle music]
Get out!
[sobbing]
- And it was at noon on that Good Friday
that darkness fell across the land until three o'clock.
And Jesus called out with a loud voice.
- Yeah. - "My God, my God,
"why have you forsaken me?"
Then Jesus shouted out again, and He released His spirit.
At that moment, the curtains in the sanctuary of the temple
were torn into two from top to bottom.
The earth shook, rocks split apart. and tombs were opened.
The body of many godly men and women
were risen from the dead.
The Roman officers and other soldiers at the crucifixion
were terrified by the earthquakes and all that had happened.
And they said, "This man named Jesus
"is truly the son of God."
I want to speak to you on the subject today of good news
even on a dark day, like Good Friday.
- Free at last, free at last.
Thank God almighty, we are finally free at last.
- Surprised to hear someone like you
actually reciting Dr. King.
- Well, why not? He was for all people.
- All people certainly wasn't for him.
- Come on, man. Stop being such a wet blanket.
After six long months of IA
looking into every nook and cranny,
those bastards are finally off our asses.
The investigation's over.
- There wouldn't have been an investigation if you-
- If I would have what?
That boy was pulling a weapon from his pocket,
and I had a clean shot.
- Well you am lucky that man that you shot
wasn't killed by your hands,
or you sure wouldn't have been so lucky.
- Well, then I guess it's a good thing
that my partner had my back.
Thanks bro.
- Yeah, whatever man. I'm going on break.
- Hey, give Whitney my regards!
- Whatever, man.
[papers rustling]
[door knocking]
- Hey, I can't believe he got you down here
working on a good Friday.
- Well, somebody's gotta keep the lights on.
- I hear you, I hear you.
Speaking of keeping the lights on,
you barely are down at the church.
I was just down there for good Friday service.
It's a holiday.
People are out of work, kids are out of school,
and I could count on my hands
how many people were in those pews.
- Look, we are an unprecedented times.
We've never seen anything like this before.
People are working two or three jobs
just to keep food on the table.
Look, I'm supposed to be off
and I'm here pounding the pavement.
Come on, Dyanna, let's be real.
The church has not been the same
since your father passed away six months ago.
Membership is declining.
The less people walking through those doors,
the less money we bring in,
and these bills are gonna continue to pile up.
- I know.
I know.
- Look, when your father hired me
as the church's financial adviser,
before his unfortunate passing,
I vowed to never let these doors close.
But now he's gone.
I don't think there's any more I can do.
- What are you saying, Malcolm?
- I think it's time you consider what we talked about.
- You mean selling the church?
- Yes.
- Look, I already have a buyer who's interested.
The deacon and the trustees are on board.
All we need is for you and your mother sign off on it,
being that you are the beneficiaries of the building.
- I don't know.
- Listen, I know this is a lot.
But I wanna do everything I can to take the burden
off of you and your family.
I wanna do that.
This has been a rough few months for you,
and especially your mother.
Whatever I can do to help,
I just want you to let me do that.
- No.
No.
We can't.
- I know.
I know.
Sorry.
I just...
I just miss you, Dyanna.
I miss touching you.
I miss holding you.
I miss making love to you.
- My mother will be home from our cruise later tonight.
I'll talk to her about selling the church then.
- Okay.
- Trust me, Dyanna, this is for the best.
- I hope so, Malcolm.
[tense music]
[gun clicking]
[badge clicking]
- Hey baby.
- What's up, sweetheart?
- I didn't expect you home so soon.
- I need a break.
- I see you.
- Your brother sends his regards.
- That Nathan.
If it wasn't for our father, I swear!
But anyway.
How's the internal affairs investigation going?
- Great. It's over.
- They determined it was a clean shot.
Couldn't find any evidence to suggest otherwise.
- Your brother's in the clear.
- That is great news.
- That's not great.
Baby, I lied.
I didn't see that man
about the pull a weapon from his pocket,
and I certainly didn't get to the scene
until after the gunshots.
Sat in front of the investigators and I lied.
- Well, it was for the greater good
- Who's greater good?
Whitney, what would have happened
if that man Nathan shot would have died?
What would I have done there?
- Well, you would have done what you always do.
You would have done whatever it took
to protect yourself, your partner, and your family.
And when I mean family, I'm talking about me
and your brothers and sisters in arms.
Look, baby, you did the right thing.
Remember, when you put on that badge,
everyone is one color, and that color is blue.
You took an oath to protect
your brothers and sisters in blue, no matter what.
Now, what can I fix you for lunch?
Ham sandwich?
- Make it turkey.
I'm trying to lay off the pig.
- Okay. Turkey sandwich it is.
[phone vibrating]
[dramatic music]
- Get up.
- Leave me alone.
- I would,
but the funk coming from this booze
is infiltrating the hallway.
- What do you want?
- I want you to get yourself together.
And mom's coming home today,
I don't want her seeing you like this.
- Well, if y'all don't want to see it,
then don't look, okay?
Just close your eyes.
- Trust me, sis, I wish it were that easy.
- Whatever, what, what?
- This is what you plan on doing for the rest of your life?
Just drinking your life away?
- Well, we all can't be centered and zen like you.
- Well, drowning yourself in white liquor, brown liquor,
or any other color of the rainbow
is not gonna help your pain and sorrow.
Listen, why don't you come meditate with me?
Yeah. - No, no, no, no, okay?
That's not for me.
I'm not into all that hocus-pocus,
shamalama boom-boom that you do.
Okay, I'm fine.
- Fine, okay.
Well, if you call being kicked out of your apartment,
being forced to move back home
'cause you can't pay your bills,
'cause you don't wanna work being fine,
then I guess we're all fabulous.
- Well, pot me, kettle.
- What?
- Negro, I don't see you moving
into no deluxe apartment in the sky.
You living right back here just like me
because you're too lazy to go get a real job.
Mr. I'm finding myself and my purpose in life.
- Finding true purpose in life
is worth more than monetary riches.
- Okay, save that for your Magic 8-Ball and fortune cookies.
- Listen, just do whatever it is you need to do
to get yourself together, okay?
Dyanna called and said we're having a family meeting
before mama's home from the cruise.
- Great.
As if my life couldn't get any better.
- [Elijah] Get up, Shelita!
- Shut up, Elijah!
[dramatic music]
[Dylan panting]
- Dear Mr. Wright, we regret to inform you
that the scholarship that you applied for
is no longer available.
[paper crumpling]
Damn!
[phone vibrating]
All right.
[door knocking]
[door squeaking]
- What's up?
- Hey, you got any more of those cliff notes?
- No I don't.
- What if I up the score?
- You're just in luck.
Just happen to find some.
- Awesome, yes.
Thanks.
[dramatic music]
[salt shaking]
- Shelita, isn't that like your 10th glass?
- Dyanna, isn't that my business you're minding?
- Okay. Do whatever you want.
- I don't need your permission to do that.
I'm gonna do it anyway. - Listen.
Okay, whatever, can you just come here and taste this?
- Pass.
- [Dyanna] Why?
- Dyanna, everybody knows you can't cook.
I don't know why you don't know you can't cook.
- Girl, you are tripping.
My man likes my cooking.
- Did he tell you that?
- You know what? Don't do that.
- [Shelita] Did you hear him say that?
Did you hear him say that?
- No, because-
- [Shelita] I feel like you don't-
- [Elijah] Oh, what a very warm evening.
- What's going on, Elijah?
- I was meditating,
and this awful smell took over my room.
I thought it was Shelita at first,
but it's something much worse.
What the hell is that? What are you cooking?
Skunk?
- Shut up.
Just come and taste it.
- Oh no! - It's good, I'm telling you.
- I have to make it to my next Boeing Day.
And besides, I have to keep this body pure and clean.
And what is in that pot looks foul and vulgar.
[Shelita laughing] - You know what?
I wish you two would shut up.
- Well, we wish that you would get a clue
and stop trying to poison us with your food.
But I guess all wishes can't come true.
- You know what?
You guys just need to open up your mind.
There is more to eat than fried chicken and greens.
- Okay. [babbling]
- Shelita. - Don't.
[door squeaking]
- Yo T, I'm telling you, you just mad.
- It's all the rave right now in LA.
- [Rico] All I'm saying is,
You need to get your game up, all right?
- Hey brother, listen.
I took it easy on you this time.
Next time it ain't gonna be the same, all right?
Trust.
What's up, baby?
- Oh, you smell like outside.
- I smell a whole lot better than what's going on in here.
What is that?
- Dinner!
It's tofu stew.
Why are you guys so ghetto?
Gosh, here baby, tastes this.
[phone vibrating] - Saved by the phone!
Thank God.
Listen, I mean, I gotta take this.
[phone vibrating]
- I thought she was gonna get him to taste it.
- [Taylor] Hello.
- What's up, party people!
- Hey baby bro. - Hey Dylan.
- What in the hell is that-
- Don't you even say it!
- Oh baby, I gotta go to the hospital.
- Are you kidding me?
I need you here so I can talk to the whole family.
- I know.
But listen, listen.
The hospital is short-staffed,
and two doctors called out.
They need me down there.
Remember, we talked about this.
- I know, and I said I would be more understanding.
- Thank you.
- I'll see you when you get home.
- What's up people?
- What's up, bro?
- Well, well, well.
If it isn't Detective Sellout.
- Yeah, how about you remember that next time
I need to bail your little ass out.
- You won't have to because I'd probably be dead
by the hands of one of them dirty pigs,
like your trigger-happy partner.
- Okay, that's enough.
So where's your girlfriend?
Becky, or Karen, or Susan, or-
- Whitney. - Close enough.
- She's at home.
Thought it would be best if she didn't come
to this particular family occasion
- Smart. - Was a good idea.
- Damn.
So first you become a pig,
and then you start sleeping with them?
Such a damn sellout.
[yelling]
- Chill, all right? Just relax.
You know he a idiot and he ignorant, and he can't help it.
He's a little big-headed, so?
But look, hey, out of curiosity, right?
What's it like being with a white woman?
They really as freaky as every said?
Like y'all be doing a little chains and masks and stuff?
- Okay, you know!
- Can I borrow it afterwards?
- The reason I invited you guys over here,
well, most of you, was because I was thinking.
It's been a long time since we had a family dinner,
and we all sat down and ate together.
It's Easter weekend,
so I was thinking we should do Easter dinner.
It was dad's favorite holiday.
His favorite day, besides the day I was born, of course.
- Girl. Keep telling yourself that.
- Don't be a hater.
- Anyway. - This is not hating
- I think it's a good idea.
- Okay.
- Yeah, I'm with it.
- Yeah? - Yeah, I'm down too.
- Okay, I guess.
- Yo, well, y'all can definitely count me in, all right?
I'ma definitely be there,
even though I don't always get the family invite.
- Okay, so the other reason I wanted to talk to you guys
was I need your help
convincing mom to sell the church.
- What? - Wait a minute,
are you serious?
- We can barely keep the doors open down at the church.
The bills just keep piling up,
and nobody is coming to the church anymore.
Ever since dad died, the membership is steadily declining.
This past Good Friday service should be evidence enough
that the doors need to be closed.
It's our biggest debt.
Mama doesn't need that stress right now.
- Hell, you thought mom was mad on pop's funeral?
Just imagine how mad she's gonna be
when you bring this to her.
- Look, this is what's best for mama and for our family.
- Dyanna, who put you up to this?
- Nobody.
- Was it Malcolm?
- Well, he did say that he thought it was a good idea
and what was best for our family.
- What's best for the family or what's best for him?
- I knew dad shouldn't let that man to church.
He's a snake.
- No, he's not.
You don't even know him.
- Yes he is.
Come on Dyanna.
Do you really wanna sell the church?
Think about the sacrifices dad made
to keep the church going.
All the hard work he put in
to keep those four walls up.
This is our father's legacy we're talking about here.
It's our father's church, our church.
- Elijah, when's the last time
you stepped foot in our church?
Or any church for that matter?
I mean, since you've been
on your new journey to enlightenment.
You've forsaken the church,
you turned your back on the church,
so I'm surprised you even care what happens to it.
- No.
The question is why don't you care?
- Listen. - I'm home!
- Mom's home! - Hey ma.
- Hey baby, how you doing?
Good to see you, good to see, hey!
Oh, look at you, look at you.
- Hey mama! - Hey beautiful!
- Oh my gosh. - Oh, it's good to see you.
- You look so good! - Thank you, thank you.
- Hey mama.
- Hey son, good to see you.
- Hey baby girl.
- Hey mama. - How're you doing, love?
- I'm all right.
- Hey auntie.
- Hey sweetheart!
What you doing over here?
You much be hungry for something to eat.
- Yeah, but not what's in this kitchen.
- Shut up!
- What's up, man? Here you go.
Appreciate you.
- What is this?
- It's your tip.
It's the least I can do for getting my mom home safe
and bringing her bags in.
I got you.
- Thanks, but this is not necessary.
- He's not the driver.
- Then what's he still doing here?
- Come here, baby.
- Baby? - Did she just say baby?
- Mama, who is this?
- This is Raheem DeVoe.
My new husband.
- Husband?
- Wait, y'all for real right now?
Yo, this is some pure comedy gold right here!
- I'm sorry, did you say husband?
- Husband.
- Can I get my tip back then?
- Oh, I thought it was a gift.
[tense music]
- Oh hell no.
[tense music]
- [Raheem] Don't look so mean.
- Wow.
Very nice house.
Just like Amelia described it on the ship.
- Right.
My daddy thought so too when he bought it.
And we'd certainly like to keep it that way.
- So, let me get this straight.
You are legally married?
- Yes.
- Okay, like jumped the broom, said, "I do,"
walked down the aisle.
♪ Da, da, ta, da
Married?
- Yeah, we didn't walk down any aisle per se, but yes.
I'm really married.
- Okay, but what about daddy?
He's only been dead for like six months.
- Look, I know it seems like not a lot of time has passed,
but I have to move on with my life.
I have to be happy.
Your father would have wanted that for me.
For all of us.
- But mama, let's keep it real.
That man is half your age.
- I beg your pardon.
- Look, Raheem and I are practically the same age.
- Child, he ain't even that old.
- Oh.
[Shelita laughing]
Well.
- Yes. [laughing]
- Yo, how did you meet our mother?
- Well, I met her while we were zip lining on the island.
- Zip lining?
When my mama started doing that?
- Well, it was her first time,
and I knew she wanted to really do it,
but she was a bit nervous,
so I volunteered to go down to line with her.
And honestly that was the first time
I fell in love with her.
- [Men] Hmm-mmm.
- After we went zip lining, we talked,
and we found out we had a lot of things in common.
Then later that evening
he asked me to go out to eat with him.
So we talked and talked,
and talked the whole night through.
We watched the sunrise together.
- Hold on.
Now is that all you did?
- Okay.
Honey, a lady never kisses and tells.
- Oh, well, excuse me.
- That's right.
- You know, I cannot clink glasses on that.
Mama, the day of daddy's funeral,
you were really upset with us.
And in hindsight, we all understand why.
We didn't take advantage of the time we had here with dad.
We didn't cherish him.
We didn't protect him.
And mama, we don't wanna make the same mistake with you.
We wanna protect you.
And you marrying some stranger is just-
- He's not a stranger.
He's my husband.
Listen, I did not go on this cruise
with the intention of falling in love and getting married.
But I did.
And I'm glad.
Raheem is a wonderful man,
and I just hope that you and your brothers
will take the time to get to know him.
- Yo, so what's your intentions with my auntie, Wakanda.
- Well, I want to love her,
take care of her and be there for her.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bro, what's your end game in this?
- What do you mean?
- I mean, let's get real you almost 30 years old, right?
What could you possibly want with almost 60 year old woman?
Right, what's wrong with you?
What do you need, an oatmeal cookie recipe
or something from her?
- What? - Oh, let me guess,
your mama didn't love you when you was a kid or something?
- Keep it real, player.
You after my mama money.
And guess what? You ain't getting shit.
So you can take your money-grubbing ass
out of here and not our lives.
- Just finished it.
- Listen, mama, I need to talk to you about something else,
and it's really important.
- Listen, I love your mother,
and I want to be with her,
but I am not going to stand here
and be disrespected like this.
- You know what?
There's a time peace and tranquility,
and there's also a time for you to get these hands.
And right now it seems like that time.
- Yeah, so you better buckle up, methy-man.
- Yeah.
- 'Cause you about to catch a fade, bro.
- So, I'm talking about-
- In the world?
[men arguing]
Stop it, stop it, stop it right now!
Somebody tell me what in the world is going on in here!
And what's got y'all screaming like a bunch of banshees?
- We're just trying to get to know this clown.
- He's not a clown.
He's my husband, and you will put some respect on his name!
Do y'all understand that?
Oh.
I'm still mama, and I will put each and every one of you
across my knee and whoop the stew out of you.
Now do you understand?
- [Kids] Yes ma'am.
- Don't expect me to call him dad.
- Oh, you don't have to worry about that.
That's my job.
- Oh!
- You know what, man? - I'm listening.
- All of this is getting a little too wild for me.
I gotta go.
- Wait, Dylan, wait!
I still need to talk to you!
- [Dylan] I'll catch you all on the flip side, bro.
- Yeah, I'm going to go before I say
or do something I'm gonna regret.
- Andrew. - Love you, mama.
- Love you too, Sweetie. - Hold up Andrew, just-
- I'm out. - Just give me a minute!
- I need to go meditate.
- Elijah, wait, hold on.
- Okay, Shelita?
- Yeah, I need to go not meditate.
- Really guys?
- Well.
If this is what a good family
gathering looks like on Good Friday,
I can't wait to see what happens on Easter Sunday.
Well, guess that's my time.
Guess I'll be heading out too.
Oh, so you're not gonna whine about me leaving, beak-head?
- Boy, get out!
- You should've thought about
before you made that shit stew!
[banging] [yelling]
- Rico!
Your language!
- [Rico] Sorry auntie.
- Come on Raheem, let's get our bags to the room.
- Yes, my love.
- Wait mama, I need to talk to you.
- Let's do it in the morning, sweetheart, okay?
- But mama, it's really important.
- I love you, I love you, I love you.
Come on, Raheem.
- Wait, so nobody's gonna eat my tofu stew?
You're gonna let all the good food go to waste?
[dramatic music]
- [Malcolm] So how did everything go with your mother?
- It didn't.
She surprised us with a brand new husband.
- What?
- Yeah.
It's a long story.
- So I guess you didn't get a chance to talk to her
about selling the church.
- No, I didn't get a chance to, but don't worry.
I'll handle it. I always do.
- I know you will.
You need to come over here and handle me.
- Goodnight, Malcolm.
- Good night, sweetheart.
[phone vibrating]
[gentle music]
[pills clicking]
- Have you told your children the news yet?
- No, I haven't.
Trust me.
If they couldn't handle me getting married to you,
they definitely won't handle the next part too well.
- But you have to tell them.
- I know.
I know.
[phone vibrating]
- Oh, excuse me.
I have to take this phone call.
[phone vibrating]
[Amelia sighing]
- Hello.
Yes, I'm here.
Well, of course.
Everything is going according to plan.
[tense music]
Okay.
- Raheem DeVoe.
D-E-V-O-E.
Yeah.
Yeah man, do me a solid.
I need you to figure out
what you can find out on this man.
Yeah.
All right, later.
- [Reporter] Authorities say they closed
the shooting investigation into detective Nathan Tomlin.
The charges against him and the shooting
of 19 year old Jabari Morris have been dismissed.
Investigators say it was a clean shoot.
This comes after an incident
involving another African-American man.
- See?
It worked out in our favor.
It always does.
[lighthearted music]
♪ Nobody
- Yo, what's up, Dylan?
- Yo, what's up, bro?
- You got that?
- Got them cliff notes.
You good? - Oh yeah.
Appreciate it. - Sure.
♪ Shag boy, easy
♪ Nowadays I should be more than my feelings
♪ Today on U-3
♪ I remember crying out for help, nobody would give it
♪ Talking till I'm purple, nobody would listen
♪ Bad day, I should be minding my business
♪ When I come out, they gon' claim that they were with me
♪ That's their shit baby, I don't care, who sent you
♪ I do it for the family
♪ Their words in me
♪ I turn it to my band when I had all my feelings
♪ I bounce back from the losses, nine nigger women
♪ They say the good guy on
♪ Shout out to my honey, who
♪ You could hear moaning when they're through
♪ Call me some kitty, she gone
♪ I'ma keep going, keep going
♪ Speed it up
♪ You're moving too slow, you need to pick it up
♪ Fast lane, girl gain, you know the name
♪ Chasing at the money, there's my kind of fame
♪ You may as well be hating
♪ Like there's something to do
♪ Get into the money, man, that's something to do
♪ But it's not new, and I count in all blue
♪ All honeys too
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah
♪ I'm crying out for help, nobody would give it
♪ Talking till I'm purple, nobody would listen
♪ Bad day, I should be minding my business
♪ When I come up, they gon' claim that they were with me
♪ That their shit then, I won't pay attention
♪ I do it for the family, yeah words take a million
♪ I turn it to my band when I had all my feelings
♪ I bounce back from the losses, nine nigger women
[upbeat music]
[phone vibrating]
- So your mama went on a cruise,
and then came back with a young tenderoni?
- Apparently so.
- All right, mama Wright,
still getting her groove back!
- Yuck, I do not wanna think about mama
grooving on nothing, okay?
- Let her have her fun.
[groaning]
And speaking of fun,
what's going on between you and your boo?
- Well, he didn't come home again last night, so.
- Oh, so he's stepping out on you.
- Girl, no.
He's just obviously working down at the hospital like crazy.
- You know that's a cover story.
- Tasha.
- What?
There are plenty of people who will do
whatever they have to do to get whatever they want,
no matter who they have to hurt.
- I guess, but I don't think that's what-
- Hey baby.
- Tasha. - Taylor.
- Oh, you know what?
That's my cue to go.
I'll talk to you later, girl.
- Bye.
- Baby, listen, I am so sorry I didn't call you last night.
Look, I just got really swamped down at the hospital
and things got a little hectic.
You know how it is?
- Taylor, we need to talk.
- Baby, I wanna listen to everything you have to say,
but I am tired and I need to take a shower,
and I need to get some rest.
And I'm pretty sure-
- All right, yeah, whatever.
[tense music]
[phone vibrating]
- Detective Wright.
Damn that was quick. What you got?
[tense music]
[fridge clicking]
- Thank you Raheem for fixing us that wonderful breakfast.
- Well it's the least I could do, darling.
- Yo, I'm telling you, this?
You definitely put your eyelids in this.
It was good, man.
I may have been wrong about you, you know?
- Well, I'm glad to have your approval, nephew.
- Nephew?
Hey hold up, chill it on that nephew stuff, all right?
The jury's still out on with you, OJ Simpson.
- Oh. Good heavens.
Elijah, can I whip you up something very quickly?
It won't take me long.
- No. I'm fine with my smoothie,
made with seaweed, sea moss, and Shataki mushrooms.
- Definitely got the shit part right.
- Rico! - Auntie!
- Sorry. - Your language.
- Sorry.
All right y'all, I gotta get outta here.
So I catch all that and lunchtime.
Raul, Rockem, Ron-digger, thank you for the food, man.
- It's Raheem!
- Sure it is.
Raheem.
[laughing]
- All right.
- Bye, baby.
- Bye. [phone vibrating]
[door knocking]
- I got it.
- Happy resurrection Sunday Eve.
- Hello, Deacon.
- Young Elijah, it's been a minute
since you been down there to church.
Where you been?
- In my skin.
Mama, Deadon Ashford's here.
- Good morning, Deacon.
- Morning Lady Wright.
- You mean Lady DeVoe.
- Excuse me?
- Raheem, this is Deacon Ashford.
He's the chairman of the deacons board down at the church.
Deacon, this is Raheem DeVoe, my husband.
- Husband?
My God.
- Well, obviously you two have a lot to talk about.
I will return to the kitchen and finish cleaning.
Nice to meet you, Deacon.
- Husband.
Husband!
Amelia, what the hell is going on here?
- Listen, my personal life has nothing to do
with the affairs that are going on down at the church,
which is what I assume you're here to discuss.
- Yes.
I assume your daughter Dyanna has had a chance
to discuss this with you.
- A dissolution of ownership?
You're trying to sell the church?
My late husband's church?
- Amelia, you and I both know Joseph was deep in debt
way before he passed away.
It costs more to keep the doors open
for very little members who do decide to come to church.
We actually have someone who wants to pay the property
and take away the debt.
Just think how much this would be an unburned for all of us.
- I know.
I know.
- Besides by the looks of things,
you moved on with your life.
So why would you even care about selling the church or not?
- What? - Shelita.
- Shelita, I-
- Y'all really trying to do this?
Y'all really trying to get rid of my daddy's church?
Great.
First my daddy is taken away from me, and then my baby,
and now you wanna sell- - Baby?
- My daddy's church?
How many more lives are you trying to ruin, huh?
- Shelita, wait!
Deacon- - Go, go, go, go.
Just go. Do what you need to do.
I'll be praying for you.
- Oh, thank you.
Shelita!
[dramatic music]
Shelita!
Shelita, unlock this door!
Open up this door!
Shelita, come on, please! We gotta talk!
Shelita!
- Oh, you're still here.
I thought you'd be at your mom's house
talking about the church,
and don't you have an Easter dinner to prepare for?
I don't think nobody want tofu ham.
[laughing]
- I don't know why you laughing,
'cause there's not a damn thing funny, Taylor.
- Dyanna, relax.
- No, you're doing it again.
- Doing what?
- Taking me in this marriage for granted.
I don't know why you didn't accept the job
at that special league hospital.
Then we would have more money,
and you would not be spending all this time
at the community hospital.
- Dyanna, you know I'm not in it for the money.
I took up medicine to help the people,
and the people down there need me.
- I need you here in this marriage.
Taylor, I can't do this by myself.
- Dyanna. - No, are you cheating on me?
Are you sleeping with somebody else?
Taylor, I swear to God! - Dyanna, Dyanna, listen.
Listen, I am not cheating on you.
I never have and I never will.
Okay?
Listen, you're the only one I wanna be with.
You're the only one for me.
Come on, I love you.
- I love you too,
but I don't want to go back to that place
where we were six months ago.
- Listen, I understand that.
We was in a dark place, but we made it out.
We saw the light. We made it to the other side.
- Well, if we want to stay on this side,
we have to work out our marriage.
- I promise I'ma do better.
- [Dyanna] Pinky promise?
- [Taylor] Pinky promise.
- Listen, I got to get down to my mom's, so-
- Come on, baby!
You know you can't get me revved up like that
and not let me drive!
- Listen, I will put you in overdrive later tonight.
I promise.
- I'ma hold you to that.
- Okay, love you. - All right, love you too.
[gentle music]
[door knocking]
- What's up?
- Yo man, I brought my boy with me.
- [Dylan] That's cool.
- Hey, you got anything new?
You know what? I got y'all.
This new stuff right here is gonna put you all in the game!
- Dylan Wright, you are under arrest.
[dramatic music]
- Is everything okay, sweetheart?
- It's Shelita.
She won't come out of her room.
- I'm sure she'll come out very soon.
- I'm just so worried about her.
- Don't let anybody or anything worry you.
Have you taken your medication?
- No I did not.
But I will.
Thank you for taking such good care of me.
- No need to think me, it's my job.
- Get off my mom!
- Andrew, what in the world?
- Your ass is mine, brother.
- Watch your language.
- What is going on?
- Don't try to play innocent mess with me, man.
Mom, this man is not a US citizen.
He only married you to stay in the country.
- Yeah, and?
- What do you mean, "Yeah, and?"
- Listen, I already knew all of this, Andrew.
Besides, it was it was my suggestion
that we get married in the first place.
- But ma, he took advantage of you.
- Ain't nobody took advantage of me.
I'm in my right mind now,
just like I was in my right mind then
when I propose to him.
- Ma, what you mean? Proposed to him?
- Yes.
We women do those sort of things now.
- Mom, what about your money?
What's gonna happen when you?
- What about my money?
It's all taken care of.
You don't have to concern yourself with anything.
- Andrew.
I don't want your mother's money.
Matter of fact, I was insistent
on her not putting me on her will,
or anything dealing with money.
I don't want your family's money.
I can hold my own weight.
And now since I have enough time to be here,
that's exactly what I plan on doing.
- Look, Andrew, let me have this moment of happiness.
Helping Raheem to be able
to stay in the States longer makes me happy.
Please just let me have it.
[phone vibrating]
- Detective Wright.
He what?
Dammit!
- What did I tell him about cussing in my house?
- Just keep him right there please, don't do anything.
I'm on my way.
- What's going on?
- Mom, is Dylan.
He's been arrested.
- Oh my God.
I got it.
- No, no, mom just let me take care of it.
I got this.
I'm gonna call you later.
- No, you're gonna call me as soon as you hear something.
- Yes ma'am.
- Andrew! - Later!
- Okay.
Hey ma. - Hey sweetie.
- Raheem.
- Hey, Dyanna.
- Mom, we need to talk.
- I'm going to go to the bedroom.
- Okay.
Come on, sweetheart.
Let's sit.
- So I guess you were here to discuss selling the church.
- Wait ma, how did you know?
- Haven't you heard?
Mama knows everything.
Besides, Deacon Ashford was over here earlier.
He sort of blew up your spot.
- I'm sorry. I wanted to be the one to tell you.
- No need to apologize.
You really think we should sell the church?
- Well, it seems like the most logical thing we can do
to get out of all of this debt.
- Well,
have you discussed any of this with your siblings?
- Yeah.
They all seemed indifferent.
Everybody except for Elijah, which was surprising
because that boy hasn't been to church for so long,
his suits have cobwebs on 'em.
- Well, apparently Shelita has some expressed hurt as well.
Do you know what's going on with her?
- What isn't going with that girl?
- She said something about losing a baby.
- Mama.
Shelita is drunk the majority of the time.
She has no idea what's going on.
She's probably just making stuff up.
She really needs help.
- I see.
I see.
- So,
are we doing this?
Are we selling the church?
- We all can go on with being happy.
[pen scribbling]
[paper rustling]
[papers banging]
- You're doing the right thing, mom.
I'm gonna get these over to Malcolm right away, okay?
- Okay.
- Oh!
And when are we gonna get together
and discuss this dinner you're supposed to be preparing?
- Wait, mama, how did you know about that?
- Your cousin Rico blew up your spot on that one.
- Oh, he gets on my nerve.
Soon as I handle this, we can take care of that.
- Okay. - All right.
Love you, mama.
- I love you too, sweetie.
[dramatic music]
[phone vibrating]
[dramatic music]
[phone banging]
[pills clicking]
- Mom.
- Oh come on, baby.
Come to mama.
Oh, baby, it's gonna be okay.
Whatever you need, it's gonna be all right.
- No it's not.
Nothing is ever gonna be the same again.
- Oh baby, life is about change.
And change is inevitable.
Baby, I know you're sad about losing the church.
- Mama!
It's not about the church!
It's about what happened to me at that church!
- Shelita, what are you-
- I was raped!
- Who raped you?
Who raped you?
- Deacon Ashford.
- [Amelia] Oh my God.
Oh my God.
- It was one night
I'd stayed late to practice my solo.
[Shelita singing jibberish]
- Hey pretty lady.
- Hello, Deacon.
- What is a pretty little thing like you
doing here all by yourself?
- Actually, I'm here to practice my solo.
So if you'll excuse me, I really have to go.
- Why you gotta be so damn rude?
Ain't your parents teach you some damn manners?
- Okay, I need you to watch out.
- [Deacon] I need you.
- Wait, stop, stop, no!
[door banging]
And he did it over and over, mom.
- My Lord, my Lord.
And then a few weeks before daddy passed,
I found out I was pregnant.
And he made me have an abortion, mama.
- [Amelia] Oh my God.
- And I'm so sorry!
I'm sorry!
- No baby, no, no, no.
There's no reason to be sorry, I'm sorry!
I'm sorry that I wasn't here!
I sorry that I wasn't able to make you feel
like you could come to me!
I'm so sorry baby!
I don't care what I have to do,
we're gonna get vengeance.
We're gonna get you passed this.
Oh my God!
[sobbing]
I don't care what he is.
I don't care what we have to do.
We're gonna make this okay.
We're gonna get through this.
[sobbing]
[dramatic music]
- What's that about you not needing me
to bail your little ass out?
Bet you glad I'm here now, ain't you?
- There's nothing funny, you know.
- Dylan, you damn right ain't nothing funny.
Man, you was arrested for selling drugs on school campus.
They got all these charges on you, and you're black, bro.
Who knows what else the damn DA is gonna throw at you?
What was you thinking?
- You don't care.
- Dylan, if I didn't care, I wouldn't have asked.
I'd let you ass rot in that cell.
Now again man, what was you thinking?
- I lost all my scholarship money.
- What?
How?
- Just
being at school.
All the work.
It just started to be too much.
And after losing dad, I couldn't handle all the pressure.
And it just got more overwhelming,
and I stopped going to class.
And you got to keep a certain GPA
to keep the scholarship money.
And after that slip, the money ran out.
So I met this dude was connected to this other dude, and
I started selling pills
to these rich ass kids.
But that money, that was my tuition.
- why didn't you say anything, man?
- Like I said, you don't care.
- Dylan, you're my little brother, man.
I do care.
We all care.
- Man, y'all are so wrapped up in your own lives.
No one ever asked me how school was going,
or how I was feeling.
Especially after dad died.
Man, no one cares what I feel and what I go through.
You never have.
- What about mama?
- There's no way in hell I was gonna go to mama.
Just imagine mama looking at me with disappointment,
or just looking at me like a failure.
Kind of like the way you're looking at me right now.
- Am I disappointed in you? Yes.
You wasn't raised like this, man.
But do I see you as a failure?
Absolutely not.
Dylan, man.
You're my little brother and I love you.
I'm always gonna to be here
to protect you and look after you.
I'm your older brother and I'm sorry
you didn't feel like you can come to me
when things got hard.
That's my bad, but I need you to know
you can come to me with anything, all right?
- All right.
- Now you just sit tight.
Going to get you out of here.
- How?
Don't you have a code to uphold
with your brothers in blue?
- Man,
the only brother I'm concerned about
is sitting right here in front of me.
Now you relax.
I'm gonna get this taken care of.
- Thanks, man.
I'm sorry about what I said.
- Don't apologize man, you was right.
Unfortunately there's a lot of people out here,
abusing their power, killing us out on these streets.
Only thing that set you different from me.
My badge protects me.
Made me.
Sit tight, I'll be back.
- You know what?
At least I know that you're one of the good guys.
- Thanks, man.
[sighing]
[phone vibrating]
Hey ma, I was just about to-
- This is not your mother.
This is Raheem.
- Why you got my mom phone, is everything okay?
Something happen to ma?
- Your mother is fine, but everything is not all right.
[dramatic music]
- Well, cheers to us.
- To us.
[door knocking]
- Who is this?
Hey baby, let me get rid of whoever this is.
- Okay.
[dramatic music]
- What the hell?
- Shut the hell up.
- [Deacon] What are you doing?
- Shut the hell up!
- What the hell is going on?
- This guy right here is a rapist!
He probably put something in your drink
so he could rape you.
- I did no such thing!
- Get out.
- [Deacon] Don't leave, though.
- Get out!
- [Deacon] No, no.
- Now you've got 10 seconds to tell me
what you did to my little sister.
- I don't know what you're talking about, man.
- Deacon.
If you lie to me one more damn time,
I promise you I'll have no problem spilling your brains
all over this damn stairwell.
- Okay, okay.
- Now tell me what you did to my sister!
- Okay, I'll tell you,
but please don't shoot-
- Say it!
- Okay, okay, okay, okay!
I did it.
It was me. - You did what?
- Don't make me say this, man.
- Say it!
- Andrew, don't make me do it, man.
Okay.
I raped her.
I raped Shelita.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
- You're damn right you are.
[dramatic music]
[Deacon groaning]
[banging] [yelling]
[Raheem yelling]
[Andrew yelling]
- No, no, no!
No!
- Jefferson Ashford, you're under arrest.
[dramatic music]
[birds chirping]
- Dyanna, hey.
- Hey, is she- - No, no, no, no,
she's not here, she's not here.
- Oh okay, well, I got the papers signed.
- Thank you. Excellent.
- I do what I can.
- So why haven't you been answering your phone all day?
- What? What are you talking about?
I haven't gotten any calls.
- I have been calling and texting you all day,
and I haven't received anything from you.
- Wait, what?
Something I think on my phone.
- Oh my God.
What did you say?
[dramatic music]
Taylor!
- I have nothing to say to you.
- Please just let me explain.
- You had me out here thinking the whole entire time
that I was the one ruining our marriage?
Questioning me, and asking, "Am I cheating?"
And meanwhile, you're sleeping with a whole nother man?
- Baby, I'm sorry!
- Save it, Dyanna!
- No wait, please.
Please let me explain.
Look, you were down at the hospital all the damn time!
I was here by myself!
I felt alone, I felt unwanted!
- Let me guess, let me guess.
He made you feel wanted. He made you feel needed.
- Yes, obviously things you weren't doing!
- Well, excuse me for trying to make this world
a better place while trying to make money for both of us!
- Look, I realized that I was wrong,
and I cut things off with him right after my dad's funeral.
Look, after daddy died, I realized that you have to fight
for what you want.
You have to fight for what you love,
and I love you.
I wanna be with you.
- Meanwhile he's sending you text messages.
He miss you. He wanna hug you.
He wanna make love to you.
And let me guess?
You miss him too, right?
- Look, I know we can fix this.
Just please tell me wherever I need to do.
Just, anything. I will do it.
Just please don't leave.
Don't leave our home.
[dramatic music]
[door knocking]
- [Elijah] Sis?
[Dyanna sobbing]
Mom! We need you in here right now!
[Dyanna sobbing]
- Dyanna, Dyanna.
What's the matter?
[Dyanna sobbing]
♪ Silver lining - He threw me out.
He threw me out of the house.
♪ Gray skies in the morning
♪ Seems like you started off wrong
♪ Going downhill from there
♪ Stress of 1,000 years on my head
♪ Weighing this body down
♪ Weighing it down
♪ What a day, what a day, what a day
♪ Oh, what a day, what a day, what a day
♪ Gotta keep my head up
♪ What a day, what a day, what a day
♪ Oh, what a day, what a day, what a day
♪ What a day
♪ Silver lining show yourself
[dishes clanking]
- [Amelia] Right, here we go, here we go.
- What's going on in here?
- Well, that Easter meal you were supposed to be preparing
ain't gonna fix itself, right?
- No, it's not.
- Well then, get on over there and wash your hands,
and let's get to cooking.
- Yes, ma'am. - All right.
- Mom.
Thanks for being there for me last night.
- Oh, you're welcome, Sugar.
That's what mothers are for.
Now, don't you worry about nothing.
Everything's gonna be all right.
- I don't know.
I really messed up bad.
I don't know if Taylor is gonna be able to forgive me.
- Oh, he will, he will.
But in the meantime you need to work on forgiving yourself.
All right?
We're human.
Ain't none of us perfect.
None but the good Lord himself. And even He was tempted.
Now you're just gonna have to turn
around and pick yourself up and try again.
- Thanks mom.
- You're welcome.
- So mom.
Where's your boy toy?
- Ooh, ooh?
- My husband has gone to the store
to pick me up a few things.
Now while you're all up in my business,
that ain't gonna get this food from the stove to the table.
Now let's get at it!
- Yes ma'am!
Watch my mouth! - Right!
- [Amelia] Damn right, damn right.
- Morning, fam.
- Hey. - Hey baby bro.
- Oh, thank the Lord my baby boy is home!
When I saw you come through those doors last night...
I'm just so grateful, I'm just so grateful.
- Yeah, me too, mom.
And it's all thanks to Andrew.
Since I was cooperative and named my supplier,
the DA cut me a deal.
- All right. - I'm just glad
my big brother was there to hook me up.
- Oh, well, my, my, my.
How your tune has changed.
- Yours would too!
If you was facing majority of the rest
of your life in prison.
I'm not built for that.
I'm too pretty for that, baby.
- Pretty enough to be somebody's prison boo.
Hey! - Hey!
- Hey, don't do that.
That ain't even funny.
- It's pretty funny, 'cause we all laughing.
[laughing]
- Now listen, I want y'all to listen, okay?
On the day that we laid your father to rest,
I was really very harsh to y'all.
I was harsh.
- Mom. We have already been through this.
Look, you said what needed to be said.
We deserved it.
- Well yes, and no.
I know it's been some time since then,
and obviously we've talked from then to now,
but I just find it really hard to move past that day.
I know each and every one of y'all
had your own individual things going on before Joseph died,
but it just seems like that day
created a bigger tension between all of us.
And it's because of that,
I just know that y'all have not been comfortable
reaching out for help when you needed it.
And because of that,
I'm just sorry, I'm sorry.
- Mama, it- - Uh-uh.
Shelita, I'm gonna own up to this.
At the end of the day, we each need to do better
at taking care of ourselves, and each other.
We're family.
We need to be there for one another.
Lean on one another.
No matter what.
Understood?
- Yes. - Yes ma'am.
- All right, well good.
Now let's quit flapping these gums and get to work.
[laughing]
- Mama. - Dylan, come on back in here.
You can help him here too.
Bring it on back, baby.
- You ain't getting out of this.
- You in this too.
- All right, come on in here.
- Fire her up, right!
- So I just wanna say thank you
for letting me stay in your room last night.
- Well, you're welcome.
I'm glad I finally had a reason to clean all that mess up
so I could accommodate you.
- Look, I know I haven't really been there for you lately.
I had my own stuff going on, but that's no excuse.
I need to be a better big sister.
So from now on there's anything,
anything that you need, let me know.
And I got you.
- Well, there's really nothing you can do,
because you're already doing it.
- Oh, I knew I was bomb!
[laughing]
- So silly.
You couldn't see that?
- I had a reason.
- Ey! - Ey!
- All right girls, all right.
Chop, chop.
Let's get it done, let's get it done.
- Yes, ma'am.
Look mama, I gotta go handle something real quick.
I'll be right back. Right back.
Okay? - Okay.
- Listen, don't step on my trash.
[phone vibrating]
- Hello.
- Hey, Malcolm.
- What do you want?
- Okay.
I was just calling because Taylor found out.
He knows about us.
And I was thinking that now
that everything is out in the open.
- Dyanna, look, I'm sorry.
I can't do this with you anymore.
We're done.
It's over.
Don't contact me again.
- Wait, Malcolm.
Hello?
- You done with everything?
- Yeah.
Papers are signed. Deal is complete.
- Good.
Now, you know the only reason I let you sleep with her
is because you're supposed to get such a good commission.
But now that everything's done.
- I know, I know. Trust me, baby.
It was all business.
No pleasure.
- Really?
- Maybe a little pleasure.
- Whatever.
We did what we had to do, and now that things are done,
we can get back to us.
- To us.
[dramatic music]
[trunk banging]
- Man, can you believe we're working all Easter Sunday?
- Crime doesn't take a holiday.
Especially with your people.
- My people?
Man, what the hell is that supposed to mean?
- Hey.
Hey, doesn't that punk fit the description
of the suspect in the robbery?
- No, I don't think- - Hey, you!
Hey, get back here, now!
- Wait, wait!
- [Nathan] Get back here now!
- Nathan!
[dramatic music]
- Freeze! Freeze!
Don't move! Don't move!
- I can't.
I can't.
- I said don't move!
[gunshots firing]
- No!
- I had to.
He was reaching for his weapon.
- What weapon, man?
It's his inhaler!
An inhaler man, come on!
- It didn't look like that from here.
[Andrew yelling]
I need you to have my back on this, detective.
Have my back!
[chattering]
- There you are. - Right.
- Captain, not this time.
- Look son, I'm gonna need you to toe the line here.
What the hell are you doing?
- What I should have done a long damn time ago.
I'm done toeing your line and playing your good boy
while the blood of my brothers and sisters
spill down these streets at the hands of cowards
that look just like you.
- Baby, just calm down.
Think about your career.
Think about your family.
- What about that kid's family, huh?
What about the families that lost loved ones
all over this country at this injustice?
No! This shit stops today.
I'm making sure racist sons of bitches
like your son is locked up.
- Hey boy, that's my son you're talking about.
- Clearly the apple don't fall too far from the tree.
And you watch who you're calling a boy.
- Okay, just think about the mayhem
you're gonna cause, Andrew.
- No, no, no. Forget about that.
You need to start thinking about what's gonna happen
to that brother of yours if you don't start doing
what needs to be done.
[dramatic music]
- Captain.
You let one thing happen to my brother
or anybody that's in my family,
you don't understand the mayhem
I'm gonna cause in this place.
[dramatic music]
- Andrew!
If you do this, we're done.
- Cool, I told you I was done with the pig anyway.
- Daddy!
What are we gonna do?
[gentle music]
[door knocking]
- Hey, you wanna come join us in the kitchen?
- I would, but I don't think I'm worthy.
- You have to be worthy to cook?
Well, I guess I missed that memo.
You know, I remember when you were a little boy
how much you used to love to help me out in the kitchen.
You'd say, "Mama, can I help you make
"the macaroni and cheese?"
Or, "Mama, I wanna make the potato salad."
[laughing]
Most kids would say that Christmas
was their favorite time of the year, but not you.
You said "Mama, Easter is my favorite holiday, just-"
- Like dad's.
- Just like dad's.
- Well, that's not the only thing I said because of him.
- What do you mean?
- All my life I've
felt like something was always shadowing me.
I remember dad had a preacher's revival.
And what the minister would say,
"Are you gonna be a preacher?
"Just like your dad?"
And it seemed like everywhere we went,
more and more people would say the same thing.
Not to Andrew, Dylan,
Dyanna or Shelita.
They just say it to me.
Even to the point where dad overheard it.
He would say, "Yes.
"I feel God has called my son to lead my church
"one day when I'm gone."
Can you imagine the amount of pressure I was under?
Always knowing that people expected me
to fill my dad's shoes one day.
And I realized that shadow over me was dad's.
Mama, I can't be dad.
- Nobody is expecting you to be your dad, son.
At least nobody that matters.
- That's the thing.
When dad died I had this enormous
amount of guilt and pressure.
I just couldn't shake it.
So I found other the ways.
Other methods,
of the point of thinking to escape it.
- I see.
- Yeah.
I keep getting these random text messages
from an unknown number.
- I will never leave you or forsake you.
God's got a funny way of catching our attention
by any means necessary.
You know what I love most about God?
- What?
- I love that no matter what we do,
he always still loves us no matter what.
Even when we sometimes veer off this road
that he's designed for our lives.
And He knows that He's given us free will.
He allows us to travel up and down those roads,
knowing eventually we're gonna come right back.
He's always there.
And he loves us so much that even
when we let go of His hand, He's still holding ours.
He's just standing there with his arms opened
and outstretched, waiting to receive us.
No guilt.
No shame.
No judgment.
Just his grace and love.
And when it comes to your father,
I know him better than anybody.
And I know that he's proud of you,
whether you choose to follow in his path,
or choose to follow your own.
Just remember, he loved you.
I love you.
But God loves you more.
[gentle music]
[dramatic music]
- [Taylor] You've reached Dr. Taylor Henderson.
Leave a message and I'll get back to you.
[phone beeping]
- You all right?
- No.
But I will be.
How about you?
- I'm much better now.
Oh my God. Damn!
Is it time to eat yet?
- Boy, what have I told you
about speaking that language in my house!
- Get him, ma! - Auntie!
- And yes, it is.
Let's all go into the formal dining room.
- All right.
- Hey I know, I put my foot in this, right?
- [Andrew] Lord have mercy.
- Sure it's still better than that cooking of yours.
- [Dyanna] Shut up.
- Well, before we go and get our dinner,
I'd like for each of you to take a little time
and tell me a little something
about what Easter means to you.
- Well, I'll go first since I'm the oldest.
When I think about God,
the first thing that always comes to mind is forgiveness.
Now I'll be the first to admit I've messed up a lot,
especially in these past couple months.
And the one thing that I hold on to
is that God still loves me.
No matter what I do, no matter what I say.
God still loves me.
And though I'd love to get forgiveness
from those that I've wronged, but,
I know that I'm forgiven, because I've forgiven myself
and my Heavenly Father has forgiven me as well.
I know that God gave His son so that we could be forgiven.
And I feel like it's the best gift I could ever get.
- Earlier today I quit my job.
I can no longer be a part
of the organization that stood by
while our black brothers and sisters
were brutally murdered in the streets.
When you're part of something like that for so long,
it's hard to look at yourself in a mirror.
And when I did, I saw every mistake
and every imperfection.
My silence made me culpable
for every single one of those murders.
I've been thinking about pops a lot lately,
and maybe it's just because it's Easter,
but he used to always say,
"Even with my muck and my yuck, God still loves me."
With all of my mess,
He wants to turn it into a message.
Even with all my mistakes, He still cares.
Jesus shed His blood for all of us.
And it's because of that we can all live new life in Him.
Think about all the blood pouring down the streets
of our black brothers and sisters.
Their life can not be in vain,
and I can't stay silent.
Jesus was one of the good guys, and finally...
And finally I feel like I'm one of them too.
- You are.
- Being the youngest,
I've never felt like I measured up to you all.
I felt like I wasn't good enough
to be a part of this family.
Sometimes it felt like no one even cared about me.
However, it wasn't until recently
I figured out how wrong I was.
I think about God,
and I think about how he never gives up on us.
He's always there, no matter what we say or what we do.
He's always there.
Like a big homie.
Yeah, God is my big homie,
and I'm so glad that He didn't give up on me.
I'm so grateful I got a family
that won't give up on me either.
- Never will baby brother.
- [Amelia] That's beautiful.
♪ Jesus loves me
♪ This I know
♪ For the Bible tells me so
- It's such a simple song
with a simple message.
For some time now I've felt
like God didn't love me.
Like He's forgotten about me.
The hows and whys of trying to deal
with everything that happened to me just,
it's all been too much.
That's why I cut my hair.
That's why I got these piercings.
That's why I turned to alcohol.
It helped numb the pain.
But now I know that's not the answer.
So,
I'm checking myself into rehab,
and I'm going to see a therapist,
so I can get the help that I so desperately need.
And I know that while I'm recovering,
I'll never forget how Jesus loved me, even in my darkness.
- [Amelia] Yes.
- Because I can still hear that little girl
that used to sing in the youth choir.
I can hear her singing with all her heart.
♪ Yes, Jesus loves me
♪ For the Bible tells me so
- I did not grow up reading the Bible or going to church.
But one day this lady come to my doorstep to witness to us.
And she said that God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten son.
And whoever said have faith in Him
shall have everlasting life and shall not perish.
And for some reason,
that first part always stuck in my mind.
That God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Son.
And that first part always stuck with me.
That means He love us so much
that He gave us the one thing that meant everything to Him.
And that's the type of love
that this family has for one another,
that you are willing to do everything
to be there for each other,
to show each other how much you love each other.
And I am grateful for that love,
which in turn sells me how thankful I am of God's love.
So I want to say thank you.
- I know y'all probably think I just come over here to eat.
And as long as beak-head ain't in the kitchen,
then that's probably true.
- You know what? Shut up.
- Nah, but for real though, I just love being around y'all.
With my mom always worked
since my dad left when I was three.
So I never had a family or siblings.
My mom always worked, so she'd just sent me off to y'all.
And at first I was jealous,
because of the love and care,
and the connection y'all had with each other.
And I never had that.
But then y'all started to share that love,
and that care and that connection with me.
I didn't feel like just a relative anymore.
Y'all made me feel like family.
Y'all made me feel like family in y'all home.
So maybe that's why God treats us like His kids,
maybe He just adopt us,
and treats us like one of His own.
So thank you all for that.
It means a lot.
- You're the brother we never knew we wanted.
- I do love you, though, beak-head.
- Well.
If we're done, I'd like to say that right now
my heart is filled with joy, gratefulness,
to see all of my children under the same roof.
I can just see your father smiling down on us
with that big smile that he had.
Just smiling and proud of all of his children
here under the same roof on his favorite holiday.
And now, Father, I wanna to thank You for this food
that we're about to receive.
Let it be for the nourishment of our bodies,
for your purpose, in the precious name of Jesus.
Amen.
- [All] Amen.
- Is it too late for me?
- Son, never.
Please.
[cheerful music]
Well.
Let's eat.
- Finally!
- Why you so greedy.
[dramatic music]
[upbeat music]
♪ I keep my head to the sky
♪ Eyes to the stars
♪ I can't turn back
♪ I came too far
♪ Wasn't dealt the best hand, but I still played my cards
♪ I'm fighting for what I believe, like a brave heart
♪ A better life has always been my mission
♪ This ain't the teachings of that dough boy in the kitchen
♪ My tunnel vision got me focused on my ambition
♪ 'Cause people tell me I'm a homie like a mathematician
♪ But this road that I travel ain't a smooth ride
♪ Road blocks, set backs, plenty of hard times
♪ But my drive keep me standing toe to the ground
♪ So when that storm comes, I smile at the gray skies
♪ Though the odds are against me, I'm still fighting
♪ The life of all the time, history, I'm still writing
♪ I embrace struggle, I endure the pain
♪ 'Cause the sunshine always comes after rain
♪ Keep your head up to the sky
♪ Your time will come, everything will be all right
♪ Don't give up, don't give up the fight
♪ Sunshine will come
♪ Everything, everything
- Some of my cheese.
- Man, that was so good!
- Best Easter meal, yet.
- [Andrew] What?
- Well, you all have me to thank for this.
I am so glad I thought of it.
- No, just say thank you.
- Good thing you just thought about it,
'cause if you would have cooked,
we would all have been dead.
Second wave of the Coronavirus.
- Shut up!
- I have an idea.
- What's that?
I think we should have a Sunday evening service.
- As a church?
- Yes.
- But mom, remember we signed over the church.
Where will we have it?
- We could have it right here.
The church is not the building. The church is in us.
We are the church.
- Mama. You mind if I lead?
- It would be my pleasure.
[dramatic music]
- We basically grew up in church all lives,
but I often wondered, how do we know Jesus is real?
How do we know God is real?
We may not publicly admit it,
but it'd be the questions we often ask ourself.
It's easy to say, "Because the Bible says so,"
Or, "People say so."
I spent my whole life under our father's shadow,
and I've been running.
But I thought I was running from dad,
but I really was running from God.
Or at least I was trying to.
But then I keep hearing this small, still voice.
I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
And I kept hearing it.
I kept seeing it.
And eventually,
I kept feeling it.
So I can't really explain to you with human logic
why I feel how I feel.
Why I believe what I believe,
because honestly,
I don't know why
But it's in my heart.
And at the end of the day, it comes down to one thing.
And that's faith.
Faith to believe.
And I choose to believe.
[dramatic music]
And early that Sunday morning, the women went to the tomb,
taking the spices they have prepared,
but they found that the stone
had been rolled away from the entrance.
So they went in.
But they didn't come about the Lord Jesus.
And they stood there puzzled.
Two Angels appeared to them asking,
"Why are you looking among the dead
"for someone who's alive?
"He isn't here.
"He has risen from the dead.
"Remember what He told you back then Galilee,
"that the son of man must be betrayed
"into the hands of sinful men and be crucified,
"and that He'll rise again on the third day."
[dramatic music]
It's just how Jesus Rose again
after being buried, crucified.
One day our mother, Amelia Elizabeth Wright will rise again.
But until then be rest assured
that her spirit is in the heavens
with our Lord the Savior, Jesus Christ,
and our dearly departed loved ones.
[dramatic music]
- We love you, Mom.
- We miss you already.
- Tell pops we miss him, and we love him too.
- We'll see you again soon.
[dramatic music]
[upbeat music]
♪ I keep my head to the sky
♪ Eyes to the stars
♪ I can't turn back
♪ I came too far
♪ Wasn't dealt the best hand, but I still played my cards
♪ I'm fighting for what I believe, like a brave heart
♪ A better life has always been my mission
♪ This ain't the teachings that dough boy in the kitchen
♪ My tunnel vision got me focused on my ambition
♪ 'Cause people tell me I'm a homie like a mathematician
♪ But this road better travel ain't a smooth ride
♪ Road blocks, set backs, plenty of hard times
♪ But my drive keep me standing toe to the ground
♪ So when that storm comes, I smile at the gray skies
♪ Though the odds are against me, I'm still fighting
♪ The life of all the time, history, I'm still writing
♪ I embrace struggle, I endure the pain
♪ 'Cause the sunshine always comes after rain
♪ Keep your head up to the sky
♪ Your time will come
♪ Everything will be all right
♪ Don't give up
♪ Don't give up the fight
♪ Sunshine will come
♪ Everything, everything, everything's gonna be all right
♪ The weight of the world is on your shoulders
♪ Standing tall like a soldier
♪ The pressure is so heavy, it's forcing you to be stronger
♪ Life is crazy and sometimes bipolar
♪ Way more highs and lows than your favorite rollercoaster
♪ And yeah, there were some times would be hell
♪ Especially when you're down and no one really cares
♪ Bills piling up, the paper trails were still
♪ You down back, got you singing blues like a deal break
♪ Don't stop, don't stop
♪ Keep pushing
♪ You ain't by yourself, 'cause God is always looking
♪ The fact that you're still here
♪ Was always fulfill a purpose
♪ Always keep that faith and that recipe that you're cooking
♪ And it's easier said than done
♪ But you can shine bright just like the morning sun
♪ I embrace the struggle, I endure the pain
♪ 'Cause the sunshine always comes after rain
♪ Keep your head up to the sky
♪ Your time will come
♪ Everything will be all right
♪ Don't give up
♪ Don't give up the fight
♪ Sunshine will come
♪ Everything, everything, everything's gonna be all right
♪ Keep your head up
♪ Whoa
♪ Keep your head up, keep your head up
♪ See your life, there's so much pain
♪ There's always sunshine after the rain
♪ Hey, yeah
♪ There's always sunshine after the rain
♪ Keep your head up to the sky
♪ Your time will come, everything will be all right
♪ Don't give up, don't give up the fight
♪ Sunshine will come
♪ Everything, everything, everything's gonna be all right
♪ Keep your head to the sky
♪ Sunshine will come, everything will be all right
[explosion crashing]
♪ Everything's gonna be all right.
[electric buzzing]
[eerie whooshing]