Judge Me Not (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Lights Out - full transcript
- Jesus H. Christ!
- Again with this?
- That doesn't bother you?
- You're the one who wanted
to downgrade to a duplex
so we'd save money to travel.
We haven't even
gone anywhere yet.
- Oh, please!
We just went to see
mom last Christmas.
- Talk to him in the morning.
- He always says the same thing.
Neighborhood's turning over.
- Then call the police.
- What for?
He turns them right back on
when they leave [sighing].
This is what I get.
- What are you talking about?
- Always the nice guy.
They don't respect you.
I'll give him nice.
- What are you doing?
- Fixing the problem.
- Well, you can't shoot him.
- I'm not gonna.
- You could hurt somebody.
- I'm not shooting at them.
I'm shooting the
lights down below.
One down, three to go.
- What the hell are you doing?
- Turning out the lights.
- The hell you are.
You think you're the first one
with Second Amendment rights?
- Oh my God.
- What the fuck are you doing?
- I'm shooting back.
- I'm just trying
to fix my problem.
Ain't nobody trying
to kill anybody.
- Speak for yourself, buddy.
- Get away from the window.
Billy, you're gonna
get yourself killed,
or worse yet, wake up the kids.
- Stop it, stop it, Jerry.
You're gonna kill him.
- You tell him to stop.
He stops, I stop.
- Robert, Robert!
Oh God, he looks
like he's been shot.
- You sure?
You sure?
- Adam?
- I see right through you.
- What?
Who is this?
- You'll know soon.
- Oh my God, Darryl.
Darryl, Darryl, wake up.
- What?
- You must have popped
your stitches again.
Let me take the bandages off.
- I'm fine.
- I'll change your bandages.
The doctor told you not to
lift weights, but you do.
- Oh, so you're a
doctor now, too?
- No, but I was in the room
when she told you that.
- So you want me
to obey my doctor,
but you never obey your doctor.
- This is about you
and your fuck up.
- My fuck up?
- You ran us off the road.
- That was your fault.
You were fucking with my phone.
- Because you're fucking
with somebody else.
- I'm not.
Maybe I should, though.
I mean, you already
convicted me.
Might as well make
it a good conviction.
- Hmm.
I had your phone while
we were in the hospital
and I called the High Bar back.
Guess who answered?
One blessed and apparently
highly favored Jennifer.
Oh.
- How did you get these?
- That was her response
to my contention
that she was just a
hit it and quit it.
She sent me those to show
that you guys are
in a relationship.
- Jay, I know how this looks,
but this chick just
brought me her car.
And yeah, okay, I said some
things, but I never touched her.
- Cap.
- That's not cap.
There's nothing there.
So now what?
- I don't know.
- What does that mean?
- Exactly what I said.
- You didn't say anything.
- Jacked up, isn't it?
- What?
- Being on that side of I
don't know where we stand.
- Look, you tripping.
I'm gonna go wash these sheets.
- I said stop.
I'm too tired to do it.
Not today.
Please just give up.
Good, that's what I'm asking.
♪ I feel like falling in love
♪ I'm in the mood
- Ha!
- What are y'all doing?
♪ Wanna go where nobody's been
- No.
No, you should have told
her you were out here.
- That's the thing.
I don't think she cares.
Does she always do that?
- Right?
- No, this is fairly new.
- I don't know what's
becoming of this place.
- Leave.
Just go on about your business.
Go, please.
- This is a courthouse,
not, you know I'm right.
- Spangler, just go.
- Judge, Judge.
- Huh?
- I didn't know how
to get your attention.
Judge, you had an audience
out here watching you.
- Least of my problems.
- Yeah, well it's the
least of your problems
until it becomes a big problem.
- So what are we
looking like for today?
- Judge, are you hearing me?
- I already have one mother.
I don't need two.
- Well, I'll tell you like
I told your predecessor,
I handle all of this so
that you can go out there
and do that to the best
of your abilities, okay?
So please let me
do my job, please?
Please.
- What do we have today?
- Thank you.
All of your small claim
cases are settled.
I got Spangler to
take your motions
that were waiting on you.
- You about ready
to go out there?
- I am if you are [chuckling].
- Ooh.
- Judge,
you love it out
there, don't you?
- My little piece of peace,
the only place I have the
power to get it right.
- Then let's go out
there and get it right.
You ready?
- Yeah.
Hey!
What?
- I got something too, now.
- The state contends that
on the night in question,
one William Price, during
the commission of a felony,
killed one Robert Mason.
The state concedes
that Mr. Price
did not intend to
kill Mr. Mason,
but he did in fact do so while
trying to kill Jerry Guild.
He doesn't get to avoid the
full consequences of his intent
just because he killed
the wrong person.
Accordingly, I would ask that
this court find Mr. Price
over to common pleas court on
the charge of capital murder.
- Is he in?
- Yeah, yeah, he's in,
but he's.
- Asleep?
- It's been a
pretty busy morning.
- I heard.
He did housing court on site.
- Yeah, he did.
- How'd that go?
- It was exactly
what you needed.
- Can't imagine.
Well, let me just.
- Hey,
can you give him a rest?
- He inspires such
great loyalty.
- You gotta give credit
when credit is due.
- I am not asleep.
I have all y'all fooled.
I just rest my eyes
from time to time.
- He was just snoring.
- Uh huh.
Docket over?
We can do lunch.
- Not yet.
I got another 30 minutes or so.
- Make that an hour.
- I defer to my warden.
- I'll go see if
Ruth wants to eat.
- Have at it.
We ready out there?
- Yep.
Come on, Superman.
Let's put your cape on.
- Yep, let's get this
show on the road.
- I told you when I grew up,
I want to be just like you.
- That's hustling
backwards, bro.
- Approach.
- Mr. Kenzie has completed
fixing most of his violations.
I think we can end this.
- Good enough.
Mr. Kenzie, you're done with us.
- It's about time,
bunch of fascists.
- Nothing like housing court
to make you feel the love.
- You about ready?
- We need about
five more minutes.
- You want to take a recess?
- It'll take more time to
get up, leave and come back.
I'm good right here.
- Waiting on you.
- Can we discuss
some dates with you?
- Sure, what do you need?
- Shit, shit.
Oh, shit, shit, shit.
How long have you
been standing there?
- Can I help?
- No, not with
anything that matters.
- Your headache is back?
- Yeah, it's just
one of those things
that never actually goes away.
- I have some aspirin.
- Yeah, well I got
an entire pharmacy.
- Judge.
- You know that
never gets fixed, right?
- No, it doesn't.
- I believed him when he said
he was shooting out the lights,
but I couldn't do anything
but kick it to big boy court.
He killed somebody.
- I know.
- But you know what's
going to happen, right?
He's going for the full ride.
The man has a wife,
three kids, a citizen.
All this over a light.
It just goes to show
that we're all just
one dumb decision away
to never ride again.
This isn't the answer that
I thought it was at all.
We're just a mop up operation.
- Judge, we do what we can.
- And more often than
not, it's never enough.
Jean.
- Yeah, Judge?
- That's it for today, yes?
Everything's settled, right?
- Yep.
All we have is motion work.
- I'm going home.
- Judge, you know it's
going to be all right.
- No I don't Jean,
and neither do you.
- There she is.
- Hey, Howard.
- Judge.
- A little worried
about you there, sis.
- You and me both.
- It's all gonna be fine,
you know that, right?
- Tell that's Billy
Price and Leslie Mason.
- What I want to say
to you little sis,
one of the most important
things I've learned
in my 82 year journey
is this too shall pass.
- Howard, you don't understand.
- I don't need to know.
Everybody's got something
they gotta fight.
All I'm saying is
you gotta ride it out
without letting it take you out.
You got this far.
That was no accident.
- You know, out of
the men in my life,
you bring me the most comfort.
- I'll always be there for
you, even after I retire
in two.
- Two years.
Count 'em, one, two.
- With nary an election
in between here and there,
and you got my mail.
So call me any time, okay?
- Yeah.
- All right.
Love ya.
Take care, dear.
♪ Every time I look in your
eyes, something fades away ♪
♪ I need to know if you wanna
go, I won't make you stay ♪
♪ You got all of my little
heart, if you go and beg♪
- Hello.
♪ She got what you need, I won't
stand in your way♪
♪ I need you, I need you, need
you by my side ♪
♪ I love you, I love you forever
and a day♪
-Cheers.
♪ Now I know that time's gettin
hard for us baby ♪
♪ But you know that time's gonna
pass us by ♪
♪ I need you, I need you, need
you by my side ♪
-Shit.
-Jesus
- Oh God
I should have never told
you that I told him.
- Well you did, texted me
first thing this morning.
Then I tried to call you.
- Mommy, I was busy.
- You at home?
- I mean, if that's
what it looks like,
then that's where I am.
- Who are you talking to?
- I'm sorry.
I just got a lot on my mind.
- Please don't tell
me you can't work
because you are upset about him.
Don't tell me that.
- Okay, then I
won't tell you that.
- You know what you
need to do, right?
- You know, the easiest
thing in the world
is for a woman to
tell another woman
that she should leave
the man that she is with.
- And what do you have, really?
Y'all aren't married and
he's still running around.
- Didn't daddy put you
through a whole window?
- My husband has his issues,
but he is my husband.
- Guess that makes it okay, huh?
- Look, I cut my deal.
Does he have bad days?
Yes, he does.
But he didn't volunteer
to be emotionally unable.
He just is.
Now somebody's gotta love
him, and ain't for nothing.
He does his part,
supported me for 35 years,
putting you and your
brother through college.
- I think that's the thing
that you don't
understand about Darryl.
He does the same thing for
me that you do for daddy.
It's not easy being us.
- It ain't easy being
around y'all, either.
Oh, uh uh.
Are you day drinking again?
Oh, hell no.
I'm coming over there.
- Mm, Mommy, I just,
God Jesus, shoot me now.
L-A-R-R-Y.
- So have you two
been taken care of?
All right, then we'll
handle you last two
and then we'll be good.
- Thank you.
If I may, we're fairly
complete on all of the repairs,
so we would like to stay
this matter for six months
so Mr. Morris can apply to
a housing repair program.
- Okay, I got that
order for you.
Judge, we're down
to the last few.
- I don't even.
- Judge.
Judge.
- Just go, yeah.
- Judge.
Judge.
Judge, Judge?
- Is he okay?
- Judge!
- Oh, shit.
- Judge!
I need everybody out
the courtroom now.
Get Barbara in here.
Judge.
- Okay, I'm gonna call 9-1-1.
- I'm not getting a pulse.
I don't think he's breathing.
Judge.
- All right, Andrew.
- Come on, don't do this to me.
Don't do this, come on, come on.
- We have an emergency.
- Judge.
Judge, come on.
- Can somebody
get Barbara, please?
- Get a medic in here now.
Judge, come here.
Don't do this to me.
Come on, come on,
come on, wake up.
Come on, man.
- So you telling me
she had pictures of you
and Red in her phone?
- Yep.
- Bro, why y'all here posing
in pictures with a side chick?
- That's the thing, I didn't.
Someone must have been
shooting from the low.
- It must have been a home girl.
- Haven?
- Hell yeah.
You said she pulled up with
her a few times, didn't she?
- Son of a bitch.
Jay was right, man.
Women are getting
out of control.
- What you mean,
getting out of control?
They always been.
- What's she up to now?
- Don't know.
- Yo, that's a weird chick.
Am I lying?
- Yo, D.
I mean, so what you
going to do, bro?
- Go home?
- Early, I bet.
- You always talking shit
about how I treat my woman
when you don't even got one.
- He got a point there.
- Remember that time he
asked shorty up the way
to chase him around the
neighborhood in that car?
Running behind folks
houses and shit?
- Dog, she hopped out the
whip, hitting this man up
and chased him with
a baseball bat.
- He'd get away.
- But she got back in the car.
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
But my woman never
got me arrested.
- He got a point there.
- Yeah.
- But seriously, man.
What you gonna do?
- I got a plan.
I already started.
Send a few texts,
get home early,
be there before she gets there.
It ain't hard work when
you know what you're doing.
- That's a fact.
Tell them what they want to hear
and you start over from scratch.
- Fact.
- But what about Red, though?
- That's the thing.
All that flat ass
ain't even my thing.
She just.
- Bro, she look at you
like you Idris or somebody.
- Simple.
She don't say shit,
and when she do,
all of her words are short.
- Man, fuck all that.
Did you smash or not?
- Nah, I ain't hit it,
but I did one thing.
- I knew it.
You hit the little batty from
the High Bar, didn't you?
- Tapped that.
- I already know it.
- So just add her
to the rotation.
I mean, what you look like
turning down free pussy?
- Jennifer don't know her role.
She want to be my
woman and shit.
- But don't play yourself,
'cause old girl from the
High Bar on the same shit.
She's just a little
more patient with it.
- That's the thing.
You don't even let
it get that far.
One and done.
- I remember when he used
to be until I get caught.
- That's a fact.
- Until I get caught
don't work on a woman
you trying to keep.
- Not if you train
'em right, dog.
- What you got at home again?
- He got that strong
ass left hand.
- Yep, once a day, every
day, twice on Sunday.
- Make yourself go
blind with that shit.
- Yeah, your shit gonna fall
off, keep fucking around.
- Hey.
- Let the circus begin.
- Really?
Is that necessary?
- No, may not be
necessary, but it's true.
- We're gonna have
a talk, you and I.
- Case number GL187625,
Antoine North.
- Mr. North, do you
have an attorney?
- No.
- Do we have any lawyers
we need to clear out here
before we see the
unrepresented defendants?
- No Judge, not one.
Doesn't matter, they live here.
- Yo, you hear your
dude over here?
- Unfortunately, yes.
I'm very sorry.
- I didn't mean for him to hear.
- Yes, but he did, and what's
more concerning for you
is so did I.
- Ain't this about a bitch.
The dude over here talking
about how we don't need lawyers
'cause we be in
here all the time.
You see what I'm saying?
That's bullshit, man.
- Sir, I will handle it.
- Judge, don't let these
people tell you what to do.
- Who you calling these people?
- Sir?
- You see what I'm saying?
- Go James, go.
- Every time, we don't
never get a chance, man.
- I'm very sorry.
He will not be back today.
- Bullshit.
- You still folding
clothes back there?
- God Lord, please
shut this woman up.
- And get your
hands out of your hair.
You ain't Snow White.
- Oh my God.
- God ain't got nothing
to do with this.
- Andrew,
they're on their way.
Yes, please hurry.
- Come on man, come on.
- They said two minutes.
- Where the hell is Barbara?
Move, move, move.
- They're pulling
up, they're pulling up.
They're parking.
- Where are they?
Where is the medic?
I need a medic, come on.
Come on, man.
- How long has he been down?
- I don't know.
We thought he was sleeping.
- Okay, we got this.
No pulse.
- Starting compressions.
- Come on man, come on.
- Uh, what the
heck just happened?
- From what I can tell, he
made some off-color remark
and Judge Allen put him out.
- Oh, Grimes is his
own worst enemy.
- There's no jokes.
You don't make jokes.
- Look at her go off.
- It is not your courtroom.
- She is really
letting him have it.
- What's the matter?
- He's not moving.
- Who?
- Please.
- What was that?
- I'm sorry.
- No, you're not sorry.
- Why is the cover on his face?
Why is the cover on his face?
What happened, what happened?
No.
- Jean, come on, give me
your hand, give me your hand.
- I have to call Helen.
- You want me to do it?
- No, it's better
if it comes from me.
I've known her for years.
- Don't call.
I'll take you over there and
we'll tell her in person.
- How long were they married?
- Over 40 years.
I'm gonna go with you.
- No, you're not.
You have half the
Atlanta docket in there.
You're not going anywhere.
And Grimes, you're
going with him,
and I don't want to hear one
single word from your mouth.
Not one quip from
you about anybody.
- I'm not an asshole.
- Well.
Anisha, I need you to
be me while I'm gone.
Those people down there,
they still need to deal
with what they came here to do,
and it has to be done, and
it has to be done right.
Look, I know we're all upset,
but we all still
have our jobs to do.
So if you need to take
a moment, go outside,
go for a walk around
the block and come back.
- We got this, everybody.
Do you hear me?
- Wait, who's gonna
call Judge Jay Johnson?
- All right.
Look, I could solve
your problems if you
just listen to me.
I'm not saying you
gotta get rid of him,
even though that would be best.
What I'm saying is
men behave better
when they know you can walk off.
You need to let him
know you can walk off.
- I can't.
I'm barely holding
it together as it is.
- Don't you see?
He can see that you're weak,
and you won't put him out.
- You don't know what
you're talking about.
- If you just take
your meds as prescribed,
you wouldn't need him.
- And you know this how?
- I don't know what
it is with you people.
- You people?
- Yes, you people.
You, your father,
your Aunt Maxine.
Why can't you take your meds
as prescribed?
- Mommy, 'cause they're not
a solve, ma.
They're not a solve.
I mean, yeah, they
make us easier to take
but they do things to you.
Some of them make you nauseous,
some of them make you fuzzy.
Some of them, it takes weeks
for them to even start.
Some you can't even
come off of right away.
I've gotta swear some of
them even make you dumb.
I swear I lost 10 IQ points
off of that Aripiprazole.
Not even to mention that a
few of them make you fat.
- Don't take any of those.
- Ma, I am talking
psychiatric numbers
and all you heard was fat?
Priorities, mom.
- Look, little girl.
I know what I'm talking about.
How do you think your
father was able to work
and deal all of those years?
I may not be in your head,
but I know how this works.
If you gonna drink, eat.
- I don't want to eat.
- Do I look
like I'm playing with
you, little girl?
Eat.
Eat.
It's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right,
it's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right.
- Looks like we got
the wrong sauce.
- Looks like we got the
wrong nigga ordering shit.
We need a new rear axle.
- Shit.
All right, I gotta
order another.
Hey Z, call me on my way home.
Hold on one second,
I gotta take this.
- This nigga thought
it was one size
fits all and shit.
- That's the problem,
he be on the damn
phone all the time.
- What are you talking about?
I did no such.
Your mother's there, isn't she?
But she was.
That's not true.
Look, I'm coming
home, we'll talk.
Girl, you been drinking?
You gotta have been drinking.
This is about your sins, no,
this is about your sins, not
mine
I am packing your shit up, you
can come get them when I'm at
work.
And leave your keys
Calm down, calm down, calm down.
No
I'm gonna come home
and we'll talk.
Don't you step a foot in this
house while I'm here.
I am not playin with your ass
Jay, Jay.
Fuck.
- So if we just tighten it.
- The High Bar, y'all.
- Bro, what happened?
- The High Bar.
- Bro, are you sure?
Because you know
whenever you drink
you just take it all
the way there, nigga.
All right, whether
you all the way happy
or all the way angry.
You remember what happened
in Baltimore, nigga?
- The High Bar.
- Shit, you buying?
- Really, nigga?
- Darryl's a grown ass man.
He don't need us to
tell him what to do.
- D, look bro, at
least let us know
what type of bullshit
we about to ride into.
- Go home, get your clothes,
meet me at the High Bar.
That's it.
Now nigga, come on.
- All right, nigga.
Damn.
- nigga always yelling.
- Is the rear axle at
the High Bar, though?
- Gotta be.
- [Worker] That's what
I want to know.
- Hello?
Martin?
What?
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
What do you mean?
Howard?
How?
- Jay.
What are you doing?
- Why are you breaking
into my house?
- I ain't breaking into
y'all house, woman.
I got a key.
- What are you doing here?
- Mom sent me here.
You ain't picking up everybody
phone calls or anything.
She got worried, what's up?
- Tell her that I'm fine.
- You're fine, really?
Are you?
- Well of course I'm not,
but that's what
you're gonna tell her.
- You want to put the
butcher knife down real quick
so we can just talk?
Geez.
- Oh.
- So you really put
big boy out, huh?
- You would think that
that's the worst thing
that happened today,
but it wasn't.
- Soon, and very soon, you
will get to meet the king.
- You know Jay, Jay.
- What?
- Can I go tell mom you're okay?
- I don't care what you do.
- Look, everything's
gonna be okay, all right?
Will you just
relax a little bit?
Woosah.
- Everybody says that, you know?
But it's not true.
- You know what you ought to do?
You remember when you
were studying for the bar?
You built like a whole
three story dollhouse,
electric running
through the whole thing,
you know what I mean?
You remember?
- Okay.
- Yeah, when you're
working on things,
you don't really worry.
You should probably
work on something.
- You know, every once in a
while you kind of remind me
that you're not
completely useless.
- You know I love you
because I let you put your
stinking feet on me, all right?
Now can I go now and tell mom
you're okay, mission complete?
All right, later, kid.
- Ow!
You act childish.
- Put that knife away.
You ain't hurting nobody.
- Okay Graves, I hear you.
Hey basic bitch,
play some music.
Oh, okay.
We're in that kind of mood.
All right.
Okay, okay.
October, October, October 15th.
One, two.
October, December.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
October 15th.
Fucking February 9th.
Holy shit.
Shit, shit.
Basic bitch, I did not
call for shock and awe.
Basic bitch, turn
off shock and awe.
Pick up, pick up, pick up.
- Bitch.
It's over when I say it is.
♪ I heard him say
chivalry was dead ♪
♪ I could see it in
your eyes you scared ♪
♪ Because there ain't
nothing for you here ♪
♪ Lot of skeletons
in my closet, dear ♪
♪ Baby, destruction
is part the play ♪
♪ I'm your leader
to in front of me ♪
♪ I'm a need my
respect in living ♪
♪ And if you get
offended too bad ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm the high eater
♪ I'm the high eater baby
♪ It's a dinner date,
I'm a eat your soul ♪
♪ Think about it,
dream about it ♪
♪ If you want to
stay then you can ♪
- Again with this?
- That doesn't bother you?
- You're the one who wanted
to downgrade to a duplex
so we'd save money to travel.
We haven't even
gone anywhere yet.
- Oh, please!
We just went to see
mom last Christmas.
- Talk to him in the morning.
- He always says the same thing.
Neighborhood's turning over.
- Then call the police.
- What for?
He turns them right back on
when they leave [sighing].
This is what I get.
- What are you talking about?
- Always the nice guy.
They don't respect you.
I'll give him nice.
- What are you doing?
- Fixing the problem.
- Well, you can't shoot him.
- I'm not gonna.
- You could hurt somebody.
- I'm not shooting at them.
I'm shooting the
lights down below.
One down, three to go.
- What the hell are you doing?
- Turning out the lights.
- The hell you are.
You think you're the first one
with Second Amendment rights?
- Oh my God.
- What the fuck are you doing?
- I'm shooting back.
- I'm just trying
to fix my problem.
Ain't nobody trying
to kill anybody.
- Speak for yourself, buddy.
- Get away from the window.
Billy, you're gonna
get yourself killed,
or worse yet, wake up the kids.
- Stop it, stop it, Jerry.
You're gonna kill him.
- You tell him to stop.
He stops, I stop.
- Robert, Robert!
Oh God, he looks
like he's been shot.
- You sure?
You sure?
- Adam?
- I see right through you.
- What?
Who is this?
- You'll know soon.
- Oh my God, Darryl.
Darryl, Darryl, wake up.
- What?
- You must have popped
your stitches again.
Let me take the bandages off.
- I'm fine.
- I'll change your bandages.
The doctor told you not to
lift weights, but you do.
- Oh, so you're a
doctor now, too?
- No, but I was in the room
when she told you that.
- So you want me
to obey my doctor,
but you never obey your doctor.
- This is about you
and your fuck up.
- My fuck up?
- You ran us off the road.
- That was your fault.
You were fucking with my phone.
- Because you're fucking
with somebody else.
- I'm not.
Maybe I should, though.
I mean, you already
convicted me.
Might as well make
it a good conviction.
- Hmm.
I had your phone while
we were in the hospital
and I called the High Bar back.
Guess who answered?
One blessed and apparently
highly favored Jennifer.
Oh.
- How did you get these?
- That was her response
to my contention
that she was just a
hit it and quit it.
She sent me those to show
that you guys are
in a relationship.
- Jay, I know how this looks,
but this chick just
brought me her car.
And yeah, okay, I said some
things, but I never touched her.
- Cap.
- That's not cap.
There's nothing there.
So now what?
- I don't know.
- What does that mean?
- Exactly what I said.
- You didn't say anything.
- Jacked up, isn't it?
- What?
- Being on that side of I
don't know where we stand.
- Look, you tripping.
I'm gonna go wash these sheets.
- I said stop.
I'm too tired to do it.
Not today.
Please just give up.
Good, that's what I'm asking.
♪ I feel like falling in love
♪ I'm in the mood
- Ha!
- What are y'all doing?
♪ Wanna go where nobody's been
- No.
No, you should have told
her you were out here.
- That's the thing.
I don't think she cares.
Does she always do that?
- Right?
- No, this is fairly new.
- I don't know what's
becoming of this place.
- Leave.
Just go on about your business.
Go, please.
- This is a courthouse,
not, you know I'm right.
- Spangler, just go.
- Judge, Judge.
- Huh?
- I didn't know how
to get your attention.
Judge, you had an audience
out here watching you.
- Least of my problems.
- Yeah, well it's the
least of your problems
until it becomes a big problem.
- So what are we
looking like for today?
- Judge, are you hearing me?
- I already have one mother.
I don't need two.
- Well, I'll tell you like
I told your predecessor,
I handle all of this so
that you can go out there
and do that to the best
of your abilities, okay?
So please let me
do my job, please?
Please.
- What do we have today?
- Thank you.
All of your small claim
cases are settled.
I got Spangler to
take your motions
that were waiting on you.
- You about ready
to go out there?
- I am if you are [chuckling].
- Ooh.
- Judge,
you love it out
there, don't you?
- My little piece of peace,
the only place I have the
power to get it right.
- Then let's go out
there and get it right.
You ready?
- Yeah.
Hey!
What?
- I got something too, now.
- The state contends that
on the night in question,
one William Price, during
the commission of a felony,
killed one Robert Mason.
The state concedes
that Mr. Price
did not intend to
kill Mr. Mason,
but he did in fact do so while
trying to kill Jerry Guild.
He doesn't get to avoid the
full consequences of his intent
just because he killed
the wrong person.
Accordingly, I would ask that
this court find Mr. Price
over to common pleas court on
the charge of capital murder.
- Is he in?
- Yeah, yeah, he's in,
but he's.
- Asleep?
- It's been a
pretty busy morning.
- I heard.
He did housing court on site.
- Yeah, he did.
- How'd that go?
- It was exactly
what you needed.
- Can't imagine.
Well, let me just.
- Hey,
can you give him a rest?
- He inspires such
great loyalty.
- You gotta give credit
when credit is due.
- I am not asleep.
I have all y'all fooled.
I just rest my eyes
from time to time.
- He was just snoring.
- Uh huh.
Docket over?
We can do lunch.
- Not yet.
I got another 30 minutes or so.
- Make that an hour.
- I defer to my warden.
- I'll go see if
Ruth wants to eat.
- Have at it.
We ready out there?
- Yep.
Come on, Superman.
Let's put your cape on.
- Yep, let's get this
show on the road.
- I told you when I grew up,
I want to be just like you.
- That's hustling
backwards, bro.
- Approach.
- Mr. Kenzie has completed
fixing most of his violations.
I think we can end this.
- Good enough.
Mr. Kenzie, you're done with us.
- It's about time,
bunch of fascists.
- Nothing like housing court
to make you feel the love.
- You about ready?
- We need about
five more minutes.
- You want to take a recess?
- It'll take more time to
get up, leave and come back.
I'm good right here.
- Waiting on you.
- Can we discuss
some dates with you?
- Sure, what do you need?
- Shit, shit.
Oh, shit, shit, shit.
How long have you
been standing there?
- Can I help?
- No, not with
anything that matters.
- Your headache is back?
- Yeah, it's just
one of those things
that never actually goes away.
- I have some aspirin.
- Yeah, well I got
an entire pharmacy.
- Judge.
- You know that
never gets fixed, right?
- No, it doesn't.
- I believed him when he said
he was shooting out the lights,
but I couldn't do anything
but kick it to big boy court.
He killed somebody.
- I know.
- But you know what's
going to happen, right?
He's going for the full ride.
The man has a wife,
three kids, a citizen.
All this over a light.
It just goes to show
that we're all just
one dumb decision away
to never ride again.
This isn't the answer that
I thought it was at all.
We're just a mop up operation.
- Judge, we do what we can.
- And more often than
not, it's never enough.
Jean.
- Yeah, Judge?
- That's it for today, yes?
Everything's settled, right?
- Yep.
All we have is motion work.
- I'm going home.
- Judge, you know it's
going to be all right.
- No I don't Jean,
and neither do you.
- There she is.
- Hey, Howard.
- Judge.
- A little worried
about you there, sis.
- You and me both.
- It's all gonna be fine,
you know that, right?
- Tell that's Billy
Price and Leslie Mason.
- What I want to say
to you little sis,
one of the most important
things I've learned
in my 82 year journey
is this too shall pass.
- Howard, you don't understand.
- I don't need to know.
Everybody's got something
they gotta fight.
All I'm saying is
you gotta ride it out
without letting it take you out.
You got this far.
That was no accident.
- You know, out of
the men in my life,
you bring me the most comfort.
- I'll always be there for
you, even after I retire
in two.
- Two years.
Count 'em, one, two.
- With nary an election
in between here and there,
and you got my mail.
So call me any time, okay?
- Yeah.
- All right.
Love ya.
Take care, dear.
♪ Every time I look in your
eyes, something fades away ♪
♪ I need to know if you wanna
go, I won't make you stay ♪
♪ You got all of my little
heart, if you go and beg♪
- Hello.
♪ She got what you need, I won't
stand in your way♪
♪ I need you, I need you, need
you by my side ♪
♪ I love you, I love you forever
and a day♪
-Cheers.
♪ Now I know that time's gettin
hard for us baby ♪
♪ But you know that time's gonna
pass us by ♪
♪ I need you, I need you, need
you by my side ♪
-Shit.
-Jesus
- Oh God
I should have never told
you that I told him.
- Well you did, texted me
first thing this morning.
Then I tried to call you.
- Mommy, I was busy.
- You at home?
- I mean, if that's
what it looks like,
then that's where I am.
- Who are you talking to?
- I'm sorry.
I just got a lot on my mind.
- Please don't tell
me you can't work
because you are upset about him.
Don't tell me that.
- Okay, then I
won't tell you that.
- You know what you
need to do, right?
- You know, the easiest
thing in the world
is for a woman to
tell another woman
that she should leave
the man that she is with.
- And what do you have, really?
Y'all aren't married and
he's still running around.
- Didn't daddy put you
through a whole window?
- My husband has his issues,
but he is my husband.
- Guess that makes it okay, huh?
- Look, I cut my deal.
Does he have bad days?
Yes, he does.
But he didn't volunteer
to be emotionally unable.
He just is.
Now somebody's gotta love
him, and ain't for nothing.
He does his part,
supported me for 35 years,
putting you and your
brother through college.
- I think that's the thing
that you don't
understand about Darryl.
He does the same thing for
me that you do for daddy.
It's not easy being us.
- It ain't easy being
around y'all, either.
Oh, uh uh.
Are you day drinking again?
Oh, hell no.
I'm coming over there.
- Mm, Mommy, I just,
God Jesus, shoot me now.
L-A-R-R-Y.
- So have you two
been taken care of?
All right, then we'll
handle you last two
and then we'll be good.
- Thank you.
If I may, we're fairly
complete on all of the repairs,
so we would like to stay
this matter for six months
so Mr. Morris can apply to
a housing repair program.
- Okay, I got that
order for you.
Judge, we're down
to the last few.
- I don't even.
- Judge.
Judge.
- Just go, yeah.
- Judge.
Judge.
Judge, Judge?
- Is he okay?
- Judge!
- Oh, shit.
- Judge!
I need everybody out
the courtroom now.
Get Barbara in here.
Judge.
- Okay, I'm gonna call 9-1-1.
- I'm not getting a pulse.
I don't think he's breathing.
Judge.
- All right, Andrew.
- Come on, don't do this to me.
Don't do this, come on, come on.
- We have an emergency.
- Judge.
Judge, come on.
- Can somebody
get Barbara, please?
- Get a medic in here now.
Judge, come here.
Don't do this to me.
Come on, come on,
come on, wake up.
Come on, man.
- So you telling me
she had pictures of you
and Red in her phone?
- Yep.
- Bro, why y'all here posing
in pictures with a side chick?
- That's the thing, I didn't.
Someone must have been
shooting from the low.
- It must have been a home girl.
- Haven?
- Hell yeah.
You said she pulled up with
her a few times, didn't she?
- Son of a bitch.
Jay was right, man.
Women are getting
out of control.
- What you mean,
getting out of control?
They always been.
- What's she up to now?
- Don't know.
- Yo, that's a weird chick.
Am I lying?
- Yo, D.
I mean, so what you
going to do, bro?
- Go home?
- Early, I bet.
- You always talking shit
about how I treat my woman
when you don't even got one.
- He got a point there.
- Remember that time he
asked shorty up the way
to chase him around the
neighborhood in that car?
Running behind folks
houses and shit?
- Dog, she hopped out the
whip, hitting this man up
and chased him with
a baseball bat.
- He'd get away.
- But she got back in the car.
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
But my woman never
got me arrested.
- He got a point there.
- Yeah.
- But seriously, man.
What you gonna do?
- I got a plan.
I already started.
Send a few texts,
get home early,
be there before she gets there.
It ain't hard work when
you know what you're doing.
- That's a fact.
Tell them what they want to hear
and you start over from scratch.
- Fact.
- But what about Red, though?
- That's the thing.
All that flat ass
ain't even my thing.
She just.
- Bro, she look at you
like you Idris or somebody.
- Simple.
She don't say shit,
and when she do,
all of her words are short.
- Man, fuck all that.
Did you smash or not?
- Nah, I ain't hit it,
but I did one thing.
- I knew it.
You hit the little batty from
the High Bar, didn't you?
- Tapped that.
- I already know it.
- So just add her
to the rotation.
I mean, what you look like
turning down free pussy?
- Jennifer don't know her role.
She want to be my
woman and shit.
- But don't play yourself,
'cause old girl from the
High Bar on the same shit.
She's just a little
more patient with it.
- That's the thing.
You don't even let
it get that far.
One and done.
- I remember when he used
to be until I get caught.
- That's a fact.
- Until I get caught
don't work on a woman
you trying to keep.
- Not if you train
'em right, dog.
- What you got at home again?
- He got that strong
ass left hand.
- Yep, once a day, every
day, twice on Sunday.
- Make yourself go
blind with that shit.
- Yeah, your shit gonna fall
off, keep fucking around.
- Hey.
- Let the circus begin.
- Really?
Is that necessary?
- No, may not be
necessary, but it's true.
- We're gonna have
a talk, you and I.
- Case number GL187625,
Antoine North.
- Mr. North, do you
have an attorney?
- No.
- Do we have any lawyers
we need to clear out here
before we see the
unrepresented defendants?
- No Judge, not one.
Doesn't matter, they live here.
- Yo, you hear your
dude over here?
- Unfortunately, yes.
I'm very sorry.
- I didn't mean for him to hear.
- Yes, but he did, and what's
more concerning for you
is so did I.
- Ain't this about a bitch.
The dude over here talking
about how we don't need lawyers
'cause we be in
here all the time.
You see what I'm saying?
That's bullshit, man.
- Sir, I will handle it.
- Judge, don't let these
people tell you what to do.
- Who you calling these people?
- Sir?
- You see what I'm saying?
- Go James, go.
- Every time, we don't
never get a chance, man.
- I'm very sorry.
He will not be back today.
- Bullshit.
- You still folding
clothes back there?
- God Lord, please
shut this woman up.
- And get your
hands out of your hair.
You ain't Snow White.
- Oh my God.
- God ain't got nothing
to do with this.
- Andrew,
they're on their way.
Yes, please hurry.
- Come on man, come on.
- They said two minutes.
- Where the hell is Barbara?
Move, move, move.
- They're pulling
up, they're pulling up.
They're parking.
- Where are they?
Where is the medic?
I need a medic, come on.
Come on, man.
- How long has he been down?
- I don't know.
We thought he was sleeping.
- Okay, we got this.
No pulse.
- Starting compressions.
- Come on man, come on.
- Uh, what the
heck just happened?
- From what I can tell, he
made some off-color remark
and Judge Allen put him out.
- Oh, Grimes is his
own worst enemy.
- There's no jokes.
You don't make jokes.
- Look at her go off.
- It is not your courtroom.
- She is really
letting him have it.
- What's the matter?
- He's not moving.
- Who?
- Please.
- What was that?
- I'm sorry.
- No, you're not sorry.
- Why is the cover on his face?
Why is the cover on his face?
What happened, what happened?
No.
- Jean, come on, give me
your hand, give me your hand.
- I have to call Helen.
- You want me to do it?
- No, it's better
if it comes from me.
I've known her for years.
- Don't call.
I'll take you over there and
we'll tell her in person.
- How long were they married?
- Over 40 years.
I'm gonna go with you.
- No, you're not.
You have half the
Atlanta docket in there.
You're not going anywhere.
And Grimes, you're
going with him,
and I don't want to hear one
single word from your mouth.
Not one quip from
you about anybody.
- I'm not an asshole.
- Well.
Anisha, I need you to
be me while I'm gone.
Those people down there,
they still need to deal
with what they came here to do,
and it has to be done, and
it has to be done right.
Look, I know we're all upset,
but we all still
have our jobs to do.
So if you need to take
a moment, go outside,
go for a walk around
the block and come back.
- We got this, everybody.
Do you hear me?
- Wait, who's gonna
call Judge Jay Johnson?
- All right.
Look, I could solve
your problems if you
just listen to me.
I'm not saying you
gotta get rid of him,
even though that would be best.
What I'm saying is
men behave better
when they know you can walk off.
You need to let him
know you can walk off.
- I can't.
I'm barely holding
it together as it is.
- Don't you see?
He can see that you're weak,
and you won't put him out.
- You don't know what
you're talking about.
- If you just take
your meds as prescribed,
you wouldn't need him.
- And you know this how?
- I don't know what
it is with you people.
- You people?
- Yes, you people.
You, your father,
your Aunt Maxine.
Why can't you take your meds
as prescribed?
- Mommy, 'cause they're not
a solve, ma.
They're not a solve.
I mean, yeah, they
make us easier to take
but they do things to you.
Some of them make you nauseous,
some of them make you fuzzy.
Some of them, it takes weeks
for them to even start.
Some you can't even
come off of right away.
I've gotta swear some of
them even make you dumb.
I swear I lost 10 IQ points
off of that Aripiprazole.
Not even to mention that a
few of them make you fat.
- Don't take any of those.
- Ma, I am talking
psychiatric numbers
and all you heard was fat?
Priorities, mom.
- Look, little girl.
I know what I'm talking about.
How do you think your
father was able to work
and deal all of those years?
I may not be in your head,
but I know how this works.
If you gonna drink, eat.
- I don't want to eat.
- Do I look
like I'm playing with
you, little girl?
Eat.
Eat.
It's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right,
it's gonna be all right.
It's gonna be all right.
- Looks like we got
the wrong sauce.
- Looks like we got the
wrong nigga ordering shit.
We need a new rear axle.
- Shit.
All right, I gotta
order another.
Hey Z, call me on my way home.
Hold on one second,
I gotta take this.
- This nigga thought
it was one size
fits all and shit.
- That's the problem,
he be on the damn
phone all the time.
- What are you talking about?
I did no such.
Your mother's there, isn't she?
But she was.
That's not true.
Look, I'm coming
home, we'll talk.
Girl, you been drinking?
You gotta have been drinking.
This is about your sins, no,
this is about your sins, not
mine
I am packing your shit up, you
can come get them when I'm at
work.
And leave your keys
Calm down, calm down, calm down.
No
I'm gonna come home
and we'll talk.
Don't you step a foot in this
house while I'm here.
I am not playin with your ass
Jay, Jay.
Fuck.
- So if we just tighten it.
- The High Bar, y'all.
- Bro, what happened?
- The High Bar.
- Bro, are you sure?
Because you know
whenever you drink
you just take it all
the way there, nigga.
All right, whether
you all the way happy
or all the way angry.
You remember what happened
in Baltimore, nigga?
- The High Bar.
- Shit, you buying?
- Really, nigga?
- Darryl's a grown ass man.
He don't need us to
tell him what to do.
- D, look bro, at
least let us know
what type of bullshit
we about to ride into.
- Go home, get your clothes,
meet me at the High Bar.
That's it.
Now nigga, come on.
- All right, nigga.
Damn.
- nigga always yelling.
- Is the rear axle at
the High Bar, though?
- Gotta be.
- [Worker] That's what
I want to know.
- Hello?
Martin?
What?
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
What do you mean?
Howard?
How?
- Jay.
What are you doing?
- Why are you breaking
into my house?
- I ain't breaking into
y'all house, woman.
I got a key.
- What are you doing here?
- Mom sent me here.
You ain't picking up everybody
phone calls or anything.
She got worried, what's up?
- Tell her that I'm fine.
- You're fine, really?
Are you?
- Well of course I'm not,
but that's what
you're gonna tell her.
- You want to put the
butcher knife down real quick
so we can just talk?
Geez.
- Oh.
- So you really put
big boy out, huh?
- You would think that
that's the worst thing
that happened today,
but it wasn't.
- Soon, and very soon, you
will get to meet the king.
- You know Jay, Jay.
- What?
- Can I go tell mom you're okay?
- I don't care what you do.
- Look, everything's
gonna be okay, all right?
Will you just
relax a little bit?
Woosah.
- Everybody says that, you know?
But it's not true.
- You know what you ought to do?
You remember when you
were studying for the bar?
You built like a whole
three story dollhouse,
electric running
through the whole thing,
you know what I mean?
You remember?
- Okay.
- Yeah, when you're
working on things,
you don't really worry.
You should probably
work on something.
- You know, every once in a
while you kind of remind me
that you're not
completely useless.
- You know I love you
because I let you put your
stinking feet on me, all right?
Now can I go now and tell mom
you're okay, mission complete?
All right, later, kid.
- Ow!
You act childish.
- Put that knife away.
You ain't hurting nobody.
- Okay Graves, I hear you.
Hey basic bitch,
play some music.
Oh, okay.
We're in that kind of mood.
All right.
Okay, okay.
October, October, October 15th.
One, two.
October, December.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
October 15th.
Fucking February 9th.
Holy shit.
Shit, shit.
Basic bitch, I did not
call for shock and awe.
Basic bitch, turn
off shock and awe.
Pick up, pick up, pick up.
- Bitch.
It's over when I say it is.
♪ I heard him say
chivalry was dead ♪
♪ I could see it in
your eyes you scared ♪
♪ Because there ain't
nothing for you here ♪
♪ Lot of skeletons
in my closet, dear ♪
♪ Baby, destruction
is part the play ♪
♪ I'm your leader
to in front of me ♪
♪ I'm a need my
respect in living ♪
♪ And if you get
offended too bad ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm the high eater
♪ I'm the high eater baby
♪ It's a dinner date,
I'm a eat your soul ♪
♪ Think about it,
dream about it ♪
♪ If you want to
stay then you can ♪