Judge Me Not (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - That Sinking Feeling - full transcript
- Go, let's go, get to class.
Veronica.
Let's go, Jason.
Come on.
- Everybody back to class.
- Let's go.
Hey, hey.
- Back to class.
- Hey, ladies calm down.
- The next time
you call my son -
- Hey, everybody settle down.
- Get out the way.
- Told you to get out
the way, where's he at?
- Get her, get over here.
- Pow, sista!
- Damn!
- Hey, hey, hey, the police!
- Okay, okay, okay!
- The police have been notified
and they're on their way.
- I got it from here Snow White.
- Oh my God.
Oh my God.
I'm up, I'm up.
I'm up, I'm up.
You're okay, you're okay.
You're fine.
Oh!
Oh, shhhh.
Sh.
- Good morning to you too.
- Oh.
Start right-
Start right after we
finished the bottle.
That's the last thing
that I remember.
Start there.
- We're both single.
Technically, there's
nothing wrong with this.
- There is nothing right about
this either, start talking!
- I was calling you to
see how you were doing,
but you wouldn't pick up.
We all got worried,
I live closest,
so I came over to check on you.
You were already working on
that bottle when I got here.
And these two you opened up
and we finished the first.
- Oh God.
Oh God.
- You okay?
- Ah, too soon to talk.
- I tried to get you
to drink some water
last night before you
fell asleep, but you.-
- An cooperative
drunk, I am not.
- But you're a humorous one.
- Well there ain't
nothing funny now.
- Meaning?
- Man, can't you see
this is not good?
- I don't see a problem.
Like I said, we're both single.
- What do you mean?
I have Darryl and
you have, look,
I don't even know,
- See, this is the problem
with women right here.
You have to define everything.
To me, you're married
or you're not.
And we're not so,
- Ah.
what we do is up to us.
- That is so easy
for you to say.
You men mess up, we forgive you.
Darryl so much as smells
this and he's gone.
- Now, would that
be such a bad thing?
I mean, you really
want a ring outta him?
- What?
Are you offering me one, hm?
- Well, no.
- Oh, no, but see.
But nothing.
Besides a ring isn't everything.
- Oh, come on Jay.
- No, seriously.
I think for me,
just the thought of
being without him
is worse, that's all.
- I'm not telling
you to leave him.
I'm just saying, why
can't we explore this?
- What?
I am not signing up
or enlisting for your rotation
of women and characters.
- You wouldn't be that.
Not at all.
To me, you're different.
- Oh, you all say that.
- No, no, no.
You, I mean, we could
- I
- make it-
- have everything to lose.
You have nothing to lose.
So you don't tell anybody.
- Who would I tell?
- I have no idea what you
do in your daily life.
Whatever it is, that
shit ain't regular.
- True.
- True.
- Yeah, but aren't you
the one who always said
that regular's overrated?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah when I'm
the one who's being irregular.
I need the rest of you to be
as predictable as possible.
Oh, hey, now, hey, whoa, whoa.
We don't allow
that kind of thing.
- Haven't I earned a pass?
- No.
What time is it?
- You better get started.
They expect me to be late,
but not you.
A lot of bottles in there.
- Don't you
have somewhere to be?
- Think about what I said.
- Nothing to think about.
- So.
- This was a mistake.
A fun one, but nevertheless,
a mistake.
- Well you can never really
know how certain things end up.
- You do have your
talents, but as it stands,
you can see yourself
through the door.
- Okay.
- Question.
- Sure.
- Can I see your phone?
- Yeah.
What, you don't think I-
- I don't know what you did.
That's why I'm asking.
- Well, you should have
a little more faith
in your fellow man.
- What does that mean?
- Exactly what I said.
- You didn't take
pictures, did you?
- I would never do
anything to hurt you.
- Jesus.
Ready or not?
Here I come.
- Hey!
You need me to get these impound
reports sent off for you?
- No, that's all right.
I'll do it later.
- Okay.
Your file cabinet.
I know you need me to
organize that for you,
so I'll go ahead and
get started on that.
- What's going on with you?
Grab a seat.
- It's just, everybody's insane.
I feel like we're the
only rational ones left.
- I know exactly what
you're talking about.
Ugh.
I can't believe it's been three
weeks since we buried him.
- Nothing is the same.
- Nothing.
- I mean, the only person
that's acting okay is Spengler.
I mean, does she really
hate him that much?
I know they bicker, but geez.
- That's not that entirely.
- What?
- You know what?
I shouldn't say anything,
it's not my business, so.
- Come on it's me.
- Spengler's had some
personal troubles
that seem to have fixed
themselves unexpectedly.
- What does that mean?
- Okay.
You know how she, over
the past few months,
she's been acting more,
I don't even know
what word- she use.
- Spenglerish.
- Yes, yes.
So I was waiting for Wheeler
outside of her chambers one day,
and I heard her
talking on the phone
with her sister about some guy.
- A guy?
- Yes, this guy.
And she was telling her
that he wasn't
harassing her anymore,
even though she wasn't
giving him any more money.
- Money?
- Yeah.
I don't know.
I think it was one of those
online catfish type of things.
Love scams.
- Oh, Spengler?
- Yeah.
- Love scam?
No, she's too smart for that.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
It's got nothing to do
with how smart you are.
Just how lonely.
- Well, thank God somebody's
okay 'cause Judge Johnson.
Oof.
Oh, there's Spengler
right there.
Gotcha.
Did you just shake?
- Go take your break.
- Not fun.
[keyboard clicking]
- Buckle up, she's in
a bumpy place today.
- That, Jean, is not a secret.
- I'm still here.
- Jay?
Got a minute?
- What?
- I know we're not, well.
- Speak or leave.
- Can I sit?
- Can I stop you?
- Okay I'm not here
to cause any trouble.
- Skip the disclaimers and
just say what you have to say.
- Everyone is talking about you.
- And that concerns me because?
- I see you're busy, Judge.
So you can just let me-
- Would you like to get up?
- I would.
Let me let you get that.
- Is everything
okay in here?
- Yep.
- Somebody's pretty intent
on talking with you.
- Everybody's pretty
intent on talking to me.
- Shouldn't that thing go
to voicemail by now anyway?
- I disabled voicemail.
I can't discern true
intent with a voicemail.
- Okay?
Don't forget your meeting is
in five minutes with the chief.
- Shit.
- Yeah.
- I need those.
- What is all of that anyway?
- Some proof.
Not the proof, but some proof.
- Proof of?
- Jean?
- Yeah?
- Where's my briefcase?
Jean?
Where's my briefcase?
- Let's find your briefcase.
- Jean, where's my briefcase?
- I'm looking for your briefcase.
- Yeah?
Send her in.
- Judge, good to see you again.
- I don't believe you, but,
I appreciate the lie.
- Before you get started,
you need to know,
we arrested someone
in the murder
of Marjorie Palmer last night.
- Who?
- Homeless guy that
hung around the church.
- Really?
- Black guy, early twenties.
Alcore Stevens.
- Alcore.
- They kicked me out.
I can't afford my meds and
they're coming for me.
- You've got the wrong guy.
- No, I'm afraid not.
He had an ongoing dispute
with the pastor there.
The parishioners were
complaining about him.
They kept kicking him out.
He threatened a lot
of people there.
- Alcore is harmless.
- Known schizophrenic,
lots of contact with the law.
- All bullshit.
Trespassing, criminal mischief.
He's not your guy.
- He confessed Judge.
- Freely?
- I respect you
and your position,
but you need to stick to
your side of law enforcement
and let me handle mine.
- What about Alexis and Gina?
- We're looking at a few people.
- Whoever they are, if
they're not Larry Still,
then you are looking
in the wrong place.
- Judge, I've listened
to you twice before.
I understand your theory.
I understand how
you feel about him,
but there's not enough
facts to support it.
Do you have anything new, judge?
- A few things you see.
- Can't you just tell me?
- It's complicated.
You have to actually look.
Look.
- Tell you what,
just leave this here with me.
- Oh.
- You gotta have all this
in a hard drive somewhere.
- You're not gonna
actually look,
you're not gonna read these.
- Sure I will.
- Forget it.
Will you at least please
take another look
at Marjorie Palmer.
Alcore Stevens is not your guy.
He's just an easy target
because he's black and crazy.
- Judge, as I said.
Talk about black and
crazy, Jesus Christ.
- By yourself
in your head.
- Jean, who's next?
- Belinda Crowder.
- Mm.
Tell her sister Shaquita to
come up here with her too.
- Her sister.
- Yes, Shaquita and
Belinda Crowder.
They're here on the same
charges for the same incident.
- Oh, here you are, Judge.
- Thank you.
- Calling case number GE47693:
Crowder versus the
city of Pittsburgh.
Shaquita, please
approach the bench also.
- Stop talking to me,
stop talking to me.
What you looking at?
- Stop.
- Mm, don't get comfortable now.
Come on up here.
And watch how you
swing my door please.
Ladies, you two are
here for sentencing
on one count each of
aggravated assault
and aggravated menacing.
Now I've had a chance to read
your pre-sentencing report.
Is there anything that either
one of you would like to say?
- What for?
You already made
up your mind, so.
- Oh.
Okay, well I have an idea,
but I can always be persuaded.
- Just get on with it.
- Oh.
You don't wanna miss
your last opportunity
to have input now do you?
- I'm not gonna
beg or apologize.
- Belinda.
- I'm not gonna apologize.
- Don't worry.
I won't hold that against
either one of you.
- Your Honor, she just upset.
- Isn't she always though?
Hmm?
You know what your arrest record
tells me about you,
Ms. Belinda Crowder?
That you don't know
how to use your words.
You have eight assault
related priors.
Now the first three are with
the Jeffrey Randolph Smith,
who was probably a bad idea,
masquerading as a boyfriend.
Two with your sister
Shaquita here,
and then the other
three flying dolo.
Now your sister Shaquita
here on the other hand,
doesn't have any other charges
aside from the two that she
has fooling around with you.
You're going home.
And you, you're doing 30 days.
- Ain't this about a bitch?
I go to your son's class,
gonna help his teacher.
But you going home
and I'm going to jail.
Ain't this my wholesale
all day bitch.
- Jean, Jean.
- Officer Lee.
- Fucked up.
Fuck you.
- Yeah.
- Yeah fuck you.
Don't touch me.
Don't touch me.
- Just calm down before
you get more time.
- 30 days?
- You gonna get
more time, shut up.
- Look at me and Shaquita.
You're not innocent,
you're just lucky today.
This whole situation tells me
that you don't know how
to use your words either.
When you called your sister,
you knew exactly what
she was gonna do.
'Cause you and your sister
like to throw hands, right?
Y'all enable each other.
- Not normally.
- You are a black mother
raising a black son.
Do you understand
that responsibility?
- Yes ma'am.
- Do better because you ain't
gonna get another chance.
Not in this courtroom.
You're welcome.
- I'm gonna get you to pull
tomorrow's from the child docket
I have to See Randolph
Beckett Tyson at four.
- Okay, Judge, Judge, Judge.
Hang on a second, I gotta
write all this down.
- Jean these are for you.
- Okay, great.
- Grimes.
- Hey Judge.
- Oh, Jay.
Oh, you wanna finish talking
about the housing program?
- Housing, really?
- Don't let me stop you.
- I'm gonna say
what I'm gonna say.
You want me to do it out here?
- Thank you Jean.
- Andrew, fuck off.
What is up with you?
- What do you mean?
- We are adults.
- Still not with you.
- You're behaving like
a kid, avoiding me.
Snarky remarks when we're
in the same room together.
What are you doing?
- I told you that it
was a one and done,
but you keep pushing it.
- Not in front of other people.
- That's right, you
harass me in private.
- I'm not harassing.
I'm courting.
- Courting when a woman
says no is harassment.
- You see, that's the
problem right there
with the young and the woke.
You've removed all the intrigue
and romance out of the
pleasures of the world.
- Don't you touch me.
- What's with the hostility?
You do remember what happened.
- I remember telling you
that it was a one and done.
I remember that.
- You can't tell me
you don't have thoughts
of a repeat visit.
- None.
- I don't believe you.
- Yeah well, that's
the beauty of it.
You don't need to.
All that you need to
know is that I said no.
And the problem starts when
you don't respect what I say.
- Women protest all the time.
It's a game.
- Do I look like I'm
playing with you?
- Always.
- What are you doing
down here, Lily?
Haven't you caused
enough trouble?
- I don't know
why you're so mad.
As usual they didn't believe me.
They never believe me.
- Would you like to
see what you've done?
- No.
- Sure you do.
- Larry.
I'm done with the court thing.
Remember Mom said you
have to look after me.
Even Frank said that.
- Ah.
But at the end of the day, Lily,
what does that even mean?
- What does what even mean?
- Taking care of somebody.
Sometimes it's even necessary
to destroy the body.
To save the soul.
Would you like to know
what's in the basement?
- No.
- Oh, I think you should.
After all, if it wasn't for you,
I never would've found
my higher purpose.
First time you took me to
court and there she was.
Ruth Spengler fat and arrogant.
She's to be my greatest
step in the realignment.
And that's all thanks to you.
I really think you deserve to
see what's in the basement.
- No, no.
I won't cause anymore troub-
Larry, I don't, please.
- Come on.
- Don't, no, please
don't take me.
- Yo D, somebody
here to see you, man.
- Just a second.
Fuck.
What brings you here?
- I'm worried about Jay.
I want you to talk to her.
- What makes you think
she's still talking to me?
- Not at all?
- Not anymore.
She holler every once in a while
until a couple of weeks ago,
she sent me this long
bizarre text saying,
stay away from her and
stop messing with her.
After that, she doesn't
answer nothing coming from me.
- Didn't that concern you?
I mean, don't you
think that was odd?
- Everything she does is odd.
Quietest kept, y'all
whole family crazy.
- It's been three weeks
since Graves's funeral,
and she's gotten
more and more manic.
I think she's off her meds.
- She always playing fast
and loose with those things.
- No, this time is different.
I think she stopped
taking all of them.
- She wouldn't just
stop taking all of them.
Jay would taper off.
- Exactly!
I'm worried.
- So what do you want me to do?
She's not talking to me
Because you told her not to.
- Have you tried?
- You know, despite
what you think,
I really love your daughter.
- Is that supposed to be a yes?
- Every day, Yvonne, I text her.
- And?
What does she say?
- Like I said.
Couple weeks ago, she
accused me of stalking her.
Now she answers nothing.
Look.
- That didn't alarm you.
- Why do you think she
stopped taking them?
- A few weeks ago, she called
me sobbing uncontrollably,
talking about somebody
was after her.
Then all of a sudden she
stopped talking to me.
Wouldn't even open the
door when I went by there.
Nothing.
I thought the calls were bad.
She's not talking to anybody.
Not to me.
Not to her father.
Nobody.
Graves is gone.
And you know how
she felt about him.
If she's not talking to us,
who do you think
she's talking to.
- Herself?
- Yeah.
And that's nobody she
needs to be listening to.
I want you to call her.
- For what?
So she can start
some mess with me
for some shit you fed her?
- And they call
us the weaker sex.
But you know what?
I get it.
I don't expect you to
want to do me a solid,
but no matter what I did to you,
I expect you to do
the right thing,
the right thing, Darryl.
You say you love her, right?
- Heyo, Basic Bitch.
Play my favorite song.
["Night and Day" by Rex Barron]
♪ By my side day or night
♪ What have you done to me? Why
do you always leave?
♪ It's not right, we don't
fight ♪
♪ But I know what you've
been through ♪
♪ I guess you're back
♪ Are you gonna tell me where
you're at? ♪
♪ All the messages I sent with
no reply ♪
♪ It's like that
♪ You're just gonna walk into my
room ♪
♪ I hate how you assume
♪ I could walk for days,
searchin' for you place ♪
♪ Is it even there to find?
♪ Is there a chance for me?
♪ To be in your memories
♪ Where I slowly lose my mind
♪ By my side, day or night
♪ What have you done to me?
Why do you always leave? ♪
♪ It's not right, we don't
fight ♪
♪ But I know what you've been
through ♪
- [Crime Show Host] He
created this imaginary world.
But it only existed in his mind.
And in this world,
he felt like he was
actually saving her
from her past, her
vices, her flaws.
So usually in cases of this
nature, we find that some type.
- Of trauma.
- Bitch, niggas
is that shit I don't like.
- Or, whether it be
abuse or neglectful parents,
these people
generally do not feel
in control of their own
thoughts and actions.
So they feel the need
to control others.
So then they develop
this God complex,
with this false
entitlement to judge.
In this particular
case, this perpetrator,
he needed control.
That was his main objective.
He needed his victim
to feel afraid.
And the only thing that
saved Alison Peters
was her refusal
to show that fear.
So what Ms. Peters
did was she kept him
off balance with all these
unexpected responses.
Then she would gauge when
he became more agitated
and less in control.
She spent her time figuring
out what made him angry,
what soothed him.
And then she adapted.
She continued to do the
unexpected to buy herself time.
So what she did here
was pretty impressive.
She purported to be
interested in his motive.
And that kept him
talking about his goal.
That redirection probably was
the only thing in the world
that distracted
this man from her.
- I'm gonna be ready.
- So what we typically find
with these type
of personalities,
always see their
intent is righteous.
and their decisions as a
justified means to an end
- Are you gonna answer that?
Baby it's not that big a deal.
- Do I look like I want to talk?
- I'm just saying it happens.
- Hm.
Even though I have never
heard it happen to you before.
- You gonna wash your hands?
- Oh, now you wanna be hygienic?
- Where are you going?
- Home.
The only thing hard in here
tonight is on the drive.
- Once you leave.
- Once I leave, what?
Huh?
You think I burned down your
house, and I'm still here.
Your threats for me to go and
not come back ring hollow.
- Things can change.
And not for nothing, you
did burn down my house.
- Send me to jail if
you really believe that.
Oh, that's right.
You can't say anything
about who might have
burned down your house,
Which again, I say was
not me, your Honor,
without exposing your
soft white underbelly.
- We are two
consenting adults here.
- Your problem isn't the law.
It's the voting public.
They can't know
who you really are.
And I saw your file.
- What?
- Undeclared, is that what
we're calling her now?
Just, God, Darryl, you don't
stand a fucking chance.
- You'd be surprised.
- Oh, keep thinking that.
Hi, this is Denise Wang.
Yeah, we met at a
few chicken dinners.
We have a common problem and
I'd like to discuss how we
might be able to
help each other out.
Let me just send you
a few screenshots.
Yeah, I was thinking
the same thing.
["Don't Wanna" by Novembers]
♪ If you think I'm gonna try
again ♪
♪ You got another thing comin'
♪ Ooo Ooo
♪ You done pushed me to the
edge again ♪
♪ When I was better off
trippin' ♪
- You here to collect me?
- Something like that.
- Y'all were right.
- About what?
- Look at this shit.
All that pointing fingers
at me and look at that shit.
- Damn.
Well look, come on D,
it's your second time
in the last three months
just diving in the
bottle like this.
- I'm a grown ass man, bro.
- Yeah, with a bad fucking
history with liquor.
Remember what
happened in Baltimore?
- You made it out just fine.
- That's 'cause we left town.
Bro, we live here.
- Man, fuck that.
You and her, man.
- Alright, so where you
about to go now dude?
- Don't worry about it.
- You about to go holler at Jay?
- None of your business.
- Bro you don't
need to go tonight.
All right, just sober up.
Get yourself together,
you know what I'm saying?
You go tomorrow,
it is no big deal.
You don't need to go tonight.
Yo D, come on man.
- This sure ain't no end
to my night my nigga.
- You got it.
- That's what I thought.
♪♪♪
♪ Go all the way with you
♪ Blowin' that empty balloon
wasting my breath ♪
♪ Just goin there empty
- Hello?
What?
Darryl?
Darryl, it's me I know you
ain't walk up in this house,
leave that back door open
and not even say hello.
Call me.
- Sorry about all this
late night nonsense.
- Yeah.
So what was this about?
- George said that we might
have common interests.
- We've been following
your posts, your website.
We like how you think.
- Ah.
So you agree.
- Definitely.
- You're prepared to
do something about it?
'Cause honestly, I'm
tired of talking.
- What we were interested in
was your key figure theory.
- Adam and I are businessmen.
We have access to money.
You as a lawyer know
more about the system,
and that key figure
theory sounds workable.
- We need a judge.
- We do.
- Yeah, it's not as
hard as you would think.
Just back the right
guy with enough money.
- Oh, we can get the
finance in for the campaign.
If you want to be that
judge, we can get behind you.
- You'll have to take
that website down,
scrub your social media.
But in two years you'll
be able to reestablish.
- You see, I could do that,
but that's just a
small part of it.
You have to have events.
Ones that can build
on each other.
- We think we have that.
- Here's what we're thinking.
♪ I heard him say
chivalry was dead ♪
♪ I could see it in
your eyes you scared ♪
♪ 'Cause it ain't
nothing for you here ♪
♪ Lot of skeletons
in my closet there ♪
♪ Baby destruction
is part of the play ♪
♪ I'm your leader, the
emperor, the maze ♪
♪ I'm gonna need my
respect and your faith ♪
♪ Sayin' if you get
offended too bad ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm the heart eater
♪ I'm the heart eater baby
it's a dinner date ♪
♪ I'm eat you solo
♪ Solo
♪ Solo
♪ Solo
Veronica.
Let's go, Jason.
Come on.
- Everybody back to class.
- Let's go.
Hey, hey.
- Back to class.
- Hey, ladies calm down.
- The next time
you call my son -
- Hey, everybody settle down.
- Get out the way.
- Told you to get out
the way, where's he at?
- Get her, get over here.
- Pow, sista!
- Damn!
- Hey, hey, hey, the police!
- Okay, okay, okay!
- The police have been notified
and they're on their way.
- I got it from here Snow White.
- Oh my God.
Oh my God.
I'm up, I'm up.
I'm up, I'm up.
You're okay, you're okay.
You're fine.
Oh!
Oh, shhhh.
Sh.
- Good morning to you too.
- Oh.
Start right-
Start right after we
finished the bottle.
That's the last thing
that I remember.
Start there.
- We're both single.
Technically, there's
nothing wrong with this.
- There is nothing right about
this either, start talking!
- I was calling you to
see how you were doing,
but you wouldn't pick up.
We all got worried,
I live closest,
so I came over to check on you.
You were already working on
that bottle when I got here.
And these two you opened up
and we finished the first.
- Oh God.
Oh God.
- You okay?
- Ah, too soon to talk.
- I tried to get you
to drink some water
last night before you
fell asleep, but you.-
- An cooperative
drunk, I am not.
- But you're a humorous one.
- Well there ain't
nothing funny now.
- Meaning?
- Man, can't you see
this is not good?
- I don't see a problem.
Like I said, we're both single.
- What do you mean?
I have Darryl and
you have, look,
I don't even know,
- See, this is the problem
with women right here.
You have to define everything.
To me, you're married
or you're not.
And we're not so,
- Ah.
what we do is up to us.
- That is so easy
for you to say.
You men mess up, we forgive you.
Darryl so much as smells
this and he's gone.
- Now, would that
be such a bad thing?
I mean, you really
want a ring outta him?
- What?
Are you offering me one, hm?
- Well, no.
- Oh, no, but see.
But nothing.
Besides a ring isn't everything.
- Oh, come on Jay.
- No, seriously.
I think for me,
just the thought of
being without him
is worse, that's all.
- I'm not telling
you to leave him.
I'm just saying, why
can't we explore this?
- What?
I am not signing up
or enlisting for your rotation
of women and characters.
- You wouldn't be that.
Not at all.
To me, you're different.
- Oh, you all say that.
- No, no, no.
You, I mean, we could
- I
- make it-
- have everything to lose.
You have nothing to lose.
So you don't tell anybody.
- Who would I tell?
- I have no idea what you
do in your daily life.
Whatever it is, that
shit ain't regular.
- True.
- True.
- Yeah, but aren't you
the one who always said
that regular's overrated?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah when I'm
the one who's being irregular.
I need the rest of you to be
as predictable as possible.
Oh, hey, now, hey, whoa, whoa.
We don't allow
that kind of thing.
- Haven't I earned a pass?
- No.
What time is it?
- You better get started.
They expect me to be late,
but not you.
A lot of bottles in there.
- Don't you
have somewhere to be?
- Think about what I said.
- Nothing to think about.
- So.
- This was a mistake.
A fun one, but nevertheless,
a mistake.
- Well you can never really
know how certain things end up.
- You do have your
talents, but as it stands,
you can see yourself
through the door.
- Okay.
- Question.
- Sure.
- Can I see your phone?
- Yeah.
What, you don't think I-
- I don't know what you did.
That's why I'm asking.
- Well, you should have
a little more faith
in your fellow man.
- What does that mean?
- Exactly what I said.
- You didn't take
pictures, did you?
- I would never do
anything to hurt you.
- Jesus.
Ready or not?
Here I come.
- Hey!
You need me to get these impound
reports sent off for you?
- No, that's all right.
I'll do it later.
- Okay.
Your file cabinet.
I know you need me to
organize that for you,
so I'll go ahead and
get started on that.
- What's going on with you?
Grab a seat.
- It's just, everybody's insane.
I feel like we're the
only rational ones left.
- I know exactly what
you're talking about.
Ugh.
I can't believe it's been three
weeks since we buried him.
- Nothing is the same.
- Nothing.
- I mean, the only person
that's acting okay is Spengler.
I mean, does she really
hate him that much?
I know they bicker, but geez.
- That's not that entirely.
- What?
- You know what?
I shouldn't say anything,
it's not my business, so.
- Come on it's me.
- Spengler's had some
personal troubles
that seem to have fixed
themselves unexpectedly.
- What does that mean?
- Okay.
You know how she, over
the past few months,
she's been acting more,
I don't even know
what word- she use.
- Spenglerish.
- Yes, yes.
So I was waiting for Wheeler
outside of her chambers one day,
and I heard her
talking on the phone
with her sister about some guy.
- A guy?
- Yes, this guy.
And she was telling her
that he wasn't
harassing her anymore,
even though she wasn't
giving him any more money.
- Money?
- Yeah.
I don't know.
I think it was one of those
online catfish type of things.
Love scams.
- Oh, Spengler?
- Yeah.
- Love scam?
No, she's too smart for that.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
It's got nothing to do
with how smart you are.
Just how lonely.
- Well, thank God somebody's
okay 'cause Judge Johnson.
Oof.
Oh, there's Spengler
right there.
Gotcha.
Did you just shake?
- Go take your break.
- Not fun.
[keyboard clicking]
- Buckle up, she's in
a bumpy place today.
- That, Jean, is not a secret.
- I'm still here.
- Jay?
Got a minute?
- What?
- I know we're not, well.
- Speak or leave.
- Can I sit?
- Can I stop you?
- Okay I'm not here
to cause any trouble.
- Skip the disclaimers and
just say what you have to say.
- Everyone is talking about you.
- And that concerns me because?
- I see you're busy, Judge.
So you can just let me-
- Would you like to get up?
- I would.
Let me let you get that.
- Is everything
okay in here?
- Yep.
- Somebody's pretty intent
on talking with you.
- Everybody's pretty
intent on talking to me.
- Shouldn't that thing go
to voicemail by now anyway?
- I disabled voicemail.
I can't discern true
intent with a voicemail.
- Okay?
Don't forget your meeting is
in five minutes with the chief.
- Shit.
- Yeah.
- I need those.
- What is all of that anyway?
- Some proof.
Not the proof, but some proof.
- Proof of?
- Jean?
- Yeah?
- Where's my briefcase?
Jean?
Where's my briefcase?
- Let's find your briefcase.
- Jean, where's my briefcase?
- I'm looking for your briefcase.
- Yeah?
Send her in.
- Judge, good to see you again.
- I don't believe you, but,
I appreciate the lie.
- Before you get started,
you need to know,
we arrested someone
in the murder
of Marjorie Palmer last night.
- Who?
- Homeless guy that
hung around the church.
- Really?
- Black guy, early twenties.
Alcore Stevens.
- Alcore.
- They kicked me out.
I can't afford my meds and
they're coming for me.
- You've got the wrong guy.
- No, I'm afraid not.
He had an ongoing dispute
with the pastor there.
The parishioners were
complaining about him.
They kept kicking him out.
He threatened a lot
of people there.
- Alcore is harmless.
- Known schizophrenic,
lots of contact with the law.
- All bullshit.
Trespassing, criminal mischief.
He's not your guy.
- He confessed Judge.
- Freely?
- I respect you
and your position,
but you need to stick to
your side of law enforcement
and let me handle mine.
- What about Alexis and Gina?
- We're looking at a few people.
- Whoever they are, if
they're not Larry Still,
then you are looking
in the wrong place.
- Judge, I've listened
to you twice before.
I understand your theory.
I understand how
you feel about him,
but there's not enough
facts to support it.
Do you have anything new, judge?
- A few things you see.
- Can't you just tell me?
- It's complicated.
You have to actually look.
Look.
- Tell you what,
just leave this here with me.
- Oh.
- You gotta have all this
in a hard drive somewhere.
- You're not gonna
actually look,
you're not gonna read these.
- Sure I will.
- Forget it.
Will you at least please
take another look
at Marjorie Palmer.
Alcore Stevens is not your guy.
He's just an easy target
because he's black and crazy.
- Judge, as I said.
Talk about black and
crazy, Jesus Christ.
- By yourself
in your head.
- Jean, who's next?
- Belinda Crowder.
- Mm.
Tell her sister Shaquita to
come up here with her too.
- Her sister.
- Yes, Shaquita and
Belinda Crowder.
They're here on the same
charges for the same incident.
- Oh, here you are, Judge.
- Thank you.
- Calling case number GE47693:
Crowder versus the
city of Pittsburgh.
Shaquita, please
approach the bench also.
- Stop talking to me,
stop talking to me.
What you looking at?
- Stop.
- Mm, don't get comfortable now.
Come on up here.
And watch how you
swing my door please.
Ladies, you two are
here for sentencing
on one count each of
aggravated assault
and aggravated menacing.
Now I've had a chance to read
your pre-sentencing report.
Is there anything that either
one of you would like to say?
- What for?
You already made
up your mind, so.
- Oh.
Okay, well I have an idea,
but I can always be persuaded.
- Just get on with it.
- Oh.
You don't wanna miss
your last opportunity
to have input now do you?
- I'm not gonna
beg or apologize.
- Belinda.
- I'm not gonna apologize.
- Don't worry.
I won't hold that against
either one of you.
- Your Honor, she just upset.
- Isn't she always though?
Hmm?
You know what your arrest record
tells me about you,
Ms. Belinda Crowder?
That you don't know
how to use your words.
You have eight assault
related priors.
Now the first three are with
the Jeffrey Randolph Smith,
who was probably a bad idea,
masquerading as a boyfriend.
Two with your sister
Shaquita here,
and then the other
three flying dolo.
Now your sister Shaquita
here on the other hand,
doesn't have any other charges
aside from the two that she
has fooling around with you.
You're going home.
And you, you're doing 30 days.
- Ain't this about a bitch?
I go to your son's class,
gonna help his teacher.
But you going home
and I'm going to jail.
Ain't this my wholesale
all day bitch.
- Jean, Jean.
- Officer Lee.
- Fucked up.
Fuck you.
- Yeah.
- Yeah fuck you.
Don't touch me.
Don't touch me.
- Just calm down before
you get more time.
- 30 days?
- You gonna get
more time, shut up.
- Look at me and Shaquita.
You're not innocent,
you're just lucky today.
This whole situation tells me
that you don't know how
to use your words either.
When you called your sister,
you knew exactly what
she was gonna do.
'Cause you and your sister
like to throw hands, right?
Y'all enable each other.
- Not normally.
- You are a black mother
raising a black son.
Do you understand
that responsibility?
- Yes ma'am.
- Do better because you ain't
gonna get another chance.
Not in this courtroom.
You're welcome.
- I'm gonna get you to pull
tomorrow's from the child docket
I have to See Randolph
Beckett Tyson at four.
- Okay, Judge, Judge, Judge.
Hang on a second, I gotta
write all this down.
- Jean these are for you.
- Okay, great.
- Grimes.
- Hey Judge.
- Oh, Jay.
Oh, you wanna finish talking
about the housing program?
- Housing, really?
- Don't let me stop you.
- I'm gonna say
what I'm gonna say.
You want me to do it out here?
- Thank you Jean.
- Andrew, fuck off.
What is up with you?
- What do you mean?
- We are adults.
- Still not with you.
- You're behaving like
a kid, avoiding me.
Snarky remarks when we're
in the same room together.
What are you doing?
- I told you that it
was a one and done,
but you keep pushing it.
- Not in front of other people.
- That's right, you
harass me in private.
- I'm not harassing.
I'm courting.
- Courting when a woman
says no is harassment.
- You see, that's the
problem right there
with the young and the woke.
You've removed all the intrigue
and romance out of the
pleasures of the world.
- Don't you touch me.
- What's with the hostility?
You do remember what happened.
- I remember telling you
that it was a one and done.
I remember that.
- You can't tell me
you don't have thoughts
of a repeat visit.
- None.
- I don't believe you.
- Yeah well, that's
the beauty of it.
You don't need to.
All that you need to
know is that I said no.
And the problem starts when
you don't respect what I say.
- Women protest all the time.
It's a game.
- Do I look like I'm
playing with you?
- Always.
- What are you doing
down here, Lily?
Haven't you caused
enough trouble?
- I don't know
why you're so mad.
As usual they didn't believe me.
They never believe me.
- Would you like to
see what you've done?
- No.
- Sure you do.
- Larry.
I'm done with the court thing.
Remember Mom said you
have to look after me.
Even Frank said that.
- Ah.
But at the end of the day, Lily,
what does that even mean?
- What does what even mean?
- Taking care of somebody.
Sometimes it's even necessary
to destroy the body.
To save the soul.
Would you like to know
what's in the basement?
- No.
- Oh, I think you should.
After all, if it wasn't for you,
I never would've found
my higher purpose.
First time you took me to
court and there she was.
Ruth Spengler fat and arrogant.
She's to be my greatest
step in the realignment.
And that's all thanks to you.
I really think you deserve to
see what's in the basement.
- No, no.
I won't cause anymore troub-
Larry, I don't, please.
- Come on.
- Don't, no, please
don't take me.
- Yo D, somebody
here to see you, man.
- Just a second.
Fuck.
What brings you here?
- I'm worried about Jay.
I want you to talk to her.
- What makes you think
she's still talking to me?
- Not at all?
- Not anymore.
She holler every once in a while
until a couple of weeks ago,
she sent me this long
bizarre text saying,
stay away from her and
stop messing with her.
After that, she doesn't
answer nothing coming from me.
- Didn't that concern you?
I mean, don't you
think that was odd?
- Everything she does is odd.
Quietest kept, y'all
whole family crazy.
- It's been three weeks
since Graves's funeral,
and she's gotten
more and more manic.
I think she's off her meds.
- She always playing fast
and loose with those things.
- No, this time is different.
I think she stopped
taking all of them.
- She wouldn't just
stop taking all of them.
Jay would taper off.
- Exactly!
I'm worried.
- So what do you want me to do?
She's not talking to me
Because you told her not to.
- Have you tried?
- You know, despite
what you think,
I really love your daughter.
- Is that supposed to be a yes?
- Every day, Yvonne, I text her.
- And?
What does she say?
- Like I said.
Couple weeks ago, she
accused me of stalking her.
Now she answers nothing.
Look.
- That didn't alarm you.
- Why do you think she
stopped taking them?
- A few weeks ago, she called
me sobbing uncontrollably,
talking about somebody
was after her.
Then all of a sudden she
stopped talking to me.
Wouldn't even open the
door when I went by there.
Nothing.
I thought the calls were bad.
She's not talking to anybody.
Not to me.
Not to her father.
Nobody.
Graves is gone.
And you know how
she felt about him.
If she's not talking to us,
who do you think
she's talking to.
- Herself?
- Yeah.
And that's nobody she
needs to be listening to.
I want you to call her.
- For what?
So she can start
some mess with me
for some shit you fed her?
- And they call
us the weaker sex.
But you know what?
I get it.
I don't expect you to
want to do me a solid,
but no matter what I did to you,
I expect you to do
the right thing,
the right thing, Darryl.
You say you love her, right?
- Heyo, Basic Bitch.
Play my favorite song.
["Night and Day" by Rex Barron]
♪ By my side day or night
♪ What have you done to me? Why
do you always leave?
♪ It's not right, we don't
fight ♪
♪ But I know what you've
been through ♪
♪ I guess you're back
♪ Are you gonna tell me where
you're at? ♪
♪ All the messages I sent with
no reply ♪
♪ It's like that
♪ You're just gonna walk into my
room ♪
♪ I hate how you assume
♪ I could walk for days,
searchin' for you place ♪
♪ Is it even there to find?
♪ Is there a chance for me?
♪ To be in your memories
♪ Where I slowly lose my mind
♪ By my side, day or night
♪ What have you done to me?
Why do you always leave? ♪
♪ It's not right, we don't
fight ♪
♪ But I know what you've been
through ♪
- [Crime Show Host] He
created this imaginary world.
But it only existed in his mind.
And in this world,
he felt like he was
actually saving her
from her past, her
vices, her flaws.
So usually in cases of this
nature, we find that some type.
- Of trauma.
- Bitch, niggas
is that shit I don't like.
- Or, whether it be
abuse or neglectful parents,
these people
generally do not feel
in control of their own
thoughts and actions.
So they feel the need
to control others.
So then they develop
this God complex,
with this false
entitlement to judge.
In this particular
case, this perpetrator,
he needed control.
That was his main objective.
He needed his victim
to feel afraid.
And the only thing that
saved Alison Peters
was her refusal
to show that fear.
So what Ms. Peters
did was she kept him
off balance with all these
unexpected responses.
Then she would gauge when
he became more agitated
and less in control.
She spent her time figuring
out what made him angry,
what soothed him.
And then she adapted.
She continued to do the
unexpected to buy herself time.
So what she did here
was pretty impressive.
She purported to be
interested in his motive.
And that kept him
talking about his goal.
That redirection probably was
the only thing in the world
that distracted
this man from her.
- I'm gonna be ready.
- So what we typically find
with these type
of personalities,
always see their
intent is righteous.
and their decisions as a
justified means to an end
- Are you gonna answer that?
Baby it's not that big a deal.
- Do I look like I want to talk?
- I'm just saying it happens.
- Hm.
Even though I have never
heard it happen to you before.
- You gonna wash your hands?
- Oh, now you wanna be hygienic?
- Where are you going?
- Home.
The only thing hard in here
tonight is on the drive.
- Once you leave.
- Once I leave, what?
Huh?
You think I burned down your
house, and I'm still here.
Your threats for me to go and
not come back ring hollow.
- Things can change.
And not for nothing, you
did burn down my house.
- Send me to jail if
you really believe that.
Oh, that's right.
You can't say anything
about who might have
burned down your house,
Which again, I say was
not me, your Honor,
without exposing your
soft white underbelly.
- We are two
consenting adults here.
- Your problem isn't the law.
It's the voting public.
They can't know
who you really are.
And I saw your file.
- What?
- Undeclared, is that what
we're calling her now?
Just, God, Darryl, you don't
stand a fucking chance.
- You'd be surprised.
- Oh, keep thinking that.
Hi, this is Denise Wang.
Yeah, we met at a
few chicken dinners.
We have a common problem and
I'd like to discuss how we
might be able to
help each other out.
Let me just send you
a few screenshots.
Yeah, I was thinking
the same thing.
["Don't Wanna" by Novembers]
♪ If you think I'm gonna try
again ♪
♪ You got another thing comin'
♪ Ooo Ooo
♪ You done pushed me to the
edge again ♪
♪ When I was better off
trippin' ♪
- You here to collect me?
- Something like that.
- Y'all were right.
- About what?
- Look at this shit.
All that pointing fingers
at me and look at that shit.
- Damn.
Well look, come on D,
it's your second time
in the last three months
just diving in the
bottle like this.
- I'm a grown ass man, bro.
- Yeah, with a bad fucking
history with liquor.
Remember what
happened in Baltimore?
- You made it out just fine.
- That's 'cause we left town.
Bro, we live here.
- Man, fuck that.
You and her, man.
- Alright, so where you
about to go now dude?
- Don't worry about it.
- You about to go holler at Jay?
- None of your business.
- Bro you don't
need to go tonight.
All right, just sober up.
Get yourself together,
you know what I'm saying?
You go tomorrow,
it is no big deal.
You don't need to go tonight.
Yo D, come on man.
- This sure ain't no end
to my night my nigga.
- You got it.
- That's what I thought.
♪♪♪
♪ Go all the way with you
♪ Blowin' that empty balloon
wasting my breath ♪
♪ Just goin there empty
- Hello?
What?
Darryl?
Darryl, it's me I know you
ain't walk up in this house,
leave that back door open
and not even say hello.
Call me.
- Sorry about all this
late night nonsense.
- Yeah.
So what was this about?
- George said that we might
have common interests.
- We've been following
your posts, your website.
We like how you think.
- Ah.
So you agree.
- Definitely.
- You're prepared to
do something about it?
'Cause honestly, I'm
tired of talking.
- What we were interested in
was your key figure theory.
- Adam and I are businessmen.
We have access to money.
You as a lawyer know
more about the system,
and that key figure
theory sounds workable.
- We need a judge.
- We do.
- Yeah, it's not as
hard as you would think.
Just back the right
guy with enough money.
- Oh, we can get the
finance in for the campaign.
If you want to be that
judge, we can get behind you.
- You'll have to take
that website down,
scrub your social media.
But in two years you'll
be able to reestablish.
- You see, I could do that,
but that's just a
small part of it.
You have to have events.
Ones that can build
on each other.
- We think we have that.
- Here's what we're thinking.
♪ I heard him say
chivalry was dead ♪
♪ I could see it in
your eyes you scared ♪
♪ 'Cause it ain't
nothing for you here ♪
♪ Lot of skeletons
in my closet there ♪
♪ Baby destruction
is part of the play ♪
♪ I'm your leader, the
emperor, the maze ♪
♪ I'm gonna need my
respect and your faith ♪
♪ Sayin' if you get
offended too bad ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm the heart eater
♪ I'm the heart eater baby
it's a dinner date ♪
♪ I'm eat you solo
♪ Solo
♪ Solo
♪ Solo