Judge Me Not (2023–…): Season 1, Episode 8 - A Thin Line - full transcript
- What was that?
- I don't know.
- Did you hear that?
- Yeah, now I hear it.
- Oh, that was Kristen's room!
- Shit!
Kristen!
- Dad!
- Kristen!
- Dad!
- Hey!
Hey-
- 911, this
is an emergency.
- Mom!
- Jaime, Jaime!
- Yeah.
- Are you okay?
- Are you okay?
- Is Kristen okay?
- I think so, thank God.
- Is everybody okay?
- Yeah, we're okay.
The guy jumped right
off the balcony.
- Right out here?
- Yeah.
- Can I get an EMS,
2463 Parker Lane.
- All right,
so what happened?
- Some guy broke
in to my daughter's room.
- Mmhmm, did you
get a good look at him?
- Yeah, fought him.
He's a big burly Black
guy, um, bug puffy jacket.
He had black gloves on
and, like, bushy hair.
- Do you think it's that guy
they've been talking about?
- I'm sorry ma'am, what guy?
- The guy that's been
peeping at young girl's room
through their windows.
He leaves grease stains.
- The mechanic.
- Yeah, but he's just a peeping
tom, he never comes inside.
- What, what?
- Oh no.
It's okay.
- Looks like he's
moving up in the world.
- Jason, get your head out of
your ass, man, it's your turn.
- He's over there sulking
about Maria again.
- Well, you know what they say,
once you go Black,
you'll never go back.
- Oh, is that what
they say, Eddie?
- Yeah.
- Okay, 'cause I have also
heard that once you go White,
again, you get-
- Yeah, they go
right back to Black.
- Yeah.
- Oh, I see, now that
his ex is out there
humping one of them
monkeys, he is ready.
- Does that even matter?
- Not a goddamn bit, okay?
'Cause we all still
got the same problem.
- Been saying this all along,
we're gonna have niggas
and spics if we don't.
- But what can we do?
- For every one kid we
have, they having 10.
- Draw four, buddy.
- Fuck you, Paul.
- So, what you wanna do?
- Not more of the
same, that's for sure.
- Well then what?
- Remember the camel jockeys?
- Who are you talkin' about?
- That riot over
at the Arab store?
- Get out of the
store, you don't belong here!
- Y'all everyone
stop before y'all gonna-
- Don't touch my things!
- Oh yeah, they started
coming for each other, right?
- That was us.
- What do you mean?
- The nooses, the
graffiti, all of it.
Look, we don't want
none of 'em here, right?
So, let's have them
do our work for us.
They're stupid and
they like to fight.
Send 'em all to
Chillchate State Prison.
- So y'all actually did this?
- Yep.
- Yeah, well it didn't work.
That judge shot that shit down.
- Now they're all
in line saying that
she saved the world or
some shit.
- Exactly, so we gotta
take it a step further.
- Well, what should we do?
- Already underway.
- Court is now in session.
The honorable Judge
Larry Steel presiding.
Always wanted to say that.
Zelma J. Johnson, you have
been found in violation
of serock 92, which
states in relevant part,
never surrender your
dignity to any woman.
No woman shall ever take
leadership over a man.
Miss Johnson, the details of
your indictment are as follows-
Are you paying attention?
I don't think you appreciate
the gravity of your situation.
You have no idea what's
happening here, do you?
- He wanted control.
She needed her to be afraid.
- You know
you're gonna die today, right?
- What saved Alison
was her refusal
to show that fear.
- What the hell
is wrong with you?
If I take the gag
off, will you scream?
You know if you do, you
go back to sleep, right?
And we can do this easy
or we can do this hard.
So don't annoy me.
- How's Lily?
- Come with me.
We're gonna have to
work some magic today.
- Where is Judge Johnson?
- Don't know.
- That's weird,
she's usually here by 7:30.
Did you call her?
- Three times.
- Is she-
- I don't know, Neesha,
I don't know.
- Are you worried?
- Not yet.
- Well, what are we gonna do?
- What we are going to do is
work on this immediate problem
which is this.
- What are those?
- These are two piles,
bullshit and not bullshit.
Stick with me, bullshit pile
has non-injury accidents,
disorderly conduct, possession
of Marijuana charges,
and our frequent fliers.
- Because?
- Because we're gonna give
the bullshit pile to Allen,
when he gets in.
I already got two prosecutors
in there working deals
and I left Meekes
with Spangler because-
- Mm, he just can't bring
himself to make a deal.
- At all.
All right, so let's
get these distributed
and I'm gonna call Darryl.
- Hey.
- Hm?
- What do you think happened?
- I don't know, but um,
just wanna get some
eyes on her, you know?
- Woo, okay.
- Damn.
Yo.
- Darryl, it's Barbara,
sorry to bother you,
do you know where
Judge Johnson is?
- She not there?
- No.
- Maybe she's sick or something.
J. don't do late.
You call her?
- Three times, no answer.
- Call her mother.
- Did that.
- And?
- She thinks she's over,
she thinks she's
over at the house.
Could you go over
there and check to see?
- Nah, Barbara, I think it's
best if you call Yvonne again.
- Come on.
Shit.
- What's with the crowd?
- Judge Johnson's late.
- That's a first.
- Yep.
- Judge, please.
- Yeah, okay.
- We need to speak in private.
So,
Judge-
- What's going on?
- I'll tell you what's going on.
I'm the only judge here.
You're late and she's
not here at all.
- She usually beats us all here.
Did you call her?
- No answer.
- She's probably in a closet
somewhere, talking to herself.
You know I'm right.
- Don't you have a
docket to get back to?
- I do, but that doesn't change
the fact that at some point
we're gonna have to do
something about her.
- She's not wrong.
- Call her again.
- I've been calling.
- Try Darryl or her mother.
- I called both of them.
- And?
- They don't seem
very concerned.
- Send an officer over
there for a well check.
- Martin no, no Martin,
odds are she's over there,
she could be drunk,
she may not be in the
right head space to leave.
The chief already thinks she's
in half the bag of crazy.
I don't wanna feed
into that, so.
- Okay.
- Open your eyes.
Open your fucking eyes.
Hm, that should shut
'em up for a while.
- Why'd you pull
me out of court?
- They need a search warrant
for Aparmeton residents.
- And why so urgent?
- It's that peeping tom again,
apparently he escalated,
broke into a girl's house,
they think they
know where he is.
- Ah, Judge Johnson here?
- No.
- Darryl call back?
- No, but Yvonne texted and said
she wasn't feeling well, so.
- You're not concerned?
- Mm.
Okay, let's get
you back to court-
- I need a minute, Barbara.
- Okay.
- I need a minute.
- Darryl.
Mom.
Darryl.
- Hey Yvonne, how you doin'?
Good, good, um, when's the
last time you heard from J.?
Yeah, she texted me
around that time too.
Okay.
And did you call Barbara
and let her know?
I know, right?
Think I saw the alcohol.
All right.
Okay, cool.
Talk to you soon.
- What now, Louie?
Yeah, I told you I was
comfortable with that.
Yeah, I know what year it is.
I gotta go, judge is here.
- Single?
- Sure.
- You guys need anything?
- No, limes, ice.
- Done, on the way.
- Thanks.
- Thanks Grimes.
- You worried about J.?
- I know it's not like
her not to show for work.
And she's been so
mercurial lately.
- Mercurial?
How about paranoid, unmoored.
- I know how you
feel about her, Ruth.
- No you don't.
You think I'm jealous
of her and I'm not.
Look, I get that
she's good out there,
but we don't know just
how deep her problem goes
and if it will affect
her out there one day.
- We all have personal lives.
Just because she says the
stuff that we keep to ourselves
out loud doesn't make
her any different.
Okay, I take that back.
- Speaking of personal lives,
the rumor mill is still
grinding on yours.
- As is on yours.
- Well, that'll end soon enough.
- Well, sorry to hear that.
No more flowers?
- No more him.
Got too weird.
I'm not even sure what happened.
I had to let the whole thing go.
- Here we go, guys.
Shit.
- No worries.
- Sorry.
- It's fine, Grimes.
- Let me get this.
- Hey, you know, just leave it.
- I got it.
Well there's your
limes and lemons.
- All right, well call
it a day man, go home.
- Thank you.
- Grimes is a, he's
been a bit grim lately.
- Yeah, got his commentary
in court and I think-
- Yeah, I heard that too.
- Well, love ain't
easy, gay or straight.
- How would you know?
Your love life's a circus.
- Oh better a circus
than an empty tent.
Although, I hear-
- This place is like
the Housewives of Atlanta.
- The clerks do love to gossip.
- And so do the bailiffs.
- And us.
- Hm.
Your turn.
- My love life?
Nothing's changed.
- Even though you wish it had?
Everyone knows how you
look at J., even Denise.
You may have a problem there.
I mean, they're
both a little, mm,
well, then again, suppose
that's how you like 'em.
I'm gonna head out.
Thanks for the drink.
Enjoy your night.
♪ Hop in the car watch it go
vroom ♪
♪ I told 'em all that I'd blow
soon ♪
♪ Knew as a child back in the
womb, womb ♪
♪Told em step back I need more
room ♪
- Shit!
♪ Hop in the car watch it go
vroom ♪
♪ I'm in the whip so I gotta
zoom ♪
♪ They tryna talk they not in
the room♪ Fuck.
♪ I been so real I'm that to the
tomb ♪
♪ They in the way they gotta
move ♪
[glove compartment thumps]
♪ I got the gas they runnin on
fumes ♪
♪ Told 'em way back it's nothing
new ♪
[Officer, I've got an emergency-
- Get your ass
in the car right now!
Right now!
- Yo,
my license and my
registration, man,
is right here, I'm just
trying to get to my wife.
- Shut the fuck up,
you know better than to jump
out of a car at an officer.
Now, put your hands up
and face your vehicle.
- Fuck me!
You're right, I do, my
bad, I'm just trying-
- You got any weapons on you?
Anything that can stick me?
- No, I ain't
got nothin', man,
I'm just trying to get-
- I don't wanna hear it
until I know that
you're unarmed, okay?
- This is not your
courtroom, it's mine!
- Okay, I was just
wondering, where is she?
- Lily is none of your concern.
And anyway, as a practical
matter, she's been,
resolved.
You know, I thought you
were smarter than this.
You don't seem to
appreciate your situation.
Women are always,
always off track,
and I just don't know how.
- How what?
My mama hits harder than that.
- I can see I'm gonna have
to take a different approach.
You don't seem to understand.
This is Gina.
Let's get you dressed.
Let's see how these look on you.
See that camera back there?
For serious photography, not
the nonsense with phones.
Anyway, Gina went
to Antioch Baptist.
I go there too
from time to time.
It's not the true word,
but close as you're
gonna get around here.
I took pictures for 'em
on special occasions.
She was very pretty,
very friendly,
and one day, she wanted me
to take pictures of her.
She was also a flirt.
I mean, I thought, but that's
the problem with you women,
you use your bodies to...
so we get back to her place,
and I'm taking all
these shots of her,
each one sexier than another.
I mean, anybody
would've thought.
So I express interest in
her and she's horrified,
like she wasn't coming on to me.
She says she's got a boyfriend
and the shots are for him.
All of them!
In the bubble bath,
like I'm not a man!
She thought because she
was in a bathing suit,
that made it okay.
Still a whore!
So I took her head and
held it under the water.
Her eyes got big
and there is was,
that's when I knew that
she hadn't tricked me,
that I was sent
here for a purpose.
I wasn't meant to be with her,
I was meant to cleanse her.
- Yo really?
- Yo, you know better
than to jump out of
a car at an officer.
- Yo, I'm just
trying to get to my-
- I don't care what
you're trying to do.
- Yo, I'm trying to
get to my wife, man!
- You got a wife?
- The fuck that
supposed to mean?
- Man, y'all got your boos and
your bays and your fiances,
I don't see many married
up in this community.
Come on.
- Yo,
is this really necessary, man?
- I gotta run your
name and your plate,
make sure you don't
have any priors
and make sure that
car isn't stolen.
- Yo, my wife is
in trouble, man.
- Well if she called you,
then she can call the police.
- She did!
Fuck it!
Fuck it!
I spend more time in cuffs
behind this motherfucker,
I swear to God.
- Now this is Alexa Smith.
Now with Alexis, I knew
my purpose going in.
She was bar hopping.
She also had three
kids, 13, 11, and seven,
but did she ever
stay home with them?
No.
She brought men home, one
right after the other.
Do you have any idea
what it does to a kid
to have to see and hear that?
- I can only imagine.
My mom was always home.
- You know, Alexa
showed me two things,
that they had to die in
the manner of their sin,
and that they had to understand
why before they did it.
You see, killing
'em just stops 'em.
It's the fear that
cleanses them.
- How was shooting
her in the field
cleansing her in the
manner of her sin?
- She wanted to be out and
about so that's what we did.
I took her, put her in
the trunk of the car,
and I drove her around for
hours until I was quite certain
that home is where she wanted
to be more than anyplace else.
- Uh oh, looks like
you've got a problem.
- I ain't got no warrants.
- Car comes back to a judge.
- Yeah, Judge J.
Johnson, my wife.
- Yeah, right.
- Yo, call Barbara
Lester, Clerk of Courts,
Jim Grimes, or any one of them,
they'll all tell you-
- Nothing,
'cause I'm not calling.
- Think about it, how
else would I know them
if that's not my wife?
- I don't know
a brother out there that
doesn't know everyone at court.
- Tell me about Marjorie Palmer.
- Y'all think she
was next, don't you?
- No?
- No.
Courtney, she had kids too,
little Tinsley,
cute little girl.
- Where is she, how come
they haven't found her?
- As you can see, she went
to Peace Zone.
Now this is Marjorie Palmer.
She was an associate pastor
at Mount Olive Methodist.
- And?
- Well her sin was
much like your own.
She presumed to have
authority over men.
She was an associate pastor.
So right there, she was in sin.
- There are a lot of
women who are pastors.
Why her?
- Hm, convenience.
Could have been anybody.
But I watched her preach
a couple of times.
Now here we are in my workroom.
I took these, choked her,
you know, stopped the words,
then returned her to
the scene of the crime,
behind the church.
- Why me?
- You know, you
weren't my first choice.
- Who was?
- Ruth Spangler.
She, like you, seeks to
exercise authority over men.
And she's a nasty woman,
always taking half
naked pictures of
herself for men online.
- Ruth?
- I watch her
through her window.
That was fun
'cause she never knew
whether it was me or him.
You know, when stuff happened.
- Why switch to me?
- Practical matter.
Once I realized you knew,
I realized I could
resolve the situation
and send my message
at the same time.
- So that's it?
- What do you mean?
- I thought you had
more, I don't know,
interesting explanation?
You know, like Kemper.
- Let's just
get down to business.
- Oh, oh.
Hold on now.
Hey.
- This is a three-drug cocktail.
That's what you'll get,
just like any other
death row inmate.
The interesting thing
about my cocktail
is that it starts with
succinylcholine, a paralytic.
Now once you get this,
you won't be able to move,
and after the subs
kick in, [chuckles]
well, that'll be quite
the experience for you.
- But I kept my word,
I didn't scream.
- But you talk too much.
- That wasn't the deal.
He whose deeds follows
not his actions
spits in the face of God,
the Gnostic proticus, 7:12.
It was on a piece of paper
on Gina's nightstand.
But they don't think that
had anything to do with you.
But, you know, the police,
they photograph and
voucher everything.
- But that was never released.
- I'm a judge.
I know a detective or two.
- Be that as it may-
- Why,
but you're not a man
of your word then, huh?
How can you be a man of God
if you're not a
man of your word?
- You got someone who
can come pick up this car
or am I gonna have
to call a tow?
- You're kidding me?
You're taking me in
over traffic violations?
- Resisting arrest.
- Resisting?
- You jumped out of the
car, not following orders,
resisting.
- Oh mother fucker.
- Yeah, tell it to the judge.
- Oh you have no idea.
- Matthews.
- What's your status?
- Suspect attained,
gonna call a tow.
- Traffic only?
- Also resisting.
- We have a code eight.
- I got him in the back.
- Sighting on that peeping tom.
He breached a house
and attacked a girl.
We think he's held up
in a house in Paramount.
Sergeant Nonock,
but we wanna show of force
surrounding the house.
He's been very allusive.
- 10 four.
I guess it's your lucky day.
- So lucky.
- So this is high level.
You've already tried this.
- They almost got him today.
- The mechanic?
- Yep.
He finally had the
nerve to go in the house
and they caught
him on his way out.
He called me while
he was running.
- So what does Ted do?
Calls a sighting
in 10 blocks away.
They think the cop's still there
and Mike's already
home. [laughing]
- We can do this,
we can win this war.
We just gotta do that one
thing to set things off.
- Ted, you think it's time?
- Acceptable losses,
all wars have them.
Just one, we just
have to kill the one.
Out.
- Oh son of a-
- Oh fuckin pig.
- He's gotta be cheating,
I'm checking the rule book.
- Either you're on a mission
from God or you aren't.
Or, maybe you aren't sure
that this is what God wants.
- Oh I'm sure.
You just need to come
to an understanding
about the nature of your sin.
Okay, you know what, that's it.
Your evil and wicked ways
shall bring about
your own suffering.
- Your basic bitch,
shock and awe.
Oh shit.
Oh shit!
Fuck, oh shit.
Oh my God, no!
Darryl, please
Darryl!
- Who the fuck is he?
- He's the guy that I've been
trying to tell everybody about,
Larry Steel, the serial killer.
- You sure you're okay?
- Eh, surprisingly so.
When I'm free of
my pharmaceutical
constraints, [mutters]
- Yeah, you lit it up in here.
How'd you know he was after you?
- At first I didn't
know it was him,
but I thought you were-
- What?
- Eh, nevermind.
- But why did he come after you?
- He knew that I was on to him.
- How'd you figure that out?
- The scarves.
- What scarves?
- The dates.
His sister sued him for
borrowing her scarfs
and then returning
them with off energy.
She had the dates written down
when each one of those
scarves went missing
and when they were returned.
Those dates match the dates
that those women were killed.
He used the scarves to tie
those women up physically,
and then linked them to
Lily, metaphorically.
Huh.
He killed her.
- Who?
- Lily.
- How do you know that?
- No scarf for me.
And he did say that
she was resolved.
You're home, right?
- No doubt.
♪ I heard 'em say chivalry
was dead, uh huh ♪
♪ I could see it in your
eyes, you scared, uh huh ♪
♪ Cause it ain't nothing
for you here, nope ♪
♪ Lotta skeletons in my
closet there, uh huh ♪
♪ Baby, destruction
is part of the plan ♪
♪ I'm your leader, the
emperor, the maze ♪
♪ I'ma need my
respect in the face ♪
♪ 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'ma eat solo, solo,
solo, solo, solo ♪
- I don't know.
- Did you hear that?
- Yeah, now I hear it.
- Oh, that was Kristen's room!
- Shit!
Kristen!
- Dad!
- Kristen!
- Dad!
- Hey!
Hey-
- 911, this
is an emergency.
- Mom!
- Jaime, Jaime!
- Yeah.
- Are you okay?
- Are you okay?
- Is Kristen okay?
- I think so, thank God.
- Is everybody okay?
- Yeah, we're okay.
The guy jumped right
off the balcony.
- Right out here?
- Yeah.
- Can I get an EMS,
2463 Parker Lane.
- All right,
so what happened?
- Some guy broke
in to my daughter's room.
- Mmhmm, did you
get a good look at him?
- Yeah, fought him.
He's a big burly Black
guy, um, bug puffy jacket.
He had black gloves on
and, like, bushy hair.
- Do you think it's that guy
they've been talking about?
- I'm sorry ma'am, what guy?
- The guy that's been
peeping at young girl's room
through their windows.
He leaves grease stains.
- The mechanic.
- Yeah, but he's just a peeping
tom, he never comes inside.
- What, what?
- Oh no.
It's okay.
- Looks like he's
moving up in the world.
- Jason, get your head out of
your ass, man, it's your turn.
- He's over there sulking
about Maria again.
- Well, you know what they say,
once you go Black,
you'll never go back.
- Oh, is that what
they say, Eddie?
- Yeah.
- Okay, 'cause I have also
heard that once you go White,
again, you get-
- Yeah, they go
right back to Black.
- Yeah.
- Oh, I see, now that
his ex is out there
humping one of them
monkeys, he is ready.
- Does that even matter?
- Not a goddamn bit, okay?
'Cause we all still
got the same problem.
- Been saying this all along,
we're gonna have niggas
and spics if we don't.
- But what can we do?
- For every one kid we
have, they having 10.
- Draw four, buddy.
- Fuck you, Paul.
- So, what you wanna do?
- Not more of the
same, that's for sure.
- Well then what?
- Remember the camel jockeys?
- Who are you talkin' about?
- That riot over
at the Arab store?
- Get out of the
store, you don't belong here!
- Y'all everyone
stop before y'all gonna-
- Don't touch my things!
- Oh yeah, they started
coming for each other, right?
- That was us.
- What do you mean?
- The nooses, the
graffiti, all of it.
Look, we don't want
none of 'em here, right?
So, let's have them
do our work for us.
They're stupid and
they like to fight.
Send 'em all to
Chillchate State Prison.
- So y'all actually did this?
- Yep.
- Yeah, well it didn't work.
That judge shot that shit down.
- Now they're all
in line saying that
she saved the world or
some shit.
- Exactly, so we gotta
take it a step further.
- Well, what should we do?
- Already underway.
- Court is now in session.
The honorable Judge
Larry Steel presiding.
Always wanted to say that.
Zelma J. Johnson, you have
been found in violation
of serock 92, which
states in relevant part,
never surrender your
dignity to any woman.
No woman shall ever take
leadership over a man.
Miss Johnson, the details of
your indictment are as follows-
Are you paying attention?
I don't think you appreciate
the gravity of your situation.
You have no idea what's
happening here, do you?
- He wanted control.
She needed her to be afraid.
- You know
you're gonna die today, right?
- What saved Alison
was her refusal
to show that fear.
- What the hell
is wrong with you?
If I take the gag
off, will you scream?
You know if you do, you
go back to sleep, right?
And we can do this easy
or we can do this hard.
So don't annoy me.
- How's Lily?
- Come with me.
We're gonna have to
work some magic today.
- Where is Judge Johnson?
- Don't know.
- That's weird,
she's usually here by 7:30.
Did you call her?
- Three times.
- Is she-
- I don't know, Neesha,
I don't know.
- Are you worried?
- Not yet.
- Well, what are we gonna do?
- What we are going to do is
work on this immediate problem
which is this.
- What are those?
- These are two piles,
bullshit and not bullshit.
Stick with me, bullshit pile
has non-injury accidents,
disorderly conduct, possession
of Marijuana charges,
and our frequent fliers.
- Because?
- Because we're gonna give
the bullshit pile to Allen,
when he gets in.
I already got two prosecutors
in there working deals
and I left Meekes
with Spangler because-
- Mm, he just can't bring
himself to make a deal.
- At all.
All right, so let's
get these distributed
and I'm gonna call Darryl.
- Hey.
- Hm?
- What do you think happened?
- I don't know, but um,
just wanna get some
eyes on her, you know?
- Woo, okay.
- Damn.
Yo.
- Darryl, it's Barbara,
sorry to bother you,
do you know where
Judge Johnson is?
- She not there?
- No.
- Maybe she's sick or something.
J. don't do late.
You call her?
- Three times, no answer.
- Call her mother.
- Did that.
- And?
- She thinks she's over,
she thinks she's
over at the house.
Could you go over
there and check to see?
- Nah, Barbara, I think it's
best if you call Yvonne again.
- Come on.
Shit.
- What's with the crowd?
- Judge Johnson's late.
- That's a first.
- Yep.
- Judge, please.
- Yeah, okay.
- We need to speak in private.
So,
Judge-
- What's going on?
- I'll tell you what's going on.
I'm the only judge here.
You're late and she's
not here at all.
- She usually beats us all here.
Did you call her?
- No answer.
- She's probably in a closet
somewhere, talking to herself.
You know I'm right.
- Don't you have a
docket to get back to?
- I do, but that doesn't change
the fact that at some point
we're gonna have to do
something about her.
- She's not wrong.
- Call her again.
- I've been calling.
- Try Darryl or her mother.
- I called both of them.
- And?
- They don't seem
very concerned.
- Send an officer over
there for a well check.
- Martin no, no Martin,
odds are she's over there,
she could be drunk,
she may not be in the
right head space to leave.
The chief already thinks she's
in half the bag of crazy.
I don't wanna feed
into that, so.
- Okay.
- Open your eyes.
Open your fucking eyes.
Hm, that should shut
'em up for a while.
- Why'd you pull
me out of court?
- They need a search warrant
for Aparmeton residents.
- And why so urgent?
- It's that peeping tom again,
apparently he escalated,
broke into a girl's house,
they think they
know where he is.
- Ah, Judge Johnson here?
- No.
- Darryl call back?
- No, but Yvonne texted and said
she wasn't feeling well, so.
- You're not concerned?
- Mm.
Okay, let's get
you back to court-
- I need a minute, Barbara.
- Okay.
- I need a minute.
- Darryl.
Mom.
Darryl.
- Hey Yvonne, how you doin'?
Good, good, um, when's the
last time you heard from J.?
Yeah, she texted me
around that time too.
Okay.
And did you call Barbara
and let her know?
I know, right?
Think I saw the alcohol.
All right.
Okay, cool.
Talk to you soon.
- What now, Louie?
Yeah, I told you I was
comfortable with that.
Yeah, I know what year it is.
I gotta go, judge is here.
- Single?
- Sure.
- You guys need anything?
- No, limes, ice.
- Done, on the way.
- Thanks.
- Thanks Grimes.
- You worried about J.?
- I know it's not like
her not to show for work.
And she's been so
mercurial lately.
- Mercurial?
How about paranoid, unmoored.
- I know how you
feel about her, Ruth.
- No you don't.
You think I'm jealous
of her and I'm not.
Look, I get that
she's good out there,
but we don't know just
how deep her problem goes
and if it will affect
her out there one day.
- We all have personal lives.
Just because she says the
stuff that we keep to ourselves
out loud doesn't make
her any different.
Okay, I take that back.
- Speaking of personal lives,
the rumor mill is still
grinding on yours.
- As is on yours.
- Well, that'll end soon enough.
- Well, sorry to hear that.
No more flowers?
- No more him.
Got too weird.
I'm not even sure what happened.
I had to let the whole thing go.
- Here we go, guys.
Shit.
- No worries.
- Sorry.
- It's fine, Grimes.
- Let me get this.
- Hey, you know, just leave it.
- I got it.
Well there's your
limes and lemons.
- All right, well call
it a day man, go home.
- Thank you.
- Grimes is a, he's
been a bit grim lately.
- Yeah, got his commentary
in court and I think-
- Yeah, I heard that too.
- Well, love ain't
easy, gay or straight.
- How would you know?
Your love life's a circus.
- Oh better a circus
than an empty tent.
Although, I hear-
- This place is like
the Housewives of Atlanta.
- The clerks do love to gossip.
- And so do the bailiffs.
- And us.
- Hm.
Your turn.
- My love life?
Nothing's changed.
- Even though you wish it had?
Everyone knows how you
look at J., even Denise.
You may have a problem there.
I mean, they're
both a little, mm,
well, then again, suppose
that's how you like 'em.
I'm gonna head out.
Thanks for the drink.
Enjoy your night.
♪ Hop in the car watch it go
vroom ♪
♪ I told 'em all that I'd blow
soon ♪
♪ Knew as a child back in the
womb, womb ♪
♪Told em step back I need more
room ♪
- Shit!
♪ Hop in the car watch it go
vroom ♪
♪ I'm in the whip so I gotta
zoom ♪
♪ They tryna talk they not in
the room♪ Fuck.
♪ I been so real I'm that to the
tomb ♪
♪ They in the way they gotta
move ♪
[glove compartment thumps]
♪ I got the gas they runnin on
fumes ♪
♪ Told 'em way back it's nothing
new ♪
[Officer, I've got an emergency-
- Get your ass
in the car right now!
Right now!
- Yo,
my license and my
registration, man,
is right here, I'm just
trying to get to my wife.
- Shut the fuck up,
you know better than to jump
out of a car at an officer.
Now, put your hands up
and face your vehicle.
- Fuck me!
You're right, I do, my
bad, I'm just trying-
- You got any weapons on you?
Anything that can stick me?
- No, I ain't
got nothin', man,
I'm just trying to get-
- I don't wanna hear it
until I know that
you're unarmed, okay?
- This is not your
courtroom, it's mine!
- Okay, I was just
wondering, where is she?
- Lily is none of your concern.
And anyway, as a practical
matter, she's been,
resolved.
You know, I thought you
were smarter than this.
You don't seem to
appreciate your situation.
Women are always,
always off track,
and I just don't know how.
- How what?
My mama hits harder than that.
- I can see I'm gonna have
to take a different approach.
You don't seem to understand.
This is Gina.
Let's get you dressed.
Let's see how these look on you.
See that camera back there?
For serious photography, not
the nonsense with phones.
Anyway, Gina went
to Antioch Baptist.
I go there too
from time to time.
It's not the true word,
but close as you're
gonna get around here.
I took pictures for 'em
on special occasions.
She was very pretty,
very friendly,
and one day, she wanted me
to take pictures of her.
She was also a flirt.
I mean, I thought, but that's
the problem with you women,
you use your bodies to...
so we get back to her place,
and I'm taking all
these shots of her,
each one sexier than another.
I mean, anybody
would've thought.
So I express interest in
her and she's horrified,
like she wasn't coming on to me.
She says she's got a boyfriend
and the shots are for him.
All of them!
In the bubble bath,
like I'm not a man!
She thought because she
was in a bathing suit,
that made it okay.
Still a whore!
So I took her head and
held it under the water.
Her eyes got big
and there is was,
that's when I knew that
she hadn't tricked me,
that I was sent
here for a purpose.
I wasn't meant to be with her,
I was meant to cleanse her.
- Yo really?
- Yo, you know better
than to jump out of
a car at an officer.
- Yo, I'm just
trying to get to my-
- I don't care what
you're trying to do.
- Yo, I'm trying to
get to my wife, man!
- You got a wife?
- The fuck that
supposed to mean?
- Man, y'all got your boos and
your bays and your fiances,
I don't see many married
up in this community.
Come on.
- Yo,
is this really necessary, man?
- I gotta run your
name and your plate,
make sure you don't
have any priors
and make sure that
car isn't stolen.
- Yo, my wife is
in trouble, man.
- Well if she called you,
then she can call the police.
- She did!
Fuck it!
Fuck it!
I spend more time in cuffs
behind this motherfucker,
I swear to God.
- Now this is Alexa Smith.
Now with Alexis, I knew
my purpose going in.
She was bar hopping.
She also had three
kids, 13, 11, and seven,
but did she ever
stay home with them?
No.
She brought men home, one
right after the other.
Do you have any idea
what it does to a kid
to have to see and hear that?
- I can only imagine.
My mom was always home.
- You know, Alexa
showed me two things,
that they had to die in
the manner of their sin,
and that they had to understand
why before they did it.
You see, killing
'em just stops 'em.
It's the fear that
cleanses them.
- How was shooting
her in the field
cleansing her in the
manner of her sin?
- She wanted to be out and
about so that's what we did.
I took her, put her in
the trunk of the car,
and I drove her around for
hours until I was quite certain
that home is where she wanted
to be more than anyplace else.
- Uh oh, looks like
you've got a problem.
- I ain't got no warrants.
- Car comes back to a judge.
- Yeah, Judge J.
Johnson, my wife.
- Yeah, right.
- Yo, call Barbara
Lester, Clerk of Courts,
Jim Grimes, or any one of them,
they'll all tell you-
- Nothing,
'cause I'm not calling.
- Think about it, how
else would I know them
if that's not my wife?
- I don't know
a brother out there that
doesn't know everyone at court.
- Tell me about Marjorie Palmer.
- Y'all think she
was next, don't you?
- No?
- No.
Courtney, she had kids too,
little Tinsley,
cute little girl.
- Where is she, how come
they haven't found her?
- As you can see, she went
to Peace Zone.
Now this is Marjorie Palmer.
She was an associate pastor
at Mount Olive Methodist.
- And?
- Well her sin was
much like your own.
She presumed to have
authority over men.
She was an associate pastor.
So right there, she was in sin.
- There are a lot of
women who are pastors.
Why her?
- Hm, convenience.
Could have been anybody.
But I watched her preach
a couple of times.
Now here we are in my workroom.
I took these, choked her,
you know, stopped the words,
then returned her to
the scene of the crime,
behind the church.
- Why me?
- You know, you
weren't my first choice.
- Who was?
- Ruth Spangler.
She, like you, seeks to
exercise authority over men.
And she's a nasty woman,
always taking half
naked pictures of
herself for men online.
- Ruth?
- I watch her
through her window.
That was fun
'cause she never knew
whether it was me or him.
You know, when stuff happened.
- Why switch to me?
- Practical matter.
Once I realized you knew,
I realized I could
resolve the situation
and send my message
at the same time.
- So that's it?
- What do you mean?
- I thought you had
more, I don't know,
interesting explanation?
You know, like Kemper.
- Let's just
get down to business.
- Oh, oh.
Hold on now.
Hey.
- This is a three-drug cocktail.
That's what you'll get,
just like any other
death row inmate.
The interesting thing
about my cocktail
is that it starts with
succinylcholine, a paralytic.
Now once you get this,
you won't be able to move,
and after the subs
kick in, [chuckles]
well, that'll be quite
the experience for you.
- But I kept my word,
I didn't scream.
- But you talk too much.
- That wasn't the deal.
He whose deeds follows
not his actions
spits in the face of God,
the Gnostic proticus, 7:12.
It was on a piece of paper
on Gina's nightstand.
But they don't think that
had anything to do with you.
But, you know, the police,
they photograph and
voucher everything.
- But that was never released.
- I'm a judge.
I know a detective or two.
- Be that as it may-
- Why,
but you're not a man
of your word then, huh?
How can you be a man of God
if you're not a
man of your word?
- You got someone who
can come pick up this car
or am I gonna have
to call a tow?
- You're kidding me?
You're taking me in
over traffic violations?
- Resisting arrest.
- Resisting?
- You jumped out of the
car, not following orders,
resisting.
- Oh mother fucker.
- Yeah, tell it to the judge.
- Oh you have no idea.
- Matthews.
- What's your status?
- Suspect attained,
gonna call a tow.
- Traffic only?
- Also resisting.
- We have a code eight.
- I got him in the back.
- Sighting on that peeping tom.
He breached a house
and attacked a girl.
We think he's held up
in a house in Paramount.
Sergeant Nonock,
but we wanna show of force
surrounding the house.
He's been very allusive.
- 10 four.
I guess it's your lucky day.
- So lucky.
- So this is high level.
You've already tried this.
- They almost got him today.
- The mechanic?
- Yep.
He finally had the
nerve to go in the house
and they caught
him on his way out.
He called me while
he was running.
- So what does Ted do?
Calls a sighting
in 10 blocks away.
They think the cop's still there
and Mike's already
home. [laughing]
- We can do this,
we can win this war.
We just gotta do that one
thing to set things off.
- Ted, you think it's time?
- Acceptable losses,
all wars have them.
Just one, we just
have to kill the one.
Out.
- Oh son of a-
- Oh fuckin pig.
- He's gotta be cheating,
I'm checking the rule book.
- Either you're on a mission
from God or you aren't.
Or, maybe you aren't sure
that this is what God wants.
- Oh I'm sure.
You just need to come
to an understanding
about the nature of your sin.
Okay, you know what, that's it.
Your evil and wicked ways
shall bring about
your own suffering.
- Your basic bitch,
shock and awe.
Oh shit.
Oh shit!
Fuck, oh shit.
Oh my God, no!
Darryl, please
Darryl!
- Who the fuck is he?
- He's the guy that I've been
trying to tell everybody about,
Larry Steel, the serial killer.
- You sure you're okay?
- Eh, surprisingly so.
When I'm free of
my pharmaceutical
constraints, [mutters]
- Yeah, you lit it up in here.
How'd you know he was after you?
- At first I didn't
know it was him,
but I thought you were-
- What?
- Eh, nevermind.
- But why did he come after you?
- He knew that I was on to him.
- How'd you figure that out?
- The scarves.
- What scarves?
- The dates.
His sister sued him for
borrowing her scarfs
and then returning
them with off energy.
She had the dates written down
when each one of those
scarves went missing
and when they were returned.
Those dates match the dates
that those women were killed.
He used the scarves to tie
those women up physically,
and then linked them to
Lily, metaphorically.
Huh.
He killed her.
- Who?
- Lily.
- How do you know that?
- No scarf for me.
And he did say that
she was resolved.
You're home, right?
- No doubt.
♪ I heard 'em say chivalry
was dead, uh huh ♪
♪ I could see it in your
eyes, you scared, uh huh ♪
♪ Cause it ain't nothing
for you here, nope ♪
♪ Lotta skeletons in my
closet there, uh huh ♪
♪ Baby, destruction
is part of the plan ♪
♪ I'm your leader, the
emperor, the maze ♪
♪ I'ma need my
respect in the face ♪
♪ 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'ma eat solo, solo,
solo, solo, solo ♪