04x10 - Gratitude

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[AUDIENCE MURMURING]

No, please, don't.

I'm so sorry, Mama.
Don't do this.

I'm worried sick about you.

What finally
brought you back, huh?

Where have you been?

What do you mean?
You've been calling me nonstop.

Sophia called,
laid all that on me,

"My mama's gonna go to jail."

No, I mean,
what are you doing here?

I'm gonna turn myself in.

[DOOR OPENS]
[CHURCH MEMBERS CHATTERING]

♪ Amen ♪

♪ All right ♪

♪ Amen ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Well ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Amen, amen ♪
♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

[♪♪♪]

BOB:
What the hell happened here?

Grace was a key part of my plan.

Did I not make that clear
to the two of you?

It was out of our hands.
In Grace's defense,

I don't think in any way
she expected this son of hers

to show up
when she took this job.

And the secret son, he's here?

I believe he is, yes.

What, it's a matter of belief?

He's fallen in love
with the singer.

She called,

told him the kid's
staying at the mansion.

BOB: And Grace has stepped down.

Why?

Apparently,
she lied to the police

to provide him with an alibi
after he robbed a pharmacy

and she... [SCOFFS] This family.

I thought she was different.

And what about my board?

You were supposed to get me
my majority.

The Greenleafs knew
about the bribe.

I want the board
to meet tomorrow,

and I want the vote
to go our way.

I'm sick of waiting
for people to do us favors,

I need control.

I'll make sure you get it,
Daddy.

No, you won't be doing anything.

You're going back
to Phoenix, today.

But it wasn't my fault!

If the best you can do is
"It wasn't my fault,"

then it is.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Did you have something to do
with Grace stepping down?

Because something
tells me you did.

I did impress upon her
the damage she could do

to the denomination's brand
if it came out that she lied.

Uh-huh.

And you, uh...

you're in love
with this... This singer?

Charity. But it's a good thing.

Oh, I'm looking forward
to hearing about how.

She'd be very useful.

In ways that would
take a moment to explain.

I'm still not over
how you hurt Judee,

you know that, don't you?

Yes, sir, I do.

She still holds a torch for you.

I think that's half of why
this didn't work out with Ken.

I did what I felt was right
at the time.

For myself and Judee.

What a mess.

[♪♪♪]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Come in.

[SIGHS]

This house, this land,
it's all we have left now.

I'm so scared.

[INHALES, EXHALES DEEPLY]

Mama.

I just wanted to let you know,
I had nothing to do with Phil

and... with the way
he pressured Gigi.

So where did this proof
come from...

he told her he had?

Hmm? Where?

Does Phil have this
whole place bugged?

Does he have confederates
in unmarked vans

out on the road with earpieces
and 7-Eleven coffee?

I don't know. Maybe.

So you came in here
to lie to me?

But you know what, Charity...?

[CHUCKLES]

Baby...

I'm not mad at you
about any of this.

None of it, because you see,
I know that you are no more

than Phil's
helpless little pawn.

But if you came in here
to lie on my face

when you know that
I've just lost everything,

I will be.

Mama, I never meant to hurt you.

But you meant...

You meant to hurt your sister.

I just want my life.

Charity...

your life is my life.

My life is Grace's.
Grace's is A.J.'s,

and A.J.'s is Nathan's,
it's one life.

Do damage to even one
small part of that life,

and the whole life suffers.

And that is a lesson

that your little guru
Phil DeMars never taught you

because he doesn't know it
himself. Because...

he is smart enough
to make a big fool out of you.

And that's the extent
of his genius.

[♪♪♪]

[EXHALES HEAVILY]

I don't understand.
You called me,

Sophia called me,
whining at me to call you back,

to come back home.
Not to turn yourself in.

Look, if you go ahead
with this plan...

A.J.: It's not if, I'm doing it.

You'll probably get 10 years.

Then that's what I'll get.

[SIGHS]
A.J., you stole
these dr*gs.

Aaron thinks
that if we can demonstrate

that you're an addict...
I'm not an addict.

I just wanna go down there
tomorrow and do this.

So why not just go now?

I mean, if that's your plan.

You want me to go right now?

I don't want you
to leave at all.

[DOOR CLOSES]

[SIGHS]

I think he's scared
and confused.

No. There's something
he's not saying.

There's something else.

What makes you think that?

No one wants to go to prison.

They'd tried me for k*lling Mac,

I would have fought it
the whole way.

But that was self-defense.

Somehow, I think this is too.

Well, it is his decision.

I mean, at some point,
you might just have

to be thankful
he's alive and move on.

I'm not going
to give up just yet.

Well, who said anything
about giving up?

[♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪]

Hey, Kerissa, you got a second?

A quick one, why?

I am not gonna be able

to buy you and Jacob out
right now.

I'm so sorry,
but A.J.'s suddenly back...

I get it. Thanks, anyway.

I'm so sorry.
It's okay, all right?

And it's not you, I just have
to get to urgent care.

What? Is everything okay?

Obviously not.

[DOOR CLOSES]

You wanna come inside?

[CHUCKLES] I can't.

Why not? What you got
going on a Sunday, huh?

You're supposed
to be the bad girl.

[LAUGHS] Yeah, I guess I am.

I wasn't gonna say anything,

but my brother showed up
at the church today.

The one who ran off?

Yeah, and he's back
at the house,

and I kinda need to go
and see him.

All right. So, what about
tomorrow night?

Maybe.

I'll hit you up.

Let me get that.

Drive safe, okay? Okay.

Bye.

[♪♪♪]

Oh, please, let it be negative.

Please, God,
let it be negative, please.

Please.

Kerissa.

It's positive.
You have chlamydia.

I have some
preventative measures

you can discuss
with your husband.

I didn't catch it from him.

Oh.

Then you might wanna
have a conversation

with whomever else
you've been seeing sexually.

Take all of them,
and you'll be fine.

And no sex for 10 days.

[SOFTLY] Okay, thank you.

[♪♪♪]

CLARA:
First, it was all
these seats on the board,

and now they want us to vote
tomorrow on this proposal.

JAMES: What proposal?

They wanna dissolve Calvary
as a corporation entirely

and just make it
one big division of H&H.

We would lose the church
forever.

Well, hold on a second.

No, how would we get it back?
It won't even technically exist.

Mae, we've been talking
to our allies on the board,

and we think,
now that Clara has come on,

maybe we can make it a tie vote.

Which is why we thought
we should come to you two

and talk to you about...

Charity. MISTY: That's right.

What has that
little idiot done now?

Shut the door.

What's the matter with you?

Are you just using me?

Oh, this again?

I could lose my family forever.

Then we'll start a new one.

Yeah, you say that, you say
a lot of things like that

but... Charity.

Be still and know that I am...
God?

[SIGHS]

The man who loves you.

[♪♪♪]

What do you want me to do?

There's an article
in the by-laws that states

in the event of a tie
among the deacons,

it can be broken by a vote
by the highest-ranking member

of the Greenleaf family
still employed by the church.

All I have to do
is convince Charity

to vote with our friends here,

and the church is saved. Hmm?

Mmm. I'll go talk to Charity.

[♪♪♪]

Not tonight.

I said, not tonight, Jacob.

What did I do now?

Nothing. I just...

I'm on my period,
and I don't feel well.

Sorry. I didn't know.

[SIGHS]

Feel better, okay?

[SIGHS]

So now you two want my help?

We don't want it. We need it.

What about what I needed
all those years, Daddy,

when it was...
It was Gigi, Gigi, Gigi!

Charity.

I'm a person.

Fine.

You're a person.

But if you knowingly do this,

take everything
your mother and I built

and just hand it over
to Bob Whitmore...

Child, you will regret it...

for the rest of your life.

Don't do it.

[♪♪♪]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[♪♪♪]

Can you get e-mails in there?

Yeah, if someone
gets you a phone,

but it's against the rules,

you can get put
in solitary for that.

Letters?

Yeah, I guess.

I'm gonna write you
all the time.

Cool.

How do I put money
into your commissary account?

I heard Mom
talking to Aaron about it.

Look, don't worry about me.

You're my brother.

I'm going to worry about you,
you can't stop me.

Fine, just don't write letters,
don't put money, whatever.

Just forget I exist.

It's better for everyone
if I didn't, anyway.

Don't say things like that.

Wait, where are you going?
For a walk.

Can I come? No.

[PHONE BUZZING]

Hey, can I come over?

PHIL: All those who agree?

[IN UNISON] Aye.

PHIL: All those oppose?

[IN UNISON] Nay.

[SIGHS]

You ready to do this?

Do I have to?

No. You don't.

[♪♪♪]

[PHONE RINGING]

Yes?

I will.

I'll... I'll let her know.

Thank you, Misty, for...

Okay, goodbye.

Don't tell me.

As long as you don't
say the words,

I'm still living in a world
that looks something

like one I understand
and want to live in.

[PHONE CHIMES]

Hello?

Oh, yes.

Of course.

Who's that?

Uh-huh.

Ye...

Well, I will be right there.

No, thank you.

Who's that?

Bob Whitmore.

He wants me to come down
to the church right now to talk.

About what?

The future.

Hey. We have any more
of those cranberry pills

we used to give Zora
for her bladder infections?

Where are they?

You don't have
a bladder infection.

How do you know?

Can you just sit down
for a second, please?

What's going on with you?

[SIGHS]

Jacob, there is really
no easy way to say this.

But first of all, I, um...

I love you.

Okay. Now you're scaring me.

[SIGHS]

I have chlamydia.

And you probably do too.
You have what?

I have chlamydia.
Can you just sit down...?

How the hell
did you get chlamydia?

Jacob, please. How?

Jacob, please. Just sit down.

Jacob, Jacob, sit down. Uh-uh.

It's Fernando, isn't it?

Yeah. I knew it.

When I asked you...

why you were at his office
the other day,

you lied.

So is it still going on? No.

Is it still going on? No! No!

How many times, Kerissa?
Jacob, come on!

You were running off
to some little

nasty hotel or something?

What hotels were you running to?

That's not the... I asked you!

If you would just
let me explain.

Jacob, please.
I don't even wanna know.

Just get out.

Get out where?

I don't know, just get out
of this house!

You have got to be kidding me,
Jacob, come on.

Do I look like I'm...?
You're gonna kick me out

for cheating? [SCOFFS]

You know what...

One mistake after all the years

I put up with you. You, you.

You've been wanting to get
of this house so bad.

Get out. Get out!

I never gave you a disease!

You are the disease, bro!

Go kick me out
of your mommy's house.

I am going nowhere.

Nowhere!

Go and get yourself a lawyer.

Because this...

us...

This is over.

Over!

Goodbye.

[DOOR CLOSES]

[♪♪♪]

Hi, Fernando, it's me.

I was wondering
if you had some free time.

I have some interesting news
of my own.

BOB:
Thanks so much for coming over
on such short notice.

You must've heard, uh...

about our plans
for the church, I assume?

Yes, I've heard there's to be
some kind of expansion?

I plan to make this site
the home

for Harmony and Hope Worldwide.

I wanna run the whole
operation from right here.

Make this church,
with a few improvements,

the home church
of the whole denomination.

So you want my people,
the black people,

to go to your white church?

I want all people,
black, white, whoever...

to worship in respect
and freedom together.

I'm sorry, but it wouldn't work.

Not without you, you're right.

I want you to join with me
in bringing H&H

into the future together.

You and me.
For this vision to succeed,

it needs a strong black leader
in the pulpit,

someone who sees the value
of breaking down the walls

of racism
and growing God's kingdom.

This could be you, Mae.

You and me.

Before I talk to you
about that, though, Bob...

[CHUCKLES] It's a biggie, right?

Yes, it is.

[♪♪♪]

But I need to talk to you
about Grace,

and her situation,
as it pertains to someone else.

Mm. And who's that?

Your little friend,
Philip DeMars.

Mmm.

[SIGHS]

I wanna take this to my room.

What's wrong?

I've never done it before.

We don't have to.

No, I want to.

Hey, whenever
you wanna stop, we stop.

It's whatever you wanna do.

Okay.

Okay.

[♪♪♪]

Where did you get this will?

It's in the public record.

When you told me
you were having troubles

with your landlady,
I looked it up.

Oh, thank you
for thinking of me.

Of course. But look at this.

See where Mrs. Davis left
the estate to the Greenleafs?

Yeah, what about it?

This will was drafted
less than a month

before Mrs. Davis was k*lled.

In a botched burglary, right?

That's the story,
but look at the executor.

Robert McCready.

And it says in the fine print,

this supersedes
all previous wills.

Who got the estate before?

No idea.

The first will has rather
conveniently disappeared.

And what is your
interesting news?

You...

[CHUCKLES]

[WHISPERS] Gave me chlamydia.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[♪♪♪]

[SIGHS]

GRACE: You okay?

A.J.: I'm all right.

GRACE: You don't seem all right.

A.J.:
Yeah, well, this time tomorrow,

that won't be
your problem anymore.

GRACE: Why are you doing this?

Why are you insisting
on turning yourself in?

Just stay.

I wish I could.

I can't.

Can you just tell me why?

You don't get to know why.

It's like everything else
in this world.

You don't get to know why.

It just is.

"The best of all
possible worlds"?

Well, given the possible worlds
we've got, yes.

James, what would you
propose we do?

Tell everybody that
Connie Sykes took a bribe?

Have you watched
the news lately?

It doesn't matter
what people do, James.

So please, let me do
what I can still do

to save our church!
But it won't be our church.

It will be something
entirely different.

God is giving us a way, James.

Yeah, Grace fell,
but he's lifting me up,

and all I need is this chance
to get close enough

to Bob Whitmore,
and I'm telling you, please.

James, please...
Your cockeyed ambition

is making you just plain stupid!

James.

You'd make yourself
an ornament on the arm

of this white criminal?

I have already said yes.

[♪♪♪]

I don't wanna go home.

Then don't.

Stay over.

Sorry, I am... old-fashioned.

Oh...

Don't be.

I like old-fashioned.

Oh, yeah? Mm-hm.

[LAUGHS]

You know, you got me thinking
when I was a kid...

I was into magic.

Liked it so much,
I flunked out of third grade.

[LAUGHS]

Oh, my dad saw my report card,
he took all my magic books

and b*rned them on the barbecue.

Okay, that's
the saddest story ever.

[CHUCKLES]

I still kind of have
a happy ending.

What are you talking about?

Boom.

[LAUGHS]

What are you doing?

You ready to say the magic word?

And what is the magic word?

Well...

in this case...

"Yes."

[♪♪♪]

Charity Bernice Greenleaf...

Will you marry me?

[EXHALES HEAVILY]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[♪♪♪]

[KNOCK ON DOOR] PHIL: Hey.

Got a sec to talk logistics?

Yeah, sure, come on in.

I just found the perfect spot
to worship during the build.

It's less than a mile from
here, a gymnastics club,

120,000 square feet,
and the owner,

who likes me, said,
"If you're the man in charge,

you can have it for..."
But you won't be in charge.

There's been a little change
in plans.

It's gonna be me and Mae.

Are you serious?

Mae told me what you did
to Grace, Phil.

I had a feeling that you had

more of a hand in it
than you said,

but Phil,
that was unconscionable.

Oh, Bob,
you've done worse yourself.

I'm sorry,
I didn't quite catch that.

What did you say, Phil?

What do I have to do
to change your mind?

I've given you all I've got
for over 20 years.

For 20 years.

All I wanna do is get out
from behind my desk

and finally get back
to ministering at my own church.

So tell me, Bob...

what do I have to do
to change your mind? Hmm?

Name it.

[♪♪♪]

Right.

Rah! Heh-heh-heh.

Go get the board together,
I'll be right in.

Nadine, let me call you
right back.

Found a place to live yet?

I hear there's a by-the-hour
hotel available

on Elvis Presley Boulevard.

I'm staying put.

Oh, really?

And don't you ever talk to me
like that again,

unless you want Bishop
to die in jail.

What drug are you on?

It's called truth.
You want some?

[♪♪♪]

Philip.
What a pleasant surprise.

Ah, don't waste
your irony on me, Mae.

You're gonna need it
in so many other less...

hopeless situations.

Pardon?

Bob is gonna be calling you
soon to tell you

he's deeply sorry,

but the arrangement
you two made...

is officially null and void.

I'll be running H&H with him
going forward.

I'll wait to hear that from Bob.

[PHONE RINGS]

Oh. That's probably him there.

Another thing, Mae,
I know you and James

have a lot of personal
belongings at the church.

You might wanna get those out.

Why would she do that?

Because barring the general
outcry of the congregation,

we're gonna demolish
the church in a week.

CHARITY: Hey.

I thought that was your car.

Did you come over
to ask permission?

Because it's a little late
for that, Phil.

[CHARITY CHUCKLES]

Permission for what?

What do you think, Mama?

Try to be happy,
because it is never coming off.

So did you just stop by
to say hi?

Uh, well, actually...

there's something we need
to talk about.

Privately.

Mmm. Well, I like
the sound of that.

Come on.

If you'll excuse us.

Is he serious about
tearing down the church?

I'm afraid that he is.

I'm sorry, Grandma. [SIGHS]

[♪♪♪]

There's not gonna be
any wedding.

Not for us, anyway.

What are you talking about?

I'm gonna marry Judee.

But last night... I know.

I'm sorry.

Get out.

Go get out.

Get out!

Father God...

I don't know what to do.

The church is gone.

Or it will be
in seven days' time.

My family is
in complete disarray.

And my son, A.J.,
I don't know how to reach him.

But, God, I know you could.

I know that you see in my heart.

[SNIFFLES]
I know that you have
ordered my steps.

I know you have carried me
over every mountain,

you lit my path
in every valley, Lord,

and I thank you, I praise you,

Father, I thank you.

I thank you...

for the Bishop...

who teaches me hope,
more and more all the time.

Thank you for my mother,

she never gives up.

And I love her for that.

Thank you, Lord,
for my daughter, Sophia.

Go away.

GRACE: She teaches me courage.

And she is an example to me
every day.

[DOOR CLOSES]

And Jacob and Kerissa,
Lord, thank you...

and for that beautiful niece
and nephew they gave me.

So what do you think this means?

Well, I wouldn't dare
to presume,

but it looks like your parents
had Mrs. Davis k*lled,

and basically
stole this house from her,

doesn't it look like
that to you?

GRACE:
Thank you for
my sister Charity,

for all she is,
and all she isn't.

And for my sister Faith...

who called me home...

so that I could
learn a lesson...

I know isn't over yet.

I miss you, sister.

I miss you.

And, Lord, about my son...

A.J.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Are you lost?

I don't think so.

How'd you get on the property?

I just started walking,
and I ended up here.

Faith. She's your sister.

How did you know that?

The dates.

Just took a sh*t.

Yeah, she was my sister.

Everything
has an expiration date.

You know what I mean?

[♪♪♪]

Everything.

Yeah.

The road is back that way.
It'll take you to the gate.

Thanks for the directions.

I'll see you around, Grace.