02x13 - These Things Take Time

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♪ In the heat of the night ♪

♪ I've got troubles
wall-to-wall ♪

♪ In the heat of the night ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Must be an ending
to it all ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ But hold on ♪

♪ It won't be long ♪

♪ Just you be strong ♪

♪ And it'll be all right ♪

♪ In the heat of the night ♪

♪ In the heat of the night ♪

♪ Oh ♪

Don't tell me
it's too small.

It's hard to think
that clifton

Is into a size
already.

You're telling me?

Time goes,
doesn't it?

I tell you.

Let's see.
S, s, and s.

Oh, good, thanks.
I'm going to look
at these socks.

That'll be . ,
Plus tax.

You should be glad
you were caught,
young lady.

I mean that.

I mean, being caught
the very first time

Sort of forces
a decision

About there being
a second time.

Or wouldn't you
say so?

Yes, sir.

Mm-hmm.

Now, I want you
to tell me

All about this.

It was for bailey,
my brother.

He's getting
too big

To be wearing no
girl leftover stuff.

Mr. Dextroe at the store

Has agreed
not to press any charges,

So we're going to let you
go on home now.

Yeah!

I mean,
thank you.

Whoa.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute.

There's going to be
no more stealing.

Understand me?
No more!

Tibbs will
take you home.

He's going to
drive you there,

And he's going to talk
to your mama

So she doesn't have to
come in tomorrow.

Woman:
have to be brought
home by the police.

Where's your head, girl?

Look at me
when I speak to you!

Now, louise, honey,

The man said
everything was o.k.

I don't understand
what's gotten
into this child.

Ditching school.
Now stealing!

On top of getting
herself pregnant.

Mama!

She's...

I just want what's best
for my little girl.

School, maybe knowing
someplace better
than the bottoms.

I know.

You remind me so much
of my mama.

I guess
I better be going.

Shawna, take care
of yourself, huh?

Mrs. Hughes,
good-bye.

We sure are
much obliged to you.

Tibbs: uh, yeah.

Why you
do that, mama?

Why you put me down
in front of him?

I'm sorry.

It's always "sorry."

Oh, baby.

Don't say
you want what's
best for me.

Baby--

'Cause feeling
this bad...

Can't be best.

(Sniffles)

Oh, martin.

Why do I seem to do
everything wrong?

(Honk honk)

Man: ...come on.
Here we go.

Got to get
that truck loaded.

Man : that's it.
Here we are.

Bobby...
Bobby, come on
over here.

Woman: (over pa)
will bob fullbright please
come to the payroll office?

Is it on there?

All right. I got it.

Where you been?

You said
you was coming by.

You know
what to do!

You ain't
give me no money.

Money?
Smell the coffee.

Danny, you
got to help me.

Maybe we could--

We? Give me a break.
I got work to do.

Come by tonight.

Mama will be out,
and we could talk,

Work something out.

Danny...

Look, there ain't no "we"!
Get that straight!

Don't come around here
yapping at me,
looking like hell.

I looked pretty
damn good a while back
on my back.

Whoa! Ha ha ha!

So?

That was then.

Now is now.

We'll see how funny
you think this is

When everyone knows
what you did to me.

Me and who else?

I just happen to know
the chief of police.

I might mention
your name

When I remind him
I'm underage.

No slut's going
to nail my ass
for some kid.

Do you hear me?

(Bell tolling)

(Sniffles)

I'm sorry. (Sobs)

I'm really sorry.

I really screwed up
everything, didn't i?

I mean...

Messed up everything.

(Continues sobbing)

Make it go away.

Please.

(Sobbing inconsolably)
make it go away.

I'll do anything.

Just don't be there!

Don't be there.

Don't be there.

Shawna:
"burley bear ran
faster and faster,

"But the sky
kept getting
darker and darker.

His bear paws
were..."

Ugh!

Maya, stop
kicking me.

I didn't.

Martin: all I'm saying is
a couple of months, tops.

I can find some kind
of work in jackson.

Louise: no, martin! No.

I can't stand
to lose no more.

I love you, honey.

You ain't never
going to lose me,

But we got
to do something.

I'll go by the end
of the week.

Don't worry.
He don't ever mean it.

Yeah, he does.

(Door closes)

"Sore from the rocks.

"He had never run on--"

(Gasps)

Lay still!

You're poking me
with them knees.

I don't--

What's wrong?

I think
I ate too much.

(Sighs)

(Door opens)

Martin?

Honey, that you?

Ohh!

Oh.

Oh.

(Panting)

(Shawna grunting)

(Shawna panting)

(Shawna moaning)

(Shawna grunting)

(Grunting)

(Screaming)

(Baby crying)

(Baby whimpers)

(Whimpers)

(Bell rings)

Boy: you want
to wait up, man?

Hey.

Shawna.

Look at you!
You look great.

You had your baby.

Oh, yeah.

Was the labor
as rough as they say?

I guess.

Doctor gave me
something,

And my boyfriend
was there.

You're lucky.
The delivery room.

Scary place
for most guys.

Yeah, well,
everything's cool...

O.k.?

Why clear out
your locker?

Shawna, don't drop
out of school.

You were doing
so well.

We can talk
in my office.

No.

Ain't nothing
to talk about.

Nothing?

Not even how you feel
about never being able
to see your baby again?

What do you mean?

Shawna, what happened?

After?

Mama called the
people in jackson
like we planned,

And they came
and got it.

I mean, how did you
handle it?

Did you choose
to see your baby first,

Hold it?

For what?

(Engine whirring)

Keep it going.
Bring it up.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hold it!

Hold it! Hold it!

My god.
Oh, my god.

Oh, my...

This is
an educational
institution,

Not a facility
for group therapy.

I want
to get them together,

Answer questions,
talk about prenatal care,

Their delivery fears.

Babies are not
really our concern.

There are at least
pregnant girls

On this campus
that we know of.

Doesn't that
concern you?

Indeed it does.

They set
a very bad example.

They're
an embarrassment.

As teachers, yeah,
they are an embarrassment.

Althea,

You surely can't hold
this school responsible

For individual acts,

Choices of behavior
while off this campus.

But a little
sex education

While they're
on the campus,
that might help.

These things take time.

Take time.
Take all the time you want.

In the meantime,
hand out a few condoms.

Miss tibbs,
you forget yourself.

I just had a conversation
with a miserable little girl

Actually a little girl.

Who just gave away
her baby.

She'll never
see it again.

She's filled
with so much pain
and shock,

She can't
deal with it.

What should I tell her?

Tell her to go
to her family,
her minister.

That's what
they are for!

What kind of answer
is that?

This is a school.

You will not turn it
into a psychiatric ward

Or day-care center
or birth-control clinic.

Not here!

Fine.

If not here,
then elsewhere,

But, damn it, somewhere.

O.k., Here's the plan.

Go down
to the hospital
and check the records.

See what black babies
were born there

The last couple
of days.

O.k.

I know most
of the midwives
around town.

I'll check with them.

After that,
we'll go through
this garbage

And try to figure out
what trash bin

That poor thing
was tossed into.

While you're at it,

Pick up some gloves
and some face masks.

You think
I'm that ugly, huh?

Sweet.

Yes, sir?

There's a time
for jokes,

And this sure as hell
ain't it.

Yes, sir.

Cord wasn't tied.

Clotted off
all by itself.

So there was no care
given to this baby
at all, huh?

Uh-uh.

Some of that blood's
probably from the mother.

Get a swab, will you,
and run it?

So tiny.

My bet is
it wasn't full-term.

Probably not more
than, uh, oh...

Months or so.

Dr. Robb,

The temperature
is just above ambient.

We can get
a more precise time
with the vitreous humor.

Chief, we got
a real mess here.

With all
this debris,

I can't tell what's
from the dumpster

Or what's from
the birth site,
wherever that was.

How long was that baby
in the dumpster?

Dr. Robb: at least
a couple days.

Virgil, I didn't get
the footprints.
Could you get them?

Sure.

You remember that bruising
on the nose and lips

That I wasn't
sure about?

It could have
been caused

By some object pressing
against him in the trash.

Or...

There were
petechial hemorrhages
in the trachea

And lint all the way down
into the lungs,

And he did not die
from exposure.

Althea: one lousy semester
of health, that's all.

And maybe, just maybe,

Morris might assign
the only chapter
on animal reproduction.

The kids are
to read it at home

And then discuss it
with parents,

Who probably
still get dressed
in the closet

And who probably think
a fallopian tube

Is the newest ride
at disneyland.
(Scoffs)

That is sex education
in the eighties.
If we could...

(Jazz plays)

What?

Jazz--new case,
bad one.

(Sighs)

Lucky guess.

Oh, not lucky.
It's a science.

Jazz--new case,
and a bad one.

B.b. King--

We're throwing a party.

Theme song from rocky--

You're homesick

Or the ers
won their last game.

Anita baker--
I gotta get myself
a new nightgown.

Are you going
to tell me

What brought
on the jazz?

A very little boy,

Nobody yet.

No clothes,
no name, no use.

So somebody threw
little-boy-nobody-yet

Into the trash.

Oh.

All during the autopsy,

I kept wanting to count
his fingers and toes
over and over.

Isn't that funny?

I hear that's
the very first thing
new mothers do.

, , , , .

They're all there.

I wonder
if she did that

Before she threw him
in the dumpster.

Oh.

Well, it shouldn't
be too hard

To find mommy dearest.

How many black women

Gave birth to
preemies recently?

What?

(Thunder crackling)

What do you mean?

Oh, my god.

God.

(Rain pouring)

O.k., We can settle
this whole business
right now.

Just tell me
the name of the
adoption agency.

There ain't no agency.

These people
wanted a baby,

They was real nice.

Right. A nice couple
from jackson

With a whole lot
of money,
so you say.

The other day you
couldn't be nicer to me.

To the poor little
black family
in the bottoms.

Now you won't believe
a word I say.

Don't go anywhere

Until every piece of
that evidence is marked.

We tagged
every stinking piece.

Yeah. And every other
stinking piece

Each stinking piece
was stuck to.

Ain't what you expected
when you signed on

To rid the world of
crime single-handed?

No, sir.

Remember--the meek
will inherit

A stripe
on the sleeve.

The proud
will surely fall.

Shawna, you're doing
yourself no good
going on like this.

Can't you believe me?

You've got to help me.

It ain't my baby.

What we're
looking at, young lady,

Is this baby
over in the hospital,

Born within hours of,
or at the same time,
your baby was born.

So?

So, both your baby
and this baby

Just happen to be
-month babies--

Preemies.

Oh, shawna,
sweetie.

The trash that was
found on the dead child

Came from a dumpster
near your neighborhood.

Now...

We can take
a blood sample from you,

Have the lab do a match,

And we'll know
in a day anyway.

So?

Come on, child.

There was only
one baby,

And this was it.

And it was yours,
wasn't it?

Yeah. It was.

And you k*lled it...

And threw it in
a dumpster, didn't you?

No!

No, no, no!

Yeah.

I did.

We filed
shawna's confession.

What you
going on for?

Because she's lying.

Yeah?

Why?

She's covering for
someone, someone...

Else who wanted
that child dead.

Come on,
now, virgil.

A tiny little baby,
alive for maybe
one hour--

That's not a lot
of time to make
many enemies.

Yeah, I know, but...

Something about
this whole mess
keeps screaming "foul."

How about pity?

I'm saying you
might be getting
too involved

In this girl's
hassles.

Hassles?

That's a tidy little way
to sum up a lousy life.

I agree.
It's unfair--
it really is.

Her daddy
abandoning her,

Some lowlife
knocking her up,
running off.

It's unfair.

Poverty is unfair.

Whether you
like it or not

That little girl
k*lled another
human being.

Rich, poor--
black or white
that's wrong.

Wow.

You just went from
being a single cop
to a whole jury.

(Telephone buzzes)

(Buzzing)

Hello?

Put him on.

Hello, doctor.

(Indistinct conversation)

Thanks.

What's the matter?

That child
didn't suffocate.

He choked to death
on a blood clot.

Oh, man...

Hi, martin.

Bailey, your sister
wanted you
to have this.

I'm sorry.
He's a little scared?

He's been crying
about his sister.

I'm going to take them
in the house for a while.

What's the use?

Shawna won't say
who the baby's
father was.

Why do you
suppose that is?

Say what it is
you mean, mr. Tibbs.

I think someone

Helped shawna
get rid of her baby.

My daughter
is not a m*rder*r.

Her baby
was still alive

When it was buried
in that pile of filth.

Alive?

He was...

(Sobs) oh, no, lord.

Lord jesus...

Oh, my sweet shawna.

Dan mackey.

Where can I find him?

Boy: all right, billy boy!

You got him there.

Whoo hoo!
Oh. Get him.

Oh! Yeah.

Break that up now.

Break it up!

Get up! Get up!

Get off him!

Come on. Get back
to work right now.

And I mean now!

Damn it, mackey!

What in the world
are you doing, anyway?

Dan mackey?
Why don't that
surprise me none?

Come on, man,
let go of me.

Settle your
butt down!

All right.

What's
going on here?

He's been acting crazy.

Oh, crap!
Stay out
of my business!

You just shut up!

Shut up,
both of youse.

Unless somebody's
filing charges,

I'm here to deliver
a message
to you mackey.

The chief wants
to see you.

Can't you see
I'm at work?

Well, I'd find time.

What's it about?

Know a shawna hughes?

Never heard of her.

Bull! She come here
yesterday.

She was way out here.

You shut up!

Smart, mackey.
That was real smart.

You're fired!

Well?

Well, give the chief
my best regards.

See how things
work out, mackey?

Now you got all day.

Watch your
head, now.

Shawna, did you know

That that baby
was alive

When you threw it
into the dumpster?

I guess i...

If i...

(Gate opens)

I don't know.

Excuse me, detective.

Bubba's back.

O.k.

Are you
going to...

I'll take care of it.

What's going to happen?

(Gate closes)

Well, you're not going
to have to stay here.

That was just overnight.

Now you'll just
come home with me.

Then what?

Shawna, I don't know.

I do.

They ain't never going
to let me go home again.

Shawna,
listen to me.

While you were
pregnant...

What did you
think about
the baby?

I didn't.

I guess I didn't know
it was a baby.

I mean...

I knew...

But not really.

(Sniffles)

Not like it was
going to grow up...

And have a name.

Did you have
anyone to talk to,

A friend,

Someone who
could make it
seem more real?

No.

It just kept
getting bigger...

And bigger.

And everything got worse...

And worse.

You know those girls
on the soaps

That's pregnant, on tv?

They got long,
shiny hair

And silk blouses.

Isn't that something?

The girl says
you're the father.

You saying
you couldn't be?

Maybe.

Maybe.

Well, then, at least
you're telling me
it's possible,

Is that right?

Yeah. It--it's
possible, that's all.

After that
argument you had
on the loading dock,

When's the next time
you saw her?

That was the last time.

You weren't anywhere near
those woods that night?

No.

It's a piece
of barbed wire

From that old fence
that went around the woods.

See, it's caked
with something
that's not old.

My guess is that
that something is blood.

Yeah. Barbed wire
can give you
a nasty gash

When you run on it
and you're not
expecting it there

In the dark,
like when
you're hurrying,

Carrying something
in your arms.

That's enough to send
to the lab for typing.

Maybe what I said
happened to you.

Lift up
your pants leg.
Let me have a look.

That one's pretty
and clean.

Let me see
the other one.

Go on.

Well, look at this.

I wouldn't think
you got that
from a cat.

She had some stuff
of mine, that's all.

Some pictures and junk.

She and her mama go to
choir practice fridays,

So I thought
I'd go over there.

I saw her sneaking out
of the house,

All bent over, kind of,

And I followed her.

You were in
the woods when
she had that baby.

I lost her for
a minute in the dark.

Then I heard
these sounds.

They were awful.

I didn't know
what happened.

Then I saw her...

Laying on the ground.

And it was weird.

I was just
standing there

Holding on
to this damn tree,
and I couldn't move.

And then i...

I saw it come out.

It was weird.

I never seen anything
like that before.

And I was just
standing there,
and I couldn't move.

And then she got
real quiet...

Didn't move at all.

And you didn't try
to get any closer?

I ran like hell.

It didn't occur to you
she might need help?

I thought she was dead.

When you ran
where did you go?

To a friend's.

What's the difference?

The difference

Could be your alibi.

Where did you go?

To my girlfriend's.

To your girlfriend's?

Mackey, I'm
going to get you.

The tiniest shred
of evidence,
and you're mine.

You got that?
You hear me?

Come on. Get it over!

Get it over.
Good spike, mandy!

Gina, get the lead out!

Man: mrs. Tibbs!

May I interrupt?

All right, girls,
good going today.

Come on.
Take your showers.

Let's go.
I'll see you later.

Good job.

Good going, gina.

(Door shuts)

What in the devil
are you up to?

I don't know
what you're
talking about.

It is all over
this school

That you're holding
teenage-pregnancy
classes at your home,

That you're
telling young girls

Where to get abortions,

Doling out condoms.

My god!
As vice principal
of this school--

Hold it!
Just wait a minute.

Rumor's gotten
way ahead of what's
really going on,

But a couple
of those ideas
sound good.

This started
with that hughes child.

No. She just
lit the fire.

Just because one
stupid teenager
gets herself pregnant,

You're ready to overthrow
the entire government
of mississippi.

Look, I am
simply trying

To get some sort
of sex-education
program going here

That's going
to help these kids.

This school
is in compliance
with state laws.

And out of touch
with reality!

Listen to me, please!

Mrs. Tibbs,
look at me.

My mother had me
when she was .

!

She raised
the four of us

With only
my grandmother to help.

I know the cycle,
mrs. Tibbs.

Then you're
just the man

Who can take
this community

A little farther,
a little faster.

I will,
but it takes time!

Then we'll have
many more shawna's

And many more
lost babies,

And we'll be
throwing them in
the garbage dumps!

I heard you let
that little girl go.

I drove her home.

Why?

Where is she
going to go,

And how would she
get there?

I thought we agreed
she'd stay with you
a while.

Those children need
to be together.

The little ones are
nearly sick with grief.

O.k., O.k.

We had to let
mackey go.

His alibi checked out.

An alibi
from a girlfriend?

And from the clinic.

You sure?

The sanitation
department said

That dumpster on sixth
street, the one the
little baby was put into

Was set out for pickup

When mackey
was being stitched up
at the meadows clinic.

It was picked up
before he left there.

I'm sorry
to let him out.

I believe
I hate him.

The lab sent this
over for you.

Thanks, bubba.

That the report
on those fibers?

Yeah. We found some
red, blue, and some
transparent rayon ones.

Is that
very uncommon?

No.

(Sighs)

But possibly
I'll find a match
at the hughes' house.

I sure hope we don't.

Poor virgil.

He's taking
this real hard.

Daddy,
the man's coming.

I'm, uh, sorry
to bother you, martin,

But I have to take
a look around.

Yes, sir.

Come on.

Kids, go in
the house, now.

Get your crayons, son.

Maya, help him
there, baby.

They mind really well.

Good kids.

You know why
I'm here, don't you?

I think I'm glad
you finally come.

♪ Blessed savior ♪

♪ Blessed savior ♪

♪ Won't you hear
my humble cry? ♪

♪ Why don't others
thou art calling, jesus ♪

♪ To my past be... ♪

Man: all right, let's
stop here. Thank you.

Thank you.

See you all sunday.

Bubba called me up
and told me all about it.

I'm sorry, louise.

I love you, honey,
but it was too much.

It's all right.

I understand.

Please don't.

Sweetie, I already
told them.

(Sighs)

Mrs. Hughes...

Why?

I was half scared
out of my head

When she
didn't come back
that night.

Then there she was...

Sitting up against
the porch,

Staring at that baby
like she didn't know
what it was.

Mama...

It was all my fault.

Shh! Now, baby...

No.

No. No.

She held that child
out to me...

And when I took it...

There it was...

Barely filling up
my one hand.

How could
that squirming,

Still-wet thing
be big enough

To wreck my baby's
whole world

Till she was

A tired old woman

Still living down here
in the bottoms?

What did you do
with the baby?

I made martin drive me
to the hospital

So I could leave it
outside somewhere.

Somebody there
would find it...

And they'd know where
it should live.

Oh, but then
everything went crazy.

Martin started
screaming at me

That the baby
wasn't breathing.

I stared at it.

It was so still...

And i...

I thought I was going
to lose my mind.

I...

We couldn't go
to no hospital.

Two panicky
black folks
from the bottom

Come in there
with a dead baby.

Lord help me!

(Sobs) oh, we had
a terrible fight...

Me and martin...

And then... (Inhales)

I made him take it

Away.

Oh, we thought
it was dead...

I swear to jesus.

And you were willing
to let shawna

Take the blame
for that?

No. No,
that was my doing.

What?

Maya and bailey...

They need
mama and martin
a lot more than me.

Hmm.

Oh, she was
a perfect baby...

This girl right here...

My shawna...

Is a perfect child.

(Sobs)

The lord wouldn't
want no better,

So I couldn't let
one handful of a stranger

Just come in there
and throw my shawna's
life away.

No.

You see?

(Humming)

Take your teddy bear.

Getting too big to carry.

Come on, get in.

Now remember
what I told you,

Both of y'all.

You be good,
o.k.?

(Engine starting)

The chief's talking

To the state's
attorney's office

Right now.

I mean, police chiefs
have considerable pull
in this state.

Look, you all will
be back together
before you know it.

Sure.

♪ To my past be blind ♪

♪ Oh, blessed savior ♪

♪ Blessed savior ♪

♪ Please won't you hear
my humble cry? ♪

♪ Why don't others
thou art calling ♪

♪ Oh, blessed ♪

♪ To my past be blind? ♪