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Michael, get down from there.

J.J., honey,
it isn't time for the news yet.

You've still got 10 minutes.

Yeah, Ma, but you know
how long it takes

for this set
to warm up--

five minutes for the picture
and sound to come on,

three minutes to keep it
from slipping down,

two minutes to focus it,

and two minutes
to say a silent prayer

the whole thing
didn't blow up on us.

Come on, the set
isn't that old.

Now, Ma,
you've got to be jiving--

that set's so old,

it still shows Jackie Gleason
on Saturday nights.

Has it started yet?
Did I miss anything?

Oh, simmer down, Thelma.
Nothing has happened yet.

I want you to put

the potato chips
and the popcorn in some bowls

and set it
in front of the TV set.

Okay, Ma.

Potato chips
and popcorn-- Wow!

It ain't every day
that your daddy is on TV.

To tell you the truth,

I'm getting
a little excited myself.

Yeah, I can just hear it now,

This is Walter Cronkite
and here is what's happening.

The biggest story today

takes place
right here in Chicago.

The windy city's
foremost carwash expert,

James Evans, Sr.,
father of James Evans, Jr...

and two other
incidental children...

J.J...

Found a paper bag
that contained $27,000.

The money was the loot

from the Bargain
Supermarkethold-up.

Oh, quit clowning, J.J.

Your daddy did
a very wonderful thing

in returning that money,

and we all should be
very proud of him.

Mama, Daddy wasn't
really too anxious

to give the money
back, was he?

What are you talking
about, Michael?

I heard you all talking
about it last night.

Daddy said, "Ain't no way
I'm giving that money back."

And you said,
"But James, you've got to."

Then Daddy said, "I do?"

Then you said,
"Ain't no other way, James."

Then Daddy said, "Okay."

Then you said,
"That's my James."

Then after that,
I didn't hear no more talking.

Well, your daddy may have had
a few moments' doubt,

but he knew right from wrong.

All I know is that if I would
have found that money,

I'd have walked
right into the bank,

and said, "My long lost uncle
just kicked the bucket...

"and he left me a bundle,

so point me
to the new accounts department."

J.J., that money was stolen,

and if you start talking about
uncles kicking buckets,

Uncle Sam will kick your bucket

and your new accounts department
will be San Quentin.

Flo, are you ready for this?

James is in all the papers.
They got a picture of him.

Oh, a picture.

Oh, my, children,
don't your daddy look handsome?

Oh, one thing
bothers me, though.

What?

He should have had
a better crease in his pants.

Ma, you can't even
see his pants.

It's from the waist up.

Honey, a man as handsome
and as famous as your daddy is,

he deserves a better
crease in his pants.

Hey, check out what
it says under his picture,

"Portrait
of an Honest Man."

Right on, Daddy.

Hmm, it would be better
if it said,

"Portrait of the Shrewd Dude
That Kept the $27,000."

Lord,
you'd be surprised,

a lot of people
think that way.

Today, a lady walked into
the boutique and she said,

"You a friend
of the Evans family,

"the one that found
that $27,000

and gave it back?"

I said, "Yes, I am."

She said, "Well, do me a favor,

and tell them for me
I think they stupid."

Well, I hope you told her off.

I did
better than that,

I sold her
a pair of pantyhose

two sizes too small.

Honey, she'll be
twisted out of shape

like the Hunchback
of Notre Dame.

[EXPLOSION]

Hey, what's that?

That's the TV set.

TELEVISION:
Gunfight in the High Country,
tomorrow's matinee movie.

Coming up next, the 6:00 News.

That's my seat!

Put your seat
in another seat!

Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen.

Here is the 6:00 News.

We know it's the 6:00 News.
Just bring on daddy.

On the national front,

there was more talk
on Capitol Hill today

on pending legislation
on Gerald Ford's...

Oh, Michael,
turn that down.

We know what happened
in the nation today.

Food prices are up,
clothing prices are up,

unemployment is up,

and in Washington,

they ain't got down to the ups
that's keeping us down.

Ain't that a sight?
James on TV!

Girl, I can't wait.

Whoo-wee!

And this is only the beginning--

from here
it goes into his own series,

Little House in the Ghetto.

J.J., they already got a show,
Little House on the Prairie.

Yeah, but if they don't
do something

about the ghetto pretty soon,
this going to be a prairie.

I just had a horrible thought.

What, Ma?

I hope James
don't wear his pants on TV.

Ma!

I mean, I hope he don't show
his pants on TV.

Oh, Ma, don't worry
about the creases.

He'll look great.
You'll see.

This set's so old,
even the faces got creases.

Don't you all worry
about nothing,

because when James
gets that reward,

you can buy
a brand-new color TV.

You think they really going
to give him a nice reward?

Sure, why are they
making all this fuss

if it ain't for money?

Michael, turn
the set back up.

Maybe they're
up to the local news.

Okay, Ma.

And the question
is whether Congress can

override the expected veto.
On the local front,

the big human interest story
is about James Evans.

He found a sack of money,

part of the haul from a robbery
at Bargain Supermarket.

The sack contained $27,000.

Yeah, I counted
every penny of it personally

as it left this house.

Mr. Bargain, President
of the supermarket chain,

is here in the studio
with Mr. Evans

to personally
congratulate him

on his honesty
in returning the money.

Here come your daddy!

Here he comes!

Mr. Evans, may I congratulate
you on your honesty.

Thank you.

It is in times
such as these

that we would do well
to dwell on

the positive aspects
of our lives

rather than on
the negative.

Our first gesture
of appreciation

is this plaque,

which the Bargain
supermarket

wishes
to present to you.

Thank you.

You know,
someone once said

that an honest man
is the noblest...

FLORIDA: Thank the Lord
for not showing his pants.

THELMA: See Ma,
I told you.

Thank you.

Come on, man,
give him the plaque,

and let's get on to the reward.

...And I find it
encouraging indeed

that the common
American man

has not lost his great
sense of morality.

Hey, everybody.

Later man.
We're watching Dad on TV.

Daddy!

Daddy!

James, oh, honey,
what are you doing here

when you're still there?

Oh, that's what they call
a delayed tape.

They did that thing
over an hour ago.

But the Bargain
Supermarket chain

feels that
this plaque in itself

is not enough
to demonstrate our gratitude.

Therefore, right after
this broadcast,

we will present to you

a substantial
financial reward.

How much
did they give you dad?

I'll get a paper bag
to put it in.

If that's not enough,
I'll get a potato sack.

This is what they give me.

Oh, James,
they gave you a check!

A check!
A check.

Now, look again, Florida.

It's a gift certificate
for $50 worth of groceries.

$50?

The way they rip you off
at Bargain Supermarket,

$50 ain't going
to even buy you

$10 worth of groceries.

I know it's a little bit
disappointing,

but I still think
we did the right thing

in sending it back.

Yeah, I know,

you kept me up half
the night convincing me.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

Hello?

Yes, this is Mrs. Evans.

What?

Well, we thought returning it

would be
the only right thing to do.

Well, what
a disgusting thing to say.

What do you know--

Yeah, this is
James Evans talking.

You got something to say,
you can say it to my face.

Yeah, well, come around
here and say that, man.

I'll have you on soup
and mashed bananas

for the rest of your life.

That's all I need
is some fool calling me up

telling me I'm crazy
for turning the money back in.

Oh, James,
it ain't everybody is that sick.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

Don't answer it. J.J.

Hello?

Goodbye.

Oh, ma, is this
what it's going to be like?

No, no, no sweetheart.
This will pass.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

Now give me--

What the hell you want?

Oh.

It's for you, babe.
It's Reverend Gordon.

Hello, Reverend.

Oh, no. James didn't
mean nothing by that.

Oh, you saw
the news on TV?

Yeah, he done heard about
the generous reward.

Now he looking for
his cut for the church.

James, please.

Well, no, Reverend,

why it would be
no trouble at all.

We'd like for you to come over.
We want to see you.

Just come right on by.

Oh, that just about
makes my day,

that jack leg.

He probably tell you

how much better it is
to give than to receive.

Yeah, especially
when you doing the giving

and he doing the receiving.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

Hello?

The same to you, goodbye.

I don't know, but I think

we just got cussed out
in a foreign language.

Will you let me answer
the next phone call,

because I've got
some choice words

I haven't used in years.

[KNOCKING]

Now what?

FLORIDA:
Oh, my God!

What is that?

Here's another dummy

for the dummy family
that gave back all that money.

Damn!

James, please.

Now don't give me none of
that "James, please," Florida.

First, it was
that lousy gift certificate,

then them stinking phone calls,

now somebody
got my daughter all upset,

it makes me damn glad
I did what I did.

What'd you do, James?

James, I hope you didn't do
nothing you'll be sorry for.

The only thing I'm sorry for
is that I didn't do it bigger.

James, what did you do?

You want to know
what I did?

I'll show you what I did--
this is what I did.

Oh, my...

Yeah, there was
$29,000 in that sack--

I kept that

before I gave back
the rest of the money.

Well, what
you all looking at?

All I did
was take the reward in advance

that he wasn't going to give me
in the first place.

Yeah, I kept $2,000
of the money.

Dad, how could you do
a thing like that,

keeping that $2,000?

You should have gave that back
and kept the rest!

James, this money,
it ain't ours.

No, you wrong, baby,
it wasn't, but it is now.

Honey, that's a crime.

Yeah, well, then I just
have to ask for a pardon.

Well, I can't really
blame James.

Bargain's is

the biggest rip-off
in the community.

He sells us
yesterday's groceries

at next week's prices.

Willona,

you sticking up
for stealing?

I'm not sticking up
for stealing,

I'm sticking up

for sticking it
into the dudes

that stuck it
into James.

Later.

See you, kids.

Well, I'm on Dad's side, too,

but it ain't got nothing to do

with the black
community.

It's got to do

with that
green community

lying on that table.

A fine example you're setting
for your kids, James.

I ain't saying
what I did was right.

I know what I did,

but it's time
these kids found out

what the world is really like.

You and Ma have
always taught us

about honesty.

What would
the world be like

if everybody
did this, Daddy?

Thanks, baby.

Well, Thelma,

that's what makes
the world go 'round.

I mean, that's how it works,

and when in Rome,
do as the Romans do.

Oh, James...

All I did was just let a little
money roam into my hands.

[KNOCKING]

Don't answer it, J.J.

Don't worry, I'll handle it.

I ain't afraid.

Who is it?

Ernie and Fred, man.

No problem.
Two of my main men from school.

Hey, what's up?

Can we rap to you
for a minute, man?

Sure.

Yeah, the word's out that you
and your folks

are holding kind of heavy.

We're wondering
if we can float a loan,

you know, for a good cause,
namely, us.

My folks ain't
got the money.

They gave all
that money back.

Yeah, man, but you
got a big, fat reward.

We heard it on the TV.

Yeah, but--

Come on...

Yeah, your crib

is the Fort Knox
of the projects.

Hey, what you
saying, brother.

So long as you
all so easy

about dealing away
your bread,

suffer a little
our way, huh?

Yeah, all you
got to do

is ask one of your
lame-brained folks

to lay some of that loot on us.
Yeah, man.

We want some
of that bread, man!

Was that about
the money, Junior?

Yeah, Dad.

Come on, son.

Damn!

More trouble, James?

Two slammed doors equal trouble.

James,

there isn't one word
you could say

that'll make me
want to keep that money.

No?

How about hunger, baby?

We been there, you know?

We got a lot more use
for that money

than people down in that
jive supermarket.

James,

I wouldn't have their
guilty consciences,

not for all
their money.

Yeah, and they wouldn't
take our income

for your good conscience.

Honey, we get by.

Yeah, well I'm tired
of getting by.

I want to get over for a change.

James,
what you doing?

I'm going to show you
how we getting by, baby.

James, what are you doing?
No, come on,

I'm going to show you
how we getting by.

I done had enough of getting by.

James, I tell you,
listen to me, now.

What are you doing?

James, where
are you going?

I'm going to show you
where I'm going.

You want to know
how we getting by?

That's how we getting by, baby.

Me working two jobs,
you working now and again,

and what we got?

Look at this money over here.

You know what this means
to Bargains?

About as much as
10 cents does to me.

I mean, hell,
even less.

But James, please--

No, come on, Florida.
No more "please."

I want you to see
how we're getting by.

Dad's doing
the spring cleaning

a little early
this year.

You better be quiet,
or he'll clean up on you, too.

Now, this is it, baby.

Throw in whatever else
the kids got

and that's all we own.

But there's
still no reason

for us keeping it,
James.

[KNOCKING]

Now, don't
nobody move.

I'm going to deal
with this one.

See, this might be another one
of them friendly calls.

What the hell
do you want?

James!

You're bending
the Reverend Gordon.

I'm sorry, Rev.

Uh, hello.

How do you do, Reverend?

I'm so sorry.

Hello, children.

Hi, Reverend.
Hi, Reverend.

Hello, Reverend.

I see the Lord has
been good to you.

Yeah, he helped one
who helped himself.

Oh, James,

quoting Scriptures
for your own ends

ain't going to do
no good.

I assume
this is the reward they gave you

for your unselfish act?

Yes.
No.

How about yes and no?

No, they wasn't going to give me
nothing, Rev,

so I just helped my damn self.

But he's going
to give it back.

Isn't that
the right thing to do, Reverend?

Perhaps.

Give it back, Rev?

$2000 to that jive
rip-off supermarket?

Now, I ask you,
Reverend,

would God want me
to give it back?

Perhaps.

But what else
would a good man do

but give it back?

Isn't that the answer,
Reverend?

Perhaps.

Now, good is measured
in many ways,

Sister Evans.

Yeah, like maybe
a piece of this action

being a donation to the church,
huh, Rev?

Perhaps.

Oh, James,

the church don't want
no dirty money.

A few more perhapses
and he going to get it.

It isn't so much the
money or the source,

Mrs. Evans,

but what can be
done with it.

Now, some
of this money

can fill a lot
of hungry bellies.

But with stolen money, Reverend?

But is it stolen money
or did James find it?

Could this be God's way
of providing?

Now, James did
what he thought was right,

and it wasn't.

No doubt about it, it was wrong,

but if some of that money
were to come to the church,

which would be greater,
the old wrong or the new right?

God does work
in mysterious ways.

Yes, Lord.

Amen, brother.

You know something, baby?

The Reverend got a point,

that money can do a lot of good
right here.

Believe me, James,

that kind of money
can't do us no good.

Michael, that $2,000

gets you that much
closer to law school.

How about you, Junior?

How about painting
on canvas

instead of cardboard
for a change, huh?

Yeah.

And Thelma,
wouldn't you like

to go to a real
nice school

for them acting
and dancing lessons?

What about you, baby?

I mean, if you get sick,

how about having a chance
to call a good doctor

instead of going
to that jive clinic?

James, believe me,

I know there are
a million and one things

this family could use,

but this is
not the way.

Give it back,
James, please.

For what?

So I can be poor
but honest?

You make it sound

like something terrible.

Well, don't it make
no difference to you

how the rest of the
world is running?

Forgive me, James, but this...

This is the only world
that matters.

Amen to that,
sister.

Now, we can do

without the heavenly
cheering section, Rev.

James there is no need
to lose your manners.

Yeah, well, that's about all
a poor man's got left to lose.

All right, Rev, go ahead.

the money ain't brought us
nothing but grief no how.

Take it.

Maybe you can do
some good works with it.

[CLEARS THROAT]

Excuse me, Reverend.

My dad isn't used

to being in the upper
income bracket.

The thin atmosphere
did gone to his head.

You better shut up
before I go to yours.

Well, what
do you say, Rev?

The decision isn't mine to make,
Mr. Evans.

It's yours.

He didn't seem
to be much help, did he?

Uh, Dad,

if you're having
any trouble

making that decision,

I'll be glad to make
the decision for you.

Like I said,

I'll let you
make the decision.

I've already made it.

We're going to keep the money.

Dyn-o-mite!

Okay, James. You win.

Keep the money.

All right, now you're
getting with it, baby.

Michael,
why don't you take yourself

over to Big Daddy
Williams' place?

What you talking about, Florida?

Well, I'm sure
a big time operator

like Daddy Williams

could use a smart 12 year old
to run numbers.

Nobody's going to suspect
a little boy like that,

and Michael could pick up
some real good money.

Florida, that ain't got nothing
to do with this, baby.

Thelma, you remember
that red dress

I made for you
last year?

Yeah, Ma, but you said
it was too short for me.

Well, I changed my mind.

You put it on
and go downtown.

There must be
an awful lot of work

a pretty little girl
like you could get

in those places
down in the loop.

Woman, have you lost your mind?

Don't stop me now, James.

I'm just getting
down with it.

J.J., why don't you
run over to the market

and get dinner
for all of us?

Okay, Ma, but I
don't have any money.

Oh, you don't
need no money.

Just "find it."

All right, Florida,
you done made your point.

I understand
where you're coming from.

That means you're going
to give the money back, Dad?

Yeah, that's exactly
what it means, Son.

That's exactly
what I was afraid of.

Thanks, James.

Honey, this family
is our strength.

It don't matter

what some crazy
sick people say,

as long as we
do the thing

that'll keep us
together.

Yeah, but you know something,
Florida?

It's a cold world out there
and we can't change it.

Well, maybe we can't
change it, James,

but we sure can
let it change us.

You're right, Ma.

Amen.

Amen.

Perhaps.

Here's one for us.

You see, James,

a lot of people
thought we did the right thing.

Yeah, baby.

I guess everybody
out there ain't sick.

Damn, but this one is.

Well, according

to the latest J.J. Poll,

that's 212 against
and 63 for us.

We're catching up,
though.

Oh, here's one
from Reverend Gordon.

Is he for
or against?

Neither.

It's a new category...

"Perhaps."

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