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Oh my-- oh my!

Calvin! Calvin?

Uh-- phone.

OK.

9-1-- I need you to-- he needs to be OK.

Just stay with me, OK?

I have an emergency.

I need an ambulance now!

Now! Please!

I-- I-- I don't know.

He's been shot!

He's-- he's bleeding from everywhere!

Just send somebody!

God!

What-- help!

Please!

Baby, come on.

Peanut butter, beans.

OK.

That's two proteins.

Make it happen!

Come on, baby!

Jesus only had a protein and a starch.

He did it for 23,000 people!

It's just three of us and you can't make this happen?

Curtis, listen, if you eat pork, and beans, and peanut

butter, baby, none of us are going to be

able to stay in this house.

Just make it fast.

Woo!

Where the Chinese food at?

How long does it take to cook some Chinese food?

How long does it take to stir and fry some rice?

You know what?

What's the number?

I'll call them.

9-1-1.

9-1-- that ain't the number.

OK, baby.

404--

404--

911.

You know what?

OK, baby.

All right, all right, all right, all right.

678--

I don't even trust you no more because you lie.

- 770. - No.

No, that ain't it.

It-- baby, stop being silly.

Come on now.

Well, Curtis, what you want me to do, baby?

What?

Just do something.

I'm wasting away to nothing.

Come on!

[mocking laughter]

That's so funny.

I'm hungry!

I'm hungry!

Yeah. We all are.

We all are.

All thanks to you.

That's all right.

I got it for you. - What, baby?

I got something.

You hungry to, ain't you? - Yeah.

I got you.

We got the secret stash.

- Secret stash? - What secret stash, baby?

Y'all didn't know about that?

Who got a secret stash.

Grape juice, grapefruits.

In the closet.

The little, community thing--

whatever y'all call it.

It's Communion!

Curtis, don't do that!

You'll go to hell if you take that food.

CJ! CJ!

CJ! Come!

Come! Come!

Hurry up! Please!

Come on! Please!

Something happened!

What is it?

[theme music]

Come on! Please!

Please!

I found him like this!

I don't know if he's bleeding!

I don't know-- I--

I did--

What happened?

I don't know!

I-- I came in.

I came in. He was there.

Did you call 9-1-1?

Yeah.

Should I move-- what--

what do-- what-- - Janine!

Janine, I'm going to need you to calm down.

I-- I--

Janine!

Calm down!

All right?

Now grab a towel.

Grab a towel while I put direct pressure on this wound.

Calvin, stay with the sound of my voice.

Whatever you do, you got to stay with me.

Calvin, I need you to stay with me, man.

I'm right here.

We got you.

Calvin?

Thank you, baby.

I need you to calm down, OK?

[crying]

Janine!

Calm down, OK?

I need you to be calm.

Calvin?

Calvin, I need you to stay with me, buddy.

Can you hear me?

Calvin, can you hear me?

Stay with me.

Stay with me, man.

I'm right here with you, buddy.

Stay with me.

What do I do? What do you need me to do?

I need you to call Aunt Ella.

- I-- she's going to-- - All right.

Tell her-- I know. - What do I say?

Janine!

Janine, you need to calm down, OK?

Call Aunt Ella, tell her there was an accident,

and meet us at the hospital.

Calvin, stay with me, buddy.

Tell her to just meet us at the hospital.

Calvin?

Calvin, can you hear me?

JANINE PAYNE: Aunt Ella?

Calvin?

Calvin?

[ambulance sirens blazing]

Why would anybody do that to Calvin?

I don't know.

In our house.

That's where we raise our children.

What are we going to do?

What if-- what if they come back?

We have to do something! - Janine.

No, listen to me.

We have to do something!

Janine, you've got to calm down.

- Calm down? - Yes.

Calm down.

You've got to calm down for Aunt Ella and for Miranda.

We never should have told them it was just an accident.

No.

No, we should not have said that.

No, we did the right thing, OK?

Oh, baby, here are they are.

Come on, baby.

Janine, stay calm.

Janine?

Why don't they just fix the vending machine then?

How are you going to have a broken vending

machine in the hospital?

They fix bodies, for goodness sake!

- Shh! - Huh?

They do surgery!

They can't fix a vending machine?

People got to eat, it's a hospital.

Not so loud, baby.

I'm not loud.

You mind if I buy that from you, sir?

Curtis!

Can I buy this from you?

Man, thank you.

I got to get change.

Curtis, you don't know him.

So what?

He gave it to me.

Give him those back, baby.

Don't do that.

I'm hungry.

Hey, y'all.

Where's Calvin?

I know he was probably rushing, driving all fast.

Ew! These are nasty.

I wonder what his car looks like.

Yeah. That's another thing.

That's why I don't let him borrow the car.

Now you know.

Can't never borrow my car again.

He doesn't want to borrow your car.

What's happening, y'all?

What's going on?

Payne family?

- Yeah, that's us. - Yes?

We're doing everything we can to stabilize him,

but he's lost a lot of blood.

Wait, wait. CURTIS PAYNE: Wait, stabilized?

Who-- who has lost a lot of blood?

Stabilized? No.

Doctor, we're here for Calvin Payne.

I know.

He-- when-- when will you know something?

Within the hour.

Wait a minute!

Please, sir!

Now I'm just--

I am his mother.

What-- what are you talking about?

Look, I got to be honest, I'd gather the family

as quickly as possible.

Now he's extremely critical and it doesn't look good.

Wait a minute, sir!

Wait a minute!

Can I see him, please?

No!

He's on his way to surgery.

He has severe, internal bleeding.

Now we have to stop that, so we can try to stabilize that.

Now you want me to stand here with you

or you want me to go and help your son?

Jes-- Doctor, wait a minute--

Look, the bullet did significant damage to him.

What?

Bullet?

Bullet.

I'll tell you more about we get through with surgery.

Wait a minute, Doctor!

Can I please talk--

this is my son!

Why is he so rude?

I-- he won't tell me nothing.

What is he talking about?

Janine, is that Calvin's blood?

Calm down.

Baby, what do you mean, calm down?

We need to know what's going on, Ella.

CJ, what the hell is going on?

A bullet?

Janine walked in and found him lying on the floor.

Lying on the floor!

At your house?

Yeah.

Janine?

Janine's upset.

She's very upset.

That's not what I'm talking about.

I mean, was it a robbery?

Was somebody after Calvin or somebody else in the house?

I don't know!

I mean, we-- we're all upset.

Everybody's upset, OK?

CJ, upset?

You lied to me.

You lied to me.

You didn't tell me everything.

You didn't tell me everything!

I didn't want you to get upset.

What do you mean, upset?

My son is here, fighting for his life!

Of course, I'm going to be upset!

I know--

I know that, sometimes, you can get--

Well, I don't care!

What do you mean, sometimes I can get--

Look, baby, baby, baby, baby, somebody needs to call Miranda.

I did.

I called her.

I called her.

Well, I sure hope that you did not tell her

it was just a little accident, a little fender bender.

Calvin, baby, why?

Jesus.

No.

Miranda!

Why have you been blowing up my phone?

Because you didn't return my phone calls.

No, I didn't, because I had to go pick up the kids,

get Calvin Jr. To Tracy, who was 45 minutes late.

So you should be lucky that I am here at all.

And do you know, she had the nerve to cuss me out.

Calvin should be the one being punished, not me!

So what?

What is all this about?

You need to listen.

No!

I do not need to listen!

I know Calvin, so Calvin knows I'm mad at him.

And what?

He came down here, pretending to be sick, to the emergency room.

And all of y'all came running down here, babying

him the way you always do?

Miranda, please, watch your mouth.

Show some respect, OK?

You need to tell your son that-- that he

need to show me some respect.

Miranda, listen, you-- you have to--

No, no, no, no, no.

Janine, sit back.

Sit back and just let her finish.

Come on.

Finish, baby.

I will finish because I am tired.

I am so, so, so tired.

So where is he? Huh?

Where is he?

Somewhere faking around here?

He was shot.

What?

Huh?

He was shot and left for dead.

What do you mean?

Hold on!

[crying]

What?

No, no, no.

Not my Calvin!

So please excuse me if I don't feel

like hearing all your complaining and your whining.

Your husband is in there, fighting for his life.

So if you don't mind, shut up.

Just shut up.

Shut up! - OK!

All right. All right.

Doc!

Doc!

[crying]

Can you just come and just-- just let us

know what's going on, please?

Look, he's out of surgery.

He'll be in ICU soon.

The bullet ruptured the spleen.

We couldn't stop the bleeding, so we had to remove that.

Calvin!

It grazed his spine, so there might be some trauma there.

We won't know the extent of the injuries

unless he pulls through.

See that, Miranda?

Are you happy now?

Are you happy now?

Is this the punishment that you wanted him to have?

Are you happy?

Ella, baby.

- I'm so-- I'm so sorry. - Wait a minute, Doctor.

Wait a minute. - I didn't mean it like that!

I didn't mean it like that! - Doctor, wait a minute.

Wait a minute, Doctor!

Can I please speak with you?

Jesus.

OK.

Now what does all of this mean?

I'm pretty sure it means he's going to die.

CJ PAYNE: Now wait a minute?

Die?

CURTIS PAYNE: That's enough!

On Hold on, Doctor!

Now you just hold on!

Wait a minute, sir!

Now you have been flip and rude ever since we walked in here.

Now could you just please show us just a little compassion?

You know what?

Listen, you people, you come in here

with your-- your gang shootings and you

expect me to perform miracles.

I'm just telling you the truth, all right?

I know that can be difficult.

Well, it wouldn't be difficult for me to whoop your ass!

No, no, baby.

Wait a minute.

First of all, Doctor, my son is not a gang banger.

He's a very respectable man who accidentally got shot.

You got me?

OK.

Now second of all, I need you to go back there, in that room,

and just do your job.

I don't look to you for miracles, sir.

You are not Jesus, OK?

I know-- I know--

I know that we are not rich people

and we don't have degrees behind our names, but we are people!

Can you please just show us some compassion, if you had a heart?

MIRANDA PAYNE: Please, help him!

And he going to smirk, too, baby?

Do we need a new doctor?

You're the commissioner.

- He's gone. - No, get him.

This is not right, Curtis.

This man is-- he's not going to do right.

[crying]

Oh, yeah.

I know.

I know you want to speak to her, but she's got to stay here.

Yeah.

I'll come and speak to you myself.

OK.

All right.

Great.

Bye.

Baby, who was that?

That's the police.

They're waiting for us at the house.

They-- they want to speak to us. - I can't.

I can't. - No, I told them.

I told them that you're going to stay here.

And I'm going to go speak to them myself.

Oh, good. Well, I'll go.

I'm going, too. - No.

I think you should stay here.

No, I think I need to go.

I need to know what's going on.

No, but the ladies need your support here.

You should--

CJ, either I'm going to ride with you

or I'm going to drive myself.

OK.

All right.

Let's go.

Aunt Ella?

I'm good.

Baby, call the pastor's wife.

Make sure the kids are OK. - OK.

All right. We'll be right back.

I just don't understand this.

I-- I-- I don't know.

I can't believe this is happening.

Listen, hey.

I just can't believe this is happening.

Listen-- hey, hey, hey.

Calvin is strong.

He's going to put through this.

I know it.

I know it.

Yeah.

Mm hm.

I don't know what I'll do without him.

I can't live without him.

I can't.

Miranda, you're not going to have to.

Sweetie-- you guys, he's-- he's going to make it through this,

OK?

All right?

Now you want to cry.

Now you want to cry.

You just came in here, ranting and raving about Calvin.

He's forgetful, he's this, he's this, he's a this, and he that!

Now you want to cry?

I'm so sorry!

I'm so sorry!

You can just save your tears, Miranda.

I don't want to see them.

I don't want anything--

Now is not the time for this.

When is the time?

It's not the time, right now.

I didn't mean it.

When is the time, Janine?

She's been just dogging him out, ever since they met-- just

complaining about how he's not good enough to do this

and how he's not good enough to do that.

I know that my son is not perfect, but he loves you!

He loves you!

He loves you, even with all of your flaws, honey!

And you got plenty!

Aunt Ella!

I'm sorry!

I'm sorry!

I'm sorry!

All he is doing is trying to make things right.

And he messed up.

Yeah.

He messed up.

But that's what marriage is all about, honey.

It's give and it's take.

It's good and it's bad.

I told you that.

You should have packed your own bag last night.

You the momma.

And you the one who forgot that old, damn hat.

Uh, uh.

You should have learned about all of this

before you got married.

Marriage is give and it's take.

You become one.

So if he is a nut, then you a nut.

Oh, Miss Ella, I'm so sorry.

I don't want to hear it. I really don't.

I know you-- OK.

All right.

I know it.

I've had to put up with so much stuff with Curtis, honey.

And you just-- you just complaining.

You-- I don't want to talk about you young people.

Y'all just-- you don't even get it.

OK.

God, I know--

I know I'm not-- I can't help you.

Yes, you are.

You are fine.

Listen, listen, listen--

Please, forgive me.

Please, forgive me, Miss Ella.

Please.

It's going to be OK.

I forgive you.

Miss Ella, please, forgive me!

I need you to forgive me!

It's OK.

I'm so sorry, Miss Ella.

Please, forgive me.

Please, forgive me.

It's OK.

Please?

I'm sorry.

It's OK.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, too.

I'm sorry, too.

We'll get through it.

I'm sorry, too.

I'm sorry, Miss Ella!

I'm sorry!

I'm sorry!

I'm sorry! - I'm sorry.

I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

I'm so sorry!

I'm so sorry!

I'm so sorry!

It's all right.

MIRANDA PAYNE: Please, forgive me.

ELLA PAYNE: I just love him.

Me, too.

I can't live without him, Miss Ella.

I can't do this without him.

Miss Ella.

I need him.

It's going to be all right.

He's going to be OK.

We going to be OK.

You promise?

We going to be OK.

We got to believe--

Uh-- listen, I'm sorry.

- What? - What?

You sorry?

You sorry?

- I'm sorry. - No!

What do you mean? - What happened?

What happened with-- what-- what--

No. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

No, wait.

JANINE PAYNE: Is he OK?

No, I'm saying I'm sorry that it would be this painful.

The way I acted before-- there's just--

there's a lot on me.

It's been a rough day and I apologize.

I'm just trying to tell you, you can come with me and see.

Go, go, go, go.

I'll get the purses.

Go, go, go!

Thank you, Doctor.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

[police radios buzzing]

[photos snapping]

You know, unc, you really didn't need to come.

I mean, I can talk to the police.

CJ, please.

I want to know what the hell happened to my son.

Mr. Payne, ex-Chief Payne, I'm Officer Terry-- first on scene.

Sorry to meet you under these circumstances.

Chief wanted me to let you know we are treating

this like one of our own.

Detective Brown is on his way.

Good, good.

Look, y'all need to find him before I do.

That's all I got to say.

Could you tell us what happened?

What you saw when you came home?

Well, uh--

I came in the door and he was just lying there.

Any suspicious activity in the neighborhood?

No, no.

Calvin and I grew up on these-- we played in the streets

our whole lives. So do our kids.

Community watch programs.

I am the community watch, OK?

I watch everything.

These are my corners, OK?

Don't nothing go down here-- no crimes, no drugs,

no sex offenders, no gangs.

They had a crew running around here--

I ran the whole crew out, single handedly.

Running around here in black.

And they haven't been back since.

So we shouldn't have any problem

questioning the neighbors then?

No, you going to have no problems questioning them.

Everybody better cooperate.

Everybody knows Calvin.

Everybody.

Calvin have any problems with anyone lately?

Don't nobody have any issues with Calvin.

He's a good kid.

Look, you better find whoever did this, OK?

Go find who did this, OK?

Because you don't want me to find them.

You don't want me to get my hands on who did this.

So I need you and your me to go find

out who the hell shot my boy, instead of being up, in here!

OK, unc, calm down.

Why are you standing around here?

Calm down.

They need to go get him!

OK.

They're going to take care of it, unc, all right?

They need to get a move on it.

Listen, um-- I'm sorry about that.

The whole family is upset.

I'm sure you understand.

But listen, let me talk to you for a second.

Uh-- I didn't want to say this in front of my uncle

because I'm really not sure what he might do.

Uh-- there was a guy.

[machines beeping and pumping]

Oh, God.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, God.

My baby.

It's OK.

[machines beeping and pumping]

[crying]