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Hey, Janine.

Janine, what?

What are you doing?

Cleaning the floor.

Do you have to do that now?

You know we've got to go check on the kids.

We gotta stop by and pick up the things for Miranda.

My kids cannot see this.

It's Calvin's blood all over the floor.

OK.

OK, listen.

Listen.

Calvin is gonna be up on his feet, bouncing

around in not time, OK?

He gonna be borrowing stuff from us.

But what if he isn't?

Look, don't.

Don't say that, OK?

Don't even-- don't even put that out there.

I'm just saying it's not fair.

It's not fair, Calvin.

He never did anything to anybody.

I know.

And-- what if--

what if this-- it could all be my fault?

All this could be my fault.

How could it be your fault?

What?

How could this be your fault?

You heard the detective.

He said that he's not 100% sure it was Travis who did this.

We both know it was Travis.

Who else could it be?

Anybody.

You know how bad I got when I was out there.

I was doing any and everything I could to get high.

Look, I don't need to hear this.

I even went--

No, I don't wanna talk about this.

- We have to. - I don't wanna talk about it.

Do you know how many people I made angry at me?

How many people I owe?

They came here.

They came here, CJ.

What if they came looking for me and--

No, that did not happen.

It didn't happen.

You don't know that.

You don't know it either.

But what if it did, CJ?

That's-- that's--

Baby, we don't deal in what if's.

We deal with what's real.

And what I know to be real is, Calvin is hurt.

And it's nobody's fault. It's not your fault.

It's not anybody's fault, except the guy

that pulled the trigger.

And he better pray to God that the cops find him before I do,

'cause--

OK, let's-- let's just--

let's clean up this blood before the kids get here, OK?

Thank you.

[theme music]

Thank you, baby.

Like I said, you just go to the house

and just bring me a green sweater or something.

Yeah, I got it.

Whatever you got.

Thank you.

So how's he doing?

Yeah, is he all right?

Well, he lost a lot of blood.

He's in a coma, but they don't know when he's gonna wake up,

but he's alive.

Yes.

We almost lost him, CJ.

But we didn't.

By the grace of God, we didn't.

How's Miranda doing?

As good as could be expected, you know.

It is what it is.

Hey.

Hey, you all right?

-

I'll be better when he wakes up.

Yeah, we all will.

Listen, I tried to fill out as much information

as I knew on the administration form, but I couldn't finish--

- Thank you. - --Asking you some stuff.

OK.

Calvin's internet provider, are they a PPO or an HMO?

More like an--

an N-O.

N-O.

We don't have insurance.

What?

We don't have insurance, Miss Ella.

I know I told Calvin to please go

and get some independent coverage

when he was between jobs.

I know. I know.

We were in the middle of looking into it,

and then he got the PR job.

And then they-- they said the insurance

wouldn't start for 30 days.

We had no way of knowing that something like this

would happen.

There's no way you could have known this would happen.

Look, we're all dealing with a lot right now.

Do we have to talk about this now?

Yes, we have to talk about this now.

These hospital stays are expensive, CJ.

I mean, can't you go to the human resources at your office

and get him on early?

Well, you know, the insurance companies,

they kind of have their own start date, not the department.

There's no exceptions.

Maybe you two can add him to yours.

No, he's too old.

That's why he had to get his own policy in the first place.

So what are we gonna do?

OK, OK, first things first.

All right, let's just-- let's just get Calvin better first.

Calvin's gonna be fine.

You all, you're gonna be fine, Miranda.

OK?

If I have to sell the clothes on my back, my son and his family

is gonna be taken care of.

All right, I'll see y'all later.

- Thank you, baby. - All right, Unc.

Don't forget my sweater.

Where's it at?

I know, baby.

But hold on.

Hold on.

I gotta put you on speakerphone.

Ugh!

Hold on.

I'll be right there.

What the hell's she praying for?

Um, how the hell did I get in there?

Baby.

Baby, hold on.

Hold on.

Put you on speaker.

Can you hear me?

Ella?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Mm-mm You don't know

how to work that phone, baby.

Baby, how you put it on speakerphone?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Press the middle button.

Where's it at?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: It's in the middle.

Why you ain't just say that?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: I did.

OK, can you hear me?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Yes.

Baby, can you hear me?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Yes.

Baby.

Baby, you can't--

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Curtis.

Oh.

Hello?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Hello. - Hello, baby.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Hey, baby.

Can you hear me now?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Yes, I can.

OK, OK.

All right.

So I took my shower and everything.

I'm a little sweaty now.

Picked up everything you told me to get and I'm on my way back.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Wait, Curtis.

Please tell me you did not forget my green sweater.

Your green?

No, I didn't forget the sweater.

Where's it at?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: It's in the box marked "sweaters," baby.

In the-- oh, hell, that's easy.

Hey, baby, if you need something warm, I got something for you.

I'll bring it.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Curtis, I don't want that blanket out

of that chair. Put it--

Agh!

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Come on, OK.

How did you know that?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Curtis, just turn to your left.

Your other left, your other left.

Back up a little bit, back up a little bit.

No, OK.

Step up.

Yeah, up there.

Thank you.

No, step up.

Come on, move forward.

Right there, baby, in those boxes.

Right here?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: That box says "desk items."

The one above it.

Uh-huh.

How do you know that box say "desk items" on it?

Oh, OK.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Sweaters.

OK, I got it.

I got it.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Well, that's red, but it'll do.

OK, come on.

What have you been doing, baby, since you've been there?

Why don't you tell me? 'Cause apparently you can see me.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Curtis, please tell me--

wait, hold your hand out, baby.

The other one, The other one.

Please tell me that is not a greasy chicken bag on my couch.

Get that bag off the couch, baby.

How the hell you see that?

Where's the cameras at, Ella?

Where are the cameras at?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Baby you are the camera, OK?

You-- you put the phone on facetalk, baby.

I'm looking right at you.

Oh.

Oh, this is one of them new things?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Yes.

Why you didn't tell me we had that.

Oh.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Curtis, somebody's

about to knock on the door.

We could use this.

You don't even have to be in the same room.

How did you see that?

This thing, it must be a good camera.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Yes, baby.

That is-- that is crazy technology.

Mr. Curtis Payne?

Yeah.

OK.

I'm Detective Smith.

I'm investigating your son's case.

Oh. Oh, OK.

Yeah, all right, Detective. Good to meet you.

Come in.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Curtis, turn me off.

I don't wanna-- I don't wanna hear this.

I don't wanna hear it. - All right.

OK, all right.

I'll turn it.

This is Detective Smith.

How do you do, ma'am?

ELLA [ON PHONE]: Hello, sir.

She can-- she can see me.

Oh.

OK, baby. ELLA [ON PHONE]: Thank you.

I'm gonna turn it off.

ELLA [ON PHONE]: OK, thank you, bye.

OK.

Oh, you got that facetalk.

I had that.

Yeah, you gotta be careful with that.

It got me a divorce.

Don't leave it on under your pillow.

I was talking to my girlfriend, and my wife heard everything

and she got really upset.

I recorded it.

You wanna see?

It's full HD.

Why the hell are you here?

Oh, I spoke to your family, and they

told me about the altercation your son

had with Travis Harris.

Do you think that there's any connection to the shooting?

Travis, no.

Well, maybe you need to be looking for Travis Harris

so you can ask him.

Well, I'm not sure Calvin was the target.

What do you mean?

Well, the wife's had her run-ins with the law,

and Janine's addiction put her on the radar of some pretty

shady characters, and, well, CJ didn't make any friends when

that family died in the fire.

OK, look, you need to find whoever did this, Detective.

My concern is for Calvin, my son.

I know how you feel.

No, you don't.

Unless you have a child laying in a hospital bed,

clinging to his life, you don't know how I feel.

Well, actually, my daughter was

in a head-on collision a few years ago,

and she almost didn't make it.

She didn't have health insurance,

so I had to mortgage my house.

I'm still paying for her new kidney,

and she won't even talk to me.

But that's story for another time.

Thank you, please.

All right.

I'll be in touch.

All right.

Oh, boy.

Hello?

Yes.

I'm calling because I had an appointment for the movers to--

I need to cancel that.

We won't be moving.

Oh.

Dang this.

Boy, I tell you, the older I get,

the more I realize how important it is to keep

your family close to you.

Isn't that crazy?

All that time I was trying to throw you out the house, well,

I was just trying to get you to be your own man.

That's all.

That's why I pushed you so hard.

You know, I wanted you to do more than me.

I didn't want you to have to fight fires.

I didn't want you sitting around on the weekend,

waiting for the game come on.

You had more potential than any kid on the block, any of 'em!

My boy.

Man, that's why I was hard on you.

That's why I stayed on your case.

I hope I wasn't too hard on you.

You OK, baby?

Yeah, I was just talking.

He's a good listener.

Looks like he's just sleeping, doesn't he?

Yeah.

Only thing missing is a little wet spot on his face.

And-- and the snoring, and the scratching.

And the scratching.

It seems like he became a man overnight, didn't he?

I love you, my baby. CURTIS: Yeah, yeah.

You think he can hear us, Curtis?

Of course he can.

He hears it.

He knows his loved ones are by his side.

Well, I know God has not brought

us this far to leave us.

I know that.

Mhm.

Baby, you look tired.

I'm okay.

Want me to get you some coffee?

Please.

All right, why don't you come sit down?

Thank you.

Mhm.

Oh, and thank you my green sweater.

That's not green.

Wee, baby, come on, Calvin.

Come on, baby.

Remember mama used to rub you like this

to make you go to sleep.

Go to sleep, go to sleep.

Only, now I don't want you to sleep, baby.

I want you to get up.

Wake up, baby.

Hey.

Morning.

Hey, good morning.

Look who's smiling today.

Oh, Doctor, Calvin has been squeezing my hand

and moving his toes.

Do you think that's a sign that he's coming back this way?

It's probably involuntary reflexes.

We'll keep a close eye on him.

The bullet did some pretty extensive damage.

Quite frankly, he's lucky to be alive.

Thank you for doing all you can to try to and save him.

Unfortunately, he's still very critical.

We've done all we can, so now it's left up to Calvin and God.

And that's who we need to leave it to.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you, doctor.

I'll check in later.

Thank you.

Is this a bad time?

Yeah, but if you wait for a good time,

I may never hear what you have to say.

So--

Well, I took down all your financial info,

and you earn too much to qualify for Medicaid.

I earn too much?

I've never heard that before.

OK, are there any other payment options?

Not unless you want to get rid of your house, get a divorce,

and live on the streets.

Those are about the only types of people

that are qualifying these days.

Well, we'll just pool all of resources,

and we'll just do some serious sacrificing.

That's fine, but after you sacrifice,

this hospital, those people upstairs,

they're gonna want a check.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We just can't give up now.

We've come too far from where we started from.

Nobody told me the road would be easy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

God, I don't--

I don't believe you brought us this far.

I don't believe you brought us this far to leave us.

O God, don't leave.

Don't leave us.

O God.

Hey.

- Hey. - Hey.

Good, good.

Hey, how's everybody?

All right, I'm glad the family's here together.

I have an announcement to make.

The movers aren't coming.

See?

See.

You give brothers an opportunity, look what they do.

Curtis, I told you not to use that company

in the first place, baby.

And right now is not the time for us

to be talking about the movers.

Who recommended them?

It doesn't matter.

Curtis, please.

They're not coming, because we're not moving.

We are not moving?

No.

Now, I've decided that we're gonna take out

a second mortgage on the house, and we're gonna help Miranda

pay for Calvin's medical bills.

What?

Wait, you can't do that.

You can't. - Yeah, it's too late.

It too late.

As the head of this family, that's what we're gonna do.

Well, unless Ella disagrees and ignores everything I just said.

No, baby.

I wanna do any and everything it takes to save Calvin's life.

Then it's done.

That's great, Unc.

That is-- that's nice.

Yeah, it really is.

So as a family we made the decision.

Yeah.

Mhm.

That we're going to take out this second mortgage

to pay for these bills.

Because we family.

Family.

And that's what family do.

That's love. Yes.

No, that's great.

Because he has more family.

Not just us.

He has more family.

Right.

But that family has to do what they have to do.

Mhm.

That's beautiful.

That is--

Yeah, he's blessed.

Yeah, y'all are not getting the hint.

You're not getting the hint.

They're not getting the hint.

You're not getting the hint.

What's the hint?

Oh, they-- you want from-- from us.

Oh, you should just have came out and said it, Unc.

OK, then take out a mortgage on your house

and help us pay for these medical bills.

We can't do that, no.

We got three mortgages already.

Four babies.

Yeah, we can't.

We love him.

We love him. JANINE: Dearly.

- Credit card. - Credit?

We gotta max the card. - Max.

Yeah, max.

No, no, no, no, no.

Listen, you guys.

Please.

You can't do it.

And when I said that you can't do it,

it's because you already signed the papers

for the Troutman Group.

They own your home.

Well, then, we'll have to explain it

to 'em, and they'll understand.

Baby, what if they don't, and what if she is right?

Now, we have to think--

We'll make them understand, OK?

I'm gonna do whatever it takes to pay these bills.

I'm gonna take care of my son.

That's it.

It's done.

[knocking on door]

How is everybody?

This is Detective Smith.

We found Travis Harris at a local restaurant,

and we brought him down for questioning.

But-- but his alibi checked out, so we had to let him go.

What?

Excuse me?

What-- what do you mean, his alibi checked out?

Well, he said he was at a baseball game,

and he had ticket stubs and witnesses to back him up.

That doesn't mean he's telling the truth!

Well, we didn't have enough evidence to hold him.

But don't worry.

He's still a person of interest.

So you let him go?

It's the law.

The law?

Well, then the law can be changed.

I promise.

I promise, as soon as I know something, I promise--

You don't see my husband laying here?

[interposing voices]

Hey.

Hey!

Hey!

Could you please shut up?

We're trying to find out who the hell shot you.

Baby!

Calvin, Calvin, he just talked!

Hey, man!

Curtis, don't touch him.

Don't touch him, baby.

The doctor. The doctor!

Let me go get the doctor!

Yes, go get him!

Hi, baby.

Thank you, God.

Oh, thank you, God.