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Mr. Brown, Mr. Brown. What is it? What is it? I got a surprise.

Shut up for me.

What is it? What is it? What is it? It's a gown.

Girl, I ain't into that dragon queen stuff. I don't play that.

They are called drag queens because they are fierce, okay?

Well, I'm not no dragon queen, so I'm not fierce.

Okay.

Mr. Brown.

The gown is for Brianna.

I'm taking her to my legacy ball tonight so that she can meet my sorority

sisters. Isn't it gorgeous?

Brianna in this gown? Yes.

Girl.

Good luck with that.

Sasha, I'm not feeling this legacy ball thing. It's going to be a bunch of

sadidi old people there. I'm not going.

But I'm going to be there.

Breast my case.

I am not old.

And I am definitely not for the ditty, okay?

Well, you know, you are a little bougie.

I am not bougie.

Girl, you standing here in 20 -inch heels in the middle of the day, sewing

dress.

You should have on house shoes. That's what I call what?

Bougie.

Because I am fierce, okay?

Anyway, Brianna. No, you're a bougie, okay?

Brianna, honey, come see.

Come on, come on, come on. I want to see how it looks on you.

No, baby, seriously.

It's going to be fine. I got to ask you one more time.

Have you ever took, like, an old toothbrush and then put down the side of

sideburns like this? And you're 20 years old with sideburns like a baby.

You ever feel that?

No, Mr. Brown.

I would say you're bougie. Thank you very much.

do not listen to Mr. Brown, okay? It's going to be so funny. You're going to

love it. You're going to love the people.

There's going to be some cute voices.

Excuse me, I've got to ask you one more thing. I'm not going to interrupt no

more. When it's time for you to relax or to get a new weave, have you ever just

sit there and just pat it down like this?

Even if that thing is itching you and you don't want to scratch it?

Mr. Brown, I wouldn't know, okay?

I would know. You're bougie.

Thank you.

Rihanna, honey, it's... It's going to be fun, okay? You're going to love it. So

what we're going to do is we're going to hem it from the bottom. So you're going

to make me go?

No, I'm going to ask you politely. How about that?

So then I have a choice. I don't want to go.

Nope, you don't. So put it in your pocket so Mama can hem it. How about

I bet you ain't going to be nothing there but old, sedated people.

What they going to be eating? College greens and, uh, bouchetta?

suitor.

Okay, listen up, everybody.

I got a new rule for the house.

No more men in this house, period.

What? Excuse me?

Edna, you've used your feminine willies for the last time in this house.

It's Wiles, Mr. Grant.

Well, how Wiles is giving me the willies?

What are you yammering about?

Colonel, I go in the kitchen this morning, and there's a naked man

there.

this into no rabbit form.

Don't you mean bunny ranch?

Bunnies, chickens, rats, whatever it is. I don't care. Y 'all not finna do it to

my house.

Are you crazy?

Me? Stop baiting men?

Why, that's the hand I'd fan with.

You need to stop fanning with me. It's old and rankled.

This is a face of innocence. Show them how to be innocent, Cora.

Yes, like that's an innocent.

That's what you look. You need to be just like her.

I'll get rid of this house like everybody else.

I have a right.

Yeah, and so do I.

Y 'all have the right to be quiet today, not tomorrow, today.

Look, you bring one more man up in my house, you getting put out.

You getting...

No butts in your room, and no butts nowhere around here. Everybody put your

butts up.

You're being a little harsh.

I ain't nobody being harsh. She being harsh.

She being prostitutish.

And I'm not going to go for it. This little freaky dick is not going to turn

house into a house of ill -disrespectful prudence.

You need to calm down. You calm up.

Now listen.

The new law, it is written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

For y 'all need translation, talk to the hand. You talk to the hand and Cora

gets one.

Talk to the hand.

Rihanna! Babe, come on, I want to see what you look like.

Hey!

Bam, bam, bam, bam.

Mama looks so good at this dance, Sasha. Bam.

Hey!

Rihanna, honey, I thought that you were getting dressed for the dance.

I am dressed.

Baby, honey, I am taking you to a formal event not to see Ty.

Who is Ty?

You know, the rapper guy that's from the ATL.

Hey, you mean T .I.? Girl, whatever. I know what I'm talking about, okay?

No, you don't, okay?

appropriate for a legacy ball. In fact, it's not appropriate for anything. So I

want you to go upstairs and put on the dress that I bought you. Yes.

No. This is me, and this is what I want to wear.

Okay, well, everyone else is going to be dressed in nice, elegant gowns.

Everyone else except for me.

Baby,

I am tired of arguing with you, okay? If you don't want to come with me, then I

will go by myself.

And you, on the other hand, can stay at this house looking like a fly.

Why you don't want to go?

I don't want to hang out with Sasha and her friends with their perfect hair and

their perfect lives.

I'm going to look stupid.

Well, are you stupid?

No. And if anybody tells you that, I'm going to bust up on them and... Wait,

wait, wait, baby.

Sit down, sit down.

It's a ball, not a bra.

I'm not going to know what to do.

Is that why you're dressed like this?

You're scared, aren't you?

No.

I thought you were tough.

I am tough.

Look, sometimes in life we have to do things that we don't want to do.

Like go to the Legacy Ball.

I don't have anything in common with those people.

Well, how do you know unless you go?

Looks pretty, doesn't it?

But this is for people that are going to the ball.

By myself.

Oh, Sasha, you look beautiful.

Come on, let me take your picture. Cora, I'm really not in the mood to take a

picture, honey. Oh, come on.

Take a picture.

Cora, babe, I gotta go. Okay. I don't want to be late.

I just wish I could have changed your mind, but... Sasha, wait.

Oh, Brianna.

Goodness.

Look at you.

Freyana, you look beautiful.

Yes, she does.

You look gorgeous, girl.

Gorgeous.

Oh, who is that pretty little girl?

Girl, look at you looking like you looking.

You need to be on top of a chain.

Come on, let me take your picture. Oh, I want to be in it. Let me take it. I'm

going to be in it with y 'all. I'm going to put it next to my two favorite

people.

Jesus and James Brown.

I'm telling you, James Brown.

Lord, why'd you take James Brown?

Mr. Brown, baby.

This is supposed to be a happy moment.

Happy moment. Oh, okay. Take a picture. I just took you.

Okay, take one of them. We gotta go. Come on.

Okay. You look so gorgeous, ladies.

You look so pretty.

You ready?

As ready as I'll ever be.

Oh, wait.

Miss Cora.

You deserve it. You look so beautiful.

Thanks, Ms. Carter. You're welcome, sweetie.

Oh, y 'all look stunned.

Have fun.

Bye. Bye -bye.

They look good. They look good.

Yeah, they do.

Okay, Mr. Brown, I need you to take this to the drugstore so I can get the

pictures developed before the girls get back, okay? Okay, okay. Carter, you

ain't got no nasty pictures or nothing on here, do you? No, Mr. Brown, there's

no freaky pictures on there. I got to watch you because your mama had some. I

went to get them developed, boy.

Nasty nakedness everywhere.

Oh, weren't they pretty? Oh, she was beautiful. They were gorgeous, I tell

Yes, yes, Miss Edna. What is it?

Matt.

Matt? Miss Edna, you didn't. You better get him out of that room before Mr.

Brown gets back. I can't. He's not going anywhere.

What, you done duct taped another man to the radiator?

No, you don't understand.

He...

Because he kicked the bucket.

Kicked the bucket?

Went to the other side.

The other side?

Took the night train.

What train?

Oh, damn, he's dead.

Dead?

Oh, Miss Edna. What do you mean he's dead? How did he die?

Well, with a smile on his face, of course.

care to do that.

If Mr. Brown finds out, he'll kick me out the house.

Well, I'll kick... No, it's up to you two. I'm not touching a dead body. I'm

doing that. Oh, Lord.

Oh, Lord, I'm going to be living on this street.

Just calm down. Calm down.

I have a plan, and Brown will have to know anything about it.

Oh, thank you, Colonel.

Whatever we do.

Hands off of me, woman.

You kill men.

I can't believe you with the roots, my friend.

It ain't their fault for getting into my business.

Talk to that Wesley guy. He kept asking me questions all night.

Did you ever think that maybe he just liked you?

No, it didn't.

He just wanted to make a fool out of me.

So, what does your father do?

Well, Wesley, my father does time.

You don't have to tell everybody your business. And besides, you could tell

the truth that your father's a doctor.

Wait, that's not the truth, Sasha. Will is not my dad.

So stop trying to make me a part of your fantasy world with your frilly dresses

and your happy families.

It's not me, okay? I keep it real.

Oh, baby, you won't keep it real?

Well, then let's keep it real.

Rihanna, the only person who was rude at that party was you.

When Wesley asked you to dance, you respond with a polite, why?

Because he was after something, Sasha.

He just wanted to dance.

The waltz is whack.

So why is the waltz so whack, Bri?

Is it whack because you don't know how to do it? Is that it?

He was trying to play me.

Brianna, baby, not everybody is out to get you.

Honey, sometimes a dance is just a dance.

And sometimes people just want to be left alone.

Colonel,

this is what you call inconspicuous? What are you talking about?

You're the one that threw him out of the window.

It would have been faster.

Okay, the coroner will be here soon.

What are you two doing?

Spring cleaning.

Why is the rug wearing sneakers?

It's Tarana.

Oh, my goodness.

Is that the dead man?

Oh, it is. It's the dead man. Put him back upstairs.

You're desecrating the body. No, no, she desecrated him. I'm just helping her

move him. Oh, my God. Cora, Cora, help. No, no, I'm not. Look, he's in a better

place. Well, he's wrapped up in a dirty old rug.

Oh, Cora, help. I'm going to drop him. Come on, I'm losing him. I'm not going

touch him. You don't have it. Oh, my God. He did

have a smile on his face.

What kind of woman are you?

Cora, I can't find... Where's the spack in it?

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. What am I going to do?

I suggest you start packing.

I'll try to talk to Brown and appeal to his good sense.

Oh, there he is right there.

Well, it was good knowing you.

Oh.

Edna, you're not going to believe how photo hysterical that be, baby. Look at

that picture right there.

Mr. Brown, I have something I want to talk to you about.

Uh, you want to try to change my mind. I told you, no men in the house, and

that's what I mean. No men.

Wait, I can explain.

The man in the room is... A friend of mine.

Oh, hey.

I didn't know you was having company. Well, he's an old army player.

Oh, what's his name?

Buddy.

Well, hey, buddy. Nice to meet you.

Uh,

Cora, come on over here and have a seat.

Look at these pictures. Oh, no, no, Mr.

Brown. I'm okay right here.

No, no, come on, Corrie.

Who's going to like these pictures?

Corrie, this right here.

Oh, this is Brianna when she was right there. Look at that one. You like that

one? That's mine. Oh, you like that one?

Beautiful, yes. I took this one on my way to take to get the pictures done.

Oh,

buddy must be tired.

Y 'all bored him to death.

Buddy, look at that.

Yeah, she adopted.

That's her at the top of the stairs.

That's her in the middle of the stairs.

That's her before she got to the bottom of the stairs. Yeah, well, Betty's had a

little excitement for one day.

Oh, yeah, but Betty sure is quiet.

Yeah, well, he's Episcopalian.

Well, of course.

We're Baptist. Something like Baptist. Well, hallelujah.

Yes, Lord, yes. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Betty, which one of these do you like? Pick one.

Baby, true.

Colonel, guess who's here?

Oh, we have a little couple. Oh, no, no. Call a cab to come take Buddy home.

Yeah, yeah. And, uh, Brown, you mind getting Buddy's coat out of the kitchen?

Oh, okay. I was just getting to know Buddy.

Excuse me, Buddy.

Come on, let's get him out of the room.

Come on.

Get him down.

Get him down.

Thank you.

I didn't see no coat, Colonel. You sure you had a coat?

Oh, well, it doesn't matter. He left without it. Yeah, he had to leave.

Oh, he left? Yeah. He didn't say bye?

Well... How rude.

Yeah, I know.

Well, I'm going to go on up and find a frame for these pictures.

All right. All right, then. We'll be right here.

Uh, by the way, three stooges.

don't y 'all?

Y 'all think I don't know what two plus two is six? Y 'all, I know what, I know

what I am. I ain't nobody dumb.

Brianna, time for bed.

I'm not sleepy.

So you'll up your gown on the floor in your room?

I need to pick it up before it gets wrinkled.

You like it so much, why don't you wear it?

You know what?

Rihanna, I have had enough of your attitude.

You know, I wouldn't have an attitude if you didn't make me go to that stupid

dance.

This isn't just about a dance.

You haven't tried to fit in since you got here.

What are you talking about? I'm talking about how you walk around as if this

whole world owes you something.

Maybe they do.

Rihanna, I know that you have been through a lot.

But you're going to have to learn how to give people who care about you a

chance.

Like your friends at the party?

So they can judge me? I don't think so.

Brianna, how could those people judge you when you didn't give them a chance

know you?

Honey, why are you so afraid to let people in?

Because everybody's got an angle.

You know what?

Maybe you're right.

Maybe I do have an angle.

I knew it.

I want a family.

And I want you to be a part of it.

Brianna, baby, I know that I'm not your real mama, but I'm doing the best that I

can. And I just want to do my best to give you the life that I know that you

deserve.

Good night.

Wait. Sasha, wait.

All this stuff is so new to me.

It's new to me, too, Bri.

I'm just not used to it.

But keep asking me, okay? Keep asking me to go to these things.

Maybe we can go rent one of those movies you like to watch, those old things,

like Mahogany.

Now you're calling me old again.

I know who Diana Ross is.

I can hang.

I'm cool, baby, I'm cool.

I'm from the A.