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Good morning.

Good morning, my little darlings.

Darlings? Is she talking to us?

I am talking to both of you. What do you guys want for breakfast?

We get a choice? Of course you do, Angel.

Who's Angel?

You two are both my little gifts from heaven.

Are you thick?

You want us to hide your new clothes from Will again.

Yeah, I do. You still got my new shoes under your bed, right? I'm wearing them.

You don't take my new stuff. Good morning, Will.

What's up, you guys? What's for breakfast?

Anything we want.

I'll go cake.

Will, you want to see my shoes?

Cake it is.

Honey, shouldn't they be eating a healthy breakfast?

Relax, Will.

It's carrot cake.

Yeah, but, baby, it's still cake.

I know. Baby, baby, baby. I need something a little bit more nutritious.

Did you forget what today was?

Happy anniversary.

You thought I forgot, right?

Yeah, yeah. No, it's not our anniversary.

Happy birthday, sweetie.

Cool. The judge decides on the adoption today.

I know, I know, I know. Look, everything's going to be fine, okay?

be fine. Don't worry.

Yeah, you're right.

I was just kind of overreacting.

You know, she probably shouldn't even waste her time showing up.

She told me she was coming.

Well, if she does show up, I'm sure the judge will see that we're a strong,

loving, happy family.

Boy, you touch that cake, I'll take Brianna's arm off of her and smack you

it. Why do you have to use my arm?

Because we're family.

This was passed down from generations of Africans from your great -great

-granddaddy. Oh.

He passed this down for you. So, Cora, this is for you.

Try it on.

Really love this, Cora.

Yeah. What you got there, Uncle Brian?

Some old junk.

No, no. This is all collectible stuff.

What? Yeah, some junk collectible stuff.

Look, check this out. This is the best album ever recorded.

Harry Belafonte sings.

Hammer time.

Please,

Harry, don't hurt him.

Yeah, you can't touch this.

See, you young people don't know how to hunk it off like we did.

We would shake it, and then we'd just watch it wiggle. You see it wiggle?

It's wiggling.

It's wiggling. It's got to be wiggling, Carl.

It's like jelly, Carl. It won't let me loose. Mr. Brown, you need to throw this

junk away.

I ain't need to throw nothing away, Carl.

Actually, you should.

All that polyester and vinyl is a fire hazard.

I'm going to blow this whole house up any minute.

This used to be a hat.

Oh,

look at you looking like sin, girl.

Looking like new money, girl. Good morning, everybody.

Oh, Lord.

Here come caliphate money.

Tonya, why are you here? I came to see my kids.

They already left for school.

Tonya, that boot look.

It's nice, huh? It's nice.

Did the alarm go off when you left the store?

Ha, ha, ha, ha. Look who's got jokes.

I can't tell you any program at the church where the members donate their

clothes to the ones who are in need. That's gorgeous.

Wait a minute. We donated to them.

Nephew, I try to donate. Every time I go to donate my clothes, they say, the

program is shut down.

We got a lot of people donating clothes. They shut it down when I get there.

Really? Yes. I don't know why they won't let me donate my stuff.

No idea.

This is good stuff.

So for being an unfit mother, you get designer clothes for free.

Well, God is good.

You know what would be funny? What would be funny if this was one of your suits?

Oh, you ain't got to worry about that. This is not Sasha's suit because I am

obviously a lot skinnier than Sasha.

And we all know why, Tonya.

Did she just call you a crackhead?

Those days are over. I have myself a new suit. I have new hair. I got a new

attitude now. And probably a new pipe in your purse.

Does anyone need a ride to court?

No, we don't.

Wrong. I do.

How'd you get over here? My friends dropped me off.

Why can't your friend take you to court? Well, because he has allergies, and

every time he goes to court, he breaks out in handcuffs.

So let me get this straight.

You want us to give you a ride to court so you can take our kid?

No, I want y 'all to give me a ride to court so I can keep my kid.

That ain't gonna happen. Oh, excuse me, babe.

Sasha, look.

I know this is a touchy situation, but you have to think. What would Jesus do?

Jesus didn't have no kids.

That's right. And Jesus would give a bus fare and a fish sandwich and tell her

to get that.

You know what? I'm going to get a ride because my thumb ain't broke.

You know what? I know how to get a ride.

I'm going to give you a ride.

Ride that.

I got here as fast

as I can. What's the emergency? I found a family sculpture of you right here.

Yes, it got hair in the ears just like yours.

This is the emergency right here. Bam! Look at that right there. That's a good

record.

This is the emergency.

Yeah, if I told you what the real emergency was, you wouldn't have came so

I wouldn't have come at all.

My point exactly.

I need to use your record player. No, you break everything.

No, I don't. Where's yours?

It had broke.

I didn't break it. It just broke.

Do you remember how long I had that record player?

Is that the one that your neighbor Ham Lincoln was dancing to when he set you

free? No, but when I bought it, that outfit was in style.

Stop being selfish. You know how I put you up here and fed you.

You overcharged me, and I paid and brought my food in myself.

Well, stop bringing up the past. You gonna let me use it or what? No, you

everything.

The truth is, Brown, You have no regard for other people's property. You break

everything you touch.

I do. Everything I touch, I break.

Everything.

Come on.

You ain't break.

Oh,

you forgot your picture?

I didn't have the heart to tell him it was you.

Rufus Thomas' greatest hit record.

Don't you mean hit? No,

you just be quiet with the nest.

Obviously, y 'all don't know who Rufus Thomas is. I bet you your mama do.

Which one?

The one that's running around here baffling it crazy.

After today, we can call fashion mom. No more court and no more being faster

kids. That's right. No more crack.

Hey, kids.

I got it, Brown.

What's that?

He's a record player. He plays records.

That's great. And, um, what's a record?

That's how old people see these.

Whoa. Hey, you want me to show you where Sasha eats the cookies?

Yeah.

Good, Colonel. I can listen to Smokey. Yes.

Oh, you got Smokey Robinson?

No, I got... Smoking Joe Frazier sings White Christmas. I think he punched her

up because he keeps saying Brown Christmas. I don't know what's going on.

Well, Edna loves the oldest.

Yeah, that's obvious. She's still fooling with Joe over here.

Oh, man. Hey, listen.

Why don't I invite her over? No, no.

Edna will mess up everything.

You don't want to do that. All right, well, I'll just put it over here. No,

Colonel, I set my record plans over here. No, Brown, put it over here.

just... Colonel, you're going to break it, Colonel. I ain't going to break

nothing. I know what I'm doing. If you...

Oh, look what you did.

Look what you did.

I told you I could put it close to the plug on the wall. I always set my record

players right there on that table. That's why I like my record player.

what happened to your record player?

It was sitting on that table and it broke just like that.

So what are we going to tell Edna?

Why don't you just tell Edna we're sitting there and it don't work because

so old like you, just broken old.

Well, it worked before you put your hands on it. You break everything.

I'm going to break your face. You ain't going to. Try to step to me, bro.

Hey.

Oh, come on. Somebody come here.

Go to the back. They won't even know.

Pick it up.

Go to the back. They won't even know. They won't know you broke it. You broke

it.

Uh, he ain't going nowhere. Just don't get in grown folk's business. Whatever

you grown folk talk, just do like that.

I don't play with kids.

Just don't do that.

Hey, you guys. Hey, y 'all. I ain't have nothing to do with it. They was playing

throwing them rockets, and I said, Colonel, don't do nothing, and I ain't

nothing to do with this.

Robert, of course you didn't do it. You weren't even there.

Well, wasn't even worth it.

Tanya won.

She got custody.

How could the judge award that woman custody after all the things he's done?

What does that say about us?

I am so sorry, Sasha.

I never thought this would happen. I was only trying to help Tonya get her life

together. I never thought the judge would give her the kid.

Well, that's because we keep forgetting one important fact.

She's the biological mother.

That's true, but I just didn't think it would go this way. Booyah!

I'm sorry. I just had to get that out.

Y 'all okay? You need a drink?

You all right? You handling it?

Oh, hey, kid.

Hey, you guys.

You guys want something to eat?

No, no. I just tried to feed them. They're not hungry.

Spaghetti. Favorite.

Come on.

I'm finished.

Tonya, would you like some dinner? No, that's okay. But can a sister get us a

gold plate? That is cool.

Good. Okay. Thanks.

Now, listen, now, I know that this is very awkward for y 'all, but I want y

to know something. Now, I really appreciate how y 'all been holding it

me while I've been getting it together.

Yeah, well, we did it for the kids, not for you, Tonya. Yeah, well, we

appreciate it.

Don't we, kids?

Kids. Hey, hey, y 'all, stop falling asleep at the table like that. That

nice. Stop that.

Tonya, they're saying grace.

That's because I put a little sugar in the sauce, just the way you like it.

Smells perfect.

Can you make spaghetti?

Nope. Nope, but my fried bologna is off the chain. I cut the bubble and I put

sugar in it.

Oh, baby, don't be sneezing in your hand like that. You got to let those germs

out in the air also to kill you.

He's got allergies.

We give him medication every morning.

Yes, and he also has baseball practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Now, Brianna has study group on Mondays. It's across town, so the other mothers

and I alternate pickup.

Okay, Tanya, you going to write this down?

Don't worry about it. I got it. I got it. It's up in my head. There, I got a

brain.

Okay, y 'all, come on now. Hair's in need because y 'all got to go pack.

It's going to take me all night to clean up my room.

You know what, Tanya? Why don't you just let the kids stay the night?

And you can come get them in the morning. No, baby, that's a great idea.

Please?

Okay.

All right, well, I got to go get your room ready.

Okay, y 'all, I'm going to take the sheets off the window and put it in the

and spray bugs with Helen and light some incense and get all the bugs out before

my babies come home and get in the bed.

Okay. Love you.

Is it too late to run away?

What's wrong with you, Colonel?

I can't sleep, Brown.

I keep thinking about the record player and I feel guilty.

Well, stop thinking about it. I can't help it.

You know what? Just clear your mind. Let your mind be blank. I do that all the

time. I keep hearing Edna's voice saying, I know what you did.

I'm living in fear, Brown. I can't be in a relationship like this. Well, you

ought to quit her.

Just break up with her and quit her. That'll be good on your heart.

I could tell her the truth. If you tell her, if I go down, you're going down,

too. I'm going to tell her you had something to do with it. Oh, Lord.

I've been looking all over for you.

Didn't I have something to tell you?

Look, he said he was looking for you, too, so y 'all could live happily ever

after in love and happy.

Happy, right?

Happy.

Smile.

Hey, Will. Hey.

Well, not everybody's living happily ever after.

What's wrong, Will?

Well, uh, actually, you know, just kind of got some bad news.

Brianna and Joaquin are going to be leaving us to go live with Tanya.

Oh, no.

She got the kids?

Now, what judge in their right mind would take those kids away from you and

Sasha and give them back to that old... that woman?

Well, obviously this one.

I know what'll put a smile on that handsome face of yours.

What's that?

Living into some old school.

That's sweet of you, Miss Edna, but Uncle Brown doesn't even have a record

player.

I'll let him borrow mine. No, no. No, no, no.

I can't be trusted with other people's property. You said it. You said it.

to your word. Be a man of your word. I'll make an exception.

Edna, I brought the record player over here while you were asleep and Brown

broke it. You weak punk. You just weak.

I bet you were telling on Jesus.

Wait a minute, Uncle Brown.

Didn't you break your record player? Nephew, you need to be trying to figure

your own problems. How you a doctor gonna let a crackhead take your baby?

out your own business and stay out of my mind. I know what you did.

So you knew all along?

I was asleep, not dead.

Colonel, with a face like that, I could see how you would get that confused.

You look dead now.

And I'm sorry.

Now, how can I make it up to you?

I'll think of something.

Drown it.

Well, now, at least now I can get some sleep.

I just thought of something.

Come on, Colonel.

Colonel, that's got to be cruel and unusual punishment.

Okay, babe, here's the last of it.

All right.

Thanks, babe.

Hey, you okay?

You've been talking and turning all night.

Oh, baby, I couldn't sleep.

I kept having this dream about the kids in this apartment with no curtains being

chased by fried bologna sandwiches.

We just got to be strong and not let the kids get upset.

Oh, the babies are leaving.

I'm just... Cora, stop, okay? You're going to have me going, too. Stop.

I just hate that they're leaving us, Sasha.

Damn allergies.

I guess that's it.

Hey. Do we really have to go?

Well, look, even though you do, you guys can come by here anytime you want.

Yeah, guys, our door is always open, okay? And don't forget to call every

okay?

You know what? Speaking of calling, hold that, buddy.

What's Tanya?

Hello? Tanya, where are you? It's Will.

Will? What's wrong?

Huh?

Is there a problem?

Tanya. Huh? I'm right here.

Not right now. I got a Will.

Somebody named Will on the phone right now. Will?

Tanya.

Well, I was just on the phone talking to somebody. You're talking to me.

Well, why are you calling me on the phone if you're standing right here? I

get it.

Tonya, you were supposed to come by here and pick up the kids.

What, you thought I was going to forget?

I know you did.

Hey, kids. How y 'all doing? Where's your stuff at?

Oh, whoa.

Here's your stuff.

She's back.

Breonna, I want you to take your brother in the kitchen and get yourself a

snack, okay?

Hey, you're hot.

I'm Tanya.

You're Sasha.

I don't want the kids to know.

Tanya, how did you do this? You just got custody.

This is what you said you wanted. Then you come over here acting like this. I

mean, I can't believe you let them down like this. Oh, I can.

I can believe it. And I vouch for you. What is wrong with you?

Okay, good gracious, what is this? Is this team against Tanya?

Everybody is not perfect like Little Miss Thing here, okay? She's so wound up

she could blow at any minute.

Boom.

Nice. Blow. You gonna blow.

Tanya. Tanya. You know what, Tanya? Tanya.

I'll go because I've been kicked out of better places by better people with

better money and better food and all kinds of better stuff. Y 'all can kick

out and it's just hot shit in there.

What are you doing here, huh?

Too loaded to find the bus stop?

Sasha, we need to talk. There is nothing to talk about until you get sober.

Honestly, Sasha, I was faking it.

I'm not high.

Why would anyone pretend to be high?

Because I can't do it. Do what? I can't. I can't do the medicine.

And the games.

The study groups.

I can't be responsible for their whole lives.

So this is how you handle things.

Don't you think those kids deserve to know the truth?

The truth is that I can barely take care of myself.

Let me tell you something, Sasha. In spite of what you think about me, I love

kids.

I love them.

And I'm doing this for them.

So what are you going to do now?

I'm going to call the courts.

And I'm going to tell the judge that you and Will should have full custody of

the kids.

Oh, wow.

Thank you, Tanya.

Boy, you're not welcome.

But I do believe you'll be a good mom.

great album right here.

Alfonso Ribeiro sings the hit.

Yes.

Sing it, little man. Sing it.

Edna, now, this is about your record player. I'm telling you, Colonel brought

that over here knowing I was going to tell you that. Don't worry about it.

Colonel brought me the CD. Now I can take all my music wherever I go.

What? Let me see that.

Look, I...

if you listen to them when you go out there in the middle of the street and

cops.