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This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.

Thank you.

My son has felt the call of sin.

You see what that gets you?

But the good Lord calls upon us to be fishers of men who sin

and show them the way.

I want you to swear to me and before this congregation to leave those

hidden ways.

Where they lie.

I want you to promise right now.

Drop the guitar, Sammy.

In the name of God.

Let it go, Sammy.

Good

morning,

Miss Beatrice.

Did you strum in that guitar tonight?

You gonna tell me what you're playing on, or am I gonna have to hear it

the grapevine?

You have a good one, Beatrice.

I'll see you at service tomorrow morning.

Morning,

Ma.

Morning, baby.

Don't put that on your body, Samuel.

It'll dry you out. Put this on while it's still wet.

Boy, you ain't got to say this guy gave a goose.

Hey,

I'm going to say get up.

You hogwort?

You boys twins?

Nah, we cousins.

That's good.

There she is.

He moved a ton of timber a month back in his heyday.

Workers lived upstairs.

Y 'all wash these flows?

Yeah. What was on them?

I thought y 'all was dead set on buying the place.

The more time I spend with y 'all, the less sure I am you boys are serious

it.

Ain't no boys here.

I just grown me.

But grown me in money and grown me in bullets.

I didn't mean nothing by it.

Just the way we talk down here.

We'll take it.

The mill, the equipment, and the lane that it's standing on.

Damn! Now, understand, it's the last diamond we ever gonna see from us.

And if we see you or any one of your Klan buddies cross our property line, we

gonna kill them right where they stand.

Klan don't exist no more.

Okay, then.

All right.

Say, what do you fellas plan on doing with the place?

Morning, Pop.

You're up off early, son.

Like you say, jump on the work.

Don't let the work jump on you.

Finished my quota for the day.

Yeah, I brought it in here.

I want you to help me get my sermon tomorrow.

1 Corinthians 10, 13.

Read.

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind.

God is faithful.

He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.

But when you're tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure

it.

Now, Pop, if you don't mind, I'm going to be late.

Late for what, boy?

Where you got to be that's more important than being in the house of

I've been working all week, Pop.

I want to be free of all this for a day.

I'll be back in town for service in the morning.

Son?

You keep dancing with the devil.

One day he's going to follow you home.

Got two dollars waiting on time.

Same.

Oh, don't you worry now, Uncle Jake.

Gonna get them back to you in one piece.

Boy, look at you.

All grown up.

Why you big?

Daddy doing right by you?

So you're not putting his hands on you, is he? Nah, man.

Nothing too much.

What about the loved ones?

Only when they deserve it.

Well, Ma usually hands out the whoopings.

Good.

Well, Uncle Jed always been good.

So tell me about Chicago.

I heard they ain't got Jim Thorpe there.

Black man can go where he want.

Boy, you can't be believing anything that you hear.

Time to fill your head up for this make -believe with me and your cousin.

We don't give a seat straight.

Doggone ship of Mississippi with tall buildings instead of plantations.

That's why we came back here.

Because we might as well deal with the devil, you know.

Well, who going to watch the truck when I'm in there talking to the child?

You can just let them see it's you. We've been gone a long time, Stack. 70

ain't long enough to forget about us.

Don't move.

How about you leave that truck to us?

Watch this fool make sure he don't get in no trouble.

You big enough to take me now, huh?

I'll do what I can.

No, you'll do what you're told.

We got 24 hours to turn this booze into cash.

You keep your eyes open for anybody staring too long. This nigga don't know

to watch his own back.

Last time you cleaned this?

Last time I had to use it.

Cracker showing up late already got us behind schedule.

Come over.

Look at that sky.

That's a mighty fine day to be free, ain't it?

I own Juke Joint.

Just like we always wanted.

I love you. I love you, too. Be careful. I will.

You with me.

You're not little Lisa, is you?

Guilty as charged.

Daddy here?

Daddy!

What?

Old child.

Damn cat dragged in.

Who's your brother?

All right, listen.

Every coo's got a button on towards the top.

And you want to keep one.

You find it, lick that.

Not too hard.

Not too soft either.

How fast this thing drive?

Too damn fast.

Why, you want to drive?

Come on, you don't want to drive.

On the way back. All right, man. All right.

Come on, tell me.

You and Uncle Jay, y 'all doing okay?

You always said you would tell me what happened to Uncle Adam when I got older.

Y 'all ready to kill?

Nah, we ain't killin'. Smoke D.

Fuck you gone, nigga. Bet this bull to beat you there.

You shot me.

Motherfucker.

Smoke.

Terry?

Boy, how you been?

I was doing better before you shot me in the ass.

Why in the hell you trying to boost my truck?

It's your truck.

I didn't know it was your truck. I swear, Smoke. Bullshit.

I told you it was his.

Wait, wait, Smoke. I thought she was lying.

Charles supposed to be in Chicago working for Capone.

Yeah, we back now.

Who he?

Just some nigga I met last week.

Where you from?

Maybe.

Can't have some nigga from the Maybell plantation talking about how he almost

robbed the twins.

Not without a limp show for it. Who gonna patch me up?

I ain't got no money. What if I get sapsis or some shit now?

Y 'all scoot on out the street. Put some pressure on.

Get up, boy. Our daddy knocked me unconscious.

By the time I came to, smoke was halfway done burning.

You used to beat y 'all?

Me most of them.

He ain't mean it.

See, you've been taking good care of that thing.

Hey, I can't thank y 'all enough for this. I mean, it plays so right.

Yeah, that's, uh, Charlie Patton's guitar.

Me and my brother won it off him in the car game. Who lost that?

You mean to tell me I had Charlie Patton's guitar this whole time? Swift

in your head. No.

Now let's see if you can play like it.

Right here? Yeah, right now. Come on. All right, come on.

Watch this.

We're going to make some money.

We're going to make some money.

Go, take off.

Mama, daddy wants you.

Thank you.

Thanks, man.

Yep.

Oh, is that Dr. Swim?

You know, there's two men out there.

Look like they've been shot.

That be my doing. I done already gave both of them money to get them patched

Why you got to come here bringing trouble?

Trouble ain't all he bringing.

Thank you for your generosity.

I guess that Chicago wind blew your black ass back down there, huh?

You a boy.

That's my little cousin.

Preacher boy saying, happens to be the finest blues player in all the deals.

I got socks on this here, boy.

What the hell? He know about the blues.

I can show you better than I can tell you. Hold up now.

Hold up, hold up now. This here my patch right here.

Now you want this cousin and a young pup to boot, I'll cut your ass too thin to

fry. And you threaten him again, I'm going to make your drunk -ass swat out

harmonica. How are you paying for this?

Andy.

He wants you to make a sign for him. Rust job.

Going to cost you.

I don't listen.

20. 15 for the front door sign and 5 for the menu. 10. 7 for the front door

sign, 3 for the menu.

16. 15.

Done.

Oh, we only got one color, by the way.

What color you got?

Red.

13. 14. 50.

Fourteen. All these flowers right here.

And we got a deal.

Done.

I need $20 to come play at our juke tonight.

I ain't never heard of your juke.

I've been to Messy's every Saturday night for the last ten years.

Messy's gonna be there another ten years after that, at least.

Shit.

There's probably more time than I got left on this other stack.

I play, and I get as much corn liquor as I can drink.

Something like me, I can't ask for more than that.

Old Slim, I'll drink to that.

Ooh.

What you got there, boy? Oh, this?

It's an Irish beer, straight from the north side of Chicago.

Oh.

You say that's beer.

When they bring it down here empty handed.

Not

good.

I got 500 more bottles just like that.

Ice cold.

These two gonna be playing down at the old sawmill.

You know the one. The one on the riverbank right outside Closdale.

Yeah, yeah. We gonna have us a battle of the blues.

Y 'all ready to eat?

Y 'all ready to drink?

Y 'all ready to sweat till y 'all faint?

We gonna get funky like a Mississippi donkey, y 'all.

All right. Get a drink on the twins when you get there.

I've seen you somewhere before.

Maybe.

Same, don't you?

Time to time.

Don't preach, boy.

Curling.

Curling.

I'm married, by the way.

Happy?

Careful, boy.

You gonna bite off more than you can chew.

Maybe I'll see you tonight.

Hey, hey, hey.

She's a white woman staring at you.

Shit.

You sure she white?

She walking over here right now.

Excuse me, boy.

Is this here smoke?

Or is this stacks?

Don't look at her. Just go over there and keep playing.

Yeah, that's okay.

You know I waited for you. Yeah, well, I don't know how in the hell you gonna do

that. Because you told me you loved me. Yeah, well, I told you to stay the fuck

away from me, too, but I guess you didn't hear that part, huh? Oh, I heard

I heard you loud and clear, but then you stuck your tongue in my coos and fucked

me so hard, I figured you changed your mind. Keep your voice down now, Mary.

It's not exactly how I remember it. Oh, it ain't. Remember falling asleep with

your head on my chest?

Leaving in the middle of the night without a fucking word or a note? The

are you doing back here?

I buried my mama yesterday, Stack.

Figured I might see you in smoke there as much as she looked after you both.

But I guess y 'all love lasted as long as y 'all could get something out of

You right.

That's all she was.

Fool?

I won't be.

You're out in hell, Stack.

Yeah, I will.

Saved your trifling ass a room.

Right next to me.

Shit. There you stay.

Well, let me show you why.

Boys get to getting. Come on, Slim.

Let's take us to this big house full of white folks.

Bounce around right here and have us to play.

See these white folks we were playing for?

They had real money.

Had y 'all playing them on ragtime songs?

I sure was.

They playing a fair amount of blues, too.

They take a wood with nothing in their heads, stomping their feet.

Some of them was almost on the rhythm.

And then Rice made me change it up, confuse them.

See, white folks, they like the blues just fine. They just don't like the

who make it.

What's that got to do with the money?

I drank it.

Rice said he was going to take that money and go on out to Little Rock,

him a little church.

Did he?

That's a damn fool.

He took out all his money to pay for the $2 train ticket.

Train conductor saw him.

Clank got a hold to him.

Searched his pockets, found all that money.

Made up a story about him killing some white man for it and raping that white

man's wife.

And they lynched him right there in the railroad station.

Did you know they cut off the man's room?

Come on now.

Papa's here.

Papa's here.

How you been?

Oh, misery's worth complaining about.

You come along?

Yeah, stack on the other side of town.

Come back for?

You bought that old sawmill?

Yeah, we gonna patch it up, make it into a juke joint.

A juke joint.

It's one of Stack's ideas.

Yeah, you figure tonight gonna be a grand opening?

We got word they gonna make booze legal again.

Figure this our last chance to go legit. I thought y 'all was done with the

Delta. Last I heard, y 'all were northern men.

Nah, we through with Chicago.

Chicago through with y 'all?

What you asking?

Who you and Stack robbed to get enough money for them crackers to sell you a

whole meal?

This, Miss Annie.

And a pinch of hydrogen.

All right.

Now, don't sell none of this on the way home. I don't want your mama coming at

me crazy later.

Yes, ma 'am.

Thank you.

I can't believe you're taking this Maybelline shit.

Smoke, give me my money before I cut your black ass. I'm gonna put that blade

on her.

I'll trade you. I don't want your money. Don't be stupid now. I ain't stupid.

Your money come with blood.

All money come with blood, baby. Not like yours.

This shit won't even spin nowhere else. I ain't going nowhere else. I don't need

that cursed money you got.

You know what, I've been all over this world.

Because?

Ships.

Train.

I seen men die ways I didn't even know was possible.

I ain't never saw no roots.

No demons.

No ghosts.

No magic.

Just power.

And only money can give you that.

You fool.

All that war and whatever the hells you been doing in Chicago.

And you back here in front of me.

Two arms, two legs, two eyes, and a brain that work.

How you know I ain't pray?

I work every route my grandmama taught me to keep you and that crazy brother

yours safe every day since you been gone.

So why those routes ain't work on our baby then?

You still got that mojo, babe.

Why you here, Smoke?

We was hoping to serve food to Juke tonight.

We want you to cook for us.

Elijah.

You want to make him pay?

It still hurts coming back here.

But I'll love you.

And I'll miss you.

I didn't believe.

Homebred! Ooh, Stat?

Boy, long time no see.

This here my wife, Therese.

Nice to meet you, Therese.

Likewise.

Need you to give us a moment.

Men got business to discuss.

No, uh -uh. I ain't got time for you scheming, Stat.

Behind on my quota.

Man, fuck your quota.

This is my wife right here now.

I'm gonna need you to show some respect.

Yeah, well, fuck your wife, too.

What's that? I said she was really going to let you fuck her when she found out

how much money you were about to get from this job I'm offering.

And none of that nice and slow shit she's probably giving you now.

Shit, she might even let you put your peck in her mouth.

Well,

you should have stayed gone because I'm about to beat the black off of you. Come

on, come on, man. Hey.

Well, how much money are you talking about paying him?

Oh, that's a good woman.

Come on.

We'll be back.

My uncle taught the word.

You tell me, boy, you swimming in a sea of temptation.

He don't know.

Same spirit flows through those church folk, flowing through us with this here

blues.

It's flowing a different way.

More honestly, ask me.

It wasn't forced on us like that religion.

Nah, son.

We brought this with us, my home.

From the Delta.

Africa, preacher boy.

Motherland.

The magic will be due.

The sacred.

I'm not calling you tonight.

That dude, you gonna be ready?

I'm always ready, Slim.

Help! Back up.

Y 'all gotta help!

I thought I could trust them, but they tried to kill me. Slow down. Who's

to kill you? Chalk tall.

Sure wasn't just some fair -skinned niggers.

Ain't no engines around here for miles.

Oh, God.

They took my wife.

Oh, God.

I'm a coward, ain't I?

Hey.

I got gold.

Them dirty engines meant to rob me.

They ain't get all of it. Y 'all can have it.

Just don't let them hurt me no more.

Come on.

God bless you, sir.

Put him in the nurse's room. God bless you, ma 'am.

Evening, ma 'am.

We're in pursuit of someone very dangerous.

He might have come onto your property.

Have you seen anyone recently?

No.

Bert! Is he in there with you, ma 'am?

He's not what he seems.

God forbid you let him into your home.

And if so, we need to act now.

Killia!

Dushpa!

He's just resting.

Don't cry.

He's all better now.

Hey, baby.

Right this way, baby.

Come on in. Welcome to Club Juke.

We ought to get it popping like fish drinks, boy.

We got whiskey, Irish beer, I tell you why.

Y 'all some classy niggas, ain't you?

Too fancy for me.

Remember, I don't need no ice or nothing.

Corn liquor or do.

That'll be 50 cents.

Goddamn, I just got 30. What?

These is good down at the Maybel General Store.

You like that coat, right? I certainly do. Come right up.

I thank you kindly.

Let me holler at y 'all right quick.

Good evening.

Evening. You look mighty nice.

Thank you.

You made it.

This ain't no house party.

And it damn sure ain't no charity.

We taking cash.

U .S. motherfucking dollars.

That's how Chicago smoke.

The fuck that mean? That old nigga work his ass off for them wood and nickels.

See, these niggas been working in the field all day.

When they show up here, let them enjoy themselves.

You gotta feel wanted if you want to see it work.

This place supposed to feel like it's for them.

Right this way.

Uh -huh.

Uh, excuse me, ma 'am.

You show you at the right place?

That's a damn good question, cornbread.

Little Mary?

Not so little no more, huh? Little Mary.

When you was selling ass out in Little Rock, you ever let John pay with a

goddamn promissory note?

Hell no.

But, see, I wasn't selling ass in the Delta.

You gonna play?

You gonna shine?

Let's see where the night takes us.

Your husband coming?

He's older.

Yeah.

Hold on.

Excuse me, ma 'am.

I don't think you should be here, you see. I'm with the twins.

With the twins?

Boy, if you don't get the fuck out of my face. I am with them, ma 'am.

We met earlier at the train station.

I'm their little cousin.

Little cousin?

I think you should leave before they see you.

Wait, you not a little family.

The guitar.

You're old enough to drink now.

Come on, let me buy you a drink.

I don't know who do, and I can't talk slick, but I know business.

And this is bad for business.

It's opening night.

Besides, there's gonna be a few of them like this.

I need a goddamn cigarette.

Coming right up.

So you play that guitar that left you?

Yeah. That's good.

You making any money with that thing?

Not really.

Not yet.

At least.

I tell you, it didn't matter as long as you love it, but that'll be horseshit

advice.

What are you?

What am I?

I'm a human being.

That ain't what I meant.

More like... I know what you meant.

My mama's daddy was half black.

He raised her to keep the clan from killing him.

You know my mama delivered the twins.

Really? They died black after he got stuck in the mall.

And after he died, my mama left them like they was her own.

And they had enough money to buy this whole mill, and they ain't even sent

flowers to a funeral.

You sent your mom flowers.

Plenty of them.

Oh, why? She still a lot of smelling?

Smell. Married?

Let's go check in on Slim.

See if he'll need backup.

Take care of it all week. No, no, I'm gonna handle it. I got it.

All right, go on.

Come on, let's go.

I'm not here for you.

Then why you here then?

I come to hear the blues.

No, no, they play the blues just fine in Arkansas.

Come on.

Hold the ring, let's get out of the car.

What's it gonna take?

Hmm? How much did it get you to get the fuck on? You can't pay me off.

Fine. I'll pay one of these field bitches in here to drag your ass out for

Yeah, you taught me how to fight.

I beat up every bitch in here, and you know it. I taught you how to walk away

when the money's up, too.

Got you a rich white husband.

Got you a farm. Now go home to it. I ain't ask for none of that.

Oh, that should be your idea. I ain't want no white man. I didn't want to be

white. I wanted to be with you.

You know I ain't shit.

Maybe I ain't shit neither.

All it take is the wrong person in here to kill you or get back to them

crackers, and they gonna try to kill you. What about it to you?

Somebody out there hurt you.

Me and my brother gonna come kill them all. I was young enough to believe you

were coming back.

I waited.

I waited a long time.

But I'm grown now, Thay.

And I know you never planned to stay.

Why can't you just say that?

Say what?

Hmm?

I love you.

about you every day.

I just want to keep you someplace safe.

And I was never going to be here.

I'm gonna move out there.

See y 'all.

Hey.

I've been hearing about this one particular young man all day.

He's supposed to be a bad blues man.

Where you at, boy?

Where you at?

Come on in.

My little cousin, y 'all. Watch this.

Hold up, hold up, hold up. Tell me who you are.

Where you from?

I'm Sammy Moore.

I'm a sharecropper from Sunflower Plantation.

They call me Preacher Boy.

Count on my daddy being a pastor.

Amen.

I wrote this song for him.

Something I've been wanting to tell you for a long time.

It might hurt you.

Hope you don't lose your mind.

Well, I was just a boy about eight years old.

Threw me a Bible on that Mississippi road.

See, I love you, Papa.

You did all you could do.

They say the truth hurts.

So I lied to you.

Yes, I lied to you.

I love you.

Somebody take me in your arms tonight.

Somebody take me in

your arms tonight.

Somebody take me in

your arms tonight.

They got us trapped here, preacher boy.

But this here music, we escape.

We backwards to ancestors.

Somebody take me in your arms from now on.

Somebody take me in your arms from now on. Imagine who we do.

Now, that's that.

I hope you can stand it.

Stand it all.

What am I here doing?

You didn't preach at all.

See, I'm full of the blues.

Holy water. I know the truth hurts.

So I lied to you.

So preach your speak your word.

I know the truth hurts.

Yes, I lied to you.

You're with us right now.

two birds

I want to try something.

Wait.

Preacher Boy.

In the last shop, Ferris.

Locked here.

You're beautiful.

I just want to taste you.

How y 'all doing?

Good? Got enough drink?

All right, man.

Hey.

Boat wants you. Check out my little cousin.

He called himself telling me about the cotton.

I said, yeah.

That boy don't know nothing.

Get the twin.

Come on, get him.

I'll tell him to tell you.

Now that top figure, that's plantation money.

That bottom figure, that's real dollars.

So what's the projection?

Two months, and we out of fresh cash.

Hey there.

Good evening.

How may I help you folks?

Oh, we heard tale of a party.

Drink, food, lose music and the like.

You did?

We like to drink.

We happened to be musicians, and we walked here.

So, aren't we hungry as dogs?

Woof, woof.

You wouldn't mind us coming in now, would you?

I think y 'all are in the wrong place.

Let me say that.

You fellas must be the owners of this establishment.

That's right.

And you are?

Name's Ramek.

This here's Joan and Bert.

Is that y 'all all right?

Oh, and you.

Must be that voice I heard from out here.

Oh, it was beautiful.

Goddamn beautiful voice. Even through these walls.

Where y 'all from?

Just down the road.

And how far is that?

North Carolina.

Y 'all clean?

Sir.

We believe in equality and music.

We just came here to play, spend some money, have a good time.

Here, I'll show you.

I picked poor, I've been clean.

Picked poor, I've been clean.

I picked his head, I picked his feet.

I would have picked his body, but it wasn't fit to eat. Oh, I picked poor,

been clean.

Pick before I've been clean, and I'll be satisfied.

Having family.

These bags ain't bad.

Lord, didn't that J -Bird laugh when I picked before I've been clean?

Before I've been clean.

Pick before I've been clean. Lord, didn't that J -Bird laugh when I picked

before I've been clean? Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Just a minute.

It's just about to get good.

I believe you. But this here, a juke joint. Blues music?

But we got money, and we ready to spend it with y 'all. Sounding damn near

perfect, and you're saying we ain't welcome? No, I'm saying you get down

road, you get back into town.

Plenty of white barrel houses down there.

Oh. Ah, this is because we're... All right.

How'd she get in?

Now, that is not here, because she's family.

Family.

Can't we just, for one night...

Just to all be family?

You don't need to do that, sir.

We'll be on our way.

But we're gonna walk real slow.

Just in case y 'all change your mind.

Y 'all have a nice night.

They give me the willies.

Yeah, well, Craig, it's that nighttime. I'll do that to you.

I want your thanks.

What if Hollywood set us up?

I knew we should have killed that Klan motherfucker.

Family, can you just give us a little space? Just a little bit, please? Thank

you.

Now, slow down, Smoke.

I don't think they got nothing to do with each other. You think they bought

company? I doubt it.

But we got enough people on us if they did.

Shit, we forgot the trunk.

Damn, I ain't no reminder. Before I told you to remind me.

I don't need the trunk.

There was just three of them.

Now listen to me.

What if they just came to say?

And what if somebody spilled something on them? Step on their shoe.

Look what they ruined a bit too long. We're going to have a bigger problem

just a fight.

Sure do.

Don't let them in.

They said you want to talk.

Yeah. I seen your performance down there. You wrote that song?

Yeah.

I got a few of them.

Yeah, I can't thank you enough for that.

And y 'all the ones who put that guitar in my hand.

Now this.

You got the talent, that's for certain.

But all this ain't no life for nobody.

I know plenty of musicians.

Ain't never met a happy one.

Yeah, it's cute now.

But he get old.

That rambling.

Sammy, you got something else in you.

What your day shuttle do?

I'm heading off on my own.

Where you going?

Maybe Chicago.

You ready to mind by you?

No. Right here in Mississippi.

Small town.

Found about free slaves.

No crime.

And everything.

Black home.

That sound like a crap.

Well, I seen it.

One day our daddy beat Stack real bad.

So we get in our minds, it's time for us to run away.

To me, I wanted to go to the next plantation over.

But Stack, he figured we'd get to Mount Bayou.

So? Got us a map, stole us a car, and I got us there.

Why y 'all ain't stay?

The man, he didn't want us.

See, the thing is, that mayor knew who our daddy was.

Knew he was an evil man.

Figured there was no way that he ain't pass that evil down to us.

See, what I'm getting at, your daddy a preacher.

You can go and do that.

You like making music? Make church music.

You want to leave?

Go on down Mount Bayou.

Live with the proper black folks.

Leave all this here improper shit to us.

I can't do that.

I mean, being with y 'all today... Smoke, I feel like I'm flying.

Yeah?

Well, you better enjoy the rest of the night, because this your last juke.

Come tomorrow, I'll find out about you planning one of these.

Boy, I'll kill you myself.

Well, I ain't going to my bayou.

My daddy a reverend.

But I'm y 'all cousin, too.

And a lot more people know the Smokestack Twins than they know my

Look, I'm leaving that plantation just like y 'all did. And if that's a problem

for you, kill me now.

One ex -vet has a huge choice of casino games.

One ex -vet. That's the victory.

What's wrong?

We had a packed house, but we're underwater.

How?

All the plantations down there paying with credit.

All the plantations?

Yeah, it seemed that way.

What about them crackers?

What about them? I can go fill them out before they're too far gone.

I can fill them out myself.

They'll tell me more than they'll tell you.

I can find out what they really have. And what happens if they're from Little

Rock? They ain't.

Let me go get this money for us.

I know y 'all need it.

And what's that supposed to mean?

Irish beer.

Italian wine.

You robbed both sides.

Let them blame each other while you and Smoke come down here and set up shop.

You gonna need every dime you can get when they put two and two together. But

they won't.

They might.

Let me go talk to them and see about putting something real on the till.

Come on.

Amen.

You looking for some fresh air?

I just come to see if y 'all was good people.

Aw, darling, that's so sweet of you.

So sweet. We most surely are.

And y 'all got money to spend?

Oh, yeah.

Plenty of money.

You want to see?

What type of money is this?

Solid gold kind, darling.

Yeah.

Where is it from?

It's from a different place and a different time.

But it spans just the same.

You can have it.

But it's no good to you. It's no good to her?

Mm -mm.

Well, what makes you say that?

Because you're in some deep, deep pain that money can't fix.

Am I right?

You came over here for fellowship and love.

Fellowship and love.

My mother... She just passed.

Oh, that's awful.

Just awful.

Just awful.

Losing a mother's a hurting feeling.

I wish in my heart that we'd have met sooner.

I would have liked to have saved her mother from her fate.

I can still save you from yours.

Oh, now, you must have me confused.

I'm sad as all, but I don't need no saving.

Yes.

Yes, you do.

You all do.

Ooh.

I'm gonna head back now, and I think y 'all should too.

That's where we all came from.

to shine once more, that's what I say.

It's hot in there, boy.

Hey, watch the dope for me. I got the pill.

Hold on, hold on. Hey.

Boy, you ain't shit.

Watch the dope.

Hello.

So what happened?

Hell yeah.

What, they want a drink of this or something?

You sure?

Okay. I want a shit.

Go out there and tell him to do something.

I don't know.

I'm scared.

You scared?

No.

It's just that you're somebody else.

So you rob chains and banks.

But you can't steal his pussy from mine.

What the hell going on? This son of a bitch had loaded dives from way outside.

Best you put that blade down.

Can't do that, twin.

Told him not to put his hands on me. So you gonna cut me, too? If I have to, I

just want to be allowed to leave.

Come check his pockets.

That's what I said.

Don't let it shine.

Don't let it shine.

Don't let it shine. Don't let it shine. Y 'all gonna take care of this fool.

Yeah, you gonna need some stitches.

I'm gonna get my brother.

Hey, Slim.

You seen Stack?

Oh, yeah, he in the back.

Hey, Stack,

Smoke looking for you.

Oh, shit.

Busy, huh?

You gonna get him?

Nah.

Then why the hell not?

I think he's getting some lucky.

I don't give a fuck what he's doing. I told you to go get him, didn't I?

I ain't doing that by myself.

I'm proud of building you a new outhouse.

Nigga left to take a piss two damn days ago.

And he left you to wash the door.

You think I can't handle it?

Y 'all get decent, I'm coming in.

I'm gonna get playing around some time.

Fuck!

I'm gonna kill every last one of you.

What

happened?

What happened?

Okay.

Slim, keep everybody out.

See you soon.

We got us a problem here.

I could have stopped it.

Don't do that. I thought that it was making love.

I thought about it. Tell me this is not your fault.

Did she say anything?

She said we gonna kill all of you. We?

She said we.

Smoke.

We gotta move his body outside just for now. Don't touch him.

Nobody move him.

You shot her.

And she kept running like nothing happened.

The thing we're dealing with, well, or worse, we got to keep everybody inside

and the dead body out. There ain't no dead body.

It's that.

It's standing here with me.

Talking all that magic.

You got any magic to bring my brother back?

Got a mojo back for him?

Will you?

I'm sorry.

Go.

Go.

We gotta go.

What? We gotta get out of here.

We just lost his brother.

Look, we came here to help him with the party, not this.

We gotta go home, okay?

Lisa's waiting.

Yeah. Okay? Yeah. Let's go home. Yeah. We'll get the car.

I'll get the car. Okay. Okay. I'll get the cup. Okay. Here.

What's over him?

Where the hell you been at, man?

Huh? To go see a man about a dog, like I told you, you old drunk.

Turns out I need to take a shit, too.

God damn! What happened to you, Smoke?

Stack D.

Nigga, what the fuck happened to you?

I'm sorry.

All right, well, let me in so I can help.

Hold on.

What y 'all doing?

Just step aside and let me on in now.

Why you need him to do that?

You being strong enough to push past him?

Well, that wouldn't be too polite now, would it, Miss Annie?

I don't know why I'm talking to you anyway.

Probably your fish sandwich messed up my guts in the first place.

Using old stale grease. I ain't never used stale grease, and you know it. Shut

up, Annie.

Don't talk to him. You're talking to me right now.

Why you can't just walk your big ass up in here without an invite, huh?

Go ahead.

Admit to it.

Admit to what?

That you dead.

That one of them white folks out there killed you and you a hate now.

So you listening to this?

Woman, this man showed me kindness.

Employed me.

Grabbed me out the field.

Now, he say his brother been killed. The man needs comfort.

Now, you filling up his mind with that old Louisiana Bayou bullshit you on.

Now, we out here playing games, telling ghost stories in place of doing what we

ought to do.

Cornbread. Yeah.

Now, what is it we supposed to be doing?

Being kind to one another.

And being polite.

Now, we is one people.

And we shouldn't go in barging into other folks' places uninvited, so...

You've been in and out of here all day.

Ain't never need to invite them.

Yeah, something ain't adding up.

Shit, Stack was my ride up here.

I'm supposed to walk back?

Ain't my problem.

Well, it be your own peoples.

Now, I thought you was better than that. But you just like the white man.

Can I at least get my money?

Oh, you did such a bang -up job.

Now you want to get paid for what you ain't did?

Ain't nobody talking to you, you old drunk. Shut your mouth. You shut the

up. Don't give him shit, Smoke. Don't give him nothing.

I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right. I don't know.

Hey.

Hey.

Yo, smell anything?

No.

I think I shat myself.

Oh, my God.

How the hell did you get up?

I don't know.

I think it may be. I don't know.

Smoke.

Smoke!

Hey.

You think that's you?

Nah, fool. It's Jim Crow.

Nigga caught me. Open the door.

Huh.

Stay.

How you feeling?

Well, you lost a lot of blood.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

It was scary, and I'm doing much better now.

I swear.

On Mama Grace.

I thought you said he was dead.

He was.

I checked his pulse.

Then what the fuck is he doing talking to us? This is good, right?

Means he's okay.

Smoke.

That ain't your brother.

You gonna let her get in between us again?

What we've been through.

German trenches, nigga.

Chicago gangways.

Come on, man. Open the door. It's me.

Y 'all think you're sweet locking a pimp in a closet, huh?

You know I don't like this shit, man.

Please, Smoke, let me out of this room.

Smoke, please.

Em, give me the key.

Sam, give me...

Pickle garlic.

These ain't haze.

They're vampires.

Bo's out there.

We gotta go get him.

I'm the one who sent him out there. He didn't let you do that. He needs my

Bo know how to handle himself.

Probably got in that car and got someplace safe. Y 'all ain't gonna keep

my husband. Great. We try to keep you alive right now.

We just gotta hold up till sunrise.

Okay?

Holy water.

How could it move and sound like static?

If it ain't static.

I only ever heard stories. I ain't never come across them myself.

What stories you heard?

How haze works.

They switch places with the soul of a man.

But vampires is different.

Maybe the worst kind.

The soul gets stuck in the body.

Can't rejoin the ancestors.

Cursed to live here with all this hate.

Can't even feel the warmth of a sunrise.

Okay, then.

Can we bring him back?

The best thing we can do for him is free his spirit from this curse. How the

hell do we do that?

Sunlight.

I wouldn't stake that hard.

Heal him.

I kept that boy safe all these years.

All over this world.

What a night.

It's because of me.

My daddy told me.

Said the devil was coming on account of my music. You know how that gal I once,

the vampire?

She's light -skinned, too.

That gal bit me everywhere above my neck.

Sammy,

you don't worry about a thing, yeah?

The devil done came for me plenty of times.

If he come knocking tonight, he gonna have to go through his old... friend,

Delta Slam, before you get to you.

Take off everybody in here.

If I get bit by one of them, promise me right now that you'll free me before I

turn. She won't free you.

I got somebody on the phone.

You understand?

Hey, by the way, don't give up what that shit say.

I'm gonna make sure you get a home safe.

Stevie! Stop!

Who did this? Was it Stag or Larry?

No. They ran straight out. You saw them.

Well, who bit him then?

We gotta get him out before he wakes up.

You don't hear that?

They playing music.

Let's keep back inside.

Come on.

Double A's brand new pair of brogues Rattling over the bogs Frightened all

dogs on the rocky roads Double A, one, two, three, four, five Pop that hair and

turn her down the rocky road Double A, double A, quack -a -lolly -da

We'll be right back.

I don't much like the taste of it.

Ain't no one saying you gotta like it.

We just gotta figure out if any of us left is one of them.

You don't get none of the pickle ones?

This is ridiculous.

Simone, put the gun down. Shut up.

Beat. Or I'll shoot.

Put the gun down and smoke. She ain't no damn vampire. How the hell do you know

that? Just eat the damn garlic, girl.

Smoke. I'm trying to keep you alive, boy. You ain't to question me.

You an evil man.

No wonder the devil come first.

You ain't got to point no gun at me.

Slim, what's going on, man?

Talk to me, Slim.

Slim?

Slim?

What's going on, Slim?

I'm

fine.

I'm fine.

See?

You sure that was blood?

Smoke, let me in, man.

Smoke, smoke, let me in.

Smoke, I swear I paid my time, man. That's what this is about.

Smoke,

come on.

Whatever you need, man.

Smoke, some weird shit going on out here, Smoke.

I know you hear me, Smoke.

Smoke, let me in.

Smoke, let me in.

Oh, what the fuck?

Wait!

Come on, baby.

Come on, let's go. I got the car started. Let's go.

What is it, Grace?

He's killing him.

Are you talking about that?

I don't want to buy cornbread.

He's a little hungry, that's all.

Go.

Come on.

I'm on the go. I got the car warmed up.

Or you can let me back in there.

I'll come in and we can grab our things and head home.

Don't listen to him. First, we're going to find a way out of this, I promise.

I am your way out.

This world already left you for dead.

Won't let you build.

Won't let you fellowship.

We will do just that.

Together.

Forever.

It's better this way, baby.

So why don't you go ahead and invite us in?

You should listen to him, Grace.

Or listen to me.

Because I know everything he knows now.

And I want you to let us in there.

Or we're going to go to the grocery store. We're going to pay little Lisa a

visit. No, no, don't you fucking dare!

Are you, Grace? I know everything now.

This can't be real.

You're the devil.

Thank you.

Sammy!

Sammy, Sammy, Sammy.

Traveling.

I don't know where in the world I've been.

Y 'all give him to me now. Just give me a little Sammy. We'll let y 'all live.

I'm gonna tell you something.

You can't have him.

He belongs to us. He belongs.

With us, you can't have him.

And I ain't gonna let that happen.

You can't save him. Smoke no more than you could save your brother.

You ain't safe here.

No matter how many guns or how much money, they gonna take it from you when

want. You built something here tonight, and it was beautiful that it was built

on a lie.

Hogwood. He's the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.

That's his motherfucking nephew.

They was always gonna kill him.

I'd have him show up at the right place at the right time.

He telling the truth, Swamp.

I can see his memories.

This wasn't no juke, John.

No clue.

It is a slaughterhouse.

It's a goddamn killing floor.

Why can't y 'all just go?

Because we're not leaving without y 'all.

We're family.

Ain't that right?

I know it sounds crazy, but after we kill y 'all, we're going to have heaven

right here on Earth.

Oh.

Hi there.

Hello.

Welcome.

All right, all right, all right.

Look at me.

Smoke, I ain't your brother. Fuck you, nigga, it is me.

Elias Small.

And I'm talking to my big brother right now, Slim, so I'm going to kindly ask

you to shut the fuck up.

We was never going to be free.

We've been running around everywhere looking for freedom.

You know damn well he was never going to find it.

Until this.

This is the way.

Together.

Forever.

And I ain't doing this shit without you.

There is no me without you.

What's it gonna be?

No, no.

Close the door.

No vision.

He said he was going to take our daughter.

You can't believe him. He was just trying to get you to let him in. He

cutting your children.

You just got to stay through the night.

And what?

Let him kill my family?

Kill the whole town?

Turn everybody to monsters?

That white devil spoke Chinese.

He got to blow his mind.

We gotta stop them, Smoke.

We gotta get them before they get away.

She's slowing you.

Give me a second to think.

Ain't you a soldier?

Didn't you just shoot two men for touching your truck?

They killed your brother.

Made Stack one of them.

My beau.

Said they was gonna kill Lisa.

If now ain't go time, then I don't know what is.

We supposed to wait the night while they take more of her loved ones?

Make them demons?

Don't look like they leaving, Grace. Oh, shut your drunk ass up, Slim.

I ain't drunk right now.

You need to watch your mouth, woman.

What you doing? Stop that. Come on.

Y 'all hear that?

This is the song they were singing.

No, no, no. Let go of me. Let go of me. We'll kill all of them.

Let go.

Let go.

We gotta fight.

Come on.

No, no, no, no, no, no,

no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no,

no, no,

no, no.

Smoke, we gotta get the boy at the back so he's not here. Come on, smoke, come

on now. Up the steps, go ahead.

Got it?

Not what I told you. Go!

Now go!

Oh yeah.

They still nasty.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Then you're going to want to kill him.

I want your story.

And I want your song.

Then you're going to have mine.

Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Amen. Long ago, the man who stole my father's land forced his words upon us.

I hated those men, but the word still bring me comfort.

Hey, hey, throw your weapons down.

Oh, boy.

Those men lied to them fields and lied to us.

They told stories of a God above and a devil below.

And lies of a dominion of man over beast and earth.

We are earth and beast and God. We are woman and man. We are connected.

You and I.

The sweet pain of death.

We will make beautiful music together.

Bury that fucking guitar.

I can't.

It's Charlie Pants.

What?

What he told you that?

What's that?

He said y 'all wanted it over.

Lion song, bitch.

That's our daddy guitar.

Be strong. Him?

Him?

I got some business to handle.

Be strong.

And if we see you or any one of your clan buddies cross our property line,

going to kill them right where they stand.

Okay, then.

Club juke, huh?

Grand opening, grand closing.

Let's do it. Open it up.

Sammy!

Come on, son.

It's okay.

My son has felt the call of sin.

You see where that gets you?

Door's locked.

Try the front.

This one is too.

But the good Lord told upon us to be fishers of men who sin and

show them the way.

Believe those thinning ways where they lie.

I want you to promise right now.

Drop the guitar, Sammy.

In the name of God.

Prodigal son has returned.

I know some of you. You hear the call of the devil.

Trying to steal you away.

You hear the call of wisdom.

Speak talking men and lose women.

You can let them call and not answer.

You tell me.

My heart.

My body.

My voice.

My soul.

Belonging to the Lord.

You got a cigarette?

You go to hell, nigga.

You put that cig out, you can hold her.

I don't want any smoke to get on her.

Hey, listen.

I got money.

Huh?

No.

Probably here.

Let it go, then.

Drop the guitar.

Put it down.

Hey, boss.

Got two out there. I told them to close, but they offered a couple hundred

bucks. That okay with you?

That don't bother me, no.

Good morning.

Sammy!

I'll have whatever the old man had me.

Oh.

When I saw him kill him...

I knew I had to get Mary out of there.

She hid in the woods.

Asked for me.

Sorry I couldn't keep you safe.

Don't be sorry.

You always be.

I guess I was the one person he just couldn't kill.

He made me promise to stay away from you.

That you live out your life.

You know, we got every single one of your records.

I don't like that electric shit as much as the real.

Man, I miss the real.

Records from back then sound like a pile of dog shit.

How about it, Sammy?

You still got the real in you.

I don't know why in the hell I'm here.

Traveling.

I don't know why in the hell I'm here.

Because the woman I'm loving.

You know you really don't care

Take

care

little Sammy

You know something?

Maybe once a week, I wake up paralyzed.

Relive it that night.

But before the sun went down, I think that was the best day of my life.

Was it like that for you?

No doubt about it.

Last time I seen my brother.

Love you.

Last time I seen the sun.

And just for a few hours.