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Hello Neil and Buzz

I'm talking to you by telephone from the Oval Room at the White House.

And this certainly has to be the most historic telephone

call ever made from the White House.

I just can't tell you how proud we all are of what you have done

for every American.

This has to be the proudest day of our lives and for people

all over the world.

I am sure that they too join with Americans

in recognizing what an immense feat this is.

Because of what you have done.

The Heavens have become a part of man's world.

And as you talk to us from the sea of tranquility,

It inspires us to redouble our efforts.

To bring peace and tranquility to earth.

The whole history of man.

All the people on this earth are truly one.

One in our prayers of what you have done and one in our prayers that you will return

safely to earth.

Thank you Mr. President. It is a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing

not only the United States, but men.

Of peaceable nations.

Ah Ya'll.

Okay.

Just a minute. Just go ahead

I've got this.

I got it.

Ooo. You okay Granny?

Stop asking me that.

I could have

had anybody bring me over here to change the battery in this darn thing.

That darn thing is a pacemaker.

Ain't no wristwatch.

Well, I ain't ready to go to the other side yet.

Not today, not tomorrow.

And yesterday is gone.

Will you pull your dress down, you ain't no showgirl.

I've got to keep it up so I can high step it

when I get to Heaven.

There she is again.

That ain't the same one from this morning.

Yes it is.

And she's bringing the good news.

Woooh!

I'm willing to settle

for the full policy limit of twenty-five thousand.

But the medicals are just under forty-five hundred.

Let's not dismiss emotional injuries.

I've taken that into account and only authorized to go as high as two thousand dollars.

Do you have children?

What would you say if he

or she was socially active.

12 year old,

involved in his church who suddenly withdraws.

He's afraid to get back in his family car again?

Do you know the book of Psalms?

Where are you going with this?

Straight to the county courthouse to file a lawsuit on this innocent

child's behalf.

What? Yes Ma'am.

You see, there's some of my hometown jurors.

They still believe in that verse in Psalms.

It says children are a give from the Lord.

The most I can honestly do.

Is ninety-five hundred.

I thank you for your honesty, ma'am.

I write to inform you that you've been approved

to take the Probate.

Continuing Legal Education in Los Angeles, California. Yes!

Hey, Miss Hattie.

Oh. Hey there LouEster. How are you honey?

Good. Good to see you. Oh, it's so good to see you.

Oh honey would you do me a favor would you please give this Mrs. Big Gal for me.

Tell her I'll be by next week to see how she's doing. Okay?

Yes, ma'am.

And to you Miss Mae-Dot.

All right. You take care.

Hey thank y'all have a good day.

You too. Love.

When you gonna

get a new car?

Will you leave me alone.

Ooo weee.

You know that's not what that's for. It's healing cloth.

That's some good healing.

Hey you still going to the Grits Festival with me?

Hell no.

Oh. So all of a sudden you don't like grits.

Oh no, I like grits. And that's why I ain't going.

What the hell are you talking about now?

What was the last white man fest you dragged me to?

What? The Cornbread festival?

Right.

Now, who in their right mind put kale and cauliflower in some goddamn cornbread?

It don't make no damn sense LouEster.

I'm telling you, white folk just be dropping all kind of shit in food for no reason.

Well, you know, not everybody uses fat back and lard.

Excuse me.

I don't put lard in my grits.

Just like I don't put peanuts in chicken salad.

Raw fuckin' peanuts at that.

Actually, Ms. Hurley's.

Chicken Salad ain't that bad, even with the peanuts.

Don't come cryin' to me when that shit get caught in the back of your throat.

And you round here walk'n round like a chicken.

Okay, now I'm truly convinced you belong on Bull Street.

Oh, hell, if I'm going to Bull Street, Ms. Hurley and the rest of them motherfuckers

is coming with me.

Especially if they start dropping pimento cheese in fucking chitlins.

Goodbye. Talking about my car.

Get a new bike shit.

Get fuck outta here with that goddamn bike.

We'll check weather next meanwhile, this week is dedicated to the great Patsy Cline.

Gone much too soon.

I hear Gertie never made it back to Charleston.

She's still out there on Goat Island.

Probably sprinkling wheat germ on and pork rinds.

You know,

it all started when that son of hers graduated from the Citadel,

and he went and got himself engaged to a little gal from South

Dakota.

Ever since he was born, Gertie,

had the sweetest little debutante all picked out for him. But.

Bless her heart.

You know,

I know what it feels like to get turned around.

I was writing a story.

Like Gone with the Wind.

But I had to put it away.

Well, after I got elected,

Probate judges just don't have the time

to write a great American novel.

Afternoon, ladies.

Oh, LouEster,

could you come over here, please?

I have not seen you around the courthouse lately.

Oh, well.

Oh well, no lawsuits to file,

thank the Lord.

And Mrs. Big Gal. I hear she got herself a pacemaker.

Yes, ma'am.

About three months now.

Will you tell her, for the sake of my grands, I would take her back.

Because I know children are so good for the soul.

She doesn't do that anymore.

She only leaves the house to go to her doctor's appointments.

Oh, well,

you tell her that I said eat more fruits and vegetables and get plenty of sun,

because that is the best source of vitamin D.

I'll be sure to pass the message along.

Have a blessed day, ladies.

I swear she's getting more and more plain looking.

I mean she's solid like her grandma.

Who I declare is like an ox.

They just don't make em like that anymore.

Well I pass.

Evelyn Cody's granddaughter

she couldn't be no more than thirty.

You ought to be ashamed, Cousin Big-Gal.

Every day, carrying on with that obituary section.

Well, somebody's got to be sure our faces don't show up in here.

LouEster you think Mr.

Obama has an honest chance?

He ain't particularly the same color as most of the voters.

That definitely won't be a problem.

No?

No. White folks see him as his mother's child.

Besides Harvard, gives him extra credibility.

Well, that mother's son is still black.

Unless you don't see what I see.

I'm gonna be gone a long time before they let a black man come.

President.

Oh, look here Azell.

Jerry Shaw. You remember him?

Don't remember him.

Well you wouldn't because I picked cotton with him a long,

A long time

ago over on Old Man Hurley's land.

And every week he would borrow on his pay.

Buying up honey buns.

Oh Honey buns? Yes.

And come payday. Old Man

Hurley took him home, and he told his mother

that she had to pay him cause that boy had ate up three weeks.

Of his whole pay.

He loved them honeybuns.

Grandpa.

Old Man

Hurley used to say the hardest loblolly cut you'll ever endure

is the one closest to the ground.

Bank not handing out any loans,

correct, Millard?

Oh, no, sir. Mortgage crisis has our hands tied.

And. And how's talks coming along on the Reed transaction, son?

It seems to be a holdup.

What's the holdup?

Ms. Leila been wanting to push forward for some time now.

Her brother's not doing well.

With Ben H. In charge of the farm.

Three of my best breeding Angus heifers go missing.

He blames it on one of the wetbacks.

I sent you to law school and you come back kicking the can down the road again.

Can't do one thing for your own family.

Well. Seems

I'll have to close the deal myself.

Honor my daddy's wishes.

That's family land.

And I mean to take it back.

Cortar!

A chainsaw would help.

Cortar!

How many times you've seen this episode?

A few. Dozen.

Ms. Hurley's chicken salad in the fridge.

And don't forget Bible studies tomorrow night.

Why does she put peanuts in.

Chicken salad?

And I know what day it is.

I saw Mrs.

Leila in the Reed plot earlier.

You heard anything about her husband?

He traveling.

Got his trucks on the road for that new Walmart.

What about her sons?

They both in the Navy.

I finally got approved to take my C.L.E.

Here? In California.

I keep telling you, if you gonna practice here

with these white folks, then you better study here with them.

I'm going to bed.

But I thought you was gonna watch Gunsmoke with me.

It's coming on next.

Good night, Granny.

Morning, Granny.

Good Morning, Sunshine.

Tonight tell Clark I send my best.

Abraham was the ultimate dealmaker.

Even beat God in a game of chicken.

So when he needed a

place to bury his wife, Sarah.

He wanted the sacred oak grove,

which cost him four hundred pieces of silver.

Who can tell me what that was.

In exchange for?

For the first published and recorded deed of Hebron.

That's right.

So, my Christian friends,

the Bible is trying to tell us

to stop frittering away our land.

Think like Abraham.

Get yourself a deed.

Mr. Clark.

Now, where are we supposed to find

four hundred pieces of silver from?

That's a good catch.

Well you know.

I finally got approval to take my last three hours of C.L.E.

C.L.E?

Continuing Legal Education.

It's my requirement if, I want to keep practicing.

Like doctors? Yeah.

I've really been looking forward to taking it out in L.A.

For some time now.

Do you want to

make a short vacation out of it?

Negative.

Been there, done that.

Los Angeles. Overrated.

Here we go.

New York City is, too.

You think every city is overrated.

What's not overrated to you?

Berlin.

I don't know, Slush.

I just feel like I gotta get out here sometime.

Why didn't you ever try to escape?

You know I don't want Grannie to grow old alone.

Yeah.

Oh. Slush,

wait, I think I got a real bite.

Get the net. Get the net.

Bring it in. Bring it in.

Granny?

You okay?

They bringing him home.

Be next to his momma and his daddy.

I'll be praying for the family.

I keep telling you,

LouEster. Have some feelings.

Lessen you not human.

The man is your father.

How?

When he chose to be the stranger?

You don't know what demons that man had to fight.

Maybe not, but I know the ones.

My Momma fought. Giving birth to me alone

while he was off in law school, having a grand old time.

I don't know why my dad would want to be buried in this ghost town.

When he could have been buried next to mother in D.C..

Because it's not his home Kendra.

The intricacies of life

bring us to the unquestionable abstract of reality,

where the soul chooses the exact time and place

that it separates from the body.

It is not God.

It becomes God.

Therefore, my dad's not dead.

He's never been more alive.

Her highfalutin' grandmother

probably turning over in her grave.

The greatest man that I know, Harrison Reed,

is right here in this room with all of us.

Can you feel him?

Lou. You alright?

I'm thinking about going to Raleigh on Sunday.

To hear Senator Obama speak.

You wanna come?

Negative. It's overrated.

You'd be closer to him

watchin' him on the TV.

To Harrison Reed.

What?

What are you talking about?

He's my father.

Ohhhhh. Shoot.

You telling me,

you one of the Black Kennedys, of Puckney?

Well, damn.

Rumor was Mr.

Clark was your Daddy.

Why didn't you go to the funeral?

Excuse me.

This is your father's favorite gray fedora.

Oh, and this is Thomas Clark, Harrison's best friend.

And this is a young, stunning me.

Oh gosh.

Who's the girl between you and my dad.

Oh, that's Sadie Gibbs.

Was she my dad's date?

No, no, only, freshmen were required to go to the senior prom and work it.

Yeah.

She was my best friend at the time.

At the time?

Yeah. What happened?

Well mother let her and her mother, Mrs.

Big Gal, move into the house to take care of your grandfather.

And mother caught Sadie stealing her Winthrop

college ring.

What.

That ring was supposed to go to Harrison's

firstborn. You.

Why didn't you ever tell Harrison?

Cause the only one who could prove something like

that was Sadie.

You know,

when a child loses they.

Momma and Daddy,

they called a orphan.

You a teacher.

A school teacher.

Is there a word for when a Momma loses

her children? No.

You see that tree?

It started off a hump,

grew slowly.

Then the trunk

split into two and just bushed out.

Every time the it rains, I come,

Out here to make sure my child don't rise up.

But Sadie is buried at Freedom Hill.

Sadie was a twin.

What?

And like Sadie she was too pretty

to live too.

They both come out,

feet first.

She standing on the shoulders of Sadie.

After my mom delivered them,

she placed them on my chest.

And I named them Susan and Sadie.

And just that quick.

Susan looked up at me

and she took her last breath.

Ohh ohhh I cried. I cried loud.

Fo', my Momma came and she put her hand over my mouth

and she whispered, life goes on.

And then she told me

I had to get up and take care of business.

Somehow.

I got on my feet.

I put Sadie in the bassinet.

And I bought Susan out here.

And I buried her under that tree.

So you see Azell,

All I'll ever be

is right here.

On this land.

What are you doing Aunt Leila?

Packing pecans for my favorite niece.

She's so awesome, I love her. Your favorite niece? Who would that be?

You mean your only niece.

Oh, my only nie. Oh. That's you.

Oh, stop that's a lot of pecans.

Hey, honey,

go inside. Your reflections on your father were quite courageous.

Why thank you.

A Harvard lawyer?

You must be pretty smart.

Yes, well, some of us are.

Ben Hurley, the third.

But everyone calls me Mayor Bucky.

Kendra Reed.

I was a good friend of your papa back in high school.

Mayor Bucky you should have called hmm.

We're about to head on in.

I realize this isn't the best timing, but

I thought we could solidify our business matter

while, Harrison's darling daughter's still in town.

Business matter? What business matter?

Why, the loblolly pine on your papa's 500 acres.

What about it?

Well, ma'am, they're aas good as gold.

Mayor Bucky,

I said this is not the time.

Farewell.

Enjoy your stay in the country.

Miss, Harvard.

How much of the loblolly is my dad's?

Most of it.

Mayor Bucky purchased mine a few years back.

And what's it worth?

A million.

Five.

A million five.

I'm sorry.

And you decided not to disclose this information to me.

Kendra, I discussed it with Harrison

about using the proceeds

to make the land farmable to generate income, and he agreed.

Okay.

Couldn't

they just cut around the old house?

No. It's a liability.

No lumber company would take a chance on that.

Okay. Where's her daughter?

Sadie? Yeah.

Wait.

The one who stole the ring.

She died in childbirth.

Stop it. Stop it. So tell me again tell me again what he say?

Oh, God.

I ain't telling you nothing. Come on you know I love a good story.

Oh Lord. I wonder what the devil wants today.

Mmmm Who knows.

Good afternoon ladies.

Mrs. Big-Gal,

my niece Kendra would like to have a word with you.

I understand that my aunt here has tried to explain to you

the transactional purchase of the timber on this land.

Well, get to it, young'un.

Okay.

There's about an acre and a half of land down in Clarendon County

that we're willing to purchase in exchange for you moving off this property.

Well, like I told your aunt,

my next move won't be on this side.

This is my grandmother's house,

my family's homestead where I was born.

You have no rights.

Yo' daddy left me all the living

rights I need.

You can say anything. He's not here to speak.

I know when is missy.

I was there the whole time.

When his hands trembled and his finger and toenails turned blue.

Even fo' that when I was carrying him around like he was my own child

and nobody knew where the hell yo Momma was.

We're willing to provide you with more than enough to make you comfortable.

Okay?

The only comfort you can provide me with

is get out of my yard.

You two should leave.

The offer will not stand. Now!

You okay, Cousin.

Big Gal? Okay.

I'm gonna get you back over here.

Come on. Come on.

Let me call LouEster.

That doctor kept me in that hospital

for three whole days against my will too.

Just so he can tell me that I need to come to his office to get tested.

Well, at least we know now that it wasn't the pacemaker that contributed

to your shortness of breath.

And dizziness.

Why don't you get that thing fixed?

Shoot I'm hungry!

Come on now.

Oh, Lord.

Would you come on.

Cause that hospital food was for the birds.

I told you I'm hungry.

You. Come on.

Fo' my stomach go to my back.

You tell your little friend

Mae-Dot to shut her mouth and put my mail in the box.

Yeah.

Get on now. I can get up here.

Shoot.

What?

Come on.

What? Oh!

Oh.

Oh Lord Jesus.

- Granny, it's an eviction notice. - What do you mean, eviction?

Don't get yourself all worked up again, grannie.

Now, look, I'm gonna go down.

I'll read the deeds book first thing in the morning.

All right?

Right now you need to eat something.

How many times

I gotta say food ain't supposed to cook without fire!

Okay.

Now what you got?

So 3000 acres was originally granted to Brad Stanton

by the King of England in 1770.

You mean her people?

Yeah.

And then Old Man Hurley

gave the Reeds a thousand acres.

No deed.

Damn.

Now it's all heirs property.

Look, now you're gonna have to talk to me like a motherfucking drop out.

Because what?

Heirs property.

It's when land is passed down to black families without the benefit of a deed.

Well, what that means.

It means that the legal owners are all the heirs in common.

Wait,

now, you mean to tell me that the black Kennedys

ain't had no motherfucking silver.

Are there any pretrial motion before this court?

Yes. Your honor,

the defense would like to make a motion to have this case dismissed.

On what grounds?

That, I am

I am, You are what, attorney Gibbs?

I'm an heir of Harrison Reed.

Objection! Move to strike!

As his daughter, I have every right to stay on this land.

I've never seen this woman in my life.

This is a lawyer talking.

This is nothing more than some convoluted attempt to delay this process.

Attorney Gibbs, are you willing to testify to that under oath?

I am. There's your notice.

The motion is granted, and this case is dismissed

without prejudice.

Now after you get grown.

You wanna go start a riot?

Let my child rest!

But you can't live here without legal documents, grannie.

I spent my whole life giving my word.

That's all I got. The law is the law.

And you are the child of my child.

Go get my sweater.

Where are you going?

I am going to speak her.

I nursed all her children.

Heres a song that will never fall out of fashion. The iconic Patsy Cline.

So I have this cousin, Lurleen.

She's older than dirt, but she called me all the way from Iowa

inquiring about that ancestor thing, you know?

So I told her I'm part Irish and I'm part Scottish

and I'm part Neanderthal.

It just means that there's less hair on my back.

Oh, never mind it.

Never mind.

Good afternoon, ladies.

Oh, Mrs. Big-Gal.

Well, what brings you through that door?

I would like a word with you, ma'am.

You know,

if it's what I think it is.

My hands are tied. Is it my play?

Ma'am?

Mrs. Big-Gal,

It's out of my power.

Mrs, Motley, if you could remember,

I gave you that power when I would look after your children.

So you could just be who you are today.

Good to see you out and about Mrs. Big-Gal.

Come on over here to me.

I've got some fresh chicken salad all made up just for you.

LouEster.

And who the hell puts peanuts in a chicken salad?

LouEster!

Come on.

Whose play is it?

Are you sure?

Yes Kendra.

Thomas Clark is the girl's father.

Good.

Because I've never been so unprepared

and humiliated in my life.

All right,

so what are we going to do?

I'll have to

initiate a determination of Heirs action and force genetic testing.

Don't you need an attorney for that?

I am an attorney.

I know,

but you're not licensed in this state.

I'll talk to Bucky about it.

Mayor, Bucky is not an attorney. No,

but Bucky owns every part of this town,

even if he doesn't know how dumb he is.

You're just like your grandmother, always wanting to kill a fly with a cannon.

Daddy always said launch with a blast.

I understand that

you didn't attend the University of South Carolina law.

Like what?

95% of the lawyers in this state.

Nope.

Duke blue devil.

Through and through.

Undergraduate to law.

South Carolina held no more charm.

Her charm is set.

Just that,

she worships football, me, basketball.

You' were that far north.

Why come back to the Deep South?

When you're the only son with three sisters

somebody's got to cut the trees right?

Are you up next to become mayor?

Following. Let's see your great grandfather.

Grandfather.

And now your father.

In the words of Lyndon B. Johnson, I can't walk and chew gum

at the same time.

The probate judge what law school did

she attend?

She didn't.

The state of South Carolina doesn't require

probate judges to have attended law school.

So what's her background?

Court secretary.

She was elected to the seat.

You've got to be kidding me.

Can you believe they're making me take a DNA test like a damn criminal?

Well just give it to them.

I mean, I don't have what they got, but this one and a half acres, will hold you, Grannie

and a few little ones.

Everything is not about you, Slush.

Okay, so he wasn't no real daddy, okay.

Just let it go Lou.

I know good

well, you ain't talking about no real daddy

when you got two kids being raised by their mother alone in Chicago.

All right.

Don't go there.

Okay?

My kids are well taken care of.

As if that makes it okay.

Look, judge me all you want, but you missing my point.

Oh, you got a point.

All I'm saying is, Lou, look, listen.

As if If he was your

daddy, he didn't love you enough while he was alive.

So don't go making it all about his stuff now that he's dead.

You know, you've always been a Mister know it all.

Maybe.

But what I do know

is that you'll never be able to love a man fully until you stop hating

Harrison Reed. And I will never stop hating him!

Lou, come back! Goddamnit!

Ive Been a.moonshing.

Oh, jeez.

She was actually the one that gave me,

the name Ben H.

Yeah, it was her.

She means a lot to a lot of people in this town.

She helped raise most of the people in this town.

Seems like.

She's um.

She's like the,

the matriarch of Puckney.

If she hadn't

been raising us pale kids.

Her only child wouldn't have ended up on Bull Street.

Bull Street.

Yeah.

Go on.

Yes, Ma'am.

Our crazy house.

People

hitting themselves in the face

and that kinda stuff.

You're saying her daughter was mentally incapacitated?

It's not what I heard. See,

a lot of people

went in for different reasons.

White. Blacks. Criminals and.

People, folks wanted to hide.

Necessary.

In some ways.

Unnecessary in others.

You're saying

the people in this ghost town knew about this?

A few knew about LouEster's momma.

But I'm not sure LouEster even knows.

How do you know?

My father's sister.

Aunt Theresa.

She was a nurse there.

Then you would have the sibship. In half the sibship.

The child only receives 25% of the chromosome pairings,

which means it only provides you of an indication

of, more likely than not, of who the siblings are.

So then what?

So then the tests will likely come back inconclusive,

and the judge will likely rule that since science could not rescue you,

more conclusive evidence will be needed.

What kind of evidence?

Salt of the earth.

Evidence of people sworn statements of who your father is.

I don't know of anyone who can testify to who my father is.

As your law professor

and as your mentor, then you're going to have to hope

that this judge does not like people like your sister.

Let me inform you that Heirs property

with no deed puts the land at a high risk for loss.

How so?

Well,

when a property has more than one heir to it, it only takes

one of them to want to sell it, to get their share of the property.

And the only way to do that is to auction the land.

So you're telling me the land that put your father through school,

that allowed us to walk through the front doors of Puckney.

We could lose it all.

I mean, you had more than enough money to clear a title.

Why didn't you?

Well, Mayor Bucky and

his daddy Ben Jr.

Made the process complicated.

It goes way back to both of our grandfathers.

Mayor Bucky' granddaddy Old Man Hurley and Harrison's granddaddy,

they were the best of friends.

Even back then.

Old Man Hurley had acres of cotton, and granddaddy had the labor.

The Europeans at the port, Daddy would ride right along with them.

Never trusting that Reed fella, if you know what I mean.

Because even though he was colored the European liked him.

Reed had the gift of gab.

A real charlatan. If you know what I mean.

And you think grandpa couldn't see it?

But Old Man Hurley and Mr.

Reed, they were partners.

Oh, they stood side by side after they sold the cotton.

They exchanged gifts.

The Europeans gave granddaddy a pocket knife.

A crate of mandarin oranges, In turn, he gave them pecans.

It was Mayor Bucky's daddy, Ben Junior.

That gave him the pocket knife, and he wanted to take

the crate of mandarin oranges to his mother.

It was Mr.

Reed who insisted grandpa take the crate of mandarins.

And when they got home, the crate was filled with Asian beetles.

But not before the Beatles

destroyed the timber on the land.

And now Bucky wants not only the timber.

But the land also.

So you never met him, huh? No, I did

once when I was four.

And then, I really remember him when I was 7 or 8.

He came by to say hi to granny.

He say anything to you?

I don't remember the exact words, but,

kept going on about launching with a blast or something like that.

You think, he know? I

guess we'll never know.

I just remember when he got out,

that car was like the moon shined out of him.

And I stayed up all night writing him this long letter.

I got up the next morning and I ran down to his Momma's house.

He was in the front yard with his wife and the baby

showing her off.

He was so proud. She was walkin, wobbling.

It was like it was our first steps or something.

And then I ran off and tore up the letter,

and I never wanted to see him again.

I hated him ever since.

Damn.

Just 'cause the child was wobbling. Shit.

No, because my Momma never got the chance

to show me off like that.

Hey, you remember that time.

I gave you your first perm.

You was in the seventh grade?

Remember that? Yeah.

You burn the shit out of my scalp.

That's

when I thought you was going to be somebody big

famous

on TV.

Like motherfucking Johnnie Cochran.

Getting niggas off left and right.

But instead, here you are,

sitting in front of my broke down mansion.

Burping, farting,

beeping your horn at folks at the one

traffic light.

Buying boiled.

Peanuts off the side of the road.

Waiting on the next white man fest while playing house with slush.

Shit, girl.

Every year you used to talk about moving to California.

What's your deal?

What do you mean?

You know damn well what I mean.

Shit.

You trying to stay around here or launch with a blast

like your daddy said?

Give me some of that.

See, you done fucked up now, yo' ass already high. Give me my shit back.

Shit.

Always fucking up some shit!

These are the glory days.

After the bank moved.

Sadie, Harrison and

I used to search that safe

determined to find a $100 bill.

All that's in there now is client

files and my Grannie's strongbox.

She says it's double fireproof.

This is a subpoena.

They want you to testify.

I took this picture.

Is that right?

Yes, ma'am.

It was right

after your grandmother bought Sadie the car from Old Man Hurley.

If you look closely,

you can see the tip of Harrison's hand.

We were down by the lake,

and I was taking a picture of Sadie, and he tried to jump in.

What were they like?

Oh, boy.

Sadie, was

all women rolled up into one.

People used to stop whatever they were doing just to watch her.

Especially when she danced.

But incredibly,

Sadie had only one misstep.

And what was that Mr.

Clark?

She left far too soon.

It just wasn't her time.

I'll see you in court.

Yes, ma'am.

Can I ask you how long you've worked here?

Oh, I worked here for 65 years or so.

And did you know, Sadie Gibbs by chance?

Sadie Gibbs?

Yes, I did.

Are you Sadie Gibbs' daughter from Puckney?

Yes. Yes, I am.

Yeah, well, your Momma was striking, like

lightening.

Could you

tell me about her?

She was always happy, always bubbly.

Yeah.

It's kind of a shame that she ended up here.

Sure.

Let me ask you.

Would you be willing to testify

in court if necessary?

No. Not quite, Ma'am. See,

I'm just about five months from retirement,

and I don't want to ruffle feathers, if you can understand that.

Yes, I understand.

And in fact, I will personally make sure that that is not necessary.

You and your Daddy was close weren't you?

Very much.

That's cause you Ms. Sadie's child.

Your Daddy was crazy about her.

Thank you Sir.

All rise.

The Court of.

Probate is now in session.

My name is Judge Mary-Ann Motley

and I will be presiding over this probate matter

an action for the determination of heirs of the late Harrison Reed.

LouESter Gibbs, the defendant has claimed to be the child of the deceased

Mr. Reed. In which is one proven child

Kendra Reed has filed a motion to determine whether LouEster

Gibbs is indeed an heir.

Secondly, all parties involved have submitted to a DNA test

a scientific discovery which has been rejected as evidence.

Therefore,

both parties have agreed to move forward with witness testimony

and any evidence that this court deems appropriate.

Attorney Reed.

Please be advised that you have been admitted Pro Hac Vice under the license of Ben

Hurley, the fourth of the state of South Carolina,

and you will adhere to all the rules of this court.

Wouldn't have it any other way.

You may proceed with your opening statement.

In support of this case.

I will call witnesses who will provide sworn testimony

as to the validity of LouEster Gibbs' notion.

I will show that there is no convincing, credible evidence

that supports this alleged parent child relationship between LouEster

Gibbs and Harrison Reed.

There is no birth certificate, no signage under the Uniform Parentage Act,

which allows the father to enter his name at any point in his lifetime.

As the father.

Harrison Reed, never openly held out LouEster

Gibbs as his own.

No voluntary legal acknowledgment exists,

and the deoxyribonucleic acid test came back inconclusive,

which means LouEster Gibbs is unlikely to be the daughter

of Harrison Reed.

You knew Sadie

Gibbs, correct?

Yes. We were best friends when we were sixteen, seventeen years old.

And after that? Mother caught Sadie stealing a ring. Objection!

Relevance.

Overruled.

You may answer the question.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Mother caught Sadie stealing her ring.

Was Harrison in Puckney in the fall of 1968,

specifically September, October?

Well he finished his undergraduate study at the University of South Carolina.

And he left at the end of August for law school.

He didn't come back.

Had you ever seen Sadie and Harrison out in public?

Only when he gave us a ride to school.

No further questions.

You may cross LouEster.

Good afternoon, Mrs.

Anderson.

You mentioned Sadie Gibbs stole a ring.

Yes she did.

And how do you know this to be true?

Mother told me,

Your honor,

May I ask that Leila Anderson's testimony

be stricken from the record for hearsay?

Strike this testimony from the record.

Y'all excuse Mrs. Anderson.

Mr. Clark,

did you spend intimate time with Sadie Gibbs in the fall of 1968,

when LouEster Gibbs was conceived?

She let me lay in her arms once

when she took pity on me.

Your honor, I ask that Thomas Clark be required to submit to genetic

testing to determine if he is the actual father of the defendant.

Objection.

Defendant requests to examine the witness further.

Overruled.

I order said witness Thomas Clark

to submit to expedited three day genetic

testing at the cost of this court.

We are adjourned

until results can be determined.

My divorce came through.

The air smells sweet out here tonight.

Yeah it do.

They give results back on Clark yet?

The Old Testament thumping.

Jew loving

Clark is not the daddy.

What a surprise.

And how is Miss Harvard holding in Puckney's.

Scales of justice?

Too big for her northern britches,

I must say. Vanity of vanities.

Yeah, well, God's got a way of putting people in their place.

Most important thing for us is to all stay focused.

Timber on the land is where heaven is.

My daddy used to say it's where the Lord himself goes to breathe

and get away from man.

And then annoying angels.

LouEster understands the meaning of Holy Land.

Miss. Harvard will give it up.

Squeaking about reparations.

That's family land.

And I'm mean to take it back.

Make things clear to Mary-Ann.

Oh, she's very clear on that.

Very clear.

How's she doing?

As president of the UDC?

Loving every minute of it.

Okay, kid.

I've been meaning to ask you something, sir.

Go on.

What's the difference between the the daughters

of the Confederacy and the daughters of the Revolution?

Simple. One we won.

And, one we lost.

Not like.

My sin

has been great.

And my spirit low

for most of my life.

I've repented,

and I ask God for forgiveness.

A thousand times over.

I realize, even as a hear myself,

that I

may be asking too much of you.

What is it, Mr.

Clarke?

I was the one who told Harrison's

mother about his and Sadie's plans

to be together.

To leave together.

Neil and Buzz

I'm talking to you by telephone from the oval room at the white House.

And this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call

ever made to the White House.

I just can't tell you how proud we all are

for what you have done for every American.

This has to be the proudest day of our lives.

For people all over the world.

I am sure that they too join

with Americans

in recognizing what an immense feat this is.

Because of what you have done the heavens.

Have become a part of man's world Peaceable nations,

Men with an interest and a curiosity

and men with a vision for the future.

And thank you very much. Mother,

what are you doing here?

Sadie's not coming.

What do you mean?

How do you know this?

Thomas Clarke?

Where is she?

Ask Thomas.

They look happy.

You tried this before.

Okay. Just stop.

I'm gonna

marry her. And raise another man's child.

You never stop.

Son, they're having a baby.

He's set to marry her.

It's all over town.

They were meant to be.

Pull yourself together.

A woman of your own kind.

Will make you happy for the rest of life.

But she.

She's.

Don't be a fool.

Your grandfather went off to the First War.

And your father in World War two.

Just so you can sit at the same table with men

of greatness and power.

So don't you dare miss that train.

Go!

Harrison never spoke to me.

Or Sadie

ever again.

I could testify in court about it.

Sadie was never with anyone except Harrison.

They were secretly engaged.

He put you on the bench.

He kept me on as manager of the bank.

Even when they wanted to blame me for the crisis.

He doesn't own me. I'll be fair.

You'll be fair to Mayor Bucky.

He's not God, Millard.

Oh, turning you into a judge was pretty miraculous.

Look, Annie, you remember how hard it was

when I first brought you down here from Iowa,

you were looked down upon.

Nobody would hire you.

We got it pretty good now, don't we?

We owe him.

That's the plan.

I'm calling her.

But we're not losing.

In the real world,

I didn't get my reputation just by winning cases.

Okay.

There's an art to decimating the other side.

But I told you what she means to this town.

And to me. I'm sorry.

Last time I checked, you have a mother.

Attorney Reed, you may call your next witness.

Your honor,

it has come to my attention that an additional witness, Mrs.

Susannah Gibbs, is instrumental to this case.

Objection. My granny is in poor health.

The court grant the request.

Have the subpoena served and Mrs.

Susannah Gibbs to appear in this courtroom tomorrow morning at 10

a.m..

Only.

Judge, I'm looking forward to standing in front of,

sits on a throne, not a bench.

It could help if you told the truth.

To the whitefolk in they courthouse.

All they do is lie especially there They're not all the same, Grannie.

They are in these parts.

What about that little 14 year old boy Stinney from Alcolu.

He didn't even get a chance to speak his truth.

That was in 1944.

It's a different time.

He could have been my brother!

Different time. Child

these white folk got a privilege

that even the devil can't take away.

It is with regret

that my grannie will not be joining us today.

Well, you know, I have no other choice than to issue a warrant.

How are you doing?

Good to see you.

Look at you. Looking good.

Hi Darling,

heard you want to see me, Mrs. Motley?

Always, Mrs.

Big Gal.

Azelle was telling me how she seen this,

women in prison show on television and how when they do that

lady on lady stuff up in there, they use brooms.

Straighten up Ben H.

Im going up there.

State your name for the record, please.

Susannah.

Two "n" 's. Gibbs.

And now place your left hand on the Bible

and raise your right hand.

Mrs. Motley, I ain't never swore on no Bible.

And you are never obliged to do so in my courtroom.

But if you ever do its your other left hand.

Do you swear that the evidence you shall give to this court in

this matter shall be the truth, the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth, so help you God? I swear.

You may be seated.

Attorney Reed it's your witness.

It's nice to meet you again, Mrs.

Gibbs.

Now, I will ask you a series of questions about your daughter, Sadie Gibbs.

If you do not hear my question

or you don't understand, please let me know

and I will repeat the question or explain it. Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

Do you think I am going to be out of here

in time for my Westerns to come on?

We won't be long.

I promise.

Well, then, let's get on with it.

Now I understand Sadie Gibbs died while giving birth to your granddaughter.

Is that correct?

Yes, ma'am.

That's correct.

And what date was that?

July 25th, 1969.

And which hospital did she give birth in?

Columbia General.

And how far would you say Columbia General is from Puckney?

Oh, about 70 miles or so.

And how did Sadie Gibbs get to Columbia, General?

I dropped her off in the car I bought her from,

Mr. Old Man Hurley.

And is Columbia General

the same hospital where your daughter, Sadie Gibbs died?

Your honor.

I make a motion to be removed as counsel

to the Pro Hac Vice Admission of Kendra Reed.

I'm sorry, Ben H.

But this matter has been going on far too long.

Your motion is denied.

You may continue.

Attorney Reed.

Thank you, Your Honor.

Mrs. Gibbs

is Columbia General.

The same hospital where your daughter, Sadie Gibbs, died.

First time I went to Columbia,

I was nine, working for a doctor nursing his children.

Mrs. Gibbs, did Sadie Gibbs die at Columbia General?

She was too perfect to live.

It's a simple yes or no.

Even when I saw her hips, they were just.

Your honor, the witness is being uncooperative.

Did Sadie

Gibbs die at the same hospital? Yes!

LouEster,

sit down.

You may continue.

Susannah Gibbs.

The Civil War is over.

We won.

You are no one's mammy.

I instruct you to please speak up.

Did you just call my granny a mammy.

Actually, I said the exact opposite. If you were listening. That's enough.

Sit down.

Did Sadie Gibbs die?

I said sit down.

I'm going to ask you one more time.

Sit down right now.

Are you telling me that I cannot ask my question?

I am telling you, if you do not have another question to sit down.

And is that the kind of law they taught you in secretarial school?

How dare you!

How dare you.

Waltz in here the

birthplace of your father And make a mockery a caricature of

this court with your high and mighty attitude.

Civility is the law of the land here.

And evidently you skip Harvard ethics classes.

You're not dealing with white collar embezzlers.

We have our laws, and they are here to be protecting the citizens of Puckney.

I'm entitled to ask... You might be entitled in the big city.

Miss lady. Down here, you have a long way to go and

a Short time to get there.

Sit down.

I Swear to God I will hold you in contempt.

Did Sadie Gibbs die at the same hospital? Yes.

Yes, ma'am.

Your honor,

I hold a copy of Sadie Gibbs death certificate,

which states that she died at the Palmetto State Hospital.

01:16:25:02 - 01:16:27:10 Therefore, I make a motion

that Susannah Gibbs be held in contempt for perjury.

Based on the sworn testimony she provided to this courtroom, where she stated

that Sadie Gibbs died at the same hospital in which she gave

birth.

Death comes at you in so many ways.

But the most

heartbreaking is to see the face of your child,

looking back at you in a newspaper.

She was already out of high school.

She was of age.

She just didn't want it out that she was carrying.

She kept screaming and begging.

Take me to the hospital.

Insisted Columbia General.

This court hereby finds Mrs.

Susannah Gibbs in contempt.

And orders that she be placed

in a holding cell in this courthouse

until further directives from this court.

Bailiff, please.

Hmmmm hmmmmmm.

You can't.

You can't do this.

Granny? Yeah baby?

That question she asked you.

Where was I really born?

Baby, if your mother was here, she tell you?

It don't matter how you come into the world.

It's what you make of yourself,

while you here that counts.

Oh, she's proud of you.

And so am I.

Good night,

Granny.

Good Night Baby.

Granny?

I arrived here from Georgia.

She was the first person

to welcome me as a schoolteacher.

We wasn't

blood cousins.

But because Mrs.

Big Gal said we was.

Then we was.

Mrs. Big Gal started the Puckney Chapter of the Handkerchief Ladies.

To her, it didn't matter the color of your skin,

because we were of service to all.

My granny,

she was born with a big lap,

strong arms.

And all that she could'nt give to my mother.

She gave to me.

I purchased that old bank building because

that's where my granny worked.

Scrubbing folks.

We were team.

We road through life together.

But, God has dealt me a bitter blow.

Cause I woke up one morning and my Granny was gone.

Her joy

and her humility gone!

Her laugh gone,

Her touch gone.

Her pride no longer stands tall.

My mother's gone.

And now my Granny's gone.

And no one's here but me.

I don't know

what Jesus is to you.

01:26:02:18 - 01:26:06:08 But I hope well I hope he is what he is to me. Yeah.

He's all I like to rule.

He's my

01:26:22:16 - 01:26:23:06 He's my.

She call the cornerstone.

Yeah, and that's how I know I love.

Yeah I know what

Jesus is.

What Jesus is to me.

Bull Street.

LouEster Sadie Gibbs,

please come through the double doors.

Did I hear LouEster Sadie Gibbs?

Or am I just bed bug crazy.

What's your birthday then? July 25th.

And what year?

1969.

Come on with me.

This

was Miss Sadie's room.

See that spot right over there.

It's where you come into this world.

Mr. Gibson,

would you be willing

to be my witness in court?

For Miss Sadie.

I'll be there.

01:32:05:06 - 01:32:07:23 Please state your full name for the court.

Bobby Lee Gibson.

Most folks call me Bo Gibson.

And where are you employed?

At the Palmetto State Hospital.

And is it true there's another name for this hospital?

Yes, ma'am.

Bull Street.

And why do they call it Bull Street?

That's the name of the street where.

The building is on where they bunch up folks

with eyes and hearts filled with pain.

And, Mr.

Gibson, what are your duties there?

Oh, keep the floors clean

and toilets from running over.

You know, fancy stuff.

And did you always clean up the floors?

There?

Not in my younger days when my back was straight.

And what did you do

when your back was straight?

Oh, I,

moved patients back and forth

from the basement.

And what's in the basement?

Well, that's where they

zap your brains back in the place.

Objection!

He's not a medical professional.

Overruled.

Mr. Gibson,

this strongbox here has been entered in as defendant.

Exhibit number one.

Do you recognize this strongbox?

I do.

It belonged to my momma.

Your honor.

Permission to approach the witness.

You may approach and continue.

Mr. Gibson, can you open the strongbox

and let the court know what is inside?

It's a big old envelope.

And can you let the court know what is inside that big envelope?

It's just what I put in there.

A picture.

A gold ring

a letter

and a police report.

Could you please read the police report for the court?

What landed Sadie Gibbs on.

Bull Street.

Well, it says here, plain as day.

Robbery.

For stealing a ring.

Objection.

Your honor,

this witness is unable to substantiate the authenticity of this document.

Overruled.

Mr. Gibson,

what do you remember about the patient, Sadie Gibbs?

She was on Bull Street by mistake.

Objection.

The witness cannot testify as to why she was there.

Sustained.

Rephrase the question.

How do you know that Sadie Gibbs was on Bull Street?

Objection. Leading.

I will allow.

Oh, she told me herself.

Objection. Dead man statute.

Mr. Gibson has no financial interest in the outcome of this case.

Sustained. And you may continue.

What did she say?

Well,

she told me

that she slipped out of Columbia General

after her mother dropped off.

And how she made a beeline to the train station.

And why the train station?

Well, that's where she was

meeting up with Harrison, to run away up to DC.

And what happened to their plans,

Mr. Gibson?

Well,

the Sheriff caught up with Miss Sadie

and hauled her off to Bull Street.

And did Harrison Reed know Sadie Gibbs ended up on Bull Street?

Objection.

Calls for speculation on the part of the witness.

Overruled.

Well, there ain't no way he could have known

because she asked me to go tell him.

She gave his picture

so I could recognize him.

And did you recognize him?

Well, he wasn't there.

So I asked the shoeshine boy.

If he'd seen him.

And he remembered how tall and handsome he was.

But mostly what he remembered was the woman that he was talking with.

Well, everybody knew her from the newspaper.

And what do they remember about her from the newspapers?

That she was the first black woman

to get in the white college.

What happened when you told Sadie Gibbs

that Harrison Reed was not at the train station?

She wrote him a letter.

And what happened after she wrote him that letter?

She wanted to go home.

Did she?

No, ma'am.

They told her that the Sheriff would

have to give word first.

And how did she react to that?

Oh, she got so worked up.

Till you come out

before your time

and Miss Sadie,

she passed out cold.

Well, after she come through, it.

She wanted to see her baby girl

and take you home.

And when they refused.

She just hollered.

Just

hollered, all the time.

I tried to get her to quiet down

until I could find a way to get her out of there.

But she just kept shouting,

banging on the door.

And that's when they strapped her down

and ordered me to move her to the basement.

To quiet her.

I waited.

All that night,

and all the next day, with her body.

Miss Sadie's body never got cold.

But the death certificate, says cerebral.

That Sadie Gibbs died from a stroke.

Well,

that's what all the certificates say.

Mr. Gibson,

here I have defendant exhibit number three. Sadie Gibbs letter.

Do you recognize this letter? Yes, I do.

I remember the day she wrote it.

Your honor, permission to approach the witness again.

You may approach and continue.

Mr. Gibson,

will you read, Sadie Gibbs letter for the court.

My Dear Harry, your

mother has made a cruel mistake, branding me as

a criminal.

She's used her power to put me on Bull Street.

She's tried to break our hearts, but we will overcome

and be together forever.

Today I share with you that I am

with child.

Our hearts will grow into one.

I wanted to share of this surprise of new life but

I didn't want to interfere with your studies.

They've been so important these last four months.

I will go back home and await your rescue.

Remember to always launch with a blast.

My heart belongs only to you.

Sadie.

How's that

Gibson?

Wear this.

He'll know

I sent you.

Go go go go go go go.

Mr. Gibson,

Did my mother get to see me?

In her heart.

She did.

In her heart.

No further questions.

Ms. Reed,

would you like to cross?

Do you remember what you had

for breakfast last Tuesday?

I sure do.

Grits and pimento cheese.

Same as I have every morning.

Double smoked ham, eggs

and my wife's homemade biscuits and gravy.

Do you remember what you did last Tuesday

after breakfast?

No, ma'am, I don't believe I do.

Then how is it that you remember

every detail going back to 1969?

Well, that's simple,

The older I get, the clear, it becomes.

Right.

But how is it,

you remember the exact date?

July 25th, 1969.

Well, that's cause I've been

celebrating it every year myself.

July 25th

is when my old momma come in this world.

Well, I'll take that to mean

there are no further questions.

Bless your heart.

This court shall recess.

We shall resume later on this evening, after which I will come back

and render my decision.

You may be excused, sir.

All rise.

In the matter of the estate of Harrison Reed.

The court determines that the following persons are heirs.

The findings are that Kendra Reed of New York, New York,

is a daughter

and that LouEster Sadie Gibbs of Puckney,

South Carolina, is a daughter.

Oh, and one other thing

for the record, LouEster Gibbs maintains possessions of Sadie Gibbs

personal items, including the Winthrop College ring.

And to you, Ms. Reed,

the local bar association and the South

Carolina Bar Association.

Well, they will be notified of your actions.

I'll see to it.

All rise.

I am sick of everyone

saying that my land is theirs.

I'm sick of you

crossing me.

You're not supposed.

You're supposed to be part of the family.

Turn around. Boy.

You little weasel!

Ben Hurley the fourth, you were born a coward.

And you're still a coward.

All my life, I tried the earnest to protect you.

From you.

And still you

don't appreciate what I done.

You treated an unsaved man better than me.

Come on, shoot me.

Come on.

Come on, come on.

Ready?

Come on. Go ahead.

Go ahead. Shoot it.

Or live up to the family's name. Boy.

I'm not you.

Yeah.

I'll never be you.

I don't want your name, your legacy.

I don't want the ground you walk on.

I'm done.

Forever.

You come back here.

Come back here Ben H.

Come back and finish business.

Grandpa got tricked,

The Reeds are wicked.

They're wicked.

For they've cast iniquity upon.

And in wrath, they hate us.

The wicked

will fade away.

And wither.

It's mine.

It's mine.

I'm still here.

I've created a land

trust that restricts commercial agriculture. And?

And once all the timber is sold,

I want a two story house built with six bedrooms and a basketball goal.

Using the income from the sale of the timber.

You do know that the sale will be divided by two.

We're talking roughly 750,000 each.

Well, in that case, the balance should cover the property

tax and water and electricity for the next five years.

LouEster,

What are you going to do with six bedrooms?

Oh, it's not for me.

It's for Mae-Dot and her family.

Mae Dot? That riffraff.

I will not agree to such arrangements.

Auntie Leila, do you know that verse in the Bible

that says children are a gift from the Lord?

What does that have to do with anything?

If we don't agree to her demands, she'll force the sale of the entire property.

You should listen to her.

She went to Harvard.

The King of England sat down with

my great-great grandpa, himself.

Okay.

Can you check

out front for my missing heifers?

They should be there by now.

I gotta ride them into town before dusk.

Can you check again?

Been checking all week.

Still ain't there.

Old fool.

Might have to buy him a horse.

Yeah.

It's coming.

Yeah, I know it's coming.

I told them to bring em.

Marilyn Hurley please come through the double doors.

Momma always told me.

Don't be afraid to shine.

Don't you try to please

no one except the one inside.

I know you can't change the weather.

And you can't change where you're from.

The color of your skin

or the beat of your own drum.

Love will keep you chasing the wind.

Just to keep you chasing it again.

But I know who I am.

No matter what they say.

When my heart leads the way.

I will follow my heart.

When my heart leads the way.

I will follow oooo ooooo.

It may be the road that nobody else goes down.

But that's the one I'm taking.

That's just where I'm bound.

There's always gonna be those voices.

Doubting every step.

But I'm just gonna listen to what's pounding in my chest.

Love will keep you chasing the wind.

Just to keep you chasing it again.

But I know who I am.

No matter what they say.

When my heart leads the way.

I will follow my heart.

When my heart leads the way.

I will follow.

Momma always told me.

Don't be afraid to shine.

This little light of mine.

Love will keep you chasing

the wind.

Just to keep you chasing me again.

But I know who I am.

No matter what they say.

When my heart leads the way.

I will follow.

When my heart leads the way

I will follow

oooooo oooooo ooo.

Ooooooo ooooooooo.

But my heart leads the way,

I will follow.

Welcome to the 26th Annual Puckney County.

Grits Eating Contest.

And our contestants are Miss Tammy,

returning from last year's win.

We have Slush a first time eater of grits.

And last but not least, we have Richard,

who won the first annual grits eating contest 26 years ago.

Are y'all ready?

Five.

Four. Three. Two.

One. Begin!

Woooooo!