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Okay, let's begin.

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Who wants to start?

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Yes, Brittany, kick it off.

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I don't have a thought on the reading,

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I just think that that word
on the board is wrong.

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Well, I think it still has
two G's in it last I checked.

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It's not funny.

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We shouldn't have to stare
at the N-word all day.

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Uh, listen,

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this is a class on the literature

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of the American south.

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You're going to encounter

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some archaic thoughts, coarse language,

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but we're all adults here

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and I think we can understand it

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within the context
in which it's written.

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Well,
I just find that word really offensive.

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With all due respect, Brittany,

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I got over it,
I'm pretty sure you can too.

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Well, I don't see why.

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Right.

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Now, does anyone else have any

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thoughts on the reading?

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Well, it made some of
your students uncomfortable.

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When did they all become
so goddamn delicate?

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This wasn't an isolated incident.

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What?

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Last month you asked a student

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if his family had been Nazis.

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Yeah, I did, he's German,

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we were reading The Plot Against America

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and trust me,
by the way he was squirming, they were.

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Oh, my God.

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Um, Monk,
you are a very talented writer,

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we're fortunate to have you here.

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What? He hasn't published in years.

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I have written three novels

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since the last time you published.

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Yeah, this is true,
and the speed with which you write

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only proves that good things take time.

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- Oh, go to hell, Monk.
- Relax, Mandy.

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Yeah, relax, Mandy.

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And anyway, my new book is with Echo

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and my agent says
they're very excited about it.

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Oh, that's great to hear.

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- What's it about?
- Can we stop stalling, Leo?

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Um...

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Listen, Monk,

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we'd like to give you a break.

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What do you mean, break?

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Just some time off.

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Mandatory time off.

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It's just, you're already going
to Boston for the festival, right?

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Why don't you just stay there for...

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Because I hate Boston,
my family's there.

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Well, you need some time to relax.

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You're on edge, man.

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You're under the impression
that time spent

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with my family will take the edge off.

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- I'm fine.
- You're not fine.

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I saw you crying in your car last week.

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He punched the steering wheel.

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Oh, wow.

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You know,
if you spent less time spying on me,

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you could

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probably write a dozen more novels

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that people buy at airports

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with their neck pillows and Cheez-Its.

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Oh, here we go. Okay.
You want to go, dirty doggy?

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Okay, well, enjoy Boston.

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You can...
you can get my book at the airport.

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Oh, and, good luck with Echo.

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Hello?

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Welcome back. How's it feel to be home?

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Great. Already had a guy

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in a Bruins jersey ask me if
I think I'm better than him.

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That's good luck here.

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That's Boston's version
of a ladybug landing on you.

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Any news?

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Patrick at Echo is passing.
But who fucking cares?

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He's an old alcoholic.

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- What is that? Nine now?
- He says,

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"This book is finely crafted

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with fully developed
characters and rich language,

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but one is lost to understand
what this reworking of

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Aeschylus' The Persians has to do

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with the African-American experience?"

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There it is.

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There it is.

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They want a Black book.

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They have a Black book.

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I'm Black, and it's my book.

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You know what I mean.

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You mean they want me to write
about a cop killing some teenager

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or a single mom in Dorchester
raising five kids.

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Dorchester is pretty white now. But yes.

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Jesus Christ. You know,

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I don't even really believe in race.

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Yeah.
The problem is that everyone else does.

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Anyway, have fun at the book festival.

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And just don't insult anyone important.
Please.

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Writing from a historical perspective

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doesn't mean that you can't

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make work that doesn't resonate

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with today's audiences.

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Yeah, I think of things like
Game of Thrones as proof that

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nerds like us
can still find great success.

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Unfortunately,
we're going to have to end it there.

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Thank you to our authors

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and thanks to all of you for attending.

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Um...

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Is it just me, or was this small

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even for a book festival?

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Yeah,
it's because we're up against Sintara.

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Who?

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Sintara Golden. You haven't read her?

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No, what's her book called?

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Raves everywhere.

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The Post, Bookforum.

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The London Review of Books said,

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"We's Lives in Da Ghetto

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is a heartbreaking and visceral debut."

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Plus a little birdie told me
that perhaps

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there's a TV adaptation in the works?

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No comment.

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Okay, it was worth a shot.

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Tell us, what was your life like

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before you were an author?

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Well, I did undergrad at Oberlin

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and moved to New York
the day after graduation

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and a couple months later,

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I was an assistant at a publisher.

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And did that assistant
experience shape your writing?

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Absolutely.
Yeah, I was a first reader meaning

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I would read all the
manuscripts in the slush pile

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and send them up the ladder
if they were any good.

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Some of them were great, most were not.

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But the feeling
I couldn't shake was that

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no matter how good the books were,

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most every submission was from
some white dude from New York

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going through a divorce,

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and too few of them
were about my people.

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And so I think,

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"Where are our stories?"

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You know, "Where's our representation?"

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And it was from that lack

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that my book was born.

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Would you give us the pleasure
of reading an excerpt?

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Thank you.

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"'Yo, Cheranda,

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where you be goin'
in a hurry likes that?'

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Donna aks me when she see me comin'
out the house.

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'Ain't none ya business,

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but if'n you gots to know,
I's goin' to the pharmacy.'

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I looks back at the door
to see if Mama comin' out.

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'The pharmacy? What for?' she aks.

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'You know', I says.

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'Nah', she say.

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'Hell, nah!
Girl, you be pregnant again?'

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'Might's be', I tells her.

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'And if I is,

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Ray-Ray's gonna be a real
father this time around.'"

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Thank you.

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Yes!

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- Hi...
- Hi.

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I'm here to see Lisa Ellison.

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Uh, do you have an appointment?

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We're about to close.

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No, I'm her brother.

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Oh.

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There she is.

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Hello, Monk.

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Hi, Lisa.

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Okay, you're in a boat,
the motor cuts out,

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but you're in shallow water,

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but you're wearing $600 shoes, but...

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your ride to the airport

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is just pulling away from the beach,

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why, oh, why is this a legal issue?

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I don't know.

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It's a matter of row versus wade.

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Oh, my God.

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I think that's one of my best.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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- When did you start smoking again?
- Mm...

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Right after the divorce.

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I always hated Larry.

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Oh, I know.

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You told me
right when we started dating.

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Do you remember how mad I got?

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"It's not your business who I fuck!

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Who I fellate."

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I definitely did not say "fellate."

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I thought you did.
That's how I heard it anyway.

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It's good to see you.

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Yeah, it's good to see you too.

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How's work?

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It's not very glamorous.

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I go through a metal detector every day.

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Well, what you do is important.

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Well...

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Meanwhile, all I do is

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invent little people in my head,

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then make them have imaginary
conversations with each other.

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Books change people's lives.

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Did something I've written
ever change your life?

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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My dining room table was wobbly as hell

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before your last book came out.

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- Oh, my God. All right.
- It was, like, perfect.

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- Yeah. Oh, God.
- I'm telling you and...

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Take me back to Logan, please.

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Logan cannot help you, Monk.

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Oh, my God!

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Welcome home, baby!

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Hello!

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Hello!

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- Mr. Monk!
- Lorraine!

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Oh.

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You know how that makes me feel.
It's just Monk.

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Oh, don't do that to me,

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you know I'm too old to learn new names.

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- How you doing, Miss Lisa?
- I'm good.

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- You look good, Mr. Monk.
- Oh, I look fat.

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Oh, that's the California talking.

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I took you to Arkansas right now,

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- you'd be a beauty queen.
- Ooh!

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- Is that my Monkie?
- That's frightening.

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- Hi, Mother.
- Oh.

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- You look fat.
- Ah, I know.

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You ready to go to dinner, Mrs. Ellison?

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Uh, I just need my purse
and my black cardigan.

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All right, I'll get it.

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- Are you all right?
- Oh.

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You overeat when you're depressed.

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I'm not depressed,

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I've just been not sleeping well lately

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and so, fell off my exercise routine.

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- Mm.
- Here.

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So you're not depressed.

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You just wear all the
hallmarks of depression.

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I missed you.

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Is Larry coming?

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No, Mother.

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Larry and I are separated, remember?

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- Of course, I remember.
- Okay.

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I just thought he might join us.

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To see your brother.

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Okay.

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I mean, is it really such a big deal?

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Everyone forgets things.

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Doesn't mean she's sick necessarily.

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People forget dentists' appointments.

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She forgets I'm not married anymore.

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That's weird.

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What do you suggest we do?

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Why do I have to decide?

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- Because you're a doctor.
- So are you.

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I'm not that kind.

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Okay, my point is,
you are an intelligent adult.

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And I'm tired of being the only person

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that takes care of her.

265
00:14:11,177 --> 00:14:12,304
Well, I don't recall anyone

266
00:14:12,387 --> 00:14:13,930
assigning you that responsibility.

267
00:14:14,014 --> 00:14:16,182
No, you and Cliff just fled
west as soon as you could

268
00:14:16,266 --> 00:14:18,101
and left me as caretaker by default.

269
00:14:18,184 --> 00:14:19,603
My work's there.

270
00:14:19,811 --> 00:14:21,062
- "My work's there." Yeah.
- Apologies that it prevents me

271
00:14:21,146 --> 00:14:24,107
from keeping up
with the family melodrama.

272
00:14:24,190 --> 00:14:26,484
If you lived up the block,
you wouldn't know what was going on.

273
00:14:26,568 --> 00:14:29,112
I'm stuck here taking care
of that old house and finding

274
00:14:29,195 --> 00:14:31,156
love letters from Dad's affairs.

275
00:14:31,239 --> 00:14:33,283
- His what?
- His affairs.

276
00:14:33,366 --> 00:14:35,035
You didn't know he was having affairs?

277
00:14:35,118 --> 00:14:37,537
No. How did you?

278
00:14:37,621 --> 00:14:39,748
Well, he was an OBGYN

279
00:14:39,831 --> 00:14:41,291
that was traveling constantly,

280
00:14:41,374 --> 00:14:43,335
but his patients were in Boston.

281
00:14:43,418 --> 00:14:44,836
He said he was going to conferences.

282
00:14:44,919 --> 00:14:47,881
He was making house calls.

283
00:14:47,964 --> 00:14:50,091
Do you know that I saw him
kiss a white woman

284
00:14:50,175 --> 00:14:51,801
in the park in high school?

285
00:14:52,552 --> 00:14:53,470
How white?

286
00:14:53,553 --> 00:14:54,763
What do you mean, "How white?"

287
00:14:54,846 --> 00:14:56,890
Like Brahmin white or Southie white.

288
00:14:56,973 --> 00:14:59,768
I don't know. She had thin lips.

289
00:14:59,851 --> 00:15:01,186
She looked like a bad kisser.

290
00:15:02,729 --> 00:15:03,772
Did you tell Mother?

291
00:15:03,855 --> 00:15:06,566
No. I wasn't going to blow up our lives.

292
00:15:06,650 --> 00:15:08,318
She's coming back. Mom. Mom.

293
00:15:08,401 --> 00:15:09,361
Mom. Mom.

294
00:15:09,444 --> 00:15:10,445
Hi.

295
00:15:13,239 --> 00:15:14,240
How you doing?

296
00:15:15,283 --> 00:15:17,202
Our waitress isn't wearing a bra.

297
00:15:17,869 --> 00:15:18,870
Okay.

298
00:15:19,454 --> 00:15:20,454
I didn't notice.

299
00:15:23,792 --> 00:15:25,043
See this shit?

300
00:15:25,126 --> 00:15:26,795
This gonna take us out of the ghetto.

301
00:15:26,878 --> 00:15:28,380
But there are rules in the house.

302
00:15:28,463 --> 00:15:31,132
Number one,
never leave this product in the house.

303
00:15:31,216 --> 00:15:33,259
And number two, get your own crew.

304
00:15:33,343 --> 00:15:35,512
Number three,
got to have discipline in your crew.

305
00:15:35,595 --> 00:15:38,098
Number four,
don't praise a nigga too much.

306
00:15:38,181 --> 00:15:39,766
Otherwise he's gonna think you're soft.

307
00:15:39,849 --> 00:15:42,894
Rule number five, don't show no love.

308
00:15:42,977 --> 00:15:44,688
Love will get you killed.

309
00:15:44,771 --> 00:15:47,190
See this, it's like a bitch.

310
00:15:47,273 --> 00:15:50,151
You fuck a bitch,
don't let a bitch fuck you.

311
00:15:50,235 --> 00:15:52,112
You're a man who don't need nothing.

312
00:15:52,195 --> 00:15:53,530
No one will get you through.

313
00:15:53,613 --> 00:15:56,032
This bitch?
This bitch will take your soul.

314
00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:58,535
You niggas ain't got no fam...

315
00:16:05,917 --> 00:16:08,503
Excuse me, uh, Ned.

316
00:16:08,586 --> 00:16:10,922
Do you have any books by the
writer Thelonious Ellison?

317
00:16:15,301 --> 00:16:16,428
Yeah, this way.

318
00:16:20,765 --> 00:16:22,726
- Here you go.
- Right.

319
00:16:22,809 --> 00:16:24,269
Yeah.

320
00:16:24,352 --> 00:16:26,354
Wait a minute, why are these books here?

321
00:16:26,896 --> 00:16:28,106
I'm not sure.

322
00:16:28,189 --> 00:16:32,527
I would imagine that this
author Ellison is... Black.

323
00:16:32,610 --> 00:16:35,238
That's me. Ellison. Yeah.

324
00:16:35,321 --> 00:16:39,617
He is me, and he and I are Black.

325
00:16:39,701 --> 00:16:40,994
Oh, bingo.

326
00:16:41,077 --> 00:16:43,204
No bingo, Ned, these books

327
00:16:43,288 --> 00:16:45,707
have nothing to do
with African-American studies,

328
00:16:45,790 --> 00:16:47,083
they're just literature.

329
00:16:47,167 --> 00:16:49,043
The blackest thing
about this one is the ink.

330
00:16:51,296 --> 00:16:53,757
I don't decide what sections
the books go in.

331
00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,634
No one here does.
That's how chain stores work.

332
00:16:57,427 --> 00:16:58,928
Right, Ned.

333
00:17:00,013 --> 00:17:01,681
You don't make the rules.

334
00:17:02,432 --> 00:17:04,142
Hm.

335
00:17:04,225 --> 00:17:06,603
I'm just going to put them
back after you leave.

336
00:17:06,686 --> 00:17:08,354
Don't you dare, Ned.

337
00:17:08,438 --> 00:17:10,774
Do not you dare.

338
00:17:12,859 --> 00:17:14,027
Ned.

339
00:17:22,035 --> 00:17:23,495
Monk, what are you doing?

340
00:17:27,499 --> 00:17:28,792
Mom's only going to get worse.

341
00:17:31,044 --> 00:17:32,295
They say mental exercise is good,

342
00:17:32,378 --> 00:17:33,755
that's why I got her
that gardening book.

343
00:17:35,131 --> 00:17:37,300
Does growing cucumbers
count as mental exercise?

344
00:17:38,051 --> 00:17:39,302
I hate when you do that.

345
00:17:39,385 --> 00:17:41,429
What?

346
00:17:41,513 --> 00:17:43,681
You share your condescending
opinion as a question

347
00:17:43,765 --> 00:17:45,517
trying to disguise the condescension.

348
00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:46,851
Why don't you just say

349
00:17:46,935 --> 00:17:48,061
that you think
that gardening is idiotic?

350
00:17:48,269 --> 00:17:50,313
- Uh, because that's not what I was doing.
- Bullshit.

351
00:17:50,688 --> 00:17:51,981
Bullshit. Bullshit.

352
00:17:54,567 --> 00:17:57,153
Maybe we can hire a nurse
a few times a week.

353
00:17:57,237 --> 00:17:58,196
Who's going to pay for that?

354
00:17:58,279 --> 00:17:59,864
You... you can't afford it?

355
00:18:00,698 --> 00:18:02,450
Not after the divorce, I cannot.

356
00:18:04,410 --> 00:18:05,745
Well, it will hurt,

357
00:18:05,829 --> 00:18:07,914
but we'll probably have
to sell the beach house.

358
00:18:07,997 --> 00:18:10,583
Yeah, we definitely need
to sell the beach house,

359
00:18:10,667 --> 00:18:11,960
but that money is going to go

360
00:18:12,043 --> 00:18:13,878
to pay back the reverse mortgage

361
00:18:13,962 --> 00:18:16,047
that our mother took out
on the other house.

362
00:18:17,924 --> 00:18:18,925
Yeah.

363
00:18:22,095 --> 00:18:23,221
Look, I can send some money home,

364
00:18:23,304 --> 00:18:24,389
but it's not going to be much.

365
00:18:24,472 --> 00:18:25,723
Can't Cliff chip in?

366
00:18:25,807 --> 00:18:27,267
Cliff's not in a good place, okay?

367
00:18:27,350 --> 00:18:28,935
Who is? Okay?

368
00:18:29,018 --> 00:18:31,479
Monk, Becca took everything.

369
00:18:31,563 --> 00:18:34,274
And the kids are getting
teased at school.

370
00:18:34,357 --> 00:18:35,525
- I didn't know.
- Well...

371
00:18:36,317 --> 00:18:37,527
Maybe you should call him.

372
00:18:43,283 --> 00:18:45,285
I'm sorry I've always been so distant.

373
00:18:50,498 --> 00:18:52,750
You couldn't help that.

374
00:18:52,834 --> 00:18:54,419
You were always Dad's favorite.

375
00:18:56,838 --> 00:18:58,298
And that made Cliff and I bond,

376
00:18:58,381 --> 00:18:59,507
and you resented us

377
00:18:59,591 --> 00:19:01,843
for having that bond, and then...

378
00:19:01,926 --> 00:19:03,761
I don't know,
you just became self-sufficient.

379
00:19:06,848 --> 00:19:07,849
You never talked about this.

380
00:19:07,932 --> 00:19:09,517
We never talked about anything.

381
00:19:11,728 --> 00:19:13,187
Is that surprising?

382
00:19:13,271 --> 00:19:14,731
Look at our parents.

383
00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:16,774
Mm-hm.

384
00:19:16,858 --> 00:19:19,903
The only emotions I remember from Dad...

385
00:19:22,572 --> 00:19:24,699
were boredom and rage.

386
00:19:25,366 --> 00:19:26,701
Is boredom an emotion?

387
00:19:27,952 --> 00:19:29,996
Great. It's Detective Dictionary.

388
00:19:30,079 --> 00:19:32,373
Oh!

389
00:19:32,457 --> 00:19:33,875
You haven't called me that in forever.

390
00:19:33,958 --> 00:19:35,335
Oh, God!

391
00:19:36,336 --> 00:19:38,421
- What? Oh, come on!
- Oh, God!

392
00:19:41,132 --> 00:19:43,593
Lisa? You okay? Hey.

393
00:19:46,512 --> 00:19:48,181
Hey, help! Help!

394
00:20:46,322 --> 00:20:48,449
"If you are reading this

395
00:20:48,533 --> 00:20:51,786
it's because I, Lisa Magical Ellison...

396
00:20:53,329 --> 00:20:54,372
have died.

397
00:20:57,458 --> 00:20:59,335
Obviously, this is not ideal...

398
00:21:00,628 --> 00:21:02,880
but I guess it had
to happen at some point.

399
00:21:04,966 --> 00:21:06,342
Hopefully, I...

400
00:21:09,137 --> 00:21:11,806
Hopefully, I expired

401
00:21:11,889 --> 00:21:16,352
under the heaving thrusts
of a sweaty Idris Elba

402
00:21:16,436 --> 00:21:19,147
or perhaps in a less dignified manner,

403
00:21:19,230 --> 00:21:22,942
under the heaving thrusts
of a sweaty Russell Crowe."

404
00:21:24,110 --> 00:21:26,237
"Irrespective of how I went,

405
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,032
I ask that those closest to me...

406
00:21:30,825 --> 00:21:32,577
not mourn all that much.

407
00:21:33,870 --> 00:21:35,747
I lived a life that made me proud.

408
00:21:36,956 --> 00:21:37,957
I...

409
00:21:38,958 --> 00:21:40,251
I was loved...

410
00:21:41,919 --> 00:21:43,421
and I loved in return.

411
00:21:45,089 --> 00:21:48,217
I found work that aroused my passions.

412
00:21:48,301 --> 00:21:51,012
I believe I gave more than I took.

413
00:21:51,095 --> 00:21:53,639
And I did my damnedest
to help people in need.

414
00:21:55,058 --> 00:21:56,559
And on top of all that,

415
00:21:56,642 --> 00:21:59,771
many a friend wrongly
accused me of having Botox

416
00:21:59,854 --> 00:22:02,940
because of how tight my skin
stayed well into my 50's.

417
00:22:04,108 --> 00:22:06,235
What more could someone ask of a life?

418
00:22:08,279 --> 00:22:09,280
I love you all.

419
00:22:10,531 --> 00:22:12,241
Thank you for being here today.

420
00:22:15,369 --> 00:22:16,370
Goodbye.

421
00:22:18,456 --> 00:22:19,624
Lisa."

422
00:22:25,755 --> 00:22:26,881
Cliff?

423
00:22:52,657 --> 00:22:54,200
Are those human remains?

424
00:22:55,368 --> 00:22:56,619
You guys have a permit for that?

425
00:22:56,702 --> 00:22:58,371
Just shut the fuck up, Phillip.

426
00:22:58,454 --> 00:23:00,164
Cliff, you don't talk to me like that.

427
00:23:00,248 --> 00:23:01,499
Fuck you. I just did.

428
00:23:01,582 --> 00:23:02,792
- What?
- You want me to beat your ass?

429
00:23:02,875 --> 00:23:04,127
- I'm just...
- Get the fuck out of here.

430
00:23:04,210 --> 00:23:06,129
I will eat your sweater vest for dinner.

431
00:23:06,212 --> 00:23:07,713
- No... Yep.
- Bitch. Go. One.

432
00:23:07,797 --> 00:23:09,048
Get the fuck out of here, Phillip.

433
00:23:09,132 --> 00:23:10,550
- I'm just...
- Two.

434
00:23:10,633 --> 00:23:12,510
- Three.
- Always been a fucking douche.

435
00:23:31,779 --> 00:23:32,905
Where is everybody?

436
00:23:33,823 --> 00:23:35,449
They're exhausted.

437
00:23:35,533 --> 00:23:37,618
I gave Lorraine something
to help her sleep.

438
00:23:37,702 --> 00:23:38,828
Mother's taking a bath.

439
00:23:38,911 --> 00:23:40,037
Then I'm going to dose her too.

440
00:23:41,789 --> 00:23:44,584
You think maybe I can get
some of that later tonight?

441
00:23:44,667 --> 00:23:46,460
Yeah. What, you're not sleeping well?

442
00:23:47,503 --> 00:23:48,754
Uh...

443
00:23:48,838 --> 00:23:51,174
Normally, I sleep fine, but just lately.

444
00:23:53,050 --> 00:23:54,802
Yeah.

445
00:23:54,886 --> 00:23:57,847
Does seeing a dead body
ever become normal?

446
00:23:57,930 --> 00:23:59,473
I don't know. I haven't seen many.

447
00:23:59,557 --> 00:24:00,683
Really?

448
00:24:00,766 --> 00:24:02,393
I'm a plastic surgeon.

449
00:24:02,476 --> 00:24:04,687
If I'm looking at a corpse,
then something went very awry.

450
00:24:06,189 --> 00:24:07,190
Right.

451
00:24:09,525 --> 00:24:11,277
Yeah. Made me feel for Mother.

452
00:24:12,987 --> 00:24:15,698
Can't imagine what she must've
gone through finding Dad...

453
00:24:17,491 --> 00:24:19,243
you know, like that.

454
00:24:19,327 --> 00:24:20,328
I know.

455
00:24:21,704 --> 00:24:23,122
So much death.

456
00:24:31,214 --> 00:24:33,674
When was the last time
we were here together?

457
00:24:35,176 --> 00:24:36,636
Uh...

458
00:24:36,719 --> 00:24:38,179
Maybe ten years.

459
00:24:38,262 --> 00:24:39,472
Yeah.

460
00:24:39,555 --> 00:24:40,723
The kids were still little.

461
00:24:41,557 --> 00:24:42,558
Yeah.

462
00:24:45,436 --> 00:24:47,188
How is your family, by the way?

463
00:24:48,481 --> 00:24:50,191
You actually care?

464
00:24:50,274 --> 00:24:52,902
Of course. Why would I ask?
Why would you ask me that?

465
00:24:52,985 --> 00:24:54,654
I don't know, Monk.
You never really called.

466
00:24:54,737 --> 00:24:56,697
- I get busy.
- Yeah, everybody gets busy.

467
00:24:57,657 --> 00:24:58,866
You drift away.

468
00:25:00,993 --> 00:25:02,495
You want to know how my family is?

469
00:25:02,578 --> 00:25:05,289
My wife left me
'cause she caught me in bed with a man.

470
00:25:06,332 --> 00:25:08,501
She took my house, half my practice.

471
00:25:09,293 --> 00:25:11,045
My kids fucking hate me.

472
00:25:12,421 --> 00:25:14,090
And I still live in fucking Tucson.

473
00:25:16,425 --> 00:25:17,802
What was wrong with Tucson?

474
00:25:17,885 --> 00:25:19,553
Oh, my God. There's one gay bar

475
00:25:19,637 --> 00:25:20,930
and it's full of college kids.

476
00:25:21,013 --> 00:25:23,057
One of them asked me
if I was Tyler Perry.

477
00:25:24,183 --> 00:25:25,268
That's terrible.

478
00:25:25,351 --> 00:25:27,728
I mean,
Tyler Perry lives in Atlanta, right?

479
00:25:27,812 --> 00:25:29,230
Fuck you, man.

480
00:25:31,065 --> 00:25:32,066
Shut up.

481
00:25:32,149 --> 00:25:33,150
Nowhere near Tucson.

482
00:25:33,901 --> 00:25:35,361
Oh, boy.

483
00:25:38,281 --> 00:25:39,699
Did you know Dad had affairs?

484
00:25:39,782 --> 00:25:41,242
Oh, for sure.

485
00:25:41,325 --> 00:25:42,535
How?

486
00:25:43,494 --> 00:25:45,454
You could just tell.

487
00:25:45,538 --> 00:25:48,374
Lisa told me she saw him
kissing a white woman once.

488
00:25:48,457 --> 00:25:52,003
Why did I have no idea?
Why am I the last to know?

489
00:25:52,086 --> 00:25:54,171
Because you loved him too much.

490
00:25:54,255 --> 00:25:56,549
Enemies see each other
better than friends.

491
00:26:00,219 --> 00:26:01,637
What the hell did you give her?

492
00:26:01,721 --> 00:26:04,265
It's oxycodone.
But knocks them right out.

493
00:26:04,348 --> 00:26:05,850
You gave her opioids to sleep?

494
00:26:05,933 --> 00:26:07,768
Yeah. You ever seen a heroin addict?

495
00:26:07,852 --> 00:26:09,186
Those guys take naps standing up.

496
00:26:09,270 --> 00:26:10,396
It's dangerous.

497
00:26:10,730 --> 00:26:12,064
Look, I'm keeping an eye on her.
I'm a doctor.

498
00:26:12,148 --> 00:26:13,316
- So am I.
- Right.

499
00:26:13,399 --> 00:26:15,609
Maybe if we need to revive a sentence.

500
00:26:15,693 --> 00:26:20,990
Well,
why do you have synthetic smack anyway?

501
00:26:25,286 --> 00:26:26,370
What is that?

502
00:26:32,543 --> 00:26:33,669
Oh.

503
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:36,964
Oh, shit.

504
00:26:38,841 --> 00:26:39,842
Mother?

505
00:26:42,261 --> 00:26:43,262
Mother?

506
00:26:48,642 --> 00:26:50,269
Hey.

507
00:26:50,353 --> 00:26:53,105
Hey. What are you doing? Hey.

508
00:26:54,940 --> 00:26:55,941
Mother.

509
00:26:57,651 --> 00:26:58,652
Hey.

510
00:27:05,534 --> 00:27:06,786
Come on.

511
00:27:09,246 --> 00:27:10,247
Come on.

512
00:27:12,041 --> 00:27:14,126
Well, I'm not sure,
to be honest with you.

513
00:27:14,210 --> 00:27:15,753
It's going to depend
on what the doctors say.

514
00:27:16,921 --> 00:27:18,756
Yeah, I'll touch base when I know more.

515
00:27:20,007 --> 00:27:21,634
Thanks so much for being understanding.

516
00:27:23,803 --> 00:27:27,306
Hey, um, Leo, one more thing.

517
00:27:27,390 --> 00:27:29,183
I was wondering
if maybe we could treat this

518
00:27:29,266 --> 00:27:31,936
as a sabbatical as opposed
to a leave of absence?

519
00:27:32,019 --> 00:27:33,104
Whatever happens with my mother,

520
00:27:33,187 --> 00:27:34,188
it's going to cost some money.

521
00:27:37,316 --> 00:27:38,442
No, I understand.

522
00:27:39,235 --> 00:27:40,361
No, it's not your fault.

523
00:27:41,237 --> 00:27:42,530
I'll figure something out.

524
00:27:43,322 --> 00:27:44,323
Yeah.

525
00:27:44,949 --> 00:27:45,949
Thanks for your help.

526
00:27:46,325 --> 00:27:47,535
Okay. Bye-bye.

527
00:27:49,370 --> 00:27:50,370
Oh.

528
00:27:54,333 --> 00:27:55,334
Oh.

529
00:27:56,043 --> 00:27:56,919
Uh...

530
00:27:57,002 --> 00:27:58,129
You don't have to do that.

531
00:27:58,212 --> 00:27:59,588
Oh, no. I do.

532
00:27:59,672 --> 00:28:01,424
It's tomato season.
You can't let them go to waste.

533
00:28:01,507 --> 00:28:03,217
- Ooh.
- A crime around here.

534
00:28:05,386 --> 00:28:06,679
Thank you.

535
00:28:06,762 --> 00:28:08,222
That's what neighbors are for, right?

536
00:28:08,305 --> 00:28:09,598
Welcome to the neighborhood.

537
00:28:11,142 --> 00:28:12,726
I thought the place was vacant.

538
00:28:13,686 --> 00:28:16,355
Uh, it has been for a while.

539
00:28:16,439 --> 00:28:17,940
We just got here last night.

540
00:28:18,023 --> 00:28:20,651
Oh. Figured the place was haunted.

541
00:28:20,734 --> 00:28:23,696
They said some old man blew his
brains out there a while back.

542
00:28:26,615 --> 00:28:27,741
Yeah.

543
00:28:30,619 --> 00:28:33,080
Oh, my God. I...

544
00:28:35,124 --> 00:28:36,417
I'm a fucking idiot.

545
00:28:37,251 --> 00:28:38,502
Please forgive me.

546
00:28:38,586 --> 00:28:39,587
Well...

547
00:28:41,297 --> 00:28:42,673
Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that.

548
00:28:43,549 --> 00:28:44,550
What'd she do for a living?

549
00:28:45,342 --> 00:28:48,095
She was a doctor. Um...

550
00:28:48,179 --> 00:28:52,391
Most of my family, doctors.
Basically, I'm the outcast.

551
00:28:54,685 --> 00:28:56,353
Um, what do you do for work?

552
00:28:56,437 --> 00:28:57,437
I'm a lawyer.

553
00:28:58,063 --> 00:28:59,815
Public defense. Quincy.

554
00:29:00,900 --> 00:29:01,942
Very honorable.

555
00:29:02,026 --> 00:29:05,863
Yeah.
It's very hard, but can be rewarding.

556
00:29:07,156 --> 00:29:08,699
May I ask you something

557
00:29:08,782 --> 00:29:11,160
that I'm sure a lot of people ask you?

558
00:29:11,243 --> 00:29:13,621
How do I feel about defending
guilty people?

559
00:29:14,163 --> 00:29:15,122
Yeah.

560
00:29:15,206 --> 00:29:17,416
- I love it.
- Why?

561
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:20,461
I have to. And they're all guilty.

562
00:29:21,545 --> 00:29:23,547
- Really?
- Yes. But that's okay.

563
00:29:23,631 --> 00:29:25,549
People are more than their worst deed.

564
00:29:27,635 --> 00:29:28,886
I guess I agree with that.

565
00:29:28,969 --> 00:29:31,096
Mm. Sure you do.

566
00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:32,389
You're a writer.

567
00:29:32,473 --> 00:29:34,016
I don't follow.

568
00:29:34,099 --> 00:29:36,810
Well, writers have to be non-judgmental.

569
00:29:36,894 --> 00:29:39,063
You can't write interesting characters

570
00:29:39,146 --> 00:29:41,440
and be critical of every
bad decision they make.

571
00:29:41,524 --> 00:29:42,483
Right?

572
00:29:42,566 --> 00:29:43,692
Maybe you should be the writer.

573
00:29:43,776 --> 00:29:45,069
I don't feel like much of one lately.

574
00:29:45,778 --> 00:29:46,904
You blocked?

575
00:29:48,822 --> 00:29:50,658
It's just...

576
00:29:50,741 --> 00:29:53,160
I don't think anybody
wants to buy what I write.

577
00:29:53,244 --> 00:29:54,328
That's not true.

578
00:29:54,411 --> 00:29:56,121
I didn't want to say anything,

579
00:29:56,205 --> 00:29:58,290
but, um,
I actually read one of your books.

580
00:29:59,375 --> 00:30:01,085
Hm. Which?

581
00:30:01,168 --> 00:30:02,461
The Frogs.

582
00:30:02,545 --> 00:30:03,504
Oh, so you were the one.

583
00:30:03,587 --> 00:30:05,214
I liked it.

584
00:30:06,966 --> 00:30:07,967
You're talented.

585
00:30:15,015 --> 00:30:16,767
You're expecting company?

586
00:30:18,394 --> 00:30:19,395
Yeah.

587
00:30:19,478 --> 00:30:21,313
Oh.

588
00:30:29,488 --> 00:30:30,739
Hello.

589
00:30:31,532 --> 00:30:33,951
- Hey.
- Jelani, uh, this is Monk.

590
00:30:34,034 --> 00:30:36,495
He and his family own
the house across the street.

591
00:30:36,579 --> 00:30:37,746
Nice to meet you.

592
00:30:38,330 --> 00:30:39,623
Yeah, it's a pleasure.

593
00:30:39,707 --> 00:30:40,707
Are you staying for dinner?

594
00:30:41,417 --> 00:30:42,418
Uh...

595
00:30:42,501 --> 00:30:44,169
No, I need to go check in on my mother.

596
00:30:44,253 --> 00:30:45,379
Cool.

597
00:30:45,963 --> 00:30:47,131
Thank you, uh...

598
00:30:50,301 --> 00:30:52,303
For the wine, and...

599
00:30:53,304 --> 00:30:54,597
good night.

600
00:30:57,308 --> 00:30:58,309
Good night, Monk.

601
00:31:49,943 --> 00:31:51,445
What time's your flight?

602
00:31:51,528 --> 00:31:52,613
11:00.

603
00:31:54,740 --> 00:31:57,534
You think, uh,
maybe you could change it?

604
00:31:57,618 --> 00:31:58,952
Think it would be useful to have you

605
00:31:59,036 --> 00:32:00,329
at Mother's doctor's appointment today.

606
00:32:00,412 --> 00:32:01,580
I can't. I got to get home.

607
00:32:03,707 --> 00:32:05,626
Fine, but you think you can chip in

608
00:32:05,709 --> 00:32:07,169
for her care
once we find out what's what?

609
00:32:07,252 --> 00:32:08,545
It's probably going
to be pretty expensive.

610
00:32:08,629 --> 00:32:10,714
Things are tight right now, so...

611
00:32:10,798 --> 00:32:12,132
You thought about firing Lorraine?

612
00:32:15,719 --> 00:32:16,720
Lorraine is family.

613
00:32:17,513 --> 00:32:18,806
Well, shit, Monk.

614
00:32:18,889 --> 00:32:20,224
I don't know what to tell you,
all right?

615
00:32:20,307 --> 00:32:21,517
So you can't do anything?

616
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,394
I will check with my accountant

617
00:32:23,477 --> 00:32:24,770
when I get back, all right?

618
00:32:25,562 --> 00:32:26,772
It's 8:00 in the morning.

619
00:32:26,855 --> 00:32:28,816
I'm not flying the fucking plane, Monk.

620
00:32:33,404 --> 00:32:36,907
Well, do you think you could be so kind

621
00:32:36,990 --> 00:32:38,492
as to go inside and see

622
00:32:38,575 --> 00:32:39,993
if Mother is ready to head out?

623
00:32:40,077 --> 00:32:41,245
All right. Hey.

624
00:32:41,328 --> 00:32:42,621
- Mother!
- Don't yell, man.

625
00:32:42,705 --> 00:32:43,706
Be civilized.

626
00:32:43,789 --> 00:32:45,791
You're just like our dad, man.

627
00:32:45,874 --> 00:32:48,127
So you do right by me, Monk.
I swear to fucking God.

628
00:32:49,461 --> 00:32:51,088
Clown.

629
00:32:51,171 --> 00:32:52,256
You want to see civilized?

630
00:32:52,339 --> 00:32:53,924
Mother!

631
00:32:58,095 --> 00:32:59,096
Morning.

632
00:33:01,140 --> 00:33:02,474
Hey. Morning.

633
00:33:03,559 --> 00:33:05,144
Listen...

634
00:33:05,227 --> 00:33:07,020
- about last night, uh...
- Oh.

635
00:33:07,104 --> 00:33:08,313
It's okay.

636
00:33:08,522 --> 00:33:10,607
You don't have to explain.
I had a good time.

637
00:33:10,691 --> 00:33:11,734
No, I...

638
00:33:13,444 --> 00:33:15,988
Jelani, he's my ex.

639
00:33:16,071 --> 00:33:17,197
Well, he's going to be.

640
00:33:18,615 --> 00:33:20,617
We're in the middle
of breaking up and...

641
00:33:21,660 --> 00:33:22,661
it's hard.

642
00:33:24,204 --> 00:33:25,205
I get it.

643
00:33:26,498 --> 00:33:27,499
I'd like to see you again.

644
00:33:29,001 --> 00:33:30,794
Do you think that you'll be

645
00:33:30,878 --> 00:33:31,879
around town next couple of days?

646
00:33:31,962 --> 00:33:34,548
You know, grab a drink?

647
00:33:36,008 --> 00:33:37,009
Yeah, I'd like that.

648
00:33:39,303 --> 00:33:40,304
Yeah, me too.

649
00:33:42,639 --> 00:33:43,640
Drive safe.

650
00:33:44,767 --> 00:33:45,768
Thanks.

651
00:34:11,001 --> 00:34:12,002
Mr. Ellison?

652
00:34:13,170 --> 00:34:14,171
We're ready.

653
00:34:18,425 --> 00:34:19,760
Her MRI shows

654
00:34:19,843 --> 00:34:22,262
early signs of neurodegeneration.

655
00:34:23,055 --> 00:34:24,306
There's a slight decrease

656
00:34:24,389 --> 00:34:26,141
in the size of the temporal lobe

657
00:34:26,225 --> 00:34:27,726
which suggest Alzheimer's.

658
00:34:29,770 --> 00:34:31,730
I'm very sorry, Mr. Ellison.

659
00:34:31,814 --> 00:34:33,148
But at some point,

660
00:34:33,232 --> 00:34:35,567
she'll probably require
around-the-clock care

661
00:34:36,443 --> 00:34:38,111
for her own safety.

662
00:35:44,052 --> 00:35:45,762
- Hey, young nigga.
- Hey!

663
00:35:45,846 --> 00:35:48,140
Hey, whoa, whoa.

664
00:35:48,223 --> 00:35:49,892
Don't shoot me, partner. Come on now.

665
00:35:54,563 --> 00:35:55,564
Van Go.

666
00:35:56,398 --> 00:35:57,524
That you?

667
00:35:57,608 --> 00:35:58,609
Yeah, me, nigga.

668
00:35:59,943 --> 00:36:01,945
Shit. What, you drunk, motherfucker?

669
00:36:03,322 --> 00:36:04,656
Where you running to?

670
00:36:06,617 --> 00:36:07,743
Just leave me alone, man.

671
00:36:10,996 --> 00:36:11,997
How your mama?

672
00:36:13,540 --> 00:36:14,499
What you say?

673
00:36:14,583 --> 00:36:16,501
I said, how your mama?

674
00:36:19,671 --> 00:36:21,089
Oh, shit.

675
00:36:22,049 --> 00:36:23,300
They ain't tell you, huh?

676
00:36:24,176 --> 00:36:25,302
What you talking about, punk?

677
00:36:25,385 --> 00:36:27,220
Hey, what you talking about?

678
00:36:29,431 --> 00:36:30,724
Think about it, Van Go.

679
00:36:32,017 --> 00:36:33,143
Look at my face.

680
00:36:34,978 --> 00:36:37,272
Look at my midnight black complex...

681
00:36:37,356 --> 00:36:38,732
No, that's not right.

682
00:36:40,275 --> 00:36:41,276
What did you want to say?

683
00:36:42,611 --> 00:36:44,821
You can say it better than that, right?

684
00:36:44,905 --> 00:36:45,906
Come on. What do you want?

685
00:36:50,494 --> 00:36:51,662
Think about it, Van Go.

686
00:36:52,955 --> 00:36:54,206
Look at my face.

687
00:36:55,165 --> 00:36:57,626
Look at my coal black skin.

688
00:36:57,709 --> 00:36:58,877
And then look at your own.

689
00:37:01,171 --> 00:37:03,298
Look at my black eyes.

690
00:37:03,382 --> 00:37:04,383
Now look at your own.

691
00:37:06,134 --> 00:37:07,928
Look at my big black lips.

692
00:37:08,011 --> 00:37:09,805
Now look at your own.

693
00:37:11,223 --> 00:37:12,849
I's your daddy
whether you like it or not.

694
00:37:12,933 --> 00:37:15,394
Shut up, okay? Shut up, man! You lying!

695
00:37:15,477 --> 00:37:17,270
No, no, that's the truth, nigga.

696
00:37:19,022 --> 00:37:20,565
So, where you been, huh?

697
00:37:21,274 --> 00:37:22,401
Where you been?

698
00:37:22,484 --> 00:37:24,069
I've been where I always be.

699
00:37:25,070 --> 00:37:26,196
Surviving.

700
00:37:27,155 --> 00:37:29,116
You ain't worth a piss.

701
00:37:29,199 --> 00:37:30,701
Your mama ain't worth a piss.

702
00:37:30,784 --> 00:37:32,452
So here I am.

703
00:37:41,294 --> 00:37:43,296
What do I say now?

704
00:37:43,380 --> 00:37:46,717
I think now will come some sort of,
you know,

705
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,593
dumb, melodramatic sob story

706
00:37:48,677 --> 00:37:50,929
where you, uh,
highlight your broken interiority.

707
00:37:51,013 --> 00:37:53,306
Something...
something like, um, I don't know...

708
00:37:58,603 --> 00:37:59,980
I hates this man.

709
00:38:01,606 --> 00:38:02,816
I hates my mama.

710
00:38:02,899 --> 00:38:04,109
And I hates myself.

711
00:38:07,654 --> 00:38:09,322
I've seen my face in his.

712
00:38:10,949 --> 00:38:12,451
I see the ape that all them stupid girls

713
00:38:12,534 --> 00:38:14,619
were afraid of, yeah.

714
00:38:14,703 --> 00:38:16,538
I can see my long arms hanging down.

715
00:38:17,456 --> 00:38:19,082
And I see eyes that don't care

716
00:38:19,166 --> 00:38:20,751
what happens tomorrow.

717
00:38:24,963 --> 00:38:26,089
I see myself

718
00:38:26,923 --> 00:38:28,050
rocking back on my heels,

719
00:38:28,133 --> 00:38:29,134
just like this, baby.

720
00:38:29,843 --> 00:38:31,303
Just waiting.

721
00:38:31,386 --> 00:38:33,430
And waiting, and waiting, and waiting,

722
00:38:33,513 --> 00:38:34,973
and waiting for something

723
00:38:35,057 --> 00:38:37,225
that I'm not even going
to recognize when it comes!

724
00:38:37,976 --> 00:38:39,853
Death is my only cure.

725
00:38:40,771 --> 00:38:42,022
I heard that before.

726
00:38:44,024 --> 00:38:46,068
I've been hearing it,
and I'm hearing it now.

727
00:38:49,029 --> 00:38:50,030
I see...

728
00:38:53,075 --> 00:38:54,534
I see my mama crying.

729
00:38:55,911 --> 00:38:58,538
I see her screaming in my dreams.

730
00:38:58,622 --> 00:38:59,873
I see my babies.

731
00:39:00,707 --> 00:39:01,708
I see my...

732
00:39:02,375 --> 00:39:03,418
I see my daddy.

733
00:39:06,004 --> 00:39:07,214
I see myself.

734
00:39:09,674 --> 00:39:10,759
What the fuck?

735
00:39:14,054 --> 00:39:15,388
What the fuck you do that for?

736
00:39:15,472 --> 00:39:16,765
Because you ain't shit, nigga.

737
00:39:19,726 --> 00:39:20,852
And you made me.

738
00:39:23,146 --> 00:39:25,816
So because you ain't shit, I ain't shit.

739
00:39:27,526 --> 00:39:30,112
Because you ain't shit, I ain't shit.

740
00:39:37,244 --> 00:39:38,495
I gots to bounce.

741
00:39:43,542 --> 00:39:44,709
Peace, motherfucker.

742
00:39:46,044 --> 00:39:47,045
Peace.

743
00:39:50,132 --> 00:39:51,508
What the fuck was that for?

744
00:39:56,638 --> 00:39:57,681
You're watching

745
00:39:57,764 --> 00:40:01,184
Black Stories Month on WHN.

746
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,021
Celebrating the diversity

747
00:40:05,105 --> 00:40:06,439
of the African-American experience.

748
00:40:07,774 --> 00:40:09,734
Join us for more riveting cinema,

749
00:40:09,818 --> 00:40:12,112
heartbreak, and drama.

750
00:40:12,195 --> 00:40:13,321
Mama!

751
00:40:14,990 --> 00:40:16,741
Hello?

752
00:40:16,825 --> 00:40:19,202
"I be standing outside in the night,

753
00:40:19,286 --> 00:40:20,829
a police chopper go by

754
00:40:20,912 --> 00:40:22,747
and shine some lights in some backyards

755
00:40:22,831 --> 00:40:26,543
and I think, 'Shine that light on me,
motherfucker,

756
00:40:26,626 --> 00:40:28,295
shine me some fucking light

757
00:40:28,378 --> 00:40:30,797
so I can see where the fuck I be at.'"

758
00:40:31,715 --> 00:40:32,883
Are you serious?

759
00:40:32,966 --> 00:40:34,217
You notice I didn't put my name on it.

760
00:40:34,301 --> 00:40:35,719
Yes, Stagg R. Leigh,

761
00:40:35,802 --> 00:40:37,637
I did notice that. Well done.

762
00:40:37,721 --> 00:40:39,097
But I still can't send this out.

763
00:40:39,181 --> 00:40:40,390
You said you wanted Black stuff.

764
00:40:40,473 --> 00:40:41,808
What's Blacker than that?

765
00:40:41,892 --> 00:40:43,685
It's got deadbeat dads,

766
00:40:43,768 --> 00:40:44,853
rappers, crack,

767
00:40:45,061 --> 00:40:46,897
and he gets killed by a cop in the end.

768
00:40:46,980 --> 00:40:50,150
I mean, that's... that's...
that's Black, right?

769
00:40:51,443 --> 00:40:52,569
I see what you're doing.

770
00:40:52,777 --> 00:40:54,404
Good, because it's not subtle.

771
00:40:54,487 --> 00:40:55,822
I mean, how's that book so different

772
00:40:55,906 --> 00:40:57,115
than some of the other garbage
they put out?

773
00:40:57,199 --> 00:40:58,033
That's not the point.

774
00:40:58,116 --> 00:40:59,367
Well, it's my point.

775
00:40:59,451 --> 00:41:01,369
Look at what they publish.

776
00:41:01,453 --> 00:41:02,537
Look at what they expect us to write.

777
00:41:03,288 --> 00:41:04,623
I'm sick of it.

778
00:41:04,706 --> 00:41:07,918
And that's an expression
of how sick I am.

779
00:41:08,001 --> 00:41:09,586
Monk, I'm trying to sell books,

780
00:41:09,669 --> 00:41:11,087
not be a part of some crusade.

781
00:41:12,380 --> 00:41:13,673
Who do you expect to publish this?

782
00:41:13,757 --> 00:41:15,425
No one.

783
00:41:15,508 --> 00:41:17,886
I just want to rub their noses
in the horseshit they solicit.

784
00:41:19,221 --> 00:41:20,263
Okay.

785
00:41:20,347 --> 00:41:21,514
What do you want me to do?

786
00:41:21,598 --> 00:41:22,849
I want you to send it out.

787
00:41:22,933 --> 00:41:24,351
Can I say it's performance art?

788
00:41:24,434 --> 00:41:26,728
No. Send it straight.

789
00:41:26,811 --> 00:41:29,022
If they can't take the joke,
then fuck them.

790
00:41:30,774 --> 00:41:32,108
All right, but I'm only sending it

791
00:41:32,192 --> 00:41:33,902
to a couple of places.
This thing scares me.

792
00:41:33,985 --> 00:41:35,445
Scares you? Why?

793
00:41:35,528 --> 00:41:36,821
Because white people think

794
00:41:36,905 --> 00:41:38,740
they want the truth, but they don't.

795
00:41:38,823 --> 00:41:40,992
They just want to feel absolved.

796
00:41:41,076 --> 00:41:43,662
Well, fortunately,
that's not my problem.

797
00:41:44,663 --> 00:41:46,122
- Okay.
- Bye.

798
00:42:07,644 --> 00:42:08,812
I'm surprised you reached out.

799
00:42:08,895 --> 00:42:10,939
I thought you were just being nice.

800
00:42:11,022 --> 00:42:14,067
Oh, I'm never just being nice.
I'm too old for that.

801
00:42:14,150 --> 00:42:15,902
You know, I like you so much, in fact,

802
00:42:15,986 --> 00:42:17,737
that I went out and got
another one of your books.

803
00:42:18,822 --> 00:42:20,282
Really? Which one?

804
00:42:20,365 --> 00:42:21,366
The Haas Conundrum.

805
00:42:22,617 --> 00:42:23,618
What'd you think?

806
00:42:24,536 --> 00:42:25,662
I liked it.

807
00:42:26,663 --> 00:42:29,416
Susan has really great dialogue.

808
00:42:29,499 --> 00:42:31,960
And I love the aunt.

809
00:42:32,043 --> 00:42:33,962
Wow. I mean, you write women well.

810
00:42:34,796 --> 00:42:36,131
Oh, you think so?

811
00:42:36,214 --> 00:42:37,549
Yeah. They're not hothouse flowers.

812
00:42:37,632 --> 00:42:38,633
Thank you.

813
00:42:40,343 --> 00:42:42,721
- I appreciate that.
- Mm.

814
00:42:42,804 --> 00:42:44,764
I could've done
with less footnotes though.

815
00:42:52,439 --> 00:42:53,690
I, uh...

816
00:42:53,773 --> 00:42:54,858
I got to run.

817
00:42:57,068 --> 00:42:58,403
Well, how's your mom?

818
00:42:59,487 --> 00:43:01,489
In and out.

819
00:43:01,573 --> 00:43:03,325
I'm afraid to be away for too long.

820
00:43:04,701 --> 00:43:05,785
- Yeah.
- But, uh...

821
00:43:08,204 --> 00:43:09,247
I'll, uh...

822
00:43:11,166 --> 00:43:12,250
I'll call you.

823
00:43:14,336 --> 00:43:15,337
Hold on a minute.

824
00:43:21,676 --> 00:43:22,676
Sign my book.

825
00:43:33,730 --> 00:43:34,731
What's your name again?

826
00:43:35,732 --> 00:43:36,733
Hm.

827
00:44:21,236 --> 00:44:22,237
Mr. Monk?

828
00:44:27,158 --> 00:44:28,535
What's going on with the lights?

829
00:44:29,452 --> 00:44:31,413
Miss Lisa used to pay the bill.

830
00:44:32,539 --> 00:44:33,540
Did you?

831
00:44:38,670 --> 00:44:39,838
How much?

832
00:44:39,921 --> 00:44:41,131
Well, I can handle

833
00:44:41,214 --> 00:44:42,590
the electrical bills,

834
00:44:42,674 --> 00:44:44,300
but these care facilities are expensive.

835
00:44:45,260 --> 00:44:46,719
The best one nearby

836
00:44:46,803 --> 00:44:51,391
is $5,600 a month,
and that's for a shared room.

837
00:44:51,474 --> 00:44:54,436
It goes up to $6,900 a month
for a private room.

838
00:44:54,519 --> 00:44:55,728
Well, why you looking at the best one?

839
00:44:55,812 --> 00:44:57,230
She wasn't the best mother.

840
00:44:57,313 --> 00:44:58,982
Look, I'm not here
to re-litigate our childhoods.

841
00:44:59,065 --> 00:45:00,942
Of course not, because yours was great.

842
00:45:01,025 --> 00:45:03,862
Goddamn it!
Are you going to help me or not?

843
00:45:03,945 --> 00:45:05,864
Won't Medicaid cover it or something?

844
00:45:05,947 --> 00:45:07,991
That's not how it works.
You don't know this?

845
00:45:08,074 --> 00:45:09,534
Oh. Hello.

846
00:45:12,245 --> 00:45:14,080
Who's that? What are you doing?

847
00:45:14,164 --> 00:45:15,790
I've taken a lover.

848
00:45:15,874 --> 00:45:17,000
You've taken a lover?

849
00:45:17,208 --> 00:45:18,668
You got a problem with that, homophobe?

850
00:45:18,918 --> 00:45:21,171
Listen, I'm not offended that
you've taken a lover, Cliff.

851
00:45:21,754 --> 00:45:22,755
I'm offended, Cliff,

852
00:45:22,839 --> 00:45:25,049
that you call it taking a lover.

853
00:45:25,133 --> 00:45:27,010
Mm, you can eat shit, nigga.

854
00:45:27,093 --> 00:45:29,429
I'll take my lover right now.

855
00:45:29,512 --> 00:45:30,889
Hey, where you going?

856
00:45:49,365 --> 00:45:50,366
There you are.

857
00:45:50,450 --> 00:45:52,202
Traffic was insane. What's up?

858
00:45:52,827 --> 00:45:53,828
Sit down.

859
00:45:58,541 --> 00:45:59,542
Have a seat.

860
00:46:04,547 --> 00:46:05,548
We sold your book.

861
00:46:08,426 --> 00:46:10,512
Holy shit!

862
00:46:10,595 --> 00:46:12,972
- I thought it was DOA.
- Not The Persians.

863
00:46:16,267 --> 00:46:17,143
No.

864
00:46:17,227 --> 00:46:19,771
Get out!

865
00:46:19,854 --> 00:46:21,773
Paula Betaman from Thompson-Watt.

866
00:46:21,856 --> 00:46:23,191
She always passes.

867
00:46:23,274 --> 00:46:27,904
Not this time.
They want to preempt for $750,000.

868
00:46:27,987 --> 00:46:30,365
No one's ever offered that much to me.

869
00:46:30,448 --> 00:46:32,534
- This is you.
- No, it's not, Arthur.

870
00:46:32,617 --> 00:46:34,285
- You wrote it.
- As a joke.

871
00:46:34,369 --> 00:46:36,162
Well, now it's the most lucrative joke

872
00:46:36,246 --> 00:46:37,330
you've ever told.

873
00:46:37,539 --> 00:46:39,082
- And I'm not selling.
- Why not?

874
00:46:39,165 --> 00:46:41,376
Because it's trash, Arthur.

875
00:46:41,459 --> 00:46:44,045
You didn't even want
to send it out the other day.

876
00:46:44,128 --> 00:46:47,757
Oh, but look who's suddenly
overcome his fears.

877
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:49,968
I know, I broke the first rule of sales.

878
00:46:50,051 --> 00:46:52,262
Never underestimate
how stupid everyone is.

879
00:46:52,345 --> 00:46:55,974
Well, I'm not participating
in making them any stupider.

880
00:46:56,057 --> 00:46:57,725
Well, you haven't thus far,

881
00:46:57,809 --> 00:47:00,562
which is admirable, but...

882
00:47:01,563 --> 00:47:03,064
you also haven't made any money.

883
00:47:06,484 --> 00:47:08,361
Doesn't your mom need help these days?

884
00:47:11,531 --> 00:47:12,531
Check this out.

885
00:47:16,536 --> 00:47:18,788
I don't care how drunk we get,
I'm not selling it.

886
00:47:18,871 --> 00:47:20,164
That's not what I'm doing.

887
00:47:22,709 --> 00:47:25,378
Johnnie Walker Red, 24 bucks.

888
00:47:25,461 --> 00:47:27,714
Johnnie Walker Black, 50 bucks.

889
00:47:28,548 --> 00:47:30,049
Johnnie Walker Blue...

890
00:47:31,175 --> 00:47:33,177
$160.

891
00:47:33,261 --> 00:47:34,262
You see the metaphor?

892
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:36,889
No.

893
00:47:36,973 --> 00:47:39,392
These are all made by the same company.

894
00:47:39,475 --> 00:47:41,936
The Red is shit, the Black is less shit,

895
00:47:42,020 --> 00:47:43,688
the Blue is good.

896
00:47:43,771 --> 00:47:46,524
But fewer people buy the blue
because it's expensive.

897
00:47:46,608 --> 00:47:47,734
And at the end of the day,

898
00:47:47,817 --> 00:47:48,985
most people just want to get drunk.

899
00:47:50,945 --> 00:47:53,114
For most of your career,
your books have been Blue.

900
00:47:53,823 --> 00:47:55,992
They're good, complex.

901
00:47:56,743 --> 00:47:57,994
But they're not popular

902
00:47:58,077 --> 00:48:01,331
because most people want something easy.

903
00:48:01,414 --> 00:48:05,627
Now, for the first time ever,
you've written a Red book.

904
00:48:05,710 --> 00:48:07,003
It's simple, prurient.

905
00:48:07,086 --> 00:48:08,588
It's not great literature, but...

906
00:48:10,131 --> 00:48:11,424
satisfies an urge.

907
00:48:13,259 --> 00:48:15,178
And that's valuable.

908
00:48:15,261 --> 00:48:17,221
What I'm trying to illustrate is that,

909
00:48:17,305 --> 00:48:19,349
just because you do Red

910
00:48:19,432 --> 00:48:22,226
doesn't mean you can't also do Blue.

911
00:48:22,310 --> 00:48:23,311
You can do it all.

912
00:48:24,312 --> 00:48:25,772
Like Johnnie Walker.

913
00:48:25,855 --> 00:48:28,441
In fact, you got Johnnie Walker beat,
because...

914
00:48:28,524 --> 00:48:30,318
you don't even have
to put your real name on it.

915
00:48:37,492 --> 00:48:38,743
Jesus.

916
00:48:40,370 --> 00:48:41,704
Do we drink now?

917
00:48:46,959 --> 00:48:47,835
Hello?

918
00:48:47,919 --> 00:48:49,128
Hello, Paula.

919
00:48:49,212 --> 00:48:51,964
Arthur! So wonderful to hear from you.

920
00:48:52,048 --> 00:48:55,635
Um, I hope that you are
with the man of the hour.

921
00:48:55,718 --> 00:48:57,887
I am, indeed.
He's right here next to me.

922
00:48:57,970 --> 00:48:59,597
Mr. Leigh?

923
00:48:59,681 --> 00:49:00,932
Uh, yeah, this is he.

924
00:49:02,058 --> 00:49:03,059
Oh, really?

925
00:49:11,025 --> 00:49:12,026
Uh...

926
00:49:12,485 --> 00:49:14,821
Yeah, goddamn it.

927
00:49:14,904 --> 00:49:17,156
- Right. Right. Okay.
- Motherfucker.

928
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:20,118
Yeah, I was a little confused at first,
but...

929
00:49:20,201 --> 00:49:23,079
We're both very excited to
discuss Thompson-Watt's offer.

930
00:49:23,162 --> 00:49:24,539
Yes, well, first of all, let me just say

931
00:49:24,622 --> 00:49:25,957
that all of us here at Thompson-Watt

932
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,543
are thrilled with My Pafology.

933
00:49:28,626 --> 00:49:30,712
It is about as perfect a book

934
00:49:30,795 --> 00:49:32,797
as I have seen in a long, long while.

935
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,884
Just... just raw and real.

936
00:49:36,968 --> 00:49:40,263
And, Mr. Leigh,
is this based on your actual life?

937
00:49:42,348 --> 00:49:44,684
Yeah,
you think some bitch-ass college boy

938
00:49:44,767 --> 00:49:45,977
can come up with that shit?

939
00:49:46,060 --> 00:49:47,061
No, no. No, I don't.

940
00:49:47,937 --> 00:49:50,148
No. You know, that kind of

941
00:49:50,231 --> 00:49:54,068
visceral energy cannot be taught, right?

942
00:49:54,152 --> 00:49:56,988
Stagg... May I call you... Now,
is Stagg a pseudonym?

943
00:49:58,448 --> 00:50:00,742
Yes, uh, it is.

944
00:50:00,825 --> 00:50:02,952
Mr. Leigh can't use his real name

945
00:50:03,035 --> 00:50:04,996
because he's a...

946
00:50:05,997 --> 00:50:08,040
Well, he's a wanted fugitive.

947
00:50:08,124 --> 00:50:10,293
Oh, my God. Wow.

948
00:50:10,376 --> 00:50:12,879
That's why this couldn't
be a video conference.

949
00:50:12,962 --> 00:50:15,089
Are you crazy?
What if they fact check this?

950
00:50:15,173 --> 00:50:17,216
I checked. There's barely
money to pay editors anymore.

951
00:50:18,050 --> 00:50:19,177
Just go with it.

952
00:50:22,180 --> 00:50:26,809
Yeah, I did a 12-year bid,
but no going back.

953
00:50:28,019 --> 00:50:29,228
Know what I mean?

954
00:50:29,312 --> 00:50:31,481
Yeah. Yeah, you know, um...

955
00:50:32,315 --> 00:50:34,025
I've been reading a lot

956
00:50:34,108 --> 00:50:36,027
about the prison abolition movement...

957
00:50:36,110 --> 00:50:37,570
- Oh, God!
- I've...

958
00:50:37,653 --> 00:50:39,655
Sorry to rush, Paula,
but can we talk business?

959
00:50:39,739 --> 00:50:42,158
Mr. Leigh values
his time outside of a cell.

960
00:50:42,241 --> 00:50:43,367
Of course.

961
00:50:43,451 --> 00:50:44,827
I'm sure you're both very, very busy

962
00:50:44,911 --> 00:50:46,454
so I will get right to it.

963
00:50:46,537 --> 00:50:48,956
Um, you'll notice that our offer is...

964
00:50:50,291 --> 00:50:51,709
unusually large

965
00:50:51,793 --> 00:50:54,754
and that is because we believe

966
00:50:54,837 --> 00:50:57,131
Mr. Leigh has written a bestseller.

967
00:50:57,215 --> 00:50:59,342
We think it is going to be
the read of the summer.

968
00:51:00,009 --> 00:51:01,719
Yeah, I'm sure

969
00:51:01,803 --> 00:51:05,640
white people on the Hamptons
will delight in it.

970
00:51:05,723 --> 00:51:06,974
Yes, we will.

971
00:51:07,058 --> 00:51:10,478
They... We... It's going to be huge. Huge.

972
00:51:11,354 --> 00:51:12,355
I love it.

973
00:51:21,739 --> 00:51:23,825
Is that little Thelonious Ellison?

974
00:51:26,452 --> 00:51:27,829
My God! Maynard!

975
00:51:30,748 --> 00:51:32,959
Everyone still call you Monk?

976
00:51:33,042 --> 00:51:34,085
Well,

977
00:51:34,168 --> 00:51:35,503
everyone but you.

978
00:51:35,586 --> 00:51:38,005
Well, it's a beautiful name.

979
00:51:38,089 --> 00:51:41,008
It seems simple not to use it whole.

980
00:51:41,092 --> 00:51:43,052
Well, I'm glad someone appreciates it.

981
00:51:44,595 --> 00:51:47,682
I heard about your sister.
My condolences.

982
00:51:47,765 --> 00:51:48,766
Thank you.

983
00:51:49,934 --> 00:51:51,435
I don't think I've seen you since

984
00:51:52,395 --> 00:51:53,896
before your father passed?

985
00:51:53,980 --> 00:51:56,148
Yeah, it's been a while.
I live in LA now.

986
00:51:56,899 --> 00:51:58,442
Oh! Hollywood.

987
00:51:58,526 --> 00:52:00,695
Hey, do you write for that NCIS?

988
00:52:01,571 --> 00:52:03,155
Just books.

989
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:06,367
Well, you should try to write
for NCIS. It's popular.

990
00:52:06,450 --> 00:52:08,411
Well, maybe I will.

991
00:52:08,494 --> 00:52:10,413
Hey, so, how you been?

992
00:52:10,496 --> 00:52:12,206
Oh, I'm good. And you?

993
00:52:12,290 --> 00:52:13,374
- Yeah...
- Mr. Monk.

994
00:52:13,457 --> 00:52:15,042
What would you like for dinner?

995
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,005
Maynard!

996
00:52:19,088 --> 00:52:20,131
Hi, Lorraine.

997
00:52:20,923 --> 00:52:22,508
It's been a dog's age.

998
00:52:23,342 --> 00:52:24,719
Well, I guess it has.

999
00:52:27,013 --> 00:52:28,180
You look well.

1000
00:52:29,515 --> 00:52:30,892
You too.

1001
00:52:33,978 --> 00:52:35,605
Well, I best be getting back.

1002
00:52:35,688 --> 00:52:37,356
It's good to see you, Thelonious.

1003
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:38,441
You too.

1004
00:52:41,068 --> 00:52:42,069
Lorraine.

1005
00:52:45,781 --> 00:52:46,949
Mm, mm, mm.

1006
00:52:56,667 --> 00:52:57,793
Ain't nothing to smile at.

1007
00:53:00,421 --> 00:53:02,924
Oh! There she is.

1008
00:53:03,007 --> 00:53:04,216
Behave yourself.

1009
00:53:11,641 --> 00:53:13,517
Hey. Hi.

1010
00:53:15,311 --> 00:53:17,480
- Got this for you.
- Oh, thank you.

1011
00:53:17,563 --> 00:53:19,982
- Lorraine, this is Coraline.
- Oh.

1012
00:53:20,066 --> 00:53:21,359
- Hey.
- Welcome.

1013
00:53:21,442 --> 00:53:22,485
- Yeah, hello.
- Hello.

1014
00:53:22,568 --> 00:53:23,611
Mother, perfect timing.

1015
00:53:23,694 --> 00:53:25,154
This is Coraline.

1016
00:53:25,237 --> 00:53:27,448
Hello, dear, I'm Agnes.

1017
00:53:27,531 --> 00:53:29,617
Such a pleasure to meet you.
I brought you these.

1018
00:53:29,700 --> 00:53:32,536
Dahlias are my favorite.

1019
00:53:32,620 --> 00:53:34,205
There's a whole world inside them.

1020
00:53:40,211 --> 00:53:41,837
- Lorraine?
- Yes.

1021
00:53:42,672 --> 00:53:46,092
Mother, you sit here.

1022
00:53:48,010 --> 00:53:49,470
All right.

1023
00:53:49,553 --> 00:53:52,306
And, Coraline,
why don't you sit across from Mother?

1024
00:53:52,390 --> 00:53:53,516
Oh, sure, sure.

1025
00:53:59,981 --> 00:54:01,440
Okay.

1026
00:54:03,693 --> 00:54:05,277
I'm happy you're not white.

1027
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:07,321
Me too.

1028
00:54:20,209 --> 00:54:21,711
Yeah, it was pretty funny.

1029
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:24,296
Well, I think you...

1030
00:54:25,464 --> 00:54:27,550
I think you remind her of my sister.

1031
00:54:28,426 --> 00:54:29,427
Mm.

1032
00:54:30,803 --> 00:54:34,265
Well, do you think we look alike?

1033
00:54:35,182 --> 00:54:36,267
No, but...

1034
00:54:37,476 --> 00:54:39,186
you're both self-assured...

1035
00:54:40,396 --> 00:54:41,647
and funny...

1036
00:54:42,982 --> 00:54:45,359
and you're both...

1037
00:54:46,485 --> 00:54:48,696
fantastic kissers.

1038
00:54:48,779 --> 00:54:51,240
Oh. Ooh.

1039
00:55:00,458 --> 00:55:01,834
Mrs. Ellison?

1040
00:55:04,336 --> 00:55:05,796
Mrs. Ellison?

1041
00:55:08,174 --> 00:55:09,467
Mr. Monk!

1042
00:55:12,928 --> 00:55:15,723
Mr. Monk!

1043
00:55:15,806 --> 00:55:17,141
- I just... I just...
- What's wrong?

1044
00:55:17,224 --> 00:55:18,851
I just stepped outside for a moment.

1045
00:55:18,934 --> 00:55:20,102
What's wrong?

1046
00:55:20,186 --> 00:55:21,312
Having a cup of coffee with Maynard,

1047
00:55:21,395 --> 00:55:22,813
I was right in front.

1048
00:55:22,897 --> 00:55:23,773
Where's Mother?

1049
00:55:23,856 --> 00:55:25,024
- I don't know!
- What?

1050
00:55:25,107 --> 00:55:26,484
The backdoor was open.

1051
00:55:26,567 --> 00:55:28,152
- She gone.
- What?

1052
00:55:28,235 --> 00:55:29,779
We should split up. Here.

1053
00:55:30,780 --> 00:55:32,281
I got more in the car.

1054
00:55:35,367 --> 00:55:36,368
Mother!

1055
00:55:37,578 --> 00:55:38,579
Mother!

1056
00:55:39,872 --> 00:55:40,873
Mother!

1057
00:55:42,083 --> 00:55:43,084
Mother!

1058
00:55:47,630 --> 00:55:48,631
Mother!

1059
00:55:50,841 --> 00:55:51,842
Mother.

1060
00:55:53,594 --> 00:55:55,304
Mother!

1061
00:55:57,348 --> 00:55:58,808
Mother! Hey!

1062
00:56:00,267 --> 00:56:01,727
Mother! Mother!

1063
00:56:02,394 --> 00:56:04,063
Hey! Hey, stop!

1064
00:56:04,146 --> 00:56:05,815
Hey! Where are you going?

1065
00:56:05,898 --> 00:56:07,566
Lisa's out there

1066
00:56:07,650 --> 00:56:09,485
roughhousing with the cousins.
Somebody's going to get hurt.

1067
00:56:10,277 --> 00:56:11,946
Stop. Um...

1068
00:56:12,029 --> 00:56:15,324
I will go tell her. Okay?

1069
00:56:15,407 --> 00:56:17,576
- Yeah, but then...
- I'll take you back to the house

1070
00:56:17,660 --> 00:56:18,702
and then I will go tell her.

1071
00:56:18,786 --> 00:56:19,829
But they're out there.

1072
00:56:19,912 --> 00:56:21,372
I know, I know.

1073
00:56:21,455 --> 00:56:23,374
- Okay, you sure?
- I will tell her.

1074
00:56:23,457 --> 00:56:24,834
- Okay.
- Now, come on.

1075
00:56:24,917 --> 00:56:26,085
It's too cold out here.

1076
00:56:26,168 --> 00:56:27,753
- You should...
- Okay.

1077
00:56:27,837 --> 00:56:29,463
Lisa doesn't swim very well.

1078
00:56:29,547 --> 00:56:31,048
I know. I know.

1079
00:56:31,799 --> 00:56:33,551
Okay. Almost there.

1080
00:56:34,552 --> 00:56:35,553
All right.

1081
00:56:36,470 --> 00:56:37,471
Oh, good.

1082
00:56:38,222 --> 00:56:39,765
- Good.
- Here we go.

1083
00:56:41,642 --> 00:56:42,643
All right.

1084
00:56:43,394 --> 00:56:44,728
Okay, Monkie.

1085
00:56:44,812 --> 00:56:45,855
All right.

1086
00:56:52,486 --> 00:56:55,030
And this is our library.

1087
00:56:55,114 --> 00:56:57,908
It's full of all the classics.
And we try to get some

1088
00:56:57,992 --> 00:56:58,993
new releases too.

1089
00:57:02,246 --> 00:57:04,081
Do you like to read, Mrs. Ellison?

1090
00:57:04,165 --> 00:57:05,166
No.

1091
00:57:05,583 --> 00:57:07,126
That's not true.

1092
00:57:07,209 --> 00:57:09,170
She loves to read.
She taught me to love reading.

1093
00:57:10,004 --> 00:57:11,005
Perhaps we can get

1094
00:57:11,088 --> 00:57:12,256
some of your son's books in here.

1095
00:57:12,339 --> 00:57:13,591
And you can lead a book club.

1096
00:57:13,674 --> 00:57:14,675
Hm.

1097
00:57:18,387 --> 00:57:19,972
Sorry.

1098
00:57:20,055 --> 00:57:22,141
It's fine. It's hard for a lot
of the residents at first.

1099
00:57:22,224 --> 00:57:23,642
But she'll settle in.

1100
00:57:23,726 --> 00:57:24,852
Right.

1101
00:57:26,478 --> 00:57:28,230
I appreciate all your help,

1102
00:57:28,314 --> 00:57:30,941
but how soon do you think
we can get her in?

1103
00:57:31,025 --> 00:57:32,610
Uh, in about a month.

1104
00:57:32,693 --> 00:57:34,778
You can start the paperwork
today if you'd like.

1105
00:57:34,862 --> 00:57:36,572
Great. I'd like that.

1106
00:57:38,032 --> 00:57:39,491
I'll go check on your mom, okay?

1107
00:57:39,575 --> 00:57:40,576
Thank you.

1108
00:57:45,164 --> 00:57:47,082
- Hello?
- Hey, Thelonious.

1109
00:57:47,166 --> 00:57:48,792
How you doing? My name is Carl Brunt.

1110
00:57:49,501 --> 00:57:50,669
I am the director

1111
00:57:50,753 --> 00:57:52,338
of the New England Book Association.

1112
00:57:52,421 --> 00:57:54,924
Hi, Carl. I know who you are.

1113
00:57:55,007 --> 00:57:57,259
Oh, good. Then perhaps you'll also know

1114
00:57:57,343 --> 00:57:59,345
that each year my organization bestows

1115
00:57:59,428 --> 00:58:03,140
the somewhat pretentiously
named Literary Award.

1116
00:58:03,224 --> 00:58:06,060
Every writer knows the Literary Award,
Carl.

1117
00:58:06,143 --> 00:58:08,020
Especially those of us
who haven't won it.

1118
00:58:08,103 --> 00:58:11,148
Yeah. Yeah.

1119
00:58:11,232 --> 00:58:13,817
Well, that's sort of related
to why I'm calling.

1120
00:58:13,901 --> 00:58:15,444
Like many American institutions,

1121
00:58:15,527 --> 00:58:17,279
mine was recently rattled by the notion

1122
00:58:17,363 --> 00:58:19,114
that our lack of diversity

1123
00:58:19,198 --> 00:58:21,492
had led to a blind spot in our work.

1124
00:58:21,575 --> 00:58:24,203
So, you know,
we're kind of trying to remedy that.

1125
00:58:24,286 --> 00:58:25,329
And to that end, I was wondering

1126
00:58:25,412 --> 00:58:26,789
how you might feel

1127
00:58:27,039 --> 00:58:28,666
about being a judge
in this year's award ceremony?

1128
00:58:29,917 --> 00:58:32,753
Um, let me say first,

1129
00:58:32,836 --> 00:58:35,047
Carl, that I'm honored you choose me

1130
00:58:35,130 --> 00:58:37,800
out of all the Black writers
you could go to out of fear

1131
00:58:37,883 --> 00:58:39,009
of being called racist.

1132
00:58:39,093 --> 00:58:41,220
Yeah, you're very welcome.

1133
00:58:41,303 --> 00:58:44,932
But I think this sounds
like a lot of work.

1134
00:58:45,015 --> 00:58:46,475
Yeah, I can't deny that.

1135
00:58:46,558 --> 00:58:48,477
I mean, you're going to have
to read dozens of books.

1136
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,562
We could offer you a modest stipend.

1137
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:52,481
Even so, I'm not sure.

1138
00:58:53,107 --> 00:58:54,275
Okay.

1139
00:58:54,358 --> 00:58:55,776
One of the crass perk I reference

1140
00:58:55,859 --> 00:58:57,486
when people are kind of
on the fence like this

1141
00:58:57,569 --> 00:58:59,363
is that this will allow you
the opportunity

1142
00:58:59,446 --> 00:59:01,615
to literally judge
these other writers for once,

1143
00:59:01,699 --> 00:59:02,866
rather than just figuratively.

1144
00:59:04,493 --> 00:59:05,786
All right, I'm in.

1145
00:59:05,869 --> 00:59:07,204
Well, fantastic. Okay.

1146
00:59:07,413 --> 00:59:09,957
Great. So you're going
to be one of five judges.

1147
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,626
Uh,
the only one we have confirmed so far

1148
00:59:12,710 --> 00:59:14,003
is Sintara Golden.

1149
00:59:14,086 --> 00:59:15,421
Are you familiar
with Sintara Golden's work?

1150
00:59:18,299 --> 00:59:19,758
Vaguely.

1151
00:59:19,842 --> 00:59:21,218
Oh, she's great.
You're going to love her, man.

1152
00:59:27,599 --> 00:59:30,519
I brought you lunch, Mr. Monk.

1153
00:59:31,729 --> 00:59:32,813
Oh, wow.

1154
00:59:36,066 --> 00:59:37,443
To what do I owe the pleasure?

1155
00:59:37,526 --> 00:59:40,112
Well, I have a favor to ask.

1156
00:59:42,823 --> 00:59:44,241
I was wondering if I might be able

1157
00:59:44,325 --> 00:59:45,826
to take the afternoon off.

1158
00:59:47,369 --> 00:59:49,288
Maynard just came in from the beach.

1159
00:59:49,371 --> 00:59:50,956
And we thought it might be nice

1160
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:52,541
to visit a museum.

1161
00:59:52,624 --> 00:59:54,335
Yes, of course.

1162
00:59:54,418 --> 00:59:56,420
I'm free today,
so I can look after Mother.

1163
01:00:01,842 --> 01:00:02,843
Lorraine.

1164
01:00:03,844 --> 01:00:04,887
Hm?

1165
01:00:04,970 --> 01:00:05,971
You really like him, huh?

1166
01:00:08,682 --> 01:00:09,850
He's a fine man.

1167
01:00:19,693 --> 01:00:20,694
Yeah.

1168
01:00:22,279 --> 01:00:24,114
Page seven. It's got like 12.

1169
01:00:25,449 --> 01:00:29,203
The guests of honor.

1170
01:00:29,286 --> 01:00:32,456
Hello, Mrs. Ellison.
Looking beautiful as ever.

1171
01:00:32,539 --> 01:00:33,832
Hello, Arthur.

1172
01:00:36,418 --> 01:00:38,170
Layne, would you take Mrs.
Ellison to the kitchen,

1173
01:00:38,253 --> 01:00:39,797
and set her up with some tea?

1174
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:41,006
Right this way, ma'am.

1175
01:00:41,090 --> 01:00:42,091
Mother, I won't be long.

1176
01:00:42,925 --> 01:00:44,051
Take your time.

1177
01:00:45,386 --> 01:00:46,553
- Thank you.
- Mm-hm.

1178
01:00:47,471 --> 01:00:48,847
Not the pods.

1179
01:00:48,931 --> 01:00:51,058
The good tea, for guests.

1180
01:00:53,394 --> 01:00:55,479
What is this?
I told you to dress street.

1181
01:00:55,562 --> 01:00:58,065
- I did.
- Fucking Sesame Street.

1182
01:00:59,525 --> 01:01:01,318
What's this guy's name?

1183
01:01:01,402 --> 01:01:03,654
- Willy?
- Wiley. Wiley Valdespino.

1184
01:01:03,737 --> 01:01:06,490
He specializes
in Oscar-baity "issue" movies.

1185
01:01:06,573 --> 01:01:09,034
He did the Middle Passage one last year.

1186
01:01:09,118 --> 01:01:10,327
Somehow I didn't see that.

1187
01:01:10,411 --> 01:01:11,745
Of course, not. You're not lobotomized.

1188
01:01:11,829 --> 01:01:13,205
But if he adapts your book,

1189
01:01:13,288 --> 01:01:14,957
you stand to make a lot of money.

1190
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:16,583
Why can't we just do a phone call?

1191
01:01:16,667 --> 01:01:18,460
Well, he said if he's going
to cut a check this large,

1192
01:01:18,544 --> 01:01:20,170
then he needs to meet in person.

1193
01:01:20,254 --> 01:01:21,255
All right.

1194
01:01:22,089 --> 01:01:24,007
What do I need to do?

1195
01:01:24,091 --> 01:01:25,134
Just make him like you.

1196
01:01:25,217 --> 01:01:26,468
When I talked to him,

1197
01:01:26,552 --> 01:01:28,220
he seemed thrilled
that you're a fugitive.

1198
01:01:28,303 --> 01:01:29,638
Just, you know, play that up.

1199
01:01:29,721 --> 01:01:31,014
But what if he recognizes me?

1200
01:01:31,098 --> 01:01:32,224
- You?
- Yeah, the real me.

1201
01:01:32,307 --> 01:01:34,476
Monk, you're not that famous.

1202
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:35,978
And nobody in Hollywood reads.

1203
01:01:36,061 --> 01:01:37,771
They got their assistants
to read things,

1204
01:01:37,855 --> 01:01:38,981
and then summarize them.

1205
01:01:39,064 --> 01:01:40,732
The whole town runs on book reports.

1206
01:01:42,317 --> 01:01:43,819
You sure you can look after my mother?

1207
01:01:43,902 --> 01:01:45,154
She won't leave my sight.

1208
01:01:45,237 --> 01:01:46,780
You'll just be across the street,
anyway.

1209
01:01:48,031 --> 01:01:49,158
Across the street.

1210
01:01:49,241 --> 01:01:50,242
You should go. You'll be late.

1211
01:01:51,201 --> 01:01:52,453
He's waiting for you.

1212
01:01:54,329 --> 01:01:56,081
Well...

1213
01:01:56,165 --> 01:01:59,710
if he, uh, wants the stereotype,

1214
01:02:01,003 --> 01:02:02,087
maybe it's better I'm late.

1215
01:02:27,821 --> 01:02:29,198
Stagg, I presume?

1216
01:02:30,073 --> 01:02:31,074
That's me.

1217
01:02:31,158 --> 01:02:33,243
Hey, I'm Wiley.

1218
01:02:33,327 --> 01:02:34,328
Nice to meet you, brother.

1219
01:02:41,668 --> 01:02:43,337
Sorry about the bougie restaurant.

1220
01:02:43,420 --> 01:02:45,297
My assistant picked it.

1221
01:02:45,380 --> 01:02:47,591
We can go somewhere else
if you're uncomfortable.

1222
01:02:47,674 --> 01:02:49,092
- This is fine.
- Okay.

1223
01:02:50,802 --> 01:02:51,803
What are you drinking?

1224
01:02:54,431 --> 01:02:55,933
I'll have a Chenin Blanc.

1225
01:02:56,016 --> 01:02:57,184
All right.

1226
01:02:57,267 --> 01:02:58,268
Of your driest.

1227
01:03:00,270 --> 01:03:02,314
Well, what's funny?

1228
01:03:02,397 --> 01:03:04,191
Ah, it's just a strange order
for a guy like you.

1229
01:03:04,983 --> 01:03:06,485
Why is that?

1230
01:03:06,568 --> 01:03:08,862
Well, you don't see many
convicts drinking white wine.

1231
01:03:09,738 --> 01:03:11,907
You know many convicts?

1232
01:03:11,990 --> 01:03:13,116
You'd be surprised.

1233
01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:15,619
I spent a month in the joint myself.

1234
01:03:15,702 --> 01:03:16,995
It was some interstate commerce shit.

1235
01:03:17,079 --> 01:03:18,413
It was a short stay,
but I'll tell you what,

1236
01:03:19,331 --> 01:03:21,124
that experience grounded me.

1237
01:03:21,208 --> 01:03:22,960
The people I met in there
allowed me to see

1238
01:03:23,043 --> 01:03:25,504
a whole world
of underrepresented stories

1239
01:03:25,587 --> 01:03:27,506
from underrepresented storytellers.

1240
01:03:29,132 --> 01:03:30,592
Can I ask what you were in for?

1241
01:03:30,676 --> 01:03:33,804
I don't like to talk about that.

1242
01:03:35,138 --> 01:03:36,139
You feel me?

1243
01:03:36,682 --> 01:03:37,683
Was it murder?

1244
01:03:38,559 --> 01:03:39,935
You said that, not me.

1245
01:03:43,146 --> 01:03:44,398
You know,

1246
01:03:44,481 --> 01:03:46,149
I got to tell you, before you showed up,

1247
01:03:46,233 --> 01:03:49,069
I was a little worried
you might be a phony.

1248
01:03:49,152 --> 01:03:50,612
A lot of fakes in Hollywood.

1249
01:03:50,696 --> 01:03:52,114
Well, I'm not from Hollywood.

1250
01:03:52,197 --> 01:03:53,532
Yeah, yeah, no. That's obvious.

1251
01:03:53,615 --> 01:03:54,908
That's obvious.

1252
01:03:54,992 --> 01:03:57,160
Clearly,
you're cut from a different cloth

1253
01:03:57,244 --> 01:03:58,245
than your average...

1254
01:03:59,246 --> 01:04:00,497
screenwriter.

1255
01:04:00,581 --> 01:04:01,790
Let me ask you...

1256
01:04:01,873 --> 01:04:03,208
I know they sent you some of my stuff.

1257
01:04:03,292 --> 01:04:05,002
Did you have a chance
to see any of my movies?

1258
01:04:07,504 --> 01:04:09,381
Sorry, what did you say?

1259
01:04:09,464 --> 01:04:10,465
Have you seen any of my movies?

1260
01:04:11,174 --> 01:04:12,968
Uh, no.

1261
01:04:13,051 --> 01:04:14,177
Okay.

1262
01:04:14,261 --> 01:04:15,596
Well, look, what I like to do

1263
01:04:15,679 --> 01:04:19,433
is I like to pair genre
with real-world pathos.

1264
01:04:19,516 --> 01:04:21,059
It kind of elevates things.

1265
01:04:21,143 --> 01:04:22,311
You might be interested in this one

1266
01:04:22,394 --> 01:04:23,478
we're about to shoot actually.

1267
01:04:24,396 --> 01:04:26,189
It's about this white couple.

1268
01:04:26,273 --> 01:04:28,984
They get married on an old
plantation in Louisiana.

1269
01:04:29,067 --> 01:04:30,736
Then all the slave ghosts come back,

1270
01:04:30,819 --> 01:04:31,903
and they murder everyone.

1271
01:04:31,987 --> 01:04:33,947
- Dear God.
- I know. I know.

1272
01:04:34,031 --> 01:04:35,449
It's great, right?

1273
01:04:35,532 --> 01:04:37,117
It's called Plantation Annihilation.

1274
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:39,411
Ryan Reynolds is going
to get decapitated

1275
01:04:39,494 --> 01:04:41,538
with an afro pick in the opening scene.

1276
01:04:41,622 --> 01:04:42,956
He's a friend.

1277
01:04:43,624 --> 01:04:44,625
Got to go.

1278
01:04:55,677 --> 01:04:59,139
Mother. Mother. Mother. Mother!

1279
01:05:11,026 --> 01:05:12,861
Some ad exec on the third floor

1280
01:05:12,944 --> 01:05:14,154
had an aneurysm.

1281
01:05:14,237 --> 01:05:15,906
- Awful.
- I know.

1282
01:05:15,989 --> 01:05:17,449
Imagine exploding your brain

1283
01:05:17,532 --> 01:05:19,368
trying to think
of a toilet paper commercial.

1284
01:05:21,536 --> 01:05:23,038
I assume Wiley isn't interested.

1285
01:05:23,121 --> 01:05:26,083
I sprinted out of there
like a complete maniac.

1286
01:05:26,166 --> 01:05:29,920
Actually,
he's offering $4 million for the rights.

1287
01:05:30,003 --> 01:05:32,214
- What?
- Yeah, man.

1288
01:05:32,297 --> 01:05:33,632
He called you the real deal.

1289
01:05:33,715 --> 01:05:34,966
Said you took off the moment

1290
01:05:35,050 --> 01:05:36,259
you heard police sirens.

1291
01:05:37,344 --> 01:05:39,805
The dumber I behave, the richer I get.

1292
01:05:39,888 --> 01:05:42,265
Now you know why my parents
moved here from Puerto Rico.

1293
01:05:46,061 --> 01:05:48,146
I mean, we can't be expected to read

1294
01:05:48,230 --> 01:05:51,191
every novel all the way through, right?

1295
01:05:51,274 --> 01:05:53,193
No,
people have worked hard on these books.

1296
01:05:53,276 --> 01:05:54,444
And we have to respect that.

1297
01:05:54,528 --> 01:05:56,154
Well, hard work doesn't demand respect.

1298
01:05:56,238 --> 01:05:57,364
I mean, you know,

1299
01:05:57,572 --> 01:05:58,907
people worked hard on the Third Reich.

1300
01:05:58,990 --> 01:06:02,828
Yeah, well,
I feel that we owe it to them

1301
01:06:02,911 --> 01:06:04,246
to read every page.

1302
01:06:04,329 --> 01:06:05,789
That is such horseshit.

1303
01:06:05,872 --> 01:06:07,541
I mean, most of it's going to be

1304
01:06:07,624 --> 01:06:09,918
that Knausgard auto-fiction crap,
anyhow.

1305
01:06:10,001 --> 01:06:11,128
I tell you something right now,

1306
01:06:11,211 --> 01:06:12,671
I'm not reading 600 pages

1307
01:06:12,754 --> 01:06:14,423
about some pretentious jackwagon

1308
01:06:14,506 --> 01:06:15,799
discovering masturbation.

1309
01:06:15,882 --> 01:06:17,300
Sorry.

1310
01:06:17,384 --> 01:06:19,720
Okay, look,
I think we're all experienced enough

1311
01:06:19,803 --> 01:06:21,179
to assess the general quality

1312
01:06:21,263 --> 01:06:23,056
of something within 100 pages.

1313
01:06:24,182 --> 01:06:25,559
If you want to read beyond that,

1314
01:06:25,642 --> 01:06:26,810
that's your prerogative.

1315
01:06:26,893 --> 01:06:29,396
Well, how do you feel, Monk?

1316
01:06:29,479 --> 01:06:32,232
Um, I agree with Sintara, actually.

1317
01:06:32,315 --> 01:06:34,484
I think 100 pages is sufficient.

1318
01:06:34,568 --> 01:06:36,361
You know, this is all a crock, anyway.

1319
01:06:36,445 --> 01:06:38,989
I mean, pitting art
against other art for awards,

1320
01:06:39,072 --> 01:06:40,741
like, it's not subjective.

1321
01:06:40,824 --> 01:06:42,451
It's absurd.

1322
01:06:42,534 --> 01:06:44,286
Then why did you agree to be
a judge if you feel that way?

1323
01:06:44,369 --> 01:06:47,164
Well, because it's either me
or some other Brooklyn hack

1324
01:06:47,247 --> 01:06:48,373
who doesn't think there's a world

1325
01:06:48,457 --> 01:06:50,041
beyond the Hudson River, Ailene.

1326
01:06:50,125 --> 01:06:53,795
It's the East River
if you're in Brooklyn, Daniel.

1327
01:06:53,879 --> 01:06:54,713
You know what,

1328
01:06:54,796 --> 01:06:56,423
art is subjective.

1329
01:06:56,506 --> 01:06:59,134
But I think this is an opportunity

1330
01:06:59,217 --> 01:07:03,430
to highlight books that may
otherwise be undervalued.

1331
01:07:03,513 --> 01:07:05,682
Book sales are plummeting right now.

1332
01:07:05,766 --> 01:07:08,143
So, perhaps this award can give someone

1333
01:07:08,226 --> 01:07:10,353
a real chance at a career
in this industry.

1334
01:07:12,272 --> 01:07:13,273
Hear, hear.

1335
01:07:14,566 --> 01:07:15,901
Um...

1336
01:07:15,984 --> 01:07:17,444
Where do you want this, Mother?

1337
01:07:18,695 --> 01:07:20,071
Thought it might look nice here

1338
01:07:20,155 --> 01:07:21,198
with this natural light.

1339
01:07:22,157 --> 01:07:23,325
I don't care.

1340
01:07:23,408 --> 01:07:25,160
I never liked that painting, anyway.

1341
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:28,455
Okay.

1342
01:07:28,538 --> 01:07:31,416
Uh, well, I'll bring some more art

1343
01:07:31,500 --> 01:07:32,751
from home next week.

1344
01:07:32,834 --> 01:07:35,253
And you just tell me
the pieces you like,

1345
01:07:35,337 --> 01:07:37,255
and I'll bring them.

1346
01:07:37,339 --> 01:07:39,549
We've got your lunch ready for you,
Mrs. Ellison.

1347
01:07:40,675 --> 01:07:43,553
Oh, it looks great. What is it?

1348
01:07:43,637 --> 01:07:46,848
It's roasted turkey
and Havarti on 12-grain.

1349
01:07:48,183 --> 01:07:49,726
Sounds delicious.

1350
01:07:49,810 --> 01:07:52,395
Mrs. Ellison prefers white bread.

1351
01:07:52,479 --> 01:07:53,814
And she doesn't like the crust.

1352
01:07:54,648 --> 01:07:56,024
As much as this place costs,

1353
01:07:56,107 --> 01:07:57,818
y'all should get the sandwiches right.

1354
01:07:57,901 --> 01:07:59,903
I'll make sure that we take care of that

1355
01:07:59,986 --> 01:08:01,154
from now on, okay?

1356
01:08:01,238 --> 01:08:03,532
And enjoy your lunch, Mrs. Ellison.

1357
01:08:13,917 --> 01:08:14,918
I'm getting married.

1358
01:08:15,794 --> 01:08:16,795
- Shut up.
- What?

1359
01:08:19,256 --> 01:08:22,050
I didn't say nothing earlier.
I was just so sad.

1360
01:08:22,133 --> 01:08:26,596
But Maynard asked me yesterday.

1361
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:30,684
Lorraine, that's amazing.

1362
01:08:30,767 --> 01:08:32,686
- I mean, let's celebrate.
- Mm-mm!

1363
01:08:32,769 --> 01:08:34,771
Just too much excitement.

1364
01:08:34,855 --> 01:08:36,898
I don't like being
the center of attention.

1365
01:08:36,982 --> 01:08:38,817
Well, you deserve it, Lorraine.

1366
01:08:38,900 --> 01:08:41,152
And Maynard is a lucky man.

1367
01:08:45,490 --> 01:08:46,950
Do you think you'd be willing

1368
01:08:47,033 --> 01:08:48,952
to walk me down the aisle, Mr. Monk?

1369
01:08:52,831 --> 01:08:53,832
I'd be honored.

1370
01:08:59,087 --> 01:09:01,840
Wow. Wow.

1371
01:09:04,926 --> 01:09:06,136
We are wildly excited

1372
01:09:06,219 --> 01:09:07,637
to help you get My Pafology out.

1373
01:09:07,721 --> 01:09:09,431
The marketing team has all kinds

1374
01:09:09,514 --> 01:09:11,516
of great ideas to help you sell it.

1375
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:13,768
Great. We're excited to hear.

1376
01:09:13,852 --> 01:09:15,395
John Bosco is the head
of the department.

1377
01:09:15,478 --> 01:09:16,521
I will let him tell you more.

1378
01:09:17,105 --> 01:09:18,106
Hi, Stagg.

1379
01:09:19,190 --> 01:09:20,275
Hello.

1380
01:09:20,358 --> 01:09:22,193
Nice to finally meet you, my man.

1381
01:09:22,903 --> 01:09:25,030
Listen, I love the book.

1382
01:09:25,113 --> 01:09:28,283
And we are going to sell many,
many copies.

1383
01:09:28,366 --> 01:09:30,619
There's already so much buzz
because of the movie deal.

1384
01:09:30,702 --> 01:09:32,954
And we just want to keep
that momentum going.

1385
01:09:33,038 --> 01:09:34,789
I spoke to Wiley yesterday.

1386
01:09:34,873 --> 01:09:36,750
He says Michael B. Jordan is circling.

1387
01:09:36,833 --> 01:09:38,084
We heard.

1388
01:09:38,168 --> 01:09:39,252
We think he would be absolutely perfect.

1389
01:09:39,336 --> 01:09:40,462
You know, this book,

1390
01:09:40,545 --> 01:09:42,505
it's awards-bait with a capital B.

1391
01:09:42,589 --> 01:09:44,382
And we're thinking
that if Michael does sign on,

1392
01:09:44,466 --> 01:09:45,634
we want to put him on the cover

1393
01:09:45,717 --> 01:09:47,844
in one of those, um, scarves,

1394
01:09:47,928 --> 01:09:49,471
I guess you would call them,
tied round his head.

1395
01:09:50,388 --> 01:09:51,640
A durag?

1396
01:09:51,848 --> 01:09:54,476
Durag. That's it. Durag and a tank top

1397
01:09:54,559 --> 01:09:55,810
with the muscles showing.

1398
01:09:55,894 --> 01:09:57,270
Ooh, somebody call the fire department.

1399
01:09:57,354 --> 01:09:58,396
Yummy.

1400
01:09:59,689 --> 01:10:01,775
Shit. Sorry. Your dad. Sorry.

1401
01:10:01,858 --> 01:10:04,152
So listen, for a release date,

1402
01:10:04,235 --> 01:10:05,820
we're thinking of rushing it,

1403
01:10:05,904 --> 01:10:07,155
so that we can get it out in time

1404
01:10:07,238 --> 01:10:08,156
- for Juneteenth.
- Yeah.

1405
01:10:08,239 --> 01:10:09,741
Juneteenth?

1406
01:10:09,824 --> 01:10:12,619
We're thinking of making
a big holiday push.

1407
01:10:12,702 --> 01:10:14,287
Black people will be celebrating,

1408
01:10:14,371 --> 01:10:15,956
white people will be feeling,

1409
01:10:16,039 --> 01:10:18,917
let's be honest,
a little conscious-stricken.

1410
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,044
We think it's going to be
a huge moment for your book.

1411
01:10:22,253 --> 01:10:23,380
So, Stagg,

1412
01:10:23,463 --> 01:10:24,839
are you so, so happy?

1413
01:10:26,383 --> 01:10:29,844
We think it's great, John, really.
Amazing.

1414
01:10:31,221 --> 01:10:32,514
Yeah, it's, uh...

1415
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:34,641
It's great.

1416
01:10:35,684 --> 01:10:38,937
And, you know, I've got an idea

1417
01:10:39,020 --> 01:10:41,022
I want to share with you two.

1418
01:10:41,106 --> 01:10:42,440
Oh, well,

1419
01:10:42,524 --> 01:10:43,817
I mean,
we always love to hear great ideas.

1420
01:10:43,900 --> 01:10:45,235
- Oh, yeah, cool.
- Yeah.

1421
01:10:45,318 --> 01:10:46,653
I want to change the title.

1422
01:10:47,570 --> 01:10:48,697
Uh...

1423
01:10:48,780 --> 01:10:49,864
- I don't...
- Okay.

1424
01:10:49,948 --> 01:10:51,408
Um, well, just to be clear,

1425
01:10:51,491 --> 01:10:53,076
we really do love

1426
01:10:53,159 --> 01:10:54,494
- My Pafology.
- Love it.

1427
01:10:54,577 --> 01:10:56,705
It's got that whole Irvine Welsh

1428
01:10:56,788 --> 01:10:58,915
- proletarian vernacular thing.
- Yeah.

1429
01:10:58,999 --> 01:11:00,667
No, and that's why I think

1430
01:11:00,750 --> 01:11:02,961
you're going to love
this new title even more.

1431
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:05,255
Well, okay, you know what,

1432
01:11:05,338 --> 01:11:08,842
we're always happy to hear new ideas.

1433
01:11:08,925 --> 01:11:10,301
What did you have in mind?

1434
01:11:10,385 --> 01:11:11,386
Fuck.

1435
01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:19,853
I'm sorry. Pardon me.

1436
01:11:19,936 --> 01:11:20,937
Fuck.

1437
01:11:22,272 --> 01:11:23,815
I want to call it Fuck.

1438
01:11:27,110 --> 01:11:29,029
- What are you doing?
- Screw these idiots.

1439
01:11:29,112 --> 01:11:30,280
- Stop it.
- No.

1440
01:11:32,866 --> 01:11:35,869
So, Stagg, what about, uh, like, Damn?

1441
01:11:35,952 --> 01:11:38,413
- Mm-hm.
- Damn? Or Hell?

1442
01:11:39,414 --> 01:11:40,749
Nah. Fuck.

1443
01:11:40,832 --> 01:11:42,959
Okay, that's cool. Uh...

1444
01:11:43,043 --> 01:11:46,671
But maybe we could do that
with a PH instead

1445
01:11:46,755 --> 01:11:47,839
because that would be more palatable...

1446
01:11:47,922 --> 01:11:49,132
- Yes. Yes.
- ... to our sellers.

1447
01:11:49,215 --> 01:11:51,051
I don't care about all that.

1448
01:11:51,134 --> 01:11:54,304
And if you don't change the title,
the deal is off.

1449
01:11:54,387 --> 01:11:55,847
- Oh, yeah. No.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

1450
01:11:55,930 --> 01:11:58,808
- There's no need to be hasty.
- No, no, no.

1451
01:11:59,559 --> 01:12:00,560
You know what?

1452
01:12:01,561 --> 01:12:02,437
Why don't we...

1453
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:03,563
Juts give us a second

1454
01:12:03,646 --> 01:12:06,316
and, um, a moment

1455
01:12:06,399 --> 01:12:08,234
and we will get right back to you, okay?

1456
01:12:08,985 --> 01:12:10,236
What are you doing?

1457
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:11,696
What are you doing? This is ridiculous.

1458
01:12:11,780 --> 01:12:12,947
Do you know how much money
we're talking about?

1459
01:12:13,031 --> 01:12:14,324
I don't care, I'm shutting it down.

1460
01:12:14,407 --> 01:12:15,742
- Shutting it... Come on.
- Shutting it down.

1461
01:12:15,825 --> 01:12:17,035
- Are you there?
- Please, just...

1462
01:12:18,912 --> 01:12:20,330
We're here.

1463
01:12:21,372 --> 01:12:22,373
Let's do it.

1464
01:12:23,166 --> 01:12:24,167
- What?
- What?

1465
01:12:24,667 --> 01:12:25,794
Yeah. We discussed it,

1466
01:12:25,877 --> 01:12:27,003
and we think it is very in your face

1467
01:12:27,087 --> 01:12:28,588
in the best way possible.

1468
01:12:28,671 --> 01:12:30,256
It is very, uh...

1469
01:12:31,466 --> 01:12:32,717
Uh...

1470
01:12:33,968 --> 01:12:35,428
- Black?
- That's it.

1471
01:12:35,512 --> 01:12:36,679
Yes, that's it.

1472
01:12:36,763 --> 01:12:38,098
I'm happy you said it, and not me.

1473
01:12:40,016 --> 01:12:41,267
Oh, fuck.

1474
01:12:41,351 --> 01:12:42,560
- It's fucking great, Stagg.
- I love it.

1475
01:12:42,644 --> 01:12:44,187
- Yes.
- Oh, my...

1476
01:12:44,270 --> 01:12:46,272
You know, it's so brave actually.

1477
01:12:52,195 --> 01:12:53,113
I'm exhausted.

1478
01:12:53,196 --> 01:12:54,447
Yeah, me too.

1479
01:12:55,532 --> 01:12:57,158
I got to stay up a few more hours

1480
01:12:57,242 --> 01:12:58,493
reading these books for...

1481
01:13:10,296 --> 01:13:11,339
Hey.

1482
01:13:12,423 --> 01:13:13,424
Hey.

1483
01:13:14,843 --> 01:13:16,344
Hey. Hey!

1484
01:13:17,595 --> 01:13:19,639
Bro. Oh, shit.

1485
01:13:19,722 --> 01:13:20,723
What are you doing here?

1486
01:13:21,850 --> 01:13:23,393
- What am I doing here?
- What are you doing here?

1487
01:13:23,476 --> 01:13:24,477
What do you mean, what am I doing?

1488
01:13:24,561 --> 01:13:25,436
Why are you in town?

1489
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:27,105
I came to see our mother.

1490
01:13:27,188 --> 01:13:29,357
Ain't that what you been
calling me about for weeks now?

1491
01:13:31,860 --> 01:13:32,819
What happened to your eye?

1492
01:13:32,902 --> 01:13:35,280
- I got into a fight.
- Yeah.

1493
01:13:35,363 --> 01:13:36,823
Well, get out of the pool.

1494
01:13:36,906 --> 01:13:38,199
- You're making a mess.
- I don't want

1495
01:13:38,283 --> 01:13:39,951
to get out of the pool.
I'm a grown-ass man.

1496
01:13:40,034 --> 01:13:41,161
This your girlfriend?

1497
01:13:41,244 --> 01:13:43,121
Yeah, you scared the shit out of her.

1498
01:13:43,204 --> 01:13:44,831
I'm Coraline.

1499
01:13:45,748 --> 01:13:47,000
Hi, Coraline.

1500
01:13:47,083 --> 01:13:48,376
At least she's not white again.

1501
01:13:48,459 --> 01:13:50,503
Your wife was white.

1502
01:13:50,587 --> 01:13:52,338
My wife was a beard. Beards don't count.

1503
01:13:52,422 --> 01:13:53,298
Well, get out.

1504
01:13:53,381 --> 01:13:54,799
You fucking menace.

1505
01:13:54,883 --> 01:13:55,967
You'll wake the neighbors.

1506
01:13:56,176 --> 01:13:57,051
You know, fuck your neighbors!

1507
01:13:57,135 --> 01:13:58,720
And fuck your clean pool!

1508
01:13:58,803 --> 01:14:01,306
It's all just a part of your
superiority complex, anyway.

1509
01:14:01,389 --> 01:14:03,099
Fucking asshole.

1510
01:14:05,810 --> 01:14:09,522
You are a goddamn child!

1511
01:14:10,899 --> 01:14:12,317
It's probably a bad time to tell you,

1512
01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:13,484
but I did piss down there.

1513
01:14:13,568 --> 01:14:14,569
Fuck.

1514
01:14:16,905 --> 01:14:18,198
Oh, funny, huh?

1515
01:14:18,281 --> 01:14:19,407
I'm sorry, Monk.

1516
01:14:19,490 --> 01:14:20,491
Don't get mad.

1517
01:14:21,784 --> 01:14:22,994
Get out of here.

1518
01:14:24,204 --> 01:14:25,330
You want a piece of me?

1519
01:14:30,877 --> 01:14:31,878
It's funny, huh?

1520
01:14:33,463 --> 01:14:35,798
So I'm lying in bed with him,

1521
01:14:35,882 --> 01:14:38,384
butt-ass naked

1522
01:14:38,468 --> 01:14:41,012
and in walks Claude
carrying the frozen yogurt.

1523
01:14:41,095 --> 01:14:42,805
- No.
- Yeah, I forgot I'd shown him

1524
01:14:42,889 --> 01:14:44,182
where I keep the spare key.

1525
01:14:45,141 --> 01:14:48,186
So he just throws the yogurt at us

1526
01:14:48,269 --> 01:14:50,647
and then he wallops me right in the eye.

1527
01:14:52,815 --> 01:14:54,275
What was the other guy doing?

1528
01:14:54,359 --> 01:14:55,818
He couldn't stop laughing.

1529
01:14:55,902 --> 01:14:57,654
He said that's what he does
when he gets nervous.

1530
01:14:57,737 --> 01:14:58,905
Okay.

1531
01:14:58,988 --> 01:15:00,740
You really going for it these days.

1532
01:15:00,823 --> 01:15:02,575
I only been gay for, like, five minutes,

1533
01:15:02,659 --> 01:15:03,910
I got to make up for lost time.

1534
01:15:03,993 --> 01:15:05,912
Yeah. Well, good for you.

1535
01:15:05,995 --> 01:15:07,580
I mean, the whole world's falling apart.

1536
01:15:07,664 --> 01:15:09,082
Might as well have some fun.

1537
01:15:09,165 --> 01:15:10,583
- I appreciate that.
- Yeah.

1538
01:15:11,626 --> 01:15:12,919
You know, you're quite beautiful.

1539
01:15:14,545 --> 01:15:15,546
Thank you.

1540
01:15:18,216 --> 01:15:19,842
What do you see in my brother?

1541
01:15:21,344 --> 01:15:23,221
- He's funny.
- Mm.

1542
01:15:23,304 --> 01:15:26,140
- He's not funny. No.
- No, not ha-ha funny.

1543
01:15:26,224 --> 01:15:28,851
- Like, sad funny.
- Okay.

1544
01:15:28,935 --> 01:15:30,728
Like a three-legged dog.

1545
01:15:30,812 --> 01:15:32,939
I see it now.
Like somebody dying on a toilet.

1546
01:15:33,690 --> 01:15:34,941
Exactly.

1547
01:15:35,024 --> 01:15:36,609
- Exactly.
- Invariably,

1548
01:15:36,693 --> 01:15:39,195
- you go too far.
- You think?

1549
01:15:39,279 --> 01:15:40,530
I don't think I go far enough.

1550
01:15:40,613 --> 01:15:41,698
It's becoming hurtful.

1551
01:15:41,781 --> 01:15:43,241
- Aw.
- See?

1552
01:15:43,324 --> 01:15:44,325
- See?
- "You know,

1553
01:15:44,409 --> 01:15:45,201
- invariably..."
- Oh.

1554
01:15:45,285 --> 01:15:47,412
"... you go too far."

1555
01:15:47,495 --> 01:15:49,455
Yeah.

1556
01:15:49,539 --> 01:15:50,748
You got a kiss, man.

1557
01:15:50,832 --> 01:15:53,543
Look at you. Just by being pathetic.

1558
01:15:53,626 --> 01:15:54,752
- God bless you.
- Hey.

1559
01:15:54,836 --> 01:15:56,462
That is like

1560
01:15:56,546 --> 01:15:57,755
- a three-legged dog.
- Hey.

1561
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:06,306
Oh, this is nice.

1562
01:16:06,389 --> 01:16:07,473
Yeah, it's not bad.

1563
01:16:08,516 --> 01:16:10,018
What do you got there, pergola?

1564
01:16:10,101 --> 01:16:11,102
No, that's a gazebo.

1565
01:16:11,978 --> 01:16:13,062
Same difference.

1566
01:16:13,146 --> 01:16:14,022
- All right?
- To the left.

1567
01:16:14,105 --> 01:16:15,148
Oh. Excuse me.

1568
01:16:17,191 --> 01:16:18,192
Huh.

1569
01:16:19,694 --> 01:16:21,529
Hey, Monk?

1570
01:16:21,612 --> 01:16:23,364
How the hell can you afford this place?

1571
01:16:24,574 --> 01:16:25,575
I, um...

1572
01:16:27,327 --> 01:16:31,205
Well, there was some money
Lisa left for Mother.

1573
01:16:31,289 --> 01:16:32,665
Thought the divorce cleaned her out.

1574
01:16:34,292 --> 01:16:37,045
Well, I'm not familiar with
what her finances were like,

1575
01:16:37,128 --> 01:16:39,130
but if you're so interested
in the bills,

1576
01:16:39,213 --> 01:16:41,090
perhaps I can start sending them to you?

1577
01:16:41,174 --> 01:16:42,884
Ah, it's fine. Where we going?

1578
01:16:42,967 --> 01:16:43,968
Right here. 44.

1579
01:16:46,012 --> 01:16:47,305
Surprise!

1580
01:16:51,642 --> 01:16:53,603
We've had a difficult morning.

1581
01:16:57,607 --> 01:16:59,484
We had to sedate her after
she tried to strike a nurse.

1582
01:17:00,485 --> 01:17:02,612
- Has she done that before?
- No.

1583
01:17:04,030 --> 01:17:05,406
She has a different demeanor every day.

1584
01:17:06,157 --> 01:17:07,950
Sometimes every hour.

1585
01:17:08,034 --> 01:17:09,827
But maybe she'll feel better tomorrow.

1586
01:17:10,703 --> 01:17:12,330
I'm sorry, I need to go.

1587
01:17:12,413 --> 01:17:14,582
Yes, of course. Thank you.

1588
01:17:16,209 --> 01:17:17,293
The gardener cut these

1589
01:17:17,377 --> 01:17:19,545
right off the bush for your mom.

1590
01:17:19,629 --> 01:17:21,631
- Sweet, right?
- Yeah, that's great.

1591
01:17:22,757 --> 01:17:24,342
How can you afford this place?

1592
01:17:24,967 --> 01:17:26,177
I mean, you're not

1593
01:17:26,260 --> 01:17:27,970
a drug dealer or something, are you?

1594
01:17:29,013 --> 01:17:30,640
No, I'm a writer.

1595
01:17:30,723 --> 01:17:33,184
And you're my girlfriend,
not my bookkeeper.

1596
01:18:12,306 --> 01:18:14,934
I always knew you weren't a queer.

1597
01:18:26,821 --> 01:18:28,114
She doesn't know what she's saying.

1598
01:18:28,197 --> 01:18:29,365
I'm going to wait outside.

1599
01:19:01,022 --> 01:19:03,524
You sure you don't want to
stay for Lorraine's wedding?

1600
01:19:03,608 --> 01:19:04,901
It's better if I go.

1601
01:19:10,239 --> 01:19:12,074
It was nice to meet you, Cliff.

1602
01:19:16,662 --> 01:19:18,206
This family will break your heart.

1603
01:19:47,401 --> 01:19:49,529
Welcome back. I'm Kenya Dunston

1604
01:19:49,612 --> 01:19:51,113
and today, we're going to discuss

1605
01:19:51,197 --> 01:19:53,533
a new novel that just debuted
at number one

1606
01:19:53,616 --> 01:19:55,826
on The New York Times bestseller list.

1607
01:19:55,910 --> 01:19:59,664
It is just a remarkable, special book,

1608
01:19:59,747 --> 01:20:01,582
and it's called...

1609
01:20:01,666 --> 01:20:03,709
Cover your kids' eyes and ears...

1610
01:20:06,921 --> 01:20:08,172
We are lucky enough

1611
01:20:08,256 --> 01:20:10,091
to have the author with us today.

1612
01:20:10,174 --> 01:20:12,426
And for those of you
who are just joining us,

1613
01:20:12,510 --> 01:20:14,136
please know that Mr. Stagg R. Leigh

1614
01:20:14,220 --> 01:20:16,597
is coming to us
from an undisclosed location

1615
01:20:16,681 --> 01:20:18,808
as he is still on the run
from authorities.

1616
01:20:20,601 --> 01:20:24,564
Oh, Stagg, tell us,
is this novel a true story?

1617
01:20:24,647 --> 01:20:26,357
Not factually,

1618
01:20:26,440 --> 01:20:28,234
but it's the true story
of what it's like

1619
01:20:28,317 --> 01:20:31,237
to be a Black man
in America like me.

1620
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:32,280
And it ain't pretty.

1621
01:20:32,363 --> 01:20:33,614
Amen to that.

1622
01:20:33,698 --> 01:20:35,533
During my time in prison,

1623
01:20:35,616 --> 01:20:38,536
I learned that words belong
to everybody.

1624
01:20:38,619 --> 01:20:40,454
So this book is my contribution

1625
01:20:40,538 --> 01:20:42,331
to this wonderful country of ours

1626
01:20:42,415 --> 01:20:44,500
where a Black ex-con
can become rich

1627
01:20:44,584 --> 01:20:47,670
simply by telling the story
of his unfortunate people.

1628
01:20:47,753 --> 01:20:49,255
Hm.

1629
01:20:49,338 --> 01:20:51,048
Yes. Yes.

1630
01:20:54,552 --> 01:20:55,678
- Yeah.
- Get this.

1631
01:20:55,761 --> 01:20:57,430
The FBI called Thompson Watt today

1632
01:20:57,513 --> 01:20:59,265
to try to get Stagg R. Leigh's identity.

1633
01:20:59,348 --> 01:21:00,850
- What?
- Don't worry.

1634
01:21:00,933 --> 01:21:02,643
They're not going to give him up.

1635
01:21:02,727 --> 01:21:04,812
Give who up?
It's me, I haven't done anything.

1636
01:21:04,895 --> 01:21:06,397
They don't know that.

1637
01:21:06,480 --> 01:21:08,983
- Look, this has gone too far.
- Relax.

1638
01:21:09,066 --> 01:21:10,234
The fugitive stuff's getting us

1639
01:21:10,318 --> 01:21:11,527
mountains of free press.

1640
01:21:11,611 --> 01:21:12,695
Plus, as you said,

1641
01:21:12,778 --> 01:21:13,904
you haven't done anything.

1642
01:21:13,988 --> 01:21:15,573
It's not like they can arrest you.

1643
01:21:15,656 --> 01:21:18,117
I wish I could go back
to not selling books.

1644
01:21:18,200 --> 01:21:19,201
I don't.

1645
01:21:20,161 --> 01:21:21,370
Bye.

1646
01:21:35,593 --> 01:21:36,594
Is everything all right?

1647
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:39,472
Yeah.

1648
01:21:39,555 --> 01:21:42,516
I'm just a little stressed out.
This, uh.

1649
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:44,560
book award stuff is a bit
more work than I expected.

1650
01:21:45,478 --> 01:21:46,479
Hm.

1651
01:21:47,980 --> 01:21:48,981
Mm.

1652
01:21:49,899 --> 01:21:50,941
Shit.

1653
01:21:52,276 --> 01:21:54,654
It's no biggie.
Got more forks in the kitchen.

1654
01:22:12,088 --> 01:22:13,089
What's this?

1655
01:22:13,172 --> 01:22:15,174
Mm. My friend got it for me.

1656
01:22:16,467 --> 01:22:17,426
Have you read it?

1657
01:22:17,510 --> 01:22:18,928
Of course not, have you?

1658
01:22:19,011 --> 01:22:20,012
Yeah.

1659
01:22:22,390 --> 01:22:24,308
And what did you think of it?

1660
01:22:24,392 --> 01:22:26,894
- I liked it.
- What did you like about it?

1661
01:22:26,977 --> 01:22:29,438
- Um...
- It didn't offend you?

1662
01:22:29,522 --> 01:22:30,523
You just said you didn't read it.

1663
01:22:30,606 --> 01:22:31,565
What's your problem?

1664
01:22:31,649 --> 01:22:33,109
No, you answer my question.

1665
01:22:33,192 --> 01:22:34,485
You answer mine.

1666
01:22:36,153 --> 01:22:39,782
My problem is that
books like this aren't real.

1667
01:22:40,658 --> 01:22:41,867
They flatten our lives.

1668
01:22:41,951 --> 01:22:43,077
What do you mean?

1669
01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:44,245
I mean, that...

1670
01:22:44,328 --> 01:22:46,330
you know, my life is a disaster,

1671
01:22:46,414 --> 01:22:47,998
but not in the way you'd think
reading this shit.

1672
01:22:48,791 --> 01:22:50,501
These things reduce us

1673
01:22:50,584 --> 01:22:52,920
and they do it
over and over again because

1674
01:22:53,003 --> 01:22:55,965
too many white people,
and people apparently like you

1675
01:22:56,048 --> 01:22:58,592
devour this slop like pigs at a dumpster

1676
01:22:58,676 --> 01:23:01,178
to stay current
at fucking cocktail parties

1677
01:23:01,262 --> 01:23:02,596
- or whatever.
- Okay, um...

1678
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:04,265
You got a lot of opinions for someone

1679
01:23:04,348 --> 01:23:06,308
who hasn't published anything for years.

1680
01:23:06,392 --> 01:23:07,435
And you've published what exactly?

1681
01:23:07,518 --> 01:23:09,270
Okay, what is wrong with you?

1682
01:23:10,187 --> 01:23:11,272
Why are you acting like this?

1683
01:23:11,355 --> 01:23:12,690
I'm not acting like anything.

1684
01:23:12,773 --> 01:23:14,775
You've been acting
like a weirdo for weeks.

1685
01:23:14,859 --> 01:23:16,777
You've been obfuscating,
sneaking around.

1686
01:23:16,861 --> 01:23:18,320
You're fucking unknowable.

1687
01:23:18,404 --> 01:23:20,698
Maybe you think being
an enigma is chic and artsy.

1688
01:23:20,781 --> 01:23:22,533
I just think it makes you an asshole.

1689
01:23:22,616 --> 01:23:23,951
Well, um,

1690
01:23:24,034 --> 01:23:25,953
you don't understand my life,
and you can't,

1691
01:23:26,036 --> 01:23:27,079
so just leave it at that.

1692
01:23:31,041 --> 01:23:32,418
One day, maybe you'll learn

1693
01:23:32,501 --> 01:23:34,545
that not being able
to relate to other people

1694
01:23:34,628 --> 01:23:36,756
isn't a badge of honor.

1695
01:23:41,886 --> 01:23:43,137
I think you should leave.

1696
01:23:43,220 --> 01:23:44,180
Well, you know what I think?

1697
01:23:44,263 --> 01:23:46,098
You should leave, Monk.

1698
01:24:02,281 --> 01:24:03,574
Nonsense.

1699
01:24:28,057 --> 01:24:29,350
You guys need any help with that?

1700
01:24:29,433 --> 01:24:30,476
Nah, we're good.

1701
01:24:32,478 --> 01:24:34,855
I thought you could use a little brawn.

1702
01:24:34,939 --> 01:24:37,942
- We got it.
- Mr. Monk.

1703
01:24:38,025 --> 01:24:39,485
You mind I keep the soda maker?

1704
01:24:39,568 --> 01:24:41,779
You don't like the bubbly water anyhow,
right?

1705
01:24:41,862 --> 01:24:43,906
- It's all yours.
- Thank you.

1706
01:24:46,283 --> 01:24:49,119
Um... Hey, what about this?

1707
01:24:50,538 --> 01:24:53,207
No. I always hated that color.

1708
01:24:53,290 --> 01:24:55,167
It's just the one your father bought.

1709
01:24:56,418 --> 01:24:58,796
Thelonious, this just came for you.

1710
01:24:59,755 --> 01:25:00,840
Okay, thanks.

1711
01:25:00,923 --> 01:25:01,924
This is the last of it.

1712
01:25:02,925 --> 01:25:04,218
Goodbye, Mr. Monk.

1713
01:25:07,888 --> 01:25:08,973
Bye, Lorraine.

1714
01:25:15,646 --> 01:25:16,730
Drive safe.

1715
01:25:16,814 --> 01:25:18,190
Guess I'll see you at the wedding.

1716
01:25:18,274 --> 01:25:19,275
All right.

1717
01:25:23,404 --> 01:25:24,405
I'll take that there.

1718
01:25:45,593 --> 01:25:48,846
Thompson Watt apparently raced
to publish it.

1719
01:25:48,929 --> 01:25:51,265
Yeah, I heard that they ran
300,000 copies already

1720
01:25:51,348 --> 01:25:52,808
and they're reprinting more soon.

1721
01:25:52,892 --> 01:25:54,393
I mean, it's going like gangbusters.

1722
01:25:54,476 --> 01:25:55,895
Christ on a crutch!

1723
01:25:55,978 --> 01:25:57,605
It better be good.

1724
01:25:57,688 --> 01:25:59,899
Hey, I heard the writer's a fugitive.

1725
01:25:59,982 --> 01:26:01,442
Well, that would explain the title.

1726
01:26:01,525 --> 01:26:02,818
He didn't go to charm school.

1727
01:26:02,902 --> 01:26:05,905
No,
I think that that background is a plus.

1728
01:26:05,988 --> 01:26:08,115
I am thrilled

1729
01:26:08,198 --> 01:26:11,452
to read a BIPOC man
harmed by our carceral state.

1730
01:26:11,535 --> 01:26:14,079
Are you one of those
defund the police nuts?

1731
01:26:14,163 --> 01:26:17,166
Yes,
and I wouldn't expect you to understand.

1732
01:26:17,249 --> 01:26:20,044
Well, I hope someone you love
doesn't get raped or murdered.

1733
01:26:20,127 --> 01:26:22,463
Can we not talk about this now, please?

1734
01:26:22,546 --> 01:26:24,423
Look, look, look. Criminal or not,

1735
01:26:24,506 --> 01:26:26,091
I don't think we should add it.

1736
01:26:26,175 --> 01:26:27,718
We're already weeks into the process,

1737
01:26:27,801 --> 01:26:29,136
and I don't know about any of you,

1738
01:26:29,219 --> 01:26:30,512
but I've got more than a dozen books

1739
01:26:30,596 --> 01:26:33,098
I haven't even opened yet.

1740
01:26:33,182 --> 01:26:34,892
It was published
before the submission date,

1741
01:26:34,975 --> 01:26:36,435
I think we have to accept it.

1742
01:26:37,811 --> 01:26:40,689
Yeah, it's just one more. And from the
looks of it, it should be a quick read.

1743
01:26:40,773 --> 01:26:41,857
A quick fuck.

1744
01:26:43,359 --> 01:26:44,777
I've had a couple of those.

1745
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:47,571
Bye, guys. Bye.

1746
01:27:23,399 --> 01:27:24,650
Hi, Monkie.

1747
01:27:26,860 --> 01:27:27,945
You look beautiful.

1748
01:27:43,043 --> 01:27:45,004
Oh, hello.

1749
01:27:45,087 --> 01:27:47,923
Monkie, do we know these men?

1750
01:27:48,007 --> 01:27:50,175
No, Mother, this isn't the Alzheimer's,

1751
01:27:50,259 --> 01:27:52,386
these are actual strangers.
Who are you people?

1752
01:27:52,469 --> 01:27:54,013
We're Cliff's friends.

1753
01:27:54,096 --> 01:27:55,597
Of course, you are.

1754
01:27:55,681 --> 01:27:57,599
We met him a few days ago.
I'm Kenny, this is Alvin.

1755
01:27:57,683 --> 01:27:58,684
Are you Monk?

1756
01:27:58,767 --> 01:28:00,853
I am. How did you know?

1757
01:28:00,936 --> 01:28:03,731
Oh. Well,
Cliff said Monk's a real tight-ass.

1758
01:28:05,649 --> 01:28:06,817
Did he?

1759
01:28:06,900 --> 01:28:07,901
Delightful.

1760
01:28:08,569 --> 01:28:09,987
Mother, you sit here.

1761
01:28:11,572 --> 01:28:12,573
Lorraine?

1762
01:28:18,245 --> 01:28:19,413
Do you like scrambled eggs?

1763
01:28:19,496 --> 01:28:20,998
I love scrambled eggs.

1764
01:28:21,081 --> 01:28:22,416
What the hell are you doing here?

1765
01:28:22,499 --> 01:28:23,500
You first.

1766
01:28:26,170 --> 01:28:28,505
Oh, shit, the wedding.

1767
01:28:28,589 --> 01:28:30,090
- Ah.
- Oh, fuck!

1768
01:28:31,967 --> 01:28:33,302
I didn't go to the airport.

1769
01:28:33,385 --> 01:28:36,555
That day I left,
I needed some time to myself.

1770
01:28:36,638 --> 01:28:39,349
Time to oneself implies by definition,
time alone.

1771
01:28:39,433 --> 01:28:40,893
Oh, Christ, here we go.

1772
01:28:40,976 --> 01:28:43,228
- Detective Dictionary.
- Ah!

1773
01:28:43,312 --> 01:28:44,313
Mr. Cliff.

1774
01:28:44,396 --> 01:28:45,606
I'm sorry, guys, I'll handle it.

1775
01:28:45,689 --> 01:28:47,691
You need to leave.

1776
01:28:47,775 --> 01:28:49,359
Don't bother to clean up, just go.

1777
01:28:49,443 --> 01:28:51,111
Oh, no, it's all right, just...

1778
01:28:51,195 --> 01:28:52,237
Please stay.

1779
01:28:52,321 --> 01:28:53,781
It's a celebration.

1780
01:28:55,449 --> 01:28:56,658
It's good to see you, Cliff.

1781
01:28:57,910 --> 01:28:59,912
It's good to see you too, Maynard.

1782
01:28:59,995 --> 01:29:01,455
I, um...

1783
01:29:01,538 --> 01:29:02,831
I... I don't want to impose.

1784
01:29:02,915 --> 01:29:04,166
You can't impose.

1785
01:29:05,250 --> 01:29:06,251
You're family.

1786
01:29:21,517 --> 01:29:22,518
Okay.

1787
01:29:23,352 --> 01:29:24,895
I'll, uh...

1788
01:29:24,978 --> 01:29:26,188
I'll go clean up a bit, yeah?

1789
01:29:27,940 --> 01:29:29,733
Congratulations, you guys.

1790
01:29:35,239 --> 01:29:36,698
Can we make y'all some breakfast?

1791
01:29:36,782 --> 01:29:38,492
I can whip up a killer smoothie

1792
01:29:38,575 --> 01:29:40,244
and Alvin used to work the
omelet station on a cruise ship.

1793
01:29:40,327 --> 01:29:43,038
That sounds lovely. Thank you.

1794
01:29:47,876 --> 01:29:49,211
It's very kind of you to let them stay.

1795
01:29:49,294 --> 01:29:50,254
Oh.

1796
01:29:50,337 --> 01:29:51,713
It's always easier dealing

1797
01:29:51,797 --> 01:29:53,715
with other people's families
than your own.

1798
01:29:55,217 --> 01:29:58,011
I regret to inform you
that in a couple hours,

1799
01:29:58,095 --> 01:29:59,555
this will be your family.

1800
01:31:56,713 --> 01:31:57,714
Piss her off?

1801
01:32:02,552 --> 01:32:03,512
Yeah.

1802
01:32:03,595 --> 01:32:06,473
- Shut her out?
- Yeah.

1803
01:32:08,141 --> 01:32:09,476
Dad shut everyone out too.

1804
01:32:10,394 --> 01:32:11,770
He lied all the time.

1805
01:32:12,854 --> 01:32:13,939
Look how that turned out.

1806
01:32:17,526 --> 01:32:18,777
I find myself

1807
01:32:19,987 --> 01:32:22,239
getting very angry these days like Dad.

1808
01:32:23,198 --> 01:32:24,199
These days?

1809
01:32:30,205 --> 01:32:32,749
I've been thinking a lot lately about

1810
01:32:32,833 --> 01:32:34,793
how Dad died not knowing I'm gay.

1811
01:32:38,088 --> 01:32:40,090
- I think he suspected it.
- Mm.

1812
01:32:41,300 --> 01:32:42,301
He may have.

1813
01:32:43,176 --> 01:32:44,553
But he didn't know for sure.

1814
01:32:45,971 --> 01:32:48,598
He never knew the entirety of me.

1815
01:32:50,017 --> 01:32:51,018
And now he never will.

1816
01:32:52,853 --> 01:32:54,604
And that makes me...

1817
01:32:55,731 --> 01:32:57,024
It makes me real sad.

1818
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:03,155
Well,
what if he had known and rejected you?

1819
01:33:03,238 --> 01:33:05,907
At least he'd be rejecting the real me.

1820
01:33:08,744 --> 01:33:10,329
I know that sounds crazy,

1821
01:33:11,580 --> 01:33:13,123
but there'd be some relief in that.

1822
01:33:16,460 --> 01:33:18,378
It doesn't sound so crazy.

1823
01:33:23,550 --> 01:33:25,218
People want to love you, Monk.

1824
01:33:28,013 --> 01:33:30,682
I personally don't know
what they see in you, but...

1825
01:33:32,642 --> 01:33:33,643
they want to love you.

1826
01:33:36,521 --> 01:33:38,148
You should let them love all of you.

1827
01:34:12,391 --> 01:34:13,975
It was dogshit.

1828
01:34:14,059 --> 01:34:16,228
I mean, some mollycoddled chump

1829
01:34:16,311 --> 01:34:18,730
faffing on about his dead mom...

1830
01:34:18,814 --> 01:34:20,732
Who cares?

1831
01:34:20,816 --> 01:34:23,902
Okay, so that means that
Bury Me Standing is fourth.

1832
01:34:26,238 --> 01:34:27,656
Let's talk about Fuck.

1833
01:34:27,739 --> 01:34:29,074
Could we not?

1834
01:34:29,157 --> 01:34:31,326
Personally, I adored it.

1835
01:34:32,577 --> 01:34:35,497
It was like gazing into an open wound.

1836
01:34:35,580 --> 01:34:36,998
I agree.

1837
01:34:37,082 --> 01:34:39,251
I think it's the strongest
African-American novel

1838
01:34:39,334 --> 01:34:41,044
I've read in a long time.

1839
01:34:42,671 --> 01:34:44,506
I mean, since yours.

1840
01:34:44,589 --> 01:34:47,259
- Of course, Sintara.
- Thank you.

1841
01:34:47,342 --> 01:34:49,511
You know, I actually liked it

1842
01:34:49,594 --> 01:34:51,054
much more than I was expecting.

1843
01:34:51,138 --> 01:34:53,807
I mean, this is a gutsy piece of work.

1844
01:34:53,890 --> 01:34:55,851
And necessary for the times.

1845
01:34:56,852 --> 01:34:58,270
What did you think, Sintara?

1846
01:34:59,813 --> 01:35:03,024
I found it to be pretty pandering,
actually.

1847
01:35:03,108 --> 01:35:04,109
You did?

1848
01:35:04,943 --> 01:35:06,361
Yes. Did you not?

1849
01:35:07,070 --> 01:35:08,488
I very much did.

1850
01:35:08,572 --> 01:35:11,992
I thought it was simplistic
and meaningless.

1851
01:35:12,075 --> 01:35:14,119
Well, of course, it was simplistic.

1852
01:35:14,202 --> 01:35:17,205
I mean, it's the language of the gutter.

1853
01:35:17,289 --> 01:35:19,791
You know,
not some prissy graduate thesis.

1854
01:35:19,875 --> 01:35:22,002
"Language of the gutter." Jesus Christ.

1855
01:35:22,085 --> 01:35:23,628
I think our blood sugar's low.

1856
01:35:23,712 --> 01:35:25,505
How about we take a break for lunch,
huh?

1857
01:35:25,589 --> 01:35:27,174
- Fine by me.
- Okay.

1858
01:35:27,257 --> 01:35:28,258
- Okay.
- Really?

1859
01:35:29,092 --> 01:35:30,510
Okay.

1860
01:35:41,730 --> 01:35:42,898
Oh, I'm sorry.

1861
01:35:42,981 --> 01:35:44,107
Oh, no, you're fine.

1862
01:35:44,191 --> 01:35:45,066
What, I'm not interrupting?

1863
01:35:45,150 --> 01:35:46,818
No.

1864
01:36:08,340 --> 01:36:09,341
Sorry.

1865
01:36:25,482 --> 01:36:26,983
Do you mind if I ask you something?

1866
01:36:27,734 --> 01:36:28,735
Sure.

1867
01:36:29,736 --> 01:36:31,363
Um...

1868
01:36:31,446 --> 01:36:33,698
What about Fuck did you find pandering?

1869
01:36:34,407 --> 01:36:35,408
Oh, uh...

1870
01:36:36,910 --> 01:36:39,120
I can't really put my finger on it,
but...

1871
01:36:40,747 --> 01:36:42,666
it's not different from
some of what's out there,

1872
01:36:42,749 --> 01:36:43,792
but it just felt...

1873
01:36:45,627 --> 01:36:47,295
soulless...

1874
01:36:47,379 --> 01:36:49,714
is the word that I'm going to use.

1875
01:36:49,798 --> 01:36:51,007
You said you agreed, right?

1876
01:36:51,091 --> 01:36:52,884
Yeah, I do. I think it seems written

1877
01:36:52,968 --> 01:36:56,096
to satisfy the tastes
of guilt-ridden white people.

1878
01:36:56,179 --> 01:36:58,557
Yeah,
the kind of book critics call important

1879
01:36:58,640 --> 01:37:00,350
and necessary, but not well-written.

1880
01:37:00,433 --> 01:37:01,935
Exactly.

1881
01:37:06,231 --> 01:37:10,443
Okay, so...
And please don't take offense at this,

1882
01:37:10,527 --> 01:37:13,154
but how is Fuck

1883
01:37:13,238 --> 01:37:15,657
so very different from your book?

1884
01:37:19,536 --> 01:37:21,621
Is that what this is about?

1885
01:37:21,705 --> 01:37:23,206
- You think my book's trash?
- No.

1886
01:37:23,290 --> 01:37:27,168
To be honest, I haven't read your book.

1887
01:37:27,252 --> 01:37:29,045
I've read excerpts

1888
01:37:29,129 --> 01:37:32,716
and it didn't seem so dissimilar.

1889
01:37:34,676 --> 01:37:37,596
I did a lot of research for my book.

1890
01:37:37,679 --> 01:37:39,931
Some of it was actually taken
from real interviews.

1891
01:37:40,765 --> 01:37:42,058
Maybe you've been up

1892
01:37:42,142 --> 01:37:44,185
in your ivory tower
of academia for so long

1893
01:37:44,269 --> 01:37:46,438
you've forgotten that some
people's lives are hard.

1894
01:37:46,521 --> 01:37:47,564
Your life?

1895
01:37:50,066 --> 01:37:52,652
You went to an exclusive
bohemian college.

1896
01:37:52,736 --> 01:37:54,821
You had a job at a fancy

1897
01:37:54,904 --> 01:37:56,573
publishing house in New York.

1898
01:37:56,656 --> 01:37:59,451
So what?
I don't need to write about my life.

1899
01:37:59,534 --> 01:38:00,994
I write about what interests people.

1900
01:38:02,329 --> 01:38:04,456
You write what interests
white publishers

1901
01:38:04,539 --> 01:38:07,208
fiending Black trauma porn.

1902
01:38:07,292 --> 01:38:08,960
They're the one buying the manuscripts.

1903
01:38:10,378 --> 01:38:12,505
Is it bad to cater to their tastes?

1904
01:38:12,589 --> 01:38:14,549
If you're okay feeding

1905
01:38:14,633 --> 01:38:16,092
people's base desires for profit...

1906
01:38:16,176 --> 01:38:18,136
I'm okay with giving
the market what it wants.

1907
01:38:18,219 --> 01:38:19,804
That's how drug dealers
excuse themselves.

1908
01:38:19,888 --> 01:38:21,431
And I think drugs should be legal.

1909
01:38:26,144 --> 01:38:29,147
But you're not fed up with it?

1910
01:38:29,230 --> 01:38:31,524
You know, Black people in poverty?

1911
01:38:32,609 --> 01:38:34,027
Black people rapping?

1912
01:38:34,110 --> 01:38:35,487
Black people as slaves?

1913
01:38:35,570 --> 01:38:37,864
Black people murdered by the police?

1914
01:38:37,947 --> 01:38:38,948
Old soaring narratives about...

1915
01:38:39,032 --> 01:38:40,158
Okay.

1916
01:38:40,241 --> 01:38:42,118
Black folks in dire circumstances

1917
01:38:42,202 --> 01:38:45,038
who still managed to maintain
their dignity before they die?

1918
01:38:45,121 --> 01:38:47,707
I mean,
I'm not saying these things aren't real,

1919
01:38:47,791 --> 01:38:50,919
but we're also more than this.

1920
01:38:51,002 --> 01:38:54,005
And it's like so many writers
like you can't envision us

1921
01:38:54,089 --> 01:38:56,299
without some white boot on our necks.

1922
01:38:56,383 --> 01:38:59,094
Do you get angry at Bret Easton Ellis

1923
01:38:59,177 --> 01:39:00,553
or Charles Bukowski

1924
01:39:00,637 --> 01:39:02,305
for writing about the downtrodden?

1925
01:39:02,389 --> 01:39:04,557
Or is your ire strictly
reserved for Black women?

1926
01:39:04,641 --> 01:39:06,476
Nobody reads Bukowski thinking

1927
01:39:06,559 --> 01:39:08,395
his is the definitive white experience.

1928
01:39:08,478 --> 01:39:10,313
But people, white people,

1929
01:39:10,397 --> 01:39:12,565
read your book and confine us to it.

1930
01:39:12,649 --> 01:39:14,901
They think that we're all like that.

1931
01:39:14,984 --> 01:39:16,653
Then it sounds like your issue

1932
01:39:16,736 --> 01:39:18,738
is with white people, Monk, not me.

1933
01:39:18,822 --> 01:39:20,490
Well, maybe, but I also think

1934
01:39:20,573 --> 01:39:22,158
that I see the unrealized potential

1935
01:39:22,242 --> 01:39:23,410
of Black people in this country.

1936
01:39:26,705 --> 01:39:29,332
Potential is what people see
when they think

1937
01:39:29,416 --> 01:39:31,167
what's in front of them
isn't good enough.

1938
01:39:41,010 --> 01:39:43,179
So, what are we talking about?

1939
01:40:32,145 --> 01:40:33,188
We're starting again.

1940
01:40:33,271 --> 01:40:34,397
I'll be right there.

1941
01:40:46,075 --> 01:40:48,369
Hey, can I speak to Arthur?
Yeah, it's Monk.

1942
01:40:51,414 --> 01:40:52,373
Hey.

1943
01:40:52,457 --> 01:40:53,875
I'm fine.

1944
01:40:53,958 --> 01:40:55,710
Listen, you think you can set up

1945
01:40:55,794 --> 01:40:57,086
another meeting with Wiley?

1946
01:40:58,171 --> 01:41:00,048
I've got a new idea for him.

1947
01:41:00,131 --> 01:41:01,925
Different kind of movie.

1948
01:41:02,008 --> 01:41:03,009
Thanks.

1949
01:41:17,357 --> 01:41:19,067
I think it's Fuck for me.

1950
01:41:19,150 --> 01:41:20,902
- Yeah, me too.
- Yeah, I agree.

1951
01:41:20,985 --> 01:41:22,821
I disagree. I'm sorry.

1952
01:41:22,904 --> 01:41:25,198
I think it would be a mistake

1953
01:41:25,281 --> 01:41:27,700
to award this book anything.

1954
01:41:27,784 --> 01:41:29,327
Well, it's two versus three, so...

1955
01:41:30,453 --> 01:41:31,454
Fuck's the winner.

1956
01:41:31,538 --> 01:41:32,956
Fuck is the winner.

1957
01:41:36,376 --> 01:41:38,920
You know,
it's not just that it's so affecting,

1958
01:41:40,046 --> 01:41:41,673
I just think it's essential

1959
01:41:41,756 --> 01:41:43,299
to listen to Black voices right now.

1960
01:41:51,641 --> 01:41:52,642
Mother.

1961
01:41:54,060 --> 01:41:55,061
Did you...

1962
01:41:58,481 --> 01:42:00,567
Did you know that Dad
was cheating on you?

1963
01:42:01,776 --> 01:42:04,112
He was bad at keeping secrets.

1964
01:42:04,195 --> 01:42:06,573
Why didn't you leave him?

1965
01:42:06,656 --> 01:42:09,200
He would've been
even more lonely without me.

1966
01:42:11,995 --> 01:42:13,246
You thought he was lonely?

1967
01:42:13,329 --> 01:42:15,206
You father was a genius.

1968
01:42:18,001 --> 01:42:20,962
Geniuses are lonely...

1969
01:42:22,338 --> 01:42:25,800
because they can't connect
with the rest of us.

1970
01:42:27,886 --> 01:42:29,387
You're a genius, son.

1971
01:42:31,890 --> 01:42:34,392
Well, I certainly don't
feel like one half the time.

1972
01:42:35,727 --> 01:42:36,936
That's because you've always been

1973
01:42:37,020 --> 01:42:38,897
so hard on yourself, Cliffy.

1974
01:42:46,112 --> 01:42:49,866
And now for the final
award for the evening.

1975
01:42:49,949 --> 01:42:53,453
I promise to leave you alone,
let you eat after this.

1976
01:42:53,536 --> 01:42:55,038
But before I announce the winner,

1977
01:42:55,121 --> 01:42:56,748
I would like to acknowledge our judges,

1978
01:42:56,831 --> 01:42:58,791
our incredibly diverse group of judges

1979
01:42:58,875 --> 01:43:00,960
who've sacrificed valuable time,

1980
01:43:01,044 --> 01:43:02,670
so we could all celebrate here tonight.

1981
01:43:02,754 --> 01:43:03,755
So if you put your hands together,

1982
01:43:03,838 --> 01:43:05,340
they did a fantastic job.

1983
01:43:10,386 --> 01:43:11,387
Okay.

1984
01:43:12,096 --> 01:43:13,264
Without further ado,

1985
01:43:14,599 --> 01:43:17,143
this year's Literary Award goes to...

1986
01:43:18,353 --> 01:43:19,646
Oh, I knew it.

1987
01:43:19,729 --> 01:43:22,148
By Stagg R. Leigh, Fuck.

1988
01:43:33,451 --> 01:43:35,787
Well, I'm not sure if Mr.
Leigh is going to grace us

1989
01:43:35,870 --> 01:43:37,330
with his presence here tonight.

1990
01:43:37,413 --> 01:43:40,124
He's notoriously cagey about attention.

1991
01:43:51,386 --> 01:43:53,054
Oh, hold on.

1992
01:43:53,137 --> 01:43:55,765
Oh, okay. I see some business.

1993
01:43:55,848 --> 01:43:59,644
Someone's coming.
Oh, Thelonious Ellison.

1994
01:43:59,727 --> 01:44:01,562
One of our esteemed judges.

1995
01:44:04,607 --> 01:44:06,442
Weirdly walking toward the stage.

1996
01:44:08,111 --> 01:44:09,696
No idea why.

1997
01:44:10,488 --> 01:44:11,364
Hey.

1998
01:44:11,447 --> 01:44:12,532
What's going on?

1999
01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:15,201
Excuse me.

2000
01:44:16,536 --> 01:44:17,996
Excuse me.

2001
01:44:34,303 --> 01:44:36,014
I have a confession to make.

2002
01:44:41,394 --> 01:44:43,271
Wait, wait, wait. Smash to black?

2003
01:44:45,773 --> 01:44:47,400
No fucking way, dude.

2004
01:44:47,483 --> 01:44:48,943
What's wrong with that?

2005
01:44:49,027 --> 01:44:51,571
There's no resolution here.
What's he going to say?

2006
01:44:51,654 --> 01:44:53,531
I don't know. I think that's
what's interesting about it.

2007
01:44:53,614 --> 01:44:54,699
No, he should say something.

2008
01:44:54,782 --> 01:44:56,200
What did you say?

2009
01:44:56,284 --> 01:44:58,453
Nothing. I walked out of the ceremony.

2010
01:44:58,536 --> 01:44:59,704
The next day I called you to say

2011
01:44:59,787 --> 01:45:01,164
I wanted to write this movie.

2012
01:45:01,247 --> 01:45:02,540
Well, Monk, the character

2013
01:45:02,623 --> 01:45:03,916
should say something.

2014
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:06,002
Well, I don't want him to make some

2015
01:45:06,085 --> 01:45:08,171
grandiose speech spoon-feeding everyone

2016
01:45:08,254 --> 01:45:09,547
the moral of the story.

2017
01:45:09,630 --> 01:45:11,632
There is no moral. That's the idea.

2018
01:45:11,716 --> 01:45:12,967
I like the ambiguity.

2019
01:45:13,051 --> 01:45:15,136
Okay, look. You're a good writer,

2020
01:45:15,219 --> 01:45:17,346
and this is almost there.

2021
01:45:17,430 --> 01:45:19,557
But novels aren't movies, okay?

2022
01:45:19,640 --> 01:45:21,601
Nuance doesn't put asses
in theater seats.

2023
01:45:21,684 --> 01:45:23,144
We need a big finish. What is this?

2024
01:45:24,270 --> 01:45:26,564
It's the seltzer you asked for.

2025
01:45:26,647 --> 01:45:27,732
Why is it all wet?

2026
01:45:29,233 --> 01:45:30,568
Condensation?

2027
01:45:30,651 --> 01:45:32,320
Condensation. Okay.

2028
01:45:32,403 --> 01:45:34,113
You're a fucking weatherman now.

2029
01:45:34,197 --> 01:45:35,281
You want anything?

2030
01:45:35,364 --> 01:45:36,824
Uh, no, I'm fine. Thank you.

2031
01:45:36,908 --> 01:45:38,034
All right. This is Monk.

2032
01:45:38,117 --> 01:45:40,123
We're going to make a movie with him
if he can get the third act right.

2033
01:45:40,223 --> 01:45:41,053
Nice meeting you.

2034
01:45:41,137 --> 01:45:42,763
- You as well.
- Get me a flat white.

2035
01:45:42,997 --> 01:45:44,832
And, hey, never again.

2036
01:45:47,043 --> 01:45:48,586
All right.

2037
01:45:48,669 --> 01:45:50,254
What other endings you got
in that big brain of yours?

2038
01:45:54,092 --> 01:45:55,259
How about if...

2039
01:45:55,343 --> 01:45:57,804
This year's Literary Award goes to...

2040
01:45:58,721 --> 01:46:01,182
by Stagg R. Leigh, Fuck.

2041
01:46:52,191 --> 01:46:53,943
I'd like to apologize.

2042
01:46:56,529 --> 01:46:58,406
I haven't been myself lately.

2043
01:47:20,011 --> 01:47:21,012
What about that?

2044
01:47:21,762 --> 01:47:22,805
Will she forgive him?

2045
01:47:24,307 --> 01:47:26,100
I don't know.

2046
01:47:26,184 --> 01:47:29,270
The real Coraline
won't return my phone calls.

2047
01:47:29,353 --> 01:47:31,439
Maybe the movie Coraline
is more forgiving.

2048
01:47:34,775 --> 01:47:36,569
No. It's too pat.

2049
01:47:36,652 --> 01:47:38,362
Makes the whole thing
feel like a romantic comedy.

2050
01:47:38,446 --> 01:47:40,114
We don't want to make a romantic comedy.

2051
01:47:40,198 --> 01:47:41,699
We want to make something real.

2052
01:47:42,825 --> 01:47:43,826
Give me something real.

2053
01:47:48,664 --> 01:47:49,790
I mean, we could just...

2054
01:47:51,083 --> 01:47:52,585
Hey, what's going on?

2055
01:47:53,461 --> 01:47:54,462
Excuse me.

2056
01:47:56,839 --> 01:47:57,840
Beat it.

2057
01:48:10,228 --> 01:48:13,272
I have a confession to make.

2058
01:48:13,356 --> 01:48:15,399
Stagg Leigh, on the ground now!

2059
01:48:15,483 --> 01:48:17,151
There he is!

2060
01:48:17,235 --> 01:48:19,070
No, no. I'm not Stagg Leigh.

2061
01:48:20,238 --> 01:48:21,239
He doesn't exist.

2062
01:48:21,322 --> 01:48:23,407
I'm Monk. Thelonious Ellison.

2063
01:48:23,491 --> 01:48:25,534
You're a fugitive! On the ground now!

2064
01:48:25,618 --> 01:48:26,786
No, no, no.

2065
01:48:26,869 --> 01:48:28,246
That was all a marketing gimmick.

2066
01:48:28,329 --> 01:48:30,164
- It was all a lie.
- He's got a gun!

2067
01:48:30,248 --> 01:48:31,624
No, no! No, no!

2068
01:49:04,073 --> 01:49:05,074
He's dead?

2069
01:49:06,492 --> 01:49:07,493
They smoke him?

2070
01:49:11,706 --> 01:49:12,707
It's perfect.

2071
01:49:14,458 --> 01:49:16,168
Yes! That is...

2072
01:49:17,420 --> 01:49:19,005
That is perfect.

2073
01:49:20,131 --> 01:49:22,216
Time to pick out your tux, my brother.

2074
01:49:22,300 --> 01:49:23,884
We're going to the big show.

2075
01:49:23,968 --> 01:49:26,178
Hey, come transcribe this. We got it.

2076
01:49:29,640 --> 01:49:30,641
Fuck.

2077
01:49:53,748 --> 01:49:54,749
Hey.

2078
01:49:59,420 --> 01:50:00,421
So?

2079
01:50:02,340 --> 01:50:03,424
They going to make your movie or what?

2080
01:50:04,175 --> 01:50:05,760
Unfortunately, yes.

2081
01:50:05,843 --> 01:50:07,845
Hey! You know what?

2082
01:50:07,928 --> 01:50:10,723
Good luck finding someone
handsome enough to play me.

2083
01:50:10,806 --> 01:50:12,141
I think they have.

2084
01:50:12,224 --> 01:50:13,225
Who they got?

2085
01:50:14,226 --> 01:50:15,227
Tyler Perry.

2086
01:50:18,064 --> 01:50:19,065
You got me. That's good.

2087
01:50:24,403 --> 01:50:25,529
All right.