* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* And what he did back then * Yeah
* He's still able to do * Yeah
* What he's done for others * Yeah
* He can do for you too * Yeah
* What he did back then * Yeah
* He's still able to do * Yeah
* What he's done for others, * Yeah
* He can do for you too
* I believe
* I believe in you
* You never change, I believe
* I believe
* Your promises are sure
* I believe in you
* I do believe
* I believe
* Lord, I believe in you
* I believe in you
* You're a miracle worker
* I believe
* I believe in you
* Travis sing for me
* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* I'm so glad to know
* That Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* And what he did back then * Yeah
* He's still able to do * Yeah
* What he's done for others * Yeah
* He will do for you too
* What he did back then * Yeah
* He's still able to do * Yeah
* What he's done for others, * Yeah
* He can do the same for you
* I believe
* I believe in you * I believe too
* And I believe
* I believe
* To heal and fight, deliver and free
* And I believe
* I believe
* I believe you're the savior * I believe in you
* I believe, yes I do
* I believe
* Believe in you
* I believe in you
* I will never stop believing
* He's been faith * Never stop believing
* Never let me down * Never stop believing
* Never see righteous forsaken
* Never stop believing
* Sit back and pray
* No
* Never stop believing
* Never stop
* Never stop believing
* Trust in
* Never stop believing
* Believe in him
- Yes, I'm here.
OK, it's paid?
Thank you.
Can I have a confirmation number?
B301612.
Thank you so much.
OK, you too.
How am I gonna pay all these bills?
God, God please make a way.
I've been trying to do the right thing.
Please make a way for us.
- Good morning.
- Good morning, sir.
Hotcake special.
- Come on now, Shartruce.
I've been coming here every day since Carter was president.
How come I can't get my four hotcakes?
- Why do we have to go through this every single morning?
Now, we have been through this before
and I gave you ample notice.
It was written on the blackboard.
Now, as of the 15th of last month,
hot cake special only comes with three hotcakes,
don't no more come with four.
It's the rules, baby.
- That ain't fair.
Y'all should have never changed that.
It ain't right.
- Look honey, change is apart of life.
Now we just live with it, accept it and move on.
- Oh, I gonna move on.
Move on to IHOP if y'all don't
move on with this foolishness.
- You know what, Mr. Weathers,
I wouldn't blame you if you did.
See, I wouldn't eat none of the
crap come up out of this dump.
Now, catch that tea with hotcakes.
- Don't spend it all in one place
- Fo, fo, four, four, four dollars Mr. Weathers?
I save your life and you leave me a measly four dollars?
You cheap son of a--
- Girl, You can't be cussing at the customers.
You know you--
- Girl please, that's Mr. Weathers.
You know darn well he'll be back here
bright and early, six am, begging me for an extra hot cake.
- That's true.
- He loves my smile.
- Girl, bye.
- Besides, don't nobody care if I get fired from this dump.
- I do, I need my--
- Attention!
Unless I'm mistaken, did I hear one of you daffodils
refer to my establishment as a dump?
- No sir, we said that the dumpling is the best, sir.
- I don't know, they're a little dry for my taste, now.
- Shartruce!
- Report to my office immediately, on the double!
The rest of you, as you were.
- Mmhm.
- If you get fired, can I get your locker?
- Girl please, that old man ain't firing me.
This place would fall apart without Shartruce.
- Hey Jackie.
You just missed Mr. Brady.
You late again.
- I know, I know.
I was waiting up all night for Patrick to get home.
He never came home, he was working late.
You must be off your rocker, are you OK?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
I'm just not gonna worry about it.
- What you mean you're not going to worry about it?
You have to worry about it.
You can't keep playing stupid forever Jackie.
That man don't mean you no good.
He was working late.
- Let me tell you something miss thing,
you need to mind your own business.
I'm not jumping to any conclusions because I trust him.
- OK.
Well, my grandmamma used to say,
"If it looks, smell and taste
"like a rat, it's probably a rat."
- What the hell kinda stuff y'all got going on in Louisiana?
You eat rat?
Goodness.
- Oh girl, you ain't never ate nothing
if you ain't had no fried nutria
with some of my grandfather's homemade mole shine, girl.
Mmm.
- You know what, you need to get away from me.
Because you're just country
and ain't nothin nobody could do with you.
- For serious, really Jackie.
You know, I grew up in a home with a father
who was never there because he was always working.
Started hanging out with guys who didn't mean me no good.
You know how that goes.
- Well, whatever happened to you
ain't got nothing to do with me and my family,
so you need to learn how to keep
your little nose in your own Kool-Aid.
- Ms. Beatrice.
- Can we make this quick, Mr. Brady?
Because I need to be out there collecting my tips.
- You know, the bible says,
"He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread,
"but he that followeth vanity
"shall be void of all understanding."
- What the hell-eth do that have to do with me?
I ain't tilling no more,
nothing else for no $7.77 an hour.
Which is why I need to be out there
collecting my tips and not in here flabbergasting with you.
- You've been working here since you were what?
18 years old, I remember the day
you walked in here like it was yesterday.
But pretty soon it's coming time for you to move on.
You got to get some ambition about yourself.
I know this place ain't exactly the Taj Mahal
or Roscoe's for that matter.
But me and Ms. Lilly built this place
from the ground up and it's all we ever wanted.
You should want more for yourself.
- I do.
I got dreams.
What you trying to say Mr. Brady?
- I ain't trying to say nothing.
But you walk around here with your mouth poked out,
angry at everybody all day long.
Why, because you know you could do better.
- I don't quite understand the direction
this conversation is taking.
- Shartruce, you need to start thinking
about the next chapter in your life.
This ain't it.
I'm giving you your two weeks notice.
- Mmhm.
Mmhm, just like that.
I knew the minute Ms. Lilly died
you was gonna stone plumb lose your mind.
I wouldn't be surprised if ain't up there
at that Magic City tipping all our money
to them stripper girls, which is why we can't get no raise,
because you out there making it rain.
Look, I been here longer than anybody else
and you know I deserve a raise.
But instead you just gonna toss me out
like some old dirty rag.
- Shartruce, it's for your own good, it's out of love.
- Oh, old man, if I had all my rent and money for the month,
I'd clean walk out of here on you right now.
Oh.
- The customers don't like the changes you've made
to the hotcake special.
Now tell on that.
- Father, forgive her, for she know not what she's saying.
- Girl, can you believe he actually fired me?
Who the hell's gonna take over
my shifts when I need to study?
- Thanks for having so much concern about your friend.
- Girl, I'm sorry.
It's just that I really do need to study,
the MCATS is coming up.
So for real, what'd he say?
- I don't know, something about tilling the earth
and I have no ambition.
- Well, girl, you've been here since
the B2K posters was up on the wall.
- I don't know what I'm-a do.
I know nothing else but this place.
I'm the one picked out these pictures, I picked out these.
- I know.
This is like home.
- Home.
It was a cold and rainy day when I left home.
My stepfather had beaten me once again.
And my momma just laid on the couch and watched, again.
I'd had enough.
So I just left.
I had no money.
Just stayed on the street for two whole nights.
The things I saw.
The things I did.
Till the time I came in here I was starving.
I told, I told them I would work for free,
just for something to eat.
And Ms. Lilly, she gave me a job right on the spot.
She took me in and loved me like a mother.
Only mother I've ever known and now she's gone
and he just gonna push me out like I ain't nothing.
I know I talk about this place really bad, but...
I don't have no one else, I don't have nothing else,
I don't have no family.
You all are the only family I got.
I don't know how to do nothing.
I ain't nobody, I ain't got nobody.
- Shh, shh, you never told me that story before.
- That ain't no kinda story to be telling nobody.
- OK, OK, OK, OK, it's gonna be OK.
It's gonna be OK, OK?
- You know, I just want to say
that I really appreciate all you do.
But sometimes, you just gotta take a chance
and enter that burning building 'cause, woo.
OK, I'm gonna shut up and go home and feed my cat.
I'm too old to be saying these kinda things.
- Good seeing you Ms. Beatrice.
- Wow.
Now, if I knew they were hiring beauty queens around here,
I would have came in a whole lot sooner.
- You cannot possibly think that was a good line.
- Hey, well it was worth a shot.
- Yes, definitely a miss.
- Oh, man, you're killing my good work here, girl.
Well, I mean, but.
Alright, well tell me you believe in second chances.
Can I start over?
- You don't get a second chance to make a first impression.
And I'm taken.
But very flattered, so thank you.
- Hey.
- Well, I mean, I'm a little low on water.
- Yeah, some water.
- OK, coming right up.
- Right.
Man.
- Well hello my love.
- Good evening, Jackie.
- So I decided--
- Baby, I'm beat, I'm gonna turn in for the night, alright?
- OK, well, well sleep well.
- Girl, you didn't see the reunion?
That doggone Nene Leaks is out of her mind.
Talking about oh honey, she could read.
I mean read, read.
You gotta see it, it's hysterical.
Yes.
Wait a minute.
Um, let me call you right back.
A hotel key.
OK, maybe he had a business meeting.
Something, I don't...
Why would you have a hotel key?
- And this for you.
Did you just roll your eyes at me?
Woman you come up in here every day.
You know the food ain't no good.
I don't cook it, I just bring it out to you.
Rolling your eyes at me.
I get paid minimum wage and it ain't for stank attitudes.
- Tru, be professional.
- Enjoy your slop.
- Good morning, Mr. Mills, you are you feeling today?
- Oh, not bad, if I must say.
You know, when you get past a certain age, everything hurts.
- Well, maybe I'll make you some of my homemade
blackberry and yam syrup, it's my grandma's recipe,
known to loosen the joints.
- Yeah.
- Bring it on, sweet pea, I'll try anything at this point.
- Good, I'll get you some to go.
The hotcake special and coffee, as usual?
- No sir, coming right up.
I put mine in, the couple.
- Long night out at the club, huh?
Somebody get it in huh?
- Next time take me with you to the club, girl.
Ms. Beatrice love to drop it like it's hot.
- Young lady, why are you wearing
those sunglasses in my diner?
This ain't the beach.
The bible says, "The word is a lamp unto
"my feet and a light unto my path."
Jackie!
- Is that man beating on you, huh?
- No sir, I fell down the stairs.
I just had a little too much wine.
- Yeah, and just happened to land on his fist, huh?
- Now, I done told you to stay out of my business.
- Choke it, girl, you need to lower your check.
- Or what, I'll give you another one
to match the one you already got.
I'm from Decatur baby, what? - Shartruce!
- I don't care where you're from!
- No. - Shartruce!
Chill.
You see she's hurt, look at her face.
- Sorry, I'm just saying.
It's gotta be a hood switch up in me
that when you get disrespectful,
I just go gorilla like .
- In 50 years of marriage, I never once raised my hand
to my beautiful Lilly, I never once.
Not once raised my hand to her.
Now, she done went upside my head plenty times
with all types of foreign objects and projectiles,
but it was all done in love.
See, the bible says that love
is patient and kind, not violent.
- Well, I know some impatient, unkind folk around the block
that'll set his mind right real quick, fast and in a hurry.
Ain't nothing but a hoody hoo away baby, what?
- OK, you know what.
Can everybody just please stay out of my business?
- I mean, who do you think you are,
just walking up in my kitchen like that, man?
- I am Mr. Leroy Gregory Marshall III,
Fulton County health inspector.
- Oh.
- You must be looking for Mr. Brady.
I heard he was hiding behind the stove.
Order's up!
- Just trying to fix this raggedy stove.
Six burners, two of them working.
How can I help you, Mister,
would you like a piece of apple pie?
- No sir.
I wouldn't eat a thing in this dump.
And besides, shutting you down
is going to be the sweetest thing ever.
- Mr. Marshall, I made all the changes
you asked for last time you were here.
- The eggs were stored two inches
below where they should have be stored.
And two inches in my book is as big as a football field.
- Hey, speaking of football, you like the Falcons?
- Are you trying to bribe a county official?
- Oh no, no, no sir.
It's just that I had an extra ticket to the Falcon's game
on the 50 and I thought maybe--
- Because if you were,
I was getting ready to say you were a smart man.
- Mr. Marshall, what do you want?
- 10,000 dollars.
Or I'll shut you down faster than you can butter a biscuit.
- The Marshall family don't
have a history in stuttering, sir.
- Yeah, well the Brady family
don't have a history in backing down.
- As you wish.
Let me see can I find some
additional violations around here.
- Oh, no, no, no Mr. Marshall.
You don't have to go through all that.
Let's talk this over like reasonable businessmen.
Let's have a cup of coffee, huh?
- I thought you'd see it my way.
Can you make that a plastic cup please?
- Oh, we're gonna fix you up real good, real good.
- Oh no you ain't.
What in the H-E double L hockey sticks
are you doing sitting up in here, OK?
- My feet hurt, my corns was throbbing
and so was my bunions and I'm sorry if it stank.
- OK, well you gonna be sorry if Mr. Brady
catches you sitting back here on his time relaxing, OK?
He gonna give you the Sermon on the Mount
and the Ten Commandments.
You got customers out there.
- Look, they ain't tipping so I ain't trippin'.
- Well, you do look awfully cute today.
- Not if we was on a remote island,
you was last fool on it and I was out of batteries.
- That's how you're gonna play it, bro?
I mean why, because I ain't ballin?
I ain't making it rain in the clubs or something?
Do I look like I would be up in the clubs or something?
- I'm just trying to say I work an honest job,
making an honest living, what's wrong with that?
- Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Look here, how am I supposed to meet somebody
that's gonna take me out of here,
if I'm wasting my time with somebody stuck in here.
You stuck in here, I wanna be outta here.
In here, outta here.
Do that make sense to you, a little bit?
- Think so.
- Go on somewhere, go on, go on, figure it out, go on.
- Excuse me, girl, where you been?
I've been looking everywhere for you.
He's here.
- TR, he finally came through!
- And why the hell would TR be up in here?
- Well, he gotta eat too, something.
- No, Patrick, Jackie's man is here.
It's about to go down, let's go.
- Oh girl. - Let's go.
- Wait a minute let me get the chitlins.
- Oh, you stupid.
- It's gonna be a show.
- OK.
- I don't know.
- Hey.
Traffic was crazy on 85, it took me hours to get here.
I'm trying to work.
Cause I got it for you man, what?
- Baby--
You're embarrassing me.
- He, you mean--
- You, thank you.
- Baby listen, I promise.
I am sorry OK, it will never happen again.
- Yeah, better not happen.
Because I got some homies that'll get you touched.
Real quick partner.
What, partner, what partner? - Stop.
- Out of my way, just sayin.
- Can we please talk about this when I get home, Patrick?
I want to believe you, I really do.
- Look, don't believe what I say.
Believe what I do, OK?
I'm gonna make this right, you'll see.
- No, no, baby, now don't fall for that, alright?
Nope, don't do it.
I heard enough of this foolishness.
Come on, get these orders out, pick up!
- Um, OK, we...
We'll talk about it when I get home, alright?
- OK.
- Alright honey.
- I'll be waiting.
Child, if your brain was in a pigeon it would fly backwards.
- My grandmamma told me that love was blinder
than Ray Charles and deafer than Helen Keller.
That was a wise woman.
- Child, why you always quoting your grandmamma?
She ate rodents for a living.
I mean, how wise could she be?
- Alright.
You gonna stop talking about my nana
or I'm gonna have to go gorilla on you.
- Back up off it baby.
You.
What, you don't see him?
- Listen, if either one of you had a man,
then you would know what it took to keep one,
until then, shut up cause you're just jealous.
- Oh yeah, you know, I wish I had me a man
that made me come to work looking like I just
fought five rounds with Floyd Mayweather.
- Now this is the last time I'm gonna tell you
to stay out my business.
- Or what Jackie, what you gonna do?
- Oh you don't know.
- You wanna fight me, but you ain't gonna fight him, huh?
- OK y'all.
Why y'all always trying to fight?
Jackie, we just care about you, that's it.
- No, you only care about yourself.
Now leave me alone.
He's a good man and you don't know anything about him.
- Jackie, he's so good, could you ask him
to let me get one of them black eyes too?
Mr. White!
- Hey!
- Detective, welcome back, long time no see.
- Yeah, I know.
I'm sorry it's been so long.
We had a month long sting operation over Mechanicsville.
But you know I'm usually on time every Friday.
- I can usually set my clock by you, 3:15 on the dot.
So did you get your man?
- Take a look.
- Oh, front page no less.
15 arrested, led by Detective Robert White.
Honey, you are something special at what you do, huh?
- No, no, we just gotta clean up the city
and make a safe place to raise our families again,
no matter what it takes.
- Well, I've always been partial to Law & Order.
Bum, bum.
You know I'm on probation.
Shouldn't have said.
- Probably something I don't need to know about.
- Yes ma'am.
- Yes, sir.
- Well, let's see now.
If I don't pay the meat supplier for two months,
maybe I can raise the money that way.
No, that's not gonna work.
I'm already behind two months with him, I--
King James Diner?
Hey, hello Dr. Patterson, Larry.
You got the results back from the lab, huh?
No, I don't have time to come down there Larry,
I'm too busy right now here.
Give it to me straight, over the phone, right now.
I see.
No, I'm a big boy, I can, I understand.
OK, OK, well I'll definitely come in
and we can discuss my options.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll call the nurse.
And thanks again, Larry.
Thanks old buddy.
Lilly.
It's a tough one baby.
It's a tough one, Lil.
- Somebody's here awful early.
What's up with that?
- Trying to get a jump on the day.
Get this job search started 'fore this place get busy.
- Child please, you know you ain't going nowhere.
Job search, are you serious?
- I guess I am.
- Come on.
- Mr. Brady told me.
- No, no, no, no, no.
The minute you start to leave,
he gonna ask you to come right back, you know that.
Don't even play.
- He said I had no ambitions.
Mann Mann, you think I don't have no ambitions?
- Well, I think he's being a little bit more over ambitious
if he think that this place is gonna this diner without you.
- Yeah, I guess that's the problem huh?
When I first got here it was cause Miss Lilly took me in
and I had nowhere else to go.
Then I just started to feel obligated.
Like they, they really did need me.
Now I just feel guilty and lost.
And mad.
And angry.
- Well, Miss Lilly was a wonderful person.
She was like a mother to me.
And lord knows that, you know,
in my entire existence living on this earth,
I never taste a better piece of pecan pie.
- Why you talking about some damn pie
and I'm sitting here trying to tell you I got problems.
Serious problem, I don't have no talent.
I don't have no writing skills.
I can't spell for nothing.
I can't file, I don't even know
how to work this computer thing,
I can't dance, I couldn't even be a stripper if I wanted to.
- Oh, you could be a stripper now, you got the body.
- Yeah, got the big boobies huh, you like that?
Why don't you get outta my face with that mess?
- Well, you're right.
Because I did see you dance and you have no rhythm.
You've kinda got a little Miley Cyrus going on.
- I'm being serious here, Mann Mann.
- I'm being serious too.
Your twerking ain't working.
- I hate you.
- I mean, my only real love in life is cooking.
That's it.
Before my daddy died, I remember, I was a little boy.
He used to take me in the kitchen,
teach me how to mix ingredients,
put a little this and that, stir this up,
little dash of that in there.
Taught me how to cook with love.
Never forget that.
Never felt closer to anyone else.
That was our time in the kitchen.
- Do you think I give a damn about you and your daddy?
You sitting here going round and round memory lane
and I got issues here.
- I mean, maybe that's your issue.
I mean, what's in your heart, what do you love?
- Whatever.
- Yeah, whatever.
I'm gonna get this bacon started, alright?
Put that down.
- Good morning Mr. Weathers, usual, hotcake special?
- Yeah beautiful.
But you know what I was thinking?
Since Mr. Brady ain't here yet,
I was wondering if it might be possible
that you could slip one extra
hotcake on that plate this morning?
- You're so cute.
Well yes, if Mr. Brady isn't here.
And it could be possible if the tip is right.
- You never know unless you try.
- You know what, you're absolutely right Mr. Weathers.
You never do know unless you try, huh?
One hotcake special coming up sir, with an extra hotcake.
- Thank you beautiful.
- Yes, yes I understand.
The line of credit is maxed out.
But Charlie, can you make an exception just this one time?
Charlie, I've been at this bank over 30 years.
Man, I don't wanna hear nothing about no credit crunch.
You over here all the time crunching on free food.
Hook an old man up.
The board?
I ain't got time to hear about no board.
Lord, move on behalf of the saints cause
the devil is working.
- The real sin is trying to pass this place off
as a legitimate establishment.
- Those are the forms that I need
in order to start the process of shutting you down.
That should ruin your appetite.
You can't do this.
I'll call my lawyer.
- Yeah, and in maybe six months, you may get some relief.
But maybe not.
But by that time, Mr. Brady, you'll be finished.
Ain't nobody gonna eat here after they know
that you've been shut down for health violations.
The internet is very powerful nowadays
and my pen is the law my friend.
- Mr. Marshall, let me fix you a cup of coffee.
Let's talk this over.
This diner is a fixture in this community, a landmark.
We've been here over 25 years.
- Save that sentimental garbage for someone who cares.
Where's the money?
- I don't have it yet.
- No, well that's too bad.
That's too bad.
- Mr. Marshall, I built this place with my bare hands.
- All good things come to an end, Mr. Brady
and I use the term good thing very loosely
in reference to this place.
- Just give me a couple more days.
- I give you three days.
But 10% is gonna be your interest.
- You can't do this.
No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
- Three days sir, I'll be here Friday.
- Get out.
Ms. Brady, how's your steak?
- Just like I like it.
- Always was your favorite.
- You know I would come down from heaven
for a plate of your world famous steak and eggs.
- Lilly, I miss you so much.
- We just didn't have enough time.
- Child please, I haven't gone anywhere.
There's so much you don't understand.
So much I have to share with you when the time comes.
- Lilly, I'm tired.
Bone tired.
- Rejoicing in hope.
Be patient in tribulation.
Be constant in prayer.
- OK, OK.
Act like you know that word.
Delicious.
- Um, Mr. Brady, now, I'm sorry,
but I overheard everything that crook just said
and he ain't getting away with this.
- There's nothing I can do, my hands are tied.
- Uh uh, uh uh, now I know we don't
always get along on everything
but I have never seen you compromise your integrity.
And I've never seen you back down from a fight.
Now, we gonna handle this.
- Shartruce, I'm tired.
He gonna shut us down if I don't give him 10,000 dollars.
Maybe it's for the best, shucks,
I'm too old for all this stress anyway.
This is your dream.
This is Miss Lilly's dream.
- It's over, I'm sorry.
- Since when did the great Frank Brady
just start rolling over for any man?
You disgust me.
- Shartruce, I have cancer.
In my prostate, the biopsy report came back positive.
I'm dying.
- No, no, no, no.
- Go on back to work.
- You have magic in that syrup.
I haven't felt this good in years.
Would you mind if I get some more?
- Yes you can Mr. Mills.
You know what, I'll even pour you out a couple of jars
for free to take home with you, what you think?
- God bless you.
- Thank you.
I could really use one right now.
- You got one.
- Oh, I need to talk to you.
- It's gonna be quick.
- OK, hurry up, I gotta go.
- OK, I was wondering if um,
if I could take over a couple of your shifts.
I need to make some extra money.
Girl, I need my shifts.
- No, I know, but if you ever need to swap,
I'm wondering if I can help out
because I'm having a hard time making ends meet this month.
- Right.
You do have to take care of little man.
OK, I'll tell you what, I'm supposed to do
a double shift today, so you can have my night shift
and I can go home and surprise Patrick.
Maybe stop off and get some Victoria Secret,
a little something nice, OK?
- I guess.
- And I'm sorry for being mean to you earlier.
- Oh no, don't worry about it.
Sisters wouldn't be sisters
without a little fight every once in a while.
- Yeah, you're right.
Love you.
- I love you too.
- Alright, girl, I gotta go, my money is calling.
I'm coming.
- Thank you.
Welcome.
- Thank you.
A turkey melt with bacon and french fries.
Here you go, Ms. Beatrice, can I get you anything else?
- Sure, I'll be right back.
No tip at all.
Are you serious?
It was like six people at this table.
- That is just trifling.
I mean, I can't tip you either.
But once Obama send that check at the top of the month,
I got you girl.
- You are crazy, Ms. Beatrice.
I'll be back with your ketchup.
- Speaking of ketchup, I sure would
like to ketchup with that right there.
- Uh huh, you better stop.
- Mm, Lord have mercy.
- You need to tie your shoes up
before you come out on this floor.
- First of all, I want to thank each and every one of you
for all your years of service.
I couldn't have made it this far without any of you.
- Oh man.
We about to get a raise Mr. Brady, is that what I hear?
- Just shut up and let the man speak.
- I'm trying to let him speak.
But you know, closed mouth don't get fed.
You know, I'm trying to get a raise, you know.
You don't know if you don't ask.
- I'm asking you to stay quiet.
- Unfortunately, at the end of the month
I'm going to have to close the diner.
- No, I need this job.
- Forces beyond my control, I'm sorry.
I mean, I just I got the kitchen mastered Mr. Brady.
I'm gonna have to learn a whole new kitchen now.
Man, I mean, come on, I got the oven working right.
I got it mastered.
Got the brisket coming out just right,
tender like everybody like it.
I mean, they're ordering the brisket now, will you tell him?
Thought she liked my brisket, that's terrible right there.
- Excuse me miss.
You think I can get some more lemonade?
I've been sitting down for like
10 minutes waiting, empty glass.
- Don't you see me out here smoking my Trippy Stix?
I am on a break.
I ain't chiefed in three weeks,
here you come, I'm sitting out here burning.
What the heck does that mean?
You still smacking some of that food you got left over?
I have been working all day long, what you been doing?
Sitting at my counter bothering me.
If you want good service, take your butt to the Red Lobster.
This is a dive, a dump, day old food.
- Man--
- Maybe you don't need no glass of lemonade.
Maybe what you need is a tall glass of run around the block.
All you gonna do is catch the diabetes.
Then what you gonna do?
You ain't go no insurance.
Gonna be sitting around making the sweet taxpayers
of the gorgeous state of Georgia pay for your doctor bills.
Go on, get outta my face.
Go on right now with your chubby skins.
- No, you can't get no hit.
All you gonna do is get hungry again.
Can I get a hit, you greedy.
Miss Lilly?
- Now I know I taught you better than that.
Treat others?
- As you would want them to treat you.
I'm sorry ma'am.
I know, I...
I just been so angry since you left.
It's just like everything has changed.
Nothing is the same.
- Why do you speak of change as if it's a bad thing?
- Because I just miss you so much.
- You're not without me.
- Sure feels like I'm without you.
- Things are not always as they seem.
Remember that and open up your heart.
The bible tells us that love,
it never fails.
It never fails.
- I never got a chance to tell you how I felt.
I just want to say to you thank you.
- I ain't dead yet, child, come on let's get back to work.
The customers are complaining.
- Yes, we made it home girl.
Everything worked out perfectly, you got more hours
at the diner, I get to spend more time with Patrick.
I even splurged on a little outfit, you know,
get it poppin in the room.
Yes girl, I just got home, so I will call you later.
OK, bye.
- Honey.
I wasn't expecting you.
Jack, what are you doing here?
Listen, let me explain.
Why are you here?
Jackie listen, calm down.
Just let me explain it to you, OK?
It's not what it looks like, OK?
- No, no, no, sweetheart.
You stay right where you are.
I'm leaving.
- Don't...
Jackie let's talk about it at least, alright?
- You finally found what you
were looking for, I'm happy for you.
I told you this was a bad idea.
- It was your idea.
Jackie!
- You said you were separated.
Is everything out of your mouth a lie?
- Alright now, when you find yourself in the hospital
with your leg chopped off because you done
caught a supersize case of diabetes,
I ain't coming to visit you.
- Man, come--
- What you trying to, you feeling froggy,
then you better drop, what?
- Hey, hey.
- Come on, I got you. - Hey lady.
Oops, aw.
Sorry?
I really am, I don't know what's wrong with me.
I am a work in progress.
God is truly not finished with me yet.
I going to go get you a free cup of lemonade, OK?
OK, I'm sorry.
- Wait a minute, wait, wait a minute.
Was that an apology that just came out your mouth?
I mean, come on.
I've known you a long time,
I never seen you apologize to anybody for anything.
You feeling alright?
- Get off of me.
- You been drinking some of Melissa's little famous syrup,
let me smell your breath.
- Go away fool, go away, go away.
I'll be right back, I got important customers.
- Whatever.
That woman right there is a true piece of work.
But you know what, I'm just the guy for the job.
- Look lover boy, you ain't got a shot on this earth.
So why don't you mosey on back in the kitchen
and get the job done on my omelet.
My sugar's low, I'm tweaking and I'm shaking.
- OK, alright.
- Trip.
- I'll drop dead up in here.
- Oh Lilly, everything was so simple back then.
Baby, I can't wait to dance with you again.
- Hey. - Hey.
- I know you not leaving for work.
- No.
- No, I'm not OK.
- I don't have to be at the station for another hour.
Want to walk and talk?
- No, it's just not a good time, my man, he's--
- Hey, hey, look.
How about you talk and I'll listen.
And look, I promise you I'm not going to say
anything lame, won't crack any jokes or pickup lines.
Come on.
- OK.
Just for you.
- I know I said I loved the hashbrowns,
but Lord, you sure piled them on.
- Well, anything for the man in blue who has promised
to protect and serve this community with a smile.
You ain't never this nice.
You do something to mess with your probation?
- Mmhm, not that I can think of.
I mean, I was out there smoking some...
- Child please, they need to put this thing under the jail.
She is a ticking time bomb, a real threat to the community.
Oh lord, I'm sorry.
Let me go, I don't know why I'm saying these things.
My sugar gets slow and I just get to snitching.
- You wanna get to snitching,
why don't you snitch on the weed and the bong
you got in that little bitty purse.
It's a little bitty bong, but it's a bong in there,
snitch on that.
- No habla ingles.
- You don't mind if I sit down, can I talk to you?
- Well, I'm OK, it's not about me.
It's about my boss, you know Mr. Brady,
the man who owns this place.
- It's nothing, I was just teasing.
You enjoy those hashbrowns, you hear me detective.
Thank you, I'll see you next time.
- Go check on that juice box.
What are you doing?
Jermaine, is this my--
- He's OK.
- I got evicted.
We didn't have anywhere else to go.
- No, no, no, you didn't have anywhere else to go?
Honey.
- We're OK.
- No, you're not OK.
I had no idea it had gotten like this.
This is bad Melissa.
- Thank you so much for listening.
- Hey, any time.
Look um, I gotta get back.
So why don't you let me come back and meet you
when you get off, take you to your car.
- No, it's OK, you've already done enough.
I appreciate it.
- No. - Alright.
You're OK, it's no pressure, alright?
Well, I'll see you tomorrow.
- OK.
- Then the next day, then the day after that,
and then the day after that, all through the week,
won't end until you take me serious.
A woman like you shouldn't be taken for granted.
Why don't you let me show you how you need to be treated?
- Alright.
I gotta go, I have to get to work.
- Gotta get to work.
- Yeah.
- OK.
- Alright, I'll see you later.
- I will definitely see you later.
- Bye.
- Goodnight.
- Look, I'm in serious trouble, Tru.
- OK, well we all in trouble,
seem to be following us around lately.
- This is really serious.
You got evicted.
- I used to be an addict.
- Got a lot of problems.
I been sober for two years.
- Oh my god.
- But I did some really terrible, terrible things.
I um...
I left Jermaine home alone for two days
while I was high and strung out.
- Oh baby.
- My momma called social services
and they took him away.
That was my breaking point.
It took me a year and a half to get him back.
I did everything that the judges
and the social workers asked me to do.
I got this job.
I cleaned up you know?
I'm in school.
I just love him so much, Tru.
- I know baby.
- I can't...
- You are a good mother.
- I can't hurt him again.
- You won't.
- If the social worker finds out that I got evicted, I--
- Look, look, look, look, now I ain't got much.
I mean I ain't baller, baller Jackie,
but what I do have is yours.
Will you be my roommate?
Just till you get on your feet.
- Hey ladies.
- Just got here and I got some cheesecake.
What's up with the long faces?
- Nothing, we gonna be alright.
- Well, I'm not.
Two words.
Man whore.
- In my bed.
- Another woman.
- Whore.
- Ew, I'll be damned.
That mother, I'll go get the plates.
- Get the plates.
- I left.
- Oh heck, they still over there?
- Still over there.
- Let me go get the knife.
- No, don't, don't. - Please don't.
- See, that's what I'm saying,
we can't let Brady go out like this.
Now, you in?
- Yeah, I can't deal with another 10 years
breaking an oven in, trying to
get my brisket to taste just right.
- Would you shut up about that damn brisket?
You in?
- I'm in, I need this job.
- I don't even care no more, at this point, yeah I'm in.
- My girl, alright then.
'Cause momma got a plan.
- Truce, OK baby, it's game time.
- Don't baby me, now I got your baby right here
with a right hook on it.
- Come on, ain't nobody got time for that.
- Why you got the wrong shirt on?
Go put your shirt back on.
- OK, OK.
- I got the four bars, let make this happen.
Go on.
Breaker, breaker, Operation Hashbrown has begun.
I repeat, Operation Hashbrown is going down.
- Set, bring the milk.
- Copy.
- Just gonna help yourself, right?
Hope you like it.
You can have all the cake you want to, sir.
You just remember that, I'm just a cook.
Didn't do anything wrong around here.
- Ironically, it's quite delicious.
- That's what I'm talking about.
Enjoy yourself.
- Would you like a glass of ice cold milk with that, sir?
- Sounds like a good idea, get your boss.
- One boss man coming up, he'll be right out.
- Breaker one nine, hummingbird in place.
Operation Hashbrown now commencing.
I repeat, Operation Hashbrown now commencing.
- Let's get this bastard.
- Ms. Beatrice, would you stop cursing?
You know we supposed to follow some kind of protocol.
Be a lady sometime.
- Child, I been doing sneaky stuff
since your momma was in cloth diapers.
You don't tell me how to handle
my business, I'll tell you where to go.
- Hey, hey turn that off, turn that off.
All you gotta do is look out for Mr. Brady.
- OK, but I want in on the action.
- Anything else I can get for you Mr. Marshall?
- Nope, that'll be it.
I think I've took enough of a risk with my stomach
for a day in this dump.
Where's Mr. Brady?
- He's coming.
Let me get you a free sample of our homemade fudge.
- Oh, me too, please!
- Sit your big ass down before I drop you
like my breasts without a bra.
- I ain't coming here no more, man, y'all got issues, damn.
- I need to see Mr. Brady right now.
- I know you do Mr. Marshall.
But what you need to do is tate some of this,
so good it make you wanna slap your momma.
Taste one.
- I think I do have a bit of a sweet tooth today.
- Let me get you a napkin.
Hashbrown is getting antsy, I repeat,
hashbrown is getting antsy, let's move people.
- Mr. Brady, there's an emergency.
- Well, whatever it is, it'll have to wait.
I'm dealing with something very important here.
Please come back later.
- Mann Mann has just set the kitchen on fire.
- The omelet is about to leave the pan.
I don't smell no fire in here.
- Oh, you don't smell it sir because I extinguished
the fire before it really got started.
I'm a highly skilled, trained individual.
That's what they teach you at fire prevention,
cook school 101.
- Give me that.
You don't know what you're doing.
And the rest of you, get back to your posts.
We've got food to serve out there, come on, get moving.
- The omelet is going back in the pan,
I repeat the omelet is going back in the pan.
- OK, going dark.
- I wouldn't mind going dark too.
- Let me get that for you Mr. Marshall.
You made a mess, you made a mess.
- Now that's what I call service.
You may have a future in this business.
- Why thank you.
Omelet's up.
- Game over buddy.
Brady's in his office, I got tables.
- On second thought, maybe you belong in this hell hole.
- Whatever.
- It's OK baby, it's OK.
- Now, I got this.
- It's OK, I will wash every pot.
- I'll do it, I'll do it.
- Brady, it's OK, you have enough to do.
Go, go ahead, go.
- Baby, we should be able to afford a new dishwasher,
but maybe next week, but I just couldn't bring myself
to take that loan, I knew it was dirty money.
But God commanded me to walk out of there.
- I will wash every dish in this place and scrub the floors
before I allow you to compromise yourself.
You listen to me, Frank Brady.
- You are a man of integrity.
A man of God.
The righteousness of God.
You are the above and not the beneath.
Whatsoever you desire, God will do for you.
And don't nobody love you like I do.
Go and sin no more.
- Oh hush.
Good afternoon, Brady.
- Good afternoon sir.
- I just had a blast interacting
with your uneducated, rude, inefficient staff.
But that's a whole nother story.
- Marshall, those kids work hard.
And I won't let you or anyone else speak poorly of them.
The bible says on the day of judgment
every man will give full accounting
for every careless word they say.
- Well, mister bible thumper,
I hope you know the event in your
good book called judgment day.
Because that will be today.
Where's the money?
I knew you would see it my way.
You see, underneath all of that flashy words
and moralistic finger wagging, one thing remains
and that's self preservation.
- You know you put me in a terrible position.
This place was my dream.
Mine and my wife's.
But somehow I realized that I was holding onto this place
as if it were the only thing that connected me to her,
the only thread that tied us together in so many ways.
But after much prayer and thought,
I realized that my wife and I
are still together in our hearts
and no building, no physical thing, no amount of money
can be responsible for that connection.
I mean, I got other appointments.
- The point is, I've decided not to give you
the 10,000 dollars to keep this place open.
You do whatever you got to do.
But God will give me the strength and the tools
to deal with whatever comes.
- Don't be no fool, pay the money.
If you don't, I swear you'll regret it.
- I'd rather regret it and not compromise my values huh?
To fail in life is one thing,
but to fail and compromise your values,
that's the worst kind of failure
in my book that you can imagine.
- OK.
Then have it your way.
Make your bed and lay in it.
I will submit a laundry list of health code violations
that will turn this dump into
a crack house before you know it.
- Mr. Marshall, would you like a cup of coffee to go,
on your way out, hm?
- You know what, you people are all the same, hypocrites.
You're gonna regret the day
that you crossed me, you old fool.
- Mmhm, fool, who's the fool now, fancy drawers.
I got it all on tape boss.
- I am exercising my first amendment right
to record a public official doing dirty deeds.
Send.
- Oh, that ain't gonna hold up.
Maybe, maybe not.
Got it up, got it up, go down, around, around,
oh, now it's gone, woo hoo, bye boo boo.
- I'm gonna get you.
- Oh, no you don't.
No you, you quit chasing me you old pervert.
- Give me that.
- Oh, what is wrong with you, you old evil man.
What, you stuck in the double Os?
Honey, I already downloaded it on cloud,
backed it up on Facebook, Tweeted it,
Instagrammed it, fed it to feed
and send to the federal government.
And just for good measure,
I texted it to my favorite customer
who gets here everyday at 3:15 pm on the dot,
the one and only Detective White.
Can we all give him around of applause.
This is mine, give it back.
- I can explain.
- I need you to come with me, sir.
- Oh, I need to call my lawyer.
Need to call Jesus.
Outsmarted by a bunch of dumb,
uneducated, inefficient people.
Hey, free biscuits and gravy for everybody.
Alrighty.
- Uh uh, man, you got a lot of nerve coming up in here.
You need to turn right on around and go.
- This is actually none of your business,
so I suggest you back up, OK?
- Boy, you ain't hearing me, she don't wanna talk to you.
- And I done already told you, you need to back up.
- Oh, you know what, you right.
The old me would have been back out here
with some hot grits that would make Al Green scream.
- OK.
- But I'm gonna let it ride.
I can't go around here fighting the world my entire life.
I got to learn to let go and let die.
- That's good.
Go on.
- Congratulations.
- It's cool, let's hear what he has to say.
- No.
Whatever you got to say to me,
this is my family, you can say it in front of all of them.
- OK, um, honey I'm sorry.
I made a mistake Jackie.
Let me make it right, come home.
- Patrick, I love you so much.
Wait a minute.
- Patrick, I love you so much.
But I realize I love me more.
God loves me more and I deserve better.
- I made a mistake Jackie, it was a mistake.
- One mistake, one mistake too many.
You don't love me.
You don't care about anybody but yourself.
You love the moment.
And I'm looking for somebody who loves more than himself.
You know, when I met you?
You was at the bus stop OK?
You were broke and you were alone.
And if you let me walk out that door, guess what?
You'll be right back where you started.
- You can believe that if it makes you sleep better,
but me, I know the truth.
I know that I held you down like a real woman
and it was you who didn't appreciate what you had
and now it's gone, so be gone Patrick.
- Jackie, you ain't going nowhere.
- Hey.
Think you might want to take your hands off of her playboy.
- You're a little funny man, huh?
That ain't important.
But you put your hands on her again,
you're gonna see exactly who I am.
- Oh yeah.
- Watch your step.
- Something wrong with your hearing?
- Wow, um.
This ain't over partner.
Know that.
- Hey, don't forget these.
- That's a good throw.
Mister uh, beefcake, if you ever need a job, a real job,
have your lady get in contact with me, alright?
- That's right.
I'm good man, I'm at the fire station
downtown from nine to five.
Why don't you come down there if you want to see me?
- My hero.
- Let me get some of them biscuits over here.
- Let me get one.
- Thank god you're still here.
- Oh hey, Mr. Mills.
Is everything OK?
- Absolutely.
Listen, I hope you don't mind,
but I'm not sure that I ever told you
that I retired from a holistic food manufacturing business.
Uh uh.
- Well, I still have some friends in the field of course.
Don't get upset.
I took the liberty of sending them those
extra bottles of syrup you gave me.
- Oh, OK.
- Well, they sort of made you
an offer to license the recipe.
- Whatever Mr. Mills.
- I'm serious.
I get a royalty on every bottle sold
and a 200,000 dollar advance?
- I think I can negotiate that up to 250.
That's the best we can do.
- I'm sorry, I tried to get you as much as I could.
- No.
Thank you so much Mr. Mills, thank you so much.
God is so good.
God is so good, you all, look at this.
- Oh you--
What's wrong with you?
- It's a quarter of a million dollars.
- Dear lord.
- You know, I make jam.
It ain't jelly but...
- I'll do what I can.
- Lord have mercy.
- Shartruce!
Hey. - Hey.
- Yeah, it's right here.
- I was hoping to catch you before you went home.
- I didn't do it.
- No, this time you did do it.
Mr. Brady told me how you orchestrated
this whole Operation Hashbrown.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, well did you arrest that no good so and so?
- Well, we turned everything over to the FBI,
Inspector General's office.
No worries, he'll get what's coming to him.
That guy's been pulling that racket for years.
But actually, I was thinking.
It seems to me like you've kinda got a knack
for this whole law enforcement thing.
So how about you come intern at my unit's office?
I can help you get financial aid
down at the community college,
we'll get you enrolled in the criminal justice program.
Now Mr. Brady says he can cover any gaps
in the financial aid for you, what do you think?
- You know I'm on probation, right?
- Yeah, I checked your record.
It's a misdemeanor.
Get it expunged, no biggie, I know some people.
- OK.
Me, law enforcement, me?
- Well, you certainly know how to think like a criminal
and I got a feeling you're a natural.
Plus, you'd be doing some good for your community.
Come on, what do you say?
- You never know unless you take a chance.
- That's right.
- Absolutely.
- No sir.
- Thank you detective.
Woo!
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
For everything that you've done for me.
Remember, luck always favors the just.
I love you so much dad.
* Jesus is the same,
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
* Jesus is the same
* Yesterday, today and forevermore
* Yeah, yeah
- You guys did a great job.
I'm so proud of you.
Really, I am.
Next time, just the same.
And I'll recommend that promotion.
Congratulations on your baby, Joe.
* What he's done for others, * Yeah
* He can do for you too * Yeah
* What he did back then * Yeah
* He's still able to do * Yeah
* What he's done for others * Yeah
* He can do for you too
- Hey baby.
- Hi baby.
- Look at you.
- Dream come true.
* Your promises are sure
* I believe in you
* I do believe
* I believe
* No, no
* He will do for you too * Yeah
* What he did back then, * Yeah
* He's still able to do * Yeah
* What he's done for others * Yeah
* He can do the same for you
* I believe
* Yeah, I believe
* I believe in you
* And I believe
* I believe
* To heal and fight, deliver and free
* And I believe
* I believe
* I believe in you
* I believe, yes I do
* I believe
* Believe in you
* I believe in you