[♪ Odetta: "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"]
♪ He's got the whole world in his hand ♪
♪ He got the great, big world in his hand ♪
♪ He got the whole world in his hand ♪
♪ He got the wind and the rain right in his hand ♪
♪ He got the stars and the moon in his hand ♪
♪ He got the wind and the rain ♪
♪ In his hand ♪
♪ He got the whole world in his hand ♪
♪ He's got the little bits of babies in his hand ♪
♪ He got the little bits of babies in his hand ♪
♪ He got the whole world in his hand ♪
♪ Well, he got everybody in his hand ♪
♪ He got everybody in his hand ♪
♪ He got everybody here right in his hand ♪
♪ He got the whole world in his hand ♪♪
[Moynihan] Mrs. Emory.
Thorazine seems to be treating you well.
This place is a refuge, wouldn't you agree?
Yeah, we're having a fine visit today, Dr. Moynihan.
Hello, Mrs. Emory.
[Moynihan] I'm told you still won't eat
- your food, Lucky. - [Ella Mae] But she told me
- I could have this, Doctor... - It's Mrs. Emory.
My family.
- My family. When can I see my family? - [Moynihan] What did we say
- about getting excited? What happens? - I'm not getting...
[whispers] I'm not getting excited.
Good girl.
Each one, teach one, Ella Mae.
[Ella Mae] I'll mind her, Doctor.
[whispering] Mind, Lucky.
You have to mind.
[Moynihan] She's very lucky.
The authorities in North Carolina
have confirmed your story.
What a sad story.
Prison is not the right place for your wife.
She has a medical condition, not a criminal one.
I just need to talk to her.
- About what she did to your son? - She didn't do anything
- to my son. - Of course. I'm sorry.
- What I meant... - They took her so fast
that I couldn't tell her what I needed to.
What would you tell her?
[scoffs]
Mr. Emory, I've seen this behavior before.
I specialize in it.
Did you know that several Negro women,
some in much worse shape than your wife,
have come in here having done some terrible things?
My treatment has proven very successful.
What doesn't help is your coming here
- every day, trying to see her. - She needs to know that I came.
And that I'm not upset and I understand.
At least, I think I understand why she did what she did.
[Moynihan] In time, you can tell her.
Now it will only agitate her.
- Doctor, I know my wife. - [Moynihan] This is
an involuntary hold. Do you understand
what that means?
That you can keep her for as long as you want.
For as long as she needs.
So we can help.
At least let her see her little girls.
They need to see their mama.
[Moynihan] After what they witnessed?
I'm not a child psychiatrist,
but I promise you that would be devastating.
You need to focus on your girls.
How are they holding up?
[scoffs]
Children are resilient.
I'll make sure to tell her that you stopped by
and that you and the girls are hanging in there.
But you focus on healing.
Doctor, what treatment?
Honestly, I mostly listen.
♪ ♪
[cattle lowing]
I made it just the way you like it.
Milk and two sugars.
[jazz music playing quietly]
That's probably too hot, anyway.
Let it cool off a bit.
Do you notice the wallpaper?
You recognize it? [chuckles]
It took me a while to find the same pattern, but...
I can be pretty determined.
Look.
I had to guess your size.
I got you some things in pink.
I mean, you don't wear enough pink.
♪ If you hold me...
Oh, don't fuss with those, Betty.
You don't have to be scared.
Okay? I mean, tying you up,
that was just for your own protection.
Give me your hands.
Udder cream.
Use it on a sow's teats.
It'll get rid of those marks.
Give me your hands.
It's George.
You know me. Hmm?
Hmm.
You're a good woman, Betty.
And I like to think I'm a good person, too.
And I know what
our love would've looked like to people
who just couldn't understand.
A married woman running off with the milkman.
I know it seems extreme.
It's okay.
You'll see.
♪ If you kiss me...
I want you to know...
that I'm ready when you're ready.
Okay.
♪ If you kiss me...
[George grunts]
[door opens]
[cowbell jingles]
[door locking]
- [radio broadcast playing quietly] - [grunting]
Oh. [chuckles softly]
What, did you shake it up?
No, I just walked right from the icebox
to just right here.
Um...
- What? - I...
Well, you know, I just was...
- We have some savings. - Where's this going?
- And i-if... - Nowhere good, I'd bet.
What if we just moved?
You know, because with all this,
I don't think anybody would blame us.
Did you hear a goddamn thing Betty said?
Ms. High-And-Mighty.
She thinks she's just better than everyone else.
I think... I bet she took off.
You know, I bet that she just found somebody,
and she took off.
You don't know that.
She's the only one of us around here that had any guts.
Now you just want to cut and run?
- N... - I'm disappointed
- in you. - [door opens]
- Marty. - Knock!
You see this?
"Compton sergeant shot dead."
- [Nat] Jesus. - "In a suspected gangland shooting."
What have I been saying all along?
- This is all on us. - [Nat] Marty,
why don't you just go to the bank first? Just see
- if maybe they could... - Shut up about that!
Seeps through, makes my baby a coward.
What about you? You want to run, too?
A couple of fucking women, both of youse.
- I'm game, Marty. - [phone ringing]
[Nat] Hello?
[sighs] No, nothing.
Zilch.
I mean, could you blame her, though, if she did?
'Cause you know how Clarke treated her.
And between you, me and the back gatepost...
...Marty thinks
the coloreds kidnapped Betty.
Oh, you know Marty.
If he gets something in his head, he, um...
He won't. I already tried.
I don't know. All this... [sighs]
My doctor says that all this stress
isn't good for the baby.
But what makes you say that?
'Cause I don't know if I can be so sure.
I think so.
[exhales] I... I don't even know.
♪ ♪
Mrs. Beaumont.
Arnette.
What'd they do?
What's happened to you?
I saw him.
The man.
He spoke to me and-and through me.
When he made you hurt your family...
...did he talk to you?
He told me he could command me.
And his scripture.
He talked like
- he was some sort of god. - [orderly] Mrs. Emory.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just... can't be in here.
I-I know. I was just...
Come on, come on. I don't want to get in trouble.
♪ ♪
[Lucky] What'd they do to her?
[orderly] You're in a good place.
There's been a few colored ladies,
you know, troubled.
But the doctor... she specializes in fixing them.
- Making them feel better. - Can she even feel anything?
- Stop talking to me! - [gasping] Sir.
Sir, can you please get word to my family?
Please? Just one phone call?
Mrs. Emory,
the lady doctor, she listens.
If you make your case plain,
there's no way she won't give you that phone call.
Please.
What if it was your family?
You're locked up in here for days.
They're worried sick.
If it was me,
and I was worried about my family...
I'd yell from the rafters.
I wouldn't give up.
No matter what.
[lock latches]
[birds chirping]
[cows mooing]
[door creaks]
♪ ♪
[jazz music playing quietly]
Hmm.
You look lovely.
Thank you, George.
[both chuckle softly]
What?
[chuckles] Nothing.
Just...
Mmm.
This is...
nice, isn't it?
Please. Mmm.
I didn't know you were such a good cook, George.
Well, if I'm honest, I know how to cook two things.
- And you're eating one of them. - [chuckles softly]
But I'm not too fussy.
Anything you make...
- [cork pops] - I'll love.
To...
...the future.
The future.
[glasses clink]
A Chablis from France.
You don't like it?
It's just... [clears throat]
I usually take it with a few ice cubes.
- But it's fine. - No, it's not.
This is your home now.
Goddamn idiot, George.
How you like things is how you'll have things.
[door opens]
[birds chirping, cawing]
♪ ♪
[brakes squeak]
♪ ♪
[Gracie] I'm scared.
I know. I know.
Come here.
[groans, sighs]
It's all right.
We're just gonna get some things, then we go.
Do we have to go back to Aunt Hazel's?
[chuckles softly] Yes.
Just for a while.
Family's good to have around, huh?
We need to stay close
so when your mama comes home, she can find us.
I don't want her to. She hurt my brother.
- No. We talked about this. - [Ruby] Come on, Gracie.
I'll help you. Let's get our things.
♪ ♪
[Earl] Hey, coon.
- [jazz music playing quietly] - [Betty chuckling softly]
So, George.
If we are meant to be together...
- Oh, it's fated, Betty. - Well...
keeping me locked up under the earth
is no way for me... for us to live.
Hmm.
No, you're right.
You're always so smart about things.
Maybe I could come and stay with you,
up at the house.
Like a normal...
Hmm.
If it is real love,
then there's nothing to worry about.
[chuckles softly]
[sighs]
- More wine, Betty? - Okay, George.
- [grunts] - [gasps]
[gasping]
[panting]
I'm sorry you feel this way.
[whimpers]
[groaning]
The course of true love never did run smooth.
If I have to prove it to you, I will.
If you don't love me,
if you want to leave...
...it'll be the hardest thing I've ever done.
But I love you enough to take that chance.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[gasps]
[exhales]
- [Ruby] Daddy? - [Gracie] Daddy!
- [hit lands] - [Henry grunts]
[Earl and Marty laughing]
[grunts]
[Earl] Well, I'll be dipped in dog shit.
Look who's back.
[Marty] Daddy's home.
[laughs]
Don't. Leave her alone.
Now you ready to tell us what you did with Betty?
- I never even talked to that woman. - We don't believe you.
[grunts softly] Please. Just leave us alone.
- Gracie. - Watch that one, Earl!
No. No, look. No, no, no, look!
- [crying] - Look. All on me. All on me.
All right? They're just kids.
You deal with me.
We let them go, and you deal with me.
Hmm?
- [sniffles] - Get off me.
Okay.
Now, either you...
...or that nutjob mammy that lives here...
...knows something.
- No, sir. - I don't know.
[Henry] No. No. Hey, that woman...
- Her name's Betty. - Okay.
- [gun cocks] - Betty. Betty.
We never even spoke.
Never.
Sir, no.
Hey. Hey.
[Marty] How old are you, gally?
- Fourteen. - Fourteen?
- Hey. - In dog years, you're practically grown.
[Henry] Hey!
Stay away from her! You stay away from her!
- Take little Topsy there down to the basement. - [Ruby] No.
- Grace. - [Marty] Come on.
- Hey! - [crying] No, Gracie...
[Earl grunting]
Get the fuck down there.
[Marty] You are a tough nut, buck, I'll give you that.
- [pounding in distance] - [Gracie yelling]
Go make us some food.
The fuck you looking at him for?! Go!
- Earl, take her to the kitchen. - [Earl] Let's go.
It's all right.
[Earl] You cook?
Yeah.
[Gracie shouting in distance]
[pounding in distance]
[Earl] Jackpot.
Well, cook it, then.
Smart.
[Henry] Come on.
Let my girls leave.
[music playing on TV]
You sit here every day watching Betty.
She's an attractive woman.
- Who could blame you? - Bullshit.
- You're saying she's not attractive? - You know
I didn't have anything to do with wherever she is.
Yeah, but you know something.
No, sir.
What are you, a doctor or something?
Just a working man.
Like you.
Bullshit like me.
I'm an engineer.
[whistles]
College and everything. What's that pay?
You fancy buck.
Forced to live among the hoi polloi.
Please.
That house is none of my business.
Maybe not yours.
What's that supposed to mean?
That wackadoodle wife of yours.
Everybody knows she killed the little baby.
- [Henry] That's not what happened. - [Marty] Oh, what?
It came with the house?
Oh, you want to know what happened?
Some peckerwood motherfuckers killed our child.
That's what happened.
Okay, buck.
Okay.
[Lucky] Just let me see my family.
Just let me warn them.
[Moynihan] They won't see you, Lucky.
- What? - They're frightened by you.
And, frankly, I can understand it.
- How do you know? - I spoke with your husband on the phone.
He agreed that it's best that you not be disturbed.
No.
Yes.
What are you doing to these women?
Lucky, I have cared for dozens of Negro women,
and I understand the pressures facing you are different
than those for a normal woman.
Listen to me, you bitch.
Maybe what I did was wrong, but I have never
hurt my child.
It was a white bitch, just like you!
- Okay, let's go. - Just like you, who killed my baby!
I'd hoped you weren't this far gone, Lucky.
Let me see my family! Let me see 'em!
[music playing on TV]
[Henry] Mister...
I don't even know your name.
That's not very neighborly.
[Henry] But I know you're a father.
I seen your wife.
My wife is not somebody you should be looking at.
I know what it's like
to want to protect them,
- but you feel like you can't. - What's that supposed to mean, "can't"?
No, no, that's not what I mean.
'Cause I seem to be doing a pretty good job
taking care of me and mine.
Till you and your fucking brood showed up.
[Earl] That's right.
♪ ♪
Open your hand.
- Daddy, don't do it. Daddy. Please, Daddy! - [Henry] Get off her!
- Get off her! - [Marty] Daddy, you better fucking do it!
- Keep that on her, Earl. - [groans] Ruby!
- [Ruby crying] - All right! All right!
[Marty] There you go.
[panting]
[scissors click]
♪ ♪
- [scissors snap] - [screaming]
- [groaning] - [Ruby sobbing]
[faint laughing]
And you have no idea where Betty is?
I don't know! I don't know!
I don't know!
- [girls screaming] - Where you going, jackrabbit?
[groaning]
Stay the fuck down. Be still for me, boy.
Be so still now.
- Daddy! - You don't want this!
God don't want this!
You can still walk away!
You people may like jail, but me, not so much.
[girls screaming, crying]
Get him up!
- [Henry grunting] - [girls shouting]
- Daddy! - [Earl shouting]
Here we go!
Goddamn it.
Fuck off me!
[panting]
Hello? Hello?
Hello?
Why am...
- Hello? - [orderly] Shh.
- Lucky, shh, shh. - Help me.
- Oh, Lucky. - Please.
- Shh.
If they think you're gonna start fussing again now...
Well, you just get some rest.
Oh, but they don't understand.
You know... you know I'm not crazy.
Lucky, shh. You don't want to get me in trouble, too, do you?
You can take these off, though, please.
- Please? - It's just a precaution.
Just so you don't hurt yourself before the procedure tonight.
- What? - You're so far gone.
The lady doctor thinks sooner is better.
- Huh? - You'll sleep through the whole thing.
If I'm honest, it's really the best thing.
[Reverend Epps] Oh, black sow...
...if only you'd minded me.
Your brood minds me.
They know their place.
But you...
What black magic are you made of?
What perversion...
lets you fight against the alliance I have?
Stay the fuck away from my family!
Lucky.
If ever there was an irony to a name.
Do you think the rest of your kin
can keep me out of their minds?
Their corruptible,
venal Black hearts?
Oh, sow, by the time I leave you here
in this place,
I'll have them rend each other to pieces,
morsel by morsel.
No.
For your strength in this trial
has earned a mercy from me.
I'll let them take your brain,
spare you ever having to know you had a family.
And that mercy...
is near.
But for now...
...you must ponder at your wickedness
whilst I exult in my labors.
[sobbing]
[grunting, screaming]
[screaming continues]
[screaming echoes]
♪ ♪