1 00:00:26,359 --> 00:00:27,894 [marker lid uncaps] 2 00:00:27,994 --> 00:00:29,963 [marker scribbling] 3 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:42,342 [Monk] Okay, let's begin. 4 00:00:48,181 --> 00:00:49,382 Who wants to start? 5 00:00:50,684 --> 00:00:51,751 Yes, Brittany, kick it off. 6 00:00:53,219 --> 00:00:55,722 I don't have a thought on the reading, 7 00:00:55,822 --> 00:00:58,725 I just think that that word on the board is wrong. 8 00:01:00,193 --> 00:01:02,729 Well, I think it still has two G's in it last I checked. 9 00:01:02,829 --> 00:01:03,830 [students chuckle] 10 00:01:03,897 --> 00:01:05,331 [Brittany] It's not funny. 11 00:01:05,398 --> 00:01:07,534 We shouldn't have to stare at the N-word all day. 12 00:01:08,902 --> 00:01:09,903 Uh, listen, 13 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,730 this is a class on the literature 14 00:01:13,173 --> 00:01:14,441 of the American south. 15 00:01:14,541 --> 00:01:15,709 You're going to encounter 16 00:01:15,775 --> 00:01:18,445 some archaic thoughts, coarse language, 17 00:01:18,545 --> 00:01:20,246 but we're all adults here 18 00:01:20,347 --> 00:01:22,582 and I think we can understand it 19 00:01:22,649 --> 00:01:24,784 within the context in which it's written. 20 00:01:24,884 --> 00:01:27,921 Well, I just find that word really offensive. 21 00:01:28,210 --> 00:01:30,423 With all due respect, Brittany, 22 00:01:30,523 --> 00:01:33,660 I got over it, I'm pretty sure you can too. 23 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:34,728 Well, I don't see why. 24 00:01:37,597 --> 00:01:39,265 [sighs in frustration] 25 00:01:39,866 --> 00:01:41,201 [Monk] Right. 26 00:01:41,267 --> 00:01:43,403 Now, does anyone else have any 27 00:01:43,470 --> 00:01:44,571 [yelling] thoughts on the reading? 28 00:01:44,637 --> 00:01:45,805 [gasps] 29 00:01:48,308 --> 00:01:51,144 Well, it made some of your students uncomfortable. 30 00:01:51,244 --> 00:01:52,946 When did they all become so goddamn delicate? 31 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:54,748 This wasn't an isolated incident. 32 00:01:54,814 --> 00:01:55,882 What? 33 00:01:56,820 --> 00:01:57,417 [woman] Last month you asked a student 34 00:01:57,484 --> 00:01:59,419 if his family had been Nazis. 35 00:01:59,486 --> 00:02:00,987 Yeah, I did, he's German, 36 00:02:01,870 --> 00:02:02,555 we were reading The Plot Against America 37 00:02:02,622 --> 00:02:05,125 and trust me, by the way he was squirming, they were. 38 00:02:05,225 --> 00:02:06,426 Oh, my God. 39 00:02:06,493 --> 00:02:09,295 Um, Monk, you are a very talented writer, 40 00:02:09,396 --> 00:02:11,297 we're fortunate to have you here. 41 00:02:11,398 --> 00:02:13,833 What? He hasn't published in years. 42 00:02:13,933 --> 00:02:15,468 I have written three novels 43 00:02:15,568 --> 00:02:17,700 since the last time you published. 44 00:02:17,270 --> 00:02:18,938 Yeah, this is true, and the speed with which you write 45 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:20,640 only proves that good things take time. 46 00:02:20,707 --> 00:02:23,760 - Oh, go to hell, Monk. - [chuckles] Relax, Mandy. 47 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:24,611 Yeah, relax, Mandy. 48 00:02:24,678 --> 00:02:26,413 And anyway, my new book is with Echo 49 00:02:26,479 --> 00:02:28,581 and my agent says they're very excited about it. 50 00:02:28,648 --> 00:02:30,417 Oh, that's great to hear. 51 00:02:30,483 --> 00:02:33,119 - What's it about? - Can we stop stalling, Leo? 52 00:02:34,587 --> 00:02:35,722 [Leo] Um... 53 00:02:35,822 --> 00:02:36,990 Listen, Monk, 54 00:02:39,259 --> 00:02:40,694 we'd like to give you a break. 55 00:02:44,631 --> 00:02:45,665 What do you mean, break? 56 00:02:45,732 --> 00:02:46,966 Just some time off. 57 00:02:47,330 --> 00:02:48,802 Mandatory time off. 58 00:02:48,868 --> 00:02:51,471 It's just, you're already going to Boston for the festival, right? 59 00:02:51,538 --> 00:02:53,106 Why don't you just stay there for-- 60 00:02:53,173 --> 00:02:55,410 Because I hate Boston, my family's there. 61 00:02:55,141 --> 00:02:56,710 Well, you need some time to relax. 62 00:02:56,810 --> 00:02:58,278 You're on edge, man. 63 00:02:58,345 --> 00:02:59,813 You're under the impression that time spent 64 00:02:59,879 --> 00:03:02,148 with my family will take the edge off. 65 00:03:02,215 --> 00:03:03,817 - I'm fine. - [Mandy] You're not fine. 66 00:03:03,883 --> 00:03:05,752 I saw you crying in your car last week. 67 00:03:05,852 --> 00:03:07,487 He punched the steering wheel. 68 00:03:07,554 --> 00:03:08,855 Oh, wow. 69 00:03:08,955 --> 00:03:12,659 You know, if you spent less time spying on me, 70 00:03:13,226 --> 00:03:14,194 you could 71 00:03:14,294 --> 00:03:16,296 probably write a dozen more novels 72 00:03:16,363 --> 00:03:17,897 that people buy at airports 73 00:03:17,997 --> 00:03:20,330 with their neck pillows and Cheez-Its. 74 00:03:20,133 --> 00:03:22,635 Oh, here we go. Okay. You want to go, dirty doggy? 75 00:03:22,702 --> 00:03:24,237 Okay, well, enjoy Boston. 76 00:03:24,337 --> 00:03:26,573 You can... you can get my book at the airport. 77 00:03:26,673 --> 00:03:28,775 - Oh, and, good luck with Echo. - [door opens, closes] 78 00:03:28,875 --> 00:03:30,777 ["Without You" by Ace Spectrum playing] 79 00:03:36,383 --> 00:03:38,752 ♪ Mm ♪ 80 00:03:41,154 --> 00:03:43,223 ♪ You turned my house ♪ 81 00:03:45,250 --> 00:03:46,760 ♪ Into a home ♪ 82 00:03:49,162 --> 00:03:52,599 ♪ You made me feel love ♪ 83 00:03:53,733 --> 00:03:55,235 ♪ I'm not alone ♪ 84 00:03:57,504 --> 00:03:58,705 {\an8}♪ And unafraid ♪ 85 00:03:59,539 --> 00:04:01,875 ♪ Yeah ♪ 86 00:04:01,941 --> 00:04:03,677 ♪ Of time to come ♪ 87 00:04:05,745 --> 00:04:11,685 ♪ Proved... ♪ 88 00:04:13,386 --> 00:04:18,124 ♪ Then you taught me how ♪ 89 00:04:18,224 --> 00:04:21,761 ♪ What it means ♪ 90 00:04:21,828 --> 00:04:27,934 ♪ Can we wake Each and every morning Inside a dream? ♪ 91 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:29,936 [cell phone ringing] 92 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:33,206 Hello? 93 00:04:33,273 --> 00:04:36,776 Welcome back. How's it feel to be home? 94 00:04:36,843 --> 00:04:38,611 [Monk over phone] Great. Already had a guy 95 00:04:38,712 --> 00:04:40,847 in a Bruins jersey ask me if I think I'm better than him. 96 00:04:40,947 --> 00:04:42,782 [chuckles] That's good luck here. 97 00:04:42,849 --> 00:04:45,585 That's Boston's version of a ladybug landing on you. 98 00:04:46,386 --> 00:04:48,388 Any news? 99 00:04:48,455 --> 00:04:50,857 Patrick at Echo is passing. But who ****ing cares? 100 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:52,859 He's an old alcoholic. 101 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:54,861 - What is that? Nine now? - [Arthur] He says, 102 00:04:54,961 --> 00:04:57,263 "This book is finely crafted 103 00:04:57,330 --> 00:04:59,999 with fully developed characters and rich language, 104 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:03,570 but one is lost to understand what this reworking of 105 00:05:03,636 --> 00:05:06,306 Aeschylus' The Persians has to do 106 00:05:06,406 --> 00:05:07,674 with the African-American experience?" 107 00:05:07,774 --> 00:05:08,808 [Monk] There it is. 108 00:05:08,875 --> 00:05:10,443 There it is. 109 00:05:10,510 --> 00:05:11,578 [Arthur] They want a Black book. 110 00:05:11,644 --> 00:05:12,879 They have a Black book. 111 00:05:12,979 --> 00:05:15,348 I'm Black, and it's my book. 112 00:05:15,448 --> 00:05:16,783 You know what I mean. 113 00:05:16,850 --> 00:05:19,352 [Monk] You mean they want me to write about a cop killing some teenager 114 00:05:19,452 --> 00:05:21,688 or a single mom in Dorchester raising five kids. 115 00:05:21,788 --> 00:05:24,324 Dorchester is pretty white now. But yes. 116 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:26,292 Jesus Christ. You know, 117 00:05:26,359 --> 00:05:28,595 I don't even really believe in race. 118 00:05:28,661 --> 00:05:31,264 [Arthur] Yeah. The problem is that everyone else does. 119 00:05:34,267 --> 00:05:36,269 Anyway, have fun at the book festival. 120 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:40,273 And just don't insult anyone important. Please. 121 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:43,430 [pleasant music playing] 122 00:05:44,310 --> 00:05:46,613 [Wilson] Writing from a historical perspective 123 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,782 doesn't mean that you can't 124 00:05:48,848 --> 00:05:50,550 {\an8}make work that doesn't resonate 125 00:05:50,650 --> 00:05:52,352 {\an8}with today's audiences. 126 00:05:52,452 --> 00:05:55,855 {\an8}Yeah, I think of things like Game of Thrones as proof that 127 00:05:55,922 --> 00:05:59,192 nerds like us can still find great success. 128 00:05:59,893 --> 00:06:02,195 [microphone feedback] 129 00:06:02,295 --> 00:06:04,230 {\an8}Unfortunately, we're going to have to end it there. 130 00:06:05,365 --> 00:06:06,466 {\an8}Thank you to our authors 131 00:06:06,533 --> 00:06:08,702 and thanks to all of you for attending. 132 00:06:08,802 --> 00:06:09,736 [applauding] 133 00:06:10,704 --> 00:06:11,671 [Monk] Um... 134 00:06:13,390 --> 00:06:15,175 Is it just me, or was this small 135 00:06:15,241 --> 00:06:16,943 even for a book festival? 136 00:06:17,430 --> 00:06:19,412 Yeah, it's because we're up against Sintara. 137 00:06:20,460 --> 00:06:21,214 Who? 138 00:06:21,314 --> 00:06:23,350 Sintara Golden. You haven't read her? 139 00:06:24,818 --> 00:06:26,353 No, what's her book called? 140 00:06:28,755 --> 00:06:30,924 [moderator] Raves everywhere. 141 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,226 {\an8}The Post, Bookforum. 142 00:06:33,326 --> 00:06:34,828 {\an8}The London Review of Books said, 143 00:06:34,894 --> 00:06:37,130 "We's Lives in Da Ghetto 144 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:40,433 is a heartbreaking and visceral debut." 145 00:06:40,533 --> 00:06:43,236 Plus a little birdie told me that perhaps 146 00:06:43,336 --> 00:06:46,339 there's a TV adaptation in the works? 147 00:06:46,406 --> 00:06:48,541 - No comment. [chuckles] - [audience chuckles] 148 00:06:48,608 --> 00:06:50,744 Okay, it was worth a shot. 149 00:06:51,711 --> 00:06:53,747 Tell us, what was your life like 150 00:06:53,847 --> 00:06:55,548 before you were an author? 151 00:06:55,615 --> 00:06:58,510 Well, I did undergrad at Oberlin 152 00:06:58,118 --> 00:07:02,880 and moved to New York the day after graduation 153 00:07:02,155 --> 00:07:03,923 and a couple months later, 154 00:07:03,990 --> 00:07:05,992 I was an assistant at a publisher. 155 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:08,628 [moderator] And did that assistant experience shape your writing? 156 00:07:08,728 --> 00:07:12,732 Absolutely. Yeah, I was a first reader meaning 157 00:07:12,799 --> 00:07:15,635 I would read all the manuscripts in the slush pile 158 00:07:15,735 --> 00:07:18,738 and send them up the ladder if they were any good. 159 00:07:18,805 --> 00:07:21,408 Some of them were great, most were not. 160 00:07:21,474 --> 00:07:23,743 [audience chuckles] 161 00:07:23,810 --> 00:07:26,646 But the feeling I couldn't shake was that 162 00:07:26,746 --> 00:07:29,649 no matter how good the books were, 163 00:07:29,749 --> 00:07:34,287 most every submission was from some white dude from New York 164 00:07:34,354 --> 00:07:35,422 going through a divorce, 165 00:07:35,488 --> 00:07:38,491 and too few of them were about my people. 166 00:07:39,626 --> 00:07:40,627 And so I think, 167 00:07:41,461 --> 00:07:42,629 "Where are our stories?" 168 00:07:43,997 --> 00:07:46,990 You know, "Where's our representation?" 169 00:07:46,833 --> 00:07:48,368 And it was from that lack 170 00:07:48,468 --> 00:07:50,303 that my book was born. 171 00:07:50,370 --> 00:07:51,905 [audience applauding] 172 00:07:51,971 --> 00:07:54,174 Would you give us the pleasure of reading an excerpt? 173 00:07:57,277 --> 00:07:58,278 Thank you. 174 00:08:03,683 --> 00:08:05,952 "'Yo, Cheranda, 175 00:08:06,190 --> 00:08:08,540 where you be goin' in a hurry likes that?' 176 00:08:08,154 --> 00:08:10,857 Donna aks me when she see me comin' out the house. 177 00:08:12,826 --> 00:08:14,361 'Ain't none ya business, 178 00:08:14,461 --> 00:08:17,630 but if'n you gots to know, I's goin' to the pharmacy.' 179 00:08:18,998 --> 00:08:21,501 I looks back at the door to see if Mama comin' out. 180 00:08:22,769 --> 00:08:26,139 'The pharmacy? What for?' she aks. 181 00:08:27,307 --> 00:08:29,900 'You know', I says. 182 00:08:30,176 --> 00:08:31,878 'Nah', she say. 183 00:08:33,246 --> 00:08:36,516 'Hell, nah! Girl, you be pregnant again?' 184 00:08:37,984 --> 00:08:39,786 'Might's be', I tells her. 185 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,522 'And if I is, 186 00:08:42,622 --> 00:08:45,692 Ray-Ray's gonna be a real father this time around.'" 187 00:08:46,626 --> 00:08:48,228 [audience applauding, cheering] 188 00:08:49,290 --> 00:08:50,960 Thank you. 189 00:08:51,965 --> 00:08:54,367 [applauding, cheering continues] 190 00:08:54,434 --> 00:08:55,568 Yes! 191 00:09:23,463 --> 00:09:25,398 [alarm blaring] 192 00:09:30,603 --> 00:09:32,372 [metal detector beeping] 193 00:09:37,644 --> 00:09:38,945 - [Monk] Hi... - [receptionist] Hi. 194 00:09:39,450 --> 00:09:40,580 I'm here to see Lisa Ellison. 195 00:09:40,647 --> 00:09:41,715 Uh, do you have an appointment? 196 00:09:41,781 --> 00:09:42,849 We're about to close. 197 00:09:42,916 --> 00:09:44,451 No, I'm her brother. 198 00:09:44,551 --> 00:09:45,585 - [door opens] - [receptionist] Oh. 199 00:09:45,652 --> 00:09:46,619 There she is. 200 00:09:51,624 --> 00:09:52,726 Hello, Monk. 201 00:09:55,628 --> 00:09:56,629 Hi, Lisa. 202 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:08,740 Okay, you're in a boat, the motor cuts out, 203 00:10:09,420 --> 00:10:10,744 but you're in shallow water, 204 00:10:10,810 --> 00:10:13,313 but you're wearing $600 shoes, but... 205 00:10:14,814 --> 00:10:16,649 your ride to the airport 206 00:10:16,750 --> 00:10:18,685 is just pulling away from the beach, 207 00:10:18,785 --> 00:10:22,355 why, oh, why is this a legal issue? 208 00:10:25,325 --> 00:10:26,326 I don't know. 209 00:10:28,161 --> 00:10:29,629 It's a matter of row versus wade. 210 00:10:29,696 --> 00:10:30,897 Oh, my God. 211 00:10:30,964 --> 00:10:31,965 [laughing] 212 00:10:32,932 --> 00:10:34,668 I think that's one of my best. 213 00:10:34,768 --> 00:10:35,769 Wow. 214 00:10:35,835 --> 00:10:36,836 [laughing] 215 00:10:37,804 --> 00:10:38,805 Okay. 216 00:10:42,609 --> 00:10:44,644 - When did you start smoking again? - [Lisa] Mm... 217 00:10:46,613 --> 00:10:47,947 Right after the divorce. 218 00:10:49,683 --> 00:10:51,217 I always hated Larry. 219 00:10:51,317 --> 00:10:52,552 Oh, I know. 220 00:10:52,652 --> 00:10:53,920 You told me right when we started dating. 221 00:10:53,987 --> 00:10:55,355 Do you remember how mad I got? 222 00:10:55,555 --> 00:10:56,690 [imitates Lisa] "It's not your business who I ****! 223 00:10:57,323 --> 00:10:58,358 Who I fellate." 224 00:10:58,458 --> 00:11:00,827 [laughs] I definitely did not say "fellate." 225 00:11:00,927 --> 00:11:03,129 I thought you did. That's how I heard it anyway. 226 00:11:04,698 --> 00:11:05,832 It's good to see you. 227 00:11:07,801 --> 00:11:09,369 Yeah, it's good to see you too. 228 00:11:13,390 --> 00:11:14,107 How's work? 229 00:11:14,941 --> 00:11:16,242 It's not very glamorous. 230 00:11:17,711 --> 00:11:20,246 I go through a metal detector every day. 231 00:11:21,948 --> 00:11:23,650 Well, what you do is important. 232 00:11:23,717 --> 00:11:24,718 Well... 233 00:11:25,885 --> 00:11:27,721 Meanwhile, all I do is 234 00:11:27,821 --> 00:11:29,489 invent little people in my head, 235 00:11:29,556 --> 00:11:32,258 then make them have imaginary conversations with each other. 236 00:11:32,359 --> 00:11:35,161 Books change people's lives. 237 00:11:35,228 --> 00:11:37,564 Did something I've written ever change your life? 238 00:11:37,664 --> 00:11:39,650 Absolutely. 239 00:11:39,833 --> 00:11:40,834 Absolutely. 240 00:11:42,602 --> 00:11:44,871 My dining room table was wobbly as hell 241 00:11:44,971 --> 00:11:46,272 before your last book came out. 242 00:11:46,373 --> 00:11:48,410 - Oh, my God. All right. - It was, like, perfect. 243 00:11:48,141 --> 00:11:49,376 - Yeah. Oh, God. - I'm telling you and-- 244 00:11:49,442 --> 00:11:51,110 Take me back to Logan, please. 245 00:11:51,770 --> 00:11:52,379 - Logan cannot help you, Monk. - [sighs] 246 00:11:52,445 --> 00:11:54,347 - Oh, my God! - [laughing] 247 00:11:55,248 --> 00:11:56,616 [Lisa] Welcome home, baby! 248 00:11:56,716 --> 00:11:58,251 [Lisa and Monk laughing] 249 00:12:02,856 --> 00:12:04,900 Hello! 250 00:12:04,991 --> 00:12:06,226 Hello! 251 00:12:06,292 --> 00:12:08,228 - [Lorraine shrieks, claps] - [Monk chuckles] 252 00:12:10,597 --> 00:12:13,466 - Mr. Monk! - [Monk] Lorraine! 253 00:12:14,167 --> 00:12:16,569 Oh. 254 00:12:16,636 --> 00:12:18,772 You know how that makes me feel. It's just Monk. 255 00:12:18,872 --> 00:12:20,240 Oh, don't do that to me, 256 00:12:20,306 --> 00:12:22,942 you know I'm too old to learn new names. 257 00:12:23,430 --> 00:12:25,450 - How you doing, Miss Lisa? - I'm good. 258 00:12:25,111 --> 00:12:27,947 - You look good, Mr. Monk. - Oh, I look fat. 259 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,383 Oh, that's the California talking. 260 00:12:30,450 --> 00:12:31,918 I took you to Arkansas right now, 261 00:12:31,985 --> 00:12:33,420 - you'd be a beauty queen. - Ooh! 262 00:12:33,486 --> 00:12:35,422 - [Agnes] Is that my Monkie? - That's frightening. 263 00:12:35,488 --> 00:12:36,489 [Lisa laughing] 264 00:12:37,257 --> 00:12:39,590 [Agnes chuckling] 265 00:12:40,794 --> 00:12:43,830 - [Monk] Hi, Mother. - [Agnes chuckles] Oh. 266 00:12:44,931 --> 00:12:47,400 - You look fat. - Ah, I know. 267 00:12:47,467 --> 00:12:49,690 [Lorraine] You ready to go to dinner, Mrs. Ellison? 268 00:12:49,135 --> 00:12:51,271 Uh, I just need my purse and my black cardigan. 269 00:12:51,338 --> 00:12:52,439 [Lorraine] All right, I'll get it. 270 00:12:52,505 --> 00:12:54,107 - Are you all right? - Oh. 271 00:12:54,207 --> 00:12:55,909 You overeat when you're depressed. 272 00:12:55,975 --> 00:12:57,644 I'm not depressed, 273 00:12:57,744 --> 00:13:00,447 I've just been not sleeping well lately 274 00:13:00,513 --> 00:13:02,215 and so, fell off my exercise routine. 275 00:13:02,282 --> 00:13:03,350 - [Agnes] Mm. - Here. 276 00:13:03,450 --> 00:13:04,984 [Agnes] So you're not depressed. 277 00:13:05,850 --> 00:13:08,121 You just wear all the hallmarks of depression. 278 00:13:08,221 --> 00:13:09,222 [Monk groans] 279 00:13:10,156 --> 00:13:11,257 I missed you. 280 00:13:12,158 --> 00:13:13,159 [Monk chuckles lightly] 281 00:13:13,927 --> 00:13:14,928 Is Larry coming? 282 00:13:16,529 --> 00:13:17,997 No, Mother. 283 00:13:19,165 --> 00:13:21,768 Larry and I are separated, remember? 284 00:13:21,835 --> 00:13:24,371 - Of course, I remember. - Okay. 285 00:13:24,471 --> 00:13:26,940 I just thought he might join us. 286 00:13:28,174 --> 00:13:29,309 To see your brother. 287 00:13:30,100 --> 00:13:31,110 Okay. 288 00:13:34,147 --> 00:13:35,782 I mean, is it really such a big deal? 289 00:13:35,849 --> 00:13:37,500 Everyone forgets things. 290 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:38,651 Doesn't mean she's sick necessarily. 291 00:13:38,718 --> 00:13:40,253 People forget dentists' appointments. 292 00:13:42,288 --> 00:13:43,957 She forgets I'm not married anymore. 293 00:13:44,824 --> 00:13:45,892 That's weird. 294 00:13:48,194 --> 00:13:49,696 What do you suggest we do? 295 00:13:49,796 --> 00:13:50,997 Why do I have to decide? 296 00:13:51,197 --> 00:13:53,466 - Because you're a doctor. - [Lisa] So are you. 297 00:13:53,533 --> 00:13:54,734 I'm not that kind. 298 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:58,138 Okay, my point is, you are an intelligent adult. 299 00:13:59,372 --> 00:14:00,907 And I'm tired of being the only person 300 00:14:01,700 --> 00:14:02,420 that takes care of her. 301 00:14:02,142 --> 00:14:03,276 Well, I don't recall anyone 302 00:14:03,343 --> 00:14:04,878 assigning you that responsibility. 303 00:14:04,978 --> 00:14:07,147 No, you and Cliff just fled west as soon as you could 304 00:14:07,213 --> 00:14:09,490 and left me as caretaker by default. 305 00:14:09,149 --> 00:14:10,550 My work's there. 306 00:14:10,750 --> 00:14:12,180 -"My work's there." Yeah. - Apologies that it prevents me 307 00:14:12,850 --> 00:14:15,550 from keeping up with the family melodrama. 308 00:14:15,155 --> 00:14:17,424 If you lived up the block, you wouldn't know what was going on. 309 00:14:17,524 --> 00:14:20,600 I'm stuck here taking care of that old house and finding 310 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,950 love letters from Dad's affairs. 311 00:14:22,195 --> 00:14:24,230 - His what? - [Lisa] His affairs. 312 00:14:24,330 --> 00:14:25,999 You didn't know he was having affairs? 313 00:14:26,660 --> 00:14:28,501 No. How did you? 314 00:14:28,568 --> 00:14:30,704 Well, he was an OBGYN 315 00:14:30,770 --> 00:14:32,238 that was traveling constantly, 316 00:14:32,339 --> 00:14:34,307 but his patients were in Boston. 317 00:14:34,374 --> 00:14:35,775 He said he was going to conferences. 318 00:14:35,875 --> 00:14:38,845 [scoffs] He was making house calls. 319 00:14:38,912 --> 00:14:41,470 Do you know that I saw him kiss a white woman 320 00:14:41,114 --> 00:14:42,749 in the park in high school? 321 00:14:43,516 --> 00:14:44,417 How white? 322 00:14:44,517 --> 00:14:45,719 What do you mean, "How white?" 323 00:14:45,785 --> 00:14:47,854 Like Brahmin white or Southie white. 324 00:14:47,921 --> 00:14:50,724 I don't know. She had thin lips. 325 00:14:50,790 --> 00:14:52,125 She looked like a bad kisser. 326 00:14:53,693 --> 00:14:54,728 Did you tell Mother? 327 00:14:54,794 --> 00:14:57,530 No. I wasn't going to blow up our lives. 328 00:14:57,597 --> 00:14:59,265 [clears throat] She's coming back. Mom. Mom. 329 00:14:59,366 --> 00:15:00,333 Mom. Mom. 330 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:01,401 Hi. 331 00:15:04,204 --> 00:15:05,205 How you doing? 332 00:15:06,239 --> 00:15:08,141 Our waitress isn't wearing a bra. 333 00:15:08,808 --> 00:15:09,809 Okay. 334 00:15:10,410 --> 00:15:11,378 I didn't notice. 335 00:15:14,748 --> 00:15:15,982 See this shit? 336 00:15:16,820 --> 00:15:17,751 This gonna take us out of the ghetto. 337 00:15:17,817 --> 00:15:19,319 But there are rules in the house. 338 00:15:19,419 --> 00:15:22,880 Number one, never leave this product in the house. 339 00:15:22,155 --> 00:15:24,224 And number two, get your own crew. 340 00:15:24,290 --> 00:15:26,459 Number three, got to have discipline in your crew. 341 00:15:26,559 --> 00:15:29,620 Number four, don't praise a nigga too much. 342 00:15:29,129 --> 00:15:30,730 Otherwise he's gonna think you're soft. 343 00:15:30,797 --> 00:15:33,833 Rule number five, don't show no love. 344 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:35,635 - Love will get you killed. - [chuckles] 345 00:15:35,735 --> 00:15:38,138 See this, it's like a *****. 346 00:15:38,238 --> 00:15:41,107 You **** a *****, don't let a ***** **** you. 347 00:15:41,174 --> 00:15:43,760 You're a man who don't need nothing. 348 00:15:43,143 --> 00:15:44,477 No one will get you through. 349 00:15:44,577 --> 00:15:46,980 This *****? This ***** will take your soul. 350 00:15:48,148 --> 00:15:49,482 You niggas ain't got no fam... 351 00:15:49,582 --> 00:15:50,617 [movie turns off] 352 00:15:53,253 --> 00:15:55,155 [Monk mutters] 353 00:15:56,856 --> 00:15:59,459 Excuse me, uh, Ned. 354 00:15:59,526 --> 00:16:01,861 Do you have any books by the writer Thelonious Ellison? 355 00:16:06,266 --> 00:16:07,367 Yeah, this way. 356 00:16:11,705 --> 00:16:13,673 - Here you go. - Right. 357 00:16:13,773 --> 00:16:15,208 Yeah. 358 00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:17,310 Wait a minute, why are these books here? 359 00:16:17,844 --> 00:16:19,450 [Ned] I'm not sure. 360 00:16:19,145 --> 00:16:23,483 I would imagine that this author Ellison is... Black. 361 00:16:23,550 --> 00:16:26,186 That's me. Ellison. Yeah. 362 00:16:26,286 --> 00:16:30,557 He is me, and he and I are Black. 363 00:16:30,657 --> 00:16:31,958 Oh, bingo. 364 00:16:32,250 --> 00:16:34,160 No bingo, Ned, these books 365 00:16:34,227 --> 00:16:36,663 have nothing to do with African-American studies, 366 00:16:36,730 --> 00:16:38,310 they're just literature. 367 00:16:38,131 --> 00:16:39,999 The blackest thing about this one is the ink. 368 00:16:42,235 --> 00:16:44,704 I don't decide what sections the books go in. 369 00:16:44,804 --> 00:16:47,574 No one here does. That's how chain stores work. 370 00:16:48,375 --> 00:16:49,876 Right, Ned. 371 00:16:50,977 --> 00:16:52,645 You don't make the rules. 372 00:16:53,380 --> 00:16:55,810 Hm. 373 00:16:55,181 --> 00:16:57,550 I'm just going to put them back after you leave. 374 00:16:57,650 --> 00:16:59,319 Don't you dare, Ned. 375 00:16:59,386 --> 00:17:01,721 Do not you dare. 376 00:17:03,823 --> 00:17:04,991 Ned. 377 00:17:05,992 --> 00:17:07,494 [suspenseful music playing] 378 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,300 [lively music playing] 379 00:17:12,999 --> 00:17:14,434 Monk, what are you doing? 380 00:17:15,402 --> 00:17:16,569 [books thud] 381 00:17:18,438 --> 00:17:19,739 [Lisa] Mom's only going to get worse. 382 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:23,243 They say mental exercise is good, 383 00:17:23,343 --> 00:17:24,711 that's why I got her that gardening book. 384 00:17:26,790 --> 00:17:28,248 Does growing cucumbers count as mental exercise? 385 00:17:29,150 --> 00:17:30,250 I hate when you do that. 386 00:17:30,350 --> 00:17:32,385 What? 387 00:17:32,452 --> 00:17:34,621 You share your condescending opinion as a question 388 00:17:34,721 --> 00:17:36,456 trying to disguise the condescension. 389 00:17:36,556 --> 00:17:37,791 Why don't you just say 390 00:17:37,891 --> 00:17:39,250 that you think that gardening is idiotic? 391 00:17:39,225 --> 00:17:41,261 - Uh, because that's not what I was doing. - Bullshit. 392 00:17:41,628 --> 00:17:42,929 Bullshit. Bullshit. 393 00:17:45,532 --> 00:17:48,101 Maybe we can hire a nurse a few times a week. 394 00:17:48,201 --> 00:17:49,135 Who's going to pay for that? 395 00:17:49,235 --> 00:17:50,804 You... you can't afford it? 396 00:17:51,638 --> 00:17:53,406 Not after the divorce, I cannot. 397 00:17:55,375 --> 00:17:56,710 - [sighs] - Well, it will hurt, 398 00:17:56,776 --> 00:17:58,878 but we'll probably have to sell the beach house. 399 00:17:58,945 --> 00:18:01,548 Yeah, we definitely need to sell the beach house, 400 00:18:01,614 --> 00:18:02,916 but that money is going to go 401 00:18:02,982 --> 00:18:04,818 to pay back the reverse mortgage 402 00:18:04,918 --> 00:18:06,986 that our mother took out on the other house. 403 00:18:08,888 --> 00:18:09,889 Yeah. 404 00:18:13,590 --> 00:18:14,160 Look, I can send some money home, 405 00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:15,328 but it's not going to be much. 406 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:16,663 Can't Cliff chip in? 407 00:18:16,763 --> 00:18:18,231 Cliff's not in a good place, okay? 408 00:18:18,298 --> 00:18:19,899 Who is? Okay? 409 00:18:19,966 --> 00:18:22,435 Monk, Becca took everything. 410 00:18:22,502 --> 00:18:25,238 And the kids are getting teased at school. 411 00:18:25,305 --> 00:18:26,473 - I didn't know. - [Lisa] Well... 412 00:18:27,273 --> 00:18:28,475 Maybe you should call him. 413 00:18:34,247 --> 00:18:36,249 I'm sorry I've always been so distant. 414 00:18:36,316 --> 00:18:38,284 [upbeat music playing faintly over speakers] 415 00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:43,690 You couldn't help that. 416 00:18:43,790 --> 00:18:45,358 You were always Dad's favorite. 417 00:18:47,794 --> 00:18:49,262 And that made Cliff and I bond, 418 00:18:49,329 --> 00:18:50,463 and you resented us 419 00:18:50,530 --> 00:18:52,799 for having that bond, and then... 420 00:18:52,866 --> 00:18:54,701 {\an8}I don't know, you just became self-sufficient. 421 00:18:57,804 --> 00:18:58,805 You never talked about this. 422 00:18:58,872 --> 00:19:00,473 We never talked about anything. 423 00:19:02,676 --> 00:19:04,144 Is that surprising? 424 00:19:04,210 --> 00:19:05,679 Look at our parents. [scoffs] 425 00:19:06,379 --> 00:19:07,714 [Monk] Mm-hm. 426 00:19:07,814 --> 00:19:10,850 The only emotions I remember from Dad... 427 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,655 were boredom and rage. 428 00:19:16,322 --> 00:19:17,657 Is boredom an emotion? 429 00:19:17,724 --> 00:19:18,825 [Lisa chuckles] 430 00:19:18,892 --> 00:19:20,960 Great. It's Detective Dictionary. 431 00:19:21,270 --> 00:19:23,329 - [both laugh] - [Lisa] Oh! 432 00:19:23,396 --> 00:19:24,831 You haven't called me that in forever. 433 00:19:24,898 --> 00:19:26,299 Oh, God! 434 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,369 - What? Oh, come on! - [Lisa] Oh, God! 435 00:19:30,170 --> 00:19:31,204 [Lisa groans] 436 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,541 - Lisa? You okay? Hey. - [groans] 437 00:19:35,408 --> 00:19:36,409 [Lisa groans] 438 00:19:37,477 --> 00:19:39,145 - Hey, help! Help! - [Lisa groaning] 439 00:19:39,212 --> 00:19:40,980 [doctors and nurses speaking indistinctly] 440 00:19:42,482 --> 00:19:44,217 [somber music playing] 441 00:20:24,557 --> 00:20:26,760 - [soft music playing] - [bird chirping] 442 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:36,536 [waves lapping] 443 00:20:37,270 --> 00:20:39,406 [Monk] "If you are reading this 444 00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:42,742 it's because I, Lisa Magical Ellison... 445 00:20:44,277 --> 00:20:45,311 have died. 446 00:20:48,415 --> 00:20:50,283 Obviously, this is not ideal... 447 00:20:51,584 --> 00:20:53,820 but I guess it had to happen at some point. 448 00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:57,290 Hopefully, I... 449 00:21:00,930 --> 00:21:02,762 Hopefully, I expired 450 00:21:02,829 --> 00:21:07,300 under the heaving thrusts of a sweaty Idris Elba 451 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,103 or perhaps in a less dignified manner, 452 00:21:10,170 --> 00:21:13,907 under the heaving thrusts of a sweaty Russell Crowe." 453 00:21:13,973 --> 00:21:14,974 [chuckles] 454 00:21:15,750 --> 00:21:17,177 "Irrespective of how I went, 455 00:21:17,277 --> 00:21:19,979 I ask that those closest to me... 456 00:21:21,781 --> 00:21:23,516 not mourn all that much. 457 00:21:24,818 --> 00:21:26,686 I lived a life that made me proud. 458 00:21:27,921 --> 00:21:28,922 I... 459 00:21:29,923 --> 00:21:31,191 I was loved... 460 00:21:32,859 --> 00:21:34,361 and I loved in return. 461 00:21:36,290 --> 00:21:39,165 I found work that aroused my passions. 462 00:21:39,265 --> 00:21:41,968 I believe I gave more than I took. 463 00:21:42,350 --> 00:21:44,604 And I did my damnedest to help people in need. 464 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:47,507 And on top of all that, 465 00:21:47,607 --> 00:21:50,710 many a friend wrongly accused me of having Botox 466 00:21:50,810 --> 00:21:53,880 because of how tight my skin stayed well into my 50's. 467 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,183 What more could someone ask of a life? 468 00:21:59,219 --> 00:22:00,220 I love you all. 469 00:22:01,488 --> 00:22:03,189 Thank you for being here today. 470 00:22:06,326 --> 00:22:07,327 Goodbye. 471 00:22:09,396 --> 00:22:10,563 Lisa." 472 00:22:16,703 --> 00:22:17,837 Cliff? 473 00:22:19,339 --> 00:22:20,340 [Cliff sighs] 474 00:22:43,596 --> 00:22:45,165 Are those human remains? 475 00:22:46,332 --> 00:22:47,567 You guys have a permit for that? 476 00:22:47,667 --> 00:22:49,336 Just shut the **** up, Phillip. 477 00:22:49,402 --> 00:22:51,104 Cliff, you don't talk to me like that. 478 00:22:51,204 --> 00:22:52,439 **** you. I just did. 479 00:22:52,539 --> 00:22:53,740 - [Phillip] What? - You want me to beat your ***? 480 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,750 - I'm just-- - Get the **** out of here. 481 00:22:55,175 --> 00:22:57,770 I will eat your sweater vest for dinner. 482 00:22:57,177 --> 00:22:58,678 - No-- Yep. - [Cliff] *****. Go. One. 483 00:22:58,745 --> 00:23:00,130 [Monk] Get the **** out of here, Phillip. 484 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:01,514 - [Phillip] I'm just-- - Two. 485 00:23:01,581 --> 00:23:03,450 - Three. - [Monk] Always been a ****ing douche. 486 00:23:04,584 --> 00:23:05,719 [gentle music playing] 487 00:23:07,387 --> 00:23:09,289 [bell rings] 488 00:23:11,558 --> 00:23:12,892 [door opens] 489 00:23:12,959 --> 00:23:14,961 [piano playing] 490 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:21,801 [Monk exhales] 491 00:23:22,736 --> 00:23:23,870 Where is everybody? 492 00:23:24,771 --> 00:23:26,406 They're exhausted. 493 00:23:26,473 --> 00:23:28,575 I gave Lorraine something to help her sleep. 494 00:23:28,641 --> 00:23:29,776 Mother's taking a bath. 495 00:23:29,876 --> 00:23:30,977 Then I'm going to dose her too. 496 00:23:32,746 --> 00:23:35,548 You think maybe I can get some of that later tonight? 497 00:23:35,615 --> 00:23:37,417 Yeah. What, you're not sleeping well? 498 00:23:38,451 --> 00:23:39,719 Uh... 499 00:23:39,786 --> 00:23:42,122 Normally, I sleep fine, but just lately. 500 00:23:43,990 --> 00:23:45,759 Yeah. 501 00:23:45,825 --> 00:23:48,795 Does seeing a dead body ever become normal? 502 00:23:48,895 --> 00:23:50,430 I don't know. I haven't seen many. 503 00:23:50,497 --> 00:23:51,631 [Monk] Really? 504 00:23:51,731 --> 00:23:53,333 I'm a plastic surgeon. 505 00:23:53,433 --> 00:23:55,635 If I'm looking at a corpse, then something went very awry. 506 00:23:57,137 --> 00:23:58,138 Right. 507 00:24:00,473 --> 00:24:02,242 Yeah. Made me feel for Mother. 508 00:24:03,943 --> 00:24:06,646 Can't imagine what she must've gone through finding Dad... 509 00:24:08,448 --> 00:24:10,183 you know, like that. 510 00:24:10,283 --> 00:24:11,284 I know. 511 00:24:12,652 --> 00:24:14,870 So much death. 512 00:24:22,162 --> 00:24:24,631 When was the last time we were here together? 513 00:24:26,132 --> 00:24:27,600 Uh... 514 00:24:27,667 --> 00:24:29,135 Maybe ten years. 515 00:24:29,202 --> 00:24:30,437 [Monk] Yeah. 516 00:24:30,503 --> 00:24:31,671 The kids were still little. 517 00:24:32,505 --> 00:24:33,506 Yeah. 518 00:24:36,376 --> 00:24:38,144 How is your family, by the way? 519 00:24:39,446 --> 00:24:41,147 You actually care? 520 00:24:41,214 --> 00:24:43,850 Of course. Why would I ask? Why would you ask me that? 521 00:24:43,950 --> 00:24:45,618 I don't know, Monk. You never really called. 522 00:24:45,685 --> 00:24:47,654 - I get busy. - Yeah, everybody gets busy. 523 00:24:48,621 --> 00:24:49,823 You drift away. 524 00:24:51,958 --> 00:24:53,460 You want to know how my family is? 525 00:24:54,194 --> 00:24:56,363 She took my house, half my practice. 526 00:24:57,130 --> 00:24:58,898 My kids ****ing hate me. 527 00:25:00,266 --> 00:25:01,935 And I still live in ****ing Tucson. 528 00:25:04,270 --> 00:25:05,638 What was wrong with Tucson? 529 00:25:05,739 --> 00:25:07,774 One of them asked me if I was Tyler Perry. 530 00:25:08,908 --> 00:25:09,976 That's terrible. 531 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,445 I mean, Tyler Perry lives in Atlanta, right? 532 00:25:12,512 --> 00:25:13,947 **** you, man. 533 00:25:14,140 --> 00:25:15,682 [both laugh] 534 00:25:15,782 --> 00:25:16,783 Shut up. 535 00:25:16,850 --> 00:25:17,851 [Monk] Nowhere near Tucson. 536 00:25:18,618 --> 00:25:20,860 [Cliff] Oh, boy. 537 00:25:22,989 --> 00:25:24,424 [Monk] Did you know Dad had affairs? 538 00:25:24,491 --> 00:25:25,959 Oh, for sure. 539 00:25:26,260 --> 00:25:27,260 How? 540 00:25:28,194 --> 00:25:30,163 You could just tell. 541 00:25:30,263 --> 00:25:33,990 Lisa told me she saw him kissing a white woman once. 542 00:25:33,166 --> 00:25:36,703 Why did I have no idea? Why am I the last to know? 543 00:25:36,803 --> 00:25:38,872 Because you loved him too much. 544 00:25:38,972 --> 00:25:41,274 Enemies see each other better than friends. 545 00:25:42,609 --> 00:25:44,844 [Lorraine snoring] 546 00:25:44,944 --> 00:25:46,346 [Monk] What the hell did you give her? 547 00:25:46,446 --> 00:25:48,982 It's oxycodone. But knocks them right out. 548 00:25:49,490 --> 00:25:50,550 You gave her opioids to sleep? 549 00:25:50,650 --> 00:25:52,485 Yeah. You ever seen a heroin addict? 550 00:25:52,552 --> 00:25:53,887 Those guys take naps standing up. 551 00:25:53,987 --> 00:25:55,121 It's dangerous. 552 00:25:55,455 --> 00:25:56,790 Look, I'm keeping an eye on her. I'm a doctor. 553 00:25:56,856 --> 00:25:58,240 - [Monk] So am I. - Right. 554 00:25:58,124 --> 00:26:00,326 Maybe if we need to revive a sentence. 555 00:26:00,393 --> 00:26:05,699 [mocks] Well, why do you have synthetic smack anyway? 556 00:26:05,799 --> 00:26:07,667 [water dripping] 557 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:11,710 [Cliff] What is that? 558 00:26:17,243 --> 00:26:18,378 Oh. 559 00:26:20,580 --> 00:26:21,681 [Cliff] Oh, shit. 560 00:26:22,515 --> 00:26:23,483 [knocking at door] 561 00:26:23,550 --> 00:26:24,551 [Monk] Mother? 562 00:26:26,986 --> 00:26:27,987 Mother? 563 00:26:29,723 --> 00:26:30,990 - [grunts] - [water flowing] 564 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:34,994 Hey. 565 00:26:35,610 --> 00:26:37,831 Hey. What are you doing? Hey. 566 00:26:39,666 --> 00:26:40,667 Mother. 567 00:26:42,369 --> 00:26:43,370 Hey. 568 00:26:50,243 --> 00:26:51,511 {\an8}Come on. 569 00:26:53,947 --> 00:26:54,948 Come on. 570 00:26:56,750 --> 00:26:58,852 [Monk] Well, I'm not sure, to be honest with you. 571 00:26:58,918 --> 00:27:00,453 It's going to depend on what the doctors say. 572 00:27:01,621 --> 00:27:03,456 Yeah, I'll touch base when I know more. 573 00:27:04,724 --> 00:27:06,359 Thanks so much for being understanding. 574 00:27:08,528 --> 00:27:12,320 Hey, um, Leo, one more thing. 575 00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:13,900 I was wondering if maybe we could treat this 576 00:27:13,967 --> 00:27:16,636 as a sabbatical as opposed to a leave of absence? 577 00:27:16,736 --> 00:27:17,804 Whatever happens with my mother, 578 00:27:17,904 --> 00:27:18,905 it's going to cost some money. 579 00:27:22,420 --> 00:27:23,143 No, I understand. 580 00:27:23,943 --> 00:27:25,780 No, it's not your fault. 581 00:27:25,945 --> 00:27:27,247 I'll figure something out. 582 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,490 Yeah. 583 00:27:29,649 --> 00:27:30,583 Thanks for your help. 584 00:27:31,510 --> 00:27:32,252 Okay. Bye-bye. 585 00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:34,988 [Coraline] Oh. 586 00:27:39,590 --> 00:27:40,600 Oh. 587 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:41,628 Uh... 588 00:27:41,728 --> 00:27:42,829 You don't have to do that. 589 00:27:42,929 --> 00:27:44,297 Oh, no. I do. 590 00:27:44,397 --> 00:27:46,132 It's tomato season. You can't let them go to waste. 591 00:27:46,232 --> 00:27:47,934 - Ooh. - A crime around here. 592 00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:49,269 [chuckles] 593 00:27:50,103 --> 00:27:51,404 [Coraline] Thank you. 594 00:27:51,471 --> 00:27:52,939 That's what neighbors are for, right? 595 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:54,307 Welcome to the neighborhood. 596 00:27:55,842 --> 00:27:57,444 I thought the place was vacant. 597 00:27:58,411 --> 00:28:01,810 Uh, it has been for a while. 598 00:28:01,147 --> 00:28:02,649 We just got here last night. 599 00:28:02,749 --> 00:28:05,352 Oh. Figured the place was haunted. 600 00:28:05,452 --> 00:28:08,421 They said some old man blew his brains out there a while back. 601 00:28:11,324 --> 00:28:12,459 Yeah. 602 00:28:15,328 --> 00:28:17,797 Oh, my God. I... 603 00:28:19,833 --> 00:28:21,134 I'm a ****ing idiot. 604 00:28:21,968 --> 00:28:23,203 Please forgive me. 605 00:28:23,303 --> 00:28:24,304 Well... 606 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:27,374 Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that. 607 00:28:28,274 --> 00:28:29,275 What'd she do for a living? 608 00:28:30,430 --> 00:28:32,812 She was a doctor. Um... 609 00:28:32,879 --> 00:28:37,117 Most of my family, doctors. Basically, I'm the outcast. 610 00:28:37,183 --> 00:28:38,284 [Coraline chuckles] 611 00:28:39,386 --> 00:28:41,540 Um, what do you do for work? 612 00:28:41,154 --> 00:28:42,550 I'm a lawyer. 613 00:28:42,789 --> 00:28:44,524 Public defense. Quincy. 614 00:28:45,625 --> 00:28:46,659 Very honorable. 615 00:28:46,726 --> 00:28:50,563 Yeah. It's very hard, but can be rewarding. 616 00:28:51,865 --> 00:28:53,400 May I ask you something 617 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,869 that I'm sure a lot of people ask you? 618 00:28:55,969 --> 00:28:58,338 How do I feel about defending guilty people? 619 00:28:58,872 --> 00:28:59,839 Yeah. 620 00:28:59,906 --> 00:29:02,142 - I love it. - Why? 621 00:29:02,208 --> 00:29:05,178 I have to. And they're all guilty. 622 00:29:06,246 --> 00:29:08,248 - Really? - Yes. But that's okay. 623 00:29:08,348 --> 00:29:10,250 People are more than their worst deed. 624 00:29:12,352 --> 00:29:13,586 I guess I agree with that. 625 00:29:13,687 --> 00:29:15,822 [Coraline] Mm. Sure you do. 626 00:29:15,889 --> 00:29:17,900 You're a writer. 627 00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:18,725 [Monk] I don't follow. 628 00:29:18,825 --> 00:29:21,528 Well, writers have to be non-judgmental. 629 00:29:21,594 --> 00:29:23,763 You can't write interesting characters 630 00:29:23,863 --> 00:29:26,166 and be critical of every bad decision they make. 631 00:29:26,232 --> 00:29:27,200 Right? 632 00:29:27,267 --> 00:29:28,401 Maybe you should be the writer. 633 00:29:28,501 --> 00:29:29,769 I don't feel like much of one lately. 634 00:29:30,503 --> 00:29:31,604 You blocked? 635 00:29:33,540 --> 00:29:35,375 It's just... [chuckles] 636 00:29:35,442 --> 00:29:37,877 I don't think anybody wants to buy what I write. 637 00:29:37,944 --> 00:29:39,450 [Coraline] That's not true. 638 00:29:39,112 --> 00:29:40,847 I didn't want to say anything, 639 00:29:40,914 --> 00:29:43,160 but, um, I actually read one of your books. 640 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:45,785 Hm. Which? 641 00:29:45,885 --> 00:29:47,187 The Frogs. 642 00:29:47,253 --> 00:29:48,221 Oh, so you were the one. 643 00:29:48,288 --> 00:29:49,923 [chuckles] I liked it. 644 00:29:51,691 --> 00:29:52,692 You're talented. 645 00:29:53,293 --> 00:29:54,227 [car approaching] 646 00:29:59,733 --> 00:30:01,468 [Monk] You're expecting company? 647 00:30:03,103 --> 00:30:04,104 [Coraline] Yeah. 648 00:30:04,204 --> 00:30:06,390 - [keys jingling] - Oh. 649 00:30:06,973 --> 00:30:08,742 [door unlocking] 650 00:30:14,214 --> 00:30:15,448 Hello. 651 00:30:16,249 --> 00:30:18,651 - Hey. - Jelani, uh, this is Monk. 652 00:30:18,752 --> 00:30:21,221 He and his family own the house across the street. 653 00:30:21,287 --> 00:30:22,455 Nice to meet you. 654 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:24,324 Yeah, it's a pleasure. 655 00:30:24,424 --> 00:30:25,325 Are you staying for dinner? 656 00:30:26,126 --> 00:30:27,127 [Monk] Uh... 657 00:30:27,227 --> 00:30:28,895 No, I need to go check in on my mother. 658 00:30:28,962 --> 00:30:30,960 [Jelani] Cool. 659 00:30:30,663 --> 00:30:31,831 [Monk] Thank you, uh... 660 00:30:33,767 --> 00:30:34,934 [gulps] 661 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:37,300 For the wine, and... 662 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:39,305 good night. 663 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:43,900 Good night, Monk. 664 00:30:43,910 --> 00:30:45,779 [gentle music playing] 665 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:56,956 [waves lapping] 666 00:31:06,633 --> 00:31:08,601 [gentle music continues] 667 00:31:13,273 --> 00:31:15,208 [seagull squawking] 668 00:31:28,521 --> 00:31:30,490 [Cliff sniffles] 669 00:31:34,661 --> 00:31:36,162 What time's your flight? 670 00:31:36,229 --> 00:31:37,330 11:00. 671 00:31:39,466 --> 00:31:42,235 You think, uh, maybe you could change it? 672 00:31:42,335 --> 00:31:43,670 Think it would be useful to have you 673 00:31:43,737 --> 00:31:45,380 at Mother's doctor's appointment today. 674 00:31:45,138 --> 00:31:46,306 I can't. I got to get home. 675 00:31:48,408 --> 00:31:50,343 Fine, but you think you can chip in 676 00:31:50,410 --> 00:31:51,878 for her care once we find out what's what? 677 00:31:51,978 --> 00:31:53,246 It's probably going to be pretty expensive. 678 00:31:53,346 --> 00:31:55,415 Things are tight right now, so... 679 00:31:55,515 --> 00:31:56,850 You thought about firing Lorraine? 680 00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:01,421 Lorraine is family. 681 00:32:02,222 --> 00:32:03,523 Well, shit, Monk. 682 00:32:03,590 --> 00:32:04,924 I don't know what to tell you, all right? 683 00:32:05,250 --> 00:32:06,226 So you can't do anything? 684 00:32:06,326 --> 00:32:08,940 [sighs] I will check with my accountant 685 00:32:08,194 --> 00:32:09,496 when I get back, all right? 686 00:32:10,263 --> 00:32:11,498 It's 8:00 in the morning. 687 00:32:11,564 --> 00:32:13,533 I'm not flying the ****ing plane, Monk. 688 00:32:18,104 --> 00:32:21,608 Well, do you think you could be so kind 689 00:32:21,708 --> 00:32:23,209 as to go inside and see 690 00:32:23,276 --> 00:32:24,711 if Mother is ready to head out? 691 00:32:24,778 --> 00:32:25,945 All right. Hey. 692 00:32:26,460 --> 00:32:27,347 - Mother! - Don't yell, man. 693 00:32:27,414 --> 00:32:28,415 Be civilized. 694 00:32:28,515 --> 00:32:30,517 You're just like our dad, man. 695 00:32:30,583 --> 00:32:32,852 So you do right by me, Monk. I swear to ****ing God. 696 00:32:34,187 --> 00:32:35,789 [Monk] Clown. 697 00:32:35,889 --> 00:32:36,956 [Cliff] You want to see civilized? 698 00:32:37,570 --> 00:32:38,625 - [yelling] Mother! - [Monk groans] 699 00:32:42,796 --> 00:32:43,797 Morning. 700 00:32:45,865 --> 00:32:47,200 [Monk] Hey. Morning. 701 00:32:48,268 --> 00:32:49,869 Listen... 702 00:32:49,936 --> 00:32:51,738 - about last night, uh-- - Oh. 703 00:32:51,805 --> 00:32:53,390 It's okay. 704 00:32:53,239 --> 00:32:55,308 You don't have to explain. I had a good time. 705 00:32:55,408 --> 00:32:56,443 No, I... 706 00:32:58,144 --> 00:33:00,714 Jelani, he's my ex. 707 00:33:00,780 --> 00:33:01,915 Well, he's going to be. 708 00:33:03,316 --> 00:33:05,318 We're in the middle of breaking up and... 709 00:33:06,386 --> 00:33:07,387 it's hard. 710 00:33:08,922 --> 00:33:09,923 I get it. 711 00:33:11,224 --> 00:33:12,225 I'd like to see you again. 712 00:33:13,727 --> 00:33:15,495 Do you think that you'll be 713 00:33:15,595 --> 00:33:16,596 around town next couple of days? 714 00:33:16,663 --> 00:33:19,265 You know, grab a drink? 715 00:33:20,734 --> 00:33:21,735 Yeah, I'd like that. 716 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,500 Yeah, me too. 717 00:33:27,340 --> 00:33:28,341 Drive safe. 718 00:33:29,476 --> 00:33:30,477 Thanks. 719 00:33:33,580 --> 00:33:34,581 [chuckles] 720 00:33:55,702 --> 00:33:56,703 [nurse] Mr. Ellison? 721 00:33:57,871 --> 00:33:58,872 We're ready. 722 00:34:03,143 --> 00:34:04,477 [Dr. Bulger] Her MRI shows 723 00:34:04,544 --> 00:34:06,980 early signs of neurodegeneration. 724 00:34:07,781 --> 00:34:09,150 There's a slight decrease 725 00:34:09,115 --> 00:34:10,850 in the size of the temporal lobe 726 00:34:10,950 --> 00:34:12,452 which suggest Alzheimer's. 727 00:34:14,487 --> 00:34:16,456 I'm very sorry, Mr. Ellison. 728 00:34:16,523 --> 00:34:17,857 But at some point, 729 00:34:17,957 --> 00:34:20,293 she'll probably require around-the-clock care 730 00:34:21,161 --> 00:34:22,829 for her own safety. 731 00:34:30,337 --> 00:34:32,305 [disquieting music playing] 732 00:34:48,221 --> 00:34:49,222 [chuckles] 733 00:35:22,255 --> 00:35:24,224 [siren blaring] 734 00:35:28,762 --> 00:35:30,463 - Hey, young nigga. - Hey! 735 00:35:30,563 --> 00:35:32,866 Hey, whoa, whoa. 736 00:35:32,932 --> 00:35:34,601 Don't shoot me, partner. Come on now. 737 00:35:39,272 --> 00:35:40,273 Van Go. 738 00:35:41,107 --> 00:35:42,242 That you? 739 00:35:42,308 --> 00:35:43,309 Yeah, me, nigga. 740 00:35:44,644 --> 00:35:46,646 Shit. What, you drunk, mother****er? 741 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:49,382 Where you running to? 742 00:35:51,317 --> 00:35:52,452 Just leave me alone, man. 743 00:35:53,586 --> 00:35:54,587 [grunts] 744 00:35:55,722 --> 00:35:56,723 How your mama? 745 00:35:58,258 --> 00:35:59,225 What you say? 746 00:35:59,292 --> 00:36:01,227 I said, how your mama? 747 00:36:04,397 --> 00:36:05,799 Oh, shit. 748 00:36:06,766 --> 00:36:08,100 They ain't tell you, huh? 749 00:36:08,902 --> 00:36:10,300 What you talking about, punk? 750 00:36:10,103 --> 00:36:11,938 Hey, what you talking about? 751 00:36:14,140 --> 00:36:15,442 Think about it, Van Go. 752 00:36:16,743 --> 00:36:17,844 Look at my face. 753 00:36:19,679 --> 00:36:21,981 Look at my midnight black complex... 754 00:36:22,820 --> 00:36:23,450 No, that's not right. 755 00:36:24,984 --> 00:36:25,985 What did you want to say? 756 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,522 You can say it better than that, right? 757 00:36:29,622 --> 00:36:30,623 Come on. What do you want? 758 00:36:30,690 --> 00:36:32,792 [keyboard clacking] 759 00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:36,363 Think about it, Van Go. 760 00:36:37,664 --> 00:36:38,932 Look at my face. 761 00:36:39,866 --> 00:36:42,335 Look at my coal black skin. 762 00:36:42,435 --> 00:36:43,603 And then look at your own. 763 00:36:45,872 --> 00:36:48,800 Look at my black eyes. 764 00:36:48,108 --> 00:36:49,109 Now look at your own. 765 00:36:50,844 --> 00:36:52,645 Look at my big black lips. 766 00:36:52,712 --> 00:36:54,514 [chuckles] Now look at your own. 767 00:36:55,949 --> 00:36:57,550 I's your daddy whether you like it or not. 768 00:36:57,650 --> 00:37:00,120 Shut up, okay? Shut up, man! You lying! 769 00:37:00,186 --> 00:37:01,988 No, no, that's the truth, nigga. 770 00:37:03,723 --> 00:37:05,291 So, where you been, huh? 771 00:37:05,992 --> 00:37:07,127 Where you been? 772 00:37:07,193 --> 00:37:08,795 I've been where I always be. 773 00:37:09,796 --> 00:37:10,897 Surviving. 774 00:37:11,865 --> 00:37:13,833 You ain't worth a piss. 775 00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:15,402 Your mama ain't worth a piss. 776 00:37:15,502 --> 00:37:17,170 So here I am. 777 00:37:17,837 --> 00:37:18,838 [sniffles] 778 00:37:18,905 --> 00:37:20,874 [sirens blaring distantly] 779 00:37:23,430 --> 00:37:25,110 [breathing heavily] 780 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,140 What do I say now? 781 00:37:28,810 --> 00:37:31,418 I think now will come some sort of, you know, 782 00:37:31,518 --> 00:37:33,319 dumb, melodramatic sob story 783 00:37:33,386 --> 00:37:35,655 where you, uh, highlight your broken interiority. 784 00:37:35,722 --> 00:37:38,240 Something... something like, um, I don't know... 785 00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:42,228 [keyboard clacking] 786 00:37:43,329 --> 00:37:44,698 I hates this man. 787 00:37:46,332 --> 00:37:47,534 I hates my mama. 788 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:48,835 And I hates myself. 789 00:37:49,602 --> 00:37:51,171 [panting] 790 00:37:52,372 --> 00:37:54,400 I've seen my face in his. 791 00:37:55,675 --> 00:37:57,177 I see the ape that all them stupid girls 792 00:37:57,243 --> 00:37:59,346 were afraid of, yeah. 793 00:37:59,412 --> 00:38:01,247 I can see my long arms hanging down. 794 00:38:02,182 --> 00:38:03,783 And I see eyes that don't care 795 00:38:03,883 --> 00:38:05,452 what happens tomorrow. 796 00:38:09,689 --> 00:38:10,790 I see myself 797 00:38:11,624 --> 00:38:12,759 rocking back on my heels, 798 00:38:12,859 --> 00:38:13,860 just like this, baby. 799 00:38:14,561 --> 00:38:16,290 Just waiting. 800 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:18,131 And waiting, and waiting, and waiting, 801 00:38:18,231 --> 00:38:19,699 and waiting for something 802 00:38:19,766 --> 00:38:21,935 that I'm not even going to recognize when it comes! 803 00:38:22,702 --> 00:38:24,571 Death is my only cure. 804 00:38:25,472 --> 00:38:26,740 I heard that before. 805 00:38:28,742 --> 00:38:30,777 I've been hearing it, and I'm hearing it now. 806 00:38:33,747 --> 00:38:34,748 I see... 807 00:38:37,784 --> 00:38:39,252 I see my mama crying. 808 00:38:40,620 --> 00:38:43,256 I see her screaming in my dreams. 809 00:38:43,323 --> 00:38:44,591 I see my babies. 810 00:38:45,425 --> 00:38:46,426 I see my... 811 00:38:47,930 --> 00:38:48,128 I see my daddy. 812 00:38:50,730 --> 00:38:51,931 I see myself. 813 00:38:53,133 --> 00:38:54,300 - [gun fires] - [groans] 814 00:38:54,401 --> 00:38:55,468 What the ****? 815 00:38:55,568 --> 00:38:56,770 - [body thuds] - [groans] 816 00:38:58,772 --> 00:39:00,106 What the **** you do that for? 817 00:39:00,173 --> 00:39:01,474 Because you ain't shit, nigga. 818 00:39:01,574 --> 00:39:03,760 [breathing heavily] 819 00:39:04,444 --> 00:39:05,578 And you made me. 820 00:39:07,847 --> 00:39:10,517 So because you ain't shit, I ain't shit. 821 00:39:12,252 --> 00:39:14,821 Because you ain't shit, I ain't shit. 822 00:39:17,490 --> 00:39:18,858 [siren blaring] 823 00:39:21,961 --> 00:39:23,196 I gots to bounce. 824 00:39:25,310 --> 00:39:26,666 [Willy whimpers] 825 00:39:28,268 --> 00:39:29,436 [Van Go] Peace, mother****er. 826 00:39:30,770 --> 00:39:31,771 Peace. 827 00:39:34,841 --> 00:39:36,209 What the **** was that for? 828 00:39:41,348 --> 00:39:42,382 [woman on TV] You're watching 829 00:39:42,482 --> 00:39:45,885 Black Stories Month on WHN. 830 00:39:45,985 --> 00:39:48,154 [choir singing over TV] 831 00:39:48,221 --> 00:39:49,723 Celebrating the diversity 832 00:39:49,823 --> 00:39:51,157 of the African-American experience. 833 00:39:51,224 --> 00:39:52,392 [gun fires] 834 00:39:52,492 --> 00:39:54,461 Join us for more riveting cinema, 835 00:39:54,527 --> 00:39:56,830 - heartbreak, and drama. - [cell phone vibrating] 836 00:39:56,896 --> 00:39:58,310 - [man over TV] Mama! - [TV turns off] 837 00:39:59,699 --> 00:40:01,468 Hello? 838 00:40:01,534 --> 00:40:03,903 "I be standing outside in the night, 839 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:05,538 a police chopper go by 840 00:40:05,638 --> 00:40:07,474 and shine some lights in some backyards 841 00:40:07,540 --> 00:40:11,244 and I think, 'Shine that light on me, mother****er, 842 00:40:11,344 --> 00:40:13,130 shine me some ****ing light 843 00:40:13,790 --> 00:40:15,515 so I can see where the **** I be at.'" 844 00:40:16,416 --> 00:40:17,584 Are you serious? 845 00:40:17,684 --> 00:40:18,918 You notice I didn't put my name on it. 846 00:40:19,190 --> 00:40:20,420 [Arthur] Yes, Stagg R. Leigh, 847 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:22,355 I did notice that. Well done. 848 00:40:22,422 --> 00:40:23,823 But I still can't send this out. 849 00:40:23,890 --> 00:40:25,910 You said you wanted Black stuff. 850 00:40:25,191 --> 00:40:26,526 What's Blacker than that? 851 00:40:26,593 --> 00:40:28,395 It's got deadbeat dads, 852 00:40:28,495 --> 00:40:29,562 rappers, crack, 853 00:40:29,763 --> 00:40:31,598 and he gets killed by a cop in the end. 854 00:40:31,698 --> 00:40:34,868 I mean, that's... that's... that's Black, right? 855 00:40:36,169 --> 00:40:37,270 I see what you're doing. 856 00:40:37,504 --> 00:40:39,105 [Monk] Good, because it's not subtle. 857 00:40:39,205 --> 00:40:40,540 I mean, how's that book so different 858 00:40:40,607 --> 00:40:41,841 than some of the other garbage they put out? 859 00:40:41,908 --> 00:40:42,742 That's not the point. 860 00:40:42,842 --> 00:40:44,770 Well, it's my point. 861 00:40:44,177 --> 00:40:46,790 Look at what they publish. 862 00:40:46,179 --> 00:40:47,247 Look at what they expect us to write. 863 00:40:48,140 --> 00:40:49,349 I'm sick of it. 864 00:40:49,416 --> 00:40:52,619 And that's an expression of how sick I am. 865 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,287 [Arthur] Monk, I'm trying to sell books, 866 00:40:54,387 --> 00:40:55,789 not be a part of some crusade. 867 00:40:57,900 --> 00:40:58,391 Who do you expect to publish this? 868 00:40:58,458 --> 00:41:00,126 No one. 869 00:41:00,226 --> 00:41:02,595 I just want to rub their noses in the horseshit they solicit. 870 00:41:03,930 --> 00:41:04,964 Okay. 871 00:41:05,650 --> 00:41:06,232 What do you want me to do? 872 00:41:06,299 --> 00:41:07,567 [Monk] I want you to send it out. 873 00:41:07,634 --> 00:41:09,690 Can I say it's performance art? 874 00:41:09,135 --> 00:41:11,438 No. Send it straight. 875 00:41:11,538 --> 00:41:13,740 If they can't take the joke, then **** them. 876 00:41:15,475 --> 00:41:16,810 All right, but I'm only sending it 877 00:41:16,910 --> 00:41:18,611 to a couple of places. This thing scares me. 878 00:41:18,712 --> 00:41:20,146 [Monk] Scares you? Why? 879 00:41:20,246 --> 00:41:21,548 Because white people think 880 00:41:21,614 --> 00:41:23,450 they want the truth, but they don't. 881 00:41:23,550 --> 00:41:25,719 They just want to feel absolved. 882 00:41:25,785 --> 00:41:28,388 Well, fortunately, that's not my problem. 883 00:41:29,389 --> 00:41:30,824 - Okay. - Bye. 884 00:41:31,558 --> 00:41:32,559 [cell phone beeps] 885 00:41:34,327 --> 00:41:36,329 [chuckling] 886 00:41:36,429 --> 00:41:38,398 [instrumental music playing] 887 00:41:52,345 --> 00:41:53,513 I'm surprised you reached out. 888 00:41:53,613 --> 00:41:55,648 I thought you were just being nice. 889 00:41:55,749 --> 00:41:58,785 Oh, I'm never just being nice. I'm too old for that. 890 00:41:58,852 --> 00:42:00,620 You know, I like you so much, in fact, 891 00:42:00,687 --> 00:42:02,455 that I went out and got another one of your books. 892 00:42:03,523 --> 00:42:04,991 Really? Which one? 893 00:42:05,910 --> 00:42:06,920 The Haas Conundrum. 894 00:42:07,327 --> 00:42:08,328 What'd you think? 895 00:42:09,262 --> 00:42:10,363 I liked it. 896 00:42:11,364 --> 00:42:14,134 Susan has really great dialogue. 897 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,670 And I love the aunt. 898 00:42:16,770 --> 00:42:18,672 Wow. I mean, you write women well. 899 00:42:19,506 --> 00:42:20,840 Oh, you think so? 900 00:42:20,940 --> 00:42:22,275 Yeah. They're not hothouse flowers. 901 00:42:22,342 --> 00:42:23,343 Thank you. 902 00:42:25,450 --> 00:42:27,447 - I appreciate that. - [Coraline] Mm. 903 00:42:27,514 --> 00:42:29,482 I could've done with less footnotes though. 904 00:42:29,549 --> 00:42:31,618 [both chuckling] 905 00:42:37,157 --> 00:42:38,391 I, uh... 906 00:42:38,491 --> 00:42:39,559 I got to run. 907 00:42:41,795 --> 00:42:43,129 Well, how's your mom? 908 00:42:44,197 --> 00:42:46,199 In and out. 909 00:42:46,299 --> 00:42:48,340 I'm afraid to be away for too long. 910 00:42:49,402 --> 00:42:50,503 - Yeah. - But, uh... 911 00:42:52,906 --> 00:42:53,973 I'll, uh... 912 00:42:55,875 --> 00:42:56,976 I'll call you. 913 00:42:59,450 --> 00:43:00,460 Hold on a minute. 914 00:43:06,386 --> 00:43:07,320 Sign my book. 915 00:43:07,387 --> 00:43:08,388 [Monk chuckles] 916 00:43:18,431 --> 00:43:19,432 What's your name again? 917 00:43:20,433 --> 00:43:21,434 [Coraline] Hm. 918 00:43:21,534 --> 00:43:23,503 [gentle music playing] 919 00:43:41,588 --> 00:43:43,560 [door creaking] 920 00:43:50,530 --> 00:43:52,465 [light switch clicking] 921 00:44:05,945 --> 00:44:06,946 [Lorraine] Mr. Monk? 922 00:44:11,885 --> 00:44:13,253 What's going on with the lights? 923 00:44:14,154 --> 00:44:16,122 Miss Lisa used to pay the bill. 924 00:44:17,257 --> 00:44:18,258 Did you? 925 00:44:19,392 --> 00:44:21,161 ["Don Quichotte" by Magazine 60 playing] 926 00:44:21,261 --> 00:44:22,262 [inhales] 927 00:44:23,396 --> 00:44:24,564 How much? 928 00:44:24,631 --> 00:44:25,832 [Monk over phone] Well, I can handle 929 00:44:25,932 --> 00:44:27,300 the electrical bills, 930 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,200 but these care facilities are expensive. 931 00:44:29,969 --> 00:44:31,438 The best one nearby 932 00:44:31,504 --> 00:44:36,109 is $5,600 a month, and that's for a shared room. 933 00:44:36,176 --> 00:44:39,145 It goes up to $6,900 a month for a private room. 934 00:44:39,245 --> 00:44:40,447 Well, why you looking at the best one? 935 00:44:40,513 --> 00:44:41,948 She wasn't the best mother. 936 00:44:42,150 --> 00:44:43,683 Look, I'm not here to re-litigate our childhoods. 937 00:44:43,783 --> 00:44:45,652 Of course not, because yours was great. 938 00:44:45,752 --> 00:44:48,588 [Monk] Goddamn it! Are you going to help me or not? 939 00:44:48,655 --> 00:44:50,590 Won't Medicaid cover it or something? 940 00:44:50,657 --> 00:44:52,692 That's not how it works. You don't know this? 941 00:44:53,460 --> 00:44:54,861 Hey, where you going? 942 00:44:56,696 --> 00:44:58,865 ["Don Quichotte" continues] 943 00:45:13,313 --> 00:45:14,314 There you are. 944 00:45:14,414 --> 00:45:16,149 Traffic was insane. What's up? 945 00:45:16,783 --> 00:45:17,784 Sit down. 946 00:45:19,786 --> 00:45:20,787 [door closes] 947 00:45:22,489 --> 00:45:23,490 Have a seat. 948 00:45:28,495 --> 00:45:29,496 We sold your book. 949 00:45:31,970 --> 00:45:32,298 [laughs] 950 00:45:32,399 --> 00:45:34,467 Holy shit! 951 00:45:34,567 --> 00:45:36,936 - I thought it was DOA. - Not The Persians. 952 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:41,107 No. 953 00:45:41,174 --> 00:45:43,743 - [chuckles] - Get out! 954 00:45:43,810 --> 00:45:45,745 Paula Betaman from Thompson-Watt. 955 00:45:45,812 --> 00:45:47,147 She always passes. 956 00:45:47,247 --> 00:45:51,851 Not this time. They want to preempt for $750,000. 957 00:45:51,951 --> 00:45:54,320 No one's ever offered that much to me. 958 00:45:54,421 --> 00:45:56,489 - This is you. - No, it's not, Arthur. 959 00:45:56,589 --> 00:45:58,258 - [Arthur] You wrote it. - As a joke. 960 00:45:58,324 --> 00:46:00,126 Well, now it's the most lucrative joke 961 00:46:00,193 --> 00:46:01,294 you've ever told. 962 00:46:01,494 --> 00:46:03,290 - [Monk] And I'm not selling. - Why not? 963 00:46:03,129 --> 00:46:05,331 Because it's trash, Arthur. 964 00:46:05,432 --> 00:46:08,100 You didn't even want to send it out the other day. 965 00:46:08,101 --> 00:46:11,705 Oh, but look who's suddenly overcome his fears. 966 00:46:11,805 --> 00:46:13,940 I know, I broke the first rule of sales. 967 00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:16,209 Never underestimate how stupid everyone is. 968 00:46:16,309 --> 00:46:19,946 Well, I'm not participating in making them any stupider. 969 00:46:20,130 --> 00:46:21,681 Well, you haven't thus far, 970 00:46:21,781 --> 00:46:24,517 which is admirable, but... 971 00:46:25,518 --> 00:46:27,200 you also haven't made any money. 972 00:46:30,457 --> 00:46:32,325 Doesn't your mom need help these days? 973 00:46:35,495 --> 00:46:36,396 Check this out. 974 00:46:36,496 --> 00:46:38,465 [perplexing music playing] 975 00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:42,736 I don't care how drunk we get, I'm not selling it. 976 00:46:42,836 --> 00:46:44,137 [Arthur] That's not what I'm doing. 977 00:46:46,673 --> 00:46:49,342 Johnnie Walker Red, 24 bucks. 978 00:46:49,409 --> 00:46:51,678 Johnnie Walker Black, 50 bucks. 979 00:46:52,512 --> 00:46:54,140 Johnnie Walker Blue... 980 00:46:55,148 --> 00:46:57,150 $160. 981 00:46:57,217 --> 00:46:58,218 You see the metaphor? 982 00:46:59,652 --> 00:47:00,854 No. 983 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,356 These are all made by the same company. 984 00:47:03,423 --> 00:47:05,892 The Red is shit, the Black is less shit, 985 00:47:05,992 --> 00:47:07,660 the Blue is good. 986 00:47:07,727 --> 00:47:10,497 But fewer people buy the blue because it's expensive. 987 00:47:10,563 --> 00:47:11,698 And at the end of the day, 988 00:47:11,765 --> 00:47:12,932 most people just want to get drunk. 989 00:47:14,901 --> 00:47:17,700 For most of your career, your books have been Blue. 990 00:47:17,771 --> 00:47:19,939 They're good, complex. 991 00:47:20,707 --> 00:47:21,941 But they're not popular 992 00:47:22,420 --> 00:47:25,278 because most people want something easy. 993 00:47:25,378 --> 00:47:29,582 Now, for the first time ever, you've written a Red book. 994 00:47:29,683 --> 00:47:30,950 It's simple, prurient. 995 00:47:31,510 --> 00:47:32,552 It's not great literature, but... 996 00:47:34,870 --> 00:47:35,388 satisfies an urge. 997 00:47:37,223 --> 00:47:39,125 And that's valuable. 998 00:47:39,225 --> 00:47:41,194 What I'm trying to illustrate is that, 999 00:47:41,261 --> 00:47:43,296 just because you do Red 1000 00:47:43,396 --> 00:47:46,199 doesn't mean you can't also do Blue. 1001 00:47:46,266 --> 00:47:47,267 You can do it all. 1002 00:47:48,268 --> 00:47:49,736 Like Johnnie Walker. 1003 00:47:49,803 --> 00:47:52,405 In fact, you got Johnnie Walker beat, because... 1004 00:47:52,472 --> 00:47:54,274 you don't even have to put your real name on it. 1005 00:47:55,575 --> 00:47:57,544 [perplexing music continues] 1006 00:47:58,411 --> 00:47:59,612 [groans] 1007 00:48:01,448 --> 00:48:02,716 Jesus. 1008 00:48:04,317 --> 00:48:05,652 Do we drink now? 1009 00:48:05,752 --> 00:48:07,721 - [glasses clink] - [phone line ringing] 1010 00:48:10,924 --> 00:48:11,791 [woman over phone] Hello? 1011 00:48:11,891 --> 00:48:13,930 Hello, Paula. 1012 00:48:13,159 --> 00:48:15,929 Arthur! So wonderful to hear from you. 1013 00:48:15,995 --> 00:48:19,599 Um, I hope that you are with the man of the hour. 1014 00:48:19,666 --> 00:48:21,835 I am, indeed. He's right here next to me. 1015 00:48:21,935 --> 00:48:23,570 Mr. Leigh? 1016 00:48:23,636 --> 00:48:24,904 [Monk] Uh, yeah, this is he. 1017 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:27,700 Oh, really? 1018 00:48:28,908 --> 00:48:29,976 [Monk sputters] 1019 00:48:34,981 --> 00:48:35,982 Uh... 1020 00:48:36,449 --> 00:48:38,785 Yeah, goddamn it. 1021 00:48:38,852 --> 00:48:41,121 - Right. Right. Okay. - [Monk] Mother****er. 1022 00:48:41,187 --> 00:48:44,900 Yeah, I was a little confused at first, but... [chuckles] 1023 00:48:44,157 --> 00:48:47,270 We're both very excited to discuss Thompson-Watt's offer. 1024 00:48:47,127 --> 00:48:48,495 Yes, well, first of all, let me just say 1025 00:48:48,595 --> 00:48:49,929 that all of us here at Thompson-Watt 1026 00:48:49,996 --> 00:48:52,499 are thrilled with My Pafology. 1027 00:48:52,599 --> 00:48:54,667 It is about as perfect a book 1028 00:48:54,768 --> 00:48:56,770 as I have seen in a long, long while. 1029 00:48:56,836 --> 00:49:00,840 Just... just raw and real. 1030 00:49:00,940 --> 00:49:04,210 And, Mr. Leigh, is this based on your actual life? 1031 00:49:06,312 --> 00:49:08,648 Yeah, you think some *****-*** college boy 1032 00:49:08,715 --> 00:49:09,949 can come up with that shit? 1033 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:11,170 No, no. No, I don't. 1034 00:49:11,885 --> 00:49:14,120 No. You know, that kind of 1035 00:49:14,187 --> 00:49:18,240 [sighs] visceral energy cannot be taught, right? 1036 00:49:18,124 --> 00:49:20,960 Stagg... May I call you-- Now, is Stagg a pseudonym? 1037 00:49:22,395 --> 00:49:24,698 Yes, uh, it is. 1038 00:49:24,798 --> 00:49:26,900 Mr. Leigh can't use his real name 1039 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,968 because he's a... 1040 00:49:29,969 --> 00:49:32,500 Well, he's a wanted fugitive. 1041 00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:34,240 [Paula] Oh, my God. Wow. 1042 00:49:34,341 --> 00:49:36,843 That's why this couldn't be a video conference. 1043 00:49:36,910 --> 00:49:39,450 Are you crazy? What if they fact check this? 1044 00:49:39,145 --> 00:49:41,181 I checked. There's barely money to pay editors anymore. 1045 00:49:42,150 --> 00:49:43,149 Just go with it. 1046 00:49:46,152 --> 00:49:50,757 Yeah, I did a 12-year bid, but no going back. 1047 00:49:51,991 --> 00:49:53,193 Know what I mean? 1048 00:49:53,259 --> 00:49:55,428 Yeah. Yeah, you know, um... 1049 00:49:56,262 --> 00:49:57,997 I've been reading a lot 1050 00:49:58,640 --> 00:49:59,999 about the prison abolition movement... 1051 00:50:00,660 --> 00:50:01,534 - Oh, God! - [Paula] I've... 1052 00:50:01,601 --> 00:50:03,603 Sorry to rush, Paula, but can we talk business? 1053 00:50:03,703 --> 00:50:06,106 Mr. Leigh values his time outside of a cell. 1054 00:50:06,206 --> 00:50:07,340 [Paula] Of course. 1055 00:50:07,407 --> 00:50:08,775 I'm sure you're both very, very busy 1056 00:50:08,875 --> 00:50:10,410 so I will get right to it. 1057 00:50:10,510 --> 00:50:12,912 Um, you'll notice that our offer is... 1058 00:50:14,247 --> 00:50:15,682 unusually large 1059 00:50:15,749 --> 00:50:18,718 and that is because we believe 1060 00:50:18,785 --> 00:50:21,870 Mr. Leigh has written a bestseller. 1061 00:50:21,187 --> 00:50:23,289 We think it is going to be the read of the summer. 1062 00:50:23,957 --> 00:50:25,692 Yeah, I'm sure 1063 00:50:25,759 --> 00:50:29,596 white people on the Hamptons will delight in it. 1064 00:50:29,696 --> 00:50:30,930 [Paula] Yes, we will. 1065 00:50:31,310 --> 00:50:34,434 They-- We-- It's going to be huge. Huge. 1066 00:50:35,301 --> 00:50:36,302 I love it. 1067 00:50:38,380 --> 00:50:39,973 [soft music playing] 1068 00:50:45,712 --> 00:50:47,781 [Maynard] Is that little Thelonious Ellison? 1069 00:50:50,417 --> 00:50:51,785 [Monk] My God! Maynard! 1070 00:50:53,119 --> 00:50:54,621 [Maynard chuckles] 1071 00:50:54,721 --> 00:50:56,923 Everyone still call you Monk? 1072 00:50:56,990 --> 00:50:58,580 [Monk] Well, 1073 00:50:58,124 --> 00:50:59,459 everyone but you. 1074 00:50:59,559 --> 00:51:01,961 [chuckles] Well, it's a beautiful name. 1075 00:51:02,620 --> 00:51:04,964 It seems simple not to use it whole. 1076 00:51:05,650 --> 00:51:07,000 Well, I'm glad someone appreciates it. 1077 00:51:08,568 --> 00:51:11,638 I heard about your sister. My condolences. 1078 00:51:11,738 --> 00:51:12,739 Thank you. 1079 00:51:13,907 --> 00:51:15,408 I don't think I've seen you since 1080 00:51:16,343 --> 00:51:17,844 before your father passed? 1081 00:51:17,944 --> 00:51:20,113 Yeah, it's been a while. I live in LA now. 1082 00:51:20,847 --> 00:51:22,415 Oh! Hollywood. 1083 00:51:22,482 --> 00:51:24,651 Hey, do you write for that NCIS? 1084 00:51:25,518 --> 00:51:27,120 Just books. 1085 00:51:27,187 --> 00:51:30,323 Well, you should try to write for NCIS. It's popular. 1086 00:51:30,423 --> 00:51:32,359 - Well, maybe I will. - [Maynard chuckles] 1087 00:51:32,459 --> 00:51:34,361 Hey, so, how you been? 1088 00:51:34,461 --> 00:51:36,162 Oh, I'm good. And you? 1089 00:51:36,262 --> 00:51:37,330 - Yeah... - Mr. Monk. 1090 00:51:37,430 --> 00:51:38,998 What would you like for dinner? 1091 00:51:41,868 --> 00:51:42,969 Maynard! 1092 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:44,104 Hi, Lorraine. 1093 00:51:44,871 --> 00:51:46,473 It's been a dog's age. 1094 00:51:47,307 --> 00:51:48,675 Well, I guess it has. 1095 00:51:50,977 --> 00:51:52,145 You look well. 1096 00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:54,848 You too. 1097 00:51:54,948 --> 00:51:56,883 [playful music playing] 1098 00:51:57,951 --> 00:51:59,552 Well, I best be getting back. 1099 00:51:59,652 --> 00:52:01,321 It's good to see you, Thelonious. 1100 00:52:01,388 --> 00:52:02,389 You too. 1101 00:52:05,250 --> 00:52:06,260 Lorraine. 1102 00:52:09,729 --> 00:52:10,897 Mm, mm, mm. 1103 00:52:10,997 --> 00:52:12,966 [playful music continues] 1104 00:52:14,567 --> 00:52:16,536 [chuckling] 1105 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:21,741 Ain't nothing to smile at. 1106 00:52:21,841 --> 00:52:24,310 [chuckling] 1107 00:52:24,377 --> 00:52:26,880 - [knocking on door] - [Monk] Oh! There she is. 1108 00:52:26,980 --> 00:52:28,181 Behave yourself. 1109 00:52:35,588 --> 00:52:37,490 [Coraline] Hey. Hi. 1110 00:52:39,259 --> 00:52:41,428 - Got this for you. - [Monk] Oh, thank you. 1111 00:52:41,528 --> 00:52:43,930 - Lorraine, this is Coraline. - Oh. 1112 00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:45,331 - Hey. - Welcome. 1113 00:52:45,398 --> 00:52:46,433 - Yeah, hello. - Hello. 1114 00:52:46,533 --> 00:52:47,567 Mother, perfect timing. 1115 00:52:47,667 --> 00:52:49,102 This is Coraline. 1116 00:52:49,202 --> 00:52:51,404 Hello, dear, I'm Agnes. 1117 00:52:51,504 --> 00:52:53,573 Such a pleasure to meet you. I brought you these. 1118 00:52:53,673 --> 00:52:56,509 [gasps] Dahlias are my favorite. 1119 00:52:56,576 --> 00:52:58,178 There's a whole world inside them. 1120 00:53:04,184 --> 00:53:05,785 - Lorraine? - [Lorraine] Yes. 1121 00:53:06,619 --> 00:53:10,560 Mother, you sit here. 1122 00:53:11,958 --> 00:53:13,426 All right. 1123 00:53:13,526 --> 00:53:16,262 And, Coraline, why don't you sit across from Mother? 1124 00:53:16,363 --> 00:53:17,464 [Coraline] Oh, sure, sure. 1125 00:53:21,901 --> 00:53:22,902 [sighs] 1126 00:53:23,937 --> 00:53:25,405 [Monk] Okay. 1127 00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,242 I'm happy you're not white. 1128 00:53:30,276 --> 00:53:31,277 Me too. 1129 00:53:40,153 --> 00:53:42,122 [soft music playing] 1130 00:53:44,157 --> 00:53:45,658 [Monk] Yeah, it was pretty funny. 1131 00:53:46,893 --> 00:53:48,261 Well, I think you... 1132 00:53:49,429 --> 00:53:51,498 I think you remind her of my sister. 1133 00:53:52,399 --> 00:53:53,400 [Coraline] Mm. 1134 00:53:54,768 --> 00:53:58,238 Well, do you think we look alike? 1135 00:53:59,139 --> 00:54:00,240 No, but... 1136 00:54:01,441 --> 00:54:03,143 you're both self-assured... 1137 00:54:04,344 --> 00:54:05,612 and funny... 1138 00:54:06,946 --> 00:54:09,315 and you're both... 1139 00:54:10,450 --> 00:54:12,652 fantastic kissers. 1140 00:54:12,752 --> 00:54:15,188 - Oh. Ooh. [chuckles] - [chuckles] 1141 00:54:19,793 --> 00:54:21,261 Mrs. Ellison? 1142 00:54:23,630 --> 00:54:24,931 Mr. Monk! 1143 00:54:28,368 --> 00:54:31,171 Mr. Monk! 1144 00:54:31,271 --> 00:54:32,605 - I just... I just... - What's wrong? 1145 00:54:32,672 --> 00:54:34,307 I just stepped outside for a moment. 1146 00:54:34,374 --> 00:54:35,542 What's wrong? 1147 00:54:35,642 --> 00:54:36,776 Having a cup of coffee with Maynard, 1148 00:54:36,843 --> 00:54:38,278 I was right in front. 1149 00:54:38,345 --> 00:54:39,212 Where's Mother? 1150 00:54:39,312 --> 00:54:40,480 - I don't know! - What? 1151 00:54:40,547 --> 00:54:41,948 The backdoor was open. 1152 00:54:42,150 --> 00:54:43,616 - She gone. - What? 1153 00:54:43,683 --> 00:54:45,218 We should split up. Here. 1154 00:54:46,219 --> 00:54:47,721 I got more in the car. 1155 00:54:50,824 --> 00:54:51,825 [Monk] Mother! 1156 00:54:53,260 --> 00:54:54,270 Mother! 1157 00:54:55,328 --> 00:54:56,329 Mother! 1158 00:54:57,530 --> 00:54:58,531 Mother! 1159 00:54:59,466 --> 00:55:01,401 [solemn music playing] 1160 00:55:03,690 --> 00:55:04,700 Mother! 1161 00:55:06,306 --> 00:55:07,307 Mother. 1162 00:55:09,420 --> 00:55:10,744 [distantly] Mother! 1163 00:55:12,812 --> 00:55:14,247 Mother! Hey! 1164 00:55:15,715 --> 00:55:17,183 Mother! Mother! 1165 00:55:17,851 --> 00:55:19,519 Hey! Hey, stop! 1166 00:55:19,586 --> 00:55:21,254 Hey! Where are you going? 1167 00:55:21,354 --> 00:55:23,230 Lisa's out there 1168 00:55:23,890 --> 00:55:24,924 roughhousing with the cousins. Somebody's going to get hurt. 1169 00:55:25,725 --> 00:55:27,394 Stop. Um... 1170 00:55:27,494 --> 00:55:30,764 I will go tell her. Okay? 1171 00:55:30,864 --> 00:55:33,330 - Yeah, but then-- - I'll take you back to the house 1172 00:55:33,990 --> 00:55:34,167 and then I will go tell her. 1173 00:55:34,234 --> 00:55:35,268 But they're out there. 1174 00:55:35,368 --> 00:55:36,836 I know, I know. 1175 00:55:36,903 --> 00:55:38,838 - Okay, you sure? - I will tell her. 1176 00:55:38,905 --> 00:55:40,273 - Okay. - Now, come on. 1177 00:55:40,373 --> 00:55:41,541 It's too cold out here. 1178 00:55:41,608 --> 00:55:43,209 - [Agnes] You should... - [Monk] Okay. 1179 00:55:43,276 --> 00:55:44,911 [Agnes] Lisa doesn't swim very well. 1180 00:55:45,110 --> 00:55:46,513 [Monk] I know. I know. 1181 00:55:47,247 --> 00:55:49,150 Okay. Almost there. 1182 00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:51,170 All right. 1183 00:55:51,918 --> 00:55:52,919 [Coraline] Oh, good. 1184 00:55:53,687 --> 00:55:55,221 - Good. - Here we go. 1185 00:55:57,900 --> 00:55:58,910 [Monk] All right. 1186 00:55:58,858 --> 00:56:00,193 [Agnes] Okay, Monkie. 1187 00:56:00,260 --> 00:56:01,294 [Monk] All right. 1188 00:56:07,934 --> 00:56:10,470 And this is our library. 1189 00:56:10,570 --> 00:56:13,373 It's full of all the classics. And we try to get some 1190 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:14,441 new releases too. 1191 00:56:17,711 --> 00:56:19,546 Do you like to read, Mrs. Ellison? 1192 00:56:19,612 --> 00:56:20,613 No. 1193 00:56:21,470 --> 00:56:22,582 That's not true. 1194 00:56:22,649 --> 00:56:24,617 She loves to read. She taught me to love reading. 1195 00:56:25,452 --> 00:56:26,453 Perhaps we can get 1196 00:56:26,553 --> 00:56:27,721 some of your son's books in here. 1197 00:56:27,787 --> 00:56:29,550 And you can lead a book club. 1198 00:56:29,122 --> 00:56:30,123 [Agnes] Hm. 1199 00:56:33,827 --> 00:56:35,428 Sorry. 1200 00:56:35,495 --> 00:56:37,597 It's fine. It's hard for a lot of the residents at first. 1201 00:56:37,664 --> 00:56:39,990 But she'll settle in. 1202 00:56:39,165 --> 00:56:40,300 Right. 1203 00:56:41,935 --> 00:56:43,670 I appreciate all your help, 1204 00:56:43,770 --> 00:56:46,406 but how soon do you think we can get her in? 1205 00:56:46,473 --> 00:56:48,740 Uh, in about a month. 1206 00:56:48,141 --> 00:56:50,243 You can start the paperwork today if you'd like. 1207 00:56:50,310 --> 00:56:52,120 - Great. I'd like that. - [cell phone ringing] 1208 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:54,948 I'll go check on your mom, okay? 1209 00:56:55,150 --> 00:56:56,160 Thank you. 1210 00:56:56,116 --> 00:56:57,817 [cell phone ringing] 1211 00:56:57,917 --> 00:56:59,252 [pensive music playing] 1212 00:57:00,620 --> 00:57:02,522 - Hello? - [Carl] Hey, Thelonious. 1213 00:57:02,622 --> 00:57:04,257 How you doing? My name is Carl Brunt. 1214 00:57:04,958 --> 00:57:06,126 I am the director 1215 00:57:06,192 --> 00:57:07,794 of the New England Book Association. 1216 00:57:07,861 --> 00:57:10,363 Hi, Carl. I know who you are. 1217 00:57:10,463 --> 00:57:12,699 [Carl] Oh, good. Then perhaps you'll also know 1218 00:57:12,799 --> 00:57:14,801 that each year my organization bestows 1219 00:57:14,868 --> 00:57:18,605 the somewhat pretentiously named Literary Award. 1220 00:57:18,672 --> 00:57:21,508 Every writer knows the Literary Award, Carl. 1221 00:57:21,608 --> 00:57:23,476 Especially those of us who haven't won it. 1222 00:57:23,543 --> 00:57:26,613 [chuckles] Yeah. Yeah. 1223 00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:29,282 Well, that's sort of related to why I'm calling. 1224 00:57:29,349 --> 00:57:30,884 Like many American institutions, 1225 00:57:30,984 --> 00:57:32,719 mine was recently rattled by the notion 1226 00:57:32,819 --> 00:57:34,554 that our lack of diversity 1227 00:57:34,654 --> 00:57:36,956 had led to a blind spot in our work. 1228 00:57:37,230 --> 00:57:39,659 So, you know, we're kind of trying to remedy that. 1229 00:57:39,726 --> 00:57:40,794 And to that end, I was wondering 1230 00:57:40,860 --> 00:57:42,228 how you might feel 1231 00:57:42,495 --> 00:57:44,130 about being a judge in this year's award ceremony? 1232 00:57:45,365 --> 00:57:48,201 Um, let me say first, 1233 00:57:48,301 --> 00:57:50,503 Carl, that I'm honored you choose me 1234 00:57:50,570 --> 00:57:53,239 out of all the Black writers you could go to out of fear 1235 00:57:53,340 --> 00:57:54,474 of being called racist. 1236 00:57:54,541 --> 00:57:56,676 Yeah, you're very welcome. 1237 00:57:56,743 --> 00:58:00,380 But I think this sounds like a lot of work. 1238 00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:01,915 Yeah, I can't deny that. 1239 00:58:02,150 --> 00:58:03,917 I mean, you're going to have to read dozens of books. 1240 00:58:04,170 --> 00:58:06,190 We could offer you a modest stipend. 1241 00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:07,921 Even so, I'm not sure. 1242 00:58:08,555 --> 00:58:09,723 [Carl] Okay. 1243 00:58:09,823 --> 00:58:11,224 One of the crass perk I reference 1244 00:58:11,324 --> 00:58:12,926 when people are kind of on the fence like this 1245 00:58:13,260 --> 00:58:14,828 is that this will allow you the opportunity 1246 00:58:14,894 --> 00:58:17,630 to literally judge these other writers for once, 1247 00:58:17,163 --> 00:58:18,331 rather than just figuratively. 1248 00:58:19,933 --> 00:58:21,234 All right, I'm in. 1249 00:58:21,334 --> 00:58:22,669 [Carl] Well, fantastic. Okay. 1250 00:58:22,869 --> 00:58:25,405 Great. So you're going to be one of five judges. 1251 00:58:25,505 --> 00:58:28,740 Uh, the only one we have confirmed so far 1252 00:58:28,174 --> 00:58:29,442 is Sintara Golden. 1253 00:58:29,542 --> 00:58:30,877 Are you familiar with Sintara Golden's work? 1254 00:58:30,944 --> 00:58:32,278 [dramatic music plays] 1255 00:58:33,747 --> 00:58:35,215 Vaguely. 1256 00:58:35,281 --> 00:58:36,683 [Carl] Oh, she's great. You're going to love her, man. 1257 00:58:40,420 --> 00:58:41,688 [soft music playing] 1258 00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:45,959 [Lorraine] I brought you lunch, Mr. Monk. 1259 00:58:47,193 --> 00:58:48,261 Oh, wow. 1260 00:58:51,531 --> 00:58:52,899 To what do I owe the pleasure? 1261 00:58:52,966 --> 00:58:55,568 [Lorraine] Well, I have a favor to ask. 1262 00:58:58,271 --> 00:58:59,706 I was wondering if I might be able 1263 00:58:59,773 --> 00:59:01,274 to take the afternoon off. 1264 00:59:02,809 --> 00:59:04,744 Maynard just came in from the beach. 1265 00:59:04,811 --> 00:59:06,413 And we thought it might be nice 1266 00:59:06,479 --> 00:59:07,981 to visit a museum. 1267 00:59:08,810 --> 00:59:09,783 Yes, of course. 1268 00:59:09,883 --> 00:59:11,885 I'm free today, so I can look after Mother. 1269 00:59:17,290 --> 00:59:18,291 Lorraine. 1270 00:59:19,292 --> 00:59:20,326 [Lorraine] Hm? 1271 00:59:20,427 --> 00:59:21,428 You really like him, huh? 1272 00:59:24,130 --> 00:59:25,298 He's a fine man. 1273 00:59:26,660 --> 00:59:28,100 [gentle music continues] 1274 00:59:30,670 --> 00:59:32,639 [cell phone ringing] 1275 00:59:35,141 --> 00:59:36,142 Yeah. 1276 00:59:37,744 --> 00:59:39,579 [Arthur] Page seven. It's got like 12. 1277 00:59:40,914 --> 00:59:44,651 [chuckles] The guests of honor. 1278 00:59:44,751 --> 00:59:47,921 Hello, Mrs. Ellison. Looking beautiful as ever. 1279 00:59:47,987 --> 00:59:49,289 Hello, Arthur. 1280 00:59:51,858 --> 00:59:53,626 Layne, would you take Mrs. Ellison to the kitchen, 1281 00:59:53,693 --> 00:59:55,261 and set her up with some tea? 1282 00:59:55,328 --> 00:59:56,463 Right this way, ma'am. 1283 00:59:56,529 --> 00:59:57,530 Mother, I won't be long. 1284 00:59:58,365 --> 00:59:59,499 [Agnes] Take your time. 1285 01:00:00,834 --> 01:00:02,100 - Thank you. - [Layne] Mm-hm. 1286 01:00:02,936 --> 01:00:04,304 - Not the pods. - [exhales] 1287 01:00:04,371 --> 01:00:06,506 The good tea, for guests. 1288 01:00:08,842 --> 01:00:10,944 What is this? I told you to dress street. 1289 01:00:11,110 --> 01:00:13,513 - I did. - ****ing Sesame Street. 1290 01:00:14,981 --> 01:00:16,783 What's this guy's name? 1291 01:00:16,850 --> 01:00:19,119 - Willy? - Wiley. Wiley Valdespino. 1292 01:00:19,185 --> 01:00:21,955 He specializes in Oscar-baity "issue" movies. 1293 01:00:22,220 --> 01:00:24,491 He did the Middle Passage one last year. 1294 01:00:24,557 --> 01:00:25,792 [Monk] Somehow I didn't see that. 1295 01:00:25,859 --> 01:00:27,193 Of course, not. You're not lobotomized. 1296 01:00:27,293 --> 01:00:28,661 But if he adapts your book, 1297 01:00:28,728 --> 01:00:30,397 you stand to make a lot of money. 1298 01:00:30,497 --> 01:00:32,320 Why can't we just do a phone call? 1299 01:00:32,132 --> 01:00:33,900 Well, he said if he's going to cut a check this large, 1300 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:35,635 then he needs to meet in person. 1301 01:00:35,702 --> 01:00:36,703 All right. 1302 01:00:37,537 --> 01:00:39,472 [sighs] What do I need to do? 1303 01:00:39,539 --> 01:00:40,573 Just make him like you. 1304 01:00:40,674 --> 01:00:41,908 When I talked to him, 1305 01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:43,677 he seemed thrilled that you're a fugitive. 1306 01:00:43,743 --> 01:00:45,780 Just, you know, play that up. 1307 01:00:45,178 --> 01:00:46,479 But what if he recognizes me? 1308 01:00:46,546 --> 01:00:47,681 - [Arthur] You? - Yeah, the real me. 1309 01:00:47,747 --> 01:00:49,916 Monk, you're not that famous. 1310 01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:51,418 And nobody in Hollywood reads. 1311 01:00:51,518 --> 01:00:53,219 They got their assistants to read things, 1312 01:00:53,319 --> 01:00:54,421 and then summarize them. 1313 01:00:54,521 --> 01:00:56,189 The whole town runs on book reports. 1314 01:00:57,757 --> 01:00:59,259 You sure you can look after my mother? 1315 01:00:59,359 --> 01:01:00,593 She won't leave my sight. 1316 01:01:00,694 --> 01:01:02,228 You'll just be across the street, anyway. 1317 01:01:03,496 --> 01:01:04,597 [Monk] Across the street. 1318 01:01:04,698 --> 01:01:05,699 You should go. You'll be late. 1319 01:01:06,666 --> 01:01:07,901 He's waiting for you. 1320 01:01:09,769 --> 01:01:11,538 Well... 1321 01:01:11,604 --> 01:01:15,175 if he, uh, wants the stereotype, 1322 01:01:15,241 --> 01:01:16,376 [clears throat] 1323 01:01:16,443 --> 01:01:17,544 maybe it's better I'm late. 1324 01:01:18,778 --> 01:01:20,747 [lively music playing] 1325 01:01:43,269 --> 01:01:44,637 Stagg, I presume? 1326 01:01:45,538 --> 01:01:46,539 That's me. 1327 01:01:46,606 --> 01:01:48,708 Hey, I'm Wiley. 1328 01:01:48,775 --> 01:01:49,776 Nice to meet you, brother. 1329 01:01:54,147 --> 01:01:55,148 [Monk clears throat] 1330 01:01:57,117 --> 01:01:58,785 Sorry about the bougie restaurant. 1331 01:01:58,885 --> 01:02:00,754 My assistant picked it. 1332 01:02:00,820 --> 01:02:03,560 We can go somewhere else if you're uncomfortable. 1333 01:02:03,123 --> 01:02:04,557 - This is fine. - Okay. 1334 01:02:06,259 --> 01:02:07,260 What are you drinking? 1335 01:02:08,940 --> 01:02:09,950 [Monk sighs] 1336 01:02:09,896 --> 01:02:11,398 I'll have a Chenin Blanc. 1337 01:02:11,464 --> 01:02:12,632 [server] All right. 1338 01:02:12,732 --> 01:02:13,733 Of your driest. 1339 01:02:14,401 --> 01:02:15,635 [chuckles] 1340 01:02:15,735 --> 01:02:17,771 [Monk] Well, what's funny? 1341 01:02:17,837 --> 01:02:19,639 Ah, it's just a strange order for a guy like you. 1342 01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:21,941 Why is that? 1343 01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:24,310 Well, you don't see many convicts drinking white wine. 1344 01:02:25,178 --> 01:02:27,347 You know many convicts? 1345 01:02:27,447 --> 01:02:28,581 You'd be surprised. 1346 01:02:28,648 --> 01:02:31,840 I spent a month in the joint myself. 1347 01:02:31,151 --> 01:02:32,452 It was some interstate commerce shit. 1348 01:02:32,519 --> 01:02:33,853 It was a short stay, but I'll tell you what, 1349 01:02:34,788 --> 01:02:36,589 that experience grounded me. 1350 01:02:36,656 --> 01:02:38,425 The people I met in there allowed me to see 1351 01:02:38,491 --> 01:02:40,960 a whole world of underrepresented stories 1352 01:02:41,270 --> 01:02:42,962 from underrepresented storytellers. 1353 01:02:44,597 --> 01:02:46,320 Can I ask what you were in for? 1354 01:02:46,132 --> 01:02:49,269 I don't like to talk about that. 1355 01:02:50,603 --> 01:02:51,604 You feel me? 1356 01:02:52,138 --> 01:02:53,139 Was it murder? 1357 01:02:54,700 --> 01:02:55,375 You said that, not me. 1358 01:02:56,643 --> 01:02:57,644 [Wiley sighs] 1359 01:02:58,611 --> 01:02:59,846 You know, 1360 01:02:59,946 --> 01:03:01,614 I got to tell you, before you showed up, 1361 01:03:01,681 --> 01:03:04,517 I was a little worried you might be a phony. 1362 01:03:04,617 --> 01:03:06,520 A lot of fakes in Hollywood. 1363 01:03:06,152 --> 01:03:07,554 Well, I'm not from Hollywood. 1364 01:03:07,654 --> 01:03:08,988 Yeah, yeah, no. That's obvious. 1365 01:03:09,550 --> 01:03:10,357 That's obvious. 1366 01:03:10,457 --> 01:03:12,625 Clearly, you're cut from a different cloth 1367 01:03:12,692 --> 01:03:13,693 than your average... 1368 01:03:14,694 --> 01:03:15,962 screenwriter. 1369 01:03:16,290 --> 01:03:17,230 - Let me ask you... - [distant siren wailing] 1370 01:03:17,330 --> 01:03:18,665 I know they sent you some of my stuff. 1371 01:03:18,732 --> 01:03:20,467 Did you have a chance to see any of my movies? 1372 01:03:22,969 --> 01:03:24,838 [hesitates] Sorry, what did you say? 1373 01:03:24,904 --> 01:03:25,905 Have you seen any of my movies? 1374 01:03:26,639 --> 01:03:28,408 Uh, no. 1375 01:03:28,508 --> 01:03:29,642 Okay. 1376 01:03:29,709 --> 01:03:31,440 Well, look, what I like to do 1377 01:03:31,144 --> 01:03:34,881 is I like to pair genre with real-world pathos. 1378 01:03:34,981 --> 01:03:36,516 It kind of elevates things. 1379 01:03:36,583 --> 01:03:37,751 You might be interested in this one 1380 01:03:37,851 --> 01:03:38,918 we're about to shoot actually. 1381 01:03:39,853 --> 01:03:41,654 It's about this white couple. 1382 01:03:41,721 --> 01:03:44,424 They get married on an old plantation in Louisiana. 1383 01:03:44,524 --> 01:03:46,192 Then all the slave ghosts come back, 1384 01:03:46,259 --> 01:03:47,360 and they murder everyone. 1385 01:03:47,427 --> 01:03:49,396 - Dear God. - [Wiley] I know. I know. 1386 01:03:49,496 --> 01:03:50,897 - It's great, right? - [siren wailing] 1387 01:03:50,997 --> 01:03:52,565 It's called Plantation Annihilation. 1388 01:03:52,665 --> 01:03:54,868 Ryan Reynolds is going to get decapitated 1389 01:03:54,934 --> 01:03:57,300 with an afro pick in the opening scene. 1390 01:03:57,700 --> 01:03:58,405 [gags] He's a friend. 1391 01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:00,730 [Monk] Got to go. 1392 01:04:02,942 --> 01:04:04,944 [frantic music playing] 1393 01:04:06,780 --> 01:04:08,682 [breathing heavily] 1394 01:04:11,117 --> 01:04:14,587 Mother. Mother. Mother. Mother! 1395 01:04:20,460 --> 01:04:22,462 [mellow music playing] 1396 01:04:26,466 --> 01:04:28,301 Some ad exec on the third floor 1397 01:04:28,401 --> 01:04:29,602 - had an aneurysm. - [urinating] 1398 01:04:29,703 --> 01:04:31,371 - Awful. - I know. 1399 01:04:31,438 --> 01:04:32,906 Imagine exploding your brain 1400 01:04:32,972 --> 01:04:34,808 trying to think of a toilet paper commercial. 1401 01:04:36,976 --> 01:04:38,478 I assume Wiley isn't interested. 1402 01:04:38,578 --> 01:04:41,548 I sprinted out of there like a complete maniac. 1403 01:04:41,614 --> 01:04:45,385 Actually, he's offering $4 million for the rights. 1404 01:04:45,452 --> 01:04:47,654 - What? - [chuckles] Yeah, man. 1405 01:04:47,754 --> 01:04:49,890 He called you the real deal. 1406 01:04:49,155 --> 01:04:50,423 Said you took off the moment 1407 01:04:50,490 --> 01:04:51,725 - you heard police sirens. - [zipper zips] 1408 01:04:52,792 --> 01:04:55,261 The dumber I behave, the richer I get. 1409 01:04:55,328 --> 01:04:57,731 Now you know why my parents moved here from Puerto Rico. 1410 01:04:59,650 --> 01:05:01,434 [urinal flushes] 1411 01:05:01,501 --> 01:05:03,603 [Wilson over screen] I mean, we can't be expected to read 1412 01:05:03,670 --> 01:05:06,639 every novel all the way through, right? 1413 01:05:06,740 --> 01:05:08,641 No, people have worked hard on these books. 1414 01:05:08,742 --> 01:05:09,909 And we have to respect that. 1415 01:05:09,976 --> 01:05:11,611 Well, hard work doesn't demand respect. 1416 01:05:11,678 --> 01:05:12,812 I mean, you know, 1417 01:05:13,130 --> 01:05:14,347 people worked hard on the Third Reich . 1418 01:05:14,447 --> 01:05:18,284 Yeah, well, I feel that we owe it to them 1419 01:05:18,351 --> 01:05:19,686 to read every page. 1420 01:05:19,786 --> 01:05:21,254 That is such horseshit. 1421 01:05:21,321 --> 01:05:22,989 I mean, most of it's going to be 1422 01:05:23,890 --> 01:05:25,358 that Knausgard auto-fiction crap, anyhow. 1423 01:05:25,458 --> 01:05:26,593 I tell you something right now, 1424 01:05:26,659 --> 01:05:28,128 I'm not reading 600 pages 1425 01:05:28,194 --> 01:05:29,863 about some pretentious jackwagon 1426 01:05:29,963 --> 01:05:31,264 discovering masturbation. 1427 01:05:31,331 --> 01:05:32,766 Sorry. 1428 01:05:32,832 --> 01:05:35,168 Okay, look, I think we're all experienced enough 1429 01:05:35,268 --> 01:05:36,636 to ***ess the general quality 1430 01:05:36,703 --> 01:05:38,505 of something within 100 pages. 1431 01:05:39,639 --> 01:05:41,700 If you want to read beyond that, 1432 01:05:41,107 --> 01:05:42,275 that's your prerogative. 1433 01:05:42,342 --> 01:05:44,844 [sighs] Well, how do you feel, Monk? 1434 01:05:44,944 --> 01:05:47,681 Um, I agree with Sintara, actually. 1435 01:05:47,781 --> 01:05:49,949 I think 100 pages is sufficient. 1436 01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:51,818 You know, this is all a crock, anyway. 1437 01:05:51,885 --> 01:05:54,454 I mean, pitting art against other art for awards, 1438 01:05:54,521 --> 01:05:56,189 like, it's not subjective. 1439 01:05:56,289 --> 01:05:57,891 It's absurd. 1440 01:05:57,991 --> 01:05:59,726 Then why did you agree to be a judge if you feel that way? 1441 01:05:59,826 --> 01:06:02,629 Well, because it's either me or some other Brooklyn hack 1442 01:06:02,696 --> 01:06:03,830 who doesn't think there's a world 1443 01:06:03,897 --> 01:06:05,498 beyond the Hudson River, Ailene. 1444 01:06:05,565 --> 01:06:09,235 It's the East River if you're in Brooklyn, Daniel. 1445 01:06:09,335 --> 01:06:10,170 [Sintara] You know what, 1446 01:06:10,236 --> 01:06:11,871 art is subjective. 1447 01:06:11,971 --> 01:06:14,574 But I think this is an opportunity 1448 01:06:14,674 --> 01:06:18,878 to highlight books that may otherwise be undervalued. 1449 01:06:18,978 --> 01:06:21,147 Book sales are plummeting right now. 1450 01:06:21,214 --> 01:06:23,583 So, perhaps this award can give someone 1451 01:06:23,683 --> 01:06:25,819 a real chance at a career in this industry. 1452 01:06:27,721 --> 01:06:28,722 Hear, hear. 1453 01:06:30,230 --> 01:06:31,358 Um... 1454 01:06:31,424 --> 01:06:32,892 Where do you want this, Mother? 1455 01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:35,528 Thought it might look nice here 1456 01:06:35,595 --> 01:06:36,663 with this natural light. 1457 01:06:37,597 --> 01:06:38,765 I don't care. 1458 01:06:38,865 --> 01:06:40,600 I never liked that painting, anyway. 1459 01:06:40,700 --> 01:06:42,502 [classical music playing over speakers faintly] 1460 01:06:42,569 --> 01:06:43,903 Okay. 1461 01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:46,873 Uh, well, I'll bring some more art 1462 01:06:46,940 --> 01:06:48,208 from home next week. 1463 01:06:48,274 --> 01:06:50,710 And you just tell me the pieces you like, 1464 01:06:50,777 --> 01:06:52,712 - and I'll bring them. - [knocking on door] 1465 01:06:52,779 --> 01:06:55,150 [orderly] We've got your lunch ready for you, Mrs. Ellison. 1466 01:06:56,116 --> 01:06:59,190 Oh, it looks great. What is it? 1467 01:06:59,850 --> 01:07:02,288 It's roasted turkey and Havarti on 12-grain. 1468 01:07:03,623 --> 01:07:05,191 Sounds delicious. 1469 01:07:05,258 --> 01:07:07,861 Mrs. Ellison prefers white bread. 1470 01:07:07,927 --> 01:07:09,262 And she doesn't like the crust. 1471 01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:11,464 As much as this place costs, 1472 01:07:11,564 --> 01:07:13,266 y'all should get the sandwiches right. 1473 01:07:13,366 --> 01:07:15,368 I'll make sure that we take care of that 1474 01:07:15,435 --> 01:07:16,603 from now on, okay? 1475 01:07:16,703 --> 01:07:18,972 And enjoy your lunch, Mrs. Ellison. 1476 01:07:22,420 --> 01:07:23,430 [door closes] 1477 01:07:29,382 --> 01:07:30,383 I'm getting married. 1478 01:07:31,251 --> 01:07:32,252 - Shut up. - What? 1479 01:07:34,721 --> 01:07:37,490 I didn't say nothing earlier. I was just so sad. 1480 01:07:37,590 --> 01:07:42,620 But Maynard asked me yesterday. 1481 01:07:42,128 --> 01:07:46,132 - [Monk chuckles] - Lorraine, that's amazing. 1482 01:07:46,232 --> 01:07:48,134 - I mean, let's celebrate. - [Lorraine] Mm-mm! 1483 01:07:48,234 --> 01:07:50,236 Just too much excitement. 1484 01:07:50,303 --> 01:07:52,339 I don't like being the center of attention. 1485 01:07:52,439 --> 01:07:54,274 Well, you deserve it, Lorraine. 1486 01:07:54,341 --> 01:07:56,609 And Maynard is a lucky man. 1487 01:07:56,676 --> 01:07:57,677 [chuckles] 1488 01:08:00,947 --> 01:08:02,415 Do you think you'd be willing 1489 01:08:02,482 --> 01:08:04,417 to walk me down the aisle, Mr. Monk? 1490 01:08:04,484 --> 01:08:06,486 [music playing softly] 1491 01:08:08,288 --> 01:08:09,289 I'd be honored. 1492 01:08:14,527 --> 01:08:17,297 Wow. Wow. [chuckles] 1493 01:08:20,367 --> 01:08:21,601 [Paula over phone] We are wildly excited 1494 01:08:21,668 --> 01:08:23,103 to help you get My Pafology out. 1495 01:08:23,169 --> 01:08:24,871 The marketing team has all kinds 1496 01:08:24,971 --> 01:08:26,973 of great ideas to help you sell it. 1497 01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:29,209 Great. We're excited to hear. 1498 01:08:29,309 --> 01:08:30,844 John Bosco is the head of the department. 1499 01:08:30,944 --> 01:08:31,978 I will let him tell you more. 1500 01:08:32,545 --> 01:08:33,546 Hi, Stagg. 1501 01:08:34,647 --> 01:08:35,715 Hello. 1502 01:08:35,815 --> 01:08:37,650 Nice to finally meet you, my man. 1503 01:08:38,351 --> 01:08:40,487 Listen, I love the book. 1504 01:08:40,553 --> 01:08:43,723 And we are going to sell many, many copies. 1505 01:08:43,823 --> 01:08:46,590 There's already so much buzz because of the movie deal. 1506 01:08:46,159 --> 01:08:48,395 And we just want to keep that momentum going. 1507 01:08:48,495 --> 01:08:50,230 I spoke to Wiley yesterday. 1508 01:08:50,330 --> 01:08:52,198 He says Michael B. Jordan is circling. 1509 01:08:52,298 --> 01:08:53,533 [Paula] We heard. 1510 01:08:53,633 --> 01:08:54,701 We think he would be absolutely perfect. 1511 01:08:54,801 --> 01:08:55,902 You know, this book, 1512 01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:57,971 it's awards-bait with a capital B. 1513 01:08:58,380 --> 01:08:59,839 And we're thinking that if Michael does sign on, 1514 01:08:59,906 --> 01:09:01,740 we want to put him on the cover 1515 01:09:01,174 --> 01:09:03,309 in one of those, um, scarves, 1516 01:09:03,376 --> 01:09:04,911 I guess you would call them, tied round his head. 1517 01:09:05,845 --> 01:09:07,800 A durag? 1518 01:09:07,313 --> 01:09:09,916 [John] Durag. That's it. Durag and a tank top 1519 01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:11,251 with the muscles showing. 1520 01:09:11,351 --> 01:09:12,719 Ooh, somebody call the fire department. 1521 01:09:12,819 --> 01:09:13,853 - [John] Yummy. - [John and Paula laughing] 1522 01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:15,550 [imitates gunshot] 1523 01:09:15,155 --> 01:09:17,223 Shit. Sorry. Your dad. Sorry. 1524 01:09:17,323 --> 01:09:19,592 [John] So listen, for a release date, 1525 01:09:19,693 --> 01:09:21,261 we're thinking of rushing it, 1526 01:09:21,361 --> 01:09:22,595 so that we can get it out in time 1527 01:09:22,696 --> 01:09:23,596 - for Juneteenth. - Yeah. 1528 01:09:23,697 --> 01:09:25,198 Juneteenth? 1529 01:09:25,265 --> 01:09:28,680 [John] We're thinking of making a big holiday push. 1530 01:09:28,168 --> 01:09:29,736 Black people will be celebrating, 1531 01:09:29,836 --> 01:09:31,404 white people will be feeling, 1532 01:09:31,504 --> 01:09:34,374 let's be honest, a little conscious-stricken. 1533 01:09:34,441 --> 01:09:36,509 We think it's going to be a huge moment for your book. 1534 01:09:36,576 --> 01:09:37,610 [Monk groans] 1535 01:09:37,711 --> 01:09:38,845 - [Paula chuckles] - So, Stagg, 1536 01:09:38,912 --> 01:09:40,280 are you so, so happy? 1537 01:09:41,848 --> 01:09:45,285 We think it's great, John, really. Amazing. 1538 01:09:46,686 --> 01:09:47,954 Yeah, it's, uh... 1539 01:09:49,890 --> 01:09:50,900 It's great. 1540 01:09:51,124 --> 01:09:54,394 And, you know, I've got an idea 1541 01:09:54,461 --> 01:09:56,463 I want to share with you two. 1542 01:09:56,563 --> 01:09:57,897 [Paula] Oh, well, 1543 01:09:57,964 --> 01:09:59,265 I mean, we always love to hear great ideas. 1544 01:09:59,366 --> 01:10:00,700 - [John] Oh, yeah, cool. - [Paula] Yeah. 1545 01:10:00,767 --> 01:10:02,102 I want to change the title. 1546 01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:04,137 Uh... 1547 01:10:04,237 --> 01:10:05,305 - I don't... - Okay. 1548 01:10:05,405 --> 01:10:06,873 Um, well, just to be clear, 1549 01:10:06,940 --> 01:10:08,541 we really do love 1550 01:10:08,608 --> 01:10:09,943 - My Pafology. - Love it. 1551 01:10:10,430 --> 01:10:12,145 It's got that whole Irvine Welsh 1552 01:10:12,245 --> 01:10:14,381 - proletarian vernacular thing. - Yeah. 1553 01:10:14,447 --> 01:10:16,116 [Monk] No, and that's why I think 1554 01:10:16,216 --> 01:10:18,418 you're going to love this new title even more. 1555 01:10:19,386 --> 01:10:20,720 Well, okay, you know what, 1556 01:10:20,787 --> 01:10:24,290 we're always happy to hear new ideas. 1557 01:10:24,391 --> 01:10:25,759 What did you have in mind? 1558 01:10:25,825 --> 01:10:26,826 ****. 1559 01:10:32,966 --> 01:10:33,933 [Paula stammers] 1560 01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:35,301 I'm sorry. Pardon me. 1561 01:10:35,402 --> 01:10:36,403 ****. 1562 01:10:37,737 --> 01:10:39,272 I want to call it ****. 1563 01:10:40,407 --> 01:10:42,475 [laughs nervously] 1564 01:10:42,575 --> 01:10:44,477 - What are you doing? - Screw these idiots. 1565 01:10:44,577 --> 01:10:45,745 - Stop it. - No. 1566 01:10:48,314 --> 01:10:51,317 [Paula] So, Stagg, what about, uh, like, Damn? 1567 01:10:51,418 --> 01:10:53,853 - [John] Mm-hm. - [Paula] Damn? Or Hell? 1568 01:10:54,854 --> 01:10:56,189 Nah. ****. 1569 01:10:56,289 --> 01:10:58,425 Okay, that's cool. Uh... 1570 01:10:58,491 --> 01:11:02,128 But maybe we could do that with a PH instead 1571 01:11:02,195 --> 01:11:03,296 because that would be more palatable... 1572 01:11:03,363 --> 01:11:04,597 - Yes. Yes. - ...to our sellers. 1573 01:11:04,664 --> 01:11:06,499 I don't care about all that. 1574 01:11:06,599 --> 01:11:09,769 And if you don't change the title, the deal is off. 1575 01:11:09,836 --> 01:11:11,304 - Oh, yeah. No. - Whoa, whoa, whoa. 1576 01:11:11,371 --> 01:11:14,274 - There's no need to be hasty. - No, no, no. 1577 01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:16,900 You know what? 1578 01:11:17,100 --> 01:11:17,877 Why don't we-- 1579 01:11:17,977 --> 01:11:19,120 Juts give us a second 1580 01:11:19,112 --> 01:11:21,781 and, um, a moment 1581 01:11:21,848 --> 01:11:23,683 and we will get right back to you, okay? 1582 01:11:24,451 --> 01:11:25,685 What are you doing? 1583 01:11:25,785 --> 01:11:27,153 What are you doing? This is ridiculous. 1584 01:11:27,220 --> 01:11:28,388 Do you know how much money we're talking about? 1585 01:11:28,488 --> 01:11:29,789 I don't care, I'm shutting it down. 1586 01:11:29,856 --> 01:11:31,191 - Shutting it-- Come on. - Shutting it down. 1587 01:11:31,291 --> 01:11:32,492 - [Paula] Are you there? - Please, just... 1588 01:11:34,361 --> 01:11:35,795 - [button clicks] - We're here. 1589 01:11:36,830 --> 01:11:37,831 Let's do it. 1590 01:11:38,631 --> 01:11:39,632 - What? - What? 1591 01:11:40,133 --> 01:11:41,234 Yeah. We discussed it, 1592 01:11:41,334 --> 01:11:42,469 and we think it is very in your face 1593 01:11:42,535 --> 01:11:44,370 in the best way possible. 1594 01:11:44,137 --> 01:11:45,705 [John] It is very, uh... 1595 01:11:46,906 --> 01:11:48,174 - [Paula stammers] - Uh... 1596 01:11:49,409 --> 01:11:50,877 - Black? - [John] That's it. 1597 01:11:50,977 --> 01:11:52,145 Yes, that's it. 1598 01:11:52,212 --> 01:11:53,546 I'm happy you said it, and not me. 1599 01:11:53,646 --> 01:11:55,382 [Paula and John laughing] 1600 01:11:55,482 --> 01:11:56,716 [Paula] Oh, ****. 1601 01:11:56,816 --> 01:11:58,180 - It's ****ing great, Stagg. - I love it. 1602 01:11:58,840 --> 01:11:59,652 - Yes. [chuckles] - Oh, my... 1603 01:11:59,719 --> 01:12:01,721 You know, it's so brave actually. 1604 01:12:07,660 --> 01:12:08,561 [Coraline] I'm exhausted. 1605 01:12:08,661 --> 01:12:09,896 Yeah, me too. 1606 01:12:10,997 --> 01:12:12,599 I got to stay up a few more hours 1607 01:12:12,699 --> 01:12:13,933 reading these books for... 1608 01:12:14,340 --> 01:12:16,200 [water splashing] 1609 01:12:25,745 --> 01:12:26,780 Hey. 1610 01:12:27,881 --> 01:12:28,882 Hey. 1611 01:12:30,283 --> 01:12:31,785 Hey. Hey! 1612 01:12:33,530 --> 01:12:35,880 [Cliff] Bro. Oh, shit. 1613 01:12:35,188 --> 01:12:36,189 What are you doing here? 1614 01:12:37,290 --> 01:12:38,858 What am I doing here? - What are you doing here? 1615 01:12:38,925 --> 01:12:39,926 What do you mean, what am I doing? 1616 01:12:40,260 --> 01:12:40,894 Why are you in town? 1617 01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:42,562 I came to see our mother. 1618 01:12:42,629 --> 01:12:44,798 Ain't that what you been calling me about for weeks now? 1619 01:12:44,898 --> 01:12:45,899 [Cliff breathing heavily] 1620 01:12:47,300 --> 01:12:48,268 What happened to your eye? 1621 01:12:48,368 --> 01:12:50,737 - I got into a fight. - Yeah. 1622 01:12:50,804 --> 01:12:52,272 Well, get out of the pool. 1623 01:12:52,372 --> 01:12:53,640 - You're making a mess. - I don't want 1624 01:12:53,740 --> 01:12:55,408 to get out of the pool. I'm a grown-*** man. 1625 01:12:55,475 --> 01:12:56,609 This your girlfriend? 1626 01:12:56,710 --> 01:12:58,578 Yeah, you scared the shit out of her. 1627 01:12:58,645 --> 01:13:00,280 I'm Coraline. 1628 01:13:01,214 --> 01:13:02,449 Hi, Coraline. 1629 01:13:02,549 --> 01:13:03,817 At least she's not white again. 1630 01:13:03,917 --> 01:13:05,952 - [Coraline chuckles] - Your wife was white. 1631 01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:07,787 My wife was a beard. Beards don't count. 1632 01:13:07,887 --> 01:13:08,755 Well, get out. 1633 01:13:08,822 --> 01:13:10,256 You ****ing menace. 1634 01:13:10,323 --> 01:13:11,424 You'll wake the neighbors. 1635 01:13:11,624 --> 01:13:12,492 [Cliff] You know, **** your neighbors! 1636 01:13:12,592 --> 01:13:14,160 And **** your clean pool! 1637 01:13:14,260 --> 01:13:16,763 It's all just a part of your superiority complex, anyway. 1638 01:13:16,830 --> 01:13:18,565 - [Cliff shouts] - [Monk] ****ing ***hole. 1639 01:13:21,267 --> 01:13:24,971 - [Cliff and Coraline laughing] - You are a goddamn child! 1640 01:13:26,339 --> 01:13:27,774 It's probably a bad time to tell you, 1641 01:13:27,841 --> 01:13:28,942 but I did piss down there. 1642 01:13:29,900 --> 01:13:30,100 ****. 1643 01:13:30,110 --> 01:13:31,111 [Coraline laughing] 1644 01:13:32,345 --> 01:13:33,646 [Monk] Oh, funny, huh? 1645 01:13:33,747 --> 01:13:34,848 [Coraline] I'm sorry, Monk. 1646 01:13:34,948 --> 01:13:35,949 Don't get mad. 1647 01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:37,150 [garbling] 1648 01:13:37,250 --> 01:13:38,451 Get out of here. 1649 01:13:39,652 --> 01:13:40,787 You want a piece of me? 1650 01:13:40,854 --> 01:13:43,189 [cheerful music playing] 1651 01:13:43,289 --> 01:13:45,291 [Cliff laughing] 1652 01:13:46,326 --> 01:13:47,327 It's funny, huh? 1653 01:13:48,928 --> 01:13:51,264 [Cliff] So I'm lying in bed with him, 1654 01:13:51,331 --> 01:13:53,833 butt-*** naked 1655 01:13:53,933 --> 01:13:56,469 and in walks Claude carrying the frozen yogurt. 1656 01:13:56,536 --> 01:13:58,271 - No. - Yeah, I forgot I'd shown him 1657 01:13:58,338 --> 01:13:59,639 where I keep the spare key. 1658 01:14:00,607 --> 01:14:03,643 So he just throws the yogurt at us 1659 01:14:03,710 --> 01:14:06,112 and then he wallops me right in the eye. 1660 01:14:08,281 --> 01:14:09,716 What was the other guy doing? 1661 01:14:09,816 --> 01:14:11,284 He couldn't stop laughing. 1662 01:14:11,351 --> 01:14:13,119 He said that's what he does when he gets nervous. 1663 01:14:13,186 --> 01:14:14,354 [Coraline chuckles] Okay. 1664 01:14:14,454 --> 01:14:16,189 You really going for it these days. 1665 01:14:16,322 --> 01:14:18,224 Yeah. Well, good for you. 1666 01:14:18,324 --> 01:14:19,893 I mean, the whole world's falling apart. 1667 01:14:19,993 --> 01:14:21,394 Might as well have some fun. 1668 01:14:21,494 --> 01:14:22,896 - I appreciate that. - Yeah. 1669 01:14:23,930 --> 01:14:25,231 You know, you're quite beautiful. 1670 01:14:26,866 --> 01:14:27,867 Thank you. 1671 01:14:30,537 --> 01:14:32,172 What do you see in my brother? 1672 01:14:33,673 --> 01:14:35,542 - He's funny. - [Cliff] Mm. 1673 01:14:35,608 --> 01:14:38,445 - He's not funny. No. - No, not ha-ha funny. 1674 01:14:38,545 --> 01:14:41,181 - Like, sad funny. - [Cliff] Okay. 1675 01:14:41,247 --> 01:14:43,490 [Coraline] Like a three-legged dog. 1676 01:14:43,116 --> 01:14:45,251 I see it now. Like somebody dying on a toilet. 1677 01:14:46,190 --> 01:14:47,253 [Coraline] Exactly. 1678 01:14:47,354 --> 01:14:48,922 - Exactly. - Invariably, 1679 01:14:49,220 --> 01:14:51,524 - you go too far. - [Cliff] You think? 1680 01:14:51,591 --> 01:14:52,859 I don't think I go far enough. 1681 01:14:52,926 --> 01:14:54,270 It's becoming hurtful. 1682 01:14:54,940 --> 01:14:55,562 - [Cliff and Coraline] Aw. - See? 1683 01:14:55,628 --> 01:14:56,629 - See? - [Cliff as Monk] "You know, 1684 01:14:56,730 --> 01:14:57,530 - invariably..." - [Coraline] Oh. 1685 01:14:57,597 --> 01:14:59,733 "...you go too far." 1686 01:14:59,799 --> 01:15:01,768 - [Cliff laughs] - [Coraline kisses] Yeah. 1687 01:15:01,868 --> 01:15:03,690 - You got a kiss, man. - [Coraline laughs] 1688 01:15:03,136 --> 01:15:05,872 Look at you. Just by being pathetic. 1689 01:15:05,939 --> 01:15:07,730 - God bless you. - Hey. 1690 01:15:07,140 --> 01:15:08,775 - [laughing] - [Cliff] That is like 1691 01:15:08,875 --> 01:15:10,760 - a three-legged dog. - [Coraline] Hey. 1692 01:15:11,644 --> 01:15:13,413 [Cliff laughing] 1693 01:15:16,490 --> 01:15:18,618 Oh, this is nice. 1694 01:15:18,718 --> 01:15:19,786 Yeah, it's not bad. 1695 01:15:20,820 --> 01:15:22,322 What do you got there, pergola? 1696 01:15:22,422 --> 01:15:23,423 No, that's a gazebo. 1697 01:15:24,290 --> 01:15:25,392 [Cliff] Same difference. 1698 01:15:25,458 --> 01:15:26,326 - All right? - [Monk] To the left. 1699 01:15:26,426 --> 01:15:27,460 Oh. Excuse me. 1700 01:15:29,496 --> 01:15:30,497 Huh. 1701 01:15:31,998 --> 01:15:33,833 Hey, Monk? 1702 01:15:33,933 --> 01:15:35,668 How the hell can you afford this place? 1703 01:15:36,903 --> 01:15:37,904 I, um... 1704 01:15:39,639 --> 01:15:43,510 Well, there was some money Lisa left for Mother. 1705 01:15:43,610 --> 01:15:44,978 Thought the divorce cleaned her out. 1706 01:15:46,613 --> 01:15:49,349 Well, I'm not familiar with what her finances were like, 1707 01:15:49,449 --> 01:15:51,451 but if you're so interested in the bills, 1708 01:15:51,518 --> 01:15:53,420 perhaps I can start sending them to you? 1709 01:15:53,486 --> 01:15:55,188 Ah, it's fine. Where we going? 1710 01:15:55,288 --> 01:15:56,289 Right here. 44. 1711 01:15:58,324 --> 01:15:59,626 Surprise! 1712 01:16:03,963 --> 01:16:05,932 We've had a difficult morning. 1713 01:16:09,936 --> 01:16:11,805 We had to sedate her after she tried to strike a nurse. 1714 01:16:12,806 --> 01:16:14,941 - Has she done that before? - No. 1715 01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:16,276 [record player clicks] 1716 01:16:16,343 --> 01:16:17,711 She has a different demeanor every day. 1717 01:16:18,478 --> 01:16:20,280 Sometimes every hour. 1718 01:16:20,347 --> 01:16:22,148 But maybe she'll feel better tomorrow. 1719 01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:24,651 I'm sorry, I need to go. 1720 01:16:24,718 --> 01:16:26,886 Yes, of course. Thank you. 1721 01:16:28,521 --> 01:16:29,622 The gardener cut these 1722 01:16:29,689 --> 01:16:31,858 right off the bush for your mom. 1723 01:16:31,958 --> 01:16:33,960 - Sweet, right? - Yeah, that's great. 1724 01:16:35,610 --> 01:16:36,663 How can you afford this place? 1725 01:16:37,297 --> 01:16:38,498 I mean, you're not 1726 01:16:38,565 --> 01:16:40,300 a drug dealer or something, are you? 1727 01:16:41,334 --> 01:16:42,969 No, I'm a writer. 1728 01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:45,505 And you're my girlfriend, not my bookkeeper. 1729 01:16:45,572 --> 01:16:47,540 ["Things You Are" by Tab Smith and His Orchestra playing] 1730 01:16:55,582 --> 01:16:58,385 ♪ Down a mountain ♪ 1731 01:16:59,819 --> 01:17:02,322 ♪ Do it with my bare hands ♪ 1732 01:17:02,389 --> 01:17:04,724 ♪ I crush the rocks to stone ♪ 1733 01:17:05,825 --> 01:17:07,694 ♪ And toss them up to heaven ♪ 1734 01:17:08,828 --> 01:17:11,931 ♪ The moment I was blue ♪ 1735 01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:15,235 ♪ I'd rush right home to you ♪ 1736 01:17:15,335 --> 01:17:19,939 ♪ If all these things I do for you ♪ 1737 01:17:22,242 --> 01:17:24,544 ♪ I would write a symphony... ♪ 1738 01:17:24,611 --> 01:17:27,247 I always knew you weren't a queer. 1739 01:17:29,382 --> 01:17:34,354 ♪ One that would make... ♪ 1740 01:17:35,755 --> 01:17:39,590 ♪ It would be a melody... ♪ 1741 01:17:39,125 --> 01:17:40,427 She doesn't know what she's saying. 1742 01:17:40,527 --> 01:17:41,695 I'm going to wait outside. 1743 01:17:48,935 --> 01:17:51,404 ♪ Make a notion ♪ 1744 01:17:53,239 --> 01:17:56,142 ♪ To search out my devotion ♪ 1745 01:17:56,242 --> 01:17:58,278 ♪ We didn't go Hand in hand... ♪ 1746 01:17:59,546 --> 01:18:01,481 [rain pattering] 1747 01:18:06,786 --> 01:18:08,540 [car approaching] 1748 01:18:13,326 --> 01:18:15,829 You sure you don't want to stay for Lorraine's wedding? 1749 01:18:15,929 --> 01:18:17,230 It's better if I go. 1750 01:18:22,569 --> 01:18:24,404 It was nice to meet you, Cliff. 1751 01:18:25,739 --> 01:18:27,674 [pensive music playing] 1752 01:18:28,975 --> 01:18:30,510 This family will break your heart. 1753 01:18:44,791 --> 01:18:46,292 [door opens] 1754 01:18:55,350 --> 01:18:57,437 [audience cheering and applauding] 1755 01:18:57,504 --> 01:18:58,705 [upbeat music playing] 1756 01:18:59,706 --> 01:19:01,841 Welcome back. I'm Kenya Dunston 1757 01:19:01,941 --> 01:19:03,443 and today, we're going to discuss 1758 01:19:03,510 --> 01:19:05,845 a new novel that just debuted at number one 1759 01:19:05,945 --> 01:19:08,148 on The New York Times bestseller list. 1760 01:19:08,214 --> 01:19:11,985 It is just a remarkable, special book, 1761 01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:13,887 and it's called... 1762 01:19:13,987 --> 01:19:16,220 Cover your kids' eyes and ears... [chuckles] 1763 01:19:16,823 --> 01:19:17,824 [censor beeps] 1764 01:19:17,891 --> 01:19:19,159 [chuckles] 1765 01:19:19,225 --> 01:19:20,493 We are lucky enough 1766 01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:22,395 to have the author with us today. 1767 01:19:22,495 --> 01:19:24,731 And for those of you who are just joining us, 1768 01:19:24,831 --> 01:19:26,466 please know that Mr. Stagg R. Leigh 1769 01:19:26,533 --> 01:19:28,902 is coming to us from an undisclosed location 1770 01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,137 as he is still on the run from authorities. 1771 01:19:31,204 --> 01:19:32,839 {\an8}[Kenya chuckles] 1772 01:19:32,906 --> 01:19:36,876 {\an8}Oh, Stagg, tell us, is this novel a true story? 1773 01:19:36,976 --> 01:19:38,678 {\an8}[Monk distorted] Not factually, 1774 01:19:38,745 --> 01:19:40,547 {\an8}but it's the true story of what it's like 1775 01:19:40,647 --> 01:19:43,550 {\an8}to be a Black man in America like me. 1776 01:19:43,650 --> 01:19:44,584 {\an8}And it ain't pretty. 1777 01:19:44,684 --> 01:19:45,919 Amen to that. 1778 01:19:46,190 --> 01:19:47,854 [Monk] During my time in prison, 1779 01:19:47,921 --> 01:19:50,857 {\an8}I learned that words belong to everybody. 1780 01:19:50,924 --> 01:19:52,759 {\an8}So this book is my contribution 1781 01:19:52,859 --> 01:19:54,661 {\an8}to this wonderful country of ours 1782 01:19:54,728 --> 01:19:56,830 {\an8}where a Black ex-con can become rich 1783 01:19:56,896 --> 01:19:59,999 {\an8}simply by telling the story of his unfortunate people. 1784 01:20:00,660 --> 01:20:01,568 [Kenya] Hm. 1785 01:20:01,668 --> 01:20:03,370 - Yes. Yes. - [audience cheers] 1786 01:20:03,436 --> 01:20:05,238 [cell phone ringing and vibrating] 1787 01:20:05,338 --> 01:20:06,773 [cell phone beeps] 1788 01:20:06,873 --> 01:20:08,800 - Yeah. - [Arthur] Get this. 1789 01:20:08,740 --> 01:20:09,743 The FBI called Thompson Watt today 1790 01:20:09,843 --> 01:20:11,578 to try to get Stagg R. Leigh's identity. 1791 01:20:11,678 --> 01:20:13,179 - What? - [Arthur] Don't worry. 1792 01:20:13,246 --> 01:20:14,948 They're not going to give him up. 1793 01:20:15,480 --> 01:20:17,117 Give who up? It's me, I haven't done anything. 1794 01:20:17,217 --> 01:20:18,718 They don't know that. 1795 01:20:18,785 --> 01:20:21,287 - Look, this has gone too far. - [Arthur] Relax. 1796 01:20:21,388 --> 01:20:22,555 The fugitive stuff's getting us 1797 01:20:22,622 --> 01:20:23,857 mountains of free press. 1798 01:20:23,923 --> 01:20:25,250 - [elevator dings] - Plus, as you said, 1799 01:20:25,910 --> 01:20:26,226 you haven't done anything. 1800 01:20:26,292 --> 01:20:27,894 It's not like they can arrest you. 1801 01:20:27,961 --> 01:20:30,430 I wish I could go back to not selling books. 1802 01:20:30,530 --> 01:20:31,531 - [elevator dings] - I don't. 1803 01:20:32,465 --> 01:20:33,700 Bye. 1804 01:20:33,767 --> 01:20:34,768 - [phone line disconnects] - [sighs] 1805 01:20:34,868 --> 01:20:36,770 [music playing softly] 1806 01:20:43,410 --> 01:20:44,411 [Monk sighs] 1807 01:20:47,914 --> 01:20:48,915 Is everything all right? 1808 01:20:50,500 --> 01:20:51,785 Yeah. 1809 01:20:51,885 --> 01:20:54,821 I'm just a little stressed out. This, uh. 1810 01:20:54,921 --> 01:20:56,890 book award stuff is a bit more work than I expected. 1811 01:20:57,791 --> 01:20:58,792 [Coraline] Hm. 1812 01:21:00,293 --> 01:21:01,294 - [fork thuds] - Mm. 1813 01:21:02,228 --> 01:21:03,263 Shit. 1814 01:21:04,597 --> 01:21:06,966 It's no biggie. Got more forks in the kitchen. 1815 01:21:13,473 --> 01:21:14,474 [fork clatters loudly] 1816 01:21:27,454 --> 01:21:28,421 Have you read it? 1817 01:21:28,488 --> 01:21:29,923 Of course not, have you? 1818 01:21:29,989 --> 01:21:30,990 [Coraline] Yeah. 1819 01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:35,295 And what did you think of it? 1820 01:21:35,362 --> 01:21:37,864 - I liked it. - What did you like about it? 1821 01:21:37,964 --> 01:21:40,433 - [Coraline] Um... - It didn't offend you? 1822 01:21:40,500 --> 01:21:41,501 You just said you didn't read it. 1823 01:21:41,601 --> 01:21:42,535 What's your problem? 1824 01:21:42,635 --> 01:21:44,104 No, you answer my question. 1825 01:21:44,170 --> 01:21:45,472 You answer mine. 1826 01:21:47,140 --> 01:21:50,777 {\an8}My problem is that books like this aren't real. 1827 01:21:51,644 --> 01:21:52,846 They flatten our lives. 1828 01:21:52,946 --> 01:21:54,470 What do you mean? 1829 01:21:54,147 --> 01:21:55,215 [Monk] I mean, that... 1830 01:21:55,315 --> 01:21:57,317 {\an8}you know, my life is a disaster, 1831 01:21:57,384 --> 01:21:58,985 {\an8}but not in the way you'd think reading this shit. 1832 01:21:59,786 --> 01:22:01,488 {\an8}These things reduce us 1833 01:22:01,554 --> 01:22:03,890 {\an8}and they do it over and over again because 1834 01:22:03,990 --> 01:22:06,960 {\an8}too many white people, and people apparently like you 1835 01:22:07,270 --> 01:22:09,562 devour this slop like pigs at a dumpster 1836 01:22:09,662 --> 01:22:12,165 to stay current at ****ing cocktail parties 1837 01:22:12,232 --> 01:22:13,566 - or whatever. - Okay, um... 1838 01:22:13,666 --> 01:22:15,235 You got a lot of opinions for someone 1839 01:22:15,335 --> 01:22:17,303 who hasn't published anything for years. 1840 01:22:17,370 --> 01:22:18,405 And you've published what exactly? 1841 01:22:18,505 --> 01:22:20,240 Okay, what is wrong with you? 1842 01:22:21,174 --> 01:22:22,242 Why are you acting like this? 1843 01:22:22,342 --> 01:22:23,677 I'm not acting like anything. 1844 01:22:23,743 --> 01:22:25,745 You've been acting like a weirdo for weeks. 1845 01:22:25,845 --> 01:22:27,747 You've been obfuscating, sneaking around. 1846 01:22:27,847 --> 01:22:29,315 You're ****ing unknowable. 1847 01:22:29,382 --> 01:22:31,685 Maybe you think being an enigma is chic and artsy. 1848 01:22:31,751 --> 01:22:33,520 I just think it makes you an ***hole. 1849 01:22:33,586 --> 01:22:34,921 [Monk] Well, um, 1850 01:22:35,210 --> 01:22:36,923 you don't understand my life, and you can't, 1851 01:22:37,230 --> 01:22:38,580 so just leave it at that. 1852 01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:43,396 One day, maybe you'll learn 1853 01:22:43,496 --> 01:22:45,532 that not being able to relate to other people 1854 01:22:45,598 --> 01:22:47,734 isn't a badge of honor. 1855 01:22:52,872 --> 01:22:54,107 I think you should leave. 1856 01:22:54,207 --> 01:22:55,175 Well, you know what I think? 1857 01:22:55,241 --> 01:22:57,770 You should leave, Monk. 1858 01:23:13,259 --> 01:23:14,561 [Monk] Nonsense. 1859 01:23:22,202 --> 01:23:23,770 [door opens, closes] 1860 01:23:23,870 --> 01:23:25,805 [music playing softly] 1861 01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:40,320 [Monk] You guys need any help with that? 1862 01:23:40,420 --> 01:23:41,454 Nah, we're good. 1863 01:23:43,456 --> 01:23:45,825 I thought you could use a little brawn. 1864 01:23:45,925 --> 01:23:48,928 - [mover] We got it. - [Lorraine] Mr. Monk. 1865 01:23:48,995 --> 01:23:50,463 You mind I keep the soda maker? 1866 01:23:50,563 --> 01:23:52,766 You don't like the bubbly water anyhow, right? 1867 01:23:52,832 --> 01:23:54,901 - It's all yours. - [Lorraine] Thank you. 1868 01:23:57,270 --> 01:24:00,106 Um... Hey, what about this? 1869 01:24:01,508 --> 01:24:04,177 No. I always hated that color. 1870 01:24:04,277 --> 01:24:06,146 It's just the one your father bought. 1871 01:24:07,414 --> 01:24:09,783 Thelonious, this just came for you. 1872 01:24:10,750 --> 01:24:11,818 Okay, thanks. 1873 01:24:11,918 --> 01:24:12,919 [Lorraine] This is the last of it. 1874 01:24:13,920 --> 01:24:15,188 Goodbye, Mr. Monk. 1875 01:24:18,858 --> 01:24:19,959 Bye, Lorraine. 1876 01:24:26,633 --> 01:24:27,701 Drive safe. 1877 01:24:27,801 --> 01:24:29,169 Guess I'll see you at the wedding. 1878 01:24:29,269 --> 01:24:30,270 All right. 1879 01:24:34,374 --> 01:24:35,375 [mover] I'll take that there. 1880 01:24:47,620 --> 01:24:49,956 [music playing] 1881 01:24:56,563 --> 01:24:59,833 Thompson Watt apparently raced to publish it. 1882 01:24:59,899 --> 01:25:02,235 Yeah, I heard that they ran 300,000 copies already 1883 01:25:02,335 --> 01:25:03,803 and they're reprinting more soon. 1884 01:25:03,870 --> 01:25:05,372 I mean, it's going like gangbusters . 1885 01:25:05,472 --> 01:25:06,873 Christ on a crutch! 1886 01:25:06,973 --> 01:25:08,575 It better be good. 1887 01:25:08,675 --> 01:25:10,877 Hey, I heard the writer's a fugitive. 1888 01:25:10,977 --> 01:25:12,412 Well, that would explain the title. 1889 01:25:12,512 --> 01:25:13,813 He didn't go to charm school. 1890 01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:16,883 No, I think that that background is a plus. 1891 01:25:16,983 --> 01:25:19,850 I am thrilled 1892 01:25:19,185 --> 01:25:22,422 to read a BIPOC man harmed by our carceral state. 1893 01:25:22,522 --> 01:25:25,580 [Daniel] Are you one of those defund the police nuts? 1894 01:25:25,158 --> 01:25:28,161 Yes, and I wouldn't expect you to understand. 1895 01:25:28,228 --> 01:25:31,310 Well, I hope someone you love doesn't get raped or murdered. 1896 01:25:31,970 --> 01:25:33,433 Can we not talk about this now, please? 1897 01:25:33,533 --> 01:25:35,402 Look, look, look. Criminal or not, 1898 01:25:35,502 --> 01:25:37,700 I don't think we should add it. 1899 01:25:37,170 --> 01:25:38,705 We're already weeks into the process, 1900 01:25:38,772 --> 01:25:40,106 and I don't know about any of you, 1901 01:25:40,206 --> 01:25:41,508 but I've got more than a dozen books 1902 01:25:41,574 --> 01:25:44,770 I haven't even opened yet. [clears throat] 1903 01:25:44,177 --> 01:25:45,879 It was published before the submission date, 1904 01:25:45,945 --> 01:25:47,414 I think we have to accept it. 1905 01:25:47,514 --> 01:25:48,715 [groans] 1906 01:25:48,782 --> 01:25:51,685 [Wilson] Yeah, it's just one more. And from the looks of it, it should be a quick read. 1907 01:25:51,751 --> 01:25:52,852 A quick ****. [chuckles] 1908 01:25:52,919 --> 01:25:54,254 [chuckles] 1909 01:25:54,354 --> 01:25:55,755 I've had a couple of those. [chuckles] 1910 01:25:57,290 --> 01:25:58,558 - Bye, guys. Bye. - [cell phone beeps] 1911 01:26:06,366 --> 01:26:08,301 [piano music playing] 1912 01:26:32,559 --> 01:26:34,294 [knocking on door] 1913 01:26:34,394 --> 01:26:35,628 Hi, Monkie. 1914 01:26:37,831 --> 01:26:38,932 You look beautiful. 1915 01:26:48,141 --> 01:26:49,776 [whisking] 1916 01:26:54,140 --> 01:26:55,982 Oh, hello. 1917 01:26:56,820 --> 01:26:58,918 Monkie, do we know these men? 1918 01:26:58,985 --> 01:27:01,154 No, Mother, this isn't the Alzheimer's, 1919 01:27:01,254 --> 01:27:03,356 these are actual strangers. Who are you people? 1920 01:27:03,456 --> 01:27:04,991 We're Cliff's friends. 1921 01:27:05,910 --> 01:27:06,593 Of course, you are. 1922 01:27:06,659 --> 01:27:08,595 We met him a few days ago. I'm Kenny, this is Alvin. 1923 01:27:08,661 --> 01:27:09,662 Are you Monk? 1924 01:27:09,763 --> 01:27:11,831 I am. How did you know? 1925 01:27:11,931 --> 01:27:14,701 Oh. Well, Cliff said Monk's a real tight-***. 1926 01:27:16,636 --> 01:27:17,804 Did he? 1927 01:27:17,871 --> 01:27:18,872 Delightful. 1928 01:27:19,539 --> 01:27:20,974 Mother, you sit here. 1929 01:27:22,542 --> 01:27:23,543 Lorraine? 1930 01:27:29,215 --> 01:27:30,383 [Alvin] Do you like scrambled eggs? 1931 01:27:30,483 --> 01:27:31,985 [Kenny] I love scrambled eggs. 1932 01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:33,386 What the hell are you doing here? 1933 01:27:33,486 --> 01:27:34,487 You first. 1934 01:27:37,157 --> 01:27:39,492 Oh, shit, the wedding. 1935 01:27:39,559 --> 01:27:41,610 - Ah. - [Cliff] Oh, ****! 1936 01:27:42,962 --> 01:27:44,297 I didn't go to the airport. 1937 01:27:44,364 --> 01:27:47,534 That day I left, I needed some time to myself. 1938 01:27:47,634 --> 01:27:50,336 Time to oneself implies by definition, time alone. 1939 01:27:50,403 --> 01:27:51,871 Oh, Christ, here we go. 1940 01:27:51,971 --> 01:27:54,207 - Detective Dictionary. - [Lorraine] Ah! 1941 01:27:54,307 --> 01:27:55,308 Mr. Cliff. 1942 01:27:55,375 --> 01:27:56,576 I'm sorry, guys, I'll handle it. 1943 01:27:56,676 --> 01:27:58,678 You need to leave. 1944 01:27:58,745 --> 01:28:00,347 Don't bother to clean up, just go. 1945 01:28:00,413 --> 01:28:02,820 Oh, no, it's all right, just... 1946 01:28:02,182 --> 01:28:03,216 Please stay. 1947 01:28:03,316 --> 01:28:04,751 It's a celebration. 1948 01:28:06,419 --> 01:28:07,654 It's good to see you, Cliff. 1949 01:28:08,888 --> 01:28:10,890 It's good to see you too, Maynard. 1950 01:28:10,990 --> 01:28:12,425 I, um... 1951 01:28:12,525 --> 01:28:13,827 I... I don't want to impose. 1952 01:28:13,893 --> 01:28:15,161 You can't impose. 1953 01:28:16,229 --> 01:28:17,230 You're family. 1954 01:28:17,330 --> 01:28:19,733 [music playing softly] 1955 01:28:32,512 --> 01:28:33,513 Okay. 1956 01:28:34,347 --> 01:28:35,882 I'll, uh... 1957 01:28:35,949 --> 01:28:37,183 I'll go clean up a bit, yeah? 1958 01:28:38,918 --> 01:28:40,720 Congratulations, you guys. 1959 01:28:46,226 --> 01:28:47,694 Can we make y'all some breakfast? 1960 01:28:47,761 --> 01:28:49,462 I can whip up a killer smoothie 1961 01:28:49,562 --> 01:28:51,231 and Alvin used to work the omelet station on a cruise ship. 1962 01:28:51,297 --> 01:28:54,340 [Lorraine] That sounds lovely. Thank you. 1963 01:28:58,872 --> 01:29:00,206 It's very kind of you to let them stay. 1964 01:29:00,273 --> 01:29:01,241 Oh. 1965 01:29:01,307 --> 01:29:02,709 It's always easier dealing 1966 01:29:02,776 --> 01:29:04,711 with other people's families than your own. 1967 01:29:04,778 --> 01:29:06,112 [Monk chuckles] 1968 01:29:06,212 --> 01:29:08,982 I regret to inform you that in a couple hours, 1969 01:29:09,820 --> 01:29:10,550 this will be your family. 1970 01:29:12,652 --> 01:29:15,321 ["Let Love Flow On" by Sonya Spence playing] 1971 01:29:18,491 --> 01:29:20,460 [inaudible] 1972 01:29:29,200 --> 01:29:31,137 [guests cheering and clapping] 1973 01:29:41,748 --> 01:29:43,783 [guests exclaim] 1974 01:29:48,880 --> 01:29:50,123 ♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪ 1975 01:29:50,190 --> 01:29:52,425 ♪ Let love be free ♪ 1976 01:29:52,492 --> 01:29:54,794 ♪ I reach for you Honey, yeah ♪ 1977 01:29:54,861 --> 01:29:56,930 ♪ You reach for me ♪ 1978 01:29:56,996 --> 01:30:01,434 ♪ We'll do the things together Only lovers do ♪ 1979 01:30:01,501 --> 01:30:04,300 ♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪ 1980 01:30:05,839 --> 01:30:10,210 ♪ We'll do the things together Only lovers do ♪ 1981 01:30:10,310 --> 01:30:12,979 ♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪ 1982 01:30:14,614 --> 01:30:16,516 ♪ Getting into each other ♪ 1983 01:30:16,616 --> 01:30:18,952 ♪ Let's reunite ♪ 1984 01:30:19,190 --> 01:30:21,210 ♪ And we let Love's vibrations ♪ 1985 01:30:21,121 --> 01:30:23,189 ♪ Lead us all right ♪ 1986 01:30:23,289 --> 01:30:27,560 ♪ We'll do the things together Only lovers do ♪ 1987 01:30:27,660 --> 01:30:30,163 ♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪ 1988 01:30:31,998 --> 01:30:36,369 ♪ We'll do the things together Only lovers do ♪ 1989 01:30:36,469 --> 01:30:39,720 ♪ Let love flow on, baby ♪ 1990 01:30:40,407 --> 01:30:42,375 [guests chattering] 1991 01:30:49,149 --> 01:30:51,840 [muffled upbeat music playing faintly over speakers] 1992 01:31:07,701 --> 01:31:08,702 Piss her off? 1993 01:31:13,540 --> 01:31:14,507 Yeah. 1994 01:31:14,574 --> 01:31:17,444 - Shut her out? - Yeah. 1995 01:31:19,112 --> 01:31:20,447 Dad shut everyone out too. 1996 01:31:21,381 --> 01:31:22,749 He lied all the time. 1997 01:31:23,850 --> 01:31:24,918 Look how that turned out. 1998 01:31:28,521 --> 01:31:29,756 I find myself 1999 01:31:30,957 --> 01:31:33,226 getting very angry these days like Dad. 2000 01:31:34,194 --> 01:31:35,195 These days? 2001 01:31:41,201 --> 01:31:43,737 I've been thinking a lot lately about 2002 01:31:47,574 --> 01:31:49,576 - I think he suspected it. - Mm. 2003 01:31:50,777 --> 01:31:51,778 He may have. 2004 01:31:52,645 --> 01:31:54,470 But he didn't know for sure. 2005 01:31:55,448 --> 01:31:58,840 He never knew the entirety of me. 2006 01:31:59,486 --> 01:32:00,487 And now he never will. 2007 01:32:02,322 --> 01:32:04,900 And that makes me... 2008 01:32:05,225 --> 01:32:06,493 It makes me real sad. 2009 01:32:09,829 --> 01:32:12,632 Well, what if he had known and rejected you? 2010 01:32:12,732 --> 01:32:15,402 At least he'd be rejecting the real me. 2011 01:32:18,238 --> 01:32:19,806 I know that sounds crazy, 2012 01:32:21,740 --> 01:32:22,609 but there'd be some relief in that. 2013 01:32:25,945 --> 01:32:27,847 It doesn't sound so crazy. 2014 01:32:27,947 --> 01:32:29,916 [piano music playing softly] 2015 01:32:33,190 --> 01:32:34,688 People want to love you, Monk. 2016 01:32:37,490 --> 01:32:40,160 I personally don't know what they see in you, but... 2017 01:32:42,128 --> 01:32:43,129 they want to love you. 2018 01:32:45,999 --> 01:32:47,634 You should let them love all of you. 2019 01:33:21,868 --> 01:33:23,470 [Daniel] It was dogshit. 2020 01:33:23,536 --> 01:33:25,705 I mean, some mollycoddled chump 2021 01:33:25,805 --> 01:33:28,208 faffing on about his dead mom... 2022 01:33:28,308 --> 01:33:30,210 Who cares? [scoffs] 2023 01:33:30,310 --> 01:33:33,380 Okay, so that means that Bury Me Standing is fourth. 2024 01:33:35,715 --> 01:33:37,150 Let's talk about ****. 2025 01:33:37,217 --> 01:33:38,551 Could we not? 2026 01:33:38,651 --> 01:33:40,820 [Ailene] Personally, I adored it. 2027 01:33:42,550 --> 01:33:44,991 It was like gazing into an open wound. 2028 01:33:45,580 --> 01:33:46,493 I agree. 2029 01:33:46,559 --> 01:33:48,728 I think it's the strongest African-American novel 2030 01:33:48,828 --> 01:33:50,530 I've read in a long time. 2031 01:33:52,165 --> 01:33:54,000 I mean, since yours. 2032 01:33:54,670 --> 01:33:56,736 - Of course, Sintara. - Thank you. 2033 01:33:56,836 --> 01:33:59,500 You know, I actually liked it 2034 01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:00,540 much more than I was expecting. 2035 01:34:00,607 --> 01:34:03,276 I mean, this is a gutsy piece of work. 2036 01:34:03,376 --> 01:34:05,345 And necessary for the times. 2037 01:34:06,346 --> 01:34:07,747 What did you think, Sintara? 2038 01:34:09,282 --> 01:34:12,519 I found it to be pretty pandering, actually. 2039 01:34:12,585 --> 01:34:13,586 You did? 2040 01:34:14,421 --> 01:34:15,855 Yes. Did you not? 2041 01:34:16,556 --> 01:34:17,957 I very much did. 2042 01:34:18,580 --> 01:34:21,461 I thought it was simplistic and meaningless. 2043 01:34:21,561 --> 01:34:23,596 Well, of course, it was simplistic. 2044 01:34:23,697 --> 01:34:26,700 I mean, it's the language of the gutter. 2045 01:34:26,766 --> 01:34:29,269 You know, not some prissy graduate thesis. 2046 01:34:29,369 --> 01:34:31,471 "Language of the gutter." Jesus Christ. 2047 01:34:31,571 --> 01:34:33,106 I think our blood sugar's low. 2048 01:34:33,206 --> 01:34:34,974 How about we take a break for lunch, huh? 2049 01:34:35,750 --> 01:34:36,643 - Fine by me. - [Wilson] Okay. 2050 01:34:36,743 --> 01:34:37,744 - [Sintara] Okay. - Really? 2051 01:34:38,578 --> 01:34:39,979 Okay. 2052 01:34:40,800 --> 01:34:42,480 [mellow music playing] 2053 01:34:44,751 --> 01:34:45,752 [Monk groans] 2054 01:34:51,224 --> 01:34:52,392 Oh, I'm sorry. 2055 01:34:52,459 --> 01:34:53,593 Oh, no, you're fine. 2056 01:34:53,660 --> 01:34:54,561 [Monk] What, I'm not interrupting? 2057 01:34:54,627 --> 01:34:56,296 - No. - [door closes] 2058 01:35:17,817 --> 01:35:18,818 [Monk] Sorry. 2059 01:35:26,426 --> 01:35:27,427 [Monk clears throat] 2060 01:35:34,968 --> 01:35:36,469 Do you mind if I ask you something? 2061 01:35:37,203 --> 01:35:38,204 Sure. 2062 01:35:39,205 --> 01:35:40,840 Um... 2063 01:35:40,940 --> 01:35:43,176 What about **** did you find pandering? 2064 01:35:43,877 --> 01:35:44,878 Oh, uh... 2065 01:35:46,379 --> 01:35:48,615 I can't really put my finger on it, but... 2066 01:35:50,216 --> 01:35:52,152 it's not different from some of what's out there, 2067 01:35:52,218 --> 01:35:53,286 but it just felt... 2068 01:35:55,121 --> 01:35:56,790 soulless... 2069 01:35:56,856 --> 01:35:59,192 is the word that I'm going to use. 2070 01:35:59,292 --> 01:36:00,493 You said you agreed, right? 2071 01:36:00,560 --> 01:36:02,362 Yeah, I do. I think it seems written 2072 01:36:02,462 --> 01:36:05,565 to satisfy the tastes of guilt-ridden white people. 2073 01:36:05,665 --> 01:36:08,340 Yeah, the kind of book critics call important 2074 01:36:08,134 --> 01:36:09,836 and necessary, but not well-written. 2075 01:36:09,903 --> 01:36:11,404 - [both chuckle] - [Monk] Exactly. 2076 01:36:15,709 --> 01:36:19,913 Okay, so... And please don't take offense at this, 2077 01:36:20,130 --> 01:36:22,649 but how is **** 2078 01:36:22,716 --> 01:36:25,151 so very different from your book? 2079 01:36:29,220 --> 01:36:31,910 Is that what this is about? 2080 01:36:31,191 --> 01:36:32,692 - You think my book's trash? - [Monk] No. 2081 01:36:32,759 --> 01:36:36,663 To be honest, I haven't read your book. 2082 01:36:36,730 --> 01:36:38,531 I've read excerpts 2083 01:36:38,598 --> 01:36:42,202 and it didn't seem so dissimilar. 2084 01:36:44,170 --> 01:36:47,730 I did a lot of research for my book. 2085 01:36:47,173 --> 01:36:49,409 Some of it was actually taken from real interviews. 2086 01:36:50,243 --> 01:36:51,544 Maybe you've been up 2087 01:36:51,611 --> 01:36:53,680 in your ivory tower of academia for so long 2088 01:36:53,747 --> 01:36:55,915 you've forgotten that some people's lives are hard. 2089 01:36:56,160 --> 01:36:57,500 Your life? 2090 01:36:59,552 --> 01:37:02,122 You went to an exclusive bohemian college. 2091 01:37:02,222 --> 01:37:04,290 You had a job at a fancy 2092 01:37:04,391 --> 01:37:06,590 publishing house in New York. 2093 01:37:06,126 --> 01:37:08,928 So what? I don't need to write about my life. 2094 01:37:09,290 --> 01:37:10,463 I write about what interests people. 2095 01:37:11,798 --> 01:37:13,933 You write what interests white publishers 2096 01:37:14,340 --> 01:37:16,703 fiending Black trauma ****. 2097 01:37:16,770 --> 01:37:18,438 They're the one buying the manuscripts. 2098 01:37:19,873 --> 01:37:21,975 Is it bad to cater to their tastes? 2099 01:37:22,750 --> 01:37:24,440 If you're okay feeding 2100 01:37:24,110 --> 01:37:25,578 people's base desires for profit-- 2101 01:37:25,645 --> 01:37:27,614 I'm okay with giving the market what it wants. 2102 01:37:27,714 --> 01:37:29,282 That's how drug dealers excuse themselves. 2103 01:37:29,382 --> 01:37:30,917 And I think drugs should be legal. 2104 01:37:35,622 --> 01:37:38,625 But you're not fed up with it? 2105 01:37:38,725 --> 01:37:40,994 You know, Black people in poverty? 2106 01:37:42,950 --> 01:37:43,496 Black people rapping? 2107 01:37:43,596 --> 01:37:44,964 Black people as slaves? 2108 01:37:45,650 --> 01:37:47,333 Black people murdered by the police? 2109 01:37:47,434 --> 01:37:48,435 Old soaring narratives about... 2110 01:37:48,501 --> 01:37:49,636 [Sintara] Okay. 2111 01:37:49,736 --> 01:37:51,604 Black folks in dire circumstances 2112 01:37:51,671 --> 01:37:54,507 who still managed to maintain their dignity before they die? 2113 01:37:54,607 --> 01:37:57,177 I mean, I'm not saying these things aren't real, 2114 01:37:57,277 --> 01:38:00,413 but we're also more than this. 2115 01:38:00,480 --> 01:38:03,483 And it's like so many writers like you can't envision us 2116 01:38:03,583 --> 01:38:05,785 without some white boot on our necks. 2117 01:38:05,852 --> 01:38:08,588 Do you get angry at Bret Easton Ellis 2118 01:38:08,655 --> 01:38:10,230 or Charles Bukowski 2119 01:38:10,123 --> 01:38:11,791 for writing about the downtrodden? 2120 01:38:11,858 --> 01:38:14,270 Or is your ire strictly reserved for Black women? 2121 01:38:14,127 --> 01:38:15,962 Nobody reads Bukowski thinking 2122 01:38:16,290 --> 01:38:17,864 his is the definitive white experience. 2123 01:38:17,964 --> 01:38:19,799 But people, white people, 2124 01:38:19,866 --> 01:38:22,350 read your book and confine us to it. 2125 01:38:22,135 --> 01:38:24,371 They think that we're all like that. 2126 01:38:24,471 --> 01:38:26,139 Then it sounds like your issue 2127 01:38:26,206 --> 01:38:28,208 is with white people, Monk, not me. 2128 01:38:28,308 --> 01:38:29,976 Well, maybe, but I also think 2129 01:38:30,430 --> 01:38:31,644 that I see the unrealized potential 2130 01:38:31,711 --> 01:38:32,879 of Black people in this country. 2131 01:38:36,182 --> 01:38:38,818 Potential is what people see when they think 2132 01:38:38,885 --> 01:38:40,653 what's in front of them isn't good enough. 2133 01:38:43,556 --> 01:38:44,858 [door opens] 2134 01:38:46,192 --> 01:38:47,193 [Sintara clears throat] 2135 01:38:49,129 --> 01:38:50,397 [door closes] 2136 01:38:50,497 --> 01:38:52,665 So, what are we talking about? 2137 01:38:53,800 --> 01:38:55,735 [mellow music playing] 2138 01:39:17,891 --> 01:39:18,892 [cell phone chimes] 2139 01:39:41,614 --> 01:39:42,682 [Ailene] We're starting again. 2140 01:39:42,749 --> 01:39:43,883 I'll be right there. 2141 01:39:55,562 --> 01:39:57,864 Hey, can I speak to Arthur? Yeah, it's Monk. 2142 01:40:00,900 --> 01:40:01,868 Hey. 2143 01:40:01,935 --> 01:40:03,370 I'm fine. 2144 01:40:03,436 --> 01:40:05,205 Listen, you think you can set up 2145 01:40:05,271 --> 01:40:06,573 another meeting with Wiley? 2146 01:40:07,640 --> 01:40:09,542 I've got a new idea for him. 2147 01:40:09,609 --> 01:40:11,411 Different kind of movie. 2148 01:40:11,478 --> 01:40:12,479 Thanks. 2149 01:40:26,826 --> 01:40:28,561 I think it's **** for me. 2150 01:40:28,628 --> 01:40:30,397 - Yeah, me too. - Yeah, I agree. 2151 01:40:30,463 --> 01:40:32,298 I disagree. I'm sorry. 2152 01:40:32,399 --> 01:40:34,667 I think it would be a mistake 2153 01:40:34,768 --> 01:40:37,170 to award this book anything. 2154 01:40:37,270 --> 01:40:38,805 Well, it's two versus three, so... 2155 01:40:39,939 --> 01:40:40,940 ****'s the winner. 2156 01:40:41,700 --> 01:40:42,442 [Ailene] **** is the winner. 2157 01:40:45,845 --> 01:40:48,415 You know, it's not just that it's so affecting, 2158 01:40:49,516 --> 01:40:51,151 I just think it's essential 2159 01:40:51,251 --> 01:40:52,786 to listen to Black voices right now. 2160 01:41:01,127 --> 01:41:02,128 [Monk] Mother. 2161 01:41:03,530 --> 01:41:04,531 Did you... 2162 01:41:07,967 --> 01:41:10,360 Did you know that Dad was cheating on you? 2163 01:41:11,271 --> 01:41:13,606 He was bad at keeping secrets. 2164 01:41:13,673 --> 01:41:16,420 Why didn't you leave him? 2165 01:41:16,142 --> 01:41:18,678 He would've been even more lonely without me. 2166 01:41:21,481 --> 01:41:22,716 You thought he was lonely? 2167 01:41:22,816 --> 01:41:24,684 You father was a genius. 2168 01:41:27,487 --> 01:41:30,457 Geniuses are lonely... 2169 01:41:31,825 --> 01:41:35,295 because they can't connect with the rest of us. 2170 01:41:37,364 --> 01:41:38,865 You're a genius, son. 2171 01:41:41,368 --> 01:41:43,870 Well, I certainly don't feel like one half the time. 2172 01:41:45,205 --> 01:41:46,406 That's because you've always been 2173 01:41:46,506 --> 01:41:48,375 so hard on yourself, Cliffy. 2174 01:41:55,582 --> 01:41:59,352 [Carl] And now for the final award for the evening. 2175 01:41:59,419 --> 01:42:02,922 I promise to leave you alone, let you eat after this. 2176 01:42:03,230 --> 01:42:04,524 But before I announce the winner, 2177 01:42:04,591 --> 01:42:06,226 I would like to acknowledge our judges, 2178 01:42:06,326 --> 01:42:08,261 our incredibly diverse group of judges 2179 01:42:08,361 --> 01:42:10,430 who've sacrificed valuable time, 2180 01:42:10,530 --> 01:42:12,165 so we could all celebrate here tonight. 2181 01:42:12,232 --> 01:42:13,233 So if you put your hands together, 2182 01:42:13,333 --> 01:42:14,834 they did a fantastic job. 2183 01:42:19,873 --> 01:42:20,874 Okay. 2184 01:42:21,574 --> 01:42:22,742 Without further ado, 2185 01:42:24,770 --> 01:42:26,613 this year's Literary Award goes to... 2186 01:42:27,847 --> 01:42:29,115 Oh, I knew it. 2187 01:42:29,215 --> 01:42:31,618 By Stagg R. Leigh, ****. 2188 01:42:31,718 --> 01:42:34,120 [crowd applauding and muttering] 2189 01:42:42,929 --> 01:42:45,265 Well, I'm not sure if Mr. Leigh is going to grace us 2190 01:42:45,365 --> 01:42:46,800 with his presence here tonight. 2191 01:42:46,900 --> 01:42:49,602 He's notoriously cagey about attention. 2192 01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:02,549 Oh, hold on. 2193 01:43:02,615 --> 01:43:05,251 Oh, okay. I see some business. 2194 01:43:05,318 --> 01:43:09,122 Someone's coming. Oh, Thelonious Ellison. 2195 01:43:09,222 --> 01:43:11,570 One of our esteemed judges. 2196 01:43:14,940 --> 01:43:15,929 Weirdly walking toward the stage. 2197 01:43:17,597 --> 01:43:19,165 No idea why. 2198 01:43:19,966 --> 01:43:20,834 Hey. 2199 01:43:20,934 --> 01:43:22,100 What's going on? 2200 01:43:23,670 --> 01:43:24,671 [Monk] Excuse me. 2201 01:43:26,500 --> 01:43:27,474 Excuse me. 2202 01:43:29,609 --> 01:43:31,578 [suspenseful music playing] 2203 01:43:43,790 --> 01:43:45,492 I have a confession to make. 2204 01:43:50,864 --> 01:43:52,766 [Wiley] Wait, wait, wait. Smash to black? 2205 01:43:53,767 --> 01:43:55,168 [bell rings] 2206 01:43:55,268 --> 01:43:56,870 No ****ing way, dude. 2207 01:43:56,970 --> 01:43:58,438 What's wrong with that? 2208 01:43:58,505 --> 01:44:01,410 There's no resolution here. What's he going to say? 2209 01:44:01,141 --> 01:44:03,900 I don't know. I think that's what's interesting about it. 2210 01:44:03,109 --> 01:44:04,177 No, he should say something. 2211 01:44:04,277 --> 01:44:05,679 What did you say? 2212 01:44:05,779 --> 01:44:07,947 Nothing. I walked out of the ceremony. 2213 01:44:08,140 --> 01:44:09,182 The next day I called you to say 2214 01:44:09,282 --> 01:44:10,650 I wanted to write this movie. 2215 01:44:10,717 --> 01:44:12,180 [Wiley] Well, Monk, the character 2216 01:44:12,118 --> 01:44:13,386 should say something. 2217 01:44:13,486 --> 01:44:15,488 [Monk] Well, I don't want him to make some 2218 01:44:15,555 --> 01:44:17,657 grandiose speech spoon-feeding everyone 2219 01:44:17,724 --> 01:44:19,250 the moral of the story. 2220 01:44:19,125 --> 01:44:21,127 There is no moral. That's the idea. 2221 01:44:21,194 --> 01:44:22,462 I like the ambiguity. 2222 01:44:22,529 --> 01:44:24,631 Okay, look. You're a good writer, 2223 01:44:24,698 --> 01:44:26,833 and this is almost there. 2224 01:44:26,900 --> 01:44:29,350 But novels aren't movies, okay? 2225 01:44:29,135 --> 01:44:31,710 Nuance doesn't put ***es in theater seats. 2226 01:44:31,171 --> 01:44:32,639 We need a big finish. What is this? 2227 01:44:33,740 --> 01:44:36,420 It's the seltzer you asked for. 2228 01:44:36,142 --> 01:44:37,210 Why is it all wet? 2229 01:44:38,712 --> 01:44:40,460 Condensation? 2230 01:44:40,146 --> 01:44:41,815 Condensation. Okay. 2231 01:44:41,881 --> 01:44:43,583 You're a ****ing weatherman now. 2232 01:44:43,683 --> 01:44:44,751 You want anything? 2233 01:44:44,851 --> 01:44:46,319 Uh, no, I'm fine. Thank you. 2234 01:44:46,386 --> 01:44:47,520 All right. This is Monk. 2235 01:44:47,587 --> 01:44:50,423 - We're going to make a movie with him if he can get the third act right. - Nice meeting you. 2236 01:44:50,523 --> 01:44:51,658 - You as well. - Get me a flat white. 2237 01:44:52,492 --> 01:44:54,327 And, hey, never again. 2238 01:44:56,529 --> 01:44:58,640 All right. 2239 01:44:58,164 --> 01:44:59,733 What other endings you got in that big brain of yours? 2240 01:45:03,570 --> 01:45:04,738 How about if... 2241 01:45:04,838 --> 01:45:07,273 This year's Literary Award goes to... 2242 01:45:08,208 --> 01:45:10,677 by Stagg R. Leigh, ****. 2243 01:45:10,744 --> 01:45:12,512 [captivating music playing] 2244 01:45:12,579 --> 01:45:14,280 [crowd applauding] 2245 01:45:47,347 --> 01:45:49,315 [captivating music continues] 2246 01:45:55,889 --> 01:45:57,657 I'd like to apologize. 2247 01:46:00,226 --> 01:46:02,128 I haven't been myself lately. 2248 01:46:23,717 --> 01:46:24,718 What about that? 2249 01:46:25,485 --> 01:46:26,519 Will she forgive him? 2250 01:46:28,210 --> 01:46:29,823 I don't know. 2251 01:46:29,889 --> 01:46:32,992 The real Coraline won't return my phone calls. 2252 01:46:33,590 --> 01:46:35,161 Maybe the movie Coraline is more forgiving. 2253 01:46:38,498 --> 01:46:40,266 No. It's too pat. 2254 01:46:40,367 --> 01:46:42,680 Makes the whole thing feel like a romantic comedy. 2255 01:46:42,168 --> 01:46:43,837 We don't want to make a romantic comedy. 2256 01:46:43,903 --> 01:46:45,405 We want to make something real. 2257 01:46:46,539 --> 01:46:47,540 Give me something real. 2258 01:46:52,379 --> 01:46:53,513 I mean, we could just... 2259 01:46:54,781 --> 01:46:56,282 Hey, what's going on? 2260 01:46:57,183 --> 01:46:58,184 [Monk] Excuse me. 2261 01:47:00,553 --> 01:47:01,554 Beat it. 2262 01:47:07,961 --> 01:47:09,929 [suspenseful music playing] 2263 01:47:13,933 --> 01:47:16,970 I have a confession to make. 2264 01:47:17,700 --> 01:47:19,105 - [door opens] - Stagg Leigh, on the ground now! 2265 01:47:19,205 --> 01:47:20,874 [officer 1] There he is! 2266 01:47:20,940 --> 01:47:22,776 [Monk] No, no. I'm not Stagg Leigh. 2267 01:47:23,943 --> 01:47:24,944 He doesn't exist. 2268 01:47:25,450 --> 01:47:27,113 I'm Monk. Thelonious Ellison. 2269 01:47:27,213 --> 01:47:29,249 You're a fugitive! On the ground now! 2270 01:47:29,315 --> 01:47:30,483 [Monk] No, no, no. 2271 01:47:30,583 --> 01:47:31,951 That was all a marketing gimmick. 2272 01:47:32,520 --> 01:47:33,887 - It was all a lie. - [officer 2] He's got a gun! 2273 01:47:33,953 --> 01:47:35,321 No, no! No, no! 2274 01:47:36,322 --> 01:47:38,258 [dramatic choral music playing] 2275 01:47:54,841 --> 01:47:58,178 [music crescendoes] 2276 01:48:07,787 --> 01:48:08,788 [Wiley] He's dead? 2277 01:48:10,190 --> 01:48:11,191 They smoke him? 2278 01:48:15,428 --> 01:48:16,429 It's perfect. 2279 01:48:18,164 --> 01:48:19,866 Yes! That is... 2280 01:48:21,134 --> 01:48:22,702 That is perfect. 2281 01:48:23,837 --> 01:48:25,939 Time to pick out your tux, my brother. 2282 01:48:26,500 --> 01:48:27,607 We're going to the big show. 2283 01:48:27,674 --> 01:48:29,876 Hey, come transcribe this. We got it. 2284 01:48:33,346 --> 01:48:34,347 ****. 2285 01:48:34,447 --> 01:48:36,383 [blues music playing] 2286 01:48:57,470 --> 01:48:58,471 [Cliff] Hey. 2287 01:49:01,408 --> 01:49:02,409 [Monk exhales] 2288 01:49:03,143 --> 01:49:04,144 So? 2289 01:49:06,460 --> 01:49:07,147 They going to make your movie or what? 2290 01:49:07,881 --> 01:49:09,482 Unfortunately, yes. 2291 01:49:09,549 --> 01:49:11,551 Hey! You know what? 2292 01:49:11,651 --> 01:49:14,421 Good luck finding someone handsome enough to play me. 2293 01:49:14,521 --> 01:49:15,855 I think they have. 2294 01:49:15,922 --> 01:49:16,923 Who they got? 2295 01:49:17,924 --> 01:49:18,925 Tyler Perry. 2296 01:49:19,250 --> 01:49:21,695 [both laughing] 2297 01:49:21,761 --> 01:49:22,762 You got me. That's good. 2298 01:49:24,998 --> 01:49:26,266 [engine starts] 2299 01:49:28,101 --> 01:49:29,235 [Cliff] All right. 2300 01:49:32,720 --> 01:49:34,400 [blues music continues] 2301 01:50:43,410 --> 01:50:45,345 [upbeat jazz music playing] 2302 01:52:55,410 --> 01:52:56,976 [classical piano music playing] 2303 01:54:02,175 --> 01:54:04,144 {\an8}[music continues]