Them

Okay, princess.

Time to go to the ball.

What time is it?

Time to get you prepped.

5cc's Haldol?

C-Can I have some water?

Absolutely. After.

It may not seem like it now,

but there is great freedom in this gift you're receiving.

Please. Can I at least use the restroom first?

Please?

I don't want to mess myself.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Are we at the ball already?

Almost, princess.

Fuck.

I wish you would.

Daddy!

Stay here.

Daddy.

Daddy!

You crazy fucking coon!

Hey!

He fucking killed Earl...

Oh.

This fucking pickaninny killed Earl!

Aah!

Turn your ass over.

- He's got a gun. - Motherfucker.

Get out here.

Who's your buck now? Hmm?

Hey, leave him alone.

Oh, God...

You, you fucking ape!

I got a kid on the way,

you fucking coon.

You didn't give a shit when they were mine, huh?

You get away from him!

Marty! Baby...

- What'd you do? - Tell her to shut the fuck up.

It's-it's o... It's okay, baby.

- It's okay. - I'm-I'm okay, baby.

I'm-I'm gonna call

the police.

Go on. Do it.

And your man right here gonna get a bullet in his head.

You dirty nigger!

Ooh...

No, n-no.

No, no, no, no.

Please, please don't.

No, no, no. Please.

Want to feel what it's like to lose a child?

Real tough, huh, buck?

No, no...

- Hands up! - Hey!

Look at me

when I'm talking to you.

Daddy?

Daddy?

Take your sister to your room.

- Stay right here. - Don't leave me.

- I'm going to get Daddy. - Well, what if Miss Vera...

Miss Vera's not real, Gracie.

But I saw her. Mama said she...

Mama's not here!

She's not real, Gracie.

Say it. She's not real.

She's not real.

Now stay here and close your eyes

and don't open them till I get back. Promise?

Promise.

Ruby.

Ruby.

Ruby.

Ruby.

...goes down and the moon comes up,

our boys will shine.

I pledge allegiance

to the flag

of the United States of America.

And to the republic for which it stands...

Our boys will shine.

Our boys will shine tonight.

All down the line.

When the sun goes down and the moon comes up,

our boys will shine.

Our boys will shine tonight, our boys will shine.

Our boys will shine tonight.

...one nation indivisible,

with liberty and justice for all.

When the sun goes down and the moon comes up,

our boys will shine.

Our boys will shine tonight, our boys will shine.

Girls.

Ruby Lee.

Gracie Jean.

Ooh...

We just loves us a picture show, don't we, Mr. Henry?

Hmm? No?

Safer up here, I suppose, than outside

with them scheming ofays, the rascals.

Where are they?

Where who?

My girls, nigger.

You touch one hair on their heads, I swear to God...

What I want with them girls and their pretty little heads?

Of course, I reckon you done already seen

a world of hurt, far as chilluns is concerned...

Oh.

- Oh. - Tell me where they are.

Tell me.

If you want to see 'em,

all you gots to do is look

with your own two eyes.

Poor, poor Mr. Henry.

I says it before and I'll say it again.

Don't never seem to be

in the right place at the right time.

Not at boss man Berks',

not even in your own home when them ofays come

and strang you clear up to the ceiling.

But you was that day, I reckon.

Ooh, Lord, you was that day.

Poor Miss Lucky, she just wanted him to stay a while

and enjoy the morning with their girls and that sweet

little boy-child.

But Mr. Henry had his mind