Filthy Rich

Dear lord, we could really use

your divine intervention, again.

Margaret's little press conference

backfired like a raggedy old car,

so sunnyclub vendors threatened to pull out.

Margaret called a family meeting to keep all the kids,

bastards included, on brand,

which apparently means bribing everyone into subservience.

She just put you on staff, bro.

Becky: Antonio took the deal, of course.

Nice suit.

Becky: He must really need the money.

Rose went to fetch jason from whatever drug den

he was hiding in.

He better be careful with that stuff,

or he'll wind up in a coma.

-Jason: Don't worry. -Whoa, what--(screams)

you're not gonna wake him up.

Becky: And ginger, greedy tramp that she is,

refused margaret's offer...

'cause I'm that bitch.

Becky: And moved all of her cyber bimbos

into a ratty-ass motel.

So of course margaret went to the only person

who could fix this, my darling brother,

who offered to baptize ginger in exchange

for putting eric in charge of the missions.

It's a big job, which explains why

he's on his laptop all the time.

But ginger turned what was supposed

to be a holy sacrament

into a wet, dripping billboard for her porn site.

I saw her areolas.

Cut the feed!

Becky: I can't imagine what eugene would say

if he saw all this.

Still, the controversy got us

the subscriptions we needed.

Margaret got super jelly of my brother's ratings

and decided to book ginger on her show.

Be good for everyone.

Becky: And that'll be a travesty in the making.

Just watch.

Lilith, salome, jezebel.

Scripture tells us of the fallen women

who danced with the serpent in the shadow of sin,

and yet the hand of god was always there reaching out,

calling, "come to me, my daughter.

Repent."

last week, we met another fallen woman,

ms. Ginger sweet,

and just as god offered salvation to the ancients,

he reached out to ms. Sweet through me, his humble vessel,

and together we offered her salvation,

but she made a mockery of the sacrament!

norah: Five minutes, margaret.

Franklin: Bringing ginger on the show

is gonna hurt the brand.

People are really riled up out there.

Wings of a dove isn't about controversy.

We can fight controversy, franklin, or we can embrace it.

Jesus teaches us that we must choose the embrace.

Franklin: Jesus?

So this has nothing to do with boosting

sunnyclub's subscriptions?

Ginger's little stunt put some serious numbers on our board.

Your brand is hospitality, grace.

I don't want you to take the show

to a place you can't pull it back from.

The reverend did it.

Well, the reverend is tacky.

Now, you have been under a lot of pressure lately.

If you can't have grace under pressure,

what good is it?

I can handle ginger sweet.

After all, I have my army.

children!

you filthy, diseased whore!

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

Coming through! I'm betty, your pa for the day.

Don't judge all of us by that guy, okay?

Margaret's fans are like a big, old family,

and every family has their crazy pants sheep, am I right?

Okay?

All right, come on, let's get her in.

Thomas: There's another way to reach ms. Sweet,

through a mother who follows in the biblical path

set by rebecca, naomi, and our blessed mary,

someone who will fight for what is right,

someone like margaret monreaux!

Margaret: Welcome home, jason.

Did you close that ganja factory of yours?

-Yes, ma'am. -Good.

You'll join rose for the mail bag.

-Jason: What's the mail bag? -Rose: Mom selects

a handful of viewer letters to read on air.

I've been doing it since I was seven.

Jason: I know you wanted all of your kids

on your tv show today,

but I--that's not really my jam.

Who doesn't want to be on camera?

Uh, me. I don't want to be.

Jason, today we are reintroducing our family

to the world, properly and on our terms.

Antonio, I just love

the cooking segment that you pitched me.

Thanks, margaret.

Antonio and I--

we're gonna blend our cultures.

He's gonna make pasteles,

and I'm gonna add some nola flair.

We're gonna show ginger and our fans

that blending our differences can be delicious.

You two, you take note.

This is what a team player looks like.

Why doesn't eric have to do it?

Honey, eric is stepping in

for your father today at the missions.

You're trusting eric with daddy's projects?

-Mm-hmm. -That must mean a lot to him.

Rose, will you do the mail bag in memory of your daddy?

Okay, mama. Okay.

Thomas: Jesus makes us strong!

Just please leave jason out of it.

I promise. I promise.

Oh, she's here.

Thomas: Let's help margaret win this fight!

Thomas: It's a tale as old as time itself,

a fallen woman faced with two choices,

salvation or damnation,

with a mother desperate

to convince her to choose correctly.

-Margaret. -Ginger.

Thomas: Up next on wings of a dove...

Norah: Going live in three, two...

Live from sunshine studios in beautiful new orleans,

this is wings of a dove!

god, give me strength.

Norah: Here she is, your host,

your friend, margaret monreaux.

Dear lord, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good,

but I'm alone out here,

traveling down a lonesome road.

I fear that I've been cast out.

This is a test of my perseverance.

margaret: I've been reflecting lately

on the meaning of homecoming.

You know that feeling when you go away for a while

and you come back and find a deeper appreciation

for what you have?

Welcome to the dewdrop buybox, double-d, double-b.

I'll be there soon.

After taxes, eight hours of minimum wage

will get you half a bus ticket.

Margaret: As you all know, the good lord--

he recently expanded my family circle.

Let me introduce them.

This is my antonio.

Oh, looking after his son, single father,

despite never knowing his own.

And now sweet jason.

Oh, that's not jason. That's colorado.

Don't we have a picture of jason?

She's pissed I backed out.

She takes her show really seriously.

It's like her church.

He was gonna read the viewer mail with rose,

but he got a little case of stage fright.

Happens to us all. Not me.

If I go on tv, folks back home might see

and know it's me, you know?

Yeah, I--I know.

margaret: Shame is just the good lord's way

of reminding us that someone is always watching--always.

After all...

this is not cool.

That's, like, way not cool.

Margaret: Or two, or three.

Which brings me to ginger sweet.

a woman you've already seen a little too much of.

they're booing her.

I know, I know, I know,

but it goes without saying,

ginger, she needs saving.

-(cheering) -but here at wings of a dove,

we're about hospitality, and ginger, she's our guest.

Hey, ginger.

Have you got any advice for me?

Oh, just to be careful.

Mama has this way of turning everything to her advantage.

Plus, she has the audience on her side.

I have an audience too, and it's growing every day

thanks to the sunshine network.

Every time she and the rev

say my name, my profits go up tenfold.

It's easy to talk big when you're in the wings,

but wait until you're out there.

The first time I was on the show,

I was maybe, like, five,

and I reached for a cookie before she cued me,