Underground

A pay for wasting my time.

If anybody gonna be punished, it's gonna be me... aah!

Tell us what happened.

Rosalee.

We'll both get real horses soon.

James will be out working the fields soon.

He certainly won't need a horse.

You see?

It's all about the rhythm.

New driver don't sing

like Mr. Cato did.

Then you got to keep a song

in your head.

Go through it a couple times over,

you should make weight.

It'll help you pass the time, too.

James?

Listen to your momma.

What she's saying is important.

You get down on your knees, you feel like

you can't stand no more.

This padding will help.

Okay, now, uh,

let me see those little hands.

Okay.

You rub this on every couple of hours

till you get good calluses.

Stand up.

Nice and tall.

Remember what I told you about the two masks we got to wear?

One for ourselves and one for the white folks.

And that's more important than ever now.

You see something that make you mad, you can't show it.

You got to pretend everything okay.

Even when it ain't.

I never had to do that with T.R., and he white.

Things are different now.

Now, listen, keep your eyes on him over here.

He been making weight longer than the sun been shining.

Watch what he does now, and, uh,

and try your best to keep...

Don't look at him. Keep your eyes down.

Go ahead, go.

Come on, got to work.

Come on now, got to move faster.

That's right, get 'em all, even the bad ones.

We'll separate 'em later.

Your brother tell you what happens

if you don't make weight?

410.

Hey.

310.

300 for the day.

That can't be.

Get on!

Abe, go on and take him now.

225.

Hey, James!

Hey.

Son?

He was on his knees half the day.

Crawling in them fields.

He ain't drink enough water.

Why?

'Cause he used to drinking that clean water up at the big house.

And he keep cutting his eyes at them drivers.

He don't know he a slave, and that's my fault.

No, that's massa's fault.

For turnin' us into something we ain't supposed to be.

For the life of me I just can't understand

why he doing this now.

Just a few weeks ago, he was talking about

James coming back in the shop with me.

It's the reverend's influence.

Massa need the church vote.

Ain't there something you could do to sway massa?

James was 75 under easy.

Ain't no way he gonna make that tomorrow.

I could barely see him from the porch.

He's so little.

And you out there looking like French.

What happened to Pa ain't gonna happen to us.

James, he gonna learn quick enough.

You can't switch bags with him tomorrow.

I can take the lashes.

The world ain't gonna get any easier.

And we ain't helping him none by keeping him soft.

James, go ahead of me now.

360.

Give me that.

315.

That's your new number.

or it's stripes.

Go on.

Momma brought me food.

You tell her you made weight?

She said she was proud of me.

But...

But what?

She seemed sad when I told her.

I thought she didn't want me being soft.

Soft.

I want to tell you something

that my pa told me.

Just 'cause you got to play dumb,

don't you ever...

ever let them

make you think you really is.

When was the last time you visited Ma?

It's been a while.

Did she ask about me?

Ben.

- Your ma... - She suffers

from dual-form insanity, mania and depression.

When examining your wife,

the phrenologist found there to be

a strong growth in the middle-skull organs.

So wonder, imitation, benevolence.

That don't sound bad to me. It wouldn't be,

were it not in tandem with the shrinkage

in the frontal, more reason-oriented organs.

Time, locality.

I thought you said the operation was gonna help.

This is the area we removed

during the lobotomy procedure.

For a while, she was better.

She's become more violent and erratic

over the past year, lashing out.

Until very recently.

Over the past few weeks,

she's become withdrawn.

Quiet,

well-behaved.

She was planning her escape.

I want to see her room.

- Excuse me, young man. - Ben.

You just left her here!

I want to see her room

now!

Well, I don't think that's a good idea.

Why don't you just have some candy and wait out...

"A church in the valley of wildwood."

Sadly, the state of her living conditions are...

It's a reflection of her state of mind.

I ain't send every penny I made back to you

to have her living like this.

Sir, please, we did everything we could

to ensure that she was taken care of.

These are words to songs.

Words to every song she ever taught me.

We need to go there, in those woods.

Why?

That's where the stage is.

Ben.

Hold up.

It might not be safe.

Charlotte, it's me.

August.

August.

Have you got my letters?

No.

They said they cut into your brain.

Maybe they took your memory of me.

When I look at you, I see so much

of your pa.

I'm glad he's there to look after you.

He taught me how to track.

That's how I found you.

But...

I've seen him do some bad things.

Do you remember Jay?

He ever tell you the story of the two wolves?

He did.

Is Pa the good...

or the bad wolf?

It's okay.

You don't need to be afraid.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

I want to help.

My name's Elizabeth.

What's yours?

I know you're scared, so I'm just gonna

sit with you until you're ready to come out, okay?

My house is-is just up that hill.

It's such a beautiful day,

I thought I'd take a walk by the river.

Actually, that's not entirely true.

My husband, he's traveling,

- and it gets so quiet... - I got something over there!

Hyah!

Shh.

You seen a nigger girl round here?

No. I've been walking around the river,

I haven't seen anyone but you.

If you're lying to me, you'll have the marshal's office

to answer to. Hyah!

You can wear my husband's shirt until we

get your dress washed.

And then we can have some food.

How does that sound?