Act of Faith Page #6

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community with a smile.

- OK, come on, what's the catch?

You ain't never this nice.

You do something to mess

with your probation?

- Mmhm, not that I can think of.

I mean, I was out

there smoking some...

- Child please, they need to

put this thing under the jail.

She is a ticking time bomb, a

real threat to the community.

Oh lord, I'm sorry.

Let me go, I don't know why

I'm saying these things.

My sugar gets slow and

I just get to snitching.

- You wanna get to snitching,

why don't you snitch on

the weed and the bong

you got in that

little bitty purse.

It's a little bitty bong,

but it's a bong in there,

snitch on that.

- No habla ingles.

(mischievous music)

- You don't mind if I sit

down, can I talk to you?

- You OK, what's wrong?

- Well, I'm OK,

it's not about me.

It's about my boss,

you know Mr. Brady,

the man who owns this place.

- What?

- It's nothing, I

was just teasing.

You enjoy those hashbrowns,

you hear me detective.

Thank you, I'll

see you next time.

- Shartruce?

(muttering drowned out by music)

- Go check on that juice box.

(yelling)

What are you doing?

Jermaine, is this my--

- He's OK.

- Baby, are you OK?

- I got evicted.

We didn't have

anywhere else to go.

- No, no, no, you didn't

have anywhere else to go?

Honey.

- We're OK.

- No, you're not OK.

I had no idea it had

gotten like this.

This is bad Melissa.

- Thank you so

much for listening.

- Hey, any time.

Look um, I gotta get back.

So why don't you let me

come back and meet you

when you get off,

take you to your car.

- No, it's OK, you've

already done enough.

I appreciate it.

- Can I call you sometime?

- No.

- Alright.

You're OK, it's no

pressure, alright?

Well, I'll see you tomorrow.

- OK.

- Then the next day,

then the day after that,

and then the day after

that, all through the week,

won't end until you

take me serious.

A woman like you shouldn't

be taken for granted.

Why don't you let me show you

how you need to be treated?

- Alright.

I gotta go, I have

to get to work.

- Gotta get to work.

- Yeah.

- OK.

- Alright, I'll see you later.

- I will definitely

see you later.

(laughing)

- Bye.

- Goodnight.

- Goodnight.

- Look, I'm in

serious trouble, Tru.

- OK, well we all in trouble,

seem to be following

us around lately.

- This is really serious.

- OK, what's going on?

You got evicted.

- I used to be an addict.

- What?

- Got a lot of problems.

I been sober for two years.

- Oh my god.

- But I did some really

terrible, terrible things.

I um...

I left Jermaine home

alone for two days

while I was high and strung out.

- Oh baby.

- My momma called

social services

and they took him away.

That was my breaking point.

It took me a year and

a half to get him back.

I did everything that the judges

and the social workers

asked me to do.

I got this job.

I cleaned up you know?

I'm in school.

(soft guitar music)

I just love him so much, Tru.

- I know baby.

- I can't...

- You are a good mother.

- I can't hurt him again.

- You won't.

- If the social worker finds

out that I got evicted, I--

- Look, look, look, look,

now I ain't got much.

I mean I ain't

baller, baller Jackie,

but what I do have is yours.

Will you be my roommate?

Just till you get on your feet.

- Hey ladies.

- Where did you come from?

- Just got here and I

got some cheesecake.

What's up with the long faces?

- Nothing, we gonna be alright.

- Well, I'm not.

Two words.

Man whore.

- Eh, Patrick?

- In my bed.

- Hell no, with what?

- Another woman.

- A dog?

- Whore.

- Ew, I'll be damned.

That mother, I'll

go get the plates.

- Get the plates.

- What'd you do?

- I left.

- Oh heck, they

still over there?

- Still over there.

- Let me go get the knife.

- No, don't, don't.

- Please don't.

(slow music with a strong beat)

- See, that's what I'm saying,

we can't let Brady

go out like this.

Now, you in?

- Yeah, I can't deal

with another 10 years

breaking an oven in, trying to

get my brisket to

taste just right.

- Would you shut up

about that damn brisket?

You in?

- I'm in, I need this job.

- I don't even care no more,

at this point, yeah I'm in.

- My girl, alright then.

'Cause momma got a plan.

(soft music with a strong beat)

- Truce, OK baby,

it's game time.

- Don't baby me, now I

got your baby right here

with a right hook on it.

- Come on, ain't nobody

got time for that.

- Why you got the

wrong shirt on?

Go put your shirt back on.

- OK, OK.

- I got the four bars,

let make this happen.

Go on.

Breaker, breaker, Operation

Hashbrown has begun.

I repeat, Operation

Hashbrown is going down.

- Set, bring the milk.

- Copy.

(mischievous music)

- Just gonna help

yourself, right?

Hope you like it.

You can have all the

cake you want to, sir.

You just remember

that, I'm just a cook.

Didn't do anything

wrong around here.

- Ironically, it's

quite delicious.

- That's what I'm talking about.

Enjoy yourself.

- Would you like a glass of

ice cold milk with that, sir?

- Sounds like a good

idea, get your boss.

- One boss man coming

up, he'll be right out.

- Breaker one nine,

hummingbird in place.

Operation Hashbrown

now commencing.

I repeat, Operation

Hashbrown now commencing.

- Let's get this bastard.

- Ms. Beatrice, would

you stop cursing?

You know we supposed to

follow some kind of protocol.

Be a lady sometime.

- Child, I been

doing sneaky stuff

since your momma was

in cloth diapers.

You don't tell me how to handle

my business, I'll

tell you where to go.

- Hey, hey turn that

off, turn that off.

All you gotta do is

look out for Mr. Brady.

- OK, but I want

in on the action.

- Anything else I can

get for you Mr. Marshall?

- Nope, that'll be it.

I think I've took enough

of a risk with my stomach

for a day in this dump.

Where's Mr. Brady?

- He's coming.

Let me get you a free sample

of our homemade fudge.

- Oh, me too, please!

- Sit your big ass

down before I drop you

like my breasts without a bra.

- I ain't coming here no more,

man, y'all got issues, damn.

- I need to see Mr.

Brady right now.

- I know you do Mr. Marshall.

But what you need to do

is tate some of this,

so good it make you

wanna slap your momma.

Taste one.

- I think I do have a bit

of a sweet tooth today.

- Let me get you a napkin.

Hashbrown is getting

antsy, I repeat,

hashbrown is getting

antsy, let's move people.

(knocking)

- Who is it?

- Mr. Brady, there's

an emergency.

- Well, whatever it

is, it'll have to wait.

I'm dealing with something

very important here.

Please come back later.

- Mann Mann has just

set the kitchen on fire.

- What?

- The omelet is about

to leave the pan.

(music drowns out muttering)

- Mann Mann, what are you doing?

I don't smell no fire in here.

- Oh, you don't smell it

sir because I extinguished

the fire before it

really got started.

I'm a highly skilled,

trained individual.

That's what they teach

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