Daddy and Them Page #3

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I believe i mus've been California.

Everybody was blonde-headed.

It might've been Switzerland

or one of them places then.

Yeah. Yeah, maybe.

But the sun was out.

Well, it probably

was California then.

Or Florida.

Well...

- we'll be in in a minute.

- Oh, boy.

I slept so good

in that bed last night.

Well, I know one thing.

You slept on most of it.

You didn't leave me

but two foot to sleep on.

How'd you sleep

last night, O.T.?

Not worth a sh*t 'cause

of all that racket outside.

Don' hink I didn' know you ook

lile Rose o bed on op of my car.

Well, Daddy, what'd you expect me to do?

We had a full house.

Why don't you try to keep your horse

in the barn for a couple of nights...

till your Uncle Hazel gets out from

under all them charges he's up against.

Tha ain' no kind of respec.

So you know, O.T.,

that was me...

makin' love to my husband.

He quit Rose

quite a while back.

Why don't you

correct somebody for once?

Oh, Claude was just sayin'

last night...

Isn't Rose pretty?

Goddamn you, Mama.

Claude was just sayin'

last night, Julia...

that you sure look English.

I was, and you do.

- You just look English. Don't she? She looks English.

- You do. She looks English.

How come none of us was invied

o you and Hazel's wedding, Julia?

Well, we just had a quick ceremony

down at the courthouse...

with witnesses,

not a proper religious ceremony.

- Your parents were there.

- Well, wejus figured...

we'd be invited, you know,

being family and all.

I'm a massage therapist and a health

and fitness nut, you know.

Max here,

he works for the Gazee.

Gazee Democra now.

He's from Chicago.

I'm really sorry. We just did it

rather suddenly, you know.

We just kind of got

our feelings hurt.

I mean, God, Hazel

is my uncle, after all.

I mean, he was always sayin' how pretty

and how sexy he thought I was.

Well, no in he gross way.

Speakin'of gross, Billy...

this woman is from England.

Do you want her to think all Americans

are whiny-assed little shits like you?

Is that what you want?

Reckon we can sop a

Pizza Boy after church?

I have to go see Uncle Hazel

in jail after church.

Sure like me some pizza.

Well, let's see, I guess...

I guess maybe

we'd better take two cars.

We're not Methodists.

Me and the girls, we can stay here.

And we'll meet up after church with ya.

Ruby can drive their car.

And you jus go on and you jus ake

Alvin and your mama and daddy.

- That's four of ya.

- And Bill and Max in theirs. That works out.

- Jus go.

- Now, that's not right, little Rose.

You need to go to church

with Claude.

A woman needs o be

in church wih her husband.

I just wish everybody'd

get on the same page.

Thank you, Jesus.

We'd like to keep the Montgomery

family in our prayers...

as O.T.'s brother, Hazel...

was incarcerated recently...

for...

I believe it was burglary,

wasn't it, O.T.?

- Armed robbery.

- Armed robbery, then.

You don't have to tell

the whole town, Daddy.

Brother Rush, would you

strike something up for us?

Then you tell him to get hisself

back out there and fix it.

Well... Little...

- How'd he like to have his

ass whooped? Tell him that.

Y'all stay off

my hind end back there.

I'm goin' as fast as I can.

Ain't nothin' for me to whoop

a plumber's ass, I guarantee ya.

Well, at least this is a clean jail.

I guarantee you...

Bring him back out there.

We'll have a squared-off place for him. I'll

just take care of him right then and there.

Hey, listen...

Hey, y'all...

you can't just walk through here

like that, pretty as you please.

Get back over here.

I got to check you out.

Hey, y'all.

Here's your wife.

Uh, Hazel, are you gettin' along

all right in here?

- Yeah, it's all right.

- Can you... Can you sleep pretty good?

- Yeah, all right.

- Yeah?

That's a hell of a thing to watch

a big brother and a baby brother...

talkin' to one another

on the jailhouse phone.

- Huh?

- I said...

it's a hell of a thing to see

a big brother and a baby brother...

- talkin' to one another on a jailhouse phone.

- Yeah.

I'm sorry that

everything's greasy.

- Take a towel or somethin' and wipe it off.

- Yeah.

Somethin' about a jail

gets me kind of horny...

even in the movies.

What do you mean?

- You mean because there's men in here?

- No, baby.

- You mean 'cause there's men in here...

- No.

And they're built up and they're

muscle men, and you like that.

- I do not.

- That's exactly what you're talking about, isn't it?

- So I guess I'd better

get built up more...

To keep you from runnin' off

with a goddamn criminal.

Claude and little Rose...

drove all he way

from Arkadelphia...

One of these days I'm gonna do it,

Claude. You watch and see.

Honey, you know Daddy's senile. He knows

damn well we don't live in Arkadelphia.

Honey?

Good morning.

Hello.

They usually don't come in

on a Sunday.

- Hello. Welcome, everyone.

- Hello.

- Come on in. Here we go. Hi.

- Come on in.

Hi. I'm Lawrence Bowen.

This is my wife, Elaine.

Hello.

I'm actually a partner.

In the firm.

I'm not just his partner in life.

Yes, that's right. We're Mr...

We're Mr. Montgomery's attorneys.

Yes, and they would know that.

Sure they would.

Uh, obviously, Julie and I have gotten

to know one another quite well...

as this thing, you know,

has gone on.

- And I assume that, uh, that the rest of us...

- I've gotten to know Julia too...

- get acquainted as time goes on.

- Because there are two of us.

- Great.

- You see, we... we just had brunch...

Lawrence and I.

Okay, well,

I thought that, uh...

we'd get started by just

getting to know one another...

and letting you know

where we are thus far...

Lawrence, perhaps...

they might like to sit down first.

Uh, you see,

Lawrence is from Chicago.

So sometimes his manners slip a little.

I'm Canadian.

Enough said.

- Please, sit down.

- Yeah.

- Please.

- Go on and have a seat.

- Why don't you sit in the middle?

- This seat, sir.

- That's fine right there.

- It's very comfortable.

- Are you going to sit down?

- Jewel, you sit over here.

Okay. What about

his wifeJulia?

- Well, she's been here before.

- No, I'm okay.

- It's perfectly all right.

- I love your hat.

I'm not very comfy.

- Thank you.

- Sure.

I'd like to start by, uh,

just saying that...

we have started

formulating our case.

I'm actually

the head of the firm.

I brought Lawrence in

when we married.

You see, when my father moved

to Little Rock from Toronto...

Elaine, I don't think they wanna hear

about all that right now.

- As a...

- Oh. Okay, Mr. Whatever.

Le's jus cu

o he brass acks, shall we?

Attempted murder.

It's a very serious charge, and I'm afraid

it looks very bad for Mr. Hazel Montgomery.

It also looks like a basically

open-and-shut case for the prosecution.

Well, I'm actually

quite sure...

70... 70% sure... that we can

have this reduced to assault.

Oh, bullshit! Oh, be straight

with these people, Lawrence.

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