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It's been great, Slim. But I'm a man.

Men and women have different needs...

...and that's okay. Darcelle's...

She's willing to take care of that,

and maybe that's better for everybody.

It's better for you!

You have a pretty good deal, don't you?

You go out, you fool around!

I sit here, take care of your house and kid.

Well, no more, Mitch!

That's it! The party is over!

- Calm down.

- I won't do this anymore.

I won't sit here and take it, and take it, and take it.

Sorry! I love you, yes.

But I am not a doormat!

I'm your wife. I'm your wife.

And you cannot do this to me!

You cannot do this to me anymore.

What? I can't hit you?

No, you can't.

You want to fight?

I'm a man, honey, it's no contest.

You have to understand, and I thought you did.

I make the money here,

so I set the rules, right? It's my rules.

You're with me?

It's your rules.

Yeah.

- And what if I don't like the rules?

- If you don't like them?

Come on, sweetie,

life isn't just stuff we like, is it?

We have to take the good with the bad.

That's what marriage is.

So, for you, maybe today is a bad day.

Tomorrow may be great.

Tomorrow will be great.

Yeah.

Today...

...is the price you pay for having such a good life.

I'm going to go out.

This will be better, don't you think?

I don't have to sneak around

and pretend I'm going to work. I can say:

"I'm going to Darcelle's.

I'll be back in a few hours. "

Just so you don't do anything later

you might regret. Okay?

Who are you calling?

Your mother.

What will you tell her?

I was supposed to bring Gracie by tomorrow,

so I better cancel.

You know, love is a scary thing.

How powerful it is, what it does to you.

That is what happened here.

See, if I ever think of...

I just... I can't...

I refuse to live without you.

I think you understand what I'm saying.

Hey, you're late.

Where have you been? You are late.

I was worried you weren't coming at all.

No Gracie?

We will have a regular girls' luncheon...

...and we will gossip about absolutely everybody.

My poor baby. My God.

Honey, I am so sorry.

What did you do? What did you say to him?

Men are like land mines.

Some you trigger the first week,

others it's years in.

The problem is you want a man-man.

Meaning his veins run thick with testosterone,

which is good.

But then he can turn around

without any warning and...

...hit you.

I'm not this person.

I'm not a person whose husband beats her up.

I know.

What do I do?

You got to go to the cops.

He's the father of my child, okay?

I will not put him in jail!

Hold on. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, okay? Sit down. Relax for a second.

I'm just saying that either you endure this...

...and you live it out like you're

in some goddamn country western song...

...or you take the kid,

you take Gracie and you get out.

Mrs. Hiller, how are you? Your husband got her.

I must've forgotten.

Gracie was totally psyched.

I told him he should do it more often.

Mitch!

Toots!

Gracie!

Is that my little croissant?

No, it's your loaf of bread.

Oh, hi. How is it going?

- Where are you?

- Zoo.

- Why didn't you tell me-

- I called you at home, left messages.

Hey, Daddy.

- Come here.

- It's your mom, honey.

Mom, the elephants are peeing.

She's a little excited.

Hey, Dad, here. Come here. Look at the giraffe.

So, when are you guys going to be home?

I don't know. I'll take her for a pony ride,

maybe get a cotton candy.

You want a cotton candy, honey?

- I'll see you later.

- 'Bye, Mommy.

Made me nervous

when I couldn't reach you today.

I thought you were going to cancel

with my mother.

And you have to go crying to the old gang

at the greasy spoon.

Whatever happened to privacy?

I guess it's dead, along with chivalry and fidelity.

Tell me.

Do you have any idea...

...how bad things can get?

Educate me.

Slim, I'm a determined man.

I was determined to have you, and I did.

This house, my company...

I am and always will be a person

who gets what he wants.

And I still want you.

You can either accept that...

...or you can fight it.

Which way do you want to go?

I want to be happy.

Good.

- Can I help you?

- Yeah.

I have a friend whose husband beats her up.

She should come in here and file a complaint.

If she has physical evidence of abuse

on her person...

...we'll go out and arrest him.

- If he has money, he can bail himself out.

- That's true.

- Then he's free till it goes to trial.

- If it goes to trial.

It's up to the city's attorney's office

whether to prosecute.

Okay, so...

...she comes in here, she has him arrested...

...and pisses him off...

...then there's no guarantee

that he won't come after her once he's out.

She could get a protection order.

What's that? A little piece of paper

that says he can't come around?

And when he comes around,

what does she do, throw it at him?

She calls us.

And what about the kid? Is the...

- Is the paper good for the kid, too?

- There's a child involved?

That's a matter for the family courts.

But unless she can prove

that he's a danger to the child...

...she can't legally bar him access. Miss! Miss!

- Maybe she didn't hear the signal.

- No, she heard it.

No.

I think maybe Teddy is right.

Maybe she could still be sleeping.

She's not sleeping, okay, Phil?

She's coming any second.

Okay, do it again.

Put her down.

We should go in.

It'd be crazy if we woke him up.

Plus, she's going to flick the lights

if anything is wrong.

- Right?

- Yeah.

Another step and you're dead.

Oh, my God!

You don't understand.

You've broken into our house.

She's alive.

The lights are out. I can't see who you are.

I could kill you free and clear.

Sir, please.

- Where's Gracie?

- She's here.

We are happy to leave, Mitch,

with Slim and Miss Gracie.

And make no mistake. If you keep them here,

we will go straight to the police...

...who will surely arrest you

with a great deal of pleasure.

I don't want to say this in front of the group...

...but you are just a rug head.

If you go to the cops,

it will be her word against mine.

And they will find drugs in her bureau

or her car, or whatever.

Trust me on that. I'll have custody of Gracie

by the end of the week.

No. Help me. I got to get her out of here.

Enough with her. Get out.

Wake up, baby. Wake up. Look at your papa.

We're going for a little ride. Look at your papa.

Help them up. Get the bag.

- Look at your papa.

- I'll see you soon.

'Bye, sweetie.

And she's tied up because...

...once a mean guy got her, tied her up...

Could be a broken rib.

You could play with her ears.

Flicks her ears out.

At least it's not my face this time.

Where are we going?

- Hospital.

- No.

- I'm fine.

- You are not.

- Where to, Phil?

- Hospital.

I don't want to take her to the ER

in the middle of the night.

She needs someplace safe where she can sleep.

We could go to my house.

No. He knows where you live.

He knows where we all live.

Yeah.

- One queen-size bed is all right?

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