Red Hook Summer

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(LOVE TODAY PLAYlNG)

Boy, get that thing out of my face, please.

Mr. Tk, wait for me.

Yes, ma'am.

Come on.

Come on, babe.

Come on.

WOMAN:
Careful, James,

before you break your neck.

lt's here.

All right, come on.

What?

Somebody peed in there, a lot.

Silas, come on. Get in there.

They sure did pee in here.

Oh, yes. God is great.

This is your grandson.

This is your grandfather.

He's in good hands, Colleen.

Give me a hug, come on.

Be good.

And do not hesitate to call me for anything.

Do you want to come inside for a minute?

No, thank you. l have Tk waiting for me.

l'm going to take the stairs.

(CHUCKLES)

l love you.

l love you, too.

ENOCH:
Have a good trip, Colleen.

(DOOR CLOSlNG)

Well, come on in.

No TV set?

Don't need one.

Just the devil's words to fill an idle mind.

Where do l sleep with my empty mind?

l'll show you when you get

that thing off your face.

lt's not a thing. lt's called an iPad 2.

-Well, turn it off, Silas.

-They call me Flik!

What happened to your Christian name?

l rented it out on Facebook.

l do not want to talk to a box,

when l'm meeting my grandson

for the first time.

Now, why don't you call me Big Papa.

Granddad sounds too old.

Why don't you call me Rip Van Winkle.

l'm tired. Where do l sleep?

(SlGHS)

ln Atlanta,

my room is four times as big as this.

Well, this is your room.

Got a nice view.

You can see all God's gifts.

You hungry?

l got USA Chicken.

The best fried chicken in all of Brooklyn.

l don't eat fried chicken. l'm vegan.

lsn't Jesus black?

We don't know what color Jesus was.

Why is he white then?

(CHUCKLES) You know,

you are your momma's son.

This is not food.

Come on. We're going shopping.

BOY:
Let me see your ill skateboard flow!

(DAY OR NIGHT PLAYlNG)

-Can l?

-No.

Come on, l got some people

l want you to meet.

-Sister Shirley.

-Good morning!

-Sister Sweet.

-Hey, Bishop Enoch.

l'd like you to meet my grandson, Silas here.

(ENOCH CHUCKLlNG)

Well, what do you say, honey?

-Oh, hello.

-(CHUCKLES)

Sister Shirley,

l'm sending him around the church,

will you keep an eye on him for a little bit?

Of course. l'll send Chazz.

Keep them both out of trouble.

Give them some direction.

Good, better, best, never...

Never let it rest, until good gets better

and your better gets best.

Thank you, Sister Shirley.

ls that cornbread, Sister Sweet?

lf it was, l'd be eating it!

l'm on my way to work.

l'll see you all Sunday.

Okay, now.

-Need a hand there?

-Yeah, get me on out of here.

-Thank you, baby.

-You have a blessed day now.

-All right. You, too.

-(CHUCKLES)

l bet that is cornbread.

This is the place for it then.

Sweet's cornbread ain't never been strong.

You saying her cornbread's for the birds?

l'm telling you it ain't as good as mines.

You watch yourself with my Chazz now.

No, no, no, Silas, don't even think about it.

Ain't nothing there.

-Hey, Mother Darling.

-Hey, Sister Shirley. How are you, honey?

Mr. Mookie,

do you have a moment for Jehovah today?

-Hell to the no!

-Jehovah loves you!

Mookie, when are you going

to leave Sal's Famous

and come on over to Lil' Heaven, son?

-l gotta get paid!

-(ENOCH LAUGHS)

Mother Darling, l'd like you

to meet my grandson, Silas here.

Your... Silas.

Ooh! What a fine-looking young man.

Ooh, he's a fine-looking man.

Do you want some water, Sister?

l'm going on over to the C-Town.

No, thank you, Bishop. l'll pass.

Well, you know,

it's cool over in the land of Jesus,

where the water is sweet, the air is clear.

Mark says, "A prophet is not without honor."

And it depends on the prophet.

(CHUCKLES)

Good day, darlings.

Have a blessed day, Mother Darling.

(LAUGHS)

Come on, son.

l want you to meet some more people,

the right people, up here in the Hook.

You know,

there's some shady people up here.

This is not Atlanta. You understand?

-Yes.

-Good. Good.

Yeah, l'm going to have to

send you on over to the church

-and do a little bit of...

-Church?

You act like that's a bad word.

What you got against the church, son?

A lot!

lt'll keep you out of...

Morning, Bishop Enoch.

Hello, Mr. Kevin.

You guys can go ahead without me,

l'll catch up with you.

-This your grandson?

-Yep!

Well, we're just on our way to swim club,

if you care to join us.

Yeah, sure.

Are you teaching the word

over at that community center yet?

Nope, just swimming.

Well, there's my grandson's answer.

Well, it was nice meeting you.

Have a good day.

And you.

(ALL CHATTERlNG)

ENOCH:
Morning, Box.

Those are some nice tennis shoes

you got there.

J's, baby.

A little upgrade from them triple-tied

pleatherjoints you're rocking.

Step your sneaker game up, preach.

Why don't you point them J's

down to Lil' Heaven?

'Cause l'm too busy

hustling out here in hell.

That's right.

Can l speak with you a minute?

No, we good, son.

Hold that. What's poppin'?

All the more reason for you

to come and see us.

-God's got a plan for you, Herbert.

-Hey, yo.

BOX:
Can't you see l'm busy out here, man?

ENOCH:
l can see that, plain as day.

Now, is this what your momma,

Sister Augusta, God bless her soul,

prayed for, for all these years?

Building up Lil' Heaven?

ls this what she wanted for you, son?

First, you can take that claw off me,

preacher man.

And the next time

you mention my mother's name...

No disrespect.

l just wanted you

to meet my grandson, Flik here.

Now he's going to be here

for the rest of the summer.

Okay, l met him.

DEALER:
Hold up, where's my $1 00 at?

-God's blessing you every minute, Herbert.

-Yeah, whatever.

You be careful with that thing out here,

you hear me?

What's poppin', my nigga?

MAN:
Yo, what's poppin'?

DEALER:
Yo, yo, what up?

WOMAN:
Hey, Bishop Enoch,

how are you doing this blessed day?

See you on Sunday.

(ENOCH SlGHS)

Deacon Zee, this is not a Catholic church.

l know, l was just looking for that mop.

l set it down over here somewhere.

ENOCH:
Forget the mop.

Come on over here.

(ZEE CLEARlNG THROAT)

(GRUNTS)

You know,

it's four weeks until Old Timers Day.

And we're gonna have

every old timer back up in here

seeing this place same as it was last year.

Red Hook is booming.

And we've got to boom, too.

We've got to show them old timers

that we're surviving and thriving.

Yes.

You know some people want to

see this place broke up?

Right.

And who wouldn't want the two of us

as the pillar and the foundation

of Lil' Heaven?

Ha! (CHUCKLlNG)

-l've been praying.

-Mmm-hmm.

And l had a vision.

Well, if a worm crawled into a radish

and didn't know nothing else,

hell, he'd think it was a Georgia peach.

Now what's that supposed to mean?

lt means you had a vision last year, too.

The good book says, in Hebrew 1 1 , that,

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things unseen."

Have faith!

l had a vision

that a big donor is gonna

be coming to us soon,

somewhere around Old Timers Day.

And he's going to help us

get back on our financial feet.

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