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What is it?

Boston.

Somehow, I've never been

north of Washington, D.C.

You'll just have to come visit us.

When Terrell's out of school,

maybe we'll do that.

How about that, Terrell?

You like to see Boston?

The proposed boundary for Delrona

Beach will incorporate this area...

...including Lincoln Beach all the way

to the Exley Plantation track.

Excuse me.

If you want to make a motion, wait

till Commissioner Pinkney's finished.

-I want to register a protest.

-In regard to what?

This meeting was not

properly advertised.

We met all legal requirements.

You purposely chose a time when our people

would be unable to attend.

The residents of Lincoln Beach?

You know very well many of us

are only here on weekends.

Many are only summer people.

That doesn't deny us the right

to object to this expropriation.

-Incorporation.

-You've already taken a third of our area.

You know that was

a private transaction...

...between Exley Plantation Estates

Planned Community...

...and the individual property owners.

This commission didn't know about it

until the plans were submitted.

If you hadn't already approved it,

they wouldn't have gone ahead.

As spokesman for the Exley Corporation,

I object to the implication--

-It has historic significance to us--

-We made several offers to--

A history that this commission

has consistently ignored!

You let them take away our cemetery.

Dr. Lloyd, we're talking old business.

If you dislike the current agenda--

We don't wanna be a part

of Delrona Beach...

...and they've made it clear they

don't want anything to do with us.

If beachfront prices hadn't risen,

there'd be no interest in merging--

-The concept of eminent domain--

-Is used to undermine our well-being!

Gentlemen, if we're going

to have a debate...

...I'm going to have to ask you

to follow procedure.

-I'm thinking of going out there again.

-Out where?

Tour.

Golfing?

It's kind of a syndicate.

A couple of dentists, a Buick dealer.

They wanna sponsor me

for a percentage of my winnings.

-How much can you make?

-First you have to qualify.

Then it just depends on where you

stand at the end of each tournament.

You did this before?

I tried a couple of years back.

It was fine till I got on the green.

You know...

...Iittle case of the yips.

It's an adrenaline thing.

You're in the middle of the back swing

of your putt, you tighten up and....

Yip.

Something like that.

And you had them bad?

Killer drive,

beautiful approach shot...

...and I just couldn't get

the damn thing in the hole.

That would seriously cut

into your winnings, wouldn't it?

-It's better now?

-I won't know until I get out there.

I can always sink them in practice.

So you'll be travelling a lot.

That's the life.

Are there, like, groupies?

I suppose. If you win.

I never could understand

wanting to watch it.

You know? It's like

those fishing shows on TV.

Does that make you feel bad?

I don't watch people wait on tables

or run the check-in desk.

Right, you don't.

Yip.

-This is too weird.

-Is it what you remember?

It's my room, yeah,

but that boy's been living in here.

We got some serious testosterone

working here. Now, he's what, exactly?

His daddy is my cousin.

Grew up kind of wild.

He's living here because...?

She wants me to drive them downtown

for some kind of hearing tomorrow.

-He's in trouble?

-She's not giving up any information.

Punish me a bit.

-For being gone so long.

-For everything.

She's the one who asked you

to come down, made the first move.

It's too weird.

You can hear the ocean.

I always loved that.

Hey, Lucky.

-They changed all the faades.

-Nobody but tourists shop here now.

-Where do the regular folks go?

-There's a shuttle bus to the mall.

It's just in here.

-This won't take but an hour or so.

-You hope.

Terrell just needs to talk

with somebody.

We'll call you back home

when it's over.

Prettiest beach on the Atlantic coast.

It is pretty.

If you want to help save it, we're

protesting at the groundbreaking.

-I'm just visiting.

-They won't know the difference.

So this is like an ecological thing?

We're trying to save

an endangered species.

Us.

I heard about this place

when I was a kid.

Forties, fifties...

...Lincoln Beach was it.

Only oceanfront in three counties

we were allowed to step onto.

Black folks, I'm talking about

the pillars of the community...

...got together and bought this land,

built the houses.

You'd drive through a couple hundred

miles of redneck sheriffs...

...park your ride on the boardwalk,

step out and just breathe.

Over there was Henry's Lounge.

That place used to jump.

-So, what happened?

-Civil rights happened. Progress.

Used to be you were black,

you'd buy black.

Jim Crow days, you needed a shoeshine,

wanted a taxi to the train station...

...you wanted some ribs,

a fish sandwich...

...chances are a black man

owned the place you got it in.

Now, the drive-thrus serve anybody.

But who owns them?

Not us.

All our people do is wear paper hats

and dip out them fries.

Only thing we got left are

funeral parlours and barbershops.

But now we can do anything.

Them that can get over do fine.

Them that can't are

in a world of trouble.

Tell the judge what you told me.

I said I'm sorry for what I did.

I wasn't thinking right.

You know that sorry won't cut it

in this case, don't you?

Yes, ma'am.

You're still on probation

for a previous offence...

...yet you deliberately

committed this act of vandalism.

Do you have any explanation

for your actions?

No, ma'am.

When somebody destroys something

that stands as a symbol for people...

-...that's desecration.

- It's a wooden pirate.

An icon in this community, nonetheless.

You're almost old enough, given

your record, to be tried as an adult.

You have two strikes against you.

A third, and there will be--

Mrs. Stokes has assured us she'll

maintain control of the situation.

We'd be satisfied,

barring further incidents...

...with an order for counselling,

or possibly community service.

That's very generous of you.

So, young man,

what's it gonna be?

Loretta.

Well....

Look at you.

-Mama said you were still in Delrona.

-Haven't moved an inch.

I saw you on a TV commercial.

I told my kids I went to school with you,

but they didn't believe me.

-You got kids?

-Three of them.

They're getting big.

-It's the first you've been back since--

-I came back for the service...

...when my father passed.

-But I only stayed for a day.

-That's a good while ago, your father.

Kind of slow for you down here.

Look, I....

-I kind of wanted to apologize.

-For what?

For Carter.

That's another lifetime

you're talking about. 25 years.

We were friends.

I shouldn't have gone after him.

But you did.

-You always did what you wanted to.

-I didn't do it to hurt you.

-Ancient history.

-So Carter still in town?

He inside sleeping.

Works nights at the box factory.

-You got married?

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