- What, mom?
- No, I'm just watching Sophie do her thing.
It's fascinating.
- Mrs. Mitchell, you have never had your hair
braided before?
- No, Sophie.
My mother always said it made young ladies look like--
Nevermind.
- Well, I haven't had my hair braided since college,
but Jackie, as much as you hate getting your hair done,
I think you should try it.
- No, I'd look positively ridiculous.
But I mean, on you, Sophie, it's perfect.
'Cause you know you're so Earthy and everything.
- Oh, thank you.
- Mom, well you're gonna be next.
- No, no, braids. - Come on.
You're next.
- Twists, whatever those are, no.
- Why not?
I mean, I thought you were trying new things,
and stepping out on faith.
- Honey, I said step out on faith,
not out of my mind.
- Mrs. Mitchell, I can do something
that would have you looking 10 years younger.
Not that you need it because you are gorgeous.
- Well if she don't want it,
you can do me, Sophie.
'Cause Botox and facials aren't everything.
I'm next, I got next.
- Okay, okay.
- May I?
- Yes, please.
- I mean, what else am I gonna do?
Okay, alright, let's go.
Okay now I'm tender headed,
so not too tight, okay?
And obviously I have a short cut,
so I'm gonna need the micros,
but not a million of 'em.
- Yes.
- Okay.
And if you got blonde in that bag, girl.
So I'm gonna need the micros, but not a million of them.
- Okay. - Alright.
And I need to stay blonde.
You got my color?
- Well now that might be a little difficult today.
- Come on, Sophie.
I need you to come through.
- I will do my best.
- Alright.
Let's go.
- Hey.
What took you so long?
Thought I'd try something new.
- Well, this is very new.
And very sexy.
- Come to bed.
- I missed you, Jackie.
- I missed you, Magnus.
Hi honey.
- Hi.
You're glowing.
- It's just the humidity.
- Mm hmm.
So where's daddy?
- Sleeping.
- Really?
- Yeah. - Yeah, that's the first.
Is he sick or something? - He's not sick.
- Okay. - He's not sick.
Anyway, what are we doing today?
I wanna know.
- We?
- Yeah.
- Look mom, it's been really great
healing with you and everything,
but why don't you and daddy do something together?
I mean, after my community service,
I have some personal stuff
that I gotta handle, anyway.
- Well I know when I'm not wanted.
No, it's okay, it's okay. - No, mom.
- It's okay.
If you don't mind me asking, with who?
- With Paul.
- I thought you two broke up.
- Yeah well, you thought wrong.
Let me handle this, please.
We came all this way.
We have a lot to sort out.
We're meeting later tonight, but don't worry.
- Do I look worried?
Tell Paul I said hi.
- Okay well you should tell him yourself.
- Mm.
Take care, be safe, sweetheart.
- Oh.
- Are you trying to give a girl a heart attack, honey?
- No, I'm trying to get you to come back to bed.
- Oh what, stop. - Yeah.
- You overslept.
- Well yeah, you wore a brother out.
- Well--
- Yeah, where'd all that energy come from?
- I've been saving up.
- I could tell.
Where's Jilly headed?
- Community service.
- Oh, see, she's going to work, Jackie.
I knew she could.
All we had to do was get out of denial
and out of the way.
- No, you're right.
I didn't see it at first, but I do now.
- You know it's for life.
- I know. - Yeah.
- I looked at some of those Al-Anon meetings
that Dr. Cooper recommended.
- Mm hmm.
- How about we check one out?
- Let's do it.
Sooner than later.
- Mm hmm.
She also said that,
she had some personal business to handle with Paul.
- Wait, I thought they broke up.
- I did, too, but you know what?
Just let it be.
We gotta learn to trust her again, right?
- Yeah.
- And she also mentioned that we should
spend more time together.
- Right.
So how about wearing a brother out again?
- What? - You know.
- We did good last night.
- I gotta go, I gotta play cards with the guys tonight.
- Yeah, that's not my problem.
- What, oh wait.
- You know I'm not going back to bed.
- No no, yes you are, wife.
- No I'm not, husband.
- Yes you are. - No I'm not.
- Well you know you want to.
Come back here.
You know you want to.
- Oh you can't even lift me.
- Hey, Dr. Abel.
I'm sorry, I'm at work,
but I just needed to talk to you.
I don't know what to do right now.
- Jilly.
- It was like the second time,
and I thought I was using again.
- Maybe you should consider telling your parents.
- No.
No, I'm not gonna tell them yet.
- What about Paul?
- No, I'm not gonna, no.
- It's important that you remain on your medication.
- I know.
- The Buprenorphine that Dr. Ama prescribed
is very important.
Jilly, is everything okay with you?
- You sure this is the right place, ma'am?
- Mm hmm, positive.
- Okay.
Because you've been in my car for like 20 minutes.
I mean, it's your money.
But-- - Okay okay okay.
I'm getting out of the car now, alright?
Just wait here for me.
I'll call you when I'm ready to go.
- Ma'am, ma'am, no.
It doesn't work like that.
- What?
- You have to get somebody else.
You can't call me.
- Why would I get somebody else
if you're sitting right here?
- I mean, you can tip me to stay.
- Okay fine, do you take a credit card?
- Cash, cash is great.
- Okay cash, alright.
- Yeah.
- Here's some cash, I'll put it right there, okay?
- Yeah, yeah. - Alright.
Be right back.
- What can I get the lady?
- I'll have a Shirley Temple.
- I'm sorry, what?
- A Shirley Temple.
Make it two.
- Why didn't you tell me right away?
- Because I was scared.
And I'm sorry.
Everything happened so fast,
and I didn't really know what to do.
- I love you, Jilly.
You understand that?
- Yeah.
Paul, I--
I think I was using when I got pregnant.
What if I hurt the baby?
- What if you didn't?
Whatever you decide to do, we're doing it together.
- Okay.
Okay.
- You're sure you don't want me
to go on this camping trip with you.
- Yeah, positive.
This is something I gotta do with my mom and gram.
- Sounds crazy.
Hold up.
- What?
- Is that your mother?
- Oh my god, yeah, it is.
Come on, let's go get her.
Mom.
- Jilly.
Wow, what a coincidence.
- Yeah, what are you doing here, mom?
- I'm just out having a drink.
I could ask you the same question,
being in a bar under the circumstances.
- Just answer the question.
You're in my jacket.
Why are you in my jacket?
- I just put it on, that's all.
- Is dad here, too?
- No.
- Are you spying on me?
- Of course not.
Spying on you.
But since we're all here together,
how about we get a dance in?
- Well, I didn't think that you could.
- How do you think I got your father?
Come on, let's go.
- Okay.
Weird.
- Did you have a good swim?
- Yeah, yeah.
I had a lot of fun last night, Mrs. Mitchell.
- Fun, huh?
I just made it look that way.
Keep my daughter out of bars.
My daughter is in recovery,
in case you forgot.
I don't need her tempted.
- My bad.
It won't happen again.
But she didn't have a drop.
You coming in?
- No, no, that's okay.
I haven't been in the ocean in years.
You enjoy.
- You don't know what you're missing.
- Yeah, I think I do.
Stop, stop, stop that, honey.
You'll get my hair wet, and I'll get all nappy.
- God forbid, Miss Marple.
Look, I know that you were spying on me last night.
- Of course not.
And put some sunblock on.
You're getting too--
- What, too dark?
Hey.
- You know your grandmother and I put a premium
on skin care.
- Yeah, and staying as pale as possible.
But hey, I take after my daddy, so--
- Okay, that right there tells me
you've had too much sun.
- Mom, just ditch the hat.
And the sunblock, for a day.
Your freckles are so beautiful.
- Oh honey.
- You're starving to be sun-kissed.
Come on.
- No, I want you to go.
- Hi.
- Everything alright?
- You know Paul,
I know we got off to a really rocky start.
But I'm really glad you're here.
I mean it.
- Wow.
I appreciate that.
But I do have to say,
I haven't seen anyone bust down a robot
like you did last night.
- Stop it. - Ooh.
Mom, you did this kind of weird like pop and lock
kind of thing.
- You all are exaggerating.
- No, it was cute.
But you shouldn't do that, like ever.
Again, ever. - Okay, alright.
You all need to go back in the water.
Okay, bye.
In the water, enjoy.
- Hey Paul, can you pass me my camera?
My mom's in the water.
- Okay Bliss.
Good girl.
- Right?
- Good girl, are you gonna dismount, honey?
- Mm hmm.
- Take your time.
Good girl.
I'm so proud of you, honey.
- I'm so rusty.
- Come here.
I'm so proud of you.
Honey, she's beautiful.
It's okay.
So proud of you, honey.
Just like old times.
- Yeah.
It feels really good to be back in the saddle.
Baby steps, though.
Just like Dr. Ama said.
- Yes, and she was right.
- Can I ask you something?
- Of course, shoot.
- Well, everybody has that one thing
that they wish that they'd done in their life.
Did you ever take a big risk on something crazy?
- Crazy wasn't allowed in my mother's house.
You know your grandmother.
- So nothing.
- Well.
I mean.
Back in the day,
I dreamed of being a foreign correspondent.
I was a good writer, you know.
- Well I mean you probably still are,
so why don't you try again? - No.
That ship has sailed, honey.
I'd rather focus on what you wanna do now.
So how are you and Paul?
- We're good.
Yeah, it meant a lot to me
to see you both talking back at the house.
- Yeah.
I really admired how he stood up for you at the hospital.
Yeah.
Took me back.
- It took you back?
- Mm hmm.
Yeah, I just admired his strength, that's all.
- Did you ever date someone
that grandma didn't approve of?
- Oh.
Honey, mother and father didn't approve of anyone.
No one was ever good enough.
It was always status over love.
- Right.
So money.
- And I rebelled.
- You, a rebel?
Oh wait, don't tell me.
There is a black power Dashiki-wearing
lover in your past before daddy, right?
- Very funny.
- Well I'm serious, was there?
- Let's not go back that far.
- Well why not?
- Because, there are parts of my history
that I folded up and packed away a long time ago.
And a privileged childhood isn't all that,
that it's cracked up to be.
- Right, because things look really great on the outside,
but then on the inside, it's--
What about when you were pregnant with me?
Was that a happy time for you and daddy?
- Honey.
Me being pregnant with you
was the best thing that ever happened to me.
For once, I knew that I had done something right.
I wish you didn't have to go back
to Jamaica so soon.
- I couldn't be helped.
We are Jamaica's most important trading partner.
Three billion in investments.
- Uh huh.
Mm, okay.
I know.
- I would say, come with me,
but I know that's impossible.
- I'm afraid so.
- It would have been a positive shift between us, Jackie.
I can't help but feel it's connected somehow
to Jilly's recovery.
- They said our lives would change.
- Jilly's forced us to look at ourselves.
Not take each other for granted, or bury the past.
- But some things are better left buried, I think.
- Oh as in, as long as the ties that bind us together
are stronger than those that tear us apart.
- All will be well, yes.
I've gotta be honest.
This whole family therapy thing has unnerved me.
- Well it's supposed to.
Get us out of our comfort zone.
- Yeah, but I don't see digging up the past
helps Jilly in her recovery.
- A lot matters.
- I guess, I don't know.
You know, in our last session,
she actually accused our family of color-ism.
- And?
- And it's absurd.
I mean, have I ever made you feel uncomfortable?
- What, about being this sexy shade of chestnut?
- Stop.
- No not you, per se.
I guess you guys really did have a breakthrough.
- What does that mean?
- I mean, I know I wasn't your mother's first choice.
- Magnus, come on.
- No, she swore I was the end of her DNA connection
to some long-gone freckled Scottish slave-owner
who raped her African heritage.
- You know that that is not true.
- No, yes it is, yes it is.
Your mother chooses to romanticize
that chapter of her history.
I could still tell I'm resembling
about the end of her light skin blood line.
I think she was relieved when you told her
you couldn't have any more children.
- Magnus, that's a terrible thing to say,
and it's not true.
- Yes it is.
Jackie, you can't see it because you're you.
I know it's uncomfortable,
but it needs to be said.
You remember how your mother kept
checking Jilly's cuticles after she was born?
- Oh god, here we go.
Magnus, that was a million years ago.
Why are we talking about this?
- Because it's time we do.
Now I married you because I loved you then
as I love you now, unconditionally.
- I know.
- She still took after me.
- She did.
I'm so sorry.
- No, there's nothing to be sorry about.
- I love you.
- I know.
A brother like me learned
to never let ignorance impact his manhood
or his success.
Wait, Jilly told me that you both went riding?
- Oh, Magnus, it was so amazing
seeing her in that saddle again.
But on her terms, not ours.
- Right, right right.
Progress, not perfection, right?
- Right.
Where is she?
- Something about some errands.
- Oh.