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00:00I gave you at least three opportunities to come back, but you still couldn't capitalize.
00:05I was just taking it easy on you, Granddad.
00:08Uh, that's not what the score sheet said.
00:10And it didn't help that my phone kept blowing up.
00:13We're still trying to push this education bill, but we're losing votes one rep at a time.
00:18If you needed to work, we didn't have to keep our squash date.
00:23No.
00:24Time with you is important.
00:25And plus, I've been so preoccupied with putting my family back together, I needed to blow off some steam.
00:32I'm glad to hear that things with Smitty and the kids are back on track.
00:37However, it's not just been your squash game that has suffered.
00:41What do you mean?
00:42Your political career, Martin.
00:45I'm afraid if you don't get your head back in the game and fast, the midterms are going to whip your butt worse than I just did on that court.
00:55Every time I look up, you're stuffing your face.
00:58I'm still grounded.
01:00No phone, no laptop, no life.
01:03This is my entertainment.
01:05Well, if you're bored, tonight you can join Tyrell and me.
01:10My contacts for the influencer piece that gave me two virtual tickets to that big gaming stream thing.
01:16Isn't Mr. Beast in that?
01:18Yeah, and I Show Speed, we got Kai Sennett.
01:22It's Kai Sennett, Dad.
01:23Okay, maybe I'm not down with the Twitchers or whatever you call them, but I was thinking maybe you could catch me up and we could get pizza.
01:32What do you say?
01:33Sounds cool.
01:34But I planned on re-watching anime.
01:38Can't you do that anytime?
01:39He and Jessica are syncing up to stream together.
01:43They're going to FaceTime each other and see each other's reactions.
01:48Eavesdrop much?
01:49You seriously need a hobby.
01:51It's fine.
01:51We are going to have plenty of family time during Thanksgiving.
01:56About that.
01:59I was hoping to see if Jessica could join us for Thanksgiving.
02:03Well, isn't she going to want to spend it with her own family?
02:06That's just it.
02:07Her parents are attending this bougie brunch at Hay Adams with these corporate types.
02:12Jessica's going to be the only one out of the 30.
02:15Okay.
02:16Yeah, let me ask your pop.
02:19So that's a no?
02:20Well, it's called co-parenting for a reason.
02:24Look, we are both happy that you found somebody that you enjoy spending time with.
02:29Then what's the problem?
02:30You're young.
02:32This relationship is new.
02:33I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious too quickly.
02:36In other words, dad's worried that you two will be sharing more than just cranberry sauce.
02:43Right, dad?
02:44I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:44I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:45I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:46I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:47I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:48I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:49I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:50I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:51I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:52I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:53I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:54I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:55I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:56I just want to make sure you're not getting too serious.
02:57how is your speech coming along the committee's been asking for a preview i have all my talking
03:20points prepared but you know me brother always said i was the kind of child who would redecorate
03:26my birthday cake if she let me that sounds about right what are you envisioning oh it might be a
03:32little too ambitious for the pre-event ambitious is the baseline okay then i would like to add a
03:41qr code that links to mental health services hotlines all of that sort of stuff i was going to
03:47ask samantha and tyrell to help and then i remembered samantha's barred from everything
03:51tech and how hard it is to pry mr tyrell away from his new girlfriend without a crowbar
03:55you know i'm happy to help oh i don't want to overload you laura you are already doing so
04:00much to help with winterfest and thanksgiving's coming up you deserve a break too that's not a
04:05problem i can do it oh speaking of your mother she just walked in looking regal as ever would you like
04:13to say hi actually i have to go tell mother i will call her back you got a minute was that my daughter
04:23yes ma'am she actually wants me to help her with some presentation stuff she wants to do a slideshow
04:30and i know we were supposed to tackle these invoices but are you okay if i get started on
04:34her presentation first of course nicole's segment sets the tone for the entire evening and
04:41these bills aren't going anywhere thanks for being so accommodating oh no laura thank you
04:46we are so fortunate you took an interest in winterfest and expanded your duties to help us
04:51out this year it's been fun i better get going all right laura we really do have to stop meeting
04:59like this people are going to think that i'm stopping
05:03you got a minute barely um if you have forgotten and really how could anyone with all the holiday
05:17displays screaming at us from every corner thanksgiving is coming up and i am swamped
05:23trying to help my mother with winterfest i have always admired how you managed to juggle your family
05:28and philanthropic commitments with a full patient roster you make magic look routine give mona and
05:35laura the kudos for that if it wasn't for them i would probably be prescribing medication to my
05:40potted plants and trying to water my patients you don't give yourself enough credit you truly are an
05:46incredible woman carlton landed on thick sorry i can't help myself it's fine just don't let it happen
05:57again i'm assuming you didn't just come by to witness me drowning in paperwork you could do me the honor
06:05of letting me escort you to winterfest
06:10it's okay sweetie oh i don't bite not hard anyway
06:15anita you saved me a trip
06:24i was going to grave a drive to your state to deliver these personally that was until i saw titus out in
06:33the parking lot well don't trouble yourself with social niceties like waiting to be invited don't mind if i do
06:40here you go the winterfest invites hand addressed as promised what was that with laura what oh that i
06:51that was just a friendly greeting between acquaintances i know a performance when i see one you know to be
06:58honest i just don't know why that girl jumps out of her skin every time we cross paths maybe i can chalk it up to
07:05those pesky rumors that i tried to hurt her as if i would ever
07:14i want you to listen to me very carefully because i don't repeat myself
07:19nicole thinks of laura's family which means she's family to me
07:23do not trifle with her again oh anita
07:26the last thing anyone would accuse me of being is trifling
07:36just because samantha tried hooking up with nathan in our living room doesn't mean i'm that stupid
07:40wow so now i'm stupid you're tasting guys is nathan is trash can we literally talk about anything else
07:47like what your boring political podcasts the fairness of my punishment how annoying you've
07:54been lately you're annoying okay what is a topic that is neutral and has literally zero drama potential
08:02oh what about colleges by the looks of things i will be applying when i'm in a nursing home
08:08how about you rumeo yeah how did your conversation with isaiah go did he give you the inside scoop on
08:14banneker i guess so don't sound too enthusiastic don't get me wrong banneker is one of the top
08:21hbcus in the country and you've been talking about the robotics program since freshman year
08:26they're one of my top picks i i just want to keep my options open what other colleges are you thinking
08:32about i'm seriously considering ucla tell me how you really feel
08:40sometimes a man needs less comfort and more clarity it's november you've got less than a year until
08:51re-election and that clock is ticking louder than i think you seem to realize i'm well aware my team
09:00already has a strategy in place i'm not questioning your staff's preparation i'm questioning yours you seem
09:08to be going through the motions you think i'm going soft you were a storm once but lately you're more
09:18like the calm that follows it it's funny that you mention storms do you remember the summer of 2005
09:26do i that was a nightmare but weren't you too young for that to even register
09:32actually i remember it vividly watching the national news with mom and dad about the aftermath
09:39of hurricane katrina those images haunted me grandmothers stranded on rooftops lives floating
09:47down the streets where houses were but we were here in fairmont crest with well manicured lawns and
09:54security gates and it was only a few states away where people were suffering and dying you came to my study
10:05and asked what were we doing to help and you said not enough that it never be enough but we had to
10:13continue helping to make it better not much of an answer it stuck with me along with something else you
10:21gave me that day clarity i didn't get into politics just to ride the dupree name i wanted to make sure
10:30that the most vulnerable weren't left behind when the waters rise literally and figuratively now that's
10:38the firebrand we need back in this race the question is where'd he go
10:51i thought i made it clear that i wasn't ready to date you or anyone else so soon after my divorce
10:57this isn't about me not taking no for an answer then what is it about
11:01our friendship friendship we are still friends right thank you for addressing the envelopes the
11:13calligraphy is adequate oh i knew you would love it my seventh grade teacher once told me that
11:21my penmanship had extraordinary charisma with untapped genius guess it runs in the family
11:29well don't let me keep you i'm sure you must be extremely busy with all of your various projects
11:36no it actually felt good to be useful again especially since i haven't been working my schedule's been wide
11:44open thanks to your generosity don't mention it oh but i must that trust that you set up for my biological
11:54mother's heirs oh that has given me such improvement in the station of my life as well as eva's you have
12:06given my daughter something that i never could financial security you know you really truly are like our fairy godmother
12:19so what do you want me to tackle next where is this coming from ucla is a good school dad sure but you've
12:30been talking about banneker since middle school i know you've been looking at other schools but banneker
12:35was always the end game or so i thought banneker's still one of them how can it not be growing up the
12:44fam made it sound like it was oconda just with homework all those stories from grandma nicole and
12:49grandpa ted about how hpcus were like a second family and in california silicon valley is right there
12:56i can get connections to tech internships that would be hard to get here in dc oh please
13:01it's the internships that are pulling you out west and not because that's where jessica's planning to
13:08go why are you such a big mouth samantha sweetheart can you please give your brother and i the room sure
13:16i will just take this and go continue serving my sentence upstairs
13:22you pursued your congressional seat to change the system somewhere along the way the system changed
13:35you now i spend more time proofreading amendments and subcommittees than doing anything that touches
13:42real people's lives well the business of change is a messy one after decades i can count my true victories
13:51on one hand and half of those came with compromises that still keep me up at night
14:00the machine is designed to grind down the best of us to turn idealists into pragmatists pragmatists
14:10into cynics but do you think john lewis didn't wake up some mornings and want to quit
14:17it you think shirley chisholm didn't sit alone and wonder is it worth it and you for that matter
14:26but now that i know how the game is played my second term would make my first look like child's play
14:33we just have to make sure you have a second term our district's been a safe seat for a generation
14:39no one on the other side can touch me who said the threat could come from the other side
14:47you think i could face a primary challenge
14:50i don't think so martin i know so
15:00thank you for your generous offer leslie but i won't be needing any more help from you
15:05my daughters have taken the reins and laura has winterfest well in hand my husband has even carved
15:10out time to pitch in wow imagine that a man like senator dupree with so much on his plate
15:18still finds the time to have his wife's back such loyalty is inspiring especially with the powerful men
15:27these days who have such wandering attention spans well winterfest is as important to vernon as it is to me
15:36it's a family affair affair being the operative word what does that mean oh i i meant that i've heard
15:46that winterfest is quite the affair to experience and i am simply honored to have played such a
15:54modest uh supporting role in yet another triumph for the incomparable dupree's oh apologies oh it's the
16:08hospital um hello yes this is she okay thank you thank you i i i am on the way
16:19hey hey i hate to cut this short what a shame we were having such a good time i know but but the
16:28doctor uh he's overseeing the clinical trial for peaches the woman who raised you yes yes um he's
16:38wanting me to come in for an update you know she's in the hospital no i didn't know please tell her i'll
16:45hold a good thought thank you anita okay well uh oh i still am going to stop by later because
16:55i do have some ideas that i want to run by you for winterfest that won't be necessary i insist because
17:01i want to be of service of course we are still friends why wouldn't we be i know that i came in hot
17:17rushing things when your heart was still healing and timing has never really been my strong suit
17:23so if that cost me the chance to be with you pushing for something more i would regret it but
17:31accept it what i won't accept is knowing that i've wrecked the friendship that we've built over so many
17:36years do you remember all the good times we had at those winterfest after parties like when you started
17:44that ridiculous line dance your father jumped in like he was auditioning for soul train poor anita
17:53could barely catch her breath from laughing watching him cut loose and danny danny trying
17:57that viral dance that chelsea taught her in six inch louboutins oh that poor caterer she nearly took
18:04him out with that fan kick the hors d'oeuvres went flying i missed this so have i i'm hearing from
18:18national committee insiders that you're on track to face a serious primary challenger how do we know
18:26this is not just rumors rumors don't book war rooms or hire pollsters this has been brewing for
18:33several weeks maybe longer i must have pissed off someone really high this time or they were playing chess
18:42from the start keep you busy with subcommittees let you drown in red tape then come election year
18:52claim you broke all your promises but the why doesn't matter now now now we need to ensure your
19:01political career doesn't crash and burn after the first term yes my focus has been divided even this
19:08education bill is toothless truth is bureaucracy and minutia are weighing me down take the holiday do some
19:20soul searching figure out the politician you want to be then try to tap back into that young congressman
19:29with fire in his belly understood good and one more thing i'm afraid to ask
19:41your first campaign you were underestimated they won't make that mistake again
19:49it could get ugly you need to make sure your family is ready for it
19:54just because not the only reason why i'm considering ucla but it's the main reason
20:01can we not do this right now well i haven't even started saying anything yet
20:08yeah but i already know the speech education is the foundation for your future four years that shape the
20:14next 40. be smart think long term and don't throw it away for a girl
20:20so maybe the problem isn't me saying it maybe it's you knowing that it's true
20:25but jessica's not just some girl she gets me i don't have to be the charity case or the chess geek
20:32i don't have to code switch or be a different version of myself she sees me go on we kept
20:40trending places in ap physics i started helping her she started helping me too jessica stayed with
20:45me on facetime until 3am quizzing me on formulas and when i start overthinking she'll be like tyrell your
20:52brain's doing that thing again she calms me down and she noticed me spiraling before i even do
20:59well it sounds like you two have something special it is jessica's brilliant and driven
21:08but still down to earth but none of that matters if she's attending ucla and dumping me for a cali guy
21:16you really care about her don't you but i just don't want to lose her
21:29thank you for being bold enough to speak your truth about wanting to preserve our friendship
21:33i know that couldn't have been easy especially given how long you've carried those feelings
21:41does that mean you'll attend winterfest with me i promise not to embarrass you with my dancing
21:46too much you are persistent i'm a big believer in manifestation and right now i am manifesting you
21:54on my arm at your family's annual soiree and after everything you've been through
21:59you deserve a night where someone is thinking about your happiness for a change okay smooth talker
22:06you wore me down yes i will let you escort me as my friend i need that to be clear that is more than
22:16enough for me for now you're always at math can you crunch some numbers for me all right hit me
22:29okay when you and your sister were at the foster home what are the odds that you would have ended
22:34up here in this life pretty slim and what are the odds that a black legislator from the almighty dupree
22:43family with all their secrets would fall head over heels for a white reporter who asks way too many
22:49questions even slimmer like drake winning a grammy for bluegrass love aware yeah but it happened
22:59not because it was easy or because it made sense but because we chose it and we kept choosing it
23:06even when it was hard so what you're saying is if jessica not real benneker versus ucla
23:16won't break us exactly something's real it doesn't die when it's tested
23:22and if it doesn't survive then maybe it's because it wasn't meant to and we have these awesome
23:30inventions they're called airplanes and summer vacation yeah yeah i know all i'm saying is
23:42whatever you decide if it's banneker it's ucla if it's any one of those schools
23:47do it for you don't do it for me don't do it for jessica don't do it for your pop but
23:55do it for you because you are the one that's gonna have to live with that choice
24:01promise yeah i promise bring it in
24:07looks like you two are having a moment what'd i miss we were just talking about jessica
24:19yeah don't you have that binge thing with her that's her face to me right now okay later dance
24:25yeah is everything okay martin we need to talk hello my love well hello yourself how'd the match go
24:39with martin i beat the pants off him he thought he had me in the third set but he forgot you know i've
24:47been volleying with colleagues who are twice as fast and half as humble since the clinton administration
24:55well it sounds like your day is going better than mine did you discuss with him what you intended
25:00i lit a fire under him about the midterms he'll get his act together good
25:06i know we once wanted him to walk away from politics altogether but now that certain ghosts
25:15from his past are laid to rest it's time our grandson stepped fully into the role he was born into
25:22amen to that well speaking of ghosts i feel like i'm being haunted all day what's going on oh nothing
25:31i can't handle i'll have to call you back i'll be counting the minutes until you do bye
25:38mrs dupree eva you haven't seen my mother have you we're supposed to meet here for lunch she just left
25:45of course and without texting your calling typical she got a call from the doctor about peaches
25:53nothing your mother said suggested an emergency thank god i hope she didn't wear your nerves too thin
26:00while she was here well i would be lying if i said otherwise but you needn't trouble yourself
26:08i know exactly how to handle that mother of yours
26:15we really have to stop meeting like this what's the matter little girl cat got your tongue
26:23i am not a little girl i am a grown-ass woman and i'm telling you to get out of my damn way
26:34no no no no no no absolutely martin there is no version in reality where we sit back and let tyrell
26:40chase some girl across the damn country babe you need to breathe the last thing we need is you erupting
26:47when he comes downstairs all that'll do is drive him closer to la out of spite what is happening
26:52with our kids i mean samantha's out here rebranding herself as this lovesick groupie
26:59and now my steady grounded logic driven son is about to throw away banneker for a teen romance
27:06that might not even survive the first semester he's 17. he's straddling the line between boy and man
27:14you remember that age everything is life and death this decision will indeed impact his whole life
27:21but i'm not about to just sit back and watch him throw it away in pursuit of puppy love i'm not
27:26saying he should do this i'm just saying he could do a heck of a lot worse than ucla no banneker
27:33leads in their pioneering work from science data to cyber security babe you are preaching to the
27:38converted i'm just saying remember what happened last time that we tried to take control
27:45you mean when i met with tyrell's principal and created a mess for him at school yeah i was being
27:51nice i appreciate that as well as being the voice of reason as always what's our play here we wait
28:03we watch we guide and we cross that bridge if and when it happens quite the opposite advice i received from
28:13granddad he basically told me to batten down the hatches your squash game with vernon was that bad oh he
28:20handed me my ass twice once on the court and after he dropped a political bomb on me
28:27once again i'm sorry about my mom and not just for today honestly for all of it
28:40i hope you know that i will never forgive myself for helping mama go after nicole
28:44she didn't deserve any of that no she didn't but then you didn't deserve to have your head filled
28:52with lies either i still had free will i could have seen through mama's toxic narrative and done my
28:58own research but you did eventually once you got to know nicole and ted you realized that they
29:06weren't the villains in your mother's little soap opera as angry as i am at ted and leslie for what
29:13they did to my daughter i do recognize that you are just collateral damage in all of this i understand
29:22you and ted have managed to forge a relationship i'd wish i'd had him in my life from day one but
29:28better late than never it's definitely an upgrade for my stepdad who treated me like mama's baggage
29:34and when he got sick it drained us for every cent we had i'm thankful for what i had with alan
29:40just makes me appreciate ted so much more the little monster finally decided to roar
29:48i'm done being afraid of you from the moment you ran me off that road my life has been hell
29:56living in a prison in my mind while you've been walking around scot-free like nothing happened
30:00careful lola if you insist on spreading these creative narratives i'll have no choice but to file a suit
30:09of defamation that is so devastating even your grandchildren will be paying restitution
30:15i'm not lying you tried to kill me not once but twice the police may not have found the evidence
30:24but we both know the truth make no mistake if i wanted you dead worms would be feasting on your
30:35rotten flesh as we speak i don't leave loose ends
30:45i'm just kidding oh you should see your face
30:51listen i know everyone is casting me to be the big bad villainess but that couldn't be further from the
30:59truth okay so how about we make a truce
31:08what's going on here your lovely assistant and i were just comparing notes about how magical it's
31:14been helping your family with winterfest weren't we laura
31:19some chamomile with a little lavender to help settle your nerves
31:29i'm so sick of letting that woman get to me every time i think i'm past it she shows back up and i go
31:35right back to being terrified you should be proud of yourself laura standing up to leslie took a lot of
31:41courage it took everything i had the whole time my heart was pounding so hard i thought it might burst
31:48is there anything you can prescribe that can help me with this anxiety that leslie causes
31:52i don't think medication is what you need leslie is banking on keeping you destabilized
31:58but i can help you develop some coping skills to recognize her tactics and neutralize them
32:04please anything i'll start working on a plan in the meantime i do think there is something i can
32:11prescribe that might help what a lovely surprise is it absolutely i have been thinking about you quite
32:32a bit lately carlton oh may i call you carlton depends on why well i want us to become better
32:41acquainted i after all we do have so much in common and what exactly would that be for starters
32:50our desire to make sure that ted and nicole never find their way back you should have seen granddad's
32:59face when he told me about the primary challenger it was like he was preparing me for war
33:05yeah i have some friends who lateral from investigative research for newsrooms to opposition
33:11research for campaigns and martin they leave no stone unturned they dig through everything from
33:17financials to facebook likes this could get bad are you good with that with them dragging our entire
33:25lives out in the spotlight again you know when i married you i didn't just marry the man i married
33:33the mission that passion for public service that is one of the things that made me fall in love with
33:38you in the first place it's that passion that i need to find again and you will but i do
33:46need you to give me your word about something what this family needs to come first
33:56before the campaign before donors when tyrell graduates you're there when samantha has her cotillion
34:04you show up when you and i have our anniversary cameras or no cameras you're with me okay
34:13i promise family over politics always while i will never condone leslie's antics i can't help but feel
34:24a modicum of empathy for her i can't imagine what it would have been like to raise a child without a
34:31stable partner i thank god for my vernon every day now i know no one is perfect but
34:39that husband of mine comes pretty damn close you definitely are one of the lucky ones mrs dupree
34:52sharon
34:55looking forward to seeing you again soon
35:00our last time together was
35:02won the record books next on beyond the gates isaiah what can i say i'm a fool for love
35:17loyalty matters a lot to me tomas that's why i want to talk about your future at the firm
35:22hello there pretty lady you are a cop is that a problem you knew that your ex would be here and
35:29you brought me here anyway why would you do that where's your fire station under the same
35:46her fire station under the same road for now come in to you know what i can tell you is
35:51you're a great man and this is this is so what i want to be friends we are in the queue and
35:52you're in the business for just a few years las magehen now like so thank you
35:54it's an unipid of fact so much that i'll do that from enjoy it with an hour and so you're
35:57sure you're like oh yeah maybe i'll drive a bit back to youtube and i know what i am here
35:59this is and i make you think i do know what is your life you know it's so please
36:01always have a little bit of time
36:02and then you can make it kind of a bit of a little bit of time when it's going in here
36:03i'm not going to be like that i'm gonna go to the same area
36:05your own can't even go home and i'm going to go to sleep
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