
American Violet
~"Abu Essa"~
Come on, sleepy head.
You've got 15 minutes.
Wake up, wake up, wake up.
I'm not hearing you.
[Children speaking indistinctly]
[Gun cocks]
- Good morning, gentlemen.
- Morning.
- There you go.
Eat it all up.
- Mama, Sharonda
wants peanut butter.
- You finish your cereal?
Okay, go ahead.
You talkin'
for your sister.
Sharonda got a mouth.
All right.
Crash!
Ooh.
Oh, come on, baby.
It's all right.
Oh, calm your nerves, baby.
It ain't nothing
but an old jar.
- All right, guys,
let's mount up.
Let's look sharp and be safe,
okay?
- Good morning, Sheriff.
How are you?
- Morning, Commander.
- Morning, boss.
- How you doing?
- Ready to rock.
- Yeah.
Your men here?
- They're right here,
ready to go.
- Good, I got 28 names
on this list.
- Pick it up, pick it up.
We got to get
to grandma's house.
Running late.
Come on.
Come on now.
Fix your sister's shirt.
Now, watch yourself.
Where you at, Sherice?
- Hey, Dee.
- Hey, Gladys.
Come on.
Come on.
Go to grandma.
Bye, y'all.
- Bye.
I love you, Mommy.
- Bye, baby.
- Good morning, glories.
Come on.
- Hey, Mama.
- Hey, girl.
Come on up here.
Grandma
got y'all some grits.
- All right,
you guys behave in there.
- The core campaign is counting
especially those
on environmental fronts,
to warn their constituencies
Bush could win.
- Another apparently warm day
for November,
with temperatures topping out
in the mid 60s.
Traffic on the southbound 84
continues to be slow
due to roadwork near exits.
[Horn blares]
- George W. Bush hammers
on his charge that Al Gore-
- Morning, Ben.
Some coffee?
- Please.
Thanks, Dee.
- As a uniter in chief.
- He scares the elderly
for political gain.
- Good morning.
How you doing now?
Want some coffee?
- Yes, please.
- Did you get your hair done?
- Sure did.
- It looks good.
We get a hair show
this weekend.
Texas championship,
grand prize:
$5,000.- You going
with Lavosha again?
- Mm-hmm.
We've been
practicing for months.
I'm hoping to win enough
to start up at junior college.
- Oh, good luck
to you, honey.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
I'll be right back.
[Helicopter blades whirring]
- Mobile units
on the way.
- Roger that.
- Grandma,
can I go see Andres?
- Mm-hmm.
Sherice,
take him my good bowl there.
Hold it with both hands.
My grandma gave me that
from Alabama.
- Bye-bye, Grandma.
- Bye-bye.
- All units in position.
- Go on your command.
- Go, go, go.
- Go, come on,
everyone!
Go!
- On your knees!
- On your knees!
[People yelling]
- Police!
Warrant!
On the ground!
- Stay here.
No, stay here.
Sherice!
Sherice!
Come here, girl!
[Bowl shatters]
[Screaming]
Sherice, baby,
it's okay.
Come here.
- We got one
jumping the east fence.
- Roger that.
- Huh!
[People struggling]
- Hold up!
- Stay right here.
[Helicopter blades whirring]
Ah!
the closing argument.
The vice president laid out
what he believes
is the best case
for a Gore presidency.
- Yo, Dee,
can I get a refill?
- Sure thing, Julie.
Don't need
anything else?
- No.
- Are you Dee Roberts?
Dee Roberts?
- Excuse me.
What did I do?
Will you tell me
what I did?
- What's going on?
- What did I do?
You got to tell me.
- Dee?
- I think-I think
it's my parking tickets.
I'm sorry, Doreen.
- Parking tickets?
This is ridiculous.
I'll pay
the parking tickets.
- Just back away, ma'am.
- I said,
"I'll pay the parking tickets."
- I said,
"Step away, ma'am."
[Siren wails]
[Radio chatter]
- We got Roberts,
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