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[HORN HONKING]
[GIGGLING]
WOMAN: Hey.
Come here. Hey.
What's going on?
Good. How you bee?
WOMAN: How's things up there in New Orleans?
I got something cooking.
Oh, yeah, and it ain't just in the oven.
[WOMAN LAUGHS]
Seems somebody's bought the Hall.
Sight unseen, cash on the barrelhead.
Young lawyer out of Boston, Declan Fitzpatrick.
Oscar said there was a favor you nee.
Oh, just a neighborly thing to do would be
to take the gentleman some Welcome to the Bayou
fresh-baked corn bread.
And my knees have been acting up something fierce.
This young lawyer wouldn't happen to be single, would he?
And when did that become a crime?
Grandma, why you wanna waste
a perfectly good loaf of corn bread
on a guy who'll be goe in ten minutes
like everybody who buys the Hall?
Oh, no, now this one's different.
This one's putting down roots.
Yeah, I'm bad with ro. Roots scare me.
Lena.
I got a look at the man on his way in,
and if I were 20 years younger
I'd be heading over there with the corn bread myself
and you wouldn't have a chance at him.
How do you know he doesn't belong to a country club,
and wear loafers with no socks?
Those boys in the Quarter
may have the right footwear, but...
none of them mean anything to you.
They all mean something to me.
What's the difference?
[SIGHS]
[♪♪♪♪♪♪]
So, what's the catc?
Why does there have to be a catch?
How can a man like tht possibly be singl?
Did he like the corn bread?
Oh, you know somethin.
He was engaged to a girl up in Boston.
But he broke it off.
When?
Three weeks ago today.
When were they gonna get married?
Well, what difference does that make?
Grandma.
Three weeks ago, Sunday.
He walked out on his fiancée two days before the wedding?
That would make him just your type, wouldn't it?
[PHONE RINGING]
WOMAN: Mama?
Mama, you in there? If you're in there, pick up.
Oh, what do you think she wants? Cash or bail?
Mama, that guy in Houston,
he turned out to be this total loser.
He got ahold of my credit card and he went hog-wild and I--
I can't get a cash advance or write a check.
I need-- I just--
I gotta get some cash, Mama.
Do not pick up until I'm out of here.
Come on, I know you're in there.
You ain't going nowhere, pick up.
Welcome, neighb.
I'm Odette Simo.
Pleased to meet you, Mrs. Simone. I'm--
Oh, I know who you ar.
I like daisie.
They got a cheerful f.
Um. That corn bread that you sent over never saw lunchtime.
I should have come by sooner to thank you.
As far north of the Mason-Dixn Line that you come from,
you think I expect manner?
Come on in. I got another bath crying to come out of the ove.
How do you get anything done
when you can just sit here all day long and look?
It's a good spot.
My family's been here 115 years.
You got your eye on my Lena?
[LAUGHING] I love to see a Yankee lose his tongue.
Manger, eat.
You wanna get somewhere with Lena, take her on a date.
A proper one.
And don't waste your time asking her if she wants to,
because you'll just get a saucy "no."
That girl's been hurt bad and hurt deep.
When your own mama barely takes the time to know you're alive,
you start to think that's what you deserve.
The other thing you came for.
I'll help you with, if you'll let me.
Excuse me?
The little trouble you're having
with the former residents of the Hall.
Let me see your hands.
Um. N-- No, I-I gotta tell you,
I'm a pretty reality-bad kind of guy.
Humor an old lady.
Tell me where ones and I'd be happy .
Come on, now. Let me see.
All right. Whew!
You got a strong hand, Declan.
Strong enough that you changed your fate.
Took yourself a new road.
You have strong ties to Manet Hall.
You're not alone in there.
One force won't stop at anything to get you out.
But there's another one
pushing you right back in.
Telling you a story.
You better listen to it.
Most of all, the parts you don't wanna hear.
Because if the story doesn't change
this time,
you all stay stuck.
Time will stand still.
Watch doesn't tick.
Watch? What? What watch?
Everything keeps going around in a circle
to the same dark end.
How could Abigail leave her baby, my grandma, behind?
How could Lucian take his own life
knowing his child needed ?
Shine the light,
Declan.
Everything you're trying to do here
it will all come to dust
if you don't make it right.
Make what right?
What are you talking about?
What kind of game are you playing h?
Is this how you got the other owners to run a?
With this nonsense?
Why do you think you were called here,
Mr. Fitzpatrick?
To open a legal clinic.
To help people.
Plenty of people need hp
in plenty of places.
Why are you here?
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
DECLAN: Was it something I di?
Did-- Did I come n too strong?
Oh, she likes strong.
Everything seemed so grt last night.
Did something happen to hr this morning?
Many things have happened.
Just not necessarily this morning.
In fact, not recently at all.
Would you like to see my picture album?
Yeah?
Yeah. All right.
Always made us feel kind of special,
knowing our granny was born in the big house.
Nobody in the bayou
had a family album like we did.
Now.
That...
was my great-great-grandma.
A beauty, isn't she?
Josephi.
And over here is my gt grandpa's brother, Juli.
And this...
is my great-grandpa, Lucian,
and my great-grandma, Abigail.
What the hell is this?
It's my photo album.
d pt
All right.
I'm surprised there's a spirit left to scare away.
Oh, they're not for h.
Oh, look at that pretty blue one.
If these are for a certain neighbor of yours,
have a nice time hanging bottles in his trees.
Well, don't you have wedding business up there anywa?
I'm not interested in Declan.
Well, it seems to, night before last
somebody spent all night not being interested in Decla.
Grandma.
I know. I know your philosoph.
Walk away so they don't walk away fir.
And I know you come by it honestly.
But the end of the story
isn't written until it's written, ang.
Look around you.
At what?
Got a whole city coming back up.
Now, even where Katria hit the worst,
getting rebuilt better than before.
You seen the Ninth Ward lately?
It's all a mar of time.
And faith.
Yeah, faith.
Otherwise known as trusting in things
that have never shown themselves worthy of trust.
Another storm hasn't .
Just luck.
All right. All ri.
Tell me you really don't like h,
or tell me his coloe makes you gag,
or that his joks aren't funny.
And I'll let you out that door.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm okay. I'm okay.
Yeah?
Well, were you seeing something, boy?
No, I-- I wasn't seeing. It was more like, uh...
More like like-- Like what?
Like, uh... Uh.
No, no, no. It-- No, it--
No, it's-- It's too crazy.
If anything was too cy for this place,
I never heard of it.
Like I was remembering them. Okay? Like I was there. I...
I smelled the rose in Abigail's hand.
She was pregn.
There was...
a willow tree. Right ther. There was a willow tr.
Well, cut down 55 years ago
after Hurricane Hazel split it in two.
You think, um...
we got ourselves a little reincarnation thing going here?
No. '-
I'm from Boston. Of course I don't think t.
You know, if you're Lucian Manet,
that makes you my great-grandpa.
Okay, so-- So now,
not only do I have ghosts in my hous,
but you're telling me that I used to be one of th?
Come on.
Really?
[♪♪♪♪♪♪]
Maybe that's why -
I thought I was home the first time I came her.
Maybe that's why we were so sure we had met each other.
Yes, well, but that
would only be true if she was seeing things too.
Hm?
Well, are you seeing things? Are you remembering thing?
Me? Remember a hundred years ago?
I'm lucky if I know whee I put my keys this mornin.
He loved her so much.
I-- I saw them reading poetry togeth,
and...
The look in his eyes
when he gave me the r, it was--
ODETTE: Excuse ?
What did you just say?
The look in his eyes when he gave me the r.
Well, now.
That might just explain everything.
I-It was a slp of the tong.
No, no.
Think, Declan.
What were you remembering?
Whose eyes were you seeing it through?
Um.
I-I looked up at .
I could feel my collar around my neck.
The rose when he put t in my hand.
Holy moly.
What? What? What does it mean? What is ?
Well.
It means if you really were here,
before,
you weren't Lucian.
You were Abigail.
So now I'm the reincarnation
of a Cajun housemaid?
Why not?
The soul doesn't know the difference.
Boys come back as girls, kings as paupers.
No, Odette. I-I've never been a woman.
I've never had woman parts.
Then whose collar was tickling your neck?
Now I see
why they're so angry.
Why they're reaching through the veil.
You're the bayou trash
that invaded their home.
Lena, I--
I-I-I know this is not the first time
that we've stood on this spot.
Abigail wasn't after Lucian's money.
She didn't want this hous.
She-- She begged him to take her away from her.
Sure, away from prying eyes.
What if somebody caught her sneaking off for a rendezvous
with the boy from the bayou?
No, Lena.
Not everyone walks ou.
What poem were they reading?
She walks in beauy
Like the night
Of cloudless climes And starry skies
[♪♪♪♪♪♪]
I gotta get set up in the house.
She took the rose.
I call that progress.
Finished setting up already?
Grandma, wh-what's wrong?
You're asking me?
[PANTING]
I saw.
[LILIBETH LAUGHIN]
Well, look at thi.
Three generats together again.
You must be Decla.
What is she doing in this house?
I have as much right to be in this house as you .
Some of us
are just more respectful of blood kin than others.
Is this coffee fresh, Mama?
ODETT: Yes, hone.
How could you take her in again?
She's my chil.
I'm your child.
You're gonna let her come back in and suck you dry again?
She has a disea.
She is a disease.
I told you I'm cl.
You know how you can tell a junkie is lying?
Her lips are moving.
You ought to shut-
I would think again about that.
LENA: Grandmama, I love you with all my heart.
but as long as she's in this house,
I won't be.
Let me know when she's gone.
and though I have all faith so that I can move mountains,
but have not love,
I am nothing.
[CROWD CHEERS]
MAN: All right.
ODETTE: Shine the light, Declan.
Shine the light.
It might take me a few moe lifetimes to get it right.
And I look forward to every one of them.