[music] Somebody got married in this.
It’s the color of old teeth.
[music] Ew.
Don’t let it touch you.
Oops.
Oh my god, Brooke.
Oh, ma’am.
Let me I’ll fix it for you, ma’am.
No charge.
[music] Bless you, child.
Excuse me.
[music] You’re working for me, pin girl.
[music] Get back on your knees.
Yes, miss.
Good girl.
[music] Somebody get me another glass.
[music] Mrs.
Langston, you own half this street.
You don’t need [music] that coat.
That’s why I need it, Booker.
That coat’s older than this car.
My grandson marries Saturday.
[music] I want to see her when nobody important is watching.
And if she’s kind, then I’ll dance at that wedding.
And if she ain’t, then [music] my grandson needs to see it.
Want me to walk you in?
A poor widow walks.
Booker.
[music] Oh, Miss Peton, it’s a dream on you.
Excuse [music] me.
Does somebody here fix dresses?
Is that a grocery bag?
Ma’am, this isn’t a donation drop.
I can pay a few dollars.
Does she smell like mothballs?
Don’t get too close.
Brooke, my wedding dress.
I wanted somebody to look at the hymn.
Ma’am, may I see?
[music] It’s beautiful.
Who sold this?
I did by Lamplight in 1965.
It’s good lace, ma’am.
It just needs stitching.
Somebody got married in this.
It’s the color of old teeth.
Oops.
I’ll fix it for you, ma’am.
No charge.
Excuse me.
You’re working for me, pin girl.
Get back on your knees.
My ring.
Where’s my ring?
You had it on a minute ago.
Nobody’s been near me but the pin girl.
I didn’t take it, miss.
[music] She took it.
Search her.
Kendall, you were standing right here.
Tell them.
I saw her near your bag.
Empty your apron, [music] Simone.
You took it off for the gloves, miss.
Don’t you tell me where to look.
Well, here it is.
Whatever.
She still touched it.
Isaiah, finally, let’s go.
Car’s outside, babe.
Leave it with me, ma’am.
I’ll have it tomorrow.
Thank you, baby.
Simone, close the curtain, please.
Miss Petton just called.
Is the gown all right?
Either you go or her whole order goes.
I didn’t do anything.
That’s [music] not the point, sweetheart.
That girl’s father pays my rent.
Can I take the lady’s dress home?
Take it.
I’ll mail your last check.
Yes, [music] ma’am.
Well, ma’am, five minutes.
That’s all it took.
And the boy, stood there like a lamp.
You going to tell him he’s in love.
He [music] has to see it himself.
And that seamstress.
Find me that girl’s name, Booker.
We’ve got five days, Booker.
Ma’am, I was hoping you’d come.
Why are you sitting out here, child?
I don’t work there anymore.
[music] On account of me.
On account of me.
I chose.
[music] I fixed the hem.
You washed it, too.
That’s hand work, baby.
How much do I owe you?
Nothing.
[music] My mama never charged a widow.
Your mama raised you, right?
I just can’t talk back to people like her.
Folks see a thread and think it’s weak.
That little thread holds the whole coat together.
Call this tomorrow.
[music] They need a seamstress.
Tell them [music] Kora sent you.
Thank you, Miss Cora.
Miss Hayes, you’re expected.
An old lady named Kora sent me.
She mentioned you’d say that.
You’re from the boutique?
Yes, sir.
I’m sorry about yesterday.
I should have said something.
Yes, you should have.
You’re right.
I’m here to work.
Sir, let me [music] carry that.
The sewing room’s this way.
Who’s the lady that hired me?
My grandmother.
She never comes down.
Your tea, ma’am.
She came.
She came.
Now we watch.
Boy said sorry.
I heard it.
Sorry is a start, Booker.
Not a [music] finish.
Booker said you skipped breakfast.
Booker talks a lot for a quiet man.
He [music] likes you.
He doesn’t like anybody.
Keep that coffee away from my silk.
Where’d you learn to sew like that?
My mama Ruby, she had a little shop on Habsham Street.
Her machine had a brass plate with her name, Ruby.
A machine with a name.
I like that.
And you, Mr.
Langston?
What do you do?
I work for my grandmother’s company.
Mostly I sit in the back.
Everybody calls me the quiet one.
I hate it.
Quiet’s fine.
[music] Quiet when it matters.
Quiet when it matters isn’t.
Fair enough.
I’m working on it.
Your coffee is terrible, by the way.
[laughter] Well, look who got hired.
The pin girl in this house.
Mrs.
Langston hired me.
Miss [laughter] Mrs.
Langston hasn’t come downstairs once.
I’ve never even met her.
That’s crooked.
Take it out again.
Are you sewing with your feet?
No, miss.
With my hands.
Careful.
This dress costs more than your car.
It’s fine.
The hem looks fine.
Kendall, smell that?
It smells like a laundromat.
[music] That’s enough, Brooke.
Baby, I’m joking.
She knows that.
She works in this house.
Laugh at her again and stay home Saturday.
I’m fine.
I can still sew.
Close the door, honey.
Sit.
10,000.
Finish the dresses and disappear.
Disappear where, miss?
Anywhere far from Savannah before Saturday.
I was hired to sew till Saturday.
I’ll sew till Saturday.
Don’t be proud, honey.
It doesn’t suit you.
I don’t want your money.
Everybody wants my money.
Not me.
Fine, then I’ll do it cheaper.
Brooke, honey, I have something for you.
Something old.
Every Langston bride has worn it.
Oh, Denise, it’s beautiful.
My mother-in-law wore it in 1966.
[music] So did I.
Can I try it on now?
Saturday.
Honey, let me find the old photo.
Sweetie, go fetch the pearl pins now.
Yes, Miss right away.
Kendall, watch the door.
Brooke, what are you doing?
Something old.
Something borrowed.
You didn’t see anything.
Right.
Right.
I didn’t see anything.
Thank you, sweetie.
Perfect timing.
The brooch is gone.
Gone.
It was right there.
Denise, check the help.
Her bag.
The little side pocket.
Miss, I never touched it.
I’m sorry, Simone.
I have to look.
Look, I’ve got nothing to hide.
I opened this house to you.
Ma’am, I didn’t take it.
I swear.
First my ring, now this.
Kendall, you saw her by that chair.
She was [music] near it, I think.
That’s enough.
Call the police.
Pardon me, ma’am.
A message from upstairs.
Mrs.
Langston says no police in this house.
And Miss Hayes finishes the dresses.
She’s charging nobody [music] after this.
Nobody, ma’am.
Those were her words.
My father’s lawyers would have her in handcuffs by [music] supper.
Then it’s good this ain’t your father’s house, miss.
Please thank her for me, sir.
The brooch was in her bag.
Ma’am, I heard Booker every word.
The little side pocket like somebody knew where to look.
I didn’t see who put it there, Booker.
I only know who didn’t.
One word from you ends it, ma’am.
Not yet.
That boy still hasn’t seen a thing.
Hold on, child.
Just a little longer.
Simone, can I come in?
If you came for the brooch, it’s downstairs.
[music] I came with tea.
Booker’s recipe.
And I’m sorry.
Booker’s tea.
Then you really are sorry.
I saw what happened downstairs.
I didn’t say enough again.
This was mama’s.
She’d tap it on the table when I quit.
Mama taught me to sew.
She never taught me to f me to fight.
Then I’ll learn for both of us.
This tea is awful.
Don’t tell Booker.
He’s proud of it.
Hold it right here, gentle.
Little stitches.
Nobody sees them.
They hold everything.
Show me that one again.
[snorts] You work too late, baby.
So, this is the family business, Miss Peton.
We’re closed.
One table, one window, and that old thing.
The old lady from the boutique, she sleeps here now.
I came for my dress, young lady.
Sit down, Granny, before you break a hip.
This is what Isaiah feels sorry for.
Please don’t touch that.
Please go.
Enjoy the shop, pin girl.
I’m sorry.
That was my mama’s.
My job, my name.
Now mama’s machine.
I sewed collars in a mill 11 years.
The machine’s broke, baby.
Your hands ain’t I’m closing the shop.
Don’t you pack up yet, child.
There you are.
You skipped lunch.
Yesterday you said side pocket before anybody looked.
[music] Lucky guess.
[music] She never said one word back to you.
You’re choosing a seamstress over me.
There’s no wedding.
Look at my arm.
Isaiah, [music] your little seamstress attacked me.
Simone has never raised a hand to anybody.
[music] Marry me Saturday or she goes to jail.
You pick, baby.
Dinner’s at 8.
Evening, miss.
What can I do?
Somebody broke my mama’s sewing machine on purpose.
Brooke Peton, the bride at the Langston house.
The Peton girl witnessed an old lady name Kora.
I don’t know her last name.
She brought me an old dress to mend.
That’s all.
Then I can’t help you, miss.
I’m sorry about your mother’s machine.
Mama, I’m sorry.
You hemmed half this street on it.
Miss Hayes, may I come in?
You’re the driver from the big house.
Booker, ma’am.
Today I deliver from a friend.
She says your hands ain’t broke.
Who would do this for me?
Somebody who knows what a thread can hold.
And Miss Hayes, don’t close that shop.
Don’t close that shop.
To my daughter and the best deal I [music] ever closed.
Mrs.
Langston is taking supper upstairs.
She sends her love.
When do I finally meet the old lady with the checkbook?
[laughter] She never comes down.
Isaiah, smile.
It’s your engagement dinner.
Good evening.
Is that the help?
Not at [music] my table.
One minute, sir.
Then I’ll go.
Everything about me got said behind my back in this house.
This is a private dinner, young lady.
You were thrown out once, pin girl.
I pinned hems here.
I pressed seams.
That’s all.
I didn’t take the brooch.
And I didn’t touch you, Brooke.
An old lady was at my shop.
She saw everything.
Mr.
Langston, don’t marry anyone for my sake.
Isaiah, what does she mean?
You little liar.
Don’t you touch me.
She grabbed me.
Kendall, tell them I didn’t.
She pulled my hand.
You all [music] saw that she put hands on my daughter.
Call the sergeant.
He’s already on his way.
Daddy Isaiah, sit down.
We [music] have guests.
Simone Hayes, there’s a complaint against you, miss.
I didn’t touch her, sir.
I need you to come with me.
Wait, officer.
She never laid a hand on her.
Tell it at the station, sir.
Be at that altar tomorrow, baby.
I’ll walk, sir.
Hold on, child.
I’m coming.
Grandma, they arrested her.
I know, baby.
I watched.
Brook says Simone attacked her [music] at the shop.
The only witness is some old woman nobody can find.
The old woman by the door on Monday.
The one with the paper bag.
What about her?
[music] Me.
And in that girl’s shop, me again.
Your bride pushed her mama’s [music] machine off the table.
I [music] stood there.
You were the widow all week.
I wanted to see her when nobody important was watching.
She showed me a scratch.
She said, “Marry her or Simone goes to jail.”
And you went quiet again.
Quiet is how that child ended up in a sale.
You stood there like a lamp, child.
Now you’re going to stand up.
I’m calling off the wedding right now.
No, [music] tomorrow you stand where a groom stands.
Leave the talking to me.
I need my old coat.
Where are you going, Grandma?
To the station, baby.
A witness [music] ought to show up.
Can I help you, ma’am?
I’m here about Simone Hayes.
Miss Cora, I saw everything.
[music] The machine, the brooch, the girl.
And you are, ma’am?
Cora [music] Langston.
You’re Mrs.
Langston?
I am, baby.
Miss Hayes, you’re free to go.
Ma’am, I’ll need a word with Miss Peton.
Noon tomorrow, Sergeant.
She’ll be the one in white.
You were in that house the whole time.
I watched them search your bag and I stayed upstairs.
Why let me go through all of it?
[music] I wanted to know who was marrying into my house.
I can’t put that machine back, baby.
But I can stand up.
Why me?
I only fixed a dress.
Folks walked past me all my life.
You knelt down and picked it up.
Sit by me tomorrow.
Front row.
[music] I don’t want to watch anybody shamed, ma’am.
Then don’t watch her.
Let them look at you.
Can I sit?
It’s a public bench.
Mr.
Langston, why didn’t you tell me?
I didn’t know.
I’m learning a lot this week.
You stood there at the boutique and at [music] dinner.
I know.
I’m done standing [music] there.
My mama said quiet men are wise or scared.
I was scared.
Tomorrow I’ll be wise.
Your grandmother told me to sit in the front.
Sit in the front row.
Good.
Then I’ll know where to look.
Car is ready.
Mrs.
Langston, [music] is my hat straight, Booker?
Straight as a Sunday sermon, ma’am.
Rags off.
Rags off.
11 years I sewed collars in a mill.
Today I wear what those hands earned.
Want me to bring the old coat just in case?
Hang it on the hook.
It did its work.
Miss Hayes is already seated front row like you asked.
Then let’s [music] not keep that child waiting.
Chin up, sugar.
Half a Savannah came.
Where’s the old lady?
Those chairs are empty.
She’ll come down when the [music] music starts.
She should be in jail.
What is she doing here?
She’s my grandmother’s [music] guest.
Your grandmother has never even met her.
You’d be surprised what my grandmother has seen.
Isaiah, what is going on?
Somebody get that girl out of the front row.
[laughter] Nobody touches her chair.
Fine.
Let her watch me get [music] married.
Slow and steady, ma’am.
Let them look.
Who is that?
That’s Mrs.
[music] Langston.
Ma’am, it’s you.
No, that’s the widow from the boutique.
So, that’s the old lady with the checkbook.
I told you.
Front row.
You look like a queen, ma’am.
Just an old [music] seamstress in better shoes.
[snorts] What are you doing at my wedding?
Grandma, let me stop this right now.
She lied in front of a full room.
She’ll hear the truth in [music] front of a full garden.
Yes, ma’am.
Most of you know me.
Some of you only know my checks.
Monday, I walked into a boutique in a widow’s coat.
This young lady poured champagne on my wedding dress.
[laughter] She’s confused, Daddy.
She’s an old woman.
Then she called the child who knelt to help me pen pen girl.
Then she offered that girl $10,000 to disappear.
Mamakora, the brooch came out of her bag.
It went into that bag by another hand.
Everybody saw it in her bag.
Friday, this bride pushed Ruby’s machine off the table.
Sit down, Granny, before you break a hip.
Remember this is slander.
Pure slander.
She’s lying.
Kendall, tell them.
Kendall, say what you saw.
Kendall, you were standing right there.
Tell them.
I held her train.
I held her purse.
And I held my tongue all week.
Kendall, don’t you dare.
I watched you put it there, Brooke.
The brooch, [music] and you broke her machine.
Lord have mercy.
I said I saw you near her bag.
I lied.
Thank you for saying it.
Now, you little traitor.
After everything I gave you.
You gave me orders, Brooke.
I’m done taking them.
Now you hold on, ma’am.
Do you know what I’m worth?
My lawyers.
[music] I wore a ragged coat all week.
I’m wearing pearls today.
Your [music] money didn’t scare me in either one.
I own half the warehouses on that river.
And my company holds the lease on most of them.
Mrs.
Langston noon like you said.
Right on time, Sergeant.
Miss Peton, about the complaint you signed.
Come with me, please.
Daddy, do something.
Daddy, look at me.
Don’t say another word, Brooke.
[music] Not one.
You’ll regret this, Isaiah.
Here, [music] have your grandmother Hemmet.
I stood there like a lamp once.
Never again.
[music] This way, miss.
Nice and easy.
That pin girl sewed the dress you’re standing in.
Why is everybody staring at me?
That’s my little girl.
Simone, may I have [music] a word?
I called the police on the wrong girl.
I’m sorry.
Thank you, ma’am.
That means a lot.
Would you make me a dress as a customer?
Shop opens at 9:00.
Ma’am, front row suits you.
You enjoyed that, didn’t you, ma’am?
Every single minute.
Booker.
Booker, this tea tastes like [music] dish water.
Same as last Saturday.
Ma’am, and the Saturday before that, I’ll make the next pot, Mr.
Booker.
Afternoon.
[music] I popped another button.
That’s your fourth this month, Mr.
Langston.
I’m a hard man on buttons.
Check the jar.
There’s one in there for you.
Isaiah, this isn’t a button.
Simone Hayes, will you marry the quiet one?
Yes.
A whole year.
That boy is slow as his grandmother.
[laughter] Slow and sure, ma’am.
Like good stitches.
I’ll learn to make decent tea, too.
Come on in, ma’am.
It’s warm in here.
I can’t pay much, child.
The sleeves torn.
Sit down, ma’am.
Let me see it.
Look at that, Booker.
I see it, ma’am.
My mama never charged a widow.
Folks see a thread and think it’s weak.
That little thread holds the whole coat together.
