Saving Grace s03e16 Episode Script

Aare River on the Blasers' farm in Switzerland.
Tap.
Hotel InterContinental, Ouagadougou.
Northeast fire hydrant on 205th Street and Hollis, Queens.
You have an amazing palate.
Water, God's finest elixir.
Man's finest is beer.
I envy the places you've been.
I don't suppose you get out much with all them books to keep track of.
- What should we toast? - A new page in the book of Grace.
So this is more than a howdy-do? Is this today? - Whoo! - Whoo-hoo! Go get it, Ham! Whoo-hoo! I love when the rodeo comes to town! - It's like cowboy Christmas.
- I know.
- Bucking bulls, bronc riding.
- Loose men in tight jeans.
Whoo! Bobby! You're not kind to the rodeo.
I hate to see an animal mistreated, but I do go to the cowboy film festival.
Great to see those old movie stars up on the big screen.
Hey! We got stars right here.
Ride it, Ham! Reminds me of Steve McQueen in Junior Bonner.
Uh, more like Gene Wilder in, uh, Stir Crazy.
What? It's a compliment.
So did you talk to Captain Perry about Clay getting back into the Explorers? No.
Clay Clay made a choice not to be an Explorer when he interfered with an investigation.
So he made his bed, he's gotta lie in it? Whole time he was in it, you wanted him out.
Thought you'd be happy.
Oh! A 15-year-old with spare time on his hands can get in a lot of trouble.
I need to talk to him about something.
You too.
Can you come by tomorrow night? - What'd he do now? - No, it's about me, not him.
Whoo! Ho, ho, ho! Ride it, Ham! Are you okay? Say something! Ham! - Remember drinking root beers? - Sitting on the Mosebys' fence.
Watching Kresta practice barrel racing.
- God, I love the rodeo! - Me too.
You love the cowboys.
Ropers have great hands, but bull riders use those hips.
Earl exposed himself to me.
Come again? Earl showed me his wings.
When you were taking Neely to rehab, I saw him through your bathroom window.
I didn't know what to make of it.
Maybe he didn't know you were there.
I think it's some kind of sign.
Sign I need to put up curtains.
- Chuck Lovelace is married.
- I know.
God bless you, Angel Cop.
Who's gonna be the next cowboy to ride the bull? Jesus? His name is Jesus! I think it's pronounced Jesús.
It's another sign.
You my cowboy angel? Howdy, ma'am.
#So pretty and, oh, so bold # # Got a heart full of gold on a Ionely road # - # She said, "I don't even think that God can save me"# - # Save me # # Am I gaining ground Am I losing face # # Have I lost and found my saving grace # # Thankful for the gift my angels gave me ## These public appearances are getting more frequent.
Well, since our relationship's out in the open now, I can see you more often.
- You move them or just me? - Just them.
Since I know they're gone, they know I'm gone? - Nope.
- So what up, Earl? You giving me straight answers? You showed Rhetta your wings, you stop time.
Yeah, well, time's one of them things y'all come up with.
- Don't really mean much to him.
- So why do it? What does this mean? Means I think you can handle it, Grace, and a lot more.
What about flashing Rhetta? Well, her too.
Plus, I just wanted to enjoy the ride.
Come on, Earl.
Giddyup.
Get along, little dogie.
Let's go.
Girl, the sound of your laughter makes my heart race.
That a girl.
Keep that hand up.
Six, seven, eight! There you go.
I gotta get that.
No, you don't.
I really do.
It's my wife.
You mind if I call her back? Whoo.
Go ahead.
We're done here.
I should've turned my damn phone off, huh? Yeah.
Shit.
Well, better late than never.
You gotta go.
Well, now, you don't seem real sure about that.
I, uh, made a promise to my best friend.
I've known her all my life.
Said I wouldn't sleep with married men.
And I gotta I think l-I, uh, gotta keep it.
You "think.
" I tell you what.
Let me make it up to you.
I gotta work a prison rodeo tomorrow, but I'll be back Monday.
And I, uh I got this great little hideaway.
Mmm.
It's called the, uh The Oakflower Inn.
And I will meet you there Monday.
You don't have to do a thing.
You just put on that T-shirt and just show up.
So did you promise your best friend anything about kissing married men? Hmm? Hoo! Okay.
Hey, leave me a message.
Thanks.
Grace, you hear about the kid Stoops signed from Alabama? Mmm! Roll, Sooners, roll! Call me.
Shit! Call me.
This is huge! We got a front line again! Did you read this? It was in Friday's paper.
"Rodeo is God's Favorite Sport.
" - What about college football? - It's another sign.
They're all around us.
It can't be a coincidence that you met a cowboy named Jesus.
Tell me, was it divine? Total religious experience.
Choir of angels.
Church bells ringing.
- What? - Nothing.
Sounds familiar.
You and Ronnie? It's never Um, I don't know how to describe it.
It's never been so amazing.
- Makeup sex.
- No.
More than makeup sex.
It was spiritual, like we were one soul.
Hey, Captain.
Shit.
The prison rodeo in McAlester? Who are they? Yeah.
Uh Be right there.
- Y-You got it.
- What is it? Perry wants takeout and Angel Cop's got a case.
Ooh, I can smell you coming down the hall.
Okay, listen up.
We've got no crime scene, no evidence, no body but two witnesses who say they saw a man murdered after he was gored by a bull.
- What'd you get me? - Theta burger with cheese.
Onion rings, chocolate shake.
And the worst part is, it is not in our jurisdiction.
No.
The worst part is I left a screening of The Misfits and Marissa's pissed.
Not as pissed as Kendra.
I left her figuring out the menu for our reception.
- What's in there? - Cheeseburger.
So, you're saying we got a non-case out of jurisdiction? We have two women, Maria and Julianne Gonzales who roped themselves to the lobby staircase.
Said they were exercising their freedom of speech would not leave until they talked to Angel Cop.
Barbecue baby back ribs.
Your disciples ruined my weekend.
I'm Julianne Gonzales.
My husband, Chuck Lovelace, was murdered this morning.
- What happened? - I don't know, but I know it wasn't an accident.
I saw you last night at Louie's, and this morning, right after they told me Lovelace was dead a picture of you in an old newspaper the Angel Cop.
All morning, I had this feeling that it wasn't an accident.
Then I saw your picture.
I knew.
Lovelace was murdered, and I had to find you.
- It was a sign from God.
- l-I'm sorry.
Y-You are? - Maria Gonzales.
- Our daughter-in-law.
She's married to my son Jesús.
Detectives Ada and Stillwater are gonna take your statements.
- Rhetta! Rhetta, stop! - I don't want to talk to you right now.
- He didn't tell me he was married! - Why didn't you ask? I thought that Now I gotta ask? I just didn't know.
Oh, come on! You can't blame me for thinking I could trust a guy named Jesus.
This isn't funny.
It happened during Money the Hard Way.
Bull was stomping on some inmate.
Lovelace was the diversion.
- What is Money the Hard Way? - It's one of the events the inmates compete in.
They tie a ribbon between the horns of a bull.
Inmate who gets it off wins a hundred bucks.
- Lovelace isn't an inmate.
What was he doing in the arena? - Working.
Prison hires professional cowboys to be rodeo clowns and pickup men.
Lovelace was working as a clown.
Rodeo clowns I know are a lot younger than your husband.
My husband was in the best shape of his life.
That bull caught him, threw him in the air, and he came down hard, but he was moving.
D.
O.
A.
when he got to the hospital.
They want me to call a funeral home.
I want an autopsy.
Hospital signed off.
I'm sorry.
We want to talk to the Angel Cop.
We all know a warrior angel needs her soldiers and you boys have done just fine.
But please, take no offense.
We only want to talk with her.
None taken.
My husband has been doing rodeos for over 40 years.
When he was three years old, he rode lambs around for the 4-H.
I've seen lesser cowboys than him get gored and live to tell.
No disrespect, ma'am, but I'm sure some of them died too.
My husband rode Little Yellow Jacket and Blueberry Wine.
Legendary bulls.
He did not die at the horns of some penny-ante prison rodeo bull.
Lovelace was murdered.
How come you didn't want to take their statements? Butch and Bobby can handle it.
How many months are you? - Three.
- Oh, shit, no, Kate.
- Does Harris know? - Know what? - That he your baby daddy? - Oh, gosh.
Well, I was thinking about telling him tonight.
No one else knows.
I'd like to keep it that way for now.
I didn't think you wanted kids.
Neither did I.
But I do.
Surprised me too.
Congratulations.
You broke our vow.
What vow? Uh, I believe it was our last year in Vice.
You'd just broke up with your lying, cheating boyfriend.
Jeffrey Rice.
And you'd just broken up with your lying, cheating boyfriend.
What's his name? Uh, what was his name? That bottle of tequila we drank erased his name from my memory but not our sacred vow no husbands, no babies.
You know what this means, don't you? - You are not gonna make me do that.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, I don't remember your old boyfriend but the name Lovelace is one that you don't soon forget.
You know, Ham was at the prison rodeo Does Julianne know that you slept with her dead husband a few years back? l-l-I got some phone calls I gotta make.
You checking on the bull's background? Lovelace that great a lay? Shit.
Oh, yeah.
At our wedding reception, we served chicken mole.
Very traditional.
Well, Kendra wants steak and lobster.
Since she's marrying a rancher, porterhouse is not a problem but where are you gonna get lobster? Oh! Oklahoma Ocean? I have to fly it in.
Long drive back.
Boys needed a pit stop.
- No problem.
Get home safe.
- Okay.
Say good-bye to your Uncle Ham, boys.
Oh, that's very sweet.
Okay.
Okay.
Bye.
Uh, don't they mean Uncle Daddy? Shut up, man.
Does anyone wanna tell me why we're investigating a bull goring? I mean, I was there.
I saw it.
- Because Grace is the warrior Angel Cop.
- And we are her soldiers.
- You were there when this happened? - Yeah.
It was ugly.
- He may have been murdered.
- How are we supposed to get handcuffs on a bull? I don't want to know what it takes to get an animal as angry as that.
Well, stock rodeo's hard core.
Face-to-face with a pissed-off bull for a hundred bucks - and these guys are loving it.
- Not for the money either.
Hell, no.
For the freedom.
Lovelace the only one hurt? One guy got thrown after Lovelace.
The paramedics checked him out.
He got back on his horse, rode away.
8,000 people saw Lovelace get gored to death.
- Half of them convicted felons.
- Other half prison guards.
Julianne needs to fight for an autopsy of Lovelace.
Until then, can I go back to the movies with my lovely wife? - What do you want to do? - I want to look into this.
- You got a feeling? - Yeah.
- You or Angel Cop? - What's the diff? Diff is how much shit we're gonna give you if it's Angel Cop.
Hey.
You're early.
You ready to go home now? Yeah.
I just have to put a few things away.
- Mae doing her homework? - She was when I left.
- Good, good, good.
- Who's Earl? You told me you didn't know anything about Grace's angel.
But he's real? You have evidence? - Ronnie - And you've known about it for three years? - Sort of.
- This is why you never want to talk about Grace.
She falls 12 stories, walks away, but you won't talk about it.
It makes sense now.
You have this whole secret thing with Grace.
You wanna talk about secrets? Hey, hey, hey.
When were you gonna tell me? - Were you ever gonna tell me? - I wasn't thinking about it like that.
Clay's not coming.
You tell him I need to talk to him? He's being a real jackass.
You gonna tell me what this is about? Yeah.
You want a beer? Yeah.
You ever heard of a death row inmate, uh got the needle about a year ago.
- His name's Leon Cooley.
- Yeah.
Mary Frances kind of knew him.
- He was a friend of mine.
- Really? Okay.
What's this got to do with Clay? Thank God.
Bring him in, boys.
- Angel Cop is home.
- Julianne.
I demanded an autopsy.
The McAlester coroner said no.
It's up to you now, Angel Cop.
I'm glad you guys decided to enter counseling.
You know, we have an excellent Catholic therapist.
Good.
Because I can't handle the secrets anymore and I want them out of my marriage.
You're the only one lately keeping secrets, not me.
Like you running around town with that fast-talking floozy.
There.
I'm sorry, but I said it.
Here you go.
Thank you.
Bless us, O Lord, for these, Thy gifts which we are about to receive from Thy bounty, through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Rhetta says Grace has an angel says God saved her because he's gonna use her for something.
- You just recently told him? - Yeah.
But before Stella, there were six months of overdue mortgage payments I was completely in the dark about.
You saw an angel's wings and didn't tell me! - Earl showed you his wings? - Wait a minute.
You know Earl? Oh, I should've known.
All those times you two would get together Oh, look.
That's a crock of Look, Rhetta, Ronnie I know what your faith means to you.
I know how important it is to your marriage.
Our first date, we went to mass.
I know.
So sure, you've lost a little footing recently because you lost the farm and you were sleeping with a floozy.
But come on.
Think about what you have together.
I don't know.
I just I think you need to share more with each other.
Okay.
Earl showed me his wings and it was the most magnificent thing I've ever seen.
And then I came home and made love to my husband for the first time in years.
Years? Hasn't been years.
You used to call me four or five times a day about blood patterns and carpet fibers.
Last couple of years, you call to tell me about the kids' schedules or that you're gonna be late for dinner.
- You come here three nights a week.
- I do not.
- You do.
- How does that make you feel, Ronnie? Like you'd rather be anywhere else but home with me.
The bull got Lovelace all right.
Barely nicked his lung.
This is what killed him.
Someone stabbed him in the gore wound, right through the heart.
- How did Grace know? - Gut instinct.
Henry found a substance in the wound track, thinks it's some kind of plastic.
- Likely from the murder weapon.
- Yeah.
Rhetta's testing it.
We still need the weapon.
Could've been a shank.
How about we decide what we need once we have time to work this case? The case is already 24 hours old I get that right? Let's show him what happened.
You already told me what happened.
Captain said to show you, Harris.
Everyone puts the actual goring about here.
Ambulance was here with the E.
M.
T.
's standing by.
Lovelace was on the ground here.
E.
M.
T.
's rushed over, loaded him onto the stretcher.
Everything happened so fast, the ring was still full of inmates.
They carried him out, drove him to the hospital.
He was D.
O.
A which means somebody stuck a knife in him between here and here.
- Or in the ambulance.
- Dozens of convicted felons in the ring.
The goring couldn't have been planned.
Whoever did it acted on the spot.
Body is the best piece of evidence you have.
Which is one of the reasons I brought you in now.
We've got to account for chain of custody.
The hospital released the body to the family.
The family took it over to Grace's house.
You're kidding me, right? - You're kidding, right? - No.
Grace had our M.
E.
recover the body.
The chain of custody is ruined.
Anybody speak to the paramedics? Grace and Ham are on their way now.
Did anyone get the sheets from the ambulance or the clothing Lovelace was wearing when the incident happened? Paramedics discarded the linens.
Hospital discarded the shirt.
Beautiful.
Well, it looks like you got your work cut out for you, Kate.
Good luck.
Show some respect.
Speak to her like that again, I'll jerk a nine in your ass.
You got it? Things got a little out of hand back there.
Go-Go back to work, Benny.
Hey, is everything all right? It's not what you think.
I just Just go back.
Go back to work on the case.
Okay.
But you shouldn't let him talk to you like that.
I can defend myself.
But you weren't.
Benny, out of my office, please! All right.
According to the paramedics, Dante you were the first one to reach Lovelace after he was gored.
Yeah, it was gnarly.
He was conscious, but there was this gaping hole in his chest so I applied pressure like I'd been taught.
- Then what happened? - Ah, we loaded him up on the stretcher carried him out to the ambulance.
Then you took him to the hospital? No.
Some guy fell off his horse so they asked me to stay with Lovelace while they checked the other guy out.
- How long were you alone with him? - Not long.
- Couple minutes.
- Report says at least four.
Hmm.
Last year, you won a hundred bucks at Money the Hard Way.
And this year, you decided not to ride.
Mind telling me why? I really wanted to help out this year, so I trained as a medical orderly.
That reminds me I'm at a crossroads every day of my life helps me choose right.
You know what I'm talking about, huh? - Tough times working with the Lord.
- Yeah.
Those old feelings coming back like sticking somebody with a knife in a bar fight.
I was a stupid kid.
Not a big stretch to do it again in the back of an ambulance.
Can I touch you? Yesterday wasn't your first interaction with Lovelace.
Yeah? We've been talking all this time.
You never mentioned that, Dante.
All right.
Couple years ago I saw a fine ass and I commented on it.
So Lovelace decided to teach me a lesson.
Knocked me to the ground, roped me like an animal.
- What'd you do? - Apologized.
You can't blame a man for protecting his own, huh? I recognize a toddler believer when I'm looking at one.
Pray about it and I have faith you'll find me innocent, Angel Cop.
How you doing? We heard from Rhetta about the substance in the wound track? - You got something? - Yeah.
You know the other incident at the rodeo the guy who fell off his horse? That was Lovelace's stepson, Jesús Gonzales.
Yeah.
- Did Maria or Julianne ever mention that? - No.
So paramedics left Lovelace in the hands of the man he hog-tied in the ring.
I mean, prisoners have killed for a lot less.
Uh, sometimes those same guys get rehabilitated, come to their senses, just like my dad.
Not Dante.
He was playing me.
Angel soldiers reporting for duty.
Reminds me.
Kendra wants to invite your angel to our wedding.
So which cloud should we send his invitation? Look, enough with the Angel Cop shit, all right? She gets it from everyone else.
She doesn't need it from us.
Then I guess we should take those 10-foot wings off her car! Found this in my husband's truck! You make me sick! ¡Puta! Maria, mind if we take this outside? Why shouldn't they know? They should know you took my husband home the other night.
Holy crap! I am taking so much shit for this! Angel Cop, my ass! You're a fraud, a hypocritical, lying piece of shit! Whoa, whoa! Whoa.
They're wrong to doubt you.
Doesn't mean they won't.
These same people who misunderstand you now will walk through fire for you tomorrow.
You can handle this, Grace.
None of these letters are signed, postmarked from different parts of the country.
And a whole bunch of 'em just talk about old movies, like "Reverend, looks like you got yourself surrounded.
" "And I figure on getting myself unsurrounded.
" John Wayne, The Searchers.
Dante has never had a single disciplinary action.
Warden says he's a model prisoner.
Yeah, looks like he got his act together.
He's gotten three certificates from Fresh Paths in addition to volunteering for a slew of jobs.
Yeah, he worked in the kitchen the past year.
Means they trust him.
Means he's around knives.
Do you want to take off those stupid wings? - Is it bothering Grace that much? - Yeah.
Resin found in the body is the same stuff used in the cafeteria trays at McAlester.
So your murder weapon was made out of plastic.
It's easy to make a shank out of plastic.
They don't have a mess hall at McAlester.
They deliver the food to their cells.
- On trays? - Yeah.
That gives Dante access.
He works in the kitchen.
This letter mentions the prison knifing scene in The Tall Men.
That scene doesn't exist.
Another letter mentions the rodeo in Stagecoach.
- Doesn't exist either.
- Maybe it's some kind of code.
I may have a character witness for your case.
Took the liberty of making a few calls.
Found an inmate who remembers Dante saying "Hear that? The world just lost another asshole" as Lovelace was being hauled off in the ambulance.
I'm heading down to McAlester.
I'm gonna talk to this guy in person.
Do you want a ride? We can compare notes on the way.
This is it.
Everything ready for tomorrow? Yep.
All agencies notified.
We're good to go.
You okay with this? - Yeah.
- Okay, so we'll see you in the morning? Yeah.
We're good.
I don't see any bruises, no black eye.
Didn't even have to throw a punch.
- You got a credible witness? - Got two.
Prison guard's also willing to testify he heard Dante say the same thing.
Dante's in prison for life.
How we gonna get him to reveal his pen pal? - No needle? - No needle.
Lovelace was a cool cat.
- It's like this.
Night, guys.
- Night.
John Wayne, Chuck Lovelace, you know where you stand.
No bullshit.
No one's gonna take him on.
Just like the Duke.
I don't understand my life.
Where are you taking me? A light around my crib? My mom tells me there was a light around my crib.
I just want normal things! Is this why I was born some destiny I don't want hurtling towards me never to have Ham A baby.
Could I have had a baby? What else have you taken from me? What else, because of this? Why did you choose me? I don't want this! This blackness and it's behind me.
It's pushing me.
It's coming.
I can feel it.
I'm asking you to take it from me because I can't do it.
I can't.
I can't.
- Hey, cowboy.
- There she is girl I can't get out of my head.
- Who the hell are you? - Oh, you can call me Tonto.
I read all your letters.
It's clever, you and Dante hiding your murder plans inside movie plots.
Bobby's a western film buff too.
- You gonna do this to me? - You did it to yourself, man.
I just gotta know why.
What? He backhand you a couple times? He could've backhanded me all he wanted.
I just couldn't stand watching my mother get disrespected.
Jesús Gonzales, you're under arrest for accomplice to murder.
Give me your hand! Get up.
Get up.
Is this enough for a comparison? - Yeah.
That'll work.
- Shit, Grace.
So how was counseling? Well, scary.
And some of it was hard to hear like how Ionely Ronnie's been feeling and how mean it is of me to roll my eyes when he talks.
- Just when he's being ridiculous.
- That's what I said.
But I don't know.
l-I think maybe we're gonna be okay.
Oh, my Lord.
There's no way in hell I'm doing a pole dance.
- Coatrack dance.
- No way in hell I'm doing a coatrack dance.
Y'all should know I am having a baby.
Is it sexist if I say that explains a whole heck of a lot? - Boo! - Shit.
You scared me.
I hope you don't mind I came on in.
Seen you hide that key often enough.
- I'm all sweaty, you know? - That's okay.
I like you sweaty.
What was that you said on the phone about a shower? Come here.
Come here, come here, come here.
Come.
You know, when you and I first started having feelings for each other I went to Rafe, and I promised him I mean, I swore to him that I would do right by you and the kids.
I mean, you've been through a lot, you know, and I thought I mean, I care about you.
I care about you so much.
But I'm still in love with Grace.
I knew it.
I knew I knew better than to trust you.
And I kept wearing waiting for you to stop wearing this thing.
- You used me! - No.
Me and the boys to get over Grace.
What are you even doing with me? - Wait.
Look.
Look.
- Shut up.
Look me in the eye.
Go on.
Look me in the eye and tell me you're not in love with Rafe.
He's dead! He's just another dead marine! And I am not Oh, my God! You and me are cursed, aren't we? And I don't think that I'll ever get over him.
Recognize this? Yeah.
A long time ago, I wrote that to Mr.
Cooley.
Did you read it? So why'd you write Mr.
Cooley? - He ever write you back? - No.
- Do you have an angel? - Yes.
"Dear Mr.
Cooley, Sister Theresa makes us pray for you every Thursday.
"Yesterday I saw you on Britton Road.
I know it was you.
How can you be on Britton Road and on death row at the same time?" Where did you get this? Your friend Ben Cooley gave it to me.
- Why? - They found it with his father's things.
You really have an angel? His name's Earl.
I've known him three years.
He was also Mr.
Cooley's angel.
Well, what do you do with him? He's taken me to the Grand Canyon.
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