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0:03[music]
0:04>> 31 years.
0:05Never missed a Saturday.
0:07>> Not planning [music] to start now, Beth.
0:10>> Is that the Hollis from the construction
0:12fences?
0:15His name is on every site [music]
0:16downtown.
0:18Every Saturday since before you were
0:19born.
0:22Let the man have [music] his cake and
0:23his quiet.
0:29>> Your mom is in [music] the office,
0:30honey.
0:33Stay right here where I can see you.
0:36>> Yes, ma'am.
0:37>> [music]
0:37>> I'm not going anywhere.
0:53>> Hi there, sweetheart. [music]
0:55What can I get for you today?
0:58>> I have a $1.34. [music] Is that enough
1:01for a birthday cake?
1:19>> Whose birthday is it, honey?
1:21>> My mom's.
1:23She's turning 30 today.
1:25She says 30 isn't old at all.
1:28>> She's right.
1:3030 is just getting started.
1:32Sweetheart,
1:34cakes in here cost more than
1:36>> I'm not asking for a gift.
1:40I only want to know if it's enough.
1:44>> I could
1:45cover the
1:50>> Thank you, sir.
1:53But, I pay my own way.
2:00>> This one came out a little small this
2:02morning.
2:04Today it costs exactly $1.34.
2:13A quarter, two, three, four. That's a
2:15dollar. 10, 20, 30, and four pennies.
2:19134 exactly.
2:25>> What's your name, honey?
2:27>> Cora.
2:29>> Well, Cora,
2:31let's box this up right so it stays
2:33perfect.
2:37>> Put the rest on my tab, Bet.
2:40Whatever it really costs.
2:42>> Already did before you stood up.
2:45She never sees it.
2:51>> Notice of lockout, room nine. Balance
2:54due, $437.
3:00I took it off our door this morning.
3:04So Mama wouldn't have to see it on her
3:06birthday.
3:08>> Miss Bet, I'm taking my break.
3:11I'll walk her over.
3:13Take the big umbrella
3:15by the door.
3:21>> [music]
3:31>> Cute cake.
3:33Still doesn't cover 437, does it,
3:35sweetheart?
3:36>> Mr. Pratt,
3:38she is 8 years old.
3:40Let her through.
3:42>> Eight, and her mama's a whole month
3:45behind on being a grown-up.
3:48Your mama see my notice yet, kid.
4:02>> Happy birthday, Mama. I paid for it
4:04myself.
4:10>> Help you, mister.
4:12Show me the court order.
4:14Not your opinion.
4:16The order.
4:18Court order?
4:20It's a motel, friend. Guests, not
4:22tenants. Guests don't pay, guests don't
4:25stay.
4:26How long
4:27have they been living here?
4:29>> Since September.
4:315 months.
4:40>> You'll regret letting strangers into
4:42your business, Simone.
4:44That's a promise.
5:01>> [music]
5:01>> The manager isn't the worst part of this
5:03place.
5:05The badge is.
5:08>> All of you, inside now before that baby
5:12catches his death out here.
5:14>> Come on.
5:16She'll have coffee on before you sit.
5:24>> I'm David.
5:26I come in here every Saturday.
5:29>> Simone, go on, honey.
5:31Tell him.
5:33He listens.
5:35Last fall, they sold our building
5:38and the new owners doubled the rent
5:40overnight. That motel had a weekly rate
5:44and a hot plate.
5:46It was supposed to be temporary.
5:50Every 28 days Wayne makes the long-stay
5:52families check out on paper and sign
5:55back in.
5:57Refuse and he keeps your deposit.
6:00>> So, nobody ever lives there
6:03long enough to count.
6:05>> I saw [music] a legal aid flyer at the
6:07library.
6:0930 days somewhere
6:11and they need a judge to put you out.
6:14>> And this month?
6:16>> This month [music] I didn't sign.
6:20At dawn there was a new padlock on room
6:22nine.
6:23My work scrubs are [music] in there.
6:26Cora's school bag,
6:28Micah's clothes.
6:32>> The deputy outside,
6:34Stell,
6:36what is he to that motel?
6:38>> He works security for Wayne
6:40nights and weekends in his uniform.
6:44Last month he leaned in my doorway
6:47and said,
6:49"Mothers who make noise
6:51find out a room is the cheapest thing
6:53they can lose."
6:55I'm not scared of a cold night.
6:58I've done hard before.
7:01I'm scared of what he meant. So, don't
7:03expect me to jump
7:07and thank a stranger in a nice coat.
7:10>> I think less of you
7:13if you did.
7:18>> Mr. David,
7:21why do you stop in the middle of your
7:23words?
7:25>> Some words get stuck on the way out.
7:29I've learned to wait for them.
7:32They always come.
7:33>> Okay.
7:35Then I can [music] wait, too.
7:38Are you going to disappear after today?
7:41Grown-ups who help usually do.
7:44>> I don't know yet what I'm allowed to
7:45fix.
7:47>> [music]
7:49>> But I'm not leaving in a hurry.
7:56My lawyer
7:57is Camille [music] Webb.
7:59I'd like to call her.
8:01Only if you say yes.
8:03>> Call her.
8:06>> Camille, it's David.
8:08I need you at Reeves Bakery right now.
8:16Ma'am,
8:18you and the children need to come with
8:19me.
8:21Got a call
8:22about an unattended child wandering a
8:25business
8:27and a guest who skipped out on her bill.
8:29Put those together, ma'am.
8:32That's a custody concern.
8:34>> She was not unattended.
8:37She sat at that window where I could see
8:39her every minute.
8:41I'm a witness, deputy.
8:43Write that down.
8:45>> Kids can wait in my car where it's warm
8:48while you and I sort this out.
8:53For their safety.
8:54>> No.
8:57I walked her across that lot and watched
9:00you walk into that office with the man
9:02who padlocked their door.
9:05You're not here for her safety.
9:08You're here to collect.
9:11>> Careful, miss.
9:14That's a statement I can write down,
9:15too.
9:16>> If he asks you,
9:19you don't know the man in the suit.
9:23>> I'm recording this.
9:25All of it.
9:27Turn that off, sir.
9:29Or I make this very complicated for you.
9:33And who exactly are you? David Hollis.
9:38Hollis.
9:39Like the fences downtown.
9:41Man-to-man, Mr. Hollis.
9:44You don't want your name anywhere near
9:46this.
9:48Pay the 437.
9:50She signs the check out. Everybody goes
9:52home and your name stays clean.
9:55Simple.
9:57That's how it always goes, sir.
10:00He pays.
10:01She signs.
10:03And next month it's another family.
10:05I've kept the carbon copies.
10:07Every one.
10:09Three years of them.
10:22No.
10:26>> [music]
10:28>> Camille Webb.
10:31I represent Mr. Hollis. And as of this
10:34moment, this young mother can have her
10:35kids, if she'd like.
10:38Deputy, one question.
10:40Are you here as an officer of this
10:42county
10:43or as the motel's paid security?
10:46Because you can't be both.
10:48>> We'll see whose word holds up,
10:50counselor.
10:52>> Don't relax.
10:54If his report lands first, you're the
10:56rich man who interfered.
10:58And she's the mother who left her kids.
11:03>> Let me get you two hotel rooms tonight.
11:06Paid in full. No questions asked.
11:08[music]
11:09>> You heard him.
11:12Tomorrow it reads like I can't keep my
11:14kids without some man paying.
11:18There's an apartment upstairs.
11:19>> [music]
11:20>> Two little rooms, empty since my mother
11:22passed. Nobody's paying anybody. You're
11:25just staying with me.
11:27Okay.
11:28Thank you, Beth.
12:05>> Earl found it in the rain.
12:09Wayne locked up the rest till she pays.
12:13>> Give them their things.
12:15All of them.
12:16Everything you locked up.
12:18Pleasure doing business, Mr. Hollis.
12:24Paid in full.
12:26Deputy, you want to witness?
12:28Security.
12:29Same as always.
12:34>> You paid him.
12:37>> They needed their things back, Simone.
12:39Their clothes, your scrubs.
12:42>> Now, there's a paper that says I owed
12:44it.
12:46With a deputy's name signed right on it.
12:49Everything I said no to, you just said
12:52yes to.
12:54For me.
12:58>> [snorts]
13:00>> I was wrong to pay him without asking
13:02you.
13:05That choice was yours.
13:07From now on, nothing happens without you
13:09knowing first. Nothing.
13:16>> Mama's not mad at you.
13:19She's mad [music] at the paper.
13:21>> She's right to be.
13:24I should have I've her first.
13:27>> Are you leaving now?
13:30>> No.
13:32I told you.
13:34Not in a hurry
13:35and not today.
13:37>> He filed overnight.
13:39Theft of services and an unattended
13:41minor for her.
13:42Obstruction for you.
13:44They want your statement Monday at 9:00.
13:48>> [snorts]
13:50>> You stay with Jade today.
13:52Nobody takes you anywhere.
13:55Not anybody.
13:56Nobody gets past me.
13:58Go.
14:00>> [music]
14:18>> David,
14:20you don't have to do this.
14:23Camille can read it for you.
14:25>> I do.
14:26When I was 10,
14:28my mother took me to a rental office.
14:32The manager [music] slid a lease across
14:33the counter.
14:35I read it.
14:37>> [music]
14:38>> I was a good reader.
14:40It said things he never told her.
14:42>> [music]
14:43>> I knew it was wrong and I couldn't get
14:45one word out.
14:47Not one.
14:49She signed. [music]
14:51We lost the apartment that summer.
14:54>> [music]
14:55>> After that, she drove me across town
14:56every Saturday for speech therapy.
14:59Six [music] years.
15:02Then one slice of pound cake at Reeves.
15:05She'd say,
15:06"No rush. I'm right here."
15:09>> She'd order [music] for you both, then
15:11wait till you said thank you yourself.
15:14I was 22 [music]
15:16behind that counter.
15:18She never hurried you.
15:21>> I came home at 25 and
15:23started coming back.
15:25She passed 11 years ago.
15:28I haven't missed a Saturday since.
15:31>> My daddy signed things, too.
15:34Whatever the man with the badge put in
15:35front of him.
15:38I was nine.
15:40We lost the house.
15:42I've never signed anything with somebody
15:44standing over me.
15:46Not once.
15:48That's why Wayne never got my name.
15:51Mr. Hollis?
15:53We're ready for you.
15:58I can read your statement for you,
16:02David.
16:03>> No.
16:04I'll speak.
16:06A little girl
16:07put a $1.34 on a counter.
16:12She'd hidden the lockout notice from her
16:14own mother.
16:16Then a deputy in uniform
16:18told me to pay $4.37
16:21so she'd sign
16:23and my name would stay clean.
16:25>> We have that on tape.
16:29>> Pay the $4.37.
16:31She signs the checkout. Everybody goes
16:33home and your name stays clean.
16:36Simple.
16:4137 families.
16:43Three years of forced checkouts.
16:46I should have brought these sooner.
16:48I was afraid of that badge, too.
16:51>> A sworn deputy in uniform
16:54collecting a private debt from a motel
16:57and signing it security in his own hand.
17:01Cora was never alone. Not for 1 minute.
17:04Jade Carter signed this, too. She
17:07watched her the entire time.
17:10No report was ever filed with family
17:12services.
17:14Not Saturday. Not ever.
17:18He picked her because he believed nobody
17:20would listen to her.
17:23Thank you.
17:25Please stay seated.
17:26I need to speak with my supervisor.
17:34Deputy Stell,
17:36I need your badge and your duty weapon
17:38pending an internal investigation.
17:41>> Remember what I told you about
17:44mothers who make noise?
17:46>> I remember.
17:48Mothers who make noise find out who's
17:50listening.
17:55>> Cute stack of paperwork.
18:01Still doesn't cover 37 families, does
18:04it, Wayne?
18:28>> [music]
18:29>> Nothing to practice for, sugar.
18:31Eat your cookie.
18:37>> Take whatever time you need.
18:40I'm not going anywhere.
18:46>> Two months late, but who's counting?
18:51>> First pressed shirt I've worn since the
18:53army.
18:54Somebody say something.
18:56>> You look very distinguished, Earl.
19:00Cora, room nine.
19:03Wrote it the day you came in.
19:09>> You didn't spend it.
19:12Some money's worth more kept.
19:20>> [music]
19:25>> Paid in full. [music]
19:30From now on,
19:31any child who stands at this counter
19:33[music] and asks if it's enough,
19:36it's enough.
19:37Every single time.
19:48>> Happy birthday, Mama.
19:50For real this time.
19:53>> David, [music]
19:54say something.
19:56You're the one who never misses a
19:57Saturday.
19:58>> Happy birthday, [music] Simone.
20:01And thank you, all of you, for letting
20:03me
20:11>> No rush, Mr. [music] David.
20:13I'm right here.
20:17>> Stay.
20:19>> Every Saturday?
20:23>> Every Saturday.
20:26And any other day you need me.
20:28>> Little [music] coins
20:30upon the counter,
20:31>> [singing]
20:34>> rain against the glass.
20:41You ask [singing] me [music] if it's
20:43enough.

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