The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Season 1
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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey S01E01
Part 1
March 12, 2022, 4:59 p.m.
Two plus nine equal 11.
Two plus nine equal 11.
Robyn.
I want you to know that my whole family is depending on you.
They mad right now 'cause I put you in charge of my affairs.
But in the long run,
they're gonna be better off because of your strength.
I'm-- I'm sorry for what's about to happen here today.
But I got to set things right.
That-- That motherfucker got to pay for what he done.
I know you in there, old man.
- Who is it? - You know damn well who it is.
Come on in. It's open.
Good morning. Today is March 17, 2021,
and welcome to Atlanta News 8 morning report.
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Tensions throughout the Middle East remain high,
after a seventh straight day of bombings in the Afghan capital city of Kabul.
And the stability of the region continues to deteriorate.
We have breaking news.
A bomb has exploded in a Kabul mosque being attended by top Afghan officials.
Fourteen people were killed, with dozens more reported as injured.
The Afghan executive chief remains unharmed.
Reports are coming in from our sister station…
The US ambassador in Kabul is expected to make a statement
giving an update on the situation, along with information
on who the Afghani government suspects is behind this latest attack.
This is a developing story.
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Stop playing around, Pity.
Coydog?
Boy, you stop playing around.
Do what you promised.
I… I forgot.
Forgot?
I didn't give my life for you to forget.
- Get her out of there! - Come on! Come on!
Come on, Maude, pick your head up!
- Come on, Maude! - Faster, now, faster!
More water!
Pity!
- We got to save her, Mama! - Pity!
- We got to! - Pity!
No! Mom!
- Pity! - Please let me go!
I should've saved her.
I should've s-s--
Mama.
Mama?
Mama.
- Mama! - Yes, baby?
Hey, Maude. How you doing?
Her mama been gone for three days, and Maude don't have nothing to eat.
Well, come on in.
Take a chair at the table. I just made a mess of grits.
Thank you.
Papa Grey.
Get him!
Papa Grey!
Papa Grey, you in there?
Papa Grey.
Papa Grey?
Who that?
It's me.
Me? I'm me.
Is you that woman who wanna rob me?
No.
I'm that man that's telling you that I'm here and that it's me, Reggie.
Reggie?
How I know it's you?
You know my voice.
I know the voice if I see the face who talking.
But, you know, sometimes-- Sometimes I don't know, you know?
Okay, okay. So how I'ma prove to you that I'm me?
Well, what I always tell Reggie he got to do?
I got to take care of my kids.
I got to go to the doctor if I run a fever.
And-- I got to put in at least ten dollars in the bank
every time I get paid.
Well, anybody know that.
What I tell Reggie about drinking?
You say, "Don't do it. Don't do it.
'Cause when you do, you like to get mad."
That shit don't sound nothing like me.
Papa Grey, open up.
Told you. Good to see you, Papa Grey.
All right. Right. Here we go. Work with me.
Hey! There you go. All right now.
- And? - Always--
- Always lock the door. - Always lock that door.
You don't want that woman coming back and robbing you again.
Uh-uh. No, Lord. She slapped me down.
Stole my-- Stole my change can and--
Yeah, yeah. That's okay, Unc. Hey, you got some ice water I could drink?
Ice water, to drink?
Yeah! Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Come on. Come on, man.
You get the pitcher out the icebox here.
I'm gonna-- I'm gonna find your special glass
I always keep for you to, you know, drink your water out of 'cause--
Yeah. How's the hand?
It's got a big old bandage on it, but it's-- It's aight.
I'ma find that glass, 'cause I know how you like your water,
so I've always keeped your special glass in a special place.
You done ate three cans of beans in three days, Uncle. That's good.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Three cans ago, when you was here,
- I washed the glass… - Okay.
…so it'd be ready for you when you came.
Where-- Where's--
- What is that? - I can't remember where.
Why you got the alarm clock in the icebox, Papa Grey?
I-- I wanted to know what the temperature was, so I-- I was--
I think this would do you better by your sleeping table. What you think?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Okay. All right.
All right.
You put that up there, didn't you?
Because I know I didn't.
You're something else.
We've got a high-pressure system that could very likely…
I had a visitor just before you got here, but--
but that-- that was-- that was a long time ago.
And then-- then you showed up.
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Season 1
TV Series | The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey | Contents page