Earn and Paperboy get arrested. Paperboy gets out but Earn stays in jail for the better part of a day waiting to get charged. Alfred tries going about his day but something is bothering him. Earn sees a lot that bothers him in jail. Paperboy runs into a lot of people who know his name. Some know him from the radio, others from the shooting incident.
Earn calls Vanessa to bail him out but he has a long wait. He sees all kinds of things he probably never wanted to see. Some of the cops and all of the people in jail are African-American. There are no cell bars but all the guys awaiting processing are held in a big room together. They aren't aloud to sleep. Everyone laughs at the crazy guy in a hospital gown who drinks water from the toilet until he spits it at one of the cops and gets beat down. Earn gets caught in the middle of a discussion between a guy and his "girlfriend". He tries to extricate himself unsuccessfully. It doesn't get physically violent but it gets plenty uncomfortable.
Alfred tries to relax but he can't. What's bothering him? Probably the fact that Earn is still in jail but he doesn't come out and say that. He tries going for a walk. He sees a little kid playing with a toy gun who and says he wants to be just like Paperboy. Alfred tries talking to the kid but the boy's mother gets in the way. She changes her tune once she finds out who he is. Someone in a Batman mask comes to his door later asking if this is where Paperboy lives and then runs off.
If I wasn't hooked after the first episode then I am now. This episode was a great mix of serious and funny. I was torn on more than one occasion between laughing and shock. On the whole it was heavy but there were some light moments.
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