Miami Vice Season 4 Episode 2 Amen, Send Money
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00:00God's glory message, which is, feel good, send money.
00:08Why should you send money to me?
00:11Because when I preach and make you feel good, I do it for the money.
00:16Because when you send me money, I go out and I buy things with it.
00:19I buy material things.
00:22Now let's talk about that. Let's talk about material things.
00:24Let's talk about matter.
00:26The matter is made up of particles, tiny particles, which are held together by an attraction.
00:32No physicist in the world understands.
00:35No organic physicist, no theoretical physicist, no physicist of any kind understands what it is, but they know that it's there.
00:42They know that all the subatomic particles in the universe are held together by this attraction, by this kind of glue, this super glue.
00:50People, God is the glue.
00:52God is that glue that holds matter together, and matter is material, and materialism is the accumulation of matter.
01:06And I love, I love materialism.
01:10And I love this Italian silk, $750 piece of matter we call a jacket.
01:20No, no, Satan, Satan, I know what you want, but you ain't gonna get it, no.
01:25You ain't gonna make the Reverend Bill Bob Proverb into some kind of phony hypocrite.
01:31Because people, the Reverend Bill Bob Proverb ain't gonna stand here.
01:35And he ain't gonna, he ain't gonna be wearing sackcloth and ashes and pretend to be raising money to feed the starving orphans in Rwanda.
01:46Because the Reverend Bill Bob Proverb is telling you right here, right now, and right up front, that I'm taking all that money for myself.
01:54And I'm taking all that money for myself.
02:24All I got is money, so don't jerk me around, good-looking.
02:28Are you selling or not?
02:29I got shoes.
02:37Unless you're looking for some off-menu items.
02:40What I'm looking for are yellow ghosts, blackbirds, rainbows, and as much vitamin Q as you can stand apart with.
02:48Mama, for $2,500, I can put you on a fast track.
03:00It makes me feel dapper.
03:02It makes me feel in control of my environment.
03:05This manicure costs me $50.
03:09And that's just for the left hand.
03:10This manicure over here on my right hand costs $50, too.
03:15I get manicured every day, people.
03:17Both hands.
03:19And that's what feeling good is all about.
03:24Hey, man, feeling good is all about having a winning attitude.
03:28Yes, sir, it makes you a champion, a champion in your job, a champion in your work, whatever.
03:33It helps you accrue into your life, Memphis desks, designer, refrigerators, stereo TVs, microwave ovens, Cadillac, motorcars.
03:45Praise God! Praise God! Praise God!
03:49Speedway, Mama.
04:01What I got in here, you win a stock car race and a sneakers.
04:08So what'll it take to put me in the winner's circle?
04:11Well, $1,200 an ounce times two plus some popper rules, we can even it out at an even $35.
04:20Deal.
04:23Now, people, with every donation of $50 or more, I will send you my free pamphlet,
04:30which will teach you how to develop the right attitudes to have success and to feel closer to God.
04:37The pamphlet is called Developing the Right Attitudes to Have Success and Being Closer to God Through Materialism.
04:47And now, people, since I got to go home and take care of my sweet Leona in our $1.75 million architectonica house,
04:56I want to play one of her tapes.
04:59Leona singing wrapped up one of last year's messages.
05:02This is the Reverend Bilbaub Proverbs saying goodnight from the I.G.G.
05:10Tune in tomorrow.
05:11Tune in tomorrow.
05:11That stuff can get you so high, you need a parachute to come down.
05:34And look, sweet thing, I got a bonus, because you're one of my special customers.
05:41You busted.
05:43Goodbye street, hello jail.
05:45I've been to jail.
05:47Jail sucks.
05:48Okay, Red.
05:56Okay, Red, come on, get out of there.
06:18Come on.
06:19Come on.
06:24Come on.
06:26Come on.
06:28Come on.
06:29Come on.
06:39Come on.
06:43Are I ready for the prize?
06:46Oh yeah.
06:49Yeah?
06:51Come on.
07:56You know who's going to look bad?
08:04You guys.
08:05OCB, the whole department's going to look bad for martyring a saintly woman.
08:10The saintly lady over there tried to repave Sherman Avenue with me and my partner here.
08:16What the hell is that?
08:17Urban renewal?
08:19Because I got the devil in me.
08:22I'm a sinner.
08:23I know it.
08:27Soon, I'll have to reckon with the chilling hands of death.
08:32Now, this will be over real soon, Leona.
08:38The bust was good.
08:40In recognition of the humanitarian services rendered by this spiritual angel of the airwaves, how do we make this all go away?
08:52As in?
08:53As in drop the charges, counselor?
08:56Why persecute her?
08:58The word is prosecute, not persecute.
09:02Prosecute.
09:02She's got no priors.
09:05She doesn't live in the gutter.
09:06She was going for sale weight.
09:09And that, sir, is a felony.
09:11Oh, no.
09:14I'm going to hell.
09:18You step in my office, Wolcott.
09:26Oh, no.
09:32Knock it back to a misdemeanor or I'll get her to plead.
09:34No misdemeanor.
09:35She's walked on three other busts.
09:38This time, the felony sticks.
09:40If she pleads, we'll recommend probation plus community service.
09:44You have corroboration?
09:46Videotape surveillance.
09:48I'm going to burn in the fires of hell because the devil was with me in that car.
09:59You stood there and you said the devil was in my hand.
10:04And the devil got into my whole body.
10:09And what can you do when the devil's in your body?
10:13What could I do?
10:15The devil was in this body.
10:23Amen.
10:26Actual money and goods changing hands.
10:29Actual transaction.
10:30Video only.
10:31Audio glitch.
10:32But the intent plus the testimony of the arresting officer Tubbs, whose character is unimpeachable,
10:38is good enough for me.
10:40Excuse me.
10:40This is going to be a public relation nightmare.
10:51It's going to hang on your testimony.
10:55The way I see it, Leona should be treated just like any other Jane Doe.
11:01Absolutely.
11:03Nobody's prosecuting her because she's a public personality.
11:06Nobody walks on felony possession because they've got their own TV show.
11:14We're filing.
11:16The Reverend Proverb is not afraid to lash out against injustice when his own ministry and
11:22church and wife are accused.
11:24My bail's made.
11:26Let's blow.
11:27They've been swimming in the sewers of life for so long, their souls are robbed.
11:37Does it sound like anybody familiar?
11:39You got it.
11:41The Metro Dade Organized Crime Bureau Vice Division.
11:47Vice.
11:47You know what vice is, people?
11:52Vice is doing it or pretending you don't want to do it when you really do.
11:57These hypocrites are persecuting me and Leona because of our forthrightness, because of our
12:03honesty.
12:05They have taken my fair wife, your own sweet Leona, and they have thrown her into the company
12:11of painted women and opium smokers, and worse.
12:21I'm sorry, people.
12:24Look, Leona and I are going to need to hire the best and the brightest that can be bought
12:31to fight these snakes in their own judicial system.
12:35Because good lawyers don't come cheap, people, even when they're helping servants of the Lord.
12:39So now I am asking you to dig deep.
12:43I'm asking you to reach deep into your pockets, deeper than you've ever reached before, and
12:49give the Angel of the Airwaves Defense Fund the money it needs for Leona's defense.
12:57I want you to call 1-800-555-LOVE and send what you can.
13:03I want you to call 1-800-555-LOVE and send what you can do for Leona's defense.
13:04Please, people, help us.
13:07Just cut that into tonight's message.
13:09Leona, all the money I've dumped into clinics nationwide for you to get a handle on your drug dependency,
13:12damn it, woman!
13:13I thought it was all fixed if we had your blood change in Switzerland.
13:14When I get that urge, I can't control it.
13:15This is the last time, woman.
13:16I thought it was all fixed if we had your blood change in Switzerland.
13:20When I get that urge, I can't control it.
13:21This is the last time, woman.
13:22You hear me?
13:23The last time.
13:24You hear me?
13:25The last time.
13:26Ah.
13:2717.63 of the least.
13:28I've got the money to get a handle on your drug dependency, damn it, woman.
13:30I thought it was all fixed if we had your blood change in Switzerland.
13:35When I get that urge, I can't control it.
13:40This is the last time, woman.
13:43You hear me?
13:45The last time.
13:4817.63 upward turn, our satellite service subscribers, Reverend.
14:0017.3, that's terrific.
14:02That's good news.
14:03Hi, how are you tonight?
14:06Yes, Bob.
14:07I got the new Klomikons.
14:08The cameras are all dialed in if you want to see the difference in resolution.
14:11They'll read down to two-foot candles, and we won't need all those lights.
14:16Good, that's real good.
14:24Hello?
14:25Patch through from Etro-Date.
14:27Are you Detective Tubbs?
14:30Yes, I am.
14:31Who is this?
14:32I know that you are the man who arrested Mrs. Proverb.
14:36And it goes against my heart to do this, but I have to reveal to you the truth.
14:42See, I'm impelled by a spiritual force deep inside of me, and it is bigger and deeper
14:47than even what I can control.
14:49What are you smoking?
14:52Snorting or drinking.
14:53Whatever it is, I don't want any of it.
14:55This conversation's over.
14:57No, please wait.
14:59They are going to try to tell you that she's innocent, but she's not.
15:04I know, because I'm in the church, and it's all part of the big lie.
15:12The big stuff that they're into now.
15:15I can tell you, but I'm afraid, Detective, you're going to have to come here right now.
15:20Where are you?
15:22Are you the young lady I talked to on the phone?
15:24Yes.
15:29Well, I've got something to say.
15:31Let's hear it.
15:33I'm late for a date.
15:35It's very difficult for me to talk about this.
15:37There's a bunch of us girls who work down here as ushers for the Reverend Bill Bob.
15:46And, well, all of us are runaways from the street, you see.
15:49And the Reverend Bill Bob and Mrs. Proverb, they took us in and helped us all real good.
15:54Yeah, so?
15:56Well, my name's Faye Nell.
15:58Uh-huh.
15:59See, I must tell you the truth, because I cannot lie.
16:02But in order for me to do that, I have to betray my great indebtedness towards very good people.
16:08And why, that just about breaks my heart.
16:12Help!
16:14Help!
16:14Oh, God, Ray!
16:16Hey!
16:16Ray!
16:17Hey!
16:18Hey!
16:18Help me!
16:20Help me!
16:21Hey!
16:22Help me!
16:24Oh, God!
16:25Please, don't move!
16:32Oh, the great internal affairs investigator Stroh, was it exceptionally slow over there today, or what?
16:44Very funny.
16:45We got our blood on his shirt, a diversionary prowler report to the watchman,
16:50and as far as I can ascertain, no reasonable motivation to set Tubbs up.
16:55No.
16:56How about the, uh, Leona Proverb case?
16:59Huh?
16:59You ever hear of that?
17:00Angel of the airwaves?
17:03No, I guess that wouldn't have anything to do with it.
17:05I'm gonna see my partner.
17:08I got five minutes in the John Crockett.
17:10That's all the time you get.
17:12Sanchez, give him the room.
17:18So what happened?
17:19Did you lose your phone book?
17:22They sure jumped on this wagon fast.
17:25Oh, hell, Rico.
17:26They got nothing.
17:27They're fishing.
17:28Yeah, they got a bruised teenager pointing their finger at a black, off-duty cop.
17:34Says, I wanted to know her in the biblical way.
17:38Back up your alibi.
17:40This is a weird frame, man.
17:42The switchboard can confirm that she placed the call.
17:45What the hell do they think?
17:47One look and your libido suddenly went critical?
17:49If this wasn't you, I'd think it was funny.
17:54It is me, and it's not funny.
17:58You know, guys with suitcases full of money.
18:02Drugs, I can understand.
18:04Being set up by a preacher.
18:05Uh, I'll tell you what else.
18:10Stro doesn't buy the theory that Bill Bob set this up to take the heat off his wife.
18:15Sorry, guys.
18:15Recess is cut short.
18:18These were just delivered.
18:23We lifted these off the studio security camera videotapes.
18:27Hard to tell who's doing what to who.
18:29Those guys over at IAD must be bored out of their minds.
18:43This is the flimsiest excuse for an internal investigation I've ever heard of.
18:48Don't push Stro.
18:50He doesn't like you.
18:52You want to help tabs look under rocks.
18:55Never heard of anything like that in my whole life.
18:57You heard it on your Walkman radio?
18:59Mm-hmm.
19:00Right over my little earphones.
19:02I sure did.
19:04Just yes or no, please.
19:07The name proverb came up on a federal ward a while ago.
19:10Get his tax history, daily activities, contacts, habits, everything.
19:21Has he ever talked to you before?
19:23No.
19:23Not directly, no.
19:30Is that a yes or no?
19:33Well, I guess that would be a yes.
19:36You see, what he did is he told me to proper meet with Detective Tubbs
19:40and explain to him his mistake in accusing the good Mrs. Proper of this absolutely terrible crime.
19:50Okay, Fainel.
19:55Thank you very much.
19:57That's it?
19:57Hi, Sonny.
20:10Hey, Lou.
20:12What the hell was all that about?
20:14That's about the strangest one yet.
20:16It'll be cute, Lou.
20:18She say somebody put her up to it?
20:20Hey, Sonny, IED's got a lock on it.
20:22Now, come on now, Lou.
20:23Listen, somebody's trying to put Tubbs' whole career in a queen.
20:27All right, you've got to help me get him out.
20:31I'll give you my Dolphin seats for the next two games.
20:35Hmm?
20:36Come on.
20:37Okay.
20:40She was a nut.
20:42She's a fanatic.
20:43She believed she was raped.
20:46You're kidding.
20:47Three games.
20:48Three games?
20:50Were you chiseling little...
20:52All right, fine.
20:55Robert put her up to it?
20:56Hey, you're not thinking big enough.
20:58Bigger?
21:00Mm-hmm.
21:02God.
21:04Over earphones.
21:06God.
21:06Through earphones.
21:09I'm serious.
21:12She thinks this is real.
21:14She skated through the polygraph.
21:17You try to break her down, we'll dig Tubbs' in deeper.
21:22Bill Bob Proulter.
21:23You know, it happens.
21:25I had a guy who was in purple robes.
21:27He was picking pockets at the airport.
21:30So steady that you'd think he was asleep.
21:34Passed with flying colors.
21:36Okay.
21:36Except we have pictures on him working.
21:39We just got to nail Bill Bob Proulter.
21:40God told him that he could lie, and he sure could.
21:43And get him to tell us how he did it.
21:44Somebody made that girl believe the same thing.
21:47That's what it was.
21:47Bill Bob Proulter.
21:48I'm sorry.
21:49I'm sorry.
21:51No, I really just can't do that.
21:54I cannot implicate Bill Bob Proverb in anything illegal.
21:59We do compete.
22:00I mean, I compete with him, but only in the earthly sense.
22:08Mm-hmm.
22:09So, in the earthly sense, his stats make him an all-star, while you're still raking the field,
22:19so to speak.
22:19But the truth is, and don't quote me on this, I think he's a hedonist and an overblown grandstander.
22:30As people, we couldn't be more different.
22:33Help me understand this.
22:35You were his partner ten years ago.
22:39Give me the short course here.
22:41What's his angle?
22:43His angle?
22:47Pleasure.
22:49Mm-hmm.
22:51Oh, when we were young and full of grace, lucky if ten people that listened wanted to come forward, he was happy.
22:58Now he is so obsessed with his own celebrity.
23:02I just don't really know what he's like anymore.
23:06He's got his own private reserve of wayward girls.
23:10Angels, he calls them.
23:13And does he have love for these girls in the earthly sense, too?
23:21Well, you see, in an environment, lauding worldly success and satisfaction now.
23:30That's one of his books, by the way.
23:32I'm not surprised what happened to this girl, Fay Nell.
23:37But Jesus tells us to hate sin and love the sinner.
23:43I'm sure Bill Bob's heart is still pure.
23:53Pure what?
23:54I'm telling you, sonny.
23:59He grabbed the address out of the file on Switek's desk.
24:02Dammit, he's not supposed to go anywhere near them.
24:05What kind of religion says it's okay to set up a phony rape charge?
24:21Not my religion, friend.
24:26No, Fay Nell Portis is blessed to me, but she's hardly a card I would play in a bad hand.
24:32Whatever you believe, I didn't have anything to do with what happened to you.
24:41I suggest you get yourself some therapy.
24:46That's probably work-related stress.
24:48Look, I don't need a shrink.
24:50What I'd like are some straight answers right here and right now.
24:55Well, that makes two of us.
24:58Maybe I should have my lawyers call and find out why a suspended police officer is harassing me in my home.
25:07I'm not harassing you.
25:08I hope you won't do that, Reverend.
25:09This is my partner.
25:13He knows he made a big mistake by coming here.
25:17It won't happen again.
25:20I'll see to it.
25:24Well, forgiveness is not mine to give in this situation, but perhaps patience is.
25:33Fair enough.
25:34Gentlemen, I should tell you that I am prepared for this to become a battle.
25:44Almost everything does.
25:47It seems to be part of the price I have to pay.
25:50What kind of price is that?
25:53My soul.
25:56My soul in exchange for millions of souls.
25:59You see, you think you understand me, but you don't really know me at all.
26:09Nobody wants to be saved by some obscure, threadbare, raggedy-butt preacher anymore.
26:19So I'm forced to martyr myself on a cross of luxury.
26:25Forgive me.
26:38How'd you know I was here?
26:40What do you think?
26:42Yellow pages.
26:48Man, old man, look at him work.
26:50Just gather over here.
26:51I'll be with you in a minute.
26:55Anywhere here would be fine.
27:00What are you doing?
27:01You my guardian angel or something?
27:03I guess, if I have to be.
27:05I got back to OCB and I get, uh, Stro poking around there.
27:11He wants you, Rico.
27:13He's not going to need that rape charge if he catches you off the leash.
27:17My wife has a few words to say, after which I would like to make a statement.
27:22Um, last night, as you know, an innocent teenage girl, a daughter of our congregation, was raped by the officer who arrested me.
27:38Now, I feel compelled to tell the whole story.
27:45Two nights ago, when I stopped to ask for directions, that same officer, Ricardo Tubbs, also tried to force me into lewd acts.
28:00Come on, let's go.
28:05I know that our, our loyal friends and family will not let us down in this hour of need.
28:13I'd like to remind everyone that phone number is 1-800-555-L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E-L-O-V-E.
28:20Thank you all very much.
28:28The ratings are up.
28:30Hello, ladies, and welcome to Lifestyles of the Rich and Holy.
28:44That's right, Bill Bob Bobberb is on his way.
28:48You can't miss him.
28:49He's dressed like a soap.
28:53Yes, Whitey.
28:54You must shop at the same store, huh?
28:56Hush little baby, don't cry like that
28:59God's gonna rise in a kind of light
29:05It's chosen in the land, do it well
29:10You can spare the world and not cook the bill
29:16So go to the river and learn to swim
29:21God's gonna wash away all of your sins
29:27And if you still can't see the light
29:33God's gonna buy your satellite
29:38He's out of the limo at Ninth and Ocean
29:40Look to the heavens and see it shine
29:52Kills the sick and leads the blind
29:58Tune in and hear it say
30:03It's counting down the judgment day
30:09Look to the heavens and see it shine
30:20So I take what's on this guy all the time, huh?
30:24The man was being more careful than a mule from Bogota
30:27In and out of buildings, changed his clothes
30:30According to the facts from Washington, it's consistent
30:34Apparently this clown is some bonafide do-gooder
30:37One-third of his annual proceeds go to the homeless
30:40Skid Row hospices, two clinics in New Orleans
30:43Et cetera, et cetera
30:45I asked in the kitchen after he left
30:48He's been making these weekly treks for the past three years
30:52And he insists on anonymity
30:56So maybe he's tired of stardom
30:58Wants to get back in touch with his roots
31:00What are his roots?
31:02After Miami in the 60s
31:04He ran a tent revival
31:05Out the back of a Land Rover in Ethiopia
31:07He was there during the worst of the drought
31:10Making it a little easier for those that were dying
31:12He had permanent lung scarring from the dust
31:15Man
31:17I'm not believing this
31:20Believe it
31:21This doesn't break down at all
31:26If Reverend Bill Bob Proverb is a saint
31:29Then who set me up and why?
31:31Someone who wants us to take down not just the wife
31:34But Bill Bob too
31:35Yeah, and who's that?
31:37We're gonna find out
31:38The guy that we thought was the devil is some sort of a saint
31:43Even if Leona was in trouble
31:49I just don't believe that Bill Bob was the one who framed me, man
31:53He didn't set me up
31:55Well, then who did?
31:56I don't know
31:56Well, neither do I
31:58So let's find out
31:59Okay
32:00What the hell are you yelling about?
32:02I'm angry, man
32:03I'm angry
32:04All right, so who stands to gain if you take a fall?
32:08What the hell's the matter with this thing?
32:10But they jacked the price up too much
32:13You're kidding me
32:1475 cents for a soda was a dime when I was a kid
32:18Maybe, maybe it's not about me taking a fall
32:22Maybe I'm recording
32:23Well, yeah, what's it about then?
32:26I don't know
32:26What was our first reflexive response?
32:30Off the assumption that Bill Bob was responsible for framing me
32:34All right, so the cop gets framed
32:40We go to Bill Bob
32:42We tear apart his ministry
32:44Who wants that to happen?
32:48Someone who doesn't like Bill Bob
32:49Someone who wants to see him take a fall
32:51Not just his wife
32:53But Bill Bob himself
32:55Someone who doesn't like Bill Bob very much
32:58All right, so we'll see who's at the top of the chart on that hit parade
33:07And five will get you an 800 number that that's the dude that we're looking for
33:11Okay, I call it a starter kit
33:13It's a little bit of everything
33:14A basic line you can grow from
33:15First of all, you're going to need your John 316 Heaven Tracks
33:18Two colored by the ring
33:19That's $5.99
33:20All right, now I'm going to show you something you might be interested in
33:22This is called glow-in-the-dark crosses and mezuzahs
33:25I know what you're thinking
33:26Why do I need a glow-in-the-dark cross?
33:27I got a cross, right?
33:29Nighttime, pal
33:29God can't see in the dark, right?
33:31Also, you've got an electrical storm or something
33:33It's brewing, you're frightened, it's scared
33:34And all of a sudden the lights come down
33:36Oh, you want to go pray, you want to go pray for lights
33:37Come back and you can't find it
33:38There it is, right there
33:39Glow-in-the-dark gives you around the clock
33:4024-hour night and day protection
33:42I give you $19.95 for the whole
33:44Okay, you're twisting my arm, you're twisting my arm
33:46I tell you what I do
33:47I'm going to give you 150 stain-resistant, laminated, holy cars
33:51We throw it in, we call it even
33:52What do you say?
33:54You ready, Felcher?
33:55Fast, steady, friends
33:56Fast to get you up on earning
33:57In the only industry that I pay standard and poor it's average
33:59Seven years in a row
34:00Salvation
34:01What exactly is your, uh, ecclesiastical bent?
34:07U.S. Post Office Investigation Division
34:09Mail fraud
34:11Look, if that's about those damn bottles again
34:18I already told you everything
34:19What damn bottles?
34:22Guy raised $11 million in the mail
34:24To put these little bibles in little bottles
34:26And float them down the ghost room
34:27To save the communists in Cuba, alright?
34:29Twenty-nine bottles
34:30They all land up on Daytona Beach
34:31Just because I sold them in little bottles
34:33Does not, does not, does not make me an accomplice
34:36I've checked with my lawyer
34:37We're not here for the bibles
34:39And we're not here for the crosses that glow in the dark
34:41No, Eddie, you see, we're here for the 1984 land fraud
34:46You know the mail order?
34:48You remember that?
34:50You know when you were selling the people the motorhome lots?
34:53The only problem was they were in the Gulf Stream
34:56Yeah, and you did 18 months in the country club
35:02You remember that, don't you?
35:03Uh-huh
35:04Yeah
35:04Now, does your present clientele know that you were the bad guy in that?
35:10Alright, okay, look, maybe we can, uh
35:12Yeah, maybe we can get some simple answers to some simple questions
35:15Like, uh, if Reverend Bill Bob Proverb got in deep trouble
35:22Who smiles the brightest?
35:26That's easy, Mason Mather
35:28Mather?
35:31Wait a minute, I talked to him
35:32He admits to being second fiddle
35:35He's got no problem with that
35:36You telling me there's more to it?
35:39The big gig
35:40Gigahertz, microwaves
35:42Come on, get hit to the new time religion, guys
35:44When Bill Bob Proverb decided to go on the bird, the satellite
35:48Mason Mather took a pass
35:49Now, without a slice
35:50His ticket to Washington politics is null and void
35:53I thought everybody used it
35:57Not at first
35:58Mason Mather didn't want his holy words and images
36:01Traveling through the same microchips as the bunny channel
36:04So why doesn't he get it now?
36:12No room at the inn
36:13I mean, he's got a local show
36:14But you can't book a satellite frequency to save your soul
36:16He stuck mailing tapes up and down the Bible belt
36:19Bicycling them like ten years ago
36:21Only way Mason Mather can get on the bird
36:23Is to knock Billy Bob Proverb off of it
36:33Back to work, eh?
36:34I hate you postal guys
36:38Come on, Deacon, where is he?
36:42I told you it's not possible to see Brother Mather
36:46He's ecstatic
36:47Listen, Jake
36:50I don't care if he's so happy he's howling at the moon
36:53He's in a state of heightened spirituality
36:56I'll heighten your spirituality
36:58This is police business
37:00Unless you've got a court order
37:02Or an arrest warrant
37:04You give him a message
37:09You tell him
37:12Call me at this number
37:14Or I'll get that warrant
37:15Fine
37:17Oh, speaking of messages
37:19I think Brother Mather will have one for you
37:23It'll be a major revelation on tonight's show
37:2710 p.m. channel 60
37:30Be there
37:32Baby's got a black book
37:35Say baby's got a black book
37:39She's got a black book
37:42Faye Nell Portis beat the machine
37:46Therefore she believes what she's saying
37:48Or maybe Mason Mather got to her
37:51As we wandered through this wonderland with the Looney Tunes
37:55You know, I.D. is pressing
37:56And my career is going down the drain so fast
37:59There isn't even a swirl
38:00Alex
38:02Change of channel
38:04It's 60 for a minute
38:06Now beneath the surface
38:08Relax
38:10We'll get back to you headbangers in a second
38:12Now beneath the surface
38:14There's got to be some reason
38:17There's cause and effect
38:19There's motive
38:20And behavior
38:22Now these guys and their world
38:24It cannot be all that irrational
38:27I will scourge the earth of his evil ministry
38:30I hereby make the following predictions
38:33The miracle is this
38:35The sky will part
38:38And fire and lightning will come from heaven
38:41Fire and lightning will destroy his evil ministry
38:46The Lord will send fire and lightning down on Reverend Bill Bob Prover
38:53In exactly two hours and ten minutes
39:23Come on, Reverend, you've got to leave
39:26I ain't gonna let him destroy you
39:28Get your hands off me
39:29Mason Mather ain't keeping me off my own show
39:31We're going live tonight, you understand?
39:33No tape, we're going live
39:35I want a camera on right now
39:36Is this thing working?
39:38Give me some sound over here
39:39Let's roll
39:40Are we on the air?
39:47Are we on the air?
39:49Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us tonight
39:52This is the Reverend Bill Bob Prover
39:54And I'm coming to you live tonight
39:56Because a certain minister of God
39:59Perhaps I should say a so-called minister of God
40:03Has made some wicked and unbelievable predictions
40:08About the events of tonight's show
40:10I wanted to be standing here in person
40:12Let me ask you a question, people
40:14Does it look as if the sky is going to part?
40:17Does it look as if fire is going to rain down on me tonight?
40:22That's ridiculous, people
40:24Absolutely ridiculous
40:25No!
40:27What is that?
40:32What's that?
40:32What are we talking about?
40:34What is that?
40:35What is that?
40:42Help!
40:44Let me see him!
40:50Dr. McCollum, surgery please
40:53very good guys excellent response very nice very nice listen uh the deacon wants to see you down
41:10the lounge why don't you grab a cup of coffee we got it that's not quite true gentlemen
41:14uh okay deacon we want to speak to matter he's being attended by dr kermit ollinger from atlanta
41:25what he needs is a lawyer and we'll be happy to wait if that's what he wants but we're gonna ask
41:33him right now i'm sorry you can't do that the man is suspect in everything from criminal conspiracy
41:39to the use of lightning as a lethal weapon but when i say you can't ask him i'm not being
41:47arbitrary you see the reverend mather is in a coma he's been unconscious ever since his broadcast last
41:54night leona honey what are you doing you're gonna get yourself all filthy come on get out
42:10there's no things billy boy yeah i know i know who's supposed to be watching leona
42:16and now we're gonna have to get all new things you know i i i already have some lovely ideas well
42:24that's real good honey let me talk to herbert the bank first all right
42:28make sure she don't have any credit cards
42:32hello gentlemen
42:40you got any estimates how about the whole shooting match how about 15 million dollar
42:52i hope mather burns
42:58well he's a sick one the success of my ministry's been eating him up inside for years you see i figured
43:09he put that that girl up to that rape business hell i can deal with that game any day of the week
43:13my whole studio
43:17well by the time i get finished with mr mason almighty mathers the man will not be able to afford
43:26a cardboard cross to hang himself on
43:30what did he have to say anyway
43:33not much
43:38he's in a coma
43:40a coma ho perfect yeah one of
43:44one of mather's famous comas they come on about once every six months
43:49got any theories on how this happened
43:54secular or divine theory
43:57secular like your insurance we don't cover acts of god
44:03well my faithful flock thinks that i have been judged from above
44:08i'd say it was an overload
44:12deliberately jumped in behind the surge suppressors and surrogate breakers
44:18what about my lady detective craig i mean after all this you still gonna bring her up on drug charges
44:26afraid so reverend
44:29d.a's gonna follow through
44:32well i certainly don't feel like god's favorite these days
44:41it's all japanese the best that money can buy
44:45and i got it before the trade war started you know what it's gonna cost me to replace this gear
44:49i uh found this in the microwave transmitter shack damn near burned to the ground liverwurst on white
45:05wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute
45:11this is a power transmission schematic
45:15did you say liverwurst
45:20my chief engineer on the night shift carl becker
45:24he eats a liverwurst and onion sandwich every night of the week
45:28yet within ten feet of the man your eyes start watering
45:34so it was becker
45:41he's not taking this well
45:43the trade by his own food
45:45these two may be world-class hustlers but as criminals bozo time
46:02i don't have a good time last night
46:06you didn't have a good time last night
46:10you didn't have a good time last night
46:12you got to
46:12i know you have vacations
46:14you take a vacation
46:16for the piece of the
46:17i don't see you right here i look at the journals
46:19i have something that's a good idea but i'll do whatever
46:22excuse me gentlemen uh which one of you uh is becker who wants to know
46:27i'm detective crock
46:32something i said
46:42i'm
46:52i'm
46:53i'm
46:54i'm
46:55i'm
46:57i'm
46:59i'm
47:01i'm
47:03i'm
47:10we know you've wired this station
47:13we've got your dinner and the schematics
47:15i don't do a thing
47:18this throat is
47:19so i forgot to eat big deal
47:21i bet it's a big deal when you're on double payrolls up
47:24i it was just a stunt
47:26i lowered the embers so no one would get hurt
47:29are you the one that talked the girl into yelling rape
47:32i just rewired the walk man now that did all the talking
47:36he told her to stage and he says the law would protect her
47:40dear what do you think you think we'd eat each other alive and come out the winter huh
47:46i don't know
47:47it's late
47:56so why blow the station
47:59huh
47:59i don't know man i just took his 20 grand why don't you just ask him
48:13it's a good idea come on
48:23came out of it about 20 minutes ago he grabbed a syringe full of procaine and the doctor says if he
48:28puts the whole volume in himself it's gonna stop his heart
48:32oh good good he's flipped he's done
48:39how can you tell that
48:40hey reverend mother back back devils
48:50i have been called to him i've been called to his bosom oh lord i have been called to him
48:56so come on down and we'll talk about it
49:02i'm through with this veil of tears
49:05uh reverend
49:12i am no longer of this earth i am above these mere mortals
49:17uh reverend what do you say my partner comes on up there and talks to you for for just five minutes huh what do you say
49:26take me from this evilness take me from this wicked verse
49:34no huh
49:35what do you think i ought to do go down and call the fire department tell them we got a jumper
49:40no we don't have time they broadcast paramedics and medevac as far as fort lauderdale from there
49:46that tower's got 10 000 watts of power somebody just keys the mic inside
49:54where do you know all that night school there is life after vice
49:59rev hey reverend look uh i'll just come down and we'll talk about it now now now reverend look i i
50:13know you got problems sure but but i don't think we're looking at any jail time here
50:22i have been called to him it's not my will i have been called to his bosom
50:29oh ye land thy will be done
50:42of god
50:53good evening friends it's real good to come before you tonight i haven't
50:59i haven't been on your television sets the last few nights i'm sure you all know the reason why
51:05my uh my electronic ministry was destroyed by what some people persist in saying was an act of divine
51:13retribution by an almighty lord
51:17well i don't know about that
51:18i guess i'm just not smart enough to know such profound things
51:29i do know i've been laid low
51:30i've never been so low as you see me here tonight
51:35i don't have much left but i have my health
51:47and i have my darling leona
51:54who has been a comfort and a joy to me
51:57and i'd like to thank the almighty god for sending her to me
52:03we uh we're gonna have to sell most everything we got the houses the cars the boats
52:13to pay our debts and legal fees and and to be honest folks to pay for leona's drug rehabilitation
52:22program
52:24and you know what i say folks
52:27i say good riddance to all that junk
52:31now if i were you seeing me in this sorry state i'm not sure i'd want to get behind this ministry
52:36i'm not sure that this ministry deserves your support to be honest
52:44that's up to you
52:47let's just leave it this way
52:49if you want to send us a few dollars that's fine and if you don't
52:52we still love you and bless you
52:56now with the last few seconds of this this little message
53:01i'd like to hear leona sing how about you
53:04darling go ahead
53:11i'm sorry darling forgive me folks i i forgot we we can only afford the one microphone go ahead
53:34for the world
53:37to see together as one
53:47we'll shine through our eternity
53:53all the dreams we dreamed of are now reality
54:09thank you jesus thank you
54:11one good thing about tv you can always turn it off
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54:49Transcription by CastingWords