‘Queen Sugar’ Recap: Ralph Angel Confronts Darla + Remy & Charley Clash

Aunt Vi brightens Blue’s day.

Blue is in the garden playing with his doll. While he’s talking to the doll, he brings up what someone said about Darla.

“I heard someone say, ‘That damn girl.’ I think they were talking about mommy.” – Blue

His mood changes when Aunt Vi joins him and hums “This Little Light of Mine.” As she sings it, Blue smiles.

Nova is with her colleague interviewing a black farmer about the Queen Sugar Mill rumors. During the interview, Darla stops by. Nova blocks her way into the home as Darla asks to get the rest of her things. Darla tells Nova she doesn’t want any trouble. However, Nova tensely stares her down and tells her she doesn’t trust her.

Darla opens up to her and tells Nova that she was nervous about losing Ralph Angel. Eventually, Nova tells Darla to come back when Ralph Angel is home and she walks away sobbing.

Jacob and Charley face-off.

Charley storms into Jacob Boudrueaux’s office demanding he backs off of the rumors. But they just engage into a back and forth.

“I like trading barbs with you Charley. It gets my blood up.” – Jacob Boudreaux

“I know you do. This is a game to you.” – Charley

Despite this, Boudreaux is still convinced that he and Charley should team up and join forces. He also reveals that he is enamored with her as a person.

“We can take it all together.” – Jacob Boudreaux

Charley tells him, “The end is coming,” and storms off.

Seeing Blue happy with Aunt Vi and Hollywood causes Darla to break down.

Darla is driving over to Aunt Vi’s house. When she gets there, she sees Blue with Aunt Vi and Hollywood. She wants to get out of the car, but she is ashamed over everything that happened. As a result she begins to tear up and scream out in sadness. Meanwhile, Hollywood is showing Blue how to fix his bike.

While this happens, Hollywood gets a phone call about his deposition he gave earlier. He is told that the rig company will settle for triple of what they originally offered. He shares the good news with Aunt Vi.

Ralph Angel is with another farmer out on the land. She tells him that with all of the trouble they are having in their family, they are scared off about rumors the Landry family Is spreading. She also tells him that another farmer will not be milling with Queen Sugar either. This news disappoints Ralph Angel and says he will talk to Charley. Meanwhile, Charley is getting calls from the other farmers about leaving the mill and breaching their contract.

At this point, Charley gets fed up, and comes up with a plan.

A result from his deposition brings out good news and a proposal to Aunt Vi.

Hollywood and Aunt Vi are sitting on her porch looking over Blue play in the yard. As they are reminiscing, Hollywood takes the time to propose to Aunt Vi. When he proposes, Aunt Vi thinks about it for a moment, and then happily accepts.

Nova is at home when Hollywood and Aunt Vi arrive with Blue. She’s hosting Aunt Vi and Hollyood’s engagement party and to mark its significance. The toasts to them and says, “Y’all are goals.”

They  laugh and talk over dinner. At this point, Remy arrives without Charley, due to her dealing with the farmers breaking their deals at the last-minute. They all talk about everyone’s positive reactions over their engagement.

In the kitchen, Nova and Remy are washing dishes and talking. Their conversation appears to get surprisingly flirty and they seem to share a moment. They express how they admire what they do in the community and Remy compliments her cooking. They catch eye contact with one another and Nova is surprisingly enamored.

Charley comes up with a plan.

Ralph Angel catches a worried and angry Charley in his living room. She tells him that she has only three farmers left. She then tells him her plan; which involves Ralph Angel milling with Jacob’s mill. She asks for his trust, and he reluctantly agrees.

She tells him that without this plan, Queen Sugar will fall.

“It will be brutal. It will be a slaughter they never come back from — I promise you… On daddy’s name.” – Charley

Before she leaves, she tells him this is why she fired Darla.

“I don’t want you to question where my loyalties lie.” – Charley

Ralph Angel goes out looking for Darla.

This turns on a light bulb in RA’s head and he starts thinking about Darla. He heads out to her AA meeting and comes across her sponsor. Darla’s sponsor tells RA that she didn’t come by and asked to be alone tonight.

“I am worried about her.” – Darla’s Sponsor

Remy stops by the mill and runs into Charley. He wants to talk to the farmers one-on-one but Charley stops him. She tells him about her plan to have RA use Sam Landry’s mill and make a deal with Jacob. Remy immediately scoffs at this and tells her that she would be breaking the trust of the black farmers they spent months convincing to join them.

Charley yells, “They all left me anyway!”

Their conversation gets intense and then Charley tells Remy, “Either your trust me, or you don’t.”

Remy tells Charley that he cannot trust her. He then walks away, signaling their breakup romantically and professionally.

Nola’s article brings high praise from her editor.

Nola is at home writing an article, and quotes Toni Morrison thought on how racism keeps blacks from realizing their power. When she finishes the piece, she sends it to her editor who responds with great praise in a text.

They tell Nova that this is the best article they have ever read from her. Steve then tells her that the piece will be on the front page, above the fold, and Nova smiles at this news before she heads off to bed.

Darla and Ralph Angel break up.

Ralph heads out to Darla’s known hangouts. He first comes across women sitting out in a motel parking lot. They cat call him but he ignores their advances. He asks first if they seen a woman named Darla. They say no and he asks if they seen Star. They say no and he walks off. He then drives off to another place that was Darla’s drug hangout. In there he sees users high off heroin.

He gets out and asks if they seen Darla. They haven’t so he heads off to another place where Darla hangs out; a pool. There he looks over a balcony to see Darla swimming. Darla looks up from the water and sees RA. She gets out of the pool with his help and they go off to talk.

Ralph Angel tells Darla that he never lied to Darla.

“All the things I thought you was, a liar was never one of them.” – Ralph Angel

Darla then asks him if he can hear her out. She explains that she was getting high in DC and does not remember what happened.

However, Ralph Angel wants to know why she lied.

“You tole me all that matters to you is me and Blue. Then you turn around, you keep a lie like this, a poison like this?” – Ralph Angel

Darla begins to tear up and says that there isn’t an excuse.

“It’s unacceptable.”

When Ralph Angel yells at her, she yells back.

“I was scared! I was scared I couldn’t remember what happened with those guys and I didn’t now if it happened that night or with the man I was in love with.” – Darla

She also admits to contemplating suicide while pregnant because she couldn’t use drugs.

“What I was supposed to say to you?” – Darla

“Say you’re pregnant and you don’t know if it’s yours.” – Ralph Angel

He then recalls the joy he felt when Darla told him she was pregnant with Blue and he was the father.

“You let me celebrate… You let me be proud. Then you take it all away from me.” – Ralph Angel

At this point, Ralph Angel gets angry, telling that she lied about it everyday since. He then breaks up with Darla.

“I’ll never look at you the same. I’ll never trust you again. I won’t be with you if I can’t trust you.” – Ralph Angel

Darla begins to cry. “You can turn away from me. But please don’t turn away from Blue. He loves you so much Ralph Angel.”

“Blue is the blood in my veins. Even if mine ain’t his.” – Ralph Angel

Darla then says she’s going to go home to her parents and get on her feet in DC. She will tell Blue that she got sick and needs to go home to get better.

Ralph then tells Darla “God Bless you and I mean that,” and then walks off.

Charley is at Jacob’s office and apologizes for her earlier behavior. She then tells him that she will accept his offer under some conditions; she will still lead her sugar mill and be the font woman for it, while he buys it. She also wants him to leave the black farmers in the parish alone.

Jacob is skeptical and questions this. Charley says, “I’m tired of fighting.”

At this point, Jacob seems open to her plan. He also proposes they make their relationship more personal, grabbing her hand.

“One step at time Mr Boudreaux.” – Charley

He agrees and they toast over bourbon.

Blue learns the meaning behind his name.

Ralph Angel picks up Blue from Aunt Vi’s and he’s sleep. Blue wakes up when RA buckles him in. Ralph Angel tells him about how he was named. RA explains that he was going to be named Andrew, Cornell, Percy or Troy, but was inspired by Aunt Vi’s name. Blue represents the rarity in him.

“I wanted you to have your own name. Something no one in the family ever had.” – Ralph Angel

Ralph Angel explains how Aunt Vi realized she was named after a color Violet. He came up with Blue because it rhymed with her mother’s name Dru. He tears up as the name reminds him of the two women that constantly believed in him; Aunt Vi and his mother.

“Everything good son, you got it.” – Ralph Angel

They drive off and Blue stares at the full moon, falling back asleep.

 

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