Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

Steve Harris: Charles

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• Charles : Even though I almost destroyed it, I know you still have a heart.

• Helen : Are you hungry?

  [Charles nods] 

  Helen : Oh, maybe you should go into the kitchen and get yourself something to eat, huh?

  Charles : [crying]  Christina...

  Helen : [calling]  Christina!

  [grins] 

  Helen : Christina's gone! Your little tramp didn't leave her any money to pay her, so she just left, like your slut. She packed up all her things, and a few of yours, and split. In fact, she cleaned out your bank account.

  [laughing] 

  Helen : Isn't that just too much? You tried to keep it from me, and she just took it all. Huh? Huh? You are like so many men, Charles, you'd rather leave with trash than make it work with something good. You're a coward.

• Charles : You know I don't deal with your kind anymore.

  Jamison : My kind? Brother, before you was defendin' all those rich white boys, it was MY KIND that got you down.

  Charles : I'm goin' home...

  Jamison : [interrupts Charles]  HOME? Oh, how quickly we forget. I ran so much coke for you back in the day, I PAID for that house.

• Helen : [after Charles reveals he's been cheating]  You're not leaving.

  Charles : No, I'm not leaving but you are. There is a truck outside, full of gas, it can take you anywhere you want to go, I can't keep treating her like this and my children. Not seeing their papa everynight I'm just here and there.

  Helen : [voice breaking]  Children?

  Charles : 2 boys, they need me.

  Helen : [starts to cry]  Charles, it's me, how could you say this to me, how could you do this to me.

  Charles , Brenda : Good bye, Helen now be a lady and leave quietly.

  Helen : No.

  Charles : No? You would have never had any of this without me, now you better get out before iI loose my temper.

  Helen : No!

  [trying to grab Helen] 

  Helen : No, I am not leaving.

  Charles : [grabs Helen and drags her to the door]  You what, you think you're not going? You're leaving all right.

  Helen : [Helen screams try to fight off Charles]  No, Charles no, Charles!

  Brenda : [witnesses the fight in disbelief] 

  Charles : [as he successfully brings Helen to the door]  Get out!

  Helen : [Orlando watches Helen being thrown out of the house]  Charles, Charles.

  [Charles locks the door] 

  Helen : Charles!

  [Orlando sees Helen as she cries slowly walking down the stairs in disbelief] 

  Orlando : What the heel have the got me into?