Greenleaf Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: ”The Price of Freedom”

I swear Zora (Lovie Simone) makes you want to grab her, shake her and yell LISTEN TO YOUR MOMMA LITTLE GIRL!

But she’s 18 now and you can’t tell her nothing. All she knows is she’s leaving and her boo is on his way to pick her up. She walks out of her grandparents’ house determined to be grown, and heads down to the front gate with one suitcase like she’s going off to college. But, nope, she’s going to meet her Isaiah (Roshon Fegan).

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Lady Mae (Lynn Whitfield) isn’t letting her go without a fight though.

She walks with her down to the front gate pleading with Zora not to go. In the midst of them going back and forth with the gatekeeper as Zora’s yelling “open the gate”, while Mae’s yelling “Don’t you open that gate,” Zora’s parents pull up.

They hop out the car thinking Zora’s packed up to come back home with them. But here comes Isaiah driving up all recklessly and Zora can’t wait to get in his car.

When they all see him, everybody else starts panicking. Kerissa (Kim Hawthorne) tries talking some sense into Zora with her gentle motherly words, while Jacob (Lamman Rucker) wants to lay hands on Isaiah like he did the last time. Once Jacob starts approaches, this fool Isaiah jumps out with his cell phone in his hand.

This is the part where you start yelling at the TV like, No this dude didn’t just go live on social media to show his followers he’s about to be attacked.Then had the nerve to call Jacob a fat ass and Lady Mae an “old lady”? (Disrespectful kids!)

Once they realize there’s really nothing they can do, Kerissa gives her personal cell phone to Zora to keep with her just in case she needs to call and this punk ass little boy Isaiah takes the phone and throws it out the window.

Kerissa and Mae decide to get in the car and go after them. They figure the two teenagers will eventually go back to his parents’ house, because that’s what teenagers do, and they were right. While Isaiah is in the house and Zora’s in the car, Kerissa walks over to the car and tries one last time to reach out to her daughter.

She reminisces about the days when Zora was a baby and all the hopes and dreams she had for her life. Kerissa pleads with her not to throw it all away for a boy who beats her. Zora’s not listening and decides this is where she wants to be so Kerissa walks away, heartbroken. I’m so sad for Zora because nothing good will come of this.

Meanwhile, Jacob has another problem to deal with over at the church with Miss Tasha (Asia’h Epperson). She thinks because they kissed there may be something for real between them. Jacob shuts that down real quick and tells her that nothing like that will ever happen again.

Of course Tasha turns on the waterworks – tears just flowing, saying nothing ever works out for her. It’s crazy because you almost feel bad for her until you remember she’s married, too and working with the enemy to bring down the Greenleafs.

Right in the middle of her performance, Bishop (Keith David) walks in and interrupts their little interaction. Jacob lies and tells him that Tasha just lost a dear friend and she’s grieving.

Bishop is at Jacob’s church unannounced to try to gain some clarity on what’s going on with Zora. Now that he’s out of the house, it’s almost like he’s out of the family altogether. He’s the last to know about Zora and Jacob doesn’t make it any better by basically dismissing Bishop’s inquiries.

Bishop is desperately trying to hold onto his place as the patriarch of the family but he’s getting phased out. He goes home to as Mae for help in making sure the family still knows he’s the head of the Greenleafs, but couldn’t even open the gate of his own home because Mae done up and changed the code. He’s definitely being phased out and Mae has no remorse. She tells he only has a friend in Jesus.

Grace (Merle Dandridge) is still working hard on this domestic violence case. She’s managed to pull some strings to get Coralie (Bethany Lind) out of jail. The District Attorney is playing the villain and trying his best to make sure Coralie is convicted. He goes to Grace to offer a plea deal for Coralie and basically threatens her to make sure that Coralie takes it. He reminds her that he’s the reason she got off from the pre-meditated murder charge of her uncle and if she doesn’t convince Coralie to take the deal, he can and will cause trouble for her.

The plea deal offers Coralie 20 years with the possibility of parole after 15. Right now, all Coralie wants to do is see her children, and guess who makes that happen – Rochelle Cross (LeToya Luckett).

It’s nice to know people in high places and Rochelle just so happens to have a friend who works over at CPS (Child Protective Services) who arranges a visit with the kids. This mysterious friend is allegedly a young woman who Rochelle once mentored in the big sister program. Or so she says. But you know she’s always lying and up to no good.

Charity (Deborah Joy Winans) is becoming a grief counselor in her own right. She’s spending more time over at the funeral home with families who’ve lost loved ones and she’s pretty good at it. She may have found her calling outside of singing. Even Percy sees it. He offers her a check, a full time job and even the opportunity to continue to run the funeral home after he’s dead and gone. For right now, she’s just happy that someone can see her value but she hasn’t fully signed on to take the job. She did take that check, though!

Wanda J. Coppage is a full -time Music Director at an Urban AC radio station, journalist and proud Virginia State University alum – Go Trojans! As a music enthusiast who can’t go a day without hearing R&B/Soul or Classic Hip Hop as well as a TV passionista, why not live a life that covers both?

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