
Irma
Clip: Season 26 Episode 4 | 12m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
Melissa must weigh protecting her daughter against abandoning her mother. (Roger Torres/Chapman)
When Melissa’s unstable mother Irma tries to break into her new home, she must decide if protecting herself and her daughter is worth the price of abandoning her mother forever. (Roger Torres/Chapman)
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Irma
Clip: Season 26 Episode 4 | 12m 33sVideo has Closed Captions
When Melissa’s unstable mother Irma tries to break into her new home, she must decide if protecting herself and her daughter is worth the price of abandoning her mother forever. (Roger Torres/Chapman)
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[music] Lydia.
Hey.
I'm going to sleep.
Are you coming?
No.
Okay.
Don't stay up too late.
[crickets chirping] [traveling car noise] [sighs] [door knocking] Lydia, it's Grandma.
Let me in.
No, no, don't open the door.
Do not open the door.
[?]
Melissa.
Melissa, let me in.
-Stay here, okay?
Why?
It's Grandma.
-Because I said so, Lydia.
-Mel?
Mel?
[grunts] [footsteps] [door knocking] Melissa.
Melissa, let me in.
Mel?
Ma, please go away.
I want to come inside.
I can't let you in.
-Just for a minute.
-No.
I want to see Lydia.
No.
I got help.
You said that if I got help, that I could see you guys.
I did what you asked for.
Mel, please, I did what you asked for.
[door opens] [music] [sobs] Thank you.
Oh.
Tell me about the help you're getting.
I'm seeing a doctor.
They're giving me some stuff.
What are you taking?
I don't know.
They're pink.
Okay, where's Lydia?
Ma.
What's wrong?
You don't trust me.
I want to.
Then trust me.
Lydia?
Ma, come on.
Oh, she kept the dollhouse that I bought.
She wouldn't like it if I took her stuff now, would she?
What?
Nothing.
I heard you say something.
What did you just say?
Every time I come home, there's a new scratch on my table, and something's always missing.
We haven't been to the house in months, Ma.
Okay.
This is what I'm talking about.
Don't bring this into my house.
What, the truth?
No.
This shit you imagine.
Ma.
I am not crazy.
Hi, Mama.
What's wrong?
I bought some of that paper that you love.
Ma.
We can draw like we used to.
Pick one.
Pick a good one.
What?
You saw Lydia?
I think you should go now.
I am here to see my granddaughter.
I am here to see my daughter.
You can come another day.
I'm not coming another day.
I'm staying because I want to see you now.
I want-- You can come back another day.
Oh.
Did you find one?
Yes?
-Lydia.
-Let's go [?].
-Lydia, it was bedtime.
You're going to go to sleep.
-But she wants to draw.
-Ma.
-She wants to draw.
Right?
-She has school in the morning.
She needs to go to sleep.
-Relax.
Oh.
This one?
All right.
Okay.
Baby, stay on the lines.
Stay on the lines.
Give me.
-Ma.
Here, like this.
Yes?
I'm going to just do like that, yes?
Yes.
All right, draw the picture.
Draw the picture.
Yes.
Hey.
Hey.
-That's-- That's really nice.
Stop it.
No.
Here, try like this.
Like this.
See?
Like that.
Yes.
Try like that.
Here, this.
-Ma, that's enough.
-Try now.
That's enough.
It's not finished.
I don't care.
Let's go, Lydia.
I want to stay and draw with my granddaughter.
-Come on.
-Stay right here.
Let's go.
No.
Let her go.
Let her go.
I'll call the police, Ma.
I swear.
I want to stay.
You don't think I don't want you to.
I would never hurt you.
You did this.
No, I didn't.
You don't remember.
Please.
Let her go.
Ma.
-Come on.
I'll call them up.
No.
Don't.
Don't.
I'll let her go.
I'll let her go.
[phone rings] 911, what's your emergency?
No.
Stop.
Stop.
-Hi.
Yes.
Please, I need help.
Yes, I need help.
Please.
Get off me.
No, please.
Get off me.
Get off me.
Get off me.
Get off me.
[dollhouse breaks] Hey.
Come here.
Come here.
Come.
Mom, she hurt me.
Let me see.
Come here.
Come here.
Come here.
Come.
[sobs] [siren wailing] It's okay.
[sobs] Thank you for letting me come see you.
[door knocking] Hello.
This is the police.
We received a call from this house.
Is everything okay?
[door knocking] Hello?
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