![]() ![]() Just then, the charge nurse arrives, and a team tries to revive Davis. Davis stops breathing, so Ruth tries to help him-but Ruth isn't supposed to touch him per Turk's request, so she stops herself. The next morning, Davis's nurse asks Ruth to watch him. She performs the newborn exam, but Turk demands that not be allowed to touch his son, which angers Ruth. One October morning, Ruth is assigned to care for Brit and Davis. As an adult, Ruth feels like she's a respected member of her mostly white community. She was raised by a single mother, Mama, who was a domestic servant for a wealthy white family. Meanwhile, Ruth is the only Black labor and delivery nurse at Mercy-West Haven. ![]() They get married two years later and have a son, Davis, at the Mercy-West Haven hospital. ![]() A white power leader named Francis Mitchum reaches out to him, and he falls in love with Francis's daughter, Brit. ![]() Turk, angry and resentful about Tanner's death, is drawn into the white supremacy movement. After the other driver involved in the accident, a Black man, is acquitted, Turk's family falls apart: his parents separate, and Turk's mother begins drinking excessively. Turk is 11 when his brother Tanner is killed in a car crash. ![]()
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