Queen Sugar Recap: Your Distant Destiny

Queen Sugar / Season 3, Episode 3 / OWN This season opens with Micah trying to figure out his ‘fit for his first day at public school. Charley comes in to remind him that she trusts him –but also to lean on him to keep his grades up (and to turn the music down). Nova’s on a Skype call with the editor at the New York publisher. It seems there’s a snag with Nova’s decision to leave The Daily New. The articles she’d published are no longer available for publication in the book. She’s going to have to write a new proposal for a book. She glances up at that picture of Ida B. Wells she still has on her wall. Ralph Angel is leaving the docks where he’s been working. He asks the owner of the seafood plant about his check, saying he needs to leave to pick up Blue, but he’s also fielding text messages from some girl. The plant owner says he deserves a “good girl” and offers to have him over for dinner sometime. She’s sweet. Later that night, Ralph Angel is again on the porch of his house at the farm when a young woman arrives. He invites her in, and sometime later, Blue wakes up to her putting her clothes back on in the living room. Ra picks him up to take him back to bed. Hollywood’s talking to his friend Rondel when Vi comes home about investing some in a barbershop. Vi is, as always, skeptical. Hollywood feels like now that he’s flush, it’s no big thing to spend a little bit –which is when he pulls out a sparkling diamond ring and slides it on Vi’s finger. Though she didn’t seem e…