Queen Sugar Recap: Your Passages Have Been Paid

Queen Sugar / Season 3, Episode 11 / OWN I noticed something about this episode–where is everyone? No Hollywood, no Blue, no Jacob, we don’t even see Ra until more than halfway through it. It feels…empty. This week’s episode had me in my feelings a few times–and especially with regards to Charley. Man, she’s seriously catching it from all sides, but we’ll get to that in a bit. We open with a shot of Darla lying in her bed, crying. Maybe she’s having a crisis of conscience about the custody fight she’s pursuing against Ralph Angel? Seems like it, especially since it became pretty clear last week that much of these machinations to paint him as a bad father are her mother’s doing. And Darlene is still in town trying to run her life for her. We already knew she was responsible for the new apartment and nice furnishings, but she’s also the one who got Darla her job. And she’s bound and determined to project manage taking custody of Blue.

Charley’s P.I. comes to visit her at the mill to let her know that Micah is a “person of interest” in the Sweet Bay fire, and she immediately heads to the high school to confront him. And man…. The look on Charley’s face, though. At least he doesn’t lie this time when she asks him point-blank if he had anything to do with the fire, but he’s hella disrespectful when she, predictably, lights into him. I felt MY great grandmother rise up within me when he ignores Charley’s order to go straight home and not talk to his friends for the time bein…