In the Bronx, nine days before the hanging, Fatima and Mik walk arm in arm, laughing.
Someone
comes up and calls Fatima a terrorist but she shrugs it off; Mik suggests she
loses the scarf, but Fatima says it was her mom's.
Just don't
call the police, Fatima instructs her.
The
girls duck into a store to get away from the guys taunting Fatima and, while in
there, they notice a sign saying the store is hiring.
Mik asks
for an application, but Fatima knows she can't take one unless she gets a green
card first.
A guy
walks past with a German shepherd and Mik goes to pet it, but the dog snaps at
her.
The owner
explains the dog is working, so the girls figure out the man is police, and the
dog is sniffing for drugs.
It turns
out the cops are narcs (i.e., drug police), but it still worries Fatima.
Mik
doesn't want Fatima to leave, so she tells her to call NaNa and explain that
Mik will stay at Fatima's place tonight.
They
sneak into an abandoned NYPD warehouse and look around the graffiti on the
wall. There, they decide to paint the Statue of Liberty.
Fatima
and Mik study the brochure to make sure they get her features right. Then they
paint her on the wall, along with the poem that is at her feet.
As they
use their flashlights to look along the wall, they notice another mural that
says, "love kills time." It's Jimmi's painting of hearts and clocks.
They
give a stray cat some food and watch it eat in front of Lady Liberty. (Not to
be confused with this cat.)