Night Always Comes (2025) Movie Script
Here! Here!
Over here!
Guess what?
I'm not!
Stop!
What's wrong, sweetie?
Mama! I got mud on my knee!
Now it's a house!
Hello, Lynette,
this is Investigator Sharon Wright
from Cash Express Loans.
Please, please, please call me back
about your outstanding loan balance.
If I don't hear from you soon, I need to
escalate this to our repossession team,
and I do not want to have to do that.
Investigator Sharon Wright,
Cash Express Loans.
888-555-0113.
If you're
feeling the pinch, you're not alone.
Numbers released by the Fed today
are confirming continuing inflation,
rising rents, and an ever-concerning
Ken. Come on.
It's a big day.
We're closing on the house, remember?
- One more minute.
- Get up. You say that every morning.
One University
of Washington economist put it this way
Mom, get up.
fundamentals
of the American economy are breaking,
especially in the job market
and the housing market.
People are actually being paid
less than they used to for the same jobs.
Middle wages are going down
thanks to inflation.
A hundred dollars used to get you
a lot of groceries.
Now you're spending twice that
and your bags are less full than before.
Economists believe
it's not just food prices.
According to new numbers,
the majority of all renters spend
over a third of their income on housing.
30% of Americans say they
could not pay a $1,000 emergency expense.
The consequences could be disastrous,
including eviction rates,
job losses,
and mental health difficulties.
Don't look at me like that.
Ugh
Who can sleep
with your horse feet clomping around?
Don't sleep out there
and then you won't have to hear me.
Don't be an asshole.
It's too early to deal with
your constant criticisms.
We're meeting David at the attorney's
at 2:30 to sign the papers.
So you can't be late. Do you hear me?
Yeah, okay. You don't need
to remind me every two minutes, okay?
If we don't put the money
down today, we'll be evicted.
Do you understand?
- Mom? Do you understand?
- Hey, Mommy.
Hi, babe.
Come here.
Mm. How did you sleep?
- Really good.
- I like that.
- Ken, where's your other shoe?
- What?
So you gotta pick up the check
from Chase on the way, right?
- Of course, I got it. Thank you.
- Okay. 2:30.
Come on, Ken.
Coming up here on Portland 90.7 FM,
we're taking your calls all morning
to know if you're feeling the squeeze
in this economy.
No sugarcoating it, folks.
Everything's going up
except our paychecks.
- Latest numbers from the Fed confirmed
- Are you excited for the house?
- Oh, yes.
- Oh, yes.
Uh, great times.
You know what it means
to own a home, don't you, Ken?
It means Social Services
can't take you away again.
Yeah. And I can paint my bedroom red.
If you're homeless, or live in a motel,
or are even just struggling,
everyone assumes that you deserve it.
It just takes one raise in rent,
one missed shift at work,
and anyone could be right here.
Everyone thinks,
"They're homeless because of
something they've done." Well, no.
Sometimes it's just like one slip-up,
one big bill coming in, and boom,
you're evicted, you're living in your car,
and there's no way back.
It's rare, but it's not.
For every one person who finds a home,
four more are forced out of theirs.
Think about that.
And if you have an eviction
on your record, nobody'll rent to you.
I think Americans are trained
from birth to hate poor people.
Even poor people hate poor people.
That's the DNA of this country.
We have wages falling, prices going up,
housing completely out of control.
It really feels to me
and to a lot of others
that the fundamentals of American society
are just breaking down,
especially when it comes
to jobs and housing.
"Working homeless"
ought to be an oxymoron.
And here I am living in my car,
and showering at the YMCA, and just
You're gonna be okay while I'm at work?
Will you ask about the job at the bakery?
Yeah. I'm gonna ask him again.
I'm with you. For the rich,
Portland is this huge success story.
Rents are skyrocketing,
investments, luxury developments
Life's great for property owners
Ah, it's a big day for you, huh?
Yeah.
Though until it's signed, I'm like, ugh.
- Just can't even
- Mama doing all right?
Yeah, you know.
She's a total fucking mess like always.
Mm.
All right. Hit it.
The manager's here, Ken.
Come on, you gotta go.
Did you ask about the job?
Yeah, I I did. There's nothing right now.
Syrup on the side this time?
- Uh, no, top.
- No, side.
- No, top.
- Yesterday you said side.
- No, I did not say that.
- You can't change your mind all the time.
- Five dollars.
- I don't care.
- "Thank you."
- Yeah, give me.
Morning, Kenny.
- Ken, I'll be done in three.
- Okay.
In the end
The differences between Monetarist
and the Keynesian approaches are just...
differences in opinion
on how to maximize economic growth.
She looks like Hillary Clinton.
The driving force here is...
- He needs full-time care.
- Yeah, I know. That's under control.
- There are facilities for that.
- We're just in between facilities.
Find one. My classroom is not it.
- Yeah, I get it.
- Um, my name's Kenny.
- Okay, but Kenny can't be here.
- Yup, we know that.
- You know I was bullshitting her, right?
- Yeah.
- You're not going back to that place.
- I'm not going back.
- Never.
- No.
- We're getting a house now, Ken.
- Cool.
Do I look okay?
- You look good.
- You think?
Mama better be here.
Why do I feel so nervous?
I want you
I want you to be, you know, strong.
Strong and just be yourself,
and just be adorable.
There's this... Here she is.
Hi, David. I'm so sorry.
We got held up in traffic. It was
- It's fine.
- Yeah, um
- Oh, this is Kenny, you remember?
- Of course.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Uh, this is Mike Gregory, my lawyer.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hello, Mike.
Uh, thank you for the money off
and the extension that you gave me.
Of course! My dad
would've wanted you to have it, so
Doreen's not with you?
We need both of you to sign the loan.
Uh, of course.
I mean, she texted me to say, um
Uh, she should be here.
It's probably minutes away.
Um, thing is we don't have a lot of time.
I have to go see a property in St. John's.
No, she's coming.
She's coming. I'll call her.
Uh, sure.
Stressful.
I guess I don't know what I expected.
Um, okay, I feel like
we've tried and tried here.
It's just
- Hi, listen
- Where are you?
I'm I got, like, held up. Where are you?
I'm at the attorney's office.
Uh, well, you're gonna
have to tell them I can't make it.
I I can't talk about this right now.
Sorry.
Are you serious?
Mm, gotta gotta go.
Is, uh Is Doreen gonna make it?
It's Doreen. You know what to do.
Sharon Wright from Cash Express
It's Doreen. You know what to do.
Denise called in sick,
so I'm covering until you arrive.
Try not to be late
Oh no. We're so fucked.
What is that?
It's a car.
Whose car?
Mine. Bought it.
Passed that dealer on the way to work.
They were having this Mazda Madness sale.
- You're not serious.
- I saw this beautiful white car.
So I went in, I hustled them,
and I got a great deal.
So instead of coming
to the attorney's office like we planned,
you left work, went to a car dealership,
and you bought a car?
Yeah, pretty much.
How much was that?
Um, I put 25 down,
so my monthly is almost nothing.
$25,000?
It's my money, right?
You just spent
our whole down payment on a car?
Well, I'm allowed to spend my own money.
- Working at Fred Meyer till I drop dead.
- Do you have any idea what this means?
I've been saving for years, so I thought,
why not do something nice for myself once?
Why would you do this today?
That money is for the house.
I'm gonna go inside,
I'm gonna grab a Coke,
and then I'm gonna grab Kenny
and take him for a drive.
You didn't turn up
because you were at Mazda Mania?
- Really?
- It's Mazda Madness.
Mazda Madness, then?
We're gonna be evicted.
Do you understand that?
I mean, have you actually lost your mind?
We don't have anywhere to go.
We're gonna be out on the streets.
What do you not get?
I'm really sorry.
It was a shitty thing to do.
And I'm I'm a really shitty mom.
I know you're upset,
and that's the last thing I want,
but honestly, I didn't tell you
because I knew you'd be upset, and
"Upset"? I just had to beg David
to give us till tomorrow...
David's a crook.
His loan is a shitty loan,
and the house is shittier still.
Everything's falling apart here.
Oh God. They're gonna take Kenny away.
- I knew you'd act like this.
- Fuck, fuck.
Okay, listen to me, okay?
I told you I'm gonna do it up.
I told you I'm gonna fix it up.
Gonna make it nice.
Gonna make it so nice.
Because that's the point.
We'll never get
another opportunity like this.
This is our only chance. Do you get that?
There's another offer.
He's gonna take the offer tomorrow.
- Do you understand that?
- I cannot.
- They'll take Kenny away.
- I'm not doing this with you now.
- Please just give me the keys.
- No. I'm not giving you the keys.
I am not having
this conversation right now!
Stop fighting!
I'm gonna take it back.
I'm gonna do all of the talking.
- I'm gonna tell them you made a mistake.
- But I haven't made a mistake.
You have. You have. Just give me the keys.
Just give me the keys.
- Give me the fucking keys!
- Hey!
- Give me the fucking...
- Stop fighting.
I hate when you fight!
Hey, babe?
Would you like to go for a ride
in my brand-new car?
- Oh God.
- So cool, Mom.
Okay. Okay.
But this Mom, this is about Kenny.
This is so cool.
Come on.
We'll go to Dairy Queen and celebrate.
We'll be homeless, and you'll be
living in that fucking Mazda, Mom.
- You wanna buy the house?
- Kenny will go back in that care home.
Get it on your own. God love you.
- You go for it, okay?
- You know I can't get a loan on my own.
- You know that!
- Yeah, and whose fault is that?
And I'm gonna be out on the street again.
Is that what you want?
How long have you kept a job before
you blow it and you freak out at everybody
and start threatening people
and throwing shit?
I'm sorry. No, come on. I'm begging you.
Please. Do not do this.
I'm begging you. Please.
Let's just take it back, okay?
I will go to the dealership, tell them...
Can you not? Fuck off.
It's done. It's signed.
That's the contract, okay?
It's over, it's done. Let go. It's over.
Oh God. Fuck.
Okay, you know what?
I'm gonna get the $25,000.
You are insane,
and you have lost your mind.
You've lost your mind.
Kenny, she's lost her mind.
Okay, just don't forget to pick Kenny up
tonight from Mona's, okay?
This is David Claremont
from Portland Real Estate.
Leave a message and I'll call you back.
David, hi, it's Lynette.
Um, I'm sorry about today.
I just, um, I have something
I wanted to talk to you about.
It's kind of urgent.
Would you mind just giving me a call back?
Thanks.
You okay?
- You're late again! It's 6:30.
- I know, Tammy.
- I know. Sorry, I got caught up...
- Whatever.
I just wish you wouldn't be such a slacker
and be on time once in a while.
- Something happened.
- Not my problem.
- Can you grab that food order there, sis?
- Yeah.
- Hi, David.
- Are you backing out?
No, it's just that the bank is fucked up
and they didn't get the check in time
and we might just need a bit more time
because it's a weekend tomorrow.
Okay, enough already.
I've been more than generous.
I know. If you could just
I know that you have, David.
You know that I know that you have.
I just need a bit more time, that's all.
- I just need one more day.
- Lynette, stop!
9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
If all the money is in my account,
we have a deal. Otherwise, it's off.
- $25,000 by 9:00 a.m.
- Okay.
- Last chance, Lynette.
- Yeah. Tomorrow.
Fuck.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
No.
Can I have one?
- Cody.
- I know.
- Scott, hi.
- You called?
- Yes.
- You free to meet?
Yes, I can, actually.
I'm free, that's right.
The usual place, okay?
Yes, that's great.
We can definitely do that.
- Fifteen minutes?
- Thirty.
Sure.
Right over there. Help yourself.
- Where are you going, girl?
- I've gotta
- No way. No.
- It's Kenny. I've gotta go.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's always Kenny!
- Hi.
- Hey.
Hi.
- Never seen you not dressed up.
- I know.
I thought I'd mix it up a little bit.
It looks, um, good.
I was surprised you called.
You never called me before.
- No, I know. I never do.
- It was actually good timing.
I had the evening free.
That's great. I'm so pleased.
So why'd you call?
Well, I, um
- I had this idea for us I'd like to share.
- Idea? Okay.
Is it a sexy idea?
- So, okay. So, you know...
- You know what? Let me get you a drink.
- Excuse me!
- Yes, hi.
- Two tequila on the rocks, please.
- Sure.
- Idea.
- Yes, an amazing investment opportunity.
I live in Kenton. You know that area?
- From the news sometimes, yes.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I know, right? It's so
I live in a place there,
and the guys decided to sell it to us
for $40,000 under the asking price,
which I thought was a good
- It's a really good deal.
- Okay.
- We got this one shot of getting us...
- Who's us?
My mom and my brother.
Oh, um Yeah, you should go for it.
Yeah, the thing is,
is that we lost the deposit on the
Here you go. Two tequilas.
Thank you.
- Salud.
- Salud.
Yeah.
All right, so the thing is what?
Well, the thing is we had this deposit,
and it kind of went wrong today,
and I just wondered whether maybe, um
I wondered if you might be able
to, uh lend me the money.
The, uh, $25,000.
For the house?
Yeah, no, but through your company,
'cause I know you're
really good at this stuff, and...
Wait, are you joking?
You're joking, right?
I wouldn't ask you if it wasn't
I just really, I just
I just need a bit of help right now.
- Was wondering if
- No.
- If you could ask people at work.
- Yeah, no.
Maybe there's a way you can maybe...
I'm not looking to find a way
to work out any deals with you, Lynette.
Sure. Yeah.
Look, listen. Listen.
I like you.
Okay? I do. We have a lot of fun together.
But I don't want to know that you live
with your mother and your brother.
You know?
Like, I pay to have a good time,
not to talk about that stuff.
Yeah?
I have enough worries as it is.
My kids always asking
for stuff, never saying "thank you" ever.
- You know?
- Yeah.
- You okay?
- Yes.
- Yeah, I'm great. I'm really great.
- Yeah?
- Still okay to go up to the room?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Always.
Okay.
Here's, uh the $500.
And I'm going to double it
as a parting gift.
It's been fun these past few months.
It really has.
Good luck with the house.
Yes, honey. We'll talk about it
when I get home, okay?
Say good night to the kids.
Okay. Love you.
All right.
Fuck.
Shit.
Hey, Lynette, crazy question.
Did you see my key fob in the room?
What the fuck am I doing?
Shit.
Fuck.
I know you've taken my car, Lynette.
Call me right fucking now! I mean it!
Call me back!
- Hi.
- Lyn-Lyn!
What are you doing here?
- I missed you.
- Hi.
What's going on?
I thought you were the delivery guy.
Oh! All right. Come on in.
Make yourself at home.
Oh my God.
This better be good.
My Lyft's gonna be here in five minutes.
- Is this where he's got you now?
- It's Robert's old bachelor pad.
You know, I'm making it my own, and
I mean, look at this view.
Didn't have this at the last place.
Do you want a drink?
There's a whole bunch right there.
- Yeah.
- Make me one too.
To what do I owe this pleasant surprise?
I need to ask you something.
Ah-ah-ah-ah! No, no, no!
Don't touch those glasses.
They're Robert's.
If you break it, he'll kill me.
There's clean ones above the sink.
Anyway, I wish I could stay
and get drunk with you,
but I was, like,
ten minutes late last week.
He does this thing
that my grandma used to do.
He, like, won't tell you why he's mad,
but they'll just, like, look at you
like a fucking chihuahua in the middle
of taking the biggest shit of its life,
like all cockeyed, like
Like, it's actually quite
menacing and terrifying.
Can't stay long.
I gotta pick Kenny up anyways.
Why are you acting like you're his mom?
Trying to prove you're
a good little girlie or something?
- Fuck off.
- Well, I'm just saying, you do too much.
Fuck. You smell bad. You look like shit.
Do I? You have no idea.
Did I tell you I just got back
from San Diego?
He had some Senate stuff to do
in Corona Del Mar.
We stayed at the Hyatt. Two rooms.
We're still doing the whole,
like, being discreet thing,
even though everyone knows we're together,
including his wife,
which is a whole 'nother story,
but I'll tell you that another time.
We're not gonna stay at the Hyatt anymore.
They say the beds are Tempur-Pedic,
and they're so clearly not.
They're, like, cardboard.
It's false advertising.
You grew up sleeping on a couch,
and now you're complaining
about a fancy bed at the Hyatt?
Oh, you know what, Lynette? Fuck you.
I told you that in confidence.
God, you always bring You're so annoying!
Ugh, this shit doesn't even come off.
I'll do it.
Can you open this?
- Can you hurry? I really have to go.
- Okay, Gloria. I've got a problem, okay?
And you know that three grand you owe me?
I really need it tonight 'cause Doreen
fucked up the plan to buy the house.
I need that money back, okay?
- I knew she was gonna do that.
- Gloria.
Gloria, I'm serious.
- Look at this.
- Fuck.
Look at this. Giovanni Versace.
That's how the Italians say it.
What do you think?
Should I wear this tonight?
It's kind of springy.
Gloria, I really need
my money back tonight.
- Nope! I'm not doing this now.
- I'm serious. We're gonna be evicted.
- You understand?
- My car's downstairs. I'm not doing this.
I'm gonna be
turning fucking tricks in my car again.
Ugh! You're literally
fucking up my vibe right now.
- Ugh.
- Babe
Oh my God.
Did Robert put that there
to watch you change?
No, don't be crude.
I put it there. I prefer this version
anyway because he doesn't talk back.
- Do you, Bobby? That's my boy.
- Oh my God.
Anyway, you're just jealous
because my man is going places.
Yeah, jail.
Although I'm kinda stressed 'cause
I don't think he finds me sexy anymore.
Here. Can you put this on?
That must be hard, but I'm not here
to talk about your sex life.
I'm here to talk about
the money you owe me.
All right, Lynette, take the stick
out of your ass, okay?
You can't show up unannounced and start
emotionally blackmailing me for money.
That's what you did to me six months ago
when I bailed you out.
Lynette, I was in jail.
That situation is not this situation.
You're the only number I know by heart.
Like, that's just the way the chips fell.
Like, okay? Relax.
Take one look at me. How long do you think
I'd last at Columbia River Correctional?
- Yeah, not long.
- Okay, exactly. That settles that.
Unbelievable.
Gloria, come on.
Can you not ask Robert
for the fucking money?
Ask Scott.
I did. He said no.
He doesn't even call me anymore.
You stole him from me.
Well, it's ended now, so
Whatever. I know you definitely
got way more than $3,000 off him,
so let's call it even.
Can't you ask
those two other guys you're seeing?
What the fuck, Lynette?
I'm not seeing them anymore.
Well, last week you were.
Now suddenly you're not?
What are you, the fucking feds?
Jesus Christ, Lynette. Do you know
what would happen if Robert heard you?
He'd throw me out!
I'd be back dancing at Mary's.
Give me my money and I will fuck off!
- Ugh! My car's here. I can't do this.
- I'm gonna be working the streets, Gloria.
- You're unbelievable!
- Kenny's gonna be taken away. How
Ugh!
Really bad time, Lynette!
My car's downstairs!
Will you stop shouting at me?
I am asking for my own money.
I can't just materialize $3,000
in the middle of the night!
What the fuck do I look like,
Bank of America?
I can't be your personal fucking
ATM machine every time you need money.
You know what?
You told me to mind my own business!
So you know what?
I'm minding my own business.
Maybe that's why nothing's
going right in your fucking life.
Maybe you need an attitude adjustment.
Ugh! You see, now I feel bad.
Now I fucking feel bad.
You want the shirt off my back?
You want the wig too while you're at it?
You know what, Lynette?
Friends don't keep score.
Next time I do something nice for you,
I'll make sure to keep a tally.
How's that?
You know what Robert would do
if he knew I had the code to his safe?
It'd be so bad.
Oh my God.
He'd throw me out of here so fast.
Five hundred. Take it or leave it,
that's the best I can do.
No! Five hundred?
No, I need the three grand.
Lynette, why are you
doing this to me right now?
My car is here!
Do you know what? It's fine.
I'm gonna work it out. It's all fine.
- I'm being crazy. He still likes me.
- Yes.
Okay, want me to drop you off somewhere?
I just need a second.
Can I stay for a minute?
That'd be great, actually,
because I have a package on the way.
Okay.
And don't forget to double lock, okay?
Love you! Bye!
Cody.
Cody?
Hi.
I was waiting for you.
I just had a question for you.
- I'm supposed to be catching my bus.
- No, I know. It'll take one minute.
What's up?
I've been really fucking dumb, okay?
And I put some money in my safe ages ago.
And, um
Uh, you know the digital ones?
- You know and you put the code in?
- Yeah.
And I put it wrong three times tonight,
and it's locked.
I wondered if you knew
how I could get it open.
- Call a locksmith?
- I tried. It's too late.
I don't have time.
I need it tonight.
Do you know how I might override it?
How would I know that?
- Because...
- Because?
- Well, I thought you might know how to...
- Why would you figure that?
I just thought you might know how to get
into the safe because you did time, right?
I did time? Who told you that?
Tammy told me that.
Fucking Tammy.
- Well, do you know?
- No, uh, look.
I'm not gonna lie. All this shit sounds
pretty fucking sketchy right now.
- I'm just asking. I just...
- I'm gonna catch this bus, all right?
Fuck!
Cody? Cody.
Cody, I'll give you $200
if you just come and look at it.
Cody, I will give you money.
I will give you $200.
Just come and have a look at it.
Just have a look.
- What kind of safe did you say it was?
- It's just What do you mean?
It's just a Home Depot one.
Where is it?
It's at my apartment.
It's three minutes from here.
What's in it?
It's just my money that I need
to get out of there right now.
Cody, I'm asking for your help.
All I'm asking is for you
to come and have a look.
- Just to look at it.
- You got a boyfriend?
- Mm-mm.
- Roommate, nothing like that? Live alone?
I live alone.
That's good.
So?
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can look at that for you.
- Just look at it?
- For four hundred.
- Four hundred?
- Yeah.
- That's cool?
- Four hundred. Let's do it.
- Does that work?
- Yeah, I'm down.
Yeah, that's good.
It's, um
This is a nice place for a bartender.
Thanks.
So this is, um
Yeah. What do you think?
That ain't from Home Depot.
Um
Can we get it open?
How am I supposed to know that?
Well, I mean, can we not just
Can we, um, force it open somehow?
So you'd want me to break it in?
That's it, huh?
No, it's not. I'm giving you $400, so
Four hundred to look at it,
and I looked at it.
To look at it? Okay.
We're not breaking it open. It's mine.
It's yours?
- Yes!
- Just like this apartment's yours?
Yes.
- And you're sure of that?
- Yes, I am.
Really?
It's my roommate's.
Your roommate's?
You told me you lived alone.
It's my ex-roommate's.
So she moved out, she left her safe,
and she left all your shit in there.
- Yes, okay?
- That's what happened, huh?
- You're sticking with that?
- Yeah.
Lynette, cut the bullshit.
Tell me the truth.
It is my girlfriend's, okay?
It is my girlfriend's apartment.
It's her boyfriend's safe
that I need to get the money out of.
And I need to get it out tonight.
And that is the fucking truth.
It's for my family.
It's for my family, all right?
You really should have
told me that before.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have lied.
I need this, Cody.
I can't believe I'm doing this again.
Look, the only way to
The only way to open up that safe is
to let someone drill through the layers.
- Drill through the layers?
- Yeah.
Can we not get them here?
You could if you want the whole building
to know what you're doing.
Can we not do it quietly?
Luckily I got a drill
with a fucking silencer on it?
No. There's no way. We gotta take it out.
It's not gonna be cheap, either.
How much?
Eight hundred.
You wanna do it or not?
Mm-hmm.
- I have to.
- But you're good for it, right?
Yeah, it's in the safe.
You know, you better not be
fucking with me.
Mm-hmm.
I'll make a call.
Okay, Lynette, I get it.
I shouldn't have laughed at you.
Just bring back the car,
and we can discuss it, okay?
Do not be late getting Kenny at Mona's.
Mona has an early thing tomorrow.
This is an
automated message from Rose City Loans.
Your account is seven weeks past due,
and a payment needs to be...
Lynette, this isn't funny.
You know that's my wife's car.
Tell me where it is now.
You fucking piece of shit!
If you've done anything to that car,
I'll fucking kill you!
Hold it.
Thanks.
You guys moving out?
Yeah.
Gentrification.
- It's the worst.
- Yeah.
Yeah, one second, one second.
One second.
You gonna get that?
- Where are we going?
- South on 82nd.
What's your place like now?
- My place?
- Yeah.
- My home?
- Yeah.
It's a bit rough.
It needs some stuff done to it.
I got like 12 hours
to get this money or I'm
I'm past due on everything.
No one will rent to me on my own, because
You know
That sucks.
Where do you live?
Way out.
- It's all I can get on what Tammy pays.
- Hmm.
Two hours by bus.
You got family?
Not anymore.
So this guy is okay to open this thing?
I mean, we're gonna find out, right?
And we just take the money I'm owed
out of the back, right?
Close it, and then we can just
Bring it back.
- Bring it back where?
- Back to the apartment.
- The apartment?
- Yeah.
It's right here.
What's up?
Hi, Mama.
Hi, Mama.
What's going on, Mama?
Love you.
Love you.
Make sure she's not alone, please.
And make sure this shit is down.
- You ready?
- Yep.
Let's go.
Carl, wake up, wake up, wake up.
So it's your safe,
and you forgot the combination.
What's in it?
Just my money.
- Your money?
- Yeah.
Okay.
Let's get it.
Keys.
Carl, help me with the garage, please?
Get your shit together.
Come on. I'm serious. Come on.
Did you carry this all the way
over here with this skinny bitch?
- God damn.
- Come on. This way.
Ooh-whee!
That's a lot of fucking money,
if you ask me.
God damn.
Interesting
Interesting
What the fuck is that, Carl? Huh?
No.
That ain't it.
Well, you know what we gotta do.
Gotta go old school.
- No, don't smash it up like that. Don't...
- Shut the fuck up.
Don't do that. Fuck.
Do not It has to go back.
Yeah, one more, baby.
There she is.
God damn!
What do we got here?
Yep.
What the fuck?
Whose safe did you say this was again?
It's just mine.
- Yours?
- Yeah.
- It's yours, huh?
- Yeah.
- All this is yours?
- Yeah.
What do we got?
Got some nice male Rolexes here.
A lot of cash,
and we got a lot of cocaine.
- How do you know her, buddy?
- A girl from the bar.
A girl from the bar?
- Mm-hmm.
- Hmm.
- Carl.
- Yeah.
The fuck you bringing
that shit to me for, bruh?
- What the fuck are you doing?
- That's your shit, huh?
Fuck you, it's mine. It's mine.
- I just want my money, okay?
- That's what you want?
If you wanted your money,
then where the fuck did this come from?
It's a
It's a what?
- It's a what?
- It's a
- It's mine.
- Excuse me?
- It's mine.
- No, it's not.
- Give me my shit now. Give me my shit.
- Whose safe is it?
- Fuck you.
- Give me my shit!
Bitch, who the fuck you steal this from?
It's a girlfriend's of mine.
- Whose is this?
- Dude, what the fuck, man? Easy!
I told you.
It's a fucking girlfriend's of mine.
It's a girlfriend's now, huh?
Now we're getting to the truth.
Just tell me
where the fucking safe is from.
- She's an escort.
- An escort?
Yes, she keeps it for a business guy.
He's not gonna know.
- How the fuck do you know that?
- He's not gonna care.
- Yeah?
- She's just an escort.
She keeps it for a business guy.
Why the fuck did you bring it to me, huh?
Hmm?
Fucking bitch.
They're trying
to motherfucking play us, Carl.
What the fuck you doing?
Get the fuck off me!
- Give it to me!
- Give me my fucking bag!
Fuck.
Ow!
Fuck! Give me the bag!
Damn it!
Stay back.
I'm gonna fuck you up!
Carl!
Shit!
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
Listen to me! Listen to me!
Oh fuck.
I'm gonna kill you!
You are dead!
Shit, shit
You are dead, bitch!
Oh God.
Oh God.
Get the fuck out of here!
Listen. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Run!
Cody!
Get the fuck in!
- Pull over.
- What? You gonna be sick?
- Hey, pull over.
- All right, all right, all right.
You all right?
Lynette. Relax, okay?
- Relax?
- Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Oh my God. What am I doing? What the fuck
We got the money, right?
Are you gonna answer that?
Have a shot.
Take the edge off a little bit.
Take the edge off?
We're alive, right?
Whose fucking safe was it, anyway?
Just some politician.
Which means he can't come looking for it.
Not with the drugs.
That's good.
So you gonna count it?
- Can I ask you something?
- Depends.
When did you get out?
What did Tammy tell you?
- Tammy?
- Talking Tammy.
- You want to know what Tammy said?
- Yeah, what'd she tell you?
- She just said that you robbed someplace.
- Mm.
- That's what she said?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, but it's not the full story.
- What's the full story?
I was set up.
- You were set up?
- Yeah, that's the full story.
Who were you set up by?
- Some girl.
- Some girl?
- Yeah.
- Oh.
Supposed to be one thing,
ended up being another thing.
Mm-hmm.
That's life, isn't it?
It's, uh
How much?
What?
How much is it?
It's about $19,000.
Nineteen grand?
That's a lot of cash.
You gonna take the rest back
like you said?
Nah.
No, I need it.
I need it for the house I told you about.
We were supposed
to close on it today, and I
If I don't get it by tomorrow morning,
I'm fucked.
I just
Want to have one win, you know?
I've hurt a lot of people
that I care about and
Done some really bad things, and I just
I've just
Come way too far not to, so
Yeah.
I just
I just need I just fucking
need only four grand more.
Four grand, huh?
Mm.
What you laughing about?
Um
You don't, uh
You don't know anyone
who would take a Mercedes, do you?
- What, now you got a Mercedes?
- Yeah, I got a Mercedes.
Let me guess,
belongs to the dude with the safe?
- No, different guy, actually.
- Different guy? Jesus.
But it's his wife's,
so I don't think he's gonna report it,
because he'd have to tell her who took it.
I think I can get you that four grand
if the Mercedes is real.
- You could get four grand right now?
- I can get four grand.
I gotta see it first.
- Make sure you're not fucking with me.
- Mm.
You show me the money,
I'll take you to the car.
Let's do it.
We have to go to my place to get the cash.
Where are you? I'm at work.
Mona is freaking out.
Kenny's over there crying.
You were supposed to be there hours ago.
He thinks you're not coming back.
- Fuck.
- Why do you keep pulling this shit?
I'm sorry, it just
it won't happen again, Mona.
- Don't worry about it.
- It was a really
- Messed up day at work, and I just
- Mm-hmm.
You know, it was It was tough today.
I love you, Mona.
I love you too, Kenny.
See you soon.
Ken, I'm sorry, babe.
I just I had a crazy day at work.
And it was, you know
Tammy was just the worst, and
You Do you forgive me for being late?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
You had a good time?
Okay, there's a guy in the car that
we're gonna drop him off somewhere quick.
- And then we're gonna go eat, okay?
- Is he a stranger?
No, no, he's a He's a cool guy.
- Really, really?
- Yeah, he's cool.
- Really cool?
- Yeah, he's a cool guy.
- Yeah?
- He's a really cool guy.
- Okay!
- He's cool, this one, okay?
This one's cool.
Be cool, Ken.
- That's my seat.
- In the back, babe.
Uh, this is Uh, this is Cody, Kenny.
- Hey, Cody.
- What's going on?
Doing good.
Uh, Cody is your boyfriend?
No, he's just a
He's just a guy that I work with.
Cool.
You got a girlfriend, Kenny?
- Yeah.
- You got two girlfriends, haven't you?
- Yeah.
- My man! What's their names?
Erica, Azica.
- One of them broke it off though, no?
- Got your heart broken, Kenny?
Yeah. We have been
together the whole time.
But the problem is about, you know
Somebody else broke it off from us.
That's shitty. I feel you, man.
- Kenny's a DJ.
- For real?
- Yeah.
- Yes, I am.
- What's your DJ name?
- DJ Kenny.
DJ Kenny! Okay.
- Or Kenny the Rapper sometimes.
- All right.
- You got bars?
- Yeah.
I want to say yo, yo
Uh, Cody is so cool
And king of how he chill with bros
And doing like a show, oh Uh-oh!
That was cold, DJ! Gimme dap. Gimme dap.
- Told you he was good.
- Yeah, that's fire, man.
I gotta play something. I gotta hear it.
- Got the
- How you work this shit?
- You need an adapter for it.
- What is this?
You need to upgrade this shit for real.
Do you know a guy?
You know I always know a guy.
-To take the dank out of the baggie
-I got five on it
Got it good
Grab your 40, let's get keyed
I got five on it
Fuck. Chill out.
I got five on it
It's got me stuck
Lock the door.
Lynette, why do I have to
keep calling you?
It's 2:00 a.m. Kenny should be in bed.
Where are you? Mona said that
you had someone else in your car?
What are you doing?
Oh fuck.
You scared me.
- Can you open the door?
- Did you get it?
Yeah. How's that?
All right.
Is that it?
Yeah.
Why is the door open?
Because I panicked.
Fuck, I can't believe it's still there.
- You got the key?
- It's in the bag.
All right, all right.
I showed you the car.
You gonna show me the cash?
You want $4,000 for a stolen Mercedes?
Yeah.
You know, after everything
we did together
You ever think of me?
You didn't even give me the $800.
But I was
I was gonna give you some money.
Yeah, but you
could've done that back at the deli.
Why didn't you?
Well, because
Mm.
Because we made a deal on the car.
Look, there's a new deal.
I want half.
Half the cash.
You want half of the
- But the car's worth so much more...
- I want to split the cash.
A stolen fuckin' Mercedes. You have any
clue the danger you're putting me in?
What are you talking about?
You offered four grand.
Want your four grand?
Look, this is what your four grand is.
- That was fucking bullshit?
- Yeah, it was fucking bullshit.
I've been lying to you
like you've been lying to me.
- Calm down.
- Lynette, split the money.
- That was not the deal.
- It's only fair.
- The fucking car is worth 50 times...
- After all the shit we've done?
I don't give a fuck about the car!
- I need this.
- What do you need it for, huh?
I need money too! I got nothing!
- I told you I needed it.
- I got a shitty parole job.
You know what? Fuck your house!
Now I want the whole thing.
- No.
- Yes.
- No. That was not the deal.
- Give me the fucking bag.
- Give me the fucking bag, Lynette.
- Fuck you.
Give me the fucking bag, Lynette!
Leave my sister alone!
- Don't...
- Give me the bag!
- Leave her alone.
- I'm not fuckin' with you.
- Leave my sister alone.
- Shut the fuck up, Kenny.
Please don't do this.
- Give me the bag, Lynette!
- No, I need it!
- I need it!
- Give me the fucking bag! Give me the bag!
- Don't do this!
- Give me the fucking bag!
- Don't do it!
- Give me the fucking...
Give it to me!
Why are you doing this?
Leave my sister alone!
Jesus fucking Christ.
Okay, okay, okay. Kenny, it's fine.
It's fine. Don't worry.
Okay, okay, okay.
You made me do it.
You know you made me do it.
Fuck you!
Fuck you
Fuck you, Lynette.
I am worried about you.
So much.
Why Why you have to act so crazy?
Ken?
Uh, he'll have the pancakes
with syrup and butter.
- But can you put the syrup on the side?
- Yeah, I can do that. For you?
Just coffee, black.
Just make sure it's on the side.
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
Do you remember when Daddy used to go
to that place and he met that busboy?
What was his name?
He used to speak Lithuanian with him.
He used to love speaking his own language.
You remember that? What was his name?
Dominykas. Do you remember?
Remember I wanted us
to go on a trip there? I wanted us to, um
Go get a couple of passports and run away.
Get us the hell out of here.
Kenny.
Kenny, look at me.
Cody was not a good guy. He was a bad guy.
He wasn't a cool guy. I got it wrong.
And he was trying to steal the house.
The house we've lived in our entire lives.
Is that what you want?
I miss my dad.
I know.
I know you do.
Dad left us, Ken. You know that.
Okay? And, um
I still love you.
But I can't stand it.
- What? What can't you stand?
- A lot of shit stuff.
Yeah, okay, well, I got angry.
I got angry because he was
trying to steal from us, okay?
He was trying to steal from us.
That's why I got angry.
I know that. Dad told me to protect you.
You're supposed to be my big brother.
Are you?
Yes.
You're my big brother, okay?
I'm your little sister.
Are you gonna be in this with me or not?
You gonna help me or not?
I am the man of the family,
and I'm going to help you.
You're the man of the family.
That's why me and you
are gonna do this together.
- Yes.
- We're in it together.
We're gonna do it for the family,
and know what?
We're gonna fuckin' do it.
We're gonna go together
and get the fucking money, okay?
- Okay.
- We are?
Yes.
Hello?
Hi, is Tommy there?
Um, who is this?
Just tell him it's Lynette.
What the fuck? Wait there.
Now, look who it is.
Long time, huh?
What brings you here, Lynette?
You still sell stuff?
- You see the store standing, don't you?
- Yeah, maybe.
Whoa.
Whoa! Not here.
So you must be the famous Kenny.
- Yes, I am.
- Yes, you are.
You know what? Here, check this out.
- I am Zoltar
- Awesome!
Yeah? You ever played one?
- Uh, yes, I have.
- Hey. Let's go.
Old-school pinball.
You don't need tokens or anything.
It's You know how to play?
- Uh, yes.
- You do?
- Yes.
- All right.
Come on over and let Zoltar be sharing
I just gotta talk to Tommy
for five minutes, okay?
Jesus Christ. What the fuck?
Where did you get this?
Loose lips sink ships.
Isn't that what you taught us, Tommy?
That's fucking good.
Who is that upstairs?
That's none of your fucking business.
And if you gotta know,
that's my girlfriend.
Nice.
It's your girlfriend, really?
You don't get to come to my place,
middle of the night,
and start giving me shit, Lynette.
Just like all the years you gave me shit?
Five years of shit?
I never wanted you to live here.
You begged.
I begged because I was a kid,
and I was fucked up. That's why I begged.
I was looking for help, Tommy.
You weren't that much of a kid, were you?
- Fuck you.
- Lyn?
Lyn?
Lyn?
- What's up?
- You okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two minutes, okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Cool. Be out in a second.
How many of those girls
have you had upstairs since me, huh?
I don't do that anymore.
You don't make your girlfriends
sleep with other guys?
You know, I was
You know, you had me so fucked up,
I thought I was in love with you, Tommy.
What you made me do was wrong.
A long time ago.
I did what I did to get by.
I was 16.
So how much are you gonna pay me for that?
How much is it worth?
It's a fucking half a kilo.
I do not have six grand
just fucking laying around.
So you don't have cash anymore,
like you always used to,
when I was upstairs?
You can find someone that's gonna buy it.
- No.
- Yes you can. Right now.
I do not have to do
fucking anything for you.
This is the least you could do.
Take your coke.
Look at you.
I'm really fucking sorry.
My guy'll give you three.
No, I need four.
It's the middle of the night.
You know someone else
who's gonna give you more money
for your coke, go to them.
Okay, what's the address?
His name's Blake.
You know those houses in Meadow Vale?
Up in the hills?
How could I forget?
Ring the gate when you get there.
I give this to you on one condition.
I don't want you to ever come here again.
Don't call, don't show up. Nothing.
You got it?
You should take these. They belong to you.
Show yourself out.
You don't get to pretend
it didn't happen, Tommy.
Kenny, come on.
Okay.
It's okay, Kenny.
She looks innocent.
She's not.
You were right, Tommy!
- She's wild.
- How much to take her upstairs?
You weren't that much of a kid,
though, were you?
that much of a kid I don't want to hear.
You take good care
of my friend here, okay?
He already paid.
He already paid.
He's paying, so you be real nice.
- I don't like it here.
- I know. It's okay.
It's me and you, yeah?
I'll call you who the fuck you are!
You act like a bitch,
I call you a fucking bitch!
Why the fuck did I even bring you out?
Bitch, why would I
stay home with you, you dirty-ass bitch?
Start making my friends richer
Okay, meet here, yeah?
- Are you sure?
- Stay right here.
Alone at last.
Away from all those horrid people.
Care for a drink?
No.
Oh, do you mind the shoes on the rug?
I try to keep it clean.
Uh
I mean, I'll just stand here.
Did you know
there's 421,000 units of bacteria
on the single sole of a shoe?
- Here you go.
- No, I'm all good. Thanks.
Well, it's right here if you want it.
So tell me.
Friend of Tommy's?
How should we do this?
You want to see the stuff?
No, no, no. I trust you.
I don't know you, but I trust Tommy.
I mean, how do you want to get paid?
- PayPal?
- No.
OnlyFans?
- I'm a very good tipper.
- No, I need cash.
Cash, yeah.
Probably best not to have
our fingerprints all over each other.
Cash it is.
Don't worry.
I got it right here.
What did we say?
- $2,000, right?
- I agreed with Tommy $3,000.
$2,000 is for the coke.
You know what? Now it's gone up to $4,000.
So you can give me the money
or I can get the fuck out of here.
Four thousand.
Tommy said you were
fucking wild back in the day.
I'm sorry, what?
Tommy said you used to be pretty wild.
When I was 16, yeah.
So is this like a trip down memory lane?
The money, and the drugs,
late-night parties.
I just want to know, are you still wild?
Careful. Because you seem,
like, a little bit still wild.
Look, I'm I don't know
what you think is happening.
I don't care what Tommy said.
That's not That's not it, okay?
Not gonna argue.
Give me the fucking money.
Clearly, you know what it is. Here you go.
Oops, it slipped.
It's yours.
$1,000.
$2,000.
What? It's yours.
Some over there. Some over there.
Good girl.
And $4,000.
- Get out of my way.
- I'm not in your way.
- Yeah, get out of my fucking way.
- Look.
- I'm not doing anything. I just need
- Just get out of my way.
- I just need to know that you're calm.
- Move out of my way.
- Okay, I will.
- Move out of my way.
- No.
- I'm gonna move.
- I'm gonna move.
- No, don't do that.
- Careful.
- Do not do that.
Don't scratch. I pay extra for that.
Do not do that. Do not fucking do that.
Stop fucking touching me!
You think you can fucking buy me?
You think I'm fucking trash?
That what you think?
You think because you have money,
you can buy me.
- Jesus!
- You aren't gonna fucking touch me!
- You understand that?
- Oh my God! You're fucking crazy.
Crazy? Fucking crazy?
Want to see fucking crazy?
Fucking touch me! Don't fucking touch me!
Don't fucking touch me!
You weren't that much of a kid,
though, were you?
Shh.
There's no rush.
Yeah?
I don't want
to go upstairs with him, Tommy.
Take your dress down. Come on.
- Stay back.
- Okay. You got your money.
Shh.
Calm down.
No!
Fuck! Fucking bitch!
Kenny?
Kenny?
Kenny!
Kenny?
Kenny?
Kenny?
Where are you?
What the fuck?
Is that glass? Is it
What the fuck
- Where's my brother?
- Put the glass down.
She fucking attacked me!
She stole my fucking money!
Relax. Fuck
Don't fucking touch me!
- Get her.
- Don't fucking touch me!
Put it down, bitch.
Hold her down, man! Hold her down!
- Lyn!
- Kenny!
Lyn! Leave my sister alone!
Somebody fucking stop this psycho bitch!
- I'm sorry.
- Are you Are you okay?
I'm fine. I'm fine.
I'm sorry.
Hey. Sorry.
What the fuck, man?
Get the fuck out of my house.
I got the money, baby. I got the money.
Let's go home.
Let's go home. Okay.
Okay.
It's over now. Get some sleep, Ken.
Good night?
You take good care of your brother?
Yeah. I spent the night getting
the money that you blew on the car.
All $25,000.
And we're out of time.
So please, please get dressed.
And come with me to sign the loan.
Please.
Hold still.
Even your dad hated this house.
This isn't some magical place, honey.
It's just all we could afford.
Be still.
Okay, that one's done.
If we don't
If we don't do this right now,
we're gonna lose the house.
Okay?
- So I'm begging you.
- Sweetheart, I'm not I'm too tired.
- I'm not having this conversation.
- I'm begging you.
- We're both tired, okay?
- Lynette, I know you don't wanna hear it.
But I don't want that loan,
and I don't want this house.
- Don't.
- Please, I'm begging you.
- I hate this house. I'd like to burn it.
- I'm begging you. Please.
That's what I would do.
Too many memories.
You were never serious
about buying it, were you?
This entire time, you've watched me
You've watched me
You watched me do what I do
and what I did,
and you still, you said nothing.
I tried to tell you. You wouldn't hear.
No, you didn't.
You bought a car instead of telling me.
Because I can't have you screaming
and freaking out at me.
I'm not! What do you mean, screaming?
I'm not that person anymore.
I'm not that person.
I don't do that anymore.
- You know what? I'm
- I don't do that. I'm not
I'm picking glass
out of your back right now.
You just don't want to live with me,
that's what it is.
You don't want to live with me, do you?
Oh, Jesus.
You don't.
You
Okay. Okay, you know what?
You know what? It's fine.
Get some shitty apartment. You go do that.
- Kenny's gonna come with me.
- Kenny's not gonna go.
- He's afraid of you.
- Yes, he is. Kenny loves me.
Of course he loves you,
but he's scared of you.
Kenny needs me. He knows that
I would never do anything to hurt him.
Is that right?
So where'd you take him tonight?
I am his mother, Lynette.
I have been taking care of Kenny his
entire life since before you were born.
Well, you know what?
I will fight you for him.
Is that a joke? Are you kidding?
And what are you gonna say?
That you tried to kill yourself?
That you sleep with men for money?
You You become violent,
that you can't hold down a job?
You would fucking love that,
wouldn't you? You'd love it.
You'd tell them
you have a fucked-up daughter.
You know, you forgot all about Kenny
when you ran away and moved in with Tommy.
And I was fine being his mom then, right?
You were happy about it then.
Don't you dare! I was just
I was 16! I was trying to be
with someone who actually loved me.
- How did that work out for you?
- It didn't work out because I couldn't
I couldn't
I didn't I don't
You don't think You don't think I know
You don't think I know who I am?
You have no clue.
Where were you?
Where were you?
I needed you when he
I needed you to
I just needed my mom.
I can't save you.
I can't help you, so
Shit.
You can keep blaming me,
but you're a grown woman now.
You want to blame me? Go ahead.
You're like that thing
at the bottom of a toilet bowl.
You just, like,
suck everything down with you.
I can't do this anymore.
I made plans with Mona.
Kenny and I move in there next week.
Yeah.
Hey, Lynette. It's David.
I am so sorry.
I've changed my mind.
I've taken the higher offer
from the other buyer.
I gave your family all the chan...
- Hey.
- Hi.
Kenny, I have to go away for a while.
I'm gonna come back and visit you
as soon as I can, okay? I promise.
I love you.
I really love you.
I'm gonna think about you every second.
Gonna love you every minute of every day.
Okay?
You are my little sister.
And I will always be your big brother.
- Yeah.
- And I will always protect you.
Yes, you will.
Okay.
I'm gonna have to go to bed now.
You have to go to bed?
- I have to go to bed.
- Okay.
Mom.
You asked me what I did last night.
I fought.
I fought for this family.
The only way I know how.
But I guess you said
what I needed to hear.
So thank you.
And now I need to fight for me.
Take care of Kenny.
He needs his mom.
Maybe this is our chance to get it right.
Lyn.
Wall eyes
Ceiling felt too high
Nights were falling down skies
Was no look in the eye
Subtle moments of past
What a wondering time
Come back
Swallowed over the stage
Turning into the rage
Wondering what forced the age
Towards tomorrow
Come back
Come back
Was wild and unsure
And naked and pure
Come back
Turning into over my mind
Jumping on tenuous time
Come back
Come back
Moments of faith
Turning out late
Come back
Or does anyone care?
Ominous state
Come back
Come back
Neighboring love
Won't stay in the home
Come back
Come back
Moments of fire
Can turn the car on back home
Over here!
Guess what?
I'm not!
Stop!
What's wrong, sweetie?
Mama! I got mud on my knee!
Now it's a house!
Hello, Lynette,
this is Investigator Sharon Wright
from Cash Express Loans.
Please, please, please call me back
about your outstanding loan balance.
If I don't hear from you soon, I need to
escalate this to our repossession team,
and I do not want to have to do that.
Investigator Sharon Wright,
Cash Express Loans.
888-555-0113.
If you're
feeling the pinch, you're not alone.
Numbers released by the Fed today
are confirming continuing inflation,
rising rents, and an ever-concerning
Ken. Come on.
It's a big day.
We're closing on the house, remember?
- One more minute.
- Get up. You say that every morning.
One University
of Washington economist put it this way
Mom, get up.
fundamentals
of the American economy are breaking,
especially in the job market
and the housing market.
People are actually being paid
less than they used to for the same jobs.
Middle wages are going down
thanks to inflation.
A hundred dollars used to get you
a lot of groceries.
Now you're spending twice that
and your bags are less full than before.
Economists believe
it's not just food prices.
According to new numbers,
the majority of all renters spend
over a third of their income on housing.
30% of Americans say they
could not pay a $1,000 emergency expense.
The consequences could be disastrous,
including eviction rates,
job losses,
and mental health difficulties.
Don't look at me like that.
Ugh
Who can sleep
with your horse feet clomping around?
Don't sleep out there
and then you won't have to hear me.
Don't be an asshole.
It's too early to deal with
your constant criticisms.
We're meeting David at the attorney's
at 2:30 to sign the papers.
So you can't be late. Do you hear me?
Yeah, okay. You don't need
to remind me every two minutes, okay?
If we don't put the money
down today, we'll be evicted.
Do you understand?
- Mom? Do you understand?
- Hey, Mommy.
Hi, babe.
Come here.
Mm. How did you sleep?
- Really good.
- I like that.
- Ken, where's your other shoe?
- What?
So you gotta pick up the check
from Chase on the way, right?
- Of course, I got it. Thank you.
- Okay. 2:30.
Come on, Ken.
Coming up here on Portland 90.7 FM,
we're taking your calls all morning
to know if you're feeling the squeeze
in this economy.
No sugarcoating it, folks.
Everything's going up
except our paychecks.
- Latest numbers from the Fed confirmed
- Are you excited for the house?
- Oh, yes.
- Oh, yes.
Uh, great times.
You know what it means
to own a home, don't you, Ken?
It means Social Services
can't take you away again.
Yeah. And I can paint my bedroom red.
If you're homeless, or live in a motel,
or are even just struggling,
everyone assumes that you deserve it.
It just takes one raise in rent,
one missed shift at work,
and anyone could be right here.
Everyone thinks,
"They're homeless because of
something they've done." Well, no.
Sometimes it's just like one slip-up,
one big bill coming in, and boom,
you're evicted, you're living in your car,
and there's no way back.
It's rare, but it's not.
For every one person who finds a home,
four more are forced out of theirs.
Think about that.
And if you have an eviction
on your record, nobody'll rent to you.
I think Americans are trained
from birth to hate poor people.
Even poor people hate poor people.
That's the DNA of this country.
We have wages falling, prices going up,
housing completely out of control.
It really feels to me
and to a lot of others
that the fundamentals of American society
are just breaking down,
especially when it comes
to jobs and housing.
"Working homeless"
ought to be an oxymoron.
And here I am living in my car,
and showering at the YMCA, and just
You're gonna be okay while I'm at work?
Will you ask about the job at the bakery?
Yeah. I'm gonna ask him again.
I'm with you. For the rich,
Portland is this huge success story.
Rents are skyrocketing,
investments, luxury developments
Life's great for property owners
Ah, it's a big day for you, huh?
Yeah.
Though until it's signed, I'm like, ugh.
- Just can't even
- Mama doing all right?
Yeah, you know.
She's a total fucking mess like always.
Mm.
All right. Hit it.
The manager's here, Ken.
Come on, you gotta go.
Did you ask about the job?
Yeah, I I did. There's nothing right now.
Syrup on the side this time?
- Uh, no, top.
- No, side.
- No, top.
- Yesterday you said side.
- No, I did not say that.
- You can't change your mind all the time.
- Five dollars.
- I don't care.
- "Thank you."
- Yeah, give me.
Morning, Kenny.
- Ken, I'll be done in three.
- Okay.
In the end
The differences between Monetarist
and the Keynesian approaches are just...
differences in opinion
on how to maximize economic growth.
She looks like Hillary Clinton.
The driving force here is...
- He needs full-time care.
- Yeah, I know. That's under control.
- There are facilities for that.
- We're just in between facilities.
Find one. My classroom is not it.
- Yeah, I get it.
- Um, my name's Kenny.
- Okay, but Kenny can't be here.
- Yup, we know that.
- You know I was bullshitting her, right?
- Yeah.
- You're not going back to that place.
- I'm not going back.
- Never.
- No.
- We're getting a house now, Ken.
- Cool.
Do I look okay?
- You look good.
- You think?
Mama better be here.
Why do I feel so nervous?
I want you
I want you to be, you know, strong.
Strong and just be yourself,
and just be adorable.
There's this... Here she is.
Hi, David. I'm so sorry.
We got held up in traffic. It was
- It's fine.
- Yeah, um
- Oh, this is Kenny, you remember?
- Of course.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Uh, this is Mike Gregory, my lawyer.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hello, Mike.
Uh, thank you for the money off
and the extension that you gave me.
Of course! My dad
would've wanted you to have it, so
Doreen's not with you?
We need both of you to sign the loan.
Uh, of course.
I mean, she texted me to say, um
Uh, she should be here.
It's probably minutes away.
Um, thing is we don't have a lot of time.
I have to go see a property in St. John's.
No, she's coming.
She's coming. I'll call her.
Uh, sure.
Stressful.
I guess I don't know what I expected.
Um, okay, I feel like
we've tried and tried here.
It's just
- Hi, listen
- Where are you?
I'm I got, like, held up. Where are you?
I'm at the attorney's office.
Uh, well, you're gonna
have to tell them I can't make it.
I I can't talk about this right now.
Sorry.
Are you serious?
Mm, gotta gotta go.
Is, uh Is Doreen gonna make it?
It's Doreen. You know what to do.
Sharon Wright from Cash Express
It's Doreen. You know what to do.
Denise called in sick,
so I'm covering until you arrive.
Try not to be late
Oh no. We're so fucked.
What is that?
It's a car.
Whose car?
Mine. Bought it.
Passed that dealer on the way to work.
They were having this Mazda Madness sale.
- You're not serious.
- I saw this beautiful white car.
So I went in, I hustled them,
and I got a great deal.
So instead of coming
to the attorney's office like we planned,
you left work, went to a car dealership,
and you bought a car?
Yeah, pretty much.
How much was that?
Um, I put 25 down,
so my monthly is almost nothing.
$25,000?
It's my money, right?
You just spent
our whole down payment on a car?
Well, I'm allowed to spend my own money.
- Working at Fred Meyer till I drop dead.
- Do you have any idea what this means?
I've been saving for years, so I thought,
why not do something nice for myself once?
Why would you do this today?
That money is for the house.
I'm gonna go inside,
I'm gonna grab a Coke,
and then I'm gonna grab Kenny
and take him for a drive.
You didn't turn up
because you were at Mazda Mania?
- Really?
- It's Mazda Madness.
Mazda Madness, then?
We're gonna be evicted.
Do you understand that?
I mean, have you actually lost your mind?
We don't have anywhere to go.
We're gonna be out on the streets.
What do you not get?
I'm really sorry.
It was a shitty thing to do.
And I'm I'm a really shitty mom.
I know you're upset,
and that's the last thing I want,
but honestly, I didn't tell you
because I knew you'd be upset, and
"Upset"? I just had to beg David
to give us till tomorrow...
David's a crook.
His loan is a shitty loan,
and the house is shittier still.
Everything's falling apart here.
Oh God. They're gonna take Kenny away.
- I knew you'd act like this.
- Fuck, fuck.
Okay, listen to me, okay?
I told you I'm gonna do it up.
I told you I'm gonna fix it up.
Gonna make it nice.
Gonna make it so nice.
Because that's the point.
We'll never get
another opportunity like this.
This is our only chance. Do you get that?
There's another offer.
He's gonna take the offer tomorrow.
- Do you understand that?
- I cannot.
- They'll take Kenny away.
- I'm not doing this with you now.
- Please just give me the keys.
- No. I'm not giving you the keys.
I am not having
this conversation right now!
Stop fighting!
I'm gonna take it back.
I'm gonna do all of the talking.
- I'm gonna tell them you made a mistake.
- But I haven't made a mistake.
You have. You have. Just give me the keys.
Just give me the keys.
- Give me the fucking keys!
- Hey!
- Give me the fucking...
- Stop fighting.
I hate when you fight!
Hey, babe?
Would you like to go for a ride
in my brand-new car?
- Oh God.
- So cool, Mom.
Okay. Okay.
But this Mom, this is about Kenny.
This is so cool.
Come on.
We'll go to Dairy Queen and celebrate.
We'll be homeless, and you'll be
living in that fucking Mazda, Mom.
- You wanna buy the house?
- Kenny will go back in that care home.
Get it on your own. God love you.
- You go for it, okay?
- You know I can't get a loan on my own.
- You know that!
- Yeah, and whose fault is that?
And I'm gonna be out on the street again.
Is that what you want?
How long have you kept a job before
you blow it and you freak out at everybody
and start threatening people
and throwing shit?
I'm sorry. No, come on. I'm begging you.
Please. Do not do this.
I'm begging you. Please.
Let's just take it back, okay?
I will go to the dealership, tell them...
Can you not? Fuck off.
It's done. It's signed.
That's the contract, okay?
It's over, it's done. Let go. It's over.
Oh God. Fuck.
Okay, you know what?
I'm gonna get the $25,000.
You are insane,
and you have lost your mind.
You've lost your mind.
Kenny, she's lost her mind.
Okay, just don't forget to pick Kenny up
tonight from Mona's, okay?
This is David Claremont
from Portland Real Estate.
Leave a message and I'll call you back.
David, hi, it's Lynette.
Um, I'm sorry about today.
I just, um, I have something
I wanted to talk to you about.
It's kind of urgent.
Would you mind just giving me a call back?
Thanks.
You okay?
- You're late again! It's 6:30.
- I know, Tammy.
- I know. Sorry, I got caught up...
- Whatever.
I just wish you wouldn't be such a slacker
and be on time once in a while.
- Something happened.
- Not my problem.
- Can you grab that food order there, sis?
- Yeah.
- Hi, David.
- Are you backing out?
No, it's just that the bank is fucked up
and they didn't get the check in time
and we might just need a bit more time
because it's a weekend tomorrow.
Okay, enough already.
I've been more than generous.
I know. If you could just
I know that you have, David.
You know that I know that you have.
I just need a bit more time, that's all.
- I just need one more day.
- Lynette, stop!
9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
If all the money is in my account,
we have a deal. Otherwise, it's off.
- $25,000 by 9:00 a.m.
- Okay.
- Last chance, Lynette.
- Yeah. Tomorrow.
Fuck.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
No.
Can I have one?
- Cody.
- I know.
- Scott, hi.
- You called?
- Yes.
- You free to meet?
Yes, I can, actually.
I'm free, that's right.
The usual place, okay?
Yes, that's great.
We can definitely do that.
- Fifteen minutes?
- Thirty.
Sure.
Right over there. Help yourself.
- Where are you going, girl?
- I've gotta
- No way. No.
- It's Kenny. I've gotta go.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's always Kenny!
- Hi.
- Hey.
Hi.
- Never seen you not dressed up.
- I know.
I thought I'd mix it up a little bit.
It looks, um, good.
I was surprised you called.
You never called me before.
- No, I know. I never do.
- It was actually good timing.
I had the evening free.
That's great. I'm so pleased.
So why'd you call?
Well, I, um
- I had this idea for us I'd like to share.
- Idea? Okay.
Is it a sexy idea?
- So, okay. So, you know...
- You know what? Let me get you a drink.
- Excuse me!
- Yes, hi.
- Two tequila on the rocks, please.
- Sure.
- Idea.
- Yes, an amazing investment opportunity.
I live in Kenton. You know that area?
- From the news sometimes, yes.
- Yeah.
Yeah, I know, right? It's so
I live in a place there,
and the guys decided to sell it to us
for $40,000 under the asking price,
which I thought was a good
- It's a really good deal.
- Okay.
- We got this one shot of getting us...
- Who's us?
My mom and my brother.
Oh, um Yeah, you should go for it.
Yeah, the thing is,
is that we lost the deposit on the
Here you go. Two tequilas.
Thank you.
- Salud.
- Salud.
Yeah.
All right, so the thing is what?
Well, the thing is we had this deposit,
and it kind of went wrong today,
and I just wondered whether maybe, um
I wondered if you might be able
to, uh lend me the money.
The, uh, $25,000.
For the house?
Yeah, no, but through your company,
'cause I know you're
really good at this stuff, and...
Wait, are you joking?
You're joking, right?
I wouldn't ask you if it wasn't
I just really, I just
I just need a bit of help right now.
- Was wondering if
- No.
- If you could ask people at work.
- Yeah, no.
Maybe there's a way you can maybe...
I'm not looking to find a way
to work out any deals with you, Lynette.
Sure. Yeah.
Look, listen. Listen.
I like you.
Okay? I do. We have a lot of fun together.
But I don't want to know that you live
with your mother and your brother.
You know?
Like, I pay to have a good time,
not to talk about that stuff.
Yeah?
I have enough worries as it is.
My kids always asking
for stuff, never saying "thank you" ever.
- You know?
- Yeah.
- You okay?
- Yes.
- Yeah, I'm great. I'm really great.
- Yeah?
- Still okay to go up to the room?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Always.
Okay.
Here's, uh the $500.
And I'm going to double it
as a parting gift.
It's been fun these past few months.
It really has.
Good luck with the house.
Yes, honey. We'll talk about it
when I get home, okay?
Say good night to the kids.
Okay. Love you.
All right.
Fuck.
Shit.
Hey, Lynette, crazy question.
Did you see my key fob in the room?
What the fuck am I doing?
Shit.
Fuck.
I know you've taken my car, Lynette.
Call me right fucking now! I mean it!
Call me back!
- Hi.
- Lyn-Lyn!
What are you doing here?
- I missed you.
- Hi.
What's going on?
I thought you were the delivery guy.
Oh! All right. Come on in.
Make yourself at home.
Oh my God.
This better be good.
My Lyft's gonna be here in five minutes.
- Is this where he's got you now?
- It's Robert's old bachelor pad.
You know, I'm making it my own, and
I mean, look at this view.
Didn't have this at the last place.
Do you want a drink?
There's a whole bunch right there.
- Yeah.
- Make me one too.
To what do I owe this pleasant surprise?
I need to ask you something.
Ah-ah-ah-ah! No, no, no!
Don't touch those glasses.
They're Robert's.
If you break it, he'll kill me.
There's clean ones above the sink.
Anyway, I wish I could stay
and get drunk with you,
but I was, like,
ten minutes late last week.
He does this thing
that my grandma used to do.
He, like, won't tell you why he's mad,
but they'll just, like, look at you
like a fucking chihuahua in the middle
of taking the biggest shit of its life,
like all cockeyed, like
Like, it's actually quite
menacing and terrifying.
Can't stay long.
I gotta pick Kenny up anyways.
Why are you acting like you're his mom?
Trying to prove you're
a good little girlie or something?
- Fuck off.
- Well, I'm just saying, you do too much.
Fuck. You smell bad. You look like shit.
Do I? You have no idea.
Did I tell you I just got back
from San Diego?
He had some Senate stuff to do
in Corona Del Mar.
We stayed at the Hyatt. Two rooms.
We're still doing the whole,
like, being discreet thing,
even though everyone knows we're together,
including his wife,
which is a whole 'nother story,
but I'll tell you that another time.
We're not gonna stay at the Hyatt anymore.
They say the beds are Tempur-Pedic,
and they're so clearly not.
They're, like, cardboard.
It's false advertising.
You grew up sleeping on a couch,
and now you're complaining
about a fancy bed at the Hyatt?
Oh, you know what, Lynette? Fuck you.
I told you that in confidence.
God, you always bring You're so annoying!
Ugh, this shit doesn't even come off.
I'll do it.
Can you open this?
- Can you hurry? I really have to go.
- Okay, Gloria. I've got a problem, okay?
And you know that three grand you owe me?
I really need it tonight 'cause Doreen
fucked up the plan to buy the house.
I need that money back, okay?
- I knew she was gonna do that.
- Gloria.
Gloria, I'm serious.
- Look at this.
- Fuck.
Look at this. Giovanni Versace.
That's how the Italians say it.
What do you think?
Should I wear this tonight?
It's kind of springy.
Gloria, I really need
my money back tonight.
- Nope! I'm not doing this now.
- I'm serious. We're gonna be evicted.
- You understand?
- My car's downstairs. I'm not doing this.
I'm gonna be
turning fucking tricks in my car again.
Ugh! You're literally
fucking up my vibe right now.
- Ugh.
- Babe
Oh my God.
Did Robert put that there
to watch you change?
No, don't be crude.
I put it there. I prefer this version
anyway because he doesn't talk back.
- Do you, Bobby? That's my boy.
- Oh my God.
Anyway, you're just jealous
because my man is going places.
Yeah, jail.
Although I'm kinda stressed 'cause
I don't think he finds me sexy anymore.
Here. Can you put this on?
That must be hard, but I'm not here
to talk about your sex life.
I'm here to talk about
the money you owe me.
All right, Lynette, take the stick
out of your ass, okay?
You can't show up unannounced and start
emotionally blackmailing me for money.
That's what you did to me six months ago
when I bailed you out.
Lynette, I was in jail.
That situation is not this situation.
You're the only number I know by heart.
Like, that's just the way the chips fell.
Like, okay? Relax.
Take one look at me. How long do you think
I'd last at Columbia River Correctional?
- Yeah, not long.
- Okay, exactly. That settles that.
Unbelievable.
Gloria, come on.
Can you not ask Robert
for the fucking money?
Ask Scott.
I did. He said no.
He doesn't even call me anymore.
You stole him from me.
Well, it's ended now, so
Whatever. I know you definitely
got way more than $3,000 off him,
so let's call it even.
Can't you ask
those two other guys you're seeing?
What the fuck, Lynette?
I'm not seeing them anymore.
Well, last week you were.
Now suddenly you're not?
What are you, the fucking feds?
Jesus Christ, Lynette. Do you know
what would happen if Robert heard you?
He'd throw me out!
I'd be back dancing at Mary's.
Give me my money and I will fuck off!
- Ugh! My car's here. I can't do this.
- I'm gonna be working the streets, Gloria.
- You're unbelievable!
- Kenny's gonna be taken away. How
Ugh!
Really bad time, Lynette!
My car's downstairs!
Will you stop shouting at me?
I am asking for my own money.
I can't just materialize $3,000
in the middle of the night!
What the fuck do I look like,
Bank of America?
I can't be your personal fucking
ATM machine every time you need money.
You know what?
You told me to mind my own business!
So you know what?
I'm minding my own business.
Maybe that's why nothing's
going right in your fucking life.
Maybe you need an attitude adjustment.
Ugh! You see, now I feel bad.
Now I fucking feel bad.
You want the shirt off my back?
You want the wig too while you're at it?
You know what, Lynette?
Friends don't keep score.
Next time I do something nice for you,
I'll make sure to keep a tally.
How's that?
You know what Robert would do
if he knew I had the code to his safe?
It'd be so bad.
Oh my God.
He'd throw me out of here so fast.
Five hundred. Take it or leave it,
that's the best I can do.
No! Five hundred?
No, I need the three grand.
Lynette, why are you
doing this to me right now?
My car is here!
Do you know what? It's fine.
I'm gonna work it out. It's all fine.
- I'm being crazy. He still likes me.
- Yes.
Okay, want me to drop you off somewhere?
I just need a second.
Can I stay for a minute?
That'd be great, actually,
because I have a package on the way.
Okay.
And don't forget to double lock, okay?
Love you! Bye!
Cody.
Cody?
Hi.
I was waiting for you.
I just had a question for you.
- I'm supposed to be catching my bus.
- No, I know. It'll take one minute.
What's up?
I've been really fucking dumb, okay?
And I put some money in my safe ages ago.
And, um
Uh, you know the digital ones?
- You know and you put the code in?
- Yeah.
And I put it wrong three times tonight,
and it's locked.
I wondered if you knew
how I could get it open.
- Call a locksmith?
- I tried. It's too late.
I don't have time.
I need it tonight.
Do you know how I might override it?
How would I know that?
- Because...
- Because?
- Well, I thought you might know how to...
- Why would you figure that?
I just thought you might know how to get
into the safe because you did time, right?
I did time? Who told you that?
Tammy told me that.
Fucking Tammy.
- Well, do you know?
- No, uh, look.
I'm not gonna lie. All this shit sounds
pretty fucking sketchy right now.
- I'm just asking. I just...
- I'm gonna catch this bus, all right?
Fuck!
Cody? Cody.
Cody, I'll give you $200
if you just come and look at it.
Cody, I will give you money.
I will give you $200.
Just come and have a look at it.
Just have a look.
- What kind of safe did you say it was?
- It's just What do you mean?
It's just a Home Depot one.
Where is it?
It's at my apartment.
It's three minutes from here.
What's in it?
It's just my money that I need
to get out of there right now.
Cody, I'm asking for your help.
All I'm asking is for you
to come and have a look.
- Just to look at it.
- You got a boyfriend?
- Mm-mm.
- Roommate, nothing like that? Live alone?
I live alone.
That's good.
So?
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can look at that for you.
- Just look at it?
- For four hundred.
- Four hundred?
- Yeah.
- That's cool?
- Four hundred. Let's do it.
- Does that work?
- Yeah, I'm down.
Yeah, that's good.
It's, um
This is a nice place for a bartender.
Thanks.
So this is, um
Yeah. What do you think?
That ain't from Home Depot.
Um
Can we get it open?
How am I supposed to know that?
Well, I mean, can we not just
Can we, um, force it open somehow?
So you'd want me to break it in?
That's it, huh?
No, it's not. I'm giving you $400, so
Four hundred to look at it,
and I looked at it.
To look at it? Okay.
We're not breaking it open. It's mine.
It's yours?
- Yes!
- Just like this apartment's yours?
Yes.
- And you're sure of that?
- Yes, I am.
Really?
It's my roommate's.
Your roommate's?
You told me you lived alone.
It's my ex-roommate's.
So she moved out, she left her safe,
and she left all your shit in there.
- Yes, okay?
- That's what happened, huh?
- You're sticking with that?
- Yeah.
Lynette, cut the bullshit.
Tell me the truth.
It is my girlfriend's, okay?
It is my girlfriend's apartment.
It's her boyfriend's safe
that I need to get the money out of.
And I need to get it out tonight.
And that is the fucking truth.
It's for my family.
It's for my family, all right?
You really should have
told me that before.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have lied.
I need this, Cody.
I can't believe I'm doing this again.
Look, the only way to
The only way to open up that safe is
to let someone drill through the layers.
- Drill through the layers?
- Yeah.
Can we not get them here?
You could if you want the whole building
to know what you're doing.
Can we not do it quietly?
Luckily I got a drill
with a fucking silencer on it?
No. There's no way. We gotta take it out.
It's not gonna be cheap, either.
How much?
Eight hundred.
You wanna do it or not?
Mm-hmm.
- I have to.
- But you're good for it, right?
Yeah, it's in the safe.
You know, you better not be
fucking with me.
Mm-hmm.
I'll make a call.
Okay, Lynette, I get it.
I shouldn't have laughed at you.
Just bring back the car,
and we can discuss it, okay?
Do not be late getting Kenny at Mona's.
Mona has an early thing tomorrow.
This is an
automated message from Rose City Loans.
Your account is seven weeks past due,
and a payment needs to be...
Lynette, this isn't funny.
You know that's my wife's car.
Tell me where it is now.
You fucking piece of shit!
If you've done anything to that car,
I'll fucking kill you!
Hold it.
Thanks.
You guys moving out?
Yeah.
Gentrification.
- It's the worst.
- Yeah.
Yeah, one second, one second.
One second.
You gonna get that?
- Where are we going?
- South on 82nd.
What's your place like now?
- My place?
- Yeah.
- My home?
- Yeah.
It's a bit rough.
It needs some stuff done to it.
I got like 12 hours
to get this money or I'm
I'm past due on everything.
No one will rent to me on my own, because
You know
That sucks.
Where do you live?
Way out.
- It's all I can get on what Tammy pays.
- Hmm.
Two hours by bus.
You got family?
Not anymore.
So this guy is okay to open this thing?
I mean, we're gonna find out, right?
And we just take the money I'm owed
out of the back, right?
Close it, and then we can just
Bring it back.
- Bring it back where?
- Back to the apartment.
- The apartment?
- Yeah.
It's right here.
What's up?
Hi, Mama.
Hi, Mama.
What's going on, Mama?
Love you.
Love you.
Make sure she's not alone, please.
And make sure this shit is down.
- You ready?
- Yep.
Let's go.
Carl, wake up, wake up, wake up.
So it's your safe,
and you forgot the combination.
What's in it?
Just my money.
- Your money?
- Yeah.
Okay.
Let's get it.
Keys.
Carl, help me with the garage, please?
Get your shit together.
Come on. I'm serious. Come on.
Did you carry this all the way
over here with this skinny bitch?
- God damn.
- Come on. This way.
Ooh-whee!
That's a lot of fucking money,
if you ask me.
God damn.
Interesting
Interesting
What the fuck is that, Carl? Huh?
No.
That ain't it.
Well, you know what we gotta do.
Gotta go old school.
- No, don't smash it up like that. Don't...
- Shut the fuck up.
Don't do that. Fuck.
Do not It has to go back.
Yeah, one more, baby.
There she is.
God damn!
What do we got here?
Yep.
What the fuck?
Whose safe did you say this was again?
It's just mine.
- Yours?
- Yeah.
- It's yours, huh?
- Yeah.
- All this is yours?
- Yeah.
What do we got?
Got some nice male Rolexes here.
A lot of cash,
and we got a lot of cocaine.
- How do you know her, buddy?
- A girl from the bar.
A girl from the bar?
- Mm-hmm.
- Hmm.
- Carl.
- Yeah.
The fuck you bringing
that shit to me for, bruh?
- What the fuck are you doing?
- That's your shit, huh?
Fuck you, it's mine. It's mine.
- I just want my money, okay?
- That's what you want?
If you wanted your money,
then where the fuck did this come from?
It's a
It's a what?
- It's a what?
- It's a
- It's mine.
- Excuse me?
- It's mine.
- No, it's not.
- Give me my shit now. Give me my shit.
- Whose safe is it?
- Fuck you.
- Give me my shit!
Bitch, who the fuck you steal this from?
It's a girlfriend's of mine.
- Whose is this?
- Dude, what the fuck, man? Easy!
I told you.
It's a fucking girlfriend's of mine.
It's a girlfriend's now, huh?
Now we're getting to the truth.
Just tell me
where the fucking safe is from.
- She's an escort.
- An escort?
Yes, she keeps it for a business guy.
He's not gonna know.
- How the fuck do you know that?
- He's not gonna care.
- Yeah?
- She's just an escort.
She keeps it for a business guy.
Why the fuck did you bring it to me, huh?
Hmm?
Fucking bitch.
They're trying
to motherfucking play us, Carl.
What the fuck you doing?
Get the fuck off me!
- Give it to me!
- Give me my fucking bag!
Fuck.
Ow!
Fuck! Give me the bag!
Damn it!
Stay back.
I'm gonna fuck you up!
Carl!
Shit!
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
Listen to me! Listen to me!
Oh fuck.
I'm gonna kill you!
You are dead!
Shit, shit
You are dead, bitch!
Oh God.
Oh God.
Get the fuck out of here!
Listen. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Run!
Cody!
Get the fuck in!
- Pull over.
- What? You gonna be sick?
- Hey, pull over.
- All right, all right, all right.
You all right?
Lynette. Relax, okay?
- Relax?
- Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Oh my God. What am I doing? What the fuck
We got the money, right?
Are you gonna answer that?
Have a shot.
Take the edge off a little bit.
Take the edge off?
We're alive, right?
Whose fucking safe was it, anyway?
Just some politician.
Which means he can't come looking for it.
Not with the drugs.
That's good.
So you gonna count it?
- Can I ask you something?
- Depends.
When did you get out?
What did Tammy tell you?
- Tammy?
- Talking Tammy.
- You want to know what Tammy said?
- Yeah, what'd she tell you?
- She just said that you robbed someplace.
- Mm.
- That's what she said?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, but it's not the full story.
- What's the full story?
I was set up.
- You were set up?
- Yeah, that's the full story.
Who were you set up by?
- Some girl.
- Some girl?
- Yeah.
- Oh.
Supposed to be one thing,
ended up being another thing.
Mm-hmm.
That's life, isn't it?
It's, uh
How much?
What?
How much is it?
It's about $19,000.
Nineteen grand?
That's a lot of cash.
You gonna take the rest back
like you said?
Nah.
No, I need it.
I need it for the house I told you about.
We were supposed
to close on it today, and I
If I don't get it by tomorrow morning,
I'm fucked.
I just
Want to have one win, you know?
I've hurt a lot of people
that I care about and
Done some really bad things, and I just
I've just
Come way too far not to, so
Yeah.
I just
I just need I just fucking
need only four grand more.
Four grand, huh?
Mm.
What you laughing about?
Um
You don't, uh
You don't know anyone
who would take a Mercedes, do you?
- What, now you got a Mercedes?
- Yeah, I got a Mercedes.
Let me guess,
belongs to the dude with the safe?
- No, different guy, actually.
- Different guy? Jesus.
But it's his wife's,
so I don't think he's gonna report it,
because he'd have to tell her who took it.
I think I can get you that four grand
if the Mercedes is real.
- You could get four grand right now?
- I can get four grand.
I gotta see it first.
- Make sure you're not fucking with me.
- Mm.
You show me the money,
I'll take you to the car.
Let's do it.
We have to go to my place to get the cash.
Where are you? I'm at work.
Mona is freaking out.
Kenny's over there crying.
You were supposed to be there hours ago.
He thinks you're not coming back.
- Fuck.
- Why do you keep pulling this shit?
I'm sorry, it just
it won't happen again, Mona.
- Don't worry about it.
- It was a really
- Messed up day at work, and I just
- Mm-hmm.
You know, it was It was tough today.
I love you, Mona.
I love you too, Kenny.
See you soon.
Ken, I'm sorry, babe.
I just I had a crazy day at work.
And it was, you know
Tammy was just the worst, and
You Do you forgive me for being late?
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
You had a good time?
Okay, there's a guy in the car that
we're gonna drop him off somewhere quick.
- And then we're gonna go eat, okay?
- Is he a stranger?
No, no, he's a He's a cool guy.
- Really, really?
- Yeah, he's cool.
- Really cool?
- Yeah, he's a cool guy.
- Yeah?
- He's a really cool guy.
- Okay!
- He's cool, this one, okay?
This one's cool.
Be cool, Ken.
- That's my seat.
- In the back, babe.
Uh, this is Uh, this is Cody, Kenny.
- Hey, Cody.
- What's going on?
Doing good.
Uh, Cody is your boyfriend?
No, he's just a
He's just a guy that I work with.
Cool.
You got a girlfriend, Kenny?
- Yeah.
- You got two girlfriends, haven't you?
- Yeah.
- My man! What's their names?
Erica, Azica.
- One of them broke it off though, no?
- Got your heart broken, Kenny?
Yeah. We have been
together the whole time.
But the problem is about, you know
Somebody else broke it off from us.
That's shitty. I feel you, man.
- Kenny's a DJ.
- For real?
- Yeah.
- Yes, I am.
- What's your DJ name?
- DJ Kenny.
DJ Kenny! Okay.
- Or Kenny the Rapper sometimes.
- All right.
- You got bars?
- Yeah.
I want to say yo, yo
Uh, Cody is so cool
And king of how he chill with bros
And doing like a show, oh Uh-oh!
That was cold, DJ! Gimme dap. Gimme dap.
- Told you he was good.
- Yeah, that's fire, man.
I gotta play something. I gotta hear it.
- Got the
- How you work this shit?
- You need an adapter for it.
- What is this?
You need to upgrade this shit for real.
Do you know a guy?
You know I always know a guy.
-To take the dank out of the baggie
-I got five on it
Got it good
Grab your 40, let's get keyed
I got five on it
Fuck. Chill out.
I got five on it
It's got me stuck
Lock the door.
Lynette, why do I have to
keep calling you?
It's 2:00 a.m. Kenny should be in bed.
Where are you? Mona said that
you had someone else in your car?
What are you doing?
Oh fuck.
You scared me.
- Can you open the door?
- Did you get it?
Yeah. How's that?
All right.
Is that it?
Yeah.
Why is the door open?
Because I panicked.
Fuck, I can't believe it's still there.
- You got the key?
- It's in the bag.
All right, all right.
I showed you the car.
You gonna show me the cash?
You want $4,000 for a stolen Mercedes?
Yeah.
You know, after everything
we did together
You ever think of me?
You didn't even give me the $800.
But I was
I was gonna give you some money.
Yeah, but you
could've done that back at the deli.
Why didn't you?
Well, because
Mm.
Because we made a deal on the car.
Look, there's a new deal.
I want half.
Half the cash.
You want half of the
- But the car's worth so much more...
- I want to split the cash.
A stolen fuckin' Mercedes. You have any
clue the danger you're putting me in?
What are you talking about?
You offered four grand.
Want your four grand?
Look, this is what your four grand is.
- That was fucking bullshit?
- Yeah, it was fucking bullshit.
I've been lying to you
like you've been lying to me.
- Calm down.
- Lynette, split the money.
- That was not the deal.
- It's only fair.
- The fucking car is worth 50 times...
- After all the shit we've done?
I don't give a fuck about the car!
- I need this.
- What do you need it for, huh?
I need money too! I got nothing!
- I told you I needed it.
- I got a shitty parole job.
You know what? Fuck your house!
Now I want the whole thing.
- No.
- Yes.
- No. That was not the deal.
- Give me the fucking bag.
- Give me the fucking bag, Lynette.
- Fuck you.
Give me the fucking bag, Lynette!
Leave my sister alone!
- Don't...
- Give me the bag!
- Leave her alone.
- I'm not fuckin' with you.
- Leave my sister alone.
- Shut the fuck up, Kenny.
Please don't do this.
- Give me the bag, Lynette!
- No, I need it!
- I need it!
- Give me the fucking bag! Give me the bag!
- Don't do this!
- Give me the fucking bag!
- Don't do it!
- Give me the fucking...
Give it to me!
Why are you doing this?
Leave my sister alone!
Jesus fucking Christ.
Okay, okay, okay. Kenny, it's fine.
It's fine. Don't worry.
Okay, okay, okay.
You made me do it.
You know you made me do it.
Fuck you!
Fuck you
Fuck you, Lynette.
I am worried about you.
So much.
Why Why you have to act so crazy?
Ken?
Uh, he'll have the pancakes
with syrup and butter.
- But can you put the syrup on the side?
- Yeah, I can do that. For you?
Just coffee, black.
Just make sure it's on the side.
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
Do you remember when Daddy used to go
to that place and he met that busboy?
What was his name?
He used to speak Lithuanian with him.
He used to love speaking his own language.
You remember that? What was his name?
Dominykas. Do you remember?
Remember I wanted us
to go on a trip there? I wanted us to, um
Go get a couple of passports and run away.
Get us the hell out of here.
Kenny.
Kenny, look at me.
Cody was not a good guy. He was a bad guy.
He wasn't a cool guy. I got it wrong.
And he was trying to steal the house.
The house we've lived in our entire lives.
Is that what you want?
I miss my dad.
I know.
I know you do.
Dad left us, Ken. You know that.
Okay? And, um
I still love you.
But I can't stand it.
- What? What can't you stand?
- A lot of shit stuff.
Yeah, okay, well, I got angry.
I got angry because he was
trying to steal from us, okay?
He was trying to steal from us.
That's why I got angry.
I know that. Dad told me to protect you.
You're supposed to be my big brother.
Are you?
Yes.
You're my big brother, okay?
I'm your little sister.
Are you gonna be in this with me or not?
You gonna help me or not?
I am the man of the family,
and I'm going to help you.
You're the man of the family.
That's why me and you
are gonna do this together.
- Yes.
- We're in it together.
We're gonna do it for the family,
and know what?
We're gonna fuckin' do it.
We're gonna go together
and get the fucking money, okay?
- Okay.
- We are?
Yes.
Hello?
Hi, is Tommy there?
Um, who is this?
Just tell him it's Lynette.
What the fuck? Wait there.
Now, look who it is.
Long time, huh?
What brings you here, Lynette?
You still sell stuff?
- You see the store standing, don't you?
- Yeah, maybe.
Whoa.
Whoa! Not here.
So you must be the famous Kenny.
- Yes, I am.
- Yes, you are.
You know what? Here, check this out.
- I am Zoltar
- Awesome!
Yeah? You ever played one?
- Uh, yes, I have.
- Hey. Let's go.
Old-school pinball.
You don't need tokens or anything.
It's You know how to play?
- Uh, yes.
- You do?
- Yes.
- All right.
Come on over and let Zoltar be sharing
I just gotta talk to Tommy
for five minutes, okay?
Jesus Christ. What the fuck?
Where did you get this?
Loose lips sink ships.
Isn't that what you taught us, Tommy?
That's fucking good.
Who is that upstairs?
That's none of your fucking business.
And if you gotta know,
that's my girlfriend.
Nice.
It's your girlfriend, really?
You don't get to come to my place,
middle of the night,
and start giving me shit, Lynette.
Just like all the years you gave me shit?
Five years of shit?
I never wanted you to live here.
You begged.
I begged because I was a kid,
and I was fucked up. That's why I begged.
I was looking for help, Tommy.
You weren't that much of a kid, were you?
- Fuck you.
- Lyn?
Lyn?
Lyn?
- What's up?
- You okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two minutes, okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Cool. Be out in a second.
How many of those girls
have you had upstairs since me, huh?
I don't do that anymore.
You don't make your girlfriends
sleep with other guys?
You know, I was
You know, you had me so fucked up,
I thought I was in love with you, Tommy.
What you made me do was wrong.
A long time ago.
I did what I did to get by.
I was 16.
So how much are you gonna pay me for that?
How much is it worth?
It's a fucking half a kilo.
I do not have six grand
just fucking laying around.
So you don't have cash anymore,
like you always used to,
when I was upstairs?
You can find someone that's gonna buy it.
- No.
- Yes you can. Right now.
I do not have to do
fucking anything for you.
This is the least you could do.
Take your coke.
Look at you.
I'm really fucking sorry.
My guy'll give you three.
No, I need four.
It's the middle of the night.
You know someone else
who's gonna give you more money
for your coke, go to them.
Okay, what's the address?
His name's Blake.
You know those houses in Meadow Vale?
Up in the hills?
How could I forget?
Ring the gate when you get there.
I give this to you on one condition.
I don't want you to ever come here again.
Don't call, don't show up. Nothing.
You got it?
You should take these. They belong to you.
Show yourself out.
You don't get to pretend
it didn't happen, Tommy.
Kenny, come on.
Okay.
It's okay, Kenny.
She looks innocent.
She's not.
You were right, Tommy!
- She's wild.
- How much to take her upstairs?
You weren't that much of a kid,
though, were you?
that much of a kid I don't want to hear.
You take good care
of my friend here, okay?
He already paid.
He already paid.
He's paying, so you be real nice.
- I don't like it here.
- I know. It's okay.
It's me and you, yeah?
I'll call you who the fuck you are!
You act like a bitch,
I call you a fucking bitch!
Why the fuck did I even bring you out?
Bitch, why would I
stay home with you, you dirty-ass bitch?
Start making my friends richer
Okay, meet here, yeah?
- Are you sure?
- Stay right here.
Alone at last.
Away from all those horrid people.
Care for a drink?
No.
Oh, do you mind the shoes on the rug?
I try to keep it clean.
Uh
I mean, I'll just stand here.
Did you know
there's 421,000 units of bacteria
on the single sole of a shoe?
- Here you go.
- No, I'm all good. Thanks.
Well, it's right here if you want it.
So tell me.
Friend of Tommy's?
How should we do this?
You want to see the stuff?
No, no, no. I trust you.
I don't know you, but I trust Tommy.
I mean, how do you want to get paid?
- PayPal?
- No.
OnlyFans?
- I'm a very good tipper.
- No, I need cash.
Cash, yeah.
Probably best not to have
our fingerprints all over each other.
Cash it is.
Don't worry.
I got it right here.
What did we say?
- $2,000, right?
- I agreed with Tommy $3,000.
$2,000 is for the coke.
You know what? Now it's gone up to $4,000.
So you can give me the money
or I can get the fuck out of here.
Four thousand.
Tommy said you were
fucking wild back in the day.
I'm sorry, what?
Tommy said you used to be pretty wild.
When I was 16, yeah.
So is this like a trip down memory lane?
The money, and the drugs,
late-night parties.
I just want to know, are you still wild?
Careful. Because you seem,
like, a little bit still wild.
Look, I'm I don't know
what you think is happening.
I don't care what Tommy said.
That's not That's not it, okay?
Not gonna argue.
Give me the fucking money.
Clearly, you know what it is. Here you go.
Oops, it slipped.
It's yours.
$1,000.
$2,000.
What? It's yours.
Some over there. Some over there.
Good girl.
And $4,000.
- Get out of my way.
- I'm not in your way.
- Yeah, get out of my fucking way.
- Look.
- I'm not doing anything. I just need
- Just get out of my way.
- I just need to know that you're calm.
- Move out of my way.
- Okay, I will.
- Move out of my way.
- No.
- I'm gonna move.
- I'm gonna move.
- No, don't do that.
- Careful.
- Do not do that.
Don't scratch. I pay extra for that.
Do not do that. Do not fucking do that.
Stop fucking touching me!
You think you can fucking buy me?
You think I'm fucking trash?
That what you think?
You think because you have money,
you can buy me.
- Jesus!
- You aren't gonna fucking touch me!
- You understand that?
- Oh my God! You're fucking crazy.
Crazy? Fucking crazy?
Want to see fucking crazy?
Fucking touch me! Don't fucking touch me!
Don't fucking touch me!
You weren't that much of a kid,
though, were you?
Shh.
There's no rush.
Yeah?
I don't want
to go upstairs with him, Tommy.
Take your dress down. Come on.
- Stay back.
- Okay. You got your money.
Shh.
Calm down.
No!
Fuck! Fucking bitch!
Kenny?
Kenny?
Kenny!
Kenny?
Kenny?
Kenny?
Where are you?
What the fuck?
Is that glass? Is it
What the fuck
- Where's my brother?
- Put the glass down.
She fucking attacked me!
She stole my fucking money!
Relax. Fuck
Don't fucking touch me!
- Get her.
- Don't fucking touch me!
Put it down, bitch.
Hold her down, man! Hold her down!
- Lyn!
- Kenny!
Lyn! Leave my sister alone!
Somebody fucking stop this psycho bitch!
- I'm sorry.
- Are you Are you okay?
I'm fine. I'm fine.
I'm sorry.
Hey. Sorry.
What the fuck, man?
Get the fuck out of my house.
I got the money, baby. I got the money.
Let's go home.
Let's go home. Okay.
Okay.
It's over now. Get some sleep, Ken.
Good night?
You take good care of your brother?
Yeah. I spent the night getting
the money that you blew on the car.
All $25,000.
And we're out of time.
So please, please get dressed.
And come with me to sign the loan.
Please.
Hold still.
Even your dad hated this house.
This isn't some magical place, honey.
It's just all we could afford.
Be still.
Okay, that one's done.
If we don't
If we don't do this right now,
we're gonna lose the house.
Okay?
- So I'm begging you.
- Sweetheart, I'm not I'm too tired.
- I'm not having this conversation.
- I'm begging you.
- We're both tired, okay?
- Lynette, I know you don't wanna hear it.
But I don't want that loan,
and I don't want this house.
- Don't.
- Please, I'm begging you.
- I hate this house. I'd like to burn it.
- I'm begging you. Please.
That's what I would do.
Too many memories.
You were never serious
about buying it, were you?
This entire time, you've watched me
You've watched me
You watched me do what I do
and what I did,
and you still, you said nothing.
I tried to tell you. You wouldn't hear.
No, you didn't.
You bought a car instead of telling me.
Because I can't have you screaming
and freaking out at me.
I'm not! What do you mean, screaming?
I'm not that person anymore.
I'm not that person.
I don't do that anymore.
- You know what? I'm
- I don't do that. I'm not
I'm picking glass
out of your back right now.
You just don't want to live with me,
that's what it is.
You don't want to live with me, do you?
Oh, Jesus.
You don't.
You
Okay. Okay, you know what?
You know what? It's fine.
Get some shitty apartment. You go do that.
- Kenny's gonna come with me.
- Kenny's not gonna go.
- He's afraid of you.
- Yes, he is. Kenny loves me.
Of course he loves you,
but he's scared of you.
Kenny needs me. He knows that
I would never do anything to hurt him.
Is that right?
So where'd you take him tonight?
I am his mother, Lynette.
I have been taking care of Kenny his
entire life since before you were born.
Well, you know what?
I will fight you for him.
Is that a joke? Are you kidding?
And what are you gonna say?
That you tried to kill yourself?
That you sleep with men for money?
You You become violent,
that you can't hold down a job?
You would fucking love that,
wouldn't you? You'd love it.
You'd tell them
you have a fucked-up daughter.
You know, you forgot all about Kenny
when you ran away and moved in with Tommy.
And I was fine being his mom then, right?
You were happy about it then.
Don't you dare! I was just
I was 16! I was trying to be
with someone who actually loved me.
- How did that work out for you?
- It didn't work out because I couldn't
I couldn't
I didn't I don't
You don't think You don't think I know
You don't think I know who I am?
You have no clue.
Where were you?
Where were you?
I needed you when he
I needed you to
I just needed my mom.
I can't save you.
I can't help you, so
Shit.
You can keep blaming me,
but you're a grown woman now.
You want to blame me? Go ahead.
You're like that thing
at the bottom of a toilet bowl.
You just, like,
suck everything down with you.
I can't do this anymore.
I made plans with Mona.
Kenny and I move in there next week.
Yeah.
Hey, Lynette. It's David.
I am so sorry.
I've changed my mind.
I've taken the higher offer
from the other buyer.
I gave your family all the chan...
- Hey.
- Hi.
Kenny, I have to go away for a while.
I'm gonna come back and visit you
as soon as I can, okay? I promise.
I love you.
I really love you.
I'm gonna think about you every second.
Gonna love you every minute of every day.
Okay?
You are my little sister.
And I will always be your big brother.
- Yeah.
- And I will always protect you.
Yes, you will.
Okay.
I'm gonna have to go to bed now.
You have to go to bed?
- I have to go to bed.
- Okay.
Mom.
You asked me what I did last night.
I fought.
I fought for this family.
The only way I know how.
But I guess you said
what I needed to hear.
So thank you.
And now I need to fight for me.
Take care of Kenny.
He needs his mom.
Maybe this is our chance to get it right.
Lyn.
Wall eyes
Ceiling felt too high
Nights were falling down skies
Was no look in the eye
Subtle moments of past
What a wondering time
Come back
Swallowed over the stage
Turning into the rage
Wondering what forced the age
Towards tomorrow
Come back
Come back
Was wild and unsure
And naked and pure
Come back
Turning into over my mind
Jumping on tenuous time
Come back
Come back
Moments of faith
Turning out late
Come back
Or does anyone care?
Ominous state
Come back
Come back
Neighboring love
Won't stay in the home
Come back
Come back
Moments of fire
Can turn the car on back home