Average Joe (2023) s02e05 Episode Script

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Previously on "Average Joe"
I figured out who's coming after Imani,
who's coming after us.
- Sipho.
The suspect's fingerprints
have been burned
or lasered off,
denoting suspect
as a possible killer for hire.
The question, then, is, who hired him?
Wait. Will you take these for me, please?
I need you to be safe.
There's this bar. It's called R Jay's Cove.
You hand this in at the door.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
Bad-ass drug dealer, Joe.
He told me that he killed
Teddy, Teddy's wife.
This guy killed my mom and dad?
Imani.
- What's the next move?
- There is no next move.
I'm the reason that she's dead!
Imani, none of this is on you.
None of it, you hear me? None of it.
I need my gun back you said
that you still have it.
It was in my bag, and now it's gone.
It's Imani.
Sipho!
My mother!
Get the girl!
Imani!
Help, Joe!
Joe!
Get up.
- What's your name, boy?
- Bongani.
Bongani.
Looks like the Lord,
our Father, has spared you.
Hmm?
You like this?
Yes, you do like it.
It was a gift from my mother to me.
Now I give it to you,
from a father to his new son, huh?
There.
You're my son now.
I will teach you,
and you'll do great things.
Do you understand?
Do you understand me, boy?
- Yes, Father.
Excellence, my son.
Your first task
take this
And kill him.
Now.
Finish him.
Kill him!
My son!
No! Help, Joe!
Help, Joe!
Imani!
Imani.
You okay?
- No!
You didn't see
that motherfucker punch me
Fucking asshole.
The girl! Where's the girl?
We will get the girl, sir,
but we have to go.
Thank you, Father,
for protecting your son.
I got you. I got you. I got you. I got you.
Come on, come on, come on.
Okay, shh, shh.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Shh.
Listen, listen, you're okay.
You're okay. You're okay.
Don't don't leave me, Benjamin.
- I'm right here.
- Don't leave me.
I'm not going anywhere, but
you need to calm down, okay?
You're hyperventilating.
You got to breathe, Phyllis.
Breathe.
Look at me. Hey, look at me.
Just you need to breathe. Listen.
Um, shit. Um, uh
Joy and pain ♪
Remember this?
- Like sunshine ♪
- And rain ♪
Sing it now, God's children ♪
Sing.
Joy and pain ♪
It's like sunshine ♪
And rain ♪
There we go. There we go.
Okay.
You feel that?
Good, okay?
You're doing great. Just take it easy.
- What happened to Imani?
- I don't know.
I know that Joe went after her,
but I do know that we got
to get the fuck out of here.
Come on.
What? What?
- I can't lose her.
Benjamin, please. I can't lose her.
You won't.
Look at me.
You won't.
Okay?
- Mm-hmm.
Follow my lead. Let's get out of here.
Come on.
Aah!
What the hell's going on here?
Shoot him! Shoot him!
What the fuck? Shit!
Aah!
Oh, fuck.
Where do you think you're going?
Let go of me! Let go of me!
Let go of me!
Joe, Joe, Joe, Joe.
I'm okay. I'm okay.
We got to go, now.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- You okay?
- Yeah, I think so.
- Are you sure?
- I think so.
Thank you. Thank you.
- Put that on.
- Okay.
Hey.
Were you able to get in touch with Imani?
No.
No, not yet.
Yeah, I couldn't, uh,
get Joe on the line either.
You okay?
I just
I just want
I just want you to know that
I never meant for any of this
to happen.
I'm sorry.
Sorry? What are you talking about?
Any of what?
You know none of this
is your fault, right?
And, Imani, if anything happens to you
Nothing's gonna happen to her.
Phyllis, look at me.
Nothing's gonna happen to her.
Joe is gonna find her.
He's gonna bring her home.
That's what he does.
But you have to talk to me.
What's going on with you?
What happened out there today
at the parade?
You were talking
about your sister or something.
You said you couldn't save her.
What was that?
My sister, Nandipha
she was my younger sister.
She passed away
because I couldn't heal her.
She passed away
because I couldn't save her.
I'm sorry.
And then Imani's mom
Jamila.
She was my dearest friend.
I didn't even see death for her.
I believed my ancestors called me.
Yeah.
I was called to be a sangoma.
But how can I be a healer if I cannot save
the ones that matter to me the most?
This this life
my life
it's a lie.
No, it's not. No, don't say that.
This is not a lie. This is your life.
Phyllis, this is what you do, okay?
But sometimes, you know
no matter how hard you try
Some people just can't be saved.
Some people don't want to be saved
like me.
No.
No, Benjamin.
No
Benjamin, not like you.
You have so much love in you.
- I don't.
- So much.
This, I know.
This, I can feel, okay?
The pain in you is suffocating that love.
You need to let it go.
You need to
- I can't.
I fucking can't.
There's something
you should know about me.
I
I am a drug addict.
Hey
look at me.
I know.
I know.
Like Nandipha.
Holy shit. So your sister was a
A heroin addict, yes.
And whenever you look at me
- I see her.
- You see her.
And if you let me die
I let her die all over again, yeah.
So that's why you were trying
so hard to save me.
That is why I've been trying to save you.
Oh, fuck.
Oh, fuck.
So help me.
Help me.
- I can't.
Yeah, you can.
Yeah, you can.
You're a you're a sangoma, right?
You're a healer.
So heal me.
- But, Benjamin
- Because we can't
I can't keep living like this, okay?
So heal me.
Heal your sister. I'm Nandipha.
Make her pain go away.
Help me, please.
I'm gonna say this,
and I'm just gonna leave it there, okay?
You cannot go around this motherfucker
trying to shoot motherfuckers!
No, Joe, it's just
I was so angry about everything
that happened to my mom.
I saw red, okay?
Sipho still needs to die, okay?
I-I understand all those feelings
that you have, all right?
I understand everything.
But you got to understand. That ain't you.
And that ain't never
gonna be you, all right?
Revenge is nothing, nothing at all.
It's not gonna bring your mother back.
It's it's gonna ruin
your fucking life, okay?
And your mother wanted
better than that, all right?
You can't do that shit, okay?
- Okay.
- You feel me?
- I do.
'Cause when you do shit like that,
you put us all at risk, all right?
And I can't have that shit.
- Joe, I didn't
I didn't mean to put you at risk, okay?
It's just I'm sorry.
Listen
you are my little sister now, okay?
And I got you. I promise I do.
But I got to make it home.
I got to make it to my girls
- Yeah.
Jenn and Ange.
And I can't get home
with motherfuckers after you.
You hear me?
'Cause if they after you, they after me.
And if they after me
I'm not dying in Africa.
When the shadow has passed
beyond our line,
you will have paid us $40,250,000.
- Beg your pardon, sir.
- Mm.
Will you be needing
anything else this evening?
Any words on the girl or the Americans?
Nothing yet, sir.
Then you may go, Bingo.
Of course, sir.
Good night.
Oh, uh, Bingo.
Your mother.
Is she still a whore?
Excuse me, sir?
Your mother
she was the town's whore, yes?
Which makes you the son
of the town's whore.
I guess it does, sir.
Good night.
- Yes, yes, well, tell me.
Tell me, son of the town's whore,
when you visit your mother,
do you kiss her on the cheeks
when you see her,
or do you kiss her on the lips, hmm?
Where you can taste
the foul breath of every man
from here to Johannesburg?
Having a bad night, are we, sir?
I don't know. Am I having a bad
I don't know if I'm having a bad night!
I don't know!
An army of Afghan militants
are on their way here
to chop me into pieces,
then burn those pieces
and and urinate on my ashes.
Am I having a bad night?
But I suppose that is nothing compared
compared to the pain
your mother must have felt
when a team of herdsmen
filled every orifice
she had to offer them.
Sir, the last time we did this
was on the anniversary
of your mother's death,
and you almost did not make it.
I prefer not to do it tonight, sir.
You prefer not to do it tonight?
- Yes.
- You prefer not to.
And I I would prefer it if your mother
sat her big fat ass on my big fat
Yeah, there it is.
There it is.
Yes.
Yes.
Forgive him, for he knows not
that his mother
is a big whore!
Good night, sir.
Excuse me.
Hello.
Hello.
Are you
are you Donna?
Mommy, look what I found.
Mama. Mommy.
- No, Donna!
No, no, no, no, no!
Yes, Benjamin's friend.
Yes.
Um, it's lovely to meet you.
I was hoping we could speak.
I'm sorry. I'm quite late.
Meeting my mom for lunch.
Yes, your mom
Tess.
That's that's lovely.
Um, but I really think
it would be helpful to Benjamin
if we could speak.
Please tell Benjamin
tell Touch
the truth will set him free.
Wait. Only only that?
"The truth will set him free"?
It's the lie that's been killing Touch,
not his guilt,
not me.
Remind him he has a family
that loves him dearly.
They need to hear his truth.
Please, Donna, don't go.
I-I came a very long way to see you.
No, sangoma.
They came a very long way to see you.
Jamila!
Nandipha!
Benjamin.
I met Donna.
She has a message for you.
Pretty quiet during the ride. You okay?
Mm, yeah.
How's your face?
I don't know. How's my face?
- You've looked better.
- Fuck you.
Hey, um, do you think you could ask Joe
if I could, uh, talk
with you and him and Touch?
Uh, yeah, sure.
What about?
About me
about what a selfish bitch I've been.
Look, Joe saved our asses
with that hit man,
and he didn't have to.
But he showed up,
and I know he showed up
because he loves you, Lee.
And I know you love him, too.
And then to see him going after his sister
like that, I
I realize I do need
to think less about myself
and more about how to help you
help him get back to Ange and Jenn.
Well
we can definitely set that up.
Mm.
You still love me.
There I go, interrupting
the fucking again.
Joe!
- You're back!
- Hey, buddy
Cathy. Cathy, thank you.
Thank you so much for trying to save me.
- You're welcome.
- I-I need to get out of this.
- I can smell.
- Are you okay?
Mm-hmm.
If it's cool with you,
um, Cathy wants to talk
to, uh, me, you, and Touch
about some things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good.
Touch made it back?
Actually, uh, we just got here ourselves.
I'm not even sure.
Hey, Touch.
Imani, thank God you're okay.
- Touch.
- Scared the shit out of us.
- Oh.
- Oh, Joe.
Jesus, man, I was
so fucking worried about you.
I'm here, too.
Yeah, no, I see you.
Hey, uh, do we
should I do we need to
No, no, no, no, no,
I already talked to her.
And she promised
Yes, that I ain't gonna be trying
to shoot motherfuckers no more.
I didn't I didn't teach her
that last part, but she
Please don't.
Um, where's, um, Aunt Phyllis?
She's downstairs in her shop.
I think you should go see her.
Yeah, I will.
Mm.
Thank you again.
Yeah.
Night.
What the fuck did I miss?
A lot.
On that note, um
can we talk?
Yeah.
Let's sit down.
- Imani.
- Auntie.
I'm sorry.
Okay?
I'm sorry, okay?
Why are you crying?
Why?
You.
I mean, what were you thinking?
What were you thinking?
Why are you stealing guns and
We almost lost you today.
Why are you taking guns
and and trying to kill a man?
Imani.
- I'm sorry, okay? I just
I just couldn't stop thinking about Ma,
and, Aunt, please
Imani, um
I spoke to your mother today.
What?
She's with my Nandipha.
And she told me to tell you
"I love you."
So
that's it.
I'm sorry for being a selfish bitch.
And?
Sorry for lying about the heroin.
And?
And for lying about knowing
that your dad's name was Philsky.
And?
That's all I got, motherfucker.
I'm just I'm just fucking with you.
Look, I-I know it's gonna take a while
before you guys really trust me, but
don't take it out on Lee, okay?
He loves you.
He'd do anything for you guys.
All right, that's it.
Thank you for your time.
We good?
Yeah, we cool.
I guess it's my turn now, huh?
Your turn for what?
You guys, you know you're like my family.
Fuck, you are my family, and
I love you.
There's something that you should, uh
You need to hear the truth about me.
A couple months back
I tried to kill myself.
- What?
- Why?
I was in my house, you know.
I was in the bedroom.
I had my service pistol
and sat up on the bed.
I didn't use.
I didn't want to.
I didn't want to numb myself.
I didn't want to chicken out, you know.
I wanted to end the pain.
I stuck the gun in my mouth, and
The fucking thing misfired.
And I wanted to die so badly.
Fuck!
Donna was six fucking years old, you guys.
And I covered that shit up.
I lied about it.
And the worst part is that I find out
four years ago on her mother's birthday
Donna took her own life because of me,
because of what I fucking did.
I've wanted to die
every single day since then,
and I couldn't even fucking do that right.
I can't even fucking kill myself.
I can't fucking die.
I can't I can't fucking
We got you, man.
- I'm sorry.
- We got you, T.
We got you, man.
We got you.
It's okay. We got you, T.
You're family.
Man, it's over.
It is all over.
Thanks, man.
Following up
on Van Wyk and Maseko's crime scene
Hout Bay, Swart En Goud fishing tours.
So their report cites four bodies outside
and all John Does,
probably gang-related.
Hang on.
A flare was set off inside.
But why?
Is it a defense mechanism or
or just plain stupidity?
The desk is askew,
and I see Forensics has dusted for prints.
Hmm, we'll have to follow it up with them.
Floor safe is open
and empty.
Hmm.
Name on utility bill is Teddy Washington.
Follow up with Mr. Washington
at his residence.
Oh.
Ah.
Oh, shit!
Shit, shit, shit.
Oh
I'm coming! I'm coming, I'm coming.
Oh! Boy?
Are you here, boy?
My boy. Boy, are you here?
'Cause 'cause I'm here.
I'm here, my boy.
Come to me, son.
Come.
No.
I'll try again tomorrow, Temi.
I love you, my son.
Hey, Ange, it's me.
Um
I was just calling to, uh
There really ain't no real reason
why I'm calling.
I just wanted to hear your voice,
even if it's on the message.
Things here are, uh, coming to a head.
One way or another, I think
it'll be over with real soon.
That's all, I guess.
That's all I that's all I got.
Look, I don't even know
why I'm calling you
or even telling you this.
Just can you tell Jenn
I love her and I miss her?
In the letter that you left me,
you said that you was
my ride-or-die for 30 years.
You ain't think that I thought
it was enough, but it was
it was more than enough.
I was just too stupid
and selfish to hold onto it
the way that I should have, and
for those reasons, I'm sorry.
I'm s I'm sorry for all of it.
Look, you don't
you don't have to call back
or nothing like that.
I just want you to know
I miss you and, uh
I miss us.
If you ever want to talk
or anything, just, uh
just give me a call.
All right
bye.
Hey.
- Hello, Benjamin.
- Good morning, Phyllis.
Um
you're looking taller today, yes.
- Yeah, I feel pretty good.
- Okay.
I feel very good, actually.
First time in a long time.
Me too.
So I got you a little something.
You know you really didn't have to.
I know. It's nothing. It's just
I wanted to, you know,
just to thank you for
thank you for healing me.
They're beautiful.
The woman who made those,
her mother is also a sangoma.
And those are made of lava rock,
and she told me that lava rock means
Oh, shit, hold on.
I wrote this down 'cause
I didn't want to forget it.
She says lava rock
can strengthen one's connection
to Mother Earth,
and it can give you courage
and the strength
that you need in times of change.
So times of change, indeed, right?
Anyway, I thought those would
look good on you or whatever,
and and
I just wanted to thank you, so
You're welcome.
Come. Come here.
I got to go.
But, um
I'll see you later.
- Bye.
- Yeah.
Okay.
All right, back to business.
It's time we check out this R Jay's Cove.
Let's see what Teddy wants us
to fucking find there.
We good?
Then, R Jay's Cove, here we come.
There's gonna be guns,
bats, bottles, hammers,
men with fingernails,
and they'll scratch your shit.
I'd rather get punched, personally.
- True that.
- That's right.
Hey, wait up.
Y'all, I was just talking to Imani,
and if this place y'all going
is as bad as she says it is,
I could keep the car running
in case anything pop off at the Cove.
Now you're cool
with keeping the car running?
Because somebody is in it.
It's not a bad idea, Joe.
It's not a bad idea
but I'm gonna need you to stay here.
I need you
to keep an eye on Phyllis and Imani
'Cause for whatever reason
we don't make it back
Imani gets the fuck out of Cape Town.
I got you.
I'm gonna take care of your sister, Joe.
But y'all motherfuckers make it back.
We will. Come on.
We'll be right back.
You.
You.
Hi, Cathy. Uh, what's wrong?
Are you not okay?
- Mm, no.
I feel like I've been hit
by one of y'all's taxi vans.
Do you have any, uh, Tylenol
or Aleve or meth?
Unfortunately, Cathy,
I do not have methamphetamine.
But I can brew you a nice hot pot of tea
that'll make you feel so much better.
Mm, while I appreciate your
holistic approach to my pain,
I'm really just
a good old-fashioned American
painkiller kind of gal.
Mm-hmm.
Do you have a pharmacy or anything nearby?
Yeah, we do. It's not that far.
I can take you if you'd like.
- Oh, no, no, no.
You stay. I can go. Where is it?
Okay.
Um, so you're just gonna go
to the end of the street.
- Mm-hmm.
- Take a right.
- Mm-hmm.
- Four kilometers on your left.
- Four kilometers.
- Sorry.
Like, uh
- I don't know.
Two and a half miles.
- Okay, so not walking.
- No.
- Got it.
- Um
Yeah, uh, you can you can use my car.
- You sure?
- Yeah, of course you can.
I mean, if you're happy to drive.
- Mm?
- Yep.
Okay.
Joe, what was your wedding song?
My wedding?
Damn, Lee, you don't remember
my wedding song?
I mean, it was, like, 30 years ago.
"Ribbons in the Sky," Mr. Stevie Wonder.
Thank you, Touch.
Why you asking?
Well, after this is all over,
I was thinking of asking Cathy
to renew our vows.
- No shit.
- Yeah.
Just needed the perfect song.
Look at you, getting all romantic.
- Fuck you, man.
- No, good for you.
Good for you.
Well, if you want the perfect song,
then we got to narrow it down, right?
True.
So who's the greatest
R&B singer of all time?
- Aretha.
- Whitney.
Okay, what's the difference
between the two?
Coke habit.
Yeah, Aretha had
an incredible sweet tooth.
Oh, come on.
You are going to hell for that.
Damn, dude.
Let's just say Aretha, all right?
It's Aretha.
- Okay, that's what I said.
All right. Uh, male, male singers.
Who's the greatest R&B singer, male?
Group or solo?
- Does it matter?
- It has to matter.
Luther or Marvin if we're talking solo,
Teddy Pendergrass if we're going group.
No, Teddy Pendergrass
was never in a group.
Jesus. How white are you, Touch?
Excuse me, Teddy Pendergrass
was the lead singer
of Harold Melvin
and the Blue Notes, ass-face.
The fuck he was.
Harold Melvin was the lead singer
of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
His name is in the fucking band title.
Tell him, Joe.
- Yeah, tell me.
Teddy Pendergrass was the lead singer
of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
Get the fuck out of here.
Jesus, Lee, how white are you?
How the fuck did I not know that?
Well, the world is filled with things
you do not know, Lee.
- World is filled
Fuck you, Touch.
- All right, right, right.
- Uh, Michael Jackson or Prince?
- Prince.
Ooh, I got one. Prince or Seal?
Prince or Seal?
Why would you why would you
put Seal in that shit?
- Seal is Seal is iconic!
- "Iconic"? Seal?
Who didn't want a "Kiss from a Rose"?
- Yes!
- Get the fuck out of here.
You might as well bring up
Terence Trent D'Arby
or Jamiroquai
or them niggas who made
"Who Let the Dogs Out."
Ooh, Baha Men. I dig their shit.
The Baha niggas. Put them in there.
Fuck out of here with that Seal shit.
"Kiss from the Rose" was amazing.
Okay, I got one, I got one.
Earth, Wind & Fire or Ohio Players?
Oh, shit. Come on, now.
Do you remember ♪
The 21st night of September ♪
And there's something, something ♪
Sounds like embers ♪
Da-na-na-na night away ♪
Ah, ah, ah ♪
Ba-dee-ya, say that you remember ♪
Get out of here!
Well, it looks like a lovely fucking place.
When we get in there,
it's heads on a swivel for real, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Look for anything associated
with us, Teddy, or Imani.
Teddy want us in this bar.
Let's go find out why.
- Yes, sir.
Let's do it.
- Hey!
- Whoa!
Hello, is this the police?
It's about the Americans
you're looking for.
Why not let me go? ♪
Ain't got time to see them families ♪
They ain't in trouble
most days, it seems ♪
And only need a chance ♪
Head on a swivel.
Joe?
- Yeah.
- How you doing?
- Bar is closed.
- Bar is closed?
- Bar is closed.
This bar look pretty
goddamn busy to be closed.
Bar is closed.
So you telling me
the goddamn bar is closed?
Clever one, you are.
I'll hurt you the most.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Is the bar still closed
if I have one of these?
Come with me.
Why not let me go? ♪
Good hit.
You must be Joe.
I'm changing my name.
Everybody fucking knows
my name down here. Why
If you gentlemen would follow me,
we've got some business to deal with.
We can get this all sorted out.
Shit. What the fuck did you do?
- We didn't do shit! Nothing!
- What?
Gatas!
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Hey, hey! Probably not now.
We
- Okay.
- We're good.
- How do you know me?
- I knew your father.
He said that if everything
went to hell and he was dead,
you would show up.
- Who are you?
About your only fucking chance.
So ticktock, motherfucker.
We did we did not bring
those fucking police here.
You got to fucking believe me. We did not.
You want a fucking apology, Joe?
How about, I'm sorry
you three motherfuckers
are going to jail?
I wonder why ♪
We play this game ♪
That's how we roll ♪
That's how we roll ♪