Average Joe (2023) s02e06 Episode Script

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Previously on "Average Joe"
- Save her life and it's yours.
- All right.
Why did you have a $70,000
watch hidden in our luggage?
Where did you get this?
- I bought it.
Trying to take your advice
and think of Imani more than myself.
Imani. Go.
I need you to keep an eye
on Phyllis and Imani.
- I got you.
- I had a heart attack.
Your father did CPR on me for 57 minutes.
We are investigating some Americans.
We're gonna need to share
information on this.
Absolutely.
When the shadow has passed,
you will have paid us
40 million U.S. dollars.
There's this bar, it's called R Jay's Cove.
This is how you get in.
Bar is closed.
The bar's still closed
if I have one of these?
Come with me.
Hello. Is this the police?
June 4th, and the night is fading ♪
How am I escaping? ♪
My reasons don't need explaining ♪
Eight months till
the Pisces season changes ♪
Why's this Gemini hating? ♪
Know you thought my career
right now would be fading ♪
But my ship won't stop sailing ♪
You talk about God when
you have a God complex ♪
I think you're the one
that needs saving ♪
I was under the spell
and now my spirit's awakened ♪
My life can't
be controlled by no pagan ♪
So I don't know why you came in ♪
We went from a hundred down to naught ♪
And yes, it is all your fault ♪
Your name weren't popping
until I worked with you ♪
And added a whole lotta ♪
Thief ♪
And you know what it means ♪
Cathy.
What are you doing in my house?
Where's the rest of my goddamn money?
That's my money. I saved your life.
Well, that was your mistake.
There was over $330,000 in this Hefty.
How much is left?
Yeah. I I don't know.
I I haven't been keeping track.
Well, I have.
The Cybertruck, new pool,
fucking Viking gas grill in the backyard.
Come on. That Viking is amazing.
I learned how to make grilled pizza.
I use a poolish
Where is the rest of my money?
OK.
Just
Wait. No, no. Just
What?
Fuck is this shit?
That's a Liam Ni-san NFT.
It don't even look like Liam Neeson.
No, it's not. It's Liam Ni-san.
He's a Japanese Liam Neeson.
Guy at the hobby store said
it's a great investment.
One of a kind, so
Now it's a none of a kind.
Don't do that.
Shit.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Stop. Whoa.
Just a
It's a it's cheap knockoff anyway.
Oh-ho-ho, don't bullshit me, Doolittle.
This is an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak.
It's easier to buy a white baby
than one of these watches.
Oh, yes.
Consider it a down payment
on what you owe me.
Stop.
Or I'll call the police.
You wanna use my phone?
You got as much to lose as I do.
Hey, give me back the watch.
I thought you said it
was a cheap knockoff.
Get your fucking hands off me!
Don't make me do that again.
You won't.
You dead?
Yeah, you're dead.
I keep on telling you when ♪
You don't come home from nights out ♪
I will be kicking you out ♪
I keep on telling you when ♪
You keep on running around ♪
I've had enough of these games ♪
OK easy, but just guns down.
I said guns down!
These men didn't bring the police here.
Amahle, how do you know this?
Because this one is Teddy's son.
You three, follow me.
Let's move.
Thank you. Nice to meet you.
OK, ladies and gentlemen.
We need you to do as we say.
Get to the back.
The back, now. Go.
- Go ahead.
- Go! Hey!
Hey, come on.
Do as I say. Listen!
Start in the back.
- Yeah.
Search this shithole
from top to bottom, eh?
- Mm.
- Hey, don't be shy.
Move! Move!
Get to the back.
Move!
- Get up.
- OK.
- Move.
Do as I say.
- Move.
- Come, come.
- Move.
- Move.
All righty.
All righty, hey.
So who wants to talk first, eh?
It's not much, but
it's sanctuary for the moment.
The walls are reinforced and soundproof.
Look, I don't like lying to my people.
Those men and women have been
chewed up and spat out by the city,
caught between corrupt
politicians, the police,
violent drug gangs.
They would never call the police here.
Then why the fuck are
the police outside the door?
Teddy told me that you're a plumber.
Right?
I think that would mean
that you would recognize when
you've got a leak, Bubba.
Oh, shit.
Oh, fuck.
Who else knew we was gonna be here?
You think Phyllis ratted us out?
He's not talking about Phyllis.
Cathy?
No.
- Yeah.
- No.
You heard her back at the house, right?
She put she put herself
in harm's way for Imani.
For us.
She played us, Lee.
She made nice, she sent us packing,
and then she called the fucking cops.
Yeah.
- You guys know her.
She wouldn't not
to me?
No fucking way.
I left Imani unprotected
with her fucking ass, man.
Oh, shit.
You're right. And Phyllis.
We got to warn the girls, Joe.
- Fuck.
5,000 rand for the first
one who can tell me
where these Americans are hiding.
Nothing, huh?
Suddenly, we're all silent, huh?
Come on.
What about you?
Huh?
Can't you speak, old man?
No.
Not without a tongue, he don't.
Hey, man.
What kind of fucking bar is this?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for lying about the heroin.
I'm gonna take care of your sister, Joe.
You don't trust that.
I can't start over.
Fuck. Straight to voicemail again.
Yeah, mine, too. All right, that's it.
Hey, step aside. Let's go.
- Uh-uh.
- What?
We wait for the all-clear sign.
Might be too late for that.
You're the one who brought the cops here,
whether you meant to or not.
Look, if you go out there now, Joe,
it's not only you who's going to jail.
They will arrest every single
one of my people for harboring.
You're all American. You'll be fine.
But they will not.
I am not asking you, OK?
I am telling you we are
going through that door.
I am gonna count to three.
You understand?
One
two
hey, hey, hey, hey.
- Fuck.
I wouldn't get to three if I were you.
Touch, it's a gun at your dick.
Yeah, I'm very aware of that, Joe.
Thank you.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK.
Take it easy.
Yo, yo, yo. Take it easy.
Take it easy, man.
Come on.
Fuck happened to you?
She happened.
Take me to Sipho.
He is busy.
Not for me, he isn't.
I'm the fucking answer to his prayers.
Open the gate.
Lady wants a word.
What is this?
Mm?
Are we doing takeaways now?
Is this a restaurant?
She jacked Thato at gunpoint.
Made him bring her here.
This is all she had on her.
What do we have here?
Consider it a tribute
to my new business partner.
And why do you think
I need a new business partner?
Because you want the girl.
And what girl are we talking about?
Really?
The one you turned the whole
city upside down looking for?
Teddy's daughter, Imani.
Uh-huh.
I know where she is.
You don't believe me,
ask Ike Turner over there.
She was at the carnival
with the girl and the other Americans.
See?
I come to you, I come correct.
And if you have the girl,
why didn't you bring her directly to me?
If I brought Imani
here, I'd be dead already.
And I don't wanna be dead.
I wanna be rich.
I want 10 million for her.
Is that all?
Considering her value
to you, it seems fair.
Fair.
And tell me, what does fair
have to do with anything?
If you have the girl,
I will give you 1 million, U.S.
How about you meet me halfway?
Come on.
Don't be an Afri-can't
when you can be an Afri-can.
You are very funny.
Mm.
You're a very clever girl.
$2 million is what you will take,
or things will go very badly
for you moving forward.
OK.
Kill this misogynistic piece
of shit and we got a deal at 2.
You want it done?
Do it yourself.
No. No, no, it's OK.
She shoots me, she doesn't get paid.
And with a woman like this,
it's all about getting paid.
Well, it's sometimes about getting even.
Mm.
But you know me so well already.
I'm gonna need that cash up front.
OK, ladies, cops are here.
I want you hey, man.
The hell kind of kitchen is this, man?
Guys, look!
Man, don't just stand around!
Man!
Hey, there's nothing here. Let's go.
Out. Let's go. Get out. Let's go.
Guys, come on.
Kitchen clean?
Oh, no, that's not
the word that I would use,
but, uh, there's no one back there.
No.
If I find out
that you were all lying to me
I'm coming back.
I'm burning this fucking place
to the ground.
What's your name again?
Amahle.
Amah,
there are some good women out there.
And if we don't move fast,
they're gonna get hurt.
Look, I'm sorry to hear that, OK?
But I will not sacrifice
my people to save yours.
If you're so worried about your people,
why are you helping us out?
Simply clearing a debt.
Your father saved my mother's life.
He took us out on one
of his fishing charters.
And halfway through the trip,
my mother started to feel ill.
We just thought that
it was motion sickness.
But then she collapsed.
Heart attack.
And let me guess.
Teddy did CPR, saved her life,
something like that?
Exactly like that.
He told you?
- No.
But I heard the story before.
What does your mother do?
Like for work?
Customs down at the shipping yards.
Why?
Just curious.
I think Teddy was using her mother
to get the drugs out of Cape Town.
No doubt.
Probably using Billy G's
to clean that money.
Motherfucker.
- Guys, we're clear.
- Let's go.
Where are we going now?
Teddy left you one last surprise.
Holy shit. Joe.
That looks just like your old car.
Right.
Like the train set, same kind of bullshit.
Teddy fucking head games,
that's all the fuck this is.
He'd gone paint a beater
and try to make it look like it's my old car,
and I'm supposed to get
all sentimental and shit.
Fuck outta here.
All right, gentlemen,
this is how you get out.
Holy shit.
I like what I see.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Lee, what are you doing?
I just, um, I gotta call Cathy real quick.
She's not gonna pick up.
She's gonna pick up.
She's, um
- She's not gonna pick up.
- She's picking up!
She she really did it.
Yeah.
She, um she she called the cops.
Yeah.
How could she do that?
How could she risk Phyllis
and and Imani's lives?
How could she
It's all good, we
we we still here, brother.
We we got to get out of here now.
We got to think about us now.
We got to go, guys. I'm sorry.
Come on.
- OK?
- Come on, man.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Let's get Phyllis and the money.
There we go.
Let's go.
There we go.
Joe, one last thing.
Some of the people you saw here tonight
work for various food vendors
around the city,
and they have been making deliveries
to a specific location,
a castle in Hout Bay.
Sipho and his men must be there.
Thanks.
How could you
I never mentioned Sipho's name.
Why are you giving me this?
Look, again, just repaying
a debt to your father.
Are you telling me Teddy's still alive?
Yo, Joe.
We gotta roll, man. Come on.
Thanks.
Oh, fuck.
- We gotta roll, brother.
Joe, what's up? What's going on?
- Nothing.
- OK, we gotta go, man.
Thank you.
Come on. We got to get
to Phyllis and Imani.
Ten bricks per bag.
Each brick contains ten bundles of
10,000, I know.
And ten times $100,000
is a million, times 2.
So, are we good, partner?
We're golden.
Hey, can you help me with this other bag?
He was my cousin.
I got him this job,
and now I have
to tell his mother he is dead.
So that's a no?
Follow me.
You mean follow us.
Funny American.
All right.
Just make yourself at home.
The address.
What's wrong?
No, I'm I wanted to check in on Joe,
but I can't find my phone.
Have you have you seen it?
No.
Would you like me to call it?
Yeah, please.
What? You you, too?
My phone was here.
I'll call you back.
Fucking voicemail again. Goddamn it.
Fuck.
- Jesus, Joe.
Teddy even found the same compass
you used to have in your car.
Fuck outta here.
Another one of Teddy's fucking head games,
that's all that shit is.
Joe, I don't think this is like your first car.
This is your first fucking car.
Fuck it is.
No. Do you remember when
I borrowed this after prom?
What?
These marks right here
are from Vanessa's stiletto.
This seat doesn't recline all the way.
And we were, you know, getting
a little fucking crunched.
Vanessa, your prom date?
Isn't that the chick that had the, uh
She didn't have fucking sideburns, Lee.
Like fucking Elvis Presley, she did.
Oh.
Get the fuck this is my car.
How the fuck would Teddy bring
my car to fucking Africa?
To fuck with you.
Fucking working. Shit.
You fucked little Vanessa in my
I thought you said you was getting beer.
Yeah, and we eventually
brought beer back, yes.
Nasty motherfucker.
You
- So Touch
did the carpet match the sideburns?
Fuck you, Lee.
You
you did some nasty shit in here, too?
Mm?
Something I don't know about?
Lee, you all right?
Yeah, maybe there is something
I didn't tell you guys.
You know what?
I might fuck you when this is all over.
I haven't decided.
Well, I can help you with that decision.
Never fucking gonna happen.
I got a man.
What?
The guy you betrayed
for a couple of bundles of money, mm?
How weak he must be.
Hmm?
No, no, no, no.
I have decided.
I'm going to fuck you when this is over.
Trust me, you will enjoy it.
Then Cathy made a deal
to sell some of the heroin
she found at Teddy's stash house.
And then I followed her.
You're gonna be OK.
It was a setup.
He shot Cat in the back.
So I had to take him down.
It was only after that
that I realized he was a cop.
Wait, what?
Are you talking about
that narcotics detective
that went missing a couple months back?
Yeah.
Lee, you killed a fucking cop.
A dirty cop who shot Cathy.
How did you know he was dirty?
- He was
- See
Bobby fucking D.
He was dirty and bent
as Bill Clinton's dick.
We had a pool to see who was
gonna pop that asshole first.
I think his own mother made the list.
That motherfucker won't be missed.
Wait, wait. How did you
get rid of the body?
Buried him.
Took me forever to dig a hole,
then I hurt my Achilles
trying to drag his dead ass up the hill.
Get the fuck
Lee, please, tell me
that's everything, dog.
Goddamn.
Well, let's see.
Found the heroin, sold the Lambo,
shot a cop, covered it up, hurt my leg.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
You wanna hear something really fucked up?
Cathy's infertile.
Goddamn, nigga.
Why why would you tell us that?
Our marriage is over anyway.
Good. Fuck her. She doesn't deserve kids.
Touch.
The fuck? Shit, I'm sorry, man.
I know how much you wanted a baby.
I'm sorry.
- Yeah, it's fine.
No, Leon, I mean it. I'm sorry, man.
It's OK.
We're good.
Now come on. Let's step on it, Joe.
Imani's up there.
Hey! I need the key.
Once I have the girl.
Or you can go now, but the money stays.
Fine.
Let's go get this bitch.
You expecting someone else?
You bitch, you.
Listen to me.
You can go straight through the kitchen
all the way to the right.
I'll be right in.
Thank you.
Phyllis, please.
There's no time to argue this, OK?
The man out there is gonna
tell you when Sipho is gone,
and then the both of you
need to get the hell out of Cape Town.
Now, the airports, the train stations
are most likely being watched,
so you're gonna take this car
and you are not gonna stop driving
until you clear the city.
Do you understand?
Why can't we wait for you?
You don't think you're coming back?
Getting you two out of here,
that's what matters.
That's the only thing that matters.
Benjamin, I don't wanna say goodbye.
It doesn't have to be goodbye.
Touch, we got to go.
Yeah.
Look at me. Look at me.
I, um
As do I.
We gotta go.
Touch, now.
You promised me the girl.
I think he's mad at you, Cat.
Looks like we got Imani
and Phyllis out just in time.
You gonna have to tell him where Imani is.
And you're gonna have
to get all the way fucked.
Take them both.
Back the fuck up.
So you actually think you
are walking out of here.
Stroll out, motherfucker.
'Cause you're gonna put
the keys on the table.
Your men are gonna put their guns down
and make a path for me.
And then once I'm ghost,
you can have this sad fool right here.
And tell me, what am I going
to do with this sad fool?
Sipho,
meet Joe, Teddy's son,
all the way from the U.S. of fucking A.
You think Imani may know
where the heroin is?
I'm sure Joe knows.
Car keys now.
Or I kill him.
The fuck you think is so funny?
You're gonna love this.
You Americans.
Take them.
Take them!
So how many are we looking at?
Counted at least six of them,
all with guns.
How do you wanna play this?
Touch, Touch.
What? What?
What's going on with you?
Fucking Joe is what's going on with me.
He had every chance to get
the fuck out of Cape Town,
and he passed them all up.
There's something going on with him.
Well, I don't know
what's going on with him.
It's just Joe being Joe.
Now we need to help him,
so get your head out of your ass.
OK, OK, OK, fine. You're fucking right.
Look, our best chance was
element of surprise, right?
Take Sipho on the street,
but he's got way too many
fucking men with him.
We get into a firefight now,
God knows how many
people are gonna get hurt.
I don't like this. It's a no-go.
Guess we're going with plan B.
Oh, fuck. Plan B sucks my balls.
Ah, that's what the B stands for.
You got a better idea?
No.
Yeah.
OK, let's go.
Yeah.
Take one long last look at it, Cat.
Hope it was worth fucking dying for.
Did you think you got a coronation
waiting on you, Prince Akeem?
You're just as dead as I am.
What was the point of that?
Yeah, but I'm still fucking alive.
Where's Leon?
Oh, well, depending on
Touch's frequent flyer miles,
he could be in first class
with a glass of champagne.
Or he could be a coach
with some screaming-ass fucking baby.
But he's OK.
Like you give a fuck.
You turned us the fuck in.
To the police.
Not to this sick fuck.
Mind your business.
You were supposed to be
arrested back at that bar
so you could sit out all this crazy shit
safe and sound
in a Cape Town holding cell.
I'd have had y'all out of there in no time.
So my sister was supposed
to be the only one
kidnapped, tortured, and fucking killed?
Half-sister.
You just don't fucking stop, do you?
That's why you tried to save her, right?
Right? At the carnival?
You weren't trying to protect Imani.
You was trying to protect
your fucking payday.
Well, you was gonna cut me out, Joe.
You didn't leave me much of a choice.
I know why you couldn't have a baby.
Leon told me.
Yeah.
He told you he was sterile?
He lied.
He's fine. He's fucking great.
It's you.
You're the one that's fucking sterile.
Ain't that your doubt?
You and God know how fucked up you are.
Imani, Joe has a plan.
Believe that.
To hand himself over to Sipho?
That's not a plan,
That's a death wish.
But he's just trying to keep you safe.
Don't you understand that?
Imani, you're missing
the on-ramp to the N2.
No, I didn't.
Imani, Where are we going?
I think Joe lied to me.
Imani, I promise you that
when all of this is over,
I will take you myself.
This is never gonna be over.
This is never gonna end.
You can't promise me we were
gonna come back, can you?
No, you can't.
I just need to check.
It's not safe at your home right now, OK?
It's dangerous, I know.
Fine. Then I'll drop you off
at the train station.
I can't let umama just
rot at the house, OK?
She hasn't had a burial.
She hasn't had a ceremony.
I can't I can't I can't do it.
OK.
All right, fine.
But we have to be quick.
Sorry about Cathy.
Thanks, man.
That being said
you could've turn the other way
when we got in the fucking trunk?
Why didn't you?
Well, I could have,
but then we would be dick-to-dick.
Fine.
OK.
Hey, hey.
Christ.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh what?
Uh-oh.
The grenade.
Tell me the fucking pin
is in the grenade, Lee.
Well, I can't tell you that.
My hand, however, is
on the little lever thingy.
Well that is not a long-term solution.
Well, I realized that maybe
if you weren't so homophobic,
we wouldn't be in this mess.
Hey, hey, not wanting to be spooned by you
does not make me homophobic.
I'm just saying
if you were more comfortable
in your sexuality
You need to find the fucking pin.
Yeah, I know that.
It's just too dark and my hands are full.
I can't reach the light on my phone.
Just, you just feel around now.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hands, hands.
What the fuck?
I can't believe I'm gonna
die in a truck in Cape Town
with a fucking grenade on my ass
and your hand all over my dick.
I think you're being a little generous
about your dick placement.
Here.
Can you see anything?
Do you have the pin?
I got it.
OK. Are we good?
We got a couple seconds.
I think we're fine.
You know, your trunk etiquette is for shit.
Shh.
No sudden movements.
Ow.
Get them out, and take the money inside.
Take him downstairs.
And her?
When did the lion last eat?
The American policeman, a day or two ago.
Do it.
Hey. We had a deal!
No.
No.
We did not.
But you know that already,
otherwise, you would not
have planted that gun.
You really think you're any better off
than you were this morning?
I have him now.
Teddy never gave two shits about Joe.
Actually faked his death
just to get away from him.
You think he would really tell
him anything about the drugs?
You sold him as a prize.
And now you are telling me
that he is worthless?
With Imani cruising at 30,000 feet
I'm the prize.
Do you ever stop talking?
No, she does not.
This bitch is exhausting.
Fuck you, Joe.
I helped Teddy steal your heroin.
What?
700 kilos.
Well, actually, 699 now.
I had one of them tested.
Congratulations, by the way.
You got some real pure shit.
Or should I say
we do.
You have my heroin?
Stole it.
Right from under Teddy's dumb ass.
See, I know Teddy better than anybody.
Even his own blood.
She's working you, Sipho.
Don't understand why
don't nobody see through this bitch shit.
If you have my heroin, where is it?
You want information?
I wanna renegotiate our deal.
It's in a locker in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I got it.
You just need me to facilitate it, that's it.
You're telling me you have my heroin?
Yeah, I got it.
Teddy wouldn't piss on you
if you were on fire.
You expect somebody to believe
that you're in the loop?
Locker 1628.
Oh, you are reaching, Joe.
You better get this one right, Sipho.
Especially with the Afghans
breathing down your back.
And you know how they dance.
They dance.
Take her upstairs for now.
We'll find out which one of them is lying.
Hmm?
And kill the other one.
Slowly.
Yes, sir.
We're coming for you, Joe.
I think we
we can't leave her
we can't leave her here.
I have a friend at, um,
Mosaic Funeral Services.
And I think she can help us.
I just
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Oh, don't do that.
There we are.
OK?
Now, ladies
I'd really appreciate it
if you put those knives down.
Gently put the knives on the floor.
Now, please come with me this way.
Come on.
That's it. That's it.
Keep going.
Keep going. Keep going.
Niggas got your own prison, huh?
Get in.
Why don't you just kill me already
and get this shit over with
instead of putting me fucking in here?
You are going to wish.
Go.
I'm gonna be looking
for you, motherfucker.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I hope you do, motherfucker.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Teddy.