All American (2018) s07e09 Episode Script

1
MAN: It's a good life ♪
It's a good world ♪
It's a good life ♪
It's a good world ♪
SPENCER: One more thing,
and then I promise you,
we gonna stop holding y'all hostage.
Look, it don't matter
if you're on an NFL field
or outside these doors
on the Billy Baker Field.
Don't let nobody outwork you.
Success is 1% talent
- and 99% hard work.
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
DARNELL: But it don't hurt when that 1%
is better than 90% of the other
guys y'all playing against.
- SPENCER: Preach.
- [ALL CHUCKLE]
A'ight. Questions? [FINGERS SNAP]
SPENCER: Pictures?
Pictures. Let's do it.
- What's up, bro?
- PLAYER: What's up, bro?
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
There must be something
really important on that phone.
You haven't looked up once.
My bad, Coach.
Just some ops leaving
comments on my post.
Ever since they heard about
that fight at the game,
all these casuals just insert
themselves into the situation.
OK, all right. Listen, um, my advice?
Blow it off. Don't respond, OK?
They're just keyboard gangsters
trying to get a rise outta you.
Well, it's working.
JORDAN: Hey, there he is.
- DARNELL: Thanks again for inviting me out, Coach.
- JORDAN: [CHUCKLES]
You know, it feels good to be back here,
although it was a bit more
janky when we were playing.
I mean, you guys got working
light bulbs now and everything.
- [CHUCKLES]
- JORDAN: Yeah, lights are great.
I mean, that's all thanks to your boy.
You you helped out
a little bit, too, right?
Yeah, you know, very
little. I, you know,
I put the lights in that, uh,
neon sign back there, you know?
- Oh.
- Aye, man, chill out.
I only played here for half
a season. Like [CHUCKLES]
Listen, I am happy you're here now.
It seems like you guys
are really enjoying it.
Yeah, you know, what
people don't know is that
ever since Spence found
out he was a father,
this man is even more of an old man now.
- JORDAN: More?
- DARNELL: Yeah.
SPENCER: What are you talking about?
I came up with the multiple
strip clubs for tonight.
JORDAN: Actually, it was my idea, OK,
'cause Layla's out of town, and
you guys have a little bit of time
before you face off on Monday night.
DARNELL: But, actually,
it was my contacts
that's getting us VIP
treatment all night.
SPENCER: OK. I came up with the name:
- Strip Club Crawl.
- DARNELL: Yo.
OK, uh, anyways, uh,
what do you guys say
you come over tonight pregame,
watch a little college football
before our night of debauchery?
I really think it would
lift Khalil's spirits.
- DARNELL: Girl drama?
- SPENCER: Dad drama, from what I hear.
JORDAN: Mm-hmm. You know what?
I should also invite Cassius out, too.
- The Beverly coach?
- Yeah. I mean, why not?
He doesn't have a lot of friends, right?
- He could use a night out.
- DARNELL: [CHUCKLES]
Yo, y'all always been
some friendly-ass brothas,
- but I'm cool with it.
- JORDAN: Good.
MALE SINGER: Pull up, text
me, and take me to a party ♪
Spontaneous, yeah, I don't care ♪
And I know it's like
three in the morning ♪
But the city is alive somewhere ♪
OK. [CHUCKLES]
A less confident girl's
feelings would be hurt right now.
What's going on?
Oh. I'm sorry. It's just
- all this stuff going on with Amina and her
- [SCOFFS] You know what?
- I'm out.
- Well, no, I meant her grandparents.
- Right. That makes it better?
- Hey, hold on.
I I'm just saying that
her going back home to Baltimore
to visit her grandparents, it
it had me thinking about my
people back home, my family.
You're homesick.
Very. [CHUCKLES]
We used to have these
random family kickbacks.
My mom, she'd throw
on some old-school R&B.
My dad, he, uh, he'd get
to cooking on the grill,
and my dad's boys would be there, so
uh, my Uncle Jeff, he would
tell the funniest stories.
[CHUCKLES] And then his brother Jared,
he would be clowning him
the whole time. [CHUCKLES]
And then, uh, my Uncle Perk,
he he would fall through
with straight playa vibes.
- [BOTH LAUGH]
- KJ: And then my cousin Meechie,
man, he'd break out the dominoes,
but then be trying to fight
everybody once he lost.
- Ha! That sounds like a lot.
- [CHUCKLES]
But amazing.
Man, it was.
It really was.
And I just don't have that here.
Look, um, I was supposed to go
with the girls to Layla's tonight,
but you and I can do something instead.
Nah, I don't want to mess up your plans.
Besides, me and my
dad, we're gonna hit up
this sneaker shop when he gets back.
And, um, how long exactly
until he gets back?
[SCOFFS] Long enough.
COOP, VOICE-OVER:
I should be in jail, right?
You really trusted your whole
"planting drugs on my
tour bus" with Andre?
It's over.
You lost, Mo.
You sure about that?
[TWO GUNSHOTS]
- COOP: Whoa.
- SPENCER: Relax.
Relax. It's just me.
I've been banging on the
door. You ain't answering,
so I let myself in.
- Mmm.
- You good?
Uh, yeah.
You think just 'cause I
live across the country,
I can't read you no more?
- COOP: Look, it's it's nothing.
- Coop.
[SIGHS] OK. Fine. Um
Amina has been asking
questions about Mo's death.
And what'd you tell her?
I'm still trying to
figure that part out.
I mean, but I guess
not fast enough because
she went to Baltimore to get the
answers from her grandparents.
All right, well, you
can't leave her hanging.
She's not a little girl no more.
- Ah, I said I'm trying to figure it out!
- OK.
Look, maybe maybe
this will cheer you up.
Liv and I were talking,
and we would love
for you to be the
godmother of our twins.
Absolutely not.
Man, come on. I'm already
messing up Amina's life.
You want me to damage your kids, too?
Oh, what? I didn't know
these shoes dropped, too.
Hey, I hope your
credit card is paid off.
You better be using your birthday money.
Whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. [CHUCKLES]
Spencer James is in town.
Jordan Baker wants everyone to hang out,
and you're not trying to go?
Yeah, 'cause we got plans
and things to celebrate,
like the football
ranking dropping today.
And with their recent
loss, we got a chance
- to pull ahead of South Crenshaw
- KJ: Which is dope and all,
but, Pop, this is the
legendary Spencer James
we're talking about, and
- and we're invited to hang with him.
- CASSIUS: Oh, hold up.
I am invited, but I would rather spend
the day with my son. Is that OK?
Man, why are you so resistant to being
- friends with Coach JB?
- [CASSIS SIGHS]
- Y'all clearly click.
- Look, I have my reasons, all right?
[CHUCKLES] Oh, OK. [CHUCKLES]
Hey, don't tell me you're
still tight because he said
he's chasing chips and
you're chasing clicks.
Come on, you gotta admit,
that was a bit of a bar.
Whose side are you on? Look,
we came here on a mission.
I'm just trying to
maintain a competitive edge.
Which we'll handle on the field, Pop.
- [SIGHS]
- But off the field,
man, your goal was to find more balance.
[SIGHS]
Fine.
We'll go watch the game at the Bakers'
and you can get your selfies
and your autograph swag,
but after that, it is grown-man time,
- and you bring your butt back home, OK?
- OK.
I am perfectly fine
with that. [CHUCKLES]
Spencer James? Are you kidding me?
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[BEEP]
[LINE RINGING]
[SIGHS] Come on.
- [BEEP]
- Yo, what's up, Meen?
These dudes from my old
neighborhood keep testing your boy.
Be really nice to hear
your voice right now,
maybe get some of them
gems you stay dropping
right when I need 'em.
Hit me back.
- [HANGS UP, SIGHS]
- MAN VOICE-OVER: #Disloyal.
- Snitches get stitches.
- Cowards get dealt with.
[KHALIL SIGHS]
[LOCKS PHONE]
[SIGHS]
Yo, did I mention how
much I'm looking forward
to tonight, by the way?
SPENCER: Oh, what? You
mean the Strip Club Crawl?
- DARNELL: [CHUCKLES]
- SPENCER: Yes, you did.
DARNELL: You know,
if it goes as planned,
none of us are gonna remember anything.
- I like the sound of that.
- [CHUCKLES] Actually,
that reminds me. I gotta
check in to make sure
- everything is lined up.
- JORDAN: Boom.
- [DOORBELL RINGS]
- It's open!
[CRUNCHES POTATO CHIP]
JORDAN: Ha ha ha ha!
Gentlemen, welcome to mi casa.
Appreciate you coming.
Oh, apparently, I couldn't
miss it, even if I wanted to.
JORDAN: Thank you for
personally delivering him.
By the way, I have a special surprise.
I want to introduce you to Mr
- KJ: Spencer James!
- SPENCER: Hey. Good.
KJ: Yo! I can't believe I'm
actually meeting you right now.
- SPENCER: What up, little homie?
- KJ: Yo,
you're one of my favorite players ever.
[CHUCKLES] Well, right behind Coach JB.
- JORDAN: Come on now.
- SPENCER: Say say what now?
- [CHUCKLES] This is his dad, Cassius.
- Hey, what's up?
- What's good, bro?
- [CHUCKLES]
I hear you're doing dope
things at Beverly, man.
Yeah, my guys are playing lights-out.
- Yeah.
- Might even overtake South Crenshaw
- when the rankings drop.
- Keyword is "might," right?
Why is this dude here?
Why is that your business?
You don't own this house.
- Because I stay here, homie.
- Hey, it's cool.
I invited them, all
right? And by the way,
the only reason that you
would ever have a shot
at catching us in the
rankings is because
we had to forfeit our
game at homecoming.
Yeah, my dad always said that, uh,
excuses are the tools
of the incompetent.
Well, uh, why don't we put the game on?
JORDAN: [CHUCKLES] I'm sorry. Wait,
did you just call me incompetent?
- If the whistle fits, wear it.
- Oh.
Need help kicking 'em out, Coach?
Yo, anyone ever tell you you got some
serious territorial issues, bruh?
- We all friends here, right?
- Anybody ever tell you
- you got too much mouth?
- Hey, take it easy.
All right, fellas, our
- what, Strip Club Crawl?
- SPENCER: Yeah.
It's all set. We got VIP
sections at the Glass Shoe,
Baddies Lounge, Queen of Hearts.
The Sprinter van will be
here in, like, two hours.
SPENCER: Change of plan.
Since y'all don't know how to act,
we're not doing none of that.
We gonna have a boys' night out,
with a competitive twist.
DARNELL: Yo, what do you mean, we
not going to the strip club anymore?
- KHALIL: Wait, y'all were going to the strip club?
- JORDAN: Take it easy.
Spence, one second. Really?
What about the ladies
at the Glass Lounge,
the Baddies Club, I
mean, the Queen of Hearts?
They're counting on
us for nursing school.
SPENCER: That is what
financial aid is for.
We are going to MB2.
- The arcade?
- Yep.
- Hey, that's cool!
- Hey, yo, J, that's your boy.
SPENCER: Since y'all doing
all this jawing back and forth,
it is clear y'all got a lot
of competitive, pent-up energy,
which we gonna get out your damn system.
Spence, my wife is out of town.
I got a lot of different
type of pent-up energy.
CASSIUS: Yeah, same here, man.
SPENCER: And I'm on the road
away from my very pregnant wife,
so we all feelin' it, OK?
Aye, speak for y'all married selves.
Ain't no backed-up
pipes over here, my boy.
- SPENCER: Anyway
- JORDAN: Hmm.
SPENCER: this is how it's gonna go down.
There are 6 of us, so we
gonna split into 3 teams of 2.
We gonna compete in 3
different activities:
laser tag, basketball, and axe-throwing.
- JORDAN: Mmm.
- KJ: Easy. Me and Pops.
KHALIL: Me and Coach JB.
- South Crenshaw versus Beverly.
- Nope!
Not making it that easy.
J, you and Cassius are a team.
Khalil, you got KJ.
Y'all gonna have to put
whatever differences you have
to the side and work together
if you want to be the winning team.
All right, so what do we win?
'Cause I ain't doing
this for bragging rights.
SPENCER: Two tickets to
Monday's game, club seats.
- All right, aren't those my tickets?
- Not anymore.
You either got to win 'em or earn
'em. Otherwise, it's their tickets.
Always good to have you home, Spence.
CASSIUS: Hey, I like
that, man. [CHUCKLES]
Yo, there better be a bar at this spot.
[INHALES SHARPLY] Shut up.
[POUNDING ON FRONT DOOR]
All right. Yo, yo.
Come on. Why are you banging
on the door like you serving warrants?
Get your stuff. You're coming
with us. Sprinter's outside.
COOP: What? No.
I'm not in the mood
for no strip club tour.
- Hey, hey, Strip Club Crawl.
- [SCOFFS]
And that's good because we
switched it to an arcade.
[SIGHS] Darnell and
Jordan sign off on that?
Ah, they'll get over it.
We gonna do a little brotherly
bonding with the young guys.
Cool. Well, in that case,
- I'll catch up with y'all later.
- SPENCER: Hey, hey, hey, hey.
I don't like the way
we left things earlier.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
OK, bottom line,
I don't know how to explain the
role I played in Mo's death to Amina.
I think she deserves more than just,
"Your mom was gonna shoot me."
But I'm not sure
what that more is myself.
OK, well, then you gotta
go back to the beginning,
for yourself, not Amina.
You gotta take a look
at your whole journey
from Shawn to here,
really take stock of
everything that put you and Mo
in that alley the night she died.
Well, if you got all the answers,
- why don't you just tell me?
- SPENCER: Because I've been telling you, Coop.
It don't matter if I say it.
You got to recognize it for yourself.
COOP, VOICE-OVER: I got into it
with Patience during the game.
She used Mo to get her
out of JP's contract.
- So that's how she did it.
- [SCOFFS]
Right, then came at me like I
don't have a right to feel betrayed,
saying I don't know myself
unless I got somebody to fight.
Like, what? Come on. You believe that?
Yeah.
I can.
Coop, how many times did I tell you
not to get involved
with Shawn and that gang?
Not to get jumped in?
Not to go after Tyrone?
Over and over, I told you
this wasn't your fight,
and you wouldn't listen.
And now I can't trust my own damn body.
Hold up. Wait. What?
Are you trying to say that
I'm the reason you got shot?
Yeah, I am.
COOP: You said there was
no one to blame but Tyrone!
SPENCER: I was wrong.
Back to the beginning.
This should be fun.
MAN: Oh, I'd never be lonely ♪
- If I had you by my side ♪
- [ARCADE BELLS RINGING]
Day and night ♪
[BACKGROUND SINGERS VOCALIZE]
So, Spence, how many times
you gonna pick up, uh
SPENCER: 8, 9.
All right, our first
event is Shoot to Win.
Now, the rules are simple.
The team with the highest
combined points wins.
JORDAN: Isn't this the
game that Liv smoked you in?
SPENCER: I'm gonna pretend
you didn't even say that, J.
- [OTHERS CHUCKLE]
- CASSIUS: OK, pretty boy.
Hope you got some hooping skills
'cause I'm about to run it up.
JORDAN: How are you trash-talking me?
- We're on the same team.
- SPENCER: Let's get it poppin'.
- DARNELL, CHUCKLING: Hey, Spence.
- SPENCER: Yeah?
Um wait. Liv?
- She really beat you at this game?
- Whooped my ass.
Yeah, that is why I
hired a shooting coach.
I ain't about to let these
twins come into this world
and their daddy can't shoot. Mm-mm.
[CHUCKLES] Yeah, you
might need help, bruh.
- Yo, let the games begin.
- FEMALE SINGER: Get loose ♪
Yeah, have a good time ♪
Be you ♪
Now, don't you think twice ♪
Throwing all the
punches, Imma knockout ♪
If you don't want fun,
go ahead and walk out ♪
Coming in loud, yeah,
I'm coming in hot ♪
[GUYS TALKING INDISTINCTLY] Hey, swap!
SPENCER: Swap, swap, swap!
MALE SINGER: Rockin'
shades, got the juice ♪
Feeling hype, nothing to lose,
pour you out a real good time ♪
Kick it into overdrive ♪
Rockin' shades, got the juice ♪
Feeling hype, nothin' to lose ♪
Kick it into overdrive,
pour you out a real good time ♪
FEMALE SINGER: I got the juice ♪
I, I, I, I got the juice ♪
- I, I, I, I, I ♪
- DARNELL: Last shot.
- [ENDING BUZZER]
- SPENCER: Ha ha!
OK, OK, OK.
And the first victory
goes to Team Corey.
Y'all gotta do better than that
if y'all want these tickets.
- SPENCER: Let's go.
- CASSIUS: You know that was you, right?
JORDAN: That was you.
You didn't hit a single shot.
Yeah, we got to tighten up if
we want to get this dub tonight.
I don't know about you, but I
ain't never been in club seats.
I ain't never been to a pro game,
- not even the parking lot seats.
- [KJ CHUCKLES]
Yeah, my pops used to take me
to Raiders games when
they were back in Oakland.
And you uppity Beverly
Hills Negroes probably had
- seats on the 50-yard line.
- KJ: Nah, bro, nosebleeds.
Hey, don't get it twisted.
Just 'cause we're at Beverly
don't mean we got it like that,
or ever had it like that.
You cool?
Yeah, that dude keep
looking at me, though.
Ain't nobody looking over here, bro.
I think you're just being paranoid.
[SCOFFS] Yeah, you probably right.
Now I'm tripping, bro.
Let's go find the ol' heads.
MALE SINGER: There's
nothing here to stop us ♪
We can't do nothing wrong ♪
The time is ticking, baby ♪
So let's not take too
long, tomorrow's ♪
Try to actually hit the
target this time, man.
Uh, how 'bout you
shut up so I can focus?
That's the best you got? No
more quippy alliterations?
Ah, OK, so you saw my "chasing
clicks while I'm chasing chips" line?
Came up with that one fresh
off the dome, by the way.
Yeah, real cute. Glad you think
my football program's a joke.
JORDAN: What? First of all,
nobody called your program,
my alma mater, a joke.
Second of all, you are the
one who started this, Cassius,
when you told the media that Beverly
was better than South Crenshaw,
which is cap, by the way.
Yeah? OK. We'll see
when these rankings drop
and we snatch your number-one spot.
The only rankings that matter
are when that final
whistle blow at State.
Yeah, I don't know if giving
them axes was the best idea.
Yeah, I'm starting to think
their friendly back-and-forth
ain't as friendly as
Jordan thinks it is.
CASSIUS: How were you
a QB and you can't hit
a target that ain't even moving?
JORDAN: Go stand in
front of it and I will.
DARNELL: Yeah, good thing
they signed those waivers, man.
I don't know how you keep
nailing them bull's-eyes.
Uh, just breathe, try
to slow things down,
and make a throw. Same way on the field.
- It's an axe, not a football.
- [SCOFFS]
Try it or don't try it.
I just want to get this W.
SINGER: Whoa, no, whoa, oh ♪
Whoa, I'm telling
you while we're young ♪
- Whoa, oh, whoa, oh ♪
- [KHALIL CHUCKLES]
Oh, we fasho about to get this now.
SINGER: I'm telling
you while we're young ♪
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Can I get a lemonade, please? Thank you.
Tough loss for y'all
on that axe-throwing.
- [CHUCKLES]
- KJ and Khalil crushed it.
Yeah, I've been an
underdog my whole life, man.
This will just be another comeback story
- for Cassius Jeremy.
- [SPENCER CHUCKLES] I hear that.
Spending most of my life as an underdog
was what got me where I am today.
- Yeah.
- Ain't no motivation like it.
Yeah, man. Hey, congrats,
by the way, on everything.
- That's one hell of a rookie year.
- Thank you,
- thank you.
- And so what's it like?
- I mean, you you're living the dream.
- Ah
- it's amazing.
- Yeah.
And stressful, and nerve-wracking,
and hard work
and amazing. [CHUCKLES]
Was the NFL ever the dream for you?
No, man, uh, but it is for KJ.
- He's working really hard.
- SPENCER: Mmm.
- I want it for him, you know?
- Yeah.
Is that what it's like
once you have kids?
Their dreams become the
most important thing?
Yeah, that's how it should be.
Congrats again on the Beverly gig, man.
That school will always have
a special place in my heart.
Wait, didn't you bounce back to
South Crenshaw your senior year?
I went back because at the end
of the day, Crenshaw was home.
- CASSIUS: Gotcha.
- Yeah, that community made me.
- Hmm.
- They needed me, and I needed them.
That don't mean Beverly can't
be special to me, too, though.
I mean, the Bakers came in and
saved me when I most needed it.
They changed my life.
[CHUCKLES] Mmm.
I mean, it must be nice, man.
You know, not everybody's
got fairy godparents
with Beverly Hills
mansions, maid service,
parties, and unlimited credit cards
- swooping in to save the day.
- SPENCER: Hold up, hold up.
I don't know what you think
my life in Beverly Hills
was like, but it wasn't that,
and the kind of saving
I'm talking about is when
a kid grows up without a father,
and a man like Billy Baker steps up
to help make him whole,
blood or no blood.
My bad. Man, I
[SIGHS] Look, just ignore me, all right?
It's just my, um my childhood issues
rearing their ugly head, you know?
It's all good. No harm, no foul.
Bet. Um,
I'll see you on the battleground.
I don't know about you,
but I feel real good
- about this laser tag round.
- KJ: Yeah?
My pops used to take me to this
spot by the Pier when I was little,
lighting people up.
- Of course, that's something we'd bond over.
- [CHUCKLES]
Yeah, that's still pretty cool, though.
You and your pops are pretty tight.
- You don't see too many daddy's boys.
- [SCOFFS]
Oh, what, you trying to clown me now?
- Come on. Ha ha ha!
- KHALIL: Nah.
Ah, it's dope.
You know, my moms
bounced when I was little,
so it's always just been me and my pops.
I guess you could say I'm one, too.
- Or was.
- Man,
it sucks how all that
went down with him.
- It must have been tough.
- KHALIL: It is what it is.
I'm used to having to fend for myself,
you know, stand on my own.
I mean, don't you have JB and Layla now?
[SCOFFS] Yo, forget all that.
You got any more QB tips for me?
- Ha ha!
- That breather one was clutch.
- Hey, I got you, man. Oh, wait.
- [TEXT CHIME]
- Everything straight?
- Uh, yeah. [CHUCKLES]
- Amina just had a question.
- KHALIL: Hold up. Y'all texting?
I been trying to get her all day.
I need her help with something.
KJ: Uh, yeah. I mean, she's been
tied up with family stuff back east,
so she probably just hasn't
had a chance to respond yet.
I mean, I could tell her
you're looking for her.
Know what? Don't tell her nothing.
A'ight.
[CELL PHONE VIBRATES TWICE]
[LOCKS PHONE, SIGHS]
SPENCER, VOICE-OVER: What are you doing?
You're being stubborn.
You're not listening.
[CELL PHONE VIBRATES TWICE]
CASSIUS: You good?
- KJ: Uh, yeah, can you just tighten this up for me?
- CASSIUS: Got you.
KJ: Man, that's a
little too tight, yeah?
- Shut up.
- [CHUCKLES] All right.
- It's game time.
- CASSIUS: Gonna catch these hands?
- KJ: Yeah.
- All right.
- [CHUCKLING]
- Hey,
- you need any help with that?
- KHALIL: No, I got it.
DARNELL: All right, fellas.
Spence had to dip to go
take care of something.
I can't be risking a fluke
injury with y'all boys,
so this last game, it's on y'all.
CASSIUS: Hey, the only
thing getting injured
are these young boys' feelings
when we deliver the beatdown.
Khalil, do you hear all this trash
- Team Geriatrics is talking?
- KHALIL: Yeah, whatever.
Let's just get this over with.
JORDAN: OK, let's
find a corner Red Team.
Let's go. Look alive.
Blue Team, coming for you.
- Whatever, bro.
- KJ: OK. Oh. [CHUCKLES]
COOP, VOICE-OVER: Look,
it's not what you think.
SPENCER: Judging by
them bruises, I think
you got jumped into Tyrone's crew.
OK, well, technically,
it is what you think.
- Come on, Coop.
- Man, I got my reasons, Spence.
Shawn wouldn't have wanted this for you.
I'm doing this for Shawn.
It was Tyrone.
He had Shawn killed.
- Then why you joined his crew?
- Because he gotta go.
- Coop, this gonna get you killed, man.
- Look, it ain't about me.
It's about keeping every
kid in our neighborhood safe.
- I'm doing this for them.
- SPENCER: Doing what, exactly?
Look, man, these dudes,
they about loyalty,
so if they find out
Tyrone had Shawn killed,
they gonna handle him for me.
But they gotta trust me first.
That's why I'm rolling with them.
Have you lost your damn mind?
SPENCER: So you're just
not gonna answer my texts?
[SIGHS]
How can you still be
friends with me after
everything that I've done?
- What?
- You tried to warn me
right before you went to Beverly.
I was too much of a know-it-all.
You tried to warn me about Tyrone,
and again, I was hard-headed.
You tried warning me
time and time again, and I just
I refused to listen.
How could you possibly want
me in the lives of your twins,
especially as godmother?
I know exactly who I
asked to be godmother.
Coop, nobody's perfect,
and I never expected you to be.
Yeah, well, having
imperfections is one thing,
but years of making bad decisions
despite people's warnings is another.
[SIGHS] So that's your takeaway
from your trip down memory lane.
My takeaway is that I stopped
being deserving of your friendship
a long time ago.
Coop, if you're still blaming yourself,
then you're not done with your journey.
You gotta go deeper.
[FRONT DOOR OPENS]
- JORDAN: What we got?
- CASSIUS: Mmm!
That's what I'm talking about, man!
I told you, we taking this one, man.
- Don't play with me. Come on.
- JORDAN: Mmm.
I mean, we scored most
of those points against
the 10-year-olds here
for a birthday party,
- but a win is a win.
- CASSIUS: Hey, you step in a room,
anybody can get it, a'ight?
- [CHUCKLES]
- Hey, that's a 3-way tie.
We need a tiebreaker,
man. What are we doing?
DARNELL: Wait, hold on.
I'm gonna finish my drink.
Spence is the competition
committee, all right?
- And he ain't back yet.
- We gotta do something, man.
We need a winner to determine
who's getting these tickets.
Considering they were
mine to begin with,
- they can just revert back to me.
- CASSIUS: Bruh, you a damn trust-fund baby.
You can afford to pay
for club seats, man.
So you mad at the
brother 'cause you broke?
DARNELL: Hey, yo, come
on. Don't start this again.
I was just starting to feel nice.
Yo, Khalil, what the
hell is your deal, bro?
- KJ, easy, man. It's cool.
- Man, if you don't get up outta my face.
- Don't you got some texts to send?
- [SCOFFS]
I should have known you were butt-hurt
'cause Amina was texting me and not you.
Man, every time you got
beef with me, it's over her!
And don't think I forgot.
- Yeah, I owe you a lick back, so what's up?
- CASSIUS: Break it up!
- KHALIL: Let's go!
- JORDAN: Hey, hey, hey!
SPENCER: Stop it! Yo! Hey! Hey!
I was gone for a hour! Enough!
Everybody back in the van.
- Back in the van! Go!
- [KJ SCOFFS]
Y'all gotta set a better
example for these boys.
Y'all supposed to be teaching
'em how to work together,
how to form bonds, and instead,
y'all egos got you at each
other's throats over a game
that is literally about brotherhood.
Y'all gotta do better.
[WHISPERS] Yeah.
You know, Spence,
just a friendly reminder.
This was your idea.
We could have been making
it rain in peace right now.
Hey, son.
Look, Pops, I'm sorry for crashing out
on old boy like that. It's just,
yo, he pisses me off.
Like, he's always
pushing my buttons, and
I know I should know better, but
Take a breath, son.
Um
I owe you an apology.
Look, I
I let my competitive
fire burn out of control,
and I acted like a complete ass.
And you were right all along.
You were right about me
needing to find balance
beyond football here and, you
know, make some friends, but
I just been so
programmed, I haven't
been able to see it.
Uh, [CHUCKLES] "Programmed" is
a interesting choice of words.
Yeah, well, um [CHUCKLES]
Your father had an
interesting upbringing.
Look, either way,
I want you to be different.
Better,
which means I gotta be different,
and I gotta set a better example.
We cool?
KJ: Yeah, we're cool.
[DARNELL SIGHS]
- Yo, J, you good, man?
- Mmm.
Khalil's been here for
a couple of months, and
I've already failed him, boys.
How you figure that?
Oh, I just saw the drama
surrounding his father.
Today was supposed to be
about lifting Khalil's spirits,
and yet I turned it
into grown men fighting.
Yeah, that's true.
You did do that, yep
SPENCER: I think you're being
a little hard on yourself, J.
And that's what I was
trying to say, you know?
- But he cut me off.
- [SPENCER SIGHS]
JORDAN: It's just the whole point
of [SIGHS] moving Khalil
in with me and Layla was to
create a safe space for him,
not create another
stressful environment.
- Hmm.
- Give yourself some grace, bro.
You are figuring this
out as you go, man.
Right. Jordan, you
just got out of college.
Corey ain't take me in
until he was deep in his 30s.
Yeah, and Billy was in
his 40s when he took me in,
and it was still a learning
process for him, OK?
You are gonna figure this out, bro,
just like Billy and Corey did.
- Yeah.
- You talk to him?
JORDAN: Tsk. No, I haven't
seen him since we got back.
KJ, uh, have you seen Khalil?
Um, nah, we weren't really
talking after our fight,
but now that I think about it,
I don't really remember
him in the van, guys.
[SIGHS]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I told you not to let
me catch you slippin'.
I told you I ain't too hard to find.
You know, there's rules
in the hood about loyalty.
Cowards gotta be dealt with.
KHALIL: I ain't got
beef with you, homie.
I damn sure ain't scared. We can run it!
That's a lot of talk,
coming from somebody alone.
- What's up? What?
- Hey, hey, hey.
[CHUCKLES] He ain't alone.
I'm supposed to be worried about
this square from Beverly Hills
or this Jayson Tatum-lookin'-ass dude?
I know you weren't thinking
about jumping these boys, man.
SPENCER: Yo, we got a problem, here?
Not with y'all.
With this coward.
JORDAN: Hmm, then we do got a problem.
DARNELL: Yeah, 'cause
Khalil's with us. He's family.
REEMO: Well, then you should
know how he broke code.
- Now we got to come see him.
- SPENCER: A'ight, bet.
Just know you touch him, you
gotta deal with all of us.
Matter of fact, I should
call the homie Flip,
see if he want to
join in on all the fun.
Nah. We good, Unc.
- This don't gotta be handled tonight.
- Or ever.
Khalil's off-limits.
We clear?
- Yeah. He good.
- JORDAN: Good.
It's that time we wish
you fellas a good night
and get the hell outta here.
[TAPPING ON TABLE SEVERAL TIMES]
You a'ight?
TORI: You can trust in me always ♪
And if you feel it,
say na na na na na na na ♪
Na na na na na na na ♪
Na na na na na na na ♪
KHALIL: So, your girl's having a
girls' night doing Karaoke here,
and you thought it was
a good idea to bring us?
KJ: [CHUCKLES] Uh, yeah.
Na na na na na na na ♪
I figured we deserved a
nice, chill spot to end off the night.
Yo, uh, thanks for having my back.
You ain't really have to do that,
especially considering I ain't really
been the friendliest
since you came to town.
Hey, you're good.
But do you mind if I give
you some non-football advice?
- Let's hear it.
- It's about Amina.
All day, you kept talking
about how you need her
and she wasn't hitting you back.
Did you ever stop and think that maybe
she needs people to show
up for her right now?
I do show up for her.
I just gave her a
private homecoming redo.
But after you and Yasi
jacked up the public one
with that brawl at the homecoming game.
[SIGHS] In the meantime,
I got some explaining to do. [CHUCKLES]
FEMALE SINGER: I don't want
to let myself see you forever ♪
- Hey, man. You mind if I sit?
- SPENCER: Yeah, man.
[SIGHS] Look, um
I just wanted to apologize again
for the way I came at
you earlier with the whole
- Beverly Hills thing.
- Oh, bro. [CHUCKLES] You all good.
- All right.
- Yeah, I know what it's like chasing ghosts,
trying to prove your worth to peers
and fathers, whoever.
[SIGHS] KJ's a great kid.
What's the secret?
[CHUCKLES] Oh, yeah, that's right.
- Expectant father.
- SPENCER: Yeah.
What, you nervous?
Man, I grew up
surrounded by gangbangers,
I been shot, and now, 200-pound safeties
try to take my head
off every single Sunday.
[CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS] But this
This the only thing that
ever really scared me, man,
- you know?
- CASSIUS: Yeah.
Well, you know, they say that, um
having kids is like walking
around with your heart
on the outside of your body
for the rest of your life,
so that fear ain't going nowhere.
But
fatherhood is the most amazing thing
you will ever experience,
so enjoy every single moment
of it. Take nothing for granted.
That includes the sleepless nights,
the dirty diapers, the [CHUCKLES]
Complete loss of privacy
'cause one day [CHUCKLES]
You'll look up and
that little baby you once
held in your arms will have
one foot out the door,
ready to carve out their own path.
Hmm.
KJ's lucky to have you.
Hmm. No, man, I'm the lucky one.
So basically, your night blew up,
so now you're blowing up mine.
I mean, when you put it like that,
- it does sound pretty bad.
- [GIGGLES]
I guess I just didn't want the
night to end with these guys.
I think it's really special
that Khalil got to see
he has a support system.
TORI: Well, funny how
you can see that about him
- and not about yourself.
- It's not the same.
Oh, really?
The uncle who's always
telling funny stories
boom. Ha ha!
His brother, who's always
clowning him, is right there.
Uncle with the playa vibes. Too easy.
And, uh the cousin who stay fightin'.
And as far as the R&B
music, it's all right here,
and the stage is yours.
[CHUCKLES]
Nah, I'm gonna leave that to you.
Aww is somebody scared?
JORDAN: Bubbly.
- WOMAN: Thank you.
- There you are.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- There he is.
- Hey, uh
I wanted to say thank
you for having my back.
And not just tonight, but
- past few months.
- Hmm.
Well, listen, I also hope
that you recognize how your
village showed up for you, too.
- We ain't got no colors, but
- KHALIL: Colors?
Really, Coach? You know, you
don't have to make things corny.
[CHUCKLES]
But, no, for real,
- I appreciate it.
- JORDAN: Of course.
I'll be right back. Um
- I got a quick errand to run.
- OK,
uh, are you sure that we
should let you go by yourself?
- Damn, it's like that?
- Yeah.
I'll be cool. Just, um
try not to leave me this time?
JORDAN: Mmm. Touché, my friend.
MALE SINGER: I don't
want to change my mind ♪
Walking through your blueberry skies ♪
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Khalil?
Ain't you 'posed to
be at guys' night out?
I just wanted to drop
this letter off to Amina.
Wow! You went old school.
You must be down bad.
Something like that. [CHUCKLES]
Me and KJ was talking, and
he pointed out some things.
Hmm.
I ain't really been showing up for
Meen the way a true friend should.
I just get so caught up in my drama,
I'm always asking her to show up for me,
but I ain't done a good
job of returning the favor.
Well, I heard about what went down,
and I'm sorry you had to deal with that.
KHALIL: Just hate that I got
everybody all swept up in it.
Sometimes I feel like a damn cancer.
Look, Khalil, come on.
You're not a bad person.
You're just a kid who had a rough life,
made some mistakes, and
wants to do better now.
Kinda like you.
COOP: Gonna shoot me now, right here?
Look, I I know you
upset about Tyrone.
Don't say my brother's name.
You took him from me.
- You took him from our family.
- And this gonna bring him back?
When you done so much
good in this community,
why throw all that away for this?
That ain't you no
more. We both know that.
This is the hurt and the pain talking.
I get it, but this need for revenge
ain't gonna do nothing
but eat you up inside
and destroy your life.
I had to learn that the hard way,
by avenging Shawn. I
wish I woulda let that go.
Don't make the same mistake as me.
[INHALES SHAKILY]
[SIGHS]
["SUB ZERO" PLAYING]
MALE SINGER: Oh, dancing,
romancing, a lot of champagne ♪
- [CELLPHONE CHIMES]
- JORDAN: Mmm, God.
Good news?
- Uh, nothing worth mentioning.
- JORDAN: OK.
DARNELL: Cassius was right.
We need a tiebreaker, Spence.
- Best Karaoke wins.
- CASSIUS: [CHUCKLES]
Look, I'm down if my teammate's with it.
- JORDAN: Let's do it.
- SPENCER: Ha ha!
[ALL CHUCKLE]
KJ: This song is dedicated
to a very special girl
that showed me home is with my people.
[MUSIC BEGINS]
A chair is still a chair ♪
Even when there's no one ♪
Sitting there ♪
[CASSIUS SIGHS]
DARNELL: It yeah, no, they won that.
- KJ: But a chair ♪
- SPENCER: Hey.
- KJ: Is not a house ♪
- SPENCER: What's good?
Well, oh, man. I figured out the lesson.
OK, let me hear it.
I owe Amina the truth about everything.
I made a lot of mistakes
that led to me being
in the alley that night, same as Mo.
Mistakes that I wish I
could take back, but I can't.
COOP: Don't make the same mistake as me.
[INHALES SHAKILY]
[SIGHS]
We good now?
[THUD]
[COOP GASPING]
But ultimately,
they were mistakes I learned from,
mistakes that made me
the woman that I am today,
and mistakes that I can
finally forgive myself for
because I'm proud of today's Coop.
Well, what's that?
This is a list of things
that I'm gonna need
since I am now the
godmother to the twins,
including tickets to
Monday night's game.
[CHUCKLING]
- You got it.
- [CHUCKLING]
MAN: Greg, move your head!