The Chi (2018) s08e02 Episode Script
White Russian
1
[EMMETT] Previously on The Chi
Goddamn.
[GUNFIRE]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[RAFI] This nigga writing books and shit
and telling his little
bitch what we doing.
Don't make me kill you, nigga.
[NUCK] Bakari's my number two.
Now, if you don't like that shit,
go work for somebody else.
[BAKARI] Fuck this shit. Let's go.
We still have to be
here for another hour.
- Nobody's coming.
- You sold a few books.
Not enough to make me a millionaire.
[EMMETT] I'm not putting
up with no bullshit.
- I ain't ask to live here.
- You don't have a choice!
Look, I'm enrolling
you into my old school.
And I don't wanna hear no shit
about you getting in trouble, man.
I don't wanna go to a new school.
- You don't get a say.
- What's going on?
Devante's principal just called.
They found a gun in his bookbag.
[VICTOR] Did you look
at the hospital footage?
Yeah. I didn't see you.
Our best bet is to pin
this whole thing on Rashaad.
I had no reason to take her out.
- Who did?
- [CHUCKLES] It's a long list.
- Was one of them Nora?
- Nah.
She's my alibi.
Not anymore.
[POUNDS TABLE] Fuck!
[PATIENCE] I need your help.
I see y'all follow each other.
Oh, I buy candles from her.
What you need me to do?
Can you place an order for some candles
and ask her to meet you
in person for a drop-off?
I am not trying to get
that girl locked up.
Nobody's gonna lock her up.
I just wanna ask her some questions.
- Fuck you want?
- Damn.
It's good to see you too.
[VICTOR] You're only here
'cause you need something.
[REG] I need to stay at
your crib for a little while.
[VICTOR] Nigga, is you out your mind?
- I don't need your permission.
- [VICTOR] Yes, you do.
- [REG] Man, whatever.
- [PHONE SLAMS]
- Nigga, what you want?
- [RAFI] A job.
- And why should I trust you?
- 'Cause I'm loyal.
If you ain't loyal to Nuck,
you ain't gonna be loyal to me.
- Y'all ain't the same.
- [REG] All right.
But if I see one sign of disloyalty
I'll kill your ass.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DOOR BANGS OPEN]
- [VICTOR] Jake.
- [JAKE] Yeah.
- [VICTOR] Don't let Reg in the house.
- [JAKE] I got you.
[VICTOR] Go in my closet and
look under the floorboard.
[JAKE] Oh, shit.
[VICTOR] Just in case.
Get the fuck out.
- You gonna shoot me?
- Nigga, I will if I got to.
Do it, then.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
[REG CHUCKLES]
I knew you ain't have it in you.
Excuse us, ladies.
♪♪
Let's make a deal.
What kind of deal?
The kind that's gonna be
hard for you to refuse.
♪♪
Jackie
hand me a revolver.
♪♪
[INHALES DEEPLY]
Let's play a game.
[GUN CLICKS, BULLETS CLINKING]
The fuck is you doing?
[BULLETS CLINKING]
[REG] You ever, um
heard of Russian roulette?
Fuck, you tryna kill yourself?
♪♪
[GUN CLICKS, CYLINDER WHIRS]
I guess we gonna see.
♪♪
[RAFI] What you get if you win?
[GUN COCKING]
I get to stay.
- And if it go off, nigga?
- [RAFI] He dies.
Do we have a deal, Jake?
Man, Vic said you can't stay here.
That's not what I asked you.
♪♪
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
No deal.
- [LAUGHS]
- [GUN CLICKS]
I know you still love me.
It's my crib now, nigga.
♪♪
[DRAMATIC JAZZ MUSIC]
♪♪
[EMMETT] You know better than
to do some shit like this.
[MS. RODRIGUEZ] This isn't
the first time a student
has snuck a firearm into the school.
[EMMETT] I thought they
had metal detectors.
They do, but they're usually not active.
They should be.
You'd have to take that
up with the superintendent.
I'm gonna be straight with you.
Getting him back into school
is gonna be an uphill battle.
What do we have to do?
[MS. RODRIGUEZ] You have to make sure
that the school knows that
it'll never happen again.
It won't.
We've decided to give Devante
90 days of court supervision
monitoring, consistent check-ins,
the whole nine.
Ninety days?
One violation and I do mean one
and he'll have to do a
year in juvenile detention.
What's a violation?
Missing curfew,
failing a drug test, fighting, weapons.
This is serious.
I need you to stay out
of trouble from now on.
- I heard you.
- Take that bass out your voice.
[MS. RODRIGUEZ] Where
did he get the gun?
It's mine. Um, forgot to lock it up.
I told you I didn't want
that thing in this house.
- [EMMETT] So this is my fault?
- That's not what I'm saying.
- Then what are you saying?
- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[MUFFLED, ECHOING] I need
you to stay out of trouble.
Can we go?
[KIESHA SIGHS]
Let's keep in touch.
I'll tell you a story ♪
I made my first ten
on the side block ♪
Forty with the
beam, call it Cyclops ♪
Pow! ♪
I stay strapped, nigga, why not ♪
Hey, so what happened with your book?
Nobody bought it.
♪♪
They'll buy that shit when you dead.
Why I gotta die for my
shit to be successful?
That's just how shit go.
[LIGHTER CLICKING]
Hey, you ain't use no real names, right?
Bro of course not.
You're not pillow-talking, is you?
- Are you?
- [NUCK] Hell no.
Tiff only know what she need to know.
She don't know about Rob.
And it need to stay like that.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I ain't tell nobody.
You better not be lying to me.
Why would I lie?
'Cause you don't want me
to kill you that's why.
♪♪
You wouldn't kill me.
♪♪
That's what you think.
Shut your fucking mouth.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
This motherfucker.
[SIGHS]
My lawyer wanted me to
pin everything on you.
You serious?
[VICTOR] Mm-hmm.
That's why I fired his ass.
[SIGHS]
Well, I'm just glad Patience
represents the both of us now.
She find Nora yet?
Say she got a lead.
[VICTOR] How'd you
get such a good lawyer?
She loves cases like this.
- Ones she can't win?
- Ones worth fighting for.
[VICTOR] She seem like a good woman.
She is. [SIGHS]
Mm-mm.
- What?
- I know that look, bro.
- What look?
- You can't fuck your lawyer.
Hey, I respect her as a professional,
but I ain't blind.
Bro, let's just get out of
here before you start flirting.
[SHAAD CHUCKLES]
Hey, she gonna get us out of here, man.
[VICTOR] I hope so.
♪♪
I want EJ to come live with me
- for good.
- What?
No. No.
You clearly have no
interest in raising him.
- Yes, I do.
- She was grieving.
That boy has a learning delay,
and all y'all do is
let him eat junk food
and play video games all day.
You the one feeding him
waffles every Wednesday.
That's better than
Flamin' Hots and Gushers
- for breakfast.
- That happened one time.
Just because you the
only grandma he got left
don't mean you can tell
us how to raise our son.
EJ needs stability and security,
and neither one of you can provide that.
I got a house full of
kids. I know what I'm doing.
Didn't one of your
kids just get arrested
for bringing a gun to school?
That don't have nothing to do with this.
It has everything to do with it.
I don't want my grandson being raised
around all this
violence and destruction.
- But you raised me around it.
- And look at you now.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- You got left by this one.
The last one was taken from you,
and now you with the one who
got a baby with his new wife.
We're not married.
I won't let my grandson get left behind
because of your negligence.
So what do you want,
Ma? You wanna adopt him?
I don't want the paperwork.
I just want my grandson.
And what if we say no?
I don't wanna take y'all to court.
But I will if I have to.
[DRAMATIC JAZZ MUSIC]
♪♪
What you mean you just left?
That nigga put a gun to his own head.
He don't care if he live or die.
And you sure he put a
bullet in the chamber?
I'm sure.
Fuck.
[SIGHS]
I'm sorry.
What about what I told you to get?
Shit, I thought it'd scare him,
but he just laughed.
Was you really gonna shoot him?
[SIGHS]
I don't know.
Never pull a gun on a nigga
if you're not prepared to shoot.
Man, hey, when you getting out of here?
Soon.
[EMMETT] Why is Nuck here?
If Kiesha can be here,
Nuck can be here too.
Don't talk about me like I'm not here,
especially since I'm the one
that's been taking care of EJ.
You offered, Kiesha.
It was supposed to be temporary.
[TIFF] And he's Emmett's son too.
Neither one of y'all
talked to me about it.
We shouldn't have to.
We can look after EJ, all right?
Nuck, my mom don't like you.
Why she got a problem with me?
She don't like your face tattoos.
My mama didn't like them neither.
[CHUCKLES]
I vote we let her take him.
So now you just don't give a fuck?
Look, our hands are full over here.
And you haven't had him for a year.
- You're just being possessive.
- Because he's my child!
- When it's convenient.
- Fuck you!
- Don't do that.
- Don't do what, Kiesha?
Be upset that y'all
think I'm a bad parent?
[SIGHS] Look, I haven't
been the best parent either.
We were both young and distracted.
We didn't know what we were doing.
Right.
No one does.
[EMMETT] We were kids.
Should we just go
around the table, then?
I'll go first since
I'm his actual mother.
[KIESHA] Just say your piece, please.
[TIFF SIGHS]
I think she should take him.
[SOFT MUSIC]
I think she can give him a better home.
She makes him happy.
I see it every time she come over.
I know he needs some
extra attention right now,
and that's hard for us to give.
♪♪
We do both have new babies.
We got a lot going on right now
especially with Devante.
♪♪
Tiff, I support whatever
you decide, all right?
♪♪
I just don't want him to forget us.
We'll always be his parents.
[LIGHT R&B MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
[NORA] And you are
Isis asked me to pick
up her candles from you.
- Why?
- [PATIENCE] She's busy.
I don't believe you.
♪♪
My name is Patience.
I'm an attorney who needs your help.
What do you want?
[PATIENCE] To get my client out of jail.
- Who's your client?
- Shaad.
I believe you two used to date.
Look, I don't know anything, okay?
[PATIENCE] I think you do.
An innocent man shouldn't spend
the rest of his life in prison
for a crime we both
know he didn't commit.
- This isn't on me.
- [PATIENCE] It is now.
You were with Shaad
when Alicia was murdered.
Why lie?
- Did someone threaten you?
- No.
Or maybe someone paid you off.
Look, I don't want any trouble.
[PATIENCE] Lying to the police
could get you five years.
I didn't lie!
I know you were with Shaad.
[NORA] Okay, well, where's your proof?
How much did they pay you?
You know what? I'm leaving.
Are you really gonna let an innocent man
die in prison over some money?
♪♪
Look, I saw an out, and I took it.
Didn't your father go to prison
for a crime he didn't commit?
This has nothing to do with him.
You could save a man's life.
♪♪
What happens if I change my story?
I'll make sure you're
protected for telling the truth.
♪♪
We were together.
- [PATIENCE] All night?
- All night.
Can I get a written statement?
♪♪
Thank you.
Please tell Shaad I said I'm sorry.
[PATIENCE] Only if you tell me
who paid you to lie?
♪♪
Roselyn Perry.
♪♪
[KIESHA] We got one son
moving in with his grandma,
and the other, we're trying to
keep out of juvenile detention.
Mm, raising kids is hard.
Is that why you don't have any?
Well, I like supporting
other people's children.
It's my life's work.
I can't let Devante
slip through the cracks.
He won't.
But we'll just have to lock in.
I called a million schools.
Nobody will take him.
[RILEY] Something's gonna come up.
Something's gotta come fast.
We don't have a lot of time.
Aren't you a teacher?
Not anymore.
[RILEY] You should teach him.
Kids like Devante,
they thrive one-on-one.
I don't think I can do it.
I believe you could.
I feel like I gotta fill Jada's shoes.
Hmm.
I know the feeling.
How are you and Darnell?
Well, we're both taking
it one day at a time.
♪♪
[RILEY CHUCKLES]
Same here.
♪♪
So when is that caseworker coming back?
Uh, later today.
- How you feeling?
- Nervous.
Don't be.
Caseworkers are like
dogs. They can smell fear.
I just want them to know
we're good parents, you know?
[RILEY] They'll see that.
You two thinking about tying the knot?
Why?
[RILEY] 'Cause caseworkers
can be a little weird
when a child's parents aren't married.
I don't wanna do it just for that.
Of course not.
I just want you to be aware.
♪♪
I'll talk to Emmett.
♪♪
I think that's smart.
♪♪
[NUCK] You mopping floors now, nigga?
Oh, shit.
[NUCK] What's the word?
- [SMITTY] What you doing here?
- [NUCK] Shit, looking for you.
[SMITTY] Don't nobody
know where I be at.
[NUCK] I run the mob. I
know where everybody at.
- Since when?
- [NUCK] Since Douda got killed.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You take him out?
♪♪
I remember when we used to
get that nigga cigarettes.
- We paid our dues.
- [SMITTY] And then some.
♪♪
- That was a long time ago.
- [NUCK] Yeah, it was.
♪♪
[SMITTY] What you want?
Nigga Rafi left the mob.
[SMITTY] I never fucked with him anyway.
Me neither.
Hey, man, I need somebody I can trust.
♪♪
I ain't in the streets no more.
I can see.
I been to jail.
♪♪
I ain't trying to go back.
My niggas don't get locked up.
♪♪
You can't promise that.
♪♪
Just think about it.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC]
- The king and I ♪
- Yeah ♪
- Breathe ♪
- Broadway ♪
You good?
Yeah.
How's Victor?
He a'ight.
[PAPA] Yeah, he'll be out soon.
I hope so.
Oh, yeah, um, I need y'all help
with this event tomorrow too.
- Bet.
- For sure.
Uh, Bakari, I just need
you to watch the door
and make sure not too
many niggas get in.
And, Papa, I just need you
to catch content, for real.
Hey, bro, you know I'm
good with the angles.
- [PAPA CHUCKLES]
- I appreciate y'all too, man.
[PAPA] Man, you know, always.
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪♪
You ain't been where I been ♪
You ain't did what I did ♪
You ain't seen what I seen ♪
You ain't live how I live ♪
Can't tell me nothing, nah ♪
Can't tell me nothing, nah ♪
You ain't been where I been ♪
You ain't did what I did ♪
You ain't seen what I seen ♪
You ain't live how I live ♪
Can't tell me nothing, nah ♪
Can't tell me nothing, nah ♪
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING SLOWLY]
You surprised to see me?
I am.
How are you?
[VICTOR] How you think?
What happened?
I don't wanna talk about it.
You can talk to me.
When I walked in, there
was a body on the floor.
- Why'd you move it?
- [VICTOR] I didn't want to.
- But you did.
- You don't have to remind me.
I just can't believe
that you're back in here.
Me either.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
How you doing?
Life
life is lifing, per usual.
Nobody's hiring, and people
don't want real news anymore.
♪♪
[VICTOR] So what you doing for money?
♪♪
Do you really wanna know?
Maybe I don't.
Isis is letting me
stay with her for now.
♪♪
[VICTOR] Tell her I said what's up.
I will.
♪♪
You dating anybody?
Why are you asking?
[VICTOR] Just curious.
♪♪
I'm keeping my options open.
[CHUCKLES]
I bet.
- How about you?
- [VICTOR] No.
Not while I'm here.
Maybe when I get out.
Maybe we can connect when you do.
♪♪
I'd like that.
Me too.
♪♪
[PERSON SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]
So is this as far as you gonna go?
- What you mean?
- I want some fly shit.
- I don't see you working.
- [AMAYA] I shouldn't have to.
I want a nigga to take care of me.
I do take care of you.
We living good.
[AMAYA SCOFFS]
My baby dad living better than us.
I don't care about his pockets.
Our bills paid.
That's all that matters.
I'm thinking about
getting back with him.
You serious?
[AMAYA] He want us to be a family again.
- That's what this is about?
- I just want more than this.
[SMITTY] Ain't shit else out there.
I don't believe you.
Then don't.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
Where you going?
Let go of me.
♪♪
What do you think about
me homeschooling Devante?
[EMMETT] I don't know.
What you mean?
I mean, don't you already
have enough going on?
Nothing's more important
to me than our kids.
I don't wanna put no more on your plate.
One more thing won't break me.
Baby, Devante can be a lot.
I know, but we don't have another school
that will take him.
I know. [SIGHS]
I don't want child services
thinking we're not serious about this.
This shit is stressing me out.
I'm sorry, babe.
It's not your fault.
I just wanna think
about all his options.
Like what?
Like somebody needs to
put the fear of God in him.
So you think I'm too soft?
I think he'll walk all over you.
- I keep you in line.
- I'm grown.
- And I listen to reason.
- You just started doing that.
He not gonna do what we say.
All he cares about is his phone.
[KIESHA SIGHS]
If I'm gonna have a homeschool one day,
I gotta start somewhere.
Makes sense.
Jada believed in me
even if you don't.
I never said I didn't.
[KIESHA] So you're open to it?
I guess so.
But Devante probably won't be.
Yeah, he deserves a say in this.
[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
Color's red.
Man.
♪♪
So I get to stay home every day?
You wouldn't be playing
video games and shit.
[KIESHA] Yeah, I'll be your teacher,
so you'll have work to do.
You can do that?
Yeah.
♪♪
Would you behave and listen to Kiesha?
- Yeah.
- [KIESHA] Don't just say that.
I'm not.
I would be good.
Okay, it'll be a learning
process for the both of us.
So we gonna be learning together?
We are "going to" be learning together.
[DEVANTE] We are going
to be learning together.
[KIESHA] Mm-hmm.
Do I still get to
have friends come over?
Yeah, you'll get a chance
to, you know, socialize.
But they gotta come over here.
[KIESHA] And y'all can't
just sit on your phones
- the whole time.
- What we supposed to do, then?
[KIESHA] Talk to each other.
[EMMETT] Play outside, like we used to.
It's too cold to play outside.
Boy, you from Chicago.
Better get used to it.
♪♪
A'ight. Bet.
[EMMETT SCOFFS]
Run it up, get back ♪
Do the work, make it fast ♪
Count it up, hella cash ♪
Putting in work ♪
Run it up, get back ♪
Do the work, make it fast ♪
Hey, follow me.
Putting in work ♪
Tell you what, four a.m. ♪
Yo, yo, go ahead ♪
Know what's up, we throwing in ♪
Putting in work ♪
Come to my side of the city ♪
Man, if you not here, where
the fuck is you at, man?
You should be here.
We at the Hawk Lounge.
Get here soon, 'cause we turnt up
all motherfucking night, man.
Yeah!
But you got a stack
way up to the ceiling ♪
Big face, blue strip ♪
New phone, who dis? ♪
New watch, new wrist ♪
[DAMON] What up, Chi Town?
[CROWD CHEERING]
It's your man Damon Williams.
I'm up here with my girl Lena Bands.
Jake has this thing on flow!
Is the South Side in the building?
[CROWD CHEERING]
Is the West Side in the building?
[CROWD CHEERING]
Let's go!
I'm not hearing what you say ♪
Curious, I'm putting in work ♪
You just out here in the way ♪
Hey, who your girl?
You don't recognize her?
That's my girl Desiree.
She's an IG influencer.
- She's huge.
- Mm.
You know I don't be on there like that.
Well, you should be.
Nah, I prefer to get
to know you in person.
So you old-school, huh?
Something like that.
Count it up, hella cash ♪
I might take you up on that.
Tell you what, four a.m ♪
- Lynae got your number?
- Mm-hmm.
- A'ight, bet. I'ma text you.
- [DESIREE] Okay.
- You better hit me back.
- Okay, I will. [CHUCKLES]
Make it fast, count
it up, hella cash ♪
[CROWD CHEERING]
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
♪♪
[TRAIN RUMBLING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[T.I.'S LET 'EM KNOW ♪
PLAYING, MUFFLED]
[RAFI] Let me hold
that for you. [CHUCKLES]
Hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
this is my brother's
shit [INDISTINCT].
[BOUNCER] Who's your brother?
The motherfucker who's
hosting the party.
What's your name?
♪♪
- Everybody know me.
- I don't.
I'm Reg, nigga.
- What's on your ID?
- Reginald, motherfucker!
♪♪
- You ain't on the list.
- Man, I
[RAFI] Fuck that list, man.
♪♪
Hey, boy! Hey!
Go tell my brother I'm out here.
Riding till the sun rise,
care none 'bout no bedtime ♪
Ain't gonna catch no
bitches ridin' with me ♪
'Less that head fire, better know ♪
From Westside Atlanta ♪
[JAKE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Your brother outside.
[SIGHS] Oh, shit.
[BAKARI] You wanna let him in?
Hell no. I don't want no trouble.
Me neither. Bouncer can
tell that nigga to leave.
Man, that's only gonna make shit worse.
[BAKARI] What you wanna do?
- He by hisself?
- [BAKARI] Hell nah.
How many niggas he got with him?
- Like, five.
- Damn!
[BAKARI] I know.
Solitaires, all I do is big rocks ♪
I came from dealing rock
all the way to hit charts ♪
On the throne, bitch,
ain't on what I'm on ♪
It's too cold for this shit, bro.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PERSON] Oh, hey! Hey!
I swear to God, I'ma smack
the cap off your goofy ass
if you don't let me up
in this weak-ass club.
[JAKE] It's good. Just let them in.
♪♪
- Move, motherfucker.
- [JAKE] Yo, be cool, man.
Man, he fucking with me!
♪♪
[UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪♪
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
We saw who came to see you, nigga.
♪♪
- Nigga, what?
- [PERSON] Man.
My foot up on the gas ♪
I'm blowin' money fast, better know ♪
I'm on these haters' ass ♪
I know these niggas
mad, better let 'em know ♪
All they do is fight for number two ♪
- 'Cause I'm the one ♪
- Uh-huh ♪
Still makin' play with the ones ♪
All we know is success,
hit her with some rich sex ♪
Good luck gettin' your bitch back ♪
She forever mine till I let her go ♪
Better know, le-le-let 'em know ♪
My foot up on the gas ♪
I'm blowin' money fast, better know ♪
I'm on these haters' ass ♪
[SCREAMS]
I know these niggas
mad, better let 'em know ♪
We gave his lawyer all the
footage from that night.
I need the footage from the elevator.
Patience, I'm not trying to lose my job.
You won't.
You want footage from this floor
from the elevator from six months ago?
Yes.
A lot of people came
and went that night.
You'll be looking at hours of footage.
Oh, I got time.
[SCOFFS]
You always been crazy.
You know that, right?
I do.
But I like to use my crazy for good.
[SCOFFS]
It's helped me out more than once.
Why you think I'm here?
[SCOFFS]
I'll see what I can do.
[DOO-WOP MUSIC]
♪♪
Turn it on ♪
Am I a bad father?
Turn it on ♪
Shit, am I?
I asked you first.
[DARNELL SIGHS]
[CHAIR SCRAPES]
Well, you did have
Devante pretty young, boy.
- And you had me young.
- [DARNELL] Mm.
There you go. Like father, like son.
- [BOTTLES CLINK, BOTH CHUCKLE]
- [EMMETT] Right.
♪♪
Yeah, but you turned out all right.
Devante will too.
Yeah, I just hope I can
make up for lost time.
Yeah, wish I'd have known better sooner.
[EMMETT] Yeah, me too.
But, hey, you know, we all
just doing the best that we can.
You know, there ain't
no rulebook to this.
Yeah, I just wish me and Tiff
were better parents for EJ.
Yeah, but
letting Dolly take him is gonna be hard.
I know.
[DARNELL] But it's the right thing.
[EMMETT] Yeah, I know that too.
Yeah.
[SCOFFS]
I'm so glad I wasn't around
when you was young.
Really?
[DARNELL] Yeah.
I didn't know how to be a father.
I wasn't focused.
Yeah, I think I was the same way.
[DARNELL] Of course.
That's all you knew.
I ain't never tell you, but
I'm sorry, son.
♪♪
I forgive you.
♪♪
All right.
[SCOFFS]
You know, EJ's gonna be grateful
that you wasn't selfish in this moment.
Your job as a parent is to
do what's best for them
that's it, not what makes you feel good.
All right?
- I hear that.
- [DARNELL] All right.
And I appreciate you letting
me and Riley stay here, too,
while we get that boiler fixed.
- [EMMETT] Yeah, of course.
- Mm.
[EMMETT] But I am ready for
y'all to get the fuck out.
Damn, boy.
Yeah, I miss having
loud sex in my house.
Oh, I get loud with Riley all the time.
I know! We hear it, a lot.
- [DARNELL CHUCKLING] Yeah.
- [SCOFFS]
Well, you know, ain't no
shame in my game. [CHUCKLES]
Hey, I got some earplugs
if you need to borrow 'em.
- I might take you up on that.
- [LAUGHTER]
[DARNELL] Mm.
You avoiding going back home?
That's what Riley thinks.
[EMMETT] I think she's right.
[SCOFFS] Now y'all ganging up on me.
You can either move back in or sell it.
I ain't got the heart to sell it.
♪♪
I got that house for us.
♪♪
I know you did.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC]
My bitch be in the truck conmigo ♪
And I got her rolling
up diesel, yeah ♪
And she catch plays like Teyo, yeah ♪
Yo quiero bailar contigo ♪
My bitch be in the truck conmigo ♪
And she a saint with her dito ♪
- This nigga.
- What?
He moving shit in here.
- Moving what?
- Nigga, what you think?
Can't let a fun
nigga tread on my turf ♪
Dance, we do work ♪
Feeling like a plug,
unbutton my shirt ♪
Dance, we do work ♪
Can't let a fun
nigga tread on my turf ♪
I got a bitch gon' stay ♪
Let me go talk to this nigga.
Try to plug them like a cable now ♪
She gon' bring some to the table now ♪
Show my girl how to use a plug ♪
I show my girl how to seal the bag ♪
All the designer, she real attached ♪
Told her, no problem,
bae, I got a sack ♪
Out with a pound,
gonna break the scale ♪
I'll put a brick in
the wishing well ♪
You already know you can't
do that shit in here, bro.
Boy, if you don't get off my dick
- Nigga, they'll shut me down!
- [REG] Nigga, you good.
Nigga, no, the fuck I'm not!
Jake, get the fuck
out of my face, nigga!
Man, you got me fucked up, nigga.
[REG] I will beat
your motherfucking ass.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
[PERSON] Hey, hey, calm
down. Hey, yo, yo, chill.
[SECURITY] Hey, get
the fuck out of here.
Hey, watch out!
All you niggas get the fuck out!
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
[RAFI] Man, fuck this party!
Okay, okay ♪
Yeah, okay, okay ♪
♪♪
Sippin' on a Castle ♪
Rollin' up the block ♪
Always got my chopper ♪
I'm aim it at your mug ♪
Can't sleep from paranoia ♪
In the ring like De La Hoya ♪
I got nothin' for you ♪
Just retainer for my lawyer ♪
♪♪
I went to see Victor.
What? Girl
[FATIMA] I know.
- How was that?
- He looked like he's going through it.
- Jail will do that to you.
- Yeah, but he didn't do it.
- How do you know?
- 'Cause I know him.
Do you still have feelings for him?
I don't know.
I heard he has his eye on someone new.
- Who?
- [ISIS] Some little light-skinned girl
that sell weed.
- Tiff?
- I don't know her name.
[FATIMA] That's Emmett's ex-wife.
Aren't Emmett and Victor cool?
That's what I thought.
Oh, well, that's messy.
I asked him if he was dating anybody.
He said no.
I'm just telling you what I heard.
[FATIMA] Are you sure?
I could be wrong.
Maybe he didn't want you to know.
I need to move on.
Just ask him again.
I don't know if I wanna know the answer.
Don't let fear
get in the way of what you want.
[JAZZY MUSIC]
♪♪
EJ upstairs getting his stuff.
♪♪
Thanks for trusting me.
You're a better mother to
him than you were to me.
Excuse me?
Ma, I felt abandoned
by you when I was a kid.
I had a life too.
[TIFF] I know,
because while you was out living yours,
I was looking for attention.
And Emmett gave me some.
[DOLLY] Well, no wonder
you got pregnant at 17.
Yeah, because I thought
if I had his child,
- he would stay with me.
- [SCOFFS]
Could've told you
that wasn't gonna work.
Ma, I just wanted somebody to love me.
[SOMBER JAZZ MUSIC]
I loved you.
You was never here.
I'm here now.
Yeah, for EJ.
I wanna be here for you too.
♪♪
A daughter always needs her mother.
♪♪
Yeah.
Thank you for loving
him the way that you do.
Thank you for letting me.
♪♪
[TIFF] Mm.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪♪
What changed your mind?
♪♪
Don't worry about it.
[NUCK] Yeah, all right, nigga.
♪♪
We gonna need help with security.
Block hotter than it used to be.
I know a guy.
♪♪
[BIG MIKE] What y'all want?
You need work?
Not from you.
♪♪
I know you don't fuck with Reg no more.
Man, fuck that nigga.
What happened with y'all?
I had to hear from the streets
that this nigga returned from the dead.
You really wanna make him mad?
Come back to the mob.
♪♪
What you need?
Security.
[BIG MIKE] Shit.
That's all I do.
♪♪
You think we're still gonna get married?
I proposed to you, and you said no.
Does that mean you're
gonna ask me again?
There's only so many times
a man can be rejected.
Well, if we were married,
it would make everything
with the social worker a lot easier.
So that's why you wanna get
married to impress them?
That's not the only reason.
Mm-hmm.
Forget I said anything. [SIGHS]
Weddings are expensive.
I know.
- And we need to save.
- I know that too.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪
Come on. Come on.
Come on.
♪♪
[CHUCKLES]
Jackpot.
You severed all our ties ♪
Flipped the script on
me, and that ain't right ♪
Made me the victim in your eyes ♪
[TIFF] When you gonna
teach me how to shoot?
But you severed all our ties ♪
- I don't need to.
- [GUN CLICKS]
I'ma protect you.
It only takes once to
cross me, and trust God ♪
I wanna protect myself.
♪♪
[PATIENCE] I have concrete evidence
to prove both of my
clients are innocent.
I'm not overseeing your case.
[PATIENCE] You're friends
with the judge who is.
[SIGHS]
I can't interfere, Patience.
I know you judges talk all the time.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Who killed Alicia?
- I don't know.
- I don't believe you.
♪♪
[PATIENCE] I might have an idea.
Okay, well, if you want me
to pull some strings for you,
you gonna have to do better than that.
I think Roselyn Perry had
something to do with it.
And why would she wanna kill Alicia?
Maybe she thought Alicia
killed her husband.
[SIGHS] She did wanna
take out all the killers.
[PATIENCE] And I hear Douda
killed a lot of people.
Yeah, but I just I still
don't think she did it.
Neither of us can say for sure.
[GUNSHOTS]
[DESTIN CONRAD'S
SAME MISTAKE PLAYING]
♪♪
- My turn?
- Here you go.
♪♪
[GUNSHOTS]
- Terrible.
- Shut up.
I never done this before.
I can tell.
Well, teach me.
Why you always wanna play games ♪
- Teach you, huh?
- Yeah.
And daylight you act like you ♪
Don't even know my name ♪
[TIFF] Mm-hmm.
Hurts me to say ♪
[NUCK CHUCKLES]
I gotta move on ♪
- Come on.
- All right. All right.
Aim.
Pull it back some. Yeah.
Just like that.
See how steady that is?
But maybe I'm not ♪
All right, don't lean back as much.
Step into that shit.
♪♪
No fear.
- Then
- [GUNSHOTS]
I get better ♪
Oh, shit.
Fall again, I've been on one ♪
Lost control of the way ♪
The way I feel about it, but ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
The nighttime brings
promises I can't keep ♪
Givin' in is the one
thing that I don't need ♪
Got ahead of myself ♪
Gotta retrace my steps ♪
'Cause I lost me the
moment I took a piece of you ♪
And you may never
believe, but I'm sorry ♪
I never meant for it to go this way ♪
I only wanted the best,
and I'm sticking to my story ♪
This was a moment for me ♪
And this was all it could be ♪
Now that love is almost gone ♪
- I fall, I get better ♪
- You'll get better, baby ♪
Fall again, I've been on one ♪
Lost control of the way ♪
The way I feel about it, baby ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
Why you always wanna play games? ♪
Nighttime you're mine ♪
And daylight you act like
you don't even know my name ♪
Hurts me to say,
but I gotta move on ♪
♪♪
What you want me to say? ♪
I thought I could
become the type of guy ♪
That you're looking for ♪
But maybe I'm not ♪
Good enough for you ♪
♪♪
Now that love is almost gone ♪
I fall, I get better ♪
Fall again, I've been on one ♪
Lost control of the way ♪
The way I feel about it, but ♪
Baby ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
[EMMETT] Previously on The Chi
Goddamn.
[GUNFIRE]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[RAFI] This nigga writing books and shit
and telling his little
bitch what we doing.
Don't make me kill you, nigga.
[NUCK] Bakari's my number two.
Now, if you don't like that shit,
go work for somebody else.
[BAKARI] Fuck this shit. Let's go.
We still have to be
here for another hour.
- Nobody's coming.
- You sold a few books.
Not enough to make me a millionaire.
[EMMETT] I'm not putting
up with no bullshit.
- I ain't ask to live here.
- You don't have a choice!
Look, I'm enrolling
you into my old school.
And I don't wanna hear no shit
about you getting in trouble, man.
I don't wanna go to a new school.
- You don't get a say.
- What's going on?
Devante's principal just called.
They found a gun in his bookbag.
[VICTOR] Did you look
at the hospital footage?
Yeah. I didn't see you.
Our best bet is to pin
this whole thing on Rashaad.
I had no reason to take her out.
- Who did?
- [CHUCKLES] It's a long list.
- Was one of them Nora?
- Nah.
She's my alibi.
Not anymore.
[POUNDS TABLE] Fuck!
[PATIENCE] I need your help.
I see y'all follow each other.
Oh, I buy candles from her.
What you need me to do?
Can you place an order for some candles
and ask her to meet you
in person for a drop-off?
I am not trying to get
that girl locked up.
Nobody's gonna lock her up.
I just wanna ask her some questions.
- Fuck you want?
- Damn.
It's good to see you too.
[VICTOR] You're only here
'cause you need something.
[REG] I need to stay at
your crib for a little while.
[VICTOR] Nigga, is you out your mind?
- I don't need your permission.
- [VICTOR] Yes, you do.
- [REG] Man, whatever.
- [PHONE SLAMS]
- Nigga, what you want?
- [RAFI] A job.
- And why should I trust you?
- 'Cause I'm loyal.
If you ain't loyal to Nuck,
you ain't gonna be loyal to me.
- Y'all ain't the same.
- [REG] All right.
But if I see one sign of disloyalty
I'll kill your ass.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DOOR BANGS OPEN]
- [VICTOR] Jake.
- [JAKE] Yeah.
- [VICTOR] Don't let Reg in the house.
- [JAKE] I got you.
[VICTOR] Go in my closet and
look under the floorboard.
[JAKE] Oh, shit.
[VICTOR] Just in case.
Get the fuck out.
- You gonna shoot me?
- Nigga, I will if I got to.
Do it, then.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
[REG CHUCKLES]
I knew you ain't have it in you.
Excuse us, ladies.
♪♪
Let's make a deal.
What kind of deal?
The kind that's gonna be
hard for you to refuse.
♪♪
Jackie
hand me a revolver.
♪♪
[INHALES DEEPLY]
Let's play a game.
[GUN CLICKS, BULLETS CLINKING]
The fuck is you doing?
[BULLETS CLINKING]
[REG] You ever, um
heard of Russian roulette?
Fuck, you tryna kill yourself?
♪♪
[GUN CLICKS, CYLINDER WHIRS]
I guess we gonna see.
♪♪
[RAFI] What you get if you win?
[GUN COCKING]
I get to stay.
- And if it go off, nigga?
- [RAFI] He dies.
Do we have a deal, Jake?
Man, Vic said you can't stay here.
That's not what I asked you.
♪♪
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
No deal.
- [LAUGHS]
- [GUN CLICKS]
I know you still love me.
It's my crib now, nigga.
♪♪
[DRAMATIC JAZZ MUSIC]
♪♪
[EMMETT] You know better than
to do some shit like this.
[MS. RODRIGUEZ] This isn't
the first time a student
has snuck a firearm into the school.
[EMMETT] I thought they
had metal detectors.
They do, but they're usually not active.
They should be.
You'd have to take that
up with the superintendent.
I'm gonna be straight with you.
Getting him back into school
is gonna be an uphill battle.
What do we have to do?
[MS. RODRIGUEZ] You have to make sure
that the school knows that
it'll never happen again.
It won't.
We've decided to give Devante
90 days of court supervision
monitoring, consistent check-ins,
the whole nine.
Ninety days?
One violation and I do mean one
and he'll have to do a
year in juvenile detention.
What's a violation?
Missing curfew,
failing a drug test, fighting, weapons.
This is serious.
I need you to stay out
of trouble from now on.
- I heard you.
- Take that bass out your voice.
[MS. RODRIGUEZ] Where
did he get the gun?
It's mine. Um, forgot to lock it up.
I told you I didn't want
that thing in this house.
- [EMMETT] So this is my fault?
- That's not what I'm saying.
- Then what are you saying?
- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[MUFFLED, ECHOING] I need
you to stay out of trouble.
Can we go?
[KIESHA SIGHS]
Let's keep in touch.
I'll tell you a story ♪
I made my first ten
on the side block ♪
Forty with the
beam, call it Cyclops ♪
Pow! ♪
I stay strapped, nigga, why not ♪
Hey, so what happened with your book?
Nobody bought it.
♪♪
They'll buy that shit when you dead.
Why I gotta die for my
shit to be successful?
That's just how shit go.
[LIGHTER CLICKING]
Hey, you ain't use no real names, right?
Bro of course not.
You're not pillow-talking, is you?
- Are you?
- [NUCK] Hell no.
Tiff only know what she need to know.
She don't know about Rob.
And it need to stay like that.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I ain't tell nobody.
You better not be lying to me.
Why would I lie?
'Cause you don't want me
to kill you that's why.
♪♪
You wouldn't kill me.
♪♪
That's what you think.
Shut your fucking mouth.
♪♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
This motherfucker.
[SIGHS]
My lawyer wanted me to
pin everything on you.
You serious?
[VICTOR] Mm-hmm.
That's why I fired his ass.
[SIGHS]
Well, I'm just glad Patience
represents the both of us now.
She find Nora yet?
Say she got a lead.
[VICTOR] How'd you
get such a good lawyer?
She loves cases like this.
- Ones she can't win?
- Ones worth fighting for.
[VICTOR] She seem like a good woman.
She is. [SIGHS]
Mm-mm.
- What?
- I know that look, bro.
- What look?
- You can't fuck your lawyer.
Hey, I respect her as a professional,
but I ain't blind.
Bro, let's just get out of
here before you start flirting.
[SHAAD CHUCKLES]
Hey, she gonna get us out of here, man.
[VICTOR] I hope so.
♪♪
I want EJ to come live with me
- for good.
- What?
No. No.
You clearly have no
interest in raising him.
- Yes, I do.
- She was grieving.
That boy has a learning delay,
and all y'all do is
let him eat junk food
and play video games all day.
You the one feeding him
waffles every Wednesday.
That's better than
Flamin' Hots and Gushers
- for breakfast.
- That happened one time.
Just because you the
only grandma he got left
don't mean you can tell
us how to raise our son.
EJ needs stability and security,
and neither one of you can provide that.
I got a house full of
kids. I know what I'm doing.
Didn't one of your
kids just get arrested
for bringing a gun to school?
That don't have nothing to do with this.
It has everything to do with it.
I don't want my grandson being raised
around all this
violence and destruction.
- But you raised me around it.
- And look at you now.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- You got left by this one.
The last one was taken from you,
and now you with the one who
got a baby with his new wife.
We're not married.
I won't let my grandson get left behind
because of your negligence.
So what do you want,
Ma? You wanna adopt him?
I don't want the paperwork.
I just want my grandson.
And what if we say no?
I don't wanna take y'all to court.
But I will if I have to.
[DRAMATIC JAZZ MUSIC]
♪♪
What you mean you just left?
That nigga put a gun to his own head.
He don't care if he live or die.
And you sure he put a
bullet in the chamber?
I'm sure.
Fuck.
[SIGHS]
I'm sorry.
What about what I told you to get?
Shit, I thought it'd scare him,
but he just laughed.
Was you really gonna shoot him?
[SIGHS]
I don't know.
Never pull a gun on a nigga
if you're not prepared to shoot.
Man, hey, when you getting out of here?
Soon.
[EMMETT] Why is Nuck here?
If Kiesha can be here,
Nuck can be here too.
Don't talk about me like I'm not here,
especially since I'm the one
that's been taking care of EJ.
You offered, Kiesha.
It was supposed to be temporary.
[TIFF] And he's Emmett's son too.
Neither one of y'all
talked to me about it.
We shouldn't have to.
We can look after EJ, all right?
Nuck, my mom don't like you.
Why she got a problem with me?
She don't like your face tattoos.
My mama didn't like them neither.
[CHUCKLES]
I vote we let her take him.
So now you just don't give a fuck?
Look, our hands are full over here.
And you haven't had him for a year.
- You're just being possessive.
- Because he's my child!
- When it's convenient.
- Fuck you!
- Don't do that.
- Don't do what, Kiesha?
Be upset that y'all
think I'm a bad parent?
[SIGHS] Look, I haven't
been the best parent either.
We were both young and distracted.
We didn't know what we were doing.
Right.
No one does.
[EMMETT] We were kids.
Should we just go
around the table, then?
I'll go first since
I'm his actual mother.
[KIESHA] Just say your piece, please.
[TIFF SIGHS]
I think she should take him.
[SOFT MUSIC]
I think she can give him a better home.
She makes him happy.
I see it every time she come over.
I know he needs some
extra attention right now,
and that's hard for us to give.
♪♪
We do both have new babies.
We got a lot going on right now
especially with Devante.
♪♪
Tiff, I support whatever
you decide, all right?
♪♪
I just don't want him to forget us.
We'll always be his parents.
[LIGHT R&B MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
[NORA] And you are
Isis asked me to pick
up her candles from you.
- Why?
- [PATIENCE] She's busy.
I don't believe you.
♪♪
My name is Patience.
I'm an attorney who needs your help.
What do you want?
[PATIENCE] To get my client out of jail.
- Who's your client?
- Shaad.
I believe you two used to date.
Look, I don't know anything, okay?
[PATIENCE] I think you do.
An innocent man shouldn't spend
the rest of his life in prison
for a crime we both
know he didn't commit.
- This isn't on me.
- [PATIENCE] It is now.
You were with Shaad
when Alicia was murdered.
Why lie?
- Did someone threaten you?
- No.
Or maybe someone paid you off.
Look, I don't want any trouble.
[PATIENCE] Lying to the police
could get you five years.
I didn't lie!
I know you were with Shaad.
[NORA] Okay, well, where's your proof?
How much did they pay you?
You know what? I'm leaving.
Are you really gonna let an innocent man
die in prison over some money?
♪♪
Look, I saw an out, and I took it.
Didn't your father go to prison
for a crime he didn't commit?
This has nothing to do with him.
You could save a man's life.
♪♪
What happens if I change my story?
I'll make sure you're
protected for telling the truth.
♪♪
We were together.
- [PATIENCE] All night?
- All night.
Can I get a written statement?
♪♪
Thank you.
Please tell Shaad I said I'm sorry.
[PATIENCE] Only if you tell me
who paid you to lie?
♪♪
Roselyn Perry.
♪♪
[KIESHA] We got one son
moving in with his grandma,
and the other, we're trying to
keep out of juvenile detention.
Mm, raising kids is hard.
Is that why you don't have any?
Well, I like supporting
other people's children.
It's my life's work.
I can't let Devante
slip through the cracks.
He won't.
But we'll just have to lock in.
I called a million schools.
Nobody will take him.
[RILEY] Something's gonna come up.
Something's gotta come fast.
We don't have a lot of time.
Aren't you a teacher?
Not anymore.
[RILEY] You should teach him.
Kids like Devante,
they thrive one-on-one.
I don't think I can do it.
I believe you could.
I feel like I gotta fill Jada's shoes.
Hmm.
I know the feeling.
How are you and Darnell?
Well, we're both taking
it one day at a time.
♪♪
[RILEY CHUCKLES]
Same here.
♪♪
So when is that caseworker coming back?
Uh, later today.
- How you feeling?
- Nervous.
Don't be.
Caseworkers are like
dogs. They can smell fear.
I just want them to know
we're good parents, you know?
[RILEY] They'll see that.
You two thinking about tying the knot?
Why?
[RILEY] 'Cause caseworkers
can be a little weird
when a child's parents aren't married.
I don't wanna do it just for that.
Of course not.
I just want you to be aware.
♪♪
I'll talk to Emmett.
♪♪
I think that's smart.
♪♪
[NUCK] You mopping floors now, nigga?
Oh, shit.
[NUCK] What's the word?
- [SMITTY] What you doing here?
- [NUCK] Shit, looking for you.
[SMITTY] Don't nobody
know where I be at.
[NUCK] I run the mob. I
know where everybody at.
- Since when?
- [NUCK] Since Douda got killed.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You take him out?
♪♪
I remember when we used to
get that nigga cigarettes.
- We paid our dues.
- [SMITTY] And then some.
♪♪
- That was a long time ago.
- [NUCK] Yeah, it was.
♪♪
[SMITTY] What you want?
Nigga Rafi left the mob.
[SMITTY] I never fucked with him anyway.
Me neither.
Hey, man, I need somebody I can trust.
♪♪
I ain't in the streets no more.
I can see.
I been to jail.
♪♪
I ain't trying to go back.
My niggas don't get locked up.
♪♪
You can't promise that.
♪♪
Just think about it.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC]
- The king and I ♪
- Yeah ♪
- Breathe ♪
- Broadway ♪
You good?
Yeah.
How's Victor?
He a'ight.
[PAPA] Yeah, he'll be out soon.
I hope so.
Oh, yeah, um, I need y'all help
with this event tomorrow too.
- Bet.
- For sure.
Uh, Bakari, I just need
you to watch the door
and make sure not too
many niggas get in.
And, Papa, I just need you
to catch content, for real.
Hey, bro, you know I'm
good with the angles.
- [PAPA CHUCKLES]
- I appreciate y'all too, man.
[PAPA] Man, you know, always.
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪♪
You ain't been where I been ♪
You ain't did what I did ♪
You ain't seen what I seen ♪
You ain't live how I live ♪
Can't tell me nothing, nah ♪
Can't tell me nothing, nah ♪
You ain't been where I been ♪
You ain't did what I did ♪
You ain't seen what I seen ♪
You ain't live how I live ♪
Can't tell me nothing, nah ♪
Can't tell me nothing, nah ♪
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING SLOWLY]
You surprised to see me?
I am.
How are you?
[VICTOR] How you think?
What happened?
I don't wanna talk about it.
You can talk to me.
When I walked in, there
was a body on the floor.
- Why'd you move it?
- [VICTOR] I didn't want to.
- But you did.
- You don't have to remind me.
I just can't believe
that you're back in here.
Me either.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
How you doing?
Life
life is lifing, per usual.
Nobody's hiring, and people
don't want real news anymore.
♪♪
[VICTOR] So what you doing for money?
♪♪
Do you really wanna know?
Maybe I don't.
Isis is letting me
stay with her for now.
♪♪
[VICTOR] Tell her I said what's up.
I will.
♪♪
You dating anybody?
Why are you asking?
[VICTOR] Just curious.
♪♪
I'm keeping my options open.
[CHUCKLES]
I bet.
- How about you?
- [VICTOR] No.
Not while I'm here.
Maybe when I get out.
Maybe we can connect when you do.
♪♪
I'd like that.
Me too.
♪♪
[PERSON SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]
So is this as far as you gonna go?
- What you mean?
- I want some fly shit.
- I don't see you working.
- [AMAYA] I shouldn't have to.
I want a nigga to take care of me.
I do take care of you.
We living good.
[AMAYA SCOFFS]
My baby dad living better than us.
I don't care about his pockets.
Our bills paid.
That's all that matters.
I'm thinking about
getting back with him.
You serious?
[AMAYA] He want us to be a family again.
- That's what this is about?
- I just want more than this.
[SMITTY] Ain't shit else out there.
I don't believe you.
Then don't.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
Where you going?
Let go of me.
♪♪
What do you think about
me homeschooling Devante?
[EMMETT] I don't know.
What you mean?
I mean, don't you already
have enough going on?
Nothing's more important
to me than our kids.
I don't wanna put no more on your plate.
One more thing won't break me.
Baby, Devante can be a lot.
I know, but we don't have another school
that will take him.
I know. [SIGHS]
I don't want child services
thinking we're not serious about this.
This shit is stressing me out.
I'm sorry, babe.
It's not your fault.
I just wanna think
about all his options.
Like what?
Like somebody needs to
put the fear of God in him.
So you think I'm too soft?
I think he'll walk all over you.
- I keep you in line.
- I'm grown.
- And I listen to reason.
- You just started doing that.
He not gonna do what we say.
All he cares about is his phone.
[KIESHA SIGHS]
If I'm gonna have a homeschool one day,
I gotta start somewhere.
Makes sense.
Jada believed in me
even if you don't.
I never said I didn't.
[KIESHA] So you're open to it?
I guess so.
But Devante probably won't be.
Yeah, he deserves a say in this.
[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
Color's red.
Man.
♪♪
So I get to stay home every day?
You wouldn't be playing
video games and shit.
[KIESHA] Yeah, I'll be your teacher,
so you'll have work to do.
You can do that?
Yeah.
♪♪
Would you behave and listen to Kiesha?
- Yeah.
- [KIESHA] Don't just say that.
I'm not.
I would be good.
Okay, it'll be a learning
process for the both of us.
So we gonna be learning together?
We are "going to" be learning together.
[DEVANTE] We are going
to be learning together.
[KIESHA] Mm-hmm.
Do I still get to
have friends come over?
Yeah, you'll get a chance
to, you know, socialize.
But they gotta come over here.
[KIESHA] And y'all can't
just sit on your phones
- the whole time.
- What we supposed to do, then?
[KIESHA] Talk to each other.
[EMMETT] Play outside, like we used to.
It's too cold to play outside.
Boy, you from Chicago.
Better get used to it.
♪♪
A'ight. Bet.
[EMMETT SCOFFS]
Run it up, get back ♪
Do the work, make it fast ♪
Count it up, hella cash ♪
Putting in work ♪
Run it up, get back ♪
Do the work, make it fast ♪
Hey, follow me.
Putting in work ♪
Tell you what, four a.m. ♪
Yo, yo, go ahead ♪
Know what's up, we throwing in ♪
Putting in work ♪
Come to my side of the city ♪
Man, if you not here, where
the fuck is you at, man?
You should be here.
We at the Hawk Lounge.
Get here soon, 'cause we turnt up
all motherfucking night, man.
Yeah!
But you got a stack
way up to the ceiling ♪
Big face, blue strip ♪
New phone, who dis? ♪
New watch, new wrist ♪
[DAMON] What up, Chi Town?
[CROWD CHEERING]
It's your man Damon Williams.
I'm up here with my girl Lena Bands.
Jake has this thing on flow!
Is the South Side in the building?
[CROWD CHEERING]
Is the West Side in the building?
[CROWD CHEERING]
Let's go!
I'm not hearing what you say ♪
Curious, I'm putting in work ♪
You just out here in the way ♪
Hey, who your girl?
You don't recognize her?
That's my girl Desiree.
She's an IG influencer.
- She's huge.
- Mm.
You know I don't be on there like that.
Well, you should be.
Nah, I prefer to get
to know you in person.
So you old-school, huh?
Something like that.
Count it up, hella cash ♪
I might take you up on that.
Tell you what, four a.m ♪
- Lynae got your number?
- Mm-hmm.
- A'ight, bet. I'ma text you.
- [DESIREE] Okay.
- You better hit me back.
- Okay, I will. [CHUCKLES]
Make it fast, count
it up, hella cash ♪
[CROWD CHEERING]
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
♪♪
[TRAIN RUMBLING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[T.I.'S LET 'EM KNOW ♪
PLAYING, MUFFLED]
[RAFI] Let me hold
that for you. [CHUCKLES]
Hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
this is my brother's
shit [INDISTINCT].
[BOUNCER] Who's your brother?
The motherfucker who's
hosting the party.
What's your name?
♪♪
- Everybody know me.
- I don't.
I'm Reg, nigga.
- What's on your ID?
- Reginald, motherfucker!
♪♪
- You ain't on the list.
- Man, I
[RAFI] Fuck that list, man.
♪♪
Hey, boy! Hey!
Go tell my brother I'm out here.
Riding till the sun rise,
care none 'bout no bedtime ♪
Ain't gonna catch no
bitches ridin' with me ♪
'Less that head fire, better know ♪
From Westside Atlanta ♪
[JAKE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Your brother outside.
[SIGHS] Oh, shit.
[BAKARI] You wanna let him in?
Hell no. I don't want no trouble.
Me neither. Bouncer can
tell that nigga to leave.
Man, that's only gonna make shit worse.
[BAKARI] What you wanna do?
- He by hisself?
- [BAKARI] Hell nah.
How many niggas he got with him?
- Like, five.
- Damn!
[BAKARI] I know.
Solitaires, all I do is big rocks ♪
I came from dealing rock
all the way to hit charts ♪
On the throne, bitch,
ain't on what I'm on ♪
It's too cold for this shit, bro.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PERSON] Oh, hey! Hey!
I swear to God, I'ma smack
the cap off your goofy ass
if you don't let me up
in this weak-ass club.
[JAKE] It's good. Just let them in.
♪♪
- Move, motherfucker.
- [JAKE] Yo, be cool, man.
Man, he fucking with me!
♪♪
[UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪♪
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
We saw who came to see you, nigga.
♪♪
- Nigga, what?
- [PERSON] Man.
My foot up on the gas ♪
I'm blowin' money fast, better know ♪
I'm on these haters' ass ♪
I know these niggas
mad, better let 'em know ♪
All they do is fight for number two ♪
- 'Cause I'm the one ♪
- Uh-huh ♪
Still makin' play with the ones ♪
All we know is success,
hit her with some rich sex ♪
Good luck gettin' your bitch back ♪
She forever mine till I let her go ♪
Better know, le-le-let 'em know ♪
My foot up on the gas ♪
I'm blowin' money fast, better know ♪
I'm on these haters' ass ♪
[SCREAMS]
I know these niggas
mad, better let 'em know ♪
We gave his lawyer all the
footage from that night.
I need the footage from the elevator.
Patience, I'm not trying to lose my job.
You won't.
You want footage from this floor
from the elevator from six months ago?
Yes.
A lot of people came
and went that night.
You'll be looking at hours of footage.
Oh, I got time.
[SCOFFS]
You always been crazy.
You know that, right?
I do.
But I like to use my crazy for good.
[SCOFFS]
It's helped me out more than once.
Why you think I'm here?
[SCOFFS]
I'll see what I can do.
[DOO-WOP MUSIC]
♪♪
Turn it on ♪
Am I a bad father?
Turn it on ♪
Shit, am I?
I asked you first.
[DARNELL SIGHS]
[CHAIR SCRAPES]
Well, you did have
Devante pretty young, boy.
- And you had me young.
- [DARNELL] Mm.
There you go. Like father, like son.
- [BOTTLES CLINK, BOTH CHUCKLE]
- [EMMETT] Right.
♪♪
Yeah, but you turned out all right.
Devante will too.
Yeah, I just hope I can
make up for lost time.
Yeah, wish I'd have known better sooner.
[EMMETT] Yeah, me too.
But, hey, you know, we all
just doing the best that we can.
You know, there ain't
no rulebook to this.
Yeah, I just wish me and Tiff
were better parents for EJ.
Yeah, but
letting Dolly take him is gonna be hard.
I know.
[DARNELL] But it's the right thing.
[EMMETT] Yeah, I know that too.
Yeah.
[SCOFFS]
I'm so glad I wasn't around
when you was young.
Really?
[DARNELL] Yeah.
I didn't know how to be a father.
I wasn't focused.
Yeah, I think I was the same way.
[DARNELL] Of course.
That's all you knew.
I ain't never tell you, but
I'm sorry, son.
♪♪
I forgive you.
♪♪
All right.
[SCOFFS]
You know, EJ's gonna be grateful
that you wasn't selfish in this moment.
Your job as a parent is to
do what's best for them
that's it, not what makes you feel good.
All right?
- I hear that.
- [DARNELL] All right.
And I appreciate you letting
me and Riley stay here, too,
while we get that boiler fixed.
- [EMMETT] Yeah, of course.
- Mm.
[EMMETT] But I am ready for
y'all to get the fuck out.
Damn, boy.
Yeah, I miss having
loud sex in my house.
Oh, I get loud with Riley all the time.
I know! We hear it, a lot.
- [DARNELL CHUCKLING] Yeah.
- [SCOFFS]
Well, you know, ain't no
shame in my game. [CHUCKLES]
Hey, I got some earplugs
if you need to borrow 'em.
- I might take you up on that.
- [LAUGHTER]
[DARNELL] Mm.
You avoiding going back home?
That's what Riley thinks.
[EMMETT] I think she's right.
[SCOFFS] Now y'all ganging up on me.
You can either move back in or sell it.
I ain't got the heart to sell it.
♪♪
I got that house for us.
♪♪
I know you did.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC]
My bitch be in the truck conmigo ♪
And I got her rolling
up diesel, yeah ♪
And she catch plays like Teyo, yeah ♪
Yo quiero bailar contigo ♪
My bitch be in the truck conmigo ♪
And she a saint with her dito ♪
- This nigga.
- What?
He moving shit in here.
- Moving what?
- Nigga, what you think?
Can't let a fun
nigga tread on my turf ♪
Dance, we do work ♪
Feeling like a plug,
unbutton my shirt ♪
Dance, we do work ♪
Can't let a fun
nigga tread on my turf ♪
I got a bitch gon' stay ♪
Let me go talk to this nigga.
Try to plug them like a cable now ♪
She gon' bring some to the table now ♪
Show my girl how to use a plug ♪
I show my girl how to seal the bag ♪
All the designer, she real attached ♪
Told her, no problem,
bae, I got a sack ♪
Out with a pound,
gonna break the scale ♪
I'll put a brick in
the wishing well ♪
You already know you can't
do that shit in here, bro.
Boy, if you don't get off my dick
- Nigga, they'll shut me down!
- [REG] Nigga, you good.
Nigga, no, the fuck I'm not!
Jake, get the fuck
out of my face, nigga!
Man, you got me fucked up, nigga.
[REG] I will beat
your motherfucking ass.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
[PERSON] Hey, hey, calm
down. Hey, yo, yo, chill.
[SECURITY] Hey, get
the fuck out of here.
Hey, watch out!
All you niggas get the fuck out!
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
[RAFI] Man, fuck this party!
Okay, okay ♪
Yeah, okay, okay ♪
♪♪
Sippin' on a Castle ♪
Rollin' up the block ♪
Always got my chopper ♪
I'm aim it at your mug ♪
Can't sleep from paranoia ♪
In the ring like De La Hoya ♪
I got nothin' for you ♪
Just retainer for my lawyer ♪
♪♪
I went to see Victor.
What? Girl
[FATIMA] I know.
- How was that?
- He looked like he's going through it.
- Jail will do that to you.
- Yeah, but he didn't do it.
- How do you know?
- 'Cause I know him.
Do you still have feelings for him?
I don't know.
I heard he has his eye on someone new.
- Who?
- [ISIS] Some little light-skinned girl
that sell weed.
- Tiff?
- I don't know her name.
[FATIMA] That's Emmett's ex-wife.
Aren't Emmett and Victor cool?
That's what I thought.
Oh, well, that's messy.
I asked him if he was dating anybody.
He said no.
I'm just telling you what I heard.
[FATIMA] Are you sure?
I could be wrong.
Maybe he didn't want you to know.
I need to move on.
Just ask him again.
I don't know if I wanna know the answer.
Don't let fear
get in the way of what you want.
[JAZZY MUSIC]
♪♪
EJ upstairs getting his stuff.
♪♪
Thanks for trusting me.
You're a better mother to
him than you were to me.
Excuse me?
Ma, I felt abandoned
by you when I was a kid.
I had a life too.
[TIFF] I know,
because while you was out living yours,
I was looking for attention.
And Emmett gave me some.
[DOLLY] Well, no wonder
you got pregnant at 17.
Yeah, because I thought
if I had his child,
- he would stay with me.
- [SCOFFS]
Could've told you
that wasn't gonna work.
Ma, I just wanted somebody to love me.
[SOMBER JAZZ MUSIC]
I loved you.
You was never here.
I'm here now.
Yeah, for EJ.
I wanna be here for you too.
♪♪
A daughter always needs her mother.
♪♪
Yeah.
Thank you for loving
him the way that you do.
Thank you for letting me.
♪♪
[TIFF] Mm.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪♪
What changed your mind?
♪♪
Don't worry about it.
[NUCK] Yeah, all right, nigga.
♪♪
We gonna need help with security.
Block hotter than it used to be.
I know a guy.
♪♪
[BIG MIKE] What y'all want?
You need work?
Not from you.
♪♪
I know you don't fuck with Reg no more.
Man, fuck that nigga.
What happened with y'all?
I had to hear from the streets
that this nigga returned from the dead.
You really wanna make him mad?
Come back to the mob.
♪♪
What you need?
Security.
[BIG MIKE] Shit.
That's all I do.
♪♪
You think we're still gonna get married?
I proposed to you, and you said no.
Does that mean you're
gonna ask me again?
There's only so many times
a man can be rejected.
Well, if we were married,
it would make everything
with the social worker a lot easier.
So that's why you wanna get
married to impress them?
That's not the only reason.
Mm-hmm.
Forget I said anything. [SIGHS]
Weddings are expensive.
I know.
- And we need to save.
- I know that too.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪
Come on. Come on.
Come on.
♪♪
[CHUCKLES]
Jackpot.
You severed all our ties ♪
Flipped the script on
me, and that ain't right ♪
Made me the victim in your eyes ♪
[TIFF] When you gonna
teach me how to shoot?
But you severed all our ties ♪
- I don't need to.
- [GUN CLICKS]
I'ma protect you.
It only takes once to
cross me, and trust God ♪
I wanna protect myself.
♪♪
[PATIENCE] I have concrete evidence
to prove both of my
clients are innocent.
I'm not overseeing your case.
[PATIENCE] You're friends
with the judge who is.
[SIGHS]
I can't interfere, Patience.
I know you judges talk all the time.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Who killed Alicia?
- I don't know.
- I don't believe you.
♪♪
[PATIENCE] I might have an idea.
Okay, well, if you want me
to pull some strings for you,
you gonna have to do better than that.
I think Roselyn Perry had
something to do with it.
And why would she wanna kill Alicia?
Maybe she thought Alicia
killed her husband.
[SIGHS] She did wanna
take out all the killers.
[PATIENCE] And I hear Douda
killed a lot of people.
Yeah, but I just I still
don't think she did it.
Neither of us can say for sure.
[GUNSHOTS]
[DESTIN CONRAD'S
SAME MISTAKE PLAYING]
♪♪
- My turn?
- Here you go.
♪♪
[GUNSHOTS]
- Terrible.
- Shut up.
I never done this before.
I can tell.
Well, teach me.
Why you always wanna play games ♪
- Teach you, huh?
- Yeah.
And daylight you act like you ♪
Don't even know my name ♪
[TIFF] Mm-hmm.
Hurts me to say ♪
[NUCK CHUCKLES]
I gotta move on ♪
- Come on.
- All right. All right.
Aim.
Pull it back some. Yeah.
Just like that.
See how steady that is?
But maybe I'm not ♪
All right, don't lean back as much.
Step into that shit.
♪♪
No fear.
- Then
- [GUNSHOTS]
I get better ♪
Oh, shit.
Fall again, I've been on one ♪
Lost control of the way ♪
The way I feel about it, but ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
The nighttime brings
promises I can't keep ♪
Givin' in is the one
thing that I don't need ♪
Got ahead of myself ♪
Gotta retrace my steps ♪
'Cause I lost me the
moment I took a piece of you ♪
And you may never
believe, but I'm sorry ♪
I never meant for it to go this way ♪
I only wanted the best,
and I'm sticking to my story ♪
This was a moment for me ♪
And this was all it could be ♪
Now that love is almost gone ♪
- I fall, I get better ♪
- You'll get better, baby ♪
Fall again, I've been on one ♪
Lost control of the way ♪
The way I feel about it, baby ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
Why you always wanna play games? ♪
Nighttime you're mine ♪
And daylight you act like
you don't even know my name ♪
Hurts me to say,
but I gotta move on ♪
♪♪
What you want me to say? ♪
I thought I could
become the type of guy ♪
That you're looking for ♪
But maybe I'm not ♪
Good enough for you ♪
♪♪
Now that love is almost gone ♪
I fall, I get better ♪
Fall again, I've been on one ♪
Lost control of the way ♪
The way I feel about it, but ♪
Baby ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪
Da, da, da, da ♪
Da, da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da, da ♪
Same mistake ♪