All language subtitles for Girlfriends s08e13 Stand and Deliver

I know what you're doing.

Oh, this?

It's just deodorant, you know? Headed
into a windowless cramped studio. I

want to be stinky.

No, I know what you've been up to.

What? Snacks?

Office supplies?

The Grammy?

Look, you can't prove I took it.

Lynn, I heard you turned in 15 checks in
two days.

So? So, I'm on to your scam.

Since I won't let you out of your
contract, you're putting in no effort in

turning in crap.

Look, I would never sacrifice my
artistic integrity like that.

Unless, of course, it's working.

It's not.

Everything you turn in, I have the right
to release, and I will.

And if it's bad and it tanks, it's your
career.

And my write -off.

Damn. Now I know why they call it Dirty
Girl Records.

You play dirty, girl.

Who'll take it then?

My girlfriend.

My girlfriend.

Yeah, for anything.

My girlfriend.

Hey, where have you guys been?

I thought we agreed we were going to
meet here at 9 to go to the tile store.

and I thought the fact that we strolled
up in here at 1130 shows you we didn't

want to go to the tile store.

Here, mailed outside.

Not that I looked, but I'm taking this
window replacement coupon.

Why? What'd you get in my window? Oh,
look, a letter from Aaron.

Oh, my God. Yay, I've been waiting for
this letter from Aaron.

I've been having so much trouble IMing.
Oh, is this big old shiny head causing

satellite interference?

No. He got a promotion. Thank you very
much, okay? At his base, he is the new

head sergeant.

Shut up! Shut up!

Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up.

So, what does Aaron say?

Let's see.

Oh, well, he says he misses me and he
loves me.

Uh -huh.

And this other letter is for me to read
to his students.

But he says not to open it until I read
it to them.

Okay, I won't read it. Not.

Joan, I said don't open it until you
read it to my students.

Comma, comma.

Unless you follow up those commas with a
chameleon, you need to shut up and quit

breathing down my neck while I'm trying
to work on my column.

Sorry.

I just need something to do until
Darnell gets here.

There's something you can do. Go wait on
the step.

And miss this opportunity to correct and
criticize you?

Oh, hell, comma, no.

Jabari!

Hey!

How'd your drama lesson go?

Don't ask.

Where's your daddy?

He shoved me out the car and said he
needed a drink and I need a bus pass.

Oh, no, don't give me those puppy dog
eyes. No, Jabari, I am not teaching you

drive. We already fell out about it last
time.

And I promise the Lord if he got me out
of that car alive, I would never drive

with you again.

And I cannot break my covenant with you,
that is all.

But, Mom, that's not fair. You promised
I could get my learner's permit.

He's right.

You know, with the baby coming, I'm
reading a lot of parenting books, and

say if a parent makes a promise, said
parent should follow through.

You know, William, you're right.

I am going to follow through.

Jabari, Uncle William here is going to
teach you how to drive.

I was thinking that after I read the
letter, I would have the students write

short essay on the war.

If it takes an hour, I'm all for it.

You are such a lovely young lady.

You shouldn't be using language like
that.

What do you think your father would
think, sweetheart?

Why don't you ask? I'll be right back
there.

Hello. Hi.

Young lady, excuse me.

I don't think you can just walk out of
here like that.

Bitch, be glad I walked in.

Oh, my.

Oh, my, my, my. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Aren't
you supposed to be...

Making the students act right?

I'm a substitute teacher who doesn't get
health care. I think I'm going to sit

this one out.

Okay.

Okay, well, um, excuse me.

Excuse me.

One,

two, three, eyes on me.

She is straight up trippy.

I'm Mr. Waters' fiance, and he asked me
to come down here and read this letter.

You let Mr. Waters hit that?

I ain't mad at him.

I hit it, too.

Please, you know you're still a virgin.

What are you calling a virgin, kid?

Okay, I think you're going to fight.
What are we supposed to do? I'm going to

stay low, keep moving, and try not to
get stabbed.

I'd say you look a hot mess, but that'd
be giving hot mess a bad name.

Aaron's school is a madhouse.

So glad he's not teaching there.

Don't if he was, he wouldn't be in Iraq.

After what I saw today, he is better
off.

Kids running wild, substitute teacher
doing crossword puzzle, lunch lady

dope on the side.

I would never put my child in the public
school system.

Well, you know what? Some people don't
have a choice, Miss Bougie.

But, Bougie, those kids are straight up
hood.

They had the whole school on lockdown. I
had to pull the fire alarm just to

create a diversion to get the hell out.

Look, don't blame those kids.

I mean, poorer schools are overcrowded.
And the resources are stretched because

they have greater needs. It's just a bad
cycle. Yeah.

I just can't believe I was so naive.

I was going to go down there.

Read Aaron's letter and inspire those
kids.

Just like Mr.

Holland's opus.

Said it was Black Hawk Down.

Now I gotta tell Aaron I couldn't read
his letter.

No, no, no, Joan. You have to go down
there and read it.

I mean, he'd probably crawl through some
minefield to mail you that letter. The

least you could do is drive down to Long
Beach and read it.

You weren't there.

You didn't see what I saw.

You know what? But Joan, I am so sick of
your wimpy, sadiddy ass. Okay, I'll go

down to that school with you.

Well, I may have catapulted myself to
the middle class.

I know how to talk to kids from the
hood.

I used to walk those mean streets.

Maya, you still do walk those mean
streets. Girl, you live one block west

read myself and that one block plus me
means streets adjacent.

Well, I don't know why your mom is
trying to trip on the flim flam dog.

Your driving is off the heezy for
sheezy.

What are you saying?

I'm practicing my slang.

Getting ready for parenthood.

They say you should talk to your
children in a language they can respond

Well, I respond to English.

Then Englishle it isle.

Starting now.

Here, sir.

So at the light, you want me to make a
left or a right?

The decision is yours, Jabari.

A good parent lets his child make his
own choices.

It's all a part of their journey.

So I can do me?

You do you.

Cool.

This is what I'm talking about.

Yeah. This is what I'm talking about.

Just remember on your journey to keep
your eyes on the road, buddy.

Yeah, I got this. I got this. I got it.
You know, you can get it a little better

with your hands at 10 and 2.

I got it. I got it. I'm going to turn
right here so I can roll by my friends

the bus stop because you know they got
this in the beam.

Look here, a little showboat is good for
the male ego.

Just remember to showboat a little
slower. A little slower.

Hey, hey, Keisha.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, boss boy!

You wrecked a Beamer?

You couldn't wreck a cheap American
subcompact. Well, my... The important

is that we're all okay.

I know, I know.

Jabari, is anything hurt?

No. All right, follow my finger, okay?

To the right, to the left, here, here,
and I'll follow it to your room because

your ass is grounded. Now, don't you
butt -mock me. Go.

Aren't you even interested in hearing
the particulars? What?

He's 16. He showed his ass. He wrecked a
car. His daddy can't fix it, pay for

it. That's all I need to know.

Now, march.

She can't hit nobody but herself. Oh,
excuse me.

You wrecked a beamer and a UPS quick
drop.

Okay, so I messed up.

But it's the first time somebody
actually trusted me. They didn't treat

a little kid.

Oh, you're a little butt -dumb girl, Bo,
now that it's touched some heated

leather seat.

I'm saying all you and Daddy ever do is
boss me around and keep me all up under

your thumb.

At least Uncle William gave me a chance.

Oh, and look how that turned out.

Yeah, Jabari, go to your room and wait
for your Daddy.

he was a good kid.

And he was driving carefully until he
took his hands off the wheel and waved

his friends.

After I told him time and again, pay
attention.

You know you ought to grind that no good
little miscreant for life.

That just flowed out of me, didn't it?

I'm going to be a great father.

Those are the kids you're scared of.

Okay, John. I got this.

Okay. Okay.

I know what this is. Trust.

All right. All right.

Look at here.

My name is Maya Wilt.

Okay? And I am bougie, like Miss
Clayton.

I'm straight up confident. Okay. Okay?

So you need to shut your hot, chip
-stained mouth. Excuse me, Ray J.

And you're going to listen to her read
Mr. Waters' letter.

All right?

Miss Airbrush, fingering that with your
little design on it. I see you.

All right? I'll be clear.

Fine, girl, be a hero. Be a hero.

With that big, small heifer.

With the bedazzled cell phone holder.

I think she's packing.

Jabari, what do you want for supper?

It doesn't matter. You can make me what
you want anyway.

That is not true.

You say you want to be heard around
here. Well, I want to hear you. What do

want?

Pizza. Too late, because I already
started snapping the beans.

Ask to be asked. I don't really care
what I want.

Okay, Jabari, fine.

What do you want?

I want some trust. I want some respect.

Well, you got to earn that.

What else I got to do?

You always running around bragging to
your friends I'm such a good kid, but

steady treating me like I'm fresh out of
juvie. You are a good kid. Hell, after

what I saw today, you're practically a
thing.

And maybe that's because we are hard on
you. Yeah, but you have to let up. You

got to trust me sometime.

What are you going to do, ride me until
I'm 30? Maybe.

All right, you're my baby, and I don't
want anything bad to happen to my baby.

And maybe your daddy and I do need to
give you a bit more freedom.

And what does that mean?

It means maybe we'll put you on our
insurance.

Oh, snap that. I'm getting good hands
with us, baby.

Yeah, as long as you drive like you got
some sense. You know, they may offer

accident forgiveness, but your mama
don't.

Yeah, but how am I going to know how to
drive if nobody going to teach me?

Maybe.

Your daddy and I will send you to
driving school, let you run up their

pressure.

Mom, I'm not that bad.

No comment.

Just trying to preserve your self
-esteem.

But before we send you off to driving
school, you're going to have to sign an

all -state parent -teen driving
contract.

What's that? I ain't signing away my
organs or nothing anymore because I'm

undecided about that.

No, it's a contract that says we trust
that you'll drive safely, and you

us that you will.

All right, I'll sign it, but when do I
start driving school?

as soon as we find one that don't cost
no money.

And that was a statement made this
morning by Condoleezza Rice.

Meanwhile, in southern Iraq, heavy
fighting continued today.

No word yet on any troop casualties.

Later in the hour, we'll see if the
Lakers could pull one out against the

But coming up next, Jay Wasaki is going
to get the Hollywood scoop on why Paris

Hilton is going ape over her new bonobo.

Hey, y 'all, look!

There goes Mr. Water Sushi.

Mr.

Hines, I'm here to read the letter.

Ah, you're one of those dedicated ones.

I don't know about that, but Aaron is
dedicated, and I owe this to him.

Go with God.

You're going to need him.

We accept your apology.

Apology for what?

For blinding us with that bright -ass
blouse.

Oh, no, she didn't. Oh, yes, I did.

Mr. Waters is over there in Iraq risking
his life, and all he wants is for

you guys to hear this letter.

So? So, what the hell is wrong with you
people?

Listen to me.

All Mr. Waters talks about is how
special you guys are and how he misses

This is the way you guys keep acting.

You're throwing away any option that you
have in life.

What option?

To go to Iraq like Mr. Waters?

Is that all you think your future is?

Look around.

What else we got?

Well, there's college.

There's one book we share.

They only have one book?

Well, I don't know where they got that
one.

Look, nobody cares about us.

Except Mr.

Waters. And what they do, take him away.

Look, most teachers don't even want to
teach us.

But Mr. Waters did.

Most men didn't want to marry me.

But Mr. Waters did.

Look, we just want Mr. Waters to come
home.

You and me both.

They'll probably just lie and extend his
tour just like they did to my cousin.

Well, Jordan, stop whining.

I talked to a recruiter, and he said we
have a responsibility to the people in

Iraq to see this through.

And y 'all know me. I never walk away
from a fight. Yeah, but we're not even

fighting the people who attacked us. It
doesn't matter. We win it. Win it what?

We don't know what's going on over
there. Mr. Waters knows what's going on

there. Gee, if only he had sent a letter
to y 'all.

Sorry, I got caught up in the debate.

If you are listening to this letter,
then my lovely fiancé obviously got

to you appleheads.

I'm doing well over here.

There are days that are hard, but I
always think about the people that are

important to me, like the woman that I
love and the students I love to teach.

There's a lot more I wanted to put in
this letter, but I figure I'll just tell

you when I get home, which I just found
out is going to be in a couple of weeks.

My unit's been called back to the
States. He's coming home!

Okay. Joan, I love you.

I'll see you soon.

I'm going to see you soon.

And kids, read chapters three through
eight because I've been a pop quiz

fool in this tank.

Oh, my God. He's coming home.

Lynn, I listened to your tracks.

I'm totally stuck, right?

And you're going to let me out of my
contract.

Far from it. We love it. We're going to
get you in the studio ASAP.

You're joking.

I'm the CEO.

I don't have a sense of humor.

But I do have a sense of irony.

What's ironic?

That I'm trying to take my career with
bad music and you think it's great?

No. Just as your career is about to take
off, you're going to be in jail for

stealing my Grammy.

I'll have them back to you first thing
in the morning.

Then? Never mind.