All language subtitles for s01e03_-_tomorrow_s_farewell

It's like they came from Mars or
someplace.

They have no idea what we're doing.
Wrong.

Is teacher being too hard on you, Coco,
baby?

I can take it. I hate anything that
stifles freedom and anyone that stifles

creativity. First thing they teach you
at that survival course, and that's not

to let the person that you're trying to
save pull you under.

You're pulling me under, man.

Man, throw him out. The man is out of
prison less than a week, and he has a

You want fame?

Well, fame comes.

And right here is where you start
paying.

This way.

A lot of pain.

A little pain.

Hey, Bruno!

Bruno! There he is! Hey, Bruno!

Check it out!

Hey, you know that guy from Chicken
Biology?

Hi there. I, uh, thought you were
somebody else.

Obviously.

You excuse us.

Alex! Beverly!

Up here! Hector! Come on in!

I don't know no names, but I know who.

Man,

those people are the man.

You'll note for the upcoming weeks
there'll be some visitors, observers,

the school.

They're representing the State Board of
Education, and I guess you could say

they're here to check us out. Now, as
far as you people are concerned, it's

business as usual. You don't need any
additional mouthing off or clowning or

showboating from anybody.

If they ask you a question, tell them
the answer.

without embellishment or comment. In
addition, certain students will be

for private question and answer sessions
with Mr. Tipton. Mr. Tipton is well

-grounded in conducting studies of this
nature in order to establish a profile

of the student body attitude toward the
school and its curriculum.

Mr. Sharofsky, what does all that mean?

It means we've got three snoops, Mr.
Martelli. That's what it means.

boots but you should consider the fact
we ain't got wings sprouting out our

backs either meaning meaning that it's
legal for a dancer to have their feet on

the ground once in a while oh poor child
it's teacher being too hard on you coco

baby i can take it no you can't none of
you can you can't take it and you can't

fake it not from what i've seen and
until you can do one or the other or

you're gonna be a day late and a dime
short

May I ask why?

I'm just wondering if it's wise, that's
all.

Why is studying Gregorian chant in a
class dealing with musical history

unwise? Well, because the music is
religious in nature. It might be

misunderstood. By whom? By the parents
of some of the Jewish students, for

example. Let me get this straight. You,
Mr. Melendez, are explaining to me, Mr.

Sharofsky, the Jewish parental position.

That's right.

Genius. Two minutes, people.

Don't you think all this music and noise
must distract them?

They're used to it. Can't imagine how
they could get used to that racket all

time.

Maybe so but there isn't much that can
be done about it. What about earplugs?

It's hard to teach English to a class of
students wearing earplugs.

Point well taken.

Very good. You all are dismissed.

I want you all to get in here a little
bit early tomorrow so you can warm up

stretch before we get started on this
new repertory. We're going to work on

Scheherazade. I don't want any pulled
and overstretched muscles.

All right.

Good to see you.

Bye -bye.

And where do they go now? Is there some
sort of shower facility?

Yes, second floor.

Oh, that's unusual, isn't it?

To shower after dance class?

Do you have a gymnasium located on the
second floor?

The showers are on the second floor.
There isn't any gymnasium. No gymnasium?

No.

That's yours?

No, it belongs to Moscow. He asked me to
check it out for him.

It's really something.

You could program it.

play it wherever you want how old do i
look you look i'd say you look about

16 with splotches and black lines on
your face very funny and waka waka

you a little old to go trick -or
-treating waka waka waka and aren't you

lunch in a weird place these are here in
the cafeteria and those three um

inspectors or whatever they're called
they're in there now i don't want to be

around them any more than i have to
let's have an interview with one of

guys right after lunch Mr. Nylon Hair?

Yeah, his head looks like a flying
squirrel trying to mate with a bowling

Shh.

Quiet. Listen.

Someone out in there.

Yeah.

Oh.

Wee. You people didn't pay your electric
bill or something.

inside of a peach pit out here.

You're not supposed to be there anyway,
man. Security guard finds you, he'll

call the cops.

Why don't you crash someplace else?

Ain't no place else, man.

It's got to be it.

I just, uh, I just got all turned around
in the halls out there.

I'm just sort of lost, that's all.

But I'm in the right place.

You sure about that?

Uh, ain't this the school for the arts?

Huh? Is there a Leroy Johnson goes here?
Why you want to talk to Leroy?

Hey, man.

That little dude is my brother.

Yo, wish me luck. I have my interview
today.

Oh, wish yourself luck, girl. I got
problems on my own.

He's in there.

Well, well, well.

Look who went and grew up on me.

So, uh, what are you studying here? You
gonna be Gene Kelly or somebody like

that? What do you want, Willie?

Now, that ain't no kind of a tone to use
for family.

We ain't much of a family. What you
want?

Boy, last time I saw you, you weren't
big enough to understand what happened

me.

Oh, you could understand that I robbed a
place, that I had to go to jail, but

you couldn't understand the why, the how
come.

Three years in the Army, a lot of pain,
a lot of...

Dope. A lot of booze. Takes a big toll
on a man.

Makes him get... desperate.

You couldn't understand that then.

I'm banking on you being able to
understand that now.

You and me, we're just about the only
people each other's got in this whole

blessed world, Leroy.

I got a place you can bunk at till you
get it together.

I guess.

Mr.

Tipton? Yes?

It's my first time in this office, in
this school. You know, we never get to

in here that much.

Well, that's a good sign.

You're, uh, relaxed you know what we're
going to do here.

Well, I heard that it was an evaluation
interview, but I don't, you know... What

are you going to talk to me about?

Well, I have a few questions that I must
ask you, and we'll put them here on

tape. And if you would just answer me as
simply, straightforwardly as possible,

we'll have you out of here in no time.

Is that all right?

Yeah.

Do you enjoy the school?

Yeah, I really do. I enjoy the school.
You know, I like coming to school. That

says a lot, you know.

Well, is it the academic part of the
school that you enjoy, or is it the fun

part, the dancing and the singing and
being with a lot of people who share

interests? Well, you know, dancing ain't
all fun. I hope you know that. I mean,

there's a lot of work that goes along
with it. Are you bilingual?

Well, I'm not bilingual according to the
school. They say I speak Spanglish,

which is English and Spanish.

Yeah, they say street Spanish, you know,
so I'm taking Spanish here, so they say

that I'm going to improve, you know, I'm
going to improve, yeah.

Another question that I'd like to ask.
you is uh if you could change something

about the school what is the one thing
or two things that you might change well

i think i want to change the showers you
know because i'm telling you man those

showers sometimes after dance we go
upstairs you know when we take a shower

sometimes they don't work you know and
i'm all hot and everything and then we

can't take a shower we all complain you
know because we don't want to walk

around sticky and everything

for an audience.

Now, Langston Hughes is not talking
about a girl named Joy.

He's talking about happiness.

He's saying you can find happiness...
Because there's no X, Y here.

But don't be fooled.

As soon as we multiply X plus Y times...
By yourself, honey. Come on. Five,

six, seven, eight, and one, and two, and
three, and four. That's it. Come on.

Get up. You don't weigh but two pounds.

Like they came from Mars or someplace.

They have no idea what we're doing.

Wrong. We're the ones who come from Mars
as far as they're concerned.

All their questions, all their
suggestions make perfect sense in a

school. They make me ashamed.

Of what?

Of me. You?

Why, for heaven's sakes? Because they're
nemesis and fools, and I should be a

bigger person than to hate such people.
You don't hate them, Mr. Shirovsky. I

hate anything that stifles freedom and
anyone that stifles creativity.

These people are pencil pushers and
adder -uppers, and they have no place in

school. Don't you just want to take him
home and put him on your mantle?

But we must be careful about how we
conduct ourselves.

We should appear to go along. We should
try to appear friendly and cooperative.

That's the only way we can... Mr.

Melendez, how are you? Let me get you a
cup of coffee.

Oh, never mind. I'll make a fresh pot.
It won't take a minute. Sit down. Take

your shoes off. Enjoy.

Well...

I think maybe I have some good news for
you all.

Um, what good news is that?

We're going to recommend that the budget
include monies for a gymnasium.

A gymnasium? That's right.

You've looked around, and of all the
things you could have picked, you

we need a gymnasium?

It was Miss Poldorfer that pointed it
out, actually.

Bless her.

How do you like your coffee?

Black. Mr. Melendez, I'm no expert on
budgets and things, but is this money

you're recommending us to get, is that
in addition to our regular budget, or

will it come out of programs already
established?

Probably a little bit of both.

Mr. Melendez, we don't need a gymnasium.

State regulations call for an hour of PE
every day. Mr. Melendez, I can assure

you my dance classes are a workout and a
half.

And the other students?

All the students are required to take
some kind of movement class.

Movement, stretching, whatever.

It's not the same as an hour of P .E.
No, it's more.

Miss Grant. Mr.

Melendez, there isn't a football or
basketball player in this city who could

make it through one of my classes.

You think so? I know so.

It has a ton of cream and sugar in it.

Billy and me, I must have forgotten.

I gotta get going.

I'll meet you out front.

In Grand Rapids, all my friends were
preparing for college. That's like what

they were doing. Here, everyone's
preparing for life, for what they want

for the rest of their life. I think
that's the difference.

You play the cello, is that correct?

Yeah. Why did you choose that
instrument? It's not what we would call

instrument. You take, uh...

A good deal of teasing about that?

Cello is a now, is a yesterday, is a
tomorrow instrument. It's here forever.

May I ask you a personal question about
your parents?

Sure. I understand that they're
divorced.

Would you like to talk about that for a
moment?

Well... It's kind of rough because...
Well, we were

a family. Now I feel like...

It's just my mom and me, and it's not
the same.

But they just kind of grew apart.

Was that a big adjustment for you?

Yeah, it was really big because my mom
has a friend here. Her name's Alla, and

she helped my mom find an apartment and
stuff. But it was really lonely. And

even now, she doesn't even have a job
yet. And she's trying, she's looking for

one, but it's really rough.

If you could not be the wonderful
cellist that you want to be,

What would you do with your life?

Well, I think I really want to be
performer.

Well, suppose life throws you a curve,
and for some unknown reason you find you

are unable to perform, to become a
performer. What would you do with your

In any way, I can't perform. I can't
dance. I can't act. I can't do that.

Uh,

that'd be some curve.

Wanted to check up.

That young man who was here this
afternoon, that was your brother, wasn't

How come you got to check up?

Well, two reasons.

A, there is this phrase in black slang
about so -and -so being a brother, and I

wasn't sure whether he was that kind of
brother to you or if he was a brother

-brother. What's the second? The second
reason is he was drunk, and that

concerns me.

Why does that concern you?

Because as maddening and as arrogant as
you can be sometimes, I care about you.

I don't want to see you getting into
trouble.

The man is my brother. He's not trouble.

Leroy.

Look, with that evaluation team around
here, we have to be especially careful.

I thought you were so worried about poor
little me.

Leroy!

Look, the man was drunk. Look, he was
celebrating seeing me. That's all he was

doing. Now, if your tight little ears
can't take that, then that's just too

You're so pleased about seeing him? Yes.

Then how come you're hanging out here
doing everything you can not to go home?

Well, my kids, you...

Leave me alone.

but compared to where I've been the past
six years, I'll take it hands down.

I'm heading downtown to get myself
reestablished with the people to count.

See if I can get me some kind of gig
that'll put a little jingle in my jeans.

I emptied out one of the dresser drawers
and put my stuff in it.

Hope that's okay.

If I ain't back tonight, don't sweat it.

I got me some howling to do yet, and I
just might get lucky.

Take care, little brother.

I'll pick up on you tomorrow.

Welcome home, brother.

Doris Schwartz.

Do you have a middle name?

Yeah.

Would you like to tell me what it is?

Renee.

Doris Renee Schwartz? Yes.

What is your major?

Drama. Drama, I see.

Is there a theatrical background in your
family?

Well... My mother was an actress before
she married my father. She was in the

original company on Broadway of Music
Man. She was in the chorus. That's where

she met my father.

Are your parents together?

Yeah, they're back together now. Oh,
they're back together now.

They've been separated for a little
while.

And what is the general tenor of your
home now?

It's good.

Are you happy with what's happening now?
Yeah.

Do you have any doubt that you'll
eventually achieve your goal?

A little every day.

A little doubt every day?

Yeah. Do you have from time to time a
feeling that you will succeed?

Yeah. When do you have the feeling you
will succeed and when do you have the

doubts?

Well, I know I'll succeed when I do a
good scene or when I get a part or when

everything just clicks, when it feels
right.

Then I know it's all going to be okay.

In your acting, do you feel that you
must live the part?

Yeah.

And at your age, which is quite young
now, do you feel you must go through

the characters you portray go through?

I think I should try and do as much of
it as I can so I can learn what it's all

about. Hypothetical question, young
lady.

If you were playing a woman who was
pregnant, how would you go about

for that?

I'd get pregnant. That's ridiculous.

You want some advice?

No.

Man, throw him out.

I said I didn't want any advice.

You don't always get what you want out
of life. Would you lay off, all right?

You're gonna look the other way, is that
it? Yes, that is it.

It's on the money here.

Leroy, the man is out of prison less
than a week, and he has a gun.

Man, that's trouble. Don't buy into
that.

Could be a lot of reasons he got a gun.

Yeah, you name me one reason. Just one.

Isn't he on parole?

Mm -hmm.

And if they find out that he has a gun,
he's gonna go right back to prison.

Girl, will you let it be? Nah, if you
can tell me why you're acting so flat

dumb. Because Willard is the only family
that I have on this earth, damn it.

I'm not gonna give him a big hassle and
see him head on down the road.

That's all there is to it. I understand
that.

But he's a lot older than you, isn't he?

Ten years.

And how old were you when he was sent
off to jail?

Nine or ten, I don't know.

Sounds like to me he's your brother, but
that you hardly don't even know him,

Leroy. He's more like a... stranger he
is my blood that's all i know from what

you told me he ain't treating you like
blood he's treating you like dirt he

ain't moving in with you he's moving in
on you girl do you ever run out of

advice leave or make him get rid of the
gun how am i supposed to make him i

don't know that but you might not admit
it but it's trouble and i know it's so

and so do you

The jocks from Buchanan hire you. Go get
the dancers we talked about yesterday.

Mr. Melendez needs to see how physically
fit we are.

Let's start off with some simple jumping
jacks at first.

We'll get to it.

One, two, three, then one, two, three,
stretch. One, two, three, then one, two,

three, stretch. One, two, three, then
one, two, three, stretch. One, two,

then one. Come on.

One, two, three, stretch. Let's move it.

One, two, three, stretch. All right,
boys, you can do it. One, two, three,

stretch. Put your body into it.

Now let's really move it.

Smoke, feel my thunder.

You'll be fading in the distance.

I'll be leaving you under my spell
tonight.

But you'll be all right.

And only to Jim, after all.

Do you think there's any art in making
people laugh?

I think there's a lot of art in making
people laugh. I mean, you could have ten

people say the same joke, and, I mean,
only one would make you laugh.

That's true, but I don't understand what
difference that would make.

Well, um, making people laugh, I mean,
it's something you have to be born with.

It's not just an everyday thing.

Do you think you have the gift?

Yes, I do.

Where do you live, Danny?

In the South Bronx.

Do you find a lot of things in the South
Bronx to laugh about?

I mean, everybody thinks the South Bronx
is just killings and murders.

I mean, there's a lot of love there, and
there's a lot of funny things that

happen there, just like probably where
you live.

Do you have a favorite comedian?

Yes, I do.

Richard Pryor. What is it about him you
like?

I think he's a natural at what he does.
I think he's the best. He's an original.

You get along with your family well?

Okay. Are they helping you in this
endeavor?

They have mixed feelings.

I mean, they think it's, you know, a
school for the young, you know.

But otherwise,

they think this is the best way for me
to follow up my career.

I've been told that you can't go to
school to be a comedian or an actor.

You're a natural. You do it or you don't
do it.

Dream of dreams now for you.

You could have any kind of success
imaginable.

Tell me what you would like for
yourself.

I would like to win the lottery for a
million dollars so I could just retire

never work in my whole life. That would
have nothing to do with the school.

My question is then, why are you here?

Because I don't think I'm going to win
the lottery for a million dollars, so I

have to follow up my career.

It might be real interesting to know how
you found the piece, too.

It was at the bottom of a drawer.

A closed drawer.

Well, it wasn't closed all the way.

That's how I found it when I tried to
close the door.

A man of my kind of fix can't afford to
pass up opportunities.

What kind of opportunities?

A guy told me when I got out of Stony
Lonesome, where to find a piece.

All I was going to do was sell it to get
some bread.

If I'm going to get anything going, I
got to get me a steak. But you can't

it legal. The only place you can sell it
is in the street.

And that don't meet with your approval,
is that right?

All of a sudden, you're the commissioner
of police or some such.

Look, I was just trying to look out for
you, that's all.

Son, I don't need nobody looking out for
me, especially not no tippy -toe

dancer. Yeah, you better not follow up
on that, because you cannot handle what

you're going to find at the end of that
street.

All I'm going to find is a baby brother
who doesn't know what it takes to get

things done in this world.

You got to scratch and grab at what you
can, man. Well, I don't go along with

that. Oh,

you got so much going for you? Is that
it? I don't know about so much, but I

a place I can afford.

I got a job swapping out of here, and I
got the school.

Your school gives me a pain. Me too
sometimes, but if I can be something, if

can do something, it's likely to come
out of that school, and I'm not going to

blow it on drugs, guns, and nothing
else.

Just get rid of that piece, will it?
Boy, you feel so strong about it.

You get rid of it.

Man, you carrying this thing around on
you?

I know you must miss that prison, man. I
don't miss prison at all, boy.

Because I'm right back in it. And it
looks to me like you've just appointed

yourself my warden.

Police!

Hold it right there!

There's a kid coming out the other end.
Collar him!

Look, I hear what you're telling me.

But he hasn't been charged with
anything.

Not yet, no ma 'am.

Not yet. What does that mean?

I seen him throw something into that
trash bin, but I couldn't testify with

gun I fished out of that junk.

Well, what were you doing in the alley
anyway?

Somebody's been rolling winos.

I don't think I want to know why I got
picked for this assignment.

Whatever.

Now, if the print turned out to be on
the gun and we find the weapon was used

any prior crime, I think the DA's office
might try to clear a few things off the

books. Did he say the gun was his?

No, he said his name was addressed and
that his mother was out of town.

When we asked for the name of a
responsible adult, he gave us your name.

Well, I am his faculty advisor, so I
guess I qualify.

He's not charged with anything, so what
is the purpose of all of this? I need an

adult to make sure he'll show up for
questioning if we need him, that he'll

up for trial if we press charges.

I'm hoping that'll be you.

Listen, guaranteeing anything when it
comes to Leroy... Can we go off the

a second?

Not sure what that means.

What it means, if you tell anyone what
I'm about to say, I'll call you a liar.

Okay.

I can manufacture enough stuff to put
the kid in jail long enough to make sure

he'll show up for a trial. I don't
really want to do that.

He can get one kind of education here,
the kind he's likely to get in a whole

different ballgame.

I don't want to put him through that.
Neither do you.

I'll make sure Leroy stays available.

Thanks much.

Oh, uh...

This school?

Yes.

It's nice.

It's weird, but nice.

Most schools would give the kid a three
-day suspension.

He hasn't been charged with anything.

That's because he was arrested by an
overworked officer who doesn't want to

spend his days off on a meaningless
case.

Most schools would give the kid a three
-day suspension.

Look, we are not most schools.

You have little sub -prejudices here in
the school.

I mean, it's not great, but it's funny
because dance majors have a reputation

being a little snooty, you know, healing
in the nose. Whereas acting drama

majors, dance majors don't go near the
drama majors because drama majors are

loud and obnoxious, have this reputation
of, you know, eating food and spitting

it out on the lunch table. And then you
have the music majors, and nobody

understands them because...

For all anyone else, they could be
writing hieroglyphics, Pluto, Cucamonga.

Well, young man, what is your kind of
music?

I can't pigeonhole it. I like soul
music. I like jazz. I like classical

like Stravinsky.

I like Bill Evans.

Do you have an idol, Bruno?

I have a few.

Might I know them?

I like Bartok.

I like Miles Davis.

go on and on. How does your family feel
about you pursuing a musical career?

Well, my father feels that it's
something that I'm very passionate

something that I really want to do. It
may not be the most stable of all

professions, but he's perfectly willing
to give me all the support he can.

Tell me something.

What do you think happens when people
hear your music?

Or better yet, what do you, Bruno
Martelli, want to happen?

I think that if I could walk into a room
with a tape or sit down at a piano,

there's maybe two or three people in the
room, and one of them is feeling lousy

and another is feeling out of place. I
could change their feeling.

I could make the one that feels lousy
feel glad that they woke up.

Okay to come in?

Free country.

Just thought you might like to be alone
because of what happened.

What do you mean, what happened? How do
you know what happened? Everybody knows,

Leroy. The whole school knows.

Hey, the school's full of flakes. It's
not the CIA.

What's everybody saying about me?

Everybody's not talking about you.

You're not that big a deal.

However, those that are talking about
you, a third think that it's cool that

had a gun.

Another third think that it's a very
heavy and courageous thing that you're

covering for your brother Another third
think that anyone who goes to jail for

something he didn't do to protect
someone he barely knows is a stone jerk

asked Which third you voting with I

asked

Another curve, another choice to make.

Which one the answer and which one
should I take?

Sometimes I wonder if it's always been
this way.

And I've got the feeling up and down is
here to stay.

that brought it didn't mean me any harm.

Come what may, it won't really matter.

If it's got to be that way, it don't
change.

the wind that brought it it didn't mean
me any harm it

won't really matter

if it's got to be that way

bucks playing poker with federally
thought you was out looking for a job

a job to pay 100 bucks for three hours
working i'll take it you want to drink

i got 183

dollars in the saving account will it
you can have 150 of it what for to find

yourself a place you're moving out of
here oh

Yeah, I thought you were sending out my
cleaning.

I'm serious, Willard.

You more than serious, boy.

You're one of the coldest people I've
ever seen in my life.

Anybody who'd turn out as homegrown
brother... Did you ever learn how to

What? Did you ever learn how to swim?

No.

Willard, before Mom went away, she took
me down to that YMCA for some swimming

lessons. I didn't really want to go. She
said I ought to learn.

That could be pretty good, too.

Thought I'd get me a summer job
lifeguarding or something.

What is this all about, Leroy? Well, you
know the first thing they teach you at

that survival course?

And that's not to let the person that
you're trying to save pull you under.

You're pulling me under, man.

I'm swimming away.

Leroy, I'm your brother.

You're my mother's other son.

That ain't the same as my brother.

I'm dead to you, boy.

You ain't got no family no more.

You're alone in this.

You're wrong will it I got family we are
just got different last name

Thought these things was run by the dude
with the plastic hand of glass.

Mr. Tipton had an accident.

Asked me to fill in for him.

Sit down.

It's me.

That detective Kessler called.

Said they're dropping the gun
investigation.

Thought you'd like to know.

I got my brother to move out.

Just thought you'd like to know.

That must have been hard.

It was.

And sad.

That too, I guess.

Well, let's get these questions out of
the way.

See, the thing that hurts me most about
Willard... Because Willard, he ain't

such a bad guy. Not really.

He ain't all that bad a guy.

He just ain't got no reason to get up in
the morning.

I mean, all he...

All he know how to do is hustle and gain
folks because that's all he ever got

taught.

That's all he ever learned how to do.

See, with him and me, we're a lot alike.
Not a lot, but we're alike in a way.

Except when I get up in the morning, I'm
coming in here not just to dance.

I'm not just coming in here.

The dancing and the working is not just
something that I do.

It's something that I am.

See, and Wilder don't have nothing like
that.

Get out of here, Leroy Johnson.

You just answered all the questions
anyone could ask.

What kind of accident happened to that
Mr. Tipson?

Take a look at the trophy case out in
the lobby.

Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can
you feel it?

If you look around, the whole world
coming together now.

Yeah. Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?

Feel it in the air.

The wind is taking it everywhere.

Yeah.

Cause the working and the dancing is
something that I am.