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[Saxe] <i>Previously on</i> Ghost...

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I made this is in
just a few hours

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without even leaving campus.

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We could make a killing
here. All I need is a supplier.

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[Lorenzo] <i>Make sure
he does what we say.</i>

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If you don't, Tariq dies.

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I know you're selling
out there to pay for Davis.

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Ma, I'm doing what I need
to do to get you out, all right?

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It doesn't matter
what I'm doing.

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You need to go get a gun.

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<i>Ghost and Tommy used to have
these dead drops all over the city.</i>

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<i>There should still be a
gun in one of those spots.</i>

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[Monet] <i>We have a
new business partner,</i>

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<i>Tariq St. Patrick.</i>

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[both] What?

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Monet sent you over here
to spy on me, didn't she?

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You just show me how you do your
business, we can make this quick.

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- You've got a partner?
- I don't.

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[Dru] I guess that's you.

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[shower running]

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[Monet] <i>Dru, I want you
to be careful with yourself.</i>

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<i>Nobody's gonna have
your back like your family.</i>

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Jesus Christ, Riley,
what have you done now?

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If you weren't a U.S. Attorney,

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your mouthy niece would
be in Rikers Island right now.

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- I'll do whatever you want.
- There is something you can do for me.

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- Eyes on the target.
- Do not talk to him.

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You have a really dark energy.

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- Has anyone ever told you that?
- Nope.

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<i>Is the guy in the Strahan
jersey always such a dick?</i>

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He's shy, but don't
worry about him.

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Just worry about me.

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[chuckles]

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Jabari, when's your
second book come out?

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It came out already.

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Came and went. [chuckles]

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I'm currently hard at
work on my next novel.

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[Tariq] What am
I paying you for?

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The spotlight's been on Tasha.
We're moving it over to Saxe.

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We expose his malfeasance.

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He gets thrown off the case.
The whole thing goes away.

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You tell me a secret, then
maybe I'll tell you a secret.

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I could tell you...
or I could show you.

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[light dramatic music]

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[phone buzzes]

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Who's Diana?

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♪ ♪

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[Joe] <i>♪ They say this
is A big, rich town ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I just come From
the poorest part ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Bright lights, city life ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I gotta make it This
is where it goes down ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I just happen
To come up hard ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Legal or illegal,
baby I gotta make it ♪</i>

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[50 Cent] <i>♪ I never took
A straight path nowhere ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Life's full of twists And
turns, bumps and bruises ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I live, I learn ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I'm from that city full of
Yellow cabs and skyscrapers ♪</i>

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<i>♪ It's hard to get a start In
these parts without paper ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Homey, I grew up in hell
A block away from heaven ♪</i>

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<i>♪ That corner every 15
minutes They moving seven ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Pure snow, bag
it Then watch it go ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Occupational options
Get some blow or some hos ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Shoot the ball or the
strap Learn to rap or to jack ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Fuck it, man In the meantime ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go head and pump a pack ♪</i>

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<i>♪ This my regal, royal flow
My James Bond bounce ♪</i>

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<i>♪ That 007 That's
62 on my count ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I'm an undercover liar
I lie under the covers ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Look a bitch in the eyes ♪</i>

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<i>♪ And tell her Baby, I love ya ♪</i>

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<i>♪ You're my inspiration
You're my motivation ♪</i>

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<i>♪ You're the reason that I'm
Moving with no hesitation ♪</i>

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[Joe] <i>♪ They say this
is A big, rich town ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Yeah, I just come
From the poorest part ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Bright lights, city life ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I gotta make it This
is where it goes down ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Oh, yeah, yeah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I just happen
To come up hard ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Legal or illegal,
baby I gotta make it ♪</i>

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♪ ♪

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[all] <i>♪ Happy birthday To you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Happy birthday to you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Happy birthday, dear Tariq ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Happy birthday to you ♪</i>

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- [Tasha] Right.
- [laughter]

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- [Tasha] Okay, blow.
- [Estelle] Yeah.

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[Tasha] All
right, get it, get it!

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- [all cheer]
- There you go.

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[Estelle] Yes, yes!

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My baby is 18.

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- You grown now.
- Yep.

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Yes, oh, I'm so proud of you.

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[chuckles] Thank you, Grandma.

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- [light laughter]
- [knock at door]

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[Estelle] Okay, who's
ready for some cake?

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- [Yasmine] Me.
- [Tariq] You know she is.

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[Estelle] All right.

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[suspenseful music]

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Hey. Sorry I'm late.

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Baby girl.

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♪ ♪

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Did I miss the cake?

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- [indistinct chatter]
- [Estelle] There you go.

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There you go. You're welcome.

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W-What are you doing here?

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What do you mean?
It's our birthday.

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Why wouldn't I be here?

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I am so sorry.

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Baby girl, I wasn't there.

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I wasn't there to protect you.

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I love you so much.

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Ma, you're acting weird.

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I love you, too. Um...

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Did Tariq beat me home?

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[sobs]

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[Tasha] Oh, my God.

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♪ ♪

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[high-pitched squeaking]

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♪ ♪

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[wheel squeaking]

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[buzzer blares]

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[door clangs open]

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[door closes]

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[gentle music]

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♪ ♪

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[line trilling]

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Hey, Ma.

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Happy birthday, 'Riq.

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Thank you. How
you doing in there?

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I'm good.

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How about you?

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What are you doing today?

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<i>You know I wanna see
you on your birthday.</i>

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[hip-hop music playing]

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Yeah, I'm gonna come visit you,

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but I gotta study for
this test I have to take.

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<i>So I gotta go right
now. I'll talk to you later.</i>

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O-okay. I love you.

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Good luck on your test.

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See you soon.

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All right, love you.

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[hip-hop music playing]

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You gotta stop showing up here.

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I know Davis sent you a subpoena
to testify at my recusal hearing.

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You can't say anything
about me being at Truth

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the night of St.
Patrick's murder.

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I'll be under oath. If they ask,
I have to say you were there.

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I have to say that someone is
blackmailing you with that information.

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At least you were smart
enough not to tell me who it is.

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Tameika, please, don't do this.

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You'll ruin my life.

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It's not your life I'm
concerned about.

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Just drop the charges.

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You know Tasha
isn't the queenpin.

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You know you are wrong.
This can all go away.

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It's out of my hands.
I don't have a choice.

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You are the U.S. Attorney.

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Why the fuck is it
out of your hands?

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I can't tell you.

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Right.

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I'm not your lawyer anymore.

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You put me in this position.

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I told you this would happen.

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Cooper, if I get on that
stand, you are fucked.

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You have to stop this train
before it runs you off the tracks.

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[Tameika] Now get out.

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Fuck.

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[Monet] <i>Believe it or not,</i>

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there's a method to becoming
a savage in the game.

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It's a skill.

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To control a nigga,

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you gotta always be
able to think ahead of him.

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Whatever you say to him should
always lead him back to you.

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Ma, I don't even
know what that means.

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It means a man doesn't
fall in love with you.

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He falls in love with the image of
himself that he sees in your eyes.

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You make him think he's lit,
he'll always come back to it.

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That's better than
any drug we can sell.

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It's about being a
woman in a man's world.

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Men have certain advantages.

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I'm teaching you how
to even the playing field.

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You see how I got
Detective Ramirez on lock.

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Ma, that's easy. You sleeping
with the caught-up nigga.

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Listen, any thot can
give a man some pussy.

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But if sex is the best thing
you think you have to offer,

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then you underestimate yourself

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and how much a man needs
a woman he can depend on.

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That's the secret to control.

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[engine revs]

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[Diana] Doesn't look
like he's under control.

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It's all a part of the plan.

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Get him hooked on
it, then take it away.

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Watch this.

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Mo, stop playing. Open up.

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That's the problem,
you think I'm playing.

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You don't respect my boundaries.

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So, from now on, I'll call
you when I wanna see you.

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What's the matter with you?

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Let me come in, and
we can talk about this.

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No, I have a business to run.

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You think my world stops
because you show up?

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- I never said that.
- Your actions say enough.

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You show up here all unannounced
with nothing but hard dick and bubble gum

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and nothing to offer?

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Why does everything have
to be transactional with you?

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I just wanna see you.

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Look, you're seeing
me through the door.

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I said what I said.

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Fuck outta here!

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[uneasy music]

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♪ ♪

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What do Monet need
to talk to me about?

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What's the reason
for this meeting?

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She ain't say, all right?

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All she said was to pick
you up and drop you off.

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<i>♪ Gotta bust until it click ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Had to work to try the jug ♪</i>

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[Tariq] What's he
doing over here?

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He looking for you, or
he just part of the fam?

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Neither, he just
a dirty-ass cop.

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How come Monet
trust a crooked cop?

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Man, you know them niggas
is worse than regular cops.

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Facts.

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These niggas only come
around and take shit.

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Your money, your
freedom, or your life.

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What's that cop
taking from Monet?

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He feeds us information and
keeps us from getting jammed up.

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Hmm, I know it's expensive
keeping a nigga like that on payroll.

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How much he be taxing y'all?

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[door opens]

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What's up, Diana?

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Tariq, I didn't know
you were coming by.

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- Hey, what's up with your mans?
- Who you talking about, Cane?

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I'm talking about that bum-ass
cop you had parked out front.

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- What?
- [Diana] Chill out, bro.

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[Cane] Nah, fuck that.
This my house too.

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I wanna know why
this nigga Ramirez

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feels comfortable enough
to show up during the day,

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where anybody could see him
and he fuck up our business.

240
00:10:17,084 --> 00:10:20,320
Cane, you know we do not discuss
family business in front of company.

241
00:10:20,354 --> 00:10:23,156
Ma, you're always
talking family first bullshit.

242
00:10:23,190 --> 00:10:25,034
But it's starting to feel like
you're choosing outsiders

243
00:10:25,058 --> 00:10:26,326
over your own fucking family.

244
00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,696
Boy, you better fall back before
you say some shit you regret.

245
00:10:29,730 --> 00:10:31,765
Hey. Come on.

246
00:10:31,798 --> 00:10:34,801
[tense music]

247
00:10:34,835 --> 00:10:36,737
♪ ♪

248
00:10:36,770 --> 00:10:38,739
Cane loses his place sometimes.

249
00:10:38,772 --> 00:10:40,807
He's not a bad kid.
He's just confused.

250
00:10:40,841 --> 00:10:41,842
So is Dru.

251
00:10:41,875 --> 00:10:44,211
I send him to your school,
and he comes back with this?

252
00:10:46,947 --> 00:10:50,017
You have any idea
who this could be?

253
00:10:50,050 --> 00:10:51,218
Hey, Dru did this?

254
00:10:51,251 --> 00:10:52,919
You know he drew it.

255
00:10:52,953 --> 00:10:54,321
Who is it, Tariq?

256
00:10:54,354 --> 00:10:58,058
I-I don't recognize him,
but maybe Zeke does.

257
00:10:58,091 --> 00:11:00,027
I'm too busy writing
Zeke's papers

258
00:11:00,060 --> 00:11:02,205
and writing my papers and on
top of that moving your product,

259
00:11:02,229 --> 00:11:04,698
so, honestly, I don't have much
time to hang out with anyone.

260
00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,101
All right, I'll ask Zeke.

261
00:11:09,136 --> 00:11:10,437
[phone buzzes]

262
00:11:14,074 --> 00:11:17,911
I gotta get back to the
city, so if this is all, then...

263
00:11:20,714 --> 00:11:22,249
[door opens]

264
00:11:23,750 --> 00:11:25,318
Man, what the fuck do you want?

265
00:11:25,352 --> 00:11:26,386
[sighs]

266
00:11:26,420 --> 00:11:29,723
Tameika's been subpoenaed
to testify at my recusal hearing

267
00:11:29,756 --> 00:11:30,891
by your lawyer.

268
00:11:30,924 --> 00:11:33,026
Now, that sounds
like a you problem.

269
00:11:33,060 --> 00:11:34,194
[Saxe scoffs]

270
00:11:34,227 --> 00:11:37,264
Davis wants Tameika to tell the
judge how fucking dirty you are.

271
00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:42,369
Why do you think your
mother fired Tameika, huh?

272
00:11:42,402 --> 00:11:43,770
It doesn't matter.

273
00:11:43,804 --> 00:11:47,007
All right, Tameika can't tell the
court anything that my mom told her.

274
00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:49,076
Tameika told me that herself.

275
00:11:49,109 --> 00:11:52,179
You can take this bullshit subpoena
and get the fuck outta my face.

276
00:11:52,212 --> 00:11:56,049
Tariq, I told Tameika

277
00:11:56,083 --> 00:11:58,351
I went to Truth the night
of your father's murder.

278
00:11:59,453 --> 00:12:01,154
What?

279
00:12:01,188 --> 00:12:02,889
Well, that's your
own dumb-ass fault.

280
00:12:02,923 --> 00:12:04,291
I didn't say anything to anyone.

281
00:12:04,324 --> 00:12:07,494
Well, that's the problem. I
told Tameika someone saw me.

282
00:12:07,727 --> 00:12:09,196
If she figures out it was you,

283
00:12:09,229 --> 00:12:12,065
Judge Larkin is gonna ask why
you never mentioned it before.

284
00:12:12,099 --> 00:12:15,769
She's gonna want you to testify.
I'm gonna have to cross-examine you.

285
00:12:15,802 --> 00:12:18,472
Our whole little
arrangement will come out.

286
00:12:19,973 --> 00:12:21,441
[engine starts]

287
00:12:21,475 --> 00:12:23,810
[Tariq sighs]

288
00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:33,820
[phone chimes]

289
00:12:33,854 --> 00:12:35,522
[phone buzzes]

290
00:12:35,755 --> 00:12:39,025
Ma, did you know Davis
subpoenaed Tameika?

291
00:12:39,059 --> 00:12:40,494
Yeah, I know.

292
00:12:40,527 --> 00:12:43,130
Her testimony's gonna help
get Saxe thrown off the case.

293
00:12:43,163 --> 00:12:45,365
What if she figures out what
really happened that night?

294
00:12:45,398 --> 00:12:46,900
I think it's too risky, Ma.

295
00:12:46,933 --> 00:12:48,535
<i>Our conversations
were privileged.</i>

296
00:12:48,768 --> 00:12:51,805
So even if she wanted to, technically
there's nothing she could say.

297
00:12:51,838 --> 00:12:55,075
Well, she could say something
that places me at the scene.

298
00:12:55,108 --> 00:12:57,077
- I saw Saxe at Truth that night.
- What?

299
00:12:58,512 --> 00:13:00,890
Look, I've been blackmailing
him this whole time to help you.

300
00:13:00,914 --> 00:13:03,116
<i>But I was the only one
that knew he was there,</i>

301
00:13:03,150 --> 00:13:06,186
but when Tameika stopped being his
lawyer, he told her that someone saw him.

302
00:13:06,219 --> 00:13:07,797
<i>You think they could
prove that it was me?</i>

303
00:13:07,821 --> 00:13:10,023
Tariq, why am I just
finding this out now?

304
00:13:10,056 --> 00:13:12,359
Why didn't you tell
me this from the jump?

305
00:13:12,392 --> 00:13:14,161
This is just like your father.

306
00:13:14,194 --> 00:13:17,430
You promised me you would
never lie to me, and now look.

307
00:13:17,464 --> 00:13:19,533
<i>- Here we are.</i>
- Ma, I'm nothing like Ghost.

308
00:13:19,566 --> 00:13:21,067
All right, I wasn't lying.

309
00:13:21,101 --> 00:13:22,941
I just didn't tell you
in order to protect you.

310
00:13:22,969 --> 00:13:25,038
What? Now you
even sound like him.

311
00:13:25,071 --> 00:13:28,909
A lie of omission is
still a motherfucking lie.

312
00:13:28,942 --> 00:13:31,211
Tameika already thinks
you are the shooter.

313
00:13:31,244 --> 00:13:32,846
That's what you
don't know, little boy.

314
00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:35,182
<i>She figured it out. That's
why I had to fire her.</i>

315
00:13:35,215 --> 00:13:37,417
So that's a lie of
omission, too, then.

316
00:13:37,450 --> 00:13:39,052
Ma, why didn't you tell me this?

317
00:13:39,085 --> 00:13:41,388
Because it didn't
matter until now.

318
00:13:41,421 --> 00:13:45,926
Everything Saxe told her she could
say because it wasn't privileged.

319
00:13:45,959 --> 00:13:49,429
<i>If someone figures
out when you saw him</i>

320
00:13:49,462 --> 00:13:52,599
or why you saw him, it
messes up our whole timeline.

321
00:13:52,832 --> 00:13:54,501
<i>You'll be exposed.</i>

322
00:13:56,269 --> 00:13:58,438
We gotta keep
Tameika off the stand.

323
00:13:58,471 --> 00:13:59,873
<i>She knows too much.</i>

324
00:13:59,906 --> 00:14:01,474
Need me to take care of her?

325
00:14:01,508 --> 00:14:02,509
What?

326
00:14:02,542 --> 00:14:04,277
No. No way.

327
00:14:04,311 --> 00:14:07,547
<i>You made a decision, and
now I'm making a decision.</i>

328
00:14:07,581 --> 00:14:10,350
I'll just tell Davis to
pull the subpoena.

329
00:14:10,383 --> 00:14:13,553
You call no more shots
from here on out, okay?

330
00:14:13,587 --> 00:14:15,288
I got us now.

331
00:14:17,224 --> 00:14:19,226
[sighs]

332
00:14:20,894 --> 00:14:22,305
I don't know why you
don't want a bubble tea.

333
00:14:22,329 --> 00:14:24,998
It's really good. I
mean, are you off sugar?

334
00:14:25,031 --> 00:14:27,267
That'd be great for your
skin if you can pull it off.

335
00:14:27,300 --> 00:14:28,401
What?

336
00:14:28,435 --> 00:14:30,203
Look, I-I don't
want a bubble tea.

337
00:14:30,237 --> 00:14:32,872
I want information
about Tariq St. Patrick.

338
00:14:32,906 --> 00:14:35,542
- Why?
- Because I'm prosecuting his mother.

339
00:14:35,575 --> 00:14:37,577
She claims to be broke,
but somehow can afford

340
00:14:37,611 --> 00:14:39,946
the best defense
attorney in New York.

341
00:14:39,980 --> 00:14:43,483
Now, if I can prove Tariq is funding
her legal team with dirty money,

342
00:14:43,516 --> 00:14:45,285
I can shut down
the whole defense.

343
00:14:45,318 --> 00:14:48,922
Have you seen him, I don't know,
with any large lump sums of cash?

344
00:14:48,955 --> 00:14:50,590
Just anything suspicious.

345
00:14:50,624 --> 00:14:53,393
I did overhear him on the
phone with his grandmother.

346
00:14:53,426 --> 00:14:55,595
She was asking him for money.

347
00:14:55,629 --> 00:14:57,564
- That's interesting.
- I know, right?

348
00:14:57,597 --> 00:14:59,609
Usually it's the other way
around with college kids.

349
00:14:59,633 --> 00:15:02,302
Speaking of which, I
wanna get my nose pierced,

350
00:15:02,335 --> 00:15:03,503
and I was wondering if–.

351
00:15:03,536 --> 00:15:04,647
But how did you get close enough

352
00:15:04,671 --> 00:15:08,008
to hear Tariq on the phone
without him noticing you?

353
00:15:08,041 --> 00:15:11,111
I've been spending the
night in his room a lot lately.

354
00:15:11,144 --> 00:15:13,246
What the fuck?

355
00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,649
You-you–[sighs] You're
sleeping with him?

356
00:15:15,682 --> 00:15:19,319
Riley, I didn't tell
you to, ugh, do that.

357
00:15:19,352 --> 00:15:21,988
In fact, I told you
not to talk to him.

358
00:15:22,022 --> 00:15:24,958
First of all, Uncle
Nancy, I'm a woman now.

359
00:15:24,991 --> 00:15:28,361
I can sleep with whoever,
whenever I want to.

360
00:15:28,395 --> 00:15:30,697
- It's just sex.
- Oh, God.

361
00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:32,174
But it's not Tariq
that I'm dating.

362
00:15:32,198 --> 00:15:33,600
Apparently I'm not his type.

363
00:15:33,633 --> 00:15:36,136
His roommate's
my boyfriend, I think.

364
00:15:36,169 --> 00:15:39,472
I mean, we haven't talked labels
yet, but I think it's going that way.

365
00:15:39,506 --> 00:15:43,009
[laughs] I mean, I'm more
polyamorous, if I think about it,

366
00:15:43,043 --> 00:15:46,479
but I could give monogamy a
try, like the olds, and see if I like it.

367
00:15:46,513 --> 00:15:49,349
Can we just please just
stop talking about sex and–.

368
00:15:49,382 --> 00:15:51,151
Who–who is this guy?

369
00:15:51,184 --> 00:15:52,419
Brayden Weston.

370
00:15:52,452 --> 00:15:56,556
He's square, but
he's rich, white,

371
00:15:56,589 --> 00:15:58,091
privileged.

372
00:15:58,124 --> 00:15:59,335
You'd like him.
He's just like you.

373
00:15:59,359 --> 00:16:03,630
Eh, except his roommate, Tariq,
is from a notorious crime family.

374
00:16:03,663 --> 00:16:08,635
If Tariq is as badass as you say he is,
then I have the best seat in the house.

375
00:16:09,536 --> 00:16:11,071
Fine.

376
00:16:11,104 --> 00:16:14,607
Since you're already
spending time in the room,

377
00:16:14,641 --> 00:16:16,176
I need you to start keeping tabs

378
00:16:16,209 --> 00:16:18,445
on who comes to visit
Tariq and report back to me.

379
00:16:18,478 --> 00:16:20,347
But this is important.

380
00:16:20,380 --> 00:16:22,115
Don't talk to him.

381
00:16:22,148 --> 00:16:23,483
Don't ask him questions.

382
00:16:23,516 --> 00:16:26,319
Just observe and report.

383
00:16:26,353 --> 00:16:29,155
Observe and report. You got it.

384
00:16:29,189 --> 00:16:31,991
[sighs]

385
00:16:32,025 --> 00:16:33,526
Now, some people also say

386
00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,197
that O. Henry
was satirizing love

387
00:16:37,230 --> 00:16:40,200
by writing these
characters as fools.

388
00:16:40,233 --> 00:16:41,735
So what do you all think?

389
00:16:46,039 --> 00:16:47,440
[door closes]

390
00:16:47,474 --> 00:16:49,576
[Jabari] To be early
is to be on time.

391
00:16:49,609 --> 00:16:52,545
To be on time is to be late.

392
00:16:52,579 --> 00:16:57,050
To be late is to be
forgotten, Mr. St. Patrick.

393
00:16:57,083 --> 00:16:58,785
Yes, I know. Um, I apologize.

394
00:16:59,018 --> 00:17:01,254
I had some family issues I
had to take care of earlier.

395
00:17:01,287 --> 00:17:04,257
Well, the 15-page paper was
due at the beginning of class.

396
00:17:04,290 --> 00:17:06,126
It's 25 pages now.

397
00:17:06,159 --> 00:17:09,062
[students murmuring]

398
00:17:09,095 --> 00:17:12,132
Both Jim and Della
buy each other a gift

399
00:17:12,165 --> 00:17:14,734
that ultimately seems
financially foolish,

400
00:17:14,768 --> 00:17:16,236
because being poor,

401
00:17:16,269 --> 00:17:20,073
they cannot afford to waste
money on things they cannot use.

402
00:17:20,106 --> 00:17:22,475
I need you to
retract the subpoena.

403
00:17:22,509 --> 00:17:24,177
Wait, what?

404
00:17:24,210 --> 00:17:28,481
Okay, Tameika's testimony will
reveal that Saxe was working with you

405
00:17:28,515 --> 00:17:29,582
to convict your husband,

406
00:17:29,616 --> 00:17:33,153
which totally contradicts his whole
theory about you being the queenpin.

407
00:17:33,186 --> 00:17:36,756
Tameika knows every dirty
thing Saxe has ever done.

408
00:17:36,790 --> 00:17:38,758
She knows where all
the bodies are buried.

409
00:17:38,792 --> 00:17:41,461
Tasha, we need Tameika.

410
00:17:41,494 --> 00:17:43,363
Hell, you need Tameika.

411
00:17:43,396 --> 00:17:45,331
She puts the nail
in Saxe's coffin.

412
00:17:45,365 --> 00:17:49,302
He recuses himself, I refile
to get the charges dismissed,

413
00:17:49,335 --> 00:17:52,071
and you–you could
go home the same day.

414
00:17:52,105 --> 00:17:55,642
I am asking you, Davis,
do not put her on the stand.

415
00:17:55,675 --> 00:17:58,545
And I'm telling
you, she's testifying.

416
00:17:58,578 --> 00:18:00,113
What?

417
00:18:00,146 --> 00:18:02,182
Hello, I'm the client.

418
00:18:02,215 --> 00:18:04,417
And I'm the lawyer. You
wanna go home or not?

419
00:18:06,653 --> 00:18:10,457
[indistinct chatter]

420
00:18:10,490 --> 00:18:12,625
Tariq, listen...

421
00:18:12,659 --> 00:18:14,461
why is it that we
are the culture

422
00:18:14,494 --> 00:18:17,797
where it's corny to be
smart or responsible?

423
00:18:17,831 --> 00:18:21,134
Now, we as Black people must
fight daily to change that narrative.

424
00:18:21,167 --> 00:18:22,435
You're right.

425
00:18:22,469 --> 00:18:25,605
Look, I know you have a
lot going on with your mom

426
00:18:25,638 --> 00:18:27,140
and your dad,

427
00:18:27,173 --> 00:18:31,578
but your behavior reflects poorly
upon us as Black men on this campus,

428
00:18:31,611 --> 00:18:33,746
and specifically me
as your professor.

429
00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:36,249
Now, I am responsible
for you, Tariq.

430
00:18:36,282 --> 00:18:38,785
Listen, you keep my parents
out of your mouth, all right?

431
00:18:38,818 --> 00:18:41,254
Man, you need to do your job
instead of trying to be my dad.

432
00:18:41,287 --> 00:18:43,823
I had a father, all
right? I don't need you.

433
00:18:43,857 --> 00:18:46,659
[tense music]

434
00:18:46,693 --> 00:18:48,428
♪ ♪

435
00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:50,430
Monet was pressing me
about some drawing earlier,

436
00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:51,831
but I held it down.

437
00:18:51,865 --> 00:18:55,502
I think she's trying to figure
out if you was, you know–.

438
00:18:55,535 --> 00:18:57,570
Yeah, nigga.

439
00:18:57,604 --> 00:18:59,739
It's not no secret. [Chuckles]

440
00:18:59,772 --> 00:19:01,541
My whole family knows.

441
00:19:02,709 --> 00:19:04,277
Monet's testing you.

442
00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:05,545
Testing me for what?

443
00:19:05,578 --> 00:19:08,248
She's trying to see who
you're loyal to, me or her.

444
00:19:09,215 --> 00:19:12,352
- Yeah, I should've seen that coming.
- Yeah.

445
00:19:12,385 --> 00:19:14,921
She looking at you
like you one of us now.

446
00:19:15,154 --> 00:19:17,423
And that can be
a gift or a curse.

447
00:19:17,457 --> 00:19:20,460
[uneasy music]

448
00:19:20,493 --> 00:19:21,828
♪ ♪

449
00:19:21,861 --> 00:19:25,265
Look out for yourself, Tariq.

450
00:19:25,298 --> 00:19:27,500
♪ ♪

451
00:19:27,534 --> 00:19:30,737
Tariq didn't want to be straightforward
with me about Dru and that drawing.

452
00:19:30,770 --> 00:19:33,540
But he's willing to send
me to question Zeke.

453
00:19:33,573 --> 00:19:35,575
He got some loyalty for Dru.

454
00:19:35,608 --> 00:19:36,876
Right.

455
00:19:36,910 --> 00:19:39,445
And Cane and Tariq will
never be able to get along.

456
00:19:39,479 --> 00:19:41,548
So, under these circumstances,

457
00:19:41,581 --> 00:19:44,293
your brothers will never be able to
learn how he's moving our product

458
00:19:44,317 --> 00:19:47,921
or if it's even possible to cut him
out of the equation if we need to.

459
00:19:47,954 --> 00:19:49,856
I'm leaning on you now, D.

460
00:19:49,889 --> 00:19:52,225
You understand
what I said before.

461
00:19:52,258 --> 00:19:55,461
Get Tariq alone, get any
other chicks out of view,

462
00:19:55,495 --> 00:19:57,196
and get me some information.

463
00:19:57,230 --> 00:19:58,865
[Monet] And don't get caught up.

464
00:19:58,898 --> 00:20:00,300
I won't.

465
00:20:01,734 --> 00:20:03,436
Let me get the whole
row of Hennessy Black.

466
00:20:03,469 --> 00:20:06,239
V.S.O.P., and regular Henny.

467
00:20:06,940 --> 00:20:09,742
And let me get a few
bottles of Hpnotiq too.

468
00:20:09,776 --> 00:20:11,344
Who the hell drinks Hpnotiq?

469
00:20:11,377 --> 00:20:14,347
You mix the brown with the blue,
and you get the Incredible Fucking Hulk.

470
00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:15,982
That shit'll put you
on your ass, baby.

471
00:20:16,215 --> 00:20:18,384
I'm throwing Tariq
the party of the year

472
00:20:18,418 --> 00:20:20,453
where "Henny-thing"
is possible. [Laughs]

473
00:20:20,486 --> 00:20:22,822
So how are you gonna
keep the surprise from Tariq?

474
00:20:22,855 --> 00:20:24,390
Okay, Tariq will never find out.

475
00:20:24,424 --> 00:20:25,568
He's hardly ever
at school anyways.

476
00:20:25,592 --> 00:20:26,593
- Yeah.
- [Riley] Really?

477
00:20:26,626 --> 00:20:29,329
So his parents are spending
all this money on tuition,

478
00:20:29,362 --> 00:20:30,964
and he's just blowing
his opportunity?

479
00:20:30,997 --> 00:20:32,498
No, I didn't mean it like that.

480
00:20:32,532 --> 00:20:34,343
Like, he goes to class, and
he handles his schoolwork,

481
00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:37,537
but he just–he just goes
missing sometimes is all.

482
00:20:37,570 --> 00:20:39,505
And that's not weird to you?

483
00:20:39,539 --> 00:20:42,609
I mean, your best friend just
vanishes into thin air like an X-Man.

484
00:20:42,642 --> 00:20:45,554
Tariq just has a lot more on his plate
than the average college student, okay?

485
00:20:45,578 --> 00:20:47,389
He's probably just going
to therapy or some shit.

486
00:20:47,413 --> 00:20:50,683
[chuckles] So you really don't
have any idea where he's going.

487
00:20:50,717 --> 00:20:52,986
Whatever he does with
his time is his business,

488
00:20:53,019 --> 00:20:55,455
and I respect his boundaries.

489
00:20:55,488 --> 00:20:57,633
Well, you should respect his
boundaries and cancel the party.

490
00:20:57,657 --> 00:20:59,292
I mean, he doesn't
want to celebrate it.

491
00:20:59,325 --> 00:21:00,869
Riley, you're really
being a buzzkill right now.

492
00:21:00,893 --> 00:21:02,395
Oh, what up, man?

493
00:21:02,428 --> 00:21:04,263
Yo, Zeke! You know
about this spot too?

494
00:21:04,297 --> 00:21:07,433
- These niggas don't even card me.
- Yeah, it's cause you look old as fuck.

495
00:21:07,467 --> 00:21:09,302
This my boo, Riley.

496
00:21:09,335 --> 00:21:11,738
- [Riley] Hey.
- Pleasure to meet you, love.

497
00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:14,040
Okay, so I'm throwing
a party for Tariq tonight,

498
00:21:14,273 --> 00:21:16,485
if you wanna roll through, you know,
bring some guys from the ball team

499
00:21:16,509 --> 00:21:17,677
and some thotties you know.

500
00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:19,979
Oh, I go to parties for
new thots, not my old ones.

501
00:21:20,013 --> 00:21:21,848
Why bring sand to the beach?

502
00:21:23,016 --> 00:21:25,652
If you wanna roll through,
you know, it'd help me out a lot.

503
00:21:25,685 --> 00:21:27,896
I need a little help. I need to
make this as fun as possible.

504
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:29,465
- [Zeke] I got you, man.
- [Brayden] Yeah?

505
00:21:29,489 --> 00:21:31,266
- Just need some girls there.
- I got you, man.

506
00:21:31,290 --> 00:21:33,459
- You sure, yeah? [Chuckles]
- Don't worry about it.

507
00:21:34,961 --> 00:21:36,629
[Brandon] Hmm.

508
00:21:36,663 --> 00:21:38,898
Look, brother...

509
00:21:38,931 --> 00:21:41,334
you know I ain't got
nothing but love for you.

510
00:21:41,367 --> 00:21:43,636
We started from
the bottom together.

511
00:21:43,670 --> 00:21:47,040
And once these white boys
messed up and let us in the door,

512
00:21:47,073 --> 00:21:49,475
we made a shit ton
of money together.

513
00:21:49,509 --> 00:21:53,713
But my clients are
more... mainstream now.

514
00:21:53,746 --> 00:21:55,081
That's great, okay?

515
00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:57,059
You're gonna have more access
to mainstream media platforms

516
00:21:57,083 --> 00:21:58,551
and other connections.

517
00:21:58,584 --> 00:21:59,719
Now, I was thinking–.

518
00:21:59,752 --> 00:22:01,421
L-listen, listen.

519
00:22:01,454 --> 00:22:03,523
You're right about
the connections.

520
00:22:03,556 --> 00:22:06,759
But they're letting me
rep white writers now.

521
00:22:06,793 --> 00:22:09,762
So, if I bring your
content to the higher-ups,

522
00:22:09,796 --> 00:22:11,998
it's gotta be twice as good.

523
00:22:12,031 --> 00:22:15,368
All right, we don't
get to fuck up like this.

524
00:22:15,401 --> 00:22:16,436
Understand?

525
00:22:18,471 --> 00:22:20,873
I assume you
didn't even read it.

526
00:22:20,907 --> 00:22:24,811
Let me guess, you had your assistant
skim over it for you, is that right?

527
00:22:24,844 --> 00:22:26,055
Perhaps if it was
like your first one,

528
00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:27,890
which felt more real,
rather than the second one.

529
00:22:27,914 --> 00:22:30,516
- It was misunderstand.
- Shit, it was a flop.

530
00:22:30,550 --> 00:22:33,062
Well, the royalties from my first book
should be more than enough money

531
00:22:33,086 --> 00:22:35,388
to buy you some more
fancy fucking suits.

532
00:22:37,457 --> 00:22:41,094
I simply came here to warn you
that if your next book doesn't sell,

533
00:22:41,127 --> 00:22:42,695
I'm gonna have to
let you go, brother.

534
00:22:42,729 --> 00:22:46,566
[scoffs] So it's
like that, brother?

535
00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:48,568
[door opens]

536
00:22:50,770 --> 00:22:52,772
[door closes]

537
00:22:54,407 --> 00:22:55,608
Excuse me.

538
00:23:00,113 --> 00:23:01,581
What are you doing here, Tariq?

539
00:23:01,614 --> 00:23:03,583
Your T.A. Melissa said
I could find you here.

540
00:23:03,616 --> 00:23:04,851
Do you have a second to speak?

541
00:23:04,884 --> 00:23:07,687
[sighs] Yeah.

542
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,589
Look, I'm sorry for my
disrespectful remarks

543
00:23:09,622 --> 00:23:10,890
and behavior earlier.

544
00:23:10,923 --> 00:23:13,426
I know the best apology
is changed behavior,

545
00:23:13,459 --> 00:23:16,162
so I won't be showing
up late to class anymore.

546
00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,798
I also got those 25
pages done for you.

547
00:23:21,801 --> 00:23:24,937
Accountability
breeds responsibility.

548
00:23:24,971 --> 00:23:26,839
I respect that.

549
00:23:26,873 --> 00:23:27,874
Thank you.

550
00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:36,082
[phone buzzes]

551
00:23:37,083 --> 00:23:39,085
Ma, how'd it go with Davis?

552
00:23:39,118 --> 00:23:41,120
Not that great, Tariq.

553
00:23:41,154 --> 00:23:44,023
<i>He says that we need
Tameika to testify,</i>

554
00:23:44,056 --> 00:23:47,493
that once she tells the
court how dirty Saxe is,

555
00:23:47,527 --> 00:23:48,861
<i>I could come home.</i>

556
00:23:48,895 --> 00:23:51,130
So we let her testify,

557
00:23:51,164 --> 00:23:55,701
and then I just take whatever–
whatever happens to me, right?

558
00:23:55,735 --> 00:23:57,637
No, no, Tariq, if–.

559
00:23:57,670 --> 00:23:59,071
<i>Ma, you don't understand.</i>

560
00:23:59,105 --> 00:24:01,474
If Tameika could help you come
home and I have to stand up,

561
00:24:01,507 --> 00:24:02,642
I'm gonna stand up.

562
00:24:02,675 --> 00:24:03,976
I'm ready, Ma.

563
00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:08,748
Tariq, I want you to
go talk to Tameika.

564
00:24:08,781 --> 00:24:10,850
Convince her not
to take the stand.

565
00:24:10,883 --> 00:24:12,685
<i>What if she won't listen to me?</i>

566
00:24:13,853 --> 00:24:15,087
[gate buzzes]

567
00:24:15,121 --> 00:24:16,789
Make her listen.

568
00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:19,926
[tense music]

569
00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:22,929
[knock at door]

570
00:24:22,962 --> 00:24:24,597
Tariq, what are you doing here?

571
00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:27,767
Can I talk to you? It's
about my mom's case.

572
00:24:28,534 --> 00:24:29,702
Come in.

573
00:24:36,943 --> 00:24:39,045
Can I get you
something to drink?

574
00:24:39,078 --> 00:24:41,147
This is a long subway
ride from Stansfield.

575
00:24:41,180 --> 00:24:43,182
Yeah, um, water would be fine.

576
00:24:43,216 --> 00:24:45,918
[gentle uneasy music]

577
00:24:45,952 --> 00:24:48,955
♪ ♪

578
00:25:03,903 --> 00:25:05,705
I'm fine, thank you.

579
00:25:07,807 --> 00:25:11,711
Miss Washington, I'm-I'm gonna
need you to not testify tomorrow.

580
00:25:11,744 --> 00:25:15,214
Tariq, I don't know if Davis
explained this part of the case to you,

581
00:25:15,248 --> 00:25:17,850
but my testimony will
help your mother's case.

582
00:25:17,884 --> 00:25:19,552
It might even help her go home.

583
00:25:19,585 --> 00:25:23,256
Yeah, she told me that, but I'm
afraid something else might happen too.

584
00:25:23,289 --> 00:25:24,690
[Tariq] We both are.

585
00:25:24,724 --> 00:25:26,659
What are you
afraid could happen?

586
00:25:28,895 --> 00:25:31,297
I have to tell you
something, Miss Washington,

587
00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:34,066
something I never
wanted to tell anyone.

588
00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:38,104
The night my father was
killed, I saw Mr. Saxe at Truth.

589
00:25:38,137 --> 00:25:41,140
- And you told him you saw him?
- I did.

590
00:25:41,173 --> 00:25:42,975
I thought I could make
him help my mother.

591
00:25:43,009 --> 00:25:45,311
I think we both know he tried.

592
00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:49,615
But if you take the stand tomorrow
and–and tell everyone that he was there,

593
00:25:49,649 --> 00:25:52,251
it could come out
that I saw him there.

594
00:25:52,285 --> 00:25:55,054
And then I'll have to say the
rest of the things I saw that night.

595
00:25:56,956 --> 00:25:59,191
I'll have to say Tommy
Egan killed my father.

596
00:25:59,225 --> 00:26:01,327
Your mother already
said that in court.

597
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,297
Yes, but she's in a woman's
jail. He can't get to her.

598
00:26:04,330 --> 00:26:06,832
I'm out here by
myself. I'm alone.

599
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,336
That makes sense, Tariq.

600
00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:12,838
But can you answer
something for me?

601
00:26:12,872 --> 00:26:16,776
Where exactly did you
see Cooper and when?

602
00:26:16,809 --> 00:26:19,645
Why does that matter? I
don't think he killed my father.

603
00:26:19,679 --> 00:26:21,013
I don't think he did either.

604
00:26:21,047 --> 00:26:23,349
♪ ♪

605
00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:24,684
[knock at door]

606
00:26:24,717 --> 00:26:27,753
[Davis] Tameika, I
need to talk to you.

607
00:26:27,787 --> 00:26:29,689
I'm gonna get rid
of him. Wait here.

608
00:26:31,290 --> 00:26:34,060
[Davis] Come on, I know you're
in there. Your car's out here.

609
00:26:34,093 --> 00:26:35,995
- [knocking]
- I know you're in there!

610
00:26:36,028 --> 00:26:37,697
Why does everyone
know my home address?

611
00:26:37,730 --> 00:26:38,965
Look, I need to talk to you

612
00:26:38,998 --> 00:26:40,967
about my client and
your testimony tomorrow.

613
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,268
This isn't a good time.

614
00:26:42,301 --> 00:26:44,337
Okay, you're my witness, right?

615
00:26:44,370 --> 00:26:46,739
And you testify in
the morning, correct?

616
00:26:46,772 --> 00:26:48,808
We don't have another
time. Tameika, let me in.

617
00:26:48,841 --> 00:26:50,176
This isn't a good time.

618
00:26:50,977 --> 00:26:52,878
[Davis] Who's in there with you?

619
00:26:52,912 --> 00:26:54,680
No one.

620
00:26:54,714 --> 00:26:56,882
You don't lie that
often, do you?

621
00:26:56,916 --> 00:26:58,818
You need practice.
Is Saxe in here?

622
00:26:58,851 --> 00:27:00,128
-Davis. Davis–
-No, is Saxe in here?

623
00:27:00,152 --> 00:27:01,687
I know y'all are up
to something, huh?

624
00:27:01,721 --> 00:27:03,665
What, is he trying to get you
to change your testimony?

625
00:27:03,689 --> 00:27:06,025
Saxe. Saxe!

626
00:27:06,058 --> 00:27:07,994
[sighs]

627
00:27:08,027 --> 00:27:09,695
Okay, no one's here.

628
00:27:09,729 --> 00:27:11,330
As I said.

629
00:27:11,364 --> 00:27:14,867
Look, I'm-I'm sorry,
but something fucked up

630
00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:17,403
is going on with my
case, Tameika, all right?

631
00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:19,805
Why doesn't Tasha
want you to testify?

632
00:27:19,839 --> 00:27:21,941
[sighs]

633
00:27:21,974 --> 00:27:24,243
Sit down, Davis.
We need to talk.

634
00:27:24,276 --> 00:27:26,345
Shit.

635
00:27:26,379 --> 00:27:28,247
[breathing heavily]

636
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,082
[tense music]

637
00:27:30,116 --> 00:27:31,917
[phone buzzes]

638
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,422
[phone chimes]

639
00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:42,395
<i>♪ She like the
way that I dance ♪</i>

640
00:27:42,428 --> 00:27:44,263
<i>♪ She like the way that I move ♪</i>

641
00:27:44,296 --> 00:27:46,165
<i>♪ She like the way that I rock ♪</i>

642
00:27:46,198 --> 00:27:47,933
<i>♪ She like the way that I woo ♪</i>

643
00:27:47,967 --> 00:27:49,207
<i>♪ She let it clap for a nigga ♪</i>

644
00:27:49,235 --> 00:27:52,238
[all] Surprise!

645
00:27:53,072 --> 00:27:54,707
Hey, 'Riq!

646
00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:55,841
Up to it, down to it...

647
00:27:55,875 --> 00:27:57,309
[both] Fuck those
who don't do it.

648
00:27:57,343 --> 00:27:59,278
Drink, motherfucker, drink.

649
00:27:59,311 --> 00:28:00,746
- Cheers.
- What the fuck?

650
00:28:00,780 --> 00:28:01,881
Bro, you serious?

651
00:28:01,914 --> 00:28:04,359
- That was my bad. That was my bad.
- Trace, sit the fuck down.

652
00:28:04,383 --> 00:28:07,053
- Sorry.
- Trace, sit down.

653
00:28:07,086 --> 00:28:08,387
Forgive my drunk-ass brother.

654
00:28:08,421 --> 00:28:10,890
There's a bathroom upstairs if
you wanna go wash yourself off.

655
00:28:10,923 --> 00:28:12,801
Bro, teach him how to
hold his liquor, all right?

656
00:28:12,825 --> 00:28:15,425
Next time that happens, he's
getting these hands, and I'm serious.

657
00:28:16,062 --> 00:28:17,797
He was about to kick
your brother's ass.

658
00:28:17,830 --> 00:28:18,907
Trace just doesn't
know his limit.

659
00:28:18,931 --> 00:28:21,767
If he asks you for any more
liquor or pills, just ignore him.

660
00:28:21,801 --> 00:28:22,835
He's done for the night.

661
00:28:22,868 --> 00:28:24,270
Tariq was overreacting.

662
00:28:24,303 --> 00:28:26,272
Why does he have to be so rude?

663
00:28:26,305 --> 00:28:27,873
Aren't his parents rich?

664
00:28:27,907 --> 00:28:29,909
Like, he doesn't have
to pretend to be a thug.

665
00:28:29,942 --> 00:28:31,453
Hey, what do his parents
even do for a living?

666
00:28:31,477 --> 00:28:34,413
That's enough. Why are
you so obsessed with him?

667
00:28:34,447 --> 00:28:37,116
I'm done answering
questions about Tariq.

668
00:28:37,149 --> 00:28:38,451
I'm gonna go check on him.

669
00:28:38,484 --> 00:28:41,253
Can you just fill
this up, please?

670
00:28:41,287 --> 00:28:43,022
Thank you.

671
00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:45,057
<i>♪ For all the times
we had to face time ♪</i>

672
00:28:45,091 --> 00:28:46,468
<i>♪ Free D-Nice, he
doin' state time ♪</i>

673
00:28:46,492 --> 00:28:48,270
<i>♪ If you need the glizzy,
You could take mine ♪</i>

674
00:28:48,294 --> 00:28:49,704
<i>♪ Please don't come
out your mouth ♪</i>

675
00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:52,064
<i>♪ You know I'm like that
I'll make a movie like TNT ♪</i>

676
00:28:52,098 --> 00:28:53,442
<i>♪ Glock-30 on me,
Ask who really want it ♪</i>

677
00:28:53,466 --> 00:28:55,101
<i>♪ I bet I air it like BNB ♪</i>

678
00:28:55,134 --> 00:28:56,936
<i>♪ Nappy Blue
wildin' in my section ♪</i>

679
00:28:56,969 --> 00:28:58,504
<i>♪ And I keep that
.38 for the weapon ♪</i>

680
00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,248
<i>♪ Remember when I came
home From corrections ♪</i>

681
00:29:00,272 --> 00:29:02,074
<i>♪ All the bad bitches
in my direction ♪</i>

682
00:29:02,108 --> 00:29:03,909
<i>♪ She like the
way that I dance ♪</i>

683
00:29:03,943 --> 00:29:05,811
<i>♪ She like the way that I move ♪</i>

684
00:29:05,845 --> 00:29:08,747
♪ ♪

685
00:29:13,152 --> 00:29:16,155
[phone buzzing]

686
00:29:18,324 --> 00:29:20,292
- Ma.
- [Tasha] <i>I talked to Davis.</i>

687
00:29:20,326 --> 00:29:22,161
She's still gonna testify.

688
00:29:22,194 --> 00:29:23,929
I let you down, Ma. I fucked up.

689
00:29:23,963 --> 00:29:26,298
<i>No, you didn't. You couldn't.</i>

690
00:29:26,332 --> 00:29:28,134
This is my fault.

691
00:29:30,436 --> 00:29:32,138
I put too much on you.

692
00:29:32,171 --> 00:29:33,806
She didn't believe me.

693
00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:36,275
<i>I wanted to do what
you told me to, but...</i>

694
00:29:36,308 --> 00:29:37,943
at least you're
getting out now, right?

695
00:29:37,977 --> 00:29:40,246
I got it from here.

696
00:29:40,279 --> 00:29:42,181
You go on ahead and be 18.

697
00:29:42,214 --> 00:29:43,782
Well, I could still
come visit you.

698
00:29:43,816 --> 00:29:45,985
No, Tariq.

699
00:29:46,018 --> 00:29:48,020
I want you to go have fun.

700
00:29:50,022 --> 00:29:51,357
Happy birthday, baby.

701
00:29:55,895 --> 00:29:58,164
[sighs]

702
00:29:58,197 --> 00:30:00,065
[uneasy music]

703
00:30:00,099 --> 00:30:03,102
[phone beeping]

704
00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:05,571
[line trills]

705
00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:08,807
♪ ♪

706
00:30:09,275 --> 00:30:12,378
Yes, I need to leave a
message for Davis MacLean.

707
00:30:13,879 --> 00:30:15,381
This is Tasha Green.

708
00:30:17,183 --> 00:30:19,585
Tell him–

709
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:22,922
tell him I don't want
my case to go to trial.

710
00:30:22,955 --> 00:30:24,089
Tell him...

711
00:30:24,123 --> 00:30:26,325
[woman] Lights
out in five minutes!

712
00:30:28,027 --> 00:30:29,895
I want to take a deal.

713
00:30:31,096 --> 00:30:32,464
[hip-hop music playing]

714
00:30:32,498 --> 00:30:35,134
- Yo, 'Riq!
- Yo.

715
00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:37,269
Happy birthday, bro.

716
00:30:37,303 --> 00:30:39,939
- Happy birthday, B-day boy.
- Appreciate it. Thank you, man.

717
00:30:39,972 --> 00:30:41,907
Where the fuck are you going?

718
00:30:41,941 --> 00:30:43,185
I gotta get outta here,
man. I got shit to do.

719
00:30:43,209 --> 00:30:44,610
No, this is your party, nigga.

720
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:47,580
Unless you got some pussy lined
up, why the fuck would you leave?

721
00:30:47,613 --> 00:30:48,847
[laughs]

722
00:30:48,881 --> 00:30:50,058
I guess I could
stay a little longer.

723
00:30:50,082 --> 00:30:52,117
I got you. Don't
even worry about it.

724
00:30:52,151 --> 00:30:53,219
What's up, girls?

725
00:30:53,252 --> 00:30:54,386
Ah, mm-mm.

726
00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:56,922
Y'all can go. Dismissed, bye.

727
00:30:56,956 --> 00:30:59,225
Come on with your
cock-blocking ass.

728
00:30:59,258 --> 00:31:01,293
Whatever. They was trash anyway.

729
00:31:01,327 --> 00:31:02,328
[Zeke] Ugh.

730
00:31:04,597 --> 00:31:06,565
- Hey, Tariq.
- What up?

731
00:31:06,599 --> 00:31:08,267
What you doing over
here? Monet send you?

732
00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:10,903
No, I came 'cause
it's your birthday.

733
00:31:10,936 --> 00:31:14,049
Why didn't you tell me about it earlier?
I would've got you a gift or something.

734
00:31:14,073 --> 00:31:15,941
I ain't too big on
birthdays, honestly.

735
00:31:15,975 --> 00:31:18,010
What type of nigga don't
celebrate their B-day?

736
00:31:18,043 --> 00:31:21,380
I mean, to each
his own, I guess.

737
00:31:21,413 --> 00:31:24,383
So you not gonna
offer me a drink?

738
00:31:24,416 --> 00:31:25,517
Help yourself.

739
00:31:25,551 --> 00:31:27,086
Fine.

740
00:31:27,119 --> 00:31:28,654
I'll make my own drink, Tariq.

741
00:31:28,887 --> 00:31:29,922
But come keep me company

742
00:31:29,955 --> 00:31:31,499
so Zeke's teammates
don't try to talk to me.

743
00:31:31,523 --> 00:31:34,159
Them thirsty-ass
niggas be all over me.

744
00:31:35,261 --> 00:31:37,630
Hey, yo, Ev. I didn't
know you was here.

745
00:31:37,663 --> 00:31:40,032
- What's up?
- What's up, my nigga?

746
00:31:40,065 --> 00:31:43,068
♪ ♪

747
00:31:44,303 --> 00:31:45,537
What's up, bro?

748
00:31:45,571 --> 00:31:48,574
♪ ♪

749
00:31:57,449 --> 00:31:58,450
[door closes]

750
00:32:00,486 --> 00:32:02,321
[footsteps approaching]

751
00:32:05,524 --> 00:32:07,192
[knocks lightly]

752
00:32:08,694 --> 00:32:11,263
What were you just doing?

753
00:32:13,565 --> 00:32:16,001
I was doing this...

754
00:32:17,002 --> 00:32:20,205
when I should be doing that.

755
00:32:25,577 --> 00:32:28,247
When did writing
become so hard, Carrie?

756
00:32:29,448 --> 00:32:32,651
You know my agent cried
the first time he read my book?

757
00:32:32,685 --> 00:32:34,953
I did too.

758
00:32:34,987 --> 00:32:37,990
[gentle music]

759
00:32:38,023 --> 00:32:41,060
- I should go.
- No.

760
00:32:41,093 --> 00:32:43,262
Just stay.

761
00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:46,498
- Maybe order some sushi.
- [sighs]

762
00:32:46,532 --> 00:32:49,735
From the place that
we love so much.

763
00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:52,471
That place that
actually cooks the fish.

764
00:32:52,504 --> 00:32:53,605
[chuckles]

765
00:32:53,639 --> 00:32:58,544
And then maybe we
could talk about my book.

766
00:32:58,577 --> 00:33:01,547
♪ ♪

767
00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:03,048
I have to go.

768
00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:06,085
[Jabari] Just–.

769
00:33:07,586 --> 00:33:10,222
Just write what's
in front of you.

770
00:33:11,323 --> 00:33:15,561
Your first book worked because
you didn't make anything up.

771
00:33:16,662 --> 00:33:17,663
You.

772
00:33:19,131 --> 00:33:21,567
You are in front of me.

773
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,168
Okay?

774
00:33:23,202 --> 00:33:26,004
You can't write about me.

775
00:33:26,038 --> 00:33:29,041
And you definitely
can't write about us.

776
00:33:30,376 --> 00:33:33,746
You keep pulling me back
in. I always give in to you.

777
00:33:33,779 --> 00:33:35,714
I'm not gonna fall for it again.

778
00:33:37,683 --> 00:33:40,219
You need to find another story.

779
00:33:47,626 --> 00:33:49,404
Yo, did you notice Dru
left and never came back?

780
00:33:49,428 --> 00:33:51,630
I didn't. I'm not his keeper.

781
00:33:51,663 --> 00:33:53,432
But when did he become
your concern, though?

782
00:33:53,465 --> 00:33:55,210
I'm just saying this
ain't the hood, all right?

783
00:33:55,234 --> 00:33:57,278
Cops will lock you up for
driving around Black out here.

784
00:33:57,302 --> 00:34:00,339
Detective Ramirez gave us
PBA cards for situations like that.

785
00:34:00,372 --> 00:34:01,373
We good.

786
00:34:01,407 --> 00:34:04,510
I'm saying, though, suppose
he went to go serve somebody.

787
00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:06,378
He ain't come back.
You do the math.

788
00:34:06,412 --> 00:34:08,647
Not even a PBA can save
you if you got product on you.

789
00:34:09,448 --> 00:34:10,716
A'ight.

790
00:34:10,749 --> 00:34:12,317
We should go find him, then.

791
00:34:17,322 --> 00:34:18,490
- Hi.
- What's up?

792
00:34:18,524 --> 00:34:19,691
- Got that for you.
- Thanks.

793
00:34:19,725 --> 00:34:22,127
Yeah. It's really good.

794
00:34:22,161 --> 00:34:24,129
- [Lauren] Hi.
- Hey, Lauren.

795
00:34:24,163 --> 00:34:25,397
What's up?

796
00:34:25,431 --> 00:34:26,741
[Diana] I don't know.
But you said you saw him.

797
00:34:26,765 --> 00:34:28,534
You said you saw him leave.

798
00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:31,203
I mean, I saw him walk out,
but I don't know where we went.

799
00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:32,805
'Riq.

800
00:34:32,838 --> 00:34:34,706
- What up?
- My advice worked.

801
00:34:34,740 --> 00:34:36,575
I didn't even invite her.

802
00:34:36,608 --> 00:34:38,277
Here, loosen up.

803
00:34:38,310 --> 00:34:40,512
You might get lucky tonight,
bro. She fucking wants you.

804
00:34:40,546 --> 00:34:42,481
- [laughs]
- Tariq.

805
00:34:42,514 --> 00:34:44,216
Hey, Tariq.

806
00:34:44,249 --> 00:34:45,451
What up?

807
00:34:45,484 --> 00:34:47,853
Who's your friend?

808
00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:49,721
Um, Lauren, this is Diana.

809
00:34:49,755 --> 00:34:52,124
She's Zeke's little cousin.

810
00:34:53,325 --> 00:34:54,693
Ziana.

811
00:34:54,726 --> 00:34:56,829
Nice to meet you, Lauren.

812
00:34:56,862 --> 00:34:58,730
She's actually
looking for her brother.

813
00:34:58,764 --> 00:35:02,401
Did you see Zeke out there talking
to anyone while you walked in or not?

814
00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:04,636
Nope, I haven't seen him.

815
00:35:07,406 --> 00:35:09,675
Hey, can we talk in
private for a second?

816
00:35:09,708 --> 00:35:11,510
- Yeah.
- [Tariq] Come on.

817
00:35:13,178 --> 00:35:16,181
[hip-hop music playing]

818
00:35:16,215 --> 00:35:19,184
♪ ♪

819
00:35:20,752 --> 00:35:23,755
[tense music]

820
00:35:23,789 --> 00:35:26,792
♪ ♪

821
00:35:27,426 --> 00:35:29,695
- If the feeling is mutual...
- [sighs]

822
00:35:30,896 --> 00:35:32,831
then you would show it.

823
00:35:32,865 --> 00:35:35,767
Look, I wish it was that simple,

824
00:35:35,801 --> 00:35:39,271
but basketball makes life a
bit more complicated for me.

825
00:35:39,304 --> 00:35:41,907
- Wow.
- Soon you'll understand.

826
00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:44,476
I understand, I understand
you a scary-ass motherfucker

827
00:35:44,510 --> 00:35:46,545
who's trying to pretend
to be something he's not.

828
00:35:48,247 --> 00:35:50,315
[knocking on window]

829
00:35:52,417 --> 00:35:54,186
Hey, what's up?
You must be Diana.

830
00:35:54,219 --> 00:35:56,188
I am. And who the fuck are you?

831
00:35:56,221 --> 00:35:57,699
- This is Everett.
- I'm just a fan of Dru's art.

832
00:35:57,723 --> 00:35:59,258
We got class together.

833
00:35:59,291 --> 00:36:00,492
He was drawing my tattoo.

834
00:36:00,526 --> 00:36:03,195
I promised I'd make him my
official tat man when I get to the NBA.

835
00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:05,531
My nigga, are you for real?

836
00:36:05,564 --> 00:36:06,899
Diana already knows the deal.

837
00:36:06,932 --> 00:36:08,776
You're the only person who
thinks it's a fucking secret.

838
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,703
You're on the same basketball
team as my cousin Zeke, right?

839
00:36:11,737 --> 00:36:12,804
Zeke's your cousin?

840
00:36:12,838 --> 00:36:14,306
Everett, don't worry.

841
00:36:14,339 --> 00:36:16,241
She's not gonna
tell him anything,

842
00:36:16,275 --> 00:36:17,709
and neither am I.

843
00:36:17,743 --> 00:36:20,546
[tense music]

844
00:36:20,579 --> 00:36:22,714
Ev. Ev!

845
00:36:22,748 --> 00:36:24,383
Ev!

846
00:36:24,416 --> 00:36:27,219
♪ ♪

847
00:36:30,522 --> 00:36:33,525
[indistinct chatter]

848
00:36:38,931 --> 00:36:41,233
Professor Milgram.

849
00:36:41,266 --> 00:36:43,235
Zeke. [Chuckles]

850
00:36:43,268 --> 00:36:44,770
How are you?

851
00:36:44,803 --> 00:36:46,605
I'm good.

852
00:36:46,638 --> 00:36:47,706
Can I sit?

853
00:36:48,874 --> 00:36:49,875
Sure.

854
00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:56,281
- I ain't know you wore glasses.
- [chuckles]

855
00:36:56,315 --> 00:36:58,517
Well, I usually don't.
They're just for reading.

856
00:36:58,550 --> 00:37:00,319
They look good on you.

857
00:37:01,453 --> 00:37:04,690
Um... so what are
you doing here?

858
00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:06,959
I mean, shouldn't
you be at a frat party?

859
00:37:06,992 --> 00:37:09,828
Actually, I just came from one.

860
00:37:09,861 --> 00:37:11,730
Not feeling it tonight, though.

861
00:37:11,763 --> 00:37:13,699
Thank you.

862
00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:14,933
What do you mean?

863
00:37:14,967 --> 00:37:16,768
You know, it's the
same girls at every party

864
00:37:16,802 --> 00:37:19,504
waiting for their chance to
say they messed with someone

865
00:37:19,538 --> 00:37:21,440
that's going to the league.

866
00:37:21,473 --> 00:37:22,841
Hmm.

867
00:37:22,874 --> 00:37:25,344
You never know
who trying to play you.

868
00:37:25,377 --> 00:37:27,746
You know, are they
interested in talking to me

869
00:37:27,779 --> 00:37:30,415
because they wanna know me?

870
00:37:30,449 --> 00:37:33,452
Or the idea of what
I could become?

871
00:37:35,654 --> 00:37:37,623
Oh, I must say, I'm surprised.

872
00:37:37,656 --> 00:37:39,458
[chuckles]

873
00:37:39,491 --> 00:37:41,760
Most–most of the
athletes I advise,

874
00:37:41,793 --> 00:37:44,429
they–they relish the attention.

875
00:37:44,463 --> 00:37:45,631
[both chuckle]

876
00:37:45,664 --> 00:37:47,666
I ain't gonna lie, in
high school, I did.

877
00:37:47,699 --> 00:37:50,302
I was all about
getting girls and clout.

878
00:37:50,335 --> 00:37:54,339
Now it's like there's a heat
lamp on me everywhere I go.

879
00:37:56,308 --> 00:37:57,676
I'm a walking lick.

880
00:37:57,709 --> 00:37:59,277
A what?

881
00:37:59,311 --> 00:38:00,679
Basically...

882
00:38:02,547 --> 00:38:05,517
I'm another individual's
opportunity to come up.

883
00:38:06,918 --> 00:38:08,353
Um...

884
00:38:09,588 --> 00:38:11,556
so what does your mom
say about all of this?

885
00:38:11,590 --> 00:38:13,959
Oh, we don't talk
about all that, yeah.

886
00:38:13,992 --> 00:38:16,862
I moved in with my aunt
when I was in high school,

887
00:38:16,895 --> 00:38:19,064
and I can't really talk to
her about it either, though.

888
00:38:19,297 --> 00:38:21,900
You know, she just
wants me to stay focused

889
00:38:21,933 --> 00:38:23,735
on getting to the NBA.

890
00:38:23,769 --> 00:38:26,038
No distractions.

891
00:38:26,071 --> 00:38:27,539
Your dad?

892
00:38:27,572 --> 00:38:29,341
He wasn't around.

893
00:38:29,374 --> 00:38:31,543
- I'm sorry.
- It's all good.

894
00:38:32,444 --> 00:38:34,012
Can't miss someone
you never met.

895
00:38:34,913 --> 00:38:37,683
You can still have
feelings about it, though.

896
00:38:37,716 --> 00:38:40,619
[phone buzzes]

897
00:38:40,652 --> 00:38:43,622
[uneasy music]

898
00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:46,658
♪ ♪

899
00:38:50,562 --> 00:38:52,731
Are you okay?

900
00:38:52,764 --> 00:38:55,000
Yeah, I'm fine.

901
00:38:55,033 --> 00:38:56,535
[laughs softly]

902
00:38:56,568 --> 00:38:57,669
You're a lightweight.

903
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:03,809
Nah, I really just don't drink.

904
00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:04,876
You know, growing up,

905
00:39:04,910 --> 00:39:07,713
I saw how it affected my father
and made him lose control,

906
00:39:07,746 --> 00:39:11,450
and I made a promise to
myself to never be like him.

907
00:39:12,884 --> 00:39:17,522
I used to drink lean, but I
don't do that anymore either.

908
00:39:17,556 --> 00:39:20,358
Why you look so pretty tonight?

909
00:39:20,392 --> 00:39:21,727
It's for my birthday?

910
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,628
[sighs softly]

911
00:39:23,662 --> 00:39:25,897
Yeah, and I shouldn't
even be here.

912
00:39:25,931 --> 00:39:27,599
What you mean?

913
00:39:27,632 --> 00:39:29,634
Why not?

914
00:39:29,668 --> 00:39:31,770
You most definitely
should be here.

915
00:39:33,472 --> 00:39:37,943
You know, you deserve way
better than that fuck boy Malcolm.

916
00:39:38,944 --> 00:39:40,879
You know I'm right.

917
00:39:40,912 --> 00:39:43,882
[gentle music]

918
00:39:43,915 --> 00:39:46,918
♪ ♪

919
00:39:48,019 --> 00:39:49,821
Whoa. What's the matter?

920
00:39:49,855 --> 00:39:51,857
You're drunk,

921
00:39:51,890 --> 00:39:54,392
and I don't want
it to be like this.

922
00:39:54,426 --> 00:39:56,862
Uh-uh, no, I'm fine.

923
00:39:56,895 --> 00:39:59,631
[breathing heavily]

924
00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:03,135
[Lauren] You okay?

925
00:40:06,705 --> 00:40:08,440
Tariq?

926
00:40:08,473 --> 00:40:10,175
Tariq!

927
00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:12,978
[muffled hip-hop music playing]

928
00:40:13,011 --> 00:40:15,881
[sighs]

929
00:40:19,151 --> 00:40:22,154
♪ ♪

930
00:40:24,189 --> 00:40:26,992
[indistinct chatter]

931
00:40:27,025 --> 00:40:29,995
[suspenseful music]

932
00:40:30,028 --> 00:40:32,998
♪ ♪

933
00:40:43,508 --> 00:40:45,544
- [Tariq] Yo, yo.
- [Riley] Oh, hey.

934
00:40:46,178 --> 00:40:47,212
Are you okay?

935
00:40:47,445 --> 00:40:49,447
Hell, do you need somewhere
to live or something?

936
00:40:49,481 --> 00:40:53,718
Like, fuck, you're always here
just bugging the shit outta me.

937
00:40:53,752 --> 00:40:55,196
Did you run away from
home or some shit?

938
00:40:55,220 --> 00:40:56,655
Damn.

939
00:40:56,688 --> 00:40:59,691
♪ ♪

940
00:41:09,067 --> 00:41:12,671
[hip-hop music playing]

941
00:41:12,704 --> 00:41:15,707
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho. What's going on?

942
00:41:15,740 --> 00:41:17,509
Why were you in my room?

943
00:41:17,542 --> 00:41:19,678
Um, Tariq's passed
out on your bed.

944
00:41:19,711 --> 00:41:22,581
Oh, shit. You put
it on him that hard?

945
00:41:22,614 --> 00:41:25,717
No wonder my brother can't
stay off you for five minutes.

946
00:41:25,750 --> 00:41:27,853
Excuse me. I was
just checking on him.

947
00:41:27,886 --> 00:41:30,856
Why don't you check
on this? [Chuckles]

948
00:41:30,889 --> 00:41:32,824
Ain't no fun unless
the bros get some.

949
00:41:32,858 --> 00:41:35,160
You know you're
a total cliché, right?

950
00:41:35,193 --> 00:41:37,729
Gross.

951
00:41:37,762 --> 00:41:38,997
Oh.

952
00:41:39,030 --> 00:41:40,899
Wakey-wakey, kid!

953
00:41:40,932 --> 00:41:45,203
Come on, get the fuck
outta my room, dude.

954
00:41:45,237 --> 00:41:47,873
- [Tariq groans]
- First you fuck my brother's girl.

955
00:41:47,906 --> 00:41:49,574
Now you're gonna
sleep in my bed?

956
00:41:49,608 --> 00:41:51,109
Nah, get the fuck out.

957
00:41:51,142 --> 00:41:53,812
- Fuck you, man.
- Yeah, happy birthday, bitch.

958
00:41:53,845 --> 00:41:55,881
- [mumbles indistinctly]
- [door closes]

959
00:41:55,914 --> 00:41:58,884
[hip-hop music playing]

960
00:41:58,917 --> 00:42:01,219
♪ ♪

961
00:42:01,253 --> 00:42:04,155
I should be getting home.
It's later than I thought.

962
00:42:04,189 --> 00:42:06,157
[phone buzzes]

963
00:42:06,191 --> 00:42:08,927
[BASECAMP'S "In Stone" playing]

964
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,062
♪ ♪

965
00:42:11,096 --> 00:42:14,532
<i>♪ It was bound to
happen all along ♪</i>

966
00:42:14,566 --> 00:42:16,768
♪ ♪

967
00:42:16,801 --> 00:42:20,071
<i>♪ Cast in iron,
carved in stone ♪</i>

968
00:42:20,105 --> 00:42:23,108
♪ ♪

969
00:42:27,679 --> 00:42:29,781
I shouldn't be doing this.

970
00:42:31,182 --> 00:42:35,720
<i>♪ No changing
course and no control ♪</i>

971
00:42:35,754 --> 00:42:38,823
<i>♪ This was set in
motion by the unknown ♪</i>

972
00:42:38,857 --> 00:42:41,927
♪ ♪

973
00:42:42,928 --> 00:42:46,932
<i>♪ The unseen hand
the door that waited ♪</i>

974
00:42:46,965 --> 00:42:50,268
<i>♪ As the daylight faded out ♪</i>

975
00:42:50,302 --> 00:42:53,204
♪ ♪

976
00:42:53,238 --> 00:42:57,609
<i>♪ I was tied to your feet
Stuck to your words ♪</i>

977
00:42:57,642 --> 00:43:00,145
♪ ♪

978
00:43:00,178 --> 00:43:03,281
<i>♪ Beyond the shadow
Of a shadow of a doubt ♪</i>

979
00:43:03,315 --> 00:43:06,151
<i>♪ Once the sun came out ♪</i>

980
00:43:11,957 --> 00:43:15,927
<i>♪ It was cast in iron,
carved in stone ♪</i>

981
00:43:17,696 --> 00:43:22,600
<i>♪ It was bound to
happen all along ♪</i>

982
00:43:22,634 --> 00:43:25,603
♪ ♪

983
00:43:25,637 --> 00:43:27,639
[hip-hop music playing]

984
00:43:27,672 --> 00:43:30,642
[overlapping chatter]

985
00:43:30,675 --> 00:43:32,877
♪ ♪

986
00:43:32,911 --> 00:43:33,912
Hey, are you all right?

987
00:43:33,945 --> 00:43:35,747
- Get the fuck off me!
- What the fuck?

988
00:43:35,780 --> 00:43:38,159
- Chill out. I'm trying to help you.
- Don't tell me to chill, all right?

989
00:43:38,183 --> 00:43:39,818
I told you I didn't
want no party, man.

990
00:43:39,851 --> 00:43:41,286
Get the fuck outta my face.

991
00:43:41,319 --> 00:43:43,822
♪ ♪

992
00:43:46,257 --> 00:43:48,326
What are you doing
out here by yourself?

993
00:43:49,694 --> 00:43:51,329
Minding my business.

994
00:43:53,832 --> 00:43:56,334
[tense music]

995
00:43:56,368 --> 00:43:58,870
♪ ♪

996
00:44:00,138 --> 00:44:01,639
What's your problem?

997
00:44:01,673 --> 00:44:02,841
I'm good.

998
00:44:02,874 --> 00:44:05,110
I just wanna be
left alone, all right?

999
00:44:06,878 --> 00:44:08,179
I respect that.

1000
00:44:11,216 --> 00:44:13,184
See you later, all right?

1001
00:44:13,218 --> 00:44:14,686
- All right.
- Later.

1002
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,722
♪ ♪

1003
00:44:23,395 --> 00:44:25,096
[Tariq] <i>"Sacrificing
your greatest treasure</i>

1004
00:44:25,130 --> 00:44:27,098
<i>"without thinking
about the consequences</i>

1005
00:44:27,132 --> 00:44:29,367
<i>"and focusing instead on
making another person happy</i>

1006
00:44:29,401 --> 00:44:31,703
<i>"may not make sense
to the average person,</i>

1007
00:44:31,736 --> 00:44:34,973
<i>"but I believe sacrifice for the
people we love is part of life.</i>

1008
00:44:35,006 --> 00:44:36,374
<i>"It's supposed to be.</i>

1009
00:44:36,408 --> 00:44:39,978
<i>"It's not something to regret. It's
something to which we should aspire.</i>

1010
00:44:40,011 --> 00:44:42,080
<i>"Sometimes it's the
only thing to be proud of,</i>

1011
00:44:42,113 --> 00:44:44,816
<i>the only thing
we've done right."</i>

1012
00:44:44,849 --> 00:44:47,852
♪ ♪

1013
00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:55,693
[sighs]

1014
00:45:05,270 --> 00:45:08,406
[Jabari] <i>"Sacrificing
your greatest treasure</i>

1015
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,109
<i>without thinking about
the consequences"...</i>

1016
00:45:12,944 --> 00:45:15,947
♪ ♪

1017
00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,354
[clears throat]

1018
00:45:23,388 --> 00:45:26,224
[Jabari] <i>"And focusing
instead on making another"–</i>

1019
00:45:27,425 --> 00:45:29,494
[phone buzzes]

1020
00:45:29,727 --> 00:45:31,429
Riley, you okay?

1021
00:45:31,463 --> 00:45:33,231
Uncle Nancy, I fucked up.

1022
00:45:33,264 --> 00:45:36,334
I was asking Brayden a bunch of
questions about Tariq like you told me to.

1023
00:45:36,367 --> 00:45:38,269
Oh, my God, I love
you, but you don't listen.

1024
00:45:38,303 --> 00:45:40,505
I said observe and report.

1025
00:45:40,738 --> 00:45:42,373
I didn't tell you
to ask anything.

1026
00:45:42,407 --> 00:45:44,476
You were asking
for more information.

1027
00:45:45,810 --> 00:45:47,745
And Brayden was clamming up,

1028
00:45:47,779 --> 00:45:52,050
so I thought that maybe if
I gave him some Zolpidem,

1029
00:45:52,083 --> 00:45:53,885
<i>then he'd tell me
some more information.</i>

1030
00:45:53,918 --> 00:45:55,420
What, you drugged him?

1031
00:45:55,453 --> 00:45:57,856
I didn't drug him.

1032
00:45:57,889 --> 00:45:59,324
I drugged Tariq.

1033
00:45:59,357 --> 00:46:00,758
God, Riley!

1034
00:46:00,792 --> 00:46:03,094
No, no, no. That's bad, bad.

1035
00:46:03,128 --> 00:46:06,297
And now he's, like, wandering
around drugged, Uncle Nancy,

1036
00:46:06,331 --> 00:46:07,499
and it's, like, all my fault,

1037
00:46:07,532 --> 00:46:09,167
<i>and he left campus.</i>

1038
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,136
Wh–how do you know?

1039
00:46:11,169 --> 00:46:14,139
Well, I might've, while he was
passed out, made it so that his cell

1040
00:46:14,172 --> 00:46:16,007
can share location
with my phone.

1041
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:17,275
<i>I can track him in real time.</i>

1042
00:46:17,308 --> 00:46:21,112
You–you've violated his civil
rights, like, 18 different ways, Riley.

1043
00:46:21,146 --> 00:46:23,481
If anyone finds
out, I'll be arrested.

1044
00:46:23,515 --> 00:46:25,250
<i>- I'll deserve it.</i>
- I was trying to help.

1045
00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:28,186
Just–where is he now?

1046
00:46:28,219 --> 00:46:30,889
[tense music]

1047
00:46:30,922 --> 00:46:32,790
♪ ♪

1048
00:46:32,824 --> 00:46:34,058
Raina.

1049
00:46:34,092 --> 00:46:36,094
[breathing shakily]

1050
00:46:40,031 --> 00:46:41,533
Happy birthday to us.

1051
00:46:42,901 --> 00:46:45,870
[somber music]

1052
00:46:45,904 --> 00:46:48,540
I thought...

1053
00:46:48,573 --> 00:46:52,577
killing Ray Ray would
make me feel better.

1054
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,415
But, Raina, I'm still hurting.

1055
00:46:58,883 --> 00:47:01,519
I'm still hurting 'cause
I can't bring you back.

1056
00:47:01,553 --> 00:47:04,556
♪ ♪

1057
00:47:06,224 --> 00:47:08,493
That should've been me.

1058
00:47:08,526 --> 00:47:10,528
It should've been me.

1059
00:47:14,065 --> 00:47:17,902
No, you should be here,
celebrating your birthday.

1060
00:47:22,473 --> 00:47:26,611
Look, I won't let anything
happen to Ma or Yas now, okay?

1061
00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:29,180
I got them, I promise you.

1062
00:47:31,883 --> 00:47:34,552
Just save a spot up there
for me, all right, big head?

1063
00:47:38,923 --> 00:47:41,926
♪ ♪

1064
00:47:51,636 --> 00:47:53,438
You lied to everyone...

1065
00:47:55,073 --> 00:47:57,108
and asked for the truth.

1066
00:48:00,912 --> 00:48:03,581
That's something you've
never given anyone.

1067
00:48:06,384 --> 00:48:08,620
Ma's in jail because of you.

1068
00:48:10,088 --> 00:48:13,458
She's in jail 'cause she took
the weight that you never would.

1069
00:48:16,027 --> 00:48:18,162
You were in the way.

1070
00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:24,302
And I had to.

1071
00:48:25,336 --> 00:48:26,971
I had to do it.

1072
00:48:31,376 --> 00:48:33,611
You're the only one
who understands.

1073
00:48:33,645 --> 00:48:36,648
♪ ♪

1074
00:48:43,254 --> 00:48:45,223
[Tariq] I did what
you would've done.

1075
00:48:45,256 --> 00:48:48,259
♪ ♪

1076
00:49:01,205 --> 00:49:02,707
[sighs]

1077
00:49:08,713 --> 00:49:10,615
Raina.

1078
00:49:10,648 --> 00:49:12,650
[toilet flushes]

1079
00:49:16,454 --> 00:49:19,724
Fuck, bro, you got some shit
you wanna get off your chest?

1080
00:49:19,957 --> 00:49:22,026
Yeah, bro. You owe
me a fucking apology.

1081
00:49:22,060 --> 00:49:23,995
For what?

1082
00:49:24,028 --> 00:49:25,229
"For what?"

1083
00:49:25,263 --> 00:49:28,066
Bro, you had no idea what I went
through to put that party together.

1084
00:49:28,099 --> 00:49:29,334
And I tried to get you laid.

1085
00:49:29,367 --> 00:49:32,036
I wasn't in the right
state of mind, bro.

1086
00:49:32,070 --> 00:49:33,604
That drink you gave
me fucked me up.

1087
00:49:33,638 --> 00:49:36,574
And I tried to find you,
and you disappeared, okay?

1088
00:49:36,607 --> 00:49:38,609
You're ungrateful
for everything I do.

1089
00:49:38,643 --> 00:49:40,054
The app wouldn't
be shit without me,

1090
00:49:40,078 --> 00:49:42,246
and you don't even give
me that fucking respect.

1091
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:43,624
Yo, is this Riley or
you talking right now?

1092
00:49:43,648 --> 00:49:45,149
Okay, fuck you, bro.

1093
00:49:45,183 --> 00:49:46,584
Don't try and
make this about her.

1094
00:49:46,617 --> 00:49:49,654
This is about you treating
me like we're not fucking boys.

1095
00:49:49,687 --> 00:49:52,423
You're always hiding shit
from me and disappearing.

1096
00:49:52,457 --> 00:49:55,360
I mean, that's super fucking
sus, bro, and you know that shit.

1097
00:49:55,393 --> 00:49:56,394
Listen...

1098
00:49:57,495 --> 00:50:00,031
it's better off you don't
know what the fuck I'm into.

1099
00:50:00,064 --> 00:50:01,208
If the cops come and grab me up,

1100
00:50:01,232 --> 00:50:02,743
you're gonna be the first
person they interrogate.

1101
00:50:02,767 --> 00:50:05,045
Okay, and how the fuck am I
supposed to know what to say to them

1102
00:50:05,069 --> 00:50:08,172
if I don't know why the fuck
I'm being interrogated, Tariq?

1103
00:50:08,206 --> 00:50:10,375
You gotta let me know
if I'm in harm's way.

1104
00:50:10,408 --> 00:50:12,410
[sighs]

1105
00:50:14,145 --> 00:50:15,580
All right, listen...

1106
00:50:17,148 --> 00:50:19,150
you're right, bro.

1107
00:50:19,183 --> 00:50:22,787
You're right. My bad, okay?

1108
00:50:23,020 --> 00:50:26,057
From now on, I'ma
keep it a buck with you.

1109
00:50:26,090 --> 00:50:29,227
Only thing you need to know is
that there's this family from Queens,

1110
00:50:29,260 --> 00:50:30,261
and they're running shit.

1111
00:50:30,294 --> 00:50:31,462
What family?

1112
00:50:33,097 --> 00:50:35,233
It's Monet and Lorenzo.

1113
00:50:35,266 --> 00:50:37,335
They're the parents
and the plugs.

1114
00:50:37,368 --> 00:50:39,537
Even got their kids
in this business.

1115
00:50:39,570 --> 00:50:43,207
Dru, Cane, and Diana.

1116
00:50:44,475 --> 00:50:45,676
Dru.

1117
00:50:45,710 --> 00:50:48,212
Is that Zeke's cousin
who I met here?

1118
00:50:48,246 --> 00:50:49,414
Yes.

1119
00:50:49,447 --> 00:50:52,159
But Zeke, he don't know about this
shit, and it needs to stay that way.

1120
00:50:52,183 --> 00:50:53,284
[Brayden] All right.

1121
00:50:53,317 --> 00:50:56,387
Cane is the nigga you need to
worry about. He's the shooter.

1122
00:50:56,421 --> 00:50:57,622
All right, look...

1123
00:50:59,457 --> 00:51:01,526
Lorenzo's the king.

1124
00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:03,394
Monet's the queen.

1125
00:51:03,428 --> 00:51:04,796
Cane is the rook.

1126
00:51:06,130 --> 00:51:09,434
Dru is the knight.
Diana's the bishop.

1127
00:51:09,467 --> 00:51:11,369
Now, if you can't reach
me for whatever reason

1128
00:51:11,402 --> 00:51:15,173
and one of them come here asking
about me, you knock over the right piece.

1129
00:51:15,206 --> 00:51:18,252
Now, if it's an emergency, you knock
over every piece on the board, all right?

1130
00:51:18,276 --> 00:51:20,578
It's like we got our own
Bat Signal or something.

1131
00:51:20,611 --> 00:51:22,814
Yep, and you Robin.

1132
00:51:22,847 --> 00:51:24,816
Fuck you, bro. Robin's cool.

1133
00:51:28,553 --> 00:51:31,556
[sighs]

1134
00:51:31,589 --> 00:51:32,633
And then Dru said something

1135
00:51:32,657 --> 00:51:35,126
about him and Everett
taking a art class together.

1136
00:51:35,159 --> 00:51:37,738
Well, Stevie Wonder could see
that Dru got a nigga up at that school.

1137
00:51:37,762 --> 00:51:39,831
The boy never wants
to leave the place.

1138
00:51:39,864 --> 00:51:42,266
But that's not what I
sent you up there for.

1139
00:51:42,300 --> 00:51:44,202
What did you find
out about Tariq?

1140
00:51:44,235 --> 00:51:45,837
Ma, he wouldn't talk to me.

1141
00:51:45,870 --> 00:51:47,271
I tried.

1142
00:51:47,305 --> 00:51:49,307
[huffs] You played
him too close.

1143
00:51:49,340 --> 00:51:51,509
You let your emotions
cost us the advantage.

1144
00:51:51,542 --> 00:51:53,678
But, Ma, I tried it your
way, and it didn't work.

1145
00:51:53,711 --> 00:51:57,248
That nigga shitted on
me, but I got the last laugh.

1146
00:51:57,281 --> 00:51:58,583
He had a piece.

1147
00:51:58,616 --> 00:52:00,485
Oh, my God.

1148
00:52:00,518 --> 00:52:02,320
Of course he was carrying a gun.

1149
00:52:02,353 --> 00:52:03,654
He's gonna notice it's missing,

1150
00:52:03,688 --> 00:52:05,823
and guess who he's
gonna come looking for.

1151
00:52:05,857 --> 00:52:07,525
You just created a problem.

1152
00:52:07,558 --> 00:52:10,862
You need to smarten up, or you
will never survive out here without me.

1153
00:52:10,895 --> 00:52:12,730
Now go to your room.

1154
00:52:12,763 --> 00:52:15,199
Go! Get outta my face.

1155
00:52:15,233 --> 00:52:18,202
[tense music]

1156
00:52:18,236 --> 00:52:21,239
♪ ♪

1157
00:52:46,764 --> 00:52:49,500
[door closes]

1158
00:53:01,679 --> 00:53:03,247
He's clean.

1159
00:53:06,317 --> 00:53:08,719
Why did you lie to
me to protect Dru?

1160
00:53:08,753 --> 00:53:11,255
Never act before you
know the lay of the land.

1161
00:53:11,289 --> 00:53:12,566
And also, I ain't
touch your daughter,

1162
00:53:12,590 --> 00:53:14,659
even though you sent
her up to find shit about me.

1163
00:53:16,627 --> 00:53:18,763
Which one of my children
can I trust the most?

1164
00:53:20,331 --> 00:53:21,399
Me.

1165
00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:24,969
My nigga.

1166
00:53:25,836 --> 00:53:29,840
Yo, I don't know what you think you
doing running around here ass naked.

1167
00:53:29,874 --> 00:53:30,951
Cane, give him your burner.

1168
00:53:30,975 --> 00:53:32,777
What? Fuck no.

1169
00:53:32,810 --> 00:53:35,546
Boy, don't make me repeat
myself. I said what I said.

1170
00:53:35,580 --> 00:53:38,341
The little nigga probably don't even
know how to use the motherfucker.

1171
00:53:48,459 --> 00:53:50,461
- Thanks, Cane.
- Yeah, fuck you.

1172
00:53:52,296 --> 00:53:53,831
Happy birthday, Tariq.

1173
00:53:53,864 --> 00:53:56,400
You always have a
home here with us.

1174
00:53:56,434 --> 00:53:57,468
Come on.

1175
00:54:02,807 --> 00:54:03,808
[door closes]

1176
00:54:05,977 --> 00:54:07,912
I stopped Tameika
from testifying.

1177
00:54:07,945 --> 00:54:09,680
I was hoping for a thank-you.

1178
00:54:09,714 --> 00:54:11,582
[scoffs]

1179
00:54:11,616 --> 00:54:13,451
What's the play here, Davis?

1180
00:54:13,484 --> 00:54:15,319
Are you backing off the recusal?

1181
00:54:15,353 --> 00:54:18,823
No, I think I got a better play.

1182
00:54:18,856 --> 00:54:22,960
Tameika told me you were seen at Truth
the night of James St. Patrick's murder.

1183
00:54:22,994 --> 00:54:24,996
Yeah, imagine.

1184
00:54:25,029 --> 00:54:28,599
The sitting U.S. Attorney of
the Eastern District of New York

1185
00:54:28,633 --> 00:54:30,468
lying to the NYPD,

1186
00:54:30,501 --> 00:54:32,637
plus filing a false report.

1187
00:54:32,670 --> 00:54:33,938
And for what?

1188
00:54:33,971 --> 00:54:36,641
To hide that you're
witness to this murder?

1189
00:54:36,674 --> 00:54:37,675
Or worse?

1190
00:54:38,843 --> 00:54:42,680
Drop the charges against my
client, and this all goes away.

1191
00:54:42,713 --> 00:54:43,848
Hmm.

1192
00:54:43,881 --> 00:54:45,650
You know, that's,
uh–that's funny

1193
00:54:45,683 --> 00:54:49,420
because your client doesn't
want me to drop the charges.

1194
00:54:49,453 --> 00:54:51,722
She wants to take a plea.

1195
00:54:51,756 --> 00:54:53,324
How do you know that?

1196
00:54:53,357 --> 00:54:55,526
Guards overheard her
making a phone call last night,

1197
00:54:55,559 --> 00:54:58,562
and, uh, I know why.

1198
00:54:58,596 --> 00:54:59,964
[phone beeps]

1199
00:54:59,997 --> 00:55:03,501
[Tariq] <i>Ma's in jail
because of you.</i>

1200
00:55:03,534 --> 00:55:06,871
<i>She's in jail 'cause she took
the weight that you never would.</i>

1201
00:55:07,705 --> 00:55:09,040
<i>You were in the way.</i>

1202
00:55:09,073 --> 00:55:11,842
♪ ♪

1203
00:55:11,876 --> 00:55:14,311
<i>And I had to.</i>

1204
00:55:14,345 --> 00:55:15,880
<i>I had to do it.</i>

1205
00:55:17,381 --> 00:55:20,718
<i>- I did what you would have done.</i>
- [beeps]

1206
00:55:21,952 --> 00:55:26,457
Tariq... shot his father.

1207
00:55:26,490 --> 00:55:28,025
Not Tommy Egan.

1208
00:55:28,059 --> 00:55:29,660
Tasha lied to protect him,

1209
00:55:29,694 --> 00:55:33,764
which is why she now wants to
take a plea to make this all go away.

1210
00:55:33,798 --> 00:55:35,733
She's afraid the
truth will come out.

1211
00:55:36,901 --> 00:55:39,403
That shit's
inadmissible as fuck.

1212
00:55:39,437 --> 00:55:41,038
True.

1213
00:55:41,072 --> 00:55:44,041
But now that I know
what to look for, I'll find it.

1214
00:55:44,075 --> 00:55:45,509
[Davis] You'll
never get this in,

1215
00:55:45,543 --> 00:55:49,914
and I can still call Tameika as a witness
and prove you've got your own agenda.

1216
00:55:49,947 --> 00:55:52,717
So we're at an impasse.

1217
00:55:52,750 --> 00:55:54,618
Or an opportunity.

1218
00:55:55,820 --> 00:55:56,821
What do we both want?

1219
00:55:56,854 --> 00:55:59,657
Or rather, what's in
the interest of justice?

1220
00:55:59,690 --> 00:56:02,460
Tasha's not the queenpin.

1221
00:56:02,493 --> 00:56:04,361
She's not.

1222
00:56:04,395 --> 00:56:06,964
And you didn't kill
James St. Patrick.

1223
00:56:06,997 --> 00:56:09,366
I did not.

1224
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,937
So, if I back off the
recusal and we go to trial...

1225
00:56:15,106 --> 00:56:17,074
we work together.

1226
00:56:17,108 --> 00:56:21,112
I get Tariq to take the stand,
and on cross, you do your job.

1227
00:56:21,145 --> 00:56:24,715
So Tasha goes home.

1228
00:56:24,749 --> 00:56:27,618
And the real
killer goes to jail.

1229
00:56:31,655 --> 00:56:35,493
She won't be happy when
her son is convicted of murder.

1230
00:56:35,526 --> 00:56:37,895
He'll be tried as an adult
now. He might get the needle.

1231
00:56:37,928 --> 00:56:39,897
He's not my
client. I don't care.

1232
00:56:39,930 --> 00:56:42,900
When Tasha's acquitted,
I'm in the win column.

1233
00:56:42,933 --> 00:56:44,935
[scoffs]

1234
00:56:51,609 --> 00:56:53,544
Is it a deal?

1235
00:56:58,549 --> 00:57:00,484
In the interest of justice...

1236
00:57:02,486 --> 00:57:03,721
it's a deal.

1237
00:57:04,822 --> 00:57:07,158
Tariq St. Patrick's
going to jail.

1238
00:57:07,191 --> 00:57:09,460
[tense music]

1239
00:57:09,493 --> 00:57:11,495
[hip-hop music]

1240
00:57:11,529 --> 00:57:13,764
<i>♪ I've been waiting On
betrayal from the jump ♪</i>

1241
00:57:13,798 --> 00:57:15,800
<i>♪ I could tell, doing
dirt, put in work ♪</i>

1242
00:57:15,833 --> 00:57:17,568
<i>♪ I hope you all doing well ♪</i>

1243
00:57:17,601 --> 00:57:18,836
<i>♪ You ain't ♪</i>

1244
00:57:18,869 --> 00:57:20,104
<i>♪ My dawg ♪</i>

1245
00:57:20,137 --> 00:57:21,672
<i>♪ No way ♪</i>

1246
00:57:21,705 --> 00:57:22,807
<i>♪ Take off ♪</i>

1247
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,509
<i>♪ I'm the number-one pick
Throw the rock, Mike Vick ♪</i>

1248
00:57:25,543 --> 00:57:26,977
<i>♪ They dipped out of town ♪</i>

1249
00:57:27,011 --> 00:57:28,612
<i>♪ They're not
nowhere to be found ♪</i>

1250
00:57:28,646 --> 00:57:30,047
<i>♪ You ain't ♪</i>

1251
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:31,582
<i>♪ My dawg ♪</i>

1252
00:57:31,615 --> 00:57:32,683
<i>♪ No way ♪</i>

1253
00:57:32,716 --> 00:57:34,451
<i>♪ Take off ♪</i>

1254
00:57:34,485 --> 00:57:36,887
<i>♪ I done got into the place
Like everything had changed ♪</i>

1255
00:57:36,921 --> 00:57:38,281
<i>♪ All the feelings
that you felt ♪</i>

1256
00:57:38,455 --> 00:57:40,024
<i>♪ Never showed
through the vein ♪</i>

1257
00:57:40,057 --> 00:57:42,760
<i>♪ Can't gain, switch lanes
And put our past in the flame ♪</i>

1258
00:57:42,793 --> 00:57:45,596
<i>♪ I done made so
much you cannot obtain ♪</i>

1259
00:57:45,629 --> 00:57:47,998
<i>♪ I miss the older vision
Loyal and order driven ♪</i>

1260
00:57:48,032 --> 00:57:49,633
<i>♪ My money moves you, brother ♪</i>

1261
00:57:49,667 --> 00:57:51,101
<i>♪ But you make
your own decision ♪</i>

1262
00:57:51,135 --> 00:57:53,838
<i>♪ Not to feel the tension
And not to mention ♪</i>

1263
00:57:53,871 --> 00:57:56,240
<i>♪ You've been mentioning
my name already ♪</i>

1264
00:57:56,473 --> 00:57:58,709
<i>♪ I've been waiting On
betrayal from the jump ♪</i>

1265
00:57:58,742 --> 00:58:00,744
<i>♪ I could tell, doing
dirt, put in work ♪</i>

1266
00:58:00,778 --> 00:58:02,513
<i>♪ I hope you all doing well ♪</i>

1267
00:58:02,546 --> 00:58:03,781
<i>♪ You ain't ♪</i>

1268
00:58:03,814 --> 00:58:05,049
<i>♪ My dawg ♪</i>

1269
00:58:05,082 --> 00:58:06,550
<i>♪ No way ♪</i>

1270
00:58:06,584 --> 00:58:08,085
<i>♪ Take off ♪</i>

1271
00:58:08,118 --> 00:58:10,855
<i>♪ I'm the number-one pick
Throw the rock, Mike Vick ♪</i>

1272
00:58:10,888 --> 00:58:12,189
<i>♪ They dipped out of town ♪</i>

1273
00:58:12,223 --> 00:58:13,824
<i>♪ They're not
nowhere to be found ♪</i>

1274
00:58:13,858 --> 00:58:15,226
<i>♪ You ain't ♪</i>

1275
00:58:15,259 --> 00:58:16,594
<i>♪ My dawg ♪</i>

1276
00:58:16,627 --> 00:58:17,995
<i>♪ No way ♪</i>

1277
00:58:18,028 --> 00:58:19,230
<i>♪ Take off ♪</i>


