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[Aaron Embry's "Raven's Song"]

[peaceful piano ballad]

♪ ♪

EMBRY: ♪ Oh, the raven's song is short ♪

♪ But it's strong ♪

[music distorts] ♪ Like the mind ♪

MARKER: You don't really want to be known

as the guy who draws boring breakfast food.

You can't go out like that, because I won't let you!

� We have got to tear the entire system to shreds!

MARKER: Broke rhymes with woke.

� [inhales sharply]

� Psst. Hey, hey. Psst.

Hey. Hey, hey. That's right.

That shit really happened.

� Oh, shit.

MARKER: Haven't you heard, Black man?

The revolution is nigh.

� Can you give me a second? MARKER: Fine, you got one.

� I'm not dreaming.

I thought I was dreaming, but I'm not dreaming.

This is not going on right now.

[persistent ringing] You know what to do.

I'm not doing this.

So you, unfortunately, have to go.

� I'm not going anywhere, brother.

I like fucking with you.

� Well, you can like it on your way out the door

because last time I saw you, you fucked my life up,

and because of you, I have to get it back.

I am putting the genie back in the bottle

and the marker in the trash.

MARKER: This is not the last of me.

You hear me, Keef Knight?

I will not be ignored!

KEEF: [grunts] MARKER: Motherfucker!

[grunting]

[groans]

Ow!

[mellow music]

GUNTHER: [sighs] Damn, man, I hope he likes this.

I bought star fruit.

[sighs] Should I have made toast?

I mean, I don't know.

Would that be, like, triggering?

� Man, the last thing he needs is to be coddled.

GUNTHER: Okay, I don't see why you have to be so harsh.

He just got beat down by the cops

and shitcanned from his job.

� Yeah, yeah. That's like, what, a Tuesday for black people?

� Okay. Hey.

Keef.

� What up, bro? GUNTHER: H�how you doin', bud, hmm?

Uh, we made you breakfast.

� Why?

� Why? Well, uh, because...

because we love you.

Okay. I'll take that.

[laughs] Thumbs up��you see that?

[phone chimes]

It's a step in the right direction.

Oh, what��is that Trina? She actually texted me.

� Talk to your woman, dawg. She worried about you.

� Yeah. I'm going to, okay?

I'm just gonna hit her back

as soon as I get all this stuff straightened out, you know?

GUNTHER: Yeah, yeah. � Straightened out?

What plan you got to un�shit this bed?

� That's very funny.

I'll have you know I'm on my way

to Bloom & Hill as we speak.

I am not gonna let my life get destroyed

over one unfortunate episode.

� [laughs] Episode?

Oh, you��you think that was an episode?

Shit, that was more like the series finale.

You went full�blown crazy. You lost your damn mind.

KEEF: Guys, guys, look at me!

Don't I look fine?

[forced laugh]

Don't I look stress�free and carefree?

I got my eight hours of sleep, all right?

It is a new day.

It is a new attitude.

� Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

When you go in there, don't apologize.

Pretend that shit didn't happen, all right?

I'm just saying. Look, if you pretend it didn't happen,

eventually maybe they'll start to think,

"Maybe that shit didn't happen."

� Like the prequels.

� What prequels?

Jar Jar who?

� No ho ho, okay?

Jar Jar happened.

Meesa thinks you need to deal with it.

� Let me tell you something, it's like that time

when my dad got that lady pregnant

and he had that kid.

He just pretended that shit didn't happen

and eventually, my mom...

my mom forgot all about that kid.

[whispering] What kid? Hmm?

� Okay, but you definitely still have a sister.

� [whispers] No. � So all I have to do

is pretend that Golden Con never happened.

I think I can do��I mean, I'm pretty good at improv.

� No, you're not.

You need to stay home and self�medicate.

Dude, you went toastal.

You were kickboxing a cardboard cutout.

You remember. � Hold on, hold on.

� Huh?

� What cardboard cutout?

� Mm. I didn't see it.

� At the Q and A. � What Q and A?

� What is a Q and A?

� Okay, it happened.

I was there.

� You were where?

� The Q and A.

� What Q and A?

� The one where you were kickboxing

the cardboard cutout! [tense laugh]

� What cardboard cutout?

� No, you can't just repeat everything I say!

That's not improv! God damn it.

[rock music]

♪ ♪

[upbeat guitar music]

♪ ♪

� Hey. How you doing, my man?

� What's up, Mr. Knight?

� Thanks, man. Uh, need me to sign in?

� Nah, you're good, man. Go ahead.

� Cool, cool, cool. � It's all good.

� Ah. Oh, well, if you insist.

[laughs]

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Oh.

Margaret, it is so good to see you.

You get the flowers I sent you? They must be lost in the mail.

Uh, I'm here for a meeting with Phil and Cindy.

� Is Cindy expecting you?

� Yeah, I think�� yes, she possibly might be.

I think yes, she is, so...

Mm�hmm. � Yeah.

Let me just check real quick.

� Yeah, yeah, she��yeah.

'Cause you can call her. She knows who I am, so...

Love the sweater, by the way.

[whispering] It's very Michelle O.

The double bow? Girl, you better stop.

[laughs]

� I have Keef Knight in the lobby.

No, he��

I'm serious. He's here.

In person.

Okay.

Okay.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

� Keef! � Cindy.

CINDY: What a surprise.

� Hey. Um...

� Hi.

KEEF: Come and sit�� � No, no, no.

Stay there. Stay there.

� I can sit there��okay.

CINDY: [laughs]

I assumed you would start.

� Yeah. Oh, no.

Of course I'm gonna�� I'm gonna start.

[both laugh]

So excited, you know,

to really just get the ball rolling on syndication.

You know what I mean? Um, looking forward to it.

So many deadlines, right?

What to do? That's the question.

� So we're just gonna pretend Golden Con never happened?

� Golden what?

� You're not serious, are you?

� Serious about what? � Golden Con.

� Golden who? � It happened.

� What happened? � Golden Con.

� What about it? � It happened!

� Okay! Okay, it happened! Jesus!

I'm sorry, okay? I don't��

I don't know what came over me, all right?

But let me assure you,

my actions do not express, in any way,

how I feel about you fine people.

CINDY: Look, Bloom & Hill��

well, we're not sure we're the right fit

for this new direction you've taken.

It's��it's not you, it's us.

� Cindy, Cindy, listen to me.

Please don't do this, okay?

I have not taken a new direction.

My coordinates are... [beeps]

[laughs] I mean, you get it, right?

Growing up as a...

Asian...woman?

As an Asian or something?

Growing up as an Asian or something woman��

� I'm gonna let that Asian comment slide.

You really think you can get up on that stage

and pop off like that and recover?

� To be honest, I thought maybe��

� It doesn't work that way for people like us.

You think I don't ever wanna throw an iPad

out of one of these stuffy�ass windows,

watch the glass pour down, pick up a piece, and...

slit an executive's throat?

But I follow the rules.

I read the fine print. You didn't.

� No, no, I have. I definitely have, I know��

� Oh, you could've been a legend!

John Legend. � [softly] John Legend.

CINDY: He did it the right way.

First he got the money,

then he got the woke.

You think he could've released "Preach" right out of the gate?

No.

He had to do at least ten years of "Ordinary People"

before he could take that risk.

That's what we have to be to come up in this world.

Ordinary.

� [scoffs] I get it.

And I'm so glad you said that, because now...

now it's confirmed that we're on the exact same page.

Look! I'm Toast�N�Butter man!

Gentle laughs, sweet observations.

I'm the exact same guy. Nothing has changed.

� Well, according to The Bay Arean...

Everything's changed.

[dramatic music]

� Fuck Toast! Fuck Butter!

Yeah!

Oh. Okay.

CINDY: That was like the world's worst TED Talk.

� [softly] Yeah, definitely, um...

[indistinct shouting]

I can��I can fix that.

[screaming]

[upbeat jazzy music]

♪ ♪

[people chatting]

[quietly] Ayana.

� Oh, shit! Keef X in the flesh!

Yes! [applause]

Yes.

[applause dies down]

� You have to take that video down.

� Uh...no.

� No?

� No.

You told off a piece of toast in blackface.

That shit stays up.

� Okay, look, I was not in my right mind.

I was distressed. Things happened.

� What things? KEEF: I don't know, things.

Doesn't matter.

What matters is that I had a momentary lapse in reason.

� You sounded reasonable to me. � Yes, because I sounded like you.

� Hmm, yeah.

But you had a "come to Black Jesus" moment.

Now you wanna walk it back?

I was proud of you.

[phone chimes]

[phone clicks]

� Look,

I'm not sure who you think I am,

but I'm not that guy.

I'm just a guy who wants to get his life back, okay?

� I hate to say it, but once your eyes are open,

you can't unsee.

� Yeah, but it doesn't mean I can't try.

And the longer that video stays up,

the harder it gets.

� You think you can scrub the Internet clean?

[chuckles]

KEEF: Wait, what? What are you doing?

AYANA: [laughs] You're a meme now.

KEEF: Oh, my God. I'm a meme.

Fuck��fuck��fuck�� fuck Toast�N�Butter!

[in slow motion] Fuck you.

I am��I am��I am the sausage!

[sobs]

Oh, my God. Just shoot me in the face.

[gunshot, woman screams] Jamal!

Fuck Toast�N�Butter!

Fuck Toast�N�Butter!

[hitch�pitched] Fuck Toast�N�Butter!

Aw, shit.

� I like it. You have stage presence.

� I feel like you enjoy watching me suffer.

� I barely know you.

But yes. KEEF: Okay.

Okay. [sighs]

If you were me, what would you do?

� Honestly? � Honestly, if you were me.

� Buckle up.

[bass riff]

[seatbelt clicks]

[Cover of Carpenters' "Rainy Days And Mondays"]

SINGER: ♪ Talking to myself ♪

[phone chimes]

SINGER: ♪ And feeling old ♪

♪ Sometimes I'd like to quit ♪

♪ Nothin' ever seems to fit ♪

♪ Rainy days and Mondays always get me down ♪

� Sir?

Sir.

SINGERS: ♪ Rainy days and Mondays ♪

� Do you mind turning that off?

I've had a very shitty day.

♪ ♪

[music turns off]

Let's be honest�� you were never that talented in the first place.

And now that everyone thinks you guzzle seawater,

you've probably drawn your last cartoon.

[gasps] What are we gonna do for money?

Oh, and if you have no money, what are you gonna live on?

San Francisco is so...

� Actually, sir, you can turn that back up.

SAD FACE: You know what the rent costs out here.

[music resumes]

You're gonna get kicked to the curb!

You're gonna be turning tricks in the hay for vegan sliders.

� You can turn it up, sir.

SAD FACE: Stay away from bridges.

� Louder. SAD FACE: Golden Gate Bridges...

� Louder, louder, sir. SAD FACE: Bay bridges, Nash Bridges, tall bridges!

[dissonant instruments clanking]

♪ ♪

� You know they always hiring at the post office.

VOICE 1: Post office don't pay Toast�N�Butter money.

� He could rob a bank. � He might get shot.

VOICE 2: At this point, it's worth the risk.

� Hear, hear, motherfucker! Read all about your broke ass.

VOICE 3: You gotta fix this. VOICE 4: He can't fix shit.

VOICE 5: What's the plan, Keef Knight?

VOICE 6: Join a cult? VOICE 7: Sell a kidney for cash?

VOICE 8: Find your safe place! VOICE 9: Tell us, Keef.

ALL: Tell us.

♪ ♪

� [breathing heavily]

� Hey, Keef.

� Hey, Nancy.

[sniffs]

Hey, um, do you mind

if I hang out here for a second?

I promise not to kickbox any cardboard cutouts.

NANCY: Okay. I really mean this.

Are you going crazy?

� What��who told you that? Who said��who said that?

� Mm, I just�� I watched the video.

I didn't��no one really needed to tell me.

� Oh. � So...

� I was just kinda going through somethin'...

� Yeah. � At the moment.

� Okay. � Currently.

� Have you gone through it?

Look, we were with you in the beginning,

and we will be with you at the end.

Not that this is the end.

[whispering] But if it is,

don't get anything on the comics.

� Okay. � Okay?

♪ ♪

� [sighs]

[pensive music]

♪ ♪

� Hey, Keef! That's right, it's me, Toast!

You know how to fix this mess. Draw us!

� [laughs]

If you draw the best Toast�N�Butter strip

you've ever done, they're gonna have to take you back.

♪ ♪

MARKER: Oh, hell, no.

You're not drawing anymore of that Toast�N�Butter nonsense.

� Are you every marker now?

� Yup. 'Cause you cannot be trusted.

From now on, you're gonna use me

to draw comics that mean something��

comics that are powerful, comics that are real.

I can go on and on. � Shh. No.

You will draw what I tell you to draw, okay?

And today, kids, we are drawing Toast�N�Butter.

Jeez.

� No means no, motherfucker!

Didn't they teach you that in high school?

� [grunts] You are not a person.

You are a marker.

Now do what I say!

That's a good boy.

MARKER: No, Keef. I said no.

No means no! � [whimpers]

MARKER: [grunts]

� Bitch, I will uncap you

and leave you hanging out in the sun for days

where you will die a slow and dry death.

[grunts]

This is good.

This is very good.

What do you think?

� Oh, buddy.

W�wow.

� Yeah. NANCY: Yeah, yeah.

[both laugh]

� I'm back.

Time to get my job back. � Yeah.

Okay.

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

� Hey, my man.

Uh, I can't sign in right now. I just gotta go��

� Can't come in.

� What are you talking about? I was just in here.

You saw me leave!

I have to, um, I have to show them this.

I just finished it.

I have to let 'em know

that I can still do this, obviously.

I know what you're thinking. It looks a little shaky, but that was on purpose.

I did this intentionally. So I'm gonna go in the��

� I can't let you in.

� Come on, man. You know me.

What are you talking about, like...

[monitor hinges squeak]

"No entry"?

Did they darken my photo?

� Does it matter?

SINGER: ♪ Swing low ♪

♪ Sweet chariot ♪

CHOIR: ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪

[Perfume Genius' "Just Like Love"]

[moody pop music]

SINGER: ♪ Sleeve ♪

♪ Cut just off the shoulder ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You ♪

♪ Are christening the shape ♪

♪ ♪

♪ They'll talk ♪

♪ Give them every reason ♪

KEEF: [whispers] Trina.

♪ ♪

SINGER: ♪ For child ♪

� Two days, Keef.

Two. � Yeah.

� How do you think that makes me feel?

� Yeah, I know. I just, um...

if it's any consolation,

you know, I�I wasn't ignoring you.

I just��you know, I just been running around

like a crazy person trying to put my life back together.

I thought I had it figured out.

Fun fact: I did not have it figured out.

[laughs]

We'll��I'll tell you about it later.

We'll have a giggle. It'll be fun.

Can we do this...inside?

I mean, uh, I'm sure the neighbors don't really wanna

hear about what's going on out here,

and I know for a fact

Clovis and Gunther wanna know about what's going on.

CLOVIS: Oh, nah, we can hear you just fine, dawg.

� They can hear. Okay.

� You left these at my house.

� Trina. [sighs]

Look...

We are Trina and Keef.

Treef.

� Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trina and Keef.

I��that is not enough.

� I need you.

� You haven't spoken to me in two days!

� Not in words or anything fancy like that, but, like��

TRINA: So done.

� You wouldn't have gotten it.

The reason why I didn't come to you.

Because I know for a fact

that you would not have gotten it.

� So you ignore me for two days

because you already know how I'm gonna react

to this horrible thing that happened to you?

� Yes.

� So rather than give me the chance to let you down,

you just assume that I'm gonna do it,

so why bother?

� Well...yes.

� I am sorry about what happened to you, Keef.

I am.

But...

You know what?

I hope you find what you're looking for,

but honestly, Keef,

I don't think you even know what that is.

� But��look, we can finish talking about this

and then��can we just go insi��

[door opens]

[somber music]

[door slams]

♪ ♪

[indistinct TV chatter]

BOTH: Hey, Keef.

� [sighs]

Man, I don't even know.

� I know what you need.

I always know what you need.

Come over here and have a drink.

� Surprise, nigga!

You didn't forget about me, did you? [laughs]

� Nope.

� You can't run from this.

[moody music]

SINGER: ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh ♪

� [whispering] 'Sup?

You should be looking up.

At the stars, man.

Do you even realize the Newtonian mechanics

that went into you, me, and Clovis meeting each other

at this particular time in life?

That's the thing, bro.

We could've existed

or never crossed each other in the space�time continuum,

but we're right here, right now.

Together.

[stirring music]

♪ ♪

You know, it's all gonna work out.

You just...

can't fight the wave.

It's the thing that carries you

from who you are now

to who you're going to be.

♪ ♪

That's the thing.

♪ ♪

� I'm seeing things.

� I figured.

� No, I mean I'm really seeing things.

� Shh. � I��

� [whispering] Just listen to the wave.

[soft hip�hop music]

♪ ♪

� Ah.

[whispering] Aw, that's disgusting.

[groans]

Hm.

� Are you done running around

with your little existential crisis?

We got work to do.

SINGER: ♪ Mm ♪

[moody soulful music]

♪ ♪

[singer vocalizes]

[singers chant harmoniously]

[singers crescendo]

SINGER: ♪ Mm ♪

♪ You done living in misery there ♪

SINGERS: ♪ Ah, ah ♪

SINGER: ♪ You done living in misery ♪

SINGERS: ♪ Ah, ah ♪

SINGER: ♪ Eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, arise ♪

SINGERS: ♪ Still arise ♪

♪ Eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, arise ♪

♪ Eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, arise ♪

♪ Still arise ♪

♪ Eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes ♪

♪ ♪

♪ My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my eyes ♪

♪ My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my ♪

SINGER: ♪ Mm, mm ♪

SINGERS: ♪ My, my, my, my, my ♪