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[soft music]

♪ ♪

- Yeah. No, no, no.

Look, I'm fully prepared for the worst.

I mean, I could be walking into two months

of non-bathing funk, all right?

But look, don't worry, all right?

I will have them on time

and celebration of life already.

Oh, here it is.

Yes. I know.

Bree, I know. Okay?

Fully aware of that.

You don't have to keep reminding me.

[doorbell rings]

Hey, David. It's me.

It's Gary.

Yes, I know that Megan

is with her grandmother, all right?

And before you say anything, I'm also

very aware that we are Black, and I should announce myself

upon entering, because we don't take any chances,

even if it is our friend's home.

All right, and can I please just say something?

This is actually a very beautiful rental.

Yeah. I'm sorry.

Oh.

Uh, from the outside.

Oh, my lord.

What in the hoarder's hell?

Hey, David!

Oh, my God.

Like, this is really disturbing,

because I really don't know

if this is the right address, but--

you know what?

Let me get off the phone, because this is a--

this is a all-hands-on-deck situation.

Bye. What the--man.

Really?

I mean, if you already walked to the trash,

why would you--

Okay.

Oh, God.

Jesus.

This--hey, uh, David?

It's, uh--it's Gary.

Uh, listen, everything is going to be okay.

All right, we just gonna--

we'll take it one step at a time,

or maybe one trash bag at a time.

Hey? Hey.

- Oh, good, you're early. - There he is.

- Yeah.

- And, uh, don't worry about the place.

Staff's coming to tidy up this morning.

- I mean, if you feel it's necessary.

- Do I look okay?

- Yes.

Yes, actually, you look great, man,

and clean, surprisingly clean.

- I feel clean.

- Yeah.

- All right, time to hit the road.

- Okay.

- Let's go make this a celebration of life

Ari would be proud of.

- Okay.

[organ music]

♪ ♪

[fly buzzes]

Fruit fly. [chuckles]

- ♪ Sometimes ♪

♪ It feels cold ♪

- Why are we calling this a celebration?

There's nothing to cele--

Okay. Who are all these people?

- David's campaign staff.

He's using them to run logistics.

How are you two holding up?

- Barely.

- I feel like I just lost my best friend, because I did.

Well, we all did.

- Life has kept our little trio apart many times,

but never like this.

- Yeah, it all just seems so...

final.

- Yeah.

- I've been racking my brain,

trying to think of a way to express

my love for Ari, you know?

And I decided I'm going to make peace with Ari's mother.

- Okay.

I'm just too tired to sugarcoat this.

Nancy hates you. - For no reason.

- No, not for no reason,

unless you're talking about ruining

Ari's car in college or showing up

to her rehearsal dinner late,

looking like a low-budget Mary J. Blige.

And, oh, that speech you did when you said David

checked all Nancy's boxes.

- Okay. But it was, like, 20 years ago.

- Hazel, that woman is the Gorilla Glue of grudges.

- Which is exactly why I'm gonna extend

the olive branch.

I'm going to honor Ari.

- Okay. Well, I guess Black people--

we just can't lay anyone to rest

without some drama, right?

Ha.

- David, do you need anything?

- Ladies, we're on a schedule. - Oh, yes.

- Oh, yes, but-- - Well, if you need anything--

- I know there's a lot going on, but I really--

- So, uh, time for a team meeting.

- Anything at all.

[interposing voices]

- Oh, we're the team.

- Oh. - We're the team.

[all talking at once] - Yeah, okay.

- It's a very important day,

and it needs to go perfectly.

Each of your assignments are vital to today's success.

Hazel, how's the music?

- Well, I--I--

I know you asked me to make a playlist

of all of Ari's favorite songs,

but she really loved

those boozy gospel brunches.

So I hired a choir, without the booze,

you know, out of respect.

But, um, I do have a case of champagne in my car

just in case you want to send our girl off

with the full experience.

- Booze-less is great.

Thank you, Hazel.

Bree, you feeling good about greeting guests

as they walk in?

- Absolutely. I actually have

greeting experience.

I used to be a hostess

at the Cheesecake Factory in college.

I kept that brown bread coming,

so I'll apply the same dedication to Ari.

- Love it. Versace,

as the stage manager, your job is to keep things

moving, no matter what.

Nobody speaks for more than-- - Two minutes.

I'll be brutal. - Respectfully, though, right?

- When applicable, yeah.

- Okay...

I guess.

I think that about covers it.

My staff will handle the rest.

- Wait. What about me?

You didn't give me an assignment.

Ari was my friend and my mentor and my soror,

and I want to help.

- Well, if Ari were here,

she would be sure her mom was taken care of.

You know, Nancy refers to you as the little sister

Ari never had.

So would you mind making sure

she has everything she needs today?

- Absolutely.

I will be stuck to her like gum on her shoe.

But, of course, not too much, because I'm sure

she wouldn't want that.

- No.

- Jayla, you want to switch jobs?

- As the official caretaker for Miss Carmichael?

Sorry, that's a hard no.

- Come on. - Okay.

Looks like we're all set.

Let's make this the perfect day for our perfect Ari.

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- I know it's only been two months,

but it still feels like it was yesterday.

- Miss Carmichael, do you need anything?

Because I'm here for--

- What I need is for you to stop calling me

Mrs. Carmichael.

Jayla, how many times have I told you my name is Nancy?

It's okay.

We're practically family.

- Okay.

[sighs]

- I guess room temperature means different things

to different people.

- Oh, are you cold? Here, take my shawl.

- Oh, no, no, no, no.

It's okay. Sweetheart, no, I couldn't.

[laughs]

It doesn't work with my outfit.

And I'm not quite sure it works with yours.

But what's a little frostbite

at your daughter's celebration of life?

- Nancy--

I mean, Mrs. Carmichael,

I just wanted to offer my condolences.

We all loved Ari so much.

And, um, I know that we haven't always seen eye to eye,

but I want us to make peace.

- Certainly not in that outfit.

- Well, this is a celebration of life, and I--

I just wanted to celebrate Ari.

- Well, I'm fairly certain Ari would not want

that Southern Baptist church hat

blocking everyone's view.

- Ari loved this hat.

She said it was a statement piece.

- Ari also liked not hurting anyone's feelings.

But trust me, the statement is

tacky.

It's tacky.

[soft electronic music]

♪ ♪

- Hey, buddy.

I was just, uh-- just checking on you,

making sure you're all right.

Is there anything I can help you with?

- No, I think my people have everything under control.

- Oh. - I'm just trying to find

this poem Ari loved for my eulogy.

- Okay.

Is there any more info we could use to--

to narrow it down?

- Yeah, Ari really, really loved it.

- Okay. So it's just down

to the few thousand contenders in there.

- You know what, it's okay.

I guess Ari's eulogy will be fine without it.

- All right.

But if you want, you know, I could, uh,

take a look at your remarks.

I'm a professional writer now, so--

- And exactly how many eulogies have you written?

- Uh, about zero.

But to be fair, I'd never wrote an article

for "Essence" before I did it.

Look how that turned out.

- I know, man. I'm just messing with you.

- Oh. [laughing]

- But thanks. I'm good.

- All right.

- I got this. - All right.

Just looking out for you.

I know things have been kind of rough.

And, well, a celebration of life can be

particularly hard to get through.

- Not today.

It is going to be fine.

I know exactly what I'm going to say.

Yep.

Wait a second.

Does my head look shiny?

Or wait, is it too dull?

Oh, no.

Ari hated a shiny dome

almost as much as she hated an ashy one.

The margin of error was razor thin.

- Well, I--I think your head looks great, David.

Yeah. - I better go fix it.

Ari cannot see me looking like this.

- Ari was such a precocious infant.

Her first word was in French--

[in French] mama.

- That is the iciest woman I have ever met.

- Look, I know you want to make amends for Ari,

but maybe it's okay to let sleeping dogs lie.

- It's, uh--it's just something I have to do.

There's got to be a way to get through to her.

- Well, when it comes to uppity rich folks,

there's only one way to get their attention.

- Jayla, dear, do you have a tissue?

I ran out.

- Oh, no problem. I'll go get you one.

- No, don't bother.

I just assumed that you had one.

Ari was so good at anticipating the needs of others.

- Yeah, she was like a real-life superhero.

- Yes, she was.

- Mm-hmm.

- Nancy--Mrs. Carmichael, I forgot to mention this earlier.

In honor of Ari's tremendous accomplishments,

I've committed $30,000

to a scholarship at our alma mater

in her name.

- Hazel, that's amazing.

Isn't that beautiful?

- Yes, that's nice.

We can add it to the $100,000 we are already donating.

- Oh.

- You know, I think, they're starting soon.

So you can go find your seat...

[laughing] In the back, so your hat

doesn't block the other guests.

Ugh, honestly, I don't know what Maurice saw in her.

- Hazel is a really good person, Nancy.

Maybe you should cut her some slack.

- A good person? - Yeah.

- And--and is that supposed to qualify her

to raise somebody else's child?

- I'm sorry, I don't follow.

- Ari, in what I can only assume

was after a night of too much champagne,

put it in her estate plan

that if something should happen to her and David,

she wanted Hazel to have guardianship over Megan.

I mean, can you imagine?

Really? Hazel?

[laughing] Over my dead body.

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- Don't forget to sign the guestbook.

And the bathroom is down the hall to the right.

- Thank you.

- Okay.

This is the look of someone that did not stay away

from Nancy like I told them to.

You're like a moth to a flame.

- You weren't wrong. But now I just--

I just feel so much worse.

- I'm sorry, Hay.

She is so good at insults, and backhanded compliments,

which kind of just, like, leads me back to insults anyways.

- No, it's Ari.

Her love for me was so strong.

And she wanted me to be Megan's guardian

if something happened to her and David.

- I'm sorry, what now?

- I know, right?

It's like some real sister shit.

For her to trust me

with the life of her only child, I get--

I get chills just saying it.

- Are you sure Nancy isn't overcome with grief

and read the will wrong?

- One, uh, Nancy's an attorney, so I doubt it.

And two, what are you trying to say?

- Hazel, I am so sorry about Nancy.

I'm sure she was just full of emotions and--

- What is so unimaginable about me getting guardianship?

- I am just saying, I was way closer

to Ari than you ever were.

- [scoffing]

- Can we not do this right now in front of the guests?

- You know what? Yeah, not the time right now.

- Okay, maybe you thought you were closer to Ari,

but the bond we shared was special.

I always felt that we had a--

a deeper level of understanding.

- Okay, the only deep level you're talking about

is counting on Ari to get you out of your messes,

because, Hazel, you're messy.

- Just because you were always up her butt

doesn't mean you were closer.

- Come on, now. Let's take it easy.

both: Butt out!

- I really want to tell you what I'm thinking,

but I realize I'm in a house of worship,

and I'm going to respect that.

But I'm going to think what I want to say to you

and just say with my face!

- Mm. - Ugh.

Hand these out. They're so beautiful.

- This--I--

[serene music playing]

♪ ♪

- Hey, Aunt Thelma, Uncle Tony, I have you sitting here.

And if you need anything, and I do mean anything at all,

you call on me, because after all,

I was Ari's best friend,

and she would expect that from me.

- Bree?

- Oh, my God, Savannah.

- Oh, my God, it's so good to see you.

Look at you. You look fantastic--

I mean, considering the circumstances.

- You look amazing.

And thank you so much for coming.

It's been such a long time.

- I know.

And I wouldn't have missed it, honestly.

But this is hard.

It seems like it was just yesterday

we were college suite mates.

- That's right. You were Hazel's roommate.

And I was Ari's roommate, because we were best friends.

We would share everything-- you know, a room, clothes,

secrets, feminine hygiene.

I mean, we didn't actually share that.

You shouldn't share that.

That is not a good thing to share.

You know, you couldn't even, like, borrow it.

- Megan? - Oh, hi.

- Hi.

How you holding up, baby?

- Best I can, I guess.

- Yeah. This must be so hard for you.

- I love that you have an activity for yourself.

That's great. - Yeah.

- Your mom was such an amazing person.

- Yeah, I know.

- I just want you to know that I will always be here for you.

- Oh, thank you, Auntie Haze.

- And, um, actually, uh, your mom hoped

that if anything were to ever happen to her,

that you would look to me as a second mom.

- Damn it. Are you serious?

- Really?

- Mm-hmm.

- I don't even have your number.

- You don't? - No.

- That is not a problem,

because I'm going to be so close to you

that, uh, you won't even need a phone.

[laughing]

- Thank you.

- Oh, don't mention it.

Actually, uh, mention it to your grandmother

and, um, to your Auntie Bree. Okay?

- Um, okay.

[tense percussive music]

♪ ♪

- David. [laughs] Hi.

I--I'm just checking up on you.

- Oh, thank you, Hazel.

I appreciate that.

- No one cared about Ari more than me.

I'm here for you.

And I am here for Megan.

- Oh.

- I--I just wanted you to know that.

- Yeah. -

Come on. - Oh.

Thanks. - That's right.

I'm so here for you.

- Son of a bitch.

Not you, okay? And don't repeat that.

Oh, poor sweet, big, beautiful David.

Get in here, big guy.

Oh, I'm so sorry, David.

I've been thinking about all the special moments

that Ari and I shared over the years.

And I can only imagine that you're thinking

about the ones you had too.

Well, probably more, because you guys were married.

- Yeah.

- Dear, sweet, sweet,

overly busy Bree, why don't you...

[clears throat]

Get back to your job, you know, seating people

and pointing out the toilets,

while I take care of the needs of the family?

- Well, I am a mother and a wife,

so I know how to take care of families.

- [scoffs] I am rich and popular.

- I know how to balance a checkbook.

- Hey, hey, baby? Hey, guys?

- I know how to balance a checkbook.

- No, you don't. - Guys?

- You don't know anything about--

- Can we please give David some space?

- Gary, can you mind your business?

- Can you butt out, please?

- [laughing]

- What? Are you okay?

- This is hilarious.

- It is?

- It's just funny how in the face of tragedy,

we can still find

petty-ass things to fight about.

[laughing]

- Oh. - Oh, my lord.

Oh, it's too much.

It's right here, Gary.

Oh, thank you.

Oh, y'all crack me up.

I gotta go.

- Okay.

- Is he about to get Dexter on us?

- ♪ Amazing grace ♪

♪ How sweet the sound ♪

♪ That saved ♪

♪ A wretch like me ♪

♪ I once was lost ♪

♪ Oh, but now, thank you, Lord, I am found ♪

♪ Was blind ♪

♪ But now I see ♪

- David, I--

I know that I keep asking you if you're okay.

You keep saying that you are.

But look, between the-- your messy house,

the crooked reef, the joke and laugh,

it just--it leads me to believe otherwise.

So I just want to ask one more time,

are you sure you're okay?

- [clears throat]

No, I don't--I--

I don't think I am, Gary.

- So today,

we all have a chance to say goodbye to my baby,

right there in that lavender urn,

even though it was never her color,

and we don't believe in cremation.

But, of course, Ari didn't consult me about her plans,

like the time she was in high school

and decided to get a second hole in her ear.

Good Lord.

But you love your children,

even if they make déclassé mistakes.

- I mean, how could I possibly put into words

what life was like with Ari, how much I loved her?

- Everybody knows how much you loved her.

And you don't need, uh, you know,

a poem or some prepared remarks to prove that.

You just speak from your heart.

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- Speak from my heart.

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

- And now, the love of my daughter's life

would like to say a few words.

- Excuse me. I'm sorry.

Pardon me. Excuse me. Hey.

- Hey.

How's David doing? - Oh, he's fine.

He's gonna be fine.

- Yeah? - I got him back on track.

- Okay. - Yeah. Yeah.

♪ ♪

- First off, I want to thank everyone--

family, friends, sorority sisters.

You honor Ari by being here.

You know, I've been trying and trying

to prepare what I wanted to say today,

and it just wouldn't come.

So a good friend of mine told me

I should just speak from the heart.

So what my heart is telling me to say

is fuck Ari.

[all gasping]

- That's back on track?

- Well, uh, we may have been at different stages.

- What did you tell him to do?

- I--I told him to speak from his heart.

- See, 'cause Ari and I had plans and dreams.

We thought we had so much time, all the time in the world.

But she did not hold up her part of the bargain.

She left me.

She left me and our beautiful daughter.

You know she loved you more

than anything else in the world.

- [quietly] Yes, that's better-- better.

- But you know what?

Fuck me, too.

- Oh.

- Dad!

- Yeah, fuck me for choosing my career

over spending time with my wife,

letting her go off to California alone

while I went to Albany,

never realizing the clock was ticking.

I mean, how could I be so stupid--

taking the person I planned to spend

the rest of my life with for granted?

I'm sorry, Megan.

[warm music]

♪ ♪

- I'm mad at Ari, too.

[all gasping]

The last text I sent her was ugly,

and there were words that were regrettable

and emojis and...

All because she didn't show up at my wedding.

And I mean, I didn't show up at my wedding either.

So fuck me, too.

[all gasping]

But why did she have to die

before I got a chance to apologize?

And now, I can't.

And I hate it.

- Well, I hate that urn.

- Oh, good.

- I hate that my daughter's in there.

A mother's not supposed to bury her child.

And who's going to take care of me when I get old?

- Don't worry, Nana, I got you.

- Okay.

- No. N--no. Oh.

- Well, if everyone's going to say it,

I'm pissed at Ari, too.

I thought we were best friends,

and she couldn't even trust me as a mother

to take care of her only child.

How could she not know that I would treat Megan like my own,

even better?

- Better?

- Not now, Gary. I'm having a moment.

- Okay.

- So fuck Ari.

That's right, I said it.

Fuck Ari for not giving me the chance to prove to her

that I'd be a good mother.

And fuck me for being caught up in these feelings

and--and not even remembering the good times--

and just loving on the best friend

that I still have left.

Hazel, I love you.

- Oh.

I love you, too.

- And I'm so sorry.

I want to give you a hug.

- Excuse me.

- Uncle Tony, move.

- Move out the way so I can get to my girl.

- Tony, you're so wide.

- Excuse me.

[both crying]

- I'm so sorry.

- I'm sorry.

- I love you so much.

- I love you, too.

- Dang, guys.

This is like free therapy.

- Well, I think we can all agree that,

Ari, we're all so mad at you,

but it's because we love you so much.

You left us too soon.

[organ music playing]

choir: ♪ Would you be free from the burden of sin ♪

♪ There's wonderful power in the blood ♪

♪ There is power ♪

- ♪ Power ♪ - ♪ Power ♪

- ♪ Power ♪ - ♪ Wonder-working power ♪

- ♪ Wonder-working power in the blood ♪

- ♪ Of the Lamb ♪

♪ There is power ♪ - ♪ Power ♪

- [yawns] - Oh.

I can't even begin to thank you all

for everything you did today.

And I'm sorry for putting you under so much pressure

to make everything perfect.

I don't know.

I think it was my way of coping.

- David, we were all coping.

- Yeah.

Look, I know my messy ass let things get out of control.

- Mm-hmm.

- But honestly,

the celebration of life was perfect.

- It was. - Aw.

- Thank you for giving us space to just let it all out.

- Yeah.

You guys set a new standard for eulogies.

- [laughing] Yes, we did.

- We did that.

- And for the record, Bree,

Ari and I always admired the way

you balanced family and career.

- Oh, thank you.

And you know what?

I was in my feelings before, but I'm fine now.

- No, really, the only reason you weren't put down

as Megan's guardian is because Ari didn't want to add

to your already full plate.

- Oh, thank God. - See?

There you go. - Yes, because I was not fine.

I was not fine about it.

- I'm glad you're good now. - Okay.

- Ari always said that your kids were

lucky to have the best mom.

- Mm. - Mm.

- And Ari isn't the only one that's listed you

as guardian of their children.

Gary and I have you listed as well.

- Mm-hmm. - [gasps]

- And that was my idea because I have known you longer.

Right, baby? - That's right, baby.

We all know that. - Thank you.

- Oh, my god, for reals? - Yeah.

But you're, like, number fifth in line,

because come on, we're not crazy.

- Oh. [laughing]

- Smart. Okay.

- Thank you.

- Well, we--we better get to the house for the repast

before the staff eats all the food.

- You know what?

I'm going to go home and pick the kids up, meet you there.

You guys can ride in the limo with Nancy.

- Thank you, dear. - You're welcome.

You know, I--

I wanted to apologize for not being able to comfort you

in the way you needed today.

- You did your best.

- I did, but the truth is, I will never be like Ari.

And there will always be things that only Ari could do.

But I'm a quick learner.

- Thank you.

- I love you.

- Thank you, my dear.

Really, thank you. Thank you.

- [sighs]

- Oh.

- Oh.

- Mrs. Carmichael, I know that you don't like me.

And, um, I'm not here to change your mind.

But I wanted to let you know that if you need anything,

I--I want you to call me.

Like, if you even need someone to take you to the airport

or, um, help you clean out your closets,

or go Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve by 5:00 p.m.,

you can call me,

because I want to be there for you

just like Ari would have.

- Thank you.

- You know what?

I actually have never, um, driven myself to the airport,

but I would get you an Uber.

- Uh, okay.

- We're all here for you, Mrs. Carmichael.

- Ari was a lucky girl to have you.

[soft music]

Both of you.

- ♪ 'Cause I got all my friends with me ♪

♪ Mm ♪

♪ And I know everything's gonna be fine ♪

- I'm proud of you.

You made it through.

Although no one would have blamed you if you didn't.

- It's a roller coaster. - No, I know.

I know. But like a roller coaster,

it's got two seats.

Right?

I'm strapped in right next to you

for all the ups and downs, the loop-de-loops.

- I hate roller coasters. - Me, too.

- You, too? - I hate them.

The last time I was on one--

Coney Island, I'm with Bree, and I throw up.

- Oh. - Well, I had two hot dogs.

I should have had one.

But no, seriously, all jokes aside,

you know I'm here for you, bro.

- Yeah, man, I--

I know that, especially now.

Thank you for everything.

- Hold up.

One more thing.

You thought I was kidding

about having a case in my trunk.

[laughing]

A toast to Ari.

- Mm.

- I like that.

- Me, too.

- To Ari.

all: To Ari.

- ♪ No one's gonna love me like they do ♪

- ♪ Ooh ♪

- ♪ Hell yeah ♪ - ♪ Number one, yeah ♪

♪ I'm still number one ♪ - ♪ Hell yeah ♪

- ♪ Number one, always be number one ♪

- ♪ Oh ♪

- ♪ Held you down, took you from minor to major ♪

- ♪ Oh ♪

- ♪ You won't admit it ♪

♪ You're the fruits of my labor ♪

- ♪ Hell yeah ♪ - ♪ Number one, yeah ♪

♪ I'm still number one ♪ - ♪ Hell yeah ♪

- ♪ Number one, always be number one ♪

- ♪ Oh ♪

♪ Don't forget it, yeah, I'm still number one ♪

- ♪ Hell yeah ♪

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