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NELLA:
Previously, on The Other Black Girl...

HAZEL:
What are you doing Saturday?

I'm havin' a gathering.

It's a hair party.
- Oh.

- Hazel is surrounded by Fembots.
[group gasps]

NELLA:
Jesse Watson canceled Wagner?

I wanna help you
get your message everywhere.

So, you'll think about it?

- Oh, absolutely fuckin' not.

- Please go and do some snoopin'.

You're never gonna get
another chance like this.

♪ suspenseful music playing ♪

- Fuck.

It's a beautiful foam finger. Thank you.

[door slams]
- Thanks for comin'.

- Think I was wrong about Hazel.

- Ladies, this is Shani.
[Shani chuckles]

♪ ominous music playing ♪

MAISY: Nella, meet Hazel-May McCall.
KENDRA RAE: Leave Wagner, now.

HAZEL: You shine, I shine.
If she's dangerous, he's gotta hear it.

Tell people you belong
and they'll believe it.

You and I know exactly
how fucked up the system is.

[distorted]
You shine, I shine.

MALAIKA:
Hazel is surrounded by Fembots.

NELLA:
Kinda made me look like you.

EDITORS:
Leave Wagner now.

EDITOR:
You don't belong here!

KENDRA RAE: Leave Wagner now.
HAZEL: You shine, I shine.

[sighs]

- This is Camille, Ebonee, and Kiara.

MALAIKA:
It's a cult.

OWEN:
What does this mean?

NELLA:
I think I was wrong about Hazel.

♪ suspenseful music playing ♪

HAZEL:
We catch more flies with honey.

We take our community
very seriously. [echoes]

♪

I genuinely feel sorry

for anyone who was
unfortunate enough to be in our way.

♪ theme music playing ♪

- Nella.

[whispers] Nella.

[aggressively] Nella!
- Involuntary!

Mal, what are you doing here?

- Owen called.

And thank God,
because this... this is some Riddler shit.

- I also found this in the microwave.

Is it... just ketchup?

- Sorry.

- This is my Nana's bowl.

- I stared at this all night.

Hazel must be collecting
these women for something.

I mean, that's what "voluntary"
and "involuntary" must mean, right?

- What are they volunteering
or not volunteering to do?

- Join the most
moisturized army of all time.

NELLA:
We all have to be connected somehow.

There is no way
Ruby showed up by accident.

- Yeah, I don't see how
Hazel is meetin' Ruby,

unless she also likes gettin'
kicked off the Coney Island rollercoaster

for gettin' too drunk.

OWEN:
Ruby was kinda fun.

- No, no, no, but that Ruby is gone.

All of their past lives are gone.

Their Instagram accounts
only go back one year,

just like Hazel's.

It's like they came out
of a pod fully formed at 26.

- What about Shani?
She's the one that warned you about Hazel.

What, what happened to her?

- I haven't heard from Shani
since the karaoke bar.

- How do you reverse stalk someone?

Yeah.

♪ Dog Food by IDK
ft. Denzel Curry playing ♪

NELLA: I guess we go back
to all the places I saw Shani.

♪ It's eleven o'clock,
on the dot, I'm on the block ♪

♪ Ain't no time for no sleepin'
or yawnin' or whatnot ♪

♪ Twelve runnin' 'round
creepin' and peepin for the drop ♪

- ♪ The block is hot, the block is hot ♪

♪ The block is hot,
the block is hot ♪

- ♪ They tried to frisk me, want me, hot ♪

♪ Incarcerated, I won't be, hot ♪

Now what?

- I cannot believe I have to be
at work in less than an hour.

[keyboard clacking]
- You can't go, Hazel will be there.

- And we still have no idea
what the fuckin' deal is.

- And Diana's imprint
launch party is tomorrow.

- Can't go to that either. Hazel.

- So, Hazel's connection to me is work.

But what about these other girls?

- They're in completely
different industries.

Even Hazel's not that connected. Is she?

NELLA:
Kiara's a buyer for Saks.

Camille is a chemical engineer.
And Ebonee--

- [mockingly] The youngest tenure-track
professor in New York state.

- How does a person even do that?

- It's impressive.

Gotta have friends in high places.

MALAIKA: Maybe their cult
pays for PhDs or somethin'.

- Guys, guys, guys.
"Ebonee Turner,

"set to become the youngest Associate
Professor of Literature at Columbia.

"A position created by a generous donation

"from one of the program's
most prominent alumni,

Richard Wagner."

- What, Richard?
[Malaika gasps]

- I mean, you don't think
it's just a coincidence?

- Have we learned nothin'?

Coincidences aren't fuckin' real.

♪

- Shall we get started?

NELLA:
Kiara is a buyer for Saks.

- Ah! "Publishing Magnate Richard Wagner

named to the board
of Saks Fifth Avenue. February 2019."

And Ruby interviewed at Goldman Sachs--

- Where Richard's brother is CFO.

Oh, my fucking God!
OWEN: What the--

GRANT: Huge week for you.
Tomorrow's the launch party

for your new imprint, focused
on diverse voices, Ascendent Books.

- Very exciting.
Did you bring a photographer?

- Uh, I didn't.

- Your loss.

OWEN:
What about Camille?

- "A subsidiary of Wagner Industries."
Jesus, okay.

- Wagner's always been
focused on diversity

ever since our first
big hit release, Burning Heart.

You know, tomorrow's launch
isn't really about me at all.

You should be interviewing
the bright, young women

that made it all possible.

In fact, you know what?

Come with me.

- Richard is using Hazel
to, like, recruit Black women

and turn them into pod people
and farm them out?

- And he's trying to farm you.

- Hazel-May McCall.

Isn't that right, Nella?

- Richard Wagner and Hazel.

Bitch, I told you.
[scoffs]

♪ tense, percussive music playing ♪

[phones ringing, light office chatter]

♪

- Hazel, where's our Nella?

- Um, she, she didn't
come in this morning.

- Really? Oh well, another time, I guess.

Don't wait too long, this girl is on fire.

I'll walk you out.

Let's find out where she is... quickly.

♪ drumming increases speed,
tribal vocalizing intensifies ♪

- How could I have been so stupid?

- Girl, it is not your fault
that you work with psychopaths.

Now-- And I know I say all the time

that you attract
the energy that you put out,

[chuckles]
but it did not this time.

- But I went to Wagner in the first place.

I'm the one who pitched
the rerelease of Burning Heart.

I put Diana and her new imprint in danger.

I single-handedly rebuilt
Wagner's white-ass reputation

for a man who's
using the idea of diversity

to plant docile, little
pod women all over the city.

- You had no idea what Richard was doing.

- Nothing that I've done
at Wagner matters.

All of those late nights,

the cancer from the energy drinks,

I mean, everything that I wanted is a lie.

OWEN:
Come here.

♪

Should I make some food?

- I can't eat right now.

- I'd eat.

I mean, he offered.

- I actually believed that bullshit
about being a part of a system

and changing things from the inside.

I mean, that [stammers]
sounds so stupid now.

- The system always wins.

[chuckling]
It's like Vegas.

- You're right.
- I know.

That's why I never go to Vegas.

Not even to see Usher.

- The only way to beat
a system is to work outside of it.

I mean, he warned me.

- Usher? That's not his song.

- Jesse... Jesse Watson.

He said that I was gonna have to grow up
and see Wagner for what it really is.

I gotta take him down.

- Okay. Okay, I'm lovin' this energy.

We are strong.

We are ready.

And we are goin' down there
and punchin' Richard in his face!

- I was just gonna call Jesse.

- All right, I see that vision, too.

[knocking at door]

HAZEL:
Nella!

I heard you, uh, called in sick,

so I brought you some chicken noodle soup.

It's homemade.

It'll knock that cold right out.

- Hell, no.
You better take your funky ass--
- Okay, thank you, Hazel.

Thank you.
But, yeah, Nella is super sick.

I mean, it's very gross over here.

And, and probably
extremely contagious, too.

[Owen coughs]

Yeah, nope, I, I definitely
think that I've already got it.

You could just leave the soup
out there, that'd be great.

- Um, can you just...
open up the door?

I really don't wanna do that, Owen,

'cause that's how you get ants.

[door opening]

- All right, yeah. Why don't you just,
ugh, [coughs] slip it on through.

- The soup? Owen, it's not gonna fit.

- It'll fit.
- Uh, it's not--

- Oh, no, no, it'll fit. Yeah. Yeah.
- Okay. I just--

I really just-- I really don't
feel like this is necessary.

- Ah, I just don't want you to get sick.
- Could you just--

- There we go. Okay, thank you.
- Oh! All right. Um--

[door thuds]
[Hazel clears throat]

You enjoy that.

And, uh, I really hope
that Nella gets better

for the... imprint launch party tomorrow.

It's, um,

[loudly] it's gonna be her big moment
and she can't miss it.

She's not gonna miss it, right?

- I don't know. I don't know. Bye.

- Uh!
[door shuts]

♪ tense music playing ♪

- This is poison, right?

BOTH:
Trash.

NELLA: So, Hazel and Richard
are turning Black women into,

like, corporate Stepford wives.

And I don't even really know how,
mind control or something.

You know, I shouldn't have said that
'cause I know it sounds insane,

and I'm not... insane.

- I know you're not.

- Wait, so you believe me?

- Look, you're telling me a racist
white man has an evil, racist plot?

It's the most sane thing you've said
to me the whole time I've known you.

- I know that this sounds
like a conspiracy theory--

- Yeah, but high-key,

every conspiracy
about white people bein' whack

ends up bein' true in, like, 20 years.

- [whispering]
And I think that this is really bad.

So, we just have to uncover it,

and then, we use
your platform to go public.

- Bet. Let's get it.

- Wow.

Thank you.

- Of course.

And, um... look... I'm really sorry
that this happened to you,

but I'm pumped that you woke the fuck up.

I-I might've been
a little too real with you.
- You were mean.

[Jesse laughs]

- All right. [chuckles]
That's okay. Call me out.

I like that.

♪ Matter 2 Ya
by Aint Afraid playing in shop ♪

[chuckles] Maybe we could talk strategy.
- Mm! Mm-hm.

Strategy is important.
Um, so, once we figure out

the methodology--
♪ ominous music plays ♪

[train rattling]

- I just don't understand why
she has to go to this party at all.

Shouldn't she be staying as far away
from these people as possible?

- Or I go with her
and we blow this whole conspiracy

wide open with bullhorns,
and graffiti, and stuff.

- Thank you for the concern,

but I just need to get one more person
on mine and Jesse's team and get out.

I don't need to draw
any extra attention to myself.

MALAIKA:
I can be subtle.

Subtle bullhorns.

- What if you keep us on speaker
the entire time, just in case?

[phone ringing]

- Oh, my God, it's Vera.

- Ay. I cannot take any more plot twists.

NELLA:
Why is she calling me?

- What if she's involved?

[phone continues ringing]

- Yeah, I'm, I'm gonna ignore that.

- No, you have to answer.
She might know something.

But why would Richard
fire her if she was involved?

[ringing continues]

Seriously, what can
she do to you through a phone?

[ringing continues]

- Hello, Vera.

- Uh, Nella. Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you?

- I've been better.

- Yes. Well, of course, we all have.

But tonight is your big party, right?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, so I wanted to call
and congratulate you,

and, um, on the rerelease.
You, you deserve all of the success.

- Thanks. Well, gotta go.

- Oh, no. N-- Uh, Nella, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait, don't hang up.

I, um, I-- God, okay.

My departure was
an enormous wake-up call for me.

And I have been doing
a lotta work on myself

since I was... fired
in front of the entire office.

- [whispering]
Ask if she knows about the mind control.

[Nella quietly shushing]

VERA [over phone]: What was that?
- Nothing.

- Everything fell
into focus for me recently.

I had just really lost track
of what was important.

And I... I want--
I need [inhales deeply]

to apologize to you.

- Oh.

- Nella, I really believe in you.
And just a word of advice.

Don't, uh... give
your whole self to the job

because, believe me,
you cannot get that time back.

- Wow. That's really... kind. Thank you.

[deep breath, chuckles]

VERA [over phone]:
So, what are you going to wear tonight?

- Um, the dress
that I wore to the holiday party.

- Oh, yes, that's perfect. It's powerful.

Show 'em who's boss.

- I plan to. Look, Vera,
I really gotta run, but, um... thanks.

- What was that about?

- She was calling to apologize.

- Why didn't you ask her about Richard?
[strained laugh]

She's known him forever,

and we still have no idea
how Richard is controlling these women.

Call Vera back right now.

- I don't want to call Vera back.

I still don't know who I can trust.

- Back to my original question,
why are you still going to this party?

- Unarmed.

- Look, they still don't know that I know,

and they're expecting me.

And if Richard and Hazel
are as dangerous as we think,

there's still one more person
I have to warn.

♪ Can't Let You Go by LP Giobbi playing ♪

♪

[people chattering indistinctly]

♪ Can't let you go ♪

♪ When we're moving ♪

♪ With the music ♪

♪ I, I, I can't let you go ♪

- Hey, Nella!
Everyone thought you were sick,

but you look so fun.
Ya havin' fun?

- Uh, yeah, tons.

- I wish we were better friends.

I mean, never really hung out.
[chuckles]

I guess I could've initiated, but--

- Actually, do you know how you could
be a better friend to me right now?

- Anything.

- Tell me where Diana is,
and tell no one you saw me.

- She went to the powder room.
[chuckles]

And [makes zipping sound].

[chuckles]

- You're definitely not...
the worst person who works at Wagner.

- Mm-ah. Oh, my God, thank you.
[chuckling]

- Hi, I'm Malaika,
you definitely recognize me

from every single photo on Nella's desk.

- Oh. Um... [scoffs] I do.
- Mm-hm.

- Uh, but, why--

- Nella needs your help... We gotta talk.

- Of course.
No, come in, come in, come in.

- Thank you.

[indistinct chatter in background]

- Nella.

We didn't know you were--
- Uh-uh, one, one second.

[stall door shuts]

- Are you okay?

[stall door shuts]

- Um, [exhales] no.

All right. Look. I-I know that this
is gonna sound Kanye-level wild,

but Richard and Hazel
are up to something terrible.

They are doing very bad things
to Black women all over the city.

They are changing them,
and they are turning them

into little corporate
drones against their will.

And I don't know how,
but they're trying to do it to me.

And it's only a matter of time
before they come after you.

And I think Richard probably did it
to Kendra Rae all of those years ago.

And maybe that's what
sent her over the edge.

And I have proof.

It's, uh, on my wall at home,
which is why I didn't bring it

because it wouldn't have fit
in one of my tiny purses.

But all that matters is that you trust me.

♪ tense music playing ♪

[background chattering continues]

- I do.

I believe you.

- Oh, my God, thank you.
[heavy breaths]

- I knew it.

I've known there's been
something terribly wrong

with, with Wagner, with Richard.
I mean, it's why I left.

From the moment that Kenny went missing,

none of the pieces fit.

I mean, it's--
She warned me about him

and I, I didn't listen.

I, I thought maybe she was
just going through some--
- It's not your fault.

- I just needed someone else
to... help me see it.

- I have a plan... but I need your help.

I can tell you everything.
- No. This is not the place.

We have got to get through tonight.
Richard can't think anything is wrong.

Enjoy the party as much as you can.
Eat the crudités.

- I can do that.
I--

Can I just say that this
has been driving me fucking crazy,

and it is really amazing
and validating that you believe me.

[exhales]

[door opens, shuts]

MALAIKA:
So, Nella thinks Wagner's fucked.

- Well, duh.

- And if she has
any hope of takin' it down,

we need whatever dirt
you have on Richard.

- Okay, well, I have dirt.

Um,

he spends a lot of money on manicures.

- Miss, that is not helpful.
Don't you hate him?

- Well--
- Y-Yeah.

Come on, gimme some real shit.

- I think his hair is fake.

He hit a city bike with his car,
but he paid for it, so.

[guests chattering]

- Good evening.

[cheers and applause]

Thank you for joining us tonight.

When I founded Wagner
in the Paleozoic era,

[crowd laughs]

I didn't really know what I was doing,
other than proving my father right,

that I probably should've
gone to law school.

But then... Diana Gordon's first book,

Burning Heart...
gave this company a mission,

and she gave me purpose.

And for that, I will always be grateful.

Please give a warm welcome
to the incomparable Diana Gordon.

[crowd claps and cheers]
Come on up here.

Can't do this without you.

- Thank you, Richard.

[cheering continues]

- And so, to launch
our new imprint, Ascendent Books,

Wagner's renewed commitment
to promoting marginalized voices,

we give you the 35th anniversary edition
of the seminal Burning Heart.

[cheers and applause]
There it is.

Yes.

Ascendant will celebrate
the new class of bright, young voices,

and one of those
shining stars is with us tonight.

Ladies and gentlemen,
the first signee to Ascendant Books,

I give you Mr. Jesse Watson.

[cheers and applause]

♪ dark, dramatic music playing ♪

[Jesse and Richard speak indistinctly]

- Wow. What a moment.

Thank you, Richard.

You know, I can't think
of a company more aligned

with my goals and values
as an artist than Wagner.

Wagner's commitment to creating
an inclusive future in publishing

is... nothing short of inspiring.

And thank you, Nella,

for helping me to see the light.

GUEST: Inspiring!
[indistinct chatter]

- Nella Rogers.

[crowd clapping]

♪ dark, dramatic music continues ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Jesse!
- Nella. How's life?

- Uh, what-what-what's going on?

- Just tryin' to change the world.
What do you mean?

- Okay, is this some, like,
deep undercover thing, or something?

Please say it is.

- [chuckling]
What? No, Nella.

I'm joining the Wagner family.

Look, after our chat,
thought about things,

I got a haircut.

When I woke up this morning,

I realized... I think
you got Richard all wrong.

- You hate Wagner!
You literally told me that.

- Yeah, but Nella, people change.

I-I heard Richard's pitch
and I believe in him

and what he's trying to do.

I believe in this company.

- What about your podcast?

What about everything
that we talked about?

- Yeah, but you showed me

that I don't have to be angry
about things all the time.

Wagner can be where
we make the real change.

Just like you said.

You in?

♪ eerie music playing ♪

All right. I mean, you gon' wanna
try those garlic prawns, though.

'Cause they are dope as fuck.
[chuckles]

- What the fuck?

What the fuck?
[gasps]

- I need to warn you about something.
- You stay away from me.

- Okay, you seem
really keyed up right now.

- Do I?
- Uh, yes.

All right, this might
not be the best time,

but I thought you should
know it from a friend.

- [scoffs, laughs]
Are you kidding me?

You're not my friend!

Who even are you?

- I think you know.

- You're Richard's puppet.

- [chuckles]
You think Richard is in charge?

Girl, you were
so close to figuring it out.

- What are you talking about?

RICHARD [over speakers]:
Now, none of this would be possible

without the hard work
of two up-and-coming editors,

Nella Rogers and Hazel-May McCall.

Nella, Hazel, where are you?

[applause]
- That's our cue. Come on, Nella.

You wanna know who's in charge?

It's right in front of you.

- I am so sorry I couldn't help. Truly.

- We'll get him some other way.

- He always wins
and then he just goes around out there

like he's a good person,

even though he's been cheating
on his wife for 40 years.

- Yeah, the dude sucks.

- [groans] I used to have
to go get his dry cleaning

when I was an assistant.

And Diana's negligees
were always just, like, in there.

It was so gross and blatant.

[scoffs] I mean, who screws
their bestselling author?

- Wait, Richard and Diana?

- Yeah.

- Th-They're together?

- Yes! And now she is back,

and they're like,
"Oh no, it's all business."

I'm like, "I know what business." Okay?
- Oh, my God.

[cheers and applause]

RICHARD [over speakers]:
...ladies and gentlemen.

- There she is.

- Diana?

It's you?

I thought-- No, it, it, it, it doesn't,
it doesn't make any sense.

RICHARD [over speakers]: And where's your,
where's your partner in crime?

Where's Nella? Nella?

- It's time for your big moment.

[gasps]
RICHARD [over speakers]: Where is she?

Where is her partner in cr-- There she is!

There's our Nella.
Come on you two, take a bow.

[muffled cheering]

♪ eerie, dramatic music playing ♪

♪

HAZEL [muffled through speakers]:
I, uh, I just--

I have to say,

[normal] coming to Wagner books
truly felt like... coming home.

GUEST:
Aww!

- Like, finding my family,

and Nella, I guess
that kinda makes us sisters.

[Hazel giggles]

♪ eerie music continues ♪

[microphone feedback screeches]

- You're a lunatic.

[guests gasp]

We're not fucking sisters.

[crowd gasps, murmurs]

Two seconds after you met me,
you tried to ruin my career.

What fucking planet am I on right-- No!

No. She's crazy. You're crazy.

She lied about the cake.

She's a liar.

Where's Jesse? Look at him.

He looks like a fucking robot.

This is what they do to people.

[guests murmuring]

Is this what you did to Kendra Rae?

What did you do to Kendra Rae?

- That's enough.

- Am I the only one who's seeing this?

Are any--

[panting] Ca--

Plea--

♪ Dream Girl Evil
by Florence And The Machine playing ♪

♪ Well, did you miss me? ♪

♪ Walk on water just to kiss me ♪

NELLA [over speakers]:
Oh, my God.

♪ Oh, come and get me ♪

I'm the crazy one.

♪ Drag me out, destroy me ♪

♪ I've been expecting you ♪

They made me look like the crazy one.

♪ Deliver me that bad news, baby ♪

♪ Am I your dream ♪

- Girl, pick up! This is the most
important voicemail in your life!

You need to leave that party right now.

Diana is in on it.
I repeat. Get the fuck out.

Okay. Uh, okay, uh.

♪ Make me evil ♪

Owen, have you heard from Nella?
I can't--

[tires screeching]
[Malaika gasps]

[thud]
- Malaika, Malaika, are you okay?

[over phone]
Hello?

♪ Dream girl evil ♪
[tires screeching]

♪ Dream girl evil ♪

[panting]

♪ Dream girl evil ♪

- Come on, pick up.
Pick up, pick up, pick up--

[screams]

♪ Dream girl ♪

♪ You think of me in bed ♪

♪ But you could never hold me ♪

♪ You like me better in your head ♪

♪ Dream girl evil ♪

♪ Dream girl evil ♪

♪ Dream girl evil ♪

♪ Dream girl evil ♪

♪ Watch me shimmer ♪

- ♪ Shimmer ♪

- ♪ A projection of your mother ♪

- ♪ Mother ♪

- ♪ But don't come crying ♪

- ♪ Crying ♪

- ♪ I am nobody's mother ♪

♪ Center ♪

♪ It cannot hold, it cannot hold ♪

♪ It cannot hold ♪

♪ It cannot hold ♪

♪ It cannot hold ♪

♪ music fades ♪