ALEXANDRA ANDY ANGEL BLUE_MIKE BRODY CARLOTTA COTTON CREW_PERSON DEREK JAHIL JAX KID LENA MARIELA MARY MAURICE MISS_BRUCE MISS_RUBY NAKISHA NOAH OTIS PAOLA PARTY_PEOPLE SIMONE STAR WOMAN COTTON Okay, so, last time you all saw Star. ALEXANDRA We can't do this, not here. DEREK You need to find somewhere else to stay tonight. SIMONE He would keep me from school to have sex with me. JAHIL Paola. ANGEL Mom? PAOLA Ice is looking for you. ANGEL So, what are you saying? PAOLA You're an undocumented immigrant. SIMONE I did something. I got married. CARLOTTA You married Angel? MARIELA You're gonna need to use every ounce of your energy if you want to walk again. CARLOTTA Girls are hyped up about landing an A-list promoter. LENA I fought for Sound House to back this tour. I fought for you, Noah, but my company sees you as a risk. LENA If you keep selling out regional shows, I'll run the idea of a tour. But it won't be a Noah Brooks tour. NOAH Will you be my manager? STAR Brody, I remember everything the night that Mama died. BRODY What did you do? BRODY I love you, Star. MARY STAR Mama, come on. BRODY What did you do? What did you do? SIMONE What are you doing? What are you doing? STAR Cleaning up. What does it look like I'm doing? SIMONE Looks like you just stabbed a knife into a chopping block like you were gonna kill somebody. You been trippin' for weeks. STAR We have a fitting at the label. Change your clothes. Can you wear anything besides plaid? CREW PERSON It's all about plaid right now. STAR Oh, you got to be kidding me. ALEXANDRA Saint Laurent is serving mad plaid this season. Can't even believe they have a budget for this. SIMONE See? Lesbians ain't the only ones wearing plaid now, Star. STAR I'm very happy for you. SIMONE Can you please tell me what the hell is going on with you? STAR I can't be myself? ALEXANDRA Look, get off your period and come pick out some damn clothes for this regional tour, okay? Thank you. NOAH Alex. Come here right quick? I don't know. Let me know what you think. I-I... I just feel like it's missing something. ALEXANDRA All right, let me hear it. SIMONE She's still helping him out. JAHIL So, one of you want to explain to me what's going on? Huh? Skipping out on studio time? We got a track to finish. ANDY Ask producer boy here. ANGEL I'm working on it. JAHIL Listen, man. Hey, listen. I know it's been a lot lately, okay? With your mother showing up like that and everything. ANGEL Yeah, getting hit with a lifetime of lies doesn't really make it easy to be writing music. ANDY Actually, it should make it a lot easier. Great artists write from a place of pain, man. ANGEL Shut up, Andy. Look, I could lose everything. JAHIL If you lose, I lose, and I ain't losing a damn thing. Life happens, okay? You got to get through it. Now, we're on the road in two weeks. Be ready. MISS BRUCE Whose dumbass idea was this, anyway? COTTON Yours. And you invited the whole damn neighborhood. Hey, bitch, you should have hired a caterer. MISS BRUCE Who gonna pay for that? We celebrating. We got a salon full of weave ready to be sewn in. They closed that arson investigation that we know your ex-con boyfriend was behind. You didn't tell your grandma that you let him live, did you? COTTON Girl, hell no. If I tell her that, she'll kill me. MISS BRUCE Bitch. COTTON Who keep blowing up your phone? MISS BRUCE Bitch, cut them vegetables. We got a party to throw and a salon to re-open. NOAH ALEXANDRA NOAH CARLOTTA Noah, we locked that track already. Okay, girls, what looks do you like? 'Cause we got to get this budget in to Maurice for the tour. STAR Any of 'em. I don't care. CARLOTTA Since when do you of all people not care? This regional tour's everything you been grinding for. STAR Only if Sound House backs the national one. CARLOTTA They will. JAHIL Hey, guys. Did you all find something? CARLOTTA Hey, mira. Come here. JAHIL What? CARLOTTA You finally got your apartment, so why is your RV still parked in my backyard? JAHIL Look, I'm-I'm dealing with a lot right now, Lottie. CARLOTTA Oh, Lord. JAHIL Okay, I got the tour, I got Paola and Angel. I mean. I'll take care of it, all right? CARLOTTA Get off me. Just move your damn RV. MAURICE Regional tour's in two weeks. I need looks and set lists and. NOAH Man, what about those tickets? You know Sound House is gonna be down our necks about the numbers. MAURICE Ticket sales are good. Especially because "Can't Stop Loving Her" just got listed by Spotify. ANDY Wait, what was that? MAURICE Andy and Angel, you're starting the tour with Midtown's top song. JAHIL That's a hit. That's a hit. ANDY Looks like we winning. JAHIL Now, listen, if that's not reason enough to finish that song, I don't know what is. And I told you this. We ain't losing nothing. ANDY Sounds like a win to me. ANGEL Bye, y'all. STAR How are those two idiots on top? We need to talk about radio play. NOAH Carlotta, I need you in the studio. ALEXANDRA No. Miss C, we need spins to get ahead. Group meeting right now. NOAH Wait, wait. I-I talked to Carlotta yesterday to set this up. STAR Excuse me, we're talking to our manager right now. CARLOTTA Okay. NOAH She's my manager, too. CARLOTTA Okay, everybody, one at a time. SIMONE Miss C, you should have never said that you were gonna manage him after what happened. CARLOTTA After what happened? ALEXANDRA Nothing important. STAR Nothing I can think of. SIMONE Hmm, yeah. Like, I don't know, before the showcase he was messing with the both of them. CARLOTTA Dude. At the same time? NOAH Look, it was not like that, all right? SIMONE Yes, it was. CARLOTTA Both these girls been acting messed up, and you the only common denominator. So, is it over? ALEXANDRA Completely. STAR Is what over? NOAH SIMONE Yeah, they all hoes. CARLOTTA Definitely some ho-ish behavior. CARLOTTA Maurice, we need to talk. MAURICE Hey. You get my e-mail about the tour backdrops? CARLOTTA I'm already on that. Get this- Noah was fooling around with Alex and Star before the showcase. All three of them working together to keep it from me. MAURICE That's some good teamwork right there. CARLOTTA No, it's not good. It don't make for good energy in a group. How did I not catch that? MAURICE Well, we've been busy with our own little secret. CARLOTTA Not to mention getting my salon back in compliance, paying down that damn fine. And now I gotta get my groups ready for this tour. I need a hot track ASAP. With Charles in Europe, you're in charge, right? MAURICE Yeah, why? CARLOTTA Well, Midtown Sound is a subsidiary of Floyd Entertainment. Floyd has gotta have a big vault full of unused tracks. Can I take a look? MAURICE Yeah. It's on my laptop. It's all yours. CARLOTTA Thank you, baby. I owe you. MAURICE Oh, I know. And trust, I'm-a call you on it. MARIELA Good stuff today, sir. DEREK You're a miracle worker. You know that? MARIELA Let's get a drink tonight. DEREK Look, I can't. I got this neighborhood thing. MARIELA I tried. DEREK Well, how 'bout you come with me? MARIELA I can do that. DEREK All right. I'll text you. ALEXANDRA Hey. SIMONE Uh... Miss C, how do you know DJ Khaled? You're getting him to give us a song? ALEXANDRA Wait, how you pulling that off? He is bomb. CARLOTTA Well, Momma's still got a couple tricks in her purse. I still gotta talk to him about this old demo I found. The deal ain't done yet. STAR I'm just trying to figure how Khaled knows you. CARLOTTA True artists remember and appreciate my work, smart ass. You ain't even think I knew Pumpkin. STAR True. CARLOTTA Or Big Boi. STAR True. ALEXANDRA Which is exactly why now we're going straight to the top of the tour. MISS RUBY Carlotta! CARLOTTA Ruby. MISS RUBY Hey. ALEXANDRA Hi, Miss Ruby. MISS RUBY Hey baby. Now, this bitch burned to the ground 'cause she got bad luck. CARLOTTA Girl, you crazy. MISS RUBY Here. Take this. Hang that picture up somewhere. Whoever heard of a salon without Martin there looking after all of us. CARLOTTA Oh. That's nice right there. STAR Miss Carlotta, it's a good spot next to Barack right there. It's all open, that would be cool. CARLOTTA Oh, you might be right. MISS RUBY That's President Obama to you, Missy. STAR Yeah, I-I know that. You didn't say Dr. King. You said Martin, I was following suit. MISS RUBY You got some nerve, comparing yourself to me. CARLOTTA Ruby, let her be now. Don't start. MISS RUBY No, no-no. You don't see her like I do. There's something bad about that little white devil bitch. STAR You know what, Miss Ruby? The only thing devilish in this room is that breath. MISS RUBY Oh I'm gonna- CARLOTTA Ruby, come on now. Ruby, don't.just. MISS RUBY She don't know me. CARLOTTA Come on, it's not like that. STAR SIMONE Girl, what is wrong with you? That crazy old lady's been calling you the devil since you met her. STAR Yeah, I know. SIMONE Look, I'm sorry I told Miss Carlotta about you, Alex and Noah, but we can't keep living lies, Star. STAR I'm not mad about that, Simone. I could care less. SIMONE Are you fighting with Brody or? STAR No, I ain't seen him. SIMONE Yeah. Man, I-I still can't believe he killed Arlene. What kind of sick person kills like that? STAR Me. SIMONE You mean Otis? You were protecting me. You didn't even kill him. BRODY What'd you do? What'd you do? What'd you do? What'd you do? SIMONE Star? Hello? STAR We got a party to set up, right? Let's go, kid. MAURICE Hey. I got the folding chairs you wanted being delivered. I'll pick up the ice on my way over tonight. CARLOTTA Thank you. MAURICE I got your text. CARLOTTA MAURICE How in the hell'd you find a DJ Khaled song in the vault? CARLOTTA Because he sold it to the Floyd's under one of his old street names. So I told him I'm giving it to Take 3. MAURICE Why wouldn't you give it to Noah? I mean, the melody sounds like it wants a solo artist. CARLOTTA Yeah, but the lyrics can be split up for a trio. The girls need this. MAURICE Yeah they do. They’ll be on every playlist with DJ Khaled. But you can't say it wouldn't be a good look for your new artist. CARLOTTA Don't have me feeling guilty about Noah. MAURICE I'm just saying. See you at the party, baby. SIMONE What are you doing? ANGEL I'm just trying to get this thing mixed. But something's not hitting right with these levels. SIMONE There you go whining again. ANGEL No, for real. Things just been messed up ever since my mom came around. SIMONE Yeah, don't hate me, but I went to go see her. ANGEL Simone. SIMONE Look, she is worried about you having problems with immigration. The fact that we're married but we ain't even living together. ANGEL What, you wanna come live with me? Me and the cockroaches? SIMONE No. Mm-mm. But I'm gonna ask Miss C if you could come move in with us in the salon. ANGEL Yeah. SIMONE Would you like that? ANGEL Are you kidding me? SIMONE 'Kay, but, listen. Your mom leaves for the D.R. tomorrow. You need to take your ass down to see her. I wish I had five more minutes with my mom. Just go. JAHIL Hey. PAOLA Hey. JAHIL I thought you was gonna call when you came back to town. PAOLA Why? I leave again tomorrow. JAHIL Before we can even talk? PAOLA Look, there's nothing for me here. Everyone has made that very, very clear. JAHIL No, we got stuff to figure out. Old stuff. So what? You're just gonna run away? PAOLA And you chose a line of coke and another woman over helping me and my son. JAHIL Look, I was messed up, all right, Paola. I.I was so messed up that I let you down. You don't think I know that? But seeing you again, it's.it's brought back everything I used to feel back then. PAOLA No, I don't want to do this. I'm happily married to a man who would do anything for me. JAHIL I don't wanna hear that. All right. I ain't leaving. PAOLA Well then we have a problem. JAHIL I guess we do. STAR That's so dope. I can't believe she found this. ALEXANDRA It’s crazy. STAR Wait a minute. Wait, Noah. Noah! NOAH Yeah? STAR What you listening to? Where'd you get that? NOAH This, uh, new DJ Khaled song. Carlotta gave it to me for tour. ALEXANDRA You mean our song? NOAH What you mean, your song? STAR It's ours. SIMONE Are you serious? ALEXANDRA That's our song. STAR Carlotta. CARLOTTA No, that's why I'm here. Listen. ALEXANDRA To what? Carlotta, you know that's perfect for Take 3. NOAH And for me too. Don't forget about what I could do to this track. STAR Yeah, we do know what you're gonna do to that track. You're gonna make it into a slow jam and dance around in circles shirtless like you always do. SIMONE You are kind of one note dude. NOAH That's funny coming from you three who would just be grinding on a chair, right? CARLOTTA I'm here for all y'all. Take 3 and Noah will both do demos. You turn 'em in today. Maurice will speak for Midtown and decide. And I promise I will find a joint just as hot for whoever doesn't get this one. NOAH Fair enough. ALEXANDRA Okay, all right, so we are right back to where we always were. STAR Competing with Noah Brooks. SIMONE Well, maybe you should've thought about that before you spread your legs for him. SIMONE Hey. Miss C, you got a sec? CARLOTTA I'm already late to help Bruce get set up for the party. You girls good to start the demo on your own, right? SIMONE Yeah. Yeah. CARLOTTA Okay. And check on your sister. Something is wrong with her. SIMONE Yeah. Well, by the way, Miss C, your wig is looking super fly today. Your hair's just glowing with that purple. CARLOTTA Okay, come on now. What do you want? SIMONE Look, I was thinking maybe Angel could live with us in the salon? CARLOTTA Hell no. I just got rid of his uncle. SIMONE Wait, please. It's to protect him against immigration in case they pop up. CARLOTTA You know it's more than that. You got feelings for him. SIMONE Yeah, well, look Miss C, I'm just trying to do the Christian thing. He needs us. CARLOTTA Christian thing, huh. All right, look, if you can find a couch or somewhere for him to sleep then. SIMONE Okay, okay! Thank you. CARLOTTA You're welcome. SIMONE Thank you, Miss C. CARLOTTA Yeah. SIMONE Yeah, you won't regret it. And you know what? We got room because Alex isn't moving back in. So, I'll set that all up. I'm gonna do my warmups. It's gonna be great. Okay. CARLOTTA Alex. Alex, I need to speak with you. ALEXANDRA I can't. I gotta go work on this demo you gave to Noah. CARLOTTA When y'all gonna stop acting like kids? Is Noah the reason you not back home? See, it's that business right there that broke up me and Mary. We let Jahil get between us and that was it. And I'm not about to let that happen to y'all. ALEXANDRA It's not Noah. It's Derek. Every time I see him, I feel guilty. That kills, you know. CARLOTTA Yeah. ALEXANDRA I can't live next door to him and focus on the tour. CARLOTTA Listen, Alex, just do what you need to do. Come home when you're ready. ALEXANDRA Thank you. CARLOTTA Yeah. All right. ALEXANDRA Now, where's Blondie? We got a song to fix. CARLOTTA All right. Make it a banger. ALEXANDRA Always. CARLOTTA Mm. NOAH All right, look, how 'bout just start from the top and sing all the way down. Yeah. STAR Of course Carlotta gave you our studio space. Why not? She already gave you our song. NOAH First of all, y'all are in Studio C, okay. And second, the song belongs to whoever makes it a hit. This is not personal, it's just how the game goes. You know that. STAR I'm tired of hearing it's not personal. It's a gang of managers in Atlanta and you chose mine. NOAH Oh my God. You seriously think everything is about you? Working with Carlotta is so I don't screw up my last chance. I'm not above asking for help. You should. 'Cause your attitude lately has been extra ugly. STAR That's what happens when you steal my manager. Or my music. Or anything that's mine. NOAH Nah, it's something else. You lie as good as that wig on your head. STAR You wish it was something else, Noah. NOAH Let's go. PAOLA Hi, baby. ANGEL I told Simone we'd talk so.but I guess you found better things to do. ANGEL She's only been here 24 hours and you're already in the bed with her? PAOLA Angel, it's not like that. JAHIL Didn't happen that way man. ANGEL This is what he does, Mom. PAOLA We have a lot of history from Miami. Me and your uncle. ANGEL He's not my uncle. Did you know she was married? JAHIL Yeah. She told me. ANGEL Nice. PAOLA My life right now was my Plan B. The first, the one that was meant to be was here with you and Jahil. JAHIL Angel she was young, all right. She didn't have any money. She had a baby, her visa was about to expire. But you know what man, I didn't give a damn about any of that. I fell in love with her anyway. ANGEL You left me. PAOLA Angel. You are and you will always be my first love. ANGEL And what is he? PAOLA He is someone that will always be there for me. And for you. PARTY PEOPLE MISS BRUCE Boy, don't stick your finger in my cake. KID Shut up, bitch. MISS BRUCE See what I'm talking about? WOMAN Handsome. MAURICE Hey hey. CARLOTTA Oh, hey baby. MAURICE I got the demos from Take 3 and Noah. I'll make a decision ASAP. CARLOTTA I don't have no time for that tonight. I only got time for this. We finally open. Look at my wallpaper. Look at my floors. Brand new floors and brand new chairs. MISS BRUCE Oh great, not all new. Mine's still got ashes on it. CARLOTTA And it's gonna stay just like that till you get your license back. Ooh, Maurice, let me show you what I did with the back. MISS BRUCE What's going on, Maurice? MAURICE Hey. MISS BRUCE Girl, why's everybody going off over Miss Ruby nasty ass pig feet? COTTON 'Cause it's nasty. MISS BRUCE Oh, who still eat pig feet? Smelling up the whole damn shop. COTTON Girl, well kick her ass out. MISS BRUCE You try kicking her out. As crazy and high as that bitch be. COTTON So you invited all the construction workers? MISS BRUCE Hey bae. BLUE MIKE Hey. MISS BRUCE Just one. And stay away from him. Ho. I will put a razor to that face if you try it. BLUE MIKE Naw, I'm-I'm straight. STAR I see that raggedy bitch back there. ALEXANDRA I honestly just want things to be okay with him. STAR Yeah. ALEXANDRA I should just go say hi. COTTON Why don't.no. You can't do that. STAR No. No-no-no. Not in front of her. ALEXANDRA It's fine. I got it. It's fine, it's fine. COTTON Well if you gonna go punch her in the throat. MARIELA Oh, he's so cute. What happened? Let me help you. Oh. Slow. Good? ALEXANDRA STAR What a bitch. I'ma get you a drink, okay? ALEXANDRA No, I'll end up just like my mom. COTTON Hey, come on, let's just get her inside. ALEXANDRA No. COTTON Come on, Alex, baby, you know she's just a rebound. She's not half as cute as you. STAR And I can smell a ho from far away. She's-she's preying on him, that's all it is. COTTON And you know they not getting it in. He can barely move his hips. STAR Right. ALEXANDRA He can move. He can move. This whole time I thought I was responsible for his pain. And yeah, I'm responsible for what I did but I didn't kill his father. I wasn't the one driving the car that hit him. I just-I just liked someone else. COTTON I feel that same way about Elliot. It's like, sometimes I gotta remind myself that I'm not the one that killed him. ALEXANDRA Yeah, we screwed up. COTTON Yeah. BRODY What'd you do? COTTON Hey, where you going? MISS RUBY I think you in for a.seeing that cake. CARLOTTA Oh, Ruby. You seen Simone? She better not be no where with your weed in her mouth. MISS RUBY What am I, her social worker? Why don't you ask her cracker ass sister? CARLOTTA That's not cute. STAR Miss Ruby Anna, you stay on that bottle, but you got one more time. MISS RUBY Or else what? STAR Or I will knock them dentures out your head. MISS BRUCE Oh God, child, let that go. CARLOTTA Ruby, sit your drunk ass down. MISS RUBY Come on, bitch, you wanna fight? Let's do it. STAR Get this old lady outta here, Miss Carlotta. 'Cause I don't care anymore. MISS RUBY I've been waiting to stand my ground. Come on, let's do it. CARLOTTA Ruby! Miss Ruby! STAR Okay, 'cause you are a bitter old bitch! You know that?! Let me go, Maurice! MISS RUBY white bitch! Let go of me! Let go of me! I got your bitch! CARLOTTA Get her outta here. MISS RUBY Get me this bitch. MAURICE That's a old woman in there. What the hell is wrong with you? CARLOTTA What’re you doing? Give me that bottle. Sit down. SIMONE You saw your mom? That's huge. ANGEL Wanna talk or makeout? SIMONE Make out. CARLOTTA In my wig room? My brand new wig room? Get downstairs and put some damn clothes on. SIMONE I have my jeans on. ANGEL You think she's still gonna let me stay? SIMONE You know how to shampoo hair? ANGEL No. SIMONE Well. JAX So you decided to come back. It's been what, a month? STAR I dunno. JAX I see you know how to drink. STAR I guess it's a special occasion. JAX What are we celebrating? STAR We're not celebrating. We're forgetting. Oh! JAX Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa. You all right? STAR Yes. Yes, I'm good. JAX You sure? STAR Yeah. I'm good. You look good. JAX Thank you. STAR Mm-hmm. JAX What are you trying to forget? STAR I did something bad. I did something really bad. And I can't talk to anybody about it. I can't tell anybody. JAX What can I do to take your mind off of it? Trust me. I want to. STAR What do you mean you want to? Then why aren't we in the back seat of your car right now? JAX 'Cause we ain't done drinking yet. STAR Okay. Then more drinks. Not that. JAX Okay. Order something. STAR Whiskey! We need alcohol. Is there a bartender? PAOLA Put that thing out. You just had a heart attack. JAHIL Maybe it's a good thing Angel showed up when he did. I needed to pace myself before round two. PAOLA You sound so sure of yourself. JAHIL You know, back in the day it would've been round three, round four. PAOLA This is just how I remember us. JAHIL Mm. Better food though. PAOLA Mm-hmm. JAHIL You know, what you said to Angel, maybe you were right. We did miss our chance. PAOLA Yeah. JAHIL But we're here now. I wanna try. Do you? NOAH Girl, I've been looking all over for you. ALEXANDRA Well, you found me. NOAH Yeah, in the last place I'da thought your bougie ass would be. Look. I'm sorry I messed things up for you and Derek. ALEXANDRA Well, it's not like you were the only one on that stage. And backstage. NOAH Yeah. ALEXANDRA No, I'm-I'm responsible too. I was right there with you. I knew what was happening between us, I just tried to ignore it. I didn't think it was fair to Derek. But I knew exactly how you made me feel. NOAH How's that? ALEXANDRA Happy. And you were right, about me being a little bougie. NOAH Alex, I was-I was just messing with you. ALEXANDRA Mm-hmm. No, no it's fine. Being a little bougie just means that.you know exactly what you want. NOAH So.what is it that you want? CARLOTTA Good-bye. Thanks for coming. Good seeing you. Good night. Hey, where's Star? SIMONE She went to the label to calm down. She was upset. Yo, I'm tired of Miss Ruby busting on my sister like that. She can't help she white. CARLOTTA Look, I want to talk to you about Angel. I don't want him hurting you. SIMONE The only way I'm gonna get hurt is if he gets deported. CARLOTTA Oh. All right, he can live here. But you staying upstairs. And he's staying in that RV. Since Jahil don't wanna move the damn thing anyway. That way if ICE shows up, we can say you living there with him. SIMONE Okay. CARLOTTA Are you using protection? SIMONE We ain't done nothing. CARLOTTA Well, you sure look like you were about to to me. I'm getting you on the pill. But until then, you stay away from that RV. The last thing I need is one of my girls getting busy in that nasty hooptie. ALEXANDRA Hold on. Hold on. NOAH What? NOAH No, wait wait wait wait wait wait. ALEXANDRA What? NOAH Are you sure about this? Please say yes. ALEXANDRA Yes. Yeah, but Noah, we can't have this a secret, okay? I can't have that. Not with Take 3. That's family. NOAH Okay, okay, we'll tell everyone. ALEXANDRA Yeah? NOAH Yeah. ALEXANDRA Okay. NOAH Yeah. Wait, you-you-you wanna tell them now? ALEXANDRA No-no-no. NOAH Okay. Okay. ALEXANDRA Not right now, no. Wait, you have protection right? Please say yes. NOAH Yes. ALEXANDRA Okay. STAR Okay, let's go. JAX Easy. STAR I'm ready to go. JAX Easy. Okay. Okay. STAR Yup. JAX You live close? STAR Yup. Yeah. I live, um, I walked here. That's close. JAX You live alone? STAR Yeah, no, no-no. There's a lot of people, but we have a big backyard. It'll work. MAURICE Yo. Thanks for calling me. STAR Maurice. You're not supposed to be here. You're supposed to be listening to the song for the DJ. And giving it to us. MAURICE Come on. Let's get out of here. STAR No. I'm not going with you. We're supposed to have sex, remember? JAX Next time. MAURICE Look, I got it from here. STAR No, I'm not go- I'm not going with you. MAURICE What-What-What are you pulling, a Simone? Why are you doing this to yourself? You don't get down like this. STAR Why'd I do what to myself? Why am I trying to forget? Because I'm tired of fighting with everybody and everybody fighting with me. MAURICE Look, you are strong, Star. Strong people fight for what they want. Now let's go. STAR No, I'm not going with you. And I'm not going to that party. If you take me there, I will kill Miss Ruby. MAURICE The party's over. Let's go. STAR No, I'll kill her. I'll really kill her. I've done it before. MAURICE Star, you're drunk. You ain't never killed nobody. Now let's go. STAR Yes, I did. I did. MAURICE Carlotta told me about what you tried with Otis. You were strong then too, and you were trying to protect your sister. STAR I'm not talking about Otis. The other one. MAURICE The other one? What other one? STAR You can't tell Simone. Okay. Simone can never know that I killed her, you understand? If I tell you. MAURICE Look, no-no-no, Star, Star, Star, who did you kill? STAR Our mother. JAHIL Paola? PAOLA Jahil, I'm going back to my husband. JAHIL Wait-wait, what? Why-Why are you doing this, girl? PAOLA It's too late. But that doesn't change you being my first love. But you can't be my last. Take care of Angel, okay? He looks up to you. STAR MAURICE How you feeling? STAR Thank you. MAURICE I brought you home last night. Your boy Jax texted Simone, she asked me because she figured you'd get busted by Carlotta. You don't remember me coming? STAR I don't remember anything. Oh my God, did I try to have sex with you? MAURICE No. Naw, you just talked. STAR What'd I talk about? MAURICE About how you fight hard for your dreams. How you need it. STAR Awesome. MAURICE And about that- you're getting a win today. Not even Carlotta knows it yet. STAR Well, hit me, I need that. MAURICE The DJ Khaled track is going to Take 3 for the tour. Y'all did the damn thing. STAR Is our version better than Noah's? MAURICE Y'all both had hot tracks. STAR You know what, let him keep it. We don't need a pity track. We can get to the top on our own. MAURICE Yeah, I know you will. You're a killer. Feel better. STAR SIMONE Yeah, well, you better move in your stuff quick before Miss C changes her mind. Okay. ANGEL Yeah, all right, all right. I'll have my stuff moved in by the end of today. Thank you Simone. SIMONE Boy, it's just an RV. ANGEL No, it's saving me. You're saving me. SIMONE Well, that's what wives are for, right? ANGEL Guess so. SIMONE So are we gonna hear the song? ANGEL Yeah. If you sing it with me. SIMONE I'll think about it. ANGEL Okay. OTIS Simone. ANGEL Simone. Simone. So, d'you like it? SIMONE Oh yeah. Oh, I loved it. ANGEL Okay good. DEREK Glad you came last night. MARIELA Me too. So- Alex Crane. She was your girl, huh? DEREK She was. Not anymore. MARIELA You sure about that? I mean, the way she was looking at you. DEREK Yeah, I'm sure. MARIELA How sure? DEREK Very sure. MARIELA Anyone in the house right now? DEREK No. STAR It's looking good. CARLOTTA Don't start, Ruby. MISS RUBY I, um, I got a lot of reasons to hate you. STAR Well, I could find a few reasons to hate you too, Miss Ruby. MISS RUBY A white man stole my daddy's farm. A white woman spit at me. A white man killed my son in cold blood. That's why I can't stand none of you. It's not fair for me to put you with all them evil white folks either. Ain't it funny how we can be done in over and over again but we still expect it to be fair? I survived Jim Crow, I survived the KKK, and I'm gonna survive that monster in the White House. So I guess I can handle your ass. Plus, I don't think you're really white. STAR Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm pretty sure I am white, Miss Ruby. MISS RUBY Well, not that kind of white. STAR Thank you. I guess. Oh my God. CARLOTTA Where you been? Did you sleep here? ALEXANDRA Uh, yeah, in the RV. With Noah CARLOTTA Jesus take the wheel. MISS BRUCE Damn. Don't do nothing till I get back. This is better than one of my stories. Disgusting. MISS BRUCE I'm sorry, ma'am, we got about one more hour before we open. NAKISHA No, I'm actually looking for someone. My son's father used to live here. MISS BRUCE Your son's father? That damn Peruvian bastard could never keep his pants on. Jahil left about two weeks ago. I can get his number though. NAKISHA Not him. My son's father is named Arnold. MISS BRUCE Arnold? COTTON Arnold's not here no more.