ALEX ALEXANDRA ALL ANDY ANGEL ANNOUNCER AUDIENCE AYANNA BRODY CARLOTTA CASSIE CHARLES COP COTTON DEREK DRIVER GIGI ICE_AGENT_1 INTERVIEWER JAHIL LENA MAN MAURICE MISS_BRUCE NEWSCASTER NOAH OFFICER PAPARAZZI PHOTGRAPHER SIMONE STAGE_MANAGER STAR TICKETING_AGENT TICKET_AGENT TV_AUDIENCE STAR Last time y’all saw Star. JAHIL Look out! Andy, get down. CARLOTTA Jahil! CASSIE Give me my money, or next time we won't miss. ANGEL They denied my DACA application. ICE AGENT 1 Angel Rivera, you are to be detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ANGEL Get off of me! SIMONE You can't take him. No, no, no. Angel! BRODY What did you do? MAURICE Star, who did you kill? STAR Our mother. CARLOTTA You drinking again? NOAH It was just one drink. AYANNA Noah, you're getting your own headlined tour. ALEXANDRA You're drunk, pull over. OFFICER License and registration, please. CARLOTTA I got Ayanna to give us an album release date. STAR Maybe you should decide if you're here for Alexandra Crane or Take 3. MAURICE What are you going to do? CARLOTTA Ever since Star was little, she believed her name was who she was. But I told her, fame is a trip. It ain't love like a lot of people think. But she wouldn't listen. Star don't listen to nobody but herself. DEREK What's up, y'all? CARLOTTA Hey. What's a goodie in the hoodie? DEREK Please tell me y'all got time to edge me up today. CARLOTTA Bruce will take care of you. MISS BRUCE What's this? CARLOTTA It's your new chair. You paid your fine, you took your classes, and now you can do hair again. Legally. MISS BRUCE About damn time. Linda, back up off my client, bitch, I got her. STAR Anybody seen this shoe? The other one? MISS BRUCE Mm, look at you. I need to be working on this mop on your head. STAR You don't like it? MISS BRUCE No. Ain't you getting ready for an album release party tonight? STAR Whatcha wanna do, cut it all off? MISS BRUCE We'll need to do something, yeah let's cut it. STAR All right. SIMONE Hey. Sorry I was visiting Angel. CARLOTTA What they saying about the trial date? SIMONE It's a couple weeks. That detainment center's like juvie, I shouldn't even be going to this party. CARLOTTA Look, we going to help Angel. But this is your first album. We gotta celebrate now. SIMONE Wohoo. CARLOTTA Yeah, wohoo. STAR Mm. Don't y'all wish Jahil was here to try take credit for all of this? CARLOTTA He would be trying to take credit, too. But there's one thing he can't take credit for. Sound House wants Noah to co-headline a tour with GiGi. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. The tour starts in one month. And. STAR And. CARLOTTA And yes, you are the opening act. ALEXANDRA Finally. CARLOTTA We going on the road, baby. STAR We going on tour! DEREK You did that. STAR We did it. ALEXANDRA We did it. STAR We did it. MISS BRUCE Shh. Wait, and listen, this.it's y'all on the radio. STAR What? MISS BRUCE It's Take 3. SIMONE Miss C, is it that song we? No, it's just Star. SIMONE You're trashing me and Angel. STAR Simone, it's not. CARLOTTA I don't want to hear that. Bruce, caught that off. ALEXANDRA No, no, let it play. MISS BRUCE Damn. Better hide the knives. STAR I was pissed. I was alone in the studio. So I was venting, but it was never supposed to come out. ALEXANDRA I'll show you pissed! CARLOTTA Alex, hey-hey! STAR I've never tried to fight you, Alexandra. SIMONE CARLOTTA Hey! ALEXANDRA SIMONE Stop! CARLOTTA Whoa, whoa, stop. ALEXANDRA I'm sick. CARLOTTA Alex, Alex! ALEXANDRA Look at you! STAR Oh, look at me! ALEXANDRA I'm sick of this! Sick of this. STAR What? CARLOTTA Get off of her, let her go! ALEXANDRA Let me go. Let me go! PAPARAZZI Over here, this way. / Over here, over here! CARLOTTA Now when y’all walk in that room, it's all about Take 3. You leave your butt-hurt feelings right here. ALEXANDRA Tell Star to leave her ego out and we'll be straight. STAR I said that I was sorry. Bitch. ALEXANDRA Whatever, you lovin' hip hop Love & Hip Hop reject. CARLOTTA Yeah, y'all finished? You're 30 days away from a national tour. Something y'all been fighting for this whole time. Don't disappoint me. PAPARAZZI Take 3! Alex Crane, over here. / Alex! CARLOTTA Jahil, you would leave me right now with this mess. GIGI Because it's Gigi Nixon, y'all. And I'm all about turning up. Don't act like y'all don't know. Come on. I have been working on this album nonstop. Everybody is. CARLOTTA I'm tired of your punk ass lying to me. NOAH CARLOTTA You told me you had one drink at Hot Track 'cause you were nervous. NOAH No. CARLOTTA You're going on tour with GiGi. NOAH What you want, give me a breathalyzer? CARLOTTA Yo, who do you think you're talking to? Look, you're about to sign a contract with a big cash advance. But if you get busted, you're gonna have to pay back that money. NOAH I'm good, Miss C. I'm good. Look at me. CARLOTTA Don't mess with me, boy. GIGI Give me a moment. This is about to be the hottest tour since B and J. NOAH Yes, it is. GIGI Are you ready for this? NOAH I am so ready. GIGI No, you're not. NOAH Naw, I'm ready. GIGI Okay, well, we gotta turn up tonight. We gotta celebrate. NOAH Naw, I'm good. GIGI Negro, please. NOAH No. GIGI I don't know about you, but I'm tired of just working. Okay, we have to have fun. We gotta get into it. And have some fun. NOAH Gigi.oh, you 'bout to get me in trouble, are you. GIGI I know you want to. NOAH All right, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in. I'm in. GIGI Well, let's go. Come on. NOAH What. GIGI Ladies and gentlemen, Noah Brooks. Show 'em what you got, baby. NOAH How you doing? GIGI Baby blue in the house. STAR I told you not to drop that track. Why would you do that to me? MAURICE 'Cause it's a hit. STAR Do I have your attention now? MAURICE Oh, you got everybody's attention. The question is what do you want to do with it? STAR I want a hit, Maurice. But not like this. You played me. And I'm tired of men playing me. MAURICE See, you ain't thinking straight. I am. That song is gonna get people talking about you. It might even get you a solo performance on this tour. You about to be the hottest piece of this Take 3 puzzle. Look me in my eyes and say you don't want that. COTTON I can't believe Jahil was living here. I thought waiting a few days would make this easier. CARLOTTA He brought it back to his roots. Mary and I used to record in this studio. CASSIE Mm-hmm. CARLOTTA Yeah, we did that right here. CASSIE How in the hell did Jahil afford a recording studio? CARLOTTA 'Cause he was a hustler. I can't believe he's dead. CASSIE Sis, he was good people. And I know you loved him. I'ma find out who did this. Y'all take all the time you need, I'm going to be in the car. CARLOTTA Cassie. Thank you. NOAH Uh-uh. Uh. Y-Y'all filming this? I'm about to make your precinct famous. Uh. Make sure you all get my good side too. COP Mr. Brooks, you might want to take this more seriously. Sir, you've been arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct and you assaulted a security guard at the club. NOAH Man, you crazy. I didn't - I didn't assault nobody. That ain't true. COP Turn to the right, please. NOAH You happy? COP Your right, Mr. Brooks. NOAH I know, I-I know I'm right. I know I'm right. COP Turn to the right, sir. CARLOTTA Not returning calls now? NOAH No, w-- what is you doing? I'm sitting here working on my tour. CARLOTTA Hm. NOAH I got into it with Andy. What? CARLOTTA Yeah, you got drunk, didn't you? NOAH Man, whatever. CARLOTTA Don't play with me, boy. You know what? I'm sending you out with a handler on tour because obviously you can't handle yourself. NOAH Man, I ain't your child. CARLOTTA I told you to stop drinking, didn't I? Hard head make a soft ass, Noah. NOAH No, first of all, you got it all twisted. You work for me. It ain't the other way around. You better know your place. All right? CARLOTTA My place? NOAH Yeah, your place. CARLOTTA You need to sit your ass down. NOAH You know what? You're fired. AYANNA I have to call you back, Doctor. CHARLES He better be prescribing you some damn sense. AYANNA You can't be here. We're still trying to calm the scandal. CHARLES My board is starting to believe some of this nonsense and they want to kick me out of Floyd Entertainment. But if that jackass Trump can win, so can I. Besides, who's going to run this company? You? INTERVIEWER How about this, tell us how you guys met. STAR How we met. ALEXANDRA Huh. SIMONE We were born out the same. STAR We were born from the same womb. We've told this story so many times. ALEXANDRA STAR but I was on, um, the Gram doing covers, kind of like everybody else and I was hoping to meet a dope song writer. That's how I met Alex. ALEXANDRA Yeah, I wasn't as confident in my music as I am now. But, Star was one of the first people that made me feel like I could make it in the industry. INTERVIEWER That's dope. You guys got a lot of individual success as well as group success. Alex, I'm checking out "So Sick." That thing is literally so sick. And Star, "There For You?” That thing is blazing up the charts like wildfire. It's very revealing. ALEXANDRA A lot of people love to see girl groups rip each other apart. But there's no beef here. Is there? INTERVIEWER I'm a fan. I love to hear that. Especially since word is that Star's "There For You" just hit seven million downloads. Congratulations, Star. What's next, ladies? AYANNA I have to hand it to you. You saved your damn job with Star's new single. MAURICE I'm taking advantage of the momentum. I booked her a photo shoot and I got more coming. CARLOTTA I knew I'd find your slippery ass here. You bailed Noah out of jail and then you covered it up. I got friends at the police station. MAURICE Yeah. His face would be all over the press and this tour would be over before it started. CARLOTTA You're enabling him. MAURICE Didn't he fire you? CARLOTTA You better wake the hell up before you lose everything. You got one artist who needs rehab, and the others are being torn apart because of a song you released. AYANNA When I heard Star's single on air, it already had heat. I didn't release it. CARLOTTA Then who did? MAURICE I did. Star had some things to get off her chest. We struck gold. CARLOTTA You just up in everything now, huh? MAURICE No, not anymore. I'm picking up your slack. I mean, you got a lot going on. Losing Jahil and. CARLOTTA Keep his name out of your mouth. If you hurt Noah, or you come between my girls, me and you going to have a problem. Try me, bitch. JAHIL Look out! Andy, get down! ANDY Hey. What you doing here? CASSIE I want my money, Andy. ANDY Cassie. I'm going to get you your money. Okay? CASSIE You think just 'cause you hit it right, I'm playing around or something? ANDY Come on, Cassie. I always take care of you, don't I? Hm? Say yeah. CASSIE ANDY Yeah. CASSIE Keep going. ANDY All right. CASSIE Maybe it'll buy you a week. Before I stop at that coffee shop on Peachtree. The one where your parents have brunch every week. Why you ain't tell me they was white? ANDY Cassie, if you don't leave my parents out of this. CASSIE That's up to you. SIMONE Break time. PHOTGRAPHER Let's get out of here SIMONE Since when you doing solo shoots? STAR When Alex was doing all of her solo stuff, you kept saying it would help Take 3. What's the difference now, Simone? SIMONE Alex didn't put out a diss track. STAR We're finally getting everything we wanted. Yeah, the track is working, so I'm doing what I can to help us. SIMONE There you go again. Trying to save me. Look, you should save your damn self. STAR It's for Mama, too. SIMONE This has nothing to do with Mama. STAR Yes it does. I got to do what she couldn't. 'Cause I'm the one who killed her. SIMONE Stop, Star. You didn't kill her. The drugs did. STAR She said she needed medicine so I gave it to her. But she seemed like she was getting worse, so I gave her more. And she died. I've been trying to find a way to tell you. SIMONE Yeah, that's because you think I'm some broken kid that can't handle themselves. But I can. And I ain't going to hold it against you, what happened between you and Mama. You were a kid. Yeah, but you need to let it go. STAR I can still see her dying, Simone. SIMONE Let it go, Star. It's a choice to be broken. NOAH I thought you weren't messing with the Jackson track anymore. ALEXANDRA Star's getting hers, so I can get mine. NOAH You sure you know what you're doing? You three girls together are fire. ALEXANDRA Have you talked to Carlotta yet? NOAH Here we go. All right, look. I know you had to get me out of that DUI and I hate that I let you do it, but I hate it even more that you hold it over me over some lies in a track. ALEXANDRA Were they really lies, Noah? NOAH Come on. I'm going home. ALEXANDRA Yeah, you do that. CARLOTTA Cotton, just sit down and say whatever it is. CASSIE What is this about, Cotton? Damn. COTTON I know who killed Jahil. It was Omari. I let him live. I couldn't go through with it and I gave him a second chance. But. CARLOTTA You stupid bitch! CASSIE Carlotta, no, don't. CARLOTTA He knew that was her father. And now he know you got a son out there. Omari's a dead man. CASSIE No. No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. CARLOTTA Stupid playing with this fool I told you not to play with from the beginning. CASSIE Look. If I let you walk out that door, you're going to ruin your life. You ain't killed nobody yet. Just 'cause you went along with that plan with me and mama, you still didn't nobody. And you ain't about to. You need to get Cotton and her baby out of town. I've got this. I'll do this. COTTON I'm I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. CARLOTTA Come here. Come here. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. SIMONE I visited Jahil's grave for you. And I talked to your mom, we're getting money together for a lawyer. ANGEL My hearing moved up. SIMONE What? ANGEL I'm being deported. SIMONE No, no, who do we got to call? ANGEL Simone, I lost. I don't have any rights here. SIMONE You have me here. And I'm not going to lose you. ANGEL You have your whole life ahead of you. I'm leaving. My lawyer said he's going to help us get an annulment. SIMONE No. ANGEL Hey. SIMONE No. What are you doing? ANGEL I love you. SIMONE CARLOTTA Good Day Atlanta's going to start off with a performance reel. Get everybody pumped up about tomorrow's tour opening. Come on, babe. Time to get up. SIMONE He left me here because he thought this is what I wanted and I don't want this. I want him. I want him and I'll do whatever it takes to get him back and be with him again. CARLOTTA Simone, you've been in this bed two weeks. SIMONE I don't expect you to understand, Miss C. Because you never loved anyone the way that I loved Angel. Ow! CARLOTTA Now get your little narrow ass up off of that floor and stop acting crazy. And yes, I have loved. I just buried him. TV AUDIENCE ALEXANDRA Going home? NOAH If I want to be ready for my first night on tour, I need to go get some real sleep. ALEXANDRA Maybe we can relax in other ways. I'm just really tired of fighting. NOAH ALEXANDRA I am trying to fix you just like I tried to fix my mom. NOAH Yo, look, I'll throw it away, look, it's nothing. ALEXANDRA No, and then you'll buy another one just like she did. I can't do this again. With you. NOAH This is just to take the edge off, that's all. Please l-let, look, I don't need it. Please. ALEXANDRA I can't. NOAH Don't say that, don't say that. Please. Don't cry. Come on. I'm sorry. I'm trying. Come on. It's you and me. You and me. ALEXANDRA Get out. NOAH ALEXANDRA ANNOUNCER Yo ATL, make some noise! MAN 15 minutes to show time. CARLOTTA We at 15. Listen, don't let tonight get ruined by all this mess. This is what y'all been chasing for months and here it is. We're here. Now, look, I know Noah is on that bill and so is Gigi, they got the pictures, but Take 3 is right there in the middle and you got a crowd out there that's waiting to hear Take 3. So, I need y'all to get hype, get it up and get ready to murder them out there. You know what I'm saying? You got to put it in. ALEX Yes, Miss C. STAR Yes, Miss C. SIMONE Yes, Miss C. CARLOTTA Come on, come on. Come on. ALEXANDRA For you. Only for you, Miss C. CARLOTTA Of course for me. It ain't about you all the time. It's for me. CARLOTTA I get some, too, tonight. It's a good night for me. Ready? One, two, three. ALL Take 3! CARLOTTA Yes. That wasn't.see? That wasn't so bad. Why y'all act like y'all hate each other? Y'all know y'all love when I get you all to do that. I'll be in the hall if you need me. Come on, get ready. ALEXANDRA Let's do it. AUDIENCE AUDIENCE Y'all know me! Y'all know me! Y'all know me! STAR Thank y'all for downloading my new single. I don't - I don't know what to say. I'ma let you all say it. AUDIENCE Y'all know me! Y'all know me! Y'all know me! Oh! LENA Sound House can't get behind this. CARLOTTA Look, don't worry about it. I'll get 'em together. It-It'll be fine. LENA Uh, this group cannot make it through an entire national tour. Take 3 is out. CARLOTTA Wait a minute. I think we're just going too fast. MAURICE Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't have to do that. LENA Uh, guys. MAURICE Star's single is getting national attention. It's definitely hot enough to push ticket sales. Your opening act is standing right there. CARLOTTA What you trying to pull? MAURICE I'm only doing what you should be doing as her manager. CARLOTTA I told you stop trying to come between these girls. Star, don't listen to this mess. AYANNA Carlotta, he's not wrong. Star has proven to be a crowd-pleaser across all demographics. ALEXANDRA All demographics. Right. I'm not standing here listening to this. SIMONE We ain't a family. Not no more. STAR Everything I've ever done has been for us. SIMONE Would you stop with the lies? CARLOTTA Look, Take 3 is a package deal. AYANNA Not according to their contract with Midtown. LENA Then Sound House is on board. Star joins the tour as a solo artist. If she's in. NOAH GIGI Well, my A game is on baby. And yours better be, too. What's up? NOAH Nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Just trying to just trying to get my mind right. GIGI Isn't Alex supposed to be helping out with that? NOAH She trippin'. Just like Carlotta they don't get the pressure and what it takes for me to get out of it. GIGI Your process is your process- everybody got their own thing. I know I do. Want to share? NOAH What you got? You stupid, girl. Mm. GIGI Turn up. AUDIENCE Noah! Noah! Noah! Noah! NOAH Yo, I want to thank y'all for coming out tonight. Thank you so much. This means so much to me. Y'all my people. I know I've been through a lot, I made some bad mistakes.but y'all stood by my side. And I really love you for that. And to get things started, I want to bring my girl out. GiGi. AUDIENCE GIGI We are not together, so I really don't understand what the hell the big issue is about what I'm doing? NOAH I know that. Of course you don't understand. GIGI Of course I'm not going to understand. NOAH You reckless. GIGI What you mean I'm reckless? NOAH What you mean what I mean? You reckless, you reckless, you outchea. GIGI See this the right here that I'm talking about this is why we are not together. NOAH Man, look. Look. Even though we ain't together. GIGI I mean. NOAH We still homies all right. You out here got your in these streets. GIGI You know what. NOAH And I don't like it. AUDIENCE Noah! Noah! NOAH STAGE MANAGER Is it cool? You okay? DEREK Alex you okay? ALEXANDRA I just—I got in a car, and I didn't know where I was going, and then- I was hoping you were here. DEREK Something happen with Noah? What did he do? ALEXANDRA No. It doesn't have anything to do with him. He's a drunk just like my mother, and I'm becoming my father. DEREK Stop it. That is not who you are. ALEXANDRA It didn't used to be. Not when I was with you. I'm going to New York tomorrow. I just need to ask my dad why he's so messed up. Why am I constantly trying to find something new, just like he does, when everything was perfect right in front of me. DEREK I got a girl now. And it's easy with her. She doesn't lie to me. AYANNA Of course I'm interested in running the company. Ah, but it'll require I want to take my father out of Floyd Entertainment, but it will take some chess moves - Let me call you back. Why are you working in the dark? ANDY I was just taking some time to organize your calendar now. AYANNA Is that my checkbook? You're forging my name? ANDY Ayanna, I got- uhp. AYANNA Security is gonna get you out of here. ANDY Please listen to me, just, someone's trying to- AYANNA Andy, give me-Get- let go of the gun! Andy, look, don't! ANDY I got it- somebody's trying to kill me! AYANNA Why? What is wrong with you? ANDY Oh. I'm sorry. So sorry. I need you. ANDY Thank you for coming. I didn't know who to call. I didn't know what to do. CARLOTTA Did you touch that gun? Did you touch the gun? ANDY Yeah. What you doing? CARLOTTA Getting your fingerprints off of it. AYANNA Oh, damn it. CARLOTTA All right. I got it. Go get yourself cleaned up. Okay. All right. You're going to be all right. There's an ambulance on the way, okay? AYANNA No ambulance. CARLOTTA What? AYANNA I've been shot in my own office? I won't give my father the satisfaction of thinking I'm weak. CARLOTTA Girl, stop it. You ain't weak. AYANNA Carlotta I'm preg.I'm pregnant. It's Jahil's. I'm a mess. CARLOTTA I know it was a lot of blood. But she's already discharged- and back to work. But you gotta tell me, why you needed that money so bad. ANDY Jahil's bullet was meant for me. CARLOTTA Who you owe? Who's after you? Look, I can help you but you gonna have to give me a name. Who killed Jahil? Don't look at me! Answer me! ANDY Your sister. Cassie. CARLOTTA My Cassie? You owe my sister money? Is you crazy? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. ANDY Carlotta- Carlotta. Carlotta. AYANNA I think you're right. CHARLES Ah, I see we have a quorum in here today- You're in my seat, girl. AYANNA It's not your seat anymore. I'm taking over leadership of Floyd Entertainment. You are the one who taught me how to play chess, daddy. CHARLES True, true, very true. AYANNA Checkmate. Get him out of here. CHARLES Don't put your hands on me don't.get off of me damn it! AYANNA Bye. Perfect timing. Now that I'll be running Floyd Entertainment, allow me to introduce you to the new head of Midtown Sound Carlotta Brown. CARLOTTA You're fired. GIGI Woo! Slow down. Pace yourself. NOAH My bad. I'm here, we here. GIGI We here? NOAH We here. STAR Yo, can y'all chill? I can hear you from my dressing room. GIGI Noah, please don't tell me you messing with this bitch again. NOAH Whoa. STAR Second night of a national tour- you believe that? NOAH What's up? STAR When I got to Atlanta, it was just me and the girls. That's all we had, was each other. So when I pictured this, I was here with them. Instead I'm here with you. Look at you. Noah, you're throwing it all away. NOAH Man, I'm not trying to hear your mouth right now before I go on stage. STAR What are you trying to do? What the hell are you doing, Noah? NOAH I'm on top, Star. That's what this looks like. That's what it is. But you wouldn't know that, 'cause you ain't never been here before. STAR I'm right where you are! I'm alone, and you're alone. And you're crumbling. NOAH I ain't alone, you hear them- you hear them crowds? STAR And you're crumbling. It's a choice to be broken, I'm learning that. I'm trying to change. Are you ever going to change? You can't, can you? ‘Cause you think all of this makes you an artist. It don't. It just makes you an addict. Not Prince. Not Michael. Just an addict. ANNOUNCER Y'all give it up for Star Davis. DRIVER Airport? SIMONE International terminal. TICKET AGENT Uh, name please. ALEXANDRA Alexandra Crane. TICKET AGENT And where are you flying today? ALEXANDRA New York. TICKET AGENT Great, your ID, please? DEREK How you doing Miss? I need to get on that last plane to New York. TICKETING AGENT Oh, I'm sorry sir, that gate's about to close- DEREK My girl's on that damn plane. AUDIENCE STAR NEWSCASTER It's just been announced. An airplane has gone down in the Appalachian Mountains. We can confirm it is a flight out of Atlanta. Names of those on board have not yet been released. STAR It just makes you an addict. CASSIE It's whiskey popping. Cotton leave already? CARLOTTA Yeah, she starts at, uh, Floyd Style tomorrow. So I put her on the last flight to New York. CASSIE That's good. She deserves a new start. Rough year for her. CARLOTTA Barely been a month since her father died. CASSIE That ain't easy to get over. Here. CARLOTTA Yeah, especially when his murderer is somebody she loved. Somebody she believed in. But, you know, some people always let you down. CASSIE I know how that feels. CARLOTTA So do I. CASSIE Sometimes you don't know who to trust. CARLOTTA Well, it's a good thing you took him out. Omari, I mean. CASSIE You know I always got your back, Carlotta. CARLOTTA The hell you do.