ALEX CASHIER CASSIE CHLOE COTTON DAUGHTER DEREK DETECTIVE_MONTERO GOON GUY HOST JACKSON JAMAL KENNETH_ANDERSON LIL_DINI MATEO MAURICE MEGAN MIKE_MIKE MISS_BRUCE NEWS_REPORTER NOAH PEOPLE REPORTER_1 SIMONE STAR STYLIST UNIFORMED_OFFICER VALET WIFE WOMAN WOMEN XANDER YOUNG_MOTHER PEOPLE CASSIE Last time on Star. STAR I did hear that you conned your way into a job at Gravity. REPORTER 1 Is it true you used the sex tape to kick off your solo career? ALEX No. DEREK I did not cheat on you. ALEX Really, Derek? DETECTIVE MONTERO Are you going to tell her about us? DEREK What do you think is going to happen if I let her know I'm a criminal informant? DETECTIVE MONTERO Then you shouldn't've been caught with the Bankhead Crew. MATEO I brought in a new headliner who is loud and very controversial. WOMEN ALEX Lil Dini? NOAH "Noah, who has been inspiring your love songs you've been putting out?" MAURICE We made a beautiful baby. I can't bring Kayla back. JACKSON You still don't trust me? STAR It's cool, I've been living out this bag my whole life. CASSIE I'mma look suspect trying to clean all of this cash when you know I'm trying to go legit. XANDER We got a rat problem. COTTON I was trying to figure out what happened to my father. CASSIE Trust me. CASSIE What the hell? CASSIE Damn it. CASSIE Thank you for breakfast, baby. It was nice. XANDER Well, you know me, I'm always looking forward to dessert. Mm. CASSIE Well, dessert gonna have to wait, 'cause I gotta get back to the club. XANDER Mm-hmm. HOST Bob, party of two? VALET Ma’am? CASSIE Thank you. XANDER How is our pest problem coming along? Have you found the leak? CASSIE Uh, my eyes and ears are out. The boys know to contact me if anything is suspect. XANDER Good. KENNETH ANDERSON Congratulations, McPherson. I'm Kenneth Anderson, one of the Chairs of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. XANDER It's good to meet you. I gotta say, I'm grateful an organization as prestigious as yours is taking the time to honor my work. KENNETH ANDERSON Well, we're thrilled with the businesses you've been establishing throughout the city. I look forward to seeing you and that lovely wife of yours at the gala tomorrow. XANDER You got it. Cass Cassie. CASSIE You being honored? XANDER It's nothing. CASSIE And I thought you said it was over with you and that wife of yours. And now you taking this bitch to a gala? XANDER You got no idea what you're talking about. CASSIE Action speaks louder than words, okay?. And all you've ever shown me is that I'm nothing but the soles of your damn shoes. And they ain't even designer. XANDER That enough action for you? CASSIE Well, damn. Oh my God. JACKSON Baby, what are you doing? Really? STAR I'm getting food. JACKSON That's food? Ten candy bars is food? STAR Yep. Say something about my weight. I dare you. JACKSON This is not good for the baby. STAR Don't put that back. I will fight you in this store. JACKSON Okay, we'll do three. Okay? Compromise. STAR Don't matter what I eat, anyway. These hips grow by the inch every day. JACKSON And I love every inch. Okay? Where are we gonna put all this baby stuff? STAR I think I'll put the crib in my room at Carlotta's. JACKSON Why are you so against moving in with me? You do know we're having a baby, right? CASHIER Ma'am, I'm telling you, there are no funds left on this card. YOUNG MOTHER No, there should be still money on there. I just got my WIC on Thursday. DAUGHTER It's okay, Mommy, we can put it back. YOUNG MOTHER No, it's okay, baby, I got it. Can you try it again or something, please? Thank you so much. You didn't have to do that. STAR That's okay. Here you go, baby. DAUGHTER Thank you. JACKSON Star, where are you going? Star? Yo. What's wrong? STAR Do you see that? JACKSON What? STAR That's why I'm not moving in with you, because that's my biggest fear, is having to depend on somebody else. That lady can't even provide for her own kid and that kid was me. JACKSON But it's not you anymore. And it won't be for our kid. When are you gonna wake up and realize that you have it good? STAR You know what? It's okay. JACKSON Listen to me. STAR No, listen to me. We're not from the same place. You don't understand. JACKSON Star, where are you go-? DEREK You have to talk to me at some point. ALEX I know what I saw. That bottle service girl, or whatever she was, was all up on you as if you didn't have a girlfriend. Or maybe she liked what she saw on the sex tape, I don't know. DEREK It is not like that at all! ALEX Then tell me what that is! Explain why she was hugged up on you, whispering in your ear. DEREK Alex, can you just please trust me with this one? ALEX Just tell me why, after all we've been through. DEREK I'mma head out. ALEX Derek. No. No. Four. Three. Two. One. NOAH All right, look, we might as well get the awkwardness over with. Megan and I worked things out. MAURICE Look, whatever y'all got going on, I'm cool with as long it don't interfere with our work. NOAH Mm. MAURICE I came to talk about business. NOAH All right. MAURICE We're two months out from the Rhythm and Bells fest, and we gotta get the fans hyped about Karma Sound, which is why I'm paying for this studio time. But you slippin'. NOAH Slippin'? MAURICE You ain't brought me a hit since we started. NOAH Man, hits don't come overnight. MAURICE Have you checked your downloads lately? Your songs are pedestrian, I can get the same sound from YouTube. NOAH Man, you must got me confused for some other artist you playing with. All right? My plaques and my Grammys speak for themselves. MAURICE Oh, I get it. It's hard, having staying power. One minute, they think you got the goods. The next, they done with you. NOAH That's funny, 'cause I've never had an issue with staying power. In fact, I've been told I stay a little too long. MAURICE All I'm saying is, you need to step your game up. 'Cause there's always somebody out there that wants it just as bad. NOAH So what? That supposed to be some kind of threat? MAURICE Like I said, we’re talking business. NOAH MAURICE You're late. MISS BRUCE And you nasty, sitting here with your damn feet on this table. You ain't got no home training? STAR Just to be clear, none of us work for you. We hardly respect you. We're just here for Carlotta. ALEX We are strictly here to make sure Carlotta's R&B Fest doesn't tank. MISS BRUCE Yeah, and to watch your little chest heave when you get mad. See, look at it. MAURICE Can we get serious for a second? ALEX Let's. MAURICE Now, we're at the home stretch, and the social media presence for the Rhythm and Bells Festival needs to increase. The ticket holders need to know the lay of the festival so they can maximize their experience. And that's where our new social media strategist, Chloe David, comes in. Chloe, ladies. Ladies, Chloe. MISS BRUCE So, you go waste money on little plastic hoes when I got the perfect little Twitter fingers here. CHLOE Do you have three million followers? Or just the fingers? MISS BRUCE You social slut. CHLOE I didn't think so. MAURICE Chloe'll be here all day filming Noah. Gravity Media needs to start engaging with its fans more directly. Excuse me. I hope you're ready for a music experience like no other with the Rhythm and Bells Festival. Now, we have several stages featuring Gravity Media artists that you know and love, but the main stage will showcase Noah Brooks like you've never seen him before. He'll be performing his hits and his soon-to-be-classic new album. You don't want to miss it. Stay tuned. CHLOE Perfect. MAURICE Cool. SIMONE Yo, that was corny. And you didn't even mention Take 3. STAR Yeah, he did. He called us "Gravity artists.” ALEX Okay, so we're gonna be on the small stage while Noah's on the main one? MAURICE You didn't hear what I said? MISS BRUCE You know, I think them little tight-ass shirts you wear and them little juices and beers you throw in your head done made your brain stop circulating. You know damn good and well Carlotta created this festival to showcase these girls' album, not Noah's. STAR Noah don't have a hit out. We got “Madonna” in heavy rotation right now. CHLOE He's the comeback kid. That's promotable. STAR Bitch, go like a post. You're not gonna do this to us. Carlotta wouldn't let you. MAURICE Look, Mateo hired me to handle this thing as I see fit. This is how I see it. XANDER Thanks for the heads up, Don. I'll look into it, I'll get back to you. CASSIE Why the hell are you not returning my calls? You just gonna throw this diamond up in my face and just go ghost on a bitch? XANDER I got bigger problems than that. CASSIE If you want me to marry you, you can't keep me hidden. I'm going to that gala. XANDER Cassie. You see, my contact is telling me that Karma is way too hot right now. CASSIE What are you talking about? XANDER You remember that rat problem we had? That you were supposed to handle? Well, it ain't handled. It's affecting my business, which in turn, affects my reputation. And guess what? I don't like that. CASSIE So you mad at me for that? I never wanted to run money through that club, that was for your punk ass. XANDER Mm. You're a sloppy bitch. CASSIE Did you just call me a bitch? Really? XANDER CASSIE Get your damn hands off me. XANDER Fix it. CASSIE Let me go, Xander. XANDER Now answer my other question. Will you marry me? CASSIE Yeah. ALEX Maurice is literally only concerned about Noah and his own come-up. This isn't what Carlotta envisioned at all. STAR If we get lost on that small stage, our album gets lost, our solo careers get lost. SIMONE We gave up way too much for this album to flop. MISS BRUCE Look, y'all done with this pity party? Ain't nobody ever gave Take 3 nothing, and it ain't about to start now. If y'all want that stage, then take it. SIMONE Okay, but how do we do that? MISS BRUCE Bitch, I motivate, I don't strategize. Figure it out. SIMONE Alex, what about your docu-series? ALEX No. I'm not doing that anymore, so. SIMONE Wh- STAR Okay. Chloe. ALEX Hmm? STAR She prides herself on getting exclusives, right? So, we give her one before Maurice gets a chance. ALEX We just gotta drive her attention to us. STAR Yep. ALEX Maybe by, like, a track that she can break or something. SIMONE Yeah, and if she gets the audience hyped about us, Maurice has to give us that main stage. MISS BRUCE There she is. SIMONE Act natural. ALEX Hey, Chloe? Can I holler at you for a sec? CHLOE Alex Crane. It's been a minute. ALEX Yeah, since my dad's Christmas party a few years back. CHLOE You know, I'm still such a huge fan of his. When's he coming out with new music? ALEX He's on a little hiatus right now. But me and my girls are in the studio. We'd love for you to come in and take a listen. Maybe even a drop an exclusive on your site or something, who knows? CHLOE You girls get me something hot, I'm in. STAR Sorry about the "bitch" earlier, Maurice really brings out the worst in me. ALEX Just. STAR Okay. DEREK How much longer do I have to keep this from her? DETECTIVE MONTERO Look, we know the Bankhead Crew is doing something out of that club, and one of them hurt your grandmother. Don't lose your focus. DEREK Well, can you tell me something? You got any leads? DETECTIVE MONTERO This surface level patrolling? It isn't working anymore. I need to know the ins and outs of that club before the brass shelves the case on us. DEREK Then they shelve the case, and then what happens to my Grandma? DETECTIVE MONTERO I know how much this means to you. So we gotta work smart and fast, all right? Find a way to get closer to the action, okay? DEREK Okay. MIKE MIKE Hey, yo, boss. CASSIE Yeah. MIKE MIKE You needed to see me? CASSIE I do. Look, we may have a leak in the building. So I need you to find it and plug it real quick. You got it? MIKE MIKE Yeah. I got you. DEREK Cass. CASSIE Oh. Hey. DEREK Did I catch you at a bad time? CASSIE Nah. You know Mike-Mike. DEREK Bruh. I seen him around. Look, I just came to holler at you about getting a job. CASSIE Ah, we’re not hiring, Mr. Neighborhood Watch, I'm sorry. DEREK Hey, you know I wouldn't ask if I didn't really need it. But we’re a little late on the mortgage, I'm back on my feet now, I'm just trying to pitch in with Grandma. MIKE MIKE Yo, boss. We might need some extra man power in the storage. Looks like he can lift up a box or two. CASSIE All right. Well, come on by later and we'll set you up. DEREK Perfect. CASSIE All right, later. DEREK Yo, Cass, you're not gonna regret it, okay? CASSIE I know. But D, just know I'm doing this for your granny, okay? What goes on in my club, stays in my club. DEREK I got you. SIMONE Okay, look, we need to figure out what it's going to take to impress Chloe. ALEX All right, well, what about this? Can you play it back? That's all I got so far, but. STAR All right. It's cool, but I feel like it's more of the same. I feel like we need something with more edge this time. ALEX We just did "Yellow Tape." What do you mean, "more edge?" STAR Yeah, but that was a diss track. I mean, like, a real song. Don't you feel like we've done this? We need to go in a different direction. ALEX These are the songs that got us on the radio. These are the songs that got us on Rhythm and Bells, so. STAR Yeah, but people are waiting on this. Let's give 'em something new. SIMONE Okay, well, then let's do a ballad. ALEX SIMONE Never mind. STAR Why are you getting so offended? SIMONE Come on, guys. STAR All right, I feel like none of us are really on the same page. ALEX Nope. STAR So, let's take a minute. I got an appointment to go to, I'll be back. SIMONE Okay. STAR All right. SIMONE Alex? Alex? ALEX Yeah. SIMONE Are you okay? ALEX Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. Um, look, just take a five. I'm gonna keep working on this track. SIMONE Okay. ALEX NOAH People have been all over my new music. All right? And, and my new stuff, it's gonna be fire at the festival. CHLOE But you still don't have a hit. You gonna deliver at the festival? NOAH Don't I always deliver? CHLOE Not always. Once you left the Turn Up Tour for rehab, folks got to wondering about you. People say you're the comeback kid, but how many lives you got? NOAH Look, I'mma deliver. All right? Trust me. CHLOE I'll let the people know. NOAH Yeah, you do that. Excuse me. WOMAN So you’re just gonna ignore me? You haven't replied to my DMs. NOAH Who are you? WOMAN I gotta remind you about the time on the tour? It was good, right? So good that you gave me the damn clap. NOAH Wh- WOMAN And that's gonna cost your pretty ass. NOAH Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, I have never met you a day in my life. WOMAN Really? 'Cause these photos say otherwise. NOAH Hey. WOMAN Look, I need 20 thou by tomorrow or I'm going public. Oh, and by the way, your tongue skills could use some work. Bad form. NOAH I swear on everything, I'm good. All right? I wa-I was wasted, but I got tested every three months, she's lying, man! MAURICE Look, the truth don't even matter. Once she goes public, the brand is tarnished. Last thing we need two months out of the R&B Fest. NOAH What is you talking about right now? MAURICE Just pay the bitch. MEGAN No. This is extortion. As his lawyer, I say that we call her bluff, get the authorities in on this. MAURICE See, you sound like you're thinking as his woman, not his lawyer. Your little plan is gonna make this a trending topic. And your boy buckles under pressure, he's fragile. NOAH Stand up. I'll show you how fragile I am right now. MAURICE You know you don't want this in your head while you're working on your album. MEGAN Noah. It's your call. If we pay her, she's just gonna keep coming back. But whatever you decide, I can make it work. NOAH I'm going with my lawyer on this. JACKSON Hi, baby. STAR Hey. JACKSON Oh no, what could you possibly be mad about now? STAR I'm telling you, every day it's something. We're trying to get this music right for Carlotta's R&B Fest, and Alex is acting like a super-producer who can't take input from anybody, because her solo career don't depend on this, it's practically her birthright. But for me, I'm all this baby has. JACKSON Why do you keep saying it like that? STAR Saying what like what? JACKSON Saying it like it's all you, and I'm not a part of this. STAR How did you get that from what I just said? I don't understand you. Are you listening? At all? JACKSON I am listening. Am I lying? You won't move in with me, and you never want to talk about it. STAR Yo, I'm not having this conversation with you again. JACKSON Like, I'm so done with you, Star. Why can't you just acknowledge that this is my baby, too? I will be at every single doctor's appointment, every birthday and parent/teacher conference. But you and I? We're done. MIKE MIKE Hey, bro. Brown on the left. White on the right. DEREK You know, when I hollered at Cassie about getting a job here, I thought I'd be doing something a little different. MIKE MIKE Bro, you gotta sweat to make some cheese, man. DEREK Yeah, I know, man. But look, I'm trying to help my family out. I'm trying to be down with Bankhead. I'm trying to make some real dough. MIKE MIKE All right. Holler at my boys, I'll get back with you. CASSIE Now remember, I've gotta look like a wife, not a sidepiece. XANDER Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. CASSIE Thank you, baby. You know I want to look badass on your arm when that camera pops off. XANDER You will. Excuse me, could you give us a second? STYLIST Sure thing. CASSIE Thank you. So, which one of these necklaces do you think go best? I love this one. XANDER Why didn't you tell me about Cotton? CASSIE What? XANDER See, I already know you're lying to me. I've been with you since we were 15. CASSIE I'm not lying, what are you talking about? XANDER Your niece has been to the police. You didn't think this was something that I needed to know? CASSIE No. Because she went to the police for a family problem. XANDER After she had already been to our club. CASSIE So? XANDER Now I got all this pressure up in my head, and she may be the damn reason. CASSIE Well, maybe you need to go meditate, because Cotton has nothing to do with this. XANDER Then who does, Cassie? CASSIE You can trust me that I have Cotton under control. XANDER Mm. I did. And you can see where that's gotten us. No. Babe, look at me. I'm working hard for this. And I ain't gonna sit back and let her throw away our future. CASSIE I got you. Okay? Now go on about your business. XANDER I trust you. CASSIE MAURICE The main thing is, you're your own man, your own artist. You make a lot of noise. I'm trying to put you on at the R&B fest. LIL DINI For sure, for sure. Bruh, let me just, uh, let me just think about this. MAURICE You need to clean up your image. I can help. LIL DINI Yeah. All right. MEGAN Looks like you're a busy man. NOAH Hold up. What the hell is he doing here? LIL DINI Yeah, what you think this is? "Homeboy Records"? I'm in here getting real money. MAURICE Like I said, I'm looking for hits. LIL DINI Yo, what it is. MAURICE Yeah, yeah. NOAH So this is what you’re doing. You trying to bait me to write some songs? MAURICE Oh, well, you need Lil Dini to write you something? NOAH Oh no, I don't need nobody to do nothing for me. But I know one thing. MEGAN Yeah, wait, when y'all are done, you might want to take a look at the TV. NEWS REPORTER Turns out sober doesn't mean clean. A woman has accused Noah Brooks of giving her chlamydia. The victim has provided GNZ with pic- MEGAN Noah! NEWS REPORTER The affair allegedly took place during Brooks'. MAURICE So, that's somebody you wanna be with? MIKE MIKE What's up, Derek? Meet Jamal. Jamal here been with us about, what? What you say, big man? Two years? GOON That about right. MIKE MIKE We just found out Jamal been skimmin' off the top. JAMAL It was just once. I promise I'll never do- MIKE MIKE Shut your ass up. What you think we should do about Jamal, Derek? All right, light-skin. I was just trying to see if you have our back. JAMAL MIKE MIKE What y'all think? JAMAL Your boy almost made me pull out my strap. MIKE MIKE I got it. I might have a job for you around here. DEREK I appreciate it. Like I said, whatever y'all need, I got you. MIKE MIKE You proved yourself. But you’re gonna have to be a quick learner around here. DEREK That's easy. MIKE MIKE You keep busting your ass, you keep your mouth shut, your granny's mortgage'll be paid sooner than you think. DEREK Cassie gonna be cool with that? MIKE MIKE Yeah, if she was calling the shots. But she ain't. NEWS REPORTER A woman has accused Noah Brooks of giving her chlamydia. MISS BRUCE I mean, Noah's contaminated meat getting more attention than y'all. STAR Busting our ass in the studio and can't get half this press. CASSIE Cotton. MISS BRUCE All over TV. COTTON That is dis- CASSIE I thought I made myself clear that we don't snitch in this family, bitch. COTTON Who? CASSIE I'm talking to you. COTTON Bitch, you know I'm not a snitch. CASSIE Okay. COTTON And maybe if you had less enemies, you wouldn't be so paranoid. CASSIE You know what. MISS BRUCE Cassie. Back up off that girl. Now you're gonna stop coming for your family like this. CASSIE Y'all only see what y'all wanna see in me. But I'm trying to protect us. STAR From? CASSIE The cops. They've been sniffing around Karma. MISS BRUCE What you done got yourself into now, Cassie? CASSIE I was helping a friend. MISS BRUCE And would he happen to be married with a child? You’re covering for Xander again, ain't you? CASSIE Stay out of this, Bruce. MISS BRUCE Why you can't leave that man alone? He ain't never treated you right. And we both know how he used to beat your ass. CASSIE Look, he had a hard life. MISS BRUCE Girl, we all had a hard life, that don't mean you go around knocking bitches upside the head. CASSIE He stopped that. MISS BRUCE Oh. STAR That's what we all say. CASSIE Look, keep his name and my business out of y'all's mouth. Okay? MISS BRUCE Well, that girl is on a roller coaster she can't get off of. It's a damn shame. SIMONE How much longer are you gonna pretend that everything's okay when it's not? Talk to me. ALEX I think Derek is cheating on me. SIMONE What? ALEX I saw him and a girl in the footage that we got. She looked like his ex. SIMONE Look, I've never seen a man more sure of his love for somebody than Derek is with you. Hell, go to him. You know, have a real conversation. Y'all have been through way too much not to fight for what y'all got. ALEX Yeah. Yeah, thanks. SIMONE You need a hug? Come on. ALEX Why not. SIMONE ALEX CASSIE Look, everything is locked down just like you said. No, baby, I got you, I got you. Okay? Uh, I gotta go. STAR Hey, Cassie. CASSIE Star, what the hell are you doing here? STAR I just came to say "what's up" to your shady-ass business partner. CASSIE Well, he ain't here, so you can see yourself out. STAR All right. You know, normally, I wouldn't say nothing, 'cause I wouldn't care, but since you're Carlotta's sister, I thought I would tell you. I've been you before. CASSIE STAR Letting any man treat me any kind of way. CASSIE Look, let me tell you something. If you don't get your pregnant, wobbly-looking ass the hell up out of my office, it's gonna be a problem. You don't know nothing about life, especially mine. STAR I got my ass beat every day. By America's “Golden Boy.” You remember Hunter Morgan? And I kept going back for more, just like you. CASSIE Twinkle, does it look like I'm some type of victim to you? STAR No. CASSIE I am a boss bitch. STAR But what do you feel like? Walk away, Cassie. There's something good waiting on the other side of that decision. I promise that. DEREK All right, so Mike-Mike said Cassie doesn't know anything about drugs going in and out the club. DETECTIVE MONTERO But I found falsified liquor shipment receipts in her office. DEREK But that's all we need to issue a warrant for a raid, then, right? DETECTIVE MONTERO Exactly. And then we'll know who's calling the shots. DEREK Hey, can we get some privacy, bro? MIKE MIKE My bad, light-skin. Hey, y'all might want to go and get y'all a room with all of that. ALEX Well, at least you don't have to lie anymore. DEREK Alex. Alex, please. MEGAN Can you believe this mess? MAURICE I can. I tried to warn you. Noah's still a boy. MEGAN Maurice, please don't do this. Now is not the time. MAURICE Then when? You can't even stand to be around me. MEGAN Every time I look at you, I see our daughter. It is too painful. I need to move on and you need to let me. MAURICE I understand. NOAH Look, my bad for exploding like that. I realize I was feeling triggered and I'm still trying to get control of it. MEGAN It's okay. MAURICE I think we need to prove those photos are fake. How fast can you set up with Chloe? NOAH Um. CHLOE So, how much did she want? NOAH Man, she tried to extort me. All right? But thank God for my lawyer, Megan Jetter. We got proof, I don't even know the girl. Let me show you something. We found the original photo on her social media. CHLOE Damn, I see it now. NOAH Yeah. You know what I mean? See, but just like my momma would always say, whatever's done in the dark will come to light. I'm not gonna press charges. No, I want to focus on my music. SIMONE Hey. Alex, how'd it go? ALEX Not now. STAR What's wrong? ALEX I'm, I'm fine. Look, are you guys sure you wanna do this? SIMONE Yeah, well, I think it's the only way that we can go viral and get her attention. STAR Let's go in there and make it believable. SIMONE Okay. STAR Show us those acting skills, sis. SIMONE Don't pressure me. ALEX All right, let's do it. Look, I really wish you would stay in your damn lane and stick to the vocals. STAR Oh, I would if I could, but I'm dealing with a control freak who can't admit when the songs aren't good enough. They're not good enough. ALEX Are you kidding me? SIMONE Why can't you just leave her alone? STAR Why is that you can stick up for Alex but you can never defend your own damn sister? I'm tired of it. ALEX Maybe because you're a bitch. NOAH Hey, hey. STAR And you're not? SIMONE Well, it's great taking advice from somebody who got knocked up by a stranger. You push everybody away that wants to be close to you. Noah. You know that real well, right? You know this whole situation over here real well. You can't hold on to nobody. You can't hold on to me, you can't hold on to Alex, and Jackson will soon figure that out. ALEX Both of you are two dysfunctional-ass bitches. I'm really glad that this is our last album. STAR Well, that's the first honest thing you've said, ever. ALEX Oh, yeah? SIMONE Are you? ALEX Are you recording right now? CHLOE NOAH Hey. CASSIE What the hell? CASSIE Damn it. PEOPLE XANDER Excuse me for a second, honey. WIFE Hm. XANDER What the hell are you doing here? CASSIE What you mean, what the hell I'm doing here? I said I was going to the gala. You said you was gonna be by yourself. XANDER I know, I know. She decided to come last second. I'm sorry. Do not make a scene. CASSIE The feds raided the club. XANDER What do they know? CASSIE Nothing, 'cause I got out before they could talk to me. And they're not gonna have no evidence of no money laundering, because I'm not as sloppy as you think. XANDER It's not just cash, Cas. I gave Mike-Mike orders to go bigger. I've been running drugs all up and down the coast. CASSIE In my club?! You know what, I should blow your brains out right in front of your blonde bitch-ass wife. XANDER Cassie. Cassie. CASSIE You told me it was gonna be a little money here and there, a- XANDER You don't understand. CASSIE You know how much going legit meant to me. It meant everything to me. XANDER I know, and I am trying to set things up for us. For you and me. For a life together so that we would never have to worry. I reached out to my lawyer today. To file for divorce. I love you. I do. But they are going to connect this to every business that I have my hand in. Maybe, if you take the fall, I can get you out- CASSIE What? XANDER STAR Hey. JACKSON Why am I here? STAR Showing you my new place. There's plenty of room for our kid, right? JACKSON What a joke. Good luck with everything. STAR Jackson, I want you here, too. I want all three of us here. Together. I can't change the past. Or the fact that all of this happened so fast and I don't know what I'm doing. But I can try and make sure that the future's better. JACKSON It's too late for that. STAR Don't walk away from me. JACKSON Like you've been doing our entire relationship? STAR I'm trying to talk to you now. JACKSON STAR Look, I don't know what we're supposed to be, but I know that we are this baby's parents. And I want this baby to have a real family, a functioning family with a mom and a dad like, Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv or something. JACKSON You know we'll never be Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv. STAR Of course we can't be that great. But we can try. JACKSON I don't know. STAR I don't have much in this house, but. JACKSON This was your plan the whole time. STAR You remember your routine? JACKSON I kinda forget, maybe you can show me. STAR Me? Oh, I'm too big. JACKSON Mm. STAR It's our song. JACKSON Ooh. STAR It's gotta work. JACKSON Ooh. STAR JACKSON Easy, now. Easy, now. Don't want you to burst. JACKSON You're serious. JACKSON Okay. DEREK Alex, before you say anything- ALEX So your grandma told me where you were and my dumb ass showed up wanting to work things out. DEREK It's not what you're thinking. ALEX I think that we got back together without talking about why we broke up the first time. And I think that you're still trying to give me payback for what happened with Noah. DEREK What are you talking about? ALEX Is she the reason why you've been hanging at the club? DEREK I can explain that. ALEX Then explain, Derek, please explain! DEREK I can't right now. ALEX Right. You think I'm stupid. DEREK No, baby- ALEX So go deal with your side bitch, because I'm done. DEREK Alex, I love you more than anything. MEGAN You're lucky you're in the clear, you know that? NOAH Trust me, I ain't never been more relieved in my life. MEGAN NOAH Oh my gosh, wait till this interview drops on these shady-ass bloggers. So corny. They gonna all gonna look stupid. MEGAN I can't wait, baby. GUY Yeah. You should've given the bitch the money when she told you. NOAH All right, all right. W-Whatever you need, bro, I- MEGAN Noah! NOAH MEGAN Hey- NOAH Come on, man, come on, d-don't hurt her, please. Please, what-whatever it is, we, we- GUY Shut the hell up and stay on the ground. Or I'll blow your head off. SIMONE Alex. What's wrong? ALEX I was right. SIMONE I'm so sorry. ALEX No, it's not your fault. Simone, why are you crying? SIMONE I'm not crying, I just. I-I, I just feel like Derek. ALEX Wh-What are you talking about? SIMONE Because of me and Nina. ALEX You and Nina. STAR We went viral. It worked. Look at this. STAR Why is it that you can stick up for Alex but you can never defend your own damn sister? I'm tired of it. ALEX Maybe because you're a bitch. ALEX People love dirt, don't they? “These girls going out #epic.” STAR “I'm not missing #T3's last performance together #R&BFest." ALEX This is just what people expect out of a girl group, because it happens all the time. People grow apart. STAR They're calling it our goodbye album. Y'all think it really is? Y'all were ready to break up. The only reason we're sitting here right now is 'cause we were trying to help Ms. Carlotta, but we all got different stuff we're trying to do. We're different artists with different dreams. ALEX We did everything we said we'd do when we got here. SIMONE Well, not everything, we didn't win an ASA. I think Star's right. Last album. STAR Well, let's do it right. DETECTIVE MONTERO Come on, Derek. Where are you? DETECTIVE MONTERO MIKE MIKE I know you're a damn cop, bitch. UNIFORMED OFFICER How can I help you? Ma'am. CASSIE I'm here to turn myself in.