ALDERMAN_MARTINEZ ANDREA BARRY BOTH BRANDON CHEF_STEVE CHILDREN COOGIE CURTIS DAD_1 DELRAY DETECTIVE_BILL_WALLACE DETECTIVE_CRUZ EMMETT EMMETT_JUNIOR ETHEL GREAVY GUYS JADA JADE JAKE JERRIKA KEVIN KIESHA LAVERNE LUIS MAISHA MELDRICK MISS_TINY MOM_1 MOM_2 NARRATOR NINA PAPA PATTY QUENTIN RONNIE SARAH SERGEANT_CLEMMONS SEXY_CHICK SONNY TIFFANY TRACY TV_NEWS_REPORTER WILSON NARRATOR Previously on The Chi. PAPA Walk yo’ punk ass over there, and talk to Andrea. ANDREA Gonna sign up? KEVIN Sign up for what? ANDREA The play. EMMETT Oh, shit. Get under the bed. KIESHA I ain't gettin' under the bed. JADA If all you wanna do is fuck and get high up in here, the least you could do is start paying your mother some rent. LAVERNE Coogie in jail. I need you to gimme a ride down to the police station. DETECTIVE CRUZ What were you doing on that corner? You try to rob him? COOGIE Testing him to see if he was still alive. DETECTIVE CRUZ Shoes were missing, ya know. Necklace. TRACY Jason! Jason! Jason! I wanna know who did this to my boy. TRACY You say your his father, then you need to act like it. You need to find out who shot Jason. TIFFANY Emmett Jr. is your responsibility too. EMMETT Just 'cuz you name him after me don't make him mine. JADA Says right there, you his father. EMMETT Fuck. RONNIE You killed my son! COOGIE Your son was dead when I found him, man! RONNIE Nah. COOGIE He was dead! RONNIE You got the chain that I gave him. COOGIE Take the chain, man! RONNIE Where the fuck were you. COOGIE Take BRANDON What's up, baby? I'm walking into work. JERRIKA Brandon, it's Coogie LAVERNE You was supposed to be watching him. That's what brothers do, Brandon. BRANDON Little man, I give you whatever you want. Just show me who killed my brother. KIESHA Oh, you like that, huh? EMMETT Naw, c'mon, Ke- KIESHA Now that's what you been lookin' at instead of me? EMMETT No. I haven’t SEXY CHICK Bitch, what the fuck you lookin' at? KIESHA Dem cheap ass shoes. SEXY CHICK Bitch, you need to get the fuck up outta my face because you don't know me like that. KIESHA Oh, I know you finna get your ass beat. Keep lookin' at my man. SEXY CHICK Bitch, back the fuck up. KIESHA I'm gonna beat your ass, bitch! SEXY CHICK Back the fuck up. KIESHA Now that's what you want? Is that what you want? Ho ass bitch. EMMETT Damn, Kiesha. The bitch was looking at me. The fuck I’m supposed to do? KIESHA How 'bout you look away? EMMETT I Come on, now. Don't-Don’t do me like that. Come here. KIESHA No, you ain't say sorry, yet. EMMETT I'm sorry. KIESHA Emmett, I'm ready to go. EMMETT Let me make it up to you. KIESHA Shit. EMMETT JUNIOR KIESHA Really, Emmett? EMMETT What? He ain’t gonna remember any of this shit. He don't even know what's going on. KIESHA Ugh, you lame as hell. EMMETT Wait, we can go into another room. KIESHA This ain't me. EMMETT We can go into another room. Wait, wait, wait. KIESHA No. This ain't me. EMMETT All right, we can go into another room, Kiesha. Fuck! EMMETT JUNIOR EMMETT Kiesha, wait! Kiesha! Kiesha! Kiesha! Man, come on. KIESHA Leave me the fuck alone. EMMETT Now you trippin'. Damn. EMMETT JUNIOR EMMETT What's up? SEXY CHICK Triflin'. LUIS Yo. What's good? BRANDON What's up, bro? LUIS I'm going to swing through this party tonight. You should come. BRANDON Nah. I'm good, man. I got to get home to Jerrika. Y'know, I got a lot of shit going on right now. LUIS How you doing? BRANDON Supposed to go over to my mom's house and help her clean out Coogie's shit out the room, but like I don't know, it's just tough, bro, you know, she's blaming me for this shit still. LUIS Shit, man. Sorry. BRANDON She hearin' voices and fuckin' LUIS Yo, why don't you roll with me tonight, man, and get your mind off stuff? BRANDON Nah. I'm good, bro. LUIS Something up? Talk to me, bro. Brandon. BRANDON I think I know who killed my brother. LUIS Shit. For real? Yo, what the fuck we gonna do then? BRANDON I don't know what to do, Luis. LUIS You got a piece? BRANDON Nah, man. I'm I ain't trying to kill nobody. LUIS You're gonna need one. Whatever you want to do, I got your back. All right? BRANDON Thank you, bro. Fuck. TRACY I miss him. RONNIE Me too. TRACY I'm glad you're here, Ronnie. TRACY Here you go. RONNIE No, I'm good. TRACY Oh, okay. More for me. RONNIE That Jason's stuff? TRACY Yeah. His phone is missing though. The detective said it wasn't in the inventory. I wanted it back for the pictures, you know? I wanted you to have this. JERRIKA Where you been? You said you were on your way home hours ago. BRANDON I went to hang with Luis. JERRIKA Well, why you were hanging with Luis, I watched two episodes of "Fixer Upper." Even put this on for you. Oh, so, you don't want none? Okay. Don't be waking me up in the middle of the night. I got work tomorrow. BRANDON Come here. Come here. Why you acting like that? Come here. JERRIKA No, you missed your chance. BRANDON Why you trippin', boo? JERRIKA Cause you'd rather be hanging out with Luis. Mm-mm. BRANDON I actually went by the store where Coogie was shot. JERRIKA I'm sorry. BRANDON JERRIKA I'm sorry. TRACY Good morning. RONNIE Cream, two sugars. TRACY Oh, thank you. RONNIE That was, um, nice, last night. TRACY Yeah. Now I gotta go to work. RONNIE TRACY Hey, listen, why don't you stop at the store and pick up something good? Some ribeyes, crab legs or something, you know? I'll cook tonight. RONNIE Okay. TRACY Okay. Oh, and, uh, grab a bottle of wine too. Yeah? RONNIE Pinot? TRACY You remembered. RONNIE Nah, I just I never forgot. TRACY I'm about to be late. Let's go. JAKE Was chatting up this girl too, 'cause she looked. Mug. Called me “little man,” said I had mad charm and whatnot KEVIN Bullshit. Trice ain't pay' you to watch his whip. JAKE Man, why you always hatin'? What'd they give me this for then? PAPA 100 bucks? What he drive? JAKE Rimmed up G-Wagen. My brother roll with him in it sometimes. PAPA Man, you saw it on his ‘Gram when he was talkin' up that Lawndale shooting. JAKE Bruh, my brother, Reg was there for that shit. I ain't gotta check his socials. PAPA Okay, then. What your brother say about the shooting? JAKE Nothing. What the fuck would I ask him for? PAPA He roll with Trice. Maybe they know what the kid did to get blasted. KEVIN Look, we ain't asking or saying shit. All right? If anything, that dude saw me. I'm the one they coming for. ANDREA What y'all whispering about? PAPA None of yo' business, Andrea. ANDREA You comin’ to play rehearsal? KEVIN That's tonight? ANDREA Yeah. Wednesday and Thursday, too. I texted you. JAKE Yo, ‘member we was going to play 2K? PAPA Aww, yeah. JAKE Papa says he's gonna posterize you. PAPA ANDREA Ain't nothing stopping y'all. But we got play rehearsal. Ain't that right, Kevin? PAPA Man, forget her. Go. With us. KEVIN Yeah. PAPA Yeah, right. Have fun with the munchkins. JAKE You think Kev's hittin' that? PAPA Better be. Or at least get a good peak at her titties with all that Wiz bullshit she got him doing. Oh, excuse me. MAISHA Watch where you walkin', fat boy. PAPA Hey, who you. JAKE Chill. You don't want none of that. PAPA My bad. Peace. Bitch callin' me fat. JAKE That's Andrea's cousin. PAPA For real? JAKE Yup. PAPA Dang. SERGEANT CLEMMONS Okay, I got two dead kids, both outside the stash house. One was Jason Roxboro, a basketball star. DETECTIVE CRUZ Yeah, he was second team all-city. SERGEANT CLEMMONS What about this other kid? DETECTIVE CRUZ Coogie Johnson? He was shot in front of Snacks & Liquor Corner Store, so it's technically not the stash house. SERGEANT CLEMMONS Don't play word games with me, Detective. Shit started there. DETECTIVE CRUZ Just pointing out the facts, Sergeant. SERGEANT CLEMMONS Okay, who shot this Coogie kid? DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Easy, one of Jason's crew. DETECTIVE CRUZ This kid was a basketball star. Okay? He was a good student. He didn't have a crew. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE It was asshole versus asshole. It's simple one-on-one. DETECTIVE CRUZ Are you serious, man? DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Yeah, I am. SERGEANT CLEMMONS You two handle your shit, and work this together. What? DETECTIVE CRUZ What does Wallace have going on with the stash house? SERGEANT CLEMMONS That's need to know intel. I'm late. BRANDON Mom! Mom! DELRAY Bang one more time, son. We gonna have a problem. BRANDON My Mom told me to come give her a hand. DELRAY Well, it better be to fix that leak like she promised. I told her I come up there and fix that myself but you know how she get it. BRANDON Yeah, I know. DELRAY She fix that, I pay the rent. I mean, I don't mean to be like that, considering, all y'all been through. But it ain't right, man! I got to have water coming down my wall. BRANDON We'll get it taken care of, Delray. DELRAY Well, she ain't there. Down in Royal’s. BRANDON Mm-hmm. DELRAY Like usual. Hey, you tell her I told you, we gonna have problems. BRANDON There you go, my brother. God bless. BRANDON Mom. I went by the house. I thought you needed help with Coogie's stuff. I changed my shift and everything. LAVERNE No, I changed my mind. I'm not going over there, now. GREAVY Is this the smart one, Laverne? LAVERNE Sometimes. GREAVY What's a four letter word for away from the wind? BRANDON I know you ain't talking to me. GREAVY What you just say to me, boy? BRANDON Did I stutter? LAVERNE I hear you living up in her house, eating her food and all that, and you can't even go to her son's funeral? GREAVY I don't do funerals. They're depressing. BRANDON Wow. Look, Mom, why don't you just come to the house with me? I'll make you some food, you could relax. LAVERNE Brandon, I'm not going, all right? Shit. Here, just take them. You go on over there, okay? Got some flowers that need to be taken out. BRANDON Why won't you just come to the house with me LAVERNE People keep giving me flowers and shit GREAVY She said she was good. BRANDON Did I ask you? GREAVY No, but you sound like you asking for an ass-whooping. BRANDON Man, what's up? LAVERNE Are y'all done puffing up your chests?! Now I'm tired. You get on out of here. You just get me a fucking drink, all right? GREAVY Laverne LAVERNE Just get me a drink. BRANDON You know what? You need to go sit your old ass down. Have a nice day. GREAVY Four letter word, Lucius, come on! Away from the wind. One of you motherfuckers gotta know this shit. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Hey. Hey. We gonna have a problem working this? ‘Cause you can ask off, you know. DETECTIVE CRUZ I’m not I'm not asking off. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Okay. You talk to the brother? DETECTIVE CRUZ Not yet. Why? DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Maybe the brother knows what Coogie was doing up there. DETECTIVE CRUZ Yeah. What do you got going on at the stash house? DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Nothing you need to worry about, as it relates to the gang task force, which, you aren't a part of. DETECTIVE CRUZ It's just, it's just interesting why Jason would be there, too. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Maybe he was, uh, feeding that dog with your Coogie kid jerking each other off. DETECTIVE CRUZ Is this funny to you? DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Five years on gang. I see this shit all the time. Eight year old's shooting each other up over grape pop. DETECTIVE CRUZ This ain't that. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE And it's not going to fuck up the work that I've put into the stash house. DETECTIVE CRUZ What if it does? DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE It's not gonna, because I'm not gonna let it. DETECTIVE CRUZ Okay. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Yeah. Hey, Cruz. Do you play softball? DETECTIVE CRUZ Nah Not in a while, no. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE But you got a glove, right? DETECTIVE CRUZ Yeah. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE My third basemen blew his knee out. We need someone for this game against the Smoke Eaters. You in? DETECTIVE CRUZ Oh, yeah, no. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Oh come on. We have a little barbecue after. You in? DETECTIVE CRUZ I, I could do left field. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Okay. Left field it is, Cruzer. See you this weekend. DETECTIVE CRUZ I can't wait. RONNIE What she doin' now? JADA She doesn't want to take her pills and she just threw a diaper at my head. A full diaper. RONNIE Sorry. JADA The woman is working my last nerve. Accusing me of stealing from her RONNIE No, sh-she don’t She don't mean nothing by it. Look, I-I-I'll try to talk to her again. JADA Listen, if she wants to stay here, she gonna have to make an effort. That means keeping up with her meds, her physical therapy, she gonna need help with that--help from you-and not just when I come by. RONNIE Okay. I mean, I'll try. JADA No, you got to do better than try. End of the month, I got to write a report on her progress. Now, if her behavior does not improve, I will recommend she be moved to a facility, and you don't want that. Trust me. ETHEL Y'all done talking shit about me? JADA Don't forget your warfarin and your magnesium. ETHEL I do just fine with my One A Day. JADA Remember what I said. RONNIE TV NEWS REPORTER this story. Tempers flared out of control today after finger-pointing and rhetoric surrounding the announcement of cuts to the emergency services budget for the next. RONNIE You gonna be nice to Jada? You run her off, there won't be another. ETHEL Bitch is stealing from me. Last week it was my double-A batteries, the one's I use in my remote. This morning I had a whole Stouffer's lasagna out on the counter, and now it's gone. Go on. Take her side. I see the way you look at her. She ain't gonna get with you. That type want a man with a job, and you ain't had one since God knows when. RONNIE I ain't trying to get with her. She's here to help you. You need to let her, or she'll send your ass to a home. ETHEL I ain't going to no home. I'm gonna stay in my house, eat my own food and watch my judges whenever I want. RONNIE Okay. Okay. Oka Come on, Grandma. See? Get yourself worked up, now. You just need to be nice to her, then. Okay? Sit back, relax. Okay? Oh, shit. ETHEL Give me that. You still looking good What you after in there? RONNIE Getting one of my dress shirts. ETHEL What you got your dress up clothes for? RONNIE Going to Tracy's for dinner. ETHEL That heifer must got diamonds in her pussy, ‘cause every time I look up, you trying to get a piece. RONNIE Grandma, don't talk about her like that. ETHEL This is my house. I say whatever the fuck I want. She's stringing you along, Ronald. RONNIE No, it ain't that. She needs me. ETHEL Better not go over there empty-handed then. RONNIE Well, don't worry, I won't. ETHEL Good. Then hand me my remote. It's time for my Judy. Thank you. RONNIE Come here, Grandma. Just give me a little sugar ETHEL Oh. Go on with yourself. RONNIE Come on. ETHEL Go get a job, damn it. Kissing all over me like he rich man. Grandma loves you. RONNIE What was that? ETHEL Boy, you heard what I said. Now, go on and get. JADA Oh, you want to play? Huh? EMMETT JUNIOR JADA Oh, he gonna have to limit your screen time. You know, I still feel bad sitting you in front of that TV set all them years. EMMETT What? I turned out fine. JADA Jury's still out on that one. Eat Cheerios? Come on, let's get you some Cheerios. EMMETT All right, you two have fun. JADA Hold up, where you going? EMMETT Well, I got to mail these off, then I got work. JADA And what about your son? EMMETT He's staying here. JADA Says who? EMMETT I got to work. Can you please help me out? JADA Emmett, I wasn't playing when I said babysitting is in my rearview. EMMETT Then what am I supposed to do? JADA I don't know. Pull out next time. EMMETT Oh, my god. JADA Ya'll have a good day. EMMETT Are you serious? JADA I'm serious. EMMETT Hey. Stop crying, all right? Stop that. SARAH Aren’t you off today? BRANDON I was, but I picked up a extra shift. SARAH I have a client coming in. Dan was supposed to help, but he's late. BRANDON Oh, who's the client? SARAH Big wedding. 200 plates, at least. BRANDON Well, that should be good, right? SARAH Pays the bills. BRANDON SARAH Might need some help with it, actually. Good way to get more hours where you're not on the line. Plus, you get to see some dope houses. BRANDON Okay. SARAH Last year, we catered this birthday party I think he played for the Bulls. BRANDON Oh, what? What player? SARAH Um I don't really follow basketball, but. BRANDON SARAH He was tall. BRANDON That figures. I'll ask Chef. CHEF STEVE Ask me what? SARAH You're late. CHEF STEVE This fucking asshole in a Prius cut me off, almost killed me. SARAH Are you okay? CHEF STEVE I'm fine. SARAH Good. I need those tasting menus in like 20 minutes? CHEF STEVE Shit, okay, let me put my shit down. SARAH Yeah. Great. CHEF STEVE Rock 'n roll. BRANDON Heard that. BRANDON Hey, Chef. You got to check this out. CHEF STEVE What's that? BRANDON It's a new dish I've been working on. It's a spin-off the thing you did with the corn fritters, but just with crab and anchovy. CHEF STEVE Fucking good. BRANDON Uh-huh. CHEF STEVE I'm stealing that. BRANDON It's all yours, Chef. PAPA Hey, want me to wait for you? KEVIN Nah, I'm good. PAPA A'ight. What if that dude's looking for you? KEVIN I'll just take the back way. Besides, I get to walk Andrea home. PAPA Damn! She got you pussy-whipped, and she hasn't even given it up yet. KEVIN Man, she will, brah. Chill. Oh, fuck. PAPA Ooh. MAISHA You better not be talking about my cousin. KEVIN No, it ain't-it ain't even like that. MAISHA Good, 'cause we Jehovah's Witnesses. KEVIN And? You want to be knocking on my door or something? MAISHA No, dummy! So Andrea can't be nobody's ho. PAPA Eh, he don't even like her no m-no more. MAISHA I was talking to the pretty one. Not you. You hear me? KEVIN Yeah, but I. MAISHA You heard me. PAPA Hey, you good, Kev? KEVIN I stood my own, brah. Man, how I gonna play 2K? PAPA SONNY You're late, and this ain't a nursery. EMMETT Come on, Sonny. I-I know My mom was supposed to watch him, but she won't, and I can't find anybody else. SONNY Well, I'm giving you the day off, so you can go fix your shit. EMMETT Come on, Sonny, I need that money. I can put him in your office or something. SONNY No, my office ain't no place for no baby. Take the day, and handle your business like a man. Go. EMMETT QUENTIN Hold on. Come here, son. What's your name, son? EMMETT Emmett. QUENTIN Emmett. Emmett what? EMMETT Washington. QUENTIN Emmett Washington. Well, let me let you know I'm Quentin Dickinson. Folks call me, Q. That's a handsome little man. SONNY Emmett was just leaving. EMMETT What's that for? QUENTIN You gonna get yourself a sitter, son. So you can get back to work. I respect a young man who wants to better himself, like I respect a man who looks after his own. SONNY He don't need that, Q. QUENTIN Hey, he's trying to be a man of consequence, Sonny, and we need a lot more of that around here. Go on, son. Take the solid. EMMETT Thank you. Um I can-I can pay you this back. QUENTIN No hurry, but if you spend that on nonsense, we gonna have a problem, you hear? EMMETT Yes, sir. I won't. QUENTIN All right. EMMETT Thank you. QUENTIN Sonny! Still waiting on that two piece, bro. You know, Mom was never this slow. SONNY Shouldn't have taken that money, son. EMMETT Why not? Is that your brother? SONNY Yeah. Too late now. Do like he says. Try Miss Tiny's. You know Ida Brown's I have you deliver to? Red brick house, two doors down from that. EMMETT All right. SONNY Now, get him out of here. Shit. BARRY So you and Tracy a thing now, huh? RONNIE I don't know. She making me dinner tonight. CURTIS Oh, for real? What she making? RONNIE Ribeyes, wine. 'Cause my ass is shopping in this. CURTIS Shit, shopping? RONNIE Shit, I ain't got money, huh? CURTIS She know your ass a bum though, right? BOTH RONNIE I'm gonna mess this up again, huh? BARRY Why don't you get one of them payday loans? BARRY Dance, nigga. CURTIS Which means you gots to have a job, young fella, to get that advance. BARRY Ah, nah. CURTIS And then they gonna hit you with a big-ass interest rate. Shit, your dumbass might as well just get them they money. Plus, we already know who own that shit. BARRY Who's that? CURTIS Fucking Chinese, man. BARRY Psh. This nigga. Yo, so, how you get back up in that, though, bro? CURTIS To kill shit for her. RONNIE Fuck that mean? CURTIS I'm just saying, bro, like man, come on, man. We heard some shit, bro. RONNIE What'd you hear? CURTIS I mean, nothing really, just bro, you good, man. Chill out. You good. BARRY You good, dog. Chill it. CURTIS Chill out, man. RONNIE That's right, 'cause there ain't nothing to hear. BARRY What about that piece I seen't you with last week, though? You know, Meldrick always looking for one of them pieces, T. RONNIE I ain’t fuck Meldrick no more. BARRY I mean, you looking for money, ain't you? RONNIE I ain't got a piece. CURTIS Yeah, all right, bro. BARRY This nigga, man. EMMETT Uh, hey, Mi-Miss Tiny? MISS TINY Do I know you? EMMETT Uh, Sonny said you could help me. MISS TINY You just gonna give your baby over to a stranger, huh? EMMETT No, I meant, I-I have money to pay you. MISS TINY I'm full up today, baby. EMMETT Aw, please. I need to make sure my baby's taken care of proper like-like he's with his mother, you know? MISS TINY Where's his mama? EMMETT I don't know, which is-which is why I need your help. You got some You got some room in there? MISS TINY You can save your charm, boy. I got a house full of kids from men just like you. I could put you on a waiting list. EMMETT Waitlist? MISS TINY Two months. EMMETT Two months? MISS TINY Depends on what days you need. EMMETT I need someone now, so I don't lose my job. MISS TINY I hear you, baby. I got to get back to my job. Two months, all right? EMMETT Damn. MISS TINY It’s okay EMMETT Thank you. MISS TINY Come back. CHILDREN MOM 1 Gimme your hand. EMMETT Tiff, I'm not playing wit you. Answer the fucking phone. God damn. She's got me out here lookin' crazy. She didn't even ask me if I want the baby. MOM 2 Turn around. Put your feet on the bars. DAD 1 Be careful, son. Oh! EMMETT I can't do this shit. EMMETT JUNIOR EMMETT The baby crying and shit. I'm sad too. Fuck I be losing my fucking job over this shit. Fuck this, man. What the fuck am I doing? Here we go, man. I got you. I got you. I ain't gon' never leave you. I'll never leave you man. You hear me? Hm? GUYS DETECTIVE CRUZ Hey, buddy BRANDON JERRIKA Hey! BRANDON Hey. JERRIKA How's work? BRANDON Uh, it was good. Busy. How 'bout you? JERRIKA It was fine. BRANDON I missed you. JERRIKA I need to know you're not going to do something stupid, Brandon. I'm serious. You've been going by that corner store every night. You're not sleeping. I just I really need to know you're not going to try to do some stupid ass hood shit. Oh, babe, you can just go to the police. BRANDON Really? The police ain't gonna do shit. JERRIKA And neither are you, 'cause you're going to promise me. Promise me! BRANDON Okay! I promise. I promise. I'm not gonna do nothing. I'm just sitting here looking at pictures, because I miss him. I'm thinking about him. JERRIKA I know. BRANDON I can't stop thinking about him. JERRIKA Baby, I know. BRANDON I miss him. JERRIKA Baby. BRANDON ALDERMAN MARTINEZ WILSON Great. Great. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Eh? QUENTIN Alderman Martinez. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Q. QUENTIN Still holding the finchas, I see. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Yeah, uh, uh, give me one quick second, Wilson, okay? WILSON Sure. QUENTIN Hey. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Um, so, you-you back back, or? QUENTIN Ehhh, it depends. Listen, I, uh, brought you a little souvenir back too. It's a cone snail shell. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ This what you've been doing in Cuba? QUENTIN Heh. I walked the beaches and, I think met this other old man who collects those for the tourists. He says that one's rare. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Hmm. QUENTIN It's got this little harpoon on the end filled with venom. You know the joke is, if you get stung by one of those, you got just about enough time to smoke a cigarette. How long do you think that is? ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Five, ten minutes? QUENTIN Hmm. More time than most folks get to think about the end. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ I-I wanted to thank you very much for your generous contribution. QUENTIN Yeah, it's the least I can do. I like to keep a hand in things. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ What can I do for you? QUENTIN That kid that got shot. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Which one? QUENTIN Jason. You know, the basketball player. What can you tell me? ALDERMAN MARTINEZ It-It's a tragedy. I mean, his mother's good people too. QUENTIN Yeah. Yeah she is. Yeah, I'd really like to know what happened. So do me a favor and-and, uh, put the word out for me, will you? ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Yes. Of course. Anything that comes in, I'll-I’ll be sure to get a hole of you right away. QUENTIN All right. 'Preciate you. ALDERMAN MARTINEZ Thank you. QUENTIN Take care. RONNIE Hey, yo! Little man. I need to talk to you, man. Hold up! I just wanna talk to you a minute. C'mon man! Shit. MAISHA Hey Kevin. Where the fuck you think you're going? KEVIN Agh. MAISHA I was talking to you. KEVIN Maisha, please please. MAISHA Listen. I want to apologize for today. It wasn't Christian of me. The way I talked down to you. KEVIN A’ight. MAISHA I see it now. You got them eyes You like my hair? My Mom's Barry did it. She said my hair's like silk. KEVIN Yeah, it's nice. KEVIN Ugh. MAISHA Now don't you run and tell anybody about this. Maybe next time we can do more. KEVIN Damn. SARAH Hey. BRANDON Hey, what's up? SARAH Um, there's a police detective out back. Says he needs to talk to you. BRANDON It's probably just about my brother. SARAH Go ahead. BRANDON Thank you. DETECTIVE CRUZ Hey. Brandon. BRANDON Yeah, what's going on? DETECTIVE CRUZ How's your Ma doing? BRANDON Best she can, I guess. DETECTIVE CRUZ Come on. Take a walk with me. BRANDON So you get the guys who shot my brother, or what? DETECTIVE CRUZ Nah. No, on a case like this, uh, you need a witness to come forward. Was your brother into-into anything that might've caused his demise? BRANDON Like what? DETECTIVE CRUZ What's he doing standing there over a kid's body? BRANDON I-I didn't know he was even there to begin with. Detective, I don't know DETECTIVE CRUZ I, uh, whoa-whoa- whoa Sorry man, I-I didn't mean it that way. BRANDON He-He's just a goofy kid. You know what I mean? I don't-I don't know what he was doing. DETECTIVE CRUZ I know. I know. Told me I should buy some Tim's. Hey. I went and got 'em. BRANDON Is that why you're here, Detective? To show me your shoes? DETECTIVE CRUZ No. I I just wanted to tie up some loose ends. You know? But I'll. BRANDON Yeah. Sure. DETECTIVE CRUZ I'll be in touch. BRANDON You have a nice day, detective. DETECTIVE CRUZ The fuck are you doing? DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Oh, I come here to take my coffee break. Scenic as fuck. That the brother? DETECTIVE CRUZ What does this have to do with your tail? DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE We've been over this, okay? Just making sure we don't cross swords. DETECTIVE CRUZ I already told you. This Coogie kid didn't kill Jason Roxbro. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE It don't matter. They'll eventually kill who needs to be killed and then we file the paperwork. DETECTIVE CRUZ Fuck. DETECTIVE BILL WALLACE Oh, fuck. Sorry. I got to go. See you at the game, Cruzer. DETECTIVE CRUZ NINA Kevin! KEVIN I got it, Mom. What you want? BRANDON Man, I wanted to holla at you right quick. Why you got a bat? KEVIN It's for protection. BRANDON Protection from what, Kevin? KEVIN That joker that killed your brother. BRANDON What? What are you talking about? KEVIN Saw me today. Ran after me like he was gonna kill me. BRANDON Well, look, I ain't trying to put you in a situation KEVIN Look, the only reason I told you this shit, 'cause I thought you was gonna handle it. So handle your business, nigger. BRANDON What I told you about using that word? KEVIN Are you going to kill this motherfucker or not? BRANDON You sure that it’s even the right dude? KEVIN Yes, I'm sure that it’s the right dude. BRANDON I got you. KEVIN Do you? NINA Kevin? And you are? BRANDON How you doin'? I'm Brandon. I just came to bring him his bat. He left it down at the uh, at the playground. So I was just, you know, coming to return it. NINA Okay. BRANDON All right. Um, get that homework, G. NINA How old is he, Kevin? KEVIN Um, I don't know, man. Returning my bat. NINA I'm watching you. RONNIE Meldrick here? PATTY Wanna see a spider? Do you see it? MELDRICK Hey! Girl, go on get out of here before I kill that spider the rest of the way. Little sassy freak, huh? RONNIE Yo, what's up? MELDRICK Shh. RONNIE What? MELDRICK I'm feeling your thoughts, motherfucker. You wanna sell me something, Ronnie? Any bodies on it? RONNIE No. MELDRICK Hmm. How much? RONNIE Three. MELDRICK Three? Let me feel that shit. Is it loaded? Whoa chill man. I told you I could feel your thoughts. No. Two-fifty. RONNIE Uh, okay. MELDRICK Let's see what I got here. I know what you think I said. Take these two, and have some of that pussy in there if you'd like. Oh, but if she start talking that spider shit, look out brother. RONNIE Naw, we good with this. MELDRICK Woo! EMMETT He finally went to sleep. JADA Kiesha came by looking for you. EMMETT JADA Hard day, huh? EMMETT JADA EMMETT I'm sorry. JADA Sorry for what? EMMETT I don't know. JADA You don't know? EMMETT I'm sorry for everything. JADE Emmett. I just want you to do better. EMMETT I'm trying. JADA I see that. But it's not all about you anymore. Can't be. EMMETT I know. JADA EMMETT Love you. JADA I know. BRANDON BRANDON Yeah, Luis. You know that little thing we talked about? Yeah, let's get that gun. RONNIE Nah, man. We ain't doing this. DETECTIVE CRUZ Where you going? Shopping? RONNIE Onto Tracy's for dinner. All right. What you want, man? DETECTIVE CRUZ What you know about that kid that got shot on 77th? Coogie Johnson. RONNIE Nothing. Why? DETECTIVE CRUZ I guess that kid was payback for your son Jason's murder. RONNIE Well, I ain't know shit about it. DETECTIVE CRUZ I told you I had a kid in custody and then he showed up dead the next day. Here's the thing. This Coogie kid. He didn't shoot your boy. I thought you might want to know that.