ANDREA BRANDON CHEF_DAN CINDY CLERK COREY CROWD CRUZ DJ EMMETT EMMETT_JR EMPLOYEES ETHEL FEENIE GREAVY JADA JAKE JEAN JERRIKA JIM KAREN KEVIN KIESHA LAVERNE LUIS MAISHA MAN MARKET_GOERS MELDRICK MISS_TINY MR_GASCA MR_GASKA NINA OFFICER_1 OFFICER_2 OLD_LADY OMALLEY PAPA PEOPLE POLICE_RADIO QUENTIN REG RHONESHA ROJOS RONNIE SARAH SERGEANT_CLEMMONS SKATERS SONNY TASHA TEE TEP TIFFANY TRACY TRICE WALLACE WOMAN WOMAN_1 WOMAN_2 EMMETT Previously on The Chi. ROJOS Fuck, man. You want the clip, or not. BRANDON I-I don't really. I don't want it. BRANDON Doh! ROJOS Give me your fucking money, come on. JERRIKA Get your shit, and get out! BRANDON So, you don't want to hear nothing I got to say? JERRIKA No. LAVERNE ‘Cause we're married. BRANDON What? LUIS C'mon dog, you getting stupid. Heard one of the servers talking shit about you and Sarah. JADA It's bad. ETHEL That's why you gonna do this for me. JADA I'm gonna need more supplies. ETHEL Then you better get them. RONNIE Give me the code, and I’ll help you find his killer. CRUZ Maybe there's something on there that can help Jason's case. REG You want to play with guns? Because we could always use another shooter. So you in, now. JAKE For real? REG This shit is for life. EMMETT I can-I can pay this back. QUENTIN Hey, no hurry. SONNY Shouldn't have taken that money, son. QUENTIN Tracy. It's been awhile, huh? QUENTIN What are we looking at, guys? TEP Guns. Government issue. Wonder how they getting that. MAN Yeah! QUENTIN What's their security like over there? TEP Nothing we can't handle. SONNY You heard me. I don't care who you gotta call but I want that shit gone before I open. QUENTIN All right. All right, I heard you. SONNY Where Tep and JB at? QUENTIN Now, see, that's the problem. They’ve got other ideas about what I should be doing with this. EMMETT Oh! QUENTIN No, no, no. Woah. Woah. Come on in, young man. EMMETT Um, you want me to unlock the front door? QUENTIN No. No. Keep it locked. SONNY No you don't. QUENTIN What? Why don't we let him decide? EMMETT Decide what? QUENTIN How'd you like to make some cash? EMMETT Oh, y-yeah, but I-I still owe you from before, so I. QUENTIN It's okay. That's okay. This is gonna make it good and then some. EMMETT Hell yeah. SONNY Emmett. EMMETT What? EMMETT Oh, shit. KEVIN KIESHA What you doing with Emmett's cologne? KEVIN Look, women like it when men smell good. It's a turn on. KIESHA Damn, not that much. Who told you that? KEVIN I heard you talk to Emmett on the phone. You're exact words were "Oh, baby. You smell so nice. That shit turn me on." KIESHA Stop listening to my conversations. KEVIN Sorry. KIESHA Now I know you drowning yourself in this cologne 'cause you want to impress Andrea. KEVIN Yeah, so? How do I make her like me? KIESHA You can't make nobody like you, Kev. It don't work like that. You got to respect girls. KEVIN I do! KIESHA You better be! Can't have my little brother out here, gaming. KEVIN I don't got no game. KIESHA Well, I can help you with that. KEVIN How? KIESHA Tell me about Andrea. KEVIN She hot. KIESHA Uh-uh. There you go, objectifying. KEVIN Okay. Damn, um... She's good at math. KIESHA Okay. What else. KEVIN Uh. She got nice hair. KIESHA It ain't that good, but okay. KEVIN She has beautiful eyes. KIESHA Yeah? But don't tell her that. KEVIN Why not? KIESHA 'Cause every player's gonna tell her that. You got to be unique. KEVIN Unique. A'ight. PEOPLE GREAVY New paint. Floors. Oh, and check this out. Italian tile. Set it myself. See how the light hits it? It has a-a twinkle, like little stars are trapped in there. LAVERNE Well, I miss the linoleum. Broke three glasses already. It's cold on my feet. GREAVY She hard on the glassware. LAVERNE I'm gonna be hard on your ass, if you don't watch your damn mouth. JERRIKA Well, y'all really fixed up the place. Okay, so, I just need you to sign these. It's just adding me as the listing agent. Pretty standard stuff. Just sign where I've indicated. GREAVY Yeah, I'm gonna have my lawyers go over them. LAVERNE Ignore him. He ain't got no damn lawyers. JERRIKA Hi. BRANDON What's this? LAVERNE Jerrika our new listing agent. BRANDON W-What happened to the other guy? GREAVY Man, he crookeder than J Cole's teeth. LAVERNE I was gonna tell you the other night, but it slipped my mind. Um. Maybe we should, um, let y'all two talk. GREAVY Hold on. We still haven't landed on the listing price. LAVERNE We can do that later. JERRIKA Look, I'm sorry. They just... They asked me, and I wanted to make sure they didn't get taken advantage of. BRANDON It's cool. You been getting my texts? JERRIKA Yeah, I did. BRANDON Well, is it cool if I at least come by the apartment to get my stuff? JERRIKA You got a key. So, just come by. Just let me know. BRANDON Is tonight okay, or. JERRIKA Um, not sure I'll be there, but yeah. Can you get them to sign that? BRANDON What? GREAVY Man, you ain't getting back with that. That's too bad, 'cause she's one of those that earn a. BRANDON That's not funny right now. GREAVY Well, you should have locked that shit up sooner. EMMETT What exactly are we doing here? QUENTIN We're helping out the community. Come on. QUENTIN Excuse me, my brother. No questions asked, huh? OFFICER 1 That's correct. QUENTIN How much are you paying for each gun? OFFICER 1 100 bucks. We've also got some gift cards. Now, do you want to get a gun off the street? QUENTIN I think it's better if you take a look. OFFICER 2 Where'd you say you came across these? QUENTIN Oh, and I could have sworn you said no questions asked. I'd like my cash now, if you don't mind. OFFICER 1 Will you take some gift cards, too? We weren't expecting this many. QUENTIN Sure! Sure. I'll tell you what, you throw in some of those baked goods over there, and we are good to go. OFFICER 1 FEENIE What's your name, girl? TRACY Tracy. Tracy Roxboro. WOMAN 1 Hey, Tracy. WOMAN 2 Hey, Tracy. FEENIE Your boy that basketball player. WOMAN Oh, yeah. That’s right. TRACY Jason. FEENIE My Antoine was first saxophone in middle school band. TASHA They made that big memorial for your boy up near 79th street. TRACY They did. TASHA He was all up in the news and all. What was it again? Oh, yeah… "Shining star cut down by the mean streets of the South Side." FEENIE That's enough, Tasha. TASHA Her son gets memorialized and talked up. But my son? Not a thing. FEENIE That's not her fault. TRACY Still messed up, though. If I was you, I'd be pissed off, too. I get it. FEENIE There's a lot of raw nerves up in here, so if you looking for hugs or somebody to tell you it's gonna be all right this is the wrong place to be. TRACY I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for. TASHA Come take a seat. FEENIE Want some coffee, Tracy? TRACY Yeah, that'd be nice. FEENIE Good. Bring some, next time. 'Cause we ain't got none here. All right let's start. CRUZ Free to go. I know what you did, Ronnie. RONNIE I wan't Jason's phone. CRUZ Unless you want me to start asking you more questions, I'd walk away. MR GASCA Okay, places everybody! PAPA What's that smell? KEVIN I-I don't know. PAPA Smells like my grandad up in here. MR GASKA Ready, and. Five, six, seven, eight. PAPA Here she go, about to mess up. KEVIN How you know? PAPA Just wait. JAKE Waiting. PAPA Here it comes. CROWD PAPA Every time! Basic ass. Good for all that dancing, but can't remember a line for shit! Get your shit together, Andrea! KEVIN Hey, chill, Papa! Don't get your green panties in a bunch. MR GASKA Cool it, guys. Let's take a 10 minute break, everybody. PAPA Man, Andrea gonna mess up our play. KEVIN Since when do you care so much about the play? PAPA What you mean? All the honeys coming to see me. I got to look good. JAKE Man, ain't no girls coming to see your fat ass in some green tights. PAPA I look good in tights. I got the legs for them. ANDREA Hey, Kevin. Thanks for being a gentleman. PAPA He just ain't had the heart to tell you that you... KEVIN Man, shut up! ANDREA Anyway, I was actually wondering if y'all wanted to come with us to The Rink later. KEVIN Yeah. ANDREA All right. I'll see you there. PAPA I can't believe she got you whippedl ike that. Your ass don't even know how to skate. KEVIN And your black ass can? PAPA When you gonna learn, Kev? I'm good at everything. OFFICER 2 Where the fuck did they get all these? WALLACE I don't know. Good goddamn question. We got a problem. JADA Good morning. CLERK Head nurse been looking for you. JADA For me? Why? CLERK Medicine come up missing. They know you been in here. JADA I was just getting stuff for Mr. Jenkins. CLERK You know they had cameras installed, too. Last month. JADA Shit. CLERK Yeah. There was a memo about that. Go on. She's waiting for you. JADA Yeah, thanks. CLERK Yeah. CINDY Come in. Jada. JADA Hi. CINDY This is Jim Peters. JIM Jada. JADA Hi, nice to meet you. JIM Uh, have a seat. JADA What's going on? JIM I have some questions to ask you. JADA Okay. JIM Are you aware that we have security cameras throughout the facility? CHEF DAN Hey, Brandon. BRANDON Oh, what's up, chef? CHEF DAN Inventory sucks balls, and I got a box of fish missing. BRANDON You sure? You check the walk-in? CHEF DAN It's not there. Somebody took it. BRANDON N-Nah. No way. CHEF DAN Where the fuck is it, then. 'Cause it was here yesterday. BRANDON I don't know, Chef, to be honest. CHEF DAN Find out who took it. BRANDON Why me, though, Chef? Like. CHEF DAN 'Cause I asked. Just find out. BRANDON A'ight. Fuck, man. MAN What the fuck, man? What’s up, T? TEE What’s good, yo? BRANDON What’s up? Chef knows about the fucking fish, bro. LUIS Okay, so? What's that got to do with me? BRANDON I know about the taco hustle, Luis. LUIS It was just sitting there! Last week he had me throw out five pounds of crab. BRANDON Well, you know he want me to figure out who did it. LUIS You're gonna fucking snitch? BRANDON I ain't got to snitch if you just bring the shit back. You about to get off anyway, right? LUIS Yeah, I finished all the prep. BRANDON Well, let's figure something out. We gotta get this shit back. LUIS All right, man. BRANDON Good. BRANDON Hey. SARAH Hey. BRANDON Hey, we good, right? SARAH Yeah. Yeah. Um, let's go talk about it... later. BRANDON Um, I need to bounce out for a couple minutes. Is that cool? SARAH Everything okay? BRANDON Yeah, I just. I just need to help my mom with some of the house stuff I was telling you about. I told you about it, right? SARAH Right, yeah. Chef ask you about the fish? BRANDON Yeah. He. He seemed pretty pissed about it, too. So. SARAH You know who took it. What the fuck, Brandon? BRANDON What you mean? It was. It was Luis, all right? I'm gonna. I'll take care of it. I'll fix it. I'll fix it right now. I promise I'm gonna fix it. Coming right back. QUENTIN You know what I missed most down in Cuba? Vienna dogs. Hand to God. EMMETT Cuba, huh? How was that? QUENTIN Eh, well, it was a good place for me to be for a while. EMMETT Well, I heard the women out there are super bad. QUENTIN Yeah. Yeah. So hot they'll cut your dick off for looking at them the wrong way. EMMETT I can't lie. I like them a little crazy. QUENTIN Yeah, well, you'll grow out of that. Trust me. EMMETT QUENTIN But that's not what I was there for. So, how long you been working for my brother? EMMETT About six months. QUENTIN And? EMMETT I mean, he's your brother. You know he's always coming to me with these sayings. Uh, "anything worth having doesn't come easy." You know. QUENTIN "doesn't come easy." Yeah. I know. Our daddy used to always say that. He was a porter for the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway. Good, long, hard, steady work. Gave folks like us a chance to be middle class. You know? And that we were, for 23 years. Until one night a train backs into the yard to switch tracks and kills him accidentally. You know what we got from the train company for all those years of hard service? EMMETT What? QUENTIN $500 and his porter whistle back. EMMETT QUENTIN I remember the look on my mother's face when she got that whistle. Sonny still has it. Always used to tell me that that whistle signified all the hard work that daddy put in. And Sonny's just like him. Believes in all that hard work bullshit. EMMETT And you don't? QUENTIN Depends on who you working hard for, Emmett. I watch Sonny bust his ass day after day, and he can still barely get by. Me? I see things differently. EMMETT What's that? QUENTIN Emmett, do you know what I do? EMMETT Well, I got an idea. QUENTIN Yeah? What? EMMETT I mean, you hustle. QUENTIN No, Emmett. I don't hustle. I run shit. In fact, I used to run all of this shit around here. Then some crap went down, and I, um, I decided to take a step back. EMMETT You retire or something? QUENTIN Yeah. Yeah, something like that. We got one more thing that I got to do. You down? EMMETT Yeah. Yeah. QUENTIN All right. Good. Get in. BRANDON What's this? LUIS The fish. Dude, try it. My cousin's salsa is fuego, papí. BRANDON Damn! LUIS BRANDON This is good! LUIS Yeah? BRANDON But we need the fish. LUIS Yeah, so, uh, my cousin took the cart up to Wrigley. Sold that shit out. Cubs game. BRANDON Well, just go get the money that you made! LUIS Fuck you talking about?! BRANDON We got to replace the fish, Luis. Well, go get the money. Let's go. RONNIE Trace. Trace! We need to talk. TRACY I know I told you to leave me alone, Ronnie. RONNIE Spoke to Shanté. TRACY Shanté? RONNIE Why didn't you tell me about her? TRACY 'Cause it was none of your goddamn business. RONNIE She's carrying Jason's baby. TRACY Please. That could be anybody's baby. That girl was trying to mess his life up. RONNIE How? TRACY Had him talking crazy like he wasn't gonna be on the team no more. He wasn't gonna go to college. RONNIE He love her. He was up there the night he got shot. TRACY Yeah, so, what the fuck do you want, Ronnie? RONNIE Why'd you lie to me? TRACY You want the truth? Jason didn't want nothing to do with you. He saw you standing on the corner like you were some bum, and he was embarrassed. RONNIE Well... That's some fucked up shit to say, Trace. TRACY If you wanted to do something for Jason, you should have did it while he was alive, Ronnie. That's what you should have done. BRANDON Yo, I ain't going to lie, them tacos were good as fuck. LUIS Yo, so fire. BRANDON How much you think y'all make a night off that shit? LUIS The Cubs are playing, $1,500, easy. Sell 'em as fast as we can make them, man. Yo, the good thing about food trucks is you just go where the business is. BRANDON That's a fucking dope ass hustle. LUIS Yeah, but you gotta get a good truck and not some roach coach. BRANDON LUIS Hola. OLD LADY Good deal on yellowtail. BRANDON How about some of this red snapper over here? OLD LADY Tico! How many snapper we got left? ROJOS Coming. OLD LADY My son can help you. MARKET GOERS BRANDON What the fuck-what the fuck? LUIS Yo, be cool. ROJOS Hey, what the hell you want? BRANDON How about my fucking money? ROJOS Hey, be cool, my m-mom's right there. BRANDON Your mom? Really? Does she know you stuck a fucking gun in my face? ROJOS Look man, just don't make a scene. BRANDON All right, well hook us up with some of this red snapper. And maybe we could call it even. ROJOS Hijo de puta. BRANDON Come on with it. BRANDON Woo. EMPLOYEES OMALLEY Y-you take him now it's gonna cost double. I know, I'll deal with it when I get home. Love you. Dog ate a sock. CRUZ What kind? OMALLEY Labradoodle. Told me it has hybrid vigor. What you got? CRUZ Uh, 9-1-1 call. OMALLEY You want to check the log? CRUZ Mm-hmm. OMALLEY The number? No, I got nothing. No record of the call. CRUZ How's that? OMALLEY Could be someone fucked with the phone. It part of a case you're working? CRUZ Yeah. OMALLEY If you want you can put that phone through tech forensics. They verify that's a legit call, then we got a mystery. Now unless you got something else, I got to take a piss. TRICE Yo, Reg. REG Aw, shit. Mm-hmm. TRICE Open up. REG What's up? TRICE You ain't hit me back? REG Aw, yeah, I was...no, I-I was gonna... TRICE Yeah. Are you gonna...invite me in? REG My bad. TRICE Nah, I got this. You're good. TRICE Oh, no, man... You got any juice? REG This all I got. They for my little brother Jake. TRICE That's cool. What you gonna do with that gun you got tucked? Shoot me? You know what's gonna happen now, right? Big Mike out there, he gonna have to rip off your brother's arms, beat him to death...you want that to happen? REG I ain't gonna do nothing. TRICE No, you not. Go on. Put it down. REG It was that old ass man that broke into our stash house and took our guns. TRICE Maybe. The problem is, I put you in charge of that. You, Reg. Now I got three dead motherfuckers I gotta clean up. REG I been told you we shoulda did something about him. TRICE And I will. First, I want to know, how he able to just walk up into our spot... REG I don't know. I stepped out... TRICE I said shut the fuck up. I want to know, how he able to walk up in our spot and take our shit. REG I... TRICE ...with you watching. REG I stepped out, bro. TRICE You stepped out? REG I was fucking around with this bitch. TRICE Man, I-I-I hope that shit was good. REG Come on, T TRICE Don't beg, man. REG Come on, bro, I gotta look out for my little brother, bro. TRICE Oh, that...is that supposed to be my problem? No. It's not. REG TRICE Get up. Get up! REG TRICE That's how you take it. REG TRICE You fuck up like that again, I'm gonna take your life. REG QUENTIN You know who that is? EMMETT Yeah. It's Trice. QUENTIN What do you think about him? EMMETT Um, he dress fly as shit. QUENTIN Yeah. He's the peacockin' type. What else do you know? EMMETT Um. He must be getting paid. QUENTIN Yeah. You scared of him? EMMETT No. Hell no. QUENTIN Good. I want you to take this and give it to him. EMMETT You want-you want me to do it? QUENTIN Yeah. Tell him thanks for helping keep the streets safe. Go on. There's a Sox game on the radio and I wanna get back home and take a listen. EMMETT Okay. All right. I can’t. QUENTIN That's okay. Go on. Wait in the truck. KEVIN Can I get a ride to The Rink? NINA Kev, you know how that place gets after dark. KEVIN Please. KAREN Who you going with? KEVIN Papa. KAREN Just Papa? KEVIN And Jake, but. NINA Nope. Uh-uh. KEVIN I did all my chores, and I got a 98 on my math test. NINA We could go. KEVIN Wait what? KAREN I ain't been to The Rink in years. KEVIN No no, I-I just need a ride. NINA Either we come or you ain't going. KAREN All right. Let’s go. NINA You have to teach him how to skate. NINA You still got it, baby? KAREN Oh, you know I do. Now you better watch out, because I'm about to put moves on. NINA Oh, okay. KEVIN Can y'all stay on this side? NINA What you scared we gonna embarrass you? KEVIN Yes. KAREN Are you scared we skate better than you? NINA Well, go, get, before we start kissing you in front of everyone. SKATERS KEVIN You seen Andrea? PAPA Yeah, she over there with all the other hens, cluckin' away. COREY Thank the lord, I thought I was gonna be the only brutha up in here. PAPA It's all good. COREY Yeah, it is now. What's up, Kev? KEVIN What's up, Corey? JAKE That fool is whack as fuck. PAPA Why you hatin' on Corey all of a sudden? JAKE He been talking shit at school. KEVIN Since when? PAPA Yeah, Corey always been cool with us. JAKE His bro is from the South D Sinners and they were talking shit about Reg. PAPA That ain't talking about you. JAKE Talking about my brother, you talking about me. KEVIN Jake, please. Don't-Don't do this today, all right? I'm begging you. DJ All right, all right, we gonna get the night going with our first couples skate! So grab your partner and let's skate! JAKE He just better keep that mouth shut. ANDREA Hey, guys. KEVIN Hey, Andrea. ANDREA Hey, Kev. MAISHA Hello to you too, Kevin. You act like you ain't happy to see me. KEVIN I I-I didn't know you were coming. ANDREA That's my cousin. There a problem? KEVIN No, we're cool. You look nice. ANDREA Thank you. KEVIN And, uh, I like the way your, uh, head's shaped. RHONESHA You mean her face? KEVIN Yeah, that-that's what, you know, uh, you-you wanna skate with me? ANDREA Maybe later. MAISHA What about my head? KEVIN Please, don't. Please. PAPA I'm not gonna lie, that shit was hard to watch. JAKE Come on now, the way her head shaped? KEVIN I didn't know what to say. JAKE Something better than that. KEVIN Okay, I'm sor. JAKE I like the way your head is shaped. KEVIN Come on, let's get out of here. PAPA Whatever. MELDRICK Daddy's home. JEAN MELDRICK What? How long has he been here? MELDRICK What the fuck happened to you? POLICE RADIO SERGEANT CLEMMONS And that came in right after he was shot? CRUZ Yeah. SERGEANT CLEMMONS But there's no recording of the call. CRUZ It's not on the call logs, no. SERGEANT CLEMMONS And I'm supposed to add this up, how? Wallace has got something going on at the stash house? CRUZ Yeah, yeah, with the kid, yeah. SERGEANT CLEMMONS Careful, Detective. You sure you really want to go down this road? CRUZ I'm bringing it to you first. SERGEANT CLEMMONS You brought me some bullshit about a 9-1-1 call and softball? The Jason Roxboro case has been closed and vice just pulled a ticket on the stash house. CRUZ Wait, w-w-wait. When? SERGEANT CLEMMONS A few hours ago. CRUZ Yeah, well why is that? SERGEANT CLEMMONS I guess one of those gangbangers turned on the others and they all shot each other dead. CRUZ That doesn't sound convenient to you? SERGEANT CLEMMONS I'll take it. So should you. PAPA Man, I quit. This game rigged. JAKE You always say that when you get your ass beat. PAPA Whatever. Damn, you gonna have that stank face on all night? JAKE If Corey keep looking over here, I'mma fuck him up. PAPA Yo. KEVIN Yo, whoa, wait, hold up. Whoa, whoa. PAPA U Look, Kev, fuck Andrea, for real. Why she even invite you if she wasn't gonna talk to you all night? I say you cuss her ass out. KEVIN Naw, man, girls like it when you nice. She'll pull through. JAKE Kev, listen, my bro got all kinds of ho's, and he definitely ain't nice. PAPA Hell no. JAKE Look, you gotta make her jealous. KEVIN Man, how am I gonna make her jealous? JAKE Maisha. KEVIN Naw. I-I'm good. JAKE Yeah, bro, bro, just to make her jealous, that's it. You ain't even gotta like her. Just go out, skate and that's it. Trust me. Trust me. KEVIN Uh, hey. ANDREA Oh, Kevin, I was. KEVIN Maisha, you wanna skate? MAISHA I guess. I took your man. DJ All right, everybody, here's an old school gem for ya. Chaka Khan! MAISHA Thanks. KEVIN For what? MAISHA Asking me to skate. I know you like my cousin, Kevin. KEVIN She a'ight. MAISHA KEVIN Okay. She cute. But you cool. MAISHA You think I'm cool? KEVIN Yeah. BRANDON Booyah. CHEF DAN Who took it? BRANDON Oh, come on, Chef. You got it back. CHEF DAN I asked you to find out who took it. BRANDON It ain't gonna happen again. CHEF DAN You take it? BRANDON No. CHEF DAN But you know who did? BRANDON Yeah. I'm. CHEF DAN Do me a favor, and toss it. BRANDON Why? CHEF DAN I can't serve that. BRANDON It's perfectly good fish. CHEF DAN Ain't the same fish and I don't know where it's been. BRANDON The ocean. CHEF DAN So you wanna tell Luis he's fired? BRANDON That's fucked up. CHEF DAN You know what's fucked up? You covering for him. I let this slide, everybody thinks they can take from me. You got a problem with that? BRANDON No. CHEF DAN So go on and tell him he's fired then. BRANDON See that? I'm not doing. Excuse me. SARAH Brandon. What are you doing? BRANDON Why the fuck would you rat us out? SARAH Because Luis stole from us. BRANDON He was just trying to support his fucking family, Sarah. SARAH I don't give a shit. If this restaurant closes tomorrow and me and Chef lose everything, who's gonna be there for us? BRANDON I don't rat my fucking friends out. I quit. SARAH Brandon. JERRIKA I put your clothes out on the bed. BRANDON Thanks. JERRIKA No problem. BRANDON So you ever gonna let me explain? JERRIKA What for? BRANDON Because I don't want to just throw away everything that we have. JERRIKA Brandon. You told me you weren't going to do anything stupid and then I found a gun and a bloody shirt in your backpack. I mean, what the fuck? BRANDON But I didn't do nothing. JERRIKA Okay. BRANDON You don't believe me? JERRIKA I believe that you were messed about Coogie and look, I don't even want to know what happened. BRANDON Well, nobody died. JERRIKA Great. BRANDON And the gun wasn't mine. JERRIKA Can we just not talk about it? BRANDON All right, then what? JERRIKA How's work? BRANDON I quit. JERRIKA What? Why? BRANDON Trying to do the right thing, I guess. JERRIKA You do something? BRANDON Naw. Chef wanted me to fire Luis. I said no. JERRIKA So what are you gonna do now? BRANDON I don't even know. EMMETT Thank you. QUENTIN Yeah. Go on, go on, take it. You earned it. EMMETT I messed up. QUENTIN Naw, son, you did just fine. EMMETT For real? QUENTIN Yeah. EMMETT Thank you. QUENTIN Yeah. EMMETT Uh, about earlier, I'm-I'm not a I don't know. QUENTIN Hey, hey. You know what it's gonna say on your gravestone? If you were a good parent and how long you lived. The rest is forgotten. EMMETT Thank you. QUENTIN Yeah. EMMETT JR MISS TINY Shh, shh. EMMETT Huh. Sh. Was he good today? MISS TINY EJ's always good. Unlike you. And you owe me for the last two weeks. EJ got a tooth breaking through, so he gonna be hollering. What you wanna do is, get some whiskey and rub it on his gums. EMMETT Uh, whiskey? MISS TINY Yeah, I did it to my young'uns and they turned out just fine. EMMETT Well, can I bring him by tomorrow? MISS TINY Yeah, if you got some money. All right, y'all get home safe. EMMETT Thank you. EMMETT JR. EMMETT Ha. Ha. You happy to see, pop? Oh, man. EMMETT JR EMMETT Ma? What's wrong? You all right? JAKE There he is. PAPA Yeah. How did it go with Maisha? KEVIN Fine. JAKE Did you get some of that? KEVIN Don't talk about her like that. JAKE Ain't go hurting your feelings. PAPA Oh shit, here they come. ANDREA Hey, Kevin. KEVIN Yeah. ANDREA I wanna talk. KEVIN About? ANDREA Tonight. KEVIN Can I have a sec? PAPA Okay. Whatever. We get it. ANDREA Look, I'm sorry. I invited you tonight and I just got caught up with everyone else. KEVIN Yeah, that was messed up. ANDREA Hope I can make it up to you. KEVIN How? That was nice. ANDREA Yeah. Well, I'll see you Monday. KEVIN Andrea. Maybe I'll text you over the weekend or something. ANDREA All right. RHONESHA/ANDREA KEVIN Shit. EMMETT Tiff? TIFFANY Hey, Emmett. EMMETT What you doing here? TIFFANY I want EJ back. QUENTIN Yo, Sonny. Shit, Sonny. Sonny? Hey. REG Take a seat, old man. Mm-hmm.