05x04 - Pawns & Rooks

[bunniefuu]

[FUNKY HIP-HOP BEAT LAYERS IN]

[OLDER KANAN] Previously on
Raising Kanan...

You takin' all of 'Nique's
old corners.

Crew the f*ck up and get out
on that track, my n*gga.

- Far as I heard, 'Nique is gone.
- How you know?

'Cause we takin' all his sh*t

and he ain't doin' nothin' 'bout it.

That was y'all on 150 last night?

No doubt.

- [g*nsh*t ECHOES]
- Oh!

I find out you're still working here,

Queens will be so full
of Sicilian hitters.

- We're finished.
- But I still gotta figure out

how to get us paid.

We goin' to Manhattan.

It's gonna be your home base.

You either pickin' up product

or you droppin' off money.

You're here because I've vouched

for your discretion
and trustworthiness, Tiana.

Count me in.

I ain't askin' for no work
from you, Joaquin.

I just want a name.

I know you know other players.

I need the cash and I need it now.

I may have a buyer from overseas.

I want you to know

I don't like the idea of you
and her working together.

Noted.

Your mother, she's linked up

with Pino Bernardi

and this Jew broad, Flossie Siegel,

who's got a stable of wh*res

that are now moving your
mother's weight around the city.

We heard Breeze
been playin' you to the left

for some new kid.

f*ck you, Kanan.

I help you out
and you help me out in exchange.

There's no turning back
for either of us.

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

I'll k*ll you.

Maybe she didn't take out Fame.

- You believe her?
- Raq and me done.

- She dead to me already.
- [RAQ] Roll up,

spray them n*gg*s, and jet.

- [g*nf*re]
- [b*ll*ts RICOCHETING]

[MAN] Yo, look out!

[TIRES SCREECHING]

How are you feeling?

I'm sad.

I'm angry.

I wanna work wit' you.

I don't want that for you.

These h*s are gonna
come and go all night.

You collect they money.

Riff got another job for you.

Can't. Flossie hit me.

I got a trick across town. New guy.

Can't be late.

What's your name?

Whatever you want it to be.

[MUSIC FADES]

♪ I'm a hustla, baby ♪

- ♪ I'm a hustla, baby ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪

♪ I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪

♪ b*tch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪

♪ I been through The ups and downs ♪

♪ You know I get around ♪

♪ So to me, it's all a part
Of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke man
Or the dope man ♪

♪ I'm almost for sure, man
I gotta take it ♪

♪ No need to say sh*t
I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turn homicide
It's nothin' to play with ♪

♪ Make money Make-make-make money ♪

♪ When sh*t hit the fan
We'll take money, Southside ♪

♪ Beef with the best of 'em
Done shot at the rest of 'em ♪

♪ Checks, I'm collectin' 'em
Check, boy, I'm finessin' 'em ♪

♪ Big bags of bread ♪

♪ Boy, you f*ck around
Put a big bag on your head ♪

♪ 'Fore the weather break
You're dead ♪

♪ Let's get to it ♪

♪ They don't do it Like we do it ♪

♪ Cop it, whip it Bag it, flip it ♪

♪ Re-up, we up G'd up, what up? ♪

♪ Runnin' 'round this b*tch
Still not givin' a f*ck ♪

♪ When it come to that paper
There'll be no complications ♪

♪ Ha-ha, that's right ♪

♪ Put a hole in a n*gga
Right in front of you ♪

♪ Your heartbeat pacin' ♪

♪ And it's alright ♪

♪ That's how we do it On this side ♪

♪ n*gg*s get to it On this side ♪

♪ I know heartbreaks Setbacks ♪

♪ b*tch, if I crap out
I'm sure I'ma get back ♪

♪ I been through The ups and downs ♪

♪ You know I get around ♪

♪ So to me, it's all a part
Of the game ♪

♪ If I ain't the coke man
Or the dope man ♪

♪ I'm almost for sure, man
I gotta take it ♪

♪ No need to say sh*t
I'm gon' take it ♪

♪ Robberies turn homicide
It's nothin' to play with ♪

♪ Ayy, ayy ♪

[SULTRY FEMALE VOCALIZATION]

["PAID IN FULL"
BY ERIC B. & RAKIM PLAYING]

♪ Thinkin' of a master plan ♪

♪ Def with the record
Def with the record ♪

♪ Thinkin' of A master plan... ♪

[OLDER KANAN] When sh*t
working right out on the track,

it's like some basketball n*gg*s

on a fast break.

Rock don't even touch the floor.

♪ So I dig deeper
But still coming up with lint ♪

♪ So I start my mission
Leave my residence ♪

♪ Thinking how could I get
Some dead presidents? ♪

♪ I need money, I used to be
A stick-up kid ♪

♪ So I think of all
The devious things I did... ♪

[OLDER KANAN] And nothin'
move faster than the money.

On a good day,

that sh*t roll in
like a f*ck' blizzard.

You can't dig yourself out from it

before that sh*t gonna pile
the f*ck up again.

Those are the best days, man.

Those are days make you feel like

you gon' do this sh*t forever.

The work gonna always move.

The money never gon' stop.

[OVERLAPPING GREETINGS]

All right.

We gettin' paid.

Paid and paid and paid, n*gga.

- Corner don't ever stop.
- What I tell you?

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[OLDER KANAN] But soon as you
start thinkin' like that...

you gonna get checked

'cause good times just like
the first of the month.

sh*t over quick.

n*gga think he somebody now.

What's the word, Taz?

Word is you ain't about sh*t.

Word is that other corner got hit

because you ain't had
the lookouts posted up

where they were supposed to be.

That ain't how it went down.

Don't even matter.
This sh*t ain't nothin'

I need to talk to you about anyway.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

You talk when I tell you to talk.

Whatever you say.

You got that right, n*gga.

It is whatever I say.

Protect your block, little n*gg*s.

♪ ♪

[MUSIC FADES]

[PASTOR EVANS GROANS]

How you know...

if somebody...

- gone to Heaven?
- Hmm.

You don't know.

My job, if you wanna call it that,

is to try to put people
in the best position possible

so they can gain entry to Heaven.

But we don't ever know
if they get there.

I'm not sure what kind
of situation Lou was in

as far as Heaven concerned.

[PASTOR EVANS] We all struggle.

But all that matters
is the purity of our hearts

when we face God.

And I'm sure Lou's heart was pure.

How is your heart, Marvin?

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

I can't call it.

Well, you lost your brother.

Profound pain like that
can numb your emotions.

You should come to church this Sunday.

Communion with God
and our congregation

could ease your burden.

At the very least, you'll see
that you're not alone.

So, you can't tell

who go to Heaven and who don't.

That's between each of us and God.

God gon' judge my daughter

for my bullshit?

Your daughter's journey
is hers and hers alone.

She'll get to heaven all on her own.

And so will you.

No matter who you are
or what you've done,

God forgives everybody.

I ain't everybody, pastor.

[MUSIC DARKENS]

[MUSIC FADES]

[LIGHTER CLICKS]

[CRACKLING]

You always land on your feet.

My feet always on the ground, Joaquin.

Standin' on this work.

Look...

Manhattan not the Southside.

We ain't gotta worry about
Stefano Marchetti in the city.

sh*t's wide open.

Manhattan is a much more
competitive marketplace.

Prices are always moving.

I made this clear to you

before I introduced you
to Mr. Bernardi.

I'm f*ck' with a clientele
that ain't worried about price.

It's all about the product
and the service provided.

I got my horse covered.

But these white m*therf*ckers
love them some powder.

I know your product top-shelf,

and we got prior business together,

so this sh*t should be easy.

But we have
a complicated past, you and me.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

I'm here about the future, Joaquin.

Not the past.

I'm tryin' to get you paid.

If you not interested,

there's gotta be at least
fifty Dominicans up the block

that's gonna want to get down.

I'm interested.

[JOAQUIN INHALES SHARPLY]

I'm always interested.

- Here you go.
- Thanks.

♪ Oh yeah, we're rollin'
We're rollin' ♪

♪ We're rollin' We're rollin' ♪

♪ We're rollin' down
A miracle highway ♪

♪ Oh yeah, we're rollin'
We're rollin'... ♪

Where's the rest of it?

I'm workin' on gettin' the rest.

I must be a f*ck' idiot
trustin' a g*dd*mn kid.

We don't do this sh*t
on a f*ck' installment plan.

I'm gonna get you all of it,
I just need a minute.

I think you need to comprehend
the seriousness

of what the f*ck this is.

I put my a*s on the line

in a way that threatens
everything in my f*cking life

and you're showing up here
with a light f*ck' envelope?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

This is grown-up business, Laverne.

And when you're grown up

and you don't pay your bills on time,

bad f*ck' things happen.

Get me my money...

or I'ma cut off your f*ck' water.

[MUSIC FADES]

[TRAFFIC HUMMING]

♪ I'm beyond compare ♪

♪ On compare ♪

♪ Oh darling I'm the boss of a game ♪

♪ With my vision clear
I'll never be tamed ♪

♪ In this world of power... ♪

Your piece.

♪ Oh darling I'm the boss of a game ♪

♪ With my vision clear
I'll never be tamed... ♪

Looks like business is booming.

We gettin' there.

Lot of room to grow, though.

[PINO] Ah.

[SIGHS]

Raquel...

["POWER" CONTINUES PLAYING
IN RESTAURANT]

...where the f*ck you been
my whole life?

- Queens.
- [LAUGHS]

Yeah, that's exactly
where you've been.

Which is part of the problem.

I need you to do me a favor.

Go talk to Stefano,

see if the two of you can come
to some kind of understanding.

He's making a lot of noise
about our arrangement.

It's become an aggravation.

And I already got enough
aggravation in my life.

Me and him talked already.
Ain't nothin' else to say.

No, no, no, no.
He's bent all out of shape

'cause you relocated
just across the East River.

You hurt his precious
f*ck' feelings.

Look, Marchetti is bitching
about our thing

to the powers that be.

I can't have this disagreement

get any bigger than it already is.

A little kindness
goes a long way, Raquel.

Show him some respect.

He'll settle down.

This n*gga want me to kiss
the ring I f*ck' paid for.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC FADES]

Yo.

Doin' this drop-off.

Gonna put it right here.

You hear about Kanan and Taz?

They was beefin'.

Ask me?

Taz was tryin' to get Kanan
to throw the f*ck down.

But Kanan maintained.

sh*t gonna get heated again, though.

'Cause them n*gg*s ain't got
no love between them.

[PIECE TAPS ON BOARD]

A'ight then, man.
I'ma get at you later.

[DARK, OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

- [TRAIN CLACKING]
- [MUSIC FADES]

[GENTLE MANDOLIN MUSIC PLAYING
IN RESTAURANT]

[STEFANO] You tell him it's
no skin off my back either way.

All right? Thanks.

Come on.

I told Pino there was no point
in us talking.

Told him the same thing.

Then why are you here?

Because my new business partner
asked me to do this

and I respect the people I work with.

You don't even know
what the f*ck respect means.

Oh.

Hey, and I got
a new business partner too.

Yeah, he's- and he's got
one of them nicknames

you people love so much.

- Breeze.
- Aha. That's the one.

And he's not giving me problems
like you did.

Well, if you so happy
then stop bitching

to Pino Bernardi about me

like some sorry n*gga

who can't get past his feelings
after the breakup.

sh*t's over between us.
Move the f*ck on.

[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]

Hey, I don't care if you got

Pino f*ck' Bernardi's next kid

cookin' in your f*ck' womb,

you don't ever speak to me like that.

I'll put you in the f*ck' ground.

Look, Pino said you wanted
to talk to me,

but you tellin' me
you ain't got sh*t to say.

Which is it?

What the f*ck do you want
from me, Stefano?

I want a piece of your business
with Pino.

Yeah, consider it a, you know,
a breakup fee.

A tax you gotta pay
for leaving me at the altar.

I ain't leave sh*t.

You the one who deaded our deal.

I earned for you, Stefano.

I more than held up my f*ck' end.

[CHUCKLES WRYLY]

I ain't breakin' you off nothin'.

Hey, I shoulda taken you
and your brother out

when I had the f*ck' chance.

You shoulda.

Well, Pino can't protect you forever.

f*ck forever.

I'm here right now.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

You run your business, I'll run mine.

[STEFANO GRUNTS]

♪ If this is what you want
Then come and ask me, ask me ♪

♪ If this is what you want
Then come and ask me ♪

Taz came up short.

♪ I see it all
Nothing don't get past me... ♪

n*gga need to get checked.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

Word.

I got this.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[MARVIN] I just keep hearing
about Breeze.

I ain't seen him yet.

Well...

Stefano talkin' all sorts of sh*t

about how good that n*gga d*ck taste.

And if Kanan workin' with Breeze,

that mean Kanan
f*ck' with Stefano too.

[SIGHS] Me and you in a good
spot right now, Marvin,

and we can't let nothin'
and nobody f*ck that up.

Connect's in place,

and I signed the papers on the mall

so we got that cash too.

We flush as hell.

Who the f*ck buyin'
that broke-down sh*t?

Fool from out the country.

Paid cash.

Dumb m*therf*cker overpaid too.

sh*t, let me sell this n*gga
my crib then.

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

[SIGHS] Stefano gonna make
a move on us.

We gotta get in front of that sh*t.

Who you tellin'? I been sayin' this.

Well, it can't be our people
doin' the work, though.

We gotta protect ourself with Pino.

Pino gonna know it was us behind it

no matter who we use.

Well, of course he is.

But we need to give him enough cover

that he can say as far as he know

we ain't have sh*t to do with it.

[BOTTLE OPENS]

[LIQUID POURS]

I can reach out to Memphis,

see if them crackers want it.

[DARK, SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

f*ck it.

Make the call.

- [TIANA SIGHS, GIGGLES]
- [MUSIC FADES]

It's cool to see your apartment.

["BIG TALK" PLAYING SOFTLY
IN APARTMENT]

I just didn't want to f*ck
with a hotel again.

They ask too many questions.

And I wanted you to see where I live.

So you can know me better.

♪ ♪

You been with other girls?

What?

For real?

You think you the first girl
I done f*cked with?

[SIGHS] Come on, man.

I'm talkin' about escorts.

Call girls. You ever...
been with another one?

Nah.

Nah.

You the first.

You fine...

you young, seem like you got
a little money.

[KANAN CHUCKLES]

You not the usual type date I get.

This sh*t wit' you
just seem easier, I guess.

Most girls want more
than I wanna give.

But I still wanna... You know.

Smash.

- Yeah. Smash.
- [GIGGLING]

Not all girls gon' press on you
like that, though.

Some just want what you want.

How a dime like you wind up
doin' this sh*t, Tiana?

- [SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
- [CLEARS THROAT]

I got a brother who's special needs,

and a grandmother who's in rehab.

Somebody gotta pay for all that

and a bachelor's in psychology
isn't gonna get it done.

Least you ain't out at Hunts Point

or some bootleg sh*t like that.

Flossie take care of us.

Flossie?

She your pimp?

sh*t. I got work.

[SIGHS]

Middle of the f*ck' day?

These tricks don't be playin'.

It's not that kind of work.

Me and a few other girls
got a side hustle.

Well, side hustles are good.

Hm. Ain't like it's much better
than trickin'.

We movin' dope.

Mostly just deliveries.

Flossie, the lady I work for,

she linked up with this drug dealer

who works out of this
old club in the Village,

and... [LAUGHS]

Why the f*ck
am I tellin' you all this?

'Cause you like me.

[SIGHS]

I do like you.

You're not fat,


like most of these tricks,

which makes it less...

f*cked up for me somehow.

- [MUSIC FADES]
- Blow that other sh*t off today.

That delivery,
whatever the f*ck it is,

call in sick.

Kick it wit' me.

I can't.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[RUSTLING]

You can.

[MUSIC FADES]

- Have a good ride, sir.
- All right. Thank you.

- [MAN 1] Hey, John.
- [MAN 2] Hi, guys.

[CHATTER CONTINUES]

["BOOGEYMAN" PLAYING]

♪ Fire ♪

♪ Can't stand me ♪

♪ Water ♪

♪ Run away from me ♪

♪ Run home now ♪

[MUSIC FADES]

They growin' you shitkickers
extra ugly

down on the f*ck' farm.

Ain't no farms in Memphis.

This me.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much for all your help.

[MELLOW R&B MUSIC PLAYING IN STORE]

Whatever she want,

I'm payin' for.

Make sense?

What you like?

I wanna go.

Nah, whatever you want...

I wanna get
the f*ck outta here, Kanan.

[DOOR OPENS, CREAKS]

- [CHATTER]
- [CAR RUMBLING]

What the f*ck is goin' on, Tiana?

You know exactly what's goin' on.

- I don't.
- [SCOFFS]

You're f*ck' with my head, Kanan.

You-you thinkin' you can buy me
a couple dresses

and turn this h* into a princess?

And that sh*t isn't real.

This...

isn't real.

Wanted to do something nice
for you, that's all.

Turns out you just like
all these other guys

I was talkin' about.

Tryin' to make me
into somethin' I'm not.

You pay me to f*ck you, Kanan.

I'm a h*.

h*s don't wear dresses?

[LAUGHS]

- I like you, Tiana.
- [SIGHS]

That's all.

All this other sh*t you talkin' 'bout,

that's in your head, not mine.

You don't even know my real name.

[GENTLE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

So tell me then.

Jarita.

Hmm.

[MUSIC FADES]

[TRAFFIC HUMMING]

[INSECTS CHIRRING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Stefano house.

He's got some security.

But nothin' too heavy.

[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]

Kanan ain't tell me his mama fine.

Who are you, where the f*ck
you come from,

and what you and my son doin'?

[SINGSONG] Kanan fine mama
got questions.

I ain't come here to compare
pedicures, n*gga.

I need to understand you

and what the f*ck you think you doin'.

I don't answer to you, ma'am.

I'm only meetin' you outta respect

'cause I know you meant
somethin' out here for a minute.

But you must've got it confused

if you think you gon'
interrogate me on some sh*t.

It's always uncomfortable

when there's a woman in the game.

See, for n*gg*s,

the hustle about two things only:

b*tches and money.

That's the understanding
we all got between us men.

I know what that n*gga
on that other corner thinkin'

'cause he thinkin' the same as me.

b*tches and money, money and b*tches.

That's all.

It's different when there's
a lady on the other side.

'Cause you ain't checkin' for b*tches.

That ain't why you in it.

You on some other sh*t.

That mean I don't know
what you thinkin'.

And that don't feel good.

You won't ever know
what I'm thinkin', n*gga.

That's what you need to recognize.

I'm not on these blocks no more,

but I am these blocks.

You understand what I'm sayin'?

[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm known... and I know.

And as long as you f*ck'
wit' my son,

I'ma be watching you.

But you right.

I ain't thinkin' 'bout b*tches.

All I think about's money.

And ain't nobody get between
me and my money.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[MUSIC FADES]

He here most days.

This his favorite spot.

Got any questions or anything?

Thoughts?

Is what it is.

Far be it for a humble-a*s n*gga
like me

to tell professionals like yourselves

how to do this sh*t, but...

you only gonna get
one crack at this work.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

f*ck that up...

you ain't gonna make it
back to Tennessee.

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[MUSIC FADES]

That was you that hit us, though,

on 150.

You ain't even got work
out here no more.

Why you f*ck' wit' our corner?

'Cause you're out there
and I'm not, n*gga.

You salty 'cause your son still
makin' money without you.

I don't like nobody
makin' money without me.

That's how this sh*t works, son.

[GRIM MUSIC PLAYING]

Way I see it,

any dollar y'all n*gg*s stack out here

is a dollar y'all takin' from me.

And that ain't never gon' sit right.

Our money's Stefano Marchetti's money.

But you know that already.

No matter where the f*ck I am,
I'm here.

I'm here, there,
and everywhere, n*gga.

You could tell Kanan the same sh*t.

[MUSIC FADES]

[FROM INSIDE CAFE VOUS]
♪ Real bad, real bad ♪

[FADES] ♪ I know I got it bad ♪

[DARK, OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[ENGINE REVVING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

- [WHIMPERING]
- Get the f*ck in!

Please, take everything. I don't care.

We takin' you, b*tch.

[WHIMPERING]

Please don't hurt me.
I'll do whatever you want.

[KANAN] That's good, baby.

'Cause we gon' need you
to do some sh*t.

[GASPS, EXHALES]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[COUGHS]

Shirley was waterin' down
these bottles.

Tricky-a*s broad.

["IMPATIENT" PLAYING SOFTLY
IN CAFE VOUS]

[JUKE] You want somethin' else?

Probably better for me to drink
the weak sh*t anyway.

[SIGHS]

Yo.

Been talkin' to that detective.

Garcia.

f*ck you doin' talkin' to police?

He tryin' to find out
who put down Howard, so...

I ain't tell him sh*t.

Obviously.

But he's still messin' with me

so I'm tryin' to get him
to leave me the f*ck alone.

I can hit up the new lawyer.

Get him to make a few calls.

Or send a letter or some sh*t.

Thing is...

I feel like maybe Garcia
could help us.

He know things

and he can find sh*t out.

Keep us a step ahead.

I started paying him
to step the f*ck off.

- [GROANS]
- And also...

give me information.

You're a wild girl, Juke.

Hittin' off police.

Here I am, trying to steer you
away from all this sh*t

and you done turned gangster on me.

I'm short, though.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

He want more than I got right now.

So you hittin' off this cop

but you don't got enough
to pay him off proper.

How that playin' out for you?

Not good.

Cop on the take
ain't the n*gga you wanna short.

[INHALES SHARPLY]

Maybe... you could help me out
a little bit

'til I can cover it.

Your deal, your debt. [SIGHS]

You gotta figure that sh*t out
on your own.

[SIGHS] I'll pay you back the money.

And maybe he got sh*t
you wanna know too.

I already got enough going on
with these police.

I don't need no more.

Can't lie, though...

you makin' moves out here.

Chip off the old f*ck' block.

[MUSIC FADES]

["ESCAPE [THE PINA COLADA SONG]"
[BY RUPERT HOLMES PLAYING]

- ♪ If you like pina coladas ♪
- [SLURRED SINGING WITH SONG]

♪ And gettin' caught In the rain ♪

♪ If you're not into yoga ♪

♪ If you have half a brain ♪

♪ If you like makin' love
At midnight ♪

♪ In the dunes of the Cape ♪

♪ You're the one That I look for ♪

♪ Write to me and escape ♪

♪ ♪

There's my favorite girl.

[MUSIC VOLUME LOWERS]

[SNIFFS]

Gonna make me beg for it?

[ON STEREO] ♪ I didn't think
About my lady ♪

♪ I know that sounds Kinda mean ♪

[MAN SNIFFS, SIGHS]

[MAN CHUCKLES]

♪ Had fallen into
The same old dull routine ♪

♪ So I wrote to the paper ♪

[SNIFFS]

♪ Took out a personal ad ♪

♪ And though I'm nobody's poet ♪

Gonna do this...

and then I'm gonna do you.

[SNIFFS LOUDLY]

Oh-h*-h*!

[LAUGHS] Wow.

[LAUGHS]

[SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING]

What the f*ck?

[GASPING SOFTLY]

What?

What? [COUGHING]

[GASPING]

[GAGGING, COUGHING]

Oh God.

[WHISPERS] Oh. Oh no.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[PANTING]

[GASPS]

You tell Raq it was Kanan.

Got it?

[GRUNTS]

Kanan.

Say that sh*t out loud, b*tch.

Kanan.

Get the f*ck outta here.

[KIRSTEN SOBBING]

[MUSIC TRANSITIONS
INTO GRIM, TENSE MUSIC]

[CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[g*nshots]

[MUSIC FADES]

They switched out the coke
I was bringing to him

with something else.

I don't know what the f*ck it was

but he died.

Right in front of me. It was horrible.

It was so f*cked up. [SNIFFLES]

And they just grabbed you
off the street?

In front of the club.

And then the kid who was in charge,

he told me to tell you something.

He said, "Tell Raq it was Kanan."

He really wanted you to know that.

Nobody else gonna hear
about that part.

That stay between us.

Whatever.

I'm never doing this sh*t again.
I'm done.

You tell anybody else,
especially Flossie,

about what that boy said,

I'ma have to do somethin' to you
that can't be undone.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Understood?

You did right when you came
to me like you did.

And where I'm from,
righteousness gets rewarded.

This is twice what she was paying you

and you deserve every penny of it.

And the best part?

You don't gotta split it up
three ways anymore.

[STEFANO CHUCKLES]

Thank you kindly, sir.

Now, Giorgio's gonna show you
out to the car

we got waiting for you.

And, uh, safe travels, my friend.

[CHUCKLES]

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

- Aw, fu...
- [SILENCED g*nsh*t]

[CASING CLATTERS]

- [MUSIC FADES]
- ["WHAT YOU IN IT FOR" PLAYS]

♪ It's my season
I don't need a reason ♪

♪ Takeover time
I'm tired of all this treason ♪

♪ Street life, trife life
Cutthroat season ♪

Breeze says you was short
the other day.

♪ n*gg*s stuck in the game
They never gon' leave it ♪

♪ Eye for an eye, n*gga... ♪

You're so f*ck' stupid, Kanan.

You can't even see
that n*gga playin' you.

Breeze want us beefin'

so he can see who come out on top.

And I'm good with that.

♪ Can't be broke
When I got Cain and Abel ♪

Real good.

♪ Ain't no Motherfuckin' fable ♪

♪ Saabs and ACs
Lamb skins on my back ♪

You're here to put me in line, right?

♪ With Alexus in a Lexus ♪

♪ Gold chains... ♪

f*ck you gon' do, n*gga?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[LAUGHS]

All you good at

is suckin' Breeze d*ck,
b*tch-a*s n*gga.

But when it come down
to this real work,

you gotta get somebody else to do it.

Like your mom.

[MUSIC DARKENS]

Yeah.

Yeah, I know all about her.

Heard that you can't
get off that titty.

You actin' all grown,

but you still need your mama
to wipe your a*s.

- [SQUELCHING THUD]
- [GRUNTS]

What you got, Taz?

[GRUNTS]

[GROANING]

[TAZ] f*ck!

[TAZ WAILS]

[GROANING]

[GROANING]

[GRUNTING, GROANING]

[YELLING IN PAIN]

[TAZ LAUGHS]

[GROANS]

f*ck you, Kanan.

Nah, n*gga.

f*ck you.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[g*nsh*t ECHOES]

[MUSIC TRANSITIONS
INTO HEAVY, GRIM MUSIC]

[MUSIC FADES]

He just blew too much at once.

Old-a*s white man
didn't know his limit

and stopped his own f*ck' heart.

Right?

[FLOSSIE] You and I are just
starting this new business

and we already have a fatality.

That's not what we call
an auspicious beginning.

This sh*t happen, though.

Just bad timing, that's all.

Doesn't change the fact

that a man is dead.

And he's not just anyone.

Anton Baker was a federal judge.

This is news.
There'll be an investigation.

And all that gon' turn up is
this m*therf*cker was a junkie

who f*cked with too much fried food.

And it's good he a judge.

That means they gonna bury as
much of this sh*t as they can.

Last thing they want is n*gg*s
diggin' into this fool's cases

to see which ones he cooked
to get high.

This doesn't happen to me.

Nobody's ever died from a blowjob,

at least not one from my girls.

[TUTS] Guess they need
to up they game then.

[SIGHS] This isn't a joke, Marvin.

It's a dead white guy.

That sh*t always gonna be funny to me.

You've checked your product to
make sure there are no problems?

My sh*t ain't the issue.

And how are you, sweetie?

You've been through a hell of a lot.

You should go home, take a long bath,

and then you're gonna have
some time off.

Couple weeks at least, okay?

Go home, Kirsten.

I'll check on you later.

I'm worried about her.

She definitely shaky.

We can handle her if you want.

You mean k*ll her.

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

Just so we're clear,
I have no problem with violence.

My father taught me
that in certain instances

violence can be powerful.

But only when it's used strategically,

otherwise it has no impact.

I'm not afraid to pull the trigger,

but it has to matter.

[MUSIC TRANSITIONS
INTO UNSETTLING DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Gotta find the joint.

That's the soft spot.

It's the easiest sh*t to cut through.

Like this.

[ELECTRIC SAW WHIRRING]

- [LOUD GRINDING]
- [SQUELCHING]

[WHIRRING SLOWS]

[MUSIC FADES]

Scared of Flossie's pops.

This n*gga schooled
his baby girl on dropping fools,

sh*t, I'm worried I'm f*cking up Juke.

Flossie got a crush
on you or something?

Seem like she get all googly-eyed

and wide open and sh*t
when you talkin'.

I don't even know
what the f*ck that means.

Flossie and I are friends.

Associates and sh*t.

Same as you and her.

Well, just as long as I don't
find out later you two married

and opening up
some bed and f*ck' breakfast

in the Catskills
behind my back, n*gga.

Don't let me hear you got
side conversations

goin' on with her
like you did with Stefano.

We got one piece of business
with Flossie Siegel.

This work, that's all.

I get it.

But know that I'm gonna talk

to whoever the f*ck I wanna talk to.

I'ma say whatever
the f*ck I wanna say.

I'ma do that
'cause I'm a grown-a*s man.

What you need to understand,

sh*t, what I thought
you been understanding,

is that I'm loyal.

Always have been, always will be.

Stefano had me doin'
that side work for him

just so he could stir up
the sh*t between us.

So he could tell you I was
movin' behind your back

even when I wasn't.

At least not in some kind of way

where I was lookin' to take your spot.

Stefano f*cked us all up.

And now we f*ck' him up.

n*gga might be f*cked up
for good already.

[INHALES DEEPLY] Point is...

Lou gone.

Ma gone.

Pops been gone.

All that's left is you and me.

Just us.

And that means somethin'.

So when you say all that
f*cked up sh*t to me,

it hurt.

[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

We gotta be better than that.

I wasn't there for Lou.

Not like I shoulda been.

But I'm here for you.

Big brothers protect
their little sisters.

I'm your big f*ck' brother, Raquel.

Yeah, you are.

A'ight then.

[CAR HORN BLARING IN DISTANCE]

♪ ♪

[ELECTRIC SAW WHIRRING]

[WHIRRING SLOWS, STOPS]

[PLASTIC RUSTLING]

Your moms reached out.

We linked.

[TENSE, DARK MUSIC PLAYING]

It was her that hit the corner.

But you knew that already.

I thought it mighta been Raq
that hit us.

I wasn't a hundred percent.

Ain't like I'm angry or nothin'.

Just want you to know
you can tell me this sh*t.

Ain't no need to keep secrets.

That sh*t cut both ways, though.

Taz wasn't short.

That was just you f*ck' wit' me.

Seein' what I'd do.

You not wrong, brother.

That sh*t was more of a test
than a secret.

I don't need no tests.

I done graduated, n*gga.

♪ ♪

[ELECTRIC SAW WHIRRING]

[SQUELCHING]

[MUSIC FADES]

[LOUD RUSTLING]

[FIRE CRACKLING]

Fine line between standing out here

and being in there.

Out here better.

[CHUCKLING]

You ain't gon' end up in there, Kanan.

That ain't nothin' to worry about.

I ain't worried, n*gga.

Just aware.

Taz was your man.

'Til he wasn't no more.

You not Taz.

And he not you.

You ever met your father?

DefCon?

Nah.

Heard a whole lot about him,
but never knew him.

I did.

DefCon was my father too, Kanan.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

He was with my moms
before he got wit' yours.

You and me blood, n*gga.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

Brothers.

[OLDER KANAN] At some point,

lies become the truth.

sh*t get passed around long enough,

what's real don't even matter no more.

Get to a point where
the n*gga that started the lie

start believin' his own bullshit.

And by then, you can't even
call it bullshit no more

because that lie become fact.

History. Some sh*t
you studied in school.

Only thing that's real in this world

is you gon' live

and you gon' die, n*gga.

Everything in between all that

is bullshit.

[MUSIC FADES]

["WHERE" PLAYING SOFTLY IN CAFE VOUS]

♪ Kindness When you look at me ♪

♪ Where's the... ♪

He says he got a delivery
for you and Aunt Raq.

Said he gotta put it
directly in your hands.

Riff already checked him out.

He ain't strapped or nothin'.

♪ Walk side by side ♪

♪ Dreamin' 'bout the days
When we would fly in the sky ♪

♪ Where are you now... ♪

You got something for me?

You Marvin Thomas?

Can you sign here?

♪ Are you still my friend? ♪

♪ Are you still the one
That I believed in? ♪

Who's it from?

I'm just the messenger.

♪ 'Cause I'm still Reminiscing ♪

♪ Will you give me A reason... ♪

[GRIM, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

What's that?

Trouble.

["SHOT YOU DOWN" PLAYING]

♪ Bang, bang ♪

♪ I shot you down ♪

♪ Bang, bang ♪

♪ I shot you down ♪

♪ You shot my heart ♪

♪ With an arrow ♪

♪ I never seen it coming ♪

♪ I turn around ♪

♪ And here you come ♪

♪ Out of nowhere ♪

♪ Wasn't prepared From the start ♪

♪ Bang, bang ♪

♪ I shot you down ♪

♪ Bang, bang... ♪