The Big Cigar (2024) s01e02 Episode Script

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["BALLAD OF A THIN MAN" PLAYING]
[HUEY] Hmm. Listen, man,
listen. You hear that?
[CHUCKLES] That's not a
song about a circus man.
That Dylan, he's talking about us.
Us? And how so? We the freaks?
[HUEY] No, see the geek, right?
The geek is a circus performer.
Uh, they got injured on the trapeze
and now he's gotta take this other job,
this menial job in order to survive.
Mr. Jones, he's willing to come down.
He willing to pay to
see the geek in the cage,
uh, eating live chicken or whatever
'cause he wants to see a freak.
But then the geek, he
take the chicken bone,
and he hands it to Mr.
Jones and says [EXHALES]
"The real freak is you."
[CHUCKLES] Wow. Man,
that Bobby Dylan is heavy.
Okay. Have a seat right here.
[HUEY] Hey, man. Real
freak Real freak is you.
The Greeks created icons.
Portraits of religious figures.
But the images became sacred,
above and apart from
the individual depicted.
[SONG CONTINUES]
[EXHALES SHARPLY] Whoa.
- Wanna get the hat
- I'll go tilt it.
[HUEY] Eldridge Cleaver was a man
- who understood the power of an image.
- [BOBBY] Yeah.
[HUEY] Uh, he wanted one that
inspired armed revolution.
This right here says,
"Leader and defender
of the Black colony
in white America."
The most dangerous man on the planet.
Now [CHUCKLES]
look straight in the lens.
This is the shot.
[HUEY] According to the
philosopher Foucault,
if an image becomes iconic,
it is impossible to see the
subject as anything else.
[STEVE] Roz, Roz, I promise,
he's not staying long.
- One day, two max.
- [ROZ] If Bert's house was raided,
it's only a matter of time
before they bust down our door.
- Is that what you want?
- [STEVE] No.
[ROZ] You wanna watch me and my
kids hauled away in handcuffs?
- [TYPING]
- [GWEN] Mary Poppins is at it again.
- Did you hear me?
- [TYPING STOPS]
I gotta finish this letter
to the Cuban government, Gwen.
- Huey, she's
- She's not gonna want Steve to go to jail.
[GWEN] Oh, she doesn't care.
- Look, we can't stay here.
- Well, where else are we supposed to go?
[STAMMERING] I can't trust
anybody in the party anymore.
Okay, but why are these the
people to elude a manhunt?
Now, why would you
think they can do that?
Because I'm gonna make 'em.
Look Look, Gwen, Bert
- Bert did keep Ellsberg out of jail.
- Mm-hmm.
And he got Abbie Hoffman
out of the country
when he was number one
on the most-wanted list.
He brought Chaplin back.
What do all those people
got in common that you don't?
Hey.
Look, it's all Come here.
- It's all gonna be okay.
- [SIGHS]
You should've never got involved
with these Hollywood fools.
[BERT] All right, listen up.
For 50 years Hollywood has
failed to stand up to tyranny.
All that is gonna end
right here with you.
We're gonna be the Beverly Hills 7, man.
They call you that
after you're arrested.
[BERT] No, no, no. No
one's gonna get arrested.
We know planning and logistics.
We're gonna get Huey to
Cuba in the next 48 hours.
Ticking clock's good, but why so tight?
Because the FBI's started
kicking down doors.
Plus, my girlfriend's
gonna fuck her tennis coach
- if this goes on any longer.
- [ALL LAUGH]
- Like I said, we're not gonna get caught.
- How can you know that, man?
We got the perfect cover.
As far as anybody knows, we're
just movie people making a movie.
[DENNIS] Okay. What movie
are we talking about?
What kind of movie?
- It's a caper, Hoppy.
- Caper?
Look, you gotta be smart.
All your phones are tapped.
So from now on, we're gonna
talk about this thing in code.
So, Huey is "The
Package." Or "The Star."
I'm "The Producer."
Artie's "The Babysitter."
Steve's "The Jew."
Wait, why am I the Jew?
You're more Jewish than I am.
Because Steve, you're "The Jew."
- [LAUGHS]
- Yeah. Jesus, fuck.
So the story is "The Jew"
and "The Jewish Producer"
- Thank you.
- take "The Package"
to the Big Cigar aka Cuba.
It's like Ladykillers with
a movie crew instead of musicians.
[STAMMERS] I mean, I love
The Big Cigar, man.
- That's I like that But
- [STEVE] That's your thing?
- But, like, black and white, you know.
- Oh, that's gonna change everything.
- [ALL CHATTERING]
- Look, look, look, look. Guys, listen.
Stop bullshitting. All right? From
now on, no credit cards. Cash only.
No big cash withdrawals, no paper trail.
- Stick to pay phones.
- [SOFTLY] Oh.
[HUEY] They're trying to
frame me for a woman's murder.
- [SIGHS]
- It's not a game. All right? It's my life.
Let me out, man.
And I need a plane.
Man, one of you ruling class crackers
gotta know somebody with a plane.
[DENNIS] Yeah, we know
a guy, man. He's Cuban.
He's a, uh, consultant on the Che biopic
- over at Paramount.
- Yeah.
Makes all the [CHUCKLES]
trips down to South America.
I mean, he could be the guy.
Man, I don't care who it
is. Just get hold of a plane.
The Feds busted down the door
in the middle of the night.
Threw us out of our own home.
Wouldn't even let me put on my clothes.
- [PHONE RINGING]
- Okay, okay. Um One second, okay?
- Hello?
- Hey. Is, uh Is the line clear?
[TERESSA] Yeah, we at Larry's grandma's.
Huey, the Feds came and took
all our houses last night.
Because I skipped bail?
The moment you left.
Today, they closed the
schools, the clinics
- [SIGHS]
- breakfast programs.
I got 30 people who slept on the street.
All right, uh, tell
them we'll work it out.
Uh, just give them the
keys to the penthouse.
You ain't got 30 beds.
Well, then take the reserve cash
and put everybody else in motels.
- What reserve? They took it.
- Well, then find some.
- How?
- I don't know. Shit.
[SIGHS] Sorry.
[SIGHS]
Look, I just don't want this
bullshit to bring down the programs.
Okay.
We can't lose what we
risked everything to build.
Okay, I'll figure something out.
Careful. Wanted posters up all over.
All right.
[HUEY] It was one thing for
the Feds to come after me,
but I couldn't let them
hurt the community.
The stars came out today
as the Black Panther
Party opened a new location
for their expanded breakfast program.
You want an autograph?
- Want me to sign my name for you here?
- Thank you.
Thanks for being here.
- I knew it.
- All right.
- All power to the people.
- All power to the people!
I'm glad you all, uh, finally came out,
uh, to get a chance to
see what we're all about.
See, we've, uh we've been
doing this work for many years,
and, uh, for me it's
important because, uh,
when I was in primary school,
there was always a problem.
Some of the kids, the ones who
had the money to pay for it,
uh, would get, uh, cookies
and, uh, graham crackers.
And, uh, the ones who didn't, had
to put their heads on the desk,
you know, while the other ones ate.
And, uh, I always thought
that was very bad
[PANS CLATTERING]
Excuse me a moment.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[BERT] I guess he prefers
guns to pancakes, huh?
Yeah.
But we got a major network here.
It's a big deal. It is.
[INHALES DEEPLY] Yeah, man.
[SCOFFS]
Hate that we have to get the, uh
the stars, you know,
to lure the cameras.
They didn't have any trouble finding
us when we were out in the street
with our guns policing the
police, you know what I mean?
[BERT] It's the society of spectacle.
I don't wanna be that guy in
the wicker chair anymore, man.
I mean, I understand why people
like the image, but it ain't me.
That's some shit Eldridge came up with.
And when I got out of the pen, man, I
I got a second chance at life that
I didn't think I was gonna get.
You understand?
And I don't wanna spend that time
sending people to their graves.
If I'm gonna have an image,
I want it to be one that
that helps people.
With this money we're
bringing in from Hollywood,
we can feed, we can clothe, we can
house a whole bunch of more folks.
[STAMMERS] And we're
just getting started.
All right? We're talking about
survival pending revolution.
[PANTHER 1] Brother Huey, with respect,
people don't come to us because
they want to start a charity.
Like Brother Eldridge says,
the party stands for violent
struggle against oppression.
We have to shift to survive, brother.
- [PEOPLE MUTTERING]
- [SIGHS]
Only brother I ever seen go
into the joint and come out soft.
- What you say?
- Huey.
[HUEY] You ever been
to the hole, brother?
You ever face down a line of
police with your own 12-gauge?
Oh, I see. So you're not really
ready to die for revolution.
You just You just
like wearing the threads.
I think some of you brothers and sisters
are in need of a
revolutionary education.
This party has moved
on from armed struggle.
That's right.
We are about survival and
we are about social change.
Now if you wanna be with us,
you can go teach some
of our kids how to read.
All right? Or you can go
go volunteer at a clinic.
Do something to help our people.
But if what you wanna do is go
out in the street with a shotgun,
trying to overthrow the
government and get yourself killed,
then you can get your ass on a plane
and fly to Algeria and be with Eldridge.
- [PANTHER 2] That's right.
- Mmm.
[PANTHER 3] Yeah. That's right.
Huey?
Those punks down there trying to
tell me how to run my own party?
It's not just them, Huey. Lot
of talk like that out there.
Most of our members joined
up while you were in the pen.
Young folks who had your
poster on their wall.
They thought they was coming
in here to be soldiers.
Sounds like you agree with them.
You think I should stick with the guns?
You think that's what's
best for the party, Gwen?
It stopped being about just the
party for me a long time ago.
Gwen, come on.
I'm just worried.
There is a lot of
talk, and at some point,
talk ain't all it's gonna be.
What you think I ought to do?
- Call Eldridge.
- Hell no.
Get him to unite the party with you.
No. If I call him, he'll just
go around telling everybody,
"Oh, Huey P. came to me with
his tail between his legs."
Got me here looking like a chump.
- [CHUCKLES] That pride of yours.
- It ain't pride, Gwen.
It's common sense.
Oh. Oh, you wanna look at it practical.
Okay, fine. How important
are the programs?
They're my life's work.
You know that, Gwen.
Then maybe you should humble yourself.
Take a risk. Call the man.
Hmm?
Please tell me you got
something on Schneider.
It ain't good. [SIGHS] Our
guys were at it all night.
All we got was some of Schneider's coke,
- couple of kids on weed charges
- [GROANS]
- and a bunch of togas. No sign of Huey.
- [GROANS] Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!
[SIGHS] We gotta smoke 'em out.
Those fucking producers
know where he is.
Oh, great. [GROANS] I
thought we might be done.
Fuck! I'm so sick of
looking like this hair!
I hate the goddamn hippies.
Every morning I wake up, look
in the mirror, and what do I see?
A funky-ass hippie.
Yeah, man.
Give me the fucking drugs.
Right.
- [SYDNEY SIGHS]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[HUEY] The FBI was emptying its
playbook to neutralize the Panthers.
- Harassment, arrest, fabricated evidence.
- [FLUTE, BONGO DRUMS PLAYING]
Informants and provocateurs.
Man, they even had Feds like Agent Clark
living as members of communities
they were hell-bent to destroy.
- [SQUEALING]
- Scored.
Mmm. [GIGGLES]
[BELL RINGS]
- [TROPICAL MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
- [PILOT] Flying to Cuba is a lot of risk.
[BERT] How much would it cost?
- [CHUCKLES] Depends. What's the package?
- You don't need to know.
Well, the price for
"you don't need to know,"
it's 25K up-front.
What else do you need?
Another 25 on arrival.
Oh, and you need to clear an
airstrip in Rancho Cucamonga.
Rancho Cuc
Man, w-why we gotta
clear you an airstrip?
This doesn't sound like something
you can just load up
in front of everyone
at Van Nuys, does it?
And I'm assuming you don't
wanna file a flight plan. Huh?
[CHUCKLES] I don't do construction.
Only transpo. It's
It's a union thing.
Seventy-two hours. Get your
plane there. Ready to take off.
4:00 p.m., Friday?
Adiós.
Man, I don't like that dude.
Three days from now, you're
gonna be sipping Cuba libres
on the beach in Havana. Trust me.
Yeah, I do trust you.
I just don't trust him.
You know, look, all these guys
are risking everything for you.
We're in the meeting this morning,
we're we're planning a thing
- and you blow off to go make a phone call?
- [SCOFFS] Look, man.
I left a lot of shit
behind in Oakland, Bert.
My pops is sick, man. The Feds
closed down my survival programs.
I got kids and families
sleeping in the street.
Well, that's a lot. I
didn't know about your dad.
It's fine. I just need
things to go right.
No, I understand. I'm all over it.
We're gonna build that airstrip,
and you just focus on the
party and your dad. Okay?
[CHUCKLES]
[GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYING]
Pop?
Oh, hey. Huey.
- You just missed Melvin.
- I was actually looking for you.
It's Saturday, I figured I
might know where you'd be.
Sitting right here like
always, working on my sermon.
Got anything in there for me?
Prodigal son come looking for answers.
Well, come on. Sit on down.
[SIGHS]
I'm getting tested, Pop.
Trying to, uh, walk a
new path, as you tell it.
[CHUCKLES] Walking that path ain't easy.
[CHUCKLES] Can't figure out where
it is half the time or where
[STAMMERS] which
way I'm supposed to go.
You remember when you was coming up,
you used to follow Sonny Man
everywhere wanting to be just like him?
Yeah, well
Then you got into books. And
you and Melvin became tight.
- [GRUNTS]
- You know, you've been through a lot.
- Hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
So now, who is it you really wanna be?
I want to, uh I wanna
transform society, Pop.
I envision a world beyond
conflict and violence.
Does that path take
you through Hollywood?
[SIGHS]
Look, change comes in many forms.
All right, revolutionary
culture is a powerful weapon,
and that that right there,
that television is a nuclear one.
I Politics is-is
telling a story, and
and Hollywood helps amplify my message.
I know a little something
about preaching a message.
All right. All right.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
When you was little, you remember,
your auntie took you up to that
big church up there on 45th?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
- Yeah, she, uh she loved that preacher.
- [BOTH CHUCKLING]
Big choir and all that.
Yeah. [GRUNTS] Well, it made
an impression on you too.
You come home,
"Pop!" [LAUGHS] "How come you
don't preach at church like that?"
[LAUGHS] You always been
drawn to the big stage.
Do you remember what I told you?
You said that, uh,
in those big churches,
the preacher sometimes
becomes the message.
And that's where the danger lies.
Now you think about it.
Most of the world's problems comes
when the messenger
thinks he's the message.
Hmm.
There's a reason they
consider pride a deadly sin.
You're right. Thank you, Pop.
You ain't hear a word I said.
No, I heard you. I heard you.
Gotta go talk to Eldridge.
Try to unite this party.
Finish up your sermon.
[UNION BOSS] We're not
building you an airstrip.
You stiffed us for the
overage on your last movie.
Yeah, that's right. When we
were, uh, switching accountants.
Yeah, it must have been
a studio mix-up or
- Yeah.
- No, buddy,
the mix-up is you still think it's 1972.
Easy Rider's in the rearview.
You're out of stardust, baby.
And money, by the looks of it.
[BERT] We have enough
to sweeten the deal.
We'll pay double time.
[CHUCKLING] Sure.
- For a working airstrip in three days?
- Rush job rates.
Cash on the barrelhead for all your men.
- [SIGHS] Ah, just take it all.
- Hmm?
- Triple pay, fellas.
- [UNION WORKERS] Yeah!
You just gave them the last of our cash.
Let me tell you something, Bert.
Okay, look, you do what you want,
because you always do, but if
you stiff these guys again
Look at me. Look at me.
They're gonna chop you up and
dump your parts in the desert.
I'm not gonna stiff them.
We're making a movie to
get Huey out of the country.
Let's rustle up some investors.
It's fucking pathetic.
[HUEY] So, Bert called in
some favors. Not sure to who.
But he found some cash,
and we moved it discreetly.
[LINE RINGS]
[DENNIS] The cigar is
lit. Pre-pro is underway.
["FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY" PLAYING]
[LINE RINGS]
[BERT] PA is on the move.
[LINE RINGS]
[LAWYER] Budget's
approved at that number,
but there's no room for breakage.
[SYDNEY] These assholes
and the fucking movie.
Give me something on Huey!
[LINE RINGS]
[STEVE] Is transpo ready to
head out to the location?
[HUEY] It was all happening.
We, uh, threw the Feds off the
scent. They had no idea where I was.
One thing I learned about Hollywood,
you do whatever it takes
to get your shit made.
[ARTIE] Wiring that petty cash to
the transpo department right now.
[JACK NICHOLSON] Stop calling me, man.
A freak snowstorm just blew through.
I got Santa here with Margot
Kidder and her friends.
I'll call you next week.
[DENNIS] The star's
call time is confirmed.
- Set construction is 70% complete.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS]
[HUEY] Can't believe we're
actually getting it done.
It shows what the people can accomplish
when they have resources and access.
Reminds me, man, I, uh,
caught some of the footage
for your Hearts and Minds
film. Best thing you ever done.
You're either gonna get an Oscar,
or you're gonna get blacklisted
for exposing Vietnam like that.
You hear that, Steve?
We're gonna win an Oscar.
[CHUCKLING] Well, we better,
'cause everything we have is tied up
in that picture [INHALES DEEPLY]
including your house.
House shmouse. Gonna be
lines around the block.
[STEVE] Mmm.
Hey, we gotta get you
back here for the premiere.
Hey. We are gonna get you back here.
Strange, man.
Thinking about how I might never,
uh never see my home again.
My friends, my dad.
And my people sleeping on the
street 'cause I skipped bail.
And what am I doing, man? I'm
out here running just like
just like, uh, Eldridge.
After all that shit I said about him.
Really, we see, uh, the true
nature of our movement as,
uh, oriented around the
promotion of of human life.
I think that's certainly different
than what most of our viewers
would imagine, Mr. Newton.
- Yeah.
- Uh, now, um, as you know,
we're being joined by Eldridge Cleaver,
on the line from his exile in Algeria.
- Uh, Mr. Cleaver, are you there?
- Hey, my man, Eldridge.
How How's it going
over there in Algiers?
Yeah, not too good, Huey. Not too good.
[CHUCKLES] What you mean, man?
[STAMMERS] On On the news,
it it looks pretty good.
You on that rooftop, uh, looking
out at the beach and all that.
[ELDRIDGE] Yeah, you must
be thinking of your view
from the Malibu Hills, jack.
I'm talking about this, uh,
survival program bullshit.
Excuse me, brother?
Now, Huey, that's not what
the Panthers are about.
What about taking up arms?
I I don't think you
know what you're saying.
Uh, we talked about this. You
said you'd back the programs.
Yeah, I know what I'm saying.
I'm saying you were out there
flippin' sausages, and
the party's falling apart.
Oh, I see. You, uh You
trying to, uh trying to drop,
uh, a drop a bombshell this morning.
But you've been talking about
that, uh, armed struggle thing
from exile for years now, brother.
That's pretty convenient.
How about this for a news flash? The
international section is expelled.
Expelled? What, you
shutting me out, brother?
That's right. That's right. Buried.
You're a madman.
Right, I'd rather be a
madman than to be a coward.
What the hell are you talking about?
You ran off after getting
Lil Bobby Hutton killed.
Lil Bobby, the third
member of our party.
[SIRENS WAILING]
Eldridge took him on a suicide mission,
got him gunned down in cold blood.
- Cops shot him over a dozen times.
- [GUNSHOT]
- He was 17 years old.
- [GRUNTS]
[HUEY] Lil Bobby's been
with me ever since.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]
I stay here, you understand? I
stay here, and I face the gas.
You're a coward and you're a punk.
- [MIC CRACKLES]
- Uh
Uh, ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Huey P. Newton.
And on the line, Eldridge Cleaver.
And we'll be right
back after this break.
Fuck Eldridge.
- I did not think he was gonna do that.
- Damn fool just declared war.
Yeah, he's forcing you to choose.
You stick with the programs and
risk losing part of the party or
Or stay with the guns
and let Eldridge win?
There is no choice.
[HUEY] One of J. Edgar Hoover's
primary objectives with COINTELPRO
was pitting Panthers against
each other to split the party.
He wanted to weaponize egos
and erode trust amongst us.
Hoover wanted conflict, paranoia
and Panther blood in the streets.
And the shit worked too.
[GWEN] I don't know, man. I
think I should come with you.
Nah. It's too risky.
Now, you know you don't
wanna be in Cuba alone.
The kids could stay with
my mom until we get settled.
Nah, you know those kids need you, Gwen.
Shit. Besides, for all I know,
the man might decide to use
the plane for target practice.
You don't need me?
["LET'S STAY TOGETHER" PLAYING ON RADIO]
I need you to go up north
and help out with the party.
If I had a hard time getting
folks on the same page,
I know it won't be easy
for Teressa and Elaine.
[SIGHS]
Hmm.
Gwen, come on. Come on, now.
I don't have time for
all of this, all right?
I need you to go to
Oakland and talk to my pops.
I never I never got a chance to call.
You have to.
You have to tell him you
love him before it's too late.
Well, my pops my pops is
southern. He's He's old-school.
He don't go ahead for all
that free love hippie bullshit.
You have never once told
your father that you love him?
He never told me.
Well, maybe it's time to change that.
Am I ever gonna see you again?
Yes. Gwen, I'm gonna
send for you and the kids.
Promise.
[SCOFFS]
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
[SONG CONTINUES]
[RICHARD] I can't believe
Huey's taking off tomorrow.
What the fuck? Did fucking
Bert send out invitations?
[RICHARD] This is the white leftie
farewell tour, man. Look at it.
You know how Hollywood
loves a going away story.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING, CHUCKLING]
[CHUCKLES] This is great, isn't it?
Reminds me of the first day of shooting.
But hey, uh, look, I
gotta show you something.
- What the fuck is this?
- [BERT] Huey's going away present.
The whole town already thinks
that we're shooting a movie,
so why don't we really shoot a movie?
"The Big Cigar."
Man, I gotta introduce
you to some black artists.
I mean, they could've
funked this thing up.
Gave it some Superfly.
Far fucking out.
- Listen, this has never been done before.
- Hmm.
They're gonna be writing about what
we're doing while we're doing it.
- Artie's already started a script.
- Has he? Okay.
Why don't we just send the FBI
a letter, with all our sizes,
so they can have our prison
suits waiting for us, huh?
- How does that sound, Bert?
- You know how this business works.
It will be 50 years before
this thing gets into theaters.
By that time the whole
thing will have blown over.
It's amazing! I mean, he
looks just like me. [LAUGHS]
[HUEY] Burt Reynolds is playing you?
[BERT CHUCKLES] Hey,
Huey. Come check this out.
I'll go burn this.
I'm out here running for
my life and you, uh
you fucking around with a poster?
- Oh, wait
- I thought you had got it by now.
The reason I got down with
you in the first place is
because you helped our programs.
I thought by now we
had we had got somewhere
- and here you come with this bullshit.
- I'm just trying to sell the lie.
[SIGHS]
Everything all right in here?
[INHALES SHARPLY] Tell
you, man, I need a ride.
Good thing I know a nigga with a Rolls.
- [RICHARD] I'm gonna watch your back.
- All right.
[RICHARD] Make it quick, brother.
[LINE RINGING]
- [HUEY'S DAD] Hello?
- Pops.
[STRAINED] Huey. You okay?
Yeah, yeah. I'm I'm all right. Um
How you feel?
Like they're making a bed for
me in the upper room. [CHUCKLES]
Where are you?
[HUEY] I can't I can't say.
They got a bull's-eye on my back.
Yeah, well, so did
Jesus. He turned out okay.
Listen, Pop, there's, uh
there's something I
need to, uh, say to you.
[GRUNTS] Now you take
care of yourself, Huey.
Uh, please, just, uh, just listen to me.
I I [EXHALES SHARPLY]
You, uh You You
know how I feel, right?
No, no, no. Now, you don't
have to say anything.
Come on. Keep him talking, Walter.
[RADIO CHATTER]
Oh, shit.
Huey, we got a couple of slave
catchers coming our way, man.
Huey, we gotta split, man.
All right, all right.
- See, the thing is, Pop, I'm leaving.
- I know.
- [RICHARD] Hey, officers. Thank God.
- Pops, just let me speak.
Some fools done scratch my
Rolls and run off that way.
Oh, shit.
- Are you Richard Pryor?
- Now, see.
Just when I thought justice
was blind, you motherfuckers
- can recognize a nigga with money!
- [OFFICERS LAUGH]
- [RICHARD] Damn right, I'm Richard Pryor.
- Well, Dad, uh
- [COUGHING] Huey
- Mr. Newton, is that Huey?
- [WALTER] I'm fine.
- [NURSE] Mr. Newton, give me the phone.
- Dad, hello?
- [WALTER MUMBLES]
[NURSE] No. Huey, you are
upsetting your father.
Hey, put my father
back on the damn phone.
[WALTER] Huey.
- [NURSE] Do not talk to me like that.
- I need to speak to my father.
- [WALTER COUGHING]
- Put him back on the goddamn phone.
[WALTER] Will you give
me the phone, miss?
That guy with you?
Ah, that's just my driver.
- He gotta check in
- [WALTER] Huey.
- Daddy. Hey, Dad.
- [NURSE] Mr. Newton, I'm sorry,
- but I have to insist.
- [WALTER] No. I'm fine. [COUGHS]
[NURSE] Hand me the phone.
- Daddy, I l
- [LINE CLICKS]
Hello?
- [OFFICER 1] That was Richard Pryor, man.
- [OFFICER 2] Yeah.
[WHIMPERS]
[METAL CLANKS]
[METAL CLANKING]
Shit! [SNIFFLES]
Come on, man. Let's go. [SNIFFLES]
- [SIREN BLARES]
- [COP 1] Nigger's got a gun.
[GUNSHOTS]
- [COP 1] You're gonna die.
- [CELL GATE CLOSING]
[GWEN] You have never once told
your father that you love him?
- [HUEY] You know how I feel.
- [WALTER] You don't have to say anything.
[HUEY] I don't wanna be that guy
in the wicker chair anymore, man.
[TERESSA] Huey, the Feds came and
took all our houses last night.
[HUEY] You ran off after
getting Lil Bobby Hutton killed.
[BERT] How's it help the
movement if you're dead?
[RICHARD] You out there
hiding in plain sight.
[HUEY] It's not a game. It's my life.
[OFFICER] Fuck you and all
the niggers that follow you.
[HUEY] I always knew I was
gonna die for the revolution.
[BERT] You're gonna be the
most dangerous man in America.
[GWEN] Am I ever gonna see you again?
[CELL DOOR CLOSES]
[HUEY] Power implies
possession of liberation,
and I refuse to die a powerless man.
- [SHOUTING] Hey! Hey! Hey!
- Power implies possession of liberation,
and I refuse to die a powerless man.
Guard!
- [SHOUTS, GRUNTING]
- Power implies possession of liberation.
refuse to die a powerless man.
Guard!
[GRUNTS] Hey, hey! Hey, Guard! Guard!
Power implies possession of liberation,
and I refuse to die a powerless man!
[MUMBLING]
Shit.
[SCREAMS]
[GASPING, COUGHS]
[DISTORTED] Lil Bobby!
[GASPS, SCREAMS]
Lil Bobby!
Bobby!
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]
[CHILD] What kind of plane
are you flying to Cuba?
Hmm?
What kind of plane
are you flying to Cuba?
I-I don't know, man.
Say, uh, are you a
you a good student?
In some stuff.
But I hate book reports
in front of the class.
Yeah, I couldn't stand them either.
Why not?
Mmm. Because I couldn't read.
- You couldn't read?
- Hey, Michael.
Why don't we play the,
uh, license plate game.
What do you say, pal?
It's cool, man.
Yeah?
See, uh [SIGHS] I had
a lot of trouble with the words.
And my teachers, they
didn't really care.
So, uh, I had to teach myself.
Know what I did then?
Uh-uh.
I started my own school.
[STEVE] All right, pal.
Let's grab your backpack.
We're almost at your school.
[STEVE] Where's Tajo, Bert?
[BERT] Tajo's late.
I mean, I'm sure he's on
his way. [MUMBLES] Traffic.
- What? Air traffic.
- Ah.
At least the light is good. Get
to have one more sunset together.
The light? Where the fuck is the Cuban?
All in.
[GROANS]
[DEALER] You owe us, Tajo.
[TAJO] Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I got something, something
you're gonna want.
I know where Huey Newton is.
What's taking him so long, Bert?
All right, he'll be here.
Fellas, come on. Let's just
Let's just hang tight, okay?
I told you not to trust that dude.
You know, I don't get it.
Guy's done a million runs.
[SCOFFS] What did you expect, man?
Yeah, you're too, uh
you're too busy playing
mogul, throwing parties,
and you didn't take time to make
sure the fucking plane was here.
- I mean, something must've happened.
- I'll tell you what happened.
You told me to trust
you. That's what happened.
And then you went out
and hired a drug runner
because he looked the part.
That about says it all, man.
Where the hell is he?
Huey, where you going?
[ENGINE STARTS]
Huey, what you doing?
Huey, where you going?
I'm going to kill a Cuban.
But that's my car. Huey, that's my car!
Hey! That's my car!
Oh, this is wonderful. This
is This is just dynamite.
There he goes!
Isn't that great? There he goes, Bert.
Why don't you put that
in your fucking poster!
[PERSON ON RADIO] One. We want freedom.
We want power to determine the
destiny of our own Black communities.
Two. We want full
employment for our people.
Three. We want decent housing fit
for the shelter of human beings.
Four. We want an end to the
robbery of the Black community
by the white racist businessman.
Five. We want decent
education that teaches us
about the true nature of this
racist and decadent system.
[SIRENS BLARING]
Education that teaches
us about our true history
and our role in society
and the world today.
Six. We want all Black brothers to
be exempt from military service.
Seven.
[SIGHS]
[GUN COCKS]
All power to the people.
All power to the people.
["FIGHT THE POWER" PLAYING]