Kings of Jo'burg (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

[theme music playing]
[upbeat music playing]
[gentle music playing]
That's enough.
- Mmm. There you go.
- Thanks.
[laughing]
What?
[romantic music playing]
[sighs]
[lightly playful music playing]
[thud]
- Hey.
- Hi.
Is everything okay?
Yeah, yeah.
What are you doing there?
What's wrong?
Nothing.
It's late, I have to go open the shop.
No, it's fine.
You can go ahead.
[groans]
Um, this is my room.
Yeah?
Oh, you
- You want me
- Yeah.
But I've
I'll just cover my face with a pillow,
and then you can
Yeah.
You can just let me know
when you're out [clears throat]
[tense music playing]
[phone rings]
And these?
Are these the results from the
footage?
But I don't understand.
The system wasn't remotely
interfered with.
How do they explain
that when the lights went off,
that the cameras stopped recording?
They can't. I mean, it's like time stopped
for three minutes.
But that's impossible.
Unless Simon's got the best tech guys.
Jazmine, they sent the footage
to the best in South Korea.
It took half the department's budget,
and they found nothing.
I have an interesting APB just came in.
I thought you guys might be interested.
Hm!
Menzi Skhosana's been reported missing.
What?
One of Jo'burg's biggest gangsters,
goes missing? How?
The last time he was seen
entering Club Alpha.
- Oh, is that so?
- Mm-hm!
[camera shutter clicks]
[camera shutter clicks]
[ominous music playing]
[camera shutter clicking]
Let's get out of here.
- [Thuso] My man.
- [Tlotlo] My dog.
- [Thuso] Numbers from this week's game.
- [Tlotlo] Lovely stuff. These look good.
[Nonzi] Lawyer's been around
quite a bit this week, hey.
[Tlotlo] Yeah, he's spying for Simon.
Are you sure, guys,
that Simon Masire's not inside?
[police officer] Hundred percent.
We have eyes inside.
Okay, then.
Let's do this.
[action music playing]
[Thuso] Ho, ho, ho!
Who's your hoe?
- Your mom!
- [laughing]
Your mind is always in the gutter,
please calm down.
[Thuso] Hey, come on.
- [officer] Police!
- [Stan] Police!
[screaming]
- Police!
- [screaming]
[Tlotlo] What the fuck?
- What's going on?
- Tlotlo Masire.
Who wants to know?
[Stan] I wouldn't do that if I were you.
Withdraw weapons
and we'll have a different
set of problems here.
Now let's see your hands in the air!
[Tlotlo] Are we being arrested here
or what?
[Stan] I said hands up!
This is harassment.
You are harassing us right now.
Disarm them.
[Stan] Menzi Skhosana is missing.
Do you know anything about that?
[Tlotlo] Why would I know anything
about Menzi?
The last time he was seen
entering this club.
That's before he disappeared.
[Tlotlo] He was here two days ago.
Left just after midnight.
[Stan] What's the money for?
It's takings,
for the business.
[laughs]
From one night's business?
You're busy,
but you're not that busy.
It's weekly takings.
[Stan] You sure it's not from illegal
poker games that happens here
now and again?
[Tlotlo] I don't know
what you're talking about.
[Stan] So we can check out the place?
We won't find any poker tables?
Poker chips? Etcetera?
What is this about?
Are you here to ask me about Menzi?
Or are you here to tell me
about these illegal, non-existent
poker games that you're talking about?
Who knows?
Let's see what we find out
when we turn some stones.
No, woah, wait! You can't do that.
I can make the circle bigger!
Full-on raid!
Is that what you want?
Ah
Mazibuko.
Ah, Simon.
Welcome to the party.
So what, you're not going
to wave a warrant in my face?
Ah, why? We're all friends here.
So you don't have a warrant?
Well, I had a couple of questions
that I wanted your son to answer.
But surprise, surprise.
I walked into a lot of unexplained money,
and I hope that you will allow me
to have a peek at your books.
- Money?
- Mm.
What money?
I don't
I don't see any money.
And I will not see money
until you show me a warrant.
It's good seeing you, Stan.
Hope you have a great day.
You too, Simon.
See you soon.
Tlotlo!
[tense music playing]
What did I tell you about the poker games
and risking our license?
- Can we talk about this privately?
- You don't deserve that.
I'm just trying to handle this
in a mature way.
Mature? You think you're mature?
You shut this shit down,
or I take the club away from you.
[chuckles] You can't do that.
This is my club, my inheritance!
Your inheritance? From who?
Mmm?
From who!
Shut it down.
Sting, money!
Sugar?
One, please.
Black.
Thanks.
I thought Mo was done serving his time.
Has he done something wrong?
No, not at all.
It's just that there are
conversations you don't know about
that we're still having with Mogomotsi.
Oh, no. I know about everything.
I doubt that.
Try me.
Menzi Skhosana's missing.
- Do you know about that?
- He's nothing to Mo.
They're no longer business partners.
[laughs]
With all due respect,
you don't know that for sure.
See
What Mogomotsi tells you,
is what Mogomotsi chooses to tell you.
What is that supposed to mean?
[Mo] Hi.
What are you doing here?
[tense music playing]
Can we talk in private?
I'll be right back.
[Jazmine] She's acting
like a jealous girlfriend.
You move fast.
What do you want?
You know
Whatever it is, I suggest
you make it snappy.
In future
make an appointment.
Menzi's missing.
Neo gets killed by someone
who was aiming for you,
and a week later, your ex-business partner
goes missing.
Is that what you came here to tell me?
Oh, I forget,
you're on the straight and narrow now.
You don't know anything.
Yet you were seen with your brother
and your ex-crew
living it up exactly one week ago.
Yeah, I'm going straight.
Doesn't mean I shouldn't enjoy
my life though.
What are you doing here?
You know, the last time you were
snooping around in my business,
you know what ended up happening.
- Is that what's happening here?
- [huffs]
I see you're still prone
to flattering yourself.
What do you know
about Menzi's disappearance?
Nothing.
You know, even if I knew something,
I wouldn't tell you.
You haven't lifted a finger
to solve my daughter's murder.
So you took matters into your own hands?
What makes you so sure
that it's Menzi who's after me?
You don't think it's him?
Well, could've been anybody.
Could've been someone from the inside.
Anyone of my ex-members.
Even my brother.
Oh. I see these have arrived.
You seem different.
Lighter, and you don't
talk about Neo as much.
Losing Neo will always be with me.
My sins finally caught up with me and uh
she paid the price.
Her death will always haunt me.
I'm curious about why you um
haven't asked me why Jazmine came here.
Should I?
You've told me the whole truth, right?
You don't seem to believe me.
Are these old or new clothes?
Simon had them dropped off.
Uh
They're old. I'm surprised he kept them.
Sentimental bastard.
You were rich?
[sighs] No.
My brother's the rich one.
He's always known how to make money grow.
You'll realize that tonight
when you get to his mansion.
[Phumzi] Tonight?
Yeah, um
We've been invited to dinner.
Sting didn't tell you
when he dropped off the stuff?
We've been invited?
Well, I've been invited
but I'd like it if you met him.
Why? You'll introduce me to him as what?
As a friend?
Very special friend.
Somebody who's been there for me
during a very difficult time.
You don't have to go if you don't want to.
Look, I don't know
what to wear. I mean what do I wear
to a dinner in a mansion?
I can arrange something.
You should really wear your sling.
Yes, ma'am.
Woo! [chuckles]
You and your uncle always play this game.
He'll be fine.
What's going to happen now with you
investing in my business,
since you're closing down the poker night?
[knock on door]
[Thuso] It's me.
- It's open.
- Argh!
[sighs]
- Tlotlo.
- Good, you're here.
Want to hit?
- [Thuso] Oh, no, I'm good.
- Umm
- We're still talking.
- [sniffs]
No, not anymore. We'll talk
about this later. You got to go.
Tlotlo.
I said later. Now go.
So what did he do with the money?
It's in the holding room, as usual.
But Sting is the only person
with access to that room.
Fuck!
Hey bra, you just had one.
[sniffs]
[grunts]
Let me tell you something.
If my uncle thinks
he's going to take what belongs to me,
what I worked so hard for,
he's got another thing coming.
What if I told you
that I could get the money.
We just need access to the club.
Then we go to the club.
I mean, they can't stop us
from having fun, right?
But first, call the players
for tonight's game.
Tell them there's a a venue change.
- We're still running a game?
- Fuck Simon.
Now call them.
Is this Simon's car?
Yeah, one of them.
Ma'am.
Thank you.
[tense music playing]
[music ends]
Mogomotsi. Thank you.
- You look good, brother.
- Ah, thank you.
See you're over the rags phase,
put some meat on the bone.
- He likes to think he's Trevor Noah.
- [laughs]
Well, I guess we have you
to thank for that.
On behalf of the Masire family, thank you
Oh no, I don't think I had
anything to with it.
My love.
Please come meet Mo's lady.
Beautiful Phumzi.
- Oh, hi.
- Hi.
My goodness.
Simon's right. You're so cute.
Thank you, and you have
a very beautiful home.
[simpers] Thank you.
You didn't tell me,
where have you been hiding her?
I mean, look at her gorgeous natural hair.
Love the the look.
Um, Si Yamazaki whiskey
you promised me, brother?
- Yeah
- Oh, my goodness, and that dress
[laughs]
Is this my dress?
It fits you perfectly.
I mean it just wasn't made
for my body type.
Look we'll worry about the whiskey later,
I think right now,
we need to choose the wine.
So since you're the special guest,
I'll let you choose.
- Oh no, I don't know much about wine.
- Oh!
You drink it, right?
I love it.
Okay, then you know wine.
This way, my lady.
We going to have a problem here?
No, why should we?
I mean she's young. Little bit too young,
but she's not a bimbo, at least.
Don't do this.
I was just wondering
Why would you be in such a rush to
shack up with some young girl, instead of
fixing your relationship with your son?
My relationship with my son
is none of your business.
Quite frankly, neither is Phumzi.
[exhales]
Back off, all right?
[Phumzi laughing]
[Simon] Yeah, I'm telling you,
he's always been this tall.
Thirteen years old, snot-faced.
Can you believe it?
- Will you stop?
- [laughing]
This guy.
Okay, let's eat.
[clears throat]
So
Right.
Ladies, I told you I don't want
to see you here again.
- [woman] But we have to make money.
- [Stan] How's the kids?
The kids are fine, they're hungry.
Officer?
Just let them go.
- Stan.
- Mm?
Do you think Tlotlo is part of
whatever's going on
in Simon's organization?
Tlotlo definitely knows something
about the illegal gambling.
Argh! But that's a small part of it.
I mean, it doesn't even make one percent
of the Masire income stream.
I don't think we should be
focusing on him.
[Stan] He was defensive
when I asked about Menzi.
He didn't even look surprised
when I told him that he was missing.
So you think he's part
of whatever happened to Menzi?
Whatever happened,
it went down at the club,
and Tlotlo was there.
[tense music playing]
And so were they.
Wherever Tlotlo goes,
they go.
Anything from Mo?
He denied it, of course.
But he said something very interesting
when I suggested that Menzi could have
been the one who was trying to kill him.
He insinuated that Simon
could have been the one
who was trying to kill him.
But instead ended up killing Neo.
No, not Simon.
- I don't buy that.
- Why, because of the sibling relationship?
[chuckles] This is the same person,
the same brother,
who married Mogomotsi's girlfriend
as soon as Mogomotsi went to prison.
Nah, Jazmine, it doesn't feel right, it's
but at the same time
nothing ever gets the green light
without Simon saying so.
So whoever was after Mo,
Simon knew about it.
That's where the smoke is coming from.
All we need to do is find that fire.
[dramatic music playing]
Ooh
My baby looking so fine.
Going somewhere?
Just going to entertain some
business partners.
Perfect, um
I'll join you, why don't you give me
five minutes to change?
No need.
Just, hang tight.
Tlotlo, are we ever going to talk
about you
helping my business?
- Mimi, come on now.
- [Mimi] I'm just saying.
I'm supposed to be your woman.
I was the one who was there
for you from the get-go,
and I've been the one
that's been holding you down.
[knock on door]
- [Thuso] Tlotlo.
- Yeah?
[indistinct chatter]
Tlotlo woah
You know what babe,
we'll talk about this later.
Sharp.
Let's go, guys.
[tense music playing]
[she tuts in disgust]
[crying]
[tense music playing]
[background talking]
Have you decided yet?
[in French accent] Paris?
Or New York, mademoiselle?
- Mm-hm, Dakar and Paris.
- [in IsiZulu] Really?
- I'm not a rich man.
- Hey, lovebirds, let's go!
- But your dad is.
- Oh, is he?
Woohoo!
[rap music playing]
[Tlotlo] Hello?
Yeah, send her up.
Let's play.
[fabric rustling]
[Mo] Oh, man.
I can't believe you kept this.
You love this car.
You and dad spent years working on it.
[keys jangling]
Thank you.
[rap music playing]
[big sigh]
Got a feeling I'm playing with donkeys.
Let's fucking play.
[Mo] So this is where you're hiding?
I've been looking all over for you.
Mmm?
Is this about the dress?
You had me wearing
another woman's hand-me-downs?
I'm sorry about that.
Simon brought the dress and
I had no idea it was Angela's.
But you know what?
Hand-me-down or not
dress sure sits good on your body.
[huffs]
Phumz! I'm
Wow, that was smooth.
[upbeat music playing]
Tlotlo, what is this?
You were told to stay clear.
Relax man, Sting.
Here to have a little fun, blow some rack.
Scarface.
Check the reservation,
I made a booking earlier.
[Dominic] Just relax.
- Get yourself something to eat.
- [laughing]
- Take it easy.
- Touch me again, lose the hand.
Woah, come on, guys, chill, chill.
- We're here to have a good time.
- Woof.
What's wrong with this guy
growling up in my face?
That's how he is.
Don't worry about him, he's
my dad's favorite pit bull. Relax, Sting.
[in SeSotho] Smile a little.
Come have a drink with us, boy.
Let's go, guys. [laughs]
[upbeat music playing]
All right, ladies,
you know what time it is.
Phones inside, phones inside,
phones inside.
A toast
- to the good life.
- Cheers, Cheers! Cheers guys! Cheers.
[Tlotlo] That's what I'm talking about.
We taking this party higher!
[background bar music playing]
[phone rings]
Trouble?
Not yet.
He's booked VIP, couple of strippers,
[in SeSotho] bottomless bottles.
[door creaks]
Don't take your eyes off him and Thuso.
Contain them.
Done.
[Sam] Dad?
Coming, my boy.
[exhales]
[in Afrikaans] My love
[in SeSotho] Please give me one of these,
boys want to kill me.
[rap music playing]
[camera shutter clicks]
[Mimi] Hey babe, I just uh
wanted to find out if you're coming home.
Please let me know.
I miss you and I'm thinking about you.
So uh
yeah.
Love you, bye.
[exhales]
[phone notification pings]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mo] You going to be this upset
about a dress, until we get home?
[Phumzi] Yes.
But I
I explained what happened to you,
and I apologized so
I don't understand why you're still upset?
Excuse me?
It doesn't make sense to me.
- Stop the car.
- What?
Stop the car!
I'm sorry Phumzi! I'm so sorry.
Hey.
- You almost forgot this.
- Thank you.
So the cleansing ceremony
is also on the same day?
Yeah, dad thought it would
be better that way.
I wish I could come with you.
It's weird that I can't mourn Neo.
Even though I didn't know her.
He is my uncle,
and she was my cousin.
I'm going to go start breakfast.
[quiet music playing]
[car engine running]
Do you know where you're going?
No.
Why don't you get back in the car then?
[playful music playing]
Nice dress.
[Robin] Simon,
we cannot keep avoiding the subject.
I've been trying to distract him
by planning his birthday party, but
he wants answers. Answers I don't have.
Look, we'll have the conversation when
I get back, everything's going to be fine.
No, it won't.
He's already started
doing his own research.
He's researching my family in New Orleans.
If I have to open that door
You won't have to.
How are we going to avoid it?
I either have to blatantly lie to him,
or tell him his mother's been running
from the FBI for the past decade.
[tense music playing]
Mimi?
Mimi?
[grunts]
[sighs]
There is lemon and oh, there's banana.
- Banana?
- Yeah.
- What's your favorite?
- My favorite is vanilla.
Vanilla, vanilla?
- We don't have vanilla.
- Who doesn't have vanilla?
I tell you what
[Tlotlo] We'll order it in,
and they'll deliver it.
- [Neo] Deliver?
- [Tlotlo] Mm-hmm.
- and I have a surprise for you.
- [Neo] What is it?
- [Tlotlo] It's a surprise.
- [phone rings]
Yeah?
All right, give me ten.
[sad music playing]
[sighs]
[group singing]
[in Setswana] It's going to be okay,
my child.
[in Setswana] We are grieving
in the village.
[group singing]
[in Setswana] Have you ever seen a monkey
chasing a tokoloshe?
[laughing]
[group singing]
I'll call you back.
[old woman in Setswana]
It's in God's hands.
[in Setswana] Mogomotsi, my child.
- [Mo] Hey.
- [Simon] Hi.
[soft music playing]
[grunts]
Let's go talk to papa.
[in Setswana] It's fine, you can leave.
[in Setswana] Thank you so much, sir.
[in Setswana] Thank you.
[Mo's father grunts]
[in Setswana] You've come home, my son.
[Mo in Setswana] Yes, father.
[whispers in Setswana] Thank you.
[in Setswana] I am also thankful.
I see you're keeping your enemies close.
The man has no loyalty.
I wouldn't give him a dime
if I were you, pops.
You going to join your brother
in the business again?
I gave that a lot of thought
while I was in prison.
And I've come to a decision.
I've decided that I
Who is that?
[Simon] That's Mo's girl.
Gorgeous.
She could make a man some
beautiful bambino's around me.
[in Mzansi slang] Dad! Dad!
Okay.
[Simon] Tlotlo's been a handful.
[Mo's father] What's he done now?
[Simon] He's running illegal poker games
that could cost us
the license for the club.
[Mo's father] The boy's just flexing
his muscle.
You gave Tlotlo the club to run
and all he's doing
is to prove his worth now.
Look who's here.
- Hey!
- Hi.
How are you?
[Mo] Look at you!
Look at you! How are you?
Long time, come here!
[in IsiZulu] Thank you, ma'am.
Thank you, sir.
- Goodbye.
- Okay.
Hey.
Hi.
I think I aggravated my injury
while hugging my sister.
I'm sorry.
So
What do you think of this place?
Well, your father's very charming.
I see where Simon gets it.
I'm guessing you got your lack of charm
from the other side of the family?
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- Funny.
- [laughs]
I wanted you to meet them.
Well, you're not the most normal family
I've met.
And the whole
Angela being your ex-wife
now married to Simon and
Simon raising your son.
Well
it's complicated.
At the least.
Life happens, you know.
The people around here seem
to have a lot of respect for your family.
Yeah.
Do they know about
the real family business?
They know we have a logistics company
and that the company exists
to feed all the people in this village.
I see.
It's bigger than me and Simon, you know?
I was hoping that
someday you could be a part of it too.
I think we should take things a bit slow.
Things are moving a bit too fast.
Slow is good.
[soft music playing]
[running water]
[mermaid] You offend me.
[dramatic music playing]
[in Setswana] That wasn't my intention.
- [in Setswana] Tell me how to fix it.
- [mermaid] Quench my thirst.
- [mermaid in Setswana] There are others.
- Please
- not my son.
- [gasp]
[plastic bag crinkling]
[background talking on police radio]
It's definitely Menzi.
Excuse me.
[dramatic music playing]
We don't know what the future holds, Pa.
Let me go get my handbag.
[Mo's father] Okay.
Mo?
Papa?
I have just got some
inside information.
Now we must talk a game plan.
It's good to see you, Pop.
[Mimi] I am done playing games.
He has fucked with me
for the very last time.
Tlotlo?
Babe?
Listen, meet me downstairs
in five minutes.
Don't be late.
[buttons beeping]
Yes.
[dramatic music playing]
Where the fuck are you?
Come on. Shit
[motorcycle engine revving loudly]
[Dominic] Yeah, baby!
That's what I'm talking about man.
Fuck it up!
That's what I'm talking about, man.
Fuck shit up. Fuck everything up.
Welcome to the block, it is what it is.
Gents, man, I feel it.
- [Thuso] Hey.
- Don't know, I don't know.
Let's just go in there squad deep.
Take everything, four-wheelers
Dom, Dom, Dom, relax dog, relax!
- What's the problem?
- That's how Simon's people roll,
we don't need that. All right?
The minute we trip the alarms,
- they're going to be coming in hot.
- Okay?
We're not Simon.
Dude, do you want to be stuck
in the middle of the fucking narrow road
with two four-wheelers facing us?
Do you want to fucking die today?
Is that what you want?
If you want to die tell me
because I don't want to fucking die.
We're not going in there to get
what doesn't belong to us, okay?
Exactly, we're not fucking thieves, dude.
We're just getting what's ours
and we are out.
- Quick in, quick out, let's go.
- Now our problem is the alarm.
Okay, that's the issue.
Once it trips, we've got ten minutes.
No, don't worry about that.
We can sort that out.
I've been reading my dad's old books.
Before he went to prison though.
Good plan. What we're going to do is
I'm going to abseil from the vent right
I'm going to go first, you're going to
follow suit. He's going to stay behind.
We get in there, we take
the two-hundred rand notes only.
Everything else is just chump change.
We are in, we are out. Ten minutes flat.
Shit!
[Mo] I just dropped off Phumzi
and I'm on my way to you.
We need to talk.
Yeah. We also need to talk about Tlotlo.
He's gone AWOL, and every time
he does that, he gets into trouble.
[beeping] Hang on.
Shit.
The security system at the
club has been breached.
I'm not too far from the club, I'll
I'll see you in a minute.
[action music playing]
[Tlotlo] Take it, man.
[Thuso] No dude, I should be the decoy.
We both know I'm faster.
[Tlotlo] There's no time, dude, I've got
the bulletproof vest on, let's go.
- [Thuso] Dammit, man!
- [Tlotlo] Just go, dude!
- All right, all right, be careful!
- Go! Go, go, fuck!
[woman] Get in.
Grab her bag.
[frustrated shout]
[screeching tires]
[action music playing]
[Sting] Hey man, move! Move!
[gunshots]
Fuck!
Hey, Tlotlo!
Tlotlo, Tlotlo, wait!
Leon! Don't shoot!
[gunshots]
[mermaid's voice in Tlotlo's head]
[spooky music playing]
[gunshot]
[Mo] Tlotlo.
Tlotlo, turn around.
- [Dominic] Yo! Shit!
- [Thuso] Woo!
It got real, man.
I had to pop that Sting motherfucker.
But the others, I don't know.
Yeah, but Tlotlo had no piece
on him though.
- Yeah, that was part of the plan.
- So what now?
Okay. We circle
the block, as usual, find him.
Woo! Yeah!
- [Mo] Come here, come here, come here.
- [gurgling]
It's okay, it's okay.
Sh, just stay with me, stay with me.
I got you, I got you, it's okay.
It's okay, boy. It's okay, my son.
It's okay, son.
[dramatic music playing]
[Mo] Stay with me. Come, come.
Stay with me. [crying] Stay with me.
Stay with me. Tlotlo.
Tlotlo, Tlotlo
[theme music playing]