Harlem (2021) s01e08 Episode Script
Five Years Ago
1
[mellow music]
[Camille] 300,000 years ago,
when humans first walked
this planet,
life was so much simpler.
You hunt, eat, build a fire,
build a home,
find a person, have a family.
There was nothing to choose,
so there was nothing to lose.
Well, except maybe your life
in childbirth,
or a saber-toothed
tiger attack or whatever.
In today's Harlem,
we make 35,000 conscious
decisions every day
some insignificant,
some long-lasting,
but every now and then,
there's that one decision
on that one day
that changes everything.
Mmm.
- Are we making a mistake?
- Mm?
I just feel like
we shouldn't be doing this.
Sweetie, why not?
Oh, it's just, we have so much
to do before we leave, right?
[sighs]
We're moving to Paris tonight.
I mean, we have to be
forgetting something.
♪
[singer]
But only time will tell ♪
- Camille.
- Hmm?
Baby, you worry too much.
We're good.
It's all done.
Mmm.
Yeah, you're right.
Although,
I did forget to do this.
[laughs]
Oh, yeah.
Oh!
We definitely don't want you
to forget to do that.
Mm, that smells good.
What'd you order?
Wait, you cooked?
With what?
Everything was packed up.
[Ian] Not everything.
If there's one thing
I've learned from Iron Chef,
it's that if you have eggs and
anything else, you have a meal.
Mm-hmm.
See, where were you
when I was growing up?
We never had more than
three things in the fridge,
and my mom
hated grocery stores.
She said they overwhelmed her.
You know, the more I learn
about your mom,
the more I wonder
how your type A ass
even came out of her.
She a trip.
More like a journey.
Ever hear back from her?
Yeah.
She text, so we are gonna try,
yet again, to meet up.
She's taking the train
into the city today.
Oh, that's cutting it close.
Yeah.
But, I mean,
that's good though.
I'm glad y'all
are getting together.
Okay, let me get some of
this food 'cause you know
I got 100 goodbyes today,
and this hunger
- Mmm.
- It's one of them.
[singer]
I'm all the way up, oh ♪♪
[Angie] Oh, okay.
[chuckles]
Now it's back-to-back meetings.
Listen, Jennifer,
you tell Stephen
that Angie Wilson
has listened to Power 105
for six fucking hours
and did not hear her soaring,
yet highly controlled
vocal runs of "Flow Into You"
gracing the airwaves.
And since he seems
to love meetings so much,
maybe I should just roll up
on your office this afternoon
and have an impromptu
face-to-face
to discuss his priorities.
Bitch, bye.
[singer] All the way up
I'm all the way up ♪
Eh, all the way up ♪
All the way up ♪
Nothing can stop me
I'm all the way up ♪
All the way up ♪
Uh, hello?
Some of us live here.
[singer]
I'm all the way up ♪
Tune your shit to Power 105.
I better hear myself.
Yeah, no, of course.
We're always happy
when we can help you
avoid those taxes.
Mm-hmm.
Yes, absolutely.
Bye-bye.
Perfect timing.
I was just finishing up a phone
call with Walter
[both] McDougall.
Wow, that's crazy.
I was just thinking about him.
You know, he could do
a take-out mortgage.
And if you lock it in at
[both] 3%
And then he can
still consider it
a home purchase even if he
[both] Makes it a rental.
You and I are always
on the same page.
Tell me, is it weird
that hearing my girlfriend
do all this finance talk
is turning me on?
Would I still turn you on
if I didn't do this?
[laughs]
What?
- Knock, knock.
- Mother.
Daughter.
Future son-in-law.
- Mom.
- [laughs]
Good to see you again,
Patricia.
- I will call you after.
- All right, babe.
Mom, if you keep calling him
son-in-law
before he proposes,
you're gonna run him off.
Or I will manifest a marriage.
Now that you can do,
but what you can't do
is just keep popping in here
whenever you want.
Oh, I'm sorry, Quinnie.
I just can't resist
seeing my working girl.
Look at you in your skirt suit.
I love it.
Perfect man.
Perfect job.
Mom, please.
Why can't you celebrate
your successes?
I do.
In fact,
I'm here to have lunch
with one of the youngest VPs in
the history of JPMorgan Chase.
Mom, I wish I could go
to lunch with you,
but I just have so much.
[sighs]
I'm sorry.
Don't you apologize
for working.
Someday you'll be CEO
in a corner office
and you take your mother
to lunch whenever you want.
Deal.
- [phone rings]
- Okay, I'll be going.
Oh, and tell Camille
bon voyage.
Although, Paris really?
I mean, why now?
You know?
- [laughs]
- [stammers] I don't get it.
[chuckles]
Bye, Mom.
[Shae Jacobs: "Take Time"]
[phone ringing]
[singer]
Mm she got her hands on me ♪
Quinn Joseph.
How can I help?
Think I'm wakin' a freak,
you wanna put it ♪♪
[Neil]
Let's see, women.
They install 40% more apps
than men.
So why the fuck aren't
we building more for them?
Tell me somebody
has something for women.
Yeah, I got something.
So it's a special calendar that
reminds a woman 24 to 48 hours
before the start
of her menstrual cycle.
And best part is,
it's automatically shared
with her co-workers,
her husband,
so everyone knows when she's
about to be a major bitch.
- [laughter]
- I call it Red Alert.
Yes!
Yes!
See, that is thinking
like a woman.
[hip-hop music]
[singer]
I wanna know the way ♪♪
[Tye]
It's so fucking offensive.
Even when it's for women,
it's like I'm not even there.
Then fuck it.
Do something else.
We're always hiring
across the hall at "Fierce."
Mm-hmm, but you're not paying.
Magazines take time.
And life takes cash.
I'm barely making rent
as it is.
And I may have
a solution for that.
Really?
- Check the fries.
- What?
When I made you go get napkins,
I hid it in there,
but I gotta get back
to work in a minute, so
Oh, my God.
Is this a
Tyesha May Reynolds,
we've been together a year
and there's no one else
I'd rather share my life with.
Will you move in with me?
- For real?
- Yes, for real.
Forever.
- Yes.
- Yeah?
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
[passionate R&B music]
Yes.
[singers vocalizing]
[singer] This is what
it feels like ♪♪
[knock at door]
Hey.
This is it.
Well, how do I get to stay
in denial
that you're leaving if
you're actually saying goodbye?
P.S., this Paleo shit
better be working.
You know how hard it is
to get a half a pound of steak
delivered
at ten in the morning?
Well, it is definitely
working because you look great.
I'm an academic. I don't care
about that superficial crap.
But thank God.
I better look great.
I would literally kill
for bread.
You don't happen to have
a little Hawaiian roll
or a baguette in your purse,
do you?
Oh, damn.
The rolls are in
my other purse.
- Sit down.
- [sighs]
- So this is goodbye.
- Yeah.
[Robin]
And you're 100% sure you want
to interrupt
your academic career?
Oh, no,
this is not a disruption.
I've done all of my coursework.
Now it's just down
to writing my dissertation
and I can do that anywhere.
And anywhere happens
to be Paris.
So I can be with Ian.
[Robin] Oh, Camille.
Overstepping every
student-teacher boundary.
I did the same thing,
and I regret it so much.
By the time I was your age,
I was married with two kids.
I put my education on hold,
my goals on hold,
while he was in medical school.
And then he had his residency
and I worked terrible jobs
just to make ends meet.
Kinko's.
I was a hostess
at the Red Lobster.
I actually like Red Lobster.
[Robin] Please.
Suicide would have
seemed redundant.
Meanwhile, he didn't even
do one school drop-off.
We were building
a life together,
so I sucked it up
until he got it sucked up
by one of the other residents
blonde,
tits as big as cannonballs.
But Ian, he's not like that.
History is littered with women
who had to start over
because they had to make
sacrifices for a man's dream.
Okay,
I'm not gonna say anymore.
You're a big girl.
You know what you're doing.
Just one more thing.
Even if you stayed on track
with your thesis writing
and let's be real,
that's a big if
I mean, let's be honest.
This is Paris.
Sex, croissants.
The men there
they're so gross, they're hot.
I mean,
what can compete with that?
And even if you did right,
you still can't TA.
You can't hang out with
the senior faculty members
all things that are necessary
for you to become
a tenured professor here.
Isn't that your dream?
Yes.
But I mean, look at you.
See, you still made it.
But I'm too fucking old
to enjoy it.
Look, you don't wanna
leave the country
when we're about to elect
our first female president.
That might be your most
compelling argument.
See?
I am really gonna miss you.
I'm gonna really miss you
too, honey.
You're the only student
that didn't annoy me.
Dr. Goodman.
Hey, I
Nope!
Ugh, I can't with that bullshit.
You take good care
of yourself, kid.
[St. Panther & Raedio:
"Infrastructure"]
[singer]
Come here, girl ♪
I haven't practiced
in a long time ♪
So show me when ♪
[sighs]
[singer]
I'm frustrated ♪
Infrastructure got me
on another plane ♪
Come here, baby ♪
It's too late ♪
To ask my driver
to turn his ass around ♪
I guess I'm stuck arriving
looking like a fool ♪
[phone chimes]
I guess I'm stuck
accessorizing ♪
Your eyes are mesmerizing ♪
I'm up here hypnotized and ♪
Oh, oh, oh, I guess
I gotta get this right ♪♪
What did I expect?
That she was just gonna
text something
or suddenly show up
and say goodbye?
I'm so stupid.
But honestly,
have a nice vacation.
Like, why is she acting like
this is some quick trip?
- Camille.
- What?
It's okay that you're still
hoping she shows up.
It's okay.
Thank you.
I got you, mm?
You know I've got you.
Thank you for being
everything she wasn't.
Next.
Destination?
[Ian] Paris.
Yes.
Paris.
It's gonna be
an amazing adventure.
Wait till you see what
I got planned for you.
Ooh, yikes.
What's "ooh, yikes?"
His passport expires
in 51/2 months.
Okay, well,
I'll renew it in the mail.
Mm, can't send you
out of the country
with a passport that expires
so soon without a visa.
Do you have a visa?
- You said you didn't need one.
- Call me crazy,
but I thought a expiration date
means an expiration date.
Okay, so what do we do now?
We have to be on that flight.
I gotta be in Paris by Monday.
Look, guys, I'm on your side.
I believe in
the total annihilation
of national borders
in favor of a self-governed,
stateless society,
absent of the arbitrary
rule of law.
[softly]
The fuck is that?
But you have to renew
your passport.
[singer] I know that
it gets a little crazy ♪
But I'm patient ♪
Man, this feels weird.
It's like our heart is missing.
- You're so corny.
- Give me a break.
I keep thinking
she gonna show up.
We could go to the airport
and surprise her.
- We should.
- Driver could take us.
Did you literally
just call him "driver?"
Yo, we said goodbye to her
like ten separate times
just today.
And we did promise her
a clean break the last time.
I mean, but who do we go to
for advice now?
- Yeah.
- Hello, me, obviously.
I am ready to step up
to be Camille 2.0.
I have on my listening hair.
Okay, New Camille.
So you guys know
that I'm miserable
in this job, right?
Oh, yes, we do.
Oh, we do.
Tye, that's rude.
Bitch, no one told you
to take that boring-ass job.
Hey, well, I see Ian going
and chasing his dream,
and I'm a little jealous.
I mean,
should I be doing that too?
I mean, is it crazy to just
make a sudden change like that?
Yo, I feel you.
Man, I'm going through
the same thing.
Melissa asked me
to move in with her.
Oh, my God, that's amazing.
Oh, yay.
Love.
But how can I commit
to something
without closing the door?
On what?
What door?
Nothing.
[strained laugh]
I mean
should she quit?
Should I move in?
Um, hello, New Camille?
Huh?
I don't give a shit.
Power 105
is not playing my single.
That's what we should
be talking about.
Boring bitches.
- We're on our own.
- Yup.
[Quinn]
So channeling Camille,
I say let's do the thing
we are most afraid of.
No matter the risk.
[mellow hip-hop music]
♪
[line ringing]
[Brandon] Hello?
Hello?
[phone clicks]
Twice in a day.
What's going on?
Well, Mom,
I called you over here
because I wanted
to let you know that I
quit my job.
You what?
- I quit.
- After I left?
I had to.
I'm sorry.
I was miserable.
I'm I'm stunned.
Did you get another job?
No, not yet,
but I saved up some money.
So I'll be okay for a while.
Why'd you quit
without another job?
Because I wanna start
my own business.
No, no.
Mom, yes.
No, yes.
Yes.
Look, I get it.
The reason why you love me
is because you got a chance
to just brag about me finally
to all of your friends
about my Chase VP job
and my nice boyfriend.
But, Mummy, I hated that job.
It's not my calling.
Shame on you.
And for the record,
I love everything about you.
You are my child,
and I liked that job or any job
because you were
supporting yourself.
You were earning
your own money.
You will forgive me for
pointing out the obvious irony
that you would lecture me
about earning my own money?
It is because I rely
on your father for money
that I was so proud.
I know what this dynamic does.
I resent him.
He resents me.
We love each other,
but the money is always there.
And now that is how
it will be with us.
Mom, no.
I have a business plan
and also seed money.
Quinn, I have watched
your father go through this
before things took off.
You need a lot of money
to start a business.
And when things get tough,
you will come back to us.
And at that point,
things will change.
Well,
when my gym for children
is successful,
I will accept your apology.
And when you come
asking for money,
I will accept yours.
[pensive synth music]
♪
[Angie] Stephen!
Hello?
You not gonna take my calls?
The fuck?
- I can see you.
- Whatever.
I'm sorry I couldn't
return your calls
while dealing with the entire
dissolution of my division.
Yo, hold up.
Dissolution?
The division is shutting down.
I know the definition.
Why haven't I heard about this?
Read the news.
We're going through a merger.
The Shade Room
is on high alert coverage
of Tamar Braxton
getting fired from The Real.
Nothing about here.
So who's my new point person?
They're only keeping
a few select artists.
Bitch.
[chuckles]
I'm select.
You're not, Angie.
You don't have a deal anymore.
Fuck you mean?
What happened to me being
the voice of a generation?
What happened to us
showing dark-skinned girls
that it's okay to have
Beyoncé careers?
- It's over, Angie.
- No!
"Flow Into You"
is about to hit.
You said yourself that I wrote
that song with my soul.
We gotta
[scoffs]
We gotta finish the album!
There is no album.
Nothing's gonna hit.
Maybe you shouldn't have
told our A&R guy
he didn't know what the fuck
he was talking about
and released a single you didn't
write but tested better.
No one is playing
"Flow Into You"
because no one likes it.
Release the other then.
Get it get it going.
No one's sinking
another penny into you,
which reminds me.
You need to be out the townhouse
by the end of the day.
My townhouse.
[Stephen] No.
The company's townhouse,
and you're out.
[dramatic music]
And I am tell ♪♪
No.
Don't make me call security.
Y'all asses can afford
security now.
[scoffs]
You a liar.
You wait till I blast your ass
in my memoir.
Tear down the mountains ♪
Yeah, scream and shout ♪
- Get off from me!
- Angie, what's wrong with you?
Get off of me!
[somber music]
[singer]
Hmm, still stuck in ♪
I can wait for you
while you clear out your stuff
and then drop you off
wherever you want.
[singer] Oh just ♪
Trying to be chosen ♪
Mm ♪
[vomits]
Hello?
Some of us live here.
[singer] Back to the,
still trying to get it ♪
When we move in together,
we're still doing
laundry separate
because this is
too much folding for me.
What's going on with you?
There's something I have to
[sighs]
I've never told anyone this.
You're scaring me.
No, no, no, nothing scary.
Just moving in,
and why it can't happen
right away.
Oh.
I have to let go of an old life
before I can jump
into a new one.
I'm even more confused.
Mel
[sighs]
I'm
technically
married.
You what?
I know.
I know.
Even my girls don't know this.
Before college,
I was still in Georgia
and I didn't want to be,
and I was gay,
and I didn't want to be.
His name is Brandon
- His name?
- Yes.
- Oh, great.
- It's dumb now, but
I didn't know
any other lesbians.
I didn't think
that was even an option.
And he was like my best friend
through high school.
And one day we were hanging out
and we made out.
Our first kiss
[scoffs]
I didn't know what
it was supposed to feel like,
so I didn't know it felt so
nothing.
And it was like I was sitting
on the other side of the room,
watching myself
kissing this guy,
thinking, "He's nice enough."
We could get married
and I could be normal.
And all this shit I was feeling
about women would
I don't know, I'd get over it.
But of course,
that's not how it works.
Things just got
more and more intense.
And I wanted to tell him.
I tried.
I tried like a million times.
But he was so sweet.
And all he talked about
was our future
and all that we could do.
I couldn't stand to hurt him.
So you just ran away.
And never looked back.
And you didn't think
just vanishing would hurt him?
I know.
I know.
See, this is why I never told
this story to anyone,
but I love you.
And and I want to be honest
so that we can move forward.
[scoffs]
I'm sorry, Tye.
This is about
100 kinds of fucked up.
I mean, you kept this from me?
All this time?
I felt guilty for so long.
Oh, but not guilty enough
to actually
do anything about it.
That is so beyond selfish.
And what happens
if you freak out here, huh?
Decide you're in
the wrong life again?
Will I wake up and you're gone?
Baby, no, that
that would literally
never happen.
Yeah, I bet your husband
thought the same thing.
I
Yeah, I don't, um
I need a timeout.
Timeout, like
like, for now, or
Mm-mm, I gotta go.
Please, don't do this.
[pensive beat]
♪
[screams]
This is taking forever.
Yep.
So what, you're just
gonna stay mad at me?
No, I'm I'm fine.
I'm just tired.
All right.
Well, I can handle this alone.
Why don't you why don't you
go home and get some sleep?
We packed up all the bedding.
And the subletter will be there
in the morning,
and it would just be weird
for me to be there.
All right, well, look,
if the subletter does show up,
just let him know
that we're leaving as soon
as we get this passport thing
handled, all right?
He'll understand.
Plans change.
No, Ian, plans don't change.
People fuck up,
and that changes plans.
You're totally right, Camille,
but I've never heard
of something like this.
I mean, why have an expiration
date if it was not real?
You know, one Google search
could've told you this.
All right,
but not for nothing.
I mean, you didn't know.
Why is it up to me?
Always?
Why do I have to be
the responsible one?
So everybody else
gets to change plans?
You know, my whole life,
I've had to deal with my mother
constantly changing plans
without any consideration
about how I felt.
- Just breathe.
- I don't wanna breathe.
I wanna stick
to the fucking plan.
Except here I am suddenly
changing my whole career plan.
Fuck, am I my mother?
Camille, no one is your mother
but your mother.
What if that passport
had been our child
that you forgot
to pick up from school
because you have
a change of plans?
- Oh, so we have children now?
- I don't know, Ian, do we?
Or is social services
about to take them
because you changed the plans?
Whoa, Camille.
I mean,
where are we even staying?
We're staying with
the host family, you know that.
- Yeah, but for how long?
- Just
How long are we in
someone's guest room?
And that chef
that you're studying under
is he even guaranteeing you
a job?
All right, you're spiraling now.
Yes, of course, I'm spiraling,
'cause I can't take
this fly-by-night shit.
[clerk] Next.
- [sighs]
Hi.
Here you go.
- You want this expedited?
- Yes, ma'am.
I have a flight.
Had a flight.
We missed it.
'Cause you know, plans change.
Who you telling?
[chuckles]
That'll be $1,000.12
for overnight renewal.
$1,000?
I'm sorry, I had no idea
it was gonna be this expensive.
That's another
Google-that-shit moment.
Just give the lady
your credit card.
- Shit's maxed out.
- What?
- What have you been buying?
- [chuckles]
Okay, you know what?
It's okay.
I will take care of it as usual.
Put 600 on this card and put
the remainder on this card.
And if it doesn't go through,
you can put 250 on this one
and put the remainder
on this one.
[soft dramatic music]
And the thing with decisions,
the really big ones,
is they can be so overwhelming
that sometimes they take
an entire lifetime to make.
[Robin] History is littered
with women
who have to start over
because they made sacrifices
for a man's dream.
[Camille]
Or sometimes it takes a day.
Hey, good walk?
Here I am suddenly changing
my whole career plan.
Fuck, am I my mother?
And sometimes,
because of your lifetime
I can't take this
fly-by-night shit.
Because of the day
And I regret it so much.
[Camille]
You decide
The taxi is about
two minutes away.
I'm not going.
[Camille] In an instant.
- What?
I'm sorry.
I know this is
I just can't.
Hold on, hold on.
Whoa, whoa, baby
No, I was up all last night,
and I
the passport thing is the best
thing that happened to us
because it gave me a chance
to think about it
like, to really
think it through.
Hold on, what
so the months that you took
to decide to go,
that wasn't
that wasn't thinking,
but you had one little
sleepless stressful night?
Don't do that.
I know how this sounds.
I feel like
I'm going back into chaos
because that's what
I'm used to.
Baby, Paris isn't chaos.
Not for you.
I mean,
you're chasing your dream.
But where am I in that?
You are the biggest part
of my dream, Camille.
You're the biggest part of my
But to just go,
to leave the life
that I want here
my friends, my work, my block?
That's not me.
So even if I was to go,
you wouldn't have me.
And I don't know, maybe Paris
and me would be great,
but I can't just
leave everything
for some unknown future
with you.
You have to do
what's best for you,
but I have to do
what's best for me.
Yeah, well, what about
what's right for us?
You know what's crazy, is us
I mean,
the us that we were
ended when you decided
to blow up the life
that we were building here.
I need stability, Ian.
Oh, what the fuck?
So you're
you're not coming
and you're breaking up with me?
And it's killing me,
but long distance
and Skypes and holidays,
whenever we can afford
a ticket,
it would just be keeping us
half in something.
And us
and we
I think we deserve
more than that.
So chase your dream.
I really hope
it works out for you.
You're breaking my heart,
Camille.
I'm breaking my own.
[Emanuel: "Need You"]
♪
I feel
I just fell in love with you ♪
Like a song on the radio ♪
Ooh, babe ♪
I, I don't ♪
I don't want
that same cold loving ♪
That I had before ♪
Are you different? ♪
You taste different
you feel different ♪
It seems different ♪
I think I'm in love ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
I feel
I need you to breathe ♪
Yeah ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
[vocalizing]
♪
[sighs]
If the love is pure ♪
If the love is pure, babe ♪
Should we take some more? ♪
Should we take
some more? ♪
Ooh ♪
If the love is pure ♪
If the love is pure, baby ♪
Should we take some more? ♪
Should we take
some more? ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
Baby ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
Yeah ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
[vocalizing]
Yeah ♪
♪
Ooh ♪
If the love is pure ♪
If the love
is pure ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
Should we take some more? ♪
Should we take
some more? ♪♪
[mellow music]
[Camille] 300,000 years ago,
when humans first walked
this planet,
life was so much simpler.
You hunt, eat, build a fire,
build a home,
find a person, have a family.
There was nothing to choose,
so there was nothing to lose.
Well, except maybe your life
in childbirth,
or a saber-toothed
tiger attack or whatever.
In today's Harlem,
we make 35,000 conscious
decisions every day
some insignificant,
some long-lasting,
but every now and then,
there's that one decision
on that one day
that changes everything.
Mmm.
- Are we making a mistake?
- Mm?
I just feel like
we shouldn't be doing this.
Sweetie, why not?
Oh, it's just, we have so much
to do before we leave, right?
[sighs]
We're moving to Paris tonight.
I mean, we have to be
forgetting something.
♪
[singer]
But only time will tell ♪
- Camille.
- Hmm?
Baby, you worry too much.
We're good.
It's all done.
Mmm.
Yeah, you're right.
Although,
I did forget to do this.
[laughs]
Oh, yeah.
Oh!
We definitely don't want you
to forget to do that.
Mm, that smells good.
What'd you order?
Wait, you cooked?
With what?
Everything was packed up.
[Ian] Not everything.
If there's one thing
I've learned from Iron Chef,
it's that if you have eggs and
anything else, you have a meal.
Mm-hmm.
See, where were you
when I was growing up?
We never had more than
three things in the fridge,
and my mom
hated grocery stores.
She said they overwhelmed her.
You know, the more I learn
about your mom,
the more I wonder
how your type A ass
even came out of her.
She a trip.
More like a journey.
Ever hear back from her?
Yeah.
She text, so we are gonna try,
yet again, to meet up.
She's taking the train
into the city today.
Oh, that's cutting it close.
Yeah.
But, I mean,
that's good though.
I'm glad y'all
are getting together.
Okay, let me get some of
this food 'cause you know
I got 100 goodbyes today,
and this hunger
- Mmm.
- It's one of them.
[singer]
I'm all the way up, oh ♪♪
[Angie] Oh, okay.
[chuckles]
Now it's back-to-back meetings.
Listen, Jennifer,
you tell Stephen
that Angie Wilson
has listened to Power 105
for six fucking hours
and did not hear her soaring,
yet highly controlled
vocal runs of "Flow Into You"
gracing the airwaves.
And since he seems
to love meetings so much,
maybe I should just roll up
on your office this afternoon
and have an impromptu
face-to-face
to discuss his priorities.
Bitch, bye.
[singer] All the way up
I'm all the way up ♪
Eh, all the way up ♪
All the way up ♪
Nothing can stop me
I'm all the way up ♪
All the way up ♪
Uh, hello?
Some of us live here.
[singer]
I'm all the way up ♪
Tune your shit to Power 105.
I better hear myself.
Yeah, no, of course.
We're always happy
when we can help you
avoid those taxes.
Mm-hmm.
Yes, absolutely.
Bye-bye.
Perfect timing.
I was just finishing up a phone
call with Walter
[both] McDougall.
Wow, that's crazy.
I was just thinking about him.
You know, he could do
a take-out mortgage.
And if you lock it in at
[both] 3%
And then he can
still consider it
a home purchase even if he
[both] Makes it a rental.
You and I are always
on the same page.
Tell me, is it weird
that hearing my girlfriend
do all this finance talk
is turning me on?
Would I still turn you on
if I didn't do this?
[laughs]
What?
- Knock, knock.
- Mother.
Daughter.
Future son-in-law.
- Mom.
- [laughs]
Good to see you again,
Patricia.
- I will call you after.
- All right, babe.
Mom, if you keep calling him
son-in-law
before he proposes,
you're gonna run him off.
Or I will manifest a marriage.
Now that you can do,
but what you can't do
is just keep popping in here
whenever you want.
Oh, I'm sorry, Quinnie.
I just can't resist
seeing my working girl.
Look at you in your skirt suit.
I love it.
Perfect man.
Perfect job.
Mom, please.
Why can't you celebrate
your successes?
I do.
In fact,
I'm here to have lunch
with one of the youngest VPs in
the history of JPMorgan Chase.
Mom, I wish I could go
to lunch with you,
but I just have so much.
[sighs]
I'm sorry.
Don't you apologize
for working.
Someday you'll be CEO
in a corner office
and you take your mother
to lunch whenever you want.
Deal.
- [phone rings]
- Okay, I'll be going.
Oh, and tell Camille
bon voyage.
Although, Paris really?
I mean, why now?
You know?
- [laughs]
- [stammers] I don't get it.
[chuckles]
Bye, Mom.
[Shae Jacobs: "Take Time"]
[phone ringing]
[singer]
Mm she got her hands on me ♪
Quinn Joseph.
How can I help?
Think I'm wakin' a freak,
you wanna put it ♪♪
[Neil]
Let's see, women.
They install 40% more apps
than men.
So why the fuck aren't
we building more for them?
Tell me somebody
has something for women.
Yeah, I got something.
So it's a special calendar that
reminds a woman 24 to 48 hours
before the start
of her menstrual cycle.
And best part is,
it's automatically shared
with her co-workers,
her husband,
so everyone knows when she's
about to be a major bitch.
- [laughter]
- I call it Red Alert.
Yes!
Yes!
See, that is thinking
like a woman.
[hip-hop music]
[singer]
I wanna know the way ♪♪
[Tye]
It's so fucking offensive.
Even when it's for women,
it's like I'm not even there.
Then fuck it.
Do something else.
We're always hiring
across the hall at "Fierce."
Mm-hmm, but you're not paying.
Magazines take time.
And life takes cash.
I'm barely making rent
as it is.
And I may have
a solution for that.
Really?
- Check the fries.
- What?
When I made you go get napkins,
I hid it in there,
but I gotta get back
to work in a minute, so
Oh, my God.
Is this a
Tyesha May Reynolds,
we've been together a year
and there's no one else
I'd rather share my life with.
Will you move in with me?
- For real?
- Yes, for real.
Forever.
- Yes.
- Yeah?
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
[passionate R&B music]
Yes.
[singers vocalizing]
[singer] This is what
it feels like ♪♪
[knock at door]
Hey.
This is it.
Well, how do I get to stay
in denial
that you're leaving if
you're actually saying goodbye?
P.S., this Paleo shit
better be working.
You know how hard it is
to get a half a pound of steak
delivered
at ten in the morning?
Well, it is definitely
working because you look great.
I'm an academic. I don't care
about that superficial crap.
But thank God.
I better look great.
I would literally kill
for bread.
You don't happen to have
a little Hawaiian roll
or a baguette in your purse,
do you?
Oh, damn.
The rolls are in
my other purse.
- Sit down.
- [sighs]
- So this is goodbye.
- Yeah.
[Robin]
And you're 100% sure you want
to interrupt
your academic career?
Oh, no,
this is not a disruption.
I've done all of my coursework.
Now it's just down
to writing my dissertation
and I can do that anywhere.
And anywhere happens
to be Paris.
So I can be with Ian.
[Robin] Oh, Camille.
Overstepping every
student-teacher boundary.
I did the same thing,
and I regret it so much.
By the time I was your age,
I was married with two kids.
I put my education on hold,
my goals on hold,
while he was in medical school.
And then he had his residency
and I worked terrible jobs
just to make ends meet.
Kinko's.
I was a hostess
at the Red Lobster.
I actually like Red Lobster.
[Robin] Please.
Suicide would have
seemed redundant.
Meanwhile, he didn't even
do one school drop-off.
We were building
a life together,
so I sucked it up
until he got it sucked up
by one of the other residents
blonde,
tits as big as cannonballs.
But Ian, he's not like that.
History is littered with women
who had to start over
because they had to make
sacrifices for a man's dream.
Okay,
I'm not gonna say anymore.
You're a big girl.
You know what you're doing.
Just one more thing.
Even if you stayed on track
with your thesis writing
and let's be real,
that's a big if
I mean, let's be honest.
This is Paris.
Sex, croissants.
The men there
they're so gross, they're hot.
I mean,
what can compete with that?
And even if you did right,
you still can't TA.
You can't hang out with
the senior faculty members
all things that are necessary
for you to become
a tenured professor here.
Isn't that your dream?
Yes.
But I mean, look at you.
See, you still made it.
But I'm too fucking old
to enjoy it.
Look, you don't wanna
leave the country
when we're about to elect
our first female president.
That might be your most
compelling argument.
See?
I am really gonna miss you.
I'm gonna really miss you
too, honey.
You're the only student
that didn't annoy me.
Dr. Goodman.
Hey, I
Nope!
Ugh, I can't with that bullshit.
You take good care
of yourself, kid.
[St. Panther & Raedio:
"Infrastructure"]
[singer]
Come here, girl ♪
I haven't practiced
in a long time ♪
So show me when ♪
[sighs]
[singer]
I'm frustrated ♪
Infrastructure got me
on another plane ♪
Come here, baby ♪
It's too late ♪
To ask my driver
to turn his ass around ♪
I guess I'm stuck arriving
looking like a fool ♪
[phone chimes]
I guess I'm stuck
accessorizing ♪
Your eyes are mesmerizing ♪
I'm up here hypnotized and ♪
Oh, oh, oh, I guess
I gotta get this right ♪♪
What did I expect?
That she was just gonna
text something
or suddenly show up
and say goodbye?
I'm so stupid.
But honestly,
have a nice vacation.
Like, why is she acting like
this is some quick trip?
- Camille.
- What?
It's okay that you're still
hoping she shows up.
It's okay.
Thank you.
I got you, mm?
You know I've got you.
Thank you for being
everything she wasn't.
Next.
Destination?
[Ian] Paris.
Yes.
Paris.
It's gonna be
an amazing adventure.
Wait till you see what
I got planned for you.
Ooh, yikes.
What's "ooh, yikes?"
His passport expires
in 51/2 months.
Okay, well,
I'll renew it in the mail.
Mm, can't send you
out of the country
with a passport that expires
so soon without a visa.
Do you have a visa?
- You said you didn't need one.
- Call me crazy,
but I thought a expiration date
means an expiration date.
Okay, so what do we do now?
We have to be on that flight.
I gotta be in Paris by Monday.
Look, guys, I'm on your side.
I believe in
the total annihilation
of national borders
in favor of a self-governed,
stateless society,
absent of the arbitrary
rule of law.
[softly]
The fuck is that?
But you have to renew
your passport.
[singer] I know that
it gets a little crazy ♪
But I'm patient ♪
Man, this feels weird.
It's like our heart is missing.
- You're so corny.
- Give me a break.
I keep thinking
she gonna show up.
We could go to the airport
and surprise her.
- We should.
- Driver could take us.
Did you literally
just call him "driver?"
Yo, we said goodbye to her
like ten separate times
just today.
And we did promise her
a clean break the last time.
I mean, but who do we go to
for advice now?
- Yeah.
- Hello, me, obviously.
I am ready to step up
to be Camille 2.0.
I have on my listening hair.
Okay, New Camille.
So you guys know
that I'm miserable
in this job, right?
Oh, yes, we do.
Oh, we do.
Tye, that's rude.
Bitch, no one told you
to take that boring-ass job.
Hey, well, I see Ian going
and chasing his dream,
and I'm a little jealous.
I mean,
should I be doing that too?
I mean, is it crazy to just
make a sudden change like that?
Yo, I feel you.
Man, I'm going through
the same thing.
Melissa asked me
to move in with her.
Oh, my God, that's amazing.
Oh, yay.
Love.
But how can I commit
to something
without closing the door?
On what?
What door?
Nothing.
[strained laugh]
I mean
should she quit?
Should I move in?
Um, hello, New Camille?
Huh?
I don't give a shit.
Power 105
is not playing my single.
That's what we should
be talking about.
Boring bitches.
- We're on our own.
- Yup.
[Quinn]
So channeling Camille,
I say let's do the thing
we are most afraid of.
No matter the risk.
[mellow hip-hop music]
♪
[line ringing]
[Brandon] Hello?
Hello?
[phone clicks]
Twice in a day.
What's going on?
Well, Mom,
I called you over here
because I wanted
to let you know that I
quit my job.
You what?
- I quit.
- After I left?
I had to.
I'm sorry.
I was miserable.
I'm I'm stunned.
Did you get another job?
No, not yet,
but I saved up some money.
So I'll be okay for a while.
Why'd you quit
without another job?
Because I wanna start
my own business.
No, no.
Mom, yes.
No, yes.
Yes.
Look, I get it.
The reason why you love me
is because you got a chance
to just brag about me finally
to all of your friends
about my Chase VP job
and my nice boyfriend.
But, Mummy, I hated that job.
It's not my calling.
Shame on you.
And for the record,
I love everything about you.
You are my child,
and I liked that job or any job
because you were
supporting yourself.
You were earning
your own money.
You will forgive me for
pointing out the obvious irony
that you would lecture me
about earning my own money?
It is because I rely
on your father for money
that I was so proud.
I know what this dynamic does.
I resent him.
He resents me.
We love each other,
but the money is always there.
And now that is how
it will be with us.
Mom, no.
I have a business plan
and also seed money.
Quinn, I have watched
your father go through this
before things took off.
You need a lot of money
to start a business.
And when things get tough,
you will come back to us.
And at that point,
things will change.
Well,
when my gym for children
is successful,
I will accept your apology.
And when you come
asking for money,
I will accept yours.
[pensive synth music]
♪
[Angie] Stephen!
Hello?
You not gonna take my calls?
The fuck?
- I can see you.
- Whatever.
I'm sorry I couldn't
return your calls
while dealing with the entire
dissolution of my division.
Yo, hold up.
Dissolution?
The division is shutting down.
I know the definition.
Why haven't I heard about this?
Read the news.
We're going through a merger.
The Shade Room
is on high alert coverage
of Tamar Braxton
getting fired from The Real.
Nothing about here.
So who's my new point person?
They're only keeping
a few select artists.
Bitch.
[chuckles]
I'm select.
You're not, Angie.
You don't have a deal anymore.
Fuck you mean?
What happened to me being
the voice of a generation?
What happened to us
showing dark-skinned girls
that it's okay to have
Beyoncé careers?
- It's over, Angie.
- No!
"Flow Into You"
is about to hit.
You said yourself that I wrote
that song with my soul.
We gotta
[scoffs]
We gotta finish the album!
There is no album.
Nothing's gonna hit.
Maybe you shouldn't have
told our A&R guy
he didn't know what the fuck
he was talking about
and released a single you didn't
write but tested better.
No one is playing
"Flow Into You"
because no one likes it.
Release the other then.
Get it get it going.
No one's sinking
another penny into you,
which reminds me.
You need to be out the townhouse
by the end of the day.
My townhouse.
[Stephen] No.
The company's townhouse,
and you're out.
[dramatic music]
And I am tell ♪♪
No.
Don't make me call security.
Y'all asses can afford
security now.
[scoffs]
You a liar.
You wait till I blast your ass
in my memoir.
Tear down the mountains ♪
Yeah, scream and shout ♪
- Get off from me!
- Angie, what's wrong with you?
Get off of me!
[somber music]
[singer]
Hmm, still stuck in ♪
I can wait for you
while you clear out your stuff
and then drop you off
wherever you want.
[singer] Oh just ♪
Trying to be chosen ♪
Mm ♪
[vomits]
Hello?
Some of us live here.
[singer] Back to the,
still trying to get it ♪
When we move in together,
we're still doing
laundry separate
because this is
too much folding for me.
What's going on with you?
There's something I have to
[sighs]
I've never told anyone this.
You're scaring me.
No, no, no, nothing scary.
Just moving in,
and why it can't happen
right away.
Oh.
I have to let go of an old life
before I can jump
into a new one.
I'm even more confused.
Mel
[sighs]
I'm
technically
married.
You what?
I know.
I know.
Even my girls don't know this.
Before college,
I was still in Georgia
and I didn't want to be,
and I was gay,
and I didn't want to be.
His name is Brandon
- His name?
- Yes.
- Oh, great.
- It's dumb now, but
I didn't know
any other lesbians.
I didn't think
that was even an option.
And he was like my best friend
through high school.
And one day we were hanging out
and we made out.
Our first kiss
[scoffs]
I didn't know what
it was supposed to feel like,
so I didn't know it felt so
nothing.
And it was like I was sitting
on the other side of the room,
watching myself
kissing this guy,
thinking, "He's nice enough."
We could get married
and I could be normal.
And all this shit I was feeling
about women would
I don't know, I'd get over it.
But of course,
that's not how it works.
Things just got
more and more intense.
And I wanted to tell him.
I tried.
I tried like a million times.
But he was so sweet.
And all he talked about
was our future
and all that we could do.
I couldn't stand to hurt him.
So you just ran away.
And never looked back.
And you didn't think
just vanishing would hurt him?
I know.
I know.
See, this is why I never told
this story to anyone,
but I love you.
And and I want to be honest
so that we can move forward.
[scoffs]
I'm sorry, Tye.
This is about
100 kinds of fucked up.
I mean, you kept this from me?
All this time?
I felt guilty for so long.
Oh, but not guilty enough
to actually
do anything about it.
That is so beyond selfish.
And what happens
if you freak out here, huh?
Decide you're in
the wrong life again?
Will I wake up and you're gone?
Baby, no, that
that would literally
never happen.
Yeah, I bet your husband
thought the same thing.
I
Yeah, I don't, um
I need a timeout.
Timeout, like
like, for now, or
Mm-mm, I gotta go.
Please, don't do this.
[pensive beat]
♪
[screams]
This is taking forever.
Yep.
So what, you're just
gonna stay mad at me?
No, I'm I'm fine.
I'm just tired.
All right.
Well, I can handle this alone.
Why don't you why don't you
go home and get some sleep?
We packed up all the bedding.
And the subletter will be there
in the morning,
and it would just be weird
for me to be there.
All right, well, look,
if the subletter does show up,
just let him know
that we're leaving as soon
as we get this passport thing
handled, all right?
He'll understand.
Plans change.
No, Ian, plans don't change.
People fuck up,
and that changes plans.
You're totally right, Camille,
but I've never heard
of something like this.
I mean, why have an expiration
date if it was not real?
You know, one Google search
could've told you this.
All right,
but not for nothing.
I mean, you didn't know.
Why is it up to me?
Always?
Why do I have to be
the responsible one?
So everybody else
gets to change plans?
You know, my whole life,
I've had to deal with my mother
constantly changing plans
without any consideration
about how I felt.
- Just breathe.
- I don't wanna breathe.
I wanna stick
to the fucking plan.
Except here I am suddenly
changing my whole career plan.
Fuck, am I my mother?
Camille, no one is your mother
but your mother.
What if that passport
had been our child
that you forgot
to pick up from school
because you have
a change of plans?
- Oh, so we have children now?
- I don't know, Ian, do we?
Or is social services
about to take them
because you changed the plans?
Whoa, Camille.
I mean,
where are we even staying?
We're staying with
the host family, you know that.
- Yeah, but for how long?
- Just
How long are we in
someone's guest room?
And that chef
that you're studying under
is he even guaranteeing you
a job?
All right, you're spiraling now.
Yes, of course, I'm spiraling,
'cause I can't take
this fly-by-night shit.
[clerk] Next.
- [sighs]
Hi.
Here you go.
- You want this expedited?
- Yes, ma'am.
I have a flight.
Had a flight.
We missed it.
'Cause you know, plans change.
Who you telling?
[chuckles]
That'll be $1,000.12
for overnight renewal.
$1,000?
I'm sorry, I had no idea
it was gonna be this expensive.
That's another
Google-that-shit moment.
Just give the lady
your credit card.
- Shit's maxed out.
- What?
- What have you been buying?
- [chuckles]
Okay, you know what?
It's okay.
I will take care of it as usual.
Put 600 on this card and put
the remainder on this card.
And if it doesn't go through,
you can put 250 on this one
and put the remainder
on this one.
[soft dramatic music]
And the thing with decisions,
the really big ones,
is they can be so overwhelming
that sometimes they take
an entire lifetime to make.
[Robin] History is littered
with women
who have to start over
because they made sacrifices
for a man's dream.
[Camille]
Or sometimes it takes a day.
Hey, good walk?
Here I am suddenly changing
my whole career plan.
Fuck, am I my mother?
And sometimes,
because of your lifetime
I can't take this
fly-by-night shit.
Because of the day
And I regret it so much.
[Camille]
You decide
The taxi is about
two minutes away.
I'm not going.
[Camille] In an instant.
- What?
I'm sorry.
I know this is
I just can't.
Hold on, hold on.
Whoa, whoa, baby
No, I was up all last night,
and I
the passport thing is the best
thing that happened to us
because it gave me a chance
to think about it
like, to really
think it through.
Hold on, what
so the months that you took
to decide to go,
that wasn't
that wasn't thinking,
but you had one little
sleepless stressful night?
Don't do that.
I know how this sounds.
I feel like
I'm going back into chaos
because that's what
I'm used to.
Baby, Paris isn't chaos.
Not for you.
I mean,
you're chasing your dream.
But where am I in that?
You are the biggest part
of my dream, Camille.
You're the biggest part of my
But to just go,
to leave the life
that I want here
my friends, my work, my block?
That's not me.
So even if I was to go,
you wouldn't have me.
And I don't know, maybe Paris
and me would be great,
but I can't just
leave everything
for some unknown future
with you.
You have to do
what's best for you,
but I have to do
what's best for me.
Yeah, well, what about
what's right for us?
You know what's crazy, is us
I mean,
the us that we were
ended when you decided
to blow up the life
that we were building here.
I need stability, Ian.
Oh, what the fuck?
So you're
you're not coming
and you're breaking up with me?
And it's killing me,
but long distance
and Skypes and holidays,
whenever we can afford
a ticket,
it would just be keeping us
half in something.
And us
and we
I think we deserve
more than that.
So chase your dream.
I really hope
it works out for you.
You're breaking my heart,
Camille.
I'm breaking my own.
[Emanuel: "Need You"]
♪
I feel
I just fell in love with you ♪
Like a song on the radio ♪
Ooh, babe ♪
I, I don't ♪
I don't want
that same cold loving ♪
That I had before ♪
Are you different? ♪
You taste different
you feel different ♪
It seems different ♪
I think I'm in love ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
I feel
I need you to breathe ♪
Yeah ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
[vocalizing]
♪
[sighs]
If the love is pure ♪
If the love is pure, babe ♪
Should we take some more? ♪
Should we take
some more? ♪
Ooh ♪
If the love is pure ♪
If the love is pure, baby ♪
Should we take some more? ♪
Should we take
some more? ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
Baby ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
Yeah ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
[vocalizing]
Yeah ♪
♪
Ooh ♪
If the love is pure ♪
If the love
is pure ♪
I feel I need you
to breathe ♪
Should we take some more? ♪
Should we take
some more? ♪♪