Pose (2018) s02e09 Episode Script

1 (SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE) (TRUCKS BEEPING) (TELEPHONE RINGING) Four o'clock? Hello? Yeah, this is Blanca.
(SIRENS WAILING) INVESTIGATOR: Ma'am.
- Hello, ma'am? - Sorry.
You said there was acetone and isopropyl alcohol on the premises.
You are aware that those substance are highly flammable? The kind of stuff that could blow a place up.
Yeah, of course.
But this was a nail salon.
Those kinds of chemicals are needed for my business.
I'm not a careless person, and I don't smoke, so ain't no lighter flames or cigarettes in here.
When was the last time you ever heard of a nail salon blowing up out of nowhere? Excuse me.
(DOOR OPENS) FREDERICA: What happened to my building? This is devastating.
How will I recover? What are you doing here? My name is on the deed, sweetheart.
I was in the car heading to my summer cottage when I got the call that my property had burned down.
- Isn't that terrible? - Yeah.
I put all of my savings into this salon, and somehow, I didn't know that insurance was needed to cover the supplies and furniture and all of my stuff! It went up into smoke just like that.
You live and you learn.
Going toe-to-toe with you, I learned what protecting yourself really looks like.
You taught me that.
And for that, I will be grateful.
After our squabble, I raised the insurance coverage on this building.
I just had a feeling something like this could happen.
Come next spring, I'll triple the rent, attracting tenants that will breathe a breath of fresh air - into this ghetto enclave.
- Yeah, this place is right on track for a much-needed makeover.
(CHUCKLES) How I will miss our conversations.
I will relish all summer the thought of you back home, in your grim little Bronx walk-up, filing acrylics in the sweltering 100-degree August heat.
(SIREN WAILING) (DOOR OPENS) (FOOTFALLS APPROACH) PRAY TELL: The category is Live Work Pose! (SOFT WHIRRING) (LOCKER CREAKS OPEN) Leaving already? My usual 3:00 is gone for the summer.
The whole summer? This business is seasonal.
Didn't you know? It's not like the piers.
Most of the clientele here take their vacation in August.
The whole town clears out.
Shouldn't you be checkin' on that dude in your room? Oh, shit! I almost forgot.
Has it been three hours already? Three and a half.
Do you need a spanking or a beating of some kind? No.
Just leave me a little while longer, please? I have other business to attend to.
I'm a woman of the world.
I don't want to stay here all day long.
Then leave.
I don't care.
Come back in the morning.
I just like being left in isolation.
No sight, no sound, feeling nothing but the pain of being in one position and the warm sweat under the latex.
May I ask what exactly is the point of this? Why pay to be left alone when you can be left alone for free? I'm not paying to be left alone.
I'm paying to feel the pain of anticipation.
I'm not leaving you here all night.
I don't have good experiences with leaving people to their own devices.
Okay.
Can I come back tomorrow, though? I thought you were a bigwig on Wall Street.
Aren't you leaving town like the rest of them? I got a great place at the beach, but I almost never go.
I like it better here, where it's really hot.
Beach house, you say? ("EVERYTHING" BY JODY WATLEY PLAYING) Oh Oh, my gosh, it's so hot.
LULU: Hey, I know.
Is the window open? A popsicle in this heat is like throwing a snowball in hell.
Do you ever stop complaining? - No.
- Well, then, now's a good time to learn.
Here, girl.
Girl, I can't believe the salon is gone.
Come on, tell 'em what happened.
I can't prove anything, but I think she set the place afire herself.
- For the insurance.
- Arson? I'd do the same if I owned that shithole.
- Elektra! - Sorry, daughter.
I'm crazy from this heat.
- That's okay, I appreciate y'all coming over to support.
- I hope so.
I feel like I'm being fucked by Satan himself in the seventh circle.
Are the authorities investigating? I ain't got no power.
ELEKTRA: This isn't the first time any of us have met with adversities.
This tenement in August, for instance.
ANGEL: Oh, my gosh.
You can't give up, Ma.
I never thought my modeling career would be what it is, but you encouraged me.
If I could do it, you most definitely can.
No, it's not about that.
I spent my life savings on that salon.
So, Ma, just save again and get another one.
You be a'ight.
Will you stop saying it's all right?! My opportunity came and went.
Everything I live for, my kids, my salon, it's gone.
It's all right, girl.
I think she's having a heat stroke.
- Bitch, would you stop complaining about the damn heat? - ANGEL: Shut up! We are all hot.
I am in purgatory.
It feels like someone turned this thermostat up to "inferno.
" - Well, you're the one with the air-conditioning.
- Right.
- Why How come we're not in your crib? - Yeah.
Because even with a window air-conditioning unit, it's beginning to smell.
Smell? Why? ELEKTRA: This old lady from the Caribbean has a fish fry, and it wafts through the hallways.
The stench intensifies when the thermostat hits 85 degrees.
Well, what we need to do is take a trip down to the beach.
The water will cool us off.
Well, good, 'cause I need a vacation.
That's a good idea.
Let's do a girls' trip.
ANGEL: For real? A girls' trip? Yes.
Look at the year we've had.
We've lost Candy, and Blanca ruined her house and lost her business and - Okay, where are we going? - I have just the place.
Ladies, pack your swimsuits and meet at my house tomorrow morning.
(EXCITED CHATTER) You're not scared people gonna try us if we walk down a New York street in swimsuits and heels? I have a Hertz rental car waiting for us outside.
O.
J.
himself would approve.
Work.
What's that smell? Pine.
I'm a woman who likes her scented candles.
Excited? Yeah, I've never been on a road trip before.
I feel like we about to go in a Chevy Chase movie or something.
(CHUCKLES) Darling, if you're going to be a successful model, you have to learn how to travel, and how to travel well.
Rule number one is to always look your best.
What you tryin' to say? Uh-huh.
Perfection.
I simply cannot stand it when a woman boards a plane without a full face of makeup.
Oh, I feel you.
Lulu! What's taking so goddamn long?! Come out already! You guys.
Oh, dear God.
What the hell is wrong with her? I feel so fat.
Hey, stop it.
You look damn tasty.
Not slumped over like that, she doesn't.
- Stand up straight.
- (LULU SCOFFS) It's one thing to be on the pole in a dark club, it's another thing to let it all hang out under the naked sun.
I mean, what if I get clocked or something? Girl, please stop it.
The only thing that they clocking is you being a beautiful woman.
Give me some of that Lulu attitude.
You're right, I do look pretty tasty.
(CHUCKLES) There we go.
Wait a minute.
Wh what is that smell? Pine.
- Scented candles.
- (BUZZER BLARES) That's Blanca.
ANGEL: Mother.
(GASPS) Somebody please fetch me my nerve pills.
Well, hello to you, too.
Where's your swimsuit? I will not be seen in public with you looking like Elly May fresh off the farm.
This is all that I got.
Of course it is.
I suppose I can let you borrow something from my guest closet.
No, I'm comfortable in this.
No, it's really no problem.
Just don't stain it with whatever awful food - you're eating these days.
- Elektra, I said no.
If this is about your salon, I will not allow your rotten mood to ruin this trip for everyone.
It's not about the salon.
I'm just not like you girls.
There are certain things that you can wear that I cannot.
If this is about tucking, I got some extra duct tape.
It's not about that, either.
I just don't like being exposed.
I don't like the summer.
Men whispering on the streets, calling me a man, a freak, a tranny.
ANGEL: Ma, people always gonna have opinions.
Don't matter how beautiful or busted you are.
That's just part of being a woman in a man's world.
So what we need to do is replace those negative voices with some words of encouragement.
Come on, y'all.
I'm gonna treat Mother Blanca - before we hit the road.
- (LAUGHS) - So, get your shit together.
- LULU: We're gonna go shopping.
- LULU: Oh! - Hey.
Oh.
Didn't I tell you if you put a skirt on, it would be sickening? Yes, I guess you're right.
I do look kind of sexy, don't I? - Uh, uh-huh.
- Kind of.
I hope you got birth control.
Look at those thighs.
- Right.
- Ooh.
Catch the jiggle when you slap it.
Are you three done eating each other out yet? - No.
- No.
Let's get out of here.
Oh, my gosh.
She jealous.
Aah! Why'd I pick the one street that hasn't gentrified yet? Hey, who's driving this car? I am.
Get in.
I call shotgun.
Oh, look at my baby being useful.
Helpful.
LIL PAPI: Don't talk to no men.
- What? Uh - (DINGS) - Oh.
Thank you.
- ANGEL: Don't tell me what to do.
I love you.
I'm just playing.
- (LIL PAPI SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) - Papi.
- Oh.
- (SHRIEKS) - I love you.
- Oh, God.
Oh.
(LAUGHS) - If you're thinkin' you're too cool - Sing it, daughter.
Come on.
- To boogie - Oh, oh Boy, oh, boy, have I got news for you (LAUGHING) (DISTANT HORN HONKS) Everybody here tonight must boogie - Oh, yes.
- (LAUGHTER) - (CAR HORN HONKS) - Let me tell ya You are no exception to the rule This is music.
Get on up, on the floor 'Cause we're gonna boogie oogie oogie 'Till you just can't boogie no more Ah, boogie, boogie no more - You can't boogie - Hey! You drive like shit! You look like it, bitch! - Boogie no more - (CAR HORN BLARES) - Listen to the music - Oh, my God.
- Mother, look out! - Oh, my God! - (SCREAMS) - Look out.
ANGEL: Oh, my goodness.
He's right.
You're the worst driver I ever seen.
- I didn't know you had a license.
- I don't.
I bought one out of the bodega on 144th Street.
- What?! - What?! ELEKTRA: They required it to rent the car.
I even upgraded us to this.
We're traveling in style this weekend, ladies, and it's all on Mother Elektra.
All you bitches need to pay for is the cocktails.
Man, something smells fishy about this.
That's just the ocean, Blanca dear.
Just relax.
- We're nearly there.
- Where? Get down, boogie oogie oogie - Yeah.
- Get down - (WHOOPING) - Boogie oogie oogie - Uh-huh.
- Get down - Bitch.
- (LAUGHTER) (WHOOPING) ANGEL: Oh, my God.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) No way.
No motherfucking way! (LAUGHS) - Are we staying here? - Yes, we are.
Always trust in Mother Elektra, darling.
- T stance.
- (LAUGHING) Five, six.
- Seven.
- Eight.
(LAUGHING) (DOOR CREAKS OPEN) Welcome home! Oh, my God.
This is, like, straight out Architectural Digest or something.
Oof.
I call dibs on this couch right here.
(CHUCKLES) No, no, no.
You all get your own bedrooms, though the master is mine, obviously.
We'll be watching House Party in the screening room later.
Retrieve anything you like from the wine cellar.
The garage is off-limits.
What's in the garage? See, I knew something was fishy about this.
Did you kidnap this man and steal his house? What do you take me for? He invited us.
Practically begged me to come, once I planted the idea in his head.
Can he hear us? Not with the hood and headphones on.
ANGEL: So, I don't get it.
He he's paying you to take him down here and and and and do what exactly? Oh, I had a girl come up with him earlier to set him up.
My job is just to check on him every few hours, - tease him a little.
- LULU: But, uh, how does he go to the bathroom in this thing? We deprive him of food all weekend long, - so no worries about number two.
- (MAN PANTING) Otherwise, he just goes when he has to.
Oh, girl.
Oh, my God.
Men are so fucked up.
- Okay.
- BLANCA: You know what? Angel, Lulu, y'all go get ready for the beach.
We need a moment.
- Okay.
Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
Yeah.
(LAUGHTER) We are not having another situation like the other time.
Don't worry.
The mask doesn't cover his mouth.
He's perfectly safe.
Look.
Joe, Blanca.
Blanca, Joe.
Nice to meet you.
Mm.
Feeling dehydrated, Joe? - Light-headed? - No.
I'm feeling amazing.
I'm loving being out here, where it's still scorching hot in the garage.
- ELEKTRA: Mm-hmm.
- And even more isolated.
Mm-hmm.
And cover me up again? ELEKTRA: How long before we should come back? Tomorrow? We'll check back in a couple of hours.
(EXHALES) Okay.
Let's hit the beach, darling, come on.
(SEAGULLS SQUAWKING) You know, why the hell are we cooped up on that stinking island when we could be out here, living like movie stars? No sweaty subways, no skyscrapers to trap the heat.
This is heaven.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yes, sir.
You know, all my life, I've lived an hour away from here, and this is the first time I've ever seen the ocean.
You know, my late mother used to tell me, "If you ever feel too big for your britches, "go to the ocean and stare at it.
It'll make you feel small.
" - LULU: Mm-hmm.
- Now I know what she was talking about.
This air of silence In the bedroom - Should we dip our toes in? - Uh-uh.
No way.
I've seen Jaws way too many times to know better.
Besides, I taste too sweet for sharks to resist.
Girl, I just got my edges laid, - and I'm not going near any water this weekend.
- Angel? All right, now, y'all don't laugh at me, but I am terrified of water.
I don't know how to swim.
I mean, I always wanted to learn, but there ain't no pools in the projects.
One day my father brought me over to the, uh, fancy country club up north in the Bronx.
He said he was gonna finally teach me how to swim, but then when we got there, girl, they ain't let us past the front desk.
If it's any consolation, I'm not a good swimmer either.
How 'bout we teach each other right now? - Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
- BLANCA: What? - Ain't no way.
Hell no.
- We'll hold hands.
We won't go past our thighs.
- What if I get stung by a jellyfish? - Shark.
Oh, come on, y'all.
When are we gonna ever do this again as a family? This is our vacation.
Come on, let's live out our dreams.
Jesus Christ.
All right.
Y'all can stay here.
Come on, Angel.
ANGEL: Bye, girls.
Have fun.
Don't get bit.
- I should've sent that damn girl to school.
- (LAUGHS) I'll go in the water only if your promise not to let go.
I promise.
All right.
- Yo, and since we're making promises - Hmm? you keeping yours? What you talking about? Drugs? I ain't done none of that.
(CHUCKLES) I know you got people checking on me, - watching - Uh-huh.
As a mother, you gotta keep eyes in the back of your head, - spies in these streets.
- (CHUCKLES) Okay, Mother of the Year.
That's right.
No, but seriously, I haven't touched any of that stuff.
I promise.
Maybe soon enough I'll be back in your good graces, and me and Papi can come back home.
Good.
But you an adult now.
You and Papi got your own home, and you gotta maintain it so you can have your own children, and raise them right.
I want to make you Mother of the Year one day.
Oh thank you.
- I know.
(LAUGHS) - Come on.
Hey, baby You got to remember I'm forever your girl Baby, pick your head up Girl, why are they staring at us? Girl, who? You think they clocking us? They're just taking in the view.
You're being paranoid.
And what if you're wrong? That's why I hid my switchblade in the cooler.
Mm.
What you over here thinking about? You look like you just went somewhere.
I wish Candy was here.
I miss that girl.
Yeah.
I was so preoccupied with giving her a distinguished send-off that I never went up to her casket.
What? I don't have any regrets, but I do regret that.
If it's any consolation, you sent her home in style.
Candy would've wanted nothing less from you.
Thank you for that, Mother.
(WHISTLE BLOWING) Where's Blanca? ANGEL: Help! Lifeguard! Life-lifeguard - (GASPING) - ELEKTRA: Blanca! ANGEL: We were just, we were splashing around and LULU: Blanca! LULU: Blanca! Blanca Oh ELEKTRA: Oh, my God.
- Oh, God - Blanca? ANGEL: Please get up.
Get up, get up, get up.
- I can't lose another daughter! - Blanca! ANGEL: Get up! - Oh, God.
- Blanca, come on.
- Four, five, six, seven - ANGEL: Get up! Blanca? - Come on, Blanca! - (CRYING) - (COUGHING) - ANGEL (WHISPERS): Okay, okay.
- (MOANS) - Oh, thank you, Jesus.
- (CRYING) - Come on.
(LIFEGUARD EXHALES) Nice to meet you.
Joe, I must ask.
Where are you hiding the adult beverages? Uh, there should be some in the wine cellar.
It's empty, you idiot! Uh, I'm sorr I haven't been out here a lot this summer.
- I guess my house person didn't have time to - Absolutely useless.
(PANTING, LAUGHING SOFTLY) LULU: I'm telling you, girl, he was feeling it.
- He was not.
- I saw it.
He was feeling it, and - it was big.
- Oh, girl, whatever.
The one time I go to the beach and I almost die.
People were looking at me.
I feel so stupid.
Nah, for real, though, I feel like he was trying - to slip a little tongue - Ah! - Get it, bitch.
- Ooh, I could've lied there all day with him on top of me and let him do whatever he wanted - Mother! - What? I don't care if anybody was watching.
- She's just living her life.
- ELEKTRA: Please tell me you're not still speaking of black Hasselhoff.
We must concentrate on what really matters.
Were any of you able to find us a suitable beverage? - Just warm beer and scotch.
- That just won't do.
How does this man have all this money and nothing to drink? Girl, white people.
You know what? Get dressed.
We're going out.
To town? Us? Fuck that.
We have nothing to hide.
We're going out and treating ourselves - to a feast and a drink.
- (LAUGHS) Why just one? And I've always wanted to try one of those - Long Island Iced Teas.
- Yes Well, Blanca dear, when in Rome.
Ladies, to our rooms.
(EXCITED CHATTER) (PIANO PLAYING "FLY ME TO THE MOON") Four, please.
Could we please have a table by the window? I'm sorry, but all of our window tables are reserved.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY) She lying.
HOSTESS: Can I start you off - with something to drink? - LULU: Yes.
We'll have four Long Island Iced Teas, thank you.
And can we have a shrimp cocktail while we look - at the menu? I'm starving.
- HOSTESS: Sure thing.
Your waiter will be with you shortly.
Thank you.
Damn.
Ew, this place is mad bougie.
(SCOFFS) I don't recognize anything on this menu.
What is a caviar blini? ELEKTRA: It's a small pancake wafer topped with caviar.
They're sinful and delightful.
- Well, let's get some.
- Ooh, I want the calamari.
- And some lobster, too.
- ELEKTRA: Order what you like, children.
Dinner's on me.
- Oh, thank you, Mother.
- Well, I want to get some oysters.
- Y'all like oysters? - Ew.
Oysters are mad nasty (INDISTINCT ARGUING) Thank you, Elektra.
You don't know how badly I needed this.
We may not live in the same house, but you'll always be my daughter, Blanca.
LULU AND ANGEL: Aww - (BOTH LAUGH) - You're all my children.
That's why you paying for the food.
- Ooh! - (LAUGHTER) LULU: Oh, oh, you didn't.
(LAUGHTER) ELEKTRA: I can't believe we lost him.
- Lost who? - Luther Vandross.
- Girl, he gay, he ain't dead.
- ELEKTRA: He might as well be - if I can't have him.
- LULU: Girl, stop being stingy.
Luther's behind is a whole meal, and all the boys - want a bite, okay? - Ugh I want a Okay, I cannot keep up with this conversation.
If you will excuse me, I got to go pee out - some of this liquor.
- Mm-hmm.
Ooh! - Be careful, now.
Oh, shit.
- You getting thick, girl.
- She cannot handle her liquor.
- (LAUGHTER) Hello, ladies.
I'm a loyal customer here, out with my girlfriends, and we're having just the darndest time trying to relax into this peaceful summer evening.
And what is it that we can do for you? There's nothing peaceful about your grating voices, cackling so loudly we can't even hear our own conversation.
LULU: Elektra.
Do not do it.
This one right here is not worth it.
I don't think that my girlfriends and I are any louder than these other tables.
Why don't you be frank with us? What exactly is it that you're trying to say? I'm no dummy.
I work in the city, and I know a man pretending to be a woman when I see one.
- And I see three right in front of me.
- ANGEL: Oh, shit - LULU: Bitch.
- This is not that kind of establishment.
Wait a minute, girl God may have blessed you with Barbies, a backyard with a pony and a boyfriend named Jake and an unwanted pregnancy that your father paid to terminate so you could go to college and major in being a basic bitch.
None of these things make you a woman.
Mm-hmm, clear your throat.
- ANGEL: Lubricate.
- Mm-hmm.
LULU: Read that bitch.
Your uniform of ill-fitting J.
Crew culottes, fake pearls and 50-cent scrunchies cannot conceal the fact that you do not know who you are.
- Mm.
- I know our presence threatens you.
We've fought for our place at this table.
And that has made us stronger than you will ever be.
Now pick your jaw up off the floor and go back to your clam chowder and shallow conversations.
My girlfriends and I aren't going anywhere.
- It was lovely talking to you.
- Y'all heard that? ANGEL: Yeah, go and get your clam chowder, before the clam chowder gets you.
- (LAUGHS) - Shall we order another round? - Yes, please.
- Shit.
(PIANO PLAYING IN DISTANCE) Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Uh Yes, Grams.
I'm wearing sunblock.
(CHUCKLES) I know.
Brown skin burns, too.
Hey, let me call you right back.
You look pretty good dry.
(BOTH LAUGH) So, you saving lives and dishing out compliments, huh? (CHUCKLES) Something like that.
I'm Adrian.
(CLEARS THROAT) Blanca.
Pleasure.
I've been manning these shores for six summers and I've never done CPR on anyone with lips like yours.
Well, I ain't ever had a man slobber over me like that before, so I guess there's a first time for everything.
Why don't you let me take you out for a stroll on the beach? I'd die a happy man seeing you glow under that moonlight.
Anyway, I thought you was going to show her your signature move - and flip this damn table over.
- Damn, I forgot about that.
We should invite her back over for an encore performance.
No, no, no, no, no.
Don't you do it.
She she got the point.
ANGEL: Good.
Girl, you just - What happened? - LULU: Never mind that.
- (CHUCKLES) - Look what the cat dragged in.
- Them oysters got to you now, huh? - LULU: No! - (LAUGHTER) - No.
I ran into that lifeguard.
ALL: Ooh His name is Adrian, and he wants to take me on a stroll on the beach.
- You obviously said no.
- No, I said yes.
That man is fine.
Plus, it's been a cute minute - since I had a man show me that sort of kindness.
- Take it for the team.
- He was cute.
- ELEKTRA: You're insane.
It's unsafe for girls like us to walk off in the middle of the night with a stranger.
You know you can't trust a man once the sun goes down.
- That's true.
- Oh, I didn't think about that.
- That doesn't make any sense.
- ANGEL: Yes, it does.
You know these men are afraid of their desires for us.
They take it out on us all the time.
That's probably what happened to Candy.
They don't kill us because they hate us.
They kill us because they hate what it means to love us.
So, am I supposed to just live in fear for the rest of my life? Die without ever knowing love? Maybe you could just meet him for coffee or something - before we head back, girl.
- Yeah.
Where's the passion in that? Listen, I know y'all care for me, but I have to trust my instincts on this one.
- I'm going.
- ELEKTRA: Wait.
If you're going to go, at least take this.
ANGEL: Oh.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY) BLANCA: I feel like I'm in one of those K-tel commercials or something, selling one of those world's greatest love song album.
That's good, right? It's like a dream.
So, you do this to all your damsels in distress? No.
I'm not like that.
I take this job seriously.
Though I'll admit, sometimes the rich white ladies will pretend to be drowning in the hopes of fulfilling some fantasy.
(BOTH CHUCKLE) I go to Fordham the rest of the year.
I'm studying to be a doctor.
- For real? - Yeah.
Damn, you must be smart.
My mom died of stomach cancer when I was ten.
One thing I noticed, all the orderlies were black and brown, some of the nurses too, but every doctor was white.
I'm sure they did their best, but I think it helps to be looked after by one of your own, you know? Do you have a dream? I had one.
I'm in the beauty profession, nails mostly.
I recently opened my very own salon, but it burnt down.
That's terrible, I'm so sorry.
It's all right.
I'm a very optimistic person by nature.
But I've got no illusions about the outside world having my back.
Outside world? Um, you know, my community, and the outside world, and all those things.
I know, Blanca.
You don't have to pretend with me.
So you've been with a girl like me before? No.
It's not like that.
You're a beautiful, funny, soulful woman.
That's all that matters to me.
This has got to be a dream.
(CHUCKLES) Can I kiss you? Didn't you already do that earlier? A real kiss.
I'm not stopping you.
- (BIRDS CHIRPING) - - Where's she at, you guys? - She should've been here by now.
This is crazy.
- Do you think we should call the cops? - Oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh.
Where have you been? We were up all night.
I thought he gutted and drowned you.
We were five minutes away from calling the po-po! Aw, you really do love me.
- (SIGHS) - Bitch.
- I'm just glad you're okay.
- LULU: Okay, bitch, sit down.
What happened? Tell us everything.
Here, this for you.
Okay.
It was - It was perfect.
(LAUGHS) - I knew it! - (LAUGHS) - I felt like I was the heroine, - the star of some great romantic drama.
- Hmm? - Ah, hoo.
- Keep going, Mother.
- Oh - Tell us the details.
Oh, we went on a walk on the beach, uh - I ain't never seen the moon that big - (SIGHS) that bright (SIGHS) His skin glistened in it.
And girl, when I tell you them muscles was popping - Mm - LULU: Yeah, but what about that muscle down there? - Was he packing, 'cause I know he was, girl! - ANGEL: Ooh! - (LAUGHTER) - ELEKTRA: Lulu! I didn't raise you to be so vulgar.
- So Candy of you.
- Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.
(LAUGHING) - ANGEL: That muscle, bitch.
- All we did was make out.
- It was romantic.
- ANGEL: Mm-hmm.
Not lustful at all, and it was heartful and hopeful.
- It's definitely something I had been missing.
- Mm.
And I needed that.
(SIGHS) I know that a man is not gonna fill the void of me losing my salon, but it was nice to be wanted and seen.
He made me believe that good things are possible.
- Mm.
- ANGEL: Oh, Ma - (LAUGHS) - So? - What? - Did you tell him T? - Oh, I didn't have to.
He knew.
- ANGEL AND LULU: What?! Mm-hmm.
He was a gentleman, through and through.
- Girl, give me some.
- ANGEL: Ow, Ma.
Yes.
(LAUGHS) You gonna see him again? I gave him my number.
But I ain't got no expectations.
Listen, it was perfect and brief.
I feel that.
- I'm glad I'm here with all of y'all.
- It's so good.
- Aw - We love you.
- (LAUGHING) - Girls' trip! (SCREAMING HAPPILY) - ANGEL: Oh, my God! - ELEKTRA: Girls' trip, girls' trip! LULU AND ANGEL: Girls' trip, girls' trip! ELEKTRA: It's time to go home.
I assume you can peel yourself out of this suit by yourself? Yeah.
Uh, sweat and everything makes it nice and slippery.
Mistress Elektra? Thank you for talking me into doing this.
I kept fantasizing that you drove back to the city without telling anyone I was here.
They wouldn't find me for days.
Or ever, maybe.
Do you realize how luxurious your life is? Yeah.
I know.
The house is great.
Not the house.
You have the luxury of choosing loneliness.
For some people, it's not optional.
(KEYS CLATTER ON FLOOR) ("HOLD ON" BY EN VOGUE PLAYING) - Ooh, I like this one.
- Right? Can we turn up it? - Yeah.
- ANGEL: Pull up the volume.
Come on.
This is nice.
Yes.
Ooh, my first mistake was I wanted too much time I had to have him morning, noon, and night If I would of known then The things that I know now I might not have lost The time I complain about Don't waste your time Fighting blind Minded thoughts of despair Hold on to your love You got to hold on Hold on to your love Ooh, ooh, baby, hold on Hold on to your love Oh, you got to hold on Hold on to your love All right, now, I'm about to show you, uh The art of playing games now (MUSIC FADING): Is not the hearts you break It's 'bout good love you make When his heart's on fire Give him love every day Remember he needs space (MUSIC GROWS LOUDER): Be patient and he'll give his heart to you Don't waste your time Fighting blind Minded thoughts of despair Hold on to your love - You got to hold on - Hey, yeah Hold on to your love You've got to hold on to your love - Hold on to your love - Yeah, hey, oh Baby, hold on Hold on to your love Hold on to your love You got to hold on - Hold on to your love - Don't let go - Keep the ties - Hold on Hang on tight, and don't let go Hold on to your love Don't let go Hold on to your love.
- (LAUGHING) - Yo, I needed that trip so badly, and I didn't even know it.
We should do this once a year.
Make it a thing, just us girls.
Mm-hmm, just us girls.
Well, I got a feeling you gonna be going out there a lot more often if things with you and Adrian work out.
I'm gonna have to buy you a Long Island Rail Road express pass, Miss Honey.
Girl.
Stop it.
That boy probably ain't even gonna call me.
Girl, how you know? At least you had a little bit of loving.
I'm happy for you.
(CHUCKLES) Could you stay with me for the night? Keep your mother company? Yeah, of course I'll stay.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Hey.
Listen, I know we're not in the same house anymore, - but I'm glad that we could still make it work.
- Aw, girl, you so dramatic.
- I'm your daughter, what are you talking about? - Okay, fine.
I'm gonna call Papi real quick and let him know - not to expect me.
- Okay.
All right.
(SIGHS) ANGEL: Ooh, Mother You got a new message.
What? Oh.
Can I play it? It's probably another bill collector, anyway.
- (TAPE REWINDING) - I don't know.
Let's find out.
- (BUTTON CLICKS) - Watch.
ADRIAN: Hey, Blanca, it's Adrian.
Um - He called! - I know you're probably not home yet, but I just wanted to call and let you know I'm thinking about you already.
I was thinking about that night.
I was thinking maybe we could get together again soon.
Ooh bitch.
- Ooh, his voice is so sexy.
- Okay, sister, mind your business.
The linens for your bed are in the closet.
I'm gonna be on this phone line for a while.
(DIALING) Go! - (LINE RINGING) - (FOOTSTEPS RETREATING) ADRIAN: Hello? Hey, Adrian.