All American (2018) s03e05 Episode Script

1 [CROWD CHEERING.]
[WHISTLE BLOWS.]
[INDISTINCT RAPPING.]
Now we're throwing the towel I'm at the top of the tower JORDAN: Kill, kill.
Here we go.
53 red light, 53 red light.
535! Not there.
Right, 72, hut! [JORDAN BREATHING HEAVILY IN SLOW MOTION.]
FIELD ANNOUNCER: Quarterback fakes, keeps the ball, he pulls back to throw Uhh! FIELD ANNOUNCER: And he's taken down hard! [PLAYERS CHEERING.]
FIELD ANNOUNCER: He's not getting up! [BLOWS WHISTLE.]
Coach, I'm fine.
JJ: Come on, man.
That was a cheap shot! You know it! MONTES: The hell you doing, JJ? You're backup QB! Get in the huddle and lead your team! [LOUD SLAM.]
Chargers, take a knee.
Now! Ahem.
Ok.
We are now 0-2 for the very first time in this program's history, but it's the sloppy performance that's worse I'm talking to you, too, Cortay! - BILLY: Damn it.
- [CLICK.]
Uh offense, defense, special teams.
A disgrace! All of y'all! Dizziness? No, I feel fine.
FIELD ANNOUNCER: JJ in trouble.
Throws it up.
It's picked off - with room to run! - JORDAN: Damn it! - MONTES: Doc? - DOC: Almost done, Coach.
All right, go tell Coach Davis I want him running JJ on our two-minute offense.
Coach, I think we should try a cross-field lateral on the return.
- JORDAN: A trick play? - MONTES: Shut it, Baker.
BILLY: I have never in my life seen such sloppy route-running! Do you hear me, Spencer James? [BILLY CLAPS 4 TIMES.]
Step it up, bro! And then, when he's open, I got my quarterback just throwing it away.
You need to get it together, Captain! [BILLY CLAPS ONCE.]
Keep your head up, C.
Come on now.
We ain't going out like this, not senior year.
- SPENCER: Frausto's right, Chris.
- FRAUSTO: You need to keep my name out of your mouth, Spence.
I wasn't talking to you.
MANNY: Chris.
You start playing some football.
All that dancing and dodging like a damn rabbit, - that ain't football.
- CHRIS: Now, look, I know, Coach.
- I'll I'll do better.
- MANNY: I hope so, and soon.
We're not winning any games with the quarterback playing scared.
[MANNY TURNING AWAY.]
Clean up! DOC: It's mild, but I suspect it's a concussion.
Well, you suspect? I'm sorry.
What what does that even mean? It means you're out.
Rest up.
Cross-field lateral, huh? I don't like gadget plays, Adams.
- ASHER: It'll work.
- MONTES: Got ten seconds to convince me.
JORDAN: Coach! Come on.
- SPENCER: Chris.
- CHRIS: Look, not now, Spence.
I just want to check on you, man.
Coach was pretty tough.
Well, don't! I ain't doing this tonight, not with you.
How you throwing shade at me when you ain't looked my way all game? I may have if you hadn't sat out the first half with a shoulder cramp.
[SOFTLY.]
It was the first quarter.
Right.
How 'bout you play 4 quarters before trying to fix my game? Call me if he shows any symptoms from this list.
- PLAYER, OUTSIDE: Hey! - LAURA: "Headache, lethargy, nausea.
" How do I know if it's concussion-related? FIELD ANNOUNCER: JJ breaks left.
He's got blockers, but not a lot of room.
Wait! He pulls back! Oh, my God, he's gonna throw it! The Eagles got a man! [INDISTINCT RAPPING.]
full percentage, I got the green light You cannot stop us, a force to be reckoned with I don't recommend you try [INDISTINCT.]
Energized, I know my passion and purpose Gonna take me higher Whoo! FIELD ANNOUNCER: Touchdown, Eagles! [CHEERING.]
[RAPPING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY.]
JIMIJAME$: Ain't got no time To weep Yo, Spence has not missed a day of church since grade school, and I just got his voicemail again.
Now, what the She is a wolf in a wool sweater.
Are people really buying this? Uh, well, yeah, like, 30,000 likes kind of buying it.
Look.
She went viral.
- PATIENCE: See? - MO: To put my vocation to his work, to free my brothers and sisters that have been trapped in an injustice system, not because of what they have done, but because of the color of our skin, so I'm offering my legal aid and counsel for free to anyone in this community who needs it.
The devil makes a good deal.
Oh, my God, not everyone thinks Mo - is Tyrone reincarnated.
- COOP: Maybe not, but everyone does know what they say about apples and trees.
You know she doesn't have to make amends for what her brother did.
Like, it says something that she is.
Yeah, it it says that I don't trust her ass.
Ok, can we just, like, literally talk about anything else? What? Like, where are we gonna sit now that Mo's taken our spot - and using it as if it's a WeWork? - PATIENCE: Girl.
All right, babe, look, I'm just kidding.
- PATIENCE: Mm-hmm.
- COOP: I'm just kidding.
What did J.
P.
say about Layla slapping him with that lawsuit? I don't know.
I guess they haven't really talked.
Not talked? Baby, he's her daddy.
Yeah, crazy, I know, but Layla's lawyer said that we have a good case, since I signed on as a minor, so Sorry to interrupt, but I have some experience with music contracts, - so if you ever need any help, you just - COOP: Actually, no, we don't need your help or your business card or your ear-hustling, a'ight? Come on.
MAN: The courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
MAN 2: See you tomorrow.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Olivia.
Hey.
Your sobriety sister? Leslie started sponsoring us at the same time? Oh, my God, Amber.
Yeah.
Sorry, I I No worries.
It's been a minute since we've talked.
Yeah, yeah, it has.
Hey, uh, have you talked to Leslie recently? The last time I tried to call Leslie, I Look, I She let me down when I needed her, and I hope that she's ok, but - AMBER: Totally get it.
- OLIVIA: Yeah.
It's hard when a sponsor lets us down.
Yeah.
Um, well, good luck.
I'm, uh, not trying to be one of those people, but I noticed you didn't share in the last meeting? In fact, you haven't shared in the last few meetings, so if you want someone to talk to Yeah, thanks.
I'm good.
Thank you so much.
Cool.
Go! SINGER: Mmm Yeah - BILLY: Good.
Again.
- CHRIS: Hit! SINGER: You got the fire, you got the fire - You got to get down - BILLY: Again.
- SINGER: You got to get mean - CHRIS: Hit! SINGER: You got to fight for it You got to show teeth, you got to work smart And show your muscle Come on, get it, get it Let me see you hustle - BILLY: Come on.
- [CHRIS EXHALES.]
Thanks, Coach.
Hey, your tackling ain't half-bad for a running back, Coach.
If you play half as well next week, ain't gonna be no more weekend practices for you.
- CHRIS: Heh! - BILLY: Come on.
That was a compliment.
Heh heh! Yeah, I know.
Look, Chris Folks with your injury, they get shaken up.
The important thing is that you proved you can take a hit.
- Do you hear me? - CHRIS: Yeah.
So what's going on? - CHRIS: Game's just different.
- BILLY: Different? Don't know why, but when I feel it, I just I stop thinking straight.
That's all.
But this has been really helpful, seriously.
I'mma get right, Coach.
All right, man.
- CHRIS: See you next week.
- BILLY: Good stuff today.
SPEARS: "It's taken me all this time to realize that yes, I took a bullet for a friend that day, but the bullet I took wasn't for Liv, it was for Coop.
Coop is who I blame for what happened to me.
Coop is my stuck point.
" This is really good, Spencer.
[SETS DOWN PAPER.]
You think I'm right? You think Coop's my stuck point? SPEARS: I do.
Loving Coop and then blaming her for the shooting is exactly the kind of emotion that we need to untangle for you to fully recover.
Any chance we can do it by this Friday? These things take time, Spencer.
I know, I know, but we lost again.
I came back for a title.
We 0-2 right now.
- SPEARS: Ok, and your arm? - SPENCER: There was some numbness before the game, but I was fine by kickoff.
The coach, though, sat me out for the first quarter, though.
Better safe than sorry.
Yeah, but while I'm safe on the bench, my teammates taking all the hits.
What's next, Doc? [SIGHS.]
You're gonna have to be honest with Coop.
Honest how? Everything you just told me.
No, no, no.
Look, it's not like Coop meant for me to get shot, and she doing good right now; Her music's taking off, she almost happy again.
That's important to me.
Ok, and what about your happiness? You can't keep protecting her.
Coop is family, man.
What is wrong with protecting her? Ok, protecting her from Tyrone put a bullet in your arm.
Protecting her from the truth about how you really feel is why it went numb on Friday.
Spencer, telling Coop the truth is the only way for you to heal.
- LAYLA: I miss you.
- I miss you, too.
How'd the talk with your pops go? Um, kind of didn't.
He, uh, shot me a text last week, saying he liked my fire, and suing a big fish is something he would have done when he was coming up in the game, and that was it.
He didn't say nothing else? You didn't respond? I don't know.
I just, um, think it's better to let our lawyers deal with it.
SPENCER: Sometimes you got to face the person and say what needs to be said so y'all can move on.
LAYLA: Hmm.
Wow.
How 'bout that enlightened advice? It's something Dr.
Spears said about avoidance.
Well it's good advice.
[SIGHS.]
Maybe we should both take it.
SPENCER: Both? Well, it's your therapist.
What are you avoiding? Uh Did Jordan get all "As" or something? No.
It's for you, for your big day.
It is your 18-month sober anniversary, right? Oh um, yeah.
I just didn't realize you were gonna make it, like, a breakfast.
Well, I wanted you to know that we remembered.
Uh, Jordan had to go to morning practice, but we're all gonna be there for your next meeting - when you get your chip.
- OLIVIA: It's really sweet, but, um, 18-month chips aren't really a big deal, so - LAURA: Big deal to us.
- OLIVIA: I've even heard some call them, like, "whiner chips.
" Heh! Anyway, I've been going to a closed meeting, so only other addicts allowed.
Oh.
Ok.
Does that mean you can't even have a bagel from Sam's? It's beautiful, and I love it, thank you, but I am late, so I will eat on the way.
I love you.
LAURA: Ok.
Love you.
Fits just right, huh? Ha ha ha! Oh, there's my Jersey.
Yo, who would have thought, huh, red was my color? Ha ha! Looks good, right? Yeah? Ah! "Your Jersey"? Come on, man.
Adams, JJ's behind every receiver.
Can you go drill him on catch point? Yes, Coach.
What are you doing, Baker? Uh, heh! Practice, Coach.
Uh, I've already completed today's concussion protocol workout and no symptoms all week and I feel great.
Uh-uh.
No, I don't want you on the field, practice or game, until you've completed protocol testing.
Coach, it's not like I'm trying to put on a helmet or anything.
I mean, besides, doc says I'm on track for the all-clear by Friday, so why game-plan without QB1? Until you're cleared, JJ's my QB1.
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER.]
BILLY: Spence.
Hey, did Chris, uh, did Chris mention, uh, practice with me on Sunday? No.
Why? Well, you been watching him.
Um, he's really been struggling during these games and, uh, I'm beginning to think it has something to do with more than what he's telling me.
Can you speak to him? I know he's close to you.
Maybe he'll open up.
It's kinda rocky between us right now.
I think he just needs time to figure it out on his own.
Uh, I've been patient with him.
We're running out of time if we're trying to make these playoffs.
Plenty of teams have made it with two losses.
Beverly did last year.
But no one has made it with 3 losses.
If we're fittin' to save the season, we're gonna have to win out, all right? And we cannot do that with the way Chris has been playing.
If something doesn't change, then I'm gonna have to start looking at other options.
You talking about replacing Chris? Spencer, I'm a coach.
Part of what I do is get wins.
First step is knowing who or what is getting in the way of that.
That apply to me, too? If you tell me that you are doing everything you can to save that arm, and it's still not cooperating, well, then yes, then we need to have a tougher conversation.
[DOOR OPENS.]
SINGER: Last time I tell you all that you been Last time I tell you [INDISTINCT.]
don't miss Last time I tell you, else I don't know shoot [SPENCER SIGHS.]
Look, I know you ain't trying to hear from me right now, but I just talked to Coach, and he What? He gonna bench me? [CHUCKLES.]
- [BACKPACK UNZIPS.]
- SPENCER: He ain't decided yet.
Chris, I can help you, man, but you got to tell me what's going on.
You got a chance to hold your spot, and you're just gonna walk away? This ain't you, man.
Don't tell me what is and ain't me.
What the hell is going on? You want to know what messed me up so bad that I just give up? Yeah, I do.
You did.
The last game I took a hit in was you.
You put me in the hospital, and I try not to blame you for that, Spence, but I do.
That's the truth.
And now, every time I walk out on that field with you as my teammate, under those lights, I remember watching them from a stretcher, not knowing if I'd walk again.
You know how to fix that, Spencer? Chris, I'm sorry, man.
I didn't I didn't know.
SPENCER: I mean, I thought we were cool.
We've been chilling all summer.
Turns out he's secretly blaming me for ending up in the hospital.
Maybe he didn't know he felt that way until y'all were back on the field together.
I'm proud of you.
For what, being Chris' stuck point? No.
For listening to something that wasn't easy to hear.
I don't know if or when Chris will ever play the same again, but I do know he still needs his friend.
He ain't trying to be friends with the dude who damn near crippled him, Ma, not no more.
I disagree.
That's why he only just told you, and only after you pushed him to.
He knew it would hurt you, and probably was afraid of losing you.
He thought he was protecting the friendship, but the truth is he was actually holding it back.
- SPENCER: Holding it back? - GRACE: By depriving you of the chance to own your part in his pain.
You didn't mean to hurt him, but regardless, your friend is hurting, and now you know, so make it right.
Acknowledge his pain, apologize for your role in it, and show him that you'll always have his back, always.
[CELL PHONE VIBRATES.]
Hey, I'm just running to practice.
Uh, can I call you back? Do you think Olivia is using again? Why? No.
Do you? Six months ago, she was upset that we were ignoring her sobriety, and now she's totally indifferent.
And do you remember her appetite, how it changed when she was using before? I don't know.
Maybe I'm crazy.
I I I just I can't shake this feeling, so I searched her room.
- BILLY: You didn't find anything? - LAURA: No, no drugs.
But I do have her hairbrush.
I could, uh, send it to my guy at the lab and and have him do a tox screen.
Behind her back.
Laura, no.
That's a huge violation of a trust and Billy, I promised myself I wasn't gonna miss the signs again.
I know, I know.
So did I, and I don't mean to dismiss your concerns, but we can't throw away the trust that we've built.
Let me, um, let me talk to her first.
I got to go.
- BILLY: Hey.
- SPENCER: I can come back - if you need a second.
- BILLY: No, no, no.
You're good.
Just setting up a breakfast with Liv for tomorrow.
BILLY: Talked to Chris? - SPENCER: Yeah.
- BILLY: Ok, and? Look, if you bench him this Friday, he'll never make it back.
But look, we can protect him.
Give him just a little more time to figure this out, same thing you're doing with me.
Ok.
How am I supposed to do that? Max-protect blocking.
Chris won't panic if there's no rush coming.
[SIGHS.]
More blockers means less offensive firepower.
- SPENCER: I know.
- BILLY: It's hard to win playing "3 yards in a cloud of dust" football these days.
I'll give it some thought.
Hit the field, hit the field.
Yes, sir.
Ugh! I'm so gonna fail tomorrow.
Mm-hmm.
It's great that you're into this whole coaching thing, but, um, we have a test tomorrow.
I know, babe, but I have an idea that I want Coach Montes to hear.
JORDAN: Coach Asher's always hard at work, trying to give JJ my job.
Dude, I'm trying to help the team.
Well, so am I, but I can't do anything until I get back on that field.
You were out for less than a quarter.
Chill.
JORDAN: Liv, I'm trying to go D1, all right? Every snap matters.
ASHER: Look, if there's anyone that knows what it's like to ride the bench, it's me, but Coach is right.
Concussions can mess you up for life, dude, football career included.
ASHER: Just one of those things you can't rush, you know? You got to do it the right way.
JORDAN: Man.
[SLAPS COUNTERTOP.]
Got to love a lecture from Asher Adams about doing it the right way.
Now, tell me, which way was that again? What, was it with steroids or giving the other team my playbook? I can't remember.
Jordan! You know what? JORDAN: Screw this.
I'm outta here.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYING WITHIN.]
PATIENCE: Are you sure about this? My dad is incredibly protective of his reputation.
The last thing he wants is a story on TMZ about how he's using your contract in some petty power play against me.
- It's our leverage.
- PATIENCE: Maybe.
- It just this feels extra.
- SPENCER: Yeah, - like, Kardashian-level extra.
- LAYLA: Patience, I promised I would get you out of this contract.
I love that you're trying to help me, I do, but, I mean, come on.
I saw how you and your dad got close on the tour and how happy you were, and I just don't want to come between that.
So let me just try to figure this out and do it myself, ok? Ok.
Don't y'all two got a date or something? [BOTH CHUCKLE.]
So go.
I'm good.
I'll figure this out.
MO: Great, great.
So I took a few notes.
Bottom half explains itself, and we will get you started.
Sounds good? - [DOOR CLOSES.]
- JORDAN: Doc says I'll be cleared for Friday, but [SIGHS.]
Coach won't even let me game-plan.
Oh, I hear you, kid, but take it from someone building an offense around a QB made of glass.
Coach has got to prep for worst-case scenario.
You throw up a lot? Uh, no, not not a lot.
Then you won't have a problem.
Yeah, I had a weak stomach, lose my lunch at most practices.
Some trainers would call it nausea and bench me for recurring symptoms or whatever.
BILLY: Oh, ain't no "whatever.
" What are you telling my son? MANNY: Just to follow concussion protocol, and he'll be good.
Your dad and I got into it a few times during our playing days, 'cause I wouldn't take him seriously enough.
You had he had concussions and hid them, all right? There's no excuse.
- MANNY: Heh! You see? - BILLY: Look, Jordan heh! every player that tries to skirt protocol just makes it easier for teams to force us to come back early, and more difficult for the players that really care about their minds to protect themselves.
Everybody gets hurt Not just the fools who step back on the field, even though they know they shouldn't.
Hey, you are preaching to the choir, brother.
- I learned my lesson.
- BILLY: Well, it took me finding you near dead because you had that allergic reaction to that to that that cancer drug.
No, no, it wasn't for cancer.
It was anti-nausea medication, often prescribed to chemo patients.
[HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYING.]
DEEJAY: I got my man [INDISTINCT.]
with me tonight, ladies Can I help you? I need some questions answered first.
You know who I am, right? Tamia Cooper's girl, Patience.
Nah, Coop's not just my girl, she's my ride or die, and if you moving back here is some messed-up revenge or whatever to get back at Coop for Tyrone, then you're gonna have to go through me, and you have no idea what I'm capable of.
It's more of a threat than a question.
I'm just trying to make sure we understand each other.
We do.
Now, is there something I can help you with? [POP MUSIC PLAYING.]
SINGER: I got this fresh beat BILLY: Thank you.
Mmm.
You don't eat real food anymore? This is real food.
It's just chopped up really small.
You sure you don't want anything else, uh you talked to Mom, didn't you? - BILLY: Hmm? - OLIVIA: Oh, my God.
I knew I should have just eaten that insane breakfast.
Liv, look, we're just checking up on you like we talked about, like like you said you wanted.
Yeah, I asked you to support my sobriety.
I didn't mean throw me chip parties and monitor my eating.
Oh, ok, that's not fair.
Look, we're just trying to understand what what's changed.
I'm not the one who's changed, Dad.
Oh, what's that supposed to mean? It means that our family isn't the same family it was.
I mean, last year, I felt like you guys were ignoring my issues to protect the perfect family image, and now, it feels like I'm the barometer for whether you and Mom are doing just as good apart as you were together.
It's exhausting.
We're all trying to figure this out.
I know.
I'm sorry.
I know that the separation hasn't been easy for you, either.
Dad? Hmm? I love that you're checking in on me, but you also have to believe me when I tell you that I'm fine because I am Ok? I'm not sneaking pills.
Ok.
Thank you.
I'd still feel better if you had - a real breakfast.
- OLIVIA: Oh, my God.
Ok.
Happy? Does this make you look.
Mmm! Uh-huh.
Can you use a napkin? SINGER: Fresh beat, fresh beat, fresh beat [SCHOOL BELL RINGS.]
MALE RAPPER: I'm too exhausted I needed the energy, needed a pick-me-up, I'm in your movie - DOC: Headache? - JORDAN: No.
- RAPPER: Anyone comin' to get me - MONTES: What it be? Quick feet! Quick feet! - DOC: Light sensitivity? - JORDAN: No.
RAPPER: I was reading into their letters DOC: Yellow.
White.
Nausea? No.
RAPPER: I need the energy, energy Any news? Uh, still waiting.
I'm sure you aced it.
[SIGHS.]
Yo, my bad, man.
I I shouldn't have said what I did.
This team wouldn't have won last week without you.
It's all good.
I'll be the first to admit I've made mistakes.
Yeah, well, you've more than paid for 'em.
MONTES: Congratulations, Baker.
Doc gave you the all-clear.
Suit up.
- [JORDAN CHUCKLES.]
- ASHER: Dude! Ha ha! Thank you.
MONTES: Mmm.
You, too, Adams.
I agree with Baker.
You paid enough for your mistakes.
- ASHER: Coach, is this - MONTES: Not a joke.
Suspension's over.
You're suiting up tonight.
Only a few more hours left till game time, so you best be looking over that playbook and, Baker, I want you rested.
Got it? BOTH: Yes, Coach.
Dude! Ha ha ha ha! I can't believe I'm Yo, bro.
You all right? Yeah, yeah.
I'm good, great.
I'm just excited.
[EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Well, c congratulations, man, but you better get to that playbook.
Yeah.
Let's make some plays.
- JORDAN: Let's make some plays.
- ASHER: Heh heh! [LOCKER CLANGS SHUT.]
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
Uh Amber.
Hi.
Hey.
I know this is kinda out of the blue, but, uh, can we talk? Uh I mean, I [LOCKS DOOR.]
I have to get to a game.
Yeah, yeah, ok.
Mm-hmm.
Are you using again? You can tell me.
Why would you think that I'm You know what? You you have to go, now.
I'm just trying to help, as a friend.
We hung out, like, twice, like, 6 months ago.
We're not friends.
I mean, you don't know anything about me.
I know when someone's going through the motions because I've done it.
I've heard the lies before because I've told them.
I'm an addict, Olivia, like you.
And I know part of you wants to tell the truth because every lie makes you feel more and more alone.
I'm not using again.
I drink sometimes.
Not pills.
Pills are my addiction, and drinking is just I I have it under control, ok? Ok, but you're playing with fire, Olivia, and deep down, you know it.
The question is what's gonna burn before you recognize that you're not in control, the addiction is.
FRAUSTO: None of that matters.
You go out there and you play your game.
Hey.
What the hell are y'all doing? It's game time.
Let's go.
Yo, you behind the whole Max-protect game plan? - CHRIS: Yo, I didn't ask for this.
- SPENCER: I didn't say you did.
I just told Coach you needed some extra protection.
CHRIS: Protection, Spence? Coach turned the whole offense upside down for you to hang in the backfield, - babysitting my blind side.
- SPENCER: Stop it, stop it! This ain't about weakness.
You my quarterback and my friend.
I got your back.
This whole team's got your back, Chris.
This what we do.
BILLY: Hey, yo.
Y'all trying to play tonight or what? The team's waiting on you.
BOTH: Sorry.
All right, listen up.
Y'all got to focus, all right? Now, starting tonight, the stakes are simple.
After tonight, win, keep winning until we get to state.
That's it, y'all.
That's the only chance we got.
Now, I believe you can do it, but games are decided by the men on the field.
It's time to find your faith, gentlemen.
[WHISTLE BLOWS, CROWD CHEERING.]
BILLY: Huddle! FIELD ANNOUNCER: Spencer James ekes out another first down for the Chargers.
[PLAYERS SHOUTING.]
[EXHALES.]
Uh, 35 option.
- PLAYER: Go.
- PLAYER 2: Come on.
It's gonna get ugly if we can't stretch this defense.
Ain't got to be pretty.
Just got to move those chains.
- [BLOWS WHISTLE.]
- FIELD ANNOUNCER: Spencer James with the handoff, but nowhere to go, one-yard gain.
Quick pass, and it's 3rd and 5.
Another handoff.
[MAN RAPPING INDISTINCTLY.]
- FIELD ANNOUNCER: James fights for every inch.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS.]
RAPPER: We ain't ready with the charge yet FIELD ANNOUNCER: Still short for first down.
Now what do you want to do? Let's punt.
MANNY: Punt team! [WHISTLE BLOWS.]
Hey keep that head up.
We'll get 'em next time.
[CROWD CHEERING.]
[RAPPING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY.]
The party never started - PATIENCE: Hey.
- COOP: Come on.
Girl, where you been? It's already halftime.
You know I hate being alone when my team losing.
Yeah, well, till they turn it around, - I got some good news.
- COOP: What? J.
P.
released me from my contract.
- COOP: What? Ok.
- PATIENCE: Yep.
So Layla really did come through.
Yo, I told you, that girl is a boss.
Um well, actually, um, Mo helped me out.
- And, look, before you get crazy and - Wait, come on.
Mo, Mo? - PATIENCE: Yeah.
- COOP: Wow.
Coop, come here, stop.
Listen to me.
Look, I did this for us.
What? She helped me.
Like, I don't Right, and and now you gonna owe her! I didn't sign anything or agree to anything.
Look, I get that you don't trust her, but I don't know.
I feel like all this imaginary grudge that you got going on is hurting you more than it's hurting her.
COOP: Imaginary? Yo, you talking to me like I'm the one looking for beef! - PATIENCE: I mean, well, aren't you? - COOP: What? Mo has done nothing to you since she got to town except what, uh, get Preach out of prison and find Spencer's shooter? And now she's getting me out of my contract.
God! It's like you had to fight for everything you've ever had in life, and now it's become your default.
Wouldn't it just be simpler to just choose happiness and live life on your own? Look, yeah, I got out of my contract today, so now we can finally make music together and live our dreams like we always talked about, or you can let all this Mo B.
S.
coonsume you.
The choice is yours, Coop.
I'll just talk to you later.
- [CROWD CHEERING.]
- CHRIS: Hut! Hut! FIELD ANNOUNCER: James takes the ball and ooh! Rocked by a blind-side tackle! Chris Jackson fires it off for a quick completion, but will it be enough for a first down? Stellar blocking by Spencer James, but now he's slow to get up.
He's really taking a beating out there tonight.
BILLY: Ref! - Coach Baker signals for a timeout.
- [WHISTLE BLOWS.]
RAPPER: Everybody knows I hate to lose It ain't about the game Straight? BILLY: Ok.
Spence, you good? FIELD ANNOUNCER: And Crenshaw's gonna be short again, - 4th and inches.
- SPENCER: Let's go for it.
Give it to me up the middle, and I'mma turn this game around.
Yo, they already crowding the line.
Man, so what? Let 'em.
I got this.
You sure about that? You been pushing yourself pretty hard.
How are your legs? Cool? I'll carry 'em if I got to.
It's time for faith, right? SPENCER: Let's go.
Come on.
Come on.
FIELD ANNOUNCER: Crenshaw less than a yard.
The Pirates are crowding the line.
It's gonna be a battle.
Yo, kill! Kill! - Check charges! Check charges! - SPENCER: What are you doing? Check charges.
Come on, man.
We got this.
Green 18, green FIELD ANNOUNCER: Jackson calls an audible at the line, and here's the snap.
Jackson drops back to pass, but there's no protection.
He barely gets the ball off, finding Spencer James with room to run! What a play by Chris Jackson! [CHRIS GRUNTING.]
Yo, did you get the first down? Yeah, and then some.
You good? Yeah, I'm better than good.
I'm back.
- SPENCER: You got lit up, man.
- CHRIS: I know.
Seeing y'all put it all on the line for me, yo, I figured if y'all willing to risk leaving on a stretcher for me, then I can risk doing that for y'all.
And you know what the best thing is? You ain't my last hit no more.
[SPENCER LAUGHING.]
Hey, yo, Coach! Get ready to open up that playbook, let's show 'em what these Chargers about, baby! Let's go! [APPLAUSE.]
Get it.
Come on.
Let's go.
You heard the man.
Open up that playbook.
MANNY: Ok.
RAPPER: But it's a given like a free throw I can win 'em in my sleep, yo I'm feeling those pitches like Leo - [DEFENDER GRUNTS.]
- [WHISTLE BLOWS.]
[CROWD CHEERING.]
[RAPPING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY.]
I'm extraordinary, so hot in the They know, they know, I know, I know [BLOWS WHISTLE.]
I'm extraordinary, so I know they listening There he goes tonight Here we go Finally, you win - [BLOWS WHISTLE.]
- BILLY: Whoo! FIELD ANNOUNCER: Spencer James is on fire! And that's the game! Chargers win, 35-17, after an incredible second-half comeback led by Chris Jackson and Spencer James! Man, nothing can stop us now! Yeah, right.
Nothing can stop us now, baby! Let's go! RAPPER: You're on fire Here we go Yeah! [DOOR OPENS.]
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- LAURA: Hey.
Sorry I'm late.
Oh, no worries.
I got you extra shrimp wontons.
[SIGHS.]
Liv, I owe you an apology.
Mom, is this about breakfast? Uh I had your hair tested.
You what? But I I don't understand.
- It's sealed.
- LAURA: I'm sorry.
I I was worried you were using again, and I panicked, but you've earned my trust, so I'm not gonna look.
I just hope you'll forgive me for betraying your trust in me.
Can you open it? I don't need to, honey.
I trust you.
I want you to open it.
Ok.
[PAPER CRINKLING.]
[SNIFFLES.]
[SLAPS LEG.]
I knew it.
[BREATH CATCHES.]
Mom - [CELL PHONE RINGS.]
- LAURA: I'm sorry.
Hold on.
- Let me turn that off.
- OLIVIA: No, it's it's fine, really.
It's probably important work stuff.
[SETS DOWN PHONE.]
Hey, Liv? Mm-hmm? - LAURA: Are we ok? - OLIVIA: Yeah.
Yeah, I and I'm I'm sorry, too.
I'm the one who made it hard to trust me.
I'm fine, really.
[SIGHS.]
- OLIVIA: Jordan, what dude! - JORDAN: Get out.
Privacy! Jordan! Jordan! [JORDAN RETCHING.]
[VOMIT SPLASHING, JORDAN COUGHING.]
Jordan, you ok? GRACE: Crenshaw! Crenshaw! Whoo! Ha ha ha ha! What, cereal? Is that all you want after the game you just played? I'm having more than one bowl, for sure.
[GRACE SCOFFS.]
Wrong.
We celebrate in this house by eating real food.
How 'bout my famous grilled cheese sandwich? With bacon and tomato? [KNOCK ON DOOR.]
Now, why would I ruin a perfectly great grilled cheese sandwich with some damn tomatoes? Ha ha! Hey, stranger.
- COOP: What's up, Ms.
Grace? - GRACE: Where you been hiding? COOP: I was about to ask our boy the same thing.
You good? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm good.
I'm gonna go recruit Dillon to help me with these grilled cheese sandwiches.
Good to see you, Coop.
All right, Ma.
Yo, since when you stop checking for me after the game? I thought you was with Patience.
[SIGHS.]
Well, my bad, a'ight? It just seems like I'm only seeing you on the field these days.
I got to say, you look good, though.
The talk doctor's paying off, huh? Yeah, we still working on it.
I felt good tonight, though.
That's good.
At least one of us did.
FEMALE SINGER: And I run together I got into it with Patience during the game.
She used Mo to get her out of J.
P.
's contract.
So that's how she did it.
[SCOFFS.]
Right, then came at me like I don't have a right to feel betrayed, saying I don't know myself unless I got somebody to fight, like what? Come on.
You believe that? Yeah.
I can.
Yo, come on.
That ain't me.
Sure, I protect my people, but I ain't Maybe your people wouldn't need so much protecting if you weren't getting involved in battles that ain't got nothing to do with you.
Yo, what is going on with everyone tonight? This got to be some Mercury retrograde nonsense! Coop, how many times did I tell you not to get involved with Shawn and that gang? Not to get jumped in, not to go after Tyrone? Over and over, I told you this wasn't your fight, and you wouldn't listen, and now I can't trust my own damn body.
Hold up.
Wait.
What? Are you trying to say that I'm the reason you got shot? Yeah, I am.
No, you said no, you told me that this wasn't on me! You said there was no one to blame but Tyrone! I was wrong.