BMF (2021) s03e05 Episode Script
The Battle of Techwood
1
Now, I been told Meech,
first Remi capped Ty.
Now motherfuckers think they got
the green light to Rodney King me?
We gonna ride for Ty
when the time is right.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Loco only hired us 'cause we move fast.
You can't put a price
tag on that shit, Tee.
- How we like it?
- Rip, you killed that shit.
- I was out cold, man.
- Yeah.
[BRYANT] Now, I am here
for my son's protection.
So why don't you just tell
me what the fuck I gotta do,
and let's get on with it?
- [GUNSHOT]
- [GROANS]
♪
[MILTON] My mama said the city's
gonna tear down our homes
and split us apart
because of the Olympics.
Hey, Little Milton.
Hey, we family.
Ain't nobody gonna tear us apart.
Man, fuck the gun! Man,
they gonna get away!
- [GRUNTS]
- Hands behind your back.
If I ask you a question,
would you tell me the truth?
Of course.
Are you sleeping with my husband?
What? No!
Hey, yo, Meech, I think I'm
gonna roll with you to ATL.
Okay, shit, come on down.
You help me kill Meech.
- And I'll help you kill Remi.
- Bet.
♪
- [PERSON CAWING]
- [HELICOPTER ROTORS WHIRRING]
["GHETTO BIRD" PLAYING]
[OLDER MEECH] Bible says
that tomorrow ain't promised.
Same thing can be said
when you's in the game.
[ICE CUBE] Why, oh, why must
you swoop through the hood ♪
Like everybody from the
hood is up to no good ♪
You think all the girls
around here are trickin' ♪
Up there looking
like Super Chicken ♪
At night, I see your light
through my bedroom window ♪
But I ain't got shit ♪
[OLDER MEECH] That's why
I always did shit big.
'Cause I knew the enemy was out there,
laying in wait to attack.
[ICE CUBE] 'Cause every time
That the pigs have got me ♪
Y'all rub it in
With the flying Nazi ♪
Military force ♪
I missed you.
I missed that ass too.
[ICE CUBE] So fly like an eagle ♪
Oye, Demetri.
Here baby, give us a minute.
[ANGEL] Thanks, Daddy.
♪
Eh, in Detroit, eh,
tu moved muy rápido.
I trust you.
Mi hermano, we worked together on this.
He helped me a lot, Loco.
He helped me move it.
Hermano.
[ICE CUBE] Was hotter than July ♪
Looked up and didn't see ♪
A ribbon in the sky ♪
Saw a chopper with
numbers on the bottom ♪
[LOCO] OK.
[ICE CUBE] I think we got 'em ♪
- I hit the gas ♪
- Gracias.
- Vamos.
- [MEECH] Loco.
[ICE CUBE] South Central, Compton ♪
Me and my brother, we got
clientele in St. Louis.
And we gonna go down
there and get your shit
out on the streets too.
Muy bien. Muy bien, Demetri. Vamos.
[ICE CUBE] You know
That I'm running ♪
'Bout time, man.
[TERRY] Thank God. That nigga hated me.
[STACKS] Oh, what's up?
- What's up with it?
- We straight?
Hell yeah, you know we straight.
Man, you know, man, I got you for life.
Nothing but positive
vibes from here on out.
I hope so.
This my little brother, Tee, right here.
Whole family.
What up, man? Welcome to the ATL.
It's where the party at.
So that's all y'all been doing out here,
just clubbing and partying and shit?
[ICE CUBE] Had to
pull a strap on a fool ♪
Named Louis the Third ♪
'Cause I'm getting
chased By the ghetto bird ♪
[PERSON] Just put his
hat uh, he combed his hair
and then put his hat back on.
So he's, uh, acting nonchalant
up there in that cockpit,
going 115 miles an hour with
the, uh, police chasing him
[GRUNTS]
♪
- [TERRY] Meech!
- [PEOPLE CLAMORING]
[ICE CUBE] Officer
Bird's on his way ♪
And I don't wanna see him ♪
Could you please give
me the keys to the BM ♪
[OLDER MEECH] Here in ATL,
war had found me and dragged me in.
Everywhere we went turned into
a motherfucking battlefield.
[ICE CUBE] Done shot Cyrus ♪
[MEECH] Here you go, big dawg.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Appreciate you, man.
- You know it.
[DIESEL] Damn, Meech.
You sure know how to throw one hell
of a fucking homecoming party.
You already know that.
Stop playing with me, man.
That's what them bitch-ass
Techwood niggas get
for killing Ty and stealing our shit.
And that dread-head motherfucker Remi
got it coming, watch what I tell you.
Most definitely. You
know I got you always.
- Love.
- Love.
[STACKS] Look, we'll
meet y'all at Duffy's.
- For sure.
- All right.
All right, boss.
Hey, Meech.
What the fuck was that in there?
Man, Tee, don't start
with your shit, man.
Don't got time for that shit right now.
Goddamn.
You see what I see?
Oh, shit, that's Mac Attack, the boxer.
Hell yeah, look like he got
a Rolls-Royce over there.
Damn.
[SINGERS] Bounce that ass ♪
[SINGER] Yeah, bounce
that ass all on my stick ♪
Make it disappear no magic trick ♪
Up and down she move them hips ♪
- Damn, Mac "Attack" Hollander.
- Hey, what's up, man?
You knocked that
motherfucker out in Vegas.
- Yeah.
- What up, doe, man?
- What's up?
- I even won some bread
- off you too.
- For real?
- [MEECH] Hell yeah.
- I been seeing you in the club
spending money like a
pro athlete yourself.
I didn't know you had a right hook, man.
Hey, yo, I never seen
some shit like this.
- Can I can I look? Damn.
- Hell yeah.
Look at this.
What's the system like in there?
[MACK] Shit, these speakers is the bomb.
- This car fully loaded.
- [TERRY] Wow.
That shit hard. You
got 15s in the trunk?
Psh, check this out.
You think 15s are something,
wait till you see this.
[SINGER] All on my stick ♪
Make it disappear ♪
[MEECH] Yo, what? This is so dope.
Nah, this some next-level shit.
What the fuck?
[MACK] Man, these ain't just traps.
These airtight, bulletproof safes.
Hey, who pimped out your ride?
[CHUCKLES] Ah, they call him Francois.
He in Miami.
Car guy for the rich and famous.
[GUNFIRE, GLASS SHATTERING]
[PEOPLE YELLING]
[TINA] Diesel!
[ENGINE REVVING, TIRES SQUEALING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[OLDER MEECH] And so the war raged on.
Another Detroiter was
going home in a body bag,
and I knew my next move
better be strategic as fuck,
'cause any of us could be next.
♪
[CHARLIE] I got
everything on the line ♪
Out here I'm on the grind ♪
Trying to get mine ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
A nigga move the weight ♪
Trying to get the cake ♪
I'm in and out of state ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Too many niggas fake ♪
It's hard to tell a snake ♪
One more flip and I'm straight ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
I don't go hand to hand ♪
It go gram after gram ♪
Yeah, holla at me, man ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Too many niggas fake ♪
It's hard to tell a snake ♪
One more flip and I'm straight ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
[50 CENT] The D's ain't that good ♪
These niggas is ratting ♪
They tell them what's going on ♪
That's how they
know what's happening ♪
I'm riding with the top down ♪
Trunk full of yola ♪
Ghetto pharmaceutical ♪
I move that Coca-Cola ♪
Thousand grams of pure ♪
Though I fuck with the weirdos ♪
They snort away the pain ♪
Bang their dope in their vein ♪
Shorty crying Christmas ain't coming ♪
Her pop's locked up ♪
When it hurts the worst ♪
Your ace find out she knocked up ♪
Welfare ain't an option ♪
When the Feds come knocking ♪
It's all fucked up so wish me luck ♪
[CHARLIE] At least
you could wish me luck ♪
A nigga move the weight ♪
Trying to get the cake ♪
I'm in and out of state ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Too many niggas fake ♪
It's hard to tell a snake ♪
One more flip and I'm straight ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
I don't go hand to hand ♪
It go gram after gram ♪
Yeah, holla at me, man ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Too many niggas fake ♪
It's hard to tell a snake ♪
One more flip and I'm straight ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Wish me luck ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Oh, yeah, wish me luck ♪
Wish me luck ♪
All you got to do
is wish me luck, yeah ♪
[DOG BARKING]
[MEECH] All right, so look, everybody.
I just got off the
phone with Diesel's mom.
Shit is terrible, man.
And I'ma hold down his family
and take care of the funeral costs.
Man, it's that nigga
Remi, I'm telling you.
Pissed off 'cause we jumped his ass.
Sprayed the whole
motherfucking parking lot.
Fuck that dread-headed
nigga. He a dead man walking.
I say we take his ass in Techwood.
- [RIP] Techwood?
- [STACKS] Hell yeah.
No, Remi's got toddlers
and grandmas running lookout
up and through that bitch.
Y'all know we'd be outnumbered, right?
Man, look, man, I got
a shorty in Techwood,
be sneaking me in and out.
Our crew could do the same.
We make a sneak attack at
night when the sun goes down.
Hey, Meech, that's not a smart idea.
You know we still gotta hit up St. Louis
and see if we can get
shit popping out there.
Tee, I ain't gonna lie,
we don't got time for
that shit right now.
When a motherfucker violate
us, we have to demonstrate.
That's right, that's right.
Let's get these motherfuckers.
[MEECH] We don't got no choice.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[CHARLES GROANS]
[RILEY] I'm surprised you called me.
[CHUCKLES] Sister Riley.
So good to see you.
You know, the band hasn't been the same
since you left Pastor Swift's church.
Yeah, well, we found
a closer congregation.
Uh, look, u-um, y-you know
Lucille and I have been
having some challenges.
And, um, I, um,
composed a song for her to fix things.
[HUMMING]
Charles, this is amazing.
- You think so?
- Yes.
You think you could,
uh, get the band together
to record the instrumentals?
[RILEY] Of course.
And we can get it done in an afternoon.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Charles, this is so sweet.
It's gonna melt her heart.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
[SISTER RILEY SIGHS]
You know, um, Lucille's my entire world,
and I can't imagine my life without her.
[BUZZER BLARES]
[KEYS JINGLING]
♪
[OFFICER] Bryant, kicking you loose.
You're free to go.
[BRYANT GRUNTS] All right.
What about my car?
[OFFICER] It's at the pound.
You got a ride waiting on you outside.
♪
You know, Henri feels
like you owe her on this.
[BRYANT] Hmm.
Hmm.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
[SINGERS VOCALIZING]
♪
Yeah, you know, Henri's,
uh she's waiting on you.
[BRYANT] Hmm. Hey, uh, mind if I smoke?
- Yeah, sure, why not?
- Okay.
[SINGER] He'll come knocking ♪
[BRYANT CLEARS THROAT]
[SINGER] If you're
standing around ♪
Gotta keep moving Keep
your feet to the ground ♪
♪
So much to see ♪
In this big old world for you and me ♪
For you and me ♪
And I know it may
be cold And I'm sad ♪
Gotta take the good With the bad ♪
But keep movin' ahead ♪
Don't go ♪
[GRUNTING]
He'll come knocking ♪
He'll come knocking If
you're standing around ♪
Gotta keep moving Keep
your feet to the ground ♪
Don't go looking for trouble ♪
[SKIN SIZZLING]
[GRUNTING]
[SINGER] He'll come knocking
if you're standing around ♪
♪
[CHUCK SCREAMS]
Get the fuck
[BLOWS LANDING, TIRES SQUEALING]
[TYSON] Aw, shit!
♪
[ENGINE REVVING]
♪
- [DOG BARKING]
- [DOOR CLICKS SHUT]
You've been lying this
whole fucking time.
You made it seem like Atlanta
was just one big party.
And I find out you jumping into a war?
Tee, this shit started
before I got here.
And you know I gotta ride with Detroit.
Demetrius, why are you
making this about you?
You barely know this crew.
Tee, let me help you get something
through your thick fucking skull,
'cause I don't think you understand it.
This is Ty's crew.
The most important words in
BMF ain't "Black" or "Mafia."
It's "Family."
And we don't abandon family
for nothing or nobody.
Meech, capping Remi on his own territory
is the dumbest shit you can do.
L-let me tell you something I
learned in my history class
Man, I don't got time to hear about
your fucking boring-ass history lesson.
Hear me out. Hear me out.
Please, Meech, just hear me out.
The reason why we, the American army,
couldn't defeat the Vietcong
is because they had
home-field advantage,
which is exactly what Remi got now!
[SCOFFS] Motherfuckers
never going to expect
for us to come straight at them.
Niggas get complacent
in they own hood, Tee.
So we find they weakness,
and we take them the fuck out.
[ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[STACKS] A'ight, a'ight, a'ight.
You see that corner over there?
It's a blind spot.
Them city folks ain't
fixed that street lamp yet.
And, man, it be dark as fuck at night.
[MEECH] When we move, we move fast.
That blind spot won't stay blind long
after the shooting starts.
The blind spot won't be blind
if we got extra eyes on it.
[MEECH] Shit, nobody needs
a extra eye more than you.
[TERRY] Ha-ha. Real funny, nigga.
[STACKS] Yo, so look, Remi and Claude,
they on that second floor.
They get in from the strip club
probably, like, four,
five in the morning.
They be drunk as fuck, too.
They'll never see us coming.
[MEECH] Okay, I like it.
We get in and get out.
[STACKS] You know what I'm sayin'?
♪
Hey, did you get anything out of Lenny?
[AMBERSON] Got plenty.
Turns out, Lenny's a third-striker.
- And he sang like a bird.
- [LAUGHS]
He said he acquired
the ambulance for Tuan,
who works for some guy named Henry.
Who the fuck is Henry?
Bet the guy driving the
ambulance would know.
[PHONE RINGS, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You okay?
Uh, yeah, I'm just, uh
we don't have enough
here to take to Garr,
so we gotta keep on pushing.
No rest until we crack this case.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
[SINGER] The speakers be banging ♪
Highs, mids, and lows ♪
Make you wanna start
getting busy on the floor ♪
All the fly girls screaming, "Ah" ♪
The DJ's rocking and
shocking the house ♪
Everything he's spinning
is moving the crowd ♪
Listen up for yourself
this is how we make it bump ♪
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump ♪
Bump, bump, bump Bump, bump ♪
Make it bump ♪
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump ♪
You know we gotta make it bump ♪
What the fuck happened to Bryant?
[SINGER] Bump,
bump, bump Bump, bump ♪
Yeah, you gotta make it ♪
[TYSON] He got away.
[HAND BANGS ON CAR]
[HENRIETTA] Fuck!
You know how tired I am of taking Ls?
It's bad enough that Terry motherfucker
disrespected me and hit my ambulance.
Now I got a washed-up cop
fucking up my shit too.
[CHUCK] He ain't act
washed up. He a savage.
[TYSON] Look, fuck
that. We'll find Bryant.
That motherfucker's not gonna get away
- for what happened with Tuan.
- Yeah. You're right.
But if you can't beat
that soft-ass Milk Dud pig,
then maybe I need to see what you got.
What? [CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY]
I ain't fightin' no girl.
[SIGHS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[GRUNTING]
♪
Come on!
Fuckin' throw hands!
Mm! [CHUCKLES]
Oh, what's the matter?
You think just 'cause you injured,
this ain't a fair fight?
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Come on, now. [CHUCKLES]
No fucking excuses, pussy.
[GRUNTING]
- [TABLE CLATTERS]
- [CHUCKLES]
♪
Fuckin' bitch.
[GRUNTING]
♪
[CHUCK] I'm not gonna fight you.
[HENRIETTA CHUCKLES]
[CHUCK GROANING]
♪
[HENRIETTA PANTING]
♪
Who's the bitch now?
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Pull protection on Bryant's kid.
Find me Bryant, so I can
finish this fuckin' job myself.
♪
[PERSON] You heard her. Let's go.
[SINGER] Give it up, make it pop ♪
Make it clap from the
back don't break it ♪
Give it up, make it pop ♪
Make it clap from
the back let's go ♪
♪
Meech, I been working
on this track all day.
Let me know what you think.
- Bet.
- And please, bro, uh,
if, uh, something happens
to me, get it out there.
Get it off the streets.
Fuck that.
You gon' do it 'cause
you done in the streets.
Man, come on, Meech.
I been down this whole time.
[MEECH] Listen, Rip,
I don't give a fuck.
You can still be down without
being in the streets, dawg.
I watched my daddy fuck
his music dreams up.
And I can't let you do
that, you feel me? I can't.
- [RIP] I feel you.
- Put that shit in.
Turn that bitch up. Stop playing.
For sure.
[TAPE PLAYER CLICKS]
[SINGER] Too many hos
in here that got a fatty ♪
Turn around and
let me slap it, girl ♪
I can be your daddy ♪
It's too many hos too many hos ♪
[DUFFY] Yo, Meech. We
was at the shooting range.
Tee ain't such a bad shot.
He can handle a strap.
[MEECH] Oh, yeah?
So the little nigga
might not piss hisself
when we go to the projects, huh?
Whatever, nigga.
You just mad 'cause when we were kids,
we used to spray your
crotch, me and Nikki,
and look like you
pissed yourself, nigga.
[LAUGHTER]
Yo, yo, what the fuck?
Stop wasting food?
♪
Hey, yo, where's,
um where's Stacks at?
He was supposed to be
at the gun range with us.
I don't know, man.
Why the fuck you care where he at?
'Cause I was talking to Duffy.
And he starting to sound
like the new B-Missing.
Y'all had a falling-out,
and all of a sudden,
you let him back in.
Family deserves grace, Tee, a'ight?
I'm ten steps ahead of you already.
I got everything handled.
You the little brother, you forgot?
I'm the big brother,
nigga. Listen to me.
[TEAKETTLE WHISTLING]
♪
[FLEMMING] Well, I'd like to thank you
for taking the time to
meet with me, Lucille.
[LUCILLE] Oh, I'm so sorry I
couldn't meet with you earlier.
Wendy's just has me running ragged.
[FLEMMING] Well, I do
have something to ask you.
[LUCILLE] Hmm?
[FLEMMING] Would you
consider taking on the role
as my assistant pastor,
even if it's on a part-time basis?
- Really?
- Well, now, we're a small church, now.
So we can't pay you enough
for you to quit Wendy's.
But maybe one day, we could
afford you on a full-time basis.
I mean, come on, now, am I
even qualified? [CHUCKLES]
You dove into serving our church
without me even having to ask,
volunteering at the clinic
and securing the largest donation
we have ever had.
You are a natural leader
and a prayer warrior,
a loving wife, a selfless mother,
and a light to all those around you.
I couldn't think of anyone
better for the job than you.
Um, listen, that is just
so lovely of you to think of me.
I mean, mm.
Can I pray on it?
I wouldn't expect
anything less from you.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- All right.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[ANGEL] You got your eyes closed?
- [MEECH] Yes, they're closed.
- [ANGEL CHUCKLES]
Here. Wait, wait, wait.
Stop peeking.
Okay, open.
Owner let us have the
place for a couple hours.
So it's just us today.
Goddamn, Angel.
A girl never did no
boss-ass shit like this
before in my life.
Well, now that Greeny's out my life,
I just really wanted to thank you.
Wait right here.
Where you going?
[ANGEL] Just wait.
[MEECH SIGHS]
[SENSUAL HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]
[SINGER] Ah, baby ♪
Ooh, ooh ♪
[MEECH] Mm-hmm.
[SINGER] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Hey, mm-hmm ♪
[MEECH] Shit.
♪
Damn, girl.
[SINGER] Listen, I'm so ♪
Wrapped up in your love ♪
Every time we touch ♪
I can't get enough ♪
You've got me ♪
So emotional ♪
I had to let you know ♪
Just how you make me feel ♪
You bring me joy ♪
Yes, you do ♪
I had to let you know ♪
That, baby ♪
I think I'm falling for you ♪
The way I feel it must be true ♪
And, baby don't let this end ♪
You got my heart ♪
In the palm of your hands ♪
Ah, baby ♪
Ooh, ooh ♪
♪
I don't feel good about this Remi shit.
Don't trip.
I'ma be fine.
I'm just really scared of losing you.
[ANGEL EXHALES SHAKILY]
[MEECH SIGHS]
♪
[SENSUAL MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[MOANING]
♪
♪
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[LUCILLE] Okay.
Pack your shit, Lucille! We
gotta get you out of here.
Estelle, what is going on?
No, wait.
Charles should move
out. Where's his room?
- I'll pack his shit for you.
- Estelle.
Estelle, calm down and
tell me what is wrong.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
Yesterday I saw Charles having
breakfast with another woman.
They were holding hands.
The last thing I wanna
do is open up old scars
and upset you.
But you deserve to know.
[LUCILLE INHALES DEEPLY]
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
♪
I should have known better. I
Now you can divorce his ass
and go get in with the good doctor
with a clear conscience.
- Where's his shit?
- [FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING]
I'll get it for you.
♪
[SNIFFLES AND SIGHS]
[DOGS BARKING]
Lucille.
Estelle told me about
your little breakfast date.
- Wait, wait, wait
- How dare you?
How dare you embarrass
me like that again,
- and in public?
- [CHARLES] Wait, wait, wait, Lucille
While I'm sitting here
talking to Pastor Fleming,
you out in the street
getting busy with anything that walks!
Lu-Lucille, it's-it's
not what you think.
- I was with Sister Riley!
- Sister Riley?
- Get your shit and get out!
- [CHARLES] No, no
- Get out!
- No, no.
She was helping me with this.
- I knew she
- Look, I no, no, no!
Listen, I wrote a song for you.
- Right, you wrote me a song.
- [CHARLES] I wrote you a song.
You-you were writing a
song with Sister Riley.
[CHARLES] I asked her to
get the church band together.
Okay.
[CHARLES] Play.
I'm not playing these
games with you, Charles.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHARLES] Listen, listen.
♪
Listen.
[BRIGHT GUITAR CHORDS PLAYING]
♪
We didn't see it coming ♪
Time just moves so fast ♪
And now we're slipping ♪
♪
We didn't feel it coming ♪
Time just moves so fast ♪
And now we're slipping ♪
I ain't never been the best man ♪
Seems like everything's
been going wrong ♪
You're a hell of a woman Baby ♪
No matter how hard we falling down ♪
We didn't see it coming ♪
Time just moves so fast ♪
And now we're slipping ♪
I can't get past all
those good days, baby ♪
♪
Nothing else mattered
like we did, baby ♪
♪
We can still get back
to us dreaming, baby ♪
Listen, I know Reece is back
and there's something between you two.
But I'm not done fighting for us.
Listen, you are stuck in the past,
and I'm-I'm just trying
to move to the future.
No, no, but who's to say
the past and the future
can't look the same?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Because from where I stand,
I still see you in both.
♪
[ANGEL] Hey, babe. I'm going to work.
What's all this, babe?
[MEECH] This my vision
for the future right here.
- [KNOCK AT DOOR]
- Damn.
You ambitious.
[MEECH] Yeah, you see,
we came from nothing.
And I ain't ever going
back to that life.
This my dream, for everybody
to be shining like new money.
- [DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
- Okay.
- [TERRY] Hey.
- What's up, Tee?
Meech. I did what you asked.
And you were right about Stacks.
He's playing us.
I fucking knew it.
So you been watching
Stacks this entire time?
The OGs are saying that
the MKs did the drive-by
that killed Diesel, not Remi.
Man, he was gonna walk
us straight into a ambush.
So what's the next move?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
Stacks and the MKs,
they think we still planning
on hitting Techwood, Tee.
I'ma flip this shit
to our advantage, Tee.
Angel, you still cool with them dancers
that dance for Remi at the club?
Yeah, we in everybody's ear and pockets.
Okay, cool, 'cause I need you
to get him a message for me.
- All right?
- Got you.
♪
[DOGS BARKING]
Fuck that nigga Stacks.
Ever since Ty got killed,
he think he a free agent.
Stacks ain't our main focus right now.
Surviving is.
The MKs gonna wipe us out.
I'ma make a temporary deal with Remi
[DUFFY] What?
[MEECH] for the greater
good of our organization.
And I'm headed to
Techwood this afternoon.
In broad daylight?
♪
Shit, I'm riding with you, Meech.
♪
[FINGERS SNAP]
♪
I'm riding too.
And I ain't taking no for an answer.
♪
A'ight, man. We down too.
Ride or die, man.
♪
[SIGHS] Strength in numbers.
♪
And once we outmaneuver the MKs,
we can finish what Remi started.
And Ty can finally rest in peace.
[PHONE RINGS]
Oh, hey.
You didn't tell me your dad
was running for reelection.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Yeah, that's why I'm
not answering his calls.
Whoa. What's that about?
So when I was in rehab,
my father never visited
because he was scared
someone might see him
and it would hurt him politically.
Instead he paraded my
brothers on the campaign trail
while they kept me out of the limelight
like I was some dirty secret.
Now that I'm a detective
and cleaning up the streets,
he wants to show me off as a part of his
"get tough on drugs" campaign.
I'm sorry.
It's fake assholes like my father
who lie and use people
who should be sorry.
[SIGHS]
Um hey, uh
I gotta tell you something.
But, uh, not here.
Not in this shithole.
♪
[HEAVY BASS MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Yo, Stacks, you're
not gonna believe this.
Meech and his crew are here.
Yeah, I'm sure. I'm
looking right at them.
Shit's about to jump off!
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Kevin.
Yo.
What happened to your face?
Son
who did this to you?
Uh
the people who were
supposed to be protecting
me are hurting me now.
And, I don't I don't
know what I did wrong.
Oh, my God.
There is something else.
Um
[SNIFFLES]
Mm.
Last night
mm, mm.
They, uh
waited for me to go to sleep.
And
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
I-I couldn't fight back.
♪
They pinned me down.
♪
One of them pulled my pants down.
And
♪
I need you to hold on.
♪
I promise that I'll get you out of here.
♪
Son, I promise.
♪
[AMBERSON] Let me get this straight.
So your old partner, Bryant,
was driving the ambulance for Henry?
[JIN] Yeah.
He came back to check up
on me after I got shot.
[AMBERSON SIGHS] Holy shit.
We gotta leverage Bryant somehow
into getting us to whoever
the fuck this Henry guy is
so we can get that crew off the street.
Unless you decide to
turn my ass in to Garr
and end my career.
I'm not gonna do that.
But I am down to arrest Bryant.
Moving forward, don't
ever keep me in the dark.
Starting to feel like
I had a family again.
[JIN] I promise.
From here on out, full transparency.
Okay, I guess we turn this in to Garr
first thing in the morning.
Yeah, sounds like we have enough to get
an arrest warrant on Bryant.
I think this deserves some more alcohol.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[SIGHS]
Yeah, I'm thinking of
calling my father back.
[JIN] Seriously?
Yeah.
Tell him how he hurt me.
- Full transparency, right?
- [JIN CHUCKLES]
I mean, he's either gonna apologize
or tell me to fuck off.
Either way, I'll be
free of my resentment.
- Good on you.
- [AMBERSON] Yeah?
I can support that.
Mm. Thank you. [CHUCKLES]
[BOTTLES CLINK]
- Is that what I think it is?
- Karaoke.
It was uh, me and my
sister's favorite thing to do
when we were growing up together.
Are we drunk enough?
- We can be.
- [BOTH LAUGH]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[CHILD MIMICKING ENGINES HUMMING]
♪
- [MOTHER] Come on, baby!
- [CHILD] What? Mom!
♪
[PEOPLE WHOOPING]
♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [BABY CRYING]
Come on, let's go.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
Came to wave the white flag?
[SCOFFS] Hell nah, nigga.
We always gonna be enemies
for what you did to Ty.
But right now, we got a bigger
enemy we need to deal with.
The MKs setting up our
crews to ambush us tonight.
Why the fuck should I believe you?
'Cause I always think
about the bigger picture.
Now, this is a chance for
us to ambush they asses
and catch them off guard.
♪
Nigga, let them come, then!
Nigga, this is our hood!
We gonna defend this motherfucker
like we always do,
so I ain't got no interest
in fucking with you.
Dawg, why you so fucking stubborn, man?
Goddamn.
The MKs got military-grade
firepower, nigga.
How you talking about
keeping this place safe
but it's about to get torn to pieces?
Yo, Remi, he got a point.
♪
Man, fuck these niggas.
- [GUNS COCKING]
- [PEOPLE CLAMORING]
♪
["MAJOR TOM (COMING HOME)" PLAYING]
[BOTH] Four, three, two, one ♪
Earth below us ♪
Drifting, falling ♪
Floating weightless ♪
Calling, calling home ♪
- [POUNDING ON DOOR]
- Shit. Hold on.
- [AMBERSON LAUGHS]
- Keep it going. Keep it going.
- [AMBERSON] Okay.
- [POUNDING ON DOOR]
[JIN] What the fuck, man?
- Bryant.
- I need your help.
I ain't got nobody else to turn to.
Oh, you need my help?
Okay, who the fuck is Henry?
Uh, well, look, I'll tell you
everything. But I need your help first.
You're in no position to negotiate.
We should just cuff him and
drill him at the station.
Shut the fuck up. This is about Kevin.
[GUNFIRE, GLASS SHATTERING]
[PEOPLE CAWING]
- [GUNFIRE]
- [PERSON] Oh, shit!
[TIRES SCREECHING]
- Fuck!
- Oh, fuck!
[GUNFIRE, PEOPLE SHOUTING]
- Oh, fuck!
- Shit!
- Shit!
- Fuck you!
Motherfucker!
[GROANS]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING]
Meech!
[PERSON SCREAMS]
Fuck!
[SHOUTING]
Ah, shit, I'm out. I'm out! Fuck!
A'ight, motherfuckers!
Hey, Remi!
I'm down.
Mil, where the fuck you get a strap?
[MILTON] Someone in your crew.
Let's get these motherfuckers, man!
Man, get the fuck out of here!
♪
[NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
[MUFFLED GUNFIRE]
♪
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
This is all your fault!
[SOBBING] Get away from my son!
♪
You said you would protect us.
[HOARSELY] Look at what you've done!
♪
[GUNFIRE]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
- Shit!
- Shit, shit!
- [GROANS]
- Shit! Go, go, go, go, go!
- [GROANS]
- [TIRES SQUEALING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[AMBERSON GASPING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
Cobie? Cobie!
Cobie. Oh, shit.
Fuck!
[AMBERSON GASPING]
[TOUCH TONES BEEPING]
♪
[PAGER BEEPING]
♪
Sorry.
[JIN] This is Detective Veronica Jin.
There's been a shooting at my residence.
We need an ambulance right away.
We've got an officer down.
Now! Right now!
[AMBERSON GASPING]
♪
Oh, my God. Hang in there.
You're gonna be okay.
You're gonna be okay.
Don't leave me.
Stick with me, please!
[AMBERSON GASPING]
[JIN SNIFFLING AND SOBBING]
[GASPING SLOWS]
[GUNFIRE]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Fuck! There's too many of them!
Hey, make every shot count!
♪
Rip!
♪
Rip!
♪
[PEOPLE YELLING]
[GAGGING]
♪
- Fuck!
- [GASPING]
You did good, Rip.
You made all us proud, man.
Everybody gonna remember
you through your music.
♪
Fuck!
Fuck!
- Watch my back!
- I got you. I got you.
Shit. Fuck.
Fuck. I'm out.
♪
[MEECH GRUNTS]
♪
Fuck!
♪
[STERL] Let's get these motherfuckers!
[MEECH] Yo, that's
Sterl and the PA Boys!
It's about time!
Man, get the fuck out of
here with them buck-ass teeth.
Meech, Tee! Move! Move!
Come on! This way!
[STACKS SHOUTS] That's right!
Get the fuck out of here!
Next time, you won't be
so motherfucking lucky!
Ah, shit. Fuck you, nigga!
- You did a good job.
- [STACKS] Fuck you!
[GLOCK] But you didn't do good enough.
[STACKS] Nigga, fuck you, nigga!
[DOG BARKING]
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
Wh-what are you doing in here?
[CHARLES] I can't stop
thinking about you.
My goodness, you're like a
schoolkid in a summer camp.
You got me feeling like a horny teenager
all over again, woman.
Okay, look, we-we'll do it one time,
and then you're going back to your room.
[CHARLES EXHALES HEAVILY]
[DELICATE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[OFFICER] He left a note.
Take your time.
♪
[CRYING]
[SIGHS] I, uh
[SOBS]
love you too.
♪
I'ma put Rip's tape out on these streets
so they can remember his name forever.
♪
[TERRY] Yo, Meech.
♪
PA's always ready to ride with you.
And I told Sterl you ain't
going into battle without me.
I appreciate that, dawg.
Damn, I owe you for real.
You call, we show up.
You owe us nothing, man.
We equals.
And our organizations are family.
For sure.
Roll up.
Yo, you not gonna clean up?
Pack your bag. Let's hit the airport.
I ain't going, Tee.
What you mean you ain't going?
Listen, man, loyalty is not just a word.
It's a lifestyle.
This my family out
here. I can't leave them.
Detroit is our home.
And I can't go back with my
tail tucked between my legs.
Look, we lost the battle,
but the war still continues.
And I ain't going nowhere.
[TERRY EXHALES HEAVILY]
Look, man.
At the end of the day, you my brother.
And I just wanna make sure you safe.
I appreciate that.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
I'ma be good.
Just take care of
your family in Detroit,
and I'ma take care
of my family out here.
♪
[OLDER TERRY] As much as
I fought with my brother,
I've always fought alongside him.
We survived many battles,
and I got a lifetime
of scars to prove it.
Truth be told, I wanted
bruh back in the D
to help me fight the war against Henri,
which I knew was waiting for me at home.
♪
But this was one battle
I was gonna have to pick up arms alone.
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]
[SINGER] What you
gon' do, gon' do ♪
♪
Uh, darkness resumes ♪
Not too many options for
the clockers to consume ♪
When hustling you gambling high ♪
Name your price but we all ♪
Gotta pay someday to keep shining ♪
Set it off, known
repertoire with the gunplay ♪
Clocking out, was
prepared for my worst day ♪
Time to move, calculated
measured instincts ♪
'Cause when shit stink ♪
Better flush fast then think, gone ♪
No way to stop it ♪
Send me on God ♪
What you wanna do wanna do ♪
Nowhere to cop it ♪
They freeze in the spots ♪
What you gon' do, gon' do ♪
No way to stop it ♪
Send me on God ♪
What you wanna do wanna do ♪
Nowhere to cop it ♪
They freeze in the spots ♪
What you gon' do, gon' do ♪
Never hesitant move like a militant ♪
Mess around sly with them things ♪
Cancel middlemen ♪
Come through living
dangerous, picture it ♪
Feds keep a trail no
signs of me ending it ♪
Scrap with my back against the wall ♪
Head up, brawls best
man made the call ♪
Now, I been told Meech,
first Remi capped Ty.
Now motherfuckers think they got
the green light to Rodney King me?
We gonna ride for Ty
when the time is right.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Loco only hired us 'cause we move fast.
You can't put a price
tag on that shit, Tee.
- How we like it?
- Rip, you killed that shit.
- I was out cold, man.
- Yeah.
[BRYANT] Now, I am here
for my son's protection.
So why don't you just tell
me what the fuck I gotta do,
and let's get on with it?
- [GUNSHOT]
- [GROANS]
♪
[MILTON] My mama said the city's
gonna tear down our homes
and split us apart
because of the Olympics.
Hey, Little Milton.
Hey, we family.
Ain't nobody gonna tear us apart.
Man, fuck the gun! Man,
they gonna get away!
- [GRUNTS]
- Hands behind your back.
If I ask you a question,
would you tell me the truth?
Of course.
Are you sleeping with my husband?
What? No!
Hey, yo, Meech, I think I'm
gonna roll with you to ATL.
Okay, shit, come on down.
You help me kill Meech.
- And I'll help you kill Remi.
- Bet.
♪
- [PERSON CAWING]
- [HELICOPTER ROTORS WHIRRING]
["GHETTO BIRD" PLAYING]
[OLDER MEECH] Bible says
that tomorrow ain't promised.
Same thing can be said
when you's in the game.
[ICE CUBE] Why, oh, why must
you swoop through the hood ♪
Like everybody from the
hood is up to no good ♪
You think all the girls
around here are trickin' ♪
Up there looking
like Super Chicken ♪
At night, I see your light
through my bedroom window ♪
But I ain't got shit ♪
[OLDER MEECH] That's why
I always did shit big.
'Cause I knew the enemy was out there,
laying in wait to attack.
[ICE CUBE] 'Cause every time
That the pigs have got me ♪
Y'all rub it in
With the flying Nazi ♪
Military force ♪
I missed you.
I missed that ass too.
[ICE CUBE] So fly like an eagle ♪
Oye, Demetri.
Here baby, give us a minute.
[ANGEL] Thanks, Daddy.
♪
Eh, in Detroit, eh,
tu moved muy rápido.
I trust you.
Mi hermano, we worked together on this.
He helped me a lot, Loco.
He helped me move it.
Hermano.
[ICE CUBE] Was hotter than July ♪
Looked up and didn't see ♪
A ribbon in the sky ♪
Saw a chopper with
numbers on the bottom ♪
[LOCO] OK.
[ICE CUBE] I think we got 'em ♪
- I hit the gas ♪
- Gracias.
- Vamos.
- [MEECH] Loco.
[ICE CUBE] South Central, Compton ♪
Me and my brother, we got
clientele in St. Louis.
And we gonna go down
there and get your shit
out on the streets too.
Muy bien. Muy bien, Demetri. Vamos.
[ICE CUBE] You know
That I'm running ♪
'Bout time, man.
[TERRY] Thank God. That nigga hated me.
[STACKS] Oh, what's up?
- What's up with it?
- We straight?
Hell yeah, you know we straight.
Man, you know, man, I got you for life.
Nothing but positive
vibes from here on out.
I hope so.
This my little brother, Tee, right here.
Whole family.
What up, man? Welcome to the ATL.
It's where the party at.
So that's all y'all been doing out here,
just clubbing and partying and shit?
[ICE CUBE] Had to
pull a strap on a fool ♪
Named Louis the Third ♪
'Cause I'm getting
chased By the ghetto bird ♪
[PERSON] Just put his
hat uh, he combed his hair
and then put his hat back on.
So he's, uh, acting nonchalant
up there in that cockpit,
going 115 miles an hour with
the, uh, police chasing him
[GRUNTS]
♪
- [TERRY] Meech!
- [PEOPLE CLAMORING]
[ICE CUBE] Officer
Bird's on his way ♪
And I don't wanna see him ♪
Could you please give
me the keys to the BM ♪
[OLDER MEECH] Here in ATL,
war had found me and dragged me in.
Everywhere we went turned into
a motherfucking battlefield.
[ICE CUBE] Done shot Cyrus ♪
[MEECH] Here you go, big dawg.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Appreciate you, man.
- You know it.
[DIESEL] Damn, Meech.
You sure know how to throw one hell
of a fucking homecoming party.
You already know that.
Stop playing with me, man.
That's what them bitch-ass
Techwood niggas get
for killing Ty and stealing our shit.
And that dread-head motherfucker Remi
got it coming, watch what I tell you.
Most definitely. You
know I got you always.
- Love.
- Love.
[STACKS] Look, we'll
meet y'all at Duffy's.
- For sure.
- All right.
All right, boss.
Hey, Meech.
What the fuck was that in there?
Man, Tee, don't start
with your shit, man.
Don't got time for that shit right now.
Goddamn.
You see what I see?
Oh, shit, that's Mac Attack, the boxer.
Hell yeah, look like he got
a Rolls-Royce over there.
Damn.
[SINGERS] Bounce that ass ♪
[SINGER] Yeah, bounce
that ass all on my stick ♪
Make it disappear no magic trick ♪
Up and down she move them hips ♪
- Damn, Mac "Attack" Hollander.
- Hey, what's up, man?
You knocked that
motherfucker out in Vegas.
- Yeah.
- What up, doe, man?
- What's up?
- I even won some bread
- off you too.
- For real?
- [MEECH] Hell yeah.
- I been seeing you in the club
spending money like a
pro athlete yourself.
I didn't know you had a right hook, man.
Hey, yo, I never seen
some shit like this.
- Can I can I look? Damn.
- Hell yeah.
Look at this.
What's the system like in there?
[MACK] Shit, these speakers is the bomb.
- This car fully loaded.
- [TERRY] Wow.
That shit hard. You
got 15s in the trunk?
Psh, check this out.
You think 15s are something,
wait till you see this.
[SINGER] All on my stick ♪
Make it disappear ♪
[MEECH] Yo, what? This is so dope.
Nah, this some next-level shit.
What the fuck?
[MACK] Man, these ain't just traps.
These airtight, bulletproof safes.
Hey, who pimped out your ride?
[CHUCKLES] Ah, they call him Francois.
He in Miami.
Car guy for the rich and famous.
[GUNFIRE, GLASS SHATTERING]
[PEOPLE YELLING]
[TINA] Diesel!
[ENGINE REVVING, TIRES SQUEALING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[OLDER MEECH] And so the war raged on.
Another Detroiter was
going home in a body bag,
and I knew my next move
better be strategic as fuck,
'cause any of us could be next.
♪
[CHARLIE] I got
everything on the line ♪
Out here I'm on the grind ♪
Trying to get mine ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
A nigga move the weight ♪
Trying to get the cake ♪
I'm in and out of state ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Too many niggas fake ♪
It's hard to tell a snake ♪
One more flip and I'm straight ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
I don't go hand to hand ♪
It go gram after gram ♪
Yeah, holla at me, man ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Too many niggas fake ♪
It's hard to tell a snake ♪
One more flip and I'm straight ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
[50 CENT] The D's ain't that good ♪
These niggas is ratting ♪
They tell them what's going on ♪
That's how they
know what's happening ♪
I'm riding with the top down ♪
Trunk full of yola ♪
Ghetto pharmaceutical ♪
I move that Coca-Cola ♪
Thousand grams of pure ♪
Though I fuck with the weirdos ♪
They snort away the pain ♪
Bang their dope in their vein ♪
Shorty crying Christmas ain't coming ♪
Her pop's locked up ♪
When it hurts the worst ♪
Your ace find out she knocked up ♪
Welfare ain't an option ♪
When the Feds come knocking ♪
It's all fucked up so wish me luck ♪
[CHARLIE] At least
you could wish me luck ♪
A nigga move the weight ♪
Trying to get the cake ♪
I'm in and out of state ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Too many niggas fake ♪
It's hard to tell a snake ♪
One more flip and I'm straight ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
I don't go hand to hand ♪
It go gram after gram ♪
Yeah, holla at me, man ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Too many niggas fake ♪
It's hard to tell a snake ♪
One more flip and I'm straight ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Wish me luck ♪
At least you could wish me luck ♪
Oh, yeah, wish me luck ♪
Wish me luck ♪
All you got to do
is wish me luck, yeah ♪
[DOG BARKING]
[MEECH] All right, so look, everybody.
I just got off the
phone with Diesel's mom.
Shit is terrible, man.
And I'ma hold down his family
and take care of the funeral costs.
Man, it's that nigga
Remi, I'm telling you.
Pissed off 'cause we jumped his ass.
Sprayed the whole
motherfucking parking lot.
Fuck that dread-headed
nigga. He a dead man walking.
I say we take his ass in Techwood.
- [RIP] Techwood?
- [STACKS] Hell yeah.
No, Remi's got toddlers
and grandmas running lookout
up and through that bitch.
Y'all know we'd be outnumbered, right?
Man, look, man, I got
a shorty in Techwood,
be sneaking me in and out.
Our crew could do the same.
We make a sneak attack at
night when the sun goes down.
Hey, Meech, that's not a smart idea.
You know we still gotta hit up St. Louis
and see if we can get
shit popping out there.
Tee, I ain't gonna lie,
we don't got time for
that shit right now.
When a motherfucker violate
us, we have to demonstrate.
That's right, that's right.
Let's get these motherfuckers.
[MEECH] We don't got no choice.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[CHARLES GROANS]
[RILEY] I'm surprised you called me.
[CHUCKLES] Sister Riley.
So good to see you.
You know, the band hasn't been the same
since you left Pastor Swift's church.
Yeah, well, we found
a closer congregation.
Uh, look, u-um, y-you know
Lucille and I have been
having some challenges.
And, um, I, um,
composed a song for her to fix things.
[HUMMING]
Charles, this is amazing.
- You think so?
- Yes.
You think you could,
uh, get the band together
to record the instrumentals?
[RILEY] Of course.
And we can get it done in an afternoon.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Charles, this is so sweet.
It's gonna melt her heart.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
[SISTER RILEY SIGHS]
You know, um, Lucille's my entire world,
and I can't imagine my life without her.
[BUZZER BLARES]
[KEYS JINGLING]
♪
[OFFICER] Bryant, kicking you loose.
You're free to go.
[BRYANT GRUNTS] All right.
What about my car?
[OFFICER] It's at the pound.
You got a ride waiting on you outside.
♪
You know, Henri feels
like you owe her on this.
[BRYANT] Hmm.
Hmm.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
[SINGERS VOCALIZING]
♪
Yeah, you know, Henri's,
uh she's waiting on you.
[BRYANT] Hmm. Hey, uh, mind if I smoke?
- Yeah, sure, why not?
- Okay.
[SINGER] He'll come knocking ♪
[BRYANT CLEARS THROAT]
[SINGER] If you're
standing around ♪
Gotta keep moving Keep
your feet to the ground ♪
♪
So much to see ♪
In this big old world for you and me ♪
For you and me ♪
And I know it may
be cold And I'm sad ♪
Gotta take the good With the bad ♪
But keep movin' ahead ♪
Don't go ♪
[GRUNTING]
He'll come knocking ♪
He'll come knocking If
you're standing around ♪
Gotta keep moving Keep
your feet to the ground ♪
Don't go looking for trouble ♪
[SKIN SIZZLING]
[GRUNTING]
[SINGER] He'll come knocking
if you're standing around ♪
♪
[CHUCK SCREAMS]
Get the fuck
[BLOWS LANDING, TIRES SQUEALING]
[TYSON] Aw, shit!
♪
[ENGINE REVVING]
♪
- [DOG BARKING]
- [DOOR CLICKS SHUT]
You've been lying this
whole fucking time.
You made it seem like Atlanta
was just one big party.
And I find out you jumping into a war?
Tee, this shit started
before I got here.
And you know I gotta ride with Detroit.
Demetrius, why are you
making this about you?
You barely know this crew.
Tee, let me help you get something
through your thick fucking skull,
'cause I don't think you understand it.
This is Ty's crew.
The most important words in
BMF ain't "Black" or "Mafia."
It's "Family."
And we don't abandon family
for nothing or nobody.
Meech, capping Remi on his own territory
is the dumbest shit you can do.
L-let me tell you something I
learned in my history class
Man, I don't got time to hear about
your fucking boring-ass history lesson.
Hear me out. Hear me out.
Please, Meech, just hear me out.
The reason why we, the American army,
couldn't defeat the Vietcong
is because they had
home-field advantage,
which is exactly what Remi got now!
[SCOFFS] Motherfuckers
never going to expect
for us to come straight at them.
Niggas get complacent
in they own hood, Tee.
So we find they weakness,
and we take them the fuck out.
[ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[STACKS] A'ight, a'ight, a'ight.
You see that corner over there?
It's a blind spot.
Them city folks ain't
fixed that street lamp yet.
And, man, it be dark as fuck at night.
[MEECH] When we move, we move fast.
That blind spot won't stay blind long
after the shooting starts.
The blind spot won't be blind
if we got extra eyes on it.
[MEECH] Shit, nobody needs
a extra eye more than you.
[TERRY] Ha-ha. Real funny, nigga.
[STACKS] Yo, so look, Remi and Claude,
they on that second floor.
They get in from the strip club
probably, like, four,
five in the morning.
They be drunk as fuck, too.
They'll never see us coming.
[MEECH] Okay, I like it.
We get in and get out.
[STACKS] You know what I'm sayin'?
♪
Hey, did you get anything out of Lenny?
[AMBERSON] Got plenty.
Turns out, Lenny's a third-striker.
- And he sang like a bird.
- [LAUGHS]
He said he acquired
the ambulance for Tuan,
who works for some guy named Henry.
Who the fuck is Henry?
Bet the guy driving the
ambulance would know.
[PHONE RINGS, INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You okay?
Uh, yeah, I'm just, uh
we don't have enough
here to take to Garr,
so we gotta keep on pushing.
No rest until we crack this case.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
[SINGER] The speakers be banging ♪
Highs, mids, and lows ♪
Make you wanna start
getting busy on the floor ♪
All the fly girls screaming, "Ah" ♪
The DJ's rocking and
shocking the house ♪
Everything he's spinning
is moving the crowd ♪
Listen up for yourself
this is how we make it bump ♪
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump ♪
Bump, bump, bump Bump, bump ♪
Make it bump ♪
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump ♪
You know we gotta make it bump ♪
What the fuck happened to Bryant?
[SINGER] Bump,
bump, bump Bump, bump ♪
Yeah, you gotta make it ♪
[TYSON] He got away.
[HAND BANGS ON CAR]
[HENRIETTA] Fuck!
You know how tired I am of taking Ls?
It's bad enough that Terry motherfucker
disrespected me and hit my ambulance.
Now I got a washed-up cop
fucking up my shit too.
[CHUCK] He ain't act
washed up. He a savage.
[TYSON] Look, fuck
that. We'll find Bryant.
That motherfucker's not gonna get away
- for what happened with Tuan.
- Yeah. You're right.
But if you can't beat
that soft-ass Milk Dud pig,
then maybe I need to see what you got.
What? [CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY]
I ain't fightin' no girl.
[SIGHS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[GRUNTING]
♪
Come on!
Fuckin' throw hands!
Mm! [CHUCKLES]
Oh, what's the matter?
You think just 'cause you injured,
this ain't a fair fight?
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Come on, now. [CHUCKLES]
No fucking excuses, pussy.
[GRUNTING]
- [TABLE CLATTERS]
- [CHUCKLES]
♪
Fuckin' bitch.
[GRUNTING]
♪
[CHUCK] I'm not gonna fight you.
[HENRIETTA CHUCKLES]
[CHUCK GROANING]
♪
[HENRIETTA PANTING]
♪
Who's the bitch now?
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Pull protection on Bryant's kid.
Find me Bryant, so I can
finish this fuckin' job myself.
♪
[PERSON] You heard her. Let's go.
[SINGER] Give it up, make it pop ♪
Make it clap from the
back don't break it ♪
Give it up, make it pop ♪
Make it clap from
the back let's go ♪
♪
Meech, I been working
on this track all day.
Let me know what you think.
- Bet.
- And please, bro, uh,
if, uh, something happens
to me, get it out there.
Get it off the streets.
Fuck that.
You gon' do it 'cause
you done in the streets.
Man, come on, Meech.
I been down this whole time.
[MEECH] Listen, Rip,
I don't give a fuck.
You can still be down without
being in the streets, dawg.
I watched my daddy fuck
his music dreams up.
And I can't let you do
that, you feel me? I can't.
- [RIP] I feel you.
- Put that shit in.
Turn that bitch up. Stop playing.
For sure.
[TAPE PLAYER CLICKS]
[SINGER] Too many hos
in here that got a fatty ♪
Turn around and
let me slap it, girl ♪
I can be your daddy ♪
It's too many hos too many hos ♪
[DUFFY] Yo, Meech. We
was at the shooting range.
Tee ain't such a bad shot.
He can handle a strap.
[MEECH] Oh, yeah?
So the little nigga
might not piss hisself
when we go to the projects, huh?
Whatever, nigga.
You just mad 'cause when we were kids,
we used to spray your
crotch, me and Nikki,
and look like you
pissed yourself, nigga.
[LAUGHTER]
Yo, yo, what the fuck?
Stop wasting food?
♪
Hey, yo, where's,
um where's Stacks at?
He was supposed to be
at the gun range with us.
I don't know, man.
Why the fuck you care where he at?
'Cause I was talking to Duffy.
And he starting to sound
like the new B-Missing.
Y'all had a falling-out,
and all of a sudden,
you let him back in.
Family deserves grace, Tee, a'ight?
I'm ten steps ahead of you already.
I got everything handled.
You the little brother, you forgot?
I'm the big brother,
nigga. Listen to me.
[TEAKETTLE WHISTLING]
♪
[FLEMMING] Well, I'd like to thank you
for taking the time to
meet with me, Lucille.
[LUCILLE] Oh, I'm so sorry I
couldn't meet with you earlier.
Wendy's just has me running ragged.
[FLEMMING] Well, I do
have something to ask you.
[LUCILLE] Hmm?
[FLEMMING] Would you
consider taking on the role
as my assistant pastor,
even if it's on a part-time basis?
- Really?
- Well, now, we're a small church, now.
So we can't pay you enough
for you to quit Wendy's.
But maybe one day, we could
afford you on a full-time basis.
I mean, come on, now, am I
even qualified? [CHUCKLES]
You dove into serving our church
without me even having to ask,
volunteering at the clinic
and securing the largest donation
we have ever had.
You are a natural leader
and a prayer warrior,
a loving wife, a selfless mother,
and a light to all those around you.
I couldn't think of anyone
better for the job than you.
Um, listen, that is just
so lovely of you to think of me.
I mean, mm.
Can I pray on it?
I wouldn't expect
anything less from you.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- All right.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[ANGEL] You got your eyes closed?
- [MEECH] Yes, they're closed.
- [ANGEL CHUCKLES]
Here. Wait, wait, wait.
Stop peeking.
Okay, open.
Owner let us have the
place for a couple hours.
So it's just us today.
Goddamn, Angel.
A girl never did no
boss-ass shit like this
before in my life.
Well, now that Greeny's out my life,
I just really wanted to thank you.
Wait right here.
Where you going?
[ANGEL] Just wait.
[MEECH SIGHS]
[SENSUAL HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]
[SINGER] Ah, baby ♪
Ooh, ooh ♪
[MEECH] Mm-hmm.
[SINGER] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Hey, mm-hmm ♪
[MEECH] Shit.
♪
Damn, girl.
[SINGER] Listen, I'm so ♪
Wrapped up in your love ♪
Every time we touch ♪
I can't get enough ♪
You've got me ♪
So emotional ♪
I had to let you know ♪
Just how you make me feel ♪
You bring me joy ♪
Yes, you do ♪
I had to let you know ♪
That, baby ♪
I think I'm falling for you ♪
The way I feel it must be true ♪
And, baby don't let this end ♪
You got my heart ♪
In the palm of your hands ♪
Ah, baby ♪
Ooh, ooh ♪
♪
I don't feel good about this Remi shit.
Don't trip.
I'ma be fine.
I'm just really scared of losing you.
[ANGEL EXHALES SHAKILY]
[MEECH SIGHS]
♪
[SENSUAL MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[MOANING]
♪
♪
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[LUCILLE] Okay.
Pack your shit, Lucille! We
gotta get you out of here.
Estelle, what is going on?
No, wait.
Charles should move
out. Where's his room?
- I'll pack his shit for you.
- Estelle.
Estelle, calm down and
tell me what is wrong.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
Yesterday I saw Charles having
breakfast with another woman.
They were holding hands.
The last thing I wanna
do is open up old scars
and upset you.
But you deserve to know.
[LUCILLE INHALES DEEPLY]
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
♪
I should have known better. I
Now you can divorce his ass
and go get in with the good doctor
with a clear conscience.
- Where's his shit?
- [FOOTSTEPS CLOMPING]
I'll get it for you.
♪
[SNIFFLES AND SIGHS]
[DOGS BARKING]
Lucille.
Estelle told me about
your little breakfast date.
- Wait, wait, wait
- How dare you?
How dare you embarrass
me like that again,
- and in public?
- [CHARLES] Wait, wait, wait, Lucille
While I'm sitting here
talking to Pastor Fleming,
you out in the street
getting busy with anything that walks!
Lu-Lucille, it's-it's
not what you think.
- I was with Sister Riley!
- Sister Riley?
- Get your shit and get out!
- [CHARLES] No, no
- Get out!
- No, no.
She was helping me with this.
- I knew she
- Look, I no, no, no!
Listen, I wrote a song for you.
- Right, you wrote me a song.
- [CHARLES] I wrote you a song.
You-you were writing a
song with Sister Riley.
[CHARLES] I asked her to
get the church band together.
Okay.
[CHARLES] Play.
I'm not playing these
games with you, Charles.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
[CHARLES] Listen, listen.
♪
Listen.
[BRIGHT GUITAR CHORDS PLAYING]
♪
We didn't see it coming ♪
Time just moves so fast ♪
And now we're slipping ♪
♪
We didn't feel it coming ♪
Time just moves so fast ♪
And now we're slipping ♪
I ain't never been the best man ♪
Seems like everything's
been going wrong ♪
You're a hell of a woman Baby ♪
No matter how hard we falling down ♪
We didn't see it coming ♪
Time just moves so fast ♪
And now we're slipping ♪
I can't get past all
those good days, baby ♪
♪
Nothing else mattered
like we did, baby ♪
♪
We can still get back
to us dreaming, baby ♪
Listen, I know Reece is back
and there's something between you two.
But I'm not done fighting for us.
Listen, you are stuck in the past,
and I'm-I'm just trying
to move to the future.
No, no, but who's to say
the past and the future
can't look the same?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Because from where I stand,
I still see you in both.
♪
[ANGEL] Hey, babe. I'm going to work.
What's all this, babe?
[MEECH] This my vision
for the future right here.
- [KNOCK AT DOOR]
- Damn.
You ambitious.
[MEECH] Yeah, you see,
we came from nothing.
And I ain't ever going
back to that life.
This my dream, for everybody
to be shining like new money.
- [DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
- Okay.
- [TERRY] Hey.
- What's up, Tee?
Meech. I did what you asked.
And you were right about Stacks.
He's playing us.
I fucking knew it.
So you been watching
Stacks this entire time?
The OGs are saying that
the MKs did the drive-by
that killed Diesel, not Remi.
Man, he was gonna walk
us straight into a ambush.
So what's the next move?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
Stacks and the MKs,
they think we still planning
on hitting Techwood, Tee.
I'ma flip this shit
to our advantage, Tee.
Angel, you still cool with them dancers
that dance for Remi at the club?
Yeah, we in everybody's ear and pockets.
Okay, cool, 'cause I need you
to get him a message for me.
- All right?
- Got you.
♪
[DOGS BARKING]
Fuck that nigga Stacks.
Ever since Ty got killed,
he think he a free agent.
Stacks ain't our main focus right now.
Surviving is.
The MKs gonna wipe us out.
I'ma make a temporary deal with Remi
[DUFFY] What?
[MEECH] for the greater
good of our organization.
And I'm headed to
Techwood this afternoon.
In broad daylight?
♪
Shit, I'm riding with you, Meech.
♪
[FINGERS SNAP]
♪
I'm riding too.
And I ain't taking no for an answer.
♪
A'ight, man. We down too.
Ride or die, man.
♪
[SIGHS] Strength in numbers.
♪
And once we outmaneuver the MKs,
we can finish what Remi started.
And Ty can finally rest in peace.
[PHONE RINGS]
Oh, hey.
You didn't tell me your dad
was running for reelection.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Yeah, that's why I'm
not answering his calls.
Whoa. What's that about?
So when I was in rehab,
my father never visited
because he was scared
someone might see him
and it would hurt him politically.
Instead he paraded my
brothers on the campaign trail
while they kept me out of the limelight
like I was some dirty secret.
Now that I'm a detective
and cleaning up the streets,
he wants to show me off as a part of his
"get tough on drugs" campaign.
I'm sorry.
It's fake assholes like my father
who lie and use people
who should be sorry.
[SIGHS]
Um hey, uh
I gotta tell you something.
But, uh, not here.
Not in this shithole.
♪
[HEAVY BASS MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Yo, Stacks, you're
not gonna believe this.
Meech and his crew are here.
Yeah, I'm sure. I'm
looking right at them.
Shit's about to jump off!
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Kevin.
Yo.
What happened to your face?
Son
who did this to you?
Uh
the people who were
supposed to be protecting
me are hurting me now.
And, I don't I don't
know what I did wrong.
Oh, my God.
There is something else.
Um
[SNIFFLES]
Mm.
Last night
mm, mm.
They, uh
waited for me to go to sleep.
And
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
I-I couldn't fight back.
♪
They pinned me down.
♪
One of them pulled my pants down.
And
♪
I need you to hold on.
♪
I promise that I'll get you out of here.
♪
Son, I promise.
♪
[AMBERSON] Let me get this straight.
So your old partner, Bryant,
was driving the ambulance for Henry?
[JIN] Yeah.
He came back to check up
on me after I got shot.
[AMBERSON SIGHS] Holy shit.
We gotta leverage Bryant somehow
into getting us to whoever
the fuck this Henry guy is
so we can get that crew off the street.
Unless you decide to
turn my ass in to Garr
and end my career.
I'm not gonna do that.
But I am down to arrest Bryant.
Moving forward, don't
ever keep me in the dark.
Starting to feel like
I had a family again.
[JIN] I promise.
From here on out, full transparency.
Okay, I guess we turn this in to Garr
first thing in the morning.
Yeah, sounds like we have enough to get
an arrest warrant on Bryant.
I think this deserves some more alcohol.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[SIGHS]
Yeah, I'm thinking of
calling my father back.
[JIN] Seriously?
Yeah.
Tell him how he hurt me.
- Full transparency, right?
- [JIN CHUCKLES]
I mean, he's either gonna apologize
or tell me to fuck off.
Either way, I'll be
free of my resentment.
- Good on you.
- [AMBERSON] Yeah?
I can support that.
Mm. Thank you. [CHUCKLES]
[BOTTLES CLINK]
- Is that what I think it is?
- Karaoke.
It was uh, me and my
sister's favorite thing to do
when we were growing up together.
Are we drunk enough?
- We can be.
- [BOTH LAUGH]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[CHILD MIMICKING ENGINES HUMMING]
♪
- [MOTHER] Come on, baby!
- [CHILD] What? Mom!
♪
[PEOPLE WHOOPING]
♪
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [BABY CRYING]
Come on, let's go.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
Came to wave the white flag?
[SCOFFS] Hell nah, nigga.
We always gonna be enemies
for what you did to Ty.
But right now, we got a bigger
enemy we need to deal with.
The MKs setting up our
crews to ambush us tonight.
Why the fuck should I believe you?
'Cause I always think
about the bigger picture.
Now, this is a chance for
us to ambush they asses
and catch them off guard.
♪
Nigga, let them come, then!
Nigga, this is our hood!
We gonna defend this motherfucker
like we always do,
so I ain't got no interest
in fucking with you.
Dawg, why you so fucking stubborn, man?
Goddamn.
The MKs got military-grade
firepower, nigga.
How you talking about
keeping this place safe
but it's about to get torn to pieces?
Yo, Remi, he got a point.
♪
Man, fuck these niggas.
- [GUNS COCKING]
- [PEOPLE CLAMORING]
♪
["MAJOR TOM (COMING HOME)" PLAYING]
[BOTH] Four, three, two, one ♪
Earth below us ♪
Drifting, falling ♪
Floating weightless ♪
Calling, calling home ♪
- [POUNDING ON DOOR]
- Shit. Hold on.
- [AMBERSON LAUGHS]
- Keep it going. Keep it going.
- [AMBERSON] Okay.
- [POUNDING ON DOOR]
[JIN] What the fuck, man?
- Bryant.
- I need your help.
I ain't got nobody else to turn to.
Oh, you need my help?
Okay, who the fuck is Henry?
Uh, well, look, I'll tell you
everything. But I need your help first.
You're in no position to negotiate.
We should just cuff him and
drill him at the station.
Shut the fuck up. This is about Kevin.
[GUNFIRE, GLASS SHATTERING]
[PEOPLE CAWING]
- [GUNFIRE]
- [PERSON] Oh, shit!
[TIRES SCREECHING]
- Fuck!
- Oh, fuck!
[GUNFIRE, PEOPLE SHOUTING]
- Oh, fuck!
- Shit!
- Shit!
- Fuck you!
Motherfucker!
[GROANS]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING]
Meech!
[PERSON SCREAMS]
Fuck!
[SHOUTING]
Ah, shit, I'm out. I'm out! Fuck!
A'ight, motherfuckers!
Hey, Remi!
I'm down.
Mil, where the fuck you get a strap?
[MILTON] Someone in your crew.
Let's get these motherfuckers, man!
Man, get the fuck out of here!
♪
[NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
[MUFFLED GUNFIRE]
♪
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
This is all your fault!
[SOBBING] Get away from my son!
♪
You said you would protect us.
[HOARSELY] Look at what you've done!
♪
[GUNFIRE]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
- Shit!
- Shit, shit!
- [GROANS]
- Shit! Go, go, go, go, go!
- [GROANS]
- [TIRES SQUEALING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[AMBERSON GASPING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
Cobie? Cobie!
Cobie. Oh, shit.
Fuck!
[AMBERSON GASPING]
[TOUCH TONES BEEPING]
♪
[PAGER BEEPING]
♪
Sorry.
[JIN] This is Detective Veronica Jin.
There's been a shooting at my residence.
We need an ambulance right away.
We've got an officer down.
Now! Right now!
[AMBERSON GASPING]
♪
Oh, my God. Hang in there.
You're gonna be okay.
You're gonna be okay.
Don't leave me.
Stick with me, please!
[AMBERSON GASPING]
[JIN SNIFFLING AND SOBBING]
[GASPING SLOWS]
[GUNFIRE]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
Fuck! There's too many of them!
Hey, make every shot count!
♪
Rip!
♪
Rip!
♪
[PEOPLE YELLING]
[GAGGING]
♪
- Fuck!
- [GASPING]
You did good, Rip.
You made all us proud, man.
Everybody gonna remember
you through your music.
♪
Fuck!
Fuck!
- Watch my back!
- I got you. I got you.
Shit. Fuck.
Fuck. I'm out.
♪
[MEECH GRUNTS]
♪
Fuck!
♪
[STERL] Let's get these motherfuckers!
[MEECH] Yo, that's
Sterl and the PA Boys!
It's about time!
Man, get the fuck out of
here with them buck-ass teeth.
Meech, Tee! Move! Move!
Come on! This way!
[STACKS SHOUTS] That's right!
Get the fuck out of here!
Next time, you won't be
so motherfucking lucky!
Ah, shit. Fuck you, nigga!
- You did a good job.
- [STACKS] Fuck you!
[GLOCK] But you didn't do good enough.
[STACKS] Nigga, fuck you, nigga!
[DOG BARKING]
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
Wh-what are you doing in here?
[CHARLES] I can't stop
thinking about you.
My goodness, you're like a
schoolkid in a summer camp.
You got me feeling like a horny teenager
all over again, woman.
Okay, look, we-we'll do it one time,
and then you're going back to your room.
[CHARLES EXHALES HEAVILY]
[DELICATE MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYS]
♪
[OFFICER] He left a note.
Take your time.
♪
[CRYING]
[SIGHS] I, uh
[SOBS]
love you too.
♪
I'ma put Rip's tape out on these streets
so they can remember his name forever.
♪
[TERRY] Yo, Meech.
♪
PA's always ready to ride with you.
And I told Sterl you ain't
going into battle without me.
I appreciate that, dawg.
Damn, I owe you for real.
You call, we show up.
You owe us nothing, man.
We equals.
And our organizations are family.
For sure.
Roll up.
Yo, you not gonna clean up?
Pack your bag. Let's hit the airport.
I ain't going, Tee.
What you mean you ain't going?
Listen, man, loyalty is not just a word.
It's a lifestyle.
This my family out
here. I can't leave them.
Detroit is our home.
And I can't go back with my
tail tucked between my legs.
Look, we lost the battle,
but the war still continues.
And I ain't going nowhere.
[TERRY EXHALES HEAVILY]
Look, man.
At the end of the day, you my brother.
And I just wanna make sure you safe.
I appreciate that.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
I'ma be good.
Just take care of
your family in Detroit,
and I'ma take care
of my family out here.
♪
[OLDER TERRY] As much as
I fought with my brother,
I've always fought alongside him.
We survived many battles,
and I got a lifetime
of scars to prove it.
Truth be told, I wanted
bruh back in the D
to help me fight the war against Henri,
which I knew was waiting for me at home.
♪
But this was one battle
I was gonna have to pick up arms alone.
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS]
[SINGER] What you
gon' do, gon' do ♪
♪
Uh, darkness resumes ♪
Not too many options for
the clockers to consume ♪
When hustling you gambling high ♪
Name your price but we all ♪
Gotta pay someday to keep shining ♪
Set it off, known
repertoire with the gunplay ♪
Clocking out, was
prepared for my worst day ♪
Time to move, calculated
measured instincts ♪
'Cause when shit stink ♪
Better flush fast then think, gone ♪
No way to stop it ♪
Send me on God ♪
What you wanna do wanna do ♪
Nowhere to cop it ♪
They freeze in the spots ♪
What you gon' do, gon' do ♪
No way to stop it ♪
Send me on God ♪
What you wanna do wanna do ♪
Nowhere to cop it ♪
They freeze in the spots ♪
What you gon' do, gon' do ♪
Never hesitant move like a militant ♪
Mess around sly with them things ♪
Cancel middlemen ♪
Come through living
dangerous, picture it ♪
Feds keep a trail no
signs of me ending it ♪
Scrap with my back against the wall ♪
Head up, brawls best
man made the call ♪