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NELLA:
Previously, on The Other Black Girl...
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MAISY: Nella, meet
Hazel-May McCall, my new assistant.
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- Wait, Burning Heart? This book
is literally why I work at Wagner.
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- Couple weeks after the book came out,
Kendra Rae took her own life.
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Broke my heart.
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[electricity buzzing]
[Kendra Rae screaming]
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MALAIKA: Nella, you have
to agree that this is mad weird.
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You don't trust Hazel either.
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- I'm the one you don't wanna fuck with.
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NELLA: Richard is using Hazel
to, like, recruit Black women
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and turn them into pod people.
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We just have to uncover it,
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and then, we use
your platform to go public.
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- Bet. Let's get it.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
I give you Mr. Jesse Watson.
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HAZEL:
You wanna know who's in charge?
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It's right in front of you.
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NELLA:
Diana? It's you?
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[tires screech]
[Malaika screams]
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[Nella screams]
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[heavy breathing]
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- Nella.
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- Satan. [panting]
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- These are way too tight.
- What do you care?
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- Just do what she says.
Okay? Just take the grease.
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- What? What are you--
What, what grease?
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What are you talking about?
- Nella!
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DIANA:
You still haven't figured it out?
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♪ ominous music plays ♪
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You're smarter than that, Nella.
[chair scrapes on floor]
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[chair clanks]
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♪
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What do you want, Nella?
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- I wanna get the fuck outta here.
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- Unfortunately, that's not on the table.
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What else?
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You wanna be an editor, right?
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Because you wanna tell
stories about Black people
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that'll make the little girl
inside of you feel less alone.
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That's what you told me.
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Well, I'm about to give you all of that.
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Next week, when Ascendant announces
the release of Jesse Watson's book,
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we're going to change the world,
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and you're gonna be right next to him
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getting all the credit that you deserve.
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- Wait, Jesse wrote a book
in, like... three days?
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- Well, his name will be on it,
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but... this book
has been worked on for years
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by me and some of the greatest
minds of our sisterhood.
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And it's... it's brilliant.
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It's going to change the way
Black people feel about ourselves.
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We just needed a spokesperson,
and you gave him to us.
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Someone who famously
fought the system for years,
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admitted he was wrong,
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telling people to seek us out and join us.
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And that's just the first step.
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You'll have Wagner at your disposal.
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People like us will have Wagner,
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just like you wanted.
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- I don't want it
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if it means I can't
look myself in the mirror.
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- All that pain
you feel about compromising,
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it's weighing you down, Nella.
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And they put it there.
You gonna let them drown you?
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You gonna let them choose your future?
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The pain is what's holdin' us back.
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And if we don't have that,
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we can be whatever we wanna be.
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- But the pain... is part
of what makes us who we are.
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- Do you hear how miserable that sounds?
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[sighs]
What do you say?
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Are you ready to change your life?
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- Diana?
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- Yes, dear?
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- Fuck you.
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- Ladies.
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Hazel.
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- Shani. Hazel, don't. Please.
- Hazel!
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NELLA:
Shani, don't do this.
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Hazel, don't.
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Hazel, please!
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[taser zapping]
[women screaming]
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[taser zaps]
[Hazel groans, thuds]
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- What the fuck?
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You look good.
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- No, I don't, bitch.
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[taser zaps]
[Diana yelps, thuds]
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- You're... dead.
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- You know who I am?
[Nella gasps]
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- Kendra Rae Phillips. How?
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- Come with me. Come on!
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♪ tense, eerie theme music playing ♪
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♪ upbeat talk show music playing ♪
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[audience applauds]
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CHELSEA:
And we're back with two ladies
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who are taking
the literary world by storm.
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Diana Gordon is the author
of the hit new novel, Burning Heart,
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and Kendra Rae Phillips is her editor.
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And, get this, they grew up together.
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AUDIENCE:
Aw.
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- Ladies, your book is
a surprise number one bestseller.
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Tell us how it all came together.
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- I'd been struggling to tell
Evie's story for years.
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Kenny crystallized everything for me,
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and then, of course,
she took my book to Wagner.
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- Where Richard Wagner took a chance
on two African American women
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with no experience.
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You two must be so grateful to him.
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- We are. He's a great man.
[Kendra Rae laughs]
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- And things were easy with you two?
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I know if I was working
with my best friend,
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we would be scratching
each other's eyes out.
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[laughs]
[audience laughs]
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I am sorry, Marcia. It's true.
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[laughter]
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- Definitely. I got to work with someone
who... means the world to me.
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My sister.
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AUDIENCE:
Aw.
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- Kendra Rae?
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- We worked really hard.
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This book was something
I really cared about,
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and that's why I'm here today.
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- It's not perfect, but what is, right?
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- What do you mean, "not perfect?"
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- [chuckles]
Yes, Diana, what do you mean?
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Do you have any regrets?
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- No.
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- [quietly] Wow.
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Okay. Well, I do.
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- Kenny, please. It is--
- No, no. I'd rather have made nothing
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than watch you lie to yourself.
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- And if we would've done your ending,
that's exactly what we would've made.
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Nothing!
[Kendra Rae scoffs]
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What's the point of writing
a book no one's gonna read?
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- Being able to say you kept fighting!
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Not doin' whatever dance
white people tell you to do.
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[crowd clamoring]
- Ooh.
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- Excuse me?
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- I think this experience has taught me
a very valuable lesson, Chelsea.
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- And, uh, what's, what's that?
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- I'd rather never work
for the rest of my life
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than be Richard Wagner's whore.
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[crowd gasps]
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[amped-up murmuring]
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[mic feedback screeches]
♪ upbeat talk show music plays ♪
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CHELSEA:
Uh, coming up next, uh, Jazzercise.
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Nobody's doing that, right?
[chuckles]
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After this break.
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♪
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KENDRA RAE:
I was at the peak of my career
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and she took everything from me.
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Shani found me
and told me Diana was after you--
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Well, after you fought for my ending,
I knew I had to save you.
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NELLA:
This really the only clothes they had?
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- Well, it was that or "I heart guns."
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You'll get used to gas station clothes.
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If they find you,
sometimes you have to run
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with... just the Tigger
t-shirt on your back.
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- So, that's where you've been. Running.
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- Richard and Diana tried
to force me to sell my soul.
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The system will always make you
give up a part of yourself to succeed.
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Don't you wanna stay true to yourself?
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Everything you believe in.
To never compromise.
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To wake up every day...
and think, "I'm free."
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♪
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Isn't that what you want?
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Nella?
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Isn't it?
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- Yeah.
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I want that.
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- Proud of you.
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Text your friends goodbye,
give me your phone,
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so I can run over it.
- Wait, what?
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Don't we have to go and stop Jesse's book?
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No, no, no. I-I-I can't just--
I-I have to see my friends.
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- You're not gonna like what ya see.
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NURSE [over intercom]:
Dr. Weber, dial 2422. Dr. Weber, 2422.
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- This happened because of me.
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- And it'll keep happening
until you're in Idaho.
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- What?
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- I need to talk to Malaika.
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Alone.
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- Idaho?
Wait, what did she mean by--
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[indistinct chatter in hallway]
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♪ tense music playing ♪
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- Where did they go?
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- I have my whole crew on it.
We will find them.
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DIANA:
Your crew?
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We're trying to catch her,
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not get her to follow
our wellness Instagram.
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- No, we don't even need Nella.
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- We just can't have
her derail everything.
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We'll just do what we did to Shani.
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- No!
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No, she will come around.
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We'll fix it.
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I will fix it.
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- I know you will.
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DIANA:
She really doesn't have a choice.
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If Nella isn't greased
by the end of today,
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Hazel is no longer part of our operation.
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- I won't let you down.
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- I guess we'll see.
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♪
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- Kendra Rae can't hurt us,
Di, she's nothing.
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I'll protect you. I always have.
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Hey.
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Look at everything you are.
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Look at everything you have.
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We made the right choice.
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I'm more sure of it every day.
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- I just need a moment.
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♪ tense music continues ♪
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- Okay.
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[sighs]
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- No! No.
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Absolutely the fuck not.
[bed motor whirs]
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You, you are not running away--
Can this thing go any faster?
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You're not running away.
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Where is Owen?
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- He's goin' to get ya
Milk Duds to calm ya down.
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[bed clicks into position]
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- So, you're just gonna give up?
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- To protect you both.
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I mean, what am I supposed to do?
Look what they did to you.
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Kendra Rae is right,
they're too powerful.
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- Okay, I know you love her book
or whatever, but she is not a hero.
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She is just a person
who needs to get her nails done.
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- At least she's alive.
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- She abandoned everyone.
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She abandoned you.
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She knew what Diana was doin'
and she ran away for 35 years.
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- Okay, well, we don't know what
the world was like for her back then.
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- Exactly. "Back then."
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They didn't have phones.
They-- [scoffs]
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I don't even know if they had cars.
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- They had cars.
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- Things... are different... for you.
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You know their plan.
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- It's true.
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- And now, you need to stop that
Jesse book from ever gettin' published.
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- I need... to know that you're safe,
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so that I can live with myself.
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- You never gonna
be able to live with yourself
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if that book sees the light of day.
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- But what are they gonna do to you?
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- They hit me with a car already.
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I'm pretty ready for whatever comes next.
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Think about the girls
comin' up after you.
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♪ dramatic music playing ♪
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Isn't that the whole reason
why you stayed at Wagner?
252
00:11:41,952 --> 00:11:44,955
For the nerdy, little Nellas out there?
253
00:11:45,956 --> 00:11:50,711
They're gonna be just as alone
as you were if you don't help them.
254
00:11:50,711 --> 00:11:54,423
Now, go do whatever you want after.
255
00:11:54,423 --> 00:11:57,634
Go run a bed and breakfast
with Kendra Rae in Vermont.
256
00:11:58,427 --> 00:12:00,179
But you have to stop that book.
257
00:12:00,762 --> 00:12:02,681
♪
258
00:12:02,681 --> 00:12:03,891
- You're right.
259
00:12:05,767 --> 00:12:07,060
- What's goin' on?
260
00:12:07,686 --> 00:12:09,313
What are we gonna do now?
261
00:12:11,982 --> 00:12:13,609
- Where the fuck are my Milk Duds?
262
00:12:16,486 --> 00:12:18,614
- Okay, so, to stop
Jesse's book, how 'bout this?
263
00:12:18,614 --> 00:12:21,074
- If you suggest callin'
the motherfuckin' police again--
264
00:12:21,783 --> 00:12:23,869
- How 'bout our congressperson?
265
00:12:24,286 --> 00:12:25,537
- Do you know who that is?
266
00:12:25,746 --> 00:12:26,997
- Mark something.
267
00:12:26,997 --> 00:12:28,582
[Nella groans]
[Owen sighs]
268
00:12:29,082 --> 00:12:32,503
- TikTok. Okay?
I've been sayin' it all along.
269
00:12:32,503 --> 00:12:36,131
You will get all over the news,
and then Oprah would interview you.
270
00:12:36,131 --> 00:12:39,259
- I don't think Oprah interviews
people who believe in magic hair grease.
271
00:12:39,259 --> 00:12:41,678
- She used to in the '80s.
[knock at door]
272
00:12:44,431 --> 00:12:46,683
- [whispering] Oh, my God.
- [whispering] Is it Kendra Rae?
273
00:12:46,683 --> 00:12:49,102
- She said she wouldn't be back for hours.
274
00:12:49,102 --> 00:12:51,355
- You hide. I'll get a knife.
275
00:12:51,355 --> 00:12:53,649
- [whispering] No knives.
- I think a knife is a good idea.
276
00:12:53,649 --> 00:12:55,067
[knocking continues]
277
00:12:55,067 --> 00:12:56,276
VERA:
Nella?
278
00:12:57,945 --> 00:12:58,820
- Vera?
279
00:12:58,820 --> 00:13:01,198
- Uh.
[cat meowing]
280
00:13:01,198 --> 00:13:03,617
Nella, do you have a cat?
281
00:13:06,995 --> 00:13:08,288
[latch clicks open]
282
00:13:09,873 --> 00:13:11,875
- [softly] Surprise.
[chuckles]
283
00:13:11,875 --> 00:13:15,504
- What are you doin' here?
- I brought garlic knots. [chuckles]
284
00:13:17,214 --> 00:13:19,883
Maisy texted to tell me
that you've been placed on leave.
285
00:13:19,883 --> 00:13:22,719
I thought it might be nice to commiserate.
286
00:13:23,512 --> 00:13:27,933
Uh, hello. Malaika! What happened?
287
00:13:28,517 --> 00:13:29,726
- I fell.
288
00:13:30,394 --> 00:13:32,688
- Oh, I'm so sorry.
MALAIKA: Hm.
289
00:13:32,688 --> 00:13:34,731
- Uh, okay.
[chuckling] This is weird.
290
00:13:34,731 --> 00:13:36,650
Um, I should go.
[mutters]
291
00:13:36,650 --> 00:13:38,068
NELLA:
Uh, a-actually, wait.
292
00:13:39,570 --> 00:13:42,531
Uh... hypothetically speaking,
293
00:13:42,531 --> 00:13:44,992
if you wanted to keep
a book from getting published,
294
00:13:45,367 --> 00:13:46,618
what would you do?
295
00:13:46,618 --> 00:13:49,788
- Bury a sensitivity read
that says the writer's a racist.
296
00:13:50,497 --> 00:13:51,456
- Brilliant.
297
00:13:52,249 --> 00:13:53,250
We get the author canceled.
298
00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:54,918
- Girl, how?
299
00:13:54,918 --> 00:13:57,171
- We take his credibility, and then,
we turn his followers against him.
300
00:13:57,171 --> 00:13:58,839
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Who we talkin' about?
301
00:13:58,839 --> 00:14:01,008
- Oh, uh, no one.
[laughs]
302
00:14:01,008 --> 00:14:01,842
VERA: Oh.
- Thank you so much
303
00:14:01,842 --> 00:14:03,677
for the garlic knots.
- Sure. No, sure.
304
00:14:03,677 --> 00:14:04,845
- It was really great-- Bye!
305
00:14:04,845 --> 00:14:06,555
VERA: Bye, bye. Enjoy the knots!
NELLA [chuckling]: Yeah, okay.
306
00:14:06,555 --> 00:14:07,514
[door clicks shut]
307
00:14:07,514 --> 00:14:10,767
If Jesse's book gets leaked
before Richard and Diana have a chance
308
00:14:10,767 --> 00:14:13,562
to do their little PR spin,
and without Jesse's endorsement,
309
00:14:13,562 --> 00:14:15,772
then his followers
will completely alienate him.
310
00:14:15,772 --> 00:14:17,816
They'll think he's a total sellout,
and they'll boycott the book,
311
00:14:17,816 --> 00:14:20,611
and it'll tank their entire plan.
- Okay.
312
00:14:20,611 --> 00:14:23,155
But how do we get
the book to then leak it?
313
00:14:23,155 --> 00:14:25,407
- Yeah. You heard Vera,
they put you on leave.
314
00:14:25,407 --> 00:14:28,493
Richard probably made sure
your badge doesn't work anymore.
315
00:14:28,493 --> 00:14:29,912
- My badge doesn't.
316
00:14:32,289 --> 00:14:35,125
[dialing number, ringback tone]
317
00:14:35,125 --> 00:14:38,587
Hey, Sophie, my fellow
Phish Head-- Phish Food?
318
00:14:38,587 --> 00:14:40,380
What, what do, what do we call ourselves?
319
00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:42,007
[elevator dings]
320
00:14:42,007 --> 00:14:45,010
♪ tense music playing ♪
321
00:14:55,562 --> 00:14:56,939
[knock on door]
322
00:14:56,939 --> 00:14:59,149
[TV playing indistinctly]
323
00:14:59,149 --> 00:15:00,692
[knocking persists]
324
00:15:01,151 --> 00:15:02,152
DIANA:
Kenny?
325
00:15:02,528 --> 00:15:03,737
I know you're in there.
326
00:15:03,737 --> 00:15:06,156
I can hear Jackée through the door.
327
00:15:07,199 --> 00:15:09,201
[audience on TV laughs]
328
00:15:12,246 --> 00:15:13,121
[TV clicks off]
329
00:15:17,251 --> 00:15:20,546
Hey, you want some
of the cheapest wine in New York City?
330
00:15:22,005 --> 00:15:25,342
This is not the way
things end for us. I refuse.
331
00:15:32,307 --> 00:15:34,309
♪
332
00:15:38,397 --> 00:15:40,190
[distant siren wails]
333
00:15:44,695 --> 00:15:47,072
- Shit. [sighs]
334
00:15:50,325 --> 00:15:52,327
[computer dings]
[Nella sighs]
335
00:15:54,371 --> 00:15:56,456
Uhh.
336
00:15:56,456 --> 00:15:59,835
[computer chimes for correct password]
Oh, come on.
337
00:16:01,295 --> 00:16:04,923
- [sighs]
We're different, Kenny.
338
00:16:04,923 --> 00:16:10,596
You've always felt everything...
so much, and that means pain.
339
00:16:10,596 --> 00:16:13,223
But maybe that doesn't
have to be your future.
340
00:16:14,183 --> 00:16:16,935
- What future?
I'm gonna get fired.
341
00:16:16,935 --> 00:16:19,396
- Girl, you just need a new attitude.
342
00:16:20,314 --> 00:16:21,940
Let me do your hair.
343
00:16:22,441 --> 00:16:25,444
- What?
- Yeah. Like we used to.
344
00:16:25,444 --> 00:16:27,487
Cheap chardonnay and braids.
345
00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:31,241
You got to admit, you look like
that baby that fell in the well.
346
00:16:33,410 --> 00:16:36,079
- I really do.
- Mm. Mm-mm-mm.
347
00:16:38,498 --> 00:16:40,501
NELLA [whispering]:
Jesse Watson.
348
00:16:41,877 --> 00:16:45,088
"Radical Power?"
Ugh, fuck you.
349
00:16:51,887 --> 00:16:53,889
[laughing]
350
00:16:56,058 --> 00:16:58,185
- I'd do anything for you.
351
00:16:58,185 --> 00:16:59,603
You know that, right?
352
00:17:00,312 --> 00:17:01,939
And you'd do the same for me?
353
00:17:04,233 --> 00:17:05,651
- Of course.
354
00:17:05,651 --> 00:17:07,110
[Diana chuckles]
Yes.
355
00:17:07,110 --> 00:17:09,363
- Okay.
[Kendra Rae laughs]
356
00:17:11,448 --> 00:17:14,451
♪ ominous music playing ♪
357
00:17:21,124 --> 00:17:23,752
[light buzzing softly]
358
00:17:28,090 --> 00:17:31,760
Ya know... Richard told me
he's not gonna fire you.
359
00:17:32,678 --> 00:17:35,681
- Wh-What?
You, you talked to Richard?
360
00:17:36,473 --> 00:17:37,766
- Just before I came here.
361
00:17:38,809 --> 00:17:40,185
We made a deal.
362
00:17:40,185 --> 00:17:41,353
- What deal?
363
00:17:41,353 --> 00:17:43,605
- He said he's gonna kill
the Chelsea interview.
364
00:17:43,605 --> 00:17:46,024
It's bad for the book, bad for us.
365
00:17:46,024 --> 00:17:48,402
And he'll leave ya alone.
You can have your career.
366
00:17:48,402 --> 00:17:52,239
People just will never know what you said.
367
00:17:52,239 --> 00:17:55,659
[muffled] And you and I
will be on the same team again.
368
00:17:56,618 --> 00:17:58,161
Doesn't that sound good?
369
00:17:58,161 --> 00:17:59,663
♪ music intensifies ♪
370
00:17:59,663 --> 00:18:00,539
[Kendra Rae scoffs]
371
00:18:01,248 --> 00:18:05,460
[Kendra Rae groans]
372
00:18:06,170 --> 00:18:08,755
[groaning]
373
00:18:08,755 --> 00:18:11,175
[loud scream]
[subway car screeches]
374
00:18:11,175 --> 00:18:12,634
[Kendra Rae whimpers]
375
00:18:14,803 --> 00:18:16,805
♪ eerie music playing ♪
376
00:18:21,476 --> 00:18:22,686
- That's great.
377
00:18:23,854 --> 00:18:27,482
♪ I'm Sticking With You
by The Velvet Underground playing ♪
378
00:18:28,192 --> 00:18:32,362
♪ And I'm doing the same ♪
- Come on.
379
00:18:33,197 --> 00:18:37,951
♪ Saw you hanging from a tree ♪
380
00:18:37,951 --> 00:18:42,372
♪ And I made believe it was me ♪
[Kendra Rae sighs]
381
00:18:44,791 --> 00:18:46,418
[light buzzing]
382
00:18:49,421 --> 00:18:52,049
♪ tense music playing ♪
383
00:18:55,344 --> 00:18:57,179
[glass shatters]
[screams]
384
00:18:57,179 --> 00:18:59,181
♪
385
00:19:06,855 --> 00:19:09,733
♪
386
00:19:22,412 --> 00:19:23,622
[shard scrapes]
387
00:19:29,253 --> 00:19:30,087
♪ tense musical sting ♪
388
00:19:30,879 --> 00:19:32,297
- Don't freak out.
- Is it just you?
389
00:19:32,297 --> 00:19:33,131
- Nella, Nella.
390
00:19:33,131 --> 00:19:34,925
- I can take you. I'm already bleeding.
- Nella,
391
00:19:34,925 --> 00:19:36,301
I just want you to have everything.
392
00:19:36,301 --> 00:19:38,846
All it takes is just
one little compromise.
393
00:19:38,846 --> 00:19:40,764
- Little? This is some Get Out shit!
394
00:19:40,764 --> 00:19:43,475
- I just really wish you
could see the bigger picture here.
395
00:19:43,475 --> 00:19:45,853
- Oh, you and Diana's evil bullshit?
396
00:19:45,853 --> 00:19:47,896
- Diana doesn't even know that I'm here.
397
00:19:48,522 --> 00:19:50,399
I am your friend, Nella.
398
00:19:50,399 --> 00:19:53,819
If you can listen to one thing,
just listen to that.
399
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:56,655
You don't understand.
400
00:19:58,740 --> 00:20:01,285
I don't come from anything.
401
00:20:01,285 --> 00:20:03,453
♪ music softens ♪
402
00:20:03,453 --> 00:20:05,497
Diana gave me my way out.
403
00:20:05,497 --> 00:20:08,500
And this, this is a better life.
404
00:20:09,251 --> 00:20:13,005
This is a real life
where we can be real friends,
405
00:20:13,005 --> 00:20:16,008
and we can work
on projects that we care about.
406
00:20:16,008 --> 00:20:18,385
- And all it costs is our souls.
- Girl.
407
00:20:18,385 --> 00:20:22,181
Do you really think white people
are out here distracted all fuckin' day
408
00:20:22,181 --> 00:20:24,266
about how furious they are at the world?
409
00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:27,352
Don't you just wanna
free your mind from that shit?
410
00:20:27,352 --> 00:20:29,771
- I can't let Jesse's book get out there.
411
00:20:29,771 --> 00:20:31,899
- So, you're just gonna
blow your whole life up?
412
00:20:31,899 --> 00:20:33,066
And have nothing?
413
00:20:33,525 --> 00:20:35,402
Just like Kendra Rae.
414
00:20:36,236 --> 00:20:38,906
You really need
to forget what little Nella
415
00:20:38,906 --> 00:20:40,908
thinks the world is supposed to look like.
416
00:20:40,908 --> 00:20:44,328
And you need to think about what you want.
417
00:20:44,328 --> 00:20:47,915
Everyone makes sacrifices to get ahead.
418
00:20:48,290 --> 00:20:51,168
Be for real.
You've already done it.
419
00:20:51,168 --> 00:20:53,712
You got your foot in the door
by goin' to a white school.
420
00:20:54,588 --> 00:20:57,716
You tell Richard Wagner how smart he is.
421
00:20:57,716 --> 00:21:00,344
Vera how insightful she is.
422
00:21:01,386 --> 00:21:04,515
And the thing is,
Diana made compromises, too.
423
00:21:05,891 --> 00:21:08,060
And you love Burning Heart.
424
00:21:08,060 --> 00:21:09,603
Changed your life.
425
00:21:09,895 --> 00:21:11,897
And Kendra Rae, she stood her ground.
426
00:21:11,897 --> 00:21:12,856
But for what?
427
00:21:13,148 --> 00:21:15,901
For a book that actually touched you?
428
00:21:17,694 --> 00:21:20,656
Compromising doesn't have
to mean giving up your goals.
429
00:21:20,948 --> 00:21:22,950
You just have to play the game.
430
00:21:22,950 --> 00:21:26,328
Because it is the only way that we can win
431
00:21:26,328 --> 00:21:29,748
in a system that is stacked against us.
432
00:21:29,748 --> 00:21:31,166
And this?
433
00:21:32,793 --> 00:21:35,796
This just makes it
so it doesn't hurt so much.
434
00:21:37,047 --> 00:21:40,759
Everything you've worked
for... is right here.
435
00:21:42,761 --> 00:21:44,096
- What'll I become?
436
00:21:44,096 --> 00:21:46,098
♪
437
00:21:47,558 --> 00:21:49,643
- A person with an easier life.
438
00:21:51,144 --> 00:21:53,146
You just have to give yourself permission.
439
00:21:54,773 --> 00:21:58,193
♪ soft, melancholy music playing ♪
440
00:22:01,738 --> 00:22:03,156
[sharp exhale]
441
00:22:07,703 --> 00:22:11,415
♪
442
00:22:29,016 --> 00:22:31,018
♪
443
00:22:45,991 --> 00:22:48,994
♪ tense music playing ♪
444
00:22:52,831 --> 00:22:56,460
♪ singers humming somberly ♪
445
00:23:02,299 --> 00:23:03,967
[groans]
446
00:23:03,967 --> 00:23:07,054
[voices chattering]
447
00:23:07,054 --> 00:23:10,224
♪ singers hum somberly ♪
448
00:23:22,110 --> 00:23:25,113
[voices chattering]
449
00:23:34,206 --> 00:23:37,209
♪ singers singing ♪
450
00:23:42,464 --> 00:23:43,799
[elevator dings]
451
00:23:46,301 --> 00:23:49,304
♪ soft music playing ♪
452
00:23:49,304 --> 00:23:53,016
RICHARD: And I think
I speak for everyone at Wagner.
453
00:23:53,267 --> 00:23:55,519
Well, I know I speak
for everyone in Wagner.
454
00:23:55,519 --> 00:23:58,355
I'm Wagner for God's sake, uh,
[employees laugh]
455
00:23:58,355 --> 00:24:03,902
but I hope I also speak for everyone
at Ascendant Books when I say
456
00:24:03,902 --> 00:24:05,946
next month's launch of Radical Power
457
00:24:05,946 --> 00:24:09,616
will be the beginning
of a long and fruitful relationship.
458
00:24:09,616 --> 00:24:12,244
- You are--
Everyone's in the conference room.
459
00:24:12,244 --> 00:24:15,455
- Thank you, Jesse!
Come on, everybody. A toast.
460
00:24:15,455 --> 00:24:18,292
- You can't cheers
with an empty glass, Dick.
461
00:24:19,877 --> 00:24:21,461
It's bad luck.
462
00:24:21,461 --> 00:24:22,796
- Oh, shit.
463
00:24:24,298 --> 00:24:27,467
♪ music swells ♪
464
00:24:27,467 --> 00:24:29,928
- I'm sorry? What are you doing here?
465
00:24:29,928 --> 00:24:32,723
- [scoffs] You didn't think
you were gonna change the world
466
00:24:32,723 --> 00:24:34,016
without me, did you?
467
00:24:34,725 --> 00:24:37,227
Richard and Diana asked me to come back
468
00:24:37,227 --> 00:24:40,731
to make sure that your brilliant book
gets in as many hands as possible.
469
00:24:40,731 --> 00:24:42,441
And I jumped at the chance.
470
00:24:42,649 --> 00:24:45,944
It's a message that I truly
and deeply believe in.
471
00:24:47,571 --> 00:24:49,615
Not to mention it's gonna
make us all some serious bank.
472
00:24:49,615 --> 00:24:51,658
[all laugh]
473
00:24:51,658 --> 00:24:53,535
- Well, that sounds good to me.
474
00:24:53,785 --> 00:24:59,750
- To Jesse and to Nella Rogers,
our newest senior editor.
475
00:24:59,750 --> 00:25:01,543
[group murmurs]
476
00:25:01,543 --> 00:25:02,586
[slight chuckle]
477
00:25:03,587 --> 00:25:04,713
Cheers, everybody.
478
00:25:04,713 --> 00:25:07,049
ALL:
Cheers.
479
00:25:07,049 --> 00:25:09,676
[group chatters indistinctly]
480
00:25:14,598 --> 00:25:17,643
- You look great. [chuckles]
[Nella chuckles]
481
00:25:17,851 --> 00:25:19,478
I love what you've done with your hair,
482
00:25:19,478 --> 00:25:21,813
and it looks like
you've been using a new product.
483
00:25:21,813 --> 00:25:23,565
- Every day.
- Mm.
484
00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:24,942
- You were so right.
485
00:25:24,942 --> 00:25:28,570
It just gives me so much... control.
486
00:25:28,570 --> 00:25:32,449
- [chuckles]
We lost you for a minute there.
487
00:25:32,449 --> 00:25:33,367
- Sometimes you need a break
488
00:25:33,367 --> 00:25:35,202
from the grind
to remember what's important.
489
00:25:36,370 --> 00:25:38,497
- Well, we're happy you're back.
- Hm.
490
00:25:38,497 --> 00:25:40,332
- Richard and I left
your office empty for you
491
00:25:40,332 --> 00:25:42,084
hoping that you would
make the right decision.
492
00:25:43,293 --> 00:25:44,461
- My office?
493
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,046
- Vera's.
494
00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:48,131
It's yours now.
495
00:25:48,131 --> 00:25:49,633
[indistinct office chatter]
496
00:25:49,633 --> 00:25:52,261
And I think you'll find
that everything is gonna start
497
00:25:52,261 --> 00:25:53,762
to fall into place for you, Nella.
498
00:25:55,931 --> 00:25:57,057
[Diana chuckles]
499
00:26:01,979 --> 00:26:04,314
♪ tense music playing ♪
500
00:26:06,650 --> 00:26:08,443
- Oh, sorry, one second.
501
00:26:09,027 --> 00:26:11,905
Hey... Hey! Hey, girl.
502
00:26:11,905 --> 00:26:12,906
I'm just--
503
00:26:13,365 --> 00:26:18,537
I just wanted to say,
it is so good... that you're here.
504
00:26:18,537 --> 00:26:22,249
I've-- I'm just really glad
we can be friends.
505
00:26:22,249 --> 00:26:24,501
- Me too, girl.
- Yeah.
506
00:26:24,501 --> 00:26:26,712
Don't it feel good
to finally be on the same team?
507
00:26:26,712 --> 00:26:28,922
- Totally... Same team.
508
00:26:31,049 --> 00:26:33,844
- Looks like you finally
got everything you wanted.
509
00:26:34,303 --> 00:26:35,220
- Looks like.
510
00:26:36,597 --> 00:26:38,807
- I told you no one
was gettin' in our way.
511
00:26:39,391 --> 00:26:40,726
And now,
512
00:26:43,854 --> 00:26:45,689
now we can tell
each other everything, girl.
513
00:26:45,689 --> 00:26:47,191
[laughs]
We--
514
00:26:47,191 --> 00:26:48,692
Mm.
[clears throat]
515
00:26:49,276 --> 00:26:50,277
I am sorry.
516
00:26:50,277 --> 00:26:52,404
I did not mean to act like a 12-year-old.
517
00:26:52,404 --> 00:26:55,616
I was just, um--
I'm just really excited.
518
00:26:55,616 --> 00:26:56,950
- No, I get it.
519
00:26:56,950 --> 00:26:58,702
- Okay. So, you wanna grab lunch?
520
00:26:58,702 --> 00:27:00,204
Or we can get a martini to celebrate.
521
00:27:00,204 --> 00:27:04,124
- Um, yeah. I'm actually... really busy.
522
00:27:04,791 --> 00:27:07,169
- Oh. Oh, sure.
523
00:27:07,169 --> 00:27:08,545
- Maybe tomorrow?
524
00:27:09,296 --> 00:27:10,464
Or the next day?
525
00:27:11,256 --> 00:27:12,174
- Yeah.
526
00:27:12,591 --> 00:27:14,301
Yeah. I get it.
[chuckles]
527
00:27:15,260 --> 00:27:16,512
Totally.
528
00:27:16,512 --> 00:27:20,933
Um... congratulations.
529
00:27:22,351 --> 00:27:23,352
- Thanks.
530
00:27:27,564 --> 00:27:28,941
[door clicks shut]
531
00:27:28,941 --> 00:27:31,568
♪
532
00:27:42,037 --> 00:27:44,039
[Jesse groans]
533
00:27:47,668 --> 00:27:49,670
- Yo... this my Uber.
534
00:27:50,921 --> 00:27:52,714
- Oops, my bad.
[laughs]
535
00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:54,716
[taser zaps]
536
00:27:54,716 --> 00:27:57,678
♪
537
00:27:58,804 --> 00:28:02,724
[laughs] This shit is fun.
[laughing] Okay.
538
00:28:02,724 --> 00:28:03,976
- Please don't talk.
539
00:28:13,235 --> 00:28:18,073
♪ Float by Janelle Monáe
ft. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 playing ♪
540
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,121
♪ No, I'm-- No, I'm not--
No, I'm not the same ♪
541
00:28:24,121 --> 00:28:26,498
♪ No, I'm not the same,
no, I'm not the same ♪
542
00:28:26,498 --> 00:28:28,375
♪ No, I'm not the, fuck ♪
543
00:28:28,375 --> 00:28:32,171
♪ No, I'm not the same, uh ♪
[dialing number]
544
00:28:32,171 --> 00:28:37,259
♪ I think I done changed, yeah ♪
[ringback tone]
545
00:28:37,259 --> 00:28:38,468
- I'm in.
546
00:28:40,387 --> 00:28:43,515
Let's burn it down.
♪ Woo, woo, woo ♪
547
00:28:43,515 --> 00:28:45,517
♪ No, I'm not the same, nigga ♪
548
00:28:47,352 --> 00:28:50,898
♪ I think I done changed, nigga, uh ♪
549
00:28:50,898 --> 00:28:53,358
♪ See somethin' not the same, nigga ♪
550
00:28:53,358 --> 00:28:56,445
♪ I used to walk into the room head down ♪
551
00:28:56,445 --> 00:28:59,615
♪ I don't walk, now I float ♪
552
00:28:59,615 --> 00:29:03,368
♪ Float on 'em,
I float on 'em, just float ♪
553
00:29:03,368 --> 00:29:07,206
♪ They hangin' on to that
Goose down in my coat ♪
554
00:29:07,206 --> 00:29:09,791
♪ Float on 'em,
I float on 'em, just float ♪
555
00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:13,670
♪ I don't step, I don't walk,
I don't dance, I just ♪
556
00:29:13,670 --> 00:29:19,343
♪ Float, float, float, float ♪
557
00:29:19,343 --> 00:29:21,220
♪ I don't dance, I just ♪
558
00:29:21,220 --> 00:29:27,226
♪ Float, float, mm, float, float, float ♪
559
00:29:27,434 --> 00:29:29,603
♪ Mm, I just float ♪
560
00:29:29,603 --> 00:29:31,480
♪ I'm light as a feather,
I'm light as a feather ♪
561
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,898
♪ Yeah, baby, I float ♪
562
00:29:32,898 --> 00:29:34,858
♪ It's hard to look at my resume, hoo ♪
563
00:29:34,858 --> 00:29:36,693
♪ And not find a reason to toast ♪
564
00:29:36,693 --> 00:29:38,362
♪ She throwin' that thang in a circle ♪
565
00:29:38,362 --> 00:29:40,405
♪ Makin' it viral, I might just elope ♪
566
00:29:40,405 --> 00:29:42,616
♪ Say, Listen lil' mama,
you like shibari? ♪
567
00:29:42,616 --> 00:29:44,034
♪ Watch while I show you the ropes ♪
568
00:29:44,034 --> 00:29:45,953
♪ I used to let niggas get to me ♪
569
00:29:45,953 --> 00:29:47,704
♪ I used to be my own enemy ♪
570
00:29:47,704 --> 00:29:51,583
♪ Now I done had several epiphanies
over some breakfast at Tiffany's ♪
571
00:29:51,583 --> 00:29:53,502
♪ Had to forgive all my frenemies ♪
572
00:29:53,502 --> 00:29:56,213
♪ They are not who they pretend to be ♪
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