All language subtitles for Empire.2015.S05E03.WEBRip.x264-ION10

-The Lyons are
hitting back on Empire.
-(shouts)

-May we rise.
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-Previously on Empire...
-The new chief executive officer

-of Empire, Jeff Kingsley.
-(applause)

It's not like you've taken
any real assignments

since Jamal domesticated you.

ANDRE:
Gusto. Leave Quincy alone.

GUSTO: I take Princess here
till I'm done with him.

-(shouting)
-(alarm buzzes)

Jeff Kingsley is nothing
but a number cruncher.

So step up with us, the Lyons,

with our brand-new
management company.

We are going to put you first
and your music first.

* My life flashes

* Ahead is my desertion

* His trigger finger makes me
contemplate if I deserve it *

* I'd be damned if my family
would take the hit *

* So be a man and step
in front of this angry man *

* Without a purpose, ah

* Tell me this
ain't a conclusion *

* My body can barely react

* I'm thinking
it's just an illusion *

* But the bullet
is telling me facts *

* 'Cause that's my girl,
and that's my kid *

* If they ain't breathing,
I ain't living *

* Can't express
the feeling, praying *

-* Give me one more minute
-* ...going through my mind

* I can't even define *

* Got to put up a fight,
'cause I ain't ready to die... *

(panting)

(coughing)

COOKIE (in distance):
Boy, get your ass down here!

(sighs)

Mom, why are you screaming
so loud in the morning?

COOKIE: Ooh, you better
watch your tone.

Look at this:
"Lucious Lyon, broke."

And this one:
"Lyons with no pride."

They ain't nothing but trolls,
all of them.

Dad put all of our asses
on blast.

I had a homeless person
trying to give me a dollar

when we was leaving.

Oh, my goodness.
Mom, can I have that?

Y'all fix your faces and wait
for Dad to come back with Andre.

You know what? You're right.

Today is not the day
for doubters.

Today is the day that
the Lyon family are reunited,

-and we prove the haters wrong.
-Say it.

(ringtone playing)

Hey, Lucious. Where are you?

What?

What do you...?

Okay, where the hell
is Andre, then?

(sighs)

MARK:
Stupid move, Lyon,

losing it this close
to your release date.

It's a few days. I'll live.

A lot can happen to a man
in a few days.

Especially down here.

(neck cracks)

*

So, the bad news is Andre
ain't coming home for a bit.

But the good news
is we don't have time

to be sad about none of that.

We got work to do.

Now, the Empire that we knew
and love, that's dead.

Now it's time for us
to build an entirely new Empire.

Me and your mama, we found
some office space uptown.

I'm meeting with
some money men later on.

That's gonna shore up
our capital.

COOKIE: And I'm gonna staff
this bitch from the ground up.

See, if we build this company,

then the artists
will come to us.

And we would like to start

with the first two artists
being you two.

We would like for you to sign
with Lyon Family Management.

I mean, you know I'm down,
but there's no way

that Empire's gonna
let y'all just manage us

while we're still
under contract to them.

Well, go ahead.

I've taken the liberty
to go through your contracts.

I want you guys to read them
word for word.

You'll notice
where I've highlighted

individual clauses
that will allow us

to break these contracts
without us being sued.

They ain't gonna let us go
without a fight.

Then we got to do
whatever it takes.

Get busy doing it, 'cause we got

contracts to break
and some money to make.

-Bye, baby. I love you.
-Bye. Love you, too.

Okay, y'all heard him.

(buzzer sounds in distance)

Now, how you gonna
come for me and miss?

When you first got here,

you thought you was so smart,
didn't you?

You should've taken me out
when you had the chance.

(grunts) What the hell?!

You've been eyeballing me
since you got here.

Like you got something
you want to say.

So how about I open your mouth,
so you can say it.

(men shouting)

Here's how it's gonna work
from here on out.

I'm gonna go my way,
and you're gonna go yours.

If you step to me,
I will end you.

You understand me?

-Yeah? Talk to me.
-Ooh.

(chuckles) Little rich girl's
got a pair, y'all.

-Do you understand me?!
-Boy, I understand!

(men murmuring)

MAN:
Yeah, my man surprised him.

Mm. Literature.

(mutters)

* Red wine, sin-stained sheets

* The sound of you...

Come here, help me tie this.

-I need help.
-Okay.

See? All right. See?

-(ringtone playing)
-Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.

Oh. Yeah, Chief?

* Right now
at your pleasure... *

(mouths)

When?

Oh, yeah. Emirates nonstop
would be my preference,

but I know that, uh, Bryson will
need a layover in, uh, Paris.

Send a car for me in an hour?

All right.

He needs me to cover
the Sub-Saharan desk.

In Lagos.

* You used to be a good man...

I thought that this
was a home desk job.

Out of all the people around,

they got to have you
dodging bullets in Nigeria?

I've dodged bullets right here
in this very room,

-if you remember.
-Mm.

I can handle myself.

Yeah, you gonna
handle Bryson, too?

* Lately you've been searching *

* Longing for something...

Let's not do that.

There.

Your armor's in place;
now I need to go pack mine.

* I'm-a need ya... *

-I'll call you from Paris.
-Yeah.

* Take me right now
at your pleasure *

* Take me to another level.

Do you expect for us to answer
the phones, collect the mail,

wrangle up your little artists
and keep a schedule for free?

Yes, because I want you all
in this from the ground floor.

Okay, because this is gonna be
bigger than Empire. Trust me.

And I want this built by family,

with family tears, family blood,
family sweat...

-And family reaping
the back end?
-Amen.

Of course. Come on.

Holloway sisters united.

-Okay. Yes.
-Um, look, church finger.

I'm not a Holloway or a Lyon,
so 97% of this speech

ain't got nothing to do
with why I should work for free.

I need you to work A&R.

Can I be head of A&R?

Ain't nobody else in that
department, so yes, of course.

Congratulations. (laughs)

Look at that.
Promotions already.

That's a yes for Porsha.
What about you two heifers?

I want a title.

(sighs) Your title
is "recovering crack ho."

-Ooh!
-(laughs)

* Yeah, ... a dollar bill

* Where them hundreds at?
Blow it like a fan *

-* Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
-* Yeah, yeah.

(video game
sound effects playing)

Here. I brought you
Jamal and Hakeem's contracts.

(phone vibrating)

So first, Ludicrous the Lyon
hands me my ass in public,

now his sons want out.

Are you next?

I haven't received
any realistic offers lately.

I need you, Becky.

I need allies around here.

Right this way, please.

Gentlemen, have a seat.

-You up for a game?
-Nah, nah. Let's just get
right to business, yeah?

All right.

Well, just because your father
cut ties with Empire

-doesn't mean that you have to.
-No, I definitely think

that all Lyons need
to make a clean break.

Yeah, you see that physical
impairment clause on page 40?

Who would've thought that
artists read the fine print?

JAMAL: I will complete
all six unfinished songs

on Empire's server,
and then I'm done, too.

All just to help out your dad?

Hey, yo, my dad
don't need no help.

He's actually
right down the street,

making things
better and better for us.

JAMAL: This is about
our family sticking together.

-That's what's important.
-Family?

The three Lyon brothers used
to be the pillars of Empire.

Now one of them's in jail,
and one of them

is reduced to begging
for scraps on behalf

of his daddy's little venture.

And the third,
broken beyond repair.

Who's this lame calling broken?

-(coughs)
-JAMAL: Calm down.

KINGSLEY:
Calm down, little man,

before you cough up
another lung.

Your value is
in your back catalog.

So this version of you

is free to hit the bricks
if you want to.

Go.

And as for you, Jamal,

the album that you owe Empire
must consist of new material,

per your contract.

Yeah. You'll never get one note.

Then you'll never sing again.

Because until I get my album,
your music belongs to me.

LUCIOUS: Welcome to the offices
of Lyon Family Management.

I'll invite you back
two nights from now

to see it in its full glory.

If you've looked over
the portfolio,

you'll see that we can guarantee

to triple your investment
in two years' time.

(chuckles):
That's a pretty bold claim.

LUCIOUS: Well, you know, I've
been at this for 20 years, man.

J.J.: Well, your track record
isn't in artist management.

And due to your well-publicized
financial state,

-you're a credit risk.
-I'm a what?

Look, we all respect Andre,

but frankly
I'm glad he's not here.

Associating with a known felon
is not a good look.

Do you hear yourself, J?
You're a known felon.

I mean, you just got
your ankle monitor off

-from your tax fraud case.
-(man clears throat)

Wow. Oh, I get it.

So you can dust yourself off

after a fall
and reinvent yourself,

but people like me,
I got to stay in my lane.

Is that what y'all are saying?

You're taking this
the wrong way, okay?

You need to calm down
for a second...

No, no, no.
I don't need to calm down.

We've been doing business
for 20 years.

I've always been good on a loan.

Now I've guaranteed y'all
three times your investment

in two years.

This is the part where you
either take it or leave it.

We're gonna leave it, Lucious.

J.J. Are you serious, man?

*

-(sighs)
-So, Cookie, my guy has agreed

to shoot the grand opening.

All I need is a credit card
to reserve.

Yeah, yeah.
Put-put a hold on all of that.

Lucious didn't get the VC money.

Hey, hey, hey.

You okay?

Yeah.

It's just, uh, you know,
Lucious and I,

we got to rethink
some things money-wise.

You know, this has
got to work for us,

because if it doesn't, there is
no starting from square one.

We are at zero.

What else you gonna do,
Cookie, huh?

Sell your kidneys?

You've already given everything
for this man.

Well, not everything.

N-No.

No, Cookie. No.

Now, you told me if you ever
ask, I should shut you down.

Well, I didn't ask yet.
(whispers): Shut your ass up.

And I told you
not to say nothing. She...

Um, excuse me, but this little
secret sound juicy as hell.

-(sighs)
-So you may as well spill it.

I'm all up in it now.
What's happening?

I got a loft in SoHo.

And I got it when I thought
Lucious was gonna run off

with that bitch Giuliana
and give her all my money.

So I convinced her
to buy a loft.

She needed a safety net,

something separate
and apart from Lucious.

And you promised that
you would never tell or sell.

Yeah, well, one out of two
ain't bad.

But Lucious, he doesn't know
about it, right?

-Mm.
-So why don't you just sell it?

Move. I can't breathe. (sighs)

Look, a lot has happened
since I got that loft, okay?

It's a safety net, right?

A safety net is supposed
to catch you when you fall.

And we've fallen.

I need that damn money. Sell it.

*

(Thirsty muttering)

Lookee, lookee. Hey.

Captain Ahab himself.

Chased any white whales lately?

Yeah, well, you know how it is.

How you been, partner?

Oh, well, you know,
I'm Gucci, baby.

Now what brings you by?

Seen a couple of my, uh,
ads for the bus benches?

LUCIOUS:
Actually, I saw a bum

wrap himself up with one of them
a couple days ago. (chuckles)

(chuckles)
You got jokes.

I'll have you know, those ads
are doing me just fine.

They made me the number three

Slip-and-Fall Guy
in all of Greenpoint

and the number two #MeToo Guy
in Queens.

So I'm doing fine.

Well, how'd you like to come
back and be my number one

in a new music venture that
we're doing with me and Cookie?

You can bring
your client list, too,

to invest in our new venture.

We can all win.

So let me get this straight.

You don't call me
for, like, a year,

and you think it's all right
you just drop by

-and ask me for my client list?
-Look, man, um,

it ain't never been
like that, Thirst.

No? What's it like?

You know how it was for us, man.

We had our challenges
and, um... but Cookie and I,

we-we're trying to put
the band back together.

So, we would like
for you to help.

(elevator bell dings)

I thought you'd be out slangin'
Henny, celebrating your freedom.

Oh, so I'm supposed
to be at a club

'cause a chump
said I was a loser?

I guess not.

Here's the lyrics to prove it.

I need you to help me with this.

It's beautiful, Keem.

It's dark as hell, but damn.

For months, I could barely
breathe, let alone talk.

But I be having
these crazy dreams

I can't tell nobody about.

But you put it all in here.

There's more where that
came from, if you help me.

(chuckles softly)

What you standing there
for then, boy?

Come on. Let's lay it down.

(exhales)

(whistles)

It's about how
a group of numbers nerds

crack an uncrackable system.

A team of misfits save the day?
Now who's pushing fantasies?

Well, you're smart.
That could be you.

(scoffs) Like I have a future.

You know, Quincy,
most people are who they are,

not what they've done.

Look, I didn't do anything.

(men chattering)

Old, white lady got jacked,
and two days later,

the cops roll up
saying I match the description.

How long?

Five years.

I missed my high school
graduation, so...

I just pretend this is
the worst college ever.

Keep my head down. Keep reading.

You like economics, Quincy?

-I'm a numbers guy, too.
-CFO of Empire.

MBA from Wharton.

Man, I was set up to go straight
there when I got locked up.

Read the book.

* My life flashes,
ahead is my desertion *

* His trigger finger makes me
contemplate if I deser... *

-(coughing)
-(music stops)

Come on, man. Show the beast.
One more time.

-(music resumes)
-* Ahead is my desertion

* His trigger finger makes me
contemplate that I deserve it *

* I'd be damned if my family
would take a hit... *

(coughing)

* Without a purpose...

-(coughs) Hey, yo, Mal,
I can't breathe, man.
-(music stops)

Just, you know, take a second.
All right?

I just took a second!

-Man, come on.
-No.

(elevator bell dings)

*

(coughs)

What up, bro?

What's up?

(sighs)

Yeah, make yourself comfortable.

When does it hit you that
you're living at home, bro?

Like, do Lucious and Cookie,
like, send you to bed

and, like, pack your lunch
in the morning? (laughs)

Shut up.
I want you to see something.

I'm still finishing it up.

If you want it, it's yours.

It's a new song.

-This is about the...
-The shooting.

Why don't you just do it?

Be honest with you,
I can't even breathe right.

My lung all messed up.

But that track right there,
the world need to hear it.

And you went through it.

(scoffs) I don't know
what to say, Keem.

I mean, this is incredible. I...

Yeah.

I'll do it.

I'll do your words justice, bro,
I promise you.

(sighs)

*

(laptop ringing)

(music stops)

(laptop chimes)

Hey, babe. How's Paris?

Just a layover.

Then we do a little piece
in rural Nigeria before Lagos.

How's New York?

Um, Kingsley is holding me
hostage at Empire.

And I think that I killed
the last hope for Hakeem

-to be back to normal.
-(sighs) Sounds tough, my man.

Come hang out with me
when I head to Mogadishu.

(scoffs) That's what
we're gonna do now?

What?

Act like the things I'm talking
about are unimportant

because I'm not running off
chasing civil wars?

I did not mean it like that.

Is that what you think I did?
Run off?

Well, yeah. I mean,
we were starting a life here,

then the first little carrot
that gets dangled

in front of you, you dip out.

Ah, is that what
you're gonna do now? Just...

act like we're starting a life
when what we're really doing

is just... is picking
back up your old one.

That's not true. I told you
that my whole family needed me.

That's why I agreed to stay,

but I-I never said I'd give up
my career because you did.

Bye, babe. Be safe.

(music resumes)

-Hey! Baby boy?
-WOMAN: Excuse me!
You can't just walk in there.

-Man, get your hands off of me.
-Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

What kind of game
are you playing, man?

Oh. You're upset about the place

that you were
considering leasing?

The place you stole
from under me.

Well, I got some advice for you:
maybe you should tell Hakeem

to stop blabbing your business
in the street.

You know, why are you
so interested

in my family, anyway?

(chuckles):
No, Lucious.

You mistake me.
It's not personal.

I was in a calculus final
my freshman year at Stanford.

The kid next to me,
he breaks his pencil

and asks me
if he can borrow one.

I refused.

If he finishes the test,

he raises the curve
for all of us.

So you think this is
just business, huh?

Look, Empire is growing.

I need more space to record.

Maybe Jamal can record the album
he owes me there.

Look here.

Stronger, hungrier,
more capable men

have come for me.

Every one of them has failed.

Preventing you from starting
a rival venture...

it's not a vendetta, Lucious.

No.

It's a business strategy.

See, you got me mistaken.

Where I come from, we don't play
black eyes and bloody noses,

or schoolyard tits for tats.

It's life or death.

A strategy like yours can
make a man meet his maker.

(laughs)

-I'll see you soon.
-(laughs): Yeah.

Touch me again.

Where are we gonna have
this launch event?

Could you sit down
before you give yourself

-another heart attack?
-I don't think you get it.

I have an event tomorrow
with nowhere to host it.

Hey, what about using
your secret little condo?

Shut your dumb ass up!
Well, can we?

Y'all about to give me whiplash.

First of all, it is not zoned
for commercial use.

So what? So now we care
about some rules?

And I have gotten three offers
since you told me to list it.

-One of them, all cash.
-Get that cash offer.

-Done.
-Yes.

(clears throat)

-Lucious.
-Hey.

You didn't kill Jeff Kingsley,
did you?

Not yet, but he's definitely
on my list.

What's this gathering of
the witches of Eastwick for?

-CANDACE: Oh, please.
-Shut your bum-leg ass up.

We are trying to figure out
where to have this party,

since we've been
kicked to the curb.

You got any bright ideas, nubby?

-(laughs)
-To hell with the dumb stuff.

Why don't we just build it
right here?

In the house?

I mean, this whole company
is about family,

and we got the boys back.

I talked to Thirsty.
I even talked to Becky,

and Becky's talking about
coming back home.

Let's build it
right here at home.

Come on, bro, that's your
best idea? Breathe?

-I can barely get one breath in.
-Okay.

It's because your lyrics
don't allow you to.

You know what I'm saying?
So why not add a breath?

Add shorter lyrics,
more staccato.

You want me to break my verse?

I can't break my verse
like that.

Okay, look, everything that
you wrote is beautiful.

I love it, but you need to
sit that down for a second.

'Cause all that does is
trigger PTSD.

And, look, you know that I know
what I'm talking about.

You got to change the tone,
up here and here.

You feel me?

Look.

This right here is my track.

My track, okay?

(music playing)

I mean, I don't really know
what it's missing,

but it's missing something, and
it might just be missing you.

You know? Look.

I'm no dark poet like you,
but...

(chuckles) Come in
after the hook, 'cause, like...

(vocalizes)

* Feel like
I'm talking foreign *

(vocalizing)

* Uh, really?
I feel the same way *

-* Oh, oh
-* Tryin' to talk to you *

-* You do the same thing
-* Yeah

* You be twisting up my words
like a Backwood *

* Then you try to play the
victim like I knew you would. *

-Mal, this might work.
-(music stops)

Uh, I don't see no cough, son.
Like, what-what?

(both laugh)

-* Whoa, whoa, whoa *
-* Get out the way

-* Get out the way,
get out the way, yeah *
-* Yeah *

* Get out the way,
get the ... up *

-* Out my way, yeah
-* Yeah *

* You either with me
or against me, though *

* You either with me or

-* Wait *
-* Win

-* Win, win, win, win
-* Win. *

It ain't Carol's garage,
but I guess it'll have to do.

(chuckles)

Have to do. I love you.

Mm.

*

THIRSTY:
So, just so you know.

And the woman by the shrimp
cocktails, that's Mabel Watkins,

the Slip-and-Fall Queen.

$3.5 million judgment
against the city.

Never met a sidewalk
she didn't sue.

Mm-hmm. The shrimp cocktail
queen, too.

She been over there
since she got here.

-Stop it.
-(laughs) Let her eat.

She need to leave some
for the guests. We broke.

The dude with the neck brace,
that's, uh, Kenny Simon.

He has a little workman's comp
situation, S&M.

-S&M?
-Worth about 1.4 million.

Now, I told them they can
invest in your company,

they came running.

Uh, tell them to walk,
'cause we don't have insurance.

-Hi.
-Mm. Hey.

(chuckles) Hey.

-Hey. Hey, Becky.
-Hi.

-Hey, you.
-Thank you for making it.

Well, I didn't think I had a
choice; you called me 110 times.

(Lucious laughs)

Well, okay.

(music fades out)

Well, first and foremost, I
would like to welcome everyone

to the Lyon Family Management
first event.

I couldn't imagine being
at a happier place

than I am right here at home,

because this is
where it all began.

-Then...
-Wait. This is it?

This is the whole company?

I didn't come here
to invest in no living room.

Excuse me, Weezy Jefferson.

You've been, uh, aggressive
with my shrimp cocktail,

a little too much to waltz
your ass up out of here.

So I'm gonna need you
to sit your ass down

and let this man finish.

And then go easy on the shrimp,

'cause other people here
want to eat.

-MABEL: Mm-hmm.
-Thank you, Cookie.

Uh, Mrs. Watkins,
I'm sure you can understand

the passion that my wife has.

Our entire business started
in a living room just like this.

Went on to take over
the streets,

and next thing you know,
we took over the entire world.

COOKIE:
That's right.

Now, a very wise woman once said

that the greatest asset
that Empire had

all had the last name Lyon.

I want to demonstrate that.
Jamal.

Actually, little brother
is gonna lead this one.

Nah. Nah, man, no.

JAMAL:
It's fine. He's ready.

You got it. Listen.

You can do it.
You can do it.

-(mouthing)
-He's fine.

You can do it, baby.

-Go ahead.
-Hey, look.

It's just like we practiced.
You got this.

-My lung, bro.
-You got it.

-Is he ready?
-Uh...

JAMAL:
Prince Hakeem.

(chuckles)
Come on, man. Kill it.

-* Yeah
-(music begins)

-* First things first
-* Okay

-* I think you be really
acting immature *
-* Say what?

-* I think you be blowing this
out of proportion *
-* That's you *

* I think you be making
worse things worse *

* I feel like
I'm talking foreign *

-* Telling you
something important *
-* What you tell 'em, bro? *

* But you take my words
and ignore 'em, no *

-* Really? I feel the same way
-* Oh

-* Tryin' to talk to you,
you do the same thing *
-* No, I don't *

* You be twisting up my words
like a Backwood *

* Then you try to play the
victim like I knew you would *

-* I'm a mess *
-* I'm a mess? *

-* You a mess
-* You a mess

-* And we both gotta
give this here a rest *
-* Yeah

* All we do is point
the blame, right? *

* Point the blame, right?

* We're both yelling
at the same time *

* You don't hear me, you don't
hear me, you don't hear me *

-* You don't hear me
like I want you to *
-* Nah

* Be quiet, we both yelling
at the same time *

-* I'm a mess *
-* I'm a mess? *

-* You a mess
-* You a mess

-* And we both gotta
give this here a rest *
-* Yeah

-* All we do is point
the blame, right? *
-* Point the blame, right?

* We both yelling
at the same time *

* You don't hear me, you don't
hear me, you don't hear me *

-* You don't hear me
like I want you to *
-* Nah

* Be quiet, we both yelling
at the same time. *

-(music ends)
-(cheering)

-Yes! How you like that, Weezy?
-I'm loving it!

Have all the shrimp you want.

I told you.

-Did we do that?
-We did that.

-We did that. Give it to me.
-(laughing)

We did that.

Yes. But it's not what
those venture capitalists

would've given us.

-But it's okay, we'll take it.
-You know what?

The hell with them
white boys, man.

Them the same fools that
undervalued me in the beginning.

Said I wouldn't sell one album.
I sold 100 million albums.

They said that a man like me
couldn't run a company.

Man, I ran my company
straight to Wall Street.

Man, I built Empire.

And I'm gonna do it again,
'cause that's what I do.

(chuckles):
That's what I do, baby.

-We do.
-Well, you know what I meant.

(chuckles) We did it.

-We did it.
-Becky. Thanks for coming, Mama.

-Yeah.
-You look amazing.

We did it, baby.

Okay, so I can't even be snarky.

That was really amazing.
I'm really excited for you.

Thank you.
Now, when you quitting?

-Quit?
-Yeah. I need you here.

You expect me to give up my job?

Kingsley's about to promote me.
I'm not gonna quit.

Kingsley's my enemy.

How you gonna be loyal to me...
working with Kingsley?

Loyalty is what, choosing you
over my career? Are you serious?

You wouldn't even have a career
if it wasn't for me, Becky.

Because you gave me one job,
just one job, an assistant job,

and then you repeatedly
looked me over after that.

Any promotion I got
had nothing to do with you.

Am I supposed to have
undying loyalty for you?

That's what loyalty is!
It's-it's unconditional!

Undivided. Unswerving.

It's ride or die, Becky.
If you don't know that,

what the hell are you doing
in my house? Honestly.

Leaving. Honestly.

-Get the hell out my house.
I don't need you.
-Bye.

(door opens, closes)

Are you okay?
Is something wrong, Cook?

Mm-mm.

-CANDACE: You feeling all right?
-Yes.

We need to take
your blood pressure.

It's not like that.

Uh, Candace, did the sale
to the condo go through yet?

I haven't formally accepted.
Why?

Uh... Well, I just, um,

I-I don't think
it's a good time now, you know?

I can put a pause in it.

You want me to take it
off the market?

Yeah. Yes.

Yeah. Thanks.

Why? Why are you doing this?

Why are you changing your mind
about needing a safety net?

What happened?
Did Lucious do something?

No. Oh, come on. You know
it's ride or die with us.

It's just, you know,
I've been thinking,

and it's what Candace always
says about real estate is that

it always appreciates,
so I just think it's silly

to sell it right now
with all that's going on.

So... You know, you never know
what could happen. (sighs)

A.C. might go out again.
Why are y'all looking like that?

-* You don't hear me *
-* You don't hear me *

* You don't hear me
like I want you to *

-* Nah
-* Be quiet

-* We both yelling
at the same time. *
-(music stops)

I have fulfilled
my contractual obligation.

You've outdone yourself
on this one.

Oh, this'll be the lead single.
There's nine more just like it.

Should we talk release dates?

Yeah, but before we do that,

you might want to call up
your accounting department.

You're gonna have to cut
a lot of checks to my family.

Every song on the album,

including the one that you just
heard, samples a Lyon on it,

so you'll have to cut
royalty checks for every sale,

every performance,
every use, forever.

-Samples can be stripped out.
-Mm-mm. Not mine.

Check my contract.

I have full creative control
over my music.

So go ahead, release the album.

Lyons gonna count our coins.

-(intercom beeps)
-LINDA: Yes, sir?

Linda, I need you to arrange
a visit for me.

-Sure.
-To a correctional facility.

Hey, Andre.

You all right?

(door opens)

Hey.

You have to stay strong, baby.

We're gonna get you out of here.
You understand?

Yes, Mom.

Yo, Quincy.

-For the eye. man.
-We're fine.

-Thank you.
-Well, I'm not trying
to cause no trouble,

you know, I just want
to help him.

Thank you. I'm talking
to my son now. Thank you.

Don't you take a damn thing
from those people.

LUCIOUS:
How you doing, son?

I'm holding up, Pop.
How are you?

-You good?
-I'm good, but you know

you gonna have to give me
something more than

"I'm holding up, Pop."

You know, your mama
wants a complete dossier.

Tell Ma don't worry, you know,
I'm doing my time in peace.

Yeah, it's hard,
though, man. We...

I just... I feel responsible

'cause I told you
to protect the family,

-and it got you up in here.
-Pop, Pop, Pop.

I don't blame you
for speaking truth, Pop.

And, if anything, you know,
this place is good for me.

Come again?

-Explain that.
-Well, you sent me to Wharton

to learn how
the business world operates.

And now I'm here learning
how the street operates.

With that combination,
I'll be unstoppable, Pop.

See, I've learned to allow
people to underestimate me,

think they got me boxed in.

And that's the moment I strike.

No warning, no threats.

Pure annihilation.

It's time.

Get it done.

Find someplace else
to look, boy.

Who knows? Maybe you'll like it.

(men grunting)

Hold him up!

Get him up, get him up.

(Gusto gagging)

MAN (over P.A.): We got an
inmate down, D-Block rec room.

Repeat, inmate down.

MATTHEW (in distance):
Hey, what's going on out there?

(alarm blaring in distance)

You want a souvenir?

(Andre chuckles softly)

Give it to one of his apostles.

Aw, you ain't no good.

MATTHEW (in distance):
No! What have you done?!

(Matthew continues shouting
in distance)

*

(phone vibrates)

(laptop ringing)

Hey, Jamal, I have, uh, a couple
of my friends here with me,

and they want to give you a
little performance. Y'all ready?

Yeah, warm 'em up, warm 'em up.
You know it. There you go.

All right. Enjoy.

One, two, three, go.

ALL:
* You're so beautiful *

* Shake it, shake it and

* I don't care who knows *

* Move it, move it, go up, down,
up, down, up, down *

* Go up, down,
up, down, up, uh-huh *

* Go up, down, up, down

* Up, down, go up, down,
up, down, up, down *

* Go up, down,
up, down, up, down *

* Go up, down, up, down,
up, down, shake it fast. *

-(chuckles)
-KAI: Kids, say hi
to Jamal Lyon.

KIDS:
Hi!

Hi, everybody. I love you.

So you just gonna take
all those beautiful children,

try to get back on my good side?

-(boy chatters)
-(chuckles)

-Well, did it work?
-Course it did.

One more week,
and I will be back by your side.

Yeah, I'm-a hold you to that.

KAI: One more time, guys.
One, two, three, four.

ALL:
* You're so beautiful *

-(boy shouts happily)
-* Shake it, shake it

-* I don't care who knows. *
-(laughs)

BLAKE:
* My life flashes

* Ahead is my desertion

* His trigger finger makes me
contemplate if I deserve it *

* I'd be damned if my family *

* Would take the hit,
so be a man and step in front *

* Of this angry man
without a... *

Wow.

-What's that?
-Hi. Uh, nothing. It's nothing.

Nothing?
Doesn't sound like nothing.

-(chuckles)
-Go play, baby.

Stay close so I can see you.

I really appreciate you
watching Prince.

What are you working on?

-Was it about the shooting?
-Yeah.

-I could stop if it bothers you.
-No, no, come on.

Come on. What you wrote,
that's how it felt.

I still relive it every day,
you know.

Me, too.

If Hakeem could just put out

his emotions on the page
like you did,

maybe he wouldn't be so...

I should go.

Come over for dinner.

What, you cooking?

-I have some prepared meals.
-Oh.

-I can't cook to save my life.
-Oh, you know,

-I could chef it up
a little bit. Yeah.
-Oh, really? Okay.

Just don't let your mouth
write checks you can't cash.

Come on, none of that.
I'm a good cook, for real.

We'll see. Come on, baby.
(chuckles)

-You ready? 'Sup, little man?
-Ready?

-Let's go get some dinner.
-Hey, Bella.

'Sup, Bella?
All right, I'm following you.

-All right. Okay.
-You got groceries, right?

Wait here. I'll get the inmate.

Much appreciated.

You made it out
in one piece, Lyon.

More than we can say for Gusto.

I'm guessing that
the warden doesn't like

that his number one suspect
has a rock solid alibi.

I've got some packing to do.
I'm going home.

Not yet. You got a visitor.

Oh, you're Quincy's mom.
Um, I think they made a mistake.

No, I...
I'm here to see you, Andre.

I'm Teri.

Hey.

It kills me not to be able
to protect my son in there.

I pray for him every day.

And now, thank God,

that bastard
can't hurt him anymore.

Yeah, I heard that.

He said you had your guys
handle this.

Why'd you do that?

I didn't say I did.

I want to say thank you.

You're a good, good man.

I don't know about that.

I do.

*

I really appreciate
your agreeing to meet with me.

I've denied most requests.

Mostly they've been
from tabloid reporters

who want to paint me as some
modern day Marquise de Merteuil.

Les Liaisons dangereuses.

Please.

You are so much more
formidable than that.

(chuckles) Hmm.

(both laugh)

It's been a long time

since a young handsome man
has tried to flatter me.

You must want something.

You know the expression, "The
enemy of my enemy is my friend"?

Few people know
that that is actually

an ancient Sanskrit proverb.

From fourth century BCE.

Let's just say I think we're
going to be very good friends.

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Media Access Group at WGBH

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here are a few more shows
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Buckle up, buttercup.

It's real, and it pulls
people together.

-* We're breaking waves
shooting stars *
-(siren wailing)

* We live for glory
not forever *

MAN: Touchdown!

* Reach out *

* Make this right here
right now *

* Stand up *

* Here right now *

That sounds like fun.