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Okay, now walk with me, Joaquin. No!

Why should I walk you?

Because I'm the oldest.

So? I'm the youngest and the cutest.

Yeah, we got some sun frost.

Hey, hey, hey, hey! You're working my nerves now.

Now don't make me have to relapse up in here.

Y 'all figure that out or go to bed.

I'm scared with that.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

You better get your butts back here and fold up this sheet.

You wouldn't last a minute in lockdown.

Lockdown? I'm nine.

Hey, everybody.

Hey, Will.

Will, what are you guys going to call me, Daddy? Hey, Daddy.

Not you, Tonya.

Sorry I'm late, but surgery took a lot longer than I expected.

Yeah, and I knew that you'd be hungry, too, so I left you three pieces of

chicken in the kitchen.

Two, one.

Going up to bed, you little chicken thieves.

Bye.

And guess what?

I folded all of your clothes, including your underwear.

Okay, you didn't have to do that.

Oh, please.

It's not a big deal.

I'm telling you, you know how long I've been trying to get in them drawers.

Girl, you silly.

Oh, and don't forget to go to Joaquin's parent -teacher conference on Wednesday.

Oh, no, I didn't forget.

But I might not be able to make it. Oh, well, don't even worry about it, because

I'll be there. Oh. Yeah.

Yes, I will.

Oh, my gosh, I better get out of here and catch my bus before I miss it.

Uh, what time's your last bus? In two minutes.

Can you take those clothes upstairs?

Uh, sure.

If your last bus is in two minutes, you better run. I know.

See you later.

All right. See you, Will.

Tanya, you know what? I'm just joking.

Why don't you just stay here on the couch? You might as well.

For real?

Yeah. Cool.

Oh, my gosh. You're so kind.

Shoot, this is great.

Oh, I could get a good night's sleep without hearing the sweet sounds of last

one in sleeps on the floor.

What is your name?

Renee, Mr. Stevens in 307 said he hasn't been getting his dinner.

He lying!

He does get his dinner. And then when he don't like it, he just throw it out in

the hallway.

Sounds like a job for the night nurse.

Uh, isn't that outfit too skimpy for work?

are you going wherever we are going the drinks are going to be free wait

a minute uh you two are hanging out now

well renee's been telling me about this club for weeks so i figured well i've

got some free time i would go and check it out that's right we are hitting the

streets partner we gonna make it do what it do baby but we only got like two

hours to do that before these dogs start

Uh, Sasha, can I talk to you for a minute?

No, she is not talking to you.

Yes, I am.

Um, Renee, could you give us a moment, please?

Okay.

I'm gonna go start the car.

It takes about 20 minutes for it to warm up, so take your time.

So what's up?

Just, you know, just wanted to see how you were doing.

I'm fine.

Yeah, you know, just staying busy.

So how are the kids?

Oh, uh, you know, Joaquin ran off and Brianna's pregnant. What?

I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking. Will, don't play with me like that.

But, uh, they miss you.

Well, I'll make sure I call them as soon as I get in the car, okay?

Uh, by the way, the parent -teacher conference for Joaquin? Oh, yeah, yeah.

meant to talk to you about that. I'm going to be running a little late, but,

of course I'll be there.

Okay. Um, Tanya's going to go.

That's great.

That's so good. I mean, it looks like you got it all worked out.

Right?

Okay, I'm going to go now.

Okay?

Bye, Will.

This is awkward.

Yeah, stick around and it can get worse. Man, about... Don't even go there with

me, man.

Listen, it was all me.

It takes two, Troy.

Not this time.

Sasha's a good woman.

She never did anything to disrespect you, and you need to know that. Do you

really think I'm going to stand here and listen to you talk about my wife? You

don't have to listen to me. All I'm telling you is that none of this is her

fault. And I heard you.

As we discuss Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

and how they became legends through their nonviolent protests, can anyone

any other legends?

Anybody?

Oh, Marlo, go ahead.

John Legend.

He is not a legend, sweetheart.

Well, his music changed my life, you know. Well, anybody else?

I tell you what, if I catch you running in this hall again, I'm gonna hit you

with this flag flag.

Mr. Brown.

Oh, hey, Carver. You're interrupting my class.

Oh, they ain't paying attention anyway.

Half of them passing notes and the other half is passing gas.

Well, is that you?

Passing that wind like that?

Mr. Brown.

Here's the new policy changes. Do we have to do this now?

Yes. They said for your eyes only. They said nobody else to look at it. So I

opened it up.

What it says, starting next week, all the students are going to have to have

transparent backpacks. What? What?

Wait, hold up, hold up.

Transparent backpacks? Is there an echo in here? Yeah, that's what I said.

Backpacks, backpacks, backpacks. What the what?

Mr. Simmons, what about our rights to privacy?

This is public school. Ain't no private school.

Mr. Simmons, no one ever asked us our opinion. Well, I'm sorry. You should

got somebody's opinion before you left that barbershop. You look a mess.

Rules are rules, Marlo. Yes. Don't we have a say -so in this?

Yes, you do. Yes, you do.

Do what the rules say so you won't get in trouble. Now, stand up.

I see you, Carter. Bye. Thank you, sir. I'm sorry. I mean, Miss Simmons.

All right, class. All right.

This don't make no sense.

Come on, y 'all. We got to do something about this. Come on.

Right? Okay, well, first we need to calm down.

There are ways that we can handle this.

Sure is, man. We about to pull a Gandhi up in this piece.

Who with me?

Now, remember, Gandhi went on a three -weeks fast on his protest.

Oh, well.

Well, uh...

Who down for a protest after lunch? You know what I'm saying?

Oh,

hey.

Tanya. Yeah, I thought it was Brianna. Hi.

Actually, Brianna left her jacket in the car.

Is she back from school yet? Oh, no.

No, nobody's here.

No, I'll take it. Thanks.

So, is that it?

I mean, I guess so. I just... Okay, well, then you take care.

Okay? Thanks for coming over. Bye -bye.

Who was that?

Oh, that was just a Girl Scout.

Yeah, I told him that you had all the cookies you need.

Okay, so, uh, what's next?

Did you put the celery in?

Mm -hmm.

No, you're supposed to chop it up first. Oh. Silly Willie.

You know what? I knew that. I knew that.

I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking.

Okay,

now what's on your dome piece, home piece?

Dome piece?

Seriously?

Who says that anymore? How long have you been in jail?

Long enough to know when somebody's bothered.

Now, what's up? Come on. Come here. Come on. Dr.

Tanya's in. Have a seat.

Talk to me.

Are you serious? Yes, and tell me what's up.

What's up? What's on your mind?

I don't know. I can't believe Sasha's been hanging out with Renee.

She knows that girl's got warrants.

Who doesn't?

And come on, why are you so worried about what Sasha's doing?

I'm not sure.

I mean, I guess I really shouldn't care, but I don't know. I just don't know

what to do.

It seems like she's changed, you know?

Well, change is good.

I mean, look at me. Look at me.

I've changed.

I mean, come on. I've gone from roofies to rehab, okay?

I've gone from prison to princess.

I have gone from heathen to housewife.

Holla!

You know what?

I'll give it to you, Tonya.

You've come a long way.

Yeah. Well, thanks, Will. You know.

I really do owe a lot of it to you.

Nah, nah, nah. Nah, that was all you.

You know what?

I've seen that you can do just about anything you set your mind to.

You think so?

I know so.

Wow.

Well, come on. Let's go get back to this gumbo.

Can you get the green beans for me? Out the fridge? Okay.

Okay. Got it.

you doing i'm doing what comes next next i don't see why not i mean come on will

you've been so nice to me i'm just just trying to show that you know show you

that i appreciate you just because the man is nice to you doesn't mean he wants

to sleep with you yes it does come on well i am running around here playing

kizzy cooking for you cleaning your house washing your funky drawers

I mean, come on now. If I'm acting like wife, he should not get the benefits of

the wife. No.

And wait a minute. I thought you were here for Brianna and Joaquin, not me.

Well, that's how it started.

I mean, Will, come on, man. You know we hit it off.

We had a moment on the couch, right? We had the little celery moment, right? We

had the moment right here.

You needed me.

Come on, Will. Do you know the last time I felt needed?

Look, Tonya, I mean, I appreciate everything you've been doing here, but

married. Come on, you're married to a woman that you kicked to the curb

she cheated on you. She didn't cheat on me. It was just a kiss.

Oh, okay.

And you didn't just cheat on her?

No, I didn't.

You tried to kiss me, and I stopped it.

Just like Sasha did, Troy.

Oh.

Lord have mercy.

Jesus, help us all in this house. Here you are defending her again.

Just because Sasha and I are going through a tough time right now doesn't

I'm not still in love with her.

Oh, boy.

Oh, that must be nice.

I made a fool of myself. You must think I'm a fool.

Huh?

No, Tanya.

I'm the fool.

I mean, uh... Okay, all right.

I'm going.

But I got to take my gumbo with me. Shoot, I can sell this at the shelter,

You know, some of your parents been out there for hours, and they're upset,

especially your dad, Milo. My dad there?

Miss Simmons, that's my mother.

Oh, my baby?

She's got to look past the beard.

I'm tired. I'm sleepy, okay?

Hold it, fit balls. I'm coming in. I'm your negotiator. Good. Mr. Brown, come

on. I'm a negotiator. See him? I'm a negotiator. What'd they say?

Well, when we get the list, they told me... Hurry up, Mr. Brown. Please. I got

the latest from the faculty. Here it is. Right here. Okay, here it is. Okay. It

says right here. All right.

Run! Get out, everybody!

Mr. Brown!

This is serious! Well, I'm trying to help get this thing over with.

Okay, what they said was there's pizza and juice for everybody that'll give up

right now. Because I know you're hungry.

I know you're hungry. I know somebody here is hungry.

Man, look, tell them that they can't bribe us with food.

The

revolution

does not include pizza.

Maybe now they're compromised since you done let go of one of your hostages.

Yeah, Lil' Biggie wasn't a hostage.

Lil' Biggie was a traitor.

You ain't got no hostages. You ain't got no hostages? No. No revolution song?

No slogans or nothing?

No. Yo, what?

If it was left up to y 'all, we'd still be marching for our freedom.

Look, these are the concessions that we're willing to make.

What the what? Why did you write this with your feet?

with writing stuff like this, Carver. No, man, just take them to note. Look,

just tell me if they let us keep our backpacks, we'll end the strike.

Well, all right, I'll tell them, Carver. You hold it down. If anything pop off,

you do pop a cat.

You know the latest confession from the students?

They say they want better cafeteria food.

Backpacks, backpacks.

And they want to keep their old backpacks, and they say they want fried

and liver for lunch every day.

Hey, Sasha.

Hey. Hi.

Uh, Renee, can you give us a moment?

Sure, no problem.

I just have three words for you.

Vienna.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

Well, actually, I am really busy, and I was about to get ready to go out with

Renee again, so... No, she wasn't!

Well, look, it won't take long.

Look, um... These past few weeks, I've been hurt, mad,

embarrassed, but I appreciate the fact that you told me.

Well, I have always been honest with you. I know.

And I'm... I'm sorry.

Especially because now I understand how easy it is for something like that to

happen.

Oh, you do?

Yeah.

Tanya came on to me today, and I never saw her coming.

Well, I saw that coming from a mile away.

Me too!

That chick has been sniffing around you like a canine in a crack house.

Look, man, I'm sorry, okay? I've been hanging out with Renee.

Look, I never want to go through this again.

And we never will.

So what you gonna do about Tanya?

Well, don't worry about that, because Tanya will not be home when we get back.

Yeah, are you coming home or not?

I'm coming home.

Come

on,

everybody. Come on, hang in there. Look, we're paving the way for the students

behind us.

Who's still with me?

Okay, stay where you are then if you want to. Okay, what is the news, Mr.

Brandon? Okay, the good news is, Carver, there's no bad news.

The bad news is, there's no good news either.

Look, Mr. Brandon, that's enough. Enough is enough from you two. Now, it's hot.

I ain't ate.

My feet hurt.

We've been here all day. Now, look, Carver, Carver, don't holler at me and

running up on me like that because I get offended when people run up on me.

in this piece, then I'll negotiate that thing.

So, Ms. Brown, what really happened? Cory, everything was going fine until

faculty found out they was going to have to carry clear briefcases.

Briefcases? Yes. I don't let teacher quit.

Apparently, she was carrying more than a Reaganu.

So, Ms. Simmons, you were right.

Nonviolent protest does work. That's right, baby.

Uh, not so fast, Wino.

Milo. Whatever. The principal want to see you in his office now.

I'll go to the principal's office. All right.

Who with me?

Who?

Nobody. Dead kid walking.

Dead kid walking. Walking the green miles.

Get right with Jesus.

Man, that was a really good movie.

Yeah. I can't believe they couldn't tell that that was a man in a dress.

15 more minutes, then it's time for bed.

Okay, but you've given us no other choice.

Oh, Mr. Brown!

Yes, I am the negotiator.

And Hakeem and Brianna would like an extra hour, and they will settle for

nothing less.

Okay.

How about we give you $10, a leftover slice of pizza, and a gift certificate

Paliesta Palace if you sit in the bed right now.