Power - Not Exactly How We Planned lyrics

[“Big Rich Town” by 50 Cent (featuring Joe) plays during the opening credits of the show.] [Unknown 50 Cent song plays as images transition between a man getting dressed and the activity in streets. Chatting in the background as James “Ghost” Patrick steps out a black limbo with his wife, Tasha Patrick. They watch as people are trying to get into the club.] TASHA Tell me I'm beautiful. JAMES You know you are. BOUNCER Boss is here. JAMES [As him and Tasha walk down an exclusive back hallway] Y'all hear that? The boss is here. [“Escape - Charity Strike Remix” by 3LAU, Paris & Simo, and Bright Lights plays as they enter the club scene. JAMES To Truth! ALL Truth! - Whoo! JAMES Let me make some rounds. Baby, I'll be back. TASHA Where you going? JAMES I've got to handle some details. TASHA Don't you have people for that? JAMES [Laughs and kisses here] It's called "customer service," Tasha. I do this part myself [leaves]. TASHA Excuse me, more champagne, more vodka, more everything. LAKEISHA Mm, wait, wait, hold up. Bring some Henny and bring some Patron. JOSH Head count's at four-hundred and it's not even midnight. Fire marshal told us to keep it under three-twenty-five, so if he shows up, we're f**ed. JAMES [People dancing and cheering] - Place is f**ing bananas. You might be worth the risk. JOSH I told you, that's all behind me now, and I delivered. This is the best goddamn nightclub opening the whole year. My whole database turned out. JAMES Yeah, you know the right people. And it's bangin' tonight, but we stay in business if we keep the music hot, the women hot, and make it damn near impossible to get in this f**ing door. JOSH Even for my VIP's? Come on. JAMES f** your VIP's. We gonna redefine the word. [A red-haired waitress walks around the bar, past James, as she grabs more drinks. “Super Swag” by DJ Godfather (featuring Lil Mz. 313) plays in the background.] SHAWN Hey, boss, they want you downstairs. JAMES Who wants me? SHAWN Tommy. Should I come too? JAMES You wait in the car. TOMMY You think you can f**ing steal from me and then just walk the f** away? MIGUEL I didn't do anything, man! She don't know nothing! Okay, look! Hey, hey, look! Hey, I stole from you. Okay, it was me. Look, please, man. [Sobbing] - Okay, it's not her fault. TOMMY [Walks up some steps and points a gun at the girl, lying on the ground with a blindfold over her face] You're right there, Miguel. It's not Maria's fault. It's yours. You have your opportunity to make this right. All you have to do is tell me where you hid my sh**. MIGUEL I can't. I can't. TOMMY He's not listening to me, Maria. [Flips her on her side] Here, you talk to him. MARIA [Whimpers] Miguel, dile lo que hiciste con el dinero JAMES [Bust through the door] What the f** is going on? TOMMY Ghost, meet Miguel Alvarez and his fiancée Maria. Cruz was driving his route when this motherf**er jumped him, shot him in the head. JAMES Cruz, so he got… TOMMY The money! A whole day's paper. JAMES We get it back? TOMMY No. He handed it off before Victor tracked him down. Wasn't enough to k** him. This greedy motherf**er stole Cruz's phone, led us right to his place. Found him in bed with her. Moron thought he was home free, about to have his celebration f**. JAMES Why the f** would you bring him here? Hmm? It's opening night. I got a full house upstairs. TOMMY I thought you'd want to teach this motherf**er a lesson. JAMES And the girl? TOMMY He needed some persuasion to talk. JAMES What? We got to let her go. Tommy, think. This girl has brothers, cousins, someone who gives a f** about her. You f** with her, they come running, looking for her. They come with machetes or they come with guns. Hermanos Tainos, Soldado Nation. People we deal with, or worse, people we don't. TOMMY Say good-bye to Maria, Miguel. MARIA [Sobbing] Oh, Miguel. [Babbles in Spanish] MIGUEL Hey, I'm sorry. [James begins to take the top half of his suit off] MARIA Miguel, por favor. Miguel, baby! Miguel! Miguel! JAMES Go home, take a shower. I'll send my man here with you, okay? You give him these clothes. You go to work tomorrow like nothing happened. If somebody ask you, you and Miguelito broke up, understand? Escuchame. You were never here. Entiende? Entiende? MARIA Si. Si! JAMES You stay with her till she's out of the shower, and then burn her clothes. MARIA [Whimpers] Miguel! [Screams] MIGUEL Maria! I'm sorry! MARIA Miguel! JAMES Well, well, here we are, miguelito. Que orienda. You and me: two men who would rather be anywhere but here. Conyo. I know I had other plans. How 'bout you? I know you had a plan, Miguel. You didn't hit my money man by chance. Someone told you where to go, who to hit. MIGUEL Man, I ain't gonna tell you sh**. JAMES [Wrapping up his fist] Mira, mira, mira. We let Maria go. - [Whimpers] - Tell me who set this up and I'll let you go too. MIGUEL I can't. I can't. I can't. Please, man. Please, okay? I swear to God. I swear to God. Oh, God. JAMES No hables, we both know how this ends. Neither one of us walks out of here a happy man, huh? MIGUEL I don't wanna rat. I don't. [James punches him.] LAKEISHA What? TASHA Yes. JOSH Mrs. St. Patrick. You seen the boss? I want to show him the numbers so far tonight. We're k**ing it. TASHA No, but you can show them to me. JOSH I don't know if I'm supposed to do that. TASHA You can show them to me. JOSH We're having an amazing night. Off the charts. TASHA [Clicks tongue] If you say so. LAKEISHA He's cute. JAMES [Lifts Miguel up.] Your problem is, Miguel, you suffer from a serious case of misplaced loyalty. The men you're protecting sent you out to steal from the wrong motherf**ers tonight. Either they overestimated you or they underestimated us. But they left you hanging out to dry, partna. [Throws Miguel to the ground] Tell me who hired you? And then you can come work for us. Tonight, you sleep in tu cama. You still have a choice, Miguelito. Escoge. MIGUEL Si hablo, matan me familia. I'm not afraid to die. JAMES And I'm not afraid to k** you. [Gunshot] MIGUEL Uhh! JAMES Clean that up. I want the sh** spotless, like it never f**ing happened! [Walks up towards tommy and begins getting dressed] This sh** makes no sense. We had nineteen drivers delivering product tonight, right? TOMMY Twenty. [?]'s caught a bachelor party, had to stay on to deliver. JAMES And this motherf**er here hits Cruz, when he's holding the money from all the day runs? Plus we did that brick drop tonight. TOMMY The wholesale sh**. JAMES Right. So Cruz is carrying today's cash from our whole f**ing organization, Tommy. The whole f**ing organization. If he gets here twenty minutes later, after he's made the drop at the house, they get nothing. What does that tell you? TOMMY a**hole was working with one of our people. JAMES What if it's someone who knows our f**ing business? Tainos, Rock Street k**ahz, Soldado Nation. TOMMY Why would they bite the hand that feeds them? They f** with us, they lose their distro. JAMES Because everybody hates middle management, man. Maybe they wanted to go straight to the source. TOMMY sh**, none of these guys got the stones to f** with Lobos directly. Still, the Soldados or Hermanos Tainos wanted to take us down, they'd hit all our people, all at once. JAMES Which means we have to take everybody off the street, now. Close the store? We can't afford to get hit again. If one of our people is behind this, we don't know who they're working with. We don't know who to hit back. We can't stand around with our dicks in our hands waiting on the other guy to make his next move. [Tommy begins to call somone] MAN Yo. What's up? TOMMY We're canceling Christmas. Shut it all down, now. [“Jump Up In The Air And Stay There” by Erykah Badu plays, there's a bachelor party.] BEST MAN Just buy enough to keep the girls happy. We got a long night ahead of us. [Cuts to James on an elevator headed up while he's getting dressed. Cuts to different dealers around the city getting a text #1 86 at 10:51 PM] BEST MAN What? DEALER I gotta go. BEST MAN Wait, where you going? Wait. Where you going? Dude? I'm the best man. What the f** am I supposed to do now? [Cuts to James walking down a back hallway backing into Truth's main floor] JAMES Table 45 was drinking Wataribune Sake. Take that back to the bar, and when you're done, flip the bottles at 72, 68, and 64. They all need to order another round. HOLLY I think they're slowing down. JAMES Then get them up and out, holly we got people outside who want to give us their money. Go. TASHA Oh, my God, I had so much fun. LAKEISHA I know, me too, girl. TASHA Thanks for coming. LAKEISHA All right, babe. Call me later. TASHA All right. LAKEISHA Okay. JAMES Get home safely, Lakeisha. LAKEISHA Hi. Thank you. TASHA Everything okay? JAMES Yeah. You good? Entertaining our guests? TASHA It's late, baby. Why don't we go home? You know, we could do a little celebrating of our own. JAMES You take the car. Send Shawn back for me. JAMES Alex. ALEX Yeah. JAMES Could you please escort my wife to the door? Night, T. [To Alex] I'm sticking around. [Tasha walks to the car.] SHAWN Going home now, Mrs. St. Patrick? TASHA Where else would I go? [“Wings – Black Boots Remix” by Tony Swoon & Taylr Renee plays.] JAMES See that, pop? I did it. Your boy did it. TOMMY I've been looking all over for you. Everyone got clear. No problems. Nobody tried sh**. JAMES All the hustling, all the work. From working the corner for Breeze and Kanan. It brought us here. You know, for two knuckleheads that grew up like us, Tommy, to make it in the city, man, ain't no small sh**. TOMMY We lost 200k tonight, before we closed the store. Plus whatever we lost since. Can we make up for that by selling drinks? JAMES The money ain't the real problem. TOMMY f** that, it's not the real problem. JAMES No, the real problem we need to find out who the f** is behind this. Miguel died tonight to protect them. We need answers. Quick. Especially after we tell Lobos we got hit. TOMMY sh**, I say we don't tell him. He ain't gotta know about this. We pay him. Get the f** out of there. JAMES Nah. We gotta get out in front of it, man. Only six months we're working for him. We got no history built. Lobos finds out about this, and we ain't say sh**? TOMMY It's our a** anyway. We got his product sitting in a goddamn shipping container losing money by the minute. [Phone vibrates] JAMES Your mom? TOMMY Yeah. She probably can't f**ing sleep again. I'm just saying, Lobos sets fire to people. JAMES That guy was f**ing his sister, man. We gotta give him his money cash. TOMMY Yeah. I got half. But it's out at my mother's. I'll bring it tomorrow. Hey, I heard back from drift. That guy over in E. O. He wants to get up with us next week. Talked about buying from us. JAMES Nah, we gotta hold off on Jersey. Not till we find out what the f**'s going on. Can't expand under fire. TOMMY Hey, yo. You got some fine-a**-looking girls serving drinks in there, by the way. There was this one red hair, tall. What's her name? JAMES Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Her name is “Don't touch the merchandise, motherf**er.” Don't touch the merchandise, okay? [Laughs] You ever gonna get over that red hair sh**? TOMMY Probably not. [James undresses in his three-sided mirror. He stutters at the sight of blood, revealed on his sleeveless shirt, while taking on his bu*ton-down. With both shirts off, he stands in the mirror, with the rolled up sleeveless in his right hand, as he looks down at himself. Turns around, heads to his safe, and sticks the shirt in there with his money. ] [The cellphone alarm goes off and James wakes up to shut if off.] TASHA When did you get home? JAMES Late. [Exhales] TASHA [As she kisses his body] You know, I could help you relax if you let me. JAMES Oh, come on, Tash. TASHA Let me. [They both strip naked and have s**. James begins to have flashbacks of the previous night, of murdering Miguel, during the - what was supposed to be an intimate moment.] TASHA Come here. JAMES I gotta go. TASHA What? Where you going? Ah. ESTELLE Okay, here. RAINA The sun'll come out - tomorrow TASHA Good girl. RAINA Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun ESTELLE Raina, what are you doing? TASHA She's rehearsing, mom. RAINA The auditions for the lower school play in a month, and I want to be prepared. ESTELLE I'm talking about your outfit. It's not flattering in your shape, baby. How about that nice dress I bought you? RAINA Nobody wears dresses to school, big mama. JAMES Daddy's little girly boo-boo. [Kisses] Morning, Estelle. ESTELLE Good morning. RAINA We're gonna have a tea party and play with the castle. [Cell phone rings] Come on. ESTELL Sit up here with grandma. JAMES Lobos. No, veremos después. Claro. TARIQ So I got Spanish homework due Tuesday. Think dad could hook it up? TASHA No. You have to do your own work, boy. TARIQ How does he know Spanish anyway? ESTELLE Yeah, Tasha. How does he know Spanish? I don't know. TASHA He learned before we met. SHAWN Morning, Mrs. St. Patrick. TASHA Hey, Shawn. What's up, Reina? Ah, Tariq, what's up, boy? TARIQ When we gonna hoop, Shawn? I've been begging you forever. TASHA Boy, leave him alone. Tariq, he's busy. Got a big job now. You want some breakfast? There's more than enough to go around. Go ahead. SHAWN Oh. [He checks Tasha out as he bites into a biscuit while reaches into the refrigerator for orange juice.] ESTELL Come on, here. Here's your sippy. Here's your sippy. Good girl. JAMES Shawn. Son. TARIQ What's up, dad? JAMES How's that history report? Give me a read later? TARIQ Sounds good. JAMES All right. Have a good day. [Kisses Raina] RAINA You too. JAMES Good luck, okay? TASHA Okay. JAMES Daddy loves you. Mwah. JAMES Bye. TASHA Bye, baby. ESTELLE Good JAMES Mwah. [Kisses his youngest daughter.] TASHA Keep working on it, okay? - Mm-hmm. JAMES Tell your moms I said “hello.” TOMMY She's getting worse, you know. She can't be out there all the time. [Cell phone vibrates] TOMMY Lobos? Better not be changing the f**ing time again. By the way, I'm rethinking this whole "tell Lobos we got hit" idea of yours. JAMES It's Kantos. Let's see what he wants. - [Beep] - What's up? KANTOS You recognize the name Simon stern? Yeah. JAMES The cat that owns Parlay, Verbatim, Syrup. KANTOS Yeah, plus, like, five other clubs. He's one of the biggest nightlife investors in New York. His office called. Stern told the page six to write up about truth. Wants to sit down. JAMES I got a lot of sh** on my plate at the moment. We'll talk later. KANTOS It's a big deal. He only talks to the major guys. Look, with stern behind us, we can open up clubs in Miami and Vegas end of next year. JAMES I'll call you back, man. TOMMY What's his problem now? You know what, never mind. We got real sh** to do. LOBOS Ghost, Tommy. Good to see you again. You have my money, of course? LOBO'S MAN Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis LOBOS [Lobos kicks him] No en voz! ¿Qué eres, un niño de escuela primaria? Pedro. Pedro, por favor, con eso. JAMES It's all there, Todo. LOBOS Todo. [Waits.] Pedro? [Pedro nods in agreement]? Si. Now that the business is out of the way, we can eat and enjoy ourselves, eh? How are things? Just fine. JAMES Something you need to know. Hmm? We got hit last night. LOBOS So I heard. Did you catch this man? TOMMY We got him. JAMES He knew who to hit, where and when. So until we know how he got his information, we're exposed. LOBOS Oh, so he didn't talk? TOMMY Unfortunately for him. LOBOS Unfortunately for you. You took your men off the street. TOMMY Had to. JAMES No choice. LOBOS You're losing about $25,000 an hour. It's good to see that you knew enough not to let it affect our pay schedule. When I hired you six months ago to be my New York distributor, you guaranteed me a certain level of professionalism. You told me that the Kings, the Bloods, the DDP, that none of them were worth my time. I believe the exact words were, "They're gangs. And we're a business." Hmm? You also told me that only you could guarantee me a safe and secure pipeline - with no interruptions. TOMMY Come on, Lobos. You know in this business, there's no guarantees. JAMES We have a plan to fix this situation. LOBOS Then you don't have time for lunch. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Anta [Halts Ghost from leaving]. Tommy leaves the room and they converse in Spanish]. Translation: LOBOS You know, I checked out. Your name is feared on the streets.. If you get the situation under control you could have your own Cartel one day. Understand. JAMES Yes. LOBOS You live in the country side, take up watercolors while your men take all the risk. You do business two, three days a year. You don't, I'll have to take my business elsewhere. And then, what use will I have for you? JAMES We'll get it done. LOBOS Yes, you will. JAME Goodbye, boss LOBOS Goodbye Ghost. [Ghost leaves] Call the pilot, we're not leaving tonight. JAMES I'll go see Ruiz. You get Anibal and Rolla, deal? TOMMY Yeah. JAMES See you tonight. And watch your back. TOMMY You too, motherf**er. Full detail, right? Even the trunk? ? Especially the trunk. TOMMY Good. I hate the smell of blood. [Tommy goes to see Anibal at a cookout.] ANIBAL Thomas! [Sends everyone away] Where's ghost? TOMMY He sends his regards ANIBAL You play Dominoes? TOMMY This is not a social visit, Anibal. We got hit last night. ANIBAL My bad, I ain't hear that. TOMMY Not a word? ANIBAL Nada. TOMMY Yeah, well, a score like that somebody will brag about. You'll hear something. Fifty stakes. Seventy-five if you bring him back alive. ANIBAL Means that much to you? If it's one of your men, you can k** him yourself. We just want to watch. [James meets Ruiz in the park.] RUIZ If I knew who ordered it, yeah, they'd be dead already. JAMES What? What? RUIZ We got hit too. My money guy, same as yours. They shot my boy, Angel. They shot himin the back of the head. Had a baby on the way. JAMES That's f**ed up. RUIZ Okay, look. I know, okay, you work with other crews. But we got to dead this.You have to stop this before it goes any further. I could lend you men, extra protection. JAMES Nah, if they know we ride together, I lose trust of the Tainos and Rock Street. RUIZ Can't trust them anyway JAMES Tommy and I are neutral. Tu sabes eso, papa. Come on. RUIZ Bueno. Maybe there's something else that we could work out. [Agent Juan Julio Medina watches Lobos in his car from a distance.] [GHOST'S KITCHEN] RAINA It's the lead, uncle Tommy. If I get it, it'll be like a huge deal. 'Cause I'm only in the fifth grade. TOMMY I'm sure you got the best singing voice in the whole place, baby girl. RAINA When are you gonna stop calling me that? I'm not the baby anymore. Jasmine is. I was there when you were born. TOMMY You'll always be baby girl to me. ESTELLE To all of us, baby girl. TASHA Tommy, have some more chicken. TOMMY Mmm, oh. Mmm. Thanks, T. TASHA You know, if you meet a girl who can cook, I bet we'd never see you again. [ TOMMY Laughs] No way that'll ever happen. I gotta come over here and school Tariq in Call of Duty. TARIQ Yeah, right, uncle Tommy. JAMES Yeah, right. ‘Cause you know you're not supposed to be playing those games anyway. TOMMY Oh, my bad. RAINA Stars for my little star. Keep working hard on that audition. JAMES Hey. RAINA Wait, daddy. Are these real diamonds? JAMES [Laughs] What you think, huh? TASHA If you keep this up, you're gonna spoil her rotten. JAMES And you don't complain when I do it to you. [Slaps her bu*t] Fix me a plate, okay? Tommy and I gonna talk in the office. We got work to do. ESTELLE Let me see them diamonds, baby girl. JAMES Soldado Nation got hit too. TOMMY No sh**. JAMES Ruiz got a full shipment of weapons from his Florida connect last week. Our drivers can have full use till the sh** blows over or until we catch the motherf**er. He offered to have his people ride with ours. TOMMY f** that. JAMES f** that. The guns, though, that could work. I know you don't like it. Police stop a driver carrying recreational weight and some cash, Tommy, that's one thing. But a gun in the car, you're looking at intent to distribute, plus the weapons charge. Kanan got what 15 years? TOMMY You got a better idea? 'Cause we gotta open up the store or Lobos will move on. Not to mention our people are off the clock, and our customers will find new places to cop. JAMES Let's say we find the motherf**er. And it is one of Anibal's people or Rock Street k**ahz or whoever.Then what? TOMMY Then it's on. Then we take down the whole f**ing crew. We show them. We show everybody. You can't f** with us, like the old days before Kanan went inside. JAMES We were young then. Mobile. I got too much sh** going on now to go into hiding. The kids. The club. TOMMY Oh, wait, so now the club dictates what we do with the real business instead of the other way around? And we opened up the laundromats to clean the money. I was fine with that. But then you said, "let's open up a nightclub. So we can hide even more.” So I agreed to hide the money. Period. JAMES What if there could be more than that though, man? What if it's our retirement plan? TOMMY You mean we grow up, go legit, live happily ever after? [Laughs] I'm sor - [Laughing]. We've been hustling together our whole lives. I love this sh** and so do you. Focus up. I say we take Ruiz up on his offer. We put the boys back on the street, and if anyone steps, they light that motherf**er up. Agreed? JAMES Yeah. TOMMY We'll go out and get the guns from Ruiz tonight. I'll set it up. Go without me. Take Julio. I gotta handle a few things at the club. You want a place to clean our money long-term, it's gotta stay open, right? TOMMY Now that's the motherf**ing hustler I know talking. [Tasha and Ghost's bathroom.] JAMES I'll see you at the club later. I'm going now. Gotta make sure everything's settled for tonight. TASHA Can't that new white boy do that? You pay him enough. JAMES It's a business, baby. It needs attention 24/7. TASHA So do I. Ghost, what's up? You and Tommy behind closed doors, you running around with this club. We okay? JAMES When we met, what'd you think I was gonna be? Hmm? TASHA The biggest goddamn drug dealer in New York City. JAMES You never thought about more? TASHA What more? You talking about the club as more? I saw the money you made last night. That's not more, it's less. You are the best at what you do. We have everything. I just want it to stay this way. What? JAMES When you come to the club tonight, you need to look like you own the place, not like you trying to get in for free. Wear that purple dress I got you last month. But, baby, I like this dress. I'll send Shawn back, give you time to change. [“Ohh Shh” plays by Chris Lake and then switches to “Own It” by Mack Wilds] TASHA Have you seen my husband? GUARD Anybody got eyes on the boss? The boss is prepping the DJ now. I'll take you upstairs. TASHA I know where he'll get to me a little sooner. Hey. Mwah. JAMES What's up? KANTOS The DJ brought backup dancers who are not in the contract. JAMES Well, we got extra spotlights on hand? We could find them. Have the guys put them up. JAMES [Spots Angie from a balcony and heads downstairs.] Angie! ANGELA Jamie JAMES Angela Valdes. How long has it been? ANGELA I don't know. Almost, Jesus, 18 years. JAMES You look the same. ANGELA [Laughs] Well, that's proof we've gotten older. Your eyesight's going. JAMES [Laughs] My eyes work just fine. What have you been doing? ANGELA For 18 years? Not sure there's a short answer. Choate, college, law school… JAMES law school? Okay, big-time. ANGELA Stop it. I'm still the same "round the way" girl I always was. JAMES Same girl, huh? Not exactly. I don't remember that dress. ANGELA Well, I don't remember that suit either, uptown. What have you been up to, Jamie? What have you been doing all these years? GUARD Boss, the new DJ's gonna start. ANGELA Wait, did he just call you "boss"? JAMES I own this place. GUARD Kantos said he needs to talk to you now. JAMES All right. Um - Sorry, I gotta - You got a nightclub to run. ANGELA I get it. You deserve this crown we got it sewn up because we own it it was good to see you. ANGELA You too. [They give each other a big hug] JAMES Okay. [Walks away and then comes back] You know what, give me your number. I ain't gonna let you get away that easy. I'll call you. ANGELA Okay KANTOS Mrs. St. Patrick, you're not leaving, are you? The new DJ starts in a few minutes, and I'm sure the boss wants you to be here. TASHA Shawn, meet me out front. I'm leaving. [“I'm Good” by Lenisha Nelson is playing when Tasha enters the backseat of the car. Tasha rolls down the driver/pa**enger partition window in the limo. She puts on a show for Shawn.] RUIZ Quien es todo? PONCHO Yeah big shipment this time. Esto limpio RUIZ Bueno. NOMAR We're really giving this away for free? RUIZ This time. When we get there, you stay in the car. Me and Poncho will handle the drop. NOMAR I set up the meeting with the guy you asked. RUIZ Good. LILIANA Papi. Can I go to the movies with Rocio and Lara tomorrow after school Be home by dinner, so I can take you to your mom's, okay? LILIAN Alright RUIZ Now get inside before you catch a cold LILIAN Okay, Pa. RUIZ Vamonos. Let's go, we're late. JAMES Julio tell them to check the guns? TOMMY First thing I said to him. Think it bothers them they don't know who they're working for? JAMES You think the fry cook at burger king knows the f**ing CEO? They wouldn't know that motherf**er if he walked in and asked for extra ketchup. Don't forget. TOMMY One of these people might be the reason Cruz got jumped in the first place. Yeah, well, let's hope he or she is afraid to get shot. JAMES We'll know soon enough. TOMMY Our soldiers are strapped now. We should be too. All this sh** going on, how am I gonna explain to Tasha I let you run around with no piece? JAMES Let's get 'em out on the street. Time to make the doughnuts. ANGELA Not bad for 18 years later. Greg. GREG Hey, sleepyhead. You missed our run this morning. When you didn't show up and you didn't answer your cell, I thought maybe something was wrong. ANGELA sh**. Sorry. GREG Got here and you were in the shower, so I thought I'd grab breakfast. ANGELA Greg, I thought we said the key was just for emergencies. Which this could've been. This just feels a little - you don't need to check on me. GREG Come on, Angela, I think most women would be happy to know that someone's looking out for them. ANGELA You're right. I'm sorry. You just startled me is all. Thank you. GREG [Phone vibrates] I gotta go. See you later. JAMES Angela Valdes came into the club last night. TOMMY From high school? Wow. What's that? JAMES Eighteen years. TOMMY How'd she look? JAMES Mm. TOMMY That good, huh? She married now, she got kids? JAMES No ring, didn't say nothing about kids. TOMMY You tell her about yours? JAMES Well, we didn't talk that long. TOMMY Oh, sh**. JAMES What's that supposed to mean? TOMMY What that means is what are you thinking about doing? When that girl moved away, she seriously f**ed you up. I was there, remember? JAMES Aw, come on. That was a long time ago. TOMMY Well, Tasha's a good woman, man. You ain't never f**ed around on her before. Why do you want to go sniffing around p**y from high school? JAMES Tommy, first of all, I can't believe you starting some sh** about monogamy. You got more b**hes than a goddamn pound, but second, I know me and Tasha got a good thing. I'm not trying to f** that up. It's just got me thinking, you know, about the road not traveled, that's all. TOMMY "The road not traveled"? You are a rich, successful motherf**er. What more do you want? JAMES I want to see how Angela turned out. TOMMY No, you already saw how she turned out. Anything else is just you trying to heal wounds from childhood. JAMES You gotta stop watching that Dr. Phil sh**. TOMMY That man knows what he's talking about. JAMES Shut up. TOMMY Sit down. You shut up. JAMES No, shut up. So long, motherf**er. TOMMY You didn't ask about that thing we did the other night. JAMES You clean it up like I said? Then there ain't nothing to ask about. What, you think I forgot? TOMMY Yeah, I do. JAMES Get the f** out of here. LAKEISHA Can I borrow this? TASHA No way, girl. That's new. But the Gucci, you can have that. LAKEISHA Damn, girl. Ghost keeps you laced. Yo, I don't care. I'll take your hand-me-downs as long as you're giving them out. So this is what happily ever after looks like. You hit the lottery, girl. n***as ain't getting married like that, and certainly not rich n***as. TASHA He wasn't rich when I met him. Hmm. You know, Keisha, clothes and bags are nice, but there are some things about ghost you can't see. LAKEISHA You don't gotta play modest with me, Tasha. TASHA I'm not playing modest. LAKEISHA I'm not gonna die of jealousy over here, especially if you're through with these boots. Hold up, what size you wear again? You know I don't get all this European sh**. TASHA [Cell phone chimes, vibrates] Hey, baby. JAMES You out shopping with Lakeisha yet? TASHA We're still at the house. JAMES Good. I got something in the oven I need you to take out the oven. Tasha, you heard me? I need you to take it out before it burns. TASHA Yes, I'm on it. JAMES Yeah. [Hans up] TASHA Thank you, baby. Okay, I'll see you tonight. [Hangs up] What was that? He left me some extra money to go shopping. I'll just go get it. I'll be right back. LAKEISHA You see what I mean? You hit the motherf**ing lottery. Damn. ANGELA Hello? JAMES Angela. ANGELA -Jamie? JAMES You surprised I called? I told you I wasn't gonna let you get away again, and I meant it. Come have lunch with me. ANGELA I can't. I have a presentation in front of my whole office today. JAMES Yeah, and if I know you, you've been studying on that sh** for weeks. JAMES Come on, girl. You gotta eat. ANGELA Where? LOBOS Are you sure this is the place? JAVIER Yes, his man said he would be here. LOBOS You can't afford another mistake Javier. As it is, you're lucky you have another other…Talents. Excuse me. You are Carlos “Vibora” Ruiz RUIZ Felipe Lobos I thought you were a bedtime story. LOBOS Aren't you a cliché RUIZ You said you are having problems with your current distributors LOBOS He is not as reliable as I was led to believe. RUIZ So you call Puerto Ricans? You're the first Mexican I've known to do that. Forgive my surprise. LOBOS I do business with n******gs. At least you and I speak the same language. I don't care who your mother f**ed. I want to make money. RUIZ Bueno. Should we make business then? LOBOS Bueno. [Hip-hop music playing from headphones and a pick up is made.] ANGELA New York's so different now. Citi bikes, no cars in Times Square. White people living uptown. JAMES [Laughter] You been gone a minute. ANGELA Mm. You finally got your nightclub. Your dad would've been proud. JAMES I told you about my father's nightclub? He lost the place before we met. I didn't remember I told you that. ANGELA I think we told each other everything back then. JAMES Hmm. ANGELA The last time we had lunch, I'm pretty sure there was no linen tablecloths. JAMES I don't think we had chairs. JAMES We grabbed a slice at the counter at Ray's on Sutphin. ANGELA You kept refilling your coke. The manager was giving you that evil-a** look. You kept going. JAMES The sign said, "free refills. I was trying to get you to stay longer. ANGELA I almost missed my train. JAMES That was the idea. That was the idea. ANGELA Choate was the opportunity of a lifetime. But that doesn't mean it was easy to go. Jamie, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I left the way I did. ANGELA Your parents made you go. JAMES But I didn't fight them. You said you'd be back for Christmas. ANGELA My family moved to Sunnyside after I left. JAMES I had the same number. But you were just [Whoosh] Gone. And then when my pops died, I thought then, at least, you would reach out. ANGELA I should've been there for you. But I just knew that if I called, if I heard your voice, I would go back. I would've dropped everything for you. Everything my parents worked for, everything I'd worked for So I made a choice. JAMES I wouldn't have asked you to come back. You didn't belong in the hood. ANGELA Neither did you. JAMES Ah. ANGELA But now we're both out, just like we always planned. JAMES Not exactly how we planned. ANGELA Oh, sh**. JAMES What? ANGELA I gotta go. JAMES Now? ANGELA I gotta get back to the office. JAMES All right. ANGELA Thanks for lunch. JAMES Mm-hmm. ANGELA Mmm. Hey…you still remember the Spanish I taught you JAMES Un poquito. Chinchi ANGELA Bye. JAMES When can we do this again? ANGELA I'll call you. TOMMY Don't fill out the total. KANTOS Why not? TOMMY I'm gonna confirm your count at the bank. I'll take that. KANTOS Every club I've ever managed, I always do the deposit. TOMMY There's a first time for everything. Deposit slip? KANTOS I already signed it. Want a fresh one? TOMMY Nah, I'm sure yours will turn out fine. Look, we hired you for your contacts, not your reputation. KANTOS Hey, about that boss never told me how you found out about that. TOMMY None of your f**ing business how we know. As long as you work for us, this is how it goes. We don't have a problem, do we? KANTOS No, we don't. FRANKIE [Laughs] Was just about to send out a search party for you. You're never late. ANGELA I know. Sorry. Lunch ran long. Frankie, I know you went out on a limb for me. I'm not gonna blow it. FRANKIE If you do, it's both our a**es. SAXE Congrats on the promotion, Valdes. ANGELA Thanks, Saxe. You're on this now? GREAG Just got a**igned. If I request rea**ignment, they're gonna ask why. FRANKIE I'm Francesca Lavarro, chief of criminal division along with my deputy, A.U.S.A. Angela Valdes. I'll be leading this task force. Our goal is the prosecution of one of the most notorious drug traffickers in our hemisphere, Mexican national Felipe Lobos. Lobos's brutality and vicious nature are well documented. For everyone's safety, please remember the task force is top secret. And no one, not even your families, can know the name of the target of this investigation. Agent medina, can you please bring everybody up to speed on Lobos's movements in New York this week? MEDINA Lobos landed at Teterboro airport on Tuesday. Once a year, he comes to New York to meet with his banker and his American attorneys. Now, he did make those meetings, but I followed him to a third, to meet this man Carlos "Vibora" Ruiz. Leader of the due loco set of the Soldado Nation Gang. We learned that, one, Lobos has one single distributor for his product in New York City. Two, he's not entirely happy with his distributor. And three, soldado nation and Ruiz are too low-rent for Lobos. They're not organized enough to distribute his product. And he was not shy in telling Mr. Ruiz he did not give a f**! ANGELA [Laughter] We have permission from the Mexican government to detain and prosecute Mr. Lobos if we can build a compelling case against him. FRANKIE We can't touch him unless we know we can put him in jail. ANGELA Who can give us the names, places, and dates we need to convict Lobos? His New York distributor. Unfortunately we have no idea who that is. We do have a profile of the type of criminal we're looking for. He's a highly organized individual with an established network in place. He already knows how to move money through the system, is violent enough to control his territory, but still has something to lose something Lobos can threaten to keep him in line. So why is Lobos looking to replace him? What could've gone wrong? There must be some element out of his control. [Pink Sneakers attempts to k** one of the carriers] Whatever the reason, this problem between Lobos and his local guy is exactly what we need to exploit, because the man we're looking for is in grave danger from Lobos and from us. We can give him a way out, but only if he decides to take it. JAMES [Cell phone vibrates] Tommy, what's up? I'm on my way.