02x05 - Karate Kiss

[bunniefuu]

This is Dante Bosco,
and you wouldn't believe

what happened last
week on Blindspotting.

[BLADE SWISHES]

[LAID-BACK MUSIC PLAYS]

[BOTH] Whoo!

Yo, who's Mustafa?

I was married in Bali.

I became a stepmom to
his daughter, Tiarre.

And we was a family.

You said that he didn't
double down for you.

- It seems unhealthy.
- Well, I don't think that healthy

is your area of expertise lately.

- I'm Ashley.
- I'm Teena.

[ASHLEY] My husband's
doing a bid out there.

[TEENA] Same.

It all goes downhill from here.

But I just wanted some of
my own time with my son.

Can you just back off?

Oh, my God. What a bitch.

These are my tax returns since .

I don't have any before this,

but I think the statute's passed.

And they can't come after us

for some sh*t I did in .

Uh, Mom...

- Okay, this is...
- It has to be you.

Trish can't handle the paperwork.

I'm not saying you have to take over.

I just want to catch
you up on the house,

my life insurance, my will.

These are my passwords for my laptop,

my phone, my e-banking logins.

Oh, Mom, why are your online passwords

- on a piece of paper?
- [RAINEY] Security.

That's not how that works.

This is a little crazy.

I'm in prison.

I can't even keep this stuff here.

I know. I just want you to be familiar,

so you can be the point
person if something happens.

You know who would make
a great point person?

Ashley.

She's gonna know about all this anyway.

We don't keep secrets from each other.

I mean, why don't you just cut out

the incarcerated middleman here

and just go right to her, please?

We're on a little bit of
thin ice, the two of us.

One wrong word, and I'm in danger

of catching frostbite
in the living room.

Frostbite? Really?

I just don't want her
making decisions for me.

Okay.

Did something happen?

Do you want me to talk to her about it?

[RAINEY] No. No, no, no, no.

I just want to enjoy
my visit with my son.

It's never long enough.

Well, why don't you come
to one of the weekend

family visit things?

- Great. Yes.
- Okay, good. Yeah.

Talk to, uh, Ashley about
it. She'll set it up.

Just tell her you wanna
come the next time.

Sure.

Okay.

Let's talk about something else.

- Anything else.
- [MILES] Great.

Um, how is Nancy?

[LAUGHING] Oh.

You won't believe what she
has f*cked around and done.

♪ ♪

[JANELLE COUGHING]

Damn, Mama.

You was watching the
Santeria documentaries

again, wasn't you?

Funny.

You having a chill night in?

No, I'm going to Luka's with Ashley.

Uh, why you got your old
keyboard in the kitchen?

You should make it a fancy night out.

Get all dressed up, and
put on that nude lipstick

you just bought... you know,
that nice kind of rouge color.

The rouge color?

- Mama...
- [NANCY] Yeah.

No.

Why? What for?

It is Luka's.

Well, you never know
who you might bump into.

I'm only going 'cause
that f*cking Teena girl...

Yeah.

She invited Ash.

And you know Ash been on
one, drinking and sh*t,

so I'm just going to babysit her.

[MONOPHONICS' "FIND MY
WAY BACK HOME" PLAYING]

I tried.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Oh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

Don't try to b*at me to the door.

That's what it is. You
got a new man coming.

Okay.

Yeah, let me see where y'all going.

[SINGER] ♪ On the telephone ♪

Mustafa.

Hi.

- Bye.
- Bye.

[NANCY] Take care of my baby.

- Take care, Mama.
- [JANELLE] Mama!

What...

♪ ♪

[SINGER] ♪ That woman's love ♪

♪ Hey, that woman's love ♪

♪ Helps me find my way back home ♪

♪ Help a man find
his way back home ♪

[TEENA] So when's
y'all's next family visit?

[ASHLEY] Actually, they gave us
another slot for next weekend.

Can't believe we got
a second one so quick.

[GASPS] Do those say Oakland?

- Yup.
- I like these.

Thank you.

God, I haven't been here in so long.

My squad used to come here all the time.

Well, it's easy, cheap,

and the n*gg*s are always thirsty,

- so we will never be.
- [ASHLEY LAUGHING]

f*ck, it's cold out here.

I was just trying to be cute.

You really don't get out much, do you?

Yeah, well, I spent years with a man

whose coat I could just steal.

- Mm. True.
- [PHONE DINGS]

Damn, of course Janelle is bailing.

She came back from Bali years old.

Okay, well, f*ck her.

You got me, and I do go out.

So just do as I do, bitch.

A'ight.

[TEENA] There that n*gga is. Come on.

- [ASHLEY] Huh?
- DNAS! Hey!

- Hey, what's good?
- [DNAS] Hey, what's up, Teena?

Hey, can we slide in?

All right, but I don't
want no sh*t tonight, Teena.

[TEENA] n*gga, come on.

I don't want you gigging on the bar.

All right.

- All right, come on.
- [CHUCKLES]

- What?
- What?

[CROWD SHOUTING, GRUMBLING]

Sorry, y'all.

Gentrifiers last.

- Let's go.
- Okay.

[CROWD BOOING]

Eh-eh-eh.
[LAUGHS]

You thought you about to get in here.

Go back.

[JANELLE] Why are you here, Staf?

I came to surprise you.

Okay, and what would
lead you to believe that I

wanted you to surprise me?

You've been texting me for weeks.

You've been telling me you miss me.

You send nudies.

What about my booty says,

"Fly your ass halfway across the world"?

I mean, have you seen it?

Stop.

What it was saying was,
keep your lonely ass in Bali

and never forget how good you had it...

and that I'm doing better than you.

I mean, it was nice, how
we were texting, right?

Yeah.

So maybe we can enjoy
each other while I'm here.

See how that feels?

The f*ck?

Not keeping up with your
martial arts training, I see.

Shut up.

I wasn't ready, obviously.

These right here...

best green tea candy in Bali.

I missed these.

I missed you.

Um... [CLEARS THROAT]

What's all this about, huh?

'Cause you ain't staying here.

This is my Airbnb.

You lying.

Stafa.

[TEENA] sh*ts all night.

[PARTY MUSIC PLAYING]

Ooh! Yikes. Okay.

So anyway, bitch, what I was saying...

Can we get two more? Mm-hmm.

I was running at Dolores, and this bitch

thinks that she can pass me up.

I'ma start placing the , bitch.

Let me tell you right now.

We like three snakes
in the Garden of Eden.

[TEENA] Okay, sir, now you know
that makes no f*cking sense.

- Just stop. Okay.
- [CHUCKLES]

It wouldn't be proper
of me to pass you by

without a proper hello.

Not proper at all.

- We're married.
- Hell, yeah!

No, not to each other.

- Stop. Stop.
- Oh.

They here?

[YOUNG MAN] Hey, yo, uh, Pops.

Listen up now, man.

Yeah, come on, man. Leave them be.

[OLDER MAN] Damn.

Sorry, young blood.

Sorry, pale young blood.

I didn't realize they was yours.

Carry on.

So I guess you owe me a drink now, huh?

Wait, what was that?

I said, you owe me a drink.

I let you say you could
pull me, so where's my drink?

[YOUNG MAN] All right,
come on, I got you.

Okay. Go ahead.

- No. Oh.
- Oh.

[BOTH LAUGH] Hi.

- Oh.
- Ah... hello.

Hey, listen, um, look,
my friend dragged me here.

He wants to make sure I have some fun,

but I'm not great at this.

Can I buy you a drink?

- Please?
- [ASHLEY CHUCKLES]

Sure. A Beautiful.

Yes, you are.

[LAUGHS] No, I'm
talking about the drink.

- The what now?
- The-the drink?

A Beautiful?

Two parts Hennessy, one part
Grand Marnier, in a snifter.

- All right.
- Warmed up.

- You got it.
- And-and a cherry, please.

[YOUNG MAN] Hey, can I get a Beautiful?

With a-with a cherry.

- [TEENA] Oh, yay. Yay.
- Yay.

[JANELLE LAUGHS] No, you did not.

She's too young to be
bringing boys home anyway.

- Oh, my God.
- I had to at least scare him,

you know.

How was I supposed to know

he didn't know how to land properly?

Staf, oh, my God.

Ah, he'll be fine...

in a few weeks.

Uh-uh. Uh-uh.

- Ah, look at Ti.
- Aw.

I miss Tiarre so much.

She still talks about you all the time.

I don't get you, Staf.

I was there.

I was so ready to make a life with you.

Janelle, my daughter barely got to know

her mother before she d*ed.

I wasn't asking you to
let me replace her mother.

I was asking for you to
make a new space for me.

I was asking you to fight
for me in your life, for us.

I-

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

- Janelle.
- Don't.

♪ ♪

Your form was a bit wilder, no?

No.

My parries are fine, strong.

Nah, it felt sluggish, slow...

like you haven't been training.

Oh, well, big surprise there, huh?

Nothing I do is enough.

And let's be very clear.

I'm as sharp as ever.

[ENERGETIC DRUM MUSIC PLAYS]

You were always enough. It wasn't that.

No? What was it, then?

I can't explain it.

But it just hurt the first
time she called you "Mom."

Well, I love her.

I can't help how she felt about me.

I wasn't ready to
hear her call you that.

I'm sorry.

But I never thought you'd leave us.

I had to leave.

You were shutting me out

and pretending that you weren't.

[GRUNTING]

Are you okay?

Oh. Okay.

So hold up.

What was your plan with
this grand gesture, huh?

- What?
- 'Cause I noticed you

didn't bring Tiarre with you.

That means that you came here to, what,

to f*ck and then disappear again,

or relive some sh*t that
I didn't already bury?

No, that's not it. That's
not-that's not true.

- No? No?
- "That's not true? No, no, no?"

- That's not true?
- That's not it.

Okay, then show me your visa. Mm-hmm.

'Cause if you staying
here longer than days,

you gonna need a visa, playboy.

Where that's at?

♪ ♪

You're right.

I didn't come to Oakland to move here.

I want you to come back to Bali.

Be my wife again.

You said I never fought for you.

Well, here I am.

I'm here to fight for your love.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

Bring it, then.

[SHOUTS]

[GRUNTS]

Hey. Y'all smoke?

Oh, yes, God, please.

I know it's a little fancy, but...

No, I could do fancy.

I like nice things.

[LAUGHS]

sh*t, it's f*cking cold in here.

I got my jacket over there,
if you want to wear it.

Wh-what?

My jacket! It's over there.

Oh. Uh, nah.

Nah. [LAUGHS] I'm good.

All right.

[TEENA] Two more, please.

Whoo!

Girlfriend, girlfriend, girlfriend, go.

[YOUNG MAN] Okay!

Hey, hey, let's go. Whoo!

sh*ts!

[SINGER] ♪ Hyphy, hyphy, Hyphy, hyphy ♪

[TIA NOMORE] ♪ Came
to get it popping ♪

♪ Like it's bubble wrap ♪

Actually, you know what?

Um, can I... can I get your jacket?

Oh, okay.

Thanks!

♪ Been stealing n*gg*s'
jackets since ' ! ♪

The patriarchy owes
us, okay? It's a tax.

[LAUGHS]

[GRUNTS]

[UPBEAT DRUM MUSIC PLAYS]

Oh.

Oh, you just going to get on up, huh?

Not Nancy's stuff. She'll k*ll me.

♪ ♪

What?

Oh!

[GRUNTING]

[GASPS]

♪ ♪

f*ck, it feels so good to be out doing

some normal-ass sh*t, girl.

- I needed this.
- Oh, yeah, no, anytime.

["N.E.W. OAKLAND" PLAYING]

[MISTAH F.A.B.]
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, look ♪

[TEENA] Whoo! It burns!

[MISTAH F.A.B.] Hey, man,
it's your boy Fabby Davis Jr.

Of the Mack Pack, man.

You know what I'm saying?

And, uh, n*gg*s be
hating on the Town, man.

So we can really show
y'all how that sh*t go, man.

Look. ♪ I got the North ♪

[ALL SINGING ALONG] ♪ Got the
East got the West with me ♪

♪ So I suggest you n*gg*s
don't mess with me ♪

♪ You need to be cool 'cause
you don't wanna squabble ♪

♪ 'Cause we could do the fool ♪

♪ But you don't want a problem ♪

♪ Put that on something
I put that on fathers ♪

♪ Put that on something
I put that on mamas ♪

♪ Put that on something
I put that on grandcitas ♪

♪ You run up on me,
Get your man b*at up ♪

♪ Bushrod, Gaskill,
-deuce, Goldenville ♪

Ah!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Come on.

- Ladies first.
- Bet.

♪ ♪

[CHORUS] ♪ Real high ♪

[HAITI BABII] ♪ These n*gg*s
wanna speak down on me ♪

♪ I'ma slay 'em with my fire ♪

♪ With my fire, my fire ♪

♪ Hot like lava,
what do you desire ♪

♪ I'm on fire ♪

♪ You you can't
can't trust me bitch ♪

♪ I'm about my dollar ♪

♪ That's the reason why I'm rich ♪

♪ They try to slander my name ♪

♪ But I won't let
'em get this close ♪

♪ Oh, Lord, oh ♪

♪ Listen to me ♪

♪ Listen to my story,
story, story, story ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I kept it a flamma ♪

♪ And I ride with my banga ♪

♪ I was thugging, twisting my fingers ♪

♪ All my n*gg*s, They so dangerous ♪

♪ Can't ride with us ♪

♪ We're taking flights ♪

♪ If I say jump, would you do it? ♪

♪ What would it take
you to prove it? ♪

♪ f*ck it, I might
pull up with a choppa ♪

♪ And chop your partner
like steak and lobster ♪

♪ Pull up with a thermometer ♪

♪ Extended clip like a helicopter ♪

♪ We can get hekka traffic ♪

♪ While traveling through Africa ♪

♪ Faker den I thought you was ♪

♪ I thought you was a conqueror ♪

♪ f*cking up your faculties
actually causing casualties ♪

♪ But everybody
dies, B I'ma hustle ♪

♪ It reminds me of
a n*gga in the ' s ♪

♪ With a mack on my lap ♪

♪ Slander my name ♪

♪ But I won't let 'em get this close.

♪ Oh, Lord ♪

♪ Oh, listen, listen to me ♪

♪ Listen to my story,
story, story, story ♪

♪ Oh ah ♪

[GRUNTING]

Stop it.

We love each other. We can do this.

Don't do that stuff.
Don't try to read me, okay?

I ain't seen you in almost a year.

[GRUNTING]

What kind of form is that?

Town.

Town?

Oakland. My true form, okay?

I had to come home.

I was scared.

I needed to be with my family.

Titi misses you.

I miss you.

I wasn't ready for her to call you Mom

because it felt like it was...

erasing something about her,

something about me.

When you left, there was this love,

this great indescribable
love that I lost,

and Tiarre lost it too.

We've lost so much already.

I can't lose you too.

We are family.

No sh*t, Staf.

Why you didn't just text that?

[LAUGHING QUIETLY]

Because I feel like the delivery is key.

[PLAYS KEYBOARD PENSIVELY]

♪ ♪

♪ I hope I don't go back ♪

♪ To slanging yayo ♪

♪ Slanging yayo ♪

♪ To get my mail, oh ♪

♪ I hope I don't go back ♪

♪ To slanging yayo ♪

♪ Slanging yayo ♪

♪ To get my mail, oh ♪

You learned my favorite E- song?

♪ Been a hustler since birth ♪

♪ Mama selling dinners
for the church ♪

♪ Red-handed, caught me
stealing money out of purse ♪

♪ Got branded, permanent
whip scars on my back ♪

♪ I used to get b*at
with racing car tracks ♪

♪ But now me got wealth,
holding a conference call ♪

♪ In my hands-free car telephone ♪

♪ Looking like I'm
talking to myself ♪

♪ sh**ting the breeze,
cutting it up real tough ♪

♪ Like chopping it up
like a true businessman ♪

♪ Talking about, by the way,
B, what we doing this week ♪

♪ On SoundScan? ♪

♪ I hope I don't back

♪ To slanging yayo ♪

♪ Slanging yayo ♪

♪ To get my mail, yo ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ ♪

I love you, Staf.

I love you more.

♪

♪

♪

♪

Oh.

No, no, no, no, no.

Go away.

Hey, but I thought that...

Move!

Hey. But... But...

[ASHLEY] Oh, time to go, bitch.

- Get up!
- [TEENA] What?

- [YOUNG MAN] Wait, wait?
- [TEENA] Wait, no, call me!

- [YOUNG MAN] What the f*ck?
- This bad. This bad.

[TEENA] ...

Get the f*ck off me, bitch!

I'm trying to help you.

[TEENA] What are you talking about?

Handle your Saturday night n*gga,

and I'll handle mine, okay?

I have a husband, and so do you.

Where? Where is he?

Chri-Chris? Chris?

Chri... oh, that's right.

He's doing ten years in prison, Ashley.

That's not funny, Teena.

"That's not funny, Teena."

So this is what you do
on the weekends, huh?

I brought you here to get your mind

off of the truth, okay?

Miles doesn't belong to you anymore.

He belongs to them.

You can't stand here and tell me

that you don't see that f*cking sh*t.

Nothing is ever the f*cking
same after this sh*t, Ashley.

You are just like me.

You know what the f*ck we're doing here.

You think I didn't see you in there

kissing that pale-ass n*gga?

[LAUGHS] Come on girl.

You came out here in
that tight ass dress

thought you weren't
gonna get any attention.

I know what you want.

I know that you want this.

You wanted him to come and
feel up on you, didn't you?

[GRUNTS]

[LAUGHS]

[YELPS]

Bitch!

Get off.

sh*t.

What the f*ck?

Get off of me!

Ow.

Oh, sh*t.

f*ck.

It f*cking burns.

[SIGHS]

You wanna go to Caribbean City?

What? Why? Now?

Well, bitch, my night's not over.

- We just fought.
- So?

- "So?"
- So friends fight, okay?

Now I know I gotta back up

if I'ma roast you or something.

Girl, I gotta go home.

You sure?

Yeah, I'm sure.

Okay.

[SIGHS]

Yikes.

Right there.

Hey.

I know you think I don't miss him.

But I do.

Every f*cking day.

You didn't see anything.

Okay?

Night, Ash.

[HEAVY MUSIC PLAYS]

♪ ♪

♪ This is the ballad of the broken ♪

♪ Eulogy of the bruised
that spews unspoken ♪

♪ on a poorly-lit
corner of West Oakland, ♪

♪ Where new whites drive
by on fixed-gear bikes ♪

♪ And old town sh*t
dies by the light ♪

♪ Of another liquor store closing ♪

♪ And I am a vagabond
of afterthoughts ♪

♪ Manic in the pageantry of
an impossible plastic posture ♪

♪ Pressured by a rotting
precedent of my Babylon ♪

♪ So before you begin,
let me remind you ♪

♪ These m*therf*ckers wish I
was who they never could be ♪

♪ Wish they did what it does
while I do it begrudgingly ♪

♪ I am most in the mud ♪

♪ It's made thick in my blood ♪

♪ And I misstep occasionally ♪

♪ So f*cking what? ♪

♪ So f*cking what? ♪

f*ck!

♪ I trip right on the g*n ♪

♪ f*ck, I mixed
lights with the rum ♪

♪ And flew a bit too
tight to the Sun ♪

♪ A Bay girl gets
no license to run ♪

♪ I got to be dirty as a Magdalene ♪

♪ And holy to these.. holy to these... ♪

♪ Holy to these n*gg*s
as a nun-as a nun ♪

♪ And down like a clown, no
matter the sentence sung ♪

♪ Or grip on my lungs-
grip on my lungs- ♪

♪ Grip on my lungs ♪

♪ But what if I'm coming undone? ♪

♪ What if-what if-what if
they got me coming undone? ♪

[LAUGHS] f*ck, I'm not the one.

I'm not the f*cking one.

Nelle.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

[JANELLE] Okay, I'm coming.

sh*t, knocking on my...

sh*t, Ash, you okay?

You look cute but f*cked up.

Yes.

Ooh, girl, is that Mustafa?

[JANELLE] Mm-hmm.

[ASHLEY] He looks more
handsome in person.

I like the facial hair.

[JANELLE] Okay. All right.

Why don't you come on inside?

No, no, no, no, no.

I want to...

- What? You what?
- Mm...

I just came to say that
I love you, Janelle.

And I love you so much.

[JANELLE] Oh.

Oh.

Okay.

I love you too.

Uh-huh.

Girl, he's cute.

[JANELLE] Mm-hmm.

You should hold onto him real tight.

He is fine, ain't he?

Yeah.

Oh, I'm-I'm sorry.

[JANELLE] Yeah.

I shouldn't be here.

Okay, um, just act like...

act like I wasn't here.

I'm a magic-I'm a magician.

Shh.

Shh, okay.

Please text me when you get home.

Okay.

Mm-mm.

She seems nice.

Mm-hmm.

And has a great eye
for how handsome I am.

Shut up.

Give me my blunt.

[SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS]

[DOOR OPENS]

♪ ♪

[RAINEY] Hey, party girl.

Wild night?

Huh?

Oh. Um, yeah.

Is Sean asleep?

Out like an adorable log.

It looks like you lost an earring.

- Honey, are you...
- I can't.

Um... I can't be around
you right now, Rainey.

I'm sorry.

Good night.

And frostbite.

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