01x04 - Balance Beam

[bunniefuu]

[LAUGHING]

[WOMAN] One of y'all b*tches
is gonna fall in your own piss.

[LOUD MUSIC PLAYS]

I had my wall down with you
last night 'cause you were so...

You were so brilliant at
the eviction defense action.

Wow, um...

[NERVOUS LAUGHTER]

Heat of the moment got to us,

but you know, we should
really discuss boundaries...

["PONY" BY GINUWINE PLAYS]

[CAR WHOOSES BY]

[FELIX] Yo...

I guess people don't answer
their phones no more, huh?

[JONES] What happened?

[SOBBING]

[ROMANTIC R&B MUSIC PLAYING]

We don't have to do this. It's
only... this is only if you're ready.

Ow... [LAUGHS]

I... I have something, I have
something I wanna show you.

What is it?

I...

I have this.

Oh.

[WHISPERING] Come here.

[WHISPERING] Down here.

This?

Take the rest of your clothes off.

[CLOTHING RUSTLING]

[HUFFING AND AUDIBLY STRUGGLING]

[WHISPERING] That's not gonna work.

- I've never...
- I know.

I just don't want to hurt you.

Don't worry... you won't.

[SHUFFLING]

Oops.

[PANTS AND CHUCKLES]

- [FLORA] Maybe if I...
- On my arm?

If I can just get...

- Not on, not my...
- [FLORA] Yeah.

Wait, so if I put my...

- [FLORA] Hold on.
- Okay.

- Is that okay?
- Uh...

Yes. Your legs are tight around
my arm, but it feels good.

Okay.

[MOANING]

- [COOTIE] Ow!
- Sorry! I'm sorry.

- [RELIEVED GIGGLING]
- Are you okay?

- If I just... like that?
- [COOTIE] Okay. Okay, okay.

- Yeah? Okay.
- [COOTIE] Okay, yeah.

- [COOTIE] Yes. Okay.
- Yeah. Yeah.

[BOTH MOANING]

Yeah, girl, you like
that? You like that sh*t?

[SHUSHING] [MOANS]

Shut up. Okay, okay...

[PANTS]

[MOANING INTENSIFIES]

[EJACULATES]

[PANTING]

- [FLORA] Oh.
- I'm sorry.

- [FLORA] No.
- I'm sorry.

It's okay.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

I think I have a new idea.

- If you put your arm and have it...
- [COOTIE] My hand's okay there?

Okay. I think you're
trying to go... There.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

- Okay.
- Okay. Okay.

Okay. Go, go, go as fast as you
want. Okay? You're not gonna hurt me.

- Are you sure?
- I promise, I promise, I promise.

Okay, okay.

[PANTS] Go fast. Go fast.

Yeah, yeah. Girl, you f*cking like that?

Wait, um...

- What? Why are you saying that?
- Felix said that's what girls like, so...

I'm not f*cking Felix, I'm f*cking you.

- Okay?
- [GROANS]

[CHUCKLES]

- It's okay. Okay.
- Okay.

[BOTH CONTINUE MOANING
AND HEAVY BREATHING]

[BOTH PANTING]

Oh.

- Oh. Cool.
- [SHUDDERS]

[BOTH GIGGLING]

[SQUELCHING]

- [HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYS]
- [MOANING]

[PHONE VIBRATING]

[MOANS]

- Wait. Okay, wait, wait, wait.
- What? What? What?

Okay, just put me down.

Put me down. Yeah, slow,
yeah, just like that.

Yeah, yeah, just... Yeah.

You're gonna put it near
me, but not in me, yes?

- [FLORA] Not in me, right?
- Okay.

Yeah, just like that.

And then I'm gonna ride it
lengthwise like a balance beam, okay?

- Okay.
- [FLORA] Okay.

Okay, yeah, is that good?

Yeah? Okay. Yeah.

[BOTH MOANING]

[R&B SONG PLAYS]

[MOANS AND CHUCKLES]

- I think I'm gonna...
- [FLORA] Wait.

Just wait, wait, please. Stay
with me, just wait a minute.

One more minute. Stay with me now.

- [FLORA] Stay, oh!
- [COOTIE] Oh!

[FLORA] It's okay. No, f*ck the
lights. It's okay, keep going.

- Just keep going, keep going.
- [COOTIE] All right, okay, okay.

- [FLORA] Yeah, yeah.
- [COOTIE] Okay.

[MOANING]

[CANS AND BOTTLES CLANGING]

[FLORA] Wait, wait.

[JUNK SETTLES]

[MAN] Raiders... !

- [ALL] No music!
- [CROWD CHANTING AND WHOOPING]

- [ALL] No music!
- [CHANTING AND WHOOPING CONTINUES]

Scat is dead.

Hey!

Hey, everybody!

Scat is dead.

We're gonna do something.

I need everyone in their phones
and on their contacts right now.

There's a video.

We're going to Krown
headquarters right now, okay?

- [MUTTERS]
- [POWER COMES BACK ON]

[CHUCKLES]

Sucking you in?

- What?
- Yeah. Your eyes...

Your eyes were sucking me in
and everything else with them.

So, you saw that the first time
you saw me, and you figured...

And I knew.

I knew you were missing the
same puzzle pieces as me.

You keep talking like a poet,
I'll just shut up and listen.

Yeah. You out to lunch, boy.

It's at the same place I eat at.

- [CHUCKLES]
- [POUNDING ON DOOR]

[MAN AT DOOR] Flora.

- Who's that?
- [POUNDING AT DOOR INTENSIFIES]

[MAN AT DOOR] Come on, don't
ghost me, answer my calls.

Dougie told me you're in there.

- You want me to get it?
- No, no. They'll go away.

[MAN AT DOOR] f*ck this sh*t.

Remember I told you I got bored easily?

I guess that might be me one day.

I don't think I'll
ever get bored of you.

- [SOUL SONG PLAYS]
- [PHONE BUZZING]

What?

What is it?

What is it?

Jones.

Hey, look at me, look at me.

There we go, there we
go. Hurry up, hurry up!

[HELICOPTER WINGS CIRCLING]

[POLICE SIRENS]

[JONES] Um, just make
sure that people get water.

- [FELIX] Man, f*ck this!
- Make...

Stop. f*ck all this flowers and
posters and paintings and sh*t.

Stop, yo, stop!

- You don't even know him, bro!
- Yo, man, maybe he's tryin to...

Scat ain't never
talked sh*t about nobody

that ain't hella deserved that sh*t.

- You know that.
- I know.

[FELIX] He don't give a
f*ck about none of this sh*t.

If I hadn't have been just...

No, if you hadn't have been
dealing with all of this sh*t.

You give a f*ck about every muthafucka,

except the ones that
count, you know that?

It's too soon, Jones,
this sh*t is today.

[FELIX] My n*gga is gone,
bro. Get off of me, stop!

Go handle your fans.

- Excuse me. Excuse us.
- [COOTIE] Jones? Felix?

Excuse us.

Thank you for being here with me.

What did you expect?
Where else am I gonna be?

Where your ass been?

[COOTIE] Jones, this
can't happen, right?

I... ma... I mean, he's human.

They can't just leave
somebody to like, die.

- It doesn't make sense.
- Someone needs to get up there now.

- Jones.
- I'mma answer you up there.

My boy Cootie right here just asked

how the f*ck could
something like this happen?

Exactly. This wasn't an
accident. It's no accident.

When Krown turns poor people away
to die just so they make a profit.

And the same forces that k*lled Scat,

are trying to get us too.

Let me break it down a little bit.

There is a phenomenon called
the Crisis of Capitalism.

Under capitalism, businesses
combine labor and materials

to create goods or services for sale.

Each year, they must make more
money than the last to compete

or else be crushed by competitors.

They do this by lowering
wages and raising prices.

Now, those workers have less
money to buy the products

with and the company loses money.

How do they fix that situation?

By again, lowering
wages and raising prices.

It's a downward spiral during which

we have large numbers of
people who can't afford

many of the goods that the
economic system produces.

Private HMO run hospitals
like Krown are no different.

Krown is nothing but a network of boxes

with the purpose of
sending cash to its owners.

To get cash out of those boxes?
They sell health as their product.

We get sold the idea
that hospitals are there

with the primary purpose
of helping people,

but the crisis of capitalism
compels them to raise their prices

while people's overall
wages are lowered.

So people can't afford
it and get turned away.

In cases like Scat's, they die.

It's why our developers and real
estate companies have rents go up

as wages go down, pushing
people into the street.

It's why our power company
shuts our lights off regularly,

instead of buying from
neighboring regions

or spending money on upgrades.

The power company, the
real estate developers,

and Krown have the same group of owners

who are also investors in much
of the industry in the Bay Area.

Our power comes from the fact

that we are the ones
that create that profit.

All of these problems all have
the same immediate solution.

We shut everything down
and force their hands.

It's all connected, and
that's how we have to fight it.

We give them a choice, cede to
our demands and make less profit,

or we shut you down,
and you make no profit.

[CROWD CHEERING]

- Did you see that?
- [SHUSHES] Just listen.

We get justice for Scat

by getting justice for us all.

Scat would've wanted that.

[CROWD] Scat would've wanted that,
ugh! Scat would've wanted that, ay!

- [CROWD CONTINUES]
- [COOTIE] Jones, Jones!

- [COOTIE] What? What was that?
- I was just laying it out clearly.

No, it was like a psychic theater.

The cops brought a noise cannon.

[JONES] I can't talk
about this right now.

Look, I'm glad you're here.

- [JONES] Just stay close.
- It wasn't just the speech though.

[COOTIE] It was... Jones.

This was in Scat's pocket when he d*ed.

[FELIX] It's probably for you.

[JONES] We have to block
Krown headquarters now!

Block the execs from entering
in the morning and shut it down!

[SCAT] I'm gonna get
something for you, all right?

Watch what I'm gonna have for you, bro.

[SMOKE CANISTERS LANDING AND OPENING]

[PEOPLE IN THE CROWD SCREAMING]

[CULT LEADER] We wait your revelation.

[SAM] Lemons to lemonade,
cocaine to cr*ck.

[HERO] People shouldn't feel...

... like they have a g*n pointed
at their head all the time.

[SCAT] I wanna see my name
on the side of a building.

I'mma hook you up, Scat.

[HEROIC MUSIC]

Do you have any more of those?

Nah, but I got this.

[HERO] Hey, watch out!

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]

[CHAINS CLANGING]

[CROWD YELLING]

Jay, Jay, hey, um, I'm a big
fan of all the Cannon Comics.

I'm an upcoming artist, can
you take a look at my portfolio?

Emotion. There's no
emotion in the faces.

Thanks, Jay.

[HERO] Get your mind right, halfwits.

[UPBEAT THEME MUSIC PLAYS]