02x02 - Hurston

[bunniefuu]

Try to track it down.

That moment
that it all changed.

[phone ringing]

David young.

[Sky]
There you are, dj.

- You in a hurry?
- Hey, man!

- [siren wailing]
- You all right, officer?

Yeah, it's cool.
It's my brother.

[Sky] Dave,
I'm going to the ville.

[David] Y'all cut that
sh*t out, man. Stop!

- [g*nsh*t]
- [groans]

We got some good news.

JG is breathing on his own.
He's still with us.

[school bell rings]

The plural for octopus is
actually octopuses, not octopi.

- Your elbow's ashy.
- Your life is ashy.

Come on, people!

High school classes
won't be this precise.

Maybe if you get into hurston.

[man 1]
you're a man of w*r.

Your salvation is
far from here.

Focus on that straight
line to hurston.

[screams]

[breathing deeply]

[laughs]

[indistinct chatter]

[David] I thought of
something to do at the school.

[jg]
you the cool one, Dave.

[fading]
you the cool one, Dave.

[laughing]

[Ronaldo]
ain't you no snitch, n*gga?

[Luis] I was just trying to
help your ignorant a*s.

[Ronaldo] there he goes,
getting all emotional.

[David] I wasn't
looking for a handout.

[Fred]
no! Boy!

[jg] Dave's going
to be a boss.

He was running with Sky.
[echoing]

[Sky] Dave,
I'm going to the ville.

[David]
no, no, stop!

[g*nsh*t]

[dramatic music playing]

[Ronaldo, Fred, poncho]
three, two, one, go!

[rock music playing]

How the hell is he so fast?

Yo, catch him!

[chuckling]

Yeah.
Come on, Dee.

[both grunt]

Rondo, I know you got to be
tired of losing by now.

Get off his d*ck, Luis.

Hey, my roommate
whooped y'all. Pay up.

Hey, respect the bet.

- I want my snacks.
- Yeah, that's true.

Our snacks! Don't forget about
your agent from hurston city Olympics.

- Oh, my god!
- That's a 2012 baby.

Watch out!
Go, go, go!

Double or nothing, Dee money.

I barely be running
full speed.

Dave run like
the cops chasing.

[laughing]

- Hmm.
- You're doing too much.

Making sure he knows
I'm not with that g*y sh*t.

Why would he? You do
something to confuse him.

[laughing]

- Shut up, David.
- I'm just saying.

Can't you tell he actually
likes you?

I don't know. No!
Shut up.

- I don't have him as a study partner.
- That's what you're mad at.

You need to be mad
you still failing.

- [all laughing]
- hey, I'm happy to trade.

Hey, I don't
need help in geography,

or else I would be down to.

Besides, I had a best friend in
middle school I think was g*y.

You had a best friend
that was g*y.

It ain't matter
and he had my back.

Isn't that the point?

I think you're making too much
sense for these dummies, Dee.

I'm going to get
a head start to class.

'Cause this bag getting
a little heavy today.

[laughing]

[bell rings]

Can anyone tell me the difference
between Hamlet and the lion king?

- One's boring and one isn't.
- [all laugh]

boring is to say that you
lack imagination, Mr. Perez.

You need to someone to take
Hamlet, turn him into a lion,

have him dance on top
of an ostrich

while singing
about being a king

for you to be
interested in the same story.

Being king sounds good to me.

Hmm.

And that's how I know you
didn't do your homework.

[kids]
boo!

m*rder, betrayal, sickness.
The kings are all taken out.

Gentlemen, you need to stop
being lazy readers.

It won't help you
on your project.

Shakespeare's text gives us
everything we need to play with.

He knew how difficult it can
be for us to suspend reality.

He addresses our ability
to do that very thing

in the prologue from Henry v.

"Oh, for a muse of fire
that would ascend.

The brightest heaven
of invention!"

Right. Now, what...

"a kingdom for a stage,
princes to act,

and monarchs
to behold the swelling scene!

And then should the
warlike Harry, like himself,

assume the port of Mars

and at his heels,
leash'd in like hounds,

and should famine, sword
and fire crouch for employment."

[clapping]

[echoing cheering]

[theme music playing]

[Spanish hip-hop
music playing]

Oh, f*ck?

[stammering]
my bad.

I didn't mean to wake you up.
I was just...

Guess who
just washed your sheets.

- Yeah. I was just...
- You got to start sleeping on your right side.

- They had a thread about it on Twitter.
- Thread about what?

Wet dreams, n*gga.
Relax. You good.

We live at a all boys' school. Ain't
nobody getting any p*ssy around here.

I'm going to tell you
my trick but don't judge me.

Stay ready!

Yo! You crazy!

Are you going to
wash mine, too?

Hell, no!

Look at you nasty.

Yeah, we heading to the
cafeteria when you get back?

Nah, I got to study
for this test though.

Damn, I forgot that's today.

I got to pass
or I fail this nine weeks.

Second year hurston
is the hardest.

[scoffs] I still think you
crazy for transferring here.

Hey, you get your
calculator fixed?

Nah, that sh*t's
completely broken.

I'm going to have
to talk to Dr. P.

Hopefully
I can borrow one of hers.

I don't know, she lets us for
class but for the actual test...

I think you're better off
asking the devil for ice water.

Well, my thirsty a*s
ain't got no other option.

That last calculator
was like $200.

I could barely afford
the first one.

Well, you could
use my old one.

You been holding out?

Nah, I figured you had a
better option. Look, it works,

but you got to make sure you keep an eye
on that charge or it's going to die on you.

Say less, I'm putting that thing on
the charger right now. But thank you.

No dope, you know we always
got to look out for each other.

[clock ticks]

[dramatic music playing]

f*ck!

I'm sorry.
It died.

It's always something
with you.

Charge it and sit down.

[clear throats]

[book thuds]

I knew it was you.

Had to make sure you weren't
murdering calculators.

Looking funny and being funny
ain't the same thing.

And you had me stressed
just looking at you.

- I've been through worse, at least I finished.
- You sure you're good?

Back in my element now.

Spent most freshman
year in here.

You got a favorite?

A book of poetry, my friend...

My friend Sky gave me.

Mad, I didn't bring it.

Bring it back
next time you go home.

You bet.

You ready?

For what?
I'm at work.

The class prank.

That's why you ran here?
What prank?

Hey, you can read about it
or be about it.

Why you want me to go so bad?

It won't be as fun
without you.

- No one can see me leaving.
- You bet.

[dramatic music playing]

It's going to be ridiculous.

It's going to be ridiculous.

Y'all are the f*cking worst.

How do you not know what
ether is? Just Google this sh*t.

What do we need ether for?

We're going to light
the pool on fire.

Look, I looked up
a video on YouTube.

I'm going to get a gopro, buy us some
nun costumes like that movie, the town.

It's lit.
What do you think, Dee money?

Um, nobody thinks about doing
something in the pool.

That's genius.

- See!
- We just got to be ready

'cause they definitely going
to call the police to f*ck with us

and I think arson in Florida is
like, what, 30 years in prison.

So, if anybody snitched,
y'all better be ready...

I'm not trying
to deal with the cops.

My dad would m*rder me.

Oh, yeah, no,
that makes sense.

So, you just want to do something
the whole school can see, right?

Hell, yeah.

I think I got an idea
based off of yours.

We're listening.

Poncho, Fred, y'all know
where we can get

some flex seal tape
from around here?

Oh, don't worry
about supplies.

I got that taken care of.

You bet.
This is what we going to need.

[hip-hop song
in foreign language playing]

Oh, my god, man!

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

Oh, let's stop it.

Dude.

- You must be allergic to fun.
- I'm having fun watching.

I just can't tread
water like that.

You'll never be able to
if you don't try it.

That's fine with me, because as
soon as I start to panic, it ain't no fun.

I hate that feeling.

- Fun?
- Panic.

Do you trust me to teach you?

[all laughing]

Oh, my god.

[laughs]

[Ronaldo]
this sh*t is beautiful.

Whoo.

Let's go, man.

Let's go, go.

- That's what we call a prank.
- Call a game.

David, I love you, man.

I don't know how we're
going to top it next year.

When Luis told us
you was cool, I wasn't sure.

I couldn't get past
this lame library boy

that nobody paid
attention to last year.

I didn't think you belonged.

Now, I can't believe we went
a year at hurston without you.

A toast to Dee money.

[Fred] yes, sir!
Dee money.

- Oh. Come on.
- [all chattering]

[laughing]

Wait up!

You are here because we encourage
everyone to take an active role

in protecting our
natural environment.

In these seagrass beds, you will
find all types of creatures today.

These nets will be your tools
to help you get a closer look.

Young men, your focus and
attention will be appreciated.

Please be careful
not to stump.

You want to shuffle your feet.

- Ah! Hey, girl.
- Hey, boy. Watch where you step.

[Fred] damn, pancho. She's
going to kick your a*s with that net.

I don't even care.
She's fine as f*ck.

- She is fine.
- I know her. Marissa.

We went to middle
school together.

Yo, you better go
and talk to her.

- Nah, she's kind of...
- Are you seeing what we're seeing?

[dramatic music playing]

Mm-hm.

All right, Dee, go get her.

- David!
- Hey, Marissa.

I wasn't expecting to see you
out here on a field trip.

It's not a field trip for me. I
volunteer for research purposes.

I know. 'cause you love water
and animals and stuff, right?

Octopuses, not octopi.

- You remember.
- Of course.

Are you enjoying hurston?

First year was rough,
getting used to.

Not too many of us out there,
but it's better now.

- How's mass?
- [Marissa] I love it.

I'm the first sophomore president
of the black student unified

- and the book club.
- [David] okay.

I see you, Oprah.

[indistinct chatter]

David, did you come over here
for something in particular?

Nah,
I'm just happy to see you.

I mean,
it's been like two years.

You didn't have to talk
to me to see me.

You could have waved, I
would would've waved right back

and kept it moving like
a seaweed.

Wait, wait. Why are you
acting like that?

I didn't do nothing
but be nice.

- That's what you're doing.
- [David] what?

Marissa, I only came over here
because I saw you and I got happy.

I kinda miss you.

- Miss what?
- [David] you!

All the stuff we did at
Galvin, Dr. Woods-trap class.

You saving my a*s with
a project about my mom.

It was seren's idea
to bring me in on that.

You do remember him, right?

Of course, I remember.

I was the closest person
to him. I was the one who...

I'm always thinking
about seren.

He was my best friend.

Looks like you didn't
struggle to find replacements.

[laughing and chattering]

No. That's not why I'm...

- I'm sorry.
- That part hasn't changed.

Marissa.

David!
Hey, we saw you, player.

Yeah, Dee. She was all
over you. What'd she say?

- Yeah!
- Well, okay, okay, okay.

[laughing]

[indistinct chatter]

[David] you're only
going for a weekend.

What you got in here?
Bodies?

Drugs. And I'm taking my ps3,
so I can play with my little brother

and my mom likes washing all
my clothes while I'm at home.

- Why are you staying?
- Oh, I got enough to do here.

And plus, I can make
some extra money,

putting our Shakespeare
project together.

I could take it from you.
You good.

Nah, I don't need you
coming back with one of those

fake light skin injuries talking
about you can't do the project.

Chill!
I told you I got it.

[speaking in foreign language]

Yeah, I'll be safe.

[dramatic music playing]

[man over pa] we're glad
to have you all back

safe and sound
from your long weekend.

Hope everyone is recharged
and ready to excel.

We are still looking
for those responsible

for the vandalism
of the hurston pool.

Anyone with information,
come forward.

Being a true hurston man is
about integrity and accountability.

- You okay?
- Yeah.

Are we good?

[boy] it's too much.

What y'all whispering about?

We're talking about how we're going to get
your slow-a*s to pass Ms. Charles' class.

Man, we got a black
Shakespeare. I'm not worried.

If you see him in class,
"oh, for a music fire..."

I don't know how this smart
a*s reads it so easily.

It's easy. I caught on
to the rhythm. Look.

[clapping]

What the hell was that?

It's iambic pentameter, right?

Yeah.

It's like having a beat you could rap
the text to when it's written in verse.

You should have said rap
from the beginning.

We got to do some Shakespeare
freestyle sh*t for our project.

[tapping on table]

♪ Hey... ♪

♪ Fred on a track
and all my boys with me ♪

♪ well, I'm so smooth
Shakespeare on the beat ♪

♪ to be or not be
the best emcee ♪

♪ now I pass the light
to my boy Luis ♪

♪ my name is Luis
and the boy is a beast ♪

♪ the boy's so smooth
so your girl love me ♪

♪ yeah, my boy Dee
snatching hoes off their feet ♪

♪ y'all can't compete ♪

okay, okay.

- ♪ Rondo on the beat, gutter from the street ♪
- ♪ Hey! ♪

♪ Pulling out the heat
if a n*gga play with me ♪

- ♪ Hey! ♪
- ♪ Poncho turns up, - they think I'm crazy ♪

♪ now I'm gonna pass it
to my n*gga Dee money ♪

[tapping continues]

I know you can think of
sh*t off the top of your head.

- You thought of our prank in like 30 seconds.
- [shushing]

what? Y'all heard
the announcement.

- We on some ocean's eleven sh*t.
- [shushing]

yo, yo, yo!
Keep it down!

What, y'all scared?
Ain't no snitch, n*gga?

They don't have to if you're telling
yourself. And my name is David.

[scoffs]

It was his plan,
now this n*gga.

I'm not your n*gga.
Don't call me that.

- I was just playing around ni...
- [boy] Oh, man.

Oh!

I was provoked.

He called me a n*gga
and I have...

You will watch
your language in here.

That's what I'm saying, he
called me the "n" word, sir.

Ronaldo, is this true?

- We were just joking around.
- No!

I told him,
"don't call me that."

And he kept, "n" word this,
and "n" word that.

I told him, I am not
his "n" word,

and he got mad
and pushed me.

And then what happened?

Ronaldo, your father
would be embarrassed to know

how his son is selling his
family's reputation at hurston.

There's absolutely no place
for bigotry or racism here.

However, Mr. Young, we have a
zero-tolerance policy for violence.

Your argument doesn't hold
water here, David.

I hate it but the "n" word
is common at this school.

I've heard you and your
friend Luis use it with each other.

- What makes this different?
- It's different.

But aren't you two friends?
Why are you acting this way?

Because he...

Because he started it.

- You said, he only pushed you.
- That's... that's starting it.

Are you okay?

Have you seen the nurse?

No.

We need to make sure you
don't have any head injuries.

- I could see the nurse.
- Yes, go now.

[Ronaldo]
yes, sir.

David young,
I've pulled your records.

Your freshman year at hurston
was clean, no troubles, straight a's.

But this year, it's different.

Fighting,
recent failed math test.

What? No, I just needed
more time because...

Hurston men are not
about excuses, David.

They are simply tools
of the incompetent.

You will be suspended for the
week and put on academic probation

- until you get your act together.
- That's not fair.

[indistinct chatter over pa]

[sighs]

I hope you use your time at home
to reflect on what you've done...

And come back
with a new attitude.

[dramatic music playing]

- [door opens]
- that was crazy.

- [door closes]
- what the f*ck is going on?

- Why are you packing? They kicked you out?
- No.

So? What suspension?
How long?

- The rest of the week.
- That's bullshit.

All because of
rondo drunk a*s.

- Is your mom coming?
- No, Luis. I'm taking the train.

Yo, my mom's a lawyer.
I could call her.

I could have used your support when
rondo was calling me all types of n*gg*s.

Oh! But I'm sure your father
wouldn't like you helping me.

Yo, Dee.
I'm sorry.

- [door opens]
- my name is David.

[door closes]

[hip-hop music playing]

[man] C'mon, man!
Nobody do you like that.

[girl]
Hit it, hit it.

[indistinct chatter]

Cops are doing that much,

Y'all are definitely
gonna get caught.

Dee!
What're you doing here?

I have to make sure
you're staying out of trouble.

Ah, prep school man.

Nah, golden child now. Ain't
it? Let me hold on something.

- What's up, y'all?
- Doing what we do.

I see, I thought you
was on a sabbatical.

Ah, we ain't doing too much.

You know, she slowed down since
raining in chenove shut down shop.

- Right.
- More peaceful, I hope.

As peaceful
as the 'ville can get.

What you doing out here in
the middle of the week, man?

[scoffs] man, I had to f*ck up
a white wolf for talking crazy.

Boy, you was fighting
at prep school.

- [laughing]
- You're going to stay here for them.

- What I'm talking about.
- Come on, man.

I'm telling ma, you at school
fighting over a science fair project.

- Ah, hey, yo. Mo.
- JG, shut up!

Y'all ruining
my YouTube video.

Shella, you ain't got
no subscribers.

You got to build
them up, stupid.

[grunts]

[indistinct chatter]

[serene music playing]

Oh, hey!

David, right?

David, what are
you doing here?

I swear you're taller every
time I see you, and handsome.

What are all these boxes?
And we got chip clips now?

And who was that kid that
just came out of my room?

- My room...
- Shut up, jg.

That's Zion. I'm helping mix
Elijah out with him for a few months.

Just till we finally get
the hell up out of here.

Wait, wait, you moving?
Moving where?

I found a place
not too far from here.

I was going to tell you
next time I saw you.

Hold up, I know you ain't come up
in here asking me 50-11 questions

and still ain't told me,
what you're doing here?

I, um...

I got suspended
at school for fighting.

David, what're you at them
people school fighting for?

This drunk white boy called
me a n*gga and pushed me.

So, I hit him. But the school acting
like I tried to k*ll him or something.

He drunk in the tenth grade?

They're different out there.

Why am I just now hearing
about this?

Ain't nobody call me
or nothing?

I guess I got to come up to that damn
school and get some straightening...

[inhales and exhales]

What was the punishment?

I... I got suspended
for the rest of the week

but I didn't want to call you
and tell you over the phone

- because it wasn't my fault, mom. I sh...
- Thank you.

Thank you for telling me.

Is that everything
that happened?

Yes, yes, ma'am.

Okay. Well, I trust you.

Please just try not to let
your anger rule you. Okay?

Wait, huh!
That's it?

If you say, it wasn't
your fault, I believe you.

- Thank you, I thought you...
- Lord.

I'm already running
late for class.

There's food in the fridge.

We will talk more
when I get home, okay?

- Okay, but, mom...
- I love you, David.

JG, make sure you have your homework
done by the time I get home tonight.

- So, we can go all over it.
- Yes, mama.

[door opens]

[door shuts]

[dramatic music playing]

What you looking for, Dee?

I'm looking for this book
that Sky gave me.

Have you seen where mom
put my clothes and stuff?

Ma gave a lot
of our old stuff away.

Yeah, like...
Like, she sold it?

I see, she's been real active.
Is everything okay?

She's good, Dee.

She's been going to meetings,
all that.

She just gave our old stuff away
to kids who needed more than us.

- Like we rich or something.
- Oh.

Well,
at least she's staying busy.

Hell, yeah. She's staying
on my a*s about school.

She's even planning
field trips with just me

talking about some museum
learning on weekends too.

- That's good.
- [jg] that's 'cause you like that sh*t.

I bet you and your
rich hurston friends

do way more fun stuff
than that.

You know, I thought of something
to do at school but now I don't know.

You're the cool one, Dee.
f*ck the other side.

Not as cool
as my little brother.

I got something
I need your help with.

Yeah, what's up?
What you need?

What's wrong? Is it school? Actually,
I've been looking for something, dude.

- Is it school work, what's up?
- Chill, Dee.

[door closes]

You and ma, ever talked about
becoming, like,

you know, you get
in the morning or in class?

- Getting hard?
- n*gga, you're loud.

JG, you don't need
to be thinking...

Trust me, in class,
I don't think.

What?

In class, they make us
go up to the board.

So, we can answer some questions
and when I want to stand up...

- You standing up.
- Exactly.

Look, you got to learn
to flip and tuck.

Flip it, where?

When it won't go down,
flip it up into your waistband

and then untuck your shirt until
you get back to your safe place.

Dee!

See, that's why
I need you around, Dee.

Ma told me just to calm myself
down, like I could control it.

Well, you can't expect her
to know everything.

Thanks, you're the man, Dee.

I've been having that
on my chest for a while.

- I'm going to go...
- I don't even want to know, jg.

[dramatic music playing]

[school bell rings]

[David] "dear Dr. Woods-trap, I went
back to Galvin to see if you were there.

It's David,
by the way, David young.

I heard you retired and I hope you don't
mind I got your email from the school.

I wanted your advice.

I am embarrassed to admit
that I got into a fight,

I know, surprise, with this kid
in my class, and got suspended.

It wasn't my fault this time.

He called me "n" word
after I told him to stop.

I know, it's a word
I used with my friends

but there must be some
difference in use, right?

Words and consent mean
something, right?

I don't want to launch
a lawsuit or nothing

but I just thought you may know a
better way to handle it, to get justice.

I hope you're doing great.
I...

I miss you a lot.

Sincerely, d. Young."

[Dr. Woods-trap] "dear budding
scholar at hurston prep, David young.

Thank you, I am well.

Your email said, you thought I
would "understand" your suspension.

I do not.

What I do understand, David,

is that you still haven't
figured out how to de-escalate.

Racism isn't your fault,

but it catching you off guard
where you're not expecting it.

You signed up, almost begged
to go to a school that's 80% white

and you thought
it wouldn't be what, unfair?

This is what you wanted and
that's the trade-off for trying, wanting,

begging to navigate
white institutions.

It's not always
as bold and as blatant,

but racism is woven
into the very fabric.

And the sooner you learn
that, David, the better.

Because when push comes
to shove,

one day you're going to look
around for your "friends"

and they won't be there
or they will be there

smiling with knives
between their teeth.

Thank you for writing, David.

You can do this.

Sincerely, Dr. Woods-trap."

[dramatic music playing]

[music playing
over headphones]

[Luis] hey!

Missed you at breakfast.

You really going to pretend you
can't hear me with broken headphones?

- Dee, David?
- It's all good.

No, it's not.

Look, when I first got here, I thought
everyone was going to make me feel outside

'cause I'm not rich and
I was raised in hialeah.

But you,
you was like "f*ck that".

You made me feel
mad welcome.

You're from hialeah not Mars.

So, I might as well be
rondo from star island,

Fred from rich a*s
lakes by the bay.

All them pretending they're
down, but they're not like us.

We came here to keep going,
not to go back.

Real talk, my dad's
an as*h*le sometimes.

Old school Cuban, thinks he
can say whatever to whoever

and I told him
how smart you was,

told my whole family
about you.

I told them, you're my guy,
like we're brothers here.

Abuelita slapped my dad
upside the head

when he try to make
a black joke again.

[speaking in foreign language]

Your grandfather was black?

[scoffs] if you ask
grandma... [speaks Spanish]

[clicks tongue]
come on, man.

How're we going to
stay mad at LeBron?

[scoffs]

- You know, I'm LeBron.
- [laughs]

you get that book
while you was home?

Uh, no.
I couldn't find it.

Ah, you got to get
Sky buy you another one.

I can't.

He dead.

What?

My bad, man.
What happened?

Got shot.

It messed me up real bad.

He told me about hurston.

I'm weird at losing friends.

Well,
you can't get rid of me.

We good?

Not bad.

[banging on door]

[policeman]
it's the police, open up.

You want me to open it?

[sighs]

- What y'all doing here?
- Oh, Mayweather's back.

Yo, we got to get
this project done.

[door shuts]

All I can say is thank you.

For what?

Thanks for not snitching
on me.

Tequila makes me act
wildly different.

It was crazy.

You could have ratted on me
but you stuck by the bro code.

So, thank you.

I mean, my mom...

...Would have put me
in rehab again.

Again?

[David]
did y'all read the scene?

I kept the idea simple anyway.

There's a monologue where
Caesar swam too far

out into the tiber
and almost drowned.

[Fred]
what's the tiber?

A river in Rome.

Caesar thought he could do everything
by himself but when that happened,

he had to call out
to Cassius to save him.

Like, showing how the guy everybody
thinks is so powerful, is just human.

Exactly, I already cast the
roles to make it easier for us.

Luis, you can play Cassius,

I'll be brutus and, rondo,
you could play Caesar.

[laughs]

All I got to do is drown.

- Sounds like the easy part.
- I'll play Caesar.

You look like a little Caesar.

Hey, look,
none of this is hard.

I did something similar
with the group

in middle school
and we got an a.

That black girl from the
field trip was in it? Marissa?

- Oh, yeah.
- I'll trade y'all in for her.

[Ronaldo] that's why
you smashed her David?

- Nah.
- You don't get to lie.

Yo, that's the scene
we should do.

Yo, no I'll play David.
I'll play David.

- Oh, baby.
- Oh, Marissa.

Ooh.

[Ronaldo] oh, David.
Don't pull my wings.

Yo, chill. You drunk again
or something?

There he goes,
getting all emotional.

Hey, he don't want us
messing with his girlfriend.

I respect that.

She ain't my girlfriend
and it wasn't just us.

Seren was in it too.

Your f*g friend was
in the group too?

Yo, watch your mouth.

I already f*cked you up once.

- Oh, hey, chill, chill.
- [laughs]

he just got back.

- Why you always defending him?
- What?

Oh, my god!
It all makes sense now.

The whole freshman year David was weird
as f*ck and nobody even talked to him.

Now, all of a sudden
here comes Luis.

- You're the replacement.
- Shut up, rondo.

David missed his boyfriend,
seren and replaced him with you.

Who made the first move?

- Christian love story.
- [laughing]

they always up
in that room, giggling.

Y'all in there telling
g*y secrets?

- Yeah, man. f*ck you!
- f*ck me?

You're the one who told me,
how David was wet dreaming.

Luis is the one who had told me to put
a extra towel down like he always does.

Oh, my god. Y'all seriously
discussing wet dreams this sh*t?

Man, now see that's the game.

I was just trying to
help your ignorant a*s.

I felt bad for you.

- Always looking for a handout.
- Yo, f*ck you, Luis.

You're just like
your r*cist a*s dad.

At least, I got one. Next time
you need help, go ask Sky.

- Say his name again!
- [boys exclaiming]

wait, y'all about
to fight or kiss?

He must f*ck you up that
an ignorant black kid like me

is better than you
at everything.

Smarter than you,
faster than you.

On the land,
but how about in the water?

[rock music playing]

[together]
three, two, one. Go!

[Poncho]
go, Luis.

[indistinct cheering]

Go, go, go, Luis.
Let's go, baby!

[cheering]

[David groaning]

[cheering]

let's go!

Yeah, that's what
I was talking about.

Oh, yeah.

[indistinct chatter]

[Sky] you're not scared no
more. How's that? Well, man up.

[man] that would be hard
having to support yourself like that.

[Sky]
you trying to go to hurston?

[Luis]
you can't get rid of me.

[Ronaldo]
why you always defending him?

[Dr. Woods-trap] one day you're
going to look around for your friends

and they won't be there.

[echoing]

[principal] hurston men are
not about excuses, David.

[teacher] it's always
something with you.

[Sky]
you can do this.

[echoing] man a wall!

Play time is up.

Stop crying.

Grow up, jg.

[j] you got to watch
where you going, sir.

Excuse me.

Way too f*cking up, j.

You the man.

[David] I thought of something
to do at school. Now, I'm...

[jg]
you're the cool one, Dee.

[Luis] I was trying to
help your ignorant a*s.

[Ronaldo] ain't you no snitch,
n*gga?

There he goes,
getting all emotional.

[David] I wasn't looking
for a handout.

Stop, stop!

[coughing]

[phone ringing]

Ma.

[David's mom] David,
your brother...

You need to get
to the hospital now.

Theme music playing...