01x09 - Getting Inked

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hey hunter you gotta order I were

picking up for Tremaine - yeah hold on

ten bucks Ashley what could you possibly

be doing with funny idea um we're

actually gonna go to club paradox right

you on second thought maybe it's not the

hottest club in town

we're not gonna club paradox I know I

just didn't want to tell Naomi the real

reason for the IDs

what are you guys doing I'll tell you

when we actually go through with it okay

miss Gordon mr. Robertson mr. green

that'll be 15 bucks each 15 bucks you

just charged Naomi ten volume discount

she referred the whole cheerleading

squad uh well hmm looks real enough I

only distribute quality merchandise we

get spotted there's a money-back

guarantee you got a deal

pleasure doing business with you

today on your waiters you ready to break

ankles old man old man yeah thank you

wow it really is cool what your tattoo

it's huge oh yeah that's what my momma

said after she saw it and stop crying

our work is incredible awesome detail

did it hurt your brain said it took 8

hours yeah well nothing worthwhile comes

easy what's with all this interest in my

tattoo you guys aren't getting any ideas

already no good because you have to be

18 to get inked unless you have parental

permission you talked to your mom about

this

yeah she thinks it's cool really I have

a hard time believing how come you're

Jewish right yeah so well ancient Jewish

law prohibits tattoos really I guess my

mom didn't know that uh-huh yes tonight

so mr. pan Yin little one-on-one tell

you what doing I make this next shot you

go home and study

I miss we play

all right go for it but I choose from

where top of the key

let's make this interesting

you just got hustled I can't believe he

made it go study

sure you want to do this absolutely

I'm about to define the true Jermaine

green I think your old pal

it's a needle thing yeah you know when

it comes down to it I just can't see

sticking a sharp object into my skin

well how about ash I should chicken down

are you ready

I'm ready as I'll ever be

I never know we heard this much I still

can't believe you did it

me neither what are you planning to tell

your mom I figure I got about a two-week

window to ease her into it

I can hear now Jemaine this is so

irresponsible

how do you ever expect to get into

Harvard acting like this you know her

too well

hey can always wear long sleeves for the

rest of your life

hey

greg said you might still be up yeah we

missed you at dinner how'd the

deposition go

long too long how was school

nothing special just hung out with dylan

homework studying

sounds good so mom

do you remember when uncle dennis got

his tattoo of course i remember what an

idiot he's not an idiot he's got an

internet company worth 20 million

dollars

and he's your father's little brother

and you love him to pieces but he's

still an idiot

i'm getting a tattoo what was he

thinking well

i think it's cool

jermaine green don't even consider it

mom

i am so serious jermaine it's out of the

question

sleep well

no i'm serious i heard about your tattoo

let me see it

i can't now naomi you know i'm gonna

pass you until you do so you might as

well show me now

okay don't say i didn't warn you

oh my god that is so gross is it

supposed to look like that

all red and swollen oh my god i'm never

doing that to this body

train what happened i don't know i woke

up this morning and it looked like this

not good

ah that burns better than getting more

infected

i did everything the tattoo artist told

me to dylan

jermaine what's going on in here oh

we're just cleaning jermaine's arm

i fell skateboarding let me take a look

at it oh no mom it's okay dylan let me

be the judge jermaine give me your arm

honey

jermaine what did you do to yourself

it's a tattoo i can see it's a tattoo

how could you

do this do your parents know

i'm calling your mother maybe i should

call it first yeah right

a tattoo are you crazy after what i said

to you last night

i did it before you said what you said

last night without my permission as if

i'd ever give permission for something

like this

he's got to take some antibiotics but i

think it'll heal up okay how did you get

this anyway you're a minor

jermaine i used a fake id

give it to me now

how long have you had this i just got it

the other day

i don't believe it a fake id a tattoo

you keep pulling stunts like this you'll

ruin your chances of getting into

harvard it's my body i should be able to

do with it what i want

your body it's not your body until

you're 18 mr it's my body

where did you even get an idea like this

it's about my identity mom

mr p*nis mr pena your guidance counselor

did he put you up to this

no he just said i knew you wouldn't do

something this inane on your own

you're mr pena is about to hear from me

colleen

thank you so much for calling me no

problem jermaine

let's go

roll up your sleeves what i want to see

if you got one

when your father comes home he'll

examine the rest of you i didn't get a

tattoo mom

that is a very good thing

stop right there your wallet

what if jermaine got a phony id chances

are you did too so

hand it over do you have esp or

something no i'm a mother

i heard you got caught my name come up

no

but maybe you should lay low good look

as long as no one says anything

business is good i want to keep it that

way

whatever

i made it at home on my computer

home on your computer looks like some

others that have been popping up at

other schools

did you teach him this too mrs green

it's mrs stevenson

you know when jermaine told me that he

would be spending time after school with

his guidance

counselor i assumed that would be a good

thing

evidently i was wrong mom mrs stevenson

all i did was tell jermaine why i got my

tattoo

and what it meant to me that's it i

never encouraged him to go get one

that's what i've been trying to tell her

but you didn't discourage him

excuse me i have to get back to my

office ms davis

thank you for your time jermaine

see you at home no

excuse me mr pena did not tell me to get

this tattoo

this is something i did for me i made

the choice

and i'm glad i did

andre i know you're trying your best

that's why i hired you

to reach these kids

by the way do you have any idea who's

behind these

i might put them out of business andre

i'm serious

i've never had a fake id before it's

like going to waste in my wallet

i've got to come up with a cool way to

use it you know who knew you had this

wild stream i thought you were going in

club paradox what happened

i don't have anybody to go with you do

now you and me

together it's much better going with

another girl you always get in

they turn guys away by the hundreds i

don't know

it's going to be tight i heard they

imported dj spann from new york

and my cousin knows a guy who can make

sure we're on the list ash you should

definitely go i

i would but my mom confiscated my id

thank goodness for small favors

so ash what do you say

okay what time

how do we need to talk hey mr penny

what's up it's about that c-minus i got

no honor this isn't about your test

it's not no i know what you're doing

what don't play me hunter fake ids are

ill*gal

stop it now and i won't turn you in

because i think you worth saving but

they will catch you and when they do i

won't stop

you really disappointed

hey mr pena

hey jermaine listen i never meant to

just wanted to get something cool

that was going to define me like your

elephant i get that but it takes more

than a tattoo to define who you are

jermaine

this is just as simple no but i feel

like people don't see the real me

most people look at me and think i'm

black but i look at myself in the mirror

to see me there'll always be some people

who try to judge you based on what you

look like

but it's what you do and what you say

that they're gonna remember

words and deeds jermaine

those pleasing lies they taught

jermaine

mom how's your arm it's healing

i didn't get a chance to look at it

clearly i was too blinded by

fury you want to see it

wait a minute that's my family crest

yeah i copied it from your bible

what's the other symbol it's african and

a dink rail symbol

abusa te se que it means the family's

like a forest

made of a variety of trees is that how

you see yourself

a german italian-african-american tree

with very strong roots i knew where i

came from mom

i know what i look like but who i am

that's the hard part i know honey

i know and if it means anything this

white girl from new jersey felt that way

when she was your age too

night

so how's jermaine's arm healing i

thought i liked tattoos until i saw

germaines

remember anybody who's anybody is on the

list

that's what separates us from them

esther brooke naomi estabrook i'm on the

list i need to see some id

no problem

sorry you can't come here what it's a

fake

they've been confiscating these things

all over town i believe this

it could be worse i should call the cops

ah it's okay

just go home and play with your dollars

and the rest of you

if anyone else has fake id you're not

getting in

hunter how's business i liquidated my

assets

i'm going legit that's probably a good

idea

because we want our money back what you

gave us a guarantee

money back if the ids were pegged which

they were so pay

up ah come on that was a sales tactic i

didn't mean it uh-uh

you gave us a guarantee hunter back it

up

all right 15 for you

10 for you i can handle that good

cassandra is one of the little things

what i think you owe them some money too

hey what's up man hey how's the arm it's

getting better

how about your mom she's getting better

too the whole tat thing just freaked her

out you know

although i understand why i really

should have talked to her first

she thought i was going to become like

the next alan iverson or

dennis rodman or some hip-hop thug yo

remember how much you complained when

you started growing the dreads

yeah jeremy how is harvard gonna take

you seriously with your hair like that

you sound just like her but you know

what

harvard is gonna take me seriously

because i'm gonna make them take me

seriously

got a pretty big brain underneath all

this hair you know even if you don't use

it all the time

one on one let's go

all right

you know i'm better than anyone or so

you thought you know you had this

romantic side to you

this is how i'd be with any girlfriend

really suddenly

he looks different you know he's

considerate he treats me special

maybe he's what i've been looking for in

a boyfriend all along but he hasn't got

a clue

linda this is cassidy cassidy this is

linda oh

she realized that she really liked you

anyway cassidy likes me

now what do you do all new city guys

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