01x06 - Dat Is It

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CRICKETS CHIRP

BIRDS TWEET

GOAT BLEATS, CHICKEN CLUCKS

Come now, Beres.

Sissy...

Wha' happen to him?

Some boys down the lane...

..beat him up and
take him snow cone...

What is dem name?

Curtis and him friend them.

Curtis?

Hector bad breed,
jacket son. Curtis.

THUNDER RUMBLES

RAIN PATTERS ON ROOF

Hector!

Wha' yuh want, Everald?

Yuh son put him hand 'pon mine.

And tief from 'im too.

That... Just mek sure...
you discipline him.

Before me haffi discipline you.

You hear dat?

By disrespecting you...

..Beres...

..dat bwoy
disrespected your name.

Therefore...

..'im disrespect me.

A man is just 'im name, son.

And without pride inna
dat, 'im have nutten.

No future. No legacy.

You understand?

Don't come home with
cuts and bruises.

Yuh fi mek people fear you.

Don't shame me out here.

You are my son.

One.

The Champion.

Start acting like one.

PLANE TANNOY PINGS

Ladies and gentlemen, we
will shortly be arriving at

Norman Manley
International Airport.

I want to thank you all
for flying with us today.

If you are here on holiday, I'd
like to take this opportunity to

wish you a fantastic trip,
and to all our returnees...

..welcome home.

REGGAE-STYLE MUSIC PLAYS

PEOPLE CHATTER
EXCITEDLY Hurry up!

Ma'as Beres. Mm.

Every night a big crowd pay them
respects to Ma'as Everald enuh?

Papa did popula, man. Yes, man.

Champion name still
big 'bout yah.

Champion name still
powerful. A dat mi ah seh.

SALSA-STYLE MUSIC PLAYS

VAN HORN HOOTS

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

How unnuh so deady-deady?

CROWD EXCLAIM Welcome, welcome!

LAUGHTER

How gwarn?

Mi deh yah, man.

Yo! Miles. Ah wah yuh a seh?

A my dawta dis
enuh, Vita Champion.

Yeah, man!

So a mi foreign family,
this?! Uncle Junior!

Good fi see ya, Vita.

Easy!

All right!

Where Bosco then?

All right, Junior.

Whappen, man, how yuh stay?

Good? Yeah, man.

Bosco busy with the music ting.

You know, big tings
a gwarn, isn't it?

Yo, Junior, before me forget,
mi want to see Papa will.

Yeah, man.

I'll call the lawyer for you.

Yo, band man, rock
some music now!

MUSIC STARTS UP

Beres, Beres, Beres! Oh,
Auntie Sissy, my God!

How mi figet you?! Wha gwan?

How de hip?

Don't worry about my hip!

Me still ah stand.

And where is young Bosco?

The police dem not let him fly.

Aria.

Suh dem couldn't make him come
just fah him granfadda funeral?

No, man. Young girl...
you 'member me?

You see, when you was little,

I used to pick out di
macka outta yuh foot bottom

when you hide it
deh ina yuh knee.

She remembers you,
Auntie, she's just tired.

We all are.

So I can see.

Junior! Junior!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Auntie.

Show Vita to her room,
please. Yo, Chalky!

Yo!

When yuh dun, go down
the Mongoose Bar there

and get ten crate a'
Red Stripes, seen?

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

See your room here.

All right.

Mi soon far, yuh hear.

PHONE RINGS

PHONE CONTINUES RINGING

REGGAE MUSIC PLAYS

Why pree, mi English family?

Why are you up so early?

Mi used to it by now.

Used to haffi wake up early for cook
Papa breakfast before he wake up.

So why are you still doing it?

Wha 'bout you?

Still running on British time.

Really hard food make you strong
like a bull for breakfast, innit.

Smells good.

Bosco would have loved all
of this, man. For real.

Would a nice if him there, man.

Mek mi ask yuh sumpn.

Yuh know seh a Jamaica yuh deh.

So what mek you
look so miserable?

I don't know, life?

Music?

Everything's
confusing right now.

Everything in life is
hard the first time, look.

You ever cut breadfruit before?

No. Well, today you a guh learn.

Hold dis, English.

Right. Make sure you get
it right, not make a mess.

Yeah, man, ya do it,
man. It's getting stuck.

THEY CHAT JOVIALLY

You wah mi squeeze yuh? Listen!

Jus tie me shoes dem nuh, man.

Grand risin', Empress! What
happen, you sleep good?

Where are you guys going?

We have a funeral
to plan, you know.

I got to sort out the headstone.

Funeral programmes.

Go see some family and
friends cross di bush deh.

The both of you?

Yeah. Problem?

Mum, I was hoping
that we could...

..talk.

Suh whappen yuh cyaa
talk lata? You ready?

Yeah. Then come now.

Mum? Later.

Yes! PHONE BUZZES

Oi, Miss!

Come and help me prepare the
food, mek yourself useful.

It's not a hotel.

Come, come and help me, nuh.

Put them young hands
to work. All right.

Have you got an
apron that I can use?

Apron?! SHE LAUGHS

Auntie... Hmm?

..when you first met my mum...

..what was she like?

Hmm!

She looked just like you do now.

Same face, same smile.

Your father some
of that fufu gal,

not once did he tell me a name.

So I was shock...

..when him brought
your mother round 'ere.

But when I talk to her...

..I could see why him loved her.

She was just like his
mother, God rest her soul.

Grandma Paulette. Mm-hm.

Fiery, strong.

It's a shame you
never get to meet her.

But Aria was never
afraid of anyting.

Around the house
here, there was...

..c*ck and scorpion -
but she never blink twice.

She just say, "Where
is the machete?"

There must be a picture
of her in there.

Is this you? Mm!

Oh, my days.

They used to be so happy.

But your father... Hmph.

Leopard can't change him spots.

Is this Junior's mum?

Hello, hello, hello, hello!
Junior! You blasted jumbi!

You want me have heart attack? You
want two funeral instead of one?

Just cool now, Auntie.
A Vita me come for.

Me need her help with something.
Come, Vita, man. Come.

Junior! Junior,
pull up your pants!

Wait, what are we doing?

A jailbreak, this, man. Come. You
need fe worry less and live more.

Yeah, but then where we going?

You ah guh fin' out, man.

Walk & Talk by Rytikal

MUSIC WINDS DOWN

ANNOUNCER SHOUTS

ENGINES ROAR

We reach. Reach?

Where?

The Butchers. The what?

Them say if you can
survive The Butchers,

you can survive anything.

ENGINES REV

Nah Let Go by Vybz Kartel

MUSIC DISTORTS

Unnuh, unnuh, unnuh!

A di Butchers, dis.

Show we!

Ching, ching,
ching, ching, ching.

You all ready for
therapy now, no?

CHEERING We ready?

CHEERING

♪ Yo

♪ You feel no aggression

♪ It's easy, down
to business already

♪ Yo, but no sound leader

♪ After all, you not
know my black passion

♪ We're ready, UFO minds

♪ Give us a way out,
never get a smile

♪ Away I run, UFO minds

♪ Me see them on the run,
I lay awake the signs yo

♪ We're in the valley of faith,
we're in the valley of faith

♪ We're in the valley of faith,
we're in the valley of faith... ♪

Mi nah know what
happen in England,

but a Jamaica you deh now.

These are your roots.

And which best
place fe water them.

♪ We step a role like
four-track player

♪ Party I keep... ♪
MUSIC WINDS DOWN

People!

CHEERING

I could never do this. Why not?

I sing, yeah, but...
I can't do that.

Ah di same ting what Bosco
do. And who give him di words?

♪ Pow! Cannot step
on things I like

♪ No, stand up in that gap,
you're cinching it right

♪ Who's knocking at
discovery this time?

♪ You can't discover,
man, trust me, all right?

♪ Me think that one... ♪
Wow, wow.

♪ You wan' be condemned,
dutty little man, man

♪ Fire bang, you are no mandem

♪ Blap-blap, can I get noticed?

♪ Think on this, think
on this, think on this

♪ Can you see how loose
I am in that dress?

♪ Ropey boy, ropey boy

♪ Come chatting in your
face, me spread out

♪ But can I step
up in the light?

♪ Step up and I can't
face if sh*t get right

♪ Who's not in the
disco, finna decide

♪ I can't miss them,
trust me, all right? ♪

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

INAUDIBLE

MUSIC WINDS DOWN

Junior, touch the mic, nuh?

No, no, no, no, Selecta.
Ah nuh my night.

Come, Vita. Come show dem.

You're a Champion.
All right. All right.

OK.

♪ Yo, yo, yo

♪ Yo, what you feel like?

♪ British gal, me no
know 'bout seaside

♪ Bad gal come, born from VI

♪ Mandem want me honey Then
me take you for your DI

♪ My mother tell me, "Man,
you're nothing, realise"

♪ Princess, the kind of
girl you have to treat right

♪ And when I switch my
accent, I know I got it

♪ And say me can't believe
you're born there for it

♪ Me love the popping till I
stack it and me packing them away

♪ But the positive,
we want to be copied

♪ The mandem stop people
with notice Like I'm rocking

♪ See, this ain't even funny
when we stepping up at this

♪ They call me Vita
or the sexy senorita

♪ Man, they wan' go o'er Vita
Now the galdem wanna feature

♪ So let me teach you how
to deal with dirty creature

♪ A fe black and then believe that
they've been wanting who fe eee...

♪ Yeah, yo, yo

♪ Me look good any
time you take a photo

♪ Me wan' money more than photo

♪ Might have to get the
Roley in that there rose gold

♪ Violate the family,
that is a no-go

♪ Why you think the bredder
get harassed by the Popo

♪ Step with Chanel
instead I'm coming cold

♪ Tell me want it up for
a minute in a pro bono

♪ Row-row

♪ I protect my peace,
I protect my peace

♪ From London town
to the West Indies

♪ Yes, I am blessed
indeed Yeah... ♪

Yes, indeed! Yes, indeed!
Yes, indeed! Yes, indeed!

What them call you, girl?

Vita! Vita Champion!

Vita Champion, big up yourself!

CHEERING

Gyal, yuh bad! Oh, thank you.

Oi, can you believe it? That
was so sick! I did tell you.

Did you see me up there?
I can't believe it, man.

Yo, Shiny, give me a light.

Felt like a different
person up there.

Wish Bosco could
have seen it, though.

Don't worry about Bosco, Vita,
man. Tonight a fe yuh night, innit?

How come you never
left here like Dad did?

I always feel like...

..mi did born to live
for people, you know?

Well, now Papa gone...

..mi can live more free.

Start fe build, plan.

Sun never shine pon
me like your father.

CHATTER

Mum?

Vita.

How was your day?

Um... good.

Still lots to prepare.

Yours? Mm.

Junior took me to
someplace, The Butchers.

Mum, I rapped.

I didn't even know
I could do that.

Man...

Are you all right, Mum?

What do you want
me to say, Vita?

I thought you came
in here to apologise.

You didn't think to ask me
about singing my own song?

I did it for you. I wanted
it to be a surprise.

You never once thought to yourself
what that song actually meant to me.

What happened back then.

Why I was there back then,
and why I'm not there now.

Come. Sit by me.

I know people always
say this, but...

..I really was going to
be something, you know?

It was all planned out.

But just before I got
to release the song...

..I found out I was
pregnant with your brother.

Your dad...

..told me that it
would be impossible.

I believed him.

As soon as the baby was born,

I thought he was going
to get me started again.

But one day, he took
me up Lee High Road...

..and showed me
Aria's Restaurant.

Family-run West Indian takeaway.

I stepped one foot in
that place 24 years ago...

..and I've never left.

Mum, I'm s...

It's fine. It's fine, Vita.
I don't need your sympathy.

I just need you to
understand what I gave up.

I hope it works out
for you, but, um...

..chances are, you'll
end up in my position.

And you should know
what that costs.

DOOR CLOSES

Wha' happen?

You all right?

Why didn't you let Mum do what
she wanted to do back then?

Listen, no badda wid all
dat now, man. Yuh mudda...

Don't mek her put
her failures pon you.

You and her are different.

Like me and my fadda.

I was neva like 'im.

But me mek the mistake of
trying to be the man he was.

Don't do wha me do.

Always be you.

That's why you
need fi tek risks.

Strike out like what me do,
and tek wha you want from life.

Nuh mek nobody hole yuh back.

Hey, Auntie.

Tell me something, Beres.

At what point...

..does a father's
responsibility end?

Do you think Everald
would be proud of you?

It no matter.

Me build something
with him name.

Him woulda proud of dat.

ICE CLINKS IN BOWL

Me do enough.

That is what you
call..."enough"?

SHE CHUCKLES

PHONE BUZZES

Vita! How's Jamaica?

I'm ready to do this properly.

For real this time.

OK, cool. Well, let's see.

I've pulled some strings and I've
got a little trial run for you.

I've got you a spot at
JA Fest tomorrow night.

If you can pull this off,
consider me your manager.

Tomorrow?

Well, how much do
you really want this?

Loads. I do, I just...

I do. I do.

All right, get some rest.
I'll chat to you tomorrow.

OK, thank you so...
LINE DISCONNECTS

Bos, I know you're
mad me right now,

but so many amazing things
are happening out here

and I want to tell
you about them.

I'm sorry about the whole Memet
thing. I should have told you.

But that's done now, I promise.

Just call me back, please.

Uncle Junior?

Delivery is Thursday.
Lennox knows that.

Can you get him to call me
when he gets back, please?

Yeah, I know. I know.

Thanks, Mina.

Aria. Come here nuh. Come see how
da man yah ah mek it easy fi me.

A gwe box da man
face. Gwan seet deh.

You lot letting him take food
out of your mouths again?

You still cyaa guh nowhere with
that. Seet deh. Give me this.

The first time me beat my
father at dominoes, you know,

was when me first bring
Aria up fe come meet him.

Right in our yard here, so.

She's always been my lucky
charm for dominoes, nuh, true.

Where's Vita?

She gone a rehearsals
with Junior.

Hmm. "Hmm"?

What you mean "hmm"?

Are you still vexed
about the song?

Ancient history,
that, baby. To you.

Look, look to the future, man.

When she do this
performance at JA Fest...

..she will carry on
the Champion legacy.

So whatever you and her have,
just put that to one side now...

..and come wi' me,
come watch her perform.

Be proud of the legacy
you helped build, baby.

All right, come on, come on.
Gwan. Yeah, man. We will.

Rack them up, man. Can
I get two high there?

Two hit? Just put 2,000 in.

Ah, sh*t, you b*stard...

♪ Show no weakness

♪ Me, I no sl*ve, so
no try come beat me

♪ Me believe in
myself completely

♪ Like the weed when
me playing with grabber

♪ I'm on fire,
rich like Lee-Chin

♪ Fi dem hate for
some unknown reasons

♪ Dem ah get out ah
mighty Jah Jah... ♪

Thank you, everyone!

Big up yourselves!
Yo, we love you!

CHEERING

Yo, yo, you know, JA
Fest, it's myself, Junior!

Big up yourself, Vita Champion.
Come tell them something now!

Yo, forward!

♪ Your lips, your
touch is just too much

♪ It gives me everything

♪ Can't get enough,
you got me locked

♪ Oh, boy, I'm losing it

♪ Every night I dream that I
can slow dance in your arms

♪ Dirty dancing, romancing

♪ Kiss under the stars

♪ I don't want anyone
I don't want anyone

♪ I want what I'm missing

♪ Love the way that you love
and the way that you touch me

♪ So no need for you to be... ♪

Remind me of you
when you was her age.

♪ My heart, you got me deep, ooh

♪ Hey, hey! ♪

Me should have
never make you stop.

♪ You know you got it all

♪ Ain't no-one else like you

♪ Shout it to the world

♪ Baby, you have my love

♪ Gyal, anywhere you enter

♪ You are running
things front and centre

♪ But I'm gonna run
you down like Sprinter

♪ Pretty girls can't
compete your ginger

♪ Body's here roll like a fender

♪ Man ah ride in a
charge like Tesla

♪ But if you wonder you
think I'm a pretender

♪ Not any of them with
them different agenda

♪ I wanna take you home

♪ Put you inna my zone

♪ We can watch a movie,
do whatever you want

♪ Gyal can look your iPhone

♪ Let's do something type bold
In a minute we'll be winding slow

♪ One ting that I know
when our bodies are close

♪ Time stands still and
everything is slow-mo

♪ I don't mean to impose
but what is your info?

♪ Cos your body hotter
than a pot upon the stove

♪ Gyal got what I want... ♪

Yeah.

De Champion roun', a dem legacy
gwe carry on my fada legacy.

All right, Beres.
Enough shop talk.

Watch the pickney
'pon the stage, nuh.

Look how she shine!

♪ Baby, you have my love. ♪

Vita Champion, everybody,
remember the name!

And Junior too!

Champion! Champion!
Champion! Champion!

Champion! Champion! Champion!

Champion! Champion!
Champion! Champion!

Champion! Champion! Champion!

Champion! Champion!
Champion! Champion!

I can come?

Mm-hm.

You ready for tomorrow?

Ya never really get
ready to bury a parent.

I always loved the
feel of your skin.

HE CHUCKLES

Smell good, too.

Tell me you miss me, Aria.

You should go.

We can't...

You know...

Papa would teach
me how fi do this.

You get the will?

Cos if you ramp with me, you
know... Don't worry 'bout that.

I'll go get it this evening.

Mi ah do the reading
at the funeral.

Wha' yuh talk 'bout?

Ah mi fi do that.

It prin inna programme already.

That gonna look funny
if it change, nuh true?

Dad, you ready?

Yeah, I'm ready.

How did a man named Everald
get the nickname Jack?

You know, it was so long
ago, I don't remember why

dem did call him Jack.

I think it had to do with some cow
that did deh a yawd he was young.

Now, Brother Love, I know why
him get him that deh name deh.

And it neva have anyting to
do wid de church. Dat I know.

We now have a reading from
Everald's eldest son, Beres.

Good to see nuff people come
fi give Papa a good sen off.

Him would appreciate
the attention, you know.

Everald Ballentine Champion...

..was more than a father to me.

He was my inspiration.

He wasn't a man to take
nonsense from anybody.

RHYTHMIC CLAPPING AND SINGING

He'd have respect for you

and you'd have
respect for him...

RHYTHMIC CLAPPING AND SINGING

♪ Meet me by the river someday

♪ Meet me by the river someday

♪ Meet me by the
river, not far away

♪ When my Lord
has called me home

♪ Happy, happy
home beyond the sky

♪ Meet me by the river someday

♪ Meet me by the river someday

♪ Meet me by the river,
not far away... ♪

BELL TOLLS, SINGING CONTINUES

Here you go. God bless
you, my son. Yeah, Auntie.

Junior, you have the ting?

Where is the will, bwoy?

Junior...

Yeah, man.

Mi have it.

But mi nah feel like you're going
to like what you see pon dat.

Yuh not see your name pon it?

What the f*ck you do?

Me nuh do nuttin.

Papa own words, dem.

Him say you wouldn't
need anyting left behind.

Him say me would
have need it more.

True my father left me.

Shut your mouth.

Men and their foolishness.

Dad...

..who is Junior?

My son.

So this whole time...

..you've been pretending
he's our uncle...

..and then, what,
forced him to lie to us?

Ari...

..me sorry.

Me so sorry.

Mum?

I'm so stupid.

So, so stupid.

Where are you going, Mum?

I've been so stupid my
whole f*cking life, Vita.

I'm going home. All right,
well, I'm coming with you.

You make one little
bun run you away?

Aria.

No rock the boat over
one outside pickney.

Sissy!

Man a man,

and man will do man tings.

But, Aria, in the long run,

Beres not choose you?

Vita, go and tell
Chalky we're leaving.

Sissy, I know me and you
are from different times...

..and I've always
respected you as my elder,

so pardon me when I say the
reason why Beres and his dad

felt they could treat women
any way they please...

..is because women like
you taught them it was OK.

Pot.

Kettle.

That's why yuh hip so bad.

Cos you're wicked from
the inside out, Sissy.

Wretch.

SHE SOBS

Look how much years mi
give yuh fi tell dem.

Look how much years me sit and I
wait for you. Shut your raas mout'!

Yuh nuh tell me what fi do.

Only man who can tell me what
fi do buried this morning.

Don't worry yourself, man.

Cos me know now.

You's a liar.

You's a cheat.

You's a bumbaclart coward.

What you want from me, boy?

Mi don't want nuttin from you. You
never give me nuttin in my life.

Mi nuh expect nuttin
to change now.

Me get everyting of Papa will.

Me get all of the estate.

House.

Me set.

This is the last time you step
foot in dis house, you understand?

All of this is mine now.

Papa was ashamed of you.

Lennox?

LINE RINGS