♪ Fuck Sage Odom and you can quote it ♪
What in the actual fuck?
-This how you do me, mother-- -[Al] Whoa!
I'm gonna give you one more chance to make this shit right
'fore I make it real wrong. Motherfucker!
-Why would you do that? -I figured you were good people.
I like ticket sales, and it got a hell of a lot better
after that show. Keep up the good work, kid.
So, what, he's your bodyguard now?
No, he's just watching my back.
Get the fuck outta here, nigga, what the fuck's--
You had one fuckin' job, man, one!
You can't even do that?
I almost got shot 'cause you was out here sleepin'!
Sage hated when I brought you into High Water,
but I knew how talented you were.
[both] ♪ Ain't no telling your story without me ♪
[Al] Mm-hmm. Bet you $100 things get crazier.
[funky music plays]
♪ ♪
[singer] ♪ Step up in the spotlight ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
♪ Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo ♪
♪ Yo, yo ♪
♪ Yo, yo, yo ♪
♪ I'm looking ♪
♪ For a better day ♪
♪ Wanna live my dream ♪
♪ Step up in the spotlight ♪
♪ Wanna step up Step up in the spotlight ♪
♪ Want the money Want the fame ♪
♪ Want the love Not the same ♪
♪ I want it all ♪
♪ Step up in the spotlight ♪
♪ Wanna step up Step up in the spotlight ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
[hip-hop music plays]
[singer] ♪ Brand-new 'Rari Brand-new vroom ♪
♪ Brand-new Goti That's big boom ♪
♪ Brand-new sneakers Brand-new socks ♪
♪ Brand-new dollars On TikTok ♪
[DJ] Hey, what's happening? It's your man Big Tigger
from the people's station, V103,
the ATL's number one for hip-hop and R&B.
And you know what's coming this week?
A moment of truth for Atlanta's Sage Odom.
Of course, we all wanna see justice served,
and hopefully, this process will get
to the bottom of things
so the real killer can be found.
[dramatic music plays]
♪ ♪
[gunshot]
♪ ♪
[softly] Fuck.
Where is he?
[door clicks]
Hey, easy with my client.
We're gonna need some privacy.
Hi, baby. Come here.
I missed you.
Counselor, give me some good news.
There's been a development in the case.
Define development.
They have the murder weapon.
[laughs] That's great.
[Cruz] No, no, no, not exactly.
No, no, no, look, I'm--I'm innocent, right?
They got the fucking murder weapon,
that exonerates me.
The gun is registered to you, Sage.
♪ ♪
Yeah.
[Angel breathing heavily]
["Ride for You" playing]
[Little Kitty] ♪ Gun on my side ♪
♪ We did it again Like Bonnie and Clyde ♪
♪ Get money so easy We don't even try ♪
[Marquise] You taste incredible.
[laughs]
Mm.
Now, what's this?
[Angel] What?
The tattoo. What does it mean?
It's a scorpion. I'm a Scorpio.
I thought you was born in May.
I'm a Scorpio rising.
But I like you remembered I was born in May.
I remember everything about you.
[phone buzzes]
Oh, shit.
Hey, look, I gotta go.
You really have to leave?
Yeah, I actually should have left a minute ago, but...
[sighs]
[laughs]
Thank you.
♪ ♪
I'm gonna see you later.
What's up?
[Odalie sighs]
All right, good talk.
[door slams]
Damn.
[Sage] Are you fucking serious?
I gave this gun to East-O
as a fucking gift, like, years ago.
Look-look, you see the engraving?
I haven't seen that shit in, like, a fucking decade.
Yeah, is East-O's name on it?
No.
Well, at least your prints aren't.
-That's something. -Any prints on the gun?
[phone buzzes]
[Cruz] No, no, the gun has been wiped clean,
but the DA's gonna present this
like it's the Shroud of Turin,
and she's gonna call some witnesses.
She's definitely gonna call Rigo Octavio.
-Why Rigo? -Sympathy.
His dad died.
And, as we talked about,
she's gonna call you.
Now, Collette, when you get on that stand,
I need you to fucking nail that testimony.
-You hear me? -Yeah, I will.
-[Cruz] It's not gonna be easy. -Mm-hmm.
[Cruz] She's gonna wanna talk about the fact
that you and East-O used to fuck.
Remember, you and East-O are ancient history.
That's your past.
That's got nothing to do with Sage.
-Yo, put me on the stand. -Testify? You?
-[Sage] Hell yeah. -No.
Cruz, I'm innocent, a'ight?
That's one, and for two, charming as fuck.
Okay, let's say I put you up on the stand, right?
Who am I gonna see, right?
The charismatic pride of Atlanta, Sage Odom,
or the sociopath that fucking publicly assaulted
the son of the murder victim?
Sage, it's too risky. I ain't doing it.
[phone buzzes]
[Cruz clears throat] Listen, I got news for you.
The DA doesn't give a fuck who killed East-O.
She wants you.
Now...
we ain't gonna let that happen.
Are we?
I'll see you both in court tomorrow.
[tense music plays]
♪ ♪
[knock at door]
What do you want, Rigo?
You know I'm a little busy right now.
Just have a seat.
[R&B music plays]
♪ Nobody said it would be ♪
♪ Happy ever after Wit' you and me ♪
♪ But I'm ridin' ♪
♪ And that's a guarantee ♪
♪ Ain't no telling your story Without me ♪
[bass rises]
[Rigo] I wanna record this song with you.
Like, now. For real.
-Rigo-- -No, no, no, just hear me out.
We gotta capture the magic before it goes away, right?
I already did the arrangement. All I need is your vocals.
-You're kidding me, right? -Come on.
With what I got going on with Sage?
Just for once, think about yourself.
Like, forget about everybody else.
Look me in the face right now and tell me you didn't feel
what I felt up on that stage.
Exactly. I know you felt it.
Look, this is what you were meant to do, all right?
This.
So just go on in there and record that thing for me.
For you?
Rigo, I know you're gonna testify for the DA.
She's playing you.
I don't have a choice, all right?
-I don't care. -Like--
I do care about what you're gonna say.
I'ma tell the truth! Sage killed my dad.
-Y-you don't know that. -And neither do you!
Ay, real talk, like, what do you know
that the rest of Atlanta doesn't?
-I know Sage. -[scoffs]
[Collette] That is what I know.
If you do this, it's over.
We can't work together anymore.
And you also know that if Sage gets out,
it's over between us anyway.
Collette, what kind of man would I be
If I don't stand up for my dad?
[somber music plays]
♪ ♪
I will never stop believing in you, Rigo.
And all this stuff with your father,
I know it's really hard.
I may not be able to convince you
at this very moment,
but you will realize that going on that stand
and trying to burn Sage
will be the biggest mistake of your life.
♪ ♪
[door closes]
["Competition" playing]
[Young Streetz] ♪ Ain't no setbacks ♪
♪ Overcome that ♪
♪ Made the money Spent the money ♪
♪ Made it right back ♪
♪ I be getting paid up For my mic checks ♪
♪ Competition hatin' They don't like that ♪
♪ Yeah, young nigga Gettin' to it ♪
♪ Fan favorite, yeah They sayin' I'm a shoo-in ♪
♪ It's Gucci sneakers Whenever I do it ♪
♪ Born to win, goin' Against me and you losin' ♪
Hey, listen to me. You have to stay strong.
Baby, we got this.
♪ ♪
[Rigo] Come on.
[Young Streetz] ♪ Competition Yeah, we crushin' 'em ♪
♪ ♪
You look like a million bucks.
[Sage chuckles]
This is for you.
This is the deed to High Water
and, uh, a few contracts that'll give you control
of the record label, publishing, everything.
-What? No, no, Sage, I don't-- -Look, I had Cruz draw 'em up.
Everything's legit and ready to go.
Just needs your signature.
No. Fuck no. You know what?
Sage, this is a bad idea.
This is bad luck.
'Lette, this is smart, okay?
This protects us just in case things go south out there.
Things are not gonna go south.
[solemn music plays]
Cruz said this will all be over
really soon,
just as fast as it happened.
[sighs]
It has to be, okay?
-Okay. -Yeah.
Just--j-just hold on to it. Okay?
[bailiff] This court will come to order.
The honorable Judge Hooper presiding.
Good morning.
Regardless of the sensational nature of these proceedings,
I expect decorum at all times in my courtroom.
This is an evidentiary hearing.
The burden of proof is on the prosecution.
Good morning, Ms. Baxter.
Is the state ready?
The state is ready, Your Honor.
[tense music plays]
[Hooper] Mr. Cruz, is the defense ready?
Yes, we are, Your Honor.
[Hooper] Then let's begin.
Now, the defense will surely remind us
the defendant is
a multiplatinum recording artist...
[cheers and applause]
But Mr. Odom was not always a superstar.
In fact, he was born
on the same mean streets as the victim.
Remember when we was kids, man,
and we made that wack-ass track?
[laughter]
And theirs was a tumultuous relationship.
I'ma burn you
and your entire fucking school down to the ground.
[Erin] A rivalry so intense
that it forced this international superstar
to return to the streets to settle that score.
Now, the defense will have you believe that his client
is an angel who gives back to his community.
But that philanthropic facade is just a ruse
to hide shady business practices,
vicious attacks
on the defendant's own artists..
-[Odom] Come here! -Aah!
And violent jealousy over a woman.
This time, his greed and anger got the better of him,
and it caused him to take the life of Ernest Octavio.
[Hooper] Mr. Cruz?
Your Honor, East-O was a known drug dealer
and a violent man with plenty of enemies.
Plenty of enemies, Your Honor.
At the time of the murder, Sage Odom was immersed
in the planning
of a multimillion-dollar world tour.
Five, six, seven, eight!
And he had time for little else.
That is what my client was doing.
And as you will learn here today,
that is all my client was doing.
♪ ♪
[Hooper] Ms. Baxter, call your first witness.
Yes, I call Collette Jones, Your Honor.
Ms. Jones, you've known Mr. Odom for quite some time.
Most of my life, yes.
We grew up in the same neighborhood.
And you are presently business partners.
Yes, that is correct.
I manage his tour, his record label,
and am the executive director of his school, High Water.
And you are now engaged to the defendant.
Yes.
Congratulations.
So I would assume that you would characterize
your relationship as a happy one.
Very much so, yes.
So happy, in fact, that you carried on an affair
with Mr. Octavio behind Mr. Odom's back.
That is incorrect.
I had a thing with Ernest, but that was a long time ago.
Um, it was ill-advised, so I ended it,
but to be clear,
that was long before I reconnected with Sage
and created our school, High Water.
But you continued to have some contact with Mr. Octavio
even after that time, correct?
Yes, of course.
He was the father of one of my students.
But the contact was minimal and entirely professional.
Professional. Yes.
But around that time,
did you procure illegal narcotics
from Mr. Octavio, a known drug dealer?
[tense music plays]
I can explain that.
Um, my prescription had run out--
Oh, okay. Oh.
Now I'm confused
because you said that at this point,
your relationship with Mr. Octavio was minimal.
That he was just a parent of one of your students.
Ms. Jones...
did you not have sex with Ernest Octavio
on the High Water campus
just weeks before he was killed?
♪ ♪
It's a simple yes or no. Ms. Jones,
and I will remind you, you are under oath.
♪ ♪
-Yes. -[Erin] Oh.
So that was after High Water, then,
because you just said that you had broken it off
with Ernest by then.
[laughs] That's quite a school
you've got going on there, Ms. Jones.
Drugs. Wild sex.
I can certainly see why Mr. Odom was threatened
by your association with Mr. Octavio.
That is not true. That's not what's going on.
Oh, I think it is.
I think that rather than being Sage's happy fiancée,
you were deeply involved with both men,
men who were locked in a violent power struggle
with you at the center.
-None of that is true. -[Erin] Are you sure?
Might it be that you enjoy being with dangerous men?
Do you like the attention?
That it was, in fact, your thing?
No.
Dangerous men like Sage Odom?
No.
Dangerous men like East-O?
[Collette screams]
-No. No. -[Erin] Now, I think,
in truth, a war was raging between these two men.
A war that you, Ms. Jones, started.
A war that led
to an inevitable, violent showdown
when Sage Odom, angry and desperate,
took the life of Ernest Octavio.
Your Honor, is there a question anytime in our near future?
Oh, yes, yes, there is. Just one more.
Ms. Jones, on the night Ernest was killed,
did he threaten you and Mr. Odom?
May I remind you, that you are under oath.
Yes.
[solemn music plays]
♪ ♪
Nothing further, Your Honor.
[Hooper] Mr. Cruz?
[Cruz] I have no questions for this witness, Your Honor.
[all] Ms. Baxter!
Well, if what we just saw
was Mr. Odom's strongest character witness,
then the defense is in a world of trouble.
-So you think he did it? -That's what I'm here to prove.
And trust me, this is just the beginning.
[reporter] Ms. Baxter, you have filed
to officially enter the mayoral race.
Do you think your Republican base is looking
for a conviction here?
I am the district attorney of this fair city,
and I take that responsibility seriously.
There is no room for politics in this courthouse.
Now, if you'll excuse me. Thank you.
What the fuck was that? What was she thinking?
Is she out there for me or for them?
-Fuck. -[Cruz] That shit was bad.
You-you thought that was bad? How bad?
-Truthfully? -Truthfully!
It was a fucking disaster!
Fuck me!
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Calm down. Calm the fuck down.
Chill, okay?
Level with me, man. Where we at?
[Cruz] Level with you.
Before today, I--I liked our odds,
but now that they got the murder weapon,
and with that fucking testimony,
I'd say we're at, I don't know, 50/50.
Fif--ah, fuck.
It doesn't matter.
Fuck, fuck!
Listen, look, I know I said
that I don't wanna put you on the stand,
but we're gonna have to do it.
Yes. Yes, let's fucking do it.
-Let's do it. -All right, good.
'Cause after Collette, your testimony could be
the most important thing we present right now.
I'm gonna put you up first thing tomorrow morning,
but we might have to play rough.
Whatever the fuck we gotta do,
just fucking do it.
["Played My Heart" playing]
♪ ♪
[singer] ♪ Open eyes In the night ♪
♪ You find me ♪
♪ Don't know where to begin ♪
♪ This time ♪
♪ Shadows always overwrite ♪
♪ What once were lies ♪
♪ Now I know ♪
♪ This is where you say ♪
♪ You played my heart again ♪
♪ Now I'm laying With the enemy ♪
♪ You played it all away ♪
♪ Now I can see the web ♪
♪ That you're spinning In front of me ♪
♪ ♪
The hell is this supposed to be?
It's a grant of immunity.
It allows you to testify
without incriminating yourself.
I already told you I'm not doing this.
You get me to trial. You tip this in for me.
So you're going to do this, or else.
Or else what?
You either get up on the stand
and you say what I need you to say,
or I will see to it that you are locked away
for a very long time,
where, I might add, you belong.
If I get up on that stand,
I'm not gonna last a day out here.
Well...
You should ask yourself this, then.
[tense music plays]
How long will you last in county jail
when I violate your ass back there
and then let it slip
that we've been having these little firesides chats?
Fuck you.
The feeling is mutual.
So you be very fucking careful what you say next.
Do we have a deal?
♪ ♪
Man, whatever.
"Whatever." Is that a yes?
Yes.
[Erin] Excellent.
See you in court.
And wear a suit.
If you have one, that is.
-[door closes] -Man, there you are.
Man, I've been trying to call you and everything.
Where you been?
Wait, w-what's all this? What's going on?
I need to get out of town for a little bit.
Okay. [scoffs]
Okay, is this about what I said to you at the club?
Nigga, why you care?
It ain't like you gon' miss me much.
[Rigo] Look, man, I'm sorry, a'ight?
Damn--what I said was out of pocket, a'ight?
I was bugging, but a nigga had just put
a whole gun in my face, a'ight?
I was mad as hell.
I said some shit in the heat of the moment.
I'm sorry. Damn, cut me some slack. Shit.
Plus we got some work to do anyway, bruh,
[clears throat]
starting with this.
The fuck is this for?
I put your name on the publishing contract.
This is your first royalty check, player.
Yes, sir.
And there's plenty more where that came from.
What, man? I just did you a whole solid.
-What's up? -This ain't it, dawg.
Then what is?
DA trying to put me on the stand.
Fuck.
Yo, dawg, if I do this shit...
man, the streets is coming,
Then don't.
Okay, and if I don't, the DA coming for me instead.
She's trying to lock me back up if I don't testify.
A'ight, cool. So this is what we do.
You do it.
Testify, bruh.
If Sage get sent up, the world is ours, bruh.
The whole tour, the recording contracts,
the money, everything.
Dawg, that check, that's just the beginning, bruh.
Rigo, but what I'm saying--
But--but nothing.
'Quise, all you gotta do is say the same thing I'ma say.
That gun? Shit, I ain't never seen it.
Uh, Sage? He's a bad fucking guy.
'Quise, all you gotta do is just fall in line with this.
Fall in line with me. A'ight? This shit'll work.
Rigo, it's no way I'm not getting touched if I do this.
Touched by who?
Dawg, we can have security taking care of all this shit
while we in LA chillin', bruh.
Living a life above all this bullshit, man.
I don't know.
'Quise, when I say I got you,
I got you, bruh. I ain't playing.
Listen, tomorrow, we put Sage away.
What's up?
[soft music plays]
[sighs]
A'ight. I'll do it.
I don't have nowhere else to go anyway, so...
My brother, my brother.
[chuckles] Fuck Sage.
So you grew up with East-O. Were you friends?
Ah, yeah, something like that.
Uh, same neighborhood, different situations.
Uh, as far as East,
slightly more harsh circumstance,
if you know what I mean.
Yet you became business partners.
[Sage] Something like that.
Okay, s-so East-O thought he was a producer.
It was never gonna happen, but he did know
a lot of the right people, and he wasn't shy
about, you know, throwing his weight around.
And I was a nobody at the time, so benefited both of us.
And eventually, you, uh, you parted ways.
Yeah, so my music takes off,
I leave Atlanta, and we lost contact after that.
I went one way and I guess you could say he went another.
[Cruz] And uh, like East-O,
you also grew up with your current business partner,
Ms. Collette Jones, is that correct?
[Sage] Yes, yes. That is true.
Just young kids chasing a dream.
Uh, but if I may correct you, I would not call
Ms. Collette Jones my business partner.
[Cruz] No? Well, what would you call her?
[Sage] More of an assistant.
You see, on my way up, I reached down and grabbed
as many of my people as I could,
and Collette was no exception.
She was a backup dancer of mine
with some real promise,
but then--tragic accident ended her career.
I felt sorry for her.
So I set her up at my school.
[Cruz] So Ms. Jones is not in charge of High Water.
[Sage, echoing] No. I run High Water.
I make all the decisions.
[Cruz] Hmm.
Now, were you aware
that Collette was sleeping with East-O?
[Sage] No. No, I wasn't at all.
Listen, I'm a very busy man. Okay? I'm an entertainer.
A lot of moving parts in my life.
Got no time to worry about what my secretary is doing
in her personal life.
Not my concern.
But you're engaged, aren't you?
Yes, but that aspect of our personal life
didn't start until after East-O died.
And I wouldn't hold the past against her.
[Cruz] Of course not.
So jealousy was never a factor in your relationship.
Jealous of who?
Yeah, no, no. It's not how I roll.
That's not how you roll.
Now, I'd like to turn our attention
to the murder weapon.
Your Honor.
Mr. Odom, have you seen this gun before?
In fact, I have. Uh, not for some time.
Uh, that gun was a gift that I gave to East-O
when I left Atlanta for my first tour.
But it was registered to you?
Probably something I should've taken care.
I-I honestly didn't know I had to at the time.
However, not my gun.
Thank you.
[Hooper] Ms. Baxter, your witness.
[Erin] Let's talk about Ernest Octavio, shall we?
So you're insisting that your relationship deteriorated
quite some time before his death.
Yes. Yes, I am.
Can you describe what we're looking at here?
[Sage] Yes, that is me
in a rather fly jacket, if I do say so myself.
I gotta find that.
Oh, and--and East-O at a local strip club.
So does that mean you're lying, Mr. Odom?
[Sage] Uh, no. I'm a celebrity.
People run up on me all the time when I'm out.
Would it surprise you if I said
that I had a number of witnesses
that could place Ernest Octavio at your school
on multiple occasions just prior to his murder?
That wouldn't surprise me at all, to be honest.
Uh, his son was a student at my school.
Look, I know what you're trying to do,
but I had no business with East-O.
That is a lie,
just like you lied about your relationship with Ms. Jones.
She is, in fact, instrumental to your business,
to your school, and to your career,
and all the while, she was having an affair
with Mr. Octavio behind your back.
That threatened you, didn't it?
That threatened everything that you have built.
Look, I had no beef...
-Oh. -With East-O, okay?
Come on, the guy was a nobody. Come on.
[Erin] Does this look like two people who--
how did you put it-- have no beef?
[dramatic music plays]
♪ ♪
No, in fact,
you and Ernest Octavio were mortal enemies.
It's why you publicly humiliated his son Rigo
and kicked him out of your school.
That was an act of pure revenge.
Come on!
The kid is currently headlining my world tour.
[Erin] And that's because every step you took with that boy
was designed to humiliate Ernest,
and Ernest hated you for it.
Your Honor, the prosecution is badgering the witness.
He hated you because you left him behind,
like you did to Collette, like you did to Rigo,
like you did to so many people in your life
because that, Mr. Odom, is how you roll.
-Judge. -[Hooper] Ms. Baxter.
[Erin] And when Ernest finally came after you,
you felt threatened didn't you?
Didn't you?
So you took your gun, the gun that you owned,
the gun that was registered to you, and you shot him.
You killed him.
Get the fuck out of my face, bitch!
-[courtroom murmurs] -I didn't fucking kill nobody!
I ain't got time to kill nobody.
I'm a goddamn celebrity.
[courtroom muttering]
[Hooper] That's enough, Mr. Odom.
You may step down.
♪ ♪
[intense hip-hop plays]
♪ ♪
[Erin] Rigo, you're the opening act on Sage's tour.
You were a student at his school.
You must have a pretty good sense of who he is.
Sure. Sage is very talented.
But, uh, he's not the person everybody thinks he is.
He selfish as--
Let's just say, uh,
Sage only looks out for himself.
[Erin] And he kicked you out of High Water?
You said something that day that made Sage mad, didn't you?
I said he was using me
just like my pops back in the day,
and that really set him off.
And why is that?
That's because in the beginnin',
my dad made Sage.
[whispering] Do you hear this bullshit?
[Rigo] My dad put Sage in front of the right people
back in the day when they first started.
And he would have been a great producer too
if Sage would've gave him half the chance.
But Sage don't like sharing the spotlight with anybody.
He's selfish like that about everything.
His music, his school, his dance...
and especially Collette.
[Erin] Collette?
But Sage has testified that he didn't know
about your father's history with Collette.
-That's a lie. -Oh.
Sage knew all along about her and my dad, a'ight?
Their relationship pissed him off.
Well, that doesn't sound like a man that didn't care.
That sounds like an obsessed man.
That sounds like an angry man.
Nigga, he is. We literally all just saw it.
Yes, we did.
Now, you were close with your father.
You lived with him your whole life.
Now, Sage claims that he gifted this to your father.
-Have you ever seen it? -This friend?
This was the friend that had your back
when nobody else did.
What you doing here?
[solemn music plays]
♪ ♪
No. No, I have not.
[clears throat]
[Erin] Thank you. Just one more question.
Do you believe that Sage Odom killed your father?
I do,
and I also believe he would've killed me
that night he was beating my ass too
if someone didn't pull him off me.
Thank you. Nothing further.
[Cruz] May I, Your Honor? [clears throat]
Let's get this straight.
This is the man
that you're opening for on tour, yes or no?
Yeah, but I didn't want to.
I--if I wouldn't have, Sage would have ruined me.
Tell you the truth,
I only did the tour for Collette.
[Cruz] Hmm. Yeah, well, that's very easy to say.
But the fact is, it was Sage
who put you on his tour,
and you are still reaping the benefits.
You didn't drop out of the tour after Sage was accused
of killing your father, did you?
It wasn't about Sage at that point.
Like I said, it was about Collette.
She was the only one who believed in me.
[sighs]
Collette believed in me all along,
even when I didn't believe in my own damn self.
And I love her for that.
Like, she sees me.
Everything I did, from the moment I stepped foot
at High Water, I did for her.
[Cruz] Your Honor, it's Sage's school.
It's Sage's tour. Sage calls all the shots.
-No. -Hmm.
Sage said a whole lot of stuff about Collette
just being an employee there, but nah.
Collette is High Water.
She's the only one who looked out for me.
The only one who looked out for all of us.
-Okay-- -No, let me finish.
Well, then finish.
Colette saw a talent in me.
She knew what I was capable of.
Just like my dad.
All my dad ever wanted from me was to be something better.
To be legit.
[chuckles]
That's why he came at you so hard, man.
But you... you weren't worried about nothin'
but your own damn self.
♪ ♪
Your Honor, I think we could use a recess.
[Hooper] Agreed, Mr. Cruz?
Agreed.
[Hooper] Then let's resume tomorrow.
[gavel taps]
[background chatter]
[Magic] My man.
Yo, yo.
Yo, you good?
Pssh. I ain't gonna lie. Turn in the hole sucks.
But I'm good.
Yo, I'm--I'm sorry, man. I told--I told--
No, no, no, man. It's cool, bruh.
You didn't know any better, and I wasn't about to let
that big motherfucker fuck with you.
How you doing?
The fancy lawyer ain't cutting it?
Nah, that ain't it.
This shit just not going the way it supposed to, man.
I--I--I fucked my testimony up. I let the fucking DA get to me.
That's what she wants.
And when they poke at you like that,
you gotta button up and just take that shit.
Look, please excuse me if I don't feel like
kissing somebody ass right now.
You know and I know
that most of these motherfuckers is bullshit.
But in the case of me, I really didn't do it, dawg.
[Magic] It don't matter.
You think you the first motherfucker
to walk in here that shouldn't be?
Sometimes that's just how shit goes.
A brother gets caught up, ends up in here,
and the system goes to work.
And once you're in it, hard as fuck to get out.
No cap, I'm scared, dawg.
-I... -[Magic] No, no, no, no, no.
I don't know if I can do this shit, man.
Stay positive.
Come on. It ain't over.
Things'll work out.
It can happen.
What if it don't?
Then I'll be here when you get back.
[soft music plays]
♪ ♪
I'm sorry, man.
I'm sorry about what happened at the school...
All of it, man, I--
I'ma make it up to you.
A'ight, someway, somehow,
I'ma do right by you.
'Preciate you. I really do.
Good luck tomorrow.
And believe me when I say,
I hope I never see you again.
♪ ♪
[thunder rumbling]
Are you fucking kidding me? I'm making us dinner.
Come on, Poppy, I'm hungry, a'ight?
Which is why I'm making us dinner.
Well, don't.
Order some takeout or some shit.
You are such an asshole, you know that?
[Rigo] Poppy, will you get off my fucking back, please?
A'ight? I don't know if you could tell,
but I had a really long fucking day.
What the fuck is up with you and Collette?
Is there something I need to know?
Oh, my God, how many times we gotta go over this shit, Poppy?
Look, we are gonna get ours,
but in the meantime, we need Collette.
-Do we, though? Do we really? -Yeah.
Who gonna run the tour, huh? Me? What, are you gonna run it?
Exactly. Look, as long as Sage is gone,
she's the one who's gonna make shit go around, a'ight?
Then maybe she's all you need.
Yeah, maybe I should just get the fuck out of here.
[Rigo] Oh, my God! Will you stop it? Damn!
Poppy, there's nothing going on with me and Collette.
It doesn't feel like nothing, Rigo.
Look, a'ight, look, I may need Collette right now, okay,
but I can't do this shit without you, Poppy.
I can't. I won't.
What is this really about? Hmm? Hmm?
Is it about Marquise?
[Poppy] I sacrificed everything for you,
and it's like you never really listen to me,
not about anything and definitely not about him.
[Rigo] He's my brother.
[Poppy] I don't fucking care.
Who-who-who knows if that's really true?
[Rigo] Poppy, come on.
We had a plan.
So I sacrificed for you. I burned bridges for you.
I thought this was about me and you.
Poppy, it is.
Then show me.
You know what? Fuck it.
Fuck Marquise.
All right? I'll let that shit go.
[tense music plays]
♪ ♪
You would you really do that?
Yes.
We just leave him behind, a'ight?
It'll just be you and me.
♪ ♪
[announcer] All the passengers for Charlotte North Carolina
we will be departing in ten minutes.
Hey.
Thanks for coming.
What's going on?
Shit went a little sideways
and, uh, I gotta get out of Atlanta tonight.
What you mean?
I didn't wanna leave without saying goodbye.
Then don't.
Marquise, what happened? Let me help.
You can't.
There really ain't nothing anybody can do about it.
I've done a lot of shit--
a lot of shit I'm not proud of.
I know something about that.
You can tell me anything.
I can handle it. Trust me.
I'm just not the person you think I am.
[thunder rumbles]
We may be from different countries, Marquise,
but we're from the same place.
I'm not a Scorpio rising.
-I'm-I'm not following. -My tattoo.
I didn't choose the artwork or the ink.
My brother and my family needed protection.
It's a gang tat, Marquise.
Don't let the name fool you.
I'm no angel.
So you gonna tell me what's going on?
Before you and I met...
I was locked up in jail.
Made a shitty decision to get out.
I snitched.
It's either I'm going back to jail or I'm fucked forever,
so I gotta run.
-Where? -I don't know.
Seem like everywhere I go, trouble find me.
I can't escape it. It's like... my dad was in it.
[solemn music plays]
I guess it's just who I am too.
That's not true.
♪ ♪
The thing no one tells you about running
is, no matter where you run to, you'll still be there.
So you can run if you want,
but you better be running towards something
and not just away from your life.
C'mon baby, I want you to come with me.
You're a good person.
I see that.
Don't be afraid to show that side of you
to other people or to yourself.
[dramatic music plays]
But I gave up on running.
I can't come with you.
♪ ♪
And I don't like goodbyes.
♪ ♪
[R&B music plays]
♪ ♪
[Rigo] Tell me you didn't feel what I felt up on that stage.
Hey, this is what you were meant to do.
♪ Hey ♪
♪ Nobody said it would be ♪
♪ Happy ever after With you and me ♪
♪ But I'm riding ♪
♪ And that's a guarantee ♪
♪ Ain't no telling your story Without me ♪
♪ I won't act like it's easy ♪
♪ You know That wouldn't be true ♪
♪ I can't act like I don't want To smack the shit out of you ♪
♪ Sometimes, I can act like You don't give me the blues ♪
♪ But I can't act like There ain't nothing ♪
♪ That I wouldn't do For you, baby ♪
♪ It might sound crazy ♪
♪ Where they see troubled water We see everything wavy ♪
♪ I can never tell you no Everything, maybe ♪
♪ Only no I know is, no I will never not be your lady ♪
♪ We hit a bump It's all good ♪
♪ Rolling 'til The wheels off ♪
♪ As long as we're together ♪
♪ I can never be alone ♪
♪ I'm wit you 'til the end And then again ♪
♪ Me and you for the win Yeah, me and you for the win ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ We riding We riding, we riding ♪
[knock at door]
♪ We riding We riding, we riding ♪
♪ We riding, we riding We riding ♪
♪ ♪
Um, what's going on? What happened?
Did you mean what you said?
What?
Did you mean what you said
in court about me?
Every word.
♪ ♪
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
♪ ♪
What are we doing?
♪ ♪
Shut up.
Shut up and fuck me.
♪ ♪
♪ Nobody said it would be ♪
♪ Happy ever after with you and me ♪
♪ But I'm ridin' ♪
♪ And that's a guarantee ♪
♪ Ain't no telling your story without me ♪
♪ We riding, we riding ♪
♪ We riding We ridin, we riding ♪
♪ We riding, we riding We riding ♪
♪ We riding We riding, we riding ♪
[Collette and Rigo] ♪ Nobody said it would be ♪
♪ Happy ever after With you and me ♪
♪ But I'm riding ♪
♪ And that's a guarantee ♪
♪ Ain't no telling your story Without me ♪
♪ Ain't no telling my story Without you ♪
♪ Said I'm riding ♪
♪ Can share the history ♪
♪ Ain't no telling your story Without me ♪
[dramatic music plays]
Now, just a few more questions,
and tell the truth.
Wouldn't you prefer to see Sage Odom remain in jail?
You claim to love him.
Or do you secretly hate him?
♪ ♪
Did Sage send you to see East-O that night?
What did you do that night?
Everybody here knows you're guilty.
What did you do to East-O?
How dare you? Guilty.
What did you do there that night?
-Just admit it. -Answer me!
Guilty!
[Meek Mill] ♪ Uh ♪
♪ I used to pray For times like this ♪
♪ To rhyme like this ♪
♪ So I had to grind Like that ♪
♪ To shine like this In a matter of time ♪
♪ I spent On some locked up shit ♪
♪ In the back Of the paddy wagon ♪
♪ Cuffs locked on wrists ♪
♪ See my dreams unfold Nightmares come true ♪
♪ It was time To marry the game ♪
♪ And I said, "Yeah, I do" ♪
♪ If you want it You gotta see it ♪
♪ With a clear-eyed view ♪
♪ Got a shorty She tryna bless me ♪
♪ Like I said, "Achoo" ♪
♪ You ain't talkin' 'Bout my niggas ♪
♪ Then what you Talkin' bout? ♪
♪ Gangstas move In silence, nigga ♪
♪ And I don't talk a lot ♪
♪ I don't say a word I don't say a word ♪
♪ Was on my grind And now I got what I deserve ♪
♪ Fuck, nigga ♪
♪ Hold up, wait a minute ♪
♪ Y'all thought I was finished? ♪
♪ When I bought That Aston Martin ♪
♪ Y'all thought It was rented? ♪
♪ Flexin' on these niggas ♪
♪ I'm like Popeye On his spinach ♪
♪ Double M Yeah, that's my team ♪
♪ Rozay the captain I'm lieutenant ♪
♪ I'm the type to count A million cash ♪
♪ Then grind like I'm broke ♪
♪ 'Cause these niggas Want me dead ♪
♪ And I gotta make it Back home ♪
♪ 'Cause my momma need That bill money ♪
♪ And my son need some milk ♪
♪ These niggas tryna take My life ♪
♪ They fuck around Get killed ♪
♪ You fuck around You fuck around ♪
♪ You fuck around Get smoked ♪
♪ 'Cause these Philly niggas I brought with me ♪
♪ Don't fuck around No joke, no ♪
♪ All I know is murder When it come to me ♪
♪ I got young niggas That's rollin' ♪
♪ I got niggas throwin' Bs ♪
♪ I done did the DOAs I done did the KODs ♪
♪ Every time I'm in that bitch I get to throwin' 30 Gs ♪
♪ But I'm like, real nigga What up? ♪
♪ Real nigga, what up? ♪
♪ If you ain't about That murder game ♪
♪ Then pussy nigga, shut up ♪
[thunderclap]
[breathing heavily]
[tense music plays]
♪ ♪
["Burn Me Down" playing]
♪ ♪
[Angel crying]
[NineOneOne] ♪ I got a fire ♪
Angel?
[NineOneOne] ♪ Burning out of control ♪
♪ Something tells me I'm gonna end up in ashes ♪
-♪ If I take you home ♪ -What's wrong? Are you okay?
[NineOneOne] ♪ I got a fire ♪
I will be.
[NineOneOne] ♪ Burning deep in my soul ♪
♪ Baby, you lit a flame ♪
What happened?
It's over. He's gone.
Shit. I'm sorry.
♪ ♪
[NineOneOne] ♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Burn me, burn me Burn me down ♪
♪ Burn me down ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Burn me, burn me ♪
♪ Burn me down ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Burn me, burn me ♪
♪ Burn me down ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ Oh, ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Oh, burn me ♪
♪ Burn me, burn me down ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
I need to speak to you privately.
Now? I'm about to close.
Yo.
[bailiff] All rise.
[crowd muttering]
This better be good.
I need you to put me back on the stand.
Fuck no.
Put me back on the stand, Cruz.
Do it.
You really expect me to trust you
after your last performance? Hmm?
What do you got?
Tell me what you got or sit your ass down.
[dramatic music plays]
[Hooper] Please be seated.
So I trust we're ready to bring this hearing to a close.
Look, I know you're scared and I know you're desperate,
but right now is not the time for histrionics, all right?
[Hooper] Let's proceed, then, shall we?
I know who killed East-O.
♪ ♪