(groaning)
(upbeat music)
(gun bangs)
(ominous music)
- Robin, you all right?
- Don't talk to her!
- Let me tell you something, Robin,
you did a great job, you saved my daughter's life.
Now you listen up, doc, you got one chance.
You let her go, I'll let you live.
- This isn't a negotiation.
- No, it's something else.
I told you what was gonna happen, didn't I?
Now you tell me,
am I lying?
You look me in the eye and tell me
that Cap is a better player.
- Cap's a better player.
- I guess that was somebody else out there
winning them last two games, huh?
I put the points on the board, he lost four in a row.
I lead by doing.
- I know, you kicked ass.
- [Willie] Yeah, I did.
- But I'll tell you something.
Cap Rooney has been doing it for years.
- And his time is over.
And yours is too unless you start taking some risk
and start playing this game the way it's played today.
God don't care about you, don't care about me.
In all of everything, we don't mean nothing.
He don't know us.
We be, and that's the only thing he did.
But that's good, that's why we're free.
But free ain't easy, free is real,
and realness is a motherfucker.
What's with you, man?
- That's it?
- That's it, if somebody had a gun to your head and said,
you gotta tell me what's going on with this person
over here or I'm gonna kill you.
What is driving him, what was he thinking?
You know, you couldn't do it, could you?
Because, they would have to kill your ass
because you don't know what anyone else is thinking.
I think you're low, my brother, way low.
Like what were you,
one of those institutionalized raised guys?
Anybody home?
And standard, and the standard parts
are supposed to be there in people and you...
Aren't.
I could be working with my brother right now.
He's got a drywall business in Compton.
Does the inside of office buildings.
You know, the metal stairs.
I could be his partner.
Said he'd give me that brand new, uh, Dodge Ram Charger.
You know, the 3/18 Magnum, the beast?
All indoor work too, lots of AC.
I could sleep with my wife every night, fuck her maybe.
Take my kids to school every morning.
And I'd run his crews too,
probably increase productivity 40 to 50%, make 100k a year.
Do you know why I don't?
Because I love this job.
Do you know why I chose you to sing lead?
Because your voice has no personality, no depth,
except for what I put in.
See, nobody knows you like I do.
- Well they offered me the part and I'm taking it.
- Can you read contracts or you just pretty?
You can't even take a shit and wipe your own ass
unless I say it's okay.
- Well I'll give myself a lawyer.
- What do you think they're gonna do, huh?
You think them harpies just gonna wait around
while you try to drag me into court?
Forget about it, it's over.
(slap and groan)
(loud thud)
- Oh, where you say I go, I go.
You don't put me away, Mr. Lopez.
You don't put me away. - Okay, okay.
- You don't put me away.
- I'm not gonna, no, no, no.
- Yes you are, yes you are.
- No, no, no, you don't have to go to--
- Yes you are.
- To court, you don't have to go anywhere
'cause Jennifer will take care of it.
- Your sister's not coming near me.
She's not coming here, is she, she's not coming here.
- Okay, remember what you said before?
- If I say she's not coming, then she's not coming.
- You said, Nathaniel, you said--
(mumbles)
I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll tell you,
I'm sick of being Nathaniel and you're Mr. Lopez.
I'm not your boy, I'm not Mr. Colonel Sanders.
- You know, I'm sorry, I was wrong.
- And I'm not Mr. Walt Disney.
- I'm sorry, I was wrong.
- I'm a man, I can take care of myself.
I can take care of myself, Mr. Lopez.
And I don't need you, I don't need this city,
I despise this city and I despise you.
And if I ever see you again,
I'll cut you open and gut you like a fish.
A man I cared about once told me
that we can't retract the decisions that we've made.
We can only affect the decisions
we're going to make from here.
- What, are you trying to save me now, Nick?
- I'm giving you a way out, big difference.
Stand up for those principles you've been preaching.
See, we're all held accountable, Clyde, that includes you.
Why don't we do the right thing here?
- How'd you get the nickname Motherfucker?
- When I was a kid, I snuck into my mother's bedroom.
- Uh-oh.
- She was laying there naked.
She had been drinking all night.
- We get it. - Yuck.
- And then I snuck up behind her,
and then I slipped my fingers into her purse.
- Purse, he said purse.
- And I took her money, the whole weeks' pay.
I really fucked her over, and that's how I got the name
Motherfucker Jones.
You've spent 76 years on this plantation.
You've seen all manner of shit done to niggers.
But I notice you didn't mention kneecap.
(gun bangs and man screams)
- Oh God, mother fucker, damn it!
- 76 years, Steven.
How many niggers you think you see come and go, huh?
7,000?
8,000?
9,000?
9,999?
Every single word that came out of Calvin Candie's mouth
was nothing but horse shit,
but he was right about one thing.
I am that one nigger in 10,000.
(gun bangs and man groans)
Queen, Streisand our queen.
What the fuck, what y'all gonna do?
Y'all gonna belt out show tunes on the way to the job?
You don't need a score for a score.
You just (imitates car revving)
put your fucking foot on the gas and drive the goddamn car.
That's all the music you need, folks.
- Come on now.
You never been a wheel man, you never had a lucky song?
- Well, the Cigarette song, Glass la Scotch.
Absolutely, but not before a job.
I got enough demons right here playing music all the time.
(upbeat music)