:01:00
Put your sweater on.
:01:03
MOTHER JOE:
I'm not getting my leg cut off.
:01:07
Lem Harris?
:01:09
Simuel St. James...
:01:09
TERl: Mama, you have to.
:01:11
Chief Executive
of Sales and Marketing.
:01:12
There's no blood
circulating to that leg.
:01:13
LEM: What's happening?
:01:14
SIMUEL: How you doing?
:01:16
You're diabetic.
:01:16
I've been hearing good things
about you.
:01:18
Especially the way you've been
handling those machines.
:01:18
MAXINE: You haven't been
watching what you eat.
:01:21
LEM: I'm no stranger
to hard work.
:01:23
Ha ha.
That's good to know. Cigar?
:01:26
Nah. I don't like cigars.
:01:27
MOTHER JOE: Nobody's
cutting off my leg...
:01:27
Sorry. You don't mind, do you?
:01:29
and that's that.
:01:31
Like I was saying,
it's always good to, you know...
:01:34
have enthusiastic, hard-working
employees like yourself.
:01:37
HAROME: Last thing you need
is a G-string.
:01:39
Especially down there
in printing.
:01:40
JADA:
I should give him some, right?
:01:42
I'm no stranger
to hard work myself.
:01:43
HAROME: Give it to him.
Sock it to him.
:01:44
JADA: Give it to him good.
:01:46
BIRD: What y'all talking about?
:01:47
JADA: The nasty, darling.
:01:48
I'm like you.
:01:49
[Laughter]
:01:50
I'm from the hood, too.
:01:50
BIRD: Come on, we got clients.
:01:53
But I make $80,000 a year...
:01:53
Y'all better slow down.
:01:55
because I was always willing
to sacrifice...
:01:56
AHMAD:
I finished dumping the garbage.
:01:58
Thank you.
Help me sweep up this hair...
:01:59
whatever I had to
to get what I wanted.
:02:00
then call your mama to see
when she's picking you up.
:02:03
That's why brothers
got to stick together--
:02:06
pull one another up
in a time of need.
:02:09
Ahem.
:02:11
SIMUEL: What's up, shorty?
:02:12
The white man ain't gonna do it.
:02:14
Sooner than you think, you'll
be helping another brother...
:02:16
Nice.
:02:18
Very nice.
:02:18
just like I helped you.
:02:22
I see Teri finally gave you
the money to open your shop.
:02:24
What are you talking about?
:02:27
Teri didn't give me anything.
It was an investment.
:02:28
I pulled some strings
to get you hired.
:02:30
If you had come to me,
I would have given it to you.
:02:30
What, you didn't know?
:02:32
Kenny Simmons referred me.
:02:34
At what cost?
:02:34
Who?
:02:36
How much you willing
to sacrifice?
:02:38
Nothin'.
:02:39
No. I know your wife...
:02:41
Bird.
:02:42
Mm-mm.
Girl, you are gettin' thick.
:02:43
She told me about
your little felony situation...
:02:46
and asked me to hook you up
in the printin' department.
:02:46
BIRD: That'll do it.
:02:48
They'll help you up front.
See you next week.
:02:51
Man, me and old Cola,
we, uh, we go way back.
:02:51
SIMUEL: Mm-mmm.
:02:55
Let me tell you something, OK?
:02:57
Who the fuck is Cola?
:02:58
I am married now.
:02:58
Oh, no. Ha ha.
:02:59
Whatever we had going on before
is over with.