- This won't be a easy course.
Now I have to be honest witchu.
Some of y'all won't make it. You just won't.
You got to have what it takes to make it in this class.
You wanna be famous? This is where you start.
Okay, rule number one?
We don't start nothing in here we can't finish.
Can you dig it? Lisa, pay attention.
- She's not following the rules.
She isn't even a kid.
- I'm so embarrassed right now.
I thought "Cooking for Kids" was for people like me.
- Oh, ho, ho! Baby, 'cause you getting ready to get a gift.
You sure got one in there. Well, I'ma let you stay.
You can just be my sous chef, okay?
- My mother told me that if you're pregnant
and you ain't married, then you fast.
Are you married?
- Nope. - Vroom, vroom.
- What'd you mean "vroom, vroom," Wyatt?
How you think you got here?
What you're gonna do is plant these seeds.
In a few weeks, we're gonna have some fresh basil
for my pasta sauce, okay?
All of you will get seeds to plant.
And you gotta get your feet elevated.
I see them ankles is swollen. Cankles!
But that's the blessing that God gave--
- Dang, Mr. Barker, your belly almost as big as hers.
Your feet should be up too! - Mm-hmm.
I know that's right. My sciatica is killing me.
- Sciatica?
Is that what you're gonna name your baby?
[funky music]
♪ ♪
- Y'all did a great job with this basil
the last three weeks, especially you, Raul.
I see how hard you work.
Digging that dirt out and all that, I like that, man.
Big ups, you know? Know what I'm saying?
And speaking of seed planters,
Felicia, your baby daddy's here.
- What's up, baby?
- Yo, my man, when you gonna put a ring on it?
- No. Wyatt, don't do that.
That's not cool to put a man on blast like that.
Demar, when are you gonna marry the girl?
- Yo, go ahead with that, old head.
Watch your business, B.
- Mr. Barker was telling me
about some prenatal classes they have.
I think we should at least look into it.
- Yeah, look into it, Demar. - And you need to do it soon,
'cause the way Felicia look, she about to pop.
- You got any advice for making bank?
'Cause that's the only type of prenatal classes that I need.
Come on. Let's get out of here. - Felicia!
Take care.
- I'm so dreading this trip.
- If I had some rich white parents,
I'd be at their estate all day,
every day, butt-naked in the pool
drinking Snapple with a gold straw.
- Well, you don't know my parents.
They still treat me like I'm an addict.
You know what it's like when people assume who you are
and don't give you a chance.
- Every day of my life. - I wish my parents
were more like you and didn't judge people.
- Don't get it twisted, man. I judge people.
I had a aunt named Gertrude.
She smoked crack for four months.
Matter of fact, I sold it to her sometimes, right?
Getting high all day.
She cleaned herself up, became a devout Jehovah's Witness
giving out them books early in the morning and all that.
But every time she come to my crib,
I still hide all my stuff.
I don't want nothing coming up missing.
One time, she bought me a Gameboy for Christmas
and then stole it, then helped me look for it.
I said, "Why do you buy me a Gameboy, then steal it,
then help me look for it?"
She said, "I had to eliminate myself as a suspect."
- All right.
- Whoo! I am so excited.
I can't wait to see what Nonni and Peepaw
got me as my college gift.
- Don't you mean us?
- They love me way more than they love you.
- No, they don't. - Hey, please, stop fighting.
Don't make this worse than it's gonna be.
Okay? Get in the car.
- Not before you get your lunch.
I made yours spicy,
and I put a pack of gum in there,
'cause you don't want to be talking to them white people
when your breath smell like buffalo shit.
And yours is pulled pork. I put it on white bread.
If you don't eat that before you get up to Schenectady,
just throw it out the window.
Maybe a brown bear'll eat it or something.
- Might as well just eat it now.
- Naw, let it marinate.
- All right, go to the car. I'll meet you out there. Okay?
- You eat it when you get past Poughkeepsie or Bayonne.
- Thank you.
- Josh, I made you some comfort food.
- Wow. - Peanut butter and jelly.
Roll that around on your grill, and I dare you not to be happy.
- This will help, definitely. - Mm-hmm.
Yo, listen. I used up all the peanut butter and jelly.
I'll get you some while y'all out.
- No, you don't have to do that.
Alexa, add peanut butter and jelly to the grocery list.
- I have added peanut butter and jelly
to your grocery list.
- Whoo, that is nice, kid. - Mm-hmm.
- Well, since you add it with the magic lady,
I used up all the bread too, so tell her to cop some bread.
- Alexa, add bread to the grocery list.
- Bread added to your grocery list.
- That is dope. That is dope.
Yo, Josh, man. Dig this here, man.
Them white people up in Vermont?
That's your family. Learn how to cherish
every moment you spend with them, okay?
Because at the end of the day, they all we got.
- I appreciate that, Tray. - And dig this here.
If things don't work out, I love my moms,
but if you wanna do some parent swapping,
my moms could be over here in a hot second.
- Parent swapping? - Yeah, man,
I want an opportunity to get in that swimming pool.
- Uh-oh.
[funky music]
- Hey, I just, um,
wanted to apologize for Demar the other day.
He's just under a lot of pressure
with the baby on the way. - Felicia, no worries.
I was just like him when I was his age. All right?
- This looks delicious. - The secret to my casserole?
I take food that most people would throw away,
and I make something really good.
See this tomato right here? This was on its way out.
Now it's the dominating flavor in the dish.
Giving food a second chance,
making something out of nothing,
that's my specialty, girl. You know, it's the key to life.
That what I do, and you and Demar will too.
- Where did you get all this wisdom?
- Kim Kau's Kitchen on Myrtle Ave.
The fortune cookies, you know that.
I be asking for extras.
- Baby! Baby, Fel--hold up. - Hey, everybody, look.
Baby daddy early today.
- Baby, we gotta get out of here now.
- Demar, quit playing.
- Demar, we are in the middle of a class.
What's wrong, brother? - Stay out of our business.
Felicia, let's go now.
- For what? Why? - Th-th-the cops!
Th-th-th-they're after me. We gotta get out of here now!
- Oh. - Oh.
- What the hell?
- Guess he's not proposing.
- Once the kids clear, we'll figure this situation out.
For every problem, there's a solution.
- Where is everybody going?
- Tray, look what we did.
Now tell me, which one is the best?
And be honest, but remember you live with me.
[laughs] - Veesy, Veesy, Veesy.
- Yeah? - We're gonna let you decide.
- No, no, no, no. I'm not getting caught
in the middle of that. Tray, you wanna tell me
why the kids left a hour early before class ended?
- Apparently, we're on the run from the cops.
- What? Why are the cops looking for them, Tray?
- Technically, they're looking for him,
'cause I didn't do nothing.
- We're trying to figure this out now.
Demar.
- I got a warrant for a gun charge.
- No. - A gun?
Why do you need a gun in the first place?
- I got it after those dudes jumped me.
I needed something to protect us, babe.
- Did you file a police report after you got jumped?
- Miss Miller, a police report?
- My ex-husband was on the force,
and believe it or not,
we got allies in the department.
- Well, can you please give me a direct line
to the Ally Police? 'Cause all the cops
I run in front of, they're from the Beat-Your-Ass-Now,
Ask-Questions-Later force.
- See, it's a shame that our people
feel this way about police. - Man, fuck the cops!
They was standing there when I got jumped,
and they didn't do a damn thing about it.
They just watched me, and now they wanna
try to arrest me for trying to protect myself.
- Demar, you can't run, man. It'll just make things worse.
- I can't believe you didn't tell me.
- I-I-I wanted to,
but I-I didn't want to upset you.
Look, we just got our first sonogram--
- Aw. - What're you "aw-ing" for?
- It's sweet.
- Now I'm 34 weeks pregnant.
- I know. - So what are we gonna do?
- 30--34 weeks?
- It's eight months. - Oh, oh, eight months!
Oh, that album about to drop! She about to--
[clicks tongue, laughs]
- You're wrong about that, 'cause Tray took 40 weeks.
- 40? - And my son came early too.
So--so he got a point.
- I'm sorry. Can everybody
please just stop talking about how pregnant I am?
- Yes, honey, I'm sorry. - You coming with me or no?
- You can't run. That is not smart.
You gotta be smart about this, man, okay?
You're young blood, man. You hear me?
You don't wanna do nothing that you gonna regret
for the rest of your life.
- Tray, can I talk to you for a second?
Look, I get it. Right? I hear you.
But at the end of the day, that's their business.
That is their family. That's their kid.
- Veesy, I gotta make this boy understand.
I gotta help this kid. I gotta help him do the right thing.
- I hear you. But they left already.
[funky music]
♪ ♪
- Are you all right, Dad? - Yeah.
Your mom is usually here to act as a buffer.
My parents can be a bit judgmental.
- Hey, guys. - Hello, everybody!
- Come on in, Josh.
- Well, come on in. Come on in.
- Oh, my gosh, lookit. Are these school books?
- They brought some.
♪ ♪
- Oh, my gosh. - Thank you.
- We bought these for you to use in college.
- This is the exact one that I wanted.
Oh, thank you.
Here, I got something for you guys too.
- Oh, for us? - Oh, Amira. How thoughtful.
- Let me see! You shouldn't--
- You didn't tell me you were gonna give them something.
- "Favorite grandparents."
- Hey, you know, when you start college,
it's always nice to have the latest computer on the market
to make your roommates jealous.
- Well, actually, I'm gonna take a gap year.
- Oh, okay. Uh, sounds great. You're gonna find your passion.
- Yeah! Get out there and live. All right.
- Wow, I wish you were that understanding
when I wanted to take a gap year.
- He was serious about the gap year.
- Yeah, right, uh-huh.
- Yeah, I was. - Hey, hey!
It's my favorite niece and nephew.
Did you have to bring him?
Hi, Mommy. - Oh, darling. Mwah!
- Hey, Hunty.
- So, baby bro, Dad tell you the big news?
I started my own venture capitalist company
called Spring Eternal.
- Hey, congratulations. - Thanks, I call it
Spring Eternal because your money springs forever.
Get it? Spring Eternal?
- Yeah. No, I get it. Forever.
- Forever. In perpetuity.
Like older than Prince Philip. Spring Eternal.
- Well, Prince Philip is dead,
so you might wanna think of a different sales pitch.
- He died? - He's dead.
- Come on. This'll take us to the back door.
They'll never see us leave.
- Where are we going, and what is the plan?
- I got a cousin that stay out in Virginia.
We're pretty tight.
- Okay, are you "let's hang out" tight?
Or "I'm on the run and I need a place to hide" tight?
- I don't know. We'll figure that out when we get there.
But for now, we gotta get out of here.
- Baby, you're not thinking this through.
No matter how far we run, they're gonna follow us.
And when they do, we're gonna have to run again.
Is that what you want for your son?
Is that what you want for me?
- All right! God, it's so nice to get out of the city.
- Yeah.
- You know, maybe the kids can take a swim later.
- Yeah. - Yeah, that'd be fun.
- Good idea. - Hey, Michelle's here too!
- Hi. - Cousins united.
- Yeah, sorry I am so late, everyone.
I hope I didn't miss too much.
Josh, before you say you can't, say, "I'll try."
- What? - Oh, no. Here's a good one.
"Small steps forward are still steps."
- Why are you reading sobriety slogans?
- Huh? Did I jump the gun?
- Uh, a little bit. - Did you guys not start?
- Start what? What is happening?
- Michelle took mine. Oh, here's a good one.
"Sobriety is a journey, not a destination," dear.
- Is this your idea of an intervention?
- Why would you say that, sweetie?
- You kn--you know I'm clean, right?
- Yes, well, we--we know you're clean,
and we're-- we're very proud of you.
But just--just think of this as--as a pre-intervention.
- Hmm, well, that's not a thing.
- All right, let's just cut to the chase.
Where is Shay?
- Shay is in Europe working. You guys know this.
- Do we? 'Cause I used to say Barbara was in the Bahamas
before we got divorced. Remember when I said
Denise was digging ditches in Uganda?
- She wasn't. - Where do I say Pam is?
- Cleveland.
- You know what? Shay and I are fine.
- Are you sure? - Yeah.
- We don't think so. - Nope. Here's a great one.
"If you are not moving away from your addiction,
you are moving closer to it." Boo-yah.
- Oh, gosh, yeah. - There you go. You nailed it.
- Oh, yeah, nice. That's good. That is good.
That's really good. You guys are smart.
You dug that one up. Have you guys heard this one?
This is one of my favorites. It's a classic.
Um, "Go fuck yourselves." Have you ever heard that?
That should be on a bumper sticker.
It would--it would work. I'm gonna be in my room.
And, uh, you guys enjoy the grandkids.
Jesus Christ.
- I think I want that bumper sticker.
[funky music]
- I hope those kids are all right.
- Ooh, we should have never let him leave with her.
- Whatchu mean? She is a grown woman.
What we gonna do, tie her to a chair?
- Ooh. Oh, praise the lord! Come in, baby!
- Oh, thank God you got rid of that felonious loser.
- Ooh, well, speak of the felon himself!
- You should've just waited, just a little.
Come in, baby.
- Come on. - Have a seat.
She needs to get off her feet. Can you a--
- Get a chair, baby.
- We're glad to see you.
- You made the right choice.
- Goddamn right he did. If they can find white folk
that stormed the Capitol in disguises,
he gotta know they can find his Black ass somewhere.
- It's all right to be afraid, man.
It's okay. - I-I-I ain't afraid, man.
- Oh, you ain't scared?
You ain't scared of getting raped by some 6'7"
dude that's calling you Gladys, huh?
- Who mans is this?
- Jaybird, I'ma need you to get Wyatt
and put him with the other kids.
- Come on. Go this way.
- I'm proud of you.
You made the right decision, because, sweetie,
if you would've ran, that would've been a mistake.
And now you gotta do something else.
Baby, you gotta turn yourself in.
- I don't know what to do. - Look at this, man.
This my kids right here, man.
That's Amira, and that's Shahzad.
I missed them. I missed their birth and everything
'cause I was doing 15 long, hard years, man.
We missed out on kindergarten, recitals, tooth fairy nights,
all of that, man.
Don't be like me, man. She pregnant.
- Yeah, but I ain't you, Tray. - I know you ain't me.
I never in my life want you to be like me.
'Cause you better than me.
- I can't get locked up. I'll--I'll--I'll be
25 years old by the time I get out.
- Yeah. You gonna be 40 if you go on and run.
- And while you're in there, we'll make sure, we promise,
we'll look after Felicia and the baby.
- Yes, yes. - You can believe that, kid.
We gotchu.
Oof.
I know it hurt. But when it hurt, observe.
That's the Lord trying to tell you something.
All right? We all make mistakes.
But your mistakes is proof that you just trying, brother.
Look at everybody around you. We love you, man.
We ain't going nowhere.
- That's how you make a man wanna go to prison.
- Boy, if you don't--come on.
- So listen, look, if--if I turn myself in,
how do I do that?
I not trying to end up another hashtag.
- You go out with your hands raised up.
- Yeah, but don't raise 'em too fast
'cause they're gonna take that as a threat.
- Move slowly, baby. - But not too slow though.
You'll piss them off, and they'll think you're resisting.
- Look them in the eye.
- But please, do not stare at them, okay?
You do not want them thinking that you're trying
to challenge their authority.
- Okay. - Tray, please, help us.
You told me that making something out of nothing
is what you do.
- Hey. Hey, you missed a good meal.
- Yeah, well, I had a peanut butter and jelly
that my friend Tray made for me,
because he knows me, and he cares about me.
- Oh, well, look, I'm sorry
if that thing in there took you by surprise.
All right? But we haven't heard from you in a while
and it sounded like you were just trying to avoid us.
- I don't call because it--it's hard for me.
I feel like every time I talk to you,
it's just a matter of time
before you're gonna bring up my past.
- Yeah, well, that last relapse you had scared us.
- You're doing it. You're doing it right now.
- Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, let's try this, okay?
All right, now you will say that Shay and the kids
are the best thing that ever happened to you, right?
- Yeah. Absolutely. - Huh?
- Yes. Yes. - All right.
Well, Shay's in Europe, and before you know it,
the kids are going to be leaving home.
And you're going to be by yourself
for the first time in your life,
and the thought of that scares your mother and me.
- Yeah, I hadn't--I hadn't thought about that.
- Okay. All right.
- And you guys did all that math on your own?
- Yeah, well, that's what we're good at, you know,
math, investments, growth, looking into the future,
risky investments, that sort of thing.
- Thank you for caring, but your execution was garbage.
- Garbage? - Yeah.
- Oh, so if I'm listening to you correctly,
you're trying to say what we did in there
has no legs at all? - No.
I mean, drudging up the worst part of somebody's life
when they're actually doing okay,
yeah, it's not great, Dad.
- Ah, so--so the pre-intervention was brilliant,
but the--but the exec...
- No. No, no, no. - The timing was bad?
- No, no, that's not what I'm saying. It was all bad.
- Joshua, Rudolph, care to join us for dessert?
- Well, I am out of peanut butter and jelly.
Dessert sounds pretty good.
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
- Come on.
- Get me a hand, would you? Whoa, my back. God.
- You all right? - Yeah, I'm okay.
- Uh... - Yeah, well...
- Thanks, Dad. - Yeah.
Well, look, you know where to find us, okay?
We're here for you.
[radio chatter]
- If there is one thing I know, it's cooking.
A recipe has to be more than standalone ingredients.
You have to put it all together
and make a delicious meal.
And the main ingredients in any meal is love.
- I hope you're right about this, Tray.
[funky music]
♪ ♪
- And just like a delicious meal,
the individuals in your neighborhood
are the ingredients you need to form a community.
♪ ♪
- All right, son, let's go.
- We might not be a fancy dish,
but when we come together, we make a pretty good meal.
[siren wailing]
- We got Demar into custody safely.
- Yeah, but what about those who don't have
a community like us?
What about them?
- When you're locked up in prison,
you have nothing but time. Time to think about
all the things you did wrong in your life.
You look for anything and everything to make it through.
- Are you ready to meet your son?
- But when you look in the eyes of a younger
and better version of yourself,
you start to think about all the things you did right.
- It feels good holding your baby, doesn't it?
- Yeah. Yeah, it does.
- Don't you have me bring this girl and this baby back
to this fuckin' prison no more, okay?
- Yes, ma'am. And thank you. - Mm-hmm.