[mellow music]
[Camille] 300,000 years ago,
when humans first walked this planet,
life was so much simpler.
You hunt, eat, build a fire, build a home,
find a person, have a family.
There was nothing to choose, so there was nothing to lose.
Well, except maybe your life in childbirth,
or a saber-toothed tiger attack or whatever.
In today's Harlem,
we make 35,000 conscious decisions every day--
some insignificant, some long-lasting,
but every now and then,
there's that one decision on that one day
that changes everything.
Mmm.
- Are we making a mistake? - Mm?
I just feel like we shouldn't be doing this.
Sweetie, why not?
Oh, it's just, we have so much to do before we leave, right?
[sighs] We're moving to Paris tonight.
I mean, we have to be forgetting something.
♪ ♪
[singer] ♪ But only time will tell ♪
- Camille. - Hmm?
Baby, you worry too much. We're good.
It's all done. Mmm.
Yeah, you're right.
Although, I did forget to do this.
[laughs]
Oh, yeah. Oh!
We definitely don't want you to forget to do that.
Mm, that smells good.
What'd you order?
Wait, you cooked?
With what? Everything was packed up.
[Ian] Not everything.
If there's one thing I've learned from Iron Chef,
it's that if you have eggs and anything else, you have a meal.
Mm-hmm.
See, where were you when I was growing up?
We never had more than three things in the fridge,
and my mom hated grocery stores.
She said they overwhelmed her.
You know, the more I learn about your mom,
the more I wonder
how your type A ass even came out of her.
She a trip.
More like a journey.
Ever hear back from her?
Yeah.
She text, so we are gonna try, yet again, to meet up.
She's taking the train into the city today.
Oh, that's cutting it close.
Yeah.
But, I mean, that's good though.
I'm glad y'all are getting together.
Okay, let me get some of this food 'cause you know
I got 100 goodbyes today, and this hunger...
- Mmm. - It's one of them.
[singer] ♪ I'm all the way up, oh ♪♪
[Angie] Oh, okay. [chuckles]
Now it's back-to-back meetings.
Listen, Jennifer,
you tell Stephen that Angie Wilson
has listened to Power 105
for six fucking hours
and did not hear her soaring, yet highly controlled
vocal runs of "Flow Into You" gracing the airwaves.
And since he seems to love meetings so much,
maybe I should just roll up on your office this afternoon
and have an impromptu face-to-face
to discuss his priorities.
Bitch, bye.
[singer] ♪ All the way up I'm all the way up ♪
♪ Eh, all the way up ♪
♪ All the way up ♪
♪ Nothing can stop me I'm all the way up ♪
♪ All the way up ♪
Uh, hello? Some of us live here.
[singer] ♪ I'm all the way up ♪
Tune your shit to Power 105. I better hear myself.
Yeah, no, of course.
We're always happy when we can help you
avoid those taxes.
Mm-hmm.
Yes, absolutely. Bye-bye.
Perfect timing.
I was just finishing up a phone call with Walter...
[both] McDougall.
Wow, that's crazy. I was just thinking about him.
You know, he could do a take-out mortgage.
- And if you lock it in at... [both] 3%...
And then he can still consider it
a home purchase even if he...
[both] Makes it a rental.
You and I are always on the same page.
Tell me, is it weird that hearing my girlfriend
do all this finance talk is turning me on?
Would I still turn you on if I didn't do this?
[laughs] What?
- Knock, knock. - Mother.
Daughter. Future son-in-law.
- Mom. - [laughs]
Good to see you again, Patricia.
- I will call you after. - All right, babe.
Mom, if you keep calling him son-in-law
before he proposes, you're gonna run him off.
Or I will manifest a marriage.
Now that you can do, but what you can't do
is just keep popping in here whenever you want.
Oh, I'm sorry, Quinnie.
I just can't resist seeing my working girl.
Look at you in your skirt suit. I love it.
Perfect man. Perfect job.
Mom, please.
Why can't you celebrate your successes?
I do.
In fact, I'm here to have lunch
with one of the youngest VPs in the history of JPMorgan Chase.
Mom, I wish I could go to lunch with you,
but I just have so much.
[sighs] I'm sorry.
Don't you apologize for working.
Someday you'll be CEO in a corner office
and you take your mother to lunch whenever you want.
Deal.
- [phone rings] - Okay, I'll be going.
Oh, and tell Camille bon voyage.
Although, Paris--really?
I mean, why now? You know?
- [laughs] - [stammers] I don't get it.
[chuckles] Bye, Mom.
[♪ Shae Jacobs: "Take Time"]
[phone ringing]
[singer] ♪ Mm she got her hands on me ♪
Quinn Joseph. How can I help?
♪ Think I'm wakin' a freak, you wanna put it... ♪♪
[Neil] Let's see, women.
They install 40% more apps than men.
So why the fuck aren't we building more for them?
Tell me somebody has something for women.
Yeah, I got something.
So it's a special calendar that reminds a woman 24 to 48 hours
before the start of her menstrual cycle.
And best part is, it's automatically shared
with her co-workers, her husband,
so everyone knows when she's about to be a major bitch.
- [laughter] - I call it Red Alert.
Yes! Yes!
See, that is thinking like a woman.
[hip-hop music]
[singer] ♪ I wanna know the way ♪♪
[Tye] It's so fucking offensive.
Even when it's for women, it's like I'm not even there.
Then fuck it. Do something else.
We're always hiring across the hall at "Fierce."
Mm-hmm, but you're not paying.
Magazines take time.
And life takes cash.
I'm barely making rent as it is.
And I may have a solution for that.
Really?
- Check the fries. - What?
When I made you go get napkins, I hid it in there,
but I gotta get back to work in a minute, so...
Oh, my God. Is this a...
Tyesha May Reynolds,
we've been together a year and there's no one else
I'd rather share my life with.
Will you move in with me?
- For real? - Yes, for real.
Forever.
- Yes. - Yeah?
Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
[passionate R&B music]
Yes.
[singers vocalizing]
[singer] ♪ This is what it feels like ♪♪
[knock at door]
Hey. This is it.
Well, how do I get to stay in denial
that you're leaving if you're actually saying goodbye?
P.S., this Paleo shit better be working.
You know how hard it is to get a half a pound of steak
delivered at ten in the morning?
Well, it is definitely working because you look great.
I'm an academic. I don't care about that superficial crap.
But thank God. I better look great.
I would literally kill for bread.
You don't happen to have a little Hawaiian roll
or a baguette in your purse, do you?
Oh, damn.
The rolls are in my other purse.
- Sit down. - [sighs]
- So this is goodbye. - Yeah.
[Robin] And you're 100% sure you want
to interrupt your academic career?
Oh, no, this is not a disruption.
I've done all of my coursework.
Now it's just down to writing my dissertation
and I can do that anywhere.
And anywhere happens to be Paris.
- So I can be with Ian. [Robin] Oh, Camille.
Overstepping every student-teacher boundary.
I did the same thing,
and I regret it so much.
By the time I was your age, I was married with two kids.
I put my education on hold, my goals on hold,
while he was in medical school.
And then he had his residency
and I worked terrible jobs just to make ends meet.
Kinko's.
I was a hostess at the Red Lobster.
- I actually like Red Lobster. [Robin] Please.
Suicide would have seemed redundant.
Meanwhile, he didn't even do one school drop-off.
We were building a life together,
so I sucked it up until he got it sucked up
by one of the other residents--
blonde, tits as big as cannonballs.
But Ian, he's not like that.
History is littered with women who had to start over
because they had to make sacrifices for a man's dream.
Okay, I'm not gonna say anymore.
You're a big girl. You know what you're doing.
Just one more thing.
Even if you stayed on track with your thesis writing--
and let's be real, that's a big if--
I mean, let's be honest. This is Paris.
Sex, croissants.
The men there-- they're so gross, they're hot.
I mean, what can compete with that?
And even if you did right, you still can't TA.
You can't hang out with the senior faculty members--
all things that are necessary
for you to become a tenured professor here.
Isn't that your dream?
Yes.
But I mean, look at you.
See, you still made it.
But I'm too fucking old to enjoy it.
Look, you don't wanna leave the country
when we're about to elect our first female president.
That might be your most compelling argument.
See?
I am really gonna miss you.
I'm gonna really miss you too, honey.
You're the only student that didn't annoy me.
Dr. Goodman. Hey, I--
Nope!
Ugh, I can't with that bullshit.
You take good care of yourself, kid.
[♪ St. Panther & Raedio: "Infrastructure"]
[singer] ♪ Come here, girl ♪
♪ I haven't practiced in a long time ♪
♪ So show me when... ♪
[sighs]
[singer] ♪ I'm frustrated ♪
♪ Infrastructure got me on another plane ♪
♪ Come here, baby ♪
♪ It's too late ♪
♪ To ask my driver to turn his ass around ♪
♪ I guess I'm stuck arriving looking like a fool ♪
[phone chimes]
♪ I guess I'm stuck accessorizing ♪
♪ Your eyes are mesmerizing ♪
♪ I'm up here hypnotized and ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, I guess I gotta get this right ♪♪
What did I expect?
That she was just gonna text something
or suddenly show up and say goodbye?
I'm so stupid.
But honestly, have a nice vacation.
Like, why is she acting like this is some quick trip?
- Camille. - What?
It's okay that you're still hoping she shows up.
It's okay.
Thank you.
I got you, mm?
You know I've got you.
Thank you for being everything she wasn't.
Next.
- Destination? [Ian] Paris.
Yes. Paris.
It's gonna be an amazing adventure.
Wait till you see what I got planned for you.
Ooh, yikes.
What's "ooh, yikes?"
His passport expires in 5 1/2 months.
Okay, well, I'll renew it in the mail.
Mm, can't send you out of the country
with a passport that expires so soon without a visa.
Do you have a visa?
- You said you didn't need one. - Call me crazy,
but I thought a expiration date means an expiration date.
Okay, so what do we do now?
We have to be on that flight. I gotta be in Paris by Monday.
Look, guys, I'm on your side.
I believe in the total annihilation
of national borders in favor of a self-governed,
stateless society,
absent of the arbitrary rule of law.
[softly] The fuck is that?
But you have to renew your passport.
[singer] ♪ I know that it gets a little crazy ♪
♪ But I'm patient ♪
Man, this feels weird.
It's like our heart is missing.
- You're so corny. - Give me a break.
I keep thinking she gonna show up.
We could go to the airport and surprise her.
- We should. - Driver could take us.
Did you literally just call him "driver?"
Yo, we said goodbye to her
like ten separate times just today.
And we did promise her a clean break the last time.
I mean, but who do we go to for advice now?
- Yeah. - Hello, me, obviously.
I am ready to step up to be Camille 2.0.
I have on my listening hair.
Okay, New Camille.
So you guys know
that I'm miserable in this job, right?
Oh, yes, we do. Oh, we do.
Tye, that's rude.
Bitch, no one told you to take that boring-ass job.
Hey, well, I see Ian going and chasing his dream,
and I'm a little jealous.
I mean, should I be doing that too?
I mean, is it crazy to just make a sudden change like that?
Yo, I feel you.
Man, I'm going through the same thing.
Melissa asked me to move in with her.
Oh, my God, that's amazing.
Oh, yay. Love.
But how can I commit to something
without closing the door?
On what? What door?
Nothing. [strained laugh]
I mean... should she quit?
Should I move in?
Um, hello, New Camille?
Huh? I don't give a shit.
Power 105 is not playing my single.
That's what we should be talking about.
Boring bitches.
- We're on our own. - Yup.
[Quinn] So channeling Camille,
I say let's do the thing we are most afraid of.
No matter the risk.
[mellow hip-hop music]
♪ ♪
[line ringing]
[Brandon] Hello?
Hello?
[phone clicks]
Twice in a day. What's going on?
Well, Mom, I called you over here
because I wanted to let you know that I...
quit my job.
You what?
- I quit. - After I left?
I had to. I'm sorry.
I was miserable.
I'm--I'm stunned. Did you get another job?
No, not yet, but I saved up some money.
So I'll be okay for a while.
Why'd you quit without another job?
Because I wanna start my own business.
No, no.
Mom, yes. No, yes.
Yes. Look, I get it.
The reason why you love me is because you got a chance
to just brag about me finally to all of your friends
about my Chase VP job and my nice boyfriend.
But, Mummy, I hated that job.
It's not my calling.
Shame on you.
And for the record,
I love everything about you.
You are my child,
and I liked that job or any job
because you were supporting yourself.
You were earning your own money.
You will forgive me for pointing out the obvious irony
that you would lecture me about earning my own money?
It is because I rely on your father for money
that I was so proud.
I know what this dynamic does.
I resent him. He resents me.
We love each other,
but the money is always there.
And now that is how it will be with us.
Mom, no.
I have a business plan and also seed money.
Quinn, I have watched your father go through this
before things took off.
You need a lot of money to start a business.
And when things get tough, you will come back to us.
And at that point, things will change.
Well,
when my gym for children is successful,
I will accept your apology.
And when you come asking for money,
I will accept yours.
[pensive synth music]
♪ ♪
[Angie] Stephen! Hello?
You not gonna take my calls?
The fuck?
- I can see you. - Whatever.
I'm sorry I couldn't return your calls
while dealing with the entire dissolution of my division.
Yo, hold up. Dissolution?
The division is shutting down.
I know the definition. Why haven't I heard about this?
Read the news. We're going through a merger.
The Shade Room is on high alert coverage
of Tamar Braxton getting fired from The Real.
Nothing about here.
So who's my new point person?
They're only keeping a few select artists.
Bitch. [chuckles]
I'm select.
You're not, Angie.
You don't have a deal anymore.
Fuck you mean?
What happened to me being the voice of a generation?
What happened to us showing dark-skinned girls
that it's okay to have Beyoncé careers?
- It's over, Angie. - No!
"Flow Into You" is about to hit.
You said yourself that I wrote that song with my soul.
We gotta... [scoffs]
We gotta finish the album!
There is no album. Nothing's gonna hit.
Maybe you shouldn't have told our A&R guy
he didn't know what the fuck he was talking about
and released a single you didn't write but tested better.
No one is playing "Flow Into You"
because no one likes it.
Release the other then. Get it--get it going.
No one's sinking another penny into you,
which reminds me.
You need to be out the townhouse by the end of the day.
- My townhouse. [Stephen] No.
The company's townhouse, and you're out.
[dramatic music]
♪ And I am tell... ♪♪
No. Don't make me call security.
Y'all asses can afford security now.
[scoffs]
You a liar.
You wait till I blast your ass in my memoir.
♪ Tear down the mountains ♪
♪ Yeah, scream and shout ♪
- Get off from me! - Angie, what's wrong with you?
Get off of me!
[somber music]
[singer] ♪ Hmm, still stuck in... ♪
I can wait for you while you clear out your stuff
and then drop you off wherever you want.
[singer] ♪ Oh just ♪
♪ Trying to be chosen ♪
♪ Mm ♪
[vomits]
Hello? Some of us live here.
[singer] ♪ Back to the, still trying to get it... ♪
When we move in together,
we're still doing laundry separate
because this is too much folding for me.
What's going on with you?
There's something I have to...
[sighs] I've never told anyone this.
You're scaring me.
No, no, no, nothing scary.
Just moving in,
and why it can't happen right away.
Oh.
I have to let go of an old life
before I can jump into a new one.
I'm even more confused.
Mel... [sighs]
I'm...
technically...
married.
You...what?
I know. I know.
Even my girls don't know this.
Before college,
I was still in Georgia and I didn't want to be,
and I was gay, and I didn't want to be.
His name is Brandon...
- His name? - Yes.
- Oh, great. - It's dumb now, but...
I didn't know any other lesbians.
I didn't think that was even an option.
And he was like my best friend through high school.
And one day we were hanging out and we made out.
Our first kiss... [scoffs]
I didn't know what it was supposed to feel like,
so I didn't know it felt so...
nothing.
And it was like I was sitting on the other side of the room,
watching myself kissing this guy,
thinking, "He's nice enough."
We could get married and I could be normal.
And all this shit I was feeling about women would...
I don't know, I'd get over it.
But of course, that's not how it works.
Things just got more and more intense.
And I wanted to tell him.
I tried. I tried like a million times.
But he was so sweet.
And all he talked about was our future
and all that we could do.
I couldn't stand to hurt him.
So you just ran away.
And never looked back.
And you didn't think just vanishing would hurt him?
I know. I know.
See, this is why I never told this story to anyone,
but I love you.
And--and I want to be honest so that we can move forward.
[scoffs] I'm sorry, Tye.
This is about 100 kinds of fucked up.
I mean, you kept this from me? All this time?
I felt guilty for so long.
Oh, but not guilty enough to actually
do anything about it.
That is so beyond selfish.
And what happens if you freak out here, huh?
Decide you're in the wrong life again?
Will I wake up and you're gone?
Baby, no, that...
that would literally never happen.
Yeah, I bet your husband thought the same thing.
I...
Yeah, I don't, um... I need a timeout.
Timeout, like-- like, for now, or...
Mm-mm, I gotta go.
Please, don't do this.
[pensive beat]
♪ ♪
[screams]
This is taking forever.
Yep.
So what, you're just gonna stay mad at me?
No, I'm--I'm fine. I'm just tired.
All right. Well, I can handle this alone.
Why don't you--why don't you go home and get some sleep?
We packed up all the bedding.
And the subletter will be there in the morning,
and it would just be weird for me to be there.
All right, well, look, if the subletter does show up,
just let him know that we're leaving as soon
as we get this passport thing handled, all right?
He'll understand. Plans change.
No, Ian, plans don't change.
People fuck up, and that changes plans.
You're totally right, Camille,
but I've never heard of something like this.
I mean, why have an expiration date if it was not real?
You know, one Google search could've told you this.
All right, but not for nothing.
I mean, you didn't know.
Why is it up to me? Always?
Why do I have to be the responsible one?
So everybody else gets to change plans?
You know, my whole life,
I've had to deal with my mother constantly changing plans
without any consideration about how I felt.
- Just breathe. - I don't wanna breathe.
I wanna stick to the fucking plan.
Except here I am suddenly changing my whole career plan.
Fuck, am I my mother?
Camille, no one is your mother but your mother.
What if that passport had been our child
that you forgot to pick up from school
because you have a change of plans?
- Oh, so we have children now? - I don't know, Ian, do we?
Or is social services about to take them
because you changed the plans?
Whoa, Camille.
I mean, where are we even staying?
We're staying with the host family, you know that.
- Yeah, but for how long? - Just--
How long are we in someone's guest room?
And that chef that you're studying under--
is he even guaranteeing you a job?
All right, you're spiraling now.
Yes, of course, I'm spiraling, 'cause I can't take
this fly-by-night shit.
[clerk] Next. - [sighs]
Hi. Here you go.
- You want this expedited? - Yes, ma'am.
I have a flight.
Had a flight. We missed it.
'Cause you know, plans change.
Who you telling? [chuckles]
That'll be $1,000.12 for overnight renewal.
$1,000?
I'm sorry, I had no idea it was gonna be this expensive.
That's another Google-that-shit moment.
Just give the lady your credit card.
- Shit's maxed out. - What?
- What have you been buying? - [chuckles]
Okay, you know what? It's okay.
I will take care of it as usual.
Put 600 on this card and put the remainder on this card.
And if it doesn't go through, you can put 250 on this one
and put the remainder on this one.
[soft dramatic music]
And the thing with decisions, the really big ones,
is they can be so overwhelming
that sometimes they take an entire lifetime to make.
[Robin] History is littered with women
who have to start over because they made sacrifices
for a man's dream.
[Camille] Or sometimes it takes a day.
Hey, good walk?
Here I am suddenly changing my whole career plan.
Fuck, am I my mother?
And sometimes, because of your lifetime...
I can't take this fly-by-night shit.
Because of the day...
And I regret it so much.
[Camille] You decide...
The taxi is about two minutes away.
I'm not going.
[Camille] In an instant. - What?
I'm sorry.
I know this is...
I just can't.
Hold on, hold on. Whoa, whoa, baby...
No, I was up all last night, and I--
the passport thing is the best thing that happened to us
because it gave me a chance to think about it--
like, to really think it through.
Hold on, what--
so the months that you took to decide to go,
that wasn't-- that wasn't thinking,
but you had one little sleepless stressful night?
Don't do that.
I know how this sounds.
I feel like I'm going back into chaos
because that's what I'm used to.
Baby, Paris isn't chaos.
Not for you.
I mean, you're chasing your dream.
But where am I in that?
You are the biggest part of my dream, Camille.
You're the biggest part of my...
But to just go,
to leave the life that I want here--
my friends, my work, my block?
That's not me.
So even if I was to go, you wouldn't have me.
And I don't know, maybe Paris and me would be great,
but I can't just leave everything
for some unknown future with you.
You have to do what's best for you,
but I have to do what's best for me.
Yeah, well, what about what's right for us?
You know what's crazy, is us...
I mean, the us that we were
ended when you decided to blow up the life
that we were building here.
I need stability, Ian.
Oh, what the fuck? So you're...
you're not coming and you're breaking up with me?
And it's killing me,
but long distance and Skypes and holidays,
whenever we can afford a ticket,
it would just be keeping us half in something.
And us...
and we...
I think we deserve more than that.
So chase your dream.
I really hope it works out for you.
You're breaking my heart, Camille.
I'm breaking my own.
[♪ Emanuel: "Need You"]
♪ ♪
♪ I feel I just fell in love with you ♪
♪ Like a song on the radio ♪
♪ Ooh, babe ♪
♪ I, I don't ♪
♪ I don't want that same cold loving ♪
♪ That I had before ♪
♪ Are you different? ♪
♪ You taste different you feel different ♪
♪ It seems different ♪
♪ I think I'm in love ♪
♪ I feel I need you to breathe ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I feel I need you to breathe ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
[sighs]
♪ If the love is pure ♪
♪ If the love is pure, babe ♪
♪ Should we take some more? ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ If the love is pure ♪
♪ If the love is pure, baby ♪
♪ Should we take some more? ♪
♪ I feel I need you to breathe ♪
♪ Baby ♪
♪ I feel I need you to breathe ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I feel I need you to breathe ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ If the love is pure ♪
♪ I feel I need you to breathe ♪
♪ Should we take some more? ♪
♪ Should we take some more? ♪♪