♪ It's not up to us
♪ To decide who lives and who dies ♪
♪ Not on us to decide
♪ You can't run, can't run
♪ Blood is thicker than water, especially under pressure ♪
♪ And when it's gone, you remember nothing lasts forever ♪
♪ But in a perfect world, we all get what we deserve ♪
♪ The reaper call us all home after time served ♪
♪ It's not up to us
♪ To decide who lives and who dies ♪
♪ Not on us to decide
♪ You can't run, can't run
♪♪
♪ It's not up to us
♪ To decide who lives and who dies ♪
♪ Not on us to decide
♪ You can't run, can't run
♪ Righteous or reckless
♪ When the reaper come, you can't run, can't run ♪
♪ Healthful or hopeless
♪ When the reaper come, you can't run, can't run ♪
♪ It's not up to us
♪ To decide who lives and who dies ♪
♪ Not on us to decide
♪ You can't run, can't run
♪♪
♪ It's not up to us...
[ Gunshots ]
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
[ Gasping ]
We're back in this room.
But --
But he shot us!
-He shot us! -No, no, no.
They were rubber bullets.
You're o-- You're bruised, not shot.
Rubber bullets?
Yeah. See?
Oh, my God.
We're never getting out of here, are we?
No, don't say that.
We're gonna get out of here real soon.
[ Sighs ]
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
[ Sighs ]
KEENYA: [ Groans ]
ERIC: Come on. Get up.
Come on.
Don't be afraid. You're with me.
Where are we?
You're safe. That's all you need to know.
[ Sighs ]
[ Objects clatter ]
Is it cool if I examine you?
-Yeah. Yeah. -Alright.
Hold still.
How many fingers I got?
Three.
ERIC: Good.
Are you a doctor?
ERIC: No, I am not.
Ready?
Aah, this hurts like hell.
I know. I know. Trust me.
Just breathe.
[ Groans ]
Okay, you're good.
Why do you have all these -- these medical tools?
The medical world, it, uh, interests me.
Did you go to medical school?
[ Chuckles ]
Do I look like a fucking doctor?
Yeah. [ Chuckles ]
My sister did, not me.
Oh, okay.
Look, what can you tell me about the auction?
Oh.
Uh...
I need you to trust me right now, okay?
Let me know what I need to know.
[ Sighs ]
Look, I-I don't know -- I don't know what you expect me to say.
I mean, I thank you for taking care of me,
and I-I appreciate everything that you've -- you've done
and that you're doing, but I -- [ Sighs ]
I got to go. I can't. I have to go home.
Hey, hey, hey, you alright?
-See? -[ Sighs ]
-Yo. -[ Sighs ]
If I take you home, they'll kill you.
[ Groans ]
You got to stay here for now. Just lay low, alright?
Okay.
-Okay. -I can defuse this whole shit
if you just let me know what I need to know.
Then you can go home, alright?
Okay.
[ Sobs ]
You okay?
Yeah, I j-- I just need to rest.
Yeah, there's a cot upstairs.
-Okay. -You got it?
KEENYA: Yeah, I got it from here.
Yo, how many fingers I got?
Six.
Oh, you got jokes.
-KEENYA: [ Chuckles ] -Okay.
Your ass was just falling, now you got jokes.
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
Hey.
[ Sighs ]
What are you doing?
Working out, same as usual.
[ Groans ]
If -- If you ever go out with Tiffany again,
I will break your neck. Or hers.
[ Chuckles ] Like you would ever do such a thing.
Try me.
Look, we aren't gonna have a chance at a real relationship
unless we let go of the past.
A real relationship.
What is that even supposed to look like?
A relationship of trust and honesty.
I should have told you about having coffee with Tiffany.
What was it?
Was it payback or something?
Because if it was, I don't have time for these games.
No, it wasn't payback.
It was just coffee, like I said.
You know, I don't like her.
I don't even know why she's here.
CINTRON: Yeah, I don't know either.
Yeah, well...
I got to go, so...
You gonna come run?
Trust and honesty.
Okay? We'll work on it.
That's all I can say for now.
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
[ Music stops ]
Good morning.
Morning.
Why don't we spend the day together?
I don't have to go to work until later and --
What's really going on here?
What do you mean?
Why did you -- Why did you -- What did you --
What did you come here for?
Why did you help bury the girl?
What do you mean why?
I'm not --
I'm not stupid.
You want something from me.
You're gonna hang this whole situation over my head
and try to manipulate me into doing something for you.
Why would I do that?
My hands are dirty too now.
I like you, Brian.
Nobody likes me.
Especially not to the point
where they help me bury a dead body.
TIFFANY: Not true.
I bring life into the world...
and now I have put death into the ground.
It's poetic.
BRIAN: You need to go.
TIFFANY: Why?
Because I know crazy when I see it.
So do I.
That's why...
I think...
♪ Who bad? We bad
We're perfect for each other.
♪♪
♪ Who bad? We bad
TIFFANY: [ Laughs ]
Pause.
[ Mumbles indistinctly ]
Why would the government seize a building and then condemn it,
but leave it standing for 40 years?
And why the hell was Robin there?
So that's what we need to do about that.
-[ Cellphone rings ] -Hold on.
Hey, Tanya.
Hey. I need some information
on that school that burned down the other night.
The one where Robin's phone was last pinged.
You find something?
Maybe.
I just need to know why was Robin even there?
Okay. Hold on.
It's Tanya.
She said that she needs to ask you
something about the school that burned down.
NOTACOP: Okay.
Mrs. Minter?
I need the name of the school.
Oh, sure.
Can you give me the name of
the folder with the school burned down?
Hold on a sec.
Okay.
Uh, the name was Obedience Academy.
Obedience?
Now, that's an odd name.
That's what it says.
Alright, well, have Ryan text me the address.
And I'll give him a call back
as soon as I've done a property trace.
Could be a while.
Obedience.
[ Mid-tempo music plays ]
[ Thumping ]
[ News fanfare plays ]
REPORTER: Up next, mysterious school burning.
Firefighters are still investigating
why a condemned school burned to the ground over the weekend.
Arson is suspected.
MOTHER: Love and Obedience!
[ Dramatic music plays ]
Love and Obedience!
That wasn't love!
[ Glass shatters ]
DeANDRE: Robin, are you alright?
[ Crying ]
DeANDRE: What are you doing down there?
You're gonna cut yourself.
Oh, Jesus. What happened?
[ Crying ]
Okay. Okay.
Hey, I'm here.
I'm here. It's okay.
-It's okay. -It's not okay.
It's not okay.
What's not okay? Talk to me.
Everything.
Mother told us she loved us.
But that was not love.
No, no, you're right. It wasn't.
God.
And all these years, I just --
I don't know what love feels like.
Okay, come here. Come here.
Come here. Come here, come here, come here.
Hey.
Right here.
Love feels like us.
But you said you did not love me.
Okay, I should have never said that.
'Cause it's not true.
Robin.
I love you.
Love feels like us.
Do you feel it?
[ Romantic music plays ]
♪ Tell me what you need, tell me what you like ♪
♪ I'll serve it to you
♪ Only to you
♪ Tell me what you need, tell me what you like ♪
♪ I'll serve it to you
♪ Only to you
♪ Who told you that?
♪ That ain't right
♪ You been through enough
♪ You're a special gift
♪ You the shit
♪ They can't tell you nothing
♪ Wonder why they quit the usual undermine ♪
♪ Your inner jewels and your ambiance ♪
♪ I'm just saying
♪ I'm just saying, yeah
♪ Take your time, take your time ♪
♪ Skin on skin on top of mine
♪ Inner thoughts intertwined
♪ You won't be alone tonight
♪ Let me fix you, be your doctor ♪
♪ Lay your problems at the altar ♪
♪ And give you all that I offer ♪
♪ Give you all that I offer, yeah ♪
♪ Ain't no way around it
♪ Don't forget your crown
♪ Or you'll set the time when you walk in ♪
♪ We could talk about it
♪ I'mma hold you down when
♪ You're feeling like the water's closing in on you ♪
♪ Oh, whoa, fill you up and kiss your body ♪
♪ Oh, whoa, I know it's high but you surviving ♪
♪ Oh, whoa, our constellations in alignment ♪
KEENYA: Good morning.
Good morning.
How'd you sleep?
Uh, not great.
That cot.
I know. It's not the most comfortable cot,
but it'll -- it'll work.
Right. Where did you sleep?
Slept down here. Actually, right there.
Oh.
That looks uncomfortable. [ Chuckles ]
I mean, I'm used to it now.
Hey, your face -- it looks --
it looks better, like it's healed.
Oh, I don't even know what I look like.
Hey.
You're beautiful.
Thank you.
Um, do you think that we can, like, go to my apartment?
Just -- Just so I can, like, you know, take a shower,
-just get some clothes -- -Look, there's a shower upstairs
if you need to take a shower.
But I don't have anything here.
Look, there's a chest upstairs.
All the clothes are new, okay?
It's my sister's shit. Y'all about the same size.
Okay, yeah, but I-I need a toothbrush
and, you know, underclothes.
There's a toothbrush in there, there's underwear.
Look, there's even tampons up in that --
Alright, okay, okay. I get it.
Okay, well, um...
I'll be back in maybe, like, I don't know, 20 minutes.
Okay. I'll be here.
Okay.
[ Chuckles ]
I need you to take these papers and go over everything.
And if you find anything, you get right back to me.
Those anonymous tips that we're getting
aren't giving us any leads to Laylah.
Go through this paperwork, see if you find anything.
-Get back to me. -I'll stay on it.
Alright, check out these papers.
Alright. I'mma go.
RYAN: How can I help you?
Giant's grandfather keeps calling.
He says he never came home last night.
Yeah, well, I don't know what to tell him.
I released Giant.
I know, I'm just letting you know the situation.
Ah. Well, consider it told.
What do you want, Lopez?
You have no concern that Giant was released last night
and never showed up to his home?
Yeah, no.
I'm concerned about my daughter who didn't come home!
My daughter who was taken!
I can give two shits about Giant!
Hey, everyone's trying to find Laylah!
-Yeah, really? -Yeah.
If you were, you wouldn't be fucking standing here
asking me about Giant!
I don't give a fuck about Giant!
-Those are my feelings. -You need to --
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're thinking like a father and not like a cop.
We can't find Laylah and build a case with you being unhinged.
Yeah, I am thinking like a father
because that's what I am first of all and foremost!
You're off the case. We just can't risk it.
What? You can't me take me off the case of my own daughter.
And if you don't obey my orders, I will put you on desk duty.
With all due respect, Chief...
[ Dramatic music plays ]
Nobody's gonna tell me I can't look for my daughter.
Shit.
[ Object clatters ]
Immunity for the twins.
Alright.
Has something happened?
The chief took me off the case.
What? Why would he do that?
He said I was unhinged,
so I gave him my gun and my badge.
It's okay. We don't need them. I'll find her myself.
TANYA: I don't know if that's a good idea.
-We need them. -No, we don't.
What I need is my daughter back.
-Look, I understand that, but -- -No, you don't.
She's not really your child.
I didn't mean that. I'm sorry.
Me too.
[ Cellphone chimes ]
I got to go.
-Wait, I need -- -It's got to wait.
[ Sighs ] Ryan.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Door creaks ]
[ Romantic music plays ]
D, it's me.
Yeah.
Meet me over at the school.
I want to see for myself
that that motherfucker burned to the ground.
Okay.
TIFFANY: What?
-DANI: There you go. -TIFFANY: Thank you.
Is there anything else I can get for you all?
That's it for me. Thank you.
I need a refill. You see it. Thanks.
-DANI: Right away. -Sorry.
What?
I'm still confused about what it is we're doing.
[ Chuckles ]
Isn't that some silly thing
women usually say when they want a relationship?
[ Chuckles ]
You of all people know I'm all man.
And a relationship is not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the relationship we have
with one another.
What are we?
Like, Bonnie and Clyde?
Or what?
I need to be able to trust you.
Like you trust me.
And who says that I trust you?
I do.
Seeing as how I know where your victim's bones are buried,
and you're sitting here eating sushi.
Why don't you say it loud enough for everyone to hear!
Listen, I'm done with secrets,
but that one is safe with me.
When are you gonna tell me about
these other "secrets" you've been keeping?
Well, if I told you, it wouldn't be a secret anymore.
Cintron and I have a son.
He's six years old.
And?
And Cintron doesn't know about him.
Cintron and I got drunk one night
and had sex while we were in college,
while he was still in a relationship with Erica,
-and a child was the result. -Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda.
This secret will hurt Erica's feelings,
but destroy her? No.
She's like a cockroach after a nuclear war.
They always survive.
Besides,
Erica loves the kids.
Tell me why do you want to destroy Erica so badly.
Because she's evil and selfish.
She was supposed to save my Mama.
Instead, she let her burn in a fire.
She killed her.
Erica only cares about her own happiness.
No one else's.
Damn right.
She thinks that I've forgotten, but...
I haven't.
I won't.
She did the same thing to me.
I was in love with my professor, and he loved me.
Erica killed him with potassium chloride.
The hell you just say?
Yeah.
When I saw her on the news wanted for murder,
I thought, "She's at it again."
[ Chuckles ]
I knew her diabolical ass wasn't new to this.
She kills too damn easily.
The night Augustine died,
he and I got into an argument.
I didn't like the one-on-one sessions
he was having with the other girls on campus.
Especially the session he was having with Erica that night.
I asked Erica not to go,
but she told me that I was overreacting,
that she had to go.
That she needed the session.
Like this bitch doesn't have a photographic memory
with perfect grades!
What did she need a session for?
Anyway, Cintron came over thinking that she was there.
I was crying.
He consoled me.
I wanted to get back at Erica
for spending time with Augustine,
so...
let's just say one thing led to another.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
I ended up feeling guilty about sleeping with Cintron
and arguing with Augustine,
so I went to his lab to mend things.
I saw Erica leaving.
She didn't see me.
When I got to Augustine's lab,
he was dead on the floor.
So when I get back to the dorm room,
I found a vial of potassium chloride in Erica's backpack.
Why didn't you go to the police?
I did, unbeknownst to Erica.
There's no proof.
It's untraceable.
Because it shows up as a heart attack.
TIFFANY: Exactly.
So there was one detective that questioned Erica.
But Cintron gave her an alibi.
He told him that she was with him all night.
He lied.
He was with me.
So now you want to kill Erica
because she killed the man you loved.
No.
I'm gonna take everything that she took from me.
Immunity for you and Erica.
Thank you.
What happened with Giant?
What you mean, what happened to him?
I picked him up and I got answers.
Where is he now?
Don't worry about all that.
What do you mean, don't worry about it?
I mean don't worry about all that.
I'm not worried.
Frankly, I don't give a fuck where he is.
But if he doesn't show up soon,
they're gonna start to investigate.
Luckily, I got immunity, right?
Yeah.
Who's that?
Yo.
This is Keenya.
She worked at that bar we took Sean out of.
Oh, yeah. I remember your face
from when I first walked in the bar.
Yo, Giant said there's an auction trafficking virgins.
Wait a minute. Are you telling me
they're gonna auction my daughter off?
He won't get a chance, alright?
We'll infiltrate them
and take her out of there before they have a chance to.
So, it's a silent masquerade auction.
And there's a secret barcode that they use
that gets them right in, no questions asked.
And where is this auction?
I don't know. It's a new location every year.
Giant said the Bison Mansion.
And the barcode?
I just know that
they scan it on their phones as soon as they hit the door.
Yo, Sean's phone.
He probably had the barcode on him.
-Yeah. I'm already on it. -ERIC: Word.
KEENYA: They usually just have, like,
a few girls presented to the buyers.
And the rest of them just bid anonymously on bidding software.
-That's all I know. -Okay.
Thank you.
I'm going to find my daughter.
[ Sighs ] Fuck.
Now, why would the person who put me in jail for life
be coming to see me?
TANYA: Jason.
What do you want?
Where is your father?
Why would I tell you?
You're gonna tell me
because my stepdaughter was taken
by a known child trafficker.
And in my search to find them,
I found your father's name.
He owned a condemned building,
a school that burned to the ground.
And it also happens to be the last location
of the woman that took her, Robin Cross.
Robin.
TANYA: So you know her?
Yeah, you don't forget a person like Robin.
How do you know her?
I met her when I started working for my father.
She grew up at the school.
What do you mean she grew up at the school?
The school has been condemned for over 40 years.
[ Scoffs ] Listen to this gullible shit.
You really have no clue, do you?
Everything's not always as it appears to be.
Yeah, see, the school was condemned on paper,
but it was filled with children who had been taken.
Forced to live there, being groomed.
Being groomed for what?
To be obedient to their buyers.
I can't believe what I'm -- what I'm hearing.
Believe it.
There's no way an official would allow this to happen.
So you don't think that the higher-ups are involved?
Let me explain something to you, alright?
Somebody in the political office
wants that school hidden and the trafficking.
Well, I need names.
I can't do that.
I start talking, and I got no protection in here.
Well, I have to find your father and my daughter.
Well, then, get me out of here
and I'll tell you where he is.
I can't do that. You murdered a woman.
No, I murdered a monster! Alright?
That's Mother's daughter, okay?
That's who that was. A predator.
That's why I killed her.
Who is Mother?
She's the person who runs the academy.
Well, the academy is gone.
It's burned to the ground.
Where would Robin have taken her?
Good!
I'm happy it burned.
And I hope that they all rot in hell.
Now get me out of here!
Get me out of here, alright?
I don't belong in here! Get me out of here!
-Calm down! Calm down! -Come on!
-JASON: Get me out of here! -GUARD: You lost your damn mind!
Bitch, you just had to take him, didn't you?
Didn't you?!
You're drunk.
Probably seeing two of me right now.
You, I see clearly.
You pull that trigger and probably miss.
But I'll take that gun from you and put a bullet in your head.
[ Sighs ]
What difference does it make?
He's always loved you.
It's never been me.
He's always been in love with you!
Bitch, be gone when I get back.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
-Hey. -Hey.
Is my husband here?
No, and I don't know where he is.
Can you ride with me to the school that burned down?
Did you find something out?
I'll fill you in on the way.
-Let's go. -Okay.
It's been a long day, Dr. Cross.
Mm. That it has, Rach.
I'm so ready to go home.
Yeah, I got to go meet up with my brother.
Mm, with his fine self.
[ Laughs ]
You not gonna make me late with your shenanigans, okay?
Yeah, actually, I can't be late either.
ERICA: Yeah? For what?
My live vlog on sexuality over 50.
What?
-Yes. I didn't tell you? -ERICA: No.
I have a sexuality vlog for women over 50.
-1,500 followers. -Oh, alright.
Tonight I'm gonna be talking about vaginal dryness.
You know, if you're having issues in that area,
I can prescribe you something.
No, I'm good.
Yoni steaming works wonders. Mm-hmm.
Now, it does get kind of hot under those body wraps,
but I'm telling you, running rivers.
-Really? -RACHEL: Mm-hmm.
You should tune in.
I should.
-Hey. -Hey.
You might want to get deaths arranged
and plan the murder now
because Dr. Tiffany and Dr. Cintron
have a 6-year-old you should know about.
[ Laughs ]
And that's on Mary had a baby lamb.
RACHEL: Oh, unh-unh.
What the hell is going on around here?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
What? Am I supposed to be scared of you?
You should.
[ Breathes shakily ]
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Crying ]
[ Music stops ]
Man, what the fuck you want, man?
Never did know when to shut the fuck up.
JASON: [ Gasps ]
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Car door opens ]
What's wrong?
Who do I got to fuck up? What's going on?
I don't need you to fuck up anyone.
ERIC: Then what's up?
Cintron has a son by Tiffany.
Ohh.
Damn.
I knew he fucked her in college.
I knew he fucked her in college!
You talk to him yet?
No, I can't talk to him right now.
I don't want to slit his fucking throat.
You know how I am.
Yeah, I do.
Why do men pretend to be something that they're not?
-Hmm? -Yo, don't look at me like that.
I don't pretend to be nothing besides me, alright?
I don't do shit like that.
They just pretend to be this false person.
This fucking false person. You know why?
It's because they -- they fucking know that --
that they can't be the man that they pretend to be
because who they truly are is a fucking idiot.
-That's deep. -ERICA: No, it's facts.
It's true.
They create this false person for you to love
because they know who they really are
is pieces of shit that you don't really need to love anyways.
Are you done?
Look, we'll figure out what to do with Cintron later.
I got something that'll make you feel better.
Come on.
-Come on. -What is it?
Come on.
ERICA: Where are we?
Jordain's luxury car lot.
Why are we here?
Because the owner is one of the buyers at the auction.
Look.
Oh, my gosh, Eric, this is a grenade.
Throw it.
I-I don't want to throw this.
Get on. Throw that motherfucking grenade.
There you go.
-[ Sighs ] -It's live.
Okay.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
This was a school full of kidnapped children.
How can you be sure?
I'm sure.
There were no bodies found once the smoke cleared.
No one even knew the school was back here.
Robin's phone last pinged here
because she grew up here.
Come again?
Robin Cross was a kidnapped child herself.
She grew up in this school,
and then she became a kidnapper herself.
I mean, it's sad really.
She killed Candice. She snatches children.
She deserves to be put under the jail.
Yeah, you're right about that one.
Let's go check it out.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
That's Robin.
Got you, bitch!
♪ Pull up in the drop top
♪ Get mine off the top in the yacht, drop the anchor ♪
♪ My white Jew my new banker
♪ My new boo from Sri Lanka
♪ That new recruit, he gonna blank it ♪
♪ Niggas steal the drip, cover shit, we goin' psycho ♪
♪ From DC, we gonna be at this bank ♪
♪ So G&T, pulling up like a tiger ♪
♪ Saran Wrap on the Amtrak
♪ He all capped, got his man whacked ♪
♪ See the lead stepping nigga staying back ♪
♪ Track doing numbers like Nasdaq ♪
♪ Sold a brick, pay me on the Cash App ♪
♪ Flights overseas and I'm having flashbacks ♪
♪ '98, nigga, had the glass flask ♪
♪ We smokin' hash for y'all hashtags ♪
♪ Two blocks like Boardwalk and Park Place ♪