Please stop.
My father taught us…
God rest his soul.
If you wanted the truth from somebody,
you beat him almost to death
before you start asking questions.
It helps you understand how fucking serious we are.
Just take what you want.
Now, where did you get this watch?
That watch is mine.
-Okay.
No, no, no! Savvas.
I'll beat the fuck out of him!
Let the motherfucker speak!
-To hell with him! -Come on.
Fuck!
This watch belonged to my brother.
It was a gift.
It was a gift!
Either this kologliftis is lying οr fucking Carlton is lying.
Oh, God, no.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
You know Carlton?
-Okay, kid. -I told you.
Let's get Carlton in here
and find out what he knows.
Maybe his brother's in on it too.
If we need to, we'll fucking kill 'em all.
Oh, we on Gene live, baby.
I wanna add somebody. One sec, guys. One quick sec.
Ari's his name.
Ari's your fat brother.
The one who ended up in the dumpster.
He begged for mercy.
He begged.
Son of a bitch. He's begging us to kill him.
That's not gonna happen tonight. So, get it out of your heads…
He's now referred to as "Behind the Scenes Gene."
It's big!
"Behind the Scenes Gene."
Hey, come inside.
Come on.
Oh, shit.
Did he say anything?
Look at him.
He confessed to killing our brother.
Hey.
Thank you for helping us find him.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Look, Ari was my friend. You know?
Uh…
Since y'all done what y'all did, can we just get outta here, man?
Carlton's right. We should leave.
Should we leave him or take him with us?
Leave the motherfucker, to hell with him.
Grab his portofóli and leave everything else.
Where is it?
How should I know? Open your bloody eyes.
Carlton.
How'd you find out how to find this guy?
Can we talk about this when we get out of this lot?
-Who told you? -Hey, hey, hey.
Calm down, kid.
Look, you already did the guy that did it, right?
The person who told me about this Gene guy,
he don't know nothin'.
He was just doing me a favor.
He did me a favor, and he did it. That's…
That's it. He's got nothing to do with this.
Who knows?
Oh, shi--
We're good. We're good.
Look, tonight you showed us you're not the person we thought you were.
Lazy and arrogant.
Tonight you showed us you're our brother's friend.
We appreciate that.
All right, we'll see you around, Carlton.
Wait. So you let your new piece of ass talk trash about me in front of my son?
Okay, don't…
First of all, don't call him that. He was joking. Chris took it wrong.
Mo, are we… Are we kidding?
You let this man talk trash about me in front of my son,
in the house that I bought you that you and my son live in?
That's a big fucking problem for me. 'Cause it's disrespectful.
-It's disrespectful! -That's enough.
You understand why he's wrong in what he did?
-It wasn't even like that. -Seriously!
He made a bad joke, he didn't even know Chris was there.
Yeah, I got it now. Really, in truth,
I don't give a fuck if he was trying to be funny.
Last I checked, only one of us get paid to be funny, that's me.
He don't get paid to make people laugh. I do!
So, it's disrespectful! That's what it is. It's disrespectful!
You know it is.
To tell me I disrespect you
when I've stood by your side more than anyone you've ever known
is straight bullshit.
I over-parent because you're too busy out there trying to conquer the world.
I'm just trying to have a life. Okay? The man made a mistake, that's it.
That's all.
Don't you ever disrespect me and try to call me a bad parent.
I never called you a bad parent.
All right.
I'm sorry.
I apologize.
Look.
I will make him apologize to Christian.
But don't ever question my parenting.
Maybe y'all can just come out to New York while I'm out there.
I think Christian would like that a lot.
Look, I would… I would never disrespect you.
I hear you.
We can talk more about it face-to-face.
Look, call, uh, Todd's assistant,
have them book the flights and shit. I gotta go.
Okay.
I love you.
I mean that. I'm not, um…
I'm not just saying that, that's never gonna change.
I love you too.
You do not need a set when the product you're selling is amazing.
And that's exactly what these mattresses are.
-Unbelievable. Dope.
Whatever words you can think of. Now here's the reality, people.
You don't wanna see me standing in Tahiti, or space, or a warehouse.
That's not what you want and it doesn't make sense.
So, what I want is what you want, for you to feel good and be better.
You want a good mattress so you can sleep comfortably.
Plymouth Mattresses has 'em.
So here comes the number and the logo. Go get you one!
That charity video and spending time with that fan last night
was such a great move.
It was excellent. It was angry, it was brilliant.
That's enough buttering up. You're gonna give him a big head.
We do have big news for you. I wanted everybody to be together for this.
-Oh, shit. -Are you ready?
-Yes. -Okay. This is the big news.
Alex? Go ahead and tell him.
The studio's talking about an Anti-Verse spin-off for your character.
Oh, shit. I'm in. I'm in.
-Whoo! -I am in. I'm in.
Oh! This is the thing. We've been waiting for this.
-Thank you. -Yes!
So, as soon as we get this birthday thing worked out for Christian,
we start in January--
No. No, no, no. I can't do that.
I told you, this divorce shit is weighing on Christian,
I gotta put some time in with him.
January don't work for me.
Right, but we've been working for January. Hemsworth's window is in January.
That's what we've been talking to the studio about.
Okay, but, I don't--
The studio needs the sequel out by next summer.
-So we're gonna have to start-- -I don't wanna cut you off.
But I'm clearly telling you why I can't do it.
I have to put time in with my son.
Real time in, so I can't do it until fall.
I don't think Hemsworth's gonna have a problem with that.
I hope so. But we need to think about a compromise.
Because we have a lot to protect now.
Okay. What we need to protect is me. Why do I have to tell you that, Todd?
If you don't understand that, what good are you to me? Tell me.
What good are you to me?
-My son is my priority.
Make the studio understand that.
If they don't, then I don't do the fucking movie.
It's that simple.
Hey, guys, someone's knocking at the door. Let us circle back to you.
Hold tight.
Pardon me, sir. These detectives would like to speak with you.
We'd like to talk to you about Gene Aubachon.
Gene Aubachon? Huh?
-What about him? -What's going on?
Okay, so, you dropped Gene off.
Did you have any contact with him after? Phone calls, texts, anything?
No, no, we dropped him off. Then me and Hersch went back to the hotel.
How does this fucking guy get murdered the night he's out
with the biggest star in Hollywood? What are the odds?
I'm gonna text my guy at TMZ just in case. I wanna get ahead of it.
Gene was alive when we left him.
Kid was with me. We should be good.
I can't believe this shit is happening, man.
We need to get the fuck out of Philadelphia.
If you're not gonna reopen,
we gotta start repossessing the kitchen equipment.
You know what pisses me off?
Everybody's concerned about themselves, don't nobody give a fuck about me!
You'll get your money.
Aw, shit. Oh, shit!
Grand jury testimony is to conclude--
I think the index for the fourth…
-Shit. -But your employees can---
Shitty-ass Car.
Are you okay?
Kid?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
You sure?
Yeah.
Hey, hey.
-Can we just--? -No. Sit.
Thank you.
So, um…
what happened to Gene?
He was brutally beaten in his motel room.
Why? Was it… Was it a robbery?
Robberies usually aren't as brutal as what happened to him.
This was personal.
He had every piece of your professional career in his car.
That's kind of creepy.
-Right? -I mean, yes and no.
This… This is…
This is common when dealing with these type of fans.
Gene was a good guy. Gene was, like, my biggest fan.
Every show, every tour, he was always there.
But you said you guys were friends, right?
You were together last night at a charity event?
Yeah. We were… We were…
Yes, but let me make this very clear, the reason why I took him to the event
was because earlier in the week, I was an asshole to him.
And-- Let me rephrase that.
Not an asshole, like an asshole.
It was-- I wasn't myself. All right?
I was a different version of myself, and I felt bad about that.
I wanted to take him somewhere, show him a good time,
just to kinda make up, you know, for that moment.
Man, that must have been quite a thrill for him, huh?
Yeah, I guess so.
Well, this is all very helpful information.
I wanted to participate,
I wanted to show you guys that I was more than willing to talk to you,
give you whatever it is you need, so you can rule me out of this.
Uh…
Rule you out? You were never ruled in.
This guy was mauled.
I mean, I think it's pretty safe to say that, uh…
…you're not a suspect.
-Thanks for coming down. -Yeah. Uh…
You got it.
It's crazy that he had all this stuff, though, man. It's my whole life.
Jesus Christ. Look at this.
It's an article from when I first started doing comedy.
I don't even have this article.
Well, if it wasn't part of a murder investigation, it'd be yours.
Um, before I go, just a question.
The motel, they didn't see anything or see anybody?
No. The motel doesn't have much of a security system outside of the office.
The type of people who use it don't wanna be recorded.
Fuck.
That's terrible.
Hmm.
Well. All right, thank you guys, man.
Hey. Would you mind signing something for the station?
Cool. Yeah.
-You want me to sign that? -Mm-hmm.
Wow.
-Um, to who? -To the 13th District, by the way.
If that's cool.
Hey, and keep your head on a swivel
just in case this is more about you than something random.
Will do. Thank you.
Man, I asked them to lock this down. Somebody leaked it.
I'm thinking we should move our flights up.
Get everybody out of Philly, huh?
No. I gotta see Carlton now.
It's like we're in an episode of Murder, She Wrote.
But the Black comedy world version.
I'm gonna talk to the studio. This will not fuck up our deal, but I--
We're gonna make sure.
Hey, Hersch.
-You wanna go to his place? -No. The restaurant.
You got it.
We can wait here for you. Okay?
It's gonna take a while.
This has gotta be the weirdest trip I've ever been on.
What happened, man?
What happened is, I did what needed to be done.
That's what happened.
Especially since you thinking you can get your fans to do
-whatever you want 'em to do. -He erased the video, C.
It wasn't just about erasing the video, K.
I realized that when detectives came to my door.
For a split second, I thought to myself, I was like, "Shit."
"That's why they're taking me in, they gotta know."
Then it dawned on me.
I realized you was right.
Even without the video, he would have brought danger to us.
I didn't want the dude to die, man.
But then I realized that he wasn't much different than Ari.
How so?
They both had something on us, K.
You protected me.
You protected us.
Thank you.
I mean it, C. Thank you.
What now?
I mean, with Ari's brothers. Are they good? Are we done?
Like, where does this put us?
No, we good. We good.
They got what they needed.
Feel like we got a fucking cloud over us, man, like we just cursed.
Cursed?
Man, you went on and became famous and rich.
There's a whole lotta people wished they was cursed like that.
It ain't what you think it is, man.
It's a lotta shit you don't know about, shit I ain't never tell you, C.
You know, I went years, man.
Years, I was fucking homeless.
People taking advantage of me because I was desperate.
Developed a goddamn addiction.
That shit lasted for I don't know for how long.
Then I finally get on my feet,
I finally get back to a place where feel like I got balance. I'm on a…
I'm on a fuckin' good path.
I wake up with a dead girl in my bed.
Well, it's over now.
It's over now.
Let's pay our respects to Gene, man.
R.I.P., your man, Gene.
R.I.P., Gene.
Thank you for giving me the second chance that you said I deserve.
You know, uh, I got one more confession to make.
I, uh…
I saw your movie.
That shit was funny.
I know you went to go see my movie, man.
What do you say, when I'm done with the East Coast leg of my tour, we, uh…
we get this place back open?
I'd like that.
Me too.
Oh, shit.
Dropped your goddamn phone.
Goddamn, man. You owe everybody money, huh?
I know you said stay calm until your brother leaves Philly,
but your ass can't call to check-in?
Hello? Carlton, fucking answer me!