Chanise confronts Mikal. Hope is ready for a life reset. Brianna decides to put the cougar lifestyle behind her.
SEASON 1: EPISODE 8 (Moving On)
Chanise confronts Mikal. Hope is ready for a life reset. Brianna decides to put the cougar lifestyle behind her.
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Episode Eight: “MOVING ON ”
SCENE 60
INT. HOPE’S CAR – LATE EVENING
FX: THE DOOR OPENS AND CHANISE HOPS INSIDE.
HOPE: I found him.
CHANISE: Are you serious?
HOPE: Yes. (BEAT) Are you sure about this?
CHANISE: Hell yeah.
HOPE: Oh, I bought these.
FX: UNZIPS A BAG
CHANISE: Wigs?
HOPE: Brianna left them at my house. (BEAT) We need to be undercover.
CHANISE: Okay, I’ll take the blonde one.
HOPE: So, my name is Tammy. Don’t call me Hope. What’s yours?
CHANISE: Damn, I need a fake name too. (BEAT) Call me Fatima.
FADE
SCENE 61
INT. MANSION
FX: PARTY NOISE
CHANISE: (WHISPERS) There’s a party going on.
HOPE: (WHISPERS) Let’s go in this way.
FX: OPEN THE SLIDING DOOR.
HOPE: (V.O.) We walked right into some freaky deaky shit. You wouldn’t believe unless you were here to see it. From the outside the building didn’t look like much, but, on the inside. Floor to ceiling windows. People dressed in costume. People stood around watching the action as others indulged.I couldn’t tell who was together and who wasn’t. Everyone was having some form of interaction except us. So, I grabbed Chanise’s hand, so we wouldn’t look out of place.
CHANISE: What are you doing?
HOPE: We have to play the part. They might think we’re in here snooping.
CHANISE: We are. Let my hand go.
CHANISE: (V.O.) My OCD was kicking in heavy and I don’t have OCD. I didn’t want to sit, touch, lean on anything. I didn’t see Mikal anywhere. I was ready to go.
CHANISE: Hope, I’m ready.
FX: CHANISE AND HOPE WALKING THROUGH THE CROWD
HOPE: Excuse us.
CHANISE: (V.O.) And just as I step outside, I get my confirmation. Mikal is sitting there on a stool with a girl dressed in nothing but her bra and panties sitting on his lap. I snatched my wig off and walked right over to them.
FX: CHANISE WALKS FASTER AND FASTER.
HOPE: Chanise, wait.
CHANISE: Yeah, you better run off.
MIKAL: Chanise, Baby. What are you doing here?
CHANISE: What are you doing?
MIKAL: Can we talk over here?
CHANISE: This is the production you’ve been talking about?
MIKAL: It is. I produce erotic films.
CHANISE: You mean you ‘re a porn star.
MIKAL: Are you stalking me?
CHANISE: Call it what you want, but, don’t you think I should know you lay down on camera?
MIKAL: I told you when we met that I work in film.
CHANISE: Don’t play with me Mikal. You got me all the way fucked up. There’s no way I would have known you were talking about this. (BEAT) So, you were going to wait until I uproot my life and move in with you, have me all fucked up in a throuple relationship before you told me.
MIKAL: A throuple?
CHANISE: It was on Red Table talk. Don’t try to change the subject.
MIKAL: I don’t know where all of this judgement is coming from. But, I haven’t done anything wrong. I have only treated you with nothing but respect. Now you’re judging me based merely in what I do for a living? I admit, I should have shared more details, but, you never really asked much more.
CHANISE: I asked you what the movie was about. You said love.
MIKAL: (SIGH) That’s true. A passionate love story.
CHANISE: This what you doing?
FX: HOPE WALKS UP.
HOPE: You guys are making scene. (BEAT) Hi, Mikal
MIKAL: Yes, can I get a few more minutes.
CHANISE: I don’t feel comfortable with this.
MIKAL: I’ll call you later.
CHANISE: Don’t bother.
FX: THEY WALK AWAY.
HOPE: Bye, Ass Macker.
CHANISE: Hope!
FADE
SCENE 62
INT. CHANISE HOUSE
FX: DRIVING DOWN THE STREET
CHANISE: He’s acting all nonchalant. I feel like a fool!
HOPE: It’s that reverse psychology.
CHANISE: Hold up. Girl. Stop. That’s Mikal’s car.
HOPE: Now, Chanise. You’re above the craziness.
CHANISE: Stay right here and Pop your truck
FX: CHANISE GETS OUT THE CAR. HOPE POPS HER TRUNK.
HOPE: What are you about to do with that?
CHANISE: Watch my back!
HOPE: Now, Chanise. You’re above the craziness. Don’t do it.
FX: STARTS TEARING THE CAR UP
HOPE; (V.O.) It didn’t matter what I said. I cringed as she let out all of her disappointment.
CHANISE: Liar!
HOPE: (V.O.) She punctured his tires. Busted out his windows. Scratched up his paint job and dented the hood.
HOPE: Stop! Come on Chanise! Enough!
FX: CHANISE GETS BACK IN THE CAR
CHANISE: I feel much better.
FX: THEY SPEED OFF.
SCENE 63
INT. CHANISE HOUSE
FX: CHANISE ON THE PHONE
HOPE: Have you heard anything?
CHANISE: Yeah. He’s pissed about his car. He’s making it all about that.
HOPE: You did number on it.
CHANISE: He wants meet up at the beach later.
HOPE: Well, don’t let him flip it on you.
CHANISE: I could have handled it better.
HOPE: True, but, he should have told you. Yeah, you didn’t have trash his car. But, sometimes you have to send message and I’m glad that you got it all out.
CHANISE: This is a deal breaker for me.
HOPE: I think for me too. (BEAT) I quit my job today.
CHANISE: What?
HOPE: Well, I ‘ve been thinking about what you said.
CHANISE: I said hire a life coach. Not quit your job.
HOPE: Well, I think it was time. I need to push full speed ahead on my dreams. Here I am in the second chapter of my life, there’s no better time than now.
CHANISE; Hope are you sure? Do you have enough savings?
HOPE: I have enough for a few months. I have a good feeling about this. I’m almost certain that I should be able to line up something within months. Also, I reached out to Tre. The therapist said I need to bring real closure to the situation so I can move on.
CHANISE: Well, as long as it’s that and nothing more. Meet him out. Don’t let him come to your spot.
FADE
SCENE 64
INT. MIKAL AND CHANISE- AT THE BEACH
MIKAL: I wish you would understand and not try to change who I am.
CHANISE: Mikal, if that man in those videos is who you are. I don’t want no part of it.
MIKAL: It’s acting. I’m just acting.
CHANISE: I really like you, but, what am I suppose to tell my friends? My kid?
MIKAL: That you met a great man that wants to see where this goes.
CHANISE: You’re charming. Successful. Good looking. Smart. You can have any woman you want.
MIKAL: It’s not what I can have, it’s what I want. (BEAT) You are a stand up woman. I mean, when you’re not vandalizing cars.
CHANISE: I’m sorry about that.
MIKA: That’s water under the bridge. I know how hard I is to meet someone that you really gel with. I think the only thing that matters, is what we think.
CHANISE: (V.O.) I want to continue to be mad at him, but, if the tables were turned, I wouldn’t have told him either. But, I’m not built that way.
CHANISE: Is this you? Your life?
MIKAL: I can’t make any major promises right now. However, I don’t plan on being in this business much longer.
CHANISE: I’m sorry. This is a deal breaker for me. I can’t do it. When you’re out of this game. Call me.
MIKA: Just like that.
FX: CHANISE TURNS HER CAR ON AND LEAVES
CHANISE: (V.O.) There I was driving away from everything I thought I wanted. Definitely don’t judge a book by its cover and for GOD sakes flip through the pages.
FADE
SCENE 65
INT. BOXING GYM
FX: THE GIRLS IN BOXING GYM. HOPE HITS THE BAG
CHANISE: You better believe I found a few of his videos on Porn Hub. I had to see what he’s working with.
HOPE: That’s why you’re hitting that punching bag all hard. I knew I sensed some frustration.
FX: CHANISE HITS THE BAG
HOPE: Come on Bri.
BRIANNA: Why do we have to resort to violence?
CHANISE: She called you a pedophile. Hit the damn bag.
FX: BRIANNA HITS THE BAG
BRIANNA: Ouch.
CHANISE: To be honest though, if someone was dating Legend twice his age, I wouldn’t be too happy about it.
BRIANNA: Why can’t Legend love who he wants to love?
CHANISE: He can. When I’m dead and gone.
BRIANNA: Well, I think I’m going to step out of the cougar lane for a bit. From here on out, it’s 30+.
FX: HOPE LAUGHS.
HOPE: Love is overrated anyways. I mean, think about all the times I’ve really been in love. I mean, Tre was a rebound that ended up staying in my life. In the beginning he was everything I thought I every wanted.
CHANISE: Men always have these double standards. Let’s be honest, if he discovered I was moonlighting as a porn star, he would have dropped me like a bad cold. But, he really thinks I should work it out with him and understand that bullshit? Not in this lifetime.
HOPE: Society standards and expectations are different for women.
BRIANNA: I refuse to fit my life into a box. Jamie is coming over tonight to pick up the rest of his things. But, I won’t send him on his way, without a proper goodbye.
CHANISE: I know that’s right.
HOPE: Or you guys could always join me on my celibacy walk.
CHANISE & BRIANNA: Awww, hell naw.
FADE
SCENE 66
INT. HOPE TOWNHOUSE
FX: HOPE LAUGHING AND HOPE OPENS THE DOOR.
HOPE: I’m glad we had a chance to talk.
TRE: Can I come in?
HOPE: I don’t think that’s a good idea.
TRE: Why, you don’t trust yourself?
HOPE: Fool, I don’t trust you.
FX: THEY LAUGH AND BEGIN KISSING.
HOPE: Just for a few minutes.
FX: SHE OPENS THE DOOR FURTHER.
SCENE 67
INT. BRIANNA PLACE
FX: BRIANNA RUMMAGES AROUND PUTTING THINGS IN BOXES
BRIANNA: (V.O.) As I was packing up the rest of Jamie’s things, it made me realize how many memories we made. We had these cute snow globes made at Hollywood & Highland. (BET) The matching t-shirts. That was so corny, but, fun. (BEAT) Oh, and he left his ipad here. (BEAT) Hmm. Usually, I mind my business, but, I can’t help it. I’m curious.
FX: BRIANNA SCROLLS THROUGH IT
BRIANNA: Awww, he sent a photo of us to his mom. Wait, I can see his entire call list from here?
FX: BRIANNA SCROLLS THROUGH IT
BRIANNA: HOPE? This can’t be my Hope.
FX: BRIANNA DIALS THE NUMBER
INTERCUT HOPE AND BRIANNA
TRE: Where you going?
HOPE: To grab some glasses.
INT. KITCHEN – HOP TAKES CLASSES DOWN
FX: HOPE’S PHONE RINGS. SHE LOOKS AND SEES IT’S JAMIE
HOPE: (SIGH) Jamie? What is he calling me for?
FX: HOPE PICKS IT UP
HOPE: Jamie, what are you doing calling me?
BRIANNA: Hope, it’s Brianna.
FADE OUT.