Big Shot (2021–…): Season 2, Episode 1 - Episode #2.1 - full transcript

Previously on Big Shot…

You need a second chance.
This is the only one I could get.

My name is Marvyn Korn,
and I will be your new coach.

They don't even want me here, Sam.

We run on money. Mr. Gruzinsky's got it.
Do not screw this up.

Wave goodbye to Louise Gruzinsky.
She's suspended from the team.

This is not a good start.

I need to play in the game.
It's about making my father proud.

This outcome was unacceptable.
But we're just getting started.

There's an opportunity. It's in Italy.

You should take it,
and I can go live with Dad.



-What are you looking forward to most?
- Spending time with you.

-Who are you?
-I'm Lucas Gruzinsky, sir.

Gruzinsky? Louise's brother?

Oh, my gosh. She met a guy.

I love you, Emma.

By the end of this year,
we are going to be in Division II.

What is going on?

They're charging your father
with embezzlement.

The leading role of Beth Macbeth…
Harper Schapira.

Yes!

You know, I can help you
run lines after school.

Mouse, you're the best.
I'll see you after school.

If you wanted to be her mother,

you should have made that choice
when you had her.



UCSB has an opening for a head coach.
They want to talk to you.

Is it okay if I give you a hug?

You're connecting with these girls.

Oh, stop it.

-Are you leaving?
-No! I mean, eventually, yes.

We're committed to beating Carlsbad.

Apparently,
you're committed to leaving us.

My mom called, and she wants me
to go to this prep school next year

she's all excited about.

This is in Wisconsin.

-You're okay leaving Westbrook?
-No.

For the first time,
I feel like I finally have a dad.

Even if it means
I have to sacrifice everything else.

I passed on the UCSB gig.

-What? Are you serious?
- No way.

You know, I set out to write
a new playbook for the team,

but I ended up writing a new one for me.

Two, three! Sirens!

Thank you.

A number 24.

Thank you very much.

But I-- I can't believe that the summer
is more than half over already.

I'm sorry. I prefer to think of it
as the summer's more than half-full.

That's not really how time works.

But at least we have a minute
before anyone's ordering us around.

Hey, girls! Girls, come here.
I wanna show you something. Come here.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

Are you kidding?

Come here.

-Hustle.
- Ball out.

-What are you doing here?
-And dressed like that?

What's it look like I'm doing?
I'm working.

Come on. I wanna show you something.
Come here. Come on.

Sit down over here. Sit.

-Can you let-- Move.
- Sorry.

Thank you. Thank you.

-Sit down here. Front row, front row.
- Sorry.

-All right. Take a look at that.

World-class athletes right there.

You see that girl? A volleyball prodigy.

Look at that. You can't teach that.
You can't teach that.

That girl is a game changer right there.
Have you ever seen anything more--

Are you guys on your phones?

No!

In my defense,
I was confirming that's Ava Navarro.

I follow her on Instagram.

She's a wild card, which I find exciting.

Back off. You're crowding me, idiot.

This is exciting.

Watch her. Watch her. See?

She knows exactly where the ball is going,
but she's not looking for it.

Her face is gonna be busted.

-Net fault.
-Are you kidding me? That was clean.

What? Is he kidding?

Hey, I'm talking to you!

What exactly are we supposed to be
learning from this?

How to be a badass.

You touch my stand again, Navarro,
you're gone.

-What?
-Ooh.

She's not gonna like that.

-Take her.
-Don't touch me. I'm done.

This girl is a beast.

Yeah. She sure is.

-I missed you.
-Missed you.

Nice to have you back.

How was your flight?

A lady kept yelling, "Shut up!" at a baby.
So that was something.

-That's terrible.
-It was fine.

Mom ask about me over the summer?

Um.

Not really.

Okay.

-Hey, Dad.
-Hmm?

We gonna talk about what's happening
in the back seat?

Oh, those are my bonsai plants.

I read that Bobby Knight, you know,
after he threw the chair,

the only thing that calmed him down
was working on his plants.

So I thought I'd give it a try.

Just to find something
to sort of calm me down a little bit.

Okay, that's kind of healthy.

Plus, they don't talk back to you,
like friends do.

And the best part is
you cultivate 'em at home,

-so you never have to leave your house.
-That sounds perhaps less healthy.

So, come on. Tell me, tell me.
How was your summer?

We're together now. I wanna hear it.

-It was good.
-Just good?

It was fine.

Fine? Good. Fine. Okay, fine.

Can you please stop texting Lucas
for one minute

-and talk to your father?
-I'm not texting Lucas.

What are you doing? Sending him…

-kissy emojis or something?
-Dad, can you stop? I am not texting him.

I'm sorry, okay.
It's just been a long day.

Okay, okay, okay.

-I just missed you, that's all…
-Yeah.

All right, well, if you, uh…
you wanna ditch your friends

and hang out with your old man
on your first day back in town--

-Love you, Dad.
-Love you too.

God, it's so good hanging out
with you guys in person.

Those phone calls were not sufficient.

I cannot get the grip
of a time difference.

So, when are we talking about Lucas?

-Have you seen him yet?
-Seen him? I haven't even heard from him.

Which I realize isn't great.

Oh. I thought "hard to get" was something
that ended once you "got."

-Did something happen?
-I don't know what it could be.

We started off the summer
talking every night,

and then things kinda just…

Hey, on a scale of one to ten,
how bad is it?

-Two.
-Ten.

What? I've been there.

The first thing he did before he broke up
with me was ignore my calls.

Has he said anything to you?

No. I mean, look,
w-we had a really hard summer.

Like, "we needed a visitors' pass to state
prison to see our dad" kind of summer.

But I didn't know he was blowing you off.

Can I borrow your phone?

Yeah, sure. Why?

Okay, okay. Hold on, hold on.
I got to take this.

Hey, Loui--

Oh.

Emma. Hi. What's up?

What's up?
I had to trick you into answering my call.

Uh, yeah, um…

Can we talk about this another time?

No, we can talk about this right now.

What's going on with us?

Look, I didn't wanna have
this conversation like this,

but it is my senior year,

and I really hope
we can still be friends, but--

Got it.

- I'm sorry.
-Are you?

How was it? How did it go?

He broke up with me.

I'm sorry.

I'm actually kind of excited
for the first practice.

Do you think we'll be as good
since Olive graduated?

Yeah, we will, because we need to be.

Because some of us don't have
any other choice.

Glad to see you're approaching this year
with a fun, laid-back attitude.

It's my senior year, Samantha.
I can't afford to be laid-back.

I just wanna know who Coach is calling up
from the bench to start with us.

What is that monster doing here,
and why is she wearing a Sirens uniform?

She's a volleyball player.

A lot of girls play both.

And "monster"?
I thought you said she was a badass.

Yeah, when she played a different sport
at a safe distance.

Not my sport in my gym on my team.

-Your team?
-Our team.

Let's just hope that she got nicer
in the last two months.

She didn't. According to TMZ,
she just bit Naomi Osaka.

Great. So, a wild chick is coming in
and stealing focus?

From the team or from you?

You know what I'm saying.

Look, let's just keep our cards close
until we know her deal.

Totally.

That's Louise. She's broke.

Mouse is gay and dates Harper.

Destiny has two moms and one aunt.

Or is it two aunts?
Two moms? I don't know.

And we were just talking about
how Coach's daughter, Emma, our other BFF,

just got dumped by this guy Lucas.
He also broke up with me last year.

Ugh! I mean, this school is riddled with
the broken hearts of Lucas Gruzinsky.

Nice job keeping the cards close.

So what about you? What's your story?
How'd you end up here?

After I got suspended from volleyball,

my mom decided that homeschooling
wasn't helping my attitude problems.

So they sent me to jail.

Jail is here. An all-girls school.

Well, look on the bright side.

Jails don't have sushi bars
in the cafeteria.

Wait. Do they, Louise?

They don't.

And I'm only here
until my suspension is up.

Then I'm back to the tour.

Isn't that, like, a year away?

I'm appealing.

Speaking of appealing, what's up with all
you guys getting dumped by the same guy?

- He must be a great kisser,

because he sounds like a jerk.

-Yeah, that jerk is my brother.
-And he is a great kisser.

Well, if it were me,
I'd be thinking revenge.

You should get back at him.
Mess with his head a little.

Or maybe you guys are fine
with this guy treating women like garbage

and never paying for it.

Forget this. I'm out.

So what kind of revenge?

Deliver a bunch of pizzas to his house,
so he has to deal with a lot of pizza?

Yeah. No.

Well, if you're thinking about dating
every single one of his friends,

I've already unsuccessfully
explored that route.

Look, you need to humiliate him.

Like that time I was dating a swimmer.
He broke up with me,

so I got his good-luck Speedo, hung it up
on the flag outside of the arena.

What happened?

He drowned.

-Girls, bring it in.

Hustle! Hustle!

Let's go. Come on.

All right, girls.

Goals. Goals, right?

Last year, our goal was to get to DII,
and we did.

This year,
I have an even bigger goal for us.

-Get to DI.
-No.

Good guess, though, Mouse.

You may have noticed
my head wasn't all in last year.

I was thinking about coaching UCSB
most of the time.

But I chose you guys. And I'm glad I did.

I was the winningest coach in college,

and you better believe I'm gonna be
the winningest coach in high school.

You know how I'm gonna do that?

We're going to the DII finals.

No one's ever done that in the first year.

Exactly. We're gonna make history
when we win, because we will win.

You know how we're gonna win?

We will put the ball through the basket
more than the other team.

-Smart aleck.

Three things. One,

at the end of each day,
I want you all to look in the mirror

and ask yourself,
"Did I do my very best today?"

And the answer better be yes.

Two, accountability.
You know what that means?

Okay, everything you guys do,
in this gym and out, affects all of us.

And three, I got a secret weapon.

Don't say Ava.

I hope you all had the chance
to get acquainted with Ava.

Here we go.

Wh-Wh-What? You say something, Gruzinsky?

You have a problem here?

I'm just wondering why you recruited
a disgraced celebrity

who doesn't play basketball.

I'm just wondering
why you're talking back to me.

Get down here.

-Hustle.

Make a basket.

Ava, come here.

Don't let her make the basket.

Offense wins games.

Defense wins championships.

Remember that, Gruzinsky.

Or what? You'll throw sand in my face?

That was a lucky block.

And I don't take orders
from washed-up volleyball players.

I don't play with losers.

And I never lose.

You better step back.

I'm the captain of this team.

We'll see about that.

Louise, you ever heard--

Oh.

I would've bet a hundred bucks Louise
would be the first one to come bitch.

Well, I am glad you noticed
she's not as quick as me.

-Because I'm not playing with her.
-Really?

One of the first things I learned,
when something's a bad fit, fix it.

She has it out for me, and I just
showed you that I'm better than her.

So it's her or me.

I pick her.
Close the door on your way out.

And knock next time.

Come in, Ava.

I'm not a quitter.

I know you're not a quitter.
Wanna know why?

Enlighten me.

Because I see myself in you.

That is not
the compliment you think it is.

Really?
I didn't mean it as a compliment.

You got suspended from volleyball.
You lost all your endorsements.

All because you can't stand to lose.

You realize you're a national joke,
don't you?

I am not a joke!

Look, my mom put me on your team

because she thinks
that you can get me back on track.

Smart move.

But, and I'm just being real,

you haven't even gotten yourself there.

-And as for Louise, well, she--
-Hey!

Either fight Louise or join Louise.

I suggest you join her.

I think you know me well enough
to know that that's not going to happen.

Ava.

If you fail here, then what?

So you spent all last year
telling Louise and the girls

that there are no stars on your team,

and then you went ahead
and you recruited a toxic one?

-You say toxic, I say tenacious.

Oh, come on.

-What?
-You just wanna prove

that you're still relevant
by recruiting this girl,

shaking up the team,
and then going on to win the championship.

No, I wanna prove I'm still
on the top of my game. That's all.

That's literally
the definition of relevant.

-Literally?
-Literally.

Okay. Do you really think that this is
worth the wreckage that it's gonna cause?

It's not causing any wreckage.
Don't-- Just relax. Don't--

I've already taken care of it.

Oh, God. What did you do?

I told Ava to go out with Louise
and the rest of the girls and bond.

Wait, so you're trying to force Louise
and Ava to like each other?

Yeah.

Even though they can't stand each other?

Now you're getting it.

What's so-- Know what? Laugh all you want.

I guarantee you this girl
is gonna make my team better.

Wow. Okay. You sound like
a man who's looking for a bet.

I'm listening.

-A scrimmage.
-Okay.

Your Westbrook girls
against my Carlsbad girls.

You're on. What are the stakes?

The ones you're gonna buy me
when you lose.

-And by the way, I like mine medium-plus.
-What the hell is medium-plus?

Well, it's between medium and medium-rare.

- Uh-huh.
-It's pink but never bloody.

You're a piece of work. You know that?

How is it coaching at Carlsbad?

It's great.

Yeah.

Huh.

It's so, um…

I don't know. It's-- It's great.

-Come on.
-I don't know.

I just thought that when I finally got to
lead a team, it would be at Westbrook.

Me too.

You know, the girls miss you over there.

-Oh, the girls miss me?
- Mm-hmm.

What? You think I miss you? No.

Oh.

How's Emma?

She's good.

You know, she's at that age where she
doesn't really wanna talk to her father.

-Emma? Come on.
- Hmm.

It's all one-word answers.

Like, "How you doing?"
"I'm fine. I'm good. Whatever." You know?

-You know how girls are.
-Tell me.

Whatever.

What are you doing?

What? I thought it'd be fun.

Anyway, so what's the plan?

Okay, I will hoist us up
into the bathroom window.

Samantha and Ava will empty the thing that
Lucas is most afraid of into his locker.

Mouse will be lookout. Ready?

Wait.
What's the thing Lucas is most afraid of?

Crickets.

-Shh!

Stop it. Why are you so far away?

How do you know his locker combination?

One time I met him after school
when he was getting books.

-And he told you?
-And I have perfect vision.

Okay, okay. Now, I'm going to close
the door, but wait till the--

-Thank you, little ones.
-No, no, no, no, no!

Just what is going on here?

It's been up for two hours,
and it's already viral all over Insta.

It's trending. "#CricketBaby."

-Check this out!
- Help!

They're all over me!
One went into my mouth!

Hey, are you guys responsible
for "Cricket Baby"?

I can't help but notice the timing
of this prank on Lucas.

Her name is Little Samantha,
and she's a Pisces.

What? We really bonded.

So you guys did this for me?

And a little bit for me.

If a guy messes with one of us, or two
of us, then he's messing with all of us.

-And he's going down.
-Well, if Ava says so.

'Cause anything Ava says goes, right?

Yeah, first she took my sport,
and then my friends, and now my family,

-and I don't get to have one say about it.
-This isn't about Ava. Or you.

I-- We just wanted to get back at Lucas.

Whatever. See you guys on the court.

Girls!

All right,
remember this is just a scrimmage,

but I want you to go out there
and play hard.

Game speed.

And intimidate, got it?

Go ahead.

-Holly!
-Holly!

Holly!

Oh!

Come on, come on, come on, come on.
No snuggling with the enemy.

-Geez.
- Okay, girls. Go warm up.

Go. Go, go. Go.

- Holly.
- Coach.

What's, uh, Coach McCarthy doing here?

-Are you besties now?
-Oh, no.

Funny story, she's Principal McCarthy now.

-Oh, so she's your boss?
-Yes.

Oh. That's why your voice
went up eight octaves at The Shot Clock

when I asked you how you were doing
at Carlsbad, right?

-It did not.
-It did so.

You were like,
"Oh, it's great, great, great."

I would never--

-Have a good game. You too.
-Good luck.

-You have something…
-Oh.

-Okay, keep the ball moving. Keep going!
- Ava, hands up. Hands up!

-Yes! Ava, good job.
- No!

Way to move your feet, Ava.
Right on!

-All right. Come on!
-Make a better pass!

Louise, get your head in the game!

Think positive!

- Ball, ball, ball!
- Here we go.

I got help! I got help!

Good, Ava. Ava, good. Get her!

- Oh!

My ball, loser.

Hey, ref! Come on, man.
It's a scrimmage. It's a scrimmage.

-Fierce.
-Nice.

Great pressure!

-You call that a play?
-All right.

- Don't let her take it!
- Shoot it, Louise! Whoa!

Louise, don't stand there admiring.
Get back on D. Come on.

High five at lunch. Go!

- Good. All right. Ava, nice.
- Wow.

Next time try not to steal from
our own player, but way to hustle. Good.

Is that something
you've been working on in practice?

What? The way Ava has a nose for the ball,

and Louise and the rest of the team
are working harder?

-Yes, it's all part of my plan.
-Uh-huh.

Hey, stop flirting with Coach Hair Gel
over here, and focus on your team.

They're wearing gray
if you hadn't noticed.

- Hands up! Good, good! Louise!
-Back on D! Back on D!

We've got six seconds to the half.
We got to get a shot off quickly, okay?

-Give it to me. I'll take the shot.
-Nice try, Volleyball. I'll take the shot.

Clearly you can't make any shots
because you've been missing.

-Why are you still talking?
-And clearly, all of them--

Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey! Enough. Enough.

It's nice to see you fired up, Gruzinsky,
but let's let Ava have a shot.

-Are you kidding me?
-Come on!

Let's go! Go. Go. Hustle!
Hustle, Sirens! Let's go!

Come on. All right. Come on.

-Get open. Good.
- Look for the pass!

-Come on, girls! You gotta be quicker!
- Set the screen, Destiny.

Move in!

Hey! Girls!

Hey! Knock it off!

-Come on.
-Is this part of your plan?

-Come on. Let go. Let go. Get up. Get up.
-Come on. Stop.

This game is over.

Siren starters to my office, now!

Now, Korn!

Come on. Get up. Get--
Give me that. Get up!

Mm-mm-mmm.

Looks like you're about to be
in a world of hurt, Korn.

I love you too, Joyce.

Listen, I need you
to drive me back to Carlsbad,

and I'm gonna tell you
what a disaster that game was.

Uh, yeah, I wish I could do that,
but I got to give someone a ride.

Fine, I'm gonna leave you a voice mail.
It's gonna have a lot of bad words in it.

Great.

Hey, hey, why did you stop the game?

They weren't fighting.
They were a little spirited.

This is not about the game,
shameful as it was.

No, this is about a little
cricket incident at the boys' school.

Cricket incident?

-What is she talking about?
-A prank that I had nothing to do with.

That we all had nothing to do with.

Nobody had anything to do with it?

Just innocent little bystanders. Mm-hmm?

Take a look at this.

- Mouse, get over here.
- Who said that? Destiny?

- Who else would it be?
-Well, it could've been me.

- Who said that? Samantha?
- No, Ava.

Yes, it was Samantha.

And this,
this right here is my favorite part.

Guys, why is there a blinking red light
on this sprinkler?

-What the hell did I just see?
- All right, fine. Whatever.

You caught us. We pulled the prank.

Besides, it wasn't even our fault.

Why are you blaming us? It was his idea
for us to get together and bond.

No, no, no. Don't drag me into this.

I said, "Get together and bond."
You know, have a salad.

Whatever you girls do.

Okay, for the record, I didn't join them.

For the record, you weren't invited.

Somehow, I like you even less
than when I elbowed you in the boob.

Enough! Louise, you know better.

And Ava, you better watch yourself,
little girl.

Right now, they're opening the walls
of the entire school

to get rid of the incessant chirping!

This is a very big deal.
And you ladies caused it.

Mm-hmm.

Busted and disgusted.

Get off my desk.

And you, Coach Korn--

No, no, don't "Coach Korn" me.
I had nothing to do with this.

I don't like crickets. I don't trust them.
I think they're weird.

You may not have cooked the soup,

but you took the ingredients,
threw 'em in a pot

and knew they were gonna bubble over.

Does anybody know what she said?

Why is everyone so worked up about this?

Who cares? It's just high school.

What is even the point of this place?

I don't care what anyone else says.

-We had fun.
- We really did bond as a team.

Sorry, Louise.

I know what you're doing,

and it won't work.

What?

I was just being a good friend to…

what's her face.

Unlike you, Louise.

You know what?
This proves that Louise is the only one

who will not be punished today.

-That's right. And Marvyn.
-Hmm?

-Not Marvyn?
-Mm-mmm.

And that was after ghosting me all summer.

No.

Have you ever heard
of anything so humiliating?

Uh, actually, I have.

My high school boyfriend broke up with me
while we were on a school trip at the zoo.

And then, an elephant…

…relieved itself on me.

-That's disgusting.
- Yeah.

Disgusting.

Is dating always this degrading?

Course not.

I mean, between all
the FaceTimes and the elephants,

there are so many great parts.

Why does it have to hurt so bad
to get to them?

I'm so sorry, sweetie.
It doesn't always hurt that bad.

What did your dad have to say?

Like I could talk to him about this stuff.

He'd just say "I told you so" about Lucas.

I don't know.

Maybe he'd surprise you.

You're gonna have to get some sun
if you wanna look healthier.

What? I've only been back one day.

Are you talking to your plant?

Yes.

Good thing that I'm back.
I worry about you when you're alone.

I'd ask you how you're doing,
but you would just say,

"I'm fine. I'm good. Whatever."

-Dad?
-Yeah?

Lucas dumped me.

What?

Why didn't you tell me?

Because I was embarrassed.

No, no. Come here.

-Wanna talk about it?
-Can we just hug?

Sure. As long as you need.

Coach?

I'm sorry about the fight
with Ava yesterday.

I just-- I don't know what got into me.

I do.

You've never played with a player
as good as you before.

You're afraid
she's gonna steal your thunder

and cost you your scholarship.

-Am I warm?
-Alarmingly so.

Listen, the reason
why I brought her here was to push you.

If I didn't think you could take it,
I wouldn't have done it.

Iron sharpens iron.
Great players make each other great.

You keep doing that,
you'll get your scholarship. I promise.

Relax.

We're all in this detention together.

Plenty of time to talk.
We might as well make the best of it.

Wait, are you not--
I thought that you'd be more mad.

Oh, I'm mad. No, I'm plenty mad
about the cricket thing.

You'll be running that off for a while.

But I love that you did it for Emma.
That was very sweet.

Which reminds me,
I have a question for you guys.

Why are boys just the worst?

Right? That's what I was saying.
They continue to rip my heart out.

I think that we can just all agree that
if there was a planet with no boys on it,

like, we would all move there.

Right?

- Immediately.
-That's tempting.

They're the worst.

Boys!

Boys.

-There's boys.
- Here?

I could've sworn
this was an all-girls school.

Boys?

- Boys?
-Mm-hmm.

Yep,
and you can thank your girls for that.

The cricket cleaning crew discovered
that Belford was riddled with black mold.

It's gonna take months to get rid of it.

Which is why the entire student population
has been dispersed to various schools.

-Westbrook being one of them. Hmm.
-You're kidding?

Wait, so does this mean
our school's coed? Like, for real?

For the foreseeable future,
unfortunately so.

Thank you! You've changed my life.

Okay, okay.

He's not coming.

Oh? Where did Lucas end up transferring?

Uh, he specifically requested,
and I quote, "Anywhere but Westbrook."

I'm sorry.

- If I may--
- You may not.

Listen, what I was gonna say is…

my girls theoretically saved those boys

from whatever fungus thing
they were gonna get from that mold.

In a way, they're heroes, really.
Don't you think?

Do you have any idea
how complicated this is about to get?

Oh, Sherilyn.

You don't have any idea how much I know
exactly how complicated this is gonna get.