How to Make It in America (2010–…): Season 2, Episode 7 - The Friction - full transcript

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♪ I need
a dollar dollar ♪

- ♪ a dollar, that's what I need ♪
- ♪ hey hey ♪

♪ well, I need
a dollar dollar ♪

- ♪ a dollar, that's what I need ♪
- ♪ hey hey ♪

♪ said I need
a dollar dollar ♪

♪ a dollar,
that's what I need ♪

♪ and if I share
with you my story ♪

♪ would you share
your dollar with me? ♪

♪ well, I don't know if
I'm walking on solid ground ♪

♪ and all I want is ♪



♪ for someone to help me ♪

♪ and I need
a dollar dollar ♪

♪ a dollar,
that's what I need ♪

♪ and if I share
with you my story ♪

♪ would you share
your dollar with me? ♪

After I copped a plea,

They told me
club fed is full,

So they would be
sending me

To medium security-
otisville.

Either of you guys
want an espresso maker?

- I'll have it.
- I'll take it.

Sorry, boychick.

I forgot that cam
is hooking me up.

Did you talk to rene
about sitting down with me?



I thought you were
kidding about that.

What'd you wanna
talk to rene for?

Because I'm freaked
the fuck out!

They have gangs
in medi securit

I have to talk to rene
about protection.

Cam: I'll hook it up with rene.

You'll be good.
He knows people inside.

Thank you.

Hey, want me to hold
on this for you?

No, I don't.
That's my bubbe's.

Excuse me.

- Where's- where's debbie?
- She called in sick today.

- Did she say what was going on?
- Nah. We didn't get into it.

yeah.

Hey, steve.
How are you doing?

- Are you a drug dealer, rene?
- What?!

What? Wait wait.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.

I can't be in business
with drug dealers.

Why?
You on parole too?

I'm a recovering addict.

Oh, you see, bro. That's a
beautiful thing right there, man.

I'm really happy for you.
Keep doing it.

- Keep doing it.
- Yeah. What is this rumor about rasta monsta

Being a front
for weed spray?

Well, who's saying these rumors,
man? Some shakedown artist?

You know, I resent
these kind of implications.

I'm gonna have to do a little
research and I'll get back to you.

Fine. You do that.
Do whatever you gotta do.

I got nothing to hide.

All right.
Good.

'cause I'm ready to place
that order for all 32 stores.

- What?
- I'm taking my top five skaters across the country.

I wanna bring rasta monsta
with me. That is,

If you're not a drug front.

I'm not
a drug front, steve.

- So let me just get this straight.
- Okay.

- You pitched me a story.
- Yeah.

I said no and then you went
ahead and wrote it anyway.

- I know. And I understand your confusion on that.
- I'm sorry.

- My confusion?
- Yeah. When you hired me,

You made it very clear
that you were excited to see

- What I was gonna bring to the "biscuit" brand.
- Absolutely.

- I said that.
- And you were like, "rachel, you're hip. We need hip. "

- Said it. Meant it.
- And I was talking to you about how I was gonna, like,

Veer away from the strictly
mommy stuff, you know, like,

How to get your kid to love kale
and how to pick the perfect tongs.

Oh, you know?
I have to say

We got a lot of letters
about that tongs piece.

Our readers found it
incredible helpful.

You put that piece out there
and you're all of a sudden

Putting this tremendous
pressure on your readers

To conform to this thing
that is unattainable.

Then you're opening
and reading these magazines

And you're feeling
this wave of anxiety.

Hmm.

You know what, rache?

I'm not sure this is
gonna work out.

But, robin, rest assured
I'm going to nail it

When I- when I do the, uh- the
catering piece on the edibles.

Noshables.
Don't bother.

But I do need you
to go see karen bender

- In legal.
- Oh, okay.

She's gonna tell you
that you're fired.

Cute shoes.

She's down on three.

You sure this is
the right address?

Yeah,
he said third floor.

Yosi: That's very nice. I like it.

Welcome.
Come on in.

So what do
you guys think?

I might lease
the whole building.

- Ben: Really?
- Yeah.

If I can get this idiot landlord
to come down on the price

And rewire the electric. 15
years in the country, no english.

Watch it.
Pathetic.

Anyway, you know me.
I'm all about potential.

- Definitely has potential.
- Cool. I'm glad you guys like it.

- So big day.
- Looks good.

- What, is this japanese cotton?
- Yeah, it's close enough.

So we have
some good news.

I spoke to my friend
keith who owns braeden's.

- They love our hoodie.
- Braeden's?

Huge mid-atlantic
sportswear chain.

They're thinking of
ordering and, if they do,

Twice the size
of gadzooks.

- Ben: Wow.
- What?

See how important it is
to have strong partners?

And in the spirit
of partnership

I had a sick idea
last night

That I wanted
to pitch you.

- Okay.
- Okay. Hold on.

- Is it ready?
- Assistant: Yes.

Okay, come on.

Crisp by yosi.

what do you think?

See, I was just fooling
around with the artwork.

Huh? It'll need
your magic touch, ben.

Once we drill down
on the logo,

We can sell two million
of these worldwide easily.

License me crisp
for five years.

I'll give you 12% license
fee, which is generous,

And teach you
the business.

Wait, slow down.
What?

Let me run this thing.
I'll put you in here,

Build you each
an office.

You'll make the designs.
Cam will learn sales.

You'll work for me.
We'll kill it.

Yosi, are you
fucking with us?

Work for you?
Crisp by yosi?

That's not
what we discussed.

For all that I'm about to do for
you two, seems only fair, huh?

All right, so is this like
a deal breaker for you?

It's a deal breaker for me.

Crisp by yosi, is he
kidding me? Hell fucking no.

See, this is why we have a rep
- to deal with this bullshit.

- You mean yosi's wife? Excuse me.
- Exactly.

So you know he's
gonna listen to her.

I'm not working
for that guy.

I get it. Nancy is
gonna have to fix it-

No question.

You really trust her.

Yeah, I do.

I'm gonna go
talk to rene for kapo.

Don't worry, all right?
We're gonna figure out.

- nancy will
talk him out of it.

Stop stressing.

Don't bullshit 'cause
we know where you live.

- I know where you at.
- All right.

Good news-
whiteboy chi-chi,

He doesn't know anything about
the rasta monsta weed spray.

Since when do you trust
whiteboy chi-chi?

- He's a fucking thief, that guy.
- Exactly.

If anyone was seeing
any action with a weed spray,

That lowlife would've
robbed him already.

What are you,
fucking matlock now?

Yo, take me to my
grandmother's house,

Then I want
you to go uptown,

Talk to sisto and see
what you can find out,

What he knows,
all right?

Eddie, I can't risk this.

Hi. I'm sorry
I kept you waiting.

Okay. So yosi,
he's out of his mind.

We need to find a new
manufacturer immediately.

Okay.

You got that kind
of money for production?

And what are we supposed
to tell christin and kirsten?

They really insisted.

Well, did he tell you
about "crisp by yosi"?

Yeah. You don't
like the name?

Are you kidding me?
You do?

Yeah. I mean,
I got to admit-

Sounds like
a big brand to me.

Does he know about us?

Is this some sort of
revenge thing going on here?

- Just tell me.
- No. Oh my god, ben, are you crazy?

Look, yosi is
completely oblivious.

I could fuck you right there in front
of him. He still wouldn't notice it.

- Believe me.
- Okay. Then why is he doing this?

Maybe because he's been a
behind-the-scenes guy his entire life

And now that
he's turning 50,

He wants just
a little recognition.

- Can you blame him?
- Off our ideas? Yeah, I can.

He is really fucking good
at what he does.

You want my two cents
for whatever it's worth?

- License crisp to yosi.
- Do you have our back?

Listen, I know. This feels
really weird right now.

- Yeah.
- But as soon as those checks start coming in,

You're gonna feel a lot
differently. Trust me.

- It's not about the money.
- Yeah? Well, it should be.

This is a business.

Ben, do you know
how many new brands

I see crash
and burn every day?

You are being handed
the keys to the kingdom.

Don't you think
that comes at a price?

Mm.

Listen, it's your choice.

Just don't overthink it.

Don't let cam
push you around on this.

What?

I just want you to think
about what you really want.

- I gotta go.
- Really?

- Really.
- You look so fucking cute when you are all stressed out.

Okay.

How quiet do you
think we could be?

I've got 10 minutes.

- You are so fucking bad.
- You love it.

- I've never done this before.
- Never?

Look, I appreciate
all your time on this,

But don't tell your mom
to run out

And buy the new issue
of "biscuit"

Because the article is
not running, so here it is.

Sorry.

What else can you do
except grab your balls

And hope the world accepts
you for who you are, right?

I mean, I can't do that,
but yeah.

I got an idea that might
actually make you feel better.

I'm not getting
another tattoo.

No. No tattoos.

Mushrooms de magica

Grown right here in a pile
of shit in my backyard.

what do you say?

Let's ride the snake
to the lake.

- Holy shit.
- What? What's the matter? What's wrong?

- It's crisp.
- What is crisp?

It's my friend
ben's company-

Taking over
the fucking world.

I'm so fucking
proud of that dude.

- Oh my god!
- Whoa whoa.

- Whoa.
- Oh god, do you know about the mole people

- Who live beneath the city?
- Whoa whoa whoa.

It's, like, straight
narnia down there, man.

- Be careful.
- They live in darkness.

- Hey.
- Hey, you know what we should do?

Wait, don't. Let me
try to read your mind.

We should shvitz.

Did you say that
out loud or did-

- Did I just
read your mind?

- It's so good!
- Okay, follow me.

Okay.

It'll take five minutes
out of your day.

Kapo's a good dude.

I gotta help him. He's
gonna get killed in there.

Well, he shoulda thought about
that before insider-trading.

- Hola, m'ijo. You hungry?
- Sí.

I made spaghetti.
You like spaghetti.

I gotta ask you
a very serious question.

You ever see this before?

what's this?
Rasta monsta perfume?

- Huh? You made perfume, rene?
- No no no. No!

- Aw, no.
- Mm, that's no good.

- Changing my blouse.
- Take a shower, abuela.

I smell like
a skunk.

It's not perfume,
dumbass.

It's liquid marijuana.

Some puto out there

Is using my copyrighted
label to sell that shit.

What, there's drugs
in there?

There's these
jamaicans telling me

They're selling that
out there in the street, man.

So is there something you
wanna tell me that I don't know?

What?
No, nothing.

You know what would happen
if the police suspected

Drugs associated
with my business?

There's no telling what
they would dig up on me

Or you.

See, petra, because
you're from germany,

You'd be like a doberman-

Sleek, smart,
with a propensity to kill.

I mean, you're both
fucking foxes, so what-

we gotta talk now.

Excuse me.

How did those little bottles
end up on the streets?

Man, it was brand loyalty,
not my fault.

Those kids were fiending
for rasta monsta minis.

As soon as I changed the name to
smoka-cola, nobody wanted the shit.

Rene knows about them.

Oh, shit.
Seriously?

I mean look, man,
I know we spoke about it.

Not for nothing, but I thought
he would be amused by it,

- Kind of like an homage.
- Homage?

You don't get it.

how many did you make?

To be honest,

Enough to get the entire
n. Y.U. Class of 2012 stoned...

- For a month.
- Fuck.

This is awesome,
right?

Just breathe,
just feel it.

Sweat out
all impurities.

Heat feels
really good, right?

No, it feels like
I'm cooking.

I'm like- I'm like
a lady sausage boiling.

What the fuck
is up, tim?

Hey, heath'. What's up? You um-

- You remember rachel, right?
- Why are you with her?

- Hey.
- You said she was done writing her article,

- So you can't tell me this is research.
- Heather, it's rachel.

- So good to see you again.
- She just came by to drop off the article.

- That's why we came here.
- I just dropped it off.

- We didn't have anywhere else to go.
- Well, whatever this is,

It's inappropriate.

You're right. I mean, if
you were with my boyfriend,

Like, shrooming half-naked
at a shvitz, like-

- That would be crazy!
- You guys are shrooming?

- What?!
- Yeah.

no no no, use your words.

- Use your-
- get off me, freak!

Uh, heather, come on!
Fucking wait!

I fucking love you, all right? She's
just some girl I felt sorry for.

Can I get some ketchup?

Come on,
I got some frites.

- How'd it go?
- Okay, so I talked to nancy.

She thinks we should
do the licensing deal.

Of course she does. I don't
trust either one of them.

I say it's time to part
ways with mr. And mrs. Shady.

Okay. That's fine. We
can end things with yosi,

But just know
that if we do that,

The gadzooks deal goes away
and we got nothing.

Why? They want
crisp hoodies.

They don't want
crisp by yosi hoodies, right?

Maybe, but-

All right, how are we
gonna deliver without yosi?

We don't have any
manufacturing relationships,

We don't have investors.
We don't even have time.

- I might know an investor.
- Who?

Let me do what I do.

I don't wanna know.

Listen, you call
christin and kirsten

And let them know we might
need a little extension.

Holy shit.

It's a shame rene is making us
gethis shit off the streets, man.

The streets
of new york, yeah,

But he didn't say
anything about new England.

You remember my boy
andre vippolis?

- Yeah. Philly dude, right?
- Yes. Now he's up at umass.

He's a 28-year-old freshman and
the biggest stoner you'll ever meet.

- Huh.
- But listen,

He told me damian marley's
performing this weekend.

So andre will buy
all the sprays.

Look, man, I don't know about
trafficking that shit across state lines.

You can get
hard time for that.

And nigger like me is just
too pretty for prison.

Come on, come on, man.
Easy money

- And a college road trip
rolled into one.

And I know how you like
those sorority girls.

All right!
Damn it, I'm in.

That's what's up.

And, listen, I'ma need to
borrow your half of the profits

To manufacture crisp
hoodies, okay? Cool.

Hey hey hey,
what are you doing?

- Don't play with the soup, huh?
- No, I was ladling it.

You have to pay first.

Sorry.

Mm.

here.

$3.22.

Wait, this isn't-
oh fuck.

Fuck! I left my
- I left my bag at the thing.

- Three dollar, twenty-two
cent! - 2¢, okay.

Yeah. Take a penny.

Can you just
spot me on this?

Like, I'm like-
I'll totally come back tomorrow.

- I'll give you, like, double.
- No!

Please. Because, listen,
I smashed my head-

No. You spending
the money on the drugs

And you want me to
give you food for free?!

No, me come
back tomorrow.

Get out! I call the police
- 30 second!

This is what's wrong
with the community in new york.

I mean what's wrong with me
that I don't deserve this soup?

For like what?
'cause I don't have $3?!

I'm sorry, man, but fuck
this soup and fuck you.

- Like, fuck you.
- No, fuck you.

- No, fuck you.
- You god damn.

- I said fuck you first.
- You fuck!

No, you fuck!

To be honest with you,

I never even saw it coming.

Next thing I know,
the guy shanks me.

Blood all
over the place.

- My man, that does not tickle.
- For real.

And this
- this shanking was completely unprovoked?

Yeah. This young guy was
trying to prove himself.

- But I had it taken care of, right, ed?
- Jabar: You sure did.

- Got his ass-
- let me ask you something.

You used to fight a lot
when you was a kid?

- Not so much, rene, no.
- Ah, don't worry about it.

You're gonna be more popular
than I was when you're in there.

They're gonna like you
a whole lot.

Jabar: Whole lot.

A whole lot.

Boss, tell me you just
didn't see what I saw.

- Kapo: What?
- What is that?

- It's the ras monsta.
- Where'd you get this from?

I got that from domingo.
It's all right.

Who the fuck is domingo?!

Cam's partner domingo.

- Cam's partner?
- Mm-hmm.

- Cam's fucking partner!
- Mm, okay okay.

Let's go.
Let's go!

Man: I can't get ahold
of kirsten or christin.

- Would you like to leave a message?
- Yeah yeah,

- Can you just tell him
that ben from-

- ben from crisp called?

Crisp? Cool. We're excited
about your hoodies.

- I think you're gonna do really well.
- Yeah?

- Thanks. All right.
- I'll let them know.

wilfredo.

- What's the deal, ben?
- What's up, man?

- How you doing?
- How you been?

- You got a photo shoot?
- Yeah, man.

It's a skateboard mag.
We're doing a profile thing.

That's cool.
How is it going?

- I'm straight, man.
- Yeah?

- Oh, go.
- I'm skating for, rasta monsta now..

Yeah. No, I heard.
Congrats.

- Thank you.
- How's that going?

It ain't the dopest
atteam in the world,

But at least I can afford to
take chick out for some burgers,

- Maybe even little milkshake if she's lucky.
- I hear you.

wilfredo!

Wait up, dude. Man, I got
a second chance at life.

I'm not gonna
fuck it up this time.

- I'll see you around.
I'm in the hood.

- Yes. Stay up.
- No doubt.

Fuckin', mikey.

Delivery.
Somebody order a beatdown?

- Check the kitchen, man.
- You got it.

Only cam would have a fucking
viking stove in the projects.

It's looking
at me funny.

Jabar:
What? The stove?

Kill it.

- Boss, he ain't back there.
- Where the fuck is he?

♪ I got you stuck
off the realness ♪

♪ we be the infamous,
you heard of us ♪

♪ official queensbridge
murderers... ♪

- Best knishes in new york.
- You know it.

- Save me some.
- Got you, got you.

Ready to make this money?

Sorority girls!

Yes!

whoa!

Cam: Oh, shit.

Look at you
racially profiling.

cam: What is he doing?!

Yo, man,
look at my bumper.

You need to learn
how to drive, homie.

- Me? You hit us!
- Yo, what the fuck are you doing?!

Ask my man.

You want your
weed spray back?

Tell your boss to come see the
east flatbush caribbean league

Before we see the police. Now
put this shit in the trunk.

- Now!
what the fuck?

how are you feeling?

Came by your job today.

- Be honest with me, rene.
- Mm-hmm.

Are you an asshole?

I'm not an asshole.

Can I count
on you, rene?

Debbie,
we gone over this.

Do you love me? 'cause I'm always
very clear with you about my feelings,

But you never really
communicate with me.

Come on, debbie,
you don't feel it?

I love you.

Papi, I do feel it.

And I'm pregnant.

- What?
- I was late.

I'm never late.

I went to see dr. Riff
this morning

And he said he heard
a strong heartbeat.

- You're serious?
- Yeah.

And you sure
that it's mi-

I will smack you dead
in the face

If you ruin
this joyous moment

- With your ignorant question.
- No, baby,

It's a beautiful thing.

You really think so?

Hell yeah.

Yeah. Come here, baby.
Come here.

Mmm.

Hey.

What happened?

I didn't get
the money.

You okay?

Yeah, don't
worry about that.

Hey listen, man,

So I was thinking, right?

The money we can make
from crisp by yosi,

- We just start our own brand.
- Crisp is our own brand.

Yeah, but what
is crisp really?

I'not working for yosi.
I don't trust him.

Then tell me what to do,
'cause we're out of options.

Is nancy putting
you up to this?

Nobody's putting me
up to anything.

This is business, okay?

Do you want half of
something or all of nothing?

I can't work
for somebody else, ben.

That's not why
we started this.

- That wasn't the plan.
- Yeah, well, the plans change

I guess you can take
the boy out of barney's,

- But you can't take barney's out of the boy.
- What does that even mean?

There're two kinds of people
in the world, all right?

There are employees and
employers. Guess which one you are.

I'm the one who's almost 30,
broke, with no health insurance.

Bro, join the fucking club.

But I'm not gonna let yosi or
anyone get over on us because of it.

Look, we make this deal-
that is the start

Of something very
significant for us.

Ben, I know. I'm out there in the
streets trying to make it happen.

yeah, how's that
working out for you?

- Don't be a dick.
- Don't be a fucking idiot.

I know it's not exactly
what we planned.

But I'm telling you, we would be
so fucking stupid to pass this up.

Do whatever you wanna
do with yosi and nancy.

Just don't call it crisp.

And go fuck yourself
with that attitude.

Yeah, okay.

hello?

- Hey ben, it's christin.
- And kirsten!

- Hey guys.
- Sorry we're calling back so late.

We're in san diego
for a. S.R.

- Everything okay?
- Uh...

- Yeah.
- You're not calling about delivery issues, are you?

- No.
- 'cause we hate delivery issues.

- Christin: Yeah. -
Everything is great. Just, uh-

- Just checking in.
- Awesome. Love it.

Yeah, everything
is rolling along here.

Nancy was kind of brilliant putting
you guys together with yosi, huh?

Putting us together?

- Nancy is a fucking
matchmaker!

- Too bad she can never get me
laid when I come to town.

Wait, I thought yosi came
from you guys.

- Mm-mm.
- No! All we care about

Is that the sweatshirts
get in on time.

And to be honest,
yosi's kind of a rock star,

But he's not the easiest
person to work with.

Christin: Is that it, sweetie? Because
we have to get going to benihana

With these hottie
australian surfers.

awesome.

- Bye, ben.
- Bye, ben.

- Bye, guys.
- Both: ♪ san diego! ♪

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- ♪ crashing down ♪

- ♪ crashing down ♪
- ♪ crashing down ♪

♪ when everyone's
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♪ I bet you
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- ♪ or you'll cash down ♪
- ♪ you'll cash down ♪

- ♪ and not make a sound ♪
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♪ everyone knows now ♪

- ♪ so you're sad ♪
- ♪ about the moment ♪

- ♪ you lost your love ♪
- ♪ damn ♪

♪ you couldn't
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♪ you were gassed ♪

♪ and that sucks,
don't it? ♪

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♪ sooner or later ♪

- ♪ it all comes crashing down ♪
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♪ when everyone's
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♪ I bet you would've
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