Oh, hey, Tina.Sorry, I'm in a rush.
It's coffee withthe principal day,
and I have to stop at Starbucks
because school coffeeis straight trash. Ugh.
Look, r-real quick. Feel this.
Whoa, that's a lot of cash.
Why do you have all that?
If it's illegal,don't tell me, Tina.
I'm a snitch.
It's advanced ticket salesfor our school musical.
Word must have gotten aroundthat the director's a genius.
Oh, okay, so you'rea genius now?
Follow the money, mama.
Follow the money.
Oh, have a good day, baby.
Oh. Mwah.
Hoping to beat traffic. Okay.
Oh, hey, Calvin. I knowwhat you're wondering,
and the, uh, the answer is no.
What was I wondering?
Oh, well, you were wonderingif my dad has reached out to me
since I acceptedhis friend request one week ago.
He has not.
Oh, well, sorry to hear that.
Hey, it's his loss.
Yeah. You know...
...hadn't thoughtabout him for years,
but then Groverfound his picture online
and memoriesjust came flooding back.
Yeah. Yeah, I can see that.Okay, got to go.
You know, every timeI pass a Pizza Hut,
I remember he used to takeme there every Friday
after Little League.
Yeah, I wouldgo to the salad bar
and fill my pocketswith croutons.
I literally would haveants in my pants.
Hey, you got to rememberthe good times.
Okay, now, talk to you later.
And then one Friday, the Hutintroduced stuffed crust.
I'm so jazzed totry it with my dad.
That was the Fridaythat he disappeared.
Just felt lost ever since.
All right.
Tell me more.
Well, there was a timeI had testicular torsion.
I had no oneto talk to about that.
And you still don't.
Okay, how about we, uh, skipto the part of your life
where you area father and a husband?
You know, like,if you saw your dad today,
what would you say to him?
I don't know.I guess I...
Guess I would say, uh,
"Hey, Lamar.
"It's great to see you again.
Thanks for abandoning me."And then face punch!
Okay. All right.You know what, Dave?
Maybe it's a good thinghe hasn't responded to you.
Yeah, well, maybe it's a goodthing that I haven't responded
to him. Face punch again.
God, just thinkingabout him makes me angry A.H.
You know what? I'm justgonna go ahead and say it.
Angry as heck!
Oh, damn.
Dad? You haven't left yet?
I tried, but I got Dave'd.
Yeah, well, I've been there,
but we need to head overto the Fuse Box.
Some of the people we hireddon't actually do anything
until I get there.
Look, son, you're gonna have to
light a fire under their asses.
That's your job now.
Management is more thanhaving a parking spot.
You have a parking spot?
I'm paying $20to park at the bank.
Hey.
Excuse me. I'm looking
for 1172 Evergreen Drive.
Uh, yeah, that's next door.
Oh, then you must knowmy son, David Johnson.
Oh, damn.
You're Lamar?
I am he, and he is I,
and both of meis delighted to meet you.
Yeah, you are definitelyDave's daddy.
Now, if you'll excuse me,I'm just gonna pop in on my son.
Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa. I mean, what's the rush?
I mean, you've beengone for 30 years,
what's 30 more minutes?I think we should talk.
Okay, we're gonna need lotsof spare parts, so I'm gonna
need you guys to hit upcar auctions, salvage yards.
Uh... Oh, Reynard,
you know we started at 10:00.
Yeah, sorry,my girlfriend's cat.
Oh, no, I-I'm sorry.Did-did the cat die?
Oh, no, she just has a cat.
You know how it is.
Uh, no, I-I don't. Uh, anyway,
as I was saying,I've compiled a list
of E.V. parts andmodels that we need.
We need motherboardstouch screens,
batteries... Oh, uh,uh, uh, Reynard.
Uh, R-Reynard,what are you doing, man?
Oh, my phone'sat one percent, bro.
You can't just unplug things.
I-I was updating our servers.Now I got to restart the update.
Here. Hey, let's just take ten.
Ten's a pretty short break.
You just got here.
Hey, lil' bro. I came totake you out to lunch, but, uh,
looks like you gotyour hands full.
That guy sucks.
Yeah, Reynard.
You know, he was greatwhen we worked together at JPL.
We used to alwaysscrew around together
and make fun of the boss.
But now that I am the boss,that guy sucks.
Daddy's gonna have to fire him.
Uh, wait, why can't you do it?
You know I'm notgood at confrontation.
I sign every petitionoutside of Trader Joe's,
no matter what they're for.
Dad always knocks the clipboardsout of their hand.
Well, Marty, youkeep telling Pop
you want to be treatedlike a full partner, right?
Well, drop the hammerdown on that dude.
Go on, now.
And I-I've got to ask,
what were your parents thinking
when they named you Lamar? Mm.
It's actually a combinationof my parents' names.
Oh. Oh.
Well, that makes sense.
Latasha and Marcellus.
Of course.
Lamar, I got to bestraight with you.
Your son and I are good friends.
Best friends?
He would say that, yes.
And that's why
I wanted to talk to you before
I took you over to see Dave.
He's got complicatedfeelings about you.
I-I'm sure you canunderstand why.
I get it. I've been outof his life for years.
When I heard from him,
I couldn't find the wordsto write back,
so I just hopped on a busand here I am.
Hey, Calvin,
I got your text.What's the emergency?
Oh, hi. Who's this?Oh, my God, you're Lamar.
Are you Lamar? You're Lamar.Dave's gonna freak out.
Don't let him see him. Oh, wait,
that's why you brought himover here. I'm sorry.
I've had so much coffeethis morning.
You must be Gemma.
Actually, it's Gemmawith a "juh."
Well, you're as beautifulas you are caffeinated.
Thank you.
Uh, Tina, Gemma, let me talkto you guys for a second.
Oh. Oh, okay. Excuse us.
Excuse. Yeah.
Look, uh,
Gemma, this is your call,
but should we take himto meet Dave?
Oh, God. I mean,he is Dave's father.
Hi. Sorry.
But I'd loveto go see my son now.
Yeah. Come on. Yeah, let's go.
Uh, Reynard, can we talk?
Sure. I'm doingliterally nothing.
Uh...
Look, man... Hm?
I'm concerned that your talents
are being underusedhere at the Fuse Box.
Clearly, you're capableof much more, and
I thinkwe need to make a change.
I've been feeling the same way.
You have? Oh, good.
You know, sometimes,a-a job's requirements
and applicant skillsjust don't sync up, you know?
It's nobody's fault. Agreed.
Yeah. Well, I'm glad we talked.
You know, goodbyeand, you know, uh,
good luck with that cat.
Thanks for the pep talk.All right.
I'll see you at lunch.What the...
Hi, honey.
Hey, buddy.
You okay? Yeah.
Okay, um, why-why don't youput down the box?
Just recycling.
Hey, you knowif they take these?
Whoa!
Whoa. Okay, uh, okay,
Dave, w-why don't youhave a seat?
We have somethingwe want to tell you.
And we don't want youto get upset.
Stop it.
Look, Dave,
someone's here to see you. Now,
you may think it's a bad thing,
but we are hopingit's a good thing.
Come on in.
David. Son.
Lamar?
I want you to know
that I'm so, so sorry.
Okay, D-Dave, whoa, whoa, whoa.You don't want to do this. Dave!
Oh.
Okay.
All right. Well, or that.
Do you remember that timeI took you to the movies
to see Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest,
but we wentinto the wrong theater?
It was Basic Instinct.
I can't believe it took usan hour to figure that out.
Oh, your mom was so mad.
Yeah, mom was mad.
Mom was mad a lot back then.
E-Especially when you leftand never came home again.
Ooh.
That turned fast.
You know, I was really mad, too.I still am.
And I certainlyowe you an explanation.
Yeah, you do.
He's been very upsetfor a long time.
And that's understandable.
The truth is,
being absent wasn't my choice.
It was the choiceof a jury of my peers.
Oh, damn. Oh, damn.
Wait,
were you in prison?
Well... yes.
Was it a violent crime?
Because if it was,my friend Calvin
is gonna take youright out of here.
No.
No, no, no, I'm not a monster.
Yeah, and-and I'm nota bouncer, Dave.
I stole some money,but it was a victimless crime.
I took a bunch of moneyfrom some rich people.
I was like Robin Hood,
legendary heroof the common folk.
Who'd you give the money to?
Oh, I kept it.
I was not exactlylike Robin Hood.
Dave, I so wanted to tell you,
but I didn't want youto live with the stigma.
Your mother agreed.Oh, boy, did she agree.
But the hardest thingabout prison
was not being ableto see my son.
What about when you got out?
I was a loser.
I was embarrassed.
Then I pulled myself together
and I worked up the courageto send you the friend request.
I'd seen pictures of youand your family on Facebook.
So happy.
So, I've been waiting,
hoping we can havesome kind of relationship.
Well...
face punch seemsa lot less likely now.
Was face punch on the table?
Oh, yeah, itwas a face punch Oh.
And a nut kick and somethingto do with jazz hands.
I don't know how Reynard didn'tunderstand I was firing him.
I told him he was beingunderused at the Fuse Box,
that it wasn't a goodmatch for his skills
and that he'd bemuch happier elsewhere.
Well, that'spretty much perfect.
The only thing you left outwas "you're fired."
It was implied.It was really, really implied.
Look, it doesn't matterhow implied it was, Marty.
People are gonna hearwhat they want to hear.
You know, if yousaid that to me,
I would just say, "Thanks, man."
He just said, "Thanks,man," didn't he?
Yeah.
Look, bro, as a coach,
sometimes I have togive players bad news.
The thing I've learned isit is best to be direct.
Well, it seems mean.
You are damn right it's mean,
but it is nicer in the long run.
Okay. Help me.
Teach me your bluntand brutal ways.
Okay.I'll be you,
you'll be Reynard. All right.
Yeah? Sit down.
Don't sit down. You're fired.
Tina.
I don't mean totoot our own horns,
but we did a good thing
for Dave today.
Calvin, quick question,by any chance,
did you see an envelopefull of cash
that I left on the counter?
Uh, no. Why?
Ugh. It's gone.It's the school's money.
And I left it here so I wouldn'tforget to move it into the safe,
but I forgot.
I think you're missingthe point of a safe.
You put things straight into itto make it safe.
Hence the name... safe.
Are you done?
Come on, come on.
It's got to be here somewhere.
All right? Wehaven't had anybody
in the housewho could have, uh...
Oh. Oh. Oh? Oh, oh, what?
What, what, what?
Lamar. He just told usthat he's been in prison.
He was?
And I gave that thiefbottled water.
I knew I should have justtapped his ass.
So they fed you dinner at 05:00?
Yeah, it wasn'tmy biggest problem with prison.
But I got to be honest, I stillget hungry at 5:00.
Do you have an apple?
Hey, Calvin, Tina,
Lamar was just telling usabout his time in the joint.
Did you know that you couldwash clothes in the toilet?
Hey, I did not.
But why don't you tell usall about it
in the kitchen? Yeah.
Ooh, and get Lamar an apple.Oh, yeah.
Hey, uh, Calvin, Tina,I have to thank you
for everything thatyou did for me today.
You know, I finallyfeel like this huge...
hole in my life has been filled.
Well, we're aboutto rip it back open.
What do you mean?
Dave,
Lamar tookTina's envelope of money.
What? CALVIN: Yeah.
He cracked your safe?
Money doesn't alwayshave to be in a safe.
Maybe somebody else took it.
It had to be him, Dave.
He's-he's the only one that'sbeen in our kitchen and prison.
I should have known.
Hate to be pushy,
any ETA on that apple?
You have got some nerve.
An orange?
You know what? Lamar,
get out of my house.
What?
Get out of my house.
Whoa, Dave, what's going on?
This man is a thief.
Where's the money, Lamar?
What money?
You see?
That's exactly whata thief would say.
Look at him, hands shaking,stomach growling.
It's 5:15. I'm starving.
He stole moneyfrom their kitchen.
The money from the play?
And I was gonnagive you an apple.
How could I be so naive?
You know, I really thoughtthat we were
starting to build something.
Me too.Dave, you have to trust me...
T-Trust?Why would I ever trust you?
You know, this is exactlywhat I should have expected.
Everybody said thatyou were a selfish loser.
Mom, all the kids at school,every waitress at Pizza Hut.
But for some reason,I held out hope.
Get out of my house, Lamar.
Get out of my life.
You already know how to do that.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone.
This is sad.
I know.
He's leaving with my money.
Poor Dave.I mean, what a roller coaster.
What happened?
Well, Dave had a dad,
then he didn't have a dad,then he got his dad back
and he lost him again.
And on top of that,
my fat envelopeof cash got taken.
Oh, you mean the one thatwas on the counter? Yeah.
Oh, I put thatin the safe this morning.
What? Wh...Why would you do that?
So it would be safe.
That's why they call ita safe, Mama.
Hey, uh, Mal-Mal... Mm-mmm.
Not now.
Oh, my God, Calvin.
And you accused that poor manof stealing the money.
Hey, I mean, you got to admit,it was a good guess.
Okay, uh, I'll check arrivals,you check departures.
Dave, this is a bus station.
There's no arrivals ordepartures. It's just a curb.
Right. Um...
Okay, w-what if he's alreadygone through security?
No security, just a curb.
Yeah, well,we must have missed him.
Look, Dave,
I'm sorry I led youdown this path.
He just looked guilty.
It's all right, Calvin.
You only got involvedbecause, well,
you love me.
Da... Wha...
What'd I tell you aboutthrowing the L-word around
all willy-nilly likethis in public?
Ooh, there he is. Lamar. Lamar.
David, what are you doing here?Uh, well...
We wanted to tell you that
we found the money.
Oh, I'm glad.
I told you I didn't take it.Yeah.
Look, I'm partially responsible.He's totally responsible.
Look...
This is hard for me.
Let me make it easy.Apology accepted.
Yeah, no.
I'm not apologizing.
You know, I thoughtthe worst of you
because you nevergave me any reason
to trust you.
You have to earn that.
How can I do that?
I haven't quitefigured that part out yet.
But I'm willing towork on it with you.
Me too, son.
Bus 343is now departing for Oxnard.
That's my bus.
Hope I see you again soon.
Hey, uh, I-I haveone question, man. Um...
You know, there is a-a Lamar,
Latasha, and a Marcellus.
So, where did David come from?
Oh, that was actually a fightI lost with his mom.
I wanted to name him LaDavid.
Come on, lil' bro,you got this, all right?
You're right, you're right.I got this. Yeah. Okay.
Good morning!
You are fired!
What?
Boom. You are fired.
Terminated. Canned. Finito!
Your employment herehas come to an end.
Sayonara and good luckon future endeavors,
wherever they are,because they will be elsewhere.
Because, to be clear,
Reynard Kittay,
you are fired.
But the cat has a...
I don't give a damnabout no cat!
Malcolm? Yeah?
Please escort this manoff the premises
in case he acts a fool.
Let's go, Reynard.
Can I at least get my Red Bullout fridge?
I drink your Red Bull.
I drink it up.
Wow.
Who are you?
I, my good man, am a boss.
Yes, you are. And you know what?
I think you deservea parking spot.
Well, all right.
What-what...Do we have one of those?
Well, sure we do, if you,
uh, paint some linesnext to the dumpster.
Go on, now.
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