The Chi
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Papa: My dad always wanted me to follow him into the pulpit. I guess me giving his eulogy was the last nudge.
Jake: Just because he dead doesn't mean you gotta live the rest of your life for him.
Jake: This isn't a place for us. This is a place for me.
Jemma: What?
Jake: Yeah, I've been saving up and I want to get a bachelor pad.
Jemma: But you're not a bachelor.
Jake: But I'm also not married.
Jemma: How does it look for me to be living with my dad and my man has his own place?
Jake: We way too young to be living together.
Jake: I'm taking over Kevin's lease.
Jemma: Congratulations, baby. This is amazing. I cannot believe that you got us our own spot. I mean, the timing couldn't be more perfect because I am so ready to get out of my dad's house. I mean, if I have to hear, my dad fucking Tierra one more time. I'm gonna scream.
Victor: Both y'all crazy as hell, bro. Y'all can't kill Douda.
Emmett: That's why we're here.
Rob: Look, I don't need your help.
Victor: Nigga, just because you tall doesn't mean you a gangster. Bro, y'all not about this life. Rob, I know you grew up in some big ass house with your mommy and daddy and Emmett, your Mama made sure you ain't want for nothing. Y'all not street niggas so stop acting like it.
Britney: I'm just trying to understand why you sacrificing so much for him, but he's not doing the same.
Jemma: What am I sacrificing? The freedom to explore connections with other people.
Jemma: Managers can have multiple clients.
Maisha: She and I are on the same level.
Jemma: She's further along.
My dad challenged me to be better, be stronger, be noble. And now that he's gone, I have to be all those things for myself. I think we all have to do that. We have to make ourselves proud. We have to write our own moral code and stop living by somebody else's, even if that someone else is our own father.
Papa
I want you to just sit with what you and your daughter have just confessed to each other. You said you felt obligated to be a mother. And your daughter just said that when she was growing up, she felt like an obligation.
Keisha's Therapist
Keisha: If I can't count on you to protect us, we not staying here. Emmett: What happened is sticking around even when shit gets uncomfortable.
Keisha: This is more than uncomfortable. This could be life or death.
Emmett: I promise I'm not gonna let anything happen to you or my kids.
Keisha: Yeah, what if something happened to you?
All I know is for as long as Douda is alive, this city will always be in the devil's hands.
Pastor Jackson
Douda: Bakari, I need to have a word with you.
Victor: If you need to talk to him, we need to be present.
Douda: No, he doesn't need a chaperone.
Shaad: Well, he got two of them right here.
Emmett: I think I got myself into some big trouble just because I wanted to be the big man.
Darnell: But what kind of trouble?
Victor: When we ask questions, it shouldn't be about the details; it should be about how we can help.
