Barbershop 2: Back in Business Page #8

- It's true.

In fact, the alderman and I

were just talking about you.

Well, about your business.

I undervalued the importance

of your shop to this community.

That's my bad.

It'd be a shame to see it

all go away for naught.

Man, I'm from the South Side.

- Don't try to hustle me.

- No hustle.

A hustle implies one side wins,

the other side loses.

I'm proposing a win-win.

I'm proposing that Nappy Cutz

never sees the light of day.

- Is that right?

- I'll turn it into a nightclub.

Your barbershop

will continue to thrive

without any interference from me

or from anyone else.

And this miracle happens

if I do what?

Not tell people

what I saw here tonight?

What'd you see tonight?

What'd you see in here

tonight, Calvin? Nothing.

Nothing.

Have a seat.

No, I'd rather stand.

All you have to do is talk.

The city council meeting

is tomorrow.

We need those other

business owners on your block to sell.

If you were to express to them

and to the governing board that you

believe in Quality Land's proposal,

your voice could be

the determining factor.

At least, I think so.

This could be a shitload of money

for the whole district.

Not to mention, it could be

a nice little windfall for Calvin.

A $200,000 windfall.

Now, that's a nice piece

of pocket change.

You could take your wife

on down to Jamaica.

The real one,

not that one in Queens.

It'd be a nice kick-start

to your kid's college fund.

You have a son, don't you?

Yeah, I got a son.

All you gotta do is talk.

$200,000.

I'm not asking you

for a whole lot, just to...

come on down and...

...just talk.

Just talk.

All right.

See you tomorrow.

Win-win.

You stalking me?

- Just wanna talk.

- Ain't nothin' to say.

Let me drive you to work.

How am I gonna look

rollin' up in your freak-mobile?

Terri, we work together.

We need to have a conversation.

Listen to what I got to say.

After that, you ain't got to

speak to me ever again.

I'll drop you off around the corner.

Get in the car.

Please.

Terri, I really ain't

been myself lately.

Ricky, before you even say anything,

I need you to know

that thug-gangta-player

bullshit is over for me.

I'm done with that in my life.

But you don't even know me,

what I'm about.

I see you every day...

late, sleepin'

in the locker room,

runnin' ho's day and night.

How is that not knowing you?

Boy!

I'm just gettin'

my backpack. Relax.

What is this, a warrant?

Why didn't you say anything?

I couldn't tell nobody I was

studying for the f***in' GED.

It's embarrassing.

But you passed.

Yeah.

Yeah, but honestly, though,

Now that I got it,

I don't even know what it means.

It means you give a damn

about your life.

You should be proud.

I'm proud of you.

Don't start paying me

compliments and stuff,

'cause then I gotta

give one back to you.

We'd be all over each other again,

and don't nobody want that.

I don't want it.

For the record...

I kind of liked the old Terri

before all the changes.

Loud and angry all the time?

Real.

All the time.

Man, I hope you hittin' that!

Miss Emma, is somethin' wrong?

Nothing a little prayer

can't handle, or my pistol.

What's the matter?

They wanna make this

funky little place into a co-op.

What?

I can't afford that down payment.

I'm gonna have to move.

Don't you own this place?

Just because I don't own it

don't mean it's not mine.

You've been livin' here, like, what?

A long time, long enough

to wipe your nasty little butt.

And a whole lot

of others, too.

But it's been worth it, though.

We can't lose you, Miss Emma.

It's about time

for me to retire anyway.

My brother has a nice place

out in Arizona.

You ever been to Arizona?

Hot as hell,

but I got some nice hats.

How can you leave Chicago?

On the bus.

Same way I got here.

Good morning there, youngblood.

You up early.

They fumigating your crib again?

I thought it'd be a good day

to walk and see the trees and dew.

Yeah, they fumigating.

I had a cockroach in my house

so big, I thought it was Shaq.

You're crazy.

- Let me ask you something.

- What?

You done worked and lived

around here for what, 34, 35 years?

Yeah, I guess 30 and some change.

I ain't tryin' to clown, but...

I hope not. You know I got jokes.

Don't you start nothin'.

Let me ask you...

is this the life you wanted?

Or did you ever think

you could do better?

What the hell keeps you

comin' back here every day?

Well, Calvin, you know,

if I was a bettin' man,

I'd say the reason I come back in

day in and day out

is the free chair.

Get real.

Hold it!

Get off him, pig!

...some very sad news

for all of you,

and that is that Martin Luther King

was shot and was killed tonight

in Memphis, Tennessee.

In this difficult day,

in this difficult time

for the United States,

it's perhaps well to ask

what kind of a nation we are...

This ain't right.

We should be honoring the man's

memory, we shouldn't be doing this.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

I'm gonna get on out of here.

I need to go check on Loretta.

She's talking about

moving back to Georgia.

I would only say

that I can also feel in my own heart

the same kind of feeling.

I had a member

of my family killed.

But he was killed

by a white man.

What we need

in the United States...

You be safe out there.

Yeah, I will, man.

Don't worry about me.

I'll probably

stop by Montgomery Ward's,

pick up a TV,

washer and dryer, lamps.

You need anything?

- Move, Eddie!

- No!

- Eddie, get out of there!

- No!

No!

I'll stay a little while longer, man.

Yeah, so after all that

quieted down,

your daddy told me I ain't never

have to pay for my chair again.

That's the kind of man

your father was.

He was a man's man.

He used to always

call me a hero.

The funny thing is

I never saw it that way.

I didn't save the shop, Calvin.

The shop saved me.

A lot like it did for Ricky.

I ain't have no life before this.

As far as I'm concerned,

my life began

on July 4, 1967,

when I came through that back door

and your father gave

my black ass a break.

So I'd be sad if somethin'

was to ever happen to this place.

But I'd be all right, though.

Oh, yeah, Eddie be fine.

Hey, what's up, y'all?

Calvin, can I have a word

with you for a second?

What you want, man?

Well, I know these are

tough times for you, cuz.

It's times like these when men

must rise up and make the right choice.

- Is that right?

- Yeah. It's about the truth.

Each and every one of us

has our own truth,

a truth that we must live with

for the rest of our lives.

Is there a point to this?

My truth is across the street.

I appreciate the job, cuz.

I'll always love you for it.

But I gotta bounce.

Y'all goin' broke

around this mug. Boy, I swear.

All right, all right.

And if anybody wanna come over

anytime and hoop it up,

ring a player, you know?

All this silence

got my gut grumblin'.

I'm gonna run down to Berry's,

get me a pastrami and fries.

Eddie, a man at your age

should be watching what he eats.

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