Flesh and Blood Page #2

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- [Mark] Yeah, man, we got to chill.

- Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

All right, G, man, take it easy.

Always a pleasure.

[Mark] Be well.

[Galen] No doubt.

[Mark] Wow, I can't

believe his son is five.

[Guillermo] Time flies

when you're in a cell.

My mind would just be thinking

and thinking and thinking and thinking.

Thinking about everyone, and

everything on the outside.

I couldn't sleep.

And so I had to figure out a way

to practice getting to sleep.

How to get out of my

mind, and into my heart.

I love you.

Good night.

I'll be right here in the morning.

[Man] Motherfucking cop

was hanging a U-turn.

(Cheri laughs)

[Man] And some of these, they're like,

"Yo open." They asked for the license.

They're like "Open the door."

- Oh.

- Hey.

This is my son here.

This is Chucky.

Chucky, good to meet you, man.

And this is my man.

- Hey, how's it going?

- Smoke.

- Hey Smoke.

- Nice to meet you.

- Good to meet you.

- Welcome home.

Thank you, guys.

I'm gonna go out for a walk.

I'll be back in a little bit.

Good to meet you.

- Likewise.

- Yeah.

- Be safe, man.

- I will.

Have a great night.

- You too.

- All right.

I love you, Mom.

I love you, too.

All right, so Chucky (laughs)

[Chucky] Can't tell you all that.

(both laughing)

- Yo, Mark!

- Yo.

- What's going on, man?

- What's up, man?

How you doing, man?

[Mark] I'm great, man, good to see you.

Good to see you too, man,

almost didn't recognize you.

[Mark] Is Antoine here?

Yeah, he's here man.

Okay.

He's, uh, doing his music.

He's, uh, rapping right now, so.

Oh, great.

You know, be quiet,

and we'll let him know

that everything's cool.

'Cause money make the world go 'round

'Cause money make the world go 'round

What? Get the...

For real.

What the f***?

Yo.

[Mark] Yo.

Yo!

[Mark] Yo, sh*t!

What's up, baby?

- How are you?

- My f***ing boy.

What's up?

[Mark] What's up, man?

Huh?

[Mark] This is dope.

You like that? (laughs)

[Antoine] Damn, my man.

Out here.

[Mark] Yeah, I know.

[Antoine] Here, put that up for yourself.

[Mark] Oh, good luck, man.

- Appreciate it, man.

- Something light, man,

a little starter kit, man, you know?

Thank you, thank you.

Get you a phone and all that.

Mm, mm-hm.

We'll talk about the rest

later, you know what I'm saying?

Fill you in, man.

So what's up, man?

Hmm.

You know, just walking around, man.

Taking everything in.

Just trying to stay present, you know?

I know, right?

Breathe the air and sh*t, right?

Mmm hmm, just stay...

See the trees and all that.

[Mark] Yeah, man.

Yeah, look, um, real sh*t man.

Like I know sh*t could have

went any other way, man.

You took a nice hit for us, man.

A lot of dudes would have

broke under that pressure, man.

It would be no that without you.

We definitely want to

commend you for that, man.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, no, man, it's all good, you know?

Yeah, no doubt.

I don't expect sh*t, man, you know?

No doubt.

I'd do that any other time, man.

You always don't want nothing, huh?

You just is you know I mean?

No, I'm good, you know?

- You...

- I'm just...

No, I'm good.

I mean this is, you know.

Ah, no, man.

This is gonna help.

Damn!

Yo, remember Cancun? (laughs)

(men shouting in distance)

[Man] Freeze!

(Mark gasps)

You okay?

Yeah.

I was just having a bad dream.

I got to get ready for school.

[Cheri] Honey!

[Mark] Hmm?

You got to get up, hon.

Get up.

I'm up.

[Cheri] We got to get going, come on.

All right, well, I got to meditate first.

[Cheri] Honey, we don't have time for that.

Let's get going.

What?

[Cheri] I promised Sister Margaret

we'd be there by nine o'clock.

I also need to take you

around the neighborhood.

Can I shower?

[Cheri] No, we don't have time for that.

Come on, get going.

Please, honey?

- Yes, stop talking.

- All right.

(laughs) You don't have to be like that.

No, whenever you have crazy news, I like...

No, no, it's really, it's good crazy news.

But it's gonna be like really hard.

I'm running for Vice President.

(laughs)

I thought for sure when

Jill first called me...

Who's Jill?

Jill Stein, she's from the Green Party.

And...

Wait.

I'm totally serious.

You're running for Vice

President of the United States?

[Cheri] I'm running for

Vice President of the

United States of America.

Massive amounts of more

speaking engagements.

It means much more problems

with political police in my life.

- Yeah.

- It means problems

with the IRS, the CIA, the FBI.

Great.

Maybe you can get me a job?

[Cheri] Hmm. A job?

That's a different story. (laughs)

[Mark] Well, I need a f***ing job.

Honey, everybody needs a job.

In your neighborhood here,

the number one source of income is welfare.

The second number one

source of income is drugs.

Nobody's got a job, honey.

Guess who's back?

[Mark] Hey.

Hi.

[Cheri] Long time no see.

Mark!

[Mark] How you doing?

[Woman] Good to see you.

Welcome back home.

Thank you so much.

It's great to be home.

[Cheri] She's been so good to Guillermo.

Yeah, you have?

I thought you were locked up.

[Cheri] Do you remember my son?

- [Man] Is this your son? - Yeah,

they both home. - How you doing, man?

What's up? Good to see you, man.

- Okay, congratulations.

- They both home.

[Mark] Thank you.

How much time did you do?

Well, I did 18 years.

18 years?

Yeah.

Mmm hmm.

When you're dealing with

addiction and issues,

Mmm hmm.

it's like a double bubble butt.

Both my parents died from addiction.

They both OD'd and died.

Yeah.

My mom had three other

guys OD and die on her.

It took me in bad places, losing jobs,

getting locked up, being homeless.

And the crazy thing is,

I kept going back for it

knowing the consequences that

was coming for it, you know?

I OD'd eight times.

I still went right back for it.

I started using drugs

at the age of 16 years old, you know.

And I'm 54 today.

But I came in because my life

was completely unmanageable.

I didn't hurt anybody outside of my family.

I always hurt my family, you know.

I was stealing from my family.

So you can't find employment

because you got felonies?

Yeah I got a few felonies.

[Cheri] Mmm hmm.

Like I came from a suburban area.

[Cheri] Mmm hmm.

They look at me so different now.

Mmm hmm.

Like I'm a piece of gum

stuck under the table type, you know?

Well, I've seen you over the weeks,

and you look like you're

really progressing.

Thank you.

The shy guy?

Um, my name Lloyd.

- Oh, God.

- Recovery name is Lloyd.

[Group] Hey, Lloyd.

You know, and I'm in this process.

You know, I'm from Baltimore.

And me too,

like in and out of prison

and stuff like that.

You know, I had 10 years before.

But I didn't use the tools

that I know now to stay clean.

It's a struggle when you

come home from prison.

And doing a lot of time.

It's so hard to adapt before you...

[Cheri] How much time did you do?

Altogether I did, like,

19 years all, total.

And you're only 19, right?

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