ANTON: Hey Buddy
(EDDIE NODS)
DAVIS: Have you seen Talon...
E(DDIE NODS NO)
ANTON: What's that paper work
EDDIE: I just went down to the Post office and filled out some paper work
DAVIS: for what?
EDDIE: I been thinking, One thing that always keeps me focus is when i have someone thing other then wrestling I'm focus on..When It's only wrestling I get into all sorts of mischief and trouble and I get bored honestly.
(ANTON AND DAVIS SIT DOWN AS ANTON GRABS THE PAPER WORK)
ANTON: So you signed for big Brother
DAVIS: We are going to have a kid around are you insane how they even let you sign up
EDDIE: I'm a professional and successful
DAVIS: your also a drunk, and a lunatic.
(EDDIE SHOOTS DAVIS A LOOK)
EDDIE: SO...takes a sip of his drink..
ANTON: Wait up..let me see those again
(ANTON GRANS THE PAPER WORK AND REALLY READ IT AND THEN STARTS TO LAUGH AS HE PUTS THE PAPE WORK DOWN)
ANTON: did you read this
EDDIE: What to read, Big Brother...get a small kid help him out a few times a week, show him some stuff make his life alittle better
ANTON: Yeah, that's big brother..that is not what you signed
EDDIE: What, Of course it is, it says it right there..Look, BIG BROTHER..
ANTON: It says BIG BROTHA
DAVIS GRABS THE PAPERS)
DAVIS: Holy shit it says BIG BROTHA
EDDIE: There's a difference?
ANTON: OMG
DAVIS: You Idiot, this is a work release..you have signed up for an african america work release program that an Ex-con live with you for 3 months and you try to change his life and give him a second chance..
EDDIE: WHAT?
(EDDIE GRABS PAPER)
EDDIE: OH NO!
VOICE: EXCUSE ME..ARE YOU EDDIE
(ALL THREE MEN LOOK UP)
VOICE: Um..hello..
(ALL THREE MEN ARE SILENT)
VOICE: Ok..you white boys ain't got to be so scared.
EDDIE: (SLOWLY SPEAKS) I'm ...not ...White
VOCIE: Are you Eddie?
EDDIE: Sorry. I didn't expect you..i mean i didn't expect you to show so quickly
(ANTON AND DAVIS LOOK AT EACH OTHER)
DAVIS: I think we gonna go..
ANTON: Yeah
EDDIE: ..PLease sit down
(THE GUYS SITS)
EDDIE: I'm Eddie
VOICE: I'm Malik, Malik Jordan, My peers call me Muzik
EDDIE: Music, like Music you dance to
MALIK: Kinda..but spelled M..U..Z..I..K
EDDIE: Ok, are you from big Brotha
MALIK: No, I'm from the census bureau
EDDIE: Oh ok...Pheeww had me nervous
MALIK: I am from big brotha Fool
EDDIE: Oh i mean..I'm a little confused..I though I filled out paper work for Big Brother..
MALIK: Wait up you telling me I'm paired with someone who thought he was getting some hopeless little kid..this is some sh!t, so now i got to spend three months with a guy who don't know how to deal with black folks
EDDIE: I beg to differ..you know nothing about me
MALIK: What you some white boy with some cash and what you gonna do for me, tell me go to school, invest in stock and take me to your white collar parties
EDDIE: shut up..
MALIK: Excuse me
EDDIE: you know shit about me..My ex fiance was black, my best friend at one time was black..and I ain't WHITE
MALIK: What you think you dated a black girl you know about black people
EDDIE: I Know there quick to be ignorant, I know black folks use the black tag to threaten people with the race card. i also know black folks have been a big part of my life..I don't see black, or white or hispanic.i see stupid and smart...which one are you
(MALIK STAYS QUIET)
MALIKL: You don't know me
EDDIE: Then we have something in common..
MALIK: What that means..I don't think you know you...
(MALIK STANDS UP PISSED OFF)
MALIK: you know what F@ck this, I don't need this I just got out the joint and I ain't gonna let some peckerwood take me back..
EDDIE: Sit down
MALIK: Why
EDDIE: I ant to help you, i'm going to take you to new places ,new heights...your right when i found out i put my signature in the wrong place i was skeptical and hesistant..but now meeitng you..I want this challenge...your gonna be somebody
MALIK: I am somebody
EDDIE: your somebody annoying me.be quiet..grab the menu order up, on me
MALIK: I don't need you to pay for me
EDDIE: I'm not saying..I own this place
(MALIK LOOKS AROUND IN SILENCE)
MALIK: this is your place..
EDDIE: YES so let's do this over...Hello, My name is Eddie and you are
MALIK: Malik Jordan, my friends call me MUZIK
EDDIE: Ok MJ, relax....
(CELL PHONE GOES OFF EDDIE LOOKS DOWN)
EDDIE: MJ, your gonna meet alot of people..you have to trust me
MJ: you don't have chicken wings on this menu
EDDIE: Are you kidding me I have the best buffalo wings in the city...
MJ: I'll take that
EDDIE: How old are you..
MJ: 20
EDDIE: How you end up in jail..
MJ: Let's go slow..a little at a time...
EDDIE: Understood..Listen i got to make a phone call, Here is my address and my keys...you get the room in the back
MJ: you gonna just turst me, an ex con with your place...and a penthouse at that..
EDDIE: trust me, I ahve seen it all..i also know you are not allowed to be around certain people
MJ: how you know that if you didn't even know what you signed up for
EDDIE: I just got a text from your parole officer with some names of people you should stay away from..
MJ: Ok..
EDDIE: Please..go to your new home, relax, you will love where you live...No weed smoking
MJ: now what makes you think i smoke weed
EDDIE: don't you...
MJ: not the point..i can't I'm on parole
EDDIE: Ok...remember room in the back...I got to go...
MJ: ok...
(EDDIE WALKS AWAY)
MJ: Hey Ed
EDDIE: Yeah
MJ: Thanks
EDDIE" FOR WHAT...I haven't done anything
(MJ LOOKS AROUND AND LEANS BACK AS EDDIE LEAVES AS THE SCENE FADES)
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