Sprinter

I'm going to America to help our family.

Donna, are you sure you want to do this?

It's just two years, my love.

It will go fast.

And then

we can finish the house.

Things gon' be better, I promise.

I know.

Your mother just called not too long ago.

She tell you when she coming?

Maybe next year.

Hey.

Bathe before you call her.

Hey, hey hey.

Akeem!

Wah gwaan, Mira?

All right

runners, to your marks.

Set,

go!

Ease up, ease up.

Ease up.

Back off!

Run.

Kick!

Sharp kick!

Push man, push through, push through.

Dip, dip, nice, nice!

Akeem, hey boy.

Get up mon, come on stretch out your foot.

Shut your mouth, get up!

What Garfield feeding you

make you run so fast?

Fast?

But I never win.

You never win the four,

but if you was running the two,

might be a different story.

400 is my race, coach.

Dad, it's Germaine!

Come.

Yo,

yah go hard brother.

You just go easy, seen?

What's up stranger?

Everything nice mon, you?

Everything is everything.

You turn philosopher now, eh?

Kemar say hi to grandpa.

Hey, what's up man?

It's been so long

you don't even recognize your grandpa, eh?

Yes.

I see work is going well.

I bring some rum.

Hold on, what you say, yellow heart this?

Yes, yes, come, Akeem try it.

This don't taste like you made it

How is Nesha?

Nesha good.

- Yeah? - Yah mon.

So why you never bring her?

You know how the baby mother thing goes.

No I don't, actually.

Tell me how it go.

Yo Germaine

big man thing,

how much for that car?

How you and mama?

Well, you know how the wife thing go.

No,

me no know nothing 'bout that.

She still sending you money?

Akeem.

Yo, the pickney foot

practically in the food.

Yo, mind what you do.

- What you say? - Hey hey.

You know that he made the track team.

Which event him run?

The 400 meter, just like you.

Yo!

You know where youth games gonna be this year, right?

On TV, like every other year.

In LA, Akeem!

I want to see your face in person.

I think you can make it, you know.

You're not coming this year again?

It's not that simple, you know that.

The process is very expensive.

All the money I make, me send back to you.

But everything is good with us now.

It's good because I make sure it's good.

I leave here now, that's it.

I can't come back.

But at least we would be together.

You have real talent Akeem.

You deserve to be in them games.

Germaine,

mommy want to talk to you.

All right, tell her I soon come.

Yo pop,

I want to go down to Jomos, ya know.

Oh, them have dance down there tonight, no?

Yeah, you know?

So what am I?

Daddy's day care?

Accurate!

Yo,

I can come to Jomos with you?

You know your ears big, youth?

Yo do it fast.

Go talk to mommy nuh.

Hey Donna.

Hi Germaine.

You tell Dad yet?

Yes, this morning.

Akeem,

does he know?

No.

I guess it's a big man thing, eh?

It's a thing you should understand.

Me a go on the road.

Walk good son.

I love you,

both of you.

I love you too.

Yo!

What you ladies drinking?

We'll have

Moscato,

everybody.

By the way, what's your name?

Yo, let me get four Moscato.

Yo, G.

Creeper wanna reason with you.

Outside.

Yeah mon, everything all right, me soon come.

Is everything all right?

Stay here.

How it is I send my son with you to a party

and you make him come home alone,

walking?

Something come up see-

Something more important

than your own flesh and blood?

You know, me never even

wanna carry him there in the first place.

So hold on.

You happy

to leave your pickney here with me

and you couldn't look after your own brother?

- Dad, you don't understand - No I do.

- You don't understand. - I understand-

You don't understand!

I bloodclaat understand!

Go and retrieve your son,

daddy day care is closed.

- Excuse me - Hey!

Come Kemar, go.

Father.

My son don't need be round the likes of you anyway, excuse me.

And now for the finals

of the Class One girls' 100 meters dash

here at the St. Lazarus invitational.

To your marks,

set,

It's a clean start.

Lewis of St. Jago out early,

lane four it's Kerry Hall of St. Lazarus

catching up fast, Hall overtakes Lewis for the lead.

Pulling away from the pack now

just look at her go

extending her lead with every stride,

No one can catch her now!

Slowing down just before the line.

It's Hall of St. Lazarus.

That's Kerry Hall of St. Lazarus High

with an easy win,

clocking 11.75!

We'll definitely be keeping a close eye on this-

Nice run.

Thanks.

You can learn some things from her, Akeem.

I could teach her a few things too.

Like what, how not to win?

Coach!

Stop chat foolishness and go warm up.

Now!

Yes coach, Me a forward.

Next on track the Class One boys'

100 meters final.