Rel

All right, guys. A year ago today,

we lost an incredible mother, incredible wife and a friend.

Uh, so to remember her, I got her favorite food:

shrimp fried rice. (CHUCKLES)

Boy, are you crazy? It's 9:30 in the morning.

Ain't nobody gonna eat no shrimp fried rice this early.

Yeah, yeah, when did you even get this?

I got it yesterday.

Ew. Yesterday?

Look, Nancy was like a mother to me,

but I'm not eating no day-old shrimp for breakfast.

Nat, this is supposed to be a day of celebration.

How you gonna celebrate when you're throwing up all day,

- trying not to die? - Okay, look.

If y'all gonna waste my shrimp fried rice...

which I refrigerated properly, by the way...

we gonna move on to memory sharing.

I read in a book that it can be actually therapeutic

to, you know, grieve as a group.

So I got this box with...

There's pictures of Mom in it, man...

Oh, hey. Hey, hey, hey. No tears.

Look, this is a celebration, all right?

We're all just gonna smile. I said smile.

Dad, I mean, I see you go through this box every night.

You know, you think I'm asleep.

Oh, you a Peeping Tom now?

Dad, just because you're uncomfortable having emotions

in front of other people, that don't mean that you can

rain on our parade, man. I mean, we grieving.

Oh, I am not uncomfortable having emotions, all right?

I'm having an emotion right now, called irritation.

Look, look, look. Look, guys. Look.

Let's just stop giving each other a hard time, okay?

Look, I'm gonna remember Mom the way I remember her every day.

I mean, she's in my heart, and, you know, I've processed

her passing in my own way. You know, I-I'm-I'm good.

Well, Dad's not. He claims he's never even cried about Mom.

Oh, no, hold up now.

My generation and every generation before me? Strong.

Y'all remember the movie Gladiator?

They killed his whole family. What'd he do?

He went out in a field, screamed one time.

Basically, he was good after that.

I did the same thing. I was at work, I was kind of feeling it.

Lunchtime, went outside, and I screamed,

and I've been amazing ever since.

Dad, you not a gladiator.

Oh, I'm not a gladiator?

Feel stupid as hell right now, don't you?

Bye, crybabies.

NANCY (OVER PHONE): Hey, baby, it's Mom.

Just called to let you know I'm going back into the hospital.

Call me back when you can.

Miss you. Love you.

Hey, baby, it's Mom.

Just called to let you know I'm going back into the hospital.

Call me back when you can.

Miss you. Love you.

Hey.

Rel, you okay?

Since when did you just start walking into my apartment?

All the time.

What-what do you want?

I left my phone.

- Look, Rel, I miss your mom, too. - Hey! Hey!

Okay, she wasn't your mom, all right?

She was my mom.

So you don't know what I'm going through, okay?

Matter of fact, just get out of here.

This your phone right here? Just-just leave, okay?

Excuse me?

Look, you being real rude, and it's pissing me off.

But because I have a firm rule that I don't smack people

on the anniversary of the day their mother died...

...I'm-a smack your ass tomorrow.

Hey, Britt, Britt.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Look, I'm...

Look, I'm sorry, okay? I-I'm...

I'm struggling.

Look, I know. It's all right.

If you don't want to talk to me, that's fine, Rel.

But you need to talk to somebody.

Maybe you should see a therapist.

You know black people don't see no therapists.

That's not true. Metta World Peace thanked his therapist

when he won the finals.

Charlamagne tha God talks about mental health all the time.

Speaking of God, Oprah advocates therapy.

See, all those people are rich, okay?

I don't know any normal people that go to therapy.

Rel, normal people go to therapy all the time.

I go to therapy.

You see a therapist?

I know at first, it seems weird to tell a stranger

all your darkest secrets.

But after a while, you know, it's very freeing.

It's like having an emotional prostitute.

I'm not gonna lie, that...

that actually just sounds like a regular prostitute.

Okay, look, what if I say something stupid, right?

And she start laughing at me?

She is not gonna laugh at you.

Okay, well, what if I say something funny, then? Huh?

Is she gonna suppress her laugh?

See, I don't like her attitude already.

You ain't even meet her yet.

See, this feel like a mistake. You know what I'm saying to you?

Matter of fact, what if she fall in love with me?

Rel, what are you talking about?

I'm saying, I'm-a go in there, I'm-a lay on that couch, right?

And she gonna just start looking at me deep in my eyes, right?

She's gonna be checking out

all this sexy chocolate-ness with glasses.

Rel, trust me. She is not gonna fall in love with you.

Oh, so she thinks she better than me now?

You know something? I ain't got time for this. I'm out of here.

Sit down.

You're not leaving. You're gonna go in that room,

and you're gonna spill your guts.

She's gonna react appropriately, like she supposed to.

And when you leave, you will not only feel better,

but you gonna tell her I referred you

so I can get my 15% off.

Argyle McClaine?

What are you doing?

I'm Argyle McClaine.

Uh-uh. If this gonna work, you need to be honest.

His name is Rel, he's in pain, and I referred him.

Mr. McClaine, come on in.

Okay, you don't have to call me Mr. McClaine. Just call me Rel.

Okay, Rel.

Now, look, I know what the HIPAA laws are, right?

You're not supposed to talk about anything we discuss.

But I need you to say that to my face.

Okay, there are doctor-patient confidentiality laws

that if I break, I could lose my license.

Okay.

Well, uh,

I killed an Uber driver yesterday.

Um, I...

See, exactly. Look at your face. See, I didn't kill nobody.

Look at you. You're already about to tell on me.

I'm required to tell if it's about a murder.

All right, look, I'm just trying to figure out the rules.

Rel, this is a safe space.

We could talk about hypotheticals,

and that would be fine,

or we can talk about what's truly bothering you.

I don't know, look, I...

I was selfish, I was a coward, and I did a horrible thing.

And what was that?

Look, my mom, right? Um...

She called me before she went to the hospital for the last time,

and I didn't answer. I didn't even call her back.

She fell into a coma, and she was gone that weekend.

I wasn't there for her.

Well, you know, life is sometimes busy, Rel.

And we don't know how important a moment is until it's gone.

See, but that's not what it was about, okay?

I wasn't busy, right? I was just tired.

I was tired of being sad, I was tired of talking about cancer,

and all I wanted to do was just

sit around the house and watch TV.

I thought I had more time. It...

happened so fast.

I'm sorry.

I mean, is that... is that it?

You just say sorry? I mean...

I was just giving you a moment. But I think I can help you.

Well, if you can help me, start helping. Okay?

You got me here all broken up. I need help. Help me.

Jake, this is a happy day.

A day of celebration.

So I think I want my wife's favorite drink:

a Chardonnay with one ice cube.

Coming right up. And since it's a special drink,

I'm-a give you a fresh ice cube.

'Cause most of the ice in here is old as hell.

Yeah, back in '98, they had a big ice sale, so I bought

20 years worth of ice.

Oh, hey, Pop.

Damn, Nat, why you keep stalking me with that box?

When I put you out the car, say, "Check the windshield wiper,"

and I left you, that was me ditching you.

Look, I'm sorry, Dad, man, look, I'm just worried about you.

You can't keep your emotions bottled up.

I feel like if you don't open up, man,

you're gonna end up killing somebody.

It's probably gonna be you.

You got to expose yourself to the memories, okay?

Let your emotions run their course.

I found this picture of you and Mom

in your matching jean jackets.

Hmm?

Dad, I know it's tough, man, but you got to look at the picture

so you can process.

Nat, I processed it, okay?

I'm a warrior, son.

I'm here to celebrate, okay?