Set It Off

Thank you, sir.

Have a nice day.

Next in line, please.

Ooh, a week in Hawaii.

- All right, I'll fill in for you. - Are you sure?

Yeah. You just take your little honeymoon before I change my mind, all right?

Thank you.

- There you go, sir. - Thank you very much.

Have a nice day, sir.

Next in line, please.

Hey, Darnell, I didn't know you had an account here.

As a matter of fact, I never even saw you out of the projects.

Shut the fuck up.

Empty the fucking drawer.

Empty the drawer.

Next in line, please.

I just have a straight...

Uh, Darnell.

Darnell, don't do this.

- Now, come on, Darnell. Stop playing. - What?

What playing? It's not a fucking game. Empty the fucking drawer.

Hell no.

I want nothing to do with this.

Everybody, get on the fucking floor, now. Get the fuck on the floor.

- Sit down. Don't stand up. - Give me the money.

- Get your ass down. - Give him the money.

- Let's get this money, baby. - Now.

Get your...

Give him the money.

Lay your ass down. Lay down.

Hurry up.

No. No.

Okay.

Now fill it up.

Give him the money.

And hurry up, goddamn it. I said, hurry up.

Fill up everything.

- My God. - Everything.

Hurry up.

- Come on, man. Don't cry now. - Hurry up.

Here, here, take it.

My God. No.

Come on, man.

All right, stay down.

Is everyone okay?

It's all right now.

Okay. Okay.

Why don't, uh...? Why don't we take it from the top?

- I thought we covered everything. - How well did you know the perpetrator?

I've just known Darnell from around the way, is all.

We live in the same projects.

Frankie, will you do me a favor?

Just tell me one thing, and we'll get out of here.

Sure.

What's the procedure when you're being robbed?

Look, sir.

- I'm aware that I did. I'm aware... - Stop, stop. Stop now.

What's the procedure when you're being robbed?

You pull the money clip...

...from your right-hand drawer.

- And then you signal with the left... - You signal with the left.

So you know the procedure?

Yes, like I said, the procedure has been told to me over a million times.

But why is it if that procedure's been told to you...

...why didn't you follow the procedure?

Because he had a gun.

And I went for my clip, but he shot her.

He shot her right in front of me.

I'm afraid, Miss Sutton, we're gonna have to let you go.

The fact you knew the perpetrator doesn't sit well with us.

Wait, wait. That's not right. I haven't done anything wrong.

I can't help who I know.

Mr. Zachery...

...just last week you gave me a promotion, and now you're gonna take my job away?

What happens the next time one of your friends robs the bank?

How do we know you're not in collusion?

Collusion?

Let me tell you something. I am here at 8:20 sharp every morning.

I work my ass off until quitting time.

Yesterday I counted $240,000 by hand for you.

That's how you should know.

I mean, come on, this is just not right.

I nearly got blown away in your tired-ass fucking bank.

And you're gonna fire me?

- Calm down. - You couldn't even wait.

You didn't even bother to ask me if I was thirsty, sister.

She's involved. I want everything you have on her.

I thought I said a '70s graduation party.

'70s, Halloween, what's the difference?

You the only one in the neighborhood who'd give a '70s graduation party.

Anyway, T.T., Jajuan, y'all look awfully groovy tonight.

- You like it, girl? - Thank you for following directions.

Simple directions.

Would you look at him? Ain't he fine?

- Handsome as he wants to be. - I know.

Can you believe he's going to college?

Man, I remember when you was just a little scrub...

...always trying to follow us around and shit.

On that tricycle.

Y'all always trying to mess up somebody game.

- Please. - Game?

What game?

Whatever.

You got a 10 I can borrow? We need more chips. Stuff running out.

Come on, you're the one that's gonna be making all the loot.

- Yeah, college boy. - You got to stop spoiling that boy.

Taking care of him ever since your mama and daddy died.

- What you got? - You ain't drinking none of this shit.

Stevie, what's the problem?

I'm not going.

I ain't going to college.

What?

All right, look, don't start tripping.

Okay, you cannot change your mind. We got into UCLA, and that's where we're going.

I ain't changed my mind. I just didn't get a scholarship.

- They didn't give you a scholarship? - No.

- But we told 'em, the only way we could apply... - I know.

All right, well don't worry about it. I'll take care of it.

It's probably just because I'm a January graduate.

How you gonna take care of it? I mean, you can barely pay the bills around here.

I'll just get a job.

- I'll just help around here until I can just... - No.

Wrong, we gonna stick to the plan...

...and we are definitely getting you up out of here.

- I ain't here with this fool. - Good afternoon, ladies...

...and gentleman.

All right, listen up.

Now, these good white folks...

...are out here trying to recycle all of their glasses, plastics and aluminum.

And you bitches putting all the shit in the dumpsters.

You gots to recycle.

Who had 104?

I did.

You didn't empty the cans in 104. I'm docking your pay.

- Come on now, that ain't right. - What a fool you supposed to be?

Goddamn Mighty Morphing fucking Power Ranger?

What you gonna do? I'm docking her pay.

Speaking of pay...

...I thought you said that you was gonna pay me under the table.

They're taking taxes out of my check. I mean I ain't even got enough money...

- ...to pay for my babysitter. - On this good earth...

...there are three peoples I don't mess with.

The I, the R, and the S.

But I got my babysitter.

Look, if you don't like working for Luther's Janitorial...

...why don't you just take your broke ass home?

Otherwise, shut the fuck up and get back to work.

Hey. You know, you're one cold-hearted motherfucker, Luther.

- Get back to work. - Luther, you ain't have to talk to her like that.

Get back to work.

Tisean, you have got to learn to stand up for yourself.

Did y'all hear what happened to Frankie?

- Our Frankie? - What?

Lorenz and them robbed her bank.

This kid's got 211s in four cities.

He has one at Nevada, Arizona.

I mean, shit he's damn near a professional, and what's he, 21?

They're getting younger.

Yeah.

I want everything you've got on his young ass.

Where he hangs out, who he knows...

...where his mother lives, everything. I want it all.

Look at that. Check that out.

His hair.

What is that?

AP?

What's that, a nickname?

- Asshole Perhaps? Ha, ha. - Perhaps.

Asshole Perhaps.

Fuck off.

Cleo, when you gonna fix this raggedy shit?

- Never mind my shit, fool. - Ha, ha.

Frankie, I heard what happened at the bank the other day.

Keep your head up, girl, all right? All right.

Up, up, up. Ha, ha.

You need to wash this motherfucker or something.

That's all right. Your shit is original.

Damn right.

Don't worry, one day my shit is gonna be tight.

Cleo, girl, you've been fixing up this car since 7th grade.

Do you know Lorenz and them got away with 20 grand?

Twenty G's, damn.

See, that's what the fuck we need to do.

Rob a bank.

- No, that's crazy. - Now really, though.

The four of us could take a bank.

Look, if that crackhead Darnell could rob a bank, we could take the bank.

Twenty G's would save my life right now.

Stevie needs tuition.

Well, too bad we ain't some hard-up crackhead motherfuckers...

...like Lorenz and them.

Then, sure, we could do some suicidal shit like rob a bank.

But we ain't crazy, so we can't.

- So now you making the rules? - Frankie, please.

Please, ain't nobody over here gonna be robbing no bank.

You're right.

We ain't gonna rob no bank. Mm-mm.

Let's just go in there and blow it the fuck up.

Here you go.

Can you believe after working for that damn bank for two years...