"Yo' Mac." " Mac." " Mac..." "What?" " Hey man, you wanna do a lap?" " Does it look like I need to do a lap?" " So just go." " Man, this party's wack." " Who is this guy?" " This is my little brother, Skinny." " So, how you doin'?" " Hey man, what you doin'?" " Why don't I come back a little later." " Wait, no, no..." "I swear to God, you must have all the recessive genes in the family." " Recessive what?" " Girls here is just stuck up, that's all." " Is that what it is, Skinny?" " Let's bounce, man." " Where's Tyler at?" " Where do you think he's" "What the Hell you doin' with my girl!" " P.J. Come on!" " We're just dancing!" " Shut up Yvette!" " Hey bitch, I didn't see your name on her." " P.J.!" " You better rethink your strategy!" " All right man, you got it." " Come on Tyler, let's go." " Skinny let's go!" " Tyler, let's go, man!" " Skinny, come on man!" " Get off of me!" " Why you pushing me so much man!" " Tyler, move man!" " You just be rockin' today, don't you." " I didn't start that... always fighting, yeah, but you always finish it." " Yeah, you wanna pull a gun, let me show you mine." " Shut up man." " Let me ask you somethin'." " Do you feel like 'cause you a white boy... you got to overcompensate sometimes." " Wow!" " Wow!" " You got me all figured out, Montel!" " Yeah, I might be Montel, but you're the one gettin' all Jerry Springer all the time." " Yo' check this out." " You Montel, you Jerry Springer, and I'm like..." "Jenny Jones." " Naw, naw, he's like Ellen." " Except Ellen gets more chicks than he gets." " Man, shut up." " Yo' I can't believe..." "Hold up." " That's P.J..." "Man..." "Yo', what is he doin'." " Skinny, what are you..." "What the Hell do you think you're doin' man!" " Am I the only one out here not trying to get us killed." " I ain't afraid of him!" " Yo', you waited until the car got all the way around the corner before you threw something." " Ya', that's real brave." " Check this out man, I ain't afraid of nobody." " I ain't afraid of you." " And I'm definitely not afraid of you!" " Why you runnin' then!" " I'll throw somethin' at you." " Ha, you missed!" "  Yo', come on." "  Stand still!" " Hey yo', come on man." " I know this place." " It's a school man." " It don't look like no school." " It is a school." " I'll show you." " Skinny!" " Man, are you going to let him go in there?" " Man, he's your brother, you go get him." " Come on." "  I ain't goin' in there." "  Man, come on!" " What'd you do that for man!" " This looks like a museum." " It's not a museum." " Hey look look, Skinny was right, this is a school." "  Art school." "  I told you." " All right, then who goes here then?" " Looks like some stuck up rich folks." " Yo', look at these dudes." " They're all sweet with their shirts off." " Tight like they spray painted them on." " Yeah, they do show off their muscles pretty nice though." " No man..." "Whatever, don't touch me." " Mac, I'm just saying that..." "Don't touch me..." "They in good shape, that's all." " We need to get you a girl, fast." " Man, I got girls!" " I just don't show them to you." " Why?" " 'Cause I don't want you to try and take them." " What are you talkin' about?" " Hey yo', hey check this out." " Man, look at this place." " Yo', we ain't got nothing like this in our school." " That's 'cause our school is broke!" " Hey yo, wait up." " Man, these rich kids get everything." " Man, what is this man, this looks like a playground to me." " Figaro, figaro, figaro, figaro..." "Look at this stuff." " Let's bounce man." " Come on man, it was an accident." " Don't worry, these rich kids can afford this." " Look..." "I win!" " Not funny man!" " Having fun!" " Get off me!" " Get off me!" " You're going to come with me." " Get off me!" " Get off of me!" " Come on!" " Go!" " Go!" " Go!" " Yo Ty'!" " Yo', just go!" " Go!" " Very noble." " Shut up rent a cop!" " Breaking and entering." " Vandalism at the Maryland School of the Arts." " Are you a student there?" " No." " I see you've been in this court room several times before." " Where are your foster parents?" " Can you answer me with a sentence." " I don't know, I think my foster mom's trying to get off work." " Okay, Mister Gains look..." "This is the way we play the game here." " You break it, you buy it." " 200 hours of community service to be performed... at the scene of the offense." " Maryland School of the Art." " I got here as fast as I could." " We're back!" " What'd he get?" " 200 hours community service." " He won't make it, he's never stayed with anything in his life." " Why do you care." " You get your check every month." " Kids, wash up." " What'd you say?" " Slow down, slow down." " You'll make him all dizzy." " He's not even drunk yet." " Come on, let's have a nice dinner before I have to go back to work." " I'm not hungry." " Are you going to prison?" " How many times do I have to tell you, just to knock." " Because that's where my Dad is." " At the Supermax, but he liked it better at Jessup." " No Camille, I'm not going to prison." " But they are going to have to take me to prison if you don't start knocking." " Get outta here..." "Excuse me..." "I see, we were hoping to link the fundraiser to the fall showcase." " So we absolutely can't do it on Friday." " I'm Tyler Gage, I'm here..." "Come in, Mister Gage." " Take a seat." " We'll just have to move the event to March and hope that the press comes through." " Thanks Denise." " Well I see that you're overwhelmed with remorse." " You have no idea of the consequences of your actions." " Do you?" " Yeah, 200 hours." " Actually there's a little more to it." " Most of our students are here on Scholarships." " The cost of repairing the damage that you did." " Is roughly the equivalent of one student's tuition." " Do you understand what that means?" " You just cost someone their future." " Sorry..." "Look, I'm just here to do my hours." " Is says here that your school day finishes at two." " Per the court's order, you're to report here and stay until 5:30." " Now if you'll follow me Mister Gage." " I have someone who is very eager to meet you." " Mr. McCaffery." " Director Gordon." " This is Tyler Gage." " Your new intern." " I'd like a daily report on his activities." " All right, here you go." " 4, 5, 6... and... 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and..." "Ahh, hello." " Who is that?" " Come on, he is fine." " Don't you have a boyfriend?" " Yes, and my boyfriend would appreciate my good taste." " Hey." " Hey." " Good job!" " So I'll see you at rehearsal, okay Andrew." " Yeah, see ya." " Hey baby." " Hey." " Walk you to your next class?" " Yeah." " Just need to stop by my locker first." " How are you?" " Good." " How was class?" " It was good." " Hey guys, is that our new janitor?" " He's not a janitor..." "That's the guy who trashed the theater." " Really?" " Ohh..." "I love a man in a uniform." " Hey, you in the garbage man jumpsuit." " When you're done with that how about a wash and wax?" " You all better cool out with that." " I know that car belongs to somebody." " Of course it does." " That's why we're going to leave it here for you to drive over to Omar's." " And make sure he pay us for the last car we brought him." " What's up man." " Man, look at this thing, man." " It's got plastic fenders." " What's up with the girls here man." " Damn... they look like the girls from the Candy shop video." " They might look like them, man, but they don't dance like them." " Oh yeah, so you been workin' them out?" " I've been workin' them out." " I've been like..." "So what do they do?" " Hey yo', what did they do after that?" " Oh my God, can you stop thinking about... the senior showcase for like, one second, please." " One second..." "It's not just that." " It's everything." " Nora..." "Nora..." "Look got a track for the showcase." " Same tempo, same rhythm as the track you got now." " I really believe this will take your routine to the next level." " Next level?" " Yeah..." "Thanks Miles." " Nora, listen..." "It's not that you're not already at the next level, you know what mean..." "Quit while you're ahead Miles, just stop." " And you, you just need to stop and take a breath or something... because you're starting to make me nervous." " I know, I'm must stressed." " You need a break, Colin's playing on Saturday night... so you need to come, because you haven't been in forever." " Hold on, hold on, hold on." " Who's Colin?" " Lucy's older boyfriend." " He's sophisticated, a real man." " A real man." " He's about to be surrounded by a whole lot of real men when he goes to jail." " How long have you had your license, 6 months," "I am very mature for my age." " Thank you." " Oh that's great." " That's so perfect for the witness stand." " When are you going to stop changing the music, Miles, she's already freaked out." " Nora, come on." " Just go." " Just go." " They got that." " Tired of getting dawged on yet?" " Oh yeah." " Let's go." " Mac?" " Mac..." "Where my money at baby!" " Where my money at!" " Hey!" " That's wonderful Jack, congratulations." " You're late." " Not really..." "No?" " You're just so eager to get to work... you're just sprinting off to the supply closet." " It's like 15 minutes, don't I get a grace period or something?" " You've neither earned one nor are you entitled." " But you can stay 15 minutes later." " Andrew, oh my God, what happened?" " Came down on my ankle wrong in class today." " Are you okay?" " Yeah." " It's just a sprain." " Nurse says I have to stay off of it." " I'm sorry." " For what, it's not your fault." " I know Nora, but it's just that the showcase means a lot to both of us, you know." " Maybe you could find somebody to rehearse with in the meantime." " I should be back before you know it." " Yeah, don't worry about it." " I'll be okay." " All right, cool." " See you later." " Okay." " What's up man." " What's up." " Where you from?" " I grew up in McCulloh Homes." " Oh word." " That's where my boy Maccy's from." " He lives over at Heritage now." " Oh yeah." " I don't live over there no more." " I live with my Aunt now." " Right on, I'll check you later." " Later." " He only has a bad sprain..." "I just need someone to rehearse with until he gets better." " You know all the stuff I have going on with the labels and everything." " How come Miles can find the time to help me out." " No offense to Miles, but he's not as involved in every aspect of the music as I am." " Look, all I need is somebody, Brett... to rehearse with, just for couple of week." " I want to help you, you know I do." " I'm just so close with my music..." "I got to give it everything I have." " You're gonna do great." " You always do." " Yeah." " All right sweetie." " Thank you guy so much for coming to the audition." " Ready?" " I'm not ready yet." " Thank you..." "See, it's not that hard." " No..." "Thank you." " Thank you." " Thanks." " I'll do it." " Do what?" " I don't know, whatever you all were trying to do out here." " You want to lift me?" " Are you kidding?" " Does it look like I'm kidding?" " Okay, I get it." " You're not going to use me to get out of cleaning the window." " Even if you were capable of dancing." " Okay, well I'm not trying to get out of anything." " And I know you saw me the other day." " Thank you, but umm..." "I can find someone else." " I was just trying to help." " Okay, wait." " Catch me." " Now what?" " Put me down." " No." " What about Craig Raffen's solo." " I don't have time to work out a solo." " Not a good one anyway." " Well have you talked to the sophomores?" " I've auditioned a bunch of them." " None of them can handle it." " My dance has a lot of lifts in it." " And you know how hard..." "I can't believe there's no one else." " None who have the time." " And you say that he can dance?" " He's adequate." " Adequate?" " See that's my concern." " He's not taking this seriously." " Look, I'm sorry." " It's just you're all talking about dancing like it's rocket science or somethin'." " It's just for a couple of weeks." " Until Andrew gets better." " Yeah." " This would be your risk, Nora." " It's your Senior piece." " I know." " Don't make me regret my decision." " 2:30 tomorrow, bring your tights." " Tights?" " Wait..." "What?" " I'm going to beat you." " I have..." "Anything interesting happen at school today, Tyler?" " Malcolm, enough!" " No." " Sit down." " Eat..." "Anything special at school today?" " I found a new rehearsal partner for the showcase." " So now I won't miss a beat when Andrew gets back." " Your applications arrived today for Cornell and Brown," "I put them on your bed." " Remember our deal, Nora." " If you don't get a job from the showcase... you got to school in the fall." " Okay..." "I'm not late." " You're not dressed either." " You can change in the bathroom." " Done." " I asked you to bring tights." " Do I look like I own tights?" " Shoes?" " Move better with them on." " Aren't you afraid you might slip and fall?" " All right, how do you want to do this?" " I'll start with a combination." " Okay..." "Step knee... step fan..." "step, turn... change, contract." " Okay." " I'll take it slow." " And... step knee, step fan... and... you got that?" " Yeah." " Start with the fan..." "turn, change, contract." " Okay." " Let's do it again." " 5, 6, 7, 8..." "Step knee..." "My bad..." "So..." "Go." " Step knee... fan..." "Wow..." "He looks like the real deal." " Take a break baby." " Grab a coffee." " I can't..." "I have a lot to do." " How's this day job?" " Brett..." "I'm sorry, you got a problem?" " No." " No, I'm all about rehabilitation." " Because we could discuss this outside if you like." " Why do you think you're so tough." " Why don't you test me." " Okay, stop!" " Brett, everything's okay." " All right." " I'll meet you later." " Okay." " Okay." " What?" " Again." " And..." "Omar!" " Your boys are here!" " Look what we got you man!" " What's up baby." " Hey man, I heard you havin' a party on Friday." " Yeah, you know we up in there." " No." " You dude's is froze out." " Especially after what happened last time." " What you mean, we froze out?" " Come on man, you know I ain't even start that." " That was P.J." "That ain't even right, man." " Look, we can take this car to Stucky." " Probably get more money, too." " I'm sorry, yeah..." "You could take this car to Stucky's..." "You know something, Mac?" " You young dudes, man... you ain't got no respect." " No loyalty." " Matter of fact..." "why don't you... bring me back an Escalade or something, to get back on my good graces." " We just got you this car..." "An Escalade!" " Or something!" " Yeah, we'll get you an Escalade, man." " I'm sorry, what did you say?" " Yeah, nothing..." "So, can I still come to the party?" " Skinny, come on!" " He didn't say nothin' about me." " He said you all couldn't go to the party." " Nothin' about Skinny." " Nothin'." " Will you shut up!" " Ready, down... up... step... turn..." "Pique..." "What the Hell is a pique." " This is a pique." " We do the turn, and land face to face." " Okay?" " I get it, I get it." "  It's just..." " What?" " It's just this..." "This whole thing is stiff." " And it's boring." " Boring?" " Yeah, don't look at me like I'm stupid, I know, you know what I'm saying." " Fine, then that's the way it is." " Fine." " Ready..." "And..." "Down..." "Up..." "Step... turn... pique..." "And..." "Like this?" " Okay, I am starving!" " Tyler's just here until Andrew's back." " And why is this the first time I'm hearing about it." " We still have work to do." " I can't watch, is he that bad?" " Tell me!" " Good bye!" " Okay." " Okay, I'll see you tomorrow." " All right, and I'll see you tomorrow." " Okay." " Listen, can you just come to the club and hear me sing with Colin on Saturday." " Maybe you can bring Tyler." " Will you stop talking about how hot he is." " Okay, Brett's not around so..." "Why do you keep denying the obvious." " It's so obvious." " Okay fine, Tyler's good looking." " But he's annoying." " See, your guard's up, and that must mean you like him." " You couldn't be more wrong." " And defensive too." " That must mean you really, really like him." " I'm just saying." " Oh look, Miles sent me another MP3." " Oh, better listen to it now, because you know he'll be calling you in five minutes asking you what you think." " You know you've been getting on Miles case a lot lately." " Because he's irritating." " Defensive, wait, what does that mean again?" " Just listen to the track, okay?" " It's good." " Whatever..." "Sorry!" " What's next." " Lena got Captain Crunch." " Peanut butter Captain Crunch." " Told ya' she likes us." " Camille, get outta here." " Fine." " Camille?" " Come here." " You gonna give me a little bit of that?" " One bite." " One." " One bite." " Hurry up." " That was the biggest bite I've ever seen!" " Get your own!" " I spit on that spoon..." "Yeah, now you give it back!" " What?" " What is this?" " That's a sliding scale." " What's does that mean?" " That means, I score more points that you, so I get more money than you." " No, no, no." " What about my assist." " I was droppin' dimes today." " Man you tripped over your own shoes." " Twice... but you rolled out of the second one pretty nice." " You played it off pretty cool." " Man, all I know is you better give me some of that money." " What?" " Yo' it's getting kind of late, I got to bounce." " Hey, wait, hold up." " Well give you a ride." " Yo' let me do it this time." " Skinny, you the look out." " Well why can't I do it this time?" " Can you do it?" " Yeah!" " Let him do it then." " You know what, here you go tough guy." " You see that car right there?" " Go get 'em." " That car's got an alarm on it." " I know." " I know." " I told you that alarm was going to go off." " Wait a minute, you all set me up!" " Hang on." " I got us one." " You should have saw your face." " That was good." " Play it back, Miles?" " I like that." " Nora." " Yo..." "look who's here." " Sorry bro', closed studio." " Okay bro'." " You're an hour late." " Yeah, my bad." " I got ht up." " For an hour?" " Yeah, I had some things I had to do." " Look, I'm sorry." " Can't we just rehearse now?" " No, there's other dancers in the studio now." " We can't." " Why you getting all mad at me, I'm here every single day." " Look, I said I'm sorry." " Yeah well, sorry's not going to cut it." " Yeah... we're working here man." " Some of us take this seriously." " Where were you!" " Where was I when?" " When we were supposed to be rehearsing?" " Oh yeah, I don't think that whole rehearsing thing is going to work out for me." " What the Hell does that mean!" " That means I'm out." " What?" " Are you kidding me." " You're going to quit without even talking to me about it?" " Yeah, I'm sorry." " Look, I got to get back to work." " I can't believe this!" " I can't believe I trusted you!" " That was so stupid!" " People make stupid decisions everyday." " Besides, it didn't look like you needed me anyway." " Mac you better get your feet off the table." " Hey shut up." " I ain't gonna move my feet." " Marcus, get your feet off my table." " I told ya' boy." " Mom!" " Don't you leave this house." " I don't want to hear about any of you getting into any trouble." " We ain't goin' nowhere mom." " That's right, I'll be back home in time to make y'all breakfast." " Bye mommy." " Bye Mrs. Carter." " Ow man!" " Look, look..." "Weak crossover." " Hey, you think you're as good as these guys." " Please..." "Why don't you try out?" " For the And 1 team?" " Why would I need to do that for?" " I don't know." " I always thought you should've played for the school team." " The school team?" " Yeah, right." " They suck." " Maybe they wouldn't suck if you played." " Man, what is this, part of your community service or something?" " What ya' gonna say next?" " This is your brain on drugs?" " Man, the Hell with that?" " I'm just sayin'..." "All right man, just drop it." " I don't see you out trying to do nothin'." " You quit everything you start." " And you know it." " That's me right there..." "Nora?" " Where have you been?" " It's getting late." " Where do you think, mom?" " You've been rehearsing a lot lately." " What about your other school work?" " Rehearsing is the most important part of my school work." " It's kind of the whole point." " Sweetie, I just don't think that dancing..." "Dancing is what, mom?" " What do you know about it anyway?" " When was the last time you saw me dance?" " That's not fair." " Well you know what, you don't have to worry about it anymore." " Because the guy I've been rehearsing with for the showcase he quit today." " So basically, I'm screwed." " You might get your dream after all." " Nora." " Wait a minute." " Will you hold on a second." " Look, I just... wanted to say I'm sorry about yesterday." " What's the matter?" " Don't feel like mopping any floors today?" " Look, can you just give me a break." " Do you have any idea how important this showcase is?" " Who is going to be there?" " I don't know." " People?" " People?" " Important people, from every major dance company in the country." " Without this showcase, I have nothing." " I go nowhere!" " Okay." " All right, I get it." " I know all about having nothing." " It sucks." " Yes it does." " So are we going to go back to doing this?" "  No." "  No?" " I don't trust you." " Then what do I got to do to prove it you?" " Look, I'll do anything." " Anything?" " Up and... grand pile all the way to the ground." " Back up, and reach your arm up high... touch the sky, down to the floor... touch your toes." " And back up." " And point and second." " And pile... good." " Pile, and... up." " I thought she was going to slap me in my face." " This is me." " Okay, why are you teaching ballet class?" " Doesn't look like you need a job." " Oh you know, just puts off coming home a little longer." " Oh, it couldn't be that bad." " My mom doesn't really get the whole dancing thing." " What about your Dad?" " He died a couple of years ago." " Sorry." " No... it's okay." " He was the one who always encouraged me, you know?" " I'd meet him a rehearsals." " Watching all my routines." " Sounds like a cool dude." " Thanks for walking me home." " Later." " Bye." " Hey look, look." " There's a game tomorrow at the courts." " Those cats want a rematch with us." " You down?" " I can't make that." " I got community service every day this week, man." " Hey, put that away, what are you doin'?" " What's up between you and Lucy." " Looks like she's kinda feelin' you." " I don't know about that." " What, you scared?" " Okay, this Colin is too old for you." " He's so..." "Cheesy?" " Romantic." " Okay?" " He's romantic." " Why isn't Nora using this?" " Man, Nora's old school." " I ain't talkin' Sugar hill Gang..." "I'm talking Vivaldi old school." " For real..." "I think you should let her listen to it." " Hey Nora..." "Come here for a second, I want you to hear something." " Don't start." " I'm just saying, you guys get along well..." "He's my partner." " He's just your partner." " And too many things." " Miles got a... what's that?" " Violin?" " Violin." " Some kids to play violin on the track." " Finally working with people that can actually play instruments?" " Hey, I can play all right." " I just prefer to play with myself." " What?" " He makes it too easy." " No, not play with..." "Just listen." " I like it." " I really like it." " That's good." " I told you dawg." " Hey, I was thinking..." "You know that..." "You know that turn, where we got the leg behind us?" " Yeah?" " What if... what if I went down and... we like change levels." " I don't know..." "I don't mean to be out of line." " It's cool..." "I like it, let's try it." " 5, 6, 7, 8... 1, 2, 3, 4..." "That's actually really good." " Cool." " Maybe we should do it." " Let's try it again." " 5, 6, 7, 8..." "All right then, I guess I'll just see you tomorrow." " Okay." " You need a ride?" " Umm, have you ever been out to Hampden?" " No, but there's a place I go near there." " I'm serious, where are you taking me?" " Hold on, I'm about to show you." " Is this... is this where you kill me?" " Funny..." "This is it." " I got a view just like this, from my balcony." " You do?" " No." " How did you find this place?" " I've been coming here since I was a kid." " My dad was an executive at one of the shipping companies." " This is where I imagined my whole routine." " I don't know how you do it." " Don't you think about how two people are going to move." " I don't know, every detail." " I couldn't do that." " Well you've been doing it." " It's not the same thing though." " Well that's how it starts." " You know I always saw this routine... with a bunch of other dancers." " What do you mean?" " Well, if I had enough dancers." " I could have them all starting in unison." " And then slowly breaking out in a canon." " Whoa..." "What's a canon?" " You know, like row your boat?" " Okay." " I'll show you." " You know that phase with the turn and lift." " They all have turn and lifts." " All right, what, in the middle section?" " Yeah, I know it." " Okay." " Well, instead of doing it together." " You're going to go first." "  Come on." "  All right." " We go on 1." " 5, 6, 7, 8..." "I think..." "look..." "You started with a bunch of dancers..." "You should do it with a bunch of dancers." " Okay, and where would I find these dancers?" " You do go to a school that's just busting with kids in tights." " Why don't you take your pick." " The only ones left are sophomores and freshmen." " There's no way... any of them are good enough." " How do you know if they're good enough or not?" " You didn't know I was good enough." " Well, who says you are." " Yo', let's go man." " No, man, I'm late for my hours." " What about our game." " Yo' I'm going to have to do it tomorrow." " You said that yesterday." " I'll catch you all later." " Now I'm gettin' pissed." " How many did you say you needed?" " Thanks Miles." " So umm... that's basically what we have so far." " Congratulations." " You've really expanded your range." " I thought your original piece was good." " But this..." "This is very risky, Nora." " But it may pay off." " What made you decide to change your piece." " Actually a lot of this is Tyler." " Naw, that's all you." " Okay fine, he gave me some of his moves and I gave him ballet lessons." " You studied ballet?" " He's actually pretty good." " He could be a student here." " Unfortunately our school year has already begun." " But, keep up the good work." " Miles?" " Miles!" " Not right now, all right." " What's wrong?" " Miles?" " Miles!" " What's wrong?" " I just heard you guys got signed." " You heard wrong." " Everybody saying Brett got signed..." "Brett got signed." " He signed without me." " How did he get signed without you?" " Well according to him, the Label thought he was the only talent." " So they want to put him out as a solo artist and get him to work with other producers." " Oh my God." " And you know what..." "I knew Brett had an ego." " I knew he did." " But damn I thought he'd sit me down and tell me like a man." " I knew it." " Hey baby." " Is that why you flew to New York last week?" " Whoa." " Whoa Nora, calm down." " You ditched Miles." " After all the work you did together you dump him just like that." " Come here..." "Not just like that, all right." " You haven't even heard my side of the story." " Right.  'Cause you don't even have time to call your girlfriend... and tell her the news." " I have to find out through everyone else." " Nora, come on." " I'm sorry." " I didn't expect it to happen like this." " It's just happening." " All right, like we always talked about." " No, we never talked about stepping on our friends to get there." " When someone hands you your dream, you take it, you don't ask questions." " I would." " You think you would." " But you don't know until it's right in front of you." " Seriously Nora, would you have walked away." " I don't know, but I'm walking away now." " What, you're breaking up with me?" " Yes!" " This is about me, or Miles or any of that." " It's about Tyler, isn't it?" " No, it's about me, Brett." " Fine." " Just remember that loser is headed nowhere fast, and you know it." " Mrs. Gordon?" " Director Gordon?" " Can I help you Tyler?" " There's somethin', I kinda wanted to..." "It's probably stupid..." "Then perhaps it can wait." " Okay, you know how me and Nora been working together." " Yes." " It's been kind of making me think lately..." "That maybe I'd like to come here." " You want to apply to the school?" " Yeah, kids transfer don't they?" " I was kind of hoping, maybe..." "I don't know, maybe finish out my school year, here." " It's not that you don't have talent Tyler." " But a lot of kids have talent, take so much more than that." " This is a grueling program." " My students work themselves into the ground, everyday... just to get even a fraction closer to their goals." " And we're tough as Hell on them in here, because we know what they're going to face out there." " The only kids that make it are the one prepared to fight for it." " Yeah, I understand that." " I'm not sure that you do." " Not for something real." " I've already seen you give up once already." " That's not going to happen again." " Saying the words, doesn't make it so." " Okay, then tell me what I got to do." " I can't." " You have to show me." " Show me that you want it." " Really want it." " You do that... and we can talk." " Now if you'll excuse me, I have a 3:00." " Hey, come on, man." " Would you snap out of it." " All right, the way I look at it, Brett did you a favor." " Yo', your beats are hotter then what he can do with them anyway." " Come on man..." "I got to sit up here and watch this Colin." " Sorry, did we come here for him?" " I thought we came here for Lucy." " Is that who you been looking at this whole time?" " He is kind of hot, I guess." " In a weird way... if you like that." " Shut up." " Shut up." " Thank you, we're going to take a break and be back in five." " I got to get up outta here man." " Hey guys..." "You umm... met my boyfriend." " Hey man." " I'm Colin." " Tyler." " Nice to meet you man." " This is Miles." " What's up man?" " Miles?" " Hey this is the guy you were telling me about?" " Yeah, she said you played man..." "I got a set up if you want to join us." " I left my G4 at home, man." " It's in his bag..." "Yeah?" " Come on man, we'll set up." " Ready Luce?" " Dude thinks he's slick." " Coming at me with that reverse psychology shit." " He seems kind of cool to me, man." " That's part of his whole game." " Why don't you just go play." " Hey." " Hey, I didn't think you were going to come, after everything that happened..." "That's exactly whey I wanted to come." " What are you doing here?" " Miles needed a wing man." " What's he doing up there?" " Trying to be the bigger man." " Okay..." "You look beautiful." " Thank you." " Everybody ready, let's do this!" " I didn't know she could sing like that!" " In her words she majors in dance, 'cause she already knows how to sing." " Kill her Miles." " So you gonna ask me to dance?" " I didn't know you could dance without your tights." " You don't know what you've gotten yourself into." " What is that..." "Come on!" " All my ladies!" " Move it to the front..." "Show 'em what ya' got!" " Fellas..." "Everybody dance!" " Everybody dance!" " Come dance with me!" " I swear I have never seen that many people here before!" " Get used to it." " Come on you guys, let's take a walk by the water." " Come on, let's walk." " Let them go." " Let them go." " You're going to make me say it, aren't you?" " Make you say what?" " I know I've been hatin' Colin." " But he was good." " He was real good." " Some one who's so sophisticated." " You always get off lightly." " You know, you were umm... pretty good yourself Miles..." "Just a little bit..." "I try to do..." "What?" " Umm..." "Umm..." "Don't worry about it." " Lucy..." "I got to go." " I'm gonna go check our sound vels." " That place is..." "That place is crazy." " Is it always like that?" " Yes." " But tonight, Miles and Lucy were on a whole other level." " You weren't so bad yourself." " You all know exactly what you want." " Well what about you, what do you want?" " I don't know, nothing..." "Come on." " What about when you were a kid." " All kids want something." " For me, it's just... it's better not to want anything." " That way if it goes away or doesn't happen." " You know, it doesn't matter." " But you want something now, right?" " Like maybe to go to MSA." " There's a lot of things that I want now, that I didn't use to." " I even catch myself, every once and awhile... actually thinking I could have them." " Please don't kick me out I brought you orange juice." " Bill and Lena went out, you're baby sitting." " Thank you." " Why are you always so tired lately?" " Because I've been working a lot." " Doing what?" " Why do you ask so many questions?" " Just..." "No, no, never mind." " Don't answer that." " Just go get Malcolm's shoes on." " All right." " Throw it!" " You got it, you almost got it." " Dancing." " You can't dance." " You can't dance..." "You've never seen me dance." " Then, do something." " Do somethin'?" " Okay it was fine, it was okay." " What was that?" "  What was that?" "  It was nothing." " Where did you learn that from?" " I'm not throwing anything until you show me what that was." " All right." " All right." " All right..." "If you can do that, you can do this." " I love it." " You got that..." "Hit..." "Hit..." "Okay, let's try it." " So you got the whole thing?" " Yeah." " Okay." " All right." " On go." " Go." " 1, 2, 3, go." " What..." "Running man?" " You don't know nothing about that." " Malcolm, can you do the Running Man?" " Yeah!" " Oh yeah!" " Here we go!" " No!" " No!" " No!" " This is you?" " Don't be mean, I was a chubby kid." " What are you saying?" " That if I was like that right now, you wouldn't like me?" " Oh no, I could deal with the chubbiness." " Just if you were missing those two front teeth, I don't know if I could work with that." " Thank you very much." " You know I was thinking..." "We should talk to Director Gordon... about using the showcase as your audition to get into the school." " I don't know, do you think she'd go for that." " It's about going after what you want, right?" " Mom!" " Umm..." "Hey..." "I didn't know you were home already." " This is Tyler." " My rehearsal partner." " Nice to meet you Mrs. Clark." " You have a beautiful home here." " Thank you, we certainly like it." " I should probably get... get going anyway." " Thanks for showing me those pictures." " It was nice to meet you." " All right, here we go." " Ready, 1, 2, 3, go!" "  Hey." "  Hey." " What's up?" " Umm, look about the other night." " You didn't tell anybody, did you?" " Naw..." "Because it's just musicians, whatever." " You ain't got nothin' to explain to me." " Whoa, what's wrong, why, why are you talking to me like that." " You want to be with someone who doesn't appreciate what a good thing he's got." " That's a hundred percent your business." " I just thought your were smart enough to know you deserve better." " Excuse me." " All right, let's move it out even more than that." " I want it to look pretty..." "All right." " Go." " Wait, hold up, hold up." " Tell me I'm not seeing this Ty'." " Mac..." "Hold on Mac." " Yo' wait up a second." " What you doin' man?" " What was that, Riverdancin'?" " You gettin' down with your Irish roots now?" " It's not like that..." "It's not like what?" " It's part of my community service, man!" " Dancin'?" " How is dancin' a part of your community service, Ty'?" " It's complicated." " Well explain it to me brother, 'cause I ain't that stupid." " Fine..." "Look, you were supposed to meet me at the courts two hours ago." " Then I come over here and I see you blowing me off for this?" " This?" " We ain't been hangin'." " You ain't been callin'." " Why?" " 'Cause you leaping' around here with a bunch of rich kids!" " They're not all rich in there, it ain't like that, man." " All right, Mac, hold on." " There's this girl." " Look she asked me to... rehearse with her for the showcase thing." " That's all." " So you messed around with our friendship for a girl." " So it's like that." " That's a relief, Ty'." " Come on, man." " Wow." " That was quick." " That's great." " Hey Tyler." " Hey." " What are you... are you back?" " Yeah, I'm feeling a lot better." " Thanks for filling in for me man." " Can you give us a sec'." " Sure." "  Hey guys." "  Hey." " Good?" " Yeah." " Definitely." " I didn't think he was coming back, he hasn't even been here." " I don't know what to do." " So, he's back." " Where does that leave me?" " You don't have to say anything." " Wait, what does that mean?" " I can't believe I bought into all this bullshit." " You're really just going to turn your back on me?" " That's not what I'm doing, Tyler." " Andrew is a student here, he's a senior..." "You're just like Brett..." " You just use people and then you dump them." "  What?" " Why are you making it sound like that... is not even the same situation." " And you know it!" " How is it not?" " Have I just been filling in for Andrew?" " That's not fair." " I'm out." " Tyler!" " Tyler wait, give me a second to figure this out." " Yo', what's up Ty'." " Yo' man!" " Hello?" " Hi." " Ahh, is Tyler there?" " May I ask who's calling?" " It's Nora." " Nora?" " No, he's not here." " Yeah, umm... just tell him I called." " Okay." " 5, 6, 7, 8... 1 and 2!" " 3, 4!" " Andrew, are you all right?" " Okay, try walking on it." " I can't do this Nora." " What?" " You and I both know I can't pull this routine off." " Here mom." " Nora..." "I bet you can't make the shot." " Bet you I can." " Whatever man." " Right, whatever." " Now let me do it." " You suck man." " Hey yo' Ty!" " What's up?" " Where you been man?" " Nothin', around." " Yo' man, just give me my ball back." " Ain't you gonna be late for ballerina class." " No, man." " I'm through with that." " So what happened with that girl?" " Nothin'." " Nothin'?" " I'm supposed to just believe you?" " Yeah, man." " You are." " I don't know." " Man turned his back on his boy..." "Deserves a second chance." " All right?" " Come on man." " Party tomorrow night at Omar's, man." " That's my man!" " Mom?" " Are you okay?" " You know, even when you were a baby... you could dance, better than you could walk." " It's all you ever wanted to do." " I still remember the look on your face your father and I took you to... your first dance class." " You do?" " I never expected that dancing would bring you such joy after all se years." " Seeing you up there on the stage, so happy... used to make me happy." " I guess I forgot about that." " Mom, it's okay." " I am so excited to see you dance in your showcase." " Mom..." "I don't even have a partner anymore." " Tyler's not doing it and Andrew's out." " Baby..." "You can do this." " You've been doing this by yourself your whole life." " Come here." " You are going to be great." " Thanks mom." " I'm still going to win." " Yeah, we'll see." " All right, whatever." " I'll come back." " What you all up to tonight?" " Oh..." "We just goin' over to Omar's to watch the movies." " Yeah." " I know all about your movies." " You're staying here, you understand?" " What?" " Ma, I got to go last time." " Yeah, I know, and that's why you stayin' here tonight." " You boys make sure... my baby don't go no where, you hear?" "  Yeah, yeah." " All right mom." "  Yes ma'am." " Hey, don't worry, I'm gonna tuck you in before you leave, all right man." " Hey, shut up." " Hey Man!" " So this the spot right here." " Yeah." " It's tight." " Yeah, right." " I don't know, so what's been going on." " Man, everything cool." " Nora's good." " Yeah?" " Her boy Andrew quit though." " What you mean Andrew quit?" " Yeah, he got hurt, can't dance with her anymore." " Damn..." "Whatever man..." "Man, yeah... whatever..." "Why don't you stop the bullshitin'." " I bet you've been moping' around just as much as she has." " What you mean, she's been moping'?" " I ain't sayin' nothing man." " Did you see a tear?" " Mopin'." " Shut up man, let me introduce to you somebody." " My man C'." " This is Mac." " I started tearing up like a little girl, tellin' him... that I go to the school of the arts." " Wait, wait, hold up..." "You go to the MSA." " Yeah." "  That's how you all know each other?" "  Yeah." " Yeah, exactly." " You don't look like no art school cat to me." " What the Hell is an art school cat supposed to look like?" " Miles Davis..." "Tupac." " Mobb Deep..." "Those cats went to art school." " I'm just sayin'..." "You know what man?" " Just shut up." " Yo', what's up!" " Yo, yo, yo." " What up, how you all doin'!" " Skinny!" " What are you doin' here!" " Man, I'm doin' the same thing you is doin'!" " Come on, let's go." " Out the door." " Go." " Go!" "  What are you talkin' about man!" "  Move!" " Move!" " Let me be here man!" " What's wrong with you!" " Let's go..." "What's up baby!" " How you doin' man?" " Look here... matter of fact, here." " Here's some bus money." " Go home." " Man, why I got to leave?" " What you talkin' about!" " No, no, no..." "Go home Skinny!" " Man, let me in!" " What you all laughin' at!" " What up Skinny!" " Don't touch me!" " I'll be back, watch the car." " Be right here P.J..." "I can't be at the party..." "Hey yo', get me a 40." " What you got in the bag?" " My music." " Well do some then." " You want me to go show him some?" " Yeah." " DJ, can I get up on your table real quick." " You're supposed to be watching the car!" " I told you to watch the car man!" " Come get me." " Yo', you see what your little brother is doin' outside" "Who?" " Your little brother, man!" " He won't listen man!" " Hey yo, Mac size..." "Bring the girls out here!" " Yo' that's P.J.'s truck man!" " Skinny, get out of that truck man!" " Man, why!" " Yo', I said get out!" " Hey man, let's go get him!" " Skinny!" " No!" " No!" " Skinny!" " Skinny!" " Say something!" " Say something!" " Say something!" " Talk to me!" " Talk to me!" " Talk to me!" " Call somebody man!" " Do something!" " Call 911!" " Get up!" " Get up!" " Hey." " How long you been out here?" " I don't know." " How's your mom?" " She spoke to me for the first time today." " Hey, you know they got P.J., right?" " Yeah, but that's not going to bring Skinny, back." " This ain't your fault, you know that right?" " That won't bring Skinny back either." " Look, I just hate seeing you beat yourself up like this." " I'm beating myself up?" " We'd been beatin' ourselves up way before Skinny..." "Look, Skinny's dead!" " He's gone!" " My little brother's gone." " And that's on me, Ty'." " I know that." " I ain't stupid." " All the partying', stealing' cars." " Messin' around." " Don't you think I know that's a bunch of bull!" " Mac!" " We're doing the best we can!" " You really believe that?" " You really think this is the best we can be?" " I want to be better." " I want to do better." " No, you're right." " I got to do it for my moms." " For Skinny." " For Skinny." " Will you do me a favor?" " Yeah." " Will you come somewhere with me?" " Good show tonight." " Hey Miles." " What's up?" " Have you heard from Tyler at all?" " Nah, Nah." " How's Nora?" " She's good." " That's cool." " What was that all about?" " Thanks I guess." " Hey guys." "  Hey, what's up." "  Hey." " Miles, you ready?" " Yeah, you know it." " Great, see you there." " Luce'." " Have a good show tonight." " You too." " Welcome ladies and gentlemen to this very special evening." " The fall senior showcase is always... a highlight at the Maryland School of the Arts." " 10 minutes." " That's 10 minutes everyone." " You all right?" " Yeah." " Give me some, come on." " Hey yo', thanks man." " Will you go." " Nora!" " Tyler what are you doing here?" " Before you say anything..." "Look, I don't know where to start." " I just..." "I'm sorry." " Okay, I shouldn't have walked out on you like I did." " Tyler this is not the time." " Please just let me get this out." " Look, I've made every wrong decision, I could have possibly made." " Tyler, it doesn't matter anymore, I'm doing this without a partner." " That's enough, go on and check your dancers." " Tyler, I don't think you realize how important this is." " No, I do realize how important this is." " And that's exactly why I'm here." " You said, if I want something, I got to fight for it." " Right." " Well that's what I'm doin', I'm here and I'm fightin' for somethin'... that's real for the first time in my life." " I can't do this right now." " This is everything that I've been working for." " I know and I'm sorry..." "I just wanted you to be able to do this, the way you imagined it." " That's it." " I can't." " It's too late." " Okay." " Good luck." " Tyler!" " Do you remember the steps?" " Couldn't forget them even if I wanted to." " Okay everyone." " We're back to the old dance." " With Tyler." " Okay, let's go!" " This is the girl I was telling you about." " Okay." " Excuse me." " Oh, sure." " Bye..." "Bravo!" " That was all pretty good." " Come on man, you've seen me dance before." " Yeah, but not like that, I ain't never seen you do nothin' like that before." " That's her right there." " That's her?" " And over here..." "This is Nora Clark." " Wow." " You were wonderful." " Oh thank you so much." " I'd like to sit down with you and discuss the... possibility of joining our company." " After graduation." " I would love that." " Yeah, me too." " She's everything you said she'd be." " Who's the male lead?" " This is Tyler Gage." " He's a transfer." " Oh my God..." "Wait, what?" " Don't forget to send your transcripts." " Yes, ma'am." " Very well done." " We'll see you Monday." " We'll see you on Monday..." "Congrats, man." " Appreciate it man." " I'll let you do your thing, meet you in the car." " You should go..." "So you know what that means, right?" " No..." "What's that mean?" " You're going to have to get some tights." " Done."