Jeffries wakes up at the hospital
Will Jeffries awakes at the hospital after being shot twice at Pops' store.
Lilly : Feel like you got hit by a bus, huh?
Will: It's more like a freight train. Pops?
(Lilly shakes her head)
Lilly : He was a friend of yours, huh?
Will: He was more than that.
(flashback to 1966)
Pops: You're not going to buy nothing today?
Will: Just looking.
Pops: Did that beer just fall in your pocket? Boy, you been robbing me blind for months. I'm sick of it. I see you hanging out on the streets, giving your mother a hard time, bullying those other kids.
Will: Call the cops on me.
Pops: Son, you owe me $79.27.
Will: I ain't got no money.
Pops: Then you're going to work it off. I know your father left, and it's tough times. But I tell you what, I don't care. You're a man now. You got a man's choice. Take this broom and start earning or get ready for the whupping of your young life.
(flashback ends)
Will: I took that broom, worked there every day. He was the one got me into football, straightened me out.
Lilly : You think he would've given you that whupping?
Will: Without a doubt. Pops is... was... pretty mean when he wanted to be. I don't know what the neighborhood's going to do without him.
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