On the season finale of Survivor’s Remorse, a woman from Reggie’s past returns and threatens his relationships in the present. But first she’ll have to get through M-Chuck and Cassie whose claws come out to protect their own.
It all starts when Reggie gets a message from his ex-girlfriend, Adina, who is in town and wants to see him. Reggie was hoping that her message might include an apology for cheating on him with another guy, but Uncle Julius insists that the apology is there in the subtext. He also insists that Reggie not see his old love. Uncle J likens Adina to the terminator coming to kill his unborn child. He tells him not to mess with her, but Reggie doesn’t listen. Although he is busy prepping for a meeting with Da Chen Bao, the executive of a Chinese sneaker company, he returns Adina text with one of his own.
Da Chen Bao offers Cam 40 million dollars over five years and 6% equity in the company. That’s more than both Nike and Underarmour. So, although Nike does increase their bid to 35 million, it doesn’t take long for Cam and Reggie to decide to go with the international underdog.
“I smell raises,” M-chuck tells her mother when she hears the offer.
Whether or not Reggie will see Adina while she is in town isn’t so easy to decide. He makes a plan to meet her at a diner the next day, but the night before, he is felling so uneasy about it that he ends up telling his wife that his ex got in touch, yet he omits the fact that she is in Atlanta and wants to meet up with him. Missy also thinks that Adina is reaching out because she wants to get back together. She is especially suspicious when she discovers that Adina and Reggie were engaged. She had never even heard of Adina before. What is Reggie trying to hide?
Cassie and M-Chuck move quickly passed surprise to anger when Uncle Julius gives them the news. The best way they can think of to protect Reggie is kick Adina’s ass.
“If Reggie needs his Aunt to drag that bitch down Peachtree street by her skank ass hair extensions, I will gladly answer that motherfuckin’ call.”
“You drag that cunt into the street, Ma and I will run that cunt bitch over in Cam’s Astin.”Whoa! Ladies! I know you’re looking out for your boymand all, but violence is never the answer! Even Uncle Julius is surprised at their fierce response.
“I forgot what it’s like when you put a quarter in you two. I’ll speak to her myself. I don’t want to get Cam’s Astin impounded. You know, that’s my car, too.”But they don’t have to worry. Reggie shows up to meet Adina, looks at her through the window for a few seconds and then slowly drives away. I guess he figured the apology he was seeking wasn’t worth opening up old wounds.
Cassie, M-Chuck and Missy are getting their hair done at the salon while Missy grills them about Reggie’s ex. Missy admits that Adina is stacked and fit and one of the best-looking girls from their neighborhood, but Cassie says Reggie wanted better. He wanted to get out of that neighborhood so he could meet someone like Missy.
M-Chuck agrees. “I keep telling you! If you would let me go down on you, I would.”
Later, Reggie and Missy have a talk in the bathroom. He’s trying to pee while she tells him a story about a love she lost in college in an effort to tell him everyone has a past, but that they shouldn’t bring that past into a present. Reggie says that he is embarrassed to admit that he was rattled when Adina reached out. Yes, some of that is from heartache, but most of it is because of the betrayal. Everything is squashed. That is, until the Da Chen Bao merchandise arrives.
While the free clothes excite M-Chuck and Cassie, Cam and Uncle J are furious about the quality of the shoe. Cam wore his new sneakers to practice and thy fell apart with the first hard cut. He waddles home with his foot sticking out the front of the shoe to yell at Reggie. Uncle J is right behind him claiming that he merely went on a job and then rubbed one out and his shoe fell apart as well.
Cam was embarrassed in front of his team and is worried that he went with the wrong company so he takes it out on Reggie. Cam says some harsh things, but nothing is more hurtful than when he says he wishes he hadn’t asked Reggie to be his manager: “It’s my fault, you know, that I went with you instead of a professional. I went heart over mind like a douche bag wanting to bring my people along, and you see what happened.”
Reggie leaves and slams the door behind him. Uncle Julius pulls Cam into his room to tell him that Adina was in town. Cam says he should have suspected as much because Reggie has been acting weird. Uncle Julius is concerned that Reggie will sleep with Adina and insists that Cam get involved to stop that from happening. Though Cam claims that he has nothing to say to Adina, he agrees to talk to her and ask her to go away.
Meanwhile, Reggie is yelling at Da Chen Bao over skype. Chen insists that it’s not a quality issue but Reggie disagrees.
“You sound like a man who wants to back out of a deal.”
“Back out?” Reggie replies. “I want to front out before Cam breaks his fucking neck.”
Chen says, “Well, go ahead and send your jew lawyers against my jew lawyer. But believe me, you’ve never seen a jew lawyer until you’ve seen a Chinese jew lawyer.”
“Did you try these shoes on anyone?” asks Reggie.
Chen shouts back, “I don’t know any black people!”
Finally, Chen puts his lead engineer on the phone who explains that the problem is arch support. They just need to switch out the arches on the shoe and it should be fine. They will send a prototype of the new design on Thursday. Reggie is not optimistic but is willing to try the new design.
That night, Adina arrives at Cam’s high-rise apartment. Cam asks her not to contact Reggie anymore and she agrees. It was only Cam she wanted to talk to anyway. You see, she only reached out to Reggie out of consideration for his feelings. She wanted to know if, after all this time, he would mind if she went with Cam. Adina did what Reggie asked and never told anyone that it was Cam that he caught her with that night, but now that he has moved on and is happy again, she doesn’t see why she can’t try to find happiness with Cam.
Oh snap! I did not see that coming!
Adina goes to Cam and urges him to be honest about his feelings. She knows that they really had something and knows that he feels the same way. Cam pushes Adina away, but not before Reggie shows up and sees Cam and Adina together. Reggie asks Adina to leave. She turns to Cam and he turns away. She has her answer and so she leaves.
Once she is gone, Reggie tries to explain that he only asked her to come over to tell her to stay away, but Reggie sees through that. Why wouldn’t Cam just send her a text message if it was that simple? Cam can’t understand why Reggie wouldn’t trust him, but Reggie says her ruined that seven years ago when he slept with Adina. He really thought that they would all learn and grow from that experience and come back smarter and stronger. He says he guessed wrong.
Reggie leaves but Cam is right behind him. He shows up at Reggie’s house while he is throwing the basketball around outside. Cam apologizes for what he said regarding Reggie’s management skills now, and for what he did back in the day with Adina. Reggie accepts his apology and says he wants both of them to move on to bigger and better things. Cam lies to Reggie and tells him that Adina told him that, as far as she is concerned, Reggie was the one that got away. He tells Reggie that Adina still feels like messing up things with Reggie was the worst mistake of her life.
This seems to make Reggie feel a little better. “She’ll make more, ” he says. And then he challenges Cam to a game of horse.
Survivor’s Remorse has already been renewed for a second season that will contain 10 episodes. Did you enjoy the first season of the show? What are your hopes for Season 2?
