Survivor’s Remorse Recap: Reggie & Missy Clash + Cam Considers Paying Reparations

Missy finds out about Reggie’s major withdrawal.

Reggie is driving and singing along to the radio. Missy then calls him and asks for the password to their online banking account. It’s his first apartment and Missy reminds him that she has a hard time remembering it because she never lived there.

“You have very narcissistic passwords.” – Missy

They joke around before ending the phone call.

Reggie resumes his singing.

Missy pulls up the online banking account and sees that $123,000 has been withdrawn from the account.

“What the f*ck?” – Missy

Cam goes to see Jim Flaherty and tells him his plans.

When Jim gets off the phone, he asks Cam if they are going to win the game. Cam says he hopes so and Jim jokingly tells him wrong answer and to leave and return with the right answer.

Cam explains that he just has something on his mind and Jim confirms that it’s the upcoming vote for the team player representative.

He tells Cam to remove his name from nomination because he doesn’t want anything on Cam’s mind besides winning.

But Cam tells him winning the vote will help his desire to become more of an activist.

Jim tells Cam he doesn’t pay him $96,000 a day to be an activist. He suggests Cam leaves the activism to the bench players who don’t have an important role on the team.

“I’ll think it over.” – Cam

“Yeah, think it over and decide against it.” – Jim

Chen gets suspicious.

Cassie is late for her Wednesday tryst with Chen.

As he waits for Cassie to finally arrive, Chen tells M Chuck that Cassie has been distant lately. She’s not really attentive during the conversations and their s*x life is losing passion.

M Chuck reminds him that he’s still in love with Cassie because she’s a challenge.

“I know, but it’s so hard. I’m raw right now, Very, very raw.” – Chen

M Chuck says she learned in psychology class that the lover gets a bigger advantage than the loved because the lover gets to experience humanity.

“That’s why giving is better than receiving. It ain’t just a saying.” – M Chuck

“But the lover carries all the risk.” – Chen

“F*ck, you’re right. You should audit.” – M Chuck

Cassie finally arrives and tells them her Uber ride gave her the bubble guts before she runs to the toilet.

While on the toilet, she asks Chen how he’s doing. He tells her he’s “outstanding” while outside the door. He then hears her phone going off. He sees Cassie received a text message but he doesn’t pick up her phone.

He considers looking at her phone but M Chuck warns him not to because doing so could ruin his relationship with Cassie. He picks the phone up anyway, and sees text messages from a person named Tom.

They are texting back and forth about meeting up on Monday.

Chen tells Cassie he has a meeting to get to and they tell each other they love each other before he heads out.

Missy confronts Reggie about the cash.

She asks him what he withdrew $123,000 for. He tells her he was playing poker the other day with Flaherty and other rich men.

She tells him she’s not comfortable with him gambling with that amount of money and she wants him to stop playing poker. But he assures her that he has his good nights and his bad nights.

Missy tells him that he is acting like he has no backbone by continuing to spend so much money playing poker to get in good with Flaherty and his associates.

Reggie reminds Missy that they agreed to fake it til they make it so he could get in the circle to have more business opportunities.

“See the problem with that is never once in that conversation was there a sentence, a warning, a hint at the possibility of losing the average upper middle class yearly income in one night gambling. So forgive me if I don’t have complete confidence in a wealthy building plan that begins with poker.” – Missy

“You don’t ride me about watches. You don’t ride me about clothes, cars or any other sh*t I gotta buy to put on for these people. Why are you riding me about this?” – Reggie

“Because watches and clothes and cars, those things are at least things. Poker is just, poof. And the money is gone. And you drive a Kia.” – Missy

“It’s a top of the line Kia. Cam won the car, he don’t even drive it.” – Reggie

She asks him why he didn’t tell her about the withdrawal and he tells her he didn’t feel like having the conversation they are having now. But the fact that he did it from an account they both use shows he’s not trying to hide anything.

“You ask me for that password three of four times a week. Trust me, if I wanted to hide something from you, you’d never find it.” – Reggie

Missy then asks him if there would be any tax implications and he tells her he will handle it.

“Man, look, you either trust me or you don’t.” – Reggie

“I trust you but I also verify.” – Missy

“Well, you verified. Verification done, so can we please move on to whatever’s next?” – Reggie

Missy reminds him that it’s their money and they share everything together so she has every right to ask questions and keep an eye on everything.

“What happens to you, happens to me and vice versa.” – Missy

Reggie says it’s really not vice versa and starts to walk away. When Missy asks him what he means by that, he scoffs and says nothing.

He reminds her that her father made him sign a prenup. Missy had no idea about this.

“My father made you sign a prenup?” – Missy

He told her this happened after he asked her dad for her hand in marriage.

Missy says her dad is just old school but Reggie said if that was the case, he would have given him something in exchange for him taking Missy off of his hands, like they did back in the day.

He also reassures Missy that he doesn’t need or want her father’s money.

She gets angry and tells him she will be out of town for a few days but he asks her not to go and open up a can of worms.

“I’m gonna be out-of-town.” – Missy

She heads upstairs.

Cam meets an inspiration.

Reggie introduces Cam to Mr. Ansell Jones, an athlete who was one of the first black athletes to play for the league.

He compliments Cam on his skills and offers to take him to lunch. Cam accepts and Reggie says he will set everything up.

Cam is excited and expresses such to Reggie after Ansell walks away.

“Dude played today, everybody would be rocking his sneakers.” – Cam

Chen confronts Cassie.

He wakes her up and questions who is Tom.

He tells her he saw the text and wants an explanation.

“You should never, ever look at a black woman’s phone.” – Cassie

She gets up out the bed and walks out the room annoyed and tells Chen it’s not what it looks like. She explains Tom is “Father Tom” from the church.

“You’re having an affair with a priest?!” – Chen

“If I was going to cheat on you, you think it’d be with that motherf*cker?” – Cassie

They walk downstairs, still arguing, as M Chuck is sitting in the kitchen looking on.

Cassie reminds Chen that priests are celibate and she’s been meeting him because she’s thinking about being confirmed as a Catholic.

“I want to continue to explore my relationship with God.” – Cassie

Chen asks what moved her to do this and M Chuck says being asked about her rape years later may have opened pandora’s box.

Cassie gets fed up and M Chuck realizes Chen had no idea Cassie was raped by three men which resulted in her pregnancy. She decides it’s best for her to stop talking and head back upstairs.

“I was going to tell you but I was just working my way up to doing it.” – Cassie

He walks up to her and tells her that he’s there for her.

“I am here.” – Chen

“And?” – Cassie

“I’m sorry I looked at your phone.” – Chen

They kiss and head back upstairs.

Ansell gives Cam something major to consider.

Cam has lunch with Ansell and Ansell tells him that most of today’s players can’t play.

Ansell also recalls that back in the day, teams could only have one black player on the team and dealing with segregation.

He tells Cam that a lot of black players didn’t get to stay in the league for the three years necessary to qualify for a pension.

“The league’s gotta fix that.” – Cam

Ansell says the league won’t do what’s right because they feel it’s bad history that should remained buried.

“If there’s gonna be help, it has to come from the players. As special pension funded by young black brothers who really got paid. Galvanized by a young man I have been watching for a while now. I believe he’s leader, not just on the court but off.” – Ansell

Cam says that is a lot to ask but Ansell reminds him that he’s the reason he has the opportunities he has today.

He later meets with Reggie who tells him it’s a horrible idea to pursue.

“Why?” – Reggie

“Because you don’t pay reparations to your own people. You get the people that hurt your people to pay the reparations. Otherwise it ain’t reparations. They’re gifts.” – Reggie

But Cam disagrees and feels that NBA players make absurds salaries and could afford to do it, especially since the men they would be helping paved the way for them.

“We can do it through the Calloway Philanthropic Trust.” – Cam

Reggie says the trust needs to lay low for awhile after the gala drama. He also says that Missy says most of the money is committed and the trust has already made commitments to several causes.

Although he’s annoyed, Reggie says he will do whatever Cam wants to do but it’s not Cam’s job to fix the world.

Cam accepts that the funds should not come from the trust but he wants to find another way.

“Why can’t you just be a selfish, self-absorbed a*shole like everybody else? Motherf*cker.” – Reggie

Missy gets checked by her parents.

Missy goes home to confront her father for forcing Reggie to sign a prenup.

“I wanted to preserve the romance in your marriage.” – Missy’s father

“Continue explaining.” – Missy

“A prenuptial agreement is an inherently unromantic thing. Because for a marriage to work, both parties have to believe 100% in its chances. That’s harder to do if you’ve already planned the divorce. I had concerns about the content of Reggie’s character. Concerns which have been borne out. No respectable man, I don’t care what his means or his reasons, loses $123,000 in a game of poker…” – Missy’s father

“Stop explaining.” – Missy

Missy’s father explains that he’s always been fair and open-minded about her past romances, even when she was just 17. He tells her that he was not going to let a husband come and go and leave her wanting for anything or paying for his life.

“If a marriage ended, you would still have your wealth. As would your children, if you ever actually have any. I did it for you.” – Missy’s father

“You had no right.” – Missy

“Every right, because that wealth, until your mother and I pass away, potentially from the sheer exhaustion of explaining how we do things, belongs to us.” – Missy’s father

“Mom knew about this?” – Missy

Missy’s mother comes from around the corner to add her two cents.

“Damn right I did. Down with it 100%. You dated some f*cking idiots.” – Missy’s mom

“Camille, why don’t you just come out and be a part of this if you want to?” – Missy’s father

“No, I’m fine out here.” – Missy’s mother

Missy’s father tells her it’s a parent’s job to protect their children at all costs. But Missy feels like she’s being treated like a child. She says that she doesn’t have control over her own financial life, between them and Reggie.

Missy’s mother comes back around the corner and tells her they didn’t pay for her education for her to whine. And if financial independence is what she wants, she needs to get a real job.

Her dad reminds her that she dropped out of law school when things got hard and married Reggie.

“Don’t blame your mother and don’t blame me because we are all the authors of our own stories.” – Missy’s father

Cam moves forward.

Flaherty critiques a young man’s resume and expresses his annoyance with the fact that the young man doesn’t know the difference between than and then.

His assistant walks in and tells him the new Atlanta Team Representative wants to see him. Cam walks in.

 

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