Our Kind of People (TV Series)

Just Desserts (2022)

Lance Gross: Tyrique Chapman

Quotes 

• Tyrique Chapman : Boxes will offer private luxury built with sustainable materials. Guests will be able to relax knowing they're part of the future, not the past. Sustainable materials, private luxury I love everything about it. And thank you all. It has been an honor to pitch on this.

  Teddy Franklin : I have high hopes that this is going to raise your profile, son

• Teddy Franklin : You know this Jack Harmon mess?

  Tyrique Chapman : Terrible news.

  Teddy Franklin : Yeah, with complicated fallout. He had some important papers that I urgently need. Could you go down to the precinct and collect them for me? I have a legal courier on standby, but this needs a personal touch. And as always, your discretion is greatly appreciated.

• Tyrique Chapman : My mother used to always say that people could be two different but equal things at one time.

  Angela Vaughn : With all due respect to your mama, that ain't true. People can present two versions, but one The true version will always show its ugly head. And we all got to get to a-a place in life where we can look that version in the mirror and not look away. That's freedom.

• Raymond Dupont : Mind if take a look at those documents before you take them back to Franklin Holdings?

  Tyrique Chapman : I've been wondering why you're being so nice to me.

  Raymond Dupont : You were out of it on the chair. I was just trying to help.

  Tyrique Chapman : We've known each other since boarding school. This honestly might be the longest conversation - we've ever had.

  Raymond Dupont : And every single time, I was always asking you to hang out with me and my friends. - You always had an excuse

  Tyrique Chapman : No.

  Raymond Dupont : So I just stopped asking you.

  Tyrique Chapman : When I started there, I was the charity case. I only got in because Teddy waved his magical checkbook and paid my way. Then when things started coming missing from the dorm, everybody pointed they finger at the poor Black kid.

  Raymond Dupont : I never thought that that was you.

  Tyrique Chapman : But you didn't take up for me, stick up for me. You could count the number of Black kids on one hand. If there was anybody that should have had my back, - it should have been you. I was an outcast!

  Raymond Dupont : Okay, okay, hold on. Okay, you weren't a thief then.

  Tyrique Chapman : Got it.

  Raymond Dupont : But right now, Teddy needs these papers to keep stealing from me, and you're helping him do that right now.

  Raymond Dupont : And you still the same fake-ass rich kid that you were in school. You may not be wearing the school colors on that blazer, but you still haven't changed your stripes.

• Raymond Dupont : I'm glad to see you here.

  Tyrique Chapman : Yeah, I'm just stopping by for a minute.

  Raymond Dupont : I was hoping I could convince you to stay long enough for an apology. So, listen, I get why you think that I'm fake. I didn't have your back the way that I should have, but I was young, and I was never cruel to you. And the truth is, I was covering for Jack. I kept quiet about him being the dorm thief. He was bored, lazy, and was just doing stupid stuff 'cause he wanted to have fun.

  Tyrique Chapman : And that's who you chose to be friends with?

  Raymond Dupont : Thought I had to because of our close family ties.

  Tyrique Chapman : I didn't even understand that I was free to chose my own friends. Thought it would undermine everything that my family had worked for.

  Raymond Dupont : Yeah, so you helped Jack keep it quiet. His plan was to point the finger at you because he knew you were innocent. Then once the administration came and checked your room, they wouldn't see any proof, they would stop the investigation, and he wouldn't get caught. And, look, I know I should have handled that differently, but I did report him anonymously, and that's how he got expelled.

  Tyrique Chapman : I-I thought he transferred.

  Raymond Dupont : No, that's what they call expelled when your family writes a generous check. Anyway, the part that I didn't get right with you was I should have told you that Jack was the reason why you were an outcast. And if I'm keeping it 100, look, that was the first of many times that I had to cover for him, and I never should have done that.

  Tyrique Chapman : So we've been sitting at the same dinner tables, going to all the same functions for all these years and barely speaking.

  Raymond Dupont : Yeah, that's a waste. I know. But you're a real solid brother, and I should have had your back a long time ago. Listen, I know I don't have any right to speak on this, but don't let your loyalty to Teddy ruin you. Riding in that man's pockets, it may seem easy, but trust me It comes with a toll.

• Raymond Dupont : You had me fooled there for a minute.

  Tyrique Chapman : What you said hit me. I don't know what my loyalty to Teddy cost me, but it cost my father his life.

  Raymond Dupont : Getting this deal memo means a lot to me. I appreciate it.

  Tyrique Chapman : I still gotta deliver some of that paperwork to Teddy so he doesn't suspect anything. But without Jack's signature, he can't take over the shares, which means he can't take control of your company.

  Raymond Dupont : You're still in the game, right?

  Tyrique Chapman : Still in the game. Yeah, and from here on out, he's not gonna have me, either. I'm done with Teddy.

  Raymond Dupont : Nah, don't be. You'd make a good inside man if you stayed on. For you? For us as partners. Teddy's messed with both of our lives. We can take him down together. We can bring him to his knees, and we can make a lot of money doing it.

  Tyrique Chapman : I'm in.