"Ballers" Recap: "Heads Will Roll"

Written by Scotty

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Sometimes you just need someone to be on the lookout for you, since there might always be someone looking to get you.  Usually you can count on your friends to keep you out of trouble, but there could be times when they are looking to take advantage of you as well. I have always had a hard time in trying to figure out who to let in, friendship wise and who to keep at an arm’s length.  Even today, you never know who will want to take advantage of their friendship benefits with you and how far they will take you before you find out what they are really up to.

Charles Greane is quickly recovering from Spencer and Joe’s party the night before.  With his sister and her kids playing around the house, Charles and his wife know what they want out of life, but have not been able to get pregnant just yet.  But before Charles is able to sit down and get a bead on his day he receives a text message from a young woman that wants to be more than just friends.  Finding out that his buddy Ricky passed his number on to the woman, Charles has to figure out what he really wants in life, and the young woman is not making it easy for him as she is looking for a little one on one action.

At a morning meeting with Vernon, Jason and Spencer are trying to get the best deal in place for the top rated defensive tackle in the game, but Reggie still has his friend’s ear.  Wanting more money than J.J. Watt is getting paid, Reggie makes it clear that any offer that does not hit this mark will not be acceptable and the two will hold out for free agency.  With both agent and money manager making it known that this is not possible, Jason hits the phone again with the Dallas GM to get more money and a shorter contract approved, but when he is able to make the world move, it is not enough for Reggie and there will be no further talks until his number is met.

Ricky Jerret comes clean to his teammate about what has happened between himself and Alonzo’s mother.  Wanting to make it known about how badly he wants to win, Ricky tells his teammate that the relationship is over and he hopes that they can be more than teammates on the field, but friends as well.  Alonzo seems to take the news well and the two are appearing to bond, but the younger receiver is not going to let a dead dog lie and relocates Ricky’s car.  Knowing that there is trouble brewing between the two, Larry comes into the picture and pulls Ricky aside and wants to make sure that his pick will be able to hold it together with all of the childish antics that are going on.  Doing a breathing exercise, Ricky is able to calm down and thinks that he will be ok, but when he sees what happened to his car, there is very little that deep breaths can do to keep his rage from foaming over.

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After the party, Joe is still on the boat and surveying the damage.  When his boss’s captain shows up and tells him and his friends they need to leave, Joe finds out that he is not alone.  Telling the two girls that are still on the boat with him to leave, he finds out that they have invited some good friends to come and partake in the goodness.  Finding out that one of the friends is Victor Cruz, Joe hijacks the boat for the afternoon to try and sign one of the hottest receivers in the game.  Knowing that he is a dead man when making landfall, Joe is able to get a verbal commitment for a meeting with Victor, but that may not be enough since the boss was wanting his yacht back for the entire day.

Spencer is thinking that life is great, waking up next to his ex after a successful night.  Since she knows that he has been hiding something from her, she begs him to go and get checked out by a neurologist to make sure that his concussion symptoms have not gotten any worse.  As any player would say, he is fine, but goes to get checked out and before he gets his MRI to make sure everything is fine, he gets a call from Jason.  Running down to restaurant that Vernon and Reggie are having lunch, Spencer pulls his friend aside and lays into him.  Knowing that Vernon cannot get better money than the best defensive player in the league, he would still be the highest paid tackle in the game and needs to take the current contract.  Although Vernon does not agree and thinks that free agency is the way to go to get paid, he does not understand the chances of getting injured and possibly not being signed by another team again.  Making sure Vernon knows his stance, Spencer comes out and says that once his friend is able to pay back the three hundred thousand dollars that he was loaned, Spencer will be out of his life for good.

The title of this episode is spot on, heads will definitely roll after everything that is going on.  Ricky is going to beat the ever loving crap out of Alonzo for what was done to his car and there is nothing that anyone is going to be able to do about it, but I don’t think that Alonzo is working alone in what is happing right now.  Charles is tempted, very tempted by this young woman and is left questioning his choices, even about getting married, it is just sad, even though he wants to break it off before anything actually starts.  There is no telling what is going to happen to Joe after stealing his boss’s boat for the afternoon and not having a new client to show for it, but he is a talker and should be able to get away with just a slap on the wrist.  The Spencer and Reggie story is going to be the biggest blowup and it is going to happen soon.  Even though Spencer is trying to keep himself calm around Vernon’s friend, Spencer is going to lose it and pound the man into the ground if he does not keep his mouth closed.  Vernon’s eyes are started to be opened by what Spencer has told him and I can see him leaving his boy in the dust, but there is always the worry about what happened on the yacht the previous night and pictures of him doing things that he was convinced to do.  Reggie seems to hold all of the cards, even though nobody is willing to let him play them…just yet.

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