Will Jukebox find out he is ultimately responsible for the love of her life dying? Will Nicole’s mom blame Jukebox for her death? (Probably.) Will the police be able to trace the deadly drugs to Kanan and Marvin?įor some reason, Kanan continues to hide things from his mother, and she always finds out. Kanan is about to get in a shit of trouble for his bright idea. I think I shed a tear for Jukebox, Nicole’s mother, and Kanan. She patiently watches the other teenagers enter the building with an abundance of joy. During this entire time, Jukebox, dressed in a nice tuxedo bending all gender expectations, is at the high school, waiting for her girlfriend’s arrival. As Nicole takes her last breath, we hear her mother’s pleas for Nicole to open up the door, but we know she can’t. While this is happening, her mother continuously knocks on her door to take the required pre-dance photos with the date her mother set her up with (a young boy, of course). Before doing the faulty drugs, she began listening to a love song Jukebox wrote personally for her. Nicole’s tragic accidental death puts viewers in a melancholy mood.
The night Nicole died was the first time she acknowledged out loud to a family member that her love interest was a girl. Throughout the entire season, she has kept her sexuality a secret. Another breakthrough that happens for their union is that Raq, unlike her father, gives Jukebox permission to be herself.
The dress code for school dances typically consists of fancy dresses for girls and a nice suit for guys, but Nicole lovingly encourages Jukebox to wear whatever is comfortable to her. We see the two love birds make their union official and take risks by going to Nicole’s school dance together against her mother’s wishes. Their love story climaxed in this episode. Nicole snuck away from her homophobic borderline racist mother and expressed her love to Jukebox.
When we last saw Jukebox and Nicole, they were riding the Q6 after a very successful and fun night at the club. After a couple of hits, she dies instantly while locked in her room.
The worst part of it all is Nicole, Jukebox’s official girlfriend, takes the blue-capped crack out from Jukebox’s backpack without her knowing (not staying in her lane) and smokes it right before she was supposed to head out to the prom. He makes a deadly batch that begins to wipe out junkies in South Side by the dozen.
Obviously, he did not take good enough notes when Raq showed him how to cook up crack.
He’s so eager to be “the man,” be in charge or be the star that he cannot see the importance of being a good student. By now, we know Kanan is more interested in walking before he crawls. Talk about a tear-jerker! “Stay in Your Lane” shows what happens when you don’t, well, “stay in your lane.” From Famous rapping about a life filled with drugs and violence that he never lived, which alerts Davina about Kanan’s potential involvement, or at minimum awareness of Buck Twenty’s murder, to Kanan, per usual, biting off more than he can chew, the episode is filled with chaos.