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Average Joe
Thursdays on BET+Average Joe Season 1 Episode 1
Pilot
Recap
Joe walks inside a ransacked office and gets knocked out by someone sneaking up on him from behind.
24 hours prior sees Joe at his house at the repast for his father Teddy, with friends Leon, Touch, and Leon’s wife Cathy coming to pay their respects. Before leaving, Touch steals oxycontin from Joe’s medicine cabinet.
The following day, Joe gets ready to go to work while Angela stops by Leon’s hardware store to buy a few things and sees Cathy there.
In Teddy’s office, Joe sees the ransacked area and is knocked out. Tied to a chair, he awakes with his daughter Jennifer’s boyfriend, Dimitri and Georgi staring at him. They ask Joe what the combination is to Teddy’s safe and then tell him that Teddy stole 10 million dollars from Dimitri’s father.
Joe tells them he doesn’t know where the money is, and Georgi breaks several of his fingers.
Leon drives past Teddy’s shop and sees Joe’s van outside, so he decides to stop and head inside.
With Dimitri and Georgi looking outside at Leon approaching, Joe manages to escape his restraints. He gets Georgi’s gun and kills him before scuffling with Dimitri. And after a struggle, he breaks Dimitri’s back, killing him.
When Leon gets inside and discovers the bodies, Joe tells him what the men told him. Knowing the safe combination, Joe opens it to find $100,000 and a key.
At first, Leon wants to go to the cops, but Joe thinks they should let it play out for a while. Leon then asks for 20% of what they find and Teddy’s Steelers season tickets.
Unable to get ahold of Joe, Angela calls Touch looking for him.
Dimitri’s father sends two of his henchman out to find Dimitri.
Touch goes to Teddy’s shop and finds Joe and Leon with the bodies. He tells them he wants in on the scheme, and Joe also agrees to give him 20%.
The three men devise a plan, deciding not to tell Angela or Cathy what happened.
Touch takes his cut of the money and leaves it at the house of a Donna, and later passes out in his car when he’s supposed to be meeting up with Joe.
The Russian henchmen follow Georgi and Dimitri’s phones and split up. The one at Leon’s gets inside the house and finds Leon on the toilet. He’s about to shoot him when Cathy shoots him in the head.
At Joe’s, Jennifer calls Dimitri’s phone and hears it ringing in the back of Joe’s van. Upon getting inside, she discovers Dimitri’s dead body and begins screaming. Joe and Angela get her inside, unaware that one of the Russian henchmen is also outside on the street.
- Show:
- Average Joe
- Season:
- Average Joe Season 1
- Episode Number:
- 1