Episode 1

THE STREETS WERE MY FATHER

Maurice begins earning money while still a small child, becoming a lookout for Old Head and finding additional ways to make money at Pathmark. His confidence grows alongside school trouble, parental discipline, and his increasing belief that money can give him control over his own life.

Episode 2

THE HOUSE DIVIDES

Maurice's parents' relationship reaches a breaking point and the household divides. Maurice and Marvin remain with their father while their sisters go with their mother. Maurice continues resisting rules involving school, curfew, Kingdom Hall, and respect, even as his attachment to his family remains impossible to ignore.

Episode 3

SEVENTEEN ON PAPER

Maurice must prove that his claimed Coney Island job is real when Pops accompanies him to meet Mark. Maurice asks his father not to expose his actual age and continues claiming that he is seventeen. A real opportunity finally appears, but taking it means maintaining a lie that eventually follows him onto his paperwork.

Episode 4

THE RIDES

Coney Island gives Maurice something he has been chasing for years: work, money, responsibility, and a place where people judge him largely by what he can do. Under Mark's supervision, Maurice works hard and takes pride in being useful. At the same time, marijuana, late nights, and his growing friendship with Skip begin complicating the freedom he believes he has found.

Episode 5

YOUNG BLOOD

Skip becomes increasingly familiar to Maurice and draws him beyond their usual interactions around Coney Island. What begins as another ride away from rules and curfews develops into a proposition involving the theft of a truck loaded with stuffed animals. Maurice's eagerness to prove that he belongs in an adult world places him inside a situation far more serious than the confidence he brings to it.