Night of the Living Rez

Dee and Fellis binge watch The Sopranos, play cards, and do drugs with money Fellis made by quitting college and getting a refund check for his financial aid. Bored with watching television, Dee takes Fellis to a bar, where they encounter Meekew, a drug-dealing college student whom Fellis perceives to be more aligned with white people than with the Penobscot. After leaving the bar, Fellis tries to buy cocaine from Meekew, who refuses to sell in the quantity Fellis is looking for. They have a fight, and Dee comes to Fellis’s aid when Fellis claims that Meekew is stabbing him. Dee hits Meekew over the head with a pack of beer; Meekew collapses. After he and Fellis get home, Fellis confesses that Meekew didn’t have a weapon at all.

In the morning, Dee goes back to the site of the fight. Meekew is gone, but he finds Fellis’s phone there. Dee returns to Fellis’s house, where Beth, Fellis’s mother, is making breakfast. Fellis gets into a fight with Beth, who discovers that Fellis never submitted the paperwork to the college that proves his Indigenous identity and secures his tuition waiver. Fellis angrily tells Beth that he quit college because he didn’t understand what was happening in class.