After your character loses his job, he is home during the day. That's how he discovers that his teenage son has a small marijuana plantation behind the garage. Your character confronts his son, who, instead of acting repentant, explains to your character exactly how much money he is making from the marijuana and tries to persuade your character to join in the business...
Your move, writer.
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📖 Notes & analysis
One direction plays it as comedy: the father, freshly unemployed and deflated, listens to his son's spreadsheet-level pitch and finds himself weirdly impressed, leading to a farcical family business negotiation full of terrible cover stories.
Another leans into quiet drama: the confrontation becomes about pride and provision, the father realizing his son stepped up to fill a gap he couldn't, and the story becomes less about the plant and more about what it means to feel useless in your own house.
A third could go tense and consequence-driven: the son's confidence hides real danger, bigger players or debts the father doesn't know about, turning this into a story about a parent scrambling to protect a kid who thinks he's already got it handled.
Or play the reversal for warmth: the father, instead of scolding, ends up teaching his son actual business sense, and it becomes an unlikely bonding story about respect earned in a strange way.
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