This has the effect of redirecting Belly's narrative away from an exploration of the points of convergence and divergence among diasporic blacknesses, and toward an exegesis of African American spiritual redemption, in one case via a return to roots and in the other through adherence to an alternative modernizing movement. Upon Tommy's return to New York after a brief stint in a Decatur  
County Jail, he is tapped by the FBI to infiltrate a Nation-of- Islam-type organization in order to kill the Minister. Yet as he studies the religious texts, he begins to change his own thoughts about his purpose in life. Sincere, in the meantime, decides that he and his family need to get out of New York and implores his partner, Tionne (played by TLC's 'T-Boz' Watkins), to consider moving to Africa with their baby girl, Kenya. 'That's our dream', Sincere reasons, 'to go to our homeland, where our roots are. Forget about money, it's the chance of a lifetime'. The film ends on New Year's Eve 1999, and the new millennium is ushered in with Lennox dead, with Tommy declining to assassinate the Minister at the last minute, and with Sincere in Africa, where he is experiencing life, according to the concluding voiceover narrative, 'like a whole new beginning'.