The Paynes (2018) s01e18 Episode Script
Making Her Honest
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Uh [CHORTLES.]
What?! [CLEARS THROAT.]
Hi.
Really? Oh, hi.
Oh, hi.
Curtis, look who's here.
Oh, I see him.
Hmph.
me, too.
I just want to know why I see him.
Me, too.
Um, can we come in? Not him.
Yeah.
Come on in.
A-are you sure? She invited you in, partner, not me.
Well, thank you, Ms.
Ella.
Not so fast.
Where you goin'? Look at him, Ella.
You see him? Mm-hmm.
He lookin' like he all proper.
That's a long way from thug life.
Come on.
Don't let that bad patch get in the way of Bad patch? Did that patch say "bad patch"? Yeah, I-I was just going through some really tough times.
Ah.
so was she and her kids with you.
Well, yeah, I know.
But we're better.
[SCOFFS.]
Is that right? Yeah.
Yes.
Nyla? Yes? What are you doing? Hm-mm.
Look, Mr.
C.
, um Look, I don't even know why you here.
I told you not to come around.
Wait, hold on, before you get all bent out of shape Don't you dare talk to my wife like that! I won't have it! Callin' you "bent out of shape"! I wish you would.
Say it again.
ELLA: Curtis! - Yeah, baby.
- Curtis.
- Hmm? - Uh, baby You know I'm gonna defend you, baby.
Can you do me a favor, though? - Mm.
- Can you do me a favor? Yeah, baby, anyt yes, honey.
Anything, sweet honey.
- That's how you treat 'em.
- Oh, okay.
Okay.
Baby.
Yeah, babe? Baby, don't defend me no more.
He wasn't talkin' about me.
You sure? - Okay.
- Curtis.
Sorry.
Ms.
Ella, Mr.
Curtis, we want to talk to you.
Good, 'cau Well, I don't want to hear nothin' he got to say.
We want to talk to you, too.
Well, you go first.
No, no, no, well, you you go first.
Oh, hell, no! We ain't doin' this again.
Curtis! Choo-choo.
Y'all, come on in.
Go on in.
Just go around him.
Go on in.
Go on in.
Go on.
Slow.
Excuse me.
Thank you for lettin' me into your home, Ms.
Ella.
Sure.
Appreciate you bein' so civil.
So, mm-hmm.
What's going on? Well, you want to tell them? No, baby, you tell 'em.
Oh, hell.
We're doin' this again? Um, well Kendrick asked me to marry him.
S-say what? He asked me to marry him.
And what did you say? I told him I would think about it.
Okay.
Nyla sweetie can I talk to you in the living room, please, for a moment? Sure.
[CHUCKLES.]
Curtis.
I'll be right back.
Oh, I got this one! I got this one.
- Sh-should I just come with? - It's okay.
Now, partner, you gonna stay right here so we can talk.
Hell, no.
Okay.
okay.
[CHAIR SCRAPES.]
We gonna have a little talk.
Okay.
How old Are you, son? I'm 29, sir.
And what are your intentions With my Nyla? Well, I love her, and I want to take care of her and Hit her? No.
No, never again.
What makes you so sure Hold on, my contacts.
You won't do it again? And he's been in therapy.
For how long? A month.
Nyla Look, I know you are skeptical.
I was at first, too, but he's different.
Different how? Well, I've learned how to Learned how to channel my anger.
I've learned not to take it out on her.
Who taught you that? The therapist.
The therapist? Yes, the thera-pist! I'm sorry.
She actually said that I'm, uh I'm the best in the class.
How long you been doin' this? A month.
A month? Yeah, a month.
Like a month plus.
What makes you think you ready To be married? Pht! It's despicable! I love him and he loves me.
Okay.
Nyla, are you sure? Yes.
Okay.
Then take your time.
Well, he wants to, uh, make sure He wants to get married right away.
Why? Well, we don't want to, um Stop right there.
What is goin' on? What is goin' on? Answer me, son! I'm tryin'.
I'm tryin'.
I'm tryin'.
I love her And I don't want to wait anymore.
We've wasted too much time as it is.
I love this woman.
I do.
But I just don't understand the rush.
It's in my nose this time.
You see? Why the rush? We want to do the right thing in the eyes of god.
This is coming from the man that beat her? I told you I'm a changed man.
How am I supposed to know you've changed? 'Cause I'm sittin' here lettin' you spit on me.
Consider yourself lucky.
I usually charge for it.
Well, all I can do is prove it over time.
Yes.
Yes.
All you do got is time.
All we do got is time.
So, again, I ask Why the rush-h-h? Well, I just feel like we should, um We should.
Nyla, you not tellin' me everything.
You not tellin' me everything.
Ms.
Ella So Stop all of this.
Tell me.
He wants to make sure that, um Mm-mm-mm.
this that this Baby has a father.
What? He wants to be married.
Are you pregnant? Yes.
Ohh.
You're pregnant.
[SIGHS.]
Yes.
Nyla but I didn't know I was when I when I left him.
- Nyla.
- But when I talked to him, and I told him, he went to a doctor, and he started getting better and started getting help.
Nyla I can't.
Nyla Please, say something else other than my name, Ms.
Ella.
Look I don't think this is a good idea.
- Having the baby? - No.
I'm not talkin' about having the baby.
That's [CHUCKLES.]
No, I'm not talking about having the baby.
There's nothing we can do about that right now.
What I am talking about is you marrying this man.
He's changed.
Nyla, it has not been that long.
Look, I know.
I beli [SIGHS.]
I see it in him.
Honey, oh, I know you want to believe the Yes, I do.
You're right.
But this is real.
- Nyla, honey - Look, wait, Ms.
Ella, wait.
Okay.
Remember that night when you prayed with me? - Yes.
- All those nights.
All those nights.
God answered our prayers, okay? He's back.
He's here.
He's better.
He's getting help.
That wasn't my prayer.
That was not my prayer at all.
What was your prayer? My prayer, Nyla Look, listen to me.
And I just want you to think about this.
Your kids are getting adjusted here.
Yeah.
And they like it here.
I know.
And they even like Curtis.
[CHUCKLES.]
And that is the biggest shocker of all.
[LAUGHS.]
Tell me about it.
[GIGGLES.]
You see? God answered all your prayers.
Nyla, listen to me, you're young, baby.
Just don't rush this.
You don't have to rush.
What's the rush? Well, don't you think my baby should be born with Kendrick as my husband? [SCOFFS.]
Husband or not, that baby is comin'.
You cannot put the smoke back in the cigarette once it's been burned.
Is that supposed to be a parable you're tryin' to teach? Oh, no, no.
No, no, no.
No.
Oh, 'cause I don't remember Jesus using cigarettes to teach lessons.
Oh, no, he didn't.
Oh, okay.
But he did use common sense.
[SCOFFS.]
Are you sayin' I don't have common sense? No.
You know I wouldn't do that.
You know I wouldn't.
- Not in your face.
- No? So that's what you're thinking.
Nyla, baby, what I am thinking is why this man wants to marry you on the heels of abusing you.
Man, I wish you would stop saying that he abused me.
Well, I'm saying it because I want you to get it.
I know what he did.
Do you really? Look, he's changed, okay.
- Honey - I have to be okay I have to be okay with knowing that, okay.
I have to I have to believe that.
Okay, so, you just gonna take your children out of here and put them back in that situation? I am going to what is right for all of us in the long run.
Okay, Nyla What's best for your kids is that their mother realizes her worth.
You know, Ms I mean, Ms.
Ella, I know you're tryin' to help me, but this is getting to be a bit condescending.
Mm.
that's not what I'm tryin' to do.
That's not what I'm tryin' to do.
Then what are you tryin' to do? What are you saying? I mean this to be the truth.
That's all.
Just truth, Nyla.
Well, if you don't mind, I want to get back to Kendrick.
I don't know what Mr.
Curtis is sayin' to him.
Okay.
But I know it's the truth, whatever he's sayin'.
Do you think you can put crack Back in a crack pipe After you smoke it? Pbhht! Have you ever tried that? Is that rhetorical? Don't be speakin' Spanish! Curtis.
You just listen to the parable.
You don't answer it.
C-Curtis.
Shut up! Amen.
Am amen.
Just givin' him some parable.
What you know about a parable? Baby, please, there was two of 'em.
They were parables.
But they say he dropped one, so there's two.
You know what, baby, I think he got it.
You know what, Curtis, I think you got it.
- I really do.
- Thank you, baby.
Got what? Yeah, you got that, um, "don't do it again.
" That that strong, thick case of, "don't do that again.
" I ain't read that one.
- Come here.
- What's up? Come here.
Come here, baby.
Stand right there and shut your mouth.
You tricked me.
I take it you two had a good talk.
Uh yeah.
[SCOFFS.]
That's good.
Um, did you You two? It was wet, baby.
He said some words in between the wet In between the Yeah, he can be a bit much.
He can.
Oh, my god, he just always gets mad.
Uh, hello.
ELLA: [CLEARS THROAT.]
Sorry.
Yeah, you better be.
Anyway, I should probably be goin'.
I gotta get back to work.
- Okay.
- Work? where you work at? At the hospital.
At the hospital? What you do? Janitor? [LAUGHS.]
Uh, no, I'm a doctor.
What? Yeah.
CURTIS: What kind? I'm a surgeon.
Really? He make a lot of money.
Curtis, so? [STAMMERS.]
So? Well, look here You hurt her, you gonna need a lot of surgery.
Can you afford yourself? That's the question.
I promise you, I'm better.
You better be.
Anyways, you want to walk me outside? Nah, I'm gonna stay here with Ella.
My feet hurt.
I'm gonna chill.
Okay, no, I was talking to my bride-to-be.
Yeah.
Um, I'll see you guys here in a couple of hours.
Okay.
I gotta get the kids from school.
Okay.
It was really nice to see you.
Yeah.
Have a nice day.
You, too.
Bye.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
- Wow! - Mnh-mnh.
- Mnh-mnh.
- Now, baby.
Mnh-mnh.
mnh-mnh.
Baby.
No, Curtis, no.
No.
She cannot marry that man.
I don't know, baby, maybe he change.
You just sayin' that because he's a doctor.
No, Ella, I'm sayin' that 'cause maybe he changed.
- Curtis.
- I mean, we all know he got change.
Baby, she don't need this.
She don't need this.
Well, it's her life.
Yep.
all I know is that I got a really, really, really, really, really, really bad feeling about this.
It'll be fine, honey.
I mean, there's nothin' else we can do.
I know.
You know what I'm grateful for? What's that? I'm so glad that we raised a good man.
Yeah.
[CHUCKLES.]
Yeah.
Yes.
Who? Calvin.
Oh, yeah, him.
Your only Begotten But Calvin's not a surgeon.
You still don't have that laundromat open.
It will be.
Okay, then, good.
D it will be.
Don't worry about it.
Curtis, okay.
And don't worry about her.
I can't help but worry about her and her kids.
Well, baby, they not ours.
Curtis, you saw how those kids suffered and struggled when they first got here.
Yeah.
They'll be fine, baby.
We just got to hope for the best.
Yep.
I'm gonna hope for the best, and I'm gonna pray all the way.
Oh, lord.
That mean you gonna be up all night walkin' up and down the floor and spittin' on everything all night? [SCOFFS.]
[MUTTERING.]
Whatever it takes.
Baby, can I ask you somethin'? Yeah.
And I-I don't mean no harm.
No.
No, you cannot ask me.
One thing.
What, Curtis? Did you ask Jesus if he wanted to come? Did you? 'Cause maybe he want to be left in Georgia.
I mean, did you ask him if he want to come across state line? You brought him all the way to Florida with lizards.
The guy don't even like lizards.
Why don't he like lizards, Curtis? 'Cause that's the work of the enemy.
You are a work of the enemy.
Hey, baby.
Curtis.
Do you hear yourself? No, baby, I never listen to me.
Why didn't I leave you in Georgia? That's the question.
'Cause you know you'd miss me.
Uh [CHORTLES.]
What?! [CLEARS THROAT.]
Hi.
Really? Oh, hi.
Oh, hi.
Curtis, look who's here.
Oh, I see him.
Hmph.
me, too.
I just want to know why I see him.
Me, too.
Um, can we come in? Not him.
Yeah.
Come on in.
A-are you sure? She invited you in, partner, not me.
Well, thank you, Ms.
Ella.
Not so fast.
Where you goin'? Look at him, Ella.
You see him? Mm-hmm.
He lookin' like he all proper.
That's a long way from thug life.
Come on.
Don't let that bad patch get in the way of Bad patch? Did that patch say "bad patch"? Yeah, I-I was just going through some really tough times.
Ah.
so was she and her kids with you.
Well, yeah, I know.
But we're better.
[SCOFFS.]
Is that right? Yeah.
Yes.
Nyla? Yes? What are you doing? Hm-mm.
Look, Mr.
C.
, um Look, I don't even know why you here.
I told you not to come around.
Wait, hold on, before you get all bent out of shape Don't you dare talk to my wife like that! I won't have it! Callin' you "bent out of shape"! I wish you would.
Say it again.
ELLA: Curtis! - Yeah, baby.
- Curtis.
- Hmm? - Uh, baby You know I'm gonna defend you, baby.
Can you do me a favor, though? - Mm.
- Can you do me a favor? Yeah, baby, anyt yes, honey.
Anything, sweet honey.
- That's how you treat 'em.
- Oh, okay.
Okay.
Baby.
Yeah, babe? Baby, don't defend me no more.
He wasn't talkin' about me.
You sure? - Okay.
- Curtis.
Sorry.
Ms.
Ella, Mr.
Curtis, we want to talk to you.
Good, 'cau Well, I don't want to hear nothin' he got to say.
We want to talk to you, too.
Well, you go first.
No, no, no, well, you you go first.
Oh, hell, no! We ain't doin' this again.
Curtis! Choo-choo.
Y'all, come on in.
Go on in.
Just go around him.
Go on in.
Go on in.
Go on.
Slow.
Excuse me.
Thank you for lettin' me into your home, Ms.
Ella.
Sure.
Appreciate you bein' so civil.
So, mm-hmm.
What's going on? Well, you want to tell them? No, baby, you tell 'em.
Oh, hell.
We're doin' this again? Um, well Kendrick asked me to marry him.
S-say what? He asked me to marry him.
And what did you say? I told him I would think about it.
Okay.
Nyla sweetie can I talk to you in the living room, please, for a moment? Sure.
[CHUCKLES.]
Curtis.
I'll be right back.
Oh, I got this one! I got this one.
- Sh-should I just come with? - It's okay.
Now, partner, you gonna stay right here so we can talk.
Hell, no.
Okay.
okay.
[CHAIR SCRAPES.]
We gonna have a little talk.
Okay.
How old Are you, son? I'm 29, sir.
And what are your intentions With my Nyla? Well, I love her, and I want to take care of her and Hit her? No.
No, never again.
What makes you so sure Hold on, my contacts.
You won't do it again? And he's been in therapy.
For how long? A month.
Nyla Look, I know you are skeptical.
I was at first, too, but he's different.
Different how? Well, I've learned how to Learned how to channel my anger.
I've learned not to take it out on her.
Who taught you that? The therapist.
The therapist? Yes, the thera-pist! I'm sorry.
She actually said that I'm, uh I'm the best in the class.
How long you been doin' this? A month.
A month? Yeah, a month.
Like a month plus.
What makes you think you ready To be married? Pht! It's despicable! I love him and he loves me.
Okay.
Nyla, are you sure? Yes.
Okay.
Then take your time.
Well, he wants to, uh, make sure He wants to get married right away.
Why? Well, we don't want to, um Stop right there.
What is goin' on? What is goin' on? Answer me, son! I'm tryin'.
I'm tryin'.
I'm tryin'.
I love her And I don't want to wait anymore.
We've wasted too much time as it is.
I love this woman.
I do.
But I just don't understand the rush.
It's in my nose this time.
You see? Why the rush? We want to do the right thing in the eyes of god.
This is coming from the man that beat her? I told you I'm a changed man.
How am I supposed to know you've changed? 'Cause I'm sittin' here lettin' you spit on me.
Consider yourself lucky.
I usually charge for it.
Well, all I can do is prove it over time.
Yes.
Yes.
All you do got is time.
All we do got is time.
So, again, I ask Why the rush-h-h? Well, I just feel like we should, um We should.
Nyla, you not tellin' me everything.
You not tellin' me everything.
Ms.
Ella So Stop all of this.
Tell me.
He wants to make sure that, um Mm-mm-mm.
this that this Baby has a father.
What? He wants to be married.
Are you pregnant? Yes.
Ohh.
You're pregnant.
[SIGHS.]
Yes.
Nyla but I didn't know I was when I when I left him.
- Nyla.
- But when I talked to him, and I told him, he went to a doctor, and he started getting better and started getting help.
Nyla I can't.
Nyla Please, say something else other than my name, Ms.
Ella.
Look I don't think this is a good idea.
- Having the baby? - No.
I'm not talkin' about having the baby.
That's [CHUCKLES.]
No, I'm not talking about having the baby.
There's nothing we can do about that right now.
What I am talking about is you marrying this man.
He's changed.
Nyla, it has not been that long.
Look, I know.
I beli [SIGHS.]
I see it in him.
Honey, oh, I know you want to believe the Yes, I do.
You're right.
But this is real.
- Nyla, honey - Look, wait, Ms.
Ella, wait.
Okay.
Remember that night when you prayed with me? - Yes.
- All those nights.
All those nights.
God answered our prayers, okay? He's back.
He's here.
He's better.
He's getting help.
That wasn't my prayer.
That was not my prayer at all.
What was your prayer? My prayer, Nyla Look, listen to me.
And I just want you to think about this.
Your kids are getting adjusted here.
Yeah.
And they like it here.
I know.
And they even like Curtis.
[CHUCKLES.]
And that is the biggest shocker of all.
[LAUGHS.]
Tell me about it.
[GIGGLES.]
You see? God answered all your prayers.
Nyla, listen to me, you're young, baby.
Just don't rush this.
You don't have to rush.
What's the rush? Well, don't you think my baby should be born with Kendrick as my husband? [SCOFFS.]
Husband or not, that baby is comin'.
You cannot put the smoke back in the cigarette once it's been burned.
Is that supposed to be a parable you're tryin' to teach? Oh, no, no.
No, no, no.
No.
Oh, 'cause I don't remember Jesus using cigarettes to teach lessons.
Oh, no, he didn't.
Oh, okay.
But he did use common sense.
[SCOFFS.]
Are you sayin' I don't have common sense? No.
You know I wouldn't do that.
You know I wouldn't.
- Not in your face.
- No? So that's what you're thinking.
Nyla, baby, what I am thinking is why this man wants to marry you on the heels of abusing you.
Man, I wish you would stop saying that he abused me.
Well, I'm saying it because I want you to get it.
I know what he did.
Do you really? Look, he's changed, okay.
- Honey - I have to be okay I have to be okay with knowing that, okay.
I have to I have to believe that.
Okay, so, you just gonna take your children out of here and put them back in that situation? I am going to what is right for all of us in the long run.
Okay, Nyla What's best for your kids is that their mother realizes her worth.
You know, Ms I mean, Ms.
Ella, I know you're tryin' to help me, but this is getting to be a bit condescending.
Mm.
that's not what I'm tryin' to do.
That's not what I'm tryin' to do.
Then what are you tryin' to do? What are you saying? I mean this to be the truth.
That's all.
Just truth, Nyla.
Well, if you don't mind, I want to get back to Kendrick.
I don't know what Mr.
Curtis is sayin' to him.
Okay.
But I know it's the truth, whatever he's sayin'.
Do you think you can put crack Back in a crack pipe After you smoke it? Pbhht! Have you ever tried that? Is that rhetorical? Don't be speakin' Spanish! Curtis.
You just listen to the parable.
You don't answer it.
C-Curtis.
Shut up! Amen.
Am amen.
Just givin' him some parable.
What you know about a parable? Baby, please, there was two of 'em.
They were parables.
But they say he dropped one, so there's two.
You know what, baby, I think he got it.
You know what, Curtis, I think you got it.
- I really do.
- Thank you, baby.
Got what? Yeah, you got that, um, "don't do it again.
" That that strong, thick case of, "don't do that again.
" I ain't read that one.
- Come here.
- What's up? Come here.
Come here, baby.
Stand right there and shut your mouth.
You tricked me.
I take it you two had a good talk.
Uh yeah.
[SCOFFS.]
That's good.
Um, did you You two? It was wet, baby.
He said some words in between the wet In between the Yeah, he can be a bit much.
He can.
Oh, my god, he just always gets mad.
Uh, hello.
ELLA: [CLEARS THROAT.]
Sorry.
Yeah, you better be.
Anyway, I should probably be goin'.
I gotta get back to work.
- Okay.
- Work? where you work at? At the hospital.
At the hospital? What you do? Janitor? [LAUGHS.]
Uh, no, I'm a doctor.
What? Yeah.
CURTIS: What kind? I'm a surgeon.
Really? He make a lot of money.
Curtis, so? [STAMMERS.]
So? Well, look here You hurt her, you gonna need a lot of surgery.
Can you afford yourself? That's the question.
I promise you, I'm better.
You better be.
Anyways, you want to walk me outside? Nah, I'm gonna stay here with Ella.
My feet hurt.
I'm gonna chill.
Okay, no, I was talking to my bride-to-be.
Yeah.
Um, I'll see you guys here in a couple of hours.
Okay.
I gotta get the kids from school.
Okay.
It was really nice to see you.
Yeah.
Have a nice day.
You, too.
Bye.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
- Wow! - Mnh-mnh.
- Mnh-mnh.
- Now, baby.
Mnh-mnh.
mnh-mnh.
Baby.
No, Curtis, no.
No.
She cannot marry that man.
I don't know, baby, maybe he change.
You just sayin' that because he's a doctor.
No, Ella, I'm sayin' that 'cause maybe he changed.
- Curtis.
- I mean, we all know he got change.
Baby, she don't need this.
She don't need this.
Well, it's her life.
Yep.
all I know is that I got a really, really, really, really, really, really bad feeling about this.
It'll be fine, honey.
I mean, there's nothin' else we can do.
I know.
You know what I'm grateful for? What's that? I'm so glad that we raised a good man.
Yeah.
[CHUCKLES.]
Yeah.
Yes.
Who? Calvin.
Oh, yeah, him.
Your only Begotten But Calvin's not a surgeon.
You still don't have that laundromat open.
It will be.
Okay, then, good.
D it will be.
Don't worry about it.
Curtis, okay.
And don't worry about her.
I can't help but worry about her and her kids.
Well, baby, they not ours.
Curtis, you saw how those kids suffered and struggled when they first got here.
Yeah.
They'll be fine, baby.
We just got to hope for the best.
Yep.
I'm gonna hope for the best, and I'm gonna pray all the way.
Oh, lord.
That mean you gonna be up all night walkin' up and down the floor and spittin' on everything all night? [SCOFFS.]
[MUTTERING.]
Whatever it takes.
Baby, can I ask you somethin'? Yeah.
And I-I don't mean no harm.
No.
No, you cannot ask me.
One thing.
What, Curtis? Did you ask Jesus if he wanted to come? Did you? 'Cause maybe he want to be left in Georgia.
I mean, did you ask him if he want to come across state line? You brought him all the way to Florida with lizards.
The guy don't even like lizards.
Why don't he like lizards, Curtis? 'Cause that's the work of the enemy.
You are a work of the enemy.
Hey, baby.
Curtis.
Do you hear yourself? No, baby, I never listen to me.
Why didn't I leave you in Georgia? That's the question.
'Cause you know you'd miss me.