The Paynes (2018) s01e23 Episode Script

1 You better hope Curtis don't ever find this out.
Find out what? Hey, Curtis.
Hey, babe.
Hey, baby.
What did you what you wanna tell me? Nothing.
I'm not telling you nothing.
You just said nothing just now? - Curtis - You want to tell me nothing? You know, y'all were just talking about something.
Girl talk, Curtis, remember? I just told you.
We wanna come out here, - wanna have girl talk.
- Oh.
"We better not tell him that.
" Y'all talking about recipes and stuff? That's girl talk? Mopping? What kind of soap you use for mopping? Curtis Well, she don't clean nothing.
You still out here? Yeah.
Um, Mr.
C.
, you know, we're talking 'bout cramps.
Hush your mouth.
You hush your mouth! You I'm out.
Thank you, baby.
Thank you.
[SIGHS.]
- Uh, Nyla - Sorry.
I don't lie to my husband.
Um, I'm sorry, but didn't we wanna get rid of him? Well, this is his house.
Yeah, but it's your house, too.
- I know it's my - Hey, babe.
Baby! Hey, baby! Yes, Curtis.
I'm covering my ears.
Yeah, he's coming.
I'm covering my ears up.
Oh, Curtis, what Slowly I walk.
You know what, you're doing the most Curtis! What do you want, baby? What do you want? Um, um, you know, baby, never mind.
[SCOFFS.]
Baby, 'cause I can hear you.
I don't wanna hear none of that girl-talk stuff.
No, you don't, baby.
You don't.
Okay.
Can you please not talk about it right now? What do you want, Curtis? Okay.
You know this paper you gave me? The long paper? What? Yes.
Look at that.
- Yes? - What that say? - "Income.
" - Income.
Income.
What am I supposed to put there? See, you don't even know.
No, I can't believe you don't know.
Curtis, you put your income! Put our income right there, on that line.
Our income? Oh, you mean my income.
You mean my income? Yes, Curtis, your income.
Put it right there.
'Cause you know, your income is out-go.
It don't really come in.
- Curtis - It go out.
just put right there how much you get for your retirement.
- How 'bout that? - Okay.
- For your retirement.
- Okay, I'll put it in there.
How much you make.
- Thanks, babe.
- Thank God for you.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Hmm - Cur-tis.
- Hey, babe.
Now, just Can I ask a question? Another one? I don't know why you so hostile.
You got cramps, too? Um, what I put there What do How much - Income? - Do I put all of it? Do I gotta put all of it? Curtis, yes.
We are trying to get this loan.
We need you to put down all of it.
And you know if I put all of it, babe, uncle Sam gonna uncle Sam be like this.
I wanna finish talking to Nyla, okay? - That's what we need to do.
- Yeah, okay.
- Girl talk! - Oh.
- Okay.
I get it.
- Yeah.
- Hey, baby.
- Ooh, Curtis.
Uh-huh? Gimme sugar.
Come on.
- Thank you, baby.
- Ooh, this is too much.
Go talk.
Talk, girl.
Hey, listen.
Lemme tell you something.
We don't have a laundromat.
Okay? Remember that.
Why you gotta remind me? I need you to fill the loan out, Curtis! - Filling it out, babe.
- It's urgent! I'm filling it out now.
I'm trying to laugh about this, okay? I'm trying to keep a good mind about this.
What? Okay, babe.
Thank you! Close the door, baby.
Huh? Curtis, close that door! All the way! Ms.
Ella, I really am sorry.
Nyla, wait a minute.
Just wait a minute.
You keep saying you sorry.
Sorry about what? Curtis, don't do this.
Do what, baby? What is it? Um I know what you said about the income thing.
But, baby, it it just don't feel right.
It just don't feel right, the income.
It ain't in my spirit.
That ain't in my spirit.
Well, Curtis, put it anyway 'cause your spirit ain't right.
Oh, I didn't think about that.
Okay.
Okay, I'll put it.
- I'm gonna put it down.
- Okay.
You know it's illegal to lie on this, right? Then, Curtis, don't lie.
How can I fill it out? - Curtis, don't lie.
- Everybody lie, Ella.
You think people put their real income on these? Curtis, please go.
We need to get the loan, okay? - Okay.
- Thank you.
So do what I gotta do, that what you saying? - Yes.
- Okay.
If that's gonna get you from out here, - do what you gotta do.
- Okay.
'Cause your name on it anyway, so okay.
Cool, babe.
Hey - Yes, Curtis? - Hey, thanks, babe.
Yes? Thank you, Curtis.
You're welcome, Curtis.
Thank you, Curtis.
You're welcome.
Shut shut the door again? Yes, all the way.
Shut it all the way.
Ms.
Ella, as I said, I'm I'm really sorry.
Nyla, do you know how dangerous it is Hi, baby.
Hey.
How dangerous what is? How dangerous it is for you to keep coming out that door.
I don't know how it could.
It's dangerous? Yes, Curtis! Yes, dangerous! That's what it is? Y'all talking girl talk? That's your girl talk? Yes! Okay.
Why she ain't saying nothing? Because you keep interrupting! That attitude, babe.
You Baby, you pray too much to be that mad.
I can't believe you still out here.
All right.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm done.
Thanks, babe.
Hey, sugar sugar.
Sugar, sugar.
Flip-flop.
All right, baby.
Can I talk now? Yes.
He's tired now.
[SIGHS.]
Good.
Nyla, listen to me.
Children left in a house is illegal.
I know.
If you know that, why did you do it? It's complicated.
Nyla, I have been very patient with you.
I really have.
I've really been trying to help you get through this and get on your feet.
I know, and we appreciate it.
- We really do.
- But you can't leave them here.
I know.
- I know.
- If I tell you I gotta go out, if I tell you we gotta go out, that's what we got to do.
I get it.
I get it.
- I get it.
- I sure hope you do.
It won't happen again, - I promise.
- It better not.
- It won't.
- It better not.
It won't, I promise.
- It won't happen again.
- I feel like reporting this! [VOICE BREAKING.]
Ms.
Ella, please don't.
I It won't happen again, okay? I don't know what came over me.
Oh, I do.
I know what came over you.
What came over me? Kendrick.
Nyla, Kendrick! [CHUCKLES.]
Ms.
Ella That man got you wrapped around his little finger.
He's a good man.
Stop saying that to me.
You say that a lot.
- He's a good man.
- Don't tell me that anymore.
He's getting a lot better.
Okay.
Are you sure that you wanna be with that man? I'm having his baby, okay? I understand that.
And y'all got that all wrong.
Are you sure that you wanna be with him? Yes.
Yes, I do.
Nyla, that man has not been in therapy long enough.
- He's not been therapy that long.
- I know, and it's okay.
No, it's not okay, Nyla.
It's not okay! All of this, it's happening too fast.
It's not okay! Why do you say that? Did you leave your kids here alone? Yes, but [CHUCKLES.]
No buts, baby.
No buts, Nyla.
That was him, wasn't it? It was because of him.
I know it.
Wasn't it? Yes.
Yes, it was.
Then why didn't you tell him that you didn't wanna go? - Because I didn't want to, um - You didn't want to, um, get him mad, did you? No, I didn't.
Why? Why not? What do you mean, why not? - Just say it! - Say what? That you are afraid of how he will act once he's mad.
Um, that's not what I was gonna say.
So, you left your children here by themselves? - I'm not afraid of him.
- Okay, you're not afraid of him.
Then why did you do it? - I just wanted to go with him, okay? - You scared.
You scared.
- No, I'm not.
I'm not - You you scared to say it! - I'm not scared.
- Oh, yes you are.
Oh, yes you are.
No, she's not afraid.
No, she's not scared to say it.
Hey, babe.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- Ohh! [SCOFFS.]
So [CHUCKLES.]
How long have you been listening there? Ms.
Ella Long enough to know that she's not afraid to tell me whatever it is y'all are talking about.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, I wanna know.
I wanna know.
And she must be.
Now, what would make you say that, Ms.
Ella? Oh, I don't know.
[CHUCKLES.]
Don't you already know? How many times do I need say it? You were listening.
- What did I hear? - Lurking.
What did I hear? - [CHUCKLES.]
- Just run it back to me.
Oh, so do they teach you that in therapy? "What did I hear?" Is this some type of method? "What did I hear?" Well, let me tell you what I see.
Okay.
Why did you have her leave those kids here by themselves? Why? What? - No, no, no, babe.
- Yes, yes, yes, babe.
Oh, I wanna hear this.
Please, baby, just calm down.
Yeah.
I I'm good.
I just wanna hear about her leaving the kids in the house by theyself.
Yes, I know.
She left them in this house? What did I say? What did I say? The l-little boy, too? What did I say? The little fire starter? [SIGHS.]
Stop it.
You stop it.
- Stop it.
- He steals, Ella.
I cannot when you get like this.
- Nyla? - Yeah? You left the kids in this house by themselves? Look, I already explained to Ms.
Ella.
- Oh, that's very nice of you.
- Hmm.
Now you can explain it to me.
[STERNLY.]
I'm not explaining it again.
Ooh.
- Say what? - Now No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- No, I'm not! - Wait a minute.
- Look, I am a grown woman, okay? Living in my house.
Yes.
And maybe that's the problem.
- Hm.
- You j I think it is, if you gonna be talking to me like that.
Oh, okay.
Well, I think I should move out.
- You think?! - Mm-hmm.
What makes you think that? Hmm.
How 'bout, "you should"? How 'bout, "you will"? How 'bout, "hold on"? Wait a minute.
- Curtis - Ain't no wait a minute, Ella.
Okay? Do you see how disrespectful she is right now? - [SIGHS.]
- Curtis, just stop it, okay? - No, no! - Hush.
No, no.
No, no.
Ain't gonna be no hushing.
Okay? I want her to tell me how she gonna leave some kids in this house, alone, by themselves, in my house.
Now, she's not gonna be talking to me like that in my own house, Ella! It's okay, baby.
I got this.
She ain't really talking to you like that in your house, 'cause we in the backyard.
I'm just saying I'm just saying that we in the backyard, which in the house you know, the house, that's a separate addition.
It's separated from the wall.
Now we're in the backyard.
Curtis? What the hell did he say?! The doctor? He learned that in therapy? Is that what this is? He wants some of this, too? Curtis, can you just calm down? Calm down?! No.
No, no.
You know what? Unh-unh.
Unh-unh, I'm not doing this.
- Come on, Kendrick.
- Wait wait Yeah! You need to go wherever you going! - I will! - What the Hold on! Everybody, stop! You do realize you're going in my house, right? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Why? - To get my kids.
That's a great idea! That's the best idea you had! Did he shut my - did he shut my door? - Curtis! He shut my door! Curtis! How he gonna shut my door, babe? You know what? - Baby, I cannot - Look at my leg! Look at my leg, Ella.
This this don't happen all the time.
Calm your leg down.
I can't tell my leg what to do.
Stop, leg.
It won't listen.
Apparently, nobody's listening.
Just calm down, Curtis, please? Okay, let's go.
- Let's go in.
- Come on.
'Cause I wanna watch her walk out.
Lynn! Kenny! Yeah? Come on, we're moving.
- What's going on? - We're moving.
You see? I told you not to tell her! Well, I had to! No, you didn't.
Now look.
We don't have anywhere to go.
Oh! Hey! We gotta talk.
[CHUCKLES.]
Ooh.
What's going on? I don't know.
It don't look good.
Curtis? E-Ella? Look, don't you talk to me until you find me some money! I told you I don't have it! Ella, what's going on? - Go get your things.
- What things? - Whatever you have.
- We ain't got nothing! Go now.
Mnh.
See? I told you.
Don't yell at me.
- Don't tell me what to do.
- Hey, hey, hey, stop it! Stop it now! Somebody please, please, tell me what's going on! We're moving out.
Oh.
What happened?! She left the kids in this house alone.
- Nyla? - [SIGHS.]
After we told her we was going out! - She knew it! - Oh.
Well, then, they're they're right, Nyla.
I know they're right.
Uh, then what is the problem? The way he was talking to me.
Ha, that's the problem? Because he talk to you crazy.
- Ryan? - I'm just saying.
- Not now.
- Sorry.
So I'm getting out of here.
Thank you.
- Curtis? - No, no, no, babe.
No! Now, she left them kids in this house - by themselves! - I know.
Anything can happen to them, Ella! Anything could've happened to them.
You know it, and she knows, too.
She knows, too! Anything could've happened to them kids! Why would you do that? - I - Who does that? Huh? I wanna know! I mean, why? Yeah.
Why did she do it? Well, we had these tickets to this event that we couldn't Wait, wait.
You went with him and left your kids? - Yes.
- N-n-no That's what you did?! - Nothing happened, okay? - Anything could have! Please don't get on me, please.
I'm telling the truth! Like I was.
Well, you know, I'm with Curtis on this one.
Well, y'all can be together on this one.
[CHUCKLES.]
We will! Ain't that right, Curtis? Curtis? Don't you say nothing until you come up with my money! You still on that? Are you crazy? I was trying to be on your side! Well, I need dollar bills on my side! You know what? I can't help you with that.
Ms.
Ella, thank you so much for all of your help.
What, I I didn't do nothing? Well Well, Nyla, he did let you stay here.
Yes, I did.
So you should show him some respect, too.
[CHUCKLES.]
He should show me some respect.
Well, you both were wrong.
[GASPS.]
Ella! Brutus! Whose side are you on? Curtis, you were screaming, she was screaming, and you both were not right.
You know what? It don't even matter.
It don't matter, 'cause she's leaving.
Well, I think Nyla should apologize.
Exactly! You wanna make a little wager? I got $50 on the big brown bear.
Cash and wood make the money go good.
No.
No.
Just saying.
Kids, hurry up! - Fine, fine.
Let's go.
- Mommy.
Nyla? It's a shame.
Are you sure you wanna do this? I can't let him talk to me like that.
Why you don't be saying nothing about him? - Man, would you shut up? - Okay.
He's just like my father.
Oh.
So that's what this is all about? Let's go.
Where are you gonna go, Nyla? Can we at least know where you're gonna go? That's what I wanna know.
We're gonna be staying with Kendrick.
Hold up.
Uh-oh.
Don't sound like he agree.
W-We're not staying with you? No.
So where are we going, then?