The Paynes (2018) s01e27 Episode Script

[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
[SIGHS.]
Well, it's kind of strange seeing you two out here.
Oh, Mr.
C.
I asked you a question.
Did you? I said, "it's kind of strange seeing you two out here.
" Well, technically, that's not a question.
You want to get technical? Mr.
C, I can explain.
You you can explain? What Well well, I don't want to hear it.
[SIGHS.]
What are you doing here? This is my house.
But you left.
Then I came back.
[LAUGHS.]
That's good.
That's good.
Did you talk to miss Ella? Oh, yes.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
What we're going do is, gonna go shopping in the morning and get the catering together.
- Oof, oof.
Getting crazy.
- [CHUCKLES.]
The hell you think this is, a casual conversation? Um, well, I was just You was just nothing.
You was just nothing.
Look, Mr.
C, I-I am so sorry about earlier.
- I really am.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Yeah.
Oh.
Do you accept my apology? I accept your apology.
[CHUCKLES.]
Thank you.
With an explanation.
What? As to why you out here with him.
Well, we were just talking.
I'm not talking to you.
No, I'm just saying.
What you just saying nothing! You was saying nothing.
Okay? You know you're just out here in your robe, right, Mr.
Curtis? I just I am? I'm just saying, it's a little cold.
It's I just got Oh, you care? You know what? You're right.
It's just a robe.
I'm just in my robe.
That's crazy.
Nighttime, midnight, and I'm just in my robe.
Did you just do that? And I'll do it again.
- Please don't.
Okay.
Uh - Hmm? I'm in my robe.
- Okay.
I'm going.
- I'm in my robe.
Uh, okay.
I'm going home.
Nyla, I'm going home right now.
Okay.
Okay.
No, no.
No, sir.
No, sir.
You ain't going nowhere until we talk, Jack.
My name's not Jack.
It's Kendrick.
It's a figure of speech Jack.
From way before I was born.
That's that's old, man.
Oh, now you witty, witty.
Now you really what, you being smart? That what it is? You funny? No.
No, sir.
No, sir.
Huh? I come out here just to look at to look at my hot-water heater, and look who I find, all hot and bothered.
You need to go in there and tend to your kids while I talk to this one.
Uh, Mr.
C.
What did I say? What did I say, Nyla? It's it's okay, baby.
- You sure? - Yeah.
It's okay.
"It's okay, baby"? Really? Really? I don't want no flowers! We need to talk.
Look here, Jack.
My name's not Jack.
Your name is whatever I say it is! Toby.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
Yes.
Yes, sir.
What are you doing out here with her? We were well, we were talk Well well, you was what? Talk, man.
Talk! - We were talking, man.
- Can't talk? We were talking.
That's it.
- We were just talking.
- You were just talking? Yes.
And kissing? [CHUCKLES.]
Yeah, well, that, too.
Get that smile off your face.
The nerve.
I got a question for you.
Okay.
Did you have a mind to leave those kids here by themselves? Well, uh [SNORES.]
Answer the question.
We had tickets to this poker game.
You had tickets to that.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
You had tickets to a poker game? - Yes, sir.
- Mm.
It's important.
It was a big poker game.
Oh, it was a big one.
Big table, lot of cards.
Did you know that there was no one else in the house, no other adults in the house? Yes, sir.
Then you ought to know that was wrong.
Well, we was only supposed to be gone for an hour.
It wasn't Well, I don't care if it was three minutes! You're right.
You're right.
I'm sorry.
That's right.
It won't happen again.
- Oh, I know that.
- I should know better.
Yes, you should.
I'm sorry.
You're right, sir.
Good.
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE.]
Can I go now? I got to go to work early in the morning, so - Work? - Yes.
What do you do? [WRENCH CLACKS.]
We talked about this.
I'm a I'm a doctor.
- Remember? We had that - You're a doctor? I wasn't listening to you.
Think I ever listen to you? Well, yeah, I'm a doctor.
Hmm.
Okay.
So that means you fix stuff? People stuff, I guess.
- Fix people stuff? - Yeah.
Okay, well, people, hot-water heater, same thing.
Come on.
Come with me.
Not while you still got that big wrench in your hand.
I'm I'm okay.
I'm giving it to you.
What am I supposed to do with this? Fix my hot-water heater.
[CHUCKLES.]
Okay.
Sure.
- Do you know how to do that? - No.
- And you a doctor? - Yeah.
Well, I'm a resident, like a doctor-in-residence.
I have a lot of [INHALES SHARPLY.]
Sorry.
Yes.
Give me that.
Go ahead on.
Just go.
I know what kind of doctor you are.
You can't fix nothing.
- Can I have my flowers back? - What kind of doctor is that? - Sorry.
- They're not yours.
They're not yours.
When they left your hands, they not yours no more.
Now go, get on, get, and go get your money back because guess what? That little school you went to, they ain't teach you nothing.
It's just wasted money.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Ella.
Ella.
- Mnh-mnh.
- Ella.
Mnh-mnh.
Mnh-mnh.
Mnh-mnh.
Mnh-mnh.
Mnh-mnh.
Baby.
- Ella! - Curtis.
I got something for you.
Oh.
Baby, you asleep? Yes, Curtis, I was.
I got some flowers for you.
Curtis! I was asleep.
What? I'm asleep.
You ain't asleep.
You talking to me.
Curtis, please.
Hey.
Hey, baby, look.
Curtis, did you take a shower? I'm about to.
I don't want these.
Put put them in a - Go down, put them in a vase.
- You don't want them? You don't want them, after I after all I went through to get these? Go put them downstairs in a vase for me, baby.
Okay.
I'll put them down there when I go.
Hey, baby.
Ooh! Curtis, please! I'ma go take a shower.
The hot water won't come on.
Then, Curtis, go take a cold one.
- I will.
I will.
- Good.
First, I got to tell you something.
I got to tell you something.
I'ma go do it, and when I come back, I'ma tell you about Nyla.
- What? - Hmm? - What about her? - Nothing.
Curtis.
Hmm? Did you go in there and wake Nyla up? Mm, no.
Are you sure? She was already up.
[CHUCKLES.]
Up watching TV.
[SCOFFS.]
Nah.
Up flossing her tongue.
Curtis, what was she doing, baby? - What was she doing? - I ain't telling you.
Curtis, I'm not playing with you.
What is it? What was she doing? Out there talking to Kendrick.
Is that right? - Yes.
- Ohh! [CHUCKLES.]
Ugh! Okay.
- Okay? - Mm-hmm.
Well, baby, that all you got to say? Curtis, what else can I say? - What else can I say? - That she shouldn't be talking to him.
Curtis, she needs some counseling, baby, okay? - Counseling? - Yes.
[SIGHS.]
She don't need no counseling.
Curtis, yes, she does.
She she she has self-esteem issues.
She got daddy issues, baby, and she needs to have both of those dealt with before she can even understand what's going on with him.
She got daddy issues? Why you ain't ever told me? You never said nothing about that.
Curtis, say what? That she got she got daddy issues.
That's what I just said, baby.
I just said - I just said she got daddy issues.
- Okay.
Okay.
I know what to do.
- Uh, unh-unh.
No.
- I got this.
I got this.
- Curtis? - Hmm? Don't you go talk to her.
I'm not, babe.
I mean it.
- I'm not.
- I mean it, now.
- Until the morning.
- I mean that.
Until the morning.
Oh, yeah.
I got some counseling, all right.
I got some counseling for you.
I'm going to counsel her, all right.
- Lord, lord.
- I'm going to take this.
- Lord, help us all.
- You gonna need this? You want this? - Curtis! - You didn't want the flowers.
I thought maybe you'd want this.
Why would I want a wrench? I'll give them to Beverly.
She'll take them.
Beverly love flowers.
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- [LAUGHS.]
Oh, God, deliver me.
Ohh.
Good morning.
- Hey.
- Hello.
What? Look.
Oh.
Him.
What? I said, "good morning.
" Um, say "good morning," kids.
Go on.
- Good morning? - How are you this fine day? I am great.
- That's good.
- Great.
Oh, I see you made them breakfast.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Yeah.
- That's what's smelling so good.
- Yeah, I did.
- That is so good.
Yes, I did.
[LAUGHS.]
- Nyla? - Yeah? That's really good.
Thank you.
Hmm.
That is a good mother.
That's a good mother.
Yes, it is.
I-I'm not a dog.
I didn't say you were a dog.
Then what are you doing? I'm encouraging you.
Why? Well, uh, s know you doing a good job.
Thank you.
Sure.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
- Hey, baby.
- Hey, kids.
- Hey.
- Hi, miss Ella.
Hey, baby.
- Miss Ella? - Yes? How did you sleep? I slept good.
How did you sleep? [HIGH-PITCHED.]
I slept great.
Great.
I can't get that high, but [LAUGHS.]
Sounds like a cutie-pie.
[LAUGHS.]
Knowing that we didn't have to go back to a shelter has been a huge weight off my mind.
Well, you don't have to.
Yet.
You don't have to at all.
You can stay here for as long as you like.
- You sure about that? - Yes.
Yes, I am.
Look at him.
Yeah, don't worry about him.
That's just how he looks.
I know.
That's the problem.
[HORN HONKS.]
Uh, well, I think that's the bus.
- Yep.
- Come on.
Come on.
Hmm.
- Mm.
- Mm-hmm.
Uh, you gonna take them to the bus? - Yes.
- Oh, that's a good mother.
And you're gonna help them with their bags? You know, what are you saying? What are you saying? I'm saying you a-a good mother.
- That's all.
Keep it up.
- Okay.
Hey, kids! Kiss your mama! [LAUGHS.]
Oh! Curtis.
You know how hard that was? [LAUGHS.]
It looked very painful.
And I don't have my newspaper.
Can you please pay them people, baby, so I can get my newspaper? Please? What I got to do? What what Curtis, what what what are you doing? What are you doing? - Drinking coffee.
- What are you No, no.
What why are you talking to her like that? Oh, her? Baby, I'm encouraging her.
Yeah, I see that.
- Right.
- Yeah.
Ain't that what you wanted? Yes, but why? [SCOFFS.]
Ella.
I'm always positive.
I've always been a positive person.
Come on, babe.
Since when, Curtis, have you been a positive person? Since we been married.
What you talking about? Come on.
- Don't get brand-new.
- Curtis.
- Don't get brand-new.
You know that.
- Right.
Right.
I'm not brand-new.
Curtis, really? You have not been positive not one year that we've been married.
Well yeah, well, I was thinking.
Ugh.
And I was just thinking I'd try another approach to help her.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Curtis, stop it.
What are you talking about? Okay.
Last night, when I went to the shelter, there was this lady there.
She was homeless, and Uh-huh.
Curtis, when did you go to the shelter? Last night.
After I left the strip club.
Anyway, for what, Curtis? What did you go to the shelter for? I went to the shelter last night after the strip club, and there was a homeless lady, and she had kids.
She had little-bitty kids, baby, and she had a job.
- Well, Curtis - And she was there! That happens a lot, baby.
- For real? - Yes.
Yes.
Yes, baby.
People are having a hard time these days.
Like that? Yes.
All right.
Well, it just changed me.
I'm a changed man, Ella.
I'm a changed I want to watch I even I'ma go see a preacher preach one day, too.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- I'ma go see It changed you? It did? - I'm changed, baby.
- It did? Yeah, because remember when you said she had daddy issues? She still does.
Okay.
Well, see? Exactly.
I need to be nicer to her.
I just figure I need to take a take a different approach.
- Okay.
- I'll just be a little nicer.
- That's all.
- Okay, Curtis.
That is good.
Yes.
I know it is.
Mm-hmm.
So, baby, you are really trying, too, huh? You really doing it? I'm trying hard, babe.
I'm trying hard.
- You don't know.
- Yeah.
You trying to drive her crazy? - Curtis, are you? - What? - Yes, baby, you have - Hang on.
complimented her on everything she does.
- She doesn't deserve that.
- What? Baby, well, it seems like you're being sarcastic.
I'm not doing that.
Well, I'm just saying, that's what it seems like, baby.
No, I just I just want her to do better.
Okay, Curtis.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, why don't you just support her? Support her like you supported Calvin.
Ta-da! When did I support him? Right.
Curtis, that was a bad example.
You know I ain't you know I didn't you know I supported my boy.
- I had my boy.
- Yes.
- Yes, you did.
- Huh.
- So, baby - Hmm? show her the same support.
Okay.
- But Curtis? - Hmm? Not with sticks and bricks.
Or wrenches.
Or some day-old flowers.
Sticks and bricks, wrenches, and day-old flowers.
That sound like a song.
Curtis, yes, that's how you supported Calvin - with sticks and bricks.
- [LAUGHS.]
You flipped that thing! You flipped that thing like that.
- That's what you mean? - [LAUGHS.]
I used to tear that boy up, didn't I? I used to tear that there, though.
Well, now, you can't tear that there, though.
Yeah, well, he hadn't earned the Payne name.
You heard me? He had to earn the Payne name.
Well, I'm gonna head to the church.
And, excuse me, I'm gonna clean this up for you.
Thank you.
Mm-hmm.
How you getting there? Um, the way I always do.
Oh, look, no.
Hold on.
I'll take you.
Let me take you.
I'm ready.
I got to go by the hardware store anyway.
- I'll take you.
- Oh.
Oh, no, no.
Um, I'ma walk.
Mm.
Mnh-mnh.
Come on.
I got to go by the hardware store.
I'm going that way, so I'ma take you.
Anyway, and we can talk.
[CHUCKLES.]
You want to talk to me? Yes.
Well, I think we need to start over and get off on a good foot.
- Ain't that how you say that? - Yes.
Yes.
Oh.
Not the good foot, but the good foot.
The good foot.
The good foot.
Is there where you say you're gonna use it to kick me? No, it's not.
Don't be silly.
- That is good, though.
- [CHUCKLES.]
That's a good one.
Come on.
Look, I'm gonna go get my keys.
Okay, baby.
We'll be back.
Just go get the keys.
Yes, Curtis.
Thank you! Yeah! What's going on? Just just go along with it.
Is he serious? Yes.
Yes.
He really is.
He's trying.
Would you try, too? [SIGHS.]
- If you say so.
- I say so.
I say so.
Okay, but it's scary.
Well, if you think that's scary Mm-hmm.
you should've known him when I married him.
That was scary.
- Yeah.
- Thank God.
Hallelujah! [CHUCKLES.]
No, go.
Trust him.
Would you try? He's trying.
Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay.
You ready? - Uh, yeah.
- Yeah.
Let's go.
Hey, you know how to fix a hot-water heater? Curtis.