The Paynes (2018) s01e31 Episode Script

1 What is wrong with you? Relax.
I can't let you go in there, man.
Why not? [SIGHS.]
Look, let me just see if she wants to talk to you first, okay? I don't care.
What the hell, you gonna be all forceful with it? Look, that dude is bad news.
I can tell.
How do you know that? Look at how he was comin' at me.
And if he finds out that I kissed Nyla, he may go all crazy on her, too.
He's not gonna do that.
Trust me.
He's not gonna do that.
How do you know? 'Cause I'm Curtis T.
Payne and the "T.
" Stands for "tearin' that ass up.
" I will black all six of his eyes.
Mr.
C.
, he only has two eyes.
That's how fast I am.
I hit him, his mama, and his daddy.
He ain't even know it.
Look, well, you need to let me in.
Okay.
Wait So, I was right, huh? You kissed her.
Yeah, I did.
Go ahead, player.
Mr.
C.
, I [STAMMERS.]
No, I just mean I mean, I knew you'd get her.
I knew you would.
But how'd you do it? Did you use the Curtis Payne lockdown on her like I told you? [GRUNTS.]
Just let me in.
[SIGHS.]
Look, man, just let me go in first, okay? Mr.
C No, look here.
I don't want to hear it.
No, this is my house, man.
Mr.
C.
, I could get there if I wanted to.
Rrruh? [LAUGHS.]
Boy, say again? - If I wanted to get in there, I could.
- [SCOFFS.]
Yeah, he don't know Uh, um, I'd like to see you try that, bro.
Okay, you asked for it.
Hit me with your best shot, daddy-o.
All right.
[GRUNTS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[GRUNTS.]
Damn! [GROANS.]
All muscle.
You sure about that? - [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
- Solid as a rock.
All right.
Well, can you please go in there and make sure she's okay? Okay, I will.
But you just stay right here.
Okay.
And don't you go nowhere.
- Would you go, please?! - I am! - Are you rushing me? - Are you going or not? - I am.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- All right.
Okay.
Ella! Where's the woman here? Ella! [MUTTERS.]
Ella! - Ella?! - ELLA: Curtis! Baby? Baby? I'm right here.
I'm right here.
I mean, I'm right here, Curtis.
For real.
What you doin' over here? You were not standing there.
No, I was sitting here.
Then I'm right.
I don't ever see you.
- Curtis, what is it? - Maybe it's the colors.
It must be the colors or something.
- Hey - What is it? baby [STAMMERS.]
did you know that Terrance kissed Nyla? Nah, nah-nah nah, nah, nah, eeh ooh, nah, ooh, nah-nah You were flat.
[VOCALIZES.]
Get on top of it.
Curtis - You remember that, okay? - Yeah.
- You remember that.
- It's in me.
Okay, I'm talking about the "top" part.
Anyway.
[LAUGHS.]
What did you say? - Curtis.
- What did you say? No, baby who's there? Curtis, please.
He is in there.
Hush your mouth.
Who is in there? I didn't see him.
Kendrick.
He's standing right there, Curtis.
Oh, that's right.
Baby, he just walked in here like he pay bills.
- I said, "excuse me?" - No, no, woman, I let him in.
Curtis Baby, I had to.
They was about to fight.
Who? Him and what's his name.
- Who, Curt - The lighthouse twins! - Terrance? - Yes.
About to fight? And you know what? I got my money on Terrance.
Baby, that boy's strong.
Curtis.
There may not be anything here, but he's strong.
Did you know he tried to pick me up? Curtis.
First, just the fact that he tried.
And then he almost got me off the ground.
They were about to fight.
And he would have if I hadn't ate those doughnuts.
Ain't got good, baby.
Want to get you an anchor.
Wanted to make you an anchor.
Curtis, does he know that he kissed her? - Ella - Does he? No.
That boy's not that bright.
Who's not that bright, Curtis? - Which one? - Kendrick.
It's six to one and half a dozen to the other.
He's got that book sense, baby, but he ain't [HUMS.]
Do you know he saw Terrance with lipstick on his face and he ain't even put 2 and b together? Huh, I mean, what other woman would, - in this house - "2 and b.
" is gonna get kissed, Ella? What other woman is even worth kissing in this house? Huh? I don't know, Curtis.
I mean, I really don't.
'Cause there certainly ain't another man in this house that gonna ever get kissed again.
[LAUGHS.]
- I don't know - I don't know, baby.
- They really like - Curtis Hush.
Why is he in the kitchen? Curtis, Nyla is up there talking to the kids.
They saw them kissing.
They saw them kissing right here on this couch.
You should've seen them.
It was ridiculous.
- What? - They saw them kissing, so she should be down here shortly to go in there and talk to him.
Okay.
Well, Terrance wants to come in here.
Well, he can't.
- Yeah, I - For what? To defend his woman, make sure she's all right.
Well, she is fine, Curtis.
She is fine.
[SCOFFS.]
Well, baby, he insists.
Curtis, that boy cannot come in here.
I know that.
While that one is in there? - No, no, no, no, no.
- Baby, I know.
Okay, well, Curtis, go on out there.
Go back out there and talk to him.
- Go, go, go.
- Okay, baby, fine.
- I'll go.
Okay.
- Go, go, go.
Go.
Uh, uh, honey, this Go, go, go, go out there.
He's out on the Oh.
No, baby, I got to go to the bathroom first.
Curtis! Baby, I shouldn't have ate them doughnuts.
Hey, you're so Once that hot light gets blinking, you can't turn that down.
- You got to go check the hot light.
- Curtis.
There you go, Mama.
Tell her.
Tell my mama.
Oh.
Well, what is going on here? Tell her.
Tell my mama.
Ryan.
They was about to come to blows, Mama! It was about to go down! Will you hush? Sorry.
Tell her.
Tell my mama.
- Hey.
- Hey.
How are you? - Not good.
- Man, y'all takin' too long.
Mama, it was crazy, Mama.
It was about to go down! - Ryan, hush.
Please! - Okay.
You know, you really need to do something about all that talking that you do.
I don't know where you get that from.
I'm sorry.
I get it from my daddy.
Well, you don't get it from your daddy.
Your daddy, he ain't talk too much at all.
He's a man of action! [GRUNTS, LAUGHS.]
No, he wasn't.
Uh, yes, he was.
That's all right, baby.
- You ain't know him.
- What? Unh-unh, not at Oh Ooh! I'm just kidding, baby! So anyway, Terrance, what happened? Miss JoAnn, what do you know about this Kendrick dude? Oh, not much.
His family goes to the church and he likes Nyla.
Yeah, I know.
Why do you ask? Well, we almost got into a fight.
- What? - Yeah.
Why? He came at me the wrong way.
Oh, that boy.
Well, he's still got a temper.
- A temper? - Mm-hmm.
Yeah, he said he was in anger management and that he was doing better, but I see that he's not.
Oh, I just hope that he's not hitting Nyla again.
What?! Huh? No, no, you said "hitting Nyla.
" Wh what? - No, that's what you said.
- No, I didn't.
- I'm going in there.
Move.
- No, no! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! No, no What are you doing? Curtis is not gonna like you banging on that door like that.
He's in there with her now.
- Mama, he's mad.
- [BANGING ON DOOR.]
Don't you think I can see that? You need to do something.
Calm calm him down.
Well, uh, yeah, well, I could What could I Yeah, I could.
[LAUGHS.]
Mama! Miss JoAnn, can you let me in, please? Well, this is not my house.
- But you got a key.
- No, no, no.
They took that key from me.
You know what? Fine.
- I'll go around the back.
- W No, wait! - Where are you going? - No, I'm goin'.
Oh Terrance! - Terrance? - Well, this is not good.
No.
No, it is not.
Mama, you said you didn't have a key! Oh.
I lied.
You be lyin' to me, Mama? Hell yeah.
I learned how to do it real good when you were born.
What? You know, I had to say something to make you feel good.
- Mom, we need to talk.
- Oh, boy, you know you ain't What? That's a code! Mama! I know he is killing himself in that bathroom.
JoAnn I know that was not you banging on that door.
No, it wasn't me.
And why why, why, why why, why, why are you just walking up into my house? This is my house.
This is an emergency.
What is it? - Terrance is trying to get in.
- I know that.
Well, it slipped out that Kendrick was hitting Nyla.
You told that man that? It slipped out.
- JoAnn - Well, I didn't mean to.
You know how I get when I start talking.
Yeah, you don't know how to stop.
Ella, that's rude.
No, JoAnn, that's the truth.
Well - well, he wants to come in.
- Well, he cannot.
Not right now.
Well, he went around the back.
Wait, wait.
He went around the back? - Yes.
- No.
Uh, wait, that's where Nyla and Kendrick are right now.
- What? - In the backyard.
Oh, snap! This is about to go nuts.
- Finally! - Boy, go home.
What? You serious? - I said, go home.
- I want to see it.
Go home.
I can never have no fun in this family! Uh, go out the front door.
Boy! - [GRUMBLES.]
- Front.
Curtis! Curtis, come out of that bathroom.
We got a problem.
CURTIS: I got a problem in here, baby.
Curtis, would you hurry up? That's the problem.
I can't.
Okay, baby, this is really, really serious.
This is pretty serious, too! Curtis, stop playing.
I'm talking about dire serious.
I'm talking about dia-rrhea serious! Damn jelly doughnuts! You didn't tell me there was no window in this bathroom.
I'm suffocating in here! Nyla What are you doing here? Is he hitting you? - What? - What what are you Would somebody get this dude - Did you come in through the window? - Why don't you make me? Okay, Terrance, this is not your business, okay? No, I want to know.
Does he hit you? What is wrong with you? I don't know you like that, okay? - Don't ask - No, you want to hit somebody, why don't you come hit a man? No, no, no.
Nobody is hittin' nobody.
No, miss Ella, he thinks he's a man Come on.
Ohh! Wh Wh - Ella! - Come hit a man.
Whoo! Did you know did you know all that was goin' on under there? JoAnn.
JoAnn.
JoAnn.
I mean, I ain't know what was goin' on there.
I mean, I could figure it out in a bed JoAnn! Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm weak.
- Will you hush? - I'm sorry.
Jo Whoo-hoo.
Can y'all just get this guy out of here? Okay.
Terrance, you are out of line.
Wait.
Nyla, why is he defending you so hard? - You and him? - No.
No, no.
No, no.
- Don't even think that.
- Then why? - Kendrick - Come on, man.
Come on.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Terrance, you are making this worse.
You need to leave and you need to leave now.
- No.
Is he hitting you? - Now.
Terrance, this is my house and my yard, okay? Now, you will not be doing this here.
Put your little shirt on.
JoAnn, give him his little shirt so he can put it on.
I just wanted to make sure it wasn't inside out.
Mm.
Ahh! Give me this.
- Put put it on slowly.
- JoAnn.
Put your shirt on.
Don't let me find out that he hit you.
Put your shirt on.
Put your shirt on! Stop flexing your pecs.
This is not your business.
Then I'm making it my business.
Go.
Whew.
Would somebody tell me why he's so hostile all the time? [SIGHS.]
Look, he he likes me, okay? - He likes you? - Yeah.
You like you like him? - No.
- Watch it.
No.
[CHUCKLES.]
When he left out of here, he had lipstick on him.
Did you kiss him? Uh Kendrick Nah.
Did you kiss him? Can can we talk in private? Are you crazy? You cannot go anywhere with him.
Let him calm down.
He's too upset.
Not with him this upset.
[STUTTERS.]
- Uh, Kendrick - Yeah, you kissed him.
Nyla, you ki you kissed him? Ken Kendrick.
Oof.
What the ? Okay, go, go.
Go get him, then.
Okay.
Nyla.
What is wrong with you? - But he's leaving.
- Let him go.
But I don't want him to go.
Why? Because he's upset.
Duh! That's the reason you let him leave.
Because he's upset.
So he can calm down.
Yeah.
Nyla I don't even know how all of this happened.
I'll tell you how it happened.
I mean, I saw it all.
That boy, he got mad and then that other fine one, - he started in on him - JoAnn.
and then the next thing you know, he took his shirt off and, child, I lost the rest of it.
I don't remember anything after that.
- JoAnn.
- I really don't.
Look.
Watch this.
She was not talking about that.
Oh.
But for real, for real, let me ask you this.
Terrance kissed you? JoAnn, that's what all this is about.
How was it? Tell me, tell me.
Let me close my eyes.
Okay.
He kissed you? Well, let me close my eyes.
Tell me about it.
Let me close my eyes so I can fantasize.
Ahh! Ooh! [SMOOCHES.]
Was it like that? Ugh, I hope not.
Ella, I just wanted to know.
I'm trying to help her.
When have you ever tried to help anybody? I helped that boy with his shirt.
I know that was of some help.
You liked it.
I saw you.
JoAnn.
Mnh-nnh.
- You know you did.
- Stop.
Nyla, are you okay? No, I'm not all right, but I will be.
This will be fine.
It will.
This is for the best.
You think so? Yeah, if you kiss Terrance again, that'd be best.
Mm! This will all work out.
Okay.
- It doesn't feel like it will.
- Well, it will.
I'm sure of it.
I know it.
Excuse me.
- Okay.
Sure.
- [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
I don't know if we helped or not.
[EXHALES DEEPLY.]
I mean, we saved her.
That boy was - Boy well, he got really mad.
- Yes, he did.
If he'd done that to me, I'd have kissed Terrance again.
And again.
Get him really mad.
You hear music? No, I'm keeping the rhythm.
One, two, three.
One, two, three.
- JoAnn.
- What? I'm just thinking about that boy.
Ooh, Lord.
- At least Kendrick walked away.
- Mm-hmm.
Maybe maybe he's better.
Or maybe he's better because we were standing here.
Yeah yeah, maybe th that too.
But, uh, I feel bad for her.
Well, you reap what you sow.
Well, the Lord help her.
Amen to that.
Mm.
CURTIS: Baby! Yes, Curtis? You know I can't never see you? What is it? Baby, you know there ain't no window in here? Yes, Curtis, I know there's no window in that bathroom.
You know what else ain't in here? What, Curtis? Can you bring me some toilet paper? [CHUCKLES.]
Curtis! I'm not coming nowhere near that door.
Well, we ain't got none.
Curti Miss JoAnn? Mm-hmm.
Yeah? Yes, baby? How do know that Kendrick used to hit me in the past?