The Paynes (2018) s01e35 Episode Script

1 Break my door.
Break my door.
This thing is hot.
Is it really? Yes.
You know, the thingy about to come off of the thingy.
Come here.
Don't be rough with it.
Come closer.
Do you have any sympathy for me? All I have sympathy for is you getting some money in this place.
Well, it's not working.
That's because you're not doing what I told you to do.
You're not twirling the thing right.
You're not twirling it.
You ain't putting your heart in it, Ryan.
You ain't doing no flips, you ain't doing no turns, you ain't jumping over nothing.
No.
That's not why.
'Cause you need to do some real advertising.
So where we gonna get the money, there, genius? I don't know, but you need to do something! You need to get out there and do what I told you to do, Ryan.
This is cruel and unusual punishment.
Look, all you got to do is go out there and make some customers come in, man.
That's all you got to do.
And if you don't do it, you gonna be cruelly and unusually beaten.
You don't believe me.
Waterboarder.
I hate this.
Waterboarder.
I can't believe this is what's come of my short life.
And it's gonna be even shorter if you don't get your [MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY.]
Like I said.
And I want to see that I don't even want to be able to read that sign.
You heard me? It should be blurry from the spins.
Flip it a little bit.
Jump over it.
Hip hop, hula it, all that.
Wow.
Look at him.
[LAUGHS.]
You look stupid, man.
Stop it, kids.
Stop it, stop it.
Get him, miss Ella.
You know you scared of me.
I will beat up a kid.
Lucky I can't use my hands.
Or feel 'em.
Ooh.
I'm so sorry, Mr.
C.
Get your sign.
I got to twist a broken sign.
And you still better spin it! I better see a helicopter on that corner! - Hey, babe.
- Hey.
How are you doing? I'm stressed, Ella.
- Babe.
- What else is new? And that's not helping.
Babe! Why are you so stressed? Take a look around, Ella.
Take a look around, kids.
What, babe? The place looks nice.
[CHUCKLES.]
Okay, that's very good of you to notice.
Okay.
Customers, Ella.
There are no customers here.
Hello! [MIMICKING ECHO.]
Hello, hello, hello Hello! Hello Baby, calm down.
Really? Really, Curtis? They will come.
Well, where they at? Huh? - You build it, they will come.
- They're coming.
Ain't that what the Bible say, Ella? The Bible did not say that.
Well, it said something about money flowing from the mouth of a fish - Curtis - or something.
please don't do that.
Please, please, please, don't do that.
Don't quote scripture.
Even I know that's not in the Bible.
And he doesn't even read.
[GROANS.]
You really gonna do this to me, baby? What did I do? What did I do? Those two.
- Now? Really? - Stop it, stop it.
Just stop it.
Babe.
One for you.
Yes, you hold it.
One for you.
One for you.
It matches your shirt.
Blouse.
Whatever the hell y'all call it.
Now, clean.
What am I supposed to do with this? Get this floor clean, please.
Who are you talking to? You, baby.
Curtis.
What? I did not come down here for this.
Baby, it's Can you help? Okay, if the place is clean, then people'll come in.
We're supposed to meet with Terrance today.
I don't want to do that.
What? I don't want to do it.
Baby, we talked about this.
I changed my mind, Ella.
You need to change it back.
Why, Ella? Curtis, because we cannot afford this.
Baby, I'ma pay I I'll handle it myself.
Okay? - I'll work it out myself.
- Okay, Curtis.
How are you gonna pay him his money back? Um Baby, if you help me clean this place up and it's clean, people will come in, okay, and we'll pay him back one quarter at a time.
You heard? Now, kids, gets to cleaning.
- Take this, baby.
- Why you giving it to me? Take that back.
I know you don't think I'm cleaning this whole place.
There are child labor laws for a reason.
You know what I'm saying.
Yeah.
You better get 'em, Ella.
Stop it, stop it.
Stop it, Curtis.
Just stop it, okay? Okay, kids, put your mops in the bucket, go in the office, and do your homework.
That's more like it.
But you will be mopping this weekend.
- Aw, come on.
- Uh-huh.
Stand it up.
All the way up.
Go, Lynn, in the office.
Go! But, see, boy don't even know how to use a mop.
They don't even know how to hold a mop, Ella.
Curtis, train them up in the way that they should go.
You help with my case.
Curtis.
- What, Ella? - Baby, why are you so stressed about this place? - Ella! I need customers, baby! - And listen.
And you're about to work poor Ryan to death.
Work?! He ain't doing nothing! - No, I ain't.
- Curtis, look at him.
Look at his little wrists about to break.
- Aw - Look at What is he doing? - Spin! Spin! - Curtis! He hit something.
He ain't doing it right! He need to hit his head.
- Okay, baby, calm down.
- Then he'll wake up.
Ooh, you need to calm down.
He can't spin a sign, they can't hold a mop.
What's the world coming to? Baby, this thing with Terrance will be good, and it will remove some of the stress from you.
I don't think it will.
It will.
Trust me.
And, Curtis, he's paying half the bills, too.
Half of the bills.
We can't afford this.
Yeah.
And speaking of, where is he? Hmm? Because he he should've been here already.
See, this is why I don't want to go into business with him.
See, right right here Thank you, God that - this is why.
- Curtis.
He should be here, Ella.
- He's late! - Curtis.
He he's not supposed to be here for another 30 minutes.
Oh, see, that's a sign, Ella.
He supposed to be early.
- Businessman.
- Okay.
There's a sign.
- Hey.
- He's here.
He's late.
No, I'm not.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Hey, Mr.
C.
I see he's in a good mood, as usual.
As usual.
How are you, miss Ella? - I am good.
- Good.
So, ooh Is that the contract? - Yes, it is.
- Yes.
And, uh, did you have your lawyer look it over? We ain't got no lawyer.
Yes, we do.
Well, I had my cousin look over it.
He's a legal assistant.
Who the hell you talking about? John-John.
John-John's a male stripper.
That was in college.
Right! And he wouldn't study it! [SCOFFS.]
Well, I signed mine right there, as you can see, and if you guys just sign right there, - we're in business.
- Okay, second owner is Ella Payne N-E.
And Curtis sign right there.
[SNORES.]
I'm sorry.
- Sign right there, baby.
- What baby? You say something? Sign right there.
Terrance, me, you.
- Sign right there.
- Woman, what what am I doing? Where's it go? Sign right here, babe? - Come on.
- On the line? On the line? - Yes, please.
- I don't want to do it.
Say what? - I don't want to do it.
- Curtis.
Baby, I don't want to do it, okay? And that's that's it.
I'm not sorry, okay? No can do.
I can't e I can't go in there.
Curtis! Now, we owe this man a lot of money! Yeah! A lot of money.
Thank you.
I said that.
I I didn't know if he heard you or not.
He heard.
Okay.
Thank you.
Curtis.
Can I talk to you in private? Where, Ella? Where?! In the office.
Damn kids in the office.
Well, over there.
What about here? Miss Ella, I'll go wait outside.
- Okay, thank you.
- I was about to say it.
I was about to say it.
You know what I was about to say.
What? Thank you, Terrance.
Hey, hey! And you can stay out there until kingdom come! Jack! I don't care! I ain't signing nothing! You heard me? Curtis.
Enough, okay.
Enough.
Baby I'm not giving up on this place.
Then how will we pay him? This was my dream, Ella.
No, it's not! Yes, it is! Ever since I was a little boy.
Since when? I was a little boy, growing up in Mississ-issippi.
You're from St.
Louis.
You're from St.
Louis! Ella, that's a suburb of Mississippi.
Learn your geometry.
Geometry! Okay, Curtis.
Stop it, all right, baby.
Just stop it, all right? Really.
Let's just sign this paper, okay? We owe this boy.
We got to get this boy paid.
This is not right.
I know that, baby.
- I know that.
- Then sign the paper.
Baby, this was this was my uncle Reggie's place.
Robert is your uncle.
That's what I said.
Roger-Bert.
Regger-Bert.
Uncle Regger-Bert.
You know what? Baby, it was special to him, okay? Curtis.
Curtis.
I mean, please.
I watched him work hard, okay? He w mor uh, morning till night to keep this place running.
You heard me? He worked hard, Ella.
And I I'm just gonna give half of it away? Just g-g-g-give it.
"Here, you take that.
" Curtis, this place had that man in so much debt, he robbed a bank.
Why you gonna go there, Ella? - Why you go there? - What? It's the truth.
Do not speak ill of the dead.
Ella, you know better than that.
Curtis Payne, sign these papers, or me and you gonna have a real problem.
- I mean that.
- Don't do that.
Don't do what? Threaten me with a good time.
- What? - Yes.
- Curtis.
- Yeah, what you saying? You gonna leave me? Are you saying that's a good time? Yes, ma'am.
Yes, ma'am, that's what I'm saying.
Sign these papers.
Ella.
- Are you sure? - Yes.
Yes, I'm sure.
I'm sure, baby.
Right here, Curtis.
Don't do that.
Can I put this up first? Can I do that? Can I tidy up a little bit? Terrance! Come on in! I don't He'll see me.
Well? Did he sign them yet? - He's going to.
- Oh.
- Good.
- I need to read it first.
- I - John-John already read this, Curtis.
He did when they let him off at the club? Where do I sign? Yes.
Where do I sign it, baby? - Oh, you just need to sign - I didn't ask you.
I asked my wife.
Right here.
- This one? - Uh-huh, under my name.
Ella.
You got a cute signature.
You do, too.
Let's see it.
What you doing? Baby, I got to stretch or I ain't gonna sign.
Curtis, sign the papers, man! All right.
Yes.
Yes! There you have it.
- We are in business.
- Yes, we are.
- Yeah.
- I don't like it.
I don't like it at all.
- Thank you, Terrance.
- Oh, no problem.
Now, I've paid off all the contractors.
Now we just got to get this place up and going.
Wait, now, I told you before you signed this that we were not doing much business.
Yeah, you did.
And it's probably gonna take a little while.
No, it won't.
I have a plan.
What is it? Whatever it is, I ain't spending no more money on advertising.
I know that.
This doesn't involve money, Mr.
C.
Well, I like that language.
I love free.
Don't worry, it's free.
Okay.
What is it? Listen, baby.
Whatever it is, we just want it to work because everything we have done thus far has been so much trouble.
Don't worry, miss Ella.
I got this.
Hmm.
Well, what do you know that we don't? Well, let's just say that I'm from a different generation.
[LAUGHS.]
What? What'chu laughing at? He just called you old, baby.
He was talking to you.
No, he was looking at you when he said it.
Would you just stop it.
I'm telling you.
Enough.
Don't worry, miss Ella.
I'll have this place jumping by tomorrow.
With no advertising? No advertising.
And no spending money? Not a dime.
Not one dime.
- Oh, he's taking pictures.
- What's he doing now? - He's taking pictures.
- What, you taking pictures? Mm-hmm.
What, the little pictures gonna help you? Oh.
Oh, they will.
How do you know? I just posted it on my social media.
- Your what? - Yeah.
You don't know nothing about no social media.
Mr.
C, I sent this out to all of my friends, and they will be here.
All your friends? Yep.
So, baby, one or two people not gonna help us.
Curtis, that boy got more than two friends.
Look, Mr.
C, I was a club promoter in college.
I got lots of friends on my page.
On y on your page? Yeah.
Uh, how do you have friends on a page? Look.
See that number right there? - 35,000? - Yep.
35,000 friends on my wall.
And with a push of a button, all my friends will know that I'm open for business.
Wow.
- That's really good.
- Yep.
So now that they know that we're open and I'm involved? Oh, yeah, they'll be here.
Give it around 24 hours.
- That soon? - Yeah.
- Wait.
- 24 hours.
Yeah, miss Ella, there's a lot of college kids that need to do laundry.
My son never did his laundry.
He just bring it home, let Ella do it.
Well, Mr.
C.
, not every college kid has loving parents like I mean, a loving mother like you, miss.
Oh This'll work best for advertising.
Please.
Don't know nothing about no advertising.
[CHUCKLES.]
Oh, and you do? Yes.
Did you see that boy running around out there? [STUTTERS.]
Out there.
He gonna bring some people in this place.
- You heard me? - Oh, he's gonna do that? Yes.
The brother who looks like he needs a cast? - Yeah, him.
- Oh, okay.
He's gonna bring some people in here, you heard me? Not your little social media your little social-media-on-the-wall, friends stuff.
Okay.
We'll see.
Yes, we will.
Okay, partner.
Do you wash your hands? Curtis.
Yes! Oh!