The Paynes (2018) s01e37 Episode Script
A Giraffe And A Bull
1 [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
Oh.
- Hey.
- Finally! Whoa.
Okay.
Finally, somebody help me in here.
- Calm down.
- No.
No.
Can you please, pretty please, help that lady over there? Okay.
Okay.
She needs to get her clothes out the washer.
[LAUGHS.]
Well, get them.
Get them.
She's flirting with me.
And? Look at her.
- Oh, boy.
- Help that old lady, please.
Nyla, she touched my booty.
Well, shake it for her.
- I'm not shaking it.
I'm not I'm not - And make that shake, shake Shake it, shake your butt [LAUGHS.]
Shake your butt Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Do you hear the beep? You hear the beep? - Hey.
Hey, Mr.
C.
- Hey, Nyla.
Hello.
- Hey.
- Nyla, hello.
- Hello.
- That's a song.
Yeah? Oh, okay.
Wh-what are you doing? [SCOFFS.]
I'm working.
Looks like you're sitting.
Well, that's work for some of us.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, um, I'm here now, so what would you like me to do? Oh, great.
That's great.
- First thing - Uh-huh.
you can start start on the register.
- Okay.
- Okay? Just give change to the clients.
Ooh, "the clients.
" - Yes.
- Okay.
Clients? They look like regular old customers to me.
And what's all this? What is that? - That yours? - Yes.
- Okay.
I got it.
- All right.
- Thank you, Nyla! - No problem.
- Hey, Nyla? - Yes? Anything come up missing, you going to come up missing.
You know I don't steal, Mr.
C.
Yes, but your kids do.
They got it from somewhere.
Like the Bible said, "the tree don't grow far from where the apple fell" when Eve threw it.
I think you might have to go and read the Bible.
Excuse me? I'm the one married to Ella.
- Yeah.
- I married the Bible.
- Okay? - Okay.
And and you gonna read it for yourself right there in the book in the, uh, in the Garden of Gethsemane.
- Okay.
- You heard what I said? - I'm gonna go count.
- Okay.
- I'll be right over here.
- And I can't get you there.
- Okay.
- Okay? You can't go with Ella.
Ella, you got to go for yourself.
Ain't that right, babe? Hard put, I can't take a whipping.
I was doing it just like y'all, baby.
- Curtis! - Yes, baby? I need to talk to you.
Oh.
I mean, we're really busy, little lady.
- Stop coming in my - Now.
Now.
Now.
- Uh, baby - You heard her.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Now I said In the office now, Curtis.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
- Excuse me.
- Don't do Don't do that.
You better listen to her.
- Don't make no sense.
- Hey [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Get outta the way.
Does not make sense.
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
- Hey, babe.
- Now, Curtis Ella.
Baby, why you gotta embarrass me like that? I don't care about those people.
- What? - What is wrong with you? What? Curtis, why are you giving Terrance such a hard time? I did not.
Yes, you did.
- I'm not, baby.
I'm not.
- Yes, you did.
What'd that sneak say I did? You're doing just what he said you did.
You're sitting around, Curtis, rolling around in your chair acting like you are the boss.
Ella, I am the boss.
Who is broke.
And needs to get to work.
I am working, Ella.
- Clipboard, pen - Okay, Curtis.
You know what? all that.
Stop it.
Stop with all of this foolishness, Curtis.
We don't have time for this foolishness.
I'm trying to Don't I know that? - I know that, babe.
- Okay, good, so get to work.
Get to work, and help him.
Just help him, Curtis.
Ella he's so bossy.
Just like you, honey.
Just like you.
But, baby, you know I I'm a kind and gentle boss.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
Terrance! Babe! Don't call Judas in here.
Baby, that's the enemy! - Terrance.
- [SCOFFS.]
I'm bleeding.
Terrance, now I need you both to stop this right now, and I need you to make this place work.
That's what I was trying to do.
By not helping me? What? You're the one not helping me.
I'm talking about before you joined here.
What you saying? I did all the work.
I didn't see you.
- Lower your voice.
- No.
No, wh uh, or you didn't give me the social motive, uh, the social mode thing either.
Made the assumption, what what are you talk That doesn't even make any sense.
- Lower your voice.
- Wh Look Ella, he had all those customers that he could have had here, and they had and they could have helped us, and he duped me.
That's what he did, he duped me.
- No, I didn't.
- That's you.
You a duper.
- You a duper.
- Curtis.
He's a duper, Ella.
- Curtis.
- Ella, he's a duper.
- I ain't no duper! - You a duper! - You a duper.
- You're spitting! [GROANS.]
Okay, Curtis, how did he dupe you? Baby, he had all those people.
He knew those customers could have helped with all the stuff we was doing.
But no! No! You couldn't do the Christian thing, could you? You wanna get some benefits.
You want benefits, don't you? We owed him money.
Minor detail.
And could not pay him.
Smaller minor detail.
Okay, this is ridiculous.
You know that? This is ridiculous, and I want the both of you to stop it right now.
Okay? Look.
Look.
Look.
Look.
Look.
Look at those people out there.
Look at it.
That is what we need to be focusing on, Curtis.
That.
You got me? - But, baby - So - No.
No.
- But but but No, "but but but buts," Curtis.
Do you understand? - Terrance? - Yes, ma'am.
I understand.
Okay.
Now, I'm going back to the help center, and you guys have to get in here and get this thing together.
Get this working.
Now get together in here.
And do not bother me anymore - Yes, ma'am.
- with your little threats.
Don't threaten me.
What'd he say, baby? What did duper say? He's a duper.
I told you.
ELLA: Make it work.
Make it work.
- [DOOR SLAMS.]
- Glad you're my wife, duper.
Duper.
So how you want to go about doing it? I'm not talking to you, you duper.
I don't talk to dupers.
Well, that's not gonna solve it.
TERRANCE AND CURTIS: Me first! Me first! - I'm going first.
- Well, then go if you gonna go! I'm okay, I'm going! - Fine.
- Fine.
You help the customers on that side, and I help the customers on this side.
Why you get the side with the better washers, though? 'Cause it's my place, though.
Well, it's my place, too.
It was my uncle's place first.
Ooh! Fine.
You know what? Fine.
I can't deal with this.
- Yeah, right, why don't you - I can't deal with this.
You NYLA: What is going on? What is going on? You ain't gotta deal with it at all! I gotta deal with it! Okay, then! - We're gonna deal with it.
- Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Who the hell are you with your hands on me? Okay, sorry, Mr.
Curtis.
Sorry, but For real, what's [WHISPERS.]
going on? - Him! - Him! Okay, look, the customers are watching.
Duh! Ryan.
No, they wanna see a fight, too, between a giraffe and a bull.
You should be like [GRUNTING.]
Oh, I'll give him a little red shirt.
Olé! Are you done being not funny? You about to get smashed by one of them.
Okay, look.
What's going on? Talk to him.
- That man is impossible.
- Okay.
Okay.
- I can't do it.
I'm turning red.
- Okay, calm down.
- Am I turning red? - Nope.
No, you're fine.
- I'm turning red.
- [GIGGLES.]
- Um, you're fine.
- Okay.
[SIGHS.]
Yeah, um He's fine.
No, he's not impossible at all.
Trust me.
Girl, are we talking about the same person? Yes.
Yes, yes.
I thought he was impossible, too, but he's he's a big softy.
[SCOFFS.]
Yeah, around the middle.
That's not nice.
I'm sorry.
But he's such a bully! Well, you do know you're not perfect.
Say what? Nope, you can be a bully, too.
What you talking about? The way you barged into the paynes' house? [SCOFFS.]
I was trying to make sure that you were all right.
Again, it wasn't your business.
You know what? I accept that.
I accept that.
Thank you.
- So - Unh-unh.
[LAUGHS.]
- No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
- How you doing? No, it's between you and him.
No.
[LAUGHS.]
- Yeah, so, um - All right.
All right.
- Fair enough.
Fair enough.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Now you both need to stop it.
- [SIGHS DEEPLY.]
Okay, fine.
Try and get along with him.
How do I do that? Do what I do.
I think of him as a 5-year-old.
That's a big 5-year-old.
- I mean, big.
- Yeah, but it works! I've seen some big kids, but It works.
All right, I'll try, for you.
All right, so, um, I'm gonna go to the register real quick.
- Hey.
- Help me.
So you think this is a good situation? Mnh-mnh! Mnh-mnh! You know I don't like to gossip.
It's not gossip.
This is me and you talking about Kendrick and Nyla.
And gossiping.
Well, I don't think he should be with her.
JoAnn, we have been over this and over this, and this is not your or my decision.
Oh, well, I know that.
But he's scary, - and he is - At the door.
- What? - Yes.
- Girl, don't open it! - Why not? He might come in here with a chain saw or something! I better tell him to come in.
Aah! And the door is not locked! Come in! - Hey! [LAUGHS.]
- Hey, hey, hey! Hey, miss Ella.
- Hi.
- Hey.
Miss JoAnn, how you doing? We good.
Good.
Good.
[CHUCKLES.]
How are you two? - We're good.
- We're good.
- Okay.
Okay, g-good.
- What's going on? - Well - What's that in your pocket?! What? - Take your hands out your pocket! - Wh Hey, wait! Ooh.
Ooh.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
JoAnn.
Ah, what's going on? [LAUGHS.]
Nothing.
Is it cool if I sit down? Eeh Yeah.
You know what? I'm-a go stand over by the door in case I gotta make a run for it.
I'm sorry, Ella.
JoAnn, sit down.
All right.
Sorry.
So what's going on? Well, it's it's Nyla.
Where she at? Did you do something to her? - What? No! - [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
- No, of course not.
- Nope! Do not say, "of course not," like you haven't.
- JoAnn.
- I'm sorry.
Hush! [CHUCKLING.]
So really, what's going on, Kendrick? Well, I was looking at that Terrance guy on social media.
- Okay.
- Oh, why were you looking at him? Well I was going to see if he was posting any pictures of him with Nyla, the two of them together.
Kendrick, Nyla is not into him.
- But she kissed him.
- Who said that? You you did.
Miss JoAnn, you do not have to cover for it.
I-I know what happened.
I saw it.
Oh, you didn't get mad at her - and and try to hurt her? - No.
- Oh, okay.
- No.
No, I did not.
No.
I told you, I've been in counseling.
I've been in a lot of counseling.
Oh, that's good.
That's good.
- Yeah, that is good.
- Thank you.
But but you you do know that a lot of that counseling takes a long time.
- Long time, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
I know that.
- You you know what else? - Huh? - There is no easy fix.
- No easy fix.
- [LAUGHS.]
Not lickety-split.
- No! No.
- [LAUGHS.]
Well, good, because you just have to keep working on it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know that, too.
Look, I'll [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Look, I just want to know if she's really into the guy, you know? Like, that that's that's all I want to know.
- If she what? - If she's really into the guy.
I just said she wasn't.
I said, "Kendrick, Nyla does not like him like that.
" Now why do you keep looking up under your eyes? - Oh, sorry.
- Like this.
Should I do Need something, man.
You give me a headache.
- Sorry about that.
- Look up.
It was helpful when I was younger.
Well, you're older.
Okay, so I'll do it this way.
Please.
Okay, I'll do it this way.
Look, but you see how she looks at him sometimes.
- Mm-hmm! - JoAnn, will you hush? What? She do get all dreamy in her eyes when she look at him.
JoAnn! - She looks at him like that? - What? That is the way you look at him.
Oh.
Oh, that's right, ain't it? Oh, yeah.
I'm confused.
But he's so fine.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Hush.
Please.
- Okay, look, If she wants to be with him, I'll walk away.
I'll walk away, but I just need to hear her say that.
I'm sure if she did, she would tell you.
But, miss Ella, you don't know Nyla like I know her.
- She keeps a lot in.
- Ooh, yeah.
- I know that.
- You know, I mean, if you really spent a lot of time with her, if you lived with her, you could, you know She she doesn't say everything.
She keep she keeps it kind of to herself.
Yeah.
You never know what she's thinking.
Aha! I know that, too.
2 for 2! So I don't know what to do.
Mm-hmm.
Well, you should talk to her.
But but she won't tell me the full truth.
If you talk to Nyla, Kendrick, like you're talking to us, she will.
Oh, yes, she will.
I'm sure she will.
Look, has she ever said anything about not wanting to be with me? Uh-oh.
[MUTTERING.]
Now look, I'm not getting in the middle of anything.
Oh, that means she did.
- That means she did.
- No, that does not.
No, that does not.
- That's what that's what that means.
- I'm not going to argue back and forth with you.
That means that I'm not getting in the middle of it.
Miss JoAnn, did she ever say anything about not wanting - Well - to be with me? She's not gonna get in it, either.
That's right.
That's right.
She's not getting in the middle of it, either.
So you need to talk to Nyla.
- [WHISPERS.]
Talk to Nyla.
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay, I'm-a talk to Nyla.
- Yeah.
And, uh, you're welcome.
Thank you.
Right.
Right.
- Thank you.
Right.
- [LAUGHS.]
Yeah.
Okay.
Bye.
[CHUCKLES.]
Um yeah, uh, thank you.
Yeah.
Well, go on! Go! - JOANN: Bye.
Bye, Kendrick.
- Bye.
Bye.
Ella, you need to call that laundromat.
Ha! Why? You know he's going over there! - Well - No, no! What if she's with Terrance? Listen they need to work this out between themselves, okay? I am not getting in it.
- Oh, okay.
- No.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah, yeah, you are right.
- I know I'm right.
- [SIGHS.]
Well, I gotta go.
[CHUCKLES.]
Wait a minute.
JoAnn, where are you going? Nowhere.
You going to that laundromat, aren't you? - No.
- Yes, you are.
I know you not, because you're gonna sit right here.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Now.
- But, Ella - Nothing.
Not your business.
Don't do that.
Now you know that's spooky.
Did you see how he was peering? How can you be so cool about it? Easy it's not my business.
What if he snaps? Well, he said he's getting better: Counseling, better.
You trust that? Yes, I do.
- Well, I don't.
- JoAnn - I'm going over there! - Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Oh, if he hurts her He's not gonna hurt her.
- Oh, he's not gonna hurt her.
- How do you know? 'Cause Curtis is there.
- Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
- Curtis is there.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
And Terrance is there.
Yeah.
[CHUCKLES.]
Two men.
And Ryan.
Yeah.
Two men.
But [GROANS.]
But they are at odds.
- Who? - Terrance and Curtis.
- Yeah? - Yep.
- Oh.
- And, uh What if they don't notice? See? That's what I'm saying! Oh, well, then, um well, then, um well, then, what you sitting here for? We need to go over to the laundromat.
Come on, girl! [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION.]
You waste a lot of time.
Come on!
Oh.
- Hey.
- Finally! Whoa.
Okay.
Finally, somebody help me in here.
- Calm down.
- No.
No.
Can you please, pretty please, help that lady over there? Okay.
Okay.
She needs to get her clothes out the washer.
[LAUGHS.]
Well, get them.
Get them.
She's flirting with me.
And? Look at her.
- Oh, boy.
- Help that old lady, please.
Nyla, she touched my booty.
Well, shake it for her.
- I'm not shaking it.
I'm not I'm not - And make that shake, shake Shake it, shake your butt [LAUGHS.]
Shake your butt Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
Do you hear the beep? You hear the beep? - Hey.
Hey, Mr.
C.
- Hey, Nyla.
Hello.
- Hey.
- Nyla, hello.
- Hello.
- That's a song.
Yeah? Oh, okay.
Wh-what are you doing? [SCOFFS.]
I'm working.
Looks like you're sitting.
Well, that's work for some of us.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Well, um, I'm here now, so what would you like me to do? Oh, great.
That's great.
- First thing - Uh-huh.
you can start start on the register.
- Okay.
- Okay? Just give change to the clients.
Ooh, "the clients.
" - Yes.
- Okay.
Clients? They look like regular old customers to me.
And what's all this? What is that? - That yours? - Yes.
- Okay.
I got it.
- All right.
- Thank you, Nyla! - No problem.
- Hey, Nyla? - Yes? Anything come up missing, you going to come up missing.
You know I don't steal, Mr.
C.
Yes, but your kids do.
They got it from somewhere.
Like the Bible said, "the tree don't grow far from where the apple fell" when Eve threw it.
I think you might have to go and read the Bible.
Excuse me? I'm the one married to Ella.
- Yeah.
- I married the Bible.
- Okay? - Okay.
And and you gonna read it for yourself right there in the book in the, uh, in the Garden of Gethsemane.
- Okay.
- You heard what I said? - I'm gonna go count.
- Okay.
- I'll be right over here.
- And I can't get you there.
- Okay.
- Okay? You can't go with Ella.
Ella, you got to go for yourself.
Ain't that right, babe? Hard put, I can't take a whipping.
I was doing it just like y'all, baby.
- Curtis! - Yes, baby? I need to talk to you.
Oh.
I mean, we're really busy, little lady.
- Stop coming in my - Now.
Now.
Now.
- Uh, baby - You heard her.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Now I said In the office now, Curtis.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
- Excuse me.
- Don't do Don't do that.
You better listen to her.
- Don't make no sense.
- Hey [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Get outta the way.
Does not make sense.
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
- Hey, babe.
- Now, Curtis Ella.
Baby, why you gotta embarrass me like that? I don't care about those people.
- What? - What is wrong with you? What? Curtis, why are you giving Terrance such a hard time? I did not.
Yes, you did.
- I'm not, baby.
I'm not.
- Yes, you did.
What'd that sneak say I did? You're doing just what he said you did.
You're sitting around, Curtis, rolling around in your chair acting like you are the boss.
Ella, I am the boss.
Who is broke.
And needs to get to work.
I am working, Ella.
- Clipboard, pen - Okay, Curtis.
You know what? all that.
Stop it.
Stop with all of this foolishness, Curtis.
We don't have time for this foolishness.
I'm trying to Don't I know that? - I know that, babe.
- Okay, good, so get to work.
Get to work, and help him.
Just help him, Curtis.
Ella he's so bossy.
Just like you, honey.
Just like you.
But, baby, you know I I'm a kind and gentle boss.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
Terrance! Babe! Don't call Judas in here.
Baby, that's the enemy! - Terrance.
- [SCOFFS.]
I'm bleeding.
Terrance, now I need you both to stop this right now, and I need you to make this place work.
That's what I was trying to do.
By not helping me? What? You're the one not helping me.
I'm talking about before you joined here.
What you saying? I did all the work.
I didn't see you.
- Lower your voice.
- No.
No, wh uh, or you didn't give me the social motive, uh, the social mode thing either.
Made the assumption, what what are you talk That doesn't even make any sense.
- Lower your voice.
- Wh Look Ella, he had all those customers that he could have had here, and they had and they could have helped us, and he duped me.
That's what he did, he duped me.
- No, I didn't.
- That's you.
You a duper.
- You a duper.
- Curtis.
He's a duper, Ella.
- Curtis.
- Ella, he's a duper.
- I ain't no duper! - You a duper! - You a duper.
- You're spitting! [GROANS.]
Okay, Curtis, how did he dupe you? Baby, he had all those people.
He knew those customers could have helped with all the stuff we was doing.
But no! No! You couldn't do the Christian thing, could you? You wanna get some benefits.
You want benefits, don't you? We owed him money.
Minor detail.
And could not pay him.
Smaller minor detail.
Okay, this is ridiculous.
You know that? This is ridiculous, and I want the both of you to stop it right now.
Okay? Look.
Look.
Look.
Look.
Look.
Look at those people out there.
Look at it.
That is what we need to be focusing on, Curtis.
That.
You got me? - But, baby - So - No.
No.
- But but but No, "but but but buts," Curtis.
Do you understand? - Terrance? - Yes, ma'am.
I understand.
Okay.
Now, I'm going back to the help center, and you guys have to get in here and get this thing together.
Get this working.
Now get together in here.
And do not bother me anymore - Yes, ma'am.
- with your little threats.
Don't threaten me.
What'd he say, baby? What did duper say? He's a duper.
I told you.
ELLA: Make it work.
Make it work.
- [DOOR SLAMS.]
- Glad you're my wife, duper.
Duper.
So how you want to go about doing it? I'm not talking to you, you duper.
I don't talk to dupers.
Well, that's not gonna solve it.
TERRANCE AND CURTIS: Me first! Me first! - I'm going first.
- Well, then go if you gonna go! I'm okay, I'm going! - Fine.
- Fine.
You help the customers on that side, and I help the customers on this side.
Why you get the side with the better washers, though? 'Cause it's my place, though.
Well, it's my place, too.
It was my uncle's place first.
Ooh! Fine.
You know what? Fine.
I can't deal with this.
- Yeah, right, why don't you - I can't deal with this.
You NYLA: What is going on? What is going on? You ain't gotta deal with it at all! I gotta deal with it! Okay, then! - We're gonna deal with it.
- Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Who the hell are you with your hands on me? Okay, sorry, Mr.
Curtis.
Sorry, but For real, what's [WHISPERS.]
going on? - Him! - Him! Okay, look, the customers are watching.
Duh! Ryan.
No, they wanna see a fight, too, between a giraffe and a bull.
You should be like [GRUNTING.]
Oh, I'll give him a little red shirt.
Olé! Are you done being not funny? You about to get smashed by one of them.
Okay, look.
What's going on? Talk to him.
- That man is impossible.
- Okay.
Okay.
- I can't do it.
I'm turning red.
- Okay, calm down.
- Am I turning red? - Nope.
No, you're fine.
- I'm turning red.
- [GIGGLES.]
- Um, you're fine.
- Okay.
[SIGHS.]
Yeah, um He's fine.
No, he's not impossible at all.
Trust me.
Girl, are we talking about the same person? Yes.
Yes, yes.
I thought he was impossible, too, but he's he's a big softy.
[SCOFFS.]
Yeah, around the middle.
That's not nice.
I'm sorry.
But he's such a bully! Well, you do know you're not perfect.
Say what? Nope, you can be a bully, too.
What you talking about? The way you barged into the paynes' house? [SCOFFS.]
I was trying to make sure that you were all right.
Again, it wasn't your business.
You know what? I accept that.
I accept that.
Thank you.
- So - Unh-unh.
[LAUGHS.]
- No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
- How you doing? No, it's between you and him.
No.
[LAUGHS.]
- Yeah, so, um - All right.
All right.
- Fair enough.
Fair enough.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Now you both need to stop it.
- [SIGHS DEEPLY.]
Okay, fine.
Try and get along with him.
How do I do that? Do what I do.
I think of him as a 5-year-old.
That's a big 5-year-old.
- I mean, big.
- Yeah, but it works! I've seen some big kids, but It works.
All right, I'll try, for you.
All right, so, um, I'm gonna go to the register real quick.
- Hey.
- Help me.
So you think this is a good situation? Mnh-mnh! Mnh-mnh! You know I don't like to gossip.
It's not gossip.
This is me and you talking about Kendrick and Nyla.
And gossiping.
Well, I don't think he should be with her.
JoAnn, we have been over this and over this, and this is not your or my decision.
Oh, well, I know that.
But he's scary, - and he is - At the door.
- What? - Yes.
- Girl, don't open it! - Why not? He might come in here with a chain saw or something! I better tell him to come in.
Aah! And the door is not locked! Come in! - Hey! [LAUGHS.]
- Hey, hey, hey! Hey, miss Ella.
- Hi.
- Hey.
Miss JoAnn, how you doing? We good.
Good.
Good.
[CHUCKLES.]
How are you two? - We're good.
- We're good.
- Okay.
Okay, g-good.
- What's going on? - Well - What's that in your pocket?! What? - Take your hands out your pocket! - Wh Hey, wait! Ooh.
Ooh.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
JoAnn.
Ah, what's going on? [LAUGHS.]
Nothing.
Is it cool if I sit down? Eeh Yeah.
You know what? I'm-a go stand over by the door in case I gotta make a run for it.
I'm sorry, Ella.
JoAnn, sit down.
All right.
Sorry.
So what's going on? Well, it's it's Nyla.
Where she at? Did you do something to her? - What? No! - [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
- No, of course not.
- Nope! Do not say, "of course not," like you haven't.
- JoAnn.
- I'm sorry.
Hush! [CHUCKLING.]
So really, what's going on, Kendrick? Well, I was looking at that Terrance guy on social media.
- Okay.
- Oh, why were you looking at him? Well I was going to see if he was posting any pictures of him with Nyla, the two of them together.
Kendrick, Nyla is not into him.
- But she kissed him.
- Who said that? You you did.
Miss JoAnn, you do not have to cover for it.
I-I know what happened.
I saw it.
Oh, you didn't get mad at her - and and try to hurt her? - No.
- Oh, okay.
- No.
No, I did not.
No.
I told you, I've been in counseling.
I've been in a lot of counseling.
Oh, that's good.
That's good.
- Yeah, that is good.
- Thank you.
But but you you do know that a lot of that counseling takes a long time.
- Long time, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
I know that.
- You you know what else? - Huh? - There is no easy fix.
- No easy fix.
- [LAUGHS.]
Not lickety-split.
- No! No.
- [LAUGHS.]
Well, good, because you just have to keep working on it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know that, too.
Look, I'll [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
Look, I just want to know if she's really into the guy, you know? Like, that that's that's all I want to know.
- If she what? - If she's really into the guy.
I just said she wasn't.
I said, "Kendrick, Nyla does not like him like that.
" Now why do you keep looking up under your eyes? - Oh, sorry.
- Like this.
Should I do Need something, man.
You give me a headache.
- Sorry about that.
- Look up.
It was helpful when I was younger.
Well, you're older.
Okay, so I'll do it this way.
Please.
Okay, I'll do it this way.
Look, but you see how she looks at him sometimes.
- Mm-hmm! - JoAnn, will you hush? What? She do get all dreamy in her eyes when she look at him.
JoAnn! - She looks at him like that? - What? That is the way you look at him.
Oh.
Oh, that's right, ain't it? Oh, yeah.
I'm confused.
But he's so fine.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Hush.
Please.
- Okay, look, If she wants to be with him, I'll walk away.
I'll walk away, but I just need to hear her say that.
I'm sure if she did, she would tell you.
But, miss Ella, you don't know Nyla like I know her.
- She keeps a lot in.
- Ooh, yeah.
- I know that.
- You know, I mean, if you really spent a lot of time with her, if you lived with her, you could, you know She she doesn't say everything.
She keep she keeps it kind of to herself.
Yeah.
You never know what she's thinking.
Aha! I know that, too.
2 for 2! So I don't know what to do.
Mm-hmm.
Well, you should talk to her.
But but she won't tell me the full truth.
If you talk to Nyla, Kendrick, like you're talking to us, she will.
Oh, yes, she will.
I'm sure she will.
Look, has she ever said anything about not wanting to be with me? Uh-oh.
[MUTTERING.]
Now look, I'm not getting in the middle of anything.
Oh, that means she did.
- That means she did.
- No, that does not.
No, that does not.
- That's what that's what that means.
- I'm not going to argue back and forth with you.
That means that I'm not getting in the middle of it.
Miss JoAnn, did she ever say anything about not wanting - Well - to be with me? She's not gonna get in it, either.
That's right.
That's right.
She's not getting in the middle of it, either.
So you need to talk to Nyla.
- [WHISPERS.]
Talk to Nyla.
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay, I'm-a talk to Nyla.
- Yeah.
And, uh, you're welcome.
Thank you.
Right.
Right.
- Thank you.
Right.
- [LAUGHS.]
Yeah.
Okay.
Bye.
[CHUCKLES.]
Um yeah, uh, thank you.
Yeah.
Well, go on! Go! - JOANN: Bye.
Bye, Kendrick.
- Bye.
Bye.
Ella, you need to call that laundromat.
Ha! Why? You know he's going over there! - Well - No, no! What if she's with Terrance? Listen they need to work this out between themselves, okay? I am not getting in it.
- Oh, okay.
- No.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah, yeah, you are right.
- I know I'm right.
- [SIGHS.]
Well, I gotta go.
[CHUCKLES.]
Wait a minute.
JoAnn, where are you going? Nowhere.
You going to that laundromat, aren't you? - No.
- Yes, you are.
I know you not, because you're gonna sit right here.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Now.
- But, Ella - Nothing.
Not your business.
Don't do that.
Now you know that's spooky.
Did you see how he was peering? How can you be so cool about it? Easy it's not my business.
What if he snaps? Well, he said he's getting better: Counseling, better.
You trust that? Yes, I do.
- Well, I don't.
- JoAnn - I'm going over there! - Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Oh, if he hurts her He's not gonna hurt her.
- Oh, he's not gonna hurt her.
- How do you know? 'Cause Curtis is there.
- Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
- Curtis is there.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
And Terrance is there.
Yeah.
[CHUCKLES.]
Two men.
And Ryan.
Yeah.
Two men.
But [GROANS.]
But they are at odds.
- Who? - Terrance and Curtis.
- Yeah? - Yep.
- Oh.
- And, uh What if they don't notice? See? That's what I'm saying! Oh, well, then, um well, then, um well, then, what you sitting here for? We need to go over to the laundromat.
Come on, girl! [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION.]
You waste a lot of time.
Come on!