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- Baby.
- Oh good. Hey, Baby.
- Hey Baby.
Hey, did anybody new move in over at the Caskey's house?
- I don't know. Why?
- I was at the mailbox and when I looked over there
somebody was looking out the top window.
- Okay, Curtis.
- And when they saw me, they ducked off.
- Then apparently, somebody moved in.
- Well, have you seen any moving trucks
in the neighborhood this week?
- No, Curtis, I have not.
But I really don't make it my business
to find out what everybody's doing
in the neighborhood either, Curtis.
- Gloria didn't put out the big red and white
welcome home sign.
- Curtis, stop this.
Okay baby, let me tell you something.
Maybe they moved in really early in the morning
or very late at night.
- Yeah, but, why would they duck off
when they saw me looking.
- Curtis, maybe they saw you staring.
Not just looking, but staring up at their window
and thought you were a peeper.
- No, there's something shady going on over there, baby.
- Curtis.
Don't you do this. Don't you start this.
I am already baking apology pies
because of your suspicions.
So, stop it.
- Mm-mm, don't look right.
You know, we need to get to the bottom of this, baby.
- You need to get to the bottom of
minding your own business, honey.
Aren't you and CJ supposed to go
and handle something for your truck today?
- That's right, baby.
Thank you for reminding me. - Yes.
- I need to go warn CJ.
'Cause he live closer to the Caskey's than we do.
- That's not what I just said. Curtis...
- Thank you, Baby.
- No, Curtis, that is not what I just--
- I got it, Baby. I got this.
- Hey Miranda, I just sent you the 150, you get it?
Okay, cool. Well, I guess I'll see you this evening
when you pick up Christian.
Alright, bye.
- Did you just send Miranda $150?
- Yeah.
- Wow.
- Wow, what?
- I don't know.
Just seems like you're sending her money every other day now.
- No, it's not every other day.
- Well, with Miranda, it's always something.
She is always withdrawing from the ACM.
- Uh, baby, don't you mean ATM?
- No, no, no, I mean ACM.
All of Calvin's Money.
- No, you trippin'.
I do not send Miranda money every other day.
- Then every three days, Calvin.
It's 100 this time.
400 the next.
- Okay, I think you're exaggerating, Laura.
- Am I?
Mm, hmm, hmm.
Do I need to show you the receipts?
- Girl, quit playing.
You ain't even got no receipts.
- Hmm.
- I know you ain't got no receipts.
- Exhibit A your honor.
- Those are my receipts.
- Let's see what we have here.
Hmm, hmm.
Oh, we have a bicycle helmet.
Some knee pads.
Some elbow pads.
- Well, we don't want him to fall off his bike and get hurt.
- Oh, okay.
And we have a basketball hoop, a basketball.
- Well, come on, we might be raising the next MJ.
- Hmm.
Legos, Hot Wheels, football jersey,
baseball jersey, basketball jersey,
football helmet.
Cleats... - Okay, okay.
Okay, okay, that's, that's just a couple items.
- Oh, there's more.
Pull up your Dollars App.
- My Dollars App? - Mm-hmm.
- For what?
- It shows you a history of all the money you sent.
- Pssh, naw. You trippin'.
- Naw.
Let the record reflect that the defendant
refuses to show us his Dollars App.
Your honor, I rest my case.
- Okay, Marsheeka Clark, Esquire.
This is not a court of law.
- Not yet.
But baby, you may have to take it there.
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- Hey CJ.
Hey, man.
- What you doin' Unc?
- There's something strange going on
over at the Caskey's house.
- Yeah, they moved out, remember?
- That's what I thought.
But I saw somebody over there.
And they saw me.
And I saw them see me.
- Hey, Mr. Payne.
- Hey, Linda.
- Lisa, Mr. Payne.
- Yeah...
- What y'all looking at?
- Uncle Curtis thinks he saw somebody
over at the Caskey house.
- He probably right.
I seen a pitbull over there in the yard
by itself the other day.
- How do you know that's not somebody
else's dog in the neighborhood.
- Please, old folks around here don't be having no pitbulls.
- Exactly.
- Well, maybe we should call Ms. Gloria
since she's the president of the subdivision.
- Some kind of president she is.
How did I notice thugs and criminals
and murderers and drug dealers
done moved into the house and she didn't?
- How you know they're criminals over there?
- He probably right.
The other day I saw a black sports car,
tinted windows, pull up, drop a duffel bag out the window.
Then a man with a hoodie came, picked it up.
- See, told you. Told you.
Maybe you'll listen to me next time.
- You know, I still don't get
where you're going with all those comments.
- Listen Babe, I know you guys have done great
without getting the courts involved in your custody
and financial decisions.
- Yes we have.
We thought it's better to just have an agreement
on our own and make the best decisions for our son.
- Yeah, but maybe it wasn't the best decision.
- Okay, Laura.
- No, just, Baby, listen.
Hear me out, okay?
It happens more often than you think.
Even when you think you're on good terms with the mom.
- What are you saying?
- I'm saying that sometimes in these situations
a need turns into greed.
- Okay, yeah, but I still don't understand what that means.
- Sometimes it's about making the baby daddy
or the ex-husband literally pay for the pain they caused.
- Wow, I never thought about it like that.
- Yeah.
It's something to consider.
- Naw. Mm-mmm.
Miranda wouldn't do that.
She's not the vindictive type.
- She may not be, babe, but listen.
Hell has no fury like a woman scorned.
- No, she's not scorned. She's just--
You know what, I'm, I'm gon' have a sit down
with Miranda and talk to her about the whole thing.
- I think that's a really good idea.
I just don't want to see you get got, bruh.
- Ow.
And get got, when did you start using hood terms?
- I was watching the Real Hood Wives of Decatur
the other night.
- Okay, yeah, babe, don't.
I hope you're not planning on getting married
and moving back to the hood.
'Cause it's not happening.
- Boy, move back.
I am not moving back to the hood.
I'm not even from the hood.
- Well, I meant--
Did I ever tell you that that look that you give me,
that you're giving me right now,
it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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- Hey CJ.
I came as soon as I got your message.
I was having a problem with one of my cats.
- Is it okay? - Oh, yeah.
He just got into the collards I cooked last night.
Just doesn't agree with their little digestive systems.
- You gave your cat collard greens?
- Eh, so, wha- what's the problem?
- The problem just walked in.
- Uncle Curtis.
- What?
- When did this car pull up over here?
- Watch out lady.
- No, I didn't see that car.
And I don't recognize it either.
- Hey Ms. Gloria.
You sure are glowing today.
- Hey Lisa, sweetie.
That's what they call me.
Glo, 'cause I be glowing.
See, she gets it.
She gets it. You sweet little thing.
I got the glow. Hey, hey, hey.
- Okay, are you done killing cats?
And doing the drop and scoop?
- Now that you mention it,
I feel like I could do a little shimmy.
- Well, you need to shimmy your way out of the president's seat.
- And let a real leader sit there.
- Say what now?
- We have a violation, Glo, of section code number--.
We got violators, okay.
- What is he talking about?
- Squatters.
Uncle Curtis saw some squatters over at the Caskey house.
- There was squatters and I saw 'em.
They was over there, I saw 'em and you didn't.
That means I'm a better leader than you.
- Curtis, you will never be better than me at anything.
Now, somebody tell me what's going on.
- Well, if you'da been doing your job
you would've noticed that there were some
murderous criminal thug drug dealers
squatting over at the Caskey's house.
- And how do you know?
- I know that because I was out neighborhood watching.
Which is another thing that a good president does.
And I saw them up in the window and they saw me.
And then I saw them see me see them.
- CJ did you see anything?
- Um, no, Ms. Gloria, I didn't, I didn't see anything.
But uh, Lisa, saw some really unusual things over there.
- That's right, sure did.
Lisa, tell her what you saw.
Matter of fact, tell her about the drug dealing ring
that I broke up and saved everybody's life
in the neighborhood.
Tell her about that.
- I ain't no snitch Mr. Payne.
Mm-mm.
You don't watch First 48.
All the snitches end up in jail or dead.
- You know what, Curtis, I can't just go off your word.
Anyway, now, we, we need proof or another eye witness.
- Fine. I'm not scared.
- That's my nephew.
And you know what, you ain't never been scared, nephew.
And that's why I love you.
You go on over and I'ma tell your Aunt Ella you love her.
Okay?
And then hey, I'ma miss you, okay.
Give me a hug.
Okay, go ahead on.
Do what you gotta do.
- Uncle Curtis, I'm gonna go out here to my mailbox,
get my mail, while I'm there I'm gonna look into the window
and see if I see any motion in the house.
- I wouldn't do that, Mr. Payne.
- Look, go ahead on. You alright. You good.
I'ma get Auntie Ella to pray for you.
Hey, and just in case,
what color suit you wanna be buried in?
- Really?
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- Uncle Curtis, hey, you were right.
- What happened? - What happened?
- When I looked in the window somebody was in the window
and they saw me and they closed the curtain.
- You see, I told you, Gloria.
- You know what, that makes a lot of sense now.
- What makes sense, Ms. Gloria?
- One of my cats went missing the other day
and I found her in the Caskey's yard.
Now, when I got her home, I don't know she just,
she just wasn't herself.
All she did was lay around.
I shoulda known something was going on at that house.
- Wait about nine months.
- She probably right.
'Cause I heard somebody saw your cat
in the same yard they saw that pitbull
but that's just what I heard.
- Okay, well, CJ, could you make out who was over there?
Could you tell anybody?
- No, I couldn't see nothing.
All I could see that it was just somebody there.
I couldn't tell whether it was a man, a woman,
whether it was black, white.
- But, but you're sure you saw someone.
- Absolutely, 'cause I saw them
and they saw me and I saw them see me.
- Now, you, you hear that, former president
of Prosperous Pines.
- Move, move.
Now, just Curtis, turn your volume down.
Now, I'm trying to see.
Woo! - What?
- Somebody's coming out of the house.
- Well, can you make out who it is?
- No, but they, they running right past that car.
- Her hair is gorgeous.
- Too short.
- Her hair is long Curtis.
- I mean, she's too short for long hair.
- Hush, hush.
- She running this way.
- Yeah.
- Oh that, that look like, Miranda.
- That is Miranda.
- Get the door. Get the door.
- [screaming]
- Are you okay? - No.
- Is someone after you? - No.
I don't know.
- What, uh, honey, what happened?
- Yeah, and why are you running out of a trap house?
- Okay, Mr. Payne.
Paying attention and learning key words
when I'm talking about my club days.
- Yeah.
- Miranda, what happened?
- Okay, I was, I was supposed to show that house today.
And then when I got there everything was filthy
so I just figured that you know some kids
got in the house and messed things up.
- Okay, so you heard that, Gloria?
Okay, you got low life criminals and unruly kids
terrorizing the neighborhood.
- I also have your face terrorizing me right now.
But I'm dealing with it.
- Will you two stop it?
Finish telling us what happened, Miranda.
- Thank you.
Um, okay, okay.
Um, I finished cleaning up downstairs
and then I figured I'd go upstairs
so that I could you know just make sure
everything was clean up there and check it out.
And I was walking up the stairs
and then I heard this noise come from downstairs.
So, I just figured you know something maybe
fallen over or something downstairs
and I walked back in the master bedroom
and in the master closet there were four people in there.
I just dropped everything and ran.
- We gotta call the cops.
- Yeah, that's good.
Nephew, call the cops.
And make sure you tell 'em I get the reward.
- Wait, wait, wait.
All I could think about was Christian.
Christian. Please call Calvin.
- I got him. I'll call him right now.
- You know what, here, here, come on.
Come on, sit down. Sit down.
- The cops are on their way.
- They better hurry up.
- Why, what's happening?
- A blue van just pulled up in the drive way.
Looks like the fake Caskey's is busting a move.
- What?
Well, if the crime is over before the police get here
I won't get the reward.
- Looks like the dog is not quite ready to bust a move.
- Where's my phone?
I need to record this and submit it to Pitbulls and Parolees.
- Hey. - Hey Calvin.
- Where's Miranda? - Oh, she's in the kitchen.
- Alright.
- Oh great, now the SWAT team wanna show up.
It's too late. They gone now.
- I hope that Lisa don't get herself in trouble
filming those officers storming that house.
- She all in the mix.
- Are you okay?
- I think so.
- Man, I was so scared when Pops called me.
- Oh my god, it was crazy, Calvin.
- I'm sure.
Look, Miranda, I'm sorry you had to go through that.
You know maybe this is probably a sign
that you need to quit.
- What?
- Miranda, it's dangerous. You're alone.
You can't go in those houses by yourself.
- Calvin, what do you expect me to do?
Huh?
I have to work.
- Okay, have you thought about
what would have happened if this situation
would've turned out differently?
- Of course I have. But Calvin--
- Miranda, it's too risky. You're alone.
You don't have a gun or anything.
- Calvin, I have to work.
I am a single mom and I have Christian
and bills that I have to take care of.
- I understand that.
- No you don't.
Listen, we're not together anymore.
We're not married anymore.
I am doing the best I can by myself to hold things together.
- Okay, look, I apologize.
I don't wanna overwhelm you, it's just--
- Listen, listen, I know that we were supposed to talk
about the money that you've been giving me today
but the truth is I really need the help.
- Look, Miranda, this isn't about the money.
We'll figure that out later.
- I'm sorry.
- No, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't have to apologize. I'm sorry.
Look, Miranda, you need to know
that I'ma always have your back.
- Baby.
- What is it Curtis?
- Hey, guess what, I was right.
- What baby?
- There were squatters staying over at the Caskey house.
- We have squatters in the neighborhood?
- Yes.
And I discovered 'em and Gloria didn't.
- Curtis, please don't start with this president thing.
Now, you need to let that go.
- Baby, I am over that. I'm good.
- So, what happened with the squatters?
- Miranda scared 'em off. - Miranda?
How did she do that?
- [laughs] By accident.
I guess she had to clean up the house
'cause she had a showing and apparently,
they was hiding in the closet upstairs.
And when they jumped out they scared the bejeezus out of her.
You should've seen her come running.
She came up to the house crazy.
- That's dangerous. Is she okay?
- Yeah, she's fine. But I'm not.
- And why not? What's wrong with you?
- Because they left by the time the cops got there
so that means I can't get my reward money.
- Reward for what, Curtis?
- For breaking up the drug ring, Ella.
- This is too much.
Curtis, I thought we were talking about squatters.
- Okay, woman, who's side are you on?
- I'm sorry.
I'm sorry Detective Payne.
I'm sorry.
- You know I'm gonna go get my handcuffs.
It's time to go get the handcuffs.
It's handcuff time.
- It's handcuff time?
- Yeah, it's time for me to lose them keys.
It's time for me to lose them keys.
- You know what, nevermind.
- Go get in them handcuffs.
Get them handcuffs out your purse.
- You're not getting me locked up again, Curtis.
Hey, Baby, I want that new vacuum cleaner.
- Yes dear.
- Babe, I am so sorry.
How is Miranda?
- Well, she was shaken.
But she'll be alright.
- Yeah.
I can't imagine how scary that must have been for her.
- Yeah, she was really emotional about it.
- Yeah. No, I can imagine.
I would've been too.
- Look baby, I know I was supposed
to have the money conversation with her
but she's taking care of my son.
And she's doing a helluva job at it.
And honestly, I don't mind giving her money
as long as it's benefiting my son.
- Yeah, I get it.
I do.
And I'm sorry for even making it a thing.
I should know better.
My mom was a single mom.
And she struggled.
But she never complained.
And we lacked nothing.
- Yeah, that sounds like Miranda.
She's strong and determined.
- Well, she'll survive anything with a spirit like that.
- Yeah she will.
- I love you. - I love you.
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