Oh. Look at my little pretty.
Ah, it took me forever to perfect this souffle recipe.
[chuckles]
Okay, just have to carefully, oh, carefully
place it on the counter. Wait a minute.
There you go.
Ah! Curtis! [screams]
Curtis, please! Curtis!
What is it? What's goin' on?
Curtis, there's a mouse. Get it.
A mouse?
You heard me. It's a mouse, baby. Get it.
Okay, but where is it?
I don't know, Curtis. I don't know.
-It ran over there. -It ran over where?
I don't know, baby.
You know what, it must've came in
through the hole I made when I was fixin' the plumbing.
Curtis, I thought you patched that up.
Well, I did.
I mean, after I got chips back from Malik.
And you know that boy is fast.
Then I had to take a nap 'cause all that runnin' wore me out.
I don't care about your chips or your naps.
I care that there is a mouse in here.
Baby, just, will you relax? I'll take care of it, okay?
What do you mean relax? This don't make no--
[screams] Curtis! Okay, baby. No!
You haven't grabbed me like this since last week.
Oh, Curtis, please. Okay, stop, baby. Stop, stop.
What? What?
How can you be so calm?
Baby, because it's just a-- You don't need to be scared.
It's a little, itty, bitty mouse.
It can't hurt you, Ella.
[screams]
Oh no, uh-uh.
What are you screaming for, Curtis?
It's just an itty-bitty little mouse, baby.
It can't hurt you.
I ain't scared. I ain't never scared.
Uh-huh.
Okay? It just caught me off guard and it ran across my foot.
Eew, Curtis. Oh, my God. Curtis, throw your shoe outside.
I'll sanitize it later. Throw it out there. It's nasty.
Calm down. It's just a mouse, Ella.
Do you know how unsanitary a mouse is? It's a rodent.
It carries diseases.
Okay, baby. I'll take care of it.
Soon, Curtis. Okay, I can't stay in this house.
So you mean to tell me that a little, itty bitty mouse
could be the reason I get the house to myself?
Don't play with me.
Here, mousey, mousey. Here, mouse.
[sighs] Ooh, brownies.
Maniac.
That man couldn't catch a ball if he had Gorilla Glue
smeared on his hands.
Thank you, baby.
Hey, everybody, I got great news.
You're gonna stop eating my food?
Never.
Your boy got a job.
Really?
Don't act so surprised, Dad.
You've been on me about this every day.
Yes.
Well, it's about damn time.
Well, I'm proud of you, baby.
So uh, where are you gonna be working?
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Uh, Dad, you just told me to get a job.
Actually, you said, I don't care what your ass do.
That sounds like something you'd say.
Yep, word for word.
Well, depends on what the job is, whatcha gonna be doing,
whether I really meant it or not.
I'm an associate at Liberty Today.
A special interest organization helpin' achieve
progressive benefits in the South.
An illegal business. Get out now.
How do you know?
The longer the job description, the more corrupt the business.
That's not true.
No, it is. We're firemen. One word, legit business.
One word. Poledancer. Respected profession. One word.
Curtis, no, no. Don't do that.
Look, this is a legit business, all right?
My first client is Dr. Budz.
Ah, you're working for doctors now?
Uh, well, they're not technically a doctor's office.
Uh, they're a medical dispensary.
Medical weed dispensary?
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, oh, Cuzzo. It's on.
Let me put my order in, so I can...
Give it to glaucoma patients.
Malik... You slingin' weed?
I knew it. Long job description.
Look, Dr. Budz is a LA-based medical dispensary
providing medical marijuana to people.
I don't work for them.
My company advocates for special interests
and one of our initiatives is the legalization of marijuana.
It sounds like a high-priced pusher to me.
Come on. Y'all are really overthinking this, okay?
It's not that serious.
Marijuana has helped with cancer patients,
people that suffer from anxiety.
Yeah, and when it's regulated it helps boost the economy
and it stops being the excuse for police
locking up black folks.
So I've heard. I be reading.
Okay. So what are the bad sides?
It's a gateway drug.
Next thing you know, you'll be hooked on "hairon".
Look, I work with a special interest group, okay?
The only thing that we're pushing is for the legalization
of marijuana in Georgia.
Oh, the South will rise high again.
So you think I'm just gonna approve of you
being a drug dealer?
Dad, I'm not a drug dealer.
I don't like it, Son.
And when I said get a job, I meant a respectable one.
Dad, this is a respectable job.
I'm helping to push progressive issues.
This is how a family on "hairon" acts.
And we ain't even on "hairon."
We on chips.
You get gummies. You get brownies.
Got that pesky glaucoma issue?
You get THC cookies.
Is that what you're doing for your new job?
Just givin' away weed?
No, I'm sending them to Georgia lawmakers.
Hopefully, we can push them a little bit more to the middle
by allowing them to sample some without them smelling like
a Jamaican dancehall.
But you know, I actually am happy
that I'm helping out people with chronic issues.
Well, it seems like you're good at this.
Well, thanks, man. I'm really enjoying it.
Hmm.
What's up?
That's weird.
What?
I just got a request from someone asking
for gummy samples.
Oh, that's dope.
I mean, not dope, dope, but the other dope.
Yeah, but how do they know I have samples?
I mean, this is a private and controlled thing.
Well, where do they want you to send it to?
Zip code 30310. Wait...
That's, that's this neighborhood.
Well, is there a name and a number?
Calvin, if I knew that, we wouldn't be going through this.
Well, I'm just saying, I could go over there, introduce myself,
start a conversation, a little verbal elation.
If my job finds out that people are asking for gummy samples,
they're gonna think I'm a dope boy.
Aren't you?
No. I mean, I'm a dope boy, I mean, [chuckles]
but I'm not a dope boy.
Well, okay.
Well, who all knows you're doing this?
You think it's me?
Man, if I wanted to take your weed samples,
I'd just be like Omar and take your stash.
Okay, well, who could it be then?
Because I mean, they could mess up the whole campaign
and get me fired.
So if we exterminated the house,
how many days would we have to be out of it?
I'll hold, I'll hold.
Hey, Auntie. What's up with booties?
We have a mouse.
And because Curtis is draggin' his feet
about getting rid of it,
I'm on hold with the exterminators.
-Hang up the phone. -Curtis.
-Hang up the phone. -Stop.
-I'm not hanging up. -Didn't I say hang up the phone?
-Curtis. -Give it here. Give it here.
Baby.
We are not paying no exterminator.
I told you, I'ma catch the mouse myself.
Okay? Please, I got this, baby.
Curtis, I don't see you doing anything.
Ella, just 'cause you don't see me doing something,
don't mean I'm not doing anything.
Then what are you doing?
You know, I don't even want to say nothin'.
Curtis.
I'm working my plan, Ella. Huh?
So why don't you just get a trap with some cheese?
So why don't you get a trap with some cheese?
Really? Is it that simple?
Yeah, it's that simple.
Boy, you don't know nothin' about the psychology of a mouse.
The psychology?
Yeah, yes. You see, mice,
mice know about the cheese and the trap.
Please, that's a thousand years. That's a thousand years, okay?
You've got to do something way more intelligent
if you wanna catch them.
Well, I'm going over to CJ's house
while you and your intelligence
gets rid of the mouse.
Bye.
Bye to you.
Come here. I want you to see something.
Huh, huh. That's the plans for the Curtis contraption.
High-tech mouse incarceration. You heard me.
Unc, that look like it gonna take two weeks to build.
Yeah, well, for an amateur like you, it would.
It would probably take four weeks for an amateur like you,
but I'm halfway done with it.
You heard me?
Come on. Come on. I'll show you. Come on.
[Curtis] You ready?
Mm-hmm, what you got there?
You ready? I gotta surprise...
I gotta surprise you. Boom!
Look who stepped in the room.
Huh.
Blue, blue, blue lights, lights. If you can imagine that?
That sparks them up, get them excited.
Talkin' about cheese and traps.
All I gotta do, get my fuses connected right.
Then I get the gasoline. And I'ma pour that in.
And then I gotta, uh, get a detonator.
I'll get the gasoline.
Gasoline?
Hold on. Let me get the gas.
Aunt Ella!
[knock on door] Hootie Hoo, Hootie Hoo.
-Hey. -Hey, guys.
Okay. Do you all mind if I spend a little time over here with you
all while Curtis becomes one with the rat?
Of course, Ma. Sit down.
Hey, uh, have you noticed any strange activity
going on in this neighborhood?
I have. Now that you mention it.
Wait. Is it the Karen down on the corner?
It's always the innocent soccer moms.
You know, I'll bet it's that new family at the entrance.
They got three teenage boys, and they all skateboard.
Now you know what that means.
That they arrive at places faster than people walking?
Okay. Why are you stereotyping my neighbors?
Well, there's a lot of suspicious activity going on
in this zip code.
No, it's not.
Somebody sent me a request for some samples in this area.
And if his job finds out that people know that he has samples,
then...
So your dad was right.
You never should've gotten mixed up with this mess.
Come on, Malik. You know what our family went through.
My dad isn't right, okay? I'm not selling drugs.
No, he's right. He's giving them away.
Not helping.
That's worse.
Malik... Are you bringing drugs into this community?
You may as well be working for the CIA.
No. I'm trying to bring progressiveness to the South.
And so did Alexander Hamilton,
but he wasn't slinging no dope.
Well, is there anybody new to this neighborhood?
You know what? We could ask the HOA president.
Yeah.
No, no, no, no. No, no, no. Don't ask her.
She'll have drug dogs at everybody's house,
if she finds out anybody from my family is a pusher.
I'm not a pusher.
I'm an associate at Liberty Today,
a special interest organization
helping bring progressive benefits to the South.
Stop saying that to me.
The more I hear that long job description,
the more suspect it sounds.
Yeah, it does sound scammish.
What's your job title?
Social media strategist for inclusion and diversity
in urban marginalized markets and communities.
His job title's longer than mine.
Yeah, but it doesn't sound like a drug mule.
Well, I am an associate...
You know what? You got it. You got it.
[Ella]: Don't say it.
I am going to find out who did this.
I'm gonna keep my job, and I'm gonna get all y'all off
my back about this situation.
Do you know what?
Bruh, why are you being so aggressive with my mom?
You not acting like yourself lately.
Are you using your supply?
Auntie Ella, no.
"We need to talk about your new enterprise.
These are my corners."
Wait a minute. How'd this person get my number?
Probably from the wire, Stringer Bell.
Curtis. Hey, baby.
I, uh, Curtis.
Oh, Curtis Payne.
Curtis Payne!
Hey, baby.
What have you done to my house?
Now, Ella, before you say anything,
I know it looks kinda bad.
Kinda bad. Curtis, it looks like you dropped a bomb in here.
No, baby, like I said. Okay? It's not the best,
but I'm pretty sure I got him.
You mean to tell me after all of this, you don't know
if you got the mouse or not?
Baby, I'm, like, 99% sure I got him.
Curtis!
I didn't get him.
Curtis, there it is-- you know what?
Ooh, Curtis,
I swear for cookies and ice cream,
if you don't get that mouse out of here and put my house back
right, I'm gonna burn this house down.
I'ma burn it down myself with you and that mouse in it.
Ella, that's so violent.
Curtis, get that mouse out of here. I'm not playing with you.
I'll fight you. I'll fight you, Curtis.
Curtis, get my house back right. What is going on?
Hey, babe. What's going on?
You um, haven't given my number out to anybody have you?
I did.
Why would you do that?
Because you need to expand your social circle.
Your contact list consists of me, your mommy, your daddy
and your evil little sister.
Okay, look, uh, who did you give it to?
The HOA president.
You snitched on me to the president of the HOA?
No. She asked what you'd been up to and I told her you were
pushing pot for politicians.
Why would you say that?
It was funny. She laughed.
[knocking on door]
Malik Payne, I can smell you from the front porch.
That's my bad. I bought him some gas station cologne.
Hello, Ms. Higgenbottom.
Call me Glo 'cause I'm always shining.
Okay.
But anyway, I heard you're out here on these streets
with Mary Jane.
With who?
She's talking about weed, Malik.
Oh. Oh.
How are you going to help Liberty Today
if you don't even know the lingo?
Wait a minute.
How do you know about the company?
Well, I've been a supporter for years.
Well, ever since the hemp has been helping my peepers.
Baby, what did she say?
The weed helps with her glaucoma.
Oh, okay.
And as soon as these cowboy boot wearing lawmakers realize that
legalizing the sticky icky can make this state more money
than cotton ever did.
You sound very well-versed on this issue.
Well, uh, legalizing that stank is
my little corner of the world.
Wait. That was you that sent the text about the corners.
That you never responded to.
Look, I can help you go from being an associate
to being the man.
I know all the players.
You got politicians in your pocket?
In my pocket, in my purse, in my bra.
Okay. Okay. We get it.
Look, I'll take all the help that I can get.
And I'll take all the gummy samples you got.
Here's my medical marijuana card and everything.
Babe, you see?
Now they gotta apologize to me because I'm legit.
A grown woman just reached into her bosom
so you can give her a weed sample.
Maybe we can contain our excitement about your
marijuana cum laude degree right now.
Wow. Aunt Ella wasn't exaggerating.
Unc, you know you in here looking like the
black Elmer Fudd?
That's all right because I'm going mouse hunting.
Hey, that mouse got the best of me so far, but not no more.
You don't think you've broken enough stuff around here?
Not until I break his wheel.
I gotta break that mouse's wheel.
He's a strong one, CJ, so I'm done with the contraptions.
Now it's me against him. Mano e-Mouse O.
So your plan is to shoot him?
It's just a BB gun.
It won't kill him, but it will stun the hell out of him.
There you go. There you go. Work that. Work that.
A little down under. You just go past that. There you go.
You got skills. You got skills.
Well, I gotta drop this off in the kitchen for Aunt Ella.
She asked me to pick this up for her.
Okay.
I got my pellets. See, I got some pellets.
That'll probably knock him out.
And then I can just scoop him up and go release him in the woods.
And then he wake up all disheveled.
And he'll realize that I got the best of him.
And I'm the better man.
You know, I still think that the trap with the cheese
would've worked, but I mean, if you feel like
this is the better way.
I know it is, CJ. I know it is.
This is a smart mouse, man.
This is a smart one.
And so you gotta hit him with a smart plan.
He ain't gonna fall for just anything.
What the hell is that? What's that?
Oh, I think that's the humane mouse trap
I just put in the kitchen.
Oh, well, then you got Ella in there 'cause it ain't my mouse.
My mouse is too savvy for that.
What the hell is that?
Got him.
You ain't got him in there. You ain't got my mouse.
My mouse's too slick for that, man.
Well, me and Mickey are on our way
to the Humane Society.
To the Humane Society?
What, then what the hell did I do all this for?
Y'all should have seen this place.
-It looked like a war zone. -It was a war zone.
Your uncle against Mickey Mouse.
And he still lost.
Yeah, well, I didn't see any of you over here trying to help.
Oh, I don't do rodents.
Yeah, tell that to all the hood rats you dated.
I'm just glad you were able to get my house back to normal.
Baby, I told you I would. Just don't touch that lamp
over there for about 12 hours.
I need the glue to set just right.
That's my favorite--
Wait, what was that?
I knew it.
-[Ella] What was that? -He's back.
No, no.
It sounded like the air conditioner just went out.
What?
Well, I guess, I just happen to have my tools with me.
You know what? No, no. Stop him!
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