-Are we ready to go ahead and get lit? -[all] Yeah!
[Karen] Last season on Doubling Down with the Derricos...
Kick! Get it, Derricos!
We have 14 children, four sets of multiple twins.
[Darian] Not too rough, y'all. Not too rough.
Our babies are grown, though.
[indistinct shouting]
Girls rule and boys drool.
My house is so small
and it can be really crazy and chaotic.
[children chattering]
[Deon] That really is annoying.
It just feels like the walls are closing in.
That's where I am.
You're just meeting me. That's all.
Girl, you ain't been there.
Karen deserves an apology
because your spouse shouldn't feel the frustrations you're having.
[Karen] I try not to get emotional.
'Cause it's just I want a bigger house.
Yeah.
[man] Let them go explore this house, guys.
[children screaming]
[Karen] We've been looking for a new house
ever since the first set of triplets was born.
I'm just hoping and praying,
this is not another letdown.
[man] Uh, we were outbid by a cash buyer.
-So, we lost the home. -[bleeping]
I'm telling you, you need to make friends.
Maybe you should think about getting your little job or something.
Yeah.
I'm so excited that I'm almost a full-fledged adult.
Okay.
I need to find a life outside my house.
Yay! I'm so excited to work with you.
Thank you. I'm excited too.
My white blood cells are low, very low.
Yep.
[Deon] The cancer is still there,
and I'm going to be a wreck
if anything happens to the mother.
We're currently at the chemo with GG.
The nausea and the pain...
It's all so hard to deal with.
We have not gotten 100%.
[Deon] Oh, my God!
It's like, do I got through with this next treatment or not?
[Deon] My mother's not a quitter.
That's not who she's ever been.
After them damn doctors told you you wouldn't live,
but you're still here to this day
'cause fighting is all you know.
I don't like talking about that.
[man] Rolling...
-Does he sing a little bit? -Who?
[man] What are you doing?
[woman] How old are you?
Four.
[woman] You're four?
We're three.
No, we're four.
We're four years old.
[woman] Hey, wait. No. Dyver, come back!
And... go!
-[indistinct chatter] -Daiten, get him!
Keep the elbows down!
Elbows down!
[all screaming]
Mommy, look. Mommy, look.
What has changed?
Well, I am not pregnant.
I think we're too busy to get busy.
Yeah, well said, Mom. Well said. [chuckles]
[laughing]
-Go! -[laughing]
[Karen] But our babies have gotten bigger.
It's hard to believe that we have our first adult child.
Yeah, I know. That's all right.
This is gonna be light work. Let's go, Daiten. Come on, let's go!
Darian just turned the big 1-8.
So she's been really thinking about the whole college experience.
[Daiten] I need my rematch.
And we are on the verge of a house full of teenage boys.
We gotta...
-Derek is 13, soon to be 14 years old. -Oh!
Wow.
I'm finally a teenager.
I got that swag!
Everything for him is looking good, smelling good,
the young ladies and sports.
Yes, and then the twins are 12.
Dariz, you're my side guy.
Deniko, you're Dariz's side guy?
Who's gonna win this champion?
Y'all can't mess with these guns.
It feels good being 12.
We get to ride on a lot of roller coasters.
I'm a preteen. I'm gonna start acting like a preteen.
[all chuckling]
[indistinct shouting]
Papi!
Come, dance with us!
[sighs] Oh!
[Karen] Our quintuplet girls are 10.
But I promise you, they think that they are 21 years old.
[Deon] Get it, baby! Get it, girls!
Get it, my girls.
I know at some point we're gonna have
three teenage girls in this house at one time.
The thought of it sends my Derrico-CD out the roof.
Girl, we're tweens.
-We know we know, baby. -We're double digits.
[all singing] We know, baby. We know, baby. We know, baby.
[continues indistinctly]
Okay, okay. You can stop. You're rapping.
[chuckles]
[indistinct chatter]
-I got muscles. -Yeah, look at Der's now.
Take his lunch money.
[Deon] The quintuplets boys are definitely going through
that hormonal stage of feeling themselves and liking girls.
Yeah.
I feet ten. Like, I feel... I got tall a little bit.
I started eating more for my strength, boy.
You don't even eat salads. He gets corn dog and chicken burgers.
-No, I don't. -He gets corn dogs and chicken burgers
with a side of french fries.
-[chuckles] -Ooh, ooh, ooh.
He's a good dancer.
Look at this.
[Karen] But we still have some young ones in the house.
-Diez and Dior are six years old. -[laughing]
-[Deon] Dior is our little chatterbox. -[Karen] Mmm-hmm.
[Deon] I mean, one question after another.
Who's the Easter Bunny? I like tap dancing.
[babbling]
What are you talking about?
[Karen] Meanwhile, usually, Diez stays to himself.
[screaming]
[chuckles]
-And the triplets are four. -Four.
My nails come off. Oh, yeah!
[Karen] Dawsyn is still awesome.
But I also think that she's now bossy.
Bossy Dawsyn.
Dyver is our little charmer.
[Deon] All he has to do is look at you and and smile.
He's just... he got you. And he knows it.
[Karen] De'Aren... she will stay on her own.
Like, she would be in the corner going off on the boys,
and she's not calling for any backup. [chuckles]
[Deon] Hit it!
[Karen] Now, our younger children, they get the dancing bug
from me and Derrico.
So, what we decided to do was sign 'em up for tap class later on this week.
I wanna tap dance.
[giggling]
[indistinct shouting]
[continues giggling]
Thank you, girls.
All right, Papi, got to get you all breakfast.
-Who will help me? -I will.
So we have all these growing children
in one small house.
Stop me when I'm lying.
Hey, babies, help, uh... Help Daician set the table over there, okay.
[Karen] So I see somebody not wanting to do no dishes today.
[Deon] Baby, the dishwasher is broken.
-No big deal. -It is a big deal!
For what we're dealing with, it's a very big deal.
It's just another thing
on our to-do list
still here in this house. Ugh!
Don't let this get your panties in a bunch. Respectfully.
I wear thongs. [chuckling] So, they don't get in a bunch.
[both chuckling]
Yes, we've been in this small house for over five years now,
and it's causing more and more tension between Karen and I.
But I'm sitting on a huge surprise
that will absolutely solve all of our problems.
Let's just say it will make her very happy,
unless it ain't handled right.
But seriously, I don't want you to get off of...
-I know. -...where we are
-It just, really and truly... It really burns me up. -[Deon] I know.
We have a couple of little challenges.
It's too small. The babies are getting bigger.
-The dishwasher is broken. -[sighing] Gosh!
[Deon] And we don't have the house that we want yet,
but it's going, baby.
I mean, I'm still looking. It's not...
You know I always got a plan. Trust me.
[kid screaming] Hot potato!
-Hot potato. -[man] Okay, here.
You wanna play hot potato with us?
Yeah, we gotta keep it going.
-Hot potato, hot potato. -[chuckling]
Last year I was adopted into the family.
I would never imagine it was gonna be so emotional for me...
Give it to Dawsyn.
...because it is a lot different
than someone just calling you family.
It's official. You're one of us. You're a Derrico.
So, I love being a big brother to all of the children.
We lost the potato, y'all.
-It's gone potatoes. -[laughing]
[Deon] Look at the bright side.
We have our health.
We're all in one room.
Our baby girl is about to go away to college locally.
What the word are you talking about?
Darian, the oldest one.
Do you realize she's the first person in my family,
to go to college.
I think it's very important for Darian to go to college.
She will be the first person in our immediate family to get a degree.
And I think it's very important that black women
seek a higher education for purposes of being at those men tables.
And I think it's also great for our younger children to witness that.
Right, Darian? You're trying to go to college locally, right?
I mean, I'm looking at some.
We have two nice colleges here.
I mean, really nice.
-Um... -[Deon] Okay, so is it California?
And you're looking at California?
That would still be an adjustment for me, to be honest.
[Karen] I tend to look at this differently.
[Deon] You want her to go off?
Yeah, because I know what it was like for me
becoming a flight attendant.
And I was away.
It was everything for me.
The diversity, the learning different cultures.
All of that did something for me.
I admire you
for being the kind of mother and parent
that you could support her going away.
That's just not me. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
But technically, it really is up to you.
You don't have to listen to Mommy or Papi.
-You don't have to be swayed by either one of us. -Mmm-hmm.
[Deon] Someone's not gonna be satisfied.
I know that.
I just started thinking about going to college,
and I liked the idea of going out of state.
But I also feel pulled to stay local.
This is all I've ever known, and I would miss my family way too much.
Like, I just don't know what I want to do.
[GG] Hey, everybody!
-[Deon] Hey, mother! -GG!
Oh, God! Everybody down here!
-Hi, GG. -Hi.
-[kids] Hi, GG. -Hi, babies.
GG lives about 15 minutes, give or take from where I live.
And I've always been active in my mother's life.
But now in, you know, her more mature years.
I've taken on an even bigger responsibility,
-Oh. Hey, bubba. -GG.
[Deon] It's been two years since GG started chemo battling the lung cancer.
And treatment has gone well. Thank God.
So today, I'm taking her to her follow up appointment
just to see how this last round of chemo went.
What y'all having down here?
Family meeting?
[Deon] No, we're just talking about Darian going to the local college.
-What? -[Deon] Just talking. Um...
She's already chosen then?
Well, just... I know it's gonna be local.
But I thought maybe it was her decision.
I hope nobody is trying to pressure her,
'cause if somebody tries to get in her way,
they better watch out.
-I'll tai-chi 'em. -[Karen] Exactly.
-[chuckles] -Darian wants to please her parents,
but those two, both have their own thoughts
on what she should be doing.
So, Darian needs to channel her ener-GG,
and make her own decisions.
All right, guys, we need to go.
-[kid] Where are you going? -Non-ya.
-What is that? -Non-ya business.
Oh!
-[chuckles] -[kid] I wanna go.
-[Deon] All right, you ready? -[GG] I'm ready.
-You're ready? You're ready? You're ready? -Yes.
GG had a CAT scan done a couple of days ago,
so we're here to get the results
and discuss her future treatment options.
Hey, Zack.
2 for review.
How you doing? Good.
Good seeing you, Dad. Good.
How you've been doing?
I've been doing really good.
[Dr. Parikh] Okay, been feeling better?
[GG] I have.
You have this little break from chemo
-for like a month and a half. -Yes.
So what am I looking like?
You had a picture done for me a couple days ago.
-I did? -Yeah.
So that picture looked better.
Nothing new, nothing grew and it's smaller.
-[Deon] That's a win. -[gasps and laughs]
[GG] Thank you, Jesus. [exhales]
-[Deon] That's a win. -Oh, I receive it.
Oh, wow, the relief that I feel.
Nothing grew, nothing new and it's shrunk...
Hallelujah.
That's good news. Right?
-Yes. -Yeah, it's not gone.
So decisions now going forward is,
do we modify the treatment
to lower doses more weeks apart,
Is it worth what it's buying you in terms of time
versus the quality of life, right?
That's the decision we have to make, right?
So that's your decision, right?
GG always struggles with chemo treatments
because of the way it makes her feel.
And Dr. Parikh is very aware of this
so he's offered her less treatment.
Which is less dosage and we get chance
to keep battling this damn cancer.
So what if I still choose to just go natural
and then I'm given a scan and hypothetically,
things maybe did not get better.
We'd keep watching it.
-Yeah. -Okay. Yep, that is an option.
The flip side. If you get worse,
if it spreads somewhere else and you get weaker,
you may not be strong enough to take more chemo.
Oh.
[Dr. Parikh] Chemo works better when people are healthier
You're probably in the best shape I've seen you in
in two years, alright?
so you have a difficult choice coming up
in what you want to do.
Dr. Parikh is basically saying
that if my mother does not continue with chemo
and she stops, there's a possibility
that she may hit a wall of a point of no return.
That's been one of my greatest fears.
I still want to try my natural.
-I just still... -Okay, that's fair.
I want to try it and I want to stop the treatment.
Are you okay with what she just said?
[Deon] I am not okay with it.
-I would not stop anything that got us here. -Yeah.
That would be my recommendation.
Yeah, I hear you.
It's hard right now for me to see her side of things.
I just don't see it.
But I'm not winning this argument
and I do want to respect her decision and her choices
for her life.
However, if things change health-wise,
that's a whole other ballgame.
There's some talk.
Some talking we have to do.
[Dr. Parikh] Remember, it's her choice.
So...
Hey, baby, what's going on?
-Hey, what's up? -We preparing for the aliens.
[Karen] No.
This is hoarding.
I don't know how much longer I can maintain this secret.
There's light at the end of the tunnel
and soon she'll know it.
All right, be careful.
[children exclaiming]
Stay over there playing.
I am so over this house.
Like, nothing in here seems to work.
The walls are closing in.
-It's not the end of the world. -You may...
-I just done. -But, Karen.
-Rico, I am just over it. -There's a lot of us in this house.
I definitely feel like I'm suffocating.
Do you think maybe you will maybe consider
trying the chemo in conjunction with your natural?
[GG] Derrick is such a wonderful son.
I really don't know what I would have done without him.
But what I need for my family right now
is positivity and understanding.
And I don't want him to worry.
Derrick, the chemo has gotten me to this point.
But now I'm ready to try something else.
If it's stopped, then I think of something else.
Maybe it'll be the chemo again.
But, Ma, what if it's too late?
-I think that's my bigger issue. -Well, hey.
If it's too late, it wasn't meant for me.
Ma, that's not even fair.
It's fair to me.
The way the chemo makes you feel
is a short-term thing for the overall goal.
Here's the deal.
What's short-term for you is an eternity for me.
That is what I don't really think you understand.
And during those times,
I actually feel like I'm gonna die.
I trust in what I'm doing.
Hook, line, and sinker.
I really do.
[Deon] Yeah, I don't understand it.
And it's a hard position for me
because I just want to feel like I've exhausted
every single thing, no matter which way you go.
Well, consider yourself exhausted.
Because at the end of the day, this is my life.
It's my health.
It's my journey.
Okay.
I don't like it, but the way you put that,
I hear you.
Okay.
I hear you.
I don't like this at all.
I think we need to keep fighting this
with everything we got.
So I will respect her decision,
and I will give her space.
But I will be watching her.
And at the first sign of trouble, we got to talk.
I don't want you and I at odds
because this is not the time for that.
-This is the time for us to bring it home. -No.
-That's right. -Bring home the NED.
[GG] Bring home the NED.
No Evidence of Disease.
[children screaming]
Our house is loud. It's crowded.
[kid] WWE Championship!
[indistinct chatter]
We all are fighting to get our toothbrush
to fight to take a shower,
fight to get in the bathroom.
You know how much of a struggle that is?
[laughing]
[Denver] It's beyond loud.
When you go to the movie theater and the music...
Doo, doo, doo.
And it's like it's really banging inside your ears.
That's how loud we are.
[shouts] I think they're loud!
Yeah, right there. Right there.
Yep, that's loud.
Yep, right there.
[children screaming]
Eric, here. Hand me...
So we're going to do the food first.
Any food items?
You know why I'm doing this, right?
Hoarding.
No. [stutters]
How dare you call me a damn hoarder.
I'm preparing for the real aliens.
-The aliens? -[Deon] Yeah.
The government's been talking about it.
And anything they start talking about too much,
you know it's real.
Seriously.
Ever since Rico read an article about aliens being real,
it sent the Derrico OCD into hyper drive.
And it was already bad before.
Now it's like on steroids.
This way, if something happens,
my job is making sure we have enough of everything
for 18 people. That's a lot of people.
You telling me you don't believe in aliens?
No, it's something out there.
I just don't know how they look.
First of all, aliens are real.
Any more food over there?
Recently, the government confirmed that there are aliens.
So when and if they arrive,
I want to think that I'm ready.
If we teammates, let's do it.
And if we fighting, let's do it.
I mean, however it go down, I want to be ready.
All right, if we're gonna hoard for the aliens,
we're going to need more space than this.
More like a bunker.
[Deon] Right. I know this is excessive.
But the reason why I'm gathering all this right now
is because you know I got the house.
This is a part of our moving.
Everything in this garage is going to the other house.
But Karen doesn't know yet.
So I've got to start creating the, um,
the language, if you will,
so she will go along with it.
Oh, this is an overlay for your underplay?
My overlay for the underplay.
But I really do believe in doing this anyway.
Our journey to find a new house has been an uphill battle.
It's like I've gotten my hopes up so many times
to only just be let down.
Well, that's why you got me.
That's why you got me.
So, here it is.
Eric, I don't know what to do.
Every time there's a house that we've been interested in, it doesn't pan out.
I've been trying to secure this one particular house for us for some time now,
but it just recently became available.
Finally, it's all ours.
Thank God.
Thank God, that's all I can say.
I do not want her to know or have an inkling.
Yeah, we never had this discussion.
Now, I'm paying two mortgages.
Karen don't even know I have this house yet.
But it needs a lot of work in order for it to be livable.
We got to remediate the mold in the bathroom,
still gotta do hardwood floors in the dining room,
carpet in the living room, of course, painting.
Right now, there's trash everywhere.
I want that house to look like it's brand spanking new.
Yeah, I got that.
[Deon] It's important that it looks perfect
because Lord only knows how she's gonna react.
Well, we moved here when Diez and Dior were babies.
-[Eric] Yeah. -[Deon] But it feels like five new.
Five new rolls of toilet paper?
Yeah.
-Hey, baby, what's going on? -Hey, what's up?
We're preparing for the aliens.
[Karen] No.
This is hoarding.
-Yes. -[Eric chuckles]
-Baby, I gotta get ready for alien invasion. -[Eric chuckles]
[Karen] There ain't no aliens here, boy.
[sighs]
Yeah, I'm going in the house.
And you're sitting there laughing?
Derrico's obsession with these aliens is like
mind blown, to be honest.
It's like, "Really, dude?"
He may be prepared for ET's arrival,
but we don't even have the groceries for this week's dinner.
So, I don't have time or space for all of this crap.
Oh, yeah, she mad.
There's light at the end of the tunnel.
I know it, and soon, as she'll know it.
All right, yeah. Be careful.
♪ I'm on perfect Timing, rhyming ♪
♪ Mining diamonds from rough ♪
[Karen] You ready for this?
I cannot believe you got me doing this with 14 children.
Grocery shopping?
So, while Derrico is hoarding doomsday products
for the upcoming alien invasion,
he did not get anything practical for the kitchen.
So today, we all are gonna go to the grocery store
so I can teach him how to stay focused on the grocery list.
[Deon] Hey, babies, listen, don't forget,
-we're doing the buddy system. -[Karen] Yes.
All right? Let's go.
With a family of 16,
it is important that we have a buddy system.
-[Karen] Mm-hmm. -So, we have our older children
responsible for taking care of the younger ones,
and that no child gets left behind.
[Karen] How many shopping carts do I think we're gonna need?
-Forty. -[Karen] Me and the girls will take two,
you and the boys, take two.
I got the first page. You and the boys get the last two pages.
-"Pages?" -[Karen] "Pages."
Oh, my God.
The difference between the average family and my family
going grocery shopping is the budget is a lot bigger.
-I want apples. -Oh, apples? Okay.
[Deon] We go through an excessive amount of product daily.
So what do we need? A big bag of rice...
What? What is that?
[Denver] We're out of noodles.
We're buying in bulk all the time.
[employee] How many kids do you have?
-[Deon] Fourteen. -[employee] Fourteen?
That's what I'm talking about.
We have to buy things in multiples.
[Deon] You know, they're addicted to the noodles. Really?
Yeah, y'all don't have any room for real food.
A lot of people, they're like, "Oh, you're having a birthday party?"
We're like, "No, this right here is dinner."
Y'all see anything else from my list over there?
-Mommy, can we get pickle, please, please, please? -I want the pickles, Mommy.
No, we're not doing the pickle.
-Please, please, please? -Please, Mommy?
I always wanna...
-Fine, get a pickle. That's not on my list. -Yay!
You would think that as your children get older,
things that you do becomes easier.
Not with our family's size.
[Deniko] Hey, do you want one too?
[Karen] We've only recently started taking the triplets to the store
now that they're walking all about and stuff,
and their little selves got the nerve to have desires and wants.
What is this y'all putting in here?
-Um-- -[Dawsyn] That's De'Aren.
[Karen] That's De'Aren?
And when they say, "Oh, I want that,"
you can't just look at them and say, "Oh, no, we got that at home."
No, we don't.
[Deon] Man, they're stocking up on goodies.
Y'all gotta find at least one healthy food.
[Dallas] With the spicy ones.
[Eric] Yeah, we're gonna starve, or get diabetes.
-We went to grocery store. -Yeah, that was fun. There was so many grocery.
[Eric] Dior, what is y'all doing?
-Babies gone wild in aisle two. -[Dior] I'm sorry!
[Eric] Then help me!
-Do you like cheese? -You like cheese.
I don't, you do. I don't, you do.
It's good. Mommy always [hiccups] says--
Oh. [mimicking hiccups]
-[both chuckle] -No, I got 'em.
You have to taste cheese.
What? I didn't have cheese in my life.
-[Denver] Hey, Papi, look. -[Deon] What is it?
-Shaves. Razors, for my-- -Razors for what?
[Denver] For my beard.
[Deon] Denver, you don't even have hair on your face.
-How will you do that? -[Denver] Dallas does.
Of our eight boys,
five of them are either starting puberty
-or on the verge of starting it. -Mmm.
-I'll take this one right there. -[Deon] Denver.
They have so many questions,
we can't allow no question to go unanswered
'cause that could lead to other things.
You're not about to get no razor blades. Let's go.
This shaving cream right there?
No, we-- Listen, we're here to buy our food.
I just thank God that we still have a minute
-before Dior and Diez and Dyver gets to the point... -[chuckles] Oh, Lord.
...of talking about some puberty.
That one.
-[Dawsyn] Boys! -I wanna see, make sure you got every single thing.
Oh, my gosh!
Hold on. Half of this stuff wasn't even on the list.
[Deon] Talk to your sons.
We don't have enough room in this house, Derrico, for all of this today.
Yeah, Papi!
[Deon] With every passing day,
I can see Karen's stress is rising over this house.
I don't know how much longer I can maintain
this secret before she explodes.
-Hello. -[casher] How you doing?
Did you find everything you needed?
Yes, and then some.
[indistinct conversation]
But we did get them out of the house.
-So, $726.43. -[Deon] Oh, my God!
-How do you sleep at night knowing you charging this? -[laughing]
Yeah, our children burned off energy
while also burning off our money.
My God, this is a lot of groceries. Watch where you're going.
[Karen] Oh, it better last us for a month, with all of them.
[Deon] Girl, a month?
-We'd be lucky if we get by a week. -[Karen snickers]
[GG] What's your name?
-I'm a Derrico. -Yes, you're a Derrico.
-What's your name? -[Dawsyn laughs]
-De'Aren. -What's your last name?
-[De'Aren] Derrico. -What's your name?
Dyver Derrico.
[GG] All right. Give me some.
GG said, "Give me some."
[all laughing]
I love GG.
GG is my best friend.
GG is my best friend!
-No, it's mine! -It's mine!
And my sister!
All right, sis, what you up to?
Just looking at colleges.
Oh, what you wanna take is what?
Music what, which is like vocal performance or film and television.
I did a summer program at NYU for dramatic writing in television and film,
and it was amazing being on my own
and getting a taste of what adulthood would be like.
I loved it.
And they have a vocal performance program that looks incredible,
but if I apply, it would mean going to New York and auditioning.
So, I'm just kinda looking at their curriculums and just weighing my options.
I just go back and forth a lot.
Like, do I wanna stay here, or do I wanna go far.
Does Papi know you're looking at schools on East Coast?
No, I know how Papi is about, you know, being close to your family.
It's gonna probably be hard for him.
I understand how Papi feels,
but I also get Mommy's point, too.
Because this is a chance to really explore who is Darian
when she's not around her family.
It's just a lot that I have to think about.
Just because you're 18,
that don't mean you have all the answers.
-Mm-hmm. -[GG] You know, I didn't have the opportunity
to go to college.
I didn't even finish high school.
But I would love, love to be able to relive my life
and be faced with some of these opportunities you're faced with.
-Mm-hmm. -[GG] Oh, yeah.
Back when I was growing up, black women didn't have a lot of opportunities.
But if I had have had the opportunity at 18,
I would have told my 18-year-old self,
"You better seize the moment, baby."
I would have did more with my life.
I know Deon doesn't want his little girl to go away
if it's not what she really wants.
But if it's what she really wants,
they need to step aside and let her do her thing.
Darian, you would be the first one in this family to get a college degree.
That is just wonderful.
But ultimately, I want for you what you want for you.
-Okay. -[GG] Whatever that is.
[Darian] I feel pressured to make the right decision
when it comes to college.
I don't wanna disappoint anyone,
but at the same time, I have to do what's right for me.
And right now, I don't even know what that is.
-Girls and boys, take notes from your big sister. -[Darian chuckles]
She's going places and she's doing things.
Look at Dawsyn.
We're gonna put our toes in the front.
-Oh, one, two, three. -[Darian] No, Dawsyn.
[Karen] When your children are young,
that's when you start nurturing the things that they wanna do.
Good job.
I have two words for you. "East Coast."
-I'm for going away. -Yeah.
It's hard feeling that pull from all directions.
I don't want Papi to feel the type of way if I leave.
As far as Papi, he's not gonna pressure you, I promise you.
All right, we're gonna do some tap dancing today!
When your children are young, that's when you begin to start
fostering and nurturing the things that they wanna do.
And now that they're showing the interest
in our family's love of dance, I signed them up for tap.
Say hi!
Got a whole crowd. Come on in, you guys. [laughs]
I'm just in shock.
I can't believe they're all her children.
I can't believe she has that many.
Classes definitely run different when you have siblings in a class.
Sometimes, it does turn into chaos, yeah.
But I'm sure their house is chaotic all the time.
Okay, we have a magic number in dance.
The number is eight.
Do you guys know how to count to eight?
-Yes. -Eight.
-[instructor] One, two... -[children] Two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight,
-nine-- -[instructor] No!
No! Only to eight.
-[laughs] -[instructor] Eight. Let's try again. Ready?
We're gonna put our toes in the front.
And we're gonna tap our toe eight times.
Ready? We go.
-Oh, one, two, three, four-- -[Darian] No, Dawsyn.
-Just one, though. Just one, though. -[Karen] Dawsyn.
Can you do that?
Oh, yeah, you can. All right, step together.
You could be the best tap dancer.
And you... [groans]
Seven, eight.
Oh, no! That was nine again!
Don't you know how to stop?
[instructor] It's hard to stop on eight, isn't it?
All right. Should we learn a little tap dance?
-[all] Yes! -Yes?
Yes!
-I'm the baddest dancer in the whole world. -I can do this.
-No. -Yes, I can.
Can you do this?
No!
Hands on our hips.
Smiles on our lips.
-Don't throw a fit. -[chuckles]
[instructor] Okay. [chuckles] Ready?
We're gonna take our right foot,
and we're gonna do one toe.
-Toe. -Toe.
Then we're gonna step together.
Then we're gonna jump big "X."
Then we're gonna jump in.
And then we're gonna shake our arm down.
Nice.
How many heels do you think I'm gonna do?
-Eight. -[children] Eight!
You guys are really good at this dance stuff.
I think that the children are having an amazing time.
There's a couple of them,
yeah, they really wanna do this.
I think we found our little Gregory Hines and Paula Abdul.
-[instructor] One. -[Dawsyn] Two.
-Look at Dawsyn. -[Dawsyn] Two.
[instructor] Three!
[Karen] Can you believe that you were once all of their ages?
-Yes, I can. -[Karen] You were--
And now you're out here looking at different colleges.
[chuckles]
Because Darian was our only child for four-and-a-half years,
we have that bond.
I've been her biggest cheerleader since the day she was born.
So now that she's grown, I want her to go out
and have her own adventures, just like I did.
[instructor] Hands on your hips.
I have two words for you, "East Coast."
I'm for going away.
I just don't really see you being around here in Vegas.
It's like, why can't I just multiply myself
and do everything that Darian wants to do?
Like, why can't one Darien stay here,
and then one Darian going to New York,
and then one Darien explore the world,
then one Darien and do this and that and that.
That's... that's part of growing up, making a decision.
-Yeah. -[Karen] But I'm for it
because I know what it did for me.
I was from a small town,
I had never been around so many different cultures,
and I wasn't just living in this bubble.
When I moved away from home, I was 18 as well.
I became a flight attendant,
and I wouldn't be where I am right now without that.
It really and truly opens up your mind.
So I really want her to have that experience.
The fact that you know what you wanna do,
you know you want to say, that's a big, huge step.
You know, so you just... you just go for it.
Go to a school that gives you the talent and experience to help you explore that.
So just go ahead and apply.
There's no harm in you exploring all of your options.
Yeah, I guess so.
It's hard feeling that pull from all directions,
and I don't want Papi to feel the type of way if I leave,
but it can't hurt to give it a shot.
Okay, I'll send in my NYU application.
I just don't know what Papi's gonna think, you know?
He's not gonna pressure you, I promise you.
'Cause ultimately, we want what's... what's gonna make you happy.
Yeah.
Just remember, the worst dream is the one not lived.
[indistinct conversation]
[indistinct shouting and exclaiming]
[Karen] Girls, y'all are in my way.
-Stay over there playing. -[indistinct conversation]
I am so over this house.
We're all crammed inside.
I have no alone time.
The dishwasher don't work.
And now the dryer is suddenly broken.
And I'm constantly wondering what else is going to go wrong.
[indistinct shouting]
Stop! Don't run through the clothes, y'all!
I'm hanging these up to dry.
-[indistinct shouting] -Oh, my God.
-Yeah, oh, my God. What are y'all doing? -[indistinct shouting]
Girls, calm it down. Go over there.
-[indistinct shouting] -What's all of this?
The dryer is out and I have no other place to hang this stuff.
[Deon] Are you kidding me?
[Karen] I'm so done with this.
Like, nothing in here seems to work with-- And the walls are closing in.
I know you're looking for a house,
so don't... don't say that.
I know you are, but it's just, I'm tired.
[indistinct shouting]
[Deon] Well, baby, just calm down.
I mean, you know, it's not the end of the world.
I know Karen is super frustrated with this situation.
But this house is a disaster zone.
It's just not ready for her to see it.
I just need her to hang on a little longer.
I just feel as though anything that I ask for, nothing is done now.
I'm tired of waiting.
-It's not the end of the world. -[Karen] You make--
-You act like you never had no breakdown before. -[Karen] No.
-Things breakdown. -I have had things breakdown,
but the difference is I didn't have 14 children
-when things broke down. -[Deon] No, that's-- Listen.
There's 17 people in this house,
so things are gonna break down a lot faster.
-I'm just done. -[Deon] Look, Karen--
-Derrico. -There's a lot of us in this house.
[Karen] I am just over it.
Home schooling in here, stuff falling apart.
I need a minute.
Between the dishwasher, the dryer,
the children running around,
it just feels like the walls are, like, closing in.
I definitely feel like I'm suffocating.
-[Deon] Hey, Eric. -[Eric] Yes?
I gotta go check on Karen.
-Okay. -[Deon] I'll be right back.
To see my wife go through this, it is time up.
You can't do it any more at this house.
The house is too small.
You know, it's a gut punch because I have a solution.
I just can't tell her I have a house.
But if she see the house right now and it's not finished,
it's almost like I'm presenting her with another problem.
What's going on?
I am mentally beat.
[sniffles]
I don't like feeling like I'm defeated.
I feel like things that I've been working toward,
you know, it just...
they're just not going through the way I want.
Like, you know, by this time, we figured
that it'd definitely be in a bigger house.
-It wouldn't have taken this long. -Right.
You know, it's not so much the dishwasher or the dryer.
It's the fact that it's happening back to back,
-all at one time. -Mm-hmm.
[Karen] And I know it's small, but it's like,
I'm just mentally drained.
Life keeps going on. The children are growing up,
and yet, I feel stuck. You know, like stuck in this same small house
year after year.
I don't wanna feel hopeless, but I can't help it.
God, I've been through too much to have to keep waiting.
That's how I feel.
[crying] It's like...
[sniffles]
why can't we [sniffles] find what we need, and yeah...
[sniffles] I'm done.
I'm really and truly, I'm done.
I feel that, too.
-[Karen] Just-- -You hit me in the gut with that one.
I'm just tired of it.
I have kept this house a secret
because it's just not finished.
But talking to her right now, she's clearly distraught,
and my fear is am I doing more harm
than good by allowing her to go down
this emotional roller coaster without an end in sight.
That's the biggest problem.
Just seeing you, watching you express yourself like this...
-[chuckles] -[Deon] ...this is a lot. No, seriously, this is a lot.
I think I would like to, um...
-[Karen sniffles] -I think I would like to take you out.
[sighs]
You shouldn't be where you are emotionally.
I get it.
I appreciate it. It's just so much.
How long will it take for you to change?
[sniffles] You won't know. Now that I don't wet my makeup.
[both laugh]
-Let's hit the road. -[Karen] Mm-hmm.
[Deon] You know, I don't wanna show her the house before it's ready,
but I also know when a person is where she is...
they have to be given a lifeline.
I feel like the lifeline right now is to tell her about this house
and change her whole mental perspective.
She needs that glimmer of hope,
and she needs it right now.
[Karen] Where in the world are we going?
We'll just pretend like this was our first date.
-And-- -And I lived in Detroit
-and didn't know where we were going anyway. [laughs] -[Deon] Yeah.
Just live in the moment of knowing...
-[Karen] Okay. -...that it's just you and I.
-Okay. -We have no babies to tend to.
[chuckles]
-I really do appreciate you doing this. -Right.
You deserve this, you really do.
This is a gamble.
You know, revealing it to her right now is a gamble
because there's quite a bit of work that needs to be done.
It looks gloomy, it hasn't been painted,
we need carpeting. The list goes on and on.
So it could definitely add a great deal of stress.
And I don't want to put her in a situation
where she's even more stressed out than she is right now.
Karen, I need you to cover your eyes.
-[Karen] I'm not looking. -[Deon] Okay.
You're not looking.
I have already sunk a lot of time and money
into this house without her knowing.
So I'm hoping that Karen will be able
to see beyond the mess, see beyond the construction, and see the potential.
Okay, so stand still, don't move.
Because right now, we're at the point of no return.
-Okay, so you ready? -Yeah.
[Deon] All right, you can open your eyes up.
Alright, baby, let's go skiing.
[all] This season on Doubling Down With the Derricos...
I'm living my best life.
I'm hoping that this ski trip
will take our minds off of everything,
[children screaming]
but on the other hand, Black people don't ski.
Mnh-mnh.
Oh [bleep]
[grunts] [bleep]
Deonee.
Our girls are becoming a little handful.
Boys!
-We out! -Bye!
And these boys are girl crazy.
[shouting indistinctly]
[Karen] That's right.
Welcome home.
[cheering]
We got a new house.
It's so big, it's huge!
This house is big, big, big!
There's a lot we gotta get done.
[saw whirring]
Okay, is it on?
Nope.
I go from one problem right into another one.
I just expected a lot more.
I feel like we're at ground zero.
I really think it's time that we tell the children.
That's gonna be a hard conversation.
I've decided to stop doing my chemotherapy.
I cannot make my mother do what I feel is best for her.
I'm auditioning for NYU!
[cheering]
This is an opportunity that not a lot of people have.
I see the light.
Darian Derrico.
I feel like mommy wants it more than I do.
Okay.
I'm actually a little pissed off
about how Karen's role in this whole thing has been.
This is a big opportunity.
I want her to live her own damn life, period.
I need you to be my right hand on this.
And I need you to be my right hand.
Okay, I'm done.
So you're so passionate, now you're done?
What part of the game is this?
So now you walking out?
Really?
I mean, everybody has a breaking point.
She's hurt.
Karen, what happened?
Karen, what's wrong?