[dramatic music]
- What's going on?
- I know it.
A returning citizen named Jovan will be staying at my house
until he gets on his feet.
I was introduced to Jovan through a mutual friend of ours
who's locked up in the same prison Jovan was in.
- So, you are getting out tomorrow,
you think you're gonna sleep tonight?
[both laughing]
- I do understand what he's going through,
cause I've lived it.
I have been to prison one time.
My fear is that he'll go back out in the streets,
that would be the ultimate let down.
- [Man] Well, when is he supposed to show up?
- The whole thing's got me concerned.
- [Automated Voice] Please leave your message for [beep].
- Darquavion was a patient of mine
at the psychiatric hospital.
- Last Darquavion I saw was a really well intended fella.
I have to believe that some form of that guy's
gonna be here, but who knows.
- Outta there huh? Boy!
In this situation, I'm walking into it rather blindly.
We shall see.
- I only know Bill from the time
that I've been writing to him
through a prison pen pal program.
- She's gonna go pick him up.
- By herself? - Yeah.
What I really wanna say is,
what in the world are they doing?
- He was in for burglary,
high speed fleeing and evading the police.
We'll have to go over the rules with you,
you know, when we get here.
We live in a Christian home
so anything like nudity or pornography,
nothing like that is allowed.
- I have to pick up William [beep],
he's being released today.
Oh my goodness.
- I'm worried that our house could be really disrespected.
I have low expectations that this will succeed.
- Is it him?
I'm very excited.
Bill and I, we just built a really good relationship,
a really good friendship
through writing letters back and forth,
and I'm anxious to meet him.
After all these years! Hi Bill.
- Hi.
I've been waiting forever,
I didn't think you were ever coming out.
I've been here like three hours.
- Oh, I've been here like 18 years.
- Oh, okay.
- I'm feeling like I could fly.
It feels surreal, just completely overwhelming.
The first thing I want to do right now
is get as far away from this prison as possible
and just put this in the rear view mirror permanently.
- Onto better things.
- Yes, free at last.
I feel an incredible feeling of optimism and joy
that after 18 years, massive chunk of my life gone,
I am finally free.
I'm just extraordinarily grateful for Mark and Sharna
that they opened their home to me.
It's very humbling,
the trust that they've put in me and doing that,
and that's more of encouragement for me to do
the right thing, and I'm just so grateful for it.
God is good.
[laughing]
I can't believe you have cashews in the car.
- I just had 'em from Sabbath.
I needed some protein,
I just grabbed that out of the cabinet.
- You're kidding me.
You actually have them in the car.
Oh man.
I haven't had one of them in so many years,
it was, I won't say better than sex,
but it was right up there with it.
It was awesome.
I can actually open the window. - [Sharna] Mm hmm.
Control of the window, that's that's no small feat.
I was serving time for burglary, grand theft,
violated that by walking off of work detail.
So for nonviolent charges, I served 18 years.
18 years for a nonviolent crime is a long time,
and in that time I have lost relationship with my kids,
they grew up without me.
There's nobody in my family in touch with me right now.
I've lost my mother, she was mentally ill,
she was told I was dead.
I've lost so much, you know?
I've lost my wonderful muscle bound physique, you know?
So I'm working on that,
but my heart has changed because of the loss and pain.
I don't want to keep adding to that anymore.
- What do you think is gonna be the hardest thing for you
now that you're out and you're free?
Don't have money coming in, are you willing to go out
and get a blue collar job to make money?
- I guess the, the humble answer is yes,
I'll do anything to stay outta prison.
The ego driven answer is, probably not,
I wouldn't want to.
- In the past, Bill made lots of money
by picking locks and breaking into safes,
and stealing jewelry, stealing artwork.
In the past few months, he's talked about, you know,
he wants to get a job where he's making $2,000 a week.
This is unrealistic.
You could do something that's not really heavy,
like you could bag groceries at the grocery store,
they hire people to do that.
Or take orders at taco bell or McDonald's
or something like that, one of the fast food places.
- Umm...
- It may sound a little bit arrogant to say it,
but I don't think I'll be flipping burgers
or working at a steel mill or an RV place.
It's really not for me, the manual labor aspect.
I'm more of a hustler, dreamer,
and I think everything's gonna work out just fine.
Lets say, in the pinch, I'll do whatever it takes,
- Okay. but that's certainly
not my preference.
I worked at McDonald's when I was a kid,
and the only thing I did after I worked for him for a while
was take all the money outta the safes,
go to the next McDonald's and do it again.
They used to call me the Hamburglar,
I hit so many McDonald's restaurants.
[laughing]
- Okay.
I know the things that bill has done
in the past and I can definitely look past them,
because I know he's a different person now.
He has studied his Bible,
given his heart to the Lord,
and he's not the same man he was.
I want him to make the right choices,
but we are very nervous that when he comes here,
he's gonna be very disrespectful and not follow the rules.
I can do my part, and Mark can do his part,
but Bill has choices to make too.
And if he makes the wrong choices,
it's not gonna be successful.
- Dang, I gotta call my PO in 10 minutes.
Tell little thotties I'm home.
To be able to have a phone, not worry about,
this is DQ calling, you have one minute remaining.
Now I could be on the phone for hours.
[phone ringing]
- Hello Carolyn, this is Mr. [beep].
- You want me to FaceTime you?
But I don't know how to FaceTime.
I'm gonna try to figure out right now.
She not answering, man.
So much is changed.
I got an iPhone and I don't even know how to work it.
Crazy, man.
I need you to call my probation officer like right now.
I just talked to her, she told me to FaceTime.
- Is there anybody who has a phone
and they're good at doing FaceTime?
I can't do the visual, my phone won't do it.
- I tried to do it.
- I just tried to do it a couple times.
- I'll try to call her and see what I get.
Hello? This is Dr. [beep].
I'm here, we're downtown.
I just wanna make sure,
well, it needs to be put through on a FaceTime,
is that what you're saying?
Okay.
And then the deadline is four o'clock, okay.
I'll convey this to him right now.
This is kind of important.
He saying I have to talk to my four o'clock.
- Man, I'm trying to do it now.
- Hold on just a second.
If Darquavion screws this up, he's violating his parole.
That'll be one of the worst mistakes he can make.
He can go back to prison easily, today.
She's waiting there for you,
but she said if you're not in by four o'clock,
it's a problem.
It say FaceTime unavailable.
Man, what the [beep].
She's not answering, man.
- This is getting ridiculous.
[tense music]
- Four o'clock, that's a deadline that you got.
If your phone won't work to get her on FaceTime,
somebody else should try to get her on FaceTime.
Man, what the [beep]!
So right at this moment,
Darquavion has to connect to FaceTime,
according to the parole officer.
And all it takes is to violate parole,
for any violation of his probation,
and you're back in prison.
- Say what, Ma'am?
Download what, Ma'am? Google duo?
You don't have Google duo downloaded on that phone??
Man, we gotta call her again.
- Go ahead and try that.
[suspenseful music]
There we go.
- Good afternoon, Ma'am.
- Hi there.
- Yes, ma'am.
- Alright. - [parole officer] Alright.
You mean clean test, test clean, test clean.
- No, I'm just overwhelmed.
Not right now, though.
- You too.
- It went well, I'm straight.
So yeah, I'm happy.
I was able to check in with my PO
and avoided going back to prison.
After all that I have a appetite,
I'm just ready to go eat now.
[gentle music]
[alarm ringing]
- Well, today is the day that Jovan gets outta prison,
and I'm gonna meet his cousin Jay there.
It's like 3:30 in the morning right now,
I'm about to get my shower and get ready
because my Uber will be here at about 4:30.
I'm excited about meeting Jovan for the first time,
with him getting out of prison today.
So, hopefully everything goes smoothly,
what I'm hoping.
[train whistle blowing]
I know people may think I'm a little off
by bringing a returning citizen into my home,
straight out of prison,
but being locked up has given me a different perspective.
- How you doing? Good morning.
- Alright, how are you?
- Okay. - Good.
You Jay? - Yeah, I'm Jay.
How you doing? - Hey, I'm already good.
How you doing, alright? - Good.
I don't consider myself a bad person.
You know, I did a bad thing,
but it doesn't make me a bad person.
You know.
I needed a second chance, I got it,
and I believe other people in there,
they come out and need a second chance too.
- Right now we doing the waiting game.
- Right, right.
- Yeah, we ain't got much longer.
- Mm mm.
- He sounds very sensitive, he really does.
- He sounds fed up, he sound tired.
- Something in they voice - Yup.
is like, I'm tired of this.
- Yeah, he's 40 years old mess.
- Right. - You know what I mean?
See, I think that was a lot of his problem,
he went for easy cause that's easy.
- Yeah, well we all did.
- Yeah, yeah.
I did too, you know what I'm saying?
- Mm hmm, mm hmm. Yeah, yeah.
But I learned, hard is better.
Artie's bringing Jovan to her house
to change his perspective of life.
I thought it was a little bit strange
when I first heard about it.
She's actually putting her neck on the line for him,
you know what I mean?
- I do believe that he's going to try
to make a difference this time.
- I do too. - Yeah.
Jovan has sold weed, Jovan has sold coke,
Jovan has sold heroin.
Previous times when I've talked to him
doing his bits or whatever,
he seemed like he wanted to go back
and live his life the way he was living it.
Hopefully we make him turn the wrong turns
to right turns, you know?
- I would say this,
if he starts to like a display a antsy attitude-
- Mm hmm. Oh, okay. - You know what I mean?
- Okay.
- You know, he like money. - Yeah, I know.
- You know what I mean. But see, if he get antsy-
- Uh huh.
- It's on, yeah. - It's on.
[laughing]
- He's real good.
If you start messing up, you got to go.
- Yeah.
That's real though, I respect that.
- Oh yeah.
- If he decides to go back out in those streets
and start hustling again, that'll be on him.
It won't be on me because I know
what I've given in this situation.
He said he gets out about what, seven?
- Yeah, between seven to eight.
- Oh, okay.
I'm not just walking into this just with blinders on.
I know there's a chance
that this could just go ape [beep].
My fear is that he'll go back out in the streets.
That would be the ultimate let down,
not just for me, but for himself.
- There he go!
What's up man?
- [Jay] Yeah!
How you doing, man? - Woo!
- Hey baby. - It's been a long time!
- I know, right? - Come here.
I finally get to meet you.
- Yeah, finally.
- Finally, all this time.
- All this time, I'm telling you.
- What's up, Jay? - What's up, man?
- Hey bro.
- I've been hanging in there, man.
I'm glad this day done finally came, man.
- [Jay] Yeah. - [Artie] I know, right?
- My name Jovan,
I just spent three years in Grafton Correctional,
and now I'm free.
Its like a dream come true, man.
Like it was so hard in there,
I just couldn't wait to get free
to get home to my family, you know?
I'm so beat, man.
Hey, I'm just glad they brought you,
this is my first time meeting you and everything.
Oh, man, it a blessing to have friends like you
in a persons corner, man.
- This is who I've been talking to all this time, you know?
It's like, wow, put a face with the voice, you know.
But um, I know I don't know Jovan really well,
except through a friend of mine,
but I don't think I'm being naive.
- I want to, you know, get something to eat.
Get out these clothes.
- [Jay] Okay.
- You know, get down to the business, man.
I'm ready. - Okay.
Y'all cool with that? - Yeah.
- When I told people that I was rolling in somebody's house
that I never met, you know, it was different reactions.
Some people was in awe, some people was doubting.
You know, I was doubting myself,
I couldn't believe it.
But I'm pretty astounded that, you know,
we connected like that and she's actually willing
to help me out.
I see y'all brought some food.
- [Jay] Yeah. - [Artie] Yeah.
- What's this?
- [Jay] I think some chicken in there, man.
- Think we got some chicken.
- Thank you.
This is the best chicken I'm about to have
in three years.
Man, I'm so happy to get the [beep]
out of this damn prison, man.
- [Artie] I know, I'm glad you outta there.
- I'm far, far away from it, I'm not going back.
I've changed my ways, man.
I ain't got it in me no more,
be playing out there in them streets like that,
you know what I'm saying?
Taking these penitentiary chances.
- Jay said that Jovan likes money,
that's why he was so caught up in what he was doing,
and if he becomes really antsy,
then I'll know that he's back on the other side.
So, I will be looking for signs like that in him.
Let me show you your room.
- Okay. - Okay.
- So this is your room. - This is a pretty house.
- Pretty nice house.
- Yeah, there's your bed and everything.
- Oh man, this is nice.
- Yeah, thanks.
This is my room, and bathroom right here,
linen closet.
- Okay.
My first impressions of the crib was, it's a nice place.
It's way better than where I came from.
You know, even though the room was a little small,
it doesn't matter, I don't have to be laying around,
other dudes, looking at them. and [beep]
And they hovering around my bunk area.
I can actually close the door and lay down on my bed,
get a little peace of mind.
I really want this to work, you know what I'm saying?
Because it's gonna be beneficial.
- [Artie] I know you feel good, being out.
- Yeah. I feel good, man.
I'm ready to just get on out and, you know, enjoy life.
- If you wanna make something eat or whatnot.
You wanna drink or something?
Something cold to drink?
- Like right now I really get something I gotta do,
like I said, I got a lot of people I gotta see,
- I thought we was going to talk for a while, you know?
- Yeah, we'll get to it.
We'll talk, we'll talk.
- So now you gonna brush me off, huh?
- I'm not brushing you off,
I'm going to talk to my mom. - Okay.
Like, I haven't seen her in three years.
- Okay, I understand.
- My cousin, he waiting on me, so.
- Okay. - Alright, thank you.
I'll be back later.
- I'm a little disappointed.
I can understand he wants to get out and visit everybody
just coming home, but I thought he would spend
at least a little time with me today.
Maybe a little bit early to expect the worst,
but I got my eyes open, and I'm watching.
[suspenseful music]
- [Sharna] And this is our house.
- Oh, it's beautiful.
- Have you ever lived in a house?
- Of course. - Or always apartments?
Brooklyn's like all apartments, isn't it?
- We have one of the biggest houses in Brooklyn,
I grew up in.
- [Sharna] Oh, okay.
- I was just released from prison after serving 18 years.
I feel like I'm dreaming,
I feel optimistic about the future.
I'm looking forward to my freedom.
For example, just being able to go to a bathroom
with nobody else in there, in peace.
I'm just overjoyed about this.
There's a lot to look forward to.
I've been waiting for this moment for a very long time.
- As of today, I believe I'm 50/50
on wondering whether or not I made the right decision.
Taking an ex-con that we've never met into our home,
I've certainly been very supportive of Sharna's idea.
I'm trying to be optimistic,
and yet I feel it's likely that things may not work out.
- Welcome home.
- Hello.
- Hi.
This is Mark. - Nice to meet you, Bill.
- There's Bill.
- Good to see you.
I'm doing great, how are you doing?
- Hanging in, a long drive.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, thank you for the courtesy
of your hospitality, I appreciate it.
- Well, you're welcome.
- It's very much overwhelming already.
It's going from a surreal negative,
loud, filthy environment to a beautiful, nice,
peaceful, quiet home is a shock to the senses.
- Yeah.
- Is something that I haven't experienced
in many, many years.
- Would you like to take a look around the house?
- Sure.
- So, if you wanna look behind you, we have the family room,
which we've spent about three or four days repainting.
- [Bill] Looks very, very cozy.
- [Mark] Thank you, yeah.
- Meeting Mark for the first time,
my first impression, he was just as polite
and kind as can be,
and welcome home, brother.
And you know, he just treated me
like a long lost family member.
So, that was pretty good.
- This is my room that I'm staying in.
- Yeah, at the moment we're staying in separate bedrooms.
- So, you guys sleeping in different rooms,
cause you are fighting or something?
Or...
- Nope, absolutely not fighting.
Doing great.
Just trying to keep space when we're asleep,
especially when we're on different shifts.
- Okay.
I thought maybe it was part of their religion, you know?
They couldn't sleep together until they, whatever.
It's just really weird.
[laughing]
She exiled herself to the purple room.
- Bill did quickly notice that we were sleeping
in different rooms.
Bill is being just a little nosy,
and he could mind his own business.
Alright, one more room and that's your room, Bill.
I'll let you do the honors.
- Is this it?
- No, that's a closet.
- Wow.
Unbelievable.
- How do you like it, Bill?
- How do you like it?
- Unbelievable.
- You got some friends there in bed with you.
- My daughter used to sleep in this room.
- I feel like I'm being pranked,
but it's better than a prison cell.
I don't care if it was pink in here right now,
I'm going to sleep and enjoying the room.
- Over the last three weeks
we've been remodeling pretty much everywhere
except in my stepdaughter's old room.
Maybe I kind of intentionally left the room the way I did
to test him on how he was gonna react.
Over here, we do have your list of rules.
Bill's house rules.
Look at that.
- Okay.
- Bill, he kept adding more there.
- We kept worrying about you, so we kept adding to the list.
- [Bill] Okay.
- No profanity,
give 10% tithe to God's work,
lights out at 10:00 PM,
non-compliance results in penalties.
- I scarcely know how to respond.
The heck is going on here?
I got a unicorn for a nightlight,
and then the poster sized list of rules
with a freaking rainbow on it.
A little extreme, I hope they're subject to negotiation.
- I don't know about that but...
- Awkward silence.
I get it, I'm under their roof.
I'm a Christian I'm not, probably as strict as they are,
but at the same time, I'm a New York guy, you know?
Forget about it.
Everything's subject to negotiation.
If something comes up, something happens,
I shouldn't be judged.
I think we should put that in the closet
where like all my guests that come over,
don't have to see that embarrass me.
- I don't know about that.
Bill might think these rules are funny,
but I really don't know why he would have a problem
with following any of them,
because this is our house and the rules need to be followed.
- We'll talk with you in the morning, okay?
Good night. - Good night.
Quite a comforting childish, maybe feminine scene
for a guy coming outta prison,
but I'm not allowed to have anybody in the room,
so who's gonna know?
What the hell did I get myself into here?
[upbeat music]
[phone ringing]
- [Sandra] Hello?
- Hey, do you think you could come out here
and gimme a hand with this mattress?
I just pulled up in the driveway.
- [Sandra] Yeah. - Thank you.
- My name's Sandra,
I'm 30 years old and I'm a dental assistant.
- Hi, I'm Kyle, I'm 30 years old
and I'm a union construction worker.
We both live here in St. Charles, Missouri.
We met at a party.
We been together for three and a half years.
Let me go backwards here.
- [Sandra] If I end up falling, I'm gonna be pissed.
- I know when she's pissed off,
and when she's in a good mood,
and when she's happy.
For right now, we'll take the mattress into our bedroom.
- Our home is already small,
I'm not excited at all about having to share
our one little bathroom.
- And we're getting ready to welcome
a returning citizen into our house.
- [Automated Voice] This call is from
a correctional facility.
To accept, press one.
- You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can, and will,
be used against you in a court law.
That is probably gonna be heroin.
- We've got too much in his house,
we need to get rid of stuff.
We're gonna have to downsize some of it.
- I ain't getting rid of my [beep].
- Well, I don't know.
We're gonna have to make some sort of an adjustment.
- Yeah, I get that,
but kind of an inconvenience.
- It's an extreme inconvenience.
I understand why Sandra's not as comfortable.
It's her personal space,
and now someone's being thrown into it.
He doesn't have anywhere else to go,
he doesn't have anybody else to help him.
His dad's passed,
and from I understand is he's kind of burned some bridges
by making some [beep] decisions.
I know he got caught up with a bad drug habit.
- And this is the person you are welcoming into our home?
- We have never met Nick in person,
made the choice to bring Nick here to help
because I knew his father,
who unfortunately passed away about two years ago.
And from my understanding
Nick doesn't have a strong household to go to.
I know his dad was concerned with the path Nick
was going down, but he's not around.
So, out of respect for his father and a friendship,
I want to help him succeed in the best way
that he possibly can.
- I felt like I didn't really have much of a choice,
so I'm just gonna make some sacrifices for Nick and Kyle.
- Me and his dad used go hunting and stuff all together,
his dad taught me everything I knew about hunting.
I know it messed him up when his dad died,
got the phone call his dad died.
- I know Kyle likes to try to give people
the benefit of the doubt, and I do too,
but I've done that before and I've been burned before.
I'm very, very familiar with this song and dance.
I have known too many people
addicted to pain pills and drugs,
and it really makes me nervous that Nick
could potentially bring that energy
into my personal sanctuary here.
Well, I hope he doesn't bring no drama back to our house.
One mix up and he is out, that's it,
one strike policy.
I'm writing a rule board out,
we're gonna stick it on the wall in his room.
This isn't a permanent thing, this isn't a party spot,
this is just somewhere to come lay your head, get a job,
get your [beep] together, and get on down the line.
- Honestly, I didn't think
this was actually going to really happen.
Umm so...
I'm not having like second thoughts,
but I definitely...definitely wonder if this is gonna work.
- I would really appreciate it
if you could please, out of your care for me,
give it your best effort.
[gentle music]
- [waitress] Alright are you ready to order?
- Salad please.
- [waitress] Salad okay. - Thank you.
- [waitress] Want chicken?
- Grilled, please. - Okay.
- Yo, since you've been out, bro, how you feeling?
Like how you feeling with the atmosphere of new world?
Like, how you feeling?
- I don't even know how to feel right now, you know?
Just sucking it all in at the moment, you know?
It's surreal, really is though.
To be right here in this position though,
it's a blessing though, honestly, you know?
- What's your plan, DQ? What you trying to do?
- Man, just be around my family. I've been gone for so long.
I was 17 going on 18 when I met Henry,
and they placed me in a residential treatment facility,
which is where Dr. Henry was residing as a physician.
And my first impression was, man,
this is a cool ass old dude, cool ass old dude.
He asked me what it is that I wanna do in life
and he said, you gonna do great things.
And he said that I made some type of face or something
and he just knew right there, man,
this is a unique individual,
I'm going to do something special for him.
So, with my brother in this process and this transition,
how long are you planning on basically being with him?
- Well, that's a really good question.
I'm glad you're asking because I'm really not your dad,
and he knows that.
But I play a role that is like that.
So, I don't think it will end
because I think it's what it is.
- My opinion is Dr. Henry has read about
a kid like this in a book
and he's trying to see if his test really gonna work.
Like if he puts Darquavion in a good environment,
in a good home, will he be a positive influence in it?
And I can tell him this, you can't want more for Darquavion
than Darquavion wants for himself.
- My plan is to be staying there for six months,
not even that long though, you know,
and get my own spot though.
You know what I'm saying. Right.
- [Maliek] He never had his own life.
- I gotta experience life,
cause if I don't experience life, then how can I ever learn?
- Yeah. - What's your worst fear?
- Truthful? - Mm hmm.
Being anything like my biological father or mother.
Failing.
Were your mother and father in your life?
- Yep.
- See, I ain't had that though.
- No, we didn't have no known cherry picked childhood.
My mom, we really don't have much contact.
but I feel like everybody needs
some type of leader in their life,
because if you don't have no one to look up to,
then you just going to end up in the predicament
that I was in, you know?
You're gonna go to the streets
and you gonna fall in love with the streets,
and you fall in love with the streets
there's only two things coming, death or prison, so.
I'm gonna ask you a question. - Yeah.
- Do you know it's like to be hungry?
- Do I know what it's like to be hungry? Yes.
- No, I mean like hungry, nothing in the fridgerator.
- [Maliek] It's not called hungry, starving.
- Nope.
- That's where we come from.
it doesn't quite help him understand
some of the trauma that, you know, DQ may have that pops up.
You know, you can do all the research you want,
if you ain't never went to bed hungry,
never been in that predicament,
how can you help him if you can't relate?
So, what are you gonna do?
- I just gave up pivotal times in my life,
years, you know what I'm saying?
- [Joe] That's a decade, almost.
- [Maliek] Bro, you ain't got no more time to waste.
- I ain't got time to waste, period.
- It's called [beep] happens.
And not to sound racist or whatever,
but he's white, were black.
You know, he's a doctor.
- Which do you think you notice it more is true in you,
that you follow the rules
or that you tend to make exceptions to the rules?
- It depends on what the rules are though.
You know, the thought is going to be embedded in my head,
like, I know I'm not supposed to do this.
Nobody is going to tell me what to do, but me,
period, you know?
[gentle music]
- I am preparing my home for an inmate.
When all communication stopped,
that made me doubt what I was getting ready to do,
[traffic noise]
[gentle music]
- I don't want this to turn into,
I gotta chase you down to find out where you are
all the time, or like you're a kid, you know?
Cause that's stressful to me, and I don't need any stress.
It put a couple thoughts in my head.
Like, is this going continue to happen?
And, is it worth it to me?
I have a degenerative bone disorder,
I have cervical stenosis.
Okay.
So, I deal with pain every day.
I have severe nerve damage,
I have 14 plates and seven screws in my spine,
I had a hip replacement on my left side,
I get another hip replacement in December.
I may look a little sleepy sometimes,
but I'm watching everything that's going on
and you can't take advantage of a disabled person,
cause it'd come back to haunt you.
Karma is real.
I would've never expected him not to call me.
I do think it's setting a bad precedent so far.
You know, you told me
you tried to get your family to do this for you,
your sister to do that for you,
and blah, blah, blah, while you were incarcerated,
and nobody until you met me, helped him.
I think that's just totally disrespectful,
and I don't take too kindly to being disrespected.
Mm mm. That gets my goat.
Just putting the thought in my head,
like wondering, is it gonna be like this?
Is this how you are when you're out in the free world?
Are you irresponsible, you know?
I want this roommate situation with Jovan to work out.
Still no phone call, no text, no nothing, no Jovan.
- Are any of the rules negotiable?
Why so strict on the pornography and the X-rated movies
if they're not illegal?
- I really don't want you breaking the rules.
- Kind of feel like I'm in prison, again.
- Darquavion, it's your new home.
- What the hell is this?
He's a hoarder.
- I just got outta prison, my first day out.
I got a letter from Robert.
I'm nervous, just a thousand things
are going through my head right now.
- Ready to go get our new roommate?
What up dude? - What's up buddy?
- This is a no strike policy here.
You mess up once, you're out.
- My son, Steven, really doesn't like the idea
of me letting Jovan stay with me.
- I just don't want no outta line nothing, you know?
- I ain't gonna be walking on no egg shells.
I don't think this gonna work.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.