[dramatic music]
- This is Mark. - Very nice to meet you, Bill.
- I was just released from prison after serving 18 years.
- [Mark] We do have your list of rules.
No profanity, no bringing meat into the house.
- [Sharna] We live in a Christian home,
so anything like nudity or pornography,
nothing like that is allowed.
- I feel like I'm being pranked.
Months before my release,
I meet the woman who answered all my prayers.
- How long have you known Mary?
- Not even three months.
- I've known Bill for more than five years.
I did not know about this girlfriend.
- We talk about being engaged.
- Okay.
I want Bill to take accountability
and responsibility,
and I'm just worried that his focus right now is Mary.
- I saw that Darquevion didn't have a safe place to go,
so I just said, "Maybe you should come here."
It's your new home.
You're gonna get settled in.
- Actually I'm about to go to Kalamazoo
and turn up with my brother.
- You'll be back in the morning?
- [Darquevion] Yes, sir.
- Job interview is around 1:30.
- Okay.
I'm gonna be back here 11:00, 11:15, but 12:00.
I might be back here at 12:00 if I'm pushing it.
- What's up, dog?
[man groaning]
Nick was charged with possession of a controlled substance
and he's been incarcerated
for the last two and a half years.
I knew his father.
After his dad passed away, I just feel like it'd
be a good idea to give Nick a second chance.
- Hi, Sandra. - Nice to meet ya.
- I don't know if Kyle fully understands
how hard it is for a drug addict to stay sober.
I hope you learned something while you were here, boy.
If he's not gonna be serious
about the help we're offering him.
- I'm gonna do big things, dude.
- Ball's in your court, dog.
- Then he can pack his [beep] and take it down the line.
[cell door clanking]
[tense music]
[dramatic music]
- So they got your legs and arms, everything.
- Crisscrossed your hands like this,
and they chain you in this little box.
And you're like this.
- I mean, if you wanna relive fantasy,
we probably get you chained back up.
- Doesn't have to feel right. - So you feel at home.
[all chuckling]
- I've been to prison once before and in and out
of county jails numerous times,
little stents here and there.
It feels good to finally have hand sanitizer though.
'Cause they couldn't give us any of this [beep].
'Cause a lot of guys were drinking it and getting like,
they would like take it and they would filter it
and get drunk, I guess, I don't know.
- Oh, it would get you drunk.
- Take a bunch of Kool-Aid and make like-
- [Sandra] Alcohol, yeah.
- Yeah, it'll get you drunk.
- Through my early twenties,
I was doing Percocets and painkillers and different,
you know, and just dabbling with them.
It wasn't like I wanted to use 'em daily,
but then I started using heroin and supporting
that habit took a lot.
I always looked for those fast money opportunities.
No matter what it was, if it was gonna bring money,
I was interested.
You know, at the time, it ended up being meth
and I don't even do meth.
I didn't even know many people that did meth.
I just found an opportunity to buy a lot for cheap.
- So that's what I did.
- One thing I do want to talk to you about
with you coming to stay at the house is you need
to cut out the people, the negative people in your life.
We'll write that on your rule board.
- That's not gonna happen, okay.
- No, yes we are. - No.
I was sitting down and writing a rule list
and doing the assignment like I'm a [beep] kindergartner.
- Yes, you are.
The [beep] you're not, you're in my house. Yes you are.
- [Sandra] What are you saying?
I think it's just kind of silly, man.
- [Kyle] Well, it might be kind of silly, but I think you-
- [Nick] I think you're treating me like I'm a little kid.
- I drove six and a half hours
to pick your ass up from jail,
and the first thing you're gonna do
is tell me you're gonna wipe your ass with my rules?
Well, [beep] you dude.
Talk is cheap.
So until you show me a little bit,
I can give you a little bit more,
more grounds to trust you on this.
We're starting from ground zero here.
So the only way to go up is actions speak louder than words.
So from here out this isn't what I'm asking you.
Rephrase this, I'm not asking you.
I'm telling you.
Ultimately I'm doing this for Nick's dad,
but if I'm not standing for it,
any [beep], if he doesn't like it,
he can go on down the [beep] road.
Find someone else to live with.
This is my house. This is Sandra's house.
This is what we're telling of you.
And this simple thing we're asking of you.
- I am doubtful that Nick is going
to follow all of our house rules.
But if we don't hold to our rules,
then what are we actually helping him with?
If you plan on following the rules-
- It shouldn't be a problem.
- The sheet shouldn't be a problem.
- Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem.
[dramatic music]
- You ready to see your new home, Nicholas?
- [Kyle] You wanna come in and see the house,
we'll get your stuff afterwards.
Why don't you kick your shoes off.
- Now it really seems real.
The car ride, like it was all hitting me on the way.
And then we get here and I actually see
where I'm gonna lay my head for awhile.
And it's a surreal feeling.
- [Sandra] It's not very big, but.
- Turn some of these other lights on.
It's the bathroom.
This is me and Sandra's room here.
Yeah, so this is your room.
Like I said, I got mattress for you right now.
You use this TV.
I got towels and stuff in here,
but I can situate some of that for you.
This is a heater.
- It feels strange right now. I know it'll grow on me,
but my mind's just gotta reset some.
- Yeah, I don't know, are you hungry?
Or you want like,
what could we do to make your night better?
I'm sure you're on cloud nine as it is.
- [Nick] It's been a long-ass day, man.
I'm probably just gonna call it a night.
- Well, I mean whenever, after you take a shower
or something, I'll show you how to turn the TV and stuff on.
It's all pretty easy.
It's a lot to comprehend, a lot to take in all at once.
We're all tired.
I'm sure he's beyond tired.
I'm sure he didn't sleep last night.
- [Nick] You have no idea how good it feels
to use a normal toothbrush.
- Tomorrow's a new day.
Tomorrow's the first start of his journey
to being an adult again and doing
whatever the hell he's got to do
to keep himself on the right track.
- [Nick] Goodnight.
- [Kyle] Get some rest, bud.
We'll talk about the house rules in the morning.
[upbeat music]
- My name is Tiffane.
I'm 28 and I live on the west side of Indianapolis.
I'm an entrepreneur.
I run an online clothing boutique from my home,
but my living situation is gonna change soon because I am
getting a new apartment with a new roommate named Arielle.
Arielle is currently in prison.
[dramatic music]
- [Quinn] Hey, hey.
Come on now.
- [Tiffane] Good morning friend. Finally up?
- [Quinn] Good morning. Yeah I'm up.
- Finally, Sleeping Beauty.
Right now I live in a one bedroom
and my friend Quinn sleeps on the couch.
Quinn's been sleeping here for,
I would say like seven or eight months.
What you got planned for today?
- Go to work, get something to eat,
play some GTA, usual stuff.
- Quinn is very loyal.
I love her to death and that's my best friend.
All right, so you remember what I told you about that girl?
- Who, what girl?
- That girl Arielle, she get out tomorrow.
- From prison?
- Yeah.
Arielle is someone I crossed paths with.
Like we used to be out in the clubs together
around like six, seven years ago.
When I found out from a friend of Ari's
that she was in prison,
it was kind of a wake up call for me
because I could have went down that path.
But instead I chose to focus on my clothing line
and stay out of trouble.
I ended up writing Ari a letter to let her know
that people on the outside were thinking about her.
And we started writing back and forth and we just developed
a really strong friendship while she was in prison.
Just felt like, you know,
she probably had changed a lot over the years,
but I haven't told Quinn all the details of my plan.
So she's about to get out tomorrow.
And once Ari officially moves to Indianapolis
me and her, we're gonna get like a two bedroom together.
- [Quinn] What you gonna do about your lease?
- [Tiffane] I'll sub-lease it to you.
- [Quinn] So like what exactly did she do?
- [Tiffane] Credit card fraud.
- [Quinn] So she destroyed people's lives
by taking their money?
- I mean, I don't think so.
- How do you think she's gonna be when she get out?
- When I talk to her,
she sound like she's ready to do better.
- What about your business?
She got in trouble for fraud.
You don't know this woman.
She could do literally anything.
I don't know much about Arielle.
Seem like she could be manipulative
or some type of con artist.
She's so [beep] smart, she could be conniving.
She could just go into your stuff when you,
when you least expect it.
I see why Tiffane's doing it. She has a really big heart.
She's just too nice.
The risk of being too nice in a situation like this
is that I feel like Ari can take advantage of Tiffane.
- Like...
I don't know, I feel like it's just
like a part of my journey just something else
that I just need to experience.
Of course, like I'm a little nervous
because of her background and I don't know her.
If Arielle was to do something that could fall back on me
or any fraud related charges,
I could lose my clothing business that I work so hard
to create from nothing.
But I mean, it's here, it's happening.
So all I can do is hope for the best.
- I don't understand why you're doing this.
Like, I feel like it's a bad decision, bro.
I ain't even gonna lie to you.
[gentle music]
[paper crinkling]
- That's the air conditioning vent.
I have to put my sandwiches and my meat sandwiches on there
'cause I'm not allowed to use the refrigerator.
[paper crinkling]
This is so ridiculous.
Comparing the Sharna I knew in letters over years
of writing each other
with the Sharna I'm actually living with and know now,
it's like literally like two different people.
I'm going to have to hide my meat
on an air conditioning vent.
Otherwise I go meatless in Elkhart.
They want me to live off corn.
- It didn't take a lot of creativity to figure out
how to store something on an air conditioning vent.
We do it in prison a lot. [chuckles]
When we can find flowing air, we try to put stuff up there.
It's kind of weird to say that,
that it's a bad situation here,
but it's the psychological stuff that's so bad.
Staying in this house in some ways is like prison.
Sharna got branded Warden Sharna,
Warden Sharna by my girl.
And I started to see that.
I was like, babe, why are you saying that?
And then she kept pointing things out
of like, she says you're letting a lot go.
- Right.
- Sharna doesn't change one bit
to accommodate anybody else's feelings or concerns, nothing.
So...
It's ridiculous that I have to come in here.
Make sure she's not around and sit down
and eat on this toilet seat.
Unfortunately, that's what I have to do.
In prison, the cells aren't very big
so a lot of times you do sit on a toilet to have a meal.
It's really disgusting, especially in that environment,
but we do what we have to do
to avoid Warden Sharna, the meat police.
This is textbook prison technique 101,
using toilet paper for everything.
Crude, but you're kind of preconditioned
to use it for everything.
We don't get paper towels in prison.
So...
that's it.
[relaxed music]
- [Henry] They're not here yet.
- [Joe] What time do you need to be at his appointment?
- 1:30, I'm not gonna be able to go.
- [Joe] I'll take him over there.
- Oh, okay. - Here now.
[phone ringing] - Oh, you're calling him?
- Darquevion- - As-salamu alaikum.
- Wa alaikum salaam. I'm at Dr. Henry house,
where are you at?
- [Joe] You said 1:33?
- He's there right now.
- [Joe] All right, that's three minutes. Okay.
We're here waiting on you.
- To not show up on time for an appointment
where he's going to have a opportunity to get a job.
When that's what he's talked about continuously,
"I just want get a job,"
and doesn't let me know why he hasn't shown up on time,
that's very disturbing.
What's going on this morning is damaging my confidence
that this is gonna work out.
[door bangs shut] [car alarm chirps]
You said you were okay
with taking him over to the interview.
- Okay, can you kind of rush? - Yeah.
- We're gonna have to handle the timing problems.
- Gotta understand it though.
- Okay. Well we, we will talk about it.
- All right.
I'm not gonna do anything that gonna put me
in prison forever though.
But I'm gonna have fun though.
- [Henry] I can't go because I've gotta see patients.
How long will this take you?
- Probably like 10 minutes to get dressed real quick.
- [Henry] Okay.
I don't have any restrictions.
- Now, the job you going to, what type of interview?
- He didn't say. Real estate is his main thing.
- Oh, he's an entrepreneur? - Yeah.
- He just gonna see where you gonna place D.Q. at.
- Yeah, he would like to help him if he can.
- Him showing up late is not really a good sign.
- [Henry] Not a great sign.
I can't tell where he stands right now.
- We talked about it.
He said that he wanted to go hang with his friends
and do what he did.
You know, he missed his childhood.
- Yeah.
- [Joe] But now he said he's ready
to put his big boy pants on.
- [Henry] All right. [chuckles]
- D.Q., Darquevion.
With Darquevion not doing what he was supposed to do,
I'm kind of disappointed in him.
Some people won't hire you unless they know
what your situation is because they want to know
who they have in their establishment.
Can I trust you around money, checks, equipment?
Be fresh outta prison,
you got a lot of strikes against you already.
Showing up late, I think it can really sever his chances
of even, you know, getting a job.
- That feel good? - Yeah.
- You gotta apologize to Dr. Henry.
- I do apologize though.
I definitely don't-
- We'll talk about it later.
I'm becoming more concerned about Darquevion's ability
to follow through.
Darquevion has not developed enough along life's road.
At his age, he's behind quite a bit.
That's where the risk can be because there can be
some impulsivity that crosses over.
It's really disruptive.
If Darquevion continues to do this kind of behavior,
I can't continue to be his roommate.
[upbeat music]
- [Tiffane] Oh, she's gonna be so pissed.
[upbeat music]
What's going on?
- Hey, friend.
How you doing?
- [Tiffane] Good. How was your day?
- [Quinn] Pretty good.
- [Tiffane] Oh, can you turn the TV off please?
- [Quinn] Yeah.
What's up?
- It's really just um,
I guess it's not really an easy way to say it.
So you don't remember the situation with Arielle?
- [Quinn] Yeah.
- Okay. So there's been a change of plans.
I did not get that two bedroom apartment.
Now we gonna be living together here.
[dramatic music]
Honestly I feel terrible telling Quinn she has to go.
Like, this is not how I wanted this situation to happen.
I wish I could do something different about it,
but I just can't.
- I feel that's kind of [beep] up, bro.
I was supposed to get the lease.
- I know...
And then all of a sudden you change your mind.
You're staying, she's coming, and I'm out?
Why I gotta get the boot?
- Quinn, it's not like I purposely was like,
"oh yeah, [beep] Quinn."
Like I'm gonna just move Arielle in.
Like it's [beep] up.
- That's damn near how it feel, bro.
How long we known each other?
- [sighs] I understand.
- No, you don't understand.
'Cause now, 'cause all I hear is
I this I that, and Ari this and Ari that.
Now I gotta figure out what the [beep] I'm gonna do.
After 10 years of friendship
and everything we've been through.
And all of a sudden I gotta go.
Like, she's a convicted criminal. This is not okay.
You don't even make sense to me, bro.
You don't even know this girl.
Like I think Ari is manipulating her.
She's forcing her way into Tiffane's life
and Tiffane just doesn't see it.
All I do know is that she's not gonna get over
my best friend.
- I mean, I'm not saying it's not [beep] up, it is.
And I'm sorry.
I didn't mean for it to play out like this.
Like I would never intentionally like put you in that type
of situation.
- Well now I'm in this situation.
[upbeat music]
- This pepperoni was smuggled out of the prison.
I was told it's a house rule
where I couldn't have meat in the house.
Couldn't cook it in the house.
Sharna doesn't like the smell.
It's very annoying to have to sneak around like this,
like a child.
I'm in heaven.
So much heaven.
[phone ringing]
Hey baby girl.
- [Bill] About five foot five on a good day,
five foot six, maybe.
- I'm really excited to see Mary on the FaceTime
it's called, something new to me.
We talk every day sometimes from, you know,
first thing in the mornings, 6:30, 7:00 in the morning,
all the way through 10:00 or 11:00 at night,
I thought I heard somebody outside the door.
- [Mary] I wouldn't be surprised.
- Mary lives in central California.
We met through a friend and we've only ever talked
on the phone and saw a few pictures of her
and I'm looking forward to FaceTime
with her as much as possible
until she moves out here.
I'm just enjoying some pepperoni and ham sandwich.
I mean I'm breaking all the rules today. [chuckles]
- Sharna wasn't too thrilled about a relationship
that I'm in now with Mary
and she's expressed concerns about that.
I wish that Sharna and Mark could be happy for me.
Wanna see these rules?
They got 'em posted on a wall here.
- The penalties? I don't know.
Perhaps 30 lashes or I don't get clean clothes
for a week or something, I don't know.
[knocking on door]
Yeah?
It's locked, hold on Mark.
Hold on babe, Mark's coming in.
- I'm talking to Mary. - Hey.
- I'm talking to Mary.
Hey, say hello to Mark.
- Hello.
- What's going on, bud?
- Oh not much.
Just wondered how you're doing.
Oh, you're eating in your room now, that's not good.
Is it meat?
- Yeah. It's ham, it's pepperoni.
- We don't really do meat in this house, so that's-
- All right, Mary, I gotta figure out
how much time I have to spend
in the penalty box over this one.
I love you, sweetheart.
- Bye, baby.
- To see Mary was
well, it's just disheartening to see him obsessing with her.
And I just wish that he would realize
how fragile his psyche really is.
He just recently released, falling in love
with the first woman that will, you know, talk to him.
And I just really worry that he's gonna get his heart broken
and we're gonna be right in the middle
of cleaning up the mess.
I'm just wondering how this would work with,
you know, how long you've known her.
- I think it's a good situation for both of us.
- Well, I think that we're both really worried
about you because, - I know.
you have this need
for love that we all do.
And if you don't have time to set aside for yourself
and respect yourself enough to realize that you can do this
without anybody, you can get back into society without,
you know, some gal that says she loves you.
- I just wish you and Sharna would get,
take a chance to know her.
Even if it's gotta be forced in the beginning,
I guarantee she'll grow on you and you'll see she's genuine.
- Okay. - So...
- Have good one. - All right, man.
- Goodnight. - Goodnight.
- Thanks bud.
Sick of this living like I'm in prison bull [beep] man.
Coming outta prison,
you know, I haven't been with a woman in 18 years.
Well I know that I'm vulnerable, but I know it's genuine,
my relationship with Mary, and I firmly believe that.
And Mary is who she says she is,
but I have to be very careful because I'm paroled here.
If this doesn't work and Mark and Sharna kick me out,
I'd either end up homeless or back in prison.
I feel like I'm in this massive,
very emotionally painful catch 22.
It is so overwhelming, you just kind of wanna lay down
in bed and get under the covers
and just get away from it all.
Just, just relax.
[dramatic music]
[beep] rules and unicorns. That's not cool.
[beep] the rules.
[upbeat music]
- [Joe] Dr. Henry.
- [Henry] Hey, Darquevion.
- How you doing?
- I'm okay. How's your day been going?
- It's...
I feel like personally,
I feel like what had to do with it was me not being on time.
Like I was supposed to though, you know,
he might not said it though, but you know,
I made a huge mistake not getting a job
and not being aware of the situation
that I had in front of me.
I feel like anybody that's coming home from prison,
you gotta be successful.
Success to me is having credentials,
having your credit score good.
Having your own house, having your own car, a family.
If you don't utilize the tools that you have around you,
you're destined to fail.
Moving forward I know I have to come correct
and do what it is that I need to do
in order to be where I need to be, so.
- What's next?
- Chill, eat, get some sleep, shower.
- I think he done partied out now.
So he's yours to keep at home for now.
- For sure.
- [Joe] Get to those appointments on time and,
and work with him and talk to him.
- All right. - Okay.
- So, good to see ya.
- Okay.
- Salaam Alaikum. - Alaikum Salaam.
- Love ya.
- Yeah. - Alright.
- I went out of my way to set this interview up
to help him and he let me down.
He knows that he's gotta follow probation requirements.
He's gotta get a job.
I'm actually losing confidence in this
roommate situation working out.
So I think that the things I'm gonna say
could come across a little tough.
With the things that have been going on
and the confusions that happened.
- Yeah.
- I found myself at times very disturbed,
irritated, wondering, why is this happening?
- Yeah.
- But before you respond to that,
I'm gonna ask you one question, okay?
So who should be the person who gets toughest
on you about this stuff?
- If somebody was to get tough on me
should be myself though.
I know at the end of the day, I am a man
before anything, you know.
- That's what I wanted to make sure was clear.
You're you're an adult now, technically.
- Absolutely.
Yeah. And you know, and me being late though.
- That wasn't okay.
- No it wasn't okay.
And that's why I'm taking responsibility.
- He's gotta quit behaving this way
and realize he's gotta follow the rules
very carefully for his own future.
Here's what I'm gonna tell you what
I thought was missing on this one.
Empathy.
What do you know empathy to be?
You don't really know what empathy is, that's okay.
Empathy is, I wonder if I was in their body,
what would it feel like to me?
Can you sort of see why there was no empathy on my end?
I thought you were gonna be here a certain time.
We had set this up and then you aren't
and then I can't reach you.
He's talking down to me because he think
that's the way he can teach me though.
But it's about a level of respect.
The bear is going to react, you know,
it's a reaction to every action.
- So if I tell you I'm gonna bug you,
it means you gotta get ready for me to be tough.
[dramatic music]
- Yeah.
[upbeat music]
- Looks like my books arrived.
- Is that gonna be enough books for you?
- I hope, we run out pretty quick, actually.
That would be good.
In prison I wrote a book,
my book's called "Sex and the Serial Killer".
I wrote it under my pseudonym, William Steel.
It is about the wealthiest serial killer
in American history, Robert Durst,
who was an acquaintance of mine dating back to the '80s.
It exposes some of the things he did around me,
bizarre things and his desires that he told me about
and evidence he showed me.
He's killed a lot of people.
Killed his wife, killed a mutual friend
of ours in California, Susan Berman.
But Robert Durst wanted to use my place
in Brooklyn as kind of a getaway.
He was into, you know, call girls or whatever.
You know, he was paying me $500, $1,000,
every time he came over and I started realizing
he was super dangerous.
I wrote the book in prison.
I was writing a book about my life
and he was gonna be maybe a footnote in it.
And all of a sudden there was a lot of publicity about him.
And so that's how I came to write it.
You already have one of these books, don't you?
- No, I didn't like the language.
I couldn't make it past a couple pages.
- Okay.
- I'm a Christian and the words were not anything
I would share with somebody else,
so I threw it in the trash.
Bill had sent me a book after it was released.
Maybe two years ago, it's just full of bad language
and not something that a Christian would wanna read.
I don't expect it to be anything big.
And I just really wish that he would put his focus
on going and getting a job, get a paycheck coming in.
What jobs have you been applying for, real jobs?
You know like where you get a weekly paycheck.
- I have aspirations to write
and pump out as many books as I can.
And I hope you guys could support me at some level.
The only one right now is supporting me is Mary
in a real, you know, meaningful way with these books.
I've been writing Sharna for many years,
but I've gotten to know Mary
for about the last three months.
I met her through the mutual friend while I was in prison.
She supports me in all my projects to a degree I've never
had before in a relationship.
We love each other beyond what I thought was even possible.
I wish the support would be reciprocated
with Mark and Sharna, but it's not.
- [Sharna] So what's happening with you and Mary?
- Everything's wonderful.
And we discussed, you know,
her moving out here and I just wish you would,
you know, let Mary stay here, that would be wonderful.
- Well, that's not a possibility.
Bill's relationship with his girlfriend is very different.
They only met right before he was released,
but he hasn't gotten to know her well.
I feel that Mary is his main focus now.
You know, he's just living here.
He hasn't paid anything toward his bill,
it's accumulating.
Mark and I both wonder like, what is he accomplishing?
You know, we don't know what he's doing.
You know, you're dating and that wouldn't be appropriate.
That would be, um...
you know, not avoiding the appearance of evil.
- Well, it's no evil if two people are in love,
as long as we're not breaking anything that the Bible says
not to do before marriage, perhaps once we're married,
you'd feel more comfortable.
- I just fear that you're gonna marry her
the minute you get a chance and you're not gonna take
the time to spend time with her and see how she really is.
Because I have real concerns about that.
You haven't even met her, you think you're in love.
- There's people that have met on a blind date,
first time, they're married 40 years.
- That is rare.
- So When you meet a woman who stands by you
for eight weeks in prison, doesn't know anything about you
but bad stuff, falls in love with you,
I know it's meant to be.
I'm trying to balance everything in my life to succeed.
And I would think you'd want that happiness for me.
The alternative is move.
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- You have money to move?
- No, but I'm good at figuring things out.
And you know, maybe I can get help
with my friends for something like that,
to get on my feet.
You know, I'm a survivor, you know, I'll survive.
Now, I don't want to come across as being ungrateful
for their hospitality to take me in.
But I think the power dynamic has shifted.
Almost immediately when I got there
with all these strict rules and Sharna,
knowing that for me to really rebel against them
in any serious way, might put me in violation with parole,
which I'm not trying to do.
I feel very much under her thumb.
- I really hope God can bless our spirits
so we can kinda unite more closely.
- Amen to that.
[light music]
- Have you decided what you wanna do for dinner, Sandra?
- Yeah, I think we're gonna make some baked tortellini.
- I'd love that.
My first night staying at Kyle and Sandra's
was pretty overwhelming.
New house, new environment, new mattress.
Mattress feels, it's much better than a state mat.
- All right, so I know you don't wanna do this [beep],
but I think we should write these rules out.
- Here we go.
- Hey, you're gonna live in the house,
something we're all gonna do.
- I can respect a home and their verbal directions,
you know, I don't see why we need to write 'em
and it made me feel kind of like
I was being treated as a kid.
- We'll have you look over it.
I mean, if there's something
you really strongly disagree with,
we can talk about it, but it's something we're gonna do.
You're just gonna have to tough it up.
I'm willing to make sacrifice for you, clearly,
I've made this for you.
So just respect us on these few things.
When Nick was in his heroin addiction,
he was in it pretty hard.
I'm scared that now when he is out on his free reign,
that he's going to be tempted to want to go
back down that road.
I think first and foremost,
the most important rule in this entire situation
is gonna be no drugs.
- There will be a no tolerance policy with that.
- I know people change,
but ultimately no drugs in this house.
Do you agree?
- I agree.
I've seen the signs of a drug addict first hand.
And if I see Nick acting or sounding high,
then he's gonna have to find somewhere else to go.
- Number two, I don't want you having traffic
in and out of this house.
I know some of the people used to run around with,
and I've worked pretty hard in my life to get away
from people like that.
And I'm not coming home to finding people
in my house I don't trust.
- I don't want this to be a flop pad for you
or any other female.
- The whole not having company,
that's gonna be the hardest one to follow.
Given the right opportunity, the right circumstances.
If I got the house to myself
and I want to have some company,
you know, that's what I'm I'm gonna do.
- I don't mean to sound harsh,
but I'm gonna give you 30 days to get a job
and 90 days to figure out your living situation
on where you're gonna go.
He should have no problem getting a job.
I'll help him the best I can with rides
until he gets a vehicle.
I'm here to see him do better.
But this is just a very short, temporary fix.
- You know, we've given up a lot of our privacy in our home.
So we just, you know,
really want you to respect the small rules that we have.
- [Nick] I feel like I'm a little kid, you know.
- Well, it's gonna take me a little time
to build this trust with you on this.
So sign them and date them.
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- [Nick] There it is bro.
- [Sandra] I think that was a smart choice.
- Thank you. - We appreciate that.
[dramatic music]
- Oh my God.
Bitch, I'm nervous. [laughing]
- [Quinn] Nervous.
- I'm about to bring a returning citizen into my home.
Her name is Arielle and she got released today.
Arielle was dropped off at a train station
and I'm gonna go pick her up.
I don't know Arielle well.
I just knew her from back in the day in the clubs.
I mean, I did kind of party with her a lot,
but I feel like it's important to give someone
a second chance who just made some bad decisions.
- Man, I don't like this.
I feel like she going to drag you through the mud, bro.
She's a manipulator.
- My friend Quinn think this is a crazy idea,
but she did offer to drive with me
so I didn't have to do this alone.
- She gonna do something, break her parole
and you're going, and she gonna go back,
and you're gonna be left with all the bull [beep].
- No. - Alright.
Mark my words.
I decided to come with Tiffane to go see this inmate
who she barely even knows, 'cause I just don't trust it,
I think it's sketchy.
And hopefully my best friend Tiffane will see
that she's making a huge mistake.
What you think she's gonna be like?
- I mean, I don't know how to expect her actual demeanor
to be, but I do think we are about to come up on this exit.
I offer Ari to live with me because when she was in prison,
she told me that she was scared to move back in
with her family because she felt like she might
fall back into her old dishonest ways.
My heart is just fluttered. Like I'm so nervous.
Like I'm everywhere.
Now, I'm starting to take everything
that Quinn has said into consideration.
Like I really don't know this girl.
Like what if she's a liar? What if she's still a scammer?
Like I don't know what I'm doing right now.
Ugh.
God, oh God, oh God, oh God.
Okay. I know we turn right up here.
Oh my gosh.
It's happening.
It's her. - It is her.
It's her.
- Oh, how are you? [laughing]
- [Quinn] Tiff, you sure you wanna continue to do this?
- [Arielle] You've been a bitch ever since you've got here.
I'm in the back seat, I'll smack this broad right now.
- [Sandra] I'm feeling like Chick-fil-A today.
- The one in Wentzville? - Yeah.
- It's the one I got picked up at when I went to prison.
- There was probably 12 to 15 different occasions
where I overdosed.
- Few of the occasions, even the paramedics were like,
dude, you were dead.
- Is that Na-Na?
[laughing] Hey!
I haven't seen my daughter since she was one years old.
[girl crying]
Oh, Na-Na.
She know who I am, but she doesn't.
Why you acting like that?
Don't you miss me?
And it hurts.
- You know, toilet paper rolls have disappeared
at the rate of about one a day.
- Who the hell keeps a ledger
of somebody else's toilet paper use?
- He's gonna use whatever he wants.
He's gonna do whatever he wants.
I'm done with this.
- It's time to end this charade
because I've bit my tongue for far too long.
- If you was to see me and Jamal around each other,
what would you do?
- I'm supposed to call the police.
- Hey, listen, it's not gonna work, it's not gonna work.
Henry calling the police on me isn't nothing new.
I expected it, I'm black, he's white, you know.
I ain't trying... I'm not gonna hear that [beep].
[vase crashing] [dramatic music]