[tense music]
- The most important rule in this entire situation
is no drugs.
- [Nick] I feel like I'm a little kid.
- There will be a no tolerance policy with that.
- What's up, man?
- Hey baby.
- It's been a long time.
- I know, right.
- I offered Jovan a room at my house
until he got on his feet.
But if Jovan doesn't communicate at all.
Still no phone call.
Jovan and I would just have to cut ties.
We talked every day this past year,
and then I don't hear from him for two days.
I think you're full of [beep].
- Oh my God.
You full of [beep].
I don't think this gonna work.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
[Bleep], man!
And I feel like what had to do with it
was me not being on time.
- Darquavion, he got out of prison recently.
So I went out of my way to set this interview up
and he let me down.
You gotta get ready for me to be tough.
Nobody is going to tell me what to do but me, period.
- Staying in this house in some ways is like prison.
I gotta hide my meat on an air conditioning vent.
It's so ridiculous.
- What are you thinking about the house rules?
- Lights out at 10? No gluttony?
No R rated movies. No pornography.
Are any of those rules negotiable?
- I really don't want you breaking the rules.
- [beep] the rules.
- All right, so you remember
what I told you about that girl?
- What girl?
- Her name is Arielle.
She is currently in prison.
Right now, I live in a one bedroom
and my friend Quinn sleeps on the couch.
I feel terrible telling Quinn she has to go.
- Well, that's kind of [beep] up, bro.
You're staying, she's coming and I'm out?
Don't even make sense to me, bro.
You don't even know this girl.
I think Arielle is manipulating her.
- Oh my God.
Bitch, I'm nervous.
It's happening, it's her.
- It is her. - It's her.
[bars clanking]
[relaxed music]
- Oh my gosh.
Arielle has been in prison for four years.
I am a nervous wreck.
I don't know how this is gonna go.
Oh my gosh. It's really her.
Oh, how are you? [cheerful music]
- I'm feeling nervous, anxious, excited.
Just a whole lot of emotions. Just a lot.
A lot going on just with being out and not still in prison.
- Oh, so good to see you.
- I'm a little cry baby.
- I was like, "Oh my God, it's really her."
- I was like, "Oh my God, it's really you."
Hey.
- How you doing?
- Good. Oh my God.
- Tiffane definitely told me about her best friend Quinn.
So I knew of her, but seeing her today
definitely like threw me through a loop.
I'm just like, why are you here Quinn?
Like, you know, what are you like her bodyguard?
Like, I don't know if Tiffane was scared,
you know that I was a convicted felon coming outta prison.
I don't know what it was, but you know,
all right, Quinn, you, you here.
- [Tiffane] So how do you feel?
- I'm like happy, but it's like, damn,
like I should be in prison right now.
For somebody who hasn't been in prison,
coming out, it's like coming out of like a cage.
We don't have anybody dictating your every single movement.
Like you can eat when you want,
go to the shower when you want,
go to the store when you want,
you can do anything you really want.
It's just, it's like the best feeling.
Like the best feeling.
I feel like me with being with Tiffane is gonna give me
the foundation to be an adult because I love my parents,
but I've been babied my whole life.
And now it's time to grow up and start living.
- Okay, well let's get this show on the road. Ready?
- Yeah, I'm ready, I even rushed out.
I don't think I have any triggers,
like right this very moment, no,
but I mean, if I do,
I just have to really just rationally challenge them,
and I just need to like stop thinking I'm above the law
and can do whatever I want.
[relaxed music]
- I'm very precise on my food touching each other.
I'm gonna put the strawberries and watermelon in here
and then I use another bowl for the other.
- Okay.
- That's straight?
- Yeah.
- My last week living with Henry, you know,
it's just to get what you,
I should have knew what I had coming.
All right, we're ready to take it outside?
- Almost, almost, almost.
Henry is a very unorganized, weird man, you know,
but he's crazy and unorganized his own way, you know,
can't do nothing but love him for that.
While I'm talking to you and I'm eating this fruit,
you don't realize how good fruit is.
- I might not.
You didn't have this stuff in prison, did you?
You didn't get much pleasure for seven years, did you?
- Hell no.
- Do you remember crying about it?
- I didn't cry in prison. I only cried one time.
That's when my stepdad passed away though.
He was a very important role in model in my life.
- So that's very healthy that you cried.
- I ain't cried since though.
I be trying. I know I need to, but it ain't going.
- It's coming, and when it's happening,
you gotta embrace yourself.
You gotta let that stuff back into your life,
where you have emotions and connections and all that stuff.
This is gonna be hard.
- Man. I know.
Mustard and mayonnaise sandwiches.
I don't think he probably even know what that is though.
And there's no comparison.
We're just two different types of people.
- There goes LaWanda. She pulled up.
- LaWanda's here? Great.
- How you doing, man?
- I'm doing good. Welcome home.
- Thank you, it's good to see you.
LaWanda's like a second mom,
somebody that was always there for me.
When I was incarcerated, pick up the phone,
I need to do anything, she'd do it.
- Hello, Doctor, how are you?
- LaWanda Mom. - Yes.
- Sit down and eat a little fruit.
- Yeah.
- [Darquavion] Let me pull this chair out for you.
- [LaWanda] It's a beautiful day.
- [Darquavion] Yeah, it is, that feels good.
- I'm glad to finally be able to meet Dr. Henry.
We communicated for about three years
by text and phone conversations.
Dr. Henry's experience with psychiatry
is definitely gonna help DQ.
So what have you been doing?
- I spent some quality time with a couple of friends,
trying to get a job, and what else have I been doing?
- [LaWanda] Have you gone on an interview?
- Yeah, I went on an interview yesterday
with a real estate guy.
I think that was the reason why I didn't get the job.
I don't wanna work for anybody personally. I'm my own boss.
I hate being told what to do, but that's the goal.
- That's not gonna come immediately.
- I know that. I know that part.
Jamar though, how's he doing?
- He's doing pretty good.
- He is? - Yes.
- [Darquavion] I talked to him briefly though.
- He's excited to come home in July.
- I'm trying to have something established
for bro when he come home.
- But you gotta focus on you too.
I am focused though, but that's my brother though.
If I'm out here and I'm doing good,
I'm gonna bring him right along with me.
- Well DQ, him and my son, Jamal created a bond
while they were incarcerated.
I am very hesitant about them getting together,
nothing against Darquavion, nothing against Jamal.
I just want them to do the right thing.
I don't wanna jeopardize their freedom.
- But you may not get to see him as much as you want to.
- I know we can't turn up how I want to turn up
with him though, I understand that though.
I just wanna make sure I see him.
- Where I'm going with this, and it's good you're here,
we can just talk about it.
He can't be here. Does that make sense to you?
- It makes a lot of sense. I understand.
- Darquavion now being being out of prison on parole,
and when Jamal gets out, he'll be on parole.
And when they're both on parole,
they are not allowed to see each other.
He cannot be breaking laws
because he feels like it in the moment,
because they can backfire terrible
and they could put him back in prison.
- I know if he was out before me, it would be the same.
If I couldn't see him though,
I would really have a problem.
I feel like if I don't honor the code of
that's me saying that's my brother,
then I'm not Darquavion, I'm not who I am.
- That's not a good enough reason.
You're gonna have to make hard decisions.
- [Darquavion] No, absolutely, I know that.
- It's about rules and about following the rules,
and doing what's right.
- Yeah.
- Me and Jamal are going to see each other.
- [LaWanda] Well, we'll talk about the Jamal DQ visit later.
- [Darquavion] All right.
- Good to see you guys.
- Very good to see you.
- [LaWanda] Welcome home again, DQ.
- Thank you.
LaWanda loves her son, that's her only boy,
so I understand why she is like that.
She feel like this because she don't want to see her son
go right to prison,
I don't care what nobody say.
I'm going to kick it with Jamal.
[dramatic music]
[relaxed music]
- The new ice machine.
I love ice. There's not much ice in prison.
Most facilities don't have ice, like a cold drink.
Like everybody else takes it for granted.
18 years with virtually no ice.
Yeah, you kind of crave ice.
So I got out, I looked forward to ice.
Sharna bought am ice machine for the house.
I was forbidden from using the ice machine.
You know, a lot of things you can't do or have here,
I don't know what if ice is against their religion.
I don't know.
- [Sharna] Mark?
- Yeah?
- Hang on.
- I've been storing it downstairs.
Did you get it out?
- No, it wasn't me.
- Well, that means Bill has gone down the stairs,
which I told him not to do,
and he's brought the ice machine up here.
I do not understand why he is so rebellious
to follow the rules.
Soon after Bill came, he was wanting ice.
We don't have our freezer hooked up to the water system
because we don't use city water.
So I bought a small unit and make ice cubes,
made a bunch of ice cubes,
filled up the ice tray in the freezer,
and he can get ice that way.
The ice machine is pretty expensive
and I don't want him messing with it.
He doesn't take care of things.
I'm upset that Bill went down in the basement
and found the ice machine
and brought it up and used it without permission.
He directly went against my instructions
and I think it's just disrespectful.
- Hi Sharon.
I'm enjoying some ice.
We didn't have it in prison.
What do I look like?
I don't how to operate a freaking ice machine?
This is like one button.
You fill it with water and push a button.
This is just a textbook example of her controlling nature.
It had to be put away if she didn't have company,
never mind that I was living there and I like ice,
but you can't keep a man from his ice.
You still got my meat over there?
- Keep it in your freezer for me.
I can't bring it back over here yet.
- Mark and Sharna have a next door neighbor named Sharon.
We've grown very close.
When she found out I was not allowed to eat meat
at that house, she came over with a plate of fried chicken.
I would actually buy meat in the supermarket
and ask her to hold it in her freezer,
because with all their restrictions and rules,
I couldn't keep it at Mark and Sharna's house.
- And look here.
I've told him over and over that he puts the tin cans
and glass and cardboard in the recycle.
There's a can, I'm gonna go put it in front of his door.
You know, maybe he'll get the hint
that I'm not putting his stuff from there to there anymore.
The past few weeks have been really bad.
And Bill is just not doing what he's supposed to do.
He's disrespectful,
argues with me like every day about stuff.
He has not gotten a job.
He really has done nothing.
He hasn't accomplished anything that we know of.
I'm really upset with Bill,
because everything that goes on in this house,
everything that we do, he tells his girlfriend.
This is my home. I love my home.
Mark and I love this.
We've made it the way we wanted,
and it's not a place of peace to come anymore.
Honey, would you carry that ice machine back downstairs?
We need to put it somewhere else
if you could find a different place to put it.
I'm not making him any ice tonight.
He's gonna have to wait until tomorrow.
That's his punishment.
It's ridiculous. It's like a teenager.
I'm gonna look and see if there's anything else
he's not following the rules on again.
[tense music]
- That's your what?
- That's my homeboy. That's that's my brother.
- Did you call him your dog?
- That's just a term of me saying that's,
that's my partner.
- I got you.
- I waited for LaWanda to leave
to have a conversation with Henry
because I respect LaWanda
and I don't want her see me out of character,
but I know she would've told me don't do it like this.
Another way to handle it.
But no, I felt like Henry need to hear it
with a little oomph to it.
That's my homeboy.
You telling me you don't want him over here.
I can't give you my word and say that's not gonna happen.
- Jamal played such an important role
in their getting through prison.
I see why he wants to get to see him.
But I think where things are now, it's not a good idea.
They have to realize that is not what they can do.
Those are the rules.
Unless the system change its mind
and let them very specifically.
But without that, can't do it.
What I'm hearing you say, well,
you might just have to see him anyway,
which is kind of blowing me off.
You're both on parole
and you're not supposed to see each other.
That's a problem.
- For you or me?
- For you.
If you get caught, they would possibly come
and grab the two of you and you go back to prison.
I think that you should find
a different route to keep your contact.
- Well then you're going to [beep] yourself over.
- But I need to know this though,
if you seen, if you was to see me and Jamal
around each other and we was to be here,
what would you do?
- I'm supposed to call the police.
[dramatic music]
- Why would you do something like that?
- Well, I didn't say I would or wouldn't,
but I'm supposed to call the police.
- Mm, that's crazy talk.
- Shouldn't I do what I'm supposed to do?
That's what I'm doing is doing what I'm supposed to do.
- No, you're supposed to, you supposed to--
- Cover it up?
- [Darquavion] Yep.
- Lie with you and then cover it up?
- Would you be uncomfortable doing that?
- Yeah, I'd be really uncomfortable with that.
- That's crazy.
Hey, you gotta, 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?
So how do you control a Black person?
Calling the police.
But it did hurt though, like damn,
you call me Son and I call you Pop.
You say you love me. I say I love you.
So for him to say that though, it's [beep] up.
I don't wanna talk about this no more.
I just, it's just, it's just very frustrating though.
- Why don't you wanna talk about it?
- Because it just, it's just a topic
that I'm just uncomfortable with.
- You're gonna do this thing to [beep] yourself over.
- [Darquavion] I ain't trying to hear that [beep], man.
- Which is like [beep] me over.
- I ain't trying to, I'm not trying to hear
none of that [beep].
I'm not trying to do none of that though.
I'm not trying to hear none of that.
- I don't wanna talk about this no more.
I just, it just, it's just very frustrating.
- Well, you're gonna do this thing to [beep] yourself over.
- I ain't trying to hear none of that [beep].
- Which is like [beep] me over.
- I ain't trying, I'm not trying to hear none of that [beep].
I'm not trying to hear none of that though.
I'm not trying to hear none of that.
[tense music]
I can't see Jamal, because we are both felons.
You know, he's still incarcerated.
I'm out, you know, we can't link up with each other,
kick it, but you know, the way I feel,
I'm like [beep] we gonna kick it when he come home.
That's my brother.
- I can understand why Darquavion's angry.
I don't want to call the police.
I don't want to do this, but he has to understand that
that's what it's like to be on parole.
[tense music]
It's been all good though
until this stupid-ass moment that just happened.
I ain't think it was gonna be like this though.
I'm really bother by it though. I really am though.
I'm probably gonna go get drunk.
Take my frustration out.
Go to the hot tub after ass, I don't know.
I might want to go to the titty bar.
It depends on how I'm feeling though,
[bleep] it got me low key heated.
- I'm probably gonna stay with my uncle Joe.
I'm probably gonna go stay with my uncle, man.
That's, I think that's what I'm gonna do.
[tense music]
- I didn't lock the keys in the car, did I?
No.
- I didn't know that Sandra and I would get along
as well as we already have.
Kyle works a lot.
So if we we're running errands or doing something, you know,
it's relieving to know that Sandra and I
can actually get along and that I feel welcome.
I was worried that it was, you know,
it wasn't gonna go well.
I want to go to one of these dealerships nearby
and see what kind of options I might have
with financing a vehicle.
I know it's impractical, but I really want a Lexus IS 500.
- [Sandra] I think you should start with finding a job.
- I need a job, but I gotta get to and from a job,
you know what I'm saying?
- I didn't have a great car
until I was finally making a little money.
Sometimes you just have to sacrifice things like that.
It's not about what you're driving,
it's about getting there.
I'm concerned about Nick's behavior
because he feels like he should be entitled to more.
And you know, with him just getting out of prison,
that worries me.
He's made a lot of bad decisions in the past,
and I just hope that he doesn't start doing that again.
My stomach's like growling.
- [Nick] I'm hungry too.
- I'm feeling like Chick-Fil-A today.
- [Nick] The one in Wentzville?
- [Sandra] Yeah.
- That's the one I got picked up at when I went to prison.
I was sleeping in the old drive through.
The day before I had gotten high on heroin.
But you know,
it was still kind of like the after effects of it.
I wasn't sleeping much and my body just shut down.
The day I got arrested, I had taken a Xanax,
so I was tired and I stopped at Chick-Fil-A
and I had already left, I was gone.
And then I realized they gave me water instead of a Sprite.
I had to turn back 'cause I wanted my soda.
- And I fell asleep in the drive through,
I was woke up by the police.
- And I knew right then it was, the gig was up.
Go ahead and probably ordered the same thing,
30 nuggets, some fries.
And I'm pretty sure I just told 'em to put every sauce
they had in the bag.
I was just really, I had the munchies really bad.
- I wonder if the cops ate the rest of your nuggets.
You know they did.
- I asked them too.
I said, "Can I eat them chicken nuggets?"
Not happening.
I fell asleep right over there.
I replayed that night for so long.
What I could have done differently.
You know, how I might have changed the series of events.
I take getting arrested as a blessing.
I was headed on a reckless path pretty quickly.
And I was drinking a lot and it was just a matter of time
before I went back to it.
Drugs kind of numbed
a lot of the stresses I was dealing with.
Once I started using heroin and fentanyl,
there was probably 12 to 15 different occasions
where I overdosed and was brought back by paramedics.
A few of the occasions, even the paramedics were like,
"Dude, you, you were dead.
You need to, need to realize that.
You're lucky to be here."
And I don't know why that wasn't enough for me
to stop there, which should have, you know,
shouldn't have taken me going to prison to quit.
But prison I feel like saved my life.
- We would like 30-piece order of chicken nuggets.
- The first couple months in prison,
I was so frustrated
that I didn't get to finish the nuggets.
- I appreciate it.
- I've been craving these nuggets for so long.
This is a special moment for me.
Do you want me to eat every one of these.
- Uh-huh.
- [Sandra] Now they didn't mess up
your drink this time, right?
- Nope.
- They got you Sprite instead of water, right?
- It's good. I double checked.
Oh, it's great.
[tense music]
- Okay honey, here's the list.
- Wow, it's well over 2,000 already.
- I'm at the end of my rope with Bill.
We've given him more than a hundred percent of effort
in trying to help him, but he won't help himself.
I've been keeping a tab of
everything that I've expended out
on Bill in clothes, shoes, cologne,
other items that he wanted.
He was very forthright in saying that, you know,
once he got a job and got money coming in,
that he would pay me back for everything
that I had purchased for him.
And he still doesn't have a job.
And Mark and I are just wondering,
are we really ever gonna get paid what he owes us?
He wanted more clothes,
and so I took him to Burlington and a shoe place,
and you know, got him three new pairs of shoes and.
- I bought him shoes.
- You did?
- Yeah.
- He didn't tell me that.
- So far we've paid for just about everything for Bill.
We really didn't get into it for the money,
but he is really not contributing to the household.
It's really adding up.
And at some point it's gotta stop.
- Toilet paper, I haven't added that on,
but he's using an excessive amount,
and I'm like, "Bill, what do you do
with 24 double rolls of toilet paper in a month?"
We don't use a fraction of that.
We use like two rolls in a week.
- You know, toilet paper rolls have disappeared
at the rate of about one a day.
Coming upstairs to take more and more is really ridiculous.
I have no idea what's going on in Bill's bathroom,
but he certainly eats a lot of meat when he goes out.
And maybe that has something to do
with his toilet paper usage.
- This is really frustrating that I feel like
when I'm not here, that he's gonna use whatever he wants.
He's gonna do whatever he wants.
I'm done with this.
[dramatic music]
- Got twisted, man.
This [beep] is a mess.
Today is such a big day because it's gonna be the first time
for me to see my daughter in over three years.
The day Kaylana was born was like
one of the most beautiful days of my life.
Like I wasn't there for her to be born,
but her mom sent me pictures like the next day.
And it was like, wow, this is my baby.
- I was incarcerated.
I got out when she was six months.
Then I only had a good six months to bond with her
before I got locked back up.
- Hello.
- [Jovan] Hey.
- [Artie] What you doing?
- Getting ready to go see my daughter.
- Go see your baby.
- Yeah, I'm kind of nervous, man.
Like I said, I hope she'll still remember me, man.
- Yeah.
- I don't want her to be, you know, shy.
- She might act a little skittish at first,
but she'll be all right.
- Right.
- [Jovan] Yeah, we're still married.
- Nah, I don't think so, man.
She left me while I was in jail.
You know what I'm saying?
- Oh.
- My wife, Kelly and I, we're not divorced or anything,
we're just not together.
We're not planning on getting back together either.
Kelly is still upset with me
because I cheated on her before I went to prison.
Like I said, I'm on to bigger and better things, man.
Be in my daughter's life.
I don't know what's gonna happen with this situation
with Jovan and his wife.
Maybe she's gonna wait to see what he's gonna do.
If it's gonna be different
than all the past times he's been incarcerated,
but I can understand what Jovan's going through.
I was pregnant with Steven when I went to prison,
and they took him from me.
Yeah.
That's a hurt that is worse than somebody dying.
It's worse, you know,
it's like somebody just stabbing you
and pouring salt in it all at the same time.
You know, it's like they took your life.
- I'm hoping today will go real smooth.
You know, me and my daughter can spend some time together.
You know, we can try and bond a little bit.
You know, it's been three years since I seen her.
[tense music]
- [Woman] All right, here he comes, you ready?
[tense music]
- My name is Kelly and I'm Jovan's wife.
When he first came home from jail,
when we got married, he was on house arrest.
So he couldn't go anywhere.
So he was the perfect husband.
And then when they took the monitor off
and he had complete freedom, it was like he was never there.
So that was when I first realized
that he started cheating.
And then about three weeks after that happened
and I moved into my new place is when he went to jail.
So the way we left things before he left,
it was like, they were very tense, you know?
Like we did not leave on good terms.
When he comes around,
it just, it brings up so many emotions.
So I have my sister here with me and my daughter
so that she can be with her at the park
to have their interaction,
because I don't wanna have interactions with him.
- Is that Nana?
Hey, baby! [tender music]
Oh, Daddy love you.
You miss your daddy?
I missed you too. I love you so much. [kissing]
This is my baby right here.
Say you miss your daddy, don't you?
Remember all the little fun we used to be having?
Want some fries?
- Nothing.
- Ooh, that baby hungry. [laughs]
Kaylana, she visited me one time out of three years.
And I get to talk to her here and there on the phone.
I missed out so much with Kaylana and it's like,
I know I can't never get that time back,
but what I can do is stay out of prison
and give her all my time that she needs
to understand who I am.
Look.
- You wanna go to Mommy?
Okay, come on.
She's like not having it right now.
It hurt, you know what I'm saying?
It make me feel bad for being away from her for so long.
- Oh my God.
- [Kassandra] Yes, it's okay, she's coming back.
- The feeling that I'm having right now is like
one of the worst feelings that a dad can feel.
Come on, we'll walk down there, we'll teach you.
- I'm gonna walk right with you.
You can hold my hand if you want to,
but he missed you so much.
I'm stay right here, I promise you.
- She ain't going nowhere, come on,
she's walking with us.
[Kaylana cries] Oh, Nana.
- Oh it's okay, remember what I told you?
- I'm your daddy, Nana.
- Remember I told you that?
- It's okay. - You okay?
[somber music]
[tense music]
- You can cry.
- It's okay, mama.
Listen, I promise I'm gonna be around to see you every day.
Me and your mommy, we gonna take you
to get something to eat, swimming, all that, okay?
I feel highly disappointed right now.
I came to the park to meet my daughter
for the first time in three years.
And you know, I was expecting for my daughter
to want to come, you know,
go have some ice cream or something.
Instead she's crying.
- Is she crying?
- [Jovan] Look, look right there.
- Is she crying? - [Jovan] Look.
- [Kassandra] She's okay. - Okay.
[tense music]
- What's wrong, my baby love?
What's the matter?
Tell me what's wrong.
- It's definitely gonna be a long road ahead,
trying to co-parent with my ex,
'cause Kaylana's used to being with her mom,
and if her mom doesn't come,
then Kaylana doesn't want to come.
- [Kelly] Just go spend some time.
You want Mommy to come too?
- Get, get her hand right there.
Grab your mommy's hand, Nana.
- Come on, baby.
- Here, I'm gonna grab this hand.
Oh, you don't want me to grab your hand?
- You don't have to act like that, baby.
- Nana, why you acting like that?
Don't you miss me?
- I'm not ready to have those interactions with him yet.
So it's gonna be difficult trying to get the,
the odds and ends of that worked out.
If I have to be uncomfortable sometimes
to get her comfortable to have a relationship with him,
then that's what I'll do
'cause that's what's in her best interest.
As long as he stays in her best interest also,
you know, like running the streets
and this, that, and the third and whatever,
all that stuff he was doing before.
I'm not gonna have him doing that with my daughter.
Go talk to your daddy.
Tell him how excited you are to start school.
- Oh, you started school already, baby?
- No, tomorrow, we missed it today.
- Tomorrow? Oh my God.
You still hungry?
I thought you wanted these fries.
- [Jovan] Okay. What kind of milkshake you want?
- [Jovan] Banana? I love banana too.
I think I'm gonna get me one.
We can have banana milkshake and some donuts, okay?
So pinky swear on it.
Okay, I love you. You go get you some rest.
[tender music] All right.
Kaylana is my motivation.
I'm gonna try everything in my power.
I'm talking, if I gotta struggle, I don't care.
Remember, I'm gonna FaceTime you and read you that story
before you go to bed, all right?
I'm gonna do everything that I have to,
to stay away from prison and give her all my time
that she needs to understand who I am.
All right, love you.
[tense music]
- You won't believe all the crap that's been going on here.
It's getting to be a bit much, wearing on my nerves.
[sighs] A lot of drama,
a lot of drama with, especially with Sharna.
- It's not easy, you know,
but I knew I need to watch my Ps and Qs around here
'cause I'm on parole still.
But I didn't, you know, come here to be verbally abused.
Basically that's what's going on.
Mark, you know, said he kept the ledger
of my toilet paper use and it was like,
I'm like, "What are you freaking crazy?"
Who the hell keeps a ledger
of somebody else's toilet paper use?
I use toilet paper.
What, what is it?
Why are we even discussing toilet paper?
So I made this video and I just vented.
I was just venting a lot of frustration that day.
I don't, I've never showed him the video yet.
Mar, Sharna, you have plenty of toilet paper
until you sell the house in 30 years,
or maybe when you both move on to your next spouses,
you can explain why there's so much extra toilet paper here
that you had a house guest that made sure
you were amply reimbursed for all the toilet paper he used.
I absolutely feel betrayed by this version of Sharna.
I didn't come to Indiana to this household to be manipulated
or be left in fear all the time
because of what control or rule she's putting on me.
To tell me you're keeping a log of how many I used
since I moved in and I can't have anymore toilet paper,
that's okay, we can move on.
You guys pray for me. I'll pray for you.
It's time to end this charade.
[tense music]
- Oh, how was that?
- It's refreshing. She's happy that I'm home.
She's just, you know, do the right thing, man, you know.
The fraud thing, it wasn't something
that I just woke up and wanted to do.
I just was tired of struggling.
I wanted a certain type of lifestyle
and I was like
[beep] it.
So, I'd be in defrauding people I didn't know.
I'm doing thousand dollars wire transfers.
I'm doing Western Union transfers.
I'm doing cash advances.
I'm hacking people's bank accounts.
I'm doing anything by any means to secure the bag.
And I didn't care at the time who I hurt or who I affected.
- Oh, yeah, I'm about to call her.
[tense music]
[phone ringing]
Hey, I'm out
I just wanna let you know that I am with Tiffane.
- Are you upset with me though?
- [Arielle] All right.
- [Arielle] Okay. I love you.
- All right, bye.
- So, you didn't tell your mama what's going on?
Why would she be upset if I'm coming to get you?
- I think she feels like I'm like very manipulative,
so I can like try to manipulate situations
and getting people to do what I want and how I want,
you know what I'm saying?
So, I could have been like,
I'm gonna straight back to Indiana.
You know what I'm saying?
And I'm on the run,
but you did it off the strength of my word.
You know what I mean?
So I think that's like her concern,
which I mean, it's understandable so...
- I guess that's, I don't know.
That sounds kind of weird to me.
The fact that Ari's mom had no idea
that I was picking her up from prison,
that is just not a good sign to me.
You know, you just got out,
you're already lacking communication.
Pretty important communication at that.
So that wasn't very comfortable for me.
You know, not to be rude, but it's like,
you already aren't being honest.
Like, and you've not even been out 24 hours,
and we're already having situations
where like your mom has no idea I'm with you.
She had no idea I'm coming to get you.
So that's concerning.
Why does she not know that you were with me?
Especially if we are supposed to be about to live together.
[dramatic music]
- I think it's a big red flag that Ari didn't tell her mom
that she was driving through with Tiffane.
She lied to her about being on the bus.
It's already funny business.
- Right now, it just seems like you just trying to say
what you think sounds good.
- I mean, at the end of the day,
I might just have to show you better than I can tell you like.
- This just ain't gonna work.
That is everything just don't even sound right.
- Okay. Well that's your opinion.
That's up the Tiffane
if she wants to continue doing this or not.
- Tiff, you sure you wanna continue to do this?
[dramatic music]
- I think Quinn does have like my best interest at heart,
but she does need to back off a little bit.
I'm a big girl. I'm grown.
So you know anything I have questions about,
I can ask myself as well, but she's just very territorial.
- I don't think it's gonna go well.
- I mean, I really don't care what you think.
- So.
- Okay y'all.
- [Quinn] She got the game twisted.
- Got the game twisted?
I don't even know why the [beep] you're here.
I really don't.
I've been nice for four years
and I'm really getting sick of it.
Quinn, she feels threatened that I'm gonna take her spot.
And if she keeps acting like that, I might.
- [beep] ridiculous.
- Just stop talking to me, bro.
Just like seriously stop.
- What you gonna do? What you gonna do?
- Quinn like seriously, stop [beep] talking to me.
You've been a bitch ever since you've got here.
- You a little disrespectful bitch, you know that?
- One of the rules on that piece of paper
is to be smart and not be stupid.
You bought a car that draws attention.
That is [beep] stupid.
- I understand you may be upset.
That has nothing to do with me.
- It has everything to do with you.
Like this is [beep] up.
- Quinn's acting like big-ass baby.
- You just helped her roll hers,
you gonna help me roll my [beep] up?
- I will. [dramatic music]
- [beep] you.
- I don't know where this went south with our friendship.
I am starting to agree with Mary, it's a jealousy thing.
- I'm not jealous.
- You're just some lady
who creeps up on my door in the middle of the night.
- He makes accusations all the time.
- [Mark] You are stressing me out beyond belief.
She's full of [beep] is what she is.
- Your mother's on her death bed.
You cannot see your mother because she's a felon.
Are you going to go see your mother?
Answer the question.
- No, this is [beep],
- The rules and the regulations.
- This is [beep].
- You won't live in reality.
- Shut up and hear what I'm gonna say.