[ominous music]
- Today is gonna be the first time
for me to see my daughter in over three years.
[baby cries]
Oh, Anna.
- [Woman] Don't cry.
- [Jovan] It's definitely gonna be a long road ahead.
You could've called me.
I was trying to give him a stable place.
Makes me think he was bull [beep].
- Oh, my God, man.
- One of the rules on that piece of paper
is to be smart, not be stupid.
You bought a car that draws attention.
Nick just got out of jail,
and you went out and bought a flashy car,
and you were driving it illegally.
I don't wanna see him ultimately
find himself back in prison.
That is [beep] stupid.
- I stole people's identities,
social security numbers, credit card numbers.
When I was scamming,
I was totally focused on defrauding people.
- How are you? Are you happy to be back?
- Yeah.
- Ari's gonna move into my one-bedroom apartment
and my best friend Quinn is gonna have to move out.
- I still think Ari's being manipulative.
She just forced her way into Tiffane's home.
You just helped her roll her suitcase.
You gonna help me roll my [beep] out?
- I will.
- [beep] you.
- Got my travel pass.
I'm thrilled that I just got a travel pass approved
from parole to go to California to see Mary.
- You chose your girl.
Doesn't mean that we have to get along.
- I'm starting to agree with Mary, it's a jealousy thing.
- It's been very disappointing
that he's willing to throw away our friendship.
- We can't be together 'cause you're married.
- You know, that's really inappropriate for you-
- Absolutely none.
[prison cell door slamming]
[ominous music]
- [Bill] Mark, you ready?
- [Mark] Yeah.
- Going to LA for 15 days, gonna see my girlfriend.
I'm looking forward to it,
giving me some breathing space from Sharna.
I met Mary through friend just before my release.
I've spent 18 years
without being in the presence of a woman,
without being able to hold a woman,
and I am in love
and I'm just thrilled to be going to California
to meet her for the first time.
- Well, I'm kind of sorry for what's happened.
It seems like, you know,
we've had continuing problems and...
- I don't appreciate people [beep] on me.
- Over the last couple days,
we've had a tremendous amount of turmoil
and any kind of interaction between us and Bill
seems to have a lot of tension.
He's making things really tough in this house.
What happens if you meet Mary
and you have problems with her?
- What problems would I possibly have?
- Yeah, I mean, you haven't even met her before.
- I don't think there's gonna be any problem
between me and Mary, we're compatible.
We've agreed to put God first, period.
That's it, that's all that's important to her and I.
I don't know why Mark and Sharna seem like
they wanna keep me down, but no matter what it is,
whether it's my happiness over Mary,
my happiness about being free to eat whatever I want,
crush, crush, crush, crush, crush.
All they trying to do is discourage me
and everything that's making me happy,
making me feel alive again after so many years in prison.
I'm getting pissed off, I don't wanna hear it anymore, man.
- [Mark] All right, Bill.
- Mary and I are getting married in Sacramento.
- I'm shocked to hear that Bill is getting married
when he goes to California.
This is someone he's never met before.
It's very much a fast relationship
and it seems pretty dysfunctional.
Well, how did this happen? Did you ask her to marry you, or?
- We already figured this all out, I have my plan.
She wants to get married,
so I have my plan to propose and surprise her,
but the wedding is already set.
- Congratulations.
- Yeah, I'm not gonna tell you the date.
You guys missed your chance to join us in our happiness.
- I'm not trying to hold you back.
I mean, you may as well go to California.
You may as well get married.
You may as well leave our house
because it's really awkward most of the time right now.
- So you want me to leave the house now?
I have to have this on my mind when I'm going outta town.
- Maybe you should just go, you know,
you'd be happier with your woman.
- [beep] me off, [beep] me up emotionally,
and I don't wanna [beep] hear it.
- [Mark] You're the one who-
- Excuse my language.
You pretend to be a friend, Mark.
That's not what a friend does.
- I'm pretty much sick of hanging out with Bill.
He's just not good company.
For a while there, it was fun,
I was watching him see new things for the first time.
but at this point, it's become just really taxing.
Dear Lord, I ask a blessing on Bill and his flight
and a blessing on Bill and Mary.
- Travel pass says I have to, you know, come back here.
This is my home.
Hopefully the dust will settle, cooler heads prevail.
Not likely with these people.
- And I just asked that, Lord,
you give Bill peace in his life, in Jesus' name, Amen.
- [Bill] Enough.
[mellow music]
[knock on door]
- Uh-oh.
Hold on.
- Hi. - Hi.
- [Delivery Man] How you doing?
- [Artie] Oh, thank you so much.
- [Delivery Man] You're welcome, there you go.
- [Artie] Okay.
- [Delivery Man] All right, enjoy, have a good night.
- You have a great day. - Bye-bye.
- Okay.
Jovan is on his way home from visiting with his daughter
and the visit didn't go too well, he said.
He sounded really down on the phone,
so I offer to get his favorite meal for him
to kind of, you know, cheer him up.
So he's on his way home and my son, Steven,
is gonna join us as well.
- [Steven] Ma.
- [Artie] Hey, baby.
- Hey. - How you doing?
- [Steven] I'm good, how are you?
- [Artie] Oh, I'm good. Set the table and everything.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
- The first meeting between Jovan and my son,
ooh, was a little intense.
- I just don't want no outta line, nothing, you know?
'Cause I don't know who you is, you know what I'm saying?
- You know, I'm a grown man.
You know, I ain't gonna be walking on no eggshells.
- So tonight, I'm really looking forward
to all three of us having a nice quiet time.
- Table look nice, Ma.
- [Artie] Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I figured, you know,
we all could sit here and talk because, you know,
I might give Jovan a key.
- What?
- Yeah, so he can get in, you know?
- Nah. Nah, I don't know, I don't know.
He don't need no key though.
- I mean, what he supposed to do?
Just stand outside and wait for you to come
every time he needs to get in here?
- I don't think that's a good idea, Ma.
- Oh, God, son.
Jovan doesn't have a key to my house
because I don't trust him that well yet.
The guy just got out of prison,
so he's gonna have to earn that level of trust with me
and he isn't there yet.
I mean, I'm trying to give him a chance.
- So where he at?
- I don't know.
He said he'd be here about seven o'clock. Let's see.
[phone line rings]
- [Automated Voice] Please leave your message for 216-
- So he ignoring calls. [beep]
- Something could have went wrong.
- Nah. - Maybe he can't come.
- No, Mom, we not about to make
all these excuses with Jovan.
- I don't know.
- In reality, I really don't give a [beep]
about what this man got going on.
It's really my mom and her feelings.
You know what I'm saying? He's stressing her out.
My mother, she done deal with the bone disease
and she done been very sick before,
you know what I'm saying?
And for this man to be stressing her out,
that's putting wear and tear on her.
I can't be having that.
[phone line rings]
I think he's just ignoring you.
- [Automated Voice] Leave your message for 21-
- That's what I'm, I'm about to eat.
I ain't about to wait on him no more, he tripping.
- Jovan, this is Artie.
You know this some bitch [beep] that you doing?
Not answering the damn phone.
If your hands ain't broke and you ain't dead,
there's no excuse for you not answering my phone call.
I sure hope whatever Jovan is doing is worth it,
'cause I ain't leaving the light on for him.
This ain't Motel 6.
What we gonna drink? We got any wine?
- I need a drink.
- This is Jovan's second strike with me
for not communicating.
Jovan is getting this close to losing his room
as my roommate.
[ominous music]
- It's a bummer, Kyle stuck working.
I've been looking forward to being able
to spend some time with him.
- This weather tends to keep him out.
Once the bad weather comes, he'll be gone all night,
salting and snow plowing.
Before Nick had moved to our home,
I didn't know Nick a whole lot,
so there was definitely a lot of anxiety about the what ifs
and how things could actually play out.
And after he got a car with no license, no insurance,
and he started doing more running around,
it seems like he kinda lost focus of some of those goals.
Tomorrow's kind of the first big day
that we're gonna be out for Mardi Gras around a crowd,
that could be tempting to wanna drink and stuff.
How are you feeling about that?
- You know, up until last night,
I hadn't really put a whole lot of thought into it
and I was thinking about it last night.
It's definitely gonna be hard.
Mardi Gras in St. Louis gets pretty wild.
It's just a open air party for blocks and blocks.
I mean, you see people drunk, falling in gutters,
but I missed out on a lot since I was gone.
I just wanna have some fun,
but it'll be tempting seeing all the people drinking.
Everybody's gonna have all their Mardi Gras gear on,
I don't have anything that festive.
- I'm gonna crochet you a crown
to wear down to Mardi Gras.
- [Nick] Like a purple and green one?
- Yeah, I could do purple, green, gold.
- [Nick] Gold.
- Yeah.
- I don't do many things in moderation.
It's not one drink, it's not two drinks.
If I keep doing that, before long, hey, here's a joint.
I'll hit a joint, you know what I mean?
It just can lead to a downward spiral.
I worry all the time that stuff from my past
could still pop up.
It's hard not to go back to that lifestyle.
Once I started using heroin and fentanyl,
I was in a lot of legal trouble.
- The idea of going back to prison
definitely makes me nervous.
That sounds good, got a nice little day planned.
- [Sandra] Yes.
[upbeat dance music]
- [Woman] We're turning up tonight.
- [Arielle] It's been four and a half years
since I've gotten ready to go to the club,
gotten ready to go out, do anything nice.
So it's definitely exciting
because in prison there's none of that.
We're locked down by 8:30 p.m.
And even like, besides that,
like, the people in prison are just not people
you wanna socialize with.
Yeah!
Tonight is about meeting up with old friends
who stuck with me while I was behind bars.
It's a great vibe and I'm glad at least me and Quinn
are able to start off on a better foot.
And now I'm not in prison, so I'm excited.
I'm super, super excited.
[all cheer]
I got it, thank you.
Can we get some chasers?
- This is on me, to you.
- The bottle service is a huge shock to me.
The arrangement that Ari and I have
was that the first 30 days,
I would pay the rent and the bills for the apartment,
just until she could get a job,
save some money and start helping out.
- [Woman] Whoo!
- Ari told me that she doesn't have any money,
she has not been on any job interviews,
and this bottle is $350,
so I'm confused on where the money's coming from.
- Well, me and Tiffane have been together for 10 years
and I'm trying to tell her, like,
you don't see these red flags?
Like, she ain't even got a job,
but she paying for our drinks.
- Keep the change.
- So it's like, you gonna put your trust
and life on the line
for somebody that you don't even know.
Like, I am so hurt.
I ain't even gonna lie.
Like, I'm about to confront this [beep] situation here.
This is my best [beep] friend, bro.
Like, what kind of bull [beep] you on?
- Quinn, chill out.
Like, I'd rather you take that out with me.
- I mean, you just let this unknown come into our lives
and [beep] it up.
- I brought you out here to have good vibes
and good energy, bro.
I didn't want all this extra ass [beep].
- I don't [beep] trust you, bro. - Please!
- I invited you here for good vibes.
- I'm under a lot of [beep] pressure.
I'm trying to be a good person
and it's starting to backfire on me.
Like, I almost wish that I was just, like,
didn't sign up for this.
- Okay, okay, okay.
[shouting over each other]
Shut the [beep] up!
Like, I'm sick of this [beep].
Y'all are inconsiderate as [beep].
Like, for real, like, y'all making me
wanna walk away from, like, both of y'all.
Like, at this point, I don't want nothing to do
with none of you [beep].
Like, I can't take it.
We are out in public and y'all acting
like y'all ain't got no [beep] sense.
Ari, nobody trusts you.
- Period, and that's fine.
- And you're not doing anything to make it better.
- [Quinn] Damn right.
- That's the bottom line.
I definitely understand why Quinn is upset
and why she feels the way she feels.
She definitely feels like Ari is a manipulator,
but her and Ari arguing in the club,
like, got me outside arguing in the club.
I don't really do this [beep].
I don't owe you or you [beep].
And now at this point,
I don't know if I want [beep] either one of y'all.
I could leave both of y'all on your ass
and be like, [beep] y'all, y'all figure your own life out.
I could, that's what I could really do.
I just don't know anymore.
Like, I almost feel like I should just like
block everybody out and just focus on myself,
'cause I have so much on the line.
Like, this is going backwards for me.
Like, seriously, I don't have no drama.
I don't, I'm not a convicted felon.
- Okay.
- [Tiffane] I'm just being honest.
I could do this [beep] by myself with no [beep] problems.
- All right, so- - [Tiffane] Well I'm just
being real. I'm being real.
- I mean I wasn't trying to be rude but it's the truth.
- [Arielle] No, it's fine, bro, it's fine.
- I did 18 years in prison and I'm blessed to be alive.
I'm blessed to be outta prison,
I'm blessed to be in love with Mary.
She's a wonderful human being.
I am so happy to be in California, to be with my lady,
and I'm just ignoring all of Mark and Sharna's petty texts.
They continue trying to contact me
and rob us of our joy and our happiness.
But I'm shooting lots of footage for social media
so that maybe Mark and Sharna can look at it
and see what true happiness really means.
Now I don't have to worry about
not being able to eat lobster at Mark and Sharna's.
Living it up, living it up.
- Let's see, three of us, maybe a little bit more.
- [Alicia] Hi, friend.
- [Sharna] We've been waiting.
Must be traffic was a mess, huh?
- Oh, my gosh, it was a nightmare.
How are you? - Good.
- It's good to see you.
- Alicia's our friend, we've known her for more than a year.
- [Alicia] Your house looks great.
- Thank you.
She's involved in prison ministries,
and so I've been talking with her about some of the problems
that we're having with Bill.
Mark and I really, right now,
need some guidance on what to do,
and so she's agreed to come over and talk with us.
- Well, I dropped him off at the airport.
- How does he have money?
- I don't know, he doesn't talk about money really, so.
For someone who doesn't have a steady income,
Bill doesn't have a hard time funding this lifestyle.
He can fly to California on a moment's notice
and he's often eating out at restaurants.
He has a car, I don't even know where that car came from.
And yet he doesn't have any money to pay us back
for everything that we've bought him so far.
- Does he pay bills here? Like-
- [Sharna] Not yet.
- He hasn't paid anything yet.
Hasn't paid a single dime to help with utilities
or food or transportation-
- Okay, honey. - Rent, nothing, so.
- You better watch the burgers, we better head out.
- [Mark] Alright.
- It's been a while since I've seen Mark and Sharna
and I almost wanna be like, called it,
'cause I've been calling it from day one that this is BS.
But I wanted to support my friends
in understanding that this is something
that they felt called to do,
but it just sounds like a big haywire drama fest
that didn't need to happen.
- Veggie burgers.
Do you do veggie burgers?
- I do. - Okay, good.
- [Alicia] Yeah.
So, did he go see Mary?
- [Sharna] Yeah.
- He popped it on the way to the airport.
He said he is getting married when he gets there,
but we're not invited.
- If he got on a plane to go see his girlfriend,
it's probably the best place for him to be
and he should stay there because this isn't working out.
You've done so much and you've done your part.
Isn't this-
- I feel we have.
- So, like, you don't really owe him
anything else at this point.
- [Mark] Yeah.
- True story.
He hasn't gotten a job that has brought any money in,
- [Sharna] Right.
he's not showing any type of initiative.
He's latching on to people.
- You know, but he's claiming that I have a crush on him
and he said he had video to prove that I've been
in lingerie, coming downstairs and knocking on his door
when he's gone to work.
Like, bull, he doesn't have anything like that.
I don't own any.
- She doesn't even own anything besides full length,
you know, very modest, like.
- [Sharna] I have summer pajamas, but they're modest.
- Oh, I have no doubt in my mind, Sharna,
that you're modest.
I have no doubt that you took this into consideration,
but what happens next, guys?
- [Sharna] Mm-hmm.
- Like, what's next?
Why not change the locks and be done?
- Well, we have that option,
but then there's gonna be accusations against us
that we tampered with his stuff
and things are gonna be missing
and then we're gonna have to answer for that.
- What, a ramen noodle? - [Sharna] No.
I mean, what's gonna be missing?
He has a computer, a telephone,
stuff that Mary sent him, send it back.
And no matter, he's gonna have accusations,
you're going to come out of this in the negative anyway.
He's not gonna walk outta here blowing kisses.
- [Sharna] Yeah, I'm ready for that, really.
- So all it is, is one phone call.
- I do feel validated that Alicia, you know,
has some of the same concerns
and even more than what I have.
I know what I want, I want Bill gone,
but I won't make a decision on my own
if Mark is not united with me.
- This should be a no-brainer guys, honestly.
- Mark is a very smart man, he's very in tune with God,
and I know that he's gonna do the right thing.
- So what do you guys wanna do?
- I just wanna find out, you know, for sure,
what would happen if we kicked him out?
- I have a friend we can call, he's in law enforcement.
- All right. - Okay.
- All right.
- I just don't know how to deal with Bill.
I'm conflicted because I would really feel bad
if Bill was kicked out and he ended up homeless
or at the mercy of a state,
and yet, day after day, I feel disrespected
and it's really beginning to wear on us.
I don't know what to do.
- [Sharna] Who's your friend, Alicia?
- [Alicia] He's been in community corrections
for a long time,
so he has knowledge on what we're able to do.
Hello?
- Hey, how are you?
- Good.
So, I'm here with my friends, Mark and Sharna,
who sponsored an individual that was in prison,
and safe to say, things are not going as planned.
And so they're looking to end their sponsorship potentially.
- Do you think that there's a chance
he would end up stuck homeless in the Elkhart area then?
- [Sharna] Okay, we sure appreciate your information.
- Thank you so much, friend, appreciate it.
- [Alicia] You too, bye-bye.
- I think having Alicia over has helped Mark and I
really put this whole situation into perspective,
and realizing that just because we agreed
for him to come here, that he doesn't have to stay here.
- Well, I think you guys have all the information
that you need in terms of what you need to do.
And now this is something that the two of you
can pray about and figure out,
but I don't think it's something that should wait.
- Yeah, I don't know if I,
I don't know if I can leave a guy out, you know, maybe-
- You're putting your family at risk.
- At times I'm seeing things clearly, I should kick him out,
and yet, I know that I feel this sympathy for him
that I don't want him to end up in a really bad spot.
- Honey, based on what he said last night
and accusing me that I'm running around
in inappropriate clothing and knocking on his door at night,
which is all lies, I don't want him here anymore.
- I feel like Mark is being hindered by guilt
instead of seeing that he needs to protect Sharna.
And I think Sharna's not saying I want Bill out
'cause she's afraid to upset Mark.
Instead, Mark needs to kick him out
because he can see that his wife's uncomfortable,
and that's where his main concern needs to be.
- I just can't make that kind of decision tonight.
- Yeah, we'll take it to Lord.
He'll show us what we need to do.
Heavenly Father,
we have a lot of things that we need to discuss
about our future, about Bill's future here.
Lord, we need your wisdom.
I pray that you would help us to know
what we are going to do with Bill.
- Lord, you know what the answer is.
We just need you to show us which path to take.
I ask in Jesus' name, amen.
- [Sharna] Amen.
[upbeat music]
- You wanna wear a purple pimp hat?
- Uh-uh. No.
- [Sandra] Yeah, come on, get festive, Nick.
Stop looking so fly.
- [Kyle] You can wear this and look like the hamburglar.
- Mardi Gras is a lot of fun
and I've been going down to the parade
for probably 10 years now,
so it's kind of just become a tradition.
The timing isn't great with Mardi Gras
and with Nick just getting out so recently.
[people chattering faintly]
- There's a lot of drinking going on
so I could see it being hard for somebody
to stay sober at Mardi Gras.
- [Kyle] Nick told me he wanted to go party,
but there's definitely a lot of temptation on the streets
and really hoping Nick can handle it.
You guys ready to have fun? You better be good today.
- I'm excited.
I'm really nervous about the crowd of people and stuff,
what it's gonna be like to be around a lot of people
that are just drinking and partying.
It's just gonna be a lot all at once to take in.
[people cheering]
- Mardi Gras in St. Louis
is the second largest Mardi Gras get together
celebration in the country, behind New Orleans.
- I don't know. [laughs]
- [Kyle] Will you pick me up?
- [Woman] Yes!
- There's tons of barges and floats.
There's alcohol everywhere.
People are drinking at eight o'clock in the morning,
on until dark,
so this is gonna be an ultimate test for Nick.
[woman cheers]
- [Woman] Happy Mardi Gras!
- Happy Mardi Gras!
- You guys wanna get a drink here?
- I've been doing this for at least the last 10,
close to 15 years,
and coming down here and not drinking
and getting completely [beep] faced
is a whole nother life for me.
In years past, it would've been so bad.
By this time, we were hammered.
- I would probably not do Mardi Gras sober.
- [Kyle] I don't personally think I could stand being around
that many drunk people if I wasn't drunk.
[people cheering]
- Are those open for everybody.
- Yeah, those are open.
You gotta pay 5 dollars for those rooms over there.
- Oh yeah, I'm not doing that.
Coming from the environment I was in
and then being down here,
just the whole crowds of people and everyone around you,
it's hard, all my senses are on high alert.
I'm here, there, like, it's overwhelming.
- [Woman] I don't know.
- How did you buy that bottle last night?
- I just was trying to do something nice.
- Like, what the [beep] are you doing?
No more lying, no more games.
If not, then she's gotta go.
There's just certain risk I can't take.
[mellow music]
[phone line ringing]
- Now you're not answering the phone.
Like, that's pissing me off.
Last night was a lot.
Arielle and Quinn both pissed me off real bad.
Then Ari didn't stay here.
I just feel like she's wasting my time at this point.
You had all your friends at my house
and I've been cleaning up after them, not you.
- Okay guys, you ready?
- Salut.
Whoo!
- [Tiffane] You doing God knows what.
[phone ringing]
- Bro, where are you at?
- You said you was on your way a hour ago.
You said you was gonna be here in 10 minutes a hour ago.
- Okay, but like, you really starting to piss me off, bro.
Like, I'm not trying to be in here
cleaning up after your people.
These are your friends I'm in here cleaning up after
and y'all [beep] all over the floor.
Like, come get your [beep].
Like, tighten up.
- It's only been a week
and Ari is already wreaking havoc on my life.
She's clearly spending money.
Like, who knows where she got it from?
It's just very suspicious.
I mean, I'm not her warden or her probation officer,
but if she was still in prison, she would still have rules.
And she comes into my home and doesn't obey any of my rules,
doesn't respect my household, or me for that matter.
Like, what am I doing this for?
I'm over it already, she's annoying.
And she don't listen.
At this moment, I don't really know where me and Ari stand
with this living situation.
I do wanna help her,
but I have to put myself first and my needs and my business
and, you know, everything I have going on.
I can't jeopardize that for somebody
who doesn't wanna help themselves.
- Hey.
So last night, everything seemed good,
the energy seemed right,
then outta nowhere, Quinn went ape [beep] on me,
and me and Quinn are arguing,
which led to me and Tiffane arguing,
which just led to everything being a [beep] show,
so I left the club and I stayed out all night.
- So what's going on,
'cause I'm trying to be patient with you,
but you really are pushing my limits, bro.
Like, all of your friends that were here last night,
leaving they Red Bulls and cups and bottles
and [beep] laying around that I'm cleaning up.
Those are your friends.
If you wanna lay out and do whatever the [beep]
you wanna do, I'm like, I don't care.
Clean up after yourself.
Like, that [beep] annoying.
[Arielle sighs]
- Tiffane is not happy with me, for good reason.
The apartment is a mess
and I was kind of belligerent last night.
- There ain't much to clean now.
It's over, don't worry about it, we're good.
Honestly, these last couple days have been very stressful
with me knowing she's coming and having Quinn in the mix,
and then like my whole life.
I have, you know, a job and running a business.
I'm just overwhelmed, I'm tired,
and I just feel like nobody is being considerate to me
and my feelings and how I may feel about the situation.
I'm not trying to be too pushy, but-
- No, I understand, like at the end-
- How did you buy that bottle last night?
- I got my stimulus check right before I got here.
And also, my parents gave me money too.
- I mean, if you wanna spend $350
on a Patron bottle that's $35...
- I just was trying to do something nice.
- [Tiffane] I mean, hey, [beep].
- Like, I probably should have came back last night,
but when you called me a criminal, like,
that really hurt.
It really hurt that Tiffane called me a convicted felon.
I really just don't think she appreciates
all that I'm doing.
I'm currently in a paralegal class that I started in prison.
I have job interviews lined up, back-to-back,
and then also, like, I have money in the bank, legal money.
And I'm busting my ass to do the right thing
and it's just, all you see me for is my past,
a convicted felon.
Okay, I'm a felon and all these things,
- I was just pissed off.
Like, I didn't mean to say that.
Like, I'm sorry again.
I already told you, I'm not here to judge you from your past
and I'm glad you're being transparent,
but this is my thing,
like, if you know that I don't trust you and stuff
and you out all night and morning
and I'm calling you, like, "Hey, where you at?"
And you saying you 10 minutes away
and then a whole hour goes by,
like what the [beep] are you doing?
That's all I ask, be transparent,
'cause either way I was gonna be pissed off.
You should have just said,
I ain't gonna lie, it's gonna be like a hour.
After our talk, hopefully Ari's on her best behavior.
You know, no more partying, no more lying, no more games.
Maybe we can work it out.
If not, then she's gotta go.
You know I'm a business woman, I got too much at stake.
There's just certain risk I can't take.
I don't know, we just gotta see.
- All right.
[ominous music]
- [Nick] Morning, Bub.
You feeling all right this morning, Sandra?
- I'm actually feeling a lot better than anticipated.
And how'd it go for you, Nick?
Were you able to resist the temptation?
- No, you already know I did have a couple of Hurricanes,
but I'm all right.
- I've had better days.
You know, once the parade and festivities are over,
it just kind of turns into a drink fest,
but I did end up having a couple of Hurricanes
that I now regret.
It did nothing but give me a terrible headache.
- Just don't get used to it.
It just kind of worries me,
'cause alcohol is just a gateway
into what could be a slippery slope
down the wrong direction.
So I just hope that Nick can separate having a little drink,
you know, away from drug addiction.
- Good morning.
Well, I met a girl at Mardi Gras.
Came back to the house.
We had a good time though.
Don't wanna elaborate on that too much.
It's kind of irritating because, you know,
we've opened up our home to him,
we told him we didn't want him banging bitches
in our back bedroom,
and he's kind of an opportunist
and kind of just does what he wants.
- [Nick] What are you looking at me like that for?
- Nothing.
And we'll talk about that one later.
I am a little concerned about where his priorities are.
He seems to have them a little bit twisted.
It just kind of worries me
'cause I'm just hoping that he can separate
just having a good time one day
without going down the wrong path.
- Bye! - Mardi Gras was a blast.
- [Woman] It was so much fun.
It was fun, nice to meet you as well.
[ominous music]
- [Jovan] What's up, man?
- [Jovan] [beep], man.
[Jovan bangs on door]
- [Steven] Man, what the [beep] is you doing over here
at this time of night, man?
- What you mean, man?
You banging loud as [beep] dude, like-
- Where your mother at, man?
- Man, it's one in the,
what you mean, dude? You supposed to be hours ago, bro.
- Where your mother at, man?
- She asleep!
- [Jovan] Where the food at? I'm hungry, man.
- Food? [beep] you, man.
You missed food hours ago, dude!
Just 'cause you grown,
that don't mean you gonna be coming in my mother house
any old time of the night,
and then you can't even answer her calls.
I ain't understanding him,
or where he trying to think he about to be coming from,
thinking he about to be coming in here
doing whatever he want.
No, it's not, it's not gonna work out.
That's disrespectful though, you feel me?
- I ain't being dis, you being disrespectful
for telling me about what I'm doing coming here late, man.
It's my house too.
- You weren't even answering the phone, bro.
Where was you at?
- Man, it don't matter, I'm here, man.
I'm hungry, man, I'm sleepy,
I ain't got time for any of this stuff, man.
- Ain't no dinner going on tonight, bro.
- I come here expecting to heat my food up
and get some sleep.
Instead, I get into it with Artie's son.
Stevie, man, you tripping.
You ain't got no business questioning me about...
Me coming in at what type of hour.
- It's one in the [beep] morning, bro.
- I don't care if it was four in the morning, man.
- [Steven] Man, you coming over here at one in the morning.
- 'Cause I want to, man, that's how.
- [Jovan] Man, get your son, man [beep].
- [Steven] He coming here at one in the morning.
- [Jovan] He talking about why I'm coming-
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold up, hold the [beep] up!
- [Jovan] What you mean?
- I know this your-
- [Steven] I gotta wait to eat my food
'cause of you and [beep].
- [Artie] And we was waiting on you
Come on, man.
- [Jovan] Listen, man. - Listen, no.
- I stopped at the gas station,
got a charger and charged my phone up for five minutes.
- No. No, no, no, no, no.
- [Steven] I told you this was a bad idea.
- I'm not going through this bull [beep].
This aint even cool, Jovan. For real, though.
What about parole and [beep]. - [Steven] He just ignore...
My rules are the same for anybody.
I don't care if you're a returning citizen,
if you my grandmother.
My house, my rules. Do it my way or go.
What the parole officer gonna say?
- [Steven] That's what I'm saying.
- [Jovan] The parole officer aint gonna say nothing.
All I know is I'm hungry, man. I gotta get me something to eat.
- This ain't no time to eat in here, man.
- Aint no food? Right here.
It feel like I'm back in prison or something, man.
They trying to tell me what the [beep] I can do.
What time I gotta come in, what I can eat and all this.
This is some bull [beep].
- Bro, ain't no eating [beep] bro.
[all shouting]
[shouting and cursing]
- Get him out. - Get the [beep] out.
- Whatever, man. - [Artie] Get the [beep] out.
- You aint got to go home, but you got to leave here!
- I ain't about to keep explaining to myself.
- Got to go! - You see what I'm saying?
Door's locked, ass out.
- [Man] I'm really nervous to see Darquavia today.
It was disappointing that he left.
- Once you said you was gonna call the police on me,
that was the end of the story right there.
But I really need a favor from him,
but I'm not sure that I can swallow my pride.
I would've thought
that you would've been more understanding.
- I know that you guys had said to me before I got out
that I couldn't have company.
I just wanna have a friend over
and I don't see what the issue is with that.
- If I were a dude,
I wouldn't be trying to bring some girl
over to my homie's house that's letting me crash.
The fact that Nick's been drinking again has me worried
that something's not quite right with Nick.
I don't like that junkie [beep].
- I definitely think Ari has the capability to change,
I just don't know if she wants to change.
I said, like, I don't feel like
my energy's being reciprocated.
- I'm not trying to like come in and like bombard your life.
- I'm just really nervous to be here by myself.
- I'll do what I can to make sure that you're protected.
- Since we were expecting Bill to come back,
I've been on pins and needles.
- [Sharna] I'm looking at cars.
The unsureity adds another dimension of anxiety.
- [Mark] I don't know who this is.