[somber music]
[dramatic music]
- Today is the first time for me
to see my daughter in over three years.
- I'm not ready to have those interactions with him yet,
so it's gonna be difficult trying to get
the odds and ends of that worked out.
[Kaylana crying] - Oh, Nana.
- It's okay, don't cry.
- The feeling that I'm having right now is one of
the worst feelings that a dad can feel.
- One job I work from seven to 2:30,
then the other job I work from 5:30 to 5:30 in the morning.
- Wow, that's a lot.
- I thought I was ready to jump into the real world
and be on my own and reality, I wasn't.
After I went and stayed with Joe, it was havoc.
- You can come stay at my house and call it home.
[tense music]
- In the past couple weeks, I'm drinking a little bit.
I want to make up for the time I was gone.
If I wanna party, get [beep] up,
and take a chick home from the bar, I want to do that.
It's time to start living my life.
- The fact that he doesn't come home makes me wonder
if he's doing all right.
Nick bought a flashy car and he's been running around
with all these girls.
I'm pretty sure he was high in our house the other night.
- It puts me in a tight spot, 'cause I don't know.
It's like, do I be the juror or the executioner here?
[knocking on door]
- [Steven] What the [beep] you coming over here
at one in the morning?
- 'Cause I want to, man.
That's how.
- Hey, what the [beep] going on down here?
My house, my rule.
Do it my way or go.
You ain't gotta go home but you gotta [beep] leave here.
Door is locked, ass out.
- [Jovan] [beep].
- I am so happy to be in California to be with my lady.
Living it up, living it up.
- The last two or three weeks,
Bill has been more confrontational.
- I called him to let him know that when he returns,
he will not be able to stay in our home.
I'm gonna have to change these locks.
[drill whirring]
Hey.
- Since we were expecting Bill to come back,
I've been on pins and needles.
- What the hell?
Okay, they changed the locks.
[prison door ratcheting]
[suspenseful music]
What the hell?
Okay, they changed the locks.
I guess they wanna be here when I get here.
So they must have changed the locks.
They know I have my [beep] here, my computer here.
All my paperwork's here, all my clothes are here,
and they wanna lock me out.
Let me try the front door.
[suspenseful music]
[knocking on door]
[tapping on glass]
Mark, Sharna?
I was a very, very notorious burglar.
I was a locksmith and alarm technician and they know this.
They know enough about my history.
It's ironic
that you would lock me out.
I could pick the locks in seconds and come right in
and help myself and be sitting at your dinner table
when you come home and like, "Why'd you lock me out?
"You know I'm capable of getting in."
And I live here.
I get mail here.
It's my parole address.
In an abundance of caution, 'cause I'm so afraid
of violating parole and getting in trouble,
I said, "Let me not do that."
- Hey Mark.
Hey, it's Bill.
Are you inside?
- Okay.
Hey, did you change the locks?
[Bill chuckling]
- When have I ever demonstrated to you
I couldn't be trusted?
- It hurts me in a way that they made such a prompt decision
without any kind of notice.
It was just completely pointless and mean-spirited
to lock me out of the house.
There was no justification for it,
but when you're dealing with creeps,
you expect creepy, slimy, sneaky [beep],
and that's what I got.
[dramatic music]
- [Jovan] Hey, I'm gonna make
some scrambled eggs real quick, man.
- [Steven] Yeah.
- You sit down and chop it over breakfast.
I told Artie that I'd be over for dinner,
but I didn't show up.
So we got into a fight.
- [Steven] Why you keep trying to eat?
- 'Cause there's food right here.
You can't keep, hell no.
[indistinct yelling]
- [beep]
- [Jovan] Now no ones gonna eat.
- [Steven] Get him out.
- [Artie] Thank you, bye bye.
- Last night I crashed on a friend's couch,
you know, to let things cool down.
I checked with Artie this morning to make sure
that everything was all right for me to come back
and try and make things up this morning.
I hope everybody be cool though, 'cause we all adults.
I know this is the best place that I need to be right now.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna swallow my pride
and I'm gonna just take this on the chin and I'm gonna
go in here and try and work things out.
That was my fault coming in late like that.
You know, anything could have happened.
Your mother was in the middle.
You know what I'm saying?
She could have got hurt.
- Yeah, for sure.
It's my mom's house, it's her life and everything,
you know, but I just wanna make sure she's safe.
You know, so if Jovan fly off the hinges,
then honestly I'm gonna fly off with him.
Just hoping everything is okay to where
it never escalates to that.
- Good morning, Artie.
- Hey.
- I was here cooking eggs, you know what I'm saying?
- Cooking eggs for him.
Artie don't eat eggs.
I don't like fighting in my house
because terrible things can happen, okay,
but we're all gonna have to sit down and talk
and straighten this out because I can't live like that.
I won't live like that.
What's the verdict?
Y'all all right?
Y'all cool, 'cause last night was off the chizzain?
All right, that stressed me out.
I'm still aching from that.
- Please don't let that happen again.
- When you stand together with somebody,
- [Artie] Mm.
you gonna have falling outs like that.
- Yeah, but you know, but still, yeah, everybody have
to give everybody respect and kind of follow the rules.
Everybody got rules.
I ain't no like, colonel or, you know.
Oh yeah, we gonna work through this, you know,
and we can all just come together
and live a peaceful life at home.
Jovan's brought a new level of drama to my life lately,
but I have to kind of remember, he's just getting out
of prison, you know, and kind of trying to find his way.
I know I made a lot of mistakes when I got outta prison.
So I'm gonna give him a chance to see how this goes.
- I got you, man.
- Yeah, but you all right.
Put it there.
- We're good Steve? - Yeah.
- All right.
[tense music]
[cell phone ringing]
- Hello?
Uh, yeah, I don't think that's a good idea, Nick.
We told you from the get go that we didn't
want you having company over here.
Nick called, saying his girl Riley was gonna come over
and stay the night.
What I don't like about Nick is that we've already told him
no females in the house, and yet he still wants
to keep asking, can he have this girl over?
If he wanted somewhere for him and his girlfriend to stay,
he needed to get his own place,
and the fact that Nick's been drinking again has me worried
that something's not quite right with Nick.
You guys can probably go find somewhere else to hang out.
I don't know, go find, why don't you go to her house?
I wanna see Nick do better and succeed.
I don't wanna see Nick getting high,
but ultimately that's up to him.
I don't care what you're doing.
I don't want it in my house.
I don't want people like that in my house.
I don't like that junkie [beep].
[tense music]
- All right, I need to figure out
why my stitches aren't adding up.
Thank you.
- I asked Sandra about my friend Riley coming over
just for a couple hours.
She lives two hours away and coming to see me
and wanted to hang out for a little bit.
I'm not trying to blow their house up and have sex
on their couch or nothing like that, you know,
but let me have some company.
I just don't, like, I know that you guys had said to me
before I got out that I couldn't have company.
- What are you guys gonna do, sit in your room with no TV?
- [Nick] I was gonna try to hook
the TV up and watch a movie.
- If you wanna get comfortable like that,
you need to get your own place.
Like, 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.
- I don't want to have to go out to bars
or go end up in anybody else's houses or anything.
I just want to have a friend over and I don't see
what the issue is with that.
They're treating me like I'm a child.
- This is my sacred space.
This is my home.
- I wasn't asking to have her in your space.
I was asking her to have her in mine.
I understand it's your sacred space.
This is, I'm not gonna be in here [beep] arguing
with somebody and you're acting like it's immediately
just gonna be terrible.
- You [beep] had [beep] over on Sunday,
passed out drunk on our couch.
Now you want Riley, who you've said
nothing but crazy things about her.
You just told us you were done with her on Sunday.
Now you want her at our house.
I'm against him specifically bringing Riley here,
because I was told she also had a heroin issue.
That's why she was in prison, and I don't feel like
it's healthy for two people who are trying to recover
to be hanging out together like that.
I don't want that [beep] being dragged
through my house, and then the fact that ...
- I'm not dragging nothing
through your [beep] house, dude.
I wasn't. - Well, I'm not giving you,
I'm not giving you the opportunity to.
It's kind of annoying that he's running around
just so worried about this girl and that girl
when he needs to be focused on himself,
doing the things he needs to do to get his own place.
- Well, you don't want to give somebody the time of day
to even try to get to know them.
You just want to assume it's gonna be terrible.
I'm gonna have a [beep] psycho in your house
and it's gonna be a blowout fight.
[beep].
I just feel like I'm still being treated like,
you know, the person I was before I went to prison,
that I'm not capable of making a good decision.
- It's just exactly like I told Kyle,
this is why I didn't want you coming here,
because I know all too well.
- I understand it's their house, but like I don't see why,
what's the difference with me having some company?
- And you know, you wanna say that you weren't high
the other night and I'm not [beep] dumb.
You can lie to yourself all you want.
I know you were on something.
[tense music]
I could tell by your eyeballs.
You proved me right, Nick.
We let you come here. - I wasn't.
I was not high on [beep] anything, Sandra.
- I think he's lying straight to my face
because I know what addiction looks like.
- I can tell.
His eyes were very dilated and just the way he was acting.
- That's not something I'm gonna [beep] argue about.
- Okay, cool then.
- We're done here all everybody, I'm done.
I'm done, dude.
I'm over this [beep], dude.
I'm [beep] moving out.
I'm not doing this [beep] no more, dude.
It's extremely frustrating being accused of
something that you haven't done.
Like, it makes you feel like,
"Well, if I'm gonna sit here and be accused of getting high,
"I might as well get high."
[beep] it, you know?
Take your mic.
- What the hell is going on?
[suspenseful music]
- I'm doing the dishes.
- I've got some cereal.
- After everything that has happened with me and Henry,
we got everything situated.
I just knew going back to Henry
would be the best choice for me.
I'm originally from Kalamazoo and my family is there.
The risk of going back to Kalamazoo would be,
how am I gonna survive?
Where's my money gonna come from, where I'm gonna
get food from, who couch I'm gonna be,
Right now, I have several jobs and I am currently working.
You have to figure out sometimes you have to do
what you need to do in order to survive.
[phone buzzing]
Hold on, man.
Hello?
[tense music]
All right.
[beep]
Actually [beep] I'm discombobulated right now.
- You're discombobulated right now?
- Yeah, I just lost my job.
- You lost your job?
What happened?
- [Henry] Uh huh.
- So they let you go?
- I have two jobs.
One is factory, one is construction.
I mixed up my schedule.
They called me and told me I need to come in,
and I told them I wouldn't be able to make it.
They said, "If you can't come in,
"then we gonna have to fire you."
And they fired me.
It just happened.
One thing led to another and I was pissed about it.
I'm still pissed about it, you know?
But not nothing I can do.
I'm just gonna walk, clear my head for a second.
- Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, go take a walk.
That's a lot.
- It is very difficult to get a job as a former convict.
Checking the box on a job application is very embarrassing
because you don't know if
they're going to give you the job or not
because they judge you off that.
But you do need to be able to keep a job
if you want anything outta life and
to stay on the right path.
[beep]
Oh man, this [beep] is stupid.
No, I told them I was coming.
Being in the streets is easy for us,
because you can make your own money at a fast pace though.
Guys make money, $20,000, $30,000 in a day or two.
You know what I'm saying? Not even that though.
I really am. [suspenseful music]
[dramatic music][suspenseful music]
- What's going on?
- I have nothing else to do here, dude.
I'm over it, dude, I'll pack my [beep],
but I just can't deal with her dude, I'm out.
- Sandra? - Yeah.
I'm not doing nothing.
Sandra's accusing me of, I guess,
being high on painkillers or whatever opiates,
which, she's off her rocker if she thinks
I would go down that path again.
That was the worst days of my life was
during the time of using opiates and heroin.
It was terrible.
So I would never do it.
[suspenseful music continues]
- What's going on?
- He's mad because I told him I don't want Riley over here.
- So what?
He's all pissed off at you then?
- Yeah.
And I said, "You know what?
"The fact that you've been over here getting high,
"living in my house, I don't care what you say."
I know he was on something the other night.
- Right.
- And he got mad and said,
"I'm not high and you're not accusing me of being high,
"and I'm moving out."
I don't [beep] care.
- I'd really like to hear Nick's side of the story.
I will be extremely disappointed in Nick if he's using.
Instead of bettering yourself,
you're just going down the same path
that got you here in the first place.
No, I agree.
We told him before he even got outta jail
that I didn't want anybody here.
- Yeah, I told him I was
really irritated that he was even asking
because he already knows.
Like, "Don't make me have to tell you no.
"I already told you."
[cell phone rings]
- Hold on, here's Nick.
What's up?
I don't know what the hell is going on
I just walked through the door.
Don't start screaming at me, dude.
I mean, I didn't know that that's what happened
before I got here.
- We told you that you weren't gonna stay in our house
and get high. - Sandra shut up.
- Shut up, Sandra, you're just ...
- She's just being rude for no reason.
Like there's no reason to have an argument.
- No, actually I'm not.
I'm pretty sure I'm right about my accusations towards Nick.
If he says he wasn't getting high,
but yet he still stormed out.
It kind of seems a little guilty to me.
- Where are you at?
- She said what she [beep] said for a reason.
- We're not giving you a place to get high.
We're giving you a place to get your [beep] together.
I've worked really hard to get away from things like that.
And yeah, you're not gonna ruin what I call home.
You can go ruin your own home.
- I'm sorry that that's what happened.
But I mean, I understand where Sandra's coming from.
- Regardless of anything, I'm not your enemy.
Ultimately, if anything, Nick, as I've told you,
I worry about you and I don't want you going down
the same road you were going on.
[tense music]
- It's the [beep] reality of it, Nick.
- How about I just give you a call back in a little bit?
- He obviously thinks I'm dumb,
and if that's what he thinks he can get the [beep] out.
[suspenseful music]
- Now things are good between me and Artie,
I can shift my priorities back to my daughter
and learn how to just provide for her.
Artie's been giving me advice
and even lent me some money
to help me set up my cleaning business.
Hey, hello, how you doing?
- Good, how are you?
- I'm in here today trying to get some cleaning supplies.
- Is it a one time cleanup or?
- It's a tryout. - A try, okay.
- If it's good, then they going to let me come back.
- Then you're gonna be great, so it'll be good.
- Artie hooked me up with a trial run with
this gym that she knows.
They set me up with a good opportunity
to show my skills and showcase my business.
I'm gonna be doing like warehouses, offices,
all kind of stuff.
So I need good carpet cleaner.
I need those caution signs too, the wet floor.
One thing that's gonna like kinda stand me out from
the others because I'm using environmentally safe chemicals.
This is a big job and I need everything
that's just gonna get it together.
That way they can like my work and I can get hired.
- Okay, that's a good goal.
- I'm just coming home from prison, I just did three years.
I was in the streets doing all kind of crazy stuff.
So, you know what I mean,
I don't have time to keep going back and forth to jail.
- I love, that's, it's wonderful to hear your story.
And I think that's great.
- This is where it's at legit.
I finally feel like things are falling into place for me
because if it wasn't for this,
I probably still be out here doing
the same thing I've been doing.
It's a big difference between a cleaning business and
a drug business.
With the drug game, you gotta worry about everything.
You gotta worry about the police, the drug dealer,
the women, everything.
So if you ask me,
I'd rather be doing this legitimate cleaning service than
selling these drugs.
It's a pleasure. - Glad you came here.
- Yeah. - For sure.
- It wasn't easy to get here, but I know I gotta work hard.
And if I do that, the opportunities are limitless.
I see you soon, man.
- [Man] See you.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, here comes a pokey van that looks like Sharna's.
Let's see if I can get screamed at again before I leave.
- [Mark] Hey Bill, welcome back.
- Welcome back to a locked house.
- [Mark] Yeah.
- When have I ever showed you any reason to distrust me?
- I'm like, "Oh brother!"
Knowing that Bill was back increased my anxiety.
I could instantly, felt like a tightness in my stomach.
He didn't give us any notice.
So I have no clue what we're walking into with
Bill coming back.
Did you have a good trip?
- Not really.
You guys made it way too stressful.
While I'm in California, I get no peace at all.
No real concern for my love life.
When we've already had the understanding that
if I had to move out, I'd be given
a week or two notice to get my [beep] together.
- What are your plans, are you?
- I had to spend $450 to get here,
to get to Elkhart, on top of all my airfare.
Just for ground transportation,
'cause I couldn't call you guys to pick me up.
- Okay, well you didn't call us.
- $450 now that I owe for getting a fricking
off duty taxi ride.
- There's always a story with Bill.
Always a reason that we should feel sorry for him.
It's just one thing after another.
- This is the most underhanded thing
you could do to somebody in my status
when I'm very vulnerable.
You're so self-absorbed, - I'm not.
Sharna, you're just so self-absorbed,
it's not right.
Your role to demean other people,
or think because you have your upper hand on me,
'cause of parole and you're upstanding citizens on paper.
You don't, you think you're perfect.
- I've never said I'm perfect.
- And you can just be condescending
to me all the time.
And it breaks my heart, 'cause we used to be good friends.
It does hurt me.
- I don't call it condescending
that I remind you of what the rules are
and what's expected here.
We gave you a list of rules.
- There was nothing that constituted a sin or a felony,
nothing, and the stuff about the meat,
you took it as a joke.
Instead you tried to give three-year-old protein powder.
I told you I have muscle atrophy
from being locked up for so long.
I need this protein, real protein.
- We provided eggs, we provided cottage cheese.
- But I can't live off that, I needed meat once in a while.
- Okay, and so walking distance is
a McDonald's and a Burger King,
and I told you, you could go anytime out there.
- You're not listening.
- You're still blaming us for where you are now.
You've no job, no medical.
The parole officer told you ...
- No job?
I have several jobs and the parole recognizes all of them.
- They're not bringing in money.
- Parole has it written down as being a legitimate job.
Author is a legitimate job.
- But you yourself said ...
- It's not nine to five.
- ... it's not bringing money in.
- Sticking diabetic needles in people
and changing colostomy bags,
just 'cause it's not a nine to five traditional job
doesn't mean it's not a job.
There's plenty of people that don't have traditional jobs.
They're jobs, though.
- But you said ...
- Instead of you supporting me, say,
"Bill, I hope you make your dreams."
And supporting me, you're telling me it's not a job
and ridiculing me all the time.
Support what I'm trying to do.
- I mean, you're the one that's been able to
go on vacation and we're tied down to jobs.
- Okay, so I have people sponsoring me
to try to get this book deal and movie deal.
When that money comes through,
I have to reimburse them just like I have to reimburse you.
- You're here in our house so you could get on your feet.
- Yeah. - We agreed to that.
We didn't agree to pay for everything for you and ...
- You haven't paid for everything for me.
My girlfriend and her mother have been sending me money.
- I know. - [Bill] To continue on.
- There was an agreement that he would have
a few weeks of freedom, free rent.
And then I spent several hundred dollars on
Bill's clothes and shoes and cologne and other things.
And so I just kept track of that.
Bill never gave me a timeline for when he would pay me back.
But the understanding was from the beginning that
he was going to be getting a job.
- Like Mary said, we're getting married.
When are you guys getting divorced?
- Huh!
- We're not.
- So how'd that go? Did you get on one knee?
- I love Christians, let's stay tuned.
You guys don't get along,
and you didn't get along before I got here.
- Wow.
- I'm pissed off, I'm tired.
I don't pose any threat to you guys,
but that was ridiculous, locking the door.
What do you think, I'm gonna move out with your furniture?
You don't have anything that I want that I would steal.
- We have the right to change.
- You do, you do, but it's the point, it's the point.
- Yes. You won't leave me alone.
- You can respectfully say, "Hey Bill,
"let's everybody cool down."
- You demand. You harass me over and over.
- Don't give me orders.
You don't understand, you don't get it.
- You don't understand.
- I've tried every way, which way possible.
I'm not your child, stop speaking down to me.
Talk to me very friendly like you used to do,
and not what's condescending disrespect all the time.
I've lived with you guys.
I've seen so much hypocrisy.
The stupidest thing I ever saw in my life.
[somber music]
- Hearing that I just got fired from my job was rough.
And I just need some time to think,
but I do want to talk to Henry about everything.
- Hi there.
- What's going on?
- Lots of stuff, I'm busy.
- You and me both.
- Yeah.
I'm not concerned about Darquavion
moving back in with me
other than he has to be upfront with me about
what's going on and notify me of
anything that's sitting in the gray zone.
So something doesn't backfire.
Did you eat breakfast or something or lunch or?
- No, I didn't eat, but I'm all right.
- [Henry] You all right? - Yeah.
- So I have to admit, I was worried about you after
you had that one phone call.
Seemed like you were pretty stressed out.
- I had to go clear my thoughts.
Figure out what my next move was.
My mind is somewhere else right now.
- Yeah, so it seems like.
- Yeah, I lost both of my jobs.
- You lost both of your jobs. Were they connected?
So me not showing up yesterday when they needed me,
and the other job called them and told them,
you know what I'm saying?
"He didn't show up."
Just a lot on my mind, that's all.
- Had you ever not showed up before?
- No, I called them.
- You did call them?
- Yeah, I did what I was supposed to do, it just ...
- Beforehand? - Yep.
I feel like coming home from prison and being a felon,
I already got a target on my back.
A lot of people judge you off that.
People are going to automatically judge me,
so I can't make any mistakes, even small ones.
- You have been to hell and back
quite a few times with different things,
and you have found solutions
and you've gotten through difficult things.
So I suspect you'll get through more difficult things.
So the only real problem would be that
you just need to find another kind of work, right?
- Yeah.
- Well, I guess what I'm thinking is
that you could get work around here.
I want Darquavion to get a stable job
and save money while he's staying here with me.
I will never turn my back on Darquavion.
If he needs me, I'll be there for him.
I'm actually checking into a few people I know
who might have jobs you want.
- That'd be dope.
- Yeah, that'd be, wait,
did you say that'd be good or that'd be dope?
- It does mean good, so yeah.
[both laugh]
That was a big blow to me, not losing one,
but both of my jobs.
I considered up going back to my old life
and doing the things that I knew to survive.
But staying at Henry's has helped me
want to try again.
- I want to get this cleaning account
to prove to my ex, Kelly, that I'm on the right path.
I wanna prove to her that I'm trustworthy,
that I'm capable so I can get more time with my daughter.
Kelly, she holds the power to do that.
[pensive music]
- Oh my God, there he is.
Go straight back, we're going all the way back.
I'm trying to mentor Jovan and help him get on his feet.
Even though there's been some miscommunication
and some drama, I see something in Jovan,
and I'm gonna try to help him and
not give up on him so fast and see what happens.
I'll spray, you wipe, always spray your inner bar too.
- Oh, okay.
I'm gonna do this right here.
If you take care of that for me, I'll appreciate it.
- Okay.
Jovan has kind of changed his attitude since our fight.
Maybe he's gotten over some of the difficulties of
just getting out of prison.
If he stays on this path I see great things for Jovan.
Maybe his relationship with his daughter and work
will thrive.
I'm gonna keep working with him.
- You know I appreciate it.
Everything that you done from the beginning,
- [Artie] Yeah. you know what I'm saying?
You've been there for me.
You mentored me a little bit.
[Artie laughs] - A little bit.
Bring it in, bring it in, bring it in.
- Oh, I appreciate it. - All along.
I'm just, you know, I'm proud of you.
I just want you to know that.
- It's really nice to have somebody that believes in you.
That's just like a wonderful feeling.
Never have someone really take the time out to try and
mentor me, and I'm not gonna mess this up.
Well, I still gotta taste some of that home cooking too.
- What you think I'm gonna go home and cook now?
That ain't going happen, Jovan.
- Oh, man.
- Matter of fact, you're taking me to dinner.
- Oh [beep].
- Okay, well.
- Dinner on me. - Okay.
[pensive music]
- I don't wish you any ill will.
I mean, I'm disappointed that
things have turned out the way they have.
Not on the best of terms between us.
[dramatic music]
I pray for you and for your girlfriend.
- You wanna talk to her and pray with her?
- I do not, I have to go to work.
- I feel it's beyond petty,
but it's that they're asking me to leave
and the way they're doing, going about it,
because it's completely not necessary to do it this way.
It just shows the mean spirited nature that
they've been showing me the whole time I've been here.
I'm vulnerable, but I'm not gonna let you
walk all over me because I'm vulnerable.
I'm grateful for what they did,
but that doesn't mean I have to stay there and
be emotionally abused and treated like [beep].
So.
- No need for anymore goofing around.
- It's not goofing around.
- Bill, it's been relentless.
It's been dogmatic, it's been constant ...
- And you didn't see how everything went south
because your behavior ...
- ... over and over again for months.
- You failed to see that.
Everybody's tried to impress that upon you and
you never grasp it.
- Bill has burned a bridge here and he's an adult.
He has the funds through his girlfriend and stuff.
He can go get a motel.
Bill has really damaged our friendship.
We've just had enough.
I'm letting Mark make the decision about the timeout.
I mean, I don't ...
- He's trying to make decisions,
but everybody can tell you're controlling him.
- I don't control him. - Yes you do.
- No, Mark, do I control you?
- No, that's why you just said you're turning it over to me
to make the decision.
You can't stay here tonight, get a hotel room.
- Why can't you say,
"You have a lot of crap in your room, Bill.
"If you need a few days, that's fine."
But no, you want me out in minutes.
You know what? - No.
- That just says more about your character, that's all.
- So that's where we're at.
- I've been nothing but decent to them.
I offer to help around here all the time.
I've helped on a few things and they're treated me like
so much trash to be put on the curb right now.
But I'm a survivor, I'll survive.
I've got a good woman and
one night in a fleabag hotel maybe
is not gonna change anything.
- You're so self absorbed.
- You're so convinced that your version of Christianity's
correct and everybody else is a piece of [beep].
- I don't think that about people.
- With all due respect, I think you're full of [beep].
We're supposed to be behaving as Christians.
I don't know, I don't wish any bad on your marriage,
- [Sharna] Mm hmm.
but I guarantee you, it is not going much further.
- Really? - Really, really.
- Really this whole situation has really been ...
- No man is gonna put up with what you put this man through.
I thought you were my friend.
- Just stop, it's ridiculous.
- I'm being ridiculous? - Yes.
- Okay, Sharna.
- Yes, it's ridiculous the way you're carrying on.
- Sheesh, I'm ridiculous. - [Sharna] mm hmm.
I don't wanna make you cry.
I don't wanna make you cry later, Sharna, you know,
it's just reality. - I'm not gonna cry.
- I've seen the fights you guys have had.
I've seen you running off mad at him, him mad at you.
[dramatic music]
- You don't seem like you care about us or our marriage.
Why don't you just get out?
Why don't you just go?
- Okay.
- Pack in what you need.
Tell your PO you're going to a motel for the night.
- That's it, done deal, okay. - [Sharna] Mm hmm.
Take it easy.
Friends don't do that.
- We're done with it.
- Get your hand outta my face.
- We're done with it, I'm not talking about it anymore.
- You don't rob me of my ability to speak, Sharna.
- I'm not talking about it anymore.
- I don't put my fingers in your face.
- All right, I gotta go.
- [Sharna] I'm not listening today.
I've heard too much already.
- Of course you have.
[somber music]
Mmm.
I haven't had one of these in so long.
- Oh yeah, that's from the deli up there.
Ooh, they are good.
- Yeah.
- Since me and Artie made up
things are looking good for my cleaning business.
She done hook me up with a couple little jobs, little,
couple little leads, you know what I'm saying?
Places that she worked at before.
I'm kind of happy.
Two of my biggest goals is, one, is the stay out of prison.
The other one is the strength of my relationship with
my daughter Kaylana.
By me having this cleaning service right now,
it's going to help me in the future.
- This weather's got me.
- Oh yeah.
- Really crappy, yeah.
- That medicine ain't doing nothing for you.
- Mm mm.
- I have a degenerative bone disease
and I was diagnosed about three years ago.
I have 14 screws and seven plates in my neck now.
So I have been through a lot,
but I'm still here and I'm making it.
[doorbell rings]
That's the door, get it.
- Hi. - Can I help you?
- Jovan [beep].
- What?
Hey man, get off my porch man, [beep].
Get out of here.
Been served, for what?
- Been served?
Oh my God.
- Oh, oh. - What?
- It's some divorce papers. Let me see what it says.
- Oh, what, from Kelly?
- I gotta be down there 22nd. - The 22nd?
Yeah, that's next Monday.
- Wow.
- Ain't nothing to contest, it's over.
We've been through.
- What? - [Jovan] Long time ago.
- Yeah.
- I was in love.
I was in love big time,
but I didn't know how to love.
Like far as spending that quality time and
just doing the things that
a husband's supposed to do with a wife.
I wasn't really doing that.
- Other things. [Jovan chuckles]
Kelly caught me cheating.
And after that it was all downhill from there.
But I know right now I'm not fully stable
where if I was to go for custody battle with my wife,
it's not gonna go my way.
With this divorce stuff, - Yeah.
I ain't really worried about that.
It's basically about my daughter, man.
- Right.
- I wanna stay in her life.
I might need your help talking to her, man, because ...
- I will.
Now that the courts are involved,
him being an ex con, it's like he has a 0% chance of
getting custody of his daughter.
I know how important parents are to their kids.
I had to fight to stay in my son Steven's life,
and I'm gonna help Jovan
fight to stay in his daughter's life.
It's not fair to keep a loving parent from their kid.
I'm not gonna tell y'all what to do, you know?
- [Jovan] Right, I understand.
- Yeah, as long as it's for
the best interest of your daughter.
- Maybe since you're a woman,
you probably can talk to her and let her know like.
- I'll try to help you.
- Yeah.
I really would appreciate that. - Mm hmm.
- As long as y'all okay for your child.
- Yeah, that's all it's about, me and this girl, man.
- Sorry we disagreed a little bit about
you having people over,
but I felt as if we were pretty cut and dry about that
from before you even got released.
- If you're not serious about your sobriety,
you're gonna end up either back in prison or dead.
Y'all need to not get comfortable.
- [Sandra] Get up on your feet and figure your [beep] out.
- I'm [beep] done here, dude.
This is it.
- You've done a lot for me though.
You've been my stepping stone.
And I just wanna tell you if, you know,
we even have our up and downs.
- My fingers are crossed and my belief is strong.
I think DQ is going to be successful.
- You got a surprise?
- Yeah, I do though.
- You need to build the relationship with
your daughter first, then ease her into family.
You see what I'm saying?
Kelly just served Jovan with divorce papers.
Hello? - Hi.
- Are you Kelly? - Yes.
- It could jeopardize his relationship
with his daughter and make it where he can't see her.
If your daughter's ever at my house,
- Mm hmm.
I'm gonna be watching him and her.
If you give him the chance to bring her to my house,
it could work.
- Unfortunately time has come to end this and
I'm sorry for the mistakes that we've made.
I have to put my wife and our household,
our sanity before Bill.
I just hope that time and space can make things better.
Sorry we failed you.