(suspenseful music)
- Richard is the one that introduced me to Jennifer.
Oh, my God, it's her!
- I'm free.
- My new roommate.
(laughing)
I'm excited to see what our future holds.
With my disability,
do you plan on helping me with some of the bills?
- I gotta take care of myself
before I can take care of anybody else.
- I'm just trying to enjoy my freedom right now.
- Are you thinking this is a free ride?
- ♪ Gonna start a fire
Today, I woke up in my own room,
miles away from prison.
I'm feeling great.
♪ Every time we will see
- [David] I'm doing this because I want to change the system.
Well, these are files from people in prison.
- Oh my gosh.
- Lots of people coming out of prison need housing.
I'm excited to see if this is a way
that I can contribute in that way on a regular basis.
- So, if there is issues being like,
"Hey, let's change this living situation."
So it's not a, you know,
"I'm gonna burn your (bleep) house down."
- You staying?
- [Mark] Yeah, I gotta stay, man.
Or they're gonna, you know?
- I don't even know these women.
This is not a brothel.
- You trying to ruin my first day out.
- They're not my problem. What I say goes.
- [Vada] You gotta respect my wife.
- The finesse king, right here.
You're looking at him. (chuckles)
I just want you to hopefully accept my apology
and we can move forward. - Yeah.
- This apology to Analisa right now,
it's just a means to an end.
We gonna play this game the right way.
- I got your back.
- You make it all the way to Carissa's house
and he decides, "I don't want to go to Texas,
I want to stay with my sister."
We have gone to a lot of trouble here
for him to do something like that.
- Did you get high?
She's overreacting because she doesn't trust
that I can stay sober.
(dramatic music)
I love you, sis.
- Have a good time. Drive safe.
- I'm not regretting spending extra time with my family.
But right now, I gotta get to Texas
and check in with my parole officer.
Ah, what the hell is that? (car beeping)
(dramatic music) Oh, no!
(gate rattling)
(suspenseful music)
- Oh, what the (bleep)?
(tense music)
My car was just overheating.
I had the assumption it was overheating,
but it would go back to normal
until it just wouldn't go and started puttering out.
I turned it off, came out,
and the smoke came out immediately.
I don't know what my parole officer's gonna say about this,
'cause you can get in big trouble for not showing on time.
So I hope that he can understand.
I took pictures of it.
So we'll see what goes on from there.
- My name's Deven.
I'm from Colorado and I was transferring over to Texas.
My 72 hour deadline has come up and my car's broke down
and I don't know what to do about it.
If I don't make it to parole on time, they could violate me,
they can send me back to Colorado.
They can make my life way more harder than it needs to be.
I have to figure this out.
- Yeah, absolutely not.
I have pictures of it on my phone.
I mean, I'm not trying, it's smoking in my face right now.
I'm not trying to sit here and bull(bleep) you.
Just tell me what's gonna happen.
I just don't know what's gonna go on.
- Okay.
- Yeah, I won't. I appreciate you.
(suspenseful music)
I'm super relieved this dude is taking my word.
I'm just gonna see what I can do and, you know,
hope for the best and see if I can get there.
(suspenseful music)
- Come on, Sparker, let's go get some exercise
'cause you getting fat.
Come on.
My name is Emily.
I like to hide my age.
Keep people guessing.
Come on, boo.
I'm a steel worker.
I load steel on trucks at night with the forklift and cranes.
And I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Whatcha doing, you having fun?
You're getting fat.
I lost my identity around 2008.
My social security number had been stolen.
I lost everything because of it.
And my life has never been the same since.
Gotta get your walks in before your buddy arrives tomorrow.
My job just doesn't pay what I need to support myself.
The thought of losing my house
and not having anywhere to go is very scary.
So, yeah, to help with paying the rent,
I am going to have an inmate I've never met
move in my house.
(tense music)
- He better be your buddy or he won't stay long.
I haven't met Jason yet,
but this all happened through a friend named Cindy.
He was supposed to move in with her,
but it didn't work out because her daughter has to move in.
That's when Cindy put the two of us together
and figured we could solve each other's problems.
- I guess I'm just a trusting person
and, you know, I trust Cindy.
And if Cindy trusts Jason, then I will as well.
- [Recording] Hello, this is a free call from-
- [Jason] Jason.
- [Recording] An inmate at the Minnesota
Department of Corrections, Willow River facility.
To accept this free call, press zero.
(phone blips)
- Hi. - How you doing?
- [Emily] I'm all right, just walking the dog.
What are you doing? How are you?
- [Jason] I can't wait to get out.
- I bet.
- [Jason] Eat some food and see some girls.
- See some girls where?
Not at my house.
- [Jason] You know, I'll just see 'em around and yeah.
(tense music)
- I don't know all the crimes that Jason's been charged with,
but I do know that identity theft is one of them.
- I don't even like telling people that
because it sounds so crazy
and it just makes me sound like I'm nuts.
You know, like I'm crazy or,
but when you are desperate for something,
you will do things that you normally would never do.
- [Jasson] I'll see you tomorrow
and I super appreciate you coming to get me
and giving me a place to live.
And we can sort out all the rules and the parameters
and the money and all that stuff when I see you, okay?
- All righty.
I can sit here and think all day long
about all kinds of awful things that can happen,
but we'll see.
(suspenseful music)
Come on, hot dog.
(tense music)
(knocking)
- [Joe] What's going on?
- Oh, man, it's just been a hectic day.
You can come on in.
- [Joe] All right, thank you.
- [Analisa] Mark's not here right now.
- He said, "Just tell him I'm sick."
You're not sick.
I'm not doing that.
- I don't know.
He wants to go make some money, whatever that means.
After Mark's apology,
I thought we were gonna be on better terms.
But he didn't come home last night
after his 11:00 PM curfew.
It's making me feel like everything
that he said about wanting to do better wasn't sincere.
(tense music)
- See, this is what I'm saying.
Where's Joe at, man?
- Oh, (bleep).
- She said some weird (bleep), bro.
I gotta go, bro.
This (bleep) crazy.
I don't know what she's doing.
- I don't know what's happening here.
All I'm doing is covering what's happening.
- This is serious, bro.
You gotta understand it, bro. This is serious.
I'm about my health, bro. I'm sick.
You're not a doctor or a nurse or nothing.
Just telling me my health ain't important.
It just kind of me pissed me off.
(indistinct), I gotta go.
- [Analisa] What's wrong with you?
I don't feel good. I gotta get to the hospital.
- [Joe] Everybody's clear.
- I just gotta get away from this place immediately.
(dramatic music)
(suspenseful music)
- The smoke's been going down for this past hour
and I can tell it's cool.
I just gotta get it going.
I'm gonna start it up.
(suspenseful music)
The parole officer, he was cool enough to understand
that it was a situation I can't control
and he's letting me come in tomorrow.
So now I'm on my way to Texas
to meet up with Cathy and Daniel.
(engine starts)
There we go.
No smoke, we're going, the car's going good.
Oh, it's a little hot though.
Okay, I just gotta baby it, I guess.
Let's roll.
(car humming)
(tense music)
- Hey, man, how's it going? - [Deven] Hey.
- God bless, you made it, brother. (laughing)
I wish I would've been able to make it there.
- That was a crazy drive.
- This is my wife, Cathy.
- Hi. - Cathy, this is Deven.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.
- Glad to meet you finally.
- [Daniel] Let me show your room so you can get you some sleep.
And don't worry about unpacking until tomorrow.
This is gonna be your room.
This here turns into a couch.
- [Deven] Oh, that's very cool.
- But we set it down so you wouldn't have to worry
or try to figure out how to open it up and lay down.
We've got a refrigerator here.
And that laptop, Cathy left it there.
- [Deven] Thank you.
- Yeah, that's a little bit bigger than your cell, ain't it?
- It's a lot bigger.
- I think Cathy's gonna cook you some breakfast in the morning.
- All right.
- And she's a pretty good cook, so you'll like it.
- Okay.
- Now that he's here, I feel a little bit of relief.
You know, haven't met him.
- But anyway, brother, I'm gonna let you sleep.
I'm gonna let you go to bed. - [Deven] Hey, thank you.
- All right, I'm glad you made it.
God bless, thank you Lord.
- I'm a little more optimistic than I am anxious and nervous.
(pensive music)
(suspenseful music)
- [Cyndi] Tell me directions to get home.
- [Phone] Your home is one hour, 51 minutes
from your location by car. - [Cyndi] It is.
- [Jennifer] You get to pick. - [Cyndi] Chocolate and vanilla.
This one's cookies and cream.
That's probably- - Ugh!
(Jennifer laughing)
- I am very thankful for the chance that Cyndi's giving me.
But after being released, I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed.
There's a lot going on.
I have a lot of stuff on my list to get done
and it's overwhelming, really overwhelming.
So now, we're on our way to go pick up my car, right?
Go get my stuff and everything
so I can feel like a human being.
Take a shower. - Um...
- I'm really excited for my phone and stuff.
- So, Richard has to go to work.
- Okay.
- [Cyndi] When we get back up there to my place-
- So you mean like we're not going to-
- Get your car right away?
- Me and Cyndi had discussed about getting my car
on the way back from the prison to Vining at my brother's.
I mean, but that was the whole thing
is about going and getting my car.
And you guys knew that was a priority
on my list of going and doing.
- But this was something that came up.
So it's kind something that happened all of a sudden.
- I don't know how I really feel about that.
It's kind of irritating.
- Things happen.
He's got his life also.
I mean- - But today's my day.
- The way Jennifer is acting right now is surprising to me.
I didn't expect her to have an attitude.
(suspenseful music)
- Come on.
All right, you guys be good. Be good.
I'll be right back.
(dog barking) Quiet, Chops.
Today is a big day.
Jason's getting released from prison.
I think I'm most nervous about bringing Jason home
because I'm going on a personal reference
from a very good friend of mine.
And I don't know him to know what the red flags are.
(phone ringing)
- [Cindy] Hello? - Hey, what's going on?
- [Cindy] Oh, not too much.
- I'm going to pick up Jason at the prison.
- So do you really think he's gonna pull it together or?
- Yeah, well, you know that saying,
"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst."
- I'm almost there.
- Okay. - Bye.
(suspenseful music)
Well, here we are.
It's gonna be interesting.
I hope it all goes well.
(tense music)
Oh, I just wanna get this over with.
- It's very worrisome. It's a big step.
This is a big change for me.
It's stressful.
The waiting is the hardest part.
Oh, boy.
(suspenseful music)
- Didn't think I was ever getting outta there.
- Hi. - How you doing?
It's good to meet you. - Good to meet you too.
- How you been? - I'm all right.
How about you? - I'm all right.
I mean, to be on the other side of this fence
feels pretty exhilarating to tell you the truth.
And I got a good attitude
and I am motivated to change my life a little bit
so I don't come back to this place.
And so being out and just having a good look around
just reminds me of how much I missed while I was gone.
Thank you for coming to pick me up
and taking a chance on me.
- Yeah, you're welcome. - I super appreciate it.
It's like, almost too good to be true.
Plus I'm going back to North Minneapolis,
the city where I love, so.
- Yeah, right in the heart of it.
Yeah, you're gonna be right in the thick of it.
- [Jason] Yeah.
- Well, first impression, you know, it's good.
We don't know each other, so it's hard.
We'll get something to eat and then kind of talk,
'cause I work tonight so, you know?
I know we talked about some things on the phone.
- Well, hopefully they're a little negotiable,
I'm hoping, so.
- Well, I don't know.
- We'll talk about it. How's that sound?
- I guess, yeah. - Okay.
(tense music)
Honestly, I'm pretty good at manipulation,
so I don't plan on like throwing
any parties or anything like that,
but I've been away a long time.
I definitely wanna see some girls.
And so if I have to circumvent the rules a little bit,
or whatever, I'll just do my thing, so.
(suspenseful music)
- [Emily] All right, well, you can throw that in the back
if you want and we'll figure out where to go for lunch.
- Wonderful.
Standing here, trying to think about what the future holds
and I could say, "Oh, I'm gonna really do it this time."
Or "I'm a changed man."
And, you know, I've said it so many times
that it just doesn't hold any weight anymore.
So I guess my actions will actually prove the point or not.
(suspenseful music)
- We're here. - Woohoo!
- [Jennifer] Finally, woohoo! Yeah.
- This is my humble abode.
- [Jennifer] Well, it looks big.
- Things with Jennifer and I are a little rocky right now.
Jennifer and I will warm up to each other.
It's gonna be a learning experience for both of us.
So I'm hoping for the best.
- [Jennifer] I'm just gonna push this in there.
- [Cyndi] Sure. All the way into the kitchen.
- Okay.
Hello.
(tense music)
Oh my gosh. (laughing)
I mean, it was gross.
It smelled horrible.
My OCD. (sighs)
It would be a process here.
Well, I would start with decluttering
and then after decluttering,
that's probably when I would clean, like the basis of things.
And then after you clean that,
then I would probably get really down
to cleaning the corners or the walls and stuff like that, yeah.
- And there's my Maxy!
- [Jennifer] Hi, Max! - He's so excited.
And this will be your room.
(gentle music)
- Aw!
I lost my house when I went into jail.
It's hard to take in that my home
that I've been living in for 12 years is no longer my home.
It's surreal.
And I'm really at somebody else's mercy
in their home, you know?
I feel very vulnerable.
It's scary.
(suspenseful music)
(tense music)
(knocking)
- [Vada] Here I come.
Oh, you didn't have to knock, man, (bleep).
My casa, su casa.
All right, without a doubt, without doubt. Come on.
(suspenseful music)
Like them Jordans, man.
(tense music)
So, did the hospital visit go all right?
- Yeah, it was cool.
- That's good because we want you to be healthy.
- I didn't get no, (laughs and stammers)
I got a confirmation to come back another day.
- [Vada] Oh, there's Analisa. - Oh, hey.
- [Mark] What's up, man? - [Analisa] You home.
- [Mark] Yeah.
- [Analisa] How was your day?
- [Mark] It was great.
- What did you do?
- Go to the hospital.
- [Analisa] What hospital did you go to?
- Don't worry about all that. Why you asking?
- [Analisa] Why you gotta get smart?
I just asked you a question.
(tense music)
- And my other question to you is,
I know that you got some nice shoes.
Mark comes home with brand new shoes on
that he didn't leave the house with.
Vada, do you think they sell tennis shoes at the hospital?
- Hell no.
I ain't never seen no shoes being sold at the hospital.
- How long did they keep you at the hospital today?
- Quit worrying about how long I'm doing what.
- I'm just asking a question, trying to have a conversation.
- [Vada] Hey, we don't even need to go there.
- But I'm saying, if I can't ask questions
and he keeps getting smart like that,
I'm just trying to figure out where he's gonna stay.
- Man, look, man.
You guys didn't even clean up the room
for me or nothing, it feels weird.
Yeah, there was dog (bleep) in there.
- Where?
- All under the bed.
The room is a (bleep) mess.
- Let's go see it because I wanna see the dog (bleep)
that you said that you see was underneath your bed.
- [Mark] Okay, go see.
- [Vada] Is it still under there?
- I don't know. I ain't been in there.
- [Analisa] You just said that you seen
dog doo-doo under the bed. - Go look at it.
It's under the bed. - Okay.
Vada, come here.
(suspenseful music)
Oh, there is. - [Vada] Yeah, I get it.
- Hey, I told 'em it's under the bed.
They see it.
- Why didn't you get that?
- [Vada] (bleep), damn, I get it.
Damn, ain't that big of a deal, (bleep).
- [Analisa] I didn't know that.
- [Vada] (bleep) damn.
- Yeah, the room's a mess.
I hope you don't put that on TV.
Well, I apologize about that 'cause I didn't know.
- But it just shows how much you put into the room.
You had ample time to get it prepared,
knowing that I was coming.
- Okay, well you should be thankful
for whatever you get, actually.
- (bleep), there we go with this (bleep).
She's crazy.
She just be doing too much.
And I don't got time for people doing too much.
- Check this out. - [Mark] Listen.
- You don't even have to- - [Mark] No, you always talking.
How about you listen for once?
- You don't even- - You're always talking.
- You know what? - That's the problem.
You're just always talking. - [Analisa] This is my house.
- Okay, okay.
- Then on top of that, you don't even have to stay here.
- You keep talking. - You don't have to stay here.
Guess what, are you gonna stay here or not?
- Are you gonna listen to someone else
besides your own, selfish opinion?
- [Vada] Hey, hey, hey! - You don't have to stay here.
- Ain't nobody going nowhere.
- If he don't wanna be appreciative,
he don't have to stay here.
- Enough is enough.
Stop it.
(dramatic music)
- [Vada] Enough is enough.
If he's on edge with answering questions and you know it,
that's kinda like you badgering.
- [Analisa] Well, why you speaking for him?
- [Vada] I'm not speaking for him.
- I'm trying to figure out why you standing over me
raising your voice, brother.
- [Vada] 'Cause I want you to stop it.
- Okay, well, you better step back.
- Stop it. - Like you running something.
- Ain't nobody running,
ain't nobody say nothing about running nothing!
- Talking about, I said.
- [Vada] I just don't want hear the arguments.
- You should talk to the young man about his mouth.
- I am!
I'm not gonna do it in front of you
because that's not how men talk.
(tense music)
I hate what's going on right now.
I hate the animosity.
It's like two negatives running together.
Bam, bam!
- You enjoying this, huh?
This chaos you causing?
With your devilish behavior.
(Mark laughing)
- Devilish behavior? I haven't heard that one.
- You got a smart mouth and I don't have to keep you here.
(Mark chuckling)
- I'ma talk to Mark.
Could you leave the room, Analisa, please?
(suspenseful music)
- [Mark] I'm really not trying to talk.
- [Vada] Thank you, no, no, no, no.
- [Mark] I know, like-
- I didn't say I was gonna talk about that.
I'm gonna talk about you.
As far as I'm concerned,
you're doing everything you need to do,
everything you supposed to do.
But all I need is when you come home,
I need you and Analisa to get along.
I know you can do this.
'Cause I want you here.
(tense music)
Give me a hug, man.
Give me a hug.
- I'm good. - Come here.
- I'm good, man.
- Well, give me a handshake then.
All right, then.
I think Mark can go the full distance.
I think the arguments, the disagreements,
that can help him survive in this world
because everything is not gonna go his way
and everything's not gonna go Analisa's way.
Oh, boy.
(pensive music)
- [Daniel] You need any help?
- Um, not at the moment, but-
- Good. - I might, so stand by.
- Hey there, little brother! - Good morning.
- How are you this morning? - How are you?
- How are you guys doing? - [Cathy] We're doing all right.
- [Deven] What are you doing, Cathy?
- [Cathy] I am going to make,
I guess what you call a skillet breakfast.
- I have basic rules.
The most important,
if he uses in any way, shape, or form,
this is over.
Just before I forget.
We kind of talked about the four rules.
Basic, no alcohol or drugs, no profanity,
no overnight guests, and we're gonna work on honesty.
- These rules are a lot, you know?
I don't know if I can follow these rules.
I can't have no relationships.
I can't have no friends to stay the night.
I mean, like, it sucks. I'm 24 years old.
Are they trying to isolate me from the community?
I don't know what's going on.
- You know, we have it set up for 90 days.
We're okay for 90 days.
You know, you can stay here.
We're not gonna charge you rent.
We want you to be able to save as much money as possible
so you can get out on your own.
Three months is a good amount of time to see, you know,
are you really serious about this.
Find a job, find a, you know, good support system,
that type of thing. - Yeah.
So say I get caught in the heat of the moment
and I break the rules, then the deal's off, right?
I'm outta here?
- You know, the biggest one that I don't care
what anybody says, is if you use.
- Yeah. - Because I know if you use,
you don't stand a chance of getting anything right.
- And if I feel you did it defiantly,
it's time for you to finally start looking for a new place.
(intense music)
- [Aaron] All right, man, let's do this.
- [David] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Man, I ain't been canoeing in a minute.
- [David] I know, me neither. (both laughing)
- I ain't been around no water in a minute.
- Right?
Yeah, I figure you gotta get to the beach
in the summer at some point.
- Yeah, yeah, you gotta hit the beach.
Today, David and I are gonna do something
I haven't done in forever.
Not since I was a kid.
Hit the water and do some kayaking.
- All right.
(doors thud)
One of the best things about Minneapolis in the summer
is that we have lakes right in the city.
I figured it'd be great to get out there
and get on the water and, you know,
get to know each other better.
- [Aaron] Oh, man, it is so good
to just be on the road driving and just in the mix.
- Yeah.
- [Aaron] I used to sell drugs right there.
- [David] Really? - Yeah, a long time ago.
I mean, I just used to park there
and meet people a lot, you know?
- Yeah, yeah. - Years and years ago.
It's surreal to drive down these streets
of places that I used to do drugs at or sell drugs.
I got arrested for selling drugs to an undercover.
I was sentenced to 158 months.
But they basically allowed me to go to treatment.
I relapsed a few years later
and they sent me to prison for it.
I got out on an early release program,
a bootcamp type program,
and I got out and had a technical violation.
So I had to go back to prison
to finish the rest of my sentence
and I just got out now.
All right, man.
- [David] This is the lake. - [Aaron] There it is, look!
Man, this looks dope, though.
I can't wait to get on this water.
I'm definitely gonna be the big dog in the back
doing all the paddling because these arms
and Dave's arms, we each have different skills
and different qualities.
So, Dave's gonna be up front.
I'm gonna be driving this thing.
Man, this is nice. - [David] This is (bleep) nice.
- This is what I'm talking about.
A little bit of nature. - Right?
- In the heart of the city. - Exactly.
Now you sound like a Minneapolis ad.
(Aaron laughing)
(sighing) Did I ever tell you how I got into this (bleep)?
- [Aaron] Got into paddling? (David laughing)
- No, into work around prisons? - [Aaron] Uh-uh.
- Well, it's funny, like, I think, you know,
like in Minneapolis, everybody thinks
of themselves as not being racist.
But I was incredibly racist.
- Oh, (bleep)! (chuckles) Um...
(tense music)
- So you were a racist? - Yeah.
Like, I was a racist the way a lot
of liberal people are racist
in that like, they're all for black people
as long as they're not in the same space.
You know what I mean?
- It definitely took me back a peg.
'Cause he said he was racist but not racist racist.
He was racist like any other liberal.
And I was like, my parents are liberal.
What do you mean?
I'm liberal, what do you mean?
(tense music)
- You know, I got into organizing
'cause I got into wanting to do something
about my own liberation.
- So, it wasn't white guilt or anything like that?
- [David] No.
- I just, you know,
I also know young people get white guilt
where they're like, "Oh, you know,
white people done so many bad things,
so let me take in the sad case, victim negro."
You know what I mean?
And I just wanna make sure, you know,
that wasn't the case because I don't feel like I'm that.
I definitely hope that David's
bringing me in for the right reasons and not, you know,
adopt-a-negro, you know? (laughing)
- [David] Yeah, I mean- - So, does your family know
you're taking in somebody like me, a inmate, you know?
- [David] They do.
- They do, they're cool with it?
- Um, yeah, they're cool with it.
- That was a dramatic pause. - [David] Listen!
- "Um, sure." - No, this is the thing,
the train left the station 20 years ago, man.
(David laughing)
As someone who grew up
in like, an anti-racist household at some level,
to realize that when actually confronted
with real life that everyone around me, including myself,
was actually operating in ways that you would call racist.
- So, I mean, I doubt it, but I mean,
you're not still racist?
- I mean, no.
Like I've done a lot of unlearning (bleep),
but yeah, I'm sure I still have more (bleep) to learn, you know?
- It's just crazy how far he's come.
How do you go from being a racist
to having a black man living in your house?
I mean, that's progress.
Is he still a little?
I don't know.
Hopefully there's no white sheets hanging in my room.
This has been a really informative conversation.
(both laughing)
(pensive music)
- [Cyndi] Jenny, would you like coffee?
- [Jennifer] Yes, please.
- [Cyndi] Bacon okay?
- Yeah, bacon's fine.
- We just got up.
I'm excited about cooking for somebody else.
Going to eat breakfast with her
and see what she likes and what she doesn't like.
Do you like your bacon crispy or wimpy?
- [Jennifer] I like it a little crispy.
- Okay.
I've got a list of basic rules.
Hang on.
I have a few rules to go over with Jennifer.
We'll see how that goes.
So, getting home before 9:00.
No men over for the first six months, like over-nighters.
- Okay. - I would appreciate that.
If you're going to the store, ask if I need anything.
What do you think so far?
Do you think it's something you could live with, or?
- I mean, I think there's always wiggle room.
(tense music)
Before I got arrested this last time, I had my own place.
I'm an adult.
I'm used to making my own rules, you know?
And living in my own house.
So it's hard to kind of, to accept.
- [Cyndi] What do you mean by "wiggle room?"
- I just mean having to be back at 9:00.
That's kind of-
- [Cyndi] And that could be also to keep you out of trouble.
(tense music)
I don't think Jennifer has the right to ask for wiggle room.
She's gotta understand she's just out of prison.
She needs to calm down a little bit.
If you wanna stay out past nine,
how do you feel about taking me with you?
- (sighs) I don't know how I really feel about that.
I feel like, well, because we're just roommates,
so I feel like I need my space, you know?
- You got your room.
Right?
(tense music)
- I'm feeling like our good relationship
that we had built while just on the phone
during prison is slipping away.
- I guess if you don't want to go with a curfew,
then we might have to think of something else.
You know, for a place to live or, I don't know.
- It's crazy.
Cyndi really wants to micromanage my life.
And if I push back, she can just kick me out.
I think I need to take a break and go outside and smoke.
You got this now?
- Yes. - Okay, okay.
The rules that Cyndi has put in place are new.
We never discussed this while I was in prison.
She made it seem pretty simple on the phone
while I was talking to her throughout the last months.
(Max yelping) - Hey, that's enough.
I think it is unreasonable that she's acting like this.
Hopefully she can accept the rules.
If she can't, then she'll have to find another place.
(tense music)
- Jenny, breakfast is ready!
- I had to take this breather
because I feel like she doesn't understand
that she is trying to control me.
I just needed a moment to kind of cool off.
I kind of just want to have your support
and for me to have my freedom to be able to, you know-
- [Cyndi] Come and go as you please?
- Well, I mean, yeah.
(dog barking)
- I don't wanna live your life for you.
I just don't want you to go back to the same ways.
That's what I'm more worried about than anything.
- I just need for you to support me and just kind of-
- [Cyndi] Stand back on the sidelines?
- Yeah, a little bit.
- How about if you prove to me
that you're not gonna go back to your old ways?
And the more you do that, the more I'll let go.
- Right.
- Prove that I can trust you not bringing drugs.
Does that make sense? - [Jennifer] Yes.
- [Cyndi] I care.
It's not like I'm controlling.
- So, I just kind of get a little bit
of a vibe though, that kind of like,
what I would get from my mom.
I already have a mom and I'm dealing with that,
and I don't need another one.
- And I think your mom cares about you.
That's why she does talk to you about things.
And how would you treat your boys
if you knew they were doing drugs?
- I mean, I'd be definitely disappointed in my kids.
(gentle music)
And I would feel like I did something wrong.
- Right? - [Jennifer] So.
- Yeah. We don't want to go there.
- No.
I'm starting to feel smothered and I'm not liking it.
I'm not liking it at all.
I am a little afraid that living with Cyndi,
it's not going to work out.
(suspenseful music)
- (sighs) Well, you guys are never gonna believe
what just happened.
You wanna tell 'em, Daniel, or you want me to tell 'em?
- I'll tell 'em.
Deven's been arrested.
They found needles and some powder in his car.
Y'all better get down here.
(suspenseful music)
- Promise me you're not gonna have anybody
in the house when I'm gone.
- I mean, here's my thing, right?
Like, I've been gone for 3.5 years, like,
you know what I mean, like, I wanna get some (bleep).
I'm not gonna lie, you know? - Okay, oh, God.
That was about the worst first impression I've ever had.
We'll talk more tomorrow.
- All right. Have a good night at work.
I'm not gonna deny myself a chance to be with a girl.
(dramatic music)
What Emily doesn't know won't hurt her.
(suspenseful music)
Come on in.
- [Analisa] Right now, I'm ready to work with Mark
and my focus is on getting him a job.
- Have you ever had a job before?
- Yeah.
- [Analisa] What was the job?
- Street pharmacist.
- Hmm, okay. (Vada chuckling)
- These past weeks, it's been a nightmare dealing
with Mickey's situation from, he is coming out
to he's not coming out.
- We were excited to help Mickey
and get him into a family environment.
And now it's like we're down to the last straw.
So I want to ask you, Mickey.
Were you honest with me the whole way through?
(suspenseful music)
- Well, better than you I guess.
- I did not see this coming with Deven.
- No, you turned your back on us!
Let's get that real straight!
(gates clanking)