(tense music)
- Gotta get your walks in
before your buddy arrives tomorrow.
To help with paying the rent,
I am going to have an inmate I've never met
move in my house.
Didn't think I was ever getting outta there.
- Hi. - How you doing?
It's good to meet you.
- I can sit here and think all day long
about all kinds of awful things that can happen.
I don't have too many rules.
- Well, hopefully they're a little negotiable, I'm hoping.
- Ah.
- Honestly, I'm pretty good at manipulation,
so I'll just do my thing.
We'll talk about it, how's that sound?
- This gentleman is moving
directly into mine and Mari's house.
- How long was you on the run?
- You're not gonna run this time, are you?
- I'm here to pick him up.
- He's not gonna be getting out today.
He's got warrants outta Hampton County.
Evading arrest, driving on revoked,
aggravated assault on a first responder,
and evading arrest.
- He didn't say anything about any of that.
Your court date's been rescheduled
two weeks from today.
- I'm not gonna allow somebody to just come in here
and be deceptive when we're trying to help him.
- Do you plan on helping me with stuff around the house?
- I gotta take care of myself
before I can take care of anybody else.
If Cyndi thinks I'm gonna be scrubbing her floors
like Cinderella, she's out of her mind.
- Do you know what her drug of choice was?
- No. - 'Cause like, what if it
is like, an overdose?
I mean, you have to deal with that.
- Oof. - Yeah, oof.
- I need you and Analisa to get along.
It's like two negatives running together, bow.
- You don't even have to stay here.
- Ain't nobody going nowhere.
- If he don't wanna be appreciative,
he don't have to stay here.
- Stop it.
- You enjoying this, huh?
WIth your devilish behavior.
(Mark chuckles)
- Did you get high?
This is the reason why people get high,
because you accuse them of getting high
when they don't get high.
- The reason I'm accusing people of getting high
is because they've lied
and got high when I've turned my back.
- Cathy, that's Deven. - Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too.
- These two friends of ours
approached us about their grandson, Deven.
They were looking for someone to take him into their home
when he was released from prison.
- The four rules, no alcohol or drugs,
no profanity, no overnight guests,
and we're gonna work on honesty.
(tense music)
- Well, you guys are never gonna believe what just happened.
- Deven's been arrested.
Y'all better get down here.
(cell door slamming)
(tense music)
- Yeah, it's right in here.
Hey, Daniel.
- Hey.
Cathy, we're around the corner over here.
Cathy? - [Cathy] Yeah.
- Okay.
(Cathy sighs) - He didn't make it.
All we know is he got busted a couple days ago.
I guess, with drugs and drug paraphernalia on him.
Friday was great.
We were sitting in the kitchen eating and talking
and he seemed to be in a good mood.
And then he was, he looked at his phone, and he said,
"Man, my phone just keeps blowing up."
And he just, he's like, "Well, man, I gotta go."
And he got up and he left,
and then we didn't see him, didn't hear from him, nothing.
I did not see this coming with Deven.
I did not see it.
It was very disappointing.
He just got out of jail, you know?
And I really had a little more hope.
- (laughing) No.
We will not bail Deven out of jail.
Period, exclamation point.
(phone ringtone) - [Daniel] Oh.
- [Recording] Deven is calling you from
Cook County Sheriff's Office.
Press one for accepting the call.
This call may be monitored or recorded.
- Well, better than you, I guess.
(Deven chuckles)
- But you did commit a crime.
- (chuckles) All right.
- Well, I need you to understand
that the backs were not turned on you.
You walked away and so- - Yeah, hello.
You turned your back on us.
You're not putting this (bleep) off on me.
That pisses me off, right there.
No, you turned your back on us.
Let's get that real straight.
That's what drugs will do to your brain right there.
I had nothing to do with your decision to go out
and find drugs and get yourself caught
and thrown in jail again.
- That Deven, real textbook.
- We did everything we said we would do.
What, did you want us to go out and help you get the drugs?
- You know what? - Hold on, hold on.
- You need some serious help
because you got this all twisted up, okay?
We didn't have anything to do
with you choosing to go out and do your deal again.
You brought that all on yourself.
- I can't talk to him.
- That pissed me off.
- I worked real hard to get what I have today
and have continued to do that.
When I was trying to get clean and sober,
nobody invited me into their home
and let me live there three months for free.
So I'm not ever gonna stand for you, A, whining,
and B, trying to blame the fact that
you did something you weren't supposed to do on me.
Ugh. No, no.
- I mean, you wanted me to call and say, "Poor baby?"
I'm not sure what you're wanting.
((phone clicks) - Ta-da.
- (bleep).
- "Everybody turned their back on me."
See, this is what they do.
He's sitting in there, "What do I gotta do?
What do I gotta say?
Where do I gotta go, so I get myself outta here?"
If Deven gets out, I feel like, you know,
he's put us between a rock and a hard place.
You know, it's putting pressure on us.
We don't wanna upset his grandparents
or we don't wanna lose their friendship,
so should we go ahead and take him back
and give him one more shot? - Yeah.
(tense music)
- Keep an eye out for somewhere you might wanna eat.
(tense music)
After picking Jason up, it's a weird situation.
Just to have somebody move in I don't know is hard enough,
let alone somebody to move in right out of prison.
- I can't wait to just get out
and experience all this (bleep) again.
- I really don't know what to say
or how to even talk to Jason.
- The two things I really missed,
cigarettes and the casino.
You ever go?
- Well, you know, I just never really have any money to go.
- You gotta find yourself a man
that'll give you the money to go.
- I don't need one of them, I'm good, thank you though.
- I think Emily has my best interest at heart,
but I'm like, just trying to keep the mood light
and having some fun.
- Isn't it just easier to go to work and get your paycheck?
- I haven't worked in so long,
I don't know what a paycheck looks like.
A paycheck to me is selling a pound of dope
and going and blowing the money at the casino.
- What? (stammers)
- I need to find me a sugar mama.
- First impressions are everything
and that was about the worst first impression
I think I've ever had.
(tense music)
(water trickling)
- You call?
- Yeah, will you help me take this across
to water the plants?
Mark has been with us for two weeks.
He's very ungrateful and disrespectful,
but the past few days, it's been peaceful.
- I am, uh...
Surprised.
- Right now, I'm ready to work with Mark
and my focus is on what he needs to do in getting a job.
- Yeah, Mark, could you come back here in the backyard
for a few minutes, please?
He's coming. - Okay, good.
This is about helping a young man re-enter back into society
and he needs someone to actually, you know, guide him,
you know, like a baby, hold his hand through every step.
- What's going on?
- How you doing, sir?
- It's cool. - All right, all right.
- So we were just talking, Mark,
I have a friend that is looking for some people
to help him with construction.
Would you be interested?
- Does it pay more than minimum wage?
- Well, that would be something
that you'd have to discuss with him.
Another option was hooking up with Urban League program,
they have a program that helps with
inmates getting out of prison,
it's called Career Bridge that help you with life skills,
getting your driver's license, resume building.
Would that be something you'd be interested in as well?
- Okay. - Sounds cool.
- Have you ever had a job before?
- Yeah.
- What was the job?
- Street pharmacist.
- (chuckles) Okay. (Vada laughing)
- (laughing) What?
- Like a real job, have you- - That's a...
Are you judging me and my profession?
- Have you ever had a W-2 job or W-9 type of job?
- Yeah.
- Who?
- (chuckles) Nah, it's good.
- I'm dealing with a grown man in a 13-year-old mindset.
If you don't mind, would you like to do a mock interview?
- Mock interview? - Mock interview.
- For what?
- Because when you go for a job, you have to be interviewed
and they're gonna ask you questions about yourself.
You wanna try it?
- Sure.
- Okay, so you are gonna step out,
come back in like you don't know who I am,
we've never met before, and we're gonna act like
you're actually interviewing with me, okay?
- (laughs) You're doing too much.
I don't know, I ain't never did no interview,
I ain't never went to work no job.
Like, for what?
There's so much money elsewhere to go choose to work a job.
- Hi. - Hello, how you doing?
- Hi, Mark, how are you?
- Mark Anthony, how you doing? - Good, good handshake.
Okay, have a seat.
So Mark, can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
- What do you wanna know?
- Did you graduate from high school?
- Yeah, school of hard knocks.
- Okay, so that wouldn't be something that you would say.
- That's where I went.
- Okay.
Are you a team player?
- Am I?
- I don't know what that means, are you a team player?
- Yeah, something like that. - Okay.
Give me an example
when you were able to contribute to your team.
- Okay.
To be honest with you,
everything that you just said to me,
you will not get the job.
That isn't appropriate for a job interview,
to give those type of answers.
And so, I don't think at this time Mark is
capable of being able to work with the team set.
I think you should start off with Urban League.
They're gonna help you with, you know, interviewing skills.
They'll help you build a resume.
So you ready?
- Yeah.
Hopefully it works out.
- Hopefully it work out, too.
I've been praying for you.
- Praying for your smart mouth.
(Mark chuckles)
(tense music)
- It's raining.
Are we supposed to get a storm?
- Oh, that I don't know.
- Can you bring me another box please?
- Yeah.
- Jennifer has been living with me
for a little over a week.
- What would you like me to grab?
- [Cyndi] I think just the cart to start with.
Today, I hope Jennifer can help me go through my things.
- Ooh, there's a lot of stuff.
- Get ready for a garage sale.
- I don't know what these are. What are all these?
Oh, these are pillowcases or something?
- In a box? - Yeah.
- That'll work.
- At this point, living with Cyndi,
I'm feeling really frustrated
because Cyndi wants me here all the time.
Okay.
I'm trying to get my kids back, I'm looking for a job.
Oh my gosh, I have so many priorities,
I have so many things on my list.
- Do you wanna close the door over there too?
- I feel trapped and feel like she thinks
that she should be my priority.
She thinks that she's more important than what I gotta do.
- I'm gonna need another box for stuff I'm gonna keep, I guess.
- Okay.
- It's been a little awkward.
I think I rubbed Jennifer the wrong way,
probably because I have rules at my house.
Yeah, these I gotta keep.
But that's the way things are around here.
I am the boss, so she needs to buck up.
These are things my grandmother made.
- Okay. - So those are keepers.
This, I think is garbage.
- Okay, let's toss it.
- Well, I'm wondering if we shouldn't
keep it for garage stuff, you know what I mean?
I thought there were a couple of rips and the hooks.
- What would you you use it in the garage?
- For like, painting.
It's hard to help her declutter because she wants to keep stuff.
She's telling me no, she wants to keep this,
no, okay, maybe sell this, but then keep this,
keep this, keep this.
Oh, whatever this is,
with rocks.
- That's something heavy duty, I think.
That would be a keeper. - Okay.
This is a waste of my time.
- This we can sell.
- Umm...
At this rate, I feel like
it's going to take us a long time to get through everything,
I mean, 'cause there's stuff in the basement yet,
um, and stuff is really scattered around down there.
- I'm not gonna cater to her.
This is my house.
She should cater to me.
Would you be able to go down to the store for me
and grab a few things?
(tense music)
- I guess.
Do you wanna pick up those grips too?
- Yeah, I guess. Yeah, I'll pick them up.
All right, I'll see you in a little bit.
- Okay.
(tense music)
- Cyndi always asks me to run errands for her.
She gets, you know, upset if I'm out doing things
that I need to take care of in life.
Like, I'm at her mercy.
Oh, Cyndi, she says, "Where are you?
What's taking you so long?"
I don't even know what to say to her, that's just like,
that's normal for her to do that.
That's what she does,
when I'm gone, all the time, "When are you gonna be back?"
You know.
I don't know how long I'm gonna last at Cyndi's at all.
I haven't felt this much anxiety in a long time.
I don't like being controlled.
I think this wasn't probably the best idea, yeah, to do.
Right now, I feel lost.
I feel very lost, I feel more lost than I did
while I was actively in my addiction.
(tense music)
- [Jason] I'm excited to actually eat
some decent food again.
I don't think I could eat another ramen noodle.
I got ramen noodles coming out my ass backwards.
- Ew.
- I mean, you can dress a turd up,
but it's still a turd, right?
This place looks a little fancier than I like.
- [Cathy] Hey, it's not prison food, right?
- I mean, anything with vines growing on the wall
seems to be like, it's gonna be tofu, pretzels and (bleep).
- Oh, it is not. - Cafe lattes.
- [Emily] Think positive.
Thank you. - Of course.
- Yeah, look it, they've got like, stuff.
- Mm.
- Let's see here, they got sandwiches that are chicken.
- Kale and shaved Napa cabbage salad.
- That stuff that's good for you.
- That's like (bleep) from the ocean or something.
Like some seaweed. - Yeah, it's all good.
(tense music)
- This restaurant that Emily picked is
a little more upper class than I'd like.
I don't know what avocado
has any business doing on a hamburger.
I feel like every meal comes with a colonic or something.
- Oh, stop. (Jason chuckles)
I thought he would've been happy
about getting to go out to eat at a restaurant
when you've sat in a prison cafeteria for years.
We should probably just talk about like,
the three things that are gonna be really important.
And I'm not gonna lie, I mean, I need the money,
but I get, it'll take you probably a little bit
before you can start paying.
Especially when I'm gone at work.
I lost my identity about, oh, 13 years ago.
I'm still paying for it
and I just don't want to take the chance.
- I mean, here's my thing, right?
Like, I've been gone 3.5 years, like, you know what I mean?
Like, I want to get some (bleep),
I'm not gonna lie, you know?
- Okay. Oh, God.
Kind of not my problem.
- I got a bunch of pen pals I gotta pay back so.
- Well, I- (stammers)
- I'm just kidding. - Yeah.
- I'm not happy about the rule of not being able to
have women or just anybody over at the house.
I've been around hairy dudes
for the last 3.5 years,
I would love to feel the touch of a woman again
and I'm gonna have to start working
on the negotiations with that particular rule.
I will probably, more than likely, break it.
- Hello.
Do you have any questions or are you about ready to order?
- I want the chicken skewer.
- Chicken skewer, okay.
- Let's see.
All these delicious choices, I don't know what to do here.
- We got steak and chicken skewers.
- Um, sure.
- Steak skewer? - Yeah.
- Anything else? - You got a boyfriend or what?
- (laughs) Yeah. I do.
- You want a new one?
- I'm good, thank you. - All right.
- [Emily] Lucky her. (chuckles)
- The last time I had sex was about two hours
before I got arrested 3.5 years ago.
What if I invited her over to your house?
Would that be all right? (laughing)
To tell you the truth, I don't find the waitress attractive.
I was just warming up, throwing a couple lines out there,
seeing if I still got it.
- You had the chicken? - Thank you.
- They get.
- Holy, there's more skewer than there is steak.
- Yeah, that's how it goes.
- Thank you. - Of course.
- Why don't you just try it before you knock it?
- What is that? - I like it.
Anyway, okay, look at me in the eye,
'cause when people won't look at you in the eye,
you know something's up.
And promise me you're not gonna have anybody
in the house when I'm gone.
- I promise. - No, you gotta look at me.
- I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
No, I promise.
- All right, all right,
because remember. it's a deal breaker.
- I know, okay. - All right.
After talking to Jason, yeah, I mean,
I'm wondering if I'm probably gonna regret this.
I suppose I better get on the move
just 'cause I gotta work tonight.
- Hang on, I gotta take this call.
I'll be right back, all right? - All righty.
- You can eat these if you want.
- Stop it.
- What are you doing?
- [Margarita] Nothing.
- What- - Anyways.
- So listen, what do you got going on tonight?
- [Margarita] Hopefully seeing you.
- Yeah?
So the lady I'm living with is
not cool with having people come over.
So if you're gonna come over, it has to be after 8:00.
Sure, I'm worried about the consequences
of Emily finding a girl in my room,
but I think the benefits
outweigh the consequences at this point.
I'm not gonna deny myself a chance to be with a girl.
(tense music)
- Babe, babe, babe. Gotta go. - All righty.
- You want coffee? - Yes, please.
These past weeks, it's been a nightmare
dealing with Mickey's situation.
We've just been having the runaround,
you know, from, he is coming out to he's not coming out.
It's just been very frustrating.
- Yeah, we were excited to help Mickey
and get him into a family environment.
- Yeah.
- And now, it's like we're down to the last straw.
The first time we went down to Meigs County Jail
to pick up Mickey,
we found out that Mickey has new charges
and we had no clue about these additional charges.
(tense music)
- Do you think that he was trying to kind of manipulate
the situation where he had us believing the first time
that he was gonna- - Absolutely.
- Come out the first time?
- Everyone else is saying that he's just using us
to be able to get out so he can run,
because that's all he's ever done.
(tense music)
- Mickey McClure has been sentenced to six years,
which means he's got approximately 14 months
that he's gonna have to do in the penitentiary.
If he wouldn't have accepted this deal,
he was facing a total of 24 years in prison.
- [Producer] Side, side side. Over here, sorry.
- [Jim] Hey, Mickey.
Officer, can I have a minute with Mickey?
- Okay.
So the sheriff's deputy,
he's rushing Mickey back to the jail,
but we're gonna go over there
and see if we can talk to Chief Malone
and see if we can have a sit-down with Mickey.
(dramatic music)
Did you hear about Mickey?
- [Chief] Yeah, I've got him back here.
- One thing I can't stand, man, is someone lying to my face.
So we have some questions
because if Mickey has been dishonest with us,
he's gonna ruin his opportunity to be able to come to us
when he gets outta prison.
I can work with honesty, I can't work with dishonesty.
- You all right, brother? - What's going on brother?
You doing all right? - Yeah.
Going to prison, but I'm all right.
- You're going to prison.
Tell me how you feel about this.
- I mean, the only way I feel about it's just,
I mean, I know I'm going to prison.
I've done the crime, it's time to go do the time, you know?
I'm tired of running.
- 14 months, you gotta do?
- Something like that, close to it.
- [Jim] What's the plan?
- When I get out of prison is come live with you or...
- During this process, everything didn't work out
the way you said it was gonna work out.
- Right. - So I wanna ask you, Mickey,
were you honest with me the whole way through?
(tense music)
- Oh, yeah.
I've been honest with you the whole time.
I didn't, at one point in time during this struggle here,
you've known more about my case than I have.
I was going by what I knew, but I've never lied to you
in any kind of way, shape, form, or fashion.
- I was talking to one of my staff members and they said,
"How do you feel about all this?"
I said, "What do you mean how I feel about this?
I got a man going to prison."
I don't want no one to go to prison.
- Right.
- I believe everybody can make change.
You can change. - I am changing.
- This is going to have,
this can be the last time brother.
We're disappointed, absolutely.
We've invested a bunch of time and energy with Mickey
and I really like the guy, I really wanted to help him.
I want to pray for you.
Is that good? - That's lovely.
- Come on, man. Come on. - Ready?
- I think this chapter with Mickey is closed, for now.
It's to be continued 14 months down the road.
Father God, Lord Jesus,
I'll lift up my brother Mickey to you right now, Lord Jesus.
Lord, we know that you're the one that's in total control.
God's called us to help as many people as we can,
that's what we're gonna continue to do.
And there's a lot of other Mickeys out there
that need our help and want our help.
- While we wait for Mickey, it's like, okay, who's next?
Let's find the next person.
- We're not gonna let one failure define our future,
it's not gonna happen.
We're gonna just do the best that we can
to make a difference in people's lives.
So I pray over Mickey right now, Lord.
Guide his every step, Lord.
We thank you, Lord, for this miracle.
In Jesus' mighty name. - In Jesus' name.
- Amen. - Amen.
- Thank you, brother. - Amen, brother.
(tense music)
- All right, Charlie.
- No, get down.
- You can't sit up there, sweetie.
- Get down.
- There you go.
Do you think he'll be getting out?
- We'd kinda like to know, you know, what happened?
- Karisa's calling. - [Cathy] Oh.
- How are you doing this morning?
- [Karisa] I'm doing good, how are you?
- Oh, just fine, just...
- Today?
- Do you know how he got his money for the bail?
- Oh, okay. (chuckles)
We didn't know he had any way of getting bailed out, so.
- Well, good, I'm glad
- Yeah, that's good.
- All right, dear, bless you. Have a good day.
All right, bye-bye.
- Well, I guess- - Found money somewhere.
- Deven worked himself out.
But I know you gotta go, so.
- Yeah, I do,
I need to get on outta here and get changed.
- [Producer] All right, go ahead.
(tense music)
- This looks like the front, around over here.
I actually like Deven, but he can make me mad and he did.
We promised his grandparents
we would give him a place to live and try
to help do our best to help him get back on his feet.
And I just, you know, wanna kind of see if I can't
get that straightened out
so that I will be able to make a decision
on whether he can come and stay at our house again.
(tense music)
- You nervous?
- Nope, no.
Hmm?
Hey.
Mark and I are driving to the Urban League.
The Urban League is willing to meet with Mark
and discuss how they can help him get a job
and some life skills.
Here we go, Mark.
- On the way to Urban League,
I'm feeling like this is gonna be a waste of time.
I honestly could care less.
(laughing)
- Good luck, Mark. - Yeah, thank you.
This interview is just probably gonna be some more bogus.
(bleep) that ain't gonna add up to nothing.
My roommates been saying,
you know, they got a lot to offer
and just ever since I got out, ain't nothing been offered.
So it's just all talk.
- What's up, my guy?
- How you doing? - Good, good, good.
- What's your name? - Mark Anthony.
- Mark Anthony, my name is Josh.
I'm a participant navigator here at the Urban League.
We gonna hop in my office and I'll break down the program,
everything for you. - All right.
- All right, come on.
All right.
Have a seat, man. Chill, relax.
You can kick back up in here.
Before I break down the program, I heard a little bit about you,
but I like to hear from you yourself,
you know, tell me what's up, what's your story?
- Yeah, I just got out prison like,
you know, couple weeks ago.
- From DOC? - Yeah.
Been there almost eight years. - Almost eight years?
- So, trying to change my life,
you know, change it, go down a different path.
- How old were you when you went in?
- 17.
- 17? - Yeah.
- So you're about what, 25 now?
- 25, 26, yeah.
- So it's ironic, 'cause you know, when I was 18,
I went to the penitentiary too,
you know, did the same amount of time,
I went in for the armed robbery,
got out when I was about 27.
You know what I mean?
I'm in my 40s now, I never went back.
And when I look at you, you tell me your story,
I kind of see myself and I remember getting out
and being ready, you know what I'm saying?
But then there'll be all these barriers.
- Hella. - Hella barriers.
- Hella.
- And a lot of people don't understand.
- They don't understand because they don't see it,
I don't know nothing about nothing.
I was a kid, I had to do none of that, I got out-
- Right. - An adult.
- So that's basically what Career Bridge does.
- Yeah. - All right?
I'll teach you that whole thing.
You know what I'm saying?
It's good to have someone like that in your corner
that understands exactly where you're coming from
and what you've been through.
- Career Bridge, it's a stipend-based program.
We get you ready to work immediately.
All right? So you get your certifications,
you have access to joining union,
getting into our construction trades program.
- Yeah.
- If you want to do construction to make that good money soon.
You ready?
- Yeah, absolutely man.
All right, for sure.
Yeah, I appreciate that for real, man.
- Yeah, for sure, I'm rocking with you.
- Feeling good, grateful that this place is here.
What's going on, man?
To help people like me and get me in the right track.
Said I can get paid training.
- No (bleep)? - Yeah.
So it's a cool little program.
- It don't get no better than that.
Mark makes statements that he don't get excited,
but he's excited right now and I'm happy for him.
- Thank you though for bringing me up there, man.
Appreciate it, for real.
- You're welcome.
- This is definitely the first time
where I feel like things are coming in order,
finally got the ball rolling, man, that's what I needed.
- Really proud of you, man.
You know, this whole situation is pretty overwhelming.
You don't have to say nothing, but I know.
I know.
(tense music)
(Jennifer crying)
- Today, Jennifer woke me up in a panic.
She said she needed to go to detox
because she relapsed on drugs.
It scared the hell out me.
I've never experienced any of this before.
I don't know what to do.
- I called Angela over here
because I think if Jennifer were to OD in my house,
I'd be scared to death.
- [Jennifer] Okay.
- I don't know if she's done drugs here.
I don't want them in my house.
It scares me so much.
(tense music)
- The plan when we get home, I'll show you your room
and then I gotta go to work.
- What time do you usually work 'til?
- I work till 7:00.
- Okay. - I'm gone all night.
Yep.
- I'm not happy about the rule of not being able to have women
or just anybody over at the house, especially girls.
- Here it is, on the corner.
- This is it right here, huh? - Yep, yep.
- Yeah, this is just like the house I used to live in.
Yeah, cool.
It's nice.
- Come on. - Hi puppies, hi.
- Come on, guys. - Come on.
Oh, hi, hi, hi.
- Scrappy's the old one. - This is nice, man.
I love the old wood in here.
- Yeah. - This is great.
Like, I couldn't hope
for anything better than this right here, I mean.
I like all your retro furniture.
- So I'll show you your room, but keep this up, because-
- Okay. Do the dogs (bleep) in here or anything?
- One of 'em pees in here if they get the chance.
- I mean, I'm known to pee on the carpet sometimes myself.
- Oh my God. - All right.
- I'll keep you all in the backyard.
- All right. (Emily chuckles)
- Oh, (bleep), this is a plaza compared to where I was just at.
Nice.
I mean, the house is great.
Like, I thought it was gonna be a little more worn down
because of the dogs and it seems to be in great shape.
My room is more than I could ask for.
Yeah, wow, this is a lot more than I expected, man.
- You can hang pictures and decorate how you like,
I don't care about that kind of stuff.
I'm gonna let you decompress.
- I super appreciate this, man.
This is like way, way more than I expected, man.
I was thinking I was gonna be sleeping on the floor, so.
- No, no.
- Okay. - I'll let you just kind of-
- Okay. - You know,
show yourself around a little bit.
- Okay, all right.
- I hope Jason has a positive outlook for coming here
so that he can be successful
and it can be a win-win for both of us.
I can give him the tools.
It's up to him to do it and I hope for the best.
- I'm so overwhelmed with today, I don't even know.
Like, "thank you" just doesn't even seem like enough,
so I don't...
- No, we'll talk more tomorrow. - All right, all right.
Have a good night at work, thank you, Emily.
- All right.
- Bye - Bye-Bye.
Call me if you need anything.
- Okay.
I mean, make no mistake,
I'm super grateful for the opportunity to live here
and that people are still willing to take a chance on me,
but it doesn't change the fact that I'm still a man,
I've been gone for 3.5 years,
and it's time to make up for lost time,
do something I ain't done in a long time.
So not feeling too guilty about it.
(phone ringing) - [Margarita] Hello?
- Where you at, girl?
- [Margarita] I am on my way.
- All right, everything is good.
I'll see you when you get here.
I'm excited to see you.
- [Margarita] I can't wait to see you too.
- All right, bye. - [Margarita] Bye.
- I don't worry bro.
(tense music)
(water running)
I think there's a certain element of fear,
I mean, but that really makes it more exciting to me.
So if I have to, I'll just send her out the window
or something if Emily comes home, so.
What's up? How you doing? - Hi!
- Oh my God.
How are you? - Good.
You look good. - So do you.
- Come on in.
(tense music)
(door slamming) (Margarita laughing)
- The minute I get high, it's like,
bro, this is just the conniving, manipulating
Deven back at it again.
- You're still looking at it as, poor Deven.
- Well, you guys cut me off.
You guys washed your hands with me, you kicked me out,
you gave up on me.
- Exactly.
Poor Deven.
- I never felt that I'm able to tell you that I'm hurt
because you have such a deep trigger
for people not approving of you.
- I'm sorry about that.
- My dad's been gone more than he's been around
and so I am not willing
to put myself in a position to be hurt
because I have no expectation of my dad staying out of prison.
I'm getting to a point where I need to
be done with this conversation.
- This is what's going on.
Jason. - Hang on a second.
- What the hell is this?
I told you I didn't want anybody here
I didn't know when I was gone.
She's gonna have to go and go right now.
- Is it really that big of a deal?
- You just got here!
- I've been in prison for 3.5 years.
- Not my problem.
Sorry, you're gonna have to go and hopefully,
you'll want better for yourself after this.
(cell door slamming)