03x06 - A Gamble in the Desert

[bunniefuu]

JESSICA: 'Maurice and I got married
while he was in prison.'

They said
that you can't go to Vegas?

What's that mean?

He is not allowed to leave
the state of California yet.

He'll be violating his parole.

MAURICE: I don't wanna stay in LA.

What I was gonna do is
just don't tell 'em

and just go out there.
I'm going to Vegas.

The California three-strike law is,

"Three strikes, you out."
I got two strikes.

If I was to get in trouble again,
my a*s may be grass.

I've been incarcerated for 12 years
for armed robbery.

SHAVEL: I cannot have a child
and not be married.

I wanna do it the right way.

He ain't never been a father.

He ain't never been
in no real relationship.

Quaylon!

'I can't wait to spend
the rest of my life with Quaylon.'

My daughter calls Quaylon her dad.

TYRICE: Chanda was sentenced

to three and a half years
for selling drugs.

She gon' be a sugar baby
looking for a sugar daddy.

- That's all it is!
- Sit your a*s down.

Do I look like
I let a BLEEP use me?

The woman that's about
to walk out that door

could be the woman I'm gonna spend
the rest of my life with.

It's now five after two.
She still ain't came out.

I don't know
what's going on in there.

I was wondering
if you would, uh, marry me.

- Absolutely.
- You may now kiss your beloved.

KRISTIANNA: We've only been dating
for three months.

- There we go!
- But why not take a chance?

Hi, Mom. I just got married.

'I've been to this halfway house
four times.'

There's drug users in there,
drug dealers.

I don't want to lose something
that is finally right in my life.

I met Destinie
on a prison pen-pal site.

- Do you send her money?
- Yeah. Thousands.

Thousands? Oh, wow.

If she does miss court,
the court will put you

on the hook for $50,000.

If I wanna drink sometimes,
I'm gonna drink.

The only concerns I have
about your drinking

is you doing something stupid
before your court date.

There's a few secrets
that I'm keeping from Shawn.

I was having sex with women
quite a bit in prison.

It's OK. It's OK.

So, I've been out for three days,

and I am feeling blessed as BLEEP.

I've only just met him
a couple days now,

but I'm excited to move
with Shawn to Las Vegas.

This isn't the first time
I've ever lived with a woman.

I've lived with a couple of girls
in the past...

My ex, Kelly, being one,
and one kind of robbed me.

A little diva princess, yeah.

BLEEP that b*tch.

But I trust Destinie,
I still trust our bond together

and I just think that in the end,

you know, that's all
that's gonna work out.

This is exciting, like,

being able to actually see a city,
a bunch of lights.

SHAWN: Yeah.

Driving through Vegas
is BLEEP crazy.

'Like, there are so many lights.
It's so pretty.'

There are so many casinos.
I cannot wait to go out there

and just really see
what it's really about.

I'm ready to go party.
Like, I wanna go have fun.

SHAWN: Here you go.
Home, sweet home.

DESTINIE: This house is BLEEP huge.

I can't even believe
that it's been so long...

Like, three BLEEP years
since I lived in a actual house,

and then I come, and this is so big.

SHAWN: I moved to Las Vegas
for a job promotion a year ago.

I got into this new place
for Destinie

because I want her to feel at home.

I want her to be able
to decorate it.

I wanna have somewhere nice
for her to live.

It's gonna be weird, like,
living with somebody.

It's gonna be weird
getting used to you.

It is,
but let me show you the bedroom.

Yeah? Why? That's where
the magic's gonna happen?

Yep. Here goes the bedroom.

BLEEP! This room's big.

There's some more clothes
for you to...

- Aww!
- ..try on or whatever.

That's nice of you.

Oh, BLEEP.
Oh, this bed's hella comfortable.

Is it a lot different
than a jail bed, huh?

Well, it's definitely not no cot,
that's for damn sure.

So, what are we gonna, um...
What are we gonna do tonight?

Like, I wanna go out,
I wanna do something.

- Well...
- My first night in Vegas, dude.

I know, but we need to
kind of lay low, and you...

I'm sick of laying low, and
I'm sick of hearing you say that.

Your case is just coming up closely,
so I just...

Babe, why do you keep doing that?

I don't want you to get in trouble.
- I'm not gonna get in trouble.

We can't go out for a little bit?
Like, I don't get it.

But, you know, we're just gonna
just kick back here tonight.

We're not kicking back here.
You kicking...

Hector and his wife come over here.

I don't wanna hang out
with your friends, dude.

We can do that tomorrow
or something.

I pretty much dated the quiet girls,

didn't really go out
and party all the time.

But Destinie talks about
going out all the time,

getting drunk all the time,

and I just don't think
that's a really good idea

because she still has
the pending charge in Sacramento.

If Destinie doesn't show up
to court,

I'm responsible for the $50,000
that I'll have to pay back,

so I'm kind of terrified
of how tonight could go.

What about me?
You didn't ask me what I wanted.

I thought this was...

I thought this was about me?
- It is about you.

OK, well, then,
I don't wanna do that.

All right, fine, we can go out.

Yeah, for a little bit.
Tell... Call Hector.

Tell him don't come over.
- They're coming over.

I want you to meet them.
It's important to me, so...

I think you guys
will hit it off just fine.

You can cook for your friends
and have your friends over.

Then we're going.

Hector and his wife better be fun
because I'm going out tonight.

Now, like, I'm here and in Vegas,
there's, like, a lot out there

that I really wanna go
and explore and have fun, and, like,

you're not gonna tell me
what the BLEEP to do, period.

I was expecting her
to get out at one thirty.

So it's now five after two.
She still ain't came out.

I don't know.

Chanda's supposed to be
getting out of prison today,

but I've been sitting outside
front part of the prison

for 40, 50 minutes.

'I don't know what's going on.'

I guess I'll wait about
another 30 minutes,

if she come out.

PHONE RINGING

Hello?
'Hey, it's Chanda.'

Where you at?

You at the bus station?

Oh, they took you out another way.
OK, here I come right now.

BLEEP, man. BLEEP people, man.

It's three o'clock,
and she got out at one thirty.

Now I'm racing for time.

Chanda has to get on the bus
to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,

because she has to report
to the halfway house.

We only got
a little bit of time together.

What I really wanted to do was hug,
cuddle a little bit.

But this little situation
cost me time with her.

OK.

Me and Chanda,
we've never spent any time together,

you know, without guards watching,

so I'm excited to actually
get to know her personally,

as a person on the outside.

As far as the future go,

I could see myself being married
right about now.

'I'm tired of being a bachelor.'

SHE CHUCKLES

Hey.

Mm, you look good.
- Hey, baby, thank you.

Wow. Oh, you got me some roses?

- Yeah, babe.
- Thank you so much.

- Welcome home.
- Mm, babe.

I finally see Tyrice,

and it's the first time
outside of prison.

He walks up in a blue suit.
SHE LAUGHS

I don't know what to think,
but I was not expecting that.

This is gonna do it for me.

- Do I?
- Yeah. You look good.

I have been waiting
and waiting and waiting.

Look at my baby.
- I'm right here.

My baby is home.

- Yep.
- Come here, give me another kiss.

- You ready?
- Let's get you changed, then.

Everything I got is in this bag.
- Yeah? All right.

Seeing Chanda and me together,
it makes me feel good.

You know,
she have that positive energy,

and she got that body-ody.

She got that body,
so, damn, she look amazing.

Oh, wow.

OK.

The bras I get issued in prison
are brown and sports bras.

So, it's nice to have
actual real bras and real panties.

I can't wait!
SHE CHUCKLES

Me and Tyrice...
I do see a future together,

and it's not just because
he puts money on my account.

You know, when I was in prison,

I started daydreaming
about what could be

and thinking about a serious
relationship with this man.

But dating from the inside
and seeing somebody on the outside

is two totally different things.

And I just...

I hope he is everything
that I thought he would be.

Damn, you look good.

Thanks.

That BLEEP fittin'. You look good.
- I know, right?

- You ready?
- Yeah.

- Let's go, baby. Come on.
- Let's go.

That coat look nice on you.
- I know, right?

- And I love that shape.
- Yeah?

You could tell
you've been working out.

Let me see that a*s.

Uh-uh-uh.
- I know, right? Ain't it cute?

The connection that we had
while she was in prison

has finally translated
to the connection

that we have in real life.

Look at you.
- Mm-hm.

- Come here.
- I feel great, too.

Mmm, you smell good.

- I missed you.
- I missed you, too.

- It's a new beginning for us.
- Yeah.

It's a lot easier to get
through your prison sentence

whenever you have somebody
on the outside able to support you.

And it's even easier
whenever you have more

than one person
out there supporting you.

Give me a kiss. Get over here.

Get over here to daddy.
- Sketchy.

What?
BOTH LAUGH

RINGING TONE

Is Tammy there, please?

Hey, it's John.

I just got Kristianna dropped off,

and I was hoping I could come by

and maybe snatch you up
to go get some lunch or something.

Me and Kristianna,
we were expecting to swing by

and see Kristianna's mom
so Kristianna could at least say hi

before we got her
to the halfway house,

but the timing just didn't work out.

And since Tammy
is now my mother-in-law,

I figured I'd swing by and meet her.

- Hi, son-in-law.
- I'm John.

HE LAUGHS
Hi.

Good to meet you.

Congratulations.

Well, thank you.
Are you ready to go to lunch?

- Sure.
- All right.

HE GRUNTS

TAMMY: What do you think
of our little town, Dubuque?

JOHN: I don't like the area
where the halfway house is.

I think it's kind of sketchy,
to say the least.

Bad playgrounds.

Bad, bad playmates.
- Yes.

I know very little
about Kristianna's mom,

and I want her to like me.

So, youse got married?

You got hitched?
- Yep, got hitched.

So, we actually had
a Native American wedding ceremony.

Why did you chose to go Native?

Kristianna is Christian.

Native is what I know.

We've talked about her Christianity.

It's something
we still have to talk about further.

I had hopes that Kristianna

would actually be
getting married in a church,

and I would we walking her
down the aisle.

I'm not quite sure that
Native American weddings are real.

How long have you
and Kristianna known each other?

Hmm...
Give or take, three months.

I really actually thought
that the two of you were...

talking or writing
for quite a long time before.

Surprise.

- So, you've been married before?
- Yes.

Four times.

OK.

My first wife,
I ran off with her cousin

and married her while I was
still married to my first wife.

Uh...

HE CHUCKLES

It was one of those crazy things
that I did back in the day.

Oh, my.

Why do you think
this marriage is different?

So, I don't know if Kristianna
has told you or not.

We have something in common
that not a lot of people do.

I was an inmate.

My criminal record is very long.

I overdrew my bank account a lot,

about to the tune of $200,000.

I think my biggest cheque
was, like, $36,000.

When you saw the check
go through the thing,

and it said "approved,"

it became an addiction,
is basically what it became.

I got out in 2008,

and I haven't had a lick of trouble
with law enforcement

or anything since then,

but you never forget
the sound of the keys.

You never forget
the sound of the doors.

And she understands that.
And I understand that.

We can work through the challenges

that she's gonna face
now that she's out

because I've also been
to that spot.

I had hopes
that Kristianna would get married

to a good man
who would take care of her.

I'm not quite sure
he's good for Kristianna.

My biggest concern
is he has also been in prison.

What happened before
that caused her to go back?

She run into a problem
with the halfway house

because she got over...
overwhelmed.

She just decided to leave town

and go to a different state.

And that's what got her sent back.

Oh, I'm hoping this time

she's not gonna have
that kind of stress.

I think it's gonna work.

I haven't seen Kristianna
for about four years.

She was on crack cocaine, you know,

so she's definitely gonna struggle

to stay clean in the halfway house.

I wanna go out with Kristianna
and John together

and... to actually see
how real it is.

JESSICA: I just wanna go home.
MAURICE: Me too, man.

HE SIGHS

MAURICE: Yeah.
JESSICA: Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

How you doing?

- Hello, how you guys doing?
- Good. How are you?

Good.

Can I get...? Yeah.

I need a few more minutes.
- I'm ready.

Uh...
- You wanna give me some time?

- I'll come back.
- Thank you.

You gonna go home?

Since Maurice got out of prison,

I really thought everything
would end up perfectly.

But it's completely different.

You're too big for this couch, baby.

CHILDREN SHOUTING,
LAUGHING

Do your workout, bougie. Do it.
Let me see your push-up, cousin.

CHARITY: A straight one.
You can't tell me that ain't real.

'I don't want to be
anywhere near Compton.'

I feel really isolated here.

I don't have my family
here with me.

Thank you.

'And Maurice, he's got two strikes.

'He has to stay out of prison,

'stay away from the people
he got in trouble with before.'

And I'm like, "What the BLEEP?"

We have got to get this fixed
cos I'm just ready to get back home

so we can start our lives together
and be safe in Vegas.

I don't wanna have
to be away from you.

It might happen, Jessica,
because you're not comfortable

in the living situation
that I'm walking into.

It's not that I'm not comfortable.
I didn't say that.

- You... You are.
- I didn't say that.

What you got a attitude for?

On Monday, ask for a supervisor,
and then figure it out from there.

What you mean,
"figure it out from there"?

It's still gon' take time.

Listen. Just... can I talk?

You haven't once asked
for a supervisor, so why is that?

What is a supervisor
gonna do for me?

OK, well, I'm saying,
you could have asked.

Answer that. You had jobs before.

You just go up there and say,
"Let me talk to the owner"?

No.
- That's different, though.

That's not the owner.
- It's the same BLEEP.

You can't just go and say,
"Let me talk to a supervisor."

It's a process.

I'm gonna ask my PO,

the PO's POs,
officer of the days.

I already asked that.

I don't know what to do. Honestly.

HE SIGHS
BLEEP, man, man, man.

It's like being free, I'm not free.

The BLEEP we do for love.
It's crazy.

- What are you doing for love?
- Violate.

Violate parole and say,
"BLEEP everybody."

By going to Vegas, say,
"BLEEP parole."

- I mean...
- What's the worst gon' happen?

- You have to follow the rules...
- BLEEP the rules.

BLEEP the wardens.
BLEEP the lieutenants. BLEEP.

- You can't...
- BLEEP prison. BLEEP jail.

- Cos it's breaking parole.
- I wanna go see my mom-in-law.

I wanna see my dad-in-law.
- I mean, we'll see them.

You cannot break parole.
- I don't care, though. So what?

You either with me or against me.

No, we can't go.

I think it's a bad idea
because what if you get pulled over,

something happens, he gets arrested,
and he goes back to jail?

'He cannot go back to prison
because he'll strike out.'

He has no more chances.

I just got Maurice home,
and there's no way

I'm gonna risk losing him
to go back to Vegas.

It's crazy.

Not doing no more talking.
BLEEP parole.

Simple as that. Let's go.

- But we're not going.
- Yeah, we going, all right.

At the end of the day,
I want her to know, like,

I want her on the side of me,
I need her on the side of me.

You know what I'm saying? So,
sometimes, you know, I take risks.

BLEEP parole!
Let me hear you say it.

- No, I'm not saying "BLEEP parole".
- Please. Please, baby, please?

And the risk I'ma take is Vegas,
simple as that.

BLEEP parole!

CHANDA:
I know you was looking at my a*s.

Why, I can't look at your a*s?

CHANDA CHUCKLES
Am I your man or what?

CHANDA: Oh, wow.

TYRICE: You OK?
- Yeah.

Just different being on the highway.

This... I know.
It's a good feeling, ain't it?

Yeah, without being in,
like, an orange jumpsuit

or something like that.
- I know.

'It feels great to be out
in the free world.'

I'm happy. I get to do
what I want when I want.

'But I'm also... kind of nervous.'

In total, me and Tyrice spent
about 24 hours together.

Now, it's gonna be like getting
to know him all over again.

You came way overdressed, babe.

- I did?
- Yes.

- I wanted to look good for you.
- Listen, I know you look good,

but look...
I'm in jeans and a shirt.

- You look good to me.
- I know. I look great.

THEY LAUGH

Anything would look good on Chanda.

I'm looking to having sex with her.

'But Chanda has to get
on the bus soon

'and go to the halfway house,
and she's starving.

'So it doesn't give us enough time.'

I'm ready for some chicken.

All right, we pressing for time,
so if we don't eat it all up,

can we, like, wrap it up

and take it with us
or something like that? OK.

I mean, I'm not in a rush,

but when it happens,
it's gon' be amazing.

You don't wanna wait
for your chicken?

- Huh?
- You don't wanna wait...?

I'm hungry!

Dessert always comes first.

SHE CHUCKLES

Remember the first time
I came out there?

I didn't know what to expect,
you didn't know...

- Oh, my God, I was so nervous.
- Nervous.

BOTH LAUGH

I couldn't even say anything to you.
I was like...

I know, because you know what?

We didn't know what to expect,
you know, what to say,

or how was the person
gonna actually look.

It was weird,
cos I never really experienced

anything like this before.
- Yeah.

SHE CHUCKLES

While I was in prison,
when I saw a picture of Tyrice,

I was like, "Damn."

SHE CHUCKLES

You know, and I showed
all the girls I was in there with,

and they was like,
"Ooh, girl, you caught you one."

SHE CHUCKLES

'He gave me something
to look forward to.'

Whenever I'd just think about him,

he just put a smile on my face
just because...

he was nice, he has a good heart.

So what time
you got to report now, at ten?

CHANDRA: Mm-hm.

This BLEEP, it's... it's a task.
- What is?

Being in a halfway house.

It's like a new set of rules.
You just got more freedom, though.

- It's just another facility.
- Yeah.

The main thing that's really hard
about a halfway house

is that there's more drugs
and contraband that is in there

than what necessarily is
in other places.

Growing up, my dad got arrested

for manufacturing
of methamphetamine.

'My mom was an alcoholic.'

She drank herself to death.

'So, every day
is a struggle for me.'

The first time I got locked up,
I was 16.

I don't even think
I can count on one hand

how many different detention
facilities I've been in.

And it's all due to drugs.

In the past, whenever I got out,

I went right back
to doing the same thing.

And it was devastating.

My main focus is myself
and getting my life together.

Yeah. Yeah.

I ain't got no other choice.
You know what I mean?

Unless I just wanna be a loser
for the rest of my life.

You're not gon' be no loser.
You gon' do it.

I feel kind of alone out
in this world sometimes, you know?

- Yeah.
- And that's what scares me.

I know you ain't got
no strong family support.

You know what I'm saying?
Foundation.

- Yeah.
- But you know you...

You run into a obstacle,
you call me.

You know what I'm saying?
Cos you... you got to.

While I was in prison,
there was, like,

five or six other guys
I was talking to.

'OK, there was probably
about eight or nine.'

SHE CHUCKLES

I guess you can say
I was using them a little bit,

but I still talk to them.

We're still friends.

Baby. Does this look OK to wear?

Like, is this, like,
what people wear in Vegas?

Do I look too fat?

It looks good?
- No, you're not. You look good.

I don't know what to do with myself.

Probably feel like
running around naked.

But your friends are coming,
so I can't.

SHAWN: 'I'm very nervous...'

cos I invited Hector
and his wife Veronica over

to, you know...
to finally meet Destinie.

Hey.
HECTOR: What's up?

I've known Hector
for about eight years.

- How you doing?
- All right.

'Hector has been very critical
of everything.'

People have catfished people
all the time.

Do you send her money?
- Yeah. Thousands.

Aw, geez. Thousands?
Oh, wow, Shawnie.

I think, when I go to prison,
I'ma make you my pen pal.

Hector. How you doing, Destinie?

- Good. How are you guys?
- She didn't catfish me.

No, she didn't.
You might have catfished her.

You guys want a beer or something?

- Yes.
VERONICA: Water?

- Water?
- Please.

DESTINIE: I'm used to drinking
hand sanitiser.

I can't do this.

HECTOR: I'll open it.
- I think you might have to...

Yeah? Check this out.

Ooh.

One thing about being married...
boom.

So, Shawn, I'm gonna need a ring.

Oh, BLEEP.
HE LAUGHS

Before tonight, I didn't know
nothing about Destinie.

Hector told me that Shawn
goes on these weird apps

to date girls from jail.

I think Destinie's a nice girl
for what I see.

So, what did you think
when you first saw him?

I thought it was gonna be a lot
more uncomfortable than it was.

- Fireworks or no fireworks?
- No, there was fireworks, for sure.

- Yeah?
- Yeah, I was getting out of jail.

What the hell?
Anything would be really fireworks.

But anyway, so, I mean,
I really, honestly...

I know I wanted Shawn to cook dinner
and stuff tonight,

but, like, really, you guys,
I wanted to go out.

It's my first day in Vegas.
I've never been to Vegas.

Like, I wanna go party, dude.
I wanna go to the casinos and BLEEP.

I think Vegas is, like,
the one place

that you can either make it
or really break it

because there's 24 hours drinking,




You can drink 24 hours?

It's a 24-hour day.
The bars don't close.

Oh, my God, I never even knew that.

- Oh, thanks a lot, Hector [!]
- You're welcome.

- Wow.
- Thank you.

I think Destinie's
a little wild for me.

Well, she's just got
out of prison, girl.

I'm ready to party
so I'm not eating nothing.

Maybe some BLEEP later.

- Oh!
- Ah!

You never know when you go back in,
take advantage of every day.

Probably tonight.

So, Hector, you're driving.
Let's go.

I'm really worried. I'm just...
you know, my stomach's in knots.

HECTOR:
I'm ready to get drunk and twerk.

BLEEP, I was thinking
the same thing.

VERONICA: Oh, Lord, please.

SHAVEL: Good morning.

HE GROANS

Last night was amazing.

I didn't think
you was gonna last that long.

Like, you... Like, yeah,
you definitely surprised me.

My first night out of prison,

and it was great, man,
I didn't want it end.

Like, believe it or not,
we only had sex one time.

Nah, I'm lying.
We had sex hella times.

We, like, had sex
three times last night.

Like, that's wild.
- Told you, I'm a young bull.

SHE LAUGHS

When Quaylon did what he did
last night, like...

definitely like,
BLEEP the life out of me,

I was just like, "Damn!"

Why... Why you smiling like
a little kid in a candy store?

You know I like candy.

Second day out.

How do you feel?
- I feel like money.

That's a good way to feel. Ha!

Fish still doing good?

Right now, he ain't too active.

Fishy, are you ready
to meet Mi'elah?

SHE CHUCKLES

Mi'elah is so excited
for Quaylon to come home.

'I can't believe that
this is really about to happen.'

But we talked about marriage
and being a family.

He's never been a dad,

and his dad
has never been in his life.

So, I don't know
how he will take the father role.

PHONE RINGS

Hello?

SHAVEL: 'Hey, Mom.
We're on our way home.

'Is Mi'elah there?'
- Yeah, she's excited.

'OK. Well, I'm pulling up.'

QUAYLON: 'It's been a few months
since I seen Mi'elah.'

I've been anxious for so long
to have this moment.

'I'm ready to take on
the father-figure role.'

I'm ready to spoil her,
so I got her a little fish.

Hey, Mimi!
- Who is that?

- Hey!
- Look what I got you.

- And a fish?
- Look what I've got you.

Give me a hug.

HE GROANS

- Why it smell like that?
- Good to see you.

You like...

- Why it smell like that?
- Come on, let's go.

You have to take a shower
if you smell like that.

THEY LAUGH

I know that it's gonna take
Mi'elah some time to get used to me.

- Mi'elah looks so pretty.
QUAYLON: Yeah.

I'm nervous meeting
Shavel's mother for the first time.

Miss Sylvia.

- Hello.
- How you doing?

I know Sylvia about
to be down my throat

with these questions, you know?

This is her baby girl,
so I know she about to come with it.

Well, welcome... welcome home.

Thank you.
It's a beautiful thing, you know,

to finally be on the other side
of the walls.

SYLVIA: Yeah, yes, it is.

So, you ready to adapt and try to
get back into the swing of things?

I'm just gonna take it
a day at a time, you know?

I don't wanna rush nothing.

Right.

So, what is your plans for
my daughter and my granddaughter?

Well, um...

I just wanna take my time.

I wanna ease into it.
SYLVIA: You got to be sure.

Yeah, I wanna be strategic
at everything I do, you know?

Is marriage in the plan?

To be honest, like...

..I can't sit up here and tell you
the future, cos I don't know it.

We still got to get familiar,
you know?

Cos it's different
from being on the phone.

- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- And then being in person,

around the person 24-7.

So y'all gon' build
the relationship first and then...?

- Mm-hm.
- That's good.

But if you decide to walk away,
that little girl gonna be hurt.

Right. I'm trying.

Know what I'm saying?
I just got out. I'm trying.

I'm trying to put
all the pieces together.

This what I want.
You know what I mean?

I need responsibility
to keep me focused

and keep me driven and motivated
to do what I'm supposed to be doing

instead of what I'm not
supposed to be doing.

Oh, and you think
that they will be that. OK.

'After talking to Quaylon,
I wouldn't say I'm at ease.'

I put my eggs in a batch before,
and, you know...

You know how that goes.

You put them in there too soon,
and they, you know, don't hatch,

so don't wanna think,

"Oh, I know him,"
just from one meeting.

My heart, as a mother, says,

"Be watchful.

"Make sure everything is going
the way that it's supposed to be."

But I'm willing to give him
a chance and a try.

I... I just wanna do
the right thing as a man.

You know what I mean?
I made promises.

You know what I'm saying?

But we both to be ready.
Like, one person can't be ready.

SHAVEL: I know when me
and Quaylon talked about in jail.

When he was in jail,
he was, like, ready

to marry me in three months.

So, yes, I understand
that Quaylon wants us

to get to know each other.

But, like, the fact

that Mi'elah is learning to love him

and call him Daddy, that's a lot.

So the fact
that I'm bringing him in my life,

and he's come into my life, like...

Like, marriage
is something that I want.

My life was on hold for two
and a half years, going on three.

'So, he needs to propose to me
within six months.'

Damn, so this is always
popping right here?

VERONICA: Yeah.
HECTOR: Monday through Sunday.

All night long.

VERONICA: Shawn, you're in trouble.

You need to get her
some Jesus Christ in her.

Oh, I got Jesus Christ, know that.

DESTINIE:
'It's my first night in Vegas,

'and I'm ready to go party.'

Like, I don't give a BLEEP
what anybody thinks.

I'll put you outside.

I'll put you a little cot
and blanket out there...

Oh, my.

So, now that you've finally met her,
what do you think?

So, a lot of us were like,

"She's gonna be catfishing
the BLEEP out of this dude."

Why?
- Well, come on now. I mean...

You have no more time
but to BLEEP with people.

That's what I thought.
Know what I'm saying?

I was just thinking, at one point,
you'd be taking advantage of him.

So, when I was thinking
that you was catfishing him,

he was catfishing you...
ten years' worth!

DESTINIE: That's funny.

Yeah?

Yeah.

I'm shy and quiet
and like to stay to myself,

where Destinie's outgoing
and likes to party.

Destinie is scaring me.

Come on, girl. Come on, girl!

No?

Shawn does not know this,
but the last time I had sex

with a woman was in prison
a couple of weeks ago,

right before I got transferred
to Glenn County Jail.

I love him, but at the same time,

like, I just want
the best of both worlds.

What's the craziest thing
you've seen in there?

No BLEEP way.

I think I'm, like, trisexual maybe.
Like...

SHE LAUGHS

Being trisexual means
that, pretty much,

it's all whatever you want,

with a chubby guy, or it can be
with a woman and a man,

or it could just be whatever,
like, gets me sexually aroused...

I don't know... makes my BLEEP.

Like, I'm just... I'm a dog.

So, do you have, like, a list?

No, but I'm saying
something you wanna do?

Like, let's just say
what's the one thing you wanna do?

HECTOR:
What about another drink, though?

I think Shawn
is looking for a Mrs Shawn,

and she's looking for
a Mrs "Take me out

"and do whatever the hell
the BLEEP I want today."

I think Destinie
is just looking for money,

wanting to get as much as possible
out of Shawn.

I don't think Shawn really cares.
He'll give her everything.

Are you sure we should be
doing this?

Yeah, come on, baby.
Get in the car, girl.

- You gonna be OK?
- Yeah.

JESSICA:
You sure you wanna go to Vegas?

- Yeah.
- I'm scared.

- I wanna meet your parents.
- I know. I'm scared, though.

What if we got pulled over?

You make me do some crazy BLEEP.

I'm about to break my rules
right now.

BLEEP parole.
I'm about to go to Vegas.

I wanna go home.
I wanna meet my mom, my dad.

You know what I'm saying?
I wanna see my house.

You know what I'm saying?
I wanna see these things.

So, that's what I'm about to go do.

I just wanna get to know
the people who made my wife,

who made me a happy man.

They're excited to meet you, too,
so...

- You think so?
- Mm-hm.

I agreed to go because this is not
the life I wanna live right now.

I mean, I don't wanna
live out of a suitcase.

That's why we have a house,
you know? I wanna go there.

It's only, like, four hours.

'If the parole officer
is gonna call,

'we'll have to get right back.'

But I'm a little nervous.

If we're going there to violate,

you know that I'm not doing
no more prison sentences, right?

I know that. I know that.

If Maurice gets caught outside
the state of California,

he'll be violating his parole.

They consider that his third strike

and he could probably end up
doing twenty to life,

so he'll be in there
for the rest of his life.

So, if I go in there, like,
"What's up? Pops, my BLEEP."

JESSICA: No, you cannot say BLEEP.

You cannot say that.

When my family members found out

about me and Maurice
getting married,

they were, like,
not too happy about that.

DAVE: This is not exactly what
we envisioned when you were born.

- Right, yeah.
- When you have two daughters,

you envision them
marrying better than us,

and it didn't quite
work out that way.

You may have been used
this whole time.

So, my parents don't know

that Maurice would be violating
his parole right now

to be in Las Vegas,

and I'm pretty sure
that they would be pretty upset.

It's just scary to think about
what could happen

if we do get caught.

MAURICE: We almost here.

Look at the sign... Vegas.

Look at...
My hands are sweating.

Makes me nervous as BLEEP.
Cos, like, you got the...

You know how you get
that feeling in your stomach,

like, telling you, "Don't do this"?

We don't think like that.
We don't think negative.

- But you got to...
- We don't worry about the what-ifs.

- But you have to.
- No, well, we're not gonna do that.

It's too late now.

- I'm gonna get off.
- No.

Don't get off.
What the BLEEP is you doing?

Turn around,
before we get to the state line.

SIREN WAILS
No, don't get off.

I knew I should have drove.

- It was stupid for us to do this.
- Man, just go. Just go.

Please? If you really love me,
you're not gonna turn around.

- Don't do that.
- Don't worry about no BLEEP exit.

Just keep going.
- What if you go back to jail?

- I'm not going back to jail.
- How do you know?

I'm not, because I'm not.

It's all right, baby.

You're with me, or you're
against me. Let me hear it.

SIREN WAILING

What is going on?

Over here, I'm at home.
Right here, I ain't.

I think we need to go back.

I'm just really grateful
to have this chance.

Don't blow it.

- I want a credit card.
- What are you thinking?

- I was thinking maybe five or ten.
- Thousand?

He can take the vehicle and slide.
What's next, a house?

You gon' buy him a house, too?
- You got to give somebody a chance!