P-Valley (2020) s01e05 Episode Script
Belly
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PATRICE WOODBINE:
Previously on P-Valley
Montavious Hill?
WOMAN [OVER PHONE]: Oh, FEMA
doesn't have anyone on record
with that name having
been identified yet.
[KEYS CLACKING]
- Hands where I can see them.
- Mm
- [BOTTLE SHATTERS]
- Hey, bitch!
Bitch, what the hell?
MERCEDES: What'd I say?
Hands where I can see 'em.
There might be one small,
little, tiny problem
with the owner of The Pynk.
The owner may have found
out about the casino.
I'm still paying off a debt
I took up on this place.
- Can you get me the down payment by tomorrow?
- Tomorrow?
You made the withdrawal
from the church account yet?
What you need it for?
What your little ass gonna do with it?
I'm sorry, baby, but
another buyer's done
already swooped in and got it.
[YELLS] Fuck you, bitch!
CLIFFORD: Where's this bitch at?
All right, now, which one of y'all
heifers gon' go on for Beyoncé?
KEYSHAWN: I'll do it.
LIL MURDA: That's my song.
That's my song!
You know that shit about you, right?
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[CLUB MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
DJ NEVA SCARED: Miss M I crooked
letter crooked letter I
crooked letter crooked letter I
humpback-humpback I-I-I!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
That's right!
Miss Mississippi in a minute!
Let's run that bop back
one more 'gain one time
for the one-time r-r-rewind!
LAUREN: She almost better than Mercedes.
WOMAN: Ooh, Lordy, don't you
be blaspheming up in here.
- LAUREN: Over love.
- [WOMAN LAUGHS]
I usually choose the money over love ♪
Yeah, you can have
it, I don't give a fuck ♪
Tonight she got me
'bout to give it up ♪
- Every buck, all because ♪
- WOMAN: All because.
Which one of y'all the new divorcée?
Right here, and I'm spending
this whole divorce
settlement tonight, bitches!
WOMAN: Hey!
To new motherfucking beginnings!
WOMAN: To new motherfucking beginnings!
You want a queen, you got a queen ♪
I held it down, didn't need a crown ♪
Cheated on, still fuck around ♪
Was cheatin' then and cheatin' now ♪
Used to smile, but it's all frowns ♪
I hate when you come around ♪
But love when you put it down ♪
Gobble-gobble, meow-meow ♪
You know the feelin',
you love the sound ♪
Outside pussy gotta look like clown ♪
[RAPPING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
♪♪
Feelin' some type of way ♪
Got a lyin'-ass nigga ♪
Might lie today ♪
He might try today,
and I'ma catch a case ♪
And I'ma beat the case ♪
And I know the bae,
wanna play, let's play ♪
Okay, okay ♪
You are truly the most beautiful woman
I ever seen.
And you smell like a baby.
[SOBBING]
♪♪
He just left me! [CONTINUES SOBBING]
Oh, well, he ain't deserve
a generous and genuine woman like you.
You ain't have to drop half
your divorce settlement on me,
and, like, yet you did.
Somebody gonna snatch
you up soon enough.
No, they won't. [SOBBING]
I don't wanna go back to that
big old empty house by myself.
I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go!
[SOBBING] I don't wanna
go! I don't wanna go!
I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go!
Hey, hey, God can't
give you your blessings
if you up there holding a bag of shit.
You gon' have to release that doo-doo
and take your blessings to go, boo.
GIDGET: Now, that's something
we all can learn from.
- Gidget!
- GIDGET: Hmm?
If you don't get your
ass out of my face
I'm talking to the lady, and
you jokin' and shit, and
[BODY THUDS]
[SNORING SOFTLY]
Girl
[WHISPERING] Let's get this bag.
GIDGET: Ha-ha!
Don't do it ♪
Don't don't do it ♪
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha ♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
Down in the valley ♪
Where the girls get naked ♪
If you throwin' bands ♪
Then you know she gon' shake it ♪
One, two, break 'em ♪
Three, four, rake 'em ♪
These niggas grind hard ♪
But these bitches grind harder ♪
Climbing up the pole just
to get out the bottom ♪
The crowd below ♪
Stay ready for the show ♪
The pimps, the dough ♪
Don't let it take your soul ♪
We make fallin' on the sky look easy ♪
Look at my bitches ♪
Gangsta walking on the ceiling ♪
Green on the flo' ♪
Money talk, can you hear me? ♪
This world is so addicting ♪
But dreams is expensive,
keep spending ♪
Work hard for the
top, can't fall now ♪
But whatever goes up must fall down ♪
What you do when the power out? ♪
Kids hungry, can't do
nothin' but scream and shout ♪
We all choose to live
but it's different routes ♪
Take the shit with shine,
gotta make it count ♪
When you live and die
by the paper route ♪
You spend a dime just
to make it out, yeah ♪
Down in the valley ♪
Where the girls get naked ♪
If you throwin' bands ♪
Then you know she gon' shake it ♪
One, two, break 'em ♪
Three, four, rake 'em ♪
♪♪
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪
- [LIGHTER CLICKS]
- [INHALES DEEPLY]
[INHALES DEEPLY]
♪♪
LAUREN: Over love ♪
I usually choose the money ♪
Over love, yeah ♪
Yeah, you can have it ♪
I don't give a fuck ♪
She got me 'bout to give it up ♪
- [GASPS]
- CLIFFORD: Hey.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
[STAMMERS]
- CLIFFORD: All done. All done.
- WOMAN: [GROANS]
♪♪
I told Uncle Clifford this shit
wasn't long for the world.
Pynk being 'closed on? For real?
How long you done know about this, man?
[KEYSHAWN SQUEALING, LAUGHING]
Well, look who laughing at a funeral.
Oh, well, this sad and all, but look.
Somebody done posted a
video of me from last night.
This shit done got, like, 10,386 views.
- WOMAN: Oh!
- WOMAN: How I'ma finish paying for nursing school?
What I'm finna do, y'all?
What we all gonna do?
[DOOR CLANKS OPEN]
LAUREN [SLURRING]: Over love!
Yeah, you can over love
- WOMAN: Watch it!
- LAUREN: I usually choose the money
- over love.
- MAN: [SIGHS]
- [CONTINUES SLURRED SINGING]
- [SCATTERED SNICKERS]
What y'all standing lollygagging for?
Oh, Lord, don't tell
me Mercedes dead.
She dead.
Mercedes dead!
- WOMAN: Look.
- WOMAN: Uh-huh.
- Foreclosure?
- Hmm.
14
days till auction?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Wh oh!
NEWSCASTER: Last night, a
local pastor was attacked
by an exotic dancer
- in front of the club
- [KEYS CLACKING]
CLERK: Your account is frozen.
AUTUMN: Uh, what does that mean?
CLERK: That means that
you're not allowed
to do any more transfers.
What do you mean I'm not
allowed any more transfers?
Apologies, Miss Savage,
but our records show
that you've done over
ten in the past few days.
Yeah, that's because y'all
allow unlimited transfers
as long as the amount is under $9,000.
- Well, things have changed.
- W-why?
The only reason we had
that policy in place
was because we knew folks was
trying to get back on their feet
- after the flood.
- [SIGHS]
We wanted to help folks
wire money to their families,
but as of today, it stops.
So y'all just think, in two months,
we can all just pull our
lives back together
Look, Miss Savage, it was a courtesy,
which, quite frankly, folks
should be grateful for.
Mm, seems like your family
has been very, very generous.
But as of today, the policy is changed.
- [TIRES SQUEALING]
- Look, is there anything
What the hell?
Lord, have mercy! Oh,
Jesus, take the wheel!
[BOTH PANTING]
CLERK: Thank you, Jesus. Oh!
[SIREN WAILING]
Oh!
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]
[SLURRING] Her own bag,
I don't need to save her.
Rolling in ass papers.
The stage and naughty by nature.
[MUTTERS] I need me a
bitch that's doin' it major.
MERCEDES: I'm just
saying, y'all done had me
sitting up here all night,
and I still ain't got my phone call yet.
- Pay phone broke.
- I need to call my lawyers,
- Bufford and Bienvenue.
- Yeah, you and every other
nigga up in here.
Yeah, you can have it ♪
I don't give a fuck ♪
Who-who-who sing that song?
Lil Murda.
[LAUGHS]
- Lil Murda?
- Well, keep it that way.
Look, I can't be hemmed up in the 201
over the whole weekend, now
Well, you should've
been thinking about that
before you beat your
mama's ass last night.
You don't know Patrice Woodbine.
She stole from me.
Pluckin' and finessin'
must run in the family
since I have yet to get my
wallet returned back to me.
- Jesse?
- [CAMERA BEEPS]
- Oh, hell!
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
- LAUREN: Over love ♪
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
I usually choose the money over love ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Yeah, you can have it ♪
I don't give a fuck ♪
Tonight she got me
'bout to give it up ♪
All because ♪
[BUZZER BLARES]
[MEN SHOUTING]
[SINGING AND SHOUTS ECHOING]
MAN: Show me that ass! Yeah! Come on!
- [SHOUTS ECHOING]
- NINEVEH: Jesse!
- MAN: Talking shit.
- NINEVEH: Jesse!
Jesse!
Jesse, will you please honor my request
to be moved to the ladies' cell?
- JESSE: It's not my call. God's call.
- NINEVEH: Come on, man.
I would let you ring Him up,
but the pay phone's broke.
Hey, let me peep that.
Don't you Oh, my God, what the fuck?
JESSE: Y'all put that phone
up and get back to work.
[CELL DOOR SLAMS]
♪♪
[YELLS]
[ALL SHOUTING]
Get this heifer off of me!
Good Lord, maybe I am
better off over here.
MERCEDES: You fucking bitch!
You wanna add murder in the first
to assault, disorderly behavior,
and resisting arrest?
That officer ran into my fist.
Just like your mama did, huh?
Your mama? Wait, this her mama?
I don't care what she do.
You don't raise a hand to your mama.
JESSE: Yeah, I'd split these two up,
but we got a sewage
backup in number three,
and number four won't lock,
so y'all gon' have to go along
to get along, you hear me?
You stay over there in that corner,
and you aah stay over there, huh?
You make sure these heifers don't
cross this 50-yard line, you hear?
Uh-uh, these folks like
two tornadoes in the alley,
and you want us to
stay in here with them?
Well, you wanna go over
there and join Nineveh, huh?
I ain't think so.
Now, I hear one more peep out of y'all,
and I'm stacking up everybody charges!
- WOMAN 1: Uh-uh!
- WOMAN 2: Uh-uh! I didn't do shit!
- Can he do that?
- [DOOR SLAMS]
ALL: Mm-hmm.
Jesse can do anything he wanna.
Round here, he's the boss.
WOMAN: Children now-a-days
ain't got no respect for they elders.
Ain't that a shame?
- Yeah, it's all right, baby.
- [SOBS]
It's all right.
[SOBBING]
OFFICER: You say what, now?
My wife went missing the
day Hurricane Drake hit.
- Mm-hmm.
- Afterwards, I couldn't
get the Houston police
to do anything, so
Well, I can only imagine
how overwhelmed they was.
So she been missing for two months now?
Yeah. Ever since the flood.
[SIGHS] Well, son, Chucalissa's
two worlds away from Houston.
Guess that's how far hope's carried me.
I visited every town along the river,
thinking maybe, maybe
[SOMBER MUSIC]
I lost so much, sir. I lost everything.
♪♪
[SIGHS] Well, look, um
[SNIFFS] I'll tell you what.
[CLEARS THROAT] If you have
a picture you can email us,
I'll get my deputies
to put up some flyers
around town quick-fast, all right?
Thank you kindly, sir.
Now, hold on. I can't-I can't read that.
What is it?
Who should I ask for if I get word back?
Montavious.
Montavious Hill.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
- CLIFFORD: Oop!
- OFFICER: Sheriff Bailey,
I tried to hem him up at the gate.
How can I help you, Clifford?
Mm-hmm. "If the owner does not
vacate the said premises in
14 days by date of auction,
the Sheriff's Office of Nonconnah County
will evict said owner
from the property"?
Oh, mm-mm-mm.
Now, don't do that with your nails.
T
All right, come on. Alex, let her back.
The devil stay busy, don't he?
BAILEY: [SIGHS] It wasn't me
that rode down there and
put that on your door.
- That was one of my deputies.
- Mm-hmm.
I was busy cleaning up
your right-awful mess.
A mess made by me? Pray, do tell.
I had to pull over a lady so lit,
I thought she was a fuckin' firecracker.
Thank God I seen her when I did.
Don't know how many folks
she would've killed last night
swerving backward down Main Street
like she on 40 going north.
Look, now, me and you [SIGHS]
I thought we had come
to an understanding.
- I pay you, don't I?
- Shh, shh.
That you do, but you can't let folks
get so lubricated, they
start acting a damn fool.
You'd best tell Yoli to stop
being so damn heavy-handed.
- Mm-mm-mm.
- No pfft!
This little arrangement 'tween
us gon' soon come to an end,
you keep pushing past the limit.
You'd really forgo
our little arrangement?
Look, I-I don't really
like Ruffin's new law.
- Okay!
- [STAMMERS]
Look, I don't mind letting
folks get a little liquored.
All laws ain't right,
but some rights is wrong.
Hmm? R-run that back, Emmitt Smith.
Well [CHUCKLES]
All I'm saying is, even
if you had the right
to put tequila with your titties,
think about what the Bible say.
[SOFTLY] Oh, child.
Now, you lucky a foreclosure
notice all you got last night.
Why so short, hmm? 14 days?
Well, you best talk to your boy Ruffin.
- My boy?
- Yeah.
[SCOFFS] Hey.
Welcome to Bailey's Plantation, y'all.
Y'all folks so goddamn sensitive.
That ain't what I meant.
Ruffin seem like he your boy.
He got you doing his dirty work.
Look, the mayor's office
can expedite a foreclosure
in the case of properties
that they consider
- a community blight.
- Community blight?
Do you know how many hoes
I done put through school?
Well, that little community
service you done provided
over the years just ain't gonna override
all the code violations
you done racked up.
Mayor Ruffin say The Pynk's gots to go.
Is this shit even legal?
Well, this Mississippi. It legal enough.
Now, if you don't mind,
I got shit to do.
The jail's so full, the bars
about to bend to breaking.
Hell, even one of your dancers
got all lost up in the sauce last night.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
one of my-one of my girls?
Yeah, wha uh, Lexus or something.
- Mercedes?
- Yeah.
Wait, she up in here?
Yeah, she up in here. So's her mama.
Cutting up outside the Kroger
like it was a damn barbershop.
Let me see her. Let me see her.
No, pff, you will see
her when she post bail.
Sheriff Bailey, that
girl is like a daughter
my ass can't ever have.
You let me see Mercedes.
LAUREN: [SINGING DRUNKENLY]
MAN: [SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
I needs my phone call.
- Excuse me, I needs
- Mm-mm.
MAN: What up, baby?
Hey, hey, baby, look over
here. Look over here.
You see that? You see
that right there? Ahh!
You like that?
- LAUREN: [CONTINUES SINGING]
- [CHORTLING]
Come on, step to the right and
let me get a good look at you.
[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]
Hey, told you I ain't have no dick.
MAN: Hey, boy. Cut that shit out!
WOMAN: I wonder if I put
a quarter in her mouth,
would she sing some Aretha?
You gon' have to put more
than a quarter in this mouth,
you want some Aretha.
[SLURRING] You don't
know what you mean ♪
Glad you know what it's worth.
This ain't the club.
[SIGHS]
Oh, are you Mercedes?
Did I die and go to heaven?
- No, bitch, this hell.
- Mercedes!
Oh, I came all the way
down from Tchulahoma
to see your last dance.
I heard about it, and I knew
that's what I wanted to do
for my divorce party,
but they had some other
girl go on for you instead.
Somebody danced in my place?
Yeah, they called her M-I-
crooked letter crooked letter
- Oh!
- BAILEY: Hold it down.
- You have two minutes.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey, girl, hey!
- Hey
- MERCEDES: Uncle Clifford!
You let Keyshawn go on for me?
Mercedes, what the hell
was I supposed to do, huh?
Let the niggas tear the club up?
I mean, I like it when folks get crunk,
but Lord knows I needs
me a building standin'.
Well, how'd she do?
Girl, she
she was all right.
I need you to get me out of here.
[WHISPERING] Oh, baby girl, come on.
Hey.
I'ma put some stacks on your bail.
Yep, foreclosure be damned.
Hold up. Foreclosure?
The Pynk about to be auctioned?
Woke up this mornin'
to this sign.
That's the only reason I'm down here.
Then I found out about
you and old BA-trice.
I bet you better keep
my name out your mouth.
Don't you come unless
I send for you, girl.
Ugh, God, a funny-ass bitch, but damn.
Sheriff Bailey know he need
to be ashamed of hisself,
keeping both of y'all in the same cage.
Let me pull my little pennies
together from my pocketbook
- Keep it.
- 'Cedes, we made some stacks.
Keep it. Don't you owe 55K?
You need to put every penny
you got down on The Pynk.
BAILEY: Clifford, time's up.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Let me go see if I can
get this runaway train
- turned round.
- Mm-hmm.
Hey, come on. Stay strong.
Stay strong, hmm?
Yeah.
♪♪
And don't beat her ass again.
You leave that to me.
Well, ain't that nice?
A visit from your pimp.
I got your pimp.
- What?
- MERCEDES: My pimp?
You should be the one to talk.
That woman done done more
for me in the last seven years
than you done done in a whole lifetime.
So that thing been a better
mother to you than me?
Damn right! At least she ain't steal
all my shit and make
herself a goddamn church!
You wanna talk about pimps?
You need to be talking
about your damn self.
I was just three and
already had a gas bill
and Dillard's card.
Mm-hmm, my mama did that to me too.
They say Jesus come like
a thief in the night?
Well, they ain't met
them no Patrice Woodbine.
God forgave me for that.
You gon' have to
forgive me for that too.
It looks like y'all in luck.
Pay phone's back in business.
Now, who got some
family they wanna call?
[PEOPLE SHOUTING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪♪
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER TV]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER TV]
♪♪
WOMAN: Gidget?
- Gidget!
- Almost done, Ma.
[MAN CONTINUES SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[BLENDER WHIRRING]
- [CELL PHONE RINGING]
-
MAN 1: We have a
collect call from the
MAN 2: Chucalissa jail facility.
- MAN 1: From
- MERCEDES: Come on.
You know your number the
only number I got memorized.
MAN 1: To accept charges, press one.
GIDGET: Now, why in the world
would you get to
scrapping with your mama
on the night of your last dance?
Wait, how the hell you know?
Playing it on the news all morning.
They had to blur out certain parts.
WOMAN: Gidget, where's my
motherfucking smoothie?
Ma, give me a motherfucking minute.
- How Deanna doing?
- What you want, Mercedes?
MERCEDES: I ain't gonna
make it through the weekend.
These folks done hemmed me
up in a cage with Patrice.
I'ma need you to bail me out.
- With what?
- A shovel.
What the fuck you think?
Well, ain't you been the
one stacking your paper.
Should be able to bail
your own self out.
She took it all, Gidget.
All the money I had stashed
up in the church building fund,
she used it for her own fucking church.
And the killing part about it,
she took the space
that was gon' be mine.
MAN 1: This collect call from the
MAN 2: Chucalissa jail facility
MAN 1: Will disconnect in 15 seconds.
- How much you need?
- Processing said 2K.
- Shit, 'Cedes.
- Can you get it, Gidge?
That's gon' be like
getting blood from a turnip.
I'll take whatever, even a turnip.
MAN 1: Five seconds.
Well, let me see what I can do.
Gidget, girl, I
[LINE CLICKS, DIAL TONE HUMS]
[WHISPERING] Love you.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪
Here.
No, I'm good.
Take it.
That cage is cold.
WOMAN 1: Mississippi don't
need no nother church.
It need another gun range.
See, if it had been one round
the corner from my house,
I wouldn't have shot
my husband in his ass.
But see, there, that's what he get.
And next time, it won't be no BB gun,
'cause it's illegal to shoot a BB gun
in the city limits of Chucalissa.
WOMAN 2: And shoot
heroin too, apparently.
WOMAN 1: Jesse done gave her a gift.
Must be nice to have a booty like that.
No, it bring burdens too.
[LAUREN SNORING]
You really is trying it.
There come a time when
you must humble yourself
before the eyes of the Lord,
unload your trespasses, and forgive
those who trespass against you.
Bitch, do you know how far your
little stunt done set me behind?
If you invest in the Lord,
blessings will rain down
upon you, Mercedes.
Well, while I was investin',
you was busy finessin'.
You probably been
planning to take my shit
ever since you first
started holding it for me.
Oh, Mercedes,
you know, when God send
His finger down from heaven
to tap you on the shoulder
and say, "You it"
twice I done felt the slap of
a angel wing 'cross my face,
and twice I done had to pull
a feather out my own eye.
Just what the hell you yapping 'bout?
I been called, Mercedes,
called to do what them niggas
over at Delta Valley Missionary Baptist
won't let me do: preach.
And what about what I been called to do?
Unless you teaching these little heifers
how to twerk for Jesus,
I don't see the purpose.
What if I told you it was the only way
I could get Terricka back?
What would you say then?
You need to leave Terricka
right where she at, with 'Chelle.
The judge say I got a better chance
of getting custody if I can prove
I got a steady job,
that I'm a fit mother.
And you think that judge
gon' snatch Terricka
up out that big, pretty
house and let her come live
with you on the corner
of Thugs and Thots?
I thinks not.
Terricka's my daughter.
No, baby, she 'Chelle's.
Bless a woman twofold who
took on the responsibility
of raising another woman's child.
Must have been hard lookin' in the face
of that man's infidelity every day,
but that's what make a woman godly.
She know how to forgive.
You could learn something from her.
'Chelle's not her mama.
I am.
Are you really ready
for that responsibility,
the sacrifice?
Well, if given the chance
to raise my daughter myself,
I'd never be a mama like you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
[CELL PHONE CHIMES]
[RENNI RUCCI'S "ELEVATORS"]
[RENNI LAUGHS]
Damn, Flaw, this what
I been prayin' for.
Uh, uh, uh, bad bitch alert ♪
I'm a walkin' money bag ♪
Get a nigga for his bands,
then I go and pop tags ♪
We some boss-ass bitches,
wrap our hair in Louis rags ♪
Still wearin' pack hair ♪
Bitch, that's a gag ♪
[PRINTER WHIRRING]
- Ah.
- Mm mm-mm.
Gidge, look.
My views done went up, like, 272,683.
YOLI: Let me see that shit.
- I just cannot believe.
- Ooh!
Your vajayjay done went viral, girl.
This ain't porn, Jupiter.
It's, like, clatchy.
Look, y'all should have stayed at home
if you wanted to go on a
date with your fuckin' phones.
Us stay at home? And where else
you gon' find 2K for the bill?
[DOOR BELLS JINGLE]
- Who the hell invited her?
- All right, all right,
all right, all right.
Got the lowdown on
Miss Mercedes Woodbine.
First thing there's gonna be the 2K.
Yep, we got that. Pony up, bitches.
MAN: Hold your horses,
now. That's just the base.
Now, there are some
outstanding parking tickets
for Mercedes Woodbine in our system.
That on top of several moving violations
that have rolled into
several pending warrants,
top that off with the
new processing fees,
the excise tax on top of that,
the total total totals
- $5,358.34.
- Oh!
- Oh, hell no.
- This must be some sort of mistake.
Mercedes said they told her it was 2K.
MAN: That must have
been before processing,
but now that's what's in the system.
- GIDGET: You sure?
- I'm as sure as sure can be.
Sure as them legs is pretty.
Look, we're just trying to
get our girlfriend out of jail.
MAN: Well, I'm trying
to get her out too.
Wonder if she is as fine as all y'all.
- Hey, y'all, let's go.
- GIDGET: It's fucking men like you
that make hell so full.
I'm just trying to give
you bitches a compliment.
- What, bitch?
- We don't need nothing from you!
I know you need to get out
of my motherfucking office
if you ain't got the money
to pay the fucking bail.
Seem like the only way you
heifers are gonna get her out
is if you put your house
down as collateral
or your pussy.
YOLI: Pussy?
[ALL SHOUTING]
GIDGET: You know what? Fuck you!
Bitch. Bitch.
[CHORTLES]
GIDGET: So now what we gonna do?
We ain't got it!
Man, it about to be
the first of the month.
We got bills on top of bills.
And with The Pynk 'bout to close,
I don't think not na'an one of us
got nothing extra to spare.
- JUPITER: What you said.
- Right?
- KEYSHAWN: Well, y'all
- YOLI: Nah, uh-uh.
- AUTUMN: Guys
- YOLI: Nah, uh-uh.
Well, Mercedes would
never do that to you.
To any of us.
YOLI: Maybe, maybe not,
but that tab she got with
Chucalissa on her, not us.
Come on, Valerie.
Bye, y'all.
They right.
I'm sorry, Gidge.
We tried.
Bye.
Wait up, y'all!
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
[CAR DOOR CLICKS OPEN AND SHUT]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[ENGINE REVVING]
Would she really have done it for them?
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Hell no. [SNORTS]
Her mama took all her stacks.
What would you do if somebody
took all your money?
Kill 'em.
[DARK MUSIC]
♪♪
God's a bitch.
[SCOFFS] And She got jokes tonight.
- [SCOFFS]
- [CHUCKLES]
PATRICE: He said, "I'll
make you a fisher of men".
[LAUGHS]
This girl up here trying
to move on with her life
and do right by her child,
and you up here messing her up.
Yeah, I mean, is you any
damn good at preachin'?
Nah, she just a pimp
tryin' to be a pastor.
- WOMAN 1: Oh, damn.
- WOMAN 2: Ooh, child.
♪♪
My daughter's right, though.
Wouldn't know it to look
at me now and figure that
that's where I started
where I began,
in the muck,
in the valley,
but won't God do it?
I tell you, gals, you can r-i-i-ise
up out of it.
WOMAN: Yes, you can.
We're just lilies ♪
In the valley ♪
Bright as the mornin' star ♪
[WOMEN MURMURING]
What?
PATRICE: Oh, lily ♪
In the valley ♪
Bright as the mornin' star ♪
Oh, lily ♪
In the valley ♪
BOTH: Bright as the mornin' star ♪
- LAUREN: Amen ♪
- PATRICE: Amen ♪
- LAUREN: Amen ♪
- PATRICE: Amen, hey ♪
- WOMEN: Amen ♪
- [RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
Oh, we're just lilies ♪
- ALL: In the valley ♪
- PATRICE: Oh, yeah.
ALL: Bright as the mornin' star ♪
Oh, lily ♪
In the valley ♪
Bright as the mornin' star ♪
ALL: Oh, lily ♪
In the valley ♪
Bright as the mornin' star ♪
- Amen, amen ♪
- PATRICE: Hey, hey, hey ♪
ALL: Amen ♪
Who ready to be saved tonight?
[WOMEN HUMMING, CLAPPING]
When you been filled
with the Holy Spirit,
ooh, it feel like the best
orgasm in the world,
joy like no man or vibrator can give.
- WOMAN 1: Ooh!
- WOMAN 2: All right.
PATRICE: You talk
about how I was a pimp,
but I started lower than that,
- on my knees.
- WOMAN: Oh, yeah.
PATRICE: And God knows
I weren't down there to pray.
I got on my knees
so you wouldn't have to.
So don't think you gon'
sit up there and judge me.
WOMAN: Amen!
PATRICE: I've been made
to feel so low, lookin' up
it feel like lookin' down.
- WOMAN: Oh, yeah!
- But God ain't judge me.
- WOMAN: Mm-mm.
- PATRICE: He forgives.
- He forgives us all!
- [RAPID CLAPPING]
- WOMAN: Hallelujah!
- PATRICE: What done brought you to the valley today? ♪
What you in here for? ♪
Nuh-uh, you ain't 'posed
to ask somebody in jail
- what they in there for.
- Child, this ain't jail.
This God's house now!
What about you? What you in here for?
I had an ounce of weed on me,
and I had to put it in my baby's diaper.
[PATRICE WHISPERS, GIGGLES]
- And you?
- I slit somebody neck.
Ooh! Oh.
- Mm-mm, mm-mm.
- I got a DUI.
- Oh, that ain't so bad.
- After I cheated on my husband
with his
with his mama.
- WOMAN: Oh!
- What the fuck?
"Judge not, ye shall not be judged".
- LAUREN: Forgive me, Lord.
- Although she need to be judged.
- [SOBBING]
- PATRICE: All sins can be forgiven,
all scars healed,
all bridges mended, every soul saved
'cause my God
is a God of second chances.
See, there, 'Cedes? This is God's plan.
You have to let Him use you.
- Bow to His will.
- [LAUREN SOBBING]
Join hands with me
at the Breath of Life Full
Gospel Baptist Tabernacle.
Come, my daughters. Forgive me.
Forgive me, Lord.
No. No.
Forgive me.
[LAUREN CONTINUES SOBBING,
WOMEN MURMURING]
[WOMEN HUMMING, SOBBING, MURMURING]
[HEAVY MUSIC]
♪♪
PATRICE: Forgive me.
♪♪
[WHISPERING] Mama
you dead to me.
JESSE: Mercedes Woodbine.
- You made bail.
- [KEYS JINGLING]
[CELL DOOR SLIDES OPEN,
WOMEN HUMMING AND MURMURING]
[CELL DOOR SLIDES SHUT]
[KEYS JINGLE, LOCK CLICKS]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪
[GATE CLATTERING]
♪♪
Where Gidget? Keyshawn?
Get in.
[CRYING SOFTLY]
[SOBBING]
Where to?
Anywhere but here.
- [LAUGHTER]
- He said, "Y'all,
if you wanna survive,
you gotta go mm-hmm".
He says, "Well, I'ma go mm-hmm".
He said, "You gonna go mm-hmm?"
He said, "I don't know about it".
So the big silverback jumped
up and said, "Mm-hmm",
and Bill said, "Okay".
[LAUGHTER]
Boy, white folks tell
some strange stories, man.
Jonah, now, you know what you gotta do.
Look, all right, give my godson
the Chucalissa chop, all right?
That line gotta be so tight, now,
for the Cotton Harvest ball tonight.
Let's take this picture now.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING,
CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
- Chucalissa chop.
- That's right.
And I'm taking all my nephews
and nieces down there next week
to the new Tydell Ruffin Park.
You better, 'cause I'm gonna
have a bounce house down there
and everything to
celebrate [INDISTINCT].
Look, I done told y'all I was
gonna turn this city around
as soon as I got elected.
Keep my promises.
♪♪
[ALL MURMURING]
Shouldn't you be at the beauty shop?
[CHUCKLES] No.
I'm right where I needs to be,
'cause it's about to
be a chop right here.
♪♪
[CHUCKLES]
Now, Mayor Ruffin, you
know I loves to decorate
my fine establishment
in the color pink, hmm?
But this notice right
here 'bout to find itself
- wiping my ass.
- [CHUCKLES]
Ain't my fault you
can't run no business.
Forcin' deserving folk off they property
is not a way to run a city.
Your establishment is
a blight on this town.
A community blight, hmm?
That's why you forced a foreclosure?
[SOFTLY] I been a help to this city.
- RUFFIN: No.
- Mm-hmm.
Chucalissa is gon' be
walking into a new day,
and some places just gots
to join hands with history.
You trying to erase folk.
Well, look, some niggas
need to be erased.
♪♪
Ooh.
[SIGHS]
You know, I wonder if
Jonah, Jonah Jenkins
like to know that the
Promised Land Equity
is offering his barbershop
half of what they
offering them white folks
for they barbershop over on Kalb Avenue.
Mm.
And how you privy to that?
[CHUCKLES]
♪♪
Land appraisal chart right here.
Perhaps.
[CHUCKLES]
If you think that any of us gon' care
about what this he-she-it
freak show got to say,
don't fool yourself.
Auction is only two weeks away,
and your ass gon' be on the block.
♪♪
Are you gon' buy it,
or is it gon' be Andre?
[GIGGLES]
'Cause I heard he
don't never pay for it.
Ain't that right, Andre?
You are a tumor in this town,
and I am just counting
the motherfucking minutes
till I can cut you the fuck out.
Now, you can tell Eloise
the rest of your complaint,
and I'll make sure the
mayor's office get right on it.
Hmm!
Hmm.
Hmm.
♪♪
I bet it will.
Bitch nigga, bitch
nigga, snitch nigga ♪
Hoe nigga, bitch nigga ♪
Bitch nigga, snitch nigga ♪
Hoe nigga, bitch nigga ♪
Bitch nigga, snitch nigga ♪
Hoe nigga, bitch nigga ♪
Bitch nigga, snitch nigga ♪
Hoe nigga, bitch nigga ♪
How in the hell did that thing
get a confidential land
appraisal chart, hmm?
Is you fuckin' Uncle Clifford?
- No!
- Well, somebody done slid up
in more than just your DMs to get this.
Somebody must have slid up on your dick.
- I ain't fuck anybody.
- Well, look, you know what?
Whatever you done is you
and your wife's bidness.
I just wanna know how
you gon' let something
like this out of your sight, boy?
I think I may have left
it somewhere in The Pynk.
Look, now, I done been in a
whole lot of hole-in-the-walls,
but I ain't never lost no
paperwork up in no coochie.
The only reason I was
even in that place,
that's where people here
wanna do business. Corbin Ky
Just spare me the
motherfucking bullshit.
Now, Uncle Clifford done fucked you
and probably fucked the whole deal.
[GEAR SHIFT CLACKS]
- ELOISE: Mayor Ruffin?
- Unh?
We've arrived.
Now, you close that Kyle farm deal.
And I gotta go up in here
in this fucking Cotton Harvest Ball
kiki with these motherfucking crackers
to get this fucking casino done.
Me and you don't do the do,
this casino deal ain't gonna happen.
Now, you finish it 'fore I do.
Nigga.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
RUFFIN: Hey, now, all right.
Let's get on in here, now.
[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY, LAUGHS]
Walk in the club with
a couple of friends ♪
I see a baddie, I'm paying her rent ♪
Look like an angel,
yeah, she heaven-sent ♪
Takin' her with me 100% ♪
Run to the stage,
they hittin' the sprint ♪
Breakin' the bank,
I might need a splint ♪
Throwin' her bands
and throwin' her hints ♪
Think I'm in love with
her man, I'm convinced ♪
Baby girl twerkin' like
she wanna be my wife ♪
Getting to the bag on a Monday night ♪
Know I got the Benz
parked waiting outside ♪
Finger and her neck,
I'ma put it on ice ♪
DJ NEVA SCARED: Ooh! I
see you, Mississippi.
Climb to the top, drop down,
split it, she moving that thing ♪
Got a nigga so over love, over love ♪
I usually choose the
money over love, over love ♪
Yeah, you can have it, I
don't give a fuck, give a fuck ♪
Tonight she got me
'bout to give it up ♪
Give it up ♪
Fallin', fallin', fallin', fallin' ♪
I'm fallin', fallin' ♪
Fallin' like the money in the club ♪
I'm fallin', fallin',
fallin', fallin' ♪
I'm fallin', fallin' ♪
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
DJ NEVA SCARED: Y'all give it up
for our girl Miss Mississippi, man.
She gone be the next Black Chyna, y'all.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Fallin', fallin' ♪
CLIFFORD: You mean you can't
move some more money round?
I've been robbing
Peter to pay Paul, man,
but these books are a mess.
Shit. Well, you best rob
Peter to pay Pamesha,
'cause we ain't gonna go down
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
[MUFFLED MUSIC THUMPING IN BACKGROUND]
♪♪
Now, how little nigga know
how to get back here?
Ain't it about time for your break?
[LAUGHS] I ain't had a break since 1999.
- [WHISPERS] Nigga!
- [KNOCKING CONTINUES]
[BUZZER BLARES]
[CHUCKLES]
Can I help you with something?
I got another complaint.
Well, the complaint box is by the exit,
but since you back here,
I guess I can make a
note for management.
So that's how it's gon' be, huh?
Just gon' act like nothing
happened last night?
Look, I I just got
kind of carried away.
I saw.
So did I.
I wanted to do it again,
but when I woke up on
that couch, you was gone.
I got too much on my
plate for any kind of
I heard.
You know, word on the
street's y'all is closing.
Yeah.
I gotta find a way to plug up this boat.
Cliff, my nigga, you look pressed?
Need to let somebody take you on up
out this office for a minute.
You know, maybe take you, uh, somewhere.
Child, now, you know
good and goddamn well
that me and you ain't
meant for the outside.
So that's how it's always gon' be?
We just gon' suck and fuck in the dark?
Where you wanna take me to, Lil' Murda?
LaMarques.
Okay.
LaMarques.
Where we going?
Do you wanna go on a romantic
walk down by the river?
If that's what you want.
Okay, well, the last
two faggots did that
found theyselves floating up in it.
You wanna take me over
to the Hot Wing Castle
for that lemon pepper wet?
The last two dykes did
that found their booty holes
turnt out by a train of truckers.
- That ain't gon
- LaMarques
where
you gonna take me?
♪♪
I advise you to take me nowhere.
Just tell me where you wanna go.
I don't do dates.
There's a first time for everything.
♪♪
Hey, they playing your song again, okay.
Yours.
♪♪
[HIP-HOP MUSIC]
WOMAN: Oh, my goodness.
This dude all up in my DM
asking if my coochie is shaved.
I'm like, "Nigga,
where they do that at?"
I'm a grown woman, and I stay
with a little landing strip.
[LAUGHTER]
My, my, how things change.
Did you say something, Toy?
I was just remarking on
your glow-up, Keyshawn.
Look good on you.
Mm, thanks.
I get, like, 50 likes a minute.
This joker gone more than viral.
I bet aliens even looking at it.
[LAUGHTER]
Keyshawn, Diamond said
Derrick out there with the baby.
Derrick done seen that video yet?
If the aliens done seen
it, I'm sure he's seen it.
[MUFFLED HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪
DERRICK: Keyshawn
why you coming out looking all naked?
I was running out here
real quick to get Regal.
♪♪
You know, now that I'm back at the shop,
you don't have to work here no more.
I mean, you could
you could stay at home.
I don't wanna stay at home, Derrick.
Fuck, Keyshawn.
Why won't you just let
me take care of you?
Pays the bills, Derrick, that's it.
♪♪
You sure that's it?
That's it.
I see why you blowing up, though
the video.
♪♪
You
you look beautiful.
Who watch Regal when you dance?
Everybody do.
♪♪
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
♪♪
[SIGHS]
♪♪
[BABY FUSSING]
Oh, fuck.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER,
BABY CONTINUES FUSSING]
Okay, it's okay. Hey,
hey, I'ma go talk to her.
- I'll go to talk to her.
- Let me handle her.
- [DOOR CLICKS SHUT]
- Okay.
[CHILDREN SHOUTING HAPPILY]
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪♪
Yeah, yeah ♪
[MAN RAPPING IN SPANISH]
♪♪
What you getting drunk off of now?
Your favorite Kool-Aid.
Bitch, this just purdee sugar.
Better sugar than alcohol.
Cold turkey, huh?
Same way you stop stripping.
One day, you wake up, and it's time.
I ain't going back.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER]
Once upon a time, I ran out of a door,
and I never looked back.
Thought I had the ultimate plan.
But I took a wrong turn.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
And the waters overtook me.
♪♪
I tried to grab her.
[SHOUTS]
♪♪
But God had other plans.
♪♪
I searched for her
for three days
and three nights.
♪♪
I wanted to die, Mercedes.
I deserved to die.
♪♪
But then this
suitcase
came riding in.
♪♪
And inside it was a new life.
♪♪
Life is just a long day's
journey into tomorrow.
♪♪
You just gotta make it
through the long, dark nights.
They say God is a God of second chances.
[SCOFFS]
I'm gon' pay you back that bail money.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
You don't need to pay me back
'cause I got more where that came from.
Bitch, why the fuck you stripping,
you got all this scrilla?
[CHUCKLES] 'Cause I like it.
I can run you ten stacks
by the end of the week.
Ten stacks?
Okay, and then I'm out,
'cause I know better enough than to deal
with finessin' ass hoes for long.
It ain't a scam.
It's
retribution.
Okay.
What I gotta do?
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪♪
MERCEDES: Bitch, unh-uh.
You bets put down my stripper name.
What? Mercedes ain't your stripper name?
Like Uncle Clifford say,
what's the last thing you ate
and the color of your underwear?
♪♪
Uh, we gon' need IDs.
I know this man named
Mane that can hook us up.
- You trust him?
- He ain't no snitch.
Why you think he steady stay in jail?
How many you need?
Ten.
Okay.
Crystal S. Flowers?
So you ate a crystal?
Bitch, don't tell me
you been in Chucalissa
and you ain't been to Krystal's yet?
[LAUGHS]
Mm, mm, mm.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
- Yeah ♪
- I'm guappin', guappin', guappin', guappin' ♪
- Guappin' ♪
- Yeah ♪
I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
- Guappin' ♪
- Yeah ♪
Dyin' broke just ain't an option ♪
I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
Guappin' ♪
I'm way too poppin'
to hear 'em talkin' ♪
All these bitches is my
sons that's in adoption ♪
Yeah, I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
♪♪
Guappin', guappin', guappin' ♪
I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
Guappin', guappin' ♪
Guappin', guappin', guappin' ♪
♪♪
PATRICE WOODBINE:
Previously on P-Valley
Montavious Hill?
WOMAN [OVER PHONE]: Oh, FEMA
doesn't have anyone on record
with that name having
been identified yet.
[KEYS CLACKING]
- Hands where I can see them.
- Mm
- [BOTTLE SHATTERS]
- Hey, bitch!
Bitch, what the hell?
MERCEDES: What'd I say?
Hands where I can see 'em.
There might be one small,
little, tiny problem
with the owner of The Pynk.
The owner may have found
out about the casino.
I'm still paying off a debt
I took up on this place.
- Can you get me the down payment by tomorrow?
- Tomorrow?
You made the withdrawal
from the church account yet?
What you need it for?
What your little ass gonna do with it?
I'm sorry, baby, but
another buyer's done
already swooped in and got it.
[YELLS] Fuck you, bitch!
CLIFFORD: Where's this bitch at?
All right, now, which one of y'all
heifers gon' go on for Beyoncé?
KEYSHAWN: I'll do it.
LIL MURDA: That's my song.
That's my song!
You know that shit about you, right?
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[CLUB MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
DJ NEVA SCARED: Miss M I crooked
letter crooked letter I
crooked letter crooked letter I
humpback-humpback I-I-I!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
That's right!
Miss Mississippi in a minute!
Let's run that bop back
one more 'gain one time
for the one-time r-r-rewind!
LAUREN: She almost better than Mercedes.
WOMAN: Ooh, Lordy, don't you
be blaspheming up in here.
- LAUREN: Over love.
- [WOMAN LAUGHS]
I usually choose the money over love ♪
Yeah, you can have
it, I don't give a fuck ♪
Tonight she got me
'bout to give it up ♪
- Every buck, all because ♪
- WOMAN: All because.
Which one of y'all the new divorcée?
Right here, and I'm spending
this whole divorce
settlement tonight, bitches!
WOMAN: Hey!
To new motherfucking beginnings!
WOMAN: To new motherfucking beginnings!
You want a queen, you got a queen ♪
I held it down, didn't need a crown ♪
Cheated on, still fuck around ♪
Was cheatin' then and cheatin' now ♪
Used to smile, but it's all frowns ♪
I hate when you come around ♪
But love when you put it down ♪
Gobble-gobble, meow-meow ♪
You know the feelin',
you love the sound ♪
Outside pussy gotta look like clown ♪
[RAPPING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
♪♪
Feelin' some type of way ♪
Got a lyin'-ass nigga ♪
Might lie today ♪
He might try today,
and I'ma catch a case ♪
And I'ma beat the case ♪
And I know the bae,
wanna play, let's play ♪
Okay, okay ♪
You are truly the most beautiful woman
I ever seen.
And you smell like a baby.
[SOBBING]
♪♪
He just left me! [CONTINUES SOBBING]
Oh, well, he ain't deserve
a generous and genuine woman like you.
You ain't have to drop half
your divorce settlement on me,
and, like, yet you did.
Somebody gonna snatch
you up soon enough.
No, they won't. [SOBBING]
I don't wanna go back to that
big old empty house by myself.
I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go!
[SOBBING] I don't wanna
go! I don't wanna go!
I don't wanna go! I don't wanna go!
Hey, hey, God can't
give you your blessings
if you up there holding a bag of shit.
You gon' have to release that doo-doo
and take your blessings to go, boo.
GIDGET: Now, that's something
we all can learn from.
- Gidget!
- GIDGET: Hmm?
If you don't get your
ass out of my face
I'm talking to the lady, and
you jokin' and shit, and
[BODY THUDS]
[SNORING SOFTLY]
Girl
[WHISPERING] Let's get this bag.
GIDGET: Ha-ha!
Don't do it ♪
Don't don't do it ♪
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha ♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
Down in the valley ♪
Where the girls get naked ♪
If you throwin' bands ♪
Then you know she gon' shake it ♪
One, two, break 'em ♪
Three, four, rake 'em ♪
These niggas grind hard ♪
But these bitches grind harder ♪
Climbing up the pole just
to get out the bottom ♪
The crowd below ♪
Stay ready for the show ♪
The pimps, the dough ♪
Don't let it take your soul ♪
We make fallin' on the sky look easy ♪
Look at my bitches ♪
Gangsta walking on the ceiling ♪
Green on the flo' ♪
Money talk, can you hear me? ♪
This world is so addicting ♪
But dreams is expensive,
keep spending ♪
Work hard for the
top, can't fall now ♪
But whatever goes up must fall down ♪
What you do when the power out? ♪
Kids hungry, can't do
nothin' but scream and shout ♪
We all choose to live
but it's different routes ♪
Take the shit with shine,
gotta make it count ♪
When you live and die
by the paper route ♪
You spend a dime just
to make it out, yeah ♪
Down in the valley ♪
Where the girls get naked ♪
If you throwin' bands ♪
Then you know she gon' shake it ♪
One, two, break 'em ♪
Three, four, rake 'em ♪
♪♪
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪
- [LIGHTER CLICKS]
- [INHALES DEEPLY]
[INHALES DEEPLY]
♪♪
LAUREN: Over love ♪
I usually choose the money ♪
Over love, yeah ♪
Yeah, you can have it ♪
I don't give a fuck ♪
She got me 'bout to give it up ♪
- [GASPS]
- CLIFFORD: Hey.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
[STAMMERS]
- CLIFFORD: All done. All done.
- WOMAN: [GROANS]
♪♪
I told Uncle Clifford this shit
wasn't long for the world.
Pynk being 'closed on? For real?
How long you done know about this, man?
[KEYSHAWN SQUEALING, LAUGHING]
Well, look who laughing at a funeral.
Oh, well, this sad and all, but look.
Somebody done posted a
video of me from last night.
This shit done got, like, 10,386 views.
- WOMAN: Oh!
- WOMAN: How I'ma finish paying for nursing school?
What I'm finna do, y'all?
What we all gonna do?
[DOOR CLANKS OPEN]
LAUREN [SLURRING]: Over love!
Yeah, you can over love
- WOMAN: Watch it!
- LAUREN: I usually choose the money
- over love.
- MAN: [SIGHS]
- [CONTINUES SLURRED SINGING]
- [SCATTERED SNICKERS]
What y'all standing lollygagging for?
Oh, Lord, don't tell
me Mercedes dead.
She dead.
Mercedes dead!
- WOMAN: Look.
- WOMAN: Uh-huh.
- Foreclosure?
- Hmm.
14
days till auction?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Wh oh!
NEWSCASTER: Last night, a
local pastor was attacked
by an exotic dancer
- in front of the club
- [KEYS CLACKING]
CLERK: Your account is frozen.
AUTUMN: Uh, what does that mean?
CLERK: That means that
you're not allowed
to do any more transfers.
What do you mean I'm not
allowed any more transfers?
Apologies, Miss Savage,
but our records show
that you've done over
ten in the past few days.
Yeah, that's because y'all
allow unlimited transfers
as long as the amount is under $9,000.
- Well, things have changed.
- W-why?
The only reason we had
that policy in place
was because we knew folks was
trying to get back on their feet
- after the flood.
- [SIGHS]
We wanted to help folks
wire money to their families,
but as of today, it stops.
So y'all just think, in two months,
we can all just pull our
lives back together
Look, Miss Savage, it was a courtesy,
which, quite frankly, folks
should be grateful for.
Mm, seems like your family
has been very, very generous.
But as of today, the policy is changed.
- [TIRES SQUEALING]
- Look, is there anything
What the hell?
Lord, have mercy! Oh,
Jesus, take the wheel!
[BOTH PANTING]
CLERK: Thank you, Jesus. Oh!
[SIREN WAILING]
Oh!
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]
[SLURRING] Her own bag,
I don't need to save her.
Rolling in ass papers.
The stage and naughty by nature.
[MUTTERS] I need me a
bitch that's doin' it major.
MERCEDES: I'm just
saying, y'all done had me
sitting up here all night,
and I still ain't got my phone call yet.
- Pay phone broke.
- I need to call my lawyers,
- Bufford and Bienvenue.
- Yeah, you and every other
nigga up in here.
Yeah, you can have it ♪
I don't give a fuck ♪
Who-who-who sing that song?
Lil Murda.
[LAUGHS]
- Lil Murda?
- Well, keep it that way.
Look, I can't be hemmed up in the 201
over the whole weekend, now
Well, you should've
been thinking about that
before you beat your
mama's ass last night.
You don't know Patrice Woodbine.
She stole from me.
Pluckin' and finessin'
must run in the family
since I have yet to get my
wallet returned back to me.
- Jesse?
- [CAMERA BEEPS]
- Oh, hell!
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
- LAUREN: Over love ♪
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
I usually choose the money over love ♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Yeah, you can have it ♪
I don't give a fuck ♪
Tonight she got me
'bout to give it up ♪
All because ♪
[BUZZER BLARES]
[MEN SHOUTING]
[SINGING AND SHOUTS ECHOING]
MAN: Show me that ass! Yeah! Come on!
- [SHOUTS ECHOING]
- NINEVEH: Jesse!
- MAN: Talking shit.
- NINEVEH: Jesse!
Jesse!
Jesse, will you please honor my request
to be moved to the ladies' cell?
- JESSE: It's not my call. God's call.
- NINEVEH: Come on, man.
I would let you ring Him up,
but the pay phone's broke.
Hey, let me peep that.
Don't you Oh, my God, what the fuck?
JESSE: Y'all put that phone
up and get back to work.
[CELL DOOR SLAMS]
♪♪
[YELLS]
[ALL SHOUTING]
Get this heifer off of me!
Good Lord, maybe I am
better off over here.
MERCEDES: You fucking bitch!
You wanna add murder in the first
to assault, disorderly behavior,
and resisting arrest?
That officer ran into my fist.
Just like your mama did, huh?
Your mama? Wait, this her mama?
I don't care what she do.
You don't raise a hand to your mama.
JESSE: Yeah, I'd split these two up,
but we got a sewage
backup in number three,
and number four won't lock,
so y'all gon' have to go along
to get along, you hear me?
You stay over there in that corner,
and you aah stay over there, huh?
You make sure these heifers don't
cross this 50-yard line, you hear?
Uh-uh, these folks like
two tornadoes in the alley,
and you want us to
stay in here with them?
Well, you wanna go over
there and join Nineveh, huh?
I ain't think so.
Now, I hear one more peep out of y'all,
and I'm stacking up everybody charges!
- WOMAN 1: Uh-uh!
- WOMAN 2: Uh-uh! I didn't do shit!
- Can he do that?
- [DOOR SLAMS]
ALL: Mm-hmm.
Jesse can do anything he wanna.
Round here, he's the boss.
WOMAN: Children now-a-days
ain't got no respect for they elders.
Ain't that a shame?
- Yeah, it's all right, baby.
- [SOBS]
It's all right.
[SOBBING]
OFFICER: You say what, now?
My wife went missing the
day Hurricane Drake hit.
- Mm-hmm.
- Afterwards, I couldn't
get the Houston police
to do anything, so
Well, I can only imagine
how overwhelmed they was.
So she been missing for two months now?
Yeah. Ever since the flood.
[SIGHS] Well, son, Chucalissa's
two worlds away from Houston.
Guess that's how far hope's carried me.
I visited every town along the river,
thinking maybe, maybe
[SOMBER MUSIC]
I lost so much, sir. I lost everything.
♪♪
[SIGHS] Well, look, um
[SNIFFS] I'll tell you what.
[CLEARS THROAT] If you have
a picture you can email us,
I'll get my deputies
to put up some flyers
around town quick-fast, all right?
Thank you kindly, sir.
Now, hold on. I can't-I can't read that.
What is it?
Who should I ask for if I get word back?
Montavious.
Montavious Hill.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
- CLIFFORD: Oop!
- OFFICER: Sheriff Bailey,
I tried to hem him up at the gate.
How can I help you, Clifford?
Mm-hmm. "If the owner does not
vacate the said premises in
14 days by date of auction,
the Sheriff's Office of Nonconnah County
will evict said owner
from the property"?
Oh, mm-mm-mm.
Now, don't do that with your nails.
T
All right, come on. Alex, let her back.
The devil stay busy, don't he?
BAILEY: [SIGHS] It wasn't me
that rode down there and
put that on your door.
- That was one of my deputies.
- Mm-hmm.
I was busy cleaning up
your right-awful mess.
A mess made by me? Pray, do tell.
I had to pull over a lady so lit,
I thought she was a fuckin' firecracker.
Thank God I seen her when I did.
Don't know how many folks
she would've killed last night
swerving backward down Main Street
like she on 40 going north.
Look, now, me and you [SIGHS]
I thought we had come
to an understanding.
- I pay you, don't I?
- Shh, shh.
That you do, but you can't let folks
get so lubricated, they
start acting a damn fool.
You'd best tell Yoli to stop
being so damn heavy-handed.
- Mm-mm-mm.
- No pfft!
This little arrangement 'tween
us gon' soon come to an end,
you keep pushing past the limit.
You'd really forgo
our little arrangement?
Look, I-I don't really
like Ruffin's new law.
- Okay!
- [STAMMERS]
Look, I don't mind letting
folks get a little liquored.
All laws ain't right,
but some rights is wrong.
Hmm? R-run that back, Emmitt Smith.
Well [CHUCKLES]
All I'm saying is, even
if you had the right
to put tequila with your titties,
think about what the Bible say.
[SOFTLY] Oh, child.
Now, you lucky a foreclosure
notice all you got last night.
Why so short, hmm? 14 days?
Well, you best talk to your boy Ruffin.
- My boy?
- Yeah.
[SCOFFS] Hey.
Welcome to Bailey's Plantation, y'all.
Y'all folks so goddamn sensitive.
That ain't what I meant.
Ruffin seem like he your boy.
He got you doing his dirty work.
Look, the mayor's office
can expedite a foreclosure
in the case of properties
that they consider
- a community blight.
- Community blight?
Do you know how many hoes
I done put through school?
Well, that little community
service you done provided
over the years just ain't gonna override
all the code violations
you done racked up.
Mayor Ruffin say The Pynk's gots to go.
Is this shit even legal?
Well, this Mississippi. It legal enough.
Now, if you don't mind,
I got shit to do.
The jail's so full, the bars
about to bend to breaking.
Hell, even one of your dancers
got all lost up in the sauce last night.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
one of my-one of my girls?
Yeah, wha uh, Lexus or something.
- Mercedes?
- Yeah.
Wait, she up in here?
Yeah, she up in here. So's her mama.
Cutting up outside the Kroger
like it was a damn barbershop.
Let me see her. Let me see her.
No, pff, you will see
her when she post bail.
Sheriff Bailey, that
girl is like a daughter
my ass can't ever have.
You let me see Mercedes.
LAUREN: [SINGING DRUNKENLY]
MAN: [SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
I needs my phone call.
- Excuse me, I needs
- Mm-mm.
MAN: What up, baby?
Hey, hey, baby, look over
here. Look over here.
You see that? You see
that right there? Ahh!
You like that?
- LAUREN: [CONTINUES SINGING]
- [CHORTLING]
Come on, step to the right and
let me get a good look at you.
[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]
Hey, told you I ain't have no dick.
MAN: Hey, boy. Cut that shit out!
WOMAN: I wonder if I put
a quarter in her mouth,
would she sing some Aretha?
You gon' have to put more
than a quarter in this mouth,
you want some Aretha.
[SLURRING] You don't
know what you mean ♪
Glad you know what it's worth.
This ain't the club.
[SIGHS]
Oh, are you Mercedes?
Did I die and go to heaven?
- No, bitch, this hell.
- Mercedes!
Oh, I came all the way
down from Tchulahoma
to see your last dance.
I heard about it, and I knew
that's what I wanted to do
for my divorce party,
but they had some other
girl go on for you instead.
Somebody danced in my place?
Yeah, they called her M-I-
crooked letter crooked letter
- Oh!
- BAILEY: Hold it down.
- You have two minutes.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey, girl, hey!
- Hey
- MERCEDES: Uncle Clifford!
You let Keyshawn go on for me?
Mercedes, what the hell
was I supposed to do, huh?
Let the niggas tear the club up?
I mean, I like it when folks get crunk,
but Lord knows I needs
me a building standin'.
Well, how'd she do?
Girl, she
she was all right.
I need you to get me out of here.
[WHISPERING] Oh, baby girl, come on.
Hey.
I'ma put some stacks on your bail.
Yep, foreclosure be damned.
Hold up. Foreclosure?
The Pynk about to be auctioned?
Woke up this mornin'
to this sign.
That's the only reason I'm down here.
Then I found out about
you and old BA-trice.
I bet you better keep
my name out your mouth.
Don't you come unless
I send for you, girl.
Ugh, God, a funny-ass bitch, but damn.
Sheriff Bailey know he need
to be ashamed of hisself,
keeping both of y'all in the same cage.
Let me pull my little pennies
together from my pocketbook
- Keep it.
- 'Cedes, we made some stacks.
Keep it. Don't you owe 55K?
You need to put every penny
you got down on The Pynk.
BAILEY: Clifford, time's up.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Let me go see if I can
get this runaway train
- turned round.
- Mm-hmm.
Hey, come on. Stay strong.
Stay strong, hmm?
Yeah.
♪♪
And don't beat her ass again.
You leave that to me.
Well, ain't that nice?
A visit from your pimp.
I got your pimp.
- What?
- MERCEDES: My pimp?
You should be the one to talk.
That woman done done more
for me in the last seven years
than you done done in a whole lifetime.
So that thing been a better
mother to you than me?
Damn right! At least she ain't steal
all my shit and make
herself a goddamn church!
You wanna talk about pimps?
You need to be talking
about your damn self.
I was just three and
already had a gas bill
and Dillard's card.
Mm-hmm, my mama did that to me too.
They say Jesus come like
a thief in the night?
Well, they ain't met
them no Patrice Woodbine.
God forgave me for that.
You gon' have to
forgive me for that too.
It looks like y'all in luck.
Pay phone's back in business.
Now, who got some
family they wanna call?
[PEOPLE SHOUTING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪♪
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER TV]
[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER TV]
♪♪
WOMAN: Gidget?
- Gidget!
- Almost done, Ma.
[MAN CONTINUES SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[BLENDER WHIRRING]
- [CELL PHONE RINGING]
-
MAN 1: We have a
collect call from the
MAN 2: Chucalissa jail facility.
- MAN 1: From
- MERCEDES: Come on.
You know your number the
only number I got memorized.
MAN 1: To accept charges, press one.
GIDGET: Now, why in the world
would you get to
scrapping with your mama
on the night of your last dance?
Wait, how the hell you know?
Playing it on the news all morning.
They had to blur out certain parts.
WOMAN: Gidget, where's my
motherfucking smoothie?
Ma, give me a motherfucking minute.
- How Deanna doing?
- What you want, Mercedes?
MERCEDES: I ain't gonna
make it through the weekend.
These folks done hemmed me
up in a cage with Patrice.
I'ma need you to bail me out.
- With what?
- A shovel.
What the fuck you think?
Well, ain't you been the
one stacking your paper.
Should be able to bail
your own self out.
She took it all, Gidget.
All the money I had stashed
up in the church building fund,
she used it for her own fucking church.
And the killing part about it,
she took the space
that was gon' be mine.
MAN 1: This collect call from the
MAN 2: Chucalissa jail facility
MAN 1: Will disconnect in 15 seconds.
- How much you need?
- Processing said 2K.
- Shit, 'Cedes.
- Can you get it, Gidge?
That's gon' be like
getting blood from a turnip.
I'll take whatever, even a turnip.
MAN 1: Five seconds.
Well, let me see what I can do.
Gidget, girl, I
[LINE CLICKS, DIAL TONE HUMS]
[WHISPERING] Love you.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪
Here.
No, I'm good.
Take it.
That cage is cold.
WOMAN 1: Mississippi don't
need no nother church.
It need another gun range.
See, if it had been one round
the corner from my house,
I wouldn't have shot
my husband in his ass.
But see, there, that's what he get.
And next time, it won't be no BB gun,
'cause it's illegal to shoot a BB gun
in the city limits of Chucalissa.
WOMAN 2: And shoot
heroin too, apparently.
WOMAN 1: Jesse done gave her a gift.
Must be nice to have a booty like that.
No, it bring burdens too.
[LAUREN SNORING]
You really is trying it.
There come a time when
you must humble yourself
before the eyes of the Lord,
unload your trespasses, and forgive
those who trespass against you.
Bitch, do you know how far your
little stunt done set me behind?
If you invest in the Lord,
blessings will rain down
upon you, Mercedes.
Well, while I was investin',
you was busy finessin'.
You probably been
planning to take my shit
ever since you first
started holding it for me.
Oh, Mercedes,
you know, when God send
His finger down from heaven
to tap you on the shoulder
and say, "You it"
twice I done felt the slap of
a angel wing 'cross my face,
and twice I done had to pull
a feather out my own eye.
Just what the hell you yapping 'bout?
I been called, Mercedes,
called to do what them niggas
over at Delta Valley Missionary Baptist
won't let me do: preach.
And what about what I been called to do?
Unless you teaching these little heifers
how to twerk for Jesus,
I don't see the purpose.
What if I told you it was the only way
I could get Terricka back?
What would you say then?
You need to leave Terricka
right where she at, with 'Chelle.
The judge say I got a better chance
of getting custody if I can prove
I got a steady job,
that I'm a fit mother.
And you think that judge
gon' snatch Terricka
up out that big, pretty
house and let her come live
with you on the corner
of Thugs and Thots?
I thinks not.
Terricka's my daughter.
No, baby, she 'Chelle's.
Bless a woman twofold who
took on the responsibility
of raising another woman's child.
Must have been hard lookin' in the face
of that man's infidelity every day,
but that's what make a woman godly.
She know how to forgive.
You could learn something from her.
'Chelle's not her mama.
I am.
Are you really ready
for that responsibility,
the sacrifice?
Well, if given the chance
to raise my daughter myself,
I'd never be a mama like you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
[CELL PHONE CHIMES]
[RENNI RUCCI'S "ELEVATORS"]
[RENNI LAUGHS]
Damn, Flaw, this what
I been prayin' for.
Uh, uh, uh, bad bitch alert ♪
I'm a walkin' money bag ♪
Get a nigga for his bands,
then I go and pop tags ♪
We some boss-ass bitches,
wrap our hair in Louis rags ♪
Still wearin' pack hair ♪
Bitch, that's a gag ♪
[PRINTER WHIRRING]
- Ah.
- Mm mm-mm.
Gidge, look.
My views done went up, like, 272,683.
YOLI: Let me see that shit.
- I just cannot believe.
- Ooh!
Your vajayjay done went viral, girl.
This ain't porn, Jupiter.
It's, like, clatchy.
Look, y'all should have stayed at home
if you wanted to go on a
date with your fuckin' phones.
Us stay at home? And where else
you gon' find 2K for the bill?
[DOOR BELLS JINGLE]
- Who the hell invited her?
- All right, all right,
all right, all right.
Got the lowdown on
Miss Mercedes Woodbine.
First thing there's gonna be the 2K.
Yep, we got that. Pony up, bitches.
MAN: Hold your horses,
now. That's just the base.
Now, there are some
outstanding parking tickets
for Mercedes Woodbine in our system.
That on top of several moving violations
that have rolled into
several pending warrants,
top that off with the
new processing fees,
the excise tax on top of that,
the total total totals
- $5,358.34.
- Oh!
- Oh, hell no.
- This must be some sort of mistake.
Mercedes said they told her it was 2K.
MAN: That must have
been before processing,
but now that's what's in the system.
- GIDGET: You sure?
- I'm as sure as sure can be.
Sure as them legs is pretty.
Look, we're just trying to
get our girlfriend out of jail.
MAN: Well, I'm trying
to get her out too.
Wonder if she is as fine as all y'all.
- Hey, y'all, let's go.
- GIDGET: It's fucking men like you
that make hell so full.
I'm just trying to give
you bitches a compliment.
- What, bitch?
- We don't need nothing from you!
I know you need to get out
of my motherfucking office
if you ain't got the money
to pay the fucking bail.
Seem like the only way you
heifers are gonna get her out
is if you put your house
down as collateral
or your pussy.
YOLI: Pussy?
[ALL SHOUTING]
GIDGET: You know what? Fuck you!
Bitch. Bitch.
[CHORTLES]
GIDGET: So now what we gonna do?
We ain't got it!
Man, it about to be
the first of the month.
We got bills on top of bills.
And with The Pynk 'bout to close,
I don't think not na'an one of us
got nothing extra to spare.
- JUPITER: What you said.
- Right?
- KEYSHAWN: Well, y'all
- YOLI: Nah, uh-uh.
- AUTUMN: Guys
- YOLI: Nah, uh-uh.
Well, Mercedes would
never do that to you.
To any of us.
YOLI: Maybe, maybe not,
but that tab she got with
Chucalissa on her, not us.
Come on, Valerie.
Bye, y'all.
They right.
I'm sorry, Gidge.
We tried.
Bye.
Wait up, y'all!
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
[CAR DOOR CLICKS OPEN AND SHUT]
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[ENGINE REVVING]
Would she really have done it for them?
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Hell no. [SNORTS]
Her mama took all her stacks.
What would you do if somebody
took all your money?
Kill 'em.
[DARK MUSIC]
♪♪
God's a bitch.
[SCOFFS] And She got jokes tonight.
- [SCOFFS]
- [CHUCKLES]
PATRICE: He said, "I'll
make you a fisher of men".
[LAUGHS]
This girl up here trying
to move on with her life
and do right by her child,
and you up here messing her up.
Yeah, I mean, is you any
damn good at preachin'?
Nah, she just a pimp
tryin' to be a pastor.
- WOMAN 1: Oh, damn.
- WOMAN 2: Ooh, child.
♪♪
My daughter's right, though.
Wouldn't know it to look
at me now and figure that
that's where I started
where I began,
in the muck,
in the valley,
but won't God do it?
I tell you, gals, you can r-i-i-ise
up out of it.
WOMAN: Yes, you can.
We're just lilies ♪
In the valley ♪
Bright as the mornin' star ♪
[WOMEN MURMURING]
What?
PATRICE: Oh, lily ♪
In the valley ♪
Bright as the mornin' star ♪
Oh, lily ♪
In the valley ♪
BOTH: Bright as the mornin' star ♪
- LAUREN: Amen ♪
- PATRICE: Amen ♪
- LAUREN: Amen ♪
- PATRICE: Amen, hey ♪
- WOMEN: Amen ♪
- [RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
Oh, we're just lilies ♪
- ALL: In the valley ♪
- PATRICE: Oh, yeah.
ALL: Bright as the mornin' star ♪
Oh, lily ♪
In the valley ♪
Bright as the mornin' star ♪
ALL: Oh, lily ♪
In the valley ♪
Bright as the mornin' star ♪
- Amen, amen ♪
- PATRICE: Hey, hey, hey ♪
ALL: Amen ♪
Who ready to be saved tonight?
[WOMEN HUMMING, CLAPPING]
When you been filled
with the Holy Spirit,
ooh, it feel like the best
orgasm in the world,
joy like no man or vibrator can give.
- WOMAN 1: Ooh!
- WOMAN 2: All right.
PATRICE: You talk
about how I was a pimp,
but I started lower than that,
- on my knees.
- WOMAN: Oh, yeah.
PATRICE: And God knows
I weren't down there to pray.
I got on my knees
so you wouldn't have to.
So don't think you gon'
sit up there and judge me.
WOMAN: Amen!
PATRICE: I've been made
to feel so low, lookin' up
it feel like lookin' down.
- WOMAN: Oh, yeah!
- But God ain't judge me.
- WOMAN: Mm-mm.
- PATRICE: He forgives.
- He forgives us all!
- [RAPID CLAPPING]
- WOMAN: Hallelujah!
- PATRICE: What done brought you to the valley today? ♪
What you in here for? ♪
Nuh-uh, you ain't 'posed
to ask somebody in jail
- what they in there for.
- Child, this ain't jail.
This God's house now!
What about you? What you in here for?
I had an ounce of weed on me,
and I had to put it in my baby's diaper.
[PATRICE WHISPERS, GIGGLES]
- And you?
- I slit somebody neck.
Ooh! Oh.
- Mm-mm, mm-mm.
- I got a DUI.
- Oh, that ain't so bad.
- After I cheated on my husband
with his
with his mama.
- WOMAN: Oh!
- What the fuck?
"Judge not, ye shall not be judged".
- LAUREN: Forgive me, Lord.
- Although she need to be judged.
- [SOBBING]
- PATRICE: All sins can be forgiven,
all scars healed,
all bridges mended, every soul saved
'cause my God
is a God of second chances.
See, there, 'Cedes? This is God's plan.
You have to let Him use you.
- Bow to His will.
- [LAUREN SOBBING]
Join hands with me
at the Breath of Life Full
Gospel Baptist Tabernacle.
Come, my daughters. Forgive me.
Forgive me, Lord.
No. No.
Forgive me.
[LAUREN CONTINUES SOBBING,
WOMEN MURMURING]
[WOMEN HUMMING, SOBBING, MURMURING]
[HEAVY MUSIC]
♪♪
PATRICE: Forgive me.
♪♪
[WHISPERING] Mama
you dead to me.
JESSE: Mercedes Woodbine.
- You made bail.
- [KEYS JINGLING]
[CELL DOOR SLIDES OPEN,
WOMEN HUMMING AND MURMURING]
[CELL DOOR SLIDES SHUT]
[KEYS JINGLE, LOCK CLICKS]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪♪
[GATE CLATTERING]
♪♪
Where Gidget? Keyshawn?
Get in.
[CRYING SOFTLY]
[SOBBING]
Where to?
Anywhere but here.
- [LAUGHTER]
- He said, "Y'all,
if you wanna survive,
you gotta go mm-hmm".
He says, "Well, I'ma go mm-hmm".
He said, "You gonna go mm-hmm?"
He said, "I don't know about it".
So the big silverback jumped
up and said, "Mm-hmm",
and Bill said, "Okay".
[LAUGHTER]
Boy, white folks tell
some strange stories, man.
Jonah, now, you know what you gotta do.
Look, all right, give my godson
the Chucalissa chop, all right?
That line gotta be so tight, now,
for the Cotton Harvest ball tonight.
Let's take this picture now.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING,
CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
- Chucalissa chop.
- That's right.
And I'm taking all my nephews
and nieces down there next week
to the new Tydell Ruffin Park.
You better, 'cause I'm gonna
have a bounce house down there
and everything to
celebrate [INDISTINCT].
Look, I done told y'all I was
gonna turn this city around
as soon as I got elected.
Keep my promises.
♪♪
[ALL MURMURING]
Shouldn't you be at the beauty shop?
[CHUCKLES] No.
I'm right where I needs to be,
'cause it's about to
be a chop right here.
♪♪
[CHUCKLES]
Now, Mayor Ruffin, you
know I loves to decorate
my fine establishment
in the color pink, hmm?
But this notice right
here 'bout to find itself
- wiping my ass.
- [CHUCKLES]
Ain't my fault you
can't run no business.
Forcin' deserving folk off they property
is not a way to run a city.
Your establishment is
a blight on this town.
A community blight, hmm?
That's why you forced a foreclosure?
[SOFTLY] I been a help to this city.
- RUFFIN: No.
- Mm-hmm.
Chucalissa is gon' be
walking into a new day,
and some places just gots
to join hands with history.
You trying to erase folk.
Well, look, some niggas
need to be erased.
♪♪
Ooh.
[SIGHS]
You know, I wonder if
Jonah, Jonah Jenkins
like to know that the
Promised Land Equity
is offering his barbershop
half of what they
offering them white folks
for they barbershop over on Kalb Avenue.
Mm.
And how you privy to that?
[CHUCKLES]
♪♪
Land appraisal chart right here.
Perhaps.
[CHUCKLES]
If you think that any of us gon' care
about what this he-she-it
freak show got to say,
don't fool yourself.
Auction is only two weeks away,
and your ass gon' be on the block.
♪♪
Are you gon' buy it,
or is it gon' be Andre?
[GIGGLES]
'Cause I heard he
don't never pay for it.
Ain't that right, Andre?
You are a tumor in this town,
and I am just counting
the motherfucking minutes
till I can cut you the fuck out.
Now, you can tell Eloise
the rest of your complaint,
and I'll make sure the
mayor's office get right on it.
Hmm!
Hmm.
Hmm.
♪♪
I bet it will.
Bitch nigga, bitch
nigga, snitch nigga ♪
Hoe nigga, bitch nigga ♪
Bitch nigga, snitch nigga ♪
Hoe nigga, bitch nigga ♪
Bitch nigga, snitch nigga ♪
Hoe nigga, bitch nigga ♪
Bitch nigga, snitch nigga ♪
Hoe nigga, bitch nigga ♪
How in the hell did that thing
get a confidential land
appraisal chart, hmm?
Is you fuckin' Uncle Clifford?
- No!
- Well, somebody done slid up
in more than just your DMs to get this.
Somebody must have slid up on your dick.
- I ain't fuck anybody.
- Well, look, you know what?
Whatever you done is you
and your wife's bidness.
I just wanna know how
you gon' let something
like this out of your sight, boy?
I think I may have left
it somewhere in The Pynk.
Look, now, I done been in a
whole lot of hole-in-the-walls,
but I ain't never lost no
paperwork up in no coochie.
The only reason I was
even in that place,
that's where people here
wanna do business. Corbin Ky
Just spare me the
motherfucking bullshit.
Now, Uncle Clifford done fucked you
and probably fucked the whole deal.
[GEAR SHIFT CLACKS]
- ELOISE: Mayor Ruffin?
- Unh?
We've arrived.
Now, you close that Kyle farm deal.
And I gotta go up in here
in this fucking Cotton Harvest Ball
kiki with these motherfucking crackers
to get this fucking casino done.
Me and you don't do the do,
this casino deal ain't gonna happen.
Now, you finish it 'fore I do.
Nigga.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
RUFFIN: Hey, now, all right.
Let's get on in here, now.
[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY, LAUGHS]
Walk in the club with
a couple of friends ♪
I see a baddie, I'm paying her rent ♪
Look like an angel,
yeah, she heaven-sent ♪
Takin' her with me 100% ♪
Run to the stage,
they hittin' the sprint ♪
Breakin' the bank,
I might need a splint ♪
Throwin' her bands
and throwin' her hints ♪
Think I'm in love with
her man, I'm convinced ♪
Baby girl twerkin' like
she wanna be my wife ♪
Getting to the bag on a Monday night ♪
Know I got the Benz
parked waiting outside ♪
Finger and her neck,
I'ma put it on ice ♪
DJ NEVA SCARED: Ooh! I
see you, Mississippi.
Climb to the top, drop down,
split it, she moving that thing ♪
Got a nigga so over love, over love ♪
I usually choose the
money over love, over love ♪
Yeah, you can have it, I
don't give a fuck, give a fuck ♪
Tonight she got me
'bout to give it up ♪
Give it up ♪
Fallin', fallin', fallin', fallin' ♪
I'm fallin', fallin' ♪
Fallin' like the money in the club ♪
I'm fallin', fallin',
fallin', fallin' ♪
I'm fallin', fallin' ♪
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
DJ NEVA SCARED: Y'all give it up
for our girl Miss Mississippi, man.
She gone be the next Black Chyna, y'all.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Fallin', fallin' ♪
CLIFFORD: You mean you can't
move some more money round?
I've been robbing
Peter to pay Paul, man,
but these books are a mess.
Shit. Well, you best rob
Peter to pay Pamesha,
'cause we ain't gonna go down
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
[MUFFLED MUSIC THUMPING IN BACKGROUND]
♪♪
Now, how little nigga know
how to get back here?
Ain't it about time for your break?
[LAUGHS] I ain't had a break since 1999.
- [WHISPERS] Nigga!
- [KNOCKING CONTINUES]
[BUZZER BLARES]
[CHUCKLES]
Can I help you with something?
I got another complaint.
Well, the complaint box is by the exit,
but since you back here,
I guess I can make a
note for management.
So that's how it's gon' be, huh?
Just gon' act like nothing
happened last night?
Look, I I just got
kind of carried away.
I saw.
So did I.
I wanted to do it again,
but when I woke up on
that couch, you was gone.
I got too much on my
plate for any kind of
I heard.
You know, word on the
street's y'all is closing.
Yeah.
I gotta find a way to plug up this boat.
Cliff, my nigga, you look pressed?
Need to let somebody take you on up
out this office for a minute.
You know, maybe take you, uh, somewhere.
Child, now, you know
good and goddamn well
that me and you ain't
meant for the outside.
So that's how it's always gon' be?
We just gon' suck and fuck in the dark?
Where you wanna take me to, Lil' Murda?
LaMarques.
Okay.
LaMarques.
Where we going?
Do you wanna go on a romantic
walk down by the river?
If that's what you want.
Okay, well, the last
two faggots did that
found theyselves floating up in it.
You wanna take me over
to the Hot Wing Castle
for that lemon pepper wet?
The last two dykes did
that found their booty holes
turnt out by a train of truckers.
- That ain't gon
- LaMarques
where
you gonna take me?
♪♪
I advise you to take me nowhere.
Just tell me where you wanna go.
I don't do dates.
There's a first time for everything.
♪♪
Hey, they playing your song again, okay.
Yours.
♪♪
[HIP-HOP MUSIC]
WOMAN: Oh, my goodness.
This dude all up in my DM
asking if my coochie is shaved.
I'm like, "Nigga,
where they do that at?"
I'm a grown woman, and I stay
with a little landing strip.
[LAUGHTER]
My, my, how things change.
Did you say something, Toy?
I was just remarking on
your glow-up, Keyshawn.
Look good on you.
Mm, thanks.
I get, like, 50 likes a minute.
This joker gone more than viral.
I bet aliens even looking at it.
[LAUGHTER]
Keyshawn, Diamond said
Derrick out there with the baby.
Derrick done seen that video yet?
If the aliens done seen
it, I'm sure he's seen it.
[MUFFLED HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪
DERRICK: Keyshawn
why you coming out looking all naked?
I was running out here
real quick to get Regal.
♪♪
You know, now that I'm back at the shop,
you don't have to work here no more.
I mean, you could
you could stay at home.
I don't wanna stay at home, Derrick.
Fuck, Keyshawn.
Why won't you just let
me take care of you?
Pays the bills, Derrick, that's it.
♪♪
You sure that's it?
That's it.
I see why you blowing up, though
the video.
♪♪
You
you look beautiful.
Who watch Regal when you dance?
Everybody do.
♪♪
[DOOR CLICKS OPEN]
♪♪
[SIGHS]
♪♪
[BABY FUSSING]
Oh, fuck.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER,
BABY CONTINUES FUSSING]
Okay, it's okay. Hey,
hey, I'ma go talk to her.
- I'll go to talk to her.
- Let me handle her.
- [DOOR CLICKS SHUT]
- Okay.
[CHILDREN SHOUTING HAPPILY]
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪♪
Yeah, yeah ♪
[MAN RAPPING IN SPANISH]
♪♪
What you getting drunk off of now?
Your favorite Kool-Aid.
Bitch, this just purdee sugar.
Better sugar than alcohol.
Cold turkey, huh?
Same way you stop stripping.
One day, you wake up, and it's time.
I ain't going back.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER]
Once upon a time, I ran out of a door,
and I never looked back.
Thought I had the ultimate plan.
But I took a wrong turn.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
And the waters overtook me.
♪♪
I tried to grab her.
[SHOUTS]
♪♪
But God had other plans.
♪♪
I searched for her
for three days
and three nights.
♪♪
I wanted to die, Mercedes.
I deserved to die.
♪♪
But then this
suitcase
came riding in.
♪♪
And inside it was a new life.
♪♪
Life is just a long day's
journey into tomorrow.
♪♪
You just gotta make it
through the long, dark nights.
They say God is a God of second chances.
[SCOFFS]
I'm gon' pay you back that bail money.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
You don't need to pay me back
'cause I got more where that came from.
Bitch, why the fuck you stripping,
you got all this scrilla?
[CHUCKLES] 'Cause I like it.
I can run you ten stacks
by the end of the week.
Ten stacks?
Okay, and then I'm out,
'cause I know better enough than to deal
with finessin' ass hoes for long.
It ain't a scam.
It's
retribution.
Okay.
What I gotta do?
[DRAMATIC HIP-HOP MUSIC]
♪♪
MERCEDES: Bitch, unh-uh.
You bets put down my stripper name.
What? Mercedes ain't your stripper name?
Like Uncle Clifford say,
what's the last thing you ate
and the color of your underwear?
♪♪
Uh, we gon' need IDs.
I know this man named
Mane that can hook us up.
- You trust him?
- He ain't no snitch.
Why you think he steady stay in jail?
How many you need?
Ten.
Okay.
Crystal S. Flowers?
So you ate a crystal?
Bitch, don't tell me
you been in Chucalissa
and you ain't been to Krystal's yet?
[LAUGHS]
Mm, mm, mm.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪♪
- Yeah ♪
- I'm guappin', guappin', guappin', guappin' ♪
- Guappin' ♪
- Yeah ♪
I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
- Guappin' ♪
- Yeah ♪
Dyin' broke just ain't an option ♪
I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
Guappin' ♪
I'm way too poppin'
to hear 'em talkin' ♪
All these bitches is my
sons that's in adoption ♪
Yeah, I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
♪♪
Guappin', guappin', guappin' ♪
I'm guappin', guappin',
guappin', guappin' ♪
Guappin', guappin' ♪
Guappin', guappin', guappin' ♪
♪♪