The Paynes (2018) s01e08 Episode Script

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
Curtis.
Hmm? Yes? [FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRS.]
Why you making so much noise? Ella, what are you talking about? Coming up and down the stairs and just up and down the stairs.
Ella, you know I don't do no treadmill.
Curtis, stop it.
- Ella - Stop it! Ella! Baby, I'm in the bed next to you.
Mm-hmm.
[CHUCKLES.]
Are you sleeping? You ain't sleeping, are you? No, baby.
I was dreaming.
Look, you're talking all crazy.
It might me think you're losing your mind.
I lost my mind a long time ago, Curtis, when I married you.
Look, I mean it.
Now, you You you you talk crazy, you gonna make me trade you in for a younger model.
You couldn't get a younger model if you tried.
What model gonna want you? You obviously don't know me.
There's this one girl She was Keep talking about Beverly.
This one even better.
Go ahead, then.
Finish your thought.
- Finish your little thought.
- I'm trying to finish it.
I can't trade you in.
I'm upside down in my trade anyway.
Mm.
You know the women love me.
You still believe.
I know it.
I do, too, baby.
[WATER RUNNING.]
- Hey.
- What's that? One of them refugees you let stay in the house.
Nyla.
That's one of them.
What is she doing up, Curtis? Baby, why we can't do like Trump and just ban them? She's just being a pain in my Payne.
But Baby, she be up all night, just around, just up.
Well, she needs to go to bed.
Well, don't she know that we in here trying to get some sleep? Well, I thought the lights out in the quiet house would give her a hint, but [SCOFFS.]
It's not working.
No, it is not.
[GROANS.]
She needs to go to bed! No, you need to go down there and tell her.
Okay.
I'll tell her, baby.
Good.
- Baby? - Hmm? What you doing? I'm going to sleep, Curtis.
But she's up now.
I'll talk to her in the morning.
Baby, there will be no morning unless you talk to her tonight.
Curtis, stop trying to quote the scriptures.
Is that a scripture? That was Tupac.
I always knew he was an apostle.
- Baby, you gonna go get it? - Curtis.
- Well, go on, then.
- Okay.
- Just go.
You moving so slow.
- Okay, okay! Are you going? Shut up talking to me, Curtis.
Baby, go on.
This don't make no doggone sense.
Going to talk to her? Go on.
Curtis.
Mm.
Curtis? Cut that hall light out.
- Curtis.
- Don't know why that's on.
[DOOR SLAMS.]
You need to fix that.
[LAUGHS.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[LAUGHS.]
- Nyla.
- Hey! - [LAUGHS.]
- [LAUGHS.]
What are you doing? Oh.
Did I wake you? Yes.
I'm sorry.
I'm a night owl.
[CHUCKLES.]
Nope.
You're not a bird.
You're a woman a noisy woman.
- Sorry.
- Why are you up? Well, you know I work at the church shelter, right? Yes.
At night.
But not this night.
No, but I want to get prepared, so I've been staying up all night.
Well, we need you to keep it down.
[CHUCKLES.]
WOMAN: You ain't bringing You ain't [LAUGHS.]
- You are not paying the bills.
- Ohh! [CHUCKLES.]
What are you watching? Oh! This is one of my favorite shows.
Look, that guy right there - Yeah.
- He married her, but then they found out that he cheated on her with her best friend, so then the best friend started cheating Okay.
Unh-unh.
Unh-unh.
Mnh-mnh.
Mnh-mnh.
Sin, sin, sin.
You want to watch it? No.
I don't mean right now.
I recorded it.
Wait.
Y-you recorded it? Yeah.
You recorded it on what? The DVR.
They ran a marathon, so you're almost out of space.
Out of space on what? Oh, quit your whining.
You sound like a little baby.
Your DVR.
Uh, Nyla, did you record over some shows? [SIGHS.]
And Mr.
C.
had a lot of fishing shows.
So boring.
Oh, he's gonna kill you.
What's that? Oh, lord help you.
Thank you for your prayers.
You're welcome.
We're gonna all need them.
Well, I'll keep it down.
You do that.
I will.
And you you recorded it, huh? Yeah.
O-o-over his fishing show? [CHUCKLES.]
His train show, too? Good night.
Good night.
[LAUGHS LOUDLY.]
Oh, man! Baby? Baby, you asleep? [DOOR SLAMS.]
Got to fix that.
What happened? Did you talk to her? She was watching TV.
Watching what? One of those reality shows or something, you know, one of her reality shows.
She's been watching that.
Well, I hope she don't record over one of my shows.
Oh.
[CHUCKLES.]
Good night.
What? What, what? [CLEARS THROAT.]
Wait a minute.
There ain't no prime-time shows on this time of night.
[SNORING.]
Ella, how is she watching it? Curtis, I'm so sleepy.
Ohh.
[YAWNS.]
- Ella! - Hmm? Did she record over one of my shows? Go to sleep, baby.
Just go to sleep, Curtis.
[SIGHS.]
Better not.
Good night.
[CHUCKLES.]
You know what? I'm going to see.
Curtis, no, Curtis, just Curtis, get back into bed.
I'm going to see.
Did she tape over my shows? If she taped over my shows, I'm gonna tape her to the back door.
You are so dramatic.
She better not tape over my show, Ella.
That's all I'm saying.
Curtis, just come go to bed! I ugh.
- I don't want the damn water.
- Oh, quit your whining.
Hey, Mr.
C.
What you doing up? What do you mean, what am I doing up? Oh.
Did I wake you, too? Girl I'm sorry.
I-I just can't sleep.
Mm.
What you watching? My show.
Oh.
It's a marathon.
I'm hooked! That's nice.
Did you record it? Yeah.
Can I see the remote? - Sure.
- [SIGHS.]
Oh, you know you'd come back for me.
You run after me all the time.
MAN: You're the one who keeps crawling back - after all of your little - [GROWLING.]
Something wrong? Did you record over my shows? Yeah.
Those old boring fishing shows? [GROWLING.]
Uh, Mr.
C.
, you really should get that looked at.
You might have sleep apnea.
Why did you do that? That's wasting DVR space.
This is so good.
Look.
Watch her.
Look.
[LAUGHS.]
I knew she was gonna do that! [LAUGHING.]
Where you going, Mr.
C.
? [LAUGHS.]
[DOOR SLAMS.]
She got to go! She got to go, Ella! She taped over all my stuff! She got to go! Okay, Curtis, just come on.
Go to bed.
Just go to bed, baby.
Go to bed.
I mean it, Ella! I mean it! Now, she got to go! Curtis, I heard you! "She got to go.
She got to go.
I mean it.
I mean it.
She got to go.
" Now go to bed.
Ella? Hmm? She taped over your T.
D.
Jakes stuff.
Say what? Wait.
Wait.
No, no.
Go to sleep.
No, no.
- Go to sleep.
- No, Curtis, wait a minute.
Wait.
What did you just say? Huh? You heard me! What? She taped over my T.
D.
Jakes? Wait.
Curtis! Huh? I'm sleepy now.
No, no, wait.
Wait.
Wait.
I know she didn't tape over my T.
D.
Jakes, Curtis.
I love those sermons! I haven't even heard them all! Well, here's one you won't hear.
It's called "I won't hear it.
" She didn't do that! She didn't do that! Yes, she did.
Wait a minute, though.
Wait a minute.
Why you so upset now? Curtis You weren't upset when she taped over my fishing show and my train show.
Those shows are silly.
She taped over my "get ready, get ready, get ready.
" I'm going to sleep.
Get ready for that.
You know what? We gonna talk to her in the morning.
I'll talk to her.
I'll talk to her.
I'll talk to her.
Early in the morning, Curtis! You got to get up! Good morning, good morning, good morning.
- Good morning.
- Where is your mother? Sleeping.
- Is she? - Yeah.
She was up late last night.
- We know.
- We know.
Finish your breakfast.
The school bus will be here any minute.
Uh, I'm full.
You need to eat all of it.
- Why? - Why? Because I slaved over the stove.
Doesn't look that good.
And you put it in the microwave! From the freezer.
You two are so ungrateful.
- [SARCASTICALLY.]
Sorry! - Listen.
Say you're sorry.
But we're not.
When someone does something nice for you, you are supposed to be polite.
Could someone tell him that? Put your finger in my face again.
Do it! Apologize, please, Kenny.
Sorry.
Oh, my You know what? Both of y'all need to go.
Go on.
Come on.
Let's go to school.
Make it a great day.
Ella.
Curtis.
- [SIGHS.]
- Bye.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
Well, they're gone.
Ella.
Yes? I'm down here cooking for her kids.
Yes, Curtis, I know.
And she's up there sleeping.
I know.
If you know that, then you know that ain't right! Curtis, it's just one time.
I've been doing this for years, Ella.
They just moved in here a couple of weeks ago.
Well, I was forced to do it with C.
J.
and his kids.
Then you ought to be used to it.
When we gonna get to retire, Ella? Curtis, calm down, baby.
We are retired.
No, we're taking care of other folks' kids while they're sleeping! Curtis, we will talk to her.
We will talk to her now.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Curtis, wait.
What are you doing? Going to wake her up.
Curtis, do not wake her up.
She was up all night.
That's my problem? Curtis, she's trying to get ready for her night job at the shelter.
She need to take care of her kids at the Paynes'.
I remember! Curtis, don't do this.
Oh, no, you gonna hear this.
Here we go.
I remember when I had to wake up in the middle of the night and work all day And work all night And then go to school.
Don't forget this "Five miles in the snow!" Up to my elbows, Ella.
Curtis, I've heard all of this before.
Well, have you heard this? What [TV CLICKS ON, INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Curtis, what are you doing? [TV VOLUME INCREASING.]
Curtis! Waking her up.
Curtis, turn that TV d ANNOUNCER: Today's contestants are Annie Osborne.
She's from L.
A.
, California.
Jay Van Hockney is from the Midwest.
Not till she wakes up.
- Give me that.
- Is visiting us from Norway.
- Give me - Stop playing.
Stop playing like that.
Hello.
Hey.
Oh, couldn't you sleep? Yeah.
Do you mind? Mind what? I'm trying to get some sleep.
Ella, uh, she's trying to get some sleep.
Do we mind? Yeah.
Nyla, you just go back upstairs, baby.
We'll talk to you when you wake up.
- Thank you.
- Ella, no, she will not.
Curtis! No.
No.
Hey, hey, I'm up.
I'm up.
[SIGHS.]
So, where are my kids? Off to school.
Good.
You know, I cooked for them.
You are so sweet when you want to be.
We need to talk to you.
Curtis, I said I will talk to her.
Why you acting like I don't know how to talk to her? [CHUCKLES.]
Be because you don't.
Well, then you need to handle it.
- Well, let me talk.
- Well, do it right.
Let me talk.
You Ella.
Do it right.
Nyla, honey, we love having you here.
You're not starting off good, Ella.
But we're gonna have to set some ground rules.
Okay.
Okay.
There are a few things.
- Rule number - Rule number "A" Do not record over my shows.
Curtis You tell her, baby.
Well, Nyla, it's rude, honey.
We love our shows.
I mean, we love them.
And that gospel and the preaching I need that.
You see who I'm married to.
Thank you for the compliment.
[CHUCKLES.]
You're welcome.
And we need to make sure that you come downstairs To be up to see your kids off and feed them! Curtis! Let me talk.
Baby, you're not doing a very good job.
Pick it up! - Stop it.
- No, Miss Ella, I'm I'm sorry, but I thought you two wanted to help me.
We do.
We do.
Just don't want to help you that much.
You know what? I'm sorry.
You're right.
I This is all my fault.
You all are being so nice to me, and here I am being so rude.
I'm s I'm sorry.
It's okay.
It's okay.
No, it's not okay, Ella.
Please don't think I-I was taking advantage of you.
- Please.
- Well I'm sorry.
It's just that I've never had anyone help me with them before, and to have you two there It it's just It was like I could breathe.
[LAUGHS.]
I could just take a second and catch my breath.
Well, you're breathing a little too damn much.
Curtis, so are you.
Listen, we are wanting to help you.
We do.
But we just want to help you.
We don't want to do it all.
Right.
This is all my fault.
I get it.
You're right.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Sure.
- Good.
I feel so bad now.
I'm sorry.
You should.
Do not feel bad.
It's okay.
You didn't know.
She did know.
Again, I'm sorry.
Don't let it happen again.
I won't.
Now you need to get in there and clean the kitchen.
Okay.
And get the garage.
Yes, sir.
And wash my car.
Yes, sir.
You see, baby? I know how to talk to her.
[CHUCKLES.]