Claws

What's your trifling ass doing here?

I want us to be a family again.

Desna wants the office culture

around here to be strictly professional.

Yeah, Mac and Melba wouldn't approve, either.

Follow my lead.

You need to start thinking about protection.

5K a month.

Why'd you catch that beatdown?

I'm the accountant for the biggest

money launderer in the state.

I asked for a pay raise

to keep doing their dirty business.

Up until now, it's been don't ask, don't tell.

Why don't we do the opposite?

Do ask, do tell.

For example, I recently had sex with a man.

The governor thought

I was the woman from Goldtouch Development.

Contractors have been paying him off

to build private prisons.

That's why they killed Penelope.

Dean, I am worried about you.

Can we please... Can't you see I got to focus, Virginia!

I want you to stay away from him.

And male companionship is something I'm sorely lacking.

How'd you learn to play mahjong?

My dad taught me. Your father teach you anything?

The meaning of absence.

Hi, Desna!

We took your lover!

This partnership with you, not working out.

You're gonna sign over your interest in the casino.

Otherwise...

Your lover dies. Shit.

I thought you was gon' die out there.

I think I love you, Roller.

Do my doctorin' on you.

Hey!

Easy, D.

Stop acting like a... What's up?

...crybaby.

You know you like pain.

Hey.

Savage, D.

That's why you the boss.

I ain't the boss of that much these days.

Let me see. Mm.

I do want to get my franchise shit together, though.

That's what you were about to do

till you got lost in the sauce.

I don't know.

I just think that...

maybe I just want to chill for a little bit.

Yeah. Me too, babe.

Just lay up in the cut.

You know what I was thinking, too?

What was you thinking?

You see them drapes right there?

We trade those in for some leather Versace drapes.

We could classy up this spot.

Um...

We who? Who is we?

Right there.

No, no, no. But who is we?

You and me, me and you... we.

What? Okay.

D, all the shit we been through.

Come on, girl. Plus, I'm already here.

I'm lamped up here for how long? Give me your hand.

See? I'm thinkin', baby.

I think you should pump the brakes.

It was just, what, less than two years ago,

we was trying to bury each other,

and now you want to be all up in here livin' in sin?

D, why you got to bring up old shit for?

Roller, every man in my life has disappointed me,

failed me, and left me,

starting with my damn daddy.

D, first of all, I ain't every man,

and I'm certainly not your daddy...

unless you want me to be, baby.

I love you, but I got to be sure

that you are really down for me

before I start splitting rent and shit.

I mean, I don't know how you live.

Do you even use Lawry's?

What? Do you?

Bullshit, D.

You gonna need help paying rent.

Roller, hold up.

Well, I'm j... Hey, y'all.

Hey, boo. Oh, hey, girl.

Mac and Melba sent food again.

Every day this week.

Stale-ass onion bagels.

"Enjoy the food. Stay away from us,

and we'll stay away from you."

Throw it in the trash.

Look, we need to keep our asses out of Bayside

and just pretend like this casino shit never happened.

Yes, ma'am. We do...

We do not need to... to go back there.

No way. Unh-unh.

I know we got bills to pay.

I'ma figure out another way to take care of y'all.

In other news, Roller wants to move in.

What?

This is a bad idea, right?

No! I say go for it.

Me and Arlene already moved in Tuesday night.

What? Damn, y'all nest quick.

Well, maybe Roller's a lesbian,

'cause his ass is picking out drapes already.

Girl, that boy, he has real feelings for you.

Roller is on some Drake shit.

I don't got time for no real feelings,

especially not after what happened with Ruval.

Uh, Des, Roller is hardly Ruval.

They're both men.

Uh, let the church say "Amen." Amen.

Sounds like someone has daddy issues.

Okay, this is crazy 'cause me and Roller

was just beefin' about that this morning.

98% of trust issues come from bad dads,

according to Teen News. Teen News.

I read that same thing.

Paternal abandonment is the original sin

of commitment-phobic women.

- Mm-hmm. - Heffa, your ass read it, too?

It was in the break room.

Girl, we all got dad shit.

For instance, my dad left my mom for a janitor

at a dialysis clinic.

He sure knows how to pick 'em.

Mm-hmm. Des, your dad...

your real dad... he's a... he was a junkie, right?

Not anymore.

He's a big-time architect.

I've been keeping tabs on him for years now.

Do what? Why didn't you tell us?

I haven't told anybody, not even Dean.

Well, listen, tiny secret,

maybe now it's time for you to reach out.

Think about it, Des.

Once I gave my dad a piece of my mind,

it really freed me.

Ain't gon' happen.

This ain't "On Golden Pond."

What kind of reference is that?

That Roller is your knight in shining ar-ar-armo-r-r, Desna.

Hey, so, you living here now?

You look a hot mess.

Why don't you come home?

I've got the fridge stocked with kombucha.

Virginia, push-ups bring oxygen to my brain,

which helps me stay focused.

O-Okay, but you've been up in here

every night this week.

D-Don't exaggerate.

Here's your açai smoothie, Dean.

10:00 a.m. on the dot.

Thanks, Julio.

First-name basis?

Isn't it great?

Mac set me up with everything I need.

Okay, but, hey, look, what about what we need?

What about our relationship?

Virginia, we have a perfectly functional relationship.

You have more of a relationship with Julio.

Don't you love me anymore?

Yeah, of course I love you.

Virginia, you're being pathologically needy.

Mmm. There.

Okay.

I'm ready.

Good luck.

...so, when you get that lil' itch in your noggin,

you can resist by using principle number five...

get busy with something else.

What about when you're vom-aching,

when you're aching all over

and you're sweating like a broken levee?

Still number five... get busy!

Hell, clean up the yard, pick up them old car parts,

that moon-moonshine kit you know y'all got,

and stay occupied.

Idle hands are the opiate-lover's playground,

am I right?

Now, we are out of time,

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