Claws

Previously on "Claws"...

You're breaking up with me? Yeah.

What's wrong? Look, if you want to talk, I'm free.

Let's get married.

- What? - Is that a yes?

Yes! We're pregnant!

What say you let me show you a good time?

Are you smashing Joe?

- Why have you been lying to me? - It's over.

How many people have you killed?

Pol... No, don't.

I don't care about the world.

I care about me.

So if things don't start to pick up at the clinic,

I'm gonna have to seek greener pastures.

They bought it was Clint.

I'm sorry I went rogue, Zaddy.

Just don't do it again, okay?

Shameful, paying that bastard to fill a prison

with innocent people.

Prisons that you take bribes to build.

The casino is mine now.

We listen to a higher power.

He's referring to the Triads.

If you take over, the cat is out of the bag,

and we are all dead, including our son.

Meet Dean Lovestone.

We legally adopted him this morning.

W-W-We're all family now.

Hey, y'all. We are broadcasting all the way live

from the apartment of Desna Simms.

And today, the "Blue Chairs" is about to

the hell off.

With me are Desna Simms and Mac and Melba Lovestone

of the Bayside Rapture Casino.

There has been a lot of drama between y'all.

She just keeps coming back.

She's like an antibiotic- resistant strain of gonorrhea.

Don't start it, you hi-hag.

Oh, joy, oh rapture.

The tea is spilling off the table.

So much bad blood, but, as it turns out, there's been

a bigger boss all along... the Macau Triads.

The most ruthless crime organization on the planet.

And if y'all don't come together,

and they find out about your little side hustle

with the Governor, they gonna kill your ass

and the asses of everybody you love.

You know, if she had just taken that check...

Bitch, if you would've told me you was in the bed

with the Chinese Mob, maybe I would have.

Okay, okay. We want to work this out.

We have an interracial family to protect.

We love our black son.

Dean is not your son.

As a matter of fact,

I have the results of the paternity test right here.

So, as it turns out,

Dean is not the biological son

of Mac and Melba.

In yo face.

But he'd rather be with them than with you.

Bloop. What...

This is bullshit!

Hi, Dessie.

"Macau"... M-A-C-A-U? Yeah.

Where the... is Macau? Quiet Ann: It's off the coast of China,

but these Triads are serious.

Listen to this... in Atlantic City,

a man and a woman... sweet toddler Jesus...

Oh! Des, look at this.

This shit is serious.

They are worse than the Russians.

We've got to get Dean the hell out of that casino right now.

- What's the game plan, Des? - Okay, listen.

I need all y'all to sit this one out.

- What?! - No, ma'am, ma'am. -No way, no way.

I'm not gonna let you go there by yourself, no.

It's dangerous, Ann, and you got a bun in the oven.

Okay, well, that part is right.

I'ma get over there with Roller, we gonna grab Dean

and be in and out before Macau find out,

and when we're done, that's it with this shit.

Let me just get this straight.

You gonna roll with your boy and not your actual crew?

Hos before bros, Des.

He's got his own beef with Mac and Melba.

What ever happened to ride or die?

This time, I'ma need y'all to just ride.

Gwen, hey, pick a color, girl.

Des?

What?

Listen, I know that I lied about Joe.

You damn right you did.

You were literally sleeping with the enemy.

Bitch, you ain't Julia Roberts.

- How am I supposed to trust you? - I know, I know.

But let me make it up to you. I can go and talk to Joe.

I can get the inside track on Mac and Melba

and find out what they're really doing with Dean.

And are you saying that just 'cause you want

to fall back on the man's dick? No!

Well, if I'm being honest, partly.

Please don't tell me you ain't caught feelings

for this Rico Suave. I didn't mean to!

Oh, God, I don't even understand how it happened.

I don't know what's going on.

Shit, you in deep.

Oh, girl, I'm drowning.

Oh. Listen.

Oh, I get it.

I mean, me and Roller... we...

We don't make sense, but we work.

See? You know what I'm talking about.

No, because Joe is in bed with Mac and Melba,

so who knows what kind of foul shit he into over there.

Well, I can compartmentalize my feelings.

I like Joe, but I would never put a man before the crew.

I'm totally down with you, Des, and you know that.

I know that.

And I forgive you.

Pol, there's some dark shit happening over there,

and I cannot let you back in that lion's den.

Dean is part of my family, too.

I taught him how to chairy-pop.

Okurrr? Right?

I'm not gonna lie.

It would be nice to have somebody else

watching my back over there.

That's me, girl.

We got to be careful, Pol.Yeah.

Those Triads will skin us alive.

I know.

I love you so much.

- Uh, uh. - Hello, ladies.

- Are you ready to see the baby? - Mm.

I'm just gonna hand you this, okay?

Oh, God. Alright, okay.

We're gonna check for a heartbeat, okay? Uh-huh.

Alrighty. Alright.

Why aren't we hearing anything?

This is bad. This is really bad.

Just give him a minute. Let him do his job.

Oh, God.

Something's wrong. I know it. Something's wrong with the baby.

It's gonna be fine. I...

It's gonna be fine, right?

Just tell her, right?

Tell her. It's gonna be fine.

There it is.

Nice and strong, see?

Mm, okay, um, I'm gonna...

I'm gonna catch up with you in a little bit.

Hey, hey, D., look at me.

Just be easy, alright?

Go in there and tell him about the Chinese gangsters.

Dean's sharp. He'll listen, okay, babe?

Dean?

Mm. Can I talk to you for a minute?

I don't... I don't want to talk about

Mac and Melba with you anymore.

Well, I don't want to talk about Mac and Melba either.

I want to talk about Mac and Melba's bosses.

The Triad. The Chinese Mafia. The San Ho Hui.

Their name means the union between heaven, earth, and man.

Mac and Melba told me all about them.

Oh, oh, okay, then good.

Then you know that these people are dangerous

and that we could be diced up and buried just like that.

Dean, we got to get out of here.

I don't want to talk about this anymore.

I have a very important tournament to prep for.

I-I-I need to focus.

Dean, y-y-you remember, the, um...

when you were around eight, that group home

that we lived in in Oceanside?

Terrible food, yes. Okay, Dean. That's the one.

You remember when the kitchen caught on fire?

You said it was cosmic justice, yeah.

I set the fire, Dean.

Were you protesting their fish-stick heavy menu?

I was trying to keep you from getting adopted.

Th-There was a family that... that wanted you, Dean,

and I begged and I cried to get them to take me, too,

because I knew what kind of people they were,

and I knew that they wouldn't take care of you

as good as I could.

They already had too many kids.

They couldn't give you the attention you needed,

and they said no, so I set the kitchen on fire,

and I blamed it on you.

And after that, they were gone.

I know this is hard for you to understand, baby,

but it was the right thing to do.

Don't you see, Dean?

I will do anything to keep you safe.

You took a family from me.

You were selfish.

I did it for you.

I did everything I've done for you.