The Paynes

Can't believe she lied to me.

Well, this is what you get.

Young man...

Uncle Curtis, we both know that you can't catch me.

Did that catch you?

Now, now, now.

Pops, maybe this is for the best.

How the hell is this for the best?

Well, you could get your money back,

- and now we can all go home. - Uh... no.

My mama not gonna give you that money back.

She spent it.

- What?! - Yeah. It's gone.

I been duped!

Kind of like you did on Ella.

I didn't dupe her.

Wait, so moving down here, selling her house,

and not telling her, that's not duping her?

What generation are you from, man?

I'm from the generation to tear that ass up!

- Oh, okay. - That's where I'm from.

- I understand. - Do you really?

- No, I do. - You dig?

Hey, I know the generation.

I can't believe this place!

Look at it... it's a dump.

You right about that.

Telling me this place made $8,000 a month.

- I'ma kill her. - Who?

Yo mama.

Hey, man, you ain't gonna touch my mama.

And what you gonna do?

Call the police.

Well, they not coming here, I'm sure.

Telling me this place made $8,000 a month.

Are you sure you heard her right?

Yes!

That's what she said, $8,000 a month.

Look, the only way this place is making that kind of money

is if you add a pole in here.

You see what I'm saying?

What you know about adding a pole?

Dad, I am not a little kid anymore.

I am a grown man, all right?

I'm a pole expert.

Well, Mr. Pole Expert, let me catch you somewhere there's a pole,

unless it's a fire station.

- But Cousin Calvin took me to a strip... - Hey, man!

- What's wrong with you? - Snitches get stitches.

- You not supposed to snitch. - Right.

Well, if this place makes what you say it makes,

Aunt Ella will be very happy.

But if it doesn't...

Man, she gonna be angrier than she already is.

And you can forget about trying to convince her to move forever.

Get out of my way!

Move!

Where you going?

To the church.

Which way is it?

Wow, Aunt Ella, you've been trying to do something like this

in Atlanta for years.

And I would have, if it weren't for the board.

The board at the church always...

Talking about budget cuts. Budget cuts, budget cuts.

- Budget, budget, budget cuts! - I know you were upset.

And the administrators... They got more raises.

- They do, they did. - I'm telling you, it was three of them.

Okay, this never puts you in a good place, okay?

How do you get raises in the middle of a budget cut?

- That don't make much sense. - Budget cut, budget cut, raise.

- Sorry, I... - Budget cut, budget cut, raise.

Okay, Aunt... Aunt Ella, but listen...

- Oxymoron, don't go together. - Oxymoron, but you know what?

- This is nice. This... - And the pastor.

not the pastor.

- His lover offerings. - Oh, please don't.

A different envelope.

Ha! Trimmed in gold!

- You remember that. - I remember.

That's what they should have budget cut...

The envelopes.

I remember when they used to have a hat.

Didn't even have a bucket.

Budget cut... then let me tell you, they budget cut all them baskets.

What I want you to focus on right now is the happiness.

- This is so great, isn't it? - What happiness?

- This place. - Incredible.

Look how happy the kids look.

- They are. - They are.

That's because they have somewhere to go after school.

That keeps them out of trouble and out of the gangs.

Just can't get over all these kids.

Just look at 'em!

It looks like a pain in the Payne, if you ask me.

Little girl...

I'm sorry, Mom.

You know I be forgetting that I say stuff out loud sometimes.

- Yes, yes. - Janine,

do you see that computer area over there?

You see how she set up a computer area?

Yes, look! You see, Jazzie?

Yeah, old computers. That's exciting.

I think... I think they're nice.

- They are nice. - Yeah, you're right.

From 15 years ago, those are real nice.

Well, Jazzie, there are some kids who do not have computers at home.

And parents that do everything for them.

Hmm.

- I think she just read me. - Yeah.

- Oh, you know that word? - Oh, yes, ma'am.

I can throw back to the '60s, now. Don't...

- I'ma choke her. - Don't do it.

I wanted to...

Set the computers up just like that.

I know. Hey!

You know, maybe God was using Uncle Curtis.

Mom, how is God gonna do that? He don't know Uncle Curtis.

Jazz...

I'm just saying, he created him and was like,

- "What did I just do?" - You know what?

I'm gonna send you out

- to the car in just a moment. - Did you just do a deep voice for God?

Yes, i... it... it was powerful.

You know, he would sound like that, right?

- He would be powerful. - Right.

And you would be quiet from now on.

- Wait, did you just say you were gonna... - Yes,

- yes. In the car, yes. - I was gonna wait outside? Mom,

in this neighborhood, anything could happen to me.

Then be quiet.

Okay, I'll play with my phone.

- I really like this. - So...

- I really like this. - Does that mean you're gonna stay?

That means that I'm so mad at Curtis, I can't even think about it.

Which means you're actually thinking about it.

Janine, please...

- I'm just saying... - Do you think I should stay?

I... I'm not saying that, I'm just saying

that you have been frustrated at the church...

"Budget cut, budget cut, budget cut."

You know, that thing.

And then you've been saying you needed a change of pace

and your friends have all been moving away.

- Or dying. - Jazmine!

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I... did I say that out loud?

- Keep it up. - I did it again.

- Keep it up. - I'll be quiet.

Okay.

Well, if he had come to me, and we had talked about this,

then I would have been much more open to it.

I mean...

This is just...

insensitive.

It's... it's just so rude to me.

Talk about no respect for your wife

of all these years.

I can't do it...

- on that principle alone. - On that?

This is just...

- this is just so... - Uncle Curtis.

Yeah.

Okay. So, to be clear,

you're not going to move

- because you're offended? - Janine...

That's what it sounds like to me.

- Okay. - Okay, you know?

- How many times has he done this? - Mom, that ain't right.

- You did not just ask her that. - Right.

Wrong question.

Listen...

Just think about it.

That's it, just think about it. Instead of saying "no" because you're mad

or you feel like you need to teach him a lesson.

Curtis needs to be taught several lessons.

Hey, have y'all heard the one about the old dogs?

Have you heard the one about sticks and stones?

- Actually, no, Mama, I have heard that one. - Oh.

Well, they didn't tell you that the "breaking bones"

was because you was in grown folks's business.

This family... this family, you know...

We need Jesus.

There's too much violence in this family.

I cannot let Curtis think that this was okay.

I can't... Even if I do love Florida,

and I do love this place,

I can't. I can't do it because then he's gonna do

something else that I don't like.

Child, you might end up on a trolley boat to Alaska if you don't.

What happened to that vocal rest premise

- that we were dealing with? - Just wait. Just, um...

I really love what you talking about right now.

- Baby... - Listen, listen.

Mom, I'm sorry, but ain't no man gonna be treating me like this.

- And I appreciate th... And I appreciate that. - No man!

But if you don't be quiet, no one's gonna have a chance to.

- Got it. I got it. - Okay.

- Excuse me. - Yeah?

- Hey, are you all right? - Yeah.