The Paynes

Curtis.

Hmm? Yes?

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.

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.

- 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...

It's not working.

No, it is not.

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.

You need to fix that.

- Nyla. - Hey!

- -

What are you doing?

Oh. Did I wake you?

Yes.

I'm sorry. I'm a night owl.

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.

You ain't bringing... You ain't...

- You are not paying the bills. - Ohh!

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?

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?

His train show, too?

Good night.

Good night.

Oh, man!

Baby?

Baby, you asleep?

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.

Good night.

What?

What, what?

Wait a minute.

There ain't no prime-time shows on this time of night.

Ella, how is she watching it?

Curtis, I'm so sleepy.

Ohh.

- Ella! - Hmm?

Did she record over one of my shows?

Go to sleep, baby. Just go to sleep, Curtis.

Better not.

Good night.

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. -

Oh, you know you'd come back for me.

You run after me all the time.

You're the one who keeps crawling back

- after all of your little... -

Something wrong?

Did you record over my shows?

Yeah. Those old boring fishing shows?