(tense music)
(pastor speaking in foreign language)
- Just because I might wear a pastor badge
doesn't mean I'm weak.
We're accepting someone straight outta jail into our home
- So if you mess up, you go to prison for how long?
- 21 years. - Woo!
- [Karisa] Free man. - Here we go.
- I'm Daniel. Nice meeting you. - Nice to meet you, for sure.
Fresh outta prison, it's surreal, you know?
- Why did you go to prison?
- Because I get high on meth
and I go around and I rob other people's (bleep).
I can forgive myself by just moving forward
and making a better of my life.
Parole granted me until the 30th to report to Texas.
So I wanted to stay until the morning of the 28th.
- The plan was to pick him up at the prison in Colorado
and bring him back to Texas.
Alright, well, y'all have a blessed day.
- Walking in here
was like walking into the revolutionary headquarters.
He lives, eats, sleeps, breathes and (bleep) this stuff.
- There is a protest we can go to if you want.
- It's like, come on, bro.
I just got out.
I have to pump the brakes on that.
There are some people in prison
I think need to be in prison, you know?
- It seems like our philosophy around prison reform
might not be the same.
I don't even know what to say.
- This (bleep) is like, abandoned house type (bleep).
- I understand he's been in prison for seven years.
I'm just disappointed.
- Is it cool if they can stay the night here in my room?
They're my homegirls and they got love for me.
- You got me all the way (bleep) up.
- Oh, you're bugging, for real. - [Analisa] Okay.
- [Friend] You're mad or something?
- [Analisa] That's why you can't stay in my house.
- Do something about it. - Bye-bye.
(door slams)
- [Cyndi] Richard is the one that introduced me to Jennifer.
- This is a really dicey time of somebody's life.
- I don't really know what I'm getting into.
- You completely sure about this?
- I am really going into the unknown.
- We're there.
- [Cyndi] Oh, my stomach's got butterflies.
- Are you nervous? - Yes, very nervous.
- [Richard] No way.
(cell door clangs)
(suspenseful music)
- [Cyndi] So do they just let her walk out?
- Yeah. - There won't be no guards or?
- No, she'll just walk out.
(Cyndi sighs)
(tense music)
She might hide it,
but I bet she's pretty emotional when she comes out.
- Yeah?
Waiting for Jennifer, I am excited, scared.
I'm hoping I don't have any regrets
to inviting Jennifer in my home.
I wonder if she's gonna cry.
(suspenseful music)
(gasps) Oh my God, it's her!
- Hi, you guys. - Hi!
- I'm free.
(laughing) (bright music)
- [Richard] No way.
- Nobody's jumping or anything? (laughs)
- Trying.
- It feels good to be on the other side of the fence.
It feels wonderful.
I am extremely grateful for Cindy to take me in.
I don't know where else I would be if she didn't.
(laughing)
- Hi. - How are you?
- Good. - (laughs) Amazing.
I'm free, finally.
It feels good.
Long time waiting. - Amazing.
- I'm happy to see Jennifer in the flesh, my new roommate.
I'm excited to see what our future holds.
- Okay, let's see here.
- Is this gonna fit in there even?
- Yeah.
There. (laughs)
- It takes a girl. - Yeah it takes a girl, exactly.
Meeting Cyndi, she seems fun to be around, laid back.
I'm excited to start our journey together.
You know what you can do for me? A cigarette.
(Jennifer laughs)
- Wanting a stimulant right outta prison
is a little concerning, but we'll see what happens.
- That's not good.
- [Jennifer] Let's get the hell outta here.
- [Richard] Yeah.
- Bye!
(Cyndi laughs)
(suspenseful music)
- [Analsia] Bye-bye.
(door slams)
- You believe that (bleep)?
Disrespectful ass kids.
Can you believe that he asked me something like that?
- That's off the hook. - I mean, I can't believe it.
- He must think we some freaks.
- I mean, just totally disrespectful.
- Yeah, it is. It is.
- You know, Mark's already halfway in the house
and he's asking to have two women stay in the house.
I don't even know these women.
This is not a brothel.
- Sounds like some cowboy (bleep) to me.
- Oh, you staying?
- All right, grab it.
but she's ruined my whole day.
I gotta stay in this stale ass room
with no TV, no nothing.
Worse than prison, I'm back in the hole.
- I don't expect any respect from him,
but I'm going to continue to be respectful.
- Our goal for Mark is to help him move forward
and do better in life so he can thrive.
But he's disrespectful.
I don't need this stress in my life.
- I'm not ready to wash my hands
because the young man needs help.
I can give him 10 chances.
That's what you give kids in special ed.
(tense music)
- [Analisa] Oh, so what you doing?
- [Mark] What you mean, what am I doing?
- What? - What's it look like I'm doing?
- It looks like you trying to move back up in here
and I said you can't be up in here.
- You look like you made the right decision.
- That's what I'm here for.
- All right, sir. - Okay then.
- I just feel like right now
I gotta take advantage of the fact
that I have this free housing
and stable place to go until something else can pop up.
- I'm actually more excited.
- Excited for what?
- To work with him.
- I'm pissed.
- I'm not even talking, man.
She's the one talking crazy.
- Oh, now you gonna come in here.
I'm just taken back.
Why are you asking me to allow these ladies to stay here?
I just find that just totally disrespectful.
- I don't got nowhere to go right now.
Why wouldn't I ask you?
What kind of person would I be
to not ask some girls to stay the night,
somewhere to stay warm?
What type of man would I be?
I definitely feel like Analisa is being unreasonable.
- No, I don't wanna entertain those young ladies.
- You trying to ruin my first day out.
- They're not my problem, they're not my problem.
This is my home, so what I say goes.
Do you follow what I'm saying to you?
- Yeah, look, it sounds good, man.
- Nothing about what Mark is doing says,
"I'm ready to get on my feet and do right."
I need you to be here at 11 o'clock at night.
- That's not gonna happen.
- You can't kick it like that.
- How you going to tell me I can't kick it like that?
11 o'clock, what type of? I'm a grown man.
- Right, but so, you asked me to keep you accountable.
That's one of the contingencies on you being here.
- This is some crazy (bleep) for real.
- Okay.
Let's compromise.
11 o'clock is way too early, know what I'm saying?
- Let's do it like this.
You show us that you can be responsible
and be here for 11 o'clock for a week.
Then we'll talk.
Just based on his decision coming back,
it tells me that he want to be here
and if he want to be here, he wants to follow the rules.
- No, I don't think a week is enough time.
- Stop, you're-
- Because you was talking too much (bleep) to me.
- This 11 o'clock thing is just-
- It's two weeks. - Some (bleep), for real.
- It's two weeks. It's two weeks.
If you can't do two weeks, then I'm out.
- Two weeks, that's it.
I might be able to give two weeks.
We'll see.
I would hope that Mark can maintain this curfew
that we all agreed upon.
- Hell no.
(producer laughs)
- Man.
(tense music)
- Hey, Paco.
What's up, boy? Come on.
Morning.
We gotta get outta here this morning.
We're preparing to go to Meigs County jail
and pick up Mickey.
You ready for this? (laughs)
He says he believes in Jesus.
He says he's been saved, hallelujah.
- I'm a little, a little nervous about it.
You know, I don't know what to expect.
We've helped a lot of other people,
but Mickey is the first person
that we will be welcoming into our home right out of jail.
It's the unknown that gets me a little concerned.
- Father God, Lord Jesus,
we humbly come before you and we pray over Mickey
as we are going to go fetch him out of prison.
Kick the cell doors open, get him out,
free him and help him on his new journey in life.
Father God, in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
The consequences of Mickey screwing up
and making a bad decision is not gonna be good for him.
He's looking at a long time.
He's looking at 21 years.
He cannot fail.
(suspenseful music)
We're hopeful for God's will to be done.
We're hopeful that Mickey will be able to start his new life.
Where we go in, right here? - [Marisol] Yes.
(tense music)
- Hi. - Doing all right, you?
- Doing all right.
- I'm here to talk about Mickey (bleep).
I'm here to pick him up.
- Here to pick him up. - Yeah.
- He's got holds out of Hamilton County,
warrants out of Hamilton County.
- [Marisol] Do you know how long it usually takes for that?
- There's no set in stone time.
It could be today, if he gets out of here today,
or it could be end of the week.
He's supposed to have video court sometime today,
but I don't know.
- What's he been in jail for?
- The original charge was evading arrest,
driving on revoked, aggravated assault on a first responder,
and evading arrest again.
- Mickey told us that he was in jail for
the violation of probation for the two theft charges
and the manufacturing of methamphetamine and that was it.
- It's just a myriad of charges, different types.
- He didn't say anything about any of that.
(tense music)
- Now we know that he also has a charge for violence.
- He assaulted a police officer so he wasn't honest
and forthcoming of what his charges were.
- Before, I'm like, okay, I can deal with it.
But now, do we really wanna bring him to the house?
- How well you know Mickey?
- I've dealt with him, yes.
He's had many evading arrest charges from us and just,
you know, he likes to run.
- It concerns me that Mickey
has a reputation of being a runner
because he's coming straight here to our house from jail.
Is he gonna be running outta here
in the middle of the night?
I feel like I can't trust him.
- If something happens, I'll let y'all know.
- Okay, alright. - Thank you much.
- Thank you guys, thank you. - God bless you.
- We'll give it a couple hours.
Let's just sit down. It's too cold to sit out here.
- Yeah.
I'm disappointed with the fact that he wasn't clear with us.
- I don't know if clear is the right word.
I'm gonna go, dishonest.
We're gonna stick around for a little while.
I'm willing to wait.
I just want to hear what the results are in court
and hope that God does a miracle
in the next hour or so for him to get out.
(dramatic music)
(Aaron singing)
- ♪ Oh, I just wanna worship
♪ Oh
- I wake up a little like, wow.
Like, there's someone new here,
I just have to share my space with someone
I don't know that well.
So we'll see how our worlds come together.
(knocking) - ♪ I really don't care
♪ Lord is gonna start a fire
- Hey, good morning. - What's up, buddy?
- Doing good. You wanna eat something?
- Yeah man, I could eat. Gimme one second.
- Okay.
- ♪ Lord is gonna start a fire
Today, I woke up in my own room miles away from prison.
Feeling great.
♪ Every time we worship
I always loved singing, so I get my praise on.
♪ I done changed
♪ I'm not the man I was before
♪ Hey
- Aaron wakes up and wants to sing to the world.
- ♪ Mm
- Yeah, I don't wanna be woken up by lullabies or whatever.
It's potentially annoying, you know?
- All right. What you got?
- [David] We got some bacon just like you wanted.
- [Aaron] I see the bacon. Yeah, alright.
- [David] Got some steak. - [Aaron] All right.
Well, lemme show you how to do this, man.
To be able to cook real food, that's everything.
I can't even remember the last time I had a steak.
You're getting like, chicken fried steak in prison
and really it's just like, ground up squirrel.
I think we could add bacon in every meal.
- I mean, you know, it's not kosher.
- I don't even know what that means. What is kosher?
- Really?
Well, it means certain food laws.
You know, like you're not supposed to eat pork.
- Oh, okay, all right. - So.
- Yeah, I couldn't be kosher.
- I grew up Jewish
and I haven't lived with that many people who are like,
committed Christians the way that Aaron is.
- Little breakfast on the patio. - Yeah, let's do it.
We definitely have different traditions and commitments.
(Aaron praying faintly)
I don't usually pray before eating.
I didn't really know that he was into Christianity like that
when he was in prison.
- Let's get into it.
I mean, we're cool, everything.
We're getting along and everything's good.
But just, you know,
what are your expectations of me in the house as a roommate?
- I mean, the first thing I think
is just making sure we have open communication
and you're definitely responsible
for the people you're bringing here.
Clean up after yourself.
We all do (bleep) in the house
and then there's stuff that has to be done.
You know what I mean?
- Not we all, just you. (chuckles)
I understand that he's opening his house to me,
so it's good that we're getting some ground rules
and laying some things out, but I'm not a kid.
I clean up after myself.
My expectations.
I'm not a conversationalist after 10, period.
It is kind of like how I was in prison.
Like, I go in my room to not talk to people.
You know, I had to put some expectations out there too.
I think it goes both ways, you know?
So if the door's closed,
you know, just politely (bleep) off.
- Do you have anything I should look out for?
- You know, the biggest fear then for me
is just the sobriety.
Being mindful of it.
It's been a 20 year battle.
It's always my opponent. - Yeah.
- [Aaron] So when I do reach out, I don't want you to be...
- Exactly.
- Beating me down about it or "Oh, Aaron, you know?"
I just can't stand that.
- I'm not sure what I would do if Aaron's using in the house,
but if we get to that point eventually, yeah.
He might not be able to live here anymore.
- My biggest problem with the situation
is the lack of security.
There's no lease.
- I mean, yeah,
you don't have a lease and that's intentional.
- He's like, "Here, you don't have a lease
and that's intentional."
And at first I was like, "Ah, yeah, (bleep) you."
I don't wanna mess this opportunity up.
I'm at David's mercy, but I'm not gonna kiss David's ass.
No lease is intentional, I get that.
But don't put my (bleep) outside on the street.
That goes from issues with my roommate
to that (bleep) my enemy. (laughs)
You know what I'm saying?
- In talking with Aaron,
I think there's a lot of trust to build
and there's certain things
that I assumed about Aaron that are not who he is.
It's always a possibility that Aaron burns a bridge with me.
If there's something I'm doing that's annoying you,
like, tell me about it.
So we're not at a point where it's like, ah!
You know what I mean?
- If there is issues,
if there is butting of heads being like,
hey, let's change this living situation
at the end of the month so it's not, you know,
I'm gonna burn this (bleep) house down,
type (bleep), you know what I'm saying?
(David laughs)
(dramatic music)
(tense music)
- The way that Mark spoke to my wife yesterday
was disrespectful and wrong.
Hello.
- [Host] How are you doing today?
- He actually hurt Analisa's feelings
and so I need to talk to Mark man to man.
- This is just gonna be all of our hookah flavors.
I would recommend our mystic mint, it's peach,
ice mint, and mango.
- Let's go with that. - Let's go with that.
All right, sounds good.
- [Server] All right, no problem.
- I need to talk to Vada.
Vada's most definitely more open to listening to me than Analisa.
Hopefully he can get a better understanding
and she can get a better understanding
so we all get on a better page
and not make (bleep) so complicated.
- It's time for you and I to have a talk.
- No, I say what I want to say when I want to say it.
- Yes.
The thing about it is a happy wife, a happy life.
You was kind of rude and obnoxious.
Now, you gotta respect my wife.
I'm gonna say it like this. I'm big on respect.
You respect me, I respect you.
That extends to my wife as well.
She may talk like she tough, but man,
she is really sensitive.
Really sensitive.
- I feel like Vada's doing what he's supposed to do.
He's standing up for his wife.
But I stand on what I believe in
and I feel like I was not in the wrong.
- I hear you, I want you to enjoy it.
It's a time and place for everything.
- Time and place was first day out.
That's a long time.
To get a few days to just be able to do me, enjoy myself.
Like, she just kind of getting in the way
of (bleep) blocking for real.
- Boy, ain't nothing worse than a (bleep) block, eh?
(Mark laughs)
You know?
- I would love it if you would go back and apologize to her
because she put a lot into your room.
I think you at least owe her that much that you're sorry.
- Yeah, you may be right.
I can respect that.
Matter of fact, when we get back,
I'm gonna just ask to speak with her for a minute.
- Yes, thank you.
- I agreed to apologize to Analisa,
just to have a peace of mind, you know, not complicated,
stressful arguing, fighting or anything like that.
I think we gonna get along, man, it's good.
I appreciate it for real.
- Please don't tell Analisa that I was smoking.
- (laughs) Your secret's safe with me.
- My man! (Mark laughs)
(birds chirping) (tense music)
- Okay, so you go down there,
you make it all the way to Karisa's house and he decides,
"I don't want to go to Texas, I wanna stay with my sister."
We have gone to a lot of trouble here
for him to do something like that.
When I first spoke with Deven on the phone, I wasn't happy.
He waited 'til the very last minute
to tell us he was gonna stay longer at his sister's house.
- But his grandparents are friends of mine
and therefore I'm willing to commit.
I can only do my part and the rest of it's all up to Deven.
- He's gonna have to, yeah.
- He's got a heck of a ride in front of him
and he needs to be here.
He can go back to prison.
He is on parole.
(tense music)
(birds chirping)
- Deven. - Yeah.
- Deven? - Yeah?
- I'm going to work, I gotta take the kids real fast.
Today, if you could mow the lawn.
- Okay. - Mow it.
Don't mow it in the circles like we talked about.
Mow it like horizontal, diagonal.
Make it like, nice. - Yeah.
- All right. I love you.
- Today's my first day out.
Just chilling up inside the room.
It's stressful 'cause it's like,
ah, I still gotta drive 11 hours from here to Texas.
My sister Karisa, she gave me a little to-do list.
I wasn't expecting it, but I'm not surprised I got it.
She was looking out for me the whole time I was in prison,
so I kind of owe her a few of these.
Karisa wanted me to mow the lawn in some uniform pattern.
I don't know, I think she wanted it to look like
a tic-tac board or something.
But I'm gonna go ahead and do my thing
and mow it like a normal person.
(lawnmower revving)
Ah, there we go.
(Deven grunts)
Oh dude, look what I just did to the lawn.
Oh, she's gonna-
I'm not re-mowing that (bleep) thing either.
What the (bleep)?
(bleep).
This lawnmower's a piece of (bleep).
The yard is all uneven and crazy.
This dumb ass tree in my face.
This is irritating.
(lawnmower running)
(cellphone ringing)
What's going on, boo?
- [Kyla] Hi, what are you doing?
- I'm mowing this lawn.
Spending time with my family.
I know Kyla from when I was younger.
I actually met Kyla in a halfway house.
Me and her used to have a relationship relationship.
We love each other for sure and at the end of the day,
we're always gonna be close.
Where are you?
- Oh, yeah?
- You should come see me.
- I want to and it sounds like a good idea,
but I need to spend some time
with my family while I have the opportunity to.
Definitely tempted to spend some time with Kyla.
It'd be worth it, but I would, you know,
disrespect my sister in her eyes by leaving
and going to the place that I don't need to go right now.
- Come see me!
- (laughs) Yeah.
That's a trigger aspect to it
'cause she lives in Craig, Colorado.
Craig is where I committed all my crimes
and I get in a lot of trouble in Craig,
so my biggest fear is relapse.
If I get high then I will not succeed.
It's gonna be hard for me to really make the right decision.
- Come see me!
(Deven sighs)
(dramatic music)
(tense music)
- Looks like (bleep).
Deven, what are you doing?
- Not much.
- So the lawn?
- Yeah, about that. - Mm-hmm.
I can't believe that
he could not mow the lawn, the one simple thing.
The one simple thing, mow the lawn,
and he couldn't hold to that and it pisses me off.
The burn of the action, saying you're gonna do it.
Not doing it.
What did you even do?
- I mowed the front yard.
I got distracted and, uh...
- Did you get high?
(tense music)
She's overreacting because
she doesn't trust that I can stay sober.
Here, let me tell you this right now, sis.
This is the reason why people get high,
because you accuse 'em
of getting high when they don't get high.
- Well, the reason I'm accusing people of getting high
is because they've lied
and got high when I've turned my back.
- I didn't get high.
Quit tripping about that.
- No.
(tense music)
Yeah, I was tempted to go see Kyla,
but I didn't want to put myself in a position to fail.
- I just...
- I understand, but the more you talk,
the less I care because of the fact that I get it
and you're just going and going and going like, I get it.
You can't keep telling me what to do, dude.
You can't keep doing it and expect me to do it.
- Okay, but I can tell you what to do in my house.
With an addict, they just turn on you.
If you're nice to them,
it's just so easy to just push you over
and stab you in the back.
I just don't want you to (bleep) up in Texas
and I don't want you to (bleep) up on Daniel.
He's a good guy. - Yeah.
- His wife, you know?
Like, you gotta have rules and respect those
and that's why you gotta start here
even though I'm your sister, like.
- I understand, sis.
I understand.
I'm sorry for disobeying what you told me to do.
- I forgive you.
I feel like Deven is still kind of in transition to adulting
and feeling like he was incarcerated for so long.
So then he's gotta come out and do these things
and be fine following rules of Daniel and Cathy.
So hopefully he's listening and hopefully he can do it.
- We'll see. - Yeah, we will see.
- I'm ready to get my life together.
I'm looking forward to this new part of my journey
and getting away from Colorado.
Getting away from everything that I know
and I'm so familiar with.
It's what I need in order to succeed.
- I love you. - I love you too.
Alright, thank you. I love you.
(tense music) (train horn blows)
- So Mickey has these additional charges
that we had no clue about.
It throws up a big red flag to me
because what else is there
he's not been totally honest about?
Alrighty, God bless you.
(tense music)
Hey, there. - [Marisol] Back again.
(Marisol laughs)
- Yeah, I actually just got off the phone with the courthouse.
His court date today was postponed until April 3rd.
He's not gonna be getting out today.
- Not gonna be getting out today?
- [Officer] Not gonna be getting out today.
Two weeks from today, he'll have another court hearing.
- So we came here today expecting to
get Mickey outta jail and he's not coming out.
It is frustrating.
I've gotta be the bearer of bad news
and let him know he's not getting out
for another couple of weeks.
There's nothing we can do about it.
Brother, thank you very much, man.
- No problem. - I appreciate it.
- Thank you, God bless you.
- I appreciate you letting us camp in your parking lot.
(phone ringing)
There he is.
Ha ha, it's us.
- Alright man, how are you doing?
You know anything what's going on, man?
- I know what's going on.
- I spoke to Chief Deputy Malone.
- Is there anything that you can think of
that would keep you from getting out?
- Yeah, we've been out here since early this morning.
- All right, now, we need to be in communication, man.
- All right.
Your court date's been rescheduled
two weeks from today.
- You got a couple more weeks, my man.
- Mickey's reaction when we broke the news down to him
that he wasn't getting out.
It felt like Mickey already knew.
- Yeah, like he knew that it was a long shot,
but he made us out to believe like he was getting out.
- All right, God bless you, buddy.
- God bless you.
- [Both] You too.
(suspenseful music)
- Oh, I'm so excited for pizza!
- Yes! - It's gonna be awesome, huh?
I wanna sit in the middle. - Oh.
- I'm stuck in the middle anyway.
- Whatever.
- [Server] Do you know what you'd like to order?
All right, what are we having?
- Pizza. - Awesome.
- Can we get some pizza?
- Jennifer is excited
and this will be her first meal out of prison, pizza.
Marinara or Alfredo?
- Just a regular pizza with some veggies on it.
I really got sick of the food while in prison.
You didn't get the choices or the variety
like you have out here with freedom.
- And pizza. - Oh my gosh, yeah!
- Nice. - Thank you.
- [Server] You bet.
- In prison, I would always see the pizza commercials
and I wanted pizza really bad. (laughs)
Oh my goodness.
Mm!
- Yum. - Mm-hmm.
- It is delicious.
- That's good.
With Jennifer, I don't know much about her past
and the history with her being incarcerated
and about the drugs and all that.
So when you first were arrested,
what was it you were arrested for?
- I was selling some drugs.
I got set up.
- Oh, no.
- Yep, they got me with first degree sales.
Somebody had called me up
and told me that they wanted some drugs.
So I went and met up with them.
I sold them an ounce of methamphetamine
and I didn't know they were wearing a wire,
so there was no getting out of it.
- [Richard] Wow. - [Jennifer] Yep.
- [Cyndi] So what kind of drugs were they?
- [Jennifer] It was meth.
- Wow. - Yeah.
Yeah, I was addicted to meth.
I couldn't go a day without it
and I needed to be able to supply my habit.
- Wow.
- And it's a struggle that never goes away, you know?
- This is my first time hearing about
Jennifer's history of drugs and being incarcerated.
I feel she's got a long battle ahead of her.
So yeah, it does make it a little concerning.
One of my concerns, I guess, was having stimulants,
you know, like the cigarette right after, you know?
That's the first thing she wants is a cigarette.
- Right.
- It might be like a red flag or you know,
that things might go back to the way they were.
- No, like you're talking about triggers.
What would trigger me.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- How would I know that if you're relapsing?
- I think if I'm arguing and I'm being snappy towards you,
then I think that's when
you probably should sit down with me and be like,
"Okay, do you feel like you're gonna relapse?
Is this a trigger for you?"
- I do have like a few cans
of hard iced tea or whatever in the fridge.
Do you think that's gonna be a problem?
- I don't know about that, I mean,
that'd be a good question to ask my parole officer.
- Okay.
- This is a lot right now, getting questioned from Cyndi.
I'm just trying to enjoy my freedom.
It's just too much.
- I'm gonna go to the restroom. - Okay.
Are you worried about this, me and her, or what?
- Okay, okay.
I am a little worried about what Cyndi expects out of me.
I know there's a lot of things that Richard does for her
that I think is gonna fall on me,
which is kind of a concern.
- (laughs) Stupid.
- So with my disability, do you plan on helping me
with not just the stuff around the house?
- Yeah.
- But I mean, some of the bills or whatever.
- Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
For me helping out with you,
like paying you and stuff or do you?
- Oh.
- She is moving in here.
I need Jennifer's help cleaning the basement,
cleaning the garage, and with the bills around here.
- Yeah, it's just, I gotta take care of myself
before I can take care of anybody else.
If Cyndi thinks I'm gonna be scrubbing her floors
like Cinderella and being her little maid,
she's out of her mind.
I gotta make sure this is good
before anybody else is gonna be good.
- Are you thinking this is a free ride?
(dramatic music)
(pensive music)
(geese honking)
- [Vada] Analisa, we home.
Where you at?
- I'm coming. - Gimme a kiss.
You moving a little bit too slow.
I need to go lay down.
- All right. - All right.
- Last night, I went to bed exhausted.
Completely frustrated with Mark.
It's just extremely tense in the house right now.
It feels awkward.
You would think somebody would be actually grateful
for somebody that they don't know
to invite them into their own house.
- So, uh...
- Certainly.
- Anything you felt like was disrespectful,
made you feel a type of way about anything,
I just wanna apologize.
You know, I don't ever want you to feel like
I'm intentionally disrespect you
or not caring about your emotions or feelings.
Hopefully you understand where I'm coming from.
Like, being locked up for almost eight years,
and I would want to come get outta prison
and teach somebody I know.
- Well, you know,
I really appreciate you apologizing to me.
I was very taken back what happened yesterday.
But I want you to know
that me and Vada have good intentions for you.
- Yeah. - Take that.
- Thank you. - Okay, let's have a seat.
He's a young boy in a man's body,
so I'm willing to guide him.
Pretty big strawberry, huh?
- Yeah, I'm big on strawberries. (Analisa laughs)
- So our goal is to help you be accountable
and show you what that looks like.
I need to get my mind right anyway, man.
You know, it's... I'm doing too much, so.
- That's good that you realized that you were doing something
that was gonna take you backwards.
- Yeah. - Right.
Because you asked me when you got outta prison
how to become an adult, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, it's a lot different
than how it was when you went in.
There's a lot of young brothers out here getting killed
and I don't want you to get into the wrong crowd,
but you have to do the work.
- Okay.
Do you think you're gonna be able to abide
by the two week curfew of 11:00 PM?
- Absolutely. - All right.
Mark, when he came in with the attitude and the disrespect,
I was ready to kick him out of the house,
but grace has sustained him
and I'm going to give him another chance
to prove himself different
and time will tell if he's authentically apologetic.
- I just want you to hopefully accept my apology
and we can move forward.
- Yeah, the first thing is, always
when you talk to somebody, look at them in their eyes.
- Sure.
- Are we good?
- Okay, we're gonna hug it out.
I got your back.
- All right, thank you. I appreciate it.
- You're welcome.
- I gave her a hug 'cause that's how you finesse it.
The finesse king, right here.
You're looking at him. (laughs)
(dramatic music)
- All right, sis. Thank you for everything.
- It's a fresh start, new opportunity.
- I appreciate you caring. I love you, sis.
- Have a good time. - Thank you.
- Drive safe. - I will.
- All right. - All right. See ya.
(tense music)
I'm not regretting spending extra time with my family,
but now it's starting to set in, the realization of it,
like I really have to get there.
I really have to get going with my life.
(car engine revving)
What I'm looking forward to most in Texas is to get a job
and to be around sober and good people.
I'm worried about doing the drive alone.
I mean, it's a long drive.
I ain't got no time to waste.
If I don't get to my parole office in time,
then I could be violated right away and I lose everything.
I lose it all.
(car beeping)
Ah, what the hell is that?
What the (bleep) is going on?
Oh, (bleep).
(car beeping)
That just overheated big time.
(bleep).
Wow, pff.
My car was just overheating
and it started puttering out and I turned it off.
Came out and smoke came out immediately.
It's pissing me off.
I'm stressing about it.
Wow, pff.
If I go back to prison after only being out for three days,
I'm gonna be devastated.
It's not looking good right now.
Oh, no!
- My name is Emily.
I am going to have an inmate I've never met move in my house.
- I wasn't looking for a roommate.
This is a big change for me.
It could be disastrous.
- Woo-hoo, finally! - Woo-hoo!
- I cannot wait for my new roomie to see our home.
- Hello.
I mean, it was gross.
It smelled horrible.
I don't know if I want to live in Cyndi's house.
- You don't have to stay here.
- Ain't nobody going nowhere.
- If he don't wanna be appreciative,
he don't have to stay here.
- Enough is enough. - Step back.
- I hate what's going on right now.
I hate the animosity.
- You enjoying this, huh?
With your devilish behavior.
(Mark laughs)
(cell door clangs)