Original subtitles

- [Carolyn] You will not curse my bloodline.

You have two choices. - Previously

on "Haus of Vicious." - What you plan to do?

- She tried to kill me and our baby.

- You really think that I would let you raise my baby?

- Where are the boundaries?

How far does Kane get to go before you decide to walk away?

- Came to check out my investment.

- You'll never be good enough.

[Chantel screams] - Oh my god!

- Get up!

Oh, Chantel.

I must admit, I never wanted a dead husband

or to give you a memory for a daddy.

I always wanted more,

but you can't get blood from a Negro who's only skill

was to be a drunk.

So now,

wipe your tears

and, baby, we stand up straight.

It's a new day.

Tell your father goodbye and let's get to

the business of moving on.

[somber music]

[sewing machine rattling]

[Chantel gasps] [dramatic music]

[fluid splashing]

- Ow. - Chantel!

Are you okay, baby?

- No, ow.

- Baby, you okay.

Come on, Chantel, come on.

- Mom, help. - Come on.

- Come on, sweetheart. - This hurts so much.

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Real bitch right here

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ I don't really even give a fuck ♪

♪ It ain't goin' down, it's goin' up ♪

♪ Gotta keep that Henny in my cup ♪

♪ Try me if you want to press your luck ♪

♪ Bitch it's up and it's stuck and it's stuck ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Real bitch right here

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ I don't really even give a fuck ♪

[thunder rumbling]

- When the woman brings a child into the world,

she has a plan, a checklist if you will.

Strong, successful, about her business.

Not a dramatic actress who falls off a stage,

'cause she's too high and confused to maintain her stride.

Yet here we are.

- Well, well, look who we have here.

Chantel, aren't you a beautiful sight for sore eyes?

- Shh shh. - I need you to get

a little more rest, we'll catch up later.

Well, she gave us quite a scare.

- Yes, she certainly did.

I got here as fast as I could.

Chantel is my baby.

- Well, mom, she'll be fine, so try not to worry.

The nurse has given her something to rest

and in a few hours we'll have her up

and taking a few more tests for us.

- Thank you, doctor.

[dramatic piano music]

You will be just fine.

I will see to it, if it's the last thing I do.

And you are?

- Uh, Paris.

Well, everybody calls me by my middle name, Tia.

I'm Miss Chantel's office assistant.

- Well, her doctor says she needs her rest.

- I won't be long.

I was just worried.

- Two minutes.

- At first, when we met,

I couldn't get over it really being you.

I was determined to do everything you asked me,

hoping you would notice me.

Even changed my hair every time you did,

but I couldn't keep up [laughs].

You didn't notice that either.

You were always so cut and dry with me.

Barely looked my way.

This is just the beginning and you need to know that.

- [Chantel Voiceover] The funny thing about life

is we always meet a person's representative first.

Now you never truly know who's got your back

versus who's trying to stab you in it.

Some people only pretend to care

just to get a seat at the table to watch you choke.

Discernment becomes a disability when not used properly.

- She's tachycardic at 130,

give me four milligrams of adamantitum.

[dramatic music]

♪ I could bring sun to the arts ♪

[papers rustling]

- Petition for custody.

Paternity action of unborn child,

custody following child's birth?

Oh my God.

[Dayna gasps]

Kane.

[phone beeping]

[phone dialing]

[phone beeping]

[Dayna sighs]

If you think that you're gonna take my baby away

and throw me out in like trash...

You're gonna pay for this!

[dramatic music]

This is not the end.

This is not the end.

Being your secret is no longer the option.

I deserve to be more.

I deserve to be more.

♪ I deserve that

♪ I deserve that

♪ I deserve that

♪ Yeah, I deserve all that

- All right, thanks, doc, I appreciate the update.

Yeah, no, no, that's fine.

You can let her rest.

I'll, I'll be up there later.

All right, thank you.

Harvey.

- Kane [chuckles].

Glad you were still able to make it considering.

- Yeah, exactly.

So, what's up?

- I wanted to meet with you alone

to talk about the company's profitability.

With all of the unfortunate headlines,

it seems it's only a matter of time

before Vicious' stock value crashes.

- Crashes? - Belly up.

- Now you see that's actually kind of funny because

just yesterday, your little white queen Karen

was telling me about how we were killing it in profits

and everything's on the rise.

And now you're saying something completely different.

So which game is it? - This is not a game.

Let's just say I'm a little more well-versed

and skilled at this than Karen.

Oh, and by the way, she's not my queen.

- Well, you sure could have fooled me.

'Cause the last time I saw you,

I could have sworn you was fuckin' her

by the way you was agreeing with everything she was saying,

especially that part about how she wanted to erase me

and Chantel's face from the brand.

And now you hitting me with some new shit.

You trying to tell me that Karen's lying to me?

- Lie is not quite the word I would use.

I would say Karen's, uh, hopeful.

- Hopeful.

And you? - Much more realistic.

- [scoffs] Yeah, well I call bullshit.

You can put this on my tab. - Hear me out.

Please.

I know you want things to be smooth.

It's no secret they're not.

I mean, every week, some different shit's happening, Kane.

And your bottom line just takes a hit.

It's also no secret that your marriage--

- All right, easy. - Has seen better days.

- And how is that any of your fuckin' business?

- I've been where you are before, in business and in bed,

together, struggling to keep it all from sinking.

And by the time you realize you need to get out,

it's all falling apart.

And by then, you are fucked.

- Make your point.

- I'd like to make you an offer, Kane,

and buy you out of Vicious at 30%.

- You just sat here and gave me some long,

tired ass speech about how Vicious is failing.

And now you offering to buy me out?

Man, this shit don't sound right.

- I can turn it around and make it what it needs to be.

Can you?

I mean, if you can, cool, have at it, my brother.

But if you don't have a better plan than headlining

every gossip rag there is, then it's only a matter of time

before the bottom falls out of this motherfucker.

However, this is how you can safely jump ship.

[mysterious music]

- Okay, so Chantel has a-- - Oh my god, no, girl.

Girl, no, don't say it, don't do this to me.

I can't take this right now.

Angels, hold me up, I can't do this.

- As I was saying, Chantel has a magazine shoot--

- For Essence, we know.

We're dressing the models for the cover.

Packed and ready to go. - Exactly.

We got this.

You don't have to come up in here

and scare the hell out of us just to say that.

- Well, good.

Chantel will be proud

that you're doing it without her directing.

- Now see, there you go, being lowkey messy as always.

- If you would allow me to finish speaking,

I have some good news to tell you about Chantel.

She woke up this morning and she's feeling fine.

- Oh. - She's a little sore,

but she's out of woods. - Now, see.

That's what I'm talking about.

Bitch, why you ain't lead with that in the first place?

Good energy and positivity.

I can take your ass out the freezer now, Jaelyn.

- What?

- Jaelyn.

I think we need to talk, but not here.

- Come into my office.

[somber music]

- [Doctor] Chantel, you need help.

- That's why I'm here.

- You need more than we can offer.

You need a drug and alcohol treatment program.

- What?

- And now before you protest, let me explain.

There is a beautiful program

where many celebrities have gone.

It's in the middle of nothing Arizona.

No one will know you're there.

And while you're getting the services

to regain your sobriety, we'll be here

feeding the press a story about you needing rest.

- How dare you come in here

and treat me like some crackhead bitch off the street.

No, this is fucked up, man.

Not every black celebrity that's carried in here

on a stretcher has come in here because of an overdose.

- You're right, but you have.

- [Chantel Voiceover] Okay, did this bitch

just smack me in a face with the truth

I wasn't ready to hear?

I was perfectly fine with the illusion of my life

that I've created.

You know, Malcolm X said, "You're not to be so blind

"that you can't face reality."

But Stevie Wonder said, "I am blessed to be blind."

Don't expect me to be what you want me to be!

I've only survived this long

because of my altered state of mind.

As sad as that may sound.

- This isn't how you want it to end, Kane.

Okay.

- I never killed a man before, but I will kill you.

[Bishop chuckles]

- [chuckles] We should talk more often.

- [Carolyn] Then find out who took those

fuckin' pictures of my daughter.

Damn, Chantel!

Always covering for you.

Doing coke [mumbles].

- Satisfied?

I told you they would pay for those pictures.

So you got your money and I can get back to the shoot

before anybody notices I'm gone.

And leave me the fuck alone.

This should be the end of things between us.

- You know, I never liked that about you.

You always had this bad habit into rushing into things.

Now, when we're done,

I'll let you know.

[car engine rumbles]

- Well, pleasure doing business with you, Harvey.

[siren wails]

Oh, shit, what the fuck.

Fuck! - Where were you going?

- [Kane] Uh, what the hell you arresting me for?

- Who said you were under arrest?

- Are you just fucking with me?

- Not unless you need to be fucked with,

although I'm doing my best to keep this bloodless.

- Man, if you're taking me in and go ahead and do it,

all right, so I can call my lawyer.

- That won't be necessary now that I see you can pay me

and our friend. - What?

- You didn't forget did you?

Ooh,

I'm sure Sal won't be happy about that.

- Listen, just listen to me.

- Now you remember your little unfulfilled gambling debt.

- I need, I just need a little bit more time

to give them their money. - For what?

You got a good faith payment right here.

- Okay. Look, this is not-- - Not what?

- It's not for them. - Really?

I tell you what, let's try this again.

Now who is it for?

Thank you.

- Are you fucking kidding me?

Fucking kidding me [sighs]

[car engine rumbles]

[smooth music]

- I'm sorry.

- And you just keep, damn it!

You keep saying it.

I heard you.

- And what?

You're just not willing to accept it?

Is that it?

- Correct.

I, I'm so tired of you being sorry.

You're sorry you had to work late.

You're sorry you had to return to the job

that you said you quit, by the way.

You're sorry you didn't make it home for dinner.

You're sorry that you miss our son's games

time and time again.

Oh, and you're sorry you can't be better.

- Be better?

- Something's gotta change.

- Meaning?

- Either you change or this will change.

- What do you mean by that, Sharief?

- Look, I gotta go.

[computer dings]

[dramatic music]

- I had to get up out of there

because they was trying to assign

somebody else's bullshit to me.

And it's all because I took a little tumble off stage

and that doctor, that bitch.

Okay, she tried to call me an addict.

This bitch wanna say junkie.

Junkies smoke crack, bitch, and crack is whack.

Calm down, Chantel.

I am fashion's fairy godmother

and every fuckin' body better get into it.

- Oh! [Carolyn claps]

- Who let you in? - Oh, wow.

Is that how they greet their mamas now in Niggawood?

Clutch the pearl.

- Answer the question, mother.

- Sweet Jaelyn let me in.

She knew where you kept your spare key.

- Well, Jaelyn was fired.

- Another poor decision and she's such a lovely girl.

Has more than saved the day since you've been, well,

shall we say afflicted?

Better keep her around.

Now the doctor called me up in arms.

Why did you leave the hospital?

- Because I didn't need to be there.

- Au contraire. - Why are you here mother?

- Why am I [scoffs], why am I here?

You invited me!

Your failed attempts at being a

decent wife to Derelict Dick,

all of the self-imposed stress you've been under

and those drugs you've apparently been pushing up your nose,

like some loose street woman.

Oh, and that nasty, nasty fall you took.

All invitations for me to come and see this for myself.

- Mother. - So tacky, Chantel.

All of it, classless.

You were not raised this way.

- I'm a grown woman.

- And ever since I turned your womanhood over to you,

you've been wrecking it!

[dramatic music]

- Don't you dare come up in my fucking house

and try to judge me, like you're more than some

hard-nosed, abusive, miserable pain in the ass.

- Oh.

- You know, mother, all my life I have tried to impress you.

Doing things your way, living up to this faux standard

that you set when the whole time, the whole damn time,

you have been living vicariously through me

'cause you can't stand your damn self.

- That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.

You had the best of everything.

You should be thanking me.

I taught you everything you know about modeling.

I taught you-- - No, you ain't taught me

a goddamn thing except how to live in pain, mother.

That love and strength was somehow measured

by the amount of bullshit that I can tolerate.

I'm done, okay?

'Cause that's exactly why I'm standing here so fucked up

and I'm not gon' do it no more, mother.

I'm not listening to any fucking thing you say.

I got it from here.

- Well. [Carolyn claps]

You are quite a dramatic actress.

- Get out.

Get the fuck outta my house and don't come back.

- I'm going, but I'm not going far.

I'm gonna go grab that kettle

and make you some chamomile tea.

Because obviously you're blinded to the fact

that you are in the midst of losing everything.

[dramatic music continues]

[dramatic piano music]

- I can't believe she let you in here.

- Barely. - Well, she has got to go.

Your shit is gone, okay?

Ain't no mail here.

I changed your address to your aunt's old spot in Jersey

or is that where your dead mama live?

You know what, Kane, it doesn't even matter.

The point is you have nothing here.

Not even me.

So the same way you walked your ass in here,

skip your happy ass on out.

- Just-- - What are you doing?

- Chantel, please. - Please.

I'd like to try please, if you don't mind.

Please, Kane, stop betraying me.

Please, Kane, stop humiliating me.

Oh, and please, Kane, say that bitch ain't pregnant.

- I can't say that.

Chantel, I know how bad you wanted a baby.

We wanted a baby.

But you will never understand how bad I feel about all this.

- Kane, just go-- - I'm sorry, I am.

I'm sorry, I am, I get it.

No, no, no, I get it, I get it, I do, I get it.

Chantel, I fucked up.

Baby, I can't sleep.

I can't eat.

All I do is think about what I can say to you

or what I can do to make this right.

- Um, is this where I insert the violins?

- Chantel, come on, stop it.

You're my best friend, baby, you're my soulmate.

- And still that wasn't enough.

- No, you were enough.

You were always enough.

It was me.

I wasn't enough, I didn't know how to be.

- And you still don't.

- Okay, okay, well, well, teach me.

I'm serious, I mean it, tell me what to do.

Huh?

That shit with Dayna is over.

I mean, yeah, she's pregnant, but, but you know what?

I talked to my lawyer.

Now, we drew up some papers,

went down to the court and everything.

Drove a paternity petition.

Baby, that means that when she has that baby,

she has to let me know.

All right, so when the baby's born, I'm gonna take custody.

Yeah, and she's not, she's not gonna fight this, baby.

She ain't got no money.

Baby, listen to me, it makes sense.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna terminate her paternal rights.

Don't you see, that means you can adopt.

I mean, that's what you always wanted.

It's, it's, it's your dream and if it's a girl,

we can name her Kayla.

Right? [dramatic music]

Hey, baby, you know, I was thinking that, uhm--

- About?

Oh, don't tell me, don't tell me!

Adoption.

See, babe, I knew you was gon' come around.

Look, this what I was thinking,

'cause I was thinking about this just yesterday

that we should get two boys, right?

Because there's so many black boys in the system,

babe, that need homes and then after we get the boys,

we can get a girl and we can name our Kayla--

- All right, slow down.

I said no to that the first time you mentioned it.

I don't want to raise no kids but my own.

- But it'll be yours.

- It's not gonna be my blood or yours.

Babe, come on.

We keep discussing the same shit,

it's not gonna make me change my mind.

I mean, this is an opportunity for us to make things right.

For us to make something good out of this.

Come on, baby, this is what we always needed.

This is what we need right now.

I need you right now.

Just like a long time ago you needed me too.

- And now I need you to leave.

- Chantel, baby, you don't mean that.

Please, I need you back.

Baby, I am sorry.

Baby, I'm so sorry.

You don't deserve this.

None of it, I'm gonna make it right, baby.

I'm gonna make it right, I promise to you.

I swear I'm gonna make it right.

Chantel-- - No, you're just--

- My Chantel.

♪ Even if you asked me - Stop, Kane.

Kane, leave.

♪ Baby if you asked me.

Kane, just-- - Shh, shh, shh.

♪ I'll probably stay

- Kane.

♪ Even if you asked me to leave ♪

♪ I'll probably stay [Chantel moans]

♪ I hope that's okay - Kane.

♪ 'Cause even if you ask me to

- [Chantel Voiceover] Forbidden love is magnetic.

Inescapable.

You can't help yourself from falling

even though you know you shouldn't.

Your mind knows this is dysfunctional,

but your heart believes it's the best feeling in the world.

Honestly, I'm scared for him to walk out of this room

and I never feel this pleasure again.

Yeah, Kane and I will always be unfinished business.

[Chantel moans] ♪ I'll probably stay

♪ I hope that's okay

♪ 'Cause even if you ask me to leave ♪

♪ I'll probably stay

♪ I hope that's okay

- I see what you saying about this ocean breeze.

♪ What you know about

♪ What you know about

[smooth music]

- Come on, come one, come on.

Come here.

♪ Feel again

♪ I'm gon' make you feel again

♪ I'm gon' make you, feel again ♪

♪ I'm gon' make you feel again

♪ I'm gon' make you

♪ You're calling me talked about you ♪

♪ I'm gon' make you feel again

♪ I'm gon' make

♪ You're slipping

- What's that about?

- What?

- You just looked at me like, "This nigga."

- Never, uh-huh.

- No, we not finna do that.

What's going on?

- What? - You gotta tell me what's up.

You gotta share no matter what's going on.

- I mean, I am kind of wondering like,

what do we really call this?

- Mm-hm.

- You know, so we can like be on the same page.

- For clarity kind of thing. - Yeah.

- Well, I mean, what do you want to call it?

- Well, what do you have going on?

I mean ex-girlfriends or friends with benefits

floating around?

- Are you asking me if I'm seeing

anyone else aside from you?

- Yeah, I mean, is he seeing anyone else

is kind of like at the top of the boo qualifying checklist.

- There's a checklist?

- Oh, yes, there's always a checklist.

- Well, prior to me and you, I had a friend,

I don't know, here and there.

- A friend? - Yeah, little friend,

you know, but since we started doing our thing,

I don't return any her phone calls, so,

no, I'm not seeing anyone else.

- But she's just a phone call away.

- I'm into you, okay?

So what you got going on?

What your DMs looking like, where your phone at?

- Wait, what?

No, no, no, you know what?

Okay, you can see my phone. - Let me see, let me see it.

- You can look at it, you can see it!

You know why, 'cause it ain't nothing in there,

but some what Nigerian princes,

some Nigerian scammers and some,

some wannabe sugar daddies.

- Oh, okay. - And a couple men of God

talking about they wanna lay hands on me.

- Mm-hm, so with that being said,

I guess we can call it whatever you want to call it.

- But I don't know.

- You don't know?

- Ugh, if I just wanna call it a moment.

- Guess that's what it is, a moment.

♪ Runnin' in circles, it seems

♪ Boy, still tryna run to our dreams ♪

♪ We got to work just to be us

♪ Work hard to believe in us

♪ Why is it so hard to fight

♪ It eats me up deep inside

♪ But I know one thing that's for sure ♪

♪ I'm gonna make it all all right ♪

♪ And I try

♪ Try my best to understand - Hey, I'm Evie, welcome.

Can I grab your bags for you?

[birds chirping]

- My name is Trevor and

I'm an alcoholic.

- [Group] Hi, Trevor.

[somber music]

- Never thought I'd hear those words come outta my mouth.

I've been drinking for years.

I thought I was just having fun.

Life of the party.

Good Time Trevor.

I was masking the pain and I was hurt,

but moreover I...

I was hurting the people that I love.

And I'm so sorry.

But I'm here.

[chuckles] And that's, that's all that matters.

I'm, I'm Trevor.

And I'm an alcoholic.

- I'm Chantel.

I'm an addict.

- [Group] Hi, Chantel.

[birds chirping]

[Chantel sighs]

My mom.

I mean, she loved me, but

her kind of love really fucked me up.

So I.

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession.

We create our own hell for we are our own devils

or whatever the hell Oscar Wilde said.

All I know is if I want change,

I have to do things differently.

I have to start loving myself more.

But you know what they say, once you get clarity,

the devil works harder and he ain't got no cape and horns.

He's disguised as everything you've ever wanted.

[dramatic music]

[bag unzipping]

- That's everything you asked Sal for.

Three million cash.

- And that's a promise, in 90 days,

I'm gonna turn this around and pay it back.

[bag zips] - With interest.

Don't let me come find you.

[dramatic music]

[thunder crashes]

On the next HAUS OF VICIOUS...

- This is not the first time we've seen Chantel inebriated.

No one has seen her since.

- There's been an official takeover.

- And Haus of Vicious as you all knew it is no more.

- You lied to me, bastard,

and now you want to take my baby away?!

- Yo, Kane, I can make it sweet.

- He's got a gun! - Get your hands off me!

- Look who I got with me.

- You wanted to take my company away from me, Kane.

Well, now I'm walking away with it all [chuckles]

So get fuck the out.

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Real bitch right here

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ I don't really even give a fuck ♪

♪ It ain't goin' down, it's goin' up ♪

♪ Gotta keep that Henny in my cup ♪

♪ Try me if you want to press your luck ♪

♪ Bitch it's up and it's stuck and it's stuck ♪