Move, old lady.
Excuse me, baby.
I’ll go around.
That wig cost $9,000.
Broke, old, and clumsy.
You tripped me, baby.
Prove it.
Pay it or the police carry you out.
Ma’am, you diabetic?
Your sugar’s dropping.
Ayana, back to your chair.
Now that’s my juice.
I’m VIP.
Now it’s her juice.
Mrs.
Thornton is in there dressed like nobody.
Her idea.
Why, ma’am?
To see how her son’s fiance acts when nobody’s watching.
See that wall?
My future mother-in-laws.
So, I own this chair.
Here, bus fay.
Now, get out.
Granny Ayana, you’re done.
Clear your station.
I need this job.
I still don’t step over people.
I’ll go after she’s okay.
Look at this bargain braider playing hero for a bus stop granny.
I didn’t trip myself.
Check your camera.
Camera’s been down since Monday.
She brings me 40 clients a month.
No camera.
So 9,000 cash or an IU.
I’ll make one call.
Granny got a flip phone.
What a bama.
Calling who?
The bus.
Touch her again and I’m the one calling police.
It’s me.
Come in now, please.
[laughter] Oh, she’s got backup.
Everybody watch your purses.
Ma’am, are you hurt?
My pride’s bruised.
My hips fine.
And who are you supposed to be?
Naen Cole, chief of staff, Rosewood Hair Company.
Velour is a Rosewood salon.
You’re standing in our house.
Then you know me.
I’m marrying the boss’s son.
Congratulations.
Step away from my guest.
No names today.
Naen recorder switched off 10 minutes ago.
Your login, Leticia.
It It was glitching.
I was fixing it.
Keys and badge.
You’re done.
You helped her.
Your name?
Ayana Ellis.
Station 4.
Ayana Ellis, you’re managing velour starting now.
[applause] Her she can’t even afford her own juice and somebody still owes me 9,000.
[snorts] 9,000 for the wig, not the attitude.
I’m not even looking at that.
It’ll bounce.
You lost your job for a stranger.
Why?
My big mama would have snatched me bald if I didn’t.
[laughter] I started on a kitchen chair.
Seat Pellison, 1988.
A lady loaned me $200 for my first jar.
Never found her.
38 years I still owe her.
I know that story, ma’am.
How much do you know?
Everything, Mrs.
Thornton, since you walked in.
Your face is on every jar in here.
And you let them treat me like nobody.
No, ma’am.
I treated nobody like somebody.
That’s the point.
Then why not say my name in front of her?
You didn’t come to be Mrs.
Thornton.
You came to see her.
In 9 days at my gala, my son announces the wedding.
Sunday dinner, my house.
My son will be there.
So will she.
Why me?
You saw what I saw.
He won’t believe his mama alone.
Some old lady with a flip phone runs now.
Baby, [clears throat] old ladies with flip phones own half this county.
Let me deposit it so it bounces in her face.
Beverly A.
Thornton.
Say that again.
You tripped that woman’s mama on camera.
The manager wiped the camera.
No video, no truth.
New plan.
I get to him first tonight crying.
And the braider becomes the one who pushed her.
But she saw everything.
Nobody asked you, Tamia.
Keep filming.
And if your man wobbles, I saved his life, mama.
He’ll never wobble.
Lucky the girl who really did CPR ran off.
Lucky I was holding his hand when the cameras came.
[laughter and gasps] [screaming] [sighs and gasps] Mama, what did you do to her?
What did I do?
[laughter and snorts] I didn’t know it was you, Mrs.
Thton.
I swear fast.
I just got my shoes off that braider pushed you.
I tried to catch you.
You tried to catch me with your foot.
Mama, she’s shaking.
[snorts] The manager saved this before the camera went down.
See, it was the stylist.
That clip’s cut.
I was there.
Mama, you’re 64.
Your sugar was low.
She saved my life.
Mama, I still hear her voice.
Stay with me, runner.
Stay with me, runner.
Always.
[snorts] Oh, the help brought pie and manners.
Want a slice or you full of yourself?
Oops.
God don’t like ugly baby.
Have we met?
[music] I’d remember a hat like that.
Lord, bless this food and help the liar at this table.
Amen.
Did you push my mother?
I caught your mother.
Your fiance tripped her.
My phone was still recording at my station.
I found it Friday.
Move, old lady.
That’s your voice.
Yes, I said move.
She was blocking the bowl.
Saying move isn’t a crime.
Where’s my foot in that?
Since we’re showing things, her grandma owes 14,000 in taxes.
Her braiding page is a shrine to you.
She knew your face.
Did you know who my mother was?
Yes, I knew.
Then get out of my mother’s house.
I knew I helped her anyway.
She was on the floor.
Come on, baby.
We don’t stay where we’re not wanted.
Sit down, both of you.
My house, my table.
You dug up her grandmother’s taxes in 3 days.
I protect this family from a woman who gave me juice.
How much do you owe?
14,800.
And I’ll pay it myself.
Then earn it.
Do my hair for Saturday’s gala.
15,000.
She is not touching my hair.
Nobody asked her to.
She’s doing mine Saturday.
I’ll be there.
Mama, file that police report tonight.
Ayanna Ellis, Detective Emis, Prince George’s County.
A complaint was filed last night.
Theft 9,000 cash from who?
Your client from Thursday says you went in her bag.
Detective, she never stole nothing but my good wig for prom.
Yes, ma’am.
Ask her for the bank withdrawal.
9,000 cash leaves a trail.
Her story is thin, but I have to ask.
Don’t leave the county, Miss Ellis.
From the store, but you didn’t bring it back empty.
Your mama raised you, right?
My mother says I owe your granddaughter an apology.
Your mother says.
What do you say?
How’d you get that scar?
Harbor 5K 2 years ago.
My heart stopped at mile 2.
Went down face first.
My fiance brought me back by the water table.
Blue cups everywhere.
How do you know that?
Because your fianceé didn’t bring you back.
I did.
30 compressions, two breaths.
Stay with me, runner.
Stay.
My fiance said those exact words in her video.
2 million people watched it.
You did, too.
She warned me you’d try something like this.
Did you save that man?
Yes, ma’am.
I left when the ambulance came.
I had a shift.
Then quit arguing.
Ellis women don’t argue.
We bring paper.
The 911 call.
I gave my name.
Ma’am, it’s Ayana.
I need a 911 recording.
Harbor 5K.
The county released it this afternoon.
Public record.
30 compressions, two breaths.
Stay with me, runner.
Stay.
That’s your voice.
Paramedics wrote it down.
CPR bystander, female, CNA, left the scene.
I invited them for dinner.
[music] They’re getting dessert.
Why is she here?
Sit.
Listen, then talk.
Stay with me, runner.
I heard that voice in the dark.
That’s her voice.
Anybody can say a name on a phone.
Did you do the compressions?
Yes or no?
Fine.
No, but I was there.
I held your hand.
You let me thank you for 2 years.
You needed a hero.
I was standing right there.
Take off the ring.
Two years.
I thank the wrong woman every day.
You didn’t owe me.
I do it for anybody.
That’s exactly why I owe you.
Mama, I should have believed you.
Yes, baby.
You should have.
Naen, set two extra plates next Sunday.
He took the ring.
He took the ring.
Then we take everything else tonight.
You go live.
You’re expecting.
And they chose a braider over you.
I’m not expecting.
You will be by 9:00.
I’m carrying the Rosewood heir’s baby [snorts] and his mother threw me out for her braider.
Now that braider says she saved him.
She stole my story.
Y’all, here she is.
The braider who stole my story.
Nobody’s booking a home wrecker.
Sweetheart, I’m the manager.
Book a chair or move on.
She’s tearing down a whole company over a lie.
Keep the doors open.
We don’t close for liars.
[music] 14 million views.
Three retailers just pulled our products.
Mama, she’s lying about that, baby.
I know, son.
Lying is her love language.
It’s her mother.
Let [music] her in.
Let’s hear the price.
$2 million and the wedding’s back on.
Saturday at your gala, you apologize to her on stage.
That’s extortion.
It’s a business proposal, sweetheart.
Done.
2 million and me.
Mama, did you lose your mind?
I’m not giving her money.
I’m giving her a stage.
We post a recording.
She posts a crying video.
Clip war.
Saturday, she confesses to her own 2 million.
And if there’s really a baby, [music] there’s no baby.
Look at her sonogram.
[snorts] Two babies on that picture.
She told the world one.
And it’s on a mommy blog from 2021.
Save that for Saturday.
So I smile next to her till then.
Smile till Saturday.
Detective Beverly Thornton.
I’d like to report an extortion.
Yes, I’m paying a deposit today.
Watch where it goes.
Naen, wire her the deposit.
250,000.
Ma’am, with pleasure.
[music] Afternoon, Miss Ernis.
Your tax debt is mine now.
Paid this house off in 1994.
Braiden hair on a kitchen chair.
Taxes, honey.
40,000 by Saturday noon.
Cash 14,000 turned into 40 interest fees life.
Where’d you get 40,000 cash on a Wednesday?
Investments or skip Saturday’s gala and I tear this up.
Let me pay it right now.
No.
If a Thornton pays, she gets another story.
Baby, go to that party.
This house can wait.
Truth can’t.
Saturday, you get her to say it out loud.
Saturday, non sharp, bring new locks.
We’re closed and you don’t work here.
I know.
I came to give you something.
Before I wiped the camera, I filmed the screen.
All of it.
Move, old lady.
Why give it to me?
Insurance.
Her mother’s my cousin.
I know how they do.
She promised me a job.
Then she blocked my number.
And her mother owes a man in suitland big money.
So that’s why 2 million.
I’m not proud of last Thursday.
Then don’t just send it.
Say it.
Saturday in front of everybody.
Out loud.
You did it out loud.
Out loud.
Cousin, what were you doing in there?
Picking up my last check.
12:05.
Miss Ernis, noon came and went.
You changing the locks on a 77 year old woman on my property?
Yes, ma’am.
Been dressed since 10:00.
Lord, I’m early for everything.
Big mama, are you okay?
Locked out of my own house, baby.
I’m wonderful.
She can’t change her locks without a court order.
Then let’s go tell somebody important.
Fix your hat, Big Mama.
We’re going to a party.
They locked you out of your own house at noon.
I was already dressed.
Tonight, you’ll get a key back.
Two more pins.
Mrs.
Thornon crown’s almost done.
Why is the help still here?
She’s working.
You’re visiting.
Tonight’s my night.
She stays off that stage.
Fine.
Off the stage.
Out my face.
Tama.
Your furniture with a phone.
Babe rink.
[snorts] Take a good look, sweetheart.
Oh, I’m looking.
Naen, walk Mrs.
Ellis and Ayanna to the ballroom.
Tamaja in the live.
I need my fiance alone.
It’s off.
Furniture don’t turn off.
Just us now.
Is there a baby, Bianca?
[laughter] There’s a check, Darius.
That’s the baby.
So, you lied to two million people.
They love a crying girl.
Your mama loves her company.
Tonight, I get paid.
Then we’ll talk [music] wedding.
After you.
[music] 38 years ago, I started on a kitchen chair.
A lady loaned me $200, never paid her back.
Tonight, I keep two promises.
Bianca Pierce, come up.
First promise, an apology.
I’m sorry I didn’t show everyone this sooner.
Mrs.
Thornton, we agreed.
We agreed on a stage.
Naen.
Move, old lady.
That’s edited.
Somebody cut that.
I filmed it.
You told me to wipe the camera.
Mrs.
Thornton, I’m sorry.
I deleted the truth for her.
You said prove it, baby.
There it is.
Mrs.
Pierce, I checked your bank.
No 9,000 withdrawal ever.
That theft report was false.
She still lied about the CPR.
Naen, the 911 call.
30 compressions, two breasts.
Stay with me, runner.
Stay.
I’m still carrying his baby.
Which one?
Your son Graham has two babies from a mommy blog 2021.
[laughter] My assistant printed that.
I didn’t even look at it.
I printed it cuz you told me to.
And I never ended your life.
There’s a check, Darius.
That’s the baby.
[gasps] 1.8 million people heard you.
Bianca Tamia, you’re done.
I quit at furniture.
Tuesday, I wired your daughter 250,000.
Wednesday, 40,000 of it took Mrs.
Ellis’s tax debt.
That’s extortion money, ma’am.
And those locks were illegal.
I’m just her mother.
Charlene Pierce, Bianca Pierce, you’re under arrest for extortion.
And filing a false police report.
Your keys, Mrs.
Ellis.
[music] Thank you, baby.
And Monday, I pay the county my own money.
My sponsors, they’re all dropping me.
And your deposit’s locked up.
It’s evidence now.
But that check, you signed it.
I promised 2 million on this stage.
Never said to who?
And here’s your bus phy back.
Looks like you got a ride.
Babe, please.
I can be better.
Tell them.
You showed me who you are twice.
Mrs.
Thornton, I didn’t know it was you.
That’s the problem.
You were only kind when somebody was watching.
Tonight, everybody was.
Miss Ernes, [laughter] please.
I’ll lose everything.
Bless your heart.
I’ll be praying for you.
Want to say anything to 1.8 million?
Yeah.
Book your braids.
I’m open Monday.
[laughter] Ayanna Ellis, come up here.
2 million for the woman who saved my son.
I don’t take money for doing right, Mrs.
Thornton.
Then don’t take a gift, take a partner.
51% mine.
It’s my kitchen chair.
[laughter] Deal.
[applause] Seat Pleasant 1988.
You’re the $200.
Took you long enough.
Beverly, you knew me Sunday.
Why didn’t you say?
Wanted to see who you are when nobody’s watching.
Dinner.
Just us.
Your terms.
My terms.
Big mama’s table.
Sunday.
You bring the dish back.
[laughter] [gasps] By the way, you still owe me $200 with interest since 1988.
[applause]
