The Haves and the Have Nots: Paid In Full (4x02)

That's more like it! Last week, I criticized the show for feeling a little slow but the pace sure picked up this week. Kind of. The episode kicked off with Candace opening the door for the police (while Quincy's "body" was a mere few inches away from the door). I don't get the whole "opening the door naked" to spare a few seconds when she goes to change because Jeffery was just standing there frozen in fear, getting nothing done, as she shut the door to get her robe. I guess a reminder of how "outrageous" Candace is? Anyway's her nosy ass neighbor calls the cops on her because there's a car parked in front of her house and she'd like it moved. The cop tells her to move the car now and she gets Jeffery (who's is basically just a breathing, crying, wax figurine at this point) to move it. He goes outside but, oops, it's a stick shift! Jeffery seems like he doesn't know how to operate it but he's pretty good with sticks, right? The cop starts asking Candace questions that he couldn't possibly know if he was just some random cop and it turns out the neighbor who called her in is his mother and has been complaining about the string of men coming in and out of the house or something like that. Just as Officer Justin heads over to help a struggling Jeffery out, he figures out how to work the car and speeds off. He asks Candace if he's okay and Candace makes up some story about his mother catching him in bed with her boyfriend and the cop is like.....lololol okay. They get into an If Loving You Is Wrong cringy Marcie-Brad type of conversation about how he's happily married and she literally just wants to have sex with him (so he won't go after Jeffery). To be honest, I'm not gonna judge her here because y'all know you wouldn't even need to be trying to protect Jeffery to be making the type of offers she was making. He resists and leaves the house.

"She'd get life...or death. It's a joke."

"In poor taste...she's my mother."

"How big is your gun?"

"It's a 9 millimeter"

"9 is good"

Haha, because you're #9, right?

Quita's rice kripy ass is asking her "friends" or Quincy's friends where he's at because he should be back from smoking everyone's asses by now but he's, like, not. She also wonders where someone named "horse" is and it's revealed horse is the guy who Jim hired to slaughter all those people in the finale. It's kind of weird he's calling into the hood when he's rich and can hire a professional but, I mean, a discount's a discount. I don't have the patience for Quita's scene really because her voice/accent is like rat poison. I still can't get "he ain't HERE (pronounced: hee-ya) out of my head. On the other side of town (maybe, we don't know where this damn motel is located) Benny tracks down Hanna (by flirting with the concierges or something - one with no teeth) and tries to explain himself to her and get her back to his house (hahahahaha Tony daddy) but it fails because her head is harder than the effort she puts in to cornrowing her own hair. Is Hanna saying that she doesn't care how Candace got the money, just as long as she tells her how she got it? And if she think Candace will just lie to Benny, what makes her think she'll ever tell her? Hanna stop being difficult.

"Who helped you find that out? Your slimy hoe-ish lawyer?"

-For someone who claims to be so Holy and such a Christian, she sure has a lot of hate in her heart for Candace.

-Btw, Hanna, you don't have a job. Or an income. Your employers are in jail. Have fun finding that out in the morning!

This was fire. On paper, Veronica and Katheryn's scene was a bit on the slower side than we've come to see these women at their height. But the moment Katheryn begins to piece Wyatt's behavior together and connect it to his time in "prison", things begun to pick up. Say what you want about Katheryn, but she's always been a loving and good mother. I think she has a funny way of showing it (you can compare it to the way Veronica, like, sort of loves Jeffery and how she just wants what she thinks is the best for him in her own sick way) but sometimes I can't tell if she's a loving person or just a very scornful person. I remember watching a scene earlier in the show in which her and Amanda were talking about how she didn't want to be a lawyer and Katheryn didn't really give a crap and just told her to stick it out. Anyways, the peak of the scene is Katheryn vowing to raise hell on Jim if he had anything to do with Wyatt being violated. And Veronica's face as she tells her that her father was "ruthless" and how she "is [her] father's daughter" is priceless. She looked like Courage the Cowardly Hoodrat. It was subtle, but it was powerful. I may love psychotic Veronica, but I personally cannot wait for Katheryn to beat the dog shit out of Veronica after she finds out she set Wyatt up.

Jeffery pulls up to a pay phone and call's Wyatt, who is having a blast drinking and dancing around the house. Although Wyatt, being the idiot he is, seems to have forgotten that he arranged with the D.A. to have a test sobriety test done "as soon as possible" so I'm sure that will factor into the next episode. Anyways, Wyatt reminds Jeffery that they have immunity and that he needs to get in touch with the D.A. Jeffery informs Wyatt he's coming over, Wyatt protests that he's having company, Jeffery doesn't gave a damn and comes over anyways. Wyatt is absolutely sick in the head. From "you don't get to watch" to the look of excitement in his eyes when Jeffery says that he's been drinking and driving. At this point I'm almost positive Wyatt is planning on answering the door naked just to tease Jeffery. Although that would be a wonderful scene visually *ahem, Mr. Perry*. Jeffery goes back on the road but is pulled over, surprise surprise, by the same cop as before. This whole time I'm just thinking "how funny would it be if this cop just wanted to hook up with Jeffery????" Maybe it's just because Officer Justin is, well, Officer Justin. Plus Jeffery deserves a little fun. At first it seems like the Officer doesn't remember that Jeffery is the guy leaving Candace's house but he references it so it just seems to be a twist of fate that he's run into him again (although, probably not). He can smell the alcohol on Jeffery's breath and arrests him (after hilariously making him touch his nose).

This next scene is way more complicated. The D.A., who is that one rash the cream can't even get rid of at this point, comes to Jim and David's cell and gets David so she can make a deal with him. She claims "I know you," and that's where things start to get a little muffled from here because right after that we get an "I miss you" from her. So........apparently they had a thing in the past? This only confuses me because I'm almost positive we've had absolutely no allusions to their past together whatsoever and it seems like a random plot device to get the audience to gasp. It doesn't really phase me so much because she's such an underdeveloped character that their past together seems almost irrelevant. Surely they can explore this a little more and bring some meat to the bones (not that I expect us to have a flashback on the level of ILYIW: The Painter) but it just seems too out of the blue. It was funny to see her squirming on top of him and him basically throwing her off, though. She gives him one more chance to take the deal, or sleep with her, I don't really care what she has to say...the point is he says no, she's hurt, and throws him back into the cell with Jim. Jim is apalled that David didn't take the deal because he certainly would have thrown David under the bus if it meant saving his ass. Jim lies about not setting anything up for Veronica but David doesn't by it because Jim "always has a plan to get even." Jim simply just requests him to "punish" her and David says he will as "he sees fit."

-David is the one man in existence who gets burned time after time for staying faithful.

-"I haven't done anything. Nothing." <-------I'll be making an entire post countering Jim's statement in the coming weeks.

I dunno, I just needed another picture with Officer Justin.

The tag at the end is Candace beginning to dispose of Quincy's "body" and as she prepares the garbage bag, Quincy (apparently not dead) reaches for her legs. I don't think she's in any danger unless he's a vampire and can just heal himself quickly because Jeffery stabbed him more times that Pamela Anderson has had work done on her boobs. He stabbed him so many times I had to check my clock during the season finale to see if the episode passed ten o'clock. But didn't I call it last week?!?!!?!?!? I knew they weren't going to kill Quincy, it looked way too easy!!!

EPISODE GRADE: B+

A way more exhilarating episode than last week and it looks as if next week is going to get even better.

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