Ms. Pat Settles It 2x13

1. - Hey, y'all. I'm Ms. Pat.

2. - All rise.

3. - And I know the inside of a courtroom.

4. I'm a convicted felon with a GED.

5. Now I'm sitting on this side of the bench.

6. Y'all are killing me.

7. These are real cases with real money on the line.

8. And I'm bringing my own friends to court as my jury.

9. - What is this, "Looney Tunes"?

10. - Y'all may have started this mess,

11. but I'm going to settle it.

12. - I love this courtroom!

13. - All rise, 'cause court is back in session.

14. - All rise for the judge who can turn a cold case hot,

15. Judge Ms. Pat.

16. - Y'all can have a seat.

17. - All right.

18. - I sure can turn a cold case hot.

19. I got hot flashes.

20. Come on, bailiff.

21. Start bailiffing.

22. - This is the case of Moore versus Moore.

23. You may now enter.

24. - Plaintiff Cortney Moore is suing her sister, Crystal,

25. for $1,500 worth of clothes she said her sister stole,

26. then flaunted it with fit checks on social media.

27. - You ready to pop, ain't you, girl?

28. - Yeah.

29. - Defendant Crystal Moore says that her sister

30. left the clothes at her house after living there rent-free.

31. And last time she checked, Cortney couldn't fit her ass

32. into those fits anyway.

33. - Before we get started, I just want to let you know

34. this is a jury of my peers.

35. I may or may not use them.

36. They're only here because we're going skiing after the show.

37. All right.

38. Cortney, can you please tell me

39. why you're suing your sister?

40. - Because she is a thief.

41. - Ooh. - Mm.

42. - I moved in with my sister for five weeks, the longest

43. five weeks of my life.

44. I left at her house multiple items.

45. And before I could return, she stole, wore, and destroyed.

46. I seen posts on social media of her on vacations, vacations,

47. with all my new clothes on.

48. - Wow.

49. - Why did you move in with her?

50. - I got a 30-day notice that my lease

51. was ending and my building was being sold.

52. So before I could find a new place,

53. my sister insisted that I come stay with her because she lived

54. in a three-bedroom house.

55. So we did.

56. - And how much did she charge you for rent?

57. - Nothing.

58. - And you came with some kids?

59. - Just two.

60. - Just two? - That's it.

61. - OK, Crystal, tell me your side of the story.

62. - I agree.

63. It was the longest time of my life as well.

64. But I was like, girl, stack your money so that you can

65. go get your new place, right?

66. Because that's the Christian in me.

67. I wasn't gonna charge her nothing.

68. - She ain't Christian.

69. - So you would think you would take your stuff

70. with you when you move out.

71. Six, seven months later, I'm like, it's abandoned property.

72. Like, you obviously don't want it.

73. Here we are.

74. I'm being sued for being too nice,

75. honestly, because I don't understand why we're here.

76. - So what did you leave behind?

77. - When I initially moved out, I took all the big stuff,

78. and then I came back for smaller stuff.

79. - Why didn't you take it all with you when you left?

80. - Because I drive a small sedan,

81. so it would have took multiple trips.

82. It took me multiple trips to get it down there.

83. - You drove all the way to the courthouse

84. to file this lawsuit, but you cannot

85. drive to go get your clothes?

86. - Crystal, do you have evidence of what

87. your sister left behind?

88. - Do I?

89. Yes, ma'am.

90. Your Honor, what you want to see?

91. - I want to see everything you brought here.

92. - I mean, she left them.

93. Like—

94. - So is this all the clothes right here?

95. - That's just some of it.

96. There's more clothes in the garage.

97. There's clothes in the room.

98. - Cortney, do you consider your sister wearing

99. your clothes stealing them?

100. - I do, Your Honor, because she popped tags

101. off of new clothes I never wore.

102. - Do you have any proof?

103. - Yes, ma'am.

104. - OK, well, let me see what you got.

105. - I seen on social media my sister wearing my clothes

106. and took them on vacation.

107. - You didn't even miss them until they was on social media?

108. - Well, see, what happened was before this—

109. - So you pretty much know when Black people say

110. "what happened was," you about to tell a lie.

111. - No, Your Honor, I'm telling the truth.

112. And I got pregnant that summer, so I didn't wear any of them.

113. - So she wore them because she didn't get pregnant.

114. - I got pregnant.

115. She got on Ozempic. - Oh.

116. Ooh. - And we met in the middle.

117. - Ooh, OK.

118. - And she started wearing all my stuff.

119. That's not right.

120. - Are y'all jealous of each other?

121. - No, ma'am.

122. - Your Honor, this girl been wanting

123. to be me like me since we was this big.

124. - You got any evidence of that?

125. - Oh.

126. - Oh, she's got receipts.

127. - Aw.

128. - Now, these are pictures from the '80s.

129. Every Black mom— because my daughter

130. got some pictures like this.

131. Ain't nobody copying you.

132. Y'all mama just did to your hair what she did to her hair.

133. And it was just easy to buy the same outfit.

134. This was a sale at Sears and Roebuck

135. that your mama used a coupon with.

136. And it's probably your Easter picture.

137. It's cute.

138. - This is horrible evidence.

139. You could have came up with something better than this.

140. - And them hair bows hanging in your face,

141. that's why so many Black kids are cross-eyed today.

142. Them little hair bows used to put our babies' eyes out.

143. - I think I've seen that outfit in that bag, too.

144. It's in the bag with the other stuff.

145. - All right, help me out here, jury.

146. - You're being ridiculous.

147. She act like she took her stuff and wouldn't give it back,

148. and she never came and got it.

149. I would have wore it, too.

150. And I like that little white outfit.

151. - I do think that that was the rent paid.

152. She probably got a few likes and a few inboxes.

153. - What's y'all sign?

154. - I'm a Scorpio. - Oh.

155. - I'm a Cancer. - Oh.

156. - Too nice.

157. Too dang nice.

158. - She ain't too nice.

159. - How did this damage your relationship with your sister?

160. - Your Honor, it has put a rift in between our relationship

161. because I just feel like she doesn't value my stuff,

162. like everything that I have belongs to her.

163. And that's not the case.

164. - OK, Crystal, what is your relationship

165. with your sister now?

166. - Your Honor, it's strained because she done strained it.

167. Like, I thought we was good. - Mm-hmm.

168. - That's my sister.

169. And then she gonna drag me to court.

170. That's the issue.

171. - Well, I've heard enough, and I'm gonna

172. settle this once and for all.

173. I'm ruling in favor of...

174. The defendant, Crystal.

175. You don't owe her anything.

176. You put your sister up and their kids at no charge.

177. - Yes, ma'am.

178. - Cortney, you left your clothes behind.

179. Finder's fee.

180. You knew your sister was gonna put your stuff on.

181. That's what relatives do.

182. They wear everything except your drawers.

183. - Those too.

184. - Ew.

185. - I do need you to buy her some clothes.

186. But I need it to be some baby clothes—

187. - OK.

188. —because she look like she's a pretty good auntie.

189. - She all right. - All right.

190. That's my ruling. Y'all get out of my courtroom.

191. - Thank you.

192. - Ms. Pat, that's a straight-up lesson,

193. and no good deed goes unpunished.

194. - You got that right.

195. After seven or eight months, you might

196. not want them back anyway.

197. The seat might be dirty.

198. - You just said she had a dirty ass?

199. - She didn't return the wig back to me in the same fashion

200. that I gave it to her.

201. - You told the court that you trimmed the wig.

202. You cut this wig with a chainsaw.

203. - How are you doing, Chris?

204. You got laid since you've been here?

205. - No. My wife's home.

206. I'm monogamous, happy.

207. - You got a wife?

208. - I got a wife.

209. - Why didn't you done tell me that before—

210. - Bailiff, can you start bailiffing?

211. - This is the case of Lampley versus Banks.

212. - Plaintiff Ariyanna Lampley is suing her friend Desirra

213. for $2,287 after Desirra borrowed a wig,

214. then hacked it up with a haircut.

215. Defendant Desirra Banks says her friend is wigging out.

216. The hair was busted to begin with and needed some TLC.

217. To sue her for fixing a wig is downright unbelievable.

218. —so help you God? - Yes, sir.

219. - Ariyanna, tell me why you're here today?

220. - I'm here to sue my best friend for a wig that

221. I let her borrow for $2,287.

222. She didn't return the wig back to me in the same fashion

223. that I gave it to her. It was cut.

224. It was customized to her liking.

225. - Desirra, so tell me your side of the story.

226. - I was running late to go to a fashion show in Philly,

227. and the person that was supposed to do my hair

228. before had canceled on me.

229. So Ariyanna agreed— she said, hey, I have a wig

230. that I can let you borrow.

231. And she got it out her trunk.

232. The wig that she gave me was cut, screwed.

233. It was different layers.

234. I had to revamp it and bring it back to life.

235. - Did she give you permission to—

236. to bring it back to life?

237. - She just said, here, girl, I have a wig that you can borrow.

238. She didn't tell me— - Borrow.

239. —I can't cut it— - Borrow, the—

240. —she said I can't— —the hidden word.

241. First of all, if I paid this much money for a wig,

242. why would I let you alterize it?

243. - How long did you have this wig

244. before you loaned it to her?

245. - Probably, like, four months.

246. - And did you ever wear it before?

247. - I never wore the wig.

248. - You never wore— it was brand-new?

249. - Brand-new.

250. - Was it human hair? - It was human hair.

251. I don't wear nothing other.

252. - So did you cut the wig?

253. - I trimmed it.

254. - You say you trimmed the wig. - Yes, I trimmed it.

255. - How much did you trim the wig?

256. - Probably, like, two, three inches.

257. - Do you have a picture of the wig before, Ariyanna?

258. - Yes, ma'am.

259. - OK, well, let me see what you got.

260. Is that Cher?

261. - Desirra, this is the wig Ariyanna said she gave you.

262. - She didn't give me nothing like that.

263. I don't recall that.

264. - And I told her it was gonna be

265. long on her because I'm 6'1".

266. - She's trying— she's trying to come up—

267. - And she still wanted the wig. - She's trying to come up.

268. Baby, that's not even my style.

269. - Is the wig here?

270. - Yes, the wig is here.

271. - I got to see this.

272. - OK.

273. - Make it happen.

274. - Oh, wait a minute. - Wait a minute.

275. Uh-uh.

276. - I got questions here.

277. - Girl.

278. - Oh, no.

279. - She done made the wig into a whole bob.

280. - That looks like my mom's hair.

281. - Well, I wouldn't even give that to a lady in a casket.

282. - I believe it. - I do, too.

283. - I believe that.

284. - Ms. Pat, those are two totally different wigs.

285. - Different wigs.

286. - That is a bone straight.

287. That is a wave, like a body wave combed out.

288. - Put it on, Kourtlyn.

289. - Man, it looks stiff.

290. - Had you worn that, that's exactly

291. what you was gonna look like.

292. - Exactly.

293. - Take it off, Kourtlyn, before you break out.

294. - You told the court that you trimmed the wig.

295. You cut this wig with a chainsaw.

296. - No, no.

297. I had to give it some body and bring it to life.

298. It was stiff. - Oh, my.

299. - It was dead.

300. - This look like that wig Ike Turner had on.

301. This is ridiculous.

302. - It do look like a Ike wig.

303. - This wig is—

304. - That's not me.

305. —rolling on a river.

306. - So where do you and Desirra go from here, Ariyanna?

307. - I mean, if she take responsibility for her actions,

308. I'll be understanding.

309. She didn't even give me the wig back.

310. She sent it to me in the mail. - Wow.

311. - Mm.

312. - What you think about this, TS?

313. - Oh my God, this is like splitting hairs.

314. I mean, this is the way I feel.

315. I feel that she did give you a 40-inch wig, and maybe

316. you lost it, misplaced it.

317. You had to cop another beauty supply store where

318. you customized it to fit you.

319. And then, sis, you noticed that wasn't your wig.

320. You're like, nah, where my wig at?

321. - I would never wear nothing like that.

322. - I know that.

323. You would turn into a schoolteacher then.

324. - These two wigs

325. switched at birth.

326. - Yup. - Mm-hmm.

327. - Switched at birth, baby.

328. - Any final words you want to say to her before I

329. go make this decision?

330. - I just want things to go back to how they used to be,

331. you know what I'm saying?

332. We did so much amazing stuff together,

333. and I want to continue that. Like—

334. - This cannot come in between us.

335. We worth more than a wig, baby.

336. I really want to squash anything, and I love you.

337. - Aw.

338. - You loaned Desirra a wig out of the trunk.

339. You trusted Desirra to take care of your wig.

340. What'd she do?

341. She chopped it in half and made it look like Gayle King.

342. - Gayle King.

343. - You know what?

344. That's exactly who that is.

345. - Wow.

346. - I've just seen Gayle. - Yeah.

347. - Gayle King. - Wow.

348. - That's it.

349. - With that said, I've come to my final decision.

350. I'm ruling in favor of...

351. The plaintiff, Ariyanna.

352. - Thank you, Your Honor.

353. - Desirra Banks, you are ordered to pay her $1,143.50.

354. I'm gonna give you half because you took it out of your trunk.

355. So I don't know if you had wore the wig

356. a couple of times or what.

357. - Yes, ma'am.

358. - And I hope y'all can put

359. this relationship back together.

360. Give her a hug.

361. - Aw.

362. - Beautiful.

363. All right, y'all can get out of my courtroom

364. because I just settled it. - Thank you.

365. - Thank you, Your Honor.

366. - You are dismissed. - Thank you.

367. - Go on, push Gayle King back there.

368. - So what's going on with my money, with my coin?

369. He was like, bitch, get out of my face or something like that.

370. - He said it. - I went off.

371. - He did all that.

372. I'll reach over there and hit your ass.

373. - I bet you can't, boo.

374. Your arms— them T-rex things.

375. - How are you doing, jury? - Hey.

376. - Doing good. - Hi, boo.

377. - For the record, I don't steal anymore, OK?

378. I don't steal your money.

379. And I'm too old to steal your heart.

380. - I still steal.

381. - That's why they got the deodorant locked up.

382. - Because of me. - Yup.

383. Carmen.

384. - Bailiff, can you start bailiffing?

385. - This is the case of McHeard versus Irvin.

386. You may now enter.

387. - Plaintiff Audrey McHeard is suing her ex-friend

388. and co-worker Chris for $5,000, the amount

389. he was supposed to pay for the car she sold him.

390. Instead, he took the car and ghosted her.

391. But defendant Chris Irvin thinks they're even

392. because he claims Audrey got him fired from his job

393. and that's why he couldn't pay for the ride.

394. How's he supposed to pay up without a paycheck?

395. —the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

396. - Audrey, tell me why we're here today.

397. Tell me why you're here today.

398. I'm here because they paid me to be.

399. - Well, Your Honor, I'm here today because I'm suing

400. my ex-best friend and co-worker because I sold him an S-class

401. 4302007 Mercedes Benz for $6,000,

402. and he only paid me $1,000 and left a balance of $5,000.

403. - OK.

404. Let me hear your side of the story, Chris.

405. - We were formerly working at a job together, and I was fired.

406. The reason why I'm here today is because she was the reason

407. why I was fired, which is why I couldn't pay her back

408. the money for the car.

409. - Do you have a picture of this car?

410. - I do.

411. - Oh, this is nice.

412. So you sold that to him for $6,000?

413. - Yes. - He gave you $1,000.

414. - $1,000, a stack.

415. - OK, a stack.

416. I know what that is.

417. Did y'all have a contract or IOU or "I'm gonna pay you,"

418. a bill of sale, anything?

419. - No, it was just a verbal agreement.

420. You know, we worked together.

421. We were seeing each other every day.

422. You know, I didn't think it was gonna to an issue or a problem,

423. because I'm like, this is my friend.

424. You didn't see me without him.

425. You know, we was like two peas in a pod.

426. So when he got fired, you know, he just went MIA.

427. He went ghost— number changing, Instagram change.

428. I mean, I feel like a private investigator at this point.

429. - So what was the time frame he was

430. supposed to pay you back in?

431. - He was gonna pay me, like, 5, and then he was gonna

432. pay it off during tax season.

433. That was, like, four months away from the agreement date.

434. - He's supposed to give you $500 every two weeks.

435. Did he miss the first payment?

436. - Yes.

437. - Chris, you missed the first payment?

438. - Yes, ma'am, I did. - So—

439. - But I was not able to pay it just because due to I

440. had got fired from my job.

441. And things just started to spiral out of control for me.

442. - So what did she do to get you fired?

443. - I didn't get him fired.

444. He was trying to give some customers a hookup,

445. you know what I'm saying?

446. And then he got caught up.

447. And so that ain't got nothing to do with me.

448. - Lies. - You know what I'm saying?

449. - Not true.

450. I was actually trying to look out

451. for her because the club that we worked at

452. was very expensive.

453. And somebody had walked out.

454. When a customer walks out on you, you have to pay that tab.

455. Me being her friend, I was trying to make sure that she

456. didn't have to pay it back.

457. And so I went out to get the payment from them.

458. My manager said that following a customer

459. outside was unprofessional, and they thought I was

460. trying to do something funny.

461. - So I don't even care why you got fired.

462. I care more about why you didn't

463. pay the girl for the car.

464. Can you tell me why you went ghost on her?

465. - Big scammer.

466. - Whew.

467. I was trying to make my way the best that I could,

468. just try to put food on my table.

469. So I was still bartending at certain places and stuff

470. like that.

471. I just wasn't breaking even at the time

472. to be able to pay her back or really pay any of my bills

473. at the time.

474. - I haven't seen him in about a year now.

475. And the last time I saw him, oh, let me tell you,

476. he was in the club popping bottles.

477. I see him, this—

478. and I walked up to him to confront him, like,

479. where you been?

480. What's the deal?

481. What's going on with my money, with my coin?

482. He was like, bitch, get out of my face or something like that.

483. - He said it. - I went off.

484. - He said it. - He did all that.

485. - Then what happened? - Then what happened?

486. - Then— I'm not gonna lie.

487. I swung on him, because you're not gonna call me out my name.

488. But it scared.

489. You ducked and dodged out? - I did.

490. - Just like you didn't pay me. - You just weren't good enough.

491. Your arms— them T-rex things, baby, you can't—

492. - I bet I—

493. I'll reach over there and hit your ass.

494. - I bet you can't, boo.

495. - So do you still have the car?

496. - I do not.

497. - Where is the car?

498. - I sold the car.

499. - You sold the car? - Sold it?

500. - To who?

501. - Audrey McHeard is suing her ex-friend Chris Irvin

502. for $5,000 after he failed to pay

503. for the car she sold him.

504. To top it off, Chris sold the car to someone else.

505. Ms. Pat is about to ghost ride this case on home.

506. - You sold the car?

507. - You sold it? - To who?

508. - How you sell something that ain't yours?

509. - For how much?

510. - I sold the car for $2,500.

511. - Wow. - What?

512. What is wrong with you?

513. - I sold it because at the time,

514. I was falling so short under everything.

515. I was losing my apartment.

516. Unfortunately, that was the only thing

517. that I had was worth of value to try to keep me in a space

518. where, you know, I was able to stay afloat.

519. - You're gonna need a bodyguard after this.

520. She gonna beat that purple off you.

521. - Sure will.

522. - So my thing is you should have gave it back.

523. You couldn't afford the car.

524. All you had to do was be honest.

525. - I really didn't know how to.

526. And that's not a excuse.

527. But that's just really the truth.

528. - Looking back, what would you have done different?

529. - I would have had a written agreement.

530. - Mm-hmm.

531. - A damn attorney sitting right there.

532. - And better aim when you punch.

533. - Yeah.

534. - Where do you want things to go from here, Audrey?

535. - I really want Chris to pay me for my car.

536. I still care about my friend.

537. I really wish we can, you know, get back

538. where we was and, like, learn from this

539. and just never cross each other again,

540. you know, on that type term.

541. - Chris? - Yes?

542. - Final remarks. What do you think?

543. - I just want to say, I apologize,

544. and I didn't mean to hurt you.

545. But I was going through a tough time,

546. and I could have— you know, I could have handled it better.

547. - Do you have your own car now, Chris?

548. - No, ma'am. - So you don't work?

549. - I do work. Yes, ma'am.

550. - Where do you work?

551. - I am an accountant at a car dealership.

552. - At a car dealership?

553. - Wait.

554. - Oh, my goodness.

555. - And with that said, I've come to my decision,

556. and I'm gonna settle this once and for all.

557. I'm ruling in favor of...

558. The plaintiff, Audrey.

559. Chris, you need to pay her $5,000.

560. - Yes, ma'am.

561. - I hope y'all can repair this friendship.

562. Chris needs you in his life because he can't fight.

563. I just settled it.

564. Get out of my courtroom.

565. - If you'll hug, I'ma hug you.

566. - Aw.

567. - Aw.

568. - Too bad they can't date.

569. - I'm just really— actually, I'm in a good mood.

570. I just bought this 2007—

571. - Mercedes Class S for $2,500!

572. - Next time, on "Ms. Pat Settles It"...

573. - I'm suing my sister for not paying me

574. rent for five months.

575. - Everybody know family don't pay.

576. When I sold crack, I didn't even sell to my sister

577. because she never had $10.

578. She had $9.

579. How many stars was this hotel?

580. - 3 out of 10.

581. - You ain't never been nowhere, little girl.

582. It's only five stars. - Oh.

583. - 3 out of 10?

584. - I did knife her car.

585. - Wow.

586. - If she don't want to love me,

587. then she ain't gonna have to love her car either.

588. - Hey, how are you going to judge them?

589. Didn't you drive a car through your baby daddy house?

590. - I'm the judge, and shut the hell up.