'P-Valley' Recap: Season 1 Episode 4 'The Trap'

This week on P. Valley. Miss Mississippi gets disrespected by a guy Mercedes calls Freckles, a regular at The Pynk. He doesn’t see why he should pay them money to dance for him yet he comes to the club every week. Mercedes steps in, he Is the only guy at the club not throwing money because he does not have money. Freckles say he has money even throws the money on the floor for Miss Mississippi to pick up. A disrespect that gets Diamond to step in. Diamond makes him pick up the money and hand it to the lady when grabs him by the neck before throwing him out of the club.
Before Diamond stepped in, Miss Mississippi already got emotional over Freckle's words, she thinks he is right. Mercedes knows better, she should not let any guy put his weight on her, if he feels a certain way about this place then he shouldn’t be here. Exactly, if you are going to badmouth a stripper why be there in the first place?

Autumn keeps up with her fake identity as Lekisha Savage. She soaked all the money she transferred to herself in alcohol before depositing in a bank. The bank lady can see things are going pretty good at the Pynk since strippers are now making this much. Autumn has an opening balance of 28,675 dollars under Lekisha Savage's name.
Mercedes has to make down payment for her gym by tomorrow or she stands a chance at losing it. Sinclair the sales lady, doesn’t buy Mercedes's idea for a gym, she is not selling anything people want to buy. Mercedes says she would be selling experience and is confident it would sell.
Gidget has been teaching Autumn how to ride the pole, something she can’t seem to get a grasp of. Gidget says working the pole is about knowing your own weight and carrying yourself, you need to learn to trust. Miss Mississippi comes in with her baby and needs Clifford to help babysit but he is not about that today rather he calls Autumn to his office to show her something.
Word about the Casino coming to town has already gone out, Miss Mississippi informs Gidget she heard Clifford talking to Andre in the Paradise room about it and it seems there is nothing Clifford can do, they going to take the land.
Clifford hasn’t gotten an offer from the people behind Promise Land and he needs Autumn to talk to Andre again. Autumn says she can’t, he has pictures of her. Clifford says he has pictures of him too, she shouldn’t go on thinking she is special.
Andre does a presentation in Mayor Tydell’s office and Bill is on the other end of the computer. Andre knows the deal would go through they just need one more signature from the Kyle family but they have an issue with the owner of The Pynk. The property is on the verge of foreclosure but they should offer the owner a price he can’t refuse. Bill says they are not going over the budget to acquire the property else Promise Land Casino would go elsewhere. Tydell wants this deal to go through, he would use his office to speed up the foreclosure in two weeks.
After the call with Bill, Tydell has a one on one with Andre. He is trying to make sure Chocoliza gets this deal for his own credit. Andre should get the Kyle brothers to sign in one week while he handles Clifford.
Mercedes has been trying to reach her mother for the check but it keeps going to voicemail. Meanwhile, Sister Patrice is in church trying to take over the pulpit. The crowd loves her but Pastor Gilfield has a problem with a woman being on the pulpit so he drags her to the back to make her stay in her lane or she might have to find another church.
Mercedes gets a customized necklace from Coach. He can’t come for her last dance tomorrow but he got her the necklace, she can get more if she wants. Coach is still trying to save the damsel.
The girls get to find out through Gidget that The Pynk is shutting down. Clifford tries to say it is nothing but a rumor when Miss Mississippi says she heard him an Andre in the Paradise room talking about the Casino coming to town and Mercedes seals the deal when she enters and says Clifford is a little behind on his mortgage.
Miss Mississippi and Gidget confront Mercedes for knowing about Pynk getting shut down and not telling them about it. Mercedes feels secured, she has been stacking for 7 years while they have been buying bags and making more babies like Miss Mississippi does. Gidget had her whole life set on stripping and Mercedes gives a low blow, didn't her mummy tell hr you can’t strip forever.
Mercedes wasn’t the only one dishing out low blows tonight even Andre had one for Autumn when she comes to apologize to him. Andre is mad at her and tells her to go take care of her kid then be here finding the next guy she wants to screw over. With all the hurtful things he said she said, this was Autumn’s breaking point so she begins to hit him. Andre holds her tight as she cries.

Autumn wakes up the next morning in Andre’s hotel room while he is at a seat beside her bed. Autumn tells him her daughter is dead and Andre is sorry.
It is the morning of Mercedes's final dance.
Autumn makes two 9,000 dollars transfers to Lekisha Savage through Telex.
Uncle Clifford is making wings with cannabis as a spice for the club tonight.
Pynk is packed for Mercedes's last dance. Lil Murda and his guys get to the gate and Diamond want them to wait in line like he did the first episode. Clifford comes out to let his guy through.
Mercedes gets to Pynk. She tries calling her mum again but straight to voicemail. Sinclair needs the check by midnight or she loses her space.
The girls put a little goodbye message in Mercedes's locker for her, memories of their time in Pynk together. They even got her outfit ready thanks to Gidget. Gidget isn’t still talking to Mercedes but she sure put her girl ready for her last dance.
Miss Mississippi knows Mercedes is strong and doesn’t care about what anyone says unlike her, she is just pretty and has no idea what she would do if the Casino buys Pynk.
Lil Murda got the DJ to play his song on Mercedes's last dance but DJ Nevascared is skeptical, he doesn’t want to be slapped with heels outside the club by Mercedes.
Mane came to see Mercedes last dance, he got the fat boy sitting at home with his ankle monitor like he said. While they are talking, Lil Murda jumps into their VIP section, disrespecting Mane and his boys. Mercedes steps in, allowing Lil Murda to speak his peace rather than the beat down Mane and his boys would have given him. Lil Murda just came to wish her all the best in her last dance.
The fight did not happen with Mane and Lil Murda rather with Lil Murda and his friend after his boy called him a punk. Word about Lil Murda and Clifford affairs is getting out, people in Chocoliza talk. To show he is nobody's punk, Lil Murda beats his boy up and Diamond throws them out of Pynk.
Before Mercedes leaves to go talk to her mum she meets Autumn in the locker room. To rattle Mercedes, Autumn says by the end of tonight her locker room is going to be someone else’s. Autumn’s parting words to Mercedes is not to get caught when she is trying to climb back in.
Mercedes arrive at the Gym to hand Sinclair the money, saying her mother would be here with the check. Sinclair gives her the bad news another buyer had put down the money for the Gym. Turns out the other buyer is Patrice. When Sinclair leaves them to deal with themselves, Patrice says the Lord spoke to her to get her own pulpit. Mercedes cannot believe her own mother stole from her and got her gym so this time it gets really ugly. Mercedes has to put her mama down in the streets.
It is Mercedes night after all and the crowd is going wild calling for Mercedes. The show must go on, someone has to go on that stage. Miss Mississippi agrees to go out, she would do it.

DJ Nevascared played Lil Murda's song for Miss Mississippi but Lil Murda hears it from outside the club. The song was for Clifford so Clifford takes him back in to show him how much he means it.
The rest of Lil Murda’s song plays as Clifford and Lil Murda have sex in his office, Miss Mississippi steals the show as the new queen of the pole.
Meanwhile, Mercedes and Patrice are arrested.

Was Mercedes in the right to fight with her mum on the streets?