‘Black Ink Crew’ Recap: Cease & Richard Clash + Donna & Melody Feud over a Client

Sky and Donna quickly make peace.

The episode starts off where it left off: the confrontation between Donna and Sky.

After Sky pushes Donna, they begin brawling. Sky’s wig ends up coming off. Everyone comes to separate them.

“I beat your a*s before and I’ll beat your a*s again, b*tch.” – Donna

Donna is angry that Sky hit her first and says she will always hit Sky back. Sky begs everyone to let her go so she can apologize to Donna who she feels is her little sister.

She breaks down crying.

“Oh my God, I’m so sorry.” – Sky

They go to the bathroom to talk and Donna understands that Sky is really still mourning her latest blowup with Genesis. They hug it out.

“I’ll always have her back no matter what.” – Donna

Richard is still upset about what went down at the party.

So he decides to go see an old friend: Puma.

Once he gets to Puma’s tattoo shop, it’s immediately all love.

In a green screen interview, Richard says that the last straw was Cease not stepping up to stop the gossip about his daughter.

He also feels he should not have allowed Cease to make him cut off his friendship with Puma.

They go outside to talk.

Richard tells Puma what happened at the party.

“That’s crazy in itself, bro.” – Puma

Puma says he’s been in Richard’s shoes before.

Producers flashback to a scene of Cease saying that one of Puma’s children wasn’t his.

With things being so negative, Richard tells Puma that he wants to work at Puma’s shop and leave Black Ink.

“F*ck those a*sholes, you don’t f*ck with my family.” – Richard

Puma says he doesn’t want any drama but he will think about it.

Donna and Melody clash.

Back at the shop, the gang talks about what went down at Richard’s party.

Teddy says it was really messed up they made Tati swab Richard’s daughter.

Tati pulls Melody to the side and says that one of her past clients (Shakira) who didn’t like the tattoo is now saying that Donna is harassing her to fix the tattoo.

“Shady a*s b*tch.” – Melody

Melody immediately walks off to confront Donna.

Donna doesn’t deny hitting up Shakira. She doesn’t see the big deal.

At this point, Melody tells her that she’s not even skilled enough to fix her tattoos.

They been hurling insults back and forth. Melody says that Shakira may not have liked the tattoo at first but she loves it now.

“B*tches love my sh*t at first sight.” – Donna

The conversation heats up even more but Donna decides to walk out the shop. On the way out, she threatens to slap Melody if she says bye to her again. Melody says bye again and Donna scoffs as she exits.

Sky takes Elliott, her gay prospective baby daddy, out to dinner.

She plans to ask him to get her pregnant.

But before she does, she wants to pick his brain first. She asks how tall he is and how big his “manhood” is. She also asks about his favorite positions and last relationship.

“He couldn’t be more perfect.” – Sky

She gets on one knee, and gives him a note in a box that asks if he will be her sp*rm donor.

“I’m thinking turkey baster, no strings attached.” – Sky

“This is a little crazy but I like crazy…I think I’m all in on it.” – Elliott

This excites Sky.

“Let’s do it!” – Elliott

Cease and Richard meet up for a heated conversation.

Richard explains that he feels disrespected about what happened at his party.

But Cease says he had nothing to do with it. Richard says he should have kept the gang in line as the shop owner.

“Black Ink is f*cking toxic to me, so I made my decision. I’ma f*cking go work with Puma.” – Richard

Cease is heated.

“The f*ck you mean you gonna go to Puma?! – Cease

He tells Richard that he’s about to help his enemy but Richard says he’s helping himself.

At this point, Cease starts bringing up all the times that he and the group have had Richard’s back.

“You go to Puma, you’re dead to me. You’re dead.” – Cease

He storms off.

Someone puts Black Ink on blast.

Back at the shop, Cease tells the gang about his heated conversation with Richard.

Teddy thinks he’s betraying Black Ink.

He points out that Richard could work at any other shop so going to Puma’s is a low blow.

Donna says the bright side is they never have to see Nikki again. Everyone laughs.

Tati says some just tagged the shop to an infected tattoo picture on Instagram. The person who tagged the photo claims that she has an infected tattoo from their shop.

Cease says it’s a former client who got a tattoo from one of their guest artists.

He feels she’s a con artist because she got the tattoo a year ago.

Sky and Elliott go shopping for baby clothes.

Elliott wants a daughter and Sky wants another son. She says that’s because boys love their mothers “unless they want to hop across the counter and whoop they momma’s a*s.”

As they shop, they start discussing potential baby names.

Since they have so many of the same desires for the baby, Sky says they should raise the baby together.

He says he’s onboard with that.

They hug and decide to go to a gay club to celebrate with a shot.

There’s more bad news for Cease.

Cease calls a quality control meeting.

He says that after being falsely accused of being responsible for an infected tattoo, he has to make sure all of his shops are up to par.

Melody shades Donna’s black out tattoo.

Donna walks in after the meeting starts.

Tatiana calls for Donna and Melody to do “a set” together. But Melody refuses and says that Donna doesn’t tattoo but just scratch on people.

They start arguing. Donna then threatens to slap Melody.

“F*ck off Donna.” – Melody

Melody storms out the shop.

A woman then comes in the shop and says she wants to get her first tattoo. All the men give her flirty eyes, but she says she heard Cease is the best.

After she walks over to tell him what tattoo she wants, she then hands him a big envelope.

“Cease, you’re being served.” – woman

“What the f*ck?!” – Cease

“But you do great work, baby.” – woman

She the twirls out the shop.

Apparently the woman who said she has an infected tattoo is suing Cease for $50,000. He feels he’s being extorted.

He then sets the papers on fire in a vase.

Tati has a hard time putting out the fire and everyone runs out the shop.

A fire truck pulls up.

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