Solid Snake! I need your lawyering brain

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Snek! I need your help with some legalese and I am doing it public because I am hoping this could help other people in a similar situation and I hope you may have some knowledge i can use.

My friend (to protect his id we shall name him Jack) is living in Tennessee with his friend Roy (name changed) and Roy's Girlfriend Alice (see Roy). Alice's mom is not a nice woman, controlling, vile, vindictive and manipulative and a down right nasty person and had kept apart Roy and Alice until Alice moved out and signed a lease with Roy and Jack to live in a small apartment. Fast forward to today and Alice's mom comes in to the apartment with two cops because she (the mom) had said that Alice was being threatened by two guys, (Jack and Roy).

I can attest to my friend's character and I know he is harmless. This woman has been manipulating her daughter from since she was out of the womb. In doing so, Alice took out the Jack and Roy's rent (700 dollars) and is now screwed. Seeing as she is on the lease, is there anything they can do legally to get the money back?