- Will meets this cosplay girl named Cherry from Thailand.
- I've already applied for my passport.
I'm ready to roll, man.
[dramatic musical spike]
- That was sketchy, first of all.
- It could be a hustle. - It could be anything.?
- I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm scared.
- I have no clue what's about to happen.
- You gotta be ready for anything.
[bell chimes] - Oh.
- Ooh. Oh, uh, hello?
- Oh, God.
[upbeat music]
- This is it. We're really doing it.
Leaving the house. [chuckles]
Go film an episode of "Catfish."
This is very exciting.
I mean, I'm just so happy
we could finally make this work.
Obviously we all got tested.
To the "Catfish" HQ.
- I'm officially outside of our office.
Excited to be here.
Something, like, semi-normal, I guess.
Oh.
- Hey! - Ahh!
[chuckling] You scared me.
- What's up? - We're not allowed to hug.
- What? - We can, like, foot-bump.
- Look at this, look at this. - This is what we're doing now.
- Can we touch butts? - This is the new normal.
I think so.
Mine's big enough to be 6 feet apart from you.
- Hey! - [chuckles]
- Biggie. - It's Uncle Nev!
- We've never actually met. Look at this guy.
Hey. - God, we're back.
Oh, my God. [cork pops]
- Hey! [cheers]
We're back! - Yay!
Oh! [breathes deeply]
- All right, here we are. - Cheers to that.
- We're officially in each other's bubbles.
So we can hang.
All right. [claps]
You ready? - I think so.
- Well?
- I don't even know how to act. - I know, right?
It feels just like, uh--
- It's like homecoming
with the person that your mom made you go with.
- Right. Who makes the first move?
- What do we do? Do you wanna drink?
- Yeah. [chuckles]
All right. Let's read an email.
"Hey, Nev and Kamie.
"My name is Terry.
"I'm reaching out to you
because my friend Will has gone and lost his mind."
- Ooh. - "Over a girl named Cherry
he met six weeks ago on social media.
- ♪ You can call my name ♪
- "Cherry and Will are both into cosplay
"where people dress up as their favorite characters
in comics or movies."
- ♪ Like cops and robbers on the TV show ♪
♪ You come to look and wear it all ♪
- "Will initially reached out to her
"because he wanted to buy some pictures of her
dressed up as a character." - Mm?
- ♪ And you can use any Russian disguise ♪
- I guess that is a thing. - I think it's fun.
- "One thing led to another
and now they talk just about every day."
- ♪ Call my name ♪
- "Cherry lives in Thailand."
[chuckles] "Which is a red flag to me."
- Yes.
- "But it's also an added complication.
"He says she tries to video chat with him,
"but it's always in the middle of the night
"when he's sleeping.
"I told Will I was concerned
"but he's a grown man and can make his own choices,
but he's sending her money."
- Mm? - "Which is stupid to me.
"But again, it's his life.
"What made me reach out to you
is Will is suddenly saying he's moving to Thailand."
[tense notes] - In this climate?
- "If this girl is real, then I'm happy for my friend
"and I hope he'll love life in Thailand,
"but I know something is messed up here
"and he's moving too fast.
"I think she just likes his money,
but Will won't listen to reason."
- ♪ It's cops and robbers on the TV show ♪
♪ You come and look and wear it all ♪
- "Can you help me get through to him?"
Let's text Terry.
"Hello, Terry.
This is Nev and Kamie."
[notification chimes] There it is.
- Boom. - The link is sent.
- There's so many people who do cosplay.
Like, TikTok has opened me up. I'm on cosplay TikTok.
And there's tons of people who are doing it
so there's tons of people who are taking these photos.
So it could be that "Cherry" is catfishing him
and just taking photos from other cosplay people.
- Right. Oh, for sure.
[bell chimes]
- Hi! - Oh!
- Can--can you hear me?
- Hey. - Yes!
- What's up, Terry? - Hey, how you doing?
- All right. - Good. How are you?
- Look at his guy. His smile. He's all smiles.
- I'm a happy person. [chuckles]
- How's it going, man? Where you at?
- So I'm in Columbus, Georgia.
- How do you know Will?
- We met through a mutual friend.
And that's when we both figured out
that we both love music, we both love film,
and that's where the bond formed.
- Is cosplay something Will's been into for a long time?
Like-- - I got into it before he did.
And once he got into it, he really dove into it.
- Oh. Does he go to, like, the conventions...
- Yes.
- And, like, the cosplay things?
- Mm-hmm. - Ah, that's fun. Wow.
- It is.
- Your email, you talked about how Will's been talking to you
about some girl that he met.
What do you know about her?
- She's in Thailand.
And I started to really, really, really get concerned
- So what's up with Will? Is he just, like, naive?
- I mean, I would consider Will to be one of my best friends,
but he hasn't FaceTimed her or video chat or anything.
And now, he wants to go over there.
- But is he just talking about going out there to see her
or is he talking about moving?
- Like, it made me nervous.
I can understand getting a passport.
But when he got
his international driver's license...
[tense notes] That made me a little nervous.
Like, "Dude, what you need a driver's license for?"
That's the other side of the planet, you know?
That's why I write into y'all.
'Cause I don't know what else to say to him.
I just want my brother to be happy.
- All right, well, how do you think Will's gonna react?
- I mean, he knows I've contacted y'all,
but I don't think he was gonna--
it was gonna make it this far.
- What do you think the best way to approach this is?
- I got the perfect thing. Hell, I'ma call him.
- He's gonna be hoodwinked.
[line trilling]
- Bro.
- Hey, you busy?
- That project that we were working on
that you had me putting the music behind?
- I need you to come check on some stuff for me.
Make sure it's straight.
- All right.
- Oh, you smooth, Terry. - Wow.
- You done this before. - [laughs]
- My God.
- Will's on his way over to your place now?
- Mm-hmm. I mean, he stays, like, literally
three to five minutes from me, so.
- What do you think the probability
of this girl being legit is?
- Probability is slim to none.
It is always excuse after excuse after excuse.
I'm like, "Uh-uh."
[door hinge creaks]
All right. You guys ready?
- Ready.
- Yo!
- Will!
- [chuckles]
- What's up, man? - What?
- Hello, Will. - What's up?
- Oh, my God. He set me up.
- [chuckles] - Set you up.
- Come on in.
- Oh, man. - Surprise!
- What's up, man? - Hey, how's it going, y'all?
- You know who we are, right? - Yeah.
- Terry told us you guys like to go to comic conventions.
- Mm-hmm.
- When did you guys get into cosplay?
- I host a podcast and in order to get exclusive interviews,
I had to start going to conventions.
But you know, at those cons, there's cosplayers everywhere.
And I also do videography
and I networked with one of the videographers.
But when I friended her,
my friend recommendation completely changed.
Like, no longer local people. - Mm.
- And I see Cherry in there one day
and like, "Whoa, who's that? She's cute. She's pretty."
I friend requested her, she added me,
and this is where we started kind of communicating.
She posted she was selling, like, these Polaroids.
So I bought, like, two or three photos from her.
- And did you get them? - I got 'em.
- And they came from Thailand?
- They came from Thailand, but I can't read the address.
- You chose the photos you wanted or were you just, like--
- I got to choose the photos.
There was, like, nine photos up and I chose three.
- So the photos had already been taken?
[suspenseful music]
Interesting. - Flag.
- Come on, Kamie. You have my back?
Come on. - Red flag.
- I didn't even say anything. It's--Terry is speaking for me.
- [chuckles]
- Did you have to use her full name
in order to send the money?
- MoneyGram says it has to be the name on the ID
and it was a different name that's on the Facebook.
- Okay.
Well, so what's her name on Facebook?
- On Facebook, it's Zo Mari.
- But so--but she did give you her, like, ID name?
- ID name, yes.
She said it's pronounced Rujapha.
- So wait. So what's Cherry?
Where's you get Cherry from?
- Cherry I'm assuming is her English generic name.
- Interesting. - Huh.
- So three names.
Ain't nobody gonna name themselves Beam.
- Yeah. - Wait.
Wait, who's Beam?
- Beam, is I'm assuming her friend.
She, like, tags her on everything,
comments on her page all the time.
I don't know Beam.
- Where in Thailand does she say that she lives?
- Udon Thani. - Okay.
- So you're pretty excited about this?
This girl, this relationship? - Yeah, definitely.
- But you still ain't seen the chick or video chat.
- I mean, it's a big time difference, man.
- So? - Right.
That's a big time difference,
but 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. your time,
that's 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. her time, so...
- Mm-hmm.
- Surely there are ways to make it work.
- Yeah, I mean, we've talked on the phone before,
you know, around that time, but--
- Okay, so you have talked on the phone?
- On Facebook Messenger, yes.
- Do you guys talk often or-- - We do it a lot.
- And does she have an accent at all?
- When she speaks English, yes.
- And what are your conversations like?
- "I like you, I wanna see you, you're beautiful."
We talk about cosplay, we talk about movies.
She compliments me and stuff. I compliment her.
- Do you guys say "I love you"?
- I've said it twice, she's said it once.
- Wow. - So--wow.
- How long have you guys been talking?
- Uh, I would say about two months, maybe.
2 1/2 months.
- Like every day though, pretty much?
- Every day except for when she vanishes.
- Vanishes?
- After I sent her the MoneyGram,
she sent me the stuff.
The next day,
she told me she had to go to the hospital
and I didn't hear from her for a couple of days.
- Why did she go to the hospital?
- She says she had, like, flu-like symptoms.
- "Flu-like symptoms"?
- And then a second time when I sent her some more money,
I bought a costume that I wanted her to cosplay in.
So I sent her that and she went to the hospital again.
- [chuckling] - Come on, Kamie. Stop.
- I didn't even say it, I didn't even say it.
- Have my back. - Okay.
Did she ever send you pictures of her in the costume?
- No, she hasn't. - [scoffs]
- But is that it?
Or was there more things that have gone down?
- I did send her money for another costume of her choice
and I did send her money,
you know, to, like, get something to eat one day
since I felt like I can't romantically take her out
on a date, here's money to get you something to eat for lunch.
- Now you're thinking about moving to Thailand?
- Well, I've already applied for my passport,
got the international driver's license.
I'm ready to roll, man. - [chuckling]
- Kamie. [chuckles]
- I ain't feeling any of it, bruh.
'Cause what if she ain't who she say she is?
- But, see, I need Kamie to have my back, though,
because if it is her,
when women need help or they need advice,
who they go to? The other women.
They become the board of directors.
So I need Kamie to be on my side.
- The board of directors.
Oh, you already have it set up. Okay, I see.
- Yeah. [chuckles]
- Can you show us a picture of her?
- Yeah. - Oh, here we go.
Okay, let's see.
- Cherry. - Oh, hello.
- Cherry. - Wow, cute.
- Whoa. - Yeah, she's beautiful.
- These are, like-- yeah, these are consistent.
They all look the same.
You guys send a lot of pictures.
- This is the Polaroids I received.
- Oh, cute. - Mm.
- Yeah. From Thailand.
- What if the Cherry that you know
is not the girl in the pictures?
Does that matter? - Uh, yeah, it matters.
That's a bald-faced lie.
- [softly] Mm.
- Dang, Kamie. - I got your back, man.
I'm rooting for you.
I think from what I've seen and what you've shown us, like,
I am honestly leaning towards her being her right now.
♪ ♪
- I'm gonna be optimistic... - [groans]
- And say I'm on a 60/40. - Kamie.
- 60 catfish, 40 her? - That's optimistic.
- Those are good odds for this show.
[laughter]
All right, so look, just send us
everything you have for Cherry. - Okay.
- And let's go down this rabbit hole and see what we find.
- See you soon, Will. - Kamie, you're gonna change.
You're gonna root for me. - [laughs]
I'm working on her. I'll work on her.
- [chuckling] We'll see, we'll see.
- You're gonna root for your boy.
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
- I don't know.
I mean, look, of course, red flags.
But I gotta say, much more evidence
suggesting she could be real than I expected.
You got photos in an envelope from Thailand.
- Yes.
People are crafty, Nev. - I guess.
- I don't put it past Cherry to be playing him,
but what is she playing him for?
What is the game?
- All right, Kamie.
We're not supposed to get that close,
so I thought maybe we can just put this up.
- This reminds me of the nail salon.
This is exactly how it is at the nail salon.
- [chuckles]
- Now I have a barrier if I want to punch you.
- See? - I can't get to you.
- We can--we can almost-- - Safety.
We can almost-- - Aww, we can, like, hug.
That's depressing. Take that down.
- Yeah, all right. - [chuckles]
- All right, let's do some research.
- Biggie, you ready? - [barks]
- All right, we got Will.
Through his cosplay friendships,
ends up meeting this girl, Cherry, from Thailand.
Hit it off.
He sees that she's offering
Polaroids of herself in costume, so he buys a few.
They come from Thailand in an envelope.
Legit. - Allegedly.
- Anyway, they keep talking more and more
and more and he's getting really excited.
Problem is-- - It's suspicious.
- There are some red flags. - Right.
- All right, well, look.
If this girl is a cosplayer who has some notoriety,
shouldn't be that hard to find her.
All right, so we got an email from Will.
"Hi, Nev and Kamie.
"Here's what I've got for you on Cherry.
"Her legal name is Rujapha [bleep].
"I told her I was going to send her a present
"and she said this was her address.
"I'm sending you some pics
"but there are a lot in my Facebook messages
so I'm sending you my login so you can choose."
Okay, great. So we can just go in for him.
"Cherry's Facebook is here and if you have any questions
"or you need something else from me, you can hit me up.
And now I'm glad you guys are helping figure this out."
- All right. No problem, Will.
- Let's do an image search and see what comes up.
[suspenseful music]
- I feel like it's gonna come right up.
♪ ♪
- All right. So nothing there.
All right, let's try this one.
♪ ♪
And no.
Look, if these pictures
were on some famous cosplayer's website,
they would probably come up,
so the fact that they're not coming up
I think is actually good.
So here's her legal name-- the name he sent the money to.
And let's just do a little searchey-searcharoo.
Okay, nothing.
I mean, I guess we can just put her whole address in, right?
- Yeah. - See exactly where she lives.
- Mm-hmm.
♪ ♪
Oh, right there. - Here's satellite.
This looks like more of an industrial part of town.
I mean, I think we probably
just don't have the address formatted correctly.
- Or she sent him a random address
because she didn't want him to have her home address.
- Definitely a possibility. All right, so what else?
- Facebook?
- Okay, so here's Cherry's Facebook page
where she goes by Zo Mari. - Mari.
- There's some writing in what I presume is Thai.
- Mm-hmm.
- Here are some photos that she's posted.
One of a bird.
Okay, here's a weird receipt for, like, a bank transaction.
Not sure what this is for.
Has comments. Okay, what is that?
- [gasps] - It's always the other way.
- So it's the 12th of November...
both: 1963.
- So that date would probably be a birthday, right?
- So maybe the person that Will is talking to was born in 1963?
- That's not good.
- Oh, there's Beam.
Terry talked about her friend, Beam.
- Oh, yeah.
So let's putting up Beam's page.
Who's Beam? Let's look at these pictures.
- Ah! - Whoa.
Same bird with the string.
- Why would that be on her page?
That's weird.
- I feel like we should message her.
- Yeah, that's supposed to be, like, her close friend.
- "Hey, Beam." All right.
So let's just go through Cherry's Facebook page
and take a look at her posts.
- Here's a picture of her, I guess?
- Mm-hmm. - In warrior--
- That looks like the same outfit she sent to Will.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure.
And here's a picture of her
in sort of regular street clothes.
- Mm-hmm. - She's got bunch of comments.
Most of them are in Thai.
Oh, wait a second. Here's one in English.
"Will u be my sunshine heart?" - Justin?
- And then--look, another one.
Michael says, "Beautiful, heart, heart."
So who are these random white guys
commenting on this girl's page?
Are they also talking to her? - Mm.
- And are they also sending her money to buy costumes?
- Let's ask Justin and Michael.
- Yeah, let's talk to these guys.
Okay, here's a message for Justin.
I'm gonna copy/paste that.
I'm gonna send it to the other guy, Michael.
All right, sent. What else do we have?
Let's just log into his account, I guess,
and go through their messages. - Mm-hmm.
- Okay, now we're logged into Will's page
and here is their conversations.
Wait, what is this? - Ooh?
- He said, "Can you call me? I haven't heard from you.
You haven't told me what's going on."
She said, "I have problems with someone.
"I have to clear first.
About money. Crying." Strange.
- Wait, you don't think that that's fishing for something?
"I'm having money problems"? - Mm.
- Wait, Beam messaged back. - Whoa, she did.
She said okay.
"Cool.
"We were wondering about your friend Zo Mari.
Are you guys close?"
- You know, they both had that same damn bird on their pages.
What if Beam and Zo Mari/Cherry are the same?
- Well, we're gonna have to find that out eventually, so.
[notification chimes] - Uh, she responded.
- "Of course. I know her more than herself."
- Of course she does. 'Cause it's her.
Can she Zoom?
- "Great.
Can you meet us in a Zoom call?"
- Feel like she's gonna be like,
"Actually, I'm just about to go into work,
so unfortunately, I cannot." [notification chimes]
- Oh. - [gasps]
- She says, "I'm driving so can you wait 15 minutes?"
"Okay, sure."
- You believe her? - Yeah.
I think she's gonna call us.
She didn't want to talk to us,
she wouldn't have responded right away.
- She's gonna drive right on over to disappear-land
and vanish into thin air.
- All right, so let's go back to their messages.
I mean, he's calling her a lot.
- I mean, he's calling somebody.
We don't know if it's her.
- For, like, almost three days,
he's called her, like, a lot and she never answered.
- She must not have been responding to him
this whole time and now he's blowing her up.
- He paid another $24 he sent.
Whoa, he sent a lot of money. This was $136.
She said, "Thank you so much."
and he said, "You're welcome, feeling any better?"
- And she said, "You don't have to send money for me
any more like that."
- And he said, "Why?"
- "I'm afraid you think I'm fooling you."
Do you think that this is an admission of guilt?
And then I guess he got the pictures she sent.
- Uh-huh.
Doesn't that look like the same pictures?
- You mean from the profile pics?
- Yeah. - Hold on. Let's see.
Yeah, that's definitely that one, right?
- Mm-hmm. - Five.
And that's six. - Yep.
The person could've taken a picture of all these pictures
on their Polaroid and just printed it out.
- Or just downloaded them. - Yes.
- And I have one of those little Polaroid printers
that, like, you just sync with your phone.
- Mm-hmm. [notification chimes]
- Oh, what was that? - Ooh. [gasps]
- Beam.
- "Sorry, can't talk now. Maybe later."
Spoiler alert: I'm not surprised.
Now she's just gonna disappear.
- We'll just have to see how it goes.
- Something weird is going on.
I really think Beam could be Cherry
and maybe she's feeling bad
because she knows she's not the girl in the pictures
and she knows
that he's really falling for the girl in the pictures.
- Could be a possibility.
Either way, Will is considering
moving to a very faraway, distant place
to be with this girl. - Mm-hmm.
- And even if Cherry is real, everything else could be fake.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[line trilling]
- Oh, Beam. Cherry's friend.
Hello. - Hi, hi.
- Hey, what's up, Beam? Thank you for calling me.
So do you know the show that I make, "Catfish"?
- Oh, okay. Great.
We're trying to help a guy
who's been talking to your friend Zo Mari.
- Oh, that's your best friend?
- Has she ever told you that she's talking to a guy,
like, in the United States?
- Uh...
[dramatic music]
- No, he--he bought her pictures,
but they've been talking... - Oh.
- And I think he thinks they're, like, maybe dating.
Is she--does she have, like, a boyfriend?
- Does she have a boyfriend?
- Oh. Oh, okay.
- Okay, bye.
♪ ♪
So weird.
I just got that call
in the midst of rehearsing for "Dancing with the Stars."
- [laughs] - Here's Jen.
So--
- That was sketchy, first of all.
- That was weird, right? - The friend is totally her.
- [sighs] I have no idea what just happened.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Ooh, we're back.
- COVID tested once again.
Proof.
♪ ♪
- Okay, so last night-- it was actually at rehearsal.
- Uh-huh.
- This phone starts making a sound I don't recognize
and it's Beam.
- I thought she couldn't talk.
- Well, apparently, she could talk.
Unclear how much of a sort of language barrier there was,
but she said, "Cherry's my best friend."
I was like, "Oh, okay, cool."
But essentially, I was like, "Is Cherry in a relationship?"
and she paused,
she didn't really answer right away,
and then she said, "Do you want to buy pictures?"
But I said, "No, no, no,
"I want to know if she's got a boyfriend.
Is she in a relationship?"
And that's when I got the classic,
you know, "I'm sorry, I don't know, I gotta go."
and she, like--and it ended weirdly and abruptly.
- So we don't know if Cherry has a boyfriend,
we don't know if Cherry's talking to Will,
and we don't have any pictures.
- I'm also not convinced of Cherry and Beam--
[sighs] aren't the same person.
The more I think about it,
the more I think you could be right.
- Plus we still don't know who picked up that money.
Was it someone born in 1963? What was with that receipt?
- All right, let's get Will back.
♪ ♪
- [whispering] We've got something to show you.
[bell chimes] - Hey, guys.
- Yo. - Will.
- What is up, man? - Nothing much, man.
Just, you know, nervous.
Didn't get much sleep last night.
You know, I hope this is her.
I'm hoping for the fairy tale ending.
You know, now, I want my happiness, you know?
I want my happy ending.
- Well, we don't have any answers yet,
but let me show you what we found.
- Okay.
- We did go to Cherry's Facebook page.
- Mm-hmm. - Zo Mari.
To just look a little bit more closely
at who's commenting on these pictures.
Obviously, a lot of them are in Thai
and we're not really sure what they say,
but there are a couple comments.
One here from Justin
that says, "Will u be my sunshine heart."
[suspenseful music]
And then again, here's another one from someone named Michael.
"Beautiful, heart, heart." Who are these guys?
We messaged both of them.
Neither of them have responded. - Mm-hmm.
- So that just sort of made us wonder, like,
is it possible that she flirts with Western men
who obviously are into her and might it be possible that
like you, those guys often want to be helpful
and win her heart with money, gifts?
- Oh, man, Nev, now you taking me back down again.
- Well, buckle up. We still have more to go.
- Oh, God. - Okay.
So the last thing we looked at on Cherry's page
was this photo that she posted of a receipt
for, like, some weird exchange of money.
- The receipt was just kind of weird.
Like, the date says 1963. - Yeah.
- I don't know if it's a birthday
or if her mom picked up that transaction,
but, like, why would it say 1963?
- I mean, do we think you're talking to a 57-year-old?
- I hope not, but it's possible.
- And on that post, we noticed Beam had commented.
So we just wanted to see who this Beam girl was.
And they're very similar in their vibe and location.
I messaged her.
I asked her if-- are you good friends with Zo
and she said, "Of course. I know her more than herself."
And I asked her if she could talk.
All of a sudden, she says, "Sorry, I can't talk now.
Maybe later."
I went to a dance rehearsal
and I got a video call as you can see here.
- Mm-hmm. - From her.
And it was her. We talked.
And she spoke English.
Not great, but pretty well.
And I said, "Hey, you know, we're making this show,
"we're trying to help our friend.
He's been talking to your friend Zo Mari."
And she said, "Oh, yeah.
Zo Mari-- that's my best friend."
And then when I sort of asked her about Zo Mari
on her having a boyfriend,
she got weird and asked me if I was trying to buy photos,
which of course was also sort of strange
and then said she had to go.
And it just left me super-confused
because sometimes, that's just a friend
sort of not wanting
to put their friend's business out in the world
and that's fair, but sometimes it's also--
- Covering up. - Right.
- You and Beam have never spoken one-on-one.
- Mm-mm. No.
- And the fact that Beam is acting so strange
makes us wonder, "Is this, like,
some scam thing that goes on we just don't know about?"
Because the fact that you've sent her money
for these costumes and she's never sent you a picture
of herself in the actual costume
suggests that maybe she's not actually taking pictures
and sending them to anyone.
Something's up with this girl.
- I was very enthusiastic yesterday
when we first heard the story.
I was like, "Oh, my God, this is her."
And based on the phone calls and the messages,
like, it felt really good.
But then a weird conversation with Beam
and the evidence that we found, like,
it's just hard for me to know exactly
what Cherry's intentions are. - Mm-hmm.
- ♪ Trying all the time ♪
♪ Code for everything ♪
- I'm all over the place right now,
'cause, like, it could be a hustle.
It could be anything, you know?
I'm just so lost and confused.
- ♪ Any little thing you want ♪
♪ Any little thing at all ♪
- I'm just as confused as you.
It really is 50/50. There's no guarantee.
And if you haven't been able to get Cherry to show her face,
how are we gonna be able to get that to happen?
- I'm just so lost and confused.
♪ ♪
- I'm all over the place right now.
I'm just so lost and confused.
- I'm just as confused as you.
And how are we even going to get Cherry to show her face
if you haven't been able to get that to happen?
- I guess we just ask. [notification chimes]
She just messaged me literally right now.
- I was like-- I thought it was our computer.
- Yeah. - What was that?
- She just said, "I'm okay now,
so don't get mad or think a lot, okay?"
- What was your last message to her?
- This morning when I woke up, I said,
"Morning. I just woke up. Hope you been doing okay."
- Okay, and so she said, "I am okay."
- Well, it's showing she's active.
Should I go ahead and-- - Message her back.
- Yes, okay.
- I mean, who are we talking to?
Is it Beam?
Is it Cherry? It could be anybody.
"Hey, did Beam tell you that someone reached out to her?
"I asked a show to help me contact you
and find out who you are." [chuckles]
- Hopefully, she's not easily offended.
- "Beam told me that a strange man from TV
was asking questions about me like that."
So say, "That strange man was a guy named Nev.
He just wants to help us--" - Connect?
- Connect. Great. [notification chimes]
- Oh, she's reading 'em- reading 'em.
She's on.
- Okay, yeah, you can send that now, I guess.
Oh, oh, she's--oh.
"Hah." Okay, interesting response.
"Now?" - Yes.
- Say, "Now would be great."
- She's gonna say, "I'm busy now.
I'm going to sleep now."
- "But it's very late." - Yeah, but you're up.
- "We have different times, right?"
Yes, but it doesn't have to be for very long.
Yeah, that's good.
What does that mean? Like, nervous?
Like, "Ahh"?
"Yes, please."
both: "But."
- Uh-oh.
- "I need to take a bath first."
- [groans] At 3:30 in the morning?
- Should I say, "How much time you need?"
- This is the segue. This is how they disappear.
[suspenseful music]
- I obviously would prefer if she could just do it now.
Yeah, that's good.
Oh--oh! Here we go.
I'll text you the link right now.
[notification chimes]
Send that to her and say, "Here's our Zoom."
[notification chimes] All right.
What do you think? You think she's gonna do it?
- Let's see.
- Oh--uh-oh.
Wait a second. Now what?
"If you see me, I hope you still like me."
- Uh-oh. - What does she mean by that?
- I mean, you know, obviously,
for someone who does a lot of makeup and cosplay,
I can understand her being nervous
that your expectations of what she'll look like
not matching with what she would look like
sort of fresh out of the bath.
- Okay. - Uh-huh.
- I mean, I think when and if she comes into the Zoom,
you gotta be ready for anything.
- Feels that way right now. - Yeah.
- I have no clue what's about to happen.
- We've seen kind of this situation before
where this guy thought he was talking to a girl in Asia.
- Mm-hmm. - And it did not turn out well.
- Oh, man. - I'm not gonna lie to you.
I'm, like, low-key scared.
- Oh, she's typing, she's typing.
- [gasps] - She said she's ready.
Oh, my God. - Are we ready?
I don't know if I am.
Who is this person gonna be?
We don't know who it is. It could be anyone.
I have a feeling it's gonna be the same girl, Beam,
that comes back on here again.
♪ ♪
- I have no idea what-- I'm not thinking at all.
I'm adapting. [chuckles]
- She should be joining us at any moment.
- Are you prepared for her not to look like Cherry?
- Uh, I mean, it changes the whole ballgame, man.
You know?
It's a bald-faced lie. I don't know. Oof.
- I just don't know what to expect
and normally, I feel like we have some kind of idea
of what's gonna come in here.
- I don't know what to expect. I'm nervous.
I don't know what's about to pop up.
I'm, like, so clueless right now.
[bell chimes] - Oh, ooh.
Oh, uh, hello?
Cherry?
- Can you hear me? - Yeah.
[whispering] I just saw her face.
- [whispering] I saw her face, too.
- [normally] I can't tell. Is that Beam?
- [gasps]
- [normally] Take your time. - Okay.
♪ ♪
[groans softly]
- Hi. - Hi.
♪ ♪
Cherry, is that you under there?
- [chuckles] Why are you so shy?
- Should we all do that?
- All right, everyone do it. - Yeah.
And then when you're ready, we'll take them down.
- Okay.
- One, two, three.
It's really you. - [chuckles]
- Hi. - Hi.
- [chuckles] - What's up?
- It's her, man. [chuckles]
- Hello, Will. - Hey, Cherry.
- I can't believe it, I can't believe it.
I mean, I didn't know if you were going to be you.
- I'm just so happy. This is so nice.
- I'm so happy.
- Please, please, please.
- Why are you so nervous to see Will?
- Why? - Yeah, why?
- You're so pretty.
- Right.
In your photographs,
you have your makeup and you have your Photoshop,
but on video, you look different.
- But you're still very, very beautiful.
- Yeah.
- I like what I see. [chuckles]
Still look good.
- [chuckles]
Very beautiful.
- Oh, my God. - [chuckling]
- You had nothing to be worried about, Cherry,
because he thinks that you're amazing.
But can you tell us more about you?
Do you live alone?
- Are you dating anyone in Thailand?
Do you have a boyfriend?
- No, I don't have any boyfriends now.
- Yeah. - Yes. [chuckles]
- Do people call you Cherry or do people call you Zo?
- Rujapha. - Rujapha is my real name.
[chuckling] - You taught me now to say it.
- Yes.
- You gotta teach me how to speak Thai.
- So you want to speak Thai?
- I'm willing to learn, I'm willing to learn.
- I wanna ask you though, Cherry, you know,
Will has been very generous
sending money for costumes and things like that.
- Will, Cherry is a strong, independent woman.
[laughter]
- So this is nice, though,
that finally, you can look at Will
and you guys can talk and see each other.
- Oh, he's definitely staring at you.
- [chuckles] Oh, okay.
- He's definitely staring at you.
- He likes to look at you. - She looks good, man.
- Yeah, she's beautiful.
- Aww. - [chuckling] I'm shy.
- [chuckles] I don't even know what to say.
- Will, go ahead. I mean---
- Shower it on.
- I'm excited to see you.
You know, I'm coming to Thailand
once this whole corona's stopped and the quarantine.
And I'm gonna come see you now.
- Hopefully, soon Will can come visit you.
- Um, I--I think-- I just--um--
- Oh, sure. All right, Will.
We'll bring you back in a minute.
- All right. Don't take too long, now.
- No more men. Goodbye to the men.
- Oh, girl time?
- What's going on?
- Oh.
- Oh, sure. All right, Will.
We'll bring you back in a minute.
- Goodbye to the men. - Girl time?
- What's going on?
- Oh.
- Mm-hmm? - Like...
A lot.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah. I don't know if you know what it means to be thirsty,
but--[chuckling] here in America,
when we say someone is thirsty,
it means they're just doing too much too fast.
- Mm-hmm? - And Will is being thirsty.
- Yes.
- Sometimes, you just need space.
And that's okay. - Yes.
- But do you feel like you like him?
That you could like him in a romantic way?
- Oh, uh...
- Yeah.
Friends first and then see where things go,
but take things slowly.
- Yes. - Okay.
So we can help.
We'll tell him.
I don't think that, um,
if you're worried about hurting his feelings,
I don't think that that will hurt his feelings.
I think it's important that you tell him exactly what you want
so that he's clear
and so that he's not pushing too hard.
Who knows?
Maybe when you meet him, you might want to kiss him,
but it shouldn't feel like you have to.
- Yes.
- Oh, hello.
He's back. - [chuckles]
- We kicked the men out. - Yes, please.
Hi. - [chuckles]
- What did I miss?
- Basically, Will is doing too much.
He's being thirsty. - Mm.
- She feels like he's going too fast.
- Okay.
- She wants to slow things down,
start off as friends.
She thinks she could maybe like him like that.
- Yeah, but, right. It's too soon to tell.
- Too soon.
- Okay, so let's get Will on
and we'll help him understand that he needs to just...
- Mm-hmm. - Take it easy.
- Calm down. - Yeah.
- How do you say that in Thai? Calm down?
- [speaks Thai] [chuckles]
- [speaks Thai]
- Yes, yes. [speaks Thai]
- Mm-hmm.
- All right, so let's get Will back in here.
- Yes, please.
[bell chimes] - There he is.
- So Will. - Yes, ma'am?
- Okay, you know girl's perspective.
Well, I talked to Cherry. - Mm-hmm.
- We had a little sideline girls chat
and Cherry just feels like
things are moving a little too fast.
- She wants to slow things down.
- Fair enough.
- Obviously, I shared with her
that you're very excited about her
and you really, you know, want to meet her.
- Right, and she feels excited about you.
- Yeah.
- She just wants to make sure you understand
not to put any expectations
on how the first time you'll meet her will go.
Just-- - Take it down a notch.
And right now, maybe just give her some space sometimes.
- Okay. Fair enough.
- She would love to start with, like,
a really strong friendship and see where that could go.
- Okay. - So it's good, it's good.
- Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
- Right. - That's not bad.
- That's great.
You know, it could've been worse.
- Hey, I'm still in the game.
I'm not on the bench yet. So yeah, I'm cool with it.
- Here we go. - Right.
- Yeah, 100%. [chuckling]
- I explained to her what thirsty means,
so if she calls you thirsty, she knows what it means now.
- Okay. [laughter]
- All right, well,
I'm so happy that we were able to help.
You guys seem great, and I'm very happy for you.
So hopefully, you'll just keep talking
with a new understanding of each other
and what you're expecting.
We can go a little slow, you know?
Keep building, planning, maybe,
for a trip some time in the future.
When it works for both of you.
And take this friendship and see where it goes.
I think it could be really great.
- I'm definitely on board. - [chuckles]
- Make sure you send us a video from Thailand
whenever you get there.
- I definitely will, man. That's a promise.
- Will is looking up his tickets
as soon as we get off of this.
- Just calm down, all right? [laughter]
- Thank you very much. - Thank you.
- Yes. - Bye.
[upbeat pop music]
- ♪ Don't go too fast ♪
♪ Take it slow, take it slow ♪
♪ Ooh, whoa, oh ♪
Jamina on Plenty of Fish.
- We soulmates. - Hmm.
Doesn't that look like her?
Look at the tattoo. What the [bleep]?
- I randomly got that text.
- She said she'd beat me up.
- That's the worst possible thing you can find.
She blocked you.
- This is making me want to throw up.
- Fingers crossed she shows up.
[bell chimes] Oh.
- [chuckles in disbelief] - Wow.