who may not even be real.
- She just really, like, bring off this vibe,
like, that you want to be around her.
- Let's look up the phone number.
- It's always the moment of truth.
- Nothing? Really?
- Not even landline, text app?
- All the years doing this,
I've never had numbers come back with nothing.
- That's suspicious.
What if Nyhjee's not the only person that she's talking to?
- I feel like I'm getting, like, used or played.
And I hate that feeling. [computer chimes]
- Oh. It's a very intense close-up
of something hanging over the camera.
Oh. Moving.
- Oh, [bleep].
[dramatic musical sting]
[upbeat music]
[phone rings]
- Okay. Good morning.
- Good morning. Hello? - Taking a call?
She took a call. We're at work. Can't just take calls?
- Yeah, you can go in. Okay.
Thank you. My fire alarm chime was going off. Beep! Beep!
I'm not replacing the batteries.
- Unless you need more time to handle your personal life,
I'd like to get to work.
- Handle my scandal?
- Here we go.
"Help! I think my girlfriend's a catfish.
- ♪ Maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle ♪
"Hey, Nev and Kamie. My name is Nyhjee.
"I'm 18 and was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"You guys gotta help me, 'cause I'm going crazy
"trying to figure out this relationship I'm in.
"Two years ago, this girl I'd never seen before, Cianna,
"posted a heart eye emoji on my profile.
"I was like, 'Okay, I gotta check this girl out.'
"I went to her profile,
and damn, this girl was like a dream."
- ♪ Help me understand you ♪
- Or a nightmare. - Hmm.
"I messaged her. She messaged me back.
And before I knew it, a year had gone by,
and I was in love with her, and she was in love with me.
- ♪ Maybe we could meet somewhere in the middle ♪
- "Cianna's out in Delaware,
"which is only an hour and a half from me,
so we started making plans."
- ♪ It used to be kinda simple ♪
- "I took a train,
"but when I got there, she stood me up.
"I was pissed.
♪ ♪
She calmed me down in a couple days."
- Of course.
- "But I got more and more frustrated,
"because even though we talk on the phone,
"Cianna won't video chat.
"Things got so bad that we even took a few breaks.
- ♪ Now you're searching for an answer ♪
♪ But you're looking in the wrong place ♪
"And don't get me started on the money I sent her."
Oh, boy.
- ♪ Maybe we could meet somewhere in the middle ♪
"I want to be with Cianna.
"I'm hoping like crazy that she's real.
"But I can't keep waiting around
"to see if she's finally going to meet or video chat,
"because I think if I do,
I'm going to be waiting forever."
This kid's wise.
- This is a very, like, illustrated email.
- Mm-hmm.
- I see the money flying out of his pockets...
- Yeah.
- And into this catfish's hands.
- No, yeah, Nyhjee is a very expressive...
- Mm-hmm. - Intelligent...
- Seemingly. - Self-aware person.
Right, which is why it's so--but you know what?
He's--he was 16 when they met.
Obviously, even though an hour and a half isn't that far,
when you're 16, you know--but,
there's no excuse, obviously, for not video chatting.
- Right. - And then don't even get him
started about the money that he sent.
- I don't want to get him started about the money.
That's crazy to me. - All right. Well let's text.
"Hey, Nyhjee. This is Nev and Kamie."
- "We just read your email
and were wondering if you could send us some money."
[laughs]
I didn't have money when I was 18...
- "JK, JK. We want to help." - To be sending out.
- I know. Oh, he wrote back.
- "Lol. Awesome." - "Jump in our Zoom."
[computer chimes]
both: Hey. - Hey. What's going on, y'all?
- Nyhjee? - Hey.
- Are we saying that right? - Yeah. Ny-Gee.
- This guy loves to smile. Look at this guy.
- I know - He's happy.
Is that a real smile or are you just, like, nervous?
- Most definitely a real smile. I'm always smiling.
- Aww. - That's nice.
And what's your situation in Philly? You live at home?
- Yeah, like, I live at home right now.
- So what do you do in Philly?
- Well, I used to do, like, HVAC, before COVID
and all that started. But now, these days,
I'm starting to work more along, like,
what I want to do, like, now that I got more free time.
So, like, standup.
- So, you're a comedian. - Yeah.
- Knock-knock.
- Who's there? - Cianna.
- Cianna who? - Exactly.
- Exactly. Nice.
- Ba-dum-tss. - Anyway, so that's cool.
So, we just read your email. - Okay.
- Take us back to kind of when you met,
how that happened. Give us all the details.
- Okay. So, I guess, like, one day,
I posted a picture of myself,
and she reacts with a heart emoji,
and that's a form of, like, shooting your shot.
So I was like, "Oh yeah, she cute."
So, I get to, like, texting her.
- On DM. - Yeah. Instagram DM.
So, we talk about where we from and all that.
And that's when we got to texting for, like,
that whole month we first met.
And then that's when I finally made it known
that I was really, like, interested in her.
And she said she want to be with me too.
- Well, tell us about her. What does she do?
How old is she? Like, we know she lives in Delaware. But...
- Yeah. - What is she about?
- Well, she's 18 years old.
She lives with her mom and her little sisters.
- Okay. - And she says she bounces
around a couple different jobs.
Like, the latest that I know she worked at was Dairy Queen.
- How often are you guys talking on the phone?
- It's usually probably like every two or three days.
- That's pretty often. - Yeah.
- Does she still have the same Instagram
that she first messaged you on? - Yeah.
- And does she post a lot of stuff on there?
I mean, if she's a cute 18-year-old,
you'd think she'd be posting a lot.
- No. Probably, like, a couple months
after we first started talking, she deleted, like, everything.
The only thing you could see was her profile picture.
- That's weird. - Girls do that a lot, though.
They do.
- All the pictures? - Girls do that a lot.
- Do you have photos of her?
Does she send you pictures at least?
- Yeah. - She send me pictures.
- But, I mean, no FaceTime.
Is she insecure about getting on FaceTime?
Like, why--what's her excuse for not video chatting?
- It's always, like, she's busy,
she's at work or out with friends.
- So, wait a second. So, it's been very hard for me
to wait this long. But in your email, you said
"Don't even get me started about the money."
I'm gonna get you started, 'cause I need to hear
about this cash. What happened?
- Okay, so around November of last year, she texts me
and says that "My transmission went out on my car,
and I don't know how I'm gonna get the money to fix it."
So, I was like, "Okay, how much it cost to get it fixed?"
- I just want you to know I'm gonna put you up on game.
Whenever a girl says,
"The transmission on my car just died.
I don't know how I'm get the money to pay for it,"
she knows how's she's gonna pay for it.
It's gonna be you when you suggest that you'll pay for it.
- Wait, so--okay, so--so, how much cash?
- It was $303.
- How do you have all this cash laying around?
- Where is this money coming from?
- That was from-that was, like,
'cause I was on unemployment from the HVAC.
- So, you sent her the stimmy?
Oh, my God, no. No!
- How did you send it?
- So, she says that she doesn't have any money transfer,
but a friend of hers has.
- I can't believe she pulled the "I don't have a money
transfer app but my friend does."
- "My friend has." - Just make one.
They're not hard to make.
- Yeah. - They're not hard to make
with your real name and your real identity.
- So, wait a second.
So, what was the name of the friend?
- It was, like, Manuel [bleep]. - A guy.
- Yeah. - Huh. Interesting.
- And you didn't ask her who is this friend?
Like, has she ever mentioned this friend before?
- Well, she told me that it was, like,
a friend of the family's. She called him, like, a cousin.
- You know this sounds suspicious.
- Yeah. It sounds a little sus.
- You know what you should have said? Come on over.
I'll give you the cash right now.
- True. Have you been pressing her about meeting up?
- Yeah. I've been pressing her, like, a lot about meeting up.
We was going to meet in February 2020.
I told her I'm gonna, like, come take the train
down there to Delaware. And I got on the train.
We're texting the whole way down there.
And I got there, and it was a no-show.
I waited for about, like, three hours.
- Three hours? - Yeah. Three hours.
- You weren't pissed off? - I was pissed.
I was really mad. I was upset.
- So, did she text you at all over the course of that time?
- No. We talked the next day. Something came up with her mom.
I just didn't want to hear it. I was just still mad.
So, I stopped walking to her for like a week.
It was times where I, like, wanted to, like, cut her off.
We did go on, like, a whole bunch of breaks.
- What--what caused those breaks?
- Not, like, being able to see her and stuff.
And then I would end up right back to her in,
like, the next couple of weeks.
- And during those breaks,
were you hooking up with other people?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- So right now, do you feel like you're dating?
Is she your girlfriend?
- Yeah, like, girl for life. Like, we call it, like--like,
it's called, like, wife for life--WFL.
- Oh. - Wow.
- But don't you think that's a lot for somebody
that you haven't seen in real life?
- I mean, like, she just really, like,
bring off this vibe, like, that you want to be around her.
I like those type vibes, where, like, you can just,
like--you can feel comfortable with them,
and they comfortable with you.
I've never really had any type of long relationship
until I met her.
If I was in, like, a bad state of mind,
she would, like, be right there to help me through it.
And, like, that's--that's one thing that I'm really big on.
And if, like, y'all see her, y'all would know why
I'm--I'm really, really hooked on her.
Like, she looks--she's model material.
- I gotta see this girl. - Yeah, let's see her.
- Oh. - Okay.
- She's a little cutie. - Yeah.
- So, this girl, though, I would think,
would have no issue with getting on FaceTime.
- Yeah.
- You got any recent text messages between you guys?
- Yeah. - Ooh.
"I don't know where I'd be without you."
"Let's run away." "And never look back."
- "We can even get two dogs
and name them Cheeto and French Fry."
- Cute. "You are the best thing that's ever happened to me."
"Aww, you're so sweet. I feel the same way." Nyhjee.
- Nyhjee.
- Such a little softie. Well, all right, so look,
clearly there's a lot about this girl that's great.
But there's also a lot about her that's super shady.
- Yeah. - We got to figure this out.
Send us all the information you have--the phone number,
the Instagram, the Cash App, and everything else.
- Okay. - And give us a few hours
to do some digging, see what we can find,
and we'll check back in with you
as soon as we got some info.
- Okay.
- Don't send any money while we're waiting.
- All right. - Bye, 'Jee.
- Bye. - Bye.
- Aye, dios mio. - Aye-jee.
- Aye, jee-jee-jee-jee. - Aye-jee, Nyhjee.
- She's a really cute girl. I feel like they could be cute.
- I know. If it weren't for the FaceTime thing,
it would have just felt like this perfect, sweet thing.
It would be great.
- Even with the FaceTime thing and all the money he sent her
what kills me is
the trip he took to Delaware that she stood him up at.
- Right. - That's messed up.
- Nyhjee's 18, and he's at this
very important moment in this life.
He needs to figure this out before he can start living.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- This is chocolate ASMR.
This is my bowl of chocolate.
This is York peppermint.
Twix.
Ready?
No! No. No.
- You can still eat that. Come on.
- You eat it! - All right.
We've got a young man, who's two years in
to the longest relationship of his life
with a girl who may not even be real.
They've only lived an hour and a half away from each other.
Finally went to meet her, and she stood him up.
She needed money to fix her car, which our guy sent.
- Mm-hmm.
- And weirdly, when he sent money, of course,
she doesn't have a Cash App. - Her friend.
- "Can you send it to my friend?"
- Manuel. What do you think the truth is?
First instinct. Go.
- I don't think it's her.
- I don't want to be wrong, so I'm not gonna say.
- Okay. All right, here, look, he sent us a new email.
He said, "Here's what I got." Okay.
"Hey, these are the things I know about Cianna.
She lives in Middletown, Delaware. She's 18.
"And her name is Cianna [bleep].
"She used to work at the Dairy Queen in [bleep], Delaware.
"He's here phone number and her Instagram.
"There used to be tons of pictures on her Instagram,
"but she deleted them all and hasn't posted anything
"in a long time.
"I'm giving you a screenshot of the Cash App receipt
"for the money I sent Manuel [bleep].
"I'm nervous, but excited to finally find out the truth.
Thank you." So, what do you want to do?
You want to start with an image search?
- Yeah, might as well.
- Let's start with this one in her car.
Okay. Nothing. Here's another one of hers,
sort of chilling with her necklaces. Nothing.
All right. Here is the one of her on the porch.
No. And that's it. Damn.
All right. Let's just search the number.
- Oh, God. It's always the moment of truth.
- Here we go.
Searching the old phone number. No results.
- What? - Can't be nothing.
Hmm. Let's try a different site.
- That's suspicious. That's weird.
- Okay. Here we go. Potential owner--nothing.
Wow, zero.
- Not even landline, text app. - Yeah, right?
So, wait a second. So--
- Her last name is a very specific...
- Right.
- Last name. - So, let's just do a search
for "Cianna [bleep] Middletown."
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, something should come up, right?
Wait a second, what's this? 5K race packet?
Oh my God, what is this? [bleep]. Cianna [bleep].
It doesn't say it here, but a lot of the people
in this race were from Wilmington,
so that suggests that she's in Delaware.
- That's from 2015.
Does it say--is this, like, a middle school race?
- See if we can pull this up. Apex Watch Clockers.
- Wait, age group place. What does that mean?
- She was the 72nd person in the age group of females
1 to 13, in 2015, which means she--
- She would have been 13. - I think this is kind of good,
because it puts someone named Cianna [bleep]...
- Mm-hmm. - In Wilmington, Delaware...
- Mm-hmm.
- In the right age range. - Yes.
But the money was still sent to Manuel.
- I know. But surprising.
And also positive. But that--that's doesn't
necessarily mean that's her in the pictures.
It could just be someone using her name.
- Right. Right. - What else can we look up?
Okay. So, here's the Cash App receipt.
Okay. There he is.
So, let's just look up Manuel [bleep].
Let's look him up on Facebook.
"Manuel [bleep]" and then I guess city Middletown?
Okay, nothing in Middletown. What about Wilmington?
Oh, man, there are a bunch. Let's go back to this email.
I feel like we've [inaudible]
but we have a little bit more to go off of.
She used to work at the Dairy Queen.
Okay, you want to look that up. [bleep], Delaware.
- Here.
- There is a Dairy Queen. Should we call them?
- Somebody will want to help. - That's what I'm saying.
I'm calling. I'm calling.
[line trilling]
- Yes, hi.
This is Nev from that show "Catfish."
- And I'm making an episode of the show right now.
We're trying to find out if a girl named Cianna
[bleep]--if she--if she used to work there.
- Sure.
- Okay. Sure. So, my number is 818-
- [Bleep].
- Okay, cool. thank you for your help.
- Hmm. Okay. Inconclusive.
There's nothing else to look at.
So, what are we doing?
- [bleep].
- It's crazy that her phone number comes back with nothing.
- I've never seen it where there is nothing
on the phone number, period. - Nothing.
And we found nothing on the friend who he cashed-app.
- Nothing on the photos.
- So, we have very little information.
Except for the fact that in 2015,
a girl named Cianna [bleep]
ran a race in the under-13 category.
- Yeah. - So, that does confirm,
possibly, her name, her age, and her location.
- Yeah. - Which is a big deal.
- But it doesn't confirm that that's even her identity.
- There's a chance we get some more information
out of Dairy Queen. So, we can wait for that,
see what happens. We've got to find her.
- Yeah. - Cianna can run,
but she can't hide.
[upbeat music]
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Where is the candy?
- Oh, my God. The demands.
- So, yesterday, despite our best efforts,
we kind of found almost nothing.
All we know is that there's a record of someone
named Cianna [bleep]
participating in a 5K charity race.
- When she was like 12. - In 2015.
Now, if she is who she says she is,
you'd think there'd be some other information
that would come up for her on the internet.
- Right. And there's nothing.
- Should we just see what's going on with our guy Nyhjee?
- Let's do the thing.
- I don't think we got any Dairy Queen follow-up.
Negative.
- They probably didn't even relay the message.
- Yeah.
That girl was just like, "Okay, cool."
- Yeah. - "Yeah, I'll tell--yeah,
sure, sure." Whoa. - Where are you?
- You get robbed last night or something?
- Nah, I'm in my basement now. - Why?
- I get kicked out of the main room.
- Oh, your parents were like, "No more video chats
in the living room. Beat it."
- Yeah.
- All right, so look, what's going on?
What have you been feeling, thinking?
- Man, I'm just ready to get--like,
get answers at this point.
- Well, look, I'm happy to walk you through what we found.
Unfortunately, it's not a whole lot.
- Mm-hmm. - But there is something.
- Mm-hmm. - And in a weird way,
I think what we didn't find
is almost just as important as what we did find.
- Mm. - So, let me share my screen.
Okay. We searched all the images
that she had sent you,
and none of them came back with any hit.
So, after we ran her photos, we then searched
her phone number and came back with nothing.
- Mm. - There was just nothing.
Which is weird, because usually,
if it doesn't say their name,
it at least tells you kind of what--
- Mobile. - Right.
- Landline. - What--right.
I don't think we've ever seen that.
- It was weird.
- Now, let me show you the first piece of information
that we actually found.
We did a search for "Cianna [bleep] Middletown, Delaware."
- Mm-hmm.
- This third thing that comes up here is the race results
from a 2015 5K fundraiser race.
- Mm. - And what you're looking
at her are all the participants.
But what's crazy if we scroll down here at the bottom,
you see, Cianna [bleep].
- Yeah. - And when we clicked on that,
it actually took us to, like, her specific race results.
It was in September 2015 in Wilmington, Delaware,
a Cianna [bleep] ran, and her age group
was females age 1 to 13.
Now, if it is who you're talking to, this, to me,
indicates that she probably is 18...
- Mm-hmm.
- Her name might actually be Cianna [bleep],
and she probably does live in Delaware.
- Mm-kay.
- On one hand, this is great information,
because it's a very specific detailed recognition
of her age, her name, her location,
and her participating in a super local event.
- Right. - But doesn't look like
we have any proof that Cianna
is the girl you've been talking to.
[phone dings]
- What was that?
- Maybe someone from Dairy Queen.
The only other thing we didn't tell you is that
we called the Dairy Queen in [bleep], Delaware.
Some girl answered, and we were like, "Hey,
do you know if a girl named Cianna worked there?"
and she's like, "I'll ask around,
and I'll get back to you." And we just now got a text.
"Hey, my friend Reyna said you were asking about Cianna."
"Hey. Yes. Any chance you could come on our Zoom?"
"I don't want to video call, but I can talk."
- What? - All right, great.
[line trilling]
They can't hear you, but you can talk to us.
- Hello? - Yes. Hi.
This is Nev. Thanks so much for texting me.
What was your name? It wasn't in the text.
- Polo? Like, Marco Polo?
- Cute.
So, yeah, we-we called yesterday and spoke to Reyna.
We're making an episode of "Catfish,"
and someone that we're trying to get in touch with
had previously said that they worked at that Dairy Queen.
Her name is Cianna [bleep]. Does that ring a bell?
- Okay, great. - What does she look like?
- Do you remember, like, what she looked like?
- Okay.
- But Cianna has blonde hair. She's always had blonde hair.
- Well, we're trying to help her
finally meet up with this guy
that she's been talking to for the past two years.
- Oh. Okay, are you in touch with her at all?
Do you have any contact with her?
- Wow. Okay.
- What the [bleep]? - That was probably her.
- It sounds like her. - Sounds like Cianna?
- Yeah. - If that's her, and the word
was going around the Dairy Queen, like,
"Nev from 'Catfish' called, looking for Cianna,"
and she's like, "Oh, my God. [bleep].
Nev is all up in my [bleep] business."
What it felt like right away was, like, she was trying
to get information from me.
- Right. We didn't say-- - "What do you know?"
- But we didn't say Nyhjee. So...
- "Why are you looking for her?" Right.
- What if Nyhjee's not the only person that she's talking to?
- That's true. We never said Nyhjee.
- Yeah. That's one thing that's really been, like,
on my mind is, like, say if they were, like,
talking to more than one person.
- Let's look up the phone number.
- Mmm.
- Oh man, this is--this is getting very interesting.
Is this website working?
- Is that the one? That's the number?
- That's the number she just called me from.
How does she have these weird secret numbers?
- She must be paying, like,
an extra fee to have her number not traceable.
- That makes me feel like Polo and her are the same person,
'cause in all the years doing this,
I've never had numbers come back with nothing.
All right, well that definitely changes things a little.
- Yeah, this whole situation is just weird.
- I feel bad.
[somber piano music]
I feel like this is the first time you haven't been
smiling this whole time.
♪ ♪
- Yeah, because I feel like--like,
something strange going on behind the scenes.
- Yeah.
- ♪ You keep me guessing ♪
♪ You keep me begging for a little more ♪
♪ You keep on messing ♪
- Why the hell is all this strange stuff happening?
- ♪ I drawn to your secrets ♪
- Yesterday, I would say you were still ambitious or hopeful
that it was gonna work out. Do you still feel that way?
- Like, now, like, I just--I feel like
I'm getting, like, used or played.
And I hate that feeling.
Like, I don't think the outcome is gonna be good.
- ♪ You keep me guessing ♪
♪ Again and again and again ♪
- I feel like I'm getting, like, used or played
as of right now. And I hate that feeling.
Like, I don't think the outcome is gonna be good.
- It could still be Cianna in the pictures.
- I don't know. Like, if it's not her,
I don't think I would really be on board with anything anymore.
Like, come on now.
I could have been moved on. I could have even probably,
like, stayed with a couple girls
that I've been with on our breaks and all that.
- Yeah, but if you had wanted those relationships,
you--you would have.
But there's something about Cianna that you obviously want.
- Yeah. - If we don't get to
the bottom of this, you're gonna start
talking to her again in like a week's time.
- Yeah. - The bottom line here is,
we need to make contact with Cianna.
And whether or not we just did, without knowing it,
doesn't change that it's time to now tell Cianna,
"Hey, here's what we're doing."
And that can either come from me or from you.
- I think it would be better coming from you guys.
- All right. Let's see. All right, so wait.
All right. I'm gonna send a text.
Got Cianna in here. All right. "Hello."
Should I--I should--should I include Nyhjee?
- I don't know if we want to mention you.
That way, if she's talking to multiple people,
she won't know who we're here with.
- All right, I'll just say, "We would love to speak to you
and see if we can help you out"?
- Yeah. - Does that sound good to you?
- Yeah. - All right. "Thanks."
The thing that I don't get is,
if Polo really is behind the Cianna page,
why say, "Hey, heard you were asking about"--because
she was desperate.
She was like, "I have to know what they want." Like--
- Mm-hmm. She had to know.
- She had to know... - She had to know.
- What we were doing. - And who with.
- What? That's so strange.
- So, if it's not her that we talked to,
Cianna's someone she knows. And she said to Cianna, like,
"What do you want me to do?" And she's like, "Call them.
Ask them, like--see if you can get some info."
- She was fishing for information.
- Right.
- She wasn't trying to give--she, like--
[phone dings] - Oh.
- What? - Ooh, we got a text back.
- Ooh. - "Hey, this is Cianna.
Ugh, Lord, is there pages posting my pictures again?"
- Bitch, please. - I mean--
- Yeah, you. Yours.
- So, what she's saying is people steal her pictures
and make fake pages,
which is a convincing way of making us think
she is the girl in the pictures.
Which she could be still. We don't know.
- Prove it. Join the Zoom. Tell us about it.
- So, I'm gonna say, "Sort of.
Too hard to explain in text.
Can you come in our Zoom?"
[phone dings] - [gasps]
- Oh, she wrote back. She says, "I have to talk to my mom.
Who all would be on the Zoom?" "Me and Kamie."
- She's trying to get information.
- Right.
- The same way Polo was trying to get information.
- Right. - She thinks she's slick.
- Oh, she's writing again.
- What does she mean she has to talk to her mom?
[phone dings] - Oh.
- "I can talk to my mom. I can probably...
talk to you this weekend."
- No. She's still trying to play like she's not actively
in an online relationship
that we might be hitting her up about.
- Well, we haven't even brought up Nyhjee yet.
I feel like-- - Yeah, on purpose.
- Should we? - No.
Because look what she's trying to do.
- No, I understand that.
"That's not gonna work for us.
"If you can't talk now,
I guess we should just forget it."
- She's gonna be like, "Okay, okay.
I can be ready in 15 minutes." - Yep.
- Do a little reverse psychology.
- Look, she's typing already. - See? Of course. Quick.
Quick, fast, in a hurry.
- Oh. She called our bluff. - Okay.
Well, that was not the plan.
She's clever.
She is clever. Well, so, what do we do now?
[phone chimes] - What was that?
- I texted her. - Oh.
- Nyhjee! - What'd you say?
- I said, "Just join the damn call.
What the [bleep]?"
- Nyhjee! - I mean, it's fine.
- It's fine. - It's fine.
- Nyhjee's at his [bleep] breaking point.
I understand. I get it.
It's annoying, and she's playing games, obviously.
- Yeah. - It's time to cut the [bleep].
Like, come on.
- All right, well, we'll see. Now, she should respond to you.
I mean, you've now made it clear that you're part of it.
- Mm-hmm.
- Surely, she'll have something to say.
- Yeah. She better. [phone dings]
- Oh. "I'll be there in a few." - Good job, Nyhjee.
- Wow. I can't believe that. I mean--
- You closed the deal.
So, are we thinking it's Polo, then?
Or are we still feeling 50/50?
- I'm now like 90/10.
- 90 it's not her.
- Yeah. - Oh, wow.
[computer chimes] Oh. Hey. Hello.
- Hi, just give me a couple more seconds.
I'm sorry.
- Oh, sure. No--no problem. Take your time.
Oh. Okay.
It's a very intense close-up
of--of something hanging over the camera.
Oh.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Hello.
- Oh, [bleep].
- Are we still feeling 50/50? - I'm now like 90/10.
- 90 it's not her. - Yeah.
- Oh, wow. [computer chimes]
Oh. Okay. It's a very intense close-up
of--of something hanging over the camera.
Oh. it's moving.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Hello.
- Oh, [bleep].
- Hi, Nyhjee. Oh, my gosh. - Oh, [bleep].
- What? - Hello.
- There she is.
- I'm over the moon.
- Cianna? - Cianna. Cianna. Yeah.
- Cianna. Okay. What's up? Because you understand, Cianna,
that there was some concern that you might not be you.
- Yeah.
- Not just because of the FaceTime thing,
but also because of the time that you said
you guys would meet, and you didn't show up,
and he sat there for hours... - Yeah.
- Waiting for you. - Yeah.
- And you gave him what feels like a bogus excuse...
- Mm-hmm.
- That there was some family emergency.
what's up with all that? I mean--
- I thought that I could meet Nyhjee a couple times.
But I pulled out each time.
- So, like, why was you ducking me?
- Well, the problem really is, like, my mom,
and, like, the way she is.
Like, she doesn't let me really date anyone.
So, that's kind of why Nyhjee's been put on the back burner
with FaceTiming and not meeting up.
- Look, I can understand getting cold feet or whatever.
But you knew he was taking a train.
- Yeah. - Why didn't you tell him,
like, before he left?
- It was very stupid and immature of me
to even pursue the idea of us meeting
if I wasn't gonna go through with it.
But I did think I was gonna go through with it.
I just couldn't do it when it actually came time to meet.
I couldn't do that to my mom.
- But why didn't you tell me, though?
- Because I didn't know how you would react to that.
Some men would just, like, leave if they knew it was,
like, a bigger problem,
like, that I couldn't really be with you.
- So, you're not sure you're ready to tell your mom,
"Hey, this is someone I'm interested in.
I'm gonna go out with them,"
because she would either get upset
or potentially there would be some repercussions?
- Yeah. So, she's always been a little protective, like,
and a little strict at that.
So, like, me going to meet a boy
that I have never even met in person or FaceTime,
she would think that's really dangerous,
and she wouldn't want me doing that.
So, like, when it really came down to it,
it was just, like, too much for me.
- Yeah. - I mean, you are 18.
So, to be fair, she would be right.
- Yeah. - But here's my question.
Like, it doesn't mean that you couldn't talk to her and say,
like, "Hey, I've been talking to this guy for two years.
He's really sweet. Would you FaceTime
with him and/or would you come with me to meet him?"
Like, you don't think that's something
she'd be interested in doing?
- Now, I think that she would be interested in doing
that--with me having a conversation with her,
you know, sitting down, face-to-face, and explaining.
- Right.
- And telling her about the past two years.
- Yeah.
- Well, what do you consider Nyhjee to be in your life?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- I would definitely consider him my boyfriend.
And that would mean that I would have to tell my mother.
- Right. Okay. So, you are 18.
- Yeah.
- You live on a farm in Delaware.
- Yeah.
- You did work at a Dairy Queen.
And presumably, your mom knows that you're doing this, right?
That you're on the show?
- I have to talk to her. - When are you gonna do that?
- Well, I'm gonna have to soon. - Okay.
Cianna, I'm not getting grounded
because of you, all right?
- No! - Okay, so then,
when you mentioned that you needed some money
to fix your car, was that legit?
- That was legit. And so, what was up with the Cash App
going to some weird person named Manuel?
- So, what happened with that is, I needed my, like,
routing number and stuff to, like...
- Yes. Yeah.
- You know, hook it up my bank account,
and I didn't have that for the longest time,
just because I didn't go to the bank and get it.
So I was just like, you can send the money to someone
who already has Cash App and already has that set up,
and then they'd take out the cash for me.
- Okay, so that was legit.
That was your--that actually is...
- Yeah. - A friend of yours,
and he--he gave you the money,
and you really used it to fix your car.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Wait. Who is Polo?
- She's my friend from Dairy Queen.
- Did she tell you that we spoke to her?
- Yeah, she called me.
She told me that people called her
trying to get information about someone
that's been talking to this person for X amount of years.
And she said that the call didn't go very well, so...
- Mm-kay.
- Okay, well then this is--this is great!
- I feel like Nyhjee... - Yeah.
- Has questions to ask.
- How you feeling, Nyhjee?
- So, like, I got something to tell you
that I ain't never tell you.
- Okay.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Um...
- I got something to tell you that I ain't never tell you.
- Okay. - Um...
I was talking and, like, hooking up
with a bunch of girls during our breaks,
and, like, sometimes while we were talking.
- Wait. Not just on breaks?
- So, you cheated on me.
You said how many people?
- Probably, like, four.
- Okay. I don't understand.
- Because, like, you was never there. So, like--
- I understand, but I would never do that to you.
Because we had boundaries that we had set.
- It was really, like, not being able to see you.
'Cause, like, I just felt like I was talking to a wall,
just only talking on the phone.
- Doesn't mean you go and have sex with people,
because I'm not. Like--
- I'm honestly shocked that you brought this up at all.
- And we didn't discuss this. - Yeah.
I mean, I have to commend you for your brutal honesty
and, like, saying this, 'cause I guess it was something
that was weighing on you, and you felt bad about.
But, like, we had no idea. - Mm-hmm.
- We knew he was talking to other girls during the breaks.
- That's kind of childish.
- Well, I think, Cianna, in Nyhjee's defense--which,
normally I don't defend cheating
at all--I think, with him, you know, trying to come
and see you and you saying that you were gonna come see him,
and it never worked out, he was just kind of, like,
"I don't even know what the [bleep] this is."
But he told us from the beginning,
"There's something about this girl.
Like, nothing has ever been the same as Cianna."
I just think it's a complicated situation.
- It's just, I wish I was told a little sooner.
- You know, the situation sort of unfolded rather quickly,
and went from what I thought was this great,
beautiful first meeting between two lovers,
and then it sort of very quickly unraveled
and became this other thing. So, Nyhjee, is it cool
if we just check in with her quickly,
and then we'll bring you back in?
- All right. - Hello.
- Hey, girl. - How are you guys?
- Confused.
- I definitely had other ideas of how this would go.
- So, at the time, you were 16,
right when you first started talking?
- Yeah. - Based on your mom
being very protective, you weren't dating guys then.
- Right. I've never had a boyfriend, actually.
Except him.
- And then he did mention that you guys had
some, like, breaks. What--what was that about?
- He would get frustrated, because I'm not FaceTiming him,
not giving him what he wants, I'm not, you know,
video chatting him or meeting up with him,
therefore, you know, that's gonna cause some friction.
- Well, you said that you guys had had a conversation;
you and Nyhjee had talked about boundaries.
When was that conversation, and what was said during that?
- It was definitely within this year,
and we just talked about, like, being a couple.
We even kind of went in-depth, of, like, our future
and stuff like that--like,
if we were to, like, move in with each other in the future,
or, like, where we would be. You know, like...
- Right. - Corny stuff.
- I understand. And if you guys
did have a conversation about being exclusive,
then that would definitely have been crossing a boundary.
But you didn't think
that he might have talked to other people?
- No. He told me he didn't. - So, he lied.
- Yeah. - That's [bleep] up.
The way that he went about that was wrong,
so I'm sorry that you had to have that experience.
- Whatever you feel like you should say,
I want to give you that opportunity to say that.
So, let me just get Nyhjee back in here.
[computer chimes] Okay. We're all back.
All right, so look, Nyhjee, we just checked in with Cianna,
just to kind of get a little background
on her experience the last two years.
- Yeah. I wanted to say something to Cianna.
- Okay. - So, like, Cianna,
I know that I want to be with you,
and, like, I would go through anything
and through any obstacle. I lied to you. You lied to me.
And if you're willing to move forward with all that,
then I can move forward with that too.
- I wouldn't say we're on the same level of lies at all
and don't really think I can move forward from it.
You know, what you said, you said.
And that means something.
- Sometimes I don't have no filter in what I say.
It was just sitting on my chest,
and I wanted to finally admit it.
Like, I know it should have came out
in a more respectful way.
- So, this is gonna be
difficult now, obviously, for Cianna.
But there's definitely still a connection here.
I don't, for one, want that to be the end of this.
But it might be.
And that'll obviously be up to Cianna.
- Obviously, I do love you.
But I think that I definitely need to feel things out.
- At this point, I'm with, like--with whatever you want.
- I'll think about it,
and I will definitely be reaching out to you first.
Don't reach out to me first.
I just really need some time to myself.
- Yeah, that's completely understandable.
- Okay.
- You [bleep] up, Nyhjee. You [bleep] up.
But you can make it better when she's ready.
- Yeah. - Telling the truth is always
gonna get you closer to where you want to be than not.
Hopefully, when we check in with you,
we'll be in a better place than we are right now.
- Mm-kay. - Hopefully.
- Good luck, Nyhjee. - Good luck, Nyhjee.
- I'm gonna need it.
- You're gonna need it. All right, guys.
- All right. - Take care.
Nice to meet you both.
- Bye. - Bye.
- ♪ I walked a little bit too close to the edge ♪
♪ Gave up on my defense ♪
♪ In the name of love ♪
- We got Aaron, who's been talking to Travon.
- I felt like I had found that other half of me, but...
- Ohh.
- Let's check out his fiancé's page.
- They seem pretty happy. - Now, I feel bad.
- I just need to know who this is.
- [gasps] It's a trap.