- Honestly, I think she could be the one.
I even went to get a ring.
- A ring? - Wow.
- [gasps] - Oh, who's that?
- Oh!
- Oh, [bleep]. - We have an address.
We wanted to pull a pull-up fishing?
- It's scary. But I'm ready.
- But I won't knock on the door because whoever this is
will know that we're on to them.
- I'll knock on the door. - That's it right there.
Somebody's home. My God.
Go, John. - Hey, is Mercy here?
[dramatic music]
- We're back. Nev's in New York.
Him and Laura just had a baby.
Baby Cy is here. Baby cute-cute.
Yes! Oh, my God.
He said, "Do you want to see the angel?"
Yes! Show me the baby.
[upbeat music]
[bell chiming]
Hi, Cy.
- Hey, Cy. - Hello.
- Out here making your first "Catfish" appearance.
- Oh, my God.
Hello, handsome. Oh, my God.
Oh, my goodness. - Hi...
- Bloop-bloop, bloop-bloop. Aw.
- All right. Shush.
- Oh, buddy. Here.
- Oh, I guess he doesn't like you.
Max saw him the other day, and he loved him.
He was giggling and laughing--
- You know what? He was confused.
- All smiles. But now, it's weird.
- He's crying because he can't be with me in person.
- I didn't want him to meet you in-person
because then anybody he meets after would just--
would be such a letdown. - [laughs]
- Anyway I can head to the office.
I think Laura's ready to get rid of me, right?
- Please take him. [laughs]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- All right, it's good to get out of the house.
- Three kids. It's a party.
- It's a party. Let's get to work.
- Okay.
- So this is an e-mail from Adam.
And the subject is "Guarded but Optimistic."
"Hi, Nev and Kamie, my name is Adam.
"I live out in Lansing, Michigan.
"And I don't have much experience with online dating.
"But six months ago, I'd been feeling pretty lonely.
I went on MeetMe and found an amazing woman named Mercy."
- ♪ Stay with me ♪
- Have Mercy please.
- She's from Torrance, California.
"And, depending on the outcome of your investigation,
she could be the love of my life."
Wow. - ♪ Loyal to love ♪
- "Mercy is beautiful and kind,
"and she seemed to be really into me.
I have to admit that I'm not really used to that."
"I'm a big guy.
"And from what I've experienced,
most people are only into looks."
"But Mercy told me I was exactly her type.
"We texted for hours every day.
"By the end of the summer, we were talking kids
"and marriage.
I love Mercy, and I want to be with her."
♪ ♪
"But there's some things that have been giving me doubts.
"In August, Mercy said we could video chat.
"But when we did, there was a weird glare,
like someone was filming a screen."
- Oh, no.
- "If she's not the woman in the photos,
"I can get past that.
"I understand not being confident about your looks.
"But I need to know who I'm really talking to.
"Is she like me, looking for love but afraid to trust
"that someone's going to love them back,
or is this some sort of trick?"
♪ ♪
"I could really use your help getting through it.
Sincerely, Adam."
♪ ♪
Seems like a sweet guy. - Yeah.
- Let's get Adam on the horn here.
- Let me text him. Adam, it's Kamie and Nev.
Can you Zoom?
If you finally FaceTime someone
and it looks like a bootleg movie, red flag.
[bell chimes] both: Hey!
- What is up?
I can't believe you guys are talking to me.
- Welcome. - So you live in Michigan?
- Yep, Lansing, Michigan. - Got it.
- And how old are you? - I am 38 years old.
I used to be a youth advocate at a community center
to keep kids off the streets.
You know, I've just always been a people person.
But I'm currently on disability.
- Did something happen physically to make it that way?
- I, uh--
I was leaving from lunch one day,
and a truck just completely ran the red light.
I had four fractured discs
and had to wear a turtle shell for a year,
have to rehabilitate so I could walk properly.
Trying to progress to the point where I don't need assistance.
I don't want to spend my whole life stuck in bed, you know?
It's something I'm working on. It's a work in progress.
- That's rough. - Yeah.
- Yeah, that's tough. - Oh, man.
Okay, so Mercy, how did that happen?
- You know, I felt lonely there for a while.
I wanted to find somebody.
I wanted to find my forever person.
And I had pretty much given up on the dating scene
because, you know,
I'm a big guy and the world's shallow.
But then my cousin met her husband online.
So I was like, you know, what do you have to lose?
Next thing you know, I'm talking to
the most amazing beautiful woman I've ever met in my life.
- Okay. So did you swipe on her?
- Yeah.
And she responded, like, immediately.
And we got to talking,
and been talking every day since.
- And is that, like, on the phone or via text?
- Via text.
- What's Mercy's deal? She lives in California.
- She's from Torrance, California.
She moved here from Italy when she was 19.
- What parts of her story do you believe
and what parts of her story do you not believe?
- I mean, I believe she is the person in the photographs.
Every morning she sends me a picture blowing me a kiss.
I literally have, like, 50, 60 photos of her.
- And are they pictures, like regular, everyday pictures
or are they like-- - Yeah.
They look like, you know, oh, lounging in the house.
- How serious is your relationship at this point?
- Honestly, I think she could be the one.
I even went to so much as to get a ring.
- A ring? - Wow.
- A ring. - Do you have the receipt?
- I do. I was that smart.
- Do you have it with you? - I do have it with me.
- We want to see.
- I don't know if you can see that.
- Aw.
- That's nice. - That's a hefty size.
- Yeah, I just hope it goes to good use.
- Wow.
- That's why I am extremely nervous.
I am barely holding on here.
She's the first thing I think about when I wake up
in the morning, she's the last person
I think about when I go to bed at night.
When I dream, I dream of her.
You know, I dream of our life together, what it'll be like.
I am just--I'm stuck.
- Oh, my God.
- So, Adam, tell us about this video call you had.
- You said that there's been a glare,
almost as if she's holding another video up to the camera.
- Yeah, like, first time-- - Hold on, I'm sorry.
I have to just go over here for a second.
My son is here. Oh, there he is.
- That's exactly what it looked like.
So immediately I was like, what's going on?
Where is it? I knew it!
I knew she was coming with those red flags.
- Have you guys tried to make plans to meet up?
- We had discussed going on a cruise.
It came around to time for us to go
and she said her mom ended up getting sick,
and she needed money for medicine.
- Oh, boy. - She was like, "It's $460."
- What did you say?
- I told her I don't feel comfortable
sending money and we've never met.
- Ding, ding, ding. Right answer.
- But I could come bring you the money.
She said okay.
She gave me her address and told me to come through.
- So you never sent the money
and obviously you never went to California, right?
- No.
- But you guys continued talking?
- Yeah. We talk every day.
- So if she were building you up as part of just a scam
to get money from you,
presumably after you didn't send it,
she would've likely stopped talking to you.
- That's--that's where I'm lagging at,
because we talk every day. So I'm like, man.
Like, literally, if I went through my texts,
you'd see, like, a million texts.
- Why don't you show us the messages?
- All right. Here we go.
- Uh-huh. These are the daily selfies.
Different times and different places.
But my question is, why WhatsApp?
- When we first started talking she said I have
WhatsApp, Facebook or an Instagram.
I don't have Instagram, so I decided on WhatsApp.
A couple weeks after that, I went back
to add her Facebook profile and the profile was gone.
- Interesting. - I don't know.
The way love makes you feel, you tend to look past things
that you would normally become skeptical to.
It's just because that person makes you feel so comfortable.
I'm at the point where I'm like,
if she's just not the girl who's in the picture,
but is still the girl who's into me for me,
I can get over that. I can get past that.
It may take some time, but, I mean, love has no boundaries.
- Well, we have work to do.
- So that means you guys are going to help?
- Yeah, just send $460... - Yep.
- To P.O. Box 11775. - [laughs]
- Send us everything you have,
and hopefully we'll have something for you soon.
- All right.
Thanks a lot, you guys. - Thanks, Adam.
- I don't think I've ever liked anyone
on the show more than Adam.
- Adam is so sweet. - He's such a great guy.
And there's something very weird about this girl for sure.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I mean, it doesn't seem like she's only in it for money
because she would've given up a long time ago.
There's got to be some actual interest in him.
But he's just really, really hoping
somehow there's a version of this that could work.
And maybe there is.
This is about to get very interesting.
This is my favorite part of the episode
because when I'm in New York,
I just have to sit back and watch you work.
- Well, I will handle the research,
but you have to do the recap.
So I'm going to sit back and listen to you do that.
- Oh, fine, fair, that's fair. All right.
Adam, he goes on this dating app and finds Mercy.
They match.
And it's now been seven months he's been talking to Mercy.
They're in love. They talk about their future.
They talk about getting married, having kids.
Adam even bought an engagement ring.
But, of course, there are some red flags, big ones.
They've tried to video chat.
And then, of course, she said her mom got sick
and she needed money to help pay for the medicine.
Adam's a big-hearted guy, who, for the first time in his life,
feels what he believes to be true love
and is open to look past
whatever the reality of Mercy's life is,
if she is genuine about her feelings for him.
So it feels like we got a catfish here.
But I also feel like we might have
the makings of a happy ending, maybe.
- All right, ready? - I'm ready.
- Sharing my screen. Mercy information.
"Hi, Nev and Kamie, here's what I can tell you about Mercy.
"She moved here with her family
"from Italy when she was 19.
"Her full name is Mercy [bleep].
"The number on WhatsApp is a 916 number,
"and the address she gave me when we were talking about
"meeting up in California
"is this Torrance, California, address.
"I have attached the pictures you've asked for.
"Thanks for helping me with this.
Sincerely, Adam."
- Well, let's run some of these pictures.
- Okay, let's start with regular old selfie.
No, okay...
Nope.
- Nope.
Nothing.
- So no hits on the photos.
I guess we have a phone number.
We can start with that.
- Okay, phone number.
[mimicking fanfare]
Landline, Sacramento-- - Weird.
- Which is nowhere near Torrance.
- Right. - But we still have the address
that Mercy said to show up at with the money.
- Yeah, let's check that out.
- Searching.
Nothing. - Nada.
- Okay, let's look up Mercy [bleep] on Insta.
- Oh, right, I mean, there's going to be so many.
- Yeah.
Ah! Look.
- Oh, my God, oh, my God. Is that her?
- Yes. - Shut up.
- One, two, three. These are all her.
- Unbelievable.
- Oh, [bleep].
- Oh, but these are, like, weird fake accounts.
One pic, almost no followers.
I can't believe it just comes up.
But he's not on Instagram.
He probably never thought to search.
And she never said she was on here either.
Oh, my God, why does she have these weird fake accounts?
- I want to know who she's following.
Following Gary--look!
- Oh, who's that? - Oh!
- Caroline Moore?
Oh, [bleep]
Wow, you just [bleep] nailed it, Kamie.
I can't believe you went and looked through those.
God, you're good.
- This one has a ton of [bleep] followers.
And, look, there are some of
those kissy-face photos Adam was getting.
- Oh, man. - This sucks.
- Well, at this point, we already know the girl
in the pictures is someone else.
- And we do have an address that's not very far,
if we wanted to pull a pull-up mission.
I think, go down there.
But I won't knock on the door because then whoever this is
will know that we're on to them.
But if I take somebody with me, somebody from the crew,
to go and deliver this money.
And be, like, hey, I am so-and-so.
I was told by Mercy to come bring this money.
If they're like, oh, she's not here.
I'd be like, well, I brought all this--
this big wad of cash.
- Right.
- And then the person will be like,
oh, you know what? She's right out back.
Then I tackle her to the ground,
pull a citizen's arrest, call the police.
- Mm-hmm. All right, so good.
So you hit the road, check out that address.
And then, with whatever you find and what we already found,
I think we should report back to Adam
first thing in the morning and figure this mess out.
- All right. - Godspeed.
- Thanks.
Hey. We're on the road.
- All right. So we'll go down there.
Kamie stay in, like we said, because they'll probably know
it might be "Catfish" if they see you.
I'll knock on the door.
And then, did production give you some money?
- I've got it, yes. - Show us the cash.
- This is the bait. - Yeah.
- Here we go. This is nonrefundable.
- Here we go. - All right, everyone ready?
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- You know, it's easy when I just watch you guys do it.
It's not so fun when I have to do it.
- Are you getting cold feet?
You just have to go in there
and be like, hey, I'm here to see Mercy.
And, like, be really excited, like, oh.
That's it right there.
- It's that one, yeah. - Somebody's home.
- All right. - I have faith.
- I'll be watching from a safe distance.
- Bobby, don't leave. - [laughs]
My God, are we going to be able to hear you?
- Yeah, we'll make it to where you--we can hear him.
- Okay.
Go, John. You got this.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[knock at door]
Oh, my God.
[door unlocking]
Oh!
Somebody's there, somebody's there.
♪ ♪
- Hey.
[knock at door]
- Oh, my God.
[tense music]
[door unlocking]
[gasps]
Somebody's there, somebody's there.
- Hey.
- Yeah, is Mercy here?
- Yeah.
- Oh, she doesn't live here?
- Oh, this is weird. I literally just came from San Francisco.
I've been talking to this girl, Mercy.
And she's been telling me a lot about her sick mother.
She couldn't afford some of the medications,
so she said come here
and I could give her the money for her mom.
So is there anybody maybe that has a sick mother or relative?
Like, do you have roommates?
I know it's a really intrusive question.
But, like, is there anybody,
maybe not Mercy, maybe that was her nickname?
- Weird. Look, I mean, it's legit.
Like, I literally brought $500 because she said she needed it.
So, like--
- Okay. Thanks for answering the door
for a complete stranger.
- Thank you. Bye.
- Emmy Award [bleep] winner right there.
[tense music]
I can't believe she didn't take the bait.
- She definitely changed a little bit
when I showed her the money. - Yeah.
- But she seemed--
I mean, look, I knocked on her door
and, like, I'm a stranger. - Yeah.
- But, like, she seemed nervous.
- She definitely-- She sounded innocent.
- Yeah, so I don't know what to do with that.
This is not good for Adam.
- It's honestly worse than I expected.
This just complicated things
way more because where is this person?
[dramatic music]
Let me text Nev.
"I have updates. Get in Zoom."
[bell chimes]
- Hey.
- Well, I have good news and bad news.
- Let's go. What's the update?
- We found the house.
Sent in our producer John.
Somebody answers the door. It's, like, a young woman.
And John basically acted like he was Adam.
Gave the whole spiel.
He says, I'm talking to this girl named Mercy.
- Whoa. - And the girl was like,
I don't know who Mercy is.
So that was essentially a dead-end.
Now I'm upset about a whole new thing,
because now I'm like, in the event that
this Mercy character is just giving out fake addresses...
There is an actual young woman that lives in that house.
- That's true. - And who knows how many people
that Mercy has been giving this address out to.
And, like, the same way we rolled up on her,
anybody could do that with bad intentions.
- Right.
- I don't know who this person is,
but they're playing
some kind of huge game.
And I don't think that whoever lives in that house
has anything to do with any of that.
- Right. - That's the tea, Christine.
- I guess we should text Adam.
He's definitely not going to be psyched to hear any of this.
- I think we can assume
that everything that Mercy has told Adam is fake.
- That's pretty brutal.
- Hey, Adam. - Oh, hey.
- Hey. - Hey.
- Well, how are you feeling?
- I am a big ol' ball of hurts right now.
I just feel like you guys are gonna
deliver me some bad news.
- Um, we have news. We have info.
I think it's information that gets us closer to the truth.
So we'll walk you through what we found.
- All righty. - All right.
we took all the photos So tthat you had sent us, was
which you can see on our desktop there.
And we searched them. And we found no matches.
So next, we ran the phone number,
and there was no registered owner that popped up.
- Right. - It does say Sacramento,
which is nowhere near Torrance.
- Has she mentioned Sacramento or northern California or--
- No. But people move around states.
- Sure. - So, I mean,
she could've lived in Sacramento
and then moved to Torrance or, you know.
- Yeah, that's true.
- Well, we searched for Mercy on Instagram,
and that was where things kind of get a little strange.
[tense music]
So when you search for Mercy [bleep]
on Instagram, as you can see,
there is three profiles immediately that come up.
- It's weird that there are
three very strange profiles for Mercy.
They either have no posts or one post.
They're following either no one or--
It's just, like, something feels
a little off about them, right?
- Yeah, to say the least.
- So then Kamie got real smart
and just started to see who these accounts follow.
Kamie noticed this person. And we found this.
Her name is Caroline, not Mercy.
- As you can see, this account gets a lot of likes,
has over 30,000 followers.
So this girl is an influencer.
[somber music]
- I don't know why people feel the need to do stuff like this.
Like, why tug at somebody's heart strings
and make them--
I just--I don't know.
- ♪ Sit in isolation ♪
♪ Moments just like this feel so unfair ♪
- I was ready to send her
that money because I trusted her.
I--I--you know, I thought I loved her.
This is just--it's a lot.
- ♪ Because we're all ♪
- The courage it takes for somebody like me,
somebody who's obviously
not the most attractive guy in the planet,
you know, to come out,
take a chance,
put himself out there for everybody.
♪ ♪
You know, the fact that somebody could actually
be sitting back behind a computer,
preying on something like that...
- ♪ Surrounds me ♪
♪ Can someone save me from this prison ♪
- I just want to know why.
Can I get a second please? - Yeah, of course.
- ♪ Save me now ♪
♪ I'm drowning in the ocean of this hell ♪
♪ Save me now ♪
♪ It's harder every day ♪
- I feel bad. - Yeah.
- ♪ Because I keep losing faith ♪
[somber music]
- Hey, buddy. - Hey.
♪ ♪
- Before we continue, Adam, I just want you to know
that if you are not happy with your appearance
and how you are physically, that's one thing,
and you have the ability
to control that and change that if you decide to.
But that doesn't mean that
you're not gonna find somebody who loves you as you are,
and it also doesn't mean that you deserve
less than or whatever you can get
because of how you feel that you look to other people.
And I don't want for you to be like, look at me,
I'm just gonna take what I can get.
No, [bleep] that. You deserve the best, too.
And you deserve somebody to be honest with you,
because, yes, you're doing a courageous thing,
not because of how you think that you look
but because you're being a real honest person,
and that's more than we can say
for whoever this Mercy person is.
You don't just have to take scraps.
So, no more self-deprecation, okay?
We're not doing that. - Yes, ma'am.
[chuckles] - But there is more.
So if you are ready. - All righty.
- So we didn't contact this girl.
It's just pretty clear that whoever you're talking to
has been using pictures of this girl.
- It's funny because she sends me those pictures right there,
every morning and tells me alit's my morning kiss.,
And it felt so sincere.
I wanted to believe it so much.
- There's one more piece.
The last thing that you gave us was the address
that "Mercy" said to show up at with the money for her mom.
- Yeah.
- Because Kamie's in California and in Los Angeles,
and Torrance is essentially a suburb of Los Angeles--
- Did she show up at her door? - Well, yeah.
Kamie drove down there yesterday afternoon.
- Are you serious? - Yes.
So this is what happened.
We had one of our producers
go and knock on the door,
and basically acted like he was you.
He said, I've been talking to this girl Mercy.
Does she live here?
And a young woman answered, had no idea who Mercy was.
He even brought cash to kind of bait the person,
to see if the person might change their story.
They did not budge.
They were like, I don't know who that is.
Like, I'm sorry that you drove all this way,
but I don't know who you're talking about.
- So it's official.
- I mean, nothing points to it being her
and her telling you the truth.
Everything indicates that much,
if not all, of what she's told you is a lie.
- I mean, she was good. She was good at it.
I believed it.
- Like, now, I don't know if you're questioning it,
but I was wondering, like, is she even in love with you?
Like, is that real? Is anything about it real?
- I mean, I guess we should find out.
- Well, we know who Mercy isn't.
But we haven't found any clues or information
about who she is.
The only real option is just to reach out directly to her
via the phone number that you have and just confront her.
- Let's do it.
- And, look, if she does care about you,
this will be a great opportunity for her
to show you that. And if she doesn't,
are you prepared to never get that good morning text again?
- It's scary. But I think I'm ready.
- All right.
- Let's message her. Hey, Mercy.
This is Nev and Kamie from the TV show "Catfish."
- We're helping Adam because he reached out...
- Because he really cares about you
and wants to finally meet you
after all this time.
- We already know you're not the girl in the pictures,
you don't live in Torrance at the address you gave him,
but we wanted to give you a chance
to explain things for yourself.
- Adam's still really interested in meeting you.
Sent. I have to rip the band-aid.
- You gotta fire it off. - It's delivered--she read it.
- She's seen it. - Whoa.
So she's reading it right now? - Yeah.
- Typing!
- Oh, okay.
"I don't wanna be on TV," she says.
- That I can work with. - That makes sense.
- We gotta butter her up. - Yeah.
- It is a bit of a vulnerable experience.
How do you feel about him?
[tense music]
- [exhales sharply]
- Oh, she says "Adam is a very good person and caring,
but I can't do this." All right.
"How does he know I don't live at that address?"
Because we went there and asked for you.
- Oh. - Whoa.
- I want you to leave that house alone.
- Whoa. Hold on.
- Look, "it's not good for you to go there."
Why? Why not?
- This is getting super weird.
both: "They have nothing to do with Adam."
- Please don't talk to them again.
- No problem. We'd love to talk to you.
- Right, so we understand. We don't want to upset anybody.
The only person we really want to talk to is you.
- "It's not good for you to go there."
"I want you to leave that house alone"?
You're the one putting them at risk.
Oh! - "If I talk to you,
that means you won't go back there again?"
We weirdly found her button.
She really doesn't want us to talk to those people.
- If you... - Agree to come in our Zoom,
I think we can do that.
- If she's ready, I'm going to send that link.
- Wow. Say it sounds good.
- Here's the Zoom ID.
- Well, what do you think, Adam?
I mean, how are you feeling towards this mystery Mercy?
- I mean, heartbroken.
But see where it goes from here.
- Well, let's not discount the possibility
that there could still be a real person
with a real connection and love for you.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[sighs] The waiting.
- Did she flake out or what?
[bell chiming] - Oh.
- Oh!
- [sighs] The waiting.
- Did she flake out or what?
[bell chiming]
- Oh. - Oh!
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Hi.
- Hello.
- [bleep].
- What-- uh, what's your name?
- Frank?
- Hello, Frank.
- The connection's a little weird.
- Are you...Mercy?
- Yep.
- Okay.
And where do you live?
- Wow.
- Oh, man.
- Where? Africa's a big place.
- I live in [bleep]. - Okay.
- Was anything you told me true?
Was there any part of the story
that you told me that was true?
- I mean, is this something you just do there for fun or--
Like, why do you do this? Why do you catfish people?
- What makes you think that it's any different
anywhere else though?
What makes you think that I don't have problems?
I get $800, $900 a month. That's all I have to live on.
That barely pays for living here,
but you want some of that money.
And me, being the person that I am,
trusting you, even loving you,
was willing to do that.
- Do you have a family?
- Does your girlfriend know that you are a catfish,
that you lie to people?
- How many men have you talked to
since you started doing this?
- How much money do you think you make doing this?
- Do you only talk to Americans?
- But if this is your way to make money,
you haven't made any money off of Adam?
- So why do you keep talking to him?
- I'm at a loss of words, I think.
In eight seasons of making this show, this is, like,
the absolute worst version of getting catfished
because it's just textbook scammer in Africa
who has absolutely no feelings for you.
- You don't feel the least bit sorry?
- You have to stop calling this a job
because this is not a job that you're doing.
It's wrong.
Who lives at that house that you gave the address to?
Why Torrance, California?
- Is that the only address you knew in America?
- You wanted us to stay away
because it would ruin the scam you are running.
- So another guy that you're catfishing
as Mercy lives at that address...
- Yes.
- With the woman who answered the door,
who doesn't know that she's being cheated on.
- Does that bother you,
the fact that he's married and talking to you?
That doesn't make you feel, like, the least bit guilty?
- Just a little bit?
- Yes, I think that's a little bad.
- Well, now I feel like I do need to go back there
and deliver some information andto my homegirl.oor
- All I can say is I'm very sorry and I apologize.
[tense music]
- Like, I see you sitting there, and you're smiling.
Like, what--what makes you smile about this?
I mean, you're tugging at people's heart strings,
expecting them to feel sorry for you,
but you don't feel sorry for anybody else.
- I'm so sorry.
♪ ♪
- You say you're sorry, but I see you're smiling.
Like, that's not really empathetic to me.
- I'm very sorry, Adam. I'm very sorry.
- Come on. I was serious about Mercy.
So serious that I went out
and I spent money I didn't have on a wedding ring.
- No.
- I was serious about Mercy,
so serious that I went out
and I spent money I didn't have on a wedding ring.
- No.
[somber music]
- So, why can't you stop? When are you going to stop?
- Okay.
- How much money do you make at that job?
- 50 [bleep] every two weeks? - Yes.
- That's only, like, $8.
- Wow.
- Can you tell us what's wrong?
- Well, Frank, obviously it's easy for us to pass judgement
or say, you know,
that what you did is wrong, because it is wrong.
We can understand your position.
But at the same time, you have to also understand
that Adam also struggles.
And now he has to deal with a heartbreak on top of that.
And I just hope that you can really understand that
and hopefully stop what you are doing
because, like you said, it hurts a lot of people.
- Honestly, I just-- I don't know.
You said you're going out with somebody right now, right?
Are you planning on marrying her?
- Yes. Yes.
- Well, now she's got a wedding ring.
This ring was meant for love.
I'm going to mail you the ring. You can have it.
- I do, Frank, I do.
- I'm definitely upset, even a little mad at you.
But I'm not mad that you tried to feed your family.
I forgive you for it.
- God bless you. - You got lucky, Frank,
because I don't know if the other guys would be
as insanely generous and kind as Adam is.
- All right, Frank, good luck.
Thank you for speaking with us.
You and Adam might stay in touch.
But no more Mercy. Okay?
- Good luck. - Take it easy, Frank.
Have a good one. - Bye.
- How could you be mad at the guy?
He gave us blessings and everything.
We're all blessed now.
- I was thinking about the ring.
And I was like, man,
wouldn't it be great if Frank could buy it from you,
paying you back from the money you spent.
But you one-upped me and offered to send it to him.
- It was meant for the purpose of love.
And I figured if he loves his girlfriend, you know,
it'd be something that she wouldn't normally get
or he couldn't afford, you know?
- Adam, you are... - It's the right thing to do.
-- Certainly, certainly going to heaven.
You are going to heaven. Please send me a postcard.
- I mean, he's obviously struggling.
- Adam, you're a great guy.
You're a bit of a sucker, okay? - [laughs]
- But do not ever lose that.
Because while it's the thing that makes you vulnerable,
it's also the thing that makes you
so goddamn special and beautiful.
- Aw. - So keep being you.
Obviously be a little bit more careful.
- I think you're going to make me cry.
- He's an asshole. You're an asshole, Nev.
- You're an asshole.
- Don't change because someone will be super, super lucky
to get that love and that generosity.
And you'll get what you deserve.
- Yeah, hopefully. - I'm sorry it didn't work out.
But I'm not sorry that we got to meet you.
- Thank you so much. Bye, you guys, thank you.
- Thanks, Adam. Take care of yourself.
That was the nicest thing
I've ever heard you say to anybody on the show.
You do have it in you, you old softy.
[WARM music]
[laughter]
- ♪ Your story's going to change ♪
♪ Just wait for better days ♪
♪ You've seen too much of pain ♪
♪ Now you don't even know ♪
♪ That your story's going to change ♪
♪ Just wait for better days ♪
♪ I promise you I won't let go ♪
He claims he's part of this group of college athletes, [tense music]
sharing this fake social media.
- He would text me from multiple different numbers.
It's out of control, at this point.
- E.J. sent me multiple pictures of Emma naked.
- Is there something he seems to want?
- To be with me.