- ♪ MTV ♪
- Hayley met Britani a year ago online.
- She's opened up to me about her trauma and stuff,
and that's what we bonded over,
but I went to go to D.C. to see her.
So I text Britani, "I'm in D.C." She read it.
She didn't say nothing to me at all.
- Something's off. - Yeah.
- Oh, I just went to her page, and it says user not found.
- What does your intuition tell you is going on?
- That it's somebody else.
- Hey, Nev. There's somebody out there looking for you.
- What the hell?
[gasps] Oh, my God. What the [bleep] is going on?
- Let's set some intentions, right?
Let's make a vision board here, okay? It's winter...
- Yes.
- So I'm not trying to go up here right now.
- Mm-mm. - But New Mexico would be nice.
I think we went to New Orleans once, but Louisiana.
- That would be nice. - Probably end up in Georgia.
I'm not worried about that.
- There are so many catfish in Atlanta.
We should make that our home base.
- All right. Let's find out where we're actually going.
- I'm ready. - All right. Let's dive in.
Subject. What I say doesn't matter.
"Dear Nev and Kamie, my name is Aliyah,
"and I don't know if I'm being paranoid
or if my sister Hayley is being reckless."
Okay, so this is a write-in it sounds like.
"Hayley lives in Houston, and I live in Georgia."
- Ah! Georgia. Told ya. - Yeah.
"So I've been out of the loop, in terms of her love life,
but when we came home to visit our mom in Los Angeles,
Hayley had quite the bombshell to drop.
About a year ago, she met a woman online
named Britani from D.C.
They hit it off but were both in relationships
they weren't willing to walk away from.
But about a month ago,
they picked up exactly where they left off
and are head-over-heels for each other.
I was happy for my sister,
until she dropped another bombshell.
Apparently she's never met or FaceTimed with this woman,
and she's booked a flight to D.C. next week."
Wow, and get this.
Hayley also went to D.C. earlier this summer,
and this Britani girl ghosted her.
- Catfish gonna catfish.
- ♪ Tell me that we'll make it ♪
- "I work in law enforcement,
"and I know how dangerous these situations can be.
What if this is some psychopath?"
- ♪ We're underneath it all ♪
"Maybe I'm being overprotective,
"but I'd rather be that if I can keep Hayley safe.
"I'm hoping you guys can get through to her.
Sincerely, Aliyah."
- ♪ Tell me that we'll make it ♪
- Yikes. - But if Aliyah works in
law enforcement, why can't she--
- Like, she could maybe do a background check
if she knew the real, actual name of the person...
- That's true. - Her sister's talking to,
but who knows if Britani is even her name?
We gotta call Aliyah.
[line trilling]
- Hello? - Hi. Aliyah?
- Um... - Nev and Kamie.
- Hey! - [laughs]
Hi. How y'all doing?
- We're good. We just finished reading your email.
I think we all share your interest and concern.
- Yeah.
- But rather than get into it over the phone,
it'd be better if we just came and met you guys.
- Okay. That'll be great actually.
- Whereabouts... - Yeah.
- Are you guys? - We are in Burbank.
- Oh, wow. Okay.
You're here staying with your mom, right?
- Right.
- Does that mean that Hayley is also with you?
- She is. Yes. - Perfect. Yeah.
Did you talk to her about coming on the show?
- Yeah. We didn't think it'd happen,
but I did say I would reach out.
- And was she receptive to that idea?
- Yes, she was.
- Okay. - Okay.
- So we could just cruise down to you right now.
- Okay. I can send you the address.
- Oh, that's great, so text me the address. We'll pack up.
We'll head over, and we'll get into it.
- Okay. both: Bye.
- So we gotta go. - We gotta go.
- All right.
[rock music]
- Here we go.
Britani apparently lives in D.C.
- Allegedly.
- But I'm hoping she's lying, and she's actually in Miami.
- We're close. - You think so?
- I see some ladies.
- Beep-beep. - What's up, ladies?
- Hey!
- Skrrr! - [laughs]
What's up? both: Hey.
- Who's who? Who's who? - Who's who?
- I'm Hayley. - I'm Aliyah.
- Alyah, I'm Kamie.
- Hi. - Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you too. - Wait, so you're Hayley?
- I'm Hayley. - Hi, hi, hi.
- Good to meet you.
- Yeah? We can't waste any time.
- Get to it. - It's so nice to be
in a house again. - All right.
You know what I like about being back on the road,
is I can get real comfy. This is my focus position.
- Okay. We'll see.
- Well, I'm glad you guys are here.
- Did you guys grow up in Los Angeles?
- We grew up in Bakersfield. - Got it.
- I live in Georgia now, though.
- Where in Georgia? - Atlanta.
- You're a police officer. What do you do?
- I take people to jail.
- So wait, so can you help us with this investigation?
- She's not allowed to, like, for personal use.
- Oh.
- I'm not trying to... - Right.
- Lose my job trying to help her out.
- Right.
- So that's why I called you all.
- If I had that kind of power,
I would certainly be abusing it for personal.
- Okay. It's not worth 15 years in prison.
- Wow, and, Hayley, you live in Houston.
- Yes. I live in Houston.
- What do you do for a living? - Oh, right.
- I used to do people's makeup,
and I also work in a restaurant.
- Well, your brows are fire. - Thank you.
- That is...
- Yeah. - Technique. Okay.
You're in Houston. You're doing makeup.
Was your ex in Houston?
- No. She was in Connecticut.
- That was the one you were in when you met Britani, right?
- Mm-hmm.
- But it was long-distance? - Yeah.
- Okay, so now explain kind of how you met Britani.
- So I met Britani on the Explore page
on Instagram last year in November.
I just started liking her pictures.
She liked mine back.
Then we started messaging each other.
Like, the next, what, six, seven months,
we were just texting, and we'd talk on the phone,
but not a lot. It's because she was in a relationship,
and I was in a relationship.
I figured, like, you know, before things get to be super,
super serious, like, let's figure out,
like, what we're gonna do with people we're dating.
So I had cut all ties with Britani,
but then I ended up breaking up, but we were still cordial.
Like, we were still cool with each other.
In August, we wanted to go to D.C., so it's like,
"I'm down. I don't care. Whatever. Let's go."
- Wait. You and the ex wanted to go to D.C.?
- Yeah. - But you were still friends.
- We were still cordial, yeah, so I had text Britani,
and I was like, "Hey, I'm in D.C."
She read it. She didn't say nothing to me at all.
- That's suspicious.
- Then November I missed Britani again.
Then things just got, like, more intense, more deep.
Like, we started texting a lot. We would talk on the phone.
And I was like, "Hey, you want to FaceTime?"
She would never want to FaceTime.
- Why didn't she want to FaceTime?
- I don't know. If I was like, "Hey, FaceTime me,"
she'll text me back always like, "Oh, I was working,"
or, "I was asleep," or whatever.
- Why she don't want to FaceTime?
She have an iPhone. Is it broken? Is she in jail?
Or maybe she don't want you to see the background.
- [laughs]
- Are you sending her pictures? - Yeah.
- Is she sending you pictures? - They're on Instagram.
- Public pics that anybody can get.
- Yeah.
- Isn't that weird? - Catfish.
[laughter]
- I don't know. I'm just hoping for the best.
Prepare for the worst.
- Well, what is it about this girl?
Like, why her out of anybody?
- Emotionally and mentally, like, she's there for me.
We'd talk about a lot. We have a lot in common.
Like, she's opened up to me about, like, stuff that, like,
you know, her trauma and stuff.
That's what we bonded over.
- Trauma bonding. - Yeah. Trauma bonding.
- Now, your sister said you are already planning
to go to D.C. to... - Yeah.
- See her. - Yeah.
- Were you planning on going there by yourself?
- Mm-hmm.
- And I can't be Captain Save-a-Ho, so I'm like...
- Right.
- We need to go ahead nip this...
- Right. - In the bud.
- But, you know, and sometimes
you kinda have to take risks if you want to...
- I don't know. - Experience new things.
- I'm with the popo on this one.
- I see crazy stuff every day. I don't know about that one.
- Well, because in your line of work taking risks and...
- Right. - Things like that...
- Yeah. - Can lead to danger.
- Human trafficking is real, so you're gonna go to D.C....
- Well, not at nighttime. - She gonna scoop you up.
- Yeah. You do have to be very careful.
- Right?
or her Instagram or something?
- Yes. This is a picture that she sent me of her.
- She's cute. Okay.
- And then sent me this video, but it was nothing of her
saying anything. And then this is the picture
that she sent me of her and her best friend.
- Okay.
- But she's never told me about her before.
- Weird. - A red flag.
- Is that her Twitter?
- The friend's Twitter. It's gotta be.
- Oh, it is. Yeah. - Sillie Lillie.
All right, so that's someone we can reach out to.
- Mm-hmm. - You guys text pretty often?
- Yeah. - "I love you a ton," she said.
"I miss you." You guys say, "I love you,"
and, "I miss you" a lot. Yeah.
I mean you guys are definitely very cute with each other.
What's the holdup? What's the problem?
- It's just, like, unusual, right?
She meets a girl on social media. She's...
- Anyway though. - "I'm gonna go see her.
I'm gonna," you head over heels for somebody you
don't even know. I'm confused.
- So she did send me a message this morning,
but I don't want my sister to see it.
- Oh. Oh. Okay. There seems to be
some additional information you want to share,
but you want your sister to go, so...
- [laughs]
- Well, I hope y'all figure it out.
- We will. Good to meet you. We got her. Don't worry.
- All right, so what's... - The exclusive.
- This mystery message you...
- Oh, look at you coming in close again.
- Didn't want your sister to see?
- What is going on?
- So I told her that I couldn't wait to see her next week.
- And she said... - "Yeah. I actually wanted
"to talk to you about that, and don't be upset with me,
"but I don't think it's the best time for you to come.
"Work is hella crazy right now, because of the holidays,
and I won't be able to be available to you."
- And I just didn't respond.
- Ugh. - So how did that feel?
- I'm flying in a Tuesday.
- She said not to come. - I know. I want to hope that--
- But the might not even be in D.C., period.
- Well, that's our job, I guess,
to figure out if she is or not.
- Something's off.
- That's--yeah--literally why I do want y'all's help,
because I don't know what I'm gonna walk into.
And I don't know who's gonna be on the other end.
- All right. Well, then we know what we need to do.
- Yeah. - So send us an email
with her phone number, her Instagram.
Let us do some research. We'll see what we find,
and then we'll regroup tomorrow and strategize.
- Okay. - Good to meet you.
- You too. - Thank you for having us.
- Thank you. - Bye!
- See you tomorrow. Bye.
- Oh, boy. She got the, "Don't come.
Now's not a good time" message.
- Oh, boy is right. Maybe she has a girlfriend,
or maybe she's involved with other girls.
- I'm gonna go ahead and say chances are very slim
that she's the girl in the pictures.
- I'm just glad that we were able to intervene
before Hayley did something that she's gonna regret.
[upbeat funky music]
- Let’s get down to business.
- That’s when you’re \h\h\hat the doctor.
Any past medical history? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNo? Okay.
It’s like, "What the [bleep] \h\h\h\hare you typing then?"
Medications? Diarrhea? \h\h\h\h\h\h- [laughs]
\h\h\h\hSo Aliyah called us, because her big sister Hayley
for the past year
has known this girl Britani \hshe met through Instagram.
\h\h\h\hThey were both in other relationships,
but they still were flirting \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand talking.
A few months go by.
Both relationships \h\happarently end,
\h\h\hand then very quickly the relationship heats up.
- But all the while,
\h\h\h\hHayley can’t even get Britani on FaceTime.
\h\h\h- And Hayley books herself a flight to D.C.
\h\h\hTells Britani, "Hey, I’m gonna come visit you."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - Britani finally responds
and says, "I don’t think \h\hthis is a good time,"
\h\h\h\h\hand now Hayley doesn’t know what to do.
Lucky for her, we’re here.
\h\h\h\h\h- I’m curious to see what Britani’s page looks like.
- Let’s check it out.
\h"Hey, Nev and Kamie, here’s the stuff that you asked for.
"Her phone number. \h\hHer Instagram.
"I’m sending the screen grab
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"she sent me with her best friend Lillie
"The shot’s taken from Lillie’s Twitter page,
"but I haven’t heard \hher talk about this
"Lillie person before.
"If you have any more questions \h\h\h\hor need anything else,
you can call me."
\hAll right. Where would you like to start? Lady’s choice.
- Let’s look at the Instagram. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- All right.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou want to go to her Instagram. All right.
- Master of finesse.
- Wait. What? Nothing comes up.
- Master of finesse underscore. \h\h\h- There is an underscore.
\h\h\hWe should be able to just copy-paste it.
\h\h\h- Yeah. - Right? Hmm.
- Unless she spelled it wrong? \h- All right. Let’s text her.
"Can’t find Britani’s Insta."
\h\h\h\h\h\hAll right, so let’s wait out that.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hShould we do a little phone searchy-search?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. - No results. Hmm.
All right. - Mm-mm-mm.
- So that’s unfortunate. \h\h\h\h\h\h[phone dings]
Oh, she wrote us back.
Oh, "I just went to her page, \h\h\h\hand it says this now.
User not found." What the [bleep]?
Her page was just up a couple of days ago.
\h- That explains why we couldn’t find it.
- Yeah. That’s not a good sign.
\h- I want to see that screen grab
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfrom that Lillie girl’s Twitter.
\h\h\h- Yeah. Let’s go find that Twitter. There it is.
- "Missing my bestest friend."
- Sillie Lillie is \hher Twitter name.
Let’s see. Here she is.
\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - Okay, okay, okay.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - This is a person. Yeah.
Oh, there’s the picture. "Missing my best friend."
- Two likes.
What if one of them \his from homegirl?
- That’s Britani. And that’s Brit.
\h\h\h\h\h- Yes. - That was smart.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThat was smart. Okay, okay. We got a Twitter.
Bingo. Here’s her.
\h- In Washington, D.C. - This is a very active
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hTwitter page with a lot of photos of her.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - That’s her friend.
- Mm-hmm, and the next \h\hone’s with Lillie.
- Sillie Lillie. This weirdly is making it feel very legit
that Britani is Britani, \h\h\h\hdoes live in D.C.
- Unless someone is copying \h\h\h\hthis Britani’s life
and making imposter profiles.
\h- She’s gotta have--wait. What’s this? Look at this.
\h\h\hDifferent Instagram that Hayley hasn’t seen.
Busted. We got a hit. \hLet’s look that up.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hboth: Brit. - Oh. Same little bio. Active.
\h- Mm-hmm. - Private.
- Could Hayley actually be \h\hjust getting catfished
and whoever this person is just \h\hgave her this fake profile?
And, like, that explains \h\h\h\hwhy they haven’t
\h\hgotten on FaceTime or anything like that.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Right. - Because why wouldn’t
this Britani get on FaceTime?
\h\h\h\h- I don’t know. - We should message...
- We should message Lillie. - Lillie, the best friend.
- And let’s look her up. \hOh, there she is. Boom.
\h\hGot her page. Looks legit. Lot of likes. Lot of comments.
- Lillie probably \hhas the scoop.
- Let’s send her a message.
\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - Go, "Hey, Lillie.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"This is Nev. We are making an episode now
\h"that might involve your friend Britani.
Please give me a--thanks." \h\h\h\h\hAll right. Great.
I’m feeling like we’re getting \h\h\h\h\hcloser to something.
[phone dings] \h\h\h- Ooh.
- Oh, Hayley just asked \h\hif we can call her.
[line trilling]
\h\h\h\h\h- Hello? - Hey, what’s up?
- Yeah. It’s weird. \h\h\hIt’s strange.
- Is "master of finesse" the only Instagram handle
that you’ve had for her \h\hfrom the beginning?
- We’re also finding a lot of
interesting things over here right now, so let us wrap up,
\h\hand then we’ll head out and meet you at your place.
- Bye.
\h\h\hI don’t know what to make of it.
I mean, on one hand, \h\hthrilled to learn
\h\h\h\hthat there is a girl named Britani,
and she is the girl \hin the pictures,
does live in D.C., but there’s something weird about the fact
\h\h\h\hthat there are these other social media platforms
that Hayley doesn’t know about.
To me it’s pointing more \h\h\hto the possibility
\hthat someone’s simply impersonating Britani.
- Sketch. If Hayley makes \h\h\hthat trip to D.C.,
she could be in real danger.
- Do you think Hayley will take this information as good news?
Is she gonna say, "Oh, my God. She is real.
I knew it," but the fact that there's other Instagram
and Twitter accounts that she doesn't know about...
- Mm-hmm. - Will upset her.
- Mm-hmm. - 'Cause that feels [bleep] up.
[phone dings] Ooh. Who's this?
Says, "I got your message on Instagram,"
so that must be Lillie.
- Britani's friend. - Ooh.
"Do you still want to call?"
- Yes. - "Want me to call?" Yes.
FaceTime would be even better.
[phone chimes]
- We're not gonna FaceTime her...
- Oh! Oh, she's FaceTiming.
- Next to a bucket of French fries.
- All right. Ready? Hello.
- Hey. - Hi.
- Okay, so you know who we are...
- Yes, I know who you are. - And that we make the show.
We're making an episode now. Basically, there's this girl
who thinks she's been talking to your friend Britani.
And we're trying to find out
if she's talking to the real Britani
or perhaps someone pretending to be Britani.
- Well, are you and Britani just friends?
- Yeah. That's been my best friend for years.
- Okay. - So as far as you know,
is Britani talking to someone?
- She's had an on again-off again relationship,
for the past year, with somebody.
- In D.C. - Yeah. In the area.
- Maryland. And is she on now?
- She might be.
- Okay. Have you ever heard Britani
talk about a girl named Hayley from Houston?
- No. Definitely not a Hayley
and definitely nobody from Houston.
- So either someone's made fake profiles of her
with her name and her pictures
from the place that she says she's from
or Britani has a sort of weird second profile
and is kind of having this secret side thing
with this girl for the past,
you know, year on again-off again.
- Well, I think I would know
if she was talking to somebody, you know?
- Right. - Right.
- Do you know if Britani's Instagram got hacked recently?
- That I'm not sure of.
She's mostly only active on TikTok.
- Ah, we didn't even [bleep] think to look there.
- We didn't [bleep] check there.
- All right, so look.
Let Britani know that that we'd like to talk to her.
- Yeah. I'll definitely give her a call.
I'm very confused as well.
- Thank you so much... - Thank you.
- Lillie. - Welcome.
- Okay. Bye. - Bye.
- What do you think?
- I don't think Lillie's lying to us, but, like,
is there a chance that Britani didn't tell her
about some random girl she met
on Instagram that, like, she flirts with...
- Yes. - Sometimes?
- But why would Britani not FaceTime with her?
- That--the FaceTiming thing I can't explain.
- Right. - I want to see the TikTok.
- Oh, yeah, and here she is.
God. She posts a lot.
She certainly doesn't seem shy on TikTok.
- This girl's not FaceTiming? - Oh, wait.
Now we've got even more to talk about and to show Hayley,
so I think we should just head on out.
[upbeat electronic music]
- Ready, Freddy? How are you?
- We back. - We back. How's it going?
- I'm anxious.
- Well, look, we found a lot of stuff.
- Okay.
- All right, so we found the Twitter account
for the girl Lillie in the picture
that she sent you who is supposedly Britani's friend.
- Right. - And Kamie very astutely
noticed that there were two likes on the photo,
so she said, "Click it," and look what we saw,
a Twitter account that you don't know about for Britani.
- Okay. - Some pictures you've seen...
- You haven't seen these. - Some you haven't, right?
- Yeah. No. I haven't seen these.
- So then we saw on January of 2020 she wrote,
"Brit from Maryland. IG," and put another account.
So we typed that in, and we found this.
Finesse Brit with the exact same bio.
- The bio. - And picture.
- But it's private. Weird that there would be another
Instagram account that seems very similar
to the one that you were... - Yeah. Yeah.
- Talking to, so strange that she never mentioned that.
- Right.
- Why does she have two nearly identical accounts?
Are they both hers?
What is the deal? The next thing we did was,
we got in touch with Britani's friend Lillie
from that Twitter post, and she FaceTimed us.
She says Britani's her best friend.
She lives in D.C. We asked her if Britani
ever mentioned Hayley, and she said no.
[Galia Arad's "I Must Have Misunderstood"]
- Okay. - So then we asked, "All right,
"well, as far as you know,
is Britani in any kind of a relationship?"
She said she's been
in an on again-off again thing for a while.
- Okay. - But Lillie said that things
seemed to be kind of back on.
♪ ♪
- Also, according to Lillie, Britani doesn't use
Instagram very much. She's very heavily on TikTok,
so we looked up her TikTok, and this is what we saw.
- She's posted, like, hundreds of TikToks.
♪ ♪
- She never told me anything about no TikTok.
- So our thought is, a person who will post a bunch of videos
of themself on a public app probably would not have
an issue with getting on FaceTime with you.
- Right.
- What does your intuition tell you is going on?
- That it's somebody else.
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Music's been playing so long ♪
♪ It's to face it now ♪
- The only other possibility is that it is her
and she hasn't told anyone about you,
because she keeps you private.
And the reason she doesn't think you should come now
is because things are back on with her ex.
But that doesn't really explain
why she wouldn't be able to FaceTime with you.
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- Pisses me off, but it's, like, I don't know.
Just 'cause I just want to know, like,
are you trying to be this way for your friends
and then this way for me, or is it somebody else?
- I mean, which one would be worse?
- Honestly, I don't know.
- ♪ Here I am right where you left me ♪
♪ In the dark ♪
- This doesn't make sense to me.
None of it does.
I just want to know who and why.
- ♪ This was the love ♪
♪ I must have misunderstood ♪
- This doesn’t make sense \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto me.
I just want to know \h\h\hwho and why.
- Whether it’s the real Britani \h\h\h\h\h\h\hor someone else,
I think we just have \h\hto go right at it
and give her a call.
[line trilling]
[tense music]
- Leave your message \h\h\h\hfor [bleep].
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hey, Britani. This is Nev from "Catfish."
Listen, I am with Hayley,
\h\h\h\h\h\hand we’d love to help you guys meet up.
Give me a call back \h\hat this number,
\hand hopefully, we can make this finally happen. Thanks.
Bye. I’m gonna text her now \h\h\h\h\h\ha picture of us
so she knows I’m legit.
\h\h\hOkay. Sent. How do you feel?
\h\h\h\h\h- Mad as hell. - She’s hiding something.
- Something.
\h- [groans] [phone dings]
- Oh! Whoa, whoa, whoa. \h\h\h\hShe wrote back.
- "Wow. Hey, what’s going on?"
\h\h\h\h- "Trying to help you and Hayley finally meet up."
Oh, she’s typing. \h- She’s typing.
- "Meet up how? Like when?"
"Meet up face-to-face.
\h\h\h\hWe can fly her to meet you tomorrow."
[tense music]
- She’s typing.
"Not going to lie. \h\hIt’s too soon.
I can’t just get off work \hat a moment’s notice."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Okay. Well, if not tomorrow..."
\h\h\h- ’Cause she said she’s-- - "Then it has to be Thursday."
- Mm-hmm.
\h\h\h\h\h- "I can try to make Thursday work.
I do want to meet her, \h\h\hbut I’m nervous."
All right. this is good. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Why?
- Well, hold on a second.
\h\h\hLet’s assume we know why she’s nervous, which is that--
- She ain’t her. \h\h\h\h- Right.
"We need to book our flight, so please confirm location."
\h- Why do I feel like it’s gonna be not D.C.?
- I’m out near... \hboth: Waldorf.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Maryland. I mean that’s basically D.C.
- "This sounds...and we will \h\h\h\hfly to D.C. tomorrow
and expect to hear from you."
♪ ♪
And we’ll see.
\h\h\hSo I guess we’ll meet you at the airport in the morning,
and off we go.
- I’m ready.
[upbeat rock music]
- All right.
\hTaking the show back on the road.
D.C., here we come.
Here we are back in the fray.
Britani, here we come. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Whoo!
- Time for the truth \h\h\h\hto come out.
First time we’ve been on a flight together.
- [indistinct].
♪ ♪
- Please take your seat \hand clear the aisle.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Shut [bleep]. - Hey, Hayley. How you feeling?
- I’m nervous.
- ♪ And I’m staring at the sun \h\h\htripping into the void ♪
♪ I don’t mind it down here ♪
- We made it.
- Here we are, guys, \h\hKamie’s hometown.
- ♪ Everybody says that they \h\h\hwant some, want some ♪
\h♪ Hold me underwater, not afraid of drowning ♪
♪ The light is everywhere ♪
We made it.
[tense music]
[knock at door]
Hey.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hello. - Come on in. What’s up?
- You look so cute. - Good to see you.
- How’d you sleep? \h- I barely slept.
I went to sleep at maybe, like, \h3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- [gasps] - Any communication with--
- Yep. \h- Oh.
- So she said, "Hey, love.
Meet me at Tilghman Park \htomorrow around 11:00."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Wow. - "It’s around 10 to 15 minutes
from your hotel." \h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm.
- Text her back and say, "Hey, we’re on our way to the park."
\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. - "See you soon."
I mean, it sort of ignores \h\h\h\h\h\h\hher last text
which I think is good.
\h\h\h- Yeah. [phone chimes]
- What--what did she say?
- She said, "Okay."
- Oh. Let’s head to the park \hbefore she gets cold feet.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Yes.
\h\h\h\h\h- All right. Which way are we going?
- Left.
somebody out here
\h\h\hthat says she’s got something to say to Nev.
- Oh.
- What?
What the [bleep] is going on?
- Is that her?
- There's somebody out there... - Oh.
- Looking for you. - Who is that?
- What?
- What the [bleep]? That's [bleep] Lillie.
- Is it?
[gasps]
Oh, my God. - Is that Lillie?
- That's Lillie. That's Lillie.
- It is, right? - That is Lillie.
- How would she know that we're at this hotel?
- Well, you told-- - I told Britani.
- Britani. - Well...
- I just got chills.
- You could talk to her, 'cause I...
- All right. I'll talk to her.
[tense music]
Hi. Lillie?
- Yes. - What's up?
- I just have maybe not-so-good news to tell you.
- Okay.
- So the person that you guys
think that you're gonna go meet today is not gonna be there.
- Just not gonna be there? - Yeah.
- You're supposed to be friends with the real Britani.
- Yes. Yes, so when you said--
- Is Hayley talking to the real Britani?
- Well--
- 'Cause otherwise, how do you know
who Hayley's talking to if it's not your friend?
- We put the pieces together, over the last few days.
- And figured out who Hayley is talking to?
- Yes, so they're just not gonna be there today.
This is really embarrassing for Britani and her family.
- So it's someone close to Britani.
- Yeah. - Ah. Oh, so wait, so--
- Hi. - Hi. You must be Hayley.
- Yeah. - I'm sorry. Pardon my...
- This is Kamie. - Left hand.
- Nice to meet you. - Good to meet you in person.
This is Hayley. - Hi.
- You're Lillie. - Yes. Yes.
The person you've been talking to who you think
you're gonna go meet with today is not gonna be there.
- So it sounds like someone has been pretending
to be Britani talking to you.
You and Britani were unaware of that,
but then when we started asking questions
they realized it must be this person,
who I'm guessing is part of or close to the family.
And now they're hoping to avoid revealing that,
because they don't want to make it a bigger thing.
I guess am I getting that right?
- So I just don't get
why Britani couldn't just tell us that.
- She just--she was embarrassed.
Her family was embarrassed, so...
- And Britani doesn't want to just help...
- Say anything.
- Clear this up? - The family, Britani,
they don't really want any part of it.
- And I appreciate that, but you, I'm sure,
then also appreciate that, for us,
like, we don't know if that's true.
The problem is, like, you could be saying that
because Britani is the one who's been talking to her
and doesn't want to get in trouble with the girl
she's sort of dating.
How do we know that this isn't also some sort of strange,
like, not actually what's going on story?
- Okay. Do you want me to try to get in contact with Britani?
- Yeah. I mean, look, at the very least,
it would be nice to hear from her...
- Sure.
- If she is or is not talking to Hayley.
- Okay, so I guess I'll go make a quick phone call
and get back to you.
- Okay. - All right.
Well--well, yeah.
We'll just hang out and let us know.
♪ ♪
It's making me feel like she's the one that was texting.
- You think Lillie's the one that you've been texting with?
- Because who else would know that I'm here?
- Well, her story,
which is a little--which is--makes sense,
but it's a first, is that they didn't realize
there was a fake--I don't know. Yeah. It's hard--
- Yeah, but so then you talk to the person
who actually is behind all of this...
- Right. - And they said,
"Oh, by the way, they're staying at the Hampton Inn...
- Right. - In Waldorf," like--
- Well-- - Oh, she just [bleep].
- What?
- Holy [bleep]. What the hell's going on here?
- You should have went with her.
We can never let somebody just go loose like that.
- I thought she was just going to make a phone call.
- Okay. Can we just--
- That's why I feel like... - I mean--
- It's gotta be her. - Right.
It certainly makes sense that it could have been her,
but why would you go to all that trouble
and finally show up, and, like, not--
- Say anything. - Just to actually, finally...
- She doesn't seem like... - See her.
- The kind of person that, like--
- Who seems like the kind of person?
Tell me what the kind of person looks like.
Did she seem like the kind of person
that was gonna stand here and say,
"Oh, I'm just gonna make a quick phone call."
No. That was weird as hell.
- I feel like it's her. - Well, try--maybe text.
- I thought it was somebody wanting a picture or something.
- Well, that's what I kind of thought,
and then when I saw her she looked familiar.
- Britani text and said, "Hey, I'm almost to the park."
- Let's just go and see.
- Don't say nothing back? - The person you're...
- Come on. - Trying to meet today is...
- Well, maybe she's-- - Is not gonna be--
- Maybe it's her. Did she just text?
- She just-- - She just text.
- 'Cause she just--she's running to the park right now.
- Maybe that is her. Let's go and find out.
- It's Lillie. - Let's just go and find out.
- Maybe it is. Who knows? - Maybe it is.
- But it ain't the person in the picture.
- What the hell? Oh, my God.
- Well, let's just go and see
what the heck is waiting for us.
- It just still does not add up.
- But if this scenario plays out
and Lillie is involved, and, like,
does know, or whatever, like, why wouldn't she just wait
and meet us at the park? Why come here...
- Or at least say that right here.
- Tell us not to go?
- To gauge Hayley's temperature.
- And then to get a text from the person saying--
- "Hey, I'm almost here." It's like--
- It's like I don't understand. - That's why I feel
like it's her, because she dipped out so fast.
- None of it makes sense. - That was so weird.
♪ ♪
- Ooh, my heart is beating so fast.
♪ ♪
My stomach is, like... - Yeah.
- I don't know where to park. - Ohh...
- I guess we'll walk around. - Lord Jesus.
♪ ♪
- All right. Well, let's go snoop around,
see what we can find.
- And if it's not Lillie, then she did warn us.
- Okay. - Oh, boy.
♪ ♪
- There's nobody here.
- What the [bleep]?
♪ ♪
There's somebody down there.
- Who's that?
Is that someone?
- [gasps]
- Who’s that? \h\h- [gasps]
- I can’t see that far.
- What the hell? - That’s Britani.
- What the [bleep]?
- What’s up? \h\h\h\h- Hi.
- Hey. Hey.
- I’m so confused. Hi. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hi.
\h\h- Nev. - Britani.
both: Nice to meet you. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Kamie.
both: Nice to meet you. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Britani.
- Hey.
How you doing?
♪ ♪
[indistinct].
\h- We’re confused. - What do you mean?
- But maybe you don’t know \h\h\hwhat’s been going on.
Somehow there’s a situation,
so have you been talking \hto her the whole time?
- Yes. Hayley? \h\h\h\h- Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - It’s been you texting her?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes. - Okay, but if that’s true,
then why haven’t you \hFaceTimed with her?
- I don’t do long-distance \h\h\h\h\h\hrelationships,
so if I FaceTime with her, it’d make the relationship,
or, you know, what we have \h\ha bit too real for me.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. - I’m scared of it.
- Do you have two sort of
\hnearly identical Instagram accounts?
- No. My Instagram got hacked.
- So that really happened? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes.
- But there’s another \hInstagram account.
- Yeah. That used to be \h\hmy old Instagram...
- Okay.
\h\h- But I don’t have that Instagram anymore.
- You don’t use that? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- Okay.
♪ ♪
Who’s Lillie?
- Lillie’s my best friend. \h- Okay. We spoke to her.
- Spoke to Lillie? \h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
We had a FaceTime call with her two days ago.
- She didn’t tell you that? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Well...
\h\h\h- No. No. - I guess not.
\h\h\h\hDid you tell Lillie you were meeting us today?
\h- Yeah. I told her like, "I’m talking to this girl,
\h\h\hand I’m gonna meet up with her."
Didn’t think anything of it.
- Lillie just met us \h\h\h\hat our hotel,
and she said that it wasn’t you
\h\h\h\h\h\hand that it was some embarrassing situation
\hand that we should just leave it alone.
- I don’t understand why \hshe talked to you guys,
\h\h\h\h\h\hbut I’m, like, actually really pissed off,
’cause it’s just, like, \h\h\h\hweird behavior.
\h\h\hIt’s not something, like, I know--like, I know her to do.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - You know? So it’s weird.
- I mean, we gotta talk to her \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand figure out
what’s actually going on here,
’cause you seem like \h\ha genuine person.
I don’t think that you would show up here if you weren’t,
but I’m hella scared
\h\hthat Lillie’s about to pop out of a bush...
\h\h\h\h- Literally. - And kill all of us
\h\hfor making this interaction happen.
\h\h\h\h\h- All right, so let’s call Lillie...
- Yeah, yeah.
\h\h\h- And see if there’s some explanation for this.
[line trilling]
♪ ♪
\h\h- That’s exactly what I was thinking.
\h\hHave you ever thought that she might have a crush on you?
\h\h\h- We’ve been friends for so long, so it’s weird.
- Well, because there’s only \h\h\h\h\h\h\htwo scenarios.
Either you’re just \hbold-faced lying,
or Lillie is in love with you
\hand has been trying to keep Hayley away from meeting you,
\h\h\hwhich is what I think is actually going on here.
- Friends joke about it \h\h\h\h\hall the time,
but, you know--you know, her being my best friend
I never really thought \h\h\h\htwice about it.
- Does Lillie date women?
- She dibbles and dabbles \h\h\h\h\h\h\hsometimes.
\h\h\h\h- In the past, has she been supportive
of your relationships?
- She’s been protective...
\h- Okay. - Of me.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou know, but not to this extent.
- All right, until now.
- Yeah.
- It looks like Lillie made up \h\h\h\h\h\hsome weird nonsense
and made an effort to kind of \h\h\h\htry and mess this up.
\h\h\h\h- Right. - And almost did.
\h\hHonestly, I don’t want your friendship with Lillie
to end over this.
Hopefully, you guys \hcan work it out.
- She’s just gotta respect boundaries.
- But forget Lillie.
Look, this craziness is getting \h\h\h\hin the way of you guys
\h\h\h\h\h\hjust getting to, like, be cool and actually...
- Right.
- Meet each other, for the first time.
Let’s just kind of start fresh. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou like her?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes. - And you like her?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - And even though you were
a little hesitant about taking the next step...
\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Here we are.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Here we are. - Finally meeting face-to-face.
Hang out. We’re gonna give you \h\h\h\hsome room to just vibe,
and we’ll check in with you, \h\h\h\h\h\hin a little bit.
Give ’em some space.
\h\h\h\h\h- How are you? - I’m good. How are you?
\h\h\h\h\h- I’m good. - You look beautiful.
- Thank you.
- You’re better not cry. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I know.
- Isn’t that glitter \h\h\h\hon your face?
- I don’t know.
- Ooh, they ’bout to...
- Oh, baby.
\h\h\h\h- Some space. Give ’em some space.
- Such a dad.
[laughs]
- Why’d it take you so long to, \h\h\h\h\hlike, meet? FaceTime?
\h\h\h\h\h- Scared. Just trying to protect myself. That’s all.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Well, now that we’re face-to-face, now what?
Are you still scared?
- I’m always gonna be scared, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know.
Jumping into something, you know, something new
is always gonna be scary, \h\h\hbut I’m willing to,
you know,
\h\h\h\h\h\hmove forward and see where this goes.
- We did it. We did it, Nev.
\hWe’ve got another positive situation.
- Did you want to go sit at the bench on the pier?
- Lillie almost... - No. No. Lillie--
- Screwed that up.
- Lillie’s not invited \h\h\h\hto the wedding.
That’s for sure. \h\h\h\h\hSorry.
- So?
- I want to, you know, be with you, you know.
I want to see, you know, \h\h\h\hwhere things go.
From now on, I’ll FaceTime you.
\h\h- You’re gonna definitely have to.
- ’Cause I--
- You’re definitely \h\hgonna have to.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Only ’cause-- - Especially because--so, like,
especially because we’re going \h\h\h\h\hto be long-distance.
You know what I’m saying? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
\h- But I’m happy that I came here.
- I am--I am too.
\h\h\hI mean, obviously it’s not the ideal way,
\h\h\h\h\h\hbut, you know, I’m glad that you’re here.
- Me too.
- Oh, my God.
♪ ♪
- We’ll figure it out, \h\h\h\h\hlike, but...
\h\h\h- Right. Yeah. - We can make it fun.
Like, we can meet and...
- We just thought--you know. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Oh.
\h\h\h\h- Oh! - Here we go.
- What better time? \h\h\h\h- Oh. Hey.
- Ahh!
- That was cute.
♪ ♪
[computer chimes]
- Oh!
\h\h- What’s up? both: Oh, my God.
- You’re together?
\h- This is crazy. - How are you guys?
- Where are you guys? \h\h- We’re in Texas.
Britani moved here on New Year’s Day.
\h\h- Ahh! - Oh, my--
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWow. Did you guys move in together?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - This is what we love to see.
- I realized I wanted \h\h\hto be with her,
\hso I figured I would, you know, make it work.
- And so what happened \h\h\h\h\hwith Lillie?
- I got in contact with her \h\h\h\h\hafter everything,
and she basically \hjust was saying
how she was trying \h\hto protect me.
\h\h\h\hShe felt like I was rushing things.
- But we were all so sure
that Lillie was secretly \h\h\h\hin love with you.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I still do.
I’m sure Lillie feels a way.
- Oh, definitely. \h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- Definitely feels a way. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKind of...
\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Talked it out.
\h\h\hSet some boundaries. We’re still best friends.
- Ohh. Well, this is great.
- I’m so happy for you guys.
\h\h\h- Yeah. I’m happy. - Hayley, are you happy
that your sister wrote \h\h\h\hin to the show?
- Even though she was shady, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbut yeah.
\h\h- I’m gonna come hang out with y’all.
\h- And next time we’re in Houston, we’ll hit you up.
- All right. - Oh, bye!
\h- Bye. - Bye.
\h- Oh!
- Pamela has been talking to Fernando for six years.
- He makes me feel everything.
- Well, you know what he looks like, right?
- Um...
- Face recognition. Oh!
- Wait, this is him. - But who is he?
- Who's at the end of this road here?
There's a car parking.
- Oh, my God. [gasps]