- ♪ MTV ♪
- Onyx has been talking \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto Lola.
\h\h\h- She fell in my hand, like an angel just came down,
and just did the work for me.
- Let’s run the pics. \h\h\h\h\h\hboth: Oh!
- Who is it? \h\h- [gasps]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hello. You want to come on out?
- I don’t see why we have \h\h\hto see each other.
- You want to open the door \h\h\h\h\h\h\ha little bit?
- Oh, my God. \h\h\h\h- Oh.
- Oh. - Hi.
[dramatic music]
[upbeat music]
- It’s the new year. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYay!
2022 is looking up.
- I’m excited. \h\h\h- Ready.
- We’re finally really back, \h\h\hand you’re now single!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - It’s gonna be your year.
- It is, I’m manifesting it. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- My dream man is on the way. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Let’s see.
Maybe your dream man \his waiting for you
right on the other side \h\h\h\hof the screen.
- Oh, my God.
- "What’s up, Nev and Kamie? \h\h\h\h\h\hMy name is Onyx.
\h"I’m a 22-year-old living in Charlotte.
\h\h\h"I’m reaching out ’cause this girl, Lola,
is driving me crazy."
- ♪ What if I wake up happy? ♪
- "She friended me 2 1/2 months ago,
\h"and she was very beautiful, so I accepted and hit her up.
\h\h"As soon as she told me she stayed in Charlotte, it was on.
"I was ready to meet her. I feel sparks with Lola.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand I think we could be a perfect couple."
\h\h- ♪ When I wake up, you’re not next to me ♪
♪ Guess I’m missing \hall your energy ♪
\h\h- "But there’s no doubt this girl is hot and cold."
- ♪ ’Cause all I want is you ♪
- "Sometimes she’s all in.
Sometimes I don’t get a response for days."
- ♪ It takes two ♪
\h\h- "When I try to video call her,
she either won’t answer \hor her camera’s off."
- Deep sigh.
- "Everyone is basically \h\h\h\h\h\h\htelling me
"she could be a catfish.
\h\h\hBut I haven’t been this into someone in a long time."
\h- ♪ All I want is you to answer me right now ♪
- "She’s kind of taken \h\h\h\hover my brain.
\h"I can’t focus on anything else.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Is she real, or is this some kind of prank?
I need to figure this out. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hOnyx."
Then he put his phone number \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand then,
"This is a house phone, \hso you can’t text it.
I don’t have a cell number."
\h\h\h\h\h\hHe doesn’t have a-- - He doesn’t have a cell phone.
Maybe Lola thinks \hhe’s a catfish.
- Wait a second.
- Who doesn’t have \h\h\ha cell phone?
Call the house?
- All right, let’s call Onyx.
[phone line trilling]
- Hello, is Onyx home?
- My God, I haven’t had to do that in so long.
- I’ve been transported \h\h\h\h\hback to 2002.
- I know, right?
\h- Onyx, hey, it’s Nev and Kamie from Catfish.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hey, Onyx. - Oh, hey, how you doing?
\h\h\h\h- What’s up, man? Who did we just talk to?
Your mom?
\h\h- Oh, that was your sister, okay.
\h\h\hWhat’s up with you not having a cell phone?
- How long have you been \h\h\h\hwithout a phone?
- What? - Yeah.
\h\h\h\h- All right, well, I’ve got a lot of questions
\h\h\habout your email, and now more questions about just you.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIs it cool if we come to Charlotte,
meet up with you tomorrow, \h\h\h\h\h\hand kind of see
\h\hif we can figure this whole thing out?
- Great. \h- Bye.
- Bye.
- This will be fun.
\hI haven’t been to North Carolina in a long time.
- Charlotte, here we come.
\h- ♪ I do what I want, I do, I do what I want ♪
♪ Turn it up just a, just a \h\hlittle bit, turn it up ♪
♪ Just a, just a little bit ♪
Here we go.
- ♪ Walk like that, \h\htalk like that ♪
♪ I do what I want, I do ♪
♪ I do what I want ♪
- All right.
- ♪ Enjoy the ride, \h\henjoy the ride ♪
♪ Enjoy the ride ♪
- Here we are. It’s nice here.
- ♪ Enjoy the ride ♪
\h\h\h- Cute. - All right.
\h\h\h\h\h\hHey. - Hello, welcome.
- I’m Kamie. \h- I’m Diji.
- Diji? - Yeah.
- I’m his sister.
- Hello! \h- Hey!
- There he is.
- Ask and you shall receive. \h\h\h\h\h\h- How you doing?
- What’s up? \h\h\h\hWow.
- We came. - Shall we?
\h\hLet’s head in. - You lead the way.
\h\h\h- I like this. - Yeah, this is nice.
You guys grew up in Charlotte? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- Yeah, born and raised. \h\h\h- Born and raised.
\h\h- How has he been as a little brother?
- Man, ever since a youngster,
like, always on women, \h\h\h\h\hloves women.
- Oh.
\h\h\h\h\h- I typically hear about all this dating stuff.
\hI’m like, "We trusting the Instagram now, bro?"
- I mean, that’s where most \h\h\h\h\h\h\hof my, like,
relationships came from, so...
- Okay, so Miss Lola girl.
- Tell us the whole story \h\hfrom kind of day one.
- She fell, like, in my hand.
God, like an angel \h\hjust came down,
and just did the work for me.
So I was watching a movie,
I got like a notification, \h\h\h\h"lola trappedout."
So I’m like, "Who is this?"
So I slid into her DMs,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hgot a response, talked to her over the phone...
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Oh. - Through audio call.
- Like on Instagram? \h- Instagram, yeah.
- But she gave you her number? \h\h- Gave me her phone number.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Right. - Tried to call it, no answer.
Tried to text her, \hstill no answer.
\h\h\hThe only way I can get to her is through Instagram.
\h\h\h- And from everything you can tell on the phone,
she sounds exactly like \hyou’d expect her to.
- Like, sound the same thing.
- Okay. - Okay.
- So you picked up on that. \h\h\hAnd what does she do?
♪ ♪
\h- I ain’t even--like she told me she worked,
\h\h\h\h\hbut we didn’t even get into all that.
- What did you get into?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Diji. - Or is it just sexy talk?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Well, look, if you guys are done with me,
\h\h\h\h\h\hsis don’t need to hear all your business.
- I understand. \hI understand.
- She doesn’t want \h\h\hto hear this.
- We have a lot more questions.
So why don’t we say \hgoodbye for now.
That way, we can get into it \h\hwithout it getting weird.
\h- We’ve seen it. - Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you guys, too.
Take care of him now. \h\h\hThat’s my baby.
\h\h- Good to meet you. - I know y’all got it.
I know you gonna be like, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Red flag!"
Kamie with her red flag.
- I didn’t bring them, \h\hbut I should have.
\h- Bye, Diji. - Thank y’all.
- So aside from what she looks \hlike and all the sexy stuff,
what do you like about her?
- I can say that what \h\hI like about her
is like she play hard to get.
Like, I’ve never had that. \hSo it’s like a challenge.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Oh, boy. - But what’s her personality?
- I can vent to her sometimes.
\h\h\hLike, she give me like good information.
\h\h\h- Like good advice? - Yeah, like good advice.
- She’s there, like, \h\hwhen I need her.
- Have you tried to meet up?
\h\h\h\h- Yeah, but like she won’t respond to me
like I did something wrong.
- Maybe she’s hiding something \h\h\h\h\h\h\habout who she is
or the way she looks.
- But like what are you hiding?
\h\h\h\h\h\hI tell her like, "You too beautiful for that.
Like, what’s wrong?"
\h\h\hI don’t know. Seems a bit weird.
\h\h\h\h\hBut I gave her the benefit of the doubt.
- From what I’m hearing, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe reason
why you like Lola so much is \hbecause you can’t have her.
- I can’t have her.
- So that’s why you got \h\h\h\h\hto have her.
- Well, let’s see this girl.
\h\h\hI want to know what she looks like.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. - What phone is this?
- Now this is like \h\hthe play phone.
- This isn’t set up for cell.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Come sit in the hot seat.
\h- This is what the Lord sent me.
- The Lord.
- God is good all the time.
- Okay. \h- Mm.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Lola. I want to see the messages.
- Okay, scroll through. \hThat’s the beginning.
- This is you, right? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- You said, "Hey, baddie." \h\h\h\hFirst message, wow.
- First message.
\h\h\h\h- Started off with a "Hey, baddie" from the jump?
- Yeah.
- And she said, "Hey, love." \h\h\h\h\h"You in Charlotte?"
"Yeah, what about you?"
"You sexy as [bleep]. \h\hI wanna see you."
- [laughing]
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hShe said, "When you wanna link, bae?"
Wow, that was fast. \h\h\h- That’s it?
- That’s what got on me \h\h\h\h\hright there.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- I mean, I can definitely see the appeal.
- I mean, has it occurred \hto you that the reason
why she can’t meet
\h\his because she’s not the girl in the pictures?
- I can’t believe that.
Like, my mind just won’t \h\h\hlet me believe it.
\h\h\hAnd like what makes me, like, think like she’s legit,
like, it’s never been like, \h\h\h"Send me some money."
It’s never been that.
- She’s never asked you \h\h\h\h\hfor anything.
- Like, she’s never asked me \h\h\h\h\hfor anything, so...
- Hm.
- I feel like God just
built this perfectly for me.
Like, I didn’t have \h\hto work for it.
- But don’t you think that \h\h\h\h\hif God built it,
that it would be next \h\hto you right now,
and we wouldn’t be here?
- Well, he’s test--it’s a test.
\h\h\h\h- It’s like a rollercoaster though.
\h- You know, it’s rare that you meet a woman that, like,
teases you like this and kind \h\hof keeps you interested.
\h\h- Right, right, like it never happened, like--
\h\h\h\h- Right, I know. Yeah, I know the feeling.
- Oh, my God.
- But if it’s not her, \hlike, there’s no girl
that maybe has had \h\ha crush on you
for a long time that’s been \h\htrying to get with you?
- I don’t know.
I just need to know, like,
who this is, and I can sleep better at night.
\h\h\h\h- For sure, send us her phone number and her Instagram.
\h\h\h\h- I got you. - We’re on the case.
\h\h\h- Thank y’all for helping me out.
- We’ll see you tomorrow, bye!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Bye. - We got a live one.
- Onyx is definitely \hgetting catfished.
And I think it’s somebody \h\h\h\h\hthat he knows.
\h\h\h- Right, well, what are the chances
that just, like, randomly,
\h\hthis sort of perfect girl for him would just friend him
and be like flirty right off the bat.
- Mm-hmm.
Something tells me that Lola \h\his not a gift from God.
- Investigation time! \h\h\h\h\h\hWhoo-hoo!
\h\h\h\h- Hey! - Oh, oh, wow.
This is what we’re doing? \h- You ready to do this?
\hI feel like if we have to catch a saucy catfish,
we have to get a little saucy.
- You’re right. \h- All right.
We’ve got a live one for sure.
Onyx has been talking to Lola. \h\h\h\hThey met on Instagram.
\h\h\h\h\hShe shot her shot and started it up with him.
Things were going well.
He’s been wanting
\h\h\hto meet up with her, and she’s always too busy.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - She gave a phone number.
They’ve never spoken on the phone number,
only through Instagram.
- Lola didn’t even have \h\h\h\hto do that much
to get Onyx hooked on her.
He just likes the chase.
- All right, what do we got?
"Hey, guys, here’s what \h\h\hI’ve got on Lola.
\h\h"Don’t have a last name or any other name for her,
"just Lola.
\h\h\h\h\h"Her Instagram is lola underscore trappedout.
"The number she gave me \h\hbut never answered.
\h\h"She’s 22 and says she lives in Charlotte.
\h\h\h\h"And that’s all I got. I hope it’s enough to find her.
"I feel like God
\h\h\h\hbrought us together for something good though."
- We keep bringing God \h\h\h\h\h\hinto this.
\h\h\h\h\hAnd God’s trying to figure out why, so am I.
- Well, let’s see what we can find.
All right, I’m gonna save these \h\hpictures, the two pictures.
Let’s run the pics.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWe got two, so something better come back.
\h\h\h\hCome on, negative. Nothing on that first pic.
\h\h\h\h\hSo we got one more. All right, give me something.
- Oh, what?
\h\hHere she is. Here’s a Twitter.
\h\h\h- CherryTheeBoom. Cherry got it going on.
- Oh, transgender, 18 plus.
Wow, oh, my God.
Whoa, Cherry, wow.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Go ahead, sis. - All right, so what’s this?
Oh, that’s OnlyFans. \h\h\hOh, that’s her.
\h- That’s a picture. - Wow, found, found.
- Mm-hmm.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- So Cherry is a transgender sex worker.
She also has a Facebook page.
- From Atlanta.
\h\h- This seems like an active page, right?
\h\h\h\h- 160,000 followers? - All right, okay, all right.
\h\h\h\hSo CherryTheeBoom likely lives in Atlanta.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm. - Posts a lot of content...
- Mm-hmm.
- That’s obviously erotic \h\h\h\h\hand attractive.
\h\h\h\h\h- I see why people are obviously
stealing her content because good content.
- So all this means
Onyx is most likely not \h\htalking to Cherry.
\h\hNow we have to figure out then who is Onyx talking to.
- Mm-hmm.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I guess the only last thing we now have
is the phone number.
All right, let’s search here, \h\h\h\h\h\hsee what we get.
Landline, Charlotte.
- Bandwidth.com. \h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
So it’s a text app number.
- Let’s go to Lola’s Instagram.
Look, she made the account \h\h\h\h\hin October, like,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hbasically right before they started talking.
Are there any comments \h\h\h\h\hon the pics?
No, there’s two likes.
Let’s reach out to this person \hTanae and this person Bewski.
Send, great, copy, paste, sent. \h\h\h\hIt’s just weird, right?
There’s plenty of content \h\hof Cherry available.
\h\h\h\h\h\hWhy hasn’t Lola posted more on their page?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThey haven’t done a very good job of utilizing--
[phone rings] \h\h\h\h\hOh.
Hello.
- Yes, you go by Tanae \hon Instagram, right?
- Yeah.
- Thank you for getting back \h\h\h\h\h\hto me so quickly.
\h\h\h- Absolutely. [computer ringing]
[soft music]
- Hey.
\h\h- It’s really real? - I know, crazy, right?
\h\h\hI’ll turn it this way so you can see both of us.
\h\h\h\hSo we’re making an episode of the show.
And we reached out to you
because you liked a picture \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof a girl
whose Instagram account is lola underscore trappedout,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand I guess you’re friends with her.
Do you know who that is?
- No, I don’t know a Lola.
- But you did like one \h\hof these pictures.
- Okay.
- Do you live in Charlotte \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hby chance?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes. - Do you know Onyx?
- No.
\h\h\h\h- No. - All right.
\h\h\h\h- I am sorry I couldn’t help you.
- Oh, that’s okay. \hWe appreciate it.
- Thank you. \h\h\h- Bye.
\h\h\h\h\h- Bye. [phone chimes]
- Oh, message, message. \h\h- Ooh, ah, ah, ah.
- Message from Bewski. "I’m at work right now.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI can call, but maybe not FaceTime."
"A call is fine." \h[phone ringing]
\h\h\h- Oh, here we go. Here we go, here we go.
Hello.
- Yes, that’s right.
\h\hWe’re trying to find out a little bit more information
about this account, Lola.
Do you know who I’m talking \h\habout, lola trappedout?
- Was she flirting with you?
Was there like a sense
\h\h\hthat you thought maybe like something might happen?
- Huh. \h- Hm.
\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd she told you that she lives in Charlotte?
- Interesting, okay.
\h\hIf you remember anything, or if anything comes to mind,
feel free to let us know.
- Thanks a lot, man.
- Bye.
\hLet’s just see if there’s a restaurant in Charlotte.
\h\h- Goat restaurant? - No, let’s go to Maps.
- You’re just gonna get a bunch \h\h\hof Jamaican restaurants.
- Well, let’s go to Charlotte.
[tense music]
And look up "goat."
- Say "goat restaurant."
- Oh, The Giddy Goat \h\hcoffee grinders.
That’s got goat in it.
\h\h\h\h\hUnfortunately, they’re closed right now.
But they open at 7:00 a.m.
\hI think tomorrow morning, we’ll call The Giddy Goat.
We’ll see if anyone named \h\h\h\hLola works there
or had worked there.
\h\hThat will hopefully yield some additional information.
- Yeah.
- I mean, this is definitely \h\h\h\h\h\h\ha local catfish
’cause whoever they are, \h\h\h\hthey found him--
\h\h\h\h\h- Exactly. - Very deliberately.
- I’m gonna say it,
\h\h\h\h\h\hOnyx is talking to somebody that he knows.
- Right.
[upbeat music]
- Hello, housekeeping.
- Look at those jeans. - Wow.
- See the cut out? - Those are--
- Cute. - I guess that's the word.
I don't know, they look--they're just baggy.
Really bringing me back.
- That's the vibe, called on trend.
[groans]
- You know what I was thinking about last night,
Onyx is gonna be disappointed
Lola's not the girl in the pictures.
But the thing that might be the most upsetting for him
is that other guy, Bewski,
that we spoke to also had like a flirtatious--
- Yeah, Onyx thinks that Lola's his gift from God.
- Right.
- But it sounds like she's giving gifts
to everybody around town.
- Right.
Speaking of around town, there's this coffee shop.
- We need to call The Giddy Goat.
- The Giddy Goat, all right.
Hey, they don't have a phone number.
Browse, online order.
They don't have a [bleep] phone number.
- That's insane. - It says, "Add phone number."
It doesn't have one.
All right, so Giddy Goat
is something we need to ask Onyx about.
- Yeah. - I guess we just head over.
Let him know where we're at.
- Break the news.
[tense music]
Hello. - Hey.
- How you doing?
- Nervous. - That's understandable.
♪ ♪
- How are you feeling? - Anxious, a little excited.
- All of the above. - Mm-hmm.
- All right, we're gonna show you what we found.
- Okay.
- And then we can figure out what you want to do after that.
- So we thought, "Okay, let's start with an image search."
So when we ran the pictures, we got some hits.
And we ended up finding a Twitter page
for a girl named Cherry.
Turns out Cherry is transgender...
♪ ♪
Does a lot of porn...
♪ ♪
And most notably lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
- [sighs]
[soft music]
♪ ♪
It's obviously not who you're talking to.
♪ ♪
It's crazy.
I can't believe that. I cannot believe that.
♪ ♪
- We did reach out to some people
that Lola is following and follows her back.
Two of them got back to us, and one of them was Ladrevia.
She goes by the name Tanae on Instagram.
She lives in Charlotte
but didn't have any information on Lola.
She doesn't know her.
And then there was a guy who got back to us.
His name is Bewski.
He knows Lola but not in person.
- Okay.
- But somewhat similarly to you, she friended him.
- Okay.
- And they started talking a little bit.
And he was under the impression at the time
that there was sort of a flirtatious vibe,
similar to what you were experiencing.
Now he didn't end up sort of pursuing her.
But did Lola find you and talk to you
because she was really into you,
or was she just talking
to any guy that, you know, would respond?
- She made it seem like
she been paying nobody else no attention.
- Right, but get this,
he remembers her at one point saying something about her job
at a place that had the word "Goat" in the name.
- Goat.
I don't--I'm not familiar with that.
- Well, so we looked.
There's one coffee shop called The Giddy Goat.
- Have you ever been there? - No.
- All right, so all we know is
that you've talked on the phone and texted with somebody...
- Yeah. - Who sounds female.
- Yeah.
- And seems to have an accent
that places them in this region.
- Yeah.
- And what we can't help but think is that
it feels like this could be someone who knows you.
- But I did see something weird, like,
when I was going through her followers.
- What?
- It's like two names, it's like "traap."
- Hold on. Right, this one.
- Then it's like another one. - Oh, yeah.
So hold on a second, so there are two accounts
that follow Lola both called "traap tanae."
Yeah. - Different versions of it.
But-- - Mm-hmm.
- And then it's lola trappedout.
- Right. - Oh, [bleep].
- Right, and we spoke to Traap Tanae.
- Right, and she--
- And she said that she followed
and liked Lola's account by accident.
- But I don't know who that is. I don't know how that happened.
- But you follow her on two different accounts?
- Right.
- And Lola's name is also "trapped."
- Right, yeah, yeah.
- By accident, by accident. - So wait a second.
So that suggests Traap Tanae could be Lola.
- Yeah.
- But then why would she call us?
- Probably to see who we were talking about
because if she's been talking to multiple guys,
we didn't mention Onyx until the end.
- Wait a second, why don't we just play the video?
We have the call 'cause if he hears--if
Onyx hears Tanae's voice...
- Then maybe you could--you would probably recognize it.
Right? I mean--
- Yeah, yeah, I can recognize her voice.
- Okay, look, I think we have the video from yesterday.
Oh, it's on here? - Yes, it is.
It's L2, and then it's that green marker.
- Perfect. Okay, thanks, Emma.
- Thanks, Emma. - All right, let's see.
I think we've got the video call from yesterday
that we can look at.
♪ ♪
And you'll hear her voice.
Okay, hold on. It's the whole scene.
Unofficial--
I got to scroll through to find the call,
when she called.
- Hey. - Is this really real?
- I know.
We reached out to you because you liked a picture
of a girl, lola trappedout.
- No, I don't know a Lola.
- But you did like one of these pictures.
- It probably was by accident. But I guess so.
- Okay.
Does that sound like Lola?
♪ ♪
- Why don’t we just play \h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe video?
We have the call.
If Onyx hears Tanae’s voice,
\hyou would probably recognize it, right?
I mean-- \h- Yeah.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hey. - Is this really real?
- I know.
\h\h\hWe reached out to you because you liked a picture
of a girl, lola trappedout.
- No, I don’t know a Lola.
- Does that sound like Lola?
- What did you say?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- It’s her! - It’s definitely her?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- It is her. Like, why would you do that?
Like, why you wouldn’t--why you just can’t be yourself?
\h\h\h\h\h- Well, so okay, so now we got to figure out
what’s our next move.
So we could just message Lola \h\hand see what she says...
- Mm-hmm.
- Or just message her on one \h\h\h\hof the Tanae profiles
\h\h\h\h\hand just say, "Look, the gig is up."
- Mm-hmm. \h- Yeah.
\h\h\h- Let’s start with messaging Lola
and see where that gets us.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - All right, message.
\h"Hey, Lola, this is Nev from ’Catfish,’ thanks."
- [sighs]
- Oh, she’s writing. \h\h\hShe’s writing.
- Oh. - Oh.
- "No, thank you."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Wow. - Man, "No, thank you."
- Why not?
\h- Why don’t I say, "Onyx is a very sweet
and understanding guy."
Oh, she’s typing.
\hOh, God. - Mm-mm-mm.
[tense music]
- "BLOCKED." - "BLOCKED"?
- Who writes "BLOCKED"? \h\h- "BLOCKED," right?
- Did she block us? Oh, we’re blocked.
- What if we messaged Ladrevia \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand we were like,
\h\h\h\h"Hey, we had a few more questions about Lola.
Let me know when you’re free."
Smiley face.
"So Lola blocked us. \hDid she block you?"
\h- I’m not blocked. - You’re not blocked.
- I’m not blocked. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
Maybe if you said, "Hey,
\h"I feel like it’d be best for both of us if we just,
\h\hyou know, finally met and got this over with."
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h[phone chimes] - Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait, I just got a text.
\h\h\h\h- [gasps] - Wait a second.
"Hi, this is Ladrevia. \h\h\h\h\hI’m in class.
I’ll be able to call you \h\h\h\h\h\hafter 3:30."
\h\h\h\h\h\hAll right. Why would she respond?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You know, we do know where she works.
\h\h\h\h\h\hShould we go to the [bleep] Giddy Goat
and go get some coffee, \h\h\h\h\h\hwink, wink?
- Yeah, if Ladrevia \h\h\hworks there,
then it definitely is her.
- Yeah, of course.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- All right, so why don’t you sit tight,
\h\h\h\h\hkeep an eye out for a message from Lola.
We’ll go check out \hThe Giddy Goat...
- Okay.
- Just to see if we can \h\hput one more piece
of this puzzle together.
- All right. \h- Let’s go.
[tense music]
\h\h\h- I’m starting to have some doubts.
- About?
- Well, Lola blocked us. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm.
- Why is Ladrevia being \h\h\h\h\hso friendly?
- ’Cause I think she’s trying \hto be sneaky to convince us
that she’s not her.
- It’s effective.
\h\h- Here it is. This is in here.
\h\h\h\h\h- Where? - Yep, Giddy Goat.
- Oh, Giddy Goat. \h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
♪ ♪
- Thank you.
\h\h\h- Sorry to bother you. Can we come in with the crew?
- Hey, how you guys doing? \h- Hi, good, how are you?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- What’s up? - Doing good, doing good.
\h\h- Oh, my God, a dog. - I can’t not pet a dog.
- That’s Calder. \h\h- Oh, my God.
- I love you so much. \h- Look at the tail.
- Okay, who--which \hof the two of you
\h\h\h\hwould know all the employees, like...
- I think--
- We both have been here \h\h\h\h\h\hfor a while.
- Yeah.
- Okay, we’re making \hthe show "Catfish."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah. - Have you seen the show?
- Oh, yeah, a few times, yeah.
\h\h- We’re helping this guy who lives in North Carolina.
He’s been talking to this girl
who says she also lives \h\hin North Carolina.
And we have reason to believe \h\h\h\hshe might work here.
\h\hIs there a young woman who works here named Lola?
♪ ♪
Any employees named Lola?
\h\h\h- No. - No Lola.
\h\h- Okay. - Ladrevia?
\h\h\h\h- Do you have any more information?
- Tanae, Tanae? \h\h- Or Tanae?
\h\h\h\hNo, I have a picture. We don’t know if this is her.
\h\h\hBut this is like our-- - This is Ladrevia for sure.
- This is our--this is \h\h\h\h\h\h\hLadrevia.
Right, we just want \h\h\hto know if...
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Oh. - That looks like a yes.
\h\h\h- Yes. - That’s Nae.
- Well, she’s--that’s Nae? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Nae.
- Okay, great. \h\h\h- Tanae.
\h\h- She said she worked here. - We definitely recognize that.
\h\h- Okay, great. So that’s helpful.
And is she working right now?
\h\h\h- Okay, do you know when she will be working?
- Sure.
- That answers what \hwe need to know.
- Yeah.
Thank you for helping us out. \h\h\hNice to meet you guys.
- Kamie. - Carson.
- Nice to meet you. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Enzo.
\h\h\h\h\h[phone rings] - Ladrevia is calling.
- She’s calling? - She’s calling.
- All right, we’re gonna \h\h\hgo take this call.
- Hey, great to meet you guys. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Thank you.
- Have some fun in Charlotte. \h\h\h\h\h- Good to meet you.
\h- We will. - Thank you.
- Hello.
- Hey, Ladrevia, right?
- Hey, so here’s what I wanted \h\h\h\hto chat with you about.
We found out that the girl \h\h\h\h\h\hin the pictures
\h\h\hthat Lola has been posting on her Instagram
is actually some other person.
And then we spoke to another \h\hone of Lola’s followers,
\h\h\h\ha guy who mentioned that he had spoken to Lola,
\h\h\h\hand she had mentioned working at some place called
The Giddy Goat.
And so we actually just came \h\h\h\hfrom The Giddy Goat.
But they don’t have anyone \h\hnamed Lola work there.
But I think you work here. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRight?
[line beeping] \h\h\h\h\h\hOh.
- I knew it!
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- She hung up. - I knew it was gonna happen.
- All right, I’ll text her.
[phone chimes]
- Whoa, I just got \h\ha text message
from another number \h\hthat just said,
"Stop calling Ladrevia."
- Who is this?
[phone chimes] \h\h\h\h- Whoa.
I just got a text message \h\h\hfrom another number
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat just said, "Stop calling with Ladrevia."
- Who is this?
- "I’m sorry. Who is this?"
[phone chimes] \h\h\h\h\h\hOh.
\h"This is Lola." - Girl, shut up.
- Oh, wait a--okay. \h\h\h\h- Shut up.
- All right, so great. \hLet’s call Lola then.
Fine, "This is Lola." Let’s speak to Lola.
[line trilling]
[tense music]
\h\h\h\h- Please leave your-- - Damn it, oh, she’s typing.
She’s typing.
- "Don’t call me either."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- "I’m not--" - "I’m not talking to you."
Well, I’m talking to you.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay. "Will you talk to Onyx?"
Oh, she’s typing again.
\h- "Not today. I need space."
- Uh-huh.
"Okay, I understand." \h\h\h\h\h\h- Do we?
- "But consider letting us
help you explain everything \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto Onyx."
♪ ♪
- All right, she said, \h"Please let me think.
I can contact you when I’m ready."
- Let’s give her the night. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
- And then, tomorrow, we’ll--
\h- "Take the night to think about it.
And let’s speak tomorrow."
\h\h\h\h- This is still Lola? Ladrevia’s not texting back?
\h\h- No, Ladrevia did not write back.
But now at least we’ve got \h\h\hLola, so that’s good.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI mean, we’re moving towards the goal.
Hopefully, tomorrow we’ll have some actual updates.
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAll right, Onyx is on his way over here.
And not surprisingly, Lola never responds.
I’m gonna follow up with her. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Good morning.
"Just following up
to see how you’re feeling \h\h\habout meeting up."
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm, today. - All right, so I sent that.
[knock on door] \h\h\h\h\h- Oh.
\h- Hello. - Our boy.
There he is. \h- Hey, man.
- Our boy. \h\hHello.
- How are y’all? \h\h- We’re good.
Welcome.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHow ya doing? - Ready to get it over with.
\h\h- Well, look, so yesterday, when we went to The Giddy Goat,
she wasn’t there.
\h\h\h\h\h\hBut they confirmed that Ladrevia does work there.
- Okay.
- As we were leaving \h\h\hThe Giddy Goat,
\h\h\hwe get a text message from Lola, some new number,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat says, "Stop bothering Ladrevia."
So either Ladrevia sent that from a text app number to try
and like convince us again \h\h\h\h\hthat it’s not her
but that it’s some other person
that somehow she might know \h\hor is covering for her.
- Yeah.
- Or it could actually be \h\ha friend of Ladrevia,
\hand that maybe Ladrevia weirdly got on the phone
with you a few times \h\h\hfor her friend.
- Yeah, it could be that.
- And is trying to help \hlike her, you know--
- Keep her identity sealed.
- Whether it’s Ladrevia \h\h\hor someone else,
they obviously know each other
\h\hbecause the second we got off the phone with Ladrevia,
we get a text from Lola saying, \h\h\h"Stop calling Ladrevia."
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah, ’cause nobody don’t want
to just get that hostile \h\h\h\h\hfor no reason.
- Ladrevia is Lola.
\h\h\h\h\h- Should we call Ladrevia again?
\h\h- [bleep] it. - Yeah, why not?
- I think it’s the same person. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Speak for real.
- I think it’s the same person.
You recognized the voice when \hwe showed you the FaceTime.
\h\h- Right, but he might-- - Please leave your message.
- Try it one more time.
[phone chimes] \h\h\h- Oh, oh.
So this is--Lola just texted. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Mm-hmm.
\h- "Good morning, I know you just called Ladrevia again."
\h- Yeah, ’cause you’re her. - Or she immediately texted.
- No, impossible.
- "Please leave her \h\h\hout of this.
What do I need to do to get you \h\h\h\hto stop bothering her?"
- Meet up with us. \h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
- Stop [bleep] around.
- "If you would meet us
\h\h\h\h\hsomewhere today and explain all this..."
- "We can get out \hof your hair."
♪ ♪
- Oh, here it comes.
"I want this to stop. You can meet me here.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI’ll be here for the next couple hours."
\h\h\hSo I think before she changes her mind...
- Yeah.
- We should probably \h\h\h\h\hget moving.
♪ ♪
- Let’s go.
♪ ♪
- You ready, Onyx? - Yeah, I’m ready.
- I mean, what are you \h\h\h\hstill thinking?
Like, obviously, we know she’s \hnot the girl in the pictures.
\h\h\h\h\hBut do you think that you would be interested in her?
Like if her intentions \h\h\h\h\h\hwere good,
if she actually like really does like you?
- Yeah, I just need \h\h\hto know why.
♪ ♪
\h\h\h\h\h- ’Cause it’s one of these houses right here.
See, it’s--yeah, this one.
All right, let’s see.
♪ ♪
All right, you ready? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- All right, let’s do it.
You guys want to hang here, \h\hand I’ll do the honors?
Unless you want to knock.
- No, no, no, no, no, mm-mm.
\h\hYou know how I feel about strangers’ homes.
♪ ♪
- Is there anyone here? \h\h\h\h\h- Who is it?
- Wait, did you hear that? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- What?
- It sounded like--I thought
\h\h\h\h\hI heard like, "Coming," or something.
- I didn’t hear it. \h\h\h- Who is it?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hello, hi! It’s Nev, and Kamie, and Onyx.
\h\h- Yes? - Hi, yeah.
Hey, Lo--is that you, Lola? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yes.
- You want to open up the door,
\hor come on out and chat with us?
\h- I don’t see why we have to actually see each other.
- I can’t hear her. \h\hIt’s too loud.
Maybe just open the door \h\h\h\h\h\ha little bit.
\h\hI can’t really hear you out here.
[door unlatches] \h\h\h\h\h\h\hOh.
♪ ♪
Hi.
- Maybe just open the door a little bit.
I can't really hear you out here.
[door unlatches] Oh.
[tense music]
Hi.
- Oh, my God. - Okay, I'm not gonna come in.
I just want to be able to hear you.
It's a little loud out here.
I guess, I take it you're a little nervous.
- Yeah, a little bit. - I understand.
- There's no Lola. It was a misunderstanding.
- Okay, well, there's--but are you
the one he's been talking to?
♪ ♪
- Yes.
- Okay, so whether your name is Lola or not,
I think it would probably feel good
just to introduce yourself and come clean,
and you don't have to live with any regrets,
or guilt, or confusion about the whole thing.
- Okay. I don't want to talk out front.
If we do talk, can when you go out back?
- Sure, let's go now.
♪ ♪
Oh, there she is. - Oh.
- Hello. - Hey.
- Hi.
♪ ♪
- How you doing? - Good.
- Nice to meet you. Nev.
- Nice to meet you, too. - All right, Kamie.
- Kamie, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- And this is Onyx.
- Hey. - Hey.
- What is your name? - Demonica.
- Demonica, lovely name. - Thanks.
- Just so we're all on the same page,
you made the profile.
- Mm-hmm.
- And from the beginning,
you were the one talking to Onyx?
- Yes.
- 'Cause, obviously, you know we spoke to Ladrevia.
- That's my sister. - Uh-huh.
- My little sister. - Got it.
'Cause when Onyx heard Ladrevia's voice,
he thought it sounded like you.
That makes sense 'cause I guess you guys sound sort of similar.
- Yeah.
- But he was never talking to your sister.
- No, me, he was talking to me. - Okay.
- And how did you come across Onyx?
- Originally, I made the profiles
to try to catch my ex
who broke into my house and stole my shoes.
But in the process, I think I followed him.
- Were you like trying to follow people
just to make the fake profiles seem real?
- Yeah, and then he DMed me,
and I kind of just went with it.
But then I fell back
because I felt bad for playing with his feelings.
But he just kept texting.
I didn't get on there to just catfish the world
or to look for attention.
I had a specific purpose.
- Wait, but we talked to one other guy
who was friends with the Lola profile.
- Yeah, he asked about my job.
That was really it, and where I was from.
- Right, so wait. - But--
- Do you work at the...
- Giddy Goat, your sister. - My sister.
- Oh, so you--but you told someone that you worked there
'cause your sister works there.
- Yeah.
- But your sister knew you were doing this
because when we reached out to her,
she didn't give you up.
- That's my sister. Why would she?
- Do you know who the pictures you were using are of?
- Mm-hmm.
- You know that the person in the pictures is a trans woman?
- Yes. - Is that your ex's type?
- Yes.
- Just over time, like, I've caught on to that.
So yeah.
- I see, interesting, okay. Wow, and did it work?
Did your ex talk to her, and did you--
- I figured out where he's at so I can go get my stuff back.
- Did you get your stuff? - Yes, I did.
Well, how come you didn't just tell Onyx at some point?
- Like, I kind of got used to talking to him.
The conversations that we had was pretty, like, good.
You know, when he got something on his mind
and when he needed help, he would call me,
reach out to me, and I would help him with it.
- Yes, you did.
- Like, that's kind of how it played out.
It wasn't my intention on catfishing him.
You know, like,
I didn't make the page to look for love or to find love.
- Does that mean you don't have feelings for Onyx?
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- Over time, we developed a little small bond.
- So you did feel some connection to him?
- Yeah.
- I just wish when I was developing, like,
feelings like, "Oh, [bleep], maybe it can work."
I just wish, like, it couldn't have be we're not,
like, I'm doing--you feel me?
Like, "It's not me, da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
No, like this, that."
Like, and I would have accepted it, and...
- Yeah, I apologize.
I really am sorry 'cause I didn't mean to hurt you,
or waste your time, or play with you,
or lead you on.
So...
hopefully, we can move forward.
♪ ♪
- I was just thinking, do you guys want
to just sit down, the two of you,
and just like chat for a few minutes?
- Yeah. - Yeah, we can do that.
♪ ♪
- All right, we'll just be right outside in the car.
We're not going far.
♪ ♪
- Okay, so, like, is there anything you want to say?
- Uh...
I [bleep] with you, I do.
I [bleep] with you.
I like you, but...
- I like you, too.
- I just wish you would've...
'cause I don't think I deserved it.
- You don't. - Because I didn't wrong you.
You know what I'm saying? I didn't wrong you.
Like, it just felt genuine.
And then we was talking, and laughing, and joking.
- It is genuine.
Like, the way I act with you is genuine.
It's not Lola. That's me.
So what can I do to make it better?
I don't want to lose this.
- I don't either.
I'm not gonna be as heavy as I was before,
but I'll check in and stuff like that.
- I'ma give you my real phone number.
- You don't have a Instagram? - Yeah, I do.
- You got to give me your real Instagram.
- All right, I can do that.
- But yeah, like, yeah, you look good.
- Thanks. You do, too.
- And I like you.
- What's up, guys? How's it going?
- Oh, good, I mean, everything is at the table.
I understand.
I'm not mad at her. I told her.
- But you guys are gonna stay in touch.
- You're gonna keep-- - Yeah.
- The friendship. - Yeah, yeah, I'll check in.
I'll check in. - All right.
- I got one more thing.
This has never been done before.
- Uh-oh. - Okay.
- I don't know if I want it to be done.
- I'ma move this table.
- What the hell are you doing? - No, no, this is not done.
This is not done. This is a different thing.
I promise.
Monica, Monica, Monica.
Can I get your hand, please?
[laughter]
- I got you. - Okay, thank you.
- I got you.
- He has a flair for the dramatics.
- Oh, my God.
- A 100 proposal, we love to see.
- Wow. I guess that's that, right?
- Mm-hmm. - All right.
Well, Demonica, it's lovely to meet you.
- Likewise. - Good to meet you.
♪ ♪
- Bye. - All right, bye.
- Well, have a good one. Have a good one.
- You too.
♪ ♪
- Okay. - You good?
- Good, it feel like a big weight just been lifted.
♪ ♪
- So what do you think?
Are you and Demonica gonna stay friends you think?
- Yeah, yeah, I can see it. I can see it.
- But I know you thought she was cute.
- Yeah, I mean, yeah, like, I complimented her.
[both laughing]
- We'll see, we'll see. - Look, give it some time.
- Yeah. - Who knows what can happen?
- Yep.
♪ ♪
[computer chimes]
- Hey!
- What's up? - What's up?
- Wait a second. What are you talking to us on?
- On the play phone.
- So you still don't have a phone?
Okay, have you Demonica talked?
- Yeah, like we talked today actually.
I want to hang out with her,
but it's just like she keep giving me cold feet.
- Oh, really? - She's seeing somebody.
She said, "Don't rush it 'cause the future, like,
if it's meant to be, it's meant to be."
Yeah, and I agree with that.
- Well, maybe she's not the one.
Maybe it's time for you to get a phone so you can meet girls.
- You right, but after this,
I'ma take a break from social media though.
- Probably a good idea.
So you're not dating anyone else or talking to anyone else.
- No, not at this point. - Right.
- All right, Onyx. We're rooting for you, buddy.
- Good luck. - All right.
- See you later, man. - Bye.
[computer chimes] - Demonica!
- Hey! - Hey.
- What's up? - Love your hair.
- Yeah. - Thank you.
- What's been going on since we saw you?
- I'm in a relationship. - Oh.
- So you have a boyfriend? - Mm-hmm.
I told him that though,
but he kind of got mad about it.
- Well, you have to do you. - Yeah.
- What's up with the Lola profile?
- I don't get on it no more.
It's better now that I can just talk
to him without hiding.
- Period.
- Well, look, you can still be friends with Onyx
and be in another relationship.
I think that's sort of the best case scenario.
- Yeah, me as well.
- Good luck with everything, Demonica.
- You too. - Bye.
♪ ♪