- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪
- My name is Jaquan, and I just got out
of a long-term relationship.
I've been talking to this girl, Shantel,
and she's amazing.
Have you talked about meeting up?
- All the time.
- I feel like you could be talking to your ex-girlfriend.
Ah, ah, ah, ah.
Look at this.
There's somebody coming.
- Oh, another car here.
- Uh-uh.
This is an ambush.
[dramatic musical sting]
[upbeat music]
- You look like you're in jail right now.
- I'm getting pumped up.
You pumped?
I even got my muscle tee on.
- I wore my tank, so you decided to wear your tank.
You know, I haven't owned undershirts in so long.
- The tweets about the chest hair, I can already see 'em.
People have been asking me to tame your chest hair.
How did your chest hair become my problem?
[laughs] Here we go.
- [groans] All right.
We got an email from Jaquan.
The subject is "This is not a spam email.
Please help!"
"Hey, my name is Jaquan, and I can really use y'all's help."
Prayer emoji, exclamation point, exclamation point.
"I'm 28, and I live in Rochester, New York.
I've been talking to this girl, Shantel."
- ♪♪ It's a force of nature calling ♪♪
- And she's amazing.
It might seem weird, but after only four months,
I've started to really like her.
Love?"
- ♪♪ I need to be with somebody, somebody ♪♪
♪♪ Somebody like you ♪♪
- "She's 27, very beautiful, a hard worker, and a go-getter.
I love her personality, and she listens."
- ♪♪ Gonna turn myself in, give myself up ♪♪
♪♪ Surrender to your eyes ♪♪
- "I had a major loss recently, and she was the one
to help me through it."
- ♪♪ Somebody like you ♪♪
- "The only problem is, I've yet to meet this girl
"in person, which seems really weird
"when we live in the same city.
Every time I try, there's a problem."
- There's always a problem.
- "She won't even FaceTime, S-M-H."
- [laughs]
- "She takes care of her elderly parents and works
"full-time as a nurse.
"So I understand she's busy.
"Maybe I just need to give her more time?
"I just got out of a long-term relationship.
"I was ten years with someone I felt I would never be without.
"So this is all new to me.
"Is this what the dating game is like now,
"or am I being catfished?
Jaquan."
- Number one, it's the ex.
I know I say this a lot. - Oh, come on.
- I know I say this all the time.
- You know what, though? In this case,
you have a pretty good argument.
- Ten years?
- All right, let's call him.
[line trilling]
- Hello.
- Hey, it's Nev from "Catfish."
- Hey, man, it's not a prank.
It's Nev and Kamie.
We got your email.
What's up, man? - Hey, Jaquan.
- Yes. - It's really us.
- The only scam likely seems like it could be Shantel.
- Ooh. - So what's going on?
- Well, wait a second. First of all,
before we get to that-- so you're in Rochester?
- So this is kind of crazy, the fact that you
both live in Rochester.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah. Are you sure she lives there?
- I got a lot of questions, and we want to help you.
So if--
- I guess we'll fly up there.
Just text us an address, and we'll head over.
- All right, Jaquan.
- We're going to Rochester.
To the Roc.
- Let's rock, to the Roc.
[upbeat music]
We are on our way
- See you soon, Jaquan.
- The Roch.
- We're gonna find Shantel.
- That's right.
And she's gonna Shantel us the truth.
- ♪♪ Got to soak it up ♪♪
♪♪ Hey ♪♪
♪♪ Could this could this ♪♪
♪♪ Could this ♪♪
♪♪ I'm coming through ♪♪
♪♪ Coming through ♪♪
♪♪ Got to soak it up ♪♪
- All right. We made it.
Roc. - The Roc.
Can you smell what The Roc is cooking?
It's catfish.
- [chuckles] That's good.
Jaquan texted that he'd be at a friend's house.
Here we go.
We got to turn.
I don't know if it's this one.
OK.
Let's go.
[doorbell rings]
Hey!
- Hey.
- Wow. Great--
- [laughs] --necklace.
- How y'all doing? - Hi.
- Thank you. - Oh, this is amazing.
Hi, Jaquan. I'm Kamie.
Thank you. - Nice to meet you.
I don't know if you want a hug or a handshake.
Yeah, y'all, come in. - Ooh.
This is lovely. Wow.
- That's my friend's house, Tony.
- Your friend. They're friends.
- Don't touch nothing. Don't steal nothing.
- [laughs] Ooh!
- All right.
So obviously we have a lot of questions.
- Yeah.
- Your ex you were in that long relationship with--
when did that end? - A few months ago.
- Wait, that's recent. - I know. I know.
- But you've been talking to-- - I know.
- --Shantel a little bit longer than that.
- Yeah. It been a bumpy for the past few years.
- Right. Uh-huh.
- You know, the make-up, breakups, the--
- Right. OK.
- You're hoping things will get better,
but it ain't getting better, still living in the same house.
- So you're still sharing a house--
- --with your ex. - I see.
- Yes.
It just feel like tension all the time.
- Wow.
- So things with your ex--
clearly, you're both ready to move on.
OK.
So now tell us, how did you meet Shantel?
- Well, I'm sort of a content creator.
I got a partner who I create content with.
- OK.
- And, you know, you got friends that tried
to introduce you to people. - Mm-hmm.
- He pretty much was trying to push her to me.
- Specifically Shantel?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Said they went to school together.
- OK.
- And I decided to use the number he gave me.
- How does that go?
- I felt like a connection right away.
I love independent women.
I was able to be myself, I felt like.
Also, I just lost my dad last month.
- Oh, man. I'm sorry to hear that.
- Aw, sorry.
- And you know, usually when you lose somebody,
people always on you like, are you OK? Are you OK?
That's when you feel like you're not OK.
It's just too much pressure.
She made me feel like myself still.
She was there when I had nobody there to be there for me.
- Hmm.
And this conversation back and forth is mostly texting,
or are you talking on the phone?
- Text. I tried to FaceTime her.
That went left.
She's like, you know I work all the time.
I'm at work right now. Why are you calling me?
I told you I'm busy.
- So in the four months you've been talking to Shantel,
you've only texted?
- We've talked on the phone. - You've talked.
You have talked. - But no FaceTime.
Yeah, we talk.
- Are your phone conversations long?
- They're all right--
30 minutes, 20 minutes. - Oh, OK.
- That's long. - So real conversations.
- Yeah.
- What about, like, an Instagram?
- That's another thing. She don't got no social media.
Who don't got social media at this time?
- Exactly.
- And have you talked about meeting up?
- All the time.
Let's go to the movies.
Let's go to the park.
I even offered to bring her lunch like, three, four times.
Always an excuse. You know, I'm busy.
I'm tired. I worked last night.
I got to do this in the morning.
I told you, I'm a busy woman. Then I start feeling bad.
And she didn't know about my ex, too.
So she bring that up.
You still living with your-- - Mm.
- Oh.
- And then that argument kind of--
- So you've been honest with her
from the beginning about the fact
that you're still living with your ex and--
- Yeah.
- And so, to be fair, if I'm her--
- Yeah.
That's what I'm saying I got to give her the benefit
of doubt or something. - And what does she look like?
- She's beautiful to me.
- Oh, Shantel.
- Cute.
- She is cute.
Cute.
OK.
These are all the same girl.
Oh, these are texts.
Should we read these?
- Yeah, you go ahead.
- This is the first one.
"Hey, Jutt gave me your number.
Is this Shantal?" Jutt?
- That's my partner, Jutt. His name's Justyn.
- Justyn. Oh, OK.
You said, "Good morning."
She said, "Morning, handsome."
You said, "I was thinking maybe we grab breakfast, lunch,
"or dinner, or all three.
"You know I like to eat, LOL, but just so I can
properly introduce myself."
She said, "Aw, very funny.
"LOL.
"But unfortunately this week, I'm very busy with work.
"I don't know if Justyn told you, but I work a lot
and take care of my parents."
You said, "Understood. I love an independent woman."
Hmm.
I mean, I feel like you could be
talking to your ex-girlfriend.
- I highly doubt that.
- But when you and Shantel talk on the phone,
it doesn't sound anything like your ex, does it?
- No. Not at all.
- What if somehow Shantel is your ex--
[tense music]
And she set up the account--
well, no, because then she would have
to be good enough friends with Justyn
to somehow convince him to give you
the number of some other girl.
That wouldn't happen. - Maybe.
But if she came to Justyn and was like, listen,
I really want to be with Jaquan.
Can you help us get back together?
I have this little scheme. - But how would that help?
- It wouldn't. - Have you considered
that Justyn may not be telling you
the whole truth about Shantel?
- I mean, it's something you think about,
but I'm with him every day.
I don't think-- he got kids and all.
I don't think-- I don't think that.
- But you obviously are a little suspicious of her.
- Yeah, very.
- And you reached out to us. What about Justyn?
What does Justyn say?
- Jutt like-- when I bring it up to him I be like, yo, man.
What's going on with this girl? - Right.
- I haven't seen her. And he's like, "Yo,
"I told you from the beginning she's real busy.
"But you're rushing it. Give it time.
She'll open up. You know?"
I trust him. - Somebody's lying.
If it's not her, it's Justyn. - I don't think--
- If it's not Justyn, it's your ex and Justyn.
- Or there's the possibility that Shantel is real.
Whoever it is, you need to find out.
But all you have right now for Shantel is her phone number
and those pictures you showed us.
That's it. - Yeah. That's it.
- And Justyn-- can we contact him
if we want to ask him about-- - Yeah, of course.
- --knowing her? All right.
So send us all that info. - OK. Gotcha.
- Maybe also send us your ex's info,
and anything else you can think of.
And we'll check back in with you--
- Gotcha. - --fingers crossed,
once we have good news.
- Positive thinking only. - All right.
- Here we go.
- All right now. - Bye, Jaquan.
[tense music]
He's definitely getting catfished.
It's definitely not the girl.
That's why I think that the ex and Justyn have linked up.
- What? - And this is a whole thing.
Somebody is [bleep] with him.
And I don't know if it's the friend
or if it's a combination of the two.
But something ain't right in the water.
- Hi!
- Oh, my god!
- Drive safely, please.
Hi.
- Hello.
- Hi. - Yeah.
- Ooh, it smells lovely in here.
- All right, so Jaquan-- he's a content creator
with his friend Justyn.
They make videos together. - Mm-hmm.
- And Justyn, seeing that Jaquan is in the final stages
of his long-term relationship, says, "Hey, here's the number
"of this girl Shantel.
You should hit her up."
Shantel, she's really been there for him.
But they both live in Rochester.
Is she avoiding meeting up with him for a reason?
Is she just super busy?
- Something's weird.
If Justyn is involved, I don't think it's just Justyn.
- There's an ex-factor.
- There's an ex-factor here.
- Well, let's see if Jaquan sent us the info.
He did. OK.
- "Hey, Nev and Kamie.
"Here's what I know about Shantel.
"Her last name is Walker.
"She's 27 and lives in Rochester.
"Her phone number.
"She works at Rochester General Hospital.
"And I've attached the pics she sent me.
"And here's Justyn's number.
"Since you asked for info on my ex, I asked her,
but she said she'd rather not be contacted."
- Suspicious.
- "But if you want to check out my TikTok, here it is."
I mean, I think we should check out his TikTok.
- Yeah.
- I think that's the first thing we should do.
Whoa. He has a lot of followers.
Jeez.
[upbeat music]
This one's got 4.7 million views.
- [gasps]
- Two major videos.
- I mean, maybe calling "Catfish"--
this could all be for his content.
He seems genuine, but--
- Yo! Hold up!
Yo!
Whose baby is this?
- Oh, my god. Wait.
I've seen this. I've seen this.
- Oh my god, bro. - Is that Justyn?
[horn honking]
- Is that-- yes.
- That is Justyn.
- Oh, my god. - See?
This is what I'm saying.
Justyn and Jaquan are two peas in a comedy pod on TikTok.
And they're making all these videos.
- Yeah.
Well, now that I know Jaquan is such a performer,
I'm not sure I can trust anything
he said to us yesterday.
- Exactly.
Oh, my god.
This is what I'm saying.
- Wait, now if it's Justyn--
- This could be a big content--
- It could be.
- --ploy.
I think they both could be messing with us.
- They both could be messing with us.
- Yes. - Clearly, something's up.
Let's check out Jaquan's Instagram page.
[tense music]
Look at this.
- These two, look at them.
They make everything together.
- Right.
But--
- Ah, ah, ah, ah.
Look at this.
Two clowns.
Jaquan and Justyn on "Court Night Live."
- Wait.
So the fact that they've been on a court show
as a plaintiff and a defendant, and they're
supposed to be friends means that they're obviously
willing to create situations--
- Yeah.
- --to get on TV shows.
- Using our show to do, like, the biggest prank
in the world.
Both could be in on it together,
trying to come up with more ways to get their page seen.
- Is that what's happening?
Let's start with the phone number for Shantel.
- Mm-hmm.
- Let's just see what comes up.
Obviously, if it's Justyn, we'll know something is afoot.
All right, here we go. - [gasps] Rochester.
- Rochester.
- Nita Real. - Shanita.
What?
- Let's look up if there's a Shanita following Jaquan.
- Followers.
- Mm-hmm.
- Shanita.
- No.
Try Nita.
Mm-mm.
- No.
- What about Justyn?
Is there a Shanita following him?
Nita [bleep].
- Oh, mother of twins.
- Multifaceted artist and entertainer.
Comedian. - Is that her?
Is that Shantel? - Uh, no.
- I don't think so. No. Right?
That's weird. Why does the number come back
to someone else named Shanita?
- Does Justyn follow her?
- Yes.
Like, she's obviously her.
- It's Shanita. - And she follows--
- It's Shanita. - --Justyn.
- They're in cahoots.
It's Justyn, and it's Shanita. - Right.
[laughter]
- But is Jaquan involved too?
- I think we have to just go to Jaquan and confront him.
I mean, if we show him what we found--
if we show him this court TV stuff and everything,
I think it'll be pretty clear that we're--
- --on to him or whoever it is. - Right.
- We're gonna figure out the truth just in time.
- All right. Justyn and this girl Shanita
are somehow involved. - Yeah.
- But it also looks like Jaquan could be in on this,
because him and Justyn appeared on a--
what seems to be a phony court tv show.
- Right. - I mean, clearly
these guys are up to something. - Yes.
I don't understand why people are always trying
to pull some [bleep] with us.
Like, do they think we're just, like, down with the okeydoke?
- Well, if Jaquan is lying to us,
I'd like to get as much information as we can get.
- So open up the floor. - Play it cool.
- Right, for Jaquan to just talk.
- Right. Let's go.
- Hello. - Hey.
- Good to see you.
- My friend. Hey, man, how you doing, man?
- Hey. All right.
- It is wet outside.
- All right, so look, before we get into
all the computer stuff,
we saw that you and Justyn were both
just on some court TV show.
- Yeah.
- What happened with that? - Which is-- yeah.
What's up with-- what was that?
- He pretty much was suing me about money--
- OK.
- --saying I owed him some money.
- You say that's, like, your-- your best bud.
- Yeah. - Is he still your friend?
- Yeah. He's still my friend. Yeah.
We good. We-- we good.
- Why didn't you mention any of this to us yesterday?
- Uh, I can't really talk about that.
You know what I mean?
Because they make us-- you know how it goes.
They make you-- - Right.
- --sign things.
You can't speak on certain things.
- It just felt like the fact that you
and he were on-- on that show with him
suing you over some money-- - Yeah.
- It makes us wonder like, well,
now they're on this show, or you're on this show.
- Yeah. - And it just so happens
that Justyn is the friend
that introduced you to Shantel. - Right. Yeah.
- And it just made us think, like,
could they be working together--
- Who? - --to try and get on
this show? You and Justyn.
- Who, me and Justyn? - The way that--
- Oh, no, no. - Well, we're asking,
because we've had people come on the show
in the past that had sort of-- were working together--
- Mm-hmm.
- --to create a sort of manufactured--
- Yeah. - --situation.
- It could look that way, but no.
Listen, I don't want y'all to-- you know what I'm saying?
I understand what you're saying, but--
- 'Cause we come in, you know, because you asked for help.
We want to help you. - We want to help people.
That's why we do it. - Yeah.
- It's not to make [bleep] up or to, you know--
- No, it's genuine.
- --be part of some kind of content.
- I'm genuine. And that just happened, too.
- And you really don't think Justyn's capable of--
- No, still don't. - --coming up with something
like this to mess with you? - Still don't. 100% don't.
- As a funny content thing? - Nope.
- Why not?
- I don't know, man. I just trust him.
It's just trust.
Once you give me a reason not to trust you,
then that'll go away, but right now he haven't
gave me no reason not to. - All right.
Well, maybe we can give you some reasons.
- Yeah. We got a few.
- Well, let us show you what we found.
- OK. - Let's have a seat.
All right.
OK. So here's what-- here's what we found.
When we search the phone number for Shantel--
- OK.
- --it is clearly a Rochester cell phone.
But the name that comes up is Shanita [bleep].
Have you ever heard that name?
- Just Shantel. - Right.
And interestingly--
- When we went to Justyn's account
on Instagram to see if he guys following a Shanita, he was.
And Shanita was also following him.
- You don't know this person?
- Can I see pictures?
- Yeah.
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- [indistinct].
- This costume-- - What? What?
The girl in the costume here?
That's Shanita.
- Me and Jutt did a freaking comedy skit with this person.
- With her? - Yes.
- Before you started talking to Shantal?
- I was already talking to Shantel.
- You were already talking to Shantel.
- Wait.
Did you get her name at that time?
- No.
We just straight-- I ain't gonna lie.
My sugar was low. I'm a diabetic.
So I kind of was in, like, a sluggish mood anyways.
- And she didn't-- you didn't tag her.
- But the fact is--
the fact is-- - Right.
- Fact is, that's the same girl there.
- Right.
Obviously, there's a direct connection,
and he knows her well enough to, like,
bring her in as a collaborator in a skit.
So it's not impossible that he would have called her and been
like, "Hey, I want to do this thing, mess with my boy,
or try to help my boy."
- But how [bleep] up is it-- and, again,
this is me assuming that you're not in on this too.
If you have been talking to this person
because Justyn hooked you up with this person,
is that not [bleep] up that they're both, like,
kee-keeing about the fact that they
have you in the middle of this and they both know the truth?
- It's more than [bleep] up.
- Right.
- So many damn red flags, so many questions.
You don't get people's feelings involved with--
really not even venting until you open up at all.
And I have a hard time opening up to people-- you know,
already opening up to people.
So for me to open up to you and for you
to do something like this, it's different.
- Take a second.
Kamie, why don't we go regroup, let you think about how
you want to handle it.
All right?
[somber music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Do we believe him?
- I don't know. - I don't know either.
- He's very-- he's very convincing.
- I know.
- And I do think there's a very real possibility that Justyn
is just messing with him.
And maybe it started off as a joke that was gonna be short--
- Mm-hmm.
- --with a girl who's obviously also a performer--
- Yeah. - --clearly.
- Yeah. - And that was crazy--
- Yeah. Yes.
- --that he recognized her and was like--
- Yes.
- --holy [bleep], we did a skit with her.
- Either he's [bleep] really good--
- Right.
- [laughs]
- Or he doesn't know that he's been getting played.
But I mean, it's hard not to believe
that he isn't involved.
I don't know.
- We gonna find out.
- Do we believe him? - I don't know.
- I don't know either. - He's very convincing.
- I know.
- But, I mean, it's hard not to believe
that he isn't involved.
I don't know.
- We gonna find out.
- All right. Well, should we get back in there?
[somber music]
OK.
I think we should text Shantel--
- Shanita?
- --or whoever it is, and see if she'll meet up with us.
"Hey, Shantel, this is Nev from Catfish.
"I'm here in Roc with Jaquan, and trying to help him
"sort this whole situation out.
"We'd love to meet up with you tomorrow a. m.,
finally meet each other.
"If you care about him like you say you do,
I think you should do the right thing."
And we should definitely text Justyn too.
- Absolutely.
Because Justyn is obviously in on it.
- OK. All right, I said,
"Hey, Justyn. This is Nev from 'Catfish.'
"We are here with Jaquan and trying to clear
"this whole situation up.
"We don't know exactly what's going on,
"but whatever it is, we would love to ask you some questions,
"because we suspect you might have some info.
I'm available any time. Thanks."
- Yeah.
- Sent.
- Are you OK?
- No. Not at all.
- Why don't we stop for today?
I have a feeling Shanita, Shantel, whoever it is,
hopefully will get back to us.
And, hopefully, Justyn will text us back too.
And we'll just plan on getting together in the morning
and then sorting this whole thing out.
- OK. Thank you.
♪♪ ♪♪
- We're gonna clear this up. - All right.
- See ya.
- [groans]
I mean, we may never know if Jaquan is in on this or not.
We may never know if he's telling us the truth.
But we have no other choice but to do our job as if Jaquan
is telling us the truth.
- But if the show isn't fake--
- Mm-hmm.
- --and if Jaquan is really going
through these situations, like, who has
he actually been talking to, and does that person
in any way care about him?
[tense music]
- [exhales]
- Hello.
- Well, I got a text this morning.
- Oh!
Who is it? - Shantel.
So remember I said, "This is Nev from 'Catfish.'
I think you should do the right thing."
- Uh-huh. - She said, "You're right.
"I should be honest.
"Let's meet, but I don't want to do it at my house.
Where should we link?"
- What is this?
Who said that we have to go to your house?
We could meet in a park, sis.
- All right. Well, let me respond
to whoever the heck this is.
"We have a nice spot in Churchville Park
that you can meet us in."
- [sighs] Well?
- Still no word back from Justyn, though.
[phone chimes] Shantel said, "OK.
I can meet up with you guys in a few hours."
- So what do we think?
Are we still proceeding like everyone
is being honest with us? - Yes.
I think so. I don't know.
At this point, I'm on for the ride.
- It's their circus. We need to call Jaquan.
We need to pop some popcorn.
[line trilling]
- Hey. How you doing?
- Well, look. We texted with Shantel,
and she has agreed to meet us today at a park.
Do you want to just meet us at our hotel and then
we can all go together?
- OK, great. See you soon.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Hello. - Hey.
We meet again.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Thank you.
- OK. Here we go.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Justyn respond yet? - No.
- How have you been feeling about the fact
that Shantel, as you know her, is not real?
- Betrayed, because I opened up about so much,
like, personal stuff to a complete stranger now.
- The real question is, what was the intention?
- Right.
♪♪ ♪♪
And there's our shelter.
Perfect.
OK. - No cars.
- Guess we're first, which is good.
You want to just find a nice spot over there and post up?
♪♪ ♪♪
All right. Well, we here.
- There's somebody coming. - Oh.
♪♪ ♪♪
- See that? - I see that.
But are they coming this way?
Oh, another car here.
- Uh-uh. This is an ambush.
- There's somebody coming. - Oh.
But are they coming this way?
Oh, another car here.
- Uh-uh.
This is an ambush.
[tense music]
- Just this one car, I think.
♪♪ ♪♪
Hello.
♪♪ ♪♪
- [sobbing]
- Oh, boy.
- [sniffling]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Hi, Shanita. - Hi.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Nita? - Nita?
- Sure, yeah. Hello. - Hi.
- [bleep] she crying for? - I don't know.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I'm gonna let you explain yourself before I--
♪♪ ♪♪
- Well, I feel so bad.
I'm sorry. OK?
- I can't hear you.
Feel bad about what?
♪♪ ♪♪
- For playing with you.
- What you mean, by playing with me?
I'm confused.
Why did you do it?
I don't understand.
Why?
- I mean, it was a joke at first, but--
but you're not a joke to me, though.
♪♪ ♪♪
I like talking to you.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I told you about my dad, my ex, every damn thing.
And all that [bleep] was a lie.
♪♪ ♪♪
Why is you crying? I should be crying.
Why the [bleep] you crying?
- 'Cause it wasn't all a lie, though.
It wasn't all a lie.
- She can go.
- Hey, why-- don't-- don't be that dismissive.
- Well, he's upset. He's upset.
- I understand that. - Right.
- I understand that. But I didn't have to come here.
- You didn't. - I didn't.
And I could have just told you. - Why did you come?
What were you hoping would happen?
- Because I'd rather be honest.
- You could have been honest. - Well, I'm being honest now.
- What changed?
- Called us? - Yeah.
- But I think what he's asking is--
- The [bleep] she keep saying that?
- --you could have been honest before he called us.
- Yes. But I didn't know how to tell him.
- Even after I called, you could have still been honest.
- They play jokes on each other all the time.
He didn't want me to tell you.
They play jokes on each other all the time.
- But was the initial thought, "Oh, let's
"play a little funny joke, I'll set him up with you,
"you can pretend to be this other girl,
and in a week or something, we'll reveal it?"
- It wasn't no time frame, but yeah.
- So if we had not been involved, when do you think--
- I was-- I don't know. - --you would have told him?
- You know what? In all honesty,
I'd have rather he found out like this
then it had come out from somebody else.
'Cause I damn sure didn't know how to [bleep] tell him.
And it seemed like Jutt was never gonna [bleep] tell him.
So it-- it all fall back on Nita.
At the end of the day, everything
always fall back on me.
- Why don't we go talk for a second?
- Like I said, it was a joke.
- Were you hoping that this could lead to something
between the two of you?
- I was starting to like him.
I was liking him a little bit. He's cute.
I like-- I think he's a nice guy, who's a breath
of fresh air to talk to.
So-- I like talking to him.
- So my impression is, Justyn, I guess, asked her.
He thought, "Oh, this'll be funny.
"Let's mess with him and then make a joke out of it
in a week or two." I don't know.
- I want to see Justyn.
- Right.
You want to text him, see where he's at,
and ask him if we can meet him?
♪♪ ♪♪
- Can't even freaking type right now.
My [bleep] hand is shaking.
- I don't want to do this, and I don't feel good.
I don't feel good.
My anxiety is through the [bleep] roof
and I don't feel good.
♪♪ ♪♪
[phone dings]
- Did he respond to you?
- "Hey, kid, I'm home. Where you want to meet at?"
- OK.
Well, you want to ask him if he can meet us here?
You do that, and I'm gonna go check in with Kamie.
♪♪ ♪♪
Do we believe him? - I don't know.
- He's still so convincing. - I know.
What do you think?
- What do I think about her?
♪♪ ♪♪
I can't tell if she's genuine.
- I don't think so.
I'm not getting the impression that it's real.
- Right. - But I don't know,
'cause as much as-- I was prepared to come here
and it'd be some [bleep] today, and it'd be like,
OK, very obvious that they all had to conjure this up--
- I mean, I know. It's hard.
I don't know. That's unclear.
- Mm-hmm. - I don't know.
Nothing makes any sense. - I know.
That's what's upsetting me.
♪♪ ♪♪
But where's Justyn?
- Jaquan just texted him. - And he replied?
- And he responded.
So I told Jaquan to just invite him here--
- Yeah. - --since she's already here.
- I'm gonna talk to her again.
♪♪ ♪♪
- He just texted me back. - He did?
- Yeah. - What did he say?
- "OK. On my way now."
- All right, good.
I'll just wait sort of over here.
- So go sit down? - Yeah, yeah.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Can we-- can we talk a little bit?
- Jaquan? - I'm good.
♪♪ ♪♪
- You still don't want to talk to me?
- Right now he's just--
- Processing it? - --processing.
We invited Justyn to meet us, 'cause it feels like there's
more than just a joke here.
♪♪ ♪♪
- There's a car.
♪♪ ♪♪
- There's a car.
♪♪ ♪♪
It's him.
♪♪ ♪♪
- What's up, bruh?
- How you doing? - Kamie.
- How's it going? - Nice to meet you.
- What's up? - Nice to meet you.
- Good to meet you too, man. - Nice to meet you.
- What's going on? - What's up, man?
- Who this?
- [chuckles] Oh.
What's up?
- [chuckles] What's up?
Might as well be one big happy family now.
- OK. Let's just--
we're trying to understand what's going on.
We've heard from Nita.
But I think it's important to hear from you
and just kind of set the record straight.
- So--
♪♪ ♪♪
- --you know, a few months ago, you know,
you was coming to me.
You know, we guys, you know, we had our little guy
talks about relationships.
And you felt like back then you was in your
relationship alone. You know what I mean?
And, like, it affected the business, man.
Like, our videos stopped being funny.
I even think you stopped washing for a little while,
man, because, you know, you're going through stuff
with your girl, man.
So I thought at the time that I was, you know,
doing the right thing, trying to find something
to help you get back in the-- in the move
for the sake of the business so we could, you know,
get to the top.
That what we always talked about, bro.
So I-- I made this all up.
♪♪ ♪♪
And it wasn't supposed to go this long.
It wasn't supposed to go this long.
I'm sorry, bro.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Can I get a second? - Yeah.
You want to walk over-- over there?
Sure. You can cool off.
- I did it for the business, man.
- This makes no sense.
What did you think was gonna happen to the business
after he found out about this?
- I honestly-- I didn't expect for it to, you know,
unravel like this.
I was trying to get him back in the zone,
like, get him back feeling himself like the Jaquan
that I knew. and-- and it helped.
- How could you say that helped?
It's not adding up.
Nita, can we talk?
- Do you believe him that he was just trying to help?
Because Nita's saying it was all a joke.
- Well, listen, if we buddies
and you feel like I'm going through it
with my relationship, I'm not getting love,
there's other ways to go about finding a woman.
- But I do feel like something's definitely up.
- Nita, what the [bleep] is going on?
We obviously know that you're all content creators.
We obviously get that.
And so that's why-- - But they good, though.
They good, though. And after this,
they're gonna be good,
and I'm gonna look like a bad guy.
- Well, for Nev and I, we've been
wondering from the beginning if all of this was an act.
- You know--
- Be honest.
- I think-- and I'm not trying to snitch on my men,
'cause they play games all the time.
I didn't know if they eventually
wanted to do something with it, make it a skit.
Like, it wasn't supposed-- it was supposed to be a joke.
- On us?
Was Jaquan a part of all this?
- I mean, I don't-- man, I don't know.
Maybe he just wanted to be on [bleep] TV.
Y'all think of that? - We have.
We've asked him.
- He's a-- that's not nice.
I'm-- that's not nice. I don't agree with that.
I'm just in defense mode.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I think you got roped into all of this.
And I think it's also fair for you
to be distraught and upset. - I'm trying to be under--
um, can I have a minute?
- Yeah, sure.
- Let's just all sit for a minute
and just see if we can get to some place that--
- I'll do it for you. - I appreciate that.
Why don't we all sit down in the shade here
and just try to smooth this out as best we can?
- OK.
[groans]
All right.
I'd love to just try and once and for all
really find out the truth.
[somber music]
- All right, so Jaquan been my business partner
for about a year.
And for the most part, everything's been
peachy but his relationship. - Right.
- You know what I mean? I-- I concocted this story up.
- OK. And rather than just introducing him to Nita,
you thought what?
- Well, I thought that using Shantel instead of Nita,
it-- like, it would have been better 'cause--
- But Nita says it was just a joke.
But you're saying it was to help your friend.
So which was it?
- It started off as, like, a little joke.
A little joke. It's on me.
Like, I was the orchestrator.
But I never in a million years
expected it to snowball like this.
Jaquan, you know you're my dog, man.
I never-- - Was.
- [scoffs] Was.
Well, hopefully one day, you know,
we could go back to being, you know, partners,
man, like Ren and Stimpy, man.
You know, we go together.
I never wanted it to happen like this in a million,
trillion years. Like--
- To be perfectly honest, we still can't be
totally sure what to believe.
I mean, I think you're being serious and genuine.
And you all seem genuine and real.
But we know you guys did that court TV [bleep],
you know, which-- - Yeah, I had to get my money.
- Whatever. - Even though I lost.
- But the point is, like, you're all performers
and entertainers, and you're all funny.
And part of us is still not sure--
- It's not funny. - --how real everybody's
being right now. - This is not--
this is not funny for me. - I'm extremely embarrassed.
I'm extremely embarrassed.
- That much is clear.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Whatever the truth may be, you shouldn't be
treating each other like this.
As of right now, Jaquan, your feelings are--
- I got what I need. I'm good.
- I really am sorry, though. I really am.
- Yeah. I definitely apologize, bro.
- All right.
Well, I think we'll say goodbye, then,
to them and send them on their way.
- They good. - All right.
Nice to meet you.
- You too. - Good meeting y'all.
- Sorry it was under these pretenses.
- Yeah. - Yeah. Take care of yourself.
- Hope you guys find a way forward
back to your friendship.
- Hopefully.
- ♪♪ You're gonna get what you asked for ♪♪
- See you, guys.
- ♪♪ You're gonna get what you asked for ♪♪
- [groans]
- I don't know what to say.
- We don't have much to say.
It'll take time for me to get to that point.
Right now, I'm not there right now.
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- OK. - Let's talk about it.
- You've now seen what we saw when we were there filming.
- Mm-hmm, the foolishness.
- Well, in reviewing all the footage--
OK, because there's obviously stuff that we don't see--
and there's also text messages.
Because at the end of the day our producers go through
and, you know, just screen whatever the people
are saying to each other. - Mm-hmm.
- Well, it turns out our producers found text messages
between Jaquan and Justyn-- - Yeah.
- --talking about how it's a bummer they can't hang out
right now because of the show, and also
wish we could hang out with Nita, too.
- Yeah. - And this was obviously before
Jaquan was supposed to know that Justyn was his catfish.
- And Jaquan was texting Nita before
we even started filming the show.
So, clearly, they were all connected
and in on this together. - Right.
So it's become very clear to us that our suspicions
were correct.
They were faking it-- - Yeah.
- --to get on the show. - Right.
- So now that you guys are up to speed,
we're going to get all three of them
so that we can give them one last opportunity
to finally admit the truth, which we already know--
- Right.
- --and see if they'll come clean.
- I think Nita is gonna break.
She did at the end. - She did.
- She started saying it.
- Well, she sort of said-- right.
Well, I didn't know that she had said that to you.
- Yeah. Well, she said that to me.
And then, at the end, her mic was hot and--
- Right. - --it was recorded.
- So we're gonna give them one chance to tell the truth now.
We'll see. All right?
- [laughs]
[computer chiming]
- There he is. - Hey. How y'all doing?
- What's up? What's up? - Hey.
- Hi, guys.
- What's up, guys?
So here's what's up.
When we were filming with you,
Kamie and I had been suspicious that,
like, you guys lied to us and planned this whole thing.
But in editing the show, we discovered some things
we hadn't noticed before as well as
some text messages that some of the producers
found in your phones.
You were communicating all week long while we were
filming with Justyn saying, "I wish
we could hang out with Nita."
So, like, we already now know that you guys did plan this.
And, Nita, you already sort of tried to tell Kamie
the truth that day at the park,
but you didn't want to, like, "rat out your friends."
- Wait. Huh?
- If you can "huh," you can hear, Justyn.
- So look, now is your chance to redeem yourself
and just admit that, like, "OK, it didn't
really happen like that."
- Me and Jaquan never hung out.
- Which ones?
- I don't have a relationship with him.
I don't--
- I mean, y'all probably misread
some messages or, like--
- Yeah. 'Cause, yeah, never that, never.
- If you just said, "Gotcha," you--
you could really get us.
both: It's not a gotcha moment, though.
- What are you talking about? What do you mean?
That's what I'm confused about.
- All right.
- Well, either way, we know the truth.
- Well, I got to--
I got to actually go back to work, though.
- All right. Well-- - Sure.
- OK. That's it.
- Thanks, guys. - Good luck, everyone.
Bye. - Bye.
- Well-- [laughs]
- I can't believe why, in this moment,
they wouldn't just laugh about it.
- He said, "Huh?
Huh?"
- Why don't we just let America decide.
- I'm gonna go for full of [bleep] for $500, Alex.
- [laughs]
- Erica and Jermaine have been talking for three years.
- He made me happy. He made me smile.
He's like, "If you move out here,
we're definitely gonna be together."
- All right, so let's see what he's got.
Shut the [bleep] up.
- I told you.
- Ooh.
- Hello.
- Ooh, who's that?