- ♪ MTV ♪
- Shi meets Mira.
They've now been talking about six months.
- The way we've been talking and texting,
I love the person.
They're someone that I see a future with.
- There are a million red flags.
Oh, my God. - Wait. What?
- So she lives in the exact same neighborhood.
[doorbell rings]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Action. - What's going on?
♪ ♪
- That's too hard. - Does it hurt?
Oh, shit. I blocked it.
- Uh-oh, your hair's getting frizzy.
- [gasps] No. [laughter]
That's enough. All right.
♪ Let's get to it, let's get to it ♪
[chuckles] - Here we go.
"Who exactly is my girlfriend?"
- If you have to ask...
- "Hey, Nev and Kamie.
"My name is Anthony, but everyone calls me Shi.
"I'm 25, live in Philadelphia,
and I'm a homebody and an introvert."
- Mm.
- "I use dating apps to meet girls.
"And last October, I matched with Tatiana on Tinder.
She lived in my area, was 19 and gorgeous."
- ♪ Higher, higher, higher, higher ♪
- "Eventually we moved our conversation to Instagram.
But that's when things went a little sideways."
- Hmm.
- "The Instagram said her name was Mira, that she was 21,
"and the photo was of a totally different girl.
"'Mira' explained that she just didn't
"want everyone in the neighborhood
to know she was on Tinder."
I guess that's something that people do.
- No. - No?
- No. - All right.
"We kept talking, and she became my girlfriend."
- ♪ Take me higher ♪
- "Mira lives close to me, but I can't get her to meet."
♪ ♪
"When I told my sister what was going on,
"she played me an episode of 'Catfish.'
"So I'm writing to see if you'll help me.
Thank you for your consideration, Shi."
- ♪ Higher, higher, higher, higher, higher ♪
- I could understand if Tatiana had a profile on Tinder
and had a different name but it was the same girl, everything,
on Instagram, because maybe she doesn't
want everyone in her neighborhood
to know that she's on Tinder.
But for it to be a completely different girl,
different pictures, different age, different names--
- That shouldn't even be an option.
- It makes no sense.
- Let's call him.
[dialing] [whistles]
[line trilling]
- Hello. - Is this Shi?
- Hey! - Oh, hey, bud.
This is Nev and Kamie.
We just read your email, and we have a lot of questions.
- [laughs] Question number one...
- What do you call your girlfriend?
- Mira. - Mira.
- Okay, because Tatiana was her name on Tinder.
Got it.
And even though you call yourself an introvert,
I imagine you'd still be happy to go
outside to meet up with her.
Well, great. Let's go down to the City of Brotherly Love.
Yeah, we can figure out something.
We'll take care of everything, and we'll see you soon.
All right, see ya. - See ya.
- We got to help this guy. - Let's go.
- ♪ You got me curious ♪
♪ Curious ♪
- East Coast, baby.
Springtime.
The sun is shining.
- [voice vibrating] The cobblestone streets.
- Can you feel the history?
You can feel it right in your butt.
- I feel it. - [laughs]
All right, so what are we talking about here?
Shi and Mira.
- Yes.
- Different name and picture on Tinder.
What is that? - I don't know.
- This bait-and-switch vibes.
We're gonna meet him at this little house
we rented for him. - Let's do it.
- Whoo!
[doorbell chiming]
- Oh. Hey!
- Hey. - What's up?
- How are you? - I've never been to an Airbnb.
This house is dope. I wasn't expecting this.
- Oh, this is really cute. - This is great.
We should sit on down.
- [laughs] - Ah.
- You guys are having beautiful weather right now.
- I wouldn't know 'cause I'm usually inside the house.
I mean, I literally go to work, home, that's it.
I don't come outside 'cause I don't like going outside.
I'm a very, very shy person.
Once you meet me, okay, he's a cool person.
You know, I like him, but-- - You don't seem shy, yeah.
- Oh, I don't seem shy now,
but, like, I can't walk up to girls
and, like, ask them for their phone number.
I can't do it. - Right.
- So have you dated before? - Mm-hmm.
- Any long-term relationship?
- Longest relationship was six years.
- Six years? That's--
- I started dating her in high school.
- Right. - And I dated her till 22-ish.
Like, it was, like--
- So just last year? - Yeah.
- So after you broke up with your high-school sweetheart...
- Mm-hmm.
- You got on the dating apps. - Mm-hmm.
- Then... - Mm-hmm.
- You matched with... all: Tatiana.
- Mm-hmm.
Looking at the photo, I said, Tatiana, gorgeous.
I messaged her first and was like, hey.
We had a short, little conversation.
She gave me her Instagram, but the name is different.
The age is different. The photo is different.
And she's like, well, I don't want people
in the area knowing that I'm on Tinder, so I'm like,
well, okay, I can respect that.
- So it didn't seem that strange to you?
- Nope, it didn't seem strange at all.
- It is... [laughter]
For both of you.
- It didn't seem strange, so everything was cool.
We was just having regular conversations.
It got to a point where it was like, my heart was fluttering.
This girl was already, you know, like, showing me things
that are, like, different. - Mm.
- She didn't ask about money. She didn't ask about cars.
She didn't ask about nothing like that.
Most girls now in this generation,
oh, if he don't drive, he not for me.
If he don't got money, he's not for me.
- Mm-hmm.
- So, to hear of a female that's not worrying about that,
it was like, mm, you know, this is somebody that you
definitely want to pursue.
Maybe this is the right person.
So me and her were texting on Instagram for a little bit.
I asked her, hey, let's FaceTime.
We FaceTimed. I was looking at the ceiling.
I was like, this is not FaceTime.
She was sitting, like, with the phone right here.
I'm like, you're talking, I can hear you,
so I know you're near the phone.
Your ceiling is beautiful, but I don't want to see it.
I would rather see you.
Would you put your face in the camera?
- Right. - She pushed it off.
So I'm like, well, I hung up the phone.
- But you have talked to her... - Yeah.
- Via at least FaceTime sort of audio?
- Mm-hmm. Our conversations are never long.
It's usually, like, three, four minutes, five minutes, max
and immediately off the phone.
- You have her phone number.
- Yeah, I have her phone number.
- Do you guys ever text on your phone?
- Nope. - Where does she say she lives?
- Based off the information she gives me,
I know she lives somewhere in the vicinity.
- What information are you referencing?
- So she asked me to come meet her.
- Oh.
- And I was so excited because, you know,
I asked multiple times, and she always, like, pushed it off.
And she happened to name a local food market.
I can walk there in, like, five minutes.
- Wow.
- It's called J & C's Food Market.
I go there every single day, every single day.
- So she said, we should meet at this market
that you go to almost every day?
- Every single day. I threw my clothes on, hopped in the car.
I'm like, I'll be there in a couple minutes.
So I get there. I have two photos.
So I'm looking to see if there's anyone outside
that fits the description.
- And she had said come here as if she were already there?
- Yes, I ordered me a cheesesteak.
Best cheesesteak ever. You got to get one.
Order one, waited for the food, sat there and ate my food.
So now I've been at the store for about a hour.
It got to the point where it was like, you know what?
I'm out, and I'm leaving.
Started driving home.
Got a text message that said, I was at work.
- What? - You're not there?
You were still at work?
You could have told me, listen, I get off work,
you know, in, like, 15, 20 minutes.
- Yeah, while you were getting ready,
she could have been like, oh, hold your horses.
I'm still at work.
- Why have me come there and sit there
expecting you to show up and you're not there?
- Or was she there? - Or was she there?
- 'Cause if you go to the same market every day,
is there a possibility that you have,
like, a secret admirer at this market?
- I doubt it.
- I'm trying to make sense of this.
- So did I hear you say earlier you have two photos of her?
- Yes. - Total?
- Two different photos.
- Wait. - Two different photos?
- But she has an Instagram.
- Yeah, and on Instagram, there's one photo.
Besides the one off the Tinder and the one
on Instagram, no photos, no--
- Oh, so she's never actually just sent
you a picture that she took? - None. And I've asked. None.
- So you see that this is all adding up to it very
possibly not being her, right?
- I'm hoping that she's one of the girls inside the pictures,
because, like--
I'm hoping it's just one, because they both look good.
- Yeah, but what if she's not one
of the girls in the pictures?
- The way we've been talking and texting, it's like--
like, it's-- ugh, like, oh, my Lord.
Like, I love the personality. It's amazing.
They're someone that I see a future with.
I'm willing to talk about if the person is not
in either one of the photos. - Mm-hmm.
- I just want to know who I've been dating for five months.
- All right, well, I am very curious to see the photos.
- Do you want to see? - Yes.
- Okay, so here we go.
- Ooh, gorge. - Whoa.
- Stunning.
- So this is what was on her Tinder profile?
- That's the Instagram. - Oh.
- Like, that's the Instagram photo.
- So this is Mira? - Yes.
- And this is the one that she said was actually her?
- That's the one she said was actually her.
- Interesting. Okay.
- And this was on Tinder. - Okay, so--
- Not the same girl. - No.
- Not the same girl. - Both gorgeous.
- I was like, both of them look good,
so if either one is the girl, we can get married.
- [laughs] - Wow.
I mean, look, there's a lot of reasons to suspect
that Mira is not exactly
as she's described herself to be.
It could be her pictures or even her gender or whatever.
I mean, there's certainly a possibility
that she's not exactly who she says she is.
- Okay.
- You seem scared. - No, I'm terrified.
My insides is, like...
It's like, I just want to know which one it is.
- I still don't understand why you think
it could be one of the two.
- Just let me believe, okay?
Let me have my hopes and dreams.
[laughter]
- All right, well, we'll do what we can.
- Ignorance is bliss sometimes. - Yeah.
- I'm gonna need your help. [laughter]
- We'll see you tomorrow.
Oh, boy.
- She's obviously not the girl in either of those pictures
and doesn't know how to tell him the truth.
- The fact that she suggested going to the same market
that he goes to every day, she has to know him.
- Yeah, something tells me Shi is in for a big surprise.
- It's a new day. - It's a new dawn.
- We are here to serve... - Mm.
- The greater purpose, guiding people
back to the path of virtue.
- Amen, pastor.
- Shi has lost his way. - Mm.
- He's been tempted by the devil.
- Preach on, Nev.
- Shi has lived a arguably sheltered life,
but he does meet Tatiana, aka Mira.
- Mm-hmm.
- They've now been talking about six months.
- Mm-hmm.
- He feels a very strong connection and bond with her.
- Yes.
- Now, what's messed up is that there are a million red flags.
- Yeah. - Flag, flag, flag, flag, flag.
- Everywhere, everywhere, all over Philly.
- Right. - Just lining the streets.
- She used a different picture on her Tinder profile
and a different name and a different age.
- Yes. - When they FaceTime,
he doesn't see her. - Mm.
- She's invited him to come meet her.
He went--Oh, I wasn't there. I was at work.
- And she lives, presumably, in his town.
Like, that's not a coincidence. She's seen him before.
- All right, let's see if we got an email here.
We do.
"Nev and Kamie, here's the information I've got for Mira.
"The Tinder profile I met her on said her name was Tatiana,
"and she was 19.
"When we moved the conversation to Instagram,
"the page said her name was Mira and that she was 21.
"The phone number is here.
"The corner store she wanted me to meet her at
"is the J & C Food Market on 70th Street--
"It's in my neighborhood, and only people
"there would know it.
"I'll see you later today. I appreciate your help.
Shi."
So this was the Tinder profile pic.
- Right.
- And here's the other photo. - Mm-hmm.
- Let's just start with a little image search.
Let's see if we get any hits.
- The girl with the braids is coming back immediately.
- You think so? - 1,000%.
- All right, well, let's start there, then.
- She's probably got a TikTok with a bunch of followers.
Boom. What did I say?
No girl that looks like that is not all over the Internet.
Who is she? - Who is she?
- Links to a Twitter. This is her Twitter?
- Why can't we find the source?
Let's try a different one.
Maybe it'll just take us to the source.
Oh, okay, wait.
- Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest.
- Yeah, but that's not her Pinterest.
Wow, this girl is all over the Internet.
- Mm-hmm.
- So why isn't she easier to find?
- It's a bunch of people using her pictures.
- Here's another picture of her.
- Look, someone else said, IG name, her "at"?
Like, nobody can find this girl.
Who is the woman?
I wonder if I posted her on my Instagram,
if somebody would know.
- You could make an IG story. - "Stunner."
- All right.
Anyone know this queen's IG?
- Okay. - All right, you posting?
- Posting. Let us pray.
Somebody knows her.
Come on, come on.
270 views so far.
- And nothing? No responses?
- Not yet.
- All right, well, let's keep going.
So we do have another photo-- we might as well look at that
just so we can show him
that it's definitely not that girl either.
[cell phone beeps] - Oh.
- Oh, oh, what? - Ah!
"Nope, but, girl, is this for a 'Catfish' episode?"
- Is that someone you know?
- No.
- All right, let me just search this other girl.
Tatiana, the Tinder profile pic.
Okay, wait a second.
Is this her? Does this--
- That doesn't look like her. - Are any of these this girl?
both: No. [cell phone beeps]
- Somebody said, "Girl, if you don't do a reverse image
search and see what comes up."
We've tried that.
- I can't believe we're striking out on your IG.
- No.
- All right, let's take her phone number and search this.
Search it now.
- Ooh, [bleep]. Francesca [bleep].
- Francesca. That is an unusual name.
It has them in their mid 40s.
There's a current address... - Okay.
- In Philadelphia.
Let's search this now that we have the full name.
All right, searching people.
So we do city...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Nope, nothing.
- You still don't have any answers, huh?
- Someone said, "Tough times on 'Catfish'?"
Yes.
- All right, well, we have an address
that came back associated with the phone number.
- Mm-hmm.
- Let's see if the address to the phone number
is near that deli.
- J & C Food Market on 70th Street.
- J & C Food Market.
Okay, South 70th.
All right, great.
Okay, so this is near where he lives.
- Mm-hmm. - So where is that address?
[dramatic music]
Oh, my God. - Wait, what?
That's, like, six blocks.
- Near where Shi lives. - Yeah, that's nuts.
Three-minute drive.
- So she lives in the exact same neighborhood
that Shi does. - If that's her.
- I mean, the phone number he has for her comes back
to an address that's blocks from the deli
that she suggested they go to that he
goes to almost every day.
I think it could be someone he knows.
We should go check out this deli...
- Yeah.
- And see if they know someone named Mira.
Super low profile and just, you know, like, customers.
Hey, what's up? Oh.
- Let me get a Philly cheesesteak.
- We got a lot of questions. - Yeah.
- Let's hit the streets.
- All right, so what's our strategy?
We're gonna scope out this market.
I think we go in there super low key.
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, I'll start a conversation, I'll be friendly.
Meanwhile, you be looking at the reactions
from any of the staff... - Mm-hmm.
- In case one of them gives us a tell to indicate
that perhaps they might know more
than they're willing to admit.
- Casual. - Yeah, super casual.
I think it's right... Is that it right there?
All right, ready? - Yeah.
Undercover.
- Just walking into this deli for a sandwich.
- Just two friends getting a sandwich.
- Yeah.
Hi.
Can I get a sandwich?
I want the beef cheesesteak.
You know who we are?
Have you seen our show?
Okay, yeah. Okay.
- Hey!
- Well, because we didn't know, so...
- We were trying to be undercover.
It doesn't work anymore.
- Because I've got my little camera, if you don't mind.
I'm... - Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, okay. So we're filming an episode in town right now.
- Okay.
- And we're trying to help this guy...
- Mm-hmm.
- Who lives in the neighborhood,
comes here a lot. - Okay.
- And we think the girl he's talking to also lives
in the neighborhood because she said to him,
we should meet here one day for, like, a sandwich.
- Mm-hmm.
- So we were wondering if we could--
Do you have the phone? - Yeah.
- If you've happened to have ever seen any of these girls
just by any chance?
We don't think it's this girl,
but we're just curious if you've ever seen her.
Okay.
This--Oh, wait.
This girl?
No. She says her name is Mira. - Mira.
- You don't know a girl named Mira?
- Could her name be anything else?
Tatiana.
Oh, oh, oh, Francesca [bleep].
- Francesca?
- Okay, so do you know this guy, though?
His name is Shi. He goes by Shi.
Here he is.
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah?
- You know him? - Yes, I do know him.
- You recognize him? - Yes, he comes here a lot.
He buys a lot of sandwiches and stuff.
- Right. - All the time.
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- And what, you like him? Is he a good guy?
- Yeah. - Okay.
- He's a great guy. - Do you have a crush on Shi?
No.
- Are you in a relationship? Okay, good for you.
All right, well, thank you for your help.
- Yeah.
- Thank you. - [laughs] Thank you so much.
Good to meet you. - Gracias.
- Damn.
Well...
- All right, at least we got a Philly cheesesteak out of it.
- Yes. - Oh, my goodness.
Well, we didn't get a lot of info.
- I feel like we're not getting any closer.
- All right, well, either way, we should just
let him know we're en route. - Yeah.
[line trilling]
Shi, we've got some updates.
All right, we'll see you soon.
- Bye.
- All right, shall we?
[dramatic music]
- Hey.
- We brought a little extra something.
I got to try this sandwich.
Oh, my God, wow.
I mean, that is-- - [laughs]
- They said it was the best, and you said it was the best.
- All right, well, let's head in, sit down,
and talk about what we found.
All right.
What's up? How you feeling?
- Nervous.
Emotions are all over the place right now.
- Well, why don't we show you what we found
and figure out what to do?
All right, so we took what we had,
and we started first with pictures.
And... - Mm-hmm.
- The photo came back with a bunch of hits.
Now, the weird thing is that we went through, I think, all
of these, and she shows up in a lot,
but we could not find any post that says,
oh, this is so-and-so.
- As you see, there's people commenting, "Instagram name?"
"What's her 'at'?"
Like, nobody knows. - Nobody knows.
It's kind of wild.
So it doesn't necessarily rule out that she could be Mira.
But what it does tell us is that this girl
has posted a lot of photos on the Internet.
So why Mira would have only posted
that one picture on her Instagram
and/or not sent you other photos
when there clearly are lots of them
suggests that maybe you're not talking to this girl.
♪ ♪
[somber music]
So then we thought, okay, let's go back to the other girl,
then, the first girl.
And that actually came back with no hits.
Okay, fine.
So then we moved on to the phone number.
It came back to a Philadelphia cell phone, and age is 47.
Now, I don't know if this address looks familiar, but--
- Or the name-- [bleep] Francesca.
- Nothing? - No.
- Check this out.
When we search that address to see
how close it was to your favorite deli,
it's, like, five blocks.
So your suspicion that whoever she is,
she probably lives in the neighborhood
seems to be right, because you live close to the deli, right?
You're blocks from each other. - Yeah.
- You live that close,
and you've been pushing off seeing me for this long?
Like, come on. Like, now it's just, like--
- But this makes us feel even more
that it could be someone that you do know.
♪ ♪
I mean, at this point, you have to kind of accept that you...
maybe know nothing about this girl
and that everything she's told you is a total lie.
- ♪ When will I know ♪
♪ When enough time has passed? ♪
- Shi, you look so sad.
- "Sad" is... [scoffs]
"Sad" is not even the word after finding out the person
that I've been talking to for the last couple of months
may not be the person I've been talking to.
- ♪ When I'm lonely and bored ♪
♪ And I won't shed a tear ♪
Like, it makes me feel
like I kind of set myself up for this.
I've been, like, bullshitted the last...
I've been bullshitted the last couple of months.
Now it's like, everything that we talked about--
bullshit.
- ♪ I'm not sorry for making a mess ♪
♪ And I hope you find love in the end ♪
- The person you've been talking to lives potentially
very close to you but clearly has been
avoiding meeting up with you.
So they've obviously been avoiding you for a reason.
So our only option now is just to reach out to Mira
and see what she says.
- Yeah.
- How are you feeling?
- A bit pissed, a bit upset.
Like, emotions are...
So it's like, I'm now-- it's like,
now I'm kind of preparing for the worst now.
- All right, well, let's text her.
"Hey, Mira.
"This is Nev from 'Catfish.'
"I'm here in Philly with Shi
"and would love
"to speak with you.
[cell phone bloops]
All right, let's see what she says.
- [sighs]
- We've done everything we can.
She might reach out to you and be like, what is this?
Or if she gets back to us, I'll let you know.
We do have the address from the phone number.
But fingers crossed, one of us hears back from her.
And I think we should just hope that tomorrow at some point,
we'll just head over and meet her somewhere nearby.
You all right? - [scoffs] I will be.
[crying] It's gonna take a minute, but I will be.
- [sighing] All right.
[dramatic music]
- It's gonna be okay.
- All right, let me know if you hear anything.
- Okay. - Bye.
♪ ♪
- [sighs] - I feel sad face emoji.
- I know.
The only reason they haven't met up
is because she's clearly been lying to him.
- Yeah. I think it's someone he knows.
- I don't know what's going on here,
but something tells me it is not gonna end well.
♪ ♪
[chuckles] Oh, I didn't even know you had a camera in here.
- What do you want? Bothering me.
- Okay, so wait a second. So look at this.
So I thought...
that Mira texted me back.
Mira has not responded.
It's from a new number that says,
"Hello, this is about Mira."
- Okay. [laughs] - Okay?
"Can you talk?" So I guess--
- What number is that?
- I don't know. It's just a new number.
[cell phone ringing] Oh, here we go, here we go.
Levittown, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
I'm great.
Who is this?
Oh, great. Hi, how you doing?
Sure.
[echoing oddly] I mean, look, we've already prepared Shi
for the very real possibility
that Mira is not who he thinks she is.
He's disappointed, but I don't think he's angry.
And I think as long as, you know, she agrees to meet us,
he'll be as understanding as he can be.
Sure.
Okay, good night.
- I don't think Emoni is Mira. - I don't think so either.
- I think she had "Mira" on speaker, like, was listening.
- Oh.
- Like, I think that's why we were hearing that--
- That was a little echo. - Yeah.
Basically, they want to know,
is Shi gonna be fucking pissed...
- Right, right.
- When this girl shows up
and she's not at all who she claims to be?
- Let's call Shi really fast and just let him know.
[line trilling]
Shi-Shi?
Kamie and I just had a conversation
with some girl named-- - Emoni.
- Emoni, who I guess is a friend of Mira's.
Emoni is going to talk to her friend, Mira,
and tell her hopefully that we come in peace and that,
like, she should meet with us.
Why don't you just plan on meeting us here
at the hotel in the morning so that we can all be together
and roll out together?
All right. All right, good night.
- Good night. - Tomorrow is the day.
- For what?
- Something. - Mayhem.
[cell phone chimes]
- Oh, wait a second. Here's Emoni.
She said, "Hello, good morning.
I've talked to Mira. She's nervous."
- That was your job, Emoni, was to massage the nerves.
[cell phone chimes]
- Oh, she sent an address in Blackwood, New Jersey.
Okay, so it's across the river.
And she said, "We'll be there any time after noon."
- "We'll be there"?
- "We will be there."
So I guess she's coming with Mira.
- I don't want any more duo Catfish meetups.
[cell phone chimes] - Shi just texted.
He's pulling up now.
You ready?
- Yella.
♪ ♪
Holler! [laughter]
Hey, Shi.
Hello. - Let's get in the car.
You sit in the front.
♪ ♪
All right, remember last night when I called you
and we talked about how this girl had called,
friends with Mira? - Yeah.
- She's the one who was like,
"I talked to Mira about some of what you guys discussed.
"She's nervous.
But I have a location you can come to."
And it's in New Jersey. It's in Blackwood.
You know anyone in Blackwood? - No.
- And she wrote, "We will be there any time after--"
So it sounds like Emoni and Mira are gonna be together.
- Okay. - All right?
You good to go? - Yes.
- Okay. - There's a chance that Emoni
could just be a supportive friend,
and there's also a chance
that there could be two people that you've been
talking to this whole time.
- That would be weird.
Why am I talking to two different people?
- Well, I mean, we've seen it before, where people are like,
oh, it was just a joke,
and then it spun out of control and--
- It is not a joke playing with someone's feelings.
- Right.
- We won't know until we get there.
- Yeah.
- All right, welcome to New Jersey.
♪ ♪
Wow. These are nice houses.
Okay, well, I guess this is it.
How you feeling? - Nervous is an understatement.
- Yeah. All right, shall we?
- Yes, we shall.
♪ ♪
- Check it out.
♪ ♪
[doorbell chiming]
[speaks indistinctly]
I feel like I hear something. - You hear something?
[door opens] Oh.
- Oh, sure.
- What?
- A pretty young woman, nice smile.
Sounds like the girl from the phone call.
I think this might be Emoni.
She said, one moment.
- What are we waiting for?
♪ ♪
- Hi.
- She said, one moment. - What are we waiting for?
[dramatic music]
- Hi. - Hi.
- And you must be Mira? - Yeah.
- You know her? - No.
- Nice to meet you.
A moment ago, was that your friend Emoni?
- That's Emoni, yeah.
- Come on down.
- Hi. I'm Kamie.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you, too.
- And this, as you know, is Shi.
Do you guys know each other?
- No.
- Okay.
- I'm not the person in the picture, obviously.
- Okay.
Just to be clear, you've been the one talking to Shi?
- Yeah, but my name is not Mira.
- Okay, what is your name? - My name's Shiona.
- Shiona?
- I'm from Philly.
- Okay.
So is this Emoni's house, then? - Yeah.
- We live in the same city.
Meeting you in person, you still look good.
- Right. - You could have just sent me
a regular photo of you, and I'd have said--
- It was like, I didn't want to give my real identity
because I just was scared
of how it would be, like, in person.
I wanted somebody, you know, tall enough for me,
and I didn't know how it was gonna be in person.
But I don't think you're tall enough for me.
- What?
- I mean, you could have asked my height.
If I wasn't-- you could have asked my height, something--
- If you're looking for tall guys--
- You could have just told me that.
Like, this shit all could have been avoided
if you would have just-- listen, I want a tall guy.
Hey, I'm 6 foot.
Instead of, you know, pursuing and me building feelings
and, you know, growing an attachment
to somebody who doesn't like me because I'm not tall.
Like, I didn't choose to come out not tall.
- You seem annoyed with him because he's not as tall
as you'd like him to be. - Right.
- But that was never part of your discussion,
and you knew what he looked like.
You're also not the person you showed pictures of,
so it makes sense that he's confused right now.
He's just trying to figure out if the last six months
meant anything to you or if it was all just some joke.
- First off, I wasn't the one that matched you.
♪ ♪
It was Emoni.
- So tell Emoni to come on outside, please.
♪ ♪
- Emoni?
- So I've been texting the wrong girl.
♪ ♪
- Hi.
- Help us understand what happened.
- Okay, well, I was the one who started the Tinder page...
- Okay. - Initially.
- But why make a fake Tinder profile?
- I wasn't.
It was just for entertainment, really.
And then when I stopped texting him, she started.
And it was like, she kind of felt like--
had interest in him. - I liked texting you.
- She's seeing what he was saying and yeah.
- You wanted to keep talking to him
and then made the fake Instagram?
Or you already had a fake Instagram?
- I already had a Insta.
Like, I already had a Finsta page.
And she was like, he's cool and stuff like that.
- But after she established the connection
with the fake profile,
if you wanted to keep talking to him,
why didn't you just say, hey, you know,
that was my friend, she was doing some dumb shit,
but this is really me?
Because, like, you're beautiful.
- I didn't want him to go around saying that I'm
on Tinder and I'm on-- - What? Who cares?
- I mean, like, we live in the same city,
but it's like, I was insecure.
- Okay.
- So, like, what do you have to say?
Like, why are you just standing here?
- I just want to know if the last, what,
five months, six months we been texting has been fake or real?
Because for me, it's been real.
Five months of my time, you know, for nothing.
- [laughs] - Right.
- So, like, that's-- - How is that funny?
- That's the issue is like-- - I can't do this no more.
- Do what?
Tell the truth? What?
- Well-- - Emoni, go get your friend.
Go ahead.
- This is fucking ridiculous. [exhales sharply]
I want to punch the fucking wall right now.
- She's annoyed with you. - I'm confused.
Did you lie and say you were taller?
- No. - It doesn't matter.
- It doesn't even matter. - It doesn't matter.
I think she's being offensive and just, like, trying
to make it your problem instead of acknowledging
what she's done.
♪ ♪
Welcome back.
- I'm sorry. I'm just a little nervous.
But it was really me talking to you and texting you every day.
And I really appreciate how you was texting me.
You're a nice person, you are,
but I don't know you like that.
So, I mean, I don't know what else to say.
- You don't think that the connection that you guys had
meant anything? - No.
I don't think it meant anything to me.
It just went too far.
Like, I'm sorry
But... [laughing]
- This isn't fucking funny.
- [laughing] I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I did try to stop texting him, but he blowed my phone up.
What can I say?
- Because he thought you were his girlfriend, that's why.
He thought you were his girlfriend.
And you were calling him your boyfriend.
Like, if you weren't into him,
then you could have stopped doing that, but you didn't.
And I don't know what's so fucking funny.
♪ ♪
- [sobbing]
- You just admitted that you liked talking to him.
- I do, like, enjoy texting him,
but I don't think the feelings are real.
I don't know what to say. Like, I apologize to him.
- [sobbing]
- But at the end of the day, we was in a fake relationship.
It wasn't real.
- Hang in there, buddy.
♪ ♪
- I wasted six months with somebody that it was a joke.
[crying]
- I wasted six months with somebody that it was a joke.
[crying]
Those six months was real to me.
- I don't know what to say. Like, I apologize to him.
But at the end of the day, we was in a fake relationship.
It wasn't real.
I'm not attracted to him like how I thought I was gonna be.
- That's fine. - Right.
So... - That's fine.
- Yeah, I'm keeping it real.
- That's fine, but it's the way that you do it.
You don't have to be fucking rude.
- I think it should have been more obvious to you...
- Yeah.
- That she probably wasn't the girl in the pictures.
- Yeah. - But it's not crazy
for you to feel like there was a real connection.
- Yeah.
- What's messed up is, like, now
she's trying to weirdly play it off like it was nothing.
It doesn't make any sense.
- I should have just stopped it instead of just kept going,
because, obviously, now he's hurt and--
- Well, of course he's hurt,
'cause you're laughing in his face.
That's not nice. - [chuckles]
I'm laughing because I'm nervous.
- I get if you're nervous.
That's totally understandable,
but, like, you have to say that,
because, obviously, his feelings are hurt.
- I think you should tell her, as clearly as you can,
what it meant to you and why this is fucked up.
- Yeah.
- Let me just check in with Kamie.
- All right.
- So you can just chill here for a second.
- I guess you guys can come in and talk if you want to.
- I would love for us to be able to sit down
and talk with you, but I don't know if he's gonna want that.
Why don't you go on inside and I'll figure
out what we're gonna do? - Okay.
♪ ♪
- I think
we should just have one calm conversation to complete this.
- Yeah.
She said she's been laughing so much because she's so nervous.
I'm like, girl. - I mean...
- It might be true,
but, like, you don't have to be fucking rude.
♪ ♪
- All right. Come on.
- I think that she needs a bit of a reality check.
Tell her exactly how it has made you feel
and why it's not right.
- Yeah. Let's just go in there.
We'll get it over with, and we can move on with our lives.
- It is what it is.
Hey. - You guys can come in.
♪ ♪
- All right.
We wanted to come back in here just to kind
of make sure everyone's clear with what
this was and what it wasn't.
- Honestly, like, the conversations were real for me.
To text somebody for, you know, a long period of time,
four months, five months, six months,
you develop feelings for them.
Whether it was real for you or not, it was real for me.
I just-- [scoffs, sniffles]
I'm just upset at the fact that, you know--
yeah, you know, I thought it was real,
and it's like, it was a joke.
It's not a joke to me.
- I don't want to come off rude,
and I ain't mean to laugh in your face about how you feel.
I wasn't laughing about, you know, how you feel.
I was laughing because I was nervous, obviously,
and you guys were asking me questions.
And I'm sorry that you caught feelings,
but it was just...
entertainment for me.
- Right.
- I think what's important to realize is you were having
your own experience, which was very different than his,
but he had assigned a lot of value to you.
If you're gonna talk to a guy,
don't assume that it doesn't mean anything to him.
- I didn't mean to hurt you.
I just want to start over and be friends.
I want a hug.
Like, I just want to accept an apology or not.
We could be really good friends,
and we could have fun with each other.
- Look, you might be frustrated that you're not getting, like,
an answer from him right now
or he's not accepting your apology
because he just fucking-- just found all this out.
You know what I mean? It's a lot for him.
- Mm-hmm.
- Being friends, it's not it for me
because I don't look at this like a friendship.
For me, it was never a friendship.
If it's somebody I'm interested in,
I'm gonna pursue that person and only talk to that person
and be interested in that person.
- Mm-hmm.
- ♪ Lately ♪
- Okay, I guess that's that.
- ♪ All right ♪
♪ I'm moving on ♪
- Good to meet you. - Uh-huh.
- ♪ Moving on ♪
- That was a roller coaster.
- What if she tries to get in touch with you
and wants to be friends?
- We're still gonna not being friends--I'm good.
- You're just gonna walk away? - Yep, completely.
- I don't say that I blame you.
- You're a good guy.
And hopefully people will see the episode,
and the girls that are into you will reach out.
- Hopefully.
- ♪ Starting again ♪
♪ ♪
[computer chimes] - Hey!
- Shi. - What's up, buddy?
- I'm just chilling. - How is everything?
- Things are very good.
Like, after, like, this whole experience,
I've actually, like, gone outside,
you know, and try and talk to people.
I'm not, you know, hiding behind the app.
Like, I deleted all dating apps.
Surprisingly, I went to ask someone for their number
and got told yes.
Like, my heart dropped when I asked.
But when she said yes, it was like, yes!
- Nice. - Aw.
- Like, this is how you do it. - You look great.
You look like a grown man. - What about Shiona?
- Your homegirl.
- After this scenario, I was angry.
Like, I was really upset and pissed off,
and I did block her.
But it was, like, the easy thing to do in any situation
is just to walk away from, but the harder thing to do
is to, you know, try to adjust from it.
So I unblocked her,
and then she sent me a message off her page.
- And she's apologized?
- Yes, actually, she's being nice.
- She's being nice to you? - Yes, it's very good.
- Okay. - Nice.
Nice to see you.
I'm glad to hear everything's going well.
- Thank you.
- If I'm in Philly, we'll meet up for some cheesesteaks.
- You don't got to tell me twice.
Later. - Bye.
[computer chimes] - Hey.
- What's good?
- We just chatted with Shi.
I was happy to hear that you've sort of stayed in touch.
- Actually text me on my main page now.
- Do you feel any differently about how things went down?
Like, do you wish that you did things differently?
- I do feel bad for him, but I told him the truth.
That's all I could have done.
- Do you have any regrets about what happened?
- Yeah.
- I hope you're working on your approach, kindness,
and respect towards others.
- Right. - Well, good luck with that.
When we're down in Philly, we'll hit you up.
- All right. Thank you.
Have a nice day. Both: Bye.
- The first time I met Brittany, she came
through a drive-through I was working at.
- You saw her? - Yeah.
Then she hits me up on Snapchat.
- Wait, what? - He is way too trusting.
He's missing the gene that makes you suspicious.
- Mm.
- How much money did you send her?
- About 10,000.
- He's literally hemorrhaging money.
- This is some diabolical shit.