- ♪ MTV ♪
- Arturo's been talking to Laura for a couple of years.
- I've opened up to her about so many things
that I haven't with anyone.
- Drugged? - Wha?
- I feel like this is gonna get a lot worse
before it gets better.
- Do you remember this girl being here last night?
I need to talk to Nev.
- That looks like a [bleep] ransom note.
- Hello?
[dramatic musical sting]
- Under construction.
Our office is under construction.
Do not enter.
Okay.
What does this mean?
[upbeat music]
[gasps] Oh, wow.
- Whoa!
- We got drapes? Oh, look at the poster!
- Holy moly!
Look at the map! - Oh, it's so pretty.
- We finally got a new map.
It has even lighting behind it. Look at this.
It's got little lighting,
all the pins and places we've been.
- This is fire.
- You guys made this? - Aww!
I love it.
Thank you, guys.
This is beautiful.
I love it.
- Thank you.
- Gorgeous.
- Yeah, of course.
We really do need to get a Kamie.
Well, there is something in here.
- Oh, God. [laughs]
What is it?
- Come on. No. - What is it?
- I just said we need a Kamie, and there's a Kamie in there.
You are inside me.
- What? Aww.
And I have a red flag.
And I have boobs.
- Oh, my God.
- I love her.
- Cute. Back to work.
- We got an email here from Arturo.
The subject, "Am I the butt of another joke?
"Hey, Nev and Kamie.
"My name is Arturo, he/him.
I'm 28 years old, and I'm from Los Angeles, California."
- ♪ I ain't the jealous type ♪
- "I met someone back in 2021 on Instagram,
and I asked her to be exclusive in January of 2023."
- What took him so long?
- "Her name is Laura.
She's 21 and lives in Desert Hot Springs."
- ♪ I know that you want it, so let's get it ♪
- Well, that's close. - Mm-hmm.
- "When we first started talking,
"I didn't think I would start an online relationship.
"But we have a lot in common when it comes to music, food,
and, well, a good sense of humor."
- ♪ I'll be here waiting for you ♪
♪ Go ahead, baby, do your thing ♪
- "What I love about her is how blunt she is.
She will say everything as it is."
- ♪ Do your thing, do your thing ♪
♪ ♪
- "I feel like we have a special bond,
"and she makes me feel a certain way
"that I haven't felt in such a long time.
♪ ♪
"When she says I love you,
"I feel like I could bounce off the walls.
The problem"-- - Mm...
- "The problem is,
"she refuses to voice message, phone call,
FaceTime, or hang out."
- So what does she do? - Yeah.
So what--how do you--
yeah, I guess.
"It's made me a bit frustrated because it's been ten months
"since we became exclusive, and I'm starting to think
"that the person behind the account
"is not who she says she is.
"I'm hoping you can help me figure out
"if this person is real
"or if it's just some sick joke and I'm being catfished.
Hope to hear from you soon, Arturo."
- We need to call Arturo so we can get him and Laura together.
- All right.
I'm ready to see what we can do.
[line trills]
- Hello, Arturo.
It's Nev and Kamie.
- Drugged? - Wha?
- What was her reaction when you mentioned "Catfish"?
- Arturo.
- Did you tell her, hey, I got this weird
phone call last night?
- So things are obviously heating up behind the scenes.
Something's going on.
- Listen, Arturo.
- Where do you live in Los Angeles?
- Oh. Text me your address.
Sit tight, and we'll just head over there
right now because it's so close.
- All right, man. We'll see you soon.
- All right. - See ya.
- Let's go.
- ♪ Be the one you love, one you love ♪
♪ Could I be the one you love ♪
- Can't believe how close he lives.
- I can't believe how close Laura lives to Arturo,
and he hasn't met her yet.
And they've been talking for two years?
- Yeah. - No.
Absolutely not.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ Could I be the one you love ♪
- We made it.
Hey. - Hey.
- What's up, man?
- How you doing? - Hey, this is Kamie.
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you. - Thanks for having us.
- Thank you for responding to my email.
I appreciate it. - Oh, for sure.
What's up? Tell us about yourself.
Forget the whole Laura thing for a minute.
We're just kind of curious to get to know you a little bit.
- Tell us about yourself. - Me?
I love being in any kind of creative environment.
So I do background work on music videos
or commercials right now.
- Film, video.
- Music. - Music.
- Yeah. - That's cool.
All right. And do you have siblings?
- I have a brother and a sister.
- Do any of your siblings or your family know about Laura?
- [chuckles] No.
I told one friend, and her immediate reaction was, like,
it's a 50-year-old man,
which is why after ten months
I decided to reach out to y'all.
- So it's been ten months of you guys being serious.
- Yes.
And it's been two years of me knowing her online.
- Which is wild. - Yeah.
- Give us the backstory and sort of get the whole
origin story of you and Laura.
- Yeah, um, I go to a lot of, like, fan events,
like meet and greets, concerts,
and obviously get a chance to meet
a bunch of, like, celebrities.
So I get a picture with them, and then she comes in like,
oh, my God, I love this person so much.
And my account is public, so that's how
she was able to come across the pictures
one way or another.
- So she comments.
- Yes. - And does she DM you?
- She reached out to me in a DM like, hey, you're so lucky.
How are you able to meet so many people?
- And you probably get messages like that all the time
when you post pictures with celebrities.
- Yeah.
With everyone else, after they get the information,
they'll just leave you alone. - Right.
- With her, the conversation just didn't end.
She would ask me stuff about me, like how we grew up,
things we went through in school,
things that made us upset.
Started flowing.
- Was there anything in particular that either of you
mentioned that resonated?
- Bullying in school growing up, yeah.
Because I was short, so it's like, pick on the short guy.
I was a $40 bet in high school.
So someone just dated me because they gave her 40 bucks.
- What? - Yeah.
It was some really bad joke they played on me.
And it just seems like Laura doesn't care.
I told her I'm 5'4", like, I'm short.
It's like, I don't care.
That was something that caught my attention from her as well.
And I've opened up to her about so many things
that I haven't with anyone in a long time.
- All right, so you and Laura decide,
we're gonna make this official,
and you both start saying I love you?
- Yeah, yeah.
- And at that point, I imagine you're sort of next thought
was, okay, great. When are we meeting?
- Yeah.
We made the plan.
She said, okay, certain day,
I'll be there at a certain time.
But then the day came, it's like, hey, you know what?
They called me into work.
- So you were ready to drive out there.
- Yeah.
It's very frustrating because once it's the year mark
and you don't see the person, you're just like,
something's up. - Right.
- And these messages are happening on Instagram?
- Yeah.
I have her number, but she just chooses
to communicate through Instagram.
- And what's her excuse [lfor not being able
to get on a phone call?
- She says, my voice feels kind of weird.
I don't like my voice. I don't really like my voice.
- Does she post stories or videos of her?
- She does, but it's never talking.
It's always very filtered, and it looks grainy.
- And does she have people following her or commenting,
or is she tagging friends?
- She doesn't have pictures posted.
That's the thing. - What?
- She just posts them on her story.
- She doesn't have any pictures on her feed?
- Mm-mm. - Arturo.
- Has there been any other kind of exchange,
like money back and forth?
- Say no.
- I have DoorDashed her food a lot.
- Is she broke?
- I mean, she works, so no.
- Okay, and so are you having it delivered
or sending her money to get food?
- Delivered.
both: So you have her address. - I do.
And I've actually looked up the address as well.
It's a house.
I've thought about showing up, actually.
I've just be like, you know what?
Hey, I'm outside your place.
But I'm just scared that if I go, I'm not coming back
if the situation goes bad. - Mm.
Yesterday, you get a call from some anonymous number.
They said, back off. Don't call.
- Yeah, that kind of freaked me out.
- What did they say exactly?
- We don't want her exposed to being drugged
and taken somewhere else
or exposing her to something that she's not
comfortable sharing with you.
- What?
- I'm like, I could not get a word in.
- So whoever called you yesterday was angry.
- Yes.
- We gotta figure this out.
I need to see pictures. - Yeah.
- You're more than welcome to take a look.
All right, you got -a whole folder here..
- I got a whole folder just for her.
- Oh, okay. - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
- Cute.
- Yeah, it's a filter.
- Yeah.
- Heavily filtered.
- Yeah. - Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
I mean, she's definitely attractive.
But then why not video chat?
It's so weird.
- I wanna see the messages.
Can you give me some food on DoorDash?
You said, sure. What do you want?
McDonald's, two cheeseburgers with fries.
- And then she said, you got the address already.
Or do I have to tell you again?
- What time is the food gonna be here
so I can have my light on for them?
- Wow. Okay.
I mean, that's--I mean, look.
- I don't know how I feel about this relationship.
It feels like she's using you.
You mentioned in the email, I don't wanna be another joke.
- Right.
That's the whole $40 in high school thing.
- The $40 bit. - Yeah.
So I was like, I'm not trying to be anyone's joke again.
- Mm-hmm. - All right.
So I think, as much as I hate to say it,
it does sound like Laura is hiding something from you.
- Right.
- You haven't heard her voice on the phone.
Could be because her voice
doesn't sound like a young lady.
- Or it could be somebody that you know
whose voice you would recognize.
- So we gotta figure it out.
Send us all the stuff you have.
We'll do some research and hopefully
have some answers for you.
- Okay. - All right, man.
- Thank you so much. - Great to meet you.
- Good to meet you.
- Good to meet you, Arturo. - Good to meet you too.
Thank you so much for everything.
- Of course.
- Wow.
- You wanna say it, or should I?
Arturo is getting catfished.
The girl is catfishing him so she can
get money for Burger King.
- Yeah.
I think that's probably what's happening.
I just feel so sorry for Arturo.
- I think his fears of this being some big joke to somebody
are very, very real.
And I feel like this is gonna get a lot worse
before it gets better.
- Ready?
We're gonna crack this case open.
- One minute, please.
- Well, while you hydrate--
- Whoo!
I'm ready.
- Wow. - Recap me.
- Stuff hits quick. All right.
Arturo, sweet guy.
He loves to go to concerts and shows.
that he looks up to and admires. meet the people
Laura comments on a picture of him.
They keep chatting. She's interested in him.
Arturo keeps saying, we should get together.
She keeps saying she's busy.
She doesn't wanna get on the phone
because she's insecure about her voice.
She also asks him to send her food.
- Mm-hmm. - And then out of nowhere,
some guy calls him, basically just yells at him
and says, don't call "Catfish."
Laura, something she isn't ready to tell you
or may never tell you, and let it go.
Click.
Bottom line is, Arturo has been talking to someone
who is avoiding him. - Yeah.
- Even if Laura isn't lying,
this relationship could be majorly flawed.
All right.
Let's read this email from Arturo.
It says, info for Laura.
"Hey, guys.
"Here's everything I know about Laura.
"She's 21 years old.
Her full name is Laura Nicole [bleep]."
- That's--I mean, he got her first, middle, and last.
"The address I Uber her -to/from is this one.".
No, wait a second. There's two addresses.
"So the address I Uber her to/from
is this one in Desert Hot Springs."
- He didn't say anything about that.
- "And the one she gave me to send food to
the other day was this one."
I wonder how many times he's sent her Uber rides.
- Who knows?
- Maybe he was embarrassed to tell us that?
"I have her phone number.
Here's her Instagram and her Facebook."
Oh, okay. "And pics are attached.
"Let me know if you need anything else.
Good luck, Arturo."
All right, well, let's save these pics.
Where should we start?
- Maybe the pictures.
I don't feel like they're gonna come back with anything.
- All right, you wanna start with the pictures?
- So maybe just get rid of them.
- She's very good looking.
Do you think maybe she's an influencer?
Let's just take a bunch of these pictures
and drag them in, and see what happens.
These pictures are so filtered.
But let's just see if we find something.
Ooh. Oh. Ooh.
Oh, wait a second. Mm. - Mm...
- I don't know. Close. - Yeah.
- All right, so nothing on the pictures.
Let's go to the Instagram, just to take a peek.
- No posts.
She wasn't tagged in anything.
- She's following a lot of people.
Oh! Whoa! - Whoa!
- Whoa! Whoa!
- I don't like it. - Wow.
- I don't like it.
- She is following Max, me, you,
and "Catfish" on Instagram.
[suspenseful music]
She's a fan.
- Well, great. - [laughs]
That's what's even more interesting, is that she had--
or someone had such an adverse reaction when he said,
I'm writing in to "Catfish." - Right.
- Because she knows the show clearly well.
- Maybe when Arturo told her that he was reaching out,
that's when she followed us.
This is just a little suspicious
considering the circumstances.
- Okay.
Let's check out this Facebook because he didn't mention that.
I mean, she's got a Facebook page.
Went to [bleep] High School, lives in Desert Hot Springs,
from Moreno Valley.
Recent profile pic update.
Oh, she posted something from Arturo.
Look at this. - Ah! He met Selena Gomez.
- Oh, my God.
Listen.
- Hi, Laura. It's Selena.
We wanted to say we love you.
- He met Selena Gomez, and with his one tiny moment with her,
he said, can you make a video for my girlfriend?
- Yeah, the girlfriend that won't meet me or call me
or video chat with me.
- Wow. All right.
Well, let's keep looking at Laura's page.
There's not a lot about her in here,
though, unless it's sort of private.
All right.
I guess now we should probably run the number?
See if anything comes back.
♪ ♪
No results.
Okay.
- The address?
I mean-- - Yeah, we might as well.
All right, here's the first one.
Desert Hot Springs, occupants Veronica [bleep].
I'm not seeing any current residents
with the last name she has.
I mean, I guess we have to assume
it's probably being rented?
Huh. Okay.
And then I guess there's one other address we can look at.
Let's just run it.
- Well, if he's Ubering her to and from that address,
maybe it's not her place.
Maybe it's a friend's place.
Or could she have a boyfriend?
- Okay.
Not seeing anybody with Laura's last name.
I don't understand what's going on here.
- I don't, either.
There's too many possibilities going on,
and it's making my brain hurt.
- The fact that there are two addresses is weird.
Is it because--could it be more than one person?
- It's possible.
And the guy who called Arturo and was like, stay away,
could they be involved in it somehow?
- So what do we know?
We have current addresses from Arturo
from the times he sent her food.
The path leads to Desert Hot Springs.
- Yeah.
- Whoever this is, they're in the desert.
My concern is that Arturo has been wandering
through the desert for so long,
he thinks Laura is his girlfriend,
but it's just a mirage.
[upbeat music]
- Hey. - Hey.
- What's up? - Good to see you again.
- All right.
- So what's up?
- Just nervous.
- Yeah.
- Have you heard anything from Laura?
- Last night, actually.
It was a very short conversation with her.
She asked me for an Uber to a bar.
- That's--we wanted to ask you about that
because you mentioned the food, but not the Ubers.
So have you been sending her Uber cars too?
- I've sent her from her house to work.
- To work? - Yes.
Last night would be the third time.
- I mean, it's a little weird, though, right, that she says,
hey, can you get me an Uber to a bar called Hood Bar?
Let me know when you got it, not--
like, just assuming you would do it.
- Right, yeah.
- It felt like an order. - Yeah.
- Right.
- And then you said, okay.
And she said, you got the Uber already?
And you said, yes, it's seven minutes away.
And she just said, okay.
- But she didn't even say thank you or let you know
that she had gotten there or that she had
gotten in the car or anything.
- I don't even know if she's back home or something.
I haven't heard from her.
Our conversations have been very short lately, so.
- All right, well, why don't I show you what we found.
- Okay.
- We don't know exactly what's going on.
We have some theories. Okay.
So first things first, you do have a bunch of photos of her.
As you stated, they all feel pretty heavily filtered.
But we figured we might as well check them and just see.
- Right.
- We searched every photo and got no hits.
So the good news is,
whoever the girl is in the pictures,
as far as we can tell, they're not some famous
fashion influencer or whatever. - Okay.
- Now, this is where things got kind of interesting.
As you know, her Instagram page does not have a lot on it.
- Basically nothing. - Basically nothing.
So the only thing I could look at
was who she's following.
Now, look who she's following--
Max, who's my former cohost;
the show, "Catfish;" me; and Kamie.
Now, what could this mean?
Because we've made a lot of episodes of the show.
We've looked at a lot of people's Instagram accounts.
And rarely, if ever, have they been following any of us,
let alone all of us.
- Either she's a huge fan of the show
and watches it every single Tuesday
at 8:00/7:00 Central on MTV.
Or since you told her that you were contacting the show,
she's trying to monitor our movements
because sometimes we post where we might be filming an episode.
- Right.
- I don't know, it's just strange.
- Yeah.
- Next thing we did was, we ran Laura's phone number,
but we didn't get any hits on that.
And since you have addresses, we thought,
okay, let's run those addresses.
We didn't see the name Laura or her last name [bleep]
or anything like that.
So we don't have any real answers.
But I think it's pretty for sure
that whoever this is lives in Desert Hot Springs
because you've sent her Ubers, you've sent her food.
Everything we have traces back there.
But if she is that close--
- There's no reason why.
- Why has she been avoiding you?
- Right.
- Why would she give you some pieces of the truth?
Why would she give you her address?
Why would she let you in on a lot of the truth,
but then keep so much of it secret?
- ♪ Say you mean well, but you don't come through ♪
♪ Lost my faith by believing in you ♪
- I really wish I had an answer to that question.
- Regardless if she is who she presents herself to be or not,
there is something she's hiding from you.
The phone call that you got, from whoever that person was,
was telling you that there was something
that she hadn't told you.
What that is, I have no idea, but it's hard for me
to feel like her feelings for you are genuine at this point.
- ♪ I don't know everything, I'm changing my mind ♪
- I do think there's a strong possibility that maybe
you're one of other guys that she talks to and flirts with
and gets Ubers and food from, and possibly other things,
when she needs it.
- ♪ You attract me in like a low tide ♪
♪ So I'm losing my mind ♪
♪ Knowing that we'll never get it right ♪
- And it occurred to us that since you've never
heard Laura's voice, and the only time you did
hear a voice was recently and it sounded
like an angry adult male voice...
[introspective music]
Could he be Laura?
♪ ♪
- So all we really know for sure is
that there is someone who lives in Desert Hot Springs
that you're talking to.
Their feelings for you could be real.
They could be fake. We don't know.
But she's avoiding talking to you
or meeting with you for some reason.
[suspenseful music]
- Where do we go from here?
- I think, more than anything, this experience right now,
us being here, needs to be about you
standing up for yourself.
You've had people bully you.
You've had people humiliate you.
And I don't get the sense that you've ever really
taken control of the narrative and said, hey,
no, this isn't gonna fly.
You're not gonna treat me like this.
I deserve better.
Whether we end up finding and meeting Laura or not,
I want you to start building your self-worth
and your confidence.
- I think this is exactly what I needed,
honestly, to hear that.
- So I think we should message her.
Typically, we message, but I think
it kind of should come from you.
- Are you ready to do that?
- I definitely wanna take that step that I haven't
been able to take by myself.
♪ ♪
Hey, I think it's time for us to meet in person.
In two months, we are about to hit a 1-year mark,
we haven't even seen each other,ep] that
hung out, or even had a phone call.
Like, money is nothing. I don't care about that.
But the time and effort and affection
seems like it's going to waste.
Let's meet soon or we can't continue.
No turning back now. - Do it. Oh.
- Ooh. - That's it. Sent.
- That's right, Arturo.
- Yeah. - Take control.
- How's that feel? - Liberating a bit, honestly.
Like taking back control a little bit.
- Yeah.
There's a good chance she might appreciate this.
People want to be around someone who's confident.
- Right.
- Who says what they want and is serious about it.
So you gotta say what you want.
- Right. She saw it.
- Oh! - Ooh!
- She saw it.
- Uh-oh. - Let's see.
♪ ♪
Come on.
- Okay, it did not take that long to read that.
- Well, I don't know how quickly
she's gonna respond or not. - Right.
- So this is about you.
This is not about Laura anymore.
So we need to go out there, and you need to give her one shot
to explain all this, to prove she's real,
and to show that she cares about you.
Or you come back to LA single.
We know she lives in Desert Hot Springs.
So if you're ready to take control of the situation,
I think we should just get going.
- Yeah.
I'm willing to go. - All right.
- Okay. - Are you ready?
- Yeah.
- ♪ Stressing over problems that ain't mine ♪
- Right.
- All good? - Yeah.
- Are you ready?
- Yes.
Yes and no, but yes.
- But more yes.
- Ready or not, here we [bleep] go.
- ♪ Would it be selfish of me ♪
♪ To close my eyes for a minute ♪
♪ Whatever you do ♪
♪ Please help me feel weightless ♪
- So where are we gonna go? - Well, I don't know.
I mean, last night, you sent her that Uber to the bar.
- Yeah. - Right?
- So if she was at that bar last night,
we could go there, just say, hey,
our friend was here last night.
We'll show a picture of Laura and see
if anyone recognizes her.
- Definitely worth a shot.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ Please help me feel weightless ♪
- Okay. We're close.
- Has she texted back yet?
- I'm still left on seen.
- Okay, we're almost at the bar.
Let's see if there's anyone working tonight
who was also working last night.
- So this is her spot.
- There's a little parking lot here.
All right, let's check it out.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
Hey. Are you security? - Yeah.
- Do you have a minute? - Yeah.
- Were you working last night? - Yes, I was.
- This is "Catfish."
- Hi. - Hi. How are you?
- This young man is talking to a girl who lives out here.
- Okay. - But they haven't met.
And yesterday, she asked him if he could send her
an Uber to come to this bar. - Okay.
- So we know she came here. - Yeah.
- Someone came here.
So do you remember this girl being here last night?
- Do you remember this girl being here last night?
- Oh.
[tense music]
Yeah. Yeah, she was here last night.
- Really?
- They didn't stay long, but I remember.
She was with some guy.
They had a couple of drinks.
Kind of looked like a date.
Like I said, they weren't here long.
- Interesting.
Not great news, but okay.
Thank you. - Right.
- Appreciate it. - Thank you.
Appreciate it.
- Okay.
Happy to hear she is the girl in the pictures,
but not stoked that she was here with a guy.
- She had you Uber her here to go on a date with another guy?
Are you okay?
- I'm kind of blanking.
I'm trying to figure out what to say right now.
- I feel like we need to tell her something
to let her know that you drove out here.
I know you were at the bar last night with some guy.
WTF?
♪ ♪
- What'd you say?
- Yo, I'm at the bar where you had me Uber you.
You were with a guy?
Seriously, what the [bleep]?
I'm here till tomorrow.
Please don't ignore me again.
Because clearly she ignored me four hours ago.
- Yeah. - So...
[sighs] - You're right.
You're right to react like that.
I don't know what she thinks this is.
- I don't know what the [bleep] I'm even doing over here.
I mean, I know what I'm here to do.
I just--what the [bleep] am I even out here for?
- We'll just head to the hotel and hope that she
responds at some point.
- Yeah.
- Let's get some rest, and, uh,
we'll regroup in the morning.
[line trills]
- We're eager to see if you've heard anything,
so why don't you come down here and meet us?
[knock at door]
- What's up? - Hello.
[speaks Spanish]
- So there was no reply,
but she did see my message an hour ago.
- But she only just saw it.
- Yeah.
- Well, I mean, what do you think?
What do you wanna do?
Because we're here.
- I don't know.
- She's ignoring you, but she also follows us.
- Right. - So if you were to DM her,
it would go straight to the top of her messages.
- She might respond to me, sure.
Let me send her a message.
Hello, Laura.
This is Nev from "Catfish."
We came with Arturo to Desert Hot Springs
to help him meet you.
So let us know when and where you want to meet
in the next 30 minutes, or we'll just assume
it's not happening.
Sent.
All right, let's see what she says.
- Did she ever-- [phone dings]
- Oh. She's responded on Instagram.
- Ooh! - That was fast.
"I have a lot to explain.
Since he's here, we have to meet."
- Where?
- 15 [bleep] Desert Hot Springs,
which is the same address that you've been sending stuff to.
- What could it possibly be that's so important,
that's so scary, that she just hasn't even
been able to get on the phone?
- Well, are you ready?
- Let's go.
♪ ♪
- Oh, thank you, Arturo.
- I'm still just trying to figure out
why I let it get this far and how I got myself into it.
♪ ♪
- Oh, wait, is that it?
Yes.
That is it.
All right, I think we should just do it.
- Let's go.
♪ ♪
- All right.
Let's do this.
- You got this, Arturo.
[doorbell chimes]
It's weird, tinted windows, right?
- Ooh. - What?
What is it?
Did that just come out?
- Yes.
- It says, "I need to talk to Nev first.
Come in."
- What the [bleep] is happening?
That looks like a [bleep] ransom note.
- I'll check it out.
- Here.
What is happening?
- All right, I'm gonna go in.
- This is [bleep] weird.
- Hello?
- It's weird, tinted windows, right?
- Oh. - What?
Did that just come out?
"I need to talk to Nev first.
Come in."
- That looks like a [bleep] ransom note.
- I'll check it out.
[tense music]
Hello?
Hello. - Hi.
- What's up?
- I'm Anthony. - Hi, Nev.
Not what I was expecting.
- I don't know, man, this is [bleep] weird.
- I'm here trying to support.
She was really nervous.
- Are you just a friend?
- Just a friend.
- You're just a friend of Laura.
- Yeah, she's just really nervous.
- I don't hear anything.
- Interesting.
Hi. - Hi.
- I'm Nev.
- Laura. - Sorry?
- She's really insecure about her speech impediment.
- Oh, okay.
- She got teased about it a lot growing up.
- That sucks.
Is that why you've been hesitant to meet Arturo?
- Mm-hmm.
I want to tell him, but I don't know what he will say or do.
- If it is her, now I have even more questions.
Like, why all of this?
What is happening?
- I mean, she agreed to meet, so--
- Yeah.
What are you trying to do right now?
- Arturo couldn't be a sweeter person.
There's no way he's gonna judge you in any way
because you sound a little different.
Are you comfortable having a conversation?
- Yeah, that's fine.
I want to meet him.
- There's cameras out there.
Are you gonna be okay with that?
- I'm fine. - Great.
Do you want Anthony to come with us as well?
- No. - No.
You're okay. - Mm-hmm.
- Okay. - Good luck.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
Arturo, this is Laura.
- Hi. - Hi, Laura.
I'm Kamie. - Hello.
- Nice to meet you.
- You're good to--
- I have to tell you something.
The way I talk, people make fun of me of it.
- Laura's nervous because she's had
a speech impediment her whole life.
- I don't want you to be like, now I don't want you anymore.
- It's not bad at all.
I literally thought you just had an accent.
- I guess whenever you talked about getting bullied,
that is what it was about.
- Have you had bad experiences in dating as well?
- When they found out, they just broke up with me.
- Really?
- So how did they even get to the point of dating you then?
- I hide it away from them.
- So you just speak very little.
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, that must be excruciatingly
emotionally painful, to be with someone
and hide your voice, right?
- Yeah.
- It's not bad, honestly.
- Yeah.
I mean, we're hearing you talk right now.
I can understand everything that you're saying.
- Yeah.
- I was expecting something else.
- Yeah.
I mean, look, let's just cover all our bases.
Not in any way diminishing your experience,
because I'm sure it has been difficult,
but it still doesn't necessarily explain
some of your behavior.
Like, I don't know, asking for food
and Ubers just felt like you were sort of using him at times
because you knew he would do things or say yes,
and he was generous.
- Even the other day, you asked him for an Uber.
It just feels like now it's an expectation.
It's not even a... - Request.
- I'm sorry.
- Were you okay that night? - Yeah.
- Something up?
We just talk about the TV show because I need someone,
and that's it.
- So when Arturo mentioned reaching out to us,
you were nervous.
- Yeah. - Okay.
But who was the guy that called him?
Someone called him very angry, and kind of yelled at him.
- One of my coworkers.
that I'm nervous about the TV show.
- So then your coworker called him.
- Yeah.
- So your coworkers know about Arturo.
- Mm-hmm. I talk about him...
- And you talk about him as?
- My boyfriend. - Your boyfriend.
I mean, that's great.
You've told people he's your boyfriend.
But have you been pursuing this in a meaningful way
because you really think there's a potential
to be together?
- I just love him, and I just want to be his wife
and have kids with him someday.
- Whoa. Really?
- Yeah.
- That's quite a statement.
Have you guys-- - I was not expecting that.
- Did he know that?
- I think he did.
- Wow.
You're in love with him.
- Yeah.
- Wow.
This is honestly better than any version of this
that we could have expected.
Now that we know all this, let's go inside
and get comfortable and hopefully try to reset.
[soft music]
Arturo, why don't you sit?
Look at you guys. - Same shoes.
- I mean, come on. - [laughs]
- I don't know, guys.
The feelings are mutual.
The story somehow checks out
in the one in a million chance, Arturo.
When I emailed y'all, - I was not expecting
a happy story.
- We spent the last two days certain,
beyond any shadow of a doubt, that he was getting played,
that someone was lying to him, that it could be a guy.
That was what we were preparing him for.
- Are you mad that this happened?
Like, are you mad that he asked us?
- At first, I was mad he did this, but--
but now I'm not mad.
- I'm really happy that it's you.
My leg's been shaking this whole time.
Yeah, I'm really happy that it's you.
I'm sorry.
I'm speechless still, just--
[laughs]
- Is it nice to see him?
- Yeah. He's cute in person.
- I'll take that.
- Do you wanna hug each other?
Yeah, what the [bleep]? - There you go.
- Aww.
- All right, well, I feel like we're just in the way.
Arturo, we can have a PA or producer take you back
to LA later if you wanna hang out, like, not on camera.
- That's fine with me. Yeah.
- I want him to stay. - You want him to stay.
Okay, great.
Let's say goodbye to this lovely couple.
- Okay. - Okay.
- ♪ Out of the blue ♪
- Great to meet you. - You too.
- Thank you so much.
- Can we take a picture with you guys?
- Yeah. - We should take a selfie.
- Oh, wait a second. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- What? - Whoa.
- Is it a picture of Arturo? [gasps]
- You got my--oh, that's--
- Aw, that's really cute.
- Let me take a picture of us.
I'm so happy this all worked out.
- Have fun, kids.
- I can't believe how wrong you were.
- Ah! Oh, hell no.
- ♪ We don't have to say goodbye ♪
♪ Say goodbye, say goodbye ♪
[both yelling]
- Oh, my God, I can't believe my eyes.
- I was hoping-- y'all are still together.
I wanna make sure this is not a mirage.
- No, yes, we are definitely still together.
- Are we happy?
- Yes. - Very, yeah.
- Aww.
- Right now, I'm in Desert Hot Springs.
It's usually been, like, two weeks
over there, two weeks here.
- So this is a full relationship.
- Yeah.
And then she actually was not kidding
when she said that she wanted to start like a family.
We're still waiting to see.
- Are you pregnant?
- Maybe. - There's a possibility.
- Yeah. - We're waiting.
- What? - We're having a baby!
- We're still gonna go to a doctor to make sure.
- Holy moly.
- This is my first "Catfish" baby.
- This is a big deal, guys.
- As soon as you get the sonogram,
I want a photo immediately.
Aw, guys.
- Can't believe it.
- Premature congratulations,
but congratulations nonetheless.
- Thank you.
- I'm so happy for you guys. Good luck.
Keep us posted. - Thank you so much.
- Take care. - Bye-bye.
- Thank you. Have a good one.
[upbeat music]
- I really didn't think I was ever gonna have to do this,
but I need a cohost.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Max! You're back.
- I can't believe we're here.
- How long has it been? Five years.
Are you ready to do this?
- What an episode to come back to.