- ♪♪ MTV ♪♪
- Charles meets Nikki on an online virtual social network.
- She's just showing me something
I've never been shown before.
- Except for her face on FaceTime.
[dramatic music]
- Oh--oh, oh, oh, oh!
We got a hit!
"Why is he with you?
He knows the reason why I won't meet him."
Is there something you haven't told us?
- What are you hiding from us, Charles?
Speak now or forever hold your peace.
[dramatic musical sting]
What is the scary--this looks like you when you're angry.
- Mm-hmmm.
- [laughing]
- I have a little bit of anger in me.
- Yeah. Should we do one scream
just to, like--
- All right, let's do it. - A rage?
[both scream]
- [screams]
[grunts]
- [shrieks]
- Oh [bleep].
- You're [bleep] lying.
- Oops. - You're [bleep] lying.
That's fake. It was broken?
- [laughing] - You--I hate you.
What are the [bleep] odds that I would suggest a scream?
I set that up nicely for you guys.
- Okay, here we go. We got an email from Charles.
"He's making me do this.
"Hey, Nev. Hey, Kamie.
"My name is Charles, and I'm from a small town
"named Alton located in the state of Illinois.
"I'm sending you an email because I'm trying
"to get my friend, Zach, to stop hounding me.
He thinks my girl is a catfish."
- Oop.
- "Five months ago, I met this beautiful,
outstanding woman on IMVU named Nikki."
- ♪♪ The way that you move, you caught my attention ♪♪
- Oh, IMVU.
That's the virtual reality-- you make an avatar character.
- Yeah, I remember that.
"I saw her in a room, and her avatar was hot AF.
- ♪♪ You could be you, I could be me ♪♪
♪♪ We could be something incredible ♪♪
- "She said she liked my deep voice,
"and the two of us started flirting
and vibing immediately."
- ♪♪ When I am next to you ♪♪
♪♪ I lose all track of time and space ♪♪
- "Our relationship took off from there.
We exchanged pics and started texting."
- ♪♪ Never felt alive like this, alive like this ♪♪
- "She's everything I want in a girl.
"She's sexy and funny,
"and she always knows just what to say
"to cheer me up on bad days.
"There are a couple of things that are suspicious,
"which is what Zach keeps harping on about.
"The thing is, I still haven't seen her.
"I know that sounds fishy, but she's a shy girl.
"We have videochatted twice,
"but once her camera was off, and the second time,
"the camera was pointed to the ceiling fan.
"The other thing is that Zach thinks she's a guy.
"Her voice is just a little raspy, that's it.
"This woman is the sun of my day
and the stars of my night."
- ♪♪ Suddenly, everything blurry ♪♪
- Wow.
- "I really do love Nikki with all of my heart,
"and I hope she is the same person
"when I get a chance to see her.
Sincerely, Charles."
- Oh, Charles.
- Yeah. - He sounds like
a hopeless romantic.
- Well, and they met
on a virtual reality environment, and--
- You can be whoever you want. - Right.
- But the friend, Zach, thinks
that there's a whole other thing going on.
- Right. All right, well,
let's give Charles a call.
[line trilling]
- Hello. Is this Charles?
- What's up? It's Nev and Kamie.
How you doing? - Hey.
- Good. - Well, listen,
we just read your email, and I share your enthusiasm
over this girl, but I also,
I think, share some of your concerns.
So bottom line, if you're ready to be Charles in charge...
- [laughing] - We'd like to help you
figure out who this girl is.
- All right, so you say you're in Alton, right?
- Okay, so I guess we'll hit you up and meet up tomorrow.
- See you soon, Charles. - All right.
Off to Alton.
- ♪♪ Upside down several different ways ♪♪
- Travel day.
I got all my essentials.
I pack light.
Just kidding. I have a full suitcase, obviously.
♪♪ ♪♪
- I am the last one to board.
- ♪♪ Ready, ready, oh, oh, oh ♪♪
♪♪ Sometimes you gotta jump in water ♪♪
♪♪ Ready, ready ♪♪
- Whoo! - Made it.
- Got to go see Charles
on the other side of the Mississippi River.
- ♪♪ Sometimes you gotta run through the fire ♪♪
♪♪ Ready, ready, here we go ♪♪
- So green.
- I know, it's really quite lovely around here.
Okay.
Skrt.
[birds chirping]
[doorbell rings]
- Ding dong.
- Hey. - Hey.
- Hello. - How you guys doing?
- What's up? - [laughs]
- Nice to meet you.
- Oh, Zach! - Oh, Zach!
- You're bestie, Zach.
You're the one who got Charles to write in.
- Yeah. How you guys doing good?
both: Good. - I'm Kamie.
- Nice to-- - Nice to meet you.
It's good to meet you.
- You guys okay with dogs? - Oh!
- Yes! - Hey!
- Oh, my goodness. Hello.
- You can hold him if you want to.
- Yeah. - Is this Charles?
I'm just kidding. [laughter]
- My name's Charles.
- I'm Kamie. - Hey, Charles.
- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- Hello.
- Shall we sit? - Yeah, you can.
You guys can sit there. - All right.
Anyway, let's talk about Nikki.
So Zach, you're kind of the reason we're here.
- Yeah. - You obviously are aware
of the fact that Charles has been talking to this girl--
- Oh, yeah. - And concerned enough
to encourage him to reach out to the show.
- Yeah. - Charles, why don't you tell
us kind of your version of the story, how you guys met?
- Well, back in January, I met her on our IMVU.
I went inside of a random room,
and I started speaking on the mic.
She said, "Whose voice is that?"
And I was like, "That's mine."
And then we started talking back and forth.
- Okay, so at what point did you find out
what she actually looked like?
Did she send you pictures?
- About two weeks after we met on IMVU,
I basically texted her pictures of myself.
Then she texted me pictures of herself.
- Got it. - That's how I know her.
- From the photos she sent you of herself,
does she look like her character?
- No. It's more, like, cartoonish.
- Like, pinup cartoonish?
- Yeah.
- In real life, what does she look like?
- You want to see a picture?
- Yeah.
All right, what is this, just your folder of her?
- Yes.
- Oh, come on, abs.
- Oh, here we go.
- She's cute. - Yeah, she's really cute.
- Mm-hmmm. - She's cute but, you know,
not like an Instagram model.
Oh, these are your IMVUs?
- Mm-hmm. - Avatars?
Wow. - On IMVU, her name is--
- Her screen name is Kookie,
but her name on there is Nikki Lee [bleep].
- These are cute. You guys have a cute little
couple, little ship going on.
- Tell us a little bit about her.
- She's a dental assistant.
She lives in Miami, Florida.
She's 34.
- Oh, older.
- Mm-hmm.
Wow. [laughter]
Good for you. - Kids?
- No, not that I know of. - No kids, okay.
- And are you guys talking about future plans together?
Like, what's the goal?
- Me and her have talked about me moving down there with her.
- Do you consider her your girlfriend?
- Yeah. - And she's said the same?
- Mm-hmm.
She's there for me whenever I get upset.
She puts me up whenever I'm down.
She's just showing me something
I've never been shown before.
- Except for her face on FaceTime.
So where does that come in?
- I FaceTime her.
The first time, it was a mic.
I asked her why.
She said that she was busy at the moment.
She couldn't get on.
The second time, it was a ceiling fan.
And I asked her, show me your face, babe.
She said, "No, I'm ugly.
Plus, I got to get ready to go somewhere."
- But like, I can FaceTime while I go.
- Yeah, you can pick up and say,
hey, I'm about to head out really quick.
- Yeah. - I'll call you right back.
- Honestly, I just think she's shy.
But every day, we text each other,
we call each other.
She sounds like a woman. Like--
- Well, she sounded like a woman to you,
but Zach thinks otherwise.
You think she definitely sounds like a guy?
- Yes. The voice is really raspy.
- [deep voice] Hey, baby.
[laughter]
- Like, she sounds like that?
- Oh, no, I would immediately know.
- Or like-- [raspy voice] Hello.
- Yeah. - So Zach,
what sort of other shady things have you noticed?
- So we took a trip to Miami, me and my girlfriend did,
and he came with us.
- Right, 'cause that's where Nikki lives.
- Yeah. - Right.
- He said, I'm meeting Nikki
when we get there, so we left the hotel.
He stayed out front waiting on her.
We were gone for a few hours,
and when we came back, he was still sitting there.
She never came. - Stood me up.
I didn't hear from her until two days after.
But she gave me an excuse of, like, family emergency.
- Even when you have a family emergency,
you can text the person that you're set to meet up with
and say, "I'm having a family emergency."
- Feels like bull[bleep]. - Yeah.
- And does she have any social media?
Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter.
- I used to have her on Instagram,
but I think she might have deleted it
because my messages disappeared with her on Instagram.
- Ah. - Mmm.
- Only thing I had her on was Instagram.
- Uh-huh. - And then Cash App.
- Oh. Did you send her money before?
- Well, she sent me money before.
- Oh. - And I sent it back to her
because she helped me with rent.
both: Wow. - How much was it?
- Just $150.
- Yeah, but that's cool that she was down to help you out.
So she has a Cash App, her phone number,
her name?
- That's the twisted part. - Oh, God, here we go.
- It used to be her name, but just a couple days ago...
- Oh. - I looked at the picture.
She changed it to a lion
and then changed the name to Nick.
- What?
- Yeah.
- Was it N-I-C-K or N-I-K?
- N-I-C-K.
- If Nikki was presenting as a woman on IMVU
but in real life identifies as male,
would that be okay with you?
- Honestly, no. I would be upset.
But if Nikki is not who she is, and she's a female,
I'll still go forward with it.
- Romantically? - Yes,
because she's honestly a beautiful, caring woman,
and she treats me right. Like, I truly love her,
and I care about her, and I would do anything for her.
- Wow. Okay. - All right.
Send us all the information you have.
Let us do our thing, work our magic.
- Mm-hmm. - And yeah,
we'll report back tomorrow with whatever we find.
- All righty.
- Hopefully, we'll have some answers.
- I'm nervous.
- You should be.
Good to meet you, Zach. - Nice to meet you.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- We'll get back to you. - Nice to meet you.
- All right, guys. - All right.
- Later. - Catch you later.
- Ay, Dío, ay, Dío.
- I don't know. - I have no idea.
- Can't call it. Something's off.
- Right. - Obviously.
The degree of excuses
and sort of shadiness is within range of explanation,
but when you put it all together,
it starts to feel shadier and shadier.
- Fishy.
- Okay, let's do this investigation.
What do we got?
Charles meets this girl, Nikki, on IMVU.
They move off IMVU
and start texting and talking on the phone.
But then things start to get a little shady.
One weekend, Charles and his friend, Zach,
decide, let's go to Miami for a weekend.
- Mm-hmm. - Tells her he's coming.
She's excited. - Yeah.
- And then, poof.
Gone. Nothing. - Of course.
- Few days later, she says,
"Oh, my God, something happened.
I had a family emergency. Blah, blah, blah."
And Zach said, having heard her voice,
he suspects that it was a guy.
- Mm. - So okay.
Then, Charles mentioned he's a little short on cash
to pay some bills, and she says,
oh, well, can I help you?
And she sends him $150.
Sometime later, he is ready to pay her back.
- Mm-hmm. - Types in her number
into Cash App, and the account comes up,
except instead of saying Nikki, now it says Nick.
- Mm. - Instead of being a picture
of her, it's a picture of a lion.
- Mm-hmm. - Lyin'.
- Mm-hmm. - A lyin' Nick.
- [giggles] - That's weird.
The good news is, if she's real--
- You're about to jinx it. Go ahead and say it.
- Should be easy.
- There we go.
Famous last words, every time.
- All right. Here we go--
info about Nikki from Charles.
"Hey, guys. Here's what I know about Nikki.
"Her full name is Nicki Lee [bleep].
"She lives in Miami and is 33 years old
"and works as a dental assistant.
"Her IMVU username is Nicki Lee [bleep].
"We usually would hang out in one of two rooms--
"either the Seven Ballers
or the Pool Club, 18 plus."
- Oh. - "Not sure of her Instagram
"since it looks like it got deleted.
"Her Cash App used to be Nikki [bleep].
"Now it's Nick.
"I also attached a bunch of pictures I have of her.
"Let me know if you need anything else.
Thanks again, Charles."
Okay, where should we start?
- I mean, we could run the photos.
I just don't think anything's going to come back.
- Really? Oh, well, then let's start there.
Let's go to PimEyes.
Let's drop a pic in.
[dramatic music]
Oh--oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Boom! We got a hit.
December 9th, 2016.
There seemed to have been some sort of event.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, there it is!
Boom.
Tampa. Tampa!
So okay. So whoever this girl is,
it looks like she actually does live in Florida.
- Well, she did in 2016. - Well, that's true.
So this kind of starts to suggest
that maybe parts of what she's been telling them are true.
All right, well, let's see. - Phone number.
All right,
let's see what happens when we run it.
Here we go, search.
♪♪ ♪♪
Oh. - Clearwater.
- Clearwater--that's-- but that's west coast.
Tampa, Clearwater--those are, like, west Florida, not Miami.
But no information, just that it's a phone number
from Clearwater or St. Petersburg.
That's annoying. All right.
So then I guess there's the Cash App.
Let's check out this Cash App.
3-2-1... - [bleep].
- Okay, so here's the lion icon,
and it says Nick, but it says Nick Thompson.
- Thompson.
- Different last name.
- Mm. - I mean, that's not good.
- No.
What about that username, Nikki Lee [bleep]?
- We should go on IMVU, I guess, and check it out.
- Yes.
- Kamie, would you like to--
- Yes, I would, because last time,
you made us look like [bleep].
- Go ahead. - I'm taking full control...
- Take the control. Give me this.
- Of the IMVU account. Okay.
- Let's see how long this takes.
- We're gonna be-- - If it takes half
as long as it takes her to get dressed
and do her makeup in the morning,
we're gonna be here a while.
- Listen. I just want us to be cute.
Ooh, I love this hair.
This is everything. Okay.
Skins--okay, she's going to be a chocolate queen, of course.
[laughter]
Cute little crop top.
Oh! - Jeez.
- So cute.
- That's just you.
You're just making you.
[laughter]
It's literally exactly you.
- Great. - The necklace--
- Then we'll make tons of friends.
- [laughs]
- Okay, what's our name gonna be?
Kev--Kamie and Nev. - Oh, oh.
All right, great.
- Look how hot we are. - Yeah, she's hot.
- Okay, so now what do we do?
Oh, people search.
- Her username is Nikki Lee [bleep].
♪♪ ♪♪
Oh, Nikki Lee [bleep], female, Florida.
- Oh, Kookie.
He said Kookie was what-- - Her nickname.
So she's got 2,300 followers, which...
- Oh. - Seems like a lot.
- Her age is hidden. - Hidden, Florida, bio.
Says she's single, here for relationships.
- Oh, Pool Club. - Oh, that's it.
- That's the one. - Oh, oh, wow.
Now we go to it. - Join, join, join!
- Oh, my God. - There's people in there.
- Oh, there's someone. - [gasps]
- Oh, my God, this is crazy.
- Oh, my God. That's us. - Oh, we just sat in the pool.
- We're in the pool. Oh, cute.
Oh, they said hey.
Do we say hi, [bleep]?
[gasps] Oh my God, hi.
Anyone seen...
- Kookie lately? - Kookie lately...
or Nikki?
"Don't know who them is."
Ooh--oh, why are we doing that? - What?
- [gasps] Oh, my God.
I'm so embarrassed.
[laughing] - No, you are just...
- What? - Dancing.
- Why am I doing this?
- I don't know how you started that, but--
- Make her stop! - I ca--I don't know
how to make her stop. - She has to stop that.
- Oh. - Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God, Victor is into it.
- Stop. - Victor wants a piece.
- Victor is in the nude.
- Well, he's at pool party.
- Oh, right. - He's in a thong.
- Okay, we have to leave Victor
before he tries to get our number.
- So this was the Pool Club. - Victor's gonna be like,
where you at, homie? - And what other club?
Seven Ballers--there it is. - Seven Ballers.
Oh! [gasps]
Oh, it was a strip club. We have a message.
- We do? - Up there.
- Here? - No, up, up--
- Oh. - The chat.
- What is that? - Hey--oh.
Who's Evan? - Evan said,
"You looking for Kookie?
- Charles doesn't have her Insta.
Let's see if this guy's got it.
Mine actually got deleted.
Do you know her at?
[gasps] Ooh, ooh.
Evan said, "I might have it.
"Which version of Nikki you talking to?
She tells everyone something different."
- Oh, [bleep].
- Evan knows that she's, like, sketch and makes [bleep] up.
- Oh, he's searching. Oh, my God.
- How many profiles does she have?
- Come on, come on. We're so close.
- Come on. - Oh!
He says-- Evan says, "She a player.
"Just a heads up. She talks to so many guys.
"Tells me one thing, then turns around
"and says the total opposite the next day.
She likes games."
- Do you-- did you find her Instagram?
- Oh--oh, oh, he's got it.
Yeah, it's nikki-underscore-leex[bleep].
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Instagram.
♪♪ ♪♪
Nikia.
- What is this picture?
- Someone else.
- Nikia Lee--private.
- But is this a page for the real girl?
- Or is this just a finsta page for IMVU people?
- Bottom line is, we now have a source...
- Mm-hmm. - Who's got some other
weird Instagram for her, so Nikki's shady.
- Obviously. - Right.
- But more importantly, according to Evan on IMVU,
she's still talking to a bunch of guys on here all the time.
Feels like Charles is just one more guy
that's getting played.
[line trilling]
- Charles.
- Where you at?
- Can we meet you there?
'Cause we want to go over some stuff.
- All right, great. All right, bye.
Post Commons-- ah, it's an old post office,
but now it's, like, a dope...
- Aww. - Coffee spot.
- That's so cute.
- Hey. - Oh, there he is.
- What's up? - What's up, man?
Wow, this place is dope.
- What's up, Charles? - Let's see if we can
find a quieter spot.
Wow, there's a whole other world down here.
- Oh, wow.
- Yeah, all right.
So how you doing?
- Honestly, I hope you just found that she's real
and that she meant everything she said to me.
- All right, well, if you're ready,
we can kind of just walk you through what we did find.
- Okay. [laughs]
- Take a deep breath.
- [exhales deeply]
- Okay, here we go.
Now, the first thing we did was we went
to this website called PimEyes.
Basically, this website will take a photo and,
using facial recognition technology, essentially look
for that face on pictures on the Internet.
So it'll presumably find it.
It's pretty cool.
- That is neat. I like that.
- Yeah, it's some future [bleep].
So we ran her photos,
and the first picture of her face that we uploaded,
we got a hit.
Right? - Yeah, that looks like her.
- So this picture led us to a website,
an album from December 9th, 2016.
And right here is a photo with your girl.
Now the good news is, it was in Florida.
So location-wise, this actually puts Nikki
in the right state...
- Yeah. - Around the right age,
which I think is kind of a good thing.
- Mm-hmm.
- The next thing we did was we downloaded IMVU.
- Mm-hmm. - Okay.
- And we went to the two chat rooms
that you had said she frequented.
- Okay. - We started chatting
and asked a few of them,
like, oh, has anyone seen Nikki lately?
You know? And one guy was like, no.
I don't know who that is.
- But then we got a message from Evan.
Have you seen this guy?
- No.
- And he said, "You looking for Kookie?"
And we said, "Yeah, my ID got deleted,
"and I was trying to add her back,
"but I couldn't remember her at.
Do you know it?"
He said, "I might have it.
Which version of Nikki you talking to?"
"She tells everyone something different."
- Wow. - Let me just show you
the rest of that IMVU chat with our guy.
He continued and said, "She's a player, just a heads up.
"She talks to so many guys.
"Tells me one thing, then turns around
"and says the total opposite the next day.
She likes games."
- Oh, wow.
I do not know what to think about that.
[breathing shakily]
- We then said, "Did you find her Insta?"
He said, "Yeah. It's nikkileex[bleep]."
So we went to the Instagram, and it's private.
- Oh. - But you can see the profile
picture is definitely of a different girl--
Nikia.
Is this the same Instagram that she first messaged you on?
- No. That's kind of scary.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
So we don't know for sure, but this could be
who you're actually talking to.
- We don't know if the girl in the pictures is even
who this girl claims to be. - Yeah.
- She's still very much
playing games with many different guys,
and this is supposed to be your girlfriend.
- Yeah. - So that just calls
into question not just who she is,
but what she's doing and if she's totally lying.
- ♪♪ I realized something ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- I think she's playing around with me. I--
- ♪♪ I'll be thinking 'bout you ♪♪
- She's playing with my feelings.
- ♪♪ I'll be thinking 'bout you all the way ♪♪
♪♪ And I don't know when you got in my head ♪♪
- It's kind of heartbreaking, honestly.
- ♪♪ I'm not gonna let you fade ♪♪
♪♪ I'll be thinking 'bout you ♪♪
- So look, unfortunately,
we don't have an answer for you.
The picture that's being painted right now
may or may not have her being the girl in the pictures,
but it certainly looks like she's been talking
and flirting with other guys online.
- Oh, man. That's crazy.
- You know, at some point,
you got to start kind of asking yourself, like,
if this is how the first four or five months
of this relationship is going,
is it always gonna be like this?
You need to know where you stand with this woman
before you should really keep going.
But it feels like now's a ripe opportunity
to put a little pressure on,
and to say, like, look, here's what's up.
I need to meet you. I need to see you face-to-face.
You in or are you out?
- That's honestly how I feel too.
Like, I want to see her in person, and I want to--
basically her to prove everything that she's told me.
- So what do we do?
- Well, we could call her,
which is the sort of most direct way.
Now, you understand once we poke the beehive, if you will,
she might be upset or offended or confused,
and it could go any number of ways.
- There's a whole bunch of outcomes.
- Right. - Mm-hmm.
- So there's no going back
to where you are right now if we take a step forward.
- I'm willing to take that risk.
- Even if it means losing everything?
Okay, well, here goes nothing.
Let's see. Where's your email?
[dramatic music]
[line trilling]
- We can hear the voice.
- If she answers.
[line trilling]
- I'm sorry, the number you entered is not a subscriber.
Goodbye. - What?
- [speaking Spanish] - That's her voicemail.
- What?
- I know, it was kind of weird.
Like, whenever I called her--
- Oh! - [gasps]
- She texted me. - Who?
- She said, "Who is this?"
- Oop. - Oh, should I text her
on here? Is that better?
Wow, okay, so she did get the call
and said, "Who is this?"
Hey, this-- should I just say it's me?
- Don't say it's me. - [laughs]
- We are making an episode of the show
and are trying to help someone you know--
- Connect with you. - Connect.
- Oh, man. - Oh.
She said, "Who is this about?"
So sh-- - It's about you, girl.
- Well, that, to me, suggests-- who is this about?
Doesn't that mean that there's more than one person
it could be about? - That's true.
- So should I just say it's about Charles?
'Cause if we're gonna get to that eventually,
right, I mean-- - Right.
- It's about Charles.
We are here in Alton,
and he would love to meet up with you.
Is that too much?
- Meet you finally.
- That's crazy that she said "who is this about," though.
- I mean, if there are other guys that she has
or might be friendly with or flirting with online,
she may not be in any kind of meaningful relationship
with them, but maybe she's like,
I wonder if it's one of those rando guys that,
like, is trying to meet up with me, or--
- Or she is having relationships...
- Right. Right. - With other people.
- There's no telling.
- It's definitely not a friendship.
People don't usually contact us to connect them with friends.
- Oh! - [gasps]
- "Why is he with you?
"He knows the reason why I won't meet him.
I don't know if I can do it."
Is there something you haven't told us?
- What are you hiding from us, Charles,
that this woman is holding onto?
Speak now or forever hold your peace.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Oh! - [gasps]
- "Why is he with you?
"He knows the reason why I won't meet him.
I don't know if I can do it."
Is there something you haven't told us?
- What are you hiding from us, Charles?
Speak now or forever hold your peace.
[dramatic music]
- This doesn't make sense.
I don't know a reason.
- Okay. - Oh, boy.
- Well, there seems to be some misunderstanding.
- Would love to get you together
so we can work it out. - Would love
to get you together so you can work it out.
We can fly to Miami tomorrow.
Sound good?
- Oh, she said, "Well, if he wants
to put everything in the open, then I'm in Tampa."
Okay, so Tampa, which makes sense with the photo,
but she said she was in Miami.
- She said, "Let me know when you're here."
- That's a good sign.
- Wow. - All right, Charles.
Back to Florida.
- All right, let's get out of here.
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ Let's go ♪♪
- ♪♪ All right, all right, all right, all right ♪♪
- [imitating alarm]
[indistinct speech]
- ♪♪ All right, all right, all right, all right ♪♪
♪♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho, let's go ♪♪
- We're here.
- Let's check in.
- That's a fabulous idea.
What are you saying? "We just landed.
When is a good time to meet up?"
- Let's head to the hotel.
[phone chimes] Oh!
It says, "Today doesn't work for me."
Okay, well, if today doesn't work,
then have to meet tomorrow.
Oh, boy.
I'm not sure how confident I am
that she's gonna show up.
- What if she's like, oh, just kidding, I'm in Miami?
Sorry. - Family emergency.
[knock on door] - Oh.
- Oh, I'll get it.
We don't want any.
- [laughs]
- Good morning. - Hello.
Good morning. - How are you?
- Pretty good. - What's up, man?
- What are you feeling?
- Nervous as hell.
[laughs] - Yeah?
- This one's sort of particularly mysterious
because we didn't figure out
if the girl in the pictures is or isn't her.
We really don't know what to expect.
Maybe-- - Sketchy.
- Why don't you send her, like,
a nice "hello, I'm excited, but this is crazy," you know?
Wait, what'd you say?
- I said, "Hey, baby girl. I'm so nervous right now.
How are you doing?" - Oh, that's good. Nice.
- Oh, you did text her this morning.
- Mm-hmm. - Oh, what'd you say?
- Said, "Good morning, beautiful. How was your day?"
Last night, you texted her.
"Babe, you okay?"
And she hadn't responded. - Why wouldn't she--
like, that's what's weird to me.
For her to not respond from you sending a few nice
text messages over the last 24 hours, just something.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
- Where is she with all this?
I don't know. [phone chimes]
both: Oh. - Oh.
- Ooh, there she has.
- Got a text message.
"Hey, love." Hearts.
"I'm nervous too. I'm here now."
- Oh. - So maybe she sent an address?
- Yeah. - Oh, [bleep].
All right. - I'm nervous.
- All right, well, let's get out of here.
- All righty. - Let's go.
♪♪ ♪♪
I mean, it's really one of those situations
where it's like there's questions
if it's not the girl in the pictures,
and there's questions if it is...
- Right. - The girl in the pictures.
- My gut's feeling kind of iffy.
- One more turn.
- Oh, God. Oh, God.
- All right, well, there it is.
Pull into that driveway.
- Whew. - All right, let's do it.
- Rip the Band-Aid off.
- All right, you guys want to hang here?
- We'll hang here. - Oh, boy.
- The back gate is open too.
- I don't see anything.
[whispering] It's open.
The door's, like, a little open.
- Don't go inside someone's house.
We are in Florida.
[clattering]
- Oh. - What is that?
- Huh?
What? - You hear that?
- I don't--
[suspenseful music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Oh-- - Hello?
- [exhales deeply]
- Oh, my God.
[clattering]
- Hello?
Hey. - Hi, how's it going?
- Good. Looking for Nikki.
- Oh, [bleep].
- Hello? [clattering]
Hey. - Hi, how's it going?
- Good. Looking for Nikki.
- Oh, [bleep].
I don't want anything to do with this, brother.
[dramatic music]
- Is that--is that him?
Is that who we've been texting with?
- Someone else is inside.
- I'm creeped out.
- What? Some--someone in there.
- What?
- It's so bizarre.
- Hello?
Oh. - Hello.
- Hi.
- Uh, nice to meet you.
I'm Nev. - Hello.
How are you? - Oh, yeah,
I was a little confused
by whomever I met moments ago.
- That was my friend, Anthony.
- Oh, okay. - This is his house.
I'm a little nervous.
- Okay, fine, understandable.
- Can I take a minute? - Okay.
- Okay? - Sure.
- Okay. - Is that the voice?
Is that her voice?
- Come, come.
Oh.
Hi. - Hi.
- Come on out.
I'll introduce you to the gang here.
- Okay.
- [gasps]
What?
Oh!
- Hi.
Hello.
- Hi. - Hi.
- I'm Kamie. - Hi. Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hey. - Hi.
- You know Charles. - Charles.
- Can I get a hug? - Yeah.
- Hello.
- So it's been you. - Yeah.
- The whole time. - The whole time.
Mm-hmm.
- Well, then why haven't you videochatted then?
- Well, I get nervous.
Like, I'm shy on video, and there's something
I really haven't told Charles.
- Okay, so there's-- there is something.
- Mm-hmm. - Uh-huh.
- And that something is
that I have two children.
I have a seven-year-old and a two-year-old, boys.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Why wouldn't you tell me?
- Um, I have, like, trust issues.
I don't--you know, you're over the Internet.
I don't really know who you are.
And the right person has to be in my boys' life 'cause,
you know, they're number one.
- Is there anything else?
- I've never lived in Miami.
- Nothing else?
- No. Nothing else.
Everything else is me.
- I don't care about the kids, right,
like, I don't care that you lied to me about it.
- I mean, it's a big... - It is a big thing.
- Omission. - Mm-hmm.
- But I kind of understand
what you mean, you know, you didn't know him that well.
- Yeah. - Right.
But we do have some sort of simple questions
that we need to get answered because we're very confused
by some things that we found.
So in our efforts to kind of find out
some more information about you, we even spoke
to some people on IMVU who say they know you,
one of whom said that, as of pretty recently,
you're still kind of on there talking to guys.
- I don't talk to guys on there.
It's probably somebody that I talked to way back
when I joined the game.
- Okay. So you're not in any other relationship?
- No, no, no.
I'm not in any other relationships.
- You promise?
- I promise.
- Okay. - Well, that's good
to clear up, but help us understand
what you meant when you said--
in our text conversation, when I asked about meeting,
You were like, oh, well, you know, I'm still mad at him,
or he knows why I don't want to meet.
- It was like... - What is--
- You know-- - What was the problem?
- I wasn't ready to meet him.
I'm just nervous doing that.
It's all about when I'm ready.
I just wasn't ready.
- So there wasn't a real reason
why you didn't want to meet up with him?
- No. - Okay, so that was a lie.
- Just an excuse 'cause I get anxious, so--
I should of just said I wasn't ready.
- What about when he came all the way down here?
You had texted with him.
Okay, great. - 30 minutes away.
- Oh, well, you were never in Miami.
That's why. - Yeah.
- Okay. Anyway, I think we can all
agree that situation probably could have been handled better.
- Yeah. - But something else
that seems strange to us was your Cash App.
What was up with that Cash App?
- Right. - Because it comes up
as Nick Thompson.
- That's just a friend of mine
that uses it sometimes.
Like, if he needs my Cash App, he'll use it.
- So did he get the $150 or did you?
- I got the $150.
- Okay.
- Which, thanks for paying me back.
- You're welcome. I told you I got you.
- Okay, but what's up with the Instagram thing?
We were given a page for you,
but it was for a girl named Nikia,
and it didn't have your photos.
- I don't know who that is.
- Because we talked to a guy who said your account
was nikkileex[bleep].
That's not you? - No.
- So then you really did just deactivate your page?
- Yeah. I'm not out on the Internet.
Like, I just not all about everybody knowing my business.
- So then I guess, all that really matters
when you get down to it, do you consider Charles
to be your boyfriend?
- Yeah. Yeah, I take him seriously.
I'm happy he's here.
It's a crazy way to get to meet somebody, but--
- [sighs]
Oh, boy.
[nervous laughter]
- What was holding you back then before?
- You know, I have been in bad relationships.
I've never been with a guy that has treated me, like, right.
It's just a trust thing.
It takes longer for me 'cause I've been hurt.
So-- - That's understandable.
- Mm-hmm. - All right, well, look,
the good news is, we're here.
We're in person now. - Yeah. Yeah.
- So all of the mystery and uncertainty
and suspicion is gone. - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
- Why don't we sit down?
You guys can finally talk face-to-face.
- Okay. - You guys hang out and chat.
We'll come back in a little bit and say, hey,
goodbyes, and make sure everyone's cool, but--
- Okay.
I can't believe you're here.
- Yeah.
- Oh, my gosh, this is so crazy.
I cannot believe you're here.
- So what--why did you hide your kids away from me?
- I mean, it's a big thing not to tell somebody.
I understand, but... - Yeah.
- Like, I, like, started crying just trying to tell it.
I don't like holding secrets,
but I want to be able to trust people.
- I hope this works out, but there's still some stuff
for both of them to get past.
- They're cute.
Maybe he'll come back here.
They'll spend some time together.
Hopefully, they'll both have fun.
I just hope that they explore this
however much it's meant to be explored.
- Yeah.
- We'll just have to wait and see.
- So what do you want to do after this?
Would you want me to still move down here,
like, further in the future, or--
- I mean, you ready to meet kids?
What do you think about me having kids?
- I'm fine with it.
- Okay.
- Knock, knock.
- Welcome back. - What's up?
- What is up?
- What's happening? - What did we miss?
- Uh, I asked how he felt about my kids,
about me having kids, and yeah,
I told him I'll let him meet them,
but it might take a little while.
- Well, we're happy that this ended up working out
because we didn't know which way it was gonna go.
So it's good to know that you are you...
- Mm-hmm. - And your feelings are real.
- You guys want to keep hanging out, I imagine,
without sort of all of us and this
and spend at least the rest of the afternoon together?
- Yeah.
- ♪♪ That I don't recognize ♪♪
♪♪ But it's us, I know it right away ♪♪
- All right, well, let's let these cameras
out of your face. - Okay.
- Get him in your face.
- [laughs]
- You want to walk us out?
Lovely to meet you. - You as well.
- Good to meet you. - Oh, you as well.
Thank you so much. - Of course.
Charles.
I'm glad we didn't find out anything crazy about you.
- Oh, thank you.
- Good luck. We'll check in with you
in a few weeks, see how things play out, but...
- Okay. - Take it slow.
- Good luck.
- Thank you.
- Bye. - Bye, guys.
- ♪♪ The moment I saw something in you ♪♪
♪♪ Had to say something ♪♪
- Okay. Well--
- We did it.
- We did the thing.
- ♪♪ I can't believe ♪♪
♪♪ I can't believe I get to be here with you ♪♪
- But I hope they go for it.
They have a passionate love affair.
Life's short. Enjoy yourself.
Have fun.
- We'll see.
- I'm all for it.
- ♪♪ I can't believe I get to be here with you ♪♪
- Yeah! - Hello.
- Hey, Charles.
- Hey! - What is going on?
What happened with you and Nikki after we left?
- Well, honestly, like, me and her just decided
just to go our separate ways
because the age gap, the distance.
- But I--I mean, you seemed into her.
It felt like you were kind of excited
to see where things could go when we were all together.
- You wanted to move to Tampa.
- I did, but she started being distant more.
And then she finally came out and said
that she has a new boyfriend, and she met somebody new.
- Oh. All right.
- So I kind of ju-- I said, okay,
I'm not really gonna argue with you.
And like, I kind of met somebody new...
- Oh. - And moved on.
And I'm pretty happy, man.
- Wow. - She's 23, around my age.
- You've seen her in person?
- Yeah, I've seen her in person.
- Okay. - Okay.
- She's not a catfish. - And has Zach met her,
and does he approve?
- Yep, he approves.
He's like, that was a upgrade, man.
- As long as Zach has met her and gives her two thumbs up,
then I think you picked a good one.
- Glad to see that you're doing well and moving on.
- Yep. - Most definitely.
- Good luck with the new girl. I'm glad it all worked out.
- Thank you.
- Good luck, Charles.
- All right, guys. - Bye.
- Buh-bye.
- Did you think when you started talking
to Tyrrell 17 years ago that it would end up like this?
- I didn't think I would even still be talking to him.
- Has he ever mentioned to you his online girlfriend?
- Tomorrow's either going to be a dream come true
or a horrible nightmare.