Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 5, Episode 9 - Tyreme & Tomorrow - full transcript
In this special episode of Catfish, Nev and Max reunite past Catfish and their victims who parted on bad terms to follow up on what life has been like since the show and to help them find a better resolution.
- It could be...
a bunch of these girls
are catfishing you.
- We could be dealing with
an entire family
catfishing one person.
[dramatic music]
- I need some damn answers.
[knocking]
- Someone'’s coming.
Someone'’s coming,
right now.
[dramatic music]
- Max, place your hand
on the, uh, Bible,
and raise
your camera hand, please.
- My right hand.
- Right hand.
Do you swear,
to the best of your abilities,
seek to discover the truth,
the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth?
- So help me God,I do.
I'’ve been "inoggerated"?
- Inaugurated?
- Inaugurated.
- All right, let'’s get started.
Someone needs our help!
We got one, Max.
"Help me meet my Tomorrow..."
- Very poetic.
- Sounds like we might be doing
some time-traveling.
"Dear Nev and Max,
"my name is Tyreme,
"and I'’m 27-year-old
father of two
living in Newport News..."
both: Virginia!
- [transatlantic accent]
Newport News, Virginia.
- "About nine months ago,
I met the girl of my dreams."
- "Her name is Tomorrow"?
- Wait.
- Her name is Tomorrow.
- When he says,
"Help me meet my Tomorrow,"
he literally means Tomorrow.
"We started talking on Facebook
"and immediately
exchanged numbers.
"We talk daily, and she
has become my best friend.
She is the most beautiful girl
I'’ve ever seen."
- ♪ Well it'’s hard
to tell the difference ♪
♪ Between new love
♪ And a true love
that will never ever fail ♪
- "She was there to comfort me
when I lost two people I loved."
- ♪ Out of the shadows
♪ I'’ll come dancing
and laughing ♪
♪ Can you hear it?
- "I'’m ready to move to Alabama
to be with her."
Wow.
"I talk her all the time,
"and I'’ve even talked to her
family over the phone.
"I know Tomorrow
is the one for me,
and I hope this relationship
is my last."
♪
"But there are some things that
just don'’t make sense to me.
I'’ve asked to video chat
with Tomorrow multiple times,
but she says her camera
is broken.
I mean, come on.
- How often do cameras break?
They don'’t break that often.
- No.
"We'’ve tried to meet,
but she lives in Alabama,
"and money has always
kept us apart.
"I'’m at a point in my life
where I want to settle down,
"but I'’m just starting to think
that something isn'’t right.
"Please help me
meet her in person
"and finally figure out
if this is the woman
"I'’m going to spend
the rest of my life with.
Thanks, Tyreme."
- This gonna get really
confusing, though,
talking about Tomorrow.
When are we gonna meet Tomorrow?
- Do you want to meet Tomorrow?
- [laughs]
- All right, well why don'’t we
get Tyreme on Skype-aroo?
[line trilling]
Oh!
- Hey!
- Tyreme, what'’s up?
- What'’s up, fellas?
- So tell us a little bit
more about you.
What do you do
in Newport News, Virginia?
- At the moment, I'’m unemployed,
but I like to draw,
and I'’m a great artist,
so everybody,
you know, be like,
"Ty, why don'’t you, you know,
do tattoos or anything?"
You know, I would like
to try that.
- How'’d you meet Tomorrow?
- One night I had,
you know, posted something,
and she liked it.
Then, you know,
I sent her a message.
♪
We exchanged numbers.
- What does Tomorrow
look like?
- [sighs]
Like a goddess.
Just a--a beautiful,
beautiful woman.
Fall asleep on the phone,
call each other in the morning,
throughout the day
we'’ll talk and text.
I asked her, would she want to,
you know,
date me, first?
She--then she--
she said no at first,
and then the day after,
she turned around
and asked me.
I said, "Sure."
- Tell us a little bit more
about her.
How old is she?
What does she do?
- She'’s, what, 25.
She works at a--at
a nursing home, in the kitchen.
- And what do you love
about Tomorrow?
- She will be there for me.
I'’ll be there for her.
Through whatever, you know.
We'’re both diabetics.
She told me, and I was like,
"Oh, damn."
She doesn'’t, like, really
keep up with it,
so I try to help her out
as much as I can.
Couple days ago, she left work
because she was feeling
light-headed, everything,
like, "Hey, maybe your
diabetes."
She'’s like, "Well that'’s the
same thing my mom said."
I'’m like, "Well you need to
listen to us."
You know, I'’ve talked
to her mother,
talked to uncle, aunt--I even
talked to her grandfather.
- Wow.
- Really?
- It can'’t be the same person
doing all those voices,
right?
- Nah.
- Has she ever sent you, like,
a video message
or anything?
- Noth--nothing video.
Just straight pictures.
- No video?
Not even--
not even something that she
made in a video,
and then sent to you?
- Nope.
- What do you want to happen?
- I want this relationship
to be my last relationship.
I'’m pretty sure that she wants
the same thing.
Which I haven'’t sent
to her yet.
- I hope we can make that
happen for you.
- Please, please, please.
I would love for
you guys to, really.
- All right, well,
sit tight.
We'’ll come to Virginia,
hopefully we'’ll meet Tomorrow,
and your whole life
will change.
- You mean
we'’ll meet up tomorrow.
- We'’ll meet up with--
- We'’ll meet up with you
tomorrow.
- That'’s not Tomorrow,
that'’s Tyreme.
- But we'’ll meet up with
Tomorrow--
- In a couple days.
- Right.
- All right, sit tight.
We'’ll see you soon, okay?
- All right, peace out.
-Bye.
[exasperated sigh]
Tyreme!
He'’s such a sweet guy, though.
- He'’s a very sweet guy.
- Well, it'’s gonna be tomorrow
before we know it,
so we should get out of here.
- Right, we'’ve got to leave.
[upbeat pop music]
♪
- ♪ Through tinted windows,
baby ♪
♪ Can'’t read the writing
on the wall ♪
- Max lost his sweater
at the airport.
He has to wear this.
- What?
- ♪ Too busy living lately
♪ To ever live
without the light ♪
♪
- Let'’s go.
- What a nice, wholesome home.
- Bing-bong.
[doorbell ringing]
Uh-oh.
- Oh!
- Hey!
- What'’s up, fellas?
- What'’s up?
How ya doin'’, man?
- I'’m all right, how you doin'’?
How you doin'’, how you doin'’?
Welcome to my mother'’s...
lovely abode.
- This is a nice place.
I see something I know.
- [laughs]
Yes, that'’s the--
- That'’s the--oh, my God.
Well, that'’s too big
to send.
- [laughing]
- [kissing sounds]
- Muah!
[laughter]
- All right.
So here we are.
Came a long way for this.
- Yeah.
- You know, we talked
a little bit
about how you guys met,
but you know,
we didn'’t really get into it
in very much detail.
- I posted something on Facebook
about making pancakes
or something,
and she liked it.
Then I sent her a message.
And then we started talking
from there.
- So you two diabetics
bonded first over pancakes?
That'’s what I'’m
supposed to understand?
- Yeah, basically. Basically.
- Okay.
- What really made me, like,
fall in love with her for real
was when my cousin
and my grandmother passed,
'’cause they passed within,
like, a week of each other.
- Really?
- Grandmother died of cancer.
Um, my cousin died of diabetes.
Man, I'’d never dealt with
anything like that,
and I was, you know,
just hurting,
but she was--
she was there for me,
you know, talked to me.
♪
She was the first person
I called
when I found out
my cousin passed.
Cried on the phone, you know,
first time,
I cried on the phone to her.
The girl'’s here for me
through thick and thin.
- Can we see what this girl
looks like?
I'’m dying to see
what she looks like.
- Sure.
- Okay, start at the top.
Okay, so this is Tomorrow?
- Yeah.
- She'’s very pretty.
- She is.
- She'’s got an iPhone....6?
- Yeah, that'’s an iPhone 6.
- Her phone has two cameras.
- Most--yeah--
- So both cameras
on her phone are broken?
- That'’s her sister'’s phone.
- Oh.
- Oh, sure it is.
- Okay, what is that?
- Okay.
- Missouri State?
- Yeah.
- Mississippi State.
- Miss--are you sure?
- No, that says Miss--
- That says Missouri.
- Missouri.
- Oh. Really?
- When you'’ve talked
to her family,
do they call her Tomorrow?
- Yeah.
- They do?
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah.
- Tell us a little bit about,
uh, Letrease.
- She'’s her best friend.
She said they'’ve
known each other,
you know, since...kids.
But there was one incident
where, back in August,
we had, you know,
broke up for, like,
a week or something,
and she messed around
with somebody.
♪
Which was Letrease'’s
child'’s father.
Tomorrow said that
she was pregnant, and--
- Who was pregnant?
- Tomorrow was pregnant.
- So she slept with
her best friend'’s ex...
- Baby daddy.
- And got pregnant?
- Yeah.
She sent me a picture
of her ultrasound.
♪
I blew up at her
like I'’ve never got on
somebody before in my life.
But my feelings I have for her
just kept me saying, like,
"All right, you know what?
I can get through this."
So we got back together.
♪
And then she had a miscarriage.
So...
- Whoa.
♪
- I'’ve never dealt
with anything like that.
Real rough.
But, I'’m afraid, like,
she want to push me away--
well, not push me away,
but, like, you know,
stay, like, a safe zone.
She could still be pregnant.
♪
- What would that mean for you
if all this time,
she actually was carrying
somebody'’s baby?
- [sighs]
I wouldn'’t know what I would do.
- So it might be that
Tomorrow is exactly
who she says she is,
but she'’s now six or seven
months pregnant.
- Mm-hmm.
- On one hand,
there'’s a lot of information
that suggests that she'’s real.
The pictures you have of her
look very much
like a real person.
She works a normal job.
There'’s nothing glamorous
about her life.
- Mm.
- But there'’s a lot about this
that is a little
unsettling.
- I'’m just--
I'’m just really convinced
that, you know,
she is who she says she is.
I love this girl to death.
- We'’re gonna help you out.
We'’re gonna figure this out.
- All right. Cool.
- All right.
- Appreciate it, brother,
thank you.
- See you later.
- See you guys later.
- He'’s got a wake-up call
coming tomorrow.
- I'’m being totally honest.
After seeing the photos, and...
I don'’t know.
- He probably is talking
to a real--
unless she'’s told her family,
"By the way, refer to me
as Tomorrow or Morrow."
- We could be dealing
with an entire family
catfishing one person.
- Max?
- Yes, Nev?
- [laughing]
I challenge you.
- I watched a lot
of Ninja Turtles...
- [laughing]
Oh, did you?
- So I know
what I'’m doing here.
- [howling]
Whoa!
♪
Ahh!
[bleep] damn it.
♪
[laughter]
- Okay.
- Let'’s find out
some of the answers
to these questions
about Tomorrow.
- Okay.
Here'’s the email from Tyreme.
"Hey guys, here'’s everything
I know about Tomorrow.
"Her full name
is Tomorrow Christina Johnson.
She is 25 years old
and lives in Dothan, Alabama."
Her phone number, her Facebook
and Letrease'’s Facebook,
and that'’s it.
"Thanks, Tyreme."
All right, let'’s--
let'’s just check out
Tomorrow'’s Facebook page.
- Is there anything
in the background?
Look: Go Cards...
St. Louis.
- Yeah, that'’s like
one of those things
they give away
at baseball games.
- Whoo!
St. Louis, Missouri.
- You were right.
- Missouri State.
- So...Tomorrow...
either spends a lot
of time in St. Louis,
or whoever this girl is
lives in St. Louis.
- Correct.
Let'’s run some of these
pictures.
- Here we go.
I'’m starting with this one.
Here we go.
Ready? Boom.
- Nothin'’.
- Nothin'’.
♪
Nothing for the second picture.
We'’re gonna get one match.
I'’m--I can feel it.
Come on.
Give us a hit.
[exasperated sigh]
We need a hit.
♪
Oh, ohhh!
- Oh, we got something.
we got something.
- What do we got?
Oh, here we go,
here we go.
Boom, what is this?
- Oh, Aryssa [bleep].
- Wow.
Oh, man.
- Kansas City, Missouri.
- Here are some other photos
we haven'’t seen.
- So this is it.
- Oh, boy.
All right.
- There she is: Aryssa.
- Oh, boy.
- Look up her, um....
- I'’m lookin'’ up her--
on Facebook.
- Look up...
- Hold on a second.
All right. Look!
Missouri, boom.
- Kansas City.
That explains
the Missouri sweatshirt...
- Yep.
- And the Cardinals
paraphernalia.
- So lets send a message
to the Aryssa page.
Boom.
- We found the mask,
but we still haven'’t found
the catfish.
- Let'’s just, uh,
run the phone number.
Maybe we'’ll get lucky.
Here we go,
searching the phone number.
Whoa.
- Whoa, got a hit.
- Weird.
- "Christ."
- The phone number
comes up registered
to someone names Christ.
- Christ.
- Rothwell.
- You think he goes by Chris?
- Chris-t?
- Or Christ-y?
- Christy.
- What?
- Isn'’t that her middle name,
Christina?
- What did he say it was?
Christina,
interesting.
- Right,
Christina Johnson.
- Well, that'’s all, there'’s
no address or anything,
but...that'’s pretty strange.
- Weird.
- Weird.
- What about Facebook?
Does Christ Rothwell
have a Facebook page?
- Doesn'’t seem to be
giving me any hits.
No, no one.
There'’s people named Rothwell,
but...
- So that'’s a dead end.
- I think we need to start
looking at Letrease.
- Oh, yeah.
- Okay, there'’s Letrease.
There are comments,
let'’s see if anyone said--
"happy birthday dookie"...
"Thank you,"
so this is--
- "Thank you, stinky butt."
- Right.
- So these are her friends;
they'’re all commenting on it.
- So this is a real page.
- Yeah.
Also, if she'’s best friends
with Tomorrow...
- Not one picture
of her and Tomorrow.
- Why aren'’t there pictures
of them together?
Let'’s search her friends to see
if she'’s--someone named Christ.
- Christ.
Or just search for Rothwell.
Look: Christina Rothwell!
- Oh my God.
- There it is!
- Yeah, that'’s gotta be...
- Yeah, it was just shortened.
- Right.
Who is this?
- Just her friend.
- She'’s--looks
an awful lot like...
- Tomorrow.
- Yeah, right?
- Search Christina'’s page
for Tomorrow.
- Yes.
- So she is friends
with Tomorrow.
- Huh.
All right, let'’s see...
If we run the number
on Facebook, if we get any...
What?
Shadeija [bleep]?
Who the hell is this?
- So confusing.
Wait.
- Oh, there'’s a sonogram.
Remember?
- There'’s a sonogram, yeah.
- Back from January.
I wonder if this is the sonogram
that she sent him.
- Could'’ve been.
What does it say?
What does the picture say?
- It says Sha'’deija [bleep].
Okay, so wait a second.
So we run the number,
and it comes up registered
on Facebook connected to
someone named Shadeija [bleep].
- But is it one
of Tomorrow'’s friends?
- Let'’s look at her friends,
and if she'’s friends
with any [bleep].
- Shadeija.
- Yeah.
So could it be that Tyreme
is talking to Shadeija?
- Whoa, but time out.
We ran the phone number
in two different places.
In one place, it came up
with her friend Christina,
and in another place it came up
with her friend Shadeija.
How does she have
the same phone number
registered to two friends?
- Now we know Tomorrow is not
the girl in the pictures.
What'’s interesting is that
whoever Tyreme has been
talking to and calling Tomorrow,
she put him on the phone
with other people
who also call her "Tomorrow."
- Right.
There'’s a conspiracy
to commit catfish here.
- That'’s right.
Do you think
that all of these people
could be collectively
catfishing Tyreme?
- Could be.
- That'’d be really messed up.
- Should we reach out
to some of these other people?
- All right.
- Shadeija, Letrease,
and Christina Rothwell.
- "Hey Shadeija, making an
episode of '’Catfish'’ now.
Need your help.
Please get back to me."
Okay, so we sent Shadeija
a message.
Let'’s shoot Letrease a quick
note, and let'’s send...
- Christina Rothwell.
Signs point to Christina.
- Right.
- Yeah, she'’s at the center
of all this.
It'’s gonna be very interesting
to see how he...
sorts through all of this.
Hopefully he'’s heard about
some of these other people.
Maybe she'’s mentioned them.
- It'’s bad news for Tyreme.
Let'’s go and tell him.
- Yeah.
- His brain
is gonna be scrambled.
- This could just be a group
of girlfriends
who like to mess with guys.
- He could be texting
with one person
and talking on the phone
with another person.
- You ready to do this?
- Yes, sir.
♪
[knocking]
- Hey.
- Yo.
- What'’s up, fellas?
- What'’s up?
Take a seat, we got--
we got a lot to go over.
- All right.
- We wanna walk you through
all the research
we did this morning--
what makes sense,
what doesn'’t make sense.
Hopefully you can fill in
some of the gaps...
- Okay.
- And help us piece
this puzzle together.
So we started
with this 334 number,
and we did a reverse
phone search,
and it came up registered
to Christ Rothwell.
♪
- I don'’t know who--who that is.
- Is this a previous owner
of the phone?
Is this a relative that--
the phone number'’s registered
under some kind of
family plan?
- Mm-hmm.
- So the next thing we did
was we went to her
best friend, Letrease.
We were looking
at Letrease'’s Facebook page.
She'’s got a lot of pictures.
All the things
you'’d expect to see
on a Facebook page
of a young woman...
- Except for a picture
of her and Tomorrow.
Have you ever seen them
together in a picture?
- No.
- You'’d think, if she had
a best friend, you know,
she might be on--
on her Facebook page with her.
- Yeah.
- So we went to her friends,
and we thought,
"Let'’s just see if Letrease
has any friends
with the last name Rothwell."
- Mm-hmm.
- And boom, what showed up:
Christina Rothwell.
The phone number came up
registered to Christ,
or Christina, Rothwell.
- Yeah.
- And Tomorrow'’s best friend,
Letrease,
is friends with a girl
named Christina Rothwell...
- Mm-hmm.
- This is starting
to look like a connection.
So after looking
at Christina Rothwell,
we thought, like, maybe
there'’s a little bit more
we can get from the phone
number.
So we did a Facebook search
of the phone number,
and this is where
it got really weird
because it brought us
to a page
for someone named
Shadeija [bleep].
- Never heard of her, either.
I don'’t know who that is.
- Well, surprisingly,
Shadeija is also friends
with Letrease and Tomorrow.
So now we'’ve got
Christina and Shadeija,
both of whom are strangely
connected to the phone number
that Tomorrow
is supposed to be using.
- Yeah.
- Does any of this make any
sense to you?
- I have no idea who these--
who these girls are.
Tomorrow'’s--I been talkin'’
to her for an insane
number of--you know, from
the time we started talkin'’.
- Well, so we started looking
through Shadeija'’s pictures,
and then this picture
popped up of a sonogram.
You told us that Tomorrow
sent you an ultrasound, right?
- Mm-hmm. Yep.
- Interestingly,
you look at hers--
you can see,
her name is actually on it.
- And you said
the one that you looked at
didn'’t have a name on it.
- Do you still have it?
- Um, it should be in my--
in my Facebook messages.
- Then we should go look
at the one Tomorrow sent you.
All right, well, here we are.
These are your messages.
Now, let'’s see.
We need to compare
these two things.
Oh, my God.
- That'’s not good.
It'’s the exact same image.
Someone'’s lying
about whose baby is whose.
- I really feel like,
you know, like, why?
Why would you do that?
Like, I'’m just...baffled.
- Clearly, like,
something'’s going on here.
Are they, like, somehow
in on this together?
We reached out and we messaged
all of these girls.
- Mm-mm.
- So far, no one'’s called.
So that, to be honest,
leads me to believe
that they'’re all kind of,
somehow involved
or in on this together.
- Yeah, yeah.
I'’m a little heated right now.
- The only other real thing
we had to look at
were all the photos
from the Facebook page.
- Mm-hmm.
- We ran them through
image search.
This is not good news.
One of them came back
with something,
and it'’s a Twitter account
for an account
called "unb@$ic."
Check this out.
- Aryssa [bleep].
- This picture'’s being used
by someone who lives
in Kansas City.
- Yeah.
- Kansas City, Missouri.
Remember we saw that picture
of the Missouri sweatshirt
that she was wearing,
Missouri State?
- Yeah.
- And, if we go
through her photos,
there are some
you might not have seen.
♪
We thought, "Okay,
this is not good."
So we searched
for this girl, Aryssa,
and we found
a Facebook page.
Again, lots of pictures.
Public photos
that we can scroll through.
So it looks like the pictures
you'’re looking at
are of a girl from Missouri.
- Yeah.
[somber music]
♪
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
- So one of Aryssa'’s...
friends...is supposed to be
Tomorrow'’s mom?
- Mm-hmm.
- Morrow ever talk
about her brother?
- Mm-hmm.
- Is that him?
- Supposed to be him.
- Supposed to be him.
They'’re a family.
- [sighs]
- So we have no idea
what the girl you'’re
talking to looks like.
- Or if it'’s even one person.
- Yeah.
- It could be...a bunch of these
girls are catfishing you.
You know...
One time.
[inhales]
Mm.
I need some damn answers.
- We gotta make a move.
If it'’s any of these girls,
or if it'’s all of them,
now they know we'’re
on the case.
- I wanna get down there ASAP.
I'’m--I'’m ready to meet
whoever the hell that is.
- I don'’t know what we can do
other than call "Tomorrow,"
see if she'’ll agree to
meet up with us...
- All right. Yeah.
- All right.
Well, here goes nothin'’.
[line ringing]
- Please leave your message.
[beeps]
- Hello, Tomorrow.
This is Nev from "Catfish."
I'’m here with my friend Tyreme.
Tyreme would very much
like to meet you.
Please give me a call back.
[beeps]
Let'’s just send her a text.
"This is Nev from '’Catfish.'’
"We are here with Tyreme
and would love
to speak with you."
All right.
- Sent.
[soft acoustic music]
- [clears throat]
- ♪ What if it'’s all
just in my head? ♪
- Either this is someone
that'’s actually
in love with you,
or it'’s like a sick game
by a bunch of different people
who'’ve gathered together
to catfish you.
- Mm-hmm.
- She'’s gonna have a lot
of explaining to do.
- Whole bunch.
- Let'’s get out of here.
- ♪ I lost the feeling...
- Do you think you'’ll still
bring this with you?
- [sighs]
- Sorry, man.
- We'’ll figure it out.
- ♪ Used to be you and I
♪ Now we'’re strangers ♪
- Aw, damn it.
[sighs]
♪
- [exhales]
Poor guy.
- Ugh.
- He'’s reeling.
[phone chimes]
- Oh, whoa, look at that.
- Christina Rothwell:
"Hey, I got your message.
I'’m at work.
What do you guys need?"
Huh.
"We saw that Tomorrow'’s phone
registered to you.
"Tyreme already knows
something is up.
"For his sake, we will need
to get some real answers.
Otherwise this is totally
unfair to him."
"Why don'’t you guys
just come to Dothan
and we'’ll explain everything?"
Well there it is.
- Oh, boy.
- There'’s the confession:
we'’llexplain everything.
It'’s a conspiracy.
- How many girls
you think are in on this?
It'’s a whole school
of catfish.
[line ringing]
- Tyreme.
- Christina wrote back and said,
"Why don'’t you guys
just come to Dothan
and we'’ll
explain everything."
- We are coming to pick you up.
Pack a bag.
- Later.
Let'’s pick up Tyreme.
- Literally.
- ♪ And way down we go,
go, go, go♪
[laughter]
♪ Way down we go
- Get in the car.
- Get in the car!
- Get in the car.
- Okay.
- Get in the car!
- ♪ And way down we go
- All right,
that was a new record.
- Oh, no bear?
- Aw, that was nice.
- Oh.
- Have you heard
anything from them?
- Tomorrow called me.
- She called you?
- At 12:00 last night.
- What'’d she say?
- Oh, boy.
- Nothin'’, I didn'’t
answer the phone.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- ♪ Yeah
♪ Whoa, baby
♪
♪ Baby, whoo
- We don'’t know how many people
we'’re dealing with.
That'’s what'’s so crazy
about this.
Tomorrow,
here we come.
- ♪ Way down we go
[messenger chimes]
- Just got a text
in my Facebook messenger
from Christina Rothwell.
It says, "Can you meet us
at [bleep]
in Dothan around noon?"
[exhales]
It sounds like...
a stand-off to me.
- Yo.
- There he is.
- What'’s up, fellas?
- Well, the only update
is that I got a message
from Christina.
- Mm-hmm.
- She said, "Meet us at this
address at noon."
We know the girl you'’re meeting
isn'’t Aryssa.
- Mm-hmm.
- So now do you still feel
like there'’s someone you'’re--
you'’re in love with?
- I feel, you know,
I do love her, you know.
My feelings
haven'’t changed much.
I'’m a very
optimistic person, so.
- Let'’s not delay any longer.
♪
You said that you were feeling
optimistic.
What are you optimistic about?
- Just the fact that--
you know,
her feelings about me
was, you know, completely...
and what'’s other than truth,
you know.
Of course, you know, I know
she'’s not the pretty face.
I just hope I don'’t hear
no more, you know, BS.
- Is this it on the right?
Where are we?
All right, man.
You ready?
[tense music]
- [sighs]
♪
- I mean, we'’re all
in this together.
♪
- [exhales]
♪
[knocking]
- Ah, someone'’s coming.
Someone'’s coming, right now.
- Yeah.
♪
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- How ya doin'’?
- Nev.
- Christina.
- Christina, yes.
We saw your Facebook page.
How are ya?
- I'’m fine.
- Cool.
- I'’m just a little nervous.
- You'’re nervous?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, well, so are we.
We'’re really not sure
what to expect.
- Mm-hmm.
- Um, I don'’t know
if you know Tyreme at all.
- I heard of him,
but I don'’t him at all.
- Okay.
Well, this is Tyreme.
- Nice to meet you.
- Same to you.
- And...
do you know Letrease?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
- Shadeija?
- Yeah.
I know her as well, too.
- Yeah, okay.
So did they all
get my messages?
- I'’m not sure,
but when you replied to me,
I know I had to,
you know, reply,
because I feel kind of
responsible for some of it.
♪
- Oh.
Is it just you here
right now?
- No.
You guys came to Dothan,
so I guess it'’s time for us--
for us to kind of,
you know, reveal everything
that'’s going on.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- You guys came to Dothan,
so I guess it'’s time
for us to kind of,
ya know, reveal everything
that'’s going on.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- All right,
just one second.
- Okay.
♪
- Ooh.
♪
- She says she'’s sort of kind of
involved, but not really?
- Yeah, she saying--right.
Who knows?
Who knows?
- Hi, I'’m S--Tomorrow.
[dramatic music]
- Did you say that
you'’re Tomorrow?
- Yes, I'’m Tomorrow.
- You'’re Tomorrow.
- Oh.
- Mm-hmm.
- And you'’re Letrease.
- Okay, hi. I'’m Nev.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hi, I'’m Max.
- Nice to meet you.
♪
- And this is Tyreme.
- It'’s Ty.
♪
- So is it just you guys
here right now, or...
- Mm-hmm, it'’s just us.
- Yes.
- Okay.
- What'’s the story?
- Okay.
I'’m just her best friend.
She told me about this
couple months ago,
and stuff like that--
and when she told me about it,
I kind of, you know, thought
it was--at some point in time,
you have
to come clean.
So that'’s why...
we'’re here.
♪
- Mm.
♪
So one day
I was liking his post,
and it went from there.
But I never thought
I'’d fall in love
with someone
over the internet.
- But why though?
You know what I mean?
You could'’ve...
You know me.
I--I done kept everything
with you straight and...
♪
- As Tomorrow,
you asked him about...you?
- Me.
Yes, sir.
- What kind of questions
were you asking?
And when my feelings
got deeper and deeper,
it'’s plenty of times,
I was like,
"Ty, would you go with her?"
You'’re like, "No, she'’s ugly."
To the point I start doggin'’
myself out:
"Yeah, she is ugly.
Yeah, she is big."
- You talked to Tomorrow
about Letrease
and used some
of that language?
- Yeah. Yeah.
'’Cause she, you know, asked--
- So that kinda make me
nervous...
even more to like...
"Tyreme, that'’s not me
on the picture,
but everything that I said,
it'’s me."
Only the picture was fake.
- And whose phone
are you using?
- It'’s my phone.
- Why is it in her name?
- She'’s underneath
the same account with me.
- And who'’s Shadeija?
- That'’s my baby sister.
- That'’s your little sister?
- Mm-hmm.
- So how many people
are reading the texts
that you send to Tomorrow?
- Just one person.
- Just you.
- Mm-hmm.
- But he'’s talked to other
people.
- Right.
- He spoke to my mom.
She didn'’t know
what was goin'’ on.
- He said you guys
spoke about diabetes.
Is that...
- Yes, I do have diabetes.
That is true.
- Unfortunately.
- Yes.
- That'’s the one thing
that is true.
- Mm-hmm.
Yes, sir.
- We also don'’t know about this
sonogram/ultrasound
that you sent him.
- Mm-hmm.
- That wasn'’t yours?
- No.
- So that was a lie.
- Yes.
♪
Because at the time,
somehow, like, I--
I do this,
maybe it'’d push him away,
like, he'’s done with me,
but it didn'’t work.
He stayed.
- But you weren'’t--
So you were never pregnant.
- No.
- And then you we'’re like,
"I'’m not pregnant,
so I'’m not gonna have the baby,
so I'’m gonna tell him
that I had a miscarriage."
- Yeah.
- [scoffs]
- ♪ But it'’s not real ♪
♪ It'’s not real ♪
♪
- ♪ Wanna fall
♪ Wanna fight
♪ What right have I?
- Mm.
- ♪ Takin'’ scores ♪
♪ Takin'’ sides ♪
- [groaning]
- ♪ Take my word,
take my life ♪
- You all right?
- Mm-hmm.
- I'’m sure this
isn'’t easy for you.
Is it safe to say that
you'’re in love with Tyreme?
- I am in love with Tyreme.
- How you doing?
- I'’m shakin'’ a little bit,
you know?
Hands are sweaty.
But I'’m happy because I--I know
the complete truth now.
[sighing]
I don'’t know.
- Do you feel bad about the
things you said about Letrease?
♪
- Yeah, I do.
♪
- You wanna take a breather
and just process this, or...
- Yeah, I think
I need a breather.
♪
- Hey, you guys wanna just
come out for two seconds?
I know this is a lot for you.
Obviously,
this is a lot for Tyreme.
- Mm-hmm.
- There'’s definitely a lot more
of an explanation
that I think he deserves,
but I think right now,
like, he just needs
to figure out what he'’s feeling
about all this.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay.
- So if you'’re available
and willing to meet
up with us again...
- Okay.
♪
- [groaning]
- It'’s too bad that looks
matter so much, isn'’t it?
I wish we could just
get over that.
But I think we'’re programmed
not to.
- This episode of "Catfish:
The TV Show" continues now.
[projector whirring]
♪
- Why don'’t we go down
to Tyreme'’s room
and check in with him?
- Where'’s your head at?
- I'’m gonna miss the
conversations we had, you know.
I'’ll cherish them till I die.
That'’s--that'’s
something I'’ll always,
you know,
keep in my heart.
- I guess now all that'’s left
is to go talk to her.
[line ringing]
- Hey.
- Okay, be over there
in couple minutes.
♪
[knocking]
- Hi.
- Hey, morning.
- Good morning.
- How are you?
- Fine.
- Good to see you.
- Nice to see you.
- Think we could come in?
- Sure.
- Talk for a minute?
Yesterday was tough,
I know, for both of you.
Can you just explain
what your thinking was
with making the profile to get
back at your ex-boyfriend?
- Just to see,
was he gonna talk to her?
And it never succeeded.
He never responded
to my friend request,
never wrote me back, nothin'’.
So I didn'’t achieve nothin'’.
The only thing I achieve
is falling in love with Ty.
I liked it because
it felt like I was in love.
That'’s somethin'’ that I wanted
with my real life--
to know how it feel to go out
on dates with your boyfriend
or husband,
or how it feel, you--
"I had long day at work,"
and have supper,
bath water, clothes,
a foot massage, stuff like that.
That'’s what I wanted,
and I knew I couldn'’t get it
from bein'’ myself, '’cause...
And gettin'’ bullied
and called fat.
That really hurts.
Everything I told you,
Tyreme, I meant it.
The only thing that wasn'’t real
was the picture.
I love you,
I want a life with you,
but I guess
you don'’t want that.
- Nah.
- All I'’m saying,
the love you had for me,
it was for me;
it was just the picture.
Why I'’m not good enough
for you--to be with you?
- I can'’t give you a--
a good reason why,
but you know--
- '’Cause what people might say?
- Nah, not that reason.
- I just feel
like I deserve answers,
same reason
you deserve answers.
- That'’s--that'’s--
that'’s the best answer
that I could come up with
at this moment in time.
Like, all this is overwhelming.
- [sniffling]
[somber music]
Why I'’m not good enough for you?
♪
Yes, you have told me
you don'’t like big girls.
But at the same time, Ty,
you was talking to me.
And the only thing that was fake
was the picture.
My feelings are real for him.
♪
- Tyreme fell in love
with somebody,
and he just found out
that that somebody
wasn'’t the somebody
he thought he was in love with.
Sure, parts of them are true,
but the whole package
is not true.
- Same would be true
if he met the girl
from the pictures,
but her personality was totally
different, and she sucked.
So it goes both ways.
As much as you love someone,
you can'’t trick them
into loving you back.
And there will be somebody
who meets you,
who thinks you'’re beautiful in
the way that you are beautiful,
and that you don'’t have to
pretend to be someone else
for them to love you.
But I think you need to give
Tyreme a little bit of time
to adjust to the new set
of circumstances here.
♪
- You guys want a minute?
- Without us.
- Chat for a little bit?
- [sighs]
Yeah.
♪
[sighs]
- But why?
- Why what?
I'’m waitin'’.
- Don'’t do that.
- Just give me a better
understanding.
- But you--what you--
you want me--
You want me to say it.
Look, you asked me,
you know,
if we ever broke up, you know,
would I still be your friend?
And what I tell you?
I told you, "Yeah."
That'’s not gonna change.
If you wanna call me,
talk to me,
text me, whatever,
you know my number.
You know,
feel free to do so.
I love all our conversations,
you know,
I will keep that in my heart
till the day I die.
♪
You know?
- Yeah.
[acoustic guitar music]
♪
- ♪ It'’s a wide ocean ♪
- How you guys doin'’?
- I'’m good.
- Good talk?
- ♪ And our homes are chosen
- So how are we leaving
this thing?
- ♪ Yet still we'’re all broken ♪
♪ Take me home
- Bring it in, come on.
- Yeah, you gotta
give him a hug.
- Come on, come on.
[sighing]
- ♪ Back to the place
where I belong ♪
[line ringing]
- Hey!
- Whoa!
Tyreme!
- Hey, you guys.
- What'’s been going on
with Letrease?
Have you talked to her?
- Yeah, we talk, like,
almost every day still.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Still got a friendship,
you know.
I promised to still be friends
with her,
and I'’m gonna keep that
promise, you know.
She said if I ever need
anything,
she'’ll be there for me.
I told her, you know,
the feeling'’s mutual.
- You'’re a good guy; I hope you
find what you'’re looking for.
- Stay strong.
- Best of luck.
- See ya.
[line ringing]
- Hey!
- Hey!
- Hi!
- How are you?
- I'’m doin'’ good.
- Yeah, you look lovely.
- Thank you.
- Have you spoken
to Tyreme today?
- Not today.
I spoke to him last night.
I'’m not really thinkin'’ about
about dating right now.
I'’m trying
to get myself together.
- Okay.
The last time we saw you,
you were pretty upset,
but things seem
to have turned around.
- Mm-hmm.
- Hopefully we'’ll talk soon.
- All right.
-Okay.
Bye, Letrease!
- Bye!
- Courtney has been giving me
messages from my dad,
although my dad passed away
14 years ago.
Logic would tell me
you can'’t talk to dead people.
- If Courtney
is lying about this,
that'’s gonna be so messed up.
- What just happened?
- This is insane.
- At this point,
I don'’t know what to believe.
- Are you tellin'’ the truth?
1095
00:41:04.
a bunch of these girls
are catfishing you.
- We could be dealing with
an entire family
catfishing one person.
[dramatic music]
- I need some damn answers.
[knocking]
- Someone'’s coming.
Someone'’s coming,
right now.
[dramatic music]
- Max, place your hand
on the, uh, Bible,
and raise
your camera hand, please.
- My right hand.
- Right hand.
Do you swear,
to the best of your abilities,
seek to discover the truth,
the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth?
- So help me God,I do.
I'’ve been "inoggerated"?
- Inaugurated?
- Inaugurated.
- All right, let'’s get started.
Someone needs our help!
We got one, Max.
"Help me meet my Tomorrow..."
- Very poetic.
- Sounds like we might be doing
some time-traveling.
"Dear Nev and Max,
"my name is Tyreme,
"and I'’m 27-year-old
father of two
living in Newport News..."
both: Virginia!
- [transatlantic accent]
Newport News, Virginia.
- "About nine months ago,
I met the girl of my dreams."
- "Her name is Tomorrow"?
- Wait.
- Her name is Tomorrow.
- When he says,
"Help me meet my Tomorrow,"
he literally means Tomorrow.
"We started talking on Facebook
"and immediately
exchanged numbers.
"We talk daily, and she
has become my best friend.
She is the most beautiful girl
I'’ve ever seen."
- ♪ Well it'’s hard
to tell the difference ♪
♪ Between new love
♪ And a true love
that will never ever fail ♪
- "She was there to comfort me
when I lost two people I loved."
- ♪ Out of the shadows
♪ I'’ll come dancing
and laughing ♪
♪ Can you hear it?
- "I'’m ready to move to Alabama
to be with her."
Wow.
"I talk her all the time,
"and I'’ve even talked to her
family over the phone.
"I know Tomorrow
is the one for me,
and I hope this relationship
is my last."
♪
"But there are some things that
just don'’t make sense to me.
I'’ve asked to video chat
with Tomorrow multiple times,
but she says her camera
is broken.
I mean, come on.
- How often do cameras break?
They don'’t break that often.
- No.
"We'’ve tried to meet,
but she lives in Alabama,
"and money has always
kept us apart.
"I'’m at a point in my life
where I want to settle down,
"but I'’m just starting to think
that something isn'’t right.
"Please help me
meet her in person
"and finally figure out
if this is the woman
"I'’m going to spend
the rest of my life with.
Thanks, Tyreme."
- This gonna get really
confusing, though,
talking about Tomorrow.
When are we gonna meet Tomorrow?
- Do you want to meet Tomorrow?
- [laughs]
- All right, well why don'’t we
get Tyreme on Skype-aroo?
[line trilling]
Oh!
- Hey!
- Tyreme, what'’s up?
- What'’s up, fellas?
- So tell us a little bit
more about you.
What do you do
in Newport News, Virginia?
- At the moment, I'’m unemployed,
but I like to draw,
and I'’m a great artist,
so everybody,
you know, be like,
"Ty, why don'’t you, you know,
do tattoos or anything?"
You know, I would like
to try that.
- How'’d you meet Tomorrow?
- One night I had,
you know, posted something,
and she liked it.
Then, you know,
I sent her a message.
♪
We exchanged numbers.
- What does Tomorrow
look like?
- [sighs]
Like a goddess.
Just a--a beautiful,
beautiful woman.
Fall asleep on the phone,
call each other in the morning,
throughout the day
we'’ll talk and text.
I asked her, would she want to,
you know,
date me, first?
She--then she--
she said no at first,
and then the day after,
she turned around
and asked me.
I said, "Sure."
- Tell us a little bit more
about her.
How old is she?
What does she do?
- She'’s, what, 25.
She works at a--at
a nursing home, in the kitchen.
- And what do you love
about Tomorrow?
- She will be there for me.
I'’ll be there for her.
Through whatever, you know.
We'’re both diabetics.
She told me, and I was like,
"Oh, damn."
She doesn'’t, like, really
keep up with it,
so I try to help her out
as much as I can.
Couple days ago, she left work
because she was feeling
light-headed, everything,
like, "Hey, maybe your
diabetes."
She'’s like, "Well that'’s the
same thing my mom said."
I'’m like, "Well you need to
listen to us."
You know, I'’ve talked
to her mother,
talked to uncle, aunt--I even
talked to her grandfather.
- Wow.
- Really?
- It can'’t be the same person
doing all those voices,
right?
- Nah.
- Has she ever sent you, like,
a video message
or anything?
- Noth--nothing video.
Just straight pictures.
- No video?
Not even--
not even something that she
made in a video,
and then sent to you?
- Nope.
- What do you want to happen?
- I want this relationship
to be my last relationship.
I'’m pretty sure that she wants
the same thing.
Which I haven'’t sent
to her yet.
- I hope we can make that
happen for you.
- Please, please, please.
I would love for
you guys to, really.
- All right, well,
sit tight.
We'’ll come to Virginia,
hopefully we'’ll meet Tomorrow,
and your whole life
will change.
- You mean
we'’ll meet up tomorrow.
- We'’ll meet up with--
- We'’ll meet up with you
tomorrow.
- That'’s not Tomorrow,
that'’s Tyreme.
- But we'’ll meet up with
Tomorrow--
- In a couple days.
- Right.
- All right, sit tight.
We'’ll see you soon, okay?
- All right, peace out.
-Bye.
[exasperated sigh]
Tyreme!
He'’s such a sweet guy, though.
- He'’s a very sweet guy.
- Well, it'’s gonna be tomorrow
before we know it,
so we should get out of here.
- Right, we'’ve got to leave.
[upbeat pop music]
♪
- ♪ Through tinted windows,
baby ♪
♪ Can'’t read the writing
on the wall ♪
- Max lost his sweater
at the airport.
He has to wear this.
- What?
- ♪ Too busy living lately
♪ To ever live
without the light ♪
♪
- Let'’s go.
- What a nice, wholesome home.
- Bing-bong.
[doorbell ringing]
Uh-oh.
- Oh!
- Hey!
- What'’s up, fellas?
- What'’s up?
How ya doin'’, man?
- I'’m all right, how you doin'’?
How you doin'’, how you doin'’?
Welcome to my mother'’s...
lovely abode.
- This is a nice place.
I see something I know.
- [laughs]
Yes, that'’s the--
- That'’s the--oh, my God.
Well, that'’s too big
to send.
- [laughing]
- [kissing sounds]
- Muah!
[laughter]
- All right.
So here we are.
Came a long way for this.
- Yeah.
- You know, we talked
a little bit
about how you guys met,
but you know,
we didn'’t really get into it
in very much detail.
- I posted something on Facebook
about making pancakes
or something,
and she liked it.
Then I sent her a message.
And then we started talking
from there.
- So you two diabetics
bonded first over pancakes?
That'’s what I'’m
supposed to understand?
- Yeah, basically. Basically.
- Okay.
- What really made me, like,
fall in love with her for real
was when my cousin
and my grandmother passed,
'’cause they passed within,
like, a week of each other.
- Really?
- Grandmother died of cancer.
Um, my cousin died of diabetes.
Man, I'’d never dealt with
anything like that,
and I was, you know,
just hurting,
but she was--
she was there for me,
you know, talked to me.
♪
She was the first person
I called
when I found out
my cousin passed.
Cried on the phone, you know,
first time,
I cried on the phone to her.
The girl'’s here for me
through thick and thin.
- Can we see what this girl
looks like?
I'’m dying to see
what she looks like.
- Sure.
- Okay, start at the top.
Okay, so this is Tomorrow?
- Yeah.
- She'’s very pretty.
- She is.
- She'’s got an iPhone....6?
- Yeah, that'’s an iPhone 6.
- Her phone has two cameras.
- Most--yeah--
- So both cameras
on her phone are broken?
- That'’s her sister'’s phone.
- Oh.
- Oh, sure it is.
- Okay, what is that?
- Okay.
- Missouri State?
- Yeah.
- Mississippi State.
- Miss--are you sure?
- No, that says Miss--
- That says Missouri.
- Missouri.
- Oh. Really?
- When you'’ve talked
to her family,
do they call her Tomorrow?
- Yeah.
- They do?
- Oh, okay.
- Yeah.
- Tell us a little bit about,
uh, Letrease.
- She'’s her best friend.
She said they'’ve
known each other,
you know, since...kids.
But there was one incident
where, back in August,
we had, you know,
broke up for, like,
a week or something,
and she messed around
with somebody.
♪
Which was Letrease'’s
child'’s father.
Tomorrow said that
she was pregnant, and--
- Who was pregnant?
- Tomorrow was pregnant.
- So she slept with
her best friend'’s ex...
- Baby daddy.
- And got pregnant?
- Yeah.
She sent me a picture
of her ultrasound.
♪
I blew up at her
like I'’ve never got on
somebody before in my life.
But my feelings I have for her
just kept me saying, like,
"All right, you know what?
I can get through this."
So we got back together.
♪
And then she had a miscarriage.
So...
- Whoa.
♪
- I'’ve never dealt
with anything like that.
Real rough.
But, I'’m afraid, like,
she want to push me away--
well, not push me away,
but, like, you know,
stay, like, a safe zone.
She could still be pregnant.
♪
- What would that mean for you
if all this time,
she actually was carrying
somebody'’s baby?
- [sighs]
I wouldn'’t know what I would do.
- So it might be that
Tomorrow is exactly
who she says she is,
but she'’s now six or seven
months pregnant.
- Mm-hmm.
- On one hand,
there'’s a lot of information
that suggests that she'’s real.
The pictures you have of her
look very much
like a real person.
She works a normal job.
There'’s nothing glamorous
about her life.
- Mm.
- But there'’s a lot about this
that is a little
unsettling.
- I'’m just--
I'’m just really convinced
that, you know,
she is who she says she is.
I love this girl to death.
- We'’re gonna help you out.
We'’re gonna figure this out.
- All right. Cool.
- All right.
- Appreciate it, brother,
thank you.
- See you later.
- See you guys later.
- He'’s got a wake-up call
coming tomorrow.
- I'’m being totally honest.
After seeing the photos, and...
I don'’t know.
- He probably is talking
to a real--
unless she'’s told her family,
"By the way, refer to me
as Tomorrow or Morrow."
- We could be dealing
with an entire family
catfishing one person.
- Max?
- Yes, Nev?
- [laughing]
I challenge you.
- I watched a lot
of Ninja Turtles...
- [laughing]
Oh, did you?
- So I know
what I'’m doing here.
- [howling]
Whoa!
♪
Ahh!
[bleep] damn it.
♪
[laughter]
- Okay.
- Let'’s find out
some of the answers
to these questions
about Tomorrow.
- Okay.
Here'’s the email from Tyreme.
"Hey guys, here'’s everything
I know about Tomorrow.
"Her full name
is Tomorrow Christina Johnson.
She is 25 years old
and lives in Dothan, Alabama."
Her phone number, her Facebook
and Letrease'’s Facebook,
and that'’s it.
"Thanks, Tyreme."
All right, let'’s--
let'’s just check out
Tomorrow'’s Facebook page.
- Is there anything
in the background?
Look: Go Cards...
St. Louis.
- Yeah, that'’s like
one of those things
they give away
at baseball games.
- Whoo!
St. Louis, Missouri.
- You were right.
- Missouri State.
- So...Tomorrow...
either spends a lot
of time in St. Louis,
or whoever this girl is
lives in St. Louis.
- Correct.
Let'’s run some of these
pictures.
- Here we go.
I'’m starting with this one.
Here we go.
Ready? Boom.
- Nothin'’.
- Nothin'’.
♪
Nothing for the second picture.
We'’re gonna get one match.
I'’m--I can feel it.
Come on.
Give us a hit.
[exasperated sigh]
We need a hit.
♪
Oh, ohhh!
- Oh, we got something.
we got something.
- What do we got?
Oh, here we go,
here we go.
Boom, what is this?
- Oh, Aryssa [bleep].
- Wow.
Oh, man.
- Kansas City, Missouri.
- Here are some other photos
we haven'’t seen.
- So this is it.
- Oh, boy.
All right.
- There she is: Aryssa.
- Oh, boy.
- Look up her, um....
- I'’m lookin'’ up her--
on Facebook.
- Look up...
- Hold on a second.
All right. Look!
Missouri, boom.
- Kansas City.
That explains
the Missouri sweatshirt...
- Yep.
- And the Cardinals
paraphernalia.
- So lets send a message
to the Aryssa page.
Boom.
- We found the mask,
but we still haven'’t found
the catfish.
- Let'’s just, uh,
run the phone number.
Maybe we'’ll get lucky.
Here we go,
searching the phone number.
Whoa.
- Whoa, got a hit.
- Weird.
- "Christ."
- The phone number
comes up registered
to someone names Christ.
- Christ.
- Rothwell.
- You think he goes by Chris?
- Chris-t?
- Or Christ-y?
- Christy.
- What?
- Isn'’t that her middle name,
Christina?
- What did he say it was?
Christina,
interesting.
- Right,
Christina Johnson.
- Well, that'’s all, there'’s
no address or anything,
but...that'’s pretty strange.
- Weird.
- Weird.
- What about Facebook?
Does Christ Rothwell
have a Facebook page?
- Doesn'’t seem to be
giving me any hits.
No, no one.
There'’s people named Rothwell,
but...
- So that'’s a dead end.
- I think we need to start
looking at Letrease.
- Oh, yeah.
- Okay, there'’s Letrease.
There are comments,
let'’s see if anyone said--
"happy birthday dookie"...
"Thank you,"
so this is--
- "Thank you, stinky butt."
- Right.
- So these are her friends;
they'’re all commenting on it.
- So this is a real page.
- Yeah.
Also, if she'’s best friends
with Tomorrow...
- Not one picture
of her and Tomorrow.
- Why aren'’t there pictures
of them together?
Let'’s search her friends to see
if she'’s--someone named Christ.
- Christ.
Or just search for Rothwell.
Look: Christina Rothwell!
- Oh my God.
- There it is!
- Yeah, that'’s gotta be...
- Yeah, it was just shortened.
- Right.
Who is this?
- Just her friend.
- She'’s--looks
an awful lot like...
- Tomorrow.
- Yeah, right?
- Search Christina'’s page
for Tomorrow.
- Yes.
- So she is friends
with Tomorrow.
- Huh.
All right, let'’s see...
If we run the number
on Facebook, if we get any...
What?
Shadeija [bleep]?
Who the hell is this?
- So confusing.
Wait.
- Oh, there'’s a sonogram.
Remember?
- There'’s a sonogram, yeah.
- Back from January.
I wonder if this is the sonogram
that she sent him.
- Could'’ve been.
What does it say?
What does the picture say?
- It says Sha'’deija [bleep].
Okay, so wait a second.
So we run the number,
and it comes up registered
on Facebook connected to
someone named Shadeija [bleep].
- But is it one
of Tomorrow'’s friends?
- Let'’s look at her friends,
and if she'’s friends
with any [bleep].
- Shadeija.
- Yeah.
So could it be that Tyreme
is talking to Shadeija?
- Whoa, but time out.
We ran the phone number
in two different places.
In one place, it came up
with her friend Christina,
and in another place it came up
with her friend Shadeija.
How does she have
the same phone number
registered to two friends?
- Now we know Tomorrow is not
the girl in the pictures.
What'’s interesting is that
whoever Tyreme has been
talking to and calling Tomorrow,
she put him on the phone
with other people
who also call her "Tomorrow."
- Right.
There'’s a conspiracy
to commit catfish here.
- That'’s right.
Do you think
that all of these people
could be collectively
catfishing Tyreme?
- Could be.
- That'’d be really messed up.
- Should we reach out
to some of these other people?
- All right.
- Shadeija, Letrease,
and Christina Rothwell.
- "Hey Shadeija, making an
episode of '’Catfish'’ now.
Need your help.
Please get back to me."
Okay, so we sent Shadeija
a message.
Let'’s shoot Letrease a quick
note, and let'’s send...
- Christina Rothwell.
Signs point to Christina.
- Right.
- Yeah, she'’s at the center
of all this.
It'’s gonna be very interesting
to see how he...
sorts through all of this.
Hopefully he'’s heard about
some of these other people.
Maybe she'’s mentioned them.
- It'’s bad news for Tyreme.
Let'’s go and tell him.
- Yeah.
- His brain
is gonna be scrambled.
- This could just be a group
of girlfriends
who like to mess with guys.
- He could be texting
with one person
and talking on the phone
with another person.
- You ready to do this?
- Yes, sir.
♪
[knocking]
- Hey.
- Yo.
- What'’s up, fellas?
- What'’s up?
Take a seat, we got--
we got a lot to go over.
- All right.
- We wanna walk you through
all the research
we did this morning--
what makes sense,
what doesn'’t make sense.
Hopefully you can fill in
some of the gaps...
- Okay.
- And help us piece
this puzzle together.
So we started
with this 334 number,
and we did a reverse
phone search,
and it came up registered
to Christ Rothwell.
♪
- I don'’t know who--who that is.
- Is this a previous owner
of the phone?
Is this a relative that--
the phone number'’s registered
under some kind of
family plan?
- Mm-hmm.
- So the next thing we did
was we went to her
best friend, Letrease.
We were looking
at Letrease'’s Facebook page.
She'’s got a lot of pictures.
All the things
you'’d expect to see
on a Facebook page
of a young woman...
- Except for a picture
of her and Tomorrow.
Have you ever seen them
together in a picture?
- No.
- You'’d think, if she had
a best friend, you know,
she might be on--
on her Facebook page with her.
- Yeah.
- So we went to her friends,
and we thought,
"Let'’s just see if Letrease
has any friends
with the last name Rothwell."
- Mm-hmm.
- And boom, what showed up:
Christina Rothwell.
The phone number came up
registered to Christ,
or Christina, Rothwell.
- Yeah.
- And Tomorrow'’s best friend,
Letrease,
is friends with a girl
named Christina Rothwell...
- Mm-hmm.
- This is starting
to look like a connection.
So after looking
at Christina Rothwell,
we thought, like, maybe
there'’s a little bit more
we can get from the phone
number.
So we did a Facebook search
of the phone number,
and this is where
it got really weird
because it brought us
to a page
for someone named
Shadeija [bleep].
- Never heard of her, either.
I don'’t know who that is.
- Well, surprisingly,
Shadeija is also friends
with Letrease and Tomorrow.
So now we'’ve got
Christina and Shadeija,
both of whom are strangely
connected to the phone number
that Tomorrow
is supposed to be using.
- Yeah.
- Does any of this make any
sense to you?
- I have no idea who these--
who these girls are.
Tomorrow'’s--I been talkin'’
to her for an insane
number of--you know, from
the time we started talkin'’.
- Well, so we started looking
through Shadeija'’s pictures,
and then this picture
popped up of a sonogram.
You told us that Tomorrow
sent you an ultrasound, right?
- Mm-hmm. Yep.
- Interestingly,
you look at hers--
you can see,
her name is actually on it.
- And you said
the one that you looked at
didn'’t have a name on it.
- Do you still have it?
- Um, it should be in my--
in my Facebook messages.
- Then we should go look
at the one Tomorrow sent you.
All right, well, here we are.
These are your messages.
Now, let'’s see.
We need to compare
these two things.
Oh, my God.
- That'’s not good.
It'’s the exact same image.
Someone'’s lying
about whose baby is whose.
- I really feel like,
you know, like, why?
Why would you do that?
Like, I'’m just...baffled.
- Clearly, like,
something'’s going on here.
Are they, like, somehow
in on this together?
We reached out and we messaged
all of these girls.
- Mm-mm.
- So far, no one'’s called.
So that, to be honest,
leads me to believe
that they'’re all kind of,
somehow involved
or in on this together.
- Yeah, yeah.
I'’m a little heated right now.
- The only other real thing
we had to look at
were all the photos
from the Facebook page.
- Mm-hmm.
- We ran them through
image search.
This is not good news.
One of them came back
with something,
and it'’s a Twitter account
for an account
called "unb@$ic."
Check this out.
- Aryssa [bleep].
- This picture'’s being used
by someone who lives
in Kansas City.
- Yeah.
- Kansas City, Missouri.
Remember we saw that picture
of the Missouri sweatshirt
that she was wearing,
Missouri State?
- Yeah.
- And, if we go
through her photos,
there are some
you might not have seen.
♪
We thought, "Okay,
this is not good."
So we searched
for this girl, Aryssa,
and we found
a Facebook page.
Again, lots of pictures.
Public photos
that we can scroll through.
So it looks like the pictures
you'’re looking at
are of a girl from Missouri.
- Yeah.
[somber music]
♪
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
- So one of Aryssa'’s...
friends...is supposed to be
Tomorrow'’s mom?
- Mm-hmm.
- Morrow ever talk
about her brother?
- Mm-hmm.
- Is that him?
- Supposed to be him.
- Supposed to be him.
They'’re a family.
- [sighs]
- So we have no idea
what the girl you'’re
talking to looks like.
- Or if it'’s even one person.
- Yeah.
- It could be...a bunch of these
girls are catfishing you.
You know...
One time.
[inhales]
Mm.
I need some damn answers.
- We gotta make a move.
If it'’s any of these girls,
or if it'’s all of them,
now they know we'’re
on the case.
- I wanna get down there ASAP.
I'’m--I'’m ready to meet
whoever the hell that is.
- I don'’t know what we can do
other than call "Tomorrow,"
see if she'’ll agree to
meet up with us...
- All right. Yeah.
- All right.
Well, here goes nothin'’.
[line ringing]
- Please leave your message.
[beeps]
- Hello, Tomorrow.
This is Nev from "Catfish."
I'’m here with my friend Tyreme.
Tyreme would very much
like to meet you.
Please give me a call back.
[beeps]
Let'’s just send her a text.
"This is Nev from '’Catfish.'’
"We are here with Tyreme
and would love
to speak with you."
All right.
- Sent.
[soft acoustic music]
- [clears throat]
- ♪ What if it'’s all
just in my head? ♪
- Either this is someone
that'’s actually
in love with you,
or it'’s like a sick game
by a bunch of different people
who'’ve gathered together
to catfish you.
- Mm-hmm.
- She'’s gonna have a lot
of explaining to do.
- Whole bunch.
- Let'’s get out of here.
- ♪ I lost the feeling...
- Do you think you'’ll still
bring this with you?
- [sighs]
- Sorry, man.
- We'’ll figure it out.
- ♪ Used to be you and I
♪ Now we'’re strangers ♪
- Aw, damn it.
[sighs]
♪
- [exhales]
Poor guy.
- Ugh.
- He'’s reeling.
[phone chimes]
- Oh, whoa, look at that.
- Christina Rothwell:
"Hey, I got your message.
I'’m at work.
What do you guys need?"
Huh.
"We saw that Tomorrow'’s phone
registered to you.
"Tyreme already knows
something is up.
"For his sake, we will need
to get some real answers.
Otherwise this is totally
unfair to him."
"Why don'’t you guys
just come to Dothan
and we'’ll explain everything?"
Well there it is.
- Oh, boy.
- There'’s the confession:
we'’llexplain everything.
It'’s a conspiracy.
- How many girls
you think are in on this?
It'’s a whole school
of catfish.
[line ringing]
- Tyreme.
- Christina wrote back and said,
"Why don'’t you guys
just come to Dothan
and we'’ll
explain everything."
- We are coming to pick you up.
Pack a bag.
- Later.
Let'’s pick up Tyreme.
- Literally.
- ♪ And way down we go,
go, go, go♪
[laughter]
♪ Way down we go
- Get in the car.
- Get in the car!
- Get in the car.
- Okay.
- Get in the car!
- ♪ And way down we go
- All right,
that was a new record.
- Oh, no bear?
- Aw, that was nice.
- Oh.
- Have you heard
anything from them?
- Tomorrow called me.
- She called you?
- At 12:00 last night.
- What'’d she say?
- Oh, boy.
- Nothin'’, I didn'’t
answer the phone.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- ♪ Yeah
♪ Whoa, baby
♪
♪ Baby, whoo
- We don'’t know how many people
we'’re dealing with.
That'’s what'’s so crazy
about this.
Tomorrow,
here we come.
- ♪ Way down we go
[messenger chimes]
- Just got a text
in my Facebook messenger
from Christina Rothwell.
It says, "Can you meet us
at [bleep]
in Dothan around noon?"
[exhales]
It sounds like...
a stand-off to me.
- Yo.
- There he is.
- What'’s up, fellas?
- Well, the only update
is that I got a message
from Christina.
- Mm-hmm.
- She said, "Meet us at this
address at noon."
We know the girl you'’re meeting
isn'’t Aryssa.
- Mm-hmm.
- So now do you still feel
like there'’s someone you'’re--
you'’re in love with?
- I feel, you know,
I do love her, you know.
My feelings
haven'’t changed much.
I'’m a very
optimistic person, so.
- Let'’s not delay any longer.
♪
You said that you were feeling
optimistic.
What are you optimistic about?
- Just the fact that--
you know,
her feelings about me
was, you know, completely...
and what'’s other than truth,
you know.
Of course, you know, I know
she'’s not the pretty face.
I just hope I don'’t hear
no more, you know, BS.
- Is this it on the right?
Where are we?
All right, man.
You ready?
[tense music]
- [sighs]
♪
- I mean, we'’re all
in this together.
♪
- [exhales]
♪
[knocking]
- Ah, someone'’s coming.
Someone'’s coming, right now.
- Yeah.
♪
- Hello.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- How ya doin'’?
- Nev.
- Christina.
- Christina, yes.
We saw your Facebook page.
How are ya?
- I'’m fine.
- Cool.
- I'’m just a little nervous.
- You'’re nervous?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, well, so are we.
We'’re really not sure
what to expect.
- Mm-hmm.
- Um, I don'’t know
if you know Tyreme at all.
- I heard of him,
but I don'’t him at all.
- Okay.
Well, this is Tyreme.
- Nice to meet you.
- Same to you.
- And...
do you know Letrease?
- Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
- Shadeija?
- Yeah.
I know her as well, too.
- Yeah, okay.
So did they all
get my messages?
- I'’m not sure,
but when you replied to me,
I know I had to,
you know, reply,
because I feel kind of
responsible for some of it.
♪
- Oh.
Is it just you here
right now?
- No.
You guys came to Dothan,
so I guess it'’s time for us--
for us to kind of,
you know, reveal everything
that'’s going on.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- You guys came to Dothan,
so I guess it'’s time
for us to kind of,
ya know, reveal everything
that'’s going on.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- All right,
just one second.
- Okay.
♪
- Ooh.
♪
- She says she'’s sort of kind of
involved, but not really?
- Yeah, she saying--right.
Who knows?
Who knows?
- Hi, I'’m S--Tomorrow.
[dramatic music]
- Did you say that
you'’re Tomorrow?
- Yes, I'’m Tomorrow.
- You'’re Tomorrow.
- Oh.
- Mm-hmm.
- And you'’re Letrease.
- Okay, hi. I'’m Nev.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hi, I'’m Max.
- Nice to meet you.
♪
- And this is Tyreme.
- It'’s Ty.
♪
- So is it just you guys
here right now, or...
- Mm-hmm, it'’s just us.
- Yes.
- Okay.
- What'’s the story?
- Okay.
I'’m just her best friend.
She told me about this
couple months ago,
and stuff like that--
and when she told me about it,
I kind of, you know, thought
it was--at some point in time,
you have
to come clean.
So that'’s why...
we'’re here.
♪
- Mm.
♪
So one day
I was liking his post,
and it went from there.
But I never thought
I'’d fall in love
with someone
over the internet.
- But why though?
You know what I mean?
You could'’ve...
You know me.
I--I done kept everything
with you straight and...
♪
- As Tomorrow,
you asked him about...you?
- Me.
Yes, sir.
- What kind of questions
were you asking?
And when my feelings
got deeper and deeper,
it'’s plenty of times,
I was like,
"Ty, would you go with her?"
You'’re like, "No, she'’s ugly."
To the point I start doggin'’
myself out:
"Yeah, she is ugly.
Yeah, she is big."
- You talked to Tomorrow
about Letrease
and used some
of that language?
- Yeah. Yeah.
'’Cause she, you know, asked--
- So that kinda make me
nervous...
even more to like...
"Tyreme, that'’s not me
on the picture,
but everything that I said,
it'’s me."
Only the picture was fake.
- And whose phone
are you using?
- It'’s my phone.
- Why is it in her name?
- She'’s underneath
the same account with me.
- And who'’s Shadeija?
- That'’s my baby sister.
- That'’s your little sister?
- Mm-hmm.
- So how many people
are reading the texts
that you send to Tomorrow?
- Just one person.
- Just you.
- Mm-hmm.
- But he'’s talked to other
people.
- Right.
- He spoke to my mom.
She didn'’t know
what was goin'’ on.
- He said you guys
spoke about diabetes.
Is that...
- Yes, I do have diabetes.
That is true.
- Unfortunately.
- Yes.
- That'’s the one thing
that is true.
- Mm-hmm.
Yes, sir.
- We also don'’t know about this
sonogram/ultrasound
that you sent him.
- Mm-hmm.
- That wasn'’t yours?
- No.
- So that was a lie.
- Yes.
♪
Because at the time,
somehow, like, I--
I do this,
maybe it'’d push him away,
like, he'’s done with me,
but it didn'’t work.
He stayed.
- But you weren'’t--
So you were never pregnant.
- No.
- And then you we'’re like,
"I'’m not pregnant,
so I'’m not gonna have the baby,
so I'’m gonna tell him
that I had a miscarriage."
- Yeah.
- [scoffs]
- ♪ But it'’s not real ♪
♪ It'’s not real ♪
♪
- ♪ Wanna fall
♪ Wanna fight
♪ What right have I?
- Mm.
- ♪ Takin'’ scores ♪
♪ Takin'’ sides ♪
- [groaning]
- ♪ Take my word,
take my life ♪
- You all right?
- Mm-hmm.
- I'’m sure this
isn'’t easy for you.
Is it safe to say that
you'’re in love with Tyreme?
- I am in love with Tyreme.
- How you doing?
- I'’m shakin'’ a little bit,
you know?
Hands are sweaty.
But I'’m happy because I--I know
the complete truth now.
[sighing]
I don'’t know.
- Do you feel bad about the
things you said about Letrease?
♪
- Yeah, I do.
♪
- You wanna take a breather
and just process this, or...
- Yeah, I think
I need a breather.
♪
- Hey, you guys wanna just
come out for two seconds?
I know this is a lot for you.
Obviously,
this is a lot for Tyreme.
- Mm-hmm.
- There'’s definitely a lot more
of an explanation
that I think he deserves,
but I think right now,
like, he just needs
to figure out what he'’s feeling
about all this.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay.
- So if you'’re available
and willing to meet
up with us again...
- Okay.
♪
- [groaning]
- It'’s too bad that looks
matter so much, isn'’t it?
I wish we could just
get over that.
But I think we'’re programmed
not to.
- This episode of "Catfish:
The TV Show" continues now.
[projector whirring]
♪
- Why don'’t we go down
to Tyreme'’s room
and check in with him?
- Where'’s your head at?
- I'’m gonna miss the
conversations we had, you know.
I'’ll cherish them till I die.
That'’s--that'’s
something I'’ll always,
you know,
keep in my heart.
- I guess now all that'’s left
is to go talk to her.
[line ringing]
- Hey.
- Okay, be over there
in couple minutes.
♪
[knocking]
- Hi.
- Hey, morning.
- Good morning.
- How are you?
- Fine.
- Good to see you.
- Nice to see you.
- Think we could come in?
- Sure.
- Talk for a minute?
Yesterday was tough,
I know, for both of you.
Can you just explain
what your thinking was
with making the profile to get
back at your ex-boyfriend?
- Just to see,
was he gonna talk to her?
And it never succeeded.
He never responded
to my friend request,
never wrote me back, nothin'’.
So I didn'’t achieve nothin'’.
The only thing I achieve
is falling in love with Ty.
I liked it because
it felt like I was in love.
That'’s somethin'’ that I wanted
with my real life--
to know how it feel to go out
on dates with your boyfriend
or husband,
or how it feel, you--
"I had long day at work,"
and have supper,
bath water, clothes,
a foot massage, stuff like that.
That'’s what I wanted,
and I knew I couldn'’t get it
from bein'’ myself, '’cause...
And gettin'’ bullied
and called fat.
That really hurts.
Everything I told you,
Tyreme, I meant it.
The only thing that wasn'’t real
was the picture.
I love you,
I want a life with you,
but I guess
you don'’t want that.
- Nah.
- All I'’m saying,
the love you had for me,
it was for me;
it was just the picture.
Why I'’m not good enough
for you--to be with you?
- I can'’t give you a--
a good reason why,
but you know--
- '’Cause what people might say?
- Nah, not that reason.
- I just feel
like I deserve answers,
same reason
you deserve answers.
- That'’s--that'’s--
that'’s the best answer
that I could come up with
at this moment in time.
Like, all this is overwhelming.
- [sniffling]
[somber music]
Why I'’m not good enough for you?
♪
Yes, you have told me
you don'’t like big girls.
But at the same time, Ty,
you was talking to me.
And the only thing that was fake
was the picture.
My feelings are real for him.
♪
- Tyreme fell in love
with somebody,
and he just found out
that that somebody
wasn'’t the somebody
he thought he was in love with.
Sure, parts of them are true,
but the whole package
is not true.
- Same would be true
if he met the girl
from the pictures,
but her personality was totally
different, and she sucked.
So it goes both ways.
As much as you love someone,
you can'’t trick them
into loving you back.
And there will be somebody
who meets you,
who thinks you'’re beautiful in
the way that you are beautiful,
and that you don'’t have to
pretend to be someone else
for them to love you.
But I think you need to give
Tyreme a little bit of time
to adjust to the new set
of circumstances here.
♪
- You guys want a minute?
- Without us.
- Chat for a little bit?
- [sighs]
Yeah.
♪
[sighs]
- But why?
- Why what?
I'’m waitin'’.
- Don'’t do that.
- Just give me a better
understanding.
- But you--what you--
you want me--
You want me to say it.
Look, you asked me,
you know,
if we ever broke up, you know,
would I still be your friend?
And what I tell you?
I told you, "Yeah."
That'’s not gonna change.
If you wanna call me,
talk to me,
text me, whatever,
you know my number.
You know,
feel free to do so.
I love all our conversations,
you know,
I will keep that in my heart
till the day I die.
♪
You know?
- Yeah.
[acoustic guitar music]
♪
- ♪ It'’s a wide ocean ♪
- How you guys doin'’?
- I'’m good.
- Good talk?
- ♪ And our homes are chosen
- So how are we leaving
this thing?
- ♪ Yet still we'’re all broken ♪
♪ Take me home
- Bring it in, come on.
- Yeah, you gotta
give him a hug.
- Come on, come on.
[sighing]
- ♪ Back to the place
where I belong ♪
[line ringing]
- Hey!
- Whoa!
Tyreme!
- Hey, you guys.
- What'’s been going on
with Letrease?
Have you talked to her?
- Yeah, we talk, like,
almost every day still.
- Really?
- Yeah.
Still got a friendship,
you know.
I promised to still be friends
with her,
and I'’m gonna keep that
promise, you know.
She said if I ever need
anything,
she'’ll be there for me.
I told her, you know,
the feeling'’s mutual.
- You'’re a good guy; I hope you
find what you'’re looking for.
- Stay strong.
- Best of luck.
- See ya.
[line ringing]
- Hey!
- Hey!
- Hi!
- How are you?
- I'’m doin'’ good.
- Yeah, you look lovely.
- Thank you.
- Have you spoken
to Tyreme today?
- Not today.
I spoke to him last night.
I'’m not really thinkin'’ about
about dating right now.
I'’m trying
to get myself together.
- Okay.
The last time we saw you,
you were pretty upset,
but things seem
to have turned around.
- Mm-hmm.
- Hopefully we'’ll talk soon.
- All right.
-Okay.
Bye, Letrease!
- Bye!
- Courtney has been giving me
messages from my dad,
although my dad passed away
14 years ago.
Logic would tell me
you can'’t talk to dead people.
- If Courtney
is lying about this,
that'’s gonna be so messed up.
- What just happened?
- This is insane.
- At this point,
I don'’t know what to believe.
- Are you tellin'’ the truth?
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