Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 6, Episode 11 - Colleen & Tony - full transcript
Colleen met Tony online and fell madly in love. Though they've never met, Tony proposed to Colleen over the phone and she accepted. Now, Nev and Max help her finally face the truth to reveal the mystery man she's engaged to.
- How long after
you guys started talking
did he propose to you?
- About a month after.
- Whoa.
How are we gonna find out
who's telling the truth?
- It's a house of mirrors.
There it is.
Why the windows are
all boarded up?
[ominous music]
[knocking at door]
♪ ♪
- Hey.
Tony?
♪ ♪
[dramatic musical sting]
- Look at this.
- Mini drone.
- No way. Oh, my God.
- Whoa.
It's really good.
It's incredibly responsive.
- I can't believe
that these things work.
- Oh, why is it going
so fast?
It's hard to control.
Ooh!
Oh, boy.
- Okay, here we go.
Come down.
Ow!
- [laughs]
- [bleep].
That hurt.
[laughter]
- I love this.
Okay.
Let's do it.
- All right, we got an email
from Colleen.
- "I've been in denial
for long enough.
"Now I know something is up.
"Dear Nev and Max,
my name is Colleen,
"and I'm 20 years old and live
in Spokane, Washington.
"I met Tony
over three years ago
"on PlentyOfFish.
- We've had more "Catfish"
stories from PlentyOfFish.
I mean, there are plenty
of fish on there.
Clownfish.
- Blowfish.
- Blowfish.
- Yeah.
Probably a lot of crabs.
- [laughs]
- Anyway...
- ♪ I could love you ♪
- "From the start,
"Tony had everything
I looked for in a man.
"He was supportive
and, most of all, loving.
"It wasn't long before
I fell in love with him.
♪ ♪
"When we met,
he claimed to be living
"in Lakewood, Washington,
"but despite
my many attempts to meet,
"he always had some excuse
not to come.
"I even tried to video chat,
but it seemed never to work.
"Tony and I took a break.
"But Tony was never far
from my thoughts,
"and it didn't take long
for Tony to step right back
"into the place
where we left off.
"He's unlike anyone
I have ever met.
"If it isn't obvious yet,
"I'm just stuck on this guy.
"I kept asking him to meet
the last few months,
"and recently he caved in
and told me he can't meet
because he's not even
in Washington state anymore."
- Where is he?
- "He says he now lives
in Baton Rouge."
- Oh, no.
- "What do I do?
"Please, guys,
I need your help.
Colleen."
♪ ♪
You think he was ever
in Washington,
or do you think he's been
in Louisiana the whole time?
- All I know is that
this guy's hiding something.
- We should call her.
[computer ringing]
Nev and Max: Hey!
- Colleen.
- Hey, Colleen.
- Hi.
-How are you?
- Good.
- You're 20 years old.
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you always live
in Spokane?
- I've only been in Spokane
for about three years.
I lived in a small town
before here.
- And so I guess you moved
to the big city
and you got
on a dating profile.
Tell us the whole story.
- I got on PoF
about three years ago,
and I met Tony.
I looked at his profile,
and it said he stays
with his sister in Lakewood,
which is only four hours away.
I messaged him,
and then we started texting,
calling each other
on a regular basis.
We would stay up until 5:00,
6:00 in the morning sometimes
just talking.
He makes me laugh, smile.
I'm super in love with him.
Like, all the feelings
he gives me,
it's really hard to express.
Like, I just want to shout it
at the top of the world.
- Who is Tony?
What--tell us
a little bit about him.
- He told me he was 27.
When we first started talking,
he said he was
a delivery driver
for, like, a pizza place.
- Does he have social media?
Is he online?
- I've asked him
about social media,
and he's said no,
he does not have
any social media.
- Nothing?
- Nothing.
- That's kind of like
the equivalent
of, like, your parents saying
they only had sex once,
like, to have you.
- Right.
- You know?
- It's like, "I only went
on social media once.
"It was on PlentyOfFish.
I met your mom.
That was it."
When you've tried to video chat,
what does he say?
- "Weak connection"
or "I'm busy today,"
excuse after excuse
after excuse.
Finally, I just was like,
"You know, I need to move on."
So I got
in a different relationship,
but I started to talk
to Tony again recently.
And in the beginning
of the year,
he proposed to me.
- What?
- We were on the phone.
I got off work one day.
He's like, "Will you marry me?"
And I'm like, "Wow.
Um...
"Of course.
You know, you make me
super happy."
- You just, like--boom?
You were like,
"Yeah, I'm in."
- Yeah, I've never felt this way
about any other guy.
- But you've also never met him.
- [laughs]
- Right.
Like, I've never met this guy.
But he makes me so happy.
- What if it's not the guy
in the pictures?
- I think I would be okay
with it.
I mean, I love his personality.
I can't get enough of him,
and I don't want
to let him go.
- You need to find out
the truth.
- So we're gonna come
to Spokane.
- Please.
Can't wait.
- See you later.
- Bye.
- Engaged to be married.
- This is not gonna end well.
- I mean, the fact
that she doesn't need Tony
to be the guy in the pictures
is a good first step.
- There's nothing left to do
but to go to Spokane.
- I can't believe
they're engaged
and all they've done
is Spokane.
[both laugh]
- The question is,
at the end of this episode,
will she be engaged
or enraged?
- ♪ I get off ♪
♪ The mattress
on the floor ♪
♪ ♪
♪ You just want
to catch me alone ♪
♪ You just want to catch me
alone ♪
- Ah, the great
Pacific Northwest.
Beautiful Spokane.
- Look at
this cute little house.
- It is cute.
Bloody knuckles?
You want to play?
- No.
[laughter]
[knocking at door]
- Hey!
- Hi, guys.
- How are you?
- Good. How are you?
- This is cute.
Look at this!
Little breakfast nook.
That's so cute, though.
- Is this where you talkto Tony?
[laughter]
Any news?
Anything from Tony?
- Uh, well, I have to
tell you guys something.
I haven't been
completely honest.
- What?
- We've only been
seeing each other
for, like, three months.
- Wait, so the three years thing
isn't true?
- Yes, that part is not true.
- Why would you lie?
- Did you feel embarrassed?
- Mm-hmm.
I just got out
of a relationship,
hopped back into another one.
I guess I just wanted it, like--
I didn't want you guys to think,
"Oh, she's rushing in."
- Okay.
That is accurate.
I am surprised.
And are you engaged?
- Yes, we are.
- How long after
you guys started talking
did he propose to you?
- About a month after.
Call me crazy, but that's why
I contacted you guys,
'cause I was like, "You know,
this guy seems to be
everything I look for in a guy."
I just feel like
he's hiding something.
- Well, let's have a seat
and see if we can figure out
what he's hiding.
All right, now that
we're up-to-date,
we've got the real story
about what's going on here...
- Mm-hmm.
- Why do you think
you're so committed to this guy?
- I've never been treated
the way he treats me.
It's very rare for me
to find somebody
to connect with.
I've been in a couple
of abusive relationships.
Tony is the only one
that I could talk to.
He's always there.
Like, yesterday morning,
I had a nightmare,
4:30 in the morning.
I called him immediately,
'cause I couldn't sleep.
And he answered the phone
and stayed up with me
the rest of the morning.
That was just awesome.
- Where are you suspicious?
Where does he do things
that are kind of sketchy,
where you're just like,
"What's that about?"
- Like, I have two numbers
for him, two different numbers.
The first number,
he used for the first part.
And then two days later,
he's calling me
off of another number.
- That's interesting
that he's got a second number.
- Has he ever asked you
for money?
- He's never asked me
for money, no.
- Is most of
your communication voice,
talking on the phone?
- Most of it's
talking on the phone or texting.
- He has no social media.
- Yeah...
- That's crazy.
- Which is strange.
- Zero social media.
- But he's on PlentyOfFish.
- Yeah.
- Can we see it,
his PlentyOfFish profile?
- This is his profile.
- Okay, here we go.
- He's 5'10".
Look, he's a Libra.
Aren't you a Libra, Nev?
- I am a Libra.
- Let's see those pictures.
- So wait, here.
- Blow those up.
- Oh, yeah, he looks like
a normal, nice guy.
- Not a lot on his page.
- All right.
- Okay.
- All right, so...
you've only seen
a few pictures of the guy.
- Mm-hmm.
- You only met him
three months ago.
- So let's imagine
he's 200 pounds heavier
than what he is.
Would that be a deal breaker?
- I don't really care
either way.
I don't look for looks.
I look for personality.
I mean, if I found out
he was actually, like, married
or in a relationship...
- Right.
- That would just do it.
I would be like, "Done. Bye."
- That'd be a deal breaker.
- But I believe if you don't
take risks in life,
how do you know?
I mean, this guy could be
my soul mate.
- I'd like to hope
this could work out.
Send us an email
with everything you have:
the phone numbers, the pictures.
We're gonna investigate.
- Thank you, guys, so much.
- Don't thank us yet.
[dramatic music]
- It was really nice
meeting you.
- You too.
♪ ♪
- This is not looking good.
I think
that she's fooling herself
and that she's going to be hurt.
On the other hand,
I was sitting there
being like,
"There's also a chance that this
could totally work out,
"that maybe he's not the guy
in the pictures
"and maybe that won't matter
to her
and they can find love."
- Finding this guy
might be tough,
because we have so little
to go off of.
I have a hunch
we're in for a surprise.
- ♪ What do you do
with a loving feeling ♪
♪ If they only love you
when you're all alone? ♪
- Spokane, Washington.
- Love it here.
- Downtown. Wow, look at
these beautiful old buildings.
- I know.
They're old and beautiful.
- ♪ Loving feeling ♪
♪ If they only love you ♪
- Indaba Coffee.
- What's going on, guys?
- How you doing?
- Doing well.
- All right, I'm ready.
So what do we got?
Colleen is in love
with Tony.
- They met on PlentyOfFish
three months ago.
- He says
he lives in Washington.
For whatever reason,
Tony can't meet up
with Colleen
but still finds it
within himself
to propose to her.
- Right.
- Colleen says yes.
- Immediately.
- Tony says, "Okay,
look, here's the truth."
"I'm not in Washington.
I've been living
in Louisiana."
- Baton Rouge.
- Is he in Louisiana?
Is he in Washington?
Is he somewhere else?
We don't know.
- Let's run the pictures,
shall we?
- Let's see if we get a hit.
Nothing.
All right, let's see
about this one.
- Second one, nothing.
- No direct match.
No hits.
All right, last picture.
Nothing.
- So pictures done.
- Let's use
the only other information
that we currently have,
which is his phone numbers.
Both 509 area code.
Here we go.
- First of two.
Spokane.
- But no information.
- No address, no names.
But it's Spokane 509.
- Right, which means that
the other one's Spokane too.
- Correct.
- So why would
his recent phone number
also be Spokane
when he's supposed to be
living in Louisiana?
- Suspect.
- Let's see what comes up...
- All right, so the first number
is Spokane.
And here comes
the second number.
- Whoa!
- We got some information.
- We got a hit.
We got a hit.
Tim [bleep].
Different last name.
Mid 60s.
Look, Spokane, Washington.
- Does he have any Tonys
in his family?
No, relatives
under the name of Tony.
- All right,
let's look up Tim [bleep].
Fort Myers, Florida.
Ontario.
Atlanta.
- Nothing.
- [sighs]
- We are in the weeds.
What else
can we search for?
- We're not getting very far,
because we have very little
information on this guy.
The only thing we have
is that his phone numbers
are from Spokane.
Maybe, instead of wasting
our time and her time
by going
and basically telling her
that we didn't find anything,
we should skip a few steps,
just call him ourselves,
and sort of see if we can get
a little bit more info.
- You want to skip steps.
- I want to find out
who this guy is,
and I don't want
to waste any time.
- Let's call him.
Call him up.
[phone line rings]
- Yes, hi.
Is this Tony?
- Cool.
Yes, sorry,
you're speaking to Nev.
I'm a show called "Catfish"
on MTV.
I'm currently in Spokane
at the behest of a young woman
named Colleen.
- We're not with her, no,
not right now.
Where are you, exactly?
- So why does
your PlentyOfFish account
still say
that you're in Washington?
- And is there a good reason
why you haven't gone to see
your fiancée in person?
- Oh.
What do you mean?
- Really?
What--in what way?
- So yeah, I can understand
that came as quite a shock.
- When did she tell you that
finally?
- Whoa.
Was there anything else
that she lied about?
- So have you been
sending her money?
- How much have you sent her?
- Okay.
Who's been not wanting
to video chat,
you or her?
- Are the pictures
that she's seen of you
really you?
They are.
Okay.
- Thanks, Tony.
- Whoa.
- [exhales]
- She lied to us again.
She's been lying.
- She's--
- Well, if Tony's
telling the truth.
- If he is, in fact,
sending her money,
that is a big detail
that she left out.
- Or that she lied
about her age.
- She's crafty.
- We need to grill Colleen
a little bit right now
and find out if
what Tony's telling us is true,
in which case she's got
some explaining to do.
- Or is Tony lying moreto us
to buy himself more time?
- Perfectly rainy day
to match the perfectly murky
situation
we find ourselves in.
Colleen definitely lied to us
about how long
she was seeing Tony.
She may have lied to him
about her age.
- And she omitted the fact
that after she lost her job...
- She hit him up.
- She let him help
support her.
- Well, so he says.
He might have just been
inventing things to say
that kind of, "Well,
I didn't show her who I was,
because I'm having doubts
about who she is."
You know what I mean?
He--who knows?
- How are we gonna find out
who's telling the truth?
- It's a house of mirrors.
This show
is giving me trust issues.
- [laughs]
- All right, here are.
[knocking at door]
- There she is.
How you doing?
Have you heard from Tony?
- Today? Yes.
- You did?
- Normal "hi," "how you doing,"
"good morning."
- "Good morning, beautiful"?
- Yes, of course.
- We do have some stuff
to talk about.
- Let's just get to it.
- Yeah.
So the first thing
we did was,
we downloaded the pictures
that you'd sent us.
We searched them,
and we didn't get--
- Nothing, no hits
on any of them.
- Then we ran his phone numbers,
and, interestingly,
it came up with a name,
Tim [bleep].
Is that a name
that you've ever heard?
Both phone numbers
are Spokane area code...
- Washington.
- Which you knew.
- Yeah.
- If he's in Louisiana
and he got a new phone number,
it'd be weird that he would get
a Washington number
and not a Louisiana number.
- Yeah.
- So that's most of
what we got.
- We looked up everything,
and we didn't find nothing.
So we sort of thought,
"All right."
If the point of being here
and helping you
is finding out who he is
and bringing you guys together,
in an effort to accelerate
that process,
we called Tony.
And we said to him,
"Why, you know, haven't you
"taken the next step?
"What's holding you back
"from coming to meet Colleen?
You're engaged.
What's the hold-up?"
And his answer
was very interesting.
He said he has
some reservations.
Has he ever mentioned
anything like that?
- Mm-mm.
- You seem a little upset.
- Now everything's coming out.
- He said
you had lied to him
about how old you were
and that you had said
you were 25.
- My profile says 20.
I never told him I was 25.
In fact, I've been talking
about my 21st birthday
for the last two months.
- And you're not lying
to us right now?
- No, not at all.
- I wouldn't be so inclined
to believe him
if our relationship
hadn't started
with you kind of
telling us something
that wasn't totally true.
- Yeah.
I never told him I was 25.
- He could just be
giving us BS excuses.
But he also said
that you had lost your job...
- Mm-hmm.
- And started asking him
for money.
- I never once asked him
for money.
He's offered to send me money,
but I've said no.
And then he sent me
some money last week,
but that's it.
- So he did send you money.
- Yes, it was only, like, $75.
- Just the once?
- Yes.
- I called him
right after I lost my job,
and he was, "It's okay."
You know, "It'll be fine.
You'll find another job."
He said, "I'm going
to send you some money.
I'm sending you $75."
So I have not received
any other money from him.
I am dead honest on that.
- It's just weird to us
that he would have
a different version
of the story.
It's making it hard for us
to know who to believe.
- I--there's so many thoughts
running through my head
right now.
Like, is this gonna be
the end of us?
Like, I thought
I might have met my soul mate.
Why would he lie?
You know, it's devastating.
- ♪ I stood at light ♪
♪ I was turning to dust ♪
♪ Cold in the night ♪
♪ I was barren to trust ♪
♪ Locked in my heart ♪
♪ I couldn't believe
how dark ♪
- We've been lied to before
on the show,
so we're not going
to take sides.
We're not gonna
position ourselves
to believe one of you
more than the other.
We're just gonna try and do
what we sort of promised
we would do,
which is bring the two of you
together.
At this point,
I think we should see
if he wants to meet up.
- Tell him that this is
his last opportunity
to meet the woman
he asked to marry him.
Go to it, soldier.
- All right.
I'm gonna call this guy.
- Yeah.
- ♪ Can you wake,
can you wake ♪
♪ Can you wake me up? ♪
- It's nerve-wracking.
- ♪ Can you take,
can you take me up? ♪
♪ I can't wait,
I can't wait ♪
- Hopefully, he's serious.
[phone line rings]
- Hello?
- Tony, it's Nev again.
I'm back over here with Max
at Colleen's place.
She would like to meet you,
and we'd like to help
make that happen.
- What are some of
your reservations?
- Yeah, I've heard
all that before.
I understand.
But if you care about someone
and you tell them you love them
and you ask them to marry you,
how are you gonna be
in a relationship
if you are too busy
to just meet up with them?
How serious are you
about being with Colleen?
- Okay.
- Okay, great.
If we flew down to Louisiana,
would you be available
to meet up with us?
- All right, great.
I very much look forward
to meeting you.
Talk later, Tony.
- Bye.
Good news.
So...
the answer was yes,
he does want to meet you.
- Well, that's good news.
- He sounded sincere.
But the reason he's been
nervous to meet up with you
is because he's not the guy
in those pictures.
- It's really disappointing.
I mean,
for the last three months,
I thought I was talking
to somebody
that now is a different person,
you know?
But if his personality's
the same
and he genuinely
does care about me
and genuinely wants
to be with me, then...
let's see where it goes,
you know?
I just--I want to see
what he has to say in person.
- All right, so pack a bag.
- We're going to Louisiana.
- Okay.
- Better not find out
you didn't tell us something.
- Nothing else.
- All right.
See you in the morning.
- See you in the morning.
- Yo.
- Hi, guys.
- You ready?
- I didn't get
much sleep last night.
I was so excited.
- Wow, look at that moon.
- [howling]
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
[laughter]
- All right, we're here.
- Strap your wings on.
They're a couple.
They met in July on Tinder,
and now they're married.
She met someone
three months ago
on PlentyOfFish,
and she's engaged.
She's never even seen him.
- Oh!
That's awesome.
- ♪ Rivers run dry ♪
♪ All right ♪
♪ Soldiers may cry
at... ♪
- There it is.
- ♪ Bridges could fall ♪
- Is this Bourbon Street?
We're with Colleen.
I hear New Orleans calling.
- ♪ And rivers run dry ♪
♪ All right ♪
- All right!
French Quarter.
- I love beignets.
- ♪ Bridges could fall ♪
♪ That's life ♪
- Beignet.
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Seasons will turn ♪
♪ So let it burn ♪
- Let's see
how Colleen is doing
after her crazy night out
on the town.
[knocking at door]
- Whoa.
- Wow.
- Hi, guys.
- You look nice.
- So you ready to do this?
- Yes, I am.
I got my wedding outfit on.
- This is the casual
wedding outfit.
All right, well,
let's text Tony.
"Hey, Tony.
We are ready to meet you now.
Where do you want to meet?"
Yes!
Tony says, "Hey,
I'm at my cousin's house.
Nervous but ready to meet."
And here's an address.
- Okay, ain't nothing to it
but to do it.
- Let's go.
- Front seat.
It's a big day.
- All right.
- Ready.
- Let's do it.
[suspenseful music]
- How nervous are you?
- On a scale of one to ten.
- About an 8 1/2.
♪ ♪
[exhales]
Breathe.
- I just want to point out
that we're making a left
on Compromise Street.
- Yeah, I know, right?
♪ ♪
- Here it is.
Why the windows are
all boarded up?
- They are?
- I mean, look.
They're shuttered.
- Oh, well,
those are storm shutters.
Weird, though, right,
that they're down now?
- Well, maybe
there's a storm coming.
Maybe we're the storm.
♪ ♪
- All right, let's do it.
It's a little weird.
The light's on,
so that's a good sign.
Do you guys want to hang here?
[knocking at door]
[door squeaks]
Hey.Tony?
How you doing, man?
- So nervous.
- Take a deep breath.
Why don't you step on out here?
♪ ♪
- Good-looking guy.
- Right.
Why would he lie?
- This is Tony.
This is Colleen.
So hello.
How you doing?
- Nervous.
- Yeah, that's all right.
[laughs]
I think you're
only slightly more nervous
than Colleen is.
- I don't know
if that's possible right now.
- What's up, man?
How you doing?
- I'm awesome.
- All right, well,
that's nice.
- No one has ever
walked out the door
and said, "I'm awesome."
- Nice to meet you finally.
- Nice to finally meet you too.
But why did you say
that I told you I was 25?
I've never once told you
I was 25.
And when did you send me
hundreds of dollars?
- I apologize.
I--
Honestly, I was just scared.
Um...
I kind of just made it up
as I went along.
It wasn't
the most honest thing to do.
I have a lot
of self-esteem issues,
and I was kind of insecure
that you wouldn't accept me
for who I am.
- Who are you?
- Jeremy Antonio [bleep].
- So your name is Jeremy,
but you went by Tony.
- My middle name is Tony.
- The phone number you have
is from Washington.
Have you previously lived there?
- When I was 18,
I moved to Washington.
And I instantly loved
the place.
I just always felt like
I wish I would have
been born there.
And I knew
I was gonna come back,
but I wanted a reason to.
- So that's why you were
looking to meet women
in Spokane.
- Yeah.
- Why were you pretending to be
this other guy on PlentyOfFish?
- It wasn't
the most honest thing to do.
I just wanted to see
if it would work.
I'm not a stereotypical
black guy.
It makes me more inclined
to date Caucasian women,
because I feel like, you know,
I can be myself.
I can dress like this.
I can--I can watch
science fiction movies
and do whatever it is
that I want to do.
I don't want to be viewed
as a stereotype.
- Do you find
that's your experience?
- That's commonly the case.
- So non-black women
generally sort of assume
you're a certain type of person
because of your skin.
- Yeah.
- We have a lot in common.
I mean, why wouldn't you let me
be the judge of everything?
- I'm sorry, Colleen.
I just--I just pray
that you can forgive me.
- I really want to.
Just got to promise me
no more lies.
- I'll get on my knees
right now.
Colleen,
these last couple months
changed my life.
I never want to lie to you.
I just want to make you happy.
I'm sorry.
I'll do anything to keep
moving forward with you.
Still want to marry me?
- Yes.
[light music]
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- I don't want
to give up on you.
Something's telling me not to.
- Can we celebrate?
I don't know.
[laughter]
I mean, this is amazing.
You guys seem
to really have the connection
that you felt
for the past three months
in person.
And yes, there's gonna be
some adjusting
to the new reality,
but this is exciting.
- Yeah.
- Is there anything else
I need to know?
- There may be
one other thing.
My family,
they're not accepting
of interracial dating.
- And your family's approval
is something
that's important to you.
- Yeah.
So before we go
to the next stage
of our relationship,
I want you to meet
my family.
- Are you worried,
if we go over there,
they may not accept her?
- Definitely.
It may get crazy.
- I want you to meet
my family.
But they're not accepting
of interracial dating.
It may get crazy.
- I'm down.
- Only if you want to.
- I do want to.
I'm big into family.
- Would this be your first
interracial relationship?
- She will be
the only one
that they've actually met
in person.
- All right, here we go.
- I'm ready for anything.
- Your chariot awaits.
- I mean, this is crazy.
- This is a first.
- Going to meet the fam.
- Yeah.
- This is gonna be
interesting.
- Meka?
- Yeah.
- We're going to her house
right now.
- Yeah.
- We should text her
and let her know
that we're on our way.
- Let's just hang on
for the ride.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, who's this?
Is this your--
- That's my cousin Jordan.
- Okay.
Let's say hello.
- Colleen, this is Jordan.
- Hey.
What's going on?
- This is my cousin.
- Yeah.
You gonna come inside?
♪ ♪
- Hello?
- How you doing?
- All right.
- Hi, I'm Nev.
This is Max.
- Hi.
- What was your name?
I'm sorry.
- Oh, Meka.
- Meka.
- Mm-hmm.
- Meka, hi.
- And this is Colleen.
- Hi, Colleen.
- And thank you
for meeting up with us.
- Y'all want to have a seat?
Go and sit down.
- We're here
because Jeremy and Colleen,
they met online
and very quickly developed
a real interest in each other.
And...
- I asked Colleen to marry me.
- Oh, Lord.
- There's a little more
to the story.
Until a few hours ago,
Colleen didn't know
what Jeremy looked like.
- What?
- On they dating app
that they met on,
Jeremy posted pictures
of a white guy.
- Jeremy.
- Ah, [bleep].
- What you doing?
- Uh...
I felt more comfortable
talking to her
when she was
under the impression
that I was not black.
- Something wrong
with black people?
- I just don't mesh well
with women of the same...
- The same what?
- Race.
- Hmm.
- I mean,
I like what I like.
I can't help it.
It's just
that black women I meet,
they don't get my sarcasm
and that I like
to read comic books
and I like to play golf.
I like to do stuff
that's kind of, like,
against the norm.
- What, we so ignorant
'cause we black,
we don't understand him?
I don't even know
what to say.
I feel like
you should have been able
to just come say, "Look,
I need to talk to you."
Why are we here?
- I admit I should have been
more forthcoming.
But I was under
the impression
that it would be more accepted
if I was married to someone
of the same race.
- Where'd you pick that up from?
I'm not prejudiced.
It really feel like
you took something
and stabbed me or something
when you said that.
And how you feel about that?
You done came all the way
way over here, and he black.
- I don't care.
I don't care at all.
- You told him yeah,
you would marry him.
You said yeah.
Why would you say yeah?
- 'Cause I really have feelings
for him.
I love his personality.
He's a great guy.
- How you know y'all ready
for to get married?
- I mean, initially, it was
an impulse decision.
But, I mean, time has passed
since then too.
- Time has passed, and y'all
have not even been together.
Y'all been over the internet.
- I know it's not the same
as being physically...
- Do you talk
about living together?
- Yeah.
- I really don't want
to move out of Washington.
- So he's actually leaving
to Washington?
- I might.
Not saying
that that's the case.
Possibly.
- Oh, really?
- Please don't cry.
- I'm gonna be all right.
I'm gonna get through this.
It just hurts to know
that you feel like,
I mean, you couldn't come
sit down
and talk to your sister.
You talk to me
about everything.
- I know it's a lot.
- I mean, are you upset
because he's with a white woman?
- Mm-mm.
That's your life.
But I just would have felt
a little better
if you could have
confided in me.
- I'm sorry I lied
to everybody.
You guys mind
if I get a minute?
- Why don't you take Colleen
outside for a minute?
- It's soon for you to be
moving over to me.
- You having second thoughts?
- Your sister does care
about you.
I don't want your sister feeling
like you're running away,
like you're gonna run away
and go up and leave her behind,
'cause that's not what
I want her to feel about me.
- Who thinks to put
a white person
on they profile picture?
- Right.
- Someone who's...
- Crazy.
- Someone who's conflicted
about who they are.
- Jeremy's identity
is a little foggy.
- He needs to find his self.
- Yes, I agree.
- 'Cause in between
what he doing now and that--
- Well, clearly,
he's confused,
because you don't have to...
- Lie.
What you lying for?
- Right.
- You're not
taking me away.
You mean the world to me.
- I love you.
[sniffles]
- Well, hopefully we can just
all put this behind us.
- This was new
for a lot of us--
new situation for us
to be in, clearly.
Unusual one for all of you.
Colleen, I think
you have been very...
- Understanding.
- Understanding and patient.
- Mm-hmm.
- And respectful of them
and their relationship
as brother and sister.
I'd like to just thank
all of you
for sitting down
and having this conversation.
This is not an easy oneto have.
- Whatever y'all do,
however, whatever,
that's totally up to y'all.
I'ma still love my brother.
And if you happen to become
one of the family members,
I might have to deal
with you too.
- [laughs]
- I don't want
to take him away from you
at all.
I want you guys to have
a relationship.
I want to get to know you,
you know,
be able to hang around you,
be able to have you over,
meet my family, you know?
I never want
to take him away from you.
- Thank you.
Jeremy,
you just know how to--
you just know how
to just--ugh.
- He keeps it interesting.
- Yeah, he does.
- In terms of next steps,
we'll probably head back
to our hotel with Colleen,
let you guys talk
without all the cameras
and discuss this
a little bit more
if you choose to.
So why don't you say good-bye
to Colleen for now?
- Nice meeting you, Colleen.
- Nice meeting you.
- I hope you get
what you're looking for.
- I want to be around you guys.
- Nice to meet you.
[light music]
We're all in one piece,
so I'd say that went well.
- It was so nice
meeting you.
- All right.
- Good luck.
- All right,
we can wait in the car.
- ♪ It's only
a matter of time ♪
♪ Before life begins ♪
- Go in.
Talk with your sister.
We can see each other later,okay?
- ♪ Talk to a stranger ♪
♪ And suddenly you're friends ♪
- Welcome to the fam,
Colleen.
- Hey!
- Hey!
- ♪ Take your first step ♪
♪ And now you're halfway
to the end ♪
- Congratulations.
You got catfished,
and you still have
a relationship.
That's only happened
to one other person.
We're, like,
95 episodes deep.
- Oh, wow.
I am very happy.
The last three months,
having him to talk to
has been one of the best things.
I have a strong bond with him.
I want to be with him.
- Sounds like there's
great potential for you guys.
So fingers crossed.
- ♪ Seems I'll love you
till the end of your days ♪
[computer ringing]
both: Hey!
- There she is.
- Colleen.
- How you doing?
- I'm doing really good.
Me and Jeremy are trying
to work it out.
In fact, he's actually
right here with me.
- What?
- Ooh!
- Oh, my God!
- Hey!
There he is.
- There he is.
- Look at this guy.
- Oh, my God.
You actually went up there.
I'm impressed.
Are you just up there
temporarily?
Or are you, like, staying there
for a bit?
- Well, I've got
an interview
at a pizza place
out here,
so hopefully that goes
the way I want it to.
- I mean, this is
what you wanted, right?
You wanted to move back
to Washington.
Your plan really worked out.
- Yeah.
- I thank you guys
every day
for bringing me to him.
I want you guys
at our wedding
when and if we do
get married.
- Wow, we'd love to come
to your wedding.
- What is your relationship
right now
with your family, Jeremy?
- I'm trying my best
to communicate with them,
but they're being
a little reluctant
to talk to me.
- Well, this is
a beautiful thing.
- Be fruitful and multiply.
- Yeah, good luck
with everything.
both: Bye, guys.
- And they lived
happily ever after.
1053
00:40:46.
you guys started talking
did he propose to you?
- About a month after.
- Whoa.
How are we gonna find out
who's telling the truth?
- It's a house of mirrors.
There it is.
Why the windows are
all boarded up?
[ominous music]
[knocking at door]
♪ ♪
- Hey.
Tony?
♪ ♪
[dramatic musical sting]
- Look at this.
- Mini drone.
- No way. Oh, my God.
- Whoa.
It's really good.
It's incredibly responsive.
- I can't believe
that these things work.
- Oh, why is it going
so fast?
It's hard to control.
Ooh!
Oh, boy.
- Okay, here we go.
Come down.
Ow!
- [laughs]
- [bleep].
That hurt.
[laughter]
- I love this.
Okay.
Let's do it.
- All right, we got an email
from Colleen.
- "I've been in denial
for long enough.
"Now I know something is up.
"Dear Nev and Max,
my name is Colleen,
"and I'm 20 years old and live
in Spokane, Washington.
"I met Tony
over three years ago
"on PlentyOfFish.
- We've had more "Catfish"
stories from PlentyOfFish.
I mean, there are plenty
of fish on there.
Clownfish.
- Blowfish.
- Blowfish.
- Yeah.
Probably a lot of crabs.
- [laughs]
- Anyway...
- ♪ I could love you ♪
- "From the start,
"Tony had everything
I looked for in a man.
"He was supportive
and, most of all, loving.
"It wasn't long before
I fell in love with him.
♪ ♪
"When we met,
he claimed to be living
"in Lakewood, Washington,
"but despite
my many attempts to meet,
"he always had some excuse
not to come.
"I even tried to video chat,
but it seemed never to work.
"Tony and I took a break.
"But Tony was never far
from my thoughts,
"and it didn't take long
for Tony to step right back
"into the place
where we left off.
"He's unlike anyone
I have ever met.
"If it isn't obvious yet,
"I'm just stuck on this guy.
"I kept asking him to meet
the last few months,
"and recently he caved in
and told me he can't meet
because he's not even
in Washington state anymore."
- Where is he?
- "He says he now lives
in Baton Rouge."
- Oh, no.
- "What do I do?
"Please, guys,
I need your help.
Colleen."
♪ ♪
You think he was ever
in Washington,
or do you think he's been
in Louisiana the whole time?
- All I know is that
this guy's hiding something.
- We should call her.
[computer ringing]
Nev and Max: Hey!
- Colleen.
- Hey, Colleen.
- Hi.
-How are you?
- Good.
- You're 20 years old.
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you always live
in Spokane?
- I've only been in Spokane
for about three years.
I lived in a small town
before here.
- And so I guess you moved
to the big city
and you got
on a dating profile.
Tell us the whole story.
- I got on PoF
about three years ago,
and I met Tony.
I looked at his profile,
and it said he stays
with his sister in Lakewood,
which is only four hours away.
I messaged him,
and then we started texting,
calling each other
on a regular basis.
We would stay up until 5:00,
6:00 in the morning sometimes
just talking.
He makes me laugh, smile.
I'm super in love with him.
Like, all the feelings
he gives me,
it's really hard to express.
Like, I just want to shout it
at the top of the world.
- Who is Tony?
What--tell us
a little bit about him.
- He told me he was 27.
When we first started talking,
he said he was
a delivery driver
for, like, a pizza place.
- Does he have social media?
Is he online?
- I've asked him
about social media,
and he's said no,
he does not have
any social media.
- Nothing?
- Nothing.
- That's kind of like
the equivalent
of, like, your parents saying
they only had sex once,
like, to have you.
- Right.
- You know?
- It's like, "I only went
on social media once.
"It was on PlentyOfFish.
I met your mom.
That was it."
When you've tried to video chat,
what does he say?
- "Weak connection"
or "I'm busy today,"
excuse after excuse
after excuse.
Finally, I just was like,
"You know, I need to move on."
So I got
in a different relationship,
but I started to talk
to Tony again recently.
And in the beginning
of the year,
he proposed to me.
- What?
- We were on the phone.
I got off work one day.
He's like, "Will you marry me?"
And I'm like, "Wow.
Um...
"Of course.
You know, you make me
super happy."
- You just, like--boom?
You were like,
"Yeah, I'm in."
- Yeah, I've never felt this way
about any other guy.
- But you've also never met him.
- [laughs]
- Right.
Like, I've never met this guy.
But he makes me so happy.
- What if it's not the guy
in the pictures?
- I think I would be okay
with it.
I mean, I love his personality.
I can't get enough of him,
and I don't want
to let him go.
- You need to find out
the truth.
- So we're gonna come
to Spokane.
- Please.
Can't wait.
- See you later.
- Bye.
- Engaged to be married.
- This is not gonna end well.
- I mean, the fact
that she doesn't need Tony
to be the guy in the pictures
is a good first step.
- There's nothing left to do
but to go to Spokane.
- I can't believe
they're engaged
and all they've done
is Spokane.
[both laugh]
- The question is,
at the end of this episode,
will she be engaged
or enraged?
- ♪ I get off ♪
♪ The mattress
on the floor ♪
♪ ♪
♪ You just want
to catch me alone ♪
♪ You just want to catch me
alone ♪
- Ah, the great
Pacific Northwest.
Beautiful Spokane.
- Look at
this cute little house.
- It is cute.
Bloody knuckles?
You want to play?
- No.
[laughter]
[knocking at door]
- Hey!
- Hi, guys.
- How are you?
- Good. How are you?
- This is cute.
Look at this!
Little breakfast nook.
That's so cute, though.
- Is this where you talkto Tony?
[laughter]
Any news?
Anything from Tony?
- Uh, well, I have to
tell you guys something.
I haven't been
completely honest.
- What?
- We've only been
seeing each other
for, like, three months.
- Wait, so the three years thing
isn't true?
- Yes, that part is not true.
- Why would you lie?
- Did you feel embarrassed?
- Mm-hmm.
I just got out
of a relationship,
hopped back into another one.
I guess I just wanted it, like--
I didn't want you guys to think,
"Oh, she's rushing in."
- Okay.
That is accurate.
I am surprised.
And are you engaged?
- Yes, we are.
- How long after
you guys started talking
did he propose to you?
- About a month after.
Call me crazy, but that's why
I contacted you guys,
'cause I was like, "You know,
this guy seems to be
everything I look for in a guy."
I just feel like
he's hiding something.
- Well, let's have a seat
and see if we can figure out
what he's hiding.
All right, now that
we're up-to-date,
we've got the real story
about what's going on here...
- Mm-hmm.
- Why do you think
you're so committed to this guy?
- I've never been treated
the way he treats me.
It's very rare for me
to find somebody
to connect with.
I've been in a couple
of abusive relationships.
Tony is the only one
that I could talk to.
He's always there.
Like, yesterday morning,
I had a nightmare,
4:30 in the morning.
I called him immediately,
'cause I couldn't sleep.
And he answered the phone
and stayed up with me
the rest of the morning.
That was just awesome.
- Where are you suspicious?
Where does he do things
that are kind of sketchy,
where you're just like,
"What's that about?"
- Like, I have two numbers
for him, two different numbers.
The first number,
he used for the first part.
And then two days later,
he's calling me
off of another number.
- That's interesting
that he's got a second number.
- Has he ever asked you
for money?
- He's never asked me
for money, no.
- Is most of
your communication voice,
talking on the phone?
- Most of it's
talking on the phone or texting.
- He has no social media.
- Yeah...
- That's crazy.
- Which is strange.
- Zero social media.
- But he's on PlentyOfFish.
- Yeah.
- Can we see it,
his PlentyOfFish profile?
- This is his profile.
- Okay, here we go.
- He's 5'10".
Look, he's a Libra.
Aren't you a Libra, Nev?
- I am a Libra.
- Let's see those pictures.
- So wait, here.
- Blow those up.
- Oh, yeah, he looks like
a normal, nice guy.
- Not a lot on his page.
- All right.
- Okay.
- All right, so...
you've only seen
a few pictures of the guy.
- Mm-hmm.
- You only met him
three months ago.
- So let's imagine
he's 200 pounds heavier
than what he is.
Would that be a deal breaker?
- I don't really care
either way.
I don't look for looks.
I look for personality.
I mean, if I found out
he was actually, like, married
or in a relationship...
- Right.
- That would just do it.
I would be like, "Done. Bye."
- That'd be a deal breaker.
- But I believe if you don't
take risks in life,
how do you know?
I mean, this guy could be
my soul mate.
- I'd like to hope
this could work out.
Send us an email
with everything you have:
the phone numbers, the pictures.
We're gonna investigate.
- Thank you, guys, so much.
- Don't thank us yet.
[dramatic music]
- It was really nice
meeting you.
- You too.
♪ ♪
- This is not looking good.
I think
that she's fooling herself
and that she's going to be hurt.
On the other hand,
I was sitting there
being like,
"There's also a chance that this
could totally work out,
"that maybe he's not the guy
in the pictures
"and maybe that won't matter
to her
and they can find love."
- Finding this guy
might be tough,
because we have so little
to go off of.
I have a hunch
we're in for a surprise.
- ♪ What do you do
with a loving feeling ♪
♪ If they only love you
when you're all alone? ♪
- Spokane, Washington.
- Love it here.
- Downtown. Wow, look at
these beautiful old buildings.
- I know.
They're old and beautiful.
- ♪ Loving feeling ♪
♪ If they only love you ♪
- Indaba Coffee.
- What's going on, guys?
- How you doing?
- Doing well.
- All right, I'm ready.
So what do we got?
Colleen is in love
with Tony.
- They met on PlentyOfFish
three months ago.
- He says
he lives in Washington.
For whatever reason,
Tony can't meet up
with Colleen
but still finds it
within himself
to propose to her.
- Right.
- Colleen says yes.
- Immediately.
- Tony says, "Okay,
look, here's the truth."
"I'm not in Washington.
I've been living
in Louisiana."
- Baton Rouge.
- Is he in Louisiana?
Is he in Washington?
Is he somewhere else?
We don't know.
- Let's run the pictures,
shall we?
- Let's see if we get a hit.
Nothing.
All right, let's see
about this one.
- Second one, nothing.
- No direct match.
No hits.
All right, last picture.
Nothing.
- So pictures done.
- Let's use
the only other information
that we currently have,
which is his phone numbers.
Both 509 area code.
Here we go.
- First of two.
Spokane.
- But no information.
- No address, no names.
But it's Spokane 509.
- Right, which means that
the other one's Spokane too.
- Correct.
- So why would
his recent phone number
also be Spokane
when he's supposed to be
living in Louisiana?
- Suspect.
- Let's see what comes up...
- All right, so the first number
is Spokane.
And here comes
the second number.
- Whoa!
- We got some information.
- We got a hit.
We got a hit.
Tim [bleep].
Different last name.
Mid 60s.
Look, Spokane, Washington.
- Does he have any Tonys
in his family?
No, relatives
under the name of Tony.
- All right,
let's look up Tim [bleep].
Fort Myers, Florida.
Ontario.
Atlanta.
- Nothing.
- [sighs]
- We are in the weeds.
What else
can we search for?
- We're not getting very far,
because we have very little
information on this guy.
The only thing we have
is that his phone numbers
are from Spokane.
Maybe, instead of wasting
our time and her time
by going
and basically telling her
that we didn't find anything,
we should skip a few steps,
just call him ourselves,
and sort of see if we can get
a little bit more info.
- You want to skip steps.
- I want to find out
who this guy is,
and I don't want
to waste any time.
- Let's call him.
Call him up.
[phone line rings]
- Yes, hi.
Is this Tony?
- Cool.
Yes, sorry,
you're speaking to Nev.
I'm a show called "Catfish"
on MTV.
I'm currently in Spokane
at the behest of a young woman
named Colleen.
- We're not with her, no,
not right now.
Where are you, exactly?
- So why does
your PlentyOfFish account
still say
that you're in Washington?
- And is there a good reason
why you haven't gone to see
your fiancée in person?
- Oh.
What do you mean?
- Really?
What--in what way?
- So yeah, I can understand
that came as quite a shock.
- When did she tell you that
finally?
- Whoa.
Was there anything else
that she lied about?
- So have you been
sending her money?
- How much have you sent her?
- Okay.
Who's been not wanting
to video chat,
you or her?
- Are the pictures
that she's seen of you
really you?
They are.
Okay.
- Thanks, Tony.
- Whoa.
- [exhales]
- She lied to us again.
She's been lying.
- She's--
- Well, if Tony's
telling the truth.
- If he is, in fact,
sending her money,
that is a big detail
that she left out.
- Or that she lied
about her age.
- She's crafty.
- We need to grill Colleen
a little bit right now
and find out if
what Tony's telling us is true,
in which case she's got
some explaining to do.
- Or is Tony lying moreto us
to buy himself more time?
- Perfectly rainy day
to match the perfectly murky
situation
we find ourselves in.
Colleen definitely lied to us
about how long
she was seeing Tony.
She may have lied to him
about her age.
- And she omitted the fact
that after she lost her job...
- She hit him up.
- She let him help
support her.
- Well, so he says.
He might have just been
inventing things to say
that kind of, "Well,
I didn't show her who I was,
because I'm having doubts
about who she is."
You know what I mean?
He--who knows?
- How are we gonna find out
who's telling the truth?
- It's a house of mirrors.
This show
is giving me trust issues.
- [laughs]
- All right, here are.
[knocking at door]
- There she is.
How you doing?
Have you heard from Tony?
- Today? Yes.
- You did?
- Normal "hi," "how you doing,"
"good morning."
- "Good morning, beautiful"?
- Yes, of course.
- We do have some stuff
to talk about.
- Let's just get to it.
- Yeah.
So the first thing
we did was,
we downloaded the pictures
that you'd sent us.
We searched them,
and we didn't get--
- Nothing, no hits
on any of them.
- Then we ran his phone numbers,
and, interestingly,
it came up with a name,
Tim [bleep].
Is that a name
that you've ever heard?
Both phone numbers
are Spokane area code...
- Washington.
- Which you knew.
- Yeah.
- If he's in Louisiana
and he got a new phone number,
it'd be weird that he would get
a Washington number
and not a Louisiana number.
- Yeah.
- So that's most of
what we got.
- We looked up everything,
and we didn't find nothing.
So we sort of thought,
"All right."
If the point of being here
and helping you
is finding out who he is
and bringing you guys together,
in an effort to accelerate
that process,
we called Tony.
And we said to him,
"Why, you know, haven't you
"taken the next step?
"What's holding you back
"from coming to meet Colleen?
You're engaged.
What's the hold-up?"
And his answer
was very interesting.
He said he has
some reservations.
Has he ever mentioned
anything like that?
- Mm-mm.
- You seem a little upset.
- Now everything's coming out.
- He said
you had lied to him
about how old you were
and that you had said
you were 25.
- My profile says 20.
I never told him I was 25.
In fact, I've been talking
about my 21st birthday
for the last two months.
- And you're not lying
to us right now?
- No, not at all.
- I wouldn't be so inclined
to believe him
if our relationship
hadn't started
with you kind of
telling us something
that wasn't totally true.
- Yeah.
I never told him I was 25.
- He could just be
giving us BS excuses.
But he also said
that you had lost your job...
- Mm-hmm.
- And started asking him
for money.
- I never once asked him
for money.
He's offered to send me money,
but I've said no.
And then he sent me
some money last week,
but that's it.
- So he did send you money.
- Yes, it was only, like, $75.
- Just the once?
- Yes.
- I called him
right after I lost my job,
and he was, "It's okay."
You know, "It'll be fine.
You'll find another job."
He said, "I'm going
to send you some money.
I'm sending you $75."
So I have not received
any other money from him.
I am dead honest on that.
- It's just weird to us
that he would have
a different version
of the story.
It's making it hard for us
to know who to believe.
- I--there's so many thoughts
running through my head
right now.
Like, is this gonna be
the end of us?
Like, I thought
I might have met my soul mate.
Why would he lie?
You know, it's devastating.
- ♪ I stood at light ♪
♪ I was turning to dust ♪
♪ Cold in the night ♪
♪ I was barren to trust ♪
♪ Locked in my heart ♪
♪ I couldn't believe
how dark ♪
- We've been lied to before
on the show,
so we're not going
to take sides.
We're not gonna
position ourselves
to believe one of you
more than the other.
We're just gonna try and do
what we sort of promised
we would do,
which is bring the two of you
together.
At this point,
I think we should see
if he wants to meet up.
- Tell him that this is
his last opportunity
to meet the woman
he asked to marry him.
Go to it, soldier.
- All right.
I'm gonna call this guy.
- Yeah.
- ♪ Can you wake,
can you wake ♪
♪ Can you wake me up? ♪
- It's nerve-wracking.
- ♪ Can you take,
can you take me up? ♪
♪ I can't wait,
I can't wait ♪
- Hopefully, he's serious.
[phone line rings]
- Hello?
- Tony, it's Nev again.
I'm back over here with Max
at Colleen's place.
She would like to meet you,
and we'd like to help
make that happen.
- What are some of
your reservations?
- Yeah, I've heard
all that before.
I understand.
But if you care about someone
and you tell them you love them
and you ask them to marry you,
how are you gonna be
in a relationship
if you are too busy
to just meet up with them?
How serious are you
about being with Colleen?
- Okay.
- Okay, great.
If we flew down to Louisiana,
would you be available
to meet up with us?
- All right, great.
I very much look forward
to meeting you.
Talk later, Tony.
- Bye.
Good news.
So...
the answer was yes,
he does want to meet you.
- Well, that's good news.
- He sounded sincere.
But the reason he's been
nervous to meet up with you
is because he's not the guy
in those pictures.
- It's really disappointing.
I mean,
for the last three months,
I thought I was talking
to somebody
that now is a different person,
you know?
But if his personality's
the same
and he genuinely
does care about me
and genuinely wants
to be with me, then...
let's see where it goes,
you know?
I just--I want to see
what he has to say in person.
- All right, so pack a bag.
- We're going to Louisiana.
- Okay.
- Better not find out
you didn't tell us something.
- Nothing else.
- All right.
See you in the morning.
- See you in the morning.
- Yo.
- Hi, guys.
- You ready?
- I didn't get
much sleep last night.
I was so excited.
- Wow, look at that moon.
- [howling]
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
[laughter]
- All right, we're here.
- Strap your wings on.
They're a couple.
They met in July on Tinder,
and now they're married.
She met someone
three months ago
on PlentyOfFish,
and she's engaged.
She's never even seen him.
- Oh!
That's awesome.
- ♪ Rivers run dry ♪
♪ All right ♪
♪ Soldiers may cry
at... ♪
- There it is.
- ♪ Bridges could fall ♪
- Is this Bourbon Street?
We're with Colleen.
I hear New Orleans calling.
- ♪ And rivers run dry ♪
♪ All right ♪
- All right!
French Quarter.
- I love beignets.
- ♪ Bridges could fall ♪
♪ That's life ♪
- Beignet.
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Seasons will turn ♪
♪ So let it burn ♪
- Let's see
how Colleen is doing
after her crazy night out
on the town.
[knocking at door]
- Whoa.
- Wow.
- Hi, guys.
- You look nice.
- So you ready to do this?
- Yes, I am.
I got my wedding outfit on.
- This is the casual
wedding outfit.
All right, well,
let's text Tony.
"Hey, Tony.
We are ready to meet you now.
Where do you want to meet?"
Yes!
Tony says, "Hey,
I'm at my cousin's house.
Nervous but ready to meet."
And here's an address.
- Okay, ain't nothing to it
but to do it.
- Let's go.
- Front seat.
It's a big day.
- All right.
- Ready.
- Let's do it.
[suspenseful music]
- How nervous are you?
- On a scale of one to ten.
- About an 8 1/2.
♪ ♪
[exhales]
Breathe.
- I just want to point out
that we're making a left
on Compromise Street.
- Yeah, I know, right?
♪ ♪
- Here it is.
Why the windows are
all boarded up?
- They are?
- I mean, look.
They're shuttered.
- Oh, well,
those are storm shutters.
Weird, though, right,
that they're down now?
- Well, maybe
there's a storm coming.
Maybe we're the storm.
♪ ♪
- All right, let's do it.
It's a little weird.
The light's on,
so that's a good sign.
Do you guys want to hang here?
[knocking at door]
[door squeaks]
Hey.Tony?
How you doing, man?
- So nervous.
- Take a deep breath.
Why don't you step on out here?
♪ ♪
- Good-looking guy.
- Right.
Why would he lie?
- This is Tony.
This is Colleen.
So hello.
How you doing?
- Nervous.
- Yeah, that's all right.
[laughs]
I think you're
only slightly more nervous
than Colleen is.
- I don't know
if that's possible right now.
- What's up, man?
How you doing?
- I'm awesome.
- All right, well,
that's nice.
- No one has ever
walked out the door
and said, "I'm awesome."
- Nice to meet you finally.
- Nice to finally meet you too.
But why did you say
that I told you I was 25?
I've never once told you
I was 25.
And when did you send me
hundreds of dollars?
- I apologize.
I--
Honestly, I was just scared.
Um...
I kind of just made it up
as I went along.
It wasn't
the most honest thing to do.
I have a lot
of self-esteem issues,
and I was kind of insecure
that you wouldn't accept me
for who I am.
- Who are you?
- Jeremy Antonio [bleep].
- So your name is Jeremy,
but you went by Tony.
- My middle name is Tony.
- The phone number you have
is from Washington.
Have you previously lived there?
- When I was 18,
I moved to Washington.
And I instantly loved
the place.
I just always felt like
I wish I would have
been born there.
And I knew
I was gonna come back,
but I wanted a reason to.
- So that's why you were
looking to meet women
in Spokane.
- Yeah.
- Why were you pretending to be
this other guy on PlentyOfFish?
- It wasn't
the most honest thing to do.
I just wanted to see
if it would work.
I'm not a stereotypical
black guy.
It makes me more inclined
to date Caucasian women,
because I feel like, you know,
I can be myself.
I can dress like this.
I can--I can watch
science fiction movies
and do whatever it is
that I want to do.
I don't want to be viewed
as a stereotype.
- Do you find
that's your experience?
- That's commonly the case.
- So non-black women
generally sort of assume
you're a certain type of person
because of your skin.
- Yeah.
- We have a lot in common.
I mean, why wouldn't you let me
be the judge of everything?
- I'm sorry, Colleen.
I just--I just pray
that you can forgive me.
- I really want to.
Just got to promise me
no more lies.
- I'll get on my knees
right now.
Colleen,
these last couple months
changed my life.
I never want to lie to you.
I just want to make you happy.
I'm sorry.
I'll do anything to keep
moving forward with you.
Still want to marry me?
- Yes.
[light music]
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- I don't want
to give up on you.
Something's telling me not to.
- Can we celebrate?
I don't know.
[laughter]
I mean, this is amazing.
You guys seem
to really have the connection
that you felt
for the past three months
in person.
And yes, there's gonna be
some adjusting
to the new reality,
but this is exciting.
- Yeah.
- Is there anything else
I need to know?
- There may be
one other thing.
My family,
they're not accepting
of interracial dating.
- And your family's approval
is something
that's important to you.
- Yeah.
So before we go
to the next stage
of our relationship,
I want you to meet
my family.
- Are you worried,
if we go over there,
they may not accept her?
- Definitely.
It may get crazy.
- I want you to meet
my family.
But they're not accepting
of interracial dating.
It may get crazy.
- I'm down.
- Only if you want to.
- I do want to.
I'm big into family.
- Would this be your first
interracial relationship?
- She will be
the only one
that they've actually met
in person.
- All right, here we go.
- I'm ready for anything.
- Your chariot awaits.
- I mean, this is crazy.
- This is a first.
- Going to meet the fam.
- Yeah.
- This is gonna be
interesting.
- Meka?
- Yeah.
- We're going to her house
right now.
- Yeah.
- We should text her
and let her know
that we're on our way.
- Let's just hang on
for the ride.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, who's this?
Is this your--
- That's my cousin Jordan.
- Okay.
Let's say hello.
- Colleen, this is Jordan.
- Hey.
What's going on?
- This is my cousin.
- Yeah.
You gonna come inside?
♪ ♪
- Hello?
- How you doing?
- All right.
- Hi, I'm Nev.
This is Max.
- Hi.
- What was your name?
I'm sorry.
- Oh, Meka.
- Meka.
- Mm-hmm.
- Meka, hi.
- And this is Colleen.
- Hi, Colleen.
- And thank you
for meeting up with us.
- Y'all want to have a seat?
Go and sit down.
- We're here
because Jeremy and Colleen,
they met online
and very quickly developed
a real interest in each other.
And...
- I asked Colleen to marry me.
- Oh, Lord.
- There's a little more
to the story.
Until a few hours ago,
Colleen didn't know
what Jeremy looked like.
- What?
- On they dating app
that they met on,
Jeremy posted pictures
of a white guy.
- Jeremy.
- Ah, [bleep].
- What you doing?
- Uh...
I felt more comfortable
talking to her
when she was
under the impression
that I was not black.
- Something wrong
with black people?
- I just don't mesh well
with women of the same...
- The same what?
- Race.
- Hmm.
- I mean,
I like what I like.
I can't help it.
It's just
that black women I meet,
they don't get my sarcasm
and that I like
to read comic books
and I like to play golf.
I like to do stuff
that's kind of, like,
against the norm.
- What, we so ignorant
'cause we black,
we don't understand him?
I don't even know
what to say.
I feel like
you should have been able
to just come say, "Look,
I need to talk to you."
Why are we here?
- I admit I should have been
more forthcoming.
But I was under
the impression
that it would be more accepted
if I was married to someone
of the same race.
- Where'd you pick that up from?
I'm not prejudiced.
It really feel like
you took something
and stabbed me or something
when you said that.
And how you feel about that?
You done came all the way
way over here, and he black.
- I don't care.
I don't care at all.
- You told him yeah,
you would marry him.
You said yeah.
Why would you say yeah?
- 'Cause I really have feelings
for him.
I love his personality.
He's a great guy.
- How you know y'all ready
for to get married?
- I mean, initially, it was
an impulse decision.
But, I mean, time has passed
since then too.
- Time has passed, and y'all
have not even been together.
Y'all been over the internet.
- I know it's not the same
as being physically...
- Do you talk
about living together?
- Yeah.
- I really don't want
to move out of Washington.
- So he's actually leaving
to Washington?
- I might.
Not saying
that that's the case.
Possibly.
- Oh, really?
- Please don't cry.
- I'm gonna be all right.
I'm gonna get through this.
It just hurts to know
that you feel like,
I mean, you couldn't come
sit down
and talk to your sister.
You talk to me
about everything.
- I know it's a lot.
- I mean, are you upset
because he's with a white woman?
- Mm-mm.
That's your life.
But I just would have felt
a little better
if you could have
confided in me.
- I'm sorry I lied
to everybody.
You guys mind
if I get a minute?
- Why don't you take Colleen
outside for a minute?
- It's soon for you to be
moving over to me.
- You having second thoughts?
- Your sister does care
about you.
I don't want your sister feeling
like you're running away,
like you're gonna run away
and go up and leave her behind,
'cause that's not what
I want her to feel about me.
- Who thinks to put
a white person
on they profile picture?
- Right.
- Someone who's...
- Crazy.
- Someone who's conflicted
about who they are.
- Jeremy's identity
is a little foggy.
- He needs to find his self.
- Yes, I agree.
- 'Cause in between
what he doing now and that--
- Well, clearly,
he's confused,
because you don't have to...
- Lie.
What you lying for?
- Right.
- You're not
taking me away.
You mean the world to me.
- I love you.
[sniffles]
- Well, hopefully we can just
all put this behind us.
- This was new
for a lot of us--
new situation for us
to be in, clearly.
Unusual one for all of you.
Colleen, I think
you have been very...
- Understanding.
- Understanding and patient.
- Mm-hmm.
- And respectful of them
and their relationship
as brother and sister.
I'd like to just thank
all of you
for sitting down
and having this conversation.
This is not an easy oneto have.
- Whatever y'all do,
however, whatever,
that's totally up to y'all.
I'ma still love my brother.
And if you happen to become
one of the family members,
I might have to deal
with you too.
- [laughs]
- I don't want
to take him away from you
at all.
I want you guys to have
a relationship.
I want to get to know you,
you know,
be able to hang around you,
be able to have you over,
meet my family, you know?
I never want
to take him away from you.
- Thank you.
Jeremy,
you just know how to--
you just know how
to just--ugh.
- He keeps it interesting.
- Yeah, he does.
- In terms of next steps,
we'll probably head back
to our hotel with Colleen,
let you guys talk
without all the cameras
and discuss this
a little bit more
if you choose to.
So why don't you say good-bye
to Colleen for now?
- Nice meeting you, Colleen.
- Nice meeting you.
- I hope you get
what you're looking for.
- I want to be around you guys.
- Nice to meet you.
[light music]
We're all in one piece,
so I'd say that went well.
- It was so nice
meeting you.
- All right.
- Good luck.
- All right,
we can wait in the car.
- ♪ It's only
a matter of time ♪
♪ Before life begins ♪
- Go in.
Talk with your sister.
We can see each other later,okay?
- ♪ Talk to a stranger ♪
♪ And suddenly you're friends ♪
- Welcome to the fam,
Colleen.
- Hey!
- Hey!
- ♪ Take your first step ♪
♪ And now you're halfway
to the end ♪
- Congratulations.
You got catfished,
and you still have
a relationship.
That's only happened
to one other person.
We're, like,
95 episodes deep.
- Oh, wow.
I am very happy.
The last three months,
having him to talk to
has been one of the best things.
I have a strong bond with him.
I want to be with him.
- Sounds like there's
great potential for you guys.
So fingers crossed.
- ♪ Seems I'll love you
till the end of your days ♪
[computer ringing]
both: Hey!
- There she is.
- Colleen.
- How you doing?
- I'm doing really good.
Me and Jeremy are trying
to work it out.
In fact, he's actually
right here with me.
- What?
- Ooh!
- Oh, my God!
- Hey!
There he is.
- There he is.
- Look at this guy.
- Oh, my God.
You actually went up there.
I'm impressed.
Are you just up there
temporarily?
Or are you, like, staying there
for a bit?
- Well, I've got
an interview
at a pizza place
out here,
so hopefully that goes
the way I want it to.
- I mean, this is
what you wanted, right?
You wanted to move back
to Washington.
Your plan really worked out.
- Yeah.
- I thank you guys
every day
for bringing me to him.
I want you guys
at our wedding
when and if we do
get married.
- Wow, we'd love to come
to your wedding.
- What is your relationship
right now
with your family, Jeremy?
- I'm trying my best
to communicate with them,
but they're being
a little reluctant
to talk to me.
- Well, this is
a beautiful thing.
- Be fruitful and multiply.
- Yeah, good luck
with everything.
both: Bye, guys.
- And they lived
happily ever after.
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