Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 6, Episode 14 - Kelsie & Brandon - full transcript

- Something about him
just draws me in.

- This person's been catfishing
people for almost a decade.

No big surprise,
I'm with Kelsey.

- I'm just gonna sit here
and be stunned for a second.

- You have a broken [bleep].
- It's not on me.

- Yes, it is on you.
We're really setting her up

for a big fall.
- I don't get it.

- Does the trail end here?

I don't understand.

- There's Max teeing up
on the 231st hole.

- Catty fish.
both: Oh!



- All right, I'm up.

both: Ooh.

- Coming in hot.
- Yay!

- Ohhh!

[laughter]

- All right, now that
that's settled, here we go.

- See, your honor.

- Oh, really?
- Well, you won the putting.

- Because I won, all right.

- Here, you can read
the subject. It's a good one.

- "Help me meet
my Redneck Romeo."

- "Hey, Nev and Max,
my name is Kelsie.

"I'm 26 years old, and I live
in New Braunfels, Texas.

"I'm a single mother
with an 8-year-old



"ball of energy named Layne.

"I need your help to meet
someone very special to me.

"His name is Brandon.

"We have been talking
for over three years now.

He's 31, and he lives
in Bradleyville, Missouri."

- Bringing it down
to Bradleyville.

- "Brandon has become

"a huge part of my life
and my every day.

"We talk about our somedays,

and make plans for the future."

"But I want to turn
our dreams into reality.

- ♪ Where you want to go to ♪

- "I've tried to meet Brandon
a few times,

"and every time it falls
through at the last minute.

"I've even driven 10 hours
to try and see him,

"and I want to know
why he won't put in

"the same effort to see me.

"I need your help because I've
reached a dead end on my own.

"I don't want to waste any more
time wondering or wishing

for my happily ever after.
Kelsie."

- There are a few things
we don't know.

Do they talk on the phone?
Have they video chatted?

- Why don't we call her
and just find out?

- All right.
- Let's get her on the horn.

[both] Hey!

- What's up?
- Hi, Kelsie.

- Hello, how are y'all?

- How are y'all? We're great.
- Y'all.

- Are you a Texas girl
sort of born and raised?

- I am. Boots and dirt
are kind of my specialty.

- Do you have family
where you live now

or are you on your own?

- My only family is my roommate,
my cousin Katie, and my son.

He's 8 years old.
- Wow.

- Couldn't ask for
a better kid, so.

We stay busy together.

- Do you have a job?
Are you in school?

- No, I work full time.

I'm a urinalysist,
so I drug test people.

- Okay, we got to go.
Bye. Sorry.

- Oh, I get that a lot.

- Okay, so tell us about
how you met Brandon.

- Okay, so that has
a crazy twist to it

because I can't figure out
how this all started,

but we've been friends
on Facebook

over three years now,
and I've dug back.

I can't figure out
how he got on my Facebook.

- So, at some point, he just was

in your group
of friends on Facebook.

- Yes.
We started off as just friends,

and then I went through
a really hard time in my life

when I called off my wedding
about a year ago.

- Oh.
- Time out.

- Wait a second.
- Yeah, there's a story there.

- Here it goes.

- So you were with someone
and you were engaged?

- I had a venue,
and I bought a dress.

- So you were talking to Brandon
while you were engaged?

- We were only friends
at that point.

He knew when I was engaged.
I told him, and he was like,

"Oh, my God! Congratulations.
I'm so happy for you."

Like, he was supportive
of that relationship.

- Oh, okay, got it.
- What went wrong?

Why did you call
off the wedding?

- Things were not picture
perfect as I kept painting them

to be in my head
for so long,

and it came to the point
where it was just like,

"This isn't right.
Somebody has to do something."

And the right thing to do
was not get married.

It was definitely soul crushing.

It was humiliating.

That was one
of the hardest things

I have ever done
in my entire life,

and Brandon was there.

As much as I never responded,
he didn't give up,

and he was there for me.

Brandon kept, you know,
checking in,

like, seeing if I was okay.

We started progressing
our friendship,

and we talked even more
and more,

and now we talk every day.

A day doesn't go by that
I don't get a,

"Good morning, beautiful."
and a "Goodnight, gorgeous."

And I'll have days
when I'll just vent.

It's not easy by any means
being a single mom,

and he'll mention like,

"Oh, I wish I was there,
you know,

I would take Layne outside.

We'll play ball and,
like, give Mom a break."

I don't know, it's something
about him that just draws me in.

- You say you talk.
Are you talking on the phone?

- Oh, yeah, and we're texting,
and Snapchatting.

- Is he sending video clips.
- No.

He's not much
of a photographic type.

- Hmm. Do you have suspicions?

Is there any indication that
he's not who he says he is or--

- Well, we have made attempts
to see each other

where I have driven ten hours
to meet up with him

at this Mudfest event
in Louisiana.

I get there, and I'm there
for a couple of days,

and I'm camping out, and, like,
hanging out with people

waiting and waiting,

and his truck broke down,

which seems to be
the constant problem,

and then I have to leave.

I have to get back here to work
and just back to reality.

And a matter of hours later,
he sends me a Snapchat

in the exact same spot
I was just at.

- Whoa.
- Like, how the hell

do I drive 10 hours
to a whole 'nother state

to meet you,
and you miss me by a few hours

when this has been
a planned thing?

Why? Why?

What are you hiding?

And he could have, like,

a working truck
and a pissed-off wife.

I don't know,
like, what's going on.

But at the same time, it's like,
what if this is really-

what if this is the end
of an old chapter

and the beginning of a new one?"

Maybe my wedding
didn't work out for a reason.

- Wow. This is not
just some internet crust.

This is a turning point
in your life.

- It is.

- I'm tired of talking about
my happily ever after or a life

that I could build
with somebody and memories

that I could make with somebody
and then them never happening.

- Well, it's --
- You look like

you have something
to say about it.

- Well, no, it's just, like,
I want this relationship

to work out, but if it was going
to work out,

it probably would have
happened already.

- Right, which is why I'm here.
- Yeah.

- I need answers.
- All right, well...

then we are going
to come help you.

- Yay! Awesome.

- We'll make our way down
to New Braunfels.

- New Braunfels.
- Get ready.

It's gonna be a wild ride.
- All right.

- There it is.
- We'll see you there.

- Thank you.
- Bye.

- Bye.
- Oh, man.

- Whew, man, she is--
- This is real.

She was really
almost married to another guy.

- That's...whew.

- Called it off at
the last second.

It sounds like Brandon, like,

lifted her out
of that depression.

Let's go to New Braunfels.

♪ ♪

- ♪ I will let you walk
to the one you love ♪

- We're here.
We're in the Braunfels.

- Downtown.
- Yeah, look at,

there's El Tapatio.

Look at the yellow cement truck.
It's so cute.

- Look at this.
- Look at this.

- Would you look at this?
- Look at this.

Look at this little downtown.
- Look at this.

Look at this
cute little downtown.

- No, you look at this.

- Okay, let's go talk to Kelsie.

Welcome friends.

- Hi.
- Hey.

- How are you?

- Good, how are you?
- Oh, you. No, no, no!

- This is Honey.
- Hey.

- Hi, I'm Katie.
- I'm Max. Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- "Thank you for serving
our country."

Is one of you guys
in the military?

- We have family. My son colored
that on Veterans' Day, so.

- Nice.
- His work of art.

- Oh, and these
are his baseball cards.

- Yes.
- Oh, yeah.

- Where's Layne?
- He's at the pool, so.

- He's got a lot of energy,
right?

- Yes.
- Ah, Honey.

- Yay, yay.
- Yay, best part of the show.

- Does Layne love the dog?
- Oh, yeah, Layne loves the dog,

and Katie has a bigger dog, so.

- Oh, really?
- They play together.

- As someone who's been close
to her for a long time,

I imagine you're aware
of why we're here-

- Yeah.
- And I wonder if you've had

feelings about Brandon,

and have you guys
talked about it, I mean--

- I'm all like,
"Oh, she has feelings."

- Honestly, I feel like it might
be him, like, the picture,

but I think he might have
a significant other.

Something is off.

- What do you think about that?

- I don't want to think
that that's true,

but all I have
is his word to go off of.

- What makes Brandon so amazing?

- I don't know, just--

- What's your favorite thing
about him?

- His smile, definitely.

- His smile that
you've never seen.

- I've seen pictures.

There's just something
about his smile.

It just, like, reaches out
and, like, grabs my heart.

- All right, we've been talking
about this guy a lot.

So what can you show us.
- Oh, okay.

- Okay, "Morning beautiful."

- Oh, these are the snaps
he sent you that tweeted to us.

- Whoa.
- Yeah.

- All right, so he's
definitely very handsome.

- Yeah. Louisiana Mudfest.

- Is that from the weekend
you went?

- Mm-hmm.
- He's there.

- And it looks like he had
been there for a second.

Like, it doesn't look like
he just arrived there.

- How strange.

He invites you
to this weekend festival,

this mud truck thing.

You go, he never shows up,
and then you leave,

and all of a sudden, he's there.
- Yeah.

- Could he have been there
that whole weekend?

- I mean, I don't00
I didn't think about it

until you,
like, brought it up like that.

- Maybe he was just watching you
and, like, too nervous to say,

"Hello?"

- Or maybe his truck really-

- Or maybe his truck broke down.

- I mean, benefit of the doubt.

Like, I've had car
problems before.

- And you understand that
the most likely explanation

is that he's not the guy
in the pictures.

- I mean, anything is possible.
- You've seen our show.

- Yes.
- No, I know, and I appreciate

that you're remaining
optimistic,

and I'd like to be
there with you.

I mean, look, we're not-
I don't want to scare you.

- I'm not scared. I just, like--
- I do because, like,

I don't get
a good feeling about this.

I know what it's like
to be a guy.

If I'm talking to a cute girl
in Texas for three years,

I'd figure out a way
to get my ass down

to Texas, you know what I mean?

Like, there's definitely
some deception

and lies that are going on here.

What I want to know from you is,

is it okay if he turns out not
to be the guy in the pictures?

- Oh, no, absolutely not.

I'm not okay with that,
I'm not okay with that.

- Well, then you're not okay.

He's not the guy
in the pictures.

I'll tell you that right now.

- Well, I mean--
- No. I'm 100% sure.

- We'll see.
We'll just, we'll see.

- We'll see.
- I don't know.

- We'll see.
- All right, so look.

Send us an email
so we can do some investigation.

- Phone numbers.
Pictures he's sent you.

- But be prepared for anything.

- Well, it's time these
skeletons

came out of the closet anyway,
so, let's do it.

- All right.

- I hope y'all
bring me good news.

Bye!
- Ah, fingers crossed.

- Well, if she likes his smile
the most-

- Yeah, it's not looking great.
- No.

- The sad part is that she's
trying so hard to find ways

to make this
somehow work out,

even if it means ignoring
incredibly obvious red flags.

- Yeah, I think she's gonna
get her heart broken.

- Investigation time.

- Whoa, this is cool.
And here it is.

Naturally Café,
right by the tracks.

Max, come on.
- What are we doing?

- We got to get up
in the truth train.

All aboard the truth train!

The truth train.

All right, here we go.

Wow.

♪ ♪

All right,
so, Kelsie and Brandon

have been talking now
for three years.

Every time they talk
about meeting up

he says his truck is broken,

it's not working,
he doesn't think it'll make it.

She's kind of fed up,
but she still wants to believe

he's the guy,
that his truck's really bad.

She just keeps giving him
the benefit of the doubt,

but I think deep down she knows
there's something going on.

Let's dive in, shall we?
Here's the email from Kelsie.

"Hey, guys, you asked for
what I know about Brandon,

"so here it is.

"He lives in Bradleyville,
Missouri,

"and this is his number.

His Facebook profile."
That's him.

- Yeah, that is him.
- Self-employed.

- Says he lives in Colorado.
That's weird.

- Yeah.
- She said he lives in Missouri.

- Well, if he lives in Colorado,

that would explain why,

maybe, he's not as available
as he should be.

- True.

- But why wouldn't he just
tell her he lives in Colorado?

- I don't know.

- Here, here's the first profile
picture from 2009.

I mean, there's no way he's been
faking it for almost 10 years.

And these are
all photos of Brandon.

He was tagged in Missouri.

- People are commenting, like,
"Oh, I can't wait to see you

when you get home."

This is one of the most
real profiles

I've ever seen in my life.

- Yeah. I mean,
it feels real to me.

- It feels real,
but then it makes no sense

why he wouldn't
meet her in person.

- Look, Justin's
commenting a lot.

- Yeah. There's a lot
of consistency here.

They like dirt bikes,

buck hunting,
ATVs and big trucks.

- It looks like Justin and
Brandon are, like, best buds.

All right,
so let's reach out to Justin.

- Okay, send a message to Justin
and fire one off.

- "Hey, Justin, "This is Nev
from Catfish."

Sending that message
to good old Justin.

- You want to run
his phone number?

- Here we go.
- Run it.

- All right, running the number.

- Here we go.
- William, [bleep].

- Okay, same last name.
William could be his dad's name.

- Look, Springfield, Missouri.

- That must be his dad.

[phone ringing]

- Who is this? Hello?

- Yeah, hey, Justin. This is
Nev and Max from "Catfish."

We are doing an episode
right now,

and looking into
your friend, Brandon.

- How do you guys
know each other?

- Did you and a bunch
of friends go with him

last year to Louisiana
for, like, a Mudfest?

- And do you know if the truck
broke down on the way there?

- Do you know
if his dad's name is William?

- I guess it's a little weird
because we're actually in Texas

with a girl who
has been talking to Brandon

for the past three years,
so we're trying to figure out

why he's been unavailable,

and we're just trying
to understand

what could be going on there.

- Oh, so he's never
mentioned Kelsie?

- And is he in a relationship
right now?

- I--
- Sorry, what'd you say?

Is he in a relationship
right now?

Does he have a girlfriend?

[call drops]

- I mean, look.
Everything seems to check out.

We talked to his friend.
His Facebook page feels legit.

The question is,
how excited can we be now?

- Right.
- Hey,

it looks like it's the guy,
but is that better or worse?

- Right, it's always
almost worse

when it actually is the person

because then why aren't
they meeting up?

- Right, and why hasn't
he mentioned her to anybody?

- Right.

- Maybe he does have
a girlfriend in Missouri.

Maybe, you know,
it's been on and off again.

I mean, it doesn't sound like
there's a good reason

why this guy wouldn't
have a girlfriend, right?

- But then it makes no sense why
he wouldn't video chat with her.

- Also, who in the 'F'
is William [bleep]?

And how is he related
to Brandon [bleep]?

- Could he have a brother?

Could he have, like,
a younger, like,

the black sheep
who's, like, all like--

- Right, maybe Brandon left
his laptop signed in,

and his brother sat down one day

and was like,
"Ooh, cute girl.

Let me hit one up."

Wow, well, this just keeps
getting weirder and weirder.

- Well, we've got
a tricky situation here.

If Brandon is the guy
in the pictures,

and they have been talking,

and he is interested
in a relationship with Kelsie,

it's hard for him
to have an excuse

for why he wouldn't have
come to meet her.

So either he talks
to multiple ladies--

- Or he's William [bleep],
who's not his father-

- I guess that's true.

- And he could be a brother
or someone who,

and we're seen this before,

someone who's kind of
borrowed the account.

- So she's been talking
to someone close to Brandon.

- Right. Here we are.

- Oh, look.
- Hey, look who it is.

- Wow. He's like a-
- He's a man.

- He's a person.
- Hey, how are you? How are you?

- Look at this guy.
- The other half.

- What's up, man?

- Layne, say "Hi." This is Nev.

- Hello.
- Layne. And Max.

- Hi, Layne.
What's going on, man?

- I like your bike.
- Thank you.

- All right, let's see you move.
I'll make sure no one's coming.

- Yeah, you need
to look both ways.

- Oh, wow.
- Nice, Layne.

- That was cool.

Okay, we're making a BMX
video right now.

- Whoa.
- Careful. Oh, my God.

Are you serious?
I know who your mother is.

- That was good.
- That was great.

- Oh, no, we're getting rain.
- Here comes the rain.

- You want to come in
and have a seat?

- Yeah.
We got some stuff to talk about.

- Oh, I'm anxious to hear.
- Okay, all right.

So let me sort of walk you
through here what we did.

- Okay.
- First things first,

Brandon's Facebook page
seems pretty legit.

This has been Brandon's page
since at least 2009.

Way before he met you.
- Right.

- And he's been talking
to friends,

and you don't see that
on fake pages, right?

The more we found
the more it seemed like,

"Wow, this guy is
a real person."

- So this is good.
- Right, it's good in the sense

that Brandon might be
who he says he is.

- Okay, where's the catch?

- Well, the only thing
that did stand out

about his Facebook page,
I don't know if you noticed,

but it says he currently
lives in Colorado.

Have you seen that?
- Mm-mmm.

That makes-

that, like,
might kind of explain

why he's always talking about
we should move to Colorado.

- He's always talking
about moving to Colorado?

- Yeah.
- With you?

- It's, like, one of the future
someday plans

that we talk about.

- But he never told you
that he lives there?

- No, he lives in Missouri.

- Well, we ran his phone number.

Interestingly it came up listed
to William [bleep].

Has he ever talked about

a close family member
named William, or Bill?

- No.
- One possibility

is that someone's
using Brandon's account.

That is real,
and Brandon is a person,

but you're not actually
talking to Brandon.

You're talking to someone
close to Brandon.

- For so long?
That's just crazy.

- Well, we're just trying
to keep our-

- Right, open minds.
- Open minds.

- Open minds.

- So while we're doing
this research,

we get a phone call,
and it's from Justin.

- You ever heard of Justin?
- No.

- Justin is all over his
Facebook page, like, best buds.

- Nice guy. We asked him
if he could just sort of confirm

some basic things about Brandon,
like did he go to that Mudfest.

- He did go to the Mudfest.
- Oh, yeah, he was at Mudfest.

Does he have a truck
that's always breaking down?

He said, "Oh, yeah."

- "Yes, the truck's always
breaking down."

- Has he ever talked about
a girl named Kelsie in Texas?

"No." He wasn't aware.

- That's not okay.

Why would you make me feel like

I'm something important
in your life

if your friends don't know
anything about me?

That's pretty [bleep] and sad.

I don't know.

- On the other hand,
maybe he keeps quiet

about his social love life.

- But this is why
we're kind of like,

"Well, if he's the guy
in the pictures,

then what's the hold up?"
- Right.

I'm a single mom, so
I don't want to waste my time.

- Maybe he's afraid of being
a step-dad or being a father.

Maybe it doesn't feel ready.

- That's definitely a big deal
for a lot of people,

but it isn't like I kept it
a secret from him.

He's known it, and he's
continued to build this.

- Then there might
be something else.

- There's obviously a reason
somewhere here

that's delayed this
for so long,

and whatever it is,
I want to know.

I deserve to know.

- Well, there's really only
one thing left to do, right?

- We should probably
reach out to him.

- Right, we should do it.
- Let's do it.

- All right,
so I'm gonna call Brandon.

I'll be right back.
- Okay.

What are you thinking?

- I don't know.
- I'm nervous.

- I think it's dangerous
to be optimistic.

[phone line trilling]

- Yes, hey, is this Brandon?

- Hey, Brandon, my name is Nev.
I make a show called "Catfish,"

I don't know
if you've heard of it.

- Yeah, it sounds like you have,

and so, no big surprise,
I'm in Texas with Kelsie.

- What was that?

- Nice.
So Kelsie reached out to us

because you guys
have been friends for years now.

- It just--we're having
a hard time figuring out,

you know,
if your feelings are strong,

and her feelings are strong,
and you live, you know,

within a reasonable
distance of each other,

you know, why you guys
haven't been able to meet up.

- I have to, obviously,
look out for Kelsie, you know.

- It occurred to us that maybe
you're in a relationship

and didn't mention that,

or, you know,
something like that.

- So I guess the only real
question left now

is where are you?

- If we were able to get
on a flight tomorrow--

And meet you tomorrow
afternoon

or possibly the day after,

is that something
you'd be down for?

- You do, you want
to meet her, right?

- All right, great, Brandon.
We'll see you soon.

- All right, thank you, sir.

- Later.
- Later.

- I don't know.
This could be the one.

I called.
He answered.

Long story short,
he is in Missouri.

I asked him if he might be
in a relationship,

and he said, "No, no."

He was excited
and down to meet up.

He's 100% in, which is like,
we never get that.

- It's so exciting.

- Like, I don't know
what to say.

- Don't do that. Don't do it.
- I don't know what else to say.

- Well, you're gonna hurt her.

You're supposed
to be the expert.

You're supposed to remain
grounded and levelheaded,

and you're like a school girl

getting excited
about the candy man.

- Well, can't I be excited
that maybe there's a chance--

- There's a chance.
Just don't fan the flames.

- Fine.
- Sure, let's hope for the best,

but there's something
weird here.

- Definitely.

There's something is.
You're right.

I'm trying not to be so naive,
but you're right.

- So this is it. We're gonna go.
We're gonna meet the guy.

- I'm ready.
- I know you're ready.

- I'm excited, I'm excited.
- Yeah, I know.

- All right, we will see you
in the morning.

- Yes, I will see y'all
bright and early.

Oh, my God,
I'm going to Missouri.

- Oh, man, you really buttered
her up. I mean, it's on you now.

- I tried-
- If it's not him,

then you look
like an [bleep].

- It's not on me.
- Yes, it is on you.

We're really setting her up
for a big fall.

- ♪ There are things
I wish I didn't know ♪

- Okay, 6:00 am.

We're trying to see if we can
get to Missouri with enough time

to meet up with Brandon today.

Still feeling pretty good
about it.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- Hi, everybody.
- How are you feeling?

- What are you doing?
I'm feeling super excited.

- Have you had any contact
with Brandon?

- Yeah, he texted me last night.

"I can't believe
this is actually going down.

"Can't wait to finally
actually meet you.

Hit me up when
you get to Missouri."

Something's up.
- No one ever loves you.

- Why can't you have faith
in the odds?

- Something's up, man.

- Here we go. Oh, my God.

- Who do you think's more
excited, you or Max?

- Definitely, Max.

I mean, like, he's just dreaming
about what's gonna happen.

- That is beautiful,
but, like, also frightening.

[intercom chimes]

- Attention, flyers.

Flight 3071 with service
to Springfield, Missouri

has been
delayed due to weather.

We do apologize
for any inconvenience.

- To be so hyped up
and then be stuck here.

- To have to wait all this time.
- Yes.

- And then we're finally gonna
to go, and you have to wait.

- We're so close, and now,
we're at a dead end,

and now we're just waiting
and waiting,

and we're back to square
one it feels like.

- Now it's you telling him that
your plane broke down. Yeah.

- "Oh, my flight's delayed.
Oh, the weather.

Oh, I can't make it."
- Oh, plot twist.

- Are you gonna let him know
we're delayed?

We were going to try
to meet up with him today,

but now I don't think
we're gonna make it.

- No. I'm gonna tell him the
transmission

went out on the airplane.

- Yeah, we're good too,
we're good too.

- We couldn't get
a flight to Missouri,

so we got to get to Arkansas,

then we got to drive
a couple hours to Missouri,

but it looks like we're gonna
actually get there.

- We're finally moving.
No more delays.

It feels like I'm opening up
a birthday present.

- Be careful to be so happy.

You don't know
what's gonna happen.

- I'm prepared to find out.

♪ ♪

I'm getting nervous
that I might not actually know

what I'm walking into.

- ♪ Pack up all your things ♪

♪ Leave this town behind ♪

♪ Leave our memories ♪

♪ Know that I don't mind ♪

♪ No, I don't mind ♪

♪ One, two, three, four ♪

- We made it! Yay!
- Oh, are we jumping?

[thunder claps]
- Oh, no.

- Don't leave me lingering
in the back.

- This is where we're staying?

I mean, I knew we were going
to the country,

I didn't know we were going
to the English country.

Good night.
- Good night.

We've got a big day tomorrow.

- Okay, so it is well
after midnight

and we just now got to Missouri,

so for the simple fact
that I am beyond exhausted,

I don't have too much
to say right now,

but I cannot wait till tomorrow.

Hopefully I meet Brandon,
finally.

- Good morning.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- How did you sleep?
- Not at all.

- 'Cause, like,
you have butterflies?

- Anxious.
I don't know if I'm fixing

to walk into a disaster or not.

- I'm definitely still not sure.

- Oh, I feel Nev has
kind of backtracked.

- Well, you've chipped away

at my optimism
for the last two days.

- It's nerve wracking.
- Yeah.

I think we should call him,

and we can find out
where he is and go meet him.

- Okay. I'm nervous.

[phone line trilling]

- Hey, good morning, Brandon.

- We finally made it.

We're all here wondering
if we can come meet up.

- Okay, good news for you,

we have lots of very
working vehicles

so we can meet you somewhere.

We could even potentially
give you a ride if you need one.

Truck is not an excuse.

We need to know where you're at,
and we'll come meet you.

- Are you blowing us off?
I don't understand.

- Right, but you understand,
obviously,

we traveled pretty far.

It was a long
and [bleep] day yesterday,

and now we're here,
and Kelsie's--

- Today is the day to meet up,

and your truck
is the problem again.

- Brandon.

- Brandon. Brandon.

[call drops]

- What the [bleep]?

- Brandon.

- Brandon.
[call drops]

- What the [bleep]?

- I'm just gonna sit here
and be stunned for a second.

- That was a bull[bleep] excuse.

- Like, put your [bleep]
on hold because I'm here--

- Right. Well, and that.

- Is my attitude towards it.
Right.

- I came all this way and, like,

you're not gonna stand me up
in front of all these people.

I am not wasting
my time on this.

- It makes me think
that Louisiana,

that was the same excuse.

This makes it pretty clear
that there's a reason

why he hasn't come to meet you.

- Seems like it.
- Yeah.

- Oh, I just got a text.

"Sorry about that.
I got a vehicle."

- What does that even mean?

- "I think I can meet you guys.

Just take Highway 76
to the end of the road.

I'll meet you there."

- Sounds like some sketchy crap.
- Okay, we're back on.

- All right, I guess so.

I have no idea
what's going on with this guy.

- If he blows this, I'm out.

Thank you.

- All right, so we're doing it.

- ♪ We took a walk
to the summit at night ♪

♪ You and I ♪

- I just don't understand
why he just didn't come to town.

- I don't know. Something weird
for sure about this guy.

- My gut says it's a brother

or a father or someone
who's pretending.

- It just seems so weird
to me that--

- We've seen that
weird stuff though.

- Really?
- Yeah.

- Maybe it's, like,
a reasonable explanation.

- There's no point
in theorizing any more.

We're about to meet him,

so I think we just got
to be ready for whatever.

- Well, this is it.
- This is it.

♪ ♪

Dirt road now. Mystery man road.

- Dangerous game.
- Whoa, look at this lake.

What? What's that?

- Looks like there's
a guy out there.

- Could he be the guy
on the boat?

- I don't know.

- Hard to tell.
He's looking over here.

I just can't see his face.

- That's sketchy as [bleep].

- Unless that's not even him.

- I don't know.

It doesn't look like
some of them in the pictures.

- Didn't seem
too interested in us.

Well, he told us
to meet him here.

What is going on here?

- I don't get it.

- Is this--

does the trail end here?

I don't understand.

[vehicle approaching]

- Oh, wait, wait. Nev!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Oh, God.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- It's him!
- How's it going?

- He's real.
- It's him.

- He's real, and he's alive,
and it looks like him too.

- How you doing?
- Good, how are you?

- I'm Max.
- Good to meet you.

- Hi. Brandon?
- Yes, sir.

- Nev.
- Good to meet you.

- Just checking.
So seeing as it is you,

that obviously raises
some questions for us.

- Where's your truck?
What's up with that phone call?

- My truck's broken again.

Like always, so.

- So you just had that, okay.

- That's what I use on the
hunting property all the time

when I'm working food plots
and all that stuff.

That's the beast that I use.

- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.

- This morning
freaked us all out.

- Yeah. That wasn't cool.

- Yeah, I freaked out
a little bit too, so.

- You could've handled it, like,
more calmly and rationally.

- I was aggravated already and--
- Yeah, it felt like you

were hiding something or you're
a totally different person.

- If I was hiding something
I'd be over the hills right now.

- Yeah, right, so.
- I wouldn't be standing here.

- But the truck is actually
at a shop?

- Oh, yeah.

- So that just happened
to happen today?

- Yeah, oh, yeah.
- And in Louisiana?

- Yeah, it happens every time
I try to see you, I know.

- What happened in Louisiana?
How did that all go down?

- That?
We were supposed to meet.

She had to leave on Friday,
which Mudfest went till Sunday.

- It started on Wednesday.
- Uh-huh.

Who shows up
on a Wednesday though?

- People who work.

- Yeah, I work during the week.
- That's a good point.

- So you just genuinely did plan
on getting there and seeing her?

- I really did.
- But things got hung up,

and you missed her
by a few hours, or something?

- Yeah, we actually,
we took pictures of, you know,

I took a picture of myself
in our campsite,

and she was in my campsite
and took a picture of herself.

We missed each other
by, like, two hours.

- What about visiting
her in Texas?

- I've always, you know,

I'm not a very wealthy person.

I'm pretty strapped
for cash usually,

and I'm always dealing
with my truck,

and that's a, you know,
long ways to go

on a broken truck, you know.

- Who's William?
- William, that's my pops.

My old man.

- It was your dad after all.
- Yeah, that's my dad.

- We were also a little curious,
you know,

when we spoke to your friend,
Justin,

he hadn't heard about Kelsie.

You'd never mentioned her.

- Yeah, I keep, you know,
pretty much my stuff,

my business to me.

I've mentioned her,
you know, to friends,

but not like, you know,

told them everything about her,
you know, stuff like that.

They'll see me, you know,
look at my phone,

text messages and stuff,
and smile and whatever.

"Who's that?"
"That's Kelsie."

- I mean, that answers
most of our questions.

- I'm not done.
- You're not done?

- Nope.
- You're not convinced?

- I got, you know,
you got to pass

a few more tests before
I'm willing to bless this.

You don't have another
girlfriend right now?

- No, no, absolutely not.
- You don't have some girl

in some other zip code?

- No.
[laughter]

- So do you have feelings
for Kelsie that are in line

with everything you've told her
on the phone and stuff?

- Oh, absolutely.
Yep, absolutely.

She's an awesome girl. But yeah.

- I'm just, like, wait, are you
on the universe's side yet?

- Are you--

- Are you officially
on the universe's side, Max?

- Yes, he's been
telling the truth.

You got yourself
a real deal Redneck Romeo.

[all chattering]

- I know. I'm, like, so happy.

- It's only been four years.
What you talking about?

- Only.

- I'm gonna separate you
for one second.

I'm gonna bring Kelsie
over here, yeah.

- Should I go here?

- Yeah, you go
with Redneck Romeo.

- All right, is everything cool?
- Absolutely.

I'm stoked.
Like, it's a shocker.

I honestly was on your team
on the inside.

I was doubting a lot.
Just was playing it cool.

- And what do you, what do you
feel about what he said?

- Coming from a small town
and being a single mom,

I understand budgets,
so I believe him.

He hasn't lied to me.

I don't think he's lied to me
at all about anything.

- Yeah, it's a big deal for her.

You know, you guys still live
far away from each other-

She's got a kid.
There's a lot of things

to work through.
- Right.

Right, there's a lot of things
to consider and all that stuff.

- That's for sure.
- But I just want-

I'm happy to hear that
you're definitely interested.

- Definitely got feelings
for her.

She's definitely unique.
- No, she's super unique.

- Happily ever after doesn't
normally happen to me,

so thank you guy
for making this happen.

- Yeah, sometimes good people
get what they deserve.

- I'm gonna cry, don't--

- All right.
- You want to go for a ride?

- Yeah.
- Let's do it.

- I do see two helmets
on that ATV.

- Yeah. Did I answer
all your questions?

- Yes, sir. You got the job.
- All right.

- You guys have a good day.
- Look at you.

- Look at you.
- I don't believe it.

Wow, I hate to say it,
but I told you.

- I'll be damned, it's him!

- All right, you two. Be safe.

- I'll try to keep her clean.

- All right, there they go.

- There it is.
- Wow, a happy ending.

Look at that.

That's awesome.

♪ ♪

- ♪ Whoo-ooh ♪

♪ Whoo-ooh ♪

♪ Whoo-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪

♪ Whoo-ooh, whoo-ooh ♪

- All right, man, we did it.
It's on him now.

- ♪ Time, time ♪

- Are we gonna call this
a thing?

- Yep, call it a thing.

- ♪ The city lights ♪

[phone line trilling]

both: Hey.
- Hey.

- Is that Layne?
- Say, "Hi."

- Hi.
- Hey, buddy.

- Now get in where
they can see you.

- So everything is good
down in Texas?

- It is. It's been great.

- And, what's going on
with Brandon?

- Well, I actually spent Easter
with him

and his family in Missouri.
both: Wow.

- So that was a lot of fun.
- Layne, earmuffs.

- We're gonna have grownup talk.

- So did things with Brandon
heat up a little?

- [laughs]
I don't want to talk about it.

- But why don't we bring Brandon
in on this.

- Sure, we should do that.

- Let's do it.
Let me see if I can add him.

- Yo!
- Yo.

- Redneck Romeo.

- So what's up, Brandon?
How you doing?

- Oh, pretty good.
Just got home from work.

- How's the truck.
- My exhaust is rattling around

because it's broken
at the moment,

so it's extra loud,
but it is together.

- Always something.
- How was-- how was Easter?

- Good, very good. Kelsie got
to meet the fam. It was awesome.

- So any plans to kind of get
together again soon?

- Actually, I got a few days
off here after the 10th

and for about a week,
and I'm gonna come down there.

- No excuses any more.
- I know.

- Maybe take the train.
- For sure.

- Well, we're just so happy
to see

that you guys
are still seeing each other.

Get your butt down to Texas.

- Yeah, Brandon.
- You guys are destined.

Destiny brought you together.

- I think so.
- All right?

- Right on, man.
It was good talking to you guys.

- Take care. All right.
all: Bye.

- Bye, Kelsie.

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