Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 6, Episode 17 - Robin & Wayne - full transcript
After three long years, Robin is desperate to finally meet her elusive, hunky, long-distance love in person. Nev and Max agree to help her hunt him down, but what they uncover turns out to be much more than Robin bargained for.
- "I met a guy named Wayne
three years ago
on Facebook group chat."
- Have you ever sent him money?
- Just $300.
- No!
- Oh, boy.
- Oh! We got it.
- That's him.
- Oh, that's him.
- We are gonna catch this guy.
Oh, hold on.
Here's a car.
- Oh, wow.
- Could that be Wayne?
- What is happening?
- What?
[dramatic musical sting]
- Whoa!
- Whoo!
both: Wow!
- Wow!
- Oh, look at on the desk.
Oh, my God. It's on the desk.
- This is the world that most of
the hopefuls are living in,
and then we come in,
and we do this: plow!
- All right, fun's over.
Now we gotta clean up.
- This is the cleanest this room
has ever been.
- Hey, oh. Email. Got an email.
"I can't even
reach the guy I love."
Well, maybe she's got
short arms.
- [laughs]
- "Dear Nev and Max,
"my name is Robin.
"I am 31 years old and live
in St. Paul, Minnesota.
"I met a guy named Wayne
three years ago
on Facebook group chat."
- ♪ There you are
after all ♪
- "His name is Wayne Cannon
and he lives
in Atlanta, Georgia."
- ♪ This time ♪
- "From the beginning, Wayne was
unlike anyone I have ever known.
"He was sexy and flirtatious,
caring and funny,
"and he always knew
what to tell me
"when I was having an off day.
Weeks turned into months
and I fell in love with him."
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
- Wow. "Once the love seeped in,
"I began to second-guess
"some of Wayne's odd behavior
"I had been previously ignoring.
"For starters, he would
never want to video chat.
"I would always ask him to,
and he would always agree,
"but when the time
came, crickets.
[dramatic music]
"I would ask him
what was going on,
"but he would just say
he's going through 'stuff.'
"Almost a year into us talking,
Wayne suddenly began to call me
from private numbers."
- Oh, no.
- Oh, boy.
"This became the new norm.
It's been three years.
Please, guys.
I need your help."
Wow.
- Okay, so his name is Wayne,
He's very mysterious, right?
He disappears all the time.
- That's right.
- She could be in love
with Batman.
- Is Robin talking to Batman?
Robin!
Oh, my God. It is.
It has to be. It is!
[dramatic theme music]
I think we should call her
and find out a little bit more.
- All right.
Here we go.
- Be cool. Be cool.
both: Hey.
- How you doing?
- I'm fine.
- What do you do for work?
Do you like taking care
of people?
- Yeah. From, like,
kids to adults.
- I have a baby.
You wanna watch her?
- Yeah. That's what I do.
I watch kids and send them
back to they parents.
- So we saw your email.
Can you tell us
a little bit more about Wayne?
- Well, like, we met in
a Facebook group,
and it was, like, post
your pictures, they rate you.
You know, they comment
if you're cute or whatever.
He was, like, the first one
liking all my pictures,
so we took it to the inbox.
That's when he gave me
his number.
Oh, my God, it just was
like butterflies in the stomach.
I mean, I loved his voice,
because it's deep, you know?
It's like somebody
singing in my ear.
- And he's really hot.
- Yeah.
[laughter]
- What does he look like?
- On his profile, he got, like,
a long haircut, muscle-bound.
Put some baby oil on him
he'd be the-- [snaps]
- Okay, so you started talking
to this guy,
and then what happened?
- We was talking and then
we was texting,
and then all of a sudden,
he just disappeared.
And then here come the private--
these private calls, you know?
He said his phone was broken.
- So for most of
the relationship,
he's been a private caller.
- Yes.
- So that means
you don't have his number.
- No.
- So at this point,
what are you thinking?
- I just want him.
This is somebody that I was
in a relationship with.
- Have you ever sent him money?
- Yeah.
- How much?
- Just $300.
- Just $300?
- It was for him to get a phone.
- And?
- When he called me one day
on the private number,
I asked him.
"I sent you money,
Like, where's the phone?"
- Robin, Robin,
he's definitely not being
totally honest with you.
- I don't know,
I be thinking it too.
- We need to find out...
- Yeah.
- ...Who he is.
- And I need some answers
from this dude.
- I think we figured out
who you're talking to.
Are you familiar
with the superhero Batman?
His real name is Bruce Wayne.
- Really?
Well, he's Batman
and I'm Robin, so here we go.
- Perfect. So we will
meet you in Minneapolis.
And whatever we have to do,
we're gonna meet this guy.
- Batman Cave here we come, huh?
- Exactly.
All right, bye, Robin.
- Bye.
Okay. This doesn't look so good.
- Yeah, we gotta go help her.
- We need to go help her.
- Let's do it.
- All right.
- ♪ Come on and move yourself ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Let's go ♪
[horns honking]
- Here we are
in beautiful St. Paul.
Robin's great.
I like her energy.
She deserves love.
I want her to find that.
- ♪ Come on and move yourself ♪
- So far, I have to admit,
it's a little bleak.
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh. Oh.
- Oh!
- Is she just waiting outside?
- There she is.
That's so nice.
No one ever greets us.
- No.
- Hey, oh.
- Hi.
- Look at this.
Huh? Gorgeous.
- It's nice out here today.
- Hey. Should we go in?
I mean, I'd sit outsideall day.
- It is nice out.
- But we've got business.
Come on, let's get to it.
This is nice.
- This is great.
- I want to introduce you
to your catfish.
- [laughs]
- This is Wayne.
And his profile picture--
that could be fake,
but his feelings for you
are real.
- [laughs]
- So you met Wayne...
- Mm-hmm.
- ...In a Facebook chat room.
- It was like a meeting
group--a flirt and meet
type of group.
- Flirt and meet.
- Huh?
- It's like Slip 'N Slide.
- Yeah. I guess you gon'
slip and slide in somebody's
DMs, I guess.
I don't know.
You know, I was trying to flirt
with somebody else,
but every time
I posted a picture,
this man was liking it.
He was not giving up neither.
He's like, "You so cute," like,
oh, my God, just so gorgeous.
- This guy totally wore you down
with persistence and flattery.
- Yes.
- Can we see the picture?
Do you have it?
Yeah, that's a handsome,
built guy.
- Yeah.
- He must work out.
- He works out.
- But things were good
for a while.
- Mm-hmm. That's when I asked
him to video chat.
- Okay.
- He didn't want to, or just
he couldn't talk right now.
- I mean, a guy with a face
like that should be FaceTiming--
- Show it to the world.
- Yeah.
- He should pick that
phone up and be like--
- "Look at my face!"
And then, for some reason,
you started getting calls
from private numbers.
- Yeah.
- What happened to his phone
and his phone number?
- He said that it was broken.
He's like,
"I got to get a new phone."
- But then he asked you
for money.
- No, I offered.
"Do you need help?"
You know, get him one.
- You're like, "Well, I want
to FaceTime with you, so..."
- Right.
- "I got 300 bucks for you"?
- Yeah.
Here come that
private number again.
I'm like, "So, why are you
calling me like this?"
It was ridiculous.
- He's not the guy
in the picture.
It's not him.
- This super handsome guy--like,
you got to know it's not him.
- I don't want to believe that.
- You called us because
you're at the end of your rope.
- Yeah.
- When you first started
talking,
you had a number,
and you still have that number.
- Yeah.
- But does it work anymore?
- I don't know.
I haven't tried it.
- So you're just, like, afraid
to even look into this.
- I am, because I don't
want to see
if, you know,
it's the wrong thing.
- If it's fake.
- Yeah.
- So look, why don't I call
that number from my phone.
He doesn't know my number.
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, I feel like
we might as well see
if it's still active, right?
- Yeah.
- Here we go.
Let's see what happens.
[phone line trilling]
- Oh, wait, it's ringing.
- It is ringing.
Sounds like it's
an active number.
- Hello?
- Hey, uh, is this Wayne?
[phone line trilling]
- Sounds like
it's an active number.
- Hey, uh, is the Wayne?
- Oh, okay.
Do you have his new number?
- Oh, that's fine.
My name is Nev.
- And what was your name?
- Sean. How do you know Wayne?
- Oh. Oh, well that makes sense.
Well, if you could tell Wayne
to give me a call.
- Thanks, Sean.
- Okay. Bye.
- Whoa.
- Wait a second.
- So his brother is Sean.
- Has he ever talked
about his brother?
- No.
- That wasn't Wayne's voice?
- No. It's not his voice.
- But he has his old phone.
- He's using Wayne's old phone.
So Wayne's a real person
with the name Wayne.
- Right.
- I mean,
that's good information.
- All right, well, look.
We're gonna take everything
we have, do some research,
and then we'll let you
know what we find.
- There's some weird stuff
going on here.
- You said it.
All right, so let's go do
some investigation,
so we'll call you
if we have questions,
and then we'll let you know.
See you later.
- Bye.
- What do you think, Max?
- [sighs] I mean, I think
she's in denial.
She knows that it's too good
to be true,
and she doesn't want
to find out.
She's going on very little.
- Right. All right, we got to do
a little investigation.
Let's crack this case.
All right, let's just
search this picture.
- No way is it this guy.
- Come on.
- Oh! We got it.
- We are gonna catch this guy.
This guy is on,
like, a zillion...
- Yeah. Keep going.
How many--look.
There's three pages of hits.Okay.
- I mean.
- So who is this guy?
Let's find out.
- Well, here's the picture
of him one of these websites,
and the tag is
"underscore koree"
Let's look that up.
"Underscore koree.
That's him.
- Oh, that's him.
- The Real Koree.
- Koree [bleep].
That's who he is.
- So in addition to not
being Wayne from Atlanta...
- He seems to be Koree
from Mississippi,
and he's not into girls.
- All right. I think we got
to reach out to this guy.
- All right.
- Let's do video.
Okay. Hey, Koree.
This is Nev and Max.
- Hey, Koree.
- From the MTV show "Catfish."
I think someone's using
your pictures
and talking to a girl here
that we're trying to help,
so get back to us.
We'd like to talk
if you have a minute.
- Thank you.
- So I guess we should search
the phone number...
- Yeah.
- Right?
'Cause we know
the picture's not him.
Let's see who his old
phone number's registered to.
- Sure.
- Phone search.
Boom. What do we got?
What do we got?
- What--oh. Jessie [bleep].
Look at that.
Came up to Jessie [bleep].
- Jessie [bleep].
- Look up Jessie [bleep].
This is a lot.
- Well, most of them are women.
- Why don't we just do
due diligence
and look for
a Wayne Cannon.
- Okay.
- There are some Wayne Cannons.
- He does not look friendly.
Something creepy
about him, I think.
- Wayne B. Cannon. Who's that?
- Oh, boy. I bet you--
- If I were to draw a picture
of what this catfish
could look like.
- This is it.
- Yeah.
- Oh, wait a second--
from Madison, Wisconsin.
- We didn't try Sean Cannon.
It's his brother.
- All right, let's look up Sean.
- Sean Cannon, Atlanta.
- Oh, we got one Sean Cannon.
- Yeah.
- Is he friends with a Wayne?
- Oh. Wayne [bleep].
- Whoa.
- Interesting. Who is this?
He's not quite Cannon.
Could be brother
from another mother.
- Could be brother
from another mother.
Okay, so we know it's not
the guy in the pictures,
but beyond that,
what do we know?
- Phone comes back to a family
of people
with the last name [bleep],
but I don't know
what else there is to do there.
Let's show Robin
what we've found,
see if any of it
makes any sense to her,
and then I guess figure out
if we can get in touch with him.
I mean, the guy in the picture
is a very different person
altogether.
- She's gonna be--she's
gonna be hurt.
- We got to tell Robin
some of the bad news.
- It's so hard for me to believe
that she really thought,
after three years,
she was talking to that guy.
- It's just wishful thinking
taken to the extreme.
[phone ringing]
Oh, whoa. We're getting a call.
- 812.
- It's from Albany, Indiana.
Hello?
both: Yes.
- Yes. Hey, Koree, it's Nev
and Max from "Catfish."
- I'm sure you have.
You must have a ton of people
using pictures of you
on the Internet.
- Well then,
it wouldn't surprise you to know
that we're actually speaking
with a young lady
named Robin
who believes she's been
in a relationship
with a guy named Wayne
who's been using your profile
picture for three years.
- Would you mind if we video
chatted you with this girl,
Robin, just so she can
get visual confirmation
that you are not the guy
she's been talking to?
- Thanks, Koree.
- All right. Bye.
- Wow. All right, well,
that's good, I guess.
All right.
- You ready to do this?
- Yeah.
- All right.
♪ ♪
[knocking]
- Yo.
- Hey.
- Hi. [chuckles]
- All right.
- Twice in one day.
- Yeah.
- We did some research.
We found some stuff.
It's nothing concrete.
- Right.
- The only real piece
of evidence was the phone number
that he used to use and now
"his brother," Sean, uses.
- Right.
- So, we did a little search.
First hit came back...
- Jessie [bleep].
- Do you know that name?
- Someone named Jessie [bleep].
- No.
- No. Interesting.
Okay, so, you thought you were
talking to a Wayne Cannon.
- Mm-hmm.
- We called the number and spoke
to his brother, Sean.
- Mm-hmm.
- We found a Sean in Atlanta,
and he has a friend
named Wayne [bleep]
who he says is his brother,
but a different last name.
- Could be a brother
from another mother.
both: Right.
- Wayne [bleep].
We thought maybe we'd show
that to you and you'd be like,
"Oh, my God, yes."
- I can't say that.
I just don't--
- All right, well,
the only thing we did find
was not great.
So we downloaded
that picture of Wayne.
- Mm-hmm.
- And we did an image search,
and we found this
Instagram--Koree.
63,000 followers.
But you've never seen,
obviously,
any of these pictures.
- Mm-mm.
- You've never heard
of this guy, Koree.
- No.
- Just to be 100% sure
that the guy in the pictures
is actually this guy Koree,
we reached out to him,
and he said
he could FaceTime with us.
Let's see.
[phone line trilling]
Hello.
- Hi.
- I'm here with Max.
- Hey.
- And we want to introduce you
to Robin.
Both: Hi.
- How are you?
- I'm good. And yourself?
- I'm good.
I really don't know what to say.
I truly am sorry.
I too have been catfished,
so I definitely know
how it feels.
My heart goes out to you.
I'm truly, truly, truly sorry,
but it's not me.
- ♪ You can't hold me down ♪
- Best of luck to you.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Thanks, Koree.
- Thank you, Koree.
- All right. Thank you so much.
- Bye.
- ♪ Because I need
an answer, love ♪
- Mm. Now I know it's not him.
- Not him.
- How does that feel now?
- ♪ And you say way too much ♪
- I mean, it's heartbreaking.
- ♪ But still I need
an answer, love ♪
♪ Still I need an answer, love ♪
- So, what do you want to do?
- I just want answers--the truth
about everything, you know?
- The only real thing we have
is an Atlanta phone number.
I think we should plan
on going to Atlanta.
I mean look, we could try
and find this guy,
and he took your money,
he took your time.
- He basically took my life.
Shoot. That's how I feel.
- Okay. Let's plan
on leaving tomorrow morning.
- Bring your game face.
- All right.
- Bye.
- What do you say? I mean,
she's been deluding herself,
and now the reality
has come crashing down upon her.
- I have a feeling
she's trying to play it cool,
but there's nothing
cool about this.
[phone ringing]
- Oh.
- Georgia.
- All right, Georgia.
That's our number.
- That's a new number.
- Yeah, it is.
Hello?
[phone ringing]
- Oh. Hello?
- Yeah. We are. This is Max
and Nev from "Catfish."
Is this Wayne on the phone?
- How you doing, man?
We are with a girl named Robin
who's been talking to you
for a while.
Do you know who Robin is?
- She is pretty anxious
to kind of know
who you are
and what your story is.
- Well, look.
We're trying to help her.
She cares deeply about you.
- So look, Wayne,
what we're trying to say
is we already figured out,
you know, that the picture
you used three years ago
when you met Robin isn't you.
- [laughs]
- So she knows that ain't you,
and she's a little upset,
but we want to meet up with you.
Can we do that?
- Okay. We could meet you
wherever you want, man.
- All right, well, look,
we're gonna hit you up
when we get to Atlanta, okay?
- All right.
- That doesn't sound good.
- Well, it didn't sound like
he cared that much.
- No. I mean, he laughed.
He was very light
about the whole thing.
- So that doesn't bode well
for Robin or us.
- All right,
so let's call Robin.
[phone line trilling]
- Robin.
- Hey, so we just got off
the phone with Wayne.
He said he's in Atlanta,
and that if we come down there,
he'll meet up with us.
- Is that still something
you think you want to do?
- Get, you know, a bag together
and we'll pick you up
in the morning.
- Okay.
All right, well,
I guess we'll
just have to see how it goes.
- Maybe it'll work out.
- Okay.
Packed up and ready to go.
Let's do this.
♪ ♪
- Yo.
- You ready to go to Atlanta?
- Yeah.
- Let's do it.
You nervous to meet this guy?
- Yeah. I just want to know,
why did you--
you know, why he did it.
Stringing me along for this
long time.
That's how I feel.
- ♪ Sweet talk,
everything you say ♪
♪ It sounds like
sweet talk ♪
- Maybe we should just go back
to L.A.
Forget this guy.
- [laughs]
- ♪ Won't you stay away? ♪
♪ It'd still be
sweet talk to my ears ♪
♪ ♪
[phone chimes]
- Oh.
- Well, we got
a message from Wayne.
- We got something.
What's it say, Robin?
"I'ma be a few minutes late.
I was doing something
for my kid."
- Uh-oh.
- "I'm on the way."
- What?
- So he has a kid.
- Uhh.
- [scoffs]
- Did you know that
he had a kid?
- No.
I want to know
who house this is over here.
- Yeah. These are nice houses.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Not bad.
- This guy doesn't look like
he needs $300 for an iPhone.
- Is there, like, a shack
at the end of the street?
- There it is. No, this is it.
This is--
- Damn.
- Okay.
- You got a Suburban and a--
- An Audi with some rims.
- ...Audi.
- No--there's no way this
is his house.
- But what's with the $300?
- Exactly.
- Oh. Hold on. Here's a car.
It's a Maserati.
- Oh, wow.
- Is that pulling up
to this house right now?
- Damn.
- Is that--
- Could that be Wayne?
In a Maserati?
Could it be?
What is happening?
- [gasps]
- What?
- Is this the guy?
- He's getting out of the car.
- Should we--should I get out?
- Yeah.
- How you doing?
- Sup?
- What's your name?
- Wayne.
- You're Wayne?
- Yeah.
- I'm Max.
- What's up?
- Hey, man.
- How you doing?
- Nev.
- What's up?
- How you doing?
- What's going on?
- This is Robin.
- You're the one
we've been texting with?
- Yeah.
- And who's been talking to her
for the last three years.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
And this is your place?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- So, what--
- Who--
- Yeah.
- So, what--
both: What's the story?
- I mean, I'm pretty
sure y'all already know.
- We don't.
- Not really.
- We have no idea, to be honest.
All we found out was that you
weren't the guy in the pictures.
- I mean, it's a reason
for everything, so...
- What's Team Skyler?
- Oh, that's my company.
We do a lot of work
in the community.
We do motivation speaking.
I do investments,
and I do a whole lot.
- So, wait. Okay. So I want
to hear more about that later.
So what's with the weird
cell phone business
and the fake picture?
I don't get it.
- Yeah, I mean,
it's more or less
like I wanted to know
that she was
who she said she is.
Like, I want to know
that she was real.
I mean, people see the house,
they see they car, they see
the materialistic things,
and people be fake with you,
so dealing with Robin
was something that was solid,
you know what I'm saying?
It was like she didn't see
all the materialistic stuff.
She liked me for me, so--
- Wait a minute...
- Wait, really?
- Hold on. Hold on.
- Wait, really?
- Really.
- Then what's with
the fake picture?
- The fake picture came about
because before she seen me
in the beginning,
I overheard a conversation
she said about somebody--
she liked it,
and it wasn't me.
- You saw the picture of the guy
she was liking in the chat room
and started flirting with her.
- Yeah, and I just went with it.
- But did you post that photo?
- No.
- No. So someone else
put that up.
- No. Someone else
posted the photo.
- Did you say that was you?
- Yeah. I said it was me
'cause I thought that what
she liked, so I was like,
Okay, cool, 'cause
I really wanna talk to her.
Listen, I just wanted love.
I just wanted to find love.
This was genuine to me.
This was the only female in my
life that was genuine with me.
So it was like,
yo, I like this chick,
you know what I'm saying?
So I was like,
yo, I can be myself,
and that felt good.
- Okay. It's nice
to hear you say that,
but that doesn't explain...
- But that doesn't explain--
- ...The whole cell phone
communication thing.
- Well, the cell phone
communication thing--
I've always, like, been in
relationships and stuff,
you know what I mean?
Like, when I first met her,
I was married,
you know what I mean? So--
- You were married.
- Yeah, I was married,
you know what I'm saying?
With a kid and everything.
So I had other things going on,
so it was like, I can't just
give you direct contact to me.
- So when was you out
this marriage [bleep]?
- That [bleep] ended
[bleep] two years ago.
- Okay.
- So after that, though,
after you guys got divorced
or separated or whatever,
like, you could have given
Robin your number.
- Yeah, I could have,
but things had got
too deep at that point.
See, I left that marriage and
was dealing with someone else.
I've always had, like,
a whole lot of girlfriends,
you know what I mean?
So it was too much piled
on top where it's like,
yo, how do I tell her this?
'Cause maybe if I tell her,
maybe she may back off.
and then it was like, damn.
I didn't want to lose her
like that.
She was just always like my,
you know, silent situation
over here, you dig?
Even to me having her send me
more money at one point in time.
That comes from me
wanting to know
if she was really
liking me for me.
- You got the money, and then--
- You ain't never get the phone.
- Well, I had a phone,
'cause I didn't need a phone.
They were just trying
to see, like--
- It was like a test.
- A test to see,
would she do it,
you know what I mean?
- Yeah, but then you kind
of left her high and dry.
- [laughs]
- What do you make of all this?
- I don't know.
- 'Cause this is like--
- It's stupid.
You was just lying. Just lying.
Why you just waited
for three years--
- 'Cause I couldn't--
listen, listen.
- No, no. Listen.
Three years you waited
to just keep stringing
and stringing
and stringing me along
like a little old dog
or whatever on the leash.
- You're here now, sweetie.
You gonna come home or not?
Which one you want?
Do you want the Maserati
or the Audi?
- [chuckles]
- I'm just saying. Look at it as
a blessing, [bleep].
- I'm gonna go out on
a limb here, and I'm gonna say
you might want to just throw
in an apology to Robin.
- Well, I mean, we're getting
to that, but--
- Okay. Okay.
- I mean, we gonna get to that.
- As long as you get to it.
- I'm waiting for it.
- Yeah.
- Okay, listen, we here now.
I'm sorry. [bleep] happens.
Life happens,
you know what I mean?
So it is what it is.
I'm here now.
You gonna take it
or you gonna leave it?
- Stop telling me if I'm gonna
take it or leave it.
- I mean, 'cause at the end of
the day, life goes on, though.
- It ain't about taking it
or leaving it.
- No, this is what I'm saying:
life goes on,
so I am Wayne,
you understand what I'm saying?
That smart, wise, intelligent
person that she talked to,
that guy that she liked--
that's me, it's still me.
I mean, it's still me.
- If you're gonna build
a relationship,
it's got to be built
on trust, though.
- Right.
- You did lie.
She's a little hurt.
- She thought you guys
were in a relationship.
- Solid in a relationship.
In my heart, we was.
But being the fact that,
you know, she's so far away,
I got stuff going on here.
- Well, sure.
- She was gone. I had in-house
girls that I could,
you know, have sex with
and do all that stuff,
so it was like, yo,
you way up down here.
I still got
to get my rocks off, so--
- You're honest.
- He's honest now. I mean--
- Right.
- But how is she--
- So it's over now.
- Look, if I were her,
I'd be saying to myself,
how will I know
that he's not on the Internet
meeting some other girl?
- Throw it right back
what you just said.
Trust.
- Right.
- So that's something you work
on that you rebuild.
It's a process.
- So you're willing
to rebuild her trust?
- Nothing about my life,
nothing about who I am changes.
- But are you in a situation now
where you could really--
- Be in a relationship? Yeah.
- Okay.
- And how do you feel
about Robin?
- I mean, I love her.
I mean, I love her.
I mean, it's like--she's
more like family now.
I mean,
it's been three years, man.
We been talking a long time,
you know what I'm saying?
So that was my escape
from a whole lot of things.
I gave her a part of me that--
she got the most valuable part.
She got my heart.
Nobody else has it.
I mean, I love her.
- And how do you
feel about Robin?
- I mean, I love her.
I mean, I love her.
I mean, it's like--
she's more like family now.
- Do you want to talk for
a second, maybe in the car?
- Yeah.
- Yeah? All right.
- I'll stay here.
- You stay there.
- ♪ Why do I try? ♪
♪ To sabotage myself ♪
- I don't know how to take
this, Max.
- Yeah, it's confusing.
- He just, like--
are you gonna take me,
or he's gonna leave it.
- Yeah.
- Two years ago, you said
you got out of marriage.
I was with you for three years.
When was you gonna tell me this?
- Yeah.
- I'm just being honest.
- I appreciate you just being
real and honest with us now,
but, like, for her,
it's like, well,
if he's so straight-up,
how did we get here?
- ♪ Oh, I won't give you
what you want ♪
- He's so arrogant. Like--
- Well, was he arrogant like
this on the phone?
- No. He was, like, so sweet,
though, like,
"Babe, you know, I love you."
We've both been
in this relationship, you know?
- What do you like about her?
- Her personality, man.
It's like talking to her
is like talking to myself.
With her, it was like
I could have a conversation.
We talking three,
four-hour conversations.
- Look, he's got a lot
of explaining to do.
- Exactly.
- And you have the power,
and he's in the doghouse.
He's gotta [bleep] prove
to you how much he wants it.
- Like, I want a family.
I want that family.
I need to raise my son in a home
that he sees Mom and Dad,
and I want that,
but I want someone
who's not gonna come at me
and say,
"Give me, give me, give me,"
but, "Let's be together
as a team."
It's hard to find those people.
Everybody see all
the materialistic things.
- No, but you're--
- And they think, like,
you so happy,
and I'm really not.
Like, I want a family.
I'm a good guy.
I just want--I just want love.
- Maybe if I just get him
by his self and see--
- That's what I'm thinking.
- See what he got to say.
- Let him try. Audition him.
- Audition him?
- Yeah. Audition him.
Try him out.
Say, "Hey, big man,
you want to prove to me?
Take me out to dinner tonight.
Show me."
- I don't wanna tell him that.
- I'll tell him that.
- You want to tell him?
- Yeah.
- We talked.
One thing he said
that was very revealing
was that, like, yeah,
he's got all this nice stuff,
but that doesn't mean
he's happy.
- Right.
- He wants a family,
he wants a home,
he wants to be with someone
that really can bring love
and stability to his life.
- It's more or less like, hey,
you know, you had the fun,
and you've lived
a blessed life.
I'm trying to, like,
find someone,
continue building what I have,
and whatever she may have,
she want to build,
I invest into that.
Raise our--possibly
another child.
Raise our child, children,
and be happy.
- Everything you're saying
sounds good,
but I think she's over
there being like,
"what the [bleep]?"
You know, if he got divorced
two years ago,
and he's telling me he loves me,
why am I waiting by the phone
like an idiot
when he's off here in Atlanta
having all this fun?
And then it takes me writing in
to some reality show
in order for him
to finally tell me who he is.
I think you gotta show her,
and if you're willing
to show her,
then, you know, like,
take her out to dinner tonight.
- Hey, sweetie, you want
to go on a date with me?
- Sure, Wayne.
- Okay. Well, y'all can just,
you know, go,
and we can go out
and have some dinner
and maybe a drink or something,
and we can talk it over, and--
- All right, Wayne.
This is your chance.
Don't screw it up.
- ♪ We were new to each other
♪ In the city after dark ♪
♪ You were so condescending ♪
♪ You wrote me
and gave me a part ♪
♪ See, I always
gravitate toward ♪
- So, what do you think
about all of this?
♪ ♪
- I don't know.
Out of all of it, I still--
If you say that you love me,
why you ain't just pick a time
out of your day
to just tell me the truth?
- ♪ It's easy to what I know ♪
- I mean, I meant no harm
in trying to hurt you or,
like, I mean, I'm sorry
for the way it played out with,
you know, you getting hurt,
but I promise you,
I didn't mean it
to happen that way.
But let's start over
fresh--completely friends.
- That's exactly
what I was gonna say.
- Completely friends.
- We can start over. Deal?
- Deal. Cool? Cool.
But, I mean,
there's certain stipulations
and things
that I got going on,
you know what I mean?
As far as, like, I ain't never
just been solid
committed to one girl.
I like to have more
than one girlfriend at a time.
Not saying she's over there
and she's over here,
but we could be, like,
one happy family--
we all in the same household,
living in the same home,
you know what I mean?
Me and you, somebody else.
- Okay.
That is not my cup of tea.
- I'ma be me,
so I'm giving you me.
You want me,
so I'm giving you me.
- Yeah. You.
Not you and another female.
No. No. That's not--
you're not giving me you.
You're giving me you
and somebody else.
- I'm a very sexual guy.
Like, I'm a man.
So if you ain't here, baby,
you'd best believe
somebody's gonna scratch
that itch,
so this is part of who I am,
you know what I mean?
- Yeah, well,
it's not gonna happen.
♪ ♪
[knock at door]
- Anyone in here? Hello?
- I hope not.
[both laugh]
- Okay. Okay.
How you feeling?
- Fine.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- How'd it go?
- He was a ass[bleep].
- What?
- Everything changed yesterday.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- What did he do?
- Tell us what happened.
- After we sat down,
we was talking, and he like,
"Well, guess what.
"If you want to be with me,
you have to be with me
and another female too sleeping
in the bed as a family."
♪ ♪
You know, and I'm like,
Hell no, the hell
I ain't finna be with you. No.
- This guy's a dog.
- At least
he's not pretending
to be Prince Charming.
- But he did that
for a long time.
Finally, when she...
- I guess that's true.
Right. Right.
- ...Does what she needs to do
to get in front of him,
now he's honest.
- Now--right.
- I can't deal with him.
He was something else.
- Well, I have
some questions for him.
- Let's go over there, say
good-bye to this guy,
and be done with this.
- Yep.
- Maybe you could just
marry him, and then, boom!
Drive the Maserati home.
- [laughs]
- All right.
Let's get some answers,
- Yeah.
- And let's get the hell
out of here.
- Yeah.
Okay, I'm trying to
run fast, man.
[laughter]
[knock at door]
- Oh. Hey, morning.
- Good morning.
- How you doing?
- What's good?
- Can we come in
and chat a little?
- Yeah. Sure.
- Wow.
- Look at this.
This is real nice.
- Thank you.
- All right. Let's sit down.
So, we heard a little bit
about last night.
How do you feel about things?
- I want to be with her,
I want to,
you know--through
the whole nine,
but just,
I want two girlfriends.
[tense music]
We all sleep in the same bed,
we all one relationship,
we all one family.
- Yeah, but time out.
Wouldn't your love for Robin--
isn't that something
from your heart?
Isn't that, like--
isn't that real?
- I do care about you, you know?
And I don't want you to just
not be a part of my life,
you know what I'm saying?
Maybe this is just a point that
we're just not
gonna see eye to eye.
It's okay to disagree.
It doesn't mean I don't love you
or I don't care about you.
- What I'm not clear about
is why are you passing on
an opportunity--
even though it might mean
sacrificing what you want--
- It's not that
I'm passing it up.
I'm giving what no one gives.
I'm giving honesty.
I want to be honest and not
force her into something.
One of the biggest mistakes
that we make as people--
we try to change people,
and that's not fair in life.
Because eventually they can
only play that role for so long,
so with me,
I give you me up front,
so there's no surprises later.
- Any thoughts?
- I don't have nothing to say.
We just not gonna be friends.
We're not gonna be
in a relationship.
- We're not gonna be nothing?
- I'm not taking it.
No. Well, we could be friends.
Yeah.
'Cause I'll be there
and you'll be here.
- Yeah. I mean, I'll come out
and visit sometime,
and take you to go out and--
- Yeah, we can just kick it
and go out,
and then I'll go my way,
you go back your way.
We're not having sex.
It's not gonna happen.
- Well, I mean, it's cool.
I mean--
- All right.
Come on, walk us out.
- We'll go to the car. You guys
say kind of your last good-bye.
Nice to meet you, Wayne.
- Okay.
- ♪ Call me up
from out of town ♪
- I'm sorry I had to put you
through all this, man.
I'm sorry.
- ♪ Haven't even said
your name in days ♪
- Bye.
- All right. See you.
- ♪ Ooh, ooh, ahh ♪
- All right, Robin.
How do you feel about that?
Any regrets?
- No, not really.
I'm glad he was honest with,
you know, everything,
but I don't know,
I just hope he can grow up to be
a grown man like he say he is.
- Good for you.
You stood up for yourself.
You'll find a good man.
- Yeah. I need to go get
a old pastor or some--no.
[laughter]
[phone line trilling]
- Hello!
- Hi.
- Hey, Robin. How are you?
- I'm fine.
- All right, so we've got
Max on the line.
- Are you taking to Wayne?
- We've been talking.
- And is there
a potential future
with Wayne at all, you think?
- If you move to the North Pole,
the days there are very long.
You could just have day.
So is it safe to say
that you are not on Team Skyler?
- Yeah, I'm not Team Wayne
nor Team Skyler.
- All right, Robin.
Have a great summer, okay?
[phone line trilling]
- What's up, man?
- What up?
What's been going on
since we filmed?
- I've been talking to Robin
or whatnot.
We decided to just be friends
and not take things
to the next level, you know?
I put it on the table what I
want, you know what I mean?
- Tell us, is there an update?
- No, I have nobody yet,
but, I mean, I'm looking,
and I want what I want,
you know what I mean?
So I'm gonna get it.
- Good luck with that.
- All right, man.
- Later.
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00:41:15.
three years ago
on Facebook group chat."
- Have you ever sent him money?
- Just $300.
- No!
- Oh, boy.
- Oh! We got it.
- That's him.
- Oh, that's him.
- We are gonna catch this guy.
Oh, hold on.
Here's a car.
- Oh, wow.
- Could that be Wayne?
- What is happening?
- What?
[dramatic musical sting]
- Whoa!
- Whoo!
both: Wow!
- Wow!
- Oh, look at on the desk.
Oh, my God. It's on the desk.
- This is the world that most of
the hopefuls are living in,
and then we come in,
and we do this: plow!
- All right, fun's over.
Now we gotta clean up.
- This is the cleanest this room
has ever been.
- Hey, oh. Email. Got an email.
"I can't even
reach the guy I love."
Well, maybe she's got
short arms.
- [laughs]
- "Dear Nev and Max,
"my name is Robin.
"I am 31 years old and live
in St. Paul, Minnesota.
"I met a guy named Wayne
three years ago
on Facebook group chat."
- ♪ There you are
after all ♪
- "His name is Wayne Cannon
and he lives
in Atlanta, Georgia."
- ♪ This time ♪
- "From the beginning, Wayne was
unlike anyone I have ever known.
"He was sexy and flirtatious,
caring and funny,
"and he always knew
what to tell me
"when I was having an off day.
Weeks turned into months
and I fell in love with him."
- ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
- Wow. "Once the love seeped in,
"I began to second-guess
"some of Wayne's odd behavior
"I had been previously ignoring.
"For starters, he would
never want to video chat.
"I would always ask him to,
and he would always agree,
"but when the time
came, crickets.
[dramatic music]
"I would ask him
what was going on,
"but he would just say
he's going through 'stuff.'
"Almost a year into us talking,
Wayne suddenly began to call me
from private numbers."
- Oh, no.
- Oh, boy.
"This became the new norm.
It's been three years.
Please, guys.
I need your help."
Wow.
- Okay, so his name is Wayne,
He's very mysterious, right?
He disappears all the time.
- That's right.
- She could be in love
with Batman.
- Is Robin talking to Batman?
Robin!
Oh, my God. It is.
It has to be. It is!
[dramatic theme music]
I think we should call her
and find out a little bit more.
- All right.
Here we go.
- Be cool. Be cool.
both: Hey.
- How you doing?
- I'm fine.
- What do you do for work?
Do you like taking care
of people?
- Yeah. From, like,
kids to adults.
- I have a baby.
You wanna watch her?
- Yeah. That's what I do.
I watch kids and send them
back to they parents.
- So we saw your email.
Can you tell us
a little bit more about Wayne?
- Well, like, we met in
a Facebook group,
and it was, like, post
your pictures, they rate you.
You know, they comment
if you're cute or whatever.
He was, like, the first one
liking all my pictures,
so we took it to the inbox.
That's when he gave me
his number.
Oh, my God, it just was
like butterflies in the stomach.
I mean, I loved his voice,
because it's deep, you know?
It's like somebody
singing in my ear.
- And he's really hot.
- Yeah.
[laughter]
- What does he look like?
- On his profile, he got, like,
a long haircut, muscle-bound.
Put some baby oil on him
he'd be the-- [snaps]
- Okay, so you started talking
to this guy,
and then what happened?
- We was talking and then
we was texting,
and then all of a sudden,
he just disappeared.
And then here come the private--
these private calls, you know?
He said his phone was broken.
- So for most of
the relationship,
he's been a private caller.
- Yes.
- So that means
you don't have his number.
- No.
- So at this point,
what are you thinking?
- I just want him.
This is somebody that I was
in a relationship with.
- Have you ever sent him money?
- Yeah.
- How much?
- Just $300.
- Just $300?
- It was for him to get a phone.
- And?
- When he called me one day
on the private number,
I asked him.
"I sent you money,
Like, where's the phone?"
- Robin, Robin,
he's definitely not being
totally honest with you.
- I don't know,
I be thinking it too.
- We need to find out...
- Yeah.
- ...Who he is.
- And I need some answers
from this dude.
- I think we figured out
who you're talking to.
Are you familiar
with the superhero Batman?
His real name is Bruce Wayne.
- Really?
Well, he's Batman
and I'm Robin, so here we go.
- Perfect. So we will
meet you in Minneapolis.
And whatever we have to do,
we're gonna meet this guy.
- Batman Cave here we come, huh?
- Exactly.
All right, bye, Robin.
- Bye.
Okay. This doesn't look so good.
- Yeah, we gotta go help her.
- We need to go help her.
- Let's do it.
- All right.
- ♪ Come on and move yourself ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Let's go ♪
[horns honking]
- Here we are
in beautiful St. Paul.
Robin's great.
I like her energy.
She deserves love.
I want her to find that.
- ♪ Come on and move yourself ♪
- So far, I have to admit,
it's a little bleak.
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh. Oh.
- Oh!
- Is she just waiting outside?
- There she is.
That's so nice.
No one ever greets us.
- No.
- Hey, oh.
- Hi.
- Look at this.
Huh? Gorgeous.
- It's nice out here today.
- Hey. Should we go in?
I mean, I'd sit outsideall day.
- It is nice out.
- But we've got business.
Come on, let's get to it.
This is nice.
- This is great.
- I want to introduce you
to your catfish.
- [laughs]
- This is Wayne.
And his profile picture--
that could be fake,
but his feelings for you
are real.
- [laughs]
- So you met Wayne...
- Mm-hmm.
- ...In a Facebook chat room.
- It was like a meeting
group--a flirt and meet
type of group.
- Flirt and meet.
- Huh?
- It's like Slip 'N Slide.
- Yeah. I guess you gon'
slip and slide in somebody's
DMs, I guess.
I don't know.
You know, I was trying to flirt
with somebody else,
but every time
I posted a picture,
this man was liking it.
He was not giving up neither.
He's like, "You so cute," like,
oh, my God, just so gorgeous.
- This guy totally wore you down
with persistence and flattery.
- Yes.
- Can we see the picture?
Do you have it?
Yeah, that's a handsome,
built guy.
- Yeah.
- He must work out.
- He works out.
- But things were good
for a while.
- Mm-hmm. That's when I asked
him to video chat.
- Okay.
- He didn't want to, or just
he couldn't talk right now.
- I mean, a guy with a face
like that should be FaceTiming--
- Show it to the world.
- Yeah.
- He should pick that
phone up and be like--
- "Look at my face!"
And then, for some reason,
you started getting calls
from private numbers.
- Yeah.
- What happened to his phone
and his phone number?
- He said that it was broken.
He's like,
"I got to get a new phone."
- But then he asked you
for money.
- No, I offered.
"Do you need help?"
You know, get him one.
- You're like, "Well, I want
to FaceTime with you, so..."
- Right.
- "I got 300 bucks for you"?
- Yeah.
Here come that
private number again.
I'm like, "So, why are you
calling me like this?"
It was ridiculous.
- He's not the guy
in the picture.
It's not him.
- This super handsome guy--like,
you got to know it's not him.
- I don't want to believe that.
- You called us because
you're at the end of your rope.
- Yeah.
- When you first started
talking,
you had a number,
and you still have that number.
- Yeah.
- But does it work anymore?
- I don't know.
I haven't tried it.
- So you're just, like, afraid
to even look into this.
- I am, because I don't
want to see
if, you know,
it's the wrong thing.
- If it's fake.
- Yeah.
- So look, why don't I call
that number from my phone.
He doesn't know my number.
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, I feel like
we might as well see
if it's still active, right?
- Yeah.
- Here we go.
Let's see what happens.
[phone line trilling]
- Oh, wait, it's ringing.
- It is ringing.
Sounds like it's
an active number.
- Hello?
- Hey, uh, is this Wayne?
[phone line trilling]
- Sounds like
it's an active number.
- Hey, uh, is the Wayne?
- Oh, okay.
Do you have his new number?
- Oh, that's fine.
My name is Nev.
- And what was your name?
- Sean. How do you know Wayne?
- Oh. Oh, well that makes sense.
Well, if you could tell Wayne
to give me a call.
- Thanks, Sean.
- Okay. Bye.
- Whoa.
- Wait a second.
- So his brother is Sean.
- Has he ever talked
about his brother?
- No.
- That wasn't Wayne's voice?
- No. It's not his voice.
- But he has his old phone.
- He's using Wayne's old phone.
So Wayne's a real person
with the name Wayne.
- Right.
- I mean,
that's good information.
- All right, well, look.
We're gonna take everything
we have, do some research,
and then we'll let you
know what we find.
- There's some weird stuff
going on here.
- You said it.
All right, so let's go do
some investigation,
so we'll call you
if we have questions,
and then we'll let you know.
See you later.
- Bye.
- What do you think, Max?
- [sighs] I mean, I think
she's in denial.
She knows that it's too good
to be true,
and she doesn't want
to find out.
She's going on very little.
- Right. All right, we got to do
a little investigation.
Let's crack this case.
All right, let's just
search this picture.
- No way is it this guy.
- Come on.
- Oh! We got it.
- We are gonna catch this guy.
This guy is on,
like, a zillion...
- Yeah. Keep going.
How many--look.
There's three pages of hits.Okay.
- I mean.
- So who is this guy?
Let's find out.
- Well, here's the picture
of him one of these websites,
and the tag is
"underscore koree"
Let's look that up.
"Underscore koree.
That's him.
- Oh, that's him.
- The Real Koree.
- Koree [bleep].
That's who he is.
- So in addition to not
being Wayne from Atlanta...
- He seems to be Koree
from Mississippi,
and he's not into girls.
- All right. I think we got
to reach out to this guy.
- All right.
- Let's do video.
Okay. Hey, Koree.
This is Nev and Max.
- Hey, Koree.
- From the MTV show "Catfish."
I think someone's using
your pictures
and talking to a girl here
that we're trying to help,
so get back to us.
We'd like to talk
if you have a minute.
- Thank you.
- So I guess we should search
the phone number...
- Yeah.
- Right?
'Cause we know
the picture's not him.
Let's see who his old
phone number's registered to.
- Sure.
- Phone search.
Boom. What do we got?
What do we got?
- What--oh. Jessie [bleep].
Look at that.
Came up to Jessie [bleep].
- Jessie [bleep].
- Look up Jessie [bleep].
This is a lot.
- Well, most of them are women.
- Why don't we just do
due diligence
and look for
a Wayne Cannon.
- Okay.
- There are some Wayne Cannons.
- He does not look friendly.
Something creepy
about him, I think.
- Wayne B. Cannon. Who's that?
- Oh, boy. I bet you--
- If I were to draw a picture
of what this catfish
could look like.
- This is it.
- Yeah.
- Oh, wait a second--
from Madison, Wisconsin.
- We didn't try Sean Cannon.
It's his brother.
- All right, let's look up Sean.
- Sean Cannon, Atlanta.
- Oh, we got one Sean Cannon.
- Yeah.
- Is he friends with a Wayne?
- Oh. Wayne [bleep].
- Whoa.
- Interesting. Who is this?
He's not quite Cannon.
Could be brother
from another mother.
- Could be brother
from another mother.
Okay, so we know it's not
the guy in the pictures,
but beyond that,
what do we know?
- Phone comes back to a family
of people
with the last name [bleep],
but I don't know
what else there is to do there.
Let's show Robin
what we've found,
see if any of it
makes any sense to her,
and then I guess figure out
if we can get in touch with him.
I mean, the guy in the picture
is a very different person
altogether.
- She's gonna be--she's
gonna be hurt.
- We got to tell Robin
some of the bad news.
- It's so hard for me to believe
that she really thought,
after three years,
she was talking to that guy.
- It's just wishful thinking
taken to the extreme.
[phone ringing]
Oh, whoa. We're getting a call.
- 812.
- It's from Albany, Indiana.
Hello?
both: Yes.
- Yes. Hey, Koree, it's Nev
and Max from "Catfish."
- I'm sure you have.
You must have a ton of people
using pictures of you
on the Internet.
- Well then,
it wouldn't surprise you to know
that we're actually speaking
with a young lady
named Robin
who believes she's been
in a relationship
with a guy named Wayne
who's been using your profile
picture for three years.
- Would you mind if we video
chatted you with this girl,
Robin, just so she can
get visual confirmation
that you are not the guy
she's been talking to?
- Thanks, Koree.
- All right. Bye.
- Wow. All right, well,
that's good, I guess.
All right.
- You ready to do this?
- Yeah.
- All right.
♪ ♪
[knocking]
- Yo.
- Hey.
- Hi. [chuckles]
- All right.
- Twice in one day.
- Yeah.
- We did some research.
We found some stuff.
It's nothing concrete.
- Right.
- The only real piece
of evidence was the phone number
that he used to use and now
"his brother," Sean, uses.
- Right.
- So, we did a little search.
First hit came back...
- Jessie [bleep].
- Do you know that name?
- Someone named Jessie [bleep].
- No.
- No. Interesting.
Okay, so, you thought you were
talking to a Wayne Cannon.
- Mm-hmm.
- We called the number and spoke
to his brother, Sean.
- Mm-hmm.
- We found a Sean in Atlanta,
and he has a friend
named Wayne [bleep]
who he says is his brother,
but a different last name.
- Could be a brother
from another mother.
both: Right.
- Wayne [bleep].
We thought maybe we'd show
that to you and you'd be like,
"Oh, my God, yes."
- I can't say that.
I just don't--
- All right, well,
the only thing we did find
was not great.
So we downloaded
that picture of Wayne.
- Mm-hmm.
- And we did an image search,
and we found this
Instagram--Koree.
63,000 followers.
But you've never seen,
obviously,
any of these pictures.
- Mm-mm.
- You've never heard
of this guy, Koree.
- No.
- Just to be 100% sure
that the guy in the pictures
is actually this guy Koree,
we reached out to him,
and he said
he could FaceTime with us.
Let's see.
[phone line trilling]
Hello.
- Hi.
- I'm here with Max.
- Hey.
- And we want to introduce you
to Robin.
Both: Hi.
- How are you?
- I'm good. And yourself?
- I'm good.
I really don't know what to say.
I truly am sorry.
I too have been catfished,
so I definitely know
how it feels.
My heart goes out to you.
I'm truly, truly, truly sorry,
but it's not me.
- ♪ You can't hold me down ♪
- Best of luck to you.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Thanks, Koree.
- Thank you, Koree.
- All right. Thank you so much.
- Bye.
- ♪ Because I need
an answer, love ♪
- Mm. Now I know it's not him.
- Not him.
- How does that feel now?
- ♪ And you say way too much ♪
- I mean, it's heartbreaking.
- ♪ But still I need
an answer, love ♪
♪ Still I need an answer, love ♪
- So, what do you want to do?
- I just want answers--the truth
about everything, you know?
- The only real thing we have
is an Atlanta phone number.
I think we should plan
on going to Atlanta.
I mean look, we could try
and find this guy,
and he took your money,
he took your time.
- He basically took my life.
Shoot. That's how I feel.
- Okay. Let's plan
on leaving tomorrow morning.
- Bring your game face.
- All right.
- Bye.
- What do you say? I mean,
she's been deluding herself,
and now the reality
has come crashing down upon her.
- I have a feeling
she's trying to play it cool,
but there's nothing
cool about this.
[phone ringing]
- Oh.
- Georgia.
- All right, Georgia.
That's our number.
- That's a new number.
- Yeah, it is.
Hello?
[phone ringing]
- Oh. Hello?
- Yeah. We are. This is Max
and Nev from "Catfish."
Is this Wayne on the phone?
- How you doing, man?
We are with a girl named Robin
who's been talking to you
for a while.
Do you know who Robin is?
- She is pretty anxious
to kind of know
who you are
and what your story is.
- Well, look.
We're trying to help her.
She cares deeply about you.
- So look, Wayne,
what we're trying to say
is we already figured out,
you know, that the picture
you used three years ago
when you met Robin isn't you.
- [laughs]
- So she knows that ain't you,
and she's a little upset,
but we want to meet up with you.
Can we do that?
- Okay. We could meet you
wherever you want, man.
- All right, well, look,
we're gonna hit you up
when we get to Atlanta, okay?
- All right.
- That doesn't sound good.
- Well, it didn't sound like
he cared that much.
- No. I mean, he laughed.
He was very light
about the whole thing.
- So that doesn't bode well
for Robin or us.
- All right,
so let's call Robin.
[phone line trilling]
- Robin.
- Hey, so we just got off
the phone with Wayne.
He said he's in Atlanta,
and that if we come down there,
he'll meet up with us.
- Is that still something
you think you want to do?
- Get, you know, a bag together
and we'll pick you up
in the morning.
- Okay.
All right, well,
I guess we'll
just have to see how it goes.
- Maybe it'll work out.
- Okay.
Packed up and ready to go.
Let's do this.
♪ ♪
- Yo.
- You ready to go to Atlanta?
- Yeah.
- Let's do it.
You nervous to meet this guy?
- Yeah. I just want to know,
why did you--
you know, why he did it.
Stringing me along for this
long time.
That's how I feel.
- ♪ Sweet talk,
everything you say ♪
♪ It sounds like
sweet talk ♪
- Maybe we should just go back
to L.A.
Forget this guy.
- [laughs]
- ♪ Won't you stay away? ♪
♪ It'd still be
sweet talk to my ears ♪
♪ ♪
[phone chimes]
- Oh.
- Well, we got
a message from Wayne.
- We got something.
What's it say, Robin?
"I'ma be a few minutes late.
I was doing something
for my kid."
- Uh-oh.
- "I'm on the way."
- What?
- So he has a kid.
- Uhh.
- [scoffs]
- Did you know that
he had a kid?
- No.
I want to know
who house this is over here.
- Yeah. These are nice houses.
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Not bad.
- This guy doesn't look like
he needs $300 for an iPhone.
- Is there, like, a shack
at the end of the street?
- There it is. No, this is it.
This is--
- Damn.
- Okay.
- You got a Suburban and a--
- An Audi with some rims.
- ...Audi.
- No--there's no way this
is his house.
- But what's with the $300?
- Exactly.
- Oh. Hold on. Here's a car.
It's a Maserati.
- Oh, wow.
- Is that pulling up
to this house right now?
- Damn.
- Is that--
- Could that be Wayne?
In a Maserati?
Could it be?
What is happening?
- [gasps]
- What?
- Is this the guy?
- He's getting out of the car.
- Should we--should I get out?
- Yeah.
- How you doing?
- Sup?
- What's your name?
- Wayne.
- You're Wayne?
- Yeah.
- I'm Max.
- What's up?
- Hey, man.
- How you doing?
- Nev.
- What's up?
- How you doing?
- What's going on?
- This is Robin.
- You're the one
we've been texting with?
- Yeah.
- And who's been talking to her
for the last three years.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
And this is your place?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- So, what--
- Who--
- Yeah.
- So, what--
both: What's the story?
- I mean, I'm pretty
sure y'all already know.
- We don't.
- Not really.
- We have no idea, to be honest.
All we found out was that you
weren't the guy in the pictures.
- I mean, it's a reason
for everything, so...
- What's Team Skyler?
- Oh, that's my company.
We do a lot of work
in the community.
We do motivation speaking.
I do investments,
and I do a whole lot.
- So, wait. Okay. So I want
to hear more about that later.
So what's with the weird
cell phone business
and the fake picture?
I don't get it.
- Yeah, I mean,
it's more or less
like I wanted to know
that she was
who she said she is.
Like, I want to know
that she was real.
I mean, people see the house,
they see they car, they see
the materialistic things,
and people be fake with you,
so dealing with Robin
was something that was solid,
you know what I'm saying?
It was like she didn't see
all the materialistic stuff.
She liked me for me, so--
- Wait a minute...
- Wait, really?
- Hold on. Hold on.
- Wait, really?
- Really.
- Then what's with
the fake picture?
- The fake picture came about
because before she seen me
in the beginning,
I overheard a conversation
she said about somebody--
she liked it,
and it wasn't me.
- You saw the picture of the guy
she was liking in the chat room
and started flirting with her.
- Yeah, and I just went with it.
- But did you post that photo?
- No.
- No. So someone else
put that up.
- No. Someone else
posted the photo.
- Did you say that was you?
- Yeah. I said it was me
'cause I thought that what
she liked, so I was like,
Okay, cool, 'cause
I really wanna talk to her.
Listen, I just wanted love.
I just wanted to find love.
This was genuine to me.
This was the only female in my
life that was genuine with me.
So it was like,
yo, I like this chick,
you know what I'm saying?
So I was like,
yo, I can be myself,
and that felt good.
- Okay. It's nice
to hear you say that,
but that doesn't explain...
- But that doesn't explain--
- ...The whole cell phone
communication thing.
- Well, the cell phone
communication thing--
I've always, like, been in
relationships and stuff,
you know what I mean?
Like, when I first met her,
I was married,
you know what I mean? So--
- You were married.
- Yeah, I was married,
you know what I'm saying?
With a kid and everything.
So I had other things going on,
so it was like, I can't just
give you direct contact to me.
- So when was you out
this marriage [bleep]?
- That [bleep] ended
[bleep] two years ago.
- Okay.
- So after that, though,
after you guys got divorced
or separated or whatever,
like, you could have given
Robin your number.
- Yeah, I could have,
but things had got
too deep at that point.
See, I left that marriage and
was dealing with someone else.
I've always had, like,
a whole lot of girlfriends,
you know what I mean?
So it was too much piled
on top where it's like,
yo, how do I tell her this?
'Cause maybe if I tell her,
maybe she may back off.
and then it was like, damn.
I didn't want to lose her
like that.
She was just always like my,
you know, silent situation
over here, you dig?
Even to me having her send me
more money at one point in time.
That comes from me
wanting to know
if she was really
liking me for me.
- You got the money, and then--
- You ain't never get the phone.
- Well, I had a phone,
'cause I didn't need a phone.
They were just trying
to see, like--
- It was like a test.
- A test to see,
would she do it,
you know what I mean?
- Yeah, but then you kind
of left her high and dry.
- [laughs]
- What do you make of all this?
- I don't know.
- 'Cause this is like--
- It's stupid.
You was just lying. Just lying.
Why you just waited
for three years--
- 'Cause I couldn't--
listen, listen.
- No, no. Listen.
Three years you waited
to just keep stringing
and stringing
and stringing me along
like a little old dog
or whatever on the leash.
- You're here now, sweetie.
You gonna come home or not?
Which one you want?
Do you want the Maserati
or the Audi?
- [chuckles]
- I'm just saying. Look at it as
a blessing, [bleep].
- I'm gonna go out on
a limb here, and I'm gonna say
you might want to just throw
in an apology to Robin.
- Well, I mean, we're getting
to that, but--
- Okay. Okay.
- I mean, we gonna get to that.
- As long as you get to it.
- I'm waiting for it.
- Yeah.
- Okay, listen, we here now.
I'm sorry. [bleep] happens.
Life happens,
you know what I mean?
So it is what it is.
I'm here now.
You gonna take it
or you gonna leave it?
- Stop telling me if I'm gonna
take it or leave it.
- I mean, 'cause at the end of
the day, life goes on, though.
- It ain't about taking it
or leaving it.
- No, this is what I'm saying:
life goes on,
so I am Wayne,
you understand what I'm saying?
That smart, wise, intelligent
person that she talked to,
that guy that she liked--
that's me, it's still me.
I mean, it's still me.
- If you're gonna build
a relationship,
it's got to be built
on trust, though.
- Right.
- You did lie.
She's a little hurt.
- She thought you guys
were in a relationship.
- Solid in a relationship.
In my heart, we was.
But being the fact that,
you know, she's so far away,
I got stuff going on here.
- Well, sure.
- She was gone. I had in-house
girls that I could,
you know, have sex with
and do all that stuff,
so it was like, yo,
you way up down here.
I still got
to get my rocks off, so--
- You're honest.
- He's honest now. I mean--
- Right.
- But how is she--
- So it's over now.
- Look, if I were her,
I'd be saying to myself,
how will I know
that he's not on the Internet
meeting some other girl?
- Throw it right back
what you just said.
Trust.
- Right.
- So that's something you work
on that you rebuild.
It's a process.
- So you're willing
to rebuild her trust?
- Nothing about my life,
nothing about who I am changes.
- But are you in a situation now
where you could really--
- Be in a relationship? Yeah.
- Okay.
- And how do you feel
about Robin?
- I mean, I love her.
I mean, I love her.
I mean, it's like--she's
more like family now.
I mean,
it's been three years, man.
We been talking a long time,
you know what I'm saying?
So that was my escape
from a whole lot of things.
I gave her a part of me that--
she got the most valuable part.
She got my heart.
Nobody else has it.
I mean, I love her.
- And how do you
feel about Robin?
- I mean, I love her.
I mean, I love her.
I mean, it's like--
she's more like family now.
- Do you want to talk for
a second, maybe in the car?
- Yeah.
- Yeah? All right.
- I'll stay here.
- You stay there.
- ♪ Why do I try? ♪
♪ To sabotage myself ♪
- I don't know how to take
this, Max.
- Yeah, it's confusing.
- He just, like--
are you gonna take me,
or he's gonna leave it.
- Yeah.
- Two years ago, you said
you got out of marriage.
I was with you for three years.
When was you gonna tell me this?
- Yeah.
- I'm just being honest.
- I appreciate you just being
real and honest with us now,
but, like, for her,
it's like, well,
if he's so straight-up,
how did we get here?
- ♪ Oh, I won't give you
what you want ♪
- He's so arrogant. Like--
- Well, was he arrogant like
this on the phone?
- No. He was, like, so sweet,
though, like,
"Babe, you know, I love you."
We've both been
in this relationship, you know?
- What do you like about her?
- Her personality, man.
It's like talking to her
is like talking to myself.
With her, it was like
I could have a conversation.
We talking three,
four-hour conversations.
- Look, he's got a lot
of explaining to do.
- Exactly.
- And you have the power,
and he's in the doghouse.
He's gotta [bleep] prove
to you how much he wants it.
- Like, I want a family.
I want that family.
I need to raise my son in a home
that he sees Mom and Dad,
and I want that,
but I want someone
who's not gonna come at me
and say,
"Give me, give me, give me,"
but, "Let's be together
as a team."
It's hard to find those people.
Everybody see all
the materialistic things.
- No, but you're--
- And they think, like,
you so happy,
and I'm really not.
Like, I want a family.
I'm a good guy.
I just want--I just want love.
- Maybe if I just get him
by his self and see--
- That's what I'm thinking.
- See what he got to say.
- Let him try. Audition him.
- Audition him?
- Yeah. Audition him.
Try him out.
Say, "Hey, big man,
you want to prove to me?
Take me out to dinner tonight.
Show me."
- I don't wanna tell him that.
- I'll tell him that.
- You want to tell him?
- Yeah.
- We talked.
One thing he said
that was very revealing
was that, like, yeah,
he's got all this nice stuff,
but that doesn't mean
he's happy.
- Right.
- He wants a family,
he wants a home,
he wants to be with someone
that really can bring love
and stability to his life.
- It's more or less like, hey,
you know, you had the fun,
and you've lived
a blessed life.
I'm trying to, like,
find someone,
continue building what I have,
and whatever she may have,
she want to build,
I invest into that.
Raise our--possibly
another child.
Raise our child, children,
and be happy.
- Everything you're saying
sounds good,
but I think she's over
there being like,
"what the [bleep]?"
You know, if he got divorced
two years ago,
and he's telling me he loves me,
why am I waiting by the phone
like an idiot
when he's off here in Atlanta
having all this fun?
And then it takes me writing in
to some reality show
in order for him
to finally tell me who he is.
I think you gotta show her,
and if you're willing
to show her,
then, you know, like,
take her out to dinner tonight.
- Hey, sweetie, you want
to go on a date with me?
- Sure, Wayne.
- Okay. Well, y'all can just,
you know, go,
and we can go out
and have some dinner
and maybe a drink or something,
and we can talk it over, and--
- All right, Wayne.
This is your chance.
Don't screw it up.
- ♪ We were new to each other
♪ In the city after dark ♪
♪ You were so condescending ♪
♪ You wrote me
and gave me a part ♪
♪ See, I always
gravitate toward ♪
- So, what do you think
about all of this?
♪ ♪
- I don't know.
Out of all of it, I still--
If you say that you love me,
why you ain't just pick a time
out of your day
to just tell me the truth?
- ♪ It's easy to what I know ♪
- I mean, I meant no harm
in trying to hurt you or,
like, I mean, I'm sorry
for the way it played out with,
you know, you getting hurt,
but I promise you,
I didn't mean it
to happen that way.
But let's start over
fresh--completely friends.
- That's exactly
what I was gonna say.
- Completely friends.
- We can start over. Deal?
- Deal. Cool? Cool.
But, I mean,
there's certain stipulations
and things
that I got going on,
you know what I mean?
As far as, like, I ain't never
just been solid
committed to one girl.
I like to have more
than one girlfriend at a time.
Not saying she's over there
and she's over here,
but we could be, like,
one happy family--
we all in the same household,
living in the same home,
you know what I mean?
Me and you, somebody else.
- Okay.
That is not my cup of tea.
- I'ma be me,
so I'm giving you me.
You want me,
so I'm giving you me.
- Yeah. You.
Not you and another female.
No. No. That's not--
you're not giving me you.
You're giving me you
and somebody else.
- I'm a very sexual guy.
Like, I'm a man.
So if you ain't here, baby,
you'd best believe
somebody's gonna scratch
that itch,
so this is part of who I am,
you know what I mean?
- Yeah, well,
it's not gonna happen.
♪ ♪
[knock at door]
- Anyone in here? Hello?
- I hope not.
[both laugh]
- Okay. Okay.
How you feeling?
- Fine.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- How'd it go?
- He was a ass[bleep].
- What?
- Everything changed yesterday.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- What did he do?
- Tell us what happened.
- After we sat down,
we was talking, and he like,
"Well, guess what.
"If you want to be with me,
you have to be with me
and another female too sleeping
in the bed as a family."
♪ ♪
You know, and I'm like,
Hell no, the hell
I ain't finna be with you. No.
- This guy's a dog.
- At least
he's not pretending
to be Prince Charming.
- But he did that
for a long time.
Finally, when she...
- I guess that's true.
Right. Right.
- ...Does what she needs to do
to get in front of him,
now he's honest.
- Now--right.
- I can't deal with him.
He was something else.
- Well, I have
some questions for him.
- Let's go over there, say
good-bye to this guy,
and be done with this.
- Yep.
- Maybe you could just
marry him, and then, boom!
Drive the Maserati home.
- [laughs]
- All right.
Let's get some answers,
- Yeah.
- And let's get the hell
out of here.
- Yeah.
Okay, I'm trying to
run fast, man.
[laughter]
[knock at door]
- Oh. Hey, morning.
- Good morning.
- How you doing?
- What's good?
- Can we come in
and chat a little?
- Yeah. Sure.
- Wow.
- Look at this.
This is real nice.
- Thank you.
- All right. Let's sit down.
So, we heard a little bit
about last night.
How do you feel about things?
- I want to be with her,
I want to,
you know--through
the whole nine,
but just,
I want two girlfriends.
[tense music]
We all sleep in the same bed,
we all one relationship,
we all one family.
- Yeah, but time out.
Wouldn't your love for Robin--
isn't that something
from your heart?
Isn't that, like--
isn't that real?
- I do care about you, you know?
And I don't want you to just
not be a part of my life,
you know what I'm saying?
Maybe this is just a point that
we're just not
gonna see eye to eye.
It's okay to disagree.
It doesn't mean I don't love you
or I don't care about you.
- What I'm not clear about
is why are you passing on
an opportunity--
even though it might mean
sacrificing what you want--
- It's not that
I'm passing it up.
I'm giving what no one gives.
I'm giving honesty.
I want to be honest and not
force her into something.
One of the biggest mistakes
that we make as people--
we try to change people,
and that's not fair in life.
Because eventually they can
only play that role for so long,
so with me,
I give you me up front,
so there's no surprises later.
- Any thoughts?
- I don't have nothing to say.
We just not gonna be friends.
We're not gonna be
in a relationship.
- We're not gonna be nothing?
- I'm not taking it.
No. Well, we could be friends.
Yeah.
'Cause I'll be there
and you'll be here.
- Yeah. I mean, I'll come out
and visit sometime,
and take you to go out and--
- Yeah, we can just kick it
and go out,
and then I'll go my way,
you go back your way.
We're not having sex.
It's not gonna happen.
- Well, I mean, it's cool.
I mean--
- All right.
Come on, walk us out.
- We'll go to the car. You guys
say kind of your last good-bye.
Nice to meet you, Wayne.
- Okay.
- ♪ Call me up
from out of town ♪
- I'm sorry I had to put you
through all this, man.
I'm sorry.
- ♪ Haven't even said
your name in days ♪
- Bye.
- All right. See you.
- ♪ Ooh, ooh, ahh ♪
- All right, Robin.
How do you feel about that?
Any regrets?
- No, not really.
I'm glad he was honest with,
you know, everything,
but I don't know,
I just hope he can grow up to be
a grown man like he say he is.
- Good for you.
You stood up for yourself.
You'll find a good man.
- Yeah. I need to go get
a old pastor or some--no.
[laughter]
[phone line trilling]
- Hello!
- Hi.
- Hey, Robin. How are you?
- I'm fine.
- All right, so we've got
Max on the line.
- Are you taking to Wayne?
- We've been talking.
- And is there
a potential future
with Wayne at all, you think?
- If you move to the North Pole,
the days there are very long.
You could just have day.
So is it safe to say
that you are not on Team Skyler?
- Yeah, I'm not Team Wayne
nor Team Skyler.
- All right, Robin.
Have a great summer, okay?
[phone line trilling]
- What's up, man?
- What up?
What's been going on
since we filmed?
- I've been talking to Robin
or whatnot.
We decided to just be friends
and not take things
to the next level, you know?
I put it on the table what I
want, you know what I mean?
- Tell us, is there an update?
- No, I have nobody yet,
but, I mean, I'm looking,
and I want what I want,
you know what I mean?
So I'm gonna get it.
- Good luck with that.
- All right, man.
- Later.
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