Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 7, Episode 26 - Aubri & Brian - full transcript
Nev and co-host Slick Woods help 19-year-old Aubri search for her Snapchat love, Brian. Brian says he lives at Aubri's college but makes several excuses not to meet. With little to go on, Nev and Slick hit the campus in search of answers.
- Aubri has been talking
to this guy named Brian
on Snapchat.
It's crazy, he goes
to the same school,
and they've never come across
each other.
- I tried to meet up with him
at the rec.
He wasn't there.
- Or he was there,
but you weren't looking
for the right guy.
Park is about
six minutes away.
Oh, who's this?
- Oh, [bleep].
- What the [bleep]?
[dramatic musical sting]
- Very excited
for this week's co-host.
I think a lot of you
are gonna be pumped.
Whoa!
- Yo, what's good?
- Slick.
There she is.
What's up, girl?
At just 22 years old,
Slick Woods has already led
a life on fire.
She's risen from sleeping
on park benches
to walking
international runways
as one of the most
coveted models
in the industry.
She's the face
of fashion lines
from Marc Jacobs and Rihanna
all while being a fierce,
independent mom.
And we're so thrilled
she's bringing
her unique swagger our way
this week.
Welcome to "Catfish."
- I'm about to cut
the bull-[bleep].
I'm gonna be like,
"Big red flag."
- Do we not cut the the bull-
[bleep] adequately as is, or--
- I mean, maybe you just
can't see it the way--
- You need--all right, good,
I love it.
It's been six years I've been
doing this,
so maybe my bull-[bleep]-ometer
is not as sharp
and finely-tuned
as it once was.
- I'll cut the bull-[bleep].
- Cut--all right.
- [laughs]
- So let's see what we got.
We got an email
from Janisa.
- She said,
"Asking for a friend."
- Yeah, exactly.
- [laughs]
- "Hey, Nev"--
and Slick...
- "My name is Janisa,
and I'm a freshman
at Blinn College in Texas.
- ♪ Never knowing
what I wanted ♪
- I live with
three other girls, and I think
one of them
is being catfished.
- Wait, hold on.
Why is she telling
all her friend's business?
- Well, she must be worried
her friend's getting catfished
and she doesn't want
to see that happen.
"Her name is Aubri.
"She's been talking
to this guy named Brian
on Snapchat
for a little over two months."
- ♪ Get out, get out ♪
♪ Get, get, get out ♪
♪ Get, get, get out of here ♪
- "When she told me
about Brian, it sounded like
"she found
a really sweet guy...
- ♪ Going out my mind ♪
- "But it's been
two months now
"and they still haven't met,
and they live
on the same campus."
- ♪ Never knowing
what I wanted ♪
♪ Knowing what I needed
you to do ♪
- Okay, so, wait a second, so--
- They live a hop, skip,
and a jump from each other.
- They're at the same school.
"So when I found out
that Brian hadn't come
"to chill with Aubri yet,
I got nosey
"and began asking
more questions.
"Turns out that they've never
video-chatted
"or talked
on the phone either.
- ♪ Get out of here ♪
- Nah, he's--
he's a fishy-fish.
- "Aubri hasn't told anyone
"about Brian, really,
other than me.
"I think it's because
she might secretly
"be embarrassed by it.
"I'm just worried that Aubri
is stuck in this fantasy world
"and that she's going
to eventually be crushed
by the truth."
- ♪ Get, get,
get out of here ♪
- I think she doesn't want
to be embarrassed.
She been talking
to some random person.
- All right, well, let's call
Aubri's friend, Janisa.
[Skype chiming]
Hello!
- Hello.
- Hi, this is Slick.
- Nice to meet you.
- Slick's gonna help me out
on this episode.
- Hey, cool.
- So, first of all,
how'd you end up
at Blinn College?
- I had a basketball coach
who got me a scholarship
to be a manager here.
- Cool, you have a basketball
management scholarship?
- Yes, sir.
- That's awesome.
- Go ahead.
- All right, so tell us
about Aubri a little bit...
- Okay.
- And--and how this whole
situation came to be.
- Aubri had told me
that a fine dude
had hit her up on Snapchat,
and it said that
he added her by username.
But on her social medias,
I don't think she has
her Snapchat name on there.
So, like, somebody probably
gave it to him,
or something like that.
- And so he hit her up
on Snapchat.
Does that mean he was
sending her pictures?
- Not selfies.
Like, they were Snapchatting,
like, the text message
on Snapchat.
- Right, but how did she know
what he looked like?
- He posts his pictures
on his story.
- Doesn't he go
to the same school as you guys?
- Yes.
- Wouldn't--wouldn't you expect
to, like, see him around?
- Right, so what's his excuse
for never being on campus?
- He's always going home
on the weekends,
or he's busy with homework.
And, like, she's very sweet,
and she tries to, like,
be understanding with him.
Like, everybody's busy,
but, like, you make time
if you want to.
- Yeah.
- Right.
- Brian seems suss.
- And Aubri and--and Brian
haven't talked on the phone,
right?
- No.
- Does she even have his number
or are they just only Snapchat?
- Only has his Snapchat.
- Wow.
- What do you think
Aubri will say
when she finds out that you
reached out to us?
- I feel like
she'll be on board.
Like, especially
if it's, like, meeting him.
- The mystery is--I feel like
is what's stringing her along.
- Yeah.
- All right, so sit tight.
We'll head down there...
- Okay.
- And we'll see you soon.
- Okay, bye-bye.
- Bye.
- Yeah.
She's cute.
I like her.
- What do you think?
What's your instinct tell you?
What's your BS-ometer telling
you right now off the bat?
- I'm thinking...
that Brian is, like,
a real creep or, like--
- Well, the creepiest thing
is that he added her
by her username.
- Yeah, and he knows her.
Or, like, a girl that knows her
is, like, jealous of her
and wants to waste her time.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, no, now I'm excited.
- [laughs]
- All right, well, I think
we gotta get down there.
- All right,
let me grab my purse.
- All right.
- ♪ Come and see me ♪
♪ And maybe you'll die ♪
- All right, we made it.
Texas, baby.
You been to Texas?
- Never.
First time in Texas.
- First time.
- Wow.
What do you think so far?
- Sticky, icky.
- It is a little humid, yeah.
- [laughs]
- I feel like it's crazy
that he goes to the same school
and they've never, like,
come across each other.
- It just feels like we
would have saw him by now,
type of [bleep].
Like, that's how small this...
- That's true, yeah.
We haven't passed Brian
driving around.
I don't think he's here.
- Exactly.
- ♪ The rover ♪
- Okay, here we are.
All right, you ready?
- I'm ready.
- Let's go.
- [sighs]
- Are we--oh, there they are!
- Ooh.
- This where you guys live?
both: Yeah.
- For real?
- It's a mansion.
both: Yeah.
- Are you guys, like,
perfectly in-sync
on everything you say?
both: No.
[both giggling]
- On the count of three,
say your favorite color.
One, two, three.
- Blue.
- Purple.
- All right, so you're not.
[both laugh]
This place is cute.
Hey, there she is!
- Hello, hey.
- What's up, babe?
- What's up, what's up?
- I love you.
- I love you, too.
- This is so nice.
So everyone who lives here
goes to the school?
- Yes, sir.
- Yo, can I move in?
- Like, you can.
[all laughing]
- So, obviously you know
why we're here.
- Mm-hmm.
- Let's get down
to the [bleep].
- Are you cool with the fact
that she wrote in?
- Yeah, but, like, she told me,
and I was just like,
"Uh, okay."
I didn't think y'all
were gonna come.
- But you agree something's up.
- Yeah, something's pretty up.
- Okay.
Obviously, like we were saying,
if you're talking to someone
in Brenham, like,
there's only--
there's only so far
they can be.
[all laughing]
- And I feel like
she deserves somebody,
especially after
her last, like--stuff like--
- I was gonna say, you must
have had a bad...
- Yeah.
- Last relationship.
- Yeah.
- And she's a good girl.
She deserves, like,
somebody good.
- Yeah, you got your [bleep]
together, so--
- Yeah.
- We should head in there.
- Yeah, she's ready.
- Yeah.
- Okay, well, I'll go ahead
and go.
I'm going to class.
- Come here.
- Yes.
- All right, good to meet you.
- It is so nice meeting y'all.
- See ya.
Wow.
- Oh, this is tight.
This is cozy.
- Have a seat.
- Janisa gave us
a little backstory
but fill us in a bit more,
how you kind of ended up
in this relationship.
- So, like, when he actually--
I guess you could say
shot his shot, um...
- [soft laugh]
- He slid up on my Snapchat.
I had posted a picture and he
just sent me some heart eyes.
- So he responded
to your story.
- Yes, and then we've been
talking since.
- How did it, like,
get to the level where
you were like,
"Oh, this guy's cool."
- When I was in
the relationship with my ex,
like, I broke up with him
'cause he cheated on me,
and I told Brian that.
And he we just kind of clicked
because he was a good listener
and he had a good heart.
And he was willing
to actually want
to be there for me.
And then, like, I just started
to get to know him
a little bit more, and I
like his personality and stuff.
- Mm-hmm.
- But how'd this Brian guy
get your Snapchat?
How did he know--
- I don't even know,
because whenever he added me,
it said "by username."
So he obviously had to have
my username.
- Did you ever ask him
how he got your Snapchat?
- No.
And, like, it's just
kind of weird, because
the reason why we can't
get on the phone is because
he said he doesn't
have any minutes,
and then we can't FaceTime
because he doesn't have
any Wi-Fi.
And then we can't meet up
because he's always
leaving to go home.
He lives in Houston.
- How's he getting to Houston?
- His car.
- You got gas money
but you ain't got minute money?
- Yeah.
- [laughing]
Yeah. This is weird.
- I mean, I don't know.
- Something's up.
- He's posting--he's putting up
stories on Snapchat?
- Post stories and stuff, yeah.
Like, pictures.
- And they're, like, selfies?
- Yeah.
- Or mirror pics, or whatever?
- You wanna see?
- Yeah.
- I wanna see.
- He has a story up now,
or you just have some saved?
- Oh, no, I have some saved.
- Yeah, I wanna see.
Oh, wow.
- Oh, okay.
[all laughing]
Go off, then.
- Okay, so you
screenshotted this?
- Mm-hmm.
- From his story.
- Yeah.
[tense music]
- Oh, oh.
- [laughs]
- If he's posting on Snapchat,
he's got Wi-Fi or minutes.
I mean, how's he gonna tell you
he can't use his phone
when he's clearly using it?
- He just makes up excuses.
Every time I try to say,
"Okay, like, let's meet up,"
he always has something.
Just yesterday I tried
to meet up with him
and he told me to meet him
at the rec
because he was
playing basketball.
- "The rec"?
- Yeah, the recreation--
- Rec center, got it.
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
So I went over there
and he wasn't there.
- And did you message him
and be like, "I'm here"?
- Mm-hmm.
- And what happened?
- He didn't reply.
- Weird.
- Yeah.
- Was there anyone else there
that looked
kind of, like, weird?
Like...
[both laugh]
- No, just normal people
working out,
playing basketball.
- Of course,
it's always possible
that he was there...
- Mm-hmm.
- But you weren't looking
for the right guy.
- Yeah, that's
what I'm thinking.
- Weird.
[laughs]
- What do you know
about this guy?
- I know that he says
that he stays in Wheeler,
which is, um,
like, a dormitory here.
- That at least
shows us that, like,
whoever you're talking to is
in the area, right?
- Yeah.
- Like, he knows
about the rec center,
he knows about
Wheeler dormitory.
- You think you're ready
to find out?
Like...
- Yeah.
- Like--you know, like--
- I'm very anxious.
Like, I just want to just
get it over with.
Like, I just want to see
who it is already.
You know, I wanna know--
I just got questions.
- Well, we're gonna
figure it out.
- I'ma press.
- All right, so, look,
since we're here,
let's just do a quick search.
There's not a lot to go off of,
and based on what we find
or don't find, then we'll
kind of know
where to go after that.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- All right, let's
go over here.
Brace yourself.
Who knows what we're
gonna find.
- All right, well, let's see
if we can figure out
who this "Brian" guy is.
So, what's his Snapchat name?
Yeah, bring it up and let's
just take a look.
So, "BJ"...
- "BJ..."
- "Hustle."
- [snickers]
- "98."
- [laughs]
both: BJ-hustle-98.
- All right, what do we got?
Mm... no.
All right, so if he uses
"bj-hustle" on Snapchat,
he doesn't use it
anywhere else.
- But then you know
he plays basketball.
- Yeah.
- That's true.
- Can we try searching
his name, maybe?
- Yeah, right?
So "Brian [bleep], basketball."
Then maybe "Blinn College"?
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, "men's basketball.
Brian [bleep]."
♪ ♪
There is a Brian [bleep]
who works
on the basketball team.
It's not the guy
in the pictures.
Uh-oh.
- No.
- What?
- "Assistant Trainer."
- But wouldn't Janisa
know him...
- Yes.
- Because she works
as the manager
for the basketball team.
- You'd think she would have
mentioned that, right?
Like, "Oh, there's a guy who
works on the team named Brian."
- But they could possibly
be friends, too.
- She might know more
than she seems to.
- But, like, if you're a coach,
you can't be, like,
talking to students.
Like, doesn't that mean
that you're, um--you're older?
- Yeah.
- He looks pretty older to me.
- For sure this guy
might be involved.
I mean, it can't just be
a coincidence that
the assistant trainer
on the men's basketball team
where you roommate
happens to work
also shares a name
with the guy you're talking to.
All right, let's quickly search
the photos.
♪ ♪
- Is that him?
- Oh!
Hold on a second.
What is this?
He has a Twitter.
Oh.
- That's him.
- That's him?
There's an Instagram.
♪ ♪
"Isaias [bleep]."
Boom.
21,000 followers.
This looks like it's
definitely this guy.
- This is getting,
like, creepy.
Who have I been talking to?
- So you might be talking,
to Brian [bleep],
but Brian [bleep] is not
the guy in the pictures.
- [sighs]
Oh, that's...
[laughs]
I don't even know
what to--ugh.
I don't even know--
I don't know...
- At least you know now,though.
- Yeah.
What?
I don't--I don't even know
what to say.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Must be something
in the water ♪
- And the fact that we now know
they're using fake photos
suggests that, like, it could
just be some guy that knows you
and likes you, and doesn't
think you'd be into him.
Could be that trainer.
- Yeah, that's what
I'm thinking.
- It'd be weird
and, like, not super cool
if he's been creeping on you,
but, like, not impossible.
- I just want to know why.
Like, why?
- So now the real decision is,
what do you want to do?
'Cause, like, you could just--
you could walk away
and--and leave it alone.
- I want to know who it is
behind the Snapchat.
Why did you want
to waste my time?
Why did you lie?
Like, I just wanna know why.
- All right, so, look--
so we gotta figure out
what the next move is.
- Yeah.
- We got a couple things
we can--
we can look into tomorrow.
We'll--we'll get through this.
All right, so chill tonight.
Check your phone, obviously.
If anything comes through,
let us know.
Let's get out of here.
You can walk us out.
- Bye.
- Bye, boo-boo.
- All right, we'll talk
to you later.
What do you think?
- Poor girl.
- I have to say,
any time a friend writes in
that's always--like, sets off
an alarm bell for me.
Janisa probably knows
a little bit more.
- I feel like she knows
a lot of bit more.
And then she works with
the basketball team.
She could be trying
to set up Brian [bleep].
- Maybe she's trying to get
that coach fired
'cause she wants his job!
- That's what I'm trying
to say.
- That's what you're saying.
- Yes.
- Wow.
- And she doesn't want it
to get out, or, like--
- That's some dark [bleep].
- But that's some college
[bleep] that I've heard.
- Yeah, no, you're right.
Oh, man, we might--
we might have
a serious scandal on our hands.
[knocking on door]
- [laughs]
Don't act like
you don't know nobody.
You know what, [bleep] this.
We're doing "Catfish"
with Slick Woods.
- [laughs]
- Now, we're gonna go in depth
on this [bleep].
Oh, oh, now you--
- Oh, hey.
Don't--
don't take my show, now.
[all laughing]
- What's up, Nev?
- Hey, there.
- So what you thinking now?
- Well, we do have
pretty convincing information
that puts this guy or girl
at Blinn University.
He says he lives
at this Wheeler dorm.
We go to the dorm,
see if anyone named
Brian [bleep] lives there.
And he's always talking about
playing ball at the rec center.
Like, ask around.
Is any-anyone ever talking
about this girl Aubri?
- I really hope it's not
the coach, honestly.
- Well, I'm ready
if you ready.
- [laughs]
- This might be, like, the edge
of campus right here.
It looks like the dorms
are right over here.
Wheeler, Wheeler.
That's it.
That's Wheeler Dormitory Hall.
All right, let's do it.
Okay.
[suspenseful music]
Hi, I'm Nev.
- Are you an RA, or...?
- You are.
Oh, cool.
- We are on a case.
Can we talk to you about it
for a second?
Maybe outside?
- What's your name?
- Frances.
How many students are there
at--do you know?
- Um, around, like, 3,000.
- So not that many.
- Yeah.
It's a small campus, so--
- Right.
- So we're on a case.
- Mm-hmm.
- Slick is--is helping me out.
- Hey.
- And we're pretty sure
that the person we're
looking for is a student here.
He talks about living
at Wheeler.
He talks about, like, going
to the rec center.
- Okay.
- He says his name
is Brian [bleep].
Are you pretty familiar with,
like, residents at Wheeler?
- I don't know every student,
but I haven't heard
of a Brian [bleep].
- All right.
Now all we have to go off of
is that he says he goes
to the rec center.
- I do have a friend
that actually, like, works
at the rec center,
maybe he can, like...
- Okay.
- Say if he's heard
that name before.
- I know this whole thing
is crazy.
If you came with us--
do you have a few minutes?
- Yeah, I--
- You could, like, get him
to talk to us.
- Yeah, I can do that.
- All right.
Everyone jump in.
- Okay.
Yeah, we can
definitely do that.
- Thanks so much.
Is this it, here?
- Yeah, this is it.
- This is it? All right.
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
- So you wanna jump in there
and--and bring him out?
- Yeah, sure.
♪ ♪
- Hmm.
- Hmm.
- It's not that big
of a rec center.
- No.
- If someone's in there
all the time
and you work there,
you're gonna know.
- You're definitely gonna know.
- Is that her?
Let's see what
Steve has to say.
What's up, man?
- How you doing, man
- It's good to meet you, Steve.
So someone on campus,
getting catfished.
- Right.
- The guy she's talking to says
his name is Brian [bleep].
- All right.
- Says they're at
the rec center a lot.
- Well, I'm in here...
like, five days a week.
Uh, I don't think I've heard
of that name.
- Not even a trainer
by that name?
- Brian [bleep], nah.
No, I don't...
- All right, we're gonna
give her a ride back.
But thanks, man.
- No problem.
- Good to meet you.
- Nice meeting you, bro.
- Nice to meet you, too.
- [laughs]
- [sighs]
- Dang.
- Seems like he's telling
the truth.
- Um, someone just texted me
and said, "If they ask you,
Courtney don't know nothing
about Brian."
- Wait, who texted you that?
- I do know the number...
[laughs]
But I'm not able to say.
- You don't have to tell me
his name, but, like--
- He's a RA.
- So someone you know
who's also an RA...
- Mm-hmm.
- Who obviously just heard
that you were with us...
- Right, yeah.
- Just sent you...
- Randomly--
- This, like very cryptic text
saying, "If they ask,
Courtney doesn't know anything
about Brian."
Do you know who
he's talking about?
"Courtney"?
- No.
- Who's Courtney?
Why would he send that?
- I know.
- Can I see that text?
You just got this text
that says...
Huh.
- That's crazy.
Like, why would you say that?
- Something's going on here
with some Courtney,
and people are, like,
covering for her...
- Or him.
- Or him, and pretending
not to know.
That--that could be
our big break.
- Think we should call Aubri
and ask her
if she knows a Courtney.
- All right.
All right, thank you.
- [laughs]
You're welcome.
- Really appreciate it.
- I hope that I helped
you guys out.
- You did.
- Y'all have a good one.
- Cool.
Have a good one.
- Something's up.
What's this Courtney deal?
- I don't know.
- Should we call Aubri
and ask her about Courtney?
- [laughs]
[phone line trilling]
- Hey, Aubri.
- Do you know a person
who goes to school here
named Courtney?
- Oh.
- Ooh.
- Mm-hmm.
- Wait, are you guys friends?
- All right, well,
we're on campus.
We'll probably head over.
- All right, great.
- Bye.
Whoa.
New suspect:
Courtney, the roommate.
You meet someone
on the internet
and you don't hear their voice,
there's a good chance
they're the opposite sex.
Courtney either knows
what's going on
or is actually
who she's talking to.
- That's crazy.
- All right, so new suspect:
Courtney, the roommate.
It would only make sense
if Courtney either knows
what's going on, or is actually
who she's talking to.
But she's cool with Courtney.
- She's not necessarily cool.
- No, I know, but they don't
have any beef.
- Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
- Yes.
All right.
- Let us do it.
[door alarm chimes]
- Hi.
- Hey.
- [sighs]
- What'd you find out?
- Today we went on campus
and sort of...
- Pressed.
- Poked around. "Pressed."
- How was that,
going around campus?
- We talked to Frannie.
- Frances.
Do you know a girl
named Frances?
- "Frances? Uh-uh.
- She works as a RA.
- Oh.
both: At Wheeler.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then she escorted us over
to the rec center,
and asked Steve,
the guy that works at
the check-in.
- You know him?
- Yeah, I know him.
- He basically said that
he didn't know of anyone
that fit, like,
the criteria of a catfish.
- He said if he--if there was
a guy named Brian [bleep]
who came to the rec center,
he would know.
But then, when we left Steven
at the rec center
and we were driving Frances
back to the dorm...
- Mm-hmm.
- She got a weird text.
She wouldn't tell us
who it was from.
It said, "If they ask,
Courtney doesn't know anything
about Brian."
It just was weird.
- That is weird,
because I don't even know
why they would even say
anything like that.
- We all thought for a second
that maybe it's Courtney.
- Why?
- Well, just 'cause
of that text message.
Is Courtney here right now?
- Mm-mm, nope.
- What do you think
is going on?
- Honestly, I don't know.
Like, I don't know Frances,
and I want to know
who texted her
and told her that.
Like, just like y'all wantto know.
- I'm kind of thinking,
are we able to search
that number?
'Cause we have it on film.
- Which number?
- The number from the text.
- I guess we could.
We've never done that.
We just need to get that clip.
- Hmm?
- Oh, really?
Hmm.
- Is that him?
- Oh, wait--oh, what's that?
Oh, can I see it?
Oh, yeah, here it is.
Look.
- Told you.
- Okay, do you know
this number?
Can you put it in your phone?
- Yeah.
- 'Cause maybe it's, like,
someone that you really know.
- 9-7-2...
- Mm-hmm.
- [bleep]
Mm-mm.
- Mm.
All right, so it's not
someone you know.
- Mm-mm.
♪ ♪
- I mean, we should just
call that person.
Pull that chair up.
- Let's get it crackin'.
[keypad dialing]
- We know it's not Brian...
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, this could be Brian,
I guess.
I mean, who knows who this is.
All right, here we go.
[phone line trilling]
[indistinct background noise]
Hello?
- Yeah, hi, uh,
I don't know, actually
who I'm looking for.
My name is Nev.
I'm that guy
on that show, "Catfish."
- How you doing?
Who--who is this?
- We--I hope you don't mind,
we reached out.
We just wanted to ask you
a couple questions.
- Well, let me ask you--
and this might be
a little awkward.
Frances--you know Frances,
right?
- Okay, she got a text message
from you...
- And we saw it, and it was--
you sent her something
about, like,
"Don't talk about Courtney."
- So you know Aubri, right?
- Oh, so you live here, too.
- Oh, so you were more
just sort of reminding her
that the guidelines of an RA
are not to disclose, like,
information about residents.
- Ah, so you were just
sort of doing your job.
- I see.
All right, well, we'll let
you know if we need anything.
But otherwise, uh,
thanks a lot.
- All right, later.
- So Patrick...
How's your relationship
with Patrick?
Is there anything
that kind of--
- Does he seem
to flirt with you?
- Mm-mm.
Not Patrick.
- He's not your type.
- Mm-mm.
- There may be some
strange thing happening here.
Patrick feels like a suspect.
Or it's your roommates,
but either way, you might be
talking to someone
who lives right here
in this house.
- There may be some
strange thing happening here
between Patrick
or your roommates.
It definitely feels like
you know this person
and they could even live
in this house.
But it doesn't feel like
the person who's doing this
is doing it to be mean.
- Seems like they're trying
to get close to you.
- Right, which leads me
to believe that whoever it is
is doing it because
they like you.
They just have a good reason
why they think
maybe you wouldn't like them.
- Yeah.
I don't know.
- It feels like at this point
we should reach out to Brian.
- Maybe, like, if you tried
texting him, maybe he'll--
'cause he'll see that it's Nev,
and he'll maybe open it.
- Yeah, this is actually,
I think, a first.
I've never, uh, Snapchatted
a catfish.
Um, what's his user name?
- "bj-underscore-hustle-98."
- So I'm gonna take a pic.
- No, you just wanna
take a selfie.
Cute.
- All right, I'm gonna send
this message.
"Hey, Brian.
This is Nev from 'Catfish.'
"I'm here in Brenham
with your friend Aubri.
"Would love to chat.
You can message me here
or on my cell."
All right, here we go.
Boom.
All right, so I don't know
what else to do.
I mean, we can wait
a little bit longer
to see if he gets back
to us, but--
[text message chimes]
Whoa.
Oh--
- What?
- Oh! He just said,
"Is this really Nev?
"Because I'm kind of
freaking out if it is.
I know you're looking for me
and I'm kind of scared."
♪ ♪
Um.
"Are you in Brenham?"
Okay, he's writing.
Okay, "Yeah."
All right.
"Is Brian your real name?"
Oh, okay, he's writing.
"No."
- "No"?
- Okay.
"So what should
I call you then?"
This is tense.
- [sighs]
What did you get me into, man?
- Oh.
[text message chimes]
"I'm not ready
to tell you that. Sorry."
"Maybe if we do this
in person."
- Okay.
- Oh, he says,
"I can meet up with you guys
tomorrow morning at 11:00."
"Okay, great.
"Meet us at Linda Anderson Park
in the morning.
See you tomorrow."
All right.
- [groans]
[laughing]
- I think we got a shot
at this.
- This should be interesting.
- Still could be Patrick.
- I mean, look, who knows
if he'll show up or not.
- Mm-hmm.
- Hopefully tomorrow at 11:00
we'll get some legit answers.
All right, we'll call you
in the morning and we'll--
we'll head over
and pick you up.
You all right?
- Mm-mm.
- Would it be worse
if it's, like, someone
that you--like, on campus
that you kind of know
that's just messing with you,
or would it be worse
if it's just--
- It would be--it would be
worse if it's somebody
that I actually know 'cause
that would just be weird.
Bye.
- Bye, girl.
- Oof.
[tense music]
- Wow.
- All right, we got a date
with destiny.
♪ ♪
[soft dramatic music]
- Let's get to it.
- What's up?
- Hey.
- How you feeling?
- Just anxious.
Like--and I'm just kind of
nervous, too,
because I don't know, like--
I don't know who it would be,
and I'm just anxious.
- All right, well, look,
we got exactly 15 minutes
before our date.
- All right, let's do this.
- Let's go.
Let's do it.
- The chariot awaits.
♪ ♪
- Thank you.
- [sighs]
- And the park is about
six minutes away,
so we'll be right on time.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Okay.
- Oh, who's this?
She trying to say somethingto us?
- She look guilty.
- What the [bleep]?
- Park is about
six minutes away.
Oh, who's this?
- That's Courtney.
- Oh, [bleep].
- What the [bleep]?
- Uh-oh.
She trying to say something
to us?
- What is she doing?
- She said she has
to say something to you.
- Aubri.
[suspenseful music]
I don't want you to go
to the park
and Brian not show up,
because I'm Brian.
♪ ♪
- So, wait, there is no Brian.
There is no meeting
at the park.
You're the one we've been
messaging with.
- What the [bleep]?
Oh, my God.
- I'm sorry the way
everything happened.
I really have a lot
of feelings for you.
Like, these--all these feelings
and stuff are new to me.
I didn't know what to do
or how to feel.
- [laughs]
Wow.
You could have told me.
Like, we live together.
Why would lie to me though?
- When I was talking to Janisa
about how I felt about you,
and she was basically
helping me come up with ideas.
She actually created
the Brian Snapchat.
She did everything.
♪ ♪
- Mm.
- What's confusing to me
is, like,
how does making a--
a fake "dude"--
- I don't know.
Janisa was just like,
"You should just make
a Snapchat and talk to her.
Like, just to get to know her,"
so I would know everything.
Like, what she liked,
what she doesn't like,
before I approach her
as myself.
So that's why we were talking
for those months.
- So you were just trying
to get to know her
so that eventually
it would feel like
you were ready as yourself...
- Mm-hmm.
- To start trying
to be friends.
So--but why didn't that happen?
It's been--
you had three months.
- Well, I don't know.
Like, I was just nervous.
I was scared.
- What inspired you
to finally come clean,
and why did you think this was
the best way to do it?
- Janisa came up with this idea
of "Catfish: The Show."
We'd been talking for a long--
and we weren't going anywhere,
so, like, I wanted to try
something new,
and I just agreed to it.
- That's heavy.
- [groans]
- That was so wrong.
- I don't know when
she wrote in to the show.
I wasn't around her
when she wrote in.
I honestly thought, like,
she was just playing about it.
I didn't know she was
for real gonna do it.
And I really didn't want it
to happen this way.
I was trying to back out of it.
- So is that what
was going on yesterday,
with that
weird text from Patrick?
- Yeah.
I didn't know what to do.
I asked Patrick
if he could help
come up with some way
of getting me out of this.
But, like, right now, like,
I'm scared, awkward--
like, it's awkward.
I'm nervous, I'm embarrassed.
I'm basically coming out
in front of everybody.
- [groans]
- How do you feel?
- [tsks]
Like, I just feel--
I feel betrayed, really.
It's like, I live with her.
Like, she my roommate,
so it's like--
I wouldn't think, like--
you'd be the last person
I would think that she was,
like, catfishing me.
♪ ♪
- I feel like you could have
did it a different way.
Now she doesn't
feel comfortable
in her own home, you know?
- Yeah, I mean, look,
the messed-up thing is that
now Aubri has
to deal with the fact that
her friend Janisa
has also been lying to her.
- And she lied to--to us.
- And is Janisa here?
- Yeah, she's in her room.
- 'Cause I think we probably
want to talk to her, also.
♪ ♪
- I'll go get her.
- Ugh.
[shivering]
It is really cold.
- You mind if I put this
on her?
She's like, shaking.
- No, yeah.
- Thank you.
- Come on over here.
♪ ♪
Janisa.
- I want to tell you, I
apologize and I am so sorry.
The goal was to get her
to come out to you
and let you know that--
how much she cares about you.
It wasn't to, like,
embarrass you at all.
I really care about
both of y'all,
and wanted y'all both happy.
It wasn't, like,
to be evil at all.
- But you could have
told me, though.
Like, you supposed
to be my friend.
You could have been like,
"Hey, Courtney got a crush
on you," or something.
♪ ♪
I feel betrayed by you,
and then I feel betrayed
by you, too,
'cause you supposed
to be my friend.
- I really do feel bad
and I apologize.
- That's so forced.
Just for you to think
that that would be
any type of healthy
relationship anyway,
even if it did develop, like.
And to me, it's damn near
out-of-pocket for you
to feel like that's your place,
you know?
'Cause they're both
your friends.
- Yeah.
- It's very "mastermind"
to me, but...
- Courtney, I get having
a crush on someone
and not necessarily knowing
if they like you back.
But, I mean,
what's confusing to me is,
you've been in
very close proximity to her
for a while.
Did you ever pick up on, like,
a potential vibe from her
that maybe she was
into you, or--
or even, like,
interested in women?
- I mean, no.
Like, when we--
when we are, like,
around each other,
my vibe is just, like,
we cool with each other.
- It's just, it does not--
two plus two ain't equal four
around this bitch, like.
I just feel like you--
both of you never incorporated
her feelings at all.
- I understand what you mean.
Like, I understand.
I went about it a selfish way
'cause I was only, like,
focused on her
when I should have been, like,
thinking about you, too.
And I apologize.
I really do.
I don't you to, like,
just hate me.
Even though, like, you probably
already do, but...
- All right, why don't you
give us a minute?
Just to check in with Aubri.
- Okay.
- And we'll--we'll
see you in a few.
- Did I over,
overwater you ♪
- You all right?
- Yeah.
- ♪ Did I push away ♪
- Damn.
- That's crazy.
[door alarm chimes]
- [sighs]
Just feels kind of messed up
and gross.
Janisa decides she's gonna
write in to "Catfish,"
puppeteering this whole
situation from the beginning.
Like, that's not in
your best interests.
- Mm-mm.
- That just feels really...
- Grimy.
- Yeah.
- I don't even know.
I'm probably just gonna leave
and just go chill
for a little bit.
- Yeah, if I were you
I don't know if I'd want
to go up there right now.
Why don't you do your thing?
We'll meet back up
and then we can invite them
to meet us somewhere and--
and hash it out.
- All right, sounds good.
- ♪ Are you soaking ♪
♪ Does it weigh you down ♪
- Aubri!
Are you leaving?
- ♪ To hold you closer ♪
♪ So our love won't drown ♪
- Wow, it really is
like a Shakespeare play.
This girl's in love with her.
They're roommates.
She doesn't say anything.
She makes the fake profile
to talk to her.
- Friends don't do that.
Janisa was never her friend.
- The Janisa situation
is like a whole other thing.
- I don't think
she understands
the damage she's done,
and she needs to know.
♪ ♪
[melancholy music]
♪ ♪
- [claps hands]
So.
I don't know what you're
feeling, I'm--
- They've actually tried
to reach out to me.
Like, they put me in
a group chat and they texted me
and asked me if I was okay
and stuff.
I actually just swiped over
and deleted the thread.
- Ooh.
- [laughs]
- She swipe-deleted, though.
- Wow.
But we do need to find
some sort of resolution.
Almost more so than in a lot
of other situations
because you guys live together.
- Yeah.
- So I feel like we need
to kind of figure out
where we want to leave things.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
Oh, here they are.
Hello.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Hello.
- How's it going?
- Good.
- Obviously there's still
some things
to clear up, I think,
and discuss.
Mainly, the thing that really
is a little alarming is that
having been a part
of the deception
from the beginning...
- Mm-hmm.
- To then write in to the show
on her behalf...
- Mm-hmm.
- Obviously lying
and encouraging both of them
to do something
that I don't think, really,
either really wanted to do.
I'm very confused as to how
you came to that decision.
- Honestly, bringing up
the show, it was, like,
also because of me,
'cause, like, I didn't want to
just walk up to her
and just be like,
"Hey, I've been lying to you."
Like, it's--it's already
been, like, hurting me.
You guys are, like,
good mediators, so I felt--
'cause that's what the show
usually does, so I felt like
it would also help, in a way.
- I don't know, I just
don't like your response, like.
"Because I was hurting."
It's always "I, I, I, I."
It's like, I'm just not here
for the--for the sob story.
I'm just not here for it.
You gotta take responsibility,
you know what I mean?
- Mm-hmm.
- That puppeteering, like...
that's some
master manipulation.
You're hurting so many people
around you.
Like, literally down to--
you got
me and Nev flying out here.
I have a newborn baby,
you know what I mean?
- Mm-hmm.
- Like, it's just not cool.
- I think it'd be helpful
for Aubri
to know how you're feeling.
Where are you now with
how you feel towards Aubri?
- Now I feel like
coming on the show probably
wasn't the best choice,
but, like,
everything happened
for a reason.
I feel like this--this is,
like, a lesson learned.
Now through all this
and earlier today,
I just feel like we should
just be friends
just to keep
everything calm around...
- But I mean, is that--
do you still have feelings?
Do you still--
- I mean, yeah, I do.
But I could put--I could try
to put my feelings to the side.
But, like, right now, it just--
it's hard.
Like, I really just want
to cry.
Like, just go outside and cry.
- Nothing wrong with that.
I think this is a big
growth period for all you guys
to learn a little bit more
about you guys' selves.
'Cause I feel like,
well, you know, I'm around
you guys' age, and--
and I'm still going through
the motions of learning
who I am.
And I definitely understand.
There's gonna be a lot tears,
there's gonna be a lot of
just not knowing
what the [bleep]'s going on.
But you can't drag other people
down in the process.
It's detrimental to everything
the way you guys
handled things.
- Mm-hmm.
- I feel like you guys
just can't continue
to be this self-destructive.
- I didn't understand
how, like,
this was gonna
affect everybody.
Like, I was just thinking
about myself.
I'm not even gonna lie, like,
I was just thinking
about myself.
What I wanted.
- I respect that.
- I take responsibility, too.
Like, 100%.
Like, I really do.
[melancholy music]
- Okay, um, as of right now,
Janisa, me and you,
like, we cannot be friends.
And I mean maybe in the future,
you know, like,
we could move forward past this
and, like, I'm willing
to work with you
to move forward.
But, like, you know?
- I understand.
- And I'm gonna have
to work on it.
And then with you, Courtney,
if you really had
some type of feelings for me,
you could have told me.
And then, like, we probably
wouldn't be
in this situation right now.
We can just be cordial,
like, we can talk and stuff
'cause we live together,
but I feel like
there couldn't--there couldn't
be no friendship with us.
♪ ♪
- You messed up...
- Mm-hmm.
- Wasn't cool.
You definitely hurt
her feelings.
But life goes on.
She's gonna be fine.
I don't know what'll happen
with your friendship.
I'm hopeful that it can
grow back,
but, like, maybe not.
♪ ♪
[Skype chiming]
Hey!
- Hey.
- Oh, new hairstyle.
Who 'dis?
- [laughs]
- So what's been going on?
- Mm, after the whole thing,
I was mad, and, like--
and I was hurt,
so I went home.
I just needed time for myself.
And then I came back,
and Janisa was like,
"Okay, look--well, let's, like,
talk about it."
So me, Courtney, and Janisa,
we all went to the movies,
and it wasn't awkward.
- Do you guys think
you'll be able
to salvage the relationship?
- Yeah.
- So you guys are friends?
- Yeah, we've been working
on it.
- Is Janisa there?
- Yeah, she's actually
right here.
- Janisa!
- [laughs]
- Oh, wow!
- What's up, Janisa?
- You look different, too.
- How you doing?
- Good.
- So when you
think about this,
do you feel like
you understand
how messed up it was?
- Yeah, it was--it was
a messed-up situation.
- "A messed-up situation"
or something you
put yourself in?
- I--I actually realized, like,
it was a very bad way
to go about it.
- Well all betray
our friends sometimes.
You know, it happens.
- The only thing we haven't
talked about yet is Courtney.
- Well, Janisa will
try to get us together
so it's not, like,
as awkward.
- Hey, y'all. What y'all doing?
- Hey.
- Cooking.
- Making spaghetti.
Like, everybody's on board
with being, like, cool.
- I'm starving, I'm excited.
- Well--this is a little snack.
It's not gonna fill you up.
- Courtney's not still trying
to, like, flirt with you?
- No, but we've been working on
us being friends and stuff,
that's it.
- You coming with us
to the club this weekend?
- Yes.
- You should, it'll be fun.
- I'm glad to hear
you guys worked it out,
and good luck to all of you.
- Okay, thank you.
both: Bye.
- Bye.
Let's call Courtney and see
what's up with her.
[Skype chiming]
Oh!
What's up, Courtney?
- What's up, Courtney?
- What's your feeling about
how everything
has sort of resolved?
- Um, it's still not the--
like, how I expected it to end,
but I like how we are all,
like, friends now.
Like, there's no awkward vibes
around our house anymore.
- After that situation
I was like, "Look."
I was just mad.
I didn't mean to be mean.
- Just forget it about
and just have fun.
both: Yeah.
- What I've done, that's just--
it's dumb.
Now that I think about it,
it's dumb.
- I really appreciate you
taking accountability
for your actions,
'cause you did that.
And I'm proud of you.
- And it was a big deal
for you to admit to her
and to everyone that you have
feelings for women.
Is that something that
you're still--now, like,
more openly pursuing?
- For women in general, yes.
I still want to try,
like, females.
But all this is new to me.
New feelings, new everything.
- And at 18--coming out,
that's crazy.
You strong. You got this.
- Thank you.
- Glad to hear things
are going well for you,
and good luck with everything.
both: Bye.
- Nick is in love
with Alice.
but Nick's still not sure,
"Is she real?"
- Is she?
- She blocked me.
- what?
- Alice?
- Yes.
- Whoa.
I mean, clearly something's up
with Alice.
- There's really only so much
that a person can take.
- Whoa.
1220
00:41:38.
to this guy named Brian
on Snapchat.
It's crazy, he goes
to the same school,
and they've never come across
each other.
- I tried to meet up with him
at the rec.
He wasn't there.
- Or he was there,
but you weren't looking
for the right guy.
Park is about
six minutes away.
Oh, who's this?
- Oh, [bleep].
- What the [bleep]?
[dramatic musical sting]
- Very excited
for this week's co-host.
I think a lot of you
are gonna be pumped.
Whoa!
- Yo, what's good?
- Slick.
There she is.
What's up, girl?
At just 22 years old,
Slick Woods has already led
a life on fire.
She's risen from sleeping
on park benches
to walking
international runways
as one of the most
coveted models
in the industry.
She's the face
of fashion lines
from Marc Jacobs and Rihanna
all while being a fierce,
independent mom.
And we're so thrilled
she's bringing
her unique swagger our way
this week.
Welcome to "Catfish."
- I'm about to cut
the bull-[bleep].
I'm gonna be like,
"Big red flag."
- Do we not cut the the bull-
[bleep] adequately as is, or--
- I mean, maybe you just
can't see it the way--
- You need--all right, good,
I love it.
It's been six years I've been
doing this,
so maybe my bull-[bleep]-ometer
is not as sharp
and finely-tuned
as it once was.
- I'll cut the bull-[bleep].
- Cut--all right.
- [laughs]
- So let's see what we got.
We got an email
from Janisa.
- She said,
"Asking for a friend."
- Yeah, exactly.
- [laughs]
- "Hey, Nev"--
and Slick...
- "My name is Janisa,
and I'm a freshman
at Blinn College in Texas.
- ♪ Never knowing
what I wanted ♪
- I live with
three other girls, and I think
one of them
is being catfished.
- Wait, hold on.
Why is she telling
all her friend's business?
- Well, she must be worried
her friend's getting catfished
and she doesn't want
to see that happen.
"Her name is Aubri.
"She's been talking
to this guy named Brian
on Snapchat
for a little over two months."
- ♪ Get out, get out ♪
♪ Get, get, get out ♪
♪ Get, get, get out of here ♪
- "When she told me
about Brian, it sounded like
"she found
a really sweet guy...
- ♪ Going out my mind ♪
- "But it's been
two months now
"and they still haven't met,
and they live
on the same campus."
- ♪ Never knowing
what I wanted ♪
♪ Knowing what I needed
you to do ♪
- Okay, so, wait a second, so--
- They live a hop, skip,
and a jump from each other.
- They're at the same school.
"So when I found out
that Brian hadn't come
"to chill with Aubri yet,
I got nosey
"and began asking
more questions.
"Turns out that they've never
video-chatted
"or talked
on the phone either.
- ♪ Get out of here ♪
- Nah, he's--
he's a fishy-fish.
- "Aubri hasn't told anyone
"about Brian, really,
other than me.
"I think it's because
she might secretly
"be embarrassed by it.
"I'm just worried that Aubri
is stuck in this fantasy world
"and that she's going
to eventually be crushed
by the truth."
- ♪ Get, get,
get out of here ♪
- I think she doesn't want
to be embarrassed.
She been talking
to some random person.
- All right, well, let's call
Aubri's friend, Janisa.
[Skype chiming]
Hello!
- Hello.
- Hi, this is Slick.
- Nice to meet you.
- Slick's gonna help me out
on this episode.
- Hey, cool.
- So, first of all,
how'd you end up
at Blinn College?
- I had a basketball coach
who got me a scholarship
to be a manager here.
- Cool, you have a basketball
management scholarship?
- Yes, sir.
- That's awesome.
- Go ahead.
- All right, so tell us
about Aubri a little bit...
- Okay.
- And--and how this whole
situation came to be.
- Aubri had told me
that a fine dude
had hit her up on Snapchat,
and it said that
he added her by username.
But on her social medias,
I don't think she has
her Snapchat name on there.
So, like, somebody probably
gave it to him,
or something like that.
- And so he hit her up
on Snapchat.
Does that mean he was
sending her pictures?
- Not selfies.
Like, they were Snapchatting,
like, the text message
on Snapchat.
- Right, but how did she know
what he looked like?
- He posts his pictures
on his story.
- Doesn't he go
to the same school as you guys?
- Yes.
- Wouldn't--wouldn't you expect
to, like, see him around?
- Right, so what's his excuse
for never being on campus?
- He's always going home
on the weekends,
or he's busy with homework.
And, like, she's very sweet,
and she tries to, like,
be understanding with him.
Like, everybody's busy,
but, like, you make time
if you want to.
- Yeah.
- Right.
- Brian seems suss.
- And Aubri and--and Brian
haven't talked on the phone,
right?
- No.
- Does she even have his number
or are they just only Snapchat?
- Only has his Snapchat.
- Wow.
- What do you think
Aubri will say
when she finds out that you
reached out to us?
- I feel like
she'll be on board.
Like, especially
if it's, like, meeting him.
- The mystery is--I feel like
is what's stringing her along.
- Yeah.
- All right, so sit tight.
We'll head down there...
- Okay.
- And we'll see you soon.
- Okay, bye-bye.
- Bye.
- Yeah.
She's cute.
I like her.
- What do you think?
What's your instinct tell you?
What's your BS-ometer telling
you right now off the bat?
- I'm thinking...
that Brian is, like,
a real creep or, like--
- Well, the creepiest thing
is that he added her
by her username.
- Yeah, and he knows her.
Or, like, a girl that knows her
is, like, jealous of her
and wants to waste her time.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, no, now I'm excited.
- [laughs]
- All right, well, I think
we gotta get down there.
- All right,
let me grab my purse.
- All right.
- ♪ Come and see me ♪
♪ And maybe you'll die ♪
- All right, we made it.
Texas, baby.
You been to Texas?
- Never.
First time in Texas.
- First time.
- Wow.
What do you think so far?
- Sticky, icky.
- It is a little humid, yeah.
- [laughs]
- I feel like it's crazy
that he goes to the same school
and they've never, like,
come across each other.
- It just feels like we
would have saw him by now,
type of [bleep].
Like, that's how small this...
- That's true, yeah.
We haven't passed Brian
driving around.
I don't think he's here.
- Exactly.
- ♪ The rover ♪
- Okay, here we are.
All right, you ready?
- I'm ready.
- Let's go.
- [sighs]
- Are we--oh, there they are!
- Ooh.
- This where you guys live?
both: Yeah.
- For real?
- It's a mansion.
both: Yeah.
- Are you guys, like,
perfectly in-sync
on everything you say?
both: No.
[both giggling]
- On the count of three,
say your favorite color.
One, two, three.
- Blue.
- Purple.
- All right, so you're not.
[both laugh]
This place is cute.
Hey, there she is!
- Hello, hey.
- What's up, babe?
- What's up, what's up?
- I love you.
- I love you, too.
- This is so nice.
So everyone who lives here
goes to the school?
- Yes, sir.
- Yo, can I move in?
- Like, you can.
[all laughing]
- So, obviously you know
why we're here.
- Mm-hmm.
- Let's get down
to the [bleep].
- Are you cool with the fact
that she wrote in?
- Yeah, but, like, she told me,
and I was just like,
"Uh, okay."
I didn't think y'all
were gonna come.
- But you agree something's up.
- Yeah, something's pretty up.
- Okay.
Obviously, like we were saying,
if you're talking to someone
in Brenham, like,
there's only--
there's only so far
they can be.
[all laughing]
- And I feel like
she deserves somebody,
especially after
her last, like--stuff like--
- I was gonna say, you must
have had a bad...
- Yeah.
- Last relationship.
- Yeah.
- And she's a good girl.
She deserves, like,
somebody good.
- Yeah, you got your [bleep]
together, so--
- Yeah.
- We should head in there.
- Yeah, she's ready.
- Yeah.
- Okay, well, I'll go ahead
and go.
I'm going to class.
- Come here.
- Yes.
- All right, good to meet you.
- It is so nice meeting y'all.
- See ya.
Wow.
- Oh, this is tight.
This is cozy.
- Have a seat.
- Janisa gave us
a little backstory
but fill us in a bit more,
how you kind of ended up
in this relationship.
- So, like, when he actually--
I guess you could say
shot his shot, um...
- [soft laugh]
- He slid up on my Snapchat.
I had posted a picture and he
just sent me some heart eyes.
- So he responded
to your story.
- Yes, and then we've been
talking since.
- How did it, like,
get to the level where
you were like,
"Oh, this guy's cool."
- When I was in
the relationship with my ex,
like, I broke up with him
'cause he cheated on me,
and I told Brian that.
And he we just kind of clicked
because he was a good listener
and he had a good heart.
And he was willing
to actually want
to be there for me.
And then, like, I just started
to get to know him
a little bit more, and I
like his personality and stuff.
- Mm-hmm.
- But how'd this Brian guy
get your Snapchat?
How did he know--
- I don't even know,
because whenever he added me,
it said "by username."
So he obviously had to have
my username.
- Did you ever ask him
how he got your Snapchat?
- No.
And, like, it's just
kind of weird, because
the reason why we can't
get on the phone is because
he said he doesn't
have any minutes,
and then we can't FaceTime
because he doesn't have
any Wi-Fi.
And then we can't meet up
because he's always
leaving to go home.
He lives in Houston.
- How's he getting to Houston?
- His car.
- You got gas money
but you ain't got minute money?
- Yeah.
- [laughing]
Yeah. This is weird.
- I mean, I don't know.
- Something's up.
- He's posting--he's putting up
stories on Snapchat?
- Post stories and stuff, yeah.
Like, pictures.
- And they're, like, selfies?
- Yeah.
- Or mirror pics, or whatever?
- You wanna see?
- Yeah.
- I wanna see.
- He has a story up now,
or you just have some saved?
- Oh, no, I have some saved.
- Yeah, I wanna see.
Oh, wow.
- Oh, okay.
[all laughing]
Go off, then.
- Okay, so you
screenshotted this?
- Mm-hmm.
- From his story.
- Yeah.
[tense music]
- Oh, oh.
- [laughs]
- If he's posting on Snapchat,
he's got Wi-Fi or minutes.
I mean, how's he gonna tell you
he can't use his phone
when he's clearly using it?
- He just makes up excuses.
Every time I try to say,
"Okay, like, let's meet up,"
he always has something.
Just yesterday I tried
to meet up with him
and he told me to meet him
at the rec
because he was
playing basketball.
- "The rec"?
- Yeah, the recreation--
- Rec center, got it.
- Mm-hmm. Yeah.
So I went over there
and he wasn't there.
- And did you message him
and be like, "I'm here"?
- Mm-hmm.
- And what happened?
- He didn't reply.
- Weird.
- Yeah.
- Was there anyone else there
that looked
kind of, like, weird?
Like...
[both laugh]
- No, just normal people
working out,
playing basketball.
- Of course,
it's always possible
that he was there...
- Mm-hmm.
- But you weren't looking
for the right guy.
- Yeah, that's
what I'm thinking.
- Weird.
[laughs]
- What do you know
about this guy?
- I know that he says
that he stays in Wheeler,
which is, um,
like, a dormitory here.
- That at least
shows us that, like,
whoever you're talking to is
in the area, right?
- Yeah.
- Like, he knows
about the rec center,
he knows about
Wheeler dormitory.
- You think you're ready
to find out?
Like...
- Yeah.
- Like--you know, like--
- I'm very anxious.
Like, I just want to just
get it over with.
Like, I just want to see
who it is already.
You know, I wanna know--
I just got questions.
- Well, we're gonna
figure it out.
- I'ma press.
- All right, so, look,
since we're here,
let's just do a quick search.
There's not a lot to go off of,
and based on what we find
or don't find, then we'll
kind of know
where to go after that.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- All right, let's
go over here.
Brace yourself.
Who knows what we're
gonna find.
- All right, well, let's see
if we can figure out
who this "Brian" guy is.
So, what's his Snapchat name?
Yeah, bring it up and let's
just take a look.
So, "BJ"...
- "BJ..."
- "Hustle."
- [snickers]
- "98."
- [laughs]
both: BJ-hustle-98.
- All right, what do we got?
Mm... no.
All right, so if he uses
"bj-hustle" on Snapchat,
he doesn't use it
anywhere else.
- But then you know
he plays basketball.
- Yeah.
- That's true.
- Can we try searching
his name, maybe?
- Yeah, right?
So "Brian [bleep], basketball."
Then maybe "Blinn College"?
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, "men's basketball.
Brian [bleep]."
♪ ♪
There is a Brian [bleep]
who works
on the basketball team.
It's not the guy
in the pictures.
Uh-oh.
- No.
- What?
- "Assistant Trainer."
- But wouldn't Janisa
know him...
- Yes.
- Because she works
as the manager
for the basketball team.
- You'd think she would have
mentioned that, right?
Like, "Oh, there's a guy who
works on the team named Brian."
- But they could possibly
be friends, too.
- She might know more
than she seems to.
- But, like, if you're a coach,
you can't be, like,
talking to students.
Like, doesn't that mean
that you're, um--you're older?
- Yeah.
- He looks pretty older to me.
- For sure this guy
might be involved.
I mean, it can't just be
a coincidence that
the assistant trainer
on the men's basketball team
where you roommate
happens to work
also shares a name
with the guy you're talking to.
All right, let's quickly search
the photos.
♪ ♪
- Is that him?
- Oh!
Hold on a second.
What is this?
He has a Twitter.
Oh.
- That's him.
- That's him?
There's an Instagram.
♪ ♪
"Isaias [bleep]."
Boom.
21,000 followers.
This looks like it's
definitely this guy.
- This is getting,
like, creepy.
Who have I been talking to?
- So you might be talking,
to Brian [bleep],
but Brian [bleep] is not
the guy in the pictures.
- [sighs]
Oh, that's...
[laughs]
I don't even know
what to--ugh.
I don't even know--
I don't know...
- At least you know now,though.
- Yeah.
What?
I don't--I don't even know
what to say.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Must be something
in the water ♪
- And the fact that we now know
they're using fake photos
suggests that, like, it could
just be some guy that knows you
and likes you, and doesn't
think you'd be into him.
Could be that trainer.
- Yeah, that's what
I'm thinking.
- It'd be weird
and, like, not super cool
if he's been creeping on you,
but, like, not impossible.
- I just want to know why.
Like, why?
- So now the real decision is,
what do you want to do?
'Cause, like, you could just--
you could walk away
and--and leave it alone.
- I want to know who it is
behind the Snapchat.
Why did you want
to waste my time?
Why did you lie?
Like, I just wanna know why.
- All right, so, look--
so we gotta figure out
what the next move is.
- Yeah.
- We got a couple things
we can--
we can look into tomorrow.
We'll--we'll get through this.
All right, so chill tonight.
Check your phone, obviously.
If anything comes through,
let us know.
Let's get out of here.
You can walk us out.
- Bye.
- Bye, boo-boo.
- All right, we'll talk
to you later.
What do you think?
- Poor girl.
- I have to say,
any time a friend writes in
that's always--like, sets off
an alarm bell for me.
Janisa probably knows
a little bit more.
- I feel like she knows
a lot of bit more.
And then she works with
the basketball team.
She could be trying
to set up Brian [bleep].
- Maybe she's trying to get
that coach fired
'cause she wants his job!
- That's what I'm trying
to say.
- That's what you're saying.
- Yes.
- Wow.
- And she doesn't want it
to get out, or, like--
- That's some dark [bleep].
- But that's some college
[bleep] that I've heard.
- Yeah, no, you're right.
Oh, man, we might--
we might have
a serious scandal on our hands.
[knocking on door]
- [laughs]
Don't act like
you don't know nobody.
You know what, [bleep] this.
We're doing "Catfish"
with Slick Woods.
- [laughs]
- Now, we're gonna go in depth
on this [bleep].
Oh, oh, now you--
- Oh, hey.
Don't--
don't take my show, now.
[all laughing]
- What's up, Nev?
- Hey, there.
- So what you thinking now?
- Well, we do have
pretty convincing information
that puts this guy or girl
at Blinn University.
He says he lives
at this Wheeler dorm.
We go to the dorm,
see if anyone named
Brian [bleep] lives there.
And he's always talking about
playing ball at the rec center.
Like, ask around.
Is any-anyone ever talking
about this girl Aubri?
- I really hope it's not
the coach, honestly.
- Well, I'm ready
if you ready.
- [laughs]
- This might be, like, the edge
of campus right here.
It looks like the dorms
are right over here.
Wheeler, Wheeler.
That's it.
That's Wheeler Dormitory Hall.
All right, let's do it.
Okay.
[suspenseful music]
Hi, I'm Nev.
- Are you an RA, or...?
- You are.
Oh, cool.
- We are on a case.
Can we talk to you about it
for a second?
Maybe outside?
- What's your name?
- Frances.
How many students are there
at--do you know?
- Um, around, like, 3,000.
- So not that many.
- Yeah.
It's a small campus, so--
- Right.
- So we're on a case.
- Mm-hmm.
- Slick is--is helping me out.
- Hey.
- And we're pretty sure
that the person we're
looking for is a student here.
He talks about living
at Wheeler.
He talks about, like, going
to the rec center.
- Okay.
- He says his name
is Brian [bleep].
Are you pretty familiar with,
like, residents at Wheeler?
- I don't know every student,
but I haven't heard
of a Brian [bleep].
- All right.
Now all we have to go off of
is that he says he goes
to the rec center.
- I do have a friend
that actually, like, works
at the rec center,
maybe he can, like...
- Okay.
- Say if he's heard
that name before.
- I know this whole thing
is crazy.
If you came with us--
do you have a few minutes?
- Yeah, I--
- You could, like, get him
to talk to us.
- Yeah, I can do that.
- All right.
Everyone jump in.
- Okay.
Yeah, we can
definitely do that.
- Thanks so much.
Is this it, here?
- Yeah, this is it.
- This is it? All right.
- Mm-hmm, yeah.
- So you wanna jump in there
and--and bring him out?
- Yeah, sure.
♪ ♪
- Hmm.
- Hmm.
- It's not that big
of a rec center.
- No.
- If someone's in there
all the time
and you work there,
you're gonna know.
- You're definitely gonna know.
- Is that her?
Let's see what
Steve has to say.
What's up, man?
- How you doing, man
- It's good to meet you, Steve.
So someone on campus,
getting catfished.
- Right.
- The guy she's talking to says
his name is Brian [bleep].
- All right.
- Says they're at
the rec center a lot.
- Well, I'm in here...
like, five days a week.
Uh, I don't think I've heard
of that name.
- Not even a trainer
by that name?
- Brian [bleep], nah.
No, I don't...
- All right, we're gonna
give her a ride back.
But thanks, man.
- No problem.
- Good to meet you.
- Nice meeting you, bro.
- Nice to meet you, too.
- [laughs]
- [sighs]
- Dang.
- Seems like he's telling
the truth.
- Um, someone just texted me
and said, "If they ask you,
Courtney don't know nothing
about Brian."
- Wait, who texted you that?
- I do know the number...
[laughs]
But I'm not able to say.
- You don't have to tell me
his name, but, like--
- He's a RA.
- So someone you know
who's also an RA...
- Mm-hmm.
- Who obviously just heard
that you were with us...
- Right, yeah.
- Just sent you...
- Randomly--
- This, like very cryptic text
saying, "If they ask,
Courtney doesn't know anything
about Brian."
Do you know who
he's talking about?
"Courtney"?
- No.
- Who's Courtney?
Why would he send that?
- I know.
- Can I see that text?
You just got this text
that says...
Huh.
- That's crazy.
Like, why would you say that?
- Something's going on here
with some Courtney,
and people are, like,
covering for her...
- Or him.
- Or him, and pretending
not to know.
That--that could be
our big break.
- Think we should call Aubri
and ask her
if she knows a Courtney.
- All right.
All right, thank you.
- [laughs]
You're welcome.
- Really appreciate it.
- I hope that I helped
you guys out.
- You did.
- Y'all have a good one.
- Cool.
Have a good one.
- Something's up.
What's this Courtney deal?
- I don't know.
- Should we call Aubri
and ask her about Courtney?
- [laughs]
[phone line trilling]
- Hey, Aubri.
- Do you know a person
who goes to school here
named Courtney?
- Oh.
- Ooh.
- Mm-hmm.
- Wait, are you guys friends?
- All right, well,
we're on campus.
We'll probably head over.
- All right, great.
- Bye.
Whoa.
New suspect:
Courtney, the roommate.
You meet someone
on the internet
and you don't hear their voice,
there's a good chance
they're the opposite sex.
Courtney either knows
what's going on
or is actually
who she's talking to.
- That's crazy.
- All right, so new suspect:
Courtney, the roommate.
It would only make sense
if Courtney either knows
what's going on, or is actually
who she's talking to.
But she's cool with Courtney.
- She's not necessarily cool.
- No, I know, but they don't
have any beef.
- Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
- Yes.
All right.
- Let us do it.
[door alarm chimes]
- Hi.
- Hey.
- [sighs]
- What'd you find out?
- Today we went on campus
and sort of...
- Pressed.
- Poked around. "Pressed."
- How was that,
going around campus?
- We talked to Frannie.
- Frances.
Do you know a girl
named Frances?
- "Frances? Uh-uh.
- She works as a RA.
- Oh.
both: At Wheeler.
- Mm-hmm.
- And then she escorted us over
to the rec center,
and asked Steve,
the guy that works at
the check-in.
- You know him?
- Yeah, I know him.
- He basically said that
he didn't know of anyone
that fit, like,
the criteria of a catfish.
- He said if he--if there was
a guy named Brian [bleep]
who came to the rec center,
he would know.
But then, when we left Steven
at the rec center
and we were driving Frances
back to the dorm...
- Mm-hmm.
- She got a weird text.
She wouldn't tell us
who it was from.
It said, "If they ask,
Courtney doesn't know anything
about Brian."
It just was weird.
- That is weird,
because I don't even know
why they would even say
anything like that.
- We all thought for a second
that maybe it's Courtney.
- Why?
- Well, just 'cause
of that text message.
Is Courtney here right now?
- Mm-mm, nope.
- What do you think
is going on?
- Honestly, I don't know.
Like, I don't know Frances,
and I want to know
who texted her
and told her that.
Like, just like y'all wantto know.
- I'm kind of thinking,
are we able to search
that number?
'Cause we have it on film.
- Which number?
- The number from the text.
- I guess we could.
We've never done that.
We just need to get that clip.
- Hmm?
- Oh, really?
Hmm.
- Is that him?
- Oh, wait--oh, what's that?
Oh, can I see it?
Oh, yeah, here it is.
Look.
- Told you.
- Okay, do you know
this number?
Can you put it in your phone?
- Yeah.
- 'Cause maybe it's, like,
someone that you really know.
- 9-7-2...
- Mm-hmm.
- [bleep]
Mm-mm.
- Mm.
All right, so it's not
someone you know.
- Mm-mm.
♪ ♪
- I mean, we should just
call that person.
Pull that chair up.
- Let's get it crackin'.
[keypad dialing]
- We know it's not Brian...
- Mm-hmm.
- Well, this could be Brian,
I guess.
I mean, who knows who this is.
All right, here we go.
[phone line trilling]
[indistinct background noise]
Hello?
- Yeah, hi, uh,
I don't know, actually
who I'm looking for.
My name is Nev.
I'm that guy
on that show, "Catfish."
- How you doing?
Who--who is this?
- We--I hope you don't mind,
we reached out.
We just wanted to ask you
a couple questions.
- Well, let me ask you--
and this might be
a little awkward.
Frances--you know Frances,
right?
- Okay, she got a text message
from you...
- And we saw it, and it was--
you sent her something
about, like,
"Don't talk about Courtney."
- So you know Aubri, right?
- Oh, so you live here, too.
- Oh, so you were more
just sort of reminding her
that the guidelines of an RA
are not to disclose, like,
information about residents.
- Ah, so you were just
sort of doing your job.
- I see.
All right, well, we'll let
you know if we need anything.
But otherwise, uh,
thanks a lot.
- All right, later.
- So Patrick...
How's your relationship
with Patrick?
Is there anything
that kind of--
- Does he seem
to flirt with you?
- Mm-mm.
Not Patrick.
- He's not your type.
- Mm-mm.
- There may be some
strange thing happening here.
Patrick feels like a suspect.
Or it's your roommates,
but either way, you might be
talking to someone
who lives right here
in this house.
- There may be some
strange thing happening here
between Patrick
or your roommates.
It definitely feels like
you know this person
and they could even live
in this house.
But it doesn't feel like
the person who's doing this
is doing it to be mean.
- Seems like they're trying
to get close to you.
- Right, which leads me
to believe that whoever it is
is doing it because
they like you.
They just have a good reason
why they think
maybe you wouldn't like them.
- Yeah.
I don't know.
- It feels like at this point
we should reach out to Brian.
- Maybe, like, if you tried
texting him, maybe he'll--
'cause he'll see that it's Nev,
and he'll maybe open it.
- Yeah, this is actually,
I think, a first.
I've never, uh, Snapchatted
a catfish.
Um, what's his user name?
- "bj-underscore-hustle-98."
- So I'm gonna take a pic.
- No, you just wanna
take a selfie.
Cute.
- All right, I'm gonna send
this message.
"Hey, Brian.
This is Nev from 'Catfish.'
"I'm here in Brenham
with your friend Aubri.
"Would love to chat.
You can message me here
or on my cell."
All right, here we go.
Boom.
All right, so I don't know
what else to do.
I mean, we can wait
a little bit longer
to see if he gets back
to us, but--
[text message chimes]
Whoa.
Oh--
- What?
- Oh! He just said,
"Is this really Nev?
"Because I'm kind of
freaking out if it is.
I know you're looking for me
and I'm kind of scared."
♪ ♪
Um.
"Are you in Brenham?"
Okay, he's writing.
Okay, "Yeah."
All right.
"Is Brian your real name?"
Oh, okay, he's writing.
"No."
- "No"?
- Okay.
"So what should
I call you then?"
This is tense.
- [sighs]
What did you get me into, man?
- Oh.
[text message chimes]
"I'm not ready
to tell you that. Sorry."
"Maybe if we do this
in person."
- Okay.
- Oh, he says,
"I can meet up with you guys
tomorrow morning at 11:00."
"Okay, great.
"Meet us at Linda Anderson Park
in the morning.
See you tomorrow."
All right.
- [groans]
[laughing]
- I think we got a shot
at this.
- This should be interesting.
- Still could be Patrick.
- I mean, look, who knows
if he'll show up or not.
- Mm-hmm.
- Hopefully tomorrow at 11:00
we'll get some legit answers.
All right, we'll call you
in the morning and we'll--
we'll head over
and pick you up.
You all right?
- Mm-mm.
- Would it be worse
if it's, like, someone
that you--like, on campus
that you kind of know
that's just messing with you,
or would it be worse
if it's just--
- It would be--it would be
worse if it's somebody
that I actually know 'cause
that would just be weird.
Bye.
- Bye, girl.
- Oof.
[tense music]
- Wow.
- All right, we got a date
with destiny.
♪ ♪
[soft dramatic music]
- Let's get to it.
- What's up?
- Hey.
- How you feeling?
- Just anxious.
Like--and I'm just kind of
nervous, too,
because I don't know, like--
I don't know who it would be,
and I'm just anxious.
- All right, well, look,
we got exactly 15 minutes
before our date.
- All right, let's do this.
- Let's go.
Let's do it.
- The chariot awaits.
♪ ♪
- Thank you.
- [sighs]
- And the park is about
six minutes away,
so we'll be right on time.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Okay.
- Oh, who's this?
She trying to say somethingto us?
- She look guilty.
- What the [bleep]?
- Park is about
six minutes away.
Oh, who's this?
- That's Courtney.
- Oh, [bleep].
- What the [bleep]?
- Uh-oh.
She trying to say something
to us?
- What is she doing?
- She said she has
to say something to you.
- Aubri.
[suspenseful music]
I don't want you to go
to the park
and Brian not show up,
because I'm Brian.
♪ ♪
- So, wait, there is no Brian.
There is no meeting
at the park.
You're the one we've been
messaging with.
- What the [bleep]?
Oh, my God.
- I'm sorry the way
everything happened.
I really have a lot
of feelings for you.
Like, these--all these feelings
and stuff are new to me.
I didn't know what to do
or how to feel.
- [laughs]
Wow.
You could have told me.
Like, we live together.
Why would lie to me though?
- When I was talking to Janisa
about how I felt about you,
and she was basically
helping me come up with ideas.
She actually created
the Brian Snapchat.
She did everything.
♪ ♪
- Mm.
- What's confusing to me
is, like,
how does making a--
a fake "dude"--
- I don't know.
Janisa was just like,
"You should just make
a Snapchat and talk to her.
Like, just to get to know her,"
so I would know everything.
Like, what she liked,
what she doesn't like,
before I approach her
as myself.
So that's why we were talking
for those months.
- So you were just trying
to get to know her
so that eventually
it would feel like
you were ready as yourself...
- Mm-hmm.
- To start trying
to be friends.
So--but why didn't that happen?
It's been--
you had three months.
- Well, I don't know.
Like, I was just nervous.
I was scared.
- What inspired you
to finally come clean,
and why did you think this was
the best way to do it?
- Janisa came up with this idea
of "Catfish: The Show."
We'd been talking for a long--
and we weren't going anywhere,
so, like, I wanted to try
something new,
and I just agreed to it.
- That's heavy.
- [groans]
- That was so wrong.
- I don't know when
she wrote in to the show.
I wasn't around her
when she wrote in.
I honestly thought, like,
she was just playing about it.
I didn't know she was
for real gonna do it.
And I really didn't want it
to happen this way.
I was trying to back out of it.
- So is that what
was going on yesterday,
with that
weird text from Patrick?
- Yeah.
I didn't know what to do.
I asked Patrick
if he could help
come up with some way
of getting me out of this.
But, like, right now, like,
I'm scared, awkward--
like, it's awkward.
I'm nervous, I'm embarrassed.
I'm basically coming out
in front of everybody.
- [groans]
- How do you feel?
- [tsks]
Like, I just feel--
I feel betrayed, really.
It's like, I live with her.
Like, she my roommate,
so it's like--
I wouldn't think, like--
you'd be the last person
I would think that she was,
like, catfishing me.
♪ ♪
- I feel like you could have
did it a different way.
Now she doesn't
feel comfortable
in her own home, you know?
- Yeah, I mean, look,
the messed-up thing is that
now Aubri has
to deal with the fact that
her friend Janisa
has also been lying to her.
- And she lied to--to us.
- And is Janisa here?
- Yeah, she's in her room.
- 'Cause I think we probably
want to talk to her, also.
♪ ♪
- I'll go get her.
- Ugh.
[shivering]
It is really cold.
- You mind if I put this
on her?
She's like, shaking.
- No, yeah.
- Thank you.
- Come on over here.
♪ ♪
Janisa.
- I want to tell you, I
apologize and I am so sorry.
The goal was to get her
to come out to you
and let you know that--
how much she cares about you.
It wasn't to, like,
embarrass you at all.
I really care about
both of y'all,
and wanted y'all both happy.
It wasn't, like,
to be evil at all.
- But you could have
told me, though.
Like, you supposed
to be my friend.
You could have been like,
"Hey, Courtney got a crush
on you," or something.
♪ ♪
I feel betrayed by you,
and then I feel betrayed
by you, too,
'cause you supposed
to be my friend.
- I really do feel bad
and I apologize.
- That's so forced.
Just for you to think
that that would be
any type of healthy
relationship anyway,
even if it did develop, like.
And to me, it's damn near
out-of-pocket for you
to feel like that's your place,
you know?
'Cause they're both
your friends.
- Yeah.
- It's very "mastermind"
to me, but...
- Courtney, I get having
a crush on someone
and not necessarily knowing
if they like you back.
But, I mean,
what's confusing to me is,
you've been in
very close proximity to her
for a while.
Did you ever pick up on, like,
a potential vibe from her
that maybe she was
into you, or--
or even, like,
interested in women?
- I mean, no.
Like, when we--
when we are, like,
around each other,
my vibe is just, like,
we cool with each other.
- It's just, it does not--
two plus two ain't equal four
around this bitch, like.
I just feel like you--
both of you never incorporated
her feelings at all.
- I understand what you mean.
Like, I understand.
I went about it a selfish way
'cause I was only, like,
focused on her
when I should have been, like,
thinking about you, too.
And I apologize.
I really do.
I don't you to, like,
just hate me.
Even though, like, you probably
already do, but...
- All right, why don't you
give us a minute?
Just to check in with Aubri.
- Okay.
- And we'll--we'll
see you in a few.
- Did I over,
overwater you ♪
- You all right?
- Yeah.
- ♪ Did I push away ♪
- Damn.
- That's crazy.
[door alarm chimes]
- [sighs]
Just feels kind of messed up
and gross.
Janisa decides she's gonna
write in to "Catfish,"
puppeteering this whole
situation from the beginning.
Like, that's not in
your best interests.
- Mm-mm.
- That just feels really...
- Grimy.
- Yeah.
- I don't even know.
I'm probably just gonna leave
and just go chill
for a little bit.
- Yeah, if I were you
I don't know if I'd want
to go up there right now.
Why don't you do your thing?
We'll meet back up
and then we can invite them
to meet us somewhere and--
and hash it out.
- All right, sounds good.
- ♪ Are you soaking ♪
♪ Does it weigh you down ♪
- Aubri!
Are you leaving?
- ♪ To hold you closer ♪
♪ So our love won't drown ♪
- Wow, it really is
like a Shakespeare play.
This girl's in love with her.
They're roommates.
She doesn't say anything.
She makes the fake profile
to talk to her.
- Friends don't do that.
Janisa was never her friend.
- The Janisa situation
is like a whole other thing.
- I don't think
she understands
the damage she's done,
and she needs to know.
♪ ♪
[melancholy music]
♪ ♪
- [claps hands]
So.
I don't know what you're
feeling, I'm--
- They've actually tried
to reach out to me.
Like, they put me in
a group chat and they texted me
and asked me if I was okay
and stuff.
I actually just swiped over
and deleted the thread.
- Ooh.
- [laughs]
- She swipe-deleted, though.
- Wow.
But we do need to find
some sort of resolution.
Almost more so than in a lot
of other situations
because you guys live together.
- Yeah.
- So I feel like we need
to kind of figure out
where we want to leave things.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
Oh, here they are.
Hello.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Hello.
- How's it going?
- Good.
- Obviously there's still
some things
to clear up, I think,
and discuss.
Mainly, the thing that really
is a little alarming is that
having been a part
of the deception
from the beginning...
- Mm-hmm.
- To then write in to the show
on her behalf...
- Mm-hmm.
- Obviously lying
and encouraging both of them
to do something
that I don't think, really,
either really wanted to do.
I'm very confused as to how
you came to that decision.
- Honestly, bringing up
the show, it was, like,
also because of me,
'cause, like, I didn't want to
just walk up to her
and just be like,
"Hey, I've been lying to you."
Like, it's--it's already
been, like, hurting me.
You guys are, like,
good mediators, so I felt--
'cause that's what the show
usually does, so I felt like
it would also help, in a way.
- I don't know, I just
don't like your response, like.
"Because I was hurting."
It's always "I, I, I, I."
It's like, I'm just not here
for the--for the sob story.
I'm just not here for it.
You gotta take responsibility,
you know what I mean?
- Mm-hmm.
- That puppeteering, like...
that's some
master manipulation.
You're hurting so many people
around you.
Like, literally down to--
you got
me and Nev flying out here.
I have a newborn baby,
you know what I mean?
- Mm-hmm.
- Like, it's just not cool.
- I think it'd be helpful
for Aubri
to know how you're feeling.
Where are you now with
how you feel towards Aubri?
- Now I feel like
coming on the show probably
wasn't the best choice,
but, like,
everything happened
for a reason.
I feel like this--this is,
like, a lesson learned.
Now through all this
and earlier today,
I just feel like we should
just be friends
just to keep
everything calm around...
- But I mean, is that--
do you still have feelings?
Do you still--
- I mean, yeah, I do.
But I could put--I could try
to put my feelings to the side.
But, like, right now, it just--
it's hard.
Like, I really just want
to cry.
Like, just go outside and cry.
- Nothing wrong with that.
I think this is a big
growth period for all you guys
to learn a little bit more
about you guys' selves.
'Cause I feel like,
well, you know, I'm around
you guys' age, and--
and I'm still going through
the motions of learning
who I am.
And I definitely understand.
There's gonna be a lot tears,
there's gonna be a lot of
just not knowing
what the [bleep]'s going on.
But you can't drag other people
down in the process.
It's detrimental to everything
the way you guys
handled things.
- Mm-hmm.
- I feel like you guys
just can't continue
to be this self-destructive.
- I didn't understand
how, like,
this was gonna
affect everybody.
Like, I was just thinking
about myself.
I'm not even gonna lie, like,
I was just thinking
about myself.
What I wanted.
- I respect that.
- I take responsibility, too.
Like, 100%.
Like, I really do.
[melancholy music]
- Okay, um, as of right now,
Janisa, me and you,
like, we cannot be friends.
And I mean maybe in the future,
you know, like,
we could move forward past this
and, like, I'm willing
to work with you
to move forward.
But, like, you know?
- I understand.
- And I'm gonna have
to work on it.
And then with you, Courtney,
if you really had
some type of feelings for me,
you could have told me.
And then, like, we probably
wouldn't be
in this situation right now.
We can just be cordial,
like, we can talk and stuff
'cause we live together,
but I feel like
there couldn't--there couldn't
be no friendship with us.
♪ ♪
- You messed up...
- Mm-hmm.
- Wasn't cool.
You definitely hurt
her feelings.
But life goes on.
She's gonna be fine.
I don't know what'll happen
with your friendship.
I'm hopeful that it can
grow back,
but, like, maybe not.
♪ ♪
[Skype chiming]
Hey!
- Hey.
- Oh, new hairstyle.
Who 'dis?
- [laughs]
- So what's been going on?
- Mm, after the whole thing,
I was mad, and, like--
and I was hurt,
so I went home.
I just needed time for myself.
And then I came back,
and Janisa was like,
"Okay, look--well, let's, like,
talk about it."
So me, Courtney, and Janisa,
we all went to the movies,
and it wasn't awkward.
- Do you guys think
you'll be able
to salvage the relationship?
- Yeah.
- So you guys are friends?
- Yeah, we've been working
on it.
- Is Janisa there?
- Yeah, she's actually
right here.
- Janisa!
- [laughs]
- Oh, wow!
- What's up, Janisa?
- You look different, too.
- How you doing?
- Good.
- So when you
think about this,
do you feel like
you understand
how messed up it was?
- Yeah, it was--it was
a messed-up situation.
- "A messed-up situation"
or something you
put yourself in?
- I--I actually realized, like,
it was a very bad way
to go about it.
- Well all betray
our friends sometimes.
You know, it happens.
- The only thing we haven't
talked about yet is Courtney.
- Well, Janisa will
try to get us together
so it's not, like,
as awkward.
- Hey, y'all. What y'all doing?
- Hey.
- Cooking.
- Making spaghetti.
Like, everybody's on board
with being, like, cool.
- I'm starving, I'm excited.
- Well--this is a little snack.
It's not gonna fill you up.
- Courtney's not still trying
to, like, flirt with you?
- No, but we've been working on
us being friends and stuff,
that's it.
- You coming with us
to the club this weekend?
- Yes.
- You should, it'll be fun.
- I'm glad to hear
you guys worked it out,
and good luck to all of you.
- Okay, thank you.
both: Bye.
- Bye.
Let's call Courtney and see
what's up with her.
[Skype chiming]
Oh!
What's up, Courtney?
- What's up, Courtney?
- What's your feeling about
how everything
has sort of resolved?
- Um, it's still not the--
like, how I expected it to end,
but I like how we are all,
like, friends now.
Like, there's no awkward vibes
around our house anymore.
- After that situation
I was like, "Look."
I was just mad.
I didn't mean to be mean.
- Just forget it about
and just have fun.
both: Yeah.
- What I've done, that's just--
it's dumb.
Now that I think about it,
it's dumb.
- I really appreciate you
taking accountability
for your actions,
'cause you did that.
And I'm proud of you.
- And it was a big deal
for you to admit to her
and to everyone that you have
feelings for women.
Is that something that
you're still--now, like,
more openly pursuing?
- For women in general, yes.
I still want to try,
like, females.
But all this is new to me.
New feelings, new everything.
- And at 18--coming out,
that's crazy.
You strong. You got this.
- Thank you.
- Glad to hear things
are going well for you,
and good luck with everything.
both: Bye.
- Nick is in love
with Alice.
but Nick's still not sure,
"Is she real?"
- Is she?
- She blocked me.
- what?
- Alice?
- Yes.
- Whoa.
I mean, clearly something's up
with Alice.
- There's really only so much
that a person can take.
- Whoa.
1220
00:41:38.