Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 7, Episode 33 - Kaden & Adriana - full transcript
Nev and co-host Kamie Crawford help lovestruck Kaden figure out if his four-year relationship with sexy Adriana is real.
- There's not
a day that goes by
that I don't think
about her.
Just thinking about her
makes food taste better
and colors look brighter.
- Damn.
Kaden and Adriana
met on a cruise.
- They met in real life,
and then their relationship
became digital.
That's weird that she would
send you her number
and then unsend it.
How's it going?
- Oh!
- What is this?
- Are we gonna get jumped?
- Uh-oh.
Hey, guys, Nev here,
and we're back
with a brand-new batch
of all-new "Catfish" episodes.
Let's do it!
We've been making the show
for over seven years
and we've done
over 125 episodes...
- You're a coward, man.
- And what's amazing is,
we're still
encountering things
we've never seen before...
He was dead
for a couple days. What?
- Everybody in Hawaii
is in on this.
- ♪ What you see is just
the tip of the iceberg ♪
- New ways to fall in love...
We've never had
two hopefuls hook up.
All-new deceptions...
- You just lied
about so much [bleep].
- And new
what-the-[bleep] firsts
that are gonna completely
flip the script
on what you think you know
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- He has a twin.
- An identical twin.
So join me and all
our favorite cohosts...
- Are we gonna get jumped?
- Oh, my God.
- As we dive headfirst into
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- ♪ What you see is just
the tip of the iceberg ♪
♪ Ah!
- All right.
Oh, here's my new cohost.
You ready to do an episode,
buddy?
Oh, who's my new cohost?
- This guy right here.
Look at him. He's handsome.
- Oh, he passed.
Next person who gets out
of this elevator gets a job.
Who's it gonna be?
Kamie.
- Hello.
- You look good.
- What a warm welcome.
I know.
Thanks for having me.
- You're back.
All right, let's go.
Have a seat.
- What you got for me today?
- I don't know yet.
You ready?
- I'm scared.
- All right, here we go.
This is from Kaden.
"Hey, Nev"--
- And Kamie.
- "My name is Kaden,
I'm 19 years old,
"and I live
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
"I've been talking
to this girl, Adriana,
"for the last three years,
"but something weird
has been going on
"in the last few months,
so my friend suggested
I reach out to you."
- Good friend.
- "Adriana is this beautiful
19-year-old girl from Hawaii."
- ♪ I don't wanna wake up
with you gone ♪
- "She's sweet and funny
and exciting.
"I know all this because
we met on a cruise
when we were 15"?
- What?
- Wait a second.
- What show is this?
- ♪ I dream of warm waters
- "When I first saw her,
I knew she was special.
"She was gorgeous
"and unlike any other girl
I've seen before,
"so I went up to her
and was totally surprised
"that she was down
to talk to me.
"This girl was my dream girl,
and we had something special.
"The cruise ended, and we were
stuck going our separate ways.
"We talked on IG
almost every day.
"We even FaceTimed once.
"However, a few months ago,
she changed numbers
"and things got
a little weird.
"I tried to call her,
but she wouldn't pick up,
"and would just message me
instead on Snapchat.
"I tried to FaceTime
her again,
but she said
her camera broke."
- ♪ I dream of warm waters
- "I don't get it.
We've already met.
"What's the big deal
about FaceTiming now?
"I really want us
to be together,
"but I'm starting to worry
that she's hiding
something major from me."
- ♪ Of warm waters
- "Please call me if you
think you can help. Kaden."
All right,
so this is a big deal.
This is a "Catfish" first.
- Right.
- We have a couple
who met in person,
had a real-life
love connection,
but then were separated.
She lives in Hawaii,
he lives in Salt Lake City,
and now he's starting
to be concerned
that something else
is going on.
- Maybe Adriana grew up to be
a hot Instababe
and maybe she has
a million followers
and maybe she got hacked
and now the hacker
is talking to Kaden.
- Right.
Let's just call this guy.
[computer chimes]
Hey.
- Hey!
- Hey, how's it going?
- What's up, Kaden?
- I'm doing pretty good.
- This is Kamie,
by the way.
I don't know if you've
seen her in recent episodes.
- Nice to meet you, Kamie.
- What's up, man?
Have you always lived
in Salt Lake City?
- I have.
- How's that?
- It's awesome.
I mean, it snows a lot,
good snowboarding and skiing.
- Cool. Okay, so tell us about
this cruise. Take us back.
- All right,
we get on this cruise,
and I believe
it was the first night.
We were having, like,
that big, like, dining dinner,
and I looked up
and there was just
this unbelievably
gorgeous girl,
and I couldn't
believe my eyes.
So I started talking to her,
and it was just
all kind of like a dream.
We ended up spending
the entire cruise together
'cause we just
clicked like that.
- And she lives in Hawaii.
- Yeah.
- And did you guys hold hands,
kiss, make out?
- Go to second base?
- We held hands
a little bit towards the end,
but other than that,
we didn't kiss
or make out or anything.
I was a shy little guy.
But right before
the cruise was over,
I got her Instagram.
Got home
and, like, immediately,
we started
talking quite a bit.
We did FaceTime,
like, a couple months after.
- But since she got
a new number,
you haven't spoken
or FaceTimed.
- Nope. We've been talking
on Snapchat since.
- Was there ever an explanation
for why she got a new number?
- She told me that she just
got a new phone for Christmas.
- You can get a new phone and
not have to get a new number.
- Right, I definitely thought
it was pretty suspicious.
- So, wait a second, why don't
you talk on the phone anymore?
- I don't know.
I've asked her,
and she always has excuses.
- Like what?
- She's busy
or she's at school,
or, like, why we've
never FaceTimed before,
she's always told me her
cameras have just been broken.
- But she's still posting
on her Instagram.
- Right, she tells me
those are, like,
professionally done
pictures.
- Hmm.
- But...
is she, like, Instafamous?
- I'd say, yeah.
- How many followers
does she have?
- Like 20,000.
- Wow.
- Hmm.
- Do you guys still
DM through Instagram?
- No, we don't
use Instagram anymore.
- So you've been talking
nonstop for three years,
but it went from FaceTime
and, like, sending pictures
and all of that
and talking on the phone
to now Snapchat text only.
- Yeah.
- Something's going on.
I think there's a chance
when her number switched,
something happened.
- Yeah. No, for sure.
- Well, I hope it's her,
and I hope we get
to go to [bleep]ing Hawaii.
[laughter]
- So if we end up doing this,
there's a chance we might meet
up with her on Valentine's Day.
- [gasps]
Oh, my God.
- You gotta kiss this girl.
It's like true love's kiss.
- You have to kiss her.
- Have you ever seen
"The Little Mermaid"?
- I have.
- You're the prince...
- Mm-hmm.
- And she's Ariel,
because she basically
lives in the ocean.
She has no voice.
She has no voice.
She's a mermaid.
She's a mermaid!
She got legs to go
on the cruise to meet him,
and then she went
back into the ocean
and she doesn't have
her voice anymore.
- It's 'cause of Ursula.
- [laughs]
It's Ursula!
- Wow.
- All right, so hang tight.
Give us till tomorrow morning
to get all our crew
out to Salt Lake City.
- Just to let you guys know,
I'm actually staying with
my friend for a couple of days
'cause my mom didn't want me
to, like, go on national TV.
She kicked me out
for that reason.
- So you're trying
to risk it all for this girl?
- You miss 100% of the shots
you don't take.
- Yeah, but you also miss your
bed if you can't come home.
- [laughs]
- That's true.
- All right,
we'll see you soon.
- All right, have a good one.
- See ya.
- Wow, three years.
- It's weird that all
of the signs are there
that it's her,
but at the same time,
her camera's broken.
All of your photos
are professional.
- What is going on?
- I hope we get
to go to Hawaii.
- She better live in Hawaii.
I mean...
- That would be great.
- Let's do it.
All right,
I'm off to Salt Lake City.
Gonna say good-bye to the fam.
Cleo, Daddy's
got to go to work.
- Okay.
- Dad, I love you.
- Mwah!
- Love you.
- Mwah!
- Have a great time.
- Okay.
- Here we go.
- ♪ Ooh
- ♪ You take me to the edge
- We made it to the hotel.
It's late. We're tired.
Good night, Kamie.
See you tomorrow morning.
I got a message from Kaden.
He says,
"Meet me at this café."
Okay.
- Kaden and Adriana
met on a cruise.
- Right,
they met in real life,
and then their relationship
became digital,
so that alone
is interesting.
There's also a possibility
that we're not getting
the whole story.
- We gon' see.
- All right,
let's do this.
[gasps]
- Hey!
- Kaden.
- What's up, Nev?
- What's up, man?
How you doing?
- Kamie, how you doing?
- Great.
- Me too.
- How you feeling?
- Nervous as hell.
- Take a deep breath.
Let's go and find
a place to sit.
- This is so cute.
- Kaden, give us the scoop from
the beginning, from the top.
- So in 2015,
I saw Adriana on a cruise.
I went up and started
talking to her,
and that's when it started.
- Wow, very confident.
- And she seemed
like she was into it?
- Oh, yeah.
And then after that,
got her Instagram.
We started talking
and got along really well.
- What have your feelings
been for her this whole time?
- I'm in love with her.
I just can't get her
out of my head, man.
Every day--there's
not a day that goes by
that I don't think about her.
Thinking about her
makes food taste better
and colors look brighter.
- Damn.
- So where are we now?
You used to have
her phone number.
- I had her old phone number.
- Right.
And now you got her new number.
How did you find out
she has a new number?
- Through her Instagram.
She sent it to me, and then
she unsent her number.
- Oh...
- Wait, but did you save it
before she unsent it?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And have you tried calling?
- I have a couple times,
but she just doesn't answer.
- She have a voicemail set up?
- No.
- Wait, that's weird that she
would send you her number
and then unsend it.
- Right?
- Yeah, that's really weird.
- You don't DM on Instagram
anymore, do you?
- No, no more.
- Only Snapchat?
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you ask her
for her Snapchat?
- Yeah, she got
that new phone,
and then she sent it to me.
- Does she post stories?
- Well, but there's stories...
- Right.
- But they're never
of, like, her.
- Is she in them?
- No.
- Is it anything
even obvious Hawaii?
Is it ever like--
- Palm trees,
and there's no snow.
- All right,
so it's a tropical climate.
- For sure, yeah.
- Okay.
- But how do you even know
that they're her pictures
if she's not in it?
I need to see this girl.
- All right.
- Yeah, okay, here she is,
20,000 followers.
She's very pretty.
- And you, of course,
have liked every single photo.
- This is deep.
You guys really talked a lot.
- There's a lot.
So do you still have saved
Snapchat messages with her?
- Yeah, mm-hmm.
- Can we see them?
- Of course.
- So these exchanges
are more recent.
Wait a second, this is weird.
She said, "This is a friend.
Do you think she's cute?"
You said, "Haha, okay, I'm sure
she's cute to somebody,
"but she's just not my type.
Why did you wanna know
what I thought of her?"
And then she said, "She came
across your feed on IG
"and said you were cute,
so I thought I'd ask
what you thought."
Hmm.
- No idea who that chick is.
- Is it possible
that this person
assumed Adriana's identity
and has even, like, taken over
the relationship with you?
That's why you can't
talk to her on the phone,
'cause she sounds
super different.
She won't send you pictures
'cause she looks different.
- Well, she sent that picture.
- Well, but she tried
to sneak it in like,
"Oh, a friend of mine
said you were cute."
That's such a catfish move,
sending a picture of yourself
to see if the person
you're catfishing would find
the real you attractive.
Something's going on.
- For sure.
- We'll do some research,
and we'll see
what we can find out.
- All right, sounds good.
I appreciate it.
- [exhales]
Crazy.
- This is a doozy.
- We're gonna hang out here
and investigate.
All right, buddy,
see you later.
- All right,
have a good one, guys.
- See you later.
- This feels suspicious.
Clearly, something's up.
- It's so bizarre.
We don't know what's
gonna come out of this.
- Let's get 'er done.
- All right, we got
some work to do.
So what do we know?
We know that Kaden
and Adriana met in person.
This was a real thing.
We've never seen anything
like this on "Catfish."
Then they became sort of
long-distance friend pen pals.
They started to catch feelings
for each other.
Time went on.
Things got weird.
There's been some...shifts.
She got a new number.
It's been a while
since they spoke on the phone.
She's on Snapchat,
but she never posts pictures
of herself.
And then the last thing
she sent to him
was a picture
of some other girl.
What the hell's
going on here?
Where do we start?
Let's just go to Instagram.
Instagram...
[ominous music]
She doesn't really take
pictures with a lot of people.
This person seems to be
friends with her.
She's commenting on,
like, every picture.
Mary [bleep], all right,
let's send her a message.
"Hey, Mary."
Okay.
Who is this tagging Adriana?
Michael [bleep],
oh, he's a photographer,
so maybe he took that picture?
Do we just message him too?
- Yeah.
- All right.
Let's keep looking.
Whoa, this is--
- That's the girl.
Is that the girl in the
Snapchat one?
- Yes, that's the girl
Adriana sent to Kaden.
She's like, "What do you
think of this girl?
She thinks you're cute."
Wait, so this is the girl
from the Snapchat.
[dramatic music]
See, look, the tattoo
on her arm, for sure.
What is this, Alysha, Alysha?
- I mean, this girl's obviously
close with Adriana.
- Why don't we
message this girl, Alysha?
She's friends with Adriana.
- Yeah.
- She would probably
know if Adriana's
still actively
talking to Kaden.
- Or if she's the one
that's been talking to him.
- Or if she's been
talking to him.
- Things are movingso fast.
- Okay. All right,
so in the meantime--
[cell phone rings]
Oh, we got a call from Hawaii.
Here we go.
What do we got?
Aloha.
- Mary, hello.
We're doing an episode that
involves your friend Adriana.
- Right. How long have you
been friends with her?
- Do you know Alysha?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Has she ever
mentioned Kaden?
- And you guys currently
still work together?
- In...
- Kailua-Kona.
All right, thank you.
- Bye.
- Well, so we heard back
from one friend.
There's still a couple more.
Let's just run
the phone number.
[dramatic music]
What? Come on.
No results.
- But Hawaii.
[cell phone rings]
- Hmm.
Nev speaking.
- Alysha, hey,
how you doing?
So I'm doing
an episode right now.
We're just trying
to figure out what's going on
between your friend Adriana
and a young man
in Utah named Kaden.
- Okay, recently, Kaden was
talking to Adriana on Snapchat,
and she said, "Hey, this friend
of mine thought you were cute"
and sent a picture of you
and then said,
"What do you think of her?
- Okay.
- This is gonna sound
like a weird question,
but are you
impersonating Adriana?
You can be honest with us.
Tell us the truth.
- Really?
- All right, well,
thanks for talking to us.
If you speak to Adriana,
let her know we'd also
love to talk to her.
And, yeah, hopefully
we'll figure this all out.
- All right, bye.
- I'm grasping
at straws here.
What the [bleep] is going on
and why would Adriana
send him that picture?
- Adriana's real,
her friends are real,
but is Kaden still in contact
with the real Adriana?
- Mm-hmm.
- Or has Kaden completely
stopped talking to Adriana...
- The real Adriana.
- Because when
her phone number changed,
someone hacked her account
and assumed her identity.
- But if it's not Alysha,
who could it be?
- Kaden texted.
He's with his friend.
So this is where
Kaden's been staying
since Mama kicked him out.
[mellow hip-hop music]
- Hi.
- Hello.
Kick it right here.
- Sounds good.
- All right, buddy,
interesting investigation.
Wanted to just sort of
walk you through what we found.
So we went to her Instagram.
- Mm-hmm.
- So we just
sort of poked around,
and the first person
that jumped out,
we were like, "Wait a second.
We know that girl."
That's the girl
that she sent you a picture of.
Her name is Alysha.
So we messaged her,
and then we kept going
through more people
who showed up that seemed
to be friends with her,
this girl, Mary,
and then this guy, Michael,
who's a photographer.
They all seem to be
friends with each other.
And Alysha called us back.
I asked if she'd ever heard
Adriana mention you.
- She says she has
never heard of you,
but according to Adriana,
she thought that you were cute.
She saw you
on Instagram.
- Right, she didn't
know about that.
- That's kinda weird.
- Which is bizarre.
- Yeah.
- Yes, thank you.
It's just weird.
Something's weird.
[cell phone rings]
- Oh, my God, Alysha.
- What?
- Okay, hold on.
[suspenseful music]
Hey, Alysha.
- How's it going?
- Oh.
- Oh, dear.
- Okay, what's going on?
♪
- Okay, so wait a second.
How did that happen?
- Alysha, I'm sorry,
I'm calling bull[bleep]
for a second
because earlier today
when we were on the phone,
I straight up asked you
if you were telling the truth,
and you said yes.
Are you telling
the truth now?
How do we know that
you're telling the truth?
- 'Cause you lied
a couple hours ago, girl.
- Well, I don't know.
Alysha, can you
just give us one second?
- Okay, thanks.
- I feel like she's lying,
but we don't know
if she's lying then
or if she's lying now.
- Do you wanna talk to her
right now or should--
how do you wanna deal--move--
what do you wanna do?
- I just kinda want
to sit on this for a sec.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Yeah.
- Hey, Alysha,
sorry about that.
Okay, so, look,
so it feels like
there's been some deception.
- I still feel like
there is a responsibility,
not just on your part
but also on Adriana's part.
Like, she was friends
with him for four years,
and then she just [bleep]ing
let her friend,
like, start talk--
like, that's not cool.
Like, she has to own that
and so do you,
and, like, a phone call
where you get to sort of say,
like, "Oops, sorry,"
isn't really gonna cut it.
I think the right thing to do
for everyone is meet up
and, like, find out
what really has been going on.
We're gonna plan
on coming to Hawaii,
so plan on making some time for
us in the next couple days,
and that's what we'll just
assume is going to happen.
- All right, bye.
- It's crazy, man.
I just--
I'm pissed. Not gonna lie,
I'm really pissed.
- But then how do you feel
about Adriana now?
Like, she lied too.
- I'm confused.
I mean, I'm pissed, but it's
like I've known her--
well, I don't know
what to think, to be honest.
Who knows who I've been
talking to now?
- But I don't know that
that's the whole story.
- I don't--I'm not--
I'm not buying in
to what they're selling.
She's hiding something.
- There's something going on.
- It's time to show up
and grow up.
- So I think
we should call Adriana.
- You have her number.
- Let's see what happens
when we call her.
[line trilling]
- Hey, this is Nev
from "Catfish."
Who'd you say this was?
- Oh, Michael,
are you the photographer?
I think I sent you
a message on Instagram.
Did you get that?
[phone beeps]
- Oh!
- I'm sorry,
who'd you say this was?
- Oh, Michael,
the photographer?
I think I sent you
a message on Instagram.
Did you get that?
[phone beeps]
- Oh!
The disrespect.
- That must have been Michael,
right?
- That has to be him.
- Right.
I'm gonna text.
"Hey..."
- How do you just hang up
the phone like that?
- "So like I said,
this is Nev from 'Catfish.'
"I'm not sure why you hung up,
"but I'm pretty sure
it has something to do
"with Adriana and her friend
Alysha messing with Kaden.
"We are coming to Hawaii
no matter what,
so it would be in your best
interest to clear things up."
- I feel like everybody in
Hawaii is in on this together.
- Or the girls are all covering
because the phone number
you got for Adriana
when she changed it
isn't her number,
it's Mike's number,
and you've actually been
talking to Mike
and he has a crush on you
but it's really actually
a whole nother person
that isn't ready to come out
or come clean.
Maybe they're trying
to sort of cover for Michael.
That could explain
the not talking on the phone.
- They're all in
a group chat right now,
and it's, like, on fire.
- [imitates text notifications]
- Yeah.
- "What do we do?
Nev just talked to me.
Did he call you?"
[imitates phone ringing]
- All right, so, look,
we need to go to Hawaii,
find out
what the hell's going on.
- Yeah.
- We're gonna figure this out,
and we're gonna get through it.
- All right, man.
- Hang in there.
- Thank you.
- This just got messy.
- These girls.
- I think it's more
than just the girls.
Michael might be
a part of this.
- Something is up.
- I tell ya, this just went
from "The Love Boat"
to the "Titanic."
- Real quick.
- Real quick.
- How you doing?
- You're dressed for Hawaii.
- I'm ready.
- ♪ We were shooting sparks
in the dark at the same time ♪
- Got a big travel day.
Got a flight from
Salt Lake City to Denver,
then Denver to Hawaii.
- ♪ You said love
would be the answer ♪
♪ The answer is love
♪ Love, always the answer
♪ The answer is love
♪
- Oh, my God, we came to heat.
- Put your little shirt on.
- Hawaii, all right!
I'm ready!
Here we go!
- ♪ We are lovers
of the same kind ♪
- All right,
we made it to Hawaii.
- Safe and alive.
- What do you think so far?
- It's beautiful.
- Yeah.
We just talked to the ladies,
and they have not responded.
I mean, what do we do if
we just don't hear from them?
- We go to the pool!
- ♪ Love, always the answer
♪ The answer is love, always
♪ Always
- After seven years,
made it to Hawaii on "Catfish,"
and, of course, Max isn't here.
We miss you, Max.
We can't believe
you're not here.
I wanted to share the sunset
with you, Max, okay?
- Oh, my God.
- [laughs]
- ♪ Love, be the answer
♪ Love, see the sunrise
- Right?
- Yeah, I mean, I can.
- Have you even heard from her?
- No, I haven't, not since
that day when we called her.
- ♪ The answer is love
♪ Love always
[mellow music]
♪
- Super casual day
on the hammock.
Oh, look who's here,
with not a floral shirt on.
I am shocked.
- Well, it's business today.
I gotta be serious.
- Oh, this is
business casual.
I think I saw Kaden.
Let's find him.
[upbeat music]
- What's up, man?
- Not much.
- How you feeling?
- Anxious.
- Yeah?
- Really scared. [laughs]
- We don't know if Adriana's
gonna get back to you
right now, but Alysha was
the one that we really, like...
- Yes.
- That's who
we should be texting.
- Yeah.
- All right,
I'm gonna try calling her.
- Okay.
[line trilling]
[phone chimes]
- The wireless customer you
are calling is not available.
Please try again later.
- Let me try calling Mary,
her friend she works with.
[line trilling]
- Hey, Mary, it's Nev again,
from "Catfish."
- We spoke to Alysha.
She told us
that it was actually her
that had been
communicating with Kaden
for the past few months, sort
of pretending to be Adriana.
- Yeah, we're trying
to figure out
how to get in touch with her,
and no one's
really responding,
so I thought
I'd give you a call
to see if you had any thoughts.
- That juice place
or that green something?
- Coffee.
- Well, thank you, and...
- All right, thank you, Mary.
- Bye.
- Let's go.
I can honestly say
this is a "Catfish" first.
You'll at least
get to see this girl again
that you've met in person,
you've been thinking about
for three years.
- Is your heart, like, pounding
out of your chest right now?
- My stomach feels a little
more upset than anything.
- Have you thought about
what you'll say to her?
- It's hard to, like,
think of what I'm gonna say
'cause I don't--like,
after all that's happened
the past couple days,
I just...
trying to prepare myself
for any scenario.
- Yeah, like is she gonna
be happy to see us?
Is she gonna be pissed?
Is she gonna be annoyed?
Is she gonna be...confused?
- Yeah, it's coming up
here on the left.
[dramatic music]
- Okay, this is just, like,
a tiny little café.
♪
You guys just hang
for a second.
Let me go see
if she's even in there.
- Oh, my gosh, Kamie.
[laughs]
I don't know
what I'm gonna say.
- Start with "hi."
[ominous music]
♪
- Hello.
- Hi.
- What's your
biggest question?
What do you want
to know the most?
- Who have I been talking to?
- Who have I been talking to,
and just let her talk.
Sometimes, especially
when people are lying...
- Mm-hmm.
- Once they keep talking,
the lies just start
to unravel themselves.
- Is Adriana working here?
She is.
- [sighs]
We came all this way.
- Almost 2,200 miles.
- Time to get some answers.
- Yeah.
- I know--I mean,
I know you're working.
Do you have two seconds?
- I've got Kaden.
- He really wants to see you.
Can you, like, meet--
like, talk to us outside
for a little bit?
- All right.
- Now I have anxiety.
- Yeah, it's really
hitting me now.
[dramatic music]
- Oh, here goes nothin'.
♪
- Start rolling.
- She said she'd come outside
and meet us.
♪
- She said she'd come outside
to meet us.
[dramatic music]
Oh, here she is.
Here she is.
♪
Ooh.
- Hey.
- How are you?
- Good, good to see you.
- I know, good to see you too.
- So what's up?
I'm Nev, obviously.
We just met.
This is Kamie.
- Nice to meet you, Adriana.
- Nice to meet you too.
- Here we are.
- Mm-hmm.
- We have a lot of questions.
We spoke to Alysha,
and she told us that
it was actually her that had
been communicating with Kaden
for the past few months,
sort of pretending to be you.
Is that true?
- Yeah.
Alysha saw
your Instagram through--
she has access to my feed,
number one.
We're best friends.
I mean, it's not--
- She has access
to your account.
- Yeah, and then she saw
your feed through there
and was like,
"Oh, he's really cute."
And then she
asked me about you,
and then I told her who
you were, met you on a cruise.
She messaged you
without my knowledge.
I didn't know that it got
to the extent that it did.
She let me know that it
happened, and when she did,
it was like she
downplayed it a lot.
She was like, "Ooh, it was,
like, only a one-time thing.
"I was just trying to,
like, I don't know,
see if the vibe was there."
And I was like, "Okay,
that's, like, a little odd,"
but, I mean, she's like,
"I'm just feeling it out,
you know, just..."
I don't know,
she thought you were cute,
so I was like,
"This is my friend.
I guess I'll support it."
I didn't know that she was
doing it so frequently.
- How could you
not tell me?
I mean, how long have
I been talking to Alysha?
- It's been on and off.
- So when Alysha asked you
about Kaden,
you said you guys
were good friends.
- Yeah.
[tense music]
- So for all these years,
that's the extent
of how you feel, or do you
feel more than that?
- No, we're good friends,
yeah.
♪
- [sighs]
- I mean, we were very young
when we met,
and we only spent,
like, maybe, I don't know,
not even, like,
a full day together,
so it was, we didn't
really know each other enough
for me to actually,
like, have feelings
or feel any type of way.
- To him, sort of felt like
could be the beginning
of a...young romance.
- [laughs]
- He said you guys, like--
I know this sounds corny
to say, but, like, held hands.
- I have no recollection
of holding hands
or being affectionate
in any way.
- So you didn't feel sparks?
- I didn't.
♪
- Does that sound honest?
I mean, I'm not
saying you're lying.
I'm just, like,
for all these years,
you had no idea that
he had feelings for you?
I don't know, is that--
is he blowing this
out of proportion,
or are you trying
to downplay it?
The way he tells the story,
he's, like, super into you.
- That's not--
I didn't pick up on it.
Um, I mean,
every once in a while,
there were lighthearted,
flirtatious messages,
but, I mean, I feel like
I didn't reciprocate.
I don't know if that is...
can you acknowledge that?
- Hmm? Um, kinda.
- Yeah? Okay.
- Yeah, I mean...
- But I've gotta say,
beyond all that,
to me, it's odd to just
have friends, you know,
taking over
your social media accounts
and talking to people
on your behalf, especially,
you know, considering
your page and your following.
I would think
that you wouldn't want
somebody who's potentially
having conversations
outside of your knowledge
with other people.
- I guess, it's just--I think
it's just a trust factor.
- I mean, look,
after all these years,
it feels a little weird to me
that you wouldn't be
a bit more empathetic to Kaden
knowing that, like,
you know, this relationship
maybe meant a little bit more
to him but that also,
for the past few months,
like, has been
sort of falsely perpetuated
by your friend through your
account with your knowledge.
Like--
- No, I definitely--
I do apologize
for whatever she had said.
- Why didn't you
say something to him?
Why didn't you,
like, clear it up?
- Alysha's more
of a friend to me,
and I felt like that's where
my loyalty lies.
♪
- Do you have a boyfriend?
- I do, mm-hmm.
- Is it Michael?
- Michael, yeah.
- How long have you guys
been together?
- Um, we're going
on seven months,
you know, a little bit.
- What do you think the chances
are that we can talk to Alysha?
'Cause we've
been trying to.
- Oh, really? I could
definitely hit her up...
- Okay, that would be great.
- I should probably
get back to work, okay? Bye.
- Thanks.
- Nice to meet you.
- See ya.
- It just feels very...
- Cold.
There's just a way
that you handle people...
- Yeah.
- On an empathetic level...
- Right?
- That she just didn't
give a [bleep] about.
- I feel like she would have
come out and been like,
"Oh, my God, I'm so sorry."
- She just brushed that off her
shoulder like it was nothing,
and, I mean...three years--
or four years.
I don't know how that
could turn into nothing.
- It's all a little weird.
All right, why don't we
get back in the car?
- ♪ I try
to feel it inside ♪
♪ But the fire
that we had's all gone ♪
[spacey rock music]
- See ya later, Adriana.
- Are you okay, Kaden?
- [shakily]
I'll survive.
- ♪ But it's over
- Just got some stuff to say
to this other chick.
♪
[text message swoops]
- Ooh, we got a text
from Alysha.
- What's it say?
- "Hey, Nev, Adriana
just called me.
"I'm ready to put an end
to all of this.
Meet me at this park
and we'll talk."
And there's a link to where
we're supposed to meet her.
Hopefully, she shows up.
- I really don't have, like,
a lot to say to Alysha
other than, like,
what the [bleep]?
[laughs]
- I mean, on one hand,
it's, like,
flattering she thought
you were cute.
- Yeah, but the other hand,
that's definitely
not how you go about it.
- We're here.
[intriguing music]
Kind of a beach.
- Wow, look at that.
- Okay, let's do this.
♪
- I don't see anybody
that looks like an Alysha.
- I don't see anybody.
Do you guys see anybody?
- Is that her?
- Oh, it's like
an older person.
- Yeah.
- I don't see the tattoos.
- Yeah.
There's a car.
[dramatic music]
♪
Looks like Adriana.
- What is this?
Uh-oh.
- Are we gonna
get jumped?
[tense music]
- There's a car.
♪
Looks like Adriana.
- What is this?
- Are we gonna
get jumped?
- Uh-oh.
Here's your girl.
- Came together.
- This should be interesting.
♪
- Hello.
- Hey.
- Good to see you again.
- Likewise.
- Hi.
- Alysha.
- Hi, Alysha, nice to meet you.
- Kaden, yeah, you too.
- Why don't you just tell us
what's going on?
Whoever wants to start,
if there's anything anyone's
inching to say.
- I actually have to get
back to work pretty soon,
but I can stay for,
like, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Okay, great, well,
we'll take what we can get.
- I wanted to make sure
I at least made it out here
to be able
to talk a little bit,
'cause this has
been a lot.
- How long have you
been texting me?
- Uh...
I had no idea about any of it.
Like, I really didn't.
Whatever situations were going
on, I did not know about it.
I just was doing it for her.
When you told me,
"This is Nev from 'Catfish'"
and that it was
involving Adriana,
I was like, "Whoa."
So then I called her, was like,
"Dude, what's going on?"
And she basically was like,
"So I sent a picture of you
to this boy," and it was
her way of trying to be like,
"I'm not interested
in a little bit,"
But, like, not in a mean way.
So she asked me
to cover for her.
- And the phone number Kaden's
had, that's not yours.
It's Adriana's.
- Mm-hmm.
- Right, okay.
So have you ever texted
or communicated with Kaden?
- Mm-mm.
She told me
that I should say that,
and so I just
went through with it,
but I've had no involvement
with Kaden myself ever.
♪
- Why did you feel like you
need to make up this story
when you could just
either not talk to him
or just say, like,
"Hey, I've got a boyfriend."
Like...that's that.
I don't get it.
- Everything was coming at once
when you guys contacted her,
so that was when I was like,
"Just cover for me
and then, you know,
we'll figure it out."
- We just spoke to you,
Adriana, a few hours ago,
and you said
that same story.
- Yes, because I wasn't able
to get ahold of Alysha
and figure out--
- If you guys
were gonna lie?
[dramatic music]
What about just
telling the truth?
- It's what we're doing.
- A little late.
I mean, why not just say, "I'm
not feeling you like that"?
Like, I'm just
not feeling you.
- As a woman,
have you ever,
like, had a friendship
that, like, I don't know--
or has a guy ever, like,
hit on you maybe too much?
And it's hard to,
like, shut that down,
but, like, "Hey, do you still
wanna, like, talk and stuff?"
- I've done it
multiple times.
- Yeah, okay.
- I'm just telling you,
it's the best policy,
instead of leading anyone on,
intentionally
or unintentionally.
[tense music]
Kaden, do you have
anything to say?
- No, I...
got nothing right now.
- He might not be so vocal
and honest right now
because he's got
his feelings hurt,
but he had real feelings
for you.
Can you understand that?
♪
- I'm sorry that I allowed
that to be portrayed
as...me, and I didn't
mean to hurt you.
None of it was supposed
to go this far.
- No, not at all.
I mean, I'm not the one
that contacted them.
- I guess the thing
that bothers me the most
is that this is the first time
that we've brought people
together, two people that have
already met, so you'd think
that there'd be something
real there, but, I mean,
you don't really seem to care.
- It's very cold.
- You just--this just
sort of feels like a--like a--
like an inconvenience for you,
and you kind of feel like,
"Ugh, this is so stupid.
Like, another boy
thinks I'm cute."
- I do feel incredibly bad
that, you know--
- That's not true.
Let's just be honest.
You don't feel bad,
which is fine.
You don't have to.
The only thing you
should feel bad about is, like,
making this weird, bull[bleep]
lie for the last couple days,
but, like, up until then,
I actually put most
of the blame on him.
He thought it was more
than maybe you did. Fine.
I'm not blaming you for that.
But, like, I haven't
heard you say anything yet
that I actually think
is honest.
- Okay, that's your opinion.
[tense music]
- I need to leave.
I really do.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Thanks for...
- Thanks for coming.
- Explaining some of this.
- I'll give you a hug.
- Oh, yeah, sure. All right.
- I'm sorry.
- You're good.
- Hopefully you guys
figure more out.
- Bye, babe.
I'll see you tonight.
Yeah.
- Okay.
- [sighs]
I mean, is there anything else
that you would like to just,
I don't know, put out there?
Kaden, I feel like you've
said all of two words.
- I'm glad at least
now I know
what the, uh, end game is.
- You guys can talk
for a second without us.
We'll check in with you later.
- [laughs]
Jeez.
- Weird.
- She was not nice.
Not kind.
What's the attraction?
- I think she's just,
like, a cute girl
who just doesn't care
about boys' feelings
and never consider--
and doesn't--
like, just doesn't care.
- Well, that's
very unfortunate.
Not very becoming,
as a young lady.
- I just hope he stands up
for himself.
- I don't feel like he's gonna
really say how he truly feels.
♪
- All right.
- Yeah.
- I definitely apologize
if I made you feel
any specific type of way.
- I'm sorry I misinterpreted
that, 'cause, you know,
little lame Utah boy.
[laughs]
- No, yeah, for sure.
[poignant music]
- All right, should we,
uh, walk back over there?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Yeah.
[tense music]
- Hey, guys.
- How'd it go?
- It was really nice
to talk one-on-one.
Think we can all walk away
feeling a lot better.
- For sure, for sure.
- Yeah.
- Nice to meet you.
- Good to meet you.
- Bye.
- Bye.
[uplifting music]
- ♪ It's never easy
♪ When you come around
- Sure you don't want
to slash her tires real quick?
- Yeah, we can.
- Yeah, no, I'm good.
[laughs]
I'm sure I'll find
someone eventually
that stands out
much more to me.
- You will. Your heart is free
to do as you please.
- Exactly.
- Time to go scan
the Hawaiian beaches
for some bait!
- [laughs]
[line trilling]
- Hey!
- Hello!
Whoa, who's that
ghost behind you?
Did you see that?
- Yes.
- There's--legit,
there's a ghost.
There's a ghost in there.
[laughter]
How's it going?
- Um, really good.
- I remember things with
your mom were a little tense,
and she kind of kicked you out.
Are you back living at home?
- So I'm actually
moving to California
at the end of this month.
- Whoa!
- What?
- Cool, are you trying
to get closer to Adriana?
- We haven't actually
talked since Hawaii.
- Nothing.
- I just realized
that wasn't for me.
- Smart.
- Now I know I can move on
to the next girl,
who will hopefully be the one.
- Yeah, you know what?
You're better off.
- I'm glad you're doing
so much better
without homegirl
in your life
because I didn't
like her very much.
- Yeah, I could tell.
[laughs]
- Good luck
with the move.
- All right, guys,
well, have a good one.
It's good to see ya.
- All right, Kaden.
- Good to see you.
- All right, bye.
- Bye.
1086
00:41:13.
a day that goes by
that I don't think
about her.
Just thinking about her
makes food taste better
and colors look brighter.
- Damn.
Kaden and Adriana
met on a cruise.
- They met in real life,
and then their relationship
became digital.
That's weird that she would
send you her number
and then unsend it.
How's it going?
- Oh!
- What is this?
- Are we gonna get jumped?
- Uh-oh.
Hey, guys, Nev here,
and we're back
with a brand-new batch
of all-new "Catfish" episodes.
Let's do it!
We've been making the show
for over seven years
and we've done
over 125 episodes...
- You're a coward, man.
- And what's amazing is,
we're still
encountering things
we've never seen before...
He was dead
for a couple days. What?
- Everybody in Hawaii
is in on this.
- ♪ What you see is just
the tip of the iceberg ♪
- New ways to fall in love...
We've never had
two hopefuls hook up.
All-new deceptions...
- You just lied
about so much [bleep].
- And new
what-the-[bleep] firsts
that are gonna completely
flip the script
on what you think you know
about "Catfish."
- He has a twin.
- An identical twin.
So join me and all
our favorite cohosts...
- Are we gonna get jumped?
- Oh, my God.
- As we dive headfirst into
an all-new season of episodes,
each with a unique
"Catfish" first.
- ♪ What you see is just
the tip of the iceberg ♪
♪ Ah!
- All right.
Oh, here's my new cohost.
You ready to do an episode,
buddy?
Oh, who's my new cohost?
- This guy right here.
Look at him. He's handsome.
- Oh, he passed.
Next person who gets out
of this elevator gets a job.
Who's it gonna be?
Kamie.
- Hello.
- You look good.
- What a warm welcome.
I know.
Thanks for having me.
- You're back.
All right, let's go.
Have a seat.
- What you got for me today?
- I don't know yet.
You ready?
- I'm scared.
- All right, here we go.
This is from Kaden.
"Hey, Nev"--
- And Kamie.
- "My name is Kaden,
I'm 19 years old,
"and I live
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
"I've been talking
to this girl, Adriana,
"for the last three years,
"but something weird
has been going on
"in the last few months,
so my friend suggested
I reach out to you."
- Good friend.
- "Adriana is this beautiful
19-year-old girl from Hawaii."
- ♪ I don't wanna wake up
with you gone ♪
- "She's sweet and funny
and exciting.
"I know all this because
we met on a cruise
when we were 15"?
- What?
- Wait a second.
- What show is this?
- ♪ I dream of warm waters
- "When I first saw her,
I knew she was special.
"She was gorgeous
"and unlike any other girl
I've seen before,
"so I went up to her
and was totally surprised
"that she was down
to talk to me.
"This girl was my dream girl,
and we had something special.
"The cruise ended, and we were
stuck going our separate ways.
"We talked on IG
almost every day.
"We even FaceTimed once.
"However, a few months ago,
she changed numbers
"and things got
a little weird.
"I tried to call her,
but she wouldn't pick up,
"and would just message me
instead on Snapchat.
"I tried to FaceTime
her again,
but she said
her camera broke."
- ♪ I dream of warm waters
- "I don't get it.
We've already met.
"What's the big deal
about FaceTiming now?
"I really want us
to be together,
"but I'm starting to worry
that she's hiding
something major from me."
- ♪ Of warm waters
- "Please call me if you
think you can help. Kaden."
All right,
so this is a big deal.
This is a "Catfish" first.
- Right.
- We have a couple
who met in person,
had a real-life
love connection,
but then were separated.
She lives in Hawaii,
he lives in Salt Lake City,
and now he's starting
to be concerned
that something else
is going on.
- Maybe Adriana grew up to be
a hot Instababe
and maybe she has
a million followers
and maybe she got hacked
and now the hacker
is talking to Kaden.
- Right.
Let's just call this guy.
[computer chimes]
Hey.
- Hey!
- Hey, how's it going?
- What's up, Kaden?
- I'm doing pretty good.
- This is Kamie,
by the way.
I don't know if you've
seen her in recent episodes.
- Nice to meet you, Kamie.
- What's up, man?
Have you always lived
in Salt Lake City?
- I have.
- How's that?
- It's awesome.
I mean, it snows a lot,
good snowboarding and skiing.
- Cool. Okay, so tell us about
this cruise. Take us back.
- All right,
we get on this cruise,
and I believe
it was the first night.
We were having, like,
that big, like, dining dinner,
and I looked up
and there was just
this unbelievably
gorgeous girl,
and I couldn't
believe my eyes.
So I started talking to her,
and it was just
all kind of like a dream.
We ended up spending
the entire cruise together
'cause we just
clicked like that.
- And she lives in Hawaii.
- Yeah.
- And did you guys hold hands,
kiss, make out?
- Go to second base?
- We held hands
a little bit towards the end,
but other than that,
we didn't kiss
or make out or anything.
I was a shy little guy.
But right before
the cruise was over,
I got her Instagram.
Got home
and, like, immediately,
we started
talking quite a bit.
We did FaceTime,
like, a couple months after.
- But since she got
a new number,
you haven't spoken
or FaceTimed.
- Nope. We've been talking
on Snapchat since.
- Was there ever an explanation
for why she got a new number?
- She told me that she just
got a new phone for Christmas.
- You can get a new phone and
not have to get a new number.
- Right, I definitely thought
it was pretty suspicious.
- So, wait a second, why don't
you talk on the phone anymore?
- I don't know.
I've asked her,
and she always has excuses.
- Like what?
- She's busy
or she's at school,
or, like, why we've
never FaceTimed before,
she's always told me her
cameras have just been broken.
- But she's still posting
on her Instagram.
- Right, she tells me
those are, like,
professionally done
pictures.
- Hmm.
- But...
is she, like, Instafamous?
- I'd say, yeah.
- How many followers
does she have?
- Like 20,000.
- Wow.
- Hmm.
- Do you guys still
DM through Instagram?
- No, we don't
use Instagram anymore.
- So you've been talking
nonstop for three years,
but it went from FaceTime
and, like, sending pictures
and all of that
and talking on the phone
to now Snapchat text only.
- Yeah.
- Something's going on.
I think there's a chance
when her number switched,
something happened.
- Yeah. No, for sure.
- Well, I hope it's her,
and I hope we get
to go to [bleep]ing Hawaii.
[laughter]
- So if we end up doing this,
there's a chance we might meet
up with her on Valentine's Day.
- [gasps]
Oh, my God.
- You gotta kiss this girl.
It's like true love's kiss.
- You have to kiss her.
- Have you ever seen
"The Little Mermaid"?
- I have.
- You're the prince...
- Mm-hmm.
- And she's Ariel,
because she basically
lives in the ocean.
She has no voice.
She has no voice.
She's a mermaid.
She's a mermaid!
She got legs to go
on the cruise to meet him,
and then she went
back into the ocean
and she doesn't have
her voice anymore.
- It's 'cause of Ursula.
- [laughs]
It's Ursula!
- Wow.
- All right, so hang tight.
Give us till tomorrow morning
to get all our crew
out to Salt Lake City.
- Just to let you guys know,
I'm actually staying with
my friend for a couple of days
'cause my mom didn't want me
to, like, go on national TV.
She kicked me out
for that reason.
- So you're trying
to risk it all for this girl?
- You miss 100% of the shots
you don't take.
- Yeah, but you also miss your
bed if you can't come home.
- [laughs]
- That's true.
- All right,
we'll see you soon.
- All right, have a good one.
- See ya.
- Wow, three years.
- It's weird that all
of the signs are there
that it's her,
but at the same time,
her camera's broken.
All of your photos
are professional.
- What is going on?
- I hope we get
to go to Hawaii.
- She better live in Hawaii.
I mean...
- That would be great.
- Let's do it.
All right,
I'm off to Salt Lake City.
Gonna say good-bye to the fam.
Cleo, Daddy's
got to go to work.
- Okay.
- Dad, I love you.
- Mwah!
- Love you.
- Mwah!
- Have a great time.
- Okay.
- Here we go.
- ♪ Ooh
- ♪ You take me to the edge
- We made it to the hotel.
It's late. We're tired.
Good night, Kamie.
See you tomorrow morning.
I got a message from Kaden.
He says,
"Meet me at this café."
Okay.
- Kaden and Adriana
met on a cruise.
- Right,
they met in real life,
and then their relationship
became digital,
so that alone
is interesting.
There's also a possibility
that we're not getting
the whole story.
- We gon' see.
- All right,
let's do this.
[gasps]
- Hey!
- Kaden.
- What's up, Nev?
- What's up, man?
How you doing?
- Kamie, how you doing?
- Great.
- Me too.
- How you feeling?
- Nervous as hell.
- Take a deep breath.
Let's go and find
a place to sit.
- This is so cute.
- Kaden, give us the scoop from
the beginning, from the top.
- So in 2015,
I saw Adriana on a cruise.
I went up and started
talking to her,
and that's when it started.
- Wow, very confident.
- And she seemed
like she was into it?
- Oh, yeah.
And then after that,
got her Instagram.
We started talking
and got along really well.
- What have your feelings
been for her this whole time?
- I'm in love with her.
I just can't get her
out of my head, man.
Every day--there's
not a day that goes by
that I don't think about her.
Thinking about her
makes food taste better
and colors look brighter.
- Damn.
- So where are we now?
You used to have
her phone number.
- I had her old phone number.
- Right.
And now you got her new number.
How did you find out
she has a new number?
- Through her Instagram.
She sent it to me, and then
she unsent her number.
- Oh...
- Wait, but did you save it
before she unsent it?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And have you tried calling?
- I have a couple times,
but she just doesn't answer.
- She have a voicemail set up?
- No.
- Wait, that's weird that she
would send you her number
and then unsend it.
- Right?
- Yeah, that's really weird.
- You don't DM on Instagram
anymore, do you?
- No, no more.
- Only Snapchat?
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you ask her
for her Snapchat?
- Yeah, she got
that new phone,
and then she sent it to me.
- Does she post stories?
- Well, but there's stories...
- Right.
- But they're never
of, like, her.
- Is she in them?
- No.
- Is it anything
even obvious Hawaii?
Is it ever like--
- Palm trees,
and there's no snow.
- All right,
so it's a tropical climate.
- For sure, yeah.
- Okay.
- But how do you even know
that they're her pictures
if she's not in it?
I need to see this girl.
- All right.
- Yeah, okay, here she is,
20,000 followers.
She's very pretty.
- And you, of course,
have liked every single photo.
- This is deep.
You guys really talked a lot.
- There's a lot.
So do you still have saved
Snapchat messages with her?
- Yeah, mm-hmm.
- Can we see them?
- Of course.
- So these exchanges
are more recent.
Wait a second, this is weird.
She said, "This is a friend.
Do you think she's cute?"
You said, "Haha, okay, I'm sure
she's cute to somebody,
"but she's just not my type.
Why did you wanna know
what I thought of her?"
And then she said, "She came
across your feed on IG
"and said you were cute,
so I thought I'd ask
what you thought."
Hmm.
- No idea who that chick is.
- Is it possible
that this person
assumed Adriana's identity
and has even, like, taken over
the relationship with you?
That's why you can't
talk to her on the phone,
'cause she sounds
super different.
She won't send you pictures
'cause she looks different.
- Well, she sent that picture.
- Well, but she tried
to sneak it in like,
"Oh, a friend of mine
said you were cute."
That's such a catfish move,
sending a picture of yourself
to see if the person
you're catfishing would find
the real you attractive.
Something's going on.
- For sure.
- We'll do some research,
and we'll see
what we can find out.
- All right, sounds good.
I appreciate it.
- [exhales]
Crazy.
- This is a doozy.
- We're gonna hang out here
and investigate.
All right, buddy,
see you later.
- All right,
have a good one, guys.
- See you later.
- This feels suspicious.
Clearly, something's up.
- It's so bizarre.
We don't know what's
gonna come out of this.
- Let's get 'er done.
- All right, we got
some work to do.
So what do we know?
We know that Kaden
and Adriana met in person.
This was a real thing.
We've never seen anything
like this on "Catfish."
Then they became sort of
long-distance friend pen pals.
They started to catch feelings
for each other.
Time went on.
Things got weird.
There's been some...shifts.
She got a new number.
It's been a while
since they spoke on the phone.
She's on Snapchat,
but she never posts pictures
of herself.
And then the last thing
she sent to him
was a picture
of some other girl.
What the hell's
going on here?
Where do we start?
Let's just go to Instagram.
Instagram...
[ominous music]
She doesn't really take
pictures with a lot of people.
This person seems to be
friends with her.
She's commenting on,
like, every picture.
Mary [bleep], all right,
let's send her a message.
"Hey, Mary."
Okay.
Who is this tagging Adriana?
Michael [bleep],
oh, he's a photographer,
so maybe he took that picture?
Do we just message him too?
- Yeah.
- All right.
Let's keep looking.
Whoa, this is--
- That's the girl.
Is that the girl in the
Snapchat one?
- Yes, that's the girl
Adriana sent to Kaden.
She's like, "What do you
think of this girl?
She thinks you're cute."
Wait, so this is the girl
from the Snapchat.
[dramatic music]
See, look, the tattoo
on her arm, for sure.
What is this, Alysha, Alysha?
- I mean, this girl's obviously
close with Adriana.
- Why don't we
message this girl, Alysha?
She's friends with Adriana.
- Yeah.
- She would probably
know if Adriana's
still actively
talking to Kaden.
- Or if she's the one
that's been talking to him.
- Or if she's been
talking to him.
- Things are movingso fast.
- Okay. All right,
so in the meantime--
[cell phone rings]
Oh, we got a call from Hawaii.
Here we go.
What do we got?
Aloha.
- Mary, hello.
We're doing an episode that
involves your friend Adriana.
- Right. How long have you
been friends with her?
- Do you know Alysha?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Has she ever
mentioned Kaden?
- And you guys currently
still work together?
- In...
- Kailua-Kona.
All right, thank you.
- Bye.
- Well, so we heard back
from one friend.
There's still a couple more.
Let's just run
the phone number.
[dramatic music]
What? Come on.
No results.
- But Hawaii.
[cell phone rings]
- Hmm.
Nev speaking.
- Alysha, hey,
how you doing?
So I'm doing
an episode right now.
We're just trying
to figure out what's going on
between your friend Adriana
and a young man
in Utah named Kaden.
- Okay, recently, Kaden was
talking to Adriana on Snapchat,
and she said, "Hey, this friend
of mine thought you were cute"
and sent a picture of you
and then said,
"What do you think of her?
- Okay.
- This is gonna sound
like a weird question,
but are you
impersonating Adriana?
You can be honest with us.
Tell us the truth.
- Really?
- All right, well,
thanks for talking to us.
If you speak to Adriana,
let her know we'd also
love to talk to her.
And, yeah, hopefully
we'll figure this all out.
- All right, bye.
- I'm grasping
at straws here.
What the [bleep] is going on
and why would Adriana
send him that picture?
- Adriana's real,
her friends are real,
but is Kaden still in contact
with the real Adriana?
- Mm-hmm.
- Or has Kaden completely
stopped talking to Adriana...
- The real Adriana.
- Because when
her phone number changed,
someone hacked her account
and assumed her identity.
- But if it's not Alysha,
who could it be?
- Kaden texted.
He's with his friend.
So this is where
Kaden's been staying
since Mama kicked him out.
[mellow hip-hop music]
- Hi.
- Hello.
Kick it right here.
- Sounds good.
- All right, buddy,
interesting investigation.
Wanted to just sort of
walk you through what we found.
So we went to her Instagram.
- Mm-hmm.
- So we just
sort of poked around,
and the first person
that jumped out,
we were like, "Wait a second.
We know that girl."
That's the girl
that she sent you a picture of.
Her name is Alysha.
So we messaged her,
and then we kept going
through more people
who showed up that seemed
to be friends with her,
this girl, Mary,
and then this guy, Michael,
who's a photographer.
They all seem to be
friends with each other.
And Alysha called us back.
I asked if she'd ever heard
Adriana mention you.
- She says she has
never heard of you,
but according to Adriana,
she thought that you were cute.
She saw you
on Instagram.
- Right, she didn't
know about that.
- That's kinda weird.
- Which is bizarre.
- Yeah.
- Yes, thank you.
It's just weird.
Something's weird.
[cell phone rings]
- Oh, my God, Alysha.
- What?
- Okay, hold on.
[suspenseful music]
Hey, Alysha.
- How's it going?
- Oh.
- Oh, dear.
- Okay, what's going on?
♪
- Okay, so wait a second.
How did that happen?
- Alysha, I'm sorry,
I'm calling bull[bleep]
for a second
because earlier today
when we were on the phone,
I straight up asked you
if you were telling the truth,
and you said yes.
Are you telling
the truth now?
How do we know that
you're telling the truth?
- 'Cause you lied
a couple hours ago, girl.
- Well, I don't know.
Alysha, can you
just give us one second?
- Okay, thanks.
- I feel like she's lying,
but we don't know
if she's lying then
or if she's lying now.
- Do you wanna talk to her
right now or should--
how do you wanna deal--move--
what do you wanna do?
- I just kinda want
to sit on this for a sec.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- All right.
- Yeah.
- Hey, Alysha,
sorry about that.
Okay, so, look,
so it feels like
there's been some deception.
- I still feel like
there is a responsibility,
not just on your part
but also on Adriana's part.
Like, she was friends
with him for four years,
and then she just [bleep]ing
let her friend,
like, start talk--
like, that's not cool.
Like, she has to own that
and so do you,
and, like, a phone call
where you get to sort of say,
like, "Oops, sorry,"
isn't really gonna cut it.
I think the right thing to do
for everyone is meet up
and, like, find out
what really has been going on.
We're gonna plan
on coming to Hawaii,
so plan on making some time for
us in the next couple days,
and that's what we'll just
assume is going to happen.
- All right, bye.
- It's crazy, man.
I just--
I'm pissed. Not gonna lie,
I'm really pissed.
- But then how do you feel
about Adriana now?
Like, she lied too.
- I'm confused.
I mean, I'm pissed, but it's
like I've known her--
well, I don't know
what to think, to be honest.
Who knows who I've been
talking to now?
- But I don't know that
that's the whole story.
- I don't--I'm not--
I'm not buying in
to what they're selling.
She's hiding something.
- There's something going on.
- It's time to show up
and grow up.
- So I think
we should call Adriana.
- You have her number.
- Let's see what happens
when we call her.
[line trilling]
- Hey, this is Nev
from "Catfish."
Who'd you say this was?
- Oh, Michael,
are you the photographer?
I think I sent you
a message on Instagram.
Did you get that?
[phone beeps]
- Oh!
- I'm sorry,
who'd you say this was?
- Oh, Michael,
the photographer?
I think I sent you
a message on Instagram.
Did you get that?
[phone beeps]
- Oh!
The disrespect.
- That must have been Michael,
right?
- That has to be him.
- Right.
I'm gonna text.
"Hey..."
- How do you just hang up
the phone like that?
- "So like I said,
this is Nev from 'Catfish.'
"I'm not sure why you hung up,
"but I'm pretty sure
it has something to do
"with Adriana and her friend
Alysha messing with Kaden.
"We are coming to Hawaii
no matter what,
so it would be in your best
interest to clear things up."
- I feel like everybody in
Hawaii is in on this together.
- Or the girls are all covering
because the phone number
you got for Adriana
when she changed it
isn't her number,
it's Mike's number,
and you've actually been
talking to Mike
and he has a crush on you
but it's really actually
a whole nother person
that isn't ready to come out
or come clean.
Maybe they're trying
to sort of cover for Michael.
That could explain
the not talking on the phone.
- They're all in
a group chat right now,
and it's, like, on fire.
- [imitates text notifications]
- Yeah.
- "What do we do?
Nev just talked to me.
Did he call you?"
[imitates phone ringing]
- All right, so, look,
we need to go to Hawaii,
find out
what the hell's going on.
- Yeah.
- We're gonna figure this out,
and we're gonna get through it.
- All right, man.
- Hang in there.
- Thank you.
- This just got messy.
- These girls.
- I think it's more
than just the girls.
Michael might be
a part of this.
- Something is up.
- I tell ya, this just went
from "The Love Boat"
to the "Titanic."
- Real quick.
- Real quick.
- How you doing?
- You're dressed for Hawaii.
- I'm ready.
- ♪ We were shooting sparks
in the dark at the same time ♪
- Got a big travel day.
Got a flight from
Salt Lake City to Denver,
then Denver to Hawaii.
- ♪ You said love
would be the answer ♪
♪ The answer is love
♪ Love, always the answer
♪ The answer is love
♪
- Oh, my God, we came to heat.
- Put your little shirt on.
- Hawaii, all right!
I'm ready!
Here we go!
- ♪ We are lovers
of the same kind ♪
- All right,
we made it to Hawaii.
- Safe and alive.
- What do you think so far?
- It's beautiful.
- Yeah.
We just talked to the ladies,
and they have not responded.
I mean, what do we do if
we just don't hear from them?
- We go to the pool!
- ♪ Love, always the answer
♪ The answer is love, always
♪ Always
- After seven years,
made it to Hawaii on "Catfish,"
and, of course, Max isn't here.
We miss you, Max.
We can't believe
you're not here.
I wanted to share the sunset
with you, Max, okay?
- Oh, my God.
- [laughs]
- ♪ Love, be the answer
♪ Love, see the sunrise
- Right?
- Yeah, I mean, I can.
- Have you even heard from her?
- No, I haven't, not since
that day when we called her.
- ♪ The answer is love
♪ Love always
[mellow music]
♪
- Super casual day
on the hammock.
Oh, look who's here,
with not a floral shirt on.
I am shocked.
- Well, it's business today.
I gotta be serious.
- Oh, this is
business casual.
I think I saw Kaden.
Let's find him.
[upbeat music]
- What's up, man?
- Not much.
- How you feeling?
- Anxious.
- Yeah?
- Really scared. [laughs]
- We don't know if Adriana's
gonna get back to you
right now, but Alysha was
the one that we really, like...
- Yes.
- That's who
we should be texting.
- Yeah.
- All right,
I'm gonna try calling her.
- Okay.
[line trilling]
[phone chimes]
- The wireless customer you
are calling is not available.
Please try again later.
- Let me try calling Mary,
her friend she works with.
[line trilling]
- Hey, Mary, it's Nev again,
from "Catfish."
- We spoke to Alysha.
She told us
that it was actually her
that had been
communicating with Kaden
for the past few months, sort
of pretending to be Adriana.
- Yeah, we're trying
to figure out
how to get in touch with her,
and no one's
really responding,
so I thought
I'd give you a call
to see if you had any thoughts.
- That juice place
or that green something?
- Coffee.
- Well, thank you, and...
- All right, thank you, Mary.
- Bye.
- Let's go.
I can honestly say
this is a "Catfish" first.
You'll at least
get to see this girl again
that you've met in person,
you've been thinking about
for three years.
- Is your heart, like, pounding
out of your chest right now?
- My stomach feels a little
more upset than anything.
- Have you thought about
what you'll say to her?
- It's hard to, like,
think of what I'm gonna say
'cause I don't--like,
after all that's happened
the past couple days,
I just...
trying to prepare myself
for any scenario.
- Yeah, like is she gonna
be happy to see us?
Is she gonna be pissed?
Is she gonna be annoyed?
Is she gonna be...confused?
- Yeah, it's coming up
here on the left.
[dramatic music]
- Okay, this is just, like,
a tiny little café.
♪
You guys just hang
for a second.
Let me go see
if she's even in there.
- Oh, my gosh, Kamie.
[laughs]
I don't know
what I'm gonna say.
- Start with "hi."
[ominous music]
♪
- Hello.
- Hi.
- What's your
biggest question?
What do you want
to know the most?
- Who have I been talking to?
- Who have I been talking to,
and just let her talk.
Sometimes, especially
when people are lying...
- Mm-hmm.
- Once they keep talking,
the lies just start
to unravel themselves.
- Is Adriana working here?
She is.
- [sighs]
We came all this way.
- Almost 2,200 miles.
- Time to get some answers.
- Yeah.
- I know--I mean,
I know you're working.
Do you have two seconds?
- I've got Kaden.
- He really wants to see you.
Can you, like, meet--
like, talk to us outside
for a little bit?
- All right.
- Now I have anxiety.
- Yeah, it's really
hitting me now.
[dramatic music]
- Oh, here goes nothin'.
♪
- Start rolling.
- She said she'd come outside
and meet us.
♪
- She said she'd come outside
to meet us.
[dramatic music]
Oh, here she is.
Here she is.
♪
Ooh.
- Hey.
- How are you?
- Good, good to see you.
- I know, good to see you too.
- So what's up?
I'm Nev, obviously.
We just met.
This is Kamie.
- Nice to meet you, Adriana.
- Nice to meet you too.
- Here we are.
- Mm-hmm.
- We have a lot of questions.
We spoke to Alysha,
and she told us that
it was actually her that had
been communicating with Kaden
for the past few months,
sort of pretending to be you.
Is that true?
- Yeah.
Alysha saw
your Instagram through--
she has access to my feed,
number one.
We're best friends.
I mean, it's not--
- She has access
to your account.
- Yeah, and then she saw
your feed through there
and was like,
"Oh, he's really cute."
And then she
asked me about you,
and then I told her who
you were, met you on a cruise.
She messaged you
without my knowledge.
I didn't know that it got
to the extent that it did.
She let me know that it
happened, and when she did,
it was like she
downplayed it a lot.
She was like, "Ooh, it was,
like, only a one-time thing.
"I was just trying to,
like, I don't know,
see if the vibe was there."
And I was like, "Okay,
that's, like, a little odd,"
but, I mean, she's like,
"I'm just feeling it out,
you know, just..."
I don't know,
she thought you were cute,
so I was like,
"This is my friend.
I guess I'll support it."
I didn't know that she was
doing it so frequently.
- How could you
not tell me?
I mean, how long have
I been talking to Alysha?
- It's been on and off.
- So when Alysha asked you
about Kaden,
you said you guys
were good friends.
- Yeah.
[tense music]
- So for all these years,
that's the extent
of how you feel, or do you
feel more than that?
- No, we're good friends,
yeah.
♪
- [sighs]
- I mean, we were very young
when we met,
and we only spent,
like, maybe, I don't know,
not even, like,
a full day together,
so it was, we didn't
really know each other enough
for me to actually,
like, have feelings
or feel any type of way.
- To him, sort of felt like
could be the beginning
of a...young romance.
- [laughs]
- He said you guys, like--
I know this sounds corny
to say, but, like, held hands.
- I have no recollection
of holding hands
or being affectionate
in any way.
- So you didn't feel sparks?
- I didn't.
♪
- Does that sound honest?
I mean, I'm not
saying you're lying.
I'm just, like,
for all these years,
you had no idea that
he had feelings for you?
I don't know, is that--
is he blowing this
out of proportion,
or are you trying
to downplay it?
The way he tells the story,
he's, like, super into you.
- That's not--
I didn't pick up on it.
Um, I mean,
every once in a while,
there were lighthearted,
flirtatious messages,
but, I mean, I feel like
I didn't reciprocate.
I don't know if that is...
can you acknowledge that?
- Hmm? Um, kinda.
- Yeah? Okay.
- Yeah, I mean...
- But I've gotta say,
beyond all that,
to me, it's odd to just
have friends, you know,
taking over
your social media accounts
and talking to people
on your behalf, especially,
you know, considering
your page and your following.
I would think
that you wouldn't want
somebody who's potentially
having conversations
outside of your knowledge
with other people.
- I guess, it's just--I think
it's just a trust factor.
- I mean, look,
after all these years,
it feels a little weird to me
that you wouldn't be
a bit more empathetic to Kaden
knowing that, like,
you know, this relationship
maybe meant a little bit more
to him but that also,
for the past few months,
like, has been
sort of falsely perpetuated
by your friend through your
account with your knowledge.
Like--
- No, I definitely--
I do apologize
for whatever she had said.
- Why didn't you
say something to him?
Why didn't you,
like, clear it up?
- Alysha's more
of a friend to me,
and I felt like that's where
my loyalty lies.
♪
- Do you have a boyfriend?
- I do, mm-hmm.
- Is it Michael?
- Michael, yeah.
- How long have you guys
been together?
- Um, we're going
on seven months,
you know, a little bit.
- What do you think the chances
are that we can talk to Alysha?
'Cause we've
been trying to.
- Oh, really? I could
definitely hit her up...
- Okay, that would be great.
- I should probably
get back to work, okay? Bye.
- Thanks.
- Nice to meet you.
- See ya.
- It just feels very...
- Cold.
There's just a way
that you handle people...
- Yeah.
- On an empathetic level...
- Right?
- That she just didn't
give a [bleep] about.
- I feel like she would have
come out and been like,
"Oh, my God, I'm so sorry."
- She just brushed that off her
shoulder like it was nothing,
and, I mean...three years--
or four years.
I don't know how that
could turn into nothing.
- It's all a little weird.
All right, why don't we
get back in the car?
- ♪ I try
to feel it inside ♪
♪ But the fire
that we had's all gone ♪
[spacey rock music]
- See ya later, Adriana.
- Are you okay, Kaden?
- [shakily]
I'll survive.
- ♪ But it's over
- Just got some stuff to say
to this other chick.
♪
[text message swoops]
- Ooh, we got a text
from Alysha.
- What's it say?
- "Hey, Nev, Adriana
just called me.
"I'm ready to put an end
to all of this.
Meet me at this park
and we'll talk."
And there's a link to where
we're supposed to meet her.
Hopefully, she shows up.
- I really don't have, like,
a lot to say to Alysha
other than, like,
what the [bleep]?
[laughs]
- I mean, on one hand,
it's, like,
flattering she thought
you were cute.
- Yeah, but the other hand,
that's definitely
not how you go about it.
- We're here.
[intriguing music]
Kind of a beach.
- Wow, look at that.
- Okay, let's do this.
♪
- I don't see anybody
that looks like an Alysha.
- I don't see anybody.
Do you guys see anybody?
- Is that her?
- Oh, it's like
an older person.
- Yeah.
- I don't see the tattoos.
- Yeah.
There's a car.
[dramatic music]
♪
Looks like Adriana.
- What is this?
Uh-oh.
- Are we gonna
get jumped?
[tense music]
- There's a car.
♪
Looks like Adriana.
- What is this?
- Are we gonna
get jumped?
- Uh-oh.
Here's your girl.
- Came together.
- This should be interesting.
♪
- Hello.
- Hey.
- Good to see you again.
- Likewise.
- Hi.
- Alysha.
- Hi, Alysha, nice to meet you.
- Kaden, yeah, you too.
- Why don't you just tell us
what's going on?
Whoever wants to start,
if there's anything anyone's
inching to say.
- I actually have to get
back to work pretty soon,
but I can stay for,
like, 10 to 15 minutes.
- Okay, great, well,
we'll take what we can get.
- I wanted to make sure
I at least made it out here
to be able
to talk a little bit,
'cause this has
been a lot.
- How long have you
been texting me?
- Uh...
I had no idea about any of it.
Like, I really didn't.
Whatever situations were going
on, I did not know about it.
I just was doing it for her.
When you told me,
"This is Nev from 'Catfish'"
and that it was
involving Adriana,
I was like, "Whoa."
So then I called her, was like,
"Dude, what's going on?"
And she basically was like,
"So I sent a picture of you
to this boy," and it was
her way of trying to be like,
"I'm not interested
in a little bit,"
But, like, not in a mean way.
So she asked me
to cover for her.
- And the phone number Kaden's
had, that's not yours.
It's Adriana's.
- Mm-hmm.
- Right, okay.
So have you ever texted
or communicated with Kaden?
- Mm-mm.
She told me
that I should say that,
and so I just
went through with it,
but I've had no involvement
with Kaden myself ever.
♪
- Why did you feel like you
need to make up this story
when you could just
either not talk to him
or just say, like,
"Hey, I've got a boyfriend."
Like...that's that.
I don't get it.
- Everything was coming at once
when you guys contacted her,
so that was when I was like,
"Just cover for me
and then, you know,
we'll figure it out."
- We just spoke to you,
Adriana, a few hours ago,
and you said
that same story.
- Yes, because I wasn't able
to get ahold of Alysha
and figure out--
- If you guys
were gonna lie?
[dramatic music]
What about just
telling the truth?
- It's what we're doing.
- A little late.
I mean, why not just say, "I'm
not feeling you like that"?
Like, I'm just
not feeling you.
- As a woman,
have you ever,
like, had a friendship
that, like, I don't know--
or has a guy ever, like,
hit on you maybe too much?
And it's hard to,
like, shut that down,
but, like, "Hey, do you still
wanna, like, talk and stuff?"
- I've done it
multiple times.
- Yeah, okay.
- I'm just telling you,
it's the best policy,
instead of leading anyone on,
intentionally
or unintentionally.
[tense music]
Kaden, do you have
anything to say?
- No, I...
got nothing right now.
- He might not be so vocal
and honest right now
because he's got
his feelings hurt,
but he had real feelings
for you.
Can you understand that?
♪
- I'm sorry that I allowed
that to be portrayed
as...me, and I didn't
mean to hurt you.
None of it was supposed
to go this far.
- No, not at all.
I mean, I'm not the one
that contacted them.
- I guess the thing
that bothers me the most
is that this is the first time
that we've brought people
together, two people that have
already met, so you'd think
that there'd be something
real there, but, I mean,
you don't really seem to care.
- It's very cold.
- You just--this just
sort of feels like a--like a--
like an inconvenience for you,
and you kind of feel like,
"Ugh, this is so stupid.
Like, another boy
thinks I'm cute."
- I do feel incredibly bad
that, you know--
- That's not true.
Let's just be honest.
You don't feel bad,
which is fine.
You don't have to.
The only thing you
should feel bad about is, like,
making this weird, bull[bleep]
lie for the last couple days,
but, like, up until then,
I actually put most
of the blame on him.
He thought it was more
than maybe you did. Fine.
I'm not blaming you for that.
But, like, I haven't
heard you say anything yet
that I actually think
is honest.
- Okay, that's your opinion.
[tense music]
- I need to leave.
I really do.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Thanks for...
- Thanks for coming.
- Explaining some of this.
- I'll give you a hug.
- Oh, yeah, sure. All right.
- I'm sorry.
- You're good.
- Hopefully you guys
figure more out.
- Bye, babe.
I'll see you tonight.
Yeah.
- Okay.
- [sighs]
I mean, is there anything else
that you would like to just,
I don't know, put out there?
Kaden, I feel like you've
said all of two words.
- I'm glad at least
now I know
what the, uh, end game is.
- You guys can talk
for a second without us.
We'll check in with you later.
- [laughs]
Jeez.
- Weird.
- She was not nice.
Not kind.
What's the attraction?
- I think she's just,
like, a cute girl
who just doesn't care
about boys' feelings
and never consider--
and doesn't--
like, just doesn't care.
- Well, that's
very unfortunate.
Not very becoming,
as a young lady.
- I just hope he stands up
for himself.
- I don't feel like he's gonna
really say how he truly feels.
♪
- All right.
- Yeah.
- I definitely apologize
if I made you feel
any specific type of way.
- I'm sorry I misinterpreted
that, 'cause, you know,
little lame Utah boy.
[laughs]
- No, yeah, for sure.
[poignant music]
- All right, should we,
uh, walk back over there?
- Yeah, let's do it.
- Yeah.
[tense music]
- Hey, guys.
- How'd it go?
- It was really nice
to talk one-on-one.
Think we can all walk away
feeling a lot better.
- For sure, for sure.
- Yeah.
- Nice to meet you.
- Good to meet you.
- Bye.
- Bye.
[uplifting music]
- ♪ It's never easy
♪ When you come around
- Sure you don't want
to slash her tires real quick?
- Yeah, we can.
- Yeah, no, I'm good.
[laughs]
I'm sure I'll find
someone eventually
that stands out
much more to me.
- You will. Your heart is free
to do as you please.
- Exactly.
- Time to go scan
the Hawaiian beaches
for some bait!
- [laughs]
[line trilling]
- Hey!
- Hello!
Whoa, who's that
ghost behind you?
Did you see that?
- Yes.
- There's--legit,
there's a ghost.
There's a ghost in there.
[laughter]
How's it going?
- Um, really good.
- I remember things with
your mom were a little tense,
and she kind of kicked you out.
Are you back living at home?
- So I'm actually
moving to California
at the end of this month.
- Whoa!
- What?
- Cool, are you trying
to get closer to Adriana?
- We haven't actually
talked since Hawaii.
- Nothing.
- I just realized
that wasn't for me.
- Smart.
- Now I know I can move on
to the next girl,
who will hopefully be the one.
- Yeah, you know what?
You're better off.
- I'm glad you're doing
so much better
without homegirl
in your life
because I didn't
like her very much.
- Yeah, I could tell.
[laughs]
- Good luck
with the move.
- All right, guys,
well, have a good one.
It's good to see ya.
- All right, Kaden.
- Good to see you.
- All right, bye.
- Bye.
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