Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 7, Episode 38 - Tristyn & Lara - full transcript

- Tristyn has been talking
to Lara for about three years.

- She always talks about having
her dream kiss at a festival,

and I want to be that guy.

- It's too hard to tell
if she's been telling the truth

or if she's just
been playing you.

- I'm worried for Tristyn.
This guy is in deep.

- He's an emotional mess.

If she's not
who she says that she is,

he is going to be crushed.

[dramatic musical sting]

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- I think a PA,
like, gave me your chai--

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- Which tea?
- Yeah.

- [gasps]

[laughter]

Got yo' ass!
- That was really good.

- Because you got me last time
and literally almost killed me.

- That was good!

I can't believe
I totally fell for it.

- I was sweating
thinking about that.

- I didn't even see it coming.

All right, you ready?
Here we go.

I don't know why, but I feel
like reading this in rhyme.

♪ My name is Tristyn,
and I'm 22 ♪

♪ I'm a student
based out of Kalamazoo ♪

Oh, [bleep].
all: Oh!

- Thank you!
- Wow!

- All right.

"My name is Tristyn,
and for about three years,

"I've been dating
this 20-year-old girl online

named Lara."

♪ When I'm dreaming
like this ♪

♪ Don't wanna wake up,
I don't wanna wake up ♪

- "I stumbled upon her profile

"while I was looking through
the Michigan hashtag

"and was immediately hooked,

"not only because
of her beauty

"but also
her great personality.

"She actually lives in a town
40 minutes away called Mendon.

"I DMed her, and
she immediately responded.

"I got her number, and
we started texting every day,

"and because she lived close,

"I would throw in
the idea of meeting,

but she didn't
seem to be interested."

- Oh, God,
here we go.

- "But then
eight months ago,

I got into an accident
that nearly took my life."

- Oh, [bleep].
- Jeez.

"As I struggled to bounce back,

"Lara was there for me
almost more than anyone else,

"checking up on me daily,
making sure I was okay,

and just giving me
the love and care I needed."

- Aw.

- "It meant so much to me

"and our relationship
totally changed because of it.

"After I bounced back,

"we made plans for a
very special Valentine's Day

"this past February...

"but I got stood up.

"I just don't get it.

"As much as I love this girl,

I can't help but start to feel
something is off about her."

- Something is.

- "This girl was there for me
in my darkest hour.

"If she is
who she says she is,

"then she can be
the one for me, but if not,

"then I'm going to be
so heartbroken.

Please help me out."

- ♪ I don't wanna wake up,
I don't wanna get up, get up ♪

- Any time
you have two people

who live relatively close
to one another

and haven't met up
for this long,

they're probably
lying about something.

- Like, for sure
something is off.

- All right, let's get him
on the horn.

[computer chimes]

- Hey, Nev!
What's up, man?

- This is Kamie, by the way.

- Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you too.

- Um, what's up, Tristyn?

- I need your help to meet
the love of my life, man.

- Whoa,
slow down, slow down.

First of all--first of all,
okay, I gotta ask--

you say
you got into a bad accident.

What happened?

- So eight months ago,
I was at a red light

and some guy just,
like, rear-ended me.

I had a traumatic brain injury
and cervical spine strains.

It was hell, man.

Like, it was, like,
the lowest part of my life.

- Oh.
- Wow, so

the fact that it's only eight
months later and you seem to--

are you 100%?
- I'm 100%.

Like, I'm back in the gym.
I'm doing good in school.

Everything's looking
pretty good.

- Good for you.
- Wow.

- I'm happy you made it out
of that. That sounds horrible.

- Thank you.

- What's the name
of the town you live in?

- Uh, Kalamazoo.
- And did you grow up there?

- No, I moved to Michigan
about three years ago.

- Oh, wow,
so you really met Lara

when you kind of
moved to Michigan.

- Yeah, I'm not really
the type of guy that, like,

goes up to random people,
so I met her on Twitter.

There's a Michigan hashtag
and I saw her profile

and she was really hot
and really cute.

[chuckles]

And she's always
going to festivals.

She listens
to good music.

Like, I just had
to follow her.

You know, it took me
a little bit to, you know,

get the courage to message
her, but eventually I did,

and we just started talking.

- What did you end up sending
as your first DM?

- I just said, "Hey."
- "Hey"?

That was your--
that was your big first line?

- Yeah...[chuckles]
but it worked!

I mean, we started talking,
and after a couple weeks,

I asked for her number
and we started texting

and I just
got know her better.

- What do you know about her?
What--tell us about her.

- She's really sweet.
She's funny.

Her favorite color is green.

She lives with her dad.
She works at a restaurant.

- Do you know
what restaurant she works at?

- Yeah.

- Okay, so you know
where she works.

Have you ever just thought
about going to see her?

- I mean, I've offered that,

but I feel like she was
completely against that idea.

Like, I've offered--
- Who cares?

- Why do you even
have to offer?

- Just go have dinner
at her restaurant one night.

- Pop up!

- I wouldn't want someone

coming into my work, like,
where I work, uninvited.

- Did you friend her
on Facebook,

or do you guys talk
on the phone?

- I added her on,
like, Instagram,

but she won't FaceTime me,

and we've talked on the phone,
max, like, five times,

very few times,

and it's always
really short conversations.

But after the car accident,
she just seemed to, like,

really step up
and care for me.

Like, she'd always
check on me.

She'd always say, "Go to
your doctor's appointments.

You can't miss those.
Are you taking your medicine?"

It's like--it's hard
not to fall for someone

when they care
for you so much.

- Yeah, wow, that is--
that is nice.

- And then after the accident,

I was, you know,
feeling a little better

and we made plans
for Valentine's

and she bailed on me.

- Did she say why,
like, why she couldn't come?

- She said her car broke down.
- Like, the day of?

- Yeah, the day of.

And it just--like,
it crushed me, dude.

- That is messed up, though.

So, okay, where are things
now with you and Lara?

- Like, she tells me

she wants to move to Colorado
with me and get a house.

- Are you in love
with this girl?

- I mean, if this is
really her and we really meet,

I could see myself, like,

moving to Colorado with her
and, like, marrying her.

I haven't felt this way
about anyone.

- Wow.
- Wow.

- All right, well, look,

you know as well as we do
that something's going on here.

- Yeah.

- Even if you lived
in different countries

there's really no reason you
wouldn't have FaceTimed by now.

- Yeah.

- So let's, uh,
see if we can figure it out.

- I'm nervous for you, Tristyn.
- Me too.

I mean, I'm super nervous,

but I just wanna
get to the bottom of this.

- All right, Tristyn,
we'll see you soon.

- See ya!
- Bye.

- Bye.

- Aw, man.

- There's an innocence to him,
you know,

the face that
when we asked, like,

"What do you know about her?"

And he was, like,
"Her favorite color is green."

- That was sweet.
- That's super sweet.

- My boyfriend
wouldn't even say that.

He'd be like,
"She got a fat booty."

[chuckles]
- We gotta get up to the K-Zoo.

- ♪ Come on, tell me,
do you feel ready? ♪

♪ Do you feel ready now? ♪

- All right, well,
here we are in Kalamazoo.

Well, I think
this story's interesting

because eight months ago,
he got hit by a car,

but all through that,
this girl, like, really--

- She was ride-or-die.
- Yeah, but, of course,

couldn't video chat
or show up,

so, obviously,
there is suspicion on his part.

- ♪ Come on, tell me ♪

- We're here.
That's it.

- Wow.
Oh, who's this?

- Huh?
I don't know.

- Hey!
- Hey, what's up?

- I'm Chris, nice to meet you.
- Chris?

Are you related to Tristyn?
- Yeah, that's my brother.

- Oh.
- He'll be right back.

- This is Kamie.
- Hey!

- This is Tristyn's brother,Chris.

- Nice to meet you!
- Nice to meet you too.

That's him pulling up.

- Hello!
- Wow!

- What's up, man?
- What's up?

- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.

- Thank you so much
for coming, seriously.

- Of course!

- I'll let you guys
get to work.

All right, it's good
meeting you guys.

- Good to meet you, man.
- Nice to meet you.

- Let's--let's head on in.

- "Peace to all
who enter here."

- All right.
Let's, uh, have a seat.

So when you moved up here
couple years ago,

must've been pretty lonely.

- Yeah, yeah, it was.

I'm not the type to just, like,
make friends really easily.

Like, even in school,
I get nervous.

- Are you generally nervous?
- Yeah.

- Okay, so

take us on a walk through
the relationship with Lara.

- After I moved here, that's
when I found her profile.

She just looked like
a really fun person,

so I followed her and it
kinda just went from there.

Like, we started
sharing music.

We just started
talking about things we like,

like how she likes
to go to festivals,

and she always talks about

having her dream kiss
at a festival,

and I want to be that guy.
- Ooh!

But she's--keeps on coming up
with these excuses.

You've tried to meet up
with her on Valentine's Day.

You had this whole
romantic day planned--

she doesn't show up.
- Yep.

That was like,
the worst of the worst,

'cause it was after
we got really close.

- Yeah.

- And I really thought
she was going to show up,

and that's when I'm--like,
I knew I had to do something,

and now I'm here
with you guys.

I mean...

- Do you talk on the phone?
- Yep.

- How long
did these calls last?

- Yeah, like,
one or two minutes.

- Whoa.
- Not--not long.

- That's weird.

Has she had the same phone
number the whole time?

- Yes, yep.
- Okay.

And her social media
has all been the same?

- Yeah, I followed her
on Instagram

and added her
on Facebook,

but she did not
accept my requests,

which made me
a little bit suspicious.

- Did you ask her, like,

"Hey, I sent you
a Facebook friend request.

Why didn't you answer it?"

- Yeah, she kinda just
brushed it off, like,

"Oh, I'll get to it later."

I just, like, I don't know.

I feel kind of silly for, like,
believing it for so long,

and then now
that I look back on it,

I just feel like
I missed a lot of things

that, like,
should've clicked back then.

[both chuckle]

- That's what happens, man.
- Yeah.

- Do you guys text every day?
- Yep.

- Do you guys say, like,
"Good night, love you," or...

- Sometimes, yeah.

Not, like, every single night,
but, yeah.

- I gotta see this girl.

- You wanna see,
like, her Twitter?

- Yeah, let's see the Twitter,

which is what you started with,
right?

- Yes.

- Is that her?
- Yes.

- Whoa.
- Okay!

- She's really cute.
- Hottie with a body.

- Now you see, like,
what I'm dealing with.

- I mean, you guys are cute!
You send lots of--

- This is a good, like,
amount of conversation.

- This is a real
relationship...

but, because she won't meet
or even video chat--

- It's weird. I feel like
it could be one of two things:

either she's a complete catfish

and she's not who you think
that you're talking to.

Two, maybe she's just not that
devoted to this relationship

and she is who she says she is

but she's just, you know,
not that into you.

- Right.

- But whoever this person is,
I'm still very attached.

I still love her. I'm just,
like, at the last straw.

Like, if this doesn't work,
then...

- Then what?

- Like, I guess I have to stop
talking to her completely.

- If she's really in Michigan,
this should be easy.

I want you guys to meet.
It's crazy that you haven't.

So let's--let's--

- I'm hoping it all
goes well, so...

- All right, so, look,

we're gonna actually probably
go right now...

- Okay.

- And find a spot
to investigate.

And tomorrow, well, we should
have, hopefully, some answers.

- All right, man.
Sounds good.

Thank you guys.

- Try not to stress too much.
- I won't.

All right.
Well, have a good one, man.

- See you tomorrow.

- So much of the story

inherently points
to her being a catfish.

- Right.
Why not meet up with him?

- Yeah, but like,
this guy is in deep.

He really likes this girl.

- You can tell.
It's all over his face.

If she's not
who she says that she is,

he is going to be crushed.

[dreamy pop music]

♪ ♪

- All right, let's see
what we can find.

Let's crack this case.

♪ ♪

All right.

We got Tristyn,

who's been talking to a girl
for about three years

named Lara.

- Mm-hmm.

- She lives kind of close.

Valentine's Day, big plans,

says she's supposed
to meet up.

She just sort of
stands him up.

And, of course, they haven't
been able to FaceTime.

They've talked on the phone.

It was weird,
short conversations.

So this girl seems like
an obvious catfish,

but it's a tough one.

Can't call it.
- Not yet, but...

I feel like
it's not gonna take long.

- Here we go, info on Lara.

Her phone number...
- Okay.

- She works at a restaurant
called Hank's

and interns
for an event company.

Here's her Twitter, her
Instagram, and her Facebook.

Let's just go to her Instagram

and see what
we're looking at here.

All right, Lara,
what have we got?

Comments, anything?
Oh, yeah, here we go.

Guys drooling:
"You're perfect," "a goddess,"

"dime."

Is anyone else tagged
in these pictures?

No one's tagged.
- No, that's weird.

- Let's see her...Facebook.

Okay, Lara [bleep],
joined 2009...

hold on...right--

"Sorry for your loss,
thank you."

"I'm so sorry, Lara.
I love you."

Oh, this is when her dog died.

Honestly, at first glance,
this account feels very legit.

- This is looking pretty good.
- I know, right?

This feels like
a very real profile.

- Which means something
really wrong is happening.

- "If anyone knows where I
can get my windshield fixed,

let me know."

- "Looking for recommendations
in Mendon, Michigan."

- It looks like she
lives close,

and everything she says
is true, so what is going on?

She says,

"Looking for a subleaser,
two-bed, two-bath apartment"--

- "I'm trying
to help my friend."

- Oh.

Oh, what--who's Harlie?

Okay, well,
this is a good friend, I guess.

All right, let's message her.

"Doing an ep in Kalamazoo,"

uh...

- You're trying to come up with
something else that rhymes.

"Kalamazoo,
would love to talk to you.

Give me a call..."
- [laughs]

- Please try not to stall."

- Do not type that![laughs]

She's gonna think
it's [bleep].

- Great.
- She's not gonna respond.

- Yeah, she will.
- [laughs]

- Oh, here we go.
"Love you, Dad.

Thank you for showing
me what a man should be."

Mike [bleep] liked it.
Uh...

Mike is Lara's dad.

There's a page
and pictures of them together.

- I don't understand.

- Well, wait!
[gasps]

This is what
I was suspicious of.

- You're scaring me.

- She never accepted
his Facebook friend request.

- Lord, have mercy.

- Lara's page
and her dad's page are real.

Is there a chance that Tristyn
is just not talking to her?

Maybe someone
made fake accounts of her,

made a fake Twitter...
- [groans]

- And is pretending to be
a real girl named Lara [bleep].

Is that possible?

- That just seems
like a lot of work,

especially if somebody--

[phone rings]
- Whoa!

Hello?

Yes, hi, this is Nev.
Who is this?

- Harlie, hey.

I'm here in Kalamazoo
with Kamie, my co-host.

- Hey.

- And we're working
on an episode

that we think involves
your friend, Lara [bleep].

You know--you know
who I'm talking about?

- Oh.

- Okay, well, I guess the main
question is, is Lara [bleep],

who you're friends
with Facebook,

is that the real person
that you know in real life?

- Well, yeah, she's the girl
in the pictures

on her Facebook page.

How do you know her?

- Do you happen
to know her Instagram?

It's real.
- No, girl, it's real.

- We could FaceTime
if you want.

I'm switching to FaceTime.
- [laughs]

- Hey!
- Hey.

- Oh, my God!
- [laughs]

- So, so, cool.

Uh, yeah, tell me
if you have her Instagram.

- Mmm.
- So, okay,

and her--and you don't happen
to have her on Twitter, do you?

Whoa.
- Oh, [bleep].

- Whoa, what happened?

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- What?
- Weird.

- Whoa.

- When--when was that?
- Jeez.

- Probably, like,
three or four months ago.

- Oh, so not that long ago.
- Not that long ago.

- Cause we're talking to a guy
here in Kalamazoo

who has been talking to her
for almost, like, three years,

but they haven't been able
to meet

and we had just assumed it was
because she was a catfish

but you're--
sounds like you're telling us

all those accounts are hers
and she's real

and her name is Lara [bleep].

- Yeah.
- What's her deal?

What is--does she do this
to guys a lot?

Does she, like, does she have
a boyfriend that you know of?

- Not that I know of.

- Mmm.

- Okay.

Do you still
have her phone number?

'Cause we have a number
for her.

I just wanted to make sure
it's the same one you have.

- It's 269-[bleep].
- Yeah, that's what we have.

- Damn, Harlie!

- And what else
can you tell us about her?

Like, why wouldn't she
meet up with some--

he's a cute--
he's a good-looking guy!

- That makes no sense to me,

unless she's just
really not interested...

- All right, well look--
thank you.

That was very helpful.
- Yeah, no problem.

- Very.

- Have a great
rest of your day.

- Thanks, you too!

- What!
- Wow.

- So wait a second--

I mean, that girl could not
have been more helpful.

- Yeah.

- I don't think we need
to investigate anything more.

We've got confirmation
that she is real.

She confirmed every social
media account,

her phone number,

and this is all as of
only a few months ago.

- Yeah.

- I was sure there
was some weird way

that Tristyn
was getting catfished.

And if we believe this girl,
which I very much do--

- Yeah.
- He's not--Lara is real!

I'm almost more confused now
than I was before,

when I thought
she was a catfish.

It's weirder
that she's not a catfish.

- Not only is it weirder,

it makes me
even more scared for Tristyn.

- Right.

- Because this just means
that he has a 50/50 chance

of getting his heart
completely shattered.

- Right, it's almost worse,

'cause then that means
she just doesn't like him.

- Phew.
- Tristyn is gonna be shook.

- Whatever truth
may come out of this...

I feel like
it's gonna crush him.

[upbeat pop music]

- All right, day two.

Heading over to Tristyn's.

We gotta go over everything
we found yesterday,

which is not gonna take long.

Basically it's,
"Hey, man, she's real!"

- [laughs]
- "But something's going on."

- I just don't--I don't know
how he's going to react

to the fact that she is real

but she doesn't want
to meet up with him,

and there's a reason,
but we don't know why.

- I wonder
whose Mustang that is.

Can we pull into the garage?

I don't think I've ever parked
in a garage on the show.

I love it.
- "Catfish" first!

- "Catfish" first.
- [hums]

What's up?
- Hey, man.

- Is that your 'Stang?
- Yep.

- That thing is--
- It's nice.

- Thank you, man.
Yeah, I just got it, so...

- Should we sit down
and get into it?

- Yes.

- All right, so, look,
we did some research.

I gotta tell you,

we're kinda shocked
at what we found.

I don't know
if you will be or not,

but we definitely wanna talk
our way through it

and figure this out, okay?

- Okay.

- All right, so

we looked through
her Facebook timeline,

and one of the things
I think we found

was, there was an interaction

between her
and a friend named Harlie,

so we sent her a message.

Then, as we're scrolling
through, we got to this post

which is just from August 2017
commented by Mike [bleep].

- So that's her dad.

- That's her dad.
- That she lives with.

- Ding, ding, ding!
- That she lives with.

And, look, his profile
picture's even a picture

of them together,
which is good.

- Yeah, should we
message him?

- Well--all right.
Easy, killer.

- [laughs]

- Maybe we should, like friend
request him first and then--

[laughter]

- You wanna send him
the old "Hey" message

and see how it goes from there?

[laughter]

- It might, though.

- This, for us,
was sort of a--a breakthrough,

'cause if her Facebook page
is real and this is her dad,

he's got a real Facebook page,

this girl, "Lara [bleep]"
is real.

At this point, we thought,
"Okay, wait a second.

"She's real. Her dad's real.
Her name is Lara [bleep].

"Why wouldn't she
accept your friend request?

Why haven't you met her?"

So then we got a phone call
back from her friend Harlie,

who is no longer friends
with her, and we said,

"Harlie,
what's up with this girl, Lara?

How do you know her?"

"Oh, we--yeah, we went
to high school together

"and we were friends...

"but...

"a couple months ago, I
posted something on my Facebook

"and Lara commented some really
insensitive, like, 'joke,'

"that hurt my feelings and
when I confronted her about it

"she seemed to not even care
and said something like--"

- "You were just
the friend I partied with."

- Right.
"We're not even really friends,

you're just someone
I used to party with."

So then we said,
"So wait a second.

"Lara is--this is Lara
and that's her Facebook

"and you obviously know her.

Is this her Instagram?"

We asked her and she said,
"Yes, those are her profiles."

We even asked her if she had
Lara's number, which she did,

and it's the same number
you have.

- Okay, so that's, like,
really good news.

- It's good news, but,

Harlie thinks Lara's
kind of...a mean person.

So that got us thinking,
"Well, if it is her,

"is she really
just messing with you?

"Is this all just, like,
some long elaborate game

that she's playing to, like,
be evil and--and lead you on?"

- Like, who would just act like
they care for so long, that...

[sad piano music]

♪ ♪

I don't--I don't know, man.
I mean...

like, at least she's real,
I guess, but...

like, I don't wanna just be,
like, someone's doormat

and get played with.

- ♪ You said
we can take it slow ♪

♪ We'll find our way ♪

♪ Love, don't fail me now ♪

- If she's real, which it's
starting to look like she is,

why not meet up with you?

- Talks about moving
to Colorado with me, and like--

- Yeah.

So, like, why say all that
if you don't mean it?

- And she said
she loves me back.

- Right.

- ♪ Love, don't fail me now ♪

- This girl lives
30 minutes away.

I can understand
why it would piss you off.

Now you know for a fact that
the person you're talking to

about all these loving things,

and, like,
planning a future with is real,

but it's too hard to tell

if she's been telling the truth
about the emotional stuff

or if she's just
been playing you.

- That would, like, be really
horrible if she did that

for, like, three years.

- ♪ Love, don't fail me now ♪

- Who would just act like
they care for so long?

Now I just feel like
she's just messing with me.

- So what do you want to do?
We could call her.

- Like, I just don't wanna be
around when the call happens,

I--

Like, I just really want
to process this.

This is a lot.
Like, I have a final today.

- Definitely focus
on your final.

- We're gonna figure it out,

you're gonna go to your final,
and you're gonna crush it.

We'll get out of here.

Get yourself collected
for the test.

We'll see what we can do
about meeting up tomorrow

and we'll let you know.

- Okay, cool.

- All right?
- All right.

Thanks again.
- Good luck with the test.

- [sighs]
- All right.

Let's call her,
see if she picks up.

Start there.

[line trilling]

- Your call has been forwarded

to an automated
voice messaging system.

[beep]

- Hi, Lara.

This is Nev from "Catfish."

We are with Tristyn hoping
that we can figure out a way

for you guys
to meet up finally.

So give me a call back
when you get this

and hopefully we'll
hear from you soon.

Thanks.

So rather than wait around
for her to call us...

- Mm-hmm?

- Let's see if we can figure
out where she works.

She works at that
restaurant, right, Hank's?

It's only 30 minutes away?
Oh, my God, it's so close.

So I think we should go there.

Time to do some
old-fashioned snoopin'.

I'm honestly stumped, though.

Like, I don't get it.
- With Lara?

- Is it just that
she likes flirting with guys

and maybe has a bunch of dudes
that she talks to

who all think they're
gonna be her boyfriend, and--

- Sometimes people get caught
up in getting attention

and being so used to having it
that they just--

they don't realize that
they're taking advantage.

- All right,
we're two minutes away.

It's on this street.

- That took no time.
- Yeah, that was a quick drive.

Is that it?
- Hank's!

- Hank's on the River.
- Boom.

- This is it.Okay...

Let me run in there quickly.

I don't want you to
get your hair wet.

- Fine by me, thanks.

- All right, yeah,
I'll be right back.

Oh, hey, how you doing?

- Uh, my name's Nev.

I'm on a TV show, I don't know
if you've heard of it,

called "Catfish."

- Cool.
We're in town doing a story

and think that the girl
we're looking for works here.

- Her name is Lara?

- Is she--she's
not working now.

- Okay.

Do you know when
she will be working?

- Sure, okay.

Well, there's a guy
who's been talking to her,

kinda seriously, and we're just
trying to help them meet up.

- Yeah, but why?
What's up?

- Oh, she has a boyfriend?

- Really?

- Interesting.

Well, all right.
Well, thanks.

Ugh!

Okay, I just spoke
to a very nice gentleman.

She does work here.
- Okay.

- She's not here right now.

He says he thinks she could be
in a relationship with a guy

who comes into the bar often.

- Oh, my God.

- But she's telling Tristyn,

"I love you, let's, like,
start our lives together."

So that's pretty messed up
if she is dating someone.

- True.

- So, like, I mean,
at this point,

starts to feel like
she is just--

- She's playing him.
- Playing him.

- Lara be lyin'.

- I don't know
how he's gonna react

to the fact that
she's maybe got a boyfriend.

- It's gonna be pretty bouncy.

There he is!

- Hey, guys.
- Hey!

Oof.

- We haven't heard
anything from Lara.

- Do you guys didn't end up,
like, calling her, or...

- Well, so after we left here,

we left a message for Lara,
but she hadn't responded.

So then we went to Hank's.

- Oh, okay.

- And I spoke to a guy
who works there who said,

"Oh, yeah, Lara works here,

and she might actually
have a boyfriend."

The real question here is,

What's going on?
Is she in a relationship?

Obviously--
- I was just--

I've been pissed from--
just from yesterday.

I'm tired of it, man.

I'm not gonna keep
reaching out to her

and asking her to hang out.
- I get that.

- You all right, man?
- No, honestly, no.

I'm not.

I feel like
I deserve better than this.

- Okay, I feel like--

- I'm seriously,
like, frustrated.

And she lied about small stuff.

I know she's lying
about other stuff

and then you're saying she's
talking to other guys and--

let's be real, man.
I'm getting played, bro.

Like, I'm gettin' played.

[dramatic music]

I just need some--
like, I need space.

And I just, like,
this is a lot.

I just don't
wanna keep doing this.

Like, I'm really sorry
if I wasted your guys' time.

I'm seriously sorry,
but I don't--like,

I--I don't want to do this.

- If you want us
to give you space we can--

- I mean, I'm--
yeah, please.

- Okay.

We can go.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

I don't know that

I've ever seen someone
so broken as Tristyn.

I mean, the guy doesn't even
want to meet Lara any more.

- Yeah.

- This is the first time

we've dealt with
a situation like this.

Plus, she hasn't
texted us back yet, either.

I mean, is this episode
gonna end

with Lara just ghosting,
and that's it?

Are we gonna--are we not
going to meet this girl?

I am not prepared to give up.

At the very least, why wouldn't
she just respond with a text,

"Don't wanna meet,

"this whole thing
with Tristyn is over,

like, leave me alone."
Like, she could end it.

- It's very frustrating.

I don't know how Tristyn
has been dealing with it

for three years,

'cause it's been three days,
and I'm already, like--

[phone rings]

- Oh, whoa!
Lara!

- Let's get back to the hotel
until we hear something.

[phone rings]

Oh, whoa!
Lara!

Hello?

- Thanks for calling!

- That's fine,
I'm just glad to hear from you.

- Oh, okay.

- Yeah.

- All right, great.

- Okay, thanks, Lara.

- Why do I feel like
that's not Lara?

- What?

- I feel like
that's not her voice.

I don't know what she sounds
like, but I feel like--

- You don't think that voice

matches the girl
in the pictures?

- No.

- She just texted me.
We have an actual address,

a park in Three Rivers.
- It--I'm suspicious.

- I am too.
I'm worried for Tristyn.

I mean, the guy is frayed.
- He's an emotional mess.

- He's a mess!

He doesn't even want
to meet Lara anymore.

- Yeah.

- It's the first time I've
ever seen someone like this,

so I think we can
go down there and meet her,

see if it's really her,
find out what her deal is,

and then we can maybe
bring her back

if we give him
the all-clear that she's legit.

- Makes sense.

- This girl's got us
running around, man.

We're here.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

I don't see anybody.

♪ ♪

Someone walking over there.

You see that person over there?

- You think she'd
be walking, though?

- If she turns left
into the park--

- No, it's not her.
- Turn left, turn left.

- No.
- [groans]

- See?

- Oh, we got a car...
comin' in hot.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Is that her?

That--that looks like her!

- No.

- I think it's her.

- Yeah.

Wow, I was wrong--
for once.

She's so cute!
- Yeah, I know.

- Hi.
I'm Kamie.

- I'm Lara.

- Hi.
How you doing?

- Happy to be here.
- You don't look like it.

- Yeah...I'm just, like--
like, really nervous.

- Well, that's fine.

We wanted to meet up with you
alone without Tristyn because--

- In case I didn't come
or something?

- Right.

So why haven't you guys met up?

- You're obviously you, so--
- Yeah.

- So what's up?
Do you have a boyfriend?

- No.
I'm just--

I just don't even date.

It's not anything
to do with him.

I work a lot and I know
that's, like, not an excuse,

'cause if you wanna
see someone, you know,

you make time and whatnot.

But, like, having someone or
meeting--you know what I mean?

Like, a boyfriend.

It's not, like,
"Oh, I don't like him,

so I don't want to see him."

Like, I do like him, like,

if anything, my feelings
are, like...too much, like,

I'm--I just don't--

I don't know.
[laughs uncomfortably]

I'm freaked out to meet him.

- Okay, so you're telling me
you don't have a boyfriend.

You have genuine feelingsfor him?

- Yeah, I care about him.

- And a--an attraction?
- Yeah.

- I mean, 'cause, you know,
he told us that--

- Too much.

- You guys have
talked about things

that are
more than just friendly.

- Yeah.

- It's hard to listen to you
say you really like him

and yet you've had him
very willing and able

to make
whatever efforts necessary

to come meet you
or whatever, and, like...

then you haven't
had that happen.

- Yeah.

- He's so messed up now,
and he just thinks you've been

playing with him
this whole time

and messing with him
and leading him on.

- Like, this is a whole...
[takes deep breath]

and I'm just so nervous about
having, like, a boyfriend,

or whatever
you want to call it.

- Sure.
- I don't know.

I don't open up
to people, like,

talking to him,
I'd have to be,

like, like, the real me,
I guess, like--

- But what's wrong with that?
- It's a lot.

Like, this is a lot for me.
- Okay.

If that's it,
if this whole thing

is just because you're nervous
to meet him...

maybe, can we just, like,
tear that Band-Aid off?

- Yeah, I mean, yeah.
That's why I'm here, right?

- I gotta warn you,

we came into this situation
and said to him,

"Look, man,
I hate to break it to you,

"but if you've been talking
to this girl for this long

"and she lives 30 minutes away
and doesn't want to meet you,

like, she"--
- Probably not into you.

- Like, bad news, yeah.

- Must just not like you.

So if you really have feelings
for him he needs to know now.

- Yeah, I know.

- Okay, why don't we go back
to Kalamazoo and meet this guy?

Is that all right?
Do you want a ride with us?

- Sure.
- All right, let's do it.

- I'm so happy you're you.

- I mean, this could be great,
all right?

- This could be really great.
- Oh, boy.

- Let me text Tristyn.

Are you excited?
- I'm just--I'm so nervous.

I just feel like,
it's, like, a make-or-break,

like, us meeting
and us hanging out, like,

it's either, like, he likes me
and it's going somewhere

or, like, I just wasn't what
he was expecting or wanted.

Like, it's just--it's a lot.
I'm so scared.

- He's gonna be shocked.

You guys could
be great for each other,

'cause you do have
similar, kind of, anxieties.

- Don't go so fast,
I need a minute.

- Girl, you've had three years.

- All right.

I'm gonna go in there, let him
know he needs to come outside.

- Sounds good.
- See you in a minute.

[suspenseful music]

Well, I'm very excited.

♪ ♪

- [whispers]
This is so weird.

- How you doin'?

Collected yourself
a little bit?

- Definitely.

- There is someone here
that I want you to meet,

so if you're ready
I'd like to introduce you.

- Right now right now, or...
- Whenever you're ready.

- I'm like, sweaty.

- They're waiting.

- I'm ready.
I--I am ready.

- [takes deep breath]

- Let's go this way.

♪ ♪

- Is it, like, actually her?
- You tell me.

♪ ♪

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Holy [bleep].

- Hey.
- Hey!

- Nice to finally meet you.
- Yeah, it is.

- Aww, all right!
- Aww.

- This is, like, crazy.

This is a lot more awkward
than I thought it would be.

- Yeah, it's super weird.

Oh my gosh, I'm so nervous.

- Um, I have some questions.

Are you dating someone?
- No.

[sentimental music]

- Did your car, like, really
break down on Valentine's Day?

I kinda figured that.
What was the reason, like?

- I was scared.

Like, Valentine's Day was,
like, super couple day.

and it's, like...I don't know,

I kinda felt like it was super
official and I'm just nervous.

- When we asked, like,

what's been holding you back
all this time?

You--you know,
you said basically

that you're just really nervous
about meeting him

and pursuing a relationship.

- I'm sorry it had to come
all the way to this.

I mean, I'm just, like, way out
of my comfort zone right now.

- Yeah, me too.

But I want this
to be official,

like, I can't keep
asking you to hang out

and you saying, like,
making up excuses,

like, I can't keep doing that.

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have done it.

- I wanna make sure

that you're willing
to give the same effort.

- I'm ready.
I mean, I want you in my life.

You're cool.

I'm real, and I'm glad.

- This is a great start.

You met, she does like you,
doesn't have a boyfriend...

you have today to, like,

finally just get over all
of the mystery and awkwardness.

Do you guys want to just go
back inside and hang out?

A bit warmer--

- Just kidding.
- Easy.

Go inside and continue this,
uh, this love fest.

♪ ♪

- I love love so much.

Budding love.

[music fades]

- I'm glad we met.

I'm sorry I made you wait and
made you go through all this.

- You just didn't
wanna FaceTime?

- I'm just scared.
- Why didn't you just tell me?

- I'm shy.

- Like, you could've just been,like--

- 'Cause I didn't want you
to not like me

and think I was weird.

- You are weird.
- I know!

I didn't want you
to know that, though.

- I know that, like,
you get nervous.

I mean, we can work with it.

I understand
how you get nervous

'cause I feel that too.

I get nervous a lot.

I really do get it.

- What're you doing later?
- I don't know.

Just, like,
chilling, I guess.

- [laughs]
- I don't really have plans.

- I guess you wanted
to hang out without...

- I mean, yeah.
We can go somewhere.

♪ They said I was a-dreamin'
to love you ♪

♪ But you're here
with me now ♪

- We're gonna head out,
drive around.

- So happy this worked out!

- It did, thank you--
for real, bro.

- Nice to meet you.
- It's good to meet you.

- Nice to meet you guys.
- Yeah.

- Have fun, make bad decisions.
- Thanks for everything.

- We will.
- Go hang out!

♪ ♪

- Wait!

Open her door,
what's wrong with you?

[laughter]

Three years you've been
thinking about this!

- Thanks, dear.
[laughs]

- Aww!

- This is so crazy.

[engine turns over]

- Bye!
Have fun!

- ♪ Now I know what the poets
and the singers have found ♪

- A happy ending!
So nice!

And I really do think they--
I could see them dating.

- I do too.
I like them together.

- ♪ Well, you're here
with me now ♪

[computer chimes]

together: Oh!

- New hair!
- Look at this guy, whoa!

New hair--well yeah,
he cleaned up.

- Both of you.
- You too!

- How are you and how
is everything going with Lara?

- Yeah, it--
it didn't work out.

It, um...
- What?

- Yeah.
- No!

- What--what do you mean,
it didn't work out?

- It was great at first.

Like, we spent probably
that next, like,

couple days together
and it just--

it just didn't work out,
and then...

there's just, like,
no trust, and--

- There's issues with trust
on your part or on her part?

- Both.

- Maybe she's not
the relationship type.

- Yeah.

- Are you okay?

- I'm, like, sad about it,

but at the same time,
I'll be okay.

I mean, I'll be fine.

I'm working again
and I'm gonna finish school

and mainly just
working on myself.

Ultimately,
like, I really--

I'm glad you guys helped me.

I'd rather be sad
knowing it didn't work out

than knowing what if--
what could've happened.

- I'm sad--
- Yeah, me too.

- That it didn't work out
with you guys.

Get out there,
enjoy your summer,

good luck with school
in the fall.

You're a great guy.
- Yeah, get out there!

- You guys
are great people too, so...

- All right, buddy.
I'll speak to you soon, okay?

- Okay, have a good one!

- Later, Tristyn.
- Bye, Tristyn.

- All right, bye-bye.

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