Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 8, Episode 3 - Sparkayla & Maritha - full transcript

- Is this your real sister?
- Now I don't even know.

- Let's figure out
what's going on here.

- We could take a DNA test.
I'm ready.

- I would love to get
the answer to all this.

Whoa, "I just pulled
into the parking lot."

- Oh.

I'm just really
stressed out right now.

I'm really nervous.

- Oh.
- Oh, my God.

- I need your help.
Help.

For almost a decade,
"Catfish"



has brought desperate hopefuls
the answers they deserve.

- Thank you guys so much
for bringing us together.

- This time around, though,
we flipped the script.

Now I'm heading out
with my co-host Kamie.

- Who's ready to go fishing?

- We're helping people
who need us the most.

Let's do it.
Only they have no idea.

- She doesn't know
I reached out to you guys.

- Oh, my goodness.

- This season we're being
tipped off by friends...

- I care about him a lot.
- Family...

- My brother's
really in love with her.

- And even anonymous sources.

Whoa.
- What?



- This is from
the whistleblower.

Ride or dies
who will not sit back

while their loved ones
get played.

- ♪ Come on and catch me now ♪

- Why can't we meet?

- Homie is getting played.

- So many layers.

- 'Cause even when you
don't know it--

Chill, chill, chill.
- Chill, man!

- Take a second.

"Catfish" has your back.

[line trilling]

- Please enjoy this Verizon
ringback tone while your...

- This is ridiculous.

Kamie, how old are you?
Honestly, this is, like--

- 'Kay, we gotta talk about

your ring--
your callback ringtone.

- Kamie.
Kamie.

That was cool for,
like, three weeks in 2004.

- Yeah, very.

- Anyway, I just got

a video submission
from a woman named Kiana

who lives in Los Angeles.

We should meet up
and watch it.

- Yeah, I'll see you soon.

- ♪ Livin' real, real good ♪

- There she is.

- Hey.
- Here we go.

Want to see the video?

- Yes.
- Here we go.

- Hey, Nev and Kamie,
this is Kiana.

My wife Sparkayla
is being catfished.

Three years ago, this girl
Maritha dipped into her DMs,

claiming to be
her long-lost sister.

- ♪ I'm not gonna
hold it back ♪

- They're talking every day,

and we've even made plans
to hang out,

but Maritha has stood
my wife up every time.

- ♪ Tell me,
do you feel it, babe ♪

- I really need
you guys's help.

- Wow.
This is different.

- That is very interesting.

I don't recall this
ever happening before.

- No.
A secret sister catfish?

- It doesn't make sense.

- Why don't we
Skype Kiana right now?

[Skype call ringing]

Oh.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- Oh, hey.
- Kiana, what's up?

- Thank you so much for
coming to my rescue.

- We want to help.
- Yeah.

- So you are married
to Sparkayla.

- Right.

- How long have you guys
been together?

- We've been together
for 12 years

and married for 2.

- Wow.

- And so, like,
how did this Maritha girl

contact Sparkayla?

- So out of the blue,

Maritha Instagrammed Sparkayla

and says, "Happy birthday.
I'm your sister."

- So did she ask her parents

if she has a sister
she never knew about?

- The thing is her and her dad
have a strained relationship,

so she hasn't been able to get
any confirmation from him.

- So--okay, so Sparkayla's
parents are separated?

- Yes.

- She doesn't really talk
to her dad?

- Absolutely, yes.
- Where does Maritha live?

- She's from Vegas.
- Which isn't far.

- It's right next door.
- It's a pretty easy drive.

- We actually went out there
for Sparkayla's birthday,

and the whole time
we was out there,

she ghosted us,
didn't respond,

then changed her phone number,

didn't contact us for 21 days,
and sai--gave a lame excuse

about she had
to change her number.

- Has there been
any discussion from Maritha

about, like, money

or needing help with things

or, like, s--
can you buy me stuff?

- I think that's
she's pretty much

basically setting up the stage
to probably ask for money

'cause once she does talk
to my wife,

she's always crying broke.
She's always saying, like,

"I would do it
if I had the money."

Or maybe she's just looking
at my wife's Instagram, and--

'Cause we work on different
various TV shows, award shows,

and different events
like that.

It can look like, you know,

we're always with celebrities
and stuff,

but that's pretty much,
you know--it's just Instagram.

That's the way she met her,

so that could be
a possible reason

why she's doing
what she's doing.

Maybe she just wants to,
you know, piggyback

and do some of the things
that we're doing.

- How much time would you say
that Sparkayla

spends talking to Maritha?

- Entirely too much.

They send good morning texts,
good night texts,

afternoon texts every day.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

My wife has pretty much
been a easy target

because she did grow up
not knowing her siblings.

She was actually the only
child from her mother.

Then,
when she was ten years old,

she found out
about two other siblings,

so she's already giving this
girl the benefit of the doubt.

She's literally already
kind of accepted her

as being her sister,

but everything about this--
this girl Maritha is sketchy.

That's exactly why
I reached out to you guys,

'cause I have to pick up
the pieces

when my wife is upset
and heartbroken

after Maritha flakes on her
or bails on her.

It affects our relationship.

- Does she know
you reached out?

- She doesn't actually know

that I reached out
to you guys.

- Oh.

- But I think she's gonna
take it good

because she actually
really wants to meet her.

- You are in
Los Angeles, right?

- I'm in Boyle Heights.

- Right, so that's not far.

- Can we just come right now?

- Yes.
- All right, awesome.

Text us where you're at,
and we'll head over there.

- All right.
Well, I'm so excited.

I'll let her know,
and I can't wait for you guys

to get here
so we can call this girl out.

- All right.

- See you soon.
- Bye.

- Bye.
- Wow.

- It wouldn't be
completely farfetched

that Sparkayla has
another sibling out there

in the world
that she didn't know about.

- Right.
- But--

- The fact that she's shady
and weird and broke

but not specifically
asking for money--

- It doesn't make sense.

- All right, well,
let's go meet these girls.

- It's a sister mystery.
- We gotta get a DNA test.

- Well, I just took a DNA test.

- Turns out you're
100% that bitch?

- Yes.

Wha--I didn't think
you were gonna know!

[laughs]

[upbeat pop music]

♪ ♪

Oh, there she is.
Hey.

Hopefully she told Sparkayla
we were coming, first of all.

- Hey, you guys.

- What is up?

- How are you?
So good to meet you.

- Nice to meet you too, Kamie.
Babe?

- Uh-oh.
- Uh-oh.

- Oh.
- Come on out.

- Oh.
- Hey.

- She told you.
- Oh, my goodness.

Hi, how are you?
Hi, Kamie.

- I'm Kamie.
- How are you?

- Come on in.
Have a seat.

- I can't believe
you called them.

- I had to.
I love you.

- I love you too.
Oh, God.

[laughter]

- So wait a second.
So we heard from you briefly.

I'd love to get the story

from you now with, like,
the details and backstory.

- Okay, two years ago
on my Instagram,

Maritha reached out to me,
said, "Happy birthday.

This is your sister
from Vegas."

She said she was
my dad's daughter.

- Did you ask her,
"What's our dad's name?"

- No, I didn't ask her that,
not at all, no.

- No. That's--and that's
what I'm saying.

It makes her a easy target

for whatever
this girl is trying to do.

- Right, right.

I know you said Sparkayla
doesn't talk much with her dad,

but is there a way
maybe to text your dad

and say, "Who is Maritha?"

- He won't respond.

I've been texting him
and asking him,

and he just--
we're cool sometimes,

and then we're cool not.

It's kinda iffy 'cause
he doesn't deal with my mom,

so I kinda--I think
that kinda affected the way

of how our relationship works,
so I kinda think

that's why he kinda doesn't
deal with me a little bit.

- Was he around with--were they
together while you were young?

- They were together
until I was,

like, maybe two years--maybe
one or two years old.

My mom, she was
a single parent.

She kinda raised me
on her own,

and when I was
maybe ten years old,

I was at my cousin's
birthday party,

and my dad came to
the birthday party

with these two little
beautiful, cute little girls,

and introduced them
as my little sisters.

- That must have
been so confusing.

- Yeah, 'cause I didn't know
I had any siblings.

- And are you close with
any of your other siblings?

- No, no.

I've only seen my siblings
two times in my whole life.

That's why I think
that, with Maritha,

when she told me
she was my sister,

I was kinda excited 'cause
I'm really big on family.

I'm kinda, like,
the only child,

so it kinda felt good
to have somebody

actually reach out to me

and kinda give me
the attention.

She was always there.
"Hey, sister, how you doing?

Good morning," sending me
inspirational quotes like

"God love you,
God is everything."

She was really being nice,

and it seemed like
she just needed a sister.

- But how did she even
get access to you?

- Did she explain ever
how she found you?

- She said she was looking
for me since I was young,

but she didn't know my name.

She only knew my name
was Sparkle.

She didn't know it was
Sparkayla,

which I think is weird.

- That's what she alleged.
-Allegedly told me.

- But that even sounds
a little weird.

- Weird, yeah.

How quickly did you guys get to
full-on talking all the time?

- Um, it took, like, maybe--
probably, like,

maybe four or five months.
- Okay, so it--

- That might be
a understatement.

They got tight pretty quick.

- Okay, if she says so.

- So what was the first time
you made plans to meet up?

- The first time it was Vegas
for my birthday.

I told her
I was coming down there,

and then she was all excited.

She like, "Yay, yay, finally
get to come to my hometown."

Then when I get there,
I'm calling her.

Her phone number changed.

When I called,
it said disconnected.

After she ghosts me,
she hit me back up

and was like, "Hey, sister.
Sorry, I had a lot going on.

I changed my number.
Here's my new number."

Then she told me
that her and her boyfriend

was going out to San Diego.

She sent me the hotel that she
was staying at and everything,

and then she texts me
on that Sunday and said,

"Hey, I'm here,
but I'm leaving,"

and then I got mad
because I'm like,

"This is the second time
you ghosted me,"

so I just blocked her.

- When was that?
- In May.

- Have you talked to her since?
- Yeah, I talked to her again.

Being naive, I--

- Of course.
- I--she sent me

a inspirational quote again,

kinda like how she wins
herself in,

but then when we video chatted,
it was, like,

maybe 30 seconds,
and it was dark.

- And what did she say?

- She was working
with a janky charger.

- Right.
- And she had a Android.

- What the [bleep] does that
have to do with the camera?

The camera works.

- Right, right.

My thoughts exactly.
Something shady is up.

- What does this girl want?
- I don't know.

- Like I said,
she might be clout chasing.

She'll be like, "You're always
with celebrities."

She's always wants
to just be in our business.

- Could be thinking
you're talking to a sister

and you're really
talking to a stalker.

- You're making me nervous.
[sighs]

- Should be.
- Yeah.

- Can we see what
this girl looks like?

- Yeah.

- So this is supposed
to be her.

- Correct.
- Okay.

Yeah, there's--yeah,
there's some resemblance.

How old is Maritha?

- She's 30, I believe is that's
what she told me.

- And so where are you
now with her?

- We need to meet
or end, basically.

- Do you think your--
any of your siblings

would be down to talk?

Maybe they could
help untangle this.

- I could give you
their number,

and you could reach out
to them, sure.

- Okay.
Let's--let's get to work.

- All right, ladies.

- We can't wait to see
what you guys find.

- Thank you so much.

- Whew.

- Wow.
I mean, she's so sweet.

It would be easy
to take advantage of someone

with such a kind heart

and someone who's so open
and has been through so much

and really craves family
the way she does,

but what does she want
from Sparkayla?

What is the--what is the point
of all of it?

It's a sister mystery.
- It's a sister mystery.

What the hell is going on?

- Do you know it's Friday
the 13th and it's a full moon?

- But a full moon's
not unlucky, is it?

- No, no, no, no, no.
- Oh.

Full moon is, like,
a good thing.

- Yeah.
- And should we--

- We have to get
the crystals and--

- Yeah. You know what?
Let's put some crystals down.

Let's just create
a good energy zone

around our investigation
with the laptop.

Okay.

Well, you should place this
so you're part of the energy.

- Saging, if we had sage.

- Okay.
Let's get to work.

So Sparkayla has been talking
to this girl Maritha.

- Mm-hmm.
- Claims to be

Sparkayla's half-sister

that she's never heard about,
hits her up on Instagram.

They become very close,
but as the months went on,

Sparkayla and her wife, Kiana,

both became
increasingly suspicious.

Because it's unclear what,

if anything,
Maritha is getting out of this.

- And Kiana thinks that she's
doing it for clout because

they go to celebrity events.
I don't know.

- All right, let's dig in.
- Oh, Cleo!

- Hey.
- Hey, sis.

Queen Cleo in the house.

- Nice screensaver.

- Oh, my God,
she's so cute I can't take it.

- All right, Sparkayla.

"Here's the info
I have on Maritha.

"Her name is Maritha [bleep],
and she lives in Las Vegas.

"Here is her Instagram.
I have two phone numbers

"for her, the original one
we used that she said changed

"when she stood me up in Vegas,
and the current one.

"If you'd like to get in touch
with my siblings,

"here they are,
Dajanay and Mika.

I'm also attaching the photos
Maritha has sent me."

All right, so we got photos.
Let's just run them.

Here's the first one.
No match there.

Let's try this one too.

- Nothing.
- Let's just see

if there's more photos
of her on Instagram.

She only has nine pictures,
39 followers.

So this is weird.

The first photo she posted,
which was 75 weeks ago,

less than two years ago,

means that maybe
she made the Instagram

to reach out to Sparkayla

because that--isn't
that how she DMed her?

She said she did it
on Instagram.

- She did it on Instagram.
- But to not have any posts

that predate
when they met is weird.

- Yeah.

- It is a somewhat
suspicious page.

- That's definitely weird.

- So she's got no tagged
photos.

There are some comments
on pictures.

"Happy birthday, Maritha."

From Adrianna.
Who is this person?

This profile has
seven pictures...

Also similarly suspicious,
right?

- And the same, with,
like, two comments.

- Right.
So is this a fake page

set up to make
Maritha's page seem real?

Now let's run Maritha's
phone number.

James [bleep] in Pennsylvania?
What?

- Well, this was
the old number.

- Let's just do a search
for the most current number.

No name associated
with this one.

- Of course.

- Let's just Google
search her name, all right?

Maritha [bleep].

- Ooh.
- Maritha, 31, Las Vegas.

She's the right age,
related to--ooh,

look, Patricia [bleep],
same last name.

So that's interesting.

There's a Maritha [bleep]
in Las Vegas with relatives,

but is this
who she's talking to?

And is she Sparkayla's
actual sister?

- It's definitely weird.

Let's try a Facebook search
for Maritha [bleep].

- Nothing.
- Nothing.

- There is a Maritha in Nevada.
- Mm-hmm.

- But who strangely doesn't
have her own profile anywhere.

I don't know what else
there is to do,

other than call
Sparkayla's sisters

and talk to them and find out
if they know about this girl.

So let's call Mika.
Oh, here's her number.

Okay, great.
And here is her Instagram.

- Hey, is this Mika?

- This is Nev from "Catfish."

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

- Hey.

- Did Sparkayla mention
that we might reach out?

- I guess not.

Okay, let me bring you up
to speed then.

For the past two years,
this girl Maritha

claims to be
Sparkayla's half-sister,

so we're trying to do
some research

and figure out who she is,
what's her deal,

and if she really
is your half-sister.

Have you ever heard
of anyone named Maritha?

- And I'm like...
- Damn.

Have you ever talked
to your dad about Maritha?

- Right.

- Well, we're on the case,
hopefully to figure this out,

and we'll let you know
once we do.

- Okay.
- Okay.

All right, well,
thank you so much.

- Okay, buh-bye.
- So that's pretty interesting.

She also reached out to Mika.

- Where's the family group chat
in all this?

- Right?
I mean,

I know their family
is a little disjointed, but.

All right, let's call
the other sister, Dajanay.

- Hello?
- Hi, it's Nev from "Catfish."

- I'm calling because
Sparkayla's wife, Kiana,

reached out to me and Kamie
because there's a little bit

of suspicion
surrounding this girl Maritha.

Have you ever heard
of that person?

- You say you're close
with your dad.

Did you ask him about her?

- So he's saying no,

that that's
not his child at all.

- Yes.

- What does she stand to gain
by trying to convince you guys

that she's your half-sister?
I don't get it.

- Do you have, like,
a ton of followers

or anything like that
on your personal page,

on your real page?

- Okay, so this is you.
I got it. Okay.

- Okay. Well, that's good info.
Thank you, Dajanay.

- Thanks, Dajanay.
- We'll talk to you soon.

- Okay, buh-bye.
- All right, bye.

- Bye.
- So that's interesting.

Dajanay asked her dad about
Maritha, and her dad was like,

"Nope, no idea who that is."

- Hmm.
- So that's big.

Also, it's very suspicious

that there was
a fake profile of Dajanay.

- Yeah.

- Like, why would she make
a fake page? I mean--

- What is the motive here?
- Oh, she said, like,

I'm, like, a local celeb
up here in Oakland.

- Mm-hmm.

- So maybe she is
celebrity-obsessed.

- Maybe she is a clout chaser.

- We know that there is
a real person

in Nevada
named Maritha [bleep],

but it doesn't really explain
why she claims to be

Sparkayla's half-sister.

What's in it for Maritha?

There's gotta be more to
this story than we're getting.

- Hello.

Hey.
- Hi, guys. Welcome.

- Where's wifey?
- She had to run some errands,

so I texted her and let
her know you guys were coming.

- Okay.

- So what do you guys
have for me?

- That's a loaded question.
- Oh, wow.

- Well, let me show you
at least what we did.

- Okay.

- Okay, so obviously this
is her Instagram,

which feels a little light.

She only had nine pictures up,
no tagged photos,

which is always kinda weird,
so we just--

- Hey.
- Hey.

- Hi.
- Hey, how are you?

Welcome back.

- Hey.
- You guys are back soon.

- Yeah.
- You wanna join us?

- Yes.
- Join us.

- I would love to.

- Okay, so we were looking at
the Instagram for Maritha.

- Right.

- Unfortunately,
long story short,

we think it kinda looks like
she could be fake.

- Hmm.

- But when we searched
for Maritha [bleep],

interestingly, there are hits
for someone in Nevada,

age 31, named Maritha [bleep].

- Wow.
- And when we scrolled down,

it says Patricia [bleep],
which is the same last name.

- Pat, Pat, she said
her mom's name was Pat.

- Oh.

- Yeah.

- Oh, okay, so that's a pretty
meaningful connection

or piece of proof

that maybe her real name
is Maritha [bleep],

but we just can't
figure out why someone,

if they are your half-sister,

wouldn't be able to very easily
sort of prove it

or show up
or at least video chat.

- You know, it could be that
maybe she's scared,

or it could--it could be
something, you know?

- So we spoke to both
Dajanay and Mika,

and we found out Maritha
contacted both of them as well.

- Oh, really?
- Did you know that?

- No.

- But how would they have
mentioned that to us

and not have mentioned
that ever to you?

- Right.
- We're not, like,

friends right now.
Like, we have sister issues,

so we're not close
from the beginning.

- Right.
- The point is that Dajanay

said after she got
in communication with Maritha,

a fake profile of her
on Instagram popped up

and was, like,
catfishing as her,

and she thought that
it was suspicious that

all of the sudden she starts
talking to this new person,

and now a whole new profile
has popped up with her.

- Hmm.
- Wow.

- Which hadn't happened
to her before.

She said that people know
her where she's from.

She has a few thousand
followers,

so it looks Maritha
is doing it for clout.

- [sighs]
Yikes.

- Dajanay also said

that she talked to
your dad about Maritha...

And your dad said,
"That's not my daughter."

- Oh, my--
- Oh, wow.

- Wow.

- ♪ Please don't ♪

♪ Please don't ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Please don't ♪

♪ Make a fool of me ♪

- This is so crazy, like--oh.

- ♪ Please don't ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Please don't
make a fool of me ♪

♪ ♪

- Family is everything to me,

and my other sisters,
we're not close,

so, you know, I was hoping
that she was my sister

because she was
a really nice person.

You know, we communicate.
I'm, like, baffled.

I have no idea, like, what's
really going on or who this is,

but I want to find out.

I really want to see
who this person is.

- There is something about
this situation

that feels like someone's
messing with someone

because every time
we go through

the pote--the possible motives

and what, if anything, Maritha
is getting out of this,

we end up kind of
drawing a blank.

The only person who can
answer this question

for all of us is her.

- Exactly.
- Right.

- Yeah.
- Let's call her.

- Yeah, we need to get
to the bottom of this.

- Let's just call and--

- See what she has to say.

[line trilling]

- Hey, Maritha, it's Nev,
and I'm here with Kamie.

- Hey.
- From "Catfish."

And I'm with Sparkayla
and Kiana.

- Yeah, this is for real.

- You guys have been talking
now for almost two years.

I know you guys have
tried a few times

to make plans to meet up,

and for whatever reason
they haven't worked out,

but I'm in the business
of helping people finally meet,

and you guys obviously have
a very good reason to meet,

you know, as sisters,
so is there any way

that, with our resources,
we can make that happen?

- Okay obviously everyone
has their issues,

and sometimes nerves
do get the best of us.

- I'm nervous too.

Like, are you not
gonna come meet me?

You know, you tell me,
you know, we're sisters,

so why can't we meet?

- If there's something
that Sparkayla doesn't know,

I do think she has to be kinda
make a decision for herself

whether or not she can continue
investing in this relationship,

and I think you kinda owe it
to her at this point,

after all this time,
to give that to her.

- Okay.

Where will you
be most comfortable

and least likely
to change your mind,

and how can we
make that happen?

- You want to drive
to us in L.A?

- Are you in Vegas?

- Okay, when are you
able to do that?

- Great.
That would--I'd love that.

So we'll figure out
a place to meet,

and I'll check in
with you in the morning.

- Sounds great.
- Okay, sounds great.

- Thanks, Maritha.
See you later.

- We'll have to wait and see
tomorrow if she shows up.

- You've made plans before.
- Yeah.

- Are you ready, like,
if she doesn't show up...

- Yes, I'm ready.

- To just--
- Yeah, and she's gonna have

to take a paternity test
to prove if she

is my sister or not.
- Totally.

Maybe we could actually help
arrange that for you guys.

- Okay. But if she's not
and she's catfishing me,

then I--you know, we have to go
our separate ways.

- Hopefully she does show up
'cause it sounds like

she has something to say.
- Absolutely.

- Right.

- Has she ever--she's
never said that to you?

- No.

- Like, "I don't want
to hurt her."

- No, never.
This is a first.

- What is her big secret?
What is she hiding?

- Let's just cross our fingers
that in the morning

when I text her, she says,

"I'm here. I'm close,"
and it all happens.

- Thanks, guys.
- Well, all right.

Hope it works out.

- I hope it works out.
- Okay, we're gonna figure

this out one--hopefully...

- Yes, yes, please.
- One way or another.

Oof.
I don't know, bro.

I just hope this girl shows up.

- Tomorrow's gonna be
a real barn-burner.

- Well, today's the day.

- So they say.

I was thinking
about it last night.

I was thinking about
this morning,

like, what is the motive here?
Does she want money?

- She would have asked by now.

- But maybe it's, like,
this longwinded thing of, like,

befriending her for a while
and then all of a sudden

coming up
with, like, some grand scheme.

Kiana said she cries broke
all the time.

She's like,
"Oh, I don't have the money.

I don't have the money."

There has to be something else.

There has to be a reason.

Why? Why, why, why?
What is the point?

Like, why doesn't
she want to show up?

- Let's just check in
with Maritha,

send her a text.
"Hey, how's it going?"

- She had something
to tell Sparkayla

that was gonna hurt
Sparkayla's feelings.

- Oh.

- "Still driving.
Where should I meet you?"

"Let's meet at a park downtown.

Here's the address."
You ready?

- Yes.
- Let's go get our girl.

- She said, "Okay, I'm really,
really nervous but ready.

See you guys soon."
Hey, girl.

- Hi, guys.
- All right, well, this is it.

- Oh, I'm really, really,
really nervous.

I'm just confused.

Like, I thought it was Maritha
and thinking it's her,

and then now it just turned
into, like, I don't even know.

Well, she has the answers, so.

- Somebody has the answers.

- Well, this is the park
we're going to, so.

- Let's do this.

- Oh, I'm really nervous,
Kamie.

Oh, God.

- Geese.

- So I gotta be the one
to sit right here

and wait for her
to walk in, huh?

- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, goodness gracious.

- I'll just send this and say,
"We are here.

Are you close?"

[wings flapping]

[laughter]
- Is that a sign?

I don't know.
I'm scared.

- I wonder what spooked them.

[phone chiming]
Oh, oh.

"I just pulled
into the parking lot."

- Oh, my goodness.

- Hey, you guys wait here.
I wanna see.

- I'm just really stressed out
right now.

I'm really nervous.
I have no idea.

- Oh.

- Oh, my--can you see?

Oh, my God.

- Oh, God.
- You guys wait here.

I wanna see
if I see anyone over there.

Oh.
Here we go.

- Is that her?

Can you see?

- Hi.

- Oh, my God.
- Hi, Nev.

- Hi, Maritha.
- Maritha.

- That's her.
- Yeah, that's her.

- Interesting.
Very confused,

but hopefully
you'll explain all of it.

- I will.
- You got us all really

scratching
our heads on this one.

- Yeah, that's the girl
on the picture.

- So here, this is Maritha...

- Hi.
- From the photo.

- How are you?
- I'm good.

- So it's you.
- Yeah.

- It's me.
- I don't know what to say.

I'm speechless.
Like--

- Kamie.
- Hi.

- Oh, sorry, Kamie.
- It's nice to meet you.

- So--
- What--

- Yeah.
- Yeah, what--okay,

I have a whole
lot of questions.

- Wait, why don't we let you
start, maybe,

'cause I know you said

you had some stuff
you wanted to talk about.

- I know it seemed like
I was shady,

but I'm really who I am.

I was just shady because
I had a lot of disappointment

in my life when I tried
to meet my family members,

like how Dajanay blew me off.

Like, everybody basically
was just like,

"Oh, no, we don't want to deal
with you," you know?

- I never made you
feel like that.

From day one when you told me
you was my sister,

I just accepted you.
I didn't have no proof,

no evidence, no nothing,
but I just accepted you.

- You did.
- I opened myself up to you

a whole--a whole lot.
- You did.

I'm sorry
if I hurt--I hurt you.

- I'm just confused
because, like,

the video chat thing
and, like--were you--

- Yeah, why you didn't want
to video chat?

- That's weird.
- Why was it--

- Like, it never really worked.

It was never really
a good time for me.

- That's pretty
strange behavior.

- True.
I just--I have a lot going on.

I'm always working,
so, you know,

maybe I did distance myself
for a little while.

- It just feels like this
is a situation

that could have happened
a lot--a long time ago.

- Yeah, it could have happened
in San Diego, like.

- Were you really in San Diego?
- I was.

- Did you really
leave San Diego?

- I did.

I don't think I was ready.
I wa--I wasn't ready.

- So you made me
wait another year?

- I wasn't ready.

- Oh, this is--this is
so crazy, like--

- Just to confirm,
what's your dad's name?

- His name is Tommy.
- Okay, that's your dad's name.

- Yes.

- But you have a different
last name.

- I do.
I have my mother's last name.

- Got it.

- Did you always know that
Sparkayla's dad was your dad?

- When I was younger,

my mom told me
I had a sister named Sparkle.

I've been trying to meet her
for a long time,

and when I had a MySpace,

I went on there putting
in Sparkle [bleep],

but nothing ever came up.

One day four years ago
I talked to my uncle...

He's the one that gave me
her information,

so I started talking
to her on Instagram,

and then we started talking.

- Everybody question is, like,

we never heard anything
about a other sister,

so that's kinda, like,
why at this point

I feel like
we need to do a DNA test.

I--I need to know
for my own self now.

- We actually looked into that,

and there is a place nearby
that does these tests.

Are you open to taking
a paternity test?

- No.

- Why?

- I don't--I don't want you
to get hurt.

- Why you think
I'm gonna get hurt?

- My dad made a statement
before about one of us,

so I don't want
one of us to get hurt.

- About one of us?
- Mm-hmm.

- Okay, wait,
so hold on a second.

You are in touch with your dad?
- I am.

- Are you suggesting that
she may not be his daughter?

- That's what you think?
Did he tell you that?

- Yes.
- How?

When did your dad
tell that to you?

Before you reached out to her?

- No.
- So after?

- After I reached out to her.
- Interesting.

- Jesus.
This--this--this is a lot.

- Yeah, this is sort of--yeah.

- Well, we can take the test.
I'm ready.

- I would love to f--to just
get the answer to all this.

I've been waiting eight seasons
to do a DNA test.

Can we just go there?
Is it open now?

- Yeah.
It's around here somewhere.

- Okay, great, so now that
all this is out in the open,

are you comfortable
potentially doing a DNA test?

- Yes, I'll do it.

- You both understand, like,
this is a big deal.

This is not, like,
any light [bleep].

- Yes.
- Yeah.

It's been two years.
I need to know.

- Okay, great.
So let's head over there.

This is crazy.

- My dad is not my dad?

Wow.
That's a first.

- But do you--you
don't believe that?

- No.
I don't believe that at all.

[tense pop music]

♪ ♪

- This whole experience,

oh, my gosh,
really got my mind blown.

- This is it.

- Like, I'm just hoping that
Maritha is who she say she is.

Are you ready for this?
Ooh, this is scary.

- I know.

- The results will
be expedited,

so we should receive them
within 12 to 24 hours.

We should have them
by tomorrow.

- So by tomorrow.
- Yeah.

- If the DNA does not match,
then we have a situation.

- Yikes.

Let's see
if Maritha's my sister.

- ♪ Can you feel it? ♪

- Please enjoy this Verizon
ringback tone while your...

- Oh, my God.

- Hi.

The test results are ready.

- Okay.
- I'm gonna go get the girls.

Why don't you go get
the test results,

and then we'll all meet
over at Sparkayla's.

- Just make sure
that envelope is sealed.

- All right, see you soon.
Good morning.

- Good morning.
- Hey.

[upbeat pop music]

- I'm, like, super nervous,
anxious at the same time.

- ♪ No matter, no matter ♪

♪ ♪

- Oh, man.
Am I the only one freaked out?

Hi.
So they're ready?

- Are you sure?

Oh, my gosh.

- Thank you so much.
- Thank you.

Bye.
- Not opening.

It's too tempting.

Oh, my God, oh, my God,
oh, my God.

I am not opening it.
There we go.

It's like having a big piece
of chocolate cake

just sitting next to you.

Too much pressure.

- Hey.
- Hey, you look cute.

Come in, guys.

- Hi.
- Hey.

- Look at you guys, twinsies.

- Not only are we twinsie,
we're twinsie.

- Hi.
- Hi, nice to meet you.

- Maritha.

- Maritha, you're who you
said you were.

- I know.

- You're the girl
in the picture, yes.

- It's been--it's been long.

You know, with two years,
and now it all plays out today.

Kamie, where are you?

- She's coming in with the--

- Yeah, with the Maury
Povich package.

- Yeah.
- Drum roll.

[laughter]

[knock at door]
Oh, my goodness.

- Hello.
- Hi.

- Thank you.
- Hi.

- Hey.
- I didn't peek.

- My heart is jumping out
of my chest, like.

- I know, mine too.

- So here are the results.

You ready to do this?
- Okay.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- Let's hold hands, you guys.
- All right.

♪ ♪

Okay, "based on the results
of the analysis

obtained
from the DNA listed..."

♪ ♪

"The probability
of half-siblingship..."

♪ ♪

"Is 99.89%."

[all cheering]

- Thank God.
- We're sisters!

- Oh, my God, thank you, Jesus.
Lord.

- [crying]

[bright pop music]

♪ ♪

- Oh, man.

- Oh, my goodness.

I am so happy.
This is just the best.

- Whew.
- Like, wow.

Thanks for finding it.

- Thank you.
- That's awesome.

- Wow. I need to take
a picture of this.

- Yeah.

- And take it to
the next family reunion.

- I'm sending it
to my sisters right now.

- Somebody send it
to your daddy too.

Air drop his ass

'cause you guys
are taking your power back.

- Just happy that
a mystery 30 years

in the making
is finally solved.

- This is amazing.
- Yeah.

Well, I think
our work here is done.

- Yay.

- All right, so what are
you guys gonna do?

You gonna hang out?

- Yeah.
- Definitely.

- She's family. She's great.
- Yeah.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- Thank you so much.
- Thank you, guys.

- Bye.
- Thank you, guys.

- Bye.
- Bye.

- Yay! I feel like doing
one of those--yes.

- We should do one
in the middle of the street.

You ready?
One, two...

- ♪ I am just a daydreamer ♪

♪ ♪

- Oh!

- Hey!
- My goodness.

- Hi.

- Seeing you together
is so nice.

- Oh, happy birthday.
- Yay.

- I love that.

- Right.

- Have you met the rest
of the siblings yet?

- And what about your dad?

- Did he ever explain
why he kept making up stories?

- But does he have
the DNA test results?

- Yes, he does.

- Yes.
- Thank God.

So we're happy that Kiana
reached out to "Catfish"?

- I'm so happy, and I want
to thank you guys

from the bottom of my heart

for helping me solve
this Scooby Doo mystery

for two years
that I had going on.

- Well, thank you guys
for letting us

be a part of
such a magical reunion.

- Yeah, seriously.
- Yeah.

- All right, go have some fun.
Happy birthday.

- Happy birthday.

- Happy birthday.

- Bye.
- Bye!

[dramatic pop music]

♪ ♪

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