Catfish: The TV Show (2012–…): Season 9, Episode 1 - Jason & Keith - full transcript
In the first ever VIRTUAL CATFISH episode, Nev and Kamie won't let the quarantine stop them from helping love struck Jason find the dirt on his Insta-model Keith. Remote from home, our hosts unite forces to expose the truth.
[light dramatic music]
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[laptop boot up tone]
- Okay, let's see if this works.
Record screen.
Five, four, three, two, one.
[upbeat music]
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Hey, hey!
You ready to do this?
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All right, rolling here.
Rolling here.
All right, things are crazy in the world right now
with the COVID pandemic.
And we wanted to keep helping people,
but obviously we couldn't do it the way we've been doing it.
We're gonna try and do something
we've never done before,
which is make an entire episode of "Catfish" totally remotely.
So let's do this.
[dramatic musical sting]
[lively music]
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Kamie says, "dying to do anything at this point.
#bored." All right.
I sent her the invite. Let's see if this works.
[device chimes]
Oh!
- Oh, hello! - Look who it is!
- I'm so bored.
All I can come up with is playing video games
and drinking wine. That's it.
- How have you been getting your wine?
- I have enough wine to last me through an apocalyptic attack.
- [laughs] - Yeah.
- So, okay, so I think we've got this whole thing set up.
So I wanted to grab a snack.
If you want to get everything ready,
and then meet back here in a few minutes,
and we'll like just dive in?
- Yeah. - All right.
See you in a second.
All right, well, this is exciting.
Hi, baby. - Hi, Nev.
- So we're doing it, we're doing it.
- I can't believe it's happening.
- I know, we're making the show.
- I can't believe it's happening.
- I think it's gonna work.
♪ ♪
- Hey, boo, is this thing on? Hey.
I should get some caffeine,
because I feel like this is gonna be a while.
"If my mouth doesn't say it, my face absolutely will."
This is the one we're using today,
because I don't know what we're gonna be dealing with.
[laughter]
[upbeat music]
- This is where Daddy now does his work.
- The Schulmans! - Hey!
- Hey. Oh, hey, guys.
- She's on the TT show! - Oh!
- She's on the TT show. - That's me!
- Let's take a picture with Kamie.
- Are we gonna do silly face or cute face?
- Silly face. - Okay.
- Wait, should I get in? - Yeah.
all: Dah!
- Okay. - Cute.
- [laughs] - Love you!
- Bye!
- Okay, so I am going to go to our email here.
[upbeat music]
Here's the email from Tamirra and the subject is:
"Blinded by love."
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"Hey, Nev and Kamie!
My name is Tamirra, and I really need your help!"
- ♪ We like it when it lasts ♪
- "My best friend Jason has been talking to a guy
"named Keith for the past two years.
- ♪ It's been a long time ♪
- "Jason tells me he loves him
and even wants to marry him."
- Mm.
- "Keith is sweet, sexy, and attentive.
"And Jason won't stop talking about this guy.
- ♪ But we just seek a thrill ♪
- "But Jason lives in L.A.
"and this Keith guy lives in Detroit.
"And they've never met or even FaceTimed.
"He has stood Jason up multiple times.
Recently, Jason went to Detroit--"
- And let me guess, nothing happened.
- "He went all the way there and Keith stood him up again.
- ♪ Don't throw it away ♪
- "This has all gone on too long.
"He needs help seeing the signs.
- ♪ Don't throw it away, don't throw it away ♪
- "You guys are my last hope. Tamirra."
- Well, I fully get why people, you know,
meet on the internet and they feel like they wanna be
in a relationship with this person.
But to take it to marriage?
You've never met this person. You wanna marry them?
You don't even know if you like the way that they eat!
- Yeah, it's pretty wild, but it happens.
And I think, actually, we're now,
through the crazy shared experience
of all being isolated at home, starting to understand
even more the power of digital communication.
- Yeah, I mean, we're all on lockdown.
There's literally no better time
to meet somebody on the internet.
- Yeah. - It's crazy out there.
- All right, so we--we got the email.
Tamirra gave us her number. Start a new message.
"Hey, Tamirra! It's Nev from 'Catfish.'
"We just read your email and wanted to see
if you could join our Zoom."
All right, so I guess we'll just see if she joins now.
[device chimes]
Oh! - Hey, guys.
- Hey! - Hey!
- You look so beautiful! - Oh, thank you.
- So where are you right now, Tamirra?
- [clears throat] I'm in St. Louis right now.
- What do you do in St. Louis?
- I work for a chemical company.
We actually make hand sanitizer,
so I'm still currently working, gratefully.
- Can I send you my address? 'Cause I'm running low.
- [laughs]
- So your friend Jason is into this guy Keith,
but I can tell from the wording of your email, though,
that you are not here for it at all.
- Mm. - [laughs]
The pictures are nice, like he's a hot guy.
Like, so it's, like, why not show yourself?
Check the pictures. He's, like, he's hot.
Like, okay, if you're a model,
why don't you have more modeling?
- He's a model?
- Yeah, that's what he says on his, like--
he's, like, a model.
- Oh, boy.
Nev, can you pull up his Instagram?
- Yeah. Okay, let me share Chrome.
All right, so wait, what's this guy's, uh, name?
- It's KeithModelBoy. - Red flag.
- There he is, there he is. Okay.
Oh, my goodness!
- It says adult model. Okay, he fine, fine.
- Wait, that's not the same guy.
That body doesn't look like the same--
like, look at the tattoo and the nipples, right?
- Right. - In some pictures,
there's no tattoos or nipple piercings.
- Right.
- These are all pictures of different men.
- This--this is like
a completely different guy, for sure.
- Has Jason picked up on this?
- I haven't mentioned those to him.
I don't want to, like, hurt his feelings,
and like seeing him in love,
and he's in that zone right now.
- It concerns me that Jason doesn't see
the clear inconsistencies.
- Two years at this point.
Like, let's really figure this out.
- Yeah. - All right.
So I'm gonna stop the screen share.
You think he would be down to join our, uh, Zoom call?
- Yeah. Everybody's home. - Everybody's home.
So why don't you text him the link?
- Okay, let me text him. - Kamie, what are you eating?
- Can't stop, won't stop. - He says he's doing it now.
- Oh! - Hello, Jason!
- Hey, surprise!
- Oh, you-- [laughter]
What the [bleep]? - Hey, um...
- OMG, I can't even believe this right now!
- Did you think this whole quarantine was gonna stop us?
- Well, I mean-- [laughs]
- Nothing can stop "Catfish."
- Yeah, I guess not. [laughs]
- We heard a little bit about your relationship with Keith,
and we're very curious to learn a little bit more.
- So I've been single for, like, four--four years.
I was in a relationship for quite some time.
And I was doing hair
with a lot of different celebrity stylists and stuff.
And I was getting a lot of Instagram followers.
So I was scrolling through it
and then I came across his introduction.
He was, like, "I think you're attractive."
I was like,
"Okay, I think you're attractive too."
- What is it about him that you're so in love with?
- I like how-- how I am treated.
I like how I'm spoken to.
I like the way that he pays attention to me.
He just fills that little void that's--that's there.
- Tamirra mentioned that, like, you guys have talked about
being together and maybe even getting married.
- Just so it doesn't seem so crazy.
- It already seems pretty crazy.
- And I brought up marriage because I was engaged before.
- Oh.
- And I would like to create my own family.
So, you know, it's something that's on the table.
- And he wants to start a family?
- Yeah, yeah, he was cool with that.
We're in a place where we want to be together,
and now, unfortunately, we can't even make that happen
because of this and-- God knows who--
how long this could even take, you know?
- You did try to see him? In Detroit or something?
- I was in--I was in Detroit.
I got stuck there for, like, 11-hour layover and hit him up.
He was on his way over with his friend--
and he said his friend's car broke down.
I was annoyed. 'Cause I told him--
I said, "You keep making [bleep] excuses all the time.
So I said to him, "You know,
"I'm not gonna keep doing a long-distance relationship.
I think that you should move to L.A."
He's--He comes to L.A. for work sometimes.
- Oh, like since you've been talking to him?
- He actually texted me the other night
and said that he's surprised and came here.
- Wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
This week?
- There's no way. - I don't know.
- It's COVID-19, and you fly to L.A.?
- Listen, if he's here, he's stupid.
Because one, I will not see you.
You need to go sit down somewhere for two weeks.
- You have not ever FaceTimed with this person,
but they can fly to L.A.
because they wanna see you so badly
during the middle of a pandemic?
- Right? Why not FaceTime me?
Why not Zoom me, why not Skype?
I mean, you sent him money.
- Oh? - What?
- [laughs] - What happened?
- [bleep] you up so bad.
- You sent him money? - I did send him money once.
It was to get another phone...
- How much money was it? - Well, it was like 800 bucks.
- He still hasn't FaceTimed you?
On the phone you bought?
- Ooh. - Yeah, all right.
Speaking of red flags here, we looked at his Instagram.
What the hell's going on?
There's pictures of different guys on there.
- No, the--some of those pictures are him
when he was younger.
- So, like, before he had the tattoos and stuff?
- Yeah, I mean, you know how often people get tattoos.
They can have one today and not yesterday.
- I think, clearly, there are a couple images
on his Instagram that are questionable.
- The faces are different people!
- These are two different people, like, skin tones.
- Does that just not bother you?
- What will it mean for you
if this guy isn't who he says he is?
- I mean, it'll mean that, you know,
just another deceitful... bastard.
You know what I mean?
I'm not convinced that he's not him.
Everybody wants the truth,
and, uh, this is the perfect time to get it.
[laughs] - Yeah.
- So we're--we're gonna do some research,
see what we can find out about this guy,
and, at the very least,
try and get you guys to finally video chat.
- Yeah.
- Hopefully, you can definitely get him
to take off those rose-colored glasses.
- [laughs]
Thank God for having good friends like that,
'cause they always got your back.
- Exactly.
- We'll speak to you guys soon, all right?
- See you guys later. Have a good day.
- Okay. - Bye.
- Oh, man.
- Where are my flags when I need them?
- Most of this guy's story--
- Is bull[bleep]! - Yeah, right.
- There's something about this Keith guy
that is keeping him around.
- Keith is an absurdly bold liar who will say anything.
I definitely think this guy
is getting messed with to a very large degree.
- I'm gonna head back to my life.
Take my lunch, alfresco.
[upbeat music]
- Mmm. both: Mmm!
[both laugh]
- Mmm! - Mmm!
- [laughs]
- Mmm! - Mm--
[laughter]
- This is what we're having for lunch.
- Dun-dun-dun! - This is my boyfriend, Gordon.
- What's up, what's up?
- We've been together for almost four years.
- Well, I'm a fan of the show, so--
and it's the first time I get to see it in action.
So it's cool. - All right, I am ready.
All right.
[device chimes]
Hey, there she is! All right.
I took your--a note from the Kamie playbook,
can of sparkling white.
- [gasps] Are we drinking right now?
- I--you know what? I--To me--
I say all the rules are suspended.
We can do whatever we want. There it is!
Cheers!
- [laughs] - All right.
- We should do this all the time!
- All right, we got Jason talking to Keith
for around two years now.
At the time, Jason was still living in Miami,
but his hairstyling career was taking off.
So he moved to L.A. Keith lives in Detroit.
As time goes on,
he starts to notice there are some red flags.
Can't video chat. They try to video chat.
His phone falls and apparently breaks.
- How convenient.
- So he sends him 800 bucks to buy a new phone,
but still hasn't been able to video chat since then.
Now, this guy Keith says he's been in L.A. for jobs,
but he's had other excuses that he can't meet up.
It's almost nauseating how cockamamie this story is.
- Mm-hmm.
- All right, so here's the email
and here's the Instagram account.
Do you want to run the phone number?
- Might as well. - Let's run this number.
Let's see what we get.
- Landline?
- Landline, so it's probably a VoIP,
which is like a text app.
- Ah.
- We should check another site 'cause sometimes different
sites give you different things.
- Romeo, Michigan.
- Michigan, which makes sense, but Romeo I've never heard of.
But how appropriate, that he--
his phone's registered to Romeo.
All right, so the phone number doesn't have any information.
So let's just go back to his Instagram,
and let's run some images.
I'm gonna screenshot. Save this.
[shutter clicking]
[low dramatic music]
All right, I've got a bunch now of this guy,
but what about this other person that we think
is someone different?
This is the one that we should be--
- Completely different guy.
- Right.
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I-I'm not getting any hits. Let's just try a few others.
- Wait.
- Ray Edwards. What is this?
Is this the guy?
It just says Ray Edwards. - #NFL.
Football player or something?
- Boom!
Ray Edwards, defensive end.
He's a former American football defensive end.
He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 2006.
Let's just find Ray Edwards' Instagram.
Why doesn't Ray Edwards come up?
I mean, it does, but it's not him.
Ugh. All right, let's see.
Oh, here, he has a Twitter.
Oh, yeah.
- @R.J--it's in his bio.
- Oh, God. All right, there he is.
All right. - Wow.
- Let's just go back to Keith's Instagram.
So these are all Ray, right?
- Yeah.
- But this guy is someone else.
- It's a different person!
- Let me just search these guys.
Let me just see what happens when we search these pictures.
Oh, Donnell Blaylock.
- Is he a football player, too?
Fashion influencer.
- Wow, he's got almost a half a million followers.
- Oh, my God! - Come on!
Let's just see,
were--were there any other pictures that seemed fishy?
I guess there's this one.
- Yeah, that one. Yeah, that one.
- Kamie's, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Enhance, enhance."
- [laughs]
- I've never seen Kamie so interested in an image search.
Hey, there he is!
- Who is that? - It's, uh, this guy.
I think this is his-- I think this is his account.
There he is. 113,000 followers.
He's a fitness guy. So, okay.
now there's three guys whose pictures he's been using.
- Clearly! And we can see it
without even seeing their faces, but Jason is, like,
"No, it's-- that's him when he was 15."
What?
- It's one thing for us to tell Jason,
it's a whole nother thing for him to hear it
from the guys in the picture.
Especially because there's multiple guys, at least three.
If we can get all of these guys to, like, video chat with us,
it would, I think, really solidify
in a--in a very real way that, like, Keith,
not only has he been lying about who he is,
he's using different pictures.
He so boldly lying, to me-- that it's, I think, insulting.
He can't deny it.
[low tense music]
- Okay, so now we know Keith has been using
three different guys' pictures to catfish Jason.
- That's insane.
- All right, so I'm gonna switch now to phone share,
'cause I got to DM these guys.
- Yes.
- Let's start with Donnell Blaylock.
"Hey, Donnell, it's Nev from "Catfish.
"We're making a totally digital episode right now,
"and your pictures are being used.
We would love to Zoom."
Done. So let me copy this.
- Mm-hmm. - I'm gonna send it out.
All right, there's Ray Edwards.
So I think this is our first professional football player
whose pictures have been used.
- Yeah, true. - All right, I'm sending that.
And then there's the last guy, Moses,
the fitness guy in London.
- Mm-hmm. There he is.
- Oh, yeah.
All right, let's send him a message.
All right, great. Let's take a break.
We've been sitting at our computers now for a few hours.
- I need to stretch. - Yeah, you got your yoga mat.
I need to do some-- a little physical activity.
And I've got a perfect song we can rock out to.
I'll meet you back here in a few minutes, okay?
- Boom.
- All right, let me put this song on.
- Spin that [bleep].
- All right!
- Break time.
We'll schedule a little stretchy stretch,
because why not?
Should we bring the wine?
Yes, we should.
- ♪ Onset, make you work off the sweat ♪
♪ With a brand new threat, got them all in check ♪
♪ Push the meter in the red when I wrap my set ♪
[calm music]
- Om. [gurgles]
- ♪ Gonna wing that set to fly ♪
♪ No one ever thought I'd get so high ♪
- Stretch.
Sip.
I'm sweating.
That's enough. Back to the drinks.
- We gonna get you, Keith. We gonna get you!
You can run, but you can't hide.
"Catfish" is on your ass!
- ♪ We came to kill this track ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh! ♪
- All right, we're back. So let's check.
- Anybody sliding in the DMs?
- Oh, my God, look at this! - Yeah!
- Three messages, three replies.
All right, so Donny, he's down.
He's ready to Zoom. - Okay.
- This guy, Moses in London, says...
Wow, all these guys are so-- they--they're with it.
Look, let's start with Moses.
He's in London, so it's pretty late for him.
- Do you think he has a really strong accent?
Is he gonna be like, [English accent] "Hey, bruv."
'Catfish.'"
[device chimes]
- Oh. - Moses!
- Hey, what's up, man? - I'm good. How are you?
- So good! Your accent is awesome.
I'm so excited for this call!
[laughter]
- How are things in London these days?
Are you--you live in London?
- Yeah, I live in London, and the streets are empty.
- Yeah, it's tough. - Yeah.
- Well, so we're making an episode of the show now,
and so you're actually one of three different, very fit,
good-looking guys that this guy has used pictures of--
[device chimes]
Oh! - Hey!
- What's up? - What up, what up?
How are you?
- Donnell? - Yes.
- Welcome. [device chimes]
- Oh, hey! - Hey!
- Raymond! - Hi, how you doing?
- Oh, wow, we got them all. We got them all.
- Welcome to the yummy black man chat.
[laughter]
- Guys, thank you so much for responding.
Kamie and I are making an episode of "Catfish."
And we're talking to this guy, Jason, who, for two years now,
has been communicating with a guy named Keith.
And on his Instagram page, he presents himself as a model.
So Jason convinced himself
that this is the perfect guy for him,
despite the fact that even the pictures on the Instagram
aren't all the same guy.
- Yeah.
- So we figured the best way to make it very,
undeniably clear to Jason that Keith is lying
so--so egregiously, would be to have you guys
all on one call with him.
- "Hey, Jason, can you join our Zoom again?
"We have some people on here
I think you will be surprised to see."
Um, obviously, you know, be understanding
that this is gonna be a--a disappointment for him,
uh, to find out that he's been lied to
by this guy who he-- he really cares about.
- I've seen quite a few episodes of "Catfish"
and I have never seen this situation at all.
- He's gonna be heartbroke. - Yeah.
- I mean--
[device chimes]
- Oh, Jason! Hey, buddy.
- Hey, Jason. - Hey, y'all.
- We want you to meet some of our new friends here.
This is Keith, Keith, and Keith.
- Oh, wait, what? - What's going on, Jay?
- Take a close look.
[dramatic music]
- Wait a minute.
- Raymond, why don't you start, because I think
you're mostly the face that we've been looking at.
- Oh, yeah. Uh, yeah, Raymond.
Uh, haven't-- You haven't been talking to me,
somebody else been using my pictures to talk to you.
And, man, I'm--I'm sorry--
- Oh, hell [bleep] no!
Are you [bleep] serious right now?
- Um, I am. Dead--Dead serious, man.
Dead serious.
- So Raymond is a former NFL football player.
And then, Donnell,
if you want to wave for a second.
Uh... - Hey, how you doing, Jason?
- Donnell, you might recognize as some of--
He's the-- He's the most recent pictures,
the most recent two pictures.
- What the [bleep] is going on here?
- And then you won't recognize Moses,
because the face is cropped out in the pictures,
but Moses is a fitness model and personal trainer.
He lives in London.
Um, and-- and one of the pictures on
Keith's page is actually a picture of Moses.
♪ ♪
You okay?
- Okay, so this changes everything.
- Yeah.
- This is just really kind of like, um...
it's disturbing.
- Yeah, but don't--don't let that get you down, man.
At the end of the day-- - Yeah.
- There's a lot of people out here
doing the devil's work, man.
You got to keep your head up, man.
- Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
- Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
- Gentlemen, thank you so much.
I really, really appreciate it.
- Bye. Stay safe.
- Take care, appreciate it. - Bye.
- Oh, Jason, I'm sorry.
- It's all right, man. - Yeah.
I don't really give my feelings up
very freely to people like that.
- ♪ And you hide it well ♪
- I feel like a fool almost, because I should have
picked up on this, this, and this.
But it's, like, I don't know what to think.
I mean, I'm angry, I'm upset, and it's--it's embarrassing.
And it's kinda, like, you know, you feel stupid.
- Obviously, he's not the guy in the photos.
Are you still open to getting to know him?
- ♪ It's not the same ♪
- I mean, I don't even know how to feel about Keith,
'cause I don't even know what a Keith is at this point.
- Yeah.
- ♪ You got this whole thing turned around ♪
- I mean, we have an emotional connection,
but it's like, what the [bleep], like--
- ♪ And I wanna throw us against a wall ♪
♪ I won't take a fall if I act like ♪
♪ It don't bother me at all ♪
- You toyed with my emotions. And, you know,
I let you into a place that you--you don't belong,
because you're not an honest person.
And I wanna know why.
Like, who the hell are you? Why would you do that?
[dramatic music]
- What's frustrating now is that since you know
he's lied about the photos, that then, to me,
brings up a ton of other questions.
Well, okay--
- Like, what the [bleep] is the deal?
It's like, "Are you even a model?"
- It's not looking good.
- So look, we wanna find out who they are,
but in this case, obviously, we can't do that.
So we're gonna have to hope that
if we approach Keith via some sort of message,
he'll agree to do what you've wanted him to do for years,
which is to video call. - Right.
- All right, well, let's try calling him.
Maybe he'll answer.
♪ ♪
- Please leave a message after the tone.
[message tone beeps]
- Hey, Keith. It's Nev.
We're filming an episode of "Catfish" now.
Obviously, remotely with video chat.
We know you and Jason have been talking now for a while,
and I'm sure it would mean a lot to both of you
to finally see each other.
If you can get back to me, that would be great.
Thanks. All right, well, look.
You know, the ball is kind of in his court.
- Yeah. Yeah--mm.
- All right, well, let us know if you hear from him,
and we'll just check back in with you in the morning.
- Sounds good. - All right.
- All right, Jason. - Hang in there.
- Okay. - All right.
- Take care.
A lot of things aren't adding up and making sense.
You know, I really don't know how to feel about this person
that I thought that I knew, but, um, clearly I don't.
This is the place that I'm at right now.
So hopefully I get some answers,
because, uh, this is some mother[bleep] bull[bleep].
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- All right, let's see if we got anything on the old phone.
Whoa, a missed call from a no caller ID.
Hold on.
- What?
That is probably the best voice mail message
we've ever received in eight seasons of making this show.
Interesting, all right. Let's see if Kamie is around.
Get in that Zoom, I've got an update!
[device chimes]
Hey, good morning! - Good morning.
- When I came back in here a few minutes ago,
I saw that I had missed a call, and there's a voice mail.
And it's amazing.
- What? Excuse me, Ms. Ma'am.
- Listen here, honey. - [laughs]
That--that?
She literally patted us on the head.
That's what that was.
- Why does Keith's aunt know about any of this?
- Why is she so hostile? - I--
All right, so let's ch--let me text Jason.
[quiet suspenseful music]
[device chimes]
- Oh! - Hey!
- Hey, handsome. - What's up, y'all?
- You look lovely. - How are you doing?
- Mm, uh, my sleep was a little off,
tossing and turning a little bit.
- Yeah.
- So I didn't hear anything back from Keith.
- Uh-huh.
- But this morning I had a missed call.
They left a voice mail.
- You're not gonna like it.
- What the [bleep]? - Listen here, honey.
- Yeah, let me tell you something, sweetheart.
- Why would he have her call?
Has Keith ever talked about his--his aunt
or living with family? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's, uh, very close with the aunt.
- So do you know her name? - No, I don't remember.
He just always says "my auntie."
- Huh. - It could be the aunt.
- Do you think she could be Keith?
- At this point, who [bleep] knows?
- I mean, we've seen it before.
You'd be surprised how much people can alter their voices.
- I think we just gotta put the pressure on now
and see what Keith says.
- Well, I guess it's worth a shot.
[line trilling]
- So it's ringing. That's something.
- Please leave a message after the tone.
- All right, so, yeah. Why don't--
Why don't you share your phone, Jason,
and we'll--we'll come up with something to send.
All right, so what do we got? All right, so--
"Hey, I really hope that you would call
Nev back so that we can sort things out."
- Okay, sent. - And he's around.
Everyone is around,
unless you have an essential job position.
- Wait. - Oh!
[tense music]
Whoa, but this is good. This is good.
We got a response. So he's engaging,
and it suggests that he's willing to participate.
- "Uh, so listen, I honestly don't know
"how I'm going to feel, but I'm willing to give you
the opportunity to explain what's going on."
- Say we're in the Zoom now. Come on in.
♪ ♪
Let's see if he writes back.
- Oh. - Oh!
- [gasps] - Whoa, whoa!
He says he'll join.
- Ooh. - Oh, my God.
So wait, so if he pops in right now, what--
do you know what you're going to say--
I mean, are you ready for that?
- Uh, I'm not really sure exactly what I'm going to say,
um, 'cause I don't know
who I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say to.
I don't know if it's gonna be a guy,
I don't know if it's gonna be a girl.
- Right.
- I don't know what the [bleep] it's going to be.
- This is more nerve-racking.
Normally, we have like a little bit of an inkling.
Like the door will open, or somebody will walk up.
This-- we don't have anything.
There is nothing that is, like, preparing this moment.
- Yeah, I guess unless we made the Zoom call--
maybe there's a way you can do, like,
some people have to request--oh!
[device chimes] Is that Keith there?
- First of all, y'all can't just come barge into my life.
Like, what is it y'all are trying to do?
[suspenseful music]
- Normally, we have like a little bit of an inkling.
Like, the door will open.
There's nothing that is, like, preparing this moment.
- Unless we made the Zoom call--
maybe there's a way you can do, like, something
something where some people have to request--oh!
[device chimes]
[suspenseful music]
Is that Keith there?
- First of all, y'all can't just come barge into my life.
Like, what is it y'all are trying to do?
Why do I have to reveal myself now?
That's what I wanna know.
- Why wouldn't you ever reveal yourself before?
You have been scamming me for two years.
- I did not want to hurt you.
- What--What would hurt me?
The vision of you, the sight of your face?
Like, what the [bleep] is supposed to hurt me?
- I mean, obviously, the guy in the picture,
you feel like the guy is fake.
But you still have been in love with me
and my personality.
- But who are you?
When do I get to see who you are?
Like, you see me right now.
This is exactly what you see all day,
every day, Instagram, whatever--
- Okay, fine.
All y'all coming at me sideways.
Like, y'all making me nervous.
♪ ♪
- All right, hey.
- Hi. - Hi.
What's the problem, Keith?
- Because I don't want to deal.
Like, I'm already hurt, I'm embarrassed.
Y'all got me on this camera, now what?
Like, what's up?
- You're an attractive guy. What is the tea?
- It's no tea.
- Let's just clear-- let's just clear something up.
So wait, Ke--Keith, that's your name, right?
Keith?
- My name is Tayy. - Tayy.
- Tayy.
- All right, well, nice to meet you.
And you live in Detroit?
- Correct. - What you do for work?
- I am, like, a model. A fashion model.
Stuff like that.
- Is there a reason why you haven't,
in the last two years, told him the truth
about who you are?
- I really--I didn't mean-- I didn't mean to catfish you.
Like, this is-- this is not a fish fry.
But that's the only way that I could get with you.
- You didn't even try to hit me up this way first.
So you never gave me the opportunity to get to know you.
- We actually met a couple times.
And I didn't know how he was...
- Where? - At, because--
- Where? - I met you in L.A.
out, before like-- a couple of clubs out there.
We actually had conversations and--and exchanged numbers,
but you never called the numbers.
So I assumed at that point, like, I wasn't your type,
and, you know, you weren't feeling me.
- I meet a lot of people when I go out,
but I don't know.
- I-I revealed myself, so now, like,
y'all want to see the ho.
So basically, what you's telling me
is that you don't even recognize me at all.
- No, I don't remember you.
I don't have a Tayy in my phone, period.
- Why Jason? Jason's great,
but, like, why do all of this and go to such great lengths?
Did you create this page and, like,
customize it just for Jason?
- Yeah. Jason, he got--
I don't know how--I'm attracted to his lifestyle, what he do,
and what he can bring to the table.
So that's what I like.
- Do you really like Jason for him?
Or is it just what you see on Instagram,
'cause you-- you know he's popping?
- I mean, at first, when it all started off,
like--it was like that.
It was just, like, for him, it was for the lifestyle.
But then, once I actually got to know him over the time,
things did grow, and now I do have feelings for him.
But I'ma just be honest.
I do have a boyfriend in real life.
- You gotta go. You're [bleep] whack.
- No, listen--
- No, [bleep] you, I don't wanna to listen to you.
Liar. Lying ass.
- Pause, pause, hold on.
Jason, he has been there more for me over the two years
than my actual, you know, the person who I'm dating.
- So Tayy--
- Bitch, don't lie.
- So that's what the money was for?
That Jason was sending you? For red bottoms?
- Supposedly, it was for a phone.
- [scoffs]
- So you want to have your cake and eat it, too?
You wanna have a boyfriend in real life in Detroit,
you wanna have a sugar daddy that lives in L.A.
What do you think that this is?
- Tell your little boo to get him a [bleep] job where he can
afford your lifestyle that you want to have,
which is one that I currently live.
Which neither of one of you bitches is gonna get.
- I gotta say, I'm not really buying it.
You seem like you made a profile
to talk to successful guys who have followings,
to see who will fall for it and send you money.
You're like a con artist. That's the vibe I'm getting.
- [laughs] That's crazy.
See, it's like-- and it's not even like that.
My loyalty lies to Jason more than anybody,
because I've been with him for two years.
- Yeah, but I don't buy that,
because your aunt called and said for me
to stop ruining the [bleep] perfect relationship.
- Yeah, because strange people keep calling her phone!
- We didn't call her, she called us!
- Your aunt contacted us
and left us a very sassy voice mail.
- She just don't want y'all just all up in my space,
because my boyfriend actually just, like,
proposed to me two weeks ago.
- So you're engaged.
You don't have a boyfriend, you have a fiancé.
- I said yes. Here's my ring right here.
I said yes.
- Sure.
- I'll leave the wedding the way how it is,
and then I'll just replace the person
who I'm marrying now with Jason.
- Boy, bye.
- Look, we gotta figure out what's going on here.
Let's take a--a break.
- I'm gonna take a break. [laughs] I can't.
- Let Jason think about this, and see what we want to do.
Tayy, we--we'll be in touch with you shortly.
- Okay. - Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- What is with that guy?
I mean, I don't believe anything he says.
- He's full of [bleep]. Bull[bleep], bull[bleep].
- Full of [bleep].
- We need to figure out if this guy has anything real
to tell us, 'cause if not, we're done.
- Who the [bleep] was I in a relationship with?
'Cause you're just a bamboozling, lying bastard.
- Let's just sort of figure out what just happened.
Obviously, Tayy has now left the conversation
for--for the moment.
Uh, and what a conversation it was.
- Nev and I think both think he's full of [bleep].
I wanna know if you actually think
that you have met him in real life.
- No. We've never had a dialogue,
you never called me, I never called you.
You didn't text me, I didn't text you.
I'll tell you one thing that I know for sure.
This person is all about my lifestyle.
- Clout. - [bleep] clout chaser.
- This is all just, like, a performance for him.
The hits just keep coming, you know.
"Oh, and by the way, this.
"Oh, and I'm in a relationship, and actually, he's my fiancé."
- He's an actor. He is an actor.
- Yeah, but guess what, honey.
There's no mother[bleep] tickets to your show,
and nobody is sitting in your front row.
- Ooh.
[laughter] Facts.
- I'm going to assume that you're not interested in Tayy.
- No, I am not. [scoffs]
- I would be concerned if you were.
- So I think you need to make that very clear to him.
It's over, never gonna happen.
- Right. - I'm gonna text him now.
And tell him to come back in the Zoom, all right?
And then we'll be done with him.
[device chimes]
Oh. - Oh.
- Oh, costume change.
- I see it's y'all again. [laughs]
- Welcome back.
We were just talking about the situation.
I just wanted to encourage you to seriously think
about the way that you've approached this relationship,
because I think a lot of people are going to think
you come across as a bit of a [bleep] head.
It would appear as though you don't really give a crap
about Jason or anything, or certainly not your fiancé.
And I don't believe that-- that deep down,
you're that person.
I think you're kinda putting on an act.
- Tayy, you are so delusional.
I don't know where... [laughs]
- I want to be crystal clear.
I want zip, zilch, and zero.
I don't want you to contact me.
I don't want you to inbox me.
I don't want you to text me. I want you to block my page.
I-I don't want--I don't want any contact whatsoever.
No more.
- I have a whole wedding
that is possible it's not even gonna happen,
because I'm sure whenever this get out,
it's not gonna be good.
Then on top of that, Jason, he pretty much is over me.
So y'all have ruined everything for me.
Thanks a lot.
- Nobody ruined anything for you, but yourself.
Two years of me talking to you
has been bull[bleep], lies, and foolery.
And that's on you.
- Y'all are so messy. All y'all are messy.
- We might be messy, that's fine.
I'll take the blame, Kamie will take the blame, whatever.
The point is-- - I'm not taking [bleep].
- At this point, I shouldn't even answer the call
for none of y'all.
- You're not gonna hear from us.
Go back to your boyfriend.
You know, I hope it works out for you guys.
My advice to you is to be honest with him.
You don't have to--you don't have to agree with me,
I just wanted to say my piece. Take it or leave it.
- I'm gonna leave it, Nev.
- This is the end of the whole Keith-Jason saga.
- Oh, it is so far the end.
I couldn't even tell you the beginning.
- Is it possible to kick him out of the meeting?
I'm gonna lose my mind. - Bye.
[tense music]
[sighs deeply]
- Listen, that kid has a lot of issues.
- Wow.
I don't know how you got mixed up with that guy,
but I'm sorry you wasted all that time.
- Good riddance! - Yeah, good riddance is right.
- There's genuine people out there that you will meet
that aren't trying to talk to you
for whatever they can get out of you.
He's obviously not that person,
but you're gonna find that person.
- Yeah, I'll just be patient.
I mean, I moved here to L.A.
You know, I mean, so possibilities are endless.
- Mm-hmm.
- After this whole quarantine thing, we can go out.
I'll be your wingman. - [laughs]
All right, man. Well, good luck.
I'm glad we could help.
I'm sorry it didn't work out the way you'd hoped,
but I think you're better off single than dating Keith.
- Block his ass. - Yeah.
- Oh, no, quicker than you could even imagine.
- All right, buddy. - Delete.
- Jason, great to meet you.
Best of luck, stay safe, stay healthy, all right, man?
- I appreciate you guys, I do. I appreciate you guys.
- Bye. - See you later.
- ♪ One more breath to hold you ♪
♪ To hold you ♪
♪ To hold you ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
- We got Kristen talking to Sarah
now for almost four months.
She agreed to meet up, said she was there,
and then wasn't there.
- I texted here, let her know, "I'm here."
Nothing. - She catfished me
as 15 different people!
- Everything she said has been bull[bleep].
I just got a message. "I love my wife.
Please don't make her do this."
- [gasps]
[upbeat electronic music]
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
[laptop boot up tone]
- Okay, let's see if this works.
Record screen.
Five, four, three, two, one.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
Hey, hey!
You ready to do this?
♪ ♪
All right, rolling here.
Rolling here.
All right, things are crazy in the world right now
with the COVID pandemic.
And we wanted to keep helping people,
but obviously we couldn't do it the way we've been doing it.
We're gonna try and do something
we've never done before,
which is make an entire episode of "Catfish" totally remotely.
So let's do this.
[dramatic musical sting]
[lively music]
♪ ♪
Kamie says, "dying to do anything at this point.
#bored." All right.
I sent her the invite. Let's see if this works.
[device chimes]
Oh!
- Oh, hello! - Look who it is!
- I'm so bored.
All I can come up with is playing video games
and drinking wine. That's it.
- How have you been getting your wine?
- I have enough wine to last me through an apocalyptic attack.
- [laughs] - Yeah.
- So, okay, so I think we've got this whole thing set up.
So I wanted to grab a snack.
If you want to get everything ready,
and then meet back here in a few minutes,
and we'll like just dive in?
- Yeah. - All right.
See you in a second.
All right, well, this is exciting.
Hi, baby. - Hi, Nev.
- So we're doing it, we're doing it.
- I can't believe it's happening.
- I know, we're making the show.
- I can't believe it's happening.
- I think it's gonna work.
♪ ♪
- Hey, boo, is this thing on? Hey.
I should get some caffeine,
because I feel like this is gonna be a while.
"If my mouth doesn't say it, my face absolutely will."
This is the one we're using today,
because I don't know what we're gonna be dealing with.
[laughter]
[upbeat music]
- This is where Daddy now does his work.
- The Schulmans! - Hey!
- Hey. Oh, hey, guys.
- She's on the TT show! - Oh!
- She's on the TT show. - That's me!
- Let's take a picture with Kamie.
- Are we gonna do silly face or cute face?
- Silly face. - Okay.
- Wait, should I get in? - Yeah.
all: Dah!
- Okay. - Cute.
- [laughs] - Love you!
- Bye!
- Okay, so I am going to go to our email here.
[upbeat music]
Here's the email from Tamirra and the subject is:
"Blinded by love."
♪ ♪
"Hey, Nev and Kamie!
My name is Tamirra, and I really need your help!"
- ♪ We like it when it lasts ♪
- "My best friend Jason has been talking to a guy
"named Keith for the past two years.
- ♪ It's been a long time ♪
- "Jason tells me he loves him
and even wants to marry him."
- Mm.
- "Keith is sweet, sexy, and attentive.
"And Jason won't stop talking about this guy.
- ♪ But we just seek a thrill ♪
- "But Jason lives in L.A.
"and this Keith guy lives in Detroit.
"And they've never met or even FaceTimed.
"He has stood Jason up multiple times.
Recently, Jason went to Detroit--"
- And let me guess, nothing happened.
- "He went all the way there and Keith stood him up again.
- ♪ Don't throw it away ♪
- "This has all gone on too long.
"He needs help seeing the signs.
- ♪ Don't throw it away, don't throw it away ♪
- "You guys are my last hope. Tamirra."
- Well, I fully get why people, you know,
meet on the internet and they feel like they wanna be
in a relationship with this person.
But to take it to marriage?
You've never met this person. You wanna marry them?
You don't even know if you like the way that they eat!
- Yeah, it's pretty wild, but it happens.
And I think, actually, we're now,
through the crazy shared experience
of all being isolated at home, starting to understand
even more the power of digital communication.
- Yeah, I mean, we're all on lockdown.
There's literally no better time
to meet somebody on the internet.
- Yeah. - It's crazy out there.
- All right, so we--we got the email.
Tamirra gave us her number. Start a new message.
"Hey, Tamirra! It's Nev from 'Catfish.'
"We just read your email and wanted to see
if you could join our Zoom."
All right, so I guess we'll just see if she joins now.
[device chimes]
Oh! - Hey, guys.
- Hey! - Hey!
- You look so beautiful! - Oh, thank you.
- So where are you right now, Tamirra?
- [clears throat] I'm in St. Louis right now.
- What do you do in St. Louis?
- I work for a chemical company.
We actually make hand sanitizer,
so I'm still currently working, gratefully.
- Can I send you my address? 'Cause I'm running low.
- [laughs]
- So your friend Jason is into this guy Keith,
but I can tell from the wording of your email, though,
that you are not here for it at all.
- Mm. - [laughs]
The pictures are nice, like he's a hot guy.
Like, so it's, like, why not show yourself?
Check the pictures. He's, like, he's hot.
Like, okay, if you're a model,
why don't you have more modeling?
- He's a model?
- Yeah, that's what he says on his, like--
he's, like, a model.
- Oh, boy.
Nev, can you pull up his Instagram?
- Yeah. Okay, let me share Chrome.
All right, so wait, what's this guy's, uh, name?
- It's KeithModelBoy. - Red flag.
- There he is, there he is. Okay.
Oh, my goodness!
- It says adult model. Okay, he fine, fine.
- Wait, that's not the same guy.
That body doesn't look like the same--
like, look at the tattoo and the nipples, right?
- Right. - In some pictures,
there's no tattoos or nipple piercings.
- Right.
- These are all pictures of different men.
- This--this is like
a completely different guy, for sure.
- Has Jason picked up on this?
- I haven't mentioned those to him.
I don't want to, like, hurt his feelings,
and like seeing him in love,
and he's in that zone right now.
- It concerns me that Jason doesn't see
the clear inconsistencies.
- Two years at this point.
Like, let's really figure this out.
- Yeah. - All right.
So I'm gonna stop the screen share.
You think he would be down to join our, uh, Zoom call?
- Yeah. Everybody's home. - Everybody's home.
So why don't you text him the link?
- Okay, let me text him. - Kamie, what are you eating?
- Can't stop, won't stop. - He says he's doing it now.
- Oh! - Hello, Jason!
- Hey, surprise!
- Oh, you-- [laughter]
What the [bleep]? - Hey, um...
- OMG, I can't even believe this right now!
- Did you think this whole quarantine was gonna stop us?
- Well, I mean-- [laughs]
- Nothing can stop "Catfish."
- Yeah, I guess not. [laughs]
- We heard a little bit about your relationship with Keith,
and we're very curious to learn a little bit more.
- So I've been single for, like, four--four years.
I was in a relationship for quite some time.
And I was doing hair
with a lot of different celebrity stylists and stuff.
And I was getting a lot of Instagram followers.
So I was scrolling through it
and then I came across his introduction.
He was, like, "I think you're attractive."
I was like,
"Okay, I think you're attractive too."
- What is it about him that you're so in love with?
- I like how-- how I am treated.
I like how I'm spoken to.
I like the way that he pays attention to me.
He just fills that little void that's--that's there.
- Tamirra mentioned that, like, you guys have talked about
being together and maybe even getting married.
- Just so it doesn't seem so crazy.
- It already seems pretty crazy.
- And I brought up marriage because I was engaged before.
- Oh.
- And I would like to create my own family.
So, you know, it's something that's on the table.
- And he wants to start a family?
- Yeah, yeah, he was cool with that.
We're in a place where we want to be together,
and now, unfortunately, we can't even make that happen
because of this and-- God knows who--
how long this could even take, you know?
- You did try to see him? In Detroit or something?
- I was in--I was in Detroit.
I got stuck there for, like, 11-hour layover and hit him up.
He was on his way over with his friend--
and he said his friend's car broke down.
I was annoyed. 'Cause I told him--
I said, "You keep making [bleep] excuses all the time.
So I said to him, "You know,
"I'm not gonna keep doing a long-distance relationship.
I think that you should move to L.A."
He's--He comes to L.A. for work sometimes.
- Oh, like since you've been talking to him?
- He actually texted me the other night
and said that he's surprised and came here.
- Wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
This week?
- There's no way. - I don't know.
- It's COVID-19, and you fly to L.A.?
- Listen, if he's here, he's stupid.
Because one, I will not see you.
You need to go sit down somewhere for two weeks.
- You have not ever FaceTimed with this person,
but they can fly to L.A.
because they wanna see you so badly
during the middle of a pandemic?
- Right? Why not FaceTime me?
Why not Zoom me, why not Skype?
I mean, you sent him money.
- Oh? - What?
- [laughs] - What happened?
- [bleep] you up so bad.
- You sent him money? - I did send him money once.
It was to get another phone...
- How much money was it? - Well, it was like 800 bucks.
- He still hasn't FaceTimed you?
On the phone you bought?
- Ooh. - Yeah, all right.
Speaking of red flags here, we looked at his Instagram.
What the hell's going on?
There's pictures of different guys on there.
- No, the--some of those pictures are him
when he was younger.
- So, like, before he had the tattoos and stuff?
- Yeah, I mean, you know how often people get tattoos.
They can have one today and not yesterday.
- I think, clearly, there are a couple images
on his Instagram that are questionable.
- The faces are different people!
- These are two different people, like, skin tones.
- Does that just not bother you?
- What will it mean for you
if this guy isn't who he says he is?
- I mean, it'll mean that, you know,
just another deceitful... bastard.
You know what I mean?
I'm not convinced that he's not him.
Everybody wants the truth,
and, uh, this is the perfect time to get it.
[laughs] - Yeah.
- So we're--we're gonna do some research,
see what we can find out about this guy,
and, at the very least,
try and get you guys to finally video chat.
- Yeah.
- Hopefully, you can definitely get him
to take off those rose-colored glasses.
- [laughs]
Thank God for having good friends like that,
'cause they always got your back.
- Exactly.
- We'll speak to you guys soon, all right?
- See you guys later. Have a good day.
- Okay. - Bye.
- Oh, man.
- Where are my flags when I need them?
- Most of this guy's story--
- Is bull[bleep]! - Yeah, right.
- There's something about this Keith guy
that is keeping him around.
- Keith is an absurdly bold liar who will say anything.
I definitely think this guy
is getting messed with to a very large degree.
- I'm gonna head back to my life.
Take my lunch, alfresco.
[upbeat music]
- Mmm. both: Mmm!
[both laugh]
- Mmm! - Mmm!
- [laughs]
- Mmm! - Mm--
[laughter]
- This is what we're having for lunch.
- Dun-dun-dun! - This is my boyfriend, Gordon.
- What's up, what's up?
- We've been together for almost four years.
- Well, I'm a fan of the show, so--
and it's the first time I get to see it in action.
So it's cool. - All right, I am ready.
All right.
[device chimes]
Hey, there she is! All right.
I took your--a note from the Kamie playbook,
can of sparkling white.
- [gasps] Are we drinking right now?
- I--you know what? I--To me--
I say all the rules are suspended.
We can do whatever we want. There it is!
Cheers!
- [laughs] - All right.
- We should do this all the time!
- All right, we got Jason talking to Keith
for around two years now.
At the time, Jason was still living in Miami,
but his hairstyling career was taking off.
So he moved to L.A. Keith lives in Detroit.
As time goes on,
he starts to notice there are some red flags.
Can't video chat. They try to video chat.
His phone falls and apparently breaks.
- How convenient.
- So he sends him 800 bucks to buy a new phone,
but still hasn't been able to video chat since then.
Now, this guy Keith says he's been in L.A. for jobs,
but he's had other excuses that he can't meet up.
It's almost nauseating how cockamamie this story is.
- Mm-hmm.
- All right, so here's the email
and here's the Instagram account.
Do you want to run the phone number?
- Might as well. - Let's run this number.
Let's see what we get.
- Landline?
- Landline, so it's probably a VoIP,
which is like a text app.
- Ah.
- We should check another site 'cause sometimes different
sites give you different things.
- Romeo, Michigan.
- Michigan, which makes sense, but Romeo I've never heard of.
But how appropriate, that he--
his phone's registered to Romeo.
All right, so the phone number doesn't have any information.
So let's just go back to his Instagram,
and let's run some images.
I'm gonna screenshot. Save this.
[shutter clicking]
[low dramatic music]
All right, I've got a bunch now of this guy,
but what about this other person that we think
is someone different?
This is the one that we should be--
- Completely different guy.
- Right.
♪ ♪
I-I'm not getting any hits. Let's just try a few others.
- Wait.
- Ray Edwards. What is this?
Is this the guy?
It just says Ray Edwards. - #NFL.
Football player or something?
- Boom!
Ray Edwards, defensive end.
He's a former American football defensive end.
He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 2006.
Let's just find Ray Edwards' Instagram.
Why doesn't Ray Edwards come up?
I mean, it does, but it's not him.
Ugh. All right, let's see.
Oh, here, he has a Twitter.
Oh, yeah.
- @R.J--it's in his bio.
- Oh, God. All right, there he is.
All right. - Wow.
- Let's just go back to Keith's Instagram.
So these are all Ray, right?
- Yeah.
- But this guy is someone else.
- It's a different person!
- Let me just search these guys.
Let me just see what happens when we search these pictures.
Oh, Donnell Blaylock.
- Is he a football player, too?
Fashion influencer.
- Wow, he's got almost a half a million followers.
- Oh, my God! - Come on!
Let's just see,
were--were there any other pictures that seemed fishy?
I guess there's this one.
- Yeah, that one. Yeah, that one.
- Kamie's, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Enhance, enhance."
- [laughs]
- I've never seen Kamie so interested in an image search.
Hey, there he is!
- Who is that? - It's, uh, this guy.
I think this is his-- I think this is his account.
There he is. 113,000 followers.
He's a fitness guy. So, okay.
now there's three guys whose pictures he's been using.
- Clearly! And we can see it
without even seeing their faces, but Jason is, like,
"No, it's-- that's him when he was 15."
What?
- It's one thing for us to tell Jason,
it's a whole nother thing for him to hear it
from the guys in the picture.
Especially because there's multiple guys, at least three.
If we can get all of these guys to, like, video chat with us,
it would, I think, really solidify
in a--in a very real way that, like, Keith,
not only has he been lying about who he is,
he's using different pictures.
He so boldly lying, to me-- that it's, I think, insulting.
He can't deny it.
[low tense music]
- Okay, so now we know Keith has been using
three different guys' pictures to catfish Jason.
- That's insane.
- All right, so I'm gonna switch now to phone share,
'cause I got to DM these guys.
- Yes.
- Let's start with Donnell Blaylock.
"Hey, Donnell, it's Nev from "Catfish.
"We're making a totally digital episode right now,
"and your pictures are being used.
We would love to Zoom."
Done. So let me copy this.
- Mm-hmm. - I'm gonna send it out.
All right, there's Ray Edwards.
So I think this is our first professional football player
whose pictures have been used.
- Yeah, true. - All right, I'm sending that.
And then there's the last guy, Moses,
the fitness guy in London.
- Mm-hmm. There he is.
- Oh, yeah.
All right, let's send him a message.
All right, great. Let's take a break.
We've been sitting at our computers now for a few hours.
- I need to stretch. - Yeah, you got your yoga mat.
I need to do some-- a little physical activity.
And I've got a perfect song we can rock out to.
I'll meet you back here in a few minutes, okay?
- Boom.
- All right, let me put this song on.
- Spin that [bleep].
- All right!
- Break time.
We'll schedule a little stretchy stretch,
because why not?
Should we bring the wine?
Yes, we should.
- ♪ Onset, make you work off the sweat ♪
♪ With a brand new threat, got them all in check ♪
♪ Push the meter in the red when I wrap my set ♪
[calm music]
- Om. [gurgles]
- ♪ Gonna wing that set to fly ♪
♪ No one ever thought I'd get so high ♪
- Stretch.
Sip.
I'm sweating.
That's enough. Back to the drinks.
- We gonna get you, Keith. We gonna get you!
You can run, but you can't hide.
"Catfish" is on your ass!
- ♪ We came to kill this track ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh! ♪
- All right, we're back. So let's check.
- Anybody sliding in the DMs?
- Oh, my God, look at this! - Yeah!
- Three messages, three replies.
All right, so Donny, he's down.
He's ready to Zoom. - Okay.
- This guy, Moses in London, says...
Wow, all these guys are so-- they--they're with it.
Look, let's start with Moses.
He's in London, so it's pretty late for him.
- Do you think he has a really strong accent?
Is he gonna be like, [English accent] "Hey, bruv."
'Catfish.'"
[device chimes]
- Oh. - Moses!
- Hey, what's up, man? - I'm good. How are you?
- So good! Your accent is awesome.
I'm so excited for this call!
[laughter]
- How are things in London these days?
Are you--you live in London?
- Yeah, I live in London, and the streets are empty.
- Yeah, it's tough. - Yeah.
- Well, so we're making an episode of the show now,
and so you're actually one of three different, very fit,
good-looking guys that this guy has used pictures of--
[device chimes]
Oh! - Hey!
- What's up? - What up, what up?
How are you?
- Donnell? - Yes.
- Welcome. [device chimes]
- Oh, hey! - Hey!
- Raymond! - Hi, how you doing?
- Oh, wow, we got them all. We got them all.
- Welcome to the yummy black man chat.
[laughter]
- Guys, thank you so much for responding.
Kamie and I are making an episode of "Catfish."
And we're talking to this guy, Jason, who, for two years now,
has been communicating with a guy named Keith.
And on his Instagram page, he presents himself as a model.
So Jason convinced himself
that this is the perfect guy for him,
despite the fact that even the pictures on the Instagram
aren't all the same guy.
- Yeah.
- So we figured the best way to make it very,
undeniably clear to Jason that Keith is lying
so--so egregiously, would be to have you guys
all on one call with him.
- "Hey, Jason, can you join our Zoom again?
"We have some people on here
I think you will be surprised to see."
Um, obviously, you know, be understanding
that this is gonna be a--a disappointment for him,
uh, to find out that he's been lied to
by this guy who he-- he really cares about.
- I've seen quite a few episodes of "Catfish"
and I have never seen this situation at all.
- He's gonna be heartbroke. - Yeah.
- I mean--
[device chimes]
- Oh, Jason! Hey, buddy.
- Hey, Jason. - Hey, y'all.
- We want you to meet some of our new friends here.
This is Keith, Keith, and Keith.
- Oh, wait, what? - What's going on, Jay?
- Take a close look.
[dramatic music]
- Wait a minute.
- Raymond, why don't you start, because I think
you're mostly the face that we've been looking at.
- Oh, yeah. Uh, yeah, Raymond.
Uh, haven't-- You haven't been talking to me,
somebody else been using my pictures to talk to you.
And, man, I'm--I'm sorry--
- Oh, hell [bleep] no!
Are you [bleep] serious right now?
- Um, I am. Dead--Dead serious, man.
Dead serious.
- So Raymond is a former NFL football player.
And then, Donnell,
if you want to wave for a second.
Uh... - Hey, how you doing, Jason?
- Donnell, you might recognize as some of--
He's the-- He's the most recent pictures,
the most recent two pictures.
- What the [bleep] is going on here?
- And then you won't recognize Moses,
because the face is cropped out in the pictures,
but Moses is a fitness model and personal trainer.
He lives in London.
Um, and-- and one of the pictures on
Keith's page is actually a picture of Moses.
♪ ♪
You okay?
- Okay, so this changes everything.
- Yeah.
- This is just really kind of like, um...
it's disturbing.
- Yeah, but don't--don't let that get you down, man.
At the end of the day-- - Yeah.
- There's a lot of people out here
doing the devil's work, man.
You got to keep your head up, man.
- Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
- Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
- Gentlemen, thank you so much.
I really, really appreciate it.
- Bye. Stay safe.
- Take care, appreciate it. - Bye.
- Oh, Jason, I'm sorry.
- It's all right, man. - Yeah.
I don't really give my feelings up
very freely to people like that.
- ♪ And you hide it well ♪
- I feel like a fool almost, because I should have
picked up on this, this, and this.
But it's, like, I don't know what to think.
I mean, I'm angry, I'm upset, and it's--it's embarrassing.
And it's kinda, like, you know, you feel stupid.
- Obviously, he's not the guy in the photos.
Are you still open to getting to know him?
- ♪ It's not the same ♪
- I mean, I don't even know how to feel about Keith,
'cause I don't even know what a Keith is at this point.
- Yeah.
- ♪ You got this whole thing turned around ♪
- I mean, we have an emotional connection,
but it's like, what the [bleep], like--
- ♪ And I wanna throw us against a wall ♪
♪ I won't take a fall if I act like ♪
♪ It don't bother me at all ♪
- You toyed with my emotions. And, you know,
I let you into a place that you--you don't belong,
because you're not an honest person.
And I wanna know why.
Like, who the hell are you? Why would you do that?
[dramatic music]
- What's frustrating now is that since you know
he's lied about the photos, that then, to me,
brings up a ton of other questions.
Well, okay--
- Like, what the [bleep] is the deal?
It's like, "Are you even a model?"
- It's not looking good.
- So look, we wanna find out who they are,
but in this case, obviously, we can't do that.
So we're gonna have to hope that
if we approach Keith via some sort of message,
he'll agree to do what you've wanted him to do for years,
which is to video call. - Right.
- All right, well, let's try calling him.
Maybe he'll answer.
♪ ♪
- Please leave a message after the tone.
[message tone beeps]
- Hey, Keith. It's Nev.
We're filming an episode of "Catfish" now.
Obviously, remotely with video chat.
We know you and Jason have been talking now for a while,
and I'm sure it would mean a lot to both of you
to finally see each other.
If you can get back to me, that would be great.
Thanks. All right, well, look.
You know, the ball is kind of in his court.
- Yeah. Yeah--mm.
- All right, well, let us know if you hear from him,
and we'll just check back in with you in the morning.
- Sounds good. - All right.
- All right, Jason. - Hang in there.
- Okay. - All right.
- Take care.
A lot of things aren't adding up and making sense.
You know, I really don't know how to feel about this person
that I thought that I knew, but, um, clearly I don't.
This is the place that I'm at right now.
So hopefully I get some answers,
because, uh, this is some mother[bleep] bull[bleep].
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- All right, let's see if we got anything on the old phone.
Whoa, a missed call from a no caller ID.
Hold on.
- What?
That is probably the best voice mail message
we've ever received in eight seasons of making this show.
Interesting, all right. Let's see if Kamie is around.
Get in that Zoom, I've got an update!
[device chimes]
Hey, good morning! - Good morning.
- When I came back in here a few minutes ago,
I saw that I had missed a call, and there's a voice mail.
And it's amazing.
- What? Excuse me, Ms. Ma'am.
- Listen here, honey. - [laughs]
That--that?
She literally patted us on the head.
That's what that was.
- Why does Keith's aunt know about any of this?
- Why is she so hostile? - I--
All right, so let's ch--let me text Jason.
[quiet suspenseful music]
[device chimes]
- Oh! - Hey!
- Hey, handsome. - What's up, y'all?
- You look lovely. - How are you doing?
- Mm, uh, my sleep was a little off,
tossing and turning a little bit.
- Yeah.
- So I didn't hear anything back from Keith.
- Uh-huh.
- But this morning I had a missed call.
They left a voice mail.
- You're not gonna like it.
- What the [bleep]? - Listen here, honey.
- Yeah, let me tell you something, sweetheart.
- Why would he have her call?
Has Keith ever talked about his--his aunt
or living with family? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's, uh, very close with the aunt.
- So do you know her name? - No, I don't remember.
He just always says "my auntie."
- Huh. - It could be the aunt.
- Do you think she could be Keith?
- At this point, who [bleep] knows?
- I mean, we've seen it before.
You'd be surprised how much people can alter their voices.
- I think we just gotta put the pressure on now
and see what Keith says.
- Well, I guess it's worth a shot.
[line trilling]
- So it's ringing. That's something.
- Please leave a message after the tone.
- All right, so, yeah. Why don't--
Why don't you share your phone, Jason,
and we'll--we'll come up with something to send.
All right, so what do we got? All right, so--
"Hey, I really hope that you would call
Nev back so that we can sort things out."
- Okay, sent. - And he's around.
Everyone is around,
unless you have an essential job position.
- Wait. - Oh!
[tense music]
Whoa, but this is good. This is good.
We got a response. So he's engaging,
and it suggests that he's willing to participate.
- "Uh, so listen, I honestly don't know
"how I'm going to feel, but I'm willing to give you
the opportunity to explain what's going on."
- Say we're in the Zoom now. Come on in.
♪ ♪
Let's see if he writes back.
- Oh. - Oh!
- [gasps] - Whoa, whoa!
He says he'll join.
- Ooh. - Oh, my God.
So wait, so if he pops in right now, what--
do you know what you're going to say--
I mean, are you ready for that?
- Uh, I'm not really sure exactly what I'm going to say,
um, 'cause I don't know
who I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say to.
I don't know if it's gonna be a guy,
I don't know if it's gonna be a girl.
- Right.
- I don't know what the [bleep] it's going to be.
- This is more nerve-racking.
Normally, we have like a little bit of an inkling.
Like the door will open, or somebody will walk up.
This-- we don't have anything.
There is nothing that is, like, preparing this moment.
- Yeah, I guess unless we made the Zoom call--
maybe there's a way you can do, like,
some people have to request--oh!
[device chimes] Is that Keith there?
- First of all, y'all can't just come barge into my life.
Like, what is it y'all are trying to do?
[suspenseful music]
- Normally, we have like a little bit of an inkling.
Like, the door will open.
There's nothing that is, like, preparing this moment.
- Unless we made the Zoom call--
maybe there's a way you can do, like, something
something where some people have to request--oh!
[device chimes]
[suspenseful music]
Is that Keith there?
- First of all, y'all can't just come barge into my life.
Like, what is it y'all are trying to do?
Why do I have to reveal myself now?
That's what I wanna know.
- Why wouldn't you ever reveal yourself before?
You have been scamming me for two years.
- I did not want to hurt you.
- What--What would hurt me?
The vision of you, the sight of your face?
Like, what the [bleep] is supposed to hurt me?
- I mean, obviously, the guy in the picture,
you feel like the guy is fake.
But you still have been in love with me
and my personality.
- But who are you?
When do I get to see who you are?
Like, you see me right now.
This is exactly what you see all day,
every day, Instagram, whatever--
- Okay, fine.
All y'all coming at me sideways.
Like, y'all making me nervous.
♪ ♪
- All right, hey.
- Hi. - Hi.
What's the problem, Keith?
- Because I don't want to deal.
Like, I'm already hurt, I'm embarrassed.
Y'all got me on this camera, now what?
Like, what's up?
- You're an attractive guy. What is the tea?
- It's no tea.
- Let's just clear-- let's just clear something up.
So wait, Ke--Keith, that's your name, right?
Keith?
- My name is Tayy. - Tayy.
- Tayy.
- All right, well, nice to meet you.
And you live in Detroit?
- Correct. - What you do for work?
- I am, like, a model. A fashion model.
Stuff like that.
- Is there a reason why you haven't,
in the last two years, told him the truth
about who you are?
- I really--I didn't mean-- I didn't mean to catfish you.
Like, this is-- this is not a fish fry.
But that's the only way that I could get with you.
- You didn't even try to hit me up this way first.
So you never gave me the opportunity to get to know you.
- We actually met a couple times.
And I didn't know how he was...
- Where? - At, because--
- Where? - I met you in L.A.
out, before like-- a couple of clubs out there.
We actually had conversations and--and exchanged numbers,
but you never called the numbers.
So I assumed at that point, like, I wasn't your type,
and, you know, you weren't feeling me.
- I meet a lot of people when I go out,
but I don't know.
- I-I revealed myself, so now, like,
y'all want to see the ho.
So basically, what you's telling me
is that you don't even recognize me at all.
- No, I don't remember you.
I don't have a Tayy in my phone, period.
- Why Jason? Jason's great,
but, like, why do all of this and go to such great lengths?
Did you create this page and, like,
customize it just for Jason?
- Yeah. Jason, he got--
I don't know how--I'm attracted to his lifestyle, what he do,
and what he can bring to the table.
So that's what I like.
- Do you really like Jason for him?
Or is it just what you see on Instagram,
'cause you-- you know he's popping?
- I mean, at first, when it all started off,
like--it was like that.
It was just, like, for him, it was for the lifestyle.
But then, once I actually got to know him over the time,
things did grow, and now I do have feelings for him.
But I'ma just be honest.
I do have a boyfriend in real life.
- You gotta go. You're [bleep] whack.
- No, listen--
- No, [bleep] you, I don't wanna to listen to you.
Liar. Lying ass.
- Pause, pause, hold on.
Jason, he has been there more for me over the two years
than my actual, you know, the person who I'm dating.
- So Tayy--
- Bitch, don't lie.
- So that's what the money was for?
That Jason was sending you? For red bottoms?
- Supposedly, it was for a phone.
- [scoffs]
- So you want to have your cake and eat it, too?
You wanna have a boyfriend in real life in Detroit,
you wanna have a sugar daddy that lives in L.A.
What do you think that this is?
- Tell your little boo to get him a [bleep] job where he can
afford your lifestyle that you want to have,
which is one that I currently live.
Which neither of one of you bitches is gonna get.
- I gotta say, I'm not really buying it.
You seem like you made a profile
to talk to successful guys who have followings,
to see who will fall for it and send you money.
You're like a con artist. That's the vibe I'm getting.
- [laughs] That's crazy.
See, it's like-- and it's not even like that.
My loyalty lies to Jason more than anybody,
because I've been with him for two years.
- Yeah, but I don't buy that,
because your aunt called and said for me
to stop ruining the [bleep] perfect relationship.
- Yeah, because strange people keep calling her phone!
- We didn't call her, she called us!
- Your aunt contacted us
and left us a very sassy voice mail.
- She just don't want y'all just all up in my space,
because my boyfriend actually just, like,
proposed to me two weeks ago.
- So you're engaged.
You don't have a boyfriend, you have a fiancé.
- I said yes. Here's my ring right here.
I said yes.
- Sure.
- I'll leave the wedding the way how it is,
and then I'll just replace the person
who I'm marrying now with Jason.
- Boy, bye.
- Look, we gotta figure out what's going on here.
Let's take a--a break.
- I'm gonna take a break. [laughs] I can't.
- Let Jason think about this, and see what we want to do.
Tayy, we--we'll be in touch with you shortly.
- Okay. - Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- What is with that guy?
I mean, I don't believe anything he says.
- He's full of [bleep]. Bull[bleep], bull[bleep].
- Full of [bleep].
- We need to figure out if this guy has anything real
to tell us, 'cause if not, we're done.
- Who the [bleep] was I in a relationship with?
'Cause you're just a bamboozling, lying bastard.
- Let's just sort of figure out what just happened.
Obviously, Tayy has now left the conversation
for--for the moment.
Uh, and what a conversation it was.
- Nev and I think both think he's full of [bleep].
I wanna know if you actually think
that you have met him in real life.
- No. We've never had a dialogue,
you never called me, I never called you.
You didn't text me, I didn't text you.
I'll tell you one thing that I know for sure.
This person is all about my lifestyle.
- Clout. - [bleep] clout chaser.
- This is all just, like, a performance for him.
The hits just keep coming, you know.
"Oh, and by the way, this.
"Oh, and I'm in a relationship, and actually, he's my fiancé."
- He's an actor. He is an actor.
- Yeah, but guess what, honey.
There's no mother[bleep] tickets to your show,
and nobody is sitting in your front row.
- Ooh.
[laughter] Facts.
- I'm going to assume that you're not interested in Tayy.
- No, I am not. [scoffs]
- I would be concerned if you were.
- So I think you need to make that very clear to him.
It's over, never gonna happen.
- Right. - I'm gonna text him now.
And tell him to come back in the Zoom, all right?
And then we'll be done with him.
[device chimes]
Oh. - Oh.
- Oh, costume change.
- I see it's y'all again. [laughs]
- Welcome back.
We were just talking about the situation.
I just wanted to encourage you to seriously think
about the way that you've approached this relationship,
because I think a lot of people are going to think
you come across as a bit of a [bleep] head.
It would appear as though you don't really give a crap
about Jason or anything, or certainly not your fiancé.
And I don't believe that-- that deep down,
you're that person.
I think you're kinda putting on an act.
- Tayy, you are so delusional.
I don't know where... [laughs]
- I want to be crystal clear.
I want zip, zilch, and zero.
I don't want you to contact me.
I don't want you to inbox me.
I don't want you to text me. I want you to block my page.
I-I don't want--I don't want any contact whatsoever.
No more.
- I have a whole wedding
that is possible it's not even gonna happen,
because I'm sure whenever this get out,
it's not gonna be good.
Then on top of that, Jason, he pretty much is over me.
So y'all have ruined everything for me.
Thanks a lot.
- Nobody ruined anything for you, but yourself.
Two years of me talking to you
has been bull[bleep], lies, and foolery.
And that's on you.
- Y'all are so messy. All y'all are messy.
- We might be messy, that's fine.
I'll take the blame, Kamie will take the blame, whatever.
The point is-- - I'm not taking [bleep].
- At this point, I shouldn't even answer the call
for none of y'all.
- You're not gonna hear from us.
Go back to your boyfriend.
You know, I hope it works out for you guys.
My advice to you is to be honest with him.
You don't have to--you don't have to agree with me,
I just wanted to say my piece. Take it or leave it.
- I'm gonna leave it, Nev.
- This is the end of the whole Keith-Jason saga.
- Oh, it is so far the end.
I couldn't even tell you the beginning.
- Is it possible to kick him out of the meeting?
I'm gonna lose my mind. - Bye.
[tense music]
[sighs deeply]
- Listen, that kid has a lot of issues.
- Wow.
I don't know how you got mixed up with that guy,
but I'm sorry you wasted all that time.
- Good riddance! - Yeah, good riddance is right.
- There's genuine people out there that you will meet
that aren't trying to talk to you
for whatever they can get out of you.
He's obviously not that person,
but you're gonna find that person.
- Yeah, I'll just be patient.
I mean, I moved here to L.A.
You know, I mean, so possibilities are endless.
- Mm-hmm.
- After this whole quarantine thing, we can go out.
I'll be your wingman. - [laughs]
All right, man. Well, good luck.
I'm glad we could help.
I'm sorry it didn't work out the way you'd hoped,
but I think you're better off single than dating Keith.
- Block his ass. - Yeah.
- Oh, no, quicker than you could even imagine.
- All right, buddy. - Delete.
- Jason, great to meet you.
Best of luck, stay safe, stay healthy, all right, man?
- I appreciate you guys, I do. I appreciate you guys.
- Bye. - See you later.
- ♪ One more breath to hold you ♪
♪ To hold you ♪
♪ To hold you ♪
♪ Ooh ♪
- We got Kristen talking to Sarah
now for almost four months.
She agreed to meet up, said she was there,
and then wasn't there.
- I texted here, let her know, "I'm here."
Nothing. - She catfished me
as 15 different people!
- Everything she said has been bull[bleep].
I just got a message. "I love my wife.
Please don't make her do this."
- [gasps]
[upbeat electronic music]
♪ ♪