01x04 - Emma & Barry

[bunniefuu]

- MAN: ♪ MTV

- FEMALE SINGER: ♪ Yeah, I
been hiding in plain sight ♪

♪ This whole time

- TRAVIS: You've met the
love of your life...

- I love him.
Like, I wanna marry him.

- I think Barry is the one.

- RAHNE:...but they're
hiding a massive secret.

- I have not met anybody
in his family.

- RAHNE: You.

- I don't wanna keep
thinking it's me.

- I'm proud of our relationship.
I want her to be proud, too.

That's all.

- TRAVIS: We're on a mission
to find out why.

- He's maybe doing some type
of steroids.

- We got missing jewelry,
a house that no one can go to.

Welcome to Vegas.

- I mean, he may be in
another relationship

- Oh!
- I'm Rahne Jones.

Let her go, let her go.
I've been hidden.

I can't tell you
how hurtful it is.

It does make you
severely insecure.

- I'm Travis Mills.
I've definitely done it.

I've been in relationships
that I haven't posted at all.

- RAHNE: We're joining
forces to help

desperate partners
uncover the truth

about their secret
relationships.

I used to work for the
Department of Homeland Security.

- This could very well be a
guy that's living a double life.

- There's a difference
between being in love

and being a sucker for love.

- If we do not do this,
there will be no wedding.

- TRAVIS: We'll bring these
couples face-to-face.

- The reason why I'm
hiding you...

- The reason I'm hiding
you is...

- I really don't know
what to do.

- RAHNE: To reveal their
shocking secrets.

- That's enough.
- Can I get a second?

- You should have
told me something like that!

- You living with your ex?
- TRAVIS: Donald!

- RAHNE: Donald!
- Yo, what the [bleep]?

- All right, Donald.
- Stuart, come on, man.

Open the door.
- Come on.

- TRAVIS: This is MTV's

"Help! I'm in a
Secret Relationship!"

- TRAVIS: Tonight, we're in
Los Angeles with Emma and Barry.

- I have hit a wall with
my boyfriend, Barry

- TRAVIS: Barry believes he's
on a dating show,

but Emma wants to know why
she's being hidden.

- I have not met his mom,
I've not been to his house.

- We'll get to work.
I just found the biggest thing.

- What is it?
- Is that your girlfriend

or just a girl friend?
- Oh, boy.

- [knocking]
- Hey, Mama?

Hey, I'm doing that TV show.

- What do you know about
Barry and Emma?

- I'm actually kind of scared to
hear what you guys have to say.

- I didn't expect this
to happen.

- Where did it get [beep]ed up?
- Oh, God.

- ♪

- NYZZY NYCE: ♪ Get 'em up,
get 'em up in them glasses ♪

♪ We gonna fill 'em up,
fill 'em up ♪

- Another day, uh,
we are in the Valley.

- Listen, I love New York,
it will always be home.

But LA, it's cute.

- It's pretty much summer
all year round.

So...
- Jealous.

- ♪

- TRAVIS: So what is going
on today?

- Today we're meeting up
with Emma.

She has been with her
boyfriend, Barry,

for the last six months.

- Pineapples, come on.
- Oh, no, don't.

Do you know what that means?
- No, what does that mean?

- Ooh, it means swingers,
apparently.

- Oh, it does?
- Yes, it does.

- I didn't know that.
- I'm Emma. And Barry and I,

we've been friends for
about four years,

and we've been dating
for about six months.

- [bell rings]
- That's cute.

Barry's very, very different
from all the other guys

I had been dating.
He is warm, genuine, funny.

On a scale of 1 to 10,
how good do I look?

- Always a 10.
How 'bout me?

How do I look?
- You look at an 8.5.

- That's a true statement.
- [laughter]

- I do not wanna date
anyone else.

I wanna just be with Barry.

But he lives with his mom
and his sister,

and he won't allow me
to meet them.

If you could possibly invite
me over so I could

meet your mother.
- It's not that simple.

- When Barry and I were
friends,

I never met his family,

and that did not
bother me at all.

It's a completely different
story now that we are in love.

I wanna marry this man,
but we cannot take a

single step further until I
find out the reason why

he's keeping me from his
house and his family.

- TRAVIS: Four years.
- RAHNE: Four years.

- That's a long time to be
friends with someone

and then to just kind of
pivot to dating them.

- Absolutely.
There's always the risk that

you lose that friendship.

- I wanna know how has that
dynamic in that relationship

kind of shifted.
- Yeah, like,

obviously
there's been a shift, right?

I just hope the two of them
get on the same page,

'cause it's clearly
not happening right now.

You ready?
- I'm ready.

- RAHNE: Cute little spot.

- Emma.
- Hi.

- Hi, I"m Travis
- Emma. Nice to meet you.

- Hi, I'm Rahne.
- Nice to meet you.

I just wanna say thank you
so much for coming

all the way over here to see me.
- You're welcome.

- I have hit a wall.
I need help.

Help me!
- RAHNE: We got you.

- [laughter]
- Do you want us to sit here?

Should we get a table?

- Um, there's a table
out back if you guys

would wanna go there?
- TRAVIS: Yeah, let's do that.

- ♪

- Oh, wow.
- Ooh!

- TRAVIS: Okay.
- I chose the back here

because this is
the first official

place that Barry took me.
- Okay.

- So I decided to bring
you guys here

so you could kind of get
the ambiance of it all.

- So your...your story really
interests me because you

and Barry, it wasn't like you
just met

and you started dating, right?
- Mm-hmm.

- This has been...
kind of give us

the backstory on, you know,
your friendship and how it

evolved into this
relationship,

and what you really need
Rahne and I's help with.

- Um, so Barry and I met at
this really lame party

in Baldwin Hills.

- Barry and I became friends
but it was not romantic.

He's not, like,
really my type.

He's more, like, artistic
and bohemian.

- What was the switch?
What happened where

you were like, this is it,
this is what I wanna do?

- So I've been doing, like,
a lot of online dating,

uh, like most people, but
it's been, like,

one nightmare after the next.
- TRAVIS: Okay

- Mainly, I did run into the
problem with people being,

like, married or living
with someone.

And they're dating online
as if they were single.

I would confide in Barry,
and he was also having

the same situations.
And I just realized Barry has

all these attributes
and qualities

that I'm looking for in a
person that I've not

been able to find elsewhere.
He's kind, he's generous,

he's sweet, he's supportive.
He's very interesting

and interested
in other things

other than himself.
We have so many things

in common, like,
so many things.

Just quirky things that we
like to do.

Like, we like to watch
car chases together.

- Like, in person or on TV?
- On TV.

- Look how many cop cars
are behind him.

This was on the 91 and it
went three hours.

- I'm, like, wondering which
is better, ones that are just

only have a helicopter or one
that have all the police cars?

- I love that you love this.

- Do you guys say "I love you"?
- Yeah.

- TRAVIS: Okay.
- Of course, yeah.

- TRAVIS: Who said it first?
- Um, he did.

He's more
talkative about it.

- So he expresses more of the
romantic side than you do?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

- But you absolutely
do love this man.

- Yeah, I've never met
anyone else like him.

- TOBIAS DRAY: ♪ Oh I,
yeah, I swear to God ♪

♪ You're always on my mind,
hey ya ♪

- So why do you need
our help?

- Okay, so we've been dating
for the six months,

but I have not met his mom,
I've not been to his house.

I don't know why he's not
introducing me,

why he's keeping me away.

- What are some of the
excuses that he's used

when you try to have these
deeper conversations?

- He says, like, weird things
like my sister has people

that come and go.
I'm like, she has people

over, so why don't you?

- Wait, so does he live
with his sister?

- Yes, his sister
and his mother.

- Oh, so he lives with his mom?
- Yeah.

- How old's Barry?
- 39, 39, 40.

- There's a red flag that,
you know,

comes up to, like, a
40-year-old man living

at home with his mom.

I mean, unless, you know,
there's always circumstances

like if his mom's health
isn't doing well

or, you know, she needs
help around the house.

Do you know of anything
like that?

- No, he won't answer
my questions.

He turns it around like
I'm pressuring him.

He is so evasive.

- So why do you think Barry
could be hiding you?

- My first train of thought
is that his car is disgusting.

He literally has garbage
in the back.

I'm thinking, like, that must
be how you live, too.

You're hoarding and
it's horrible.

- Like, he's an actual hoarder?
Is that what you're saying?

- Yes.
And then other things

come to mind, like you
have someone else.

My bad experiences with
online and people, like,

having two Facebooks, like, they
literally have a second life.

I'm beginning to think that
he's one of those people

I just...I can't...I just
don't know what it is.

- I'm assuming, you know,
you wanna get married,

you wanna have kids.

- I think Barry is the one.
I think he is it.

- Where do you think we
should start?

Do you have anyone that you
could think of that

we could talk to?

- We do have two friends,
Michelle and Dave.

We hang out together,
but they're like

Barry's pack of friends,
I would say.

- RAHNE: Gotcha.

- Text us Michelle's number.
- EMMA: Okay.

- Text us Dave's number.
- Mm-hmm.

- As well as Barry.
I know that he knows he's

doing a relationship show.
He doesn't know what kind

of show it is yet.
- Yeah.

- RAHNE: Yeah.
- And Rahne and I will...

we'll get to work.
- Okay, I'll do that.

- Thank you for taking your
time out...

- Of course, great to meet you.
-...to talk to me, listen to me.

- So nice to meet you.
Have a good day at work.

- I'll be in touch.
- All right. Bye, Emma.

I think we should grab
a cup of coffee.

- Absolutely
- Can I do an iced coffee,

please?
- Yeah.

- I'll do, like, a blended
vanilla bean situation.

- Okay.
- Thank you.

- So, Barry.

- Yep.
- Thank you so much.

- RAHNE: Thank you very much.
- FEMALE: You're welcome.

- He lives with his mom,
we think.

- Yeah.

- So we'll see if that
is actually true.

The car being junky,
could there be a

hoarding situation?
Is it the house?

Is it the people
in the house?

- Is he living with
another woman

and that's why no one
comes over there?

We're not really gonna
know until we talk to Dave...

- Yes.
- ...until we talk to Michelle.

- Yeah.

- Emma sent us everyone's
contacts and profiles.

I'm gonna send Michelle a
message.

- And I will go ahead and
do the same for Dave.

- Yeah.

I wanna start this off
by looking at Barry.

- Mm-hmm.
- TRAVIS: I'm on his profile.

He says he's the creator
of the "567 Podcast".

- Yeah, a lot of promotion
for his podcast.

- Okay, I just found the
biggest thing.

- What is it?

- This is on Barry's
profile.

It's a photo of Barry and
someone named Eve

at a baseball game.

Okay, but then look, you go
into the comments.

Someone at the bottom
comments, is that your

girlfriend or just
a girl friend?

- Ooh.
- This is a month ago.

- So clearly some people
out there don't know

that he's in a relationship.
- Very true.

- Oh, boy.
- [phone chimes]

- Michelle just texted me, uh...
- That was quick.

- ...she said, "Yep, I'm
down to talk.

Can you meet me
at Encino Park?"

Yes, we can.

- All right, Michelle.
What you got to say?

- We're about to find out.
- Oh, Barry.

We got some
questions for you.

- Coming up.
Emma is desperate for answers.

Put everything on the table
and let her make a decision.

- Oh, okay.

- The girl in the photo is
not his sister.

- I don't...I don't get it.

Why did he say
that was his sister?

I'm just a little bit
surprised that you had

this secret for so long.

- Well, there's more.
- Oh, God.

- ♪

- MALE SINGER: ♪ Uh,
\hbetter stay here ♪

♪ I’m gonna go and get it in
\h\h\h\h\h’til the day’s up ♪

- TRAVIS: We’re in LA trying
\h\h\h\h\h\hto figure out why

Emma’s boyfriend, Barry,
\h\h\h\h\his hiding her.

We’re on our way to meet
Barry’s friend, Michelle,

to see if she can help us
\h\h\h\hget some answers.

- RAHNE: All right.

- Hi, Michelle?
\h\h- Michelle?

\h\h\h\h\h- MICHELLE: Hi, guys.
- I’m Travis, Nice to meet you.

\h- I met you at the
Warped Tour in 2012.

- That was forever ago.

- Yeah, I interviewed you.
\h\h\h\hIt was so much fun.

\h\h\h\h\h- That’s amazing.
Well, I don’t know whether

to apologize in advance
\h\h\hor say thank you

\hfor an amazing interview,
but great to see you again.

- Nice to meet you.
\h\h\h\hI’m Rahne.

\h\h- Nice to meet you.
Our first introduction.

How have you been?
\h\h\h\h- I’m good.

- Me and Michelle go way back.
- Nice to see you, old friend.

- I feel like I’m intruding.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s fine.

- Um, well, thanks
\h\hfor meeting us.

We are doing a show

\hwith your friend Barry
and his girlfriend, Emma.

- Yes.

\h\h- You’re saying yes,
so that...that leaves me

feeling okay.

- So you know who Emma is, you
\hknow that she’s dating Barry.

- What do you know about Emma
\h\hand Barry’s relationship?

- I’m kinda thinking like
\h\hthe "Harry Met Sally"

kinda thing where they were...
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Oh, okay.

- ...they were hanging,
\h\hthey were buddies,

and then all of a sudden
\h\h\h\h\h\hI’m like, oh,

you guys are dating now.
\h\h\h\h\hOkay, I’m down.

You two kind of make sense.

\hThey’re both kind of quirky,
and that’s kind of a good fit.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Well, look.
Emma reached out to Rahne and I

because she feels like
\h\hshe’s been hidden.

- ♪

- She’s never met his mom.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Hm.

- She’s never been to
\h\h\h\h\hhis house.

And I think she’s getting to
\h\h\ha point where she wants

to know what’s up.

- I’ve known him a while and
I’ve never been to his house.

- I’m sorry, how long have
\h\h\h\h\h\hyou known him?

- Like, five years.
\h\h- RAHNE: Okay.

- Yeah, and I...I have not
\h\hyet been to his house.

As a friend, like, I didn’t
\h\hreally think about it.

But how’s she not been there?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThat’s weird

- You’ve known Barry for the
\h\h\h\h\h\hlast five years.

Is there anything that you
\hcould think of that would

explain why Barry would be
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhiding Emma?

- Gosh, um...

\h\hBarry could be very well
just be, like, totally broke.

One time he was really
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hexcited.

He told me when he bought out
\h\h\h\han entire restaurant

\h\hjust so they could dine.
Like, it was just those two,

candlelight, all that stuff.
But then, from there on out,

they ate at fast food places.

So, Barry could just be,
\h\h\hlike, one of those

spend, spend, spend guys
\hand has nothing to show

for it, but I’m not sure.

- Putting up some type
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof facade

to maybe seem more
\h\h\h\himpressive.

- Mm-hmm.

- Do you think that Emma’s
\h\h\h\hthe type of person

that would be influenced
\hby something like that?

- I think Emma really
deserves a great man

’cause she’s a great person.

- Do...do you think Barry
\h\h\h\hcould be that...

that guy for her?

- I think he could be,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor sure.

But what’s up with the house
\h\h\hand what’s up with the

\h\hmeeting of the family?
- That’s what we’re asking.

- We’re gonna find out.
Absolutely. Thank you.

- All right, Michelle.
\h\h\h\h\hTake it easy.

- Have a good one.
\h\h\h\h\hBuh-bye.

- TRAVIS: Let’s
talk about it.

Emma and Michelle said
\hneither of them have

been to Barry’s house.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.

\h\h- Judging by his car,
Barry could be a hoarder.

- Michelle was saying he
could be secretly broke.

- He could very well be
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhomeless

and literally living out
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof his car.

- That could be.

- [phone buzzing]

- Hi, this is Rahne
\h\h\h\hand Travis.

- DAVE: Hi, this is David Reele.
- Hi, how are you?

- DAVE: Doing well, thank you.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hHow are you?

- We’re doing well.

A young lady named Emma
\h\h\hreached out to us

about her relationship with
\h\h\h\hyour friend, Barry.

Would you be willing to talk
\h\h\hto us for a little bit?

- DAVE: Yeah, I guess so.

Depends on what the
\h\hquestions are.

- All right, so how long
\h\hhave you known Barry?

How long have you known
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hEmma?

\h\h- DAVE: Yeah, I’ve been
knowing Barry for 20 years.

I have a podcast and he’s
\h\h\h\h\h\hmy producer.

- TRAVIS: Okay
\h\h\h\h- Okay.

- DAVE: And I’ve known Emma
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hsince, uh,

maybe a year or two ago.

- TRAVIS: Does Barry ever talk
to you about his relationship?

- DAVE: No. Nope.
\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.

Is there anything about
\hBarry that you think

that Emma doesn’t know?

- DAVE: Uh, maybe.

I’m not sure if I can talk
\h\h\h\hto you about that.

It’s pretty personal.

- Emma is in love
with your friend.

She needs to know what
\hthe hell is going on,

why won’t he let her come
\h\h\h\h\h\hto his house?

- DAVE: I don’t know if he’s
\hkeeping anything from her,

\h\h\h\h\hbut he could be,
uh, could be losing money.

- TRAVIS: Losing money.

- DAVE: He could be still
\h\h\h\h\h\hlosing money.

\h\h\h- Did you say still?
- DAVE: You know, you guys,

I don’t wanna say anything
\habout him. He’s my buddy.

\h\h\hBut he developed a
gnarly gambling problem.

- Got it. Okay.
\h\h\h\h- Okay.

- DAVE: I don’t really know
\h\hhow bad he got into it.

But I pieced together
\h\h\h\h\h[inaudible]

tens of thousands of
\h\h\h\h\h\hdollars.

- Oh my God.

Has he talked to you at all?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLike, is, is he

\hstill gambling?
Is he, you know,

has he given it up?

- DAVE: Oh, I have no idea.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Wow.

- I gotta say, man,
\hthank you so much

for hopping on the phone
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith us

and being willing to talk.

- DAVE: Oh, you’re welcome.
\h\h\h\hI hope I can help.

- You absolutely did.

- DAVE: All right, well,
\h\h\hthank you so much.

\h\h\h- RAHNE: Buh-bye.
- DAVE: All right, bye.

- This is why he lives
\hwith his mom, right?

- ’Cause he lost his money
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand he can’t

afford a place of his own.
\h- That makes sense to me.

\h\h- Michelle, she said he
rented out this restaurant,

\hwhich leads me to believe
the night that he did that

was probably a night that
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhe won...

\h\h\h- Exactly. Yeah.
- ...really big, right?

Boom, you wanna ball out.

Dave telling us about this
\h\h\h\h\h\hgambling issue,

while it’s nice to actually
\h\h\h\h\h\hknow something,

it gets us no further,
\h\h\h\hbecause, like,

why won’t he let Emma go
\h\h\h\h\h\hto his house?

- I think we need to talk
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto Barry.

- 100%.

\h\h\h\h\hAnd number two,
we need to see his house.

\h\h\h- Absolutely.
I’m gonna text him.

Hi, Barry.

This is Rahne and Travis
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfrom MTV.

We would love to meet up
\h\h\hwith you tomorrow.

And send.

- Barry, what are you
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hhiding?

- ♪

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- DONO:
♪ Excuse me, sorry ♪

♪ I don’t mean to take
\h\h\h\h\h\hyour time ♪

♪ But I see that you’ve been
\h\h\h\h\hdoing some things ♪

♪ That’s written in
\h\h\h\hyour eye ♪

- TRAVIS: After meeting Emma
\h\h\h\h\hand speaking to two

of Barry’s friends, we’re
on our way to meet Barry

\hat his house in Camarillo,
where he lives with his mom.

We’re expecting his call
\h\hto confirm we’re good

to go to meet him there.

- [phone buzzing]

- RAHNE: Hello, this is
\h\h\hTravis and Rahne.

- BARRY: Hi, guys, this is
\h\hBarry calling you back.

- What’s up, Barry?

- BARRY: Well, I talked to
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hmy mom.

Come on down, man.
\h\h\h- Cool, man.

- BARRY: Get on over
\h\h\h\hto Camarillo.

And I’m sorry to be like
\hthis, but Mom is very,

you know, I have to ask her
\h\h\h\h\habout everything.

\h- Okay, Barry.
We’re on the way.

- BARRY: All right, so I’ll see
\h\h\hyou in a little bit here.

\h\h\h- Sounds good. Bye.
- BARRY: All right, bye.

\h\h\h- Okay, did it sound
weird to you that he said,

I have to ask my
\hmom everything?

- Yeah, a little beholden
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto his mom.

- It’s like Norman Bates vibes.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Very...

\h- TRAVIS: You know?
- Very Norman Bates.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- 100%.
- Like, what...what..

what’s happening here?

- I have no idea.
\h\h- RAHNE: Ooh.

- ♪

- Some fog.

Dude, this is, uh,
\h\h\hthis is scary

to drive in right now,
\h\h\h\h’cause we went

from sunny summer LA
to, like, a desolate

mountain town that’s about
to get a storm rolling in.

- I feel like this is
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hperfect

for the scenario we’re about
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto walk into.

- I don’t like this.
\h\h- Dum, dum, dum.

- ♪

- RAHNE: We're on our way to
meet Barry to get some clarity

on why he's hiding
his girlfriend, Emma.

Barry knows he's on
a dating show,

but he's about to find out the
real reason Emma signed them up.

- Oh my God, I see the car.
Look at that. There it is.

- Okay. Here we go.

All right.

- ♪

- TRAVIS: I mean,
there's potato chips,

there's a pillow case,
there's a cardboard box,

there's old water bottles.

- RAHNE: Let's go find
Barry.

- ♪

- TRAVIS: Barry.
- RAHNE: Barry.

- Oh, hey, you guys.
- RAHNE: Hi.

- Oh my God.

- BARRY: That's good
right there.

- Right here?
- Right here's good.

Oh my God, they're around me.
- Now, don't swipe at 'em.

- I'm not.
- Oh, all right.

- These are very friendly bees.
- TRAVIS: Okay.

- You guys want to try
some honey?

- I would love try some honey.
- Sure.

- I'll just scoop out
a little portion for ya.

- TRAVIS: Oh, dude.
- Now, this right here, yes.

Oh yeah, you got...
- Oh!

- TRAVIS: Holy [beep]
there's a turtle right there.

- RAHNE: Hi.
- TRAVIS: Hey, buddy.

- BARRY: You guys wanna go
in the house?

- TRAVIS: Yeah.
- [laughter]

- BARRY: So yeah, this is it.
This is the get up.

The studio/bedroom.
That folds out into a bed.

- RAHNE: Okay.
- Got a little mixer back there.

And everything I need,
the laptop is here.

I'm working on a new podcast
that's a music show.

- TRAVIS: Okay.
- It's on radio.

You wanna hear some?
- Can I? Yeah, please.

- All right.
Who am I?

Oh, I'm just your latest DJ

on your favorite
radio station,

playing you the tunes.
The best indie

and the best classics.
Bowie, Red Hot Chili Peppers,

Milky Chance, REM,
Pearl Jam.

- TRAVIS: Dude, I feel like
I'm in my car, like...

- Yeah, just cruising, right?
- BARRY: Yeah.

- So, just to give you some
backstory, obviously,

you know, you're doing
this dating show.

We met up with Emma,
we spent some time with her.

We wanted to kinda sit down and
do the same thing with you.

- Sure.
- What other hobbies do you do?

It sounds like you're
a jack of all trades.

- Well, I got the podcast.
I love the garden

right now and the farm.

- We have a visitor.
- There's a turtle in here.

- RAHNE: Hello.
- There's definitely..

- Did he just walk in?
That's awesome.

- He said, just come to
check on y'all.

Don't mind me.

Emma told us that you've
actually never had her

over to your house.

- No.
- And why is that?

- Um, well, it's a whole
different world here

than it is with Emma.
I just don't think how

I live here, she would like,
she would be into.

So I just never brought her
over here.

- Why do you think it
wouldn't go over well?

- [sighs] Well, I'm really
uncomfortable with Emma

meeting my mom.
- Okay.

- Um, I kinda have a
different relationship

with my mom than
probably most people do.

She does a lot for me.

She cooks every meal for me.
She also does my laundry

and, you know, if I need to
run an errand,

I don't even have to leave.
She'll go do it for me.

She does everything for me.
- Is your mom here?

Can we see the rest
of the house?

- I mean, I guess so,
since you're here.

If you wanna take care
of the turtle for a minute.

- Are there turtles through
the whole house?

- They shouldn't be,
but they might be.

Okay, well, I'll go ask.

- [knocking]
- Hey, Mama?

- CHERYL: Yeah?

- Hey, I'm doing that TV show
and, uh,

the hosts wanna meet ya.

- That's exciting.

- We brought cameras.

- Hello.
- I'm Travis

- I'm Rahne.
- Nice to meet you.

- Thank you for letting us
in your home.

The reason why we're here
is because Barry is doing

a dating show.

What do you know about Barry
and Emma?

- ♪

- Emma? Emma who?

- She doesn't know anything
about Emma.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- CHERYL: No.

- Do you wanna make
lunch for us?

Would that be okay?
- Sure. You guys hungry?

- Sure. Thank you!
- Yeah.

- All right, let's
have a seat here.

- So Barry...Barry, why
wouldn't you tell

your mom about Emma?

- I'm just not ready
for that yet.

I'm not ready to put
those two worlds together.

- And what do you...
what do you tell Emma?

- I haven't.

I've just kind of
brushed it off.

If I'm dating somebody,
my mom will just jump on it.

Suddenly, you know, it's
too close for comfort.

I haven't really dated much,
and when I do,

I do not bring that here.

- You guys want chips
or anything with it?

- Oh.
- I think I'm totally okay.

- I'm good with the wrap.
Thank you.

- Thank you, Mama.
- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Let me give you a hug here.

Thank you for lunch.

- This is all garden?
- It is.

- So, um, tell us a little
bit about your son.

- If it wasn't for him,
we wouldn't even be here.

- TRAVIS: What makes you
say that?

- Well, I died when I had
him.

And saw Jesus.

I had the feeling like
he's very special.

- BARRY: You wanna see
some baby pictures?

- RAHNE: Yeah.

- All right, I'm gonna
go get the album.

- And mom, you know, for you,
if Barry were to come home

tomorrow and say, mom,
I'm getting married...

- Hold on a minute. [laughs]
Wait a minute.

- It would uproot
a lot of things,

which is just, like,
not worth it.

- Would you like to
see some pictures?

- I would.
- Yes.

- Okay, he's always been
a gardener.

See?
And that's my brother with him.

He didn't wanna be held,
I guess.

- Not by anybody but you.
I was very stuck

to Mom when I was little.
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- TRAVIS: Well, this is awesome.
- RAHNE: Yeah.

- I mean, we come here,
I get to eat

some fresh honey,
hold a turtle,

look at baby photos.
You know.

- This is just a regular
day with us.

She has that for everyone
who walks in the door.

If you're the Amazon guy...

- Thanks for the package,
here's some baby pics.

- Come on.
- [laughter]

- All right, Mom.

- Thank you, bye.

- CHERYL: All right.

- All right.

- Look, man.
I don't know what Emma

told you, you know, about
the type of show

that you guys are doing.
I know you think it's

a dating show.
It's a show about people

feeling like they're being
hidden from the world

by their significant other.
And Emma contacted us.

- Oh, okay.

- Emma feels like you're
hiding her from your family,

from social media, and she
really wants

to find out the truth.

- I mean, well, you guys have
seen my house,

and there's nothing
to hide here.

I'm being honest with you.

- Why do you think you're
okay with being honest

with us, but you can't do
the same thing for Emma?

- I don't think I'm not
being honest with Emma.

She doesn't have to know
the inner workings

of my world, especially
if I think that it's gonna,

like, mess things up.

- You live with your mom,
you and your mom have this,

I'll call it a unique
relationship.

- I'm still working it out
with Emma.

It's only been six months.
I'm not down to put

those together 'cause I know
once those go together,

it could go out of control,
you know?

- So if Emma was like, hey,
Barry, this isn't working

for me, we're done,
you would be okay with

letting a woman like Emma
walk out of your life?

- ♪

- I don't think I feel kinda
safe and comfortable

bringing her here.

- Well, you know, one other
thing that came up is we

saw a photo of you at a baseball
game with someone named Eve.

Who exactly is Eve?

- Well...

- ♪

- We saw a photo of you
with someone named Eve.

Who exactly is Eve?

- Well, she is a romance
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwriter.

That’s the next thing I’m
\h\h\h\h\h\htrying to do,

\hwrite a romance novel.
She’s teaching me writing

’cause I don’t know
\h\h\hhow to write.

So she’s helping me
\h\h\hthrough that.

- And where did you meet Eve?
\h\h\h\h\h\h- We met online.

- And so, you know, when
\hyou and Eve are working

on a novel, like, what
\h\h\hdo you tell Emma?

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- You know what?
She hasn’t asked me about that.

- What would you telling
\h\h\h\h\hher look like?

- You know what?

\h\h\hI haven’t even
considered that yet.

It’s a very new friendship
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthat I have

\h\h\hwith this girl, Eve.
There ain’t nothing there.

She’s teaching me
\h\hhow to write.

That’s it.

- Well, Emma is desperate
\h\h\h\h\h\hfor answers,

otherwise, she wouldn’t
\h\h\h\hhave called us.

Are you willing to sit down
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith Emma

\h\h\h\hand have an open
and honest conversation,

and let her make a decision
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hif she wants

to be with the real Barry?

- I thought I could let her
\h\h\h\h\h\hknow about this

on my own time instead of
\h\hbeing kind of pushed

through it, but I really
\hdon’t wanna lose Emma.

I mean, we’ve been friends
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor so long,

I don’t wanna dump all
\hthat down the toilet.

That’s my only concern.

- All right, so we’re
\h\h\h\h\h\hgonna go.

- Did you at least like the
\h\h\h\h\hhoney and stuff?

- Loved the honey.
- Loved the honey.

- I’m happy you guys got to meet
the turtles and everything.

\h\h- I appreciate it.
It’s great to meet you.

Thanks for having us at
\h\h\hyour house, dude.

- All right.
- Bye, buddy.

Okay, let’s make sure we
\hdon’t kick any turtles.

\h\h- RAHNE: I know.
He do be on our a*s.

- I don’t know what is the
\h\h\h\h\h\hstrangest part

of that whole encounter.
\h\h\h- [Rahne laughing]

- Like, I still can’t
\h\h\hfigure it out.

- Where do we start?
\h\hWas it the bees?

\hWas it the turtles?
- Was it the turtles?

I really don’t know.

One thing that we can
\hput to rest, right,

this guy doesn’t have,
like, a wife and kids.

There’s no baby mama.
But there is a mama.

- There is indeed a mama.

- [laughter]

\h\h\h\h\h- Oh, Barry.
- Barry, Barry, Barry.

- TRAVIS: We gotta call Emma.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- For sure.

- We need to meet
\hwith her today

and kind of explain this to
the best of our abilities.

- DEVMO: ♪ Come on
\h\hand bring it ♪

♪ Come on and bring it ♪

♪ Bring it ♪

♪ Come on and bring it ♪

\h\h\h\h\h♪ Oh, oh, oh,
come on and bring it ♪

- Emma.
\h- Hi.

\h\h\h- How are you?
- Good, how are you?

- I’m good.

\h\h\hOkay, so how have
the last 24 hours been?

- Um, to be honest with you,
\h\h\h\h\hI’m super nervous,

\h’cause I did not expect to
hear from you, like, so soon.

\h\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- And I’m actually

\h\hkind of scared to hear
what you guys have to say.

- We talked to Dave.
\hHe did divulge some

information about

a possible gambling issue.

\h- Like, at a casino gamble?
Like, that kind of a gamble?

I have never known Barry
\h\h\h\hto gamble at all.

- We’re gonna let Barry...

- Explain what that
\h\h\hsituation is.

\h\h\h\h\h\h- ...explain.
But, um, he does in fact

live with his mom.
\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.

\h- And I don’t really know what
the strangest part of today was.

- They are very, very close.
\h\h\h\hAnd when I say close,

I mean attached at the hip.

We’re talking he doesn’t do
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hmuch without

asking his mother
\hfor permission.

Basically a mama’s boy
\h\hto the nth degree.

- Barry is very, um,
self-conscious about

that aspect of him and his
\h\hmother’s relationship.

You know, for some reason
\hhe eems to think, like,

it would be kind of a
\hdealbreaker for you

if he were to be honest,
you know, about how close

him and his mom are.

- I mean, what do you mean
\h\h\h\h\hby, like, close?

\h\h- Cooking him food,
and cleaning his room,

and washing his clothes.

- Him asking for permission
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto do things.

- That’s the weirdest thing
\h\h\h\h\hI’ve ever heard.

\h\h\h\h\h- Yeah.
- Possibly, yeah.

\h- I don’t like that, but
I mean, I can work past it.

\h- I think the last thing,
you know, that really stuck

\hwith Rahne and I was
we saw a photo of this

woman, Eve, sitting down with
\h\hBarry at a baseball game.

- He canceled on me for
\h\h\h\h\h\hthat game.

And then I saw that photo
\h\h\h\hsurface of them.

He’s like, oh, I took
\h\hmy sister there.

- The girl in the photo
\h\his not his sister.

- Yeah, it is.
\h\h- It’s not.

The woman in the photo is
\h\h\ha woman that he met

on the internet who is a
\h\h\h\h\hromance writer.

- ♪

\h\h- And Barry apparently wants
to start writing romance novels.

- Writing romance novels?
\h\hI don’t... I’m sorry.

So a lady, like a mentor?
I don’t...I don’t get it.

That girl in the photo is
\h\h\h\h\hnot his sister?

- TRAVIS: It is not his sister.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- No.

- TRAVIS: That woman in the
\h\hphoto, her name is Eve

- Why did he say that
\h\h\hwas his sister?

Why are they writing
\h\h\hromance novels?

- I think it’s just something
\h\h\h\hthat he wants to do.

\h\h- Rather than sign up for a
class, he found someone online,

some random person to be
\hwriting romance novels?

\h\h\h\h\hI don’t understand
Why can’t I meet his family?

Why can’t I go to the house?

- I think that goes into a
\h\h\h\hbigger conversation

with Barry and his mother.

- We still don’t have all of
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe answers.

We would love for the two of you
to sit down and talk with

\heach other, to hash out
everything and be honest.

- Okay.

\h\hMaybe I’m...maybe he’s just
totally not who I think he is.

- Well, I think we are
\h\h\habsolutely gonna

get the answers that you’re
\h\h\hlooking for tomorrow.

Just so we’re clear, you are
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwilling to sit

\hand at least talk to him?
- Yeah, I’ll listen to him.

\hWe have history together,
and he means so much to me.

\h\hSo I’m hoping that it’s not
as big a deal as I think it is.

Thank you so much for your time
\h\h\h\h\hand your information.

\h\h\h\h\h\hI appreciate it.
- That’s what we’re here for.

- ♪

- FEMALE SINGER: ♪ Hey
\h\hwe about to begin ♪

♪ Yeah, we about to
\hstart something ♪

- TRAVIS: After updating Emma
\h\h\hyesterday on everything

we uncovered, we convinced
\h\h\h\h\hBarry to sit down

with Emma face-to-face and
\h\h\h\h\hlet her know why

he’s been hiding her from his
\h\hhome and from his family.

- SINGER: ♪ We about to
\h\h\hstart something ♪

- [knocking]

\h\h\h\h- EMMA: Hi.
- Emma! What’s up?

\h\h\h\h\h- Hi, you.
- We good to come in?

- EMMA: Yes, go for it.
\h\hThank you so much.

- TRAVIS: Do you want us to
\h\h\h\htake our shoes off?

\h\h\h\h\h- Thank you.
- Um, no, you’re fine.

- Well, this is awesome!
\h\h\h\h\h\h- All right!

- EMMA: Thank you, yeah.
\h\h\h\hYou guys can just

sit here on this couch
\h\h\h\h\h\hright here.

\h- TRAVIS: So he’s on his way.
- All right, well, that’s good.

- How are you feeling today?

- Um, to be honest with you,
\h\h\h\h\h\hI’m super nervous

and really scared.

- What is, like, your
\hbest-case scenario

and worst-case scenario
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\htoday?

- The best-case scenario would
\h\h\h\h\hbe us talking it out

and finding some kind of a
\h\h\h\hresolution to this.

But if he’s not gonna be honest
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand forthcoming

and he keeps on behaving
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlike this,

\hthat will be the deal-breaker
because we can’t go any further

- [phone buzzing]

- I just got a text from Barry.

And he says he is
two minutes away.

- I can go get him.
\h\h\h\hYou ready?

\h- Honestly, I have a really
evil temper, so I don’t know.

- Well, we’re gonna try
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hour best

to keep everything calm,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto have a

productive conversation,
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
- TRAVIS: Not a screaming match.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I’ll try.
No guarantees, but I’ll try.

- ♪

- You ready?

\h- Honestly, I have a really
evil temper, so I don’t know.

\h\h\h\h\hBut sure.
- RAHNE: All right.

- ♪

\h- How you doing?
- Good to see you.

\h\h\h\hI didn’t get any sleep
last night thinking about this.

\hI’m not really ready to tell
Emma a lot of stuff, so I’m...

- But you’re gonna, right?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h- I’m gonna.

- TRAVIS: What’s going through
\h\h\h\h\hyour head right now?

- I think he put me in a
\h\hsuper weird situation

\h\h\h\h\hfor no reason.
Like, he has zero reason

to be acting this dodgy
\h\h\h\h\hand sketchy.

- Are you ready?

- As ready as I’ll ever be.
\h\h- All right, let’s go.

- ♪

- Well, you guys know why we’re
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hall here today.

\hEmma contacted Rahne and I
because Barry, quite frankly,

she feels like you’re
\h\h\h\h\hhiding her.

- ♪

- With that being said, I think,
Emma, take it away.

- Let me start out by saying
\hthat I love you very much.

You mean the world to me.

\h\h\hI love our relationship.
But I’m tired of you hiding me.

I’m tired of you keeping secrets
from me.

Like, they told me

\h\hDave said that you used
to have a gambling problem.

And then they spoke to your
\hmother and they see that

\hyou’re very close, uh,
might be out of the norm.

\h\hBut the one part that
I’m really unhappy about

is you put yourself online
\hto meet some random woman

\h\hto teach you how
to do romance novels

that you passed off
\h\has your sister?

And I feel like I’m gonna have
\h\h\h\h\ha nervous breakdown.

- Okay, so can I first talk
\h\h\habout what Dave said?

Long time ago, I did have a
\h\h\h\h\hgambling problem.

But I haven’t gambled
in a long, long time.

And I still owe a little bit.
\h\h\h- What’s a little bit?

- 15, 20 grand.
\hI’m okay now.

\h\h\h\h\h- Okay.
I’m not too mad.

\h\hI’m more disappointed
that you didn’t tell me.

- Well, Emma, I want you to
\h\h\hknow that I love you.

I’ve loved you longer
\h\h\hthan we’ve had

our little six-month
\h\h\h\hrelationship

And all I wanna do is protect
\h\h\hyou and your feelings.

But I’m not ready

\hto bring my girlfriend and my
mom in the same place together

I’ve let my girlfriends
\h\h\h\h\hmeet my mom,

\hand my mom falls
in love with them.

\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd when
the relationship ends,

my mom’s heart is broken
\h\h\h\hbecause of that.

- You’re trying to protect
your mom, but you’re being,

you know, you’re hiding things
that are now pushing Emma away.

So the thing you’re trying
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto prevent,

you’re actually creating.
- I didn’t realize that.

- It doesn’t bother me that you
\h\h\hare close to your mother.

But you’re gonna have to talk
\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto your mother.

You’re gonna have to tell her
\h\hthat things have changed,

there’s someone new in your
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hlife, me.

Eventually, you’re gonna have to
move on with your life.

- ♪

- Okay, but there’s one
\h\h\h\h\h\hmore thing.

- Oh, God.

- And I didn’t think I’d have
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto get here.

\h\hThat girl, Eve,
the romance writer.

- Yeah.

- I didn’t expect this
\h\h\hto happen, but...

- ♪

- But there's one more thing.

And I didn't think I'd have
to get here.

- Oh, God.

- [sighs] That girl that I
took to the Dodger game, Eve,

the romance writer.
- Yeah?

- I didn't expect this
to happen, but we have

started sort of seeing
each other.

- ♪

- You know,
you told us yesterday

that you set out
to be an author,

so you met someone who was
an established author.

Did you meet this woman

in order to write a book
or did you meet her with

the intention of going on
a date with her?

- I met this woman with all
intention to write

a romance novel.
I wasn't...

- So where did it
get [beep] up?

- Well, the pressure of all
this going down with you

and how it's been
overwhelmingly difficult.

- But that's your own doing.
- But you did that.

- You're blaming her...
- RAHNE: For you cheating.

- This was out of right field.
And you can call it

cheating if you want to...
- I mean, it is.

- You won't believe me 'cause
I'm a cheater,

but I would never cheat.

- [laughter]
- You...

- RAHNE: Barry
- Hold on.

- I'm sorry, Emma.

I didn't realize that when we
started dating that it would

have put the friendship into a
place where

it might not survive.
That's what I regret

is the fact that we even
started dating.

I love you so much.
- Oh, [beep] off.

You're totally disgusting.

Like, it's disgusting that you
would even sleep in my bed.

Like, gross.
Disgusting.

Why do you look at me like that?
That's all you do, just look.

'Cause you're a loser.

- Where are you going?
- EMMA: Why do you care?

Go to Eve, as*h*le.

- [door slams]

- ♪

- RAHNE: Hi.

- EMMA: That was
so embarrassing

- RAHNE: I'm gonna sit
right down with you.

- That was so embarrassing
I picked out someone

like that for myself again.

I don't think he's
boyfriend material.

- Listen, you said it, girl.

- She has every right
to be upset, okay?

I was not truthful to her.
But she does blow things up.

- TRAVIS: You think this is
an overreaction?

- I don't think it's an
overreaction.

I just think that you're seeing
her at her angriest right now.

- TRAVIS: I feel like for what
has been said here today,

she's taking all of this
extremely well.

- I'm gonna go back in.
- Okay.

- Do you wanna come with me?

Do you need some
more time out here?

- No, I'll come.

- ♪

- Barry, I think a lot of the
things that you told me today

are totally unacceptable.
You started seeing someone else

behind my back and you don't
consider it cheating.

And you don't even seem to be
apologetic about it at all,

and you blame it on me.
I think that you are

super selfish, I don't want
anything more to do with you,

and I would like you to leave.
Thank you.

Get out of my apartment.
Out! Bye!

Good-bye.

Look, you don't even say
anything now, loser.

- ♪

- I mean, Emma, you know, we
have been here for you.

So now that Barry's gone,

I just wanna make sure
that you're gonna be okay.

- I'll be okay.
I'll be sad, but I'll be...

I'll be okay.

- I think the bottom line is
Barry needs to grow up.

- You're a strong woman and we
wish you nothing but the best.

- Thank you so much.
- Yeah

- EMMA: Thank you.

- We're gonna give you
some...some personal space.

I wish we had a
different ending.

- I wish we did, too.
Thank you so much.

- It was so nice to meet you.
I wish you all the best.

- Bye.
- TRAVIS: Take it easy

- RAHNE: Have a good one

- ♪

- You know, I would have felt
like a very bad friend

if I would have, like,
fought for her to give him

another chance, you know
what I mean?

Like, don't you dare think
that you could make this work.

- Absolutely

- FEMALE SINGER: ♪ This time,
I know nothing can stop me ♪

♪ This time, I know nothing
can stop me ♪

- [theme music]