- You may just have a very angelic face
and be really good at lying
and looking at somebody for clues.
- Aww.
- Now that is the most fascinating thing
I think I've heard from you all day.
It's car!
If you're from Boston, are you kidding me?
You're not even from there.
- I'm not Mark Wahlberg!
(laughter)
- So did you guys spend any time together growing up?
- We lived together
(electric music)
- So if I'm going to guess, I do have an idea.
My name is Elisabeth South.
I'm a private investigator here in Los Angeles, California
with Kay and Associates Investigations.
Today, I am going to have to figure out
which two of these people in the line-up
are actually cousins.
I'm guessing they don't look alike,
so it's going to really fool me,
but I don't know.
Let's see.
(mysterious music)
Maybe you girls could be related...
Maybe you guys.
Let's just (beep) see.
Okay you got something, come sit down.
(chairs scooting)
All right.
So,
Cousins!
How are you related?
Moms, dads, brothers, sisters?
- Our parents are related.
- [Elisabeth] First cousins?
- (laughs) Yes, first cousins.
- Well, see, I never know.
It could be second or third cousins.
- No, you're right, you're right, you're right.
- Somebody stepped?
Displaced?
Remarried?
- Nope, first cousins.
- Your parents are related.
- Yeah.
- Which parents?
- My dad.
- My mom.
- Your dad and your mom.
- [Rachel] Yeah. - All right.
So, uh, have you guys spent a lot of time together?
Were you raised together?
Tell me about your time in your cousin-hood.
- We actually didn't grow up near each other
because I was in New York.
- Are you just the quiet type
I have to pull everything out of you?
Are you going to add anything here?
- Um, I agree with that.
(laughter)
I grew up in,
New Jersey.
And then at 15 I moved to the Bay Area.
- Could you keep your eyes up here?
You keep looking down there, you know?
You make me a little nervous. - [Damien] Sure, sure, sure.
- I wanna see if you're lying or not.
- Okay, the Bay Area.
- You're like, "Okay, the Bay Area."
- [Damien] I moved to the Bay Area and-- (laughs)
- Okay, I'm gonna switch out some people here.
- Uh, why don't you go back up there.
Rachel, you stay here and you come down here (laughs).
You guys may be cousins.
Tell me about how you'd be related.
- Definitely our parents, yeah.
Mom's side, yeah.
- You're really bad at this, aren't you?
- No, I'm really good at this cause we're cousins!
- Yeah.
- So your mom's side?
- Right.
- Mom's, what'd you say?
- Father, yeah.
- [Elisabeth] Okay.
- Her brother, yeah.
- So, (laughs)
Where's he from?
- We've seen each other, like, twice.
Ummm,
I wanna say...
No, I don't know.
- You don't know.
- This is bad.
We're close. Connecticut, yeah.
- Rachel, you go stand back up there. (laughs)
I love you.
All right, come sit down here.
You are really good at this.
You are.
Yeah.
Okay.
Have you guys spent a lot of time together?
- No, we didn't grow up in the same place.
- How are you guys related?
- My mom and his mom.
- So how do you guys know you're cousins?
Do you guys both live here?
Explain to me how this works.
- Yeah, we both live here now,
but we didn't just grow up together.
- Which is great.
We get to spend a lot of time together now.
- You guys are so close.
So talkative.
So, where does she live in L.A.?
- She lives in Culver City.
- Culver City? What part of Culver City?
- Closer to here.
So, like northern side.
- Tell me about when you guys hang out.
What's it like?
Where do you go?
- Well, we work together mostly.
We get sick of each other during the week.
(mumbles)
We're just sick by the weekends.
- Whoever's cousins, if I've interviewed y'all yet,
you don't seem to like each other very much.
Do you like each other?
- [Erin] (laughs)
Yeah, he's all right.
- Yeah.
- Why don't you go back up there,
and sir, you come sit down here.
I'm gonna keep you here.
- [Chandler] (laughs) I know.
- You're like my truth serum.
Are you guys related?
- Yes.
- Whose parents?
- My dad and his dad.
- How many siblings does your mom have?
- Three.
- Three siblings?
- [Chandler] Mmm-hmm. - And what about yours?
- Three, yeah.
- Oh, how convenient.
So both of your parents have three siblings.
How'd you guys meet up in L.A.?
- I came out here to acting school,
and I was doing all right for a little bit.
And then he came out here and started doing
well, really fast.
- Are you an actor too then?
- No, I'm actually an editor.
- You're an editor.
Okay.
And so how long ago did you move out here?
- Six years ago.
- And how long did you move out here?
- Seven years ago.
- So did you guys spend any time together growing up?
- We lived together.
(crickets)
(laughter)
- Oh! I forgot the-
I left out a big detail.
Nevermind.
(laughter)
I left out a detail.
- You should probably fill her in on that.
- He lived with me.
He lived--nevermind.
- Yo, you have to tell me.
Go ahead. - [Damien] Oh, I was just
gonna wait for you to ask.
- You can't be like "I'm gonna tell you" (laughter)
- We lived in a duplex for a long time.
- Now that is the most fascinating thing
I think I've heard from you all day.
All right.
Let's switch out. Why don't you go stand up there?
You come back down here.
I like you so much.
You know, we're friends. - [Chandler] I know.
We're not really.
I'm just using you.
All right, go ahead now.
Where'd she grow up?
- Massachusetts.
- Massachusetts. What city in Massachusetts?
- Boston.
I consider myself a Bostonian.
- All right.
Because you don't really have that strong of an accent.
- Oh no, I mean my parents aren't from Boston, so
I feel like I kinda adopted their accent.
And I've lived here for a while.
- How long have you lived in L.A.?
- About six years.
- You are the first person who's ever lost
their accent from Boston that I've ever met.
You grew up there?
- Yeah.
- Say this word: C-A-R.
- Car.
- It's car. (with a Boston accent)
If you're from Boston, are you kidding me?
You're not even from there.
- I'm not Mark Wahlberg.
(laughter)
- How many siblings does your mom have?
- Uh, she has four.
- Four.
And yours has three?
- His mom is related to my dad.
They're brother and sister.
- So, when did he move out here?
- Uh, I think like six years ago?
Around the same time I did.
- So you moved out here about the same time?
- Around, yeah.
- And where does she live now?
- She lives in Culver City too.
- Where in Culver City?
- Closer to Palms.
- You know,
Chandler, honestly, I'm just kind of using you right now.
'Cause I don't think you're related to anybody.
- Gotcha.
- I mean you may be.
But nobody that I feel like I've put you with.
Okay, so let's switch out.
Let's bring you over here.
So, cousins?
- [Emily] Yes.
- All right.
- And besties.
- True. (laughs)
- [Elisabeth] And besties? (Emily laughs)
All right, okay.
So, mother? Father?
- Father.
- Father?
- Mother.
- What's her father's name?
- John.
- Where'd she grow up?
- She grew up in the San Francisco.
- In the San Francisco? (laughter)
- In San Francisco.
- [Emily] The one and only. - [Elisabeth] Okay.
- 'Cause you said in the San Francisco.
Like "in the Ohio State University."
- Yeah.
- What part of San Fran?
- Uh, Pac Heights.
- I happen to know Pac Heights.
- [Emily] Great. - Where at on Pac Heights?
You know, like the-
Off the-
Off of the main drag there.
- [Elisabeth] Oh, really?
- Mmm-hmm.
- Mmkay.
Um, so why don't you go back up there?
(laughter)
Rachel, come down here.
- Okay.
- All right, so it would be?
- Her mother, my father.
- And what's her father's name?
- Bruce?
- Mmm, 'cause I thought it was Jonathan.
- That's what that dude said.
- Yeah, that's what that dude said.
Bruce, okay.
What's her mom's name?
- Bethany.
- Bethany what?
- Bethany Hamlin.
- Um, go stand back up there.
You come down here. - [Erin] Okay.
- [Elisabeth] Relation, please?
- My mother. (laughs)
- Your mother.
- And my mother.
- And your mother, all right.
And what's her mom's name?
- Her mom's name's Emily.
- Emily what?
- Emily Luther.
- Emily Luther and?
- Stephanie Luther.
- So she's not married?
Not married.
- So you're a single mom?
- Mmm-hmm.
- Are they divorced?
- Yeah.
- When did they get divorced?
- It's been a while now.
Probably five years?
- Yeah, about that, I think.
It's like right after I graduated college.
- How often do you guys--
I mean, did you grow up and spend a lot of time together?
- No.
- Where's she from?
- She's from here.
- From L.A.?
- Mmm-hmm.
- Okay, and where's she from?
- Uh, she is from Michigan. (laughs)
- What part of Michigan?
- Detroit.
- So where at in Detroit?
- Metro Detroit, so, Troy area.
- What college did she go to?
- She went to UCLA.
- And what college did she go to?
- USC.
- And so when did you guys--
So you guys moved out here what times?
- Right when I was going to college.
- Yeah.
- Did you guys--
Have you lived together here in L.A. at all?
- Mm-mmm.
- Do you guys hang out very much?
- We're starting to now.
Yeah, definitely.
I think since my parents divorced
I kind of like, lost, kind of this sense of family
in a weird way.
So, she was like really supportive of
that when that was happening.
- Well if that wasn't real, that's really cute.
(laughter) And I'm kind of touched, so
I don't even wanna hit on-
You know, that's probably a problem with me as a P.I.
It's that--
I'm like, I do get very empathetic like
"Aww really?"
"Aw my god, that would suck"
"I've experienced that before"
So kinda (beep) me over.
I should get, like, really cold, right?
(laughter) Yeah right!
I bet! (aggressive tone)
- Strictly facts!
- Where do you guys like to hang out?
- Usually when we hang out,
we like, get dinner at either someone's apartment
or go out like every couple months or so when we can.
- Where's the last place you guys went out?
- It was like, definitely to get drinks.
- Yeah, there's--
Oh, I think last time we went is across the street.
- From here.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
- I don't know if you guys are cousins,
but I at least believe you guys are friends.
(laughter)
Just maybe how you play really well off of that.
I've been tricked before like that.
Let me have you go stand back up there.
And sir, why don't you come down here?
- Hi. (laughter)
- You are so polite.
- Mother? Fathers?
- My mom and her mom are sisters.
- I kinda have a feeling you just have a
problem just saying exactly what it is.
Maybe you're like a nervous talker?
- Lincoln Tunnel. (laughter)
- All right, well where did he grow up?
- Uh, here.
- In L.A.?
- [Erin] Mmm-hmm.
- Really?
Well what part of L.A.?
- Well, originally Hollywood for a bit.
Like La Brea and-
LaBrea and Sunset.
- And you grew up there?
- No, that's where I lived.
And then I grew up over in Studio City.
Around Atwater Village.
Not Atwater Village, um-- (fingers tapping)
I don't know if you're just a nervous kind of a guy,
- I am.
- Or a nervous talker 'cause I'm kind of getting that.
Like, I feel like--
How old are you right now?
- I'm, uh, 35.
- Yeah, no see.
You're just a nervous answerer.
Okay.
All right, and what's her mom's name?
- Hillary.
- Really?
Hillary.
Hillary what?
- Hillary Sessions.
- Okay, well now that's funny
'cause I got a different name from her, so...
- I can't answer for what the other person says.
- Well that's true.
What's his dad's name?
- Barry.
- What college did he go to?
- He went to UCLA.
- And where's she from?
- Michigan.
- What part of Michigan?
- I'm really bad at any kind of geography.
- Why don't you go stand back up there,
and why don't you come down here?
(chair scooting)
- [Elisabeth] You're like "what's up, cuz?"
(laughter)
Long time no see.
All right, parents related how?
- Mother.
- Mother. Sisters.
- And where's she from?
- Uh, she's from here.
- From L.A.?
- Mmm-hmm.
- What part of L.A.?
- Uh, originally from Westchester,
and now live in Culver City.
- And how long ago did she move here?
- Uh, she moved here just after college.
So like, four years ago?
- Do you guys hang out a lot?
- Yeah, actually.
I mean we hang out a lot at work,
but we also have, like, the same friends.
- Well that's convenient. - Yeah.
- And where's the last place you guys went?
- Well our friend just had a
house warming party in Capetown.
She just moved there, so we hung out there.
- Did you guys see each other growing up?
- Uh, no 'cause we were really too far away.
- Yeah
- I mean, maybe like a few times.
- But you'd never seen each other before?
Like in person?
- We'd seen each other, yeah.
- Like when we were kids.
I think we had a reunion in like 2005.
- Yeah.
- But you guys do seem kinda convincing, honestly.
I don't know.
But, ya know, you may not be related.
And you may just have a very angelic face
and be really good at lying
and looking at somebody for clues.
- Aww. (laughter)
- All right, let me get out some other people.
You two are feeling likely to me.
But, you know, you may just be friends.
Let's have switch out--
No, I haven't put you guys together.
So, you go stand back up there.
(chair scooting)
Oh, don't even.
- What?! (laughter)
- Don't even think
I'm just gonna believe everything you say.
(laughter)
Whose parents?
- My mom and his dad.
- What's her mom's name?
- Hilary.
- Hilary. What's his dad's name?
- Andy.
- Andy!
All right, and so where's he from?
- San Fran--
Well you grew up in San Francisco,
but then you moved when you were like 10 to New York.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Where in New York?
- Long Island? (laughter)
- Okay, go stand back up there.
- Rachel, come sit down in here.
I'm just gonna put you in this,
but I'm not quite sure you're related to anybody here.
Uh, where is she from?
- New York?
- Wow!
- I think she's actually from Long Island. (laughs)
- How old were you guys when you first met each other?
- I wanna say that when we met, you wouldn't have remembered
'cause it was my cousin Erin's wedding,
and so,
I was like
eight
and you were like, one maybe?
- Where was Erin's wedding?
- I was like one. I don't remember. (laughs)
- When did she move here?
- Like five years ago?
- And so, when did you guys become friends?
Like, hook up here and start hanging out?
- Well, she helped me get my job here.
- Rachel, stand back up. (laughter)
(beep)
Have we done these two together?
I don't think so.
When'd she move here?
- Two years ago?
- Where do you guys go out and hang together?
- We like to go eat. - Yeah.
- That's like our thing.
- What's her favorite food?
- She likes salads a lot.
- So where's the last place you ate?
- Sweet Green.
- Well, you know, you guys do work together
so I could easily believe that.
Have you been to her house at all?
To her apartment?
- Uh, yes.
- And what's her mom's name?
- Her mom's name's Evelyn.
- And what's her-?
- Uh, Sally.
- Sally?!
Really?
- Yeah, I'm just not really buying you guys together either.
I don't know, maybe you guys are.
All right, guys, go ahead and stand up.
From all of these names and people
and putting it together today,
like my head is spinning.
Like, I have to say my brain is totally fried right now.
So, if I'm going to guess I do have an idea.
I'm definitely not feeling totally solid on it.
But, I feel like it's my best guess with the time I've had.
The thing about this is
you do have people here who obviously have worked together
who worked together, they're friends.
So, they can draw from a lot of real experience.
But, I do feel like there's been some real interactions,
and the two people that I feel are cousins,
that I've chosen obviously.
I feel like have spent some time together
and know a bit about each other.
Can you come sit down here?
Now, I talked to with these two people-
These two girls right here.
And I kinda feel like one of them may be your cousin.
Can you come sit over here?
(heels clicking) (chair scooting)
Are you guys cousins?
(drumroll)
- We're not cousins. - No. (laughter)
- We are good friends though.
- [Elisabeth] That's the thing.
It was really hard.
I was like "Well I know you guys have
definitely spent a lot of time together."
And you can tell you guys are giving genuine interaction
and real answers together.
- [Crew Member] Cousins step forward.
(clapping noise)
- What?! (laughter)
- Just an idiot with an anxiety disorder.
- Really?!
Now the thing is,
It is really hard to tell when you're telling the truth
because all of your answers,
are a little bit like,
it's kinda hard to tell with you.
- I got punished for (beep) I didn't do all the time.
(laughter)
- I totally believe that!
Rachel you surprised me.
Yes!
You really got me.
You should feel good today.
That was a really tough one because this guy right here,
it's really hard to tell when he's telling the truth or not.
He always has this (beep)-eating grin on his face
like, you know, the cat that ate the mouse.
(laughter)
I'm like, well it could be him or it could be not him.
(orchestral music)