Last season
We brought you the story of Maria
"It's our first date, he's really cute"
The sixteen-year-old girl who had been chatting
online with a boy she thought was her age
The situation turned dangerous
"Maria, right?"
When they meet in person and the boy
is actually a grown man
"Are you Brian?"
Time after time we saw adults
"Hey, mind your own business, please"
And even teenagers
Stand up to Brian as he tried to lure Maria
out of the café
The moment the scenario aired, viewers went on Facebook
and YouTube all asking the same question:
what would happen if we flipped things around?
and had an older woman prey on a young boy?
So, we listen and now we're back in Lulu's Café in West Nyack, New York
Our actors Joe and Simone will be using some of the very same language
the actors used the first time
"Hey, you're even better-looking in person, you know?"
"Wow, you are even cuter in person"
Will reactions be any different?
You see an older woman trying to lure a young boy
out of the café
What would you do?
"Joe!"
"Yeah?"
"It's me, Simone"
"W-wait... You're Simone?"
"Yeah, I'm Simone"
"You told me you were sixteen"
"Well, it's the internet... I mean you told me you were sixteen, how old are you?"
"I AM sixteen, you lied to me!"
At the next table these teenage girls squirm uncomfortably
"What young guy wouldn't wanna spend time with an older woman?
Your friends will be so jealous!"
"Hey, come on!"
"I have experience, and there's so much that I can teach you
I'm gonna get out; I'm gonna go to the bathroom for a second, okay?
And then we can go!"
As Simone steps away, the girls tell Joe to do the same
"I can't go... That is.. What should I do?"
"No, they'd kill me if they even knew I was here"
"My friend dropped me off"
"Yeah"
"Online. I don't think she's going to do anything"
Joe goes back to his table and Simone returns
"You ready? Sorry I took so long"
"I don't think I should go
I'm not going to go"
But Simone just won't take no for an answer
"What do you mean? Joe, I've got alcohol"
"I'm gonna call my friends"
"Why are you gonna call your friends?-"
"-They'll pick me up"
"But Joe, you asked me to come meet you here..."
"Yeah, but you weren't... who I thought"
And now these young girls jump in to help
standing up to Simone
"We are gonna hang out, look I'm gonna give you a..."
"No, well... okay, I mean he came here to meet me"
"Joe is old enough to make his own decisions, what's the problem?"
"Come on, man. It's cool, let's go"
"You're driving me home?"
"I'll take you anywhere you want, of course I'll drive you home!"
As they head out
the girls stand up
Time for us to step in
"Hi, how are you?
I'm John Quiñones"
"Nice to meet you"
"When she took him out, what went through your mind?"
"Oh my god, we have to stop that!"
"I have known so many people
that have put themselves in such bad situations,
that it's like I understand getting in trouble.
I would rather get in trouble
than go home with some fourty-year-old woman that just walked in that was supposed to be sixteen"
Those sisters aren't the only young adults who come to Joe's aid
These two notice Simone immediately
"Joe?"
"Simone?"
"Yeah! It's me, Simone"
They try to listen in
"You know what? I'm gonna go to freshen up for a second
and I'll be right back and then we'll go, okay?"
And once Simone leaves the table
In fact, she's got a plan for ditching our female predator
"Hey! You're ready to go?"
"He's actually like really good friends with my little brother,
so he's gonna come over and hang with us instead"
"What do you wanna do, Joe?"
"You wanna come with me, don't you?"
"I don't know..."
"But we were gonna go swimming"
"That's... I've a pool in my house, so it's fine
"This is supposed to be our special date"
"Well, maybe you guys can hang out another time because my brother is really excited to for him to come over and they haven't seen each other all summer
"Well, that's really nice, but what do you wanna do, Joe?"
"I'm... I'm just gonna hang here"
"That's what you want?"
"You know, you ruined my date. Thanks a lot, guys.
I'll be talking to you online, Joe"
She's just a few years older than Joe, but she stood up
to Simone
"Thank you"
"No problem, yeah, no problem; I'll take you home and I'm not gona tell your parents"
We wondered, why?
"Weren't you a little intimidated by her?"
"Yeah, a little, but..."
"Why do it?"
"I would want somebody else to get involved if it was anybody I cared about"
"You just hear all the stories about kids who end up going and you see all the people
and you are wondering like, why didn't they say anything?"
And now, our final customer of the day is seated
he watches the interaction between Simone and Joe
And the moment she steps away from the table
I can't
yeah but I... I might
I'm nervous, she's just freaky. She lied to me.
She told me she was sixteen.
What do you think about her?
sixteen
So what should I tell her when she comes back?
But why would somebody do that?
Yeah, I was just really freaked out.
Yeah.
And now Simone is back.
Oh, You switched seats on me. Let's go!
No.
Really?
I'm good.
He can answer for himself, he is sixteen.
I'm good.
Joe, come on...
You could really had an influence on Joe.
Unbelievable.
Thank you.
you're welcome
You saved me.
no sir, you did
What did you want to relate to him?
don't believe everything you see online
I thought this kid is gonna go home with some, you know psycho barracuda and I just can't sit here
but you did say, "if you're curious...go for it"
well, you know
he is his own human being
you know he can make up his own mind
I would have liked somebody like me to have my back. when I was Joe's age
did something happen?
yes things happen yea
and I thought, not on my watch
Im glad I saved you from a fate worst than death
hahaha