- I consider myself a sneaky boy
just like a private investigator.
Today I'm going to team up with a private investigator
and try to find someone suspected of $10 million
insurance fraud.
Hopefully this car doesn't run me over.
I'd hate to die.
(slow, dramatic music)
I just walked into your office.
Are you a private investigator?
- I am.
- What does a private investigator do?
- There is many things that we can do,
from background checks and locates, to surveillance.
- Do you take a lot of photos as part of your job?
- Yes.
I do my best to videotape everything and with that,
I can get photos.
- Is your Instagram super cool?
- Not cool.
- Do you have any interest in taking over
my Instagram for a day?
- None.
- What was the scariest job you've ever been sent on?
- As I was going up with the repo driver
to kind of check out the situation,
the guy stormed out of the house,
pinned me against the wagon with a knife to my throat,
and it took about maybe five minutes to convince him
to not cut us.
- Wow.
- Yeah, he was arrested.
Did a couple nights in jail, I guess.
- I don't like when anyone puts knives against my throat.
- I didn't care for it much, either.
- I don't like shaving.
I like having a beard that's, like, a few inches.
Can you show me some of the equipment you use
on your missions?
- A lot of investigators now use drones.
It's to help us locate a vehicle if we're looking
for a particular person and there's a large estate
or we can't get near the property.
Drones help us in that way to get a little
bird's eye view.
- Could you call a taxidermist and put a fake bird
on top of here and no one would know what it is?
They'd think, "Oh, maybe that bird has some kind of
"pacemaker or some kind of heart problem.
"I'm gonna let it go."
- "I'll let it slide."
- Let it slide.
Hey, are you parched?
Do you want a soda?
- Would you like a sip?
- I would love a sip of your soda.
- [Ken] This is not just an average Coke bottle.
There's a camera in the Coke bottle itself.
- [Mike] Oh wow.
- It's a stash bottle.
So if for any reason I have to go indoors
or I need to talk to you,
I like to bring multiple cameras just in case
one fails or, you know, clearly, Murphy's Law.
And there we go.
- Wow.
- So what I can do with this, while we're talking,
I just go ahead and set it down somewhere
and it's inconspicuous and it'll keep filming us.
- I can be a pretty sneaky boy, so, I wanna join you
on a job tonight.
Is that cool with you?
- That's cool.
- What kind of a job are we going on tonight?
- Tonight we're going to try to locate an individual
that's on a $10 million insurance claim.
They're suspected of, the legal term is malingering,
and that's where someone's basically overhyping
their extent of the claim.
- They're faking a limp.
- They're claiming that they can't use their legs
due to a disease that they had received
from an accident.
- I'm gonna get in your car and you're gonna drive
to this suspect's house?
- Tonight we wanna just at least get signs of them
in Los Angeles.
Their claim is out of state.
Insurance companies don't know where this person is,
but I believe they're in LA.
- If we see this person in LA, does that mean you and I
win $10 million?
- Sadly, no.
- We can put on the air conditioning in your car,
we can laugh about old times,
and we can talk about future vacations.
- Maybe a little Tupac.
- We can wear toupees and listen to Tupac.
- My case file here has her basic information
along with a known associate so what we're gonna
do tonight is hopefully locate her and if she's
not where we're hoping she is, we're gonna then go
ahead and trek out to the second individual.
- So do the police ever pull you over and ask
what you're up to?
- If you're doing your job correctly
as a private investigator, you shouldn't be having
any problems.
Like A, they shouldn't see you pull up
and kind of disguise yourself or what have you
or just slip in, in your car.
If they do, you're doing a pretty shitty job
and, or, B, if it's a really bad neighborhood,
you may even want to considering calling ahead,
letting the police know, "Hey, calling in a Code Five,
"I'm gonna be on this hundred block
"and it's kind of this kind of case."
They'll cut you some leeway.
- What is your favorite speed limit?
I like 45 miles per hour.
- So what I like to do is cut the lights.
So at this point, we're on location.
I'm gonna go ahead and get out of my car,
walk the block, and see what I can gather
as far as information.
I want to see if I can find vehicles,
see if I can see any names on mail boxes, et cetera,
and slip back out of the neighborhood.
- [Mike] Before you go,
if we hear gunshots and you don't come
back to the car, should we get a taxi out of the area?
- Just wait a little longer.
You want to leave the auto in,
if I'm like, "Fuck my life, holy shit."
You guys just start the car and get the fuck out of here.
I'll be fine. (car beeping)
(slow, dramatic music)
- I really hope he survives.
I mean, honestly, Ken.
Something bad could happen to Ken
and we would be stuck in his car with
thousands of dollars of equipment.
(slow, dramatic music)
Oh, god.
It's very quiet.
His wife is about to have a kid and he's just
prowling the streets around midnight?
This is awful.
(slow, dramatic music)
I would be very surprised if Ken
came back into the car with a gun and stole my wallet.
(dramatic music)
We locked the doors, come on.
(car beeping)
(dramatic music)
- So at this location, it's kind of what I suspected.
I didn't really see any signs of life of her,
as in like, her name's not on anything.
There's no access to these particular apartments
that I was looking at.
Not only that, I didn't see,
I didn't see what I believe her vehicle would be, so,
what we're gonna do is check that second location
where I believe one of her male companions lives.
So off we go.
- [Mike] Her lover?
(car beeping)
Do they make love?
- Call it what you want.
- Sex buddies.
What kind of music do you listen to when you're snoopin'?
- [Ken] I really don't.
I'm so sorry, man.
- You gotta listen to Snoop Dogg.
- Snoop Dogg?
So right now we're arriving at the second location.
I already see a good sign.
I know she has children and when we made a drive
past the first, the little first passerby,
I noticed there were little girls' bicycles out front
and there were other toys sitting by the front porch
and so to me, those are terrific signs,
like I'm probably in the right place.
Now, if anything happens, just drive off.
- [Mike] How long do you think you're gonna be gone
this time?
- This will not be as long ass the last time.
This will be less than five.
- [Mike] Alright.
- Okay?
- [Mike] Good luck.
- Sit tight, thank you.
BRB.
(dramatic music)
- If you think about it, he looks so shady.
(dramatic music)
See now I'm suspicious of everyone.
Anybody who's walking their dog at midnight?
Pfht.
They're probably selling cocaine out of their dog.
Slinging cocaine out of their dog's butt cheeks.
(dramatic music)
Oh, here comes Ken.
(dramatic music)
Ken, you're not very good at estimating time
that you're gonna be gone.
- That wasn't three minutes?
- [Mike] No.
I am now very concerned about you
being the father of a child. (laughing)
"I'll be right back honey."
And you're back a year later.
- Yeah.
- [Mike] What did you see?
- Okay, so I like this location to start my surveillance
and the reason being is, like I said before,
there's kids toys, there's bicycles.
I know this gal has couple kids, actually, little girls.
She posts them on her social media so I know
the chances are she could be there.
- [Mike] So you think this was a victory?
- I do.
The next step is to actually perform surveillance.
- [Mike] I feel like you and I really connected
tonight as buddies and we are pretty good
at co-sneaking together.
Would you ever work with me again?
(chuckling)
- Yeah of course.
- Are you gonna go home and celebrate?
What are you gonna do to celebrate?
- Definitely not gonna celebrate.
I feel like tonight was a success.
I have a pretty good idea of where I'd like to start
in the next day or two.
So, I'll call it a wrap.
- To celebrate, I'm gonna go to sleep
under someone else's car tonight.
I think you and I look exactly the same.
But you are about five years older than me.
One of my top five favorite things to do
with my face is to cry.
What are some of your favorite things to do
with your face?
- Shave?