- Secrets. Everyone has them.
It's the job of a private investigator
to dig up someone's secrets,
so I drove down to Anaheim and met with
a private investigator to see what he could
find out about me.
What kind of cases do you take on as a PI?
- We do a lot of infidelity,
We do a lot of missing persons.
We do a lot of child custody.
The list goes on.
- Have you seen people cheating on their partners?
Have you seen people getting murdered?
- I've never seen anybody get murdered.
People cheating, I see that, it's what I do.
I see it all the time.
- You're taking photos,
or you're making sure that it's on record.
- Absolutely.
You know, sex in a car--
- People have sex in a car?
- All the time.
- That cannot be comfortable. - Yeah.
- I'm challenging you to dig up as many
secrets about me as you can.
- Challenge accepted.
- What I didn't tell Jason was that while he was
investigating me, I was going to be investigating him.
- And this is an attachment that comes up to my iPhone
with just a solo vortex monopod,
and you plug it in,
and I can take pictures from it,
I could run it through an app, timestamp it,
and give it to the client in real time.
- I first contacted my friend who is deeply connected
to the underground web forum community.
He gave me a lot of advice
that was not legal.
- What I'm doing right now is just an initial
comprehensive background search
on Michael, and what this shows is bankruptcies,
leans, judgments, criminal traffic, Global Watch List,
any email addresses, all the phone numbers he's ever had,
all the addresses that he's ever lived at.
- Second, I contacted another private investigator
to investigate the first private investigator.
I'm curious how much it would cost
to investigate another investigator.
The investigator wanted too much money,
so I had to tell him to stop talking to me.
- So I have a little bit more work to do
on the counties that he's lived in.
This will be fun.
- My third and final strategy was to do
a deep web search of this private investigator.
We are searching various public record databases,
county and state court records, and criminal records.
I just got the chills looking at this page.
The private investigator had no idea
what I was about to reveal about his shady past.
(mysterious music)
So it's been a week.
What were you able to dig up on me?
- I did not find any criminal history on you.
- Yes.
- Now, here, I'll just give you the report here,
and we can go through it.
You have kind of a vanilla life here.
These reports are generally anywhere
from 15
to 50
pages long.
Your report is nine pages long.
You're living lightly on the grid,
but no criminal record.
Am I right?
- Yeah, you are correct.
I'm very impressed.
You can find a lot about a person
only by knowing their name.
- Sure. Yep.
- What you don't know, is that while
you were investigating me, I was investigating you.
- Uh-Oh.
- I was able to find something very interesting.
- Okay.
(mysterious music)
- I couldn't find anything on this guy,
and the fact that he's a private investigator,
means that he's probably covered up his tracks.
On the piece of paper I handed to Jason
was a stupid cartoon photo that I made in Photoshop.
- (Laughs)
My car's white.
- You wouldn't be stealing your own car.
You're stealing someone else's car.
- That's right. Wow.
Don't tell anybody about this.
- (laughs)
Do you know where's Waldo is?
- (laughs) Where's Waldo? (laughs)
I could probably find Waldo, sure.