- I am dating, I guess, yeah,
I'm currently dating someone too.
- Do they know?
(laughing)
- I think so.
- Are you dating?
- Nope.
- Why not?
- I have a dog that I'd rather spend time with.
- That's an indictment.
Hi, I'm John, I'm a private investigator in Los Angeles.
I've been doing this work about two and a half
or three years now.
Today, I'm to deduce which of our six subjects
are currently dating.
(moody noir music)
Oh, man.
What's your name?
- Felicia.
- How old are you?
- I am 26.
- Where are you from?
- San Francisco, California.
- What do you do?
- I am a writer for BuzzFeed.
- How long you lived in LA?
- Like eight years.
- You single?
- Yes.
- Where do you live around here?
- Miracle Mile.
- You datin' around?
- Yes.
- Apps?
- Yeah.
- How's that?
- It can be tiresome.
- How long you lived in Miracle Mile?
- A year.
- Okay, where'd you live before that?
- Santa Monica.
- What about before that?
- Sherman Oaks.
- What about before that?
- Korea Town.
- What about before that?
- Hollywood.
(laughs) Lake Tahoe.
- Oh, (bleep), okay.
All right, when was your last relationship?
- Like, a year ago.
- What was his problem?
- It was a very long term relationship
and it ended up just kind of puttering out.
- Oof. - Yeah.
- Sorry.
What's your name?
- My name is Nate.
- Now, where do you live?
- Glendale.
- What do you do?
- I'm a manager of the animation department.
- How long have you had the job?
- Since March.
- You dating anybody?
- Nobody specific. (laughing)
- Nice, you on those apps?
- On the apps.
- So when was the last date you were on?
- Three weeks ago.
- How was that?
- It was okay.
- Brutal.
What do you like to do for fun?
- I like to write and to listen to music.
- You go to much live music?
- I do.
- What's the last show you went to?
- This band called This Wild Life.
(laughing)
- What's that band called?
- This Wild Life.
- They're good.
- Yeah, they're just two dudes,
it's like third generation pop punk.
- All right, focus up.
(laughing)
What's your name?
- Bekki.
- Who you datin'?
- No one.
- Okay, you can go.
Nah, I'm joking. (laughing)
Now, where do you live?
- I live in Hollywood.
- What do you do?
- I'm an attorney.
- Where? - BuzzFeed.
- Where'd you go to law school?
- Southwestern.
- Where you from? - Phoenix.
- How long you been in LA?
- Seven years and change.
- Where you live in LA?
- Hollywood.
- Are you dating?
- Nope.
- Why not?
- I have a dog that I'd rather spend time with.
- That's an indictment.
(laughing)
When's the last time you dated?
- When did Once Upon a Time in Hollywood come out?
That's the last date I went on.
- How was that?
- Enough to make me put off dating for a while.
- Was it a guy or a girl?
- Guy.
- What was his problem?
- He was a little boring.
He was a Red Sox fan.
And, you know, it just, nothing clicked.
- What are you?
- I'm a Yankees fan.
- From Phoenix.
- Well, there was no professional sports team
when I was a kid,
and Bernie Williams is the best centerfielder.
- Even better than Lance "One Dog" Johnson?
- I'm gonna go with yes.
- What'd you think of the movie?
- I liked it better the second time I saw it.
- You went a second time?
- Yeah.
- How much longer after the date?
Like immediately after?
- No, like two weeks after.
- Okay, what's your name?
- Stanley.
- Where you from, Stanley?
- I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Where do you live?
- I currently live in Hollywood.
- How long you been in LA?
- Been almost seven years.
- What do you do?
- I work here as like a video editor.
- How long you worked here for?
- Since January, so about six or seven months.
- Who are you datin'?
- I am dating, I guess, yeah, I'm currently dating someone.
So, just someone that I've been met.
- Do they know?
(laughing)
- I think so. - Okay.
How long?
- It's been about maybe four months.
- Okay, what do they do?
- They (laughs),
they also, you know, do stuff.
- Well, I know you're full of (bleep),
I just know how that works out for me, good or bad.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- Do they have a job?
- I certainly hope so.
Yes.
- What is it?
- (laughs) They work at, they work at BuzzFeed.
- How long you been dating?
- Like, three or four months.
- Okay, what do you guys do for fun?
- Go to restaurants and/or watch movies.
- What movie did you watch recently?
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, yeah.
- Do you think maybe a couple weeks later,
she went back and watched it alone again?
(laughing)
- I can't, I don't know, I don't know their life.
(laughing)
- Well again, I don't know what any of this
really means for me or my case.
It is kind of entertaining.
What's your name?
- Stanley.
- Are you okay?
- I'm sure I'm gonna be okay.
- All right, why do you come and join me?
What's your name?
- Lilian.
- Are you okay?
(laughing)
- Yeah.
Laughter is good.
- Where do you live now?
- In Hollywood.
- Do you live with Stanley?
(laughs)
- I live close to him.
'Cause we both live in Hollywood.
- I mean, a lot of people live in Hollywood.
- Yeah, well, I don't have a car.
So I need to live close to work,
and that's why I chose Hollywood.
- Where's work?
- Here.
- At BuzzFeed? - Mmhmm.
- What do you do?
- I'm a video editor.
- What do you do for fun?
- I like working out.
I also teach fitness classes.
- Oh yeah?
- Mmhmm, I like eating food, so that's why I work out.
- Okay.
- I like K barbecue, soups, pasta, just anything.
- Soups. - I love soups.
- How long have you been dating?
- I'm not dating him.
(laughing)
I'm not laughing 'cause I'm lying.
(laughing)
- Okay.
And what type of workouts do you do?
- I like swimming, and I also like circuit training.
- What do you teach?
- Bootcamp, which is circuit training.
- Okay.
- I can give you a free entrance in
if you wanna work out.
- Really?
- Yeah, I can always bring people in.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- How long have you been in LA?
- Three years.
- Okay, where have you lived besides Hollywood?
- Just Hollywood.
- Are you datin' around?
- Yeah.
- How's that goin'?
- LA sucks for dating.
- Why?
- Lots of actors, models,
so they're not really looking for serious.
- Is that true?
- I'm not an actor or a model, so it's not true.
- Could've fooled me.
- Dang. - Whoo!
- What's your name?
- Blake.
- All right, where are you from?
- A small town outside of Houston, Texas.
- What's it called?
- Vulture.
- How long you been in LA?
- About 10 months.
- And where do you live?
- East Hollywood.
- What do you do?
- I'm a video editor for BuzzFeed.
- What do you do for fun?
- I like to do like athletic stuff, hiking, basketball,
but I also like, you know,
I have like an addiction problem to video games.
- What's your favorite game?
- Mass Effect 2, specifically.
Not Mass Effect 3, not Mass Effect 1,
and definitely not Mass Effect 4, but Mass Effect 2.
- I can count, yeah.
What's your favorite kind of food?
- I like cheeseburgers, man. (laughing)
A nice cheeseburger or like steak and potatoes,
sounds good.
- You like movies?
- I do, I'm a big movie fan.
- What's your favorite movie?
- That's tough. (laughing)
- What's your favorite movie?
- Black Swan.
- Whoa - Whoa.
- How long has it been since you last dated,
like, it were in a relationship?
- Well, a real relationship, like three years ago.
- So, where was that relationship?
- We met in Montreal,
then we went to Korea,
then I wanted to come here.
So then long distance didn't work out.
- So you're datin' someone, right?
- Yeah.
- And what's this person's story?
Where does she live, he or she live?
- Hollywood.
- Do you live together?
- (laughs) No, no, we don't, actually.
- Do you write stuff outside of BuzzFeed?
- I do.
- You ever shoot anything?
- Like, short films.
- Hm? - Hm?
- How's the sex in you relationship?
(laughs)
- It's up there.
(laughs)
- It's up there.
All right, I think you can both step away, thank you.
(sighs) Now, I don't think Nate is single.
But I don't know much else beyond that hunch.
I'm just not really feelin' Nate.
I think Bekki is a lawyer.
(laughing)
I'm kind of ruling Bekki out at this point.
I mean, once again, I think the key
to this investigation is Stanley.
Stanley's story is all over the place.
About the only consistent thing is that
if it's true, he's been dating someone
for three or four months,
but even that took him like, you know,
60 seconds to finally come to a decision.
What kind of food do you like?
- I like eating meat, I guess, in various forms,
so like Korean barbecue or steak.
- Maybe Blake and Stanley are dating,
'cause Blake likes burgers and steak and potatoes,
and Stanley likes meat.
I don't think Stanley is dating Blake.
(laughing)
- Are you sure, though?
- I don't need that right now.
(laughing)
Stanley, could you come and sit here, please?
And Lilian, would you come sit here?
All right, could you switch seats real quick, actually?
- It's a test. - Please.
- Felicia, would you come over here?
Lilian, you can go back.
I think you two are dating.
- Really?
- No.
That's true.
Yeah, we are.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Oh (bleep) yeah.
(laughing)
Thank God, I feel real good right now.
But you said, you both have been in LA
for roughly the same amount of time,
seven years and eight years.
I mean, you both work here, whatever,
everybody works here, I think I work here now.
Stanley couldn't spin a lie to save his life,
I mean, it took him forever to come up with any details,
so that put me on alert to kinda keep an eye on you.
So I knew Stanley was sort of the key to the castle here.
I had a feeling he was one of the two people there.
You know, you mentioned you've lived in K Town in the past.
Near the end, you mentioned, after meat,
more specifically, maybe Korean barbecue
was one of your favorite things to do.
- That is, yeah.
- And you lived in Hollywood as well,
and you say you've lived in Hollywood,
I mean, again, this is what I've been told, but who knows?
But, I'll tell you what, you know,
I thought it might have been Lilian too,
'cause Lilian and Stanley had the exact same
body language over there.
- Oh, I actually did that on purpose.
- If I'm being perfectly honest,
I saw once or twice out of the corner of my eye,
I saw Stanley shoot Felicia a look
when she was on the wall and he was sitting here.
And it happened more than once and I just thought,
I think they're getting a kick out of this
more than other people.
- I knew when I saw him answering,
I was like, he doesn't know how to keep calm under pressure.
- That's why I started grilling you
about what you do and what you create,
I thought, well maybe if she's a writer,
maybe he edits her projects, you know,
maybe they met here or whatever, met wherever,
but maybe they're sort of a creative duo as well,
and I don't know if that's true.
- We are, yeah.
- You are? - Yeah.
- Well, then, I should get two for this,
so I get two points.
So anyway, that's what I was thinking.
(jazzy noir music)