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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:34How would everyone feel about Esmeralda throwing rainbow-coloured toilet rolls into the crowd at the parade?
00:41I don't think that's necessary. No one wants rainbow toilet paper.
00:45Love your opinion, Oscar. Your voice is incredibly valuable.
00:54Market research shows that these are going to be absolutely huge in June.
01:01And if we want to keep up with the big boys, we need to go even further.
01:05Maybe make some brunch napkins.
01:06Oh, yes.
01:07Something like that.
01:08Gays love brunch.
01:10I love celebrating the LGBTQIA plus community.
01:16If it was down to me, our corporation would support gay people all year round.
01:50And I'll see you soon.
01:51Hey, everyone, meet Toledo PD's Detective Arnold.
02:00Thanks, Travis.
02:01How's your dad?
02:02He's in a really bad place right now.
02:06Oh.
02:07The detective has been briefing me about a very important public safety matter.
02:12He's made me a kind of deputy.
02:15No.
02:15Not a deputy, but I have been deputized.
02:19No, you have not.
02:20But you agree I've been briefed?
02:23Sure.
02:24Uh, is this a true crime?
02:26And if so, how detailed are you going to get?
02:28I love true crime.
02:30Calms me down before I go to sleep.
02:31Oh, my God, me too.
02:32I was like this close to starting a murder podcast.
02:35I'd listen to that.
02:36I'm afraid this is worse.
02:38Worse than murder?
02:39No, worse than a murder podcast.
02:40Than an alt-comedy podcast with a religious bent?
02:43That bad.
02:44I mean, we're talking about a catfisher who's preying on women online.
02:47Well, American women are so gallible.
02:50Do you know that over half of them die from eating expired food?
02:55What, seriously?
02:56Like, is that per year?
02:58See?
02:59Thank you, Detective Arnold.
03:00I have your number because you gave it to me on this card.
03:04No?
03:04Oh, sorry.
03:06And I just want to say thanks, and I'll check in with you this afternoon.
03:10Only if it's important.
03:12Yeah, I'm fine.
03:13Oh, no, no.
03:13Hey, I wouldn't take the softies' whiteboards.
03:16Kimberly gets really territorial about them.
03:18Kimberly will be fine.
03:19Okay, everybody.
03:21I think this could be a good story for today's paper.
03:25I love catfish.
03:26This is what we know so far.
03:29I'm referring to me and the police.
03:31So, a serial catfisher on the dating app Latch has been posing as service members who grew up in Toledo.
03:39This catfisher matches on the app with a real Toledoan and then reveals that they are stationed in Germany.
03:45After a lot of flattery and flirtation over DM, the catfish drops that they don't have enough money to come
03:52home for Thanksgiving.
03:53We see where this is going.
03:55The pathetic Mark, out of pity, or more probably lust, these are lonely people.
04:01They start wiring money to the catfish, at first just enough for the plane ticket, home from Germany to Ohio,
04:07but soon the love letters multiply, okay, along with requests for more funds.
04:12The nicknames the catfish will often use.
04:15Sweet Cheeks.
04:17It's not funny.
04:18Sorry.
04:18Baby Babe.
04:19Cookie Princess.
04:21Baby Baby.
04:23And Babe Babe.
04:25Also, sometimes just Baby.
04:26But you should look out for all of them.
04:28No way.
04:36What's going on?
04:38I'm concerned for a friend of mine.
04:40She is like a sister to me.
04:42She is like, yeah, dark hair, tiny, beautiful.
04:47She is like a twin.
04:48Like, imagine the German version of me.
04:52So I'm just a bit worried that she could be the victim of this dangerous internet catman.
05:07What's the beef with me and Esmeralda?
05:10Well, I made a list.
05:11She told me my voice puts her to sleep.
05:14She told me to put on blush because I blended into the white wall.
05:17I dress like I shop from a box of clothes from an estate sale for an old man who died
05:23a virgin.
05:24That one's oddly specific.
05:26Oh, yeah.
05:26And she made me buy her son a guinea pig with my own money.
05:30So, yeah, I'm going to hit her while she's down.
05:32It looked like she saw a ghost.
05:34That's what that was.
05:35Oh, wow.
05:36This could be a huge story for us.
05:39This could be a three-parter.
05:41The Cleveland Plain Dealer won a Sidney Award last year for my steps on the cult leader.
05:45Oh, I read that.
05:46I blame the dad.
05:47Imagine, right?
05:49The first installment, we just say the facts.
05:52Then we reveal it happened to one of our own.
05:55Part two, we publish the DMs.
05:58Can the victim ever trust again?
06:00Then, oh, my God.
06:01Part three, are our apps failing us?
06:04How can she find love now?
06:05Ah!
06:08Oh, God.
06:09She has a son, too.
06:10Oh, did he ever call him dad?
06:12Hee-hee!
06:13Four parts!
06:14How much money do you think she gave him?
06:16Twelve hundred.
06:17Easy.
06:17Nah, that's a lot.
06:19Should we bet on it?
06:20You guys, I know what we're thinking.
06:22We don't actually know.
06:23And honestly, we really shouldn't be victim-shaming, even if the victim is a self-hating woman who
06:28has way too many serpent belts.
06:30A really mean lady.
06:31All right, we got it out of our system.
06:33That is a strong six parts and a possible making of.
06:38I'm going to go talk to her.
06:39Oh.
06:40I just want to say, for the record, guys, catfish are beautiful creatures, and they don't
06:45deserve to be slandered like this.
06:46Who the f**k took my whiteboard?
06:58Hey, buddy.
07:00Hi.
07:00I couldn't help noticing you reacted pretty strongly to that catfishing story back there.
07:05I react strongly to everything.
07:07Life is strong, and I'm a strong woman.
07:10I don't mean to pry, but have you been corresponding with a serviceman stationed in Germany by any
07:16chance?
07:17I'm sorry.
07:18I think I didn't hear you.
07:20Actually, I think I'm feeling a bit dizzy.
07:23Oh.
07:24Oh.
07:24Okay.
07:25Can you please blow on the part of my hair?
07:28Sure.
07:29Sure, sure, sure, sure.
07:35I was an elite toilet paper salesman, and that takes patience.
07:39People don't always need toilet paper when you're trying to sell it to them, but eventually
07:43they will need it.
07:44And who will be there when they need to use the bathroom?
07:48What's his name?
07:50Jarson.
07:52His name is Jarson?
07:55Yes.
07:56It's a common American name.
07:59It's Jason and Jared combined.
08:02Ah, okay.
08:04You know, I'd love to ask you and Jarson a few questions about your relationship.
08:08How did you meet?
08:12Oh, my God.
08:14He just replied.
08:15Oh, he messaged you back right now?
08:17He must have awoken in the middle of the German night to urinate, you know, thinking about
08:24me.
08:25So he's not scamming me.
08:27Sounds real.
08:28That's what he's saying.
08:29He's saying that he feels very bad about borrowing money from me, and he can't wait to pay it
08:36back.
08:36He's very excited about it.
08:39So perhaps it's going to happen on our first anniversary.
08:43No story there.
08:45No.
08:46I feel so relieved.
08:47That is exciting.
08:48Can I speak to Jarson?
08:49No.
08:50No?
08:50No.
08:51Can I see those messages?
08:53No, no, no, no.
08:54Okay.
08:54Please, Esmeralda, so I just, I think it's really important, okay, that you understand
09:00that you could help a lot of people by participating in this story, but first, you need to admit
09:05the truth to yourself.
09:07Here's my truth.
09:08Here's my truth.
09:09Mm-hmm.
09:09I need you to go away because I need to take some nudes to send to Jarson.
09:13Okay.
09:14Thank you.
09:14Sure.
09:15Ciao.
09:16Mm-hmm.
09:19She shouldn't be taking nudes.
09:22Yeah, no, I'll stick with that.
09:23Okay, so that is $2,500 for Atalola.
09:27So I guess $2,501.
09:30Don't you box me in, you son of a bitch.
09:33Esmeralda's not ready to talk yet.
09:34We cannot get to a six-parter without somebody's point of view.
09:37What do we do?
09:37Why don't we just make latch profiles?
09:40Yes.
09:41So we can catfish Esmeralda into doing the story?
09:43No.
09:44Well, maybe.
09:45I think Mary's saying so we can try to get a nibble from the real catfish.
09:49Does anybody already have a latch profile?
09:51Mm-hmm.
09:51I do.
09:55So last week, Nicole and I, uh, we finally hung out.
09:59Then a couple nights later, we hung out again.
10:01I deleted my app immediately after the first hangout, when she was in the bathroom.
10:05But I-I think we're gonna take things slow, so, um, I won't mention it.
10:10You're not on latch?
10:12I deactivated my latch account.
10:14Well, you didn't have to do that.
10:17Yeah, yeah.
10:18I-I know.
10:18I just needed more storage on my phone.
10:20Okay, well, you should reactivate it.
10:23Right.
10:24For the s-the story.
10:26And to meet girls.
10:29Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
10:31For sex, right?
10:33We're having a lot of fun with each other, but he's still detrick work in my phone contacts.
10:40All right, everybody else, create your latch profiles, and I will try to coax a yes out of Esmeralda.
10:46Oh, guys, this is wrong.
10:50Come on.
10:51She's down at least 4,000.
10:53Yeah.
10:54Oh, the nudes.
10:574,200.
10:58Mm-hmm.
10:59Wow.
11:03Hey.
11:04Tea delivery.
11:06Thank you.
11:07Such a nice idea for someone that drinks only coffee.
11:10You know, I've had this experience happen to me, actually.
11:14When I was in 8th grade, I gave my padlock combo to a girl who told me she was going
11:19to decorate my locker.
11:21She stole my backpack.
11:22Oh, I'm sorry.
11:28I'm sorry.
11:29Uh, I'm sorry.
11:31If you don't do this interview, you let other people tell your story.
11:38It's delusional, actually.
11:43So what?
11:45What's all the talk about?
11:48What are the chattering chickens clacking about?
11:52My boyfriend?
11:55Here he is.
11:58That's a picture of him holding a picture of me.
12:02Look at his hands, like, the way he holds my picture.
12:06That looks like Josh Holloway.
12:08No, that's my jersey.
12:10That guy?
12:11Yes.
12:11From Lost?
12:12Yeah, he was.
12:13Until he found me.
12:15Wow, that's Sawyer from Lost.
12:17Yeah.
12:17Josh Holloway.
12:19Rourke from Yellowstone.
12:20That's great.
12:21He lives in Hawaii.
12:22Or so I've heard.
12:23Yeah, Esmeralda, that's just a famous actor the catfisher is using to seem attractive.
12:28I mean, Jarson could be anybody.
12:29He might be 11 years old.
12:30Oh.
12:32Yes.
12:33Of course.
12:35When there is a group of single women,
12:37and one woman finds happiness in love,
12:43the other single women try to take that happy woman down.
12:49You know, like, um, in a bowling pot of lobsters, you know, lobsters.
12:55Do you know that the male lobsters all lazily accept their fate,
13:00while the female lobsters try to get out,
13:05but, you know, clowing down each other during the process?
13:13They will not clow down this lobster.
13:19Hey, I thought you weren't creating a latch profile because you were scared of summer.
13:24My wife is not the boss of me.
13:26My boss is the boss of me.
13:28And my boss told me to create a banging profile, so.
13:32That is a lot of right swipes for a guy with four kids.
13:36Wait, I know this girl.
13:38Alyssa.
13:39I went to junior high with her and everything.
13:43Hey, Mayor?
13:45Yes?
13:46Yeah, what's a fun military slang?
13:48What is this?
13:49Are you doing a sporkle quiz?
13:50No, I'm updating my latch profile.
13:52I figure a good victim would be a fan of the military.
13:54You just wanted me to pop out a fun term for you?
13:57Sounds like a lot of stolen Valor, Ned.
13:59Oh, no, no, no.
14:00I didn't mean to do that.
14:02I'm screwing with you.
14:03Say that you're into, um, squids.
14:06That means navy.
14:07I like squid.
14:09Great.
14:10Okay, now I get to see the rest of your profile.
14:12Mmm.
14:13What?
14:14To be clear, as your boss, I'm not asking you to look at my dating profile,
14:18nor, frankly, I'm not sure why you would even want to do that.
14:21Okay, it's for work, so it's fine.
14:23Okay.
14:24Thank you.
14:26I may be six foot three, but I still like being the little spoon.
14:30Okay, this isn't work.
14:31Razzing me, not a part of work.
14:36This is potentially a huge opportunity for me.
14:41They say that if you nurse a wounded tiger back to good health,
14:47he won't attack you.
14:52Get out.
14:54Not if I go.
15:05So, I redownloaded Latch.
15:07Mm-hmm.
15:08It's funny, because I randomly had so many messages in my inbox.
15:12Look, it's the 5 a.m. weather girl from WNWO.
15:16Uh-huh.
15:16She's practically famous.
15:19What are you doing?
15:21I am letting Esmeralda's professional colleagues know
15:25that she's going through a difficult time,
15:27so they can reach out.
15:30Do you think that's something she wants you to do?
15:32I don't think she's in the right frame of mind to know what she needs.
15:38Okay.
15:38Don't delete my frisbee shot.
15:40That's my best picture.
15:41The angle makes my arms look thick.
15:43What is it with you and headwear?
15:45I mean, who do you think you are?
15:46Diane Keaton?
15:47Ooh, you look rich in this photo.
15:50That is good Jarson bait.
15:54Actually, you look rich in a lot of these photos.
15:56No, I don't.
15:57I'm sorry.
15:59Does your family own their own pickleball court?
16:02That's not pickleball.
16:03It's platform tennis.
16:04My uncle had one installed two summers ago,
16:06and he is strictly middle class.
16:08Mm-hmm.
16:09That was a huge part of his mayoral platform.
16:12Sweetie, she was a good friend of mine.
16:14Well, it is a good friend of mine.
16:15I just haven't seen her in years because you told me she was dead.
16:18Well, I care because it's not true.
16:20You didn't just get it wrong.
16:21You told me she hit her head on a coral reef off of Komodo Island,
16:25and the dragons got to what was left.
16:27It was very graphic.
16:28No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:30I told you that was for work.
16:32Uh, well, you're not supporting me as a journalist.
16:39This is exactly why I keep my private life private
16:41and never mess with dating apps of any kind.
16:50Hey, party people!
16:52Esmeralda, hey, I was just coming to check on you.
16:54I have an announcement.
16:57Jarson just sent me proof his love for me is real.
17:03Hey, darling.
17:04This is Jarson to let you know just how adored you really are, Esmeralda.
17:09Oh, me too.
17:10I love you, amore.
17:11See?
17:12Now, I hope this proves to your office friends that Jarson is real.
17:16Jarson is not scamming you, and Jarson loves you.
17:21So, my sweetie just proved that his love for me is real,
17:26and he just looks like that Josh Halloween person.
17:30How do you explain the other victims?
17:32That's a very romantic story,
17:34because he's actually my personal Robin Hood.
17:38Yes, he scammed other women,
17:41but it's just because he wanted to buy jewels for me
17:45that he will bring when we'll meet in person.
17:48Oh, honey.
17:49I think it's a cameo video.
17:50Yeah, they're...
17:51Pat Fisher paid Jarson to make a video.
17:54That's how come he keeps talking about Jarson in the third person.
17:57You don't believe in love.
17:59People talk like that all the time.
18:02Esmeralda thinks you're all stupid!
18:05See?
18:10What do you want?
18:11I just want you to listen, okay?
18:13I know this is embarrassing.
18:15For you, maybe, because you're so alone,
18:18and I'm so loved.
18:20You are his piggy bank, okay?
18:22He's taking advantage of you.
18:23I'm taking care of him.
18:26That's what a woman does.
18:28A woman makes her man happy.
18:31And I bet that $50 would make him very happy right now.
18:37What, did you just wire him more money?
18:40I did it again.
18:42No, no, no.
18:43That's $150.
18:44Please stop.
18:45You keep talking.
18:46I keep sending.
18:48Allora, our hearts are connected through cash-up.
18:53So, as soon as I feel something, he feels it on his hand, too.
18:58Stop.
18:59Stop it.
18:59Please, just on a money level.
19:00I cannot allow this.
19:01It's so wasteful.
19:02Stop.
19:06All right.
19:13Whoa.
19:14Need any help?
19:16Uh, I'm okay.
19:18Kind of on a roll.
19:21Cameo.
19:22What's up?
19:25Oh, I was, uh, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out after work.
19:29Gloria, the weather lady, she's kind of hitting me up about tonight.
19:32Nope, I'm good.
19:34Okay.
19:34You sure?
19:35Because I don't have to hang out with her.
19:37Yeah, have fun tonight.
19:38Maybe we can, I don't know, get together tomorrow or something, okay?
19:43Yeah.
19:43Um, cool.
19:44Thanks.
19:45Don't keep her out too late.
19:46She has to be at work at 4 a.m.
19:50All right.
19:55Okay, I hadn't seen your bio.
19:57We are definitely not done here.
19:59How do you still have access to my Latch profile?
20:01You forgot to log out.
20:02Well-behaved women seldom make history.
20:05It aligns with my politics and, you know, invites a certain degree of mischief.
20:11Okay, um, you left a story from your childhood blank.
20:14What do you got there?
20:15You know, something cute but, you know, also shows you as a caretaker?
20:19Potential prey for the Darsons of the world?
20:21I used to cut my grandmother's toenails.
20:24Is that a thing?
20:25What, she didn't like anyone else doing it after her arthritis got bad?
20:29I didn't mind.
20:30She's family.
20:32She'd kick me in the face if I cut them too short.
20:36R.I.P. Granny Raz.
20:38You sure that's funnier than my ultimate Frisbee team story?
20:41How half of them thought that I was left-handed when I wasn't?
20:43Both of them make me nauseous, but for different reasons.
20:46Why don't you keep working on the story and just, yeah, I'll tinker with this.
20:51Okay.
20:52Yeah.
20:53The grandma story was gross, but it was also really sweet.
21:00I swiped bread on that.
21:02Hey, Adam, any hits?
21:04Summer changed my password and she's sending pictures of our kids to all of my matches, so.
21:09Adalola?
21:10Oh yeah, I got plenty of matches.
21:12But none of them are asking me for money, so.
21:15Learning about the catfishing today has been a real eye-opener.
21:18It has given me the tools needed to extract $1,400 from six old men.
21:23I just gave Adalola $300.
21:27She doesn't know it was me.
21:29I catfished her.
21:31Now, it's an expensive hobby, but I see how it can be addictive.
21:36Hey, Detrick, what about you?
21:38Um, no scammers, but I do have a date later with the meteorologist from WNWO.
21:44Gloria Tornado?
21:45That's the one.
21:46Lucky.
21:46Sorry, Chief.
21:48I know you wanted a first-person story.
21:50It's fine.
21:51Detective Arnold said he'd put me in touch with some of the other victims, so.
21:55They're coming in to be interviewed.
21:58Oh!
21:59My God.
22:01Oh, wow.
22:03They believed that my Jerson could love them?
22:07Whatever they paid, just to think about it, was worth it.
22:22What did he tell you, my dear?
22:25He promised he was about to bring me Prussian jewels, and he never showed.
22:33How about you, my good sir?
22:35He was going to come visit me, and his ticket was stolen in the Stuttgart Airport.
22:40Me too.
22:41Jarson was mugged at the airport on his way to see me.
22:44Twice.
22:45All right.
22:47Let me ask you another question.
22:50Have any of you seen the TV show Lost?
22:53Were we supposed to?
22:54No.
22:55And you know, I'd skip it.
22:59All right.
23:00Hey.
23:01You owe me.
23:03Well, look who knows what they're doing.
23:06Me.
23:07Oh, wow.
23:07I got a match.
23:09I should have said that in a cooler way.
23:11It's good that you stayed true to yourself in that moment.
23:13First Lieutenant Joanne Schofield is matching with me.
23:17Is that him?
23:18Is he in Germany?
23:19No.
23:19It says she's one town over, and she's asking if I want to get pizza.
23:25Oh.
23:27Well, cool.
23:28No, it's good.
23:28At least you got something out of it.
23:30And hopefully we get a hit from Jarson, too, but it works.
23:34Mission accomplished.
23:35Great.
23:36Ah.
23:38No?
23:39Am I not allowed to salute you?
23:41No, I'm not an officer.
23:42But salute Joanne.
23:46Sorry, Joanne.
23:47I don't like pizza.
23:50But thank you for your service.
23:53Yes.
23:55Uh, hey, everyone.
23:57Check out the news.
24:01Hello, Esmeralda.
24:03It's me, Josh Holloway.
24:05From Lost, Yellowstone, and that under-seen show Colony.
24:09Anyway, your co-worker Nicole bought this for you on Cameo so you could hear it from me.
24:16Hey, I'm not Jarson.
24:18I'm Josh Holloway.
24:20I'm not your boyfriend.
24:22I don't know how our wires got crossed.
24:24I just say what they tell me to say on here.
24:25But we're not in love.
24:28I'm in love with my wife, Jessica.
24:31I'm sorry.
24:32Mahalo.
24:38Hey, uh...
24:39Hey, uh...
24:40Well, he was in Hawaii.
24:43What?
24:51Hey, has anyone seen Esmeralda?
24:53I want to give her a last chance to get a quote in.
24:56You seen her?
24:56She headed for the stars.
24:58Merci.
25:03Je ne ferais pas ça.
25:06Je veux votre conseil.
25:07Je vais demander pour ça.
25:11Oh shit!
25:13Tu es un chien!
25:16Tu es un把te d'al meditate!
25:20Je me каче�� anxiety!
25:27Tu es una tête blouse.
25:32Tu es un hesitate !
25:35Que
25:36Je suis désolée que ça vous a fait.
25:39Vous êtes le plus près avec 4,200 dollars.
25:45Si ça nous aide, je pense qu'il est mort pour tout le show.
25:56Nous allons passer cette histoire sans elle.
25:58Elle n'est pas à une six-part series.
26:01La Sidney Award peut attendre.
26:03C'est par mois.
26:13Hey, a couple of us are going to ladies' night at Macaroni Barn.
26:19You wanna come?
26:23Come on.
26:25We can use some alpha energy out on the dance floor.
26:35Yes!
26:37Get in, Esmeralda!
26:39Yes, Esmeralda!
26:41Yes, Esmeralda!
27:01It's so good to meet you, Detrick.
27:03Nice to meet you.
27:03What a beautiful night out.
27:06Yeah, you called it.
27:07A lot of men are intimidated by a woman who talks about the weather on TV.
27:11That will be...
27:12Ahahaha!
27:14Ahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahaha!
27:16A lot of men are doing a good next time.
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