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Caught The Act Double Life Season 1 Episode 4 - Full
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00:01Have you ever suspected someone in your life
00:03is hiding a secret?
00:04Maybe.
00:05You got, like, an addiction to porn.
00:06A secret's so big,
00:08it's as if they were living a double life.
00:10She just turned into a cemetery.
00:12Oh, my God.
00:13Who is that?
00:14There he is.
00:15I cannot believe my eyeballs right now.
00:17This is double life.
00:18All day being for sure.
00:20I'm your girl, Tamar Braxton,
00:22and Lord knows I've seen my share of lies and deceit.
00:25Now, I'm helping suspicious individuals
00:28expose the truth about their loved ones,
00:30resources like this allow us to actually get metadata
00:33about the property.
00:34You got to find out what your homegirl has been doing.
00:37Okay, look at this.
00:38By catching them in the act of living a double life.
00:41Maybe it is sex work.
00:42Maybe that's her boss.
00:43This is a bull .
00:44I think her hustle is breast milk.
00:46Oh, my God.
00:47He has sued every company that he's worked for.
00:50Oh, I know you're lying.
00:52He would always just say he was working.
00:54He was working, just not at bartending.
00:56But it takes a shark team to catch someone in a lie.
00:59So I've enlisted the help of my team of specialists
01:03to track down the truth
01:04and understand why people turn to betrayal
01:06instead of coming clean.
01:08You haven't just told a lie.
01:09You've lived a lie.
01:11Once our investigation is complete,
01:13the suspecting loved one can choose to learn more
01:16about the double life.
01:17You've got to stop being so damn defensive.
01:20I'm good at keeping a secret.
01:22Or set up an undercover sting
01:24and expose their secret once and for all.
01:26What the ?
01:28Are you...
01:29Like, why is you here?
01:32Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
01:34Everybody, hold up.
01:35Get out of my...
01:36Get out of my...
01:37This is Caught in the Act.
01:39Double Life.
01:42On this episode...
01:43I get notices on the door
01:45because he's lighting fires.
01:46We have a website that says,
01:48all are welcome.
01:49Click.
01:50Whoa.
01:51Oh!
01:52They all look like the same type of people.
01:54All in black.
01:55Who is this?
01:56That's not my brother?
01:57No.
01:58I'm out.
01:59Can we come in?
02:00No, no.
02:01Yeah, no.
02:02What the ?
02:03We ain't no care.
02:04Hold on.
02:05Oh, hell no.
02:06This is what you wanted, Quentin.
02:09Okay, first of all,
02:10I know you done came to me
02:11because somebody close to you
02:12may be living a double life.
02:14But before we get into that,
02:15tell me about yourself.
02:16Okay.
02:17My name is Quentin.
02:18I'm 38 years old.
02:19I was raised by my mother mostly.
02:20Your dad was out of the picture.
02:21Yeah, so it was me and my mom for a while.
02:23She didn't meet my stepdad
02:24when I was probably about nine years old.
02:26Okay.
02:27So who did you come to talk to me about?
02:29My biological father had another child.
02:32Okay.
02:33What is his name?
02:34Taryn, sorry.
02:35Taryn.
02:362018.
02:37Okay.
02:38My brother Taryn graduated from college
02:39and that was our first real, like,
02:41come together moment,
02:42which was great because, you know,
02:44finally putting a face to a person you've heard about.
02:46Yeah.
02:47And then, you know,
02:48I go into big brother mode.
02:49I'm like, oh, this is my little bro.
02:51Oh, so this is the younger brother.
02:52Yes.
02:53Okay.
02:54We had a lot in common in the media.
02:55Like, we both liked the same type of music.
02:56Oh, wow.
02:57Huge video game nerds.
02:59Oh, wow.
03:00What's been suspicious?
03:01He got in some trouble with people he was living with
03:04and he asked if he could move in with me.
03:06He explained the situation that jobs kind of dried up,
03:09so he's down on his luck.
03:10And personally, I feel that, you know,
03:12with that not knowing him growing up,
03:14I feel like I needed to make up for a lot of time.
03:16I want to fill that 10 year gap.
03:18So how did that go when he moved in?
03:20Did you guys get closer?
03:21After a while, like, his behaviors started to change.
03:25Like what?
03:26He started hanging out with a different crowd of people.
03:28He would be out all night hanging out with his friends.
03:30Oh, man.
03:31He started drinking more.
03:32I would wake up in the morning
03:34and there would be wine bottles in the living room.
03:37It was just a lot.
03:38And I'd get notices on the door when I'm leaving from work
03:41from my HOA in my neighborhood because, you know,
03:43they have seen smoke coming out of my backyard
03:45because he's lighting fires.
03:46Like bonfires?
03:47Yeah.
03:48Oh, wow.
03:49I mean, you can't do that.
03:50Maybe him staying out all night hanging with a different crowd.
03:53He might be, like, into something, like, shady or harmful.
03:57I did feel like maybe he was into something he shouldn't be in.
04:01And me growing up Southern Baptist, Taryn grew up Mormon.
04:05I know that they're a little more strict.
04:08They're a little more stringent.
04:09They got their own set of rules of things that they adhere to.
04:14Growing up Mormon is not an easy thing.
04:16He's probably, like, kicking it right now.
04:19You know what I mean?
04:20Doing everything that he's big enough to do
04:22and couldn't do growing up.
04:24Does he still live with you?
04:25No.
04:26I said an ultimatum, and he probably tells people
04:28that I threw him out, but...
04:29What was the ultimatum?
04:30I need you to show me that you're actually actively trying
04:33to get your together, or I'm...
04:35You gotta go, bruh.
04:36So you didn't turn from brother to parent.
04:39Basically, he asked if he could borrow some money from the move,
04:42and so I initially loaned him, you know, two grand
04:45to get him started so he could find an apartment, a place.
04:48I didn't want him out there struggling or anything like that.
04:50Yeah, yeah.
04:51But once he got my mom sick and she's needing some help,
04:54and I've been sending her what money I could,
04:56but it's putting me in the bind.
04:57Can you help me out?
04:58Yeah, I got you.
04:59Oh, that's nice.
05:00So I sent him another $1,500.
05:02Mm-hmm.
05:03So one day, I'm out grocery shopping,
05:05and I run into a family friend.
05:06He asked me, he said,
05:07hey, have you talked to Taryn?
05:08And I said, I've been, you know, helping him out.
05:10I sent him some money to send to his mom so he can,
05:13you know, help her out.
05:14Yeah, yeah.
05:15And he's like, that's why I asked you to talk to Taryn,
05:16because his mom has been trying to reach out to him.
05:18What?
05:19And has not heard for him at all.
05:21And that was like red flags, alarms.
05:26Lies.
05:27Lies.
05:28Where the is my money?
05:30I was hurt.
05:31I was really, really hurt.
05:32Absolutely.
05:33It's hurtful.
05:34It's real hurtful.
05:35I don't know.
05:36It's not like scammer vibes to me.
05:37What do you think it could be?
05:39It could be anything.
05:40I really hope that it's not something that he's out there
05:42doing, something that I have to, that's one of the options
05:44where I have to say, this is my brother that I've only known
05:47for a couple of years, and I have to cut this man out of my life.
05:50Yeah.
05:51I really want to get to the bottom of what's going on
05:53with your brother.
05:54And so I'm going to need you to send me any information
05:58that you have on him so I can share it with my team,
06:02so we can crack this case and get to the bottom
06:05of what's going on with your brother.
06:07Okay?
06:08All right.
06:09All right, let's hit it.
06:10All right.
06:11To figure out if Taryn is living a double life,
06:14my field specialist, Courtney, is staking out Taryn's house
06:17to see if we can uncover any suspicious behavior.
06:21She's been outside of his house all day without any side of him.
06:26Oh, my God.
06:27I have been here all day, and this guy hasn't come out once.
06:30So I don't know if he's sick or maybe he's got a hangover.
06:34Definitely not the way that we wanted to start off day one.
06:37Oh, okay.
06:42Okay.
06:43Spiffy all black outfit.
06:46Maybe a fancy date.
06:49Let's see where we end up.
06:54Let's see where he goes.
06:55It looks like we're pulling up around an area with a lot of bars or clubs or restaurants.
07:08All right.
07:09So he just parked, and it looks like he's walking across the street to kind of like a dive bar or grungy bar.
07:17So before I go in, I'm going to let Putno is here.
07:22Maybe he can text Taryn, and we can see how he reacts.
07:25All right.
07:26I'm going to go in, and I'm going to wear a little pin cam.
07:29All right.
07:30Let me get a drink.
07:31So what's that going on with?
07:32I think I saw the same one that really is.
07:33I don't know.
07:34I don't know.
07:35I don't know.
07:36I saw her picture, and that's what I got here.
07:39She's fully anesthetic, and you can tell that it was God, but she's, like, actually part of the crew, and she's like, actually part of the crew.
07:58Yeah.
07:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:00Sorry.
08:05Dude, I'm so tired now.
08:09Dude, it's my brother.
08:10Dude, let's have another order.
08:12Like, .
08:17All right.
08:21Taryn and his friends met at this bar.
08:23They all look like the same type of people, all in black.
08:26And I'm going to go ahead and say, pretty gothic.
08:29And all of a sudden, he's like, well, you know, I met this girl from this website for people like us.
08:35I was like, what do you mean?
08:36So I'm going to text Chris.
08:38Maybe you can find something on this girl he's been dating.
08:41Let's see what he gets.
08:43So Courtney gave me a tip that Taryn met someone online.
08:48Here we go.
08:49We've got a dating profile.
08:51Meet in the shadows?
08:53What's that about?
08:55Are you drawn to the shadows, the misunderstood and the beautifully strange?
09:00Love doesn't have to fit into society's narrow definitions.
09:04Join us if you're ready to find your perfect match.
09:07Someone who loves the unknown as much as you do.
09:10Certainly seems like an off the cuff dating site.
09:13It's certainly not unusual for a single person to have a profile on a dating app.
09:18But these dating apps are pretty niche and specific.
09:21So maybe this is a clue as to him living a double life and leaving a secret.
09:26Maybe he has a fetish that he's trying to keep from the family, namely his brother.
09:31I am starting the second day of surveillance back at Taryn's house.
09:38So we're going to see what we get here today.
09:40And if he goes anywhere, we're going to fall behind.
09:56Oh, finally, he's coming out of the house.
10:00I've been sitting here a while.
10:03Woo!
10:15There's a couple of different places in this shopping plaza, but it looks like he's heading towards a casket store.
10:22Why would he be at a casket store?
10:25This is getting weird.
10:30My client Quentin has been lending money to his brother Taryn to care for his sick mother.
10:45But Quentin suspects something more nefarious is going on.
10:49Maybe this really is about his mom.
10:54Maybe she really is sicker than we know.
10:56And that's what he's using his brother's money for.
10:59Or I hate to say this, but maybe he's actually sick and hasn't told anybody.
11:04And he's preparing for something that maybe we don't know.
11:07I'm going to text Chris and let him know, like, hey, he just went to a casket store.
11:12Maybe he can dig around.
11:18Chris!
11:20Hey, Tamar.
11:21Please tell me you don't found something.
11:22We got an update from Courtney saying that she followed him casket shopping.
11:26What?
11:27Who's that?
11:28Well, possibly his mother's health is dwindling even more than we kind of know, or maybe even more than Quentin knows.
11:34So have you been, like, looking at the money trail?
11:37Not yet. I can bring that up right now.
11:38Okay, let's do that.
11:39Okay.
11:40So we've got some exchanges here.
11:45Taryn to Paolo, $25.
11:49Taryn paid Jacob $40.
11:51Taryn paid Trevor $20.
11:54Taryn paid RVA Group $77.
11:57What's RVA Group?
11:58I don't know what that is.
12:00I'm not seeing it.
12:01We got another transaction from Taryn to RVA Group, the same amount, $77 every time.
12:07Well, let me click on RVA Group.
12:10It's a private profile.
12:12No photo on there.
12:14Don't have any email address or address, anything like that.
12:18What else do you think it could be?
12:19I mean, it's consistent payments.
12:21So there's something behind that.
12:23So can we find out what the RVA Group is?
12:25Will do.
12:26All right. Thanks, Chris.
12:27Sure.
12:35So it's early in the morning and Taryn just left his house.
12:38This is the earliest that I've seen him leave yet.
12:41I do know going for the casket shopping was a little bit on the weird side.
12:45So who knows where we are going to end up on this one?
12:48All right.
12:49So he's pulled up into looks like a shopping plaza has a couple of different stores inside,
12:58but I do see a meat market.
13:00We're going to go in.
13:01We're going to follow him.
13:02So I have something perfect for this.
13:03I'm going to take my camera glasses.
13:06One little button and it's going to have audio and video recording.
13:11So let's go inside and see what we got.
13:13So Taryn knew this butcher on a first name basis, and he walked around the store.
13:30He looked around.
13:31He looked around.
13:32He was really particular.
13:33And finally he goes to the counter and I saw him pick something up that the butcher gave him.
13:49I don't really know what it was.
13:51And he put it in his duffel bag before he left.
13:53It was, it was pretty strange.
13:54I'm not going to lie.
13:59Chris, what you found?
14:01Delving into the RVA group.
14:03I found out it was an incorporated group as an LLC.
14:06So I've got the secretary of state's website up right here.
14:09So all I need to do is type in RVA group.
14:15Okay.
14:16So we have quite a few hits here.
14:18Here we go.
14:19RVA group.
14:20So it's an active company out of California, but the agents listed a James Fomori and a Glenn Briscoe.
14:30Do those names mean anything to you?
14:31Never heard of them.
14:32No.
14:33Can we find out who these guys are?
14:38Okay.
14:39So we have a website that came up under RVA group.
14:42It says all are welcome.
14:44I guess we're welcome.
14:45Click.
14:48Whoa.
14:49My client Quentin has been lending money to his brother, Taryn, to take care of his sick mother.
15:00But Quentin suspects something more nefarious is going on.
15:05But during our investigation, we have uncovered that Taryn has in fact been lying to his brother about what his money is really being used for.
15:14I invited Quentin to meet me so I can reveal the secret that Taryn's been hiding.
15:19Hi, Quentin.
15:21Hey, Tamar.
15:22Ready to see what's going on?
15:23I'm ready to see what's going on.
15:24I did not sleep at all last night.
15:25Anxiety had me at 100.
15:26Oh, no.
15:27Well, that's okay because my good friend Hassani, who was a behavioral specialist, he is here for you and all of your anxiety needs.
15:36How are you?
15:37I'm just, I'm ready to figure out what's going on with my brother.
15:39I need some type of relief.
15:40I need some type of closure.
15:41You asked us to find out if your brother was living a double life and we did.
15:45Let's just jump right on in, okay?
15:46All right.
15:47Well, this first day he did not leave until the night.
15:51He's just pulling up at a bar.
15:53What we saw is that he was with a group of friends.
15:57I believe that you called him during his meeting with his friends.
16:02Hey, dude.
16:03I want you to get back home.
16:04.
16:05Dude, I'm so tired.
16:06Dude, it's my brother.
16:07He ignored your call and he said you don't understand him at all.
16:12I'm probably worried about when I'm going to pay him back or something along those lines.
16:19Yeah, I'm not an ATM dude.
16:21I thought that him being my brother, he's someone that I could go to whenever I needed to do
16:29and stuff like this.
16:30Normally, that was crazy, like.
16:35But he clearly said in that video that you don't understand him.
16:39I don't, I was never given the opportunity to understand.
16:42Okay.
16:43But like, talk to me, dude.
16:45Yeah.
16:46So next, we took a look at his digital wallet and what he was spending his money on.
16:53And the only thing that really stood out to me is that he has been paying $77 to a RVA group.
17:01Are those reoccurring payments?
17:02Reoccurring payments regularly.
17:04Wow.
17:05Okay.
17:06Yeah.
17:07He started the physical surveillance again.
17:09And it looks like he's going to a specialty shop.
17:12Like what kind of specialty shop?
17:14A shop that sells caskets.
17:17A casket?
17:18What is getting a casket for?
17:20You know somebody who died?
17:21No.
17:22Okay.
17:23Hmm.
17:24This mother is literally shopping for a casket.
17:26Like, for real, for real.
17:28Like, I know his mom's sick, but I don't think she's that sick.
17:31You're not aware of any deaths that's occurred in family, friends?
17:34No.
17:35Like, everybody I know is healthy as far as I know on this side.
17:38I found it to be extremely concerning.
17:43And I wondered if the payments that he's been paying had anything to do with the casket.
17:50So, we took a look into what RVA group was.
17:55And it is...
17:58Wait.
17:59Am I reading that correctly?
18:01The ravenous vampire society.
18:03What the?
18:04Yes.
18:05Okay.
18:06This is some weird .
18:07He's in a cult.
18:08Like, I...
18:09Like, this is some cult that he's on.
18:10Like a vampire cult.
18:11Oh, no.
18:12So, he's been giving my money, my hard-earned money to...
18:14To our V-A group.
18:16So, he thinks he's a vampire.
18:17Well, it gets interesting.
18:20Because he goes...
18:22to...
18:25the local butcher shop.
18:34Usual?
18:35He gets his usual.
18:36He gets his usual.
18:38He's literally...
18:39Like...
18:40He's buying blood.
18:41Yes.
18:42He's, like, literally buying...
18:43Like...
18:44Yes.
18:45Animal blood.
18:46Animal blood.
18:47Like...
18:48Oh, okay.
18:49What we've seen so far is, like, already outside of my realm of belief.
18:52Like...
18:53Yeah.
18:54It's too much.
18:55So, he goes...
18:56Oh, so there's more.
18:57Yeah, there's more.
18:59What is he about to do?
19:01He looks like he is setting up for some type of ritual.
19:05He's lighting a fire.
19:07What...
19:08What is he doing?
19:09What the f***, Taryn?
19:12Is that the blood from earlier?
19:14Yes.
19:15He pours it into some type of special cup.
19:18No.
19:19No.
19:20No.
19:21No.
19:22Hell, no.
19:23That's...
19:24I've seen enough.
19:25This f***ing bull.
19:26No.
19:27Yeah, I'm...
19:28Who is this?
19:29That's not my brother.
19:30No.
19:31F*** that.
19:32I'm out.
19:33I'm out.
19:34Oh, my God.
19:35He's drinking blood.
19:36This is f***ing bull.
19:40Quentin's having a hard time sinking his teeth into what our investigation team has uncovered.
19:45That is, his brother, Taryn.
19:48He's a member of a secret society and has been living a double life as a vampire.
19:53I'm just going to get out of here.
19:54Before you leave, can we just talk?
19:56Because I...
19:57Listen.
19:58I know this is a lot.
19:59Let's take some time to unpack it.
20:01Right now, where I'm at right now, I don't want to understand because I don't want any
20:04part of that around me.
20:05Obviously, there's some things going on in your brother's life that led him down this path.
20:09So, what he needs right now is your support, okay?
20:12Because, obviously, he's into something extremely dark.
20:18Hi, darling.
20:20Thank you for not leaving.
20:21My blood's kind of hot right now.
20:23How you're feeling is understandable, you know?
20:27I am so confused right now.
20:29Like, I can barely order my words to...
20:32You're experiencing shock.
20:34Yeah.
20:35Right?
20:36Can I kind of unpack what you may have seen?
20:38Go ahead.
20:39It's clear that your brother's living a double life.
20:42Yes.
20:43The fact that you said he grew up in a very traditional religious household.
20:47Mormon.
20:48Which is something within itself.
20:49Yeah.
20:50Oftentimes, they have very rigid rules and there's high expectations.
20:55And maybe he felt a sense of isolation and rejection and judgment and was able to find a community where he could be free to be himself.
21:03I get that portion, but he could have talked to me.
21:06Like, this...
21:07He could have came to me if he needed help finding himself.
21:09He could have came to the church if he needed help finding himself.
21:11He didn't need to go to whatever the f*** that was.
21:14Like, that's the most demonic thing I've seen.
21:18Maybe what you're projecting right now is what he senses, and that's why he couldn't come to you in the first place.
21:24I was going to say, your brother's living a double life, not because he wants to.
21:28He's living a double life because he has to.
21:31I get that.
21:32I just...
21:33You know, I know him growing up Mormon.
21:34They're realistic.
21:35They're, you know, they're more strict than me being a Southern Baptist.
21:38Absolutely.
21:39I don't want to say that he's gullible and will fall for anything, but I feel like that's just kind of what he slipped back into.
21:44Like, do you think that you can accept who he is for who he is?
21:52I...
21:53I can't say yes to that right now.
21:57So, Quentin, you have two options.
22:00You can choose to examine the evidence we have today with an expert who could help answer any burning questions you might have about vampire culture.
22:10Or you can choose to expose, and we'll set up an operation to catch Taryn in the act of living a double life.
22:22I'm going to choose to examine because I need to know more.
22:26I don't want to go into a conversation with him blind, and I don't want to go into a conversation with him with a place of ignorance.
22:32We're going to examine this vampire world, and I'll call you when I can find someone to help us understand more.
22:39Okay.
22:40Is that okay?
22:41I'm in.
22:47Our investigation team has found someone who is highly educated in vampire culture.
22:51I invited Quentin back so that he can learn more about Taryn's supernatural lifestyle.
22:57Well, hey, hey, hey.
22:58Hello, hello.
22:59So how you feeling?
23:00Um, now that I've had a little time to kind of be to myself and think, like, I'm still confused, and my emotions are a little all over the place, but I'd rather know than not know.
23:12I agree with that.
23:13Well, we have contacted someone who can educate us all in the vampire world.
23:21Okay.
23:22So you ready?
23:23I'm as ready as I'm going to get.
23:24All right.
23:25All right.
23:27Hello, Maven.
23:28How are you?
23:29Hi.
23:30How are you doing?
23:31I'm doing well.
23:32This is Quentin.
23:33He just found out that his brother could be a vampire.
23:36We don't know how deep.
23:37And so is it okay if we ask you a few questions to get educated?
23:41Absolutely.
23:42Okay.
23:43Do you believe that you are a real vampire?
23:46And what makes you a real vampire?
23:48Not in the sense that Hollywood would say no.
23:51Yeah, I'm part of vampiric culture and philosophy.
23:55I don't think I'm a mortal.
23:57I can't turn into a bat.
23:58That would be pretty cool, though, or anything like that.
24:02Could you take us into the world of the culture and philosophy of a vampire?
24:07There are some people who just like the fashion.
24:11There are some people who are in it for religious reasons.
24:14There are some people who honestly believe that they need to drink blood or feed psychically or sexually in order to live.
24:25Quentin, I know you must have a whole host of questions.
24:30I saw video of my brother drinking blood and doing a ritual.
24:35Like, how far does that rabbit hole go down?
24:38Like, after seeing the ritual, it did feel a little dark to me.
24:43I personally am not involved in anything like that.
24:48Can you unpack dark?
24:50What do you mean when you say that?
24:52How dark does it get?
24:54When I see things with fire and blood, it doesn't seem like a very good thing.
25:00I want you to take the kid gloves off and just give it to us straight.
25:06When I fall in with the wrong people, it happens.
25:11There are cults out there.
25:13They're scary.
25:16Something like this feels like they're worshipping something very dark.
25:22He might be going down a path maybe he shouldn't.
25:27What should I prepare myself for worst-case scenario with my brother?
25:52We'll lose him.
25:54It's the worst-case scenario.
25:55I've actually lost some of my friends to these cults as well.
25:58But you have to approach him with love and understanding.
26:02You've got to make sure that he knows that you are always going to be there for him.
26:06That's the answer we came for.
26:09Well, thank you, Mr. Maven.
26:11Thank you very much.
26:13No problem.
26:14Take care.
26:15Bye-bye.
26:16That was a lot, wasn't it?
26:18It was a lot, definitely a lot to take in.
26:19I think the intervention is what is really important at this point.
26:22Yes, and we'll be there to support you.
26:24Okay.
26:25Are you ready to talk to your brother?
26:27I'm as ready as I'm going to get.
26:29Let's hit it.
26:30No time is better than right now.
26:31Right now.
26:32Let's go.
26:33You ready to go?
26:34Let's go.
26:35I'm going to grab my coat.
26:36One thing I will say, you've been handling this quite well.
26:47I'm sure you have thought through how you want to approach your brother.
26:50Do you have a strategy or do you need help putting us together?
26:52Yeah.
26:53What are you going to say?
26:54The questions I want to ask, where did this come from?
26:57Where did this start?
26:58Why would you be afraid to come to me and talk to me about it?
27:02And you definitely want to ask about the money.
27:04And yeah, I didn't get this as your life, but it's not a lifestyle that I can afford for you.
27:17All right, everybody.
27:18We're here.
27:19This is really a nightmare for me.
27:20Shall we go ahead and confront your brother right now?
27:22I'm ready.
27:23Let's go.
27:24All right, let's do it.
27:25You're in charge.
27:30You got this.
27:34Let's go.
27:35You stay calm.
27:38Yeah.
27:41Oh, no, no.
27:42Yeah, no.
27:43Absolutely not.
27:44No.
27:45Nobody gave out permission to be here.
27:46What's up?
27:47No.
27:48I'm in the middle of something very important.
27:49I don't give a damn.
27:50So this is how you show up to my .
27:51Are you joking?
27:52Well, my name is Tima Braxton.
27:54I come in peace.
27:55I don't want to bring you harm.
27:57I don't want to bring you any negative energy.
28:00Can we come in?
28:01You can come in.
28:06I have come here because your brother, Quentin, came to me.
28:09You're on a show called Caught in the Act, Double Life.
28:13And your brother has been generally concerned.
28:17I want you to take your .
28:18Hey.
28:19Don't feed me that bull .
28:20No, I don't .
28:21Bull .
28:22Don't feed me.
28:23You couldn't come to me like a man.
28:25You wanted to go through these different people.
28:26I'm trying to communicate with you, man.
28:28That's the best way I knew how.
28:29You call that trying to communicate me whenever you don't even.
28:31I'm sitting with you.
28:32I'm sitting with you.
28:33You don't ask how I'm doing.
28:34You don't ask how I've been.
28:35Oh, that's .
28:36I love you.
28:37The first thing you .
28:38The only thing that you say is, where's the money?
28:41Baby.
28:42Don't play with me.
28:43Hold on, hold on.
28:44Hold on, hold on.
28:45Hold on, hold on.
28:46I do not like your energy and nobody allows you to be here.
28:51I'm the only in the room, baby.
28:54Back at you.
28:57I have an entire army of spirits with me.
28:59You guys do not even understand.
29:00You got me up.
29:01Okay.
29:02Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
29:05I don't know what he said, but I know that we need to calm this down.
29:08Okay?
29:09So the fangs and the energy and the aggression, we can put that on pause so that we can have
29:14a conversation.
29:15Can we do that?
29:16Can we do that?
29:17For the sake of your relationship.
29:18We come in peace.
29:20Can we sit down?
29:21And please, can you look at me and your brother?
29:30Parent, just look for real, man.
29:32At this point, the money be damned.
29:33I love you and I'm trying to understand like where, where this person came from because
29:38this is not the person I met.
29:40This is who I am, Quentin.
29:42This is who I am and who I've always been.
29:45You saying that you don't understand where this came from is you keeping blinders on on
29:50purpose.
29:51You ostracized me and created essentially a part of this.
29:55You blaming this on me?
29:56I've been, I've been nothing but supportive.
29:58I let you move in with me.
29:59I put a roof over your head.
30:01I gave you money.
30:02I have.
30:03With what stipulations?
30:04That you respect my house and you respect me.
30:06Are you kidding me?
30:08How did you hear it then?
30:09You know, the constraints that I grew up in being Mormon.
30:12And then you made me feel as if I could finally allow myself to get out of that cage,
30:16spread my wings and soar.
30:18But then you clip the feathers and try to keep me tethered to the bull you believe that
30:24I never signed up for.
30:26I was just trying to show you a better way, man.
30:28What I felt was.
30:29That's subjective.
30:30That's subjective.
30:31I know.
30:32You're a smart man and you know that.
30:33I understand that now.
30:34But this vampire stuff doesn't make any sense to me.
30:36It's scary as .
30:37Man.
30:38I'm not talking to you right now.
30:40If you'll excuse me.
30:41Where'd he go?
30:42Oh no.
30:43Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
30:46Oh hell no.
30:47Aaron.
30:48What the .
30:49This is what you wanted Quentin.
30:50No.
30:51This is no.
30:52Oh, no! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
30:56Oh, hell no!
30:57Aaron! What the ?
31:00This is what you wanted, Quentin.
31:02No, this is... No.
31:03This is everything you asked for.
31:05Everything that you sent me funded this bad boy.
31:10All right, all right.
31:11Hold on.
31:12Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, hey, man, is this blood?
31:15That's fucking blood!
31:17In Jesus' name, amen.
31:22They ain't got nothing to do with my soul.
31:24I think this is a lie. This is a lie.
31:35Oh, no, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron, amen.
31:37Is this blood?
31:38That's fucking blood!
31:40In Jesus' name, amen.
31:42They ain't got nothing to do with my soul.
31:45Fish you by the mercy of the Holy Ghost.
31:50And any entity that have over me and my family and my life.
31:57Yeah, you see how that blew out?
32:00Let's go in the living room.
32:02Can we talk?
32:03Yeah.
32:04Can you tell me what you're going through in this moment?
32:07Your brother came to me because you were borrowing thousands of dollars for me.
32:14The last thing that he thought that he would come across is what's going on in here.
32:20I don't understand how this could be his choice. Like, I don't.
32:24It's okay to have your own opinion. We don't have to fall out with each other as brothers because we think different, we feel different, and we flow different.
32:36I am a vampire.
32:40Okay.
32:41You don't decide one day that you're a vampire. It's like being...
32:46An awakening.
32:47It's literally something that's within me that I cannot change.
32:51I respect that. So have a seat.
32:53Well, how do you want to resolve this money situation? Because that's still outstanding.
32:58If that's the cost of a future relationship for my brother, then I'll eat it. But I need him to be honest with me going forward.
33:06Okay.
33:07So you value the relationship more than you value the money at this point?
33:10I do.
33:11I do.
33:12How did you become a vampire?
33:14I grew up in a very religious household.
33:17For sure.
33:18When I went to college was when I had my first actual, like, awakening.
33:23I had a group of friends and they had invited me to a gathering. I was scared at first.
33:31Of course.
33:32But then this wave of relief came across me.
33:37Okay.
33:38It washed away all the weight that I carried from not feeling accepted or appreciated.
33:47Well, tell me about you growing up Mormon.
33:50I was so tethered to the idea from another man's mind.
33:57Yeah.
33:58I was not allowed to be the creative, curious person that I am.
34:03Do you believe in God?
34:05To believe in a dark that has to be a light.
34:08So this is your religion?
34:10It's my ritual. It's my practice that makes me feel whole.
34:15How is my ritual any different than a Christian person doing a baptism or a Muslim person praying five times a day towards Mecca?
34:25Do you think that you could accept him for who he is and be okay with the practice that he's involved in?
34:31I guess I have to learn to love this version of my brother if that's what it is.
34:38Love the sinner, not the sin.
34:40What is the drinking of the blood? What does that do for you?
34:44To channel the energy of the fallen and give me new life.
34:48What fallen?
34:49The fallen spirits, humans, animals, anything that bleeds.
34:55You giving homage and drinking their blood at the same time?
35:00Yes.
35:01Okay.
35:02So here is the thing.
35:03I don't think that you understand the issue here.
35:07The issue is not that you're a vampire.
35:10The issue is that you're living a double life.
35:13He just isn't going to accept this.
35:15I think that people would accept you more for accepting yourself out loud.
35:23Let's go talk to your brother.
35:26I tried, like, as different as we were. Like, I never judged.
35:30Quentin!
35:31Can we have a meeting in the living room?
35:34Sure.
35:43Quentin?
35:44The stuff that I have seen on video in the last couple of days has scared me, man.
35:50I don't have any frame of reference for what you're into, and that scares me.
35:57Like, tell me, when did this start? What's the allure for you?
36:02Like, what does this community offer you that your family or that I can't?
36:06There's no rules, man.
36:09It's not just a different version of what I've lived my entire life.
36:13It's not gotta be in at this time.
36:15I can't do this, can't practice this.
36:19Who's at the house and why are they there at this time versus a normal visiting hour?
36:23Like, dude, I'm a grown man.
36:26You are?
36:27I get that it's your house, but, like, dude, shouldn't I have some type of autonomy?
36:31Should I have some type of free agency?
36:33Yeah, because you ain't the daddy.
36:35That's not your role.
36:36I understand that.
36:37Your role is his brother.
36:39I know what you were going through, and I wanted to try to provide some type of discipline, some type of structure.
36:45I wanted you to be the best version of you, and I guess that was me, what I thought you should be, the best version of what I thought you should be.
36:51What you thought.
36:53You didn't once ask me what I thought, what I felt was best.
36:58What has you emotional right now?
37:00Yeah.
37:01Just all this.
37:02I really don't, I don't feel like I know the person sitting there in front of me.
37:09So, listen, I want you to take the time to reintroduce yourself to one another for the first time, and begin to build a relationship on a healthy foundation.
37:20So?
37:21Introduce yourself.
37:22Hi, Terry.
37:23I'm Quentin.
37:24I'm your big brother, and I'm ready to learn about you, and I hope you're open to learning about me, and we can, you know, we can have a relationship.
37:38And who are you?
37:45Quentin, I am your brother, Taryn, and I am a vampire.
37:59So, Taryn, now that your double life as being a vampire has been revealed, are you willing to walk in your truth and rebuild your relationship with your brother?
38:12Quentin, I, I love you.
38:14I accept you.
38:15I love you, man.
38:16And I'm, we gotta start somewhere.
38:19Today actually represents the first day of the rest of your life together.
38:23Whoa, Fred.
38:24It's time.
38:25You're the big brother.
38:26It's time.
38:27This time.
38:28Oh, my God.
38:29Oh, my God.
38:30It's time.
38:31Oh, my God.
38:32Oh, my God.
38:33I don't understand completely, but I'm gonna try.
38:34Early up.
38:35Oh, my God.
38:36Today has been a very interesting day.
38:53Today, the whole vampire thing, I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around.
38:57I do appreciate him being able to come speak to me and tell me where his head's at, because it helped.
39:04I'm glad to have him back, and I'm hoping that future lines of communication are better.
39:11I think this was an extremely hard pill for Quentin to swallow,
39:14but you don't realize how much weight you're carrying until you let go of it.
39:19Words cannot express how much I'm excited to have my brother back.
39:25I want to just be around him.
39:30That's my big brother.
39:40Quentin! Hey, boo!
39:43Hello, love.
39:44So, you got to let me know what is popping between you and your brother, Taryn.
39:48I think we're on a good path. I think we're going in a good direction.
39:51Really? So, what happened?
39:53We just talked, and he kind of let me know a little more about his vampire lifestyle
39:56and what it means to him and why it's important to him, and I'm a big brother. I'm going to be supportive.
40:03So, you're accepting of his vampire lifestyle?
40:07It's been hard, but I'm learning that if it's important to him, I love him enough to have an understanding.
40:13So, what have you learned from this experience?
40:15I learned a little bit. He did invite me to one of his little meetings, and I hadn't been declined.
40:20Yeah.
40:21I'm not coming there yet. It's still dark and demonic, but it's not as evil as I originally thought.
40:27Right, right. Did you tell everybody that he was a vampire? Because you said your family didn't know what was going on.
40:33So, I'm leaving that up to him. This is his story to tell.
40:36This is his story.
40:37I did let him know that once he's ready, if he needs some support to back up, I'm here.
40:41At the end of the day, I love the fact that you accept your brother for who he is, and he accepts you for who you are.
40:49Yes, ma'am. Amen.
40:50All right. Amen.
40:51Tamar, thank you again. I appreciate you guys so much.
40:55I appreciate you so much, and call on me whenever you need me.
40:58I will.
40:59Bye, boo.
41:00Bye, boo.
41:00Bye, boo.
41:02Bye, boo.