ALEX ALLISON BRIANNA DYLAN GABI LUCAS MACKENZIE MAN MR_JANSON MR_KEENE MR_KRAZANSKI MR_RAFFERTY PAIGE PETER SAM SARAH SIERRA SPENCER VAN WOMAN SARAH Dylan did it. Is that your first question? Who I think did it? 'Cause it was totally Dylan. I mean, someone saw him do it. Like, seriously. PETER You're talking about Alex Trimboli. SARAH Yeah. Alex saw it happen, so, like, case closed, right? PETER Have you ever hooked up with Alex Trimboli? SARAH Ew. PETER Did you get a hand job from Sarah Pearson? ALEX 100%. MAN Please state your name for the record. ALEX Alex Trimboli, senior. PETER Alex Trimboli, the school board's only witness to the vandalism on March 15. WOMAN It is a shocking scene for Hanover High teachers, who left school today only to find their cars vandalized with obscene images. PETER Here's what I've been able to dig up about Alex. He moved to Oceanside in ninth grade. He's an Eagle Scout. He ran for class treasurer and lost. MR KEENE You know, I've always had a lot of respect for Alex. He's a good student and a good kid all around. Pretty much a straight shooter, from my experience. ALEX They say, like, high school is the best years of your life. I know it isn't for me, but I do think that I'll look back and I'll think I killed it. PETER Alex's testimony singlehandedly sealed Dylan Maxwell's fate. ALEX I walked out to the parking lot, and that's where I saw it. I saw Dylan Maxwell spray painting the graphic dicks. MAN Now, are you certain of what you saw? ALEX Yeah. 100%. DYLAN Trimboli didn't see shit, because I wasn't fucking there. PETER In a case with so little tangible evidence, everything comes down to who you can trust. Do we believe Alex, or do we believe Dylan? That's what we'll be looking into today. Why would he say that he saw you? DYLAN I don't know, dude. Maybe 'cause he's a little bitch. PETER I'm sorry, what? "Little bitch," a phrase I didn't quite understand. DYLAN A little bitch. PETER But it wasn't the first time I'd heard it. Why do you think Alex Trimboli would lie? BRIANNA Alex Trimboli? Little bitch. LUCAS Huge little bitch. PETER I don't think "little bitch" has anything to do with Alex's masculinity; they were challenging something else: his integrity. So a little bitch is someone who informs a teacher when a rule has been broken, or something? DYLAN No. No. That's more like a fucking snitch...or whatever. No, a little bitch is more like--it's more like someone who makes shit up. PETER Oh. So a little bitch is like someone who bends the truth to make themselves look better? DYLAN Yeah, that's a little bitch move for sure. Yeah. PETER Alex Trimboli: the school board's only witness. But can we trust him? Or is Alex Trimboli exactly what Dylan Maxwell claims him to be? This was going to take a little research. We brought Gabi along 'cause she's a senior and knows more about Alex than we do. Also, she has a driver's license. So, Alex Trimboli claims to have had 11 beers at Nana's party. SAM I don't know about that. I don't believe 11 beers. Wouldn't you be unconscious after that? ALEX Dude, I was wasted. It was crazy, man. I had 11 beers. PETER Was that the most drunk you've ever been in your life? ALEX It's the most drunk anyone at our high school's even been in their life. PETER And here's another thing: he claims to have been, like, really close friends with Joey Themelis. GABI No. That's so-- PETER Wasn't he? GABI No! I never saw them hanging out, but he always made these-- SAM Yeah, he always posted about them. GABI Posts like, "Oh, R.I.P., Joey." Like, "[inaudible] for life." ALEX Yeah, Joey was a bright light in this world. PETER Were you guys friends? ALEX Best friends. And to everyone who questions my friendship with Joey, I want them to think about how long they wore their cancer bracelets. PETER Joey may not have been bros for life with Trimboli, or bros at all, according to some of Joey's friends, and the claim that he drank 11 beers at Nana's party--also met with skepticism from seniors. So is Alex the type of person to lie for attention? GABI I don't know. I mean, maybe he could have been friends with Joey, and I just never saw. Maybe he could have had--not 11 beers. Maybe 9. It could be possible. But the Sarah part just seemed--no. MR KRAZANSKI This is Sarah Pearson, dude. I've had her in class, and she is distracting. Okay, I'm not gonna say one of my students is unbelievably hot, but oh, my God, dude. So I won't. PETER So, Alex Trimboli claims that he got a hand job from Sarah Pearson? MR RAFFERTY Oh, hold on. Whoa. I can't talk to you about that. That's--is that what he's saying? PETER Do you have any way of proving that Sarah Pearson likes you in any sort of way, whether it's a photo you took together--anything. Anything. Oh, wow. A conversation between Sarah Pearson and Alex Trimboli on August 4th, the night of the alleged hand job. 5:51 p.m. Alex: "Hey. You going to the fire pit tonight after lights out?" Over an hour passes. Then Sarah Pearson responds: "Heyy," with two "y"s. Immediately, Alex texts, "You going to the fire pit thing later tonight?" Another hour passes. Sarah: "Yeah, def." Alex: "See you there. Probably be there a little after 10." Sarah responds, "See you soon," smiley face. Now, that could just be friendly, but that "heyy" with two "y"s--I don't know. ALEX Look, dude. Everyone in history has always known that if you text someone "heyy" with two "y"s, it means you want to fuck. Or give a hand job. GABI What base is Alex saying? PETER Third. Hand job. SAM Are we sure that's what third base is, though? PETER Well, second base is above the belt, and third base is below, right? GABI Yeah. So wait, Peter, do you think Alex is lying? PETER I don't know. I'm thrown by that text message--the "heyy" with two "y"s. ALEX Two "y"s. One for "y should I?", one for "y not?" SAM So, what? One "y" just is a regular "hey," and then you add another "y" and all of a sudden, it's "Heyyy"? GABI Each "y" is, like, more wanting the D. SAM Wow. GABI It's more like, "Heyy." SAM Am I doing it right? Heyy. PETER Ultimately, we all agreed that the extra "y" was definitely more flirtatious. Sam even stumbled upon a series of memes that confirmed this. So is it possible that Alex isn't lying? Maybe he did hook up with Sarah Pearson. SAM Pete, I will say, shit goes down at Camp Miniwaka. PETER Camp Miniwaka is an overnight summer camp that many Hanover High School students attend, including Sarah Pearson, Alex Trimboli, my co-producer, Sam Ecklund, and my head of transport, Gabi Granger. And according to Sam and Gabi... GABI Shit does go down at Camp Miniwaka. SAM Last year, there was a threesome in a canoe. PETER We headed to Camp Miniwaka to investigate the scene of the alleged hand job. If we're able to determine that Alex did fabricate this fondling, what else could he be falsifying? GABI If Alex said "blow job," I would have called bullshit, for sure. SAM Really? GABI But just a simple hand job is not that big of a commitment. SAM Wait, really? PETER According to Alex, the alleged hookup was a culmination of a few things. First and foremost... ALEX I had a legendary color war. PETER For those of you like myself who have never attended overnight camp, color war is a competition where the entire camp is divided into two teams, each of which is assigned a color. The two teams then compete in various challenges to earn points. Apparently, it's a big deal. ALEX You know how, like, in Mario, when he catches the star, and he starts blinking really fast, and he can't be killed by the mushroom men or those aggressive turtles? That's what I felt like: unstoppable. PETER That day, Alex earned huge points when he gave an inspirational speech at the mess hall. He told his red team to know yourself and know your worth. But a quick Google search would suggest he just took lyrics from a popular Drake song and changed the N-word to "red team." I'm not sure how I feel about that. SAM So which way are we leaning? GABI Well, there's one thing we didn't consider. SAM What? GABI Sarah was crushing on Van all summer. SAM Was she? PETER Multiple sources verify that Sarah Pearson was indeed crushing on camp counselor Van Delorey last summer. SIERRA Sarah spent her entire CPR training staring at Van, so she would have done way more than just some mouth-to-mouth with him. VAN She's into me? I guess I didn't notice. ALLISON Van's like the hottest counselor. If I got rejected by him, I would need a rebound too. PAIGE I used to think Van was almost the hottest counselor, but not because of his hair, but now he has better hair, and now he is the hottest. ALEX Look, I get it. Van's a god. And could he have hooked up with Sarah Pearson? Probably. Did he? No. Did I? Yes. PETER But on the day of the alleged hand job, Sarah found out that Van was hooking up with someone else: senior class president Christa Carlyle. So the theory is that she was so upset that Van chose another girl over her that Sarah would look anywhere for affection, and why not from the MVP of color war? ALEX She was going through a lot, and I was a shoulder for her to cry on. We both love "Bloodline." And we were sitting there at the dock, looking up at the stars, and before I knew it, she was jerking me off. PETER According to Alex, the stars aligned that night. Everything came together, and then Alex came alone. ALEX It was the moment I became a man. I mean, she's an angel. PETER This task would be a lot easier if we could find an eyewitness account of the hand job, but is that even possible? ALEX I'd been scouting that spot for a number of years now, and, I mean, if there's anywhere to get a hand job at camp, it's the dock. PETER We did our best to reenact all possible viewing angles of the dock at 10 p.m. on August 4th. GABI Okay, so it's like... PETER Most of the campers were hanging out on the mess hall deck, but they didn't have a clean sight line of the dock. The counselors' lounge, where a few C.I.T.s might have been at the time, had an equally obstructed view. Even if Andy, Kevin, and the guys from the west lake house were smoking weed in the brush, they wouldn't have been able to see the hand job. There's only one viable viewing angle: from the kayak rack, where the hand job would have been visible. But it's very unlikely that anyone would go for kayak equipment at 10 p.m. So it's safe to say there wouldn't have been an eyewitness. It comes down to Alex's word against Sarah's. Did you get a hand job from Sarah Pearson? ALEX 100%. PETER Have you ever hooked up with Alex Trimboli? SARAH Ew. PETER I found myself wanting to side with Sarah, wanting to believe that Alex Trimboli is a liar, but then I go back to that "heyy" with two "y"s text, and honestly, it does feel like a request for the date. SAM I mean, I don't know if I believe it, but it's definitely--I mean, it's possible. It's definitely possible. PETER Yeah, I guess it could have happened. I don't think we can definitively say that Alex is a liar. GABI I probably shouldn't be telling you guys this, but there is one more place we should look. SAM Ladies first. PETER Tell us what we're looking at. GABI Okay, so these initials are basically a record of summer hookups. SAM Oh, then I'm probably all over this thing. GABI No, you're not. PETER You guys see any "Sarah Pearson"s? SAM Yeah. Up here, there's a bunch of "S.P."s. PETER All right. Is there an "A.T." next to it? SAM No. No. PETER No? SAM No! PETER No Alex Trimboli? SAM No "A.T." Well, hold on. Do you think she maybe left it out, out, I don't know, pure embarrassment? PETER Yeah, I can see--yeah. Yeah, she may not want to document every hookup. Damn it. GABI Wait, guys. Look at the bottom one. PETER What is it? SAM "P.M." Who's "P.M."? PETER "P.M."? Pat Micklewaite. SAM No. PETER Ew! SAM Good for him. GABI Yeah, I heard that happened. PETER This proves to me that Sarah Pearson isn't concerned about being cool. I mean, if she's honest about hooking up with Pat Micklewaite of all people, why wouldn't she be honest about getting with Alex? So her credibility isn't in question, but Alex Trimboli's is. MAN It was Dylan Maxwell? ALEX Yes. It was definitely Dylan Maxwell. GABI Alex is lying. PETER Yes. GABI Alex is lying. PETER Alex Trimboli placed Dylan Maxwell at the scene of the crime. ALEX And he just went every single car along this row. "Tshh, tshh"--dick. "Tshh, tshh"--dick. "Tshh, tshh"--dick. PETER But Alex claims a lot of things, including a hand job from Sarah Pearson, which likely didn't happen. So it isn't easy to trust Alex Trimboli about Dylan's whereabouts on March 15th. But is it any easier to trust Dylan? MAN Dylan, where were you on the afternoon of March 15th? DYLAN I was at Lucas Wiley's house. MAN Do you know what you were doing there? DYLAN Yeah. We were [inaudible]. LUCAS I was with this dude. This is 100%. He was here. PETER The school board dismissed Lucas Wiley completely. In their eyes, he'd say anything to get his best friend out of trouble. Also, there's no hard evidence of Dylan being at Lucas' house during the exact window of time that the vandalism was committed. Here's how the school board sees it: Dylan left Lucas' house at 2 p.m. He drove from Lucas' to the school. He vandalized 27 cars. He deleted the security footage, then exited the school out of an industrial door in the wood shop room, where there are no security cameras. The school places Dylan back at Lucas' house at 2:31 p.m. I have to say, the school board's timeline is clean, easy to digest, step-by-step. It lays out the perfect crime. DYLAN Why would I leave Lucas' to go do another prank? I was already doing a prank that day. DYLAN I was at Lucas Wiley's house. We were prank calling his neighbor. PETER Dylan has been consistent with his claim. The WayBack Boys targeted Lucas' next door neighbor, Leonard Janson, an 86-year-old man known around town for pushing his government conspiracy theories. LUCAS From my backyard is this old, crazy man named Mr. Janson, and he's, like, constantly walking up and down the street knocking on people's doors, handing out flyers, talking about, like, chem trails and, like, 9/11. It's, like, any, like, new world order type conspiracy shit that you can think of. DYLAN I mean, we got Janson so bad. Honestly, I'm surprised he didn't die. Yeah. PETER To them, this was no small prank. Dylan and the WayBack Boys put weeks of planning into it. They were ready to blow baby farting out of the water. LUCAS It was the best prank we ever done. It's the best prank we ever done. DYLAN Dicks on cars? That's funny. You know, I get it. But that shit we did to Janson? That was, like, some next-level shit. Janson prank, dicks on cars. Nun humping, baby fart. LUCAS So, WayBack Boys, this is Dumb Old Man Prank. PETER They talk about the Janson prank like it's a work of art. It's not. It's a mess. It's hard to follow, and pretty mean-spirited, but it's also the only solid, tangible evidence of Dylan's whereabouts on March 15th, so bear with me as we go through these prank call records, because they are important. MR JANSON Hello? LUCAS Janson, we're on to you. You know too much, all right? Especially about 9/11. I was like, "Janson, you've been compromised." PETER This is the first time we clocked Dylan at Lucas' house: 1:27 p.m. We see Dylan in the background. Spencer hides in the backyard filming Mr. Janson in his kitchen. That's Ganj in the hazmat suit. Anyway, we know it's 1:27, because the time and the duration of the calls on the video match exactly with the records on Lucas' phone. Lucas makes the first call. LUCAS We have an exfil specialist who's going to get you out here. PETER He tells Mr. Janson that an exfil specialist will be calling him. The exfil specialist is Dylan. This is our second prank call. DYLAN Janson, this is exfil specialist Secret Agent Kiefer Sutherland. LUCAS Dylan calls him with, like, the best Kiefer Sutherland impression, like, in the world. SPENCER Yeah, Dylan can probably do a better Kiefer Sutherland than Kiefer Sutherland. PETER Dylan tells Mr. Janson that the government is on to him and has bugged his house. DYLAN I'm gonna need you to identify anything in your house with a microchip. PETER That's Ganj flying the drone. DYLAN PETER After this call, Dylan checks his phone and tells the boys he's going to take a dump. DYLAN All right. I got to go take a shit. LUCAS Dude, just use my bathroom. DYLAN No, I got to go to Priceless Moments. PETER According to Dylan, he's off to Mackenzie's. According to the school, he's off to draw the dicks. Either way, right here. DYLAN All right. I got to go take a shit. PETER He's lying. LUCAS Dude, just use my bathroom. DYLAN No, I got to go to Priceless Moments. PETER This puts him on the move at 1:59. Nine minutes later, the memory card on the GoPro filming Lucas fills up. This will be important later. The next time Dylan appears on camera is at 2:31 on the front lawn of Janson's house. Mr. Janson, now terrified, puts all of his electronics on the front yard, convinced they've been bugged by the government. LUCAS Just cleaning things out? And so he's put all of his electronics on the curb, and all these people are coming to, like, pick up his electronics, man. PETER So it comes down to this--this time here, between 1:59 and 2:31--this 32-minute period in which we can't account for Dylan. It's the same half hour in which the dicks were drawn in the school's parking lot. All right, so, where did you go when you left Lucas'? We know that you told them that you went to shit at Priceless Moments. DYLAN I lied about taking a shit, but I went to Mac's house, I swear. PETER So you left in the middle of the Janson prank? DYLAN Yeah. PETER Why? Why would you leave? DYLAN She posted something for me on Instagram. PETER What'd she post? DYLAN A selfie of her, like, looking all sexy, you know? It said, "Home bored." So. PETER Three days earlier at Nana's party, Mackenzie dumped Dylan. Then, on the night of the 15th, Dylan and Mac got back together. But because they weren't talking during that three-day period, Dylan believes she was communicating with him through Instagram. LUCAS That impression was incredible, dude. PETER Dylan looks at his phone before leaving. Is he looking at Mackenzie's Instagram? So you thought that that was her asking for you to come over? DYLAN Yeah. I mean, it was. Like, I know Mac. You know, Mac's not the kind of girl that's gonna, like, call you and be like, "Hey, I care about you." You know, "We should get back together." So, I mean, that Instagram is was her way of saying, "[inaudible]." MACKENZIE Dude, Dylan loves fucking with people, so the fact that he left the prank to come see me--I mean, babe, you're the sweetest guy. DYLAN It wasn't a big deal. It was just dog food. MACKENZIE Oh, it was great. DYLAN I was only gone for a little bit. PETER That bit keeps me up at night. That bit is the exact window of time when the vandalism was committed. That bit is everything. Dylan's story is pretty simple: he drove four minutes to Mackenzie's house, he gave her the dog food, they talked for a few minutes, then he drove back. He's gone for 16 minutes total. He rejoined the boys at Lucas' house around 2:15 to make the third and final prank call to Mr. Janson. DYLAN No one's gonna believe me, are they? PETER I've never told a story about a real person before. I've never sat across from someone with so much to lose--his college acceptance, his girlfriend, his future. I wanted to tell Dylan that people would believe him. I wanted to tell him that everything would be fine. Instead, I decided to tell him the truth. I don't know. DYLAN It's not even fucking possible. PETER What's not possible? DYLAN Driving to school from Janson's house, spray painting 27 dicks, deleting the security footage, and then driving back to Janson's house in 32 minutes? I mean, there's no way that's possible. PETER I'm kind of with him on that. That's a lot of ground to cover in 32 minutes. SAM Yeah. So, well, we need to figure out of it is even possible. How are we gonna get-- PETER You know, I'll call Gabi. SAM Yeah. PETER I'll text her right now. SAM Yeah. PETER We drove from Mr. Janson's house to the school. You ready? All right, so I run in, and go. GABI Go. PETER We spray painted dicks. GABI Yeah. 18. PETER Time per dick. Okay. 486 seconds divided by 60 seconds. So it took 8.1 minutes to draw all the dicks. We factored in adequate time to go from the parking lot to the media server and the time it takes to erase the security footage. That's five minutes to delete the security footage and escape. GABI 5:03, but call it five. PETER Okay. Then we compiled all of our data to determine...29.1. It's tight, but it is possible. Dylan is unaccounted for on March 15th between 1:59 and 2:31--32 minutes, and it would have taken 29 minutes, give or take, to draw the dicks. So it is possible. DYLAN So...that's not good. PETER No. DYLAN Yeah. What about the voicemail? PETER What about the voicemail? Lucas' call records show that there was a third and final call placed to Mr. Janson at 2:21. Dylan claims that he returns to Lucas' house to make that call as Kiefer Sutherland, and that it went straight to voicemail. This is Mr. Janson listening to that voicemail at 2:21. We can see his reaction to the prank call, because Spencer was filming him from the backyard, but we can't see Lucas and Dylan, because the GoPro inside wasn't filming. If it had been, we would have been able to see this angle from the GoPro, and we'd know whether or not Dylan was there making the call. We'd be able to confirm his whereabouts at 2:21 p.m., so that voicemail is everything. BRIANNA How hard is it to change a fucking memory card? That's all he had to do. SPENCER I was just super high. If I had just checked the cards, switched them out, you know, we would have got that voicemail, but... DYLAN Yeah. Spencer obviously blew it with the video, but I did leave a voicemail. Otherwise, he wouldn't have put all his electronics outside, you know what I mean? PETER That part is true. The entire point of this prank was to manipulate Mr. Janson into putting all of his electronics onto the front lawn. SPENCER That call was so important. I was filming Janson when he was listening to that voicemail, and I could tell, in his face, he was like, "Man, I need to put all my shit on the lawn." And he did. PETER Couldn't anyone have left that 2:21 voicemail? LUCAS No. PETER If we get that 2:21 voicemail, how do we know that it's Dylan's voice on the voicemail? SPENCER Well, it's either Dylan or Kiefer Sutherland, you know? Kiefer Sutherland's, like, a super rich actor. You know, why would he be prank calling some old guy? PETER I hate to say it, but I believe him. I don't think the WayBack Boys would have trusted anyone else to make that Kiefer Sutherland call, and without that call, how would Mr. Janson have known to place all of his electronics onto the front lawn? LUCAS Just having a yard sale? PETER I fully acknowledge how dumb this all sounds, but is it just stupid enough to make sense? If Dylan made that 2:21 call, that means he would have had to drive to the school, paint the dicks, erase the footage, and return to Lucas' house all in 20 minutes. From my calculations, the fastest it could be done is 29 minutes. If that voicemail exists, it would completely shatter the school board's timeline. If that voicemail exists, it would exonerate Dylan. Hi. Mr. Janson? Hi. I'm Peter Maldonado. I know that this is, like, a really weird request, but there was a voicemail left on your answering machine a few days ago from-- MAN Do you enjoy pranking people? DYLAN Yeah. It's fun. MAN It's fun? Do you think the people you're pranking think it's fun? DYLAN Yeah. Of course. MAN Yeah? DYLAN Yeah, 'cause, like, afterwards, like--like, it's just a prank. MAN Mm-hmm. DYLAN And then they're like, uh... MAN Mm-hmm? Do you consider what happened in the parking lot to the 27 cars a prank? DYLAN As a prankster, you've got to respect another prankster. That might have been a little too far, but it was funny, you know? I mean, we all know it's funny, so it's like, I do think it was funny, but it sucks that I'm being accused, since I didn't do it. But, you know, I told you guys my story, and, you know, I trust that you guys will make the right decision. MACKENZIE Dylan was here. PETER All right. Is there any other evidence that can place him here? Because without that 2:21 voicemail, placing him here is literally the only other thing that can exonerate him. MACKENZIE Look, dude, Dylan was chopping up dog food, okay? I don't know what else to tell you. PETER All I know is someone is lying. The truth feels just beyond my eye line. I've seen Dylan manipulate people. I've seen Dylan manipulate me. Do you want something to drink? DYLAN Yeah, I'll take, like, water. [inaudible] get a lemon too. That'd be great. PETER Lemon? DYLAN Yeah. PETER Okay. Where do you keep them? In the fridge? DYLAN Uh, no, there's a tree outside. PETER But is he the vandal, or is he the victim? MAN Do you think there's any way it could not have been Dylan Maxwell? WOMAN No. PETER The questions just beget more questions. MACKENZIE Dude, Dylan loves fucking with people. ALEX "Tshh"--dick. DYLAN Trimboli didn't see shit, because I wasn't fucking there. ALEX 100%. DYLAN They got the wrong guy. And to think there's still--I mean, there's still someone out there. PETER Maybe the one question I should be asking is...am I his greatest prank? [END OF TAPE]