Part 3
Stop 3: The Lie Detector Results and the Name That Changes Everything
You’ve seen Ricky squirm. You’ve heard Derek’s tickling defense. Now we arrive at the moment that turns a messy love triangle into a full-blown psychological thriller: the lie detector test. The host lays it out like a courtroom exhibit. Three sections. Three chances for Ricky to tell the truth. First: Ricky with other women. Second: Ricky with Derek’s exes. Third: Ricky with Myteeka. Buckle up.
The polygraph operator starts with the X-rated Facebook groups. Did Ricky have sex with women he met there? He says no. The machine says he’s telling the truth. For a second, you think maybe he’s not a total disaster. Then the next question lands. Did he have sex with another woman besides the one Shardidrick already knows about? He says no. The machine says lie. And just like that, the floor drops out.
But wait, there’s more. When Ricky claimed he was at a family member’s house, was he really having sex with another woman? He says no. The machine says lie. And then he drops a bomb of his own: he’s a sex addict. Not a slip-up. Not a one-time mistake. A pattern. If this were a movie, this is the part where the soundtrack goes silent and the camera zooms in on Shardidrick’s face. Think Fatal Attraction (1987, dir. Adrian Lyne, 119 min) but with more Facebook and less rabbit. Or maybe Unfaithful (2002, dir. Adrian Lyne, 124 min) — same director, same slow-burn betrayal, except here the betrayal is happening live on daytime TV.
The second section is Derek’s exes. Ricky is asked if he pursued other ex-girlfriends of his brother. He says no. The machine says lie. Then he admits it: he slept with more than one of Derek’s exes. Not just one. Multiple. If you’ve ever seen The Departed (2006, dir. Martin Scorsese, 151 min), you know the feeling of watching loyalty get shredded in real time. That’s this. Except instead of mobsters, it’s brothers. And instead of Boston, it’s a TV studio.
Now the Myteeka section. This is where the tour takes a sharp turn. Ricky is asked if he took Myteeka on a date to McDonald’s. He says no. Truth. Did Shardidrick find Myteeka’s earring and lipstick in the couch because they had sex? He says no. Truth. For a moment, you think Ricky might actually walk out of this clean. The audience exhales. Shardidrick’s face softens. Maybe it was all a misunderstanding.
Then the final question. The one nobody saw coming. The host turns to Myteeka and asks: “Is it true that on one occasion, when you were being very intimate with your boyfriend, you called him Ricky?” She says yes. She explains. Ricky walked in while they were having sex to ask for the keys. And in that moment, she accidentally said Ricky’s name. Not Derek’s. Ricky’s.
Let that sink in. It doesn’t prove they had sex. But it proves Ricky was in the room during an intimate moment. And it proves Myteeka’s mind was on him. That’s not a smoking gun. It’s a psychological fingerprint. If you’ve seen Gone Girl (2014, dir. David Fincher, 149 min), you know how a single detail can reframe everything. This is that detail. The name that changes everything.
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The lie detector didn’t just expose Ricky’s lies. It exposed the architecture of his relationships. He lied about other women. He lied about Derek’s exes. He admitted to being a sex addict. And then, in the one section where he told the truth, the truth itself became damning. Because the question wasn’t whether he had sex with Myteeka. The question was whether he was in her head. And the answer was yes.
This is the moment the episode shifts from cheating scandal to something closer to a psychological study. It’s less Jerry Springer and more Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, dir. Mike Nichols, 131 min) — a brutal, intimate excavation of trust and self-deception. Except here, the lie detector is the therapist. And the results are the diagnosis.
So what do we do with this? We keep watching. Because the fallout is just beginning. The unanswered questions are piling up. And Shardidrick? She’s not done. Not by a long shot.
Stop 4: The Fallout and the Unanswered Questions
So the lie detector results are in. Ricky passed the questions about Myteeka. He did not cheat on Shardidrick with his brother’s girlfriend — at least according to the polygraph. But here’s the twist that had the studio audience gasping: he failed everything else. Every other question about other women? Failed. So Ricky isn’t innocent. He’s a serial cheater. He just isn’t cheating with Myteeka. That’s the version the machine is selling. But does anyone in that room actually buy it? The host barely gets the words out before the shouting starts.
And then there’s the name. Myteeka called out “Ricky” during sex with Derek. She says it’s because Ricky walked into the room at that exact moment. Sure. Because nothing says “I’m faithful” like your boyfriend’s brother’s name escaping your lips at the worst possible time. The timing is suspicious. The excuse is flimsy. And Derek? He’s not buying it. Not for a second. He’s been betrayed by Ricky before — he admitted on the show that he once came home and saw Ricky on the couch with his girl. That was before Myteeka, but the wound is still fresh. Now he’s hearing his girlfriend moan his brother’s name in bed. You don’t need a lie detector to know how that feels.
