Catfished in Paris: Harper and Lucas's Full Story, Characters & Ending

Harper ends up at Lucas's apartment, where a phone call interrupts their kiss. He takes it in the bathroom, whispering in French. Then he cooks spaghetti and dodges every question about his job. Harper starts to wonder how he happened to be at Pierre's café, and whether he might even be Pierre under another name.

The next morning Lucas slips out early for work, and Harper wakes up alone to a neighbor pounding on the door. The woman warns her, in broken English, that Paris is not safe for tourist women. Rattled, Harper wanders the city. Through a restaurant window she thinks she spots Pierre, but when she rushes inside the table is empty, and suddenly Lucas is standing there instead, in his work suit, asking what she is doing there.

That night she opens Lucas's laptop and finds emails from HeartLink, the dating site where she met Pierre, and messages from Pierre's username. Sure that the two men are working together, she runs. Lucas swears he is a private investigator hired to expose Pierre as a scammer, but she doesn't believe him and checks into a hotel.

Lucas turns up in the lobby with a flash drive full of proof that Pierre has scammed other women. At that moment Pierre messages Harper, apologizing and asking to meet at Le Soleil Café to explain. She agrees. Lucas begs her not to go, then insists on coming along, and Harper runs off before he can follow.

At the café, Pierre is waiting with another man. Both hide knives under their coats, and they demand her purse and jewelry. Pierre tells her she was an easy mark. Then Lucas arrives with a gun drawn and tells her to run. Harper sprints away in tears, looking back to see him facing the two men alone.

When the police lights arrive, a woman named Captain Maxime introduces herself as Lucas's commanding officer. Lucas is not a private investigator. He is an undercover detective, and his team has been tracking Pierre's gang for months as they scammed and robbed tourists. Pierre and his crew are now in custody. When Lucas walks up unhurt, Harper throws her arms around him. He lied to her, she says, but he saved her.

Lucas admits he first noticed Harper at the café because he was waiting for Pierre, but the mission turned into something more. He tells her "je t'aime" and asks her to forgive his secrets. Harper forgives him and says she loves him too. At sunset by the Seine, with the Eiffel Tower sparkling behind them, he promises no more lies, and no more spaghetti, just a proper dinner.