(intense music) - Kidnapping is a crime unless you have that person's permission. Thanks for tying me up. May I have a soda? Mm, that wasn't soda. Lately, I've been so busy with work, I've missed hanging out with my friends. This week, I'm going to try kidnapping my best friend three times so we can spend more
quality time together. Hope it's fun. (dramatic music) My best friend, Ben, and
I have known each other for two and a half years. To put that in perspective, Romeo and Juliet only knew each other for less than four days. So, we're closer than those two ever were. Ben and I used to hang out
at least three times a week. We would grab dinner, see movies, and watch hockey games together. We had what some people call a bromance. As time passed, we slowly drifted apart. Life became busy. Free time became scarce. Laughter became a memory. It's made me deeply sad, but I'm too proud to tell Ben I miss him, so I'm going to do the
very next best thing: kidnap him three times. Using my intricate knowledge
of Ben's interests and routines I devised several plans to trap him. Before I could officially capture Ben, my company's legal team required Ben's written consent to
participate in this video. The legal team ruins all my fun. Next, I needed Ben to sign my waiver so I could let the kidnappings begin. I wrote Ben a message
claiming I needed his help on an upcoming episode of Outsmarted. Little did he know I was lying. I didn't need help, I needed a target. I asked three of my strongest coworkers to wear barbershop quartet
uniforms with ski masks and hide behind a wall. On my signal, they would
sneak up behind Ben, throw a blanket over him, and kidnap him. That's Ben's chair and that is the flat. Who were these coworkers willing to help kidnap my best friend? My first accomplice was Kwesi, who I'm proud to say is one
one of my closest work friends. How well do you know me? - Shit, I don't even know
your last name, dude. What is it? It's not Riley, no. How are they allowing you to do this? - My second accomplice was a
murderer I met on Cragslist. Just kidding. My second accomplice
was my coworker, Zach, who I've never had lunch with alone. - You know, I don't wanna hurt him, but if he hits me multiple
times and hurts me, I might have to throw him to
the ground to calm him down. - And my final accomplice
was a valet attendant who I've only spoken to once
about professional wrestling. Do you wanna take your mask off and reveal your identity,
so people know who you are? - [Valet] Rather not. - The three of these
powerhouses shaped like men were waiting on my command
to do my evil bidding. What time is it? Time to kidnap my BFF. I asked you here because I need your help escaping a CIA spy. - How can I help you? - You're a very confident man. You seem very comfortable in
your own personal security. - I would say that's fairly accurate. - That is why I guarantee I can kidnap you three times in a week. - Wow. You think you can kidnap
me three times in a week. - I guarantee I can kidnap
you three times in a week. - Bring it on. - Let me first define the term kidnapping. - Right. - Taking someone against their
will into a different room. So I don't have to
bring you to my basement and torture you and
spank you and tickle you. - All I know is this means I'm
going to be hyper-vigilant, like... - [Mike] You haven't agreed to it. - Okay. - I can run the rules by you.
- Please. - You cannot, at any point, yell for help. If you yell for help, that qualifies as an immediate kidnapping. - Okay. - You cannot fight anyone
trying to kidnap you. You can try and wiggle your way out. You can try and run away. One more rule is that you cannot work from home every single day. If I am successful at kidnapping
you three times in a week, I can shave one of your eyebrows. - Come on, Mike. All the way off? - Buh-bye, brow. (laughing) If I lose, you can shave
off one of my eyebrows. - I like to run things by my
girlfriend as a sounding board. - Call her in front of us. - [Annie] Hi Benihana. - Hi, love. Mike Carrier just bet
me that he will be able to kidnap me three times in one week. - Really?
- And if he succeeds, then he is allowed to shave
off one of my eyebrows. What do you think of this, Annie? - [Annie] I obviously do not approve. - You don't. - [Annie] No. - But what do you think
about my likelihood of succeeding here? I mean, you know me, I'm paranoid. I can be hyper-alert all the time. I'm not gonna...
- Right. - I think I can win this challenge. I would rather get a
tattoo of your choosing than do this, almost. - A tattoo would last forever. - [Annie] Do eyebrows grow back normally? - I'm comfortable making
it a tattoo if I win. - I love you and I'm
gonna do the tattoo angle. - The good news is that
Ben raised the stakes. Shaving his eyebrow
would've embarrassed him for about a month, but getting an ugly
tattoo would embarrass him for a lifetime. This was the first tattoo
idea that crossed my mind. - It starts right now. - You have to read the contract-- - Okay.
- and agree to it. - Can I read it outside of this dark lair that you've brought me to? Because there could be someone waiting right behind that door to just snatch me and move me. - You can. - Deal. - I'll give you the contract. There you go. Feel free to read it. - I know that as soon as I sign this, you have something prepared to kidnap me. I am going to sign this
outside of this room. - We don't have cameras outside. - See, you can't just use this video to keep me confined to your
little box of tricks, Mike. - Okay, yeah, just... - Why doesn't someone
just pop off that camera and come join me while
I sign this outside? If this is on, if there's
a tattoo on the line, and an eyebrow, I am
taking this very seriously. - [Mike] Sure. - Kidnappers, you guys
can stay hiding back here wherever you are. - Yeah, there's a table. Mm hmm. Perfect. - Good luck.
- Good luck to you, my friend. (bleeping) Ben shouldn't have tried to outsmart me. This means war, my friend. - I just signed a contract. I'm on hyper-vigilance mode right now. I've asked my coworkers to
keep an extra eye out for me. Evan, you got my back? - I got you, bro. - Ben rushed back to his
desk, or as I call it, "Scurried away like a gutless fraidy-cat." I asked my three barbershop boys to sneak up to Ben's desk
and help me snatch him. (intense, suspenseful music) - Dammit.
- No, protect Ben! (coworkers laughing, shouting) - [Mike] No, what is this guy? No, no, no. You'll get no outside help. A barbershop quartet with
ski masks kidnapped you for the first one. - Is this who I'm gonna be up
against the rest of the time? - Time will tell, my friend. - This is bull (bleeping). (dramatic music) - [Mike] At work, Ben
and I are both expected to attend the same weekly meeting. I knew if I didn't show up, Ben would become extremely paranoid. So paranoid that he stands in the doorway to protect himself. Where am I? Plotting my next strategy. - Mike's the kinda guy who
would put a tracker on my car to know my whereabouts at all times, so I am looking to see
if there's anything. - For my next kidnapping strategy, I'm going to try exploiting
Ben's greatest love: acting. Ben is a tremendous actor. Here's one of his earliest and
most embarrassing head shots. I figured out a perfect way to use Ben's dream of being an
actor to my advantage. Seven years ago, I wrote a
script about young people working at a solar company. I added a monologue for a
new character named Ben, and gave this script to
the scripted director Ben works with most
often, a man named Henry. - I usually am pretty
mild-mannered in my ordinary life, so this was an opportunity for
me to do something horrible and blame it on Mike. - Several days before the
kidnapping challenge began, I had Henry email Ben this script and ask him to memorize the lines. I wanted to make sure that
while Ben performed his lines, he looked like a complete idiot. Therefore, I wrote three
strange emotional changes in the script to challenge his skills. - It was actually like we pitched it as this really big project for him that could be big for his career. I texted Mike saying, "Oh, dude, I feel really bad about
this, this seems wrong. Ben is really excited, you know
this is gonna end in tears." And Mike didn't seem to
be worried about that. - Because I'm not the strongest
man in the world right now, I needed help lifting
Ben up to kidnap him. So in the script, I wrote Ben's character speaking with two shirtless men. To fill those shirtless
roles, I hired weightlifters. - I'm a personal trainer for 15 years now. I could bench press 415 and deadlift a little over 500 pounds. - I always wanted to kidnap a celebrity. - Let's see if Ben was foolish enough to memorize my fake script. - Action.
- Geez Louise, just buy my solar panels. If there is anyone on this planet who can appreciate the
sheer power of the sun, it is you two professional sunbathers. I mean, you are tearing my
soul into pieces right now. - Right after we're graced
with Ben's performance, we'll kidnap him a second time. Step back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy this bizarre monologue I forced my best friend to memorize. - Honestly, I don't even know why I try to save the world anymore. I mean, doctor says my heart's too big. Both literally and metaphorically. Sad thing is, she says I've given so much of myself over
to charitable causes, I only have about 80
more years left to live. So I am going to spend those last few 80 years helping people. You can call me Mr. Energy. First name Solar, last name Energy, middle name Buy A Panel From Me Or I Will Break Your Pelvis. (laughing) - I'm sorry, I just got distracted by how great your acting was. - [Ben] Oh, you mother(bleeping). Oh no! God (bleeping). You piece of (bleeping)! You (bleeping) guys! You mother(bleeping)! No! Did you write this scene
for me to get kidnapped? - [Mike] I did. - You mother(bleeping). - I'm a sunbather, baby! (laughing, cheering) - [Ben] No! (Mike whooping) - [Nicholas] Oh, that was awesome. - Kidnapping number two
was a piece of cake, and oh boy was that cake Yum City. That's number two, baby. - There will not be a number three. - Here's another wonderful
tattoo idea I like. A week ago, before this challenge began, I interviewed Ben's
girlfriend, Annie, on camera. I told her I was planning
Ben's surprise birthday party. She responded by saying
I was a great friend. Here's what I did next. I'm not planning your boyfriend's
surprise birthday party, I'm planning on kidnapping your boyfriend. - Interesting. I love it. - If you're interested- - Oh my god.
- I can use your help. - Okay. How can I be of service to you? I would say that Katy Perry is
his biggest celebrity crush. - [Annie] Yes. - [Mike] Here's the
strategy I pitched to Annie. I want Annie to give me a
copy of their apartment key. I will sneak in at 4 a.m.,
crawl up to their bed, and gently wake up Annie. She will quietly exit the bed. A Katy Perry impersonator I hired will slide into bed and
wake up Ben by whispering, "Ben, it's me, Katy Perry. I love you, and I want to be together." We will wait three seconds
for Ben's response. Then, the two weightlifters
I hired earlier will grab Ben and drag him out of the room. This will be the third
and final kidnapping. - He's gonna stab you. He's gonna kick your ass. - Does he have a knife? On the bed? - Some nights? - Annie delivered on her
apartment key promise. Then, I hired a Katy Perry impersonator who I assumed was a Katy Perry fan. - I don't really like
Katy Perry that much, but Katy Perry life has chosen me, so now I'm forced to just go with it. - In order to manhandle
Ben's 165 pound body, I hired the same two sunbathing
weightlifters from earlier to come back at 3 a.m. - I think Ben is gonna
shriek a little bit. - I went home for a little bit. I ended up eating a spicy tuna roll. - As the clock neared 4 a.m., my team and I drove to Ben's apartment. We drove the speed limit, because that's what all the cool kids do. I entered the front door using the code Ben's girlfriend gave me, then, my gang of weirdos
and I snuck inside. Using the apartment key Annie gave me, I crept inside with my team. (dramatic, building music) I calmly knelt down beside
the bed to wake Annie and set our kidnapping plan in motion. (dramatic reveal music) Ben outsmarted me. I was furious. Annie double-crossed me. "Sneaky, sneaky, Mr. Carrier. Lesson one: loyalty." And it says "Tick tock" on my forehead. There's a note that says, "Play me," and there's a YouTube link. So I've gotta watch this YouTube link. - Mr. Carrier. Right now, I'm sound
asleep in a hotel room while you're in my room with
a couple of creepy sex dolls. I don't know, how did this happen? I knew that you would wanna
get into my apartment, but I couldn't figure out how. You wouldn't have my keys, you're not allowed to do anything illegal, and then I realized the
only way you could get to me would be through Annie, so I grilled her for hours
and she finally broke. And now I got her workin' for me. Right where she belongs. We're here at Staples right now. I'm printing out a little
something for you, Mikey Boy. See, I got this man. Check him out. - [Annie] Night-night, John. - Night-night, John. Sweet dreams. Pullin' into our new home for the night, the wonderful Hollywood Roosevelt. So game on, buddy... And get used to this sound. (trimmers buzzing) - Not only was I pissed off... I wanna punch a hole in every wall here. I was in someone else's
bedroom at 4:30 a.m. with total strangers who
were also pissed off. - If I see Ben walking down the street anytime in the next year or so, I might kidnap his (bleeping) myself. (mysterious revelation music) - Wanted to get a good look at
who was comin' to kidnap me, so I asked our apartment
manager to pull up the elevator footage from last night. There's Mike leadin' the way. And who is that woman? - I slept for four hours
before waking up angry. I decided sleep was overrated
and walked back to work so I could plan the ultimate
kidnapping strategy. Lately, Ben has been collaborating with a video producer named Kelly. I asked Kelly to help sabotage Ben, and even offered her $100. Will you help me kidnap Ben a third time? - I will help you but I
don't feel good about it. - Ben agreed to meet
Kelly the next morning, so I got right to work. First, I asked my good friend Steven to help rig a GoPro in the meeting room as well as hide a
microphone in a backpack. At midnight, I finally
finished figuring out all the logistics of my new strategy. I emailed all my accomplices
and I slept like a baby. (tense music) I'm wearing this wig as a disguise so that Ben doesn't recognize
me when I kidnap him the third and final time. I enlisted the help of four strong men to drag Ben's pale butt cheeks
out of the meeting room. Here's my new strategy. Kelly will arrive early and wait patiently in the meeting room. When Ben enters and shuts
the door behind him, Kelly will secretly call my phone. That phone call is the signal
my team waits for downstairs before bursting in and
kidnapping Ben a final time. Just waiting on a phone call. Come on, Kelly. (dramatic music) - [Kelly] Can you shut the door? - [Mike Voiceover] My gang
and I received the signal from our accomplice on the
inside, Kelly, and we moved in. (dramatic music) (air horn shrieking) (men shouting) Wait, that's not Ben. Who the (bleeping) is that? Kelly backstabbed me, too? God(bleeping). - I'm supposed to help
Mike kidnap Ben tomorrow. I don't think I can do it. - [Mike Voiceover] Soon after midnight, when I emailed Kelly my
strategy for the day, she was overwhelmed with guilt. She confessed to Ben that I was trying to use her as a double agent. She, too, didn't want the $100 bribe. A lot of mother(bleeping) up
in here must already be rich. $100 is a lot of money. - So, here's my plan. I'm going to enter the
office wearing this outfit, black shirt, black hat. I'm gonna go into the meeting and say, "Kelly, hold on one second,
I gotta go to the bathroom." I'm gonna head to the bathroom. - [Kelly] Okay. - When I get to the bathroom, Victor will already be there waiting. I'm gonna give him my shirt and my hat. I'm gonna change into something else. Victor will then go into the meeting pretending that he's me
with his back to the door. Kelly will signal Mike that I'm in there. Mike will come in, net Victor. Kelly will then signal the air horn, which is my cue to leave
the bathroom untouched. It worked. It worked. Oh, thank (bleeping). - Right after Ben escaped
my elaborate trap, one of his accomplices handed me a video. I begrudgingly sat down and watched whatever bull(bleeping)
Ben wanted me to see. - Mike, didn't we just have this talk? I wasn't kidding when I said, "Lesson number one is loyalty." That's something I share
with all of my teammates, including Kelly, who you
tried to turn against me. So now you're feeling that familiar sting of being double-crossed. Still wish you the best, my friend, and good luck. - [Mike] Enraged by Ben's taunting video, I gathered my gaggle of muscular men and led them on another mission. I assumed Ben went to celebrate
his brilliant escape plan with his girlfriend, Annie. My team and I set a
course for Annie's desk. Brute force had worked once before. Why not try again? As we were walking towards Annie's desk, I noticed Ben enter the room
about 10 feet in front of us. We saw Ben talking on his phone, boasting about his master escape plan. - Mike, do you really
think I'm dumb enough to go into a room with only one exit? Come on, man, not this late in the game. - [Mike] I had my team split up. Justin went to the far side of the room. Brendan went to the center. Josh and I stayed behind Ben. We surrounded him and waited. A few seconds went by,
and then I heard it. Ben's scream. - [Ben] Let go, let go, let go! - [Mike] Center. Get him! In here, in here, in here. You're mine, baby. (Ben swearing) - [Ben] I got too cocky! - [Spencer] We found him! - [Mike] We got him! We got him! Just as I guaranteed, I kidnapped
Ben three times in a week. Sure, it wasn't pretty,
but neither is my face. What we've been doing here is
just been pranking each other, and we've taken it very seriously. The actual act of kidnapping
someone is a crime. Anyone who does it is
a piece of (bleeping) and deserves to go to
jail and rot in Hell. - There's an organization out there that's very important to me called The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children, and they dedicate their lives
to finding missing kids. If you take two minutes, check
it out, donate if you can, you could literally help save a life. Now back to this bull(bleeping). Hey.
- Hey, Ben. - How's it goin'?
- Good, good. Are you ready?
- No, I'm nervous. (laughing) - So I'm gonna put a stencil on you. - [Ben] Okay. (sighing) I'm not normally a religious person, but I'm praying right now. (Danny laughing) - [Danny] Hold really still right there. (intense, dramatic music) - I hope you like it. (sighing) Please don't punch me in the face. - When you say stuff like
that, it gets me nervous. - As I watched my best friend be punished for losing a challenge he never asked for, I reflected on the nature of friendship. Friendships have ups and downs. There are moments filled with laughter. There are moments filled with tears. There are days you wanna hug them. There are days you wanna
spit on their face. Even after the hell I
just dragged Ben through, he trusted me enough to get
a tattoo on his arm forever. That trust meant a lot to me. The last few days, I've
done lots of thinking. The only reason I did
this video was so that Ben and I could spend more
quality time together. If I'd got a disaster
of a tattoo on his arm, he would hate me forever. He would push me out of his life, and I would have to live in the sewers, so I'm not going to get a crappy tattoo. - Can I look? - You can look. - I'm going to get him a lovely tattoo. - [Ben] What is it, DNA, dude? - [Mike] It's a DNA helix. - Loyalty... You mother(bleeping). That is sick. - That's a lesson you
were trying to teach me twice earlier this week. I'm gonna make sure that you've learned for the rest of your life. I chose a tattoo that
represents our week together and something very
important to Ben: loyalty. Loyalty is also a reference
to his favorite song, DNA by Kendrick Lamar. - [Ben] I got "loyalty" inside my DNA. That's (bleeping) dope. This tattoo is a 10. You picked something for me that I would've picked for myself, which is the best gift
a friend can give me. Thank you.
- We can hang out more often now.
- Yes, dude. This is awesome. - Yes. - He's a good guy. - At the end of the day,
I'm thrilled my best friend forced me to take my
skills to the next level. Hopefully, he's more aware of his personal security
vulnerabilities moving forward. Maybe next time, Ben
could try kidnapping me. Are you scared of being kidnapped by Ben? - [Kwesi] No, I'm scared of you, because you pull (bleeping)
like this all the time. Remember when you came to my
desk one time, you was like, "Hey, man, I got a really cool idea. So we're gonna do this thing where you show your best friend
each others' penis." And then you did the trick where you didn't take your pants off...
