God Friended Me

Previously on "God Friended Me"...

God sent me a friend request?

Who's John Dove? Somebody stop that guy!

I think you just saved my life.

Who the hell is Cara Bloom?

You wanna figure out who's screwing with you.

I'm a journalist. I know how to find people.

- Moved from Ohio to New York. - She's Cara's mom.

- Cara. - Mom?

Cara!

- You stay with me, Cara. - You're the guy

- from the subway. - John Dove?

- She needs a doctor. - I am a doctor.

I want to be a part of your life.

I told you I'd help you get to the bottom of it.

Maybe we'll do some good in the process.

New York City,

a place where lives intersect in the most surprising ways.

Is it all part of a grand design

or a game of chance?

A few days ago,

someone calling themselves God on Facebook

started sending me random friend suggestions

from people I didn't know,

like my new friend Cara.

She's a journalist who had writer's block.

I helped her reconnect with her mom,

and now she's writing again.

The thing is, I know it's not God.

I don't believe in God.

But I am determined to figure out who's behind this.

Now, my best friend Rakesh and I have been trying

to track them down.

So far, they're winning.

But it's not all bad.

I did reconnect with my dad.

Of course he's a reverend and I'm an atheist,

so we've got a long way to go, but it's a start.

And it makes my sister Ali happy.

She really wants us to be a family again,

and I'm pretty sure she's using us as a case study

for her graduate psych thesis.

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- _ - But for now I don't have time to worry

- _ - about the God account.

And, sure, I'm intrigued,

but I've got much bigger things going on

that demand my attention.

A brand-new satellite radio company is interested

in my podcast, "The Millennial Prophet."

Now, I gotta keep the details hush-hush,

but here's hoping that next time you hear from me,

it's on a much larger platform.

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- _ - Nope.

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Let me get right to it, Miles.

When Frequency brought me over from Sirius

to launch a new satellite station,

I knew I had to have a podcast

that would cut through the noise.

That podcast is yours.

Wow, thanks, man.

And "The Millennial Prophet" is exactly the kind of show

that we can grow into an enormous hit.

Well, great. Where do I sign?

I just... I just wanna make sure that we're on

- the same page moving forward. - Yeah, of... of course.

Now, the last few podcasts,

you mentioned something called the God account.

That... is that supposed to be some kind of metaphor, or...

Uh, yeah.

Yeah.

Clever.

Drop it.

- Oh. - Yeah, it's off-message.

See, I want the guy beating the drum of a godless world.

I don't want you to meet your audience in the middle.

I want you to pick a lane. Stick to it.

So no more God account talk, okay?

What do you say, Miles?

You know what? I say I'm your man.

Congrats, Miles.

- Thank you. - Come on, I'll show you around.

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Ready, Miles?

Sorry.

Look at that. It's raining.

You wanna see me take a call?

Pretty incredible in action.

Not really.

But you are pretty cute in that headset.

Does that mean you wanna go out again?

- Sure. - Great.

I'll make reservations for lunch tomorrow.

Two, actually, in case, uh, you prefer the vegan option.

Tomorrow I have... I have plans.

You know what? We'll figure it out later.

- Okay. - I gotta go.

B... bye.

She has... plans. Everybody has plans.

Plans aren't a big deal.

So? Did you get the gig?

- I got it! - Ah!

Holy...

Dude, that's incredible.

Heading back down there tomorrow

to record some promos,

meet the engineer, producers, my whole team.

- You got a team? - Yeah.

Best part? I put my two weeks in.

I'm finally getting out of this place.

Miles, you're the most successful person I know.

What?

Check this out.

Whoever's behind the God account

changed their profile pic

right after I accepted the gig.

- Ominous. - No, no, no, no.

Literally, it's no joke.

I said yes, got the notification,

and it started to rain.

Miles, there was rain in the forecast.

I brought an umbrella to work.

Besides, they probably hacked

your phone. For all you know,

they were listening in.

No, the point is they fired a warning shot.

Okay, so what?

You really think the people behind this account don't want

- you to work at Frequency? - Consider the facts.

They erased my presentation last week,

almost cost me the interview...

I can't have them screwing this up for me.

We gotta find them.

Wait, I think I just figured out how.

- They changed their profile pic. - Yeah, I'm aware.

Yes, but are you aware that

every picture uploaded online

is geotagged?

All we have to do is run an image search.

Once we get a match, I can trace the exact location

it was uploaded from. It's just it'll take some time.

- Great. - Yeah.

So what do I do in the meantime?

You got a friend suggestion. Play along.

See where it goes.

Fine. Katie Brooks.

Says she's a waitress at the Blue Pin Café.

I'll call Cara and have her meet me there for dinner.

Cara?

- What? - What?

What? She said she wanted to be looped in.

Mm-hmm, to dinner. I understand.

Bro, it is not even like that.

We're just friends.

Miles, "just friends" is the beginning

of every great romantic comedy ever, so...

Yeah, I'm glad you called.

Uh, when did you get the new friend suggestion?

- A few days ago. - Well, why didn't you tell me?

Well, because with everything going on with my podcast,

I was hoping to focus on that and this would go away.

You know, Miles, I think you're looking at this whole

God account thing wrong.

Why don't you stop seeing it as a nuisance

and see it for what it is?

Which is what, ice cream lady?

Which is, if we find out who's behind this account,

that'll make for an amazing story.

And if it turns out to be God,

greatest mystery of the universe solved.

- Win-win. - Can I ask you something?

Yeah, sure.

Do you always eat ice cream for dinner?

- Only when I'm stressed. - Mm.

- So don't judge. - No judgment.

No judgment. I actually think it's pretty adorable.

Oh. Okay, then.

So, you wanna talk about it?

- What? - You said you're stressed.

- Oh. - I mean, it's cool

- if you don't wanna talk about it. - No, no, it's fine. Um...

it's just my mom.

I spent my whole life trying to find her.

And now that I have, it's like...

I don't know how to take the next step.

Yeah, I told my dad about the Frequency gig.

- Mm-hmm. - That was a quick convo.

I mean, I don't know what I was expecting.

It's not like he ever listened to the podcast anyways.

It's tough.

I mean, I saw my mom at my sister's soccer game.

- Oh. - It was so awkward.

And we're supposed to see each other again tomorrow,

and I don't even know what we're gonna talk about.

It's just a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Yeah.

Oh, hey, hey.

Look. It's her.