The Ruse S.34 Ep.10
A Date With Dateline
Kimberly and Katie - ADWDL
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
The One With Lester The Hoster, The Dog In The Interrogation Room, And Biggest OMG Moment Ever, AKA THE RUSE!
Official Description from NBCU: When a California father fails to return home after a quick trip to check his mail, his son calls police for help -- only to find himself the focus of their investigation until a stunning revelation upends the case. Lester Holt reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. This is Kimberly. And this is Katie. And you're listening to A Date with Dateline. And we have a very |
| 0:07.5 | special, special episode for you in that it is a Lester, which is very rare. What happened here? |
| 0:16.2 | What's going on? Well, we do know that Lester quit NBC News earlier in the year, and he said he was going to be spending more time at Dateline. |
| 0:25.8 | And this is apparently the more time that we're getting. |
| 0:29.6 | I mean, we have gotten a couple episodes of his from the past. |
| 0:33.2 | I remember there was one where he went to stay at a prison and delved into the lifestyle at the prison. |
| 0:39.8 | That was a really fascinating episode. |
| 0:42.2 | But we didn't cover that. |
| 0:43.3 | We did not cover that. |
| 0:44.5 | There was no crime. |
| 0:45.9 | I mean, there was many crimes. |
| 0:47.7 | It's all the crime. |
| 0:48.9 | It's prison. |
| 0:49.2 | It's all the crimes. |
| 0:50.6 | But it was more about the crime that the prison was doing to these inmates. |
| 0:55.2 | Understood. |
| 0:55.9 | And he looked really great in that prison jumpsuit. |
| 0:58.7 | There, I just objectified one of America's greatest living journalists. |
| 1:04.6 | Apologize. |
| 1:05.5 | Say sorry. |
| 1:06.1 | Oh, really? |
| 1:07.1 | Sorry. |
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