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So i got him some water. all that running around naked has you pretty dried out then? >> yeah. >> have you ever met any young girls online? first time. >> yeah, this is first time. it will never happen again. i can tell you that for now. >> he started to giggle because he thought it was funny and partly because he was just really, really nervous having just been caught and now being confronted. so it's funny? >> no, i'm just thinking to myself that this would never happen again. this is not something, no, this is not right. >> you're promising right now you'll never -- >> i'm promising myself....

>> is that your personal car? >> no, sir. that's a rental car. >> he was in the communications business, and he was on assignment in florida. sort of gave me the sense that he was just bored. cruising the internet. and decided to chat up this young girl. you had planned on staying the night? >> no. i was going to get a room tonight. that's what i told her on the net. i consider staying the night with her, but i wouldn't. >> there's talk about spending the night here. >> yes, i know that. >> did you pack a bag? >> no, sir. i got one deal that has my underwear and a new shirt and i always wear m...

Extremely nervous is i have no idea who you are. >> you don't have any idea who i am? >> no. >> would you like to know? >> yes. >> i'm chris hansen with "dateline nbc" and we're doing a story on adults who meet teens on the internet. and if there's anything else you would like to say to me about why you're here today, i would like to hear it. if not, clearly you're free to walk out that door. >> what do we have here? >> walk out the same door you came in. straight back. i tell campbell who i am and what we're doing. he leaves like the others and is immediately arrested and taken into custody a...

Then something gets to the point where nothing will satisfy them except the face-to-face meeting. i think that's where thornton was. >> you've got to go deal with it on your own now? >> yes. >> what's it going to take? >> it's going to take a lot of time, a lot of patience and a lot of rethinking. >> you know how this chat looks. >> uh-huh. >> you were raring and ready to go here. i've got to tell you something. i'm chris hansen from "dateline nbc," and we are doing a story on adults trying to meet children on the internet. >> okay. >> what you may not know is that everything from the time you...

>> have you ever seen our stories on computer predators, adults who go online to meet kids? >> no. >> thomas moffitt, this is one of those stories and i'm chris hansen with "dateline nbc". we're doing a story about adults meeting kids online. if there's anything else you'd like to say, we'd like to hear it. if not, obviously you're free to walk out that door. >> no. >> get on the ground. get on the ground. >> we're prepared to have more than one guy show up at the same time. it's happened since the very first investigation. sometimes the police make an arrest and don't have time to take the gu...