Turning His Lies Into Life Sentences

Natalie's husband Mark sits her down at the dinner table and confesses he is a wanted criminal, a man who robbed a place and caused a death when he was eighteen. He tells her he must turn himself in, that she should find a better man and move on, and that divorce papers are already waiting on the desk. Their son Ben and Mark's mother Diane sit by, unsurprised, and Diane insists on dragging Mark to the station herself.

But Natalie has lived this moment before. In her past life she believed every word, spent decades scraping by to support a man behind bars and to send money to the family of his supposed victim, only to learn the whole story was a vanishing act. Now she is back on the day the lie began, and she is done crying. As Mark and Diane scramble to keep her away from the police and press her to fund the victim's forgiveness, Natalie quietly moves her savings, hunts for the missing evidence in Mark's desk, and hires an investigator to look into a woman named Valerie Thorne.

This time she intends to give his performance a real audience.