

A sobbing David receives a call from Emily telling him she is fine, and will be back soon. Steven takes Emily to stay at her mother's.

Outside, David watches the body being removed from the building in a black bag and assumes it to be Emily. They remove the assailant's mask and Karaman notices that Steven is surprised – the body is not David's. He takes the key from the body and puts it back on Emily's keychain.

Steven returns expecting Emily to be dead, but finds the assailant's body. Emily answers in the kitchen and is attacked by a masked assailant, but stabs him in the neck with a meat thermometer. At his card game, Steven takes a break and uses his cellphone to make a call to an automated bank system, adding to his alibi, while using a second phone to call Emily. David is to use the key, kill her, and make it look like a robbery. Steven hides the door key from Emily's keyring outside the service entrance to their lavish Manhattan co-op apartment. When David responds that he and Emily are in love, Steven reminds him his next arrest will mean 15 years imprisonment. Steven offers David $500,000 to murder Emily. He reveals that he knows about the affair, and used his influence to investigate David's criminal past as an ex-convict who cons rich women out of their money. Steven arrives at David's studio the next day. Steven meets David at a gala, and asks to visit David's studio in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, Emily enjoys an affair with painter David Shaw and is considering leaving Steven. When his risky personal investments start unraveling, he intends to access Emily's personal fortune of $100 million to cover his losses. Steven Taylor is a Wall Street financier married to Emily, a much younger (over 20 years) translator for the United Nations.
