First Lie Wins

Lucca receives a message from Mr. Smith via a delivery man she’s seen on another job who calls himself George. This message sends her to a college in Florida where she’s to take on the alias Wendy and study the life of the college’s football coach, Mitch Cameron. Wendy studies footage of Cameron interacting with other coaches, college officials, and donors to the college’s football program, but isn’t able to find any incriminating evidence against the coach. Wendy receives further instruction from Mr. Smith that she’s to remove Cameron from his position without causing a scandal or forcing him to quit. Wendy accomplishes this by blackmailing one of the football team’s donors. After Cameron is successfully removed without scandal, Wendy meets with Tyron, one of the team’s star players whom she grew to admire during her surveillance. She warns Tyron about the perils of taking money from donors, and learns from him that Cameron had been anticipating his removal from the college.

Evie and Ryan arrive in Oxford, Mississippi, where Mitch Cameron lives. Evie, posing as Wendy, asks Cameron for financial help after reminding him that she helped him get out of the coaching job in Florida. She had deduced from the conversation with Tyron that Cameron had hired Mr.