First Lie Wins

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. Smith to get him out of that job. This enrages Cameron who, goaded by insults from Evie, chases her down the street screaming profanities. Evie had hoped for this reaction, because she and Devon have bugged Cameron’s phone and Evie wants to goad Cameron into contacting Mr. Smith, which he does. This way, Evie can learn how Mr. Smith communicates with his clients. Evie and Ryan drive on to Nashville and sleep in a motel.

Mr. Smith gives Lucca the alias Helen White and sends Helen on a job unlike the others he’s given her: She’s to steal a piece of art from an oil tycoon named Ralph Tate, but she won’t be the only one on the job. Mr. Smith has put a number of employees on the job and whoever gets the painting first gets a bonus. Devon and Helen initially assume that Tate must be keeping the painting in a heavily guarded room, but later deduce that this room is a decoy and Tate keeps the painting in a “laundry room” that has more wires going into it than any laundry room should. Helen, now posing as a woman named Kitty, seduces Tate’s son and gains access to the house while Tate is hosting a Fourth of July party. Working together, Devon and Helen complete the heist and impress Mr. Smith, who wanted to see which of his employees would be able to figure out the laundry room decoy.

In Nashville, on the way to see Andrew Marshall, Evie reflects on how she sought out Mr. Smith’s other employees on the Tate job after she got the painting. She found only one. Her interaction with this person forced her to reevaluate why she’s in this line of work.

Evie finds Andrew Marshall, who is now the Governor of Tennessee. She asks him if he would be willing to do her a favor soon, and he confirms that he’d do anything after Hilton Head. After leaving, Evie runs into George who tells her that she should be in Atlanta retrieving the lock box as per Mr. Smith’s request. He says that Mr. Smith has more incriminating photos of her and that he’s afraid of what Mr. Smith will ask him to do to her if she doesn’t comply. Evie meets up with Devon, who confirms that George was probably taping the conversation between Evie and Marshall. This is what Evie had hoped for—she wants Mr. Smith to think that Marshall owes Evie a favor because Evie has material on the governor that she never turned over. This is also what Mr. Smith thinks she did with the Connolly/Holder job. The Marshall conversation incites Mr. Smith to send the Atlanta police department more incriminating footage of Evie and Holder, which Devon hacks into. Meanwhile, Devon is using the information they got from Cameron’s bugged phone to uncover Mr. Smith’s real identity.

Evie returns to Ryan at the motel. She tells him that she’s going to shower while he goes out for pizza, but at the last minute she decides to go to the vending machine for food to ease her headache. While there, she hears two male voices in the hall that say the name Amy Holder. She hides and sees that the men talking are Ryan and George. She sees George pass Ryan papers. Evie returns to the room, devastated by the revelation that Ryan has been in Mr. Smith’s employ this whole time. When Ryan returns he continues his act as the ideal boyfriend.

Evie wakes before Ryan and goes through his belongings. She finds the batch of information about Ryan’s business that she delivered to Mr. Smith—it’s not a copy, but the original that she sent. This causes Evie to wonder if Ryan could be Mr. Smith. Initially she writes off the idea because the timelines don’t add up: Ryan would have been in college when Mr. Smith first contacted her. Then Evie realizes that there was a gap in her contact with Mr. Smith after he first hired her, but her communication with him resumed six years ago. This aligns with Ryan taking over his family’s business after his grandmother’s death. Evie wonders if Ryan took over the Mr. Smith job from his grandparents.

Evie calls Devon to tell him what she’s learned and that she’s leaving town alone. She goes back to Eden, her hometown, and cons her way into a local doctor’s office. There, she inserts a drive into the office’s server and uploads some files. When she leaves, she gets a message from Devon that, using the information from Cameron’s phone, he’s revealed Mr. Smith’s true identity. He sends Evie a picture of Mr. Smith’s face.