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A private jet carries Evie from Teterboro to San Francisco. Steve waits at the other end. What he cannot see — what is happening simultaneously in text threads with Jesse, Matan, and Walsh Sr. — is that Tara has planned the exit before the arrival.
A message arrives from Tara. Dramatic, accusatory, the kind of thing she sends often enough that it reads like noise. The phrase about leaving her daughter is a warning. Steve doesn't recognize it yet.
Three months before the departure, Tara texts a friend asking to be kidnapped. On June 4, 2018, she walks out with Evie and calls an Uber to a bus zone. Bryan Crutcher enters the front passenger seat. The recording captures everything — including Tara telling her father that police will arrest her for poisoning Steve. Walsh Sr. tells her to come home. Four days later he agrees to the conditions for a visit to New York. Tara flies there with Evie and never returns; under oath, she later admits she lied about coming back.
Three years to arrange. Three days to conduct. Four depositions with one attorney. Coached amnesia, privacy walls, prepared performances — and one unguarded moment from the man who married in. "They were aware of it. They were encouraging it, yeah."