When the bottom falls out
During the phone call with Belle, Avett’s wife, Hannah starts to realize the senselessness in trying to defend Owen’s innocence. She sees a mirror of herself, listening to Belle trying to defend her husband with every possible excuse. She realizes what she sounds like to other people – crazy. Then she wonders if that’s what happens to a person when the bottom falls out, and they are unable to find words that make sense to the rest of the world.
A piece lining up
Following the clues with Bailey in Austin, Hannah gets a phone call from Carl, Owen’s lawyer friend whom she visited asking for help, and whose wife berated her for the money they lost on the scheme of The Shop. He wants to apologize, but he reveals an important piece of information to Hannah, information that Carl and his wife didn’t actually lose money because of Owen, but because of Carl’s cheating. This gives Hannah hope that Owen is still the man she knew. She sees it as a piece lining up to show her that.
A mirage
“The person you thought you knew, your favorite person, starts to disappear, a mirage, unless you convince yourself that the parts that matter are still true.”
Hannah starts to uncover more and more holes in Owen’s past and identity. She discovers that Owen is not even his real name. She is in a conflicting situation because the time she spent and the love she felt with him seemed real, but everything else seems to be the opposite of truth.
Out of one's depth
“There is a moment when you realize you are out of your depth. This is mine”
To save Bailey, Hannah decides to do one thing that might prove to be the most dangerous. She decides to go to the source of the entire situation – Nicholas Bell, Owen’s father-in-law and Bailey’s grandfather. Upon meeting him, she very quickly realizes the helplessness of her situation, and that she is completely at this man’s mercy.
