Steven checks the service entrance, finds the key he hid for David, and realizes that the attacker had put it back after unlocking the door. As she heads out to pick up food, she mentions that they should have the locks changed since her key is missing. Steven showers then dresses for dinner, but Emily suggests they stay in instead. He hides the money, gun, and audio tape in his safe before Emily enters the room.
Steven rushes home and finds the mail still unopened. A dying David laughs, revealing he mailed a copy of the tape to Emily via courier service. Reaching the private compartment on the train, David opens the bathroom door Steven lunges out and stabs him, taking David's gun and the money. Steven meets David in a park and swaps the money for the audio tape. David's phone rings, and Steven answers – it is a ticketing agent, confirming David's train to Montreal. Steven goes to David's loft with the cash, but finds a note directing him to a park. When he saw the dead body in their kitchen, he assumed it was David and took the key from his pocket so as not to implicate Emily. Steven responds with David's sordid past and accuses him of being a blackmailer conning her and threatening him. Emily confronts Steven with this and his financial problems. This spurs her to go to the apartment of the assailant, discovering that her key unlocks his door.
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Still losing money, Steven receives a call from David, who plays an audio tape of the two discussing the plan to kill Emily and demands the full $500,000 or he will turn Steven in.Įmily returns to her apartment for the first time, but her key does not work. She then informs Karaman, who says that Steven's alibi is solid, though there is the minor concern that the dead assailant did not have keys of any kind on his body. Emily visits her coworker, Raquel, and tells her she has decided to leave Steven.Įmily uses her connections to speak to a federal regulator, learning of Steven's financial troubles.
Steven calls David afterwards and organizes a meet on a ferry. 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.