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The judge won't allow Lorraine to be tried for both murders but will allow evidence of Cobin's murder as a motive for Buck's. When [=McCoy=] makes her many lies apparent, she and her lawyer claim that Melissa killed Buck and Lorraine's covering for her. Lorraine is acquitted, but subsequently, Melissa wears a wire and lures her into admitting she had Cobin murdered. The detectives arrest Lorraine for Cobin's murder. With the tape recorded confession, she will most likely receive the death penalty.

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The judge won't allow Lorraine to be tried for both murders but will allow evidence of Cobin's murder as a motive for Buck's. When [=McCoy=] makes her Lorraine's many lies apparent, she and her lawyer claim that Melissa killed Buck and Lorraine's covering for her. Lorraine is acquitted, but subsequently, Melissa wears a wire and lures her into admitting she had Cobin murdered. The detectives arrest Lorraine for Cobin's murder. With the tape recorded confession, she will most likely receive the death penalty.

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A dead man is found with a wallet stuffed with multiple fake I.D.s When his prints come back, he turns out to be a career criminal. He turns out to be linked to a seven-year-old murder, which leads the detective to his widow, Lorraine Tobin (Creator/CathyMoriarty) and her daughter (Creator/KatherineMoennig).

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A dead man is found with a wallet stuffed with multiple fake I.D.s s. When his prints come back, he turns out to be a career criminal. criminal named Ronnie Buck. He turns out and his accomplice Paul Kasperski ran a cleaning company that's a front for casing stores to be linked to a seven-year-old murder, which leads rob. Alan Cobin, the detective to his widow, owner of an electronics store, was killed during one of these robberies. When the detectives check records, they find that Cobin's widow Lorraine Tobin (Creator/CathyMoriarty) hired Buck's cleaning company at the store. Under threat of being charged as an accessory to murder, Kasperski takes a plea and admits that Buck was hired to kill Cobin.

Lorraine is a gold-digger who left her first husband after his business failed, and then lied about him molesting
her daughter (Creator/KatherineMoennig).Melissa (Creator/KatherineMoennig) to clean out his assets in court. But her pre-nup with Cobin meant that if they divorced, she'd only receive a small fraction of his wealth. [=McCoy=] and Southerlyn have evidence that Lorraine killed Buck because he was blackmailing her. Melissa gives Lorraine an alibi, but when the [=DA=]s find holes in her story, she admits she went shopping and wasn't home with her mother. Lorraine refuses a deal despite risking the death penalty if she's convicted at trial.

The judge won't allow Lorraine to be tried for both murders but will allow evidence of Cobin's murder as a motive for Buck's. When [=McCoy=] makes her many lies apparent, she and her lawyer claim that Melissa killed Buck and Lorraine's covering for her. Lorraine is acquitted, but subsequently, Melissa wears a wire and lures her into admitting she had Cobin murdered. The detectives arrest Lorraine for Cobin's murder. With the tape recorded confession, she will most likely receive the death penalty.



* ExactWords: The judge would only allow Tobin to be tried for the murder of the career criminal. When she claims double jeopardy during her arrest in the finale, [=McCoy=] points out that that only applies to the first murder trial, and confessing to murdering her last husband gives them another shot to convict her. See HiddenWire below for why this will be a slam-dunk conviction.

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* BrokenPedestal: Melissa experiences this after realizing her mother really is a killer, and agrees to wear a wire to catch her.
* ExactWords: The judge would only allow Tobin to be tried for the murder of the career criminal. When she claims double jeopardy during her arrest in the finale, [=McCoy=] points out that that only applies to the first murder trial, and confessing to murdering her last husband gives them another shot to convict her. See HiddenWire below for why this will be a slam-dunk conviction.
* FalseRapeAccusation: Lorraine coached her then 9-year-old daughter to lie in court about being abused by Lorraine's first husband.



* ItsAllAboutMe: Lorraine, so much so. She is only interested in heir husband's to make her rich; and she's more than willing to call her [[KarmaHoudini daughter a murderer in court]] to provide herself with reasonable doubt. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Not that it does her any good in the long run]].

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Lorraine, so much so. She is only interested in heir husband's her husbands to make her rich; and she's more than willing to call her [[KarmaHoudini daughter a murderer in court]] to provide herself with reasonable doubt. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Not that it does her any good in the long run]].

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* HiddenWire: [=McCoy=] gets to listen to an incriminating conversation between Lorraine and Melissa.

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* ExactWords: The judge would only allow Tobin to be tried for the murder of the career criminal. When she claims double jeopardy during her arrest in the finale, [=McCoy=] points out that that only applies to the first murder trial, and confessing to murdering her last husband gives them another shot to convict her. See HiddenWire below for why this will be a slam-dunk conviction.
* HiddenWire: [=McCoy=] gets to listen to (and record) an incriminating conversation between Lorraine and Melissa.Melissa.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lorraine, so much so. She is only interested in heir husband's to make her rich; and she's more than willing to call her [[KarmaHoudini daughter a murderer in court]] to provide herself with reasonable doubt. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Not that it does her any good in the long run]].
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* HiddenWire: McCoy get to listen to an incriminating conversation between Lorraine and Melissa.

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* HiddenWire: McCoy get [=McCoy=] gets to listen to an incriminating conversation between Lorraine and Melissa.
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A dead man is found with a wallet stuffed with multiple fake I.D.s When his prints come back, he turns out to be a career criminal. He turns out to be linked to a seven-year-old murder, which leads the detective to his widow, Lorraine Tobin (Creator/CathyMoriarty) and her daughter (Creator/KatherineMoennig).
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* BlackWidow: Lorraine has a habit of marrying rich then getting rid of her husbands. When her daughter asks why she killed her most recent one, Lorraine responds with, "Sweetheart, ''you'' didn't have to sleep with him."
* HiddenWire: McCoy get to listen to an incriminating conversation between Lorraine and Melissa.

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