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Sarah, a streetwise hustler on the run from a lifetime of bad decisions, witnesses the suicide of a stranger who looks just like her. Sarah assumes her identity, hoping that cleaning out the dead woman’s bank account will solve all of her problems. Instead, the street smart chameleon is thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery. After taking on the new identity, Sarah quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy and must race to find answers.

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!!This episode contains examples of:

* AllThatGlitters: Sarah quickly discovers this about Beth's life.
* ArsonMurderandJaywalking: Vic is a cocaine dealer, and also helps himself to an apple from Sarah and Felix's loft.
* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Well, watching it through binoculars, anyway.
* BedTrick: Sarah seduces Paul, who [[spoiler: may or may not]] thinks she's Beth.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Sarah, when Katja is killed. While she's not entirely innocent, it serves as her introduction to the dangerous underworld of conspiracies.
* BookEnds: The episode begins and ends with Sarah witnessing her IdenticalStranger's death.
* BoomHeadshot: The episode ends with Katja being shot while in Beth's car. Sarah drives away in a panic with the body still in the backseat.
* TheConfidant: Felix is the only person Sarah tells about the con.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Sarah impersonates Beth after finding out about her sizable savings account but she also gets more than she bargained for.
* DeathFakedForYou: Sarah uses Beth's suicide to fake her own death to start a new life for herself.
* DrivenToSuicide: Beth
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Sarah [[TheDrifter returns home after many months away]] and calls Mrs. S [[MamaBear demanding to speak to her daughter]]. After witnessing Beth's suicide, she makes off with Beth's belongings [[{{Hustler}} intending to make money off the situation]].
** Vic charges into Felix's apartment, yells a bunch of threats at him, and demands to know where Sarah ran off with his cocaine.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vic is genuinely distraught over Sarah's "death".
* FakingTheDead: Sarah has Felix ID Beth's body as hers. Vic and her friends throw a wake, thinking she really is dead.
* HardWorkMontage: As Sarah practices impersonating Beth.
* IgnoreTheFanservice: Sarah's more interested in getting the money than in "her" naked boyfriend trying to kiss and fondle her.
* {{Jerkass}}: Aptly named Vic the Dick.
* KissOfDistraction: Sarah kisses and shags Paul, Beth's boyfriend, when he starts to suspect something's wrong with her.
* ManlyTears: Vic upon seeing "Sarah"'s dead body.
* OhCrap: When Sarah realizes that Beth was a cop. Also when she realizes that her daughter now thinks she's dead.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sarah left her young daughter in the care of her foster mom and skipped town for ten months.
* ScaryBlackMan: Art's introduction is intimidating to say the least. Sarah's walking down the street when he pulls up, grabs her and more or less throws her in his car. It turns out he's Beth's partner and he's pissed because she has an important hearing and hasn't been returning his calls.
* SelfInducedAllergicReaction: Sarah downs a bottle of soap to get sick enough to get out of Beth's hearing.
* SpySpeak: Sign/countersign variety. When Sarah fails to give the proper response, Katja realizes that she isn't Beth.
-->'''Katja''': Just one, I'm a few, no family too, who am I?
* StartsWithASuicide[=/=]PlotTriggeringDeath: Beth's.
* TomboyishName: The female bartender named Bobby.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Sarah deliberately making herself puke to escape Beth's trial is shown in specific detail.