Directed by John Peters
Written by Liz W Garcia
Ramon Delgado was a conman who committed suicide. He was found watching a dating video tape of a woman named Martha Puck, who was murdered in 1989.
- Adaptational Heroism: While heroism might be overstating things a bit, the victim turned Serial Killer Martha is this compared to the killer she was based on. Whilst the things this Martha did were cold and savage, she did actually feel remorse about her actions and even tried to make up for them; unfortunately, this got her killed.
- The Blue Beard: Ramon was initially just a con artist until his girlfriend convinced him to marry several women just so they can kill them and get the insurance money. In the end, he had five dead wives.
- Car Fu: One of the victims ends up being murdered by being struck by a van driven by Martha.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Cherry, the drag queen with a troubled past who had witnessed one of the murders committed by Martha and Ramon, is seen at the end of the episode getting married.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones / Even Evil Can Be Loved: Evil murderer and con artist Ramon appears to have genuinely loved Martha, as he watched her tape before being Driven to Suicide.
- Fatal Family Photo: A variation of this. Ramon is watching Martha's dating tape from the late 1980s when he commits suicide. The television screen is even splattered with his blood.
- Gold Digger: Implied with Martha's ex-roommate Stephanie, who only dates high-ranking wealthy men. They also do extensive background checks for their potential mates, which causes her to downplay her friendship with Martha to detectives.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Martha feels guilty about the genuinely evil things she's done and tries to pair back up with a woman whom they conned. She ends up being killed by her, because she's is still in love with her con artist boyfriend.
- Hot Guy, Ugly Wife: The handsome Lothario Ramon liked to court homely women, mostly because he knew they were so desperate they'd put up with his crap and, therefore, be easy to scam. But when his latest victim Martha calls him out and instead of turning him in, suggests working with him and ratcheting up their schemes to include murder, he seems downright turned on. When Martha herself is killed (not by him, ironically), he's so despondent that he never takes up with another partner and years later finally kills himself while watching a videotape that she made, implying that he genuinely fell in love with her.
- In the Back: How Martha is killed.
- Jerkass Ball: Scotty is surprisingly insensitive to the victims of this episode, making personal remarks about their looks and even mocking the fact that the handsome boyfriend finally committed suicide over losing his "ugly" girlfriend years earlier.
- Mistaken for Gay: When Scotty and Vera first approach Reverend Love in his chapel, the reverend tells them, "I can do it, but it's not legal in this state."
- The Mourning After: In an unlikely turn of events, Ramon was left genuinely heartbroken by Martha's murder. While he did give the outside persona of a narcissistic Pretty Boy and even continued dating after her death, including her killer, Eugenia (who he never knew killed Martha), according to her he never really got over Martha's death, culminating in his suicide 17 years later.
- Pet the Dog: It's a brief moment, but at the end of the episode, the normally boorish Det. Vera encounters the ghost of secondary victim Buella in the cold case room while putting her "resolved" file box away. He then nods at her before she fades away.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Based on the Lonely Hearts Killers
case, committed by Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck during the late 1940s. - Shut Up, Kirk!: The killer expresses this towards Scotty and Lilly when confessing to Martha's murder, saying how unpleasable jerks like Scotty find anything to complain about in women like her while a thin, blonde woman like Lilly is more likely to be put on a pedestal.
- Starts with a Suicide: The episode begins with the team being notified of Ramon's suicide, which, given the present scenario, motivates them to reopens the case behind Martha's murder.
- Tragic Villain: Martha's relationship with Ramon not only turns her into a murderer but taints her views on love.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Invoked by Martha, who believes she's done this with her serial killer boyfriend and attempts to backstab and kill him with another woman. It goes wrong, and ironically he seems to have genuinely loved her.
