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.
This episode contains examples of:
- All That Glitters: Sarah quickly discovers this about Beth's life.
- Arson Murderand Jaywalking: Vic is a cocaine dealer, and also helps himself to an apple from Sarah and Felix's loft.
- Attending Your Own Funeral: Well, watching it through binoculars, anyway.
- Bed Trick: Sarah seduces Paul, who may or may not thinks she's Beth.
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: Sarah, when Katja is killed. While she's not entirely innocent, it serves as her introduction to the dangerous underworld of conspiracies.
- Book Ends: The episode begins and ends with Sarah witnessing her Identical Stranger's death.
- Boom, Headshot!: 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.
- The Confidant: Felix is the only person Sarah tells about the con.
- Dead Person Impersonation: Sarah impersonates Beth after finding out about her sizable savings account but she also gets more than she bargained for.
- Death Faked for You: Sarah uses Beth's suicide to fake her own death to start a new life for herself.
- Driven to Suicide: Beth
- Establishing Character Moment: Sarah returns home after many months away and calls Mrs. S demanding to speak to her daughter. After witnessing Beth's suicide, she makes off with Beth's belongings 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.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Vic is genuinely distraught over Sarah's "death".
- Faking the Dead: Sarah has Felix ID Beth's body as hers. Vic and her friends throw a wake, thinking she really is dead.
- Hard-Work Montage: As Sarah practices impersonating Beth.
- Ignore the Fanservice: 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.
- Kiss of Distraction: Sarah kisses and shags Paul, Beth's boyfriend, when he starts to suspect something's wrong with her.
- Manly Tears: Vic upon seeing "Sarah"'s dead body.
- Oh, Crap!: When Sarah realizes that Beth was a cop. Also when she realizes that her daughter now thinks she's dead.
- Parental Abandonment: Sarah left her young daughter in the care of her foster mom and skipped town for ten months.
- Scary Black Man: 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.
- Self-Induced Allergic Reaction: Sarah downs a bottle of soap to get sick enough to get out of Beth's hearing.
- Spy Speak: 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?
- Starts with a Suicide/Plot-Triggering Death: Beth's.
- Tomboyish Name: The female bartender named Bobby.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Sarah deliberately making herself puke to escape Beth's trial is shown in specific detail.