Years after Kelly Summers was found stabbed in Adam Morgan’s lake house, a documentary revisited the case: Adam maintained his innocence, cited drugging, and suggested alternative suspects, while he remained on death row married to his defense attorney, Sarah Morgan. In the present, Sarah’s marriage to Bob Miller fractured after his infidelity, and she pursued a swift, quiet divorce and custody of their daughter, Summer. Amid this turmoil, former sheriff Ryan Stevens was arrested for a DUI that killed a jogger, and a news report revealed his DNA matched evidence from Kelly’s homicide, prompting Sheriff Marcus Hudson to reopen the case and raising public doubts about Adam’s conviction.

As Hudson’s office unraveled past misconduct, tensions escalated: Stevens attempted suicide in jail and was later murdered in his hospital room by a disguised assailant whom Hudson later identified as Scott Summers, Kelly’s husband. Parallel crises emerged when Stacy Howard, who had a brief affair with Bob and tried to extort him, disappeared, and Carissa Brooks’s salon was found ransacked with blood and her purse and car left behind. Bob, interviewed as a person of interest and tied to both women as a last contact, claimed alibis while growing paranoid that Sarah was framing him; he confronted Sarah, sent threats, and fixated on a belief that she engineered Stacy’s involvement through the foundation.

Sarah advanced her legal offensive—seeking emergency custody and moving to reopen Adam’s case—while privately maneuvering against Bob. She learned Carissa feared her abusive ex and covertly helped her disappear: stockpiling Carissa’s blood, staging a violent scene at the salon, altering Carissa’s appearance, and exfiltrating her with cash, disguises, documents, and a flight abroad. Separately, Sarah abducted Stacy using chloroform, propofol, and later scopolamine, chained her in a farmhouse basement, and fabricated the presence of a male captor by stomping in work boots, manipulating timelines and texts with a burner saved as “Bob” on Stacy’s phone, and staging noises and a struggle to cement the narrative that Bob had taken Stacy and killed Carissa.

Bob’s behavior darkened: he brandished an “insurance policy” he claimed would implicate Sarah and anonymously sent a bloodied knife to Hudson labeled as Sarah’s—though lab tests showed pig’s blood and no prints. He then produced to his lawyer a different knife he said was the Kelly murder weapon Sarah had asked him to dispose of years earlier, intending to push it to police to incriminate her. Meanwhile, Bob secretly met Alejandro to arrange Sarah’s murder; unknown to him, Sarah had already confronted Alejandro at gunpoint, forced him to admit Bob’s contract and a years-old botched hit on Jenna Way that killed Bob’s brother Greg, and then flipped Alejandro with an equal payment and the revelation that she herself had killed Jenna years earlier. Alejandro stood down, and Sarah resumed her plan while Bob believed the hit had succeeded based on staged photos and messages.

Hudson’s team discovered Stacy’s abandoned SUV with blood and Bob’s business card, and later found Carissa’s salon ledger listing Bob as her last appointment the night she vanished. As surveillance tailed Bob, he noticed a new route on Sarah’s car tracker and drove to a remote farmhouse. There, shots were heard; Hudson and Pam breached the site and descended into a cellar where they found Bob dead on the concrete and Stacy chained, armed with a revolver she had dragged to herself after a staged struggle removed Carissa; she surrendered and said Bob killed another woman and intended to kill her. Hospital exams found Stacy dehydrated and drugged, consistent with her captivity account; she named Carissa as the other captive, believing Carissa had been killed based on screams and blood that Sarah had planted.

Search warrants at Bob’s residence recovered a knife in his wall safe bearing his fingerprints and Kelly Summers’s blood, seemingly solving the cold case by tying Bob to Kelly’s murder. Hudson and Pam debated Sarah’s potential involvement but lacked evidence linking her to any crimes; the anonymously delivered knife pointing at Sarah was deemed a hoax. With Ryan Stevens dead at Scott Summers’s hand and Scott at large under federal pursuit, Hudson prepared public statements that the reopened Kelly case pointed to Bob and that the contemporary kidnappings traced back to him, while presuming Carissa dead based on blood volume.

Privately, Sarah exulted: she had removed Bob, planted the true Kelly knife in his safe after swapping his decoy for one coated with pig’s blood, engineered Stacy’s captivity to point to Bob, and spirited Carissa to safety abroad. One year later, on 60 Minutes, Sarah framed the narrative: Adam had been innocent and executed due to a corrupt investigation; Bob had manipulated and harmed others; and her settlement would fund Summer’s trust and expand her foundation’s Second Chance program. She acknowledged Summer’s complicated grief and maintained a careful public image, even as her internal account revealed the meticulous, hidden steps she took to secure justice as she defined it.