explaining that Paul's estranged wife had reported him missing. Connie is surprised to hear he had a wife, and claims she barely knows him. The detectives return a week later to reveal that Paul's body has been discovered. Edward and the detectives notice Connie visibly react upon hearing the news. Later, when taking Edward's clothes to the dry cleaner, she finds the photos of her and Paul, and looks distraught as she realizes Edward knows about her infidelity. At a party that night she notices that the snow globe she gifted Paul has been returned to their collection. Sharing a meaningful look with Edward, she realizes he may have had something to do with Paul's disappearance. She later confronts him, but he turns it back on her for what she has done. Confessing, Edward says that he had known all along and that he had wanted to kill her instead of Paul. In the days that follow, Connie discovers a hidden compartment in the snow globe containing a memo Edward had placed there years earlier. She finds a photograph of her, Edward, and an infant Charlie, with the message ″To My Beautiful Wife, the Best Part of Every Day!″ Realizing how much he loved her, she gives Edward a painful look of deep remorse. As she later burns the photographs of her and Paul, she says she's frightened. Edward says he will turn himself in, but Connie objects, saying they will find a way to move on, and they briefly appear to return to a normal life together. But on their way home from an event one evening, Edward stops at a red light with Charlie asleep in the backseat. Connie falls into an escape fantasy that they could leave the country and assume new identities, and Edward agrees it sounds perfect. Consoling her as she begins crying, it is revealed that Edward has stopped the car next to a police station. Cast Ahmad Harhash as Ricky Johnson Production Development According to actor Richard Gere, an early draft of the screenplay presented the Sumners as suffering from a dysfunctional sexual relationship, which gave Connie some justification for having an affair. According to the actor and to director Adrian Lyne, the studio wanted to change the storyline so that the Sumners had a bad marriage with no sex, to create greater sympathy for Connie. Both men opposed the change; Lyne in