Libby's friend Angela watches their four-year-old son, Matty, so they can spend a romantic weekend sailing.

The Coast Guard arrive, after receiving a call from Nick who claims to have been stabbed, and finds Libby on the boat holding a bloody knife.

Her motive is assumed to be a $2 million life insurance policy and her alleged knowledge that Nick was under investigation for embezzlement.

Once free, Margaret tells her, Libby can kill Nick with impunity due to the Double Jeopardy Clause in the US Constitution, meaning that she cannot be convicted of the same murder twice.

As Lehman is taking Libby back to prison, she drives his car off a ferry in Puget Sound, grabs his gun, and swims to shore.

An archived newspaper photo of Angela at a gallery reveals a painting by Wassily Kandinsky that previously hung in Nick's home.

Libby confronts Nick during a fund-raising auction at his hotel and demands he return Matty in exchange for her leaving him for good.

Now unsure of Libby's guilt, Lehman contacts his boss and asks him to fax over a photocopy of Nicholas Parsons' driver's license.

After Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan and Brooke Shields all declined the role, Jodie Foster was attached to star in the film as Libby Parsons and Bruce Beresford met with her several times about the script: She said to me once, when we were having... not an argument, we had different points of view over something, and she said, "We'll have to do it my way, I'm afraid."

[10] Mick LaSalle from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the film is a "well-acted diversion, directed by Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) with an intelligent grasp of the moment-to-moment emotion".

[3] The film incorrectly implies that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment gives someone a free pass to commit a subsequent crime if they are wrongfully convicted.

The newspaper column The Straight Dope observed, "a crime, for double jeopardy purposes, consists of a specific set of facts.