She watched Maya for four months.

Photographs, social accounts, the two videos of Maya at a coworker’s retirement party.

She bought the dress in the same color, and then when she got into the apartment she found the original in the closet and wore that instead, which was not necessary and which told a psychologist a great deal later.

She got her hair cut.

She learned how Maya stood.

And she told Mark that there was a way to get the apartment that did not require his wife’s cooperation.