In a flashback to Meg’s previous heist in Reading, Pennsylvania, it’s revealed she posed as a life designer (a combination of a life coach and interior decorator) named Melody Wilde. She found her target through an online group where Celia, a mother, posted about how her soon-to-be ex-husband, Phillip Montgomery was ruining her life and her kids’ lives. Meg ingratiated herself with Phillip’s sister, Renata, who was obsessed with interior design, by redoing her home to look beautiful and sharing fabricated testimonials that she had worked for celebrities like Jenifer Lopez and Lin Manuel Miranda. This gets her invited to a party with Renata’s wealthy brother in attendance.

Meg, using her usual strategy of telling men what they want to hear, manages to secure a golfing venture with Phillip, during which she manages to convince him to sell the lake house he wants to keep from Celia to Meg’s business, which she’ll hold for him until after the divorce settlement. Of course, Meg takes his money for life coaching services, sells his valuables when she pretends to restage his home, and gives the lake house to Celia.