Cassidy was a recently divorced woman whom Sawyer conned out of a known $600,000. After she thwarted his usual routine of "accidentally" dropping the briefcase full of money, she asked him to teach her how to con and they spent the next few months working small scams, while apparently becoming closer as a couple. Once she felt confident in her skills, she asked Sawyer to teach her a long con, and offered her own money as capital. Sawyer told his partner that he could not go through with taking Cassidy's money because he had genuinely fallen in love with her. However, his partner replied that he would shoot Sawyer and Cassidy if the con did not go ahead, and in the end Sawyer finished the con, took Cassidy's money, and disappeared. ("The Long Con")