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3. Prisoner

In a story ripped from the headlines, a prison warden Bill claims he was brutalized and forced to pay a $50,000 ransom for his long-kidnapped wife, but Detectives Goren and Eames are puzzled when they discover that the missing woman has been happily cohabitating with an escaped prisoner for 10 years. Amid a backwash of lingering secrets and lies, the investigators re-visit the warden's past and recall a famous axiom - follow the money.

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Prison warden William Hendry ( Corbin Bernsen ) is found tied to a fence with wire and claims it was done by two unknown attackers, but Goren and Eames suspect he did it himself. They find that ten years earlier his wife Jenny Hendry ( Elizabeth Marvel ) was abducted by a prisoner Vic Bowman ( Brian Tarantina ), and that Hendry may be the victim of a ransom demand. The detectives find Vic and Jenny who appear to have been living happily together for 10 years. Vic tells them that Hendry hired him to kill Jenny, but he decided to let her live. Hendry implores Jenny to return to him, but the detectives they later discover that Jenny has an inheritance and accuse William of scheming to bring her back under his control. They finally manage to convince her that he was only after her money.

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