The episode opens with creator Steve Fishman introducing the Lives of Crime series as a true crime format where the criminals themselves tell their own stories. He identifies the types of subjects featured — killers, Ponzi schemers, drug smugglers, con artists, and counterfeiters — and explains that they have served their sentences and are speaking freely. He introduces the first story, which he describes as possibly the most frightening love triangle in history. Larry Massa was a teenage delivery boy at a local supermarket when a well-dressed older woman named Linda asked him to personally deliver her groceries. Over subsequent visits to her home, she escalated from casual conversation to asking whether he was sexually active, and eventually invited him over after hours. Larry borrowed his father's new Electra 225, arrived to find Linda in a black jumpsuit, and the affair began that evening. He describes the encounters as occurring nearly every night for weeks, with Linda only available late at night. Larry avoided asking about a husband for weeks because he did not want to know. Eventually Linda confirmed she was married to a man named Charles, describing him as influential and successful. Several months into the affair, she began suggesting that Larry should meet Charles, framing it as a career opportunity rather than a confrontation. She arranged for Larry to be proposed as sales manager for a new supply company Charles was opening. The episode concludes as they finalize the plan for the meeting, with the host's introduction having already revealed that Charles is a mobster known as the Grim Reaper.
