8: Limited Hangout

Episode Description
Look, everyone’s lying to everyone else, alright? Clearly, none of these people have even heard of the truth. If it were me, I would simply not lie, but I’m built different.

Plot
Mike begins the episode explaining the term "limited hangout" and how all good liars include a bit of truth.

Mike then calls Anne to tell her about his bonus challenge, and that CANNONBALL is planning to kill her and has narrowed the search to her city. Anne panics and asks Mike to kill CANNONBALL, but Mike is hesitant to do so. Anne understands and eventually agrees with his hesitance, but lets slip in doing so that she likely knows the details of the fourth challenge. Mike gives Anne information on Aliza Schultz, with the intention to keep her from trying to kill him.

Mike speculates that Aliza Schultz never existed, unlike Charles Thibbideau, who used to exist, but disappeared with his research. He used many different methods to try and verify her existence, but they all helped convince him that she was entirely fabricated. He then lays out several hypotheses as to why her research still exists. He lists CANNONBALL, WOE.BEGONE, and himself as possible creators of Aliza Schultz, as well as the possibility that she did exist and only her research was left.

Mike ends the episode stating that his plan is to fly to Vancouver to try and kill Matt for the fourth challenge.