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The Heat is a 2013 American buddy copaction comedy film directed by Paul Feig and written by Katie Dippold. It stars Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir, Marlon Wayans, Michael Rapaport, and Jane Curtin. The film centers on FBISpecial Agent Sarah Ashburn and Boston Detective Shannon Mullins, who must take down a mobster in Boston.

The film was released in the United States on June 28, 2013. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the chemistry, and performances of Bullock and McCarthy,^[3] and was a success at the box office, grossing $229 million worldwide against a $43 million budget.

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Plot[edit]

Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. Fire has never been so hot since these sexy firefighters took over the station. Dangerous explosions, life or death situations, and powerful desire makes. Watch the latest Body Heat trailer and check out other movie trailers for upcoming movies at Movies.com.

FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is an expert and effective investigator in New York City, but is despised by allied agents for her egotistical and vicious personality. When her manager assigns her to a mission in Boston, she meets detective Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a skilled but loudmouth, bloodthirsty, sadistic, hot headed cop who is part of the Boston Police Department. Ashburn's ruthless philosophy clashes with Mullin's nefarious style of law work, proved during their attempt to interrogate local drug dealer Rojas (Spoken Reasons) who was captured by Mullins. Under pressure from her employer Hale (Demián Bichir), Ashburn reluctantly agrees to work with Mullins.

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Ashburn and Mullins tail a local nightclub manager named Hank LeSoire (Adam Ray) to his business known as Club Ekko and place a bug on his phone to get information on a drug lord named Simon Larkin. As they leave the club, Ashburn and Mullins are confronted by DEA agents Craig (Dan Bakkedahl) and Adam (Taran Killam), who've been working the Larkin case for months and are worried that their case will be compromised. Ashburn and Mullins discover a surveillance video in the DEA agents' van showing Mullins' brother, Jason (Michael Rapaport), apparently connected to Larkin's organization. Jason was recently released from prison, having been put there by Mullins to keep him off the streets and out of trouble.

Ashburn convinces Mullins to go to her parents' home to ask Jason for information on Larkin. On their arrival, it becomes apparent that Mullins' parents (Michael B. Tucci and Jane Curtin), particularly her mother and three brothers, Peter (Joey McIntyre), Mark (Bill Burr) and Michael (Nathan Corddry) two of whom have girlfriends, Gina (Jessica Chaffin) and Beth (Jamie Denbo) still resent Mullins for her involvement in Jason's incarceration. However, Jason does not have any ill feelings toward his sister, and tips her off about the body of a murdered drug dealer by the name of Sal Netalie in an abandoned car. Chemicals on the victim's shoes lead Ashburn and Mullins to an abandoned paint factory, where they witness a drug dealer being murdered by Julian Vincent (Michael McDonald), vicious criminal and second-in-command of Larkin's organization. They apprehend Julian but are unable to extract any substantial information regarding Larkin's whereabouts, even with Mullins going so far as to play Russian Roulette with Julian's testicles.

The pair spend the evening bonding in a bar, where a drunk Ashburn reveals that her foster child past may be partly to blame for her attitude. After a night of raucous drinking and partying, Ashburn wakes up the following morning to discover that, in her drunkenness, she has given her car keys to Wayne (Steve Bannos), one of the bar patrons. After unsuccessfully pleading for the keys, Ashburn and Mullins watch as the patron starts the car and is killed by a bomb. They discover that Julian has escaped from custody and means to harm Mullins' family, so Mullins moves her family into a motel. Jason leaves, intending to join the Larkin organization in an attempt to help Mullins solve the case. Jason gives her a tip about a drug shipment coming into Boston Harbor. Despite Mullins' reluctance, Ashburn gets the FBI to take down the shipment. The FBI finds that the ship is actually an innocent pleasure cruise ship. Jason was being tested by Larkin, who shoots Jason for informing the FBI about the supposed drug shipment. Jason escapes death but falls into a coma. A falling out occurs between Mullins and Ashburn, with Mullins vowing to bring her brother's attacker to justice. They then reconcile when they arrest several drug dealers as a way of gaining leads to Larkin's whereabouts, including Rojas.

Ashburn and Mullins go to equip themselves with assault weapons from Mullins' extensive personal arsenal, and infiltrate one of Larkin's warehouses. Despite taking out several of Larkin's men with a hand grenade, the two officers are captured and bound. Julian is about to torture them with knives when he gets called away by Larkin. Before Julian leaves, he stabs Ashburn in the leg and leaves the knife in the wound. Mullins removes the knife from Ashburn's leg and uses it to cut the rope binding her hands. Before she can finish freeing herself and Ashburn, they are discovered by Craig and Adam. Craig begins to untie the two women, but is shot and killed by Adam. Ashburn and Mullins learn that Adam is actually Larkin, who has been working his own case from inside the DEA for several months. Julian returns and Larkin orders him to kill Ashburn and Mullins while he goes to the hospital to kill Jason. After Larkin leaves, Mullins manages to finish freeing herself and Ashburn incapacitates Julian with a head butt, after Mullins had stabbed him in the leg. Mullins and Ashburn race to the hospital to save Jason.

Upon their arrival, Mullins rushes to find Jason. Ashburn, hindered by the stab wound in her leg, lags behind, unable to move quickly. Mullins learns that, due to the foul language she and her family exhibit, the doctor moved Jason to another room in the hospital; she finds Jason's room, only to be disarmed by Larkin. He is about to kill Jason when Ashburn, having had to crawl to the room, subdues Larkin by shooting him in the genitals (much to Mullins' surprise, as she would never actually do so; scaring Julian earlier was only a way of making him talk). With Larkin captured, Ashburn requests to stay in the FBI's Boston field office, having developed a strong friendship with Mullins. Jason is shown having fully recovered from his coma. The film ends with Mullins receiving a commendation from the Boston Police Department. Members of her family are present and they cheer Mullins, now having reconciled with her. Ashburn later gets a call from Mullins to look in her year book. Mullins had signed the back of Ashburn's yearbook with the words, 'Foster kid, now you have a sister', showing the strong friendship that Mullins felt for a previously unpopular Ashburn.

As a surprise, Mullins brings to Ashburn the cat that she had found in Ashburn's neighbor's house, believing it was hers. Earlier, when Mullins saw a photo of Ashburn with the neighbor's cat, Ashburn had lied and said it was her cat which had gone missing in New York. Mullins quickly deduces that it was not Ashburn's and the package is sent to freight transport.

Cast[edit]

• Sandra Bullock as Special Agent Sarah Ashburn
• Melissa McCarthy as Detective Shannon Mullins
• Marlon Wayans as Special Agent Levy
• Demián Bichir as Hale
• Michael Rapaport as Jason Mullins
• Dan Bakkedahl as Special Agent Garrett Craig
• Taran Killam as Special Agent Adam / Simon Larkin
• Michael McDonald as Julian Vincent
• Spoken Reasons as Terrell Rojas
• Jane Curtin as Mrs. Mullins
• Michael B. Tucci as Mr. Mullins
• Joey McIntyre as Peter Mullins
• Bill Burr as Mark Mullins
• Nathan Corddry as Michael Mullins
• Jessica Chaffin as Gina
• Jamie Denbo as Beth
• Thomas F. Wilson as Captain Woods
• Adam Ray as Hank LeSoire
• Kaitlin Olson as Tatiana Krumova
• Tony Hale as The John
• Andy Buckley as Robin
• Ben Falcone as Blue-Collar Man
• John Ross Bowie as FBI Officer
• Chris Gethard as Himself
• Steve Bannos as Wayne
• Zach Woods as Paramedic
• Katie Dippold as ER Nurse
• Mitch Silpa as Dealer
• Paul Feig as Doctor

Production[edit]

The Heat is screenwriter Katie Dippold's feature film debut.^[4] Dippold wrote the spec script on the side while fulfilling writing duties on Parks and Recreation and ultimately sold it to producer Peter Chernin for $600,000 prior to even being presented to prospective bidders.^[5] Inspired by the buddy cop film genre, primarily examples such as Running Scared (1986) and Lethal Weapon (1987), Dippold set out to write a film in which the leads were portrayed by women.^[6] As Dippold explains, '[In] Running Scared, they go down to the Caribbean and there's this montage of them on scooters, and there's a different hot girl on the back every time it cuts back to the scooter. And it just felt like, I don't want to be the girl on the back of the scooter. I want to be the awesome cop doing this stuff.'^[7]

Despite the success of Bridesmaids (2011), studio executives were still uncertain of an action film with a female-led cast. 'There were people suspicious of this attempt, who thought girls won't want to see a cop action movie and guys won't want to see two girls holding guns and we'd cancel out our potential audience,' said producer Jenno Topping. 'But we really believed, at the end of the day, it wouldn't be about gender as much as it would be about delivering a courageous action comedy with some heart to it.'^[8]

—Paul Feig, explaining what drew him to the film^[9]

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On May 19, 2012, director Paul Feig and actresses Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy signed on to the film after previously struggling to close deals due to scheduling and payment conflicts.^[10] At this time, the film was called The Untitled Female Buddy Cop Comedy.^[9]

Principal photography for The Heat began on July 5, 2012 at Dudley Square in Boston, Massachusetts.^[11]

Music[edit]

The soundtrack is composed by Michael Andrews who previously scored Feig's Bridesmaids and Unaccompanied Minors (2006).^[12] A soundtrack album containing songs featured in the film was released on June 25, 2013 by Lakeshore Records.^[13] Of these songs, the album includes a brand new track entitled 'Rock This' by Santigold.^[14] Describing why he chose the songs featured in the film, Feig said, 'My favorite part of filmmaking is finding the perfect music to complement what's happening on screen. And I wanted The Heat to feel like a party. I wanted the audience to have fun. And since I have to watch a movie hundreds of times as I'm making it, I wanted to use music that I wouldn't get tired of. Every song in this film is a desert island song for me. I will never get sick of them.'^[15]

Release[edit]

While originally intended to be released on April 5, 2013, Fox pushed back the release date to June 28, 2013.^[16] The film held its world premiere in New York City on June 23, 2013.^[17]

Marketing[edit]

The first official full-length trailer of the film was released on October 27, 2012.^[18]

Home media[edit]

The Heat was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 15, 2013. The Blu-ray features an unrated version of the film, along with several audio commentaries: one with McCarthy and director Feig; one with the actors who portray the Mullins family; and one with the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew.^[19]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

The Heat earned $39.1 million in North American markets during its opening weekend.^[20] The film went on to gross $159.6 million in the domestic market and $70.3 million internationally for a worldwide total of $229.9 million, against a production budget of $43 million.^[2]Deadline Hollywood calculated the film made a net profit of $61.8 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.^[21]

Critical response[edit]

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 65%, based on 172 reviews with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, 'The Heat is predictable, but Melissa McCarthy is reliably funny and Sandra Bullock proves a capable foil.'^[22] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 60 out of 100 based on reviews from 37 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.^[23] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of 'A-' on an A+ to F scale.^[24]

Mick LaSalle of The San Francisco Chronicle calls the film both formulaic and inspired 'the inspiration is in the combining of these two actresses.'^[25]Keith Uhlich of Time Out gives a mixed review and says Bullock and McCarthy deserve better, and also criticizes the trailer for giving the bad impression that this was a less funny film.^[26]

Accolades[edit]

Canceled sequel and proposed spin-off[edit]

Shortly after the film's release, director Feig announced that the film would be followed by a sequel.^[27][28] In October 2013, Bullock stated that she won't come back for the sequel and the project itself was put on hold.^[29][30] Instead, the sequel was reportedly being replaced by a spin-off film that will center around Jamie Denbo and Jessica Chaffin's characters Beth and Gina from the first film.^[31][32] Toad free license key.

References[edit]

1. ^'THE HEAT (15)'. British Board of Film Classification. April 26, 2013. Archived from the original on May 4, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
2. ^ ^abc'The Heat (2013)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
3. ^Ryan, Tim (June 28, 2013). 'Critics Consensus: White House Down Is Predictable Action Fluff'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved August 27, 2017.
4. ^Fleming, Jr., Mike (April 3, 2013). ''The Heat' Scribe Katie Dippold Makes 7-Figure Sale To Chernin Entertainment'. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
5. ^Zakarin, Jordan (June 27, 2013). 'How To Become Rich And Successful By Playing 'GoldenEye' On N64'. BuzzFeed. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
6. ^Rosen, Christopher (June 27, 2013). 'Katie Dippold On 'The Heat' & How Concussions Helped Her Write The Summer's Funniest Action-Comedy'. The Huffington Post. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
7. ^Czajkowski, Elise (June 27, 2013). 'Talking to Katie Dippold About 'The Heat', Female Camaraderie, and Lots of Swearing'. Split Sider. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
8. ^Kohen, Yael (April 3, 2013). 'It's Kind of a Funny Story'. Marie Claire. p. 3. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
9. ^ ^abRosen, Christopher (June 24, 2013). 'Paul Feig On 'The Heat' & Post-'Bridesmaids' Hollywood: 'We're Not Advancing As Much As We Should''. The Huffington Post. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
10. ^Sneider, Jeff (May 19, 2012). 'Bullock, McCarthy tapped for cop pic'. Variety. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
11. ^Mark Shanahan; Meredith Goldstein (July 6, 2012). ''The Heat' with Sandra Bullock begins filming in Dudley Square'. The Boston Globe. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
12. ^'Michael Andrews Scoring Paul Feig's 'The Heat''. Film Music Reporter. October 10, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
13. ^''The Heat' Soundtrack Details'. Film Music Reporter. May 27, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
14. ^Rahman, Ray (June 24, 2013). 'Hear Santigold's 'Rock This' for the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy comedy 'The Heat'- EXCLUSIVE'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
15. ^'THE HEAT Soundtrack to be Released 6/25'. BWWMoviesWorld. June 6, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
16. ^Han, Angle (January 29, 2013). 'Paul Feig's 'The Heat' Moves to Summer'. /Film. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
17. ^'Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy Hit NYC for 'The Heat' Premiere'. ABC News Radio. KMBZ. June 24, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
18. ^''The Heat' Trailer: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy Star as Awkward Police Duo'. The Hollywood Reporter. November 16, 2012. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
19. ^'News: Heat, The (US - DVD R1 BD RA)'. DVDActive. ServInt. September 4, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
20. ^Subers, Ray (June 30, 2013). 'Weekend Report: 'Monsters' Repeats, 'Heat' Sets Fire to 'White House''. IMDB. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 28, 2013.
21. ^D'Alessandro, Anthony (July 18, 2016). ''Ghostbusters': How Its $46M Opening Creates A Quandary – Weekend Box Office Postmortem'. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
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26. ^https://www.timeout.com/us/film/the-heat-movie-review
27. ^Bradford, Evans. 'There's Already a Sequel for 'The Heat' in the Works', SplitSider, Retrieved on April 23, 2013.
28. ^MovieInsider'The Heat 2', 04-03-2013.
29. ^Rosen, Christopher. 'Sandra Bullock Says She's Not Doing A Sequel To 'The Heat', Huffington Post Retrieved October 2, 2013.
30. ^Lang, Brent. 'Sandra Bullock Says She's Not Doing A Sequel To 'The Heat': I've Done Two Horrible Ones Already', The Wrap Retrieved October 1, 2013.
31. ^Puchko, Kristy. 'Forget The Heat 2 - A Spinoff Is In The Works', Cinema Blend Retrieved November 15, 2013.
32. ^Felming, Mike. 'Paul Feig Hatches 'The Heat' Spinoff, Focusing On Jamie Denbo and Jessica Chaffin's Characters From Melissa McCarthy-Sandra Bullock Comedy', Deadline Retrieved November 15, 2013.

External links[edit]

• The Heat on IMDb
• The Heat at Box Office Mojo
• The Heat at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Heat at Metacritic
• O'Hehir, Andrew. '“The Heat”: Police misconduct as feminism.' Salon. June 28, 2013.
• The Heat at The Journalist

Summaries

• In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

• Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?

• A heat wave has settled over the Florida coast. The heat doesn't affect the overactive sex drive of womanizing Ned Racine, a somewhat inept Miranda Beach lawyer who has his own small law firm. Although he spies several women as possible conquests, the one he really has his sights set on is the beautiful Matty Walker, who he can tell comes from money by her appearance. She flirts with him despite his less than subtle come-ons and she thinking him simple minded. Ultimately she tells him that nothing will happen between them since she's married, her wealthy businessman husband, Edmund Walker, who comes to their home in upscale Pinehaven only on the weekends if that at all. Despite Matty playing hard to get, which turns Ned on more, the two begin a passionate affair. She stipulates he can't tell anyone of their affair, which is against the general behavior of telling his friends, public attorney Peter Lowenstein and police detective Oscar Grace. As their affair escalates into a declaration of love, it also turns to one of greed, wanting both each other and Edmund's money. Since Matty signed a prenuptial agreement that would provide her nothing upon a divorce, they decide instead to murder Edmund. As they proceed with the plot, they encounter some unforeseen obstacles, including some the result of last minute changes to the plan by Matty without her notifying Ned beforehand. But after he is unable to heed the advice of Peter and Oscar, Ned comes to some realizations about what he's gotten himself into. By that time, it may be too late both for himself and for Matty.

• In a small Florida town, the weather is hot. And for Ned Racine, a seedy lawyer with an overactive sex drive, things are about to get hotter. He makes a play for the intoxicating blonde he spots at an outdoor concert. He seems to be making progress, but she disappears; yet not before he learns enough about her to find her again. He finds her in a bar. She invites him to her place to look at her wind chimes. He sees them; she sends him away. But he knows she really wants him, and he's right. He looks inside. She's waiting for him. There's only one thing left for a self-respecting lecher to do: throw a chair through the window. Their torrid affair has begun, and everything seems to be his idea: even when the idea is to murder her husband.

• In the hot Pinehaven, Florida, the smalltime wolf lawyer Ned Racine flirts with the sexy but married Matty Walker and they begin a torrid love affair. After a short period together, she convinces him that her husband and mobster, Edmund Walker, is an obstacle for their passion and they have a prenuptial agreement; therefore he should be eliminated. Ned carefully plots a perfect scheme for killing Edmund. However things go wrong when successive evidences are disclosed conspiring against him.

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Synopsis

• Mary Ann Simpson (Kathleen Turner) and Matty Tyler (Kim Zimmer) graduate together from Wheaton High School in Illinois. According to the yearbook, Mary Ann's goal is to be rich and live in an exotic land. She pursues her goal in a calculated, manipulative, and ruthless manner that includes a switch of identities.
  The following synopsis describes events in chronological order, but the viewer learns many of the events only at the end of the movie.
  Mary Ann Simpson gets involved in bad things after high school, but then sets her sights on wealthy Edmund Walker (Richard Crenna). She knows Walker will not marry her if he finds out about her past. She decides to adopt the identity of her high school classmate Matty Tyler. As Matty Tyler, she arranges to meet Edmund Walker. They get married and move to a waterfront estate in Pine Haven, Florida. Edmund travels frequently and is involved in many business dealings, including an investment in an abandoned beachfront hotel nearby.
  Edmund's will leaves much of his estate to his niece. Matty Tyler Walker (the real Mary Ann) knows that if his will is invalidated for any reason, she would inherit all his estate as the surviving spouse under state law of intestacy. Matty devises a plan to murder Edmund and get all of his estate. To carry out the plan, she must find an attorney to commit the murder and forge a new, invalid will. She will then implicate the attorney as the murderer and kill him in what looks like an accident to end any further investigation.
  Ned Racine (William Hurt) is a slightly disreputable attorney. One of the wills he drafted was invalidated and he was sued for legal malpractice. His best friends are prosecutor Peter Lowenstein (Ted Danson) and detective Oscar Grace (J.A. Preston).
  At a party, Matty Tyler Walker meets an attorney who tells her about the legal malpractice case against Ned. Matty decides that Ned is the perfect target for her scheme. Matty arranges to meet Ned and they begin a hot affair. She eventually talks Ned into murdering Edmund. Ned gets advice on arson devices from his client Teddy Lewis (Mickey Rourke). Matty asks Ned to change Edmund's will and forge his signature. He refuses because he thinks it will attract attention.
  As the murder plans develop, Ned makes a surprise visit to see Matty and finds another woman meeting with Matty. Matty introduces her as 'Mary Ann Simpson,' but unknown to Ned (or to the viewer) she is actually the real Matty Tyler. The real Matty Tyler has learned about Matty Tyler Walker's deception and is blackmailing her. Matty Tyler Walker must now alter her plans to also get rid of the real Matty.
  On the night Edmund is to be killed, Ned goes to Miami and checks into a motel to give himself an alibi. He then drives back to Edmund and Matty's house and murders Edmund. He takes Edmund's body to the abandoned beachfront hotel and sets it on fire, hoping to make it look like Edmund tried to commit arson and was accidentally killed in the process. While Ned is gone setting the fire, Matty telephones the front desk of Ned's motel repeatedly and asks to speak with Ned. The front desk rings Ned's room but no one answers. Matty knows that Ned is not there and that his failure to answer the telephone calls will destroy his alibi.
  After the murder and the fire, Ned is shocked to learn that Matty changed the will and made it appear that Ned was involved. The redrafted will is invalid and, as a result, all of Edmund's estate passes to Matty. When Edmund's estate is eventually settled, Matty sends all the money to a secret bank account overseas.
  Oscar Grace and Peter Lowenstein investigate Edmund's death. They learn that Edmund's body was discovered without his glasses. If his glasses are found elsewhere, it would suggest he was murdered elsewhere and his body then taken to the hotel. They also discover the motel telephone records that show Ned did not stay in his Miami motel room the night of the death. They reluctantly begin to suspect their friend Ned.
  Meanwhile, Matty Tyler Walker has developed a revised plan that will get rid of both Ned and the real Matty. The first part involves a made-up story that her former housekeeper has Edmund's missing glasses and is threatening to turn them over to the police unless she is paid off. If the glasses are kept from the police, there would still be a chance that Edmund's death would be ruled an accident rather than a homicide. The second part of the plan is to murder the real Matty and place her body in the boat house at her estate. The third part is to send Ned to the boat house on the pretext of recovering the glasses. The boat house will be rigged to explode a few seconds after the door is opened.
  Before Matty can fully execute her plan, Ned happens to meet the attorney who originally told Matty about him. Ned suspects he has been set up. Then Teddy Lewis tells Ned that Matty had asked him questions about rigging a delayed explosion.
  Matty Tyler Walker murders the real Matty Tyler and puts her body in the boat house. She then calls Ned and tells him the housekeeper has been paid off and has left the glasses in the boat house. Matty asks Ned to go to the boat house and pick them up. Ned goes to the the boat house, carefully inspects it, and sees the trip wire on the door. Matty arrives, expecting to find the boat house destroyed with the bodies of Ned and the real Matty inside. She is startled to see Ned alive and the boat house intact. Ned tells Matty that he has learned the truth. Matty denies it and swears that she really does love him. To prove his suspicions are unfounded, Matty says she will go down to the boat house by herself. Matty opens the boat house door and then, unknown to Ned, secretly dives into the water and swims away. The boat house explodes a few seconds later.
  The dental records confirm that the real Matty Tyler's body was in the boat house. The police believe that Matty Tyler Walker and Ned were responsible for Edmund's death and that Matty Tyler Walker was killed in the boat house fire. Ned is charged with Edmund's murder and convicted. The fake Matty retrieves the money from the overseas account and moves to an exotic land. While in prison, Ned obtains a copy of the Wheaton High School yearbook and his suspicions about the switched identities are confirmed when he sees the photos of Mary Ann and Matty. He knows that Mary Ann Simpson/Matty Tyler Walker has succeeded in achieving her high school goal.