Beth Dutton

It wasn't a tea party.

I wasn't there to become friendly with her.

I was there to do my job.

And part of that job, she says, was enlisting help from people once close to Melanie.

Were you in love with the defendant?

Tonight, I think I just sort of need to get myself mentally in the zone because it's going to be an absolute experience in surreality tomorrow.

It is the moment Melanie has been dreading, facing off in court with two men who betrayed her.

First up, her old friend, Jim Finn, who describes how Melanie told him Bill was dead.

Finn had been in love with Melanie since nursing school, a feeling she never returned.

So today was Jim Finn's testimony.

It was infuriating.

In his secretly recorded phone conversations, Finn pumps Melanie for information.

What occurred with him recording me was just reprehensible.

But then, attorney Joe Takapina digs a little deeper and exposes Finn's real reason for interrogating his friend.

The other one, the other one cut to my very soul.

The state calls Dr. Bradley Miller.

I would love to be able to just cross the board, despise what he did, write him off and be done.

For the first time in two years, Melanie comes face-to-face with her ex-lover, who the prosecution claims was her motive for murder.

It was so bizarre to see him and so anxiety-provoking.

Sir, did there come a time when your relationship with Ms.