Her goal is 'to be rich and live in an exotic land.' In the final scene, she is shown seated in a chair on a tropical beach in Brazil, apparently thinking pensively.
When it arrives, he looks up the photos of Matty Tyler and Mary Ann Simpson and discovers, as he suspected, that the woman he knows as Matty Tyler Walker is really Mary Ann Simpson and vice versa. From his prison cell, Ned writes to Matty's high school in Illinois and asks to see the yearbook from 1968, the year she graduated. Ned is arrested, and Matty's body is retrieved from the boathouse, verified by her dental records. At the last minute, Ned rushes toward the boathouse to stop Matty, but it suddenly explodes. Matty hesitates but eventually heads toward the boathouse, assuring Ned that she does love him. When Matty arrives, he confronts her and suggests that she retrieve the glasses herself.
Ned attempts to retrieve Edmund's glasses from the boathouse but notices the trip wire attached to the door.