He said, you could be under surveillance. Followed . Surveillance . Shed stemmed e stpped into the zone hidden codes, government agents, undercover spies. I was so scared. Who was this man she was about to marry . Your brain has got to be saying holy cow to learn the truth, she would launch a secret mission of her own. Testing, testing. A highstakes game of spy versus spy. Reporter you were your own detective here. I wasnt. He wasnt going to stop unless somebody stopped him. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Ask any divorced parent, finding love a Second Time Around can be hard. But when Mischele Lewis met William Allen jordan, he checked all the boxes. He was charming, smart, and something of a jetsetter. Mischele welcomed him into her heart only to realize her new boyfriend was leading a double life. Who was the real liam allen . It was a riddle this single mom was determined to solve. Heres Dennis Murphy with the mystery man. Reporter whats love got do with it . Well, as Mischele Lewis tells it, just about everything. Love, her new guy at long last made her tingle as though ginger ale had filled her heart. I felt good about myself. He was a wonderful person. Reporter but why, oh why, should something so good and rare lead to such a dark place . A shadowy world where nothing was as it seemed. Where secrets became goggles blinding the truth. This is so intrick ate a trt dark. Reporter as she was pulled deeper into the riptide of her fiances hidden underworld, she joined forces with a woman an ocean away to uncover the truth. Intruded on every part of your body, of your mind. Reporter would mischele be as patient at the game of revenge as shed been in the game of love . Mischele lewis is a born caregiver. As a little girl in southern new jersey, she daydreamed about working some dwhere in medicine helping people. Sure enough, as an adult she got her nursing degree and reported happily to the labor and delivery ward. Youre with a Team Delivering babies, right . I do. Its wonderful every day. You connect with your patients. Im there with them the whole way. Ive cried with them. Ive laughed with them. Its amazing. Reporter a fellow nurse said she was a natural as a nurse and a best friend. Shes a light in a dark place. Shes wonderful. Shes the one trying to brighten up somebody elses bad day. Reporter but mischele has seen her own share of bad days. For years she struggled in a difficult marriage. Eventually moving with her kids into her mothers house. She knew that she would be the single parent, and she put her best foot forward to do that. Reporter after calling it quits with her husband, she started to explore the possibility of finding new love. She went on line. I wanted somebody who was established, had their stuff together. Reporter one man caught her eye. His name was liam allen. He seemed to be well traveled. Well versed. Everything he had said was what i was looking for. Reporter they agreed to meet for coffee. I walked in. He was like his photo. W very warm, charming. A good four or five hours that we sat and talked. A long cup of coffee. I had a good vibe when we parted. Reporter as they talked more in the days that followed, liam allen opened up about his life never married, no kids. Like mischele, he had been born in new jersey but was raised in the united kingdom. Nice hillary clintlilt to the s liked the accent. Reporter another bonus, he was available. He had a home in cherry hill. He had sent me photos of it, renovation photos of before, during, and after. Reporter all well and good, but she wanted to know more about his resume. The guy at the mall you met is nice, but i need to know more. And do you have some i. D. , bud . I go did go to the internet nothing came up. Reporter mischele felt comfortable about starting to see liam more. It felt good to be myself again. To laugh again. To be happy. Reporter butliam allen had boundaries. He couldnt spend time with her outside of the hours of nine to five. He warned me a lot of nights and weekends he wouldnt be available. I thought it was bizarre. Reporter he said the odd schedule was related to his night time work with a records company, but still it bothered her. Why could he barely send ape text while on the job. He used to talk about being on the map and off the map . Kind of what i started to use was on the map and off the map for the blackout times. Reporter when mischele asked liam about why he was so distant, he began to reveal jawdropping information. His true line of work wasnt in computers. He took out his phone and pointed to some letters at the top of the screen. And it just says uk. And he says, you know, this says uk because i work for the British Government. Reporter liam allen went to describe his assignment for the British Ministry of defense as a kind of glorified chauffeur. Shuttling dignitaries and vips back and forth between new york and d. C. As for the medical software company, well, it was real. He also was asked to obtain personal medical information on targeted people. Reporter targeted people . So hes in the secret world . Its a spy, mischele. Pretty much. Reporter it was a doozy of a secret. Liam allen, the easy chatting, established man, turns out to be a spy for the British Government. Your brain has got to be saying holy cow, what is this guy telling me, right . Yes. I was a little taken aback. Reporter are you starting to drift out of your body as youre hearing this story . I was concerned. He was willing to hold my hand through it. Reporter and there was more. Liam told her to date him seriously shed need to follow his rules, and that meant disclosing her entire personal life to the british authorities, and undergoing her own Government Security clearance. He told me that in the coming weeks he would bring me an application. I said, oh, i have to apply to be with you . 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And then in the pajts after that, it was almost pages after that, it was almost like the as. A. T. S. Did you fill out the form . I did not. Reporter mischele would soon find out that liam had already passed on her name to his bosses, and they were already checking up on her. In may is when i first received an odd text message from a number i didnt recognize. Reporter the person introduced himself as tom chambers from the five star reality company. He said, i understand that you made an inquiry including one of our overseas Properties Located in the uk, specifically an allen home model. A little light bulb there . Not at first. It took me a minute. Reporter she noticed the texts were coming from the 202 area code washington, d. C. Thats when the light bulb hit. Oh, these are reporter this was part of your security clearance. Yes. Reporter did you ride with it . Did you play your part . I did because i thought thats what was expected of me. Yeah, i did. I went along with the code. It was crazy. Reporter and the ride was about to get a lot crazier. He said that my phone would be followed. Like mine and liams phones were kind of like dots on a map. Reporter and liam allen even told mischele and her mom to expect surveillance at their own house. He says, dont be surprised if a car rides by. Theyre just checking you out. So like ten, 15, 20 minutes later, a car would ride by with dark windows, and he says, they just seen you on the porch. She was like, i feel like im being watched. I feel like im under a microscope, and i feel like its starting to creep me out. Reporter if mischeles life was no longer quite her own, soon she was being asked to risk even more. Again, in coded language, tom chalmers instructed her to transfer money into a certain account. Your personal money. Your personal money. Reporter what was that for . It was to basically prove that i was committed to everything. I was committed to liam, committed to the process. Reporter the money transfers of a few hundred dollars would be returned when the security clearance was complete. Mischele followed through and held on. I had a strange gut feeling that told me i need to keep going. That the light at the other end will be worth it. Reporter liam allen would be worth it. He would be worth it. Reporter now a few months into their relationship, liam was decidedly on the map at home. Turned out he was great with mischeles children, especially her teenage daughter. She related to victoria very well. He was there for her. Reporter but behind the scenes, mischele was starting to realize just how deep and dangerous liam allens covert connections really wereme. She showed up late to a Summer Wedding wearing heavy clothing telling her to keep an eye on the news. The following week was when the whole Edward Snowden story broke. Reporter she realized her boyfriend must have played a part. I knew before it was a big deal. Which is a little creepy. Then the nudes caews came reporter its a little creepy now, mischele. Tractortraileit is creepy. Reporter not the only time he tipped her off to a world event before it went public. When Kate Middleton had her baby, had a couple hours notice on that. Syria, i knee about t i knew about the attacks in story. Reporter he was getting secret mojo from somebody. He knew something from somewhere, and i knew, too. Reporter then the strange Early Morning phone call from one of liams british hammers. 4 00 on the dot, my phone starts going off. Wake up, i got to talk to you. Reporter the handler felt she should be clued in about liams treacherous past. He was more than a driver. After 9 11, he had been dispatched to an elite mission in the least to spearhead the takedown of top bad guys. Faces from the militarys infamous terrorist deck of cards. Your liam was an operative, a commando in the war against terrorism . It was very, very heavy news. Reporter the question had to be asked, how much did the terrorists know about him and the people closest to him . A chilling thought. But any fears about terrorists would be pushed aside. Because a few weeks before christmas, liam asked for mischeles hand in marriage. On his knees . On his knee. I said yes. Reporter her family and friends were thrilled for her. Mischele came to work, and i looked and she went like this. I was like, ah this is what she wanted. So i was pleased with it. Reporter but what should have been a happy new chapter together was the start of a descent into chaos. Liam began coming around less and less, skipping christmas celebrations with the family. Mr. Wonderful never showed . Didnt showme. I was unfeweriated. I was crushed. Reporter then she discovered she was pregnant. How did the news igo . He told me he needed to process. Reporter hurt, confused, she searched her memory for when it went wrong. She recalled a detail. A couple of weeks before, she had nosed into liams wallet. Something urged me to look in it. I opened it up and pulled out a card. It said, kw women illiam allen. Its close, but its not him. Reporter at the time she tucked the information away thinking it must be an alias used for undercover work. Now she decided to dig some more. You put that name into google. I did. Reporter what came back . Horrific, horrific news. Beyond anything i could have expected. Reporter enter, enter, enter, and if gets worse and worse and worse . The more i read, the worse it gets. Coming up this is not a surprise to me. I knew this was going to happen. A revulation from halfway around the world. Another woman with another tale about liam allen. It was devastating. It was crushing. It was like coming out of the matrix. Todays ways of working, may work differently tomorrow. But you can work out anything with comcast business. Get fast, reliable, and secure internet on the nations largest gig speed network. 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Reporter mary had been expecting the call from mischele or someone just like her. This is not a surprise to me. I knew this was going to happen. Reporter the story Mary Turner Thompson in scotland began to tell Mischele Lewis in new jersey was eerily similar to mischeles own. It began in late 2000. Mary was a single mother living in edinborough when she met a man named will jordan. He was charming. He was tall. He was goodlooking. And he just seemed to be, you know, really, really nice guy. Reporter he told her he was from america and worked in i. T. She found him highly intelligent, humble, and family oriented. Wow reporter spending time with marys daughter, no older. He would play games and stuff. Yeah. Its him. Yay, were going to have fun today. Reporter just as Mischele Lewis would experience years later, mary also grew frustrated with his frequent absences. I wasnt happy at all. I started digging into his background a bit and trying to find out more about him. Reporter mary in her private detective mode traced will jordan to an address. And when she peeked over the fence into the houses yard, she saw childrens toys. She confronted him. He sat down and said, i have something to tell you. And he explained to me that he was working for the odci, commonly known in the uk as cia. Reporter that house with toys in the yard, he explained it was actually a safe house for agents, only staged to look like a family lived there. A female agent on site sometimes posed as i had wife. And as time passed, will jordan gave mary all the proof she needed to believe him. She spoke with other agents on the phone. And when he was called away, she received his dispatches from the war on terror. I cant really complain. You know, its rather like complaining about superman not coming back for dinner. Reporter mary kept a stiff upper lip when enpostponed their wedding date jordan postponed their wedding date after getting an assignment. They did eventually get married. Soon after they could wiwelcome first child, a baby girl. He was