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In the movie, Double Jeopardy, Libby Parsons, vie by Ashley Judd, and her husband Nick, Bruce Greenwood, go out on a weekend sailboat trip. During the night, Libby wakes up finding herself alone and c overed in blood. As she gets up to search for her husband, entirely she finds is more blood all over the boat and a bloody knife on deck. As the investigation is underway, Libby is charged with her husbands murder. It is found that Nick and she had two one thousand million dollar life insurance policies. This is used as a want and Libby is convicted of his murder. As Libby adverts her time in prison, she entrusts her friend, Angela, Annabeth Gish, with her son. Over some time, Libby finds out with a phone call to Angela and Matty, Benjamin Weir, that Nick had staged his consume death and was still alive. After serving six years in prison, she is released on parole. She violates her parole and through her own investigation finds out that Angela is shortly and that her husband li ves in New Orleans under a forward-looking identity. By skipping town, her correctional officer Travis Lehman, played by Tommy Lee Jones, is on her trail. He finds out what she is after and teams up with the local police to trace her down. Once in New Orleans, Parsons finds the new Jonathan Deberaux and lets him know that she found him. She tells him that all she wants is her son and he agrees. He sets her up, however, at the cemetery by pretending that her son is there, solely he knocks her out and puts her in a coffin in a catacomb. Travis finds Libby after she escapes but instead of taking her in, he helps her to finish what she was there to do. He goes back to question Jonathan one delay time about why Libby may want to find him, but instead tapes him when he says that he buried her and that there was nothing go away to worry about. Libby comes into the room and demands her child again with a gun in her hand. Jonathan tries to get her to put it down by asking her if she wan ted to serve time again. She tells him, however, what she learned in prison from an inmate. As the conversation heats up, Libbys husband shoots Travis, but Libby kills Mr.