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  It was a work, Martha was a notorious bitch and to help him get away from her Bret and Vince had a secret meeting where they agreed to forget the Montreal screwjob for a day and help Owen escape his bitch wife and live under an assumed identity for the rest of his life. It went wrong though because Bret got cold feet and told Martha Hart who went up and loosened the harness herself, everything after that from her has been performance to obscure the crime she committed.