( some spoiler ) face a mid life crisis and feed up with his marriage to cindy and teddi siddall and who seem to have more say in what he do and where he stay then the air force and usaf elite red beret sgt . major davis bay and gary cole and decide one morning to just walk away from in all and start a new life a a civilian . david first get this idea when he meet at a halloween party sweet and adore alyson and karen sillas . keep his background secret from her by tell alyson that he in a top secret military outfit be the perfect cover for him . back at jackson afb outside of austin tex . david start to review his life option with cindy and the usaf and decide to change his identity by run away from it . david then call alyson and who only meet him once and and make a date with her . before you know it david and now use the name haywood and be engage to be marry to her . fake his death in a bicycle accident dave purposely leave his wife and kid out in the cold and desert his military obligation to his country . it do not take long for dave to find out that civilian life just doesn not appeal to him . it now too late for dave to go back to his first wife cindy and his two boy with him face the brig and a military court martial if he come back to the usaf . dave take up the only job that he could do to support him and alyson and their infant son chris represent use his skill he learn in the red beret to rob bank . base on a true story lie he tell have dave bay or haywood living three and not two and different life . one of a hard work family man one a a ruthless bank robber and yet another one a a dead and highly decorate and by the president of the u and prime misnister of gb and all american hero . gary cole be very effective a both master sgt . david bay and husband david haywood . david action be and even though unforgivable and understandable in the case of his depression over his marriage to cindy . the pressure of her nag him get to the point where he just want to get lose and away from her and the kid . but he should have seek professional counseling from the u air force and which he would have be gladly provide with and instead of choose the easy way out . which in the end lead him straight into levenworth ferderal prison . it may have be that the overly macho dave think it would have be a bad mark on his career and as well a his ego and to get help for his problem . karen sillas a alyson be the glue that keep the film together with her at first go along with her new husband explanation of his frequent disappearance and some for as much a two week and a him do covert action in keep the country safe from domestic and foreign terrorist . the real reason for his long absence be the result of him case out plan and rob bank . which be the only way he know how to earn a living give from what he learn and in subversive action and all those year in the elite red beret . alyson track down dave mom carolyn bay ( linda goranson ) and who he tell her be dead since he be a small boy and in portland she find out the truth about the double and or triple and life that he be lead since he marry her . this lead to alyson find out about his marriage to linda and the two son that he have with her as well a his faked death and and now awol and from the usaf . be that it a true story the end be anything that you would have guess it to be in a standard hollywood and or make for tv and movie . that what make the film lie he tell and a lot well then what you would have expect it to be .