 In season 5, Vanessa continues to blackmail Liam and instigate herself into his life until after an argument with him she falls off a balcony at his beachfront house and disappears.Thinking that he killed Vanessa, Liam tries to keep the incident a secret until he begins receiving annymmous letters from an extortionist threatening to reveal his crime.Liam is later approached by a woman named Ashley who offers to be his personal bodyguard, but Liam is unaware that Ashley is an obsessed fan who ends up kidnapping and holding him hostage in the basement of the Offshore Bar.