. >> reporter: courser, a lawyer by trade, is from rural, religious lapeer in the east. >> i think there's 112 churche it's a very faith-based commmmity. >> reporter: and gamrat, a homemaker and former nurse, from the modestly titled town of plainwell in the west. it's'sbeautiful. >> it's a wonderful place to live. >> reporter: their districts may be far apart but their politics can't be any closer. both staunch tea party, christian values conservatives and bobo married parents, firm believers in faith and family interesting, considering what's about to happen. values and the same principles as i had. >> reporter: what t s part of your message? christian and family values? >> send me to lansing to be a strong voice for liberty and our conservative values. >> mixed in withthgain, the govevement overreach. i believe our federal government is out of control. >> she's very high energy, not scared of anybody and just very principled. >> reporter: enter two key players, keith allard, who signs on as gamrat's number two and ben graham, an old friend, who becomes courser's top aide. >> he's a very

, and embattled state representative todd courser is alone in his law office in the small town of lapeer, terrified that a mystery texter is on the verge of exposing his affair with colleague cindy gamrat. now, he makes the fateful decision to pick up the phone and call his right hand man, ben graham. >> in a very, the most serious tone i've ever heard from him, he said, "i need you to destroy me. can you come to my office?" >> reporter: "destroy me?" fearing not only for his job but for his safety, graham immediately notifies his counterpart on cindy gamrat's staff, keith allard. >> this is a guy who has been showing increasingly unstable signs in terms of his anger act out violently towards himself or others, and he kept a loaded gun in that office. so i advised ben, "record the conversation." >> what's going on? you're freaking me out. >> reporter: so, with his all-hearing phone recording everything, graham sits down across from courser's desk and gets the shock of a lifetime. it turns out courser wants graham to send an anonymous e-mail to fellow republicans. and it ain't about tax r

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