leon jacob and his girlfriend, dr. i believe leon and valerie paid for the bill. >> reporter: that was very nice of them. now remember, the cops say leon and val thought they'd been dining with a hitman, but javier was really an undercover cop. so police spring into action. immediately reaching out to valerie's ex-husband, mac, to tip him off. and what they get mac to do next is right out of a john grisham novel. >> they do a series of pictures of him dead. >> reporter: he agrees to pose for these photos, staging his own death, complete with a bullet wound in his head. >> we wanted to make it look like he had been killed in a robbery. we took a series of them, one slumped over the steering wheel and shot in the head and the other one laying on the ground, shot in the head. >> reporter: cops have also gotten to leon's other target, his ex, meghan. does she express any surprise that leon jacob, the -- the man who loved her so much and then stalked her, allegedly -- would want this to happen to her? >> she is in no way su

>> beyond majd. >> reporter: prosecutors charged leon jacob along with his girlfriend at the time valeriercover police video. but the men jacob and mcdaniel were speaking to last march were not killers for hire. they were undercover operatives including moataz azzeh, a decorated army veteran recruited by police. >> were you ever hired to murder for money? >> no, no, i would never do anything like that. >> reporter: the undercover officer we could onto identify by javier. >> he wanted him killed. she was under the belief that i was going to carjack him and i was going to put a bullet in his head. >> reporter: after the fake hit man said the targets were dead, police went to the couple's houston high-rise apartment where the suspects appeared to act surprised. >> oh, my god. >> might have been a robbery gone wrong. >> reporter: officers later ended the charade. >> right now i'm going read you your rights. >> me? >> reporter: putting jacobs and mcdaniel in handcuffs. >> i'm looking in the eyes of essentially a killer. what do you want those people to know? >> i'm innocent and as a human bein